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Health issues pop up, someone's there to market you the cure. PLUS: Bethenny on the E! Housewives Show

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
So I'm in pajamas, I'm in a robe. I've been
going through it. I have some health issues I'm dealing with.
Some I can disclose, some I can't. Some personal matters happening,
and I guess, and some of the personal matters aren't
totally mine to share. But for me, I went back
to the doctor and they now said that I am

(00:33):
stage three a chronic kidney disease, which is not yet
medicine phase just giving you a range. Six is dialysis,
so zero is zero and am at three A. I
think there's like a three B, which is I think
when you do start taking medicine. It's nice that the
internet becomes a doctor and everyone has a comment on everything,

(00:53):
like you shouldn't have caviar, But I have very low
blood pressure and so the salt of the caviar doesn't
affect me. Many people with kidney issues have high blood pressure.
I don't. Both of my kidneys are damaged. The theory
is that it happened during my very traumatic anaphylactic shock
episode where I was unconscious and in the hospital for
three days from fish from concentrated warmed up mes soup

(01:15):
that had benito flakes, so it had been like these
fish flakes that I guess the next day like really
got concentrated and when warmed up, it became like fish heroin.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
So I almost died.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
My ex saved my life and I was in the
hospital for days, and I think I was on first
it was the epi pen, but then I forgot what
it was that was on a drip for days, and
I think it's like some I don't know if it's
like a steroid or something that like keeps you up.
I don't remember what it was. I don't know why
I'm having a hard time remembering what it was, but
I guess it does damage to your kidneys theoretically.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
People talk about the vaccine.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
I mean, the thing is we're going through many different
health confusions in life because big wellness is so big
now and everyone's being marketed everything. Let me just bring
up some of the things that people are being marketed. Longevity.
Mushrooms createen turmeric, which I've talked about in a product
that I've promoted that I like because I like turmeric,

(02:10):
But now I find out turmork isn't good for me.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Marenga.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I don't even know what that is, but apparently it's
an antioxidant, but it's not good for me. From us
IE to mushroom coffee, to colostrum to collagen to nad
to peptides to gut health to microbiomes to every version
of fermentation like to coconut culture to fucking chickpea puffs

(02:35):
to lentil crisps, Like we are the suckers of all
the suckers because a lot of it's snake oil, and
a lot of it doesn't have a long enough time
on shelves and testing for anyone to know. And it's
like you go to a doctor or this wellness expert
or Peter Atilla who's now in trouble for Epstein, and

(02:58):
they can't be experts because they've just read up on
it just like you, Like they have chat.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
GBT like you. They cannot be experts.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
They haven't done trials on the seventy seven things that
people are telling you to do, whether it's cryo or
every day do an ice bath, or do infrared sauna
or I mean, or micro needling, or vampire facials or
salmon sperm. I mean, if you think about it, if
you listen to it, it's insane, right because we really
don't know. So when I went to the kidney doctor,

(03:25):
they said, like, you can't take you can't have any
turmerk or maringa, and that water is your entire life,
it is your medicine. He didn't say don't drink at all,
but I know that drinking leads to dehydration, and I
personally have a major dehydration problem. Water is amazing for kidney's.
It doesn't mean that dehydration is necessarily a side effect
for kidney's. I happen to have dehydration. I also happened

(03:49):
to believe that the vaccine exacerbated it, because when after
the vaccine, I was severely dehydrated and would faint, and
people were saying that that was pots pots which is
like an autoimmune thing, and it's now more common. Like
you get up and you get dizzy if you stand
up too quickly, or like if you sleep too long.

(04:11):
For me, you've been sleeping so long so you haven't
been drinking water, which means you're dehydrated because your body's
literally been fasting. So you wake up and you're like
groggy for half the morning. These things are all real,
and for many people that's the lesser of evils.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
People didn't want to get COVID.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
People were dying, so people did the vaccine, But then
they have other problems that could be lingering. I mean,
everyone can be a Monday morning quarterback and say they
did or didn't want to do the vaccine now because
of this, that or the other. But you know, the
game moves too quickly, and the game is moving quickly.
When everybody was trying to put the cap on the
bottle of COVID, so people were taking a vaccine. The
people didn't really understand any more than they're taking longevity

(04:46):
mushrooms or creating or colostrum or activate in charcoal or
super greens now because everybody wants the elixir. Everybody wants
to look young. Meanwhile, people are getting plastic surgery and
facials and injections. Maybe they look young because of that.
It's hard to know what the fuck anyone's doing. But
everyone's exasperated just trying to do something because they hear
that that celebrities are doing it. And you'll never really

(05:22):
know what celebrities will do because they're never going to
really tell you. You gotta know for yourself. This is
not a one size fits all situation. You can't just
say point blank, I'm taking mushrooms or colostrum or collagen
or creating or glutathione. It could be great for someone,
it could be not great for someone else. One person
could do well with kombucha, one person could not like it.

