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Pastor Rick, Pink Poodles & Podcast Magic – A Tribute & An Unexpected Friendship · All About The Joy

• 0:02
  Carmen Lezeth: Hey everyone, welcome to All About the Joy, the private lounge.
• 0:08
  Carmen Lezeth: This week we're doing something a little tiny bit different.
• 0:11
  Carmen Lezeth: I have compiled a few different videos from back in the day basically from 2022 and 2023, and they are all about Rick Costa.
• 0:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Actually, he has no idea I'm doing this and I have to say that my acting skills are chef's kiss perfect.
• 0:29
  Carmen Lezeth: He was asking me this weekend, after we did a recording, if I wanted to get together at a different time so that we could record something, because he knew on Thursday I was not able to do our regular recording.
• 0:42
  Carmen Lezeth: And he's just.
• 0:43
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick Costa is the nicest guy right.
• 0:46
  Carmen Lezeth: Anybody who knows him knows that he's a really cool, nice, kind of even keeled kind of person, and I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to him Because since we started this since I reached out to him and asked if he wanted to be on the show and then subsequently asked him if he wanted to be on the show and then subsequently asked him if he wanted to co-host he's always been supportive, kind and as helpful as possible and he's never been mean or cruel or well.
• 1:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Sometimes he's mean no, he's not.
• 1:16
  Carmen Lezeth: But my point is is I've never taken a moment to really just say thank you, and I wanted to do it in this way, and so I've gathered together some clips that I think are kind of fun and telling about who he is, and I hope he understands what he means to me.
• 1:33
  Carmen Lezeth: So enjoy.
• 1:35
  Rick Costa: So she was a pink poodle.
• 1:37
  Rick Costa: I don't remember that.
• 1:37
  Rick Costa: Did I tell you about that?
• 1:39
  Carmen Lezeth: What's a pink poodle?
• 1:42
  Rick Costa: So on Periscope there were women that everybody in the world could see.
• 1:48
  Rick Costa: But stupid, ignorant, dumb, naive me that clearly they wanted some Rick and I'm like huh.
• 1:55
  Rick Costa: And so they were like we need to come up with something to let Rick know this chick is trying to get with you.
• 2:02
  Rick Costa: So they came up with we're're gonna type in pink poodle, that's your clue.
• 2:08
  Carmen Lezeth: And I'm like, oh, shoot, okay that is so random pink poodle but that's so good.
• 2:15
  Carmen Lezeth: It's kind of like.
• 2:16
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, there's a little bit different.
• 2:17
  Carmen Lezeth: But when I was growing up I used to always like when I would talk to people on the phone, like if I was in danger, I would just say tomatoes, and it's in the front cover of my book and unless you know, you don't know.
• 2:28
  Carmen Lezeth: But I used to say like I'd be talking on the phone and I would just start talking about tomatoes.
• 2:32
  Carmen Lezeth: This is like a code word.
• 2:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I think one of the coolest things about Rick is that you can never get him to say anything bad about anyone.
• 2:42
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 2:43
  Carmen Lezeth: But sometimes there are these moments and this next clip will show you where you can even get him to swear a little bit.
• 2:51
  Carmen Lezeth: Enjoy.
• 2:53
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, let me just tell you what the what, the podcast.
• 3:01
  Carmen Lezeth: So the podcast and what I wrote were about pet peeves like people not using blinkersers, which is what we call them in boston, but directionals you know when, when you're driving.
• 3:10
  Carmen Lezeth: But I kind of listed out like 10 of them.
• 3:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Um, people using their cell phones on speaker while you're in the vicinity of a public space.
• 3:19
  Carmen Lezeth: Um, people having sex in my apartment building, which is fine, knock yourselves out, but like just screaming, like there's a I hate to say it, but there's somebody who lives above me and I want to go and knock on the door and be like, seriously, if you can't tell that she's lying, that she's faking it, I'm here to tell you that she is, but it's so loud, I'm sorry.
