This is our "Love Of" episode!
Whether it's a laid-back gathering with Brazilian fare for Rick's birthday or a jubilant shindig with many friends, we discuss that it's the love intertwined in these moments that truly makes them shine.
We go through a series of questions - what movie we love most, what TV show, what food we love most, what relationship we love most... it's a fun conversation and along the way, we're joined by Chris Rossetti, who teaches a different way to think of a question I pose... we love learning something new on All About The Joy!
As we wrap up, we venture into the realm of family and friendships, discussing the poignant influence of both bloodline and chosen family in our lives. Rick and I share stories close to our hearts, exploring the fabric of relationships that shape us and the threads of TV shows, music and movies that weave into our beliefs and humor. Sit back, pour yourself a mug of your favorite beverage—perhaps not coffee if you're anything like our guest Chris, but join us as we unwrap the gift of connection, love, and the simple joys that life brings our way.
(The song Lemonade that Chris references by Alex Boyé can be found at this link)
Thank you for stopping by. Please visit our website: All About The Joy and add, like and share. We'd appreciate that greatly. Also, if you want to find us anywhere on social media, please check out the link in bio page.
Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.
This is our "Love Of" episode!
Whether it's a laid-back gathering with Brazilian fare for Rick's birthday or a jubilant shindig with many friends, we discuss that it's the love intertwined in these moments that truly makes them shine.
We go through a series of questions - what movie we love most, what TV show, what food we love most, what relationship we love most... it's a fun conversation and along the way, we're joined by Chris Rossetti, who teaches a different way to think of a question I pose... we love learning something new on All About The Joy!
As we wrap up, we venture into the realm of family and friendships, discussing the poignant influence of both bloodline and chosen family in our lives. Rick and I share stories close to our hearts, exploring the fabric of relationships that shape us and the threads of TV shows, music and movies that weave into our beliefs and humor. Sit back, pour yourself a mug of your favorite beverage—perhaps not coffee if you're anything like our guest Chris, but join us as we unwrap the gift of connection, love, and the simple joys that life brings our way.
(The song Lemonade that Chris references by Alex Boyé can be found at this link)
Thank you for stopping by. Please visit our website: All About The Joy and add, like and share. We'd appreciate that greatly. Also, if you want to find us anywhere on social media, please check out the link in bio page.
Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.
Wait, I'm not gonna say what you said in the background, but that was funny. Okay. That was good. Hi everyone. Welcome to All About the Joy. What's up, rick? Happy new year.
Rick Costa:Happy new year and happy birthday to me.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, how was your birthday, wasn't it on the second?
Rick Costa:Yeah, yeah, it was good. I mean it was chill, obviously, because everybody's working that day and stuff, but my son did come over, we brought some yummy Brazilian food and we chowed down. It was so good. Yeah, it was good.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, happy birthday. Are you celebrating on week, or is it just that was it? It's kind of a simple birthday.
Rick Costa:Yeah, it was simple yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah.
Rick Costa:I know you like to do the month I think right Birthday month.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, hell yes. But you know whose birthday is coming up right.
Rick Costa:Besides yours? Oh, of course, yeah, yours.
Carmen Lezeth:Who did you say?
Rick Costa:No, I was thinking. I almost thought you met somebody else. I was like who else has a birthday in January? I know you do.
Carmen Lezeth:We are only mentioning your birthday, but generally nobody else's birthday matters but mine in January.
Rick Costa:Okay, got it, we just give it a little bit of a no-ing.
Carmen Lezeth:It's all about the Carmen. Yes, so you're not done celebrating. You just had that one day, but you're going to do something this weekend, right? Oh, you got to treat yourself to something.
Rick Costa:All right, we'll get DoorDash or something, something and then I tell you what I'll get you DoorDash.
Carmen Lezeth:I'll treat you and your family to an evening on this weekend. You let me know. Seriously, that's funny. I'm just saying You're supposed to say thank you when you get a happy birthday.
Rick Costa:Thank you, thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:Thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I'm just saying I will do that for you. I used you back in the day. I don't do it as much anymore, but there was a rule I would celebrate it all month. Every day I would go out with one of my friends for lunch or dinner, and it was great, but it was also exhaustive and by the end of it all I'd gained like five pounds because we'd go to some brilliant restaurant, always right or something. So. But I always wanted to have quality time with each one of my friends. But now that they're all stupid married and with kids and whatever you know, it's a whole different ball game. And one year I remember one of my friends was like we all, the family, we all want to take you out for dinner. I was like, ooh, I love that idea, but somehow me with your three year old kids and your husband, who you've been fighting with, ate really my birthday somehow. But thank you very much. So, but yeah, so January is a cool, cool month. I love it. So, yeah, happy birthday, my friend.
Rick Costa:Okay, funny fact. What Funny fact. I was supposed to be born before Christmas.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I don't know.
Rick Costa:It's a funny fact. And well, here's the funny part. So when my mom gets mad at me because I didn't do something fast enough or whatever, she'd be like see, he was lazy then and you still lazy now. I was like really.
Carmen Lezeth:That's really. Oh my God, that's not nice. You and. I have different ideas of what funny is, but you laughed. You laughed, I know, but it's not like I'm feeling guilty of the laugh, you know what I mean. Like I'm feeling a little heartbroken about that, but that is kind of funny, though, now that you're an adult. But did that hurt you when you were a kid?
Rick Costa:No, I thought it was funny because I had no control over that. I was in your body, you didn't push me out. Oh my God, it's so terrible.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I have to stop laughing about that. Okay, today's episode is for the love of right. We're going to talk about everything that we love. We're going to try not to talk about the opposite of the things that we hate, but we're going to try to talk about love. So first, let's start with Rick. What is the thing you love most about your birthday, or which birthday was the one you loved the most? Maybe it hasn't come up yet. I know that wasn't on my list, I know, I know. I know I'm sorry, but I just thought of it.
Rick Costa:There's never been like one that I was wowed about ever, but maybe in the future.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I only because Andrea is not here I will say one of the best birthdays I ever had. I'm so glad she doesn't do social media because she'll never see this. All my friends flew in from everywhere for my 40th birthday and surprised me, and if everyone or anyone has watched the show, andrea is very bitter and angry about it because she accidentally was not invited by the person who is now dead, by the way, but he for some reason didn't invite her, but he didn't really know her and anyway. But that really was cool, because I wasn't, you know, I wasn't expecting it at all. And one of the weird things was is that one of my bosses was at it too. Like, whenever I look at the pictures, I'm like, why did he invite one of my bosses? I mean, it was fine, but it's still a weird. And she was cool, but it was just weird. You know what I mean. So he didn't know everybody, so it was kind of cool, but anyway. So that's one of my favorite birthdays. Yeah, what do you mean? Interesting, interesting.
