Speaker 1: Burning bridges. Now, listen up here, just don't do it.
Speaker 1: And when I say sometimes you really really want to
Speaker 1: burn the house down and you want to get that
Speaker 1: point and you want to do it or you want
Speaker 1: to say it, and I'm telling you something, you don't
Speaker 1: realize when you are and when you aren't burning bridges. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's put it this way. Money Court is coming
Speaker 1: out on CNBC. I know that I'm on it. The
Speaker 1: trailers are out, We're getting billboards, busses, taxis. It's an
Speaker 1: amazing show with myself and Kevin O'Leary. It's binding arbitration.
Speaker 1: We settle high stakes business disputes. They have to listen
Speaker 1: to us. It's an amazing show. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 1: It's no on CNBC. It's phenomenal. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 1: It's my most favorite project I've ever done. And mostly
Speaker 1: so in addition to Rewives, my new podcast where I
Speaker 1: break down the housewives with a really interesting guest, I'm
Speaker 1: doing things that I want to do now. I am
Speaker 1: doing what I love. I've walked away from so much
Speaker 1: money for so many things that made me feel bad
Speaker 1: about myself, so I'm really happy. So I wanted this project,
Speaker 1: and it's not the highest ever been paid in my career.
Speaker 1: It's just a project I really wanted to do and
Speaker 1: it's so good and I just can't tell you how
Speaker 1: good it is. It's really wonderful. And Kevin felt the
Speaker 1: same way. I thought I was gonna hate him or
Speaker 1: kill him, and it was the opposite. It was great.
Speaker 1: So I was having dinner with one of the highest
Speaker 1: up at CNBC. Now, CNBC is part of NBC Universal,
Speaker 1: which owns also E Now and Bravo and all this
Speaker 1: other stuff. Now, CNBC is its own entity and they
Speaker 1: can make their own decisions and they have a high
Speaker 1: They have the definitely wealthiest audience on television, which I
Speaker 1: did not know, so it's perfect. It's like a business show.
Speaker 1: So that person said to me that before doing this
Speaker 1: show and casting me, which you know, I'm a producer
Speaker 1: on the show too, that they went to the powers
Speaker 1: that be at Bravo to see if there were any
Speaker 1: landlines there. Now. Number one, it could be that I'm
Speaker 1: just an absolute nightmare to work with and I'm late
Speaker 1: every time I do drugs on set, whatever the hell
Speaker 1: someone wants to say. Number two, it could be that
Speaker 1: I really pissed people off. And when I left The Housewives,
Speaker 1: it wasn't that fun for Bravo because they found it
Speaker 1: out really close to shooting. But I thought that I
Speaker 1: was going to shoot the season they on The Housewives
Speaker 1: the last my last season, they cast some I suggested
Speaker 1: someone someone came through me for the show because I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to be on the show. When
Speaker 1: we are waiting for the next season, we are always
Speaker 1: the dummies that never know anything. Like I go into
Speaker 1: a normal show like CNBC Money Court, I know exactly
Speaker 1: what I'm walking into and who was going to be there.
Speaker 1: Housewives of the Talent has literally no power. So you
Speaker 1: are about to start shooting in a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: and you don't know who you're shooting. If you don't
Speaker 1: know who the cast is, it's totally under wraps. Okay,
Speaker 1: no problem. Now, I had earned my stripes after all
Speaker 1: the years there, and I was definitely under different rules
Speaker 1: and made different money than everybody else. That is just
Speaker 1: a fact. But the person that I recommended for the
Speaker 1: show was cast into the show and nobody told me.
Speaker 1: So I found out and thought, what the funk, Like
Speaker 1: I'm the one who suggested her like I suggested this person.
Speaker 1: So you think the Bravo or the production company will
Speaker 1: come back and say, oh, yeah, we're going with this person.
Speaker 1: But no, it's all under wraps because of the cast
Speaker 1: and the whole thing. But I felt I didn't love that.
Speaker 1: No big deal. Then something else stupid like that happened.
Speaker 1: And then because of a contract term, which I'll tell
Speaker 1: on rewives, there was something that I wouldn't budge on.
Speaker 1: It was totally in principle, and I also was looking
Speaker 1: for a reason to leave. I really just wanted to leave.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't budge on it, and Bravo wouldn't budge and
Speaker 1: I said, they said this, we're not budging on that.
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, is it best and final, which
Speaker 1: is a term in business meaning like that's it now.
Speaker 1: You never do best in fine unless you're willing to walk,
Speaker 1: because you will say to sounding, okay, I'm offering you
Speaker 1: two thousand dollars for this piece of art, best and final,
Speaker 1: and then if you really would have given two thousand,
Speaker 1: you look like an idiot and you have no credibility.
