All About The Joy
Friends With Benefits, Relationships Dynamics, Travel Mishaps, and Health Journeys
Ever experienced the unpredictability of international travel or the chaos of a travel disaster? Find out how our crew navigated through missed flights, lost luggage, and a chaotic adventure in Greece. In this episode, we kick off with an amusing anecdote from Cynthia about her last day at work and welcome Alma, who shares her journey with myasthenia gravis. Despite some technical hiccups, the evening is filled with laughter, playful banter, and meaningful conversations about health, travel, and the little surprises life throws our way.
Curious about the intricacies of relationships, from the humorous side of long-term commitments to the delicate balance of friends-with-benefits? Listen as we debate everything from voice quality and the high cost of living in major cities to dealing with customer service challenges and the unique culture of Los Angeles. Our discussions weave through personal anecdotes, touching on iconic pop culture moments and a spirited debate on Joe Biden's recent public appearance. Join us for a candid look at the dynamics of friendships, the complexities of relationships, and the importance of taking time to unwind during the weekend.
Celebrate with us reminiscing about iconic movies and TV shows to recounting hilarious moments and heartfelt experiences, this episode is a blend of camaraderie, humor, and spontaneous joy. We wrap up with discussions on healing from heartbreak, the evolution of relationships, and what it means to find love again. So, grab your favorite drink, settle in, and enjoy this engaging and multifaceted episode of "All About the Joy."
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Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.
Ever experienced the unpredictability of international travel or the chaos of a travel disaster? Find out how our crew navigated through missed flights, lost luggage, and a chaotic adventure in Greece. In this episode, we kick off with an amusing anecdote from Cynthia about her last day at work and welcome Alma, who shares her journey with myasthenia gravis. Despite some technical hiccups, the evening is filled with laughter, playful banter, and meaningful conversations about health, travel, and the little surprises life throws our way.
Curious about the intricacies of relationships, from the humorous side of long-term commitments to the delicate balance of friends-with-benefits? Listen as we debate everything from voice quality and the high cost of living in major cities to dealing with customer service challenges and the unique culture of Los Angeles. Our discussions weave through personal anecdotes, touching on iconic pop culture moments and a spirited debate on Joe Biden's recent public appearance. Join us for a candid look at the dynamics of friendships, the complexities of relationships, and the importance of taking time to unwind during the weekend.
Celebrate with us reminiscing about iconic movies and TV shows to recounting hilarious moments and heartfelt experiences, this episode is a blend of camaraderie, humor, and spontaneous joy. We wrap up with discussions on healing from heartbreak, the evolution of relationships, and what it means to find love again. So, grab your favorite drink, settle in, and enjoy this engaging and multifaceted episode of "All About the Joy."
To watch the entire video:
https://youtube.com/live/1QP22oi23a4
Thank you for stopping by. Please visit our website: All About The Joy and add, like and share. We'd appreciate that greatly. Also, if you want to find us anywhere on social media, please check out the link in bio page.
Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.
Hey everyone, welcome to All About the Joy. This is a rare Friday night hangout with Cynthia, mario Alma joins us for the first time, tony's in the house and, of course, rick is hanging out as well, as always, and I hope you enjoy it. I was going to make it into two separate episodes, but it kind of flows together pretty easily as one, so enjoy. Hey, mario, you made it home how are you?
Maurio:I am home, I am good. Oh my.
Carmen Lezeth:God, hey, mama, wait, is Mama going to be doing that the whole time, like she's going to get Mario talking to the camera. I would just walk out the way.
Maurio:I'm trying to.
Carmen Lezeth:We want you. Come on. Bye, hey, tony. Tony, I sent you a link. If you want to come up, you don't have to, though. No, no, no, cynthia, what I told you was and I have to keep looking over here to see if Rick comes up Hi, alma, alma, cynthia, cynthia, hi, cynthia.
Maurio:Hi, this is my bed. I have.
Carmen Lezeth:What, what, what, Mario, so this is my better half. Oh, I just walked out the door because I kicked him out. Well, he was talking so much smack and I was like he's going to do this, we're going to be on. Come on too. It could be a couple's night. I'll be the therapist in the middle.
Maurio:You don't want this move.
Cynthia:No, no, no.
Alma:We want to stay friends.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, we want to stay friends, exactly Okay. Stay friends. Yeah, we want to stay friends, exactly okay. Cynthia was about to tell me what. Okay, today was her last day at her old job. She starts her new job on Monday to work and something happened. Hey, steven Pena, how are you? Um, okay, go ahead, cynthia okay.
Cynthia:So I was at work today. It was kind of dragging, it was kind of slow and, um, you know, they had flowers and cupcakes and stuff for me and then, um, some of the medical assistants and nurses decided to take me out for dinner. So, um, some of us carpooled so it was me and three other girls going in my car. So I, you know, I had the flowers, everything I'm putting it in my trunk and everybody's getting in the car, and on the driver's side of the car I didn't notice that there was like a big rock of asphalt and and when I stepped on it my ankle went and I went down and they were all like where'd she go? I just literally went down. They all come running out the car and I'm out there cracking up laughing Because I'm like it would be today. Wait, here's the thing that's the way to go out.
Tony D.:That's the way to go out.
Carmen Lezeth:Go ahead, go would be today.
Cynthia:That's the way to go out, exactly Go ahead.
Maurio:So I scraped off both my knees and got a lot of my pants.
Cynthia:Yeah, I was the best, but I was cracking up because I was like it would only happen to me on my last day. Of course, you can't even claim workers' comp.
Alma:Right? Well, technically I can, because I'm still in the same company. You were still in the lot. Yeah, I can't because I'm still in the same company. You were still in the lot. Yeah, so you can. You should file your paperwork.
Carmen Lezeth:I know right. Let me just see if I can find out where Ricky is. He usually sends me a message, but he did not.
Maurio:Oh Lord, that's okay.
Carmen Lezeth:When he comes up, he comes up. So you guys made it back in time.
Maurio:Yes, we've been running the streets all afternoon, so we made it. I'm glad we're here.
Carmen Lezeth:Your internet isn't working. That's what he just texted me.
Maurio:Tomato tomato.
Carmen Lezeth:He said he's going to reboot Tomato tomato Like tomato tomato, tomato tomato.
Maurio:Our daughter. Anytime back in the day we'd hit on the cartoon where you used to throw tomatoes at the characters when they were going boo Right. So my daughter goes Boo Hits Tomato Tomato. So she's like anything, Anything she doesn't like. She goes Boo Hits Tomato Tomato.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, that's a new one. I'm going to do that one. I always say tomato when it's like not that different when it's like no, this is like boo when we are not. Hi, sadie, how are you? Nice to see you? Um, okay, well, we have alma on the show for the first time. So, alma and alma, please feel free to talk badly about mario right to his face on our show.
Maurio:We love that no, no, no, no no.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, no, so you're going to be disappointed in me. What, what am I missing?
Alma:I'm waiting for her to speak the truth. Talk your stuff.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, there was one thing that you wanted to correct Some mistake he made.
Maurio:About Hermione. What Hermione Davis right?
Alma:That's what you were talking about oh, when you talked about it, the last time oh yeah, yeah, well, hi everyone, um for those nice to meet everyone I uh have myasthenia gravis since we're coming out here, um and uh, basically it's a neuroconductivity um disease, but it's autoimmune, so there's no cure. Um, and basically it causes muscle weakness, um, just uh, and it can be localized, like just in your eyes, or for me it's generalized, so it's uh ocular I get. It affects my swallowing, my speech, my walking um, and it can happen anytime.
Carmen Lezeth:So what was it that mario had said that? What was it that he said that was wrong.
Alma:I don't remember what it was that you said.
Maurio:I wasn't as descriptive as she was.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, okay, understood, Understood. Yeah, and Melanie just said we're going to have to dock Rick's pay. Yeah, for sure.
Alma:Especially since I'm on here and he decides not to come on today.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just going to tell him that, rick, he can't. I was going to say, rick, if you can hear us, but he keeps saying rebooting, it's not working. He can just come on when he comes on, that's it. Use his phone. I don't know if he would use his phone he's more bougie than I am but I will tell you not right now he has a microphone he has a whole setup during his regular, his own service.
Maurio:He has sound effects, he he has echoes, he has applause, he does all the things he has a soundboard.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, Okay, I'm going to just leave him a voice message. Can I ask?
Alma:you. What are you looking forward to for your new job?
Tony D.:Oh, she's leaving a message.
Carmen Lezeth:I was recording. I don't know that she's talking to Smithia. She totally just dissed you.
Maurio:Anyways, you can just use your email as far as that.
Carmen Lezeth:We miss you. Come on up, however you can. He's going to think we're crazy. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry, Alma. Go ahead and speak your piece.
Alma:I was just asking Cynthia what she's looking forward to in her new job.
Cynthia:It's a whole new environment. Thanks, rick. Hey, rick, can you hear us? Probably not, we can see you.
Maurio:How many things am I holding up?
Carmen Lezeth:We can't hear you.
Maurio:Hi, am I seeing you?
Cynthia:Yeah, no, I'm looking forward to it because I'll be working with a doctor who deals with a lot of cancer cells, okay, and trying to find like cures and how, um, the cancers progressed and things like that. So it'd be really interesting.
Alma:Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome, that's really awesome. We we've um volunteered with the American cancer society for many, many, many years and, uh, so that's definitely something that we, you know, follow all of the research and all of the you know cutting edge stuff that people come up with, you know, with all of the all of that. So that's really cool.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, rick is getting on my every nerve. I'm sorry, it's hard for me to be paying attention. Okay, rick, can you hear?
Rick Costa:I hear you. Do you hear me?
Carmen Lezeth:What is going on with you? Your computer's possessed? I don't know.
Alma:Was it fine? Oh, you didn't say your prayers today, uh-oh. It's you too, Alma.
Carmen Lezeth:Ooh, there's going to be some fighting today and that'll be all. Happy Friday.
Cynthia:Happy.
Carmen Lezeth:Friday everyone Tony, tony.
Maurio:Hey, tony hey.
Carmen Lezeth:Tony, tony, alma, we can't hear you.
Tony D.:It's a party now. I was waking up from a nap about five, ten minutes ago, so y'all gotta forgive me. I've been pulling some long hours. So how's everybody doing? Alma, good to meet you, hi, nice to meet you. How you doing Carmen? Hey, hi, carmen. Not the sigh, not the exhaustion. Yeah, I should do the last one. She was like ugh. And then there's Tony oh my lord.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, I thought you were going to be busy tonight, tony, because I know Friday night is the night for all the shows and all the other places.
Tony D.:So I actually put you over watching Power Book 2 Ghost, so I want you to go ahead and feel privileged.
Carmen Lezeth:Power Book Ghost is. What is it?
Maurio:it's the show Power. It's in the Power Universe, is it?
Carmen Lezeth:a Marvel thing that I don't know anything about.
Maurio:No, it's completely different. Is it about black people? Oh, okay, wow, I am privileged.
Alma:This has been no joke Is it a Marvel thing that I don't know anything about? No, it's completely different.
Carmen Lezeth:Is it about black people? It's a drama. Yes, oh, okay, wow, I am privileged. Then I did not know. Look at him, he's so bad, a whole lot of black people.
Maurio:He ain't going to stand. A whole lot of black people, light people, new York, which.
Tony D.:I'm grateful, for I like what they're doing. I have to tell everybody out there if you've never watched any of the Power shows and I do mean if you haven't watched any of them there has not been a bad episode since the original series for any of the spinoffs. How many minutes are there?
Maurio:Just a lot. Yeah, 50 has turned this into a whole thing. I stopped after Power. I got through season 2.6, and I was out. I haven't been back how many seasons are there, go back and watch more.
Tony D.:For me to go back, it's a lot.
Maurio:And then there's Power, then there's Power Book 2, then there's Power Book 3, and then there's 4. It's a lot.
Carmen Lezeth:Who's in it? Who's in it? Somebody I know 50 Cent.
Maurio:Mary J Blige, method man. I'm intrigued.
Carmen Lezeth:Already. I had no idea, tony, what is up with you.
Tony D.:I've been trying. Y'all. You see what I deal with. I've been trying. I gotta pick on her.
Carmen Lezeth:She be telling people y'all don't understand what it means to deal with him, and I gotta tell people, y'all don't understand what it means to deal with her.
Maurio:Deal with her. You're mumbling again, but okay, who?
Alma:else is in, it Is Terrence.
Tony D.:Howard in it? No, he's in.
Maurio:Empire Loren's team's been in it.
Tony D.:Yeah, that's right. His brother's been in it, billy is in it this season and I don't think there's been anybody else.
Maurio:They've been leaking one of the universes of that too, bsv or something it was on.
Tony D.:BMF Is it?
Carmen Lezeth:about music, though. What is it about?
Maurio:It on BMF? Is it about music, though? What is it about?
Tony D.:No, it's about gangs in streets. Yeah, it's a lot of different things. It's been a drug-dealing soap opera, honestly. Yeah, that's basically it.
Cynthia:You wouldn't like it, Carmen. No.
Rick Costa:She didn't like X-Men, so she can only tell you.
Cynthia:Wait, wait, that was so funny.
Carmen Lezeth:I watched part of Rick's show today and at some point in the comments somebody was like I wonder if they're going to talk about the debates or something Whatever. That thought we're not going to talk about the debates because I don't want to fucking get upset or whatever. But now I'm going to get upset about this fucking show and Tony, that's the whip me. Tony, is it just that when we're in the same room together that it's just explosive, no matter what? You know what I mean.
Rick Costa:Like it's just we hate each other. I hate you, I hate you, you hate how I talk.
Alma:It's a thin line.
Tony D.:It's a thin line.
Cynthia:It's not even that I'm like a married couple, don't they?
Maurio:Right.
Cynthia:Wait, what is it that you say? It's like a married couple.
Maurio:It Sound like a married couple Wait, they got real funny. Wait Both of them.
Cynthia:I think Courtney and I are thinking of if some people heard that, what might happen.
Alma:I think that's what happened?
Cynthia:Exactly Right, my God. I love it.
Carmen Lezeth:Don't say it. It's like what is it in Harry Potter, the Hux Cruises, whatever it is Like don't say it, don't say it, Okay. So I was going to do this thing. I'm not going to do it because I'm not prepared. Mario and Alma, we were going to do this kind of fast one question, answer, whatever. But I'm not prepared. It was a tough week for me, it's okay, it's all right.
Carmen Lezeth:All I mean is we'll have to do it again, we'll have to have you on again, and you know what I really hate that my camera is this way. So talk amongst yourselves. I'm going to change my camera.
Maurio:What is wrong with the camera?
Carmen Lezeth:It's showing my bad side because they flipped it, because I don't have a bad side, I do have a bad side?
Maurio:Good answer Not, unless you're showing your buttocks.
Alma:So much better. Oh my goodness, only an actor would do that.
Rick Costa:Right Only an actor, you're in a whole new room. It's like you changed rooms, wow.
Carmen Lezeth:I know that you can't see, it says Los Angeles Fire Department and I know last week it said love. I have a whole bunch of cool shirts now that I'm all into and I was like, you know, rick's right or whatever, but my face, you know what I mean. I gotta feel comfortable. I gotta feel comfortable.
Tony D.:What is Tony? You got a question, tony. Does my voice sound better now?
Cynthia:No, because you're still in the house volume is all the way up I just want you all your volume, you, you turn the switch up on you you guys are so funny, do you?
Carmen Lezeth:want to come to see me come up anymore no, she does not, you know she does not? She used to come up on half Haps.
Tony D.:She came up maybe twice on Haps, rarely, rarely.
Carmen Lezeth:I was there those two times.
Tony D.:Yes, that's my point Ever.
Carmen Lezeth:Sadie, you're always welcome, baby. I love her. She's always a good person.
Tony D.:She has always been. She's been one of the day ones from ever. She does not come on.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, that's okay. I'm just saying, sadie, you're always invited. You don't have to show your face either if you don't want to, tony, stop shaking your legs.
Maurio:How do you know the?
Carmen Lezeth:whole thing is shaking Because Tony's a beginner and he doesn't know how to work.
Tony D.:I'll take you apart, ma'am.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, that's my whole point. You're still talking. Is it working? Can you hear me?
Maurio:I'm waiting for him to start singing. You'll never find. It's my new life.
Rick Costa:Welcome to.
Cynthia:All About the Joy You're going to be smothered, there you go.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, wait. What do you guys normally do on a Friday night?
Rick Costa:Drink Peach schnapps.
Alma:No, we were out last week. That's Rick the Christian. No, we're not peach schnapps right now.
Maurio:We usually out on a Friday night. I don't, we were out last week. That's Rick the Christian. No, I'm not too sad right now. We usually be out on a Friday night, alma, I do not do peach.
Tony D.:Yeah, we did do that last Friday night. I love peach. They just like the best of me about it.
Carmen Lezeth:Look, Alma, didn't you hear one word?
Alma:you said Because you were talking like this. She was talking to me, yeah.
Cynthia:No, we went to Disneyland.
Rick Costa:I was. We try to go. Cynthia's so jealous right now.
Carmen Lezeth:I know, she's a huge Disney fan Anytime.
Maurio:Next time you come to LA, just call me up and I'll meet you there. We'll have a good old time.
Carmen Lezeth:Stay with them.
Maurio:Yeah, come on.
Alma:We all got to go. Stay with Carmen.
Maurio:Yep, we all post up at her house and then we all go to her. You all stay at a hotel you all stay at a hotel.
Carmen Lezeth:And you told me not to wear Y'all. Stay at a hotel $500 a night minimum.
