Speaker 1: Hey, are you cool cats and kittens.
Speaker 2: It's La La Kent with Ryan with.
Speaker 1: We have a super dope guest today. She is poised,
Speaker 1: she is elegant, and she is a gangster when it
Speaker 1: comes to taking the wrath of La La Kent. Her
Speaker 1: name is Raquel, motherfucking Levice God.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you the reason I'm excited about having
Speaker 3: Raquel on is the fact that you two have all
Speaker 3: this stuff going on about whatever to going at it
Speaker 3: or whatever whatever, and she is the sweetest human and
Speaker 3: you have the biggest heart in the world. So I
Speaker 3: don't understand any of this shit, but I am excited
Speaker 3: to have her because I don't know Raquel that well.
Speaker 3: I know we're obviously just saying hi at different things, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 3: But I'm excited to get to know her because she's
Speaker 3: always so nice to me, so genuine so and I'm
Speaker 3: sure you too will talk and we'll hear that.
Speaker 4: Part of it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm just glad you two are are talking
Speaker 3: and friends and whatever it was, we'll we'll get into.
Speaker 3: But I just got to tell you, Raquel, you know,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of people on your show and a
Speaker 3: lot of different personalities and raquel from day one, no
Speaker 3: matter what.
Speaker 4: Has been going on?
Speaker 1: So sweet.
Speaker 4: So let me ask you a question, Miss Lalla, so
Speaker 4: soon to be, missus Lala.
Speaker 3: We're we're in quarantine here on week three hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's getting it's getting now. Am I right to say
Speaker 3: that when we first got into quarantine, I had just
Speaker 3: gotten home. So you're already a weekend?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: I got home day one. I think I went in
Speaker 3: a full depression, like what is going on? What just happened?
Speaker 3: And you already had been in like a week right
Speaker 3: week two, I was like bouncing off the walls, going nuts,
Speaker 3: renting r v's, you know, going to our house in
Speaker 3: Palm Springs, blah blah blah. You were happy as a clamp.
Speaker 3: I saw you drawing every day. You have four hundred
Speaker 3: coloring books here in front of us, and so you're
Speaker 3: laughing right here. You've got lizards, you're drawing, You've got
Speaker 3: I don't know, you've got states and countries. You were
Speaker 3: having the time of your life. Yes, not only were
Speaker 3: you coloring. Then we built our we extended our pickleball court, right,
Speaker 3: and now we've been playing pickleball. That's been awesome, totally
Speaker 3: so professional coloriss, professional pickleball player, swimmer, step mom, everything,
Speaker 3: and you have been the best attitude. And I've been
Speaker 3: in the like the.
Speaker 1: Dems, and I've even PMS while in quarantine.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was a rough four days that those four
Speaker 3: days were off, but we made it through all that,
Speaker 3: and you kept a great attitude totally. Yesterday yesterday, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like you hit the wall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm hitting a wall.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Today today you can.
Speaker 1: Only color and give myself so many facials before I
Speaker 1: want to fucking shoot everybody.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm looking at you, and at least you're admitting
Speaker 3: it because you know, you have had the most positive attitude.
Speaker 4: Baby, I swear to you.
Speaker 2: Every day I've been like, well, because I'm anti social.
Speaker 1: So for me, it's like, oh, don't leave your houses,
Speaker 1: I'm like.
Speaker 3: Uh, for you, three weeks of no gym, three weeks
Speaker 3: of not seeing any of your friends, any of your friends,
Speaker 3: yeah takes a toll.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean all of my friends are homebodies, so
Speaker 1: like if we don't see each other for a minute,
Speaker 1: like at least we text and whatnot. The gym is.
Speaker 2: Killing me, and the gym is people.
Speaker 1: Well, the gym sets the tone for my whole day,
Speaker 1: and I want to tell people.
Speaker 4: People don't know this. So normally our schedule.
Speaker 2: Is we wake up, we talked about this, we did,
Speaker 2: we have talked.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you don't want me to repeat it.
Speaker 1: Well, I would prefer to talk about something different if
Speaker 1: we've already spoken about it.
Speaker 3: I'm a repeater though, Okay, okay, but going backwards, just
Speaker 3: saying when you go to the gym, it is your
Speaker 3: kind of first window of the day after your call.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I've told people a hundred times. If I
Speaker 1: don't have a trainer, I am not working out. My
Speaker 1: ass is getting flat. I've lost weight.
Speaker 4: You have lost weight? Is that a thing? Because I don't.
Speaker 4: I mean, you're skinny already.
Speaker 1: People they're like, oh, that's great me. I want thick,
Speaker 1: thick ass. I don't want that, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to freaking thigh gap.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to be thicky thick bitch over here, which
Speaker 1: is why really? Yeah, so I squat a lot. It's
Speaker 1: why I eat a lot. But I think it's because
Speaker 1: Jenna works my ass out so hard that my body
Speaker 1: is like needing fuel all the time.
Speaker 4: I just want to preface this.
Speaker 3: Whatever however you say you look right now, I think
Speaker 3: you look stunning, thank you, And I think you look
Speaker 3: people every day and that is the truth. And you
Speaker 3: know I say that day, thank you. But what I
Speaker 3: do want to say is we've hit this wall, both
Speaker 3: of us. Yeah, and we're looking outside. It's pouring rain
Speaker 3: right now, and we're just like, you know, when does
Speaker 3: it end?
Speaker 1: And we feel like I'm in the Walking Dead kind of.
Speaker 2: Yes, like this is our this is our base, this
Speaker 2: is our camp.
Speaker 1: And the kids are the walkers because they're stuck at
Speaker 1: home all day.
Speaker 4: Everybody's stuck, are we?
Speaker 1: And I hear them coming up the stairs to l
Speaker 1: l la la la, shut the door.
Speaker 3: You know, people don't people who don't a lot of
Speaker 3: people who listen I have kids, but people don't have kids.
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you I love being with my children.
Speaker 1: The people that have kids know exactly what works.
Speaker 4: That's I'm but I'm trying to tell the people that don't.
Speaker 3: So people who don't have children, who are young, you know,
Speaker 3: or having our kids yet or whatever, you know, you
Speaker 3: love your kids and you love every minute with them.
Speaker 3: And people know I love Riley and London obsessively, and
Speaker 3: so do you.
Speaker 4: You. But here's the thing. When they don't go to
Speaker 4: school and you have to try to be creative in
Speaker 4: your home.
