The Grammys provided a backdrop for a rich exploration of personal music tastes and the moments that music creates, whether it be Tracy Chapman's surprise performance that left us awestruck or the debates sparked by Taylor Swift, and Billy Joel's music. In this episode we celebrated the universal language of music and the varied reactions it can evoke, sharing anecdotes that shed light on the warmth of friendships and the solace found in shared experiences.
We delve into the cultural impact of celebrity performances, from Super Bowl spectacles to the authenticity and soulful contributions of artists like Chris Cornell and George Michael. We discussed how we mourn the loss of such great talents, yet find solace in the legacy of their music, and we invited listeners to join us in this reflection. As we bid goodbye, we left with Tracy Chapman's melodies lingering in our hearts, reminding us to find joy in our daily lives and to hold onto the art that enriches our souls until we hang out together again.
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Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
DISCLAIMER: As always, please do your own research and understand that the opinions in this podcast and livestream are meant for entertainment purposes only. States and other areas may have different rules and regulations governing certain aspects discussed in this podcast. Nothing in our podcast or livestream is meant to be medical or legal advice. Please use common sense, and when in doubt, ask a professional for advice, assistance, help and guidance.
The Grammys provided a backdrop for a rich exploration of personal music tastes and the moments that music creates, whether it be Tracy Chapman's surprise performance that left us awestruck or the debates sparked by Taylor Swift, and Billy Joel's music. In this episode we celebrated the universal language of music and the varied reactions it can evoke, sharing anecdotes that shed light on the warmth of friendships and the solace found in shared experiences.
We delve into the cultural impact of celebrity performances, from Super Bowl spectacles to the authenticity and soulful contributions of artists like Chris Cornell and George Michael. We discussed how we mourn the loss of such great talents, yet find solace in the legacy of their music, and we invited listeners to join us in this reflection. As we bid goodbye, we left with Tracy Chapman's melodies lingering in our hearts, reminding us to find joy in our daily lives and to hold onto the art that enriches our souls until we hang out together again.
Full unedited video:
https://youtube.com/live/z0mLHtUS6Yg
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.
Hi everyone, welcome to All About the Joy. Cynthia, hello, hello, hello, rick, as always, how are you, my friend?
Rick Costa:Good, good. How are you?
Carmen Lezeth:Good Cynthia, how are?
Cynthia Ruiz:you, I'm okay. I don't know if you heard the news about Teresa's aunt.
Carmen Lezeth:Is this a personal thing Like?
Cynthia Ruiz:you know we're live right. You know the aunt in New Orleans passed away yesterday.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm so sorry, I don't know who that is. Is that the Tina person? Aunt Ruby, oh, oh, that's an important person to her.
Cynthia Ruiz:Yeah, yeah, she was 101 though, so I mean, she looked like.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, 101. See, that's some some, some good life living. That family has some genes, dog man, they do, they do. I'm just saying, well, I'm sorry for your loss because you know them right. I mean, you know Miss Ruby, right? Is that her name? Yeah, I call her Aunt Ruby. Aunt Ruby, okay, I'm just Okay. So people are all like what is wrong with Carmen? I thought that was her cousin. So just to reiterate how things work in the Carmen Bush family Bush, because we ain't got no tree. Okay, there are people related to Cynthia who are not really related to me and I've never met them. She's not really related to me either. Oh, okay, she's related to my sisters. Yeah, okay, you know what we're not going to do the whole 23andMe Bush weed thingamajiggy, it's not a tree, it's a bush. Well, okay, well, I'm sorry for your loss of your Aunt Ruby, but 101 is amazing, yeah, amazing, and from what I understood, she had everything together. I mean, she was, she sure did.
Cynthia Ruiz:She sure did. That's the best part.
Carmen Lezeth:She was a boy.
Cynthia Ruiz:And her son spoiled her and made sure she had everything. So she was good, she was in good hands.
Carmen Lezeth:This is why I should have had children. This is my only thing I'm worried about. That's why I'm like I love all my God children. You know you, my heart, you know all my favorite. I'm just saying it because I want to be like 95 and be thought of in the way in which these family members were thought of. You know what I'm saying? Like yeah, yeah. So, rick, how are you doing? How was your week?
Rick Costa:So all right, Work was not too bad. Mom's different story, but you know that is what it is. So so yeah, but work wasn't wasn't too bad, at least it was. It was an easier work week, so that was good. I want to know if Alma, if she, got some ice cream.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh well, we'll wait for her to answer that ice cream.
Rick Costa:I said ice cream.
Carmen Lezeth:I know that was such a great clip. Actually, there were quite a few clips that got a lot of interest from people that I've never noticed before, and that one was one of the biggest ones, you know. So we, we definitely want to give a shout out to Chris Gales, who we love, and I was so appreciative when he's on the show, but even just, you know, chatting with him back and forth on Instagram or whatever, he's just always so kind and pleasant and always gives a shout out to my show. I just think that's nice. I mean, it's absolutely unnecessary, but I appreciate it so much, you know, but he brings me such joy as well.
Rick Costa:He's a wealth of knowledge. With trivia I was like, oh wow, this dude knows a lot.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what? Okay, so I know. Okay, I'm sorry, technical question, everyone technical. So, rick, I now have. I can see way too much of all the guests on this side. Oh, clearly not enough, because I was missing my sister girl I was like sorry, how are you? I'm good. How are you? Wow, how long were you down there. You know what my mic is, where your face was.
Andrea Nunez:Not that long, but I was just about to leave a message and be like yo hey why, don't we get darkness?
Carmen Lezeth:Are we in? It's very sexy. I was going to ask you.
Andrea Nunez:I have a, I got a. I got one of the. Well, okay, my light's not plugged in, so oh, it looks like it's out of space behind her. Circle things.
Rick Costa:Okay Circle ring light.
Andrea Nunez:Yes, thank you, so I'm just using that and my other light is unplugged, so that was so cute, one of those circle things, yeah, so it's always great to have the light.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, I think we all have that on us. Well, me and Rick do, I know. I don't know if Cynthia does. Cynthia just has beautiful lighting. She's her aura as she walks in the room, right, but you do have to have light on behind you, not behind you but above you.
Andrea Nunez:I'm just saying I don't have a light in here other than the one that's on my desk. That is currently unplugged, so this is it girl. Okay, well, I think it was like really intense interviews where you like ask me questions and do like a really big closeup and I'm like right, hey, but your clip that I did and see this is cause you're not on social media.
Carmen Lezeth:The clip I did with you and we talked about student loans, so much information, so much people and people DM me oh really, yeah, I was surprised. People sending me direct messages like somebody from UVM was like there's Jeff, who is one of my Facebook friends. Somebody went to college with the UVM and he was talking about how he thinks UVM did a great job with grants and helping people and I was like that's, that's your experience. I'm so happy for you. That's off to them.
Andrea Nunez:No, I was like so glad you're not already $40,000.
Carmen Lezeth:Exactly so, yeah, so it really sparked some conversations and thank you for doing the private.
Andrea Nunez:Well, I mean, it's something that a whole lot of people are dealing with and unfortunately, our stories are not unique.
