Speaker 1: Two Teas in a Pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Camra Jeedge.
Speaker 2: Hi, guys, welcome to another episode of Two Teas and
Speaker 2: a Pod with Me and Caamra. Today we have on
Speaker 2: Raquel chev Ramont. She was born in Brooklyn, raised in
Speaker 2: the Bronx. Raquel is an esteemed art curator with more
Speaker 2: than twenty years of experience. She's also a seasoned model,
Speaker 2: gracing ad campaigns like Benetton, Bobby Brown, Fila, Lareel Nivia,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. She is living out a fairy
Speaker 2: tale with her two kids and partner, and Raquel won't
Speaker 2: let past rumors from the New York art scene get
Speaker 2: in the way of her happily ever after. She is
Speaker 2: the new housewife of Real Housewives of New York City.
Speaker 3: And we are excited to bring her on.
Speaker 4: Let's bring her on. Hi, Hi, there she is Hell.
Speaker 1: I knew it.
Speaker 3: The Harley and the Ducati.
Speaker 4: Ah, oh, I love it. Did you ever ride Harley? No,
Speaker 4: only Dacatti's Yeah. Jacatti's a nice bike. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I love it. Though I see, I knew it was
Speaker 1: like she's gonna come, She's gonna represent.
Speaker 5: I actually just got back from the gym, and I'm sweaty.
Speaker 4: And yeah, but you do my finest. Try to pull
Speaker 4: my ponytail forward to make me look like I had hair.
Speaker 1: Listen, join the club. What this really should be is
Speaker 1: like a red light therapy hat. Honestly, exactly.
Speaker 5: Well, Welcome, welcome, welcome, and welcome to the Bravo family.
Speaker 1: Thank you. How now I feel like i've a ride.
Speaker 5: We met, we briefly met in New York when I
Speaker 5: was there doing press.
Speaker 4: How has it been now that you're airing?
Speaker 5: I know sometimes social media can be a real.
Speaker 1: Treat, Honey, I literally have not kept I don't look
Speaker 1: at x, I don't look at Reddit, I don't look
Speaker 1: at any of that stuff I was told in the beginning.
Speaker 1: And I know this just from you know, having somewhat
Speaker 1: in a public life before. You just can't read this ship.
Speaker 1: I can't get in there. I can't. People are gonna
Speaker 1: love you, they're gonna hate you. Listen, as long as
Speaker 1: they have some sort of strong emotion about you. I
Speaker 1: guess that's all.
Speaker 4: It meant exactly, That's how I feel.
Speaker 5: It was like everyone saying mean things. Hey, at least
Speaker 5: they have an opinion about me.
Speaker 3: Well, well, we are loving you so far.
Speaker 2: As each episode goes on, we get a little bit
Speaker 2: more of you, which is exciting as as viewers and
Speaker 2: people that get to recap the show, because some you
Speaker 2: know will come in and you don't really get to
Speaker 2: see the other sides of their life for very long,
Speaker 2: and so the fact that each time we're getting just
Speaker 2: a touch more, we're really appreciative too, because it's not
Speaker 2: if you only see the women fighting, then it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: what are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Do you feel like you've been properly portrayed from what
Speaker 2: you've been watching so far?
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, you know, it's funny because
Speaker 1: I not knowing the world at all. I just came
Speaker 1: in as myself and maybe I should have reeled that
Speaker 1: back in a little vacation, But yeah, I think, so far,
Speaker 1: so good.
Speaker 2: And you've had such a diverse career path from modeling
Speaker 2: to art curation. What drew you to each of these
Speaker 2: fields and then what drew you to say yes to
Speaker 2: being on New York?
Speaker 1: All right? So modeling was just that that fell in
Speaker 1: my lap, right. I had a photographer scouted me, saw
Speaker 1: me at an HMV. I don't know if any of
Speaker 1: you remember what HMV was. It was like a disc store,
Speaker 1: so a music store, okay, yeah, and maybe it was
Speaker 1: just on the East coast, but uh. And he was like, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm a scout for Elite, and I'll take some great
Speaker 1: photographs of you and if they I submitted them to Elite,
Speaker 1: if they like you, they call you. If they don't,
Speaker 1: you have some amazing images, right, And about two weeks
Speaker 1: later they called me and I went in, I got measured,
Speaker 1: I you know, they did everything, and then they were like,
Speaker 1: all right, we like you, but we got to send
Speaker 1: you to Italy to get your book done, you know,
Speaker 1: in order to get some tear sheets so that we
Speaker 1: could make money here, because you had to. They sent
Speaker 1: all the girls to Europe at the time, and it
Speaker 1: was either Paris or Italy, and I wasn't tall enough
Speaker 1: for Paris, so so they sent me to Italy and
Speaker 1: they were like, but you got to pack your bags
Speaker 1: in three weeks. And so I ended up in the
Speaker 1: modeling in the modeling world, but I professionally, like really
Speaker 1: with a full on blown agency for about twenty years
Speaker 1: and then I took a break and now I'm back again.
