All About The Joy
All About The Joy is a weekly hang-out with friends in the neighborhood! We share insight, advice, funny-isms and we choose to always try and find the positive, the silver lining, the "light" in all of it. AATJ comes from the simple concept that at the end of the day we all want to have more JOY than not. So, this is a cool place to unwind, have a laugh and share some time with friends!
All About The Joy
Earthquake Tales to Celebrity Encounters: A Roller Coaster of Laughter and Insights
Ever wondered how to best start a video to captivate your audience right from the get-go? Tune in as we share our hilarious battle with live stream technical glitches, and reveal how Andrea's candid check-in from her car turned into a heartfelt discussion on the roller coaster ride of parenting. We dive into the relief some find in a child-free life, all while navigating through tales of a recent Malibu earthquake and the myriad ways our friends and neighbors reacted to the tremors.
Experience the blend of laughter and nostalgia as we recount some unforgettable earthquake moments, including a neighbor's over-the-top reaction to their first quake and reflections on the notorious Northridge earthquake of 1994. But that's not all—get the inside scoop on our brushes with fame, featuring an extraordinary story of meeting the legendary James Earl Jones and connecting over a shared experience with stuttering. We round it off with a fun chat on which celebs we'd love to meet, with Julia Roberts topping the list for her relatable charm.
Join us as we gush over our favorite Julia Roberts movies, debate the merits of classic films like "Field of Dreams", and reminisce about our late '90s friendships. From Kevin Costner's iconic roles to practical tips on managing your digital footprint and securing your personal information, this episode is packed with engaging stories and valuable advice. Don't miss our playful banter, heartwarming memories, and the excitement of new merchandise designs that celebrate our creative community.
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Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
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I don't know what happened.
Rick Costa:What.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you guys see it? Yeah, but then it went late, it kind of like paused yeah.
Rick Costa:Got choppy sometimes it was choppy.
Cynthia Ruiz:I wonder if last time you started the video and then you went live, because, remember, there's like a little gap before it starts counting. Oh, so start the video first and then go live yeah all right that's not what I do again.
Rick Costa:Let's be quiet, that's not what I do, though. I hit the live button and then I immediately hit the button to go right away.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no but I think cynthia's right. Last time I did the video first and then I hit the live button, so so okay, let's just see. Oh, somebody else is in the house, andrea. Hi Are you going to do this? You're going to do this, so we can.
Andrea Nunez:Okay, hold on how are you, I'm okay. Okay, yeah, no.
Carmen Lezeth:It's not working. Your phone's not turning. Your phone is not.
Rick Costa:Oh well.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, sorry, no can do.
Carmen Lezeth:Hey Melanie, how are you yeah?
Rick Costa:I only saw one second.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so Melanie only saw one second of the intro. We're going to do it a different way in the future. I think Cynthia's right. I did it wrong this time. I did it Rick's way, whatever.
Rick Costa:But if she only saw one second, then that means my way is better, because if you play the video first, that means she's even going to see less of the video.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so let's not worry about it, I'm going to do it next week, I think. Cynthia's right. Last time we did it, we played the video first.
Rick Costa:Oh, I forgot to put the pillow up.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what I mean. Yeah, see you don't. There's no love from you, rick. There's no love. Where's your pillow? Yeah, hidden back there. Hey, andrea, how you doing.
Andrea Nunez:I'm good. I'm good, I'm at soccer practice. So if my background noise is bad, just let me know it's okay, she's frozen.
Carmen Lezeth:I know you don't have to come on the show, girl, we love having you, but I know you with the kids doing soccer.
Andrea Nunez:Well, we got in a fight, so I'm to stay in the car.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, Uh-oh, we got in a fight so I'm to stay in the car. Which godchild of mine is? Who do you?
Andrea Nunez:think. Who do you think? Is it Natalia, I guess, obviously.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my.
Andrea Nunez:God, yeah, no way, I mean, I can see her from here, but Okay.
Carmen Lezeth:I have a question. She told you you have to stay in the car, um no?
Andrea Nunez:There was a lot of silence and then some door slamming. So I'm just gonna like let it ride For right now, and then we'll have our discussion when she comes back to the car.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, and how long is soccer practice? Uh?
Andrea Nunez:Like an hour and a half. Wow, I'm so glad I'm going to let her, get all that aggression out and then come back in and dart her up all over again.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my God, I thought as I got older I've said this so many times and I'm sorry I'm going to say it again. I thought as I got older I would said this so many times and I'm sorry I'm going to say it again. I thought as I got older I would regret the decision not to have children. But I have to tell you, as I get older, and every single day it is proven to me what a brilliant, magnificent, genius choice I made and never wanted to have. I love them, but it just never ends. You know, yeah, and I'm just godmother and auntie and I'm so over children right now. Love them, love them, but yeah, uh. So how are you doing, andrea, because we haven't seen you in a few weeks. I'm fine. Did you feel the earthquake in Malibu this morning?
Andrea Nunez:um, you know, I was doing the dishes and I heard some like jangling or whatever and I just thought that it was like my phone pressing against the cabinet, so I didn't really feel anything.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just so I've been here 30 years, okay, and Rick, I just want to say you did not reach out. I didn't even know. I'm just letting you know who did reach out, though. Who was texting me? Carmen, I just got a. It touched my heart, though, cause she was like I just got a notification, there was an earthquake. I'm like she got a notification.
Rick Costa:The one with all the merch.
Carmen Lezeth:The one with all the merch over there, right, right, right. But can I tell you, I've been here 30 years. Nothing has ever fallen in any place. I've lived whenever we've had one of these, but it really was right in malibu and it was like four. You know, 4.7 ain't nothing for us, right, but I was so close to it and it was a rolling earthquake, so it was like for a little bit, those ones kind of like those, those are the fun ones I Because.
Andrea Nunez:Then you're kind of like, ooh, ooh, you take over this. You're like, ooh, is it going to be a big one? Oh no.
Carmen Lezeth:As she's washing the dishes. I'm over here trying to do my hair before I go to work. I'm like, ooh, it was so funny, but one of my pieces of art fell to the ground.