Rick Costa:No, I'm not doing that. Who's your?
Carmen Lezeth:one, no one can stay with me. I've banned people from staying in my house unless I'm sleeping with you.
Maurio:Oh, God, then I won't be there.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, unless you're here for a reason.
Rick Costa:Unless you had surgery or something. It's Friday night.
Carmen Lezeth:We're going to talk about everything. You know what I mean. We're going to talk about the nitty gritty. It's spicy, spicy Friday night. What should we call the Friday night show? You just said it Spicy Friday.
Maurio:Spicy Friday, that's what we're going to call it. It's like a red light, special type of night.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, why don't you guys give us some of your Red Light special?
Maurio:information no no, no, no, no, no no. No no Right.
Carmen Lezeth:And the grown folks. That's it. We're just going to be all quiet and calm. Did we say hi to Lister Me?
Rick Costa:Hi Anthony hey, anthony Hi.
Carmen Lezeth:Anthony Rick.
Rick Costa:Si.
Carmen Lezeth:We did not have the show last night because you wanted to watch the debate.
Rick Costa:No.
Carmen Lezeth:I think that's kind of how I've interpreted it.
Rick Costa:No, you made the text again I said we should probably switch it because everybody else is going to be watching the debate.
Carmen Lezeth:No, you said Carmen, you said Carmen you mofo.
Maurio:I did not you mofo.
Carmen Lezeth:We can't have this stupid show on tonight.
Rick Costa:That's what you said, I will open my Instagram right now.
Maurio:Friday Night Live is good.
Cynthia:I'm going to sleep in here.
Alma:I do like Friday Night Live. Someone suggested Friday Night Live.
Maurio:Friday Night Live. Who's the musical guest? Tony? His interpretation of Lou.
Carmen Lezeth:Holt.
Cynthia:Oh is that who that was? We're old.
Maurio:No, that was my mother's age. I just happened to. No, no, that was my mother's age. I just happened to know the song.
Carmen Lezeth:That was your mother's age. Right, that's what I'm saying, right, that's my mother's time, that's not my time.
Maurio:Who are you calling old? I just waited.
Carmen Lezeth:I would have pretended not to know the song. I would have been like.
Maurio:I was a mere babe sneaking meeting up to look at a midnight special with wolfman jack you never the midnight special what are we talking about?
Alma:I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what that show is live I don't know what that is. I'm in another age bracket?
Maurio:I don't know what? So it's called the night special was what I'm gonna look know what it was.
Carmen Lezeth:So it's called Midnight Special, was what. I'm going to look it up.
Maurio:It was a late night music show. It used to come on at midnight Duh.
Carmen Lezeth:Thinking caps on. Okay, the show I do remember my mom used to watch was the Lawrence Woke Show.
Maurio:Oh God, I don't know that, I don't know that man that was PBS.
Carmen Lezeth:That was PBS on the East coast?
Tony D.:not really, that was a pbs show.
Carmen Lezeth:I remember that was an old show, even back then it was like, what did you say?
Rick Costa:rick. My grandma used to make us watch that we're gonna have a really good show tonight.
Carmen Lezeth:Everyone and it was- like weird band music, like not really good band music but, but like old people band music, you know with the trumpet and the trombone, yeah, big band but not good. Even back then, when I was little, this was not good music.
Tony D.:Okay, I'll put it there for everybody If you were a part of the younger group, some of us are older and just remember, they're not like us.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just saying I knew it was bad music back then.
Tony D.:That was a big concert. Big ups to the West Coast.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah. You're welcome, wait a minute Big ups to the West Coast. What?
Maurio:You're welcome.
Carmen Lezeth:But why is he thanking us?
Maurio:He said big ups to the West Coast because Kendrick Lamar just shut down the West Coast with that amazing concert. He had that pop-up concert. It was phenomenal. I know Carmen is like she's like who, what, when, where?
Carmen Lezeth:I know who Kendrick Lamar is.
Maurio:Okay, so do you know what they're not like?
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about? Well, because it was a pop-up concert.
Maurio:It was a surprise concert. I don't know Everybody about this rap battle between Drake Drake and Kendrick Lamar. I know about that.
Carmen Lezeth:I am not paying attention to the gossip. I know who they are.
Alma:It's not the gossip, it's the song.
Maurio:It's the lyric. If you listen to the lyrics of each diss track, savagery, savagery I apologize.
Tony D.:I actually think meet the grams took out no Vaseline. I'm here for it. You think so? Yes, wow, that's big. That's been a lot. The grams was hurt my heart. Yeah, yeah it was not like us.
Maurio:I would say, took out maybe second round knockout by cannabis but listen, the fact that people are still having asking questions about 69 god, the 69 god lyric, and they're misinterpreting that whole thing. I was like are you kidding me?
Tony D.:this man is a laureate and he is a wordsmith and I want to apologize, but I know you like when we talk about rap and this is actually funny. That damn. Kendrick Lamar is a monster. Yes, to be messed with.
Carmen Lezeth:I can appreciate that. Doesn't he have a Pulitzer? He already has a Pulitzer, I'm not going to question him.
Tony D.:It's scary because Dre's beats number one are original and then Kendrick's rhymes number two are original. They have got to be the most lethal combo in hip-hop right now. Yes, and I will say that anybody out there that doesn't know, ramblin' is going to give you some notes right now. Do not mess with Kendrick Lamar, don't play with him. He did three of his songs damn near in a week and took one of the number one hip-hoppers of this generation in this time frame and these scales and these charts out. Yes, he did.
Maurio:He hurt him, and then they get a parody song about him called.
Tony D.:DBL Drizzy. Yeah, I haven't heard that yet. I don't even want to. I don't even want to In the intro to Euphoria. And then he started rapping. I almost crashed my car.
Alma:I crashed your car, Carmen.
Maurio:Carmen Carmen.
Alma:I'm just I'm trying to be Carmen.
Carmen Lezeth:Cynthia and Rick. I'm trying to be kind and let you talk about it, but yeah, I'm bored out of my mind. I have no idea what you're talking about and I know Cynthia and Rick aren't chiming in, but I feel comfortable speaking for them as well.
Tony D.:It's interesting when I talk about music afterwards, because he knows I do music and Cynthia just got back from vacation. Cynthia, I'll hold you to Georgia Southern.
Maurio:Yeah, how was Italy?
Cynthia:So it had ups and downs Really.
Alma:What happened.
Cynthia:You're being so diplomatic Go ahead, girl.
Rick Costa:We're all ears. We're all ears.
Cynthia:So okay. So we flew to Italy and from the airport to the boat terminal it was about an hour and 40 minutes and we pretty much just made it because everything was so unorganized at that airport In Venice.
Maurio:In Venice.
Cynthia:Yeah, in Venice Marco Polo Airport is so unorganized.
Maurio:Wow.
Cynthia:We got on the boat, everything was good. We were supposed to have one night in venice, but they they changed it and we stopped in another port in croatia which reminded me of new york. It was very dirty and like there were no. New york is in the house.
Carmen Lezeth:Be careful, new york is in the house. I don don't like New York personally.
Cynthia:Clearly Like it was scary just across the street because there was no crosswalks, there are no streetlights, like no red light, green light, no, it was just like there are no cars coming Run and yeah, it was crazy. So the first part we were just like, okay, whatever. The next day we went to Slovenia, which was beautiful. We went, whatever. Um, the next day we went to slovenia, which was beautiful.
Cynthia:We went to the winery and it was up on a hill. It was absolutely gorgeous and they had really good wine and the tour guide took us to this one area where you could see italy, croatia and slovenia. It was beautiful and one viewing you mean in one viewing, one viewing mountain, you could see all three countries. It was amazing. And then, um, she took us down to basically like the downtown area. We went through all these little like alleyways and the woman knew her history, like she was an amazing tour and at the end of the tour she had us go to this little like cafe. They had wine and bread and pancetta and like all those, everything waiting for us. So it was really awesome. The next day we went to Bromnik, croatia, which was beautiful, and I highly recommend it. It's where they filmed Game of Thrones.
Cynthia:And it's beautiful. It's all mountains and you can see this big castle and you can walk the castle. It takes about two hours. We didn't do that. But down at the bottom of the castle is like all these little shops and all this beautiful stonework, like everything was made by hand, no machinery at all, and then they had like a little pier where all these fishing boats would come in and we had lunch right out of the pier. It was beautiful there. I definitely want to go back to that place.
Maurio:I got a question for you. Yeah, when you're in italy, when you're in venice, did you get on the gondola at all?
Cynthia:no, we actually didn't end up um staying in venice at all you missed your madonna moment yeah, we didn't that's what you missed on the downer moment.
Maurio:You were supposed to get on there and sing like a virgin and do a whole thing. You're supposed to tell Juan you made it through the wilderness and you know, you made it through.
Carmen Lezeth:But the reason why you didn't like it wasn't because of the city. It was because, like all family, it's difficult to travel with family.
Cynthia:At some points the family situation was a little annoying, but the one good thing about ships is you can go off on your own and do whatever you want.
Alma:How many of you are there?
Cynthia:There's five of us. So it was me and my husband, my sister and her two daughters, which are both in their 30s, and so we went to Greece for three days. Three different places in Greece. What we were supposed to do three places in Greece. Well, we were supposed to do three places in Greece. Corfu is another like historic place. Bless you, san Trini. I was excited to go to San Trini, so disappointed when I got there.
Maurio:That's what everybody keeps telling me.
Cynthia:Yeah, it's like, unless you're staying on the actual town of Ia, which is where San Trini is, if you're not staying in their area, you're basically just traveling through desert, because that's what it looked like. It was like just barely any houses, just very not green at all. It was, and the reason being is because it's actually lava. The whole mountain is built from lava and it's sitting on natural active volcano. The volcano is underwater, so that was pretty cool. But what they don't tell you is that during the tour, you know you think you're gonna go up on the bus up to the top of sanctuary. No, you have to walk up all these stairs. I nearly had an asthma attack and, mind you, it was so crowded because there were four other ships there, so it was crazy busy and again, you only had like half an hour to see all of it. Yeah, and I was just like you know what? We took some pictures. I'll zoom in. I'm good and I was like back on the bus. I was so over it and it was hot, it was so hot.
Alma:I was so over it. I know you were disappointed. Huh, I know you were disappointed.
Cynthia:I was. I was so disappointed. And then we were supposed to go to Mykonos the following day, but the wind was so heavy and the water was so choppy they didn't even stop at Mykonos.
Carmen Lezeth:Wow, which is the whole point, I think, of the whole trip of your artillery was yeah, yeah, oh and I don't, carmen, I don't even think I told you this.
Cynthia:so in san serenity, the only way down from the mountain is either walking down like 600 steps next to donkey poop and donkeys or going down a cable car that only holds 36 people at a time when you have four cruise ships there. So it was complete chaos. It was only supposed to go till 9pm. It was going until 1030. And people were left. The ship left and the people who were left from our ship found their way to Mykonos, thinking they could get back on the ship in Mykonos.
Maurio:And we didn't even get to.
Cynthia:Mykonos. So we were two days at sea and then the last stop was in Split, croatia. So we're hoping those people were able to get there at least to get back on the ship and get their stuff. Yeah, it was crazy.
Carmen Lezeth:And then again, I never want to go on a ship. I've never heard a great story about being on a cruise ship Never.
Cynthia:This was the first time I've ever had a bad experience, because I've been on cruise ships before and this was the first time I had a bad experience. Yeah and then coming back. We missed our connecting flight because of the wind in Switzerland. It was so windy we missed the connecting flight, got stuck in Switzerland for the night, waited three hours in line just to get to the front counter to get a hotel and food vouchers and get our new flight for the next day see, I'm stressed already.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, and they lost my husband's luggage. It was, yeah, but better ones than yours, I'm just and uh, they ended up finding it.
Cynthia:They found it and delivered it, which was great. Um, one of my nieces got stuck in new york and with food poisoning. Her luggage was in germany. Oh my, they finally delivered hers. Yeah, it was, which was great. One of my nieces got stuck in New York with food poisoning. Her luggage was in Germany, but they finally delivered hers. It was definitely a trip to remember.
Maurio:You didn't have bed bugs.
Carmen Lezeth:That's all I'm saying. No bed bugs.
Rick Costa:Did the airport pay for the hotel?
Cynthia:That was a funny thing. There was this lady who was at one of the little booths before you got to the counter. She was giving the wrong information to people. She was telling people that they had to pay for their own hotel and food and then send the receipts to swiss air and they'll reimburse them. And I said, yeah, no, this does not happen. I'm staying in this line. How long it takes you to get?
Alma:to that counter and the only time they reimburse is if they lose your luggage and you have to go buy all your toiletries and your clothes and stuff like that. That's when you send the receipts and they reimburse you. But if it's for hotels and food, then you have to stand in that line and get the vouchers.
Cynthia:Which is what we did. I was not leaving that place without it.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, yeah. That's why I only go bougie. You know what I mean. Like I go high-end bougie, I'm going to roll my eyes on that one. Well, I don't do boats anyway, so it doesn't matter. I'm never going to be on a cruise.
Tony D.:The complications of international travel. She has actually broken them down and they give me anxiety just listening, because imagine being in New York and your luggage is in Germany. That would drive me bananas. My flight gets canceled. I don't want to give a flight. I want a street flight there, a street flight back. That's why I get the hell out of the way.
Maurio:We were coming back from Barcelona and our group got split, which was fine, because I was sick of their asses by the end of the trip.
Cynthia:My sentiments exactly with our situation.
Maurio:But other than that we didn't have any other problems.
Carmen Lezeth:But, cynthia, what have we learned and what are we doing when we go to Ireland and Scotland next year?
Cynthia:Oh, we stay in one place for a few days and we're relaxing.
Carmen Lezeth:And how are we going? First class?
Cynthia:Thank you, see how easily I convert people to bougie Listen A. I was in the economy seat no sorry yeah. Eight hours in an economy seat no sorry yeah.
Alma:That was our thing. Yeah, we definitely made sure that we stayed a few days in each place, right, because you have enough time to see and you have enough time to be able to sit and relax and go back and, you know, do what you need to do and then you know, keep moving. But yeah, that cruise ship turnaround was that was really short. Yeah, you said you got a half an hour on one place. Yeah, that cruise ship turnaround was.
Rick Costa:That was really short. You said you got a half an hour on one place. I'm like what's the point?
Cynthia:Right, like they tell you the excursions are four hours but they don't tell you yeah, it takes an hour and a half to get there, an hour and a half back, so you really only have like a half hour to an hour to see the sights.
Carmen Lezeth:No, that's craziness, that's craziness. Yeah, that's craziness, that's craziness yeah.
Tony D.:And, mind you, like she said there was on, it was a cable that was mentioned or walk down the hill and there's four cruise ships. I already hear 6,000 folks. That ain't working.
Cynthia:Right right.
Tony D.:Exactly.
Cynthia:And one woman actually got bit by one of the donkeys, oh my God. Yeah, she had a big gash in her arm, I'm, but it kind of is All right. Another person got kicked by one, and then another person fell a couple of steps down, but you know what?
Alma:I was probably the person who was trying to take a picture with the donkey and got kicked. Ok, that's really what happened. They're like oh, he's so cute, got kicked, got bit, because those are the ones that it happens to.
Maurio:And just imagine falling in all of that donkey poop.
Carmen Lezeth:I just feel like it just sounds too convoluted for me, too congested of a situation everywhere where you guys got to stop and everything.
Cynthia:Yeah, it really does.
Maurio:It's the fourth season too, right we're basically in the middle of.
Cynthia:June so.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, how about you? You haven't spoken much. How was the presidential debate? On that note we don't talk about politics up in here it's Friday night, we can talk about whatever you want, since I heard people bitching on your show. Oh my goodness on your.
Rick Costa:Christian religious show, that's fine, I just caught like highlights and reviews and it was like they were going to say it was a mess.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't think it was a mess. I think Joe Biden had a horrible performance and really made Democrats question which Democrats are such wusses? I say that as a full-fledged Democrat. We have no loyalty whatsoever. People are asking him to leave. They want Gavin Newsom to jump in. I'm like, uh, kamala harris is right there.
Rick Costa:you know what I mean oh, I heard her talk about it because they were like what did you think? And she's like well, he finished, or he finished strong.
Carmen Lezeth:This beginning wasn't so hot, well, no I mean, if I mean, if you didn't watch the whole thing, you, he, it was not good, it was there were so many things wrong with what happened and, um, it was a bad performance and it made people question, didn't make me question, it didn't make me go. You know what? I am gonna vote for trump did not do that at all. You know what I mean. I would rather a comatose joe biden than a trump, any day of the week and twice on sundays.
Alma:You know what I'm saying. He did send a message out I don't know, you know to his uh biden, saying that you know he's not young anymore, that he's old and he's moving slower and talking slower and he can't debate as well as he used to. But you know, he says if I didn't feel like I could do the job, then I would, you know I wouldn't be running again.
Maurio:He said I'd rather speak slow and tell the truth than speak fast and tell you a bunch of lies speak fast and tell you a bunch of lies.
Carmen Lezeth:And can I just say that's what was interesting watching it is because of how badly he did performance wise. There was mumbling, there was stuttering, there was, you know, looking the wrong way because he kind of wasn't in. He should have been on the other side of the podium because he tends to look it's kind of like me on here. I'm not looking at you guys, you know what I mean. Like there's just there was no audience to feed off of. There's so many reasons. It's not excuses. It was horrible. But here's the thing because everyone was so focused on how badly he was doing, no one paid attention to every single motherfucking lie that Trump was saying left and right and also that the moderators weren't even following up with Trump. Fake lies. No fact-checking at all. No fact-checking at all.
