November 17, 2025 • 13 mins
In this podcast, CUPF Communications and Outreach Specialist, Derek Ross will be joined by CUPF Program Specialist - Childcare & Special Projects, Emily Brewster-McCarthy. Our special guests will include CUPF’s Acting Director, Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas. Spoiler Alert!! We have a new co-host. Plus, we have exciting news!! We would like to introduce our listeners to our new Operations Manager, Eduardo Fuentes.
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Ramona Bell-Pearson (00:12):
We are CUPF, and thank you for joining
our community podcast.
Let's get started.
Derek Ross (00:17):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Now, now, it feels good to beback.
I I'm not even gonna messaround with everybody.
We are back with Off the CUPFCommunity Use of Public
Facilities podcast.
This is what, episode 13?
What's going on with CUPF?
No, that is not me just askingthe question.
That is actually the title ofthis episode and his latest news
and updates and all of thatgood stuff.
(00:39):
Let's get into it.
Let's get into it.
Once again, my name is Derek.
I'm the communicationspecialist with CUPF Community
Use of Public Facilities.
I'm gonna throw that in thereone more time.
Uh, we're gonna get into somehighs and lows before we get
started.
I also wanted to say hello,Emily.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (00:52):
Hi.
I told y'all we'd be back,right?
I think the last episode I saidy'all are gonna hear more from
me.
Derek Ross (00:57):
Oh.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (00:58):
Uh and here I am.
Derek Ross (01:00):
The way you said, I was like, okay, okay, okay.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:04):
Yeah.
So again, little re-intro.
Uh Emily Brewster McCarthy.
I'm a uh program specialistwith childcare and special
projects with CUPF.
Derek Ross (01:11):
Oh, that was a say that again.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:12):
What?
Program everything.
Derek Ross (01:14):
Say that again.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:14):
Oh, yeah, okay.
So program specialist withchild care and special uh
projects.
Ooh.
With CUPF.
Derek Ross (01:19):
Okay, okay, I like that.
I like that.
So you got that out.
Okay, okay.
And you know, before we getinto all of these highs and
lows, I just wanted to jumparound a little bit.
And, you know, we we have, wehave, you know, I'm trying to
figure out how do we introduceit?
Because this person has a newtitle, a new role.
They're doing so many greatthings in the community.
They have this awesome redsweater that they're just
wearing.
It's just awesome.
(01:40):
I'm I'm just talking as if youget them smiling and everything
like that.
Hello, Vanessa.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:44):
Hi, guys.
Hi, Vanessa.
Welcome back.
Thank you for having me again.
Derek Ross (01:49):
Vanessa, how how should we introduce you?
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:52):
What is your title?
Well, I am the financialadministrator.
Derek Ross (01:55):
Okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:56):
But temporarily I am the interim
acting director.
Derek Ross (01:59):
Oh! Okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:01):
Until Ramona's uh replacement is is is
found.
I know it's gonna be a uhdifficult challenge, but uh
yeah, in the interim, I am theacting director for now.
Derek Ross (02:11):
So do we merge all your titles into one?
Is that how it works?
Or is it just you do we justsay interim director, acting
director?
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:18):
Uh you can merge it into one.
Derek Ross (02:20):
Oh, okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:21):
I think.
Derek Ross (02:22):
We can do that.
See, you know what?
It feels good.
Vanessa, we've seen you overthere.
I know we've been introducingyou in a finance team and seeing
where you're doing.
You're you're doing great work,Vanessa.
Just to let you know that.
We're going to try to getVanessa crying and smiling all
day.
If she's not crying by the endof this podcast, then I didn't
do my job.
I didn't do my job.
But let's get into highs andlows.
Highs and lows.
I'll start off.
I'll start off.
Emily, we were out there doing,what was it, the Wheaton TJ
(02:44):
Friday?
Um, what was that, reggae lastFriday?
Yeah, a couple Fridays ago.
It was nice.
It was nice.
We were out in a community.
Uh, we had a little booth, ourtable, but you know, it felt
good to get from behind thetable and kind of introduce
ourselves and tell people aboutCUPF, giving flyers and bags,
the piggy banks.