Rick Costa:I was shocked.
Carmen Lezeth:I was like oh no. Still wasn't that thrown by it. I was like, oh my God, like it was just, but that was for 30 years. Knock on wood, because you know, tonight we're going to be sleeping. Guess, I'm motherfucking big and I'm going to shut the fuck up.
Cynthia Ruiz:You'll be like the guy next door. What do you mean, the guy next door? Didn't you say the guy next door was screaming my first earthquake?
Carmen Lezeth:Because across the way, clearly we have new fucking neighbors who don't know how to shut their windows or realize other people live in the neighborhood and he's screaming oh, it's my first earthquake my first earthquake.
Carmen Lezeth:I was like bring it down a notch. Newbie uh, melanie, a rolling. She's asking in the comments what a rolling earthquake is it? So there's. There's several different types of earthquakes, but one would be that and like that jerk kind of you're shook and it's like really quick and like everything moves and you're done. But a rolling earthquake feels more like a, like a big truck is driving by for a long time, like and I mean long time, like 20 seconds or something, and it's like rumbling. But it's like a big truck, 18 wheeler, that shouldn't be in your alleyway or something. You know what I mean. Um, so it rolls and it goes for a little bit longer. I think that's the right definition. That's just my experience, andrea, you would know, cause you were born and raised here.
Andrea Nunez:So Well, I wasn't born there, but yeah. And then I went through the 93 earthquake, which was gnarly. Wasn't that northridge? That's northridge, right, that was in northridge and I lived in sherman oaks at the time and that was just. That was the worst thing. That's ever, the worst one I've ever felt. It was violent, you know, extended, just shaking like this. It was like you were in a snow globe and someone was doing this. It was crazy. Every single thing in our house broke, every single thing.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, my gosh yeah, and even where I live now, this place, which is usually pretty, again knock on wood, throw salt, spit wherever, do all the ugly things. Santa Monica is a pretty safe area supposedly, but this place got knocked out too, so it really was a disaster. Do we know how big was that earthquake? Was it like a 5, 9, or 7 or something, I think.
Andrea Nunez:You know what? I don't remember. I think it was a 7.
Carmen Lezeth:Let's ask Google, yeah, google, I don't know how big was the Northridge earthquake in California in 1993?
Rick Costa:Might have been 1994., it was in January, hey, mario, 30 years ago today, the 1994.
Carmen Lezeth:6.7. I don't need you to read the whole fucking Wikipedia, page 6.7. And it says 30 years ago today. Hi Mario, Did I miss Mario?
Rick Costa:It was in January what?
Carmen Lezeth:What Andrea today hi?
Andrea Nunez:mario, did I miss mario? It was just in january. What? What? Andrea? I uh cynthia said that it that google was saying it was 30 years ago today, but it wasn't, it was in january and google said it was 30 years, but it was january.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah. So I'm like, okay, clearly not today, dumbass. But that's okay, google, listen, right we? Believe you it might have been 94. Now I think about it, but here's the thing it wasn't 94 because I, being a crazy person, after the big earthquake I was like I'm moving to LA and I want to live right in the area, right along the beach, where all is the best.
Cynthia Ruiz:Thank you, mario let me say happy birthday to my grandson.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, happy birthday what did I miss? Oh, I said happy birthday on your facebook page right to yeah. Melanie said not sure how I would do in an earthquake I've never been through one. It really honestly, I mean I don't again don't want to say this because I don't want to jinx the joy I've had living here but I think it's worse with all the hurricanes and tornadoes and all the it's all that weird anticipation Like okay, we're going to have a snow front is coming in. You better lock down and go to the garage. Earthquakes don't't know, you just gonna happen. You're gonna be doing your thing, it's just gonna happen. You don't really have much time to prepare and and and it's not like in the movies again, please, the universe, the gods above, don't jinx my ass tonight. But it's just, it's just shaking and then it's over within what's the longest, andrea? Like 30 seconds I don't even know.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, I don't know. I mean, sometimes they can go on for a while, but it's, it's over pretty quickly and most of them are no big deal. It's just, you know, you get some big ones that are nasty, and you know.
Carmen Lezeth:But usually that one that I was not here for go ahead I said usually it's kind of fun it is because you start to like, I started laughing because I was doing my hair, I was putting some oil in my hair and I was like, oh, because it was a rolling one. And then I had to hear you know, crazy person. And then I was like, oh, because I? I? Here's the thing again. I'm gonna bitch about my neighbors. These are new neighbors across the way, they're not my neighbors next door in my building. You know what I mean. But they don't realize how loud they are and like, so they're screaming on their balconies at like six in the morning and they don't realize they're screaming, they're just talking. But other people are sleeping bitches. You know what I mean. Like anyways, whatever. So alma just said I'd rather an earthquake than to be worried about hurricanes and tornadoes. Exactly, or the snowstorm thing freaks me out now.
Rick Costa:Sorry cynthia, sorry rick a few months ago there was one in new jersey and we actually felt it up here. But oh yeah, I thought somebody hit my house a car because I just heard boom. I was like. I got up, looked out the window. There's nobody out there. I'm like what was?
Carmen Lezeth:that I didn't even know what it was. He had an earthquake. Oh, that's right, you told me. You text me yeah and it was like a 3.2 or something like that.
Rick Costa:Yeah it was maybe.
Carmen Lezeth:I was like please, I'm at work, no, I'm just kidding that was my first one.
Andrea Nunez:Everybody comes out from their various wherever they're like. Was that an earthquake? Did you guys feel that?
Carmen Lezeth:And then everyone goes back to work or does whatever they're doing, but initially we're all, like you, do that little hesitance to see if it was. And then, of course, you go and check your apps and you check like all your things, like I used to go on twitter, but I don't have twitter anymore, so I really didn't check my first got on twitter is from an earthquake because I was doing the like.
