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From TikTok Bans to Firehouse Fun: A Rollercoaster of Surprises, Debates, and Community · All About The Joy

0:00
Carmen Lezeth: But, hi everyone, welcome to All About the Joy.
0:02
Carmen Lezeth: Hi Rick, how are you?
0:07
Rick Costa: I'm good good.
0:08
Carmen Lezeth: How are you doing, cynthia?
0:10
Carmen Lezeth: I'm good.
0:11
Carmen Lezeth: How are you?
0:11
Carmen Lezeth: Okay?
0:12
Carmen Lezeth: I just want to say thank you for buying.
0:15
Carmen Lezeth: So you bought that.
0:17
Carmen Lezeth: You bought the cushion Me.
0:19
Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, I love it and Rick's had it for a long time.
0:24
Carmen Lezeth: Can I tell you?
0:25
Carmen Lezeth: I got a check.
0:26
Carmen Lezeth: It got dumped into my account for $122 from my the red whatever it is red bubble.
0:33
Carmen Lezeth: So I got the little commissions Like I was like I wasn't expecting anything.
0:38
Carmen Lezeth: That was kind of cool.
0:39
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like $122 on you, that's something.
0:43
Rick Costa: I just got something that gave me some joy too.
0:45
Rick Costa: I was like what am I going to cook?
0:48
Rick Costa: I don't know, I don't even feel like cooking today.
0:50
Rick Costa: I was like, let me see if DoorDash got any kind of coupon or sale today.
0:53
Rick Costa: Then all of a sudden it says you have a credit of $57, something I said we haven't checked the light today, ma.
1:01
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, that is so good.
1:02
Carmen Lezeth: I love when that happens.
1:03
Carmen Lezeth: I love when that happens.
1:05
Carmen Lezeth: I went to the.
1:06
Carmen Lezeth: So, cynthia, you're going to be so jealous and everything, so I thought I'd just share.
1:10
Carmen Lezeth: You went to 118, didn't you?
1:12
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't go to no, no Child, I'm in.
1:16
Carmen Lezeth: This is Santa Monica.
1:17
Carmen Lezeth: So Los Angeles is Los Angeles and that's like in downtown.
1:21
Carmen Lezeth: That's kind of far from me.
1:22
Carmen Lezeth: No, you know, far from me.
1:24
Carmen Lezeth: Santa Monica is on 7th Street.
1:27
Carmen Lezeth: I could walk to it, basically, you know what I mean.
1:30
Carmen Lezeth: So I called them and I said I really want to support, is there a way?
1:35
Carmen Lezeth: In which they were like no more donations, please.
1:37
Carmen Lezeth: They're getting so much like food, and you know what I mean.
1:40
Carmen Lezeth: So I was like no, no, no, I I'd like to buy a t-shirt, but I can't find where to get it.
1:44
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
1:45
Carmen Lezeth: So he was like oh, you know, you just come to the store.
1:48
Carmen Lezeth: We don't have it online.
1:49
Carmen Lezeth: So I was like I could go into the fire.
1:52
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
1:52
Carmen Lezeth: Like I'm like is it a separate store?
1:55
Carmen Lezeth: I totally wanted to make sure that I could go into the actual building.
1:58
Carmen Lezeth: They're like no, no, just come down to the firehouse and there's, we have have it up here and whatever.
2:03
Carmen Lezeth: And I was like, okay, like a little school girl, I was so excited so of course I went.
2:11
Carmen Lezeth: All the fire trucks were out, so clearly, I mean clearly they're all working or whatever.
2:14
Carmen Lezeth: But there were firemen in there and Mark came to the door and got me when she did the buzzer and we, and he was like yeah, follow me.
2:22
Carmen Lezeth: And we went upstairs, upstairs, to where all the shirts were, and he was like so these are the ones that are for sale, these ones you can't buy, because they're actually shirts that we, you know that firemen wear.
2:37
Carmen Lezeth: I was like oh, like the one you're wearing.
2:38
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, that's the one I wanted.
2:40
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like that's okay, it's all right, I'll just look at these other ones.
2:43
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like that's okay, it's all right, I'll just look at these other ones.
2:46
Carmen Lezeth: He was like I guess you could buy, so it's these ones with the red.
2:48
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean?
2:49
Carmen Lezeth: I was like I don't think anyone is going to mistake in me, but he was so cute because he goes.
2:58
Carmen Lezeth: I was like so do you have a large or an extra large?
3:01
Carmen Lezeth: And he's like well, we have a large here in blue and a black, and I bought both of them, whatever, and he was like but I think you should really wear a medium.
3:11
Carmen Lezeth: This is a white man.
3:11
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just say this I'm not trying to put race into it, but I was like I had to tell him after like the third time, baby, I got boobs.
3:19
Carmen Lezeth: I know you're confused Cause I'm wearing like a sweatshirt right now, but like, but I'm not gonna fit into a little medium of a man's because you know, they always say unisex, but it's not unisex or whatever.
3:32
Carmen Lezeth: So but um, yeah it, that firehouse is beautiful 29,000 square feet.
3:39
Carmen Lezeth: I had no idea they have parking underneath, like I mean, he didn't give me a tour or nothing, I just went.
3:46
Carmen Lezeth: You know, I was just reading up on it.
3:48
Cynthia Lopez: He was like sneaking around.
3:49
Carmen Lezeth: I was like yeah, yeah yeah, let me just look at this when do you sleep we?
3:58
Carmen Lezeth: Can like a tour.
4:00
Carmen Lezeth: So I asked him.
4:03
Carmen Lezeth: I said I know I sound really weird, but I really want to wear it on the show and I want to be supportive and I'm like we watched the show 9-1-1.
4:10
Carmen Lezeth: And there was another fireman there too whose name I did not get.
4:14
Rick Costa: I already knew that I was like the crazy woman.
4:16
Carmen Lezeth: What?
4:17
Rick Costa: He was ugly, just kidding.
4:19
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just tell you something about firemen.
4:20
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just tell you something.
4:21
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just tell you something.
4:22
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just tell you something.
4:22
Carmen Lezeth: There is no fireman that's ugly when you walk in there.
4:25
Carmen Lezeth: It's just something.
4:26
Carmen Lezeth: It's just something.
4:27
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what it is, it's just maybe it's me getting older and shit.
4:31
Carmen Lezeth: But I was just like, oh my God, they're beautiful, everybody's beautiful.
4:37
Carmen Lezeth: The fire trucks were out Not all of them, but this one houses quite many of them.
4:42
Carmen Lezeth: You could tell most of the firemen were out of the build.
4:45
Carmen Lezeth: Of course they are, of course the Palisades fire and everything else.
4:51
Carmen Lezeth: But I said I was like I actually watched 9-1-1.
4:55
Carmen Lezeth: And on our live stream we talk about 9-1-1 because we all love the show, rick, we love the show.
5:05
Carmen Lezeth: And the other guy was like I don't know this show.
5:10
Carmen Lezeth: And Mark was like I've seen the show.
5:12
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like you have.
5:13
Carmen Lezeth: I was so giddy, I felt like a groupie.
5:19
Carmen Lezeth: I was so men-girling, so bad.
5:23
Carmen Lezeth: And, of course, because I know how I am, I was like, well, I don't want to be in your way.
5:29
Carmen Lezeth: I'll just take two of those shirts.
5:30
Carmen Lezeth: You don't have a sweatshirt by chance.
5:32
Carmen Lezeth: He's like we don't have hoodies or anything.
5:33
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like, oh, all right, then I'm going to leave.
5:37
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like, thank you so much, I just wanted to go.
5:39
Carmen Lezeth: And then I went to leave and I didn't know where to get out, because it's so big.
5:50
Cynthia Lopez: So he's like I'm going to come down in a minute, I'm going to walk you out.
5:54
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like okay, no, no, no, I mean I wasn't anywhere near there.
5:56
Carmen Lezeth: I wish I would, cause you know I wouldn't.
5:57
Carmen Lezeth: Here's the thing too.
5:58
Carmen Lezeth: I wanted to take pictures and I was like I think I could get in trouble.
6:01
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know, it felt really sacrilege, right.
6:04
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it felt really weird to be in there, but it was cool.
6:07
Carmen Lezeth: It was cool, yeah.
6:08
Carmen Lezeth: So that was my joy today.
6:10
Carmen Lezeth: Did you guys have any joy?
6:11
Carmen Lezeth: Or remind me to keep checking, because Mario is going to try to stop by.
6:15
Carmen Lezeth: He's going to be a little bit late.
6:16
Carmen Lezeth: Anything joyful, great happening on you guys?
6:19
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, look look at Cynthia's like Cynthia share.
6:23
Cynthia Lopez: Speaking of shirts, so I have on ASPCA, oh okay, yes, I donated and they sent me the shirt which I was so happy about.
6:34
Carmen Lezeth: So for people who don't know what the ASPCA is, it's the animal shelter protection, blah, blah.
6:43
Cynthia Lopez: Oh yeah, animals, anyway, all about animals whatever it is animal hospitals, shelters, you name it, they do it, that's a cute shirt though is it a sweatshirt?
6:55
Cynthia Lopez: No, it's a long sleeve shirt.
6:57
Cynthia Lopez: It's cute.
6:58
Carmen Lezeth: I like it.
6:58
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what the emblem is.
7:00
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, the paws and the horses, it's a heart with the paws.
7:04
Cynthia Lopez: It's got the dog, the cat, the horse, a couple of animals up here.
7:09
Carmen Lezeth: That is so cool, so you donated and they sent that to you.
7:12
Carmen Lezeth: That's awesome.
7:12
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, people have been doing so much work to help all the animals that have been stranded in the fires.
7:19
Maurio Dawson: Is that?
7:19
Carmen Lezeth: why you donated.
7:20
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, oh, thank you.
7:23
Carmen Lezeth: We thank you from california me on behalf of all californians in los angeles, especially thank you.
7:30
Carmen Lezeth: That's kind of cool.
7:33
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you so much.
7:34
Carmen Lezeth: When did you do it?
7:35
Carmen Lezeth: You did it the right at the beginning of the fires.
7:36
Carmen Lezeth: I've donated a couple things.
7:39
Carmen Lezeth: I haven't gotten no fucking t-shirts.
7:41
Carmen Lezeth: I'm pissed, no, I'm just kidding like whatever.
7:46
Rick Costa: Speaking of fires and animals, I saw james wood said he was helping alissa milano because she had five horses and they were just freaking out and like wouldn't come with her.
7:55
Carmen Lezeth: So he was helping her and he helped save her horses james woods, who was confused that at first his house was demolished and now it's not.
8:03
Carmen Lezeth: Is that the same James Wood you're talking about?
8:06
Rick Costa: I think, so I think it is.
8:08
Rick Costa: He's the one that had the name of the dementia that they found in the room and like he would have.
8:14
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not a fan of James Woods on any level, but especially for politics.
8:17
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just throwing that out there.
8:18
Carmen Lezeth: But he had come on to CNN and was crying that his house had been demolished, and then it wasn't, and I'm sure the mistake could have been made.
8:28
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sure, and God, I'm so glad that it's not.
8:30
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, but I'm just saying a little painful.
8:35
Carmen Lezeth: But he helped Alyssa Milano with her horses.
8:39
Carmen Lezeth: That's good.
8:40
Carmen Lezeth: I don't care about the celebrity.
8:41
Carmen Lezeth: I do care about the celebrities, Don't get me wrong.
8:44
Carmen Lezeth: But like two people I work for lost their homes as well and I'm more concerned with the staff, and so aren't they.
8:50
Carmen Lezeth: Do you know what I mean?
8:51
Carmen Lezeth: Like they're more concerned with how do we pay our staff for at least the next three to six months?
8:55
Carmen Lezeth: How do we do it so that it doesn't interfere with any of the help that they may get, which is really interesting because people need so much help.
9:04
Carmen Lezeth: But if you're still getting income that could come.
9:07
Carmen Lezeth: It's not FEMA is not saying that or whatever, but they're trying to be very careful.
9:12
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
9:12
Carmen Lezeth: To make sure, it's just a really difficult situation.
9:15
Carmen Lezeth: So I'm sorry, Rick, I didn't mean to put that down, it's just his name is just driving me up a wall lately, because we've been hearing it too much.
9:22
Carmen Lezeth: People are really suffering and you don't need to jump on CNN to be crying if you're a celebrity to begin with.
9:28
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying don't Celebrities everybody who's a celebrity and when I say celebrity I mean you got tons of money.
9:34
Carmen Lezeth: I don't care what you've lost.
9:36
Carmen Lezeth: Don't get on fucking CNN and talk about it.
9:38
Carmen Lezeth: Just don't.
9:38
Carmen Lezeth: That's a free PR marketing favor I'm giving you.
9:42
Carmen Lezeth: Don't go on there and talk about what you've lost and cry Don't, Because your staff is probably in a lot more pain than you are.
9:50
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I'm saying.
9:52
Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to be straight up.
9:54
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my God, somebody's texting me.
9:56
Carmen Lezeth: Let's see, is it Mario?
9:58
Rick Costa: James Woods.
10:00
Carmen Lezeth: Trust me, child, not going to be James, no Woods motherfucker.
10:04
Carmen Lezeth: No, what brought to be James?
10:05
Carmen Lezeth: No Woods motherfucker?
10:06
Cynthia Lopez: No, what brought you joy?
