Prove You're Gen X: Memories and Digital Age Funny-isms

Remember the distinct sound of a dial-up modem connecting to the internet? That nostalgic memory sparked a wide-ranging conversation about what truly defines the Gen X experience in our latest episode. Our hosts and guests shared personal touchstones—from using physical phone books and Thomas Guides to the satisfaction of slamming down a corded phone during arguments—creating an authentic time capsule of growing up between analog and digital worlds.

The musical memories proved especially powerful as everyone recalled their first CDs (Whitney Houston featured prominently), and the patient art of recording songs from the radio onto cassette tapes to create mixtapes. This primitive playlist creation represents a level of dedication to music that today's streaming generation might find hard to comprehend, yet captures the essence of what made this transitional period so special.

When our conversation shifted to modern digital challenges, particularly around content creation and social media algorithms, the generational perspective became even more valuable. The group tackled TikTok strategies, debating hashtag relevance and promotion tactics while reflecting on advice that cuts through algorithmic excuses: "The reason why you're not getting views isn't because of the algorithm—it's because your content sucks." This brutal honesty sparked discussions about consistency, quality, and adaptation.

What makes Gen X unique is precisely this bridge position—having grown up analog but adapted to digital life. We've witnessed the complete transformation from physical mixtapes to streaming services, from encyclopedia sets to Google searches, from Thomas Guides to GPS navigation. Subscribe now to join our weekly conversations that blend nostalgic reflections with practical insights about navigating today's ever-changing digital landscape.

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Host, Carmen Lezeth


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Episode Transcript

Maurio Dawson (00:00):
Where do you go?
Where do you go to?
I wanna know how do you do thatthing you do?
Follow you blindly.
I'll be your fool.
Where do you go to?
Where do you?

Rick Costa (00:14):
go.
Where do you go to?
I wanna know how do you we lostour host.
Hi everybody, welcome to ourlive hi everybody I was looking
for my paper.

Carmen Lezeth (00:34):
I printed that was hilarious I was doing a
little jamming over there.
That was wrong.
Oh shoot hi everybody.
Welcome to the show, justhanging out winging it how you
doing, rick, what's up?

Rick Costa (00:50):
what's up doing good so what's the update?

Carmen Lezeth (00:52):
how did today go for you?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (00:54):
because today was okay.
Um, you know, I spoke to thehead of security today, so they
are gonna keep looking at thecameras and stuff.
He'll be the the one to do itand I have a meeting with the
big boss on Monday to kind ofsee how to go about you know
from here on and what they'regoing to do and stuff like that.

Carmen Lezeth (01:13):
But you felt better today.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (01:16):
I was still a little off because I was by
myself in there for like almosttwo hours but like some of the
other girls kept coming in tocheck on me and stuff like that.

Alma Dawson (01:26):
so to make sure I was okay.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (01:28):
Um, even the the chairman um even said you
know if you need to lock thedoor if you don't feel safe and
stuff.
So you know, at least they'relooking out rick, how was your
friday and your week?

Rick Costa (01:43):
not too bad.
It wasn't too bad this week,work-wise, thankfully, yeah, so
it was pretty good.
It was pretty good, Not toocrazy, except for Monday.
Monday was like literallynonstop.
I'm like I can't even breathe.
It's like one thing afteranother, after another, from
beginning to close.
It was like wow.
But then the rest of the weekwas pretty chill.

Carmen Lezeth (02:00):
I'm just, I'm ready to not be working anymore,
Like you know, like I'm okaydoing this work, but I'm, I'm
done.
I don't know.
I don't know why the universeisn't aware of my thought
process and what I want.
I'm confused by that.
I I got up early this morningand I went and had the girls
looked at and I'm fine, wetalked about that on air in the

(02:23):
green room, anyways.
I think we talked about that onair or in the green room,
anyways, I think we talked aboutit on air.
We did right.
I don't know, I haven't had aminute to do everything from
yesterday, so I haven't listenedto it.
But yeah, so that was a weirdway to start my morning Because
usually I go right to work atlike 7 am on Friday morning.
So that was weird.

(02:44):
But yeah, it's all good,everything's fine, nothing too
big or whatever.
I did touch base with ted hicks,um, so he says, hi, he's doing
really well.
Um, I don't don't know exactlywhat's going on.
I mean, I do, but I don't wantto.
I don't know what he hasdecided to share or not share,

(03:05):
but it was just really nice totouch base with him.
He's doing really well and he'sreally happy and he's going to
come on the show sooner ratherthan later.
This is a text message.
Let me see who it is.
Oh, it's Mario, my good lord.
My good lord, they're lookingfor the link.

(03:26):
They're looking for the link.

Rick Costa (03:29):
Where's my link?

Carmen Lezeth (03:30):
Can I just say how much I love hanging out with
you guys.
I don't want to come on here,but then I laugh so hard.
You guys are funny.
How was your week?
Or how was your day?

Alma Dawson (03:45):
It's rough right now.

Maurio Dawson (03:46):
It's hot out here for a camp.

Alma Dawson (03:48):
Spring is springing.
Spring is springing.

Carmen Lezeth (03:51):
Wait, did you guys?
Are you guys okay from therainstorm today here in Los
Angeles?

Maurio Dawson (03:58):
Oh my God, we survived the tornado from
yesterday because you know itwas a tornado.

Carmen Lezeth (04:04):
Well, I'm laughing because two people
Canceled appointments today withus and our team Because it was
literally Misting out you knowsome people melt.

Maurio Dawson (04:17):
You know, it's California.

Carmen Lezeth (04:21):
What did Elma just say?
Whatever, I decided not todrive because our because my
clients places in thepalestinians, I don't have to
drive there.
We rented some space so I canliterally just walk.
You know what I mean?
It's probably like a mile and ahalf, but it was raining, you
know.
So I was like okay, cool, I'mjust gonna walk down.
I figured, by the time I driveand try to find parking.

(04:44):
Do you know what I mean?
I could.
So I was like you know, I'mjust going to walk down.
I figured, by the time I driveand try to find parking.
Do?

Maurio Dawson (04:46):
you know what I mean so.

Carmen Lezeth (04:47):
I was like you know, I'm just going to walk
down, and when I was leaving, myneighbor was like you're going
to walk in this rain.

Alma Dawson (04:56):
I'm like what rain .

Maurio Dawson (04:59):
What rain?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (04:59):
You're like bitch, I'm from Boston.
We walked through the snow.

Carmen Lezeth (05:05):
I'm still from Boston, that's what I realized,
but it was just too funny.
But two people canceled on us.
They were like could we do iton Zoom?
And I'm like really.

Joy Gouge (05:15):
We kind of all wanted to be together.

Carmen Lezeth (05:17):
That was the point and we were like it's OK,
we understand, the snow is aproblem.
The snow, the rain, the aproblem the snow, the rain I
mean yeah, if you've never livedlike like.

Alma Dawson (05:30):
I think the heaviest rain I've ever
experienced was florida, butI've been in el salvador during
their monsoon season and butflorida was absolutely bonkers
and we were there during springbreak and I mean you literally
could not.
We literally got to the car.
Okay, so I'll say it like thishe said we need to go, we need

(05:51):
to go.

Joy Gouge (05:51):
It's going to start raining.
We need to go.

Alma Dawson (05:53):
We need to go.
It's going to start raining.
We need to go.
We need to go.
It's going to start raining.

Maurio Dawson (05:58):
They're like no, it's fine we need to go.

Alma Dawson (06:00):
It's not raining.
He's like it's about to startraining, literally we're in
Charleston.
So we're walking towards theexit of Walt Disney World, we're
at Magic Kingdom, we're walkingtowards the exit and all of a
sudden the skies just open up.
And when I mean peoplescattered, they scattered, they
found any awning, any buildingto just go into, and he was like

(06:24):
I told you, I told you just gointo.
That's funny.
And he was like I told you, Itold you that's rain.