Andrea Nunez:Was that an earthquake? What was that? You know, because we're all like am I there? Was that an earth? Yeah, yeah so I got on twitter because I was like, oh, and that's sort of what introduced me to couldn't even find it now if you wanted to the, the, the.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, so many people have gotten off of twitter, some of the big companies, so I don't even know, but I'm sure that app is still on there. My app didn't go off until the earthquake went off. Usually it does it a few seconds beforehand. I don't know what they think I'm going to do a few seconds before Time to dive under the table.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, here's the thing. It sounds the same as the Amber Alerts, so it really annoys me. No offense, I'm happy for the Amber Alerts because we want to always protect children. They want to get no fucking mail or anything. I'm just saying it's the same sound and so, and it's like alert, alert, alert. Um, and it's also the presidential alert. Remember we had that one presidential alert that time that when they tested it or whatever. It's that same sound, it's like scary or whatever. So, but mine didn't go off, so, and it's only a couple seconds before. Let me get the pictures off the wall. Hurry up, wait, I don't know, like I'm not going to get under my desk. I didn't even think about getting under my desk. That's the last place I want to be. I'd be claustrophobic, like I don't know. Okay, I'm the wrong person to talk about earthquake prevention.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, none of us are going to get up until we think it's a thing right, like we're all doing the thing where we're sitting around like something did I get up and then it's over. Yeah, it's over, and if it's not, well okay. Now everything's going to come down all over you, Right?
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to try to get out my house, but yeah, I don't know. Okay, I don't know, okay, I don't know why we're talking about this. I brought it up because there was an earthquake today in California and I just want to say thank you to my friends who all text me and other people who really don't give a shit but pretend to all the time.
Carmen Lezeth:I did not know, I swear, I did not know Well here's the thing I love my family and friends back east because there will be like they'll get something. They'll see the news and it'll say, like wildfires ravaging blah, blah, blah California, and I'll get text messages, facebook messages. I'll get all these messages and I'm like it's like closer to San Francisco, but thanks for checking it. You know what I mean. Like I had one friend who was like it would be really helpful, carmen, when something happens, if you do that thing on Facebook where it does the, you check in and say you're safe.
Rick Costa:Mark yourself safe.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I'm like I would, except it's six hours from me. Do you want me to just every day say I'm safe. Today, I don't know, People, california is huge. It's really really big. So you only have to worry about me if it's in like West LA, if it's in Los Angeles, malibu, santa Monica, venice, that area, and we don't care about Andrea because she doesn't live near me. She's like an hour from when are you again? In Castaic, santa Clarita? Yeah, santa Clarita. So she's far away from me. I don't even worry about her.
Carmen Lezeth:You guys have more fires.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, there was a fire at Isabel's school just today.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, wow yeah.
Andrea Nunez:What do you do? Earthquakes fires? Yeah, Wow, yeah. What do you do? Earthquakes fires?
Carmen Lezeth:We love firemen on this show we just want to bring them.
Rick Costa:Oh boy, here we go again.
Carmen Lezeth:We love firemen on this show. Shout out to the firemen, andrea's like, what's going on? I'll fill you in later.
Cynthia Ruiz:Yeah, it's TV show I love a fireman, so that's great.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, no, cynthia has me addicted to fireman shows and I've gone way off the deep end. Now I'm watching every first responder show that's ever been made now Like I'm addicted. So I wanted to also just give some love. A lot of you know that we lost James Earl Jones this past week, aka. I guess a lot of people know him as Darth Vader, the voice of Darth Vader, but of course he is and was a extremely talented and incredible actor of theater. He was also the voice of the Lion King I guess people know that, and CNN or whatever, but just an amazing presence, and on my Facebook page I posted a picture of me with him when I got to meet him, which is a whole other story of how that happened. And I want to give a shout out to Richard Kaler, who was the person who introduced me to one of my heroes. The other hero that I did get to meet I want to mention too was Maya Angelou. So I was thinking about this and I don't have a picture with me and Maya Angelou.
Carmen Lezeth:I was thinking about how profound because it was such a big deal for me to meet James Earl Jones, and the reason why is for people who don't know I stuttered as a kid and people who do know know that I stutter now and, as I'm saying it, I'm trying not to. But that's what all the ahs are Like. You know you compensate with other ways and one of the things that was great about meeting him was he still stuttered into adulthood, you know, and it was part of his whole process and it's just magnificent to hear, to see someone who had a stuttering issue and not just overcome it, but you work through it and I knew who he was as a kid and it always become like kind of my hero back then. But I was wondering if there were any celebrities that you have, any of, you have ever met, that would be that changed your life or changed something about them or whatever. I sent you guys a little note about it. I don't know if you had any time to think about it at all, but Rick, did you.
Rick Costa:I can't say I really met anybody famous. To be honest, I haven't met anyone.
Carmen Lezeth:What is with Cynthia? You asked me to send you stuff. Okay, I know, yeah. So Molly just saw a clip of James Earl Jones on Big Bang Theory. You asked me to send you stuff. Okay, and yeah, he was. So mine just saw a clip of James Earl Jones on big bang theory. Oh my God, he was so funny. I love that he did that. He did that when he was older too, and you've met some celebrities.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, yeah, I mean it wasn't any big deal though. Okay, well, what did you? I never, I never met anybody who I really really loved and respected their work or anything like that, or who said anything profound to me or did anything that you know, and and it was just casual meetings that were, you know, in the context of what you know, at a, at a music show or something like that. So I don't have any of those kind of celebrity encounters and I don't think I would ever go up to someone. I can't think of anyone who I would go and like talk to and say, hey, I love your, whatever. That's just not something I would do.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I don't know what happened when I met James Earl Jones, but it's actually the opposite. So when I worked at a live action motion graphics company, we used to do a lot of commercials, and I think it's even true today. But a lot of celebrities do a lot of international commercials. So, you know, they make a lot of money internationally using their name, even if the commercial doesn't air here. So we would do commercials for, like American Express, we do commercials for, I don't know. We did, like the Super Bowl, we did a lot of different commercials and I handled at the time I was the controller of the company. I you know the company that I worked for. I was also a partner, but this was before then, but I basically was the money person. Okay, I never went on any shoot because I didn't need to be there Once the shoot is happening. My job was pretty much done. Long story short, when I found out that James Earl Jones was going to be doing a spot that we were working on for the history channel, um, um, I made sure that I talked to the executive producer and asked him if it'd be okay if I came on set. And of course it was kind of stupid because of course I can go on set, but I was like I'm just gonna be in the background, no big deal whatever, and so I stayed in the background. I didn't let anyone else know I was coming and I was just in the background watching him work and just in awe, because I was a little kid when I found out who he was and that he stuttered you know what I mean and it made me realize that stuttering wasn't going to be a hindrance, because here he was Darth Vader, you know what I mean. And there were other celebrities, that it was a school counselor who was showing me a chart of all these celebrities that had disabilities, like Whoopi Goldberg, had dyslexia, and you know what I mean and then he was the one that had the same thing I had. So I started just being kind of into him a little bit.