10:07
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, what brought you joy, Rick?
10:09
Carmen Lezeth: I told you, I rented Chick-fil-A.
10:10
Carmen Lezeth: What do you mean Chick-fil-A?
10:12
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, is that where you ordered from?
10:14
Cynthia Lopez: Yeah, I didn't hear Chick-fil-A, Remember he got that thing, the credit?
10:21
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, because he got the credit, but he didn't say he ordered from Chick-fil-A.
10:24
Rick Costa: Yeah, I definitely said it, Maybe somebody.
10:25
Carmen Lezeth: I thought it was.
10:26
Carmen Lezeth: You said DoorDash, so I didn't know it was a specific restaurant.
10:29
Carmen Lezeth: I've never been to a Chick-fil-A.
10:32
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think we have them in California, do we?
10:34
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if we do, they're good and overpriced but they are good.
10:50
Carmen Lezeth: You know, you know who else is overpriced.
10:51
Carmen Lezeth: Not to be talking about fast food again, because fast food and relationship seems to be the thing we talk about.
10:53
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know.
10:54
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what that says about us, but, um, overpriced is a what's that place that I went to shake, shack shake.
10:56
Carmen Lezeth: I went in there one time I was like I'll have a double cheeseburger and fries and I'll have a shake and it was like $22.
11:05
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like stop, oh my God.
11:08
Carmen Lezeth: But it was really good, right, I didn't think it was that good.
11:11
Carmen Lezeth: I was not impressed.
11:13
Rick Costa: I mean the one here.
11:15
Rick Costa: It's all right, it's not like wow.
11:17
Carmen Lezeth: Do you like Shake Shack, Cynthia?
11:19
Carmen Lezeth: I do.
11:20
Carmen Lezeth: What do you usually get?
11:22
Carmen Lezeth: The double cheeseburger and fries?
11:25
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think it's that good.
11:26
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, do you think it's that good?
11:29
Rick Costa: Like I just said, I think it's alright.
11:31
Carmen Lezeth: Look it.
11:31
Carmen Lezeth: If they want me to try it again and they want to sponsor the show, I'm sure I can find a way.
11:37
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I can try it again, and maybe I just had a bad experience at once at Shake Shack, I have no idea.
11:45
Carmen Lezeth: But I'll tell you another place I'm not a big fan of.
11:47
Carmen Lezeth: I shouldn't be saying this because we will never be sponsored, but you know, I love California with all my heart.
11:52
Carmen Lezeth: I did a whole podcast about why I love California.
11:55
Carmen Lezeth: I think you guys listen to it, whatever.
11:56
Carmen Lezeth: Because I thought people needed to know.
11:59
Carmen Lezeth: People like to disc California and California is awesome.
12:02
Carmen Lezeth: But one of the places that I am not a fan of is In-N-Out Burger.
12:07
Carmen Lezeth: Like people get so mad at me.
12:08
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like I've never had it.
12:10
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, next time you come, we'll go to In-N-Out Burger, cause it is supposed to be like the best fast food ever and I'm just like.
12:17
Carmen Lezeth: I've been there so many times I've.
12:18
Carmen Lezeth: When places you work, they sometimes we're going to have a treat today, everyone we're going to bring in and out and I'm like, oh, I feel like I'll just have a salad thanks that place and Whataburger, I think, are like more southern I think.
12:38
Carmen Lezeth: In-N-Out is not southern In-N-Out is a California establishment.
12:42
Rick Costa: I've never had that.
12:43
Rick Costa: I did have Whataburger in Texas and again people were like, oh my gosh Did you love it?
12:48
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, you didn't, but I think you hardcore.
12:54
Rick Costa: Like you have expectations.
12:55
Rick Costa: I like me a good burger, for sure.
12:57
Rick Costa: Five Guys I like a lot.
12:58
Rick Costa: But that is so expensive.
13:00
Rick Costa: Now it's ridiculous.
13:01
Carmen Lezeth: Are they more expensive than Shake Shack?
13:04
Carmen Lezeth: Probably about the same.
13:05
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it's ridiculous.
13:06
Carmen Lezeth: Are they more expensive than Shake Shack?
13:06
Carmen Lezeth: Probably about the same.
13:07
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry, $22 for a fast food hamburger.
13:13
Rick Costa: I saw this crazy video.
13:14
Rick Costa: This girl went up to the guy at Five Guys and she's like hey, how you doing?
13:19
Rick Costa: She's like, hi, how can I help you?
13:20
Rick Costa: She goes where's the Five Guys?
13:22
Rick Costa: Huh, are they in a room in the back?
13:25
Rick Costa: Ma'am, I'm not sure what you mean.
13:27
Rick Costa: How about just you?
13:29
Rick Costa: How about you and me?
13:30
Rick Costa: We just go to the back.
13:30
Carmen Lezeth: I was like Okay, what are we talking about?
13:33
Carmen Lezeth: Why are you changing this?
13:33
Carmen Lezeth: I just thought it was crazy.
13:35
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, you're spending too much time, baby, on whatever you're watching.
13:40
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what's going on.
13:42
Rick Costa: At least I didn't say this is going to be funny.
13:44
Carmen Lezeth: I was smart, I know I'm very proud of you Because you have learned the lesson.
13:49
Carmen Lezeth: If you set it up that it's going to be funny, it's not going to be funny.
13:52
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
13:52
Cynthia Lopez: Trying to get all his TikToks in before it's gone.
13:56
Rick Costa: Oh, that's another thing that happened to me yesterday.
13:58
Rick Costa: I was broadcasting and then all of a sudden TikTok went.
14:02
Rick Costa: Where did my TikTok go?
14:05
Rick Costa: And I said violation.
14:06
Rick Costa: Blah, blah, blah.
14:07
Rick Costa: Because I said, see, I'm not going to say it here either.
14:10
Rick Costa: Now you have to talk in code.
14:13
Rick Costa: I mentioned the word of you making your life not be anymore.
14:18
Rick Costa: Do you know what?
14:19
Carmen Lezeth: I mean.
14:21
Rick Costa: Oh, you have to say unalived.
14:22
Carmen Lezeth: That's why you have to say the word unalived.
14:25
Carmen Lezeth: I was like.
14:25
Rick Costa: that's why you have to say the word unalived.
14:26
Rick Costa: You can't say times already and that never happened.
14:27
Rick Costa: But anyway, so you have to hit appeal and this and that and then like not even 10 minutes later I was back to normal again.
14:33
Rick Costa: But originally I said you can't broadcast live to the 22nd.
14:36
Rick Costa: I'm like why?
14:37
Rick Costa: But anyway, yeah, then it was fixed yeah, it's just an algorithm thing.
14:42
Carmen Lezeth: They have a code so that, like, if you say certain words, they automatically it's, you know.
14:45
Carmen Lezeth: Algorithm thing.
14:45
Carmen Lezeth: They have a code so that, like, if you say certain words, they automatically you know.
14:48
Carmen Lezeth: I'm fine with it, I'm okay with that.
14:50
Carmen Lezeth: Listen, I think they need, like, if you're going to restrict certain things, like the whole TikTok ban, I think is a huge farce.
14:58
Carmen Lezeth: I think you all know how I feel about it.
14:59
Carmen Lezeth: It's all bullshit If anything like I sneeze and somehow Google is able to tell me what Kleenex I should fucking buy and how much it costs.
15:08
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
15:09
Carmen Lezeth: Like, google and Facebook and all of these social media apps have all of our information and I think what's really kind of sad is that TikTok is being what's the word?
15:21
Carmen Lezeth: They're being targeted because they have an algorithm that is just incredible and they have a community that has not been matched on facebook or youtube or anywhere else.
15:34
Carmen Lezeth: The thing about tiktok that's pretty incredible is let me just say hi to mario.
15:39
Carmen Lezeth: Hey, mario, how you doing.
15:44
Carmen Lezeth: Let me just finish this thought about t.
15:46
Carmen Lezeth: What ends up happening is on TikTok.
15:48
Carmen Lezeth: For those of you who are not on TikTok, it's not just that it's a community.
15:53
Carmen Lezeth: It's that you really can go from.
15:57
Carmen Lezeth: You can walk down the street of TikTok and you can literally go across the street and get makeup tips, then go into some church and get the Lord's Prayer or whatever you want, and then go to another restaurant, learn how to cook and then go across the street, and it's just this awesome kind of community where people really enjoy each other.
16:17
Carmen Lezeth: Someone said on Facebook they're like oh, I can't believe people are so obsessed with the dancing app.
16:22
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like you don't know TikTok.
16:24
Carmen Lezeth: Tiktok has not been a dancing app since.
16:25
Carmen Lezeth: It'm like you don't know TikTok.
16:25
Carmen Lezeth: Tiktok has not been a dancing app since it was musically almost five, six years ago.
16:29
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
16:31
Carmen Lezeth: And so I think TikTok is being targeted by people like Mark Zuckerberg, like people who own YouTube, because they've been lobbying them for the past year, because, I'm sorry, we're a capitalist country and we don't want somebody else making more money when we can be making it right, when some big CEO, billionaire, can be making it, and so they've been lobbying for this ban for so long.
16:56
Carmen Lezeth: And so I'm a big fan of TikTok.
16:58
Carmen Lezeth: I think TikTok is incredible and before I hear all the oh, but China's going to steal.
17:02
Carmen Lezeth: I want you to go walk into your kitchen and tell me where your microwave is made.
17:09
Carmen Lezeth: I want you to go into your living room and tell me where your TV is made.
17:13
Carmen Lezeth: By the way, they make iPhones, and most Americans are the people who use iPhones.
17:20
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, like?
17:21
Carmen Lezeth: So I'm just saying the idea that TikTok is out there trying to figure out a social media app that is owned by a Singapore man, by the way.
17:31
Carmen Lezeth: Singapore and China, two different places, two different places.
17:35
Carmen Lezeth: Tim Cotton, who doesn't know the difference.
17:37
Carmen Lezeth: But okay, I think that if China wants to kind of do something to us, they're not going to go to the extent of let's find an app, a social media app, where people dance and then get them addicted and then find a way, like that's too much work, they can just put that shit in your iPhones while they're making them.
18:01
Rick Costa: But even stuff that's so-called American made parts are still coming from China for that stuff, Of course.
18:08
Carmen Lezeth: Of course.
18:08
Carmen Lezeth: So this, to me, is just a big farce.
18:11
Carmen Lezeth: It's also about this otherizing.
18:13
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I would respect I would respect Mark Zuckerberg so much more and all these mofos if they just said you know what?
18:19
Carmen Lezeth: We want our companies to be profitable, we want American companies to own this app, and that's why we're doing it.
18:26
Carmen Lezeth: I would at least have respect, but this bullshit that they're doing something, whereas again, I'm not trying to bring up this whole thing, but we all know you go look at a pair of shoes one time you could be even on your secret whatever your secret browser and looking at a pair of shoes and all of a sudden every kind of shoe comes up for the next like three months, until you motherfucking buy them, damn shoes.
18:52
Carmen Lezeth: That's google, okay, that's google.
18:57
Cynthia Lopez: that's facebook, even now, walmart I go to walmart.
19:01
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, I didn't even buy it online, I actually went into the store, purchased my items and if I go the next day to Walmartcom because I might have forgot something, all my recent purchases are already listed on there.
19:17
Carmen Lezeth: It's just a craziness.
19:18
Carmen Lezeth: So we'll see what happens.
19:20
Carmen Lezeth: Melanie said when was TikTok a dance app?
19:23
Carmen Lezeth: I've never seen any dancing happens.
19:25
Carmen Lezeth: Melanie said when was TikTok a dance app?
19:26
Carmen Lezeth: I've never seen any dancing.
19:27
Carmen Lezeth: So if you don't see any dancing because you're not, if you go into your search engine and look for dancing, you'll see it.
19:31
Carmen Lezeth: I always watch all the dancing, ballet, all of it, all the jamming, all the street, just all of it.
19:37
Carmen Lezeth: But here's the thing it used to be called Musically M-U-S-I-C dot L-Y and that's how the app started.
19:49
Carmen Lezeth: It was like a lip syncing music app where people were dancing.
19:51
Carmen Lezeth: So if you're not seeing dancing on TikTok, it's because you're not looking for it.
19:54
Carmen Lezeth: So the algorithm keeps learning from whatever you're liking and that's what you'll continuously see.
20:00
Carmen Lezeth: So like I typed into the search, into the search engine, opera, because I wanted to kind of start learning more about opera, and then the algorithm was like learning that that's what I wanted to see.
20:11
Carmen Lezeth: So now I see a lot of people talking about opera and they're not a fun bunch.
20:16
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just going to throw that out there Like I've made a mistake.
20:18
Carmen Lezeth: I got to change the algorithm.
20:20
Carmen Lezeth: They're very angry about anybody who isn't like really opera.
20:24
Carmen Lezeth: That's a whole other issue.
20:26
Carmen Lezeth: But before we go on, mario, how you doing.
20:29
Maurio Dawson: I'm doing well.
20:30
Maurio Dawson: Happy belated birthday, love.
20:33
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you so much.
20:35
Maurio Dawson: Happy belated birthday.
20:37
Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you I'm celebrating February 12th because this was not fair.
20:42
Maurio Dawson: I know, I know.
20:44
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you, Mario.
20:45
Carmen Lezeth: How are you doing?