Speaker 3: You can only color so much, you can only play
Speaker 3: Jenga so much. You can only play Hide.
Speaker 1: And seek, swim pickle, run them into.
Speaker 2: The ground so many times.
Speaker 1: Yes, before you're run into the ground by freaking three
Speaker 1: o'clock exactly.
Speaker 3: But you know, so we so we face that, and
Speaker 3: and I just think, look, I think we're halfway through
Speaker 3: this quarantine.
Speaker 4: I think we're on starting to head towards the other side.
Speaker 3: I've read a lot of articles that say the curves
Speaker 3: aren't happen, the numbers are lower than they thought.
Speaker 4: Look, we don't know yet, but I am optimistic.
Speaker 1: I avoid the news.
Speaker 3: I don't know shit I know, but I'm optimistic seeing
Speaker 3: a lot of headlines lately that seem like they're going
Speaker 3: in the right direction.
Speaker 4: So knock on wood, hopefully.
Speaker 1: Will All I know is my mother has put two
Speaker 1: baskets in the entryway, one full of masks, one full
Speaker 1: of gloves, and another full of lyesol. And that means,
Speaker 1: obviously we're stepping our game up. You can't come in
Speaker 1: the house without those, and you can't leave the house
Speaker 1: without those, so clearly is popping off.
Speaker 4: It's popping off.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, right now we're in a
Speaker 3: real serious lockdown this week, and they're saying that hopefully
Speaker 3: we'll hit our peak. But having said that, it does
Speaker 3: make me think about, like, when this quarantine's over and
Speaker 3: we go back to work, we go back to our
Speaker 3: lives or whatever version the appreciation I'm gonna have for traffic,
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, when I get in traffic to go
Speaker 3: to the office, yeah, I'm gonna be like, thank god,
Speaker 3: I can go to the office. So I just think
Speaker 3: people are going to be a hope more tolerant and
Speaker 3: appreciative of the small things in life that.
Speaker 1: We used to take for granted, right Like I used
Speaker 1: to sit there and be like, ugh, I have to
Speaker 1: go to, like, you know, a meeting today. Do you
Speaker 1: know how much money I would give to go to
Speaker 1: a meeting instead of be like here's the zoom link.
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 2: And by the way, you know, not only.
Speaker 1: Are you asking me to log into something I'm technologically challenged,
Speaker 1: but you're asking me to get ready to sit at
Speaker 1: home in front of a computer.
Speaker 4: It's tough.
Speaker 3: It's tough, and I'll tell you, and for you, I
Speaker 3: got to give you a lot of credit to stay
Speaker 3: You have stayed sober, you have done your homework with
Speaker 3: your sponsor.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure for a lot of.
Speaker 3: People who fight addiction having to be quarantined, not be
Speaker 3: able to drive to their typical weekly meeting that some
Speaker 3: people have been.
Speaker 4: Going twenty years.
Speaker 1: Zoom, it's all on zoom.
Speaker 3: But for twenty years some of these people or thirty
Speaker 3: years have been sober going to the same weekly meeting,
Speaker 3: the same routine. I give a lot of people a
Speaker 3: lot of credit right now for fighting to stay sober
Speaker 3: and staying the course, because you know, it's already tough enough.
Speaker 3: I'm sure to stay sober, but to stay sober in
Speaker 3: your house.
Speaker 1: I'm really happy that you brought that up, because I
Speaker 1: feel like everyone is, you know, so consumed with getting
Speaker 1: sick and getting this virus and what do we do
Speaker 1: to prevent getting it that we also have to think
Speaker 1: about the fact that my people, my fellow alcoholics and addicts,
Speaker 1: don't get to go to meetings that are keeping them sober. Yeah, way,
Speaker 1: they're having to do the work on their own, calling
Speaker 1: their sponsor, but they don't have they don't have. Most
Speaker 1: people don't know this. Just getting in the car to
Speaker 1: go to a meeting is keeping people sober, and they
Speaker 1: don't have that anymore. And by the way, we have
Speaker 1: to log onto a computer and I get it. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: well they still have the meeting, but it's different. It
Speaker 1: is different. So I give so many people that have
Speaker 1: been going to those meetings for ten twenty years that
Speaker 1: they're still fucking fighting for their sobriety. Those are the
Speaker 1: people that inspire me.
Speaker 3: And I want to second that, just when I've gone
Speaker 3: to your the meetings with you to support you, watching
Speaker 3: the speakers and the inspiration and kind of the community
Speaker 3: that comes around you, watching the love that you get,
Speaker 3: you know, of being sober in the celebratory and when
Speaker 3: I went to your one year you know, watching you
Speaker 3: speak like that, I get it, like I get it.
Speaker 3: And to not have that right now, for you not
Speaker 3: to be able to just get in the car and
Speaker 3: say I'm having a shitty two days. You know, I'm stressed,
Speaker 3: as like everybody else in the world, I'm going to
Speaker 3: go to my meeting and talk it out.
Speaker 4: You can't do that.
Speaker 1: There are people rand that have been going to the
Speaker 1: who have been sober for like forty plus years and
Speaker 1: they go to a meeting and you look in the
Speaker 1: corner and they're like falling asleep, and it's like, but.
Speaker 2: They went to the meeting.
Speaker 1: They got in the car and they went to their meeting.
Speaker 3: Exactly the point they went to the meeting, and it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. And maybe that week they were falling asleep.
Speaker 3: In the next week they needed the meeting.
Speaker 4: They know.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying is that people people take out. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: but you can still tune in. It's like, but you
Speaker 1: don't understand the power of getting into your car and
Speaker 1: driving to that meeting. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: And I give you so much respect. I tell you
Speaker 4: this all the time.
Speaker 3: Your biggest accomplishment, and when I have gone to meetings
Speaker 3: with you to support you, watching you just you.
Speaker 4: Know, every time you came out of a meeting that
Speaker 4: I was with you.
Speaker 3: At, you were l liked, you were like floating, it
Speaker 3: was like church exactly. So for you not to have
Speaker 3: that and have to do it on the phone or
Speaker 3: in zoom. Look, I've been doing meetings or meetups with
Speaker 3: my friends.
Speaker 2: You know that kind of stuff on the zoom. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not the same.
Speaker 4: It's not the same.