Carmen Lezeth:So I was in the studio you know they were on set on studio and I was just in the background and they went to take a lunch break and all of a sudden he starts walking towards me with three or four of his people and I'm looking behind me because I'm thinking he's going to. You know, I'm trying to move out of the way and he reaches out his hand and he's like I am honored to always take a moment to meet the money lady, like he called me the money lady and I was shook and Richard was you're hearing me stutter now? Richard was kind of laughing because he had gone up to him and told him that I had been there all day and that he was a hero and that I never come on. You know what I mean Told him whatever, and so I sat down with him and we had lunch and his hair and makeup person also was a stutter. We had this whole conversation about the process of stuttering and what it's like and you know how he. It was just amazing. And then I stayed there for the rest of the shoot and then we had dinner together and it was just awesome.
Carmen Lezeth:It was like I would have never. I would have never. I mean, I've met and I've seen, especially because of where I live it's not even where I work, it's where I live. You can throw a rock and hit a celebrity and you might not know it, but you can, because they never look like what you think they're gonna look like. You know, um, and I've never been thrown or whatever, because you get used to it, you realize they're just regular people. You know. All right If you guys have never met, but who would you like to meet? Julia Roberts? I've never met her. Why would you like to meet her? I?
Cynthia Ruiz:don't know. I just feel like she's kind of down to earth. Every time I see her, like in interviews and stuff like that, she's always so like, just so normal and just jokes around and stuff like that. I think she'd be cool.
Carmen Lezeth:What's your favorite movie she's been in? I'm just going to say Pretty Woman for me. I will always love that movie. I don't know how cheesy it is.
Cynthia Ruiz:I said that's just a classic, it's my mom's favorite.
Carmen Lezeth:Andrea, did you ever see Pretty Woman? I have a feeling she didn't. Yes, I did. You still haven't seen deal magnolias.
Andrea Nunez:My favorite julia roberts movie, though, because it's like good for a cry yes, magnolias is good and what's the?
Carmen Lezeth:one that she won the oscar for. What's the one that she won the oscar for? Oh, come on the one that she won the Oscar for. Oh, come on the one where she, yeah, yeah, yeah, where she fights the bad guys who are putting bad stuff into the soil.
Cynthia Ruiz:Oh, Erin Brockovich.
Carmen Lezeth:Erin Brockovich right, she won the Oscar for that. Yeah, Erin Brockovich.
Cynthia Ruiz:I gotta say, though, there was another movie called August Osage County. Her and Meryl Streep, oh yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, my God, so good. Miss Pizza, that's right, it was the first movie I remember her in. She's been in a lot of good stuff, I just forget. I always think just about Pretty Woman because that was just such a fun movie and not that I would ever.
Carmen Lezeth:It's one of my favorite lines that she does say, but it's not that I would. It's one of my favorite lines that she does say. But it's not that I want to be a prostitute and be picked up by a rich guy at all At all. But you do love that kind of story of like. You know her whole. It's that favorite line where she says it's not her, it's her friend. And they're at the patio, at the swimming patio area of the hotel, and julia roberts character says to her tell me, tell me one person it ever works out for, tell me one person. And her friend goes cinderella, the best ones, because she's contemplating staying and she knows she can't stay with them because dreams don't come true. You know what I mean and I think one of the first things I did when I came out here.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean I think you kind of have to do it. You go, look at all the places where they filmed Pretty Woman. Yeah, it's kind of cool, yeah, although Hollywood back then was really bad. It was like you did not want to be in Hollywood. But they've had a change, they've had a Renaissance or whatever, but that was a really bad area to hang out with.
Rick Costa:So Like bad, how Dangerous, or like how do you mean bad?
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, dangerous, and prostitutes and drugs Really bad. But it's not like that anymore. They've had a revival or something I would say. I don't know, andrea may disagree, but it's just a better place now.
Andrea Nunez:Yeah, it's more. What's the word gentrified now? Yeah.
Cynthia Ruiz:I mean yeah.
Andrea Nunez:There are parts of it that were definitely bad, for sure.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, Rick.
Rick Costa:Probably pretty much anybody from Star Trek trek, as corny as that sounds. Um, if I had to pick one, if I had to pick one person, I know you're probably gonna think you think a marina no, I do not, because we're talking about your romantic dreams.
Rick Costa:We're talking about inspiration I would probably want to talk to, uh, sir patrick stewart, because not only was he picard, but he was also xavier in the x-men movies. I'm like two loves of mine. So, yeah, and just I feel like he's got I mean not trying to say he's super old, but he is but he got a lot of wisdom and I'd love to, you know, have a chat and talk to him. That would be cool. I think it was andrea who bummed me out about patrick stewart I think it.
Carmen Lezeth:I think it was you who bummed me out about Patrick Stewart. I think it was you, andrea, who told me he. Maybe it wasn't you, because why would you know this? You're not really a gossipy kind of person but he like married his makeup artist, who's like 40 years younger than him, and I was like, and I'm done, I'm so done. I was so annoyed I don't know why it bothers me so much, but I was like I just had more faith in you. He. But I was like I just had more faith in you. He's like, how old is he? He's like in his 80s or something, right.
Carmen Lezeth:I say more power to you, sir, I know, I know I should be happy for him, but I don't know, I don't know why it bothers me. I'm very I don't know. I don't know what I'm trying to say.
