Bethenny has reached a boiling point with some people and she’s letting you know who and why! She dives into the reality of young girls on social media and why it can’t possibly be “Rosé All Day”.
I want to talk about yawking, and what that is is yell talking. So just because you're out in public doesn't mean you lose the awareness that there are people around you. So I go to the beach this weekend and I sit on my towel. Brinn's going with her friend for a walk, and we're sitting far from other people, not maya, we're on a beach, like, but we're definitely, you know, twenty feet fifteen feet away from other people, fifteen twenty feet like fat, we're not sitting next to them. And people want to use their outside voice in so many different areas, like with their dog, Oh, with their dog, like buster Buster, come here, Buster, Hey Buster, No, Buster Buster, h Buster, Let me get your toy, Buster, let me get your toy. I'm not parenting your dog, like I don't need to be part of your dog interaction, like with the toy, with the thing, with the sit with the whole. It's like people who are very vocal with their parenting with children. Yes, Joshua, do you like ice cream? Joshua? Do you want to get fried chicken? Joshua? Do you want chicken? Figures? Why do you want? Babe? But like Okay, it happens sometimes in elevators, closer spaces, like in like, we don't at the ball anywhere, Like we don't need to be part of your parenting of your dog or your child. Furthermore, I don't want to be in your group plans for your weekend on the beach when I'm sitting far away on my own towel. But if you don't talk in like a norm, like, it doesn't mean you're supposed to scream because you're on a beach. So these people are like screaming and talking about yellow jackets. I know their whole plan for the weekend. I know everything they feel about politics. Like I'm having my own experience on my own towel. I just like, is it fair? Like? But you can't sit and by the way, on a plane too, you can't say to somebody on a beach, hey, can you guys keep it down? It's a public place, like I'm not gonna be can you keep it down? That would be very Karen like. And but nevertheless, why am I in the middle of a conversation with five people on a beach that are being so loud? Like when I talk to Brinda, I'm like brand, what do you want to have? You wanna get? Like I'm just like, yeah, Brent, do you want to go for lunch? Do you want to get Italian ice? Is not like yeah, brand, I think we It's like screaming on the beach and they're yawking. It's under the guise of their talking, but they're talking so loud. They're like screaming everything they're doing. So now I'm in the middle and I could never take a nap on the beach or people walking onto the beach. They're walking onto the beach screaming from they're not to their towel yet, but they're yelling to their towel, to their dog, to their kid, to their people, and they woke me up on the beach. I feel like if someone is screaming and it woke me up from a nap on the beach, it feels like a violation. And it happens on planes too, Like a plane is public domain, but there's some decorum of not like using your outside voice, so everybody five rows around you can hear everything you're talking about, like I just and then you feel weird, like you want to tell a flight attendant you want to grown up. You want to call the principal to be like, can you tell these people to shut the fuck up because we're on a plane, but like you don't talk from dust till dawn. It happened with It happened with flight attendants on one flight, I didn't get one wink asleep because I happened to be in the bulkhead and they were behind that curtain which is not a brick wall, and all the flight attendants we're talking the entire way to France, and I felt like being like, don't we know that, like one of the goals for people on the plane is to maybe sleep. And I don't mean be quiet, I mean like, don't use your outside voice, your loud, loud outside voice, because somebody else might have other goals than you, which are not to like know where you think the best steak freed is in Paris, and what restaurants you're gonna go to, and you know how much money you make because I want her a flight attendant talking about the amount of money they make and it's a different than what other people make because they've been there long. Like I just I need there to be some like be aware of people around you. I just I like to be on the beach and not have to like huff and puff and pick up my towel and try to find a place far away from these people who don't shut the fuck up. There are many people who do shut the fuck up, who live a normal beach life, like talking, hanging. If kids are down by the water screaming, no problem, no problem. But if like my child was like throwing