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Revelations from Hollywood's Biggest Night, Work-Life Balance, and American Identity · All About The Joy

• 0:00
  Carmen Lezeth: What was that?
• 0:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, everyone, welcome to All About the Joy.
• 0:03
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi, rick Costa.
• 0:07
  Rick Costa: Hello, hello.
• 0:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick's all in Gangsta today and Cynthia, thank you for coming by.
• 0:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, look at who else is in the house.
• 0:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, mario, how you doing.
• 0:19
  Maurio Dawson: Hey, good, I'm trying to figure this thing out now because you want to be on ReachedMeme.
• 0:25
  Maurio Dawson: Yes, pushing buttons and whatnot.
• 0:28
  Carmen Lezeth: And Julia's going to be here in a little bit.
• 0:29
  Carmen Lezeth: She's having a text and she's like I'll be there but I have to drop off her daughter.
• 0:33
  Carmen Lezeth: She goes, I have to drop off my daughter somewhere and I'm like somewhere.
• 0:38
  Cynthia Lopez: I was like that's the way we're on the side of the road.
• 0:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I was like just make sure you drop off somewhere, you know.
• 0:43
  Carmen Lezeth: But she responded and she was laughing.
• 0:48
  Carmen Lezeth: She's like I've been school, it was just funny.
• 0:49
  Carmen Lezeth: So, Mario, I think you're hot, and I don't mean caliente like you're beautiful, though that too but I mean your.
• 0:54
  Carmen Lezeth: Your voice is very loud.
• 0:56
  Maurio Dawson: Is it?
• 0:56
  Maurio Dawson: Is that better, Shall I shall.
• 0:59
  Maurio Dawson: I speak in the middle of the tone.
• 1:00
  Rick Costa: We're going to be Bob Ross today, painting a painting, talking very softly.
• 1:04
  Maurio Dawson: Yes, please, we're going to be ocean, as I paint waves as we go to the beach, and then we paint the sickle monsters, happy trees.
• 1:16
  Rick Costa: Some clouds up here.
• 1:19
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I forgot?
• 1:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I forgot the list.
• 1:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I sent you all of other things you're going to talk about.
• 1:23
  Maurio Dawson: I thought the Oscars was on there.
• 1:24
  Maurio Dawson: I thought about Charlie, I thought about tic-tac and he's supposed to be like.
• 1:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, carmen, what do you mean?
• 1:30
  Carmen Lezeth: A list?
• 1:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Let's just go with the flow.
• 1:31
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what let's talk about Charlie's podcast.
• 1:35
  Maurio Dawson: Let's talk about Charlie's podcast.
• 1:36
  Maurio Dawson: What do you think?
• 1:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Let's be like spontaneous and like I'm such a cool host and you guys are all like.
• 1:41
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
• 1:42
  Carmen Lezeth: That's our thing, man All of us.
• 1:44
  Carmen Lezeth: That's it now Okay, did you guys watch the Oscars?
• 1:49
  Rick Costa: Yes, I just saw the highlights on the ABC website.
• 1:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my God, I'm just going to be like, let me just take you off of here and I'm just going to be removed.
• 1:58
  Cynthia Lopez: Swipe to the.
• 1:59
  Cynthia Lopez: It was good.
• 1:59
  Cynthia Lopez: It was good, I liked it.
• 2:00
  Cynthia Lopez: They were.
• 2:01
  Cynthia Lopez: There were actually a couple of good moments.
• 2:03
  Carmen Lezeth: You thought there were only a couple of good moments, yeah.
• 2:06
  Cynthia Lopez: I mean, it wasn't, like you know, a big hoopla, but you know it was good.
• 2:12
  Maurio Dawson: Honestly, I got to say it was predictable.
• 2:13
  Maurio Dawson: The only thing that threw me off was Emma Stone.
• 2:15
  Maurio Dawson: Everything else.
• 2:16
  Maurio Dawson: I was surprised because the young lady from killers out of the moon.
• 2:22
  Maurio Dawson: She had been winning everything, including the SAG, and normally the person, the people who win SAG are normally the ones who go on to win the Oscar because the same people are voting in both categories.
• 2:32
  Maurio Dawson: So I was just.
• 2:34
  Maurio Dawson: I was surprised by Emma Stone.
• 2:35
  Maurio Dawson: She was a dark horse that came out of nowhere.
• 2:39
  Rick Costa: So other than that, I don't need to see John Cena naked again.
• 2:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I love that.
• 2:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I was laughing.
• 2:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I thought that was such a funny cause.
• 2:47
  Carmen Lezeth: It was about costume.
• 2:48
  Carmen Lezeth: That was the whole thing.
• 2:49
  Rick Costa: Yeah, I mean, do we need to talk about somebody's penis Like, come on, what's penis?
• 2:56
  Andrea Nunez: What.
• 2:57
  Rick Costa: Iron man.
• 2:57
  Rick Costa: Did they talk about his?
• 2:58
  Maurio Dawson: penis.
• 2:59
  Maurio Dawson: I missed that, robert Downey Jr who.
• 3:02
  Rick Costa: They talked about his penis.
• 3:04
  Rick Costa: What's the guy that hosted his name.
• 3:04
  Rick Costa: His name is I'm a.
• 3:05
  Rick Costa: What are you?
• 3:07
  Carmen Lezeth: talking about Okay, did you watch the I-Mate?
• 3:10
  Rick Costa: I went on the website and they said here's video highlights.
• 3:13
  Rick Costa: And one of the things he said was something about his thing.
• 3:15
  Rick Costa: And I'm like bro, that's no, no.
• 3:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, wait.
• 3:19
  Carmen Lezeth: This is why you should watch things from the beginning.
• 3:21
  Rick Costa: This is not hearsay.
• 3:22
  Rick Costa: I saw him say it.
• 3:23
  Carmen Lezeth: I know what you're talking about, but what I'm saying is you're taking it out of context.
• 3:26
  Carmen Lezeth: That's the problem.
• 3:27
  Carmen Lezeth: It's still there.
• 3:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Robert Downey Jr was sitting in the front row.
• 3:29
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what you're talking about, the monologue.
• 3:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Look, you know I'm going to get mad because this.
• 3:33
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
• 3:33
  Carmen Lezeth: This is.
• 3:34
  Carmen Lezeth: What's wrong with our country?
• 3:35
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the same shit.
• 3:37
  Rick Costa: We need to talk about.
• 3:37
  Rick Costa: Penis is freely.
• 3:38
  Rick Costa: Is that what's wrong?
• 3:39
  Carmen Lezeth: I was talking about his penis.
• 3:40
  Carmen Lezeth: He just made a joke and maybe it landed wrong, but it wasn't like the end of the world.
• 3:45
  Carmen Lezeth: All he said was something about like I forget what it was, but it wasn't big deal and they moved on.
• 3:49
  Carmen Lezeth: I actually thought the more insulting part was talking about his drug abuse.
• 3:52
  Carmen Lezeth: So you can't take it out of context, like I mean, it's just a joke.
• 3:57
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, that was kind of a low blow for Kimmel.
• 3:59
  Maurio Dawson: It was low hanging fruit, it was not necessary, you know get it done without it.
• 4:06
  Carmen Lezeth: It was just oh my God, I get annoyed.
• 4:08
  Rick Costa: I just felt bad for him.
• 4:09
  Rick Costa: Why Do?
• 4:12
  Maurio Dawson: you get annoyed about penis or you get annoyed about it.
• 4:14
  Rick Costa: Oh my God, it's still going left.
• 4:16
  Carmen Lezeth: I get annoyed because, because, because what Rick did?
• 4:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I know a lot of people do it.
• 4:23
  Carmen Lezeth: We don't want to or we don't have time or whatever, to maybe watch the whole thing or look at all in contact Right.
• 4:31
  Carmen Lezeth: So, we'll we'll watch the highlight but this happens with articles all the time.
• 4:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Like people will read like one headline and then you'll see all the comments.
• 4:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't believe she did that.
• 4:38
  Carmen Lezeth: What a bitch.
• 4:39
  Carmen Lezeth: How about did you read the article?
• 4:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Because it was not even about her Like.
• 4:43
  Carmen Lezeth: So I just get.
• 4:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I do get incensed.
• 4:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Was it a bad low hanging fruit?
• 4:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but that's not the whole Oscars and you tie that in.
• 4:51
  Carmen Lezeth: So you watch snippets.
• 4:52
  Carmen Lezeth: So you watch a P.
• 4:53
  Carmen Lezeth: You heard a penis joke.
• 4:54
  Rick Costa: It was like 13 minutes of him talking with 13 minutes of him talking about hey Tony.
• 4:58
  Rick Costa: Hey, tony hey.
• 5:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Tony hey, tony hey.
• 5:03
  Carmen Lezeth: Andrea, andrea, who dumped her daughter somewhere with nobody.
• 5:07
  Carmen Lezeth: She drove, carmen.
• 5:09
  Carmen Lezeth: What is she like?
• 5:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Eight Cause I am not that old for her to be driving.
• 5:18
  Carmen Lezeth: What's happening?
• 5:18
  Carmen Lezeth: How you doing?
• 5:19
  Carmen Lezeth: We're fighting right now.
• 5:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm fighting with Rick.
• 5:21
  Carmen Lezeth: We're talking about penises, context.
• 5:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Did we not just say context?
• 5:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Welcome to all about the joy.
• 5:34
  Andrea Nunez: I'm an expert.
• 5:35
  Andrea Nunez: I'm an expert.
• 5:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Today we're talking about joy oh you're fall to you.
• 5:42
  Carmen Lezeth: You brought penises.
• 5:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick is going to be like Carmen.
• 5:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I want to hand in my resignation.
• 5:47
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to close what?
• 5:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me just say I didn't even really know who John Cena was till.
• 5:52
  Andrea Nunez: I was that bit, so that worked for me.
• 5:53
  Andrea Nunez: But Rick.
• 5:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I could see how you maybe heard that piece and then saw the John Cena thing and that, let me just say the best part is my gosh Ling singing.
• 6:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I had no idea, unbelievable.
• 6:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, did you guys?
• 6:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, living on fact, he used to sing in the.
• 6:14
  Maurio Dawson: Mickey mouse club back in the day with Justin Timberlake.