The piggy banks.
Those goes.
They go.
Vanessa, thank you.
(03:04):
Thank you again for thesupport, Vanessa, as well,
giving us all this informationabout what, you know, ideas and
stuff like that.
My low, I think a low is uh Idid recently have a computer
crash on me.
I uh, you know, I thought wepassed that.
I'm joking, it's 2025.
Why is my computer crashing?
But it happens, it happens.
Um, whatever was good there isgone.
So, you know, I'll live withthat.
But you know, it's gonna beokay.
(03:25):
It's gonna be okay.
But Emily, let's jump around.
Highs and lows.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (03:28):
Uh, you know, my high is that it's like
maybe 60-something degrees outtoday.
And I'm super excited because Iget to wear my little cardigan.
Uh, I know we said Vanessa hasher red one, I have my black
one.
Uh I'm just ready.
Uh it's a CUPF cardigan.
It is a CUPF cardigan.
Okay.
Uh it's an exclusive cardigan.
Um, yeah, it's it's uh asidefrom how amazing the cardigan
(03:52):
is, um, I really like the falland like spooky season is around
the corner, so I'm veryexcited.
Um, and my low, I don't knowthat I really have one.
I would say probably oh, well,okay.
Just kidding.
My low and my high low, maybethe fact that my daughter is
about to go and startkindergarten, even though that's
(04:15):
also a high, but it's like youknow, I'm like bittersweet.
Yeah, it's bittersweet.
Um, my baby's growing up now,so it's high and low, you know.
Derek Ross (04:24):
But that just makes me feel good.
Yeah, makes me feel good.
Makes me feel good.
Let's let's all look atVanessa.
Vanessa, acting director,Vanessa, finance team,
everything, Vanessa.
How are you doing?
Highs and low.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (04:38):
So, my high is that we had a successful
go live on the 15th, which wasFriday.
It was it went very well.
I was thinking it was gonna bea little bit more challenging,
but we did okay.
We did okay.
And uh, I'm very happy.
I'm I'm very also appreciativeof the team we have at CUF.
Everyone worked really hard andwe were there really early from
(04:59):
6:30 in the morning to to fivein the afternoon.
And Saturday we did somesupport too on the back end.
And um, I just want to saythank you to core services for
doing such a great job, thefinance team as well, and
everyone also, uh, the othermembers of the CUF staff that
were there for moral support.
I appreciate you guys too.
Everyone did such a phenomenaljob, and I'm very impressed and
(05:20):
proud of them.
Um, for my low, I think is thatsummer is leaving us.
And, you know, the I know thatthat's one of Emily's highs, but
I love summer.
I love the hot weather.
So that that is my low.
And you know, fall's coming in.
I appreciate fall, but I lovesummer.
So that's my low.
Derek Ross (05:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, fall, fall is fall,is falling.
Is that fall is falling andtrying to sound like a young
person?
But yes, so we, you know, thatthose are our highs and lows
just to give people a chance ofunderstanding that, you know,
we're real people here.
We have things going on, butyou know what, we got community
use going on too.
So we're always looking intodoing various things and stuff
like that in the community andyou know, get a taste of our
(05:58):
highs and lows.
Once again, this is communityuse public facilities podcast.
I like to throw that in therejust in case you were wondering,
what are you listening to?
It's CUPF, everybody.
It's CUPF.
Then let's mention somethingabout faces, new faces.
And I know we were all herewhen Ramona was here and stuff
like that.
When we're talking about what'sgoing on with CUPF and new
faces, how does where do we gowith that?
Like, how does that make mefeel as a as a person who's
(06:21):
witnessing all of this greatleadership roll in?
Great leadership sitting withus right now.
How does that make you feel?
I know, talking to you.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (06:29):
I'm actually really excited.
Uh, we have some new uhadministration coming in and uh
management.
And um, I know we're all superexcited.
Yeah, sure.
Change can be a littlenerve-wracking, but I think we
have established um a lot ofreally awesome routines and
just, you know, CUPF is is we'redoing a really, really uh good
(06:51):
job at, you know, going anddoing community outreach, and
we're doing a whole bunch ofdifferent things like this
podcast.
