June 29, 2023 • 11 mins
When things don’t work out as planned, Bethenny just does what she wants anyway! You won’t believe the things she’s done that would have left other people locked in their rooms in the fetal position.
Plus, a Bethenny and Bryn modern woman warrior story and Bethenny takes on ‘And Just Like That.'
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
So I'm the Justin Bieber of the rodent community. Now
I can feel an Orcan or a termin X deal
coming in as we speak. A brand person called me
about a pool company. So if you didn't see my Instagram,
you should. But there's so much to discuss what happened.
So Brinn and I found Brinn is a is a
filter checker. I've never checked a filter in my life
(00:35):
unless I thought though something was wrong in a pool.
Brinn is a pool filter checker. You know who you
are if you're a pool filter checker. I am not
a pool filter checker. And by the way, I don't
think I'm going to become one. Brinn will do it
for me because now that she's been successful. And one
time she found a frog in there. I don't remember
if it was alive. I don't know what we did.
This time Brynn found a critter and I saw her
(00:56):
go scream and then I go, what like not today?
Please swann a day? And I walk over and I
got so much more than I bargained for. It was
a it was a mouse, It was a it was
a rodent that was dark gray brown. I could later
like two people said it could have been a rat.
I heard a vole a mole. I don't. I don't know.
I don't work in extermination at this time, but I'm
(01:18):
planning on doing it, so Brynn. We then got into like,
now we can't unknow what we know. We can't unsee
what we see. We see, we know there's a beast
in our in our in our filter. It's obvious that
the thing is dead. And you couldn't see in the video.
Thank god that it had like there was like some
sort of pink swelling of the either underbelly or the
(01:39):
fingers or something felt weird. It looked like something like
the inside of the mouse had come out of it
or something. But I don't know. In testines, I'm thinking,
don't be grossed out. Sorry, but it wasn't. It was something.
Bryn later said she thinks chlorine swells mice. I don't know.
I in the video you could just see like that
there's a creature floating. So now we're in like what
(01:59):
are we doing? And I went to go look for
my pool skimmer and it's gigantic, and I was like,
we're strong women. I want to have the right wrote
message and be a good role model. And be like
we're going to do this on our own. We don't
need to call somebody. What do we I just want
it out of there, But I could thought, what's that
going to feel like if I pick it up with
my hand. I can't do that. What do I have?
I looked at like aspat show container, but I still
(02:21):
thought that like it wasn't the right size to get
in there and get the guy out. But like, what
the hell how am I going? So I looked at
the skimmer. It's too big. I didn't know what to do.
And there's like a basket, and Britt had the idea
of like get the basket out. I never thought of that, like,
so I was like, oh, so then someone later said
get a hook like a hanger. I don't know. I
(02:41):
didn't see if there was like a I didn't see
like the way that the filter was, like if it
had like a handle, but it didn't seem to I
don't know. So because since since this experience, it's come
to my attention that brinded all the work I was supervising.
But somehow we sat down. I was like, I don't know,
and she's like, I can go open the thing up again.
Because we closed that little stone thing, and so she
(03:02):
said she could open it up, and I was like,
I don't want you to be unsafe because she had
a weird way she was gonna do with her foot.
And then I'm like, now we're gonna go to the
hospital for a broken toe. So I was like, I
can't open it up. I just had weird rodent rules.
I'm like, I can't open it up. So that's just
one rodent rule that I'm gonna have for my life
right now. So then she was like I'm not doing it.
I go you're gonna do it though, and she's like no,
And I'm like, okay, fine, then we don't need to
(03:23):
do it. And she's she's like, I do I have
to swim after? I goes, do you have to swim after?
Like we're doing it for free pool play, otherwise shut
the pool, shut close, summer, Christmas is canceled, sell the house. No.
So she was like okay. And so somehow we got
to this point where like she was going to do
it and I was just yelling, barking orders. I was gagging,
(03:45):
and I realized that we would go get like tongs.
Like I knew we needed tongues, and truthfully, I didn't
want to waste my tongues. And I knew, no matter what,
for the rest of our lives, what am I gonna do.
I'm gonna go like boil his tongs after it, just
I know would be fine. But so I got the
big long, like metal tongs with the wood on them.