20:46
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I know things are better here in Santa Monica, but how are you doing where you're at?
20:49
Maurio Dawson: We're good.
20:50
Maurio Dawson: Now Everything's back to normal.
20:53
Maurio Dawson: You know, you still smell a little smoke here and there.
20:58
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, ash is still falling, but all in all, we're fine.
21:01
Maurio Dawson: Look, as long as we have a roof over our head and we have our loved ones, we're good.
21:05
Maurio Dawson: And even if we don't have a roof over our head, as long as we have our loved ones, we're still good.
21:10
Maurio Dawson: So we're fine.
21:11
Maurio Dawson: Everything is good.
21:12
Maurio Dawson: You see my same old background.
21:14
Maurio Dawson: That means I'm still here.
21:16
Carmen Lezeth: You know, what's so funny too is I was telling Rick and Cynthia that I did a whole podcast just about how much I love Los Angeles, and somebody on TikTok said and I'm going to steal it for a moment we can have, you know, an earthquake under our feet, movement under our feet, we can have the fires, we can have all the smoke, we can have whatever issues you think we have in California, and I still would not live where you live.
21:42
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
21:42
Carmen Lezeth: And that was a tick tock like, because California is so beautiful and I don't mean just Los Angeles, but California in general is just so.
21:51
Carmen Lezeth: There's so many things about it and it's coming through right now.
21:55
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my God, you can see it so shining Like it's incredible, right?
22:01
Maurio Dawson: Yes, for sure, and it's the camaraderie and the the community has really come forward for all of us and it's just been wonderful.
22:12
Maurio Dawson: And, um, even when I were in the grocery store this after this evening trying to pick up some dinner and the poor lady in front of us she her house.
22:21
Maurio Dawson: She lost her house so she was just shaken up but people were still saying, oh, we got you, it's all good.
22:28
Maurio Dawson: And people were still giving love and support.
22:30
Maurio Dawson: Strangers were just being supportive.
22:32
Maurio Dawson: So LA, not just LA California is amazing and we get all four seasons, depending on where you go.
22:39
Maurio Dawson: So you can go up north, you can get snow, you can get brown leaves and orange leaves if you want, you get the beautiful green stuff, you get the ocean.
22:50
Carmen Lezeth: Look lay off my california, because you know that's I guess people are always hating on california and you know and I I know we don't usually talk about politics here, but even the kind of adolescent conversation donald trump calling governor newsome, governor, new scum like just such the the kind of weird belittling of our governor, who is doing an amazing job yes and all of the lies that are just being through.
23:20
Carmen Lezeth: I watched the fox news.
23:22
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what I was.
23:23
Carmen Lezeth: It was my birthday.
23:25
Carmen Lezeth: I was pissed and I was like let me, just let me see what's going on in fox news, because I know they got love, I know they gonna be your bad two hours.
23:34
Carmen Lezeth: I forced myself to watch fox news for two hours and I'm telling you it was lie after lie after lie, people, people.
23:46
Carmen Lezeth: Fox news is not your friend and, and here's the thing, I, when I get political whatever and I know a lot of people watch fox news, but I'm just, I'm here, I live here, I work in the palisades of malibu.
24:00
Carmen Lezeth: I know this part of town.
24:02
Carmen Lezeth: I see people here.
24:05
Carmen Lezeth: I saw firemen, fire persons, like it's just a weird thing to to see what's going on and then turn to your news and be like what?
24:16
Carmen Lezeth: right right so just be careful.
24:21
Carmen Lezeth: There's so many lies.
24:22
Carmen Lezeth: Nobody, nobody made fire trucks stop to get somewhere at environmental tag before they could help us with the fire bullshit.
24:32
Carmen Lezeth: You know like that was a lie.
24:34
Carmen Lezeth: There was plenty of water.
24:36
Carmen Lezeth: This idea that there was no water in the pumps and that what happened is somehow gavin newsom was stopping it to preserve some fucking fish again.
24:46
Carmen Lezeth: You know what's so funny.
24:48
Carmen Lezeth: I don't even need to defend it.
24:49
Carmen Lezeth: It's so absurd.
24:51
Carmen Lezeth: You have to be a person who lives in a place of such negativity to believe such absurdity.
25:01
Carmen Lezeth: What actually happened is the amount of water just to dumb it down for the dumbasses, the amount of water that was being used by all the firemen during this whole ridiculousness had made it hard for the pumping service to then regenerate that water back into that pumping cycle.
25:22
Carmen Lezeth: So it wasn't like there was plenty of water.
25:26
Carmen Lezeth: Plenty of water, by the way.
25:28
Carmen Lezeth: We have the fucking ocean.
25:29
Carmen Lezeth: What is wrong with you people?
25:33
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying the lies.
25:36
Carmen Lezeth: Look at before it was about politics Republican, democrat but I'm just saying the lies during this fire.
25:42
Carmen Lezeth: If you cannot figure out that Fox news is full of fucking shit, I don't know what to tell you.
25:48
Carmen Lezeth: We can fight about politics if you want.
25:51
Carmen Lezeth: But this for me, I was like mind blown.
25:55
Carmen Lezeth: Go ahead, mari.
25:55
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry.
25:57
Maurio Dawson: No, listen, I'm going to veer off from the television.
26:00
Maurio Dawson: Well, I am going to stay on television, but I got to call out the Kardashians for the lies they were spewing, the foolishness and dumb effery of it all.
26:13
Carmen Lezeth: Dumb fuckery, I'll say a dumb fuckery for you.
26:15
Maurio Dawson: Of them all and they were the biggest wasters of water.
26:21
Maurio Dawson: And guess who called them out?
26:23
Maurio Dawson: Rolling Stone.
26:25
Maurio Dawson: There's an article out Rolling Stone, there's an article there.
26:31
Maurio Dawson: They were like Kardashians.
26:32
Maurio Dawson: You might want to slow your roll and put your put it on mute.
26:34
Maurio Dawson: Just go sit down and mind your business.
26:36
Maurio Dawson: And then it was hilarious because Yvette Nicole Brown reposted it and she said are you joking?
26:45
Maurio Dawson: Do you have the audacity to open your mouth and speak on something you have absolutely no clue what you're talking about and you're the most wasteful of them all so please, the kardashians education, I'm sorry.
27:01
Carmen Lezeth: What is their expertise?
27:03
Maurio Dawson: I don't know, um, their father attorney, but that's a I you know.
27:09
Maurio Dawson: Do they live in LA?
27:10
Maurio Dawson: They live in Calabasas, which is not, it's, it's, they're, they're.
27:16
Maurio Dawson: They have nothing to do with the Palisades fires whatsoever.
27:19
Maurio Dawson: But they were speaking on something.
27:21
Maurio Dawson: They had no clue what they're talking about.
27:23
Maurio Dawson: They were closer to the Kenneth fire.
27:26
Maurio Dawson: They were closer to the kenneth fire, so they were, you know, they were worried about their little stuff, but they weren't even in in proximity to the fire.
27:35
Maurio Dawson: So please, don't speak on something you don't know what you're talking about.
27:40
Maurio Dawson: Have several seats and mind your business, so are they?
27:45
Rick Costa: trying to act like I'm sorry.
27:46
Maurio Dawson: Were they trying to act like victims?
27:47
Maurio Dawson: No, they were trying to they.
27:49
Rick Costa: They trying to act like victims.
27:50
Maurio Dawson: I'm sorry.
27:51
Maurio Dawson: Were they trying to act like victims?
27:52
Maurio Dawson: No, they were trying to act like victims, but they were more or less trying to call out politics, call out Karen Bass and call out the governor.
27:57
Maurio Dawson: They had some horse in the race when you absolutely had no horse in that race.
28:02
Maurio Dawson: So be quiet, just sit down.
28:06
Maurio Dawson: As Beyonce would say, look around, everybody's on mute.
28:13
Carmen Lezeth: Clearly not.
28:13
Carmen Lezeth: Look, here's the thing who you are is really tested in these moments, right, who we are as individuals is not tested when things are fine.
28:22
Carmen Lezeth: It is not tested when things are okay.
28:24
Carmen Lezeth: It's really easy to be a good motherfucking person when things are all right.
28:27
Carmen Lezeth: But who are you in an emergency and how do you use the power that you do have?
28:32
Carmen Lezeth: Because here's the problem kardashians, who, again, I am grateful to say I wouldn't know if one was standing in front of me because I don't know who these motherfuckers look like.
28:40
Carmen Lezeth: I really don't.
28:41
Carmen Lezeth: I feel so grateful that I've never seen shit that they've ever done.
28:44
Carmen Lezeth: I know right, I feel so lucky.
28:48
Carmen Lezeth: But here's the problem you can't use your power, no matter what your power is, in that negative way.
28:54
Carmen Lezeth: You cannot.
28:55
Carmen Lezeth: That is a lot of power, and when you do that, you feed the bullshittery that just scares people.
29:02
Maurio Dawson: And I don't see anything where they're writing a check like other people.
29:06
Maurio Dawson: Are Chris Hemsworth $25 million?
29:08
Maurio Dawson: Are Chris Hemsworth $25?
29:09
Carmen Lezeth: million?
29:09
Carmen Lezeth: What?
29:09
Carmen Lezeth: Chris Hemsworth, who no longer lives here by the way, he does not live in Malibu anymore.
29:19
Maurio Dawson: Whoopi Goldberg, who lost her house, gave $10 million.
29:22
Maurio Dawson: So come on now.
29:22
Maurio Dawson: If you're going to talk on it, if you're going to be about it, be about it.
29:32
Carmen Lezeth: You know Well, I think, that they're just using this time to promote themselves right because now we're talking about them.
29:34
Carmen Lezeth: They're stupid people moving on.
29:35
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what they do.
29:36
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what they do.
29:37
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know why they're famous because, like you said, their father was a lawyer for the oj simpson okay, let's, let's back it up.
29:43
Maurio Dawson: Her mother capitalized on her porn tape with Ray-Ban.
29:48
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, we're going to bring it up.
29:50
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, but that's where this?
29:52
Maurio Dawson: all came from, if you really want to know where it all came from, no, I don't want to know.
29:55
Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
29:56
Carmen Lezeth: La, la, la, la la.
29:59
Maurio Dawson: Come on, cynthia, you know.
30:03
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying, but I'm just saying, I'm not saying you don't have to talk.
30:15
Carmen Lezeth: I'm saying they are at fault for whatever.
30:16
Carmen Lezeth: I know their names and I know that when they speak, especially kids listen or whatever.
30:19
Carmen Lezeth: They do stuff that has to do with younger people or whatever makeup or whatever, and so that bothers me, right, and the fact that they have been in.
30:24
Carmen Lezeth: And you know I have no problem with Botox and women doing what they got to do to make themselves feel as beautiful as they want.
30:30
Carmen Lezeth: What I do have a problem with is people pretending that they look the way they look without doing all the crap that I know these bitches have done.
30:37
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, so I don't like I know I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
30:42
Carmen Lezeth: My goddaughter once told me she was like oh, I just wish I looked, no, stop.
30:48
Carmen Lezeth: I.
30:48
Carmen Lezeth: My goddaughter once told me she was like oh, I just wish I looked, no, stop, I was like we're not having that conversation, we're not having that because that that's not how they look no I already know that's not how they actually look.
30:57
Carmen Lezeth: No, not at all?
30:58
Rick Costa: not at all I was born this way.
31:01
Rick Costa: No, the doctor made you look that way, right exactly let's go back to their childhood pictures.
31:08
Cynthia Lopez: They look a lot different.
31:09
Maurio Dawson: That part, especially Kylie, who was the richest and promoting cosmetics.
31:16
Maurio Dawson: It looked nothing like she did when she was a kid.
31:21
Cynthia Lopez: She had no lips as a kid.
31:23
Maurio Dawson: But you're making billions of dollars on lipstick and plumpers.
31:31
Carmen Lezeth: Right, Right, let's move on to our next subject.
31:35
Carmen Lezeth: Let's move on.
31:36
Carmen Lezeth: It's not even our next subject.
31:38
Carmen Lezeth: I just wanted to.
31:39
Carmen Lezeth: I have one announcement to make because I think it's important for anyone who may be listening.
31:43
Carmen Lezeth: I know we're not sponsored by AARP, but I do want to point out not yet anyway but I do want to point out an article that I read in there today.
31:57
Carmen Lezeth: So, if anyone is interested, if you have any need for tax services, if you go onto the AARP site and you put in your zip code, they will send you sites of places where you can get tax information, tax help, for free.
32:13
Carmen Lezeth: I was shook about it.
32:15
Carmen Lezeth: You know how expensive it is to get your taxes done, yes, very.
32:19
Carmen Lezeth: So I thought that was worth promoting, even though they don't sponsor us yet.
32:24
Carmen Lezeth: But I'm just saying I think that is another reason why you should have a subscription.
32:29
Carmen Lezeth: There's a lot of stuff on AARP, and that one is a great one.
32:33
Maurio Dawson: I have mine.
32:35
Carmen Lezeth: I have mine.
32:35
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia, you got yours.
32:37
Carmen Lezeth: I think Cynthia's the only one who got one.
32:40
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, you don't have AARP.
32:42
Rick Costa: I mean, yeah, I'm signed up with them, yeah.
32:45
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, that's right, because you have the.
32:46
Carmen Lezeth: You, I'm signed up with them.