Maurio Dawson (06:30):
No, but it had already rained earlier that day,
so I already knew, I had anindication.
I'm like, okay, this is goingto happen again because we were.
Okay, cynthia, you've been toDisney World, so you know, so we
go to.
We were right by the castle andall of a sudden it rained so
hard the waters literallyflooded up past the sidewalk in

(06:52):
a minute.
I was like what is going on?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (06:56):
That is Florida weather.

Maurio Dawson (06:58):
From that right.

Alma Dawson (07:00):
But see, when that happened, I was inside on a
ride, so I didn't see that.

Maurio Dawson (07:05):
Nope.
So I'm like we got to haul theiceberg.
We got to go now.

Carmen Lezeth (07:10):
You know what I feel so out of place because
I've not been to Disney World.

Maurio Dawson (07:15):
That's not the point.
We're talking about the rain.
It ain't the point.
Well, I'm in.

Carmen Lezeth (07:18):
Florida.
I'm in Florida.

Maurio Dawson (07:20):
I think, Florida sucks, I'm just

Alma Dawson (07:22):
going to say that I think Florida sucks.

Carmen Lezeth (07:23):
Even their sunny weather sucks.

Alma Dawson (07:25):
Sorry, you miss the best part of Florida.

Maurio Dawson (07:27):
Yeah.

Alma Dawson (07:28):
You miss the best part of Florida.

Carmen Lezeth (07:31):
What's the best part of Florida Disney?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (07:34):
World.

Carmen Lezeth (07:34):
I only go there to see my brother from another
mother.
I have no interest and I'venever been to a Disney.
I've been to Disney here,whatever this Disney is, and I
drop people off and I was at theD23 thing inside, but we just
had dinner and then I left asall the stars were coming.
I was like, all right, Billie,I'll talk to you later.

(07:56):
Have a great time.

Alma Dawson (07:58):
I don't know if she's really from LA, I just
don't know.
I'm not from LA.
She's from.
Boston.

Maurio Dawson (08:04):
Cynthia is not from LA, but she's Disney all
day, that's right.

Carmen Lezeth (08:09):
Disney all day.
The next time I'm in?
No, I'm not going to say that,I was going to say the next time
I'm in Florida, but I don'twant to go.
I don't want to go.
I've been to Universal.
Does that count?
No, wow.

Rick Costa (08:23):
Totally different.
I no, no, wow, totallydifferent.
Florida I've been there.
Once my boss flew me down therefor training and I never got
any training until the very lastday.

Alma Dawson (08:31):
It's called teamwork and all of that and so
I didn't know that.

Rick Costa (08:36):
You know it'll down listen little bitch, it'll down
for it, but.
But it's really brief, itdoesn't last long.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (08:46):
No, it doesn't.

Rick Costa (08:48):
That's what it does.

Alma Dawson (08:51):
It will downpour.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (08:52):
It will flood in like five, ten minutes.
Then the sun comes out.
It's all dried within 20minutes.
Then, like a half hour later,it does it all over again.
It just becomes very muggy.

Alma Dawson (09:04):
Literally it's not raining.
He's like hurry up, hurry up,hurry up.
So we're like dashing to get tothe monorail, to get to the no,
we're walking, I'm hauling ass,I'm like I'm not.
But then, literally, we'regetting our stuff in the car and
as soon as I close the door,the skies open up.

(09:24):
I can't see.

Carmen Lezeth (09:25):
You seem like being a bug on the wall of their
relationship.
You can totally see what'shappening.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (09:34):
It's so cute and you can't when it rains
like that when it rains likethat, you can't see anything in
front of you.
You just have to sit in the carand wait it out and that's it.

Carmen Lezeth (09:48):
Okay, guys, we have 14 minutes talking about
the damn motherfucking weatherin Florida.
I'm done, okay.

Alma Dawson (09:55):
Disney weather Florida all of a sudden, you
started it.

Maurio Dawson (09:59):
You started with the storm.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (10:03):
I'm going to let you guys.

Alma Dawson (10:04):
listen to it again , you guys know I'm talking
about it.

Carmen Lezeth (10:09):
Okay, we're going to listen to a little music.
We're going to listen to alittle music.
Hold up, hold up.
Let's see if any of you arereally Gen Xers.
Okay, let me just throw thisout there Enjoy.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (10:40):
Here's the story.

Carmen Lezeth (10:42):
I don't know this song.
I did the same thing, Ma yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (10:48):
Hey, uh-oh.

Joy Gouge (11:00):
I don't know.

Alma Dawson (11:03):
Another one.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (11:16):
Oh, that noise.
The most annoying noise in theworld is that one you have to
take my AOL count.

Maurio Dawson (11:22):
I still have my AOL count.
Sorry, you're not going tobelieve this.

Rick Costa (11:27):
When it got to 1980 at the refrigerator it froze for
me.
I can see you guys reacting toit.
I don't know what to tell you Iwas on, I didn't freeze he
updated his internet.

Carmen Lezeth (11:40):
He can't load pages.

Rick Costa (11:41):
I was hearing the music from off of one of you
guys.
I could barely hear it.
I heard he can't load pages.
I was hearing the music fromoff of one of you guys.
I could barely hear it.
I heard carry on my wayward son.

Carmen Lezeth (11:51):
He used to be me with all the issues.

Maurio Dawson (11:53):
I don't know that song either.

Carmen Lezeth (11:55):
That was for white folk, because we didn't
know that song.

Alma Dawson (11:57):
I was like I don't know that song.

Rick Costa (12:00):
I was from a show called Supernatural.
Supernatural was a.
I'll be up Cynthia's alley.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (12:06):
I haven't heard that song before.

Carmen Lezeth (12:07):
Yeah, but you can tell that really because she's
saying it very nicely Joy, youcan come up if you want.
We miss you, Joy.
She usually comes up all thetime.
But, Joy, the link is in the.
Oh, I have to send it to herphone.
I'm going to send it to you onyour phone.
No pressure, but if you want tocome you can come up.

Maurio Dawson (12:25):
Speak amongst yourselves.

Carmen Lezeth (12:26):
I have not gotten it yet.
I know she didn't get itbecause she would have told me,
and I'm trying not to put nopressure on her.

Alma Dawson (12:38):
That money coming back to my account.

Carmen Lezeth (12:40):
That money coming back to my account, if you
ain't getting it, I amdefinitely getting it you got.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (12:44):
Oh, trust me , I am definitely getting it.
I know I'm definitely gettingit.

Carmen Lezeth (12:47):
I mean, it was kind of the day before you went
on vacation.
I wasn't expecting yeah, um,okay, speak amongst yourselves.
I gotta send this to joy.
Let me tell you how cool.

Rick Costa (12:57):
Let me tell you how cool joy is okay.
So a couple saturdays ago so we, with the thing I do, we do
like a monthly broadcast withthe team If they're available.
Nobody was available, so it wasjust me.
I said you know what I'm gonnado, I'm gonna vent, I'm gonna
let y'all know what it's reallylike living with a dementia
person.
And I maybe said too much, Idon't know.
Right after the broadcast wasover, joy called me right away

(13:24):
and was like I want to help you,Are you okay?
I was like, wow see, that's areal one, right there.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (13:29):
Yeah, joy is I can't do it.

Carmen Lezeth (13:34):
Joy man, Wait a minute.

Maurio Dawson (13:37):
No, that's that Gen X for you yeah, does it work
?

Carmen Lezeth (13:43):
I'm trying to do my yes On Max.
Does it work?

Alma Dawson (13:45):
I'm trying to do.
My now is the pit.

Maurio Dawson (13:46):
Yes.

Alma Dawson (13:47):
On Max.
What is it the pit?

Maurio Dawson (13:52):
Yeah, the pit P-I-T.

Alma Dawson (13:55):
Yeah, and basically it's like one day in
the ER and it's Noah Wiley whowas in the ER.
Remember the original?
I heard about it.
Yes.

Maurio Dawson (14:05):
It's really good.