• 3:49
  Carmen Lezeth: Is that embarrassing you, rick?
• 3:51
  Rick Costa: Well, when I was a kid, we used to have tenants upstairs.
• 3:53
  Rick Costa: This is a three-family house I live in.
• 3:55
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah.
• 3:56
  Rick Costa: Yeah, on one of the apartments this woman was loud and I'm like, what's happening?
• 4:04
  Rick Costa: I'm a kid, I don't know what.
• 4:04
  Rick Costa: I don't understand.
• 4:05
  Rick Costa: Like, what is all this noise?
• 4:07
  Rick Costa: What is happening?
• 4:07
  Rick Costa: Are they wrestling what's going?
• 4:10
  Carmen Lezeth: on you know what, but it's so like it's the fakery of it that cracks me up and I can't stop laughing.
• 4:17
  Carmen Lezeth: Anyway, I was just talking about kind of pet peeves on that end and people actually liked that episode.
• 4:24
  Rick Costa: But okay, what are?
• 4:25
  Rick Costa: Some of your pet peeves well, it's saying a lot of pretty much the same ones, especially driving ones.
• 4:30
  Rick Costa: Um, like either use the turn signal or we call turn signals here or don't.
• 4:36
  Rick Costa: Don't do it after.
• 4:38
  Rick Costa: I already see your car's already turning, I already know you're turning, idiot.
• 4:41
  Rick Costa: What are you putting it on now?
• 4:43
  Rick Costa: For what?
• 4:44
  Rick Costa: The heck that pisses me off.
• 4:48
  Rick Costa: I'm sorry, that makes me really mad.
• 4:49
  Rick Costa: That's hilarious.
• 4:51
  Rick Costa: Use youtube to watch other people's videos yeah, definitely definitely, but um stop signs.
• 4:57
  Rick Costa: I am a big proponent of stopping at stop signs, but almost most of my friends don't really care.
• 5:03
  Carmen Lezeth: People do a rolling stop here which is basically not stopping right.
• 5:06
  Carmen Lezeth: It's like you roll on, yeah.
• 5:08
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I think one of my big peeves I talk about was when you're in the grocery store and somebody is in front of you in line and they're on the phone and they're being so disrespectful to the cashier.
• 5:20
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't even understand.
• 5:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Like.
• 5:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I think I mentioned that in the podcast.
• 5:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I actually will call people out on that, because then they get upset because they can't hear the cashier but they're on their bluetooth or whatever.
• 5:33
  Carmen Lezeth: They're having their very important phone call um, but I I have.
• 5:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I think as I get older, I'm less inclined to be okay with people being rude to other people in front of me.
• 5:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I can't stand it.
• 5:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I can't stand it at all.
• 5:49
  Rick Costa: No, I've talked to people while I'm grocery shopping, but then I'll be like I'm getting in line, I gotta go right there I'm getting in like because I'm gonna sit there and talk to you and or something.
• 6:00
  Carmen Lezeth: No, that's just stupid right and so you know, someone told me carmen, I don't think people realize I'm like you know, that's just stupid, right.
• 6:06
  Carmen Lezeth: And so you know, someone told me Carmen, I don't think people realize I'm like you know what.
• 6:07
  Carmen Lezeth: That's the other thing.
• 6:07
  Carmen Lezeth: If you check yourself, how are people not realizing like that's not an excuse either?
• 6:14
  Carmen Lezeth: You're a grown person.
• 6:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You are not, you know, a seven-year-old kid that you don't know.
• 6:18
  Carmen Lezeth: When you're being rude, I mean, I just stop it, right, just stop it.
• 6:24
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, I'm going to be like getting people mad at me because I'm really adamant about the grocery store thing, but yeah, okay, another one.
• 6:33
  Carmen Lezeth: What's another one?
• 6:35
  Rick Costa: This is like a personal one to be honest with you.
• 6:37
  Rick Costa: So people that know me somewhat know that I've literally been broadcasting every single day for over six and a half years.