Maurio:No fact-checking, but I'll tell you what Somebody wrote on Instagram today. They said I'll vote for a weekend at Bernie's Joe Biden than I would ever for Trump.
Carmen Lezeth:Go ahead, Tony. I think Tony's a Trump supporter, right.
Tony D.:Thank you, Paul. Let me clear this up for everybody. I just got one question. I said this last night as it happened what the fuck are black jobs?
Alma:Oh, that's what I was going to bring down there. You said black and brown. I was like huh, what are those jobs?
Tony D.:Who thinks what? How am I supposed to behave? What the fuck are black jobs?
Maurio:He said it without saying it.
Tony D.:I understood where the question and why he responded specifically because he got to ask that it all went that way. But the whole thing was about immigration and taking jobs. If you running for president, it's supposed to be American jobs. You don't say black jobs and this is who y'all want to run. I said y'all go ahead. Y'all go ahead. They didn't do nothing to help Biden. If you vote for me, you're wearing black because this man said black. I'm just saying I put the two together. I'm good Now. Biden did not look good last night. His age was out more than anything. I can still see he's got it up here. He can't verbalize it. He's-rehearsed.
Tony D.:He did not speak he over-rehearsed, but he doesn't have any voice. But every time Trump was here, that dude would look like him and I could see the old him still wanting to come out. I can't see it, but he just can't do it that way. This is why I always tell people his staff can carry him with no problem, but him being in front of things working out for him.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, he did a public appearance today and everyone said it went fine.
Maurio:Yeah, he did a public and his voice was back and he was back to his normal witty self, which was very Thank you, I don't look.
Carmen Lezeth:81 is 81, and if Trump was 45, maybe we would. I still would not vote for him. Let me be clear. But then you might have an argument about age, but I think he was horrible Like I'm not going to even try to show he was horrible last night, but it was one performance. What I hate about Democrats is we do not stick with our people. We're ready to drop them in five seconds. That's what the commentary was in the newspapers and everything I was watching today and reading. And you know well, gavin Newsom needs to step up. I'm like Gavin Newsom. He's not going to step up and do what. You know what I mean, gavin Newsom. He's not going to step up and do what you know what I mean. He's going to support him is what he's going to do.
Maurio:That's what he's going to do.
Carmen Lezeth:But look at the Republicans. They are standing by. They're convicted, lying. I can go down all the adjectives. You know what I mean. They are committed to this man no matter what, and this is what they always do. But Democrats are so wussy. We always want to do the right thing. We always want to think about you know what I mean Like what's in the best interest of the country. I think all that is great. That's who we are. But right now, abandoning a man who's had three and a half years of a really complete success of a country. I love Barack Obama with all my heart, but Biden is throwing him to like the corner with the amount of work he's done in the past three years. You know what I mean. In the past three years, joe Biden has done more than most every other president in our modern times. That's crazy shit and that's just being honest. You know, and I just, I'm just sad that he had a bad night. You know that he was horrible and that he wasn't, you know, 60. I wish he was 60.
Maurio:I wish you know but, yeah, it gave me anxiety to watch because I wanted him to do so well and so every time he didn't, I would go I'm gonna turn, turn it off and turn right back because I'm like, okay, I gotta get through these few seconds and you know I'll come back. Because it was just, it was giving me anxiety to see him because, like, you want to see your guy. Yeah, he was just struggling, yeah I think you're right.
Carmen Lezeth:He over rehearsed.
Carmen Lezeth:Somebody else said that um yeah somebody else said that he over rehearsed, but it doesn't matter, he's old. Even if he hadn't, I don't know why he thinks he has to rehearse against Donald Trump, who's an idiot when it comes to anything policy. I'm sorry, I know there are a lot of Trump supporters who watch our show and I hope you still will, but I'm just saying like I just feel really bad that a lot of people in this country think Trump is everything that he actually is not and they can't see that. And then when Biden has a really bad day and a really bad performance really really bad performance it kind of gives them more strength to believe in a man who really could give two shits about middle America and poor people. He could care less about white, middle and white poor people. He does not care about you. He's using you. He's using people. He could care less about white, middle and white poor people. He does not care about you. He's using you. He's using you. He's using you. He's using you. And this is so that the Republicans the ones who know better and are still backing him can keep getting all their tax breaks, can keep getting all their special interest stuff, can keep doing things like, by the way.
Carmen Lezeth:The Supreme Court just came out with three major decisions today and no one's talking about it. They are going to affect all of us as middle American income earning people. It's devastating and women, women are going to like they, they, they. They just started the personhood crap with um. I don't want to get into the whole abortion thing, but that was one of the big ones too. Today is making the inroads to personhood. When you're, uh, when you have a fetus, right, is that the right word? It's just a mess.
Maurio:And.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm really sad for our country on so many levels, because it's too much to bear for one person, but Biden needed to do something different last night and he didn't accomplish it, and so I feel like we're back 10 steps, maybe 20 well, he said he wants to debate him again, but I don't know if there's a good thing we're backing at this point.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't suggest it you know what I don't know. I don't. I don't know at this point what. I'm more upset because, look at, he had a bad night, but why didn't the moderators? Did I miss something? That the moderators couldn't intervene and ask follow-up questions with Trump? Like or like I don't understand what was going on there that they weren't? That's what I'm sad about. Nobody questioned, like I can say the sun is green and no one's going to question me. You're just all going to.
Maurio:Let me say it over and over again on national television Well, the thing is, I think they felt like it was President Biden's job to check him on site, and he kept missing the mark.
Carmen Lezeth:So they're not moderators, then they're just asking questions, not saying anything.
Maurio:Yeah, and they both had to decide had to okay who the moderators were.
Carmen Lezeth:Steve Tapper and Dana Bash.
Maurio:Yeah, but I just didn't enjoy it. I didn't enjoy the questioning. I appreciate Dana, she would come back and say you know she would re-ask Trump about particular things that he would do. He would make every other point but answer the question. He would definitely deflect, but he didn't answer the question. I appreciate him kind of redirecting him, but after you redirect three times and you choose not to to answer the question, that's your answer and you got to move on.
Carmen Lezeth:So he was answering the question. I agree with you, but he was lying, right. I mean, it's not like he was just rambling. But look it, I'm not going to be like here's. Here's what the real problem is like to to take away from what biden wasn't able to do, because biden should have been able to do it, and it just sucks.
Carmen Lezeth:But I also hate Democrats right now who are just, you know, in one hour have just let go of everything this man has done for the past three and a half years as president, everything that he has accomplished, everything that he cleaned up after Trump, and in one hour or whatever it was, an hour and a half, two hours are like he needs to do the right thing. Like there was a columnist in the New York Times who is a definite Biden supporter, democrat, whatever, and he wrote this whole thing about how he needs to step away and bow out. I'm like, are you out of your mind? Us asking that is, I think, horrible as a party. If he wanted to do that on his own now he can't because so many people have said it If he wanted to do that on his own, he could, but he wouldn't. Do you not know who Joe Biden is Like he wouldn't do that. It just I don't know. It really made me sad.
Rick Costa:I think I heard somebody say like that they just can't decide that that he would have to say himself I'm stepping down. They couldn't just say, well, we're going to stick somebody else there.
Carmen Lezeth:First of all, you understand this has never been done. Even if we, like I don't even want to talk, it's never been done. No one's ever stepped away. We have, like what, how many months? We have November's right around the corner. You know what I mean. It's never been done. You don't do that. But here's my thing, and this is the I'm going to throw in some 81, but he's done such a good job. But you know what? I'm still going to vote for him and if something happens, we have Kamala right there and to me, what pisses me off is that they keep talking about all these other people that should step in for Biden, and I'm like there is a woman who is vice president who is right there by his side. The same policies. We as Democrats should be stepping up and understanding that. You know what I mean, and I don't care if you don't want her to be president. She is the vice president, she is second in line.
Tony D.:You know what I mean. I'm sorry. She's already been president, that's right, I'm sorry. So people tend to forget that she's already been president.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, what was it that happened? He was in surgery, right?
Tony D.:Yeah, surgery she had to take the oath Right.
Carmen Lezeth:To me, I feel like that's a strange. Yeah, he was about to be indicted. That's the thing. Trump is a convicted. Yeah, okay, I'm going to calm down, go ahead, this is why you can't talk politics.
Tony D.:She ain't stop yet.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm stopping right now. I let Mario say one word.
Maurio:You did. I'm going to put it in your white cup. That's my word.
Carmen Lezeth:Where's your white cup, oh?
Maurio:no, I'm not drinking. I'm not drinking with you people. Where's your white cup? That's what I got to say.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I ain't going to drink over Trump. I'd be an alcoholic, I'd be like a magic.
Rick Costa:Anthony fact-checked us. He said Nixon stepped away.
Tony D.:He did.
Alma:No, it's not the same thing while he was in office they're talking about him stepping away while the all of this stuff is happening in front of him to run.
Carmen Lezeth:Nixon didn't want to go to prison, he didn't want to be like trump was. That's a very different thing. That has nothing to do with running for your next right exactly that is not fact checking. Your fact checking isn't correct, my brother. I'm just saying Y'all look at me like, oh you know, okay, I'm going to be quiet, go ahead.
Rick Costa:Somebody take over. So what was good about Grease I?
Carmen Lezeth:don't want to hear no more about our trip. Sorry text.
Cynthia:No, I'm just kidding the food.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait you just said to me about what you guys usually do on a Friday night, tony, they go to Disney.
Tony D.:I'm not doing anything I have to. I'm actually off this weekend so I don't have to work tomorrow. My son's out of town with his sister. He's going to be there until next weekend. Next weekend I got to go to a wedding, so I've been kind of busy working and trying to keep myself on tonight.
Carmen Lezeth:He said we are the hot date. We are the hot date tonight, but I usually think that you're, you know, going and doing other shows like this. Aren't there a lot of shows on Friday night?
Tony D.:A lot of people. There are shows on Friday night. Not for me, but I've primarily just been up here with you the most consistently over the past few months. Like I said, I know Ted's busy. I haven't done much with mine.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, I texted him. He didn't text me back.
Tony D.:That never happened, yeah he hasn't been answering a lot. I'll see him commenting every now and then with me and Brian in the group chat, but I do believe that he's tied up. I haven't even done my own thing lately, you should tell him he just did not.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm insulted. If I text him he usually is like whatever I'm busy or whatever, you know that, or he's really mad at me, I don't know, I think he's just busy. I don't know Busy for me, it just feels odd. It's the little things that matter to me. What do you and Juan do on Friday nights?
Cynthia:Nothing Watch, tv, watch movies, just chill.
Rick Costa:I just try to relax, like I do every day dealing with you know what here?
Tony D.:he needs a good clean month off. If he ever has a chance to sit down and it's scary, rick's gonna shut everybody and everything down for about two good weeks then he might peek his nose outside because he's not used to having him if rick took a week off, I'd be scared like when my mom was in the nursing home for three weeks.
Rick Costa:it was like like that last week where I finally realized wait, I can do stuff Like I wasn't even thinking about it. I was so messed up in the head and I was mad at myself. You could have been doing anything.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, you need time to decompress, like that's what happens to me too. When I like have a few days off, like for like two and a half days, and then you know three o'clock the day before I have to go back to work, I'm like, oh shit, I have time now. It's weird, but you're going to need a lot of that.
Rick Costa:Yeah, yeah, I did want to. I'm not talking about trying to talk about the Europe thing, but something Cynthia said triggered something that somebody had said more than once I've heard this when people said they went to Europe and they loved the food and they said they ate tons of food more than they eat here, but they lost weight facts. Okay, I want to fact check that with y'all that's facts.
Maurio:For us, it was because we ate all the time and I lost weight. But we also, over in europe, we were walking a ton more. We walked everywhere, like when we were in france. We walked everywhere. You, you took the metro and you walked. You didn't really drive anywhere. I think we drove more in Spain because we were nervous about pickpocketers. Other than that, everywhere else in Europe we walked All over Switzerland. We walked everywhere, except for Bern, right, because Bern there was a lot of hills and Levant was extremely hilly. Our daughter was like, do you want to come see my space? And she took us to the, to the bottom of her her street, and the street went up like this.
Carmen Lezeth:We're like no, we see it from here because you were worried about pickpocketers and I'm like I know, because they're really, really I bad. I know, but it just cracks me up because I keep thinking like go ahead, try and pick my pocket, motherfucker, I'm a little bitch.
Maurio:They are savage in Barcelona, it's just like they're savage. I'm going to go to.
Carmen Lezeth:Barcelona. I told Cynthia this Cynthia, did I tell you that, oh, I was trying to get you to go to Spain? I was trying, but you didn't realize why.
Rick Costa:Isn't it Spain that always acts like they're better than?
Carmen Lezeth:I'm sorry what.
Rick Costa:Isn't it Spain that acts like they're better than?
Carmen Lezeth:In the Latino community? Yes, but I think I'd fit in quite well oh yeah, but the food was amazing.
Maurio:The food was amazing.
Carmen Lezeth:I am thinking of moving and I told Vata and them too I am thinking of making another big change to another country. But I love my country, but I would love to have the last part of my life, the next 40 years, to be somewhere. Can you believe? I've been in LA 30 years. I can't believe it.
Tony D.:Yeah, because you told us. That was true.
Rick Costa:That was very profound.
Carmen Lezeth:Do you guys see how much Tony and I hate each other? It's so obvious. I think you're so mean to me. You're making fun of me.
Alma:They're like the divorced couple that can't leave each other alone. That's what it is. It's not the married couple. That's what it is. They're the divorced couple that can't leave each other alone, you nailed it.
Rick Costa:That's what it is.
Alma:It's almost all feelings there Like oh my gosh, that is so funny and wrong.
Carmen Lezeth:If I would describe my relationship with Tony, it would be angst. There's definitely an angst. He frustrates me a lot. How long have y'all been friends? Well, we're not really friends, I knew that was you were going to say.
Alma:How long have y'all been?
Carmen Lezeth:friends. Let's just say how long we've known each other Three years has it been three years Online, not in person.
Alma:We've never met in person.
Carmen Lezeth:That would be dangerous. It's never going to happen, so it's okay. I've never met Rick in person either, but I'm friends with Rick Like I like Rick, I like Rick.
Maurio:Rick is cool. Rick is cool. She's met Cynthia in person.
Carmen Lezeth:Thank you Well, cynthia's, my cousin.
Maurio:Well, that's fine, and I met both of you, so you know you met us in.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, for sure, we're real, I'm real, I don't know, where it comes from I think Tony started being mean to me first. Take your time. He started being mean to me first, so then I reacted, and that's how it's always been. Do you know what I mean? And he doesn't respect who I am, he just makes fun of me.
Tony D.:Right now you sound like Trump because you're lying.
Alma:He knows what that means to push, he's like let me push this button again.
Carmen Lezeth:No, actually I give him that one. I was kind of lying.
Rick Costa:We had the greatest numbers.
Carmen Lezeth:He showed me I don't understand how people have fallen for it.
Tony D.:I don't know that's what I don't get. No, we're not going to circle back to it.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, no but it is kind of interesting because how you guys are making fun of the like saying and like imitating him, I'm like, how don't you see through that, right? Like, how do you not see the charlatan there? It's weird, right, it's weird, it's just fascinating. Okay, back to me and Tony. Let's talk about relationships. I have to go. Okay, here's what I think, tony, I know you do respect me and I can't say I respect you, but I want to I tolerate you.
Tony D.:Don't you tolerate me next time? I tolerate you Wow.
Maurio:No.
Carmen Lezeth:I think what frustrates me about Tony he's heard me say this before is he has so much talent and he could have his own show and do all his own stuff and he doesn't do it. And you know that's true. I always tell you that it bothers me and when we were on HAPS, which is where we met, I used to get frustrated because I thought people used you a lot. And I'm not the first to say it. Me and.
Carmen Lezeth:Ted other people have said it, tony, so I would confront him with some of this stuff that he was being used and abused. But I like Tony, I think he's cool, that's it.
Alma:But there's nothing else.
Carmen Lezeth:We just mess with each other because it's funny.
Tony D.:It is funny.
Carmen Lezeth:Hang on, it is fucking funny as hell.
Tony D.:It really is. This is us sober, just so you know, I need popcorn.
Maurio:Popcorn. For what?
Rick Costa:For the show. It's almost like watching that old show, the Odd Couple.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, jack Klugman, cynthia the show Quincy she wants to do what Quincy does right. Yeah, do you guys remember that show, quincy? Yes, yeah, I like watching that show sometimes because it's in Los Angeles. Do you guys ever watch old shows just because it's in your area?
Tony D.:Yeah, the Warriors.
Carmen Lezeth:The what.
Tony D.:The Warriors I don't know what that is.
Maurio:I know that. Yeah, I know what it is.
Carmen Lezeth:Where was it set? In New York? I've never been there, I've never watched it.
Tony D.:I want you you see it. I can see you already. Oh my God, that's what he's talking about.
Carmen Lezeth:He's talking so crazy.
Tony D.:The Warriors.
Cynthia:Cynthia, she would be like.
Carmen Lezeth:No, carmen's never seen that but Cynthia. Would I ever watch the Warriors? Probably not.
Maurio:I don't think so. Was that early 70s? No, that's early 70s.
Carmen Lezeth:Early 70s, we weren't even. How old were we? We were little kids. 80 how old were we? We?
Rick Costa:were little kids, 80s, I thought it was 80s.