• 6:16
  Maurio Dawson: No, I didn't.
• 6:16
  Maurio Dawson: I didn't know that.
• 6:17
  Maurio Dawson: I didn't know that.
• 6:18
  Maurio Dawson: I didn't know that.
• 6:19
  Maurio Dawson: I didn't know that.
• 6:20
  Maurio Dawson: No, I didn't either.
• 6:22
  Maurio Dawson: No, I didn't know.
• 6:24
  Maurio Dawson: That wakes me up.
• 6:25
  Maurio Dawson: That was my.
• 6:25
  Maurio Dawson: My car didn't even appear because I had no idea Even for one day.
• 6:28
  Maurio Dawson: Mark full あああああ, didn't even realize that All I did From the way he was singing and the way he was singing with Justin Timberlake, with Justin Timberlake, christina Aguilera.
• 6:46
  Andrea Nunez: All of the Britney spirits.
• 6:48
  Carmen Lezeth: He was in that whole crew before that Oscars is.
• 6:50
  Carmen Lezeth: They are too long, I fell asleep.
• 6:52
  Andrea Nunez: Well, they started it early, you know they started at four o'clock.
• 6:55
  Carmen Lezeth: For that reason.
• 6:56
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 6:57
  Carmen Lezeth: It was just a fun time.
• 6:58
  Carmen Lezeth: So, interate, did you watch Oscars?
• 6:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I think not, right.
• 7:01
  Andrea Nunez: No, I was on a plane, but I did.
• 7:04
  Rick Costa: I actually did.
• 7:05
  Andrea Nunez: I did catch the Ryan Gosling thing, though like that was like right when I walked into my hotel room so I kind of watched, but not really I was super tired.
• 7:13
  Andrea Nunez: So I don't have anything to add to this other than it was fun.
• 7:17
  Carmen Lezeth: And I'll ask Rick this because I know Rick watched, I listened to and watched Charlie's podcast.
• 7:23
  Carmen Lezeth: I did a two-part private lounge with Charlie Matera and I just I just want to give a shout out to him because I love him and I know that he's probably listening, but it was so much fun and I've gotten I can't believe it I've gotten so much feedback from both of those things, from people, which is kind of cool.
• 7:36
  Carmen Lezeth: So I don't know if you guys got to hear it, but what I love about it the most is like just he's such a great storyteller at Rick right, totally, totally.
• 7:43
  Rick Costa: Yeah, I liked.
• 7:44
  Rick Costa: I'm like he's talking about his script and everything.
• 7:46
  Rick Costa: I was like, well, I don't know if he would give it all.
• 7:47
  Rick Costa: He goes, that's already copyrighted, don't worry.
• 7:49
  Rick Costa: I'm like when is this coming out?
• 7:51
  Rick Costa: Because it sounds good.
• 7:53
  Carmen Lezeth: The thing is, too, I cut out a lot.
• 7:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I cut out a lot because he act, there's more to the story of the script and I cut out like a whole chunk.
• 8:00
  Carmen Lezeth: That is actually kind of a twisty.
• 8:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not going to say, I'm not going to put that, but there's a huge twist to it.
• 8:06
  Carmen Lezeth: And he and I was like I got to cut that out because there's no way that someone isn't going to try to steal it or whatever.
• 8:11
  Carmen Lezeth: But he, yeah, he's totally chill and I think a couple of people emailed me and said I can't believe he was in prison.
• 8:16
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like why, why are you so stunned and him talking about?
• 8:21
  Rick Costa: Farrah Fawcett.
• 8:22
  Rick Costa: That was pretty funny too.
• 8:24
  Rick Costa: That was so much fun.
• 8:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, so thank you to Charlie, and if you haven't listened to it, there's two different parts to it and I hope you can take a moment and just get to know somebody who is not just one of the coolest people I met out here, but very fascinating and a great storyteller.
• 8:40
  Maurio Dawson: You're super close to Ryan O'Neill, right?
• 8:41
  Maurio Dawson: Is that how you guys know each other or met each other?
• 8:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I met Ryan O'Neill because he owned it.
• 8:46
  Carmen Lezeth: He owned a gym here in Brentwood and I met Charlie outside of BC Goat Dough.
• 8:51
  Carmen Lezeth: And really we kind of said this a long time ago, rick, I forget which episode it was, but it was when we first met Charlie on the, on the podcast, on the live stream.
• 8:59
  Carmen Lezeth: We were just checking each other out because that brother was fine as well.
• 9:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, he still is.
• 9:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I just he was, you know, he had the blonde blonde here and he was so cut and built and whatever, and he was just and he was walking around town like he owned it.
• 9:12
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, one of those people and of course at the time I lived in Brentwood.
• 9:15
  Carmen Lezeth: We were outside the famous restaurant you know, like at the end of it was Mesaluna, which is where it's famous for, where Nicole Simpson and Dan Goldman right, yeah, roman Right, so that's the restaurant that was right there next to it is was where BC Goat Dough was.
• 9:33
  Carmen Lezeth: So it was a pretty well known area and that's where I first met him and then we had mutual friends and and then, yeah, the gym.
• 9:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I guess I never hung out with him in the gym, so not the whole of the level of working out that I was never out.
• 9:44
  Maurio Dawson: Right.
• 9:45
  Carmen Lezeth: But yeah, and Ryan passed away this past December, so yeah, I remember, so it's kind of sad, but yeah, anyway, I just wanted to touch base with that too.
• 9:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Mario, you have the list.
• 9:53
  Carmen Lezeth: What else is on the list?
• 9:56
  Maurio Dawson: Well, we talked.
• 9:56
  Maurio Dawson: We talked about Charlie already.
• 9:58
  Maurio Dawson: We touched on the Oscars.
• 10:00
  Rick Costa: Oh, so that's what the Oscars.
• 10:02
  Maurio Dawson: Oh, we touched on the Oscars.
• 10:04
  Maurio Dawson: We just we got stuck on a all about the joyful thing, this part.
• 10:08
  Rick Costa: And then you just I think Andrea wants to say something and then get past it.
• 10:15
  Andrea Nunez: I just I don't, I don't think I have met Mario before.
• 10:20
  Maurio Dawson: Oh hey, how are you?
• 10:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm so sorry.
• 10:23
  Carmen Lezeth: I thought you know the name was.
• 10:24
  Carmen Lezeth: So sorry, andrea, you know who Mario is.
• 10:29
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just probably going to click for you when I tell you this.
• 10:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I met Mario when I worked at Brand New School.
• 10:34
  Carmen Lezeth: He was our principal banker at City National Bank, and so we got to know each other through that, and you can only imagine the conversations during that time in my life when I was so happy and joyful.
• 10:45
  Maurio Dawson: And I, and I too, were happy in Joyful City National Bank.
• 10:53
  Carmen Lezeth: And we loved working the jobs that we did and helping people become wealthy and wealthy, are we?
• 10:58
  Andrea Nunez: Yes, yes, bankers are well known to be very happy, joyful.
• 11:03
  Maurio Dawson: We are joyful people.
• 11:04
  Maurio Dawson: Entertainment people are joyful people.
• 11:07
  Andrea Nunez: Well, it's nice to meet you, Mario.
• 11:09
  Rick Costa: Nice to meet you too.
• 11:10
  Rick Costa: I also wanted to say I was she almost brought me a little teary-eyed with the woman.
• 11:15
  Rick Costa: I think her name is Devine.
• 11:17
  Cynthia Lopez: Oh yes, Devine, Devine's going round off.
• 11:19
  Rick Costa: Her speech was like oh, you want me to cry.
• 11:21
  Rick Costa: Stop yeah that was nice.
• 11:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, she was good.
• 11:23
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what that whole?
• 11:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Category was great this year it was great and I was upset that.
• 11:28
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I just felt like you could have.
• 11:30
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm waiting for a and we have a tie.
• 11:32
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean?
• 11:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Because I just feel like it would have been so much cooler if, like three I think three of them could have been easier.
• 11:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, because.
• 11:38
  Cynthia Lopez: Danielle.
• 11:39
  Cynthia Lopez: She was an amazing girl.
• 11:40
  Cynthia Lopez: Danielle was a beautiful girl.
• 11:42
  Cynthia Lopez: Sorry, but I'm going to say it.
• 11:44
  Cynthia Lopez: I think she did a better Sophia than Oprah, oh yeah, but you was amazing.
• 11:56
  Maurio Dawson: There's enough love no, you know, you know why.
• 11:58
  Maurio Dawson: The color, the original is one of my all-time favorite movies, so like I get it.
• 12:03
  Maurio Dawson: But the thing is I always have this debate with my friends about the original and the remake because they're totally different in terms of this.
• 12:11
  Maurio Dawson: Wouldn't want being the musical, but Danielle, if If you guys don't realize, she's an egot nominee now.
• 12:17
  Maurio Dawson: So she's been nominated in every category.
• 12:20
  Maurio Dawson: So she's, she's on her way.
• 12:22
  Maurio Dawson: She's just give her a couple of I would have voted.
• 12:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I voted for her and sag awards because I thought yeah amazing Um.
• 12:28
  Carmen Lezeth: I do it was hard for for both of them.
• 12:30
  Carmen Lezeth: You don't mean to not give.
• 12:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I anyway, I just wanted the tie, but yeah.
• 12:33
  Carmen Lezeth: But, I wasn't thrown by the holdovers.
• 12:40
  Maurio Dawson: No, I Watched all the movies just this year.
• 12:44
  Maurio Dawson: I slept two part of Oppenheimer but and the killers of fire?
• 12:50
  Maurio Dawson: It bored me to tears and not, but I tried to push through.
• 12:55
  Maurio Dawson: As my grandmother said, I went fishing.
• 13:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just glad that movies are back to being pretty amazing.
• 13:03
  Carmen Lezeth: Knock on wood, you know we have good ones and we have bad ones, but I thought it was fun and I will say this for the Oscars I thought it was a really great show.
• 13:11
  Carmen Lezeth: The bar is so low but I really thought it went well.
• 13:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I thought Jimmy Kimmel penis and all was fantastic.
• 13:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Sorry.
• 13:22
  Andrea Nunez: I think I missed a really important part of the show.
• 13:31
  Maurio Dawson: Hey honey, hi baby, I'm missing.