We just had Go Live, like wementioned, and we're doing a lot
of um team building and I thinkuh community building during
this transition period.
And we're just really excitedfor whoever is going to come.
(07:12):
And I know um we do haveprobably one slight announcement
that I'll go ahead and lob toVanessa, but um, I won't lob it
quite yet.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just uh Ithink all of us are um excited
for this new change, uh, newseason, new people, new faces.
Um we also have a lot of planson um reaching out to do other
(07:37):
kind of educational orprofessional outreach or
enrichment.
So you'll be seeing Derek and Ia lot uh in different split uh
places around the county.
And um we're just super excitedto kind of get the word out
more than we already have.
So, Vanessa, I don't know ifyou want to, you know, mention
anything in terms of our changechange and transition.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (07:56):
I would like to, yes, yes.
I do want to mention that wehave a new operations manager.
This was uh the new Ron Maxon,who just retired August 1st.
We he's terribly missed, but westill have him as a consultant,
thankfully.
But um, so that our new personis Eduardo Fuentes.
And he comes with over 25 yearsof experience in operations and
(08:19):
facilities management,including 17 years at Montgomery
College.
Awesome.
And he served as the buildingand grounds manager.
So we are very happy to havehim.
I'm sure we will have him as aguest in the near future.
Derek Ross (08:30):
Oh, yeah.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (08:30):
Yeah, so excited.
Derek Ross (08:32):
Yeah, yeah.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (08:33):
The first week.
How about that?
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (08:36):
Hey, jump right on in.
Derek Ross (08:37):
Just jump right in.
Just come in, just go aheadstraight in.
Oh, this is exciting.
This is exciting.
Thank you, Vanessa.
See, thank you, thank you,thank you.
Well, you know, I don't want toend the podcast.
I feel like we should just keeptalking and talking and
talking, you know, podcastmarathon.
We're just gonna do it foreight hours.
We got Joel in the cornerhelping us.
No, we have other things to doas well, too.
The podcast is just extra andit's good extra, too.
(09:00):
I like doing it.
And Vanessa and Emily has beenawesome working with everybody,
but let's let's kind of closethis out.
Let's kind of close this out.
I figure, you know, well, whynot?
Why not?
Um, I also want to say that,you know, working with Emily's
been awesome.
This has been a greatexperience.
I can't say whether Emily'sgonna be here forever, but we'll
hint at that later on.
I gotta, I gotta talk to somany people to kind of figure it
(09:22):
out.
But we also have Vanessa here,and Vanessa's always dropping
information.
But uh, you know, I want toclose it out with some some some
some good vibes, good vibes.
Personally, I want to say thankyou to the podcast team.
That includes y'all.
Thank you so much.
And thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
But no, thank you, thank you.
But I appreciate it too aswell.
This is a great opportunity, Ithink, for CUPF to be able to
get a lot of our informationout, you know, so people can
(09:43):
hear us talk, get ourpersonality and see what makes
it tick for us, what are wedoing out here?
Uh, but I also just want to saythank you.
Thank you so much.
Um, I'll probably end it bysaying that, you know, there's
so much more to come fromcommunications, comms,
marketing, outreach.
We got a lot going on, um, alot of good stuff, and it's
coming together.
It's coming together.
We're baking this cake,everybody.
But Emily, anything you want toclose out the podcast with?
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (10:05):
Uh, I'm just really excited to be back.
Um, this is, I think, my thirdepisode that I've done.
And like Derek said, you know,I may or may not be back.
I think I kind of hinted atthis earlier.
Um, but I did want to add uhanother thing.
We have a few like outreachevents during the year.
And if you've never met Derekand I, that is where you'll see
(10:26):
us.
You will for sure see us.
So if you want to meet thepodcast, uh, you know, we're
there.
We have uh it might the thedate might be past already, um,
you know, from when we publishthis, but we have some really
cool opportunities.
We have something happening onAugust 22nd.
Like I said, so that probablyalready passed, but we have a
(10:47):
few other events that we'replanning on attending and
participating in within the nextfall, spring, summer.
