Rewarding Racism? The Viral Playground Incident That Shook America

What does it say about our society when hatred gets financially rewarded? This question lies at the heart of our raw, unfiltered discussion about a disturbing playground incident that's gone viral across America. 

When a woman was recorded calling a child the N-word repeatedly over a minor playground dispute, she launched a crowdfunding campaign on a platform known for supporting extremist causes. The shocking result? Over $750,000 in donations and counting, with her goal now reaching toward $1 million. Meanwhile, the man who stood up against this racism by recording the incident has received death threats, forcing him to relocate his family with just $40,000 in crowdfunded support.

We explore the painful reality that this child will carry this trauma forever, robbed of the innocence that should be every child's birthright. As one host poignantly puts it, "Our children are not allowed to be children." The incident exposes not just one person's racism, but a disturbing undercurrent of support for such behavior when donors – many initially using variations of Hitler's name – eagerly contribute to reward it.

The conversation broadens to examine how modern crowdfunding has transformed community support, for better and worse. While legitimate causes benefit from wider reach, the platforms also enable exploitation and grifting. We reflect on the value of direct community engagement – volunteering at food banks, supporting teachers, helping neighbors – as antidotes to the disconnection that allows hatred to flourish.

By the end of our conversation, despite tackling difficult subject matter, we find ourselves reaffirming the need to use our "powers for good" and rediscover joy through meaningful human connection. The path forward isn't easy, but as we've seen throughout history, the brilliance and resilience of those facing discrimination continues to shine through even the darkest moments.

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Episode Transcript

Carmen Lezeth (00:04):
Hey everybody, hi guys, Everybody, welcome to All
About the Joy.
The private lounge In the houseis Mario and Alma.
Rick Costa, cynthia, hi, hi,how you guys been doing.
Good, it's been a minute, Missyou, miss you.
We're going to have aconversation about crowdfunding

(00:26):
sites and I think a lot of you,if not I sent you the link, but
a lot of people have heard about.
I'm not going to say the nameof the person, I'm not going to
say the crowdfunding sites, butwe're going to talk about this
because I think it's aninteresting conversation that's
been happening.
There was a woman at aplayground site with her own
child who called another childthe N-word, because the said

(00:50):
child supposedly I think thechild is four, five, six years
old took a toy or took somethingout of her bag, and so she felt
it important enough to screamthe N-word at the child.
She was recorded by anothergentleman.
The gentleman proceeded to askher why did you?
You know he was upset.

(01:11):
He was like why are you callingthis child the N word?
How could you do that?
And she just, with no problemwhatsoever, kept saying it over
and over again because she feltentitled to do that or whatever.
So the next part of this that'svery triggering to me is
because of that, she set up acrowdfunding site.

(01:32):
It is not the regularcrowdfunding site that is well
known for supporting whitesupremacists, supporting let me
see neo-Nazis.
It also raised the money forKyle Rittenhouse If you guys

(01:55):
remember who he is, I will sayhis name because it is an
interesting part of thisconversation.
Interesting part of thisconversation.
She has raised over $750,000 asof 10 minutes ago, when I just
last checked on the crowdfundingsite.
When you go in and look at allthe people who are donating

(02:15):
money now, everyone is doinganonymous, anonymous, anonymous.
But when I was looking at itwhen it first started, people
were doing like every differentvariation of Hitler names.
People were thinking they wereclever and saying things like
Michelle Obama donated money.
Right, they were hiding theirnames, but they were saying all
of these.
Really, I think, horrible,asinine things.

(02:36):
Let me also say on the otherside, the parents of the young
child who was called the N-word.
They also had set up acrowdfunding site on the
probably more well-knowncrowdfunding site.
I'm not going to say their nameeither.
They raised $300,000 prettyquickly and then they cut it off
because they didn't want tokeep taking money from people,

(02:59):
so they stopped collecting money, whereas this other person.
So they stopped collectingmoney, whereas this other person
the woman that called the childthe N-word keeps upping the
amount, so now she is requestingup to a million dollars.
Okay, the only other personthat I think is actually he's
been getting death threats.
He's already moved his family,his children and his family out

(03:22):
of their house is the man whoactually did the videotape.
The videotaping.
He set up a crowdfunding on adifferent site and he raised
like $40,000 just to help himmove.
Because he's getting deaththreats and out of everyone, I
feel probably even worse for himbecause he was so doing the

(03:43):
right thing and his life hasbeen upended.
So, first, I wanted to get yourthoughts on the crowdfunding
parts of this or anything youwant to talk about regarding it.
I know it's very triggering,but that's what these
conversations are for.
You don't have to divulge, youknow.
You guys know this is not aboutdivulging our personal.
I will, because you know that'show how I is, but none of you

(04:05):
have to divulge anything.
Let's just have theconversation because it's out
there anyways.
Rick, I don't know if you havesome insight, being that I'm
talking about that site that issupposedly christian yeah, I
didn't even know that part um it.

Rick Costa (04:18):
It's astounding that people are rewarding her for
bad behavior, like, really, letme find something to say, see if
I can make some money.
This is insanity, this is nuts.
That there's people that arethinking oh yeah, I agree with
you, cause why would you givemoney unless you agreed with her
and this many and that much.

(04:40):
But the worst is that she keepsupping it Like you have no
shame.
You know what?

Carmen Lezeth (04:45):
We're going to talk about shame because I think
that's important, but let mesay that much.
But the worst is that she keepsupping it.
You have no shame.
We're going to talk about shamebecause I think that's
important, but let me say Iactually think what's worse.
Not that she's upping it, Iagree with you, but I think we
already know the moral of thiswoman.
Her morals are clearly out ofwhack.
As far as I'm concerned, Idon't care what your reasoning
is.
Yelling at a child, let's noteven talk about the N word.
Yelling at a child, it's justridiculous to me.

(05:10):
And then on top of it, the Nword so.
But you know what's worse, thedonations.
It's not like there's oneperson giving 3,000 or 4,000.
It's $1, $5, $10.
It's so many people.
That, to me, is the heartwrenching part.
I just want to throw that inthere, because when you said
that it just recalled me.
But you were talking aboutshame, which I think is

(05:32):
important.

Rick Costa (05:33):
Yeah, she has done that.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
Like she what do they call that?
A grifter?
Is that how they call it?
Somebody just trying to makemoney?
And it's like you are, in myopinion, the lowest of the low.
Like it doesn't get much worse.
Like how can you do this?
This is insane.
You did something bad andgetting rewarded for it by other
people.
This is are we in a twilightzone episode?

(05:56):
What is happening here?
It's great.
I think.