Speaker 1: And everybody does that, And that's totally what happens all
Speaker 1: the time with the Housewives and they're negotiating. So I
Speaker 1: was looking for a reason to leave because I know,
Speaker 1: based on past Bravo seasons and how they negotiate that
Speaker 1: when we were finally up and shooting, if I wasn't filming,
Speaker 1: the production company would have pressured the network and said
Speaker 1: we need fucking Bethany and they would have folded on
Speaker 1: that term because that always happens for me, because it's
Speaker 1: never something unreasonable, and then it would have happened. But
Speaker 1: I just was looking for a reason to leave. I
Speaker 1: just was. And I said, we said it's the best
Speaker 1: and final. They said best and final. I said to
Speaker 1: my lawyerous call again, say from the head of legal,
Speaker 1: is it best and final? And they said it's best.
Speaker 1: They said yes, And I said, flip the switch. I
Speaker 1: have a I'm writing something up, I'm posting a picture,
Speaker 1: and I'm out. So we posted and we left and
Speaker 1: the head of Bravo I spoke to and they said
Speaker 1: to me, you know, you could have called me. You
Speaker 1: should have called me, and I said, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not a baby where like I'm playing
Speaker 1: games with lawyers, like if you have the head of leaders,
Speaker 1: senior vice president legal or the head of legal. But
Speaker 1: it was like a high high up legal person says
Speaker 1: best and final, that's your lawyer, that's your representative. Like
Speaker 1: they speak to you, they speak to their their they're
Speaker 1: brought you know, like my lawyers don't just half cocked
Speaker 1: to go say things to people that are not in
Speaker 1: my behalf. And I said, yeah, I went through the yeah,
Speaker 1: we we talked to you lawyers multiple times, went back
Speaker 1: and forth. The point is it wasn't that fun for Bravo.
Speaker 1: But I did not burn the house down, meaning I
Speaker 1: left after I got confirmation for my lawyers. There lawyer's
Speaker 1: my lawyers. There lawyers, my lawyers. Their lawyers talk to
Speaker 1: my bubb as is talked to my business managers, made
Speaker 1: a decision talk to Paul. Left. Years later when I'm
Speaker 1: doing a CNBC show which is owned by the same property,
Speaker 1: and the CNBC person asked, Bravo, are there any problems
Speaker 1: because we're putting Bethany in the show. While I may
Speaker 1: not be their favorite person for that move, it was
Speaker 1: just business. It's it was just business. Ironically, it is
Speaker 1: very personal. That's why I have a book called Businesses Personal.
Speaker 1: But it was fair business. It wasn't burning some bridge,
Speaker 1: and it was just that I left and it wasn't
Speaker 1: that fun. Sometimes it's not that fun for them and me.
Speaker 1: So years later they did not stay to c NBC
Speaker 1: Run Don't Walk. They said, no, no problem, which is
Speaker 1: how I ended up being on the c NBC show
Speaker 1: that I love. The point is, and I have more
Speaker 1: specific examples. You just don't know what's coming around the
Speaker 1: bend and who knows who and who knows what and
Speaker 1: who's connected, and you didn't even think that they were.
Speaker 1: And you're like, well, that's not gonna happen, but you
Speaker 1: and you know the other way too. Oh. I had
Speaker 1: an incident where I poured a drink on some insufferable
Speaker 1: women in the Hampton said Steven uh Stevens Steven's talkhouse.
Speaker 1: And the woman's one of the women's husband ins And
Speaker 1: that wasn't even the woman that was the most agreed,
Speaker 1: just her husband. He ended up working for Trump. He
Speaker 1: left Goldman. Goldman had done the first series of of
Speaker 1: funding for Serious Radio. The girl who used to be
Speaker 1: an executive producer at Today's Show was working there and
Speaker 1: she every day I was like, we just we want you.
Speaker 1: Every day you could talk to anybody, we would like
Speaker 1: to have a show with you every day, but that
Speaker 1: would have entailed before COVID that I went into Serious
Speaker 1: radio every day. I said, I don't. I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: can't give you that time. I couldn't do it. I
Speaker 1: couldn't go to Arames every day if you paid me,
Speaker 1: I don't have the time. So they were all but
Speaker 1: begging me to do it. After the after the drink toss,
Speaker 1: Serious went cold. They went Cold Play because that was
Speaker 1: a Cold Play concert. Cold cold, like I funked with
Speaker 1: the wrong person and that and and that just went
Speaker 1: cold and thank god. But by the way, here I
Speaker 1: am on. I heart thrilled, and so it's a trajectory
Speaker 1: that I'm thrilled about. But I'm just saying, like, you
Speaker 1: do something, you curse someone out, you're rude on a plane,
Speaker 1: you do something you never know who's watching, who they know.
Speaker 1: It's just you just gotta hold your tongue and your
Speaker 1: actions and be careful how you operate. Because I wasn't
Speaker 1: shoddy in the way that I left Housewives, it just
Speaker 1: wasn't that popular. My daughter makes fun of me for
Speaker 1: many reasons, one being that she'll come home and I'll say,
Speaker 1: did she get a compliment on your jeans? Said, She's
Speaker 1: like no, I'm like wash, Like people don't compliment, like
Speaker 1: what talking about? But still every time she wear something
Speaker 1: super cute, she's got the style, like she's got this
Speaker 1: natural style. She could buy a two dollar shirt and
Speaker 1: everyone's obsessed. Okay, so some days, like some big days,
Speaker 1: I'll be like, no, there's no I'll bully her too.