• 6:48
  Rick Costa: Never missed one day.
• 6:52
  Rick Costa: Maybe I'm crazy, but that's not the point and then they'll be like oh, I never get to see you.
• 6:57
  Rick Costa: I'm out every freaking day.
• 7:02
  Rick Costa: What do you mean?
• 7:03
  Rick Costa: You don't get to see me?
• 7:05
  Carmen Lezeth: That makes me so mad because they're just trying to be nice and I don't know.
• 7:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, all right, they're lying.
• 7:11
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, that makes me crazy.
• 7:12
  Carmen Lezeth: That is a pet peeve, but it's because they're trying to say they're interested.
• 7:17
  Carmen Lezeth: They just haven't been able to catch you.
• 7:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, why do you do it every day?
• 7:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm crazy I don't think you're crazy, but there must be a reason.
• 7:27
  Carmen Lezeth: It must be something in you that that you feel it's always about.
• 7:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Uh, I say this respectfully, I know it's going to come across badly, but it's because you're preaching the word or whatever right, which I'm not really into.
• 7:42
  Carmen Lezeth: But you know, you know I'm a recovering Catholic.
• 7:46
  Carmen Lezeth: So I think this next clip a lot of people know how we met, but this is, I think, the first time he actually explains how we met, and I will also say that Rick is probably one of the most humble people I've ever met.
• 8:02
  Carmen Lezeth: It annoys me to no end, like I can't stand it sometimes, but there's a lot of things about us that are so really different and I think that kind of really helps keep me happy and fresh and kind of just in a great space, because I know that there are things that we don't agree on at all.
• 8:27
  Carmen Lezeth: So why don't you tell people how we met?
• 8:34
  Rick Costa: So this wonderful app that no longer exists called Apps, that was just an amazing positive experience.
• 8:42
  Rick Costa: I'm being so sarcastic right now.
• 8:44
  Rick Costa: Yeah, we just came across each other on there, but I think the one video I saw was when you were with three other women and you guys were talking about men and I was like, oh, this is amazing.
• 8:58
  Rick Costa: This conversation is awesome.
• 9:00
  Rick Costa: I'm learning stuff right now.
• 9:02
  Rick Costa: And I was like that's when I was like, oh, I like these people oh, that's so funny.
• 9:06
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't remember who that was, but that, that's.
• 9:08
  Carmen Lezeth: That probably sounds like me, whatever.
• 9:10
  Carmen Lezeth: Um, oh, that's hilarious.
• 9:12
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, and I, when I first ran into or started getting to know people on haps and anyone who listens to me or is on our show knows that I hate that app with every fiber of my being, and I say it every time, just to be clear part of it is because it was just a very toxic place.
• 9:29
  Carmen Lezeth: But there were pearls, there were people, and you're one of those people, rick, that I thought um were pretty cool, even though you and I do not believe in the same things, and that's what I want to talk about.
• 9:42
  Carmen Lezeth: So, rick costacom.
• 9:44
  Carmen Lezeth: So when I first met rick, I thought he was a pastor, because everyone called you pastor, rick.
• 9:51
  Rick Costa: Well, I so how did that come about?
• 9:54
  Rick Costa: So it was on Periscope.
• 9:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Another app, wait, wait, yes, yes, periscope was another app, right yeah.
• 10:01
  Rick Costa: Periscope was pretty big back in the day.
• 10:03
  Rick Costa: Actually, I think the second year it was out it became like the number one app and that's when it really kind of pulled and everybody was like on that thing.
• 10:11
  Rick Costa: But funny enough, people have called me that like slipping, sort of Like oh, pastor, I mean Rick, like they've done that like forever.
• 10:23
  Rick Costa: Even my own pastor has done that in front of the church and I'm like, hmm, what's that about?
• 10:28
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but why you should tell people why.
• 10:30
  Rick Costa: Well, because I am super hardcore into the bible and jesus and okay being a little humble, let me.
