the first on the list, martha stewart. >> more than three decades on tv millions have turned to martha stewart to learn how to make the perfect pie. groom a garden or trim a tree. >> affixing ornaments. >> it has been a good thing for the self-made domestic god else who created a billion dollar empire. martha stewart living. a true business were pioneer. she turned domecticity into an industry. >> she does it better than anyone else. so whether it's cooking pancakes

i'm here with my two guests martha stewart and l'il jon. eautiful dog. >> seth: she's a very beautiful dog. >> why you name the dog frisbee, man? that's just not gangsta at all. >> seth: no, but nor is she. >> yeah, you're right. >> seth: yeah. this is my dog harvey keitel. [ laughter ] >> how about -- is genghis -- is genghis gangsta? >> seth: genghis is pretty gangsta. >> genghis is gangsta as hell. >> seth: yeah. >> and you can call him g.k. g.k. >> yeah, it's a nice name for him. >> seth: yeah. >> he could pulverize your forearm in 13 seconds, if he wanted to. can we just talk about -- >> wow, martha, damn! what a buzz kill, martha! >> seth: that's so weird you liked "american psycho." >> he likes your dog. >> seth: i know. he's just staring at frisbee, like -- >> yeah, he likes your dog. so i thought, since you have such a giant dog, does he eat about -- >> really, martha, really? >> is that a little big? >> this could feed a monster. >> seth: just for context, here's a picture of my dog. let's take a photo of my dog. all right, there's

in the mid-1990s, martha stewart, inc.became martha stewart omnimedia. >> whatever it is that she isublic has understood that it is about excellence. so they trust that. >> that trust was shaken when she was embroiled in inside trader scandal. she was indicted, convicted in 2004 of impeding the investigation, and went to prison in west virginia for five months later that year. to her detractors she was disgraced. to her defenders, something very different indeed. >> martha stewart did the most heroic thing you can imagine. she actually went to jail when she could have waited a couple of years for her appeal to work itself through. i don't know anyone that could make that decision and do it with your head held high, do it, finish it, come out and not skip a beat. she walked up the plank of that airplane, waved at everybody in a poncho that the inmates had knitted and went back to being martha stewart. >> i think her setbacks made her stronger. and i do think she channeled some of that energy into her business. she's fearless. she does not mind taking risk. and a number of risks that s

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while the oscar winner graces the cover of martha stewart's "real wedding" she hardly takes the spotlightom her new sister-in-law. look how beautiful they all are. e. julia louis-dreyfus unveiled the cover of "rolling stone" on twitter plus a little bit more. the comedienne blames her constitution tattoo on a, quote, drunken stupor. they can do anything they want. >>> after 73 years, comic book icon "archie" -- >> why? >> -- is set to kick the bucket in an upcoming issue. the creators say the redhead will be fatally shot saving a friend. we'll never know if betty or veronica is his true love. >>> mickey rooney left his estate to mark rooney. the iconic actor said he lost most of his fortune due to mismanagement by another one of his stepsons. >>> and scarlett johansson has opened up about her divorce from ryan reynolds. she better understands what she wants from a relationship and goes on to say that's not a reflection on reynolds but more so where she was in her life. but you know what? all is good. she's off. she's pregnant. he's with blake lively. >> scarlett johansson has turned the c

. >> looks very martha stewart werish. this is very ps and it takes a couple of minutes., you can buy a brick yourself and make it into an easter egg cake. trace the outline of an egg shape, which we started to do here. cut it away. and icing and that's pretty much it. >> oh. >> you would like that. >> that looks like fun. >> anybody can do it. different colors. everything from pink and, you know, all the fun little do-dads to sprinkle around. >> love. love. cute. >> get creative. do different carrots and easter things. do different -- >> i love this. i don't know what it is and i love it. >> i knew you would be excited about this one. >> that's sweet. >> this one, who would think we would do balloons, right? if you blow up a couple of balloons, melt some chocolate, do white chocolate, dark chocolate, whatever you really love, once it is soft and you dip it, actually before it sets, you sprinkle some nonpareils, wait for it to set. i'll give you a pin. pop it for me. these are dessert bowls. >> oh, my god. >> aren't these great? >> adorable. >> edible. you have any latex

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jack bogle, martha stewart, steve jobs, they hit bottom before they rose up to the top. >> if you can'tas a business owner. >> and you shouldn't etry. it was the thing that gave them wisdom or humility and allowed them to get better. both bogle and steve jobs said getting fired is what made them successful. >> that very vivid image that you describe in your piece of steve jobs in the fetal position on his partially furnished home or apartment in silicon valley after he lost his company. rupert murdoch almost lost his company to bondholders of his firm. larry ellison and oracle, he had his dark moments. >> that just seems to be part of the journey. howard shultz lost his company, too, and came back and took starbucks over. in a way, that's the way it has to be. it's a very hard course to be an entrepreneur. there are no owner's manuals, no step by step guide. you will fail and you have to learn from it. >> i don't mean to get dewy-eyed, but a country like american whose hash past time is baseball, where the best hitters fail two out of the three times, we almost celebrate failure, we for

but catherine, and this is very the sort of martha stewart of her day, she was the person that told youhow to be a housemate or and how to be good mother, the many steps to ironing her husband's shirts and she was an old spinster who had never been married and she didn't know anything about what she was writing and she was as individual. and she joins something like 500,000 women petitioning against the bow at the very same time as the others were. so there was always that kind of stand off and how dare you be so incredibly audacious. so the sad thing was that made them part of this. anthony comstock was a self-made man and he saw sin in everything, including medical books. as well as everything else. so there were some cartoons made and one was where he is standing of the woman next to him and saying your honor, this woman just gave birth to a naked baby. >> that was a situation where he then happened to make this with the federal law and made it tougher and he was against everything that all the best writers wrote an walt whitman and against george bernard shaw and he chased margaret

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catherine was the martha stewart everyday.she supposedly told you had to be a house maker, how to be a good mother, the many steps to ironing her husband's shirts and she was an old spinster. she had never been married. she didn't know anything she was writing about. she never had children. she joined something like 5000 women petitioning against the vote at the very same time when the others were. so there was always that kind of standoff i think between two different -- sometimes that religious connotation but also it was how dare you be so incredibly audacious? this comstock the bad thing about what the sisters were able to do is sit turned around and made him a hero. he was anthony comstock ,-com,-com ma sort of a self made by star. he saw sin and everything. he saw sin and medical looks. >> like kenneth star? >> exactly, exact date and everything else. there were some cartoons made of him and one was this one where he is standing up with this woman next to him and looking at the judge and he says your honoe birth to a bab

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oprah winfrey makes the list as does martha stewart. >> oprah is the most influential american, the richestof personality, created a brand, created new categories of media and retailing in ways that we hadn't seen before until they came along. >> by the way, it's not just a list. you do profiles of all these people that will air, and one to think about for people as they sip their morning cup of coffee, howard schultz makes the list. >> my favorite is howard schultz story. he's working for this small coffee roaster in seattle. he goes to italy and he realizes that espresso bars are the social hub of these towns. he says, we've got to do that at scale. has to go out, do it on his own. he buys the starbucks name and now we know we need it every single morning. >> it's a fascinating list. we'll put the entire one up on our website. but it's the first 25. cnbc. congratulations on the anniversary. it's good to see you. >> you, too. >> and you can catch the one-hour special cnbc first 25, rebels, icons and leaders tonight, 7:00 eastern on cnbc. >>> up next, we're heading into the kitchen with gia