June 14, 2022 • 7 mins
Today, Bethenny tackles a taboo topic: some people are getting COVID on purpose. Some think it’s dangerous, others think they’re beating the system; Bethenny thinks we should talk about it.
Plus, hey you… in the window seat on an airplane… listen up!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Okay, So there are major power plays going on on airplanes,
and it's it's no wonder that we're so stressed out
when we get off an airplane, because I don't really
think it's necessarily the dehydration, the t s a, the challenges.
Here's what I think. So I think I told the story.
I told the story about when I got on the
plane and the guy was like, well, we don't have room,
(00:33):
and I'm like, well, I think we did. Did I
told you guys? I did. Okay, So forgetting like the
passive aggressive attitude oft of flight attendant's it's so weird.
Sometimes it's it's a lottery. Sometimes they walk up and
they're just so kind and everything's great. And sometimes you've
gotten on the plane. You're the first person on the plane.
You're sitting down. Um, we're gonna have to have you
put your seat up, and I'm like, but wait a minute,
(00:54):
there's three I we need to get our space ready
right now. And I'm like, but like, you're not gonna
start fighting with a flight attendant. But you're like my
daughters sitting there, we've just gone on the plane. I'm
letting her watch her iPad with the trade table down
were the first people, and we're watching endless people coming
on with all their ship and someone so passive aggressive,
and you obviously can't say something. You just got to
(01:15):
stifle it. So it's like you have a shot of
getting a total fucking asshole or the nicest person you've
ever met. So that's where it begins. Like someone that
you ask for water in a certain oh, we don't
give water with ice in it. Yeah, no, because of COVID,
Like there's always some arbitrary, bizarre rule that is different
than the rule of the time before, and you don't
know if somebody's letting you slide, it's beyond okay. So
(01:39):
now you're dealing with passive aggressive patrons. So I used
to think it was just the person on the aisle
who had all the power, because they sort of control
the attitude of whether you're allowed to walk out to
go to the bathroom, Like they decide whether you're going
to give them a lap dance and climb over them
(01:59):
and like crawl on top of them, or whether they're
gonna stand up and give you the look because you
had to pe twice because you're supposed to be hydrating,
because you're on a fucking airplane which is dehydrating, and
you've been fed salty nuts and oh goddamn bloody Mary.
So you're supposed to be drinking tons of water. She's
supposed to be peeing. But the person on the aisle
did not sign up for that program. So they're sort
(02:19):
of or like there's like a whole thing with like
nudging them and all that. It's sort of like being
at a Broadway play and like being the person who
wants to get out, and the person on the aisle
is like, you've exceeded the amount of times you're allowed
to get out and pee or get popcorn. They have
the power. That being said, I think the greater power
on the plane is a person sitting in the window seat,
(02:40):
because if that fucking sun is glaring in and you're
that person on the aisle or across the aisle, now
you're not even it's not even your own damn aisle.
You're like, you've got your three people. You're in a
little faction there in your pod. They're in your plane pod.
You have to talk to them to get out, to
get in. The person in the middle is just fucked sideways.
I mean, let's be honest. They have to deal with
(03:00):
the glaring sun coming in. They have to ask to
be that's the real reason. It has nothing to do
with people on top of them. That's that's that's not
the worst of it. You are literally a prisoner. So
now you're across the aisle or at the end, and
you've gotta like look over. You don't know this person,
They owe you nothing. They know the sun is glaring
through that goddamn window. They're well aware they have some
(03:21):
disorder where they must look at the sun at all
times during a plane. Musty it takeoff, musty all the clouds,
musty us go down. But you can't read a god'damn
book or do anything because the sun is glaring in
your eyes. So you're supposed to bring an eyemask, and
I realized that, but sitting up normally with an eyemask,
or just being living a normal life, like just eating
a normal snack on the plane with that person. And
(03:43):
sometimes you never go full monty. You never like, please
close the goddamn whole window. And that's not some law
that's been told to the airline. Slight his hand. It's like, no, yeah,
they have to a the people behind me that are
talking so loud, like there needs to be like a
decibel counter. You're at a six, You've just reached a
sucking eight. The flight his head and should be saying,
shut your fucking pile. There are other people, but they're
(04:04):
not allowed. There's no there's no like control of the
noise on the plane. So someone's you know, someone's feast
is your famine. Someone gonna be screaming like I am
right now and think they're talking normally, and another person
sleeping like that's just that's just death by a million
paper cuts. So then you lean over the person in
between you to ask a perfect stranger who's later gonna
(04:25):
have to ask you if they can go to the
bathroom by the way or climb over you give you
a lap dance or whatever. And you're like, can you
just close your window a little bit? And you say
a little bit, and that passag twat does exactly that.