Cynthia:I thought it was 80s.
Tony D.:Because I had a young Tom.
Maurio:Cruise, there you go 79. I knew it was the 70s.
Cynthia:Oh the year I was born.
Tony D.:Oh, that explains it for you, but definitely watch that movie. What was that? If you've never seen a real game movie with no real issues, except for the neighborhood. Watch that movie please. That is a classic. That is about as classic as the Godfather and Scarface period.
Cynthia:The Warrior. Is that the movie where they say warriors come out and play, or something like that?
Maurio:Okay.
Carmen Lezeth:Is it like the?
Maurio:Outsiders.
Carmen Lezeth:Is it like the Outsiders?
Tony D.:Better.
Carmen Lezeth:I love.
Tony D.:The.
Rick Costa:Outsiders.
Tony D.:I love the Outsiders. As far as movies with gangs, I actually put the Warriors, Outsiders, Deuces Wild and then Gangs of New York in that order. It's all about New York, right? No, For me, the way they actually portrayed them without so many differences.
Maurio:I was really giving you crap.
Rick Costa:Dirty New York. Dirty New York. You need my part of Queens alone. Dirty, dirty.
Maurio:New York Dirty New York.
Tony D.:You can leave my part of Queens alone.
Maurio:Dirty grimy, new York. Wait a minute, you was coming from my city. Remember you was coming from my city? Yeah, I was told from the people who were from out there.
Rick Costa:If they talk about their city like that, talking about my city, they ain't from my city.
Maurio:My people don't talk about my city like that. New York can talk about their city like that, talking about my city, they ain't from my city.
Tony D.:New York can talk about New York. I know LA folks. They left on purpose Because y'all cost too much.
Maurio:We are too high.
Carmen Lezeth:New York is on the fucking list.
Tony D.:I don't know if it's higher. Oh, absolutely New York.
Maurio:Than LA. Tony Sir is higher, but I've been oh, absolutely than la.
Tony D.:Yeah, I don't know my god tony you know I'm gonna be quiet and let my spokesperson speak very good, because you was about to say so much no sir no, sir, I've never heard that la costs less than new york.
Maurio:Honestly, absolutely I'd have to, absolutely.
Carmen Lezeth:I have a one-bedroom by the beach and I pay $2,500 a month. I'm three blocks from the beach. $2,500 a month for a one-bedroom okay, in New York you can't get a studio for $2,500. You can't get a closet.
Tony D.:There's a bathroom in the hallway. If you want the truth, when I was up there four or five years ago, I actually went by somebody's apartment. They were paying about $1,800 for a one-bedroom.
Maurio:And the toilet was in the closet right.
Tony D.:No no.
Carmen Lezeth:Look, that was a very lucky question.
Tony D.:I know what you're saying those are the uptown Manhattan prices. I know exactly what you're talking about, but it's not the whole city. I did know about places in Queens that was expensive. I agree with that, but I've never heard LA being less expensive than New York. That's mind-blowing to me. No, absolutely.
Carmen Lezeth:No absolutely. I mean, don't get me wrong, they're probably right near you.
Maurio:No, we have expensive spots, for sure.
Carmen Lezeth:But you get more footage here than you would in New York.
Cynthia:If you're talking Los Angeles and New York City right now, Boston is at the top of the list. Right now, Boston is at the top of the list. Right now, Boston is more expensive than LA.
Maurio:See, yeah, see. That's why I'm like where are you coming from? Don't come from my city, my guy.
Carmen Lezeth:You guys hear things, especially like Brian or whatever. You all hear things about LA and you think it's everywhere, right? No, just like you said about New York, it might be some areas. Whatever, there are 40 million people in all of California, 40 million people in California. That's like most of the United States lives in California. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of people live here.
Tony D.:Hang on, mr Maynard, I'm going to answer you in one second. Go ahead.
Carmen Lezeth:No, you can answer right now. I don't know what that means. What do you think about Roosevelt Island?
Tony D.:Roosevelt Island used to be where the rich people would stay and I've heard of the change. I don't know enough about it, but I heard about the change that's going on there. Let me get back to you on that. But when Roosevelt Island first came out it was a little upscale. As a matter of fact, the movie Nighthawks Sylvester Stallone and Billy Dee Williams, was kind of centered around that.
Maurio:You stuck in the 80s. Come on, bro, come on. That was my youth.
Tony D.:That was a good move. I'd remake that movie, the same way Denzel Reed did Pillow 123. I'd redo Nighthawks. Wow, I would redo Nighthawks. That used to be a rich area. I don't think it is anymore. I did hear something about it last year. Let me get back to you about that, because I know what he's talking about. Okay, come on, carmen.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I don't know where Roosevelt Island is and I know.
Tony D.:New York people. It's got its own little cable car. It was literally like a little island.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, but where is it near Like, where is it Manhattan? Oh, I don't know. I mean, I don't know New York that well, I know, I know. But you say rich areas of New York, and I think Long Island, I think Rye, new York, I don't think New York City. I mean, yeah, new York City.
Maurio:City, manhattan, upper West Side, all that.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't, you know, I don't. I'm just saying everything you hear about LA through the little snippets you hear. You know that liberal town and there's homeless people everywhere. That's not my whole city. That's not the whole city, and why would we all stay here Like? This place is beautiful. I love Los Angeles with my heart and soul. Cynthia, you've been here right.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, you know why I love it here? And my, my biggest reason is because there's so many people of different cultures and different ethnicities and just different and and you could go to the beach, to the mountains, you could go, you know, all in one day.
Maurio:Yep, yeah, skiing, whatever, all four seasons in one day, believe it or not, depending on depending on which direction you go in the state you can do it all it's just a beautiful place, um, and it's huge, so what?
Maurio:big bear is big bears like two and a half hours from from the beach. You can get from the beach to the mountains. You can get from sand and sun to snow in two and a half hours. That's just how fantastic the state is. And drive through the desert to get there. And drive through the desert to get there.
Tony D.:She really just slid that comment right in. I was sitting there trying to figure out beach and mountains and a desert.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, we are actually a desert A desert, yeah, and a desert.
Maurio:Well, we are actually a desert.
Carmen Lezeth:A desert you should come visit.
Tony D.:We're not going to afford to.
Carmen Lezeth:You don't have to stay at a $500 hotel. You stayed nearby, and what was your hotel? I like to do something. Yeah, you can come out for three days. Mario and Alma would love to see you.
Tony D.:Me and Mario will hang out pretty hard. I'm not even going to lie.
Maurio:I will, you'll get a promo.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I will not. Me and Alma will go out. I'll go hang out with Alma.
Tony D.:I will not get a promo.
Maurio:You can run these streets with me. You'll have a good time, I promise. No lie, no lie, no lie. You'll have a good time.
Tony D.:I got it out. If I come to LA and I don't tell them, they will come find me. That's what I'm saying you in my city and you didn't tell me at the oldie. Who do you know in LA? I still in touch right now, did you love?
Carmen Lezeth:LA, you love LA, did you Yep?
Tony D.:Did you?
Carmen Lezeth:meet her twice or three times, I don't remember Twice yeah.
Maurio:And she's ready to come back. Look at her face. She's, like you, going to do this.
Carmen Lezeth:We was going to move here at one point. We were talking about it. We were talking about it a long time school and dump her husband.
Maurio:Don't you do that to Juan Juan, I got you. If you hear me, I got you.
Carmen Lezeth:She was a little mad at him then, but you know she was a little therapy to let it out how long have you been married, Cynthia?
Cynthia:We've been together 26 years.
Maurio:As a matter of fact, our 26th anniversary is July 4th, july 4th, bye.
Carmen Lezeth:I remember everybody on July 4th because I have too many people who celebrate things on July 4th. It's such an easy day.
Tony D.:I've got a sister. Her birthday is July 4th and actually the wedding I'm going to is my stepdaughter's on July 5th.
Carmen Lezeth:Nice who are you taking as a date?
Tony D.:Nobody, I mean, you're going to.
Carmen Lezeth:All right, I would never happen, we would last an hour next to each other, not even an hour. We would get too much before we would ever be comfortable Never since they never.
Alma:No, we've been together for a little hour A little longer, since they never.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll give you 10 minutes. There's going to be so many negatives on this video.
Maurio:You started this, you did this.
Carmen Lezeth:This video is going to get so many thumbs down.
Maurio:It would be your highest rated video. I'm like, yes, all the comments.
Tony D.:No we're going to get in a lot of trouble. The other one, from about seven months ago, is still the highest rated one, I think.
Cynthia:Which one who, Rick, you can officiate oh when you were about to fight.
Maurio:Yeah, you were scrapping online. Yeah, I heard Vassie Carmen came out. Yeah, vassie Carmen came out. Carmen ripped her earrings off online. She was like Vassie Carmen, what the dick. Let me tell you one MFD, run it up what.
Tony D.:It was bad because I actually got people I've worked with, they're on my LinkedIn and one of the guys was like, yeah, I saw that video. I was like, oh, fuck.
Carmen Lezeth:So first of all, we went back. Rick and I went back and watched it. It wasn't as bad as you guys thought it was Shit, it was actually pretty good.
Maurio:I feel kind of all right with that. Carmen said run it up, run it up.
Carmen Lezeth:You know, I know it's so funny because I really am not like that, like since I was a kid I don't get like that. But some people just bring it out. Yeah, you are. You know you can't. It's been a long time since I hit somebody too, tony don't go visit her.
Rick Costa:I think that was a warning. Tony, that wasn't a red flag going across the screen.
Maurio:I don't like it.
Carmen Lezeth:Look, Tony might be into that freaky shit he might like it Okay, mario, you're not going to have to have a conversation with me, I have no idea what you're doing right now.
Cynthia:Oh my God, I'm going to.
Maurio:You the junk people, don't comment. Oh my God, I'm originally from Boston.
Tony D.:I'm originally from New York. We are going to clash.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, it's not even that.
Tony D.:And you got that Afro-Latina side Girl please.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to be blaming it on my Latin.
Cynthia:I was like I just gave you the stink eye, no problem.
Carmen Lezeth:I think, yeah, Speechless. I'm thinking of the ramifications I don't want. Well, they can't because they're blocked, but I don't want any ramifications from this conversation. Is what I'm saying.
Tony D.:Oh, it's going to get out, I'm just waiting. With all the shit that's been said about me over the past few months, I'm done. Get the fuck out.
Rick Costa:Really All right the older you get, the less you care about what people think. Well, the more shit that I have going on. That's the truth.
Alma:That's the truth.
Carmen Lezeth:Exactly.
Alma:Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry. The first thing I said is are they paying the bill in this house?
Rick Costa:Yes, I love that expression. Your opinion does not pay my bills.
Maurio:That part. What you think of me is none of my business.
Carmen Lezeth:That part, I think Tony and Rick and we can agree that Tony's had some difficulties with people who A little bit, that's why, okay, so, alma, cynthia and Mario, what you're feeling from me, tony and Rick, is not like ooh yeah, carmen and Tony ain't really no, we're like the fallout from this video is going to make its way into people who misinterpret things and then badger Tony.
Maurio:Oh, I'm sorry, I mean Look at me. So not sorry, Sorry, friend Tony's gonna get him Fuck off.
Alma:I'm like I'm not worried about him. He's going to be fine, he's a grown man.
Cynthia:A grown man.
Maurio:Well, you know what? For all of those people who want to give Tony a hard time, run it up.
Cynthia:Don't do this to him.
Maurio:Plus there is a thing as a block button.
Tony D.:I behave just enough to keep a job and to have a couple of friends.
Cynthia:There you go.
Maurio:Have you ever heard this song? It's a little man, a little white man, singing a little folk song I got zero fucks to give. No, it's a song, it's a real song. The song is called I have Zero Fucks to Give.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, can you look it up and we can put it on? No, thank you, I'll to God. The song is called I have Zero Fucks to Give. Rick, can you look it up and we can put it on? No, thank you. All right, I'll do it, I'll see Okay what's it? Called.
Maurio:Why would you ask Rick to do it? Why would you ask Rick, of all people, to play it? No, he's not going to play it. No.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm asking Rick because he knows how to do the put it up on the screen quicker than I do.
Alma:We can ask Rick to pull up Less Than Highly Favored, but not that one.
Cynthia:Wait, wait, wait.
Rick Costa:Oh, I didn't tell Carmen this. So my brother came over for the weekend when my mom turned 80 years old and his girlfriend said hey, rick, yeah, you know that lady you do the videos with on Thursday. I was like, wait, she watches. She's really funny. I was like I didn't even know you watched. You never told me who my brother's girlfriend. Oh yeah, didn't she come on the show?
Carmen Lezeth:one time.
Rick Costa:No, no, I don't know that she was.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, I really like her. She said I was funny.
Rick Costa:She said you were really funny, not the hair flip.
Maurio:Not the hair flip, the hair flip, the hair flip. Not the hair flipping because it's like the hair flip.
Carmen Lezeth:You have to. No, the reason why I was asking Rick is it was because he can. I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to show it. It's okay, it's really okay, I mean he's Christian, but People can look it up.
Rick Costa:They know how to do it.
Carmen Lezeth:They can look at it I know, but it would have been really funny because I don't know it. I would have heard it, but I'll look it up on my own. She said she's more than us.
Maurio:She's like okay bye, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. Well then, I'm going to have to have a drink. I ran out of water.
Tony D.:Get the white cup.
Cynthia:I got my white cup.
Maurio:So here's a question for you guys. Have you guys? When was the last time somebody really pissed you off and how'd? You deal with it.
Tony D.:I was going to fight for my job.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, really I want to hear what happened, can you? Talk louder, Tony, so I can hear you in the kitchen.
Maurio:Go get your drink.
Tony D.:She can hear you in the kitchen. Speak loud loud. There's a lot of frustrations, agitations. It was early in the morning but I actually had. I was starting to work on an area and didn't realize somebody was close and I was using a blow blow on something. I got in one of the guy's faces. I didn't realize that he was actually pissed at me. I didn't know why he came out hollering at me. I looked at him like what are you talking about? And then it wasn't just a holler. You know the holler came with the stare. So when you get the stare you're going to stare back. Right, because every now and then I tell people I'm an aircraft mechanic, most of the people that I work with who are mechanics.
Tony D.:The biggest part of our job is trying not to fight nobody, because you're going to face the frustration, you're going to face the agitation. It's a lot of pressure and a lot of standards to maintain and we do have an edge. We may not realize that gets hit. I've been on this job for 13 years. I've been in the field for almost 30 years. Guys will not, but there's a point and I watch this with a lot of mechanics. I tell people this all the time. You're going to keep it cool. You're going to be mature, you're going to be grown, but something's going to snap one day. That person doesn't even know where it comes from. I've seen this Black, white, old, young, rich, broke, no style. I'm serious. Someone just hits you just like, and you a minute, whatever. We all do it me and him resolved it within two minutes of it happening, which is nothing but maturity, and I'm grateful for it. I'll say that easily because on more than one occasion somebody has wanted to knock me out. I've wanted to knock them out and both of us probably would have done it and lost where we're at today. Now, that goes for most folks.
Tony D.:I remember we were talking about that one episode about fights on the job. I'm like well, as a customer service rep dealing with customers, and everybody knows customers like to go somewhere and put their foot down the demand. You do something every now and then someone I don't know who the fuck you talking to you can get my ass, damn you your money, what you want, what you need, how hungry you are, where you try to stay, how you got here and where you going. Let's just be clear yes, you're coming to me crazy with all on demands. I'm gonna look at you like you're stupid. Until you get the back of the line, you can call everybody you want, because the manager and the supervisor are both busy. So you can either talk to me properly or keep on damn waiting. That's right, and I just deal with people and their money. Nobody plays around with their money. I didn't steal it. I didn't take it from you. I gave back what you're supposed to get back. If you don't understand it, look at the math. You did not rob you.
Tony D.:I've seen people throw programs at folks. One dude liked to jump over the counter, one of my co-workers. Y'all see the videos on TikTok, instagram, facebook, youtube. People like to go crazy on these fast food folks. Y'all must have forgot these. Fast food folks are already on. I Don't Give a Fuck More. Right. When that big girl knocked that other girl over across that burger king holler, I remember that I was hollering and she was not no small woman. That was a big, healthy, hawaiian built woman. I said it.
Carmen Lezeth:She was huge. I'm going to use that in the future. I'm a Hawaiian built woman.
Tony D.:She was huge and she was moving like she was 30 pounds lighter.
Maurio:I saw that. I remember that.
Tony D.:This is you got to be careful. How you talk to folks, how you deal with folks, how you come across to folks, how you deliver your message, matters for sure, absolutely speaking in high school, the first one of the first thing they taught us was encoding and decoding how your message comes across, how they interpret it, how they respond to it. That's how you have communication. Yep, people want to come up with the face, with the voice, with the attitude that we can understand your frustration. You're already given the leeway based on the training of the job, but you still need to keep your attitude in check. Control yourself when you're talking to me, because I'm just as grown as you are and I can give less of a fuck than you do.
Maurio:I always tell my daughter think twice and speak once.
Tony D.:I tell the youth all the time. My son asked me how does he control himself? He can't handle this. I said listen, this is the best way to think. I said think before you act.
Maurio:It's the best way to stay out of jail. That's what I told my daughter. I said think twice, then speak once, because otherwise think about it twice, because the next time it comes out your mouth, you can't take it back, I'll be right back. You can't pull back.
Tony D.:Are you getting a drink too? Are you getting a drink too?
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, I'm the only one drinking.
Tony D.:No, you're not.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you see the cup?