Speaker 3: It's it's good, it's something, it's better than nothing, but
Speaker 3: it's not the same. And I that one meeting we
Speaker 3: went to with that amazing speaker, the place down by
Speaker 3: the four or five whatever, It was an amazing speaker
Speaker 3: and we were both like amazing, blown away. You know,
Speaker 3: you can't get that same thing unless you're sitting twenty
Speaker 3: feet from the person. So allalla to you and everybody
Speaker 3: out there, who's who's you know staying sober. I give
Speaker 3: all of you such amazing respect because you know, I
Speaker 3: know I need.
Speaker 4: To drink even more during these times, so I.
Speaker 1: Should, I give you that's funny. But I just take
Speaker 1: more baths instead of four, damn taking like six. So
Speaker 1: if there's a drought problem, I'm single handedly responsible for it.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well I'm fine with that.
Speaker 3: Well, I want to say I am excited about our
Speaker 3: next guest.
Speaker 4: I am excited that you.
Speaker 3: And her are on such a good path, and I
Speaker 3: think that I'm excited to get to know a lot
Speaker 3: about her. So I think we should. You should introduce
Speaker 3: her because obviously you know her better than me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take a short break and then we are
Speaker 1: back with the stunning Raquel Levis, and we are back
Speaker 1: with the guest that I have been really excited about.
Speaker 1: I know we've had some rocky times, but she she
Speaker 1: was like really open to being on our podcast. We
Speaker 1: have the beautiful Raquel Levin.
Speaker 6: Yes, Hello, Hey, Raquelala, Raquel I am I got to say,
Speaker 6: got to say you are awesome and and just so
Speaker 6: cool to just come on here.
Speaker 3: And and I know that you and Laala had some
Speaker 3: vander Pomp drama, but you know what, that's behind us.
Speaker 3: And I just want people to get to know you,
Speaker 3: because you know, I don't know you that well, but
Speaker 3: I know you know James obviously for a long time now.
Speaker 3: And I just think that I can't tell you how
Speaker 3: excited I am for you to be here and for
Speaker 3: me and everybody to kind of get to know a
Speaker 3: lot more about you.
Speaker 4: So I just want to thank you, amazing.
Speaker 7: Thank you. No, I'm excited to be here talking to
Speaker 7: you guys too.
Speaker 1: So you said earlier, like you get you get nervous,
Speaker 1: you know, doing podcasts, and you you know last year
Speaker 1: during the reunion, you have told us that you struggle
Speaker 1: or have struggled with anxiety and things like that. What
Speaker 1: is it like for you you coming on you know
Speaker 1: you you met James and then you just like became
Speaker 1: a personality on reality TV? Like what was your mindset?
Speaker 5: I don't know if i'd call myself a personality. I
Speaker 5: know you're definitely a person.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say no, no, no, I will say, Raquel,
Speaker 1: this season watching you has been pretty epic. You've gone toes.
Speaker 1: I've already told you this when we've had our phone conversations,
Speaker 1: Like you handle yourself with Grayson Poise. I wish I
Speaker 1: could do that. Unfortunately I'm cut from a very dingy cloth.
Speaker 1: But you know, we let that, We've just let it go.
Speaker 1: But what is it What is it like for you
Speaker 1: to like watch yourself on TV when you you know
Speaker 1: you were a model or are a model, like when
Speaker 1: you film what is your mindset?
Speaker 5: It's really weird watching myself on TV. I don't particularly
Speaker 5: enjoy it.
Speaker 2: That makes two of us for Keul trust me, two
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was like, oh my gosh, is that what I'm
Speaker 7: really sound like?
Speaker 5: And like like what am I doing right now with
Speaker 5: my face?
Speaker 7: And I guess it makes you.
Speaker 5: More aware of you know, your gestures or anything. But
Speaker 5: filmy in general is definitely an anxiety induced time, because
Speaker 5: I do get anxious and nervous just about talking in general.
Speaker 5: Growing up, I in class, I like was always the
Speaker 5: quiet one, always oh wow.
Speaker 7: The teacher's pat oh wow, like Faull.
Speaker 5: That's obviously not surprising, but.
Speaker 7: I would never speak up. I would never speak up
Speaker 7: in class.
Speaker 5: I was always so scared too, because I never thought
Speaker 5: that I had the right answer. And it wasn't until
Speaker 5: I went to college that things started clicking for me.
Speaker 4: Wait, can you do me a favor, Kaul?
Speaker 3: Can you take me back just so I understand you
Speaker 3: grew up in northern California?
Speaker 2: Is that correct?
Speaker 5: No, I actually grew up in Thousand Oaks, which is
Speaker 5: oh here.
Speaker 3: It's in la oh yeah, And just just give me
Speaker 3: a snippet of like you started modeling pageant, how did
Speaker 3: it kind of all begin for you? Because you know,
Speaker 3: you say you were this quiet kid, but I mean
Speaker 3: obviously you had a lot of ambition. So tell me
Speaker 3: kind of how, Yeah, tell me how that all came
Speaker 3: together and then how it led you to kind of vanderpomp.
Speaker 5: I was very ambitious because I was so nervous about talking,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone.
Speaker 7: So that's what drew me into pageantry.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was always scared to like talk in front
Speaker 5: of other people, So going in and being judged in
Speaker 5: a person person interview and being on stage in a
Speaker 5: swimsuit and eat gown, that really pushed me outside of
Speaker 5: my comfort zone.
Speaker 7: And when I was able to, you know, help myself
Speaker 7: grow in those ways.
Speaker 4: And let me let me ask a question.
Speaker 3: I've seen these TV shows right which I'm sure you
Speaker 3: have where they show pageants are them? Was your mom
Speaker 3: like a pageant mom stage one?
Speaker 2: Is it like that?
Speaker 3: Or I mean, have you seen other moms like that
Speaker 3: when you were coming up in it? Because I find
Speaker 3: it fascinating and it's got to be a very surreal experience,
Speaker 3: like just you know, being on stage at a young
Speaker 3: age and having to talk and do all these different things.
Speaker 2: There is there drama in that world that you saw or.
Speaker 4: You were shield you know, shielded from that.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't start competing on pageants until later, like
Speaker 5: when I was a teenager. They were like sixteen, so
Speaker 5: I never experienced the toddlers and tiaras in person. But
Speaker 5: I can tell you from my experience, it's nothing like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
Speaker 3: And then and then so you start to do pageants
Speaker 3: in your teenage years. Obviously you're modeling as well, and
Speaker 3: you're going through this, and you're going through your education.