They close it just a fucking little bit, you know,
And then you want to make once you close your
whole fucking window, because you see the light glaring into me,
(04:48):
either Jesus has come from me or we're sucking flying
in a goddamn sunstorm and I need to just like
live my own normal life. My cranias, my corneas are burnt.
So yeah, no power in the air, no matter who
you are, Okay, no fucking power. So we're not all
(05:18):
stressed out enough about the mask on, the mask off,
the acne. You finally realize you're bad breath like after
a couple of hours you're wearing a mask, like, wow,
do I look? Is this what I always? I'm like
because it's like it's now not great, But I wouldn't
know that if I didn't have a mask on. Then
you walk into a doctor's office, right, they're so you
know you gotta have a mask and you must wear
a mask on it all time, and they're militant and
you can't move and you can't breathe and you can't
do anything. Kind of a mint, can of a simple water,
(05:39):
got of the mask on it all time. Then try
to talk to them, try to do an administrative conversation,
and they get annoyed too, like I didn't hear what
is it? What it is? Because today I was saying, oh,
my first emergency, burn it myrna, no burn it, skerna,
it's burning with it with it be what like, oh
(06:00):
my god, then you take to keep your mask, like
we can't have a I don't know what to do?
Are we doing? Like do we do on flash cards?
What do you want to do? Bring a teleprompter. I
don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what
to do. I gotta bring a teleprompter to check it
to a doctor now. So that's one thing. And also
we have a new element now of people that want
to get it because they haven't gotten it. So I
(06:21):
know someone who was going to an event that they
didn't want to a miss be funk up for everybody,
and they were now in the They were now in
the witching hour. We call that when you're a kid,
like the witching hour. I think it was like between
five and seven. Your kid's been up way too long.
That kid passes out of five o'clock. You are fucked
because they're not sleeping. So you have to like put
(06:43):
little toothpicks in their eyes, keep them awake, like it's
just you know, give them caffeine, like play jingle bells,
like dance like a jester. It doesn't matter. It's a
witching hour. Well, the witching hour is before you have
a big event, you have a wedding coming up, you
have whatever, it's just enough time to will make out
with someone with COVID. There is a world that's not
being discussed where people want to get it because they
(07:06):
know that they're going to get it, and there are
those last people that didn't get it, and they're afraid
they're gonna, they're gonna they're gonna funk up someone's event
or their own
Okay, So there are major power plays going on on airplanes,
and it's it's no wonder that we're so stressed out
when we get off an airplane, because I don't really
think it's necessarily the dehydration, the t s a, the challenges.
Here's what I think. So I think I told the story.
I told the story about when I got on the
plane and the guy was like, well, we don't have room,
(00:33):
and I'm like, well, I think we did. Did I
told you guys? I did. Okay, So forgetting like the
passive aggressive attitude oft of flight attendant's it's so weird.
Sometimes it's it's a lottery. Sometimes they walk up and
they're just so kind and everything's great. And sometimes you've
gotten on the plane. You're the first person on the plane.
You're sitting down. Um, we're gonna have to have you
put your seat up, and I'm like, but wait a minute,
(00:54):
there's three I we need to get our space ready
right now. And I'm like, but like, you're not gonna
start fighting with a flight attendant. But you're like my
daughters sitting there, we've just gone on the plane. I'm
letting her watch her iPad with the trade table down
were the first people, and we're watching endless people coming
on with all their ship and someone so passive aggressive,
and you obviously can't say something. You just got to
(01:15):
stifle it. So it's like you have a shot of
getting a total fucking asshole or the nicest person you've
ever met. So that's where it begins. Like someone that
you ask for water in a certain oh, we don't
give water with ice in it. Yeah, no, because of COVID,
Like there's always some arbitrary, bizarre rule that is different
than the rule of the time before, and you don't
know if somebody's letting you slide, it's beyond okay. So
(01:39):
now you're dealing with passive aggressive patrons. So I used
to think it was just the person on the aisle
who had all the power, because they sort of control
the attitude of whether you're allowed to walk out to
go to the bathroom, Like they decide whether you're going
to give them a lap dance and climb over them
(01:59):
and like crawl on top of them, or whether they're
gonna stand up and give you the look because you
had to pe twice because you're supposed to be hydrating,
because you're on a fucking airplane which is dehydrating, and
you've been fed salty nuts and oh goddamn bloody Mary.
