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From Product Launches to Nostalgia: Exploring Joy, Non-Toxic Masculinity, and Parenting · All About The Joy

• 0:00
  Carmen Lezeth: you.
• 0:00
  Carmen Lezeth: We'll make sure it's all about the joy.
• 0:05
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi everyone.
• 0:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi everyone.
• 0:08
  Carmen Lezeth: It's all about the joy.
• 0:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Welcome everyone.
• 0:11
  Cynthia Ruiz: We are laughing because of Rick, don't forget the chat, oh yeah.
• 0:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait, we got to put the chat up.
• 0:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick, you are killing me.
• 0:20
  Cynthia Ruiz: Oh my Lord.
• 0:22
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick is in the house with everything, all about the Joy merchandise.
• 0:27
  Rick Costa: Almost I ordered more.
• 0:29
  Carmen Lezeth: I know, but you didn't have to.
• 0:32
  Rick Costa: But I want to.
• 0:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I know I'm interested to see.
• 0:36
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, so, cynthia, here's what you need to know.
• 0:38
  Carmen Lezeth: So, first of all, a few things.
• 0:41
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me first thank Rick Costa, because he's been very patient with me as I've gone through this process of going through every different store on the planet.
• 0:50
  Carmen Lezeth: I was just being too meticulous about.
• 0:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Meticulous about it is that the right word?
• 0:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Because and I'm gonna say this a content creator that we all love.
• 0:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if cynthia watches terry k, but we love terry k he's the one that's just like love you bye.
• 1:07
  Carmen Lezeth: You know he's always like.
• 1:08
  Carmen Lezeth: You know he has all those sayings.
• 1:09
  Carmen Lezeth: What's the other one that we always say too?
• 1:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Confusion, confusion.
• 1:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my God, I say that all the time.
• 1:14
  Carmen Lezeth: What else, rick?
• 1:15
  Rick Costa: The church fan is broken down and the members will not be in attendance.
• 1:19
  Carmen Lezeth: When the food is really bad.
• 1:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, he's so funny.
• 1:23
  Rick Costa: I love him, I think it's and you can't forget police.
• 1:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Police, police.
• 1:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, he does that all the time.
• 1:29
  Carmen Lezeth: But the thing is, I bought a t-shirt.
• 1:32
  Carmen Lezeth: He was my first TikTok creator person that I bought something from and I bought a t-shirt from him and it was like $40.
• 1:39
  Carmen Lezeth: It was like and I was like that's okay, I like, and I was like that's okay, I want to support him, I want to get, and it was it's love you bye.
• 1:51
  Carmen Lezeth: It's like on the front, and the shirt was so bad.
• 1:52
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm sorry.
• 1:52
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm sure he's changed it since then.
• 1:53
  Carmen Lezeth: It's been like a year or something, but I was like I will never, ever sell something like that.
• 1:55
  Carmen Lezeth: If I ever get to that place to buy sweat, you know what I mean, or whatever terry, if you're watching, this is no reflection on you would you just say oh
• 2:03
  Carmen Lezeth: no, we hope he's watching.
• 2:04
  Carmen Lezeth: He like big deal now.
• 2:07
  Carmen Lezeth: But yeah, no, I know all of his stuff is on point now because now we have the tiktok shop and we have all that stuff.
• 2:13
  Carmen Lezeth: We're not on tiktok shop.
• 2:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not doing it.
• 2:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Everyone's like you should do a tiktok shop.
• 2:17
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not doing that.
• 2:18
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not doing any of that.
• 2:19
  Carmen Lezeth: But we do have swag at allaboutthejoycom.
• 2:23
  Carmen Lezeth: You can also go to and you'll see the store.
• 2:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Just go over to the store area.
• 2:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me just show at the bottom the ticker.
• 2:31
  Carmen Lezeth: This brings you to all of our links, my links specifically, but also to bring you to allaboutthejoycom If you want to check out the swag, if you want to buy a T-shirt or a hat or a.
• 2:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I think Rick's favorite is the pillow.
• 2:47
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's so funny.
• 2:49
  Rick Costa: It's not as the favorite, it's just.
• 2:51
  Rick Costa: I was surprised.
• 2:52
  Rick Costa: It was good quality.
• 2:53
  Rick Costa: I thought it was going to be maybe cheaper, but I was like, no, this thing is tough.
• 2:56
  Carmen Lezeth: I know I love the hat, though.
• 2:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Is that a dad hat or the regular hat?
• 3:02
  Rick Costa: I can't remember.
• 3:06
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's a regular hat, right, I'm going to have to get one of those, but anyway.
• 3:08
  Carmen Lezeth: So I just want to say thank you to Rick Costa.
• 3:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me just get this out fully and completely, because you were patient with me.
• 3:14
  Carmen Lezeth: This has been going on for like a year.
• 3:15
  Carmen Lezeth: A year I've been buying t-shirts and testing them and washing them.
• 3:21
  Carmen Lezeth: It could be like nope, nope, and there's so many.
• 3:25
  Carmen Lezeth: And here's the thing there's so many places, but then you have to pay in order to do it, to get the really primo quality stuff, and I'm not there yet.
• 3:33
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean?
• 3:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not there yet, but we have t-shirts.
• 3:35
  Carmen Lezeth: If you want to support the show we're not sponsoring.
• 3:40
  Carmen Lezeth: We're not sponsoring a nonprofit yet, because I was told in a not so nice way that we're not there yet, we don't have to do that yet.
• 3:48
  Carmen Lezeth: So I didn't inflate the prices or anything.
• 3:50
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just to get the brand out there.
• 3:52
  Carmen Lezeth: And if you want to support us and the couple of dollars we do make off of the merchandise goes right back into all of the stuff I do for the show, which is let me, in case you haven't heard it before editing and editing.
• 4:06
  Carmen Lezeth: I did speak to a, a organization that helps they work with positive podcasts.
• 4:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Hi, melanie, how are you Positive type of podcasts that might be interested in working with us if we want to work with them for editing and stuff.
• 4:23
  Carmen Lezeth: But it's a little bit of money, but it's good to have goals.
• 4:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying it's good to have goals.
• 4:28
  Carmen Lezeth: So yeah, so I'm interested in talking to them at some point in the future.
• 4:32
  Carmen Lezeth: So, yeah, I just wanted to say thank you so much, rick, and for your patience and for pushing me along, and then I will also begrudgingly say thank you to Joel Lava, who the other day I was so mad.
• 4:46
  Carmen Lezeth: He was like just do it, you're going to do it today, put it up on the website.
• 4:50
  Carmen Lezeth: I was like.
• 4:51
  Carmen Lezeth: And then I told Rick and of course I was like cause, at some point you just have to do it.
• 4:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, just do it, just put it out there.
• 5:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I keep wanting everything to be so perfect and yeah.
• 5:06
  Rick Costa: Perfectionism is a blockage to success sometimes.
• 5:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you, Rick.
• 5:13
  Rick Costa: It's my quote for the day.
• 5:17
  Carmen Lezeth: So funny, anyways, okay, cool.
• 5:20
  Carmen Lezeth: So, cynthia, how you doing.
• 5:23
  Cynthia Ruiz: I'm good.
• 5:23
  Cynthia Ruiz: So, cynthia, how you?
• 5:24
  Carmen Lezeth: doing.
• 5:24
  Cynthia Ruiz: I'm good.
• 5:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, you know what Can I tell you?
• 5:28
  Carmen Lezeth: This thing distracts me.
• 5:29
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't keep looking at it.
• 5:30
  Carmen Lezeth: I think I have HDD or whatever you call those things.
• 5:33
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't, let me not make fun of that stuff.
• 5:35
  Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, that was it.
• 5:37
  Carmen Lezeth: That was very unkind of me.
• 5:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait, this is my favorite.
• 5:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Look it.
• 5:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not promoting anything, just so glad you're here.
• 5:48
  Carmen Lezeth: He's just testing.
• 5:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, Cynthia go ahead, go ahead, girl.
• 5:53
  Carmen Lezeth: What's up, what's up, what's up.
• 5:57
  Cynthia Ruiz: This week work hasn't been too busy, so just really good.
• 5:59
  Cynthia Ruiz: It's a little break, because I was busy the last two weeks.
• 6:04
  Carmen Lezeth: But I thought you had somebody who was away, so you were covering for them, weren't you?
• 6:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, she's back.
• 6:10
  Cynthia Ruiz: Oh, she's back.
• 6:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Is this the one who wasn't teaching you fast enough?
• 6:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, okay, I'm feeling.
• 6:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Maybe I'm wrong.
• 6:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick, are you feeling a little hesitant, or?
• 6:22
  Rick Costa: There's something behind there a little bit.
• 6:24
  Cynthia Ruiz: Oh, did you show, rick, what I got you, what I sent you?
• 6:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, no, but I put it away.
• 6:30
  Carmen Lezeth: She sent me a really cool T-shirt from her trip to Greece, which was cool, but more importantly it was a bed bug light and package like wipes and Clorox.
• 6:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I had to throw away the Clorox because it was so smelly.
• 6:46
  Carmen Lezeth: My mom would have to have the bleach stuff, but it was like a whole care package of like for bed bugs.
• 6:52
  Carmen Lezeth: It was like cracking up.
• 6:53
  Carmen Lezeth: It was so funny.
• 6:54
  Carmen Lezeth: That is funny.
• 6:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it was hilarious.
• 6:57
  Carmen Lezeth: So what else is going on with you?
• 6:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia Habla, habla.
• 6:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm telling her to talk in Spanish.
• 7:03
  Cynthia Ruiz: Not much this week, actually.
• 7:05
  Cynthia Ruiz: I've just been exhausted.
• 7:06
  Cynthia Ruiz: Not much is going on this week, though.
• 7:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Do you guys know who Thor Bradley is?
• 7:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Do you know who he is?
• 7:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Who this guy on TikTok?
• 7:18
  Rick Costa: I don't think so.
• 7:20
  Cynthia Ruiz: I haven't seen him.
• 7:21
  Rick Costa: Oh, does he sell stuff?
• 7:22
  Rick Costa: He's the guy with the axe.
• 7:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, he's the guy with the axe.
• 7:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, he's the guy with the axe.
• 7:27
  Rick Costa: He sells stuff too.
• 7:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my God.
• 7:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, this is not an ad for him, because I don't know him at all, but okay, so the name of his candle he sells a candle.
• 7:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, this is a guy who has so many tattoos, but he's really cool.
• 7:39
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not all he does, but he first really cool and all he does.