Speaker 3: You're going through your education, and then what happened? So
Speaker 3: then where where does that take you to? You decide
Speaker 3: you want to go to college. Obviously get a degree,
Speaker 3: which I understand I got one as well, But at
Speaker 3: that point do you continue them just you know, kind
Speaker 3: of take me through that last part into Los Angeles
Speaker 3: and how you mentioned this because I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4: I'm very intrigued.
Speaker 5: So when I competed for Miss Hollywood, one of the
Speaker 5: judges wanted to sign me because she had a modeling agency.
Speaker 5: So that was my little gateway into the modeling world
Speaker 5: as little teenager. For call, it was really fun. And
Speaker 5: then I decided to go to Sonoma State University and
Speaker 5: get my degree in kinesiology. Oh wow, and I would
Speaker 5: love to work with kids with special needs in the
Speaker 5: near future.
Speaker 4: But that did you know that?
Speaker 5: Law?
Speaker 3: Oh you did, dude. That's amazing. That is I had
Speaker 3: no idea. That is very So that's why I love it.
Speaker 1: She has a very sweetheart.
Speaker 3: But that's why I love podcasts because I would have
Speaker 3: never known this. And now we're kel, I like, have
Speaker 3: a whole different like. I mean, I always liked you,
Speaker 3: and you and I've always been totally respectful to each other.
Speaker 3: But knowing that you want to work with kids with
Speaker 3: special needs, I mean, that tells a lot about somebody.
Speaker 4: I mean, that is it's a real yeah. Okay, so
Speaker 4: so you study that. And then.
Speaker 5: And I was modeling for a bootique called La Lux
Speaker 5: while I was in school, So I was doing photoshoots
Speaker 5: with them once a week and not kept my modeling
Speaker 5: career going right for the time being. And then I
Speaker 5: guess two years ago is when I moved down to
Speaker 5: la and James and I have our own place here.
Speaker 2: Okay, wait tell me now, hold on, because this is
Speaker 2: the exciting part.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 3: This is because Qul, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 3: you have a ton of fans. I know Laala does,
Speaker 3: and James I have two or three, my mother, my dad,
Speaker 3: and my sister. But let me, so, how do you
Speaker 3: even meet James? Because I don't know that story at all.
Speaker 2: How does that a good story?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Randall's never heard Kell. You have to tell him.
Speaker 7: It's it's like a perfect fairy tale.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me.
Speaker 3: It didn't invote wait one sec Forkel, it didn't involve
Speaker 3: range Rovers, right, just just kidding, just kidding, that's my.
Speaker 7: Story, unfortunately range Rovers.
Speaker 3: Okay, tell me tell me how you guys met. That's
Speaker 3: really cool.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: So my sister Kate invited me out to New Year's
Speaker 5: Eve with her super last minute. I had no plans,
Speaker 5: but I had my sorority sister with me. So we
Speaker 5: went out and we went to Pump. We had dinner
Speaker 5: reservations at Pump and James was DJ and I was
Speaker 5: sat at table number seven, which is right by the
Speaker 5: DJ booth.
Speaker 1: Oh that's great that I love that you remember the
Speaker 1: table number. I know that is okay, so I love
Speaker 1: my story already DJ booth.
Speaker 5: And I thought he was so cute and I had
Speaker 5: gotten out of a relationship recently at that time, and
Speaker 5: James was like the only guy that I thought was
Speaker 5: really attractive.
Speaker 7: So I go over there and I song requested Beyonce.
Speaker 5: Of course he's like, well, I don't normally take song
Speaker 5: request but for you, I will oh I love this.
Speaker 4: I love this story.
Speaker 2: I'm such a romantic.
Speaker 4: This is awesome.
Speaker 5: Yes, And that was the first time I heard his
Speaker 5: British accent.
Speaker 7: You die the first.
Speaker 5: Time and I was like, oh my god like and
Speaker 5: for a moment I thought he was shaking his accent
Speaker 5: because it was so so strong. It caught to like
Speaker 5: a point that it was like such a thick British accent.
Speaker 5: But now looking back on it, I was looking back
Speaker 5: on it, I've noticed that James will amp up his
Speaker 5: British accent according to.
Speaker 1: Second wait, according to who he's talking to.
Speaker 2: He was out there, Raquel, meaning if he liked.
Speaker 7: You, he was into it. I know he's.
Speaker 2: Oh, James's got swagger, swag.
Speaker 3: I mean I already know James has got swagger, but
Speaker 3: knowing this when he saw you, he went from like, oh,
Speaker 3: I could be in America to hal.
Speaker 1: He's definitely never like American. He's like true blue British boy.
Speaker 1: So funny that he like amped it up for a
Speaker 1: cal right.
Speaker 3: That's but I think that's a door. So after he
Speaker 3: puts plays a song, what happens next?
Speaker 5: Okay, so the countdown, the midnight countdown, New Year's Deep
Speaker 5: countdown and so he's like announcing it on the mic
Speaker 5: and I'm like dancing by him, and then he pulls
Speaker 5: me over and we kissed that midnight.
Speaker 2: Oh this is the greatest story, like Cinderella. This is
Speaker 2: pretty dum, I know, cute.
Speaker 5: So then he invited my thrity sister Mandy and I
Speaker 5: to this place us djaying afterwards.
Speaker 7: I was like, hell yeah, hell.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 7: Mandy, like be my wing woman. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Mandy is is definitely going to be your maid of
Speaker 3: honor and she has.
Speaker 7: Sure she will definitely be a bridesmaid.
Speaker 2: Love love that.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me wait, let me ask, let me ask
Speaker 3: another two questions. So, first of all, after just getting
Speaker 3: to know you more here, you and I have a
Speaker 3: bond on how we met our significant others because I,
Speaker 3: as you know, met Laala for the first time when
Speaker 3: she was manning the hostess stand when I had a
Speaker 3: Christmas Well.
Speaker 4: Okay, womaning of course I have to.
Speaker 3: Be sir, yes, so I I met Laala at sir
Speaker 3: the same What's.
Speaker 1: I know that those those places that Lisa Vanner Pump
Speaker 1: owns are just like the they told a lot of
Speaker 1: love that.
Speaker 5: Is insane.
Speaker 7: I love that I.
Speaker 3: Had no I had no idea. I love this story
Speaker 3: about you and James. I had no idea.
Speaker 1: But once you once you you you didn't follow him.
Speaker 1: But once he invited you to the after party, you
Speaker 1: went there and what happened? Yes, did you let him
Speaker 1: hit it the first night? Raquel Levis, you're a lady.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, if.
Speaker 7: You're asking me this, because.
Speaker 5: No one's asked me straight up that way, no one's
Speaker 5: asked me.