Alma Dawson (14:06):
Yes, yes, so they start like hour one right when
the shift starts and they seteverything up and then the next
episode is hour two.
So it like goes.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (14:16):
Oh, I love that.

Maurio Dawson (14:18):
Yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (14:18):
I heard that they actually had a team of
doctors and nurses come on setto actually show them exactly
what they do, and everythingthat they do on the show is real
, like exactly how it's all theprotocols and everything.

Maurio Dawson (14:34):
Yeah, it's accurate and I mean just just
being in.
Anybody who's ever been to aner and you've seen some of the
woohoo that the ER waiting room,you see all of that.

Alma Dawson (14:49):
Oh yeah, it's so good.

Maurio Dawson (14:50):
They deal with a lot of different issues.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (14:52):
Oh yeah, I hear about it all the time.
My sister works in the ER.

Maurio Dawson (14:57):
She is a saint in my head, in my heart.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (15:00):
She has seen it all and heard it all.

Maurio Dawson (15:05):
Yeah, that takes a special kind of love Okay.

Alma Dawson (15:10):
And all the you know just all the, everything,
because if you're in theemergency room.
It's an emergency or a tragedy,or you know all of that.

Maurio Dawson (15:19):
There's never good news in the ER.
Exactly.

Alma Dawson (15:22):
What are we?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (15:22):
talking about.
We're talking about the showthe Pit, but then now we're
talking about being in the ER.
We're talking about the showthe Pit, but then now we're
talking about being in the ER,you're supposed to be a
multitasker.

Alma Dawson (15:29):
Come on now.
Remember that time last year.

Carmen Lezeth (15:33):
Carmen, when I was in the ER.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (15:35):
What Uh-oh.

Rick Costa (15:39):
Carmen said she's not a multitasker.
She says that all the time.

Carmen Lezeth (15:42):
I say it all the time I'm not a multitasker at
all.

Maurio Dawson (15:46):
Come on, gen X, pull it together, let's go.

Carmen Lezeth (15:50):
Do a little raw tonight.

Maurio Dawson (15:52):
Yeah, I'm a little spicy, a little saucy.

Alma Dawson (15:57):
What's going on?

Maurio Dawson (15:58):
Well, thank you for joining all of us.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (16:02):
I guess today's my turn.

Carmen Lezeth (16:06):
I'm waiting for Joy to come up.
She just told me she's comingup, so we'll see.

Alma Dawson (16:09):
We were talking about the show we're watching on
Max.

Carmen Lezeth (16:14):
I'm not watching that.
I don't know what it is.
It's about the ER.
I don't want to watch a showabout ER anyways.

Alma Dawson (16:22):
It's still good.
It's good drama, it's gooddrama.

Maurio Dawson (16:24):
It's good drama.
I got to tell you this one.
They even had a board, abetting board on an accident, on
what was going to happen.

Carmen Lezeth (16:38):
Okay, that's probably true, what happens in
real life?

Rick Costa (16:40):
But I don't want to know that.

Carmen Lezeth (16:42):
I don't want to know that.

Rick Costa (16:44):
Who had a betting board.

Maurio Dawson (16:46):
Nurses and doctors in real life, but I
don't want to know that.
I don't want to know that whohad a bedding book.

Rick Costa (16:50):
The nurses and doctors.

Alma Dawson (16:51):
The nurses, the doctors and the social worker In
the show.

Rick Costa (16:53):
What are?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (16:54):
you talking about in real life?
No, in the show, but I'm sureit happens in real life.

Maurio Dawson (16:57):
They had an actual board saying, okay, this
is going to happen at this timeon this corner.
Who's got 20 on it?
They're like I got 20 onhitting that pedestrian.

Carmen Lezeth (17:08):
You know they probably do that to just have
fun.

Maurio Dawson (17:11):
Just to have fun on Like.
Are they betting people?

Carmen Lezeth (17:15):
are going to die and stuff.

Maurio Dawson (17:17):
No, they didn't bet on people dying, no, no,
they just bet on the accident.
Yeah, who's going to do what?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (17:26):
Yeah, no, they don't bet on the accident.
Yeah, who's going?

Maurio Dawson (17:27):
to do what?
Yeah?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (17:28):
no, they don't bet on death.
Ed is not fun.

Carmen Lezeth (17:31):
Yeah, I've been to the emergency room in my life
probably five, six times.

Maurio Dawson (17:37):
Yeah Well.

Carmen Lezeth (17:39):
Twice, for well, I know you win, but twice
because I had an allergicreaction to something and I
couldn't breathe.
It's like if you don't get toan, I didn't have an EpiPen one
of the times.

Maurio Dawson (17:52):
Oh, wow.

Carmen Lezeth (17:55):
I carry it with me all the time, but yeah, the
ER.
Are we going to talk about thisReally?

Maurio Dawson (18:01):
No no.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (18:02):
I'm like what are we talking about you
were busy you said talk amongstyourselves absolutely right.

Carmen Lezeth (18:10):
All right, prove that you are truly a gen x
person.
Give me something that wouldabsolutely make us understand
that you are gen x.
You cannot say you drank waterout of a hose.

Maurio Dawson (18:21):
It's been done I said that yesterday I know I.

Carmen Lezeth (18:25):
That's why I said you can't say it.

Maurio Dawson (18:27):
I used a phone book.
I had to turn the TV with myhand, I used the Thomas Guide.

Carmen Lezeth (18:38):
A what the Thomas Guide.
That's really for only peoplein Los Angeles.

Maurio Dawson (18:42):
Right.

Carmen Lezeth (18:45):
You don't know what a Thomas Guide is either.
It's a manual GPS, it's a map,oh, an atlas.

Alma Dawson (18:52):
No no.

Maurio Dawson (18:55):
It's a thick book .
It's a mini-sized phone book.
It was really flat and wide.
You have to go to the addresson that page and you have to go
from page.

Alma Dawson (19:05):
You have to go to the address on that page and you
have to trace your way back toyour address and follow the map
to that address flipping throughthe book and it was like the
whole all of Southern Californiain grids.
Basically each section was likea different grid.

Carmen Lezeth (19:22):
If you went up north, you would get one from up
there, like you'd get them fromfrom all different parts, but
it's like before we had gp.
Oh god, hold on a second.

Alma Dawson (19:30):
Oh, that's definitely a california thing,
and then also, what was it?
Uhf and vhf?
Remember you had to switch it.
Oh yes, hi joy okay, yeah, okay, yeah um.

Carmen Lezeth (19:41):
How are you doing ?

Joy Gouge (19:44):
doing okay.
I'm doing okay.
I'm finally got my voice back.
So I've been.
I got sick on the cruise, theend of the cruise and um, but
I'm doing much better now.

Carmen Lezeth (19:58):
The cruise where you were in aruba texting me to
ask where we're not to stay.
Joy, before we go any further,I don't think I've introduced
you to Alma.
Alma, this is Joy.

(20:18):
Alma is Mario's better half, soI'm introducing the two of you.

Alma Dawson (20:20):
Hi, it's good to meet you.
Good to meet you too.

Carmen Lezeth (20:24):
Okay, so I'm sorry, go ahead.
Alma, it's good to meet you.
It's good to meet you too.

Alma Dawson (20:27):
Okay, so you went on your trip.
I'm feeling.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Go ahead, alma.
What'd you say?
Better is true, I am the betterhalf, yeah.

Carmen Lezeth (20:39):
So you went on your trip.
You weren't feeling well, butnow you're feeling better.
But I have another questionHow's your mom doing?

Joy Gouge (20:47):
Cause I see if you weren't feeling well, but now
you're feeling better.

Carmen Lezeth (20:50):
But I have another question how is your mom
doing, because I see the postson facebook.
How is she doing?
Yeah, she's doing a littlebetter, so okay, so, yeah, yeah,
all right.
Well, we're keeping her inprayer, of course.
Um, so what else is going?

Joy Gouge (20:56):
on, oh my gosh, bracing for the storms what
storms?