• 7:42
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not all he does, but he first started on tiktok doing what do you call it?
• 7:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Not axing wood?
• 7:48
  Carmen Lezeth: What do you say?
• 7:48
  Carmen Lezeth: What?
• 7:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Throwing the chopping wood?
• 7:50
  Carmen Lezeth: Chopping wood, melanie.
• 7:52
  Carmen Lezeth: His name is bradley I'm a thor bradley, and he is a person who lives in northern california and like in the woods and like not in the city.
• 8:03
  Carmen Lezeth: So he lives like in a beautiful part of Northern California and he chops wood with axes and he teaches people, but he's been on TikTok for so long.
• 8:12
  Carmen Lezeth: He also has like a lot of wisdom and stuff, but he's also very attractive.
• 8:16
  Carmen Lezeth: He has a beautiful body, but he has way too many tattoos for me, like just, I mean, cause I'm sure that's what he's worried about Like, what does Carmen think?
• 8:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I think he has 10 million followers on TikTok, and they're all probably women.
• 8:30
  Carmen Lezeth: I think a lot of men follow him too, though, because he has a good duality there of like masculinity and sexiness, you know, but he's not off-putting.
• 8:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Anyways, the reason why I'm saying is because, yes, sells a candle and it's called this is so funny non-toxic masculinity I see what you did there I see what you did there, okay.
• 8:56
  Carmen Lezeth: So I was like you know, and he's been selling it for a while and the other thing cool that he does is that and I'm not going to do this because I don't have a tikt and I don't plan on doing that but if you advertise his candle for him on TikTok he gives you a percentage of what he makes.
• 9:11
  Carmen Lezeth: That's so cool, okay.
• 9:14
  Carmen Lezeth: So one of the things I thought was funny is the way he's selling it is he's looking?
• 9:18
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm glad everyone likes the candle and I guess he has a spray too.
• 9:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I didn't get the spray, you know it smells like me so and I was like, ooh, that don't sound like a good selling point.
• 9:28
  Carmen Lezeth: I didn't say that You're watching him with the ax and everything.
• 9:33
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm thinking sweaty.
• 9:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like I don't think that's going to be sexy.
• 9:36
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you clearly I have never been with a man who's non-toxic.
• 9:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Clearly I have never been with a man who's non-toxic because I'm in love child.
• 9:47
  Carmen Lezeth: This thing smells so good.
• 9:52
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not kidding, I have never smoked a candle like this.
• 9:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't even want to burn it.
• 9:59
  Cynthia Ruiz: What does it smell like?
• 10:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know, non-toxic masculinity.
• 10:02
  Cynthia Ruiz: I'm telling you, it smells like Thor.
• 10:03
  Carmen Lezeth: Bradley, it's right, I don't know.
• 10:04
  Carmen Lezeth: It's about non-toxic masculinity.
• 10:06
  Rick Costa: It smells like Thor Bradley.
• 10:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, I don't know.
• 10:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I was trying to think like how I would describe it.
• 10:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, here's the thing.
• 10:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I hate vanilla.
• 10:16
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to be honest with you.
• 10:17
  Carmen Lezeth: I do not like the smell of vanilla.
• 10:19
  Carmen Lezeth: This might have a little hint of it, but not in the way that makes me nauseous.
• 10:24
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean?
• 10:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know.
• 10:27
  Carmen Lezeth: I really do, and I was trying to look to see what is in it, but I don't know.
• 10:30
  Carmen Lezeth: It's good though, so just saying you need a candle.
• 10:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not going to burn it though, but yeah, I'm in love child.
• 10:40
  Cynthia Ruiz: I want to open ittoxic masculinity man.
• 10:42
  Cynthia Ruiz: Now, that's like the new standard Name a star Look at that.
• 10:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but he's got a lot of tattoos.
• 10:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Are you guys into tattoos?
• 11:00
  Rick Costa: I don't mind them.
• 11:01
  Rick Costa: I find them fascinating, but I would never get one.
• 11:04
  Rick Costa: It's just not for me.
• 11:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I would never get one.
• 11:07
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just not for me.
• 11:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, I would never get one.
• 11:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia has nine of them, right, yeah, I hate needles.
• 11:11
  Carmen Lezeth: You don't have.
• 11:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Who has one then?
• 11:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, audrey, does Audrey.
• 11:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I was thinking Audrey, right, right, right, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
• 11:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, right.
• 11:19
  Carmen Lezeth: And Rick, you have how many secret places?
• 11:21
  Rick Costa: How many?
• 11:22
  Rick Costa: Zero, zero.
• 11:23
  Rick Costa: My son has a few I don't have any Really?
• 11:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I don't.
• 11:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I could never get a tattoo, but I'm not even attracted to people like men who have tattoos.
• 11:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't care if you have tattoos, as long as you have good quality ones.
• 11:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't care Like I can tell a gang tattoo and a prison tattoo from artwork.
• 11:41
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 11:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I can tell them, and it tells a story of who you are, so it's awesome.
• 11:44
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 11:45
  Rick Costa: I saw a guy singing today and he had literally up to here.
• 11:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah.
• 11:49
  Rick Costa: Complete tattoo.
• 11:50
  Rick Costa: I was like that's too much.
• 11:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I don't know what that's about, though.
• 11:55
  Carmen Lezeth: If you, why would you get it up here?
• 11:57
  Carmen Lezeth: There are people who have them, except for attention, which is sad.
• 12:12
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yeah, I didn't mean to talk about tattoos, I know a girl who actually has face tattoos.
• 12:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, oh, I know plenty of people who have them.
• 12:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, melanie doesn't have tattoos.
• 12:19
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what girl?
• 12:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I know you do Me and Melanie, me and Melanie.
• 12:23
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm, you did Me and Melanie, me and Melanie.
• 12:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying Me and Melanie.
• 12:35
  Rick Costa: Yeah, I mean the face tattoo thing and the neck thing, like what Rick was saying.
• 12:37
  Rick Costa: It just I don't, it feels like too much.
• 12:38
  Rick Costa: Yeah, I'm like beyond your arm, do you really need all that?
• 12:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if it's about need.
• 12:41
  Carmen Lezeth: It's about a self-expression thing.
• 12:43
  Carmen Lezeth: To me, you could use henna and do the same thing.
• 12:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Change it up a few days later if you'd like.
• 12:50
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 12:51
  Carmen Lezeth: It just feels so permanent.
• 12:53
  Rick Costa: That's my thing.
• 12:53
  Rick Costa: I don't want to do anything that permanent.
• 12:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, it is a permanent thing.
• 12:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Or if you got a lot of money you can take it off, but even then it's still's still like no, they haven't perfected that though, because then it looks like you got a welt on your body which I'm like.
• 13:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Keep your tattoo.
• 13:14
  Carmen Lezeth: And why anybody would tattoo like their boyfriend's name that's always a bad idea or your girlfriend's name?
• 13:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Just don't ever do that.
• 13:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't care if you get married, just don't do it yeah, I know a guy that now this was.
• 13:23
  Rick Costa: I thought this was cool.
• 13:24
  Rick Costa: His dad passed and he has a huge tattoo of his dad's face on his shoulder.
• 13:28
  Rick Costa: I was like that's cool, that's cool if it's done, well, it's cool.
• 13:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Was it done?
• 13:33
  Carmen Lezeth: It was like it was artwork, because I've seen some and they're like oh yeah, this one.
• 13:39
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like oh yeah, this is really.
• 13:40
  Cynthia Ruiz: Or the ones that do like self portraits of themselves.
• 13:45
  Cynthia Ruiz: I'm like okay you don't know what you look like.
• 13:49
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so weird.
• 13:50
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so weird, even ones that like where people have celebrities tattooed on them, like I've seen people who have Trump, I've seen people who have Barack Obama, I've seen people who have Brad Pitt like just stupid shit.
• 14:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like dude, like it's a moment in time, you know what I mean.
• 14:07
  Rick Costa: Like it's just wrong, huh?
• 14:08
  Rick Costa: I think it's sad too when somebody gets somebody says I'm gonna get a cool chinese saying and it's not what they think it's like and it's like I ate rice.
• 14:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Like they think it says like you know, especially people before the internet right Verify first, please.
• 14:35
  Rick Costa: Permanent damage to yourself.
• 14:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, those ones are funny, though, like when you see the funny tattoo oh my God, I've seen those you can't stop looking at them Cause you think how stupid could you be.
• 14:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, but if you were to get a tattoo, you know what would it be.
• 14:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me think about it for a moment.
• 14:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me see what Molly just wrote.
• 14:52
  Carmen Lezeth: She wrote the washable tattoos that used to come in Cracker Jack boxes are okay.
• 14:57
  Rick Costa: Can I just say Cracker Jack boxes used to have cool little toys, now it's like stupid paper.
• 15:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait, do they still have Cracker Jack?
• 15:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, oh yeah, really, oh yeah.
• 15:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I saw Frosted Flakes in the grocery store the other day.
• 15:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I was like, wow, I didn't know they still had Frosted Flakes.
• 15:14
  Cynthia Ruiz: They call it something different.
• 15:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but I think they call it just some, I don't know, no it's still.
• 15:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Frosted Flakes.
• 15:21
  Cynthia Ruiz: Is it?
• 15:21
  Rick Costa: All the old cereal is still there.
• 15:23
  Rick Costa: Crack their Jack boxes they used to have prizes.
• 15:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember when you used to have the cereal boxes and you would get prizes at the bottom the cereal boxes.
• 15:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Then you would get prizes at the bottom.
• 15:35
  Carmen Lezeth: Or you would look oh, that was I used to love that.
• 15:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I'm having a nostalgia moment, just a nostalgic moment.
• 15:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember you would sit at the kitchen table and you'd have the box in front of you and you'd be intensely reading the back of it and it was like a maze or like little holes.
• 15:49
  Rick Costa: You were like so intense to me me, the coolest thing ever and I was like there ain't no way this is going to work.
• 15:55
  Rick Costa: And it actually did, because it was a part of the box, it was a record that would play on a record player and it actually worked.
• 16:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, I vaguely remember that yes.
• 16:08
  Rick Costa: Captain Crunch, better be still around.
• 16:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, it is.
• 16:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I used to love Captain Crunch, but that really was just cubes of sugar with milk, pretty much, but it was so good it was Captain Crunch.
• 16:22
  Carmen Lezeth: I vaguely remember that, rick, yeah, like you could play a record or something, and it was something weird, like Sean Cassidy, do Run, run or something, yeah, and I think there was like a Halloween one.