• 10:38
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me intervene.
• 10:39
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not just that you're super hardcore into the bible, but that is part of it.
• 10:44
  Carmen Lezeth: But you also have a daily service show that you do.
• 10:49
  Carmen Lezeth: On, let me see if I got this right Sunday through Friday at 3 pm Pacific.
• 11:00
  Carmen Lezeth: Pacific and 6 pm Eastern, and it's about half an hour 45 minutes and you do a Bible reading.
• 11:07
  Carmen Lezeth: You do a song that you all sing together.
• 11:11
  Carmen Lezeth: You have regular people that come on the show.
• 11:14
  Carmen Lezeth: You read the Bible and then you have like some games that you do.
• 11:17
  Carmen Lezeth: That I try to once in a while come and visit and I always kind of into being when the games are going on because I think they're fun and you do a lot of praying for other people and stuff like that.
• 11:28
  Carmen Lezeth: So you've been doing this for eight years now.
• 11:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Every day is godly.
• 11:33
  Carmen Lezeth: You have not missed a day, which you're very proud about that.
• 11:36
  Carmen Lezeth: And I'm all like we're doing this podcast because we're taking off Thanksgiving.
• 11:40
  Carmen Lezeth: I have no interest whatsoever in doing that, but congratulations to you.
• 11:46
  Carmen Lezeth: But the reason why I bring that up is because I think that's why people were calling you also Pastor Rick is because you are providing a religious service or sermon or I don't want to speak for you, but why don't you tell people what you call it?
• 12:00
  Rick Costa: I mean that's what people just naturally started doing.
• 12:03
  Rick Costa: And then it got to the point where it happened so much, where I was like, okay, I guess this is happening, so I'm just going to let it happen.
• 12:12
  Rick Costa: And I even changed my name on Periscope to Pastor Ray Costa.
• 12:16
  Rick Costa: I was like we're just going to go with it, that's what it is.
• 12:18
  Rick Costa: And I mean I'm serving the purpose of one.
• 12:23
  Rick Costa: You know I do.
• 12:24
  Rick Costa: What do I do?
• 12:24
  Rick Costa: That's different?
• 12:25
  Rick Costa: Not really much.
• 12:26
  Rick Costa: You know I.
• 12:26
  Rick Costa: There's like a little sermon, you know I.
• 12:41
  Rick Costa: I didn't.
• 12:41
  Rick Costa: I fought that for the longest I was like no, no, don't put that on me, don't put that on me.
• 12:45
  Rick Costa: But then I was like all right, all right what?
• 12:50
  Carmen Lezeth: what's the big deal?
• 12:50
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, if I mean I, I mean I don't know what the okay, so let's just talk about we don't have to go down why you are or are not called Pastor Rick, and I understand you have a lot of humility issues and being so.
• 13:03
  Carmen Lezeth: I say that respectfully.
• 13:04
  Carmen Lezeth: I think what's really interesting sometimes is when you make a decision to want to do something, especially creatively, you have to have somebody who is going to support your idea right, somebody who's going to be like in your corner no matter what.
• 13:22
  Carmen Lezeth: And I have to say it's one of the things I really appreciate about Rick and he supports all about the joy because he believes in the mission and what it is I'm trying to do, and so I love that about him.
• 13:36
  Carmen Lezeth: But what's really interesting is sometimes people aren't as supportive as he is towards them and, uh, this clip kind of shows that pet peeves.
• 13:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, not even about pet peeves.
• 13:49
  Rick Costa: you can talk about other stuff, but whatever you want, yeah, I'm just, I'm just thinking still like um acting like I don't support you when I do, but you don't never support me like oh no, are you talking about me?
• 14:07
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know.
• 14:08
  Rick Costa: No, no, not you personally, no, you do.
• 14:11
  Carmen Lezeth: But I do, but I don't no, you do, can't be no.