Carmen Lezeth:So it's you know, they're not and for people are wondering what we're talking about. Andrei and I did a private lounge last week and I posted it on the podcast and also it's on YouTube. I forget the name of it, but I put Andrea's picture in mine up there so you could see it and you could go check it out. We were going to talk about makeup tips. We kind of got to it.
Andrea Nunez:I don't let you kept saying that, but it was. The question that you sent me was what would you tell your 20 year old self? And you said it could be anything.
Carmen Lezeth:And then, of course, would include sunscreen and all of that sort of thing, but so there was a time it's happened several times, but the one I remember the most was Andrea was at my other apartment years and years and years ago and I don't know I had bread out and I was trying to cut bread with, like a regular, what I think is a regular knife, because I am I know it's going to be shocking to so many people I am not a cook, I don't, I don't want to cook, I don't even care about cooking at all Right, and she came over to me and she was like Carmen, I don't care what you do.
Carmen Lezeth:You said it gently and kindly. You said it gently and kindly because I was taking this beautiful, fresh loaf of bread from wherever she had bought it and I was, and it was smushing and she goes I don't care what you do, you need to use a what's it called a serrated knife, right? So rated serrated knife, I rated knife to cut bread. Always she's like I don't care if you use one of the dinner ones, whatever, but never use this big like machete knife, whatever the hell.
Carmen Lezeth:That's knife. And here's the thing, like I mean, of course, duh, like of course that makes sense, but I never knew that. Like it's one of those things where I have these moments where I realize I really didn't grow up with a mom or with somebody teaching me even the small like and I know everyone was listening to this or watching this is like okay, you're a fucking idiot. But so many times that's happened with you, andrea, that you would show me how to do different things. So that's why I think I had come up with and then we were talking about eyebrows the other day because even though I know my eyebrows, I mean, now I know my eyebrows are fine, I'm not going to have eyebrows look fabulous to.
Andrea Nunez:I was thinking about your eyebrows even before you brought this up, so I just want to tell you.
Carmen Lezeth:So here's the thing I you know, I think my eyebrows are horrible. But after Andrea explained some things to me about eyebrows and what she went through and what she does and why she does it, I was like, okay, I'm fine, I'm fine, I, I'm good, I'm just gonna put a little fillet in. And we done, we done. So that's why that came up. Okay, that was too long winded, I'm sorry.
Rick Costa:I think we all have things like that, that a lot of people would say you don't know how to do that, like it's common sense to them. But like we had a flood in my house practically nose arc, I jokingly say because one of the pipes busted from from freezing and then when unfroze pipe busted and I thought I knew where to turn all the water things off and I'm twisting everything. And then I literally had to call a fireman because I was like I don't know what to do. And then I found out it's just this teeny little switch, you just gonna turn a quarter. And I'm like are you see? Why did my father never tell me this? Yeah, like, come on, parents.
Andrea Nunez:Step it up. I'm gonna build a small fire out back, just to make this worth your time.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, there's a cat in the tree over there. I've, I've, I've done that before. Rick, I didn't know either, so don't feel bad, but like I mean, if you don't know, you don't know.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, everyone has those things. If you don't know, you don't know.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, but I felt so grateful, like to and like. I remember you thinking I was over the top, crazy psyched about learning it, but still, it still sticks with me today. It's still a thing you know. So I'm going to segue into this other thing, because this just happened to me this week. It was one of the questions I sent, which was you know, have something to talk about work related, not a personal, and something that gave you joy.
Carmen Lezeth:So I was starting to a friend today not today, I think, it was Saturday or Sunday on the phone. He called me and everyone knows, first of all, I talk a lot, but secondly, more importantly, I write long ass emails. If you work with me, I will send you an email and you will have all the information. You need not to bother me for the rest of the fucking day to do whatever it is you need to do. I'm not going to apologize for that. I speak the way I write. I write the way I speak. It's very easy for me and I type really fast, okay.
Carmen Lezeth:However, when you're talking to a friend especially men who have no patience when you're having a conversation, what, sorry, rick, he's like it was a break. It was a break, it was. It was not Rick. This was not a conversation with Rick. I am so sorry because, rick, you're just one of the girls, honey, I didn't even think of that. No, no, it was not Rick.
Carmen Lezeth:Anyways, he kind of insinuated that he didn't read the whole email. Blow blood, which is not the first time I've heard people say that to me. Friends can get away with that. You know what I mean. So I said you know what, don't worry about it, I'll stop writing you long emails, it's no big deal.
Carmen Lezeth:And he turned around and he said and I don't know why it affected me so much with it the same thing, andrea, with you, like the serrated knife thing, like I'm never gonna pick. All he said was keep being you, that's okay, keep being you. We kept talking, whatever. I got off the phone, I started bawling, crying. I was like he's accept. I was like what is wrong with me? He loved me. I was like, hmm, but anyway, have you guys ever had anything that happened like that, where you, I don't know, did you experience this? For me was a joyful moment when he did that, and I let him know the next day, and of course he texts me again and was just even more lovely and I was like I love you and I was like.
Rick Costa:I do have a app. It's called Marco Polo. It's kind of like FaceTime, but except instead of being live, it's recorded, so that way you don't have to actually be in their presence live. And so me and my best friend talking there all the time and one thing that he does that annoys that's what I mean all the time. Yeah, I'm responding back to you, but I'm going to finish listening to your message a little bit later and I'm like then why did you respond now? Just get to it when you can. Why do you do this? Or he goes through the drive, he starts to Marco Polo me, he starts to message me yeah, can I get a number two? Why we couldn't wait until you were out of the line. What are you doing?
Andrea Nunez:I'm going to stick up for your friend Rick, because if anyone knows this about me, I will wait to contact people until I have three hours.
Andrea Nunez:I'm like OK, I'm going to call Carmen, but I need to set aside a day because I want to get it all in, instead of being that person who's just checking in regularly. I kind of wish I was that person who was like, hey, yeah, I'm just at the drive-through and I was thinking about this. It feels more conversational and in the moment and present he's bringing you into his life. I mean, I get what you're saying about, like I didn't finish listening to your message, but I wish I was more like that versus the way that I am, which is like I won't talk to you for a month and a half because I don't have a three-hour stretch to have a conversation with you.
Carmen Lezeth:But I appreciate that because I think I'm like Rick. I don't want you telling me you're at McDonald's and you know who used to do that all the time, richard.
Andrea Nunez:I remember he used to blame me I remember him doing that all the time.
Carmen Lezeth:I hated that Hi.
Cynthia Ruiz:Frida Lafnaud. That was funny comment Behind every great woman.
Carmen Lezeth:There's a man pretending to listen. Why are you taking that joy away from me? No, he meant it.
Rick Costa:That's Chris. That's the guy that told us about that song Lemony, lemony, lemony, where that song goes. Remember that Lemond song? That's Chris. He was on the show with us while we were even seeing his face until the picture.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, y'all, that's right. You know what? But he changed, Was his name always Frida Lafnaud.
