Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra JudgeFrankly, RHONJ Reunion left us with many MANY questions. So, our favorite (ex) husband, Frank Catania, is clearing the air.
Let’s be Frank, we uncover the truth behind Bo Dietl, Teresa, the Gorga’s, and Margaret. What’s really going on with Frank and Louie? Find out what happened when they met up recently.
On a lighter note, is Frank still living with David?
AND, who will get married first — Frank or Dolores?
…The Twots just got a MAJOR exclusive from Frank you can only hear here!
Two teas in a pod which Teddy Mellencamp and Cambridge Edge.
All right, guys, welcome to another two teas and a pod with myself and Tamra and guests who are bringing.
On, Oh my god, one of our favorite house husbands ever x X ex husbands. Well, I still see him as a husband. He's somebody's husband one day.
I don't know about that.
Maybe Britney's.
We're gonna have to ask him because I feel like there's a proposal in a marriage coming soon.
Well, let's bring on our very good pal Frank Catania.
So the first thing that I need to ask you, It's not going to be what you expect.
But how did it feel being on the other side of the couch from Dolores?
Oh that's right?
Uh oh Eddie. I gotta be honest. I didn't know where they were gonna put me. I thought they're gonna put me in between you know.
Oh, that would have been weird.
So when I first came out, basically I knew where I was sitting. I picked up my chair and I went to walk it over by Dolores, but then Louie was over there, so I stopped. So we didn't do that, But no, it was. It was a little awkward. I gotta be honest with you.
Yeah, I bet I.
Well, we're hoping next year that you have Brittany on the couch and you're standing behind her.
Well, I don't know about that. We are definitely reluctant, to say the least.
But I feel like we need to get to know Britney Moore because we saw her a little bit. And I my question for you is, do you think is she actually quiet in real life or is that just the way it's edited right here? Because she's beautiful, everything seems great, but I didn't hear talk much, so I need to.
Know a little bit more about her personality.
Brittany went, If Brittany was on the show, Brittany absolutely would talk. Brittany is not content reversal whatsoever.
I think you have enough controversy on that show already. Maybe we need a voice of reason, somebody that just have fun.
Ham.
It's so bad this year. It's so bad.
It was hard to watch.
It was even harder to film.
Oh, I couldn't even imagine.
You know, it wasn't fun this year. It definitely wasn't fun this year.
And yeah, no, have we heard about next year?
No, I from what I did here, but it's not it's not really a reliable source. Everybody's coming back from what I understands.
That's what I think too.
But I have a question because on other franchises, the husbands.
Don't get paid. Are you getting paid?
Not from Bravo? And I wonder why am I doing this? Why is it subjecting my life?
Because the viewers need you, That's why we enjoy.
I get to Teddy, I enjoy I enjoy filming, and I liked hanging out with the guys. You know. So you want to know something. If we add to the strength of our significant others contract when it comes to renegotiation next year, then then so be it. But this year was rough. This year is rough. It wasn't enjoyable. It just wasn't.
Yeah, no, we could see that. How much time out of your life do you actually film?
Like?
Is it is it ten times a season or is it a lot? Or is it like it's just fun?
I got parties, you know what, guys. I thought I was gonna be off this year. Dolores has a significant other. Pollie came upon. I thought I was gonna be done I got to be honest with you. I thought I was done. I didn't plan on it, but production kept calling me and calling me, and yeah, no, it was probably definitely an access to ten different scenes that we had to do for the season.
So yeah, I feel like at this point you can ask for a friend of contra.
That's what I was just gonna say.
Yep, to say at the very least, yeah, I don't have the two of you understand that. You know, there's some other benefits that come with it, some other appearances.
Well, it's a it's a great platform for you to do other things.
You're one hundred yes, doing other things.
But you should get a day rate every time.
Thank you, Thank you. Do me a favorite when we're doing call and and let him know.
Yeah, I'll call Andy. I don't know if he's been listening.
Well, I mean he might listen to I feel oh, yeah, he's really gonna listen to me. I'm the only one unemployed by Bravo at this point.
Okay, we're gonna have to get into the drama a little bit.
Okay, we at the reunion kind of Dolores kind of put a stop to talking about Frankie Jr. When it came to Louis, are you willing to tell us? Like, what is what actually happened?