(05:42):
One person could do great with salt. I am amazing
with salt. Salt is wonderful for me, and then people
say it should be Celtic salt.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
So good.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Salt should be wonderful for me. But I also crave
bloody Mary's and soy sauce and normal salt because I
have low blood pressure. Salt could be the death for
someone else who has high blood pressure. Sugar could be
good for somebody because they need it sometimes because they crash.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Other people are diabetic.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Like, you have to not be a mummy just wandering
in the direction of what's being marketed to you. You have
to be savvy and you have to be smart. It's
dangerous times. I can't have certain things. I can't get
into a cryotank. I heard cryo years ago. I was like,
oh my god, let's go do that. It does this,
it does that, it does the other thing, and anti inflammatory.
I barely know what the fuck that means. It's anti

(06:27):
You're not going to be inflamed. Am I inflamed? Is
my gut inflamed? People are eating gluten free shit, They're
not even gluten intolerant. People are eating low carb shit.
They have no problem with carbs. People want to go
into kotosis because everyone says they should.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Like it's insane.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
So I go into a cryotank and I faint because
I have low blood pressure. So you can't just tell
the world you need to start doing cryo, and you
need to start eating mushrooms and you need to start
doing this. And so, yeah, there are things that I
have marketed in the past. I marketed this turmeric elixir
because I back in the day when I ate raw
and used to do juice cleanses, I was told turmeric

(07:03):
is a blood purifier and a cleansing agent, and it's
been an Indian food for years because it is. It's
just not something I can have. Fish is amazing for
people Omega three. I will die from fish. One man's
trash is another man's treasure. So just be mindful and
realize that you should get your blood work done and

(07:25):
get all the paddles done and you get lazy and
you don't want to deal with it. Do the test,
find out what your issues are or aren't. Find out
what's good for you or isn't you know, do the
deep dives. This is what's important, especially as we get
older and you have to tinker with it.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
You have to tinker with it. Are you going to
eat everything organic?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
No? Are you going to try to eat things that
are highly porous like a strawberry or like a spinach,
that really absorb toxins and pesticides. Yes, if you have
an orange or an avocado or a banana, you have
a barrier to pesticide. So maybe if you're coming from
an economical standpoint, that's the places where you don't eat organic.

(08:05):
You know, you want to eat protein, protein, protein protein.
Then you're eating turkey. Then you're eating deli meat, which
I do, which has other issues in it. Like it's
very difficult to do it right. Everybody's got this protein obsession.
I think it's ridiculous. Nobody unless you're training for an
iron man, needs to be so fixated on all of
this protein. And then you're eating more calories. Maybe you
have a weight issue. You don't want all these extra calories.

(08:27):
And then someone else says, well, the protein is gonna
make you more full, so you need less. Like you
gotta find what works for you. Some people are just not.
No one's eating dairy anymore. No one's eating dairy anymore.
Then you find out that a lot of these nut
milks are poisoned because they're not really nut milks. They're
like a nut milk beverage. It's a bunch of shit
mixed together. So wouldn't you be better just having like
nice organic milk because you could look at the ingredients

(08:48):
and it's like milk versus like a thousand like carcaginnian gum,
carriagene and gum and fifty ingredients in milk. I used
to think sun chips were like the healthiest one because
it's called sunships and they have like a grainy. Look
you look at they have seventy five ingredients, like the
same amount as Doritos.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Then you look at Fritos, it's corn oil and salt.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, I would choose corn oil and salt over seventy
five ingredients and a sunship. So same thing with the
cauliflower puffs and the lentil crisps and casaba bullshit, what's
going on there? Okay, glad you asked. You look at
the bag. It has more calories than just plain potato chips.
It's say, potatoes and salt and oil. Oh but is
it a seed oil? Maybe it's a seed oil? How

(09:31):
much seeds oil oil? Is you a drinking a glass
of seed oil a day? So like you have the
lesser your evils. So the fucking quene wa puffs and
the cauliflower shit, it's manufactured food. It's not just like, oh,
queneoa oil and salt. It's like all this shit to
make it come together to seem like you're eating a
puff or like theos snappeed crispy things they like look