Rick Costa:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's his name.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, look it. I am terrible with names and I'm also terrible with directions. I'm just going to put it wherever I'm driving together. Just these are my two weaknesses. If I don't know you on a regular basis in my face I'm a mess up name, so I apologize. Not really good for me to be in this business, by the way. I completely miss you, Cynthia. What about you, Miss Giggly, Love you.
Cynthia Ruiz:Oh, one does that to me all the time. I'll call him for something, and then he just starts a conversation with someone else. I'm like hello, like I'm on the phone and I'll just hang up, and then he'll come back. He's like why do you hang up? I was like you were having a conversation with someone else.
Carmen Lezeth:Is that like a normal husband wife thing? Now, does that happen all the time With him? It does, oh, it does. So, ok, I don't know if any of you watched the Grammys. I hope you did. Did you watch the Grammys?
Rick Costa:I did my homework, I did.
Cynthia Ruiz:Can I tell you I was so mad that I missed it. I was so mad, so mad. I missed it because one wanted to watch this stupid movie and I missed the time. And by the time the movie was over, I caught just the ending. And I was so mad.
Rick Costa:And that's one of the most talked about parts Was that ending? Let me tell you.
Carmen Lezeth:The ending of the Grammys. What happened at the?
Cynthia Ruiz:end Celine Dion, celine.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh right, right, right. Yeah, that was lovely when she came out. So I'm just going to say this when I think of joyful moments, I would show it because I actually have it, I have it recorded and I have it on my YouTube and I have premium YouTube so we could watch it. The problem is, I think my recording in general would get knocked down or I'd get a what is it? A warning or something, because it's owned by CBS.
Carmen Lezeth:And I don't have exclusive rights, but when they do put it up, because they will eventually put it up right now, everyone's putting up their phone versions or whatever. Don't do that. But right at the beginning, what I think was amazing and I've watched it a million times now Trevor Noah did a great job. Blah, blah, blah, they do one award I think Miley Cyrus wins an award first and then they go to the next moment and you see the guitar and you see a shadow, and you see a black woman's hand, and you know we as the TV audience is.
Carmen Lezeth:For me, this is the thing about directing that I love, because it creates such an emotional moment. So I'm like, oh my God, it's Tracy Chapman, oh my God. And she starts playing, but the audience can't see her yet. They can hear the music and then, of course, the lights come up and they can and you hear the roar of the audience. I just that whole moment was just exquisite. And then, of course, her voice, her skin, her presence, the song, all of it was just magnificent. And I apologize because I don't remember the gentleman's name the country music star, what's his name? He's the one that brought the song back, basically because he I'm so sorry Somebody in the chat. If you can tell me his name, it's Luke Bryant or Bryant.
Andrea Nunez:Luke Bryant, I think.
Carmen Lezeth:Luke Bryant, I'm so sorry.
Cynthia Ruiz:Luke Combs. Oh, you're right, luke Combs, actually Let me apologize because I should know his name.
Carmen Lezeth:That's very rude of me. I'm going to apologize because he loved the song since he was a kid, and here's what I love about him he's clearly. They've decided she's going to sing one part, he'll sing the next, and they're going to go back and forth, but he can't stop singing. So he's like singing and it's so. You could tell his admiration and I thought I love all of that. I love those moments of pure joy. So I encourage everyone to watch it and enjoy it. And I just made me happy. That's all. It made me so happy. I've watched it so many times, I don't know, but those of you that watched, you had issues with Celine Dion. I hear Rick.
Rick Costa:Well, at first I'll say Miley Cyrus. She got up and she got her award from Mariah Carey and she was really happy. Obviously, she's like you know what I'm more happy to be up here with Mariah Carey than I'm getting to get this award. So she acknowledged her. Like you should give her the respect she's your predecessor. Respect your people that helped you get to where you are today.
Carmen Lezeth:Taylor Swift. I'm just going to give a shout out to the Swifties. I am not getting in the middle of it.
Rick Costa:She takes the award from Miss Celine Dion, doesn't even look her, like she's the help, turns around and only cares about her family, her friends and family, totally ignores her completely, like she ain't even there. I'm like that's Celine Dion, what are you doing? I don't know. I thought it was rude as heck I agree, go ahead, cynthia, please.
Carmen Lezeth:This is a call to town.
Cynthia Ruiz:That was the one part I did get to see, and me and Juan were both watching it. We're both like did she just like ignore Celine Dion? Had that in me, I would have been like bowing down to the woman. Forget the Grammy, you know. But yeah, I mean, I know she took a picture with her afterwards backstage and she said she didn't snub her, that she was just in the moment and she was shocked and in my head I'm like shocked, really, you've got nominee Grammys.
Rick Costa:Yeah, 13th. Right, that was the 13th, her lucky nominee.
Carmen Lezeth:I can tell by Andrea's face. She's like I don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck. I can tell by Andrea's face Don't give a shit.
Andrea Nunez:I was surprised she didn't say anything. But I was surprised and then it left my brain and I did not think another thought about it. I was like, oh, ok, I'm going to turn off Billy Joel now. Well, that's mean, come on, give them props, it's OK. I'm just going to say I really, really don't enjoy Billy Joel's music. But it happened to be on and I was doing something else. I was like, ok, ok, ok, I don't have to. You know, it's not John Denver, I don't have to run into the other room or anything like that.
Rick Costa:Is it?
Andrea Nunez:John Denver dead. He is, but it's a family joke, how much I strongly, strongly dislike John Denver. Ok.
Rick Costa:May he rest in peace.
Andrea Nunez:May he rest in peace. I'm sure he's a very nice man. I just can't. Just don't make me a stranger, that's a joke. Yeah. So I know a lot was made of it, but I was like who effing cares? I don't know, I just didn't care. Yeah, you're right.
Cynthia Ruiz:You're right.
Andrea Nunez:We all do. No, I know Everybody cares and I was like all I said was did everyone watch the Grammys?
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't know. I just didn't know about Taylor Swift.
Andrea Nunez:This was actually the first time that I had watched the Grammys in many, many years, and the kids wanted to watch it. So I was watching it and I mean, obviously, yes, the Tracy Chapman moment was like you know, I mean it was fantastic, amazing. Joni Mitchell, joni Mitchell. I mean it was a really, I thought a really really good show.
Carmen Lezeth:Trevor Noah did a great job.
Rick Costa:He did a great job.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, and again, I wish people who do the Oscars or whatever would get back to being people who care more about the audience than their own career. I'm sorry, I know, over comedians who are doing the Oscars and always worried about how they fare as opposed to how they can make it a joyful thing. You know, I think that's been part of the problem, Not only you just said how can you not enjoy Billy Joel's music? I think after didn't he do piano man? I think after that I was kind of I don't remember.
Andrea Nunez:I mean, I there's just like I know, I'm just bitchy like that there's just certain voices that are like here's the thing about Andrea.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm giving you all more information about Andrea. Don't mess with her music, because you're not going to win. You're not going to win. She knows every piece of music. She can tell you whether she likes it or not. And why don't even fight? It's like me fighting with her watching ET. It's never going to happen. It's just not going to happen.
Rick Costa:Different strokes for different folks, right? Yeah, yeah.
Andrea Nunez:I mean, I'm nothing wrong with it, it's just not for me, I know.