Alma Dawson (06:00):
I think for me, this video just really
illustrates the point that weI'll speak for myself me as a
parent of a Black child alwaystry to explain to people that
our children are not allowed tobe children, and explain to

(06:21):
people that our children are notallowed to be children.
Our children are not allowed tobe children and this is the
reason why we have to createsafe spaces for them so that
they can be children, you know,and be safe.
Because these children are justat a playground in their

(06:49):
neighborhood and you know.
Their parent, I guess, feltsafe enough for them to go to
this park in their neighborhoodon their own to go and play,
because they do it, they've doneit before, but even there
they're not safe.
It was no safety.
There is no safety.
There is no safety for childrenof color.
There is no safety, even for achild.
So if a child is being treatedlike this, openly courting you,

(07:15):
and you're able to make moneyoff of this, how safe are Black
men?
They're not.

Carmen Lezeth (07:22):
Let me add this part to you, not because I want
to be fair, but I should be fair.
It's not like I'm amotherfucking journalist, but
let me just say the argument forher needing the money if you
read her site or whatever isbecause now everyone's going
after her.
She says that supposedly andI'm doing this that her name was

(07:43):
leaked, her address was leaked.
She has to move her children,but I'm like, okay, maybe that's
part of the argument for whyshe needed to raise money.
I think she did a bad thing andthere are consequences when we
do bad things, but somehow it'sgoing back to what Rick said.
The consequence here seems tobe rewarding you for a

(08:05):
retirement plan right.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (08:07):
It only took 40 000 for the other guy to
uproot his family.
It's taking her now 750 andpossibly a million dollars to
move her and her family.
Like, why so much more?
Let me tell you, when I, when Isaw the video, you know the the
Boston came out of me.
I watched it because has thatbeen me standing out there

(08:30):
watching this woman do that?
I would have confronted herForget the cameras and all.
I would have confronted her, Meand her probably would have
went at it or something.
But you know, after watching itI had to calm myself down
because you know that's notChristian of me, Her saying she
is a Christian woman.
And you know all these peoplewho are giving money to her and

(08:56):
are doing it anonymously.
They're all cowards.
Because if you really believedin what she was doing, why not
put your name out there, why notput your name on that list
instead of doing?

Carmen Lezeth (09:08):
it anonymously.
I don't know if she said she's aChristian woman.
I don't know if you saw thatsomewhere.
I don't know.
The crowdfunding site is a sitethat was initially started by
siblings, who set it up, I think, for good intentions it was for
missionary work back in 2014,for missionary work and giving

(09:30):
medical care to people who weredoing missionary work, or
something like that.
Because I went and did someresearch, I wanted to know what
this site was.
However, they thought that theother crowdfunding site, which
we all know very well, okay, wasanti-Christian, which I don't
know if that's very true.
I don't think the others, Idon't think all that really

(09:51):
matters, but you know, okay, soset up your own site, do what
you want, but when you startsaying you're Christian and you
start supporting things that Iwould believe are not Christian
at all and are immoral, likethat line, what is that line?
So I'm not sure that she saidshe is Christian.

(10:12):
One of the latest things that Isaw today.
I was going to post it on here,but I don't want to trigger you
all, because Tizzy is somebodywho everyone, I think, follows
or knows who he is.
He's the one, I think, whostarts sending these things out
and he has an update and she isproudly even writing the N word

(10:33):
to verify who she is and postingit on Twitter or X, whatever
it's called.
Let me just say this what'shappening with the crowdfunding
site as of 10 minutes ago that Iwas looking at, there is a
young lady whose name I don'tremember.
I should have written it downbecause I would like to say her
name.

(10:53):
She's a coder.
She went in and looked at whatthird-party app is supplying the
banking and routing informationthat holds all that money that
then gives it to her, and shehas figured out that it's not
Stripe, it's Square Square.
That sounds so funny and Ithink they're going to try to

(11:17):
disable it.
But I don't think they're goingto get away with that.
I think they're trying todisable the programming so that
she won't get the money, and Ithink you know that.
In and of itself, I understand,and what a smart woman to find
out who the third party bankinginstitution is, but I don't
think that's the right way to doit either.
But I think they want to kindof pressure the third party app
to say, no, we're not going togive you this money.

(11:39):
So that's another little tidbit.

Maurio Dawson (11:45):
Mario, share whatever you want to share, even
if it's nothing at all.
I have no words.
I have no words, I just don't.

Alma Dawson (11:51):
Okay.

Maurio Dawson (11:52):
I don't.
I don't have anything to saybecause I live it every day.
I've been called that Don'thave anything else to say.
And the fact that we arecontinuously going backwards

(12:15):
into a slave mentality wherepeople think that we are boys,
we are the N-word when we arechildren, when our children are
coming out of the womb, andthat's what you're seen as.
When we were written into theConstitution as two-thirds, I

(12:37):
don't have anything else to say.
I just think that I feel sorryfor the child because the child
was exposed to something thatbaby probably didn't know what
that meant, but they will know.
He knows now and it is atouchstone memory that is

(13:01):
ingrained in him from the age offive for the rest of his life
and he didn't even get a chanceto live, get to a teenager or an
adult.

Carmen Lezeth (13:16):
That's part of America, though, right, that's
part of our country.
My book starts off, rick andCynthia, you guys have read.
My book starts off with mebeing called the N-word.
That's how it begins, I thinkeven as a woman I've been called
that, and I was a kid.
I ran home to my mother becauseI was crying so hard, trying to

(13:37):
figure out why everybody hatedme and why they were calling me
this name.
And yeah, this is part ofAmerica.
I'm not trying to blow it off,but I'm like I agree with you.
That kid never had a chance.
This, I think, is even harderin a way, because it will be on

(13:57):
line right forever, forever whata thing to be famous for.

Rick Costa (14:04):
Not a good thing.
Yeah, oh, you're that kid.
He has to live with that thewhole rest of his life.

Carmen Lezeth (14:11):
Were they able to shield?

Alma Dawson (14:12):
him.
Though he did, he shielded him.
My thing is, I hope that themother, the parents, get a
lawyer and sue her foreverything that she's getting.

Carmen Lezeth (14:22):
They are.
I think the NAACP is alreadyinvolved.

Alma Dawson (14:25):
I really do so.
Yeah, keep raising the money.
Keep raising the money so thatI can all go to him.
Yeah, keep raising it so it canall go to him.
That's my prayer and my hope.