So we'll definitely keep youguys updated to see what we will
be doing and uh making surethat you know you guys come out
and say hi to us.
Oh, yeah.
Come say hi.
Derek Ross (11:03):
We're there, we're here, we're here.
Uh Vanessa, how how would youlike to end this podcast?
You know, we always gave it toRamon.
We lobbed it up to Ramona.
Yeah, we did.
Ramona gate, Ramona gonna giveit to us.
And we so appreciative.
Because you know what?
The transparency is so real.
Not to put that much pressureon you, but Vanessa.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (11:20):
Ah, big shoes to fill.
Yeah.
Derek Ross (11:22):
Not to put that much pressure, but the pressure is a
pressure, the pressure.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (11:26):
Oh, wow.
No, I just want to thank, youknow, all the listeners, all our
customers.
Yeah, you know, we couldn't doit without them.
There's a lot of, a lot ofthings that that happen in the
backgrounds trying to make surethat the customers are always
being heard, that the customersare always being um assisted in
everything that they need.
And I also want to thank all ofour team.
You know, our team is, we havea good team.
(11:47):
We have people that are verycapable and they know what
they're doing.
And I'm very, I'm very happy tobe part of it.
And uh, you know, just to thankand thank you guys also.
The communications team isawesome.
You know, Emily and Derek, ifyou see them around, you know,
they're at different events andeverything, and they're always,
you know, have a smile on theirface and they're always putting
putting a lot of effort into thegoodies that we give out to
(12:10):
people.
And I think, you know, they'redoing big things, great things.
The communications program isis every every time I turn
around, it's something new thatthey're doing.
So I'm like, okay, great.
These ideas are wonderful, andI love to see it.
So thank thank you guys.
Derek Ross (12:23):
Oh, Vanessa, thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you, Vanessa.
Thanks, Vanessa.
Gotta say, like, thank you,Vanessa.
Well, thank you, everybody.
Thank you for listening.
And we're going to cut thispodcast.
Why?
Because you know, it's so muchmore to go on.
We we got so much to do, somuch to do.
And thank you.
Shout out toJoel. Shout out to Tebs, the
audiovisual teams, and all ofthe teams that have made it
making it work in the county andfor the community as well, too.
(12:44):
But thank you again.
Thank you for listening, andwe'll we'll check in later.
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Derek Ross (00:17):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Now, now, it feels good to beback.
I I'm not even gonna messaround with everybody.
We are back with Off the CUPFCommunity Use of Public
Facilities podcast.
This is what, episode 13?
What's going on with CUPF?
No, that is not me just askingthe question.
That is actually the title ofthis episode and his latest news
and updates and all of thatgood stuff.
(00:39):
Let's get into it.
Let's get into it.
Once again, my name is Derek.
I'm the communicationspecialist with CUPF Community
Use of Public Facilities.
I'm gonna throw that in thereone more time.
Uh, we're gonna get into somehighs and lows before we get
started.
I also wanted to say hello,Emily.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (00:52):
Hi.
I told y'all we'd be back,right?
I think the last episode I saidy'all are gonna hear more from
me.
Derek Ross (00:57):
Oh.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (00:58):
Uh and here I am.
Derek Ross (01:00):
The way you said, I was like, okay, okay, okay.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:04):
Yeah.
So again, little re-intro.
Uh Emily Brewster McCarthy.
I'm a uh program specialistwith childcare and special
projects with CUPF.
Derek Ross (01:11):
Oh, that was a say that again.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:12):
What?
Program everything.
Derek Ross (01:14):
Say that again.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (01:14):
Oh, yeah, okay.
So program specialist withchild care and special uh
projects.
Ooh.
With CUPF.
Derek Ross (01:19):
Okay, okay, I like that.
I like that.
So you got that out.
Okay, okay.
And you know, before we getinto all of these highs and
lows, I just wanted to jumparound a little bit.
And, you know, we we have, wehave, you know, I'm trying to
figure out how do we introduceit?
Because this person has a newtitle, a new role.
They're doing so many greatthings in the community.
They have this awesome redsweater that they're just
wearing.
It's just awesome.