Speaker 3: Did you ever work with my ex stepmom, Elaine Irwin.
Speaker 1: No, I never worked with Elaine.
Speaker 2: No wondering whenever I like, see you know a mega model,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I wonder if they worked together because I
Speaker 2: was a kid and I remember going to shoots with her, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh she's gorgeous.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So are you like to take it back to the
Speaker 5: casting process? How did you get cast for the show
Speaker 5: and what convinced you to actually join this crazy house
Speaker 5: Why franchise.
Speaker 1: So Jenna and I are friends, and you know, she
Speaker 1: was on the season before and I think she was
Speaker 1: feeling a little like lonely to some extent. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, she has a big age difference from a
Speaker 1: lot of the women, and she's queer. So she kind
Speaker 1: of talked it up. So it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: that sounds like maybe it could be okay. And you know,
Speaker 1: she said, listen, you use your platform right now for
Speaker 1: all these amazing things. This is a huge platform, and
Speaker 1: I think I think it could be good. And so
Speaker 1: I had to really think about it. I never watched
Speaker 1: a housewife ever, like ever, so I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was getting myself into in that respect, outside of
Speaker 1: people like, oh god, that's a crazy show and listen.
Speaker 1: In the end, I spoke to my family and they
Speaker 1: were down. They you know, but also, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: all about representation, and so I felt like if I
Speaker 1: could show the world a queer family, right, and who
Speaker 1: we are and what we are, and that we're all
Speaker 1: the same going through the exact same things. You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know, the environment in the world we
Speaker 1: live in might change a little or something you never right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was really excited about because we
Speaker 5: do have Jenna on the show, but she doesn't show
Speaker 5: that part of her life, and it's like, I want
Speaker 5: to see that part of your life. So I'm really
Speaker 5: happy that mel and the kids are on the show
Speaker 5: and we get to see that in the world gets
Speaker 5: to see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, thank you. It was I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: done it if they didn't say yes, because then what
Speaker 1: would it have been, Like two queer women on the show,
Speaker 1: they won't show their lives, and then.
Speaker 4: It would be Yeah.
Speaker 2: But I think also sharing the story about your mom,
Speaker 2: you know how many people can probably relate to that.
Speaker 2: How has that been bringing bringing that part of your
Speaker 2: life up?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Gods to your relationship with your mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that that was Listen. I feel like
Speaker 1: I said, I should have reeled some stuff back. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been completely open and exposed. But so that
Speaker 1: was that was difficult for me. But you know, once again,
Speaker 1: it is a story that a lot of us share.
Speaker 1: You know, it is something of matter of life, like
Speaker 1: when you're queer, oftentimes you lose your family members, they
Speaker 1: don't come along with you and or it takes them
Speaker 1: years to accept you. And so I think it was
Speaker 1: important for me to share that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now you guys are taking a trip to Puerto Rico
Speaker 5: this season.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yeah, I'm assuming that we might be seeing your mom.
Speaker 1: Yes, did you see the trailer she's in it? Yeah? Good.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to make sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, sometimes we get a lot, a lot of prank.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know a lot.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about the prank.
Speaker 2: We absolutely cannot with the prank. Once we found out
Speaker 2: that Bren was also in on the prank, then I
Speaker 2: was you know, I dealt with the prank until I
Speaker 2: knew that Brann was in on the prank, and then
Speaker 2: I was like, this is the worst prank ever because
Speaker 2: it's who's a pranking?
Speaker 3: Jessel?
Speaker 4: I fell for it.
Speaker 3: I mean other than Jessel and Tamra, I fell for it.
Speaker 1: I thought you all fell for it, though, Tamra I
Speaker 1: think you know, I found out early on as it
Speaker 1: aired that I you know, I knew, but but it
Speaker 1: was Yeah, anyway, you have to watch it all play out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the next episode you'll you'll watch it all play out.
Speaker 2: But what are your thoughts on creating a prank around
Speaker 2: a storyline?