32:47
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I got the app.
32:48
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, that's right, cause you have the.
32:49
Rick Costa: You watch their sex information.
32:50
Rick Costa: Oh stop.
32:53
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my God, right, you have tagged.
32:59
Rick Costa: Learning is fundamental.
33:00
Rick Costa: You don't say talk about the Kardashians.
33:04
Cynthia Lopez: Sorry, that's kind of funny.
33:05
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, I'm sorry.
33:06
Carmen Lezeth: Maybe that was me, but I'm sorry, that's kind of funny.
33:08
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, I'm sorry, maybe that was mean but I'm just saying cause you saw that article that none of us saw.
33:15
Cynthia Lopez: We went from Kardashians having sex at young age to old people having sex.
33:17
Cynthia Lopez: It was so funny.
33:20
Carmen Lezeth: It was so great because, remember I was like I don't understand what's wrong with kind of forced him to have to talk about the.
33:26
Carmen Lezeth: He didn't want to see elder people having what was it like masturbation, sorry rick.
33:36
Carmen Lezeth: Look at rick.
33:37
Carmen Lezeth: This is rick.
33:38
Cynthia Lopez: Pissed everyone hi brian, how are you?
33:47
Carmen Lezeth: rick, I am so sorry.
33:51
Maurio Dawson: Put him on first three why don't?
33:53
Carmen Lezeth: you.
33:54
Cynthia Lopez: I'm sorry.
33:54
Rick Costa: It's all content.
33:56
Rick Costa: It's fine.
33:56
Carmen Lezeth: It's all content.
33:57
Carmen Lezeth: I don't want it to be at your expense, but that was kind of funny.
34:00
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, do you guys?
34:05
Carmen Lezeth: I know Mario might have some input, but I want to hear from the other two first and then we'll hear Mario.
34:09
Carmen Lezeth: Do you guys have any thoughts about the award ceremonies?
34:13
Carmen Lezeth: Just so you know, we just got all of our SAG information regarding watching all of the movies so that we can start.
34:19
Carmen Lezeth: They've already been nominated and we have to start watching and they're going to have the award ceremony, I think in February or something I forget, but the Oscars are going to go on.
34:31
Carmen Lezeth: I wanted to know if you guys had any thoughts on it, regarding it being shown or not being shown.
34:36
Cynthia Lopez: Rick cynthia um, no, I think I think that's a good idea.
34:40
Cynthia Lopez: It kind of keeps people's mind away from the disaster and stuff, and you can see something good on tv.
34:46
Cynthia Lopez: Um, I do think, though, instead of them having the swag bags or anything like that, they definitely should donate money.
34:53
Cynthia Lopez: I don't know if they are or not, but don't donate that money to the, to the cause.
34:57
Carmen Lezeth: So yeah, it's going to be a fundraiser, all of them.
35:00
Carmen Lezeth: I think I'm going to be fundraised some sort.
35:03
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, there are going to be fundraisers this year.
35:05
Maurio Dawson: There are going to be fundraisers this year.
35:07
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, Rick thoughts.
35:09
Rick Costa: Yeah, I was like go ahead and do it and use it as a platform to help all the stuff going on now.
35:14
Rick Costa: Why not?
35:16
Carmen Lezeth: I think the controversy was when the fires were beginning, because they're still burning, so I don't want to pretend that they're done, but there was this kind of idea not to have them whatever.
35:28
Carmen Lezeth: And I was saying I was agreeing, and then I was like you know what, though, if I was nominated, we'd be on the rubble of your house having that ceremony because I would be accepting my award and making my motherfucking speech.
35:39
Carmen Lezeth: I worked so hard for it.
35:40
Cynthia Lopez: When when, when.
35:42
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, considering I haven't been in a movie in a very long time, but yes, when it happens, all About the Joy is going to be nominated.
35:49
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, are we going to be nominated?
35:53
Carmen Lezeth: for an Emmy for TV, because that's what we would eventually, but we can do it.
35:57
Maurio Dawson: We can get a Webby now we can get a Webby now thank God, who's the head of my life?
36:03
Maurio Dawson: I'm just kidding we can get a Webby right now.
36:08
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know about a Webby, but okay, what we need is people to like the show.
36:13
Carmen Lezeth: So if you're watching right now on YouTube, there's some of you watching.
36:16
Carmen Lezeth: Please do thumbs up.
36:18
Carmen Lezeth: We appreciate it so much.
36:20
Carmen Lezeth: We need more kind of active people participating in the liking.
36:24
Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you we have have a loyal, loyal watcher and follower.
36:31
Carmen Lezeth: Even when I do my single podcast, I get a thumbs down.
36:36
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like this person is following, like um I love them.
36:40
Cynthia Lopez: Thank you for your support.
36:43
Carmen Lezeth: It's all good because it it helps to show because everyone's like liking, liking, liking.
36:48
Carmen Lezeth: Then there's always one not liking.
36:49
Carmen Lezeth: So it's good because it makes it look like you know you got to have diversity in what people like and don't like.
36:56
Carmen Lezeth: You have to you know what I mean.
36:58
Cynthia Lopez: And what they're doing.
36:58
Cynthia Lopez: They're basically making people intrigued, like why don't this?
37:01
Cynthia Lopez: How come this person doesn't like it?
37:03
Cynthia Lopez: Let me watch the video and see.
37:04
Cynthia Lopez: Let me watch the video and see.
37:05
Carmen Lezeth: Makes me happy.
37:06
Carmen Lezeth: It's okay.
37:07
Carmen Lezeth: I just like the loyalty.
37:08
Carmen Lezeth: I love it.
37:09
Carmen Lezeth: You're loyal haters.
37:12
Carmen Lezeth: Hey, you got to have some haters because then you're doing it right.
37:15
Carmen Lezeth: That's what my person told me.
37:17
Carmen Lezeth: They were like if you have haters, you're doing something right.
37:20
Carmen Lezeth: Let your haters be your motivators.
37:24
Carmen Lezeth: Ooh, Let your haters be your motivators.
37:26
Carmen Lezeth: Did you come up with that on your own?
37:28
Maurio Dawson: No, I got that from somebody else, but it's still good.
37:30
Maurio Dawson: Let your haters be your motivators.
37:33
Maurio Dawson: I got that years ago.
37:36
Carmen Lezeth: Was that almost close.
37:37
Carmen Lezeth: Look at Mario's like.
37:40
Maurio Dawson: How's Chris Gale doing?
37:41
Maurio Dawson: I haven't you know what.
37:45
Carmen Lezeth: He works all the time.
37:47
Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
37:48
Carmen Lezeth: Working all the time he's always on TikTok.
37:52
Carmen Lezeth: Is it better now or no?
38:00
Carmen Lezeth: We need you to talk more.
38:01
Maurio Dawson: Oh, sing a song, give us an A and B selection for the church.
38:07
Cynthia Lopez: No, it's the same, my voice is not great.
38:10
Carmen Lezeth: What do you mean?
38:10
Carmen Lezeth: Your voice is not great, not so silly.
38:13
Carmen Lezeth: No, okay, what else you guys want to talk about?
38:17
Carmen Lezeth: What else is going on in life, what you guys got coming up, what you guys buy me for my birthday?
38:21
Carmen Lezeth: That's really what I want to know.
38:23
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, because I had a birthday on sunday.
38:26
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't see no gifts.
38:27
Carmen Lezeth: I understood, understood fires.
38:28
Carmen Lezeth: Maybe the mail didn't come, or whatever.
38:30
Maurio Dawson: This stripper man is on his way.
38:34
Carmen Lezeth: A stripper, man A stripper man.
38:36
Carmen Lezeth: His name is DeMar too, oh my God, do you guys think I'm like hard up or something?
38:44
Carmen Lezeth: Is that what it is?
38:45
Maurio Dawson: Not at all.
38:46
Maurio Dawson: I think you just enjoy it.
38:48
Maurio Dawson: That's all.
38:48
Maurio Dawson: A little trickle of dance, a little money in his pants.
38:55
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my Lord.
38:56
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, we're going to change the subject Clearly, lord, what is one gift you would want if somebody were to buy it for you?
39:05
Carmen Lezeth: Something that you can't afford, or you can't afford, but you don't think it's worth buying?
39:10
Carmen Lezeth: What would you want?
39:11
Maurio Dawson: A new television Really?
39:14
Maurio Dawson: Yes, I need one desperately.
39:17
Maurio Dawson: Why?
39:19
Maurio Dawson: Because the television I have, well, it's.
39:22
Maurio Dawson: When it comes on, you know how.
39:24
Maurio Dawson: Only half the screen comes on until it warms up.
39:26
Maurio Dawson: It's that old, oh no, it's time.
39:29
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, it's time.
39:29
Maurio Dawson: So, like I have to wait like six minutes for the TV to warm up, for the whole screen to come on, and yeah, I need it.
39:35
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
39:36
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, I need it.
39:37
Carmen Lezeth: Was I not having that issue for like eight months?
39:40
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia and Rick were like annoyed with me because I, because I would not buy a new.
39:45
Cynthia Lopez: TV you could turn it off go cook something, come back.
39:48
Cynthia Lopez: It still wasn't on.
39:50
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah exactly, it's time, it's time, yes, lord.
39:55
Rick Costa: I couldn't believe it.
39:56
Rick Costa: 55-inch TV for free.
39:59
Rick Costa: Wait a minute, hold up.
40:00
Rick Costa: How is it for free?
40:01
Maurio Dawson: Wait what?
40:02
Rick Costa: So it's a 55-inch TV and then there's a sound strip right under that and then there's another strip of TV and they show commercials on there, and that's where you can control the TV, and I think I guess the idea is they make money off of the commercials.
40:22
Carmen Lezeth: 55 inch for free, that's not really for free, though you, you, you messing with the free thing.
40:25
Maurio Dawson: That's not free you have to watch commercials all the time?
40:35
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, but you can just ignore it.
40:36
Carmen Lezeth: You watch the no, no no, look at him like no, I get you though, but see I, I mean, I love that line that you say.
40:41
Carmen Lezeth: You say it a lot.
40:41
Carmen Lezeth: If it's free, I love that, but the thing is, people, most things there's nothing that's ever For free.
40:50
Carmen Lezeth: If you're not paying for it, you're the commodity.
40:52
Carmen Lezeth: So y'all on Facebook putting all your personal Crap and shit.
40:56
Carmen Lezeth: Facebook is taking all that information.
40:59
Carmen Lezeth: Melanie just said it must be older than my TV.
41:04
Maurio Dawson: Oh, mario's, it's kind of old.
41:07
Maurio Dawson: I think I got this TV.
41:09
Carmen Lezeth: It's probably about 10 and 12 years old, probably about 12, oh no time to move on yeah, they don't make tv the way they used to, so it's telephone yeah, and joy just said I could do that one, she could do the commercial one.
41:23
Carmen Lezeth: She said she could do it, she could do it, she could do it Actually right now.
41:28
Maurio Dawson: Best Buy has a 65-inch for like $300.
41:32
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, I'm talking to Sam's Club too, so I think I'm going to break down and do it, but I have to do it after I go on my trips.
41:41
Maurio Dawson: See, I'm always doing trips and music, so that's always getting pushed back to the back burner.
41:48
Cynthia Lopez: Melanie, is it analog?
41:51
Maurio Dawson: No, it's not analog.
41:54
Carmen Lezeth: No, melanie, I had the same problem with my TV and I wouldn't buy one.
41:58
Carmen Lezeth: It was, like I don't know, for like six months a year.
42:00
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sure I talked about it on, so many episodes I remember Right Because Cynthia was like buy a new one, Just buy a new one.
42:06
Carmen Lezeth: It's hard to buy a new TV, though, because there's so many options.
42:13
Carmen Lezeth: It's such a big deal yeah.
42:17
Maurio Dawson: I definitely want a larger screen, but I don't want to pay $1,200 for a TV.
42:22
Maurio Dawson: It's crazy, it's too much.
42:26
Maurio Dawson: But my mother got a great deal, so I'm just going to follow her lead and go that route.
42:31
Maurio Dawson: But again I got to wait until I come back from my trips.
42:34
Carmen Lezeth: What did Rick say?
42:36
Rick Costa: You didn't want to upgrade your TV, you didn't want to upgrade your cell phone and you didn't want to upgrade your TV.
42:41
Rick Costa: What's up with all about the Joy-N-Dog?
42:42
Rick Costa: No.
42:43
Carmen Lezeth: OK, wait stop.
42:48
Maurio Dawson: Mario.
42:48
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, wait, stop Mario.
42:49
Maurio Dawson: Mario don't do it, mario don't do it.
42:50
Cynthia Lopez: No, no it comes from me.
42:51
Maurio Dawson: Unless I stand for you, okay, no.
42:53
Maurio Dawson: Mario, I'm on your side.
42:55
Carmen Lezeth: It is not the same thing.
42:56
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia has had the same phone since 1957.
43:00
Maurio Dawson: Right.
43:00
Carmen Lezeth: That is the same thing, not the same thing.
43:03
Cynthia Lopez: And I got a tablet now and I do upgrade my phones.
43:06
Maurio Dawson: I definitely upgrade my phones.
43:08
Maurio Dawson: I definitely upgrade my phones.
43:10
Carmen Lezeth: And a TV is a little bit different, but no, look, I've said it before.