Carmen Lezeth (14:36):
Yeah, you know what's so interesting, though,
as Mario was speaking sosolemnly, is that the right word
?
So I just I feel it in yourheart.
What I speaking so solemnly, isthat the right word?
So I just I feel it in yourheart.
You know, what I was thinkingabout as you were speaking was
and then we have Kendrick Lamar,and then we have Ryan Coogler,
and then we have, and we have,the Met Gala.

(14:56):
That just happened and I'm likeyou can't push us down.
You cannot push black folk down, and I think this is what is so
amazing to watch these peoplewho are trying to hold on to
crumbs of white supremacybecause they cannot deal with

(15:18):
the brilliance that has alwaysbeen and is now even shining
more blatantly every single day,and I am sorry about that.
It's kind of like when you weresaying I'm like that's my
prayer you have to keep seeingthe magnificence of Black beauty
, and still I rise.

Alma Dawson (15:41):
right, and still I rise.

Maurio Dawson (15:43):
No, it's about and I hope maybe this young man
will see it one day it's aboutBlack boy joy, and I hope this
doesn't scar him so much that heforgets that he is a beautiful
Black boy and full of joy.

(16:04):
And that's the beauty in usgiving back to our kids and
saying you have Black boy joy,you have Black girl magic.
Those are those things, thoselittle diamonds that penetrate
and pierce the hate.

Carmen Lezeth (16:23):
And what about the white child?

Maurio Dawson (16:26):
Bless his heart.

Carmen Lezeth (16:27):
I'm being serious .
She's holding a white kid inher hand.

Maurio Dawson (16:31):
No, but the thing is that's what she wants
to teach.
But then there are those peopleout in the world and there are
some kind allies who see us forwho we are and love us,
naturally and beautifully andmagnificently, magnificently.
The world, everyone doesn'thate us and I understand that,

(17:00):
that these ignorant people getthe glory and the shine and it
just perpetrates the negativityover what when we don't, when
we're.
We should be shining lights onour black doctors, our black
lawyers, our black accountants,our black magnificent people,

(17:21):
not just in the arts but inscience.
You are beautiful, you areloved, you are magnificent.

Carmen Lezeth (17:28):
Can I interject here, because this and this is
probably not going to make youhappy, but here's the thing that
pisses me off about.
It is, as people continue to beracist fucktards and I'm going
to say it that way you also takeaway from the beauty of every
culture in this country.
That's not my fault, that's herfault, I know, that's her fault,

(17:49):
but that's what I'm saying is,then we all become hyper-focused
on only how we can keep shining, because there's no ability to
breathe and to just enjoy eachother, because of the racism,
because of the hatred.

Maurio Dawson (18:04):
Can't do nothing about that, but just keep
living and doing what I do andkeep feeling what I feel.
You gotta uplift yourself,because nobody else is gonna do
it.

Carmen Lezeth (18:12):
That's not the world I wanna live in.

Maurio Dawson (18:14):
I'm just saying but it's the world that is.

Carmen Lezeth (18:17):
Cynthia thoughts.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (18:21):
I said my piece.

Maurio Dawson (18:24):
Can we find some joy tonight?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (18:26):
yes, we have a new pope.

Carmen Lezeth (18:30):
We're not going to talk about the new pope
because all we're going to do istalk about politics, which is
just going to bring you guysback down.

Rick Costa (18:37):
I didn't want to say go ahead, rick go ahead because
there is some people that loveto say y'all are exaggerating.
There's not people that love tosay y'all are exaggerating,
there's not racism, it's racismbecause y'all keep talking about
it.
Okay, then how does she get allthis money?
Who are all these people?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (18:53):
Exactly.

Maurio Dawson (18:57):
And I try to love everybody.
I really do.

Carmen Lezeth (19:00):
I don't try to love everybody, because that's
not my goal.

Maurio Dawson (19:03):
But you know what?

Carmen Lezeth (19:12):
Because the thing is as true Christians God is
love and you're supposed to loveeveryone.
You can't love someone, mario,and in one breath say you want
to be revengeful, which is whatAlma just did.
No, because even it's not aboutrevengeful because you said I
hope my hope and my prayer.

Alma Dawson (19:21):
I'm not about revengeful because my hope and
my prayer exactly my hope and myprayer is that they do get some
type of redemption.
But it's not my fight.
The fight is the Lord's.

Rick Costa (19:31):
That's it.
I can pray for them.

Alma Dawson (19:34):
I'm just saying no, because I don't want you to
misinterpret what I said.
What I said was I do, I hopeand I pray that he does get that
.
He does get the money he does.
That's not going to change thehatred in that woman's heart.
I pray that the Lord works onher heart.
But that's not my job, that'sthe Lord's job.
But I can't pray that.

(19:55):
I can, pray for that.
I can't.
You can't pray for that, andit's not about hatred.

Carmen Lezeth (20:00):
You can't start defining what love is and then
the next breath saying somethingthat I think is kind of no two
things can be, true.
Yeah, they can be true.
At the same time, I'm justsaying, I just we're called to
love everyone.

Alma Dawson (20:14):
I don't have to like everyone.

Carmen Lezeth (20:19):
Can I say a word now?
Let me just say something.
Here's what I'm saying.
Your definition of love is verydifferent from my definition of
love.
That's all I'm saying.
That's okay, yeah.
Saying that's okay, yeah, andthat's okay.
We can agree to disagree.
I just think it's for me, it'slike I don't have to love
everybody, like I actually don'tlove everybody.
I don't love people who hurtother people and I actually I

(20:42):
can actually say that I hatethose people, and I think the
problem this is my opinion Ithink the problem is we put a
lot of emphasis and freely uselove like it's no big deal, but
then hate.
We're all like clutching ourpearls, like it means something
big and it's no.
There are some people there are8 billion people on this planet

(21:03):
.
There is no way I'm going tolove all of them, because some
of them are horrible humanbeings like this woman.
I have no problem saying I donot love her.
I have no wanting to love her.
I think what she is doing shejust damaged you just talked for
10, 12 minutes about how muchshe just damaged a young boy's

(21:25):
joy.
Why am gonna find love in her?
There's no love to have for her, none but we don't know her
heart.

Alma Dawson (21:33):
That's what I'm saying it we can't her heart.
Well, I mean, she has to.
She has her own child there youknow what I'm saying?
It's like I can't speak onwhat's in her heart.
Her actions show the uglinessthat is in there for certain,

(21:53):
for certain.
But yeah, it's just differentphilosophies.

Carmen Lezeth (21:57):
Rick, what's your thought process on any of this,
since you're the guru ofChristianity in the room?
I don't know.