Carmen Lezeth (21:02):
oh my god, we're back to weather.
What are we?

Joy Gouge (21:04):
talking about, and that's what was wrong.
I heard a noise and it was likeoh god, my storm doors open, so
it was like flapping back andforth in the wind.

Carmen Lezeth (21:14):
Okay but where are you again, because I don't
think all of our audience knowswhere you are.
We're in memphis, in memphis,and you guys have what storm
coming through.

Joy Gouge (21:23):
And we've got like that whole storm that's moving
from well, I think it came fromCalifornia and then moving
across the country and we are ata moderate to high risk of
tornadoes tonight.

Carmen Lezeth (21:40):
Oh, wow, yeah, no , yeah, that scares me.
So you guys, you guys got awarning or whatever.
Is that?
What's happened?

Joy Gouge (21:50):
And so, and we're under a tornado watch right now
yeah, oh my god, that justscares me that scares me here
with earthquakes.

Carmen Lezeth (21:59):
It just happens like we don't have any warning
or whatever, and I kind ofprefer that, in a way, because
especially when I watch peopleon the east coast with the whole
hurricane, like the, they'reboarding up everything and
they're, you know, everyone'sgoing to the grocery store I'm
like, oh, my god, my anxiety,yeah, so, um.
So how long is the bracing forthe tornado thing?
Um, it's.

Joy Gouge (22:19):
I just got another alert and it's till 3 am.

Maurio Dawson (22:23):
Oh, okay all right so I have family in Little
Rock, so I understand Yep.
So yeah, they've already calledto let us know that they're on
watch too, so it's coming rightthrough there.

Joy Gouge (22:35):
It is, and actually I think they are supposed to get
it a little worse than we are.

Maurio Dawson (22:39):
They are.
Yeah, my dad lives in Dumas,arkansas, and he got hit by a
really bad tornado years ago.
Luckily it touched down.
It took the roof off the highschool, but it didn't touch his
house and he's literally rightnext door to the high school.
Wow, yeah, so you knowtornadoes.

(23:00):
I understand what you're saying, carmen.
Tornadoes are scary becausethey're they are.
You don't know.

Carmen Lezeth (23:06):
Yeah, rick is going to jump off for a second
because he's going to try toreboot, because, joy Rick, can't
see you For some reason.

Alma Dawson (23:18):
You can log off, so joy.
Quick question the cruise thatyou went on, was this the one
where you were going to haveyour dog with you?

Joy Gouge (23:28):
No, that was the cruise in may last night okay,
okay.

Alma Dawson (23:33):
Well, how was that cruise without, without the,
the accommodations?
Was it a good experience?

Joy Gouge (23:38):
it was actually fantastic.
I could not have asked foranything any better.
It was amazing okay, awesome,awesome.

Alma Dawson (23:50):
I was wondering if it was all it was, you know,
because you were like, we'll seehow it goes, so I'm glad that
it was good yeah, it really was.

Joy Gouge (23:59):
There was what ended up being is about.
All in total was like 60 someblind people and 40 dogs wow a
lot of dogs that is, it isamazing.
Yeah, but it was they.
Carnival and I had to give.
I mean, carnival was amazingabout training their staff on

(24:25):
how to deal with blind peopleAbsolutely fantastic.

Alma Dawson (24:30):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Glad to hear that.
I'm glad to hear that.
But see, I would have been oneof those people.
I see the dogs and I want topet and I have to stop myself.
I have to stop, I know I'm like, oh so cute, I'm the same way I
know Well, they did have amission three to stop.
I know I'm like I'm so cute, I'mthe same way I know.

(24:50):
Well, they didn't have I nevertouched.
Oh, they did a meet and greetthey did awesome.
Yeah, I would have been firstin line, oh yeah oh yeah, no, no
, I like even dogs.

Carmen Lezeth (25:01):
I don't touch anybody's dogs.
I don't.
I love dogs, but I don't touchthem at all, ever.
I respect the respect, thespace.
They're like children.
Would you ever go up and touchsomebody's child?
That's how.
I look at it.
I actually ask for permission.
That's what I mean?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (25:16):
Can I say?

Alma Dawson (25:16):
hello.
I always say can I say hello toyour dog?
And then most people say yes,but there are a few that say no,
my dog's not really friendlyand it's like no problem you
know well the big, the big clueis when they have the thing on
their, on their nose across thestreet.

Carmen Lezeth (25:38):
It's all good, yeah, um, yeah people here are
very weird about their dogs too.
Like, especially if the dogcomes up to you you know you
want to say hi, but I still.
I've learned my lesson.
I just I just walk away andmove over.
People get really weird hereabout their dogs.
I don't know, so joy, how canyou prove that you are gen x?
If you are gen x, are you gen x?

Joy Gouge (26:02):
I think so.
Um, I don't even remember nowhow the ages are I just keep up
with it.

Carmen Lezeth (26:11):
No, no, gen X is.
You have to be born between theages of 1965 and 1980.
Oh yeah, I was there, yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (26:22):
She said yeah, I was there, that was me.

Carmen Lezeth (26:26):
Yeah.
So, Mario, what did you say wasyour proof that you were Gen X?
I forgot.

Maurio Dawson (26:32):
Oh, having to turn the television without a
remote, that's true.
And, like I almost said, vhfand UHF television, yep.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (26:40):
And what?

Carmen Lezeth (26:40):
was yours.
Mine was using a phone book.
Oh, that's right, and we talked.
Oh, we were talking about theThomas guide, that's right.
That's right.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (26:47):
Oh, we were talking about the Thomas Guide.

Carmen Lezeth (26:48):
That's right.
That's all he was talking about.
Yeah, and mine is.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (26:54):
I just remember exactly where I was
during the Challenger.
Oh yeah, I remember that too.

Carmen Lezeth (26:58):
Yeah that was fierce.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (27:02):
Yeah, we were living on Forbes Street.

Maurio Dawson (27:04):
Sad fact, but a fact indeed is.
Ron McNair was one of my churchmembers, really.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (27:11):
Yeah.

Maurio Dawson (27:12):
That affected us very deeply because we had to go
back to church right after andhe had just been there just a
few weeks before, so it was yeah.
I remember that very vividly.

Carmen Lezeth (27:27):
Oh man, I'm so sorry.
Yeah, so I remember that veryvividly.

Maurio Dawson (27:29):
Oh man, I I'm so sorry yeah, so I remember that,
yeah, that's, that's it it'skind of like when people yeah,
anyways, I don't want to getdark, but no, no, no no, no, I
was gonna talk about 9-11.

Carmen Lezeth (27:40):
It's the same thing like, oh, this is yeah,
yeah, hold on a second this isto be less anxiety-driven for me
today.
Okay, rick, that was a mistake.
Now I can't get back on.
We'll keep trying.

Rick Costa (27:54):
Oh no.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (27:58):
How about MTV, ooh MTV, when they used to
play music.

Maurio Dawson (28:03):
Yeah, we had to all run to our televisions and
wait for Michael Jackson'sThriller to come out Before DVR.
You had to run in front of theTV and wait for the music video
or for the song to come out.

Alma Dawson (28:20):
Using a dial telephone and the Apollo Moon
landing, that's what Lenny saidoh wow, the Apollo Moon landing.

Maurio Dawson (28:27):
Wait, the Apollo Moon landing.
That's what Lenny said.
Oh wow, the Apollo moon landing.

Carmen Lezeth (28:29):
Wait the Apollo moon landing.

Maurio Dawson (28:31):
I wasn't around.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (28:33):
Wasn't that 69?

Joy Gouge (28:35):
Yeah that's boomer land.
That's what I'm thinking was 69, I think.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (28:40):
I thought that was 69, so that would be
Gen X wouldn't it?

Carmen Lezeth (28:42):
Oh, let me see.
Maybe she's right, maybe I'm indenial, okay, when was the.

Alma Dawson (28:47):
I wasn't there yet using that, but the rotary
phone remember I remember rotaryphone.