Rick Costa:Well, it's just interesting. Plus, like you know, if he didn't really know Andrea, then I guess he didn't think anything of it.
Carmen Lezeth:Like you know. You know what it would be like. It would be like you trying to. Okay, so I have all of these. I mean this is going to sound so pompous. I have great friends, and Richard was one of my dearest friends, but Richard doesn't know everybody.
Carmen Lezeth:I feel like if you were going to set up a surprise party for me and you were going to try to invite everyone, you're going to invite everyone that you've connected to, right, right, but you don't know, like Mary and Joanne, you don't know these other people that you've never met on here. So it would be that kind of thing, like if you left Mary and Joanne, who are, you know, like my family out of it, or Billy, you don't. Well, you know Billy from the phone call, but how would you reach him? You know what I mean, right, it's kind of one of those things, like it wasn't intentional, it's just, if you don't know, you don't know. So it was, yeah, but if Andrea was here, she would be cursing him up and down, she'll be blaming him, she'll be like I met him, I know him, he could have called me, he could have found out.
Carmen Lezeth:Anyways, I'm just saying one of my favorite birthdays was that one, and I hope that I have one that will top it in the future, like next Friday. I'm just saying it could be, it could be right, okay. So what's your favorite food, or the love of what is your favorite or food that you love the most, at least today?
Rick Costa:It's going to sound very corny and like if you ever say like you're on a desert island and you can only have one food for the rest of your life, like if that was the case. It's going to sound so corny Hamburgers, hamburgers.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, so that conversation last week with the crew was all your thing. You understood all of that White castle, blah, blah, blah. Okay, what kind of hamburger Like you talking about? You make a hamburger at home, or?
Rick Costa:Yeah, I mean, that's what I do now, obviously, but but yeah, but why is it corny?
Carmen Lezeth:Why would hamburger?
Rick Costa:I don't know Cause most people probably be like steak and mashed potatoes and blah, blah, blah, but I'm like, no, that's not what I was going to say my favorite food is none of that.
Carmen Lezeth:Cynthia just said my favorite birthday was when I turned seven and my mom threw me a party at. Mcdonald's when they used to have parties.
Rick Costa:Oh, yeah, does McDonald's not have parties now, when I worked there, they still did it, but maybe they don't do it anymore.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, I mean, I'm not going to say that.
Rick Costa:When she turned seven. That's how memorable it was for her.
Carmen Lezeth:I know I'm a little sad, like we. We got to do something for your birthday this year. That's a little bit bigger, it was seven, I mean I'm glad Was Ronald McDonald there. Was what.
Rick Costa:Ronald McDonald there.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, but she kind of implied that they don't do parties now. So that kind of bumps me out.
Rick Costa:I bet you they probably don't.
Carmen Lezeth:Really Cause of COVID? You said Probably. I mean I said this laughing, cynthia, we're going to talk to your husband about like sprucing up your birthdays, baby, because you know okay.
Rick Costa:One place. I know that probably still, maybe still do it. I don't know if you guys have it out there. Chuck E Cheese.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah.
Rick Costa:We have Chuck E Cheese, because that's kind of their thing is parties.
Carmen Lezeth:So yeah, but that's not hamburgers, no, no no, I'm just saying a children's party at a restaurant is probably there. I don't think I'd ever want a birthday at a restaurant. No, no, I mean, that's what the surprise party was, but I don't know, I don't know. Anyways, I have.
Rick Costa:I think it was an all you could eat restaurant that might do that.
Carmen Lezeth:Really. Maybe I've had many dinners at a birthday, but I think I don't think that would. It's the people I'm with is what I'm trying to say. Yeah, I mean, that makes it much more fun. So, okay, food, right. So you said hamburgers. Let me tell you.
Carmen Lezeth:So I always say chocolate cake. I know that most people don't think that's food. I couldn't think of food, because all I keep thinking about, like if I was on a desert island, I was like dessert desert island. I love chocolate cake, but I really love I do love steak, but I don't think I could call that my favorite. I really am a moody person when it comes to food. On the one hand, I'm really kind of boring and I eat the same thing over and over and over again, but it like changes, right. So, like one week, all I want to eat is scrambled eggs in the morning, scrambled eggs, and I'll do that for like a week or two or whatever, and then I don't want to see eggs ever again and I'm like okay, just yogurt, everyday yogurt. You know what? I don't think I'm a good eater that way. So yeah, I don't know, but I think hamburgers is a good answer.
Rick Costa:Yeah, I like to funny story again.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, if you say funny story, you're like funny story.
Rick Costa:So this was a year ago.
Carmen Lezeth:Chocolate cake is breakfast food.
Rick Costa:Yes, okay, you better brush your teeth after.
Carmen Lezeth:All right, everyone wait. Rick is going to tell a funny story. Go ahead.
Rick Costa:Okay, it's not funny, it's not funny. So we used to go our it used to be our neighbor. He had these little almost like cabins up in Massachusetts, like up north, not on where you used to be, but on the other side, and it was up in these mountains, whatever. And so we went to this Polynesian restaurant that they love and they had these, like it was like kind of chicken nuggets, but they were bigger, they weren't like just chicken nuggets Anyway, and they were like. It was kind of like well, whatever you want, eat as many as you want, right? So I pig out. Well, the thing is, I got so sick that if?
Rick Costa:you even. Not only did I want, not want to see one or smell one, if you even said chicken nuggets, I was like for like two years I could not eat nothing that looked like a chicken nugget, couldn't do it.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, no, I get that. Look at Melanie's story time. Yeah, that's so good. Yeah, you know what I get like that. But then I have cravings, so I'll have like the strangest craving and that's like the other day I wanted a blueberry muffin. It couldn't be any blueberry muffin, it was a specific blueberry muffin that I had to get from Trader Joe's. Now I never go and trade a Joe's, so and it's like I'm not going to go to Trader Joe's for a blueberry muffin, but like for four days, that's all I wanted. And it's like I really am under the belief that if that's all I want to eat, I should just eat it, because if not, I'm going to eat everything else and it's not gonna satisfy me. You know what.
Rick Costa:I mean they say that and I believe this that when you are craving something like that, especially with something like out of the blue, that that thing has something that your body is actually needing a deficient in, so you should go ahead and eat it. And when I do go to Trader Joe's, I always get my mom blueberry muffins.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, okay, there's something there Pizza from the same old place. Okay, the same old place is a pizza place in Jamaica Play. Oh, okay, ooh, that would be good, and I'm not even a big pizza person, but that is a kind of nostalgic kind of thing. Yes, that would be really, really good. Yeah, that would be a favorite food, but then I would get sick of it after a week. See, I would probably die on a deserted island, but also because I'd be like I cannot keep eating this, I need something else, you know. So, anyways, all right.