Rick Costa (22:08):
I'll be like y'all when you're talking about women
stuff, like I don't representall women.
I think there's a differencebetween revenge and justice.
Yes, revenge is I hope shefalls off a bridge Right.
Justice is I don't care how ithappens, she ain't gonna get
none of that money that shedon't deserve.

Carmen Lezeth (22:29):
I think it's a two different things and I think
that's a very gray line ofwishing her ill will but not
saying it that way and puttingit on the lord.
You can do it however you wantlike.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (22:41):
Think of it this way there's a difference
between telling somebody have ablessed day and saying I hope
you have a day you deserve.

Maurio Dawson (22:50):
Boom.

Carmen Lezeth (22:51):
Yeah, but it's still OK.
All I'm saying is you guys areusing verbiage to say the same
thing.
You may not want to use theword revenge or whatever, but at
the end of the day you'rewishing that she doesn't get the
money, which in turn will hurther.
Right, supposedly, I hope Ilook at I.
I'm on the side of her notgetting anything either.

(23:11):
I just don't want to.
I don't want the woman whowants to code and do it that way
to get in.
I don't want any more people toget in trouble in this mess.
You know what I mean.
I think when you say have theday you deserve, that's coming
from a place of being a littlesnooty about it.
Right, you're doing something,you're saying something, but
what you really mean is F you,you know what I mean, or

(23:33):
whatever it is you're trying toinsinuate so you can color your
words however you want.
There's still the basic meaningbehind it.
So I understand that's yourbelief system.
I'm just saying I disagree withthe.
I pray for her redemption andthen I have to love her thing.
To me that feels verycontradictory, but it's because
I don't believe the same thingyou believe and I think that's

(23:55):
okay.
You know what I mean, but Idon't want to promote one way of
thinking over the other,because I am not a Christian.
I'm not.
I have been done with thatthing long time ago, even though
I will respect all of you.
Y'all are Christians in theroom, so I will respect your
Christianity, but I don't wantto lie about how I feel about it

(24:17):
.

Maurio Dawson (24:18):
No, and everybody's feelings in the room
are valid 100%, and that's thebeauty of being an individual.
We all have our own opinionsand thoughts and we can respect
each other and have a verypassionate conversation about

(24:39):
something and still respect eachother, yeah.

Carmen Lezeth (24:42):
It's not that I don't want to talk about the
Pope.
We can talk about the Popetomorrow if you guys come on the
show.
Whatever, the thing abouttalking about certain things
with you guys as a group is thatit's very eggshell-y sometimes
because I know that we havedifferent viewpoints on what God
is and what God is not, and youknow Christianity versus the

(25:02):
Bible and Rick knows I think Iyou know on the last episode
that I just put up honoring Rick.
I don't know if you guys got tosee it.

Maurio Dawson (25:12):
I don't know.

Carmen Lezeth (25:13):
I don't think Rick liked it very much, but
that's okay, I thought it wasadorable.
I don't know.

Maurio Dawson (25:18):
He said it was adorable, it was adorable.

Carmen Lezeth (25:21):
I'm not feeling that, but whatever I was trying
to Any warm feelings, whatSquishy inside?
Squishy inside, yeah that.
But whatever I was trying towarm feelings, what was she
inside?
Was she inside?
Yeah?
I missed something in this um.
You had said it had been so longsince we had done something,
just me and you.
And then the other day wethought it was going to be me

(25:42):
and you, and then I felt badbecause then jeff came on the
show and then it wasn't, and Iwas like you know what?
I'm just going to do a whole.
I had been thinking about itanyways, and so I took them from
long time ago, whatever.
But my point is even on there.
I explained in one of thosesegments back then.
You know that I don't believewhat you believe, and sometimes
when I watch your show, I'm likenope, nope, nope, but I keep it

(26:04):
to myself.
I'm like nope, nope, nope, butI keep it to myself.
I don't go in your comments orsay anything.
You know what I mean.
But so you and I have never.
We don't agree on a lot ofthings.
But then I think fundamentallyI don't know if it's just about
respect, because I think thatgoes without saying I wouldn't
be involved with people I don'trespect.
But I think just being able tounderstand that it's okay to not

(26:25):
have the same, I think justbeing able to understand that
it's okay to not have the samefundamental belief system.

Maurio Dawson (26:29):
Yeah.

Carmen Lezeth (26:30):
But you can still be friends or still be
acquaintances and still talk toeach other.
You know what?
I mean 100%, but I think, onthis issue just to get back to
the crowdfunding I was curiousif you guys think that this
whole new way of living becausewhen we were growing up and Rick
, you just touched on it a bitwhen we were growing up, I don't

(26:52):
know how many times I wascalled names or beat up or
whatever there was nocrowdfunding you know how rich
I'd be right now.
Do you guys think I'm nottrying to be funny, but, rick,
you kind of said earlier but doyou guys have a thought or an
idea of how crowdfunding ischanging the way everybody does
a I'm not going to say the nameof the site, but does a
crowdfunding thing whenever theyneed something.

(27:14):
I see it all the time now and Ihave to tell you, sometimes I
get really bitter about it.
Maybe that's just me, though.

Maurio Dawson (27:23):
Well, okay, if there's a true need.

Carmen Lezeth (27:27):
Like medical.

Maurio Dawson (27:29):
Medical.
Like, for example, there was atime where we were struggling
and we didn't have any groceriesin the house and we were like,
okay, how are we going to getour food?
I was like, oh, crowdfundingwould have been helpful.
You understand what I'm saying.
But the thing is, then you seepeople's stories and you're like
, are they really Because?
Now, you're like, because nowyou find out somebody's driving

(27:53):
a Lambo and you're on some BSand I gave you my hard-earned
$50.

Carmen Lezeth (28:00):
$50.

Maurio Dawson (28:01):
$50.
And so that's where it gets alittle sketch.
Sketch, because then we've seenthe scam artists come out
through these crowdfundingthings.
So it's, it's a little dicey,you know.

Carmen Lezeth (28:18):
I like the ones that are for like I.
I donated money last year.
Didn't know who it was, but itwas a young woman I'm not gonna
say woman, she woman, she's akid, high school kid doing a
film and her father helped herdo a LinkedIn.
He was on LinkedIn and she wastrying to do a film to put into
one of the festivals and I waslike so, artists, you know what

(28:39):
I mean Like, give some money tothis, and those things I think
are kind of a cool way to help,especially when you don't know
somebody or whatever.

Alma Dawson (28:47):
Yeah, I think, with these crowdfunding, like you
said, I think it's just it's,you know, consumer beware.
So if you're going to give it,then you know, give it.
There's ways of you know, beinga sleuth and kind of
investigating to see if thingsare kind of real.
Things are kind of real when,if I feel led to it, I do things

(29:11):
like I don't want to like theones that the educators go on
and ask for supplies and thingslike that.
I like doing those because Iknow that it's helping an
educator, because I see, uh,from my own experience, how much
of their own money they putback into.