Speaker 1: You know, not my thing. I'm not, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not into pranks first off, necessarily, but also, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 5: I think that was quite a juicy prank and I thought,
Speaker 5: oh my god, watching Oh my god, Rebecca the quiet
Speaker 5: one is having wild affairs and pregnant with other guys,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, this is getting juicy, right, and then
Speaker 5: it was a lie.
Speaker 4: Well, also, I know.
Speaker 2: You don't check social media, so you are aware what
Speaker 2: the audience's response is to the prank.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so no, I'm not really you know, I've heard
Speaker 1: from some people that I don't know that it might
Speaker 1: not have fallen well, but I don't know, I haven't checked.
Speaker 2: Do you think that Rebecca was possibly doing it so
Speaker 2: she had something she would actually talk about? Because so far,
Speaker 2: she hasn't shared anything about scientology, really about other than
Speaker 2: you know, her business, which is amazing, But like, I
Speaker 2: don't know her.
Speaker 3: I know nothing about her.
Speaker 1: Yeah did you know her before the show? Did you
Speaker 1: know of her?
Speaker 3: Or oh yeah I knew of her?
Speaker 1: Okay, right, but you feel like you're not getting to
Speaker 1: know her.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to know her, and now the only
Speaker 2: thing that I've gotten to know about her is a
Speaker 2: prank right right, that I think affects a lot of
Speaker 2: women who struggle to conceive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I guess that's what SI said, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, listen. I wasn't a part of it,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to really comment on on on
Speaker 1: whether or not you know what they were what they
Speaker 1: were thinking. I don't think that's how they expected it
Speaker 1: to land. I think, you know, I think it was
Speaker 1: all in kind of fun and just and like, oh,
Speaker 1: let's just do this so we you know, to get
Speaker 1: the leaky pigeon.
Speaker 3: But if I hear that word again, there's.
Speaker 5: Been so much pigeon talk from Uba. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 5: Do you agree everyone on the cast acts like a pigeon?
Speaker 5: You know, so what the hell does a pigeon act like, well,
Speaker 5: so this is yeah.
Speaker 1: So that was the thing. I was like, I'm a
Speaker 1: New Yorker. I mean, pigeons are like I feel like
Speaker 1: they get a bad rap. You know. Well they you know,
Speaker 1: they were brought here as carrier pigeons and they were
Speaker 1: wild at one point in time and we domesticated them
Speaker 1: and then we just let let them to the street
Speaker 1: and so they're but they would carry the you know, messages,
Speaker 1: so they weren't always incorrect or they were not incorrect
Speaker 1: at all in their messages. So I don't know. So,
Speaker 1: you know, Uba has her little thing and so she
Speaker 1: decided they you know, to use pigeon and we went
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 3: But now, who do you think that you're close other
Speaker 3: than Jenna.
Speaker 2: Who do you feel like you immediately bonded with on
Speaker 2: the show?
Speaker 1: Mmm? So, I mean I think I've bonded with with
Speaker 1: Aaron actually, which is kind of interesting. That definitely didn't
Speaker 1: expect that, but it kind of makes sense when you
Speaker 1: think about it, because we're both like to New Yorkers,
Speaker 1: So there's a there's a sensibility around being in New
Speaker 1: Yorker and a toughness that you get right growing up here.
Speaker 1: And so so we have a lot even though there's
Speaker 1: a you know, definite age difference and lifestyle difference. I mean,
Speaker 1: she grew up in Manhattan, I was in the Bronx,
Speaker 1: and like a seventies girl from the Bronx. It's a
Speaker 1: it's very different, but there's enough to tie us. So
Speaker 1: I think she's the one I've probably for the most part,
Speaker 1: bonded with the most.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how did how did Mel and the children react
Speaker 5: to the idea of being part of the show and
Speaker 5: how do they like feeling? I mean, it seems like
Speaker 5: Mel she just she just seems cool. She just goes
Speaker 5: with the flow she does.
Speaker 1: She just goes with the flow. She has a wicked
Speaker 1: sense of humor, and I think, you know, it comes
Speaker 1: out it's she was a bit freaked out initially because
Speaker 1: she's like, this isn't her world. I mean, she's a
Speaker 1: forensic neuropsychologist for goodness sake, like you know, so to
Speaker 1: be uh, you know, in front of that many cameras.