Rick Costa:There's a Star Trek like a podcast thing with people from the enterprise one and they have at the end of their set it's like what kind of what we do. But at the end of the segment, whoever the guest is, they said, okay, now you're on a desert island and they say you have to pick your favorite cuisine, which means all Italian or all Japanese or all whatever favorite, this, that and the other. And I was like, oh well, if you could pick cuisine, then that gives you a lot more variety at least. And then also favorite dessert. So it could be like all cookies, all ice cream, all whatever. I was like well, that'll give you variety, at least Just take your cake, just go and talk with it.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't need a cuisine chocolate cake. Hey Chris, hi Chris, did I tell you that I was watching Star Trek the other day and did I text you? Who did I text? I remember, oh, one of my favorite episodes, the episode where they I did write a text to you. Was it you?
Rick Costa:Remind me what was it again.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, it was the episode with Kelsey Grammar at the end, where they're playing cards at the beginning and they keep repeating it over and, over and over again and they ended up finding out that they're in a loop. It's just like the Stargate episode. Oh, okay, you don't remember that episode. Cause and effect the episode is cause and effect, kelsey. Grammar was in it. Kelsey Grammar is the captain of the ship.
Rick Costa:They which Star Trek, the first original.
Carmen Lezeth:Star Trek Next Generation. Oh, next Gen, I've tried to remember that I would never talk about the other ones, so I don't talk about the other ones.
Rick Costa:The one that I saw that just broke me up and I still cry every time is when Lua Aksana remembered that she had the other daughter.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know that one.
Rick Costa:I hate that woman. Oh, I know. But this episode she acted her butt off.
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't say the actress wasn't a good actress. I said it just felt like the character.
Rick Costa:Yeah, but that episode.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, but you don't know the episode cause and effect. Okay, you're going to have to look, you're going to know it. Yeah, soon as I see it, I'll be like, oh yeah dude, but it's like the episode from Stargate SG-1, which is when, remember, they get in the loop.
Rick Costa:What do you think Jack? Over and over and over again, he's like oh, he's like oh my God, right.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I guess we're going right into. What TV shows do we love, right? So this was a pretty easy one, like if there was a quiz of all about the joy and there was multiple choice. What shows do Carmen and Rick love the most? Genre would be.
Rick Costa:Sci-Fi.
Carmen Lezeth:Yay right.
Rick Costa:And we already mentioned two of them.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah and yours. You would choose Star Trek Next Generation, right.
Rick Costa:If I had to pick only one out of every one, that's the one I really fell in love with, so yeah, Chris is so stupid.
Carmen Lezeth:That was he did not. He's being funny.
Rick Costa:He's being funny, chris is. I'm telling you he is one of the funniest person people I've ever met. Well, why does he come up?
Carmen Lezeth:Is he somebody we want to ask? He's being funny, chris. If you want to, is he on your Facebook? Send him a link. He can come up Friends and scary movies.
Rick Costa:She don't like scary movies.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm not a scary movie person, but Cynthia loves horror. She says they're funny. I'm like no. I guess if we weren't talking about Sci-Fi, I would say that one of my favorite shows is it would be like the West Wing. You know what I mean Like TV shows. Definitely West Wing is a great one, and there's so many. But if I had to pick on an island, if we were whatever, it would definitely be ooh, stargate or Star Trek, I don't know. Okay what, if you had to pick one, you would pick Star Trek Next Generation, you get Stargate SG-1, or you get Star Trek Next Generation.
Rick Costa:That's definitely tough, definitely tough.
Carmen Lezeth:I think we know what I'm going with.
Rick Costa:But I think my heart is more attached to Next Generation a little bit.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, that's okay, but we know why I'm going with Stargate, right.
Rick Costa:You're right, Chris, exactly yes, she is.
Carmen Lezeth:I did not know that. Is she really?
Rick Costa:Yeah yeah, you mean the actress, right, the actress yeah, and she was also Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek. That was Jean's wife, the one that had a crush on Spock, but he was like yeah, but then she had a crush on Picard and I was like no, stop it. Oh, the Oksana.
Carmen Lezeth:yeah, yeah, I was like stop, stop, okay, this is not going to dwell into, we're going to stick to our topic. We have to move on. We have to move on. I just want to say Stargate SG-1 would probably, I would probably do that. Yeah, I'm still watching that.
Rick Costa:Yes, the voice at the end.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, and the voice at the end of the computer. Did you send him a link? He's scared to come up when.
Rick Costa:No.
Carmen Lezeth:It's okay, he don't need to.
Rick Costa:I'm looking at the bottom and I thought I was working fine one, because when I host, that's where it is, but there's nothing.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, what are you talking about?
Rick Costa:Because when I do my broadcast it gives me a button to share a link, but for me it's not doing it.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, you don't have the little man at the bottom. Okay, wait, okay, but I'm not inviting everyone, I just want to invite him. I'm going to give it to you, the private chat. I mean everyone. Look at me Like I'm Oprah, all of a sudden, like I cannot.
Rick Costa:You get a car and you get a car.
Carmen Lezeth:I just sent it to you in the private chat. Did you get it?
Rick Costa:Got it, got it.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I mean, you know something can come up, but you know what I mean I can't. I don't even know Chris, but you know him, he's not a crazy person right, he's really funny. Okay, but you're funny and my funny are two different things. But he's a sane human being, right?
Rick Costa:And he even was talking to Cuban. What's his name? Mark Cuban, once he got on his show, or something Right, chris?
Carmen Lezeth:Am I right? I don't know why you think Mark Cuban would give him more credo, Like okay.
Rick Costa:I mean, he's a famous person.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, yeah means nothing. He could have gone on Mark Cuban's show and been crazy. I trust you If you say he's a good person. I saw good he does for you.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, so if he wants to come up to school, if not now, chris, you'll have to come up in the future and we can talk all about sci-fi. But I don't want this to become a sci-fi episode, because people get bored, they're not into it. Our listeners are not big sci-fi people. I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't say that's not nice. Okay, how about movie Movie, rick.
Rick Costa:Movie favorite.
Carmen Lezeth:About planning Favorite movie, movie that you love, love. It has to be love. This is the love of episode. These are the easy questions. You know it gets harder.
Rick Costa:It's probably not going to be a stream shock, but the movie that I've watched the most, literally, over and, over and over again, it's a Jesus movie.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, so what's the name of it? My God, you always do this.
Rick Costa:It's called Jesus. That's what it's called. It's literally called Jesus. Yeah, it's an all.
Carmen Lezeth:Who wrote?
Rick Costa:it. Oh gosh, I don't know, but it's literally. They're trying to translate in every language all around the world Blah, blah, blah, okay, all right, but yeah, I've seen that more than any other movie.
Carmen Lezeth:Who directed it. Okay, this is not.
Rick Costa:I haven't seen it in a while.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, non-secular movie then, my God, do we want to?
Rick Costa:see it, you mean a secular movie.