They're big, long, like dad barbecue tongs, and I brought
(04:06):
them over and we did a bunch of tries and
I was like, you cannot. I wanted to say to
one of my friends, you can't fuck this up. Okay,
like you cannot fuck this It's game time now, Okay,
do you understand me? Because what I didn't want was
her to like start pulling up the basket and then
drop it. Then there's a mouse flop at the house
and I'll have a panic attack. And they had to
get the guy out, and I think Brim was like,
(04:28):
we'll throw the whole filter away, and I then realized
we don't have to do that because we could put
the whole filter in the garbage, shake the guy out,
then put the filter back, which somehow I managed to do.
And I don't know quite how we did it, but
I was like, don't scream, and then we both screamed
like it was just crazy. And then we put him
in the garbage and then all these like Peter and
(04:48):
Mouse people were going crazy, like not a lot, but
just some people being like save the warm mouth was young,
Like the fucking mouse was dead. I don't do mouse CPR,
like I don't have to tell you, I don't like
the paddles decide what to chicklets and a string. I'm
gonna do like resuscitation paddles on the goddamn mouse the mouth,
Like I couldn't even what. So we post this thing
(05:09):
on TikTok. Okay, it's going viral. It is flying. People
are so invested in it. It's gonna go to a million,
no question, it is flying. It gets shut down for
sensitive content. So then we then that we had we
put up a pixelated mouse video. You can imagine that
like PG mouse didn't do as well. It's just ridiculous.
(05:31):
But like an incident in the pool with a mouse
is not okay, make me understand, Brian, that came with
(05:51):
me to the Today Show and Hoda asked if she
could come on, and it was really funny because they
had Brinn over on the side. You know, they'll put
like a camera for teasers and then they'll show someone.
And so she was over there. But what happened was
when we mentioned her, she just walked out onto the
stage and it was so cute, just came up to
the desk and started talking to us. So the table
(06:12):
it was really funny. But what's not as funny but
came out even funnier. Was an hour and change before
the actual appearance for the Today Show where I was
co hosting, and incidentally Christopher Buckle. The night before I
booked him and said to him one stipulation, you have
to do me in complete drug store makeup. He said,
(06:33):
but I must use my brushes. And today I went out,
I bought broke drug store makeup. I had drug store
makeups sent and today I said, now we're using drugstore brushes.
So he used drugs store brushes and drug store makeup.
He's never done it before and he said he would
never have done it and he would never have thought
it would perform like this. And after the show, I
said to him, all right, so tell me the truth.
(06:53):
If I said to you you I want to go
to the Mechal and you're going to do my makeup
for the mechal but it has to be drug store.
What would you do when he said I absolutely yesterday
I would have said absolutely not. Today I would say
one hundred percent yes. So that was amazing. And then
I went I was an hour and a half before
going on the show, or an hour and change, and
I looked around and I saw my assistant like seeming
(07:14):
concerned on the phone, and like everyone just seemed a
little hushed, and I was just wondering where the clothes were.
And everyone was freaking out because I did not have
an outfit to wear on the Today Show. It never
made it with us, so it's not that funny because
I was guest hosting, so I didn't want to be
like an imposing on anyone in special attention. And now
I have to go upstairs and borrow something. I was horrified.
So they said I could go to this one woman's
(07:36):
dressing room, and I was now looking at her dresses
and they all look like talk show dresses, and I
just like, but they're not my outfit and I loved
my cute outfit. And I sort of was really bombed,
but I had the show had to go on, so
I saw on her rack this ridiculous. It looks like
a gymnastics suit, is what it looks like. Not even
a It doesn't look like a babies. It looks like
a leotard from nineteen eighties, like Jamie Lee Curtis in
(07:58):
the movie Perfect or like Suzanne Summers with the thigh Master.
So I freaking threw on the Today's Show. It's a
Today Show on it. It's like a gymnastic Onesie leotard
that said Today's Show in bright rainbow colors. And I
(08:20):
just I just did it. I just wore it, and
I surprised Hoda. What was sucked was that before we
had to do another piece outside, so I wore a
trench coat over it. So I looked like a weird
Lady of the night because I was wearing a trench coat.
And she didn't understand what was going on because it
was pre taped for something to be later dropped into
the show. And then I came onto the set at
(08:42):
nine o'clock at ten o'clock in the morning with a
trench coat off, showing up for the Today's Show, and
she goes, what are you doing? And I took it off.
She goes, what is that? What are you wearing? And
I was like, I forgot my clothes. I don't know
what to tell you. And I said, you gotta come
admit to the bit. And it became like a thing
(09:03):
that's on every magazine right now, in every paper because
I committed to the bit and what choice did I have?