43:14
Carmen Lezeth: I think there are just things that I have more, that I think are more priority and, like Mario just said, he's going to go on his trips and then he don't think about it and I get it yeah.
43:22
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, Melanie's TV was free, but you said it's really old.
43:26
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, Melanie's TV was free, but you said it's really old.
43:28
Maurio Dawson: You said it was really old, it might have been as old as you.
43:30
Maurio Dawson: Maybe hers is analog, maybe hers is analog.
43:37
Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
43:37
Carmen Lezeth: I know this is very old-fashioned what I'm going to say.
43:41
Carmen Lezeth: I know there are moments where I catch myself.
43:44
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like, oh my God, I'm so old.
43:45
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
43:46
Carmen Lezeth: I catch myself all the time now.
43:48
Carmen Lezeth: But they really don't make TVs or equipment or things the way they used to.
43:52
Carmen Lezeth: They really don't last as long Like you cannot have a computer for six years.
43:57
Cynthia Lopez: No, no, it's like every computer you know.
44:00
Carmen Lezeth: a TV is the same thing and it's so plasticky and cheapy you know?
44:04
Maurio Dawson: And what annoyed me now with the laptops?
44:06
Maurio Dawson: We got a laptop during COVID for free, because the kids needed new laptops and stuff.
44:14
Maurio Dawson: So it said your warranty is up, so you might want to get a new computer because you can't find these parts anymore.
44:22
Maurio Dawson: That's what the computer told me.
44:23
Maurio Dawson: Are you serious?
44:26
Maurio Dawson: Right now Right.
44:26
Maurio Dawson: No, that, right now Right.
44:29
Cynthia Lopez: No, that's a smart computer.
44:31
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, the computer said you need to replace me.
44:34
Maurio Dawson: I don't want you, no more.
44:37
Carmen Lezeth: Brian said I upgraded all of my lights on my truck from regular lights to LED.
44:42
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, melanie said my TV works fine and it's a flat screen.
44:47
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, excuse me, pardon me I just you know what, rick.
44:53
Carmen Lezeth: I think it's interesting.
44:54
Carmen Lezeth: I, you know, I love that.
44:56
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia taught me something.
44:58
Carmen Lezeth: She said that I'm a minimalist.
44:59
Carmen Lezeth: I do agree with that, but it's not even that I'm a.
45:02
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, that is true, but the other part of it is like I don't spend money on things I don't think are that important to me.
45:07
Carmen Lezeth: I love my tv, but I can also spend money.
45:10
Carmen Lezeth: No, but no, no, no, no, no, cynthia, your phone is important and it's probably hacked and you have no idea.
45:18
Carmen Lezeth: No, if you have your phone with you every day, don't you?
45:22
Carmen Lezeth: Every day, you carry your phone?
45:23
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, no, not the same thing.
45:30
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia keeps trying to find ways to justify having a phone.
45:34
Carmen Lezeth: That is.
45:34
Carmen Lezeth: How old is it for real?
45:36
Carmen Lezeth: Like 2003?
45:39
Rick Costa: You got Moses in here, don't you?
45:44
Carmen Lezeth: Um, Georgia said that's what they told us about our heat pump.
45:49
Carmen Lezeth: That's only seven years old.
45:51
Carmen Lezeth: What's a heat pump?
45:52
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what that is the water tank maybe maybe.
45:55
Maurio Dawson: So yeah, no, I'm saying we have.
45:58
Maurio Dawson: My mother has one of those uh pumps.
46:03
Maurio Dawson: It's a.
46:03
Maurio Dawson: It's an electric.
46:04
Maurio Dawson: It's not an electric water heater, but it's one of those water heaters.
46:07
Maurio Dawson: It only heats up the water and it runs through the house and it's efficient and there's no actual tank.
46:13
Maurio Dawson: It's a waterless.
46:14
Maurio Dawson: There it is.
46:15
Maurio Dawson: It's a tankless water heater, yes, and so it actually.
46:19
Maurio Dawson: It's electrical and it heats the water up through this little confined machine and the water gets hot.
46:25
Maurio Dawson: The only drawback it takes like two minutes for the water to get hot.
46:29
Maurio Dawson: But she saved a lot of money on gas as far as having a tankless water heater, that's what it's called all of it went over my head I totally get it.
46:38
Carmen Lezeth: I, I owned a condo five years and I really had no idea what was going on at all because I was never there, so but I think that would be where I'd have a tankless water heater thing.
46:51
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, for sure.
46:52
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, right.
46:53
Carmen Lezeth: Uh, joy said um, oh.
46:55
Carmen Lezeth: Brian said you love your first seat and eight hundred dollars a night hotels what?
47:01
Maurio Dawson: he's saying you like this.
47:02
Maurio Dawson: He says you're bougie, but you won't spend the money on the TV.
47:05
Maurio Dawson: That's what you can do?
47:07
Carmen Lezeth: I forgot him and Tony with the bougie Melanie said I still use an iPhone 8 Plus.
47:13
Carmen Lezeth: I don't even know what that is, because I don't have an iPhone.
47:15
Carmen Lezeth: Is the iPhone 8 an old one?
47:18
Maurio Dawson: I have no idea.
47:18
Carmen Lezeth: Nobody here is an iPhone user.
47:22
Maurio Dawson: I have no clue, sorry.
47:24
Cynthia Lopez: I think, they're at iPhone like 20 something, I don't know.
47:29
Maurio Dawson: Oh, that's why, yeah, maybe so, or 17.
47:32
Maurio Dawson: I don't know, I don't use them Because iPhones use Samsung products anyway, so it's okay.
47:39
Carmen Lezeth: We're going to get into the iPhone.
47:40
Carmen Lezeth: Actually, there's nobody here who uses an iPhone, just like most of the country, the world, 70% of the world uses Android-based phones, not iPhones.
47:51
Carmen Lezeth: Only the United States is obsessed with iPhones, and yet we're worried about TikTok.
47:57
Carmen Lezeth: I just want to throw that out there Again.
48:01
Carmen Lezeth: Worried about TikTok?
48:02
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so they all have the latest.
48:05
Carmen Lezeth: So all the people in the chat are iphone people.
48:08
Carmen Lezeth: I guess we we forgive you it's okay, oh my god, we are bad.
48:20
Carmen Lezeth: You know what, though?
48:20
Carmen Lezeth: Iphone people are crazy.
48:23
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry, like it's the worst argument, like worse than Republican and Democrat get into a fight with people about iPhone versus Android.
48:31
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, it's crazy.
48:33
Carmen Lezeth: And Android.
48:34
Carmen Lezeth: People are not in the fight.
48:37
Cynthia Lopez: No, not at all.
48:38
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, okay, cool.
48:41
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, it was like you have a green bubble.
48:44
Rick Costa: Okay, okay.
48:45
Rick Costa: I don't know what that means, but they say that all the time you have a green bubble, okay.
48:47
Cynthia Lopez: Okay, I don't know what that means, but they say that all the time?
48:50
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, like, do you have a green bubble?
48:51
Maurio Dawson: Okay, did you get the message?
48:53
Rick Costa: That's right Alma.
48:55
Rick Costa: Alma knows something Hi.
48:58
Carmen Lezeth: Alma Melanie's going to come back to Samsung.
49:01
Maurio Dawson: Yes, come back queen, come on home.
49:04
Carmen Lezeth: Come back to the other side, where we're not crazy.
49:07
Carmen Lezeth: We don't need to buy a phone every six months.
49:09
Carmen Lezeth: Hey Ash, how are you?
49:11
Carmen Lezeth: That's so funny.
49:14
Rick Costa: I'm not direct, I'm just saying.
49:17
Carmen Lezeth: What.
49:19
Rick Costa: I almost said Android rules.
49:20
Rick Costa: They do Android rules.
49:24
Maurio Dawson: Android's rule and iPhone's drool.
49:29
Carmen Lezeth: See, I don't say that I actually think it's like Coke and Pepsi.
49:32
Carmen Lezeth: I just don't see the big drama over it.
49:34
Carmen Lezeth: You know like people get so obsessed about it.
49:36
Carmen Lezeth: Brian said ever since I crossed over from Android to iPhone, I never looked back.
49:42
Maurio Dawson: Oh, bless your heart.
49:48
Rick Costa: If you're happy, I'm happy it's not even me, brian.
49:57
Cynthia Lopez: I'm sorry I'm feeling a little petty tonight petty luia melanie said, my tablet is an android.
50:06
Carmen Lezeth: I will use whatever costs less Amen.
50:08
Maurio Dawson: That's it.
50:09
Carmen Lezeth: Right, amen.
50:10
Carmen Lezeth: Ash said I have always had Android but was gifted an iPhone years ago.
50:15
Carmen Lezeth: Ooh, that's not a good friend.
50:18
Cynthia Lopez: And I'll wear it out to a phone.
50:19
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
50:22
Carmen Lezeth: No, so at work, all three of my clients, uh, they all use macs, you know they all use apple products or whatever.
50:33
Carmen Lezeth: And if you know anything about doing anything to do with money, you always want to use a um windows, because windows always have the latest software for like things like quickbooks or whatever.
50:42
Carmen Lezeth: So it's always this weird fight that people get all incensed that I break out my laptop.
50:47
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
50:48
Carmen Lezeth: Like the shock I'm like bring it down a notch.
50:53
Carmen Lezeth: It's a fucking computer.
50:54
Carmen Lezeth: Alma said there is no competition.
50:58
Carmen Lezeth: Coke rules.
50:59
Carmen Lezeth: I like Pepsi.
51:01
Carmen Lezeth: East Coast people tend to like Pepsi.
51:04
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know about Rick, but I'm a Pepsi person.
51:08
Rick Costa: I mean, I like both, but I lean to Coke a little bit more.
51:12
Carmen Lezeth: It don't even matter.
51:13
Carmen Lezeth: Honestly, when I go to a restaurant and I'm like can I have a Pepsi please?
51:18
Carmen Lezeth: They're not like oh, we only have Coke.
51:19
Carmen Lezeth: And I'm like, oh, I have to leave.
51:21
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like, oh, okay, it's fine.
51:24
Carmen Lezeth: And usually you say can I?
51:31
Maurio Dawson: have a coke and they'll say, we only have pepsi or something you're like.
51:34
Maurio Dawson: Okay, no, my wife is, she's a, she's a coke.
51:36
Maurio Dawson: Uh, fan um.
51:39
Maurio Dawson: And there's a specific coke that she loves and cynthia coburn relate, because it's at disney.
51:44
Maurio Dawson: The Disney Coke is better, I know, but the Disney Coke is stronger and it's better and you can't find it anywhere else.
51:54
Maurio Dawson: It doesn't have the same flavor.
51:55
Maurio Dawson: Disney Coke At Disney.
51:57
Maurio Dawson: Yes, disney Coke and Mexican Coke.
52:00
Maurio Dawson: The Mexican Coke I hate that they call it, that I'm going to tell you right now that's what they call it, because it comes out of the bottle and it comes out of Mexico.
52:10
Carmen Lezeth: But let's be clear what that actually means.
52:12
Carmen Lezeth: Let's be clear what that actually means.
52:13
Carmen Lezeth: The reason why they call it Mexican Coke is because in Mexico they still do it the old school way, which is glass bottles and real sugar.
52:22
Maurio Dawson: Yes, that's right.
52:23
Carmen Lezeth: I just hate they call it Mexican Coke, because that should be just Coke, you know what I mean.
52:31
Maurio Dawson: Because American Coke changed the recipe so it's not the same.
52:33
Maurio Dawson: So that's why they have to define it by Mexican Coke.
52:37
Carmen Lezeth: And it's also like $5 more.
52:39
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, for sure.
52:41
Maurio Dawson: Or if you go over to Europe, it's better over there too, for sure, but it's hard to find over there.
52:47
Maurio Dawson: Just like their Fanta, they have an orange Fanta over there that you can't get here, that has actual orange fruit.
52:56
Carmen Lezeth: What do you love about our country?
52:58
Carmen Lezeth: Let's talk about what we love about our country.
53:00
Carmen Lezeth: Come on now.
53:06
Carmen Lezeth: I meant that to be like a good thing.
53:11
Carmen Lezeth: You guys are quiet, rah, rah, usa.
53:16
Carmen Lezeth: Come on.
53:18
Carmen Lezeth: I love california, if I ask you to talk about california.
53:22
Maurio Dawson: California is great.
53:22
Maurio Dawson: California is amazing the sun, the sea, the sky, the trees.
53:29
Carmen Lezeth: I still have faith in the United States.
53:31
Carmen Lezeth: I do a little bit I do.
53:34
Carmen Lezeth: I have faith in us.
53:35
Carmen Lezeth: And Monday it's Martin Luther King Jr's birthday.
53:39
Carmen Lezeth: Right, we're celebrating Martin Luther.
53:41
Carmen Lezeth: King Jr's birthday Actually it's the 19th and the 20th is a holiday.
53:45
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, actually the birthday is the 15th, but the holiday is coming up it's on Monday.
53:51
Maurio Dawson: No, the holiday right, but his actual birthday is the 15th.
53:54
Carmen Lezeth: I think it's the 19th.
53:56
Rick Costa: Let me know.
53:57
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know, I don't know.
53:59
Carmen Lezeth: I should know, but I don't know.
54:00
Carmen Lezeth: Let me see Martin Luther.