• 13:36
  Andrea Nunez: I missed it.
• 13:37
  Andrea Nunez: No, no.
• 13:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Andrea a loose.
• 13:39
  Carmen Lezeth: A loose whose name is Alma, in real life that's my wife.
• 13:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Mario's wife, yeah.
• 13:46
  Cynthia Lopez: Carmen, you know the person I met, mario to.
• 13:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Can I just say I am, I'm so sorry, but I just I think this is what I mean by the neighborhood like we just all such good friends, I'm realizing, mario, cynthia, Cynthia, mario, I apologize, I didn't that's right.
• 14:05
  Maurio Dawson: This is my first time eating both.
• 14:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I didn't know this.
• 14:09
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, if I had a good co-host slash producer, I would have filled me in on that.
• 14:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Somehow there would be like a little note or something like the only.
• 14:21
  Rick Costa: Past the buck thing.
• 14:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I miss that what.
• 14:25
  Rick Costa: I like that past the buck.
• 14:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, you know what I think?
• 14:29
  Carmen Lezeth: It's actually a testament to the fact that I think y'all know I.
• 14:34
  Rick Costa: Now, andrea, I think I kind of back my name either, but I thought Cynthia.
• 14:39
  Maurio Dawson: No, but they've.
• 14:40
  Maurio Dawson: I've seen them, they've seen me, we've all seen each other.
• 14:43
  Carmen Lezeth: But we've never been on at the same time.
• 14:45
  Carmen Lezeth: No, that's cool, that's cool.
• 14:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry that that's my all just kind of mesh well together, so it really is working.
• 14:53
  Maurio Dawson: It's the red beans are right for me.
• 14:54
  Maurio Dawson: That's just on the.
• 14:56
  Carmen Lezeth: For me okay.
• 14:58
  Maurio Dawson: Literally just make your beans all right.
• 14:59
  Carmen Lezeth: That's why I say Because and you know what I forgot to say happy pie day as well today is.
• 15:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I know none of you Probably even care what that is, but it's a math, a math.
• 15:09
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, 314, 3.1 forward.
• 15:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so let me just see here.
• 15:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I wanted to talk about this because I was hoping Andrea would be here, so I wanted this is gonna be more of a work thing.
• 15:19
  Carmen Lezeth: And going back to this quiet quitting crap, I Responded to a woman on on a tick tock today and I have not been on tick tock other than posting our clips from the show.
• 15:28
  Carmen Lezeth: But I'm like, oh, they're gonna ban tick tock.
• 15:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me do a post, let me jump in the end of this.
• 15:34
  Carmen Lezeth: But she is clearly somebody who does a lot of I don't I don't want to say life coaching, but that's what the umbrella will put it on because that's what it feels like.
• 15:42
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean and I've never seen her before, but she was talking about quite quitting.
• 15:46
  Carmen Lezeth: And she got into this conversation About how you shouldn't be doing quite quitting, that if you're not getting that job or you're not getting that promotion or you're not getting that raise, and then you decide not to give it your all, what does that say about your integrity?
• 16:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my god so then she goes on this.
• 16:03
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you what the comments were like so beautiful.
• 16:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I was like, oh, hey, gen Z, I know y'all Gen Z in here, but I wanted to talk about was I feel like people who are Gen X and boomers and I'm not saying everyone, but clearly I think she was.
• 16:19
  Carmen Lezeth: You know our age, you know, and I Think we're stuck in this mentality of you got to work really hard, you got to be dedicated, you've got to do what you got to do to Prove yourself and even when you don't get that raise or you don't get acknowledged, that makes you have to do it even more, and I was like I don't think so, so enjoy.
• 16:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I wanted to see what you thought.
• 16:41
  Andrea Nunez: Yeah, I wholeheartedly disagree with that right.
• 16:45
  Andrea Nunez: You owe your job, the hours you are paid for, right, that's, you know, like that's the exchange right.
• 16:53
  Andrea Nunez: And if you're passed over for promotion, if your boss is a jerk, your co-workers are jerks, you still have to pay the bills.
• 17:01
  Andrea Nunez: You still need health insurance, you know?
• 17:03
  Andrea Nunez: I mean like we don't have the Social safety net in this country.
• 17:07
  Andrea Nunez: To be like this is no longer fulfilling for me, so I'm gonna take a pause until I find the next thing right.
• 17:13
  Andrea Nunez: Like no, you still have to put food on the table and somehow be a human person walking around on the planet and not be, you know, completely aggro.
• 17:22
  Andrea Nunez: You got do what you got to do, honey, like, just if you need to, like, create some separation, you know, some mental space.
• 17:29
  Andrea Nunez: I I don't here's the issue.
• 17:32
  Andrea Nunez: I like I read that when you said in the email and I I hate that moralizing about work.
• 17:38
  Andrea Nunez: Yes the, when you like the word.
• 17:40
  Andrea Nunez: Integrity is like Are they stealing?
• 17:43
  Andrea Nunez: Like literally stealing?
• 17:45
  Andrea Nunez: No, they're not.
• 17:46
  Andrea Nunez: They're there, they're doing their jobs right, Like they're not Undermining other Pete.
• 17:50
  Andrea Nunez: You know what I mean.
• 17:51
  Andrea Nunez: Like there's just something about that.
• 17:52
  Andrea Nunez: That's like you have to hold yourself to some high moral standard, you know.
• 17:56
  Andrea Nunez: It's like I'm good to job.
• 17:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, I think I think we got it wrong growing up.
• 17:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I think we we grew up Learning at least I did learning that if you suffer, then you're good.
• 18:06
  Carmen Lezeth: So if you're, you know, I mean, if you are Sacrificing and if you're really doing all you can, then somehow that makes you a better person then then the person that's just going in and Doing their job and leaving, and what I've realized in my life and I don't know if this has happened to any of you is the more I put into a company or a person or a client, the more likely they don't give a shit when they get ready to fire me.
• 18:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Move on, layoff people.
• 18:33
  Andrea Nunez: The Lord.
• 18:34
  Andrea Nunez: Yes, I have this experience right.
• 18:37
  Andrea Nunez: That's one of the first things I learned when I started doing consulting.
• 18:40
  Andrea Nunez: I can't want this more than you do.
• 18:42
  Andrea Nunez: I can't be showing up trying to like make this go and like doing the jobs of people who actually work there Because I wanted so bad for you.
• 18:52
  Andrea Nunez: You know what I mean.
• 18:53
  Andrea Nunez: Like this is that whole idea of you, know just.
• 18:58
  Andrea Nunez: I just hate all that that moralizing about it.
• 19:01
  Andrea Nunez: Yeah, I'm sorry, I just was at a client all week.
• 19:04
  Andrea Nunez: I just got home today, like a couple hours ago, so I'm in it.
• 19:08
  Maurio Dawson: I love you for coming on the story for you guys of a place long, long ago where someone got terminated high up in the company and and one of the senior vice presidents came out and said we know this is all very Jarring for everyone and I'm sure everybody's shook up.
• 19:26
  Maurio Dawson: But just consider this a pebble in the water that creates a ripple, and the water just keep on flowing right on after that and say have a great day, go back to work.
• 19:36
  Carmen Lezeth: That was a good thing that they thought that was.
• 19:38
  Maurio Dawson: Yes, yes, I will never Took that with me when I left.
• 19:45
  Maurio Dawson: I'm like you know what?
• 19:46
  Maurio Dawson: Do we know it?
• 19:46
  Maurio Dawson: Because that lets me know you really don't care.
• 19:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me show you my part of the ripple bitch.
• 19:52
  Maurio Dawson: That part.
• 19:53
  Maurio Dawson: Why am I just behind for you?
• 20:00
  Maurio Dawson: You know I'm saying you don't care.
• 20:02
  Carmen Lezeth: You don't care, I'm gonna just, and I tell everyone, if you die today, replace it will be here tomorrow and you'll get in.
• 20:11
  Cynthia Lopez: Maybe I agree with everyone.
• 20:15
  Cynthia Lopez: And I'm going through it right now like I've worked at my place for over ten years and I was always yes, yes, yes, I'll do this, I'll do that, thinking that same mentality.
• 20:25
  Cynthia Lopez: And now I'm like no, they asked me to do something today and I said no, I don't feel like doing that.
• 20:31
  Cynthia Lopez: And they're like oh please, I said I'll think about it.
• 20:34
  Cynthia Lopez: They knew I wasn't going to do it.
• 20:35
  Cynthia Lopez: They found someone else to do it.
• 20:36
  Cynthia Lopez: I said OK and kept them moving.
• 20:41
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, I agree with you, alma.
• 20:43
  Maurio Dawson: Take time, take personal time off and take vacation.
• 20:46
  Maurio Dawson: Take the time to go see your family, Spend time with your family, because those are the people who care about you.
• 20:50
  Maurio Dawson: That job is going to be there, that you are a pig in a wheel that can be replaced.
• 20:54
  Maurio Dawson: So you know you can be replaced and that's the whole thing.
• 21:00
  Maurio Dawson: And then you have people who want you to work over your eight hours and expect you to do extra work and take it gladly, and then they don't understand.
• 21:10
  Maurio Dawson: Well, why are you working?
• 21:11
  Maurio Dawson: We're trying to find you and you're gone.
• 21:14
  Maurio Dawson: Well, my time is up.
• 21:15
  Carmen Lezeth: No, no, my time is up.
• 21:16
  Carmen Lezeth: We're a family here.
• 21:17
  Carmen Lezeth: We're a family.
• 21:18
  Carmen Lezeth: No, no, no, we're not a family.
• 21:20
  Carmen Lezeth: We're not a family, yeah.
• 21:22
  Andrea Nunez: The people who are quiet.
• 21:23
  Andrea Nunez: There's an issue going on, there's some kind of issue happening there that they are unhappy with, that is unaddressed, and so the companies want loyalty, they want people to go the extra mile, they want them to take on extra work and stay late, and all of those things.
• 21:39
  Andrea Nunez: If you want me to do more, what are you giving me for that?
• 21:44
  Andrea Nunez: More and a lot of times it's just the expectation of it, with nothing more being offered most of the time.
• 21:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, I told someone in a day that they're confusing me being a CFO with actually what I do, which is business management.
• 21:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I said the difference is about $400,000.