What choice did I have? So that was me co
hosting the Today Show. I had a great time and
it was so nice to have been there with me,
and it was really nice. And it was hard because
(09:24):
I was like distracted about the morning's events and how
chaotic it was, and sometimes it's hard to keep yourself
focused when you're thinking about other things. But somehow, I
don't know, the show went on. Ooh, and just like that.
(09:45):
The new Sex and the City show that I do
hear is not great, but I didn't think the first
one was that great. And now I'm gonna kind of
just watch just because it's one of those things that
I'll just keep in my arsenal when I need a show. Oh.
I started it, and a lot of people were distracted
by the plastic surgery in the first one, and maybe
it's just that it's not great plastic surgery that it exists,
(10:06):
but it's a lot of pressure for those women to
still look as good, which they won't years later because
it's so long after. But everyone's been like, ooh, she
look got old. Well she didn't get old because she's older,
but they shaded me. So I know Darren Star, the creator,
and I know Sarah Jessica Parker, and one of these
days I'll spill tea on my connection to Sarah Jessica
Parker in addition to Andy Cohen. But it's no different
(10:31):
than Housewives over there. Sarah Jessica Parker had to utter
the words. So Sarah Jessica Parker is saying, I've almost
rented in the Hampton six times? But that's what she said?
Was it because of Bethany Frankel? Like shots fired? But
by the way, go me, how many years after me
leaving TV, am I still relevant now? Not only on
train Wreck Reality TV, but now on train Wreck scripted TV.
(10:57):
I mean I've got I mean I've been on Saturday
Night with Maya Rudolph mentioning me that she was dressed
as a statue of liberty, and she said, we've survived everything.
We've survived because they're talking about COVID like that we'll survive,
and she's like, we survived, Bethany Frankel. So now I'm
getting But I loved being shaded on SNL, like that's
a dream to be on SNL. So now I'm being
shaded on and just like that, I love the haters.
(11:19):
No one gets it. The haters pay the bills. The
haters keep hating. Believe me, they always think that they're
like gonna take me down. I'm gonna be so upset
and so frustrated. Keep it coming when they stop talking,
start worrying, Shady shady tea spilling SJP and Rosario and
Darren Starr. Keep it coming.
So I'm the Justin Bieber of the rodent community. Now
I can feel an Orcan or a termin X deal
coming in as we speak. A brand person called me
about a pool company. So if you didn't see my Instagram,
you should. But there's so much to discuss what happened.
So Brinn and I found Brinn is a is a
filter checker. I've never checked a filter in my life
(00:35):
unless I thought though something was wrong in a pool.
Brinn is a pool filter checker. You know who you
are if you're a pool filter checker. I am not
a pool filter checker. And by the way, I don't
think I'm going to become one. Brinn will do it
for me because now that she's been successful. And one
time she found a frog in there. I don't remember
if it was alive. I don't know what we did.
This time Brynn found a critter and I saw her
(00:56):
go scream and then I go, what like not today?
Please swann a day? And I walk over and I
got so much more than I bargained for. It was
a it was a mouse, It was a it was
a rodent that was dark gray brown. I could later
like two people said it could have been a rat.
I heard a vole a mole. I don't. I don't know.
I don't work in extermination at this time, but I'm
(01:18):
planning on doing it, so Brynn. We then got into like,
now we can't unknow what we know. We can't unsee
what we see. We see, we know there's a beast
in our in our in our filter. It's obvious that
the thing is dead. And you couldn't see in the video.
Thank god that it had like there was like some
sort of pink swelling of the either underbelly or the
(01:39):
fingers or something felt weird. It looked like something like
the inside of the mouse had come out of it
or something. But I don't know. In testines, I'm thinking,
don't be grossed out. Sorry, but it wasn't. It was something.
Bryn later said she thinks chlorine swells mice. I don't know.
I in the video you could just see like that
there's a creature floating. So now we're in like what
(01:59):
are we doing? And I went to go look for
my pool skimmer and it's gigantic, and I was like,
we're strong women. I want to have the right wrote
message and be a good role model. And be like
we're going to do this on our own. We don't
need to call somebody. What do we I just want
it out of there, But I could thought, what's that
going to feel like if I pick it up with
my hand. I can't do that. What do I have?