Carmen Lezeth (29:24):
Well, let's say that's horrible that even this
has been happening forever.
But let's just give a shout outto teachers, because alice
mcintyre used to do that in theseventh grade and we know how
old I am, yeah you would takemoney out of her own pocket.
And teachers are still, to thisday, still doing it in their

(29:44):
classroom.
Yeah, and that's horrible.
And they have the Amazon list.

Alma Dawson (29:50):
So yeah, I mean that's how they're able to
supplement some of their things.
The other thing that I do liketo also do is, like you students
, if they're trying to do theirsenior trip or they're trying to
do their trip abroad or they'retrying to go study abroad,
there's ways to investigate thatand usually they put the links
there for the school so you cango see that it's legit.

Carmen Lezeth (30:10):
You know things like that, so I do like to do
those you know, but if somebodyneeds legal services, like it's
a legitimate person.

Alma Dawson (30:23):
You know, and, like I said, the beauty of it is you
can pick and choose.
There's a lot, there's no.
There's so many, there's somany.
Where it used to be more rare,Now it's the more common thing,
where before we, we would go tothe church and they would.
They have a fund where theyhelp.
You know where they help, orcommunity, or you know family.

(30:46):
That's how it used to be before.
Now it's you go and you do alink and send it out.

Carmen Lezeth (30:52):
You do a TikTok and you send a link and then you
get a superstar like Tizzy orsomething We've had.

Alma Dawson (30:58):
someone bold us to send a direct text requesting.

Maurio Dawson (31:02):
I told you that story.

Alma Dawson (31:05):
So you know, I'm just going to say that I'm just
I'm not going to go any further.
But yeah, we've had that and Iwas like huh, cynthia, would you
ever?

Carmen Lezeth (31:13):
do it.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (31:15):
No no.
But, I, like I know my, mybrother has done one when his
house caught on fire.
What do you mean?
I didn't know about it.
This was years ago.
Yeah, the boiler, carmen, you.

Maurio Dawson (31:26):
This was years ago.
Yeah, the boiler, you can stilldo it.
Carmen, you can still do it.
How?

Carmen Lezeth (31:30):
did I not know.
Wait, was this Sean?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (31:33):
Yeah.
I didn't know.
This was years ago.
Maybe.
I think it was probably beforeCOVID, the boiler in the
basement.
That was that long ago, oh afew years.

Carmen Lezeth (31:44):
I thought you meant like 30 years ago, but
like oh, no, no, no Talk laterthe boiler exploded in the
basement and caught on fire.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (31:53):
Yeah, oh man .
Thankfully everybody got out,Like all three apartments got
everyone out.
They did lose a dog, buteverybody got out.

Carmen Lezeth (32:03):
Someone made a good point on TikTok.
They said you have money togive to this crowdfunding
situation.
The woman who did the N-wordthing, but you don't have money
for eggs Got it Understood.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (32:17):
I was like, oh my God, but you complained
about money for eggs and I waslike yeah, exactly, so it's an
interesting dynamic yeah, it istricky because I do know
somebody else who did one and Iknew their situation and I
couldn't believe that they weredoing it and I did not donate.

Carmen Lezeth (32:40):
But that's what it's tricky.
I think it's a different thing.
Again, I think we'veestablished thing.
There's certain things wherewe're like if it's children or
school teachers or somebodywho's actually in need, I don't
even care what it's about ifit's something in need.
But I think what's harder forme, especially when it comes to
the lawyer thing right, themeeting, legal or whatever there

(33:01):
are a lot of law firms outthere, especially if it's now
become a high profile thingthey're going to do it pro bono
because the marketing andadvertising alone is worth it.
Al Sharpton going to be out anddo what he needs to do to take
care of people.
You know what I mean.

Maurio Dawson (33:16):
Lawyer all red, she's going to be out there.

Carmen Lezeth (33:18):
That's right.
So I always get nervous when Isee that kind of thing and I
also think it's made us.
I don't know how to say this ina nicer way, but I'm suspect
now, every time I see acrowdfunding thing, every time I
agree Really.

Alma Dawson (33:36):
Yeah, I agree.
To me it's more teach our kidthat it's about the human
connection.
So do good in your community.
Find out what the need is here,because there's plenty of
people in your own neighborhoodthat need the local churches
help, the local food banks theyneed help and that's a secure

(33:58):
place to give to yes, exactlythe church or your food bank
someone.

Carmen Lezeth (34:03):
If I need something, you know what, that's
where I would go first thatpart.

Alma Dawson (34:06):
And the thing is that if you really want it
they'll give you a receipt.
You know what I'm saying.
So those are the places that Isay go and don't just give them
money.
If you can give your time, theyreally appreciate you giving
your time, because then they getto know you and when you get to
make those connections and thento me it's like you're more
willing to go back and helpagain, because it's like,
whatever time you have, if it'sjust one hour once a month, they

(34:30):
will gladly.
You know, you know.

Carmen Lezeth (34:36):
And a lot of people want help, too, online.
You'd be surprised how manychurches, food banks, whatever,
are not techie and really coulduse somebody who could help them
with kind of the things thatmaybe younger Gen Z, whatever
people know how to do.
So you could probably ordelivering.

Alma Dawson (34:49):
Churches need help delivering things seniors as
well yeah, yeah, even for myself, just knowing the second
language, just helping peoplefill out forms, helping people
make translate documents, thingslike that there's so much joy
when you volunteer and helppeople.

Carmen Lezeth (35:07):
Mario, there's a joy, baby there, it is a
volunteer, even this pastweekend.

Alma Dawson (35:13):
There's a local farmer's market every weekend
and one of the things sometimeswe'll all go and then sometimes
our kid will just go on her own.
And she came back and she waslike I just saw this gentleman
and I was just really moved tohelp them.
I want to go back.
I told them that I was going tocome back, so all three of us
okay, we put a bag together withtoiletries, clothes, because

(35:37):
that's what he said he needed.
He said he needed toiletries.
He said he needed clean clothes.
He said he wanted snacksbecause he was just trying to
make it and we were like let's.

