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October 22, 2025 40 mins

The Two Ts need some tips on how to be elegant and a host… Erin Lichy is here to help us do so!

Who blocked Erin on Instagram? Why was RHONY not the right fit for Rebecca Minkoff?

Plus, we find out who from RHONY is going to Bravocon… is this a sign? Are they coming back?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
To Teas in a Pod with Teddy Mellencamp and camera Judge.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of the twat Seat
with myself, Teddy Mellencamp and Tamra Judge.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
We've been doing a lot of twat seats lately.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
I know. Today we have on Aaron Leechee. She is
from Real Housewives of New York. She is a serial entrepreneur.
She's the co founder of Mescal Loom, an all natural,
additive free, one hundred percent artisanal mescal brand. She's also
a seasoned real estate agent, developer, and interior designer. She
also has a book called She's a Host, which is

(00:44):
an unbuttoned cookbook for elegant entertaining. So we're going to
talk about all the things.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I feel like we can learn a lot about this
because Teddy, Yeah, we're not elegant entertainers.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We are definitely not elegant entertainers.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
No, now, we hire people to do stuff like that
for us. Actually, we just don't do it at all. Yeah,
we just like, here's your Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
I'm not sure we're all agant at anything.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, we're kind of scruffy, little scruffy, scruffy that's okay.
There she is.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Hi, Hi Eddie, how are you?

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Are you okay?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
I'm doing okay, thank you. I'm still in immune therapy
and going through that process. But as of now, I
am considered cancer free.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Oh I know, are you considered cancer free or there's
no cancer detected? Because didn't you say it takes a
year for you to be considered cancer free.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
No, to be in remission, to be in remission. Yeah,
to be in remission, it takes three years.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Im you know, therapy is unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
So essentially there's no unbelievable. There's no cured.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
My dad the reason he passed away is he picked
it up like smoking again. But it cured him. Like
the doctor said, I don't like to say the word cure,
but it it's it's I mean, knock on wood it really.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
So your dad went through immunotherapy.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, how long.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Did he go through treatment?

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Not so long, I want to say, like maybe a
year or six months. But like he handled it really well,
he felt great. Like it was immunotherapy. He was a
candidate for it. So that's the other thing. You're really
lucky that you're a candidate because not everybody is, which
is crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
But so he didn't feel sick or tired on it
or anything like that.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
A little maybe a little tired, but not really not.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Bad, not like chemotherapy.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now, my mom did that because she had breast cancer.
This all happened at once, and she, I mean, she's
fine now, completely fine, but she felt like crap, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, my X went through chemotherapy and it literally
takes you to death before you come back. Yeah, it's brutal.
It's brutal. Our girls back.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
She's so happy. I'm so happy to hear that. And
you really look beautiful.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
So thank you all the things that you're going through.
I don't know how you look this good. Well so
do you. But we want to talk a little bit
about your cookbook. Yeah, because we're the least elegant people
there is.

Speaker 3 (03:31):
We were just joking like, we don't really host elegance
a lot of work, so tell us a little bit
about your cookbook.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's really just a guide to hosting and keeping hosting
attainable and you know, not something that's so challenging and
so like there seems to be such a barrier to
entry with hosting and everyone's like, oh my god, but
I have to have this, and I have to have that.
They're really easy tips and really easy you know, ways

(04:06):
to make it really elevated and beautiful, but like not
very expensive, not very challenging, doesn't take too long. So
I just little quick tips and tricks.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
And it's called she's a host.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yes, it's called she's a host.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yes, I had a party this season?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Did you I need to? I want to know?

Speaker 3 (04:28):
And I literally ordered everything off at Amazon.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, that's a good tip.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Is that not not a thing?