ice cream and having a food fight screaming by my towel, I would certainly say there are I would say, woul one hundred percent say brin, there are other people on this beach, Like you're not allowed to just like scream at the top of your lungs. Same thing with a public pool, same thing on the raft in the water. I like, if you don't own the private beach of miles and miles, and if you don't own the pool at your own house, like, let's not scream. Other people are enjoying their own version of a vacation by a pool, their own version of getting ice cream, their version of lunch. Like they may not want your entire family story to be encroaching upon their beach pool, restaurant life story. So yawking is something that I think people should be aware of. Let's talk about young girls on social media. I'm noticing that girls in their twenties are showing this rose all day lifestyle with their midge of showing. And I know I sound like a Karen, so bear with me, and like every young girl is just draped in chanel, has perfect makeup, is filtered within an inch of their life is snatched. It has disposable income, can travel everywhere, can be at Coachella, can be at Miami, can be at music Fest, and be all over you know, jet setting all over Europe. And that's what twenty year olds are doing. That's what my daughter should expect to be doing at twenty. She's not gonna have any responsibility. She doesn't have acne, she doesn't feel bloated, she doesn't feel depressed, she hasn't been broken up with, No one's broken her heart. Everything's perfect, she has no bills, She's never gonna have to worry her whole life. Because it's a rose all day lifestyle. Coming from a woman who's launching a rose called Forever Young, ironically, I just feel like when I was in my twenties, that is not the life that I was living in my twenties. I was crying, wondering what was going to happen to me, who was going to support me, how to pay my bills. I felt ugly, I felt disgusting, I felt highs and lows. I felt depressed, I felt probably broken up with. I felt like I needed to know everything that was going to happen in my life. And I just think that this is irresponsible because and I don't even know who it's irresponsible of. If young girls have disposable income, they're just flaunting that they're too young to know that they should be role models and that it matters. But someone needs to tell someone, or someone needs to tell our kids that that is not what real life is about. And it's again going back to the dangers of social media. It's just not real. It's not real. The filters aren't real, the lifestyle isn't real, the makeup isn't real, the disposable rich income isn't real. It's such a small percentage of population, and it's just not what young girls are experiencing. And if they watch that, they're going to think that if they're not living that life, they're going to be depressed. And it's no different than people thinking when they watch the Kardashians that that's real, that they're waistlines, that their hair, that their nails at their faces, that they're missing clavicles are real, and they're not real. So it's no different. Did he as suing Diagio. He has a tequila brand called Delion. He is claiming that they are not marketing it. It is a black owned brand. They are not spending money and marketing dollars to the same tune that they do with Randy Gerber and George Clooney's brand. Couple of things. Number one, there are contracts that say how much a brand will spend on marketing. With mine, it was I think eighteen percent of sales, and that was a lot of money because we were doing really close to a million cases. And that was Skinny Girl, which I sold to Beam. Beam bought my brand, and Beam bought Pinnacle Vodka because they wanted to gobble up brands, because they wanted to get themselves gobbled up by Century. None of this did I know. All I knew was I was a young girl with a young brand, and I negotiated a great deal. Would have been hundreds of thousands, I mean hundreds of millions of dollars more now because liquor exploded. But back then it was a great deal. It was a lot of money. And I was the inventor of the skinny Margarita. I had the fastest growing liquor brand in history, and I started off the celebrity craze of cocktails. Fact after me came Ryan Reynolds. After me came George Clooney and Randy Gerber. Diddy and I were groundbreakers. He has the same birthday as I do, by the way, but we were groundbreakers, and we were first into the cocktail space, the celebrity cocktail space, a land where people wouldn't hold drinks. They celebrities were advised not to hold drinks. So Diddy had a very different deal. He did not own the brand. He came into a tired brand and took a per case number, a per case amount, which made him a lot of money. He