54:02
Maurio Dawson: The king, as the kids say.
54:05
Carmen Lezeth: But also on Monday.
54:06
Carmen Lezeth: You know, I'm not going to avoid this.
54:08
Carmen Lezeth: It is also.
54:09
Carmen Lezeth: You are correct, sir.
54:09
Carmen Lezeth: I was incorrect, martin.
54:10
Carmen Lezeth: You are correct, sir, I was incorrect.
54:12
Carmen Lezeth: Martin Luther King Jr's birthday is January 15th.
54:16
Carmen Lezeth: I just want to also say that he is a Capricorn, like myself.
54:20
Carmen Lezeth: We are beautiful, wonderful people.
54:22
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying so, mario, you are correct.
54:24
Carmen Lezeth: January 15th, huzzah, yes.
54:28
Rick Costa: I was wrong.
54:29
Rick Costa: I love people that will admit I made a mistake.
54:32
Maurio Dawson: I do too.
54:33
Maurio Dawson: You are awesome for that, thank you Are you guys making fun of me?
54:37
Carmen Lezeth: No, I always admit I made a mistake?
54:38
Maurio Dawson: Not at all oh.
54:41
Carmen Lezeth: What am I going to do?
54:42
Carmen Lezeth: Fight you on the truth right there.
54:44
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no.
54:45
Maurio Dawson: He's making a point because that's a good point.
54:47
Maurio Dawson: Some people don't.
54:48
Maurio Dawson: They can't take accountability and say you know what?
54:52
Maurio Dawson: I was wrong, you were right.
54:54
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you for correcting me, but that's when you look stupid, though, right.
54:57
Maurio Dawson: It's a lot of stupid people out there.
54:59
Maurio Dawson: I know.
55:00
Carmen Lezeth: Well, I mean, I think the whole thing about being brilliant or being really smart is admitting that you don't know what you don't know or that you made a mistake.
55:09
Carmen Lezeth: That's the best thing you can do when you make a mistake or you are wrong is just own it.
55:13
Carmen Lezeth: I love people who try to hide that they didn't make a mistake because they just dig the hole deeper.
55:19
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, but I also want to acknowledge that the inauguration is also, I think, unfortunately, on Martin Luther King's holiday, but it is what it is.
55:30
Carmen Lezeth: I just don't like those two things.
55:32
Carmen Lezeth: I don't like the presidential inauguration being on.
55:34
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it's on Monday.
55:36
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, president Biden gave his final address today, and on Monday it'll be the new president.
55:46
Carmen Lezeth: President-elect Trump will be at the inauguration and it'll be interesting.
55:53
Carmen Lezeth: I just don't like like I wish it wasn't on Martin Luther King day, you know, just because I like to celebrate that day separately and then find an excuse not to go into work so I can watch the inauguration.
56:05
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
56:06
Carmen Lezeth: So, but, um, but yeah, those two things are happening on Monday.
56:13
Rick Costa: I guess you all said something.
56:15
Rick Costa: I'm sorry, I totally shouldn't have I missed it.
56:18
Cynthia Lopez: What did you say?
56:20
Rick Costa: We had a lot of comments.
56:20
Rick Costa: Actually, she brought up something that made me think once.
56:24
Rick Costa: She said glass bottles, yes, and I've always heard people say you know what, I don't know why, but drinking from a glass bottle of the, it don't taste, don't taste the same.
56:41
Rick Costa: And I'm like really, though, and then I was like okay, here we go, coke glass, let me drink.
56:43
Maurio Dawson: I was like yep, oh, my god, it's true, it's true, it's really true.
56:45
Maurio Dawson: Just glass bottles, period, because the whole carbonation, everything the seat is.
56:49
Maurio Dawson: It's something about the glass bottles, it's just better.
56:53
Maurio Dawson: I, I can't tell you it's not just that, though.
56:56
Carmen Lezeth: Even products like olive oil.
56:58
Carmen Lezeth: You know how hard it is, and I only buy olive oil in a glass bottle, but it's harder and harder because they're making them all plastic, and there's just something wrong for me about buying olive oil in a plastic.
57:09
Carmen Lezeth: I hate it.
57:10
Carmen Lezeth: I also skincare products.
57:13
Carmen Lezeth: I like getting them in the glass, and you can't really get things in glass anymore.
57:17
Carmen Lezeth: I think things tasted better when they were stored in glass too.
57:21
Carmen Lezeth: Alma just said POTUS gave a beautiful farewell.
57:24
Carmen Lezeth: He did, he did.
57:26
Carmen Lezeth: I really respect Joe Biden a lot.
57:30
Carmen Lezeth: I think his legacy is incredible for all the things he has done.
57:35
Carmen Lezeth: Everyone makes mistakes.
57:36
Carmen Lezeth: We're all human.
57:38
Carmen Lezeth: We can all harp on the negativity, but he is just a wonderful man and I'm so happy for him.
57:45
Carmen Lezeth: I think he needs a rest too.
57:47
Carmen Lezeth: Of course, everyone knows I wish the election turned out differently, but no matter what, I'm just grateful for Joe Biden and that he now gets to just I hope enjoy his grandchildren, his great-grandchildren and just like he can just rest, because I think he was running ragged for so long.
58:04
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, he was definitely well out at the end.
58:08
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so I'm really happy for him.
58:09
Carmen Lezeth: Ash just said same Carmen oils are better in glass.
58:13
Carmen Lezeth: Exactly, Brian.
58:15
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry I missed what you said.
58:17
Carmen Lezeth: I love Texas.
58:19
Carmen Lezeth: I love small towns in America.
58:21
Carmen Lezeth: I'm a proud to support 2A.
58:23
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what 2A is.
58:25
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, the Second Amendment, what the fuck?
58:29
Rick Costa: Jesus Christ, I love Lays Potato Chips.
58:36
Carmen Lezeth: Bring it back to Joy.
58:36
Carmen Lezeth: I love Lays.
58:36
Carmen Lezeth: Nobody was talking about this at all, but Alma had to throw it in there.
58:36
Carmen Lezeth: I love Lay's potato chips.
58:37
Carmen Lezeth: Bring it back to Joy.
58:37
Carmen Lezeth: I love Lay's potato chips.
58:40
Maurio Dawson: I'm ashamed.
58:40
Maurio Dawson: My favorite Ruffles, ruffles.
58:44
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I can't eat?
58:45
Carmen Lezeth: Potato chips.
58:46
Carmen Lezeth: Is that weird?
58:47
Maurio Dawson: No, why.
58:48
Carmen Lezeth: Every time I eat potato chips I get like a lot of gas.
58:51
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, too much info.
58:56
Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, I don't know what I'm eating.
58:58
Carmen Lezeth: That's not about Lay's potato chips, because we would love to sponsor them and I would try to eat them.
59:03
Maurio Dawson: We will eat the Lay's potato chips.
59:05
Cynthia Lopez: We don't eat the.
59:06
Maurio Dawson: Lay's.
59:06
Maurio Dawson: We'll eat them all our way.
59:07
Maurio Dawson: I'll be better than Lucy.
59:12
Cynthia Lopez: I don't know what it is.
59:14
Carmen Lezeth: I never eat potato chips.
59:14
Carmen Lezeth: I just don't know what it is.
59:15
Carmen Lezeth: I never eat potato chips, I just don't.
59:16
Rick Costa: I'll be better than Lucy on.
59:19
Cynthia Lopez: Vitamita Veg man.
59:20
Cynthia Lopez: It's so tasty too.
59:23
Carmen Lezeth: Are there foods you guys don't eat?
59:24
Carmen Lezeth: I don't eat pizza either.
59:26
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not a pizza person.
59:29
Maurio Dawson: I don't eat cauliflower because I'm allergic to it.
59:32
Carmen Lezeth: None of us eat cauliflower.
59:34
Maurio Dawson: No, I'm just kidding I hate Brussels sprouts, hate them.
59:38
Carmen Lezeth: You know what, If you can't put bacon on some and it tastes better, it is not a food.
59:43
Carmen Lezeth: And someone tried to give me Brussels sprouts with bacon wrapped.
59:47
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like it still sucks Right and bacon is the equalizer.
59:51
Maurio Dawson: That's how I'm saying it.
59:52
Maurio Dawson: No, some people like it.
59:54
Maurio Dawson: I mean yeah.
59:55
Rick Costa: Somebody made me bacon-wrapped asparagus.
59:58
Rick Costa: I was like.
1:00:00
Maurio Dawson: That's delicious.
1:00:00
Maurio Dawson: Get into that.
1:00:01
Maurio Dawson: I've done that before.
1:00:02
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, it's really good, my goodness.
1:00:08
Carmen Lezeth: Brian, we're not going to talk about.
1:00:10
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I'm so sorry for what's happened to you and I understand your reasoning.
1:00:16
Carmen Lezeth: I just don't want to talk about the Second Amendment.
1:00:18
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry, but I appreciate your input so much I really do.
1:00:23
Carmen Lezeth: Alma said no pizza.
1:00:26
Cynthia Lopez: I don't know what it is.
1:00:28
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not a pizza person.
1:00:31
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what it is, I can't eat it.
1:00:33
Carmen Lezeth: I have eaten it.
1:00:34
Carmen Lezeth: It's just like when someone talks about getting like you know how people get excited Like, oh, we're going to have pizza.
1:00:39
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like okay, not even from the same old place.
1:00:45
Carmen Lezeth: No-transcript, shocking, I know.
1:01:07
Carmen Lezeth: Look at ash's like cheese is like.
1:01:09
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I gave up six months ago Cheese.
1:01:13
Rick Costa: I'm lactose intolerant, oh no.
1:01:16
Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
1:01:19
Carmen Lezeth: Because I have never had any problems at all.
1:01:22
Carmen Lezeth: This is way too much information for this podcast, but I've never had any issues with my blood work, ever my entire life.
1:01:29
Carmen Lezeth: And my cholesterol was elevated and my doctor was like you know, know, you can make some changes.
1:01:34
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like like what, what can I get rid of?
1:01:36
Carmen Lezeth: Because this is never gonna happen.
1:01:38
Carmen Lezeth: What is this?
1:01:39
Carmen Lezeth: She's like you know, if you want to take out some, you know animal products, I'm like like cheese.
1:01:44
Carmen Lezeth: Should I just get rid of cheese?
1:01:45
Carmen Lezeth: Would that do it?
1:01:46
Carmen Lezeth: She was like I thought I was crazy.
1:01:49
Carmen Lezeth: And here's the thing when I say like it's not even like high, it's just elevated slightly elevated.
1:01:55
Maurio Dawson: She's like I've gotta go I'm just trying to see.
1:01:59
Carmen Lezeth: So I have my next appointment january, like the end of january.
1:02:02
Carmen Lezeth: I want to see if that's helped it bring it back to the right levels, because you know, asher said I disowned you.
1:02:08
Carmen Lezeth: Um alma said I love that I can get any type of food from anywhere in the world by just driving in different directions.
1:02:20
Carmen Lezeth: That's right.
1:02:21
Carmen Lezeth: That's America.
1:02:22
Carmen Lezeth: Well, it's California.
1:02:23
Carmen Lezeth: Brian said you can never go wrong with pizza, burgers and sandwiches.
1:02:27
Carmen Lezeth: I'm a huge sandwich person.
1:02:30
Rick Costa: You don't like my sandwiches, I do.
1:02:33
Carmen Lezeth: I can eat a sandwich every day for life what's your favorite type of sandwich?
1:02:36
Carmen Lezeth: Any kind of sandwich, but I do like my mayo and mustard on it, like it has to be a certain combination.
1:02:42
Carmen Lezeth: Is it what?
1:02:45
Rick Costa: mayo and mustard together.
1:02:46
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, mayo on one side, mustard on the other yeah you know, that's what's on a cheeseburger at mcdonald's, too right mayo and mustard.
1:02:53
Carmen Lezeth: That's what's on a cheeseburger at McDonald's, too right Mayo and mustard.
1:02:56
Maurio Dawson: That's the secret sauce.
1:02:56
Maurio Dawson: By the way, Jersey Mike's is my favorite.
1:02:59
Maurio Dawson: I'm sorry.
1:03:00
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I love Jersey Mike's.
1:03:01
Carmen Lezeth: When do you get it Like the Italian?
1:03:04
Maurio Dawson: No, I get the Supreme, the Club Supreme, oh, the Club Supreme.
1:03:08
Carmen Lezeth: Yes.
1:03:10
Maurio Dawson: Have mercy, jesus, I do he's good.
1:03:15
Carmen Lezeth: You get some jalapenos in there.
1:03:15
Carmen Lezeth: Do you put some jalapenos, some onions, no.
1:03:17
Maurio Dawson: I don't eat the jalapenos, but I love this for us.
1:03:22
Carmen Lezeth: I think I'm going to order that tonight.
1:03:24
Maurio Dawson: I'm a little hungry get some extra crispy bacon in there again bacon.
1:03:32
Carmen Lezeth: I don't understand, like I don't have bacon all the time because you know it's a precious commodity.
1:03:36
Maurio Dawson: Right.
1:03:38
Carmen Lezeth: But my whole thing is like if bacon cannot fix the food you're eating, then the food is wrong.
1:03:44
Carmen Lezeth: The bacon is fine, the food is wrong.
1:03:46
Carmen Lezeth: That's how I feel about it.