• 22:00
  Carmen Lezeth: So you want me to be your CFO?
• 22:03
  Carmen Lezeth: We can have that conversation.
• 22:04
  Carmen Lezeth: I totally did, but I'm just over here making my little money, so I'm just going to do this part, which is what we agreed to.
• 22:10
  Carmen Lezeth: You want me to pull up the contract.
• 22:12
  Cynthia Lopez: I was like Cynthia, you were going to say that that I like the new acronym some of the new teenagers have for the BTL, which is Prepare the Others, Because I want to be here, I want to be here.
• 22:28
  Andrea Nunez: I'm going to use that.
• 22:29
  Andrea Nunez: Hi Brian.
• 22:30
  Andrea Nunez: Hi Brian, brian's right though right, you're here with your family and you scoff, it's like OK.
• 22:35
  Andrea Nunez: Most families I know are pretty damn dysfunctional Come on now.
• 22:41
  Andrea Nunez: Tell them, I don't like my family though.
• 22:46
  Maurio Dawson: Like you might not want to bring out my family I'm like.
• 22:48
  Maurio Dawson: Well, I take time away from my family every day.
• 22:53
  Carmen Lezeth: OK, let me get Rick in there, because then I won't be able to have him in the show anywhere except for the parts.
• 22:58
  Rick Costa: I mean I'm going to do the best I can, because I have to live with myself and feel like I'm trying, I'm doing the best I can, doing my part.
• 23:05
  Rick Costa: I have many times gone above and beyond, especially during COVID.
• 23:09
  Rick Costa: There was days where I was literally just to catch up.
• 23:11
  Rick Costa: I was up till 2 o'clock in the morning not getting paid, and I know that's crazy, but I was like I don't want this company to go under, because a lot of companies of this type are going under.
• 23:20
  Rick Costa: So I'm helping him free, but at the same time I'm helping this company not go down, because if I don't, then I got to look for another job.
• 23:28
  Rick Costa: But, like we've talked about this before, once that time is done, 5.30 hits, buy.
• 23:33
  Rick Costa: Like I ain't thinking about the job, no more, it's done Again.
• 23:36
  Rick Costa: Yes, we did this in the beginning, see, but yeah, I start exactly at 8.30, and I finish exactly at 5.30.
• 23:43
  Rick Costa: I'm out my lunch break.
• 23:45
  Rick Costa: I do not exist on my lunch break either.
• 23:47
  Rick Costa: Like, no, like, no, no, no, no.
• 23:49
  Rick Costa: I'm going to do the best I can.
• 23:50
  Rick Costa: I'm going to support, try to do extra if I can, if I have time to do so, but don't ask me to see.
• 23:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I think CEOs, owners of company, need to change their thinking, and I'm stealing something from Gary V who you all know I love which is this idea that if I own the company, I'm the one who has to be working the most, not the people who are working the most, and I love that you can't expect me to care about the company the same way you do Issue your company.
• 24:15
  Rick Costa: You don't want to make it a big buck not me so you can't expect me to care like you do.
• 24:19
  Rick Costa: You're going to go out of your way.
• 24:20
  Rick Costa: You're going to do definitely way more if you need to.
• 24:23
  Carmen Lezeth: But let me see what Brian just wrote.
• 24:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Work ethic is slowly dying, with the younger generation Lack of leadership.
• 24:29
  Carmen Lezeth: I disagree 150%.
• 24:30
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, me too I disagree.
• 24:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Not true at all.
• 24:33
  Carmen Lezeth: I think the younger generation which I'm talking about, gen Z, at the moment actually is doing this right.
• 24:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Their priorities are not to kill themselves, working for people who do not pay them more than minimum wage or a living wage, or making ridiculous profits and then turning around and not giving anything to their workers.
• 24:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Gen Z is saying I'm going to work smarter, not harder.
• 24:57
  Carmen Lezeth: And this world of social media and technology, they have the ability to say you know what?
• 25:02
  Carmen Lezeth: This ain't working for me.
• 25:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to go.
• 25:03
  Carmen Lezeth: And we're all pissed about it because we have old school thinking.
• 25:07
  Carmen Lezeth: When I say we, I mean like Gen X, I mean Gen X and like Boomers.
• 25:10
  Carmen Lezeth: We're in that poverty mentality of like no, I must stay and I must work hard and I must suffer and no, I think they got it right.
• 25:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I love all the Gen Z people I work with far more than I'm going to just say it.
• 25:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Gen X people I work with.
• 25:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Gen Z people just seem to be honest about who they are and what they want.
• 25:31
  Andrea Nunez: Yeah, they're very direct about what they want and they have boundaries, right, yes.
• 25:36
  Andrea Nunez: And there's like and they'll say I am going to take my time off, yeah, 100%, you know.
• 25:41
  Andrea Nunez: And it's like how dare they take their?
• 25:43
  Andrea Nunez: Those kids don't want to work.
• 25:44
  Andrea Nunez: Like, do you give them PTO?
• 25:46
  Andrea Nunez: Are they?
• 25:47
  Andrea Nunez: Is it fake or do you not mean for them to take it Exactly?
• 25:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Alma just said exactly Carmen, we taught our daughter to know her worth and to work hard and play harder.
• 25:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Uh-huh, I have definitely lost my Gen Z daughter, gigi.
• 26:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Welcome to the show.
• 26:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm glad you're here.
• 26:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I feel like it is so different for health care workers, definitely overworked and underpaid, and even your breaks and lunches.
• 26:08
  Carmen Lezeth: You are working because your patients need you, since you relate to that, and that's a ball game, I understand.
• 26:16
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 26:17
  Andrea Nunez: I mean there's like a spectrum right Like I believe you know I see a lot of companies.
• 26:21
  Andrea Nunez: So do you, carmen, like most people, work pretty hard while they're working?
• 26:26
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Andrea Nunez: You know, yes, there are some who are, you know, dicking around on social media or whatever they do, and, you know, taking advantage.
• 26:31
  Andrea Nunez: That is not the majority, though.
• 26:33
  Andrea Nunez: Those are the ones that everyone's talking about and the other.
• 26:39
  Cynthia Lopez: Because I'm agreeing, I'm agreeing, I totally understand, I agree.
• 26:42
  Cynthia Lopez: Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 26:44
  Cynthia Lopez: We all work hard and you know, a lot of times our lunches are interrupted.
• 26:49
  Cynthia Lopez: Oh, I know you're at lunch, but do you mind doing this, or you know they'll be real quick.
• 26:55
  Cynthia Lopez: Oh, I need help with this, or I need an interpreter for that.
• 26:57
  Cynthia Lopez: And you're always getting interrupted.
• 26:59
  Cynthia Lopez: You have no time for yourself, that's crazy.
• 27:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, jessie, I can't believe you're here.
• 27:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi, I love you.
• 27:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Wow, thank you for being here.
• 27:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, everyone.
• 27:09
  Carmen Lezeth: This is one of my family friends from back in the day.
• 27:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I lived in her house growing up.
• 27:16
  Maurio Dawson: Baby.
• 27:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Jessie, I adore you.
• 27:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi, sorry about that.
• 27:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I get thrown when even though all these people that are on my Facebook page I get thrown when people actually show up and come into the show, sorry.
• 27:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, yeah, I think it's a tough time and I think it's more Jen X's fault Because we want to.
• 27:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I think every generation does this thing where we always want to find fault in the generation coming up and I'm not saying that there isn't some issues with Jen X, we can have that conversation too.
• 27:45
  Carmen Lezeth: But I think when it comes to this work stuff and I think quite quitting is the wrong word I think we need to come up with something else that's more positive, because it's not about quite quitting.
• 27:53
  Carmen Lezeth: It's about, like, I'm just doing my job, as you hired me to do in the agreement, that's all I'm not doing, any more than that or any less.
• 28:01
  Maurio Dawson: It's setting boundaries.
• 28:02
  Maurio Dawson: I think it's just as simple as setting boundaries.
• 28:05
  Maurio Dawson: These kids, they say look, we have a contract from nine to five.
• 28:09
  Maurio Dawson: Now I work for you from nine to five.
• 28:12
  Maurio Dawson: Before nine is my time and after five is my time.
• 28:14
  Maurio Dawson: Now, thank you very much, I'm out and they don't have a problem doing that, and I think, with a lot of us, I think we're teaching the younger generation how to do it better, versus like my parents.
• 28:26
  Maurio Dawson: My mom, particularly taught me how to do better than she did, and same thing with my grandmother she taught my mother how to do better than she did.
• 28:34
  Maurio Dawson: So it's just about learning the lessons and passing them down and the kids taking the wisdom from each generation and trying to do it better.
• 28:42
  Maurio Dawson: I think that's really what this is about, and I think the people who are in the older generations are pissed off.
• 28:48
  Maurio Dawson: Well, why don't I think of that?
• 28:51
  Maurio Dawson: I think they're mad because they didn't think of them, but they're stuck in what they've always done.
• 28:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me read what Melanie just wrote, because I think it's very important.
• 28:59
  Carmen Lezeth: If you can work smarter not harder more power to you, but someone has to be the janitor or you will be, working smarter, in a very sticky place.
• 29:05
  Carmen Lezeth: Melanie, we appreciate all hardworking people, so I think the idea of working smarter is more about putting up like what Mario said and what Rick had mentioned putting up boundaries.
• 29:16
  Carmen Lezeth: So it doesn't matter what job it is.
• 29:17
  Carmen Lezeth: If you're working past your eight hours and you don't get overtime and you're coming in on a Sunday because there's then, I think, ceos and bosses and people who hire other people managers one of the biggest things I do is tell them you're treating your staff wrong.
• 29:32
  Carmen Lezeth: People will hire me to come, and they do this with Andrea too.
• 29:34
  Carmen Lezeth: They hire us to come in and fix the problem with their teams.
• 29:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, that's usually the gentle thing that people come to me about and I will tell you I've said this a million times 95% of the time my problem ends up being I have to talk to the person who hired me.
• 29:48
  Carmen Lezeth: They're the problem, not the team, because they're abusing what the team is willing or able or capable of doing.
• 29:55
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 29:55
  Carmen Lezeth: So this is for everybody.
• 29:57
  Carmen Lezeth: This is for every industry.
• 29:58
  Carmen Lezeth: It's about making sure you have boundaries so that people aren't taking advantage of you.