Carmen Lezeth:I was shocked when you called me. I think you called me because George Michael had passed away and you knew that I loved him so much. It was Christmas day and I was crying my eyes out and the first person to reach out to me and cause I was sure you did not like George Michael at all, cause that's what I had thought. You know what I mean? Cause I was like I'm messing with her with her music. So I'll never forget that. You see how important you is. I'm not going to get broke with you. So Asher said I'm the same Andrea with certain voices. Yeah, me too.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean everybody, who, who, who, who, Asher said not like ET as a crime, though Asher's not that she don't like it. She will not watch it. I promise you, if she watched it she would like it, but she won't.
Andrea Nunez:And I don't disagree with it. I don't want to like it and that's. That's just my, you know one of my many flaws on that kind of person.
Carmen Lezeth:So I mean I'm on my death bed. I'm going to be like Andrea please. Will will Spielberg's eat me.
Cynthia Ruiz:She's going to have.
Rick Costa:She's going to have a TV right next to the casket playing ET all the time.
Andrea Nunez:I said on one of the other podcasts he's going to be playing at her fucking funeral.
Carmen Lezeth:At my funeral. Actually, bitch is going to be playing at your mother fucking funeral. I'm going to be like to your mama this is what she won she loved ET.
Andrea Nunez:That was the one thing she wanted.
Carmen Lezeth:She loved this movie so much. She just loved it. Yeah, I, I loved the Grammys. Look at here's the thing she said the other day. I just feel like they're shoving Taylor slip down our throats. I'm like, please stop, like, just stop. Would you leave this young woman alone? All your jealousy and anger and hatred towards this young woman? I don't care what you like Her music or not. The kids do. She is talented. She's not out there showing her titties and her ass and you know she is like I'm okay with whatever it is she's doing because she's not doing anything to harm anyone. She's writing her. She writes her own music most of the time. Right, I mean, she's talented.
Rick Costa:Isn't it put up to a vote? I'm sorry, isn't it put up to a vote? It's not like one person decides. Like it's put up to a vote. What, what decide.
Carmen Lezeth:What are we talking about? The award.
Rick Costa:Who wins?
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I'm not even talking about the award, I'm talking about the hatred towards her. I'm just like you know, everybody's just so angst about this woman who is so talented and amazing and great. And you know, look at the whole thing with Celine Dion. Again, I want to give people the benefit of the doubt. Now, if she had gone up there and was like fuck you, give me my, you know, horrible Like, if she had done something that I I think she was.
Carmen Lezeth:And this is indicative of what I think is wrong with part of our generation today. We lack consideration, we lack manners, we lack the ability to acknowledge other people. We are very self absorbed. She's not the only one. All of us have this problem and it's part of our society today. It's the reason why we're politically estranged. You know what I mean. I don't know if estranged is the right word, but we're just. We can't talk to each other. We get angry with each other. We can't have conversations with each other. If somebody doesn't like you, it's like then you have to go and stalk them and be mean and cruel and whatever. Like. There's no ability to have grace is what I'm saying and I'm not going to put that all on this young child who is dealing with and how old is she? Like 30 something. To me she's young, and here's what I'm saying. She's been dealing with stardom since she was a kid and she has been handling it better than most of the veterans in her industry, and she was young when this all happened to her, so I'm not mad at her. You know, Celine Dion is also someone who I think is brilliant enough, fantastic enough, to have withstood a small diss or whatever we all think it was. I'm sure Celine is not upset about it and if she was, I'm sure she's over it by now. She has clearly bigger things to be dealing with. You know, God bless her.
Carmen Lezeth:So how did you guys feel If you've even heard about? Oh wait, Ash asked a question. I'm so sorry. Let me start with Mario. It's media over saturation and people get burnt out. Turn off the damn media. You're right, Mario, but people can turn it off, Like that's the thing. Taylor Swift isn't showing up at your house forcing you to listen to her music. I don't know one fucking song. The only song I know, let me stop line is Shake it Off. When did that come out? That was like a long time ago. That's only because it crossed over accidentally when I was on Twitter many, many years ago and I was like that's a cute song, and I saw the video. That's the only song I know of hers. If you don't want to watch her, you will not find her.
Andrea Nunez:I don't see her on my feed ever ever Well, and people dissect not just with her, with all celebrities. People dissect every movement. They're trying to lip read and see where your hand was and what your eyes were doing. It's like in a millisecond time. You know what I mean Like the frames of a picture. It's like who could withstand that? Yeah, who could withstand people dissecting your every single movement and thing that you said, maybe said it's just a lot.
Carmen Lezeth:Everyone just needs to chill out, Ashton said I'll play devil's advocate. I respect what Celine Dion has done in music, but I can't stand her voice. Okay, I mean, she has a beautiful voice, not my music, not my thing, but I don't hate her music. But you know, and she's also just one of those people who's just had the most tragic life, it's just her husband died, her brother died. I mean just one thing. She has this horrible disease. That's a rare thing and I you know yeah.
Rick Costa:I hear you Ash.
Carmen Lezeth:And Mario, I know she's everywhere. I'm just saying she's also everywhere because that's how the algorithm knows that you're watching it. You know what I mean. You can. I'm not trying to blame it on you, but I honestly, on my mother's grave and I don't say that often I don't see anything about Taylor Swift until it's the Grammys, and I see it because I'm watching everything on the Grammys. So now the Grammys, but I don't see her stuff every day. And I know football people all upset, Get over it.
Rick Costa:I like Ash's subtle disc, though A couple of comments down to Taylor. I don't care. Either way, she seems fine for her age group. Settle disc.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, I mean, you know it's true it's not my music, it's just not my music and it's fine. But you know what, Half the performances up there weren't my music. So I know I'm getting old, because I was like I have no idea who this is Like, yeah, like this music. I mean that was like nice sex, like I must have said that I was nice, love her hair.
Andrea Nunez:I mean, that's the stuff I was doing. No idea who this is, but that's a really cute dress.
Rick Costa:That's some interesting blood flowing down the balls behind this chick. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, I didn't know a lot of these people. Melanie said I want to watch a football game without it being over saturated with Taylor Swift other than her boyfriend. What does she have to do with football? Okay, but my argument for that, melanie, hear me out here. Taylor Swift is not in control of the cameras. Your argument isn't with Taylor Swift, it's with the NFL, who are trying to use her as a wedge to do this to all of you. They're trying to do it to bring more people into the NFL.
Rick Costa:Right.
Carmen Lezeth:So that's what I'm trying to say. Be careful of who you're angry with. Taylor Swift, last time I noticed is not walking around with a camera on her shoulder, being like, hey, here I am. You know what I mean. That's the problem that your anger isn't with her, it's with the NFL. Ashley, I don't watch football either, so I don't see them on my algorithm, yeah, and I don't listen to her music, I don't you know? I mean, I know who Kelsey. What's his name? Kelsey Grammer? No, it's not. What's his name?
Rick Costa:Kelsey Frazier hey baby, I hear the blues are calling, while cell is in a scrambled egg.
Carmen Lezeth:We're going to start to ruin her. Taylor Swift is meeting Kelsey Grammer. Who is she meeting, kelsey?