Speaker 1: No way you didn't get I'll buy or something. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's no way you didn't get a compliment today on
Speaker 1: that because they're like these amazing pants that have like
Speaker 1: crystals all over them there blue, and you found them
Speaker 1: in a French flea market. And I'm like there's no way.
Speaker 1: And she's like I did a couple of people and
Speaker 1: then they're like really cool sneakers. I'm like, you definitely
Speaker 1: got boy compliments. Say you were wearing Jordan's and her
Speaker 1: orange and red, and she's like, yes, a couple. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what did they say? Like I don't ask her like
Speaker 1: how is school? How is your homework? She could literally
Speaker 1: be getting zeros and she could be getting D minuses,
Speaker 1: But I'm like, but she's getting a pluses in her outfits,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, listen to me, what were the compliments?
Speaker 1: Tell me what did the boys say? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I want to know exactly. I don't know
Speaker 1: people like you skirt? Yes? What what did they say?
Speaker 1: Word for word? I'm in a housewife scene with her.
Speaker 1: We all the tape. What did they say? So so
Speaker 1: she'll tell me later. She'm like, somebody liked my something.
Speaker 1: I'm like, see. So then she she laughed. She's like, well,
Speaker 1: you didn't ask me my test. I'm like, how is
Speaker 1: your test? So then she were we were we She
Speaker 1: reminded me. She's like used to toward me about my
Speaker 1: lunch box. So I used to put like little stickers
Speaker 1: on it said like have a great day. And I
Speaker 1: found these little cute cocktail napkins. I had like these
Speaker 1: little puns on them, like do not with a doughnut,
Speaker 1: like donut miss me too much today? Or like an
Speaker 1: olives like I'll of you. I'm making this up with
Speaker 1: like stuff like that, with cute like pictures. I was
Speaker 1: so excited. It's like save the napkins because I didn't
Speaker 1: know where I got them. And I play like one
Speaker 1: napkin in a day, and you know you're amazing. You
Speaker 1: smile on the sandwich every day, And like, I still
Speaker 1: have some of those stickers now because I thought they
Speaker 1: were so amazing that I didn't want to waste them all.
Speaker 1: And now I still have them because I gonna start
Speaker 1: making sandwiches for like Paul or somebody because I don't
Speaker 1: have another kid, and maybe I'll just start sending my
Speaker 1: assistant like stickers and say you're great. So I should
Speaker 1: have used more than but anyway, and I just I
Speaker 1: wouldn't do like the perfect cut off the crust where
Speaker 1: it looks like a Japanese chef did it with like
Speaker 1: a Santuco knife. I just like cut the sandwich in
Speaker 1: half and wrapped it. And if we had like Tresha
Speaker 1: travel pasta the night before or pizza or something great,
Speaker 1: I would um put it like I would put it
Speaker 1: into my grave right before she went to school and
Speaker 1: cover it with foil and make like wanted to be
Speaker 1: at least like lukewarm, not freezing cold over lunch. And
Speaker 1: I made an effort, and she'd have uh, cheesecake, lollypop
Speaker 1: cake pops and whatever. So I used to say to her,
Speaker 1: so your mind me the other day to be like, wait,
Speaker 1: what did anyone say about your luck? She's like nothing,
Speaker 1: so I spent did you have the like did you
Speaker 1: have a great lunch? Like because I wanted to know.
Speaker 1: It's like I wanted to have a bad I wanted
Speaker 1: to have better lunch than anybody else. Um, I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing peanut and jelly. My mother was like the snob
Speaker 1: who like, well, now we know where I got it from?
Speaker 1: Who who? Just peanut butter and jelly was just beneath us.
Speaker 1: I had like a nice turkey sandwich and the fruit.
Speaker 1: And at my house we had the cold cuts and
Speaker 1: and and you know, reveal parmesan, but not the crap.
Speaker 1: We didn't have Captain crunch. We had life cereal so
Speaker 1: um that I remember that little girl. So with Brin
Speaker 1: was kind of halfway between. On the days I was lazy,
Speaker 1: she'd get the peanut butter you know, sandwich and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. But then I would always try to if
Speaker 1: I did the boring lazy thing in the middle, like
Speaker 1: the peanut butter sandwich, I'd try to like decorate it
Speaker 1: on the sides of a bunch of other ships, like
Speaker 1: here's a bad of chips, a little cake pop trying
Speaker 1: to make myself a better mother by giving you all
Speaker 1: the ship on the side, so she told me. Recently,
Speaker 1: she said, used to ask me, what do people think
Speaker 1: about my lunch? No one talks about their lunch, Like
Speaker 1: what loser she go to school? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I totally coveted the neighbor's lunch when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: or commented on show me. She hurt me the other
Speaker 1: day and she said to me, your lunches weren't even
Speaker 1: the best. She said, they were like just they were
Speaker 1: like average. You'd give her like average lunches. They weren't
Speaker 1: even the best. I was like those thoughts shots fired.
Speaker 1: Your fucking little bitch, I mean, what a fucking little
Speaker 1: bit