Alma:I turned the camera around Coming up July 1st, I think my biggest frustration is when people come into your space and want to tell you how to do your job that you've been doing for 25 years.
Tony D.:You want to face that, because that's a change in society. It's a change in the culture, change the environment and it's also the youth coming up, learning where you're at and showing you what you may have missed. That society is looking for from you. If you can remember that, some from you, if you can remember that, some of that you'll see. But every now and then you got to check them because once they're trying to change, they need to learn the basics in the first place.
Alma:That's what you said Exactly, exactly Stop skipping steps, stop skipping steps.
Tony D.:You got to remember. When they come to these jobs, they're always they're the fresh mind they're supposed to be the change they got to take out. Some of're not even ready for the change they're trying to put in place. They're not ready, they think they are. I watch it on my day. You guys come in, we're going to take you out. You don't know what you're doing. You made a mistake. Okay, go and get promoted over me. When they get their promotion, they get their responsibility and they're looking like they need help.
Alma:I just smile at them, exactly, exactly, and I always tell I didn't have change.
Rick Costa:How are you guys? No, what does it say? Wakanda forever? Oh, okay, yeah, I had a friend that she said she quit her job and then they begged her to come back because they literally did replace her with three people. Uh-huh, see, now you know my value.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, and she said no, thank you, no, thank you someone called one of my clients called me and two of the other staff people paper pushers and we were in a meeting and he said so you guys are just like paper pushers, and it was just silence that's disrespectful it was so, but the minute he saw and felt what was happening, he was like no, no, no, no, that's not what I meant.
Rick Costa:I could push a lot more than paper. Try me.
Carmen Lezeth:I was like, if you think all we are is paper pushers, that's fine, but you should probably be paying someone a lot less money for pushing paper around baby. So I was like you're spending a hundred grand right here between us.
Maurio:That's all right, pay me.
Cynthia:Call me whatever you want.
Maurio:That's it. I'll be your whatever you want.
Alma:Is that something you're pushing?
Maurio:Yeah, I'll be your pusher, baby.
Carmen Lezeth:It was just funny, because he, I'm your mama. I'm your daddy. That's the one. Wait, what are we singing?
Alma:I'm your pusher.
Maurio:Maybe yeah. I don't know what they're talking about. I feel like me something on record just sitting there.
Rick Costa:I saw a video of a girl, of a she does like funny videos about job related stuff and the supervisor came in and said hey, Veronica, I have good news for you you don't. You don't have to be the interim manager anymore, Cause we found somebody else that's going to take over, and so now you can just go back to your regular job. You don't have to do this anymore. And we just wondered can you train her? Though she was like, let me get this straight. I've been doing this job for six months, just fine, and you're going to bring somebody else in from another company by the way, not even in Turtle and you want me to train?
Maurio:No, she said no, no, nope, you never told me what you do on Friday nights. Oh, that's right hey.
Carmen Lezeth:Joy Hi, yeah, she had texted me earlier apologizing for not being able to come on, but it was fun. Friday night is date night.
Maurio:Who we dating.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, we are not having that conversation.
Maurio:All of us tonight, apparently.
Carmen Lezeth:Not on live air, no.
Alma:I'm intrigued.
Maurio:I'm going to know now.
Carmen Lezeth:Clearly it's not tonight because I'm here with you folks, but you know.
Maurio:He must not be bringing the joy.
Carmen Lezeth:Not tonight, he's not.
Maurio:He's not all about the joy, then.
Alma:He might already be in the room. That's why we can't come over, oh, we're good.
Tony D.:That's why we stopped at an hour. It's already an hour and a half time to go, people.
Maurio:He said that's all right, baby, I'll be the background of your foreground. Oh my God.
Cynthia:That's the part right there what.
Carmen Lezeth:You're making fun of my part and my hair in front of my part and my hair.
Tony D.:It's normally just all smooth Right now. You got a part in that. At least you got hair.
Cynthia:Oh Okay.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to send you a little Venmo right now. Baby, Hold on.
Cynthia:That was good, honey, thank you. You don't get a tip, you don't get a tip for that one that was good.
Rick Costa:By the way, if you haven't seen Carmen and Joy's Private Lounge very, very good video I highly recommend it, Not just saying it because it's very good. You should watch it.
Carmen Lezeth:It's very good. We want people to donate money to ukangiveorg. It's C-A-N-E. It's a great organization helping people all over the world really getting services that they need if they are blind. It's a great private lounge, so people should watch it. We want her to come back on the show when she can and she'll talk about it more and you know, if you guys have questions and stuff, it'll be great.
Maurio:but yeah, she can't remember. He made fun of my hair too.
Carmen Lezeth:See Women. You proved it the other day. Cynthia, who was it we were on with? Oh, nazeem. We were on with Nazeem from Italy, alma, I think you were in the chat at the time and Tony immediately makes fun of me or any other woman in the room, but mostly me, because he feels comfortable. But then Nazeem does something and he's like Tony Joyce, when you saw her with curly hair.
Tony D.:I didn't remember cracking.
Maurio:See, she didn't forget. You messed up. Now what?
Carmen Lezeth:kind of vodka do you guys prefer? I wanted Tito's, but I got Kettle One and I don't think I like it.
Maurio:Tito's is nice, but Belvedere is best yeah, they didn't have Belvedere yeah, grey Goose is good. Grey Goose is good Grey.
Cynthia:Goose is good. Oh, I should have tried that.
Tony D.:I drank Grey Goose straight in Hawaii back in 2010. I drank like a third of a bottle and that was not smart.
Maurio:Yeah, because Grey Goose is trickery.
Tony D.:Well, I did my Ascendant flight because I actually had a chance to fly F-16, and it's like a dream job. So I came back and they were like you. Okay, I got dressed, we was getting ready to go out there and I said, man, forget that. My mom was like yo, you crazy. I said I have just lived my dream. I could retire happily right now. About two hours later they had to bring me home. We riding on a highway. I cannot drink. I'm trying. I don't think I got a specific vodka. That's a preference, because I don't drink it straight. I normally got it mixed with something.
Maurio:Tito's is good, but, like I said, but a Belvedere is best I'll get a Belvedere next time.
Carmen Lezeth:They didn't have that, I was going to get that but here's not Friday night.
Maurio:I told you to get back to work.
Alma:She's not by herself, she's not by herself.
Maurio:That's what I said. I was trying not to say nothing.
Tony D.:I was trying to say nothing.
Alma:Listen to what she said. She said she does not drink by herself, so that means her boo is in the room.
Maurio:We just can't drink by herself. We said she's going to play background to her foreground.
Rick Costa:That's what we said. We just shut up on this thing, who that camera?
Maurio:one in the corner. Who behind that?
Rick Costa:girl. That's why she keeps flipping the camera. She's like I'll be on the screen, you idiot.
Tony D.:She wanted to go get a drink. She wanted to go make sure he was OK.
Maurio:You all right, baby.
Alma:That's why she wanted to see you behind the camera. We almost done.
Maurio:We almost done she already got a little feel.
Cynthia:I already got that she went and tipped over the rubber band and came back. That's what she did. I'm tired of talking to you, I got to go.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, I can even feel myself blushing a little bit, she's so blushing.
Rick Costa:All about the embarrassment.
Alma:That's what happens when you have grown married folks on here, I know, is the love still real.
Cynthia:Yes, very, yeah, I mean it's like I ain't saying no, Not like I'm going to say no.
Maurio:No, I mean, it's challenging. For sure, marriage is challenging. We've also been together for 30 years, so it's just like you know. You got to remind yourself not to get in a rut. Yeah, and you still surprise each other.
Alma:You still date each other. We're definitely not the same people. When we met and when we got married, we both changed and evolved, and for the better some things. You are who you are. So, as married people, you just learn to love all the good parts along with the not-so-good parts. Yeah, what?
Maurio:do you mean not so good parts?
Rick Costa:Like leave your dirty drawer on the floor again.
Alma:So but yeah, no, it's, you know it's still, it's still good, it's still good. Yeah, we've had our. We've had our difficult, difficult years. You know, with his illness and my illness, that it's just. The vows are real. Marriage definitely is not for the weak.
Maurio:It's not for punks Not that anybody's a punk if it didn't work out, because sometimes stuff don't work out for other reasons, we tell young people who say, well, I'm thinking about getting married, are you sure? Because it's not for punks. You got to know what you're getting into.
Alma:Yes.
Maurio:And if you got the stomach for it go for it.
Tony D.:The vow is real. I love how you said that.
Alma:No, it's real, Because I mean it's like I tell them the wedding is just one day, Marriage is forever and marriage is work. It is work.
Rick Costa:Every relationship is work, especially marriage.
Maurio:Yes, Even friendships are work though. Yeah, and then we are, but I think we are friends first.
Alma:Yeah, you know he don't want to date me at first. Okay, we're not talking about this?
Maurio:We're not talking about this. Where's the popcorn? Now, bitch, let me go get it because I'm not staying for this conversation.
Rick Costa:Oh my God, that's so funny.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I'm so glad because when Tony talks about his marriage and the end of it it's one of the few times when I hear someone talk about it. That's what I'm saying. I feel bad because I know it really did hurt you, right, tony?
Tony D.:It gets to me. I'm a whole lot better than I was two years ago.
Carmen Lezeth:For sure.
Tony D.:Better than last year, but I'm more apathetic, which I know is very dangerous. This is why I kind of keep to myself I don't necessarily call myself stable or reliable to anybody else Just being integral about it. I'm not the dude that'll normally do what I used to do. I'm ready to come. Sure, let me know when you want me to pop up all that good stuff. I can't make it. Okay, cool, call me when you can Give it to me, and I and I have to realize how much other people were going through this before me. That's a lot of the reflection that I'm doing. I don't. I never saw or realized how deep this was to other people, no matter how much you've conversated with them, no matter how much you try to be there for them, no matter how much you try to let them know you're available no-transcript.
Carmen Lezeth:This a long time ago we were talking about relationships. Is I, you still love the idea of being married and it hurts you that you're not, and I I kind of I just think that's a beautiful thing and I'm still sorry that your marriage ended because it had to or whatever, but I know it hurt you a lot when I, when I first met tony on the show, he did seem a little sadder than he does now.
Cynthia:I feel like now you kind of come out of that shell, come out of that darkness that you're. You seem like a little lighter now than you did when I first met you.
Tony D.:I am, and there are a couple of things I was actually talking to. I think my sister told me when I last saw her there's more than we can. She told me I started looking like myself again. So I don't know if it was the move, me just taking my time doing this, me just keeping to myself, whatever, but she was like I'm looking like myself again. I'm like, okay, that must be a change, because I don't realize it. All I do is go to work and come home, that's all. I don't go anywhere, I don't do anything because I know how much money that costs and people don't realize when are you going to come see me? You've got to afford to be able to come see you, because you never come see me.
Alma:People always response. Well, like I always said, the phone works both ways. The phone does work both ways, but the traveling is normally no.
Tony D.:yeah, I understand I could actually go out of town tomorrow, but tonight I was waiting to do this. Then I'm like, okay, let me see what happens. I can make a weekend trip with no problem, but it's not cheap. Right, it really isn't cheap. Gas isn't cheap. Hotels are like $200 a night, just starting on the Fridays. I've been looking for the past couple of years and that's crazy. I'm not paying $200 for that. I don't pay women $200 for a night or the five minutes. That's how.
Cynthia:I'm.
Maurio:I know what I said.
Tony D.:I don't pay $200 a night for nothing.
Rick Costa:You ain't dating that baby, call me whatever.
Maurio:Quality over quantity.
Tony D.:I'm just saying I'm not doing it. I did do it. I just went out of town for a week and I knew I was going to be there and the location was the safest. But if I ain't got to spend it, I'm not going to. Most people do the same thing. People got coupons, people follow discounts. I'm not cheap but I do spend a lot.
Carmen Lezeth:Will you spend money on things that matter to you? Food, yeah, and liquor, no, I have. Your peach schnapps was very important to you.
Tony D.:You realize I haven't had any crowns since the last time I told you about it.
Carmen Lezeth:The peach schnapps. We call it peach schnapps, but what was it really?
Tony D.:The blackberry.
Carmen Lezeth:Right Crown Royal. I was calling it peach schnapps. Yeah, she was terrible.
Maurio:Didn't you know that? Eat schnapps she was terrible.
Carmen Lezeth:Look at the food group. Didn't you know that that's?
Tony D.:absolutely right, absolutely right. I mean, take some of my Highly caloric and great for energy.
Rick Costa:I remember when I got divorced I was devastated because I just did not foresee it at all. Like I know, people sometimes have a hard time. I'm trying to tell y'all I really am this oblivious in a million years, and it took a long time for me to feel halfway normal again. It was very hard because I saw a vision of my future, growing old together, kids and grandkids, and all of a sudden, in an instant, with a phone call at my mother's house, we're getting divorced. What?
Tony D.:Just like that. No, you're right. It bothered me when I got the phone call that it was official. I was literally at work and my lawyer hit me up and said everything's done. I checked the email. I said okay, appreciate it. It wasn't 30 seconds. My whole soul just dropped. Wow, literally. I'm just honest about it. I tell people I'll be straight up. I was like, okay, I'm sitting there just like everything in me just died, everything in me just died.
Alma:It's a morning. It was like you guys were mourning.
Tony D.:You were mourning that relationship I felt a death. Yeah, that's the morning.
Maurio:That's what morning is it's greeting?
Tony D.:When she first met me Y'all don't realize how down I was, I seriously they sent me home from work. Let's go, let's go. They already knew what was going on.
Carmen Lezeth:So your laptop is moving and you're not talking into the mic again, so we're losing you. I'm just telling you, I want to hear what you're saying. Oh my God.
Maurio:You should have just let that go.
Carmen Lezeth:Could he talk, like over here? Like the mic is here, dude, do I have to buy you a computer now?
Tony D.:Easy.
Rick Costa:That sounds like I let you, I let you.
Carmen Lezeth:That's what I heard too because Cynthia brought you a mic every week since. Cynthia went to his house and brought him that mic and he still don't use it, right. She flew to his house and brought him a mic she got on her jet plane watch out be careful. It's not me, y'all are pretending.
Rick Costa:For the podcast listeners. Rick is shaking his head. No.
Maurio:Tony is too. That was also so funny that day too.
Cynthia:We were like oh shit.
Carmen Lezeth:She flew and gave him the mic. The love we have for you is so strong, Tony.
Rick Costa:Speaking about love, celia, alma and Mario, I ain't worried about y'all at all Because, with all the stuff you've been through and you're still together, you're fine, you're fine.
Carmen Lezeth:It's not even that they're together. They're like disgustingly together. Okay, not necessarily Like jealously, they're just so happy Like I don't want them to be that happy Pick that white cup and sip on that haterade.
Maurio:Just a little bit Anyway, no, but you know what?
Carmen Lezeth:I mean Because, look, I'm not going to pretend like I know them, like best friends or whatever, but my heart is in. I mean, mario, you know I love you, you know that I have. I've hooked up your niece, right. You've been getting the blind CCs, right.
Maurio:Yes, but we'll talk about that offline.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh no.
Maurio:No, no, no, We'll just talk about it offline.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, all right, Did I just sound wrong?
Maurio:No, no, no, Not at all, I don't want to put that on French street.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, that's okay. So here's my thing. They've always been like this.
Cynthia:This happiness.
Alma:You know, what we started off as friends, we really did create.
Cynthia:No, no, no.
Maurio:No, listen, she wasn't lying when she said that I was, because her friend approached me first. I have a friend. I had a mutual friend in college that lived in her dorm and so I was going to see her mutual friend Well, my friend actually and she had, because the girl that friend had just moved into their dorm. So I was going to visit her. So she and her roommate and another housemate all saw me at the same time and after I left they all went to my friend and said who is that? And so the other friend got to me first and was trying to hit me up first. So that's how that happened.
Maurio:But then when she hit me up first, so that's how that happened. But then when she hit me up, she we set up a date, but she was also seeing someone else but didn't tell me she was seeing someone else. So then alma then in turn said she knew what this her friend was doing. So she called my friend and told me to come over early in the morning. So I come over. Oh, it's a good story.
Maurio:So then I come over early in the morning and they're like, no, sit in this seat. To face her room, the other girl's room. She's like, sit in this seat. I'm like, well, first of all, I didn't want to get up because it was too early. Second of all, I'm like, no, just sit there, Sit there. So they're trying to. She's trying to hold a conversation with me.
Tony D.:My parents are trying to hold a conversation with me.
Maurio:Trying to keep me in that seat Until, finally the door opened and he comes out with her around with his arm around her neck, still pulling pearls together. I'm like, oh well, we had a date tonight.
Carmen Lezeth:She's sitting there just taking it in.
Maurio:She's sitting there like I'm in this one right here, this one right here. She was like yeah, so now what? So? But then we still took our time and we became really good friends.
Tony D.:She's ready for you.
Maurio:You ain't playing no more playboy, listen just to show you how much she loved me. She told her friend when I walked through the door. She said who is that? Because I'm going to marry him.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you Alma for real? When I first laid eyes on him Wow.
Maurio:It was love at first sight for her, for sure, for sure.
Carmen Lezeth:I saw Chris Hemsworth in person. I say thing, but it didn't happen. I'm just saying I was going to marry you but it didn't happen, so I don't know what went wrong there.
Rick Costa:Maybe because he's married already. I don't care if he's already married?
Carmen Lezeth:No, but I'm just saying I felt the same energy. He could be my son, bitches. Okay, I don't know, I'd be a really young mother, but he could be my son. I think he's like 40, right? No, he's a little older than that hey Google.