Let me just say this, guys, the same, the same thing I will say. And both of you are both both yous, right parents, so you would understand it, right, Your your children's career, your children's job is much much more important than my ego.
Yeah or this show?
Yes on what The only thing I will say is though, is everyone is out there saying I had an issue with Louis with respect to Frankie. Guys, it had nothing to do with Frankie working for Louis, all right. It had to Louis gave him experience, Louis gave him connections, Louis gave him. It was an incredible experience, all right. It had to do with other things which guys really were not. Wasn't that bad, It wasn't that bad. It just escalated, It escalated, and Uh, my son's in a very Uh. He loves his job. He's on Wall Street now with a great, great firm. He's doing great, and any mention of it on the show, obviously it will cast some out of a shadow on him at his job. So that's why Delora shut it down right away, especially that career. Yes, exactly right. You know that it's very sensitive, it's very sensitive.
Totally get it. But you know, I think Teddy does as well as mothers. You know, I have, you know, a strange daughter, and I want to talk about it, but then I don't want to talk about it because then it brings light to it, and then people write stories about it, and then she gets upset. So it's it's like a it's a hard balance, but it's best just.
A you're one hundred percent and I have two distinctly different children. All right. My son worries about everything everything. My daughter could give two shits about anything. She could care less. But my son, and believe me, when he heard it was going to be talked about all it's like talking them off the legs for three days when it's really not bad.
Does he enjoy filming or is it kind of a struggle to get him to film?
Not anymore since his new job. He always did enjoy. But I think I think he's done at this point. He really land. He stepped in ship. He stepped in shit, ladies, he did, so that's much more important.
Yeah, So he's he's maturing. He's fine.
I mean, I love talking to him, and he's so kind that you guys raised a great son. I don't want to even continue talking about him, but I do want to continue talking about Louie.
Okay, And he's a game.
So there's a lot of rumor online that you didn't actually have a problem with Louie, that Joe Gorga and Margaret got you all revved up right before the reunion.
Is that true?
That's false. I guys, I love talking to you guys on your podcast because I can clear the air. All right, You guys ask the questions that no one else asks, all right, Teddy Walters, and I love it. I love it. So me and Louis, Margaret and Joe had nothing to do with me, nothing to do whatsoever, And there's nothing that bothers me more. And I get all. There is the social media saying I'm either team Gorga or team Teresa, because I'm not team anybody, as anybody will see over the years, I try to stay neutral, all right. It just so happens that I had an issue with the same person that Joe Gorga had an issue with. That doesn't mean I am team Joe. I support Joe, I support Teresa, but I'm not team anybody. I'm team Frank. And that's what really really annoyed me. Oh, Joe, Gorga's controlling you. Mortgage controlling you is absolutely not, absolutely not. I had my own personal issue with Louis and that was between me and.
Him, and I actually love what you just said. I'm going to use that again. Are you a team Let's say, are your team Shannon or VICKI? No, I'm team Tamra.
Yes you are.
I love that because we all have to fight for ourselves because if not, people create narratives about us that aren't true. But in the same token, like as I'm watching the show, and I mean, I am having such a hard time because I am starting I feel, even though Teresa has done things that are obviously wrong, I am starting to feel worried for her.
Yes, do you.
Agree or do you think she is a catalyst to it, like she's making it worse? Or do you think she's just trying to protect whatever of reputations they have left.
I'm gonna give you a little bit of insight real quick, so you know, order for me to answer that question to tuesdays ago. The last part of the reunion aired the next day. Believe it or not, I get a call from Louis. All right, he wanted to meet with me in person, So I did, all right. I hate I hate any kind of controversy. I hate any kind of confrontation in my life. I'm too old. So I went and met with Louie, and without going into detail, neither one of us pretty much believed the other one. When he told me he didn't do what I think thought he did. I told him I didn't believe him. All right. He said, you know what can I do to make you believe me? I said, Louis, you're not going to make me believe you. But the fact that you called me to sit down and talk, I said, I'm here now. I said, I'll put it behind us. I said, I move forward. So Louie and I at this particular time, whatever we had is over with and done, and I'm still talking. You know, we're not that when me and me Louis are not hanging out. We're not hanging out, we're not going going out as buddies. But we don't have an issue between us right now. Back to Teresa Is I think I'm different than a lot of other people out there. I think Teresa is just getting overwhelmed on having tried to defend her husband. I think he is getting hit from every single avenue, coming from here, coming from there, and I think she is just she's losing it, you know. I don't know, you ladies know what it's like, all right, and she's just getting pressure from all over the place.