did very innovative and creative and really effective ads and puts a rock on the map, and it was amazing. After Skinny Girl tequila blew up, it became massive, not just like the brown tequila we drank in college, but the clear tequila patron men was drinking, so tequila brew blew up for women after the Skinny Girl deal, so women were drinking the tequila soda, making their own version of the Skinny Girl margarita, and tequila became something that women and more people were drinking. So now you have Mario Lopez, Eva Longoria, Mark Wahlberg, Didty, every Tom Dick and Harry, every housewife flew into alcohol, Cameron Diaz, every single person got into wine and got into tequila. And now Ditty's suing because his brand isn't being marketed as much as Randy Gerber and George Clooney's brand, which a couple of things. Number one, they jumped in after us and they blew it out. It was a lifestyle. You believed, just like Siroc. You believe that Randy Gerber and George Clooney are going to Mexico, They're on motorcycles or creating this lifestyle. You believe it. You're buying into it. We understand it. You believe Didty and Sirok. You believed me and all my girls and Skinny Girl because it's true, it was likely true for all of us. And also Diddy was doing something groundbreaking, it was cool. He wants the same attention and the same marketing as back then when the landscape is not the same as it was back then. Diagio has to protect the realm. They have Patron, which declined drastically, not unlike Absolute declining drastically years before. And I don't know that for a fact. I believe Patron has declined drastically because no one talks about it anymore the way they used to. So they had the hottest brand started by Jean Paul Joria, the owner of Paul Mitchell, and then you know, it was the hottest thing. It was the only tequila and men were drinking it out of the Patron bottle and some women were drinking it. That's when Patron became very cool. But then everybody else swooped in and people that you don't even think are really drinking the tequilo. So Diagio has to protect the realm. They have to protect their Patron business. They have to protect their cosamigo's business. Just like Beam where who bought Skinny Girl. They had to protect their gym, Beam whiskey business. That's the bread and butter, that's what keeps the lights on, not some cute Pinnacle vodka whipped cream flavored vodka appealing to women brand, not some cute little skinny girl low calorie margarita appealing to women brand. It's just not the bread and butter. So I just think that Diagio is protecting the realm. And they maybe took a flyer and thought du Leione was going to pop off, or they wanted to pump it and eventually dump it, or they wanted to get all the juice out of it that they could. But they're not building it because they've got a favorite child. No different than ConAgra doesn't promote my popcorn. ConAgra doesn't promote my popcorn at all, my microwave popcorn, because they're my partner, you know why, because they have Orville Reddenbacher. So they are protecting the realm. And yes, Skinny Girl is literally I think it's the number one or two low calorie popcorns on the market. And it's great, and it does well and it makes seals millions of dollars a year, but that is not Conagra's priority. Skinny Girl microwave popcorn is not Conagre's priority. Why because Orville Reddenbacher is Conagra's priority, but Diddy is not their priority. Neither is de Leon because they've got Patron and they've got casamigos that they have to pay attention to and that's what they're focusing on. So they have so many different brands, and Dillion is not their favorite child anymore then Mark Wahlberg is their favorite child. It's too crowded. It happened. It's like beauty and skincare. We did it, we like, we cried, freaking Kathy Wakuiel had a red velvet drink. Teresa had a failed fabulini. Luanne had an idea for a vodka. Nini wanted to do mescato. Heather Dubrow did a champagne. Lisa vander Pump did a rose. I mean, it goes on and on. That's just Housewives. It's done. We left, We cried. Celebrity owned liquor brands have peaked and will crash Cyanara and I don't even know how well eight when eight does. And so just because you're a celebrity doesn't mean you're gonna move a cocktail. It's just too much. I think did he's whining and he's crying over spilled tequila, and he shouldn't be because he got his hit. I had my hit too. I had my hit. I had my hit. I'm going back in with Forever Young Rose Wine. I think it will crush, but I'm certainly not going to go start crying. And I didn't get the attention that you know, Whispering Angel got. If I don't get it like I got to create it myself. So did he go fucking grind it? Buy it back from them, figure it out. I'll partner with you.