Girls Next Level

Join Holly and Bridget as they talk all things Playmate of the Year with the 2006 winner, Kara Monaco. Holly confesses to kicking someone out of their party tent, they talk which celebrities would cold call Playmates in the mansion guest house and give a history of the best Playmate of the year prizes. Kara spills her behind the scenes stories from working as a princess in Walt Disney World, how she won "America's Hottest Bartender," and what her former Disney co-workers thought of her posing for Playboy. The girls get into just how fierce the competition was between Playmates for the coveted annual title, drama on the job at Playmate promotions, the differing loyalties at the mansion and a few Playmate bullies. Kara details how the Playmates were eventually evicted from the bunny house and what she's up to now. Watch The Playboy Murders Season 2 on Investigation Discovery and stream on Max! For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel [https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel] Check out our merch at https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop [https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop] Go to https://www.quince.com/nextlevel [https://www.quince.com/nextlevel] for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. As a special offer for our listeners, new customers get $5 off a Lume starter pack with code NEXTLEVEL at https://www.lumedeoderant.com [https://www.lumedeoderant.com] Download the Draft Kings Casino app NOW and use code NEXTLEVEL.

On today's episode, the girls explore the themes of female friendship, loneliness and feeling isolated in friend groups. Holly and Bridget dive back into The Girls Next Door Season 2 Episode 7 "Sleepwear Optional," talk about Kendra splintering off from the group in Season 2, diamond necklace horcruxes and what adult women got up to at an all-girl slumber party. They reminisce on swag bags in the 2000's, prank calling the butlers and how the neighbors felt about Hef's parties. As Kara Monaco gets crowned Playmate of the Year, the girls talk about which events they cried at, being banned from a girlfriend's wedding and Holly recounts the frustrating way friendships always felt out of reach for her. For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel [https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel] Check out our merch at https://girlsnextlevel.shop [https://girlsnextlevel.shop] Right now, Modern Fertility is offering our listeners $20 off the test when you go to https://www.modernfertility.com/nextlevel [https://www.modernfertility.com/nextlevel] Discover your inner detective when you download June's Journey for free today on iOS and Android. Visit https://www.betterhelp.com/NEXTLEVEL [https://www.betterhelp.com/NEXTLEVEL] today to get 10% off your first month.

In this episode Holly and Bridget jump into the topic of jealousy; how it farmed resentment back in the day, how it affects their lives now and who they've been jealous of lately. They also get into women supporting women, both on camera and off; having a "backup plan" in relationships and group dynamics and triangulation. Reacting to The Girls Next Door season 2 Episode 7 "Sleepwear Optional," they confess which scenes make them cringe watching back, "redecorating" the mansion bedrooms and Marauder's Maps, losing people in the mansion and more! For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel [https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel] Check out our merch at https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop [https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop] Discover your inner detective when you download June's Journey for free today on iOS and Android. Right now, Mindbloom is offering our listeners $100 off your first six-session program when you sign up at https://www.mindbloom.com/nextlevel [https://www.mindbloom.com/nextlevel] and use promo code nextlevel. Get 30% off your first order, plus free shipping today at https://www.microdose.com [https://www.microdose.com], promo code nextlevel.

Today we are joined by a very special guest, Katie Manzella, who spent some of her childhood at the mansion. Her mother was Playmate Sondra Theodore, Hef's girlfriend for the latter half of the 70's. Katie talks what it was like being at the mansion as a child, partying there when she got older, her relationship with her mom over the years, how she balances the memories she has with the truth of her mother's experience and much more in this emotional and healing conversation.  For the full version of our interview with Katie, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel [https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel] Shop our merch at https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop [https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop]

Join us for a fun catch up session with the host of the Live From Bed podcast, Jade Iovine, who grew up right across the street from the Playboy mansion. We get her perspective as a kid who regularly went to the Easter and 4th of July parties and as a teenage fan of The Girls Next Door. Jade talks about having a mom who posed for Playboy, borrowing our Halloween costumes and who she was friends with at the mansion. We talk meeting Taylor Swift, the confusion that was our Season 5 exits, which house in our neighborhood was the most mysterious and more! You can find more Jade at the Live From Bed podcast  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-from-bed-with-jade-iovine/id1546892640 For more content, check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/girlsnextlevel Get our merch here: https://www.girlsnextlevel.shop [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/live-from-bed-with-jade-iovine/id1546892640]