• 14:15
  Carmen Lezeth: No, I support you as a friend but I don't always support your because I want everyone to know it's not that I don't believe in god.
• 14:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I do, but I don't do the bible stuffage.
• 14:27
  Carmen Lezeth: So I get a little turned off sometimes when you go down that.
• 14:31
  Carmen Lezeth: But I feel bad because I try to go on TikTok and like stuff and then you say something I'm like no, I don't believe Jesus said that.
• 14:38
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I don't say that, but I'm like no, I don't believe that, I don't believe it.
• 14:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, but I don't want to do that because I don't want to be negative on your space, so that I sometimes support you by not writing anything yeah, no, I'll totally get it, totally get it.
• 14:54
  Rick Costa: But but there'll be people that say like, oh gosh, I never, I never hardly, I never hardly see you on my videos and I'm like, if we're gonna make a comparison, you never visit my videos, and I do visit you every once in a while, like I don't know, it's just annoying it takes a lot of work too to go and visit other people's.
• 15:14
  Carmen Lezeth: Like people got upset with me on Tik TOK because I don't follow everybody, Everybody who follows me, I don't follow them back.
• 15:21
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like I, I go on Tik TOK, I do a thing and I will follow people because I actually want to watch your stuff, not just to follow them.
• 15:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Like, if I have 5,000 followers, I'm not going to follow 5,000 people because I'm not going to watch all 5,000 people.
• 15:38
  Rick Costa: No, it's interesting though I kind of have been doing the follow for follow this whole time and I'm like, oh, and I regret this probably one day, but everything that comes up for me, like you know you scroll, it's relevant stuff, stuff that I actually am interested in.
• 15:56
  Rick Costa: So, right algorithm, they got going on behind the scenes.
• 15:58
  Carmen Lezeth: But that thing works well.
• 15:59
  Carmen Lezeth: I think it's the things that you like.
• 16:00
  Carmen Lezeth: So it's not about who you follow, it's the things that you like.
• 16:03
  Carmen Lezeth: So the more you like certain things, then you'll get more of those uh videos.
• 16:09
  Carmen Lezeth: But that's my problem with following everybody who follows me.
• 16:12
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't like somebody's following me who's like a punk rocker and I'm like I don't.
• 16:18
  Carmen Lezeth: I think you sound horrible.
• 16:22
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't like your genre of music, but thank you for following me, but I'm not going to follow that person back.
• 16:28
  Rick Costa: Yeah, Well, I used to be like more like that on Periscope and they'd be like, oh, follow me, follow.
• 16:32
  Rick Costa: Well, I used to be more like that on Periscope and they'd be like, oh, follow me, follow me, follow me.
• 16:34
  Rick Costa: And then I'd look at their profile and they have no videos and I'm like follow you for what you don't broadcast.
• 16:38
  Rick Costa: Yeah, that's the other part, Right For what.
• 16:41
  Carmen Lezeth: There's no doubt that Rick and I don't agree on a lot of things, but there are some fundamental things that we absolutely agree on, even when it comes to religion, and I think that's what you want to find in someone when you're trying to create or build something, is you want to make sure that the person that you're working with not only believes in your mission but also has your back.
• 17:04
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean Is somebody who is going to be there for you, and I think that's hard if you don't have some fundamental belief systems that are exactly the same.
• 17:15
  Carmen Lezeth: And even though Rick and I don't believe in a lot of things, when it comes to like you know the same, like politics or religion or you know things like that the truth is, at the end of the day, we're both good people, we're both compassionate people, we both have a lot of empathy for people, and I think that's what's important.
• 17:37
  Carmen Lezeth: It's not that you have to agree on everything on the planet.
• 17:42
  Carmen Lezeth: I think that would be impossible and a little weird, by the way, but I do think it's important that, fundamentally, you believe in the same things that are good and you believe in the same things that are bad, and believe in the same things that are bad and that at the end of the day, if you do argue with each other or you do which I don't know if we've ever had any arguments, I couldn't find any clips of those but at the end of the day, that even if you have a disagreement, you can have those disagreements, you can apologize to each other and then you can move forward, and I think Rick and I are really good at that, especially with each other.