Carmen Lezeth:Whatever secular movie.
Rick Costa:That could. That could sound like a watch, probably over and over again. Oh my gosh, trying to think, wait is that my car, making that noise your car?
Carmen Lezeth:No, I think my car. Somebody's car alarm is going off.
Rick Costa:Oh, alarm. I was going to say what kind of noise is your car making randomly?
Carmen Lezeth:What in the world is going on? I thought you could hear it. Hold on a second. Well, it's off now. Okay, I don't know, I my cars parked like in the parking area but it's. It sounds farther away. But you know, when you hear it you're like wait a minute, oh okay, that makes me really Graham Association Did the film. Okay, okay, cool, all right, sue.
Rick Costa:Well, there's another movie I've seen not as many times, but definitely have seen a bunch of times believe it or not, you're gonna probably laugh the original Stargate movie. I've actually seen that a bunch of times really, I don't even love that one though.
Carmen Lezeth:I know you don't, I know it's not that good with Kurt Russell. Mm-hmm, yeah, I like it. So that? So if you're stuck on an island, you want the original Stargate Movie as your love of movie. You have one movie to watch for the rest of your life. Gosh, yeah, see, this is why I sent you the list. See, you gotta have time. You gotta gotta read the list.
Rick Costa:Honey, I worked so hard today. I felt like I worked an entire week in a day.
Carmen Lezeth:It was you know what who you telling? This whole week was horrible for me. Hey, talk about going back the first week to work and the new year and you think, like I was already like, okay, we got this. And I think everybody else was like, okay, carmen got it. Gee, thanks. I hated this week so much, so much like I Honestly, I can honestly say I Thought about just quitting every one of my jobs and being like you know what, I'm a wing it for like three months. Three months I would be crying and on the street, but still I was Three months. I was like I think I could do it, find a new job. I hated this week, work wise.
Carmen Lezeth:I hate to say that because I know it's the new year. I'm not trying to be negative, being honest, and I still have to work tomorrow.
Rick Costa:Yeah, me too, and I have to bring my mom to the doctor tomorrow, which is another stressor.
Carmen Lezeth:Look, even sit there. Oh my god, me too. I'm everybody huh, I know I'm going tomorrow morning for blood work.
Rick Costa:Okay.
Carmen Lezeth:No, it's not that good. I have to do this more regularly now because of my Thyroid thing, majoga.
Rick Costa:I was telling my son. I said oh, my friend, she has that thing. She just found out, it's that Japanese. And he said exactly what it was like, how you know? Oh well, Hashimoto's you knew it, he knew what it was.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait, you called me your friend.
Chris Rossetti:I'm sorry, you had a bad time too. It's a tough. It's a tough week.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know why, though. What is wrong with everybody? I don't know. Maybe we should have like the first week in January off, so everybody could just be happy.
Rick Costa:It's a new year and a fresh start and be, and then the next week then go back to you know what I'm gonna? I mean, I mean I mean I know you're kidding around a little bit and that would be great, but I think people are just in the negative space.
Carmen Lezeth:Everybody, I feel, okay, not, this is just my gut feeling, and my experience lately is Everybody is always blaming other people for stuff. You know, they fall through the cracks because they're not organized. Like, okay, here's the thing. Like when I make a mistake and somebody calls me out on it, I'm like, oh my god, I'm sorry, my bad, I don't keep trying to find somebody else to blame. And this whole week I'm like, oh my god, I'm trying somebody else to blame. And this whole week, in three different offices, three different times, three different people, they messed up up and each one of them found an excuse and had to give me a long ass story as to why they didn't do what they needed to do, instead of just saying you know what I messed up, I'm so sorry. Let me get that.
Rick Costa:It's pretty much what I do. I'm sorry I screwed up. That's it. Can we move on now?
Carmen Lezeth:Well, it's kind of like. I think what people don't understand is that when you mess up something, it has a domino effect. So you don't do a report, let's say or you don't, I don't know, somebody didn't lock this gate, that we needed to have locked, or whatever, and then, like, all the dogs got out and Nobody knew where the dogs were. We're talking about very expensive dogs.
Rick Costa:Oh, that's not good.
Carmen Lezeth:And then the weird thing is that I'm getting called. Is this your friend? Hey, how you doing.
Chris Rossetti:I came in with Without my foot, without my camera on, so I apologize.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, why are you apologizing? That's totally fine.
Chris Rossetti:Well, I hate denying the public the beauty that is me.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, hey, I love that. No, thank you. Happy New Year and thank you for coming on. I appreciate you.
Chris Rossetti:I've known Rick since the 1850s.
Carmen Lezeth:And you're still friends with him.
Chris Rossetti:Yeah, I started doing a Bible reading, live Bible reading. Oh my goodness, rick, with nine years, eight years, I don't know years ago I started reading Bible. It was so funny because everything was so primitive. I just would turn the phone on and and point it to oh wait, you mean you're, you're reading it online. Yeah, yeah, oh, okay.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm sorry I missed that part. I thought you were just saying personally you were reading it, Okay no, no, no, I wanted.
Chris Rossetti:I wanted to read the Bible through scope online. It might have you been before periscope, okay, but anyway. So I put the Bible physical Bible, held it up with a napkin holder from the kitchen. Okay pointed the camera at it and started reading it, you know, and I did that, for I read the entire Bible through. And then I read the Old Testament through and Partly through. I thought, man, I must be the only one that's ever thought of this, you know, and I discovered Rick. He's been doing it forever, man.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, you guys are crazy. I think it's. I think that's pretty awesome. But that's how you guys met, because you were both doing that.
Chris Rossetti:I Searched it out and I found him and I go dude, and he's from Connecticut. I was born in Connecticut.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh.
Chris Rossetti:Okay, I was impressed he's kept the streak going man.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so here's my question, because I've already asked Rick this question. And look at, we don't talk about religion on my show. You know that. But I do have a question for you. How do you reconcile being such a fan of sci-fi when it seems to be always anti God's stuffage? Do you get that vibe? I mean, maybe you see it differently than I do, but I I'm always shocked by well.
Chris Rossetti:Well, I'll answer that question if you answer me this question. Yeah, how do you reconcile shopping for groceries when they don't worship the Lord in the grocery store?
Carmen Lezeth:What do you?
Chris Rossetti:mean, I mean everywhere around us. We are what's called in the world, but not of it.
Carmen Lezeth:So I think like when I'm shopping for groceries.
Chris Rossetti:You can partake of things right without being contaminated by things. That makes sense.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean absolutely. But when I go to the grocery store and that's a great way to look at it, by the way, and I'm gonna think on that but when I go to the grocery store, I'm not being influenced by non-God's stuffage, but when I'm walking, when, when I'm watching Stargate SG1, for example, they're talking about being against gods and they're actually like all the gods are big. Um, I don't know how to explain. It is weird to talk to you without your face.