Andrea Nunez:Andrea, give us one celebrity you would bother to talk to if they forced you to. I had to think about this for a minute, but Jane Fonda would probably be mine.
Rick Costa:She's lived an interesting life.
Andrea Nunez:She seems like a good. It'd be a great conversation, right? She could talk about anything funny, smart.
Carmen Lezeth:I'd like to meet them both together Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. That would be hilarious to have.
Andrea Nunez:Yes, absolutely Love them both. That would be super fun. That would be so cool, wow.
Carmen Lezeth:So I guess we're're gonna get off of this topic because you guys aren't really fun about it. So do you guys have a favorite james jones movie? Or you guys don't even? I mean, I know andrea is going to watch field of dreams in honor of him. Finally, look at her, come on.
Cynthia Ruiz:Come on, she's on the field right now.
Rick Costa:James would want you to.
Andrea Nunez:Now, it's just a thing that, because I want you to you're never going to do it Kind of yeah, look at me, look at me.
Carmen Lezeth:Come on, look at me, look at me come on, I just have less than zero interest. Like, there's just I, I just have no interest at all. I'm just gonna bring up, okay, all right. Okay, you don't have to watch that. How about? Et? Oh, fuck, carmen. Um, I'm just needling this going to be our thing from now on.
Andrea Nunez:It never wasn't our thing. It's always been a thing. Yeah, I don't think I will watch ET. No, I don't think I will. I've gone this long, I don't think I need to see it.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just saying my deathbed. That's when she'll watch it, maybe. Great thanks, yeah, whatever. Anyway, what's going on with you guys? I'm done Deathbed. That's when she'll watch it, maybe. Great Thanks, yeah, whatever. Anyway, what's going on with you guys? I'm done with my list.
Rick Costa:Karma's going to die and in her will she's going to be like I give this to Andrea but she's got to watch Feel the Dreams and she's like, nope, I'm still not going to watch it.
Carmen Lezeth:Right, you will get one million dollars. However, you must Publicly Get $1 million.
Andrea Nunez:However, publicly want view, publicly, yeah right.
Carmen Lezeth:Exactly. You know what, though I actually don't think you would like field of dreams. That's the irony of it.
Cynthia Ruiz:Nor do.
Carmen Lezeth:I, yeah, but I'm just saying if you loved something so much and I knew that you love something so much, I would watch it just to understand my friend better. You know what I mean. I'm just saying I would do that for you because that's the kind of person I am. I wouldn't have to though. You wouldn't have to, because I would have already done it, so we could have a conversation about it.
Carmen Lezeth:You see what I mean. Like that's why there's nothing for you to ask for, because my side of the friendship is like that. You know what I mean. Okay, got it. Andrea and I end up. We're going to talk again after this show. I just want to let you all know this is the end of our. How long have we known each other?
Andrea Nunez:it's just been a few years, right right.
Carmen Lezeth:No, but we've not. Okay, I got here in 1990. It's been 30 years, but when did I meet you Like 96?
Andrea Nunez:Would have been probably 97.
Carmen Lezeth:You worked for that lady, that lady who said I was not a professional bookkeeper.
Andrea Nunez:You hired me to work for that lady. That's right, it was 97.
Carmen Lezeth:97 all right, I can't believe we've been friends this long, because it's kind of weird. And then, cynthia, you've met andrea, don't you think it's weird that we're friends?
Andrea Nunez:no, why is it weird that we're friends? What is?
Carmen Lezeth:that conversation all right. Darcy said kevin Costner ain't good looking. I don't know if it's about Kevin Costner, though. He's not my type. I know people think Kevin Costner's hot, but there's only one movie that I watched. I mean I'll watch a movie with Kevin Costner in it because I don't mind. You know what I mean. Like I like him, I think he's fine, it's not a big deal, but the movie that I think was his best movie ever is no way out. Yeah, right, is that what?
Andrea Nunez:you were mouthing. No, that's a great movie. I just watched that, maybe like six months ago the first time. Oh, no, no, no, like I just was thinking about it, and I watched it again like yep, still a great movie yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:So if anyone is a kevin costner fan, the movie you want to see is no way out, and I think it's one of his first movies. So good, when did it come out? Oh, when did it come out, I don't know, 1980, or something no it's.
Andrea Nunez:I think it's from the 90s, like early, early 90s or maybe late 80s.
Carmen Lezeth:Hey, google when did the movie with kevin costner come out? Called no way out in the united states of america 1987.
Rick Costa:I don't need the whole thing, just 1987 is that the one where he's like a government spy or not a spy, or something like that?
Carmen Lezeth:No, why are you giving it away? Why are you giving it away? He's a naval officer. He ain't no spy, oh okay.
Rick Costa:I'm trying to remember.
Andrea Nunez:He works at the Pentagon and that's all we're going to say I think I did see that.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick just ruined the movie for anyone, nobody has to watch it now.
Andrea Nunez:Sorry everyone, Nobody has to watch it.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so what I've learned today in our show is never talk to Rick about movies.
Rick Costa:Just call me Rick Spoiler Costa.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, no, Actually he's not really a spy.
Andrea Nunez:uh, he's not he's trying to find a spy he's trying to find a spy.
Carmen Lezeth:That's right. Okay, that's all you gave away, rick.
Rick Costa:That's all yeah okay, I was just trying to figure out if I saw it because I was, like it sounds, familiar.
Andrea Nunez:I wasn't sure that's enough.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so that's our favorite Kevin Costner movie. Anyone else have a favorite Kevin Costner movie?
Rick Costa:I mean I did like him in Field of Dreams. I gotta lie.
Carmen Lezeth:Field of Dreams was so good and James Earl Jones. I really liked him in Field of Dreams too, yeah but it really was a Kevin Costner movie, for sure, and Timothy Busfield, who's from 30-something. Okay, andrea, you don't remember the show.
Andrea Nunez:30 something I remember that show never want. I mean, I watched like a quarter of an episode maybe okay, well, anyway, timothy busfield is also.