Speaker 4 (04:36):
Like totally? Why not? Like whatever makes it easier for you.
My whole thing is like little spaces and little moments
that make people congregate and feel comfortable. And also I
think you should always have food out. I mean I'm Jewish,
so like we always have food everywhere, and it's there
for the entirety of the party, and there's never I mean,
even though the girls on my show like to complain,

(04:58):
but you know, there's a a surplus of food and
it keeps the party going. So that's the other thing.
And it's just it's just an easy guy. And and
also they're really great recipes for my childhood that are
near and deer, that are not crazy hard to make
but will wow a group because they're different. You know
their Cuban, they're Greek and Turkish like all of our backgrounds.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Okay, what are your thoughts on the grazing tables with
the cheese and all that. Are we tired of.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Seeing that personally?

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
And also like that's.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
What I had.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
That's a lot of that's a lot of work. I
don't think.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well, I've done my own a few years ago for
like a family reunion, for a holiday or something. It
was a lot of work and you know what expensive beautiful?

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah yeah, and they're expensive and like it's just like,
I mean, they're beautiful. I don't mind. I like one.
I like to go and enjoy one, but I'm not.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
But half of it's wasted.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
No, I agree. Yeah, it's like now okay, then the
time everything but Fay style, I love the face style.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Do you make the food?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
I do?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
That's I enjoy it, Like it's really therapeutic for me.
I don't have much, but there's not like many quiet
moments in my life. So when I'm in the kitchen
and I have a glass of wine playing music, like,
I enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, it's because you're a mom. Of four. Now, how's
that going?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I mean, the baby's like, not a problem. It's the
other kids that I have fun and like no fat
and chunky and I love them. How is he now
six months?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
Six months?

Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's only six months.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
And they done?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yes, we are. I am done. I am done. The
other one, my oldest son is turning eleven soon, Leila
is eight, Elijah's five, and then the baby six months.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
You're in the heat of it. Oh yes, do you
have help? Yes, that makes a difference. Yeah, oh, fully,
Because we're assuming you're going to start filming New York soon.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Well, if you were to guess, would you. We've heard
a lot of rumors kind of about other people being
on or not coming back. We've seen you be with
around Jessel, Jenna and Cie, but no Uber. Well yeah, yeah,

(07:41):
she's like, yeah, I'm not giving you anything an at.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
But we also see you around Lindsay Hubbard a lot.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
I love her, she's my girl.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
So this is like a friendship that has developed because
there's so much talk and rumor about she's joining the cast.
But didn't I recently hear that she's doing another show? Yeah, okay,
the cast and your children are around the same age.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
Well babies, babies, like almost the exact same time. She
stayed with me out East a couple of times. Like
we're actually friends. She's a great girl, Like, yeah, I
really really like her genuinely.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
But you don't think you'd be filming together anytime soon? Now,
what are your thoughts on all the rumors about the
ogs coming back?

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Are there still rumors of that?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes? What?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Like? When are people gonna let up? I love them,
I really do. I invite them to like all the
parties I have because I think they're genuinely so much fun.
But like, I just don't see that, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Meschine friends. Yeah, are you friends with any of them?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
Yeah? I really? I mean Luanne Derenda.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Ramona is not even in New York anymore. I know
she likes I think she's in. She doesn't like you,
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I'm sure she doesn't remember your name.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Right right, but she definitely doesn't remember my name.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
I just told this story because it's very funny. She
lives in my mom's building in Palm Beach and they
ran into each other. My mom was like, oh, by
the way, you know, like my daughter's on the new
one and she was like, oh, I don't watch that.
I heard it's doing terribly.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's so Ramona, That is so Ramona. Like, oh, were
you also recently moved into a new town home?

Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yes, that's why?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Is that where you're at right now?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yep? And furniture is being delivered and it's so noisy.
Chaout of care?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
But do you see yourself in New York forever?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
I don't know anything else. I'm like one of those
tainted New Yorkers. It's been here my whole life, and
so like, chaos and garbage is my norm.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Which born and raised?

Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yeah, born and raised?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Who else is coming to Bravo Khan from New York?