Chris Rossetti:Okay, let me.
Carmen Lezeth:Let me put it this way it's an anti God stands in Stargate SG1.
Chris Rossetti:Well, do me a favor. While I'm talking, just look at Rick's Rick's face. Here's the way. Here's the way I look at it. If you'll notice, I came in to this broadcast and, instead of putting my name, I put Q I told him I didn't catch that.
Chris Rossetti:My wife what's the goofiest guy we know on on Star Trek, you know, and I thought about Q and she said Q because he's like the, the all-powerful God. He turns out to be this jokester exactly, and he's not an all-powerful God. I remember. I remember watching I don't I don't watch a lot of sci-fi, by the way. Let me just clear that.
Chris Rossetti:Oh, okay, Sorry but I do remember. I do remember years ago, in the 70s, I was in a little church, yeah, in 70s and there was a lady stood up a testimony time. And I know we're talking church, so I'll make it quick.
Carmen Lezeth:Look at. Please, anyway, that way, please go ahead.
Chris Rossetti:She would get up, little tiny lady. She would get up with her accent. And we don't have no puny God, we have a big guy. So fast forward like 35, 40 years, and there's a scene where the Hulk grabs the what's a little, smashes him yes, he goes, he goes. Puny God like that right. Laughed out loud in the movie because I remember that lady saying that. So the answer to your question Is your question is they have these things, have no power over it, got it, yep, no that you know what no answer yeah, those are great.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. I'm like just shocked. I was. That's one of the best answers I've ever heard, because those are puny gods. That's not the real God and actually in Stargate SG1 they don't say they don't believe in God. When they're asked, they say these are not gods.
Rick Costa:You know what I mean.
Carmen Lezeth:Like right there, false Well. I didn't even say they don't say false gods, they say they're not God's.
Chris Rossetti:You know what I mean, but yeah, oh, to put it simpler, yeah, I have a philosophy eat the meat, spit out the bones.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I didn't even hear that.
Chris Rossetti:It was too fast and I didn't understand eat the meat, spit out the bones, take what's good and don't partake of the rest.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, okay, it's just, you know, for me it's like I was watching it because, as I get to know Rick Moore, I'm like and I know he's into sci-fi I'm like how can he watch this part and not be infuriated? But I like what you just said, so it put some clarity for me. So thank you for that.
Rick Costa:I appreciate you and for me the whole sci-fi thing is complete fantasy, you know, from beginning to end.
Carmen Lezeth:So but, Rick, you can understand why, but you can understand why that would be hard for like for me. It would be hard to watch something I don't believe in at all. It's one of the reasons why I don't like horror films. Like I don't believe in that kind of evil, so I don't want to watch it and I don't want to partake in it and I don't want to be influenced by it. Now Cynthia, on the other hand, watches them all the time. She's like coming, it's just a joke. It's like not a big deal. They're not even that really scary.
Rick Costa:I'm like Cynthia the Disney girl, did you hear that? I guess the original Mickey Mouse version whatever is not copyrighted anymore and somebody already took it made a horror thing out of it?
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, I think it's after a hundred years, right, that things become part of the public domain or something. That's evil, you know? Hey, um, chris, can I add? It's Chris, right? I'm gonna say Q in a second. What do you love the most? Since we're doing a love of show, I want to get your take on your favorite food.
Chris Rossetti:Anything. My wife of 36 years. You're sitting right next to me While she's eating soup I made tonight actually.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh.
Rick Costa:When she goes to the bathroom. Tell us the real answer.
Carmen Lezeth:No, that was a good. Let me ask you this what movie do you love the most?
Chris Rossetti:the man who shot Liberty Valance.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't even know what that movie is. Who, who direct? Do I need to know? Do I know the director?
Chris Rossetti:No, it's an old movie from way back in the day with John Wayne, lea Van Cleve, okay, jimmy Stewart, oh.
Carmen Lezeth:Love to be sure it's an old.
Chris Rossetti:It's an old old Western, and the reason I like it is my father and I watched it when I was a kid Over and, over and over again, so I have an association with being with my dad.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, that's cool. You know what? I'm gonna have to watch it. I'm gonna have to watch it. No, that gives me reason. I'm glad you said.
Rick Costa:Jimmy Stewart, because now I got another movie choice.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, what's your choice?
Rick Costa:It's a wonderful life. Oh, that's so many times. That's a good one.
Carmen Lezeth:I also love the sound of music. I don't know if I want to watch it all the time, like if I was on a deserted island, but I do love it and it does have great music. It's great story, so yeah, but it's a wonderful life, as a great one too, can't go wrong. Mine would have been. You know, of course, my top three everybody knows Color purple, field of dreams and 2001, a space Odyssey. Those are my top three. So I don't know which one of those I'd have to choose if I was on a deserted island, but you know.
Chris Rossetti:My wife suggested cast away if you're stranded.
Carmen Lezeth:No, cast away with Tom Hanks. Is that the one?
Rick Costa:Of your three. I would pick color purple of your three if I had to.
Carmen Lezeth:I'd pick field of dreams field of dreams that's such a great one I mean, oh, but those are my three. I don't know. 2001, a space Odyssey is also just so Long and hard. But you can always find the morsels, yeah, and the color purple. I mean, I love the color purple, rick. You know, I guess my favorite movie and I'm gonna talk about the new one that's out now- I'm talking about the 1985 one, I think.
Carmen Lezeth:The thing is it's so it's gonna make me cry every time. You know what I mean. So I'm thinking if I'm on a deserted island.
Rick Costa:That's very quotable, to love it.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, but field of dreams, I know I'm gonna agree with Q. I'd probably go with field of dreams. I'm gonna skip TV show, because we talked about it. How about music, chris music, favorite music or genre, favorite song you can hear over and over and over again.
Chris Rossetti:Okay, that's tough because I like, I like, I like everything, and people say that and they don't mean it, but I do mean it your eclectic but right now, the song I'm playing over and over for at least a year now is a song called lemonade by Alex Boye B. Oh, my God B. Oh why my wife thought I was gonna say Beyonce. I don't even know a lemonade song. I don't even know Beyonce.
Carmen Lezeth:I was just about to be like oh my god.
Chris Rossetti:My wife's over your cringy. No, it's called lemonade by Alex Boye.
Rick Costa:Wait, beyonce has a song called lemonade.
Chris Rossetti:It's an album Innocent man. We are pure, we are innocent.
Carmen Lezeth:That is. I was totally shook. I was like, whoa, okay, wow, you, you. You were going up on that, like you know, list of amazing people. Yeah, I just brought you back down because it's not Beyonce, so it's okay.
Chris Rossetti:Look it up, I will boy yay, lemonade good.
Rick Costa:What kind of music is it? What style music is it?