• 30:02
  Carmen Lezeth: And then people like me and Andrea, who have the privilege of being able to work with people who hire us, we tell them the truth, which sometimes works, and we get more to work or we get fired.
• 30:14
  Andrea Nunez: That's all the competition.
• 30:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, they want someone to come in and agree with them Yep, it's all them Especially when I make sure I get you know my I don't know how Andrea does it, but I get paid a month in advance.
• 30:25
  Carmen Lezeth: So like my bill goes out on the 15th of the month prior to the month they have to pay me.
• 30:29
  Carmen Lezeth: So like I'll get paid this Friday for April.
• 30:31
  Carmen Lezeth: So I come in, they get mad or upset once I do my assessment and they fire me.
• 30:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like that's all good, thank you, I got like three weeks off the whole day.
• 30:39
  Cynthia Lopez: That's all good Please.
• 30:43
  Rick Costa: I've had several jobs where, like when it comes to lunch break time, they all stay at their desk and eat, and then I'd be like, okay, I'll see you later when you going.
• 30:51
  Rick Costa: I'm gonna go get some food.
• 30:52
  Rick Costa: Are you gonna come back when my break is over?
• 30:54
  Rick Costa: I'll be back.
• 30:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Right Done.
• 30:57
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what we used to do at the company I almost said the name of the company.
• 30:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Anybody who knows me knows where I used to work.
• 31:01
  Carmen Lezeth: But we used to turn around and we would buy, we would cater in food, we would have cuts for people to take naps, foosball tables.
• 31:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Mario, you know, we had a beautiful building and everything.
• 31:14
  Carmen Lezeth: All of that was designed for you to never leave the office, leave, and it worked.
• 31:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me write.
• 31:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me read what Jesse wrote.
• 31:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's okay to work longer hours to get my own tasks done, but it's important that we know our firms appreciate it, appreciate and recognize the effort.
• 31:28
  Carmen Lezeth: That's usually through bonuses et cetera.
• 31:31
  Carmen Lezeth: No one should feel like they are not seen Exactly.
• 31:34
  Carmen Lezeth: That just summed it all up.
• 31:35
  Carmen Lezeth: That's exactly what we've been talking about.
• 31:37
  Cynthia Lopez: This is my third year without a bonus.
• 31:40
  Cynthia Lopez: Yeah, why?
• 31:43
  Cynthia Lopez: Because of budget, they're building all these new buildings that are half empty and, oh sorry, there's no money for your bonus this year.
• 31:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Isn't it even worse when you see them building stuff and they're telling you they have no money, I just want to shoot.
• 32:02
  Cynthia Lopez: Then they get a seven million dollar donation from an actor and her husband for one of the centers and again, we get no bonus.
• 32:12
  Cynthia Lopez: Then just recently, they sent out a survey for all of us to anonymously tell them how we feel about our managers and if our managers are doing their jobs.
• 32:22
  Cynthia Lopez: Let me tell you, the president sent an email saying she heard us and it's across the board that the managers are not doing their jobs and it's noted and they're going to fix it, blah, blah, blah.
• 32:33
  Cynthia Lopez: The following day it's administration or staff appreciation, whatever day.
• 32:38
  Cynthia Lopez: And what did they do?
• 32:41
  Cynthia Lopez: Instead of appreciating everyone, they only gave random people gifts, like, just random, like they announced it in the email.
• 32:50
  Cynthia Lopez: It's like either you do all, you do none right and you don't announce it to just kind of throw it in your face.
• 32:56
  Cynthia Lopez: You just told us you heard our problems, you heard our issues, but then you're going to turn around and say, oh, we take your, your information and all your input, these wholehearted, and all this and that, but you know, oh, we can't give you anything.
• 33:11
  Cynthia Lopez: So no bonus, no gift, no, nothing.
• 33:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I think your company should spend a lot of money and hire Andrea to come in and fix these issues.
• 33:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Gigi said I think Google is like that.
• 33:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Now they provide everything for their work.
• 33:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, I mean all the big.
• 33:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean we didn't invent it, but I mean all the tech companies that started, I think, with like Apple, you know, back in the day so yeah, alma said I do not eat in the lunchroom, I arrange it so I have a private space to eat, because people don't respect your time and if I work one minute, I charge 15 minutes of overtime.
• 33:39
  Maurio Dawson: Good, she does, she does.
• 33:40
  Maurio Dawson: That's the truth.
• 33:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Really good.
• 33:43
  Maurio Dawson: She does the truth.
• 33:44
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, she's like one minute, okay, 15 minutes, and she's like 20 minutes of an hour, whatever you know.
• 33:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Brian just said I'm lucky with the company I work for.
• 33:53
  Carmen Lezeth: I have a lot of perks there.
• 33:54
  Carmen Lezeth: My team is awesome.
• 33:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, brian, you really love where you work.
• 33:57
  Carmen Lezeth: It's good because really it's a rarity and it's something to be very grateful for.
• 34:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Go ahead, nj.
• 34:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry.
• 34:02
  Andrea Nunez: I said they're treating it right.
• 34:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Ben, that's good.
• 34:05
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 34:06
  Carmen Lezeth: I think he's in a management position, though that changes things a bit, you know what I mean.
• 34:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Like I'm not saying that his workers aren't, but he's also, I believe, in a management position, which most managers are always pretty fine until they're not, you know.
• 34:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, it's kind of nice to be the person in charge until you know, things fall apart in your team socks or whatever.
• 34:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Jesse just said.
• 34:27
  Carmen Lezeth: I have an amazing firm as well, thank goodness, 26.
• 34:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Wow, okay, let me explain something to you.
• 34:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Jesse is when I was in Collegard and Drum Core.
• 34:37
  Carmen Lezeth: So I remember when Tommy Lee was here.
• 34:38
  Carmen Lezeth: So Jackie Dunne, who's also in my book, was like my best friend and we, you know, we hung out all the time.
• 34:46
  Carmen Lezeth: We were always doing rehearsals together.
• 34:47
  Carmen Lezeth: We were like best buddies.
• 34:48
  Carmen Lezeth: So I ended up living with them basically for a long time.
• 34:52
  Carmen Lezeth: And Jesse is the little kid who was like 10 years old.
• 34:56
  Carmen Lezeth: So there's no way you're 26 years working anywhere.
• 34:59
  Carmen Lezeth: It was like a little 10 year old kid.
• 35:02
  Carmen Lezeth: So when she just rolled that, I'm like what I got his heads.
• 35:06
  Carmen Lezeth: I have been denial.
• 35:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you, I have been denial.
• 35:13
  Carmen Lezeth: I really am.
• 35:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I cannot deal with.
• 35:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I keep thinking like, oh my god, I'm so happy, I'm like I'm not 50.
• 35:19
  Carmen Lezeth: And then, like I'm talking to Charlie and Charlie's like yeah, and he's telling me like I think he said he's like 65 or something what I was like.
• 35:26
  Maurio Dawson: Tommy, remember, you remember coming to Alma's baby shower.
• 35:28
  Maurio Dawson: So come on now Stop and my baby graduates from college next month.
• 35:34
  Carmen Lezeth: See, no, no Time is going to look at you, I forgot.
• 35:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Look, I'm just saying I think time is amazing and and I love it, but sometimes it throws me and I'm like, yeah, did it go by that quick?
• 35:49
  Carmen Lezeth: And now this little kid is graduated from college.
• 35:53
  Cynthia Lopez: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Carmen Lezeth: That's all I'm saying.
• 35:54
  Cynthia Lopez: Yeah.
• 35:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I've seen 26 years.
• 35:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't even envision you 26 years old.
• 36:01
  Maurio Dawson: Let alone working at that for 26 years.
• 36:04
  Carmen Lezeth: That is the coolest thing ever.
• 36:05
  Cynthia Lopez: You couldn't even remember how old I was.
• 36:07
  Carmen Lezeth: You couldn't believe it I know, because I still don't, because you're another one who's still in my head as a little kid.
• 36:12
  Rick Costa: Her baby is 27.
• 36:14
  Carmen Lezeth: She said she said oh my god, yeah, I.
• 36:23
  Carmen Lezeth: You see what I'm saying when I just give a little 10 year old kid in your head, that's what you're thinking and I'm like, oh my god, look at little Jesse is on the show in the comments.
• 36:31
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so cute.
• 36:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, it's like a live car.
• 36:37
  Carmen Lezeth: We got it together.
• 36:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, you know what?
• 36:38
  Carmen Lezeth: If my show bitch, I can do what I want.
• 36:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, have a moment.
• 36:42
  Maurio Dawson: Do you, do you.
• 36:46
  Carmen Lezeth: No, that is so cool.
• 36:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, no, I look at.
• 36:48
  Carmen Lezeth: I hope that we figure out a way to change things, and I think Andre and I kind of have the same philosophy when it comes to work.
• 36:53
  Carmen Lezeth: I find I do more work with the people who hire me than actually the teams.
• 36:56
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know about you and Dr.
• 36:57
  Carmen Lezeth: How does that sound?
• 36:58
  Carmen Lezeth: What do you do?
• 36:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Is it the same thing?
• 37:00
  Cynthia Lopez: Yeah.
• 37:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, and it's like learning how to speak to people.
• 37:05
  Carmen Lezeth: Like, like one of the clients I work with, I'm constantly just telling him how great he is.
• 37:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Like I'm like, wow, I wish I understood all of that.
• 37:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Like it's just amazing.
• 37:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
• 37:15
  Carmen Lezeth: By the way, I was wondering could we buy two new computers?
• 37:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Because you know, just as you were saying, like the reason, it would just be easier because it's faster.
• 37:22
  Carmen Lezeth: And he's like, of course, yeah, by the two computers, no problem.
• 37:25
  Carmen Lezeth: He has no idea that I just because if I had just walked in and said can I have this approved, we'd be having a huge fight of spending money.
• 37:30
  Carmen Lezeth: But I have to coax it with, like how great he is and oh, if I can research faster on the better computer, you know.
• 37:36
  Carmen Lezeth: So these are people who need new computers.
• 37:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I think I spend most of my time doing that, learning how to manipulate people to understand and get past their egos.
• 37:49
  Cynthia Lopez: And they've done that.