So you're supposed to be drinking tons of water. She's
supposed to be peeing. But the person on the aisle
did not sign up for that program. So they're sort
(02:19):
of or like there's like a whole thing with like
nudging them and all that. It's sort of like being
at a Broadway play and like being the person who
wants to get out, and the person on the aisle
is like, you've exceeded the amount of times you're allowed
to get out and pee or get popcorn. They have
the power. That being said, I think the greater power
on the plane is a person sitting in the window seat,
(02:40):
because if that fucking sun is glaring in and you're
that person on the aisle or across the aisle, now
you're not even it's not even your own damn aisle.
You're like, you've got your three people. You're in a
little faction there in your pod. They're in your plane pod.
You have to talk to them to get out, to
get in. The person in the middle is just fucked sideways.
I mean, let's be honest. They have to deal with
(03:00):
the glaring sun coming in. They have to ask to
be that's the real reason. It has nothing to do
with people on top of them. That's that's that's not
the worst of it. You are literally a prisoner. So
now you're across the aisle or at the end, and
you've gotta like look over. You don't know this person,
They owe you nothing. They know the sun is glaring
through that goddamn window. They're well aware they have some
(03:21):
disorder where they must look at the sun at all
times during a plane. Musty it takeoff, musty all the clouds,
musty us go down. But you can't read a god'damn
book or do anything because the sun is glaring in
your eyes. So you're supposed to bring an eyemask, and
I realized that, but sitting up normally with an eyemask,
or just being living a normal life, like just eating
a normal snack on the plane with that person. And
(03:43):
sometimes you never go full monty. You never like, please
close the goddamn whole window. And that's not some law
that's been told to the airline. Slight his hand. It's like, no, yeah,
they have to a the people behind me that are
talking so loud, like there needs to be like a
decibel counter. You're at a six, You've just reached a
sucking eight. The flight his head and should be saying,
shut your fucking pile. There are other people, but they're
(04:04):
not allowed. There's no there's no like control of the
noise on the plane. So someone's you know, someone's feast
is your famine. Someone gonna be screaming like I am
right now and think they're talking normally, and another person
sleeping like that's just that's just death by a million
paper cuts. So then you lean over the person in
between you to ask a perfect stranger who's later gonna
(04:25):
have to ask you if they can go to the
bathroom by the way or climb over you give you
a lap dance or whatever. And you're like, can you
just close your window a little bit? And you say
a little bit, and that passag twat does exactly that.
They close it just a fucking little bit, you know,
And then you want to make once you close your
whole fucking window, because you see the light glaring into me,
(04:48):
either Jesus has come from me or we're sucking flying
in a goddamn sunstorm and I need to just like
live my own normal life. My cranias, my corneas are burnt.
So yeah, no power in the air, no matter who
you are, Okay, no fucking power. So we're not all
(05:18):
stressed out enough about the mask on, the mask off,
the acne. You finally realize you're bad breath like after
a couple of hours you're wearing a mask, like, wow,
do I look? Is this what I always? I'm like
because it's like it's now not great, But I wouldn't
know that if I didn't have a mask on. Then
you walk into a doctor's office, right, they're so you
know you gotta have a mask and you must wear
a mask on it all time, and they're militant and
you can't move and you can't breathe and you can't
do anything. Kind of a mint, can of a simple water,
(05:39):
got of the mask on it all time. Then try
to talk to them, try to do an administrative conversation,
and they get annoyed too, like I didn't hear what
is it? What it is? Because today I was saying, oh,
my first emergency, burn it myrna, no burn it, skerna,
it's burning with it with it be what like, oh
(06:00):
my god, then you take to keep your mask, like
we can't have a I don't know what to do?
Are we doing? Like do we do on flash cards?
What do you want to do? Bring a teleprompter. I
don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what
to do. I gotta bring a teleprompter to check it
to a doctor now. So that's one thing. And also
we have a new element now of people that want
to get it because they haven't gotten it. So I
(06:21):
know someone who was going to an event that they
didn't want to a miss be funk up for everybody,
and they were now in the They were now in
the witching hour. We call that when you're a kid,
like the witching hour. I think it was like between
five and seven. Your kid's been up way too long.
That kid passes out of five o'clock. You are fucked
because they're not sleeping. So you have to like put
(06:43):
little toothpicks in their eyes, keep them awake, like it's
just you know, give them caffeine, like play jingle bells,
like dance like a jester. It doesn't matter. It's a
witching hour. Well, the witching hour is before you have
a big event, you have a wedding coming up, you
have whatever, it's just enough time to will make out
with someone with COVID. There is a world that's not
being discussed where people want to get it because they
(07:06):
know that they're going to get it, and there are
those last people that didn't get it, and they're afraid
they're gonna, they're gonna they're gonna funk up someone's event
or their own
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Bethenny Frankel
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