(01:40):
I'm I'm just talking as if youget them smiling and everything
like that.
Hello, Vanessa.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:44):
Hi, guys.
Hi, Vanessa.
Welcome back.
Thank you for having me again.
Derek Ross (01:49):
Vanessa, how how should we introduce you?
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:52):
What is your title?
Well, I am the financialadministrator.
Derek Ross (01:55):
Okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (01:56):
But temporarily I am the interim
acting director.
Derek Ross (01:59):
Oh! Okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:01):
Until Ramona's uh replacement is is is
found.
I know it's gonna be a uhdifficult challenge, but uh
yeah, in the interim, I am theacting director for now.
Derek Ross (02:11):
So do we merge all your titles into one?
Is that how it works?
Or is it just you do we justsay interim director, acting
director?
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:18):
Uh you can merge it into one.
Derek Ross (02:20):
Oh, okay.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (02:21):
I think.
Derek Ross (02:22):
We can do that.
See, you know what?
It feels good.
Vanessa, we've seen you overthere.
I know we've been introducingyou in a finance team and seeing
where you're doing.
You're you're doing great work,Vanessa.
Just to let you know that.
We're going to try to getVanessa crying and smiling all
day.
If she's not crying by the endof this podcast, then I didn't
do my job.
I didn't do my job.
But let's get into highs andlows.
Highs and lows.
I'll start off.
I'll start off.
Emily, we were out there doing,what was it, the Wheaton TJ
(02:44):
Friday?
Um, what was that, reggae lastFriday?
Yeah, a couple Fridays ago.
It was nice.
It was nice.
We were out in a community.
Uh, we had a little booth, ourtable, but you know, it felt
good to get from behind thetable and kind of introduce
ourselves and tell people aboutCUPF, giving flyers and bags,
the piggy banks.
The piggy banks.
Those goes.
They go.
Vanessa, thank you.
(03:04):
Thank you again for thesupport, Vanessa, as well,
giving us all this informationabout what, you know, ideas and
stuff like that.
My low, I think a low is uh Idid recently have a computer
crash on me.
I uh, you know, I thought wepassed that.
I'm joking, it's 2025.
Why is my computer crashing?
But it happens, it happens.
Um, whatever was good there isgone.
So, you know, I'll live withthat.
But you know, it's gonna beokay.
(03:25):
It's gonna be okay.
But Emily, let's jump around.
Highs and lows.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (03:28):
Uh, you know, my high is that it's like
maybe 60-something degrees outtoday.
And I'm super excited because Iget to wear my little cardigan.
Uh, I know we said Vanessa hasher red one, I have my black
one.
Uh I'm just ready.
Uh it's a CUPF cardigan.
It is a CUPF cardigan.
Okay.
Uh it's an exclusive cardigan.
Um, yeah, it's it's uh asidefrom how amazing the cardigan
(03:52):
is, um, I really like the falland like spooky season is around
the corner, so I'm veryexcited.
Um, and my low, I don't knowthat I really have one.
I would say probably oh, well,okay.
Just kidding.
My low and my high low, maybethe fact that my daughter is
about to go and startkindergarten, even though that's
(04:15):
also a high, but it's like youknow, I'm like bittersweet.
Yeah, it's bittersweet.
Um, my baby's growing up now,so it's high and low, you know.
Derek Ross (04:24):
But that just makes me feel good.
Yeah, makes me feel good.
Makes me feel good.
Let's let's all look atVanessa.
Vanessa, acting director,Vanessa, finance team,
everything, Vanessa.
How are you doing?
Highs and low.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (04:38):
So, my high is that we had a successful
go live on the 15th, which wasFriday.
It was it went very well.
I was thinking it was gonna bea little bit more challenging,
but we did okay.
We did okay.
And uh, I'm very happy.
I'm I'm very also appreciativeof the team we have at CUF.
Everyone worked really hard andwe were there really early from
(04:59):
6:30 in the morning to to fivein the afternoon.
And Saturday we did somesupport too on the back end.
And um, I just want to saythank you to core services for
doing such a great job, thefinance team as well, and
everyone also, uh, the othermembers of the CUF staff that
were there for moral support.