Maurio Dawson (28:54):
Yeah, I do, oh, yeah it was 1969 oh, that's, but
you, I mean we were like well Iwasn't born yet I wasn't here,
sorry.

Joy Gouge (29:06):
Neither was.

Carmen Lezeth (29:06):
I I can't Okay so yes, the Apollo moon landing
was during the Gen X period.
But if you were born in 1965,you were like two, two, you were
like four, four.

Alma Dawson (29:22):
Yeah, yeah, hey.

Carmen Lezeth (29:27):
I only do accounting for a living.
All right, stop it.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (29:30):
I'm just kidding it's okay, I love how we
all just got quiet too likewait a minute.

Alma Dawson (29:38):
That's not right oh my god, I'm so tired when she
said the telephone, yeah, thepleasure of actually hanging up.

Maurio Dawson (29:51):
On someone, yep.

Alma Dawson (29:52):
Kiss.

Maurio Dawson (29:53):
Oh, it hurt Slamming the phone or just
taking the phone off the hook.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (29:58):
Yep, that's how you block them, oh that was
a block back then.

Carmen Lezeth (30:04):
True, but how about when you called somebody
and you heard the beep and theywere busy?
Oh, I hated that, especiallywhen it was a busy signal.

Maurio Dawson (30:13):
Oh, the call waiting.
But didn't you love when Star69 came into play.

Alma Dawson (30:19):
Oh, Star 69.
Yeah.

Carmen Lezeth (30:23):
So weird.
Wow, okay, we're Gen X.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (30:25):
We're.

Carmen Lezeth (30:25):
Gen X.
Yeah, and that cord was so longRemember.

Joy Gouge (30:32):
It would get all twisted.

Maurio Dawson (30:34):
Yes.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (30:34):
Yeah, oh, my God, melanie, yes.

Carmen Lezeth (30:38):
That's right.
Waiting by the radio for yourfavorite song to record it with
your cassette.

Maurio Dawson (30:43):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I was creating a playlist before
there was creating a playlistbefore there was creating a
playlist, having your boomboxwith you, carrying it around.
If you liked a girl, you sit upthere all night long recording
songs on the radio and then yougo to school and say I made this
for you.

Carmen Lezeth (31:04):
And there was like songs by Journey would be
on there too.

Joy Gouge (31:07):
Oh, I still love Journey for you and there was
like songs by Journey would beon there too.
I still love.

Carmen Lezeth (31:11):
Journey, I still love Journey.
He's one of the best singers onthe planet.
He really is.

Alma Dawson (31:16):
Oh, Steve Perry is awesome, yeah.
And my first CD was WhitneyHouston.

Carmen Lezeth (31:21):
Yes, rick is missing it because you know he
loved him some Whitney.
Oh, I know He'll preface itfirst by saying but I really
only listen to religious music.

Maurio Dawson (31:31):
And then, he'll say If I'm going to listen to
secular, it's got to be.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (31:36):
Whitney.

Carmen Lezeth (31:38):
Whitney.
Oh, I want to dance withsomebody.
Remember when that video cameout?

Maurio Dawson (31:43):
Her first video.
I remember standing on the lovevideo.

Carmen Lezeth (31:47):
Oh, I can't sing that, but I can sing it, but
it'd be bad.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (31:56):
You sing it very well in your car huh.

Joy Gouge (32:00):
What.

Maurio Dawson (32:00):
Would it be bad or would it be bad adjacent?

Carmen Lezeth (32:04):
No, it'd be bad.
Adjacent I can sing, but myvoice does not sound good.
That's how I say it.
I'm not off key, I just don'thave a beautiful voice.
You know what I mean.
I hear a key very well, okay.
Okay, I just did it.

(32:24):
It was bad.

Maurio Dawson (32:28):
We just moved on through.
We need to go karaoke and get aprivate room so you can just
sing your heart out, I dokaraoke.

Carmen Lezeth (32:34):
That's the whole point of karaoke.
The one thing I can't standwhen you do go do karaoke is
when there's a professionalsinger in the room.

Alma Dawson (32:42):
Oh my gosh.

Carmen Lezeth (32:44):
The whole point is to sound horrible.

Alma Dawson (32:47):
That is the whole point.
And to have fun.

Carmen Lezeth (32:51):
Why do I think Alma sounds good when she's
singing?

Maurio Dawson (32:53):
She's embracing.

Carmen Lezeth (32:55):
I can see it, we said Whitney Houston, and you
came back.
How you doing.
Did you miss us?

Rick Costa (33:04):
I did.

Alma Dawson (33:06):
You missed my whole.
My first CD was Whitney Houston.
That's why you came back out.

Rick Costa (33:13):
That's the one that had oh, I want to dance with
somebody.

Carmen Lezeth (33:20):
No, it's not no, here we go.

Maurio Dawson (33:22):
No, it's not, it's marriage.

Alma Dawson (33:26):
My first Whitney CD.

Maurio Dawson (33:27):
I didn't say her my first Whitney scene.

Alma Dawson (33:28):
No, I didn't say her.
He said my first he said herma'am.

Carmen Lezeth (33:34):
I said mine I don't know what he said.
This is love.
This is a real relationship.

Alma Dawson (33:39):
He asked me that has that song.
Yes, that was behind the scenes.
Behind the scenes.

Carmen Lezeth (33:49):
Joy.
You can't see, but Mario isjumping all up in front of Alma,
making it like she ain't evenaround on the show.

Joy Gouge (33:55):
Okay.

Maurio Dawson (33:58):
Not at all.

Carmen Lezeth (33:58):
It's him and the camera, because if we had to
choose, Choose your words wise,choose your words.

Rick Costa (34:11):
I believe I said, was that the one with?

Carmen Lezeth (34:15):
and then I said the song yeah, why are you even
getting into?

Alma Dawson (34:24):
it Are you crazy?
You stink too.

Joy Gouge (34:27):
Rick just chose sides .

Carmen Lezeth (34:29):
Rick chose violence.

Maurio Dawson (34:31):
Rick chose violence Anyway we all look good
on TikTok, so there, how about?

Carmen Lezeth (34:38):
that.
Oh, that's cool.
Oh, we're on TikTok, did I put?

Maurio Dawson (34:41):
us on TikTok.

Carmen Lezeth (34:43):
Whose is it though?
Is that yours or my TikTok?

Maurio Dawson (34:45):
That's mine.
No, it's yours.
I'm on your page.

Carmen Lezeth (34:48):
I try not to put it on TikTok, because we're
never there and nobody looks atit.
Anyways, I'm looking at it.
So there you know what I haveto do.
Some native lives on there.
So I'm going to do them withBruno, and then Bruno might come
on the show.
Oh, you guys don't know whoBruno is.

Maurio Dawson (35:10):
Bruno's the gentleman we don't talk about
Bruno.
I'm sure he's never heard that,ever, but he's the gentleman.
He's the gentleman from, uh,bruno, from Abbott Elementary,
right?
That's right, yeah, yeah how doyou know?

Carmen Lezeth (35:17):
oh, you know, bruno Amato hey Bruno hey, bruno
, so he's um, he just joined uhTikTok the other day and we
found each other.
But I've known him for a longtime and the thing that's really
cool about Bruno's story isthat he, you know, recently

(35:38):
started acting, and I don't meanrecently, it's been I think
like 20 years or something, buthe was an iron worker.

Alma Dawson (35:43):
Nice, and he just made and he's in.

Carmen Lezeth (35:46):
he was in the military and stuff and then he
was an iron worker.
Joy, you getting a cold godbless you.

Joy Gouge (35:52):
Oh, I've got.
I've got like some drainingstuff going right now, so it's
all a desk, it's like flyingaround and okay just making sure
.

Carmen Lezeth (36:02):
Um, okay, I want to hear what they talking about.
What's going on?

Maurio Dawson (36:06):
I was telling I was trying to give her character
reference on abbott elementarybecause that's our favorite show
, and so I was telling her whobruno was.