Speaker 4 (10:00):
Jess sol and.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Sie jessel In sigh makes sense?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Okay, no, Jenna, she's not coming now, she's not coming now?
Did she come the last time there was a Bravo Con?

Speaker 4 (10:12):
She didn't? Actually?

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Yeah, yes, are you talking about Jenna Lions? Yes?

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Allions.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
She didn't go when you guys all went. Yeah, I
think the very first Bravocon where they announced you guys,
she was there, Yes, she was there, But after that
she's like, I'm too busy.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
But what it's like hard. It's not that easy, you know,
It's like it's a hard thing.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh bravo con Yeah, yeah, me and Teddy are talking
about because we're obviously both going. And it's like the
amount of touching and sweaty armpits that are on you,
like you kind of really think about your outfits. I'm like,
I want my arms covered, I want everything.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
It's like, Hi, you know you're going to go back
with COVID or some sort.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Of I know. That's why I'm telling Teddy, I think
you should wear a mask.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
And it's like I'm not wearing a mask.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
It's like I'm not wearing.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Like, don't act are you to a buyer?

Speaker 3 (11:19):
But you look cute, Teddy with your little pixie cut.
And by the way, the pixie cuts in style right.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Now, well we'll see it's not really a pixie cut.
Right now, I'm giving Guy Fieri, No, you're not. Guys.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
Oh my god, it got along.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
I know.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
I am so Guy Fieri. I say, you put like
a few little individual's extensions and have a little side
sweat bangs.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Going to put extensions on my two inch chair.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
You can't do that, though, did you see back Kim
Kardashian just did that. She just came out with a
little I'm sure it was a wig, like a little
pixie cut.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I know hers looks cute. I'll probably cut it before
we go to Bravocon and try to style it in
a cute way. Don't worry, I'm not going to try
the guy fieriot there. But I went from when I had,
oh the slick back. Mine doesn't slick back, It'll only
slick to the side.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Still, like, I just think it's chic.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Thank you, thank you. That's what I'll try to do. Okay.
So have you talked to Brenn at all? No?

Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, not any has any money.

Speaker 4 (12:36):
No. I actually just I love how I have no
filter and I can't contain myself. But whatever, I just
realized that she blocked me.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
What.

Speaker 4 (12:46):
I haven't spoken to her. I don't know what could
have happened.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
What did you do to her?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (12:52):
Maybe that's the problem.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
But did she block the whole cast?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I don't know. I honestly didn't even ask them. I
think she inside is already blocked and she blocks out
like that has happened, I think for a while, but no,
she just like she unfollowed my sister. My sister's the
one who noticed my husband and then blocked me like
I'm the you know, the worst of the bunch. I
guess I don't know, so weird.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
How is ab the babe?

Speaker 4 (13:17):
He's really good.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
How's he justine with another child?

Speaker 4 (13:23):
He's like, he's fine, busy. I mean, it's it's really,
it's just logistics that's the problem.

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Speaker 3 (14:37):
So, Rebecca Minkoff claims that she left the show.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
It just wasn't the right But.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, do you guys still talk? Who do you talk
to on the cast.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Side? Jessel, Uva, Jena, that's it. Yeah, but we we
genuinely our friends and like we really go out together
and have fun and yeah, like we're all good.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah. And then if you were to get how many
newbies do you think they should bring on?

Speaker 4 (15:12):
How many newbies between three and four?

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Between three and four? Yeah, do you have any ideas
on who you if you could have your dream person
come on, who would it be?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
Say it Share? Share Martha Stewart like one of those
I would should be bad. I think, I mean, you
wouldn't know the people that I think should be on
it because they're just like I think, I think we
need regular New York people. Jenny from the blog don't

(15:54):
you agree?

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, I think you need some just regular New York people.

Speaker 4 (15:58):
That's what we need, Like regular your people who don't
give a fuck.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
Yeah, what's going on with Raquel?

