Speaker 1: So a lot is going on. There is stupidity and
Speaker 1: minutia in my social media where I'll talk about lip
Speaker 1: gloss or eat seafood in a hotel room that goes viral,
Speaker 1: and then there are macro issues. So let's start with
Speaker 1: some micro issues. I ate seafood in a hotel room
Speaker 1: in Atlanta and it became international news. I mean, it's insane.
Speaker 1: Years ago, my daughter had these pajamas that were very
Speaker 1: big on her. They were Hello Kitty pajamas, and I
Speaker 1: put them on and it became Pajamagate. It was an
Speaker 1: international news scandal. We were laughing. Everyone saw it. It
Speaker 1: was the view was talking about it, it was on
Speaker 1: news channels, it was everywhere because it was violently irresponsible,
Speaker 1: Megan McCain said, because I had my daughter's pajamason and
Speaker 1: it was the wrong message. And okay. So and that
Speaker 1: was funny because that was right in the beginning of
Speaker 1: social media for me. It was the beginning of Instagram
Speaker 1: for me when my friend said I needed to get
Speaker 1: into it and I needed to post more. So I
Speaker 1: posted that and exploded. So the modern version of that
Speaker 1: for me is I was in a hotel room in
Speaker 1: Atlanta and I ordered in food. I looked at one
Speaker 1: of those food apps and the thing it said twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty five minutes at the top. You know how
Speaker 1: it gives you like the shortest time was seafood, and
Speaker 1: I felt like and it said it had like Old
Speaker 1: Bay or it was Cajun, and I know it wasn't
Speaker 1: New Orleans, but it felt like, oh, this is Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and so they'll be great at seafood, and like it
Speaker 1: just felt like the type of place that that would
Speaker 1: be good. So I ordered it in from this place
Speaker 1: called Old Town and I remember because it was like
Speaker 1: that song Old Town Road. And they had these amazing options.
Speaker 1: You could get Dungeoness crab or Alaskan King crab or lobster.
Speaker 1: But every time you ordered on something and then added
Speaker 1: items which I didn't totally understand, Like do you want
Speaker 1: to get corn? Sure? Do you want two corn and
Speaker 1: one potato or two potato? One corn? I want one potato,
Speaker 1: two potato, three potato four, So I wanted sure, I
Speaker 1: would like some corn on the side grape, And then
Speaker 1: do you want some shrimp? Do you want to try
Speaker 1: the muscles? So I tried to like get the combo
Speaker 1: platter thing that seemed like I had the most things,
Speaker 1: then do just a couple of add on. So it
Speaker 1: was like forty nine dollars for like the crab, which
Speaker 1: was my main star, and then a couple of side things,
Speaker 1: and then the potatoes and the corn are extra okay,
Speaker 1: So I was excited. So I'm in a hotel room, right,
Speaker 1: So I don't have forks and knives, and I don't
Speaker 1: like transacting, so I don't want to call downstairs and
Speaker 1: ask them for forks and everything. So it's it's just
Speaker 1: like I'm ortaring in food. It's gonna calm, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be happy. So what arrives in a brown paper bag
Speaker 1: is a plastic bag of liquid. Now I don't understand
Speaker 1: like that as a model anyway, just because like one
Speaker 1: thing happens and the liquid of Old Bay seafood could
Speaker 1: be everywhere. But lo and behold, it's literally a brown
Speaker 1: paper bag and a plastic not a thick bag, just
Speaker 1: a normal plastic bag like tied with those like garbage
Speaker 1: bag old little wiry ties, and in it is a
Speaker 1: bag of liquid with like corn and potatoes and crab
Speaker 1: in it. And I'm thinking, what the fuck am I
Speaker 1: gonna do with this, and it did have two pairs
Speaker 1: of chopsticks. So I so now I'm like, have two
Speaker 1: chopsticks and a plastic bag inside a brown paper bag.