• 16:35
  Rick Costa: They had an Alfred Hitchcock story or something that's so funny.
• 16:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I do vaguely.
• 16:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't even believe.
• 16:42
  Carmen Lezeth: I just said Sean Cassidy and do run, run like I, just out of nowhere all the kids are like Sean who or do a run who well, sean Cassidy's a big-time director here in Hollywood People don't know that, but he really is and writer, but yeah, most people are going to be like Sean Cassidy.
• 16:59
  Carmen Lezeth: What Remember that, though?
• 17:00
  Carmen Lezeth: What was the show with him?
• 17:02
  Rick Costa: Detective right the detectives.
• 17:04
  Carmen Lezeth: They were teenagers, not.
• 17:05
  Rick Costa: Nancy Drew, the other one, the Boys, the Hardy Boys.
• 17:08
  Carmen Lezeth: The Boys, the Hardy oh my God, wow, I watched all them shows, all them shows.
• 17:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, we're old because we're like, yeah, yeah, because we're old, now Damn.
• 17:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, my God, how did we get onto cereal boxes?
• 17:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait, how did we get?
• 17:30
  Cynthia Ruiz: to cereal boxes.
• 17:33
  Rick Costa: We're talking about tattoos and all the prizes, all the prizes, yeah, yeah oh my god.
• 17:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm laughing because I'm like how did we get there?
• 17:39
  Carmen Lezeth: That is so funny.
• 17:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Party boys, that's right, melanie.
• 17:42
  Rick Costa: Oh my god I saw a meme the other day.
• 17:45
  Rick Costa: They said this was our remote control and it's a little boy in front of the tv getting ready to turn we had pliers at one point because the thing broken off right.
• 17:54
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember you would have the.
• 17:55
  Carmen Lezeth: What were those?
• 17:56
  Carmen Lezeth: rabbit ears, the rabbit, the antennas, and you would like they were so big and you would yeah, that was crazy.
• 18:03
  Carmen Lezeth: What else did you like about back then?
• 18:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Like what are some crazy things?
• 18:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I remember saturday mornings.
• 18:09
  Carmen Lezeth: I would still wake up really early.
• 18:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I know most people slept late, but I would watch cartoons in the morning.
• 18:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Parker Stevenson, that's right, he was the blonde guy, parker Stevenson.
• 18:22
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I used to always get confused too, because then later on there was Starsky and Hutch and the blonde guy on that was a blonde guy too, and I used to get those two confused.
• 18:32
  Carmen Lezeth: And then also Duke's of Hazzard.
• 18:36
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I never watched Dukes of Hazzard.
• 18:37
  Rick Costa: They had a blonde and a brunette also.
• 18:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, they were being diverse.
• 18:42
  Rick Costa: A lot of diversity.
• 18:43
  Rick Costa: A white version of diversity.
• 18:47
  Carmen Lezeth: You just have a blonde guy.
• 18:48
  Rick Costa: We're diverse.
• 18:49
  Rick Costa: What do you mean?
• 18:50
  Carmen Lezeth: But there was Starsky and Hutchin.
• 18:51
  Carmen Lezeth: The guy that played Starsky was Paul Michael Glazier.
• 18:53
  Carmen Lezeth: I'll never forget him.
• 18:54
  Carmen Lezeth: I actually got to meet him a couple of times when I moved out here and I had two dogs.
• 18:58
  Carmen Lezeth: I had Starsky and Hutch my dogs, and I didn't share that story with him, but I still wanted to.
• 19:05
  Carmen Lezeth: But I forget what the guy's name was.
• 19:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey, brian, bike riding with the boys to the arcade every Saturday.
• 19:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Bike riding with the boys to the arcade every Saturday oh my God.
• 19:16
  Carmen Lezeth: We used to go down to the bowling alley.
• 19:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember, cynthia, the bowling alley.
• 19:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Everybody would play pool or be bowling and we'd be in the arcade because that would be the other part of it.
• 19:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Melanie said we didn't have cell phones at the breakfast table.
• 19:27
  Carmen Lezeth: We had cereal boxes.
• 19:28
  Carmen Lezeth: That's right.
• 19:29
  Carmen Lezeth: What's the Fall Guy?
• 19:31
  Carmen Lezeth: The Fall Guy was awesome.
• 19:32
  Rick Costa: What's the Fall Guy?
• 19:35
  Carmen Lezeth: It's a TV what's the fall guy?
• 19:36
  Carmen Lezeth: The fall guy was awesome.
• 19:37
  Carmen Lezeth: What's?
• 19:37
  Carmen Lezeth: The fall guy tv show.
• 19:37
  Carmen Lezeth: I think I'm trying to remember what is it?
• 19:38
  Rick Costa: the fall guy.
• 19:39
  Rick Costa: Isn't that a cartoon?
• 19:39
  Cynthia Ruiz: it's an action tv show I think no, you think of family guy oh yeah, I don't know that show either I don't know the fall guy.
• 19:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I remember bionic woman yeah, bionic man or something.
• 19:49
  Carmen Lezeth: I remember those steve aust yeah, oh my God, why is it I can remember these things?
• 19:54
  Carmen Lezeth: Right Come on Steve Austin.
• 19:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Why would I remember the character's name that is so random.
• 20:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I don't know the Fall Guy.
• 20:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Do we know what that is yet?
• 20:03
  Rick Costa: I think that's a show, I think, Speaking of random.
• 20:06
  Rick Costa: I don't know why, but this past week Lee Majors was Lee Majors, yeah.
• 20:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, he was so handsome too.
• 20:14
  Rick Costa: Lee.
• 20:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Majors was a fox.
• 20:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, go ahead, rick.
• 20:18
  Rick Costa: And for some reason this past week and you would think maybe you heard a trigger, a line of the song Nothing, just the most randomest old songs, all of a sudden pop in my head for no reason.
• 20:30
  Rick Costa: I'm like.
• 20:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Did you hear them on the show?
• 20:32
  Rick Costa: No, that's what I'm saying.
• 20:33
  Rick Costa: There's literally no trigger, no nothing.
• 20:35
  Rick Costa: I'm like where are these songs coming from?
• 20:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Like what song Sing half of?
• 20:42
  Rick Costa: a verse so we can try to guess.
• 20:44
  Rick Costa: No, just kidding.
• 20:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Had the time of my life, you got that one.
• 20:48
  Carmen Lezeth: That's a great movie and a great song.
• 20:52
  Rick Costa: That's one of my mom's favorites.
• 20:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Six Million Dollar man.
• 20:55
  Carmen Lezeth: You Didn't Know the Fall Guy.
• 20:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Epic Fail.
• 20:57
  Carmen Lezeth: What's Epic Fail, is he telling me?
• 21:00
  Rick Costa: I'm an epic fail.
• 21:01
  Rick Costa: You don't know what the fall guy is.
• 21:04
  Carmen Lezeth: None of us know what the fall guy is.
• 21:06
  Rick Costa: After Steve, austin, lee Majors was the fall guy oh.
• 21:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Lee Majors was the fall guy.
• 21:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I barely remember that.
• 21:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait after Steve Austin, so after the Bionic man Lee Majors was a fall guy.
• 21:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I barely remember that.
• 21:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Wait after Steve Austin, so after the Bionic man Lee Majors did the fall guy.
• 21:17
  Rick Costa: But if he didn't have powers, I didn't care.
• 21:19
  Carmen Lezeth: And I don't think it was as big of a deal as maybe in your area it was.
• 21:24
  Cynthia Ruiz: Mork and Mindy.
• 21:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, robin Williams, Mork and Mindy, and that show came from Happy Days from the Fawn.
• 21:31
  Carmen Lezeth: That's the show that came from happy days.
• 21:37
  Carmen Lezeth: From the font that came from that remember.
• 21:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my god, okay, I loved happy days.
• 21:39
  Rick Costa: That was day tuesday happy days, yeah, I love that show.
• 21:41
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, and there's ever a better story of a young actor who started off in I forget the name of the black and white show he was on, and then was richie on happy days and is now one of the biggest, most amazing directors.
• 21:54
  Cynthia Ruiz: Ron Howard is one of the biggest.
• 21:56
  Cynthia Ruiz: It wasn't Leave it to Beaver right.
• 21:59
  Carmen Lezeth: No, no, it was.
• 22:01
  Cynthia Ruiz: I don't know, I can picture him.
• 22:05
  Rick Costa: The Country Cop.
• 22:08
  Cynthia Ruiz: Wow, I don't know Andy Griffin.
• 22:13
  Rick Costa: Andy Griffin.
• 22:14
  Rick Costa: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Right right, right, oh, laverne and Shirley.
• 22:20
  Rick Costa: Yeah.
• 22:21
  Cynthia Ruiz: Shamil Shamiza.
• 22:22
  Cynthia Ruiz: How's the something corporate.
• 22:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh my God, we're going to do it.
• 22:31
  Rick Costa: Oh, welcome back, Carter Welcome back.
• 22:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I didn't love that show.
• 22:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I didn't like the whole ooh ooh, ooh thing.
• 22:38
  Rick Costa: I guess it's more of a guy thing.
• 22:39
  Rick Costa: I thought it was funny.
• 22:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia, how do you remember Welcome Back Carter when I barely do?
• 22:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't understand.
• 22:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I think you're so much younger than I am.
• 22:50
  Carmen Lezeth: The Andy Griffith show yeah, I didn't watch the Andy Griffith show, but I watched it in reruns a little bit, Mostly because I wanted to know who Ron Howard was back in the day.
• 23:00
  Carmen Lezeth: But what a perfect story of a childhood, Because you always hear the horrible stories right.
• 23:05
  Carmen Lezeth: Him and Jodie Foster are like the perfect child actors.
• 23:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Don Knotts was 43.
• 23:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm 43, y'all Come on now.
• 23:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Child actors.
• 23:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm 43, y'all Come on now.
• 23:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what that means.
• 23:15
  Carmen Lezeth: What does it mean that he's 43?
• 23:17
  Rick Costa: He's not very young, so he remembers these things.
• 23:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, like I should.
• 23:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Some of us were busy Some of us were at rehearsal.
• 23:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Some of us were not in front of the TV all day.
• 23:27
  Cynthia Ruiz: Some of us were hanging out in the street.
• 23:28
  Cynthia Ruiz: Carmen doesn't like Abby Lucy.
• 23:30
  Rick Costa: Carmen don't like Abby Lucy.
• 23:31
  Rick Costa: I know Carmen doesn't like Abby Lucy.
• 23:31
  Rick Costa: Carmen don't like Abby Lucy.