• 18:15
  Carmen Lezeth: But I feel like some of these churches.
• 18:19
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm shook by the tithing and I'm okay.
• 18:25
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm okay investing in something you believe in, but if he's driving a Rolls Royce, I'm just saying I don't think that's what Jesus would have thought when your flocking got food.
• 18:37
  Rick Costa: Yeah, that's definitely one of the big ones too is they're like oh, they just want money, they just want money and I want money, da-da-da-da.
• 18:42
  Rick Costa: And I hear it, I understand it.
• 18:44
  Rick Costa: And that was a funny thing on Periscope, again, the first time I was on, because there was so many more people over there.
• 18:50
  Rick Costa: They'd see me and be like, oh, here's another money-hungry preacher and I'm like you never asked for money Right Back then.
• 19:02
  Rick Costa: I definitely did never, never asked for money.
• 19:04
  Rick Costa: I don't know, I don't get paid to do this.
• 19:06
  Rick Costa: No, I don't get a paycheck.
• 19:07
  Rick Costa: No, it's going to go into my head either.
• 19:08
  Rick Costa: I just do it because I want to do it.
• 19:10
  Rick Costa: But, yeah, I definitely understand that.
• 19:17
  Rick Costa: I what are you talking about?
• 19:18
  Rick Costa: I got to get what?
• 19:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, and it's also when they tie the amount of money you get to the miracles and the blessings.
• 19:26
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like that's your first clue that that is a bad place to be churching, as I call it.
• 19:32
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean.
• 19:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Like if someone because your relationship with God is your relationship with God and it doesn't matter how much money you give to whoever is pretending Cause at that point you're pretending, I'm sorry, you know what I mean.
• 19:45
  Carmen Lezeth: Like if you're doing a quid pro quo.
• 19:47
  Carmen Lezeth: Like if you give me 10% of your salary and then I will give you a blessing.
• 19:52
  Carmen Lezeth: That's a red flag right there.
• 19:55
  Rick Costa: Yeah, and I've heard horror stories too.
• 19:57
  Rick Costa: Like the person that's pretty well known, we'll say the name but some guy, some, uh, some brother, guy's brother went to his service and he said to the, to the preacher he's like hey, my mom's got cancer, it's not looking good.
• 20:10
  Rick Costa: And he said, oh, buy this 50 bottle of oil, pour it all over her and she will be healed.
• 20:18
  Rick Costa: She, she died a month later.
• 20:20
  Carmen Lezeth: Of course she did so.
• 20:21
  Carmen Lezeth: That's disgusting.
• 20:22
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm not trying to be funny, but come on now.
• 20:26
  Rick Costa: Stuff like that.
• 20:27
  Rick Costa: That just is disgusting and it makes all of us look bad, like what are you doing?
• 20:31
  Carmen Lezeth: Stop it you do know that there are more churches like that than not, right, I mean, that's the problem.
• 20:37
  Rick Costa: I don't know every church, so I don't know.
• 20:39
  Carmen Lezeth: Well, okay, I'm sorry, let me talk about Catholic churches.
• 20:42
  Carmen Lezeth: Like, every time I go into a Catholic church, like even here, which is this big church right down the street here very well-known, very famous tour guides go by, whatever, and you know, even when you walk in there, the opulence.
• 20:54
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean it's beautiful, right, because these are the old churches, the old cathedrals, whatever, and all that has to be, you know, upcapped or whatever, and if you go to church that that tithing thing comes around three times.
• 21:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Okay, here's the thing about Catholic church.
• 21:09
  Carmen Lezeth: In case black people be listening, who are not Catholic, catholic church is maybe 40 minutes.
• 21:15
  Carmen Lezeth: You're not there all day.