1:03:47
Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, I'm going to stay on that.
1:03:50
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I will die on that now.
1:03:52
Carmen Lezeth: Now I'm hungry Me too.
1:03:57
Carmen Lezeth: Stay, I'm gonna stay.
1:03:57
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I will die on that hill now I'm hungry me too.
1:03:58
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, barbecue, I love barbecue.
1:03:59
Carmen Lezeth: Barbecue is like brian.
1:03:59
Carmen Lezeth: That is the only reason why you and I even have a conversation, because otherwise I hate you.
1:04:03
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, what's?
1:04:04
Maurio Dawson: your favorite barbecue place in la oh, I don't know okay, I'll give you two give me two Blood Soaps and.
1:04:13
Maurio Dawson: Woody's in Englewood, sorry oh, no Woody's.
1:04:21
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think I've been no Woody's.
1:04:22
Carmen Lezeth: Where's Woody's is that on Martin?
1:04:24
Maurio Dawson: Luther King Jr.
1:04:25
Maurio Dawson: There's two Woody's there's one on Slauson, in the hood and there's one in Englewood, right there off of La Brea.
1:04:31
Carmen Lezeth: I don't think I've been to Woody's.
1:04:32
Carmen Lezeth: You gotta get into it.
1:04:33
Carmen Lezeth: It's bomb sorry thank you, alma right there off of La Brea.
1:04:35
Maurio Dawson: I don't think I've been to La Brea.
1:04:36
Maurio Dawson: You got to get into it, it's bomb, sorry.
1:04:38
Carmen Lezeth: Thank you, alma.
1:04:39
Carmen Lezeth: Yes, on the jalapenos, you know what?
1:04:41
Carmen Lezeth: I haven't had really good barbecue in a really long time.
1:04:45
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not going to lie.
1:04:45
Carmen Lezeth: I've had barbecue recently, like at a couple places here in Westwood.
1:04:49
Maurio Dawson: No, no, it's not going to work.
1:04:52
Maurio Dawson: No, no, blux is on Melrose, but he actually he's gotten.
1:04:55
Maurio Dawson: So he started out in Compton, which disappointed me because he closed his place in Compton for the community.
1:05:01
Maurio Dawson: That kind of disappointed me.
1:05:03
Maurio Dawson: But he moved over off of Melrose.
1:05:06
Carmen Lezeth: Mario, what happened to Roscoe's?
1:05:09
Maurio Dawson: Oh, it's trash now, I'm sorry.
1:05:12
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry.
1:05:12
Carmen Lezeth: Now Mario and I are just having conversations about California.
1:05:15
Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, sorry, no, no, I mean.
1:05:18
Maurio Dawson: But you guys, even though you're not, you're in the East Coast.
1:05:21
Maurio Dawson: I'm sure you guys have heard of Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles, right.
1:05:23
Carmen Lezeth: Chicken and Waffles Okay.
1:05:25
Maurio Dawson: Everybody's heard of Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.
1:05:27
Maurio Dawson: The original was started in Hollywood.
1:05:29
Maurio Dawson: There's several chains now, but I also heard that it's different ownership now.
1:05:36
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, somebody bought it and that's the problem right, and it's just not the same.
1:05:41
Maurio Dawson: And the prices went up and the quality went down.
1:05:45
Maurio Dawson: They took off the Obama special.
1:05:47
Maurio Dawson: I'm like what's going on?
1:05:50
Maurio Dawson: I'm sorry, that's the LA thing.
1:05:51
Maurio Dawson: So it's the three wings.
1:05:55
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no, no, no, it was a big deal.
1:05:55
Carmen Lezeth: La thing, it's the three wings.
1:05:56
Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no, it was a big deal.
1:05:56
Maurio Dawson: Obama's special was the three wings and a waffle man what is Rick saying?
1:06:04
Rick Costa: Alma.
1:06:05
Carmen Lezeth: Alma said I love a good aged steak.
1:06:07
Carmen Lezeth: Roscoe sucks yeah, but.
1:06:11
Carmen Lezeth: Brian Roscoe's is not the same anymore at all it was bought by somebody else and yeah, it's uh yeah, that one too.
1:06:19
Maurio Dawson: That one's right that one's gone down too.
1:06:21
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah that, actually that was the original for sure yeah, that's just terrible, but all right on that note, okay, any plans for the weekend?
1:06:33
Carmen Lezeth: Anyone, anyone, any plans you want to share?
1:06:36
Carmen Lezeth: Mario, you're going to 15 other concerts.
1:06:38
Carmen Lezeth: No, I'm just going to the movies.
1:06:41
Maurio Dawson: I'm just going to the movies.
1:06:42
Carmen Lezeth: What are you going to?
1:06:42
Maurio Dawson: go see the one one of those days with Kiki Palmer and SZA.
1:06:48
Cynthia Lopez: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, my friends asked me to.
1:06:50
Maurio Dawson: one of my friends asked us to join them.
1:06:52
Maurio Dawson: So that's what we're doing, Nothing other than that.
1:06:54
Maurio Dawson: I'm just sitting at home minding my business.
1:06:59
Carmen Lezeth: Praying for the firefighters.
1:07:00
Carmen Lezeth: Because, every night you can still hear the helicopters overhead.
1:07:04
Maurio Dawson: You wake up in the morning helicopters overhead and I still see the ash falling.
1:07:07
Maurio Dawson: So yeah, I'm staying close to home.
1:07:10
Carmen Lezeth: Although I have to say it's really nice here I mean the blue skies today.
1:07:14
Carmen Lezeth: I was like, yes, thank you.
1:07:16
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, please, but you still can't go down PCH.
1:07:19
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia, I was going to send you a picture.
1:07:21
Carmen Lezeth: When you guys were here, we drove down PCH from my house, that whole place, it's all gone.
1:07:27
Rick Costa: Yeah everything's gone All the houses, everything.
1:07:29
Carmen Lezeth: It's right there and you can't even go on the street here, you can't go down there, you can only walk over the bridge and I was like crying, I was so sad, but it is what it is.
1:07:38
Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
1:07:39
Carmen Lezeth: We're going to pray for the people in the Palisades, also for the people in it's not Pasadena, altadena.
1:07:45
Maurio Dawson: Altadena.
1:07:49
Carmen Lezeth: I had six friends lose their homes in Altadena.
1:07:50
Carmen Lezeth: That's so terrible, are they okay?
1:07:51
Maurio Dawson: though.
1:07:51
Maurio Dawson: Just one thing.
1:07:52
Maurio Dawson: One of my wife's good friends at work bless her heart.
1:07:57
Maurio Dawson: She lost her husband in December.
1:08:00
Maurio Dawson: She got the evacuation call.
1:08:04
Maurio Dawson: She evacuated, went to her mom's house, Her mom got the evacuation, they had to leave and she lost both homes.
1:08:13
Carmen Lezeth: Her mom's home was her childhood home.
1:08:16
Maurio Dawson: So we are just praying for her and we're doing everything.
1:08:20
Carmen Lezeth: Did they start a?
1:08:20
Maurio Dawson: GoFundMe at all.
1:08:21
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, and then I had another friend.
1:08:24
Maurio Dawson: She's actually in the industry, she was a location scout.
1:08:28
Maurio Dawson: She lost her home with her and her dog.
1:08:30
Maurio Dawson: She's in Althena.
1:08:32
Carmen Lezeth: So SAG sent out I mean, if you send me their GoFundMes, I'll put them in our show notes or whatever, and we can also promote it next week.
1:08:39
Carmen Lezeth: I have no problem doing that for friends.
1:08:41
Carmen Lezeth: Sag, which is the Screen Actors Guild, sent out emails to everyone and they put all of these different people's GoFundMes.
1:08:49
Carmen Lezeth: And also my acting coach did the same thing, howard.
1:08:53
Carmen Lezeth: Fine, he turned around and he sent all the people that were part of the studio, who are actors, you know, even from a long time ago.
1:08:59
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like I started crying because I'm like, oh my God, these, like these, are people we worked with or that we you know.
1:09:11
Maurio Dawson: It was just weird to kind of see so many people lost homes that were part of our world.
1:09:14
Maurio Dawson: The gentleman from Queen Sugar.
1:09:15
Maurio Dawson: You guys might not have watched the show.
1:09:17
Maurio Dawson: It was Ava Duna Vernet's show on.
1:09:20
Carmen Lezeth: OWN.
1:09:20
Carmen Lezeth: It was a great show.
1:09:21
Maurio Dawson: You can still go back and watch it.
1:09:23
Maurio Dawson: Go back.
1:09:24
Carmen Lezeth: We love Ava Duna Vernet.
1:09:25
Carmen Lezeth: Come on, and why does she look so good?
1:09:28
Carmen Lezeth: She looked good lately, come on, now she looks wonderful, but the gentleman who played Preacher.
1:09:37
Maurio Dawson: he's been an actor for over 40 plus years.
1:09:42
Maurio Dawson: He lost his home.
1:09:44
Maurio Dawson: He's 82 years old.
1:09:46
Carmen Lezeth: No, she has him on her feed and she put the goat on me Exactly.
1:09:50
Maurio Dawson: So he was another one.
1:09:51
Maurio Dawson: I was shocked.
1:09:52
Maurio Dawson: Exactly so he was another one.
1:10:02
Carmen Lezeth: I was shocked, and another actor from that show.
1:10:04
Carmen Lezeth: She almost lost her home but thankfully it was spared.
1:10:05
Carmen Lezeth: But they're all in Altadena.
1:10:16
Maurio Dawson: I think people yeah.
1:10:17
Maurio Dawson: Well, what people don't understand is Altadena was a primarily Black community of, you know, mid-wealth upper class, know what I mean?
1:10:19
Maurio Dawson: like just really doing well, it was upper class now, but when they were coming, when it was established, it was no, no, no, that right for people who were right, who were, who were, who were workers for other people, who were maids, who were lower, considered lower class, and they weren't allowed to live in Pasadena and they migrated and created their own community in Altadena and then flourished it.
1:10:40
Maurio Dawson: And so now these people are middle class, upper class, which is great, but it didn't start off that way and that community has a lot of history.
1:10:49
Carmen Lezeth: And then I wasn't trying to.
1:10:51
Carmen Lezeth: Here's the thing.
1:10:51
Carmen Lezeth: I don't care how much money people have, no-transcript.
1:11:25
Carmen Lezeth: And uh, somebody was saying something and I'm like, first of all, motherfucker, he's like 87 years old and number two, he's worked his ass off his entire life to live in the Palisades, to have his Oscars and to be who he is.
1:11:40
Carmen Lezeth: Why don't we all want that?
1:11:42
Carmen Lezeth: We all want that, but you're so bitter and ridiculous you think it doesn't matter if somebody has wealth to lose their home.
1:11:50
Carmen Lezeth: It's just crazy.
1:11:51
Carmen Lezeth: So Altadena is a working class, middle class, upper class neighborhood, but the point is is that it was a community of mostly black people, people of color who have.
1:12:03
Carmen Lezeth: It's a real community, just like the Palisades, and a lot of people lost their homes.
1:12:10
Carmen Lezeth: Altadena has been also.
1:12:12
Carmen Lezeth: It's right, all of it.
1:12:13
Carmen Lezeth: It's like the Palisades.
1:12:14
Carmen Lezeth: It's gone, right, it's completely gone.
1:12:17
Maurio Dawson: Same thing, yeah for sure.
1:12:19
Carmen Lezeth: Brian said Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL player, lives in LA and is in the area where he and his family are on standby to evacuate.
1:12:28
Carmen Lezeth: There's a lot of people on evacuations.
1:12:31
Carmen Lezeth: Ash said it's their home and memories.
1:12:35
Carmen Lezeth: It's sad.
1:12:36
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, for sure.
1:12:38
Carmen Lezeth: Alma said there were people who lived in motorhome parks in the Palisades yeah, right on the beach.
1:12:43
Maurio Dawson: Yeah, it was just regular everyday people who were living in mobile homes, but it was a mobile home park and it's all gone.
1:12:51
Maurio Dawson: Just those are everyday people.
1:12:53
Maurio Dawson: So yeah, for sure.
1:12:55
Carmen Lezeth: I think I think I just want to normalize us, to get back to a place of empathy.
1:13:00
Carmen Lezeth: Like you know, the idea that if you have any amount of wealth, you should be treated like crap because something devastated happened to you, because what Like it doesn't even make any sense to me.
1:13:12
Carmen Lezeth: You know our, our, because what Like it doesn't even make any sense to me, you know our whole.
1:13:15
Carmen Lezeth: We need to reevaluate our kind of idea of compassion and empathy because we're way off kilter.
1:13:22
Carmen Lezeth: You know, I don't care how much money you have, you cannot replace your memories.
1:13:26
Rick Costa: Not at all.
1:13:27
Rick Costa: I saw it on Denise Crosby, Tasha Yar, in Star Trek Next Generation shameless.
1:13:33
Rick Costa: But she said she lost a home there and that's where she raised her kid.
1:13:37
Rick Costa: So she's like those memories.
1:13:40
Rick Costa: I lived there.
1:13:41
Rick Costa: It's just gone, so it's made it really sad.
1:13:45
Carmen Lezeth: And when I went to the Westwood Recreation Center, that's where I went first.
1:13:49
Carmen Lezeth: That was one of the first shelters set up for people in the Palisades.