Andrea Nunez:You guys don't even know his name, I think the last name's Kelsey, or Kelsey Travis that's his name, travis.
Carmen Lezeth:First name is Travis.
Rick Costa:Where's late night parents when you need them?
Carmen Lezeth:I know right. Okay, here's one thing, the reason why I know who this mofo is. I'm going to call him a mofo because the 49ers are going to win. I don't even know.
Rick Costa:Thank you, mama.
Carmen Lezeth:We in California. So I'm saying they're going to win. But the reason why is because somehow and it's not his fault, it's not this man's fault, I know it's not his fault, but he hasn't come out and said anything. Somehow, barbers across America white barbers are now saying that everybody's coming in to get the Kelsey. What's his name? Travis, kelsey, kelsey, travis, the Kelsey Travis haircut. What's his first name and what's his last name? Travis is the first name, okay, travis.
Carmen Lezeth:So there was an article, I think it was in the New York Times, where they said that, barb, they interviewed a barber who's like charges his barber, charges him like $1,000 for his haircut and he's like it's so weird because everybody now wants to come in and get the Travis Kelsey haircut. Motherfucking, that's a fade. Black people been getting a fade since like 1980, bitch, you know what I mean. Like, are you kidding me? So that's why I know what his name is. Other than that, I knew that they were making a big deal about the football player that was dating what's her name? But I was like hell to the no. They are appropriating what is a black man's haircut that they've been getting for decades and they're giving him the credit which you know we don't need to get into race here, but I'm just saying that's why I know that mofo's that and again, not his fault, but he has.
Carmen Lezeth:I was waiting for him to come out. I put a little thing subject thing of alerts with his name in it, because I'm waiting for him to come and be like yeah, no, my haircut is it. But he's not going to do that because it's going to diss his barber. It's his barber's fault. Sorry, I got a little emotional because I was very upset about that. I thought that was tacky. He needs to come out and say something.
Carmen Lezeth:You're all like, really, you're that upset about a thing? Yes, that's how it happens, and it wasn't just me. I mean, you can imagine I was upset because I was reading it on the roots, I was reading it on all these other articles and then I was like, oh my God. Then I went to the New York Times article and the person who voted didn't investigate it at all. Yeah, okay, let's go on to our next subject. I'm a little bit. Leave Taylor Swift alone, but meet up with Kelsey Travis. What the fuck is this? The chili comes out about the pain. All right, I was just asking what are some other moments from television or movies or from our time that you remember that might be joyful. I brought up Prince at the Super Bowl, unbelievable, joyful moment.
Andrea Nunez:You can Google that again I mean, yeah, that was incredible, I said in the rain.
Carmen Lezeth:I still think that's the best Super Bowl halftime show Can't be topped.
Rick Costa:Won't be topped, yeah, I know, I actually saw in my feed after watching that because you sent me a link they found a video of him as a kid. Like somebody accidentally found it. Did you see that?
Carmen Lezeth:Which what. There's so many videos that everyone accidentally found which one.
Rick Costa:He was a little, he was Prince. It was literally a little little kid and they just were asking different people.
Rick Costa:Literally they were asking Like news people were just asking people questions and I forgot what they asked me exactly. And he was like, yeah, da, da, da da. And people were like and they went to people that knew him as a kid and they were like, oh my gosh, and they called him a different name. I forgot what the name was and they were like that's so cute that they don't call him Prince. They called him what they called him when he was a kid.
Carmen Lezeth:But and that was a lot I mean I saw that. I mean I remember because he was I forget what the whole premise was of that but they were interviewing him or something, but he wasn't Prince. I mean he was Prince but he wasn't famous or whatever. I remember that interview, yeah.
Rick Costa:Literally a kid. He wasn't even a teenager, he was little. I know literally again, he keeps saying.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I'm just cracking up, as opposed to pretending he was a kid.
Cynthia Ruiz:I think, Exactly.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, he was on the local news, but I forget what the subject matter was, but I did see that, yeah, but do you guys have other moments that you remember at all? Are you looking forward to Usher at the Super Bowl? Are you going to watch the Super Bowl?
Cynthia Ruiz:Yeah, I always watch the Super Bowl.
Andrea Nunez:Who was your favorite? But I was here on there.
Cynthia Ruiz:He was on there before. Who, usher? He was on there when, oh who else was on there? There was another artist who was the main one, but then Usher came out. Oh, black Eyed Peas. It was Black Eyed Peas when they were on, and then Usher came out. So this will be his second time, I think, but he's headlining it right.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, I don't remember the Black Eyed Peas, so it couldn't have been that good. But no, I'm just kidding.
Cynthia Ruiz:You know the Black.
Rick Costa:Eyed Peas. I'm just saying I don't remember.
Carmen Lezeth:I remember Bono after 9-11, you two. I remember that that was pretty incredible Because he did all the names on the white back screen and then at the end, which was such a small, and this is why I don't understand why people don't get. You don't have to have 95 naked dancers around. You know what I mean. But all he did was open up his jacket and it had the American flag on it. There was just kind of this cool moment where you're like you know he's not. I mean, I'm sure he's American.
Carmen Lezeth:But, you know what I mean. It was just a cool moment, and I'm sure he has dual citizenship because he's Ireland, right, he's Irish or whatever. So, yeah, that's probably my second favorite. My first favorite is Prince, I think the 9. Not 9-11. I'm not going to call it that, but you two, after 9-11, was amazing. And then after that I'm just going to give it to Beyonce, and it was cold played. But Beyonce and what's his name came out? Little guy. Awesome. Bruno Mars, oh, little guy.
Rick Costa:Little guy.
Carmen Lezeth:He's short, he's short, but he's amazing. But they came up, but it was cold play. I don't have to. I mean no offense to cold play, don't need no cold play, but when they come out and they do the little battle between each other, I thought that was a good moment too.
Cynthia Ruiz:So the one I liked that was 50-50 was Jennifer Lopez, shakira, and you know how I feel about Jennifer Lopez. Okay, that's why I said 50-50. I love Shakira, love Shakira.
Carmen Lezeth:She loves Shakira. She really loves Shakira. We don't hate Jennifer Lopez.
Cynthia Ruiz:No, we don't hate her. I just, honestly, I just feel like she's kind of been lightwashed in a way. That's how I feel. I can't see if anybody else, but I feel like she don't whitewash. I feel like all the roles that she plays are not Latino roles and they don't suit her Like you mean.
Carmen Lezeth:Like made in Manhattan. You want me to go down the list Movies. Let me just read some of the comments. So Janet Superbowl performance was great other than Nipplegate. I don't remember Janet's, because all I remember is the Nipplegate thing. And we love Janet Jackson and that's why we celebrate her on Superbowl Sunday, because when we call it we have a special name for the day. We celebrate Janet Jackson. Alma said he. I think she's talking about Mr Kelsey Grammar, whatever his name is.
Rick Costa:Travis, travis, kelsey.