Speaker 1: I think, you know, at first she was like, oh,
Speaker 1: what am I doing here? I don't know that this
Speaker 1: is a good idea. But then she warmed up and
Speaker 1: she was she's just herself and you know, she's an awesome,
Speaker 1: awesome person. I'm so excited that everybody's down to meet
Speaker 1: her and love her as much as I do.
Speaker 2: Can you tell us more about what exactly she was
Speaker 2: saying about abes lesbian sensibilities?
Speaker 3: Because I was wan, boss, look confused.
Speaker 4: I'm like, what does that mean exactly?
Speaker 3: I was like, hold on, I'm on Google trying to
Speaker 3: figure it out. But I'm not a neuroscientologist or what.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: A neuroscientologist. Scientist. Now that's gonna be what's out there online?
Speaker 1: A neurosis?
Speaker 4: Do we get any scientology talk.
Speaker 3: What Mel was talking about? First?
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because they had their own little
Speaker 1: private conversation at Jessel's party, and then she came back
Speaker 1: and she was like, oh, Abe has all these ideas
Speaker 1: for our parties. I said, what is he a lesbian? Like? What?
Speaker 1: He has? The perfect the perfect perfect Okay, right now
Speaker 1: he's our lesbian wedding planner. But yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 1: and he's listen. I think it was really brave of
Speaker 1: him to be super honest about, you know, his sexuality.
Speaker 3: And I was just.
Speaker 4: Gonna say that we talked about it last week that
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 5: It's a big thing to come out and say that
Speaker 5: as a man, especially Mary Dan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very proud, exactly, yes, because you know, it is
Speaker 1: something that a lot of men do think about, but don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, rarely are you going to hear someone you
Speaker 1: know admit to it. So I think it was all right. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Who do you think is officially like the biggest potster?
Speaker 2: Because the way that it reads is that it's it's bread.
Speaker 3: But she's so tongue in cheek that like sometimes.
Speaker 1: I mean she's she said it herself. She likes to
Speaker 1: stir the pot, so she's definitely the biggest potster.
Speaker 2: Do you think she's like that all the time or
Speaker 2: primarily when she's on Real Housewives of New York City.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, it's funny because out of
Speaker 1: all of the like women on the cast, she's probably
Speaker 1: the one that I've gotten to the least. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know what she's like. Yeah, yeah, which is interesting, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that. Yeah, I don't know. I haven't really
Speaker 1: gotten to know her that well. Like I hang out
Speaker 1: with cy and Uba and Aaron and Jenna, and but
Speaker 1: you know, I'm having dinner with jessel tonight, I don't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that because brand hasn't really made an effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe I haven't made an effort. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you know, and she travels a lot, so maybe
Speaker 1: that's also a part of it. I travel a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, but you we haven't. So
Speaker 1: I haven't really gotten to know her on a personal
Speaker 1: level in.
Speaker 2: That way because we're seeing a bunch of her trying
Speaker 2: to like self produce or produce other people, like we
Speaker 2: saw it with Rebecca.
Speaker 3: She tried to do that to you at all.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not. No.
Speaker 4: Do you know any of the ogs? No?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: Oh you don't know any of them?
Speaker 1: I know no one in this universe. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: And then what are your thoughts on the uber drama?
Speaker 2: You had your own car drama this season already, which
Speaker 2: I was like, I got a little confused by.
Speaker 3: But do you think Aaron was actually calling Jenna poor?
Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: But I don't think she was calling her poor, But
Speaker 1: she was trying to say, like, hey, you know, I
Speaker 1: paid like two hundred and fifty bucks for an uber
Speaker 1: for you, you never paid me back. I think she
Speaker 1: was just trying to be funny about it. She wasn't
Speaker 1: trying to call her for I mean, we all know
Speaker 1: Jenna's not poor.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, But who in New York doesn't have the
Speaker 4: uber app.
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I guess apparently Jenna.
Speaker 3: Jenna j Apparently people with really expensive cars?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, good for her.
Speaker 2: But do we see any more about scientology or anything
Speaker 2: like that with Rebecca Minkoff?
Speaker 3: Are we you know we're seeing what we're seeing?
Speaker 2: I you know what?
Speaker 1: I I can't. I don't even know how to answer that,
Speaker 1: because I know she shot a lot of scenes that
Speaker 1: I wasn't around, so I don't know. Maybe you know
Speaker 1: it's possible. I don't want to say no, and then
Speaker 1: suddenly there is like some matrix she discussed with someone.
Speaker 1: So I don't know entirely if you're going to see
Speaker 1: something or not.
Speaker 5: So after failming your first season, yes it's not quite done.