1:13:54
Carmen Lezeth: When I went there, all the cars there was all different types of cars there were Hondas, there were Land Rovers and these were people who didn't know where to go or what to do, and no one was questioning why they were there, like, oh, you're driving a fancy car, you cannot be here.
1:14:11
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I think that's what was beautiful was just seeing everyone trying to hold each other up because people were crying and upset and sad because they just lost everything and some of them had fled in danger, like it wasn't just, like they were like, oh, we have a warning, let's go.
1:14:28
Carmen Lezeth: They were fleeing because the fire was upon them.
1:14:33
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, alma just said there were people living in apartments in the Palisades, but also all of the businesses that were lost means that a lot of people lost their jobs.
1:14:42
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, two of my clients that was.
1:14:44
Carmen Lezeth: One of the things they were worried about was because they have people that work for them, that live there, that live in the Palisades, you know what mean.
1:14:52
Carmen Lezeth: And their first concern was don't worry about the house, don't worry about anything.
1:14:57
Carmen Lezeth: Make sure everybody's out, make sure they know they're going to get paid, do whatever we can to you know what I mean.
1:15:02
Carmen Lezeth: Like that's what I'm saying.
1:15:03
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, everyone who has money isn't evil, and the idea that you don't want to acquire that kind of wealth someday is such bullshit.
1:15:11
Carmen Lezeth: Because that's what we're taught from when we're little kids here in this damn country that you know, if you work hard, you can be whatever you want to be and you can get whatever you want.
1:15:19
Carmen Lezeth: And we're a capitalist society, so the hate on people is ridiculous.
1:15:23
Carmen Lezeth: It makes no sense.
1:15:24
Carmen Lezeth: Alma said these tragedies are equalizers, a reminder that we are all human and that we need to be kind to one another.
1:15:31
Carmen Lezeth: I don don't think it reminds a lot of people.
1:15:34
Carmen Lezeth: It should, yeah, but it should, okay.
1:15:41
Carmen Lezeth: Let's do something uplifting and then we're going to get off of it.
1:15:43
Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia's like I have to go to work tomorrow.
1:15:46
Carmen Lezeth: Do you guys have any plans for this weekend?
1:15:48
Carmen Lezeth: Mario just told us no, he's going to be chilling.
1:15:50
Maurio Dawson: He's going to go to a movie movie.
1:15:51
Maurio Dawson: My wife reminded we have a birthday party, sorry uh, I'm sorry.
1:15:56
Carmen Lezeth: Did you say you're gonna send a birthday gift?
1:15:58
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry.
1:15:59
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, are you guys surprising me?
1:16:03
Carmen Lezeth: I can't wait.
1:16:03
Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my god, you have my address right.
1:16:06
Carmen Lezeth: I'm so excited, thank you.
1:16:10
Carmen Lezeth: I'll be home on saturday, saturday and Sunday between 9 and 12.
1:16:14
Maurio Dawson: And when you open your door you better say well, hello there, stripper man.
1:16:22
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, you have anything happening this weekend?
1:16:24
Rick Costa: Anything you're looking forward to, are you Jamal?
1:16:32
Carmen Lezeth: Well, well, well, I was going to cut out that whole thing earlier, but now it's in.
1:16:44
Rick Costa: Last week my cousin was supposed to come take my mom out.
1:16:47
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, that was supposed to be a gift for your birthday.
1:16:49
Rick Costa: That never happened, so we'll see if it happens this week.
1:16:52
Rick Costa: Also, my ex is like watch guys come over and I'll cut your mom's hair and she really needs it cut bad she's.
1:17:00
Rick Costa: It's been really crazy long, so that might happen, both or none, I don't know.
1:17:04
Rick Costa: We'll see what happens.
1:17:04
Rick Costa: Fingers crossed fingers crossed okay, fingers crossed.
1:17:07
Carmen Lezeth: You need some time off.
1:17:08
Carmen Lezeth: Come on, that wasn't a good gift for your birthday.
1:17:10
Carmen Lezeth: They didn't even do it, almost said you would disown us if we threw you a surprise party.
1:17:16
Cynthia Lopez: Are you talking about me?
1:17:17
Cynthia Lopez: I guess so.
1:17:20
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I don't know, it depends on what that surprise party was like I mean you know, I think it would just be hard to do a surprise party for me.
1:17:31
Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if people could actually surprise me, okay.
1:17:34
Maurio Dawson: I'm for me.
1:17:34
Maurio Dawson: I don't know if people could actually surprise me.
1:17:36
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I'm just saying I don't know, cynthia, you think I would hate?
1:17:38
Rick Costa: it.
1:17:38
Rick Costa: Mario would challenge, accept it.
1:17:42
Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying I don't know.
1:17:43
Carmen Lezeth: I'm very particular.
1:17:44
Carmen Lezeth: You'd have to you know it could be a surprise, but like, how would you do it?
1:17:48
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I?
1:17:49
Maurio Dawson: mean, then that would be a surprise If I was.
1:17:52
Maurio Dawson: Ray duh-duh.
1:17:56
Carmen Lezeth: I think I would just appreciate presents, okay, I had on my 40th birthday.
1:18:01
Carmen Lezeth: They actually had a huge surprise party for me and my friend Richard may he rest in peace organized it all and it was amazing.
1:18:09
Carmen Lezeth: I didn't know anything about it.
1:18:11
Carmen Lezeth: He said he was coming in just to hang out with me and just to have dinner with me.
1:18:16
Carmen Lezeth: You guys heard about this because Andrea complains about it all the time Because he didn't know all my friends.
1:18:22
Carmen Lezeth: So he did the best he could.
1:18:24
Carmen Lezeth: He called work, he talked to one of my assistants and they tried to get everything together and they missed Andrea in the whole thing and Andrea to this day wait, it's even better missed Andrea in the whole thing and Andrea to this day wait, it's even better.
1:18:37
Carmen Lezeth: They missed Andrea.
1:18:37
Carmen Lezeth: But somehow got her best friend to come to the party, who I didn't even know that well, and her best friend didn't even tell her about it.
1:18:43
Carmen Lezeth: And Andrea hated Richard forever.
1:18:48
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, he passed away and she still won't forgive him.
1:18:50
Carmen Lezeth: We were still talking about it on the show, like when we first started.
1:18:54
Carmen Lezeth: But that was an amazing surprise party.
1:18:57
Carmen Lezeth: It was amazing and it was at this amazing restaurant, very Bling, one of my favorite restaurants.
1:19:02
Carmen Lezeth: It was oop-dee-doo.
1:19:04
Carmen Lezeth: It was awesome, it was fun.
1:19:05
Carmen Lezeth: I mean, you know I'm not throwing out ideas or anything, I'm just saying she's like as she fits like as she fits January 12th.
1:19:13
Carmen Lezeth: You can do it for next year if you want to start organizing now, asha, oh, I detest the surprise party, not if it's done like if somebody knows you really well and they know what you like, it would be as good.
1:19:23
Maurio Dawson: I've never had one.
1:19:24
Maurio Dawson: Really, I've never had a surprise party.
1:19:27
Maurio Dawson: I've only had maybe three birthday parties in my whole life.
1:19:32
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I never started celebrating until I got older, but now it's on fire.
1:19:37
Maurio Dawson: I had one great party when I turned 45 and I just talked about it last night.
1:19:42
Maurio Dawson: I got so drunk that, yeah, it was a blur, but it was a good time.
1:19:49
Carmen Lezeth: Rick, have you had any surprise parties Cynthia I've had any surprise parties.
1:19:58
Cynthia Lopez: Cynthia.
1:20:02
Rick Costa: I've had a surprise birthday party, but I ended up finding out about it because no one in this family can keep secrets Okay.
1:20:09
Maurio Dawson: I love a party, I'll turn up.
1:20:11
Maurio Dawson: I'm an introvert with extrovert tendencies, so a party is good for three hours and I'm out.
1:20:19
Rick Costa: I love watching TV shows where they're like we're going to throw a surprise party and don't tell her, don't tell him whatever, and they always find out.
1:20:26
Rick Costa: But you got to act surprised.
1:20:27
Rick Costa: I'm like oh my goodness.
1:20:31
Carmen Lezeth: No, I was totally surprised because me and Richard went.
1:20:34
Carmen Lezeth: I thought we had just had a reservation at my favorite restaurant.
1:20:38
Carmen Lezeth: Is he?
1:20:39
Carmen Lezeth: Okay?
1:20:39
Carmen Lezeth: He's just sneezing, he's coughing?
1:20:43
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I can still see his body.
1:20:45
Carmen Lezeth: Just want to make sure?
1:20:46
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, we just want to make sure you're okay, I know all of us in the house.
1:20:50
Maurio Dawson: She's up there.
1:20:51
Maurio Dawson: She couldn't get to me if she tried.
1:20:54
Carmen Lezeth: I would have called 911, though we got you.
1:20:56
Carmen Lezeth: That's what I was saying.
1:20:59
Carmen Lezeth: You know I got his address.
1:21:00
Carmen Lezeth: I'd be calling 911 right now.
1:21:02
Carmen Lezeth: Yep, I really thought it was just going to be me and Richard, and when I got there, they didn't put me at the table that we always sit at, they brought us to the back.
1:21:15
Maurio Dawson: Her regular table.
1:21:15
Maurio Dawson: You hear that, right, her regular table.
1:21:17
Maurio Dawson: They didn't put her at her regular table.
1:21:20
Carmen Lezeth: Because I have a regular table.
1:21:21
Carmen Lezeth: That restaurant isn't there anymore, but I used to have a regular table there.
1:21:24
Carmen Lezeth: This is a restaurant that I'll tell you who always used to go by Michelle Pfeiffer, the most beautiful woman I think I've ever seen in my life.
1:21:31
Carmen Lezeth: I'm not.
1:21:32
Carmen Lezeth: I will still say that I will stand on that in person.
1:21:35
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
1:21:35
Carmen Lezeth: Like to see someone that looks like this on TV or movies and then you see them in person.
1:21:40
Carmen Lezeth: You're like think, okay, stunning woman.
1:21:43
Carmen Lezeth: Okay, danny DeVito always went to that restaurant, tom Brokaw always went to that restaurant and I used to go to that restaurant.
1:21:50
Maurio Dawson: And other people.
1:21:51
Maurio Dawson: I love how she put herself in there.
1:21:53
Maurio Dawson: That's awesome.
1:21:56
Carmen Lezeth: And other people.
1:21:56
Carmen Lezeth: But it was a regular place I would go to all the time because it was around the corner from my condo when I owned it.
1:22:02
Carmen Lezeth: So I thought that's where me and Richard were going, and so I did have a regular table.
1:22:07
Carmen Lezeth: And when we went they were like, oh no, you know what?
1:22:09
Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, we had to save that for somebody else.
1:22:13
Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry, come and, do you mind?
1:22:14
Carmen Lezeth: I was like I end up.
1:22:14
Carmen Lezeth: When we went to the back and there was everybody, I mean, it was unbelievable, it was so.
1:22:17
Carmen Lezeth: It was cool.
1:22:18
Carmen Lezeth: I was totally surprised.
1:22:19
Carmen Lezeth: The only thing that was weird was that one of my clients was there too.
1:22:23
Carmen Lezeth: Like there was a few mistakes, like the Andrea thing, the her friend thing.
1:22:29
Carmen Lezeth: That's not a good friend, because why didn't she tell Andrea?
1:22:32
Maurio Dawson: That's true.
1:22:33
Carmen Lezeth: That was weird.
1:22:34
Carmen Lezeth: And then one of my clients was there.
1:22:36
Carmen Lezeth: It was there.
1:22:37
Carmen Lezeth: It was weird.
1:22:37
Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
1:22:38
Carmen Lezeth: But anyways, with that, Cynthia, any plans for the weekend.
1:22:44
Cynthia Lopez: I have scrapbooking on Sunday, but that's about it.
1:22:46
Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, you love scrapbooking, which I still don't understand what it is.
1:22:49
Carmen Lezeth: So you're scrapbooking which, for people who don't know what scrapbooking is, what is it again?
1:22:58
Cynthia Lopez: When I say people, I mean I forgot Um well, I make cards, but a lot of people make a whole bunch of different stuff, Um albums of like their vacations and things like that.
1:23:10
Carmen Lezeth: I know you make cards that I keep trying to get you to sell for $20, like they do.
1:23:16
Carmen Lezeth: You go into Whole Foods you see these cards and they're like 13, 14.
1:23:19
Carmen Lezeth: They're ugly.
1:23:20
Carmen Lezeth: You send me handmade cards.
1:23:22
Carmen Lezeth: I'm like my God, we could make so much money on this and you won't do it.
1:23:25
Carmen Lezeth: So that's what your scrapbooking is.
1:23:26
Carmen Lezeth: You make cards and then you don't sell them.
1:23:28
Carmen Lezeth: Yeah Well, you can send me one.
1:23:30
Maurio Dawson: Yeah Well, you can send me one.
1:23:31
Maurio Dawson: I'll give you my address.
1:23:32
Maurio Dawson: I'd love to receive one.
1:23:34
Carmen Lezeth: I love receiving them too, but, mario, you know how much money we can make because they're so good, the cards she makes.
1:23:39
Carmen Lezeth: Put them in the All About the Joy card and look at them.
1:23:47
Carmen Lezeth: All about the profit is what I'm thinking.
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