Speaker 7: And the answer is, yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: A one night Dan.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's my girl.
Speaker 2: Raquel, say something.
Speaker 4: I gotta say something. You know, Lala was the same.
Speaker 3: She was the same, And I will say, look at
Speaker 3: us now, and look at you and him now.
Speaker 2: So there we go.
Speaker 1: See, I always tell people, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't think that that that like holding off the cookie,
Speaker 1: really applies at all times. No, it's a it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: So then you go, you're at Sonoma at this point, right,
Speaker 1: like you just came in for were you at home?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: For like Christmas?
Speaker 7: Yeah, at this point. At this point, it was my
Speaker 7: third year in college.
Speaker 5: Okay, So I was at Sonoma State in northern California.
Speaker 5: So it ended up being that James wanted to continue
Speaker 5: dating me and he was down to do long distance.
Speaker 5: So the first date that we had when he came
Speaker 5: up to visit me, we went mind tasting, because that's
Speaker 5: what we do in of course, we keep a classy
Speaker 5: We go barrel tasting.
Speaker 4: This is amazing.
Speaker 5: Then we get a party bus. So we got a
Speaker 5: party bus and we went out there to all the
Speaker 5: different wineries.
Speaker 3: Oh, this is as romantic as I really had. I
Speaker 3: swear to you, law I had no idea that. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is a great fairy tale.
Speaker 2: It is, it really is.
Speaker 1: And then, so how long had you guys been together
Speaker 1: when you made your first appearance on vander pump Roules.
Speaker 5: It must have been maybe five months because we met
Speaker 5: the first of January, and then we started filming that summer.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was that's quick. Raquel and I
Speaker 1: want to I'm really gonna like pick your brain. We're
Speaker 1: going to take a short break and we will be
Speaker 1: back in a hot second with a beautiful Raquel Levis.
Speaker 1: And we are back with Raquel Levis. How you doing, boo,
Speaker 1: You're still hanging in there with us?
Speaker 8: I am all.
Speaker 3: Right, So I am excited that we just heard an
Speaker 3: incredible fairy tale which I had no clue. Raquel and
Speaker 3: I are bonded because we both met our significant others
Speaker 3: at sir.
Speaker 1: Now she met him at pump you both okay, it
Speaker 1: was about a block away.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I at least get that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Now the question I have for Raquel is everybody shacked up,
Speaker 3: everybody walking down the aisle.
Speaker 2: It's like the cool thing of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're asking her about marriage. Now, we're
Speaker 1: asking if she wants.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't ask anything about the hitting on the
Speaker 3: first right, I'm the romantic one is related? No, by
Speaker 3: the way, is if you guys haven't discussed it? But
Speaker 3: is there any intention soon? Do you guys see that
Speaker 3: happening in the future. Has there been talks or is
Speaker 3: it just your You're just gonna wait to the right moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I definitely see that in the future. For us,
Speaker 5: we are. We're not in a rush. I keep telling
Speaker 5: him I'm not in.
Speaker 7: A rush because I still feel.
Speaker 1: Like I'm really young and I don't know I'm how
Speaker 1: old are you Quale twenty five?
Speaker 7: I'm twenty five?
Speaker 4: Oh wow?
Speaker 2: Also, you're not you have twenty of times and James.
Speaker 4: Hold is James, he's young too. How old?
Speaker 1: I think he's only twenty seven twenty oh, you guys
Speaker 1: are like twenty eight twenty oh, you guys got if
Speaker 1: no rung. I will say this though, I know there
Speaker 1: have been moments that James and I are in the
Speaker 1: studio and that's definitely his buobo. You know, Raquel is
Speaker 1: the one, so that'll definitely listen to me. I'm answering
Speaker 1: the question for you Quel, I'm like, oh, though, for sure.
Speaker 3: I like Raquel's attitude, like like it's just say it's
Speaker 3: going to happen. I know it's going to happen, and
Speaker 3: it's gonna happen when we're both LIFs.
Speaker 1: How it works.
Speaker 2: You, on the other hand, what my pressure pressure?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I us you you said this ship's going down by
Speaker 3: the end of this year or you're going out. It
Speaker 3: was pretty much like that. But wow, you don't remember
Speaker 3: that you got amnesia?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was probably one of my in my
Speaker 1: drunken store. Okay, so Raquel, let's talk about we have
Speaker 1: had two seasons together that have been rocky.
Speaker 7: Little rocky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Royd absolutely, and for you know, you and I
Speaker 1: have had conversations off camera, off podcasts where you know, we've,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, have come a very long way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this season we had our coffee date, which I
Speaker 1: know that we both felt was for me it was
Speaker 1: a highlight.
Speaker 5: But I loved filming that scene with you. That was
Speaker 5: one of my highlights of these because we got to
Speaker 5: speak on such like like real and civilized and like
Speaker 5: nice level where like we were hearing each other and
Speaker 5: and I just got to talk to you about my
Speaker 5: experience with James's steps to so variety, and I feel
Speaker 5: like we were able to really like relate in a way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I felt like we related in that moment too.
Speaker 1: And I have to ask, because I am obviously a
Speaker 1: hotthead you have been on the receiving end, how in
Speaker 1: the world do you maintain being so calm and poised
Speaker 1: during attack? Like, what the hell did your mom teach
Speaker 1: you to be like that?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: No, I don't know, I just born that way.
Speaker 3: That's amazing, Raquel, Raquel, I give it to you mad
Speaker 3: credit and mad props because I am on the receiving
Speaker 3: end sometimes of my fiance's frustrations. I like, I use
Speaker 3: the word frustrations, but uh right, And I'm pretty.
Speaker 4: Level headed, babe, don't you think.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm pretty yeah, Oh, you're pretty normal. But
Speaker 3: I think I think, uh, you know, you're not marroring Lalla.
Speaker 3: So the fact that you can be calm is mad
Speaker 3: props to you.
Speaker 1: No, I really think it's amazing. Do you like when
Speaker 1: you go into filming? I know I asked you this,
Speaker 1: but like cause you don't know what to expect and
Speaker 1: you're so like normal and level headed, Like what is
Speaker 1: your process of being Like Okay, I know I got
Speaker 1: into it with La La or whatever, like going into
Speaker 1: a scene, Like, how do you maintain that? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm asking you for advice.
Speaker 3: Here, I knew that Ike Raquel, I'm going to shut
Speaker 3: up right after this, I knew where she was going
Speaker 3: with Raquel. She was basically had to hit it on
Speaker 3: the head. She wants you to help her, Raquel, give
Speaker 3: her advice?