Carmen Lezeth (35:48):
Then we put it out together, we packed the bag.
I think one thing aboutcommunity right, we've lost that
and, but it's so hard and notto keep bringing it back to what
we started talking about but,like, in the one sense, you have
the crowdfunding that could actas a way of community to help.
Right, because you could be inanother state and you could be
like, oh, this gentleman needssomething, I can donate money,

(36:10):
like I know, for the fires wehad here in the Palisades, a lot
of individual people were doingcrowdfunding sites, and so you
see that and you're like okay,like you can help.
So, in one sense, it bringscommunity together even if
you're not in the state.
On the other hand, though, Istill think what we're missing
is the in touch in person, evenif it's like this, which is part

(36:32):
of what we're trying to do here, most definitely.

Alma Dawson (36:35):
So I agree with that.
It's just to me, it's thathuman, it's that person to
person connection and I feellike if a person just wants food
, take them.
That's always my thing.
You want food?
Okay, come on, let's go.
Let me go buy you the meal.
I will buy you the meal.
Now I've had situations wherethey've been like oh no, I just
want the money.
Oh sorry, I can't help you.

Maurio Dawson (36:54):
Right, no, this one gentleman told my mother
five dollars.
What am I going to do?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (37:05):
with five dollars.
I was like give me my $5 back.

Alma Dawson (37:08):
Oh no, it takes all kinds, but I'm just saying.
I just feel like if you reallywant to do well, You're not
wrong, mario.

Carmen Lezeth (37:17):
No, I'm just kidding.
It's not wrong, it's a start.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (37:23):
What do you have?
A dozen eggs.

Carmen Lezeth (37:25):
It's amazing, we in LA baby what you going to do
with $5?

Alma Dawson (37:34):
I'm kidding, I had to.
I'm saying is look in yourneighborhood, look at your local
school, look at your local foodbank.

Carmen Lezeth (37:44):
That's where you can give and know that it's
going back to your, into yourown community and you know, if
you do want to do crowdfunding,just do what you said earlier.
Just make sure you research it.
I don't.
I think technology is great.
I think it has done a lot tobring us together.
I think it again I've never metrick in person and cynthia and

(38:05):
mario, and I have never met youknow what I.
And so it's this we have.
We've met on here, we've met no, but I'm saying like we haven't
done the physical thing.
Okay, that sounds wrong, butyou know what?
I mean, I'm just saying like.

(38:28):
I think you know that's part ofwhat All About the Joy is trying
to do is build community, evenif it's through this kind of
situation on the internet,Because I think having the
conversations, having thearguments, having the whatever
controversies, the discussionsactually builds community, which

(38:48):
is what we're missing, right?
We're missing that kind ofability to be in touch with each
other and get to know eachother.
I say this all the time.
I would not be here today if itwas not even an exaggeration.
It is not an exaggeration.
I would not be here today if itwasn't for the community that I
grew up in Cynthia can vouchfor that, I'm just saying it and

(39:12):
we've lost that.
I don't think today.
If what happened to me when Iwas growing up happened, I think
I would have fallen through thecracks easily, Without a doubt,
Because we don't have thatsense of community.
No more People don't care abouttheir next door neighbors.

Alma Dawson (39:28):
It's so sad because just working in the schools you
see how a lot of that that usedto be the kids would get you
know with family or withcommunity, be able to, you know,
grow up.
Now it's just so.
Now even that is monetized.
Oh sure, yeah, I'll foster butit's monetized, or I'll take

(39:50):
them but I'm not going to adopt,because if I adopt, I don't get
the money, it's so, it's justyeah.

Carmen Lezeth (40:00):
That part of our capitalist country?
I don't know Very much, verymuch.
Everything is, you know, and Iwant Rick and Cynthia to say
something, because then I editand it's just me and Alma
talking.
No, no, it's true, though rightMe and you are like that and you
and I should just have a showtogether.

(40:22):
We should.
You and you, you should those.

Alma Dawson (40:25):
Latinas Right.

Carmen Lezeth (40:27):
Well, we could do it in Spanish, with my broken
fucking English Spanish.
It'd be cool.
Like Spanish, we can do it inSpanglish.
That's what I'm saying.
It'd be so good.
Okay, that's, we're going tohook that up.
Rick.
Cynthia Thought Ideas.

Rick Costa (40:40):
You want to go first , Cynthia?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (40:42):
Go ahead.

Rick Costa (40:44):
Rick, well, well used to be said it takes a
village.
But now the village is tooscared because you might get in
trouble.
For you know, because, oh, youtalk to my kid that way.
How dare you I'm like your kidstry to beat up my kid, like I'm
gonna sit here and do nothingthe village is backstabbing each
other that's why, rick, rick,do you know who wrote a book and
called it that?

Carmen Lezeth (41:05):
Mm-mm, it takes a village.

Rick Costa (41:08):
Oh, was it Maya Angelou.

Carmen Lezeth (41:09):
No who Hillary Clinton?
Oh Boom Sorry.

Rick Costa (41:16):
It takes a village, the other thing I wanted to
bring up too bringing it back tocrowdfunding is because I've
heard of a lot of people thatstarted one and then the
crowdfunding place canceled it.
Yeah, and they had alreadyraised a lot of money.
So I'm going to be honest withyou In my mind I thought when
this started I'm like surelythey're going to cancel this
Because that's the norm, so letme just let me verify.

Carmen Lezeth (41:37):
So there is the normal or the most known one
that everyone can pretty muchsay easily.
Then there was another oneestablished, and I'm not lying
to you.
It is the American ChristianCrowdfunding site.
That's not the name of it, I'mjust telling you.
That's their definition.
And it was established in 2014for the first purpose and then,

(41:59):
after that, it became a placethat housed not housed, but
helped neo-Nazis, whitesupremacists and other hate
groups neo-Nazis, whitesupremacists and other hate
groups and Kyle Rittenhouse isone of the biggest names
recently, right in the pastyears, who killed two people.
And here's the thing just to befair, I want to be fair.
Everyone has a right to adefense.

(42:21):
Everyone does, especially ifyou become a high profile, even
if I hate you.
I want everyone in this countryto have due process.
Hate you.
I want everyone in this countryto have due process, which is
what we have in our constitution, and please know I didn't say
citizens.
Everyone in this country isallowed due process, so that
means Kyle Rittenhouse and thewomen and anyone else.

(42:43):
What I'm saying is where is ourethical line?
Where is our morality?
Where is that line where we'renow making $750,000 on calling a
child a name, the N word andusing that word easily, right?
What is that line?

Rick Costa (43:02):
I want to know if this one that is going to
eventually give her the money,which I hope she doesn't get the
money.
If they're not big on canceling, well, have they ever?
And who have they canceled?
I want to know that.