• 37:50
  Rick Costa: Yeah, my computer was ridiculously slow and my boss couldn't understand why I wasn't finishing things.
• 37:54
  Rick Costa: I'm like this piece of crap computer.
• 37:56
  Rick Costa: I can't get nothing done because I have to say wait every first five, to wait 30 seconds for the screen to change.
• 38:00
  Rick Costa: Yeah, it's too slow.
• 38:01
  Rick Costa: Ok, come on.
• 38:02
  Rick Costa: So we finally got a new one.
• 38:06
  Carmen Lezeth: All right, so is that it?
• 38:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Are we done?
• 38:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just kidding.
• 38:08
  Carmen Lezeth: No, I'm just kidding, ok.
• 38:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm still a little in shock.
• 38:14
  Maurio Dawson: Come on back girl, come on back, bring it back.
• 38:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Talk amongst yourselves.
• 38:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Talk amongst yourselves.
• 38:21
  Rick Costa: Well, what else is there to talk about?
• 38:22
  Rick Costa: You said you were talking about the.
• 38:24
  Rick Costa: You said that somebody talked about the.
• 38:25
  Maurio Dawson: Congress.
• 38:26
  Maurio Dawson: The House passed a bill to and it was it was on both sides to if China doesn't sell their part of TikTok, that it'll be banned in the United States.
• 38:37
  Maurio Dawson: And now it's gone to the Senate for approval and if it's if it's on both sides, and most likely it will pass, and President Biden said that he will sign the bill.
• 38:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, and I just want to say that I'm completely aghast that we are at this point, because it's all bullshit, and I don't know when the last time you went to the gap or you went anywhere and noticed that things are made in China all over the place.
• 38:58
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, because China is no, china is.
• 39:01
  Carmen Lezeth: They're not sending any more propaganda than Facebook or Twitter or any other social media.
• 39:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you what this is about from my point of view.
• 39:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, from my point of view.
• 39:11
  Carmen Lezeth: If you haven't figured it out yet, somebody in the United States wants to buy TikTok, and why is that?
• 39:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Because TikTok is so lucrative and there's over, I think, 150 billion people and I'm billion million people using this every single day.
• 39:25
  Carmen Lezeth: So what the United States is trying to do and you know, I love my country less and less every motherfucking day, but I love my country.
• 39:31
  Carmen Lezeth: But if you haven't figured it out yet, what they're trying to do is get in a position where an American has to buy TikTok.
• 39:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, and this is all under the guise of security, where, in fact, we do business with China all the time, everywhere, everywhere we do big companies.
• 39:50
  Carmen Lezeth: All Pinterest has Chinese ties.
• 39:53
  Carmen Lezeth: There's a whole list of them.
• 39:56
  Carmen Lezeth: So it's all a farce and it's all bullshit and it's sad.
• 40:00
  Carmen Lezeth: It's sad to me because we should be better than this.
• 40:02
  Carmen Lezeth: If you want to do something about social media, let's talk about putting some guardrails on social media.
• 40:07
  Carmen Lezeth: We can have that conversation.
• 40:08
  Carmen Lezeth: But like just singling out TikTok with this farce of scary Chinese people are stealing your information.
• 40:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Google has my information.
• 40:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I'm worried about how much Google.
• 40:20
  Carmen Lezeth: All I do is sneeze about a Samsung television.
• 40:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm getting some television stuff and, oh and, where is Samsung from?
• 40:29
  Carmen Lezeth: So this is my thing, stop it, stop it.
• 40:33
  Maurio Dawson: I think part of it is political.
• 40:34
  Maurio Dawson: I think some of it's a little political, because I know that I think our Gen Z pulled a prank on Trump and about that rally and that was all done through TikTok and so and they all went in and bought all the tickets to a rally or something and then no one was there.
• 40:50
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 40:51
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just getting out of hand.
• 40:52
  Carmen Lezeth: And all this being scared about.
• 40:54
  Carmen Lezeth: You know China, I'm fine with it.
• 40:56
  Carmen Lezeth: If you want to divest every single company that does business with China, then I'm all for it.
• 41:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh yes, let's protect ourselves.
• 41:01
  Carmen Lezeth: But making it just about TikTok, it's all bullshit.
• 41:04
  Maurio Dawson: Samsung is Korea.
• 41:05
  Maurio Dawson: But my point isn't about.
• 41:07
  Maurio Dawson: My point is about?
• 41:09
  Carmen Lezeth: my point is is that?
• 41:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Did you say it was Chinese?
• 41:10
  Carmen Lezeth: It doesn't matter.
• 41:11
  Carmen Lezeth: The point is is that Google has all my information?
• 41:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, and no matter what, facebook has all my information Right.
• 41:17
  Carmen Lezeth: They own WhatsApp.
• 41:18
  Carmen Lezeth: They own Messenger.
• 41:19
  Carmen Lezeth: They own.
• 41:20
  Maurio Dawson: Instagram, instagram.
• 41:22
  Carmen Lezeth: All of our information is out there.
• 41:23
  Carmen Lezeth: This is all a farce.
• 41:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, if you have an issue with China, I want you to go through all of your clothes tomorrow and see where you bought them and see where they came from.
• 41:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Go and look at all the plates you bought.
• 41:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Look at the stuff you have in your house and then look at all the companies that have connections and ties with China and then you're going to start to understand that it's all bullshit.
• 41:41
  Carmen Lezeth: It's because somebody in the United States wants to own TikTok.
• 41:44
  Carmen Lezeth: It's always about profit in this country, always, and I'm all for it, but not when you're lying to me.
• 41:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Do not lie to me to make money.
• 41:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Do not lie to me.
• 41:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Just say you want to motherfucking buy TikTok and we're good.
• 41:55
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 41:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Just say you know what?
• 41:57
  Carmen Lezeth: This is a great, lucrative thing.
• 41:58
  Carmen Lezeth: I think we should pull away from China.
• 41:59
  Carmen Lezeth: We should own it.
• 42:01
  Carmen Lezeth: We can make profit here, blah, blah.
• 42:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I'd be all for that shit, right?
• 42:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry it is all about good joy, but you've got to be factual about this shit.
• 42:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm so done with this country lying to us and getting us all up in the frenzy.
• 42:15
  Maurio Dawson: I love it when you get robbed.
• 42:23
  Carmen Lezeth: You just get like wow, just say it with the whole chest.
• 42:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Tell me how you get it.
• 42:29
  Maurio Dawson: No.
• 42:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Not at all.
• 42:31
  Maurio Dawson: Not at all.
• 42:32
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just tired of the scare tactics.
• 42:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm tired of it.
• 42:35
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 42:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean go ahead.
• 42:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I'll let other people talk now.
• 42:37
  Maurio Dawson: No, no, you said it.
• 42:39
  Maurio Dawson: You say it like you mean it, you don't.
• 42:40
  Maurio Dawson: I'm here for you.
• 42:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Don't get me started with Elon Musk.
• 42:44
  Carmen Lezeth: But okay, gigi, I hear you, yeah.
• 42:46
  Maurio Dawson: Do you heard about that with him?
• 42:47
  Maurio Dawson: And Don Lemon, right that Oh-Hoo thing.
• 42:49
  Maurio Dawson: Don Lemon did an interview with him Because Don Lemon was supposed to be doing a show that was supposed to be going over to X, and I guess Don Lemon really challenged him and called him on the floor about his anti-Semitism comments and all this other stuff, and he really called him on it.
• 43:05
  Maurio Dawson: And so then all of a sudden, elon Musk backed out, but at that point it was too late.
• 43:09
  Maurio Dawson: My dog is about to bark.
• 43:11
  Maurio Dawson: Sorry, it was too late and you know, but now he canceled the show on X.
• 43:16
  Maurio Dawson: But Don Lemon's like look, I got the truth and it's coming down no matter what.
• 43:20
  Maurio Dawson: And so people are really some people don't care.
• 43:23
  Maurio Dawson: You know, that's the bad part.
• 43:25
  Maurio Dawson: Some people are really upset about the interview.
• 43:26
  Maurio Dawson: Some people don't care about the interview.
• 43:28
  Maurio Dawson: Some people are like I'm giving away my Tesla lives.
• 43:30
  Maurio Dawson: You're lying.
• 43:33
  Carmen Lezeth: You're being all my Tesla, you're lying.
• 43:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I love when people protest my damaging the stuff they bought.
• 43:38
  Maurio Dawson: Why would you do that, Like yeah?
• 43:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm against Budweiser.
• 43:42
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to dump it all up.
• 43:43
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, budweiser already got you on my bed.
• 43:50
  Maurio Dawson: Ok, don't buy it I mean whatever.
• 43:52
  Maurio Dawson: Go off.
• 43:54
  Maurio Dawson: I guess you know like whatever.
• 43:56
  Carmen Lezeth: OK, but, brian, misinformation is everywhere.
• 43:59
  Carmen Lezeth: But you know what?
• 44:00
  Carmen Lezeth: That's been forever, that's been our entire lives.
• 44:03
  Carmen Lezeth: The difference is now because information is so easy to get, it's so easy to verify.
• 44:09
  Carmen Lezeth: We lazy motherfuckers.
• 44:10
  Carmen Lezeth: We so lazy we just go watch one little thing.
• 44:13
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not going to bring it back to that, rick, I'm watching, just saying we do this shit all the time.
• 44:19
  Carmen Lezeth: We have to get better about reading entire articles before commenting, watching entire movies or programs or whatever.
• 44:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Before commenting, do our research.
• 44:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Misinformation has been around since the beginning of time.
• 44:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember Snake?
• 44:33
  Carmen Lezeth: What was it?
• 44:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Snake oil salesman.
• 44:35
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, snake oil.
• 44:36
  Carmen Lezeth: This thing is just now.
• 44:37
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just so abundant and we're lazy motherfuckers.
• 44:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Don't be a lazy motherfucker.
• 44:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Let's go big, let's go big Stay with your host.
• 44:45
  Rick Costa: Yes, this misinformation.
• 44:48
  Rick Costa: She been around for a long time.
• 44:49
  Rick Costa: She ain't going nowhere.
• 44:50
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but we could be better.
• 44:51
  Carmen Lezeth: We could be better, and that's why this thing with TikTok bothers me.