Speaker 5: You haven't done your reunion yet.
Speaker 1: How do you know that? Yeah?
Speaker 5: So are you thinking like, yeah, I want to come
Speaker 5: back or geez, I don't know, this is a lot
Speaker 5: or what are your thoughts now that you film your
Speaker 5: first season?
Speaker 1: You know, I think I don't know. I think I'd
Speaker 1: come back. You know, it was it was easy, It
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't bad. Yeah, I don't know what to
Speaker 1: compare it to. And I'm honestly I was just being me.
Speaker 5: So it's just like, well, that's the best kind of
Speaker 5: housewife is one that's just her acting you need?
Speaker 4: Yes, the one that's open and honest and not acting.
Speaker 4: The best type of housewife.
Speaker 2: Well, because there's a rumor out there that two of
Speaker 2: the women in the cast refused to be in the
Speaker 2: same room together. Now, can you tease anything on.
Speaker 1: That, Well, I think you probably can guess who those
Speaker 1: two are from the very beginning of how the season started.
Speaker 1: Sometimes anyone's imagination.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you were to place everybody on the couch,
Speaker 2: what would the order bee?
Speaker 1: Now you're asking me something I know nothing about.
Speaker 4: Okay, I's never done a reunion.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, Supposedly the person that's most involved are
Speaker 2: on each side of Andy most of the times they're
Speaker 2: at issues, and then it moved. I mean, this is
Speaker 2: all hypoth there's no actual science to this, but that's
Speaker 2: how everybody expected. Like example, Tamra and Shannon were the
Speaker 2: most at odds this season, and they both sat next
Speaker 2: to Andy and then it goes down to the least
Speaker 2: involved on each side of this.
Speaker 4: Is that really how it goes or maybe it's color coded?
Speaker 3: Do you really know that? You really know that?
Speaker 4: Today?
Speaker 1: Oh boys? So if I end up at the end
Speaker 1: of the couch, I'm like screwedbies.
Speaker 3: Newbies normally do I was always middle of the couch
Speaker 3: and I still got the boot.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but the newbies usually are at the end.
Speaker 3: But who would you.
Speaker 2: Say if you were to guess who are the first
Speaker 2: two seats and.
Speaker 3: Frind?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I imagine if that's if that's the logic behind
Speaker 1: you know, the seating arrangement.
Speaker 3: All right, I got a life.
Speaker 5: Your reunion filming is coming up close. I wish you
Speaker 5: all the luck in the world on that.
Speaker 3: Thank you, better you than me.
Speaker 4: It's not an easy day. It's a long day. But
Speaker 4: we have one piece of advice.
Speaker 2: Yes, if you haven't pick your dress already, you sit
Speaker 2: for like twelve hours.
Speaker 3: So you do not.
Speaker 2: Want to pick something that you're going to be in
Speaker 2: pain the entire time, right, because then it is very
Speaker 2: it's very hard to fight and pain.
Speaker 4: No, it's not speak for yourself.
Speaker 1: Also, something not super tight, just.
Speaker 3: Like you want to be somewhat comfortable.
Speaker 1: I want to be able to lunch.
Speaker 5: And sometimes it's cold there, so you want I always
Speaker 5: went slaves because it's cold.
Speaker 1: Oh but see, I'm at that age where I kind
Speaker 1: of am hot all the time and.
Speaker 3: So me too, me too, So you.
Speaker 4: Know what, I'm over that age.
Speaker 1: Damn it.
Speaker 2: Well, where is anything that you want to plug before
Speaker 2: we say goodbye that you want people to to know
Speaker 2: about you or to follow or purchase or you.
Speaker 1: Know you Yeah, no, I'm not promoting anything but myself.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: You got me, Yeah, I you know. Listen, I just
Speaker 1: watched the show. Give us, give us some, give us
Speaker 1: a couple of or at least, you know, I think it,
Speaker 1: like you said, people are like, eh, wavering or whatever. Listen,
Speaker 1: I promise you it gets better. And it's like the
Speaker 1: ending is not a prank. I've heard people say, oh
Speaker 1: now we think this might be another prank. It is
Speaker 1: so not.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh yeah, I'm excited, can't yeah yeah, all right, yeah,
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 4: It was great seeing you again. I'm sure you want
Speaker 4: me too the last see you at Bravo Kan twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on the twat seat.
Speaker 1: Oh most definitely. That was like one of my favorite
Speaker 1: words growing up.
Speaker 3: So I'm down to I love it all right, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Bye bye bye bye