Speaker 1: What the fuck am I doing in a hotel. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be like, hotel, can you bring me a
Speaker 1: big bowl and can we whatever? And by the way,
Speaker 1: I didn't want to be fishing. Oh. It came with
Speaker 1: a bib and two plastic gloves, like very thin plastic
Speaker 1: gloves like the ones that come with hair collar attached
Speaker 1: to the to the directions. So I'm like, what now,
Speaker 1: what the fuck? I don't even know what I would
Speaker 1: ask for a downstairs? So I look around my room
Speaker 1: like mcguiber and I find a champagne bucket. No, there
Speaker 1: was an ice bucket and like a wine bucket whatever,
Speaker 1: So I water the buckets already had ice in it,
Speaker 1: So I took the bag of ice out and put
Speaker 1: it in like the smaller little one bucket vehicle, and
Speaker 1: I took the ice bucket that was gonna be my
Speaker 1: like put the plastic seafood bag inside of it, so
Speaker 1: that became my like seafood bucket. And then there was
Speaker 1: a round tray that was over by the mini bar
Speaker 1: coffee area that had like the coffee station stuff, those
Speaker 1: like little sweetener packets and stuff like that. So I
Speaker 1: took everything off of that, and that became my sort
Speaker 1: of base on this coffee table because I had this
Speaker 1: coffee table that was like a vinyl or leather, so
Speaker 1: it wasn't even hard where I could just wipe off
Speaker 1: whatever this like fucking shellfish juice was. So I was
Speaker 1: proud of myself. And wait till you, I mean the ending.
Speaker 1: This all was in a social media post that broke
Speaker 1: the internet. I mean, millions of people watched me seafood
Speaker 1: and are making fun of it, and plastic dolls that
Speaker 1: looked like me, like holding little plastic lobster's like a
Speaker 1: lot of work in detail has gone into the mockery
Speaker 1: of this. Comedians. It's been a whole thing. Page six
Speaker 1: only wrote about it twice. Everyone picked it up, you know,
Speaker 1: this whole thing. So I get this round tray and
Speaker 1: I take like another you know how there's like those
Speaker 1: plastic bags inside the wine the ice buckets that they
Speaker 1: give you. I don't know why there was one in there, oh,
Speaker 1: I guess because I don't want the ice to touch
Speaker 1: the bottom. I don't know. Oh, because it's gonna be liquid.
Speaker 1: I don't know the reason. So there was one of
Speaker 1: those little cheap old plastic bags. I put that in
Speaker 1: the bottom of the tray and then I ripped open
Speaker 1: the bag and that was like my work surface for
Speaker 1: arts and crafts. I put the bib on my body.
Speaker 1: I had eyemasks on because I had been shooting and flying.
Speaker 1: I was shooting a show and I had been flying,
Speaker 1: and I was dehydrated. Of course, I was now gonna
Speaker 1: eat all this this salt. But salt actually helps you
Speaker 1: hydrate because it holds onto water. So I'm good with salt.
Speaker 1: So I put the under eye puffy like little gel
Speaker 1: pads under my eyes, and then the food came. I
Speaker 1: didn't think this was going to be something I was
Speaker 1: going to film, so I kept the eye patches on
Speaker 1: because I was living my own life as a grown
Speaker 1: ass woman of fifty two years old in a hotel
Speaker 1: room in Atlanta by myself. So I put the tarp
Speaker 1: down on the tray, and I had my little bucket
Speaker 1: to the left, and I put on one of the gloves.
Speaker 1: People in the comments were wondering why only one glove,
Speaker 1: And I literally was like, ohja with the if the
Speaker 1: glove fits, you must have quit. The reason for the
Speaker 1: one glove is I don't feel like I can navigate
Speaker 1: and like just work. What if I want to mess?
Speaker 1: What if I want to post you guys, what if
Speaker 1: I want to pick up the phone. I'm not a
Speaker 1: two glove person. I need one glove, like just I
Speaker 1: just am a one glove kind of gal because the
Speaker 1: other hand, even in the winter, sometimes you want the
Speaker 1: one hand for your phone. You're drinking a drink, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like you're the fucking Hamburger helper Man. I can't
Speaker 1: navigate with two myts. So I had one glove on
Speaker 1: the left hand because that was gonna be the fishing
Speaker 1: hand to go into the bucket to get the crab.
Speaker 1: And that's where the hand's like gonna really dunk in there.
Speaker 1: I can handle the other hand like touching a little
Speaker 1: seafood or using the fork like, but I'm doing the
Speaker 1: big crab holding and the crab fishing and the muscle
Speaker 1: open on the left. Okay, that's my like holding hand,
Speaker 1: that's the stability hand. So that's to answer that big
Speaker 1: breaking question. Waiting for Dianeariot to call and do follow ups,
Speaker 1: Gonna do a walk and talk on dateline NBC very soon.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm getting a seafood seafood publicist. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm very busy, and it's been a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously this is a very big deal for me. So
Speaker 1: then I start relaying this story on TikTok. Now I
Speaker 1: ate every of course, some other person, some housewife, said like,
Speaker 1: she's not gonna eat. Oh no, she's gonna throw it up,
Speaker 1: which was also got further pickup of this amazing story.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I did, not, in fact throw it up.