Carmen Lezeth:He's the. He's the person, rick on the in the movie field of dreams, who's trying to convince kevin costner to sell the field okay with the red hair and the beard. Yeah, he's a pretty famous actor actually. But it's okay, Cynthia favorite Kevin Costner movie, no idea Waterworld.
Cynthia Ruiz:You know, I never saw that. No one did. Clearly, Honestly, I've never seen Field of Dreams either.
Carmen Lezeth:It's all right, you don't have to, I don't expect you to. Yeah, look at that. I'll tell you the thing about field of dreams. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say this it's so, it's such an intellectual, the reason why I think you would like it in jails because it's an intellectual movie. It's not really a movie about baseball. You know what I mean. Okay, like the movie 42 was about baseball. To me, right, jackie robinson, whatever, it's not really a movie about baseball. You know what I mean? Okay, like the movie 42 was about baseball. To me, right, jackie robinson, whatever it's like. It was such a good movie. And also, uh, chadwick boseman is that how you say his name?
Carmen Lezeth:the late great yeah, uh, play jackie robinson. It's a great movie, but it's about baseball and about race and you know what I mean, what was going on back then and stuff. But Field of Dreams is it's not to me, it's not about baseball at all.
Rick Costa:No, I think it's what brings people together, but it's not about baseball.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I mean, I guess if you're a baseball fan and understand what happened to the black socks or whatever, it is the white socks I don't even know what the whole thing is like you know it's purple socks, whatever it's like, and that adds like a whole other layer to it.
Carmen Lezeth:You know what I mean? Um, shoeless joe jackson, like I get kind of the whole thing, how he was disgraced and whatever, blah, blah. But I don't, that's to me. That's not what the movie is about. It's about you searching for yourself, and that's kind of what I see it. As you know, kevin Costner is dealing with demons, as we all do, and then he, you know, here's a voice, and then he keeps trying to pursue what that voice is about. But for me I don't know about you, rick, but for me it was about, like you know, trying to find who you are in the world you know, and all the connections and all the things that matter to you and the people that matter to you, and why it's a very deep intellectual movie. I don't think Andrea could probably handle it, which is probably why she doesn't. I'm going to use reverse psychology now. That's probably why she don't want to watch it, because it's too deep and shit. Okay.
Rick Costa:Yeah, that's me action, yeah yeah, um darcy said she likes him in the bodyguard okay, I'm gonna say this.
Carmen Lezeth:This is not a popular opinion. I love whitney houston with all my heart. I do and I'm I'm gonna get backlash for this, but I really hated watching her in that because she was such a bad actress. It was just so hard. It was so hard. And the thing about Kevin Costner was he told her don't worry about it, I'll help you with the acting or whatever. And he should have gotten her an acting coach. You know what I mean. And she basically played herself, which makes it harder for me to be okay with it. I'm a stickler for it. Did you guys see the Bodyguard?
Rick Costa:I agree, she played herself.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you like it?
Rick Costa:It was alright.
Andrea Nunez:I didn't hate it.
Carmen Lezeth:I never need to see it again. And that's how you can tell. I don't care. You know what I mean, hi Daniel. Hi Daniel, is Daniel one of your people? Yeah, hi Daniel. I guess he said hi Rick.
Rick Costa:So there's Carmen and Cynthia and Andrea also. You can say hi to them too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:So how was your guys week, by the way, should probably ask. I mean, I hate talking about work. I went out to dinner last night with a guy from work and I was like, oh, I said I called you, right, rick, didn't I? I was waiting outside the restaurant or whatever anyways. So I called rick because I was waiting, because the restaurant I'm not gonna say the name of the restaurant but the restaurant wouldn't seat me until my partner got there, which which I have to tell you, restaurants, it pisses me off because I got there early so I can have a couple of fucking drinks before he got there, cause he doesn't drink. So, um, so I was outside, so I called Rick or I, whatever, and we were talking and then, uh, he showed up and stuff, but it was a really we didn't talk about work at all. It was an awesome dinner, it was so much fun and I'm just I it was a a great thing to cap off what has already been a really hard week for me. So, rick, what? How was your week this week?
Rick Costa:not too bad. It's work's been pretty laid back and slow for a change, which is nice, so yeah yeah, andrea, are you in kansas, arkansas?
Carmen Lezeth:no?
Andrea Nunez:no, no, no. Uh, my hard drive on my computer failed and I've lost all of my everything. So that's how my week went, and no, I didn't. I hadn't backed it up in like a year. I know that's the kind of person I am.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, I'm not going to say anything about backing it up. I don't think anyone backs up anymore. Don't you have a cloud?
Andrea Nunez:I don't put stuff on the cloud. I mean I put some things, but other things I don't. You know what I mean. I'm not organized like that Are you a Mac person?
Carmen Lezeth:Are you a Mac person?
Andrea Nunez:They have the most secure cloud service, I know, but I use. For most of my documents I use Word Office, microsoft Office, whatever.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I'm just going to let you know in the future, because that's what happened to me and made me change how I do stuff. It's the same exact thing that happened. It just happened 10 years ago. But I have OneDrive, so I wouldn't use Google Drive. I mean, I know Google Drive is also an option, but I use OneDrive because it's a separate thing from all my personal stuff, but it automatically backs up every night and it's just. Everything is housed in the cloud, so even when you buy a new computer, you don't have to worry about it, because you just plug it in and then it downloads. You know what I mean? It's just, but you might want to think about that but, yeah I have one drive.
Andrea Nunez:I just don't use it, so I do need to rethink how I do my thing and there's like personal vaults, like.
Carmen Lezeth:So people can't really access anything unless they know your personal, you know password, and also they ask you all those security questions and the double verification. And I'm like, baby, if you have gotten all that information, steal what you can, they're yours, but go ahead and knock yourself out. You know what I mean. So I'm like I finally got over that whole idea because I was so worried what if I have everything in the cloud? Most of our stuff is already on the web. It's already out there. You know what I mean.