Carmen Lezeth (43:15):
They've given money to neo-Nazis and white
supremacists and so why wouldthey cancel this?
This seems to be in line withwhat they do, I think, with the
young woman whose name I wish Iknew because I would scream her
name.
I just don't remember her name.
I just saw it and I didn'twrite it down the coder.
What she's saying is, if aplace like Stripe or Square or

(43:37):
whichever one is, if we tellthem they cannot allow that
money to go through, it'll makeit harder and she won't be able
to get the money.
So she's saying she found outwhat the third party was in its
square and so putting a pressurecampaign on them not to allow
the money to come.
But I still think the problemis all the donations that are

(43:58):
going.
To begin with, it's not evenabout money.

Maurio Dawson (44:01):
It's about where it began and how many people
are encouraging.

Carmen Lezeth (44:06):
Are encouraging it and are saying that it's
actually okay that she did whatshe did.
Where was the parent of that?

Alma Dawson (44:12):
child.
From what I understand, thegentleman knows the children
because he takes his childrenthere to play and those kids are
there.
They come to play there everyday as well when he brings his
kids.
They must not live far, but thechild was there with an older
sibling.
Oh okay, I think you're rightrecording, because that woman

(44:36):
was started chasing them because, he took whatever it was her
bag her bag and called them then, the n word, and then he was,
and he even said something, likeyou were trying to hit him,
like you know, so it was justyeah.

Carmen Lezeth (44:53):
I think he's a.
I mean again, you know, I'malways like, would I ever pull
out my phone, like every timeI'm in a situation.
I don't know if you guys saw mylatest Tik TOK probably not,
cause I know you guys aren'talways on Tik TOK but I was
coming home the other day fromtaking a walk and I'm walking
home and there is there's a big,there's a lot of trees on our

(45:13):
street.
This is like a big one comingout the sidewalk, it's like big
and fat, and I saw a woman aboutto take off her pants and a man
in front of and he was holdingthis area.
Yup, I thought they were aboutto have sex.
It's worse than this.
It's worse than that.
Okay, he was to have sex.
It's worse than this.

Maurio Dawson (45:33):
It's worse than that okay, he was peeing.

Carmen Lezeth (45:34):
He was urinating and she was about to and she saw
me.
I stopped cold.
I was like what is happening?
And I said that out loud likeyeah, I had my headset on and he
said he kept going.
Now he was going around thetree and you could tell she was
look at your face.
I did a tiktok on this.
Not of them.
Not of them when I can't I liveon a side street of a very busy

(46:08):
street, okay, a very well-knownstreet, and I was shook.
I was in my first thought Wasit like let me pull out my phone
and do a tick tock on this, youknow what I mean?
I was totally thrown and thewoman was totally scattered, she
was totally embarrassed orwhatever.
And here's the thing.
They were maybe in theirthirties, they were not homeless

(46:30):
.
They looked well-dressed.
I mean, if they were homeless,it's recently or something.
Here's the thing.
I was there for like at least aminute because I did not know
what to do, did you?

Maurio Dawson (46:42):
set up a crowdfunding for them.

Carmen Lezeth (46:46):
What about my mental health For my trauma?

Alma Dawson (46:49):
What about my mental health, my trauma?
I set up a crowd for me, for aspotlight to get close right
there.

Carmen Lezeth (46:58):
Whenever anything moves, it just, oh my God the
thing is it was during the day,it wasn't nighttime, it was
during the day, not during theday.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (47:06):
I'm far from a main street they could have
gone to a restaurant, not even arestaurant restaurant.

Carmen Lezeth (47:12):
We have three bathrooms.

Alma Dawson (47:13):
I live two blocks from the beach there's people
exposing themselves and there'schildren around what I'm trying
to say is I was shook.

Carmen Lezeth (47:20):
There were other people, there was a couple
walking towards me and I waslike they're going to see this,
and when I saw them coming,that's when I kept walking.
But my point is I was shook, Iwas shook, shook it and I.
My thought process wasn't likelet me find my phone we are
different because I've been likewhat the are you doing?

Alma Dawson (47:42):
yeah, well, I did say that I was like what?
And then my salvadorian comesout and I would have been like I
think you and Cynthia wouldhave handled it differently.

Carmen Lezeth (47:51):
I was shocked.

Maurio Dawson (47:54):
Alma and Cynthia are the same.

Carmen Lezeth (47:56):
Yeah, what the?
I feel like there's kids.

Alma Dawson (48:00):
here there's people .

Carmen Lezeth (48:03):
I know when the couple walked by, because my
house was right there.
Like I know there's a coffeeshop around the corner.

Alma Dawson (48:08):
I heard them say something what I'm like.
I know there's a coffee shoparound the corner.
I heard them say something whatI'm like.
I know there's a coffee shoparound the corner.
Go get a code and use the rightone.
You know what?

Carmen Lezeth (48:16):
I honestly wish I , when I came home, is when I
did the TikTok.
I could not and it took me likean hour.
I couldn't even I was.

Alma Dawson (48:28):
That's why I don't want to see your kibbles and
bits there's no shame.

Carmen Lezeth (48:33):
There's no shame.
This is a very wealthy area.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (48:36):
I don't know why you've been out of Boston
for too long we'll do anothershow on all about the joy of
fetishes is that what this was?

Maurio Dawson (48:51):
it's really a fetish how about in public.
Exhibition.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (48:54):
I think it.
You know what they were RKelly-ing?
No, it's just Cynthia stop.

Maurio Dawson (49:02):
Y'all listen, they get their rocks off about
doing that stuff.

Carmen Lezeth (49:09):
I think you're I didn't even.

Alma Dawson (49:12):
Yeah, it's a thing, we're a couple.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (49:15):
It's a couple.

Alma Dawson (49:16):
Yeah it's a thing, you actually helped them.

Carmen Lezeth (49:21):
You helped them.

Alma Dawson (49:22):
You saw her face oh .

Maurio Dawson (49:25):
Do you see her face?
That was good.
Let's go.

Carmen Lezeth (49:29):
Why are you doing ?
You know I'm fighting with younow.
The whole show was good, let'sgo.
Why are you doing?
You know I'm fighting with younow.
The whole show is me and youfighting today.
Oh my God, I helped you.

Maurio Dawson (49:40):
You helped them get their rocks off.
Good for you.
Good for you.

Carmen Lezeth (49:45):
I couldn't understand.
All they had to do is go onyour phone and do bathroom and
it'll show you.
I'm right here at the beach.
There are bathrooms, rightthere.

Maurio Dawson (49:55):
It's the excitement of possibly getting
caught, and so you help them getcaught Going to the bathroom is
a fetish.
That's disgusting.
You've heard of golden showers.
Stop it.
You know what that is.
Stop it See now that is.
Stop it See now.
You know, see your face.
Just told you.