Cynthia:We could teach him a few things right, he's 40.
Maurio:Oh, wow, that's how he's older than that.
Cynthia:Me too.
Maurio:Oh Lord, that boy is fine. But yeah, so that's how we started. Dating was like that. But she spoke that into fruition. She said when I saw him. She said when he walked in the door she said who is that? Because I'm going to marry him. She didn't even know my name.
Carmen Lezeth:I love that.
Alma:I'm jealous and here we are Not just her fortitude and her confidence and doing her thing and wrapping you up, no, and even then I wasn't on my walk with God like I am now, but knowing what I know now that I didn't know then, that was the Holy Spirit.
Carmen Lezeth:Joy just said that's okay, I've got a younger man, Okay.
Tony D.:Thank you Now, joy, I did tease you about that. What you gonna tease Joy? What you got to tease Joy, I'll tease you about that. What you gonna tease Joy? What you got to tease Joy, I'll tease Joy about that. That was a couple years ago. We had a good conversation about all this. Go ahead, alma.
Carmen Lezeth:I cut Alma off, it's okay Go ahead.
Alma:So, yeah, you know, like I was saying not knowing what I know, now you know that was definitely God speaking to me and you know, allowing me to know who that was, that that was my partner. So you know, and even then just being obedient and following, but not even really realizing that I was being, you know, obedient to that voice, and that's where we are.
Carmen Lezeth:I was trying to be obedient to my voice, with Chris Hemsworth. I don't know what I'm talking about.
Alma:There's got to be some action behind that. You got to make some moves.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't think it was the Lord speaking to me. It was a different voice. It was the Lord.
Maurio:Not the.
Cynthia:Lord, it was the.
Maurio:Lord. The Lord speaks up here. He was speaking for something a little bit lower.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, will you ever get married again?
Rick Costa:if the right person comes along and I fall head over heels like a school boy in love, kind of thing, yeah, but I'm not looking. So what would?
Maurio:make you fall in love. What are the qualifications?
Rick Costa:like I said, I don't know. Yes, you do, don't tell a lie'm not looking. Yes, you do. Yes, you do, don't tell a lie.
Maurio:Everybody's got a little something something. You got a little something something. Am I telling the truth, tony? Even Tony know that. Look, tony, no.
Tony D.:I said somebody who's kind of, somebody who has been through a divorce, you got to realize flags. I told him at the beginning of the show. I said I won't stop ignoring red flags, which is very limiting to me. I'm always giving people the benefit of the doubt, but I'm very close to being a one and done person, which is who I have to fight, because I have an attitude and a temper that's not good for anybody's relationship and the last thing you want to do is be that person with whoever you're trying to spend your life with and live with. So when people meet you and they see that, you can cut it off in a minute. No, it will last long. If you want it done, we've done an hour. I'm out of here, I'll drive, I'll get my Uber, whatever, whatever. But if you want to endure with somebody, that's the part of you that has to rebuild after divorce or a widowing. If you will no disrespect to anybody who may have gone through it A part of serious.
Tony D.:There are beautiful women that I know. There are people out there that may be interested, but I can't reciprocate that same energy and I will say energy on purpose, because there's an enthusiasm with the relationship. There's that optimism for an endurance. I don't have that shit right now. I just don't. We can meet up for dinner, we can go to a movie, we can hang out. We can plan a weekend, not a problem. What about afterwards?
Carmen Lezeth:I don't give a shit, I just don't how long have you both been divorced?
Tony D.:Right, it's been a year and a half technically for me, but I've been separated almost four, so it's been just me, but I've got a child, okay wait, wait, wait.
Carmen Lezeth:But when you were separated, did you think you might work it out? Were you hoping that you would fix it?
Tony D.:For about the first year.
Tony D.:No for about the first year honestly, it was about the first six months I was hoping, thinking, even though I knew better, and I'm just honest with how much I put up myself into this. Once I said I'd do everything was when I was out of the military. I had no reason to leave the state without her, so everything was there. So, to lose, and for you know what? Yeah, let me go ahead and do this. If you focus yourself onto anything and you lose it, if it doesn't hurt you, you're already as apathetic as I'm trying to fight.
Carmen Lezeth:I have no idea what you just said. I have no idea what you just said. You don't. You said it with force, but I have no idea what you just said. Just hear me. Okay, say it again.
Tony D.:Anybody who has a focus or a drive in a specific direction. To lose what you have tried to build, establish or go for will hurt. And if it doesn't hurt, you are already more apathetic than I am, because I give a damn about what I do.
Carmen Lezeth:I give a damn about what I establish. No, noa, I'm just being honest. I don't understand what you're saying. The first part I get right. Like you had a drive, you were excited about your marriage. You wanted to make it work, no matter what happened. You were willing to go the distance because that is marriage and you were in it for the long haul. But it's the second part of what you say that I don't understand. And if you apathetic, that's the part I don't get.
Maurio:I think I understand what he's saying. Basically, he's saying if you don't care after something has already happened, if you don't care anymore, then you've been checked out a long time ago. Is that what you're trying to say?
Tony D.:You don't care about losing what you built. If I put a focus into something that I lose, it matters to me. Some people they'll lose, just move on to something else into something that'll lose it.
Carmen Lezeth:It matters to me Some people they'll lose, just move on to something else You're talking specifically about your ex-wife right now, right About any relationship or commitment, but let's not make it a big thing. Like you are talking about your personal experience.
Tony D.:I'm just saying, and I say that in my marriage more than once, but any commitment I'll try to go into and I hate to move forward.
Carmen Lezeth:Just from all the conversations we've had about this, whatever you were really in love with your wife, I think that hurts you, that she wanted out.
Tony D.:It hurts that it didn't work.
Maurio:I think that's rare. We didn't answer the question how long have you been in a divorce?
Rick Costa:2003.
Maurio:Okay, so you've been out of that marriage for a while, so yeah, so if I put you on Tinder tomorrow, I'll put you on Apple. I can get you somebody. Is that what you're saying? I got the green light to put you on.
Rick Costa:Tinder. Is that what we're saying? You can do whatever you want, but guess what? I'm going to do whatever I want, which is going to be nothing.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, here's my feeling about Rick.
Rick Costa:I could be wrong, but it's not that opportunities have not come and gone, not that I've had like I don't want to put her on front street, like you said earlier, but I had a friend that was like a best friend.
Rick Costa:but then the best friend for her turned into more, but not for me. And then, when she finally admitted it, it destroyed the friendship, which was very bad. She's like well, how could you not know? Which was very bad. She's like well, how could you not know? I was like I didn't know Again, oblivious Rick.
Carmen Lezeth:Was this the McDonald's woman, the one with the fries, or whatever? Remember you told me that story about somebody you didn't know they were flirting with you or interested in you because they kept being like, let's share the McDonald's or whatever. Is that the same person?
Rick Costa:Oh, the one that she would wrap the burger for me.
Carmen Lezeth:I, she was into.
Maurio:I was like she's just being nice. Was she trying to share her milkshake with you?
Alma:I think it must be a guy thing, because you were the same way.
Maurio:No, I did have a couple of.
Alma:This is my really good friend and I pulled him to the side and I was like she likes you. No she doesn't, that's just my good friend. No, she likes you.
Carmen Lezeth:No, that's just my good friend. No, she likes you. No, that's just my good. I said okay, are you scared?
Alma:and jealous of my love for mario. Oh, not at all. Come please no, girl.
Maurio:No, we had somebody. It was, we were. I was friends with this person and she had romantic feelings for me.
Alma:But I'm gonna keep saying no and I and they were already friends when I met him. And so I came into it and I was like, okay, you know, and I'm seeing, of course, fresh eyes, I'm new, you know, with him. And so I pulled him to the side and I'm like, have you guys dated? And he was like no.
Carmen Lezeth:I was like well, she's got feelings and he was like no, she doesn't.
Maurio:I'm like, yeah, she does, she's like no, no, no, no, look real truth. She said did you get that? And I'm like nah I didn't get that. She asked me what did you say?
Cynthia:I said guys tend not to notice.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah that's a guy thing for sure. We can see it right away. We can tell you it's a guy thing? Definitely, because I mean, yeah, they're moved, they're ruled by the like, somebody liking them, and so it's like oblivious, but it's not no.
Maurio:But the light came on when Amina got engaged and she was pissed off, not happy.
Alma:Not all congratulations.
Maurio:She was pissed and then she was like I'm your best friend, you fuck me, spend as much time with me as you are her, I'm like hold up. No, no, okay, yeah, I know I'm like you bug it. And then when she came to the wedding, she was like crying profusely. It was a scene, it was a. Tyler.
Alma:Perry moment.
Maurio:It was a Tyler Perry moment.
Carmen Lezeth:But Alma, you said it was okay for her to come. You agreed to that, yeah.
Maurio:No, she really didn't agree to that. I was like, nah, she coming.
Cynthia:All those faces. Come on, she can act the way she wants to.
Rick Costa:I would have been scared when the part came up. Does anybody here have any reason why these two couples should not be together?
Maurio:You should watch her. Yeah, she did. She told you to watch her.
Alma:I should watch her. And she makes any moves, tackle her, she did.
Carmen Lezeth:What about you and Juan? I know there are stories with Juan Wong, him and his chastisious ways, it's actually funny.
Cynthia:It's funny how me and Wong met. We both actually worked at the airport and the day that I met him he was sitting in the car with his kid's mother because they had broken up, but they were arguing about the kids and I was walking across the terminal and the friend that I was with knew him. So she's like oh, this is my friend Juan, and he's flirting with me right in front of his kid's mother and I was just like this guy got some nerve and he was just like flirting with me. And the next day I saw him back at work and he asked me out for lunch and I was just like, whatever, okay, fine.
Cynthia:And you know, I was questioning him about the baby mama and he was just like, no, we're broken up. And of no, we're broken up. Of course I wasn't believing him, but you got sucked in by his machismo. So I knew his sister from high school and I was asking her she's like oh, no, no, they're totally separated. You know this and that, whatever. And all of a sudden, yeah, we just started talking and started dating, like the day after my birthday, but he wouldn't cheat on anybody.
Carmen Lezeth:He's like a big old teddy bear. He's like, yeah, he's a cool guy. He's not there now. He was so bugging earlier today, but he doesn't. He came in and went back out, went back outside. Yeah, he's all up in it. We're in the green room, but the minute we go live.
Carmen Lezeth:He's like out the door. I love him. Um. So, tony and rick, you guys don't think you will look at I, I'll just answer before I ask the question. But like I didn't have a bad divorce and I'm still y'all know, I'm still friends with my ex and his daughter is my godchild, so and you know what I mean, and anyway, her mother is my best friend. It's like it's just a whole different ballgame. I lucked out on that, but I think it's because we didn't have children also, you know what I mean. We didn't have decision to like break up and it was easy, okay. So, with that said, rick and tony, specifically, when do you guys think you will start dating again, or will you?
Alma:or you're just not in that space right now, tony tony already answered that part, so did I he said he'll hang out he'll meet with people, he He'll eat, he'll go have a weekend, but he doesn't make any long-term plans. He's there to have a nice time and show a good time, but beyond that he's not in for a relationship. Wow, I missed all of that, tony.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm so sorry, alma, listen.
Maurio:Did I paraphrase that correctly?
Cynthia:She caught me tonight and you've been trying to figure. I know.
Tony D.:I'm so sorry, I apologize. She heard everything I said verbatim. I like Alma.
Carmen Lezeth:You're welcome. You know what I'm just going to go refill my cup.
Tony D.:I'll be back. I don't understand. I don't know what you said. I almost said he said he said he's been divorced since 2003.
Alma:Rick. I wonder, rick, are you hesitant today because of your situation, your caregiving?
Rick Costa:Well, now that's a whole thing now, but that doesn't mean before I could have, but now I just there's no way. There's no way now, but you know, after I mean it's not impossible.
Alma:It would just take somebody who is understanding of your circumstances.
Rick Costa:And we have to hang out here all the time.
Maurio:Or you might have a cute nurse come in and she's like hey, you want to pay, doctor. It's an excuse. It's definitely an excuse.
Rick Costa:And I haven't been with nobody, so if that don't answer your question, I don't know. Yeah, I got you, you ready, just don't care.
Maurio:See, he just don't care.
Alma:He don't care about that.
Maurio:I'm telling you, liz, I'm a wizard matchmaking. I've been successful, I'm pretty successful yeah well, for my friends it's free 99 free 99 free discount it's free 99, but no, I've been pretty good, yeah, but you know what I have to?
Maurio:I have a. Now I have, I'm gonna tell you I have the gift of discernment when it comes to people in couples. I can tell you if it's gonna work and I can tell you if it's not gonna work. I've seen, uh, young people get together. I've had nieces and nephews bring people to me and I'm like nope, that ain't it, and they'll not listen to me. And then a year later they're split up or they're like Theo, mario, you were so right. I don't know what I was thinking. I should have listened. And if I say this is the person you need to be with, it works out every single time. I just had a gift. I mean, I can tell you yes or no. I can't tell you what works. I I can't tell you what works. I can tell you why it works. But if I know my friend or my family member and I know what works for them, and if that other person's not bringing what I see is needed, I can see right away.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just not interested in anything so permanent.
Maurio:Well, that's why you don't leave when the show is over.
Cynthia:What.
Maurio:The dude behind the door, behind you he's going to leave?
Cynthia:Oh, no it kind of sounds like Carmen's looking for the same thing Tony is.
Maurio:Right.
Cynthia:Yes, I'm not looking for it, I already have it.
Carmen Lezeth:I have friends with benefits.
Rick Costa:Excuse me.
Carmen Lezeth:There you go. I'm just saying, but a lot of people can't do friends with benefits. People people can't do it. There are very few people who can actually handle that. Somebody always falls for somebody.
Alma:That's easy, so so is it? So then, you're dating, but not dating. Are we talking about me? Yes, so friends with benefits. So you're friends with benefits, okay. Okay, I understand the benefits part, but my question is do you have several friends with benefits?
Cynthia:That's too much, can you all have?
Alma:different friends with benefits. Is that permitted? Just you and I are friends with benefits. That's a good point. I just have questions.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to answer them. I have no problem answering them. In the past I've had, I've had a few friends, three people who are male, who don't know each other. Wow, what do you mean?
Alma:Wow, it wasn't that much.
Carmen Lezeth:It's not about just the sex part. I have who are male. I go out and have dinner, we go to the movies, we hang out with each other at the beach, whatever it is, we go hiking right, and then sometimes we may have sex and then the next day they're gone. It's not like it's just, it's just a. It's a bad, it's an easy. It's just a, it's just easy. It's just easy. It's fun and easy, whatever.
Maurio:So at one point, it's like an extracurricular activity.
Carmen Lezeth:It's just like going to dinner, it's not.
Cynthia:I mean, why is it so surprising? Look, wait, there are rules.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll tell you the rules.
Alma:Listen, there's nothing wrong with that You're going to choke your kids.
Carmen Lezeth:Mutual mutual consent to adults yeah, and here, when somebody's dating somebody else, we don't. Don't make me, cynthia, stop it. I think, she knows who two of them are. I don't know. I don't. I think and here's the thing it's just part of our relationship, but there are rules. If somebody's dating somebody, we don't do that. And I lost one really good friend because he got married and then thought we could and I was like absolutely no you know what I mean, like so, and we're not friends anymore, which bums me out, because we were really.
Maurio:But you know what cheers to you if you still calling after you got married.
Carmen Lezeth:Cheers to you, hey, baby, you know what I'm saying but I'm just saying so, um, I don't you have, but I'm just saying so, um, I don't, I'm sorry. Well, yeah, I understand. I mean, I get it. I had one friend who ended up having feelings for me and telling me that he wanted more, which you would think it'd be the girl thing. I don't know the stereotypical story of it and I was like I don't, I don't like you that way. It's just weird to say right, because we have these intimate moments but, we were just having sex.
Carmen Lezeth:It wasn't, it wasn't in love with him. You know what I mean. So that ended too. So it's a hard thing. There are very few people who can handle it. And um, it doesn't mean I don't want to be in a actual committed relationship. I do, but I want a certain specific person.
Alma:I understand, I get it. I just had questions.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't think. Look, a lot of people think they can do it and a lot of my friends have asked me because they know Cynthia, why are you laughing so hard?
Cynthia:I'm sorry, it's Mario, because he's suffering his balls with a pop.
Tony D.:Hey, mario, you ever heard of Conscious Daughters? It's on gamers. I'm not mad at you for listening, I'm not either.
Maurio:I'm not mad at you. You'll be very entertaining the conversation right here.
Carmen Lezeth:Honestly, nicely right. They're just fucking around and hurting people. I have you look at. I think sex is a great thing. I think sex is part of our natural way of being and if I can enjoy that with a friend and not have to worry about the complications because when I Tony, what is wrong? Seriously, are you guys this really?
Alma:weird. He said preach. Oh, he said preach.
Carmen Lezeth:I can't hear you. I can't hear you. I got something in my. I don't know, something is.
Rick Costa:Because that guy in the background is too loud.
Maurio:Tell him to be quiet back there.
Cynthia:Shut up, because that guy in the background is too loud. Tell him to be quiet. Back there, shut up don't get told.
Carmen Lezeth:Don't get told from my side or his side.
Tony D.:I'm just saying trying to make sure he ain't leave out that back door. You're right, I told you.
Maurio:You know how that door move that door, just move you.