Alma Dawson (36:12):
Oh, okay, great yeah, elementary is like they
have a camera at my school rightI'm like oh, oh, that's so cool
.

Carmen Lezeth (36:21):
He's been on a lot of shows and stuff and he's
a character actor and he's agood guy and um.
So I asked him if he'd be onthe show and he said he would,
maybe like in April or something.
So, um, but yeah, but we'regoing to do a live on Tik TOK so
that we can both figure it out.
But I made a post today.
I was laughing because Ilistened to Gary V.
Do you guys know who Gary V is?
Yeah, he's a motivationalanyway, he's a cool guy, but

(36:45):
anyways, but he said somethingthat was so true.
He goes.
The reason why you're notgetting a lot of views or a lot
of followers isn't because ofthe algorithm, it's because your
content sucks.
He goes.
And you can keep blaming thealgorithm all you want, but all
the algorithm is is customerslike they don't want to watch

(37:07):
your stuff, so they pass, theymove on.
He's like so, fix your content.
So I did a tiktok.
I'm like I totally agree, and Irealize now my content sucks,
so I'm gonna do better.
You know, bruno chimed in aboutthat, but it was just, it's
just so funny and um, but he'sright, you got to change it up,
you got to fix it and just I'mnot consistent, so I don't do

(37:28):
stuff consistent.
I'll do it for like three weeks.
I'll post like two, three timesa day and then I'll be tired
and exhausted and not do it, andI know that's part of it.
You have to do it consistently.

Maurio Dawson (37:39):
It's a job.

Carmen Lezeth (37:40):
It's a job.
It's a job yeah.

Joy Gouge (37:52):
Now with TikTok, because I've not been on there a
long time, because it was alittle less accessible.
So do you use like?

Carmen Lezeth (37:57):
hashtags and stuff too.
There's a big debate right nowabout whether or not hashtags
matter anymore.
I think hashtags still matterbecause it helps people find
content.
So if I go into the searchengine and I say you know
carnival or whatever, let's sayI'm looking.
I mean than anybody whoactually put that as a hashtag.

(38:19):
But what they're also saying isthat, especially because AI has
been introduced in every level,especially also on TikTok, is
they know what you're talkingabout.
You know what I mean.
Like they know they're grabbingthe words as well too.
So I don't think it hurts, butI don't think it's the answer to
why you know people are or arenot using or watching your

(38:41):
content.
Now, I did a test last week andI or or two weeks ago test last
week and I, or or two weeks ago, whenever we had Nilou on, I
did a test before she came on, Idid an ad for her um show and
then I did like two other postsand I paid for it.
So I paid like I think it waslike $12 for all three of them
just to go to see how many viewsthat we get, and I did get over

(39:04):
a thousand views on each videoand it was only $12.
Yeah, but I don't want to haveto pay for that every time.
You know what I mean.
Like you want to.
I mean, if I'm making moneyfrom there, then I'll invest
money in there, you know so.

Maurio Dawson (39:18):
But do you?
But do you think that by youpaying for that, except for the
accessibility, it put more eyeson you, which in turn can create
more eyes on you later on?

Carmen Lezeth (39:35):
There is no doubt that that is absolutely true.
That's on any platform.
I did the same thing onLinkedIn.
I did the same thing.
Well, I've never put money onFacebook and Instagram, but
there was a third one I did, Iforget.
But yeah, there's no doubtadvertising in anything works
right.
The problem is is for me, Idon't have that kind of money to
do that for every post, eventhough it's only like, even if I

(39:56):
spend $12 a day.
That's a lot of money, you knowwhat I mean yeah it is, it adds
up, yeah.
So it's kind of a catch 22.
I think if I go live and I dosome native content and this is
for everyone, by the way, I'mnot just saying you know me or
whatever, but go live on TikTokyou'll get more eyes.
I mean, in the beginning youwon't, you'll get like two or
three people or something orwhatever.
But then you know, eventually,if you keep doing your content,

(40:19):
you'll get more and more viewsand I think it gets you, if
you're a business account, muchmore.
So I was a business account fora while and I went back to
individual.
I tested it.
I got many more views if I didbusiness and you also get all of
the stats.
You get so much more stuff.
If you're a business account,what you don't get is the

(40:41):
possibility to be in the creatorfund, which is what everybody
wants right.
So if you have a businessaccount, it really is all about
ads and you know what I mean andlike you're selling something
or whatever and you can do that.
You can do affiliate, affiliatemarketing.
How do you say it?
Affiliate, yeah, thank you.
Whatever marketing and I don't,I don't want to sell stuffage,

(41:03):
you know I'm not opposed to it,but like that's not my jam
either you know, so I've beentesting it out, but I think the
most important thing is nativecontent, not using third-party
platforms, making your contenton there and also being
consistent on a regular basis.
That's what I've seen.
That's how I've gotten all myfollowers, you know, and I don't

(41:25):
have that many followers I havelike 7 462 but I love them all.

Rick Costa (41:31):
That's a lot that's a lot I think I have two, but
it's actually.

Carmen Lezeth (41:38):
I mean, I mean I didn't mean to say it that way.
I mean not in comparison toeveryone else on that platform
that has hundreds of thousandsof yeah or millions, yeah, yeah
well.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (41:47):
Millions, yeah, yeah Well millions, please
.

Carmen Lezeth (41:50):
And Bruno's been on there for a minute and
already has.
You know, he's been on there, Ithink, two weeks and he's
almost at like I don't know,3000, 4,000 followers.
But he also comes to the tablebecause he's on a TV show.
You know what I mean, and soyou know people who know Abbott,
Elementary or whatever are.
You know what I mean.
And plus, anyway, you bringwhat you bring to the table,

(42:11):
also with your celebrity orwhatever, if you have that, you
know so.
But yeah, it'd be cool too whenwe go live, If you guys want to
come live with us, that'd befun, you know.
But we're not going to do ithere, we're going to do it on
TikTok.
So, native, you know, does thatmake sense?
Yeah, We'll let you know whenyou come, you know.

Maurio Dawson (42:28):
I'm just so joking.
Calm down, simmer down.
Simmer down, simmer down.
What do you?

Carmen Lezeth (42:34):
mean simmer down.
He's so funny because he'ssaying simmer down.
And now I'm getting more upset.
What, what, what.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (42:42):
So don't you know?
You're not supposed to tell awoman to relax or sit her down,
and yet I still do.

Carmen Lezeth (42:52):
Mara's a pain in the ass, mara are you?
Okay, mara, how you doing girl30 years, she's just fine she's
blinking she's just fine.

(43:13):
Rick, you're on TikTok.
How are you doing with gainingfollowers?
How are you feeling about it?
You've been playing a lot withTikTok as well lately.

Rick Costa (43:23):
No, I'm just doing my regular broadcast.
I do daily on there too withRestream, that's all.
I'm not really doing anythingspecific.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (43:31):
You get more followers.

Rick Costa (43:35):
It's about I was doing follow for follow for a
long time and now it's aboutpretty much 50-50.

Carmen Lezeth (43:41):
What's follow for follower?
What's that mean?

Rick Costa (43:44):
Follow me, I follow you.

Carmen Lezeth (43:46):
Oh yeah, I don't do that.

Joy Gouge (43:49):
Oh.
I've got big trouble doing thatwhy?

Carmen Lezeth (43:55):
Why did you get in trouble, Joy?

Joy Gouge (43:57):
Because I followed some people back, because when I
first started in social mediaand like broadcasting, I was
following people that I shouldnot have been following.
I mean it was bad and it waslike okay, I've got to go
through, I can't followeverybody that follows me.
Because it was just like ohyeah let's know.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (44:21):
Let's know.

Joy Gouge (44:24):
What does oh mean?
Okay, that's a perfect example,because this is when I first
got on Periscope.
I was following people you knowand their stuff would come up
and I was like, okay, you knowinnocent name, so I click on it.
The guy's naked in a bathtub.