Carmen Lezeth:He did say he did not invent it, that he only asked for it, and that the person who wrote the article was messed up for putting it out on February 1st and throwing him to the wolf. Okay, because it's also Black History Month, right, and that was the other part of it. So when you say he it was the hairdresser, right, I mean the barber, whatever hair, whatever the right terminology is for hair cutting human beings, because I don't know what it is Okay, well then, I give him credit. But that was horrible. Dr Dre in LA.
Cynthia Ruiz:Oh.
Carmen Lezeth:Mario, that was awesome and, yes, you know what that's going to be. I think I'm going to put that as, like with my Beyoncé and Bruno Mars. I'm going to put them as a tie, but they were, you know what, Okay, okay, okay, I revise, I revise, I'm going to put them at three and I'm going to put Bruno Mars and Beyoncé at four only because they weren't headlining. They joined Coldplay. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. I'm sorry.
Carmen Lezeth:J-lo can dance but can't sing and she leans into the Latina side when it's convenient. I love Shakira too. Here's my feeling on J-Lo. I both want to support her, but then want to beat the crap out of her because I'm like why? Here's my problem with any celebrity who's like oh my God, I just eat well Again, if this serum is so good. That's why I keep a healthy glow Bitch.
Carmen Lezeth:Stop. You work out every day, 19 hours a day, with trainers. You have a chef. You don't do, you don't clean. I cleaned my bathroom today. My cell phone cleaned it before I went to work. You know what I mean. I ain't got no nails because I have to type all day long. You know like, stop it. And I don't even have it as hard as other people. So it's like that's what I can't stand the lies, the lies. And it goes into the singing. I mean they did her wrong when they took away the mic.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know if you know that guy on Instagram and TikTok he takes away the background music so that you can just hear the acapella. Have you heard that? No, Because you know, if you are audio person, you can turn around and you can manipulate. I mean, sometimes, when I because I'm not even good at it, but I can go in and manipulate, Sometimes, like, well, Rick will say something, I can go in and edit it so that it flows into another sentence, Not to change anything, but to take out a sloughing or whatever it is. So you know, there's a. I'll send you all the link. There's a guy, or maybe it's a woman, but I think it's a man. He takes out everybody's audio. So you hear Whitney Houston. I mean Michael Jackson, and I'm going to guess that, by the way, but Michael Jackson's voice on point when you like it.
Rick Costa:About the point I've seen.
Carmen Lezeth:Michael Jackson once, yeah, point, and he does it with all of them. He did Jennifer Lopez and I was like, oh my God, take that down. That's so wrong, please stop. That's so wrong to do that to her, because it's bad Wow.
Andrea Nunez:I just saw her. She was on Saturday Night Live last week. I guess I didn't see it. I will ask it's what happened? It's just she's so bad. She's so bad. Wait, she was singing. She was singing, yeah, she was the musical guest, oh no, and so. And so I was watching it with my daughter and you know I can't remember what we were saying and I was like you know, the thing with Jennifer Lopez is stunning, badass dancer. Girl can dance, girl can move. Obviously a performer. Turn that shit down, honey. We don't want to hear it.
Carmen Lezeth:I have no problem with people who are performers, because there are differences. Right, madonna is a performer. Yeah, I don't think Madonna has the best voice Don't come at me, madonna, people do not but that woman can absolutely sing in her range. She doesn't try to do what she can't do and I don't think she's using auto tune. Maybe older, as she's gotten older, but I, I don't know, I'm not that big of a fan. What I'm saying is she stays in her lane.
Carmen Lezeth:But I do want to address something that Alma said, and this is where I feel bad, because I'm going to defend JLo a little bit and I hate having to do this. Okay, the problem with Hollywood is Hollywood still, to this day they're getting better at it Still believes that when you say Latino, a Latino actor or actress, all you get are roles made for white, latina people, latino people. You know what I mean Unless you're playing some Mexican gang bang or something. You know a guy. Then they're like oh yeah, we need the ones with tattoos and blah blah. But like I'm Latina, I've never gone out for a Latina role that I got, and even when I went to audition they were like oh yeah, no, why did your agent send you in Because I'm Africana, latina, right, afro Latina. So we're still in that place where we are still not accepting that there are just so many flavors in the Latin community. And so the reason why I'm going to defend JLo a little bit is she going to take the roles that she can get.
Carmen Lezeth:Look at, people don't realize this. I've talked about this before. Martin Sheehan, who I love with all my heart, old school actor, is Latino. He changed his name so that he could get roles. Now you're talking about back in the day, but I mean he did the whole West Wing, all these movies. You know what I mean. And everyone up until recently thought he is just American, white. You know what I mean. But he's Latino. That means his sons are Latino, right? So Charlie Sheehan and Emilio Estabes, who did keep his name. So Hollywood is evolving, you know what I mean.
Carmen Lezeth:So my only problem with putting that on JLo is I think she is in that situation. I mean we're beyond it. But Jessica Alba, people don't realize she's Latina. You know what I mean. There were so many people that can pass, that will take whatever roles they can get and then, when it's convenient, walk into the Latino community and I wanna blame them, but I'm here and so I see that and I understand it. But I have enough on JLo to be angry with her. So I'm on your side, I'm on team, I'm on everybody else, cause I don't like the lying and you don't have to be so overt about it.
Carmen Lezeth:You know, I don't think she can speak Spanish either. Her husband, her ex-husband, no, no, is it her husband? Now, yeah, an affliction, speak Spanish better than she does. Wow, I mean, he is fluent, like fluent. Not that I'm saying you have to speak Spanish to qualify as a Latino cause. That's not my poigneta, I would fail, although I do speak Spanish. But I'm saying, but it's just an interesting thing, like when you hear him speak Spanish, I was like he's got all the intonations and the culture and whatever, and I'm like and she's kind of in that middle stage, you know. So I don't know.
Rick Costa:She can speak Spanish. I think she can speak Spanish. The first time I ever saw her was in Living Color dancing J-Lo.
Carmen Lezeth:That's what we all saw her.
Rick Costa:That's what she got her star.
Carmen Lezeth:And then she did Selena and she was amazing in Selena, Just amazing, you know. Like that's how she got her thing. And then I don't know what happened. Jenny from the block got it all up in her head or something. Remember that song?
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I remember that one, jenny from the block or whatever. Hi, yeah, I don't know. I feel bad that we hating on J-Lo. Oh, we not hating you. We want you to do better by all of us. It's Andrea who made you and we want you to do better, in the words of Sean Carter. Yeah, but here's the thing though. You know what People ask her to sing, I don't get it.
Andrea Nunez:My mom saw her at a concert and loved it. By the way, she was into it.
Carmen Lezeth:OK, well OK. So we're missing some, we're missing some.
Andrea Nunez:I mean, you know, it was like a lady's night out and I'm glad she went and I was like this woman has a better social life than I do.
Carmen Lezeth:But I should do Because Daniel wanted to get us tickets to various different things. I was going to name one, and then I realized I had to promote him I'm going to fuck up. Yeah. I was like, yeah, we're going to erase that she did. That was my song for you. I'm sorry, what did?
Rick Costa:you sing what Ash said. She wrote Ash.