Speaker 2: How does she remain calm? Please?
Speaker 5: I wish I had an easy answer for you, But
Speaker 5: all I can say is every time I.
Speaker 7: Go into scene filming.
Speaker 5: I try to just like be really happy going into
Speaker 5: it and like, I don't know, try to enjoy the
Speaker 5: moment because it's in those moments where I grow personally
Speaker 5: and the sense that I get super anxious when we
Speaker 5: do film.
Speaker 7: And we're in.
Speaker 5: Positions that aren't the easiest and I'm very non confrontational.
Speaker 4: So right, So that's just your DNA.
Speaker 3: It's basically it's your DNA the way, yeah, the way,
Speaker 3: the way, the way that you function day to day.
Speaker 2: You don't sister like that?
Speaker 1: Is your sister like calm too?
Speaker 2: No, No, she's not.
Speaker 7: We're very opposite.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love it. Have you Have you
Speaker 1: ever battled with her?
Speaker 5: No, we're our age gap is too much but six
Speaker 5: years apart, so we never like battled it out like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you're like more of the calm child and
Speaker 1: your sister's more of the one that's like just a killer,
Speaker 1: not a killer, but you know what I mean with
Speaker 1: a fighting Yeah, okay, I totally get it. Wow. I
Speaker 1: mean I have told you this many times, and before
Speaker 1: we sign off, I'm going to tell you again.
Speaker 2: You have been.
Speaker 1: You've made an extremely you know, hard, life changing moment
Speaker 1: like coming onto this show. I know that it's not easy,
Speaker 1: and from the bottom of my heart, I am sorry
Speaker 1: that you've been on the receiving end. Of my wrath.
Speaker 1: It will not happen again. And I want to tell you,
Speaker 1: not only were you cool, calm and collected, you are
Speaker 1: so fucking fun to watch this season. Raquel.
Speaker 4: You need to know.
Speaker 3: That all this is so I mean this, I want
Speaker 3: to out if we weren't quarantine, if we weren't in quarantine,
Speaker 3: I would hug it out with both of you right now.
Speaker 4: This is really sweet.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's and I and I love Raquel, that
Speaker 3: you shared your story because it really is a beautiful story.
Speaker 3: And I think sometimes we don't just like you know, Lala,
Speaker 3: and I like, people don't get to see all of us,
Speaker 3: and I think just like people don't get to see
Speaker 3: all of you and James and hearing kind of how
Speaker 3: you came together and the love that you have and
Speaker 3: you're you know, you got pushed into this world like
Speaker 3: I did, and it's not an easy world to be in.
Speaker 4: And I give you a lot of a lot of
Speaker 4: respect for that.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: We are so happy that you that you gave us
Speaker 1: some of your quarantine time. And I hope that you
Speaker 1: go and enjoy the rest of your day, my love.
Speaker 7: Yes, thank you, you too.
Speaker 2: You guys thank you.
Speaker 4: You were so fun to have on and we appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yes, bye baby, Okay, Wow, I have to say, like,
Speaker 1: there have been many moments and I'm not gonna get
Speaker 1: choked up about this. I'm sure it's because I'm like
Speaker 1: stuck in this.
Speaker 4: House bouncing off the wall.
Speaker 1: But you know, filming a reality TV show is a
Speaker 1: lot of work. It's a lot of pressure. You're asked
Speaker 1: to be surrounded by people that you don't always click
Speaker 1: with or see eye to eye, and you know, most
Speaker 1: times people want to slam you for the way that
Speaker 1: you've treated somebody, and absolutely I did not treat her correctly.
Speaker 1: But people also have to understand that we don't get
Speaker 1: one minute to sit back and reflect on what's happened
Speaker 1: or think about what's been said. We are thrown into
Speaker 1: positions where you know, you either are a fighter like me,
Speaker 1: or you're very cool and calm like Raquel, And I
Speaker 1: respect that, but I think you know, the making up
Speaker 1: of my cast members, when we can see eye to
Speaker 1: eye and show love because we're in this together, that
Speaker 1: is the most beautiful moment.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm sitting here looking at you with tears in
Speaker 4: your eyes and makes me happy. Because I know you know,
Speaker 4: and not to get into too much, but I know
Speaker 4: that you have been very affected by just this thing
Speaker 4: with Raquel that happened on the show.
Speaker 1: And you don't have anybody that like who I think
Speaker 1: should get the wrath of whatever I'm feeling. She is
Speaker 1: so not the one I know, Bob, I feel really
Speaker 1: bad about that.
Speaker 3: Well, I love you, and I know that in your
Speaker 3: heart you're the sweetest human in the world.
Speaker 1: And I know that Raquel, I'm definitely not the sweetest
Speaker 1: human in the world.
Speaker 4: Well, you're the sweetest human to me. Well, I think, okay,
Speaker 4: but what I want.
Speaker 1: And I'm really grateful that she came on the podcast
Speaker 1: that was amazing, like her talking about how she met
Speaker 1: James amazing.
Speaker 3: And by the way, what I'm trying to say is
Speaker 3: this that you are the sweetest inside.
Speaker 4: That's who you are.
Speaker 3: And I think that you're put in a situation that
Speaker 3: you know, you're on a show where you guys are
Speaker 3: together every day for months and months and months and
Speaker 3: months and months, and people explode.
Speaker 4: And I think the fact, let me say this, the
Speaker 4: fact that.
Speaker 3: Today you can sit here and admit you know your
Speaker 3: your faults, right, that's.
Speaker 4: You know how big of that that.
Speaker 3: That takes a lot of courage, just like it took
Speaker 3: her a lot of courage to be able to come
Speaker 3: on the podcast and say, hey, we are okay, we
Speaker 3: are friends. Now we did bury the hatchet. And I
Speaker 3: want to tell you that you deserve the same amount
Speaker 3: of credit because you don't give yourself any credit ever.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking at you and I know you still
Speaker 3: probably won't give yourself credit. But Lala, it takes a
Speaker 3: lot to apologize.
Speaker 1: There's just step up and say there's something that I
Speaker 1: The part that I need to work on is when
Speaker 1: I went off on Raquel the two times this season,
Speaker 1: what she was saying, I felt that I was the
Speaker 1: things that I cared about were an attack. Even last year,
Speaker 1: I felt that she was attacking my dad, and I
Speaker 1: needed to take a step back and be like, she's
Speaker 1: not meaning this in an ill way. Correct, she's not you,
Speaker 1: but you also instead I and I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: ready to fight. And I should know by now the
Speaker 1: difference when someone's trying to be evil and mean and
Speaker 1: when someone is saying something where I'm taking it the
Speaker 1: wrong way.