Speaker 4 (16:05):
I don't know. I honestly don't know what they're doing
with the show, Like they don't tell me anything, probably
because I have a big mouth.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
What housewife doesn't have a big mouth.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Some people are good better at keeping things together than
I for sure.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, until they have a few drinks, and then it's
like talking, talking talking.

Speaker 4 (16:27):
That's the other thing. I like to have more drinks
of our cast. Hopefully. I know that sounds well.

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Carol Radswell has kind of been in the process again,
which got people thinking, yeah, yeah, and she had she
had a big feud with Andy and then they made up,
and then she's doing this press tour and then people
are and I think she's going to Bravo kon if
I'm not mistaken, And people are like, yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Wait and find out.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I think she. I think she definitely is going
to Bravo con and.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
So now so now you know, instantly people think that
she's coming back.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
I mean that could be kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
I haven't heard anything about that.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, text her and say, are you going to Bravo kan.

Speaker 4 (17:18):
Or the ogs are going to Provo?

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Right?

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Not all of them? Oh nope, not all of them.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Who's going?

Speaker 3 (17:27):
You guys know, Derenda? Who else?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Drenda Luanne?

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, Dorenda Luanne. I think that's it, right, I think so.
But I also I also feel like when Bravo Con
tickets come out, people want to see some of these ogs. Like,
I know Vicky's coming. She hasn't been on our show
for for years. Right, good, We're We're getting there. We're

(17:59):
getting there. You know, I've known her for twenty years.
She's like a sister.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
She says things and then you know, I say things back,
and then we meet in the middle. Like it's one
of those things where we can have conflict and resolution
and we.

Speaker 4 (18:12):
Can move forward ideal honestly, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
And I think one of the biggest factors of us
reconnecting was she reached out to Teddy when she was
sick and center or present, I mean the present was
a picture of her face a coloring book with her
face on.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yes, but.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
In the coloring book, Yeah, does the name Chanelle Jones
mean anything to you.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
No, who's that.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
There's a rumor she's a newbie.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
I'm so much huh.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I know you're good at a playing koy. Also, I've learned.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
She's like, I don't want to get in trouble. Yeah,
isn't that for sure? I don't know that person. Chanelle Jones.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
Did the show inspire you for your new cookbook?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah? I think, like I, people responded to a lot
of the you know, like Shabbat I hosted and the
shuk Shuka day and just like I'm always having dinner
and family and friends over, and I realized that it's
something that I just do normally and it's not a
normal thing that people do. And I really enjoyed sharing it,
you know, with everybody really did well.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
There'd be a recipe for that, a recipe for shuk huka. Yeah,
oh yes, oh good for sure.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
I think that that that is, you know, with so
much toxic environment in this industry, the one of the
really good positive of being on this platform is you
do get to write cookbooks. You do like Angie k
Is make a sunglass line because she wears sunglasses. My
daughter's a musician and mentioned a musician on her show.

(20:07):
The musician reached out to her and sent her merch
and tickets to go to the concert in a meet
and greet and all that stuff. So you know that
is the positive, right, that's kind of the best part
of it.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well, I was going to say, what's your least and
favorite part about being on the show when it was filming?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Well, two things were my least favorite. One was logistics
were really hard for me to like figure out, at
least in the beginning. And then like I started to
get the hang of it, but it's like, you know,
it's a lot, it's a lot of your time just
don't realize, so like you kind of have to rethink
the way that you run a business or work because
it's like when you're filming, it's like blackout time. And

(20:52):
then also just like the level of nastiness that some
people are capable of behave, like it's shocking.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
The way it lies is what gets me.

Speaker 4 (21:06):
Well, that's I feel like I'm so used to that
from what we went through last season. You mean, like
the people asked.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Yeah, they cast lying about you and making up stories
about you, and you know, this season, I've had an
affair and I drug somebody, and it gets to a
point where you're like, is that really worth it right
to have those things talked about about you that are
absolutely lies.

Speaker 4 (21:31):
That's that's how Uba felt. Well.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
I was gonna say, do you blame Bran and Uba
for the long pause?