Andrea Nunez:She has a nice smell. I smell like perfume.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I was like that's a point, she was selling some weight loss thing. I think that's when I lost it. There was some weight loss thing that she you know the minute, an actor of any caliber, any celebrity of any caliber sells weight loss shit, I'm done. I'm done Because it's outright lie, all of it.
Rick Costa:Yeah, she can't sing, but she smells good. She does she smells good.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, I'm so glad you're talking. I was smelling bad, like I'm going to call this like dissing J-Lo. I did so well.
Andrea Nunez:I've just talked about. I've hated on all of these people. I need to talk about some people I've like.
Carmen Lezeth:Who are some people you like? Tell us who your favorite favorite musical artist is.
Andrea Nunez:Oh well, my favorite favorite is Chris Cornell who, as we know, passed away several years ago, my one who I loved, and actually it's really sad. I find it really difficult to listen to his music now. You do See.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm the opposite. Well, first of all, I got more comfortable listening to Chris Cornell after he passed away in honor of you, because I knew you were so upset. But wow, I love listening to him. That's so weird. And I love listening to George Michael Like I listen to George Michael every day.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, we listen to a lot of George Michael around here and I always turn it up and think of you. But here and there I can listen to a few songs, but I used to listen to his music every day.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I think you need to have a good cry to it and then find the joy in it. I'm not trying to be like boom boom, but I'm being serious. I think that's probably your. You have a sense of it. His music is super joyful.
Andrea Nunez:I know, I know, but you look like it.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't mean that I mean because I think that's what I mean for me. I had to get through it too and I was crying through George Michael's music. And Prince was even harder. I'm not going to lie, that was a harder thing because that I don't know why that was harder. You know, prince was first. It was David Bowie, prince and George Michael and it was like that same 12 months. It wasn't the same year, because I think David Bowie was January. Yeah, forget it, he was January, yeah, and it was like that. But I cried a lot for Prince. I don't know why it bothered me so much more. But then I got through it and then I feel like the music brings me happiness now. And George Michael I just he does have music that is joyful, so it's easy.
Carmen Lezeth:Let me see Mariel said they ate her up for you using the N-word in one of her. But you know these. We're not going to talk about her no more, because it's true, you know, it's just true, it's stupid shit. And she got to give us more information. Chris Cornell was great in context. He wanted for others to relate too hard to hear given his passing, but a beautiful intent. Yeah, prince was devastating.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, that was hard. He just he was like you know, he felt he seemed invincible. I guess right, something about it just felt like he's never going to go. And then it was so. It was so sudden and surprising.
Rick Costa:And genius.
Carmen Lezeth:He's such a genius I don't know. It was weird. Go ahead, Rick. I'm sorry.
Rick Costa:For me it was Whitney. I was like you're lying. Stop it Right. You're lying. I could not believe it. I was like you're lying. Who killed her? It's like no way Dummy should kill. No, I was so upset.
Carmen Lezeth:But you knew she was in a lot of trouble.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, she was trying to get better, I thought the last time I spoke to her before her passing. I'm just saying the the here. I love Whitney too, but the thing that bothers me about Whitney, and you know again, send me direct messages. It's fine, I do read them. I don't know where you respond to Of all the people on the planet that she could have associated herself with. I'm just saying no offense to Mr New Edition.
Carmen Lezeth:I just was like those two seem to just not be in a good place with each other when it came to drugs and I just didn't understand the whole Bobby Brown and her connection and it just devastated me because it felt like that combination. I'm not blaming him, I'm saying you know, when you see two people who might be toxic, you know, and then you would just hear the stories and I was like, and then I think I saw her on some performance. I didn't see her in person, but I was watching a performance and she couldn't get to that vocal place and that's when I knew I'm like the drugs are just messing up her vocal cords. Now you know what I mean, cause she or she's not rehearsed, she's not using whatever it is that happens, you know, it just made me so sad, ashley. Yes, whitney Houston was sad, and then her daughter.
Rick Costa:Yeah, that was crazy.
Cynthia Ruiz:Didn't they die in like the same way too.
Rick Costa:I think it was like on the same day or something. To the.
Andrea Nunez:To the way, and she was in a coma for a long time. I mean, it was just so sad.
Carmen Lezeth:The good news is is that Bobby Brown is doing better and he's getting himself, I guess, on track again. Last time I spoke to him, so through the trade magazines or whatever we read, you know what I mean. But he, you know, I think New Edition is doing a. They're going to go on tour soon, so you know. But yeah, it's just a tough. This is not it. How come my show is not full of joy every day? How we get here? We started with joy with Tracy Chapman. Let's end there too, because here's the thing she got her flowers. Man. When you watch it, her eyes all glistened in. She seems so happy, it just felt so full circle. I wish for one of those moments for myself.
Andrea Nunez:That to me. That's why I love going to live shows right Like you love a song, you love an artist and you feel like they give you so much Right and you have this experience together and if you can see that smile and you see them receive it, you feel like you're giving something back.
Cynthia Ruiz:Yeah.
Andrea Nunez:And it's just this really like beautiful synergy between you and the artist, you like collective view, the group and the artist. It's just. It was such an amazing, beautiful moment, yeah, to actually be able to see it, like you said, like to see her receive. That was so amazing.
Rick Costa:There's been. There's been music that I listened to and I was like, didn't care for it. But then when I heard them live all of a sudden I was like, oh, I like them now Sweet.
Carmen Lezeth:Are you saying that about fast car? No, oh, okay, I didn't know what you were for. I'm like oh so you never heard fast cars? Is that what I'm hearing? Let me see.
Carmen Lezeth:Mario said it was Whitney's brother who introduced her to the drugs. He admitted that later. It doesn't matter who introduced her to the, I've been introduced to drugs. But you know you hang around with other people doing drugs. It makes it harder for you to walk away. I'm just saying I don't know if that relationship was as good. For again, I'm not blaming him, I'm just saying it's such a waste.
Carmen Lezeth:But you know, I don't know how the world works, I don't know how all of this functions. I just I miss Whitney. I miss her. I listen to her music all the time too. Her voice was so soulful and unique and her voice was perfection. Her voice was perfection and I can't say I think the only other person I would say that about that can hit every note. It's not even hitting notes. It's like knowing the notes to hit would be Barbara Streisand. You know what I mean. Like you just sing and you know where you're going and it makes sense to anyone listening to it. That's how I felt about Whitney and that's how I feel about Barbara Streisand. Like it doesn't matter whether you like the songs or not, it's just that is gifted. That is gifted and then worked on and perfected.
Rick Costa:And she knew how to make songs her own too, with her own style to it. You know she could take I will always love you, a country song by Dolly Parton and put her own flavor on that thing, and, man, that became a hit. We all know that.
Carmen Lezeth:One of her best songs was singing the national anthem. Oh, I could watch that over and over I was like how can you make that something where I'm crying? Like what music brings you joy? Oh, good question. Let's start with Cynthia, who has not spoken enough, so it's going to make it really hard for my clips.
Cynthia Ruiz:I like all kinds of music, but like anything that's upbeat and anything that can make you like think of memories. Like, if I'm listening to 80 songs, think of good memories from the 80s and things like that.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, you know what I heard the other day? Shout, shout. Was that just for fears? Yes, what's one of your favorite songs from back then?