Chris Rossetti:You gotta check it out. It's just what I would call positive gospel, if you will.
Carmen Lezeth:We like positive gospel.
Rick Costa:She likes smile.
Carmen Lezeth:Kirk Franklins. I smile. It has been in my head since I don't know. I don't even know how it happened, but this year it's been my go-to song every single time.
Chris Rossetti:Yeah and I like happy birthday to you if there's money in cards.
Carmen Lezeth:So funny, rick, what song would you be on an island? I don't know how we got the island thing going, but Actually, I think I might have answered this once yeah, cuz you. Okay, I'm sorry, secular. We have to always go with you with a secular. So secular. Chris gets a pass, cuz you know.
Rick Costa:Yeah, I mean, if you want to know what genre I kind of dig yeah, a genre. Okay, dig, like I'm really old, I like R&B, believe it or not.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I know you like R&B because you sent me a playlist.
Rick Costa:I did of R&B.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, or 80s, song no 80s.
Rick Costa:That was all different, though that wasn't all.
Carmen Lezeth:I know, but that's what I'm saying is, like you know, and I know you probably pick gospel over R&B, but you don't have to.
Rick Costa:I mean Pretty much mostly anything Whitney does.
Carmen Lezeth:Whitney who's?
Rick Costa:amazing, still gutted, still gutted, that she ain't here anymore.
Carmen Lezeth:I know it's. It's so weird, yeah, I don't.
Rick Costa:She's around our age, you know, so it's really shocking.
Carmen Lezeth:Speak for yourself she's around your age. No, actually, she's older than we were. Yeah, yeah okay. That's the song, yeah, and I would try to do the sharing on the things so we can hear, but first of all, they blocked me on YouTube and secondly, I'm not that techy when it comes to this stuff. But, thank you, I will totally check it out. I promise I will okay. So now we're gonna get into some nitty gritty stuff. Okay, what relationships we're gonna start with, rick? What relationships do you love the most and why?
Rick Costa:So this is like family versus friends versus.
Carmen Lezeth:Whatever that means to you. You got this a couple hours ago. Yeah, I know.
Rick Costa:I know, I saw it. I mean family to me. I know it's corny maybe to some people, but it was just ingrained in me. Family is huge, you know, like Blood is blood, and even my dad would say and my dad was very abusive to me, by the way, but he goes I don't care if I was mad at you and we didn't talk for 10 years. If I saw you on the street beat up and bloody and you look like you might die, I'm gonna carry you to the hospital because you're bloody in my family. Like some like wow, okay, that's deep. I don't expect that from you, like mr Abuser person, but um, yeah, but they also can piss you off the most too. That's the problem.
Carmen Lezeth:Right, right, yeah, well, I look at, I have a different take on that whole family thing and I only will say this not to be disrespectful, but you know my story. So you know I think people talk about blood. But you know, if you found out you did DNA or whatever, you did 23 and me or ancestry or whatever, and you found out you weren't your mother's son, would you? You know you were switched at birth, accidentally or whatever would that change Anything about your love for your family, right? So I just get kind of. I get kind of queasy when I keep hearing this blood DNA stuff. And again, it's my experience because I didn't grow up that way. I didn't grow up with family, blood family. I grew up with a lot of family, but not blood family. So that would be my only thing. But I do believe family is probably the most important relationship. But family doesn't have to be for me a DNA thing, you know. And I guess to answer that question, which is sort of a question.
Rick Costa:I don't think I would it would change anything for me. I would want to seek out who is my real family and see if I can get to know them, if they want to know me. But I've already been through everything. I've been through with them. That's. That hasn't changed. So my feelings wouldn't really change. But I just I would want to find out about my real family. I thought I wanted to find out. Why did you abandon me? That's good Nobody in the family would have to be like.
Carmen Lezeth:No, but you know what I you, I'm on 23 and me and Ancestry and there was a time when I was looking for my father and looking for all of these Connections or whatever, and and then I realized, you know, I really Like you would think you do, and I think when you're younger you do, but being someone who is living that like I'll never know who my father, I'll never know who my father is, and that's okay, you know what I mean. But it's a weird kind of thing where you're like, yeah, now I'm this age and I've been through all this kind of don't want to know, like if I do know, I want him to be dead because I don't want to hear. Why does that make any sense?
Rick Costa:I understand that.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, it's a little, it's a it's. It's funny because most people who are not in the situation will answer in that way. And then most people that I know who are kind of in a similar situation that I'm in are Like, yeah, I don't want to know, or they did find out and they hated. I have one friend who Found out who their mother was and hate like the amount of hate they have for each other. I'm like, oh, my goodness, that would be. My biggest fear is because right now in my head, whoever my father is, I forgave him, I forgave my mom, and I'm like you know what? It's all good, I am, I am here, I have been loved, I've been taken care of, I have not suffered and I'm alright. You know what I mean and I was wanted and I think that's the difference. You know I was wanted. So, okay, chris, I'm so sorry. What about you? Relationships, most important relationships, am I?
Chris Rossetti:well easy, since you said relationships pearl comes down to God, my family, my family and pasta. Thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, what do you love about your friends the most? Rick?
Rick Costa:I love that. First of all, I don't want to be friends with the yes people, yes man, yes women, whatever people that just yes you to death and just always. Just, you know, if I do something wrong, I appreciate it. If you honest, straight and tell me to my face you was dead wrong for doing that. That's why I could take criticism and critique so well, but that is one of one of the things that I appreciate the most and I Don't have I don't have close friends that can't and won't do that for me, like I don't care for yes people I don't. I mean, I love you from afar, but I need somebody that's gonna tell me the truth. Even if it hurts, I'll get over it, you know right. So friends like that I love friends like that are priceless.
Carmen Lezeth:You know the ones that you can argue with or disagree with, or they can tell you the truth, even if it hurts, and sometimes it really hurts. I hate when people tell me the damn truth and I have to like. But, chris, what do you love about your friends most?
Chris Rossetti:Oh no, that's easy. The fact that they know better than to stop by without calling first. Thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:He's somebody that's always on your show.
Rick Costa:We just know each other from Periscope first and become fans.
Carmen Lezeth:All right, you'll have to give me in the green room when we're done. Give me the real lowdown on this man. Okay, what Do you love about social media love? It's not talking about the hate part. Let's talk about the love.
Rick Costa:Go ahead, rick instant access to information. Okay it's the act like before. What do we do before the internet? Go to library See your 26 volume encyclopedia, if you had those.
Carmen Lezeth:But we do agree that all the information that you have almost too much and most of it is bad and wrong. Yeah, that's, that's the negative side, that's the other side, because you don't know if it's true or not really, you know I do think people are getting better at figuring out that they need to investigate a little bit more before believing every you know. I mean, I guess back in the day they had the what did they call it? Like the oil man, what was it? The snake oil man?