Carmen Lezeth (44:48):
Oh, all, right now.
Spicy joys in the house.

Rick Costa (44:54):
Periscope had it all .
They had people doing a nastyfilm in it.
I'm like, no, no, wait, wait.
So Periscope was it all.
They had people doing a nastyfilm in it.
I'm like, no, no, wait, wait so.

Carmen Lezeth (45:00):
Periscope was X-rated.
You didn't tell me that, Rick.

Joy Gouge (45:06):
Some of the stuff was really really bad.
Oh, wow, yeah, wow yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (45:11):
Wait.

Carmen Lezeth (45:12):
Periscope belonged to TikTok.
I mean, yeah to Twitter, rightTo Twitter.
Yeah, why would they allow that?

Rick Costa (45:19):
Well, you have the opportunity to say please block
this, and then they wouldeventually see it and block it.
But towards the end, nobody waschecking nothing.

Joy Gouge (45:26):
Yeah, it was bad.
It got really really bad.
I know I had to clean upsomebody's account and I saw
some stuff I can't unsee.

Carmen Lezeth (45:44):
That's the word.

Joy Gouge (45:47):
It was a business account that I was handling at
the time and it was like youcan't unsee.
Wow, it's like anybody can goon there and see who you are
following.
I said, this is a businessaccount.
If you want to do that stuff,go make you another account, but

(46:08):
don't do it on your businessaccount.

Carmen Lezeth (46:11):
I'm always shook at how secure people are with
their ugly bodies.
Some people really should know.
But you know I'm alwaysimpressed by that because I've
seen some things I cannot unseetoo.

Maurio Dawson (46:25):
You know what I mean.
Confidence is key.

Carmen Lezeth (46:28):
Yes, confidence is very key.

Maurio Dawson (46:32):
Just saying not to judge.
You said they put the ugly inugly.

Carmen Lezeth (46:39):
I did not know that there was x-rayed stuff on
Periscope.
I mean.
I heard a lot of bad stuffabout Periscope, but I never
heard that it had all that.
Wow, I was never part of thatwhole thing.

Joy Gouge (46:51):
And there was a lot of good stuff on there.
You know it really was, but youknow I mean mean it had its
dark side too.
Yeah, I mean, I was on.
I was on a on like the twitterum shoot, what was it called it
was and I was only on this groupfor six months because I

(47:13):
couldn't handle it.
We were tasked to go and findchild porn.
That was bad, it was really bad.
That was on Twitter, it was onPeriscope, but it was through
Twitter.

Carmen Lezeth (47:33):
Okay, we need to bring this back to Joy.
I don't mean the person.
I don't want to talk about thisstuff no more.

Joy Gouge (47:42):
Yeah, it's that that goes into like the dark side.

Alma Dawson (47:45):
Let's go back to the light yeah okay, I have
another one about gen x, who youstarted off with 8 Tracks and
you ended up with CDs.

Maurio Dawson (48:03):
That's all, gen X .

Alma Dawson (48:04):
That's all, gen X.

Maurio Dawson (48:07):
And a good old 45 .

Carmen Lezeth (48:10):
Oh yeah.

Maurio Dawson (48:11):
Do you?

Carmen Lezeth (48:12):
guys remember Pagers.

Maurio Dawson (48:14):
Yes.

Carmen Lezeth (48:16):
Oh my God, that was so dorky.
That really was a dorky time,it really was.

Maurio Dawson (48:21):
It was a pager, so you can get somebody can page
you so you can go run to thepay phone Exactly To call them
back.
Yes, Like it was an emergencyand don't beat me 911.

Rick Costa (48:34):
Right, I beat you 911.

Maurio Dawson (48:38):
Why I beat you 9-1-1 why you didn't answer me
right away, because I had tofind a payphone the only people
that were cool with pagers weresurgeons and doctors.

Carmen Lezeth (48:45):
Like those are the only people back then that I
felt were cool with pagers, butthat was or you would go.

Maurio Dawson (48:50):
You would go to a payphone and page them with
that number so they could callyou on the payphone you ever
done that or you were cool ifyou had somebody who could give
you on the payphone you everdone that or you were cool if
you had somebody who could giveyou an unlocked block cell phone
.
Remember the big block, the bigbrick cell phone.

Joy Gouge (49:07):
The big phone.
Yes, it weighed like fivepounds.

Maurio Dawson (49:10):
Yes.

Carmen Lezeth (49:13):
How about calling Collect?
How many times you guys calledCollect?
Oh my gosh, they wouldn'taccept the call.

Maurio Dawson (49:22):
I got one.

Rick Costa (49:25):
What about don't call me until after nine o'clock
on the cell phone, becausethat's ten minutes of free.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (49:30):
Yes.

Maurio Dawson (49:33):
Or don't call me long distance after a certain
time.
Oh my gosh.

Joy Gouge (49:40):
Party lines.
Do you remember party lines?

Carmen Lezeth (49:42):
party lines.
You see how she's always goingtowards the porn kind of.
You know what I mean.
I said party lines.
That's what I heard.
I hear a lot of relationshipstuff yo Joy, I don't receive
that.

Maurio Dawson (49:58):
I don't believe that's where you were going.

Joy Gouge (50:01):
No, it was not.
It was like four people.
A party line was like fourpeople.

Maurio Dawson (50:07):
In your neighborhood was like on one
phone line that if your neighborwas talking you had to wait
till they were finished, but youknow what that was more of a
southern thing, because mygrandmother had that same thing
and if they were on, somebodywas on the phone my aunt, who
was in a different house on thesame phone line, or my great

(50:28):
grandfather, they can all pickup the phone and listen to your
conversation.
So you better be clear for whoyou're talking about exactly,
yeah.
Yeah, I remember that.
That's definitely a suddenthing.

Carmen Lezeth (50:44):
When you said party line, I remember there
were calls.
You could make phone calls tolike a 909 number.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (50:50):
You know what.

Carmen Lezeth (50:51):
I'm talking about , yeah, party lines Like they
were, like you know, for the one900.

Maurio Dawson (50:56):
That's right, Get your mind out.

Carmen Lezeth (50:57):
They were like you know for, oh, you're talking
about the 1-900s.

Alma Dawson (50:59):
That's right.
Get your mind out of the gutter, that's where Carmen was.

Maurio Dawson (51:05):
Carmen was in the gutter.
She was trying to take youthere.

Joy Gouge (51:09):
That was an East Coast thing, apparently, carmen
Carmen she just went all the wayback to the deep end.
No way, wait, wait.

Carmen Lezeth (51:25):
I'm going to mute you all and say my piece.
But it's true, right, cynthia?
When she said that, that wasthe first thing I thought of.
I'm like what's wrong calling a900 number?
No, it's a 900 number.
No, it wasn't 900 numbers.

Rick Costa (51:39):
No, that is so funny For some people that did give
them joy.

Carmen Lezeth (51:48):
Thank you, Pastor Rick.

Maurio Dawson (51:53):
He heard it in confession.

Carmen Lezeth (51:56):
Oh my God, that was a good laugh that was good.

Rick Costa (52:03):
Anybody bring up AOL accounts Well.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (52:05):
Mario still has one, mario still has it.

Carmen Lezeth (52:09):
You just emailed me at AOL I know why didn't you
hold on to it.
It's kind of cool now.
It's kind of vintage cool.

Maurio Dawson (52:16):
Because I don't feel like changing my email.
It's just easy.
I can't find mine.

Carmen Lezeth (52:21):
I can't get it back.
I wish I would.
I wouldn't use it, but I usedto have.

Maurio Dawson (52:25):
I've never stopped using it.
I have three email addresses,but everybody still has my AOL
account, so that's what I keep.
I bet you use.

Rick Costa (52:35):
MySpace too, the pastor.

Carmen Lezeth (52:36):
but you know, I bet you use MySpace too.

Maurio Dawson (52:38):
The pastor is dissing you.
Right there, you guys would bein my 35 right now how about
that?