Carmen Lezeth:So, yeah, so I use a combination of google drive and one drive. Google drive is mostly work stuff, so all my clients have their own drive on google. They pay for it. I do not. Okay, that's the other thing you want to do. And, um, and that way, when I quit, all I do is give a password and they can have all their shit and it's not on my computer and then all my personal stuff and all my like credit cards, whatever it's in a whole other drive. Uh, one drive I use. But, ricky, we're gonna say something.
Rick Costa:I'm sorry I was logged into my mom's email, which she never uses, but then I saw there was an alert and, like your social security may have been on the dark web, I'm like, oh great, explains why our phone rings all day long. But um, I do use, like daniel just mentioned, I use dropbox. I've used that for years and years and years and, yeah, it just automatically syncs constantly. If you get a new, new computer, you log in, boom, everything gets downloaded automatically.
Carmen Lezeth:Dropbox is great too, daniel. I don't. You know, I'm not an expert on any of this stuff. I think the thing that everyone should understand is that everything is already out on the internet. How you protect that is what's important. So, speaking of your mother's social security, I just took two of my clients and explained to them that they have to. Everyone should have a freeze on their credit reports. So there are three credit reports, right, there's Equifax, experian, experian and TransUnion. All three of those. All you have to do is go online, answer some questions and you can turn around and get to their freezing area and all that.
Carmen Lezeth:And I've had my credit reports frozen for like again 10 years, because it's the easiest way to prevent someone from using your credit line and opening up a bank account or getting a mortgage or whatever. So most people have been hacked recently with their social security cards and their social security numbers. Right, that's the big thing that happened recently, and everyone's getting those what they think are spam emails. They're not actually spam emails, but people are trying to make money off of you saying your social security is in the dark web. This is what happened. We can help you if you pay us $19.99 a month or whatever. You don't have to pay anybody to take care of your credit cards and your credit ratings and the whole credit report situation. You just have to take the time to do it.
Carmen Lezeth:And now that it's online I used to have to call and do it because it was so long ago you can go online, answer all those security questions like where did you live when you were seven? You know like things that nobody would know about you except you. And they do the multiple choice thing Set up your credit rating until you unfreeze it. So if you go to get a mortgage or you go to take out a loan or get a credit card, you have to unfreeze it before you do that. Now it sounds complicated, but it's not. Now it's so easy. You just unfreeze it for like two or three days each and you ask them which one do you want to use? Are you going to use trans union? Trans union to check my credit report? Right, like when I had to get this apartment, they told me they use trans union. I'm like, okay, I went online, put in my password and I unfroze it for two days and then he was able to check and then it closes again.
Carmen Lezeth:Um, so credit karma? I don't. Credit karma is another organization that charges people to do things right. I don't I'm not for it or against it. I'm just saying you don't need to pay anybody to do this. You just need to go to those actual credit reporting agencies and do it yourself. I don't know what you mean by freezing assets. That has nothing to do with this. Your assets are different. Um, freezing your credit reports is what you want to do. Everyone should be doing that anyway. I don't even know why people don't do that.
Rick Costa:Um when you set it up, it's literally just a click of a button on and off right yeah, but each account is different, so transun is going to have a different way.
Carmen Lezeth:You can have a different password. Uh, you know what I mean Equifax and then the other one I always forget. I know there are two E's, I always forget them, but whatever, and also it's just a smart thing to do. You shouldn't let people have access to your credit reports anyway, and it makes you think about when you are going to get a credit card or go to, you know, open up a bank account or whatever. It makes you think about it because it gives you you have to have a little bit of time to do things you know. So, yeah, I suggest everyone do that immediately.
Carmen Lezeth:And yes, the dark web, the web, the internet none of it is going away. It's just going to get worse. So learning to protect yourself is something everyone should do anyways. And also kids. I've been telling my friends who have children you should all have their social security, everybody's social security, since they're born. If you have children, all their credit reports have probably been hacked and none of you know because you don't check them. I know All the parents are freaking out right now. I'm just saying Andrea's like fucking bitch.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just saying Andrea's like fucking bitch. I'm just saying everyone should be doing that. You should do it tomorrow. It's very easy.
Rick Costa:Because I've always heard you should check it, make sure there's no inaccuracies. If you see it, you got to let them know. Hey, no, this is not right. Blah, blah, blah.
Carmen Lezeth:It's really easy. I'm seriously. I used to have to call and you have to mail it in. You'd have to like it was such a huge hoopla before and now it's so much easier to do. But yeah, especially everyone should. You should do it for your kids as well, no matter what their age is, if they have a social security number you should already be freezing their credit reports immediately.
Carmen Lezeth:Melanie, I'm happy to share that information with you and I will DM you and send you the links. I'm happy to share that information with you and I will DM you and send you the links. I'm happy to do that. I'm not prepared to do that right now, although I put it in the thing, but I just did this for two of my clients, because my clients, you know the the we're talking about people with a lot of money. I'm not saying that people here or people listening don't have a lot of money, but even my clients know that they're about to be hacked, if they haven't been already. You know what I mean. So they were like um, so yeah, and people always trying to make money yeah, um, so yeah, I don't know how we got into that. How did we get into that?
Rick Costa:somebody needed to hear it.
Carmen Lezeth:We were were talking about Julia Roberts right.
Rick Costa:No we were talking
Andrea Nunez:about Andrea's work. Oh yeah, the cloud, the cloud.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah yeah, yeah, I'm so sorry. So what did you do? You've lost everything.
Andrea Nunez:I'm just busy recreating documents. That's what I've been doing all week.
Carmen Lezeth:You lost everything, are you sure? It's really hard to lose it.
Andrea Nunez:Next step is to send it to some. You know, send the whole thing up to some company who does data recovery and see if they can get anything. But you know, because I had it like a computer guy went and looked at it and he's like, yeah, I can't get anything off of it. And I was like you know, okay fine, so I need to send it to a data-free specialist.
Rick Costa:Yeah, a specialist has to do it. They should be able to get something off of it at least.
Carmen Lezeth:Not everything, but something I mean nothing's ever lost if it's in the memory and you really have to be a computer genius to erase everything. The only way to really erase anything on any computer or laptop is to restore it back to its original, and even that's quite a process. So it's in there. But you got to get somebody who knows I don't know how to do that. But then it's like the money thing, Like is it worth it? You know what I mean and sometimes I see it as a blessing. You know what I mean and I got to start over. It's cleansing.