Speaker 4 (21:39):
I mean, I certainly don't blame Uba. I don't think
she really know anything wrong there, but.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
I don't either.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
That was a pretty crazy like and I and it
was hard because she didn't like it, as though Brenn
didn't really even understand what she did wrong. After It's like, dude,
you you made a claim that she was sex shaming
you after knowing this crazy story that she clearly did
not know. And also everyone that even watches the show

(22:07):
knows how Uba is.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Like.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
She's someone that if she heard something like that, like
she would run it down, you know, a hill, she
would chase it. She'd be like, is that okay? Is everything?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Like?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
So it was just it was just a crazy claim
and it was pretty awful. It was pretty awful. It
was pretty dark to be.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
I mean, that reunion was really hard to watch.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
It was really hard to watch. It was hard for
me to watch, and I was there living.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
It living it, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
But I say the best part is going through real
things that are happening, sharing them and having like such
an outpouring of community of people who are like wow,
like this you know helped me so much because I'm
going through it too. And like when I told that
story on Glamour, so many people came out of the

(22:53):
woodwork being like, well, I just told my parents now
that I had, you know, an abortion when I was younger,
and I and.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
You actually had your dad on the show and you
told him in real time.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Yeah. Yeah, just like I guess the sense of community
that you get from that, like people with sick parents
or like just whatever it is. It's it's like I
would have felt so much better my younger self if
I could have seen, like watched the show and had
that sense of connection, if someone was going through something
like that that I identified with. So that's like I

(23:23):
think the nicest part of the show.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, me going through therapy. I exposed something that I
had never told my mom or my dad, something that
happened to me when I was twelve or thirteen years
old in our own backyard at a party, and I
was so like, I'm like I need to know if
it's even going to be on the show to tell

(23:47):
my mom because I don't even know if I have
the courage to tell her. And they cut it out completely.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wow, I didn't even know that.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
No, I know, I'm kind of a crazy feeling where
it's like you really do forget get that the like
people don't realize it, but it's like you're just being
authentic and forget that you're like filming a show. It's wild.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
If you're good, you do. If they're calculated and you're
you know, producing yourself, that's a different story.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
So why exactly do you think there was a break.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Well, I think like a multitude of reasons. I think
they needed to figure out like what was going to
happen to us as a group after that kind of fallout.
I think they wanted I don't know, I guess they
wanted to like shake things up a little and see
how it could progress in like a healthier way. And

(24:45):
I mean we need to be having I think also
more fun. Yeah, like we do have fun, you know,
like we're fun girls. We go out, we have fun, drink,
we laugh like.

Speaker 3 (24:56):
That that part, I think it's a casting to situation
I think that the part of the cast didn't work,
and now they're trying to figure it out. And it's
very hard to recast an original show totally because don't
you feel like you're always compared to the ogs.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
Yes. But the other thing is, and I feel strongly
about this, is I feel like people forget that it
always takes a few seasons for a show to gel. Absolutely,
even Salt Lake, I wasn't into I mean, now it's
like on the cover of US Weekly, but like I
wasn't into it for a couple of seasons, you know,
and then it was like really started gelling and getting

(25:36):
really really good. And I think it just takes a
minute for like everything to.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Like, well, it takes a minute for the audience to
get to know the person right right, And people aren't
invested in new people like they are with familiar faces
right exactly. And I think that that like I don't
know it, they're going to figure it out and you'll go.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Back, is there any buddy that's going to be at
Bravo Con that you're like, oh, no, I've had this
awkward exchange with Or is there anyone you're really excited
to see.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
That's such a good question. I had awkward experiences of
any not really, to be honest, that's not really.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Are there other housewives from other franchises that you're close with?