(09:52):
like a sugar snappea.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
But it's like an.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Air oil green thing manufactured to look like a potato chip,
textured snappy, Like, is that good? What the fuck is
in that? That's certainly not simple ingredients. It's very hard
to navigate. So back to the original my book Naturally Thin,
which I wrote years ago, I was like, eat food
with ingredients you can pronounce, Try do the best you

(10:18):
can eat real food. I don't love prepared foods out either.
Then we get into who's touching it, how long has
it been out? Any kind of preparation is a process.
Meaning if you buy grated cheese, it's been graded ahead
of time, and now air has touched it, it's been
sitting in plastic. That's very different than buying a block
of cheese and you grading it yourself. It's a form

(10:40):
of processing. Just like white rice, which used to be
thought of as elite because brown rice and just normal
rice from the grain, it has a lesser processing. So
a white rice has been bleached and used to be
seen as elite because it was like bleached to look
so like.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Sure, but that's a process.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So highly processed foods require more processing. If you eat
meat and it's been ground up, that's a process. The
more something's been fiddled with and tampa with, the more
it's had onions added to it, garlic marinade. That means
someone with gloves handled it in a store, stuck it
in a package, set you home with it. They've done

(11:23):
a lot of the process added a marinade. Less is
more food in its purest form is best for you
to tamper with. It doesn't mean that you never go
into a restaurant. It doesn't mean that you never go
into a deli, but I do get skimed out by
a salad bar or by food sitting behind the glass
all day. Okay I do. I do eat chicken salad.

(11:44):
I do like it, But like I'm aware that this
stuff has been sitting out in the air and it
cannot be as good as something that you have made yourself.
So do the very best you can to try to
eat food in its purest form, and know that if
you're some psycho that's gonna only eat organic, it's on
a bullshit because if you go to a restaurant, they're
not gonna have organic. Let's say they come up to

(12:04):
you and say, what's your water preference? I say wet,
I say purified. I guess because what I don't want
is to go buy a plastic bottle of water for
them to pour over ice that was made in their freezer,
that was made with the water coming out of the tap.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
What the fuck are we doing?

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Why are we spending ten dollars on a bottle of
water to be poured over tap ice cubes. We're all morons,
is kind of what I'm trying to say, we're all morons,
So it's sort of hypocritical where we choose our spots.
Remember in the pandemic, you'd have friends. They'd be like, no, no, no,
I'm going out with this group of people because they're safe.
You'd be like, what does that even mean? The COVID logic,
the double standard, Like some people were safe, some people weren't.

(12:41):
Everyone was just trying to fucking figure it out so
they could make it work for themselves. Some people wearing masks,
others weren't. Some people were walking out with their masks
covering their chins, as if that was having a mask on,
just to perform to others that you had a mask on.
There's so much bullshit that goes on, So don't believe
all the hype and spend all your money on all
the hype because a lot of it's complete bullshit. IVS

(13:03):
doctors say to me, the ivy, you could get that
with hydration packets, drinking enough water because you're gonna pee
it out. But then some people say, oh my god,
if you're doing nad and peptides, the best way to
get it is a subcutaneous shot or through an IV
How often are we iving we're iving every week.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
That sounds expensive.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
It's five hundred dollars eating organic food, pureeing your baby
food for your kid. You're making organic gorgeous butterout squash,
then you're sticking it in a plastic container. Then maybe
you're heating it up. Then everyone's yelling at you plastic
only use glass? What do you mean on the use glass?
The food came in my refriger it was already in plastic.
Now I'm taking it out of plastic. It was romaine lettuce,

(13:39):
organic came in plastic. I'm taking it out. Am I
rinsing the plastic off? Wasn't it in the plastic? Isn't
the cheese in the plastic? The cheese incoming glass? So
you're mad at me that I put the food that
I made with the cheese in plastic. It fucking started
in plastic. Let's go to Starbucks. What happens in Starbucks?
Let's give you a paper limp straw, but let's put

(14:00):
the drink in plastic. Let's pay with your plastic credit card,
walk in with your plastic tits like, where does it start?
Where does it end? Let's be vegan. Let's be vegan.
Let's not need any animal. But your leather bag, leather shoes,
leather belt, and your arimez fucking leather jacket is all leather,
or it's PVC, it's plastic leather. You bought it on Amazon,

