so this is. the framed design of my stock certificate when we went public on the new york stock exchange. it feels really good, especially now with the stock opening substantially higher than the offering price. i must tell you, we re really excited. it s a good thing. this is when you became a billionaire. yes. that was a good day. - i bet. - ( laughs ) tell me about that day. well, it was a very exciting day. i had worked hard to build a company that was martha stewart living on the media. and a lot of people poo-pooed the idea of on the media, but, to me, it really made sense. so it was a media company, which encompassed a magazine and a world of books, - um, and television. - harvey: television. martha: it became a merchandising company. we sold products. at that time, we were selling a lot of product at k-mart.
you d think that now that she s a mom, she s grown-up, that she would ve sort of figured it out. well, she hasn t. harvey: alexis once said. ( martha laughs ) so she really put herself out there to be judged. oh, wow, i mean, i couldn t do this. that s amazing. she s a fantastic cook. she s a better cook than i am. - really? - oh, she is. and she cooks 15 meals a day right now for her family. and she is the cook of the household. harvey: so she really got this from you. martha: well, i don t know if she got it from me, but she is a fantastic mother, she has two amazing children, my grandchildren. ( clicks tongue ) i m so proud of them. they re my only two grandchildren. and i pay their school tuition. - i still. - ( laughter ) i still don t get to know what they re gonna be on halloween.
harvey: people were obsessed with that poncho. oh, i know, and we made a pattern, - which is still sold. - ( laughs ) and you can still buy the same wool. you are fantastic. and it was a great poncho. well, david, welcome. i see you have your ankle bracelet. ( chuckles ) yeah. your poncho. and poor little francesca, you re holding her by the ear. ( laughs ) hey, say hello to my little friend. ( laughter ) you did your house arrest here. and i am blown away by how fantastic this place is. yet i ve read this was harder for you than prison. martha: well, it was. it was, again, that kind of thing is so unfair. wearing an ankle bracelet for god s sake. i mean, and, uh. i couldn t do saturday night live. they asked me to do saturday night live, and there were not enough hours to prepare for saturday night live. i could ve been alec baldwin. ( both laugh ) there s an old saying that
so tell me about these. well, these are this is mrs. beaton. mrs. beaton started writing in the early 1800s. and this is called household management. it s everything you have to know about keeping a home. so many different things in here: recipes for wild duck, and sole, look at these beautiful sole, and how to cook, catch and clean eel. whatever you want to know, it s here. this is all about being a housewife. yes. this is all about being a. how to run a home. - so. - you want to sit down on a stool? - okay, i d love that. - as we talk in my kitchen? this is my kitchen by the way. i i m a perceptive guy. - ( laughs ) - i noticed. you. went into modeling early. and, i m wondering, was it because people said to you, martha, you should be a model, or did you just look in the mirror and say, yeah, i can do that ? martha: i never considered myself a great beauty or even beautiful, but i had a neighbor friend
so your daughter doesn t come to the martha stewart board to get approval of the costumes? she s extremely original herself, so guess what? she doesn t really need me to do that. you were married for 29 years. right. what went wrong? um. what went wrong? i think i was working too hard, not paying enough attention. i think he had a wandering eye. and wandering whatever. ( laughs ) - and, um. - ( laughs ) we grew apart. i did not want to get divorced. yeah, i know he left. - yes. yeah. - it hurt. oh, yeah, for a long time. but. i ve built a good life. you had talked about, um. wanting another wanting a companion. um, is that a priority? martha: oh, i have companions. i have five dogs, six horses. ( laughs ) but you didn t meet any of them on match.com and you re on match.com. martha: oh, yeah, that was a disaster.