Speaker 4 (26:27):
Definitely, definitely a couple of Beverly Hills girls, a couple
housewives particularly definitely some of the Salt Lake City howther.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Ja Brow has always spoke very kindly of you.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Love Heather, Love Heather. We had we have a lot
of fun, like with our husbands together because they like
each other. So they're just a really funny couple. I
think I really like them together. I just think they're hilarious. Also,
I am very impressed with how they can drink.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
I have to say that impressed, like speaking of we
need more of yours.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh yes, I know, I know. I'll have it a
Bravocon I have a booth.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Oh you do.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Oh that's awesome. How's it going cool?

Speaker 4 (27:11):
It's going so well? Knock on one. It's like, really
really going well. Our sales have doubled, you know, each year.
I mean we've only been around for a year and
a half, but we're on track to fully double our
sales from last year.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
So how do people get it?

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Well, we're in a lot of we're in tons of
stores and restaurants. We are actually not moving out of
the Northeast for now because of like that's just our
strategy and I guess that's like how you're supposed to
do it and liquor sales. Like I was like, come on,
let's get into South Florida and we should be in
LA but they're like, no, that's not how we do it.
We need, you know, for if we were to get
a strategic investor, they would want to expand us. So

(27:49):
we're just crushing it in the Northeast for now. We're
actually we just got a big order from Costco, which is.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Like huge, that's huge.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
I was so excited when I saw that. I was like,
I go do a video there. So yeah, no, it's good,
it's good. Congratulationally, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
So why did you decide to move? Was it because
you need another bedroom because you have any kid or
need it?

Speaker 4 (28:13):
We needed more space, and when we moved from Tribecca,
we really were just like moving uptown to like figure
out where we wanted to be. It wasn't our forever spot,
but now we're very happy and settled. We're also house people.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, if you could go to another franchise. Which would
it be If.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
People always ask me this and I always say Miami,
Miam really yeah, because I'm New York. Miami connection is like, like,
I have so much family in Miami, and I would
if I were to live somewhere else, probably would be Florida.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yeah, I love Florida.

Speaker 3 (28:46):
You told us about your miss Galbron, but you didn't
tell us the name of it, so our listeners want
to hear the name.

Speaker 4 (28:52):
It's called mescaloom We If you're going to be at
Bravo Khan, stop by er booth. Abe the Babe is
coming in for one day. There at the booth. I
have my Mescaline marketing girls. They'll be there and you
can you can order it online.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
What is the difference between tequila and mescal. I don't
know the difference.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
So this is very controversial right now because a lot
of a lot of tequila brands are getting sued. Tequila
only has to be by Mexican law fifty one percent
pure gave, so the minute of brand gets sold or
you know, they feel like changing the ratio of pure
gave to additives, it becomes very additive heavy. So there
are a bunch of tequila brands, big ones that you

(29:34):
know that are getting sued because they're claiming to be
additive free and they're not. My law, mescal has to
be one hundred percent pure gave. What I noticed was
missing in the marketplace was there wasn't like a non smoky.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
That's what I was going to ask you, That's what
I'm going to sell.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Send you a package like you, I'll get your address.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Because that's my only issue is that I don't love
the smoky.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Yep, mine is not smoky. It's very We places a
tequila and it's so much better for you. And liquor
is typically a blind spot for people. You know, it's like, oh,
I'll have a vodka soda, but it's like what's in
the vodka? And we all eat healthy. We think about
what we're eating, but we don't think about liquor. And
I mean it's becoming more prevalent. People are starting to

(30:17):
think about it more. But mescal has to be one
hundred percent pure agave by design, by law, so you're
getting a way better product. Like doctors will say, obviously
don't recommend you drink, but if you were to drink anything,
you drink mescal because it's like a it's a probiotic
like it has all it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Is it upper like tequila?

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Totally? It's all a dave. It's all agave. And the
thing is about the flavor profile, which is how I
was able to make it non smoky, is tequila can
only be made by blue Weber agave, which is one
agave species. So like as soon as that starts getting
over harvested, they start, you know, using younger and younger agaves.
The flavor kind of sucks and it's like not as good.