I mean, Shre's the thing.
I would have less of a problem with Louis if you would just own like I'm an asshole, you know.
What, Like, Yeah, I may have done these alpal treatments.
I may have done these things, but I still struggle with anger or this or that, allegedly whatever it may be.
Then I can be like, Okay, you see yourself as you are.
Yeah, but do you think that the reason why Louie wanted to sit down and talk with you with sincere or he's worried about his future or Teresa's future on the show?
Guys. One thing which I have a little bit different perception with respect to Louis financially from everything I've known, so everything I see Louis is very very well well financially, even though I understand his worth has gone down draftedtly since coming on the show. He's still way beyond all right. So I don't know how much he's worried about her staying on the show. Maybe she's more worried to her staying on the show. But I don't think it's a financial issue. I think it's more of an ego issue.
Mm hmm. And have you met Boddle?
Yeah, and I knew both. I knew Bo. I know Bo before this. Okay, all right, I do. And my issue again, in social media, you can't defend yourself because you know, once you try to comment and next thing you know, it's I don't care. I don't care anybody investigated me. I really don't. I don't whatever you whatever, I.
Have already out there, thank you, Teddy.
Yes, right, if you find anything else, let me know about it, all right, But everything's done, everything's out there. I don't care about what you did with that information. And guys, we were I'm gonna put it out there for the first time, the true story myself, Joe and Joe all right, tenatively tentatively had int to deal with a network, all right, not Bravo, all right, not pea Cock, not NBC, And I thought, I thought, Louis, Now I'm looking at why would Louis do this to us? I thought Louis wanted to be, you know, the big man on the show, which I don't have a problem with. So Joe, Joe and I would have been there less because we had, you know, had this other tentative deal with another network who's a little bit of a conservative network. And then when these things started coming out on the internet, which I do believe was the result of Louis all right, uh in a smear campaign, uh through through another company, are a very prominent company. We lost it. We lost that. We lost that because there were some nasty things my past, which everybody knew already. But there were allegations against Joe, which you know, which I think ron hurdles, and that was it. They dropped us. So now we're back on the show. Louis ki got it rid of us.
I know you said that.
You don't care that he investigates you or anybody can investigate you, but don't you think, like what about his character? Like why is he doing that? And why does he think that's okay? And do you really want to be around somebody that feels like he's got to investigate the people he's around.
It's it's and that's that's the way a lot of people on the cast feel.
Now, Yeah, I mean I feel like it's projecting. He knows like he's probably got a dirty past, so he's going to go ahead and you know, everybody allegedly.
Yeah, and that's that's exactly what a lot of people think. Wow, I'm really spilling over you guys today. I'm gonna tell your whole story. And after filming last year, all right, that's because I love the two of you. Is that's why? All right, but love you. After after filming last year, cameras are off, I called Louis. I called Louis and I met him for breakfast and I said, look, for no other reason, what can we do to get Teresa and Joe back together? All right? Spoke about it. I said, listen, I'll said, good meeting. I'll mediate between you and Joe. Let's see what we can do, because that's the only family they got is one another. And that particular night on social media, well, him and I discussed at this meeting showed up on social media. Some of the confidential things, so I didn't say much about it. I met with him one one at one time after this again to discuss it. And then when we left again that night, some of the things how we smoke in confidence about showed up on social media. I picked up the phone. I called Louis, and Louis, Louis answers, Louis answers for me all the time. I said, Louis, do you have a problem with me? I said, bro, the fuck is going on? Absolutely not? He told me it wasn't him, had nothing to do with him, and so on and so forth. But I obviously, you know, it was a hell of a coincidence, all right, there was a hell of a coincidence. And then I put that aside. I put it aside. But then when I heard from the horse's mouth that he had hired someone with respect to a smear campaign which got shut down pretty quick, it was up there. It was only up there, I think about a week before we had to do it. We had to try to get taken down. We had already lost our contract with the other network. But I truly, in good faith went back to talk to him because I wanted to see him and his wife and Joe to try to rectify something.
Yeah, I was there was a sit down.
I said this before on the pod, but I wish there was a private sit down with nobody else, uh, and just.
Joe and Teresa.