Rick Costa:Oh, snake oil salesman, or something.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, that's it. Yeah, snake oil, whatever it is, whatever I love, when I try to remember things that I know nothing about. But I think that's what's happening on the internet now is like I'm starting to see at least people aren't as Quick. I still think people are getting scammed all the time. I'm believing from the dumbest people on the planet things just because I say I'm a doctor, does it mean I am, or it's true. You know I can self-appoint myself anything I want and make a website about it, you know so, yeah, so that's that's it. For me, it's connecting with people I don't think I would have met otherwise, like you. Yeah, how else would we have met? We wouldn't have, do you think we would have?
Rick Costa:No, how would I?
Carmen Lezeth:know, do you believe in fate?
Rick Costa:I mean I don't know, I'm asking I mean I believe I mean have to go back to God. I believe God's got a plan, but we can go out of that plan.
Carmen Lezeth:So right, but is the plan for Carmen and Rick to have met no matter what? Such an interesting question, right?
Rick Costa:Well, because of free will, the no matter what can get messed up.
Carmen Lezeth:Right, but if we didn't have technology would we have met, because I'm in California and you're in Connecticut again I say how would we have you know?
Rick Costa:Yeah, it's fascinating unless you became a famous actress.
Carmen Lezeth:And I saw you know, I was like oh, and then I was like yeah, I talked to my people, because I don't talk to people like you. I would have been all up in my head yeah, you still wouldn't have met baby. Chrissy is still there. Do you want to chime in? He doesn't have to stay on, you know oh.
Chris Rossetti:No, no, this. This helps me avoid having to help around the house.
Chris Rossetti:You need to have your wife's email address so I can send her a link to the show I like social media because of the access and the, the way I'm able to communicate and meet people from around the world. Different walks of life. Life Many years ago yes, it's nine or ten years ago, I guess started to become physically limited in my ability to travel I put it that way With different physical things. So I remember praying one day and saying these words I wish there was a way people could come to me.
Chris Rossetti:Oh and I discovered that you know the periscopes and the Twitter lives, the haps TVs, the Ha, on and on and on, it seems like you were on helps.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, oh my God, we never met.
Chris Rossetti:Yeah, I was a hamster, and so to me it was an answer to prayer. Actually, social media's been an answer to prayer. It's a way to connect with people, and so today, to this day, I still read the Bible out loud online, and I read it on an app called Clubhouse, and Clubhouse still around?
Carmen Lezeth:Isn't that an audio only thing?
Chris Rossetti:Audio only. I've been reading for almost three years, monday through Friday. I read to the blind and the visually challenged. They give me, they give me their requests and I read. He knows joy.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, okay, now I'm getting the connection.
Chris Rossetti:Oh yeah, so so that's been a good thing, and I'm a I'm a believer that technologies are not bad, they're good, they're just technologies.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah.
Chris Rossetti:So I enjoy it. Yeah, yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:How do you feel about AI Chris? I prefer Heinz 57, but I'm but would you put it on stake Right Right for Brian. Another one I have to be very specific with Chris how do you feel about artificial intelligence?
Chris Rossetti:Well, I'm familiar with it. All my report cards from elementary school said my intelligence was artificial in face. So I'm familiar. I'm very familiar with it. Would you like to play a game, professor Falcon? Oh my gosh.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, wargames, that was a great movie. Yeah, oh, I might have to put that on my list of things to watch again. I loved that movie. Yeah, that was a fantastic you know it still holds up today. I mean, it's a little dated, but the idea of it's still right. And that was it. It was Matthew Broderick right. Yeah. Wow, Look at Chris. With the with the movie trivia. Okay. No. I don't know what you just said at all. What are you?
Rick Costa:talking about? He's talking like the computer from the movie.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, I got that the first time. But he said I'm Dr Falcon, so I knew immediately. But I didn't hear what he said, do you?
Chris Rossetti:know at the time, at the time of that filming, that set that they built for NORAD was the defensive movie set ever built at the time, oh wow.
Carmen Lezeth:But wasn't that same set then used again to do the movie Apollo? I don't know if that's true, but it looked like the same set. They didn't keep it that long, but it was probably modeled after that one.
Chris Rossetti:They used it in a few other things here.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, like it was Apollo 11 or whatever. So, but it's the same. It just reminded me of that so much.
Rick Costa:Creepiest computer voice, 2001, space Odyssey. Because he just acted, he just had to two human and that was freak me out.
Carmen Lezeth:Stanley Kubrick, though that was a masterpiece. That was really great. Okay, what do you love? Oh, I hate this question. What do you love about work the most? My paycheck. That's my answer. Go ahead, rick.
Rick Costa:I like when I can interact with good people, nice people, because you do a lot of customer service right.
Rick Costa:Yes, and, like I, just I was so sad because I just found out I called a company and there's this one thing that works there, worked there. Now I found out she just retired. I was like nobody told me and then she, and they said that she even said everybody called me, but Rick, I was like I didn't know you retired, I didn't know. So they gave me her Facebook. So I don't know if she saw it yet, but I sent her a message and I was this is the one that I said when she she didn't know what it looked like yet and she assumed, she said I thought you were short.
Rick Costa:Black me Right. Okay, I'll give you the black, but the short. How do you get short from her?
Carmen Lezeth:voice Short. So funny, kevin Hart, she was channeling.
Rick Costa:Kevin Hart. That's what it was.
Carmen Lezeth:What do you love about your life most, Rick, that I'm in it now? Okay, I guess not. Well.
Rick Costa:I like that I have a roof over my head, that I have clothes in my back, that I'm not hungry Like in so many other places in the world. They don't have all that and they look at us like we're kings and queens and we're here complaining about the little stupid things where they would kill it. I have what we have. So I'm glad that I was born here where we have stuff. We're blessed and I feel bad for them but I can't do anything for them. But yeah, I guess I'm.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm glad that I'm born here in a country where we have things, you know you know, I thought about this question a lot when I was because I came up with this list kind of last minute, remember, because I didn't really have a kind of idea for the show I thought about this and in my heart, what I kept thinking about was I love most about my life is that I've always been loved and and I know that people have an idea about what happened to me as a kid and I wrote the book or whatever but it's like it's a positive book, it's positive and it's like I always am grateful that because there are kids out there, there are people that grew up in different circumstances worse circumstances financially, or better circumstances, whatever and are not loved, are not loved Right, and I think I've been extremely wealthy in that way and I never want to take that for granted, you know.
Carmen Lezeth:So I think that's what I love most about my life and I hope it continues on. I know that sounds weird, but I never want to take it for granted because it's huge, it's a big one.
Rick Costa:And I think if you just sat down and said here you, here's a timeline of my life, here's all the events, they probably would think like you didn't feel loved, but that's the thing you were.