(30:56):
But mescal can be made from eighty different type of
agave species. So I used a cliche which is a
while to gavi, which really like cut the smoke.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Well, the cool thing is it's hearing you talk about it.
You actually really know about your business. Yeah, where you
talk to some housewives and you're like, so tell us
about your new business.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
And then I was just thinking that, pulling up.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
A piece of paper, looking around at the reps, like, uh,
that was good.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
It's a real business, I swear, Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
What recipe from your cook? Cook? Should we tackle first?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Ooh? What do you guys? Like? I have so many
different types of.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Recipes, things that are easy that my kids will also eat.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Okay, I have actually a lot of recipes for kids.
I have like a homemade mac and cheese with broccoli
that is like always a crowd pleaser. I have like
really easy chicken dishes. I have a really great actually
Thanksgiving turkey recipe.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh, I'm going to need that.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
You put rice in the turkey. It's like a stuffing
and you cook it with the juices and it's the
most flavorful like soft.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Wait, so you put you don't have to cook the
rice first. You cook it as it's in, like you
stuff it in the turkey.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
It's like a crazy it's never heard of that it
is crack, Like I'm telling you never had crack.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
But I'm willing to try anything once.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Maybe a bravo con no, I'll bring some goodies to okondor.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
I'm going to need I'm going to need a copy
of this cookbook because Thanksgiving is coming up before we
know it.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, got some good Thanksgiving recipes.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
And that that yes, do you mix it with like
liquids or does the liquids from the turkey actually cook
the rice?

Speaker 4 (32:54):
You mix it with liquids? Okay, and it you cook
it also for ten hours. It's the most Like turkey
is not good, it's dry, it's like gross. But this
turkey is it's insane, like it's I'm telling you, it's
my grandma's recipe. We make it every Thanksgiving. It is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Do you cook your turkey in a bag or just in.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
A No, one of those really big? I actually use
this all clad like massive.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Yes, I have one of those. Yeah, I love that,
But the bag is fool proof for people like me
and Teddy.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
I feel like I would know how to do a
bag because like, wouldn't it fall and like slip and
isn't that tough?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
No, because you put it in the big pot, it
just keeps it moist.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Okay, God, I love that you think that I can
cook a turkey, camera that I've cooked one in a bag.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
I mean one time my mom put marijuana in our
mashed potatoes. What yes, I'm like, She's like, I had
I had this weed and I just thought maybe I'll
mix it in the mash. I'm like, Mom, really to
taste you couldn't really taste it, sagerous, that's how well

(34:05):
our cooking skills over here are in this family.

Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's very funny. That's a first.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yeah, that is definitely a first. Are you going to
bring some of your dishes to Bravocan That might be
a little.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Tough, right, It's going to be tough, But I'm gonna
bring some books.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
So you'll be selling your cookbooks and your alcohol.

Speaker 4 (34:27):
So we're not selling the alcohol, We're just tastaving it.
We were there last time. It was just so fun
to like meet everybody and throw merch out and give
shots and it was just fun.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
So let's say you don't get asked I know you are.
You're not going to get as back. Are you going
to be bummed?

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Are you going to be like?

Speaker 3 (34:55):
Ah, it was a great experience.

Speaker 4 (34:58):
I think if I was not asked back, I would,
being honest to find a way to do something else
in media because I do like it. Yeah, I do
have fun with it. You know. I think that there
are certain people that like to be behind the scenes
and certain people that like to be front facing, and
I think I like to be front facing.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
So is there anything you change about some of your
past decision making?

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Really? I mean, yeah, I could be like I wouldn't
do I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
But now I don't really you seem pretty chill.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
I mean it's just like like you can't be I
feel like if you're going to do a reality show,
you just can't try to be perfect because it's just
doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
It doesn't work. Yeah, and it shows like the camera
never lies. So if you're going to go up there
and you're going to self produce yourself, it never works.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
And it's also it's like tacky. You know, it's like
you want to be if you're going to do if
you're going to decide to be on a reality show,
you need to show your life like you just doo.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
If there's anyone on your cast that doesn't actually do that,
that is a little phony bologney.