• 23:32
  Rick Costa: I know she don't like her, okay.
• 23:33
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not that I don't like her.
• 23:35
  Rick Costa: And I try not to be offended by that, but you know.
• 23:38
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not that I just didn't watch it and then, when you forced me to try to watch it, I wasn't into it.
• 23:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't like slapstick comedy.
• 23:46
  Carmen Lezeth: You guys are mean I don't know Airwolf either.
• 23:49
  Carmen Lezeth: You, I didn't know Airwolf either.
• 23:51
  Carmen Lezeth: You guys know Airwolf.
• 23:52
  Carmen Lezeth: That doesn't really matter.
• 23:54
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, good.
• 23:57
  Cynthia Ruiz: Are you going to call them?
• 23:58
  Carmen Lezeth: names.
• 23:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Brian Airwolf was awesome.
• 24:01
  Rick Costa: I don't remember that one.
• 24:03
  Rick Costa: Yeah, saturday morning cartoons waking up as a kid was very fun.
• 24:05
  Rick Costa: You didn't want to wake up to go to school in the morning, but Saturday morning cartoons you would wake up for that.
• 24:11
  Cynthia Ruiz: I was up.
• 24:11
  Cynthia Ruiz: I was up and you sit there with your cereal and watch your cartoons.
• 24:16
  Carmen Lezeth: And the thing is it was all like the best shows too, like you were consistently watching it over and over again.
• 24:21
  Carmen Lezeth: So weird, I feel.
• 24:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Like it's not that I feel old in a bad way, like I just feel some of that has been lost.
• 24:29
  Carmen Lezeth: And look, I think a lot of things have been gained because we have social media, but then a lot has been lost, right?
• 24:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I think we were talking about it before.
• 24:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Like you don't have the same camaraderie over a TV show you watched last night.
• 24:42
  Carmen Lezeth: You have to watch the entire series or something.
• 24:44
  Carmen Lezeth: What did he say?
• 24:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Lord, help me.
• 24:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I'll go pray for you, brian.
• 24:48
  Carmen Lezeth: I know he's trying to throw it on me, but I was going to ask you guys another question too, about let me just see here.
• 24:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I was going to ask you about Chicago Fire, cynthia, I haven't seen it.
• 25:01
  Carmen Lezeth: No, let me just throw something out at you, okay, just so, brian.
• 25:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, rick knows, sorry, I didn't mean to call you Brian, rick, oh my gosh.
• 25:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Sorry, apologies.
• 25:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Apologies, it's all right.
• 25:09
  Carmen Lezeth: So you know the show 9-1-1 that you still haven't watched, Rick, because Rick ain't going to watch it.
• 25:16
  Cynthia Ruiz: You never know.
• 25:16
  Cynthia Ruiz: I don't know if Rick would like it.
• 25:17
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know if he would like it?
• 25:19
  Rick Costa: Oh, I would give it a season.
• 25:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I think he would like it because Cap is so religious and there's that angle of it, with Cap being well.
• 25:34
  Carmen Lezeth: I guess Cap and what's her name, athena, are very religious, but in different ways because they have different religions.
• 25:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah Right, he's Catholic, she's Baptist or something.
• 25:40
  Carmen Lezeth: She's like we don't go to church, we do church.
• 25:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Because he was like do you go to church?
• 25:50
  Carmen Lezeth: And she was like we don't go to church, we Baptist, we do church.
• 25:53
  Carmen Lezeth: That was such a great line because it's true, it's so true if you've ever gone to church, to a Baptist church.
• 26:01
  Carmen Lezeth: So here's the thing.
• 26:02
  Carmen Lezeth: So 9-1-1 is a show that Cynthia forced me to watch.
• 26:05
  Carmen Lezeth: She said she would never talk to me again if I didn't watch it.
• 26:08
  Carmen Lezeth: And of course I got hooked and then I watched the whole series and I fell in love with it and it's really some simple show, but it's fun, great characters.
• 26:14
  Cynthia Ruiz: To the point, we both got t-shirts from the LAFD.
• 26:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I did.
• 26:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I bought us t-shirts from the LAFD because I wanted to support them.
• 26:24
  Rick Costa: Was it as good as this t-shirt?
• 26:25
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not.
• 26:26
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not.
• 26:26
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not as good as this t-shirt.
• 26:29
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not as good as this t-shirt.
• 26:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Now can I just tell you, cynthia, I almost did a dorky thing, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
• 26:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I found out where my fireplace is here in los angeles and where I live.
• 26:38
  Carmen Lezeth: It's four blocks over and their firehouse is so beautiful.
• 26:42
  Carmen Lezeth: It's like a historical.
• 26:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Whatever they do and it has, it's just gorgeous.
• 26:47
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm gonna take a picture of it, send it to you.
• 26:48
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so beautiful.
• 26:50
  Carmen Lezeth: I have such respect now for the firemen.
• 26:52
  Carmen Lezeth: It's so weird don't women usually, though yes, but this is another level you gotta watch the show right you really gotta watch the show because it's like whole other level of love, whole, never level.
• 27:05
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what I'm saying.
• 27:06
  Carmen Lezeth: So I started, I accidentally, or whatever, was surfing and I was like Chicago fire, what's this Cause?
• 27:13
  Carmen Lezeth: I saw firemen.
• 27:14
  Carmen Lezeth: So the difference is they seem to focus more on each character, solely like their relationships, as opposed to the incidents that happen.
• 27:27
  Carmen Lezeth: And I it's interesting.
• 27:29
  Carmen Lezeth: You'll have to watch it.
• 27:30
  Carmen Lezeth: I haven't watched it all and I'm not going to watch it all, but it was interesting.
• 27:33
  Carmen Lezeth: It's better than Lone Star, but anything's better than being in Texas.
• 27:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying, just kidding, I'm just kidding, I don't know.
• 27:45
  Carmen Lezeth: So this is the last season of 911 Lone Star.
• 27:47
  Carmen Lezeth: You know that.
• 27:48
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, and I think one of the people on the show is not coming back.
• 27:52
  Carmen Lezeth: They've talked about it the black woman who's at the call center.
• 27:55
  Carmen Lezeth: She's not and she's, I think she's the whole show in Lone Star.
• 27:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I love her.
• 27:59
  Carmen Lezeth: She's not coming back.
• 27:59
  Carmen Lezeth: Whatever her name is, she's not coming back.
• 28:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Grace, that's right, she's not coming back.
• 28:03
  Carmen Lezeth: And then we have the premiere coming up for 9-1-1, I think in two weeks.
• 28:07
  Carmen Lezeth: So that should be good.
• 28:08
  Carmen Lezeth: So, yeah, check out Chicago Fire, it'd be interesting.
• 28:15
  Carmen Lezeth: The other thing, rick, I wanted to ask you I don't know if Cynthia's seen it yet Deadpool, you guys never had the conversation about.
• 28:21
  Rick Costa: Deadpool, they still haven't set it up.
• 28:24
  Carmen Lezeth: But nobody cares anymore.
• 28:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Everybody's seen it, we all know.
• 28:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Cynthia, have you seen it?
• 28:29
  Cynthia Ruiz: Cynthia hasn't seen it yet.
• 28:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I have not seen it yet, oh no, okay.
• 28:41
  Rick Costa: Okay, rick, tell me what you think of deadpool, so we can at least have something that we talked about it when it came out.
• 28:44
  Rick Costa: That was hilarious.
• 28:44
  Rick Costa: First of all because ryan reynolds is hilarious, he's just really I love him.
• 28:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Ryan reynolds and hugh jackman together, though, are pretty cool yeah, that's a cool bromance is.
• 28:52
  Rick Costa: Is that the word they use?
• 28:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
• 28:56
  Rick Costa: It was really funny.
• 28:57
  Rick Costa: A lot of cameos.
• 28:57
  Rick Costa: I don't want to spoil that thing.
• 28:58
  Carmen Lezeth: But you can spoil it, because when's she going to watch it?
• 29:01
  Carmen Lezeth: She hasn't watched it by now.
• 29:03
  Cynthia Ruiz: I know about a lot of the cameos and he made a lot.
• 29:06
  Cynthia Ruiz: I guess it's a scene where there's a lot of Deadpools and a lot of them are his family, family and friends.
• 29:14
  Carmen Lezeth: But we can tell you who they all are, because everybody already knows.
• 29:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick, we're not hiding anything, but who was your favorite cameo?
• 29:21
  Rick Costa: The one thing that I thought was one of the most hysterical things was when I call him Nice Pool, where it's long-haired Ryan Reynolds without the mask.
• 29:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh yeah, the nice guy, and he's with the dog.
• 29:33
  Rick Costa: Yeah, he has a nasty ugly dog that everybody loves he won most ugly dog or something in real life or whatever he is an ugly dog, but he's cute.
• 29:45
  Rick Costa: He's so ugly, so one of the funniest parts is, of course, one of Deadpool's sticks is.
• 29:49
  Rick Costa: He looks at the camera, he talks to the audience, right, and nice Pool goes.
• 29:55
  Rick Costa: Oh, I could do that too.
• 29:56
  Rick Costa: The Proposal I'm like, oh my God.
• 29:58
  Carmen Lezeth: And he's making fun of that movie with Sandra Bullock and having the proposal right, yeah yeah.
• 30:05
  Rick Costa: Yeah, the woman that played Elektra.
• 30:07
  Rick Costa: What's her name?
• 30:07
  Rick Costa: She was married.
• 30:10
  Carmen Lezeth: She was married.
• 30:12
  Cynthia Ruiz: She was married to Ben.
• 30:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Affleck, she was married she was married to ben affleck yeah yeah, yeah.
• 30:17
  Rick Costa: So it was another funny part where they were like saying like who was dead or alive, whatever?
• 30:20
  Rick Costa: And they're like oh yeah, daredevil, he died because he used he, ben affleck played daredevil.
• 30:26
  Rick Costa: And when he said daredevil died, she goes, that's okay because they're divorced uh Matthew McConaughey as Cowboy Dead.
• 30:36
  Rick Costa: That's true.
• 30:36
  Rick Costa: That's true.
• 30:37
  Rick Costa: There are a lot of them.
• 30:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it was good.
• 30:39
  Carmen Lezeth: I think my favorite I'll say moment in the film I'm just going to say it, and it's not because Hugh Jackman is half naked in it at the end when they're holding on in his shirt, but it's Ryan Reynolds checking him out, I know, the way he looked at it.
• 30:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Was this true, you're like, this man is like 50, what?
• 30:58
  Carmen Lezeth: 55 or something?