• 44:54
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't give a shit whether you like TikTok or not, I don't care, I use it just to promote myself.
• 44:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I started doing it again.
• 44:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just tired of the lies.
• 45:01
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, I'm really, I'm really upset.
• 45:03
  Carmen Lezeth: And now, when our country is doing this as a government continuously and I know Andrea, I can already see Andrea's like I've always been lying to her.
• 45:11
  Maurio Dawson: She's been called a far.
• 45:12
  Carmen Lezeth: She's like that, I can tell you, I'm glad you're seeing it.
• 45:17
  Rick Costa: It's the X file.
• 45:18
  Andrea Nunez: I'm so glad you're seeing it.
• 45:18
  Andrea Nunez: But yes, yeah.
• 45:21
  Andrea Nunez: Thank you for catching up with me.
• 45:24
  Carmen Lezeth: She's like we're dying over here.
• 45:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like I'm sorry I know I'm going to fight it today because I'm just I'm really tired of not just the lies that are going out, but that we're just so easily gullible to fucking take it in Like no, find the truth.
• 45:39
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 45:39
  Carmen Lezeth: And I'm just about to say that that's the worst thing that was just saying that X files what.
• 45:44
  Rick Costa: That's why I was singing a song.
• 45:45
  Rick Costa: The truth was out there.
• 45:46
  Rick Costa: X file, yeah.
• 45:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Steve Mananchin, who was the Treasury Secretary under Trump.
• 45:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Steve Mnuchin.
• 45:53
  Rick Costa: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Carmen Lezeth: He's putting a group of people together because they want to buy TikTok.
• 45:58
  Carmen Lezeth: And wasn't that interesting?
• 45:59
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the same guy who got like bazillion dollars from the Saudi government as he walked out of the White House.
• 46:05
  Carmen Lezeth: How come, you know, all up in arms about that, but now him and a group of his friends want to buy TikTok.
• 46:10
  Carmen Lezeth: For our safety.
• 46:13
  Carmen Lezeth: For our safety, of course, please, please.
• 46:17
  Maurio Dawson: And Rick Austin was turning it back.
• 46:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know.
• 46:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, well, I feel like you guys got to give in some more input, because I just too much on fire.
• 46:26
  Maurio Dawson: No, no, no, no, no.
• 46:27
  Maurio Dawson: It was joyful to watch you.
• 46:29
  Maurio Dawson: It was all about the joy.
• 46:32
  Andrea Nunez: It was all about the joy.
• 46:34
  Maurio Dawson: It was all about the joy, and it was joyful to watch you Stay with your whole chest, just your whole chest.
• 46:39
  Maurio Dawson: It was love, you know what's going to happen now?
• 46:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to get all these damn motherfucking emails about me swearing that's what's going to happen.
• 46:44
  Andrea Nunez: Right, it's going to happen.
• 46:46
  Andrea Nunez: I'm going to be like what.
• 46:47
  Andrea Nunez: It brings me joy to see you finally seeing it?
• 46:50
  Maurio Dawson: all that's it, because it's all about the joy.
• 46:53
  Andrea Nunez: OK, how long is that going to be Long?
• 46:55
  Carmen Lezeth: enough.
• 46:55
  Carmen Lezeth: No, wait, wait, wait.
• 46:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, we're going to get into this fight.
• 46:57
  Carmen Lezeth: We can, andrea.
• 46:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Andrea is a how can I say?
• 47:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Or used to be a liberal hugging tree crazy person.
• 47:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, you were.
• 47:07
  Carmen Lezeth: That's why we used to get into fights, and I'm more in the middle.
• 47:10
  Andrea Nunez: I don't that has a connotation, but yeah, I know that's why I said it.
• 47:14
  Carmen Lezeth: So people don't understand.
• 47:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Ok, liberal liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal, and I'm not Liberal liberal, but I'm not on the right at all.
• 47:22
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not on the right at all.
• 47:23
  Carmen Lezeth: But, I'm like middle, middle, and I was much more stupid.
• 47:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Kind of hate using this word because it's bullshit.
• 47:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Right Like you can't even say the word anymore because they've stolen and co-opted patriotism.
• 47:32
  Carmen Lezeth: I used to be patriotic in a different way than Andrea was.
• 47:36
  Carmen Lezeth: We were getting into fights about it, andrea Hippy.
• 47:40
  Carmen Lezeth: So what up, brian?
• 47:42
  Carmen Lezeth: What's Serenity now?
• 47:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Serenity.
• 47:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Is that what he wants.
• 47:45
  Rick Costa: That's from Sly's, sly's, sly's.
• 47:47
  Maurio Dawson: Sly's.
• 47:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, we in the hood, here we hanging out.
• 47:50
  Carmen Lezeth: This is how it happens.
• 47:51
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 47:52
  Carmen Lezeth: We're just chilling and I'm on fire tonight.
• 47:54
  Carmen Lezeth: That's all that's happening.
• 47:55
  Carmen Lezeth: That's it, andrea would be a hippie.
• 47:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't understand.
• 48:00
  Maurio Dawson: Because you call her a tree.
• 48:01
  Maurio Dawson: You call her a tree-hugging liberal.
• 48:04
  Carmen Lezeth: But is a hippie a bad thing?
• 48:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I'd rather be a hippie than whatever it is.
• 48:07
  Carmen Lezeth: We being over there in Texas.
• 48:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Brian, is a hippie a bad thing, or tree-hugging thing a bad thing?
• 48:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm confusion.
• 48:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm asking to explain.
• 48:14
  Andrea Nunez: Yeah, I mean it has a crunchy granola breakfast kind of content.
• 48:18
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, that's yeah.
• 48:20
  Andrea Nunez: Who was?
• 48:20
  Carmen Lezeth: wrong with that.
• 48:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I would rather be that I'm not saying, there's anything wrong with it.
• 48:23
  Andrea Nunez: I just am saying I don't think it's accurate.
• 48:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Today it's not accurate, but I'm saying me and you, me and you together, we were those kind of people.
• 48:32
  Carmen Lezeth: I was more conservative.
• 48:36
  Andrea Nunez: The more centrist and I was much more like you know, Lefty, I'm going to vote for Al Sharpton.
• 48:42
  Maurio Dawson: Well, damn, ok, you were real left.
• 48:45
  Carmen Lezeth: That's a hippie, that's a hippie, that's a hippie, that's a hippie.
• 48:47
  Carmen Lezeth: I love Al Sharpton but I was not going to vote for him.
• 48:50
  Maurio Dawson: Oh my god, look, even Mario was like what is wrong with you?
• 48:53
  Maurio Dawson: He said Al Sharpton, I was like, come on, please, come again.
• 48:56
  Maurio Dawson: I did it in the primary.
• 48:58
  Carmen Lezeth: I voted for Al Sharpton oh.
• 49:01
  Cynthia Lopez: OK.
• 49:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Jesse, I was saying I'm not sure a tree hug in liberal is bad.
• 49:04
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's exactly.
• 49:06
  Andrea Nunez: No, it's definitely not bad, I'm not the same was bad, I just didn't think it was accurate.
• 49:10
  Andrea Nunez: But anyway, go ahead.
• 49:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying with me and you.
• 49:12
  Carmen Lezeth: It was accurate, Because I had an American flag on my car up until recently.
• 49:16
  Maurio Dawson: Was so high.
• 49:18
  Carmen Lezeth: I would never and Jerry would never have an American flag on your car.
• 49:23
  Andrea Nunez: Never, I never had, never would, never could, never will.
• 49:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I never will, even because I'm sad.
• 49:27
  Carmen Lezeth: I need our country.
• 49:29
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not talking about our government.
• 49:30
  Carmen Lezeth: I need people in this country to get better Better about racism, better about homophobia, better about all the isms, better about sexism.
• 49:39
  Carmen Lezeth: We got to get on point.
• 49:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Got to get on point.
• 49:41
  Carmen Lezeth: Mm-hmm, we started on race.
• 49:43
  Carmen Lezeth: We don't usually talk about race, but I will go down there because I'm in the mood today.
• 49:47
  Maurio Dawson: I got time to date.
• 49:49
  Cynthia Lopez: I got time to date you know we all started with that Right.
• 49:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, carly said it, though.
• 50:00
  Carmen Lezeth: He said, you know, it's just wanting people to be better.
• 50:03
  Carmen Lezeth: It's true, wanting people to like.
• 50:06
  Carmen Lezeth: That is what I want.
• 50:06
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what I want the show to be.
• 50:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I keep saying it's all about the joy, because I want people to start thinking and being real, you know, and being.
• 50:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Stop listening to everybody else and do your own research and be really solid and be open-minded.
• 50:19
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, and if you have a problem with people who you think are others, the problem is you, it's not other people Like.
• 50:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Why hate so much?
• 50:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Why hate people that you don't understand?
• 50:30
  Carmen Lezeth: And stop using the motherfucking Bible for everything as your excuse for why you do stuff.
• 50:34
  Carmen Lezeth: That's not what Jesus would do.
• 50:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying sorry, I don't mean to throw the Bible in there, but you know a lot of people try to throw the Bible as a reason for justifying what they do.
• 50:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Stop it.
• 50:43
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 50:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Stop it.
• 50:44
  Carmen Lezeth: There's not a way to answer that.
• 50:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey Jess, how do we now think American flags mean a certain candidate's supporters?
• 50:51
  Carmen Lezeth: That doesn't make sense to me.
• 50:52
  Carmen Lezeth: It's considered almost a negative thing.
• 50:55
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah, because so many people who are patriots, who are patriots, are using that as their symbol and it doesn't necessarily represent the feelings of all Americans anymore.
• 51:07
  Maurio Dawson: There was a time where all Americans, every American, felt proud to be an American.
• 51:11
  Maurio Dawson: But even but in me, as a minority, my experience in this country is very different.
• 51:17
  Maurio Dawson: So I've never just been that person to represent a flag, because I had family who lived in the South, who had an American flag, and then you go down to, you know, go down the road and you see an American flag with a Confederate flag standing on top of it.
• 51:29
  Maurio Dawson: So my experience is very different with any American flag.
• 51:32
  Maurio Dawson: So that representation for me I'm only speaking for me it has a different connotation.
• 51:38
  Maurio Dawson: I can't speak for other people because people have a different experience, because there are a lot of immigrants who come here who are very proud to be in this country and who are happy to be from the oppressed countries that they've come from.