I looked at like aspat show container, but I still
(02:21):
thought that like it wasn't the right size to get
in there and get the guy out. But like, what
the hell how am I going? So I looked at
the skimmer. It's too big. I didn't know what to do.
And there's like a basket, and Britt had the idea
of like get the basket out. I never thought of that, like,
so I was like, oh, so then someone later said
get a hook like a hanger. I don't know. I
(02:41):
didn't see if there was like a I didn't see
like the way that the filter was, like if it
had like a handle, but it didn't seem to I
don't know. So because since since this experience, it's come
to my attention that brinded all the work I was supervising.
But somehow we sat down. I was like, I don't know,
and she's like, I can go open the thing up again.
Because we closed that little stone thing, and so she
(03:02):
said she could open it up, and I was like,
I don't want you to be unsafe because she had
a weird way she was gonna do with her foot.
And then I'm like, now we're gonna go to the
hospital for a broken toe. So I was like, I
can't open it up. I just had weird rodent rules.
I'm like, I can't open it up. So that's just
one rodent rule that I'm gonna have for my life
right now. So then she was like I'm not doing it.
I go you're gonna do it though, and she's like no,
And I'm like, okay, fine, then we don't need to
(03:23):
do it. And she's she's like, I do I have
to swim after? I goes, do you have to swim after?
Like we're doing it for free pool play, otherwise shut
the pool, shut close, summer, Christmas is canceled, sell the house. No.
So she was like okay. And so somehow we got
to this point where like she was going to do
it and I was just yelling, barking orders. I was gagging,
(03:45):
and I realized that we would go get like tongs.
Like I knew we needed tongues, and truthfully, I didn't
want to waste my tongues. And I knew, no matter what,
for the rest of our lives, what am I gonna do.
I'm gonna go like boil his tongs after it, just
I know would be fine. But so I got the
big long, like metal tongs with the wood on them.
They're big, long, like dad barbecue tongs, and I brought
(04:06):
them over and we did a bunch of tries and
I was like, you cannot. I wanted to say to
one of my friends, you can't fuck this up. Okay,
like you cannot fuck this It's game time now, Okay,
do you understand me? Because what I didn't want was
her to like start pulling up the basket and then
drop it. Then there's a mouse flop at the house
and I'll have a panic attack. And they had to
get the guy out, and I think Brim was like,
(04:28):
we'll throw the whole filter away, and I then realized
we don't have to do that because we could put
the whole filter in the garbage, shake the guy out,
then put the filter back, which somehow I managed to do.
And I don't know quite how we did it, but
I was like, don't scream, and then we both screamed
like it was just crazy. And then we put him
in the garbage and then all these like Peter and
(04:48):
Mouse people were going crazy, like not a lot, but
just some people being like save the warm mouth was young,
Like the fucking mouse was dead. I don't do mouse CPR,
like I don't have to tell you, I don't like
the paddles decide what to chicklets and a string. I'm
gonna do like resuscitation paddles on the goddamn mouse the mouth,
Like I couldn't even what. So we post this thing
(05:09):
on TikTok. Okay, it's going viral. It is flying. People
are so invested in it. It's gonna go to a million,
no question, it is flying. It gets shut down for
sensitive content. So then we then that we had we
put up a pixelated mouse video. You can imagine that
like PG mouse didn't do as well. It's just ridiculous.
(05:31):
But like an incident in the pool with a mouse
is not okay, make me understand, Brian, that came with
(05:51):
me to the Today Show and Hoda asked if she
could come on, and it was really funny because they
had Brinn over on the side. You know, they'll put
like a camera for teasers and then they'll show someone.
And so she was over there. But what happened was
when we mentioned her, she just walked out onto the
stage and it was so cute, just came up to
the desk and started talking to us. So the table
(06:12):
it was really funny. But what's not as funny but
came out even funnier. Was an hour and change before
the actual appearance for the Today Show where I was
co hosting, and incidentally Christopher Buckle. The night before I
booked him and said to him one stipulation, you have
to do me in complete drug store makeup. He said,
(06:33):
but I must use my brushes. And today I went out,
I bought broke drug store makeup. I had drug store
makeups sent and today I said, now we're using drugstore brushes.
So he used drugs store brushes and drug store makeup.
He's never done it before and he said he would
never have done it and he would never have thought
it would perform like this. And after the show, I
said to him, all right, so tell me the truth.