• 30:59
  Rick Costa: yeah, he's around our age.
• 31:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I mean my age, not your age, carmen and he's fine as all hell, and I just thought it was.
• 31:07
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just that perfect.
• 31:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Like you can't even be like oh oh, hugh Jackman is so sexy because Ryan Reynolds just kills that moment in the best, most purest, funniest way you know what I mean.
• 31:18
  Carmen Lezeth: So that was like one of my favorite moments.
• 31:21
  Rick Costa: And more than once Deadpool was like Marvel's going to make you be Wolverine until you're 90.
• 31:27
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, he's going to be Wolverine until he's 90, but he'll pull it off.
• 31:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I do think that it's very and I know we've all seen Deadpool, the first one, the second one, whatever it's extremely violent.
• 31:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Even as I sat there I was like this because I couldn't.
• 31:43
  Carmen Lezeth: I know it's supposed to be funny, but there is something really gross about it all.
• 31:49
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just so much the violence.
• 31:54
  Rick Costa: There's one part where Chris Evans comes in and they're thinking he's captain america because, he played so good he plays both.
• 31:58
  Rick Costa: He played johnny storm in fantastic four way back when and then, later he became captain america and then deadpool's looking at him because he's covered up.
• 32:05
  Rick Costa: He doesn't know what he's wearing I just want to know.
• 32:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick wasn't going to spoil this for you, but that was the best, the best part of the movie.
• 32:12
  Rick Costa: You keep saying she ain't going to watch it.
• 32:14
  Cynthia Ruiz: Rick's like well, this is probably the best part of the movie by the way it is a Disney production.
• 32:19
  Rick Costa: Cynthia, I'm just saying, you're a Disney head, so I'm just saying it's not Marvel she's into, but God he is.
• 32:26
  Rick Costa: Anyway, they're talking to Chris Evans, who they don't know is not Captain America, but actually Johnny Storm.
• 32:32
  Rick Costa: And Wolverine is standing there with two swords inside of him, just standing there like it's nothing.
• 32:36
  Rick Costa: You gonna pull them things out one day.
• 32:39
  Rick Costa: But Deadpool's all excited because he's like Johnny Storm, who he thinks is Captain America.
• 32:44
  Rick Costa: He's gonna say it, he's gonna say Avengers Assemble, he's gonna say it, and then he's like flame on and he's like huh.
• 32:52
  Carmen Lezeth: And then he goes into the air.
• 32:54
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just really funny.
• 32:56
  Rick Costa: So many funny parts.
• 32:57
  Rick Costa: Oh my God, they did a good job.
• 32:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I was glad I went to the theater and saw it.
• 33:01
  Carmen Lezeth: It was good.
• 33:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I didn't see it with a lot of people.
• 33:03
  Carmen Lezeth: There were some people because I saw it days afterwards.
• 33:05
  Rick Costa: But very violent.
• 33:06
  Rick Costa: So forewarning, I don't know why people were all again.
• 33:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I get so upset with the whole pearl clutching religious crap, like so many people were on TikTok, being like don't go see it because Ryan Reynolds calls himself Marvel Jesus throughout the whole thing.
• 33:23
  Carmen Lezeth: I am Marvel Jesus.
• 33:24
  Carmen Lezeth: He's being sticky, he's being funny, he's not being literal, but it's so weird how people take things.
• 33:31
  Carmen Lezeth: It's almost like the Olympics, the opening of the Olympics.
• 33:33
  Carmen Lezeth: People got all upset, all their panties in a bunch pearl clutching, because they're like they're making fun of the Last Supper.
• 33:41
  Carmen Lezeth: No, they were not.
• 33:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Not at all, not even a little bit.
• 33:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Different artists, different scenes.
• 33:47
  Carmen Lezeth: How did you miss the blue man in the front?
• 33:49
  Carmen Lezeth: There was no blue man lying down at the last supper with Jesus, from when I remember it all.
• 33:56
  Carmen Lezeth: But everybody is so angst, right, everybody's so amped up to be angry all the time.
• 34:02
  Carmen Lezeth: So instead of thinking like maybe I don't understand what's going on, would they literally be making fun of the last supper at the Olympics in France?
• 34:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Instead of thinking that through and being like maybe I'm making a mistake and thinking this is something other than what it was, they just went with it.
• 34:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I it just.
• 34:20
  Carmen Lezeth: It blew my mind.
• 34:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I couldn't even believe it and you know this was 12 years of Catholic school here.
• 34:25
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 34:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Can you guys hear all that noise in the background?
• 34:28
  Rick Costa: No no.
• 34:29
  Rick Costa: Okay, cool.
• 34:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Really, you didn't hear just that?
• 34:33
  Rick Costa: Mm-mm.
• 34:35
  Rick Costa: All right, you have the noise reduction setting on Because mine's working pretty good.
• 34:38
  Rick Costa: Y'all didn't even realize my air conditioner was on.
• 34:41
  Carmen Lezeth: That's probably why your stupid internet's going in and out.
• 34:45
  Rick Costa: No, I'm just kidding.
• 34:47
  Rick Costa: Anyway, there's a lot more cameos I did not mention, so you won't be spoiled by everything.
• 34:53
  Carmen Lezeth: But it's so funny how rich I don't want to spoil anything.
• 34:54
  Carmen Lezeth: And then the minute I'm like, hey, everybody see these.
• 34:56
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, let me tell you the most important part.
• 34:58
  Carmen Lezeth: It really is the one.
• 35:00
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that was one of the most surprising parts.
• 35:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I was not expecting chris evans to be in it, yeah, and then the flip that it wasn't captain america.
• 35:07
  Rick Costa: You know what I mean and then the end credit scenes.
• 35:10
  Rick Costa: That was like whoa, okay, you know what?
• 35:11
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what was weird, though?
• 35:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I of course sat, Because I always sit through all credits of every movie, Because I live in this town and I want to be respectful.
• 35:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Plus, I always hope I can see a name I know or something.
• 35:22
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 35:22
  Carmen Lezeth: But people actually got up and left and I'm like, ooh, you're not real Marvel people.
• 35:27
  Cynthia Ruiz: Are you new, right?
• 35:28
  Cynthia Ruiz: Every Marvel movie has a scene at the end.
• 35:31
  Cynthia Ruiz: You don't leave.
• 35:33
  Cynthia Ruiz: Sometimes they have two scenes.
• 35:34
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yeah, you don't leave.
• 35:37
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, so it was weird.
• 35:38
  Carmen Lezeth: So, yeah, that was good.
• 35:39
  Carmen Lezeth: It was good, though, mm-hmm, it was good.
• 35:46
  Rick Costa: I'm glad we got to talk a little bit about Deadpool, because I feel like we've been chasing Since late night.
• 35:50
  Carmen Lezeth: Parents can't do it.
• 35:50
  Carmen Lezeth: But they were all saying they were going to have a show, they were going to do it, they were going to get together.
• 35:54
  Carmen Lezeth: And then number one Friday or something I was like are you guys doing it?
• 35:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Because I was going to go and watch.
• 35:58
  Carmen Lezeth: And then you said you hadn't heard from Ted or anybody yet.
• 36:00
  Carmen Lezeth: But I wonder why.
• 36:04
  Rick Costa: I don't know, maybe just schedule conflicts, I don't know.
• 36:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just saying that's one of those things you kind of want to do when it's out.
• 36:10
  Rick Costa: Yeah strike while the iron's hot.
• 36:15
  Carmen Lezeth: So I'm going to bring up this other thing.
• 36:16
  Carmen Lezeth: It's kind of a downer, but we can have a conversation about it.
• 36:19
  Carmen Lezeth: So I don't know if you guys it's not a downer, it's just something.
• 36:22
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember last week?
• 36:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh no, we weren't on last week, right?
• 36:25
  Carmen Lezeth: No?
• 36:26
  Cynthia Ruiz: Why weren't we on last week DNC?
• 36:28
  Cynthia Ruiz: Oh, that's right.
• 36:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Democratic National Convention was on.
• 36:33
  Carmen Lezeth: That's right.
• 36:34
  Carmen Lezeth: The music was off the hook, Rick was it you Was it.
• 36:37
  Carmen Lezeth: You.
• 36:37
  Carmen Lezeth: You were like is it always so much music?
• 36:42
  Rick Costa: Are these things always so musical?
• 36:47
  Cynthia Ruiz: I love watching the TikToks when they were comparing the RNC and DNC.
• 36:51
  Rick Costa: Oh, yeah, carmen sent me one of those and I was like, see, that's how I thought it was going to be the other one.
• 36:57
  Carmen Lezeth: They had a DJ, they tested the waters and it worked to have just more music instead of all that kind of old school stuff.
• 37:05
  Carmen Lezeth: They did the church.
• 37:06
  Carmen Lezeth: The church, that's right.
• 37:09
  Carmen Lezeth: They did the church.
• 37:09
  Rick Costa: What was the controversy with Beyonce?
• 37:11
  Rick Costa: Because they were like oh, she wasn't even there, it wasn't a controversy.
• 37:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Somebody leaked I'm doing quotes, air quotes that she was going to be there when Vice President Harris came out on stage to give her acceptance speech on Thursday night.
• 37:25
  Carmen Lezeth: But it was a rumor.
• 37:27
  Carmen Lezeth: It wasn't true and I think she was in New York or like with her husband or something, having dinner.
• 37:34
  Carmen Lezeth: And finally, her publicity.
• 37:36
  Carmen Lezeth: People came out and said we are not coming to the blah, blah, blah.
• 37:39
  Carmen Lezeth: So it wasn't.
• 37:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I think people were hoping that her or Taylor Swift it was like Taylor Swift for a minute we're going to come out.
• 37:45
  Carmen Lezeth: There were enough.
• 37:46
  Carmen Lezeth: We have enough celebrities.
• 37:48
  Carmen Lezeth: We don't need celebrities.
• 37:49
  Carmen Lezeth: What we need is what was happening, which I thought was the music was great For people who didn't watch the DNC.
• 37:57
  Carmen Lezeth: The roll call that happens, which is when the delegates announce what delegates, how many delegates, are being.
• 38:02
  Carmen Lezeth: It's really ceremonial.
• 38:04
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not really like we already know that she's the nominee at this point, right, but it's kind of a ceremonial thing and every state comes out and says we give you you know, we're from california we give you 434 delegates, or whatever it is this.
• 38:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Usually it's really boring, but you watch it because you wait for your state and somebody might say something cool because the person who speaks.
• 38:27
  Carmen Lezeth: That's like a voted on thing.