• 51:47
  Maurio Dawson: So they are happy to represent that flag.
• 51:48
  Maurio Dawson: Me, however, my life experience does not represent that, so that's why I don't do it, but I'm speaking for me, that's it.
• 51:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Are you speaking for you?
• 52:00
  Maurio Dawson: It's like what you said.
• 52:01
  Maurio Dawson: No, I just say general.
• 52:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I still believe and sound like Clinton right now.
• 52:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I still believe in a place called home.
• 52:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Look at, that's what all about.
• 52:13
  Carmen Lezeth: The joy is right.
• 52:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Like I really always try to see the good, I always want to believe in the best.
• 52:18
  Carmen Lezeth: I always want to believe that we can be what I need us to be or what I hope us to be.
• 52:21
  Carmen Lezeth: And what pisses me off is that's been.
• 52:24
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not even dampened, it's been crushed, and it breaks my heart, you know.
• 52:30
  Carmen Lezeth: It breaks my heart because I think this country still stands for something.
• 52:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, for all the people that come here, and white people keep thinking that only black people or brown people keep coming to this country.
• 52:39
  Carmen Lezeth: White people came to this country too, like, so you know, all this hate to people on the border from the south, all this hatred and anger.
• 52:48
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just vile and it says more about you than it does to the beautiful Let me just say it this way the beautiful, wonderful people who are doing their best to have a better life and see some Shining light from the United States, possibly to make a decent living.
• 53:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, you know my, my sister-in-law, baata, is from Poland and she came to this country.
• 53:10
  Carmen Lezeth: My ex-husband is from Israel and he came to this country and you know what?
• 53:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Because they have white skin, they didn't feel the hatred and the pain that Latinos and people who come across the border have to deal with.
• 53:23
  Carmen Lezeth: And what I am angry about is that we do this to each other, that we do this pain and this, this nastiness, to brown and black people.
• 53:32
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, and and I don't know where along the way, white people started believing that this is their country and that the rest of us, the rest of us, are just fucking visiting.
• 53:41
  Carmen Lezeth: This is my country.
• 53:43
  Carmen Lezeth: This is my country.
• 53:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I was born and raised here and I do.
• 53:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I love my country, but you guys got to get this shit together, stop being racist.
• 53:50
  Carmen Lezeth: And and if your first thought is I'm not racist, that means you're racist, because if you were, you wouldn't have to motherfucking say it.
• 53:58
  Carmen Lezeth: So you got to get it together, and that's the difference.
• 54:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I used to believe we could get there.
• 54:04
  Carmen Lezeth: What's happening to me now?
• 54:05
  Carmen Lezeth: I Don't know.
• 54:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know and I've never felt like that.
• 54:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I've never felt like that and that's why I took the flag off my car.
• 54:12
  Carmen Lezeth: After 30 years, being in LA Makes me say it.
• 54:16
  Carmen Lezeth: That's my god, sister.
• 54:26
  Rick Costa: George to K mr Sulu for the Star Trek.
• 54:28
  Rick Costa: So when that whole Pearl Harbor and he and he was a kid and they were putting yeah, and they were like, go back to your country.
• 54:38
  Rick Costa: He's like this is my country.
• 54:39
  Rick Costa: What do you?
• 54:40
  Carmen Lezeth: want me to go back to.
• 54:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it's just, you know, like I, I just believe that we are better than we're behaving as individuals and as a society.
• 54:51
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, and you know, okay, we make fun of whatever I mean.
• 54:54
  Carmen Lezeth: I know y'all are lovely and awesome people and you know all about the joy.
• 54:57
  Carmen Lezeth: The whole concept is that idea of hope, that we can See that little light and try to find joy in things instead of hatred.
• 55:04
  Carmen Lezeth: If you don't understand something, if you're uncomfortable with something, then then deal with that for yourself.
• 55:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Don't get angry with other people.
• 55:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Don't fucking get a gun and kill people because you're angry.
• 55:14
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 55:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, don't like just I.
• 55:16
  Carmen Lezeth: There's just so many things in this country that I wish I could fix by myself, like with it my little magic.
• 55:20
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, I, I spoke to this woman the other day.
• 55:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I shouldn't think woman, that's wrong, see.
• 55:27
  Carmen Lezeth: So I'm trying to.
• 55:27
  Carmen Lezeth: I spoke to a man who does drag.
• 55:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, and I'm sorry I Come a man who does drag because I'm not sure what the right pronoun.
• 55:39
  Rick Costa: I'm sorry, it's a drag queen, I guess.
• 55:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Look, I'm just being careful because, anyway, the other day, and he was talking about how painful it is To just do this thing that he loved to do, that he used to do all the time in the 80s and the 90s in the clubs, you know what I mean and and just talking about how, like, how, things have changed, that he can't express himself because then people Want to call him gay and call him all these things.
• 56:02
  Andrea Nunez: and be me, I'm like I Don't even get it, I don't even get it and understand it.
• 56:07
  Carmen Lezeth: You know just, he's like a person.
• 56:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, for sure, I'm just trying to.
• 56:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm trying to get better.
• 56:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I never asked what the right pronouns are, or whatever, but I think, I think he's just a man of this dress.
• 56:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so that's too much on it.
• 56:18
  Maurio Dawson: I'm overcompensated my wife made a comment.
• 56:20
  Maurio Dawson: I think she's right.
• 56:22
  Carmen Lezeth: You know the greatest man I'm given to us in the Bible is that we love others as ourselves to.
• 56:33
  Rick Costa: Love them, not to judge them them.
• 56:35
  Rick Costa: So all those who weaponize the Bible are just wrong.
• 56:38
  Carmen Lezeth: You can make the right one too.
• 56:39
  Rick Costa: Yeah, exactly.
• 56:41
  Carmen Lezeth: They villainize immigrants, but if they were to stop work just one day, it would paralyze this country.
• 56:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, brian, we're not gonna talk about firearms.
• 56:48
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm so sorry, even brought it up.
• 56:50
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, okay, okay, everyone's in the house now.
• 56:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, yeah, there's a.
• 56:56
  Carmen Lezeth: There's a.
• 56:57
  Carmen Lezeth: There's a part in the book.
• 56:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Everybody's in the book is showing up.
• 57:01
  Carmen Lezeth: It's a fucking embarrassing out carriers, the guy I was in love with.
• 57:08
  Maurio Dawson: Yeah.
• 57:11
  Carmen Lezeth: But he didn't want me, so whatever, and you know.
• 57:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Baby um yeah, he was in love with me too, but you know he was.
• 57:21
  Carmen Lezeth: He was a big wig at.
• 57:22
  Carmen Lezeth: The boys Couldn't date me.
• 57:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know, we had a little thing going on.
• 57:29
  Carmen Lezeth: But uh, I love you.
• 57:30
  Carmen Lezeth: So glad to see you.
• 57:31
  Carmen Lezeth: That's so weird.
• 57:32
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm so embarrassed.
• 57:33
  Carmen Lezeth: All right, I am gonna shut this down, though, unless you guys have some last words.
• 57:38
  Rick Costa: Well, so my parents came here from Portugal and the whole idea was they wanted a better life.
• 57:42
  Rick Costa: They were just plain simple farmers over there and they heard you know, you can have a better life, you can make a lot more money, blah, blah, blah.
• 57:48
  Rick Costa: And so they came here and didn't even speak English, but they learned and they did their thing and then eventually was able to buy their own house, which I still live in today.
• 57:56
  Rick Costa: And, um, yeah, and they did it right, they did it legally, they became American citizens.
• 58:00
  Rick Costa: You know, they did it and they did it right, and that's what should.
• 58:04
  Rick Costa: That's what the should be about.
• 58:05
  Rick Costa: Yeah and and the differences and I.
• 58:08
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not a small differences, they are white.
• 58:11
  Rick Costa: Well, my dad, he was pretty dark, that was questionable to stop right there.
• 58:16
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I'm saying.
• 58:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Let's let's not get into the shades of coloring.
• 58:17
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying it's very different than Somebody who comes from Honduras or Central America, or comes from Haiti, or comes from the Dominican Republic or any brown African-centric country you know what I mean where the indigenous people have a bloodline that gives them a tint of color and features that for some reason In this country we still think is okay to demean Um it's nearly impossible to do it right now.
• 58:45
  Andrea Nunez: Yeah, really can't.
• 58:45
  Andrea Nunez: If you are from an undesirable country and you don't have white skin, it's very divisive yeah.
• 58:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, al, I love you too.
• 58:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Come on, you're still killing me with that, love you.
• 58:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, it's in the book.
• 58:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't help it and I guarantee you Rick is gonna go find that chapter.
• 59:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I was out, huh yeah, but okay, everyone look at, this was really a fun time.
• 59:07
  Cynthia Lopez: I'm sorry.
• 59:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I went a little off on things, but you know I'm feeling very comfortable with the crew and everything.
• 59:13
  Carmen Lezeth: So you know I love Let it out.
• 59:19
  Maurio Dawson: I know right.
• 59:20
  Maurio Dawson: Let it out, but you know what's?
• 59:23
  Carmen Lezeth: so weird.
• 59:23
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the most people I've ever seen in the room not everyone's.
• 59:27
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm shook so clearly I should scream more, swear a lot.
• 59:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Is that what I'm getting?
• 59:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I feel like they tell you.
• 59:36
  Cynthia Lopez: When you're gonna swear, so you can take the earpods out.
• 59:40
  Maurio Dawson: Right, right.
• 59:43
  Carmen Lezeth: All right, everyone.
• 59:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you so much for coming by on the show.
• 59:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you for hanging out in the neighborhood.
• 59:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you to everyone who's viewing.
• 59:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Also, Let me give a heads up to linked in.
• 59:52
  Carmen Lezeth: I have so many more followers.
• 59:53
  Carmen Lezeth: We passed the 500 mark the other day.
• 59:55
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so amazing.
• 59:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Bye everyone.
• 59:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you so much and we'll see you next week for sure.
• 59:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember it's all about the joy.
• 1:00:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Thanks for stopping by.
• 1:00:03
  Carmen Lezeth: All about the joy be better and stay beautiful folks.
• 1:00:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Have a sweet day.