Carmen Lezeth:Better be quiet back there don't get knocked in bed be quiet, be here he is absolutely fine there's nothing wrong with him.
Cynthia:You guys are so crazy.
Rick Costa:How did you find a case of the handcuffs? What are you doing?
Maurio:Get back in that room, that movie is almost over for you.
Carmen Lezeth:You're sitting there like this. Anyways, I would love to at some point think that I could be in a committed relationship. That was different, but you know, you got to figure that out with the right person. And it's too hard because as you get older, at least for me I'm not talking for everyone, but for me my standards are so high. Now it's just, and it's like, not negotiable, you know.
Alma:You know what you're not the first person that I've heard say that who are single. But because they like things a certain way, they'd like to know that things in their house are the way they left them, that they don't have to worry about anybody else coming in and messing stuff up, and you know that kind of thing. And then you can go to your space and I have my space and you know all of that, and I can go when I want and come back when I want, and I don't have to be accountable to anyone but myself. So I mean, you know.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, can I just say that it's probably not that stuff. You're right, I have gotten set in my ways we all have after a certain amount of time. But can I just say that it's actually a little bit different. What I'm talking about. It's like I need somebody to to move into his house, or him move into you know, cause then it's like it's not really ours, right? So that changes the dynamics, because that means somebody has to have a certain level of income and I hate that. But I met my ex-husband and he was a tow truck driver and he is now extremely successful. But we fell in love, we, we, we hung out. He's a great guy and it was wonderful, but I was the money maker and that was a problem for us, you know. I mean, it was a huge problem, especially, uh, because of where he comes from and the whole kind of. You know, I'm the man of the house. I'm like, yeah, bitch, no, you're not because he's israeli.
Carmen Lezeth:Israeli, oh so, but it's. But you see what I mean. It became a big problem, and so for me, one of the non-negotiables is that and that takes out a lot of wonderful men but I can't. I, I can. I am taking care of myself. I'm taking care of the people in my life. I can't take care of somebody else.
Alma:I want to take care of other people, so that standard comes from a place of trauma, though that's something that's starting.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't call it yeah. I just want somebody who knows what they're doing, who has ambition and has an income. I'm not saying they have to have the same kind of money I do, although that would be a blessing, or more so why don't you get on Raya, since you know all these people in the business? I'm tired, no-transcript. Anybody else was doing it right way back in the day when they had yahoo personals, and that's when I met robert and I know cynthia's like no, here we go I was so in love with him.
Carmen Lezeth:We're friends now. Well, we're not really friends, but you know I ain't mad at him, she didn't move. She was like, and the whole expression just changed across her face it was like Well, because everybody knows that was my everything, you know what I mean and it didn't work out. He's probably listening to this going like bitch.
Alma:Please shut up, stop talking about me, but I mean I already went down that road, and I'm not against online dating.
Carmen Lezeth:It just takes. It does take a lot of work and I don't want to do that either. I'm tired, but I do like I would love to meet somebody in the industry. That is definitely because I love what.
Rick Costa:No, I said right, tony no what's.
Cynthia:Tony saying he didn't say nothing.
Tony D.:I'll do a little more.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I'm just saying I think the other part of this too is I want somebody who is in the industry, of course, because I love Hollywood, and I don't want somebody bashing Hollywood. You know what I mean. And I'm not saying these are like, if they don't, I won't. If you meet the right person, I think you know I. You said Alma, you know what I mean. I think he could be anybody, but I'm just saying at the moment in my head, if we're just talking about what I want, there are some things I have in my head. But if I were to walk down the street tomorrow and meet somebody and I just know, like you did, oh, I'm in a hundred percent.
Maurio:You should have told me this when I was still working at the bank. I would have been able to vet everybody.
Carmen Lezeth:Sweetie, when you were at the bank.
Maurio:I was married. See, that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I can't bet.
Carmen Lezeth:I can't bet nobody now hey, listen, I do not regret that marriage at all. I got my goddaughter, juliana, and I got who's one of my best friends. That is not anything. That's why I said it's a different situation. Our divorce was not complicated, hard or painful, you know what I mean. And I helped him after and now he's extremely successful, which is like like the blessing. That, I think, is amazing. You know he does motocross and he, you know, has a whole industry and a business around motocross and the CHP and it's just amazing. So he's mad at me right now. So if he, if his daughter or him, are listening, it'll be funny, but he's really hating me right now, but that's okay.
Rick Costa:I was going to say earlier that I know and I know you do, probably too, everybody here, but I know a lot of people that when they got married the second time, that was it Because they were like the first time I was young, I was dumb, I don't know what I was doing, I didn't know who I was yet. But now the second time they're more mature, they know what they like, what they don't like, what they will tolerate, what they won't tolerate, and they're for years and years and years. Yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Can I say this part too? I don't think I have to get married to find that either. No offense about the marriage thing, but I do.
Alma:You can have a great partner.
Carmen Lezeth:We're having a real deep, cool relationship where we're committed to adjust to each other, whatever. But I don't have to have I'm not going to have a big wedding or whatever.
Maurio:I don't want all that you need to tell me you're not going to have the big coming to America wedding. You know what?
Carmen Lezeth:Now that you just said that, if it happens, that's what we're going to do, it's going to be so exactly ghetto like that.
Cynthia:I'll stand up there and say she's your queen, I'm going to hold you to that that's going to be funny.
Carmen Lezeth:I want to know why. Oh my God, it's two and a half hours. Hour and a half ago. Yep, but we're having so much fun.
Rick Costa:I know it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday.
Carmen Lezeth:This is. I mean, you know what I just I didn't know it was. Oh my God, I didn't even see it. I thought it was maybe like an hour 40 minutes. Tony, I don't listen to you. So why? I know, I know clear to me that I do not listen to you. It is so crystal clear Crystal clear that my ears do not listen to you at all.
Rick Costa:Tony's like no, I'm not crazy. Thank you, You're welcome.
Tony D.:What were?
Rick Costa:you going to say to Cynthia Me? I thought you were going to say something to Cynthia, yeah.
Maurio:I was going to ask Cynthia something.
Carmen Lezeth:What's up, Cynthia? Who do you see me with? You know me pretty well.
Cynthia:I don't think, chris, this sounds worse.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what's so funny. I kid around about that, but I would never date that man. He could be my son. I would never date him. But let me just say he is as beautiful as they come.
Alma:She wouldn't, but yeah, she would.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what I want? A man in his 50s. I do. I don't want someone in their 40s or younger. I know I could, but yeah, I could enjoy the experience of it, but I don't think I could ever. I think age for me does matter. I want somebody who knows more than I do.
Alma:All I can think of is dress, socks and temperaments.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, there's an inside joke happening and we don't know what it is.
Rick Costa:Michael stop.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait, what are you guys laughing about?
Maurio:There's a joke If there's a man of a particular age, when he has sex he's wearing dress socks. There's a lot of slipping and sliding, but if there's a young man, he's going to wear a Timberland.
Alma:Okay yes, he's going to hit the target. When you said 50s, I was like oh Lord.
Carmen Lezeth:You don't want to be somebody that old.
Maurio:She said she wants you to have somebody with Timberlands, timberlands, timberlands.
Carmen Lezeth:Michael, as long as you like, marvel.
Maurio:But she didn't say that the person behind the door didn't have Timberlands. She didn't say that or dress-ups the person behind the door or dress-ups door didn't have Timberland she didn't say that, or dress socks I don't know, do I?
Carmen Lezeth:look like a Birkenstock type of person.
Maurio:No, no, you might have some jades on.
Carmen Lezeth:I am a clean cut kind of person, though Carmen likes the athletic body.
Cynthia:Yeah Right, I'm just saying, carmen likes the athletic body.
Maurio:Yeah, yeah Right, I'm just saying though.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just saying, like Carmen likes the athletic. I'm just saying, do we not all appreciate a beautiful body? I'm just saying True, oh, I'm kicking the thing, sorry. Okay, so are you guys going to try to hook me up with something? Is that?
Maurio:what's happening. Because I'm working on it, I might have some light for you, okay.
Carmen Lezeth:But we'll talk because I need to know.
Maurio:Okay, but race don't matter to me, I'm really, but I need to know the salary requirements. What's the salary minimum? $150,000.
Carmen Lezeth:$250,000.
Tony D.:She said it, I was upset $250,000.
Carmen Lezeth:But that's not really a requirement. I'm just saying If I'm ticking, I'm not stupid. Like I said, what Alma just said was so inspiring and it's just what you dream about. Somebody walks in the room and you're like I'm going to marry him, like for real, and you know it. Like I love that.
Tony D.:I do too. Yeah, isn't that beautiful, I would take that I don't care how much you make the brand.
Carmen Lezeth:If I know it, that's solid it.
Rick Costa:It's like a Hallmark movie. No, it doesn't need that. Well, the black version.
Cynthia:They do have a black.
Carmen Lezeth:Hallmark version. It's a little bit better, but it's a little bit bland. We all be E2+. But yeah, I mean, I have those ideals, but I'm not stupid. I know, when you meet the right person, you just know, you just know. And again, I'm not upset. I do not regret that at all. It was the right. It happened the way it happened. But I understand why it happened now, because I was supposed to have.
Maurio:But the thing is, I don't think, but if you, if you found the right person, and if he's not right at the target number, but if he's within that range, that realm, would you be okay?
Alma:No, I just said. So what I heard her say was here we go, here we go. If they tick all the other boxes they have ambition, they have their own, they're established, not necessarily have that salary, but all of those other requirements are met, then she's open.
Rick Costa:Yeah, I'm open if I ever need a mediator, I'm calling out right.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, alma is the queen on this she hears everything no, no, I mean mario. I'm saying like if you sat with me right now and said, carmen, what are your requirements? Like if you could have the perfect guy in your life, whatever, I would give you the list, okay, okay, at the end of the day, if I was at a grocery store and I saw a man walk in front of me, or whatever what's chestnut okay you could do that. That works for me. Why is that a problem that works?
Maurio:no, she said more stuff than for her.
Cynthia:Oh, we on the same page sister.
Carmen Lezeth:Is that your past? Who's your past? No?
Maurio:he is not her past. No, he is not her past. No, no, he's not. No, no worries, he is not her past.
Cynthia:Carmen, if you started saying it, everyone would be like Carmen, I'm coming over.
Maurio:He came into the office and I called her after he left.
Alma:Oh really, no, no, no, no called her after he left, I don't know. He called me when he was about to walk out and had him say hello to me on the phone and I was like wait right there, Bye. And he called me back and was like he's gone already, Bye.
Carmen Lezeth:Mario, so cute to see you so jealous and afraid. He's adorable Morris Chestnut. That's the perfect guy. That's the kind of guy I want that Chestnut. That's the perfect guy. That's the kind of guy I want. That's good, that's good, that's a good name, Thank you. Who's your past? I want to know, Cynthia, who's your past? Everyone has a Hollywood past. You haven't talked to one about it. No, not really. Okay. Who would you sleep with regardless If you could?
Cynthia:in Hollywood or anywhere, regardless if you could.
Carmen Lezeth:In hollywood, um or anywhere I forgot his name um that's not good and to me it's like the next day okay we're gonna let you think about it a little bit. Okay, rick, we know yours, I know yours, but go ahead, share it with everyone I'm a holy man. You are not a holy man, right now, right now, it's Friday night and you are sharing.
Rick Costa:I'm pretending not to be a holy man.
Carmen Lezeth:Who would be your past?
Rick Costa:So this is like a celebrity crush that I would want.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, we already know who it is. It bores me to death. Go ahead. Who did I say Mira? Whatever, deanna Troy on Star Trek.
Rick Costa:That's not even the first Shakira's cute.
Cynthia:Shakira yeah.
Alma:Rick you also like what's her name from?
Carmen Lezeth:What's her name?
Maurio:Wonder Woman, oh she's beautiful Back in the day.
Tony D.:No, we're talking about the original.
Maurio:Oh.
Cynthia:Linda.
Maurio:Linda Carter. I was about to say Linda Lavin, but that's Alice. Oh my God.
Carmen Lezeth:Not Alice. Okay, tony, you're up. Let me crush your past. When you were married, who was your?
Tony D.:When I was married or before I was married.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, let's do both Whenever.
Tony D.:Vanessa Williams, kim Fields, christina Applegate Shardé.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you say Shardé?
Tony D.:No, I said. Vanessa Williams, janet Jackson, kim Fields, shanice Wilson, christina Applegate.
Alma:Oh, Shanice Okay.
Tony D.:I like your smile. Oh, she had me off of that one.
Rick Costa:Christina Applegate.
Carmen Lezeth:I was crying about Christina Applegate because I didn't know that she had multiple sclerosis or whatever. She did the transition she. I was crying about Christina Applegate because I didn't know that she had is it multiple sclerosis or whatever? She's got multiple sclerosis.
Tony D.:Yeah, she did the transition she made from Kelly Bundy to the actor she was in. Don't Tell Mom the Biggest of the Day. Yeah, it was something about that. For me that was a transition. She showed a lot, but she's on.
Alma:She seems to be a beautiful person.
Carmen Lezeth:She's a beautiful person.
Maurio:Michael said as long as you don't say RuPaul, I wasn't going to, I wasn't.
Carmen Lezeth:Tony has some homophobic issues and transgender issues right, I don't know, do you?
Alma:I spoke on it, you're doing better on it.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I spoke on it when.
Tony D.:When we talked about it about a month or two ago.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't listen clearly, so we'll have to have Alma in every one of our conversations so she can clear my mind.
Tony D.:I was okay with her before the recent issues over the past five, ten years.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait what.
Tony D.:I don't know. I'm reading the comments. Oh, you're talking about Gabrielle Union.
Alma:Oh, gabrielle Union, what's wrong with Gabrielle Union, that's who he likes.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, but her and her husband love their children who are transitioning or whatever right.
Alma:One of them, yeah.
Cynthia:She, husband, love their children who are transitioning or whatever right isn't one of them, yeah yeah, she's a pretty woman, but I got you, okay I want to hear mario and alma separately, with kindness and calm. Well, we already know chest.
Alma:Who is it? Janet Jackson.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I totally get that.
Maurio:No, but who it really used to be growing up.
Alma:Oh, vanity. What's her name? Vanity, yeah, vanity.
Maurio:Okay, I was a young boy, I was like yes, God hello, you took Vanity over Apollonia.
Tony D.:That's a tough choice. I took them both Exactly.
Maurio:Side by side. It was Vanity. Apollonia and Sheila E were all on my wall. Oh, sheila E, don't get me started.
Tony D.:They ain't going to believe us. We ain't going to get more.
Maurio:I love Sheila E Sheila E 1988, my God, the Glamorous Life Glamorous.
Carmen Lezeth:Life.
Maurio:No, I'm talking about Glamorous Life. Yes, but it was after she went into working with Prince during that whole Love Sexy Tour.
Alma:Yes, yes, god.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, and Michael just said Nasty Girl, which is Janet Jackson, for her first song no, that's Vanity Six.
Tony D.:No, that's Vanity Six.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I'm thinking of Janet Jackson's song.
Maurio:Remember when she talked about being nasty? She didn't have nasty, but Vanity Six is nasty girl.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, ooh, that's a very sexy song, yeah.
Maurio:Yes, it is. Yeah, Prince was nasty because he wrote that too.
Carmen Lezeth:Prince was beautiful. You know what I guess for me? I Okay, here's my problem, and this is going to be. You guys are going to be like shocked for me to say this. So when I went to Prince's house right after he died Paisley Park I went to go visit whatever. I did not realize how short he was. I mean he's a powerhouse. He's shorter than me. I'm only five foot four. He was five foot and they him.
Maurio:But they have his clothes on man yeah, he was very, very small.
Carmen Lezeth:He was so tiny yeah, it made me sad because that would have been one of my. Oh hey, it's so sexy that man which is weird, right, because he wore heels and he was, so he had that so like a feminine. Is that what you say? Feminine kind of?
Maurio:oh my god, that man was androgynous. It was more androgyny because he could go either way.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what I was just going to say? That, michael, yes, I used to be.
Rick Costa:Okay, I'll tell you all the people People used to say that I look like Sheila E no, no, no, it's okay.
Carmen Lezeth:And people used to say I look like Jennifer Beals. Jennifer Beals is from Flashdance. And I used to get pissed about that, because if I had had the ability I would have auditioned for Flashdance the movie, because I can actually dance. I hated that she got. I mean, I never had the ability, I was younger than she was, but it always hurts me to see that movie because I'm like I would have actually danced the motherfucking parts because she didn't. Another dancer did. But yeah, those are the two people that always.
Tony D.:But thank you, I think that is such. That's a compliment, absolutely. He nailed it.
Carmen Lezeth:Sheila E is incredible. Cynthia, do you know who? Sheila E is Drummer, amazing drummer.
Cynthia:Wait what. Percussionist.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, as we say in the ghetto drummer, but yeah, that's kind of fun, yeah thank you, michael, but you never did.
Maurio:You never did say who your all-pass was. Is it one?
Cynthia:oh, um, so it used to be antonio sabato jr oh, you know, I went to high school with him right and also he's a republican now, like I know.
Maurio:Yeah I went to school with him. I went to school with jason alice let me tell you antonio sabato juni.
Carmen Lezeth:The only reason why I remember him is because he was in janet jackson's video, um, and it was. And also, what's his name? Oh, he's so. Oh, that man is so beautiful. He did amistad. What is his name?
Maurio:he's oh yes, demon hanju, oh you, okay, okay.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, demon Hanzo. Okay, that's my man too. You hear me?
Alma:But Cynthia Say who it was.