Speaker 1: If I were gonna throw up food, it definitely wouldn't
Speaker 1: be that. If I were to throw up would be
Speaker 1: white rice and plain bagels, not even everything. I'm not
Speaker 1: looking for me see it's all over the place or
Speaker 1: any kind of weird smells. So I ate every bit
Speaker 1: of it. It was so good. The crab was good.
Speaker 1: The muscles were meh. The crawfish was just like nice
Speaker 1: because it was like I was eating crawfish. I felt
Speaker 1: like it was a specialty. It was a gimmick. The
Speaker 1: corn was fine. I don't love corn like soaked in liquid.
Speaker 1: It just like gets like weird and like more chewy.
Speaker 1: And I'm a person who likes to cut my corn off.
Speaker 1: I had no choice to hear. I had two chopsticks,
Speaker 1: you know. And the taste was good. The potatoes are fine.
Speaker 1: It's like soaked like potatoes, just like in there. I
Speaker 1: think they should give you a potato on the side.
Speaker 1: I know it's a crab boil, but this is a
Speaker 1: great thing for a party like at your house, Like
Speaker 1: put it in a big sort of trough or bucket,
Speaker 1: put everyone outside, hose them down outside, push them in
Speaker 1: the pool, and go with God. It seemed fairly reasonable
Speaker 1: for all the seafood you were getting. It was really,
Speaker 1: really lovely, and at the end I was able to.
Speaker 1: I was very neat. I peeled off my gloves, sort
Speaker 1: of like when you color your hair. I peeled off
Speaker 1: the gloves. I put them inside the the bag that
Speaker 1: had been inside the bucket. Not one drip was even
Speaker 1: in the bucket. It was all so like together. I
Speaker 1: was so proud of myself. I then took the brown pip. No,
Speaker 1: the brown paper bag was fairly intact. I ripped it open,
Speaker 1: was enough intact to fold it over so than any
Speaker 1: like plastic in front of me. And the chopsticks and everything.
Speaker 1: I put all inside that one bucket bag and I
Speaker 1: tied it all up and I put it back in
Speaker 1: the brown paper bag and I rolled it all up,
Speaker 1: and I kept the white rice because I just wanted to, like,
Speaker 1: I wanted the calming and the cleansing of the pal
Speaker 1: for the white rice. And I rolled it up, but
Speaker 1: I put it outside, and I just like, it was
Speaker 1: so immaculate and clean, and it wasn't even in the
Speaker 1: bedroom because this was a room that was a suite
Speaker 1: that has a separate room. So it was a wonderful
Speaker 1: seafood experience. I documented it on TikTok. I became famous
Speaker 1: for it. I am not allergic to seafood. I have
Speaker 1: to answer twenty comments each post about it. It is,
Speaker 1: it will be on my I don't have anything that
Speaker 1: I have to clarify more in my entire life than
Speaker 1: on my tombstone. It must say Bethany Frankel. She died
Speaker 1: while in a terrible drowning accident in a back of
Speaker 1: Old Bay seafood liquid with an asterisk maybe like a
Speaker 1: lobster risk, like a little lobster. It's like she was
Speaker 1: not allergic to seafood. She was allergic to fish, not
Speaker 1: allergic to crustaceans, allergic to fish, not allergic to Fruti
Speaker 1: di mari, allergic to fish. So a lobster is not
Speaker 1: a bronzeno any more than a cow is a chicken.
Speaker 1: The ocean is bigger than the earth, and these creatures
Speaker 1: live in the ocean together. I live on the property
Speaker 1: with two dogs, and I just saw two deer, and
Speaker 1: I've seen chickens before in the neighbor's yard, so we're
Speaker 1: all living together. It doesn't mean you're allergic to all
Speaker 1: of us. You may be allergic to me, but you're
Speaker 1: not allergic to the chickens or the deer. So I
Speaker 1: am allergic to shellfish. I am a grown So yes
Speaker 1: cross contamination. There can cross contamination between a cat and
Speaker 1: a cow in a restaurant. They both are in that
Speaker 1: same refrigerator. They both died for, you know, possibly good causes.
Speaker 1: If you're allergic to broccoli and you're not allergic to cilantro,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean you can never eat cilantro. Like, get
Speaker 1: your fucking lives together. Okay, I can eat tuna in
Speaker 1: a can that I cannot eat tuna, but I can
Speaker 1: eat tuna in a can It is. It is somehow
Speaker 1: the canning process, whatever that takes, has removed all the
Speaker 1: fish properties that I am allergic to. You don't have
Speaker 1: to like it. You don't have to like me. You
Speaker 1: can cancel me over seafood. This would be the first
Speaker 1: seafood cancelation. But I'm okay with it. Are we good?