Cynthia Ruiz:September from Earth, Wind and.
Rick Costa:Fire is one of my favorites.
Cynthia Ruiz:It's one of my favorites.
Carmen Lezeth:And then Lover from Prince. Oh, what's some from Prince, I'm sorry. What Lover.
Cynthia Ruiz:Oh yes, that's my absolute favorite song from them, andrea.
Andrea Nunez:What music brings me joy is like, primarily like dance music. I've been listening to Tina Maria a lot lately, really, yeah.
Rick Costa:I'm like you, just immediately pulls you in and you're just dancing Like that's, that's the music.
Andrea Nunez:That's just super joyful for me, but that's for whatever reason. I was on a road trip and I was like let's just listen to the 80s R&B. And then she came up and I was like Marie is the bomb, let's just listen to Tina Marie for four hours.
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, tina Maria was one of those people that when I found out she was white, I was like what Something is happening? But she is invited to the cookout for shout. I have to say this and I you know people going to be like what is Carmen's issue with Andrea? But if somebody gave me a multiple choice test and was like Carmen, let's see how well you know Andrea, I would fail every time. I would have been like she loves dance music. Tina Marie, never, not once in a million years, not one. But let me reverse it. If I turned it around and they gave you, actually I think all of you in the room would be like George Michael's friends, it was the third one, it was my third favorite, you know.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I wonder if Andrea knows.
Andrea Nunez:I don't think about it, I don't know, off the top of my head.
Rick Costa:I have to really dig in Michael Jackson.
Carmen Lezeth:No, although I do like Michael Jackson. But no, I don't think I don't know if you guys would know, but when I say it you'll know you don't want to take a guess. Died a long time ago, Part of a band. He did a movie about him. Now you're throwing me off. I don't know. No, not Michael Jackson. We will think about it.
Andrea Nunez:We got to get the movie about him. Johnny Cash, the doors yes, hey, tony, how you doing baby.
Rick Costa:Yes.
Carmen Lezeth:Johnny Cash was the right. Wow, freddie.
Rick Costa:Mercury Queen oh really Okay.
Andrea Nunez:No, I would not have guessed that Really.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, yeah, Okay, Absolutely. Oh, my God, yeah, that's a good one. That's like I would say that's my favorite band or you know, like, but it's Freddie Mercury and every single song. There's not. It's just yeah, I pick them over the Beatles any day of the week and twice on Sundays. No offense to the Beatles fans, but like when people talk about the Beatles, I'm like if I'm going to go into that world over there, it's going to be Freddie Mercury and Queen.
Cynthia Ruiz:See, I would have said for me, queen and the Bee Gees, every song of the Bee Gees, oh the.
Carmen Lezeth:Bee Gees. Oh, ray Charles, good one. Bee Gees are getting a new kind of revamped music out there again. Somebody redid a song or something and they're out there again.
Andrea Nunez:Well, there's a documentary. Have you seen that, cynthia? The documentary? It's on HBO. No, it's good, really good. I watch that.
Carmen Lezeth:Not including gospel music, because I know you're going to say well, mine is Christian, so we know you love Christian music. So tell us your Christian music and then tell us your other people who don't listen to Christian music music.
Rick Costa:I mean, it's kind of like what Cynthia said I like upbeat and I do like to dance, even though I don't dance. But I like it because it puts me in a good mood, you know, give me a little pep in my step, a little bit Like Smile, for example. That's why I like that song a lot. Yeah, he's a good one, obviously.
Carmen Lezeth:I like the favorite Whitney. I never asked you that.
Rick Costa:Whitney, oh my gosh.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I want to dance with somebody.
Rick Costa:That's good too. I saw the funniest video of it was a grandma holding a three year old and they had that music playing in the background. And then they showed the granddaughter, when the grandma was really old, holding the grandma and dancing to the song.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I think you've got that to me, right? Yeah, I think so. I think you've got that to me, yeah.
Rick Costa:That was so cute, so cute. I like Whitney and Mariah, the old Mariah. I think I said this before. I don't know why you have to qualify it that way. Because some of the new stuff is different. Tony's like favorite songs.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm here all day.
Rick Costa:Favorite Whitney song you still haven't told me.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to say it's the greatest love of all for me, but go ahead. I mean that was almost nothing she said. I don't really like a lot.
Rick Costa:I mean it's hard to pick one. It's hard to pick one. I like all her stuff. I can't say it's easy to see. You know it's so funny.
Carmen Lezeth:When I'm in my car, though, I can sing. Everybody sings good in the car and in the shower.
Rick Costa:I believe they did that with me. They did my music, and then they had me in the car and then they took out the and they did.
Carmen Lezeth:I would sound as good as JLo. That's funny. My love is your love and I'm going to say it.
Cynthia Ruiz:I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it.
Rick Costa:I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it, I'm going to say it my love is your love and your love is my love.
Carmen Lezeth:I know that song. That's a good song.
Rick Costa:Rick, just the other day I saw Whitney. It was just a clip of Whitney with Enrique Glacias the young, the son, and nothing against Enrique, but she sang circles around that man. I'm sorry.
Carmen Lezeth:But she could sing circles around anybody.
Rick Costa:That's true.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, we not getting off of here until I hear your favorite Whitney song.
Rick Costa:I just pick one. I will always love you.
Carmen Lezeth:I know it's corny, but you want me to send that for you too. Okay, ready and uh, I'll tell you. I'll tell you singing.
Rick Costa:It's a Kevin Costner. I just you know what's so funny the thing is. I know I can't sing.
Carmen Lezeth:I know I can. I don't even pretend you know what I mean, but that's the hardest song to even try to keep to Shut up, tony. I don't even have the breath for it, corny Rick. She shut up, tony, but you know what? Was funny about the song was all these people would say call the radio.
Rick Costa:I want to dedicate this to my girlfriend. Like you realize, this is a breakup song. It's still a beautiful song, though I said no, it's the way she sings it.
Carmen Lezeth:That's so beautiful. I will say that I listened to Dolly Parton's version, you know, and I find it fascinating, like I would have never like. This is where I think the genius is. You hear a song and then you're like, oh, you're like I'm not gonna do that, I'm not gonna do that, I'm not gonna do that, I'm not, I need to be part of the video. I don't need to be part of the video. I've never, I've never tried to do the rapper's song. And then you're like, oh, you know what, I could cover that, or I can do it differently, or I could. I and you know again, I have much respect and love for Dolly Parton, but I would have never taken her song and been like I can do that justice and make it into a RRB love. So you don't never. And so I think that's the genius of it, right, well, okay, well, where past?
Rick Costa:the hour mark.
Carmen Lezeth:I appreciate everyone fun and light, and I just do want to bring it back to Tracy Chapman. Thank you for that beautiful moment, tracy, and I forgot his name, mr Holmes, luke Holmes, what's his name, luke? That was just a beautiful moment. I'm so glad we got to share that collectively. Okay, goodnight everyone and remember it's all about the joy. We'll see you next week. Thank you everyone. Bye, bye, thanks for stopping by. All about the joy. Be better and stay beautiful folks. Have a sweet day.