Cynthia:Orlando Bloom Okay.
Alma:That's.
Maurio:Katy Perry's baby daddy.
Carmen Lezeth:Orlando. I would have never guessed that in a million years that's okay, he's starting to yeah, he's.
Maurio:No, he's not that short, he's like 10, he's not that short.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, mario, did you say who yours was?
Maurio:I forgot I had a whole list two I'm done.
Carmen Lezeth:One would have been like okay, but two done.
Maurio:Tony, I feel seen, I see you, I see you, tony are we calling it a night?
Carmen Lezeth:oh my god, 2.30. I gotta go. I mean, that's 2 hours and 40 minutes. He's probably asleep. If this is Friday night, I don't have to do anything no, he's probably asleep.
Alma:He's asleep. She said, he ain't asleep she said he's asleep.
Maurio:She said he ain't asleep.
Carmen Lezeth:She said he ain't asleep no, no, he's asleep, he's tired, tired. He worked all last night on the film, so he's on a weird schedule.
Rick Costa:He worked all night and Rick reminds me of Vin.
Carmen Lezeth:Diesel when he's not in movie shape.
Rick Costa:Oh, that's rude Think about that. Like a compliment but, not
Maurio:That was a backhanded compliment that's like ah.
Cynthia:That was a weird compliment.
Maurio:That was kind of like.
Cynthia:Michael, Come on Michael.
Carmen Lezeth:Come on, michael, you could have just said it reminds me of Vin Diesel. That would have been nice.
Maurio:You didn't need to say the not in movie shape part that's why I put smiley face right after there, or somebody said something disrespectful, but they'll say respectfully he's the Fast and Furious one.
Rick Costa:Right, it's all about family are you guys getting?
Carmen Lezeth:naked for the weekend.
Maurio:What did you say about getting naked? No? What'd you say, no, I know it's getting late. What'd you say Naked, I know it's getting late now.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll be right back. I'm going to go check on someone.
Cynthia:I'm going to walk out.
Rick Costa:You said this was going to be an hour. It's two hours, you ain't got all that much time.
Cynthia:I got time.
Maurio:She's like what Right? Run it in and in, let's look. Come on now. You playing too much girl. Come on, Stop playing.
Carmen Lezeth:We stop playing. We're going to a concert tomorrow night.
Rick Costa:You guys are crazy, oh my god, you're going to a concert, you said yeah we're going to go see the.
Maurio:It's the Ruth picnic here in LA with Queen Latifah. Common digital no diggable planet it's a whole bunch of people.
Cynthia:I like he hooked me up with him. Yeah, but he went through.
Maurio:No, um, it's a whole bunch of people I like, I like him, yeah, but he, he, he went through now he went through.
Carmen Lezeth:You don't want that Okay, you can be another friend with benefits.
Maurio:Right.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't need another one, I'm good.
Maurio:Ask Tiffany, ask Jennifer, ask who else? It's a whole bunch of Serena, erykah Badu, serena Williams. Oh, erykah Badu, serena.
Carmen Lezeth:Williams. Erykah Badu's going to be on too, oh wow.
Maurio:No, we're talking about all the people that commentated oh oh, I thought she was going to be there. No, not tomorrow. It's sold out, but it's sold out real fast.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah.
Maurio:Because they never did it, I go to a lot of concerts.
Carmen Lezeth:like Andrea, she goes to every concert also.
Maurio:Yeah, mario, I don't remember.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, we've been on the show a couple of times. She's in Germany right now.
Maurio:She'll be back next week. Nice Well, we went to the Newport Jazz Festival in the end of May for the three-day weekend. That was an amazing weekend. Babyface, avery Sunshine is amazing. Yes, dw3, norman B. Yes, um pw3 norman brown jared lawson.
Carmen Lezeth:He was really good. Um peter white, so it was. It was like I love your commitment to music. I do. I love it because when you guys post on whatever I'm always like oh, they went to another fucking place it's so good, I love it I honestly, I can't deal with crowds, neither do I.
Alma:We do a lot of the stuff that we try and find the outdoor concerts. So that's why I like the Hollywood Bowl. We love doing that, we love doing the jazz festivals and stuff, because it's outdoor. I don't like indoor concerts you can be a little, you know it's not enclosed.
Maurio:I've not been to an indoor concert since COVID, little you know it's not included. I've not been to an indoor concert since since covid, I've not. We haven't gone to anyone inside. I have you, I have not. Yeah, he hasn't, I have and you got coded I did.
Alma:Oh no, I didn't.
Maurio:Yeah, yeah, I didn't believe it's back again.
Carmen Lezeth:You guys saw that right. There's another strain in los angeles, yeah but yeah, I don't.
Maurio:I don't do the indoor stuff. Everything you know is everywhere I go, I'm outside. I don't. I don't do a indoor stuff. Everything you know everywhere I go, I'm outside. I don't do a lot of indoor stuff and if it requires me being even at Disneyland, I don't stay up under people too much, like if it's getting too crowded I'm in the corner somewhere, like out of the way.
Carmen Lezeth:Got you. I cannot believe we're up to almost three hours. You got a lot of editing to do.
Tony D.:Jack, you got a lot of editing to do?
Carmen Lezeth:Jack, I'm not going to edit nothing, what?
Tony D.:Tony. You're going to be fussing all weekend. Oh my God, it's going to take me forever to do this. Who's that?
Rick Costa:That's my brother's girlfriend. That's Carmen Sofani.
Maurio:Oh hey, hey brother's girlfriend. My name's Lila. Nice to see you.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm so glad you're going to jump off. I mean, can I just say this was a new kind of Friday night kind of fun thing. So there's, you know. I'm not going to edit this, I'm not going to put this on the podcast.
Tony D.:This is going to be live where it is right now. What, what Tony Put it on the podcast, maybe some clips. Maybe some clips.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll do some clips, okay. I'll do some clips, but I'm just saying like this is just kind of fun to just hang out and chill and not worry about. This would take me wait. This would take me like three days to edit. I couldn't edit all this. It's too much. Yeah, I'm not a professional editor, but I really want it to sound professional. So everyone says it does. I mean, I don't know if you guys ever listen to it again on the podcast, but it does sound pretty professional. But this is night thing.
Maurio:You know what I mean. There is no theme of the show. There's no theme tonight. It's friday, it's just hanging out. It's friday night live, that's what we lose it when we start talking.
Tony D.:The theme goes out the window once we start talking.
Carmen Lezeth:That's the truth it does right yeah sometimes start with it like I have questions, but it takes.
Cynthia:It's all about the joy it's always all about it is always.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, I think it's just a place to hang out. It's a neighborhood hangout where we can come together and laugh and ask questions and just have some joy. You know what I mean. So, sadie, I'm so glad you're here. I appreciate it so much. I'd love for you to come on, but yeah, happy Friday.
Maurio:Is it Layla? Is that?
Carmen Lezeth:right Layla.
Maurio:Layla.
Tony D.:Layla Layla, thank you so much, it would probably be good for your private lounge, Carmen, if she would ever come up.
Carmen Lezeth:I would love for her to come up for the private lounge, but I'm going to let her decide that. Sadie, if you want to come up to a private lounge, it would just be me and you not live. It's kind of like Joy's show. I just did.
Maurio:Or my show. Oh yeah, come on now, come on now.
Carmen Lezeth:What are you? We're trying to raise some money with her show.
Maurio:I appreciate that, but it's your brother-in-law, you know it's the movie.
Carmen Lezeth:Mario's show is the highest rated on my podcast and on YouTube, but anyway, it's a private show. It would just be me and you having a conversation, getting to know you. Whatever you want to talk about you could bring to the show. You know what, I'll let Tony let you know and if you want to do it, we can do Melanie at Friday night hangout, just chilling. You know what I mean just talking about whatever Melanie is also invited.
Cynthia:Melanie is our MVP man because she is here every week on time and has hung out with us from beginning to end.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to give Rick credit. Melanie is one of Rick's people who follows her show and stuff, follows his show and stuff, and I've always been grateful to Melanie because, yes, she's the reason why I make sure we are on time, no matter what, because she's always the person and the one time when Tony was like it's no big deal, just wait for Rick. She was like where is everybody? I'm going to be on point for Miss Melanie.
Carmen Lezeth:I'd also invite her to come on the show if she ever wants to, but she tends not to want to.
Rick Costa:She's the definition of ride or die for real. It's amazing, always there.
Carmen Lezeth:Sadie, great, I would love to have you come on. It would just be me and you, not no, tony, not no, nobody else, just me and you having a conversation. Unless you want Tony there and it's not live either.
Tony D.:She might not want me here, she might not want me here.
Carmen Lezeth:I got a question. Go ahead, tony. I do want to go, because you can go at any time, bitch. No one's keeping you here, bitch, you can get off.
Tony D.:I was just about to ask you is it time? For me to say for a year, but I don't know if it started or not.
Cynthia:I can't hear you what it wasn't up. It's time to celebrate for a year.
Carmen Lezeth:Celebrate what for a year.
Maurio:Them being he wants enough of his time to celebrate for a year.
Carmen Lezeth:Celebrate what for a year Him being on the show. She don't care. No, no, no, I don't give a fuck. Our show's been on for a year, as of March, right?
Tony D.:But me I'm on here. I think I've been on for a year. I was just thinking about that.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, so you want us to have a big motherfucking celebration?
Tony D.:Don't worry about it Y I told you.
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't know you were on for a year. Didn't I celebrate earlier today? Didn't I celebrate earlier today with you? Didn't we have that secret exchange today? I?
Tony D.:celebrated a little bit Jesus Christ. I don't want everybody to know my business, okay.
Maurio:See, see, see. That's what we were talking about earlier. Mm, mm, yeah.
Alma:We need to know you got the game.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll be honest with you. I did not know that you were on for a year. I apologize, but I am so grateful that you do come on you don't sound like it. I am grateful for you to be on the show. I told you that remember the crocodile tears. I'm not even trying.
Tony D.:She made a clip of it. It was hilarious and I looked at it and I'm like cry. It was hilarious and I looked at her like girl please.
Alma:You had that Beyonce song to it, the alligator tears.
Maurio:She tried to give you that one glory tear, like Denzel she did, she tried to do it.
Rick Costa:Oh, Melanie said she would join if you do it on a Saturday.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, Melanie. Well, I think we're going to have to do a Saturday show very soon.
Maurio:Don't do it, that's going to get done.
Carmen Lezeth:You tell me what time we're going to do a show on a Saturday.
Rick Costa:Leave us a 21st flowers for his anniversary.
Maurio:Oh, the kicker is if you ever watch the video you're in virtual flowers.
Tony D.:Me and Tommy were beefing so damn bad. And the time was I was watching the show and I was always dropping the little emoji on different platforms. And then one time she did it. I said, let me find out, I'm an influence to you. I said, as a matter of fact, I formally request to be a guest on your show. And she was like of course you can come on my show. And I came on like I never thought this was going to the past. Woman is something else, but I had no problem coming on the stream with her having fun, and that's what I've been trying to do since I got here. So I just want to celebrate it. Anytime I'm a guest on any show. I think it's an honor when you're in due at a time that you're up there. So I am grateful. I do want to say thank you. I've always thought it me so crazy. Of course I would love to have you.
Carmen Lezeth:The only thing I didn't like about having you on the show. Let's just be honest. I was always worried about the people that follow you, not Stacey, not the good people, but you know we had some issues with some. So, just so, mario and Alma and Cynthia know, we met on apps. We different app that kind of had this live streaming kind of thing happening. It was kind of like a twitch thing, right, yeah, so it was encompassed, you know, and it was during covid. It was very toxic. It was very toxic and so. But tony brings a lot of people to whatever platform he's on um, and so I'm grateful. But I also didn't want to impose on you because you're wanted on so many places, you're always what's on a lot of shows and so it was great to be like I live always on a lot of shows, and so it was great to be like I do.
Carmen Lezeth:I live stream with a lot of people.
Maurio:Mario, I do. Yeah, I'm reading the comments. If you read the comments, you go what?
Carmen Lezeth:Mario, you make me think of. Chuck Berry singing my ding-a-ling, Anthony. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I think, Anthony's trying to give you a compliment.
Rick Costa:Tony, that's for you, that's your flower.
Cynthia:Right.
Carmen Lezeth:Do your flower. Hope you're dead with us. Okay, melanie wants to do a Saturday show in the afternoon. I like to sleep in in the morning. Girl, we're going to hook that shit up for you.
Carmen Lezeth:We're going to do it at some point in July. I'm so in this. I love it. Okay, we'll do it in july, if not the beginning of august, but I think july. We have some shows set up for july, but not on a saturday, so we can do that. Okay, we're at three hours. I gotta go. Babies, I'm crying. Here's the thing too. I do have the huge ultimate plan, but I don't think I can go over a certain amount for next week. I'm gonna have to purchase more time shit. But this has been so much fun. Yeah, it was a really nice hangout, right it was a little I had fun.
Carmen Lezeth:Thank you so much. I appreciate you all a lot. I do. I know y'all make fun of me and whatever, but I love it.
Rick Costa:I don't give a fuck and now I'm, as an official uh guest, forever the regular look at.
Carmen Lezeth:Here's the thing about. I love her. I met her when she was pregnant with her baby girl and she was just so cool and just okay. Here's what I'm going to say. Most women, when they meet me, get very jealous, you know. They just do. They get nasty. I don't know what it is, I don't know if it's my aura, my presence or whatever, but most women, especially when I'm friends with their husband or whatever, get real and you were like, hey, girl, you give me a hug and I will always remember that I will, and it was like we became instantaneously like friends. It was no problem at all. Do you know what I'm saying? Like it matters to me.
Maurio:Yes.
Carmen Lezeth:I just always love that about you. Yeah, thank you.
Maurio:Yeah, for whatever reason, our daughter is texting us incessantly as we're on here. I guess she was trying to make comments in the in the chat and it's not working. Are you on youtube, marissa? Yeah, she's on youtube, are you? We have other people on youtube making he says she's logged in, but for whatever reason she needs to subscribe, I guess.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh well, tell her. I'm so sorry, I have no idea, but I will put in a claim to the people at restream. I don't know they can's not Restream it's YouTube.
Maurio:How many comments have you made, marissa? She said 45. 45 comments.
Tony D.:I've read 45 comments, 45 comments, because sometimes YouTube comments don't come through. That's what I was trying to say.
Carmen Lezeth:No, but I have YouTube people on here right now.
Tony D.:Melanie's on here. Anthony has had an issue like that um she's also on other platforms she's got her on twitch or facebook or whatever she can comment on those, yeah, but I feel bad.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, marissa, I wish, I want to, I want to meet her, I want to see.
Maurio:I have not met marissa she's not properly dressed to be on camera.
Carmen Lezeth:It would have been nice to see her comment, because I met her when she was in her mama's belly and I've never yeah, and I'm gonna say this comment I don't think that I've ever been, I'm not um.
Alma:If mario calls you friend, then I know that in his heart that's what it is. You're his friend, so I've never been um. I've always been very secure in his love for me, so it's never a you know, a jealousy thing or anything like that. So if you're his friend, you're my friend, but that's just how I feel. It means the world to me.
Carmen Lezeth:It means the world to me because I it's something I've always had a problem with. You know, having friends who are men, who are married or have girlfriends, and then I end up having to walk away because I would never overstep, I would never do that to another woman.
Maurio:It's not about no but I've never given her reason to feel any anything other than you know. Because I've never given her reason to feel anything other than you know. Because I've never been that dude. I've always. It didn't matter. Even before I met Emma, I was always that steady, ready, friendly type of dude. If I'm with you, then I'm with you, but when I'm out, I'm out.
Carmen Lezeth:Let me just say something, and I say this respectfully, because you know I love you, Mario, with all my heart. It's not about you? This is a woman thing.
Maurio:It is absolutely about me. It's your whole life. It's always about me.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, but you know what I'm saying, right, like it, really there's a woman thing and for me I respect married women, like and I'm going to say this straight up and this might sound conceited, I don't mean married men tend to come up to me more so than single men. I don't know what that? Because I respect women, because I would never turn around and do that to a woman, because I would hope another woman would not do that ever to me. So it don't matter what you do. I'm saying respectfully it's about Alma. Yeah, okay, mario and I are no longer friends, but Alma and I are best friends forever.
Alma:You've been disowned.
Carmen Lezeth:I've been disowned many a time um, tell marissa, I'm sorry, I don't know what happened, but I would have loved to have her uh comment or whatever, so I can't believe you I can't believe you would do this to me?
Maurio:yes she said the amount of betrayal that I feel oh, she is so your daughter mario oh yeah yeah, that's how everyone.
Alma:She looks like me. She acts exactly like her dad. You won't see me, but you will hear me.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, my god, I love this girl. You know I have the thing you sent us. It's on my refrigerator.
Maurio:Oh my god she's so beautiful.
Carmen Lezeth:I have to see her. I have to come visit you guys. We have to talk about that later. I'm going to end the show because we're at 2.59.
Maurio:Everyone thank you so much for visiting.
Carmen Lezeth:All about the Joy Friday Night Edition. We've had so much fun. This was totally cool. Thank you everyone for showing up. It was so much fun and we've had a lot of viewers, so that's really cool.
Maurio:Friday Night Live is kind of working for you.
Alma:Like and subscribe. Like and subscribe.
Carmen Lezeth:We're going to get a lot of hate today for all the Tony's yeah.
Maurio:Bye Peace out.
Carmen Lezeth:Thanks for stopping by. All About the Joy Be better and stay beautiful. Folks, have a sweet day.