Carmen Lezeth:I was. Yeah, I totally was, and it was random people, regular people, and I think that's what I see in our life now. That saddens me, that, you know, people are not as concerned about the next door neighbor's kid, right, they're only concerned about them when they think that they're bad, people are doing something horrible or whatever. But I didn't fall through the cracks because so many people and we've talked about this before, right, and we Laura was here and Tommy talked about it and whatever but this kind of idea of just always being able to know that the adults that were around me even I didn't know the mischangers were like we got you.
Rick Costa:Yeah, they were looking out for you.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, and I wish we were like that now. But you see it, you see, I mean even today, and this isn't a mean thing, but today I was at the grocery store and I was in line waiting and at the deli I was going to get some provolone cheese and the woman in front of me had three kids with a little kid. So she was holding one, the other one was in the carriage and then the other one was, like you know, putting his face up whatever against the glass. He was actually hilarious, but he was like, doing what little kids do you know?
Carmen Lezeth:But the baby in the carriage was maybe, like maybe two years old. So you know, can, and I was just going like this hi, you know, like whatever. And she and the baby was just kind of looking, and you know how babies do whatever, and she kind of looked back at me oddly, as if I should not be saying hi to her children. So I left and went and got bread because I was like I'm not getting the middle of that. But it was a weird energy, you know, and I'm like, okay, maybe she's afraid somebody's gonna take her kid or I wasn't touching the child, but it's. But even to even that right, that negativity, that feeling of and maybe I misunderstood her, but I'm just saying in this day and age you can't really be that friendly with anybody because people think something or you think they're thinking something, and it makes me sad because I don't remember that growing up.
Rick Costa:Didn't that kind of happen to you with the little girl in a store in Vermont?
Carmen Lezeth:No, that happened, that was at the gap, but that was totally racism. Like this wasn't racism, this was like fear. That was, you know, just for people, because we do the audio podcast. You know, I was at the gap and this little kid blonde, white, blonde hair, blue blue eyes, running through the racks and I started playing hide and seek, you know, just not playing running around in the racks and the mother came running through like as, if, you know, something was about. It was clearly that was clearly a racial thing and but yeah, I don't think that's what this was. This was just going back to that idea of like. When I was growing up, I know there was a lot of fearful things, but I also remember knowing that you could trust people and feel like you know, like you could go to your teacher or you could go to your coach or you could go to your manager. Okay, I'm talking and people are like what? We don't have a manager agent, but you know what I mean. Like I did.
Rick Costa:Yeah, it was a different time.
Carmen Lezeth:It was a different time, so yeah, but anyways, chris, are you still there? Are you done? Oh, no, I'm here. Do you want to answer the question? What do you love about your life most?
Chris Rossetti:What I love about my life most is my family, which was mentioned earlier, and my relationship with God. I was also set free from 30 years of depression, and that is very fun. I'm glad that's over with and also, oh, that. I've only had five cups of coffee in my entire life. Thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:What do you mean? Five cups of coffee, your entire life.
Chris Rossetti:Yeah, I despise this stuff. Thank you, you're welcome.
Carmen Lezeth:Why did you have five to begin with, then? Why would you only have one? The?
Chris Rossetti:first one was in the 1960s. It was an instant Folgers crystals in lukewarm tap water cup In the 1960s. He's been a buddy of mine. Try it.
Carmen Lezeth:The next one was in 1974.
Chris Rossetti:It was for 10 cents at a gas station in Jacksonville, florida. The next two were a truck stop in southern Illinois and the final cup was Vietnamese coffee very strong, and I'm still awake from that cup of coffee.
Rick Costa:Okay cool so you've never had like really good quality coffee. I'm not a coffee fan either, by the way. I can drink it, but I just don't care for it.
Carmen Lezeth:You guys do not want to know me without some coffee. I'm just telling you now.
Chris Rossetti:Whenever I go to Starbucks on occasion to order, pick something up from my wife or daughter, they ask for your name. I always give them the same name DB Cooper.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know what that is.
Chris Rossetti:He's American, american skyjack or guy who demanded money that parachute.
Rick Costa:Oh, they mentioned him on the Loki show. Loki pretended to be him on the first season of Loki. Do you remember that, carmen?
Carmen Lezeth:Where he was playing. I don't know who that is, though.
Rick Costa:I mean I know Loki, but I don't know who they showed him pretending to be that guy he's talking about and Loki had like really short hair and he jumps out of the airplane. That was in the first season, I think, of Loki. Oh yeah, I don't remember. That's why, when he said the name, I didn't make the connection, because I didn't know.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know who that is. Cynthia clearly knows who it is because she's laughing. I don't know who it is, yeah.
Chris Rossetti:So I like to give that name and when I hear him call it out I don't answer. I'll let him call it out two or three times and then I look at all the older people in the Starbucks, laugh, okay.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to have to look that up. You're making me do so much homework with you. You're never coming up again. Okay, all right, we're almost done, because we've already hit the hour mark, so let's just go to what you love about today. Let's end on that. Go ahead, rick.
Rick Costa:I'm going to repeat with somebody else a quitting time at work. That's my favorite part. Okay, quitting time. And when my mom finally goes to sleep.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, fair enough, I'm going to say it was kind of cool just to have Chris come up out of the blue. I'm loving that today. That was a little bit of a surprise, chris, what you got about, what you love today.
Chris Rossetti:Well, the fact that I'm one day older and one day wiser, and also I love the fact that today is almost over Seven o'clock here in California, it's nearly my bedtime. Thank you, thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, you're here in California too. It's awesome. We're scary all at the same time. I'll be right over that reminds me that. California. Are you in?
Chris Rossetti:San Francisco, home of the three time world champion.
Carmen Lezeth:San Francisco, I'm in San Monica, I'm in Los Angeles, okay, cool.
Chris Rossetti:That's a safe distance, no worries.
Carmen Lezeth:Safe distance, yeah, no worries, but I love you.
Rick Costa:He reminds me of the old character on Carol Burnett?
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, the last time he walked so slow. He's like oh, come on as fast as I can. Right, but what?
Rick Costa:was his name Tim something Tim. Conway is real name.
Carmen Lezeth:Tim Conway. That's it. That's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, that was so much fun. Okay, thank you everyone. I'm going to cut it off there. Chris, thank you for coming up. I really appreciate meeting you and you chiming in. I really loved that. I'm going to have to do all this homework now, so watch movies and.
Carmen Lezeth:But thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you and nice to meet you and Rick. As always, you know, I got much love for you and happy new year and, yes, happy birthday. I hope you do something this weekend and everyone. Thank you so much for stopping by. We'll see you again next week.
Rick Costa:On all about the joy that was kind of cool Next week, special week next week.
Carmen Lezeth:I know special week. Bye everyone, bye. Thanks for stopping by. All about the joy Be better and stay beautiful. Folks have a sweet day.