Carmen Lezeth (50:13):
I'm sitting there thinking about Donald Trump.
That's why.

Maurio Dawson (50:15):
But still, you know what it was.

Carmen Lezeth (50:18):
I did not realize .
I didn't even dawn on me, didyou guys, cynthia?

Alma Dawson (50:23):
and Ricky, did you not?
I didn't think about that parteither.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (50:27):
I was just like Cynthia, they could have
also tried to like they wereabout to have sex and they were
like saw somebody coming likelet's play it off.
Let me just.

Carmen Lezeth (50:38):
I mean and it was a lot he was peeing.
I didn't see it at first, butthen I looked at him because I
thought they were going to havesex.
And here's the thing I'mtalking about.
I'm talking about on the street, like you walk out of people
their home, it's right there.
And here's the thing I'mtalking about on the street.
Yeah, like you walk out ofpeople their home, it's right
there.
They weren't hiding I thinkyou're right, Mario.

Maurio Dawson (50:57):
Didn't even go in.
No, it is a thing, you're right.

Carmen Lezeth (50:59):
I think it was that it's a fetish.
It's a fetish and she gotembarrassed.
Yeah, he kept going and he justwent around the tree.
He kept going and he just wentaround the tree.
And then the other two couplesthe couple that came towards me,
I felt bad because I'm like I'mjust going into my house, I
went down my alleyway orwhatever.
The other two couples you couldhear them doing what?
Like they were yellingsomething they were yelling at

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them something.

Maurio Dawson (51:23):
It's a thing You're welcome.

Carmen Lezeth (51:27):
Listen, look at her face.

Maurio Dawson (51:28):
She helped, you did it, you did your job.

Carmen Lezeth (51:31):
Great Is this joy for you.
Mario, do you feel better now?
Is this the?

Rick Costa (51:38):
joy.
This is the joy.

Maurio Dawson (51:40):
She said hi, welcome.
My name is Carmen.
I have a show called All Aboutthe Joy.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (51:48):
I'm bringing you joy today.
And I'm going to talk about iton my show.

Carmen Lezeth (51:52):
This is terrible.
This was a horrible show I'mnot airing it.
It was horrible, ew.
Now I'm grossed out even morein a whole different icky way.

Maurio Dawson (52:02):
What can I say?
She's going to go and takeanother shower after the show.

Carmen Lezeth (52:07):
Ew, you know what I think that you know what it
is.
I feel stupid.
It didn't even dawn on me,didn't even dawn on me.
All.
I can do is put up.
No shame.

Maurio Dawson (52:17):
You can do a follow up TikTok.

Carmen Lezeth (52:19):
I'm not doing a follow up TikTok.

Alma Dawson (52:22):
I'm changing the subject.
We're not going to talk aboutthat anymore.
Yeah, there's no shame, though.
There's no shame.

Rick Costa (52:29):
It's a trend, but it ain't on TikTok.

Carmen Lezeth (52:32):
That part.
Okay, all right.
Well, all right.
Well, that was a great show.
It's time to end this.
It's time to end it.

Alma Dawson (52:42):
So we're going to say so, since it's National
Teachers Week, make sure youthank a teacher.
Thank you, alma.
Thank you, Alma.
You don't have to do it inperson, but you can, you know,
make a donation to your localschool or send some muffins just
door.
Dash it just say thank you.
Wait, do you guys?

Carmen Lezeth (53:00):
really accept door dash muffins at a school?

Alma Dawson (53:03):
yeah, I mean they're being sent from a
company.
It's not like you're walkingthem in.
You can put in if you'resending them from a company,
like if you, you know, ordersome cookies from you know
different places.
And then, week after next isfor all the other staff.
All the other school staff getappreciated.
So you can thank a teacher,assistant or, you know, your

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school nurse or the front officepeople, anyone you want to
thank at the schools.
Just Thank them.
Just thank them.

Maurio Dawson (53:34):
Okay, thank my old teacher and bring them some
joy.

Carmen Lezeth (53:36):
Yeah, bring them some joy, for sure, I'd love to
see my older kids come back.

Alma Dawson (53:41):
I really do.
Like I said, I've attendedweddings and christenings for
their babies.
Really, things like that, oh,yeah, yeah.
Graduations all the way fromtheir middle school to college,
phds, all of that good stuff, soyeah she has.

Maurio Dawson (53:56):
One of her former students is nfl player.

Alma Dawson (53:59):
Yeah, so yeah so yeah very cool yeah, so it's
nice.
We'd like to see all of ourkids come back.
So you know, even if you thinkthere might not be anybody there
, they love to see.
You know, kids come back andand just share their their
stories.

Carmen Lezeth (54:15):
I didn't know.
Oh, go ahead, Rick.
I'm sorry.

Rick Costa (54:16):
It was that story of .
It was an elderly woman.
She's in the hospital, she'svery nervous because she has to
have a procedure and she'sscared.
And then a doctor comes andsees her and tells her I was one
of your students, I was thetroubled kid, what's your name?
And she said, he said the name.
Oh my God, I remember.
You're a doctor.

Carmen Lezeth (54:38):
He was a surgeon yeah.

Rick Costa (54:41):
It was like such a beautiful story.

Alma Dawson (54:43):
It's so awesome.
It really is.
I'd love to see it.
I'd love to see our kids comeback and just see how they're
doing, and some of them aredoing really well.
Some of them they've had theirstruggles but they're still
persevering.
So that's the thing that theythink of.
Enough of you to come back andsay hey, I remember when you
used to sit me down and talk tome and tell me the things that I
could do with my life.

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I just use my powers for good.
That's my line.
Powers for good, that's my line.
Use your powers for good.

Carmen Lezeth (55:09):
Yeah, everyone, use your powers for good.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez (55:12):
Yes.

Rick Costa (55:14):
For God's sake, find a bathroom.

Carmen Lezeth (55:17):
Yeah, use a bathroom.
Oh my God, God's sake.
Hey everyone, we're going towind this down.
I'm really grossed out now, butthere's a bathroom for that.

Rick Costa (55:30):
The title of this episode is people that have no
shame the title of this episode,listen everyone thank you so
much, we're on.

Carmen Lezeth (55:41):
You guys are making it hard for me to end
this right now.
This is a private lounge, okayyou know what this is?
a private lounge.
We're going to end it now.
Listen at the end of the day,remember.
It really is all about the joy.
Take care this week.
Bye, Bye everyone.

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Thanks for stopping by.
All About the Joy Be better andstay beautiful.
Folks have a sweet day.