Let's Set Up Carl Radke!
Just B with Bethenny Frankel
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 10.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Summer House's Carl Radke stops by to talk about his amazing new nonalcoholic lounge Soft Bar, his memoir Cake Eater (+10 points if you know what the title means!). PLUS: We try to get him set up on The Core.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:16.5 | Hi. How are you? |
| 0:18.5 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:19.6 | I'm well. |
| 0:20.3 | So we met at that event in New York City briefly. |
| 0:25.4 | Outshine. |
| 0:26.4 | Yes, and we were talking about your, is it a new bar? How new is it? |
| 0:31.7 | Almost three months. |
| 0:33.2 | Do you live in New York? |
| 0:35.1 | I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, full time. |
| 0:38.8 | And where are you raised? I was born in Chicago.? I live in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, full time. And where are you raised? |
| 0:44.5 | I was born in Chicago. I was raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Okay. And so are those cocktails behind you or mocktails? These are all non-alcoholic beverages. They are? Yep. Like, is it on purpose? |
| 0:50.9 | It was literally just where I happened to be sitting. It's not, it wasn't like an intentional |
| 0:54.4 | thing. No, no, no. I just saw it and I thought does he have cocktails around him because he |
| 0:59.3 | doesn't need to drink them and he happens to also have a soft bar. I've been in the industry for |
| 1:04.0 | seven years with Lover Boy. We launched an alcohol brand and then I got sober in 2021. |
| 1:10.8 | And how does that work? |
| 1:12.3 | Like, as far as the brand goes, as long as you're honest about it, people understand, |
| 1:16.1 | or you don't really promote it because I, too, have a macktail brand, and also I've had |
| 1:22.8 | different cocktail brands, but I drink less. |
| 1:25.3 | Not this week, I don't drink less, but overall, I drink less. And also, |
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