Because the part that I'm actually really confused about, which I can't wrap my head around the way that it appears on the show, is that the issues between Joe and Teresa have always been there. There's been some yes, Louis exacerbated them, but then it always when Teresa's mad or getting upset, it seems to be like she's always.
Mad at Melissa. Correct, And so that's what I'm confused.
You gotta you gotta throw Margaret in there too, all right, yeah, Margaret. Yes, I think there there is a an old animosity towards Melissa and Joe ever since they came on the show. To be honest with you, that that's that's what I think it came from. But I just think that and while this show is still going on, I just don't see the two of them getting back together. And that's the feeling of the entire cast.
They might if they if Bravo says, either get along or fix this so we can film or you're gone. I mean, they'll do it, but not for the right reasons, I would imagine. I have a question for you, speaking of smear campaigns on social media, I've noticed there's a pretty big smear campaign about Margaret Now I love Margaret, Sorry New York. A couple of weeks ago, they're saying like she's paying bloggers to, you know, write certain.
Stories and things like that. I don't see that in Margaret. Is that something you think she would ever?
Do?
You know?
And I listen on the show. The closest of everybody I'm with is Margaret's husband, Joe. Joe, She's just a regular guy and him and I are close, and we've spoken about it because Joe and I will get to dinner by ourselves and just the two of us. And you know, I don't I don't listen. Does more? Do I believe Margaret has an arsenal on everybody? Absolutely?
Yeah, me too, like, which is a sad thing.
You know, exactly right. So, but as for her going out there, I don't see Margaret paying anybody, uh, blogger wise. That I don't see, especially when she's one of the people who came out strongly saying that Louis did that, so for her to do it really would be contradictory and be a slap in the face.
But that's why I feel like this mere campaign is going on is because they're you know, he's projecting. He's basically saying, you're excusing me of that. So yeah, I will tell you. After I got upset up with Teresa because she was talking about me and was very public about it on the podcast, I started getting bots that would attack me on social media.
I never had that before.
And they were talking about stuff from like ten years ago with my custody battle brought it like things people don't even bring up, and I thought, what.
The hell, camera, you're so right, there's things in my past. Listen, I've got a rested. I got a rested from cocaine back in nineteen eighty six, guys, and it's being spunged. It's been sealed, all right. I have a carian premane now for a gun and your name. In order for someone to come up with that and be able to get that information, now, you have to be connected. Yeh.
Yeah.
That's different than an arsenal, And arsenal means you have information you're gossiping with your your friends or whatever it may be.
But you're not planning to bring it onto the show.
But that's how it's like.
One on one, right, But if you're hiring a private investigator to go after to then use it as threads.
That's what I don't like.
That's scary.
Well, then we got to switch off a little bit. I want to talk a little bit about Jen Aiden. I feel like she did set Danielle up.
I knew nothing about that until the reunion, and that's the first time I ever saw that. Based upon what I saw at the reunion, and that's all I'm based in my opinion on because I don't know anything more about that. Yes, I think so too. I think basically Danielle was a soldier of Jane at the time. Yeah.
Do you think it was solely Jen or do you think it's Jen and Teresa?
I don't know. I honestly, I don't know Jen. I don't see Jen doing on by yourself, all right. Yeah, and guys just take it back to backtrack a little bit. Despite my issues with Louis, I have never once raised my voice to Teresa. I have never once attacked Teresa. I have never once posted one negative thing about Teresa. In fact, I will not even like a post that says, oh, let's get rid of Louis and Teresa, you and Britney should be on the show. I won't even like that. If it says anything negative about anybody, I won't do that. But the reason I'm saying is Teresa's come out and says some nasty things about me, now, which is a shame. There's no reason for it.
And then what about the John food of stuff.
I saw something yesterday that somebody else had requested the information about his baby's mama and it wasn't Louis.
Yeah.
And the only reason I gotta tell you I believe that is because the town I live in received an OPRAH request with respect to a Brittany and it's a similar name, last name to my Brittany. So I was contacted, all right, because basically they thought it was my Brittany. But when I told him no, then I realized and that request came from the company that this woman who came out yesterday and said she requested it, That request came an OPRAH request came from her company, which I knew personally way before all this. So I do see some validity and truth in that that they had requested it. I'm not saying Louis didn't do it on the side as well, just that I don't know anything to that.