• 38:28
  Carmen Lezeth: It's an honor to speak and give the delegates and people who are really into politics really love this part of it.
• 38:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Like the geek people, I usually just sit through it because you know I want to watch it.
• 38:38
  Carmen Lezeth: This year they had a song that represented every single state.
• 38:43
  Carmen Lezeth: So, for example, michigan had Eminem song, which is you know?
• 38:47
  Carmen Lezeth: What is it?
• 38:50
  Carmen Lezeth: You guys don't know Eminem song.
• 38:53
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know the name of it.
• 38:54
  Carmen Lezeth: We had Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar.
• 38:58
  Carmen Lezeth: You know every state we had Dropkick Murphys.
• 39:01
  Cynthia Ruiz: Which one Dropkick Murphys?
• 39:04
  Carmen Lezeth: Yes, like everybody had a every state and all the artists had to say that was okay, which was the other thing that I can't believe.
• 39:12
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, bruce Springsteen, there was just every artist.
• 39:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Anyway, it was amazing and it was really fun to watch and listen to.
• 39:20
  Carmen Lezeth: And now the DNC has that whole playlist.
• 39:22
  Carmen Lezeth: You can go on Spotify or wherever you listen to music and get the playlist.
• 39:27
  Carmen Lezeth: And the playlist is actually really good because it's all these great songs we all grew up with and love.
• 39:33
  Carmen Lezeth: So, yeah, it was really fun.
• 39:34
  Carmen Lezeth: It was good, that's right, and I we didn't have the show that week, but two weeks ago about parenting, parenting.
• 39:44
  Carmen Lezeth: Remember, we said this is why, late night, parents should have actually, uh, they should talk about parenting once in a while.
• 39:50
  Carmen Lezeth: And I got upset about how parents really suck.
• 39:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, so the surgeon general of the United States his name is Murphy, Last name is Murphy M-U-R-T-H-Y.
• 40:00
  Carmen Lezeth: If you saw his face you'd know who he is.
• 40:02
  Carmen Lezeth: But he did an interview and he was talking about they didn't there's an article, but they also did a podcast and he was talking about surgeon general addresses, growing stress and mental health struggles facing parents today, and he was talking about Surgeon General addresses, growing stress and mental health struggles facing parents today.
• 40:16
  Carmen Lezeth: And he said this is the quote I love.
• 40:18
  Carmen Lezeth: He said the truth is, parenting is and has always really been a team sport and what he's talking about is like neighbors and aunties and uncles, and I think we have lost a lot of that.
• 40:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that's why kids are so messed up right now.
• 40:34
  Carmen Lezeth: But I was wondering what you guys might have thought.
• 40:37
  Carmen Lezeth: I know you haven't read the article or whatever, but just going off of that little bit, did you guys grow up knowing that you had a lot of people around you you could go to or not?
• 40:45
  Carmen Lezeth: You guys know I did.
• 40:51
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yes and no.
• 40:51
  Cynthia Ruiz: I did have some people that I could go to, but it was a very small amount of people, maybe three or four people that I could really go to.
• 41:02
  Cynthia Ruiz: But who were they?
• 41:03
  Carmen Lezeth: always go to them but who were they in your life?
• 41:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't mean the actual names.
• 41:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Was it a teacher was?
• 41:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Was it your uncle?
• 41:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Was it your Teresa?
• 41:13
  Cynthia Ruiz: is one of them, mm-hmm, my godmother Teresa's your godmother?
• 41:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I did not know that.
• 41:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I didn't know, I didn't know.
• 41:22
  Carmen Lezeth: Let's see One of my.
• 41:24
  Carmen Lezeth: She's actually your cousin.
• 41:25
  Carmen Lezeth: So that's the point.
• 41:26
  Carmen Lezeth: You have somebody else, but you see her as an aunt?
• 41:30
  Cynthia Ruiz: I do see her you don't have to name names.
• 41:38
  Cynthia Ruiz: My siblings, yeah, mostly my, yeah, my siblings, my two sisters and my brother, but do you?
• 41:46
  Carmen Lezeth: feel okay.
• 41:46
  Carmen Lezeth: So this is what the article and the conversation was about.
• 41:48
  Carmen Lezeth: That it was more about.
• 41:50
  Carmen Lezeth: There were so many other people that had a say in how you were raised.
• 41:53
  Carmen Lezeth: So here's a great example.
• 41:55
  Carmen Lezeth: I remember when I was real little cause my mother was still alive I was at, we went to school Blessed Sacrament, right, it was like my first year of school.
• 42:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I went to St Patrick's.
• 42:03
  Carmen Lezeth: So second, third year I started at Blessed Sacrament and I remember I got in trouble and they called my mother and my mother came to the school, right, cause they, whatever.
• 42:13
  Carmen Lezeth: And my mother yelled at me because because I did something wrong, right.
• 42:19
  Carmen Lezeth: But now what it seems to be is the parents come into the school and they yell at the teacher for reprimanding the kids.
• 42:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Do you guys know what I'm talking about?
• 42:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Like it just always.
• 42:29
  Carmen Lezeth: It seems like the dynamic has changed.
• 42:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Like I got in trouble because I was disrespectful to the teacher or whatever.
• 42:35
  Carmen Lezeth: Blah, blah, blah.
• 42:36
  Carmen Lezeth: Like I thought I never thought for one moment my mother coming to the school was going to be my saving grace.
• 42:46
  Cynthia Ruiz: You know what I mean.
• 42:47
  Cynthia Ruiz: Like thought I never thought for one moment my mother coming to the school was going to be my saving grace.
• 42:49
  Cynthia Ruiz: Like I was gonna be in trouble because growing up going and especially going to bless sacrament we had nuns so we were always getting reprimanded by our teachers, and so if the teachers are calling our parents and you know, and our mom comes to the school, like they obviously know we did something wrong so we're getting yelled at, it's like these kids are being taught by young teachers themselves.
• 43:07
  Cynthia Ruiz: So these teachers are yelling back at the children kind of.
• 43:10
  Cynthia Ruiz: I feel like they're kind of, I guess, in a better I don't know how to say it but basically lowering themselves to the child standard and they're arguing back rather than being the adult and reprimanding them in a different way.
• 43:28
  Carmen Lezeth: So you're actually taking the side of the kid.
• 43:31
  Cynthia Ruiz: Not, it's not really, but kind of, because I have seen videos and I have seen it for myself.
• 43:41
  Cynthia Ruiz: Like a lot of these kids will defend themselves because the teacher can be rude, Like I've seen videos of teachers being rude to children in certain ways, yelling at them or whatever the case may be, rather than them being an adult and actually addressing the child differently, is it?
• 43:59
  Carmen Lezeth: possible that the teachers have?
• 44:01
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm taking the.
• 44:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to take the defense of the teachers for a moment.
• 44:05
  Carmen Lezeth: Is it possible that teachers have lost so much ability and authority to do anything?
• 44:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Because you can't reprimand any kids to do anything, you can't take away their cell phone.
• 44:16
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, in California they just passed a law that kids cannot use their cell phones in school anymore.
• 44:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Good, see how that goes.
• 44:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, that's going to be interesting.
• 44:24
  Carmen Lezeth: It's already being implemented this year, which will be fascinating to see how that happens.
• 44:30
  Cynthia Ruiz: But no, yeah, no, it is true.
• 44:31
  Cynthia Ruiz: These teachers are getting frustrated that they can't say certain things to these kids because the parents will go in and yell at the teacher things to these kids because the parents will go in and yell at the teacher.
• 44:40
  Cynthia Ruiz: Look, let's be honest when.
• 44:42
  Carmen Lezeth: I was going to school.
• 44:43
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know about you, but I remember, like sister Alfonza.
• 44:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I'll never forget her.
• 44:46
  Carmen Lezeth: She would grab you by the ear and pull you.
• 44:49
  Carmen Lezeth: She used to take a ruler and slap your hand.
• 44:52
  Carmen Lezeth: She didn't slap my hand, but these were different times.
• 44:58
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 44:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I remember being like these people are abusing us Nobody cared.
• 45:02
  Cynthia Ruiz: Our parents did not care.
• 45:03
  Cynthia Ruiz: I got slapped in the hand because I'm a lefty.
• 45:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 45:09
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I got in trouble because I was doing cartwheels, because I had shorts underneath my dress, because you had to wear a uniform.
• 45:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I went to school so you had to wear that checkered ugly outfit and remember that jumper thing.
• 45:20
  Carmen Lezeth: And then you wanted you couldn't wait till seventh grade because you could wear the vest, but I used to wear shorts.
• 45:29
  Carmen Lezeth: All of us wore shorts under our skirts.
• 45:31
  Carmen Lezeth: So I was doing trouble for that, like big time trouble for doing cartwheels because I wasn't ladylike.
• 45:36
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it's definitely different times.
• 45:41
  Carmen Lezeth: I see rick being very quiet no, I was just thinking about.
• 45:44
  Rick Costa: My past was like very different.
• 45:46
  Rick Costa: Let's say I was at a neighbor's house and I did something stupid and the neighbor said your son just blah, blah, blah.
• 45:50
  Rick Costa: My father be like, beat him and let him know when he comes here he's gonna get beat again oh my god, oh yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 45:59
  Cynthia Ruiz: Like nowadays, these parents are not allowing the teachers to reprimand them or put them in their place, rather than they can't get fired right exactly right, because now it's like all this stuff, oh, I'll call the cops on you and blah, blah, blah.
• 46:15
  Carmen Lezeth: The kids are threatening the teachers and the teachers are getting fed up, so they're lowering themselves to the kids, you know, and yelling at them or I'll say this and I hope Andrea doesn't get mad but Andrea was a teacher for a minute because she was so annoyed at the system and that was like 25 years ago, like she would have been the best teacher you could have ever had.
• 46:34
  Carmen Lezeth: But even she was there for I don't even know how long I want to say a year or two, and it might have been longer, but it was a short period of time.
• 46:40
  Carmen Lezeth: She's one of those people that you would want to be a teacher, really wanted to do it, and she really loves kids and she's really great at explaining things, blah, blah.
• 46:48
  Carmen Lezeth: All the reasons why and she was like this is not worth it.
• 46:51
  Carmen Lezeth: That was years ago.
• 46:54
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't imagine how bad it is now.
• 46:56
  Carmen Lezeth: I give love to teachers, but I do think that it's a tough profession, especially because we do not pay them well.
• 47:04
  Carmen Lezeth: We also I mean I think it was Snoop Dogg and everyone knows I'm upset with him right now but one of these is one of these celebrities was making a point I don't know if it was him, but was saying we should not be applauding that people are buying supplies for teachers on Amazon, like.