(06:53):
If I said to you you I want to go
to the Mechal and you're going to do my makeup
for the mechal but it has to be drug store.
What would you do when he said I absolutely yesterday
I would have said absolutely not. Today I would say
one hundred percent yes. So that was amazing. And then
I went I was an hour and a half before
going on the show, or an hour and change, and
I looked around and I saw my assistant like seeming
(07:14):
concerned on the phone, and like everyone just seemed a
little hushed, and I was just wondering where the clothes were.
And everyone was freaking out because I did not have
an outfit to wear on the Today Show. It never
made it with us, so it's not that funny because
I was guest hosting, so I didn't want to be
like an imposing on anyone in special attention. And now
I have to go upstairs and borrow something. I was horrified.
So they said I could go to this one woman's
(07:36):
dressing room, and I was now looking at her dresses
and they all look like talk show dresses, and I
just like, but they're not my outfit and I loved
my cute outfit. And I sort of was really bombed,
but I had the show had to go on, so
I saw on her rack this ridiculous. It looks like
a gymnastics suit, is what it looks like. Not even
a It doesn't look like a babies. It looks like
a leotard from nineteen eighties, like Jamie Lee Curtis in
(07:58):
the movie Perfect or like Suzanne Summers with the thigh Master.
So I freaking threw on the Today's Show. It's a
Today Show on it. It's like a gymnastic Onesie leotard
that said Today's Show in bright rainbow colors. And I
(08:20):
just I just did it. I just wore it, and
I surprised Hoda. What was sucked was that before we
had to do another piece outside, so I wore a
trench coat over it. So I looked like a weird
Lady of the night because I was wearing a trench coat.
And she didn't understand what was going on because it
was pre taped for something to be later dropped into
the show. And then I came onto the set at
(08:42):
nine o'clock at ten o'clock in the morning with a
trench coat off, showing up for the Today's Show, and
she goes, what are you doing? And I took it off.
She goes, what is that? What are you wearing? And
I was like, I forgot my clothes. I don't know
what to tell you. And I said, you gotta come
admit to the bit. And it became like a thing
(09:03):
that's on every magazine right now, in every paper because
I committed to the bit and what choice did I have?
What choice did I have? So that was me co
hosting the Today Show. I had a great time and
it was so nice to have been there with me,
and it was really nice. And it was hard because
(09:24):
I was like distracted about the morning's events and how
chaotic it was, and sometimes it's hard to keep yourself
focused when you're thinking about other things. But somehow, I
don't know, the show went on. Ooh, and just like that.
(09:45):
The new Sex and the City show that I do
hear is not great, but I didn't think the first
one was that great. And now I'm gonna kind of
just watch just because it's one of those things that
I'll just keep in my arsenal when I need a show. Oh.
I started it, and a lot of people were distracted
by the plastic surgery in the first one, and maybe
it's just that it's not great plastic surgery that it exists,
(10:06):
but it's a lot of pressure for those women to
still look as good, which they won't years later because
it's so long after. But everyone's been like, ooh, she
look got old. Well she didn't get old because she's older,
but they shaded me. So I know Darren Star, the creator,
and I know Sarah Jessica Parker, and one of these
days I'll spill tea on my connection to Sarah Jessica
Parker in addition to Andy Cohen. But it's no different
(10:31):
than Housewives over there. Sarah Jessica Parker had to utter
the words. So Sarah Jessica Parker is saying, I've almost
rented in the Hampton six times? But that's what she said?
Was it because of Bethany Frankel? Like shots fired? But
by the way, go me, how many years after me
leaving TV, am I still relevant now? Not only on
train Wreck Reality TV, but now on train Wreck scripted TV.
(10:57):
I mean I've got I mean I've been on Saturday
Night with Maya Rudolph mentioning me that she was dressed
as a statue of liberty, and she said, we've survived everything.
We've survived because they're talking about COVID like that we'll survive,
and she's like, we survived, Bethany Frankel. So now I'm
getting But I loved being shaded on SNL, like that's
a dream to be on SNL. So now I'm being
shaded on and just like that, I love the haters.
(11:19):
No one gets it. The haters pay the bills. The
haters keep hating. Believe me, they always think that they're
like gonna take me down. I'm gonna be so upset
and so frustrated. Keep it coming when they stop talking,
start worrying, Shady shady tea spilling SJP and Rosario and
Darren Starr. Keep it coming.
Host
Bethenny Frankel
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