I appreciate you guys too.
Everyone did such a phenomenaljob, and I'm very impressed and
(05:20):
proud of them.
Um, for my low, I think is thatsummer is leaving us.
And, you know, the I know thatthat's one of Emily's highs, but
I love summer.
I love the hot weather.
So that that is my low.
And you know, fall's coming in.
I appreciate fall, but I lovesummer.
So that's my low.
Derek Ross (05:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, fall, fall is fall,is falling.
Is that fall is falling andtrying to sound like a young
person?
But yes, so we, you know, thatthose are our highs and lows
just to give people a chance ofunderstanding that, you know,
we're real people here.
We have things going on, butyou know what, we got community
use going on too.
So we're always looking intodoing various things and stuff
like that in the community andyou know, get a taste of our
(05:58):
highs and lows.
Once again, this is communityuse public facilities podcast.
I like to throw that in therejust in case you were wondering,
what are you listening to?
It's CUPF, everybody.
It's CUPF.
Then let's mention somethingabout faces, new faces.
And I know we were all herewhen Ramona was here and stuff
like that.
When we're talking about what'sgoing on with CUPF and new
faces, how does where do we gowith that?
Like, how does that make mefeel as a as a person who's
(06:21):
witnessing all of this greatleadership roll in?
Great leadership sitting withus right now.
How does that make you feel?
I know, talking to you.
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (06:29):
I'm actually really excited.
Uh, we have some new uhadministration coming in and uh
management.
And um, I know we're all superexcited.
Yeah, sure.
Change can be a littlenerve-wracking, but I think we
have established um a lot ofreally awesome routines and
just, you know, CUPF is is we'redoing a really, really uh good
(06:51):
job at, you know, going anddoing community outreach, and
we're doing a whole bunch ofdifferent things like this
podcast.
We just had Go Live, like wementioned, and we're doing a lot
of um team building and I thinkuh community building during
this transition period.
And we're just really excitedfor whoever is going to come.
(07:12):
And I know um we do haveprobably one slight announcement
that I'll go ahead and lob toVanessa, but um, I won't lob it
quite yet.
Yeah, I mean, I'm just uh Ithink all of us are um excited
for this new change, uh, newseason, new people, new faces.
Um we also have a lot of planson um reaching out to do other
(07:37):
kind of educational orprofessional outreach or
enrichment.
So you'll be seeing Derek and Ia lot uh in different split uh
places around the county.
And um we're just super excitedto kind of get the word out
more than we already have.
So, Vanessa, I don't know ifyou want to, you know, mention
anything in terms of our changechange and transition.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (07:56):
I would like to, yes, yes.
I do want to mention that wehave a new operations manager.
This was uh the new Ron Maxon,who just retired August 1st.
We he's terribly missed, but westill have him as a consultant,
thankfully.
But um, so that our new personis Eduardo Fuentes.
And he comes with over 25 yearsof experience in operations and
(08:19):
facilities management,including 17 years at Montgomery
College.
Awesome.
And he served as the buildingand grounds manager.
So we are very happy to havehim.
I'm sure we will have him as aguest in the near future.
Derek Ross (08:30):
Oh, yeah.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (08:30):
Yeah, so excited.
Derek Ross (08:32):
Yeah, yeah.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (08:33):
The first week.
How about that?
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (08:36):
Hey, jump right on in.
Derek Ross (08:37):
Just jump right in.
Just come in, just go aheadstraight in.
Oh, this is exciting.
This is exciting.
Thank you, Vanessa.
See, thank you, thank you,thank you.
Well, you know, I don't want toend the podcast.
I feel like we should just keeptalking and talking and
talking, you know, podcastmarathon.
We're just gonna do it foreight hours.
We got Joel in the cornerhelping us.
No, we have other things to doas well, too.
The podcast is just extra andit's good extra, too.
(09:00):
I like doing it.
And Vanessa and Emily has beenawesome working with everybody,
but let's let's kind of closethis out.
Let's kind of close this out.
I figure, you know, well, whynot?
Why not?
Um, I also want to say that,you know, working with Emily's
been awesome.
This has been a greatexperience.