• 21:18
  Carmen Lezeth: It is our father, we sing a song, it's the same.
• 21:23
  Carmen Lezeth: You know, sermon, whatever.
• 21:24
  Carmen Lezeth: I mean, I haven't been to church in a long time and every time I step in it's like I was just there yesterday.
• 21:29
  Rick Costa: Exactly, because it's the same exact thing every time.
• 21:32
  Carmen Lezeth: So in 40 minutes, when that basket comes around three or four times that's a lot of pressure.
• 21:38
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what I mean and I'm not saying you shouldn't invest in things that you believe in, but it's like non-profits to me.
• 21:46
  Carmen Lezeth: If you want to invest money to a non-profit you need to research it, find out how much money is going to the administrative costs which are valid.
• 21:55
  Carmen Lezeth: You can't have a non-profit without the administrative staff working to do the stuff.
• 22:01
  Carmen Lezeth: But you want to make sure that ratio isn't, you know, 80% administrative and then 20% to the actual thing you're supporting.
• 22:09
  Carmen Lezeth: And I don't think churches have that.
• 22:12
  Carmen Lezeth: But you can do research on some churches before you give money to them.
• 22:16
  Rick Costa: Yeah, and listen, if I didn't give it to you the first time, what makes you think two and three, and four, five more times?
• 22:22
  Rick Costa: If I'm broke, I'm still going to be broke, no matter how much time you pass this thing around.
• 22:26
  Rick Costa: Ok, like, what is the point of that?
• 22:30
  Carmen Lezeth: You know what that was so good, rick.
• 22:32
  Carmen Lezeth: Rick, thank you so much.
• 22:35
  Carmen Lezeth: I appreciate you.
• 22:36
  Carmen Lezeth: I hope you know how much you mean to me and to the show.
• 22:39
  Carmen Lezeth: I am so excited for whatever happens next and where we're going from here, and I appreciate our conversations that we tend to really have in the green room.
• 22:51
  Carmen Lezeth: I wish you would be so vocal when we're on camera.
• 22:56
  Carmen Lezeth: I don't know what happens.
• 22:57
  Carmen Lezeth: Maybe it's because I talk too much.
• 22:58
  Carmen Lezeth: I have no idea but we have some great conversations offline, as well as all your contributions and the way in which you help me do this.
• 23:08
  Carmen Lezeth: I know for a fact that, although I think I would still be trying to do my podcast and my live stream, I really could not do it without your support and the way in which you were always there for me when I asked you to do something, when I asked you to try to help me out with something, and so I just wanted to say thank you and I appreciate you.
• 23:30
  Carmen Lezeth: Oh, no, you did tell me about that.
• 23:33
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:33
  Carmen Lezeth: This is the friend that you were in the car with and you say we're just friends and food.
• 23:38
  Rick Costa: She was like opening the food for you that's just the reason.
• 23:45
  Carmen Lezeth: That's not a big deal.
• 23:46
  Carmen Lezeth: I'm like, oh my god, you're so stupid yeah I remember that I was like he don't get it because I would not be like rick here.
• 23:58
  Carmen Lezeth: Let me open the water I was just like, like she's so considerate.
• 24:02
  Carmen Lezeth: No, that doesn't work.
• 24:04
  Rick Costa: Yeah.
• 24:04
  Rick Costa: I was done.
• 24:06
  Carmen Lezeth: Yeah, no, sorry.
• 24:07
  Carmen Lezeth: Thank you so much again.
• 24:09
  Carmen Lezeth: We appreciate all your support.
• 24:11
  Carmen Lezeth: We love that everyone keeps coming by and hanging out with us.
• 24:15
  Carmen Lezeth: And yeah, just remember, at the end of the day it really is all about the joy.
• 24:21
  Carmen Lezeth: Bye everyone.
• 24:23
  Carmen Lezeth: Thanks for stopping by.
• 24:26
  Carmen Lezeth: All About the Joy Be better and stay beautiful folks, have a sweet day.