But the other thing that we saw was I guess I don't know if it's was Louis X fiance or Louis X girlfriend, but something came forward that some I guess.
She's a therapist's friend.
And that somebody was faking to be a patient, Like, is there any truth to.
This or you have no idea?
Teddy on that one. That one, I have no idea. I try to stay with. I tried to. As soon as I see something like that, I try to stay with.
I can't see.
A therapist going saying this if it wasn't true. I just don't see that.
But we also don't know what type of therapist.
I think, we don't know if this is a licensed therapist or a life coach. And I'm saying this, She's like there's a difference. There's like, yes, I have my nutritionist license and.
My but you're not a therapist.
My workout you know, trainer certification.
But I'm not a therapist. And I did not go to multiple years of college. I did it from a book in an online time right. Uh.
You you revealed recently that you bought a house with Britney, So that means you have moved out of David's house.
No, not yet by the end of the year. I will, but we bought it. We bought a house and what we're doing is we're doing it at a level so when the process of that, which will probably be done maybe October November, so we're hoping to move in before the end of the year. I had to break that to David the other night before the reunion because I know I mentioned it on the reunion, so before he saw it on the reunion, I had to mention it to him. It was it was it was like breaking up with a girlfriend.
Oh my god, big question.
We were you paying rent?
No, you want to know something. No, I can be honest. I tried, and what I did is I try to pay things on the side. I try to go pay the cleaning lady.
That blow jobs. Hand jobs.
David is David's just so I built a house for them and I didn't charge him anything, nor would I. It's my ex wife. Well, I think David thinks that you know. Listen, he wants to repay me for doing that. I went to pay the real estate taxes on the house. Who pays the real estate taxes that you're in advance? All right, he pays it. That's David. Everything good for him.
He sounds like me, sounds like Teddy.
I would have loved to see some bro time with you at David's house on the show this year.
Well, yeah, because if Frank was an official house wife holding whatever what do they hold?
Mohinos?
What do they hold there?
Oh?
Hips?
Maybe you and David could be the new couple on the show.
Who would be the bitch?
David has a new girlfriend who she's great, she really is. She's laid back, she's nice, she's very very similar to Brittany.
So it's time to move on.
Time on final question. Who's getting married?
First?
You were Dolores.
That's that's not even a close one. That's me.
I such you too, it's you.
Do you have the ring?
Maybe a huge story?
You're blushing?
Oh look at that? Yes, turning red?
Guys, Oh my gosh, I cannot wait to see it and we can't win.
Can you invite us to the wedding? Because we didn't get apetation to Teresa's.
Yeah, we'll never get invited.
No, no, you be you guys would be invited one hundred percent. We're getting that destination if we get married, it's gonna be down to Captiva Island, down to Florida.
Oh nice, great, we're in. We loved.
We'd love to go to the shore, the Jersey Shore and do a podcast from there this summer.
Listen to me, ladies, I told you last time, summertime at the Jersey Shore. It would be great. You're more than welcome. Brittany and I. Our house down there is open to the two of you anytime you want, if you can do it in the backyard, by the pool, on the boat, whatever you like.
Let's get our best spray Tonda.
That's what Brittany does it. Don't worry, we'll do it. Ready to house.
Oh great, they all have their own spray hand guns.
Do you think do you think that, Brittany, If you're about to propose, can we keep that in or.
Do you you can put an adulation? Guys, get it. I'll get some heavy pressure. But is a ship or get off the pot. It's been for a while now, you know.
Know what, Get off the pot. It's time to go. Yeah, actually, get off the ship.
With your new business. Get on the pot.
There you go.
You know how to phrase it, but you need to make it happen. Make make an honest woman out of her.
Listen, Teddy off the record. I'm going to tell you something, she says, she was listening to me. You're going on podcasts with Teddy. You better tell Teddy she better get ready to pay camera one hundred dollars exactly.
Remember that, Teddy.
Listen, I'll been mo you one hundred dollars when I see that engagement ring on her finger.
You got a baby, all right?
Thank you so much, Frank, you are the best, and I hope it's a big rock since you've been saying bread on David.
Guys, guys, it's always a pleasure. I enjoy you so much.
Okay, and we're going to see you at Jersey Shore.
Let me know anytime. Make sure it's before Labor Day weekend. After that, Jersey Shore goes to rest.
Okay, till then see bravo.
Con bye guys, see that.
Bye, Thank you,