• 47:21
  Carmen Lezeth: You know how teachers have Amazon lists Like.
• 47:23
  Carmen Lezeth: So you can go on amazoncom and teachers all over the country have their wishlist for their classrooms.
• 47:29
  Carmen Lezeth: It really should not be that way.
• 47:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Teachers should not have to be asking the public to pay for general supplies for their school rooms.
• 47:42
  Carmen Lezeth: It's weird.
• 47:43
  Carmen Lezeth: And back when we were growing up and I was going to school, I know Alice McIntyre was buying stuff out of her own pocket.
• 47:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, she was one of our lay teachers at Blessed Sacrament.
• 47:52
  Carmen Lezeth: She was one of the best teachers ever and the classroom was always decorated.
• 47:56
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean?
• 47:57
  Carmen Lezeth: We always had the best plays and books and all these things that didn't come with regular textbooks or whatever, because she would buy them out of her own pocket and make sure that we had a great experience.
• 48:08
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, ted just said my wife is a retired teacher.
• 48:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Talk about a thankless job.
• 48:13
  Carmen Lezeth: Wow, oh, ted.
• 48:15
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, the weird thing is I don't understand why we have such a bad attitude about teachers.
• 48:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Our kids are there for at least 8 hours a day.
• 48:28
  Carmen Lezeth: 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
• 48:32
  Carmen Lezeth: They are really doing the job of raising your children.
• 48:36
  Carmen Lezeth: They are and not to be corny, not to be corny.
• 48:39
  Rick Costa: But I believe the children are our future.
• 48:40
  Rick Costa: They are, and not to be corny, but I believe the children are our future, they are.
• 48:45
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yeah, absolutely.
• 48:47
  Cynthia Ruiz: And look, during COVID, all these parents were stressing out because they had to be home with their kids and teach their kids and they were getting frustrated with their kids and it's so good.
• 48:58
  Cynthia Ruiz: Now you know how the teachers feel.
• 49:01
  Rick Costa: Now you understand what a brat your little baby is exactly baby kids.
• 49:06
  Carmen Lezeth: It's just really it is a thankless job.
• 49:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's a terrible situation.
• 49:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I look at I, I think teachers.
• 49:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't understand why we don't pay teachers more money.
• 49:14
  Carmen Lezeth: I also believe if we had higher criteria for police officers, we'd have better policing, if they got paid a decent wage and had to go to school first, instead of the six-month training that they take and then have a gun in their hand.
• 49:27
  Carmen Lezeth: These jobs that I think are the most vital in our society are the ones we pay the least and give the least amount of support to, and then we complain about it when all these things go wrong.
• 49:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Right, and so teachers and cops are on my list of things we do wrong as a society.
• 49:44
  Carmen Lezeth: So yeah, and then I know we're almost at 60 minutes.
• 49:48
  Rick Costa: Rick's about to be like one hour, I wasn't even thinking about it.
• 49:52
  Carmen Lezeth: Honestly, I know, but I just I think if, look, if you could make a hundred, $150,000 a year as a teacher, I would have been a teacher in a heartbeat.
• 50:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I love kids, I would have loved to do it.
• 50:04
  Carmen Lezeth: But the idea that you would make like $40,000 and then you're babysitting, really because you can't really teach.
• 50:14
  Carmen Lezeth: You can't teach 50 kids in a classroom.
• 50:17
  Rick Costa: No, not effective, Not that many.
• 50:24
  Carmen Lezeth: And that's why so many people have kids in private school, Like Billy has his kids in private school and I get it.
• 50:27
  Carmen Lezeth: He didn't want to.
• 50:28
  Carmen Lezeth: He wanted them to stay in public school, but it's.
• 50:30
  Carmen Lezeth: You can't risk that, and if you have the money to send them to private school.
• 50:33
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not talking about Catholic school.
• 50:35
  Carmen Lezeth: That's not what I mean.
• 50:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not trying to act like our school was that great.
• 50:41
  Carmen Lezeth: All we learned was what religion and math.
• 50:44
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that was it.
• 50:45
  Carmen Lezeth: That's it, and not even very well, by the way, cause I suck at math.
• 50:52
  Rick Costa: Me too actually.
• 50:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I don't think we really learned, and I have a lot of questions about religion.
• 50:58
  Cynthia Ruiz: Thank you, thank you but.
• 51:00
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, but you did learn something that I think a lot of people didn't learn, and I don't know where people learn this now but you did learn discipline.
• 51:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, you did learn about respect, you did learn about boundaries, you did, and those are the things, those are the skills we need.
• 51:16
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not saying they're the only skills we need, but definitely lacking in those.
• 51:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Now, rick, what did you say?
• 51:22
  Carmen Lezeth: Because you froze for a second.
• 51:25
  Rick Costa: No, I don't think I said anything.
• 51:26
  Rick Costa: I think a lack of respect for authority is huge nowadays.
• 51:31
  Rick Costa: The kids just don't care.
• 51:32
  Rick Costa: You ain't my mother, you're my father.
• 51:35
  Carmen Lezeth: Where do you think that comes from, though?
• 51:38
  Rick Costa: I think that starts at home, though.
• 51:39
  Rick Costa: First you got to teach them, kids, to respect their elders, and they don't care because they're on this all day.
• 51:45
  Carmen Lezeth: This is their world and we're going back to where we started.
• 51:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
• 51:50
  Rick Costa: My best friend.
• 51:51
  Rick Costa: So his kids just started school this week and like this is insane, the buses don't know what they're doing.
• 51:57
  Rick Costa: He's got two girls, one in one school, another another school, so and they get off at different times, but and they just went yesterday was the first day, I think and he calls the school.
• 52:07
  Rick Costa: He's like where's my daughter?
• 52:08
  Rick Costa: I don't know, and they're very he like, he was like they're very nonchalant about it.
• 52:13
  Rick Costa: He's I need to be wherever my daughter's gonna be how old are they?
• 52:16
  Carmen Lezeth: how old are the kids?
• 52:17
  Rick Costa: he just started sixth grade, the oldest one one.
• 52:19
  Rick Costa: Oh that's too young.
• 52:20
  Rick Costa: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Rick Costa: And then he's.
• 52:22
  Rick Costa: I got to pick up the other one too.
• 52:23
  Rick Costa: A little while you can't be just nonchalant about it.
• 52:25
  Rick Costa: Where are they?
• 52:26
  Rick Costa: I'm sorry, I'm no longer Christian, but I'm about to go off of these people, right now.
• 52:29
  Rick Costa: And he was mad.
• 52:32
  Rick Costa: So then, as a result, one of the women said just call her on her cell phone.
• 52:37
  Rick Costa: She ain't got no cell phone.
• 52:38
  Rick Costa: So now he bought her a cell phone.
• 52:41
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yeah, Let me tell you one thing that my daughter did with her son when he started Actually when he started pre-K she got an air tag and she pins the air tag on the inside of his pants so she can track wherever he is and on the bus.
• 52:59
  Carmen Lezeth: At all times yeah.
• 53:01
  Cynthia Ruiz: At all times, so she knows where he is.
• 53:03
  Cynthia Ruiz: So any parents listening?
• 53:05
  Carmen Lezeth: get air tags, attach them to your kids pants for those people who don't know what air tags are literally they're for luggage.
• 53:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that's how they started.
• 53:13
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know, but they're little things you can get and they you tag them to the clothing or whatever and whatever item you have and it's on your cell phone.
• 53:22
  Cynthia Ruiz: They have iPhones and Androids.
• 53:23
  Rick Costa: It's like a GPS tracker.
• 53:25
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, it's a GPS tracker.
• 53:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Ted just said both of my kids in these private school, expensive as hell never trusted public school.
• 53:31
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that's the struggle right.
• 53:34
  Carmen Lezeth: So, billy, I remember him having the conversation of we want to support public schools because every child should have a good education and our property taxes pay for a lot of things.
• 53:46
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the taxes that we pay.
• 53:48
  Carmen Lezeth: This is what you want your taxes to go to the public schools, so schools can be free, so everyone can get a good education.
• 53:55
  Carmen Lezeth: So we complain about taxes, but this is what it should be for.
• 53:58
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the thing that I don't think anyone would argue with.
• 54:02
  Carmen Lezeth: So, yes, if you can afford to send your kid to a good school, because the public schools suck, because we don't pay people enough, because we don't support them enough, of course you're going to send them to a private school.
• 54:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I ain't going to be mad at no parents about it.
• 54:17
  Carmen Lezeth: But this is the problem, this is the issue, and here's the great thing about public school is there's so much diversity in economic status, in people of different cultures and different ethnicities and different backgrounds, and that's what you want in this world.
• 54:34
  Carmen Lezeth: When you start going to private school, all of a sudden it's the haves and the have nots.
• 54:39
  Carmen Lezeth: So people who got the money are all in the, and this is how it begins.
• 54:43
  Carmen Lezeth: All the clicks begin here, all the networking begins here.
• 54:46
  Carmen Lezeth: But you do it because you want your kids to have the best education possible.
• 54:50
  Carmen Lezeth: But just see the logic right.
• 54:52
  Carmen Lezeth: So I, if I had children, they would always be in private school.
• 54:55
  Carmen Lezeth: But that doesn't mean I don't want to fix the public school issue.
• 55:00
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, and I agree with you, rick.
• 55:02
  Carmen Lezeth: I look at getting back to what the Surgeon General was saying, and I hate to use the cliche thing, but it does take can talk to them badly, no one can do anything to them, they are perfect and blah, blah, blah.
• 55:23
  Carmen Lezeth: They all get participation trophies, blah, blah, blah, and nobody else can say a thing about them, whereas when I was growing up, everybody and their mother had a say in everything any kid did in the neighborhood.
• 55:34
  Carmen Lezeth: Now I think there has to be a happy medium.
• 55:38
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 55:39
  Carmen Lezeth: There needs to be like a balance there.
• 55:40
  Carmen Lezeth: But I think and again, I'm not a parent.
• 55:44
  Carmen Lezeth: This is why I feel very comfortable saying this I think the problem with our children today is all of our faults adults, parents and all the adults around them together.
• 55:56
  Carmen Lezeth: It is our fault.
• 55:57
  Carmen Lezeth: We're failing them.
• 55:58
  Carmen Lezeth: It's our fault.
• 56:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Kids are attached to their cell phones because we've made it so uninteresting to do anything else.
• 56:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Kids don't go outside to play.