I can't say whether Emily'sgonna be here forever, but we'll
hint at that later on.
I gotta, I gotta talk to somany people to kind of figure it
(09:22):
out.
But we also have Vanessa here,and Vanessa's always dropping
information.
But uh, you know, I want toclose it out with some some some
some good vibes, good vibes.
Personally, I want to say thankyou to the podcast team.
That includes y'all.
Thank you so much.
And thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
But no, thank you, thank you.
But I appreciate it too aswell.
This is a great opportunity, Ithink, for CUPF to be able to
get a lot of our informationout, you know, so people can
(09:43):
hear us talk, get ourpersonality and see what makes
it tick for us, what are wedoing out here?
Uh, but I also just want to saythank you.
Thank you so much.
Um, I'll probably end it bysaying that, you know, there's
so much more to come fromcommunications, comms,
marketing, outreach.
We got a lot going on, um, alot of good stuff, and it's
coming together.
It's coming together.
We're baking this cake,everybody.
But Emily, anything you want toclose out the podcast with?
Emily Brewster-McCarthy (10:05):
Uh, I'm just really excited to be back.
Um, this is, I think, my thirdepisode that I've done.
And like Derek said, you know,I may or may not be back.
I think I kind of hinted atthis earlier.
Um, but I did want to add uhanother thing.
We have a few like outreachevents during the year.
And if you've never met Derekand I, that is where you'll see
(10:26):
us.
You will for sure see us.
So if you want to meet thepodcast, uh, you know, we're
there.
We have uh it might the thedate might be past already, um,
you know, from when we publishthis, but we have some really
cool opportunities.
We have something happening onAugust 22nd.
Like I said, so that probablyalready passed, but we have a
(10:47):
few other events that we'replanning on attending and
participating in within the nextfall, spring, summer.
So we'll definitely keep youguys updated to see what we will
be doing and uh making surethat you know you guys come out
and say hi to us.
Oh, yeah.
Come say hi.
Derek Ross (11:03):
We're there, we're here, we're here.
Uh Vanessa, how how would youlike to end this podcast?
You know, we always gave it toRamon.
We lobbed it up to Ramona.
Yeah, we did.
Ramona gate, Ramona gonna giveit to us.
And we so appreciative.
Because you know what?
The transparency is so real.
Not to put that much pressureon you, but Vanessa.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (11:20):
Ah, big shoes to fill.
Yeah.
Derek Ross (11:22):
Not to put that much pressure, but the pressure is a
pressure, the pressure.
Vanessa Lopez-Cuevas (11:26):
Oh, wow.
No, I just want to thank, youknow, all the listeners, all our
customers.
Yeah, you know, we couldn't doit without them.
There's a lot of, a lot ofthings that that happen in the
backgrounds trying to make surethat the customers are always
being heard, that the customersare always being um assisted in
everything that they need.
And I also want to thank all ofour team.
You know, our team is, we havea good team.
(11:47):
We have people that are verycapable and they know what
they're doing.
And I'm very, I'm very happy tobe part of it.
And uh, you know, just to thankand thank you guys also.
The communications team isawesome.
You know, Emily and Derek, ifyou see them around, you know,
they're at different events andeverything, and they're always,
you know, have a smile on theirface and they're always putting
putting a lot of effort into thegoodies that we give out to
(12:10):
people.
And I think, you know, they'redoing big things, great things.
The communications program isis every every time I turn
around, it's something new thatthey're doing.
So I'm like, okay, great.
These ideas are wonderful, andI love to see it.
So thank thank you guys.
Derek Ross (12:23):
Oh, Vanessa, thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you, Vanessa.
Thanks, Vanessa.
Gotta say, like, thank you,Vanessa.
Well, thank you, everybody.
Thank you for listening.
And we're going to cut thispodcast.
Why?
Because you know, it's so muchmore to go on.
We we got so much to do, somuch to do.
And thank you.
Shout out toJoel. Shout out to Tebs, the
audiovisual teams, and all ofthe teams that have made it
making it work in the county andfor the community as well, too.
(12:44):
But thank you again.
Thank you for listening, andwe'll we'll check in later.
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