(14:21):
or you bought it at Revolved and it's not real leather,
but that takes more bullshit from the universe. Or it
was made in a factory with people that are treated improperly,
or it's fast fashion it was made quickly, or it's
not fast fashion. It's so overpriced. It was three thousand dollars.
You have to fucking sell your grandmother. There's a lot
of bullshit, So don't come for me. If I'm fucking

(14:42):
eating caviare and I have a kidney issue, I'm doing
the very best that I can. Let's get this this
whole Housewives thing out of the way.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Okay, the Housewives are moving over to E.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
The powers that be at Bravo are rustling and trying
to find a way to get involved and capitalize it
and act like they endorse it. But the rug was
pulled out from under them, and they're trying to create
optics that mean like it was their idea when it
wasn't their idea. All E deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
for having that amazing, low hanging fruit, very cost efficient idea.

(15:28):
They just want to be back on. They want to
promote their brands. It's their body, their choice. I get it, Okay,
So let's just park that. I'm just saying. Factually, he
is getting them for a song. He is getting the
housewives for close to the amount of money that they
would take a brand new, fresh newborn baby housewife and
put them on a Bravo show.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
That's what he is getting them for. I know the
exact number.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
I have receipts. You're welcome, Okay. Have I been asked?
I have people I don't know how to say it. Yes,
it has been suggested and requested.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Will you come on? Will you do a cameo? Et cetera?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, immediately, No, I'd sooner do the whole season for
a Chanelle bag than I would do a cameo, because
a cameo is the whole season for a person like me.
They're going to use the fact that I was on
for one second to market the whole season, just like
when Denise did a cameo and they made us think
that she was on the whole season she was on
like one episode.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
She did it for free.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
I would never so any cameo for me is gonna
mean Bethany the Bee is back and it's gonna look
like I was on the show. So there's no upside.
I would never do it ever. Okay, that's number one.
Number two. At the risk of sounding like Linda Evangelista
when she said years ago, I don't get out of
bed for less than ten thousand dollars, my price is
astronomically more than Linda Evangelista's price was or is. Okay,

(16:49):
it just is not because I think I'm a donna.
Because I don't want or need to do it. There's
no upside for me. The only upside for me is
laughter and fun, and that's worth something. But that be
veiled in trashing and garbage dump and toxic and there's
such a disgusting, despicable price in that cesspool no matter
where it is. Okay, and the show will be different

(17:12):
because in speaking to the women, they're not willing to
mention it all and give everything that they have given
before because they know that the number that they're getting
paid is less. When we were getting paid, well, I
was getting paid the highest of any housewife, and I
was willing to go and burn the house down when
I needed to, and had to work less than anyone
else because I had certain things carved out because of

(17:33):
my daughter and my horrible divorce. But nevertheless, I've never
walked onto that set in front of a camera and
not given it my entire life, Okay, not mentioning it all,
leaving it all knowing that for decades to come people would.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Hate me because of it.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I was I always if i'm if you're paying me,
you're getting more than what you paid for. Every partner,
every brand deal, every TV show, you're getting more than
what you paid for.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
With me, That's who I am. I do what.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't go or I stay home. So the amount
that I would need to be paid to be on
the Housewives would be more than the Housewives would get
for the entire season, and I still would likely not
do it because it would affect my brand. I wish
them the very best, I literally genuinely. Maybe I've been

(18:20):
the bottomized. Maybe it's time, maybe it's success, maybe it's motherhood.
I want them all to win, even ones that I
don't really care for, and maybe they made mistakes in
doing it the last time. Maybe that was there high
they peaked. They get another shot. Go get it everyone, Kelly,
go get yours, Luanne, get yours. Everyone, get yours, Ramona, Sonia,

(18:42):
go win, Derinda grab the brass ring. Okay, And what
I've always loved about The New York Housewives more than
any other housewife franchise is that even the ones that
hate and can't stand me will reach out to me
and want me because they want ratings, because intrins they're
business women, because they come from a business commerce city,

(19:05):
and they don't care if they get less. If the
whole thing wins, they would care. Second, yeah, there's one
housewife that's on that show that literally had her bluff
called by Bravo. She came back for exactly what everyone
else was getting paid. But the point is they don't
even no matter how much they hate me, they won't
mind paying me more than them because they want the

(19:28):
show to win. And because back then I did affect
the ratings. Love me or hate me, I'm not doing it.
They can't afford me, and that's the fact. So I
want these ladies to win. I want them to take
it into the end zone. I want eata win, go
with God and create a beautiful, wonderful show.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
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