Speaker 3: And I want to say, again, it's huge of you
Speaker 3: to be able to apologize say you were in the
Speaker 3: wrong at the same time, and I'm not I mean,
Speaker 3: I am your partner, but I'm also going to be honest.
Speaker 3: You were in a really, really difficult place the last year,
Speaker 3: losing your dad. You were I mean, you were in
Speaker 3: a spiral. So I mean, I'm not justifying anything. I'm
Speaker 3: just saying you weren't in your right head because you'd
Speaker 3: lost your dad. So now today I look at you,
Speaker 3: and I see a different woman sitting here saying, you
Speaker 3: know what, Sorry, I didn't mean to come at you
Speaker 3: that way. You didn't deserve that. And look at you too.
Speaker 3: Now now you guys are friends and you guys talk,
Speaker 3: and she trusted to come on our podcast, which is
Speaker 3: huge of her, and it's huge of you to be
Speaker 3: able to want her to come on this podcast. I
Speaker 3: just think if we weren't in quarantine right now, we'd
Speaker 3: all be at dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my stay, And I want to say one
Speaker 1: more thing before we sign off. Most people that know
Speaker 1: me know I know that I have negative comments in
Speaker 1: my DMS. I know that I have negative comments in
Speaker 1: the comments section, which is why I avoid reading them,
Speaker 1: because it affects me However, when I watched the show
Speaker 1: back and I saw my behavior, that is what is
Speaker 1: sitting with me, not anything else. I mean the other
Speaker 1: day we did Andy Cohen's show, Watch Rabin's Life, and
Speaker 1: he was like a lot of people. I asked him.
Speaker 1: I was like, are you asking me these questions? Did
Speaker 1: I get a lot of hate from that? And he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, we had so many comments about it.
Speaker 1: So I had no idea until he said that, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was already feeling badly about what
Speaker 1: was going on. So I'm just really grateful we had
Speaker 1: her on. She's a freaking.
Speaker 2: Badass, but I can already see you all And it was.
Speaker 1: Fun because she even told us she gave it up
Speaker 1: on the first night see a girl after my own,
Speaker 1: damn heart. I'm sure she's gonna be like, oh no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a girl.
Speaker 3: After a while, I was sorry, Okay, I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: leave this one alone. But I want to say, you
Speaker 3: already look lighter and happier like the fact that you too,
Speaker 3: bet yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 4: Look, this is weak.
Speaker 3: I don't know anymore. I'm just going to leave it
Speaker 3: at that week whatever of quarantine because this is I
Speaker 3: feel like we live in quarantine now, but I think
Speaker 3: doing this podcast connects us to people that are kind
Speaker 3: of in the same boat. And I think, you know,
Speaker 3: I want to say, relationships are hard, and then when
Speaker 3: you put people in quarantine, they're harder. So anybody out
Speaker 3: there that's going through a tough moment in their relationship,
Speaker 3: stay positive and stay strong and just keep working through it,
Speaker 3: because the stronger you are in quarantine, the better your
Speaker 3: relationship will be out of quarantine.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we are sending you all all of our love
Speaker 1: and our prayers. And before we sign off and I
Speaker 1: tell you guys to go sleigh the day, let's listen
Speaker 1: to some voicemails you already ran to.
Speaker 4: This is like my favorite part of it.
Speaker 1: I know, it's so fun. I feel like I know
Speaker 1: these people.
Speaker 9: Yep, Hi, Lala, I'm Randall. This is Andrea from Atlantic City,
Speaker 9: New Jersey. Love you, l La and everything you stand
Speaker 9: for on vander Pump. But I love Randall, So rand
Speaker 9: you better stop saying you don't have any fans, because
Speaker 9: you do now. My question is for Randall. I want
Speaker 9: to know more about your background on poker. I've watched
Speaker 9: videos of you playing it's amazing. If you ever come
Speaker 9: to Alantic City to play a tournament, let your fans know. Thanks.
Speaker 4: I love this question.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, a locker question.
Speaker 3: While I was going to fall asleep here and is
Speaker 3: they're banging my head. First of all, thank you Atlantic City.
Speaker 3: I love and the Borgata as the best tournaments ever.
Speaker 3: So when I do come, I definitely will post. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I am so obsessed with poker. It's my passion,
Speaker 3: you know. What can I say? I put a lot
Speaker 3: of time in studying the game. I love tournaments. I
Speaker 3: love the competitiveness. I love how I'm always trying to
Speaker 3: get better and you can never, you know, beat the game.
Speaker 3: You're always working in a proving the game as it evolves,
Speaker 3: and it's just one of my favorite things in the world.
Speaker 3: It's a happy place for me, and I've really the
Speaker 3: community of poker.
Speaker 4: Is just so special.
Speaker 3: I love meeting people from all over the world at play.
Speaker 3: You can go to any country, any city, any state,
Speaker 3: find a poker room and play and you don't you know,
Speaker 3: it's just it's just a really really unique game. So
Speaker 3: thank you, and I'm glad I have a fan. I
Speaker 3: think you're one of my first fans outside of my family.
Speaker 3: So thank you.
Speaker 1: And I'm just dying that someone asked you about.
Speaker 2: You know, I could do all Podcosker you know what, and.
Speaker 3: And I'm going to tell you something, Andrew, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna do for you and Lala is not
Speaker 3: gonna let me, but I'm going to win this battle.
Speaker 3: I am going to do a poker podcast with you,
Speaker 3: Lawa maybe in a few weeks where we bring on
Speaker 3: Phil Hellmuth and a couple of the best pros in
Speaker 3: the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll have all of ten listeners that week.
Speaker 3: Fine, and and all right, anyway, thanks Andrea, and I
Speaker 3: appreciate it, and all the poker payers out all the
Speaker 3: poker players out there, keep listening, keep playing, all right.
Speaker 8: Next question, Hey, Lala and Randall. This is Lee and
Speaker 8: from New Jersey. Me and my kids absolutely love watching
Speaker 8: Lala on Standard Pump Rules, and I love listening to
Speaker 8: your podcast. You guys are hilarious and you are my
Speaker 8: favorite couple on Vander Pump Rules. And I just had
Speaker 8: a question. I was wondering if you've ever considered doing
Speaker 8: your own spinoff show. I think that it would be
Speaker 8: an absolute number one hit and you guys would be
Speaker 8: hilarious to watch for an entire hour. All right, love
Speaker 8: you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1: Would you ever do a spin off?
