Daniel Nardicio Returns! Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Zipolite & Patti LuPone's Rider
Hot Takes & Deep Dives
Jess Rothschild
4.5 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jess welcomes back nightlife impresario DANIEL NARDICIO to talk about his latest venture in Zipolite, Mexico and the runaway success of running The Ice Palace in Cherry Grove. Topics — legalities of throwing s*x parties, surviving Patti LuPone's rider and stories from working with Sandra Bernhard, John Waters, Jennifer Holliday and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to hot takes and deep dives, and I am here with returning guest Nightlife Impresario, Dan Learnardiccio. Not only is he the man behind |
| 0:24.1 | the infamous underwear party at the Ice Palace, he's the best thing about Clubcoming. Your legacy |
| 0:30.6 | lives on at Clubcoming. You are responsible for recreating Bet Midler at the Baths with Amber |
| 0:36.8 | Martin. You're responsible for bringing |
| 0:39.2 | lisa manelli patty lopone bernadette peters to fire island you're currently embarking on a major |
| 0:47.0 | swing in zipolite mexico welcome back dan erudiccio thank you thank you have you had many return guests |
| 0:53.4 | yeah some yeah you have it depends if's, that's a great question. It depends if there's a lot more to cover, if they've done a lot since we last spoke. Right. Right. Totally. Totally. Our interview was partly for this show, which is the weekly show, and partly for the Fire Island doc, obviously. |
| 1:12.0 | That was in March, 2023. |
| 1:15.3 | March 2023, you were still opening the Ice Palace. |
| 1:20.5 | It hadn't opened yet. |
| 1:21.7 | You had just gotten the keys. |
| 1:23.5 | Right, right. |
| 1:24.7 | A lot of it happened since then. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah, you're right. |
| 1:26.4 | Exactly. |
| 1:27.4 | How are you doing? |
| 1:28.9 | I'm great. I'm great. I mean, this whole thing has been a trip. I know we're going to talk about Zibolite, but it's like I was just walking outside my house here on 41st Street, which is like the opposite of where I live in Mexico right now. You know, I get up in the morning in Mexico and feed peacocks because I live in this weird nature reserve where I live in Mexico right now, you know? I get up in the morning in Mexico and feed peacocks because I live in this weird nature reserve where I have this house. It's just incredible. And every morning they come and they, I didn't know. I don't know nothing about peacocks, but they make a lot of noise. They like, so like five, six a.m. outside my window and then I take go to the back porch and I feed them and then I just |
| 2:02.3 | always think how random is so different than here I live on 41st street. I take my Chihuahua out and it's |
| 2:07.5 | like people passed out in front. Oh and this morning I didn't even know it was a holiday. I got in late |
| 2:13.1 | last night. It's an after hours at Red Eye. I live live right upstairs so i walked out this morning to security |
| 2:19.9 | standing outside and there's guys with like what are those things around their necks that glow glow |
| 2:24.2 | sticks around their neck and like tweaking and like it's like insanity because everyone's off for |
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