Speaker 3 (36:07):
I mean that's a yes.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I mean you have to tell when you smile like that.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
No, That'm the worst.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
I mean yeah a little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Are you still in real estate?

Speaker 4 (36:25):
I mean I have my license actually just renewed it
because you have to do it every two years, but
you have to.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Do it every two so I have mine too, but
I have to renew it every four lucky everything.

Speaker 4 (36:37):
Yeah, ann twenty two and a half hours.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
But I'm like one of those people. I'm like, I'm
never letting it go.

Speaker 4 (36:42):
No, you and you shouldn't because it's like even if
you buy something yourself, you can represent yourself in safe.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Right or you just never know where you're going to
be one.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Day exactly, And it's a great it really is a
great business to just like have and do on the side.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yeah, so I'm like into I've always been, but like
now I'm starting to get back into flipping and that's
really where I want to be. Yeah, Like if I'm
doing it, that's what I'm going to be doing.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
How's the market in New York.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
Weird?

Speaker 3 (37:11):
There's like it's weird here, is it? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:14):
You know, it's really strange. You know how like markets
used to have seasons and need to be like, oh,
the fall season is great time to move, and then
the spring season is when everybody ramps up. Looking It's
like that doesn't exist anymore. It's just like we don't
know when it's going to perk up. Very strange.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, that is strange. Yeah, but I feel like the
whole world is weird right now.

Speaker 4 (37:36):
Yeah. Why what's is it still post COVID? Like what's happening?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
I don't know, I know, are we.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
The world's ending happening?

Speaker 2 (37:46):
We're like, are we doing gloom over here today on
the toad seat? But it's true.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
The world is weird.

Speaker 4 (37:54):
It's weird.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
It's so divided and so much hate, and you know,
everyone is a little bit and it has been since.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, did you have any postpartum or anything like that
after your baby or everything? Was?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
No?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
I feel like I didn't deal with my grief.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
So I was gonna say, how's everything with?

Speaker 4 (38:16):
Not great? Like it's hard, and I think I I
really avoided thinking about it while I was pregnant, probably
to like protect my pregnancy, but after the fact it
started to really set in. It was it's been hard,
to be honest, very hard.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
Yeah, and how are you? How are you coping now?

Speaker 4 (38:37):
It's not easy? Like I I think I'm allowing myself
to feel a little bit more, which has helped because
it's like I'm not repressing, but I mean there are
days where I'm like, how is this my reality? Like
it almost feels like not real. Yeah, So I'm trying
to journal, do things that I would never normally do,

(39:00):
like meditate and just calm myself down a little because
when I start thinking about you know, like when you
start thinking about something that makes you nervous and you
start panicking. Yeah, it kind of happens. When I realized that,
He's like not there.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Yeah, very true.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yeah, we're thinking about you and we appreciate you taking
the time to come on.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah, and let everybody know where you can they can
order your book.

Speaker 4 (39:24):
You can get it on Amazon, you can get it
into Bournes and Noble, wherever you know you buy your books.
And I'm actually your listeners might like this. I'm going
to give away one of my bravocn tickets. So what Yeah,
if you buy a book, send a screenshot or email
like your receipt to Julia at Erindanelichi dot com and

(39:47):
you could win a chance to go to Bravocon.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
That's really cool. That's so smart idea.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
You know, last last year, last time we all went
to Bravocon, I had like an extra ticket and I
gave it away to one of the fan accounts and
this scroll was like you changed my life, Like I
started a business because of this and it was the
best experience ever. So I'm like, I'll do it if
I can, you know, why not?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Why not?

Speaker 3 (40:12):
That's so sweet.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Well, thank you again and we appreciate you taking the
time and we can't wait to see you.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
Can't wait to see you, guys, it's.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Gonna be fun. Tell abe. We said hi, okay, bye
bye
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