Speaker 4: Babe?
Speaker 1: First of all, First of all, I wonder how old
Speaker 1: her kids are that are watching vander pomp.
Speaker 4: I bet you they're teenagers.
Speaker 1: Oh, Leanne, you're you're a gangster. I love that you
Speaker 1: and your kids watching.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to answer this question because all I'm
Speaker 3: going to say before you answer this question is the phone.
Speaker 3: I said I would never do vander Pump and you did, right,
Speaker 3: And I'll say and I'm going to say, I would
Speaker 3: never want to do a spin off.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, you know I I.
Speaker 1: You realize if we did a spinoff, we would have
Speaker 1: to show it all, like we would have to show
Speaker 1: our fights. We would have to It would.
Speaker 2: Be we don't go we go toes.
Speaker 1: We love hard, play hard, fight hard. And I said
Speaker 1: that first. I love hard.
Speaker 2: See the fans, look you're looking at me right now.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm I would do a spinoff in two seconds.
Speaker 1: Mention it all, mention.
Speaker 2: It all anyway.
Speaker 3: I would I would prefer not to do a spinoff,
Speaker 3: but if my fiance, Uh forced me to.
Speaker 4: I probably would fold at some point.
Speaker 1: Well, first we have to get an offer evolution where
Speaker 1: you at bro come produce my ship. All right, we
Speaker 1: have one more voicemail. I love this one.
Speaker 10: Yeah, hey, Lala, it's Syrian. I'm from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Or
Speaker 10: should I say Tulsa, Oklahoma with nothing but a hole.
Speaker 5: As a sais?
Speaker 10: I vote yes for James Kennedy coming back.
Speaker 9: We love him.
Speaker 10: We have so much fun listening to him. He is
Speaker 10: so awesome and I didn't get to see him when
Speaker 10: he was here, so I'm sad.
Speaker 9: Other than that, how much?
Speaker 10: My question for you and Randall is how much of
Speaker 10: a decision does Randal have in actually planning the wedding.
Speaker 10: Would you say it's like ninety ten or fifty fifty
Speaker 10: or do you let him make any calls? And if
Speaker 10: you do, what calls or is he allowed to make
Speaker 10: about the wedding?
Speaker 7: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Rand How much are you involved in the wedding planning?
Speaker 1: This is funny because she asks fifty to fifty or
Speaker 1: ninety ten. I think you're more ninety and I'm more ten.
Speaker 3: Okay, that is not okay, I'll tell you can I
Speaker 3: tell you the truth of my opinion. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: when we started the wedding process, I think maybe I
Speaker 3: was ninety ten my favorite.
Speaker 1: In the beginning, you were ninety ten, you were the
Speaker 1: ninety I.
Speaker 3: Think I was driving the train like you were fine
Speaker 3: getting married with six people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but now, and be honest, law and I see
Speaker 4: the smark on your face.
Speaker 3: Tell me, I believe today my power has completely gone,
Speaker 3: and I believe you've handed it over to now.
Speaker 1: Neither of us have power, and our moms split it
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: But I think that whatever you say these days, I'm
Speaker 3: kind of like, I just want you to be happy.
Speaker 1: So, yes, Randall is a movie producer, so this wedding,
Speaker 1: he sees it like it's a movie, Like it's a production.
Speaker 1: For me, I've been very vocal about this. I have
Speaker 1: never dreamed about getting married, Like I wasn't that kid.
Speaker 1: As a young girl. No, I was thinking about, like
Speaker 1: all I want to do is move to Hollywood, Like
Speaker 1: that's what I saw. You know, while most girls are
Speaker 1: like wearing veils and shit, that wasn't me. So for me,
Speaker 1: I was like, let's just have a small wedding. We'll
Speaker 1: invite our close friends and family and call it a day.
Speaker 1: Randall and his producer Mine was like, no, I need
Speaker 1: a fifty piece orchestra and a piano player and whatever else,
Speaker 1: fifty person choet.
Speaker 2: But be honest, La honest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Wait before your fans, before your fans
Speaker 3: think that this is your still mindset.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm telling that now. I feel now, okay,
Speaker 1: I want to When it came to canceling the April
Speaker 1: eighteenth wedding and we were like, okay, well we can
Speaker 1: still do it that day, but we'll do it very small.
Speaker 2: You could have had a small wedding time, I was like, oh.
Speaker 1: But now I have this extravagant wedding in mind. I
Speaker 1: want the fifty person choir.
Speaker 4: That is true.
Speaker 3: And by the way, fans of La La, I will
Speaker 3: tell you she really had that at a moment where
Speaker 3: you could have decided let's just do the courthouse small whatever, yeah,
Speaker 3: and you said, no, my mind is there now, like
Speaker 3: I want to celebrate in the best way. And I
Speaker 3: will tell you our wedding now having gone through this
Speaker 3: quarantine like the rest of the world. I even told
Speaker 3: my mother, the celebration we're going to have is going
Speaker 3: to mean so much more than anything we've ever celebrated,
Speaker 3: because it's almost like a celebration of freedom.
Speaker 4: We have our freedom again.
Speaker 3: I mean, in addition to the romance and the love
Speaker 3: that we have, I just think we're going to be
Speaker 3: so excited to enjoy every moment of that week.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. Today it was a fun podcast. We got to
Speaker 1: answer y'all's questions. We got to have Raquel Levi is
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I'm feeling good. I feel like I
Speaker 1: can send our listeners into their homes again to slay
Speaker 1: the day.
Speaker 2: Guys, keep moving around.
Speaker 3: You know what I do, La, I go from the
Speaker 3: kitchen to the bedroom to the family room, and I
Speaker 3: just pretend I'm going to different cities.
Speaker 2: You know, that's a great idea I do.
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 3: I'm like the kitchen this Paris, and then I go
Speaker 3: up to London in my bedroom. And then sometimes I
Speaker 3: go to the playroom and I think, like that's like Disneyland.
Speaker 4: So I just I just keep it in my mind.
Speaker 4: It's like I'm moving around.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like we're all getting our creativity back. I
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, you guys have the best day ever. Stay safe,
Speaker 1: stay healthy. We love you, and we will see you
Speaker 1: and talk to you next week.