• 56:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Kids don't hang out with their friends on the corner, or you know what I mean.
• 56:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Like they don't ride their bikes anywhere.
• 56:16
  Carmen Lezeth: Everything is a play date.
• 56:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Everything is so structured because you're all paranoid that something's going to happen to your kid.
• 56:23
  Carmen Lezeth: What's happening to your kid is happening in your own house.
• 56:27
  Rick Costa: Yeah, and a lot of parents.
• 56:28
  Rick Costa: I understand we're all busy, but if your kid needs attention, for God's sake, you're their parent.
• 56:33
  Rick Costa: Give them attention.
• 56:33
  Rick Costa: But I see a lot of people like just grab your tablet and watch some YouTube.
• 56:35
  Rick Costa: I'm busy right now.
• 56:36
  Rick Costa: They need you and watch some YouTube.
• 56:37
  Rick Costa: I'm busy right now.
• 56:42
  Carmen Lezeth: They need you.
• 56:43
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I think one of the things that was great about Baata, who's one of my dearest friends and is the mother of Juliana they had Juliana trying everything Like first they thought she was going to be a musician because she loved playing this electric guitar thing and she got bored with that, then the piano, and then it was like she was going to do karate.
• 57:00
  Carmen Lezeth: And they never once they never got mad at her for wanting it, because kids do that.
• 57:05
  Carmen Lezeth: They got to figure out their thing.
• 57:06
  Carmen Lezeth: They got to figure out their thing, and it was always like it wasn't spoiling her.
• 57:10
  Carmen Lezeth: It was like okay, but if we're going to pay for this, you're going to loves it and it's like her thing.
• 57:13
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean, and I thought that was also kind of a cool thing, whereas I've seen so many parents get so upset because you are, I guess, in a way, if you look at it that way wasting money.
• 57:31
  Carmen Lezeth: You know I'm going to waste all this money sending my kid to ballet lessons and then they're never going to go or they're not going to be, they're not really good or whatever, and I'm like you're missing the point.
• 57:40
  Carmen Lezeth: Give your kid an activity to do that has nothing to do with the screen, watching a movie or being on YouTube or whatever it is.
• 57:50
  Carmen Lezeth: You're missing the point.
• 57:51
  Carmen Lezeth: They're interacting with other kids.
• 57:53
  Carmen Lezeth: They're meeting people.
• 57:53
  Carmen Lezeth: They're learning pros and cons.
• 57:55
  Carmen Lezeth: They're winning and losing.
• 57:57
  Carmen Lezeth: They're learning how to interact with other people.
• 58:03
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not about they're going to become a cellist or whatever.
• 58:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Not everyone is born Mozart, play the piano.
• 58:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Just let them do these things and explore, not because you think they're going to become the next Beyonce or Whitney Houston, but because you want them to be good and decent, wonderful, beautiful spirits, and that's part of it.
• 58:20
  Rick Costa: And how do you know what you're good at unless you try different things?
• 58:23
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what I'm saying.
• 58:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, and I know people ain't got a lot of money, it's not about money.
• 58:28
  Carmen Lezeth: The most important things I ever did had nothing to do with money had to do with my mother asking me questions about the TV shows I had watched, because we were latchkey kids.
• 58:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Were you a latchkey kid?
• 58:39
  Carmen Lezeth: If you're gen x, latchkey kids were.
• 58:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Basically you came home, nobody was home.
• 58:43
  Carmen Lezeth: You had a key around your neck so it was like called a latchkey kid and you would come home and wait until your parents came home, whatever.
• 58:49
  Carmen Lezeth: So a lot of gen xers are latchkey kids.
• 58:52
  Carmen Lezeth: So you know my mom would come home and she would ask me questions about what show I watched and having that talk about what the show meant.
• 59:01
  Carmen Lezeth: And I knew what shows I could.
• 59:03
  Carmen Lezeth: And it's so funny because now I realize she could not, she couldn't tell what shows I watched, but because that's the discipline I had, my mother was like don't let me see that you were watching something else other than what I told you you could watch.
• 59:14
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 59:15
  Cynthia Ruiz: And I was like okay, I would never turn the channel or anything.
• 59:21
  Cynthia Ruiz: You always thought she was watching you.
• 59:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Even after that woman passed away.
• 59:25
  Carmen Lezeth: May she rest in peace.
• 59:26
  Carmen Lezeth: Yesterday was the anniversary oh was it.
• 59:29
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, and today is Steve's anniversary.
• 59:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, I don't want to get sad, but I'm just saying yeah.
• 59:35
  Carmen Lezeth: But yeah, I used to think, even after she passed away for like years, that she could see me.
• 59:40
  Carmen Lezeth: It's people always like you didn't do drugs at all.
• 59:42
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like to this day.
• 59:45
  Carmen Lezeth: I swear to God she would come out.
• 59:48
  Carmen Lezeth: I told you never, but yeah.
• 59:51
  Carmen Lezeth: I really had the fear of God in me.
• 59:53
  Rick Costa: Now this one is triggered.
• 59:54
  Rick Costa: This song is triggered, but now I'm thinking of I always feel like somebody's watching me that wasn't Michael Jackson, but it was someone.
• 1:00:02
  Rick Costa: Rockwell, no Rockwell.
• 1:00:03
  Rick Costa: Yeah, that sounds right, maybe.
• 1:00:06
  Cynthia Ruiz: I think it was Rockwell.
• 1:00:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, rockwell, yeah, I remember that song.
• 1:00:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but I used to think that, I used to think she could see me and, oh my God, I was so afraid.
• 1:00:15
  Carmen Lezeth: I walked in fear as a child.
• 1:00:18
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me tell you I really did, and that's what I want for all children today.
• 1:00:23
  Carmen Lezeth: No, I'm just kidding.
• 1:00:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm just kidding.
• 1:00:25
  Carmen Lezeth: No, there's got to be a happy medium.
• 1:00:28
  Rick Costa: I saw this video I want to discuss real quick, really cute.
• 1:00:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Is it the one you sent me?
• 1:00:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Because we're not going to talk about it because it was stupid.
• 1:00:35
  Rick Costa: No, I said it was cute.
• 1:00:36
  Rick Costa: That was not cute.
• 1:00:42
  Carmen Lezeth: That was a mess wait have I approved of this message okay no, it's all right, rick, I will let you do this one time okay, so anyway because if it's about religion, I'm gonna be mad oh no, so it was a couple, the wife's are you gonna show?
• 1:00:58
  Rick Costa: it, just show it.
• 1:00:59
  Rick Costa: No, I don't have it ready, I don't have it ready, I don't have it ready.
• 1:01:01
  Rick Costa: Oh, look at me, I'm like I can just explain it.
• 1:01:02
  Rick Costa: No, I'm just going to explain it because it was really cute.
• 1:01:04
  Rick Costa: Okay, go ahead.
• 1:01:04
  Rick Costa: So there's a couple and the wife's pregnant, and the water broke, so they're in the car.
• 1:01:09
  Rick Costa: The wife is deaf, so she's trying, and he's driving in trying to like I'm going as fast as I can, I'm trying to hurry up and she keeps getting his attention.
• 1:01:24
  Rick Costa: Did it?
• 1:01:24
  Rick Costa: I know I'm trying to try.
• 1:01:25
  Rick Costa: And then all of a sudden, next, the baby popped out right in seat.
• 1:01:27
  Rick Costa: Oh no, and thank god she had a towel, so she wrapped it up in the towel quick, just like that, just like that must not have been her first I don't know okay, you and I have a different idea of cute.
• 1:01:42
  Carmen Lezeth: but okay, because, isn't it true?
• 1:01:45
  Carmen Lezeth: If you have, I think your first one is always the hardest right, and then your second child might be easier.
• 1:01:51
  Cynthia Ruiz: I don't know if that's necessarily true.
• 1:01:52
  Cynthia Ruiz: Yeah they say, but it's different for everyone.
• 1:01:54
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, man popping it out just like that.
• 1:01:57
  Rick Costa: Yeah, oh, I had a friend that she went to the hospital and she was like I'm having the baby now.
• 1:02:04
  Rick Costa: She's like, okay, we're going to get you.
• 1:02:05
  Rick Costa: No, I'm having the baby now.
• 1:02:07
  Rick Costa: She's like I understand.
• 1:02:08
  Rick Costa: She grabbed the nurse's hand, put it down there and the head was crowning already.
• 1:02:13
  Rick Costa: She's like, oh my God, get this woman in the room right now.
• 1:02:15
  Rick Costa: She's like you're having it now.
• 1:02:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm never interested in having a child, and that was her third yeah, she said, yeah, she just slid out, she goes.
• 1:02:26
  Rick Costa: The first one was horrible.
• 1:02:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I've heard most people tell me that their first was the worst and then after, Plus, you don't know what to expect.
• 1:02:33
  Rick Costa: It's your first, so that makes sense.
• 1:02:35
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what?
• 1:02:36
  Carmen Lezeth: We don't want to have this conversation.
• 1:02:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I just can't even imagine a child coming out of any area of me.
• 1:02:42
  Carmen Lezeth: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:02:42
  Carmen Lezeth: That's not my thing.
• 1:02:43
  Carmen Lezeth: My ex, I want my hand.
• 1:02:49
  Carmen Lezeth: That I can't grab.
• 1:02:50
  Carmen Lezeth: I know we're like.
• 1:02:50
  Carmen Lezeth: No way, my ex.
• 1:02:51
  Rick Costa: If you want to understand what it's like, imagine a watermelon coming out of your butt.
• 1:02:54
  Rick Costa: There you go.
• 1:02:57
  Carmen Lezeth: I was like no, I don't want to imagine that.
• 1:02:58
  Carmen Lezeth: That's a weird thing to say.
• 1:02:59
  Carmen Lezeth: That's a weird thing to say.
• 1:03:01
  Carmen Lezeth: Why are we Rick?
• 1:03:01
  Carmen Lezeth: See how I give Rick a little tiny.
• 1:03:03
  Carmen Lezeth: That's why I want to talk about things before they come on the show.
• 1:03:06
  Carmen Lezeth: You're nasty, okay.
• 1:03:09
  Carmen Lezeth: You're nasty, oh, my God.
• 1:03:10
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm going to shut this down, unless you guys have anything else you want to chit-chat about for a minute.
• 1:03:19
  Carmen Lezeth: All right, it was great to talk with you guys.
• 1:03:22
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• 1:03:47
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• 1:03:49
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• 1:03:52
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• 1:03:55
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• 1:03:56
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• 1:03:57
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• 1:03:59
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• 1:04:02
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