And Then There Was New Year's
Just B with Bethenny Frankel
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4.2 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Escape from St Barths at 3 AM? Yes. That is what we did. PLUS: Can we retire "brutal" honesty?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:16.4 | So then, New Year's Eve, I'm invited by friends to go on a boat, like an extraordinary, outrageous, stunning boat. |
| 0:24.6 | And we go and ironically, because the people out on those boats, the big, giant major boats that aren't docked with the normal billionaires on land that are another level because they're so big that they're, |
| 0:38.2 | you know, magnificent crazy vessels. Those are out in the water and you have to take a tender |
| 0:43.6 | and it probably takes like 20 minutes. Those people aren't really the people that are at the |
| 0:47.2 | dushy lunch. They'll do a duchy lunch, but they're on their boats with their chefs and their |
| 0:51.6 | friends. And it's another level. It's another planet. |
| 0:55.0 | Ironically, because everyone on social media is criticizing them because of the wealth and |
| 0:59.3 | accumulation, those people, from my perspective, those people are like nice people. |
| 1:05.7 | Like, they're like nice, interesting people that do charity. |
| 1:10.2 | I don't have to know them all intimately, |
| 1:11.8 | but they're wealthy. They're allowed to be wealthy. You would be wealthy if you could too. |
| 1:15.0 | You would make the kind of money they have if you could too. You might not check all the boxes, |
| 1:18.3 | do it that way. But like going out there was the most peaceful experience of the entire process. |
| 1:24.4 | But like doing that was the most intimate experience, the most elaborate, |
| 1:30.7 | unrelatable boat experience that you could ever even fathom that in 70 million lifetimes |
| 1:38.5 | you could never afford, and I likely could never afford, was the most intimate experience. |
| 1:42.9 | It was people with their families, |
| 1:48.3 | with their kids that were out there doing things the way that they want to with their friends, |
| 1:52.9 | in this case on New Year's Eve, an intimate group of people. And that's where I had the most meaningful time. And I was like, this is the upside down. This is the upside down. This is where |
| 1:58.0 | it's the most calm and meaningful. It's the people on land that |
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