Carmen Lezeth (52:45):
I liked MySpace.
I liked MySpace.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (52:48):
You remember , you could design it put some
music in the background yeah, Ialmost said she didn't like
MySpace you like Facebook better?

Alma Dawson (52:57):
I think I like when Facebook came around.

Maurio Dawson (52:59):
I did like Facebook better.

Alma Dawson (53:01):
The beginnings of it.

Carmen Lezeth (53:03):
Yeah, now it's what it is.
All the politics around.
It is just painful.
Alma, what are you doing thisweekend?

Alma Dawson (53:13):
I have a field trip tomorrow with the kiddos on
a Saturday.
Yes, she can't come home to meafter I have a field trip
tomorrow with the kiddos On aSaturday.

Maurio Dawson (53:20):
Yes, I told her she can't come home to me after.

Carmen Lezeth (53:23):
Where are you going, though, can we?

Alma Dawson (53:25):
ask where you're going.
We're taking the kids toMedieval Times, oh fun.
Usually he'll chaperone too,because he's a volunteer.
He'll chaperone, but he can'tgo tomorrow because he is
deathly allergic to horses.

Maurio Dawson (53:41):
Allergic to horses, oh yeah, so I have to go
by myself.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (53:47):
Yeah.

Carmen Lezeth (53:48):
Oh well, have fun .
That sounds like a lot of fun.

Alma Dawson (53:52):
You know a lot of them.
They've never been, so it's agood time.

Carmen Lezeth (53:56):
No, it's a great time, Rick.
What you doing?
Any big plans this weekend?
You watching 9-1-1?
.

Rick Costa (54:03):
Hopefully catching up on a lot of sleep.

Carmen Lezeth (54:04):
And this Is Us.

Rick Costa (54:07):
And perhaps this Is Us.
This Is Us intrigues me alittle bit more than 9-1-1, to
be honest, I promise you, rick,I think you're going to like it.

Maurio Dawson (54:16):
I think you're going to love it, actually,
because you can relate to a lotof the stuff that's going to
happen throughout the stories,from the beginning towards the
end.
You'll really relate.
I think you're going to love it.

Alma Dawson (54:28):
Yeah, it's a great , great show.

Carmen Lezeth (54:31):
Okay, so maybe this is us one or two episodes.
Once you watch one episode,you're going to watch it all
You're going to go, maybe youwon't.
I don't know because you'reinteresting, that's all I'm
saying.
Any other plans, rick?

Rick Costa (54:43):
Anything else.
If the other fellas are ready,maybe do another X-Men review.

Carmen Lezeth (54:50):
Oh yeah, you guys do all the reviews now of the
cartoon.

Rick Costa (54:53):
I think Brian should be back tomorrow, I think.

Carmen Lezeth (54:58):
And you guys are going to be on YouTube on your
channel at rickcostacom.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (55:01):
That's where we can find you right, what do
you mean?

Carmen Lezeth (55:04):
not necessarily that's where they can find you.

Rick Costa (55:08):
You can find the YouTube link there.

Carmen Lezeth (55:09):
yeah, Dude, I'm trying to help promote you.
Tomorrow you can say what areyou doing?
So tomorrow night you thinkyou're going to be on your show.
What's the name?

Rick Costa (55:18):
oh, I don't know.
It depends on theiravailability okay, well, check
it out.

Carmen Lezeth (55:22):
Well, I hope you guys do it, because I know you
guys have a lot of fun.
I personally think it's boringand I went on there and said hi,
and then I was like it's boringit's a whole tree, he knows.

Alma Dawson (55:40):
I say it with love , shady, he wants me to lie to
you.
It's inside your head.

Carmen Lezeth (55:46):
It's not interesting, because I don't
watch the show, I don't watchthe cartoon they watch, and I'm
saying cartoon on purpose justto piss you off.
Animation.

Rick Costa (55:58):
Who are.

Carmen Lezeth (55:59):
I am being okay.
I'm sorry, rick.
I apologize.

Rick Costa (56:02):
Wait, wait, wait.
Cartoon to piss who off you.

Carmen Lezeth (56:04):
Why would?

Rick Costa (56:06):
that piss me off.
He's going to say animation Idon't say that.

Carmen Lezeth (56:11):
Anyways, I am trying to promote his show and
he's like I don't know, I don'tknow.

Rick Costa (56:17):
Rick Costa.
Rick Costa on YouTube.
Look me up that way.

Carmen Lezeth (56:21):
Rick Costa on YouTube.

Rick Costa (56:23):
At the at sign.
Go to search at Rick Costa See.

Carmen Lezeth (56:29):
Joy what you doing this weekend?
As little as possible.

Maurio Dawson (56:35):
Oh that's right.
Good answer, good answer, goodanswer.

Carmen Lezeth (56:40):
You're going to be able to rest and stuff.

Joy Gouge (56:43):
I'm hoping I'm not going to be cleaned up after a
storm.

Maurio Dawson (56:46):
No we're not going to speak to that.

Carmen Lezeth (56:48):
No, it's going to be fine, it's going to pass on
by.

Maurio Dawson (56:51):
It's not going to hurt nobody, it's not going to
do nothing.

Carmen Lezeth (56:54):
It's just going to be like a little darkness.

Maurio Dawson (56:56):
Drizzle, a little drizzle.

Carmen Lezeth (56:57):
It's not going to do nothing, it's just going to
be like a little darkness andit's going to drizzle, which
here would be mud slides, Iguess well, let me tell you this
one quick thing.

Joy Gouge (57:07):
I was going to go outside and fix the cover on my
grill and I walk out there likewhere my grill normally sits,
and it's like where's my grill?
And I was like where is it?
And then I like take a stepforward.
It's like my grill is off mypatio laying on it oh wow, no

(57:29):
that wind, that wind is whippingall right

Carmen Lezeth (57:31):
yeah, okay, yeah, but it's not.
But it's just so you left it.
You didn't mess with it, youjust left it.
Oh no, I got it at mybrother-in-law.

Joy Gouge (57:40):
He helped me get it at the storage building.

Carmen Lezeth (57:42):
Oh, okay, you put it somewhere.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (57:45):
Make sure your phones are charged and
everything.
You got a little emergency bag,just in case.

Carmen Lezeth (57:51):
Oh yeah, cynthia, what you doing this weekend?
Staying in.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (57:56):
Watching, just like us.
No, this is us, cynthia.
What you doing this weekend?
Staying in watching, just LikeUs?
No.

Carmen Lezeth (58:01):
This Is.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (58:01):
Us oh.

Carmen Lezeth (58:02):
This Is Us.

Maurio Dawson (58:03):
She's going to be watching some show, not just
our kids' little bar show.
They not like us.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (58:08):
She's like if I just stay in, because the
St Patrick's Day parade is onSunday and it's right behind my
house we have a marathon here in.

Carmen Lezeth (58:19):
LA on Sunday too.

Maurio Dawson (58:20):
Yeah, we sure do.

Carmen Lezeth (58:22):
Yeah, okay, so you're going to be chilling at
home.
Oh, we're going to the museum.

Alma Dawson (58:26):
Sure Sunday is.
Spring Museum Day.

Maurio Dawson (58:28):
Yeah.
Yeah, it is so we're going tothe Academy Museum for the first
time.

Carmen Lezeth (58:35):
Oh, it's beautiful.

Maurio Dawson (58:39):
Oh, it's beautiful.
Oh my God, I love it there,yeah, my daughter, she's gone
multiple times.
We haven't gone yet.
We've been to every museum,except for that one.

Carmen Lezeth (58:42):
Everyone, thank you so much for hanging out.
I appreciate you all and, yeah,remember, at the end of the day
, it really is all about the joy.
Bye everyone, good night, bye,bye.

Maurio Dawson (58:54):
Joy.

Carmen Lezeth (58:57):
Thanks for stopping by.
All About the Joy Be better andstay beautiful.
Folks have a sweet day.