Rick Costa:But hard drives do not last forever. I'm just letting you know, and if you're here all of a sudden, a click, click, click inside your computer, that's probably your hard drives getting ready to die and you better back up everything quick.
Carmen Lezeth:Like quick, but how old was your computer? Your computer is not that old.
Andrea Nunez:Not that old, I don't know. I was working on a document for a client Went to go look at it the next morning and my computer wouldn't even start up, so you know, oh, yeah, no that sounds hard.
Cynthia Ruiz:Okay, Can I just say, Rick, those two things behind you. It looks like you got Mickey ears on.
Rick Costa:Oh, with the hats.
Carmen Lezeth:It's the hat.
Rick Costa:And did anybody notice?
Carmen Lezeth:All about the joy.
Rick Costa:Joy are those a sticker I just put the whole thing on there. I couldn't decide how to do.
Carmen Lezeth:I just I'm gonna slap it on there, so yeah I love that you guys are so cool and bond stuff. Thank you, that's so cool um I have to at some point set up the bank account that will transfer that money, because I guess money sits in there until I. I haven't set that up yet, so anyways, but thank you. Um, but the all about the joy stickers that you said they came. They came separate. No, not separate letters Separate sticker.
Rick Costa:Each word is a separate sticker and I was like oh, I didn't think it was going cool.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know, it's my. I didn't look at I. I can only design what I can design. I just did the graphic. I didn't do the. They decide how to do that part, I don't know. But I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Stop buying stuff up. No, everyone should buy stuff. Everyone should buy stuff. But I mean I feel bad my people buying stuff. You know what I mean. We like to support. I love that cup, though Can I just say Andrea hasn't seen that, so this cup I designed. It says it really is all about the joy.
Andrea Nunez:It's a cute cup that looks like a nice size mug too. I need a new mug.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, that's kind of cool right? Yeah, andrea, I think you need four. Aren't there four people in your family, don't you want to have like a set for everybody? You know what I'm just saying Different colors.
Carmen Lezeth:Christmas card photo. You know I'm so bad, I suck at selling stuff. I have a picture of Carmen at the bottom that would be good to put, like my picture at the bottom. So it's a great idea. We should do that. We should do that. No, look, I appreciate everyone who's interested in the swag at all. It's at allaboutthejoycom. There's a store right there. You could check it out. The prices are not any. I mean, you guys have bought stuff and it's not swag at all. It's at allaboutthejoycom. There's a store right there. You could check it out. The prices are not any. I mean, you guys have bought stuff and it's not crazy, right, I didn't mark them up. Really. There's like a dollar that we get. That's why I haven't set up the thing. But any money we do get just goes back into editing the software and everything else I pay for. But we just appreciate it because it's kind of cool and fun.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to get the tote bag. That's what I want. I'm going to get the tote bag and see if that's a really good. I'm going to get that and then that cup, yeah. And then, andrea, you're buying four cups, which I love you for that, so cute. Andrea's like yeah, that's not going to happen. So, yeah, happy, um, so yeah, crazy rick merch, you didn't see him last week. He had the whole like. He had, like cynthia, the whole outfit on. He had the hat and the cushion drinking the. I think that too right, I like it. Yeah, I did good, I mean, it took me way too long, I know, I know, I know. So, anyways, that's me selling all about the joy merch swag. So, um, anything else, guys, before I wrap this up a little bit, I didn't know about cynthia's week.
Rick Costa:I don't think she meant you know what?
Carmen Lezeth:I always talk to cynthia in the green room beforehand. That's why how was your?
Cynthia Ruiz:week, sis, it actually it flew by this week, um, but I think it's because most of the time I had to work with my headphones on, because the lady I was working with she was kind of getting on my nerves. She kept complaining about certain situations that were happening, even after they were already resolved. She kept going on and I'm like can you just let it go? I had to keep telling her that Let it go, just let it go, and she would just keep going on. And I'm like can you just let it go? I had to keep telling her that let it go, just let it go, and she would just keep going on. So I had to put my ear earphones on and tune her out that's the one that's been there for a long time uh-huh oh boy oh no, are you creating enemies?
Cynthia Ruiz:no, no, I just I just keep, kind of keep to myself, hi, linda oh thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, Linda just said I enjoyed the show. Everyone had a fantastic night. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate everyone and people who are in the room. I'm grateful. But, Cynthia, so you're making enemies and you're going to last how long?
Cynthia Ruiz:I don't know how long I'm going to last there, but no the doctors like you, though.
Carmen Lezeth:right, I mean, that's all the doctors like yeah.
Cynthia Ruiz:But really you think you're, you think you made a mistake. No, no, it's just having to deal with this one person and the doctor's away right now at a conference in Florence. So of course you know, the cat's away, the mice will play. So she's just kind of acting up right now because the doctor's not there, but in a way she's kind of making us look bad because we have a visitor from New Zealand, a doctor from New Zealand who's with us for six weeks and is like hearing all of this complaining and stuff like that, and I'm telling her cut it out, like I'm trying to joke with her, like I think you're scaring the doctor, you know, just so she'll stop.
Carmen Lezeth:But yeah, Well, yeah, I have. No, I don't know what to say. I think it's a hard situation because you are the new person and maybe she feels comfortable to complain to you, which I guess so not what you want.
Cynthia Ruiz:I bring that out, so I don't know.
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't hear you.
Andrea Nunez:I said, earphones are a good solution in that situation.
Carmen Lezeth:Just tune her out, don't participate it's a small office, though, right, it's only you guys. Yeah, see, that's why it's really hard, because there's no interference, there's nobody else. So, like, if I'm with you guys and I'm like it's funny because, like, my desk is behind her.
Cynthia Ruiz:Hmm, well, wait, what did you say, cynthia? My desk is behind her. So Well, wait, what did you say, cynthia? My desk is behind her, so she can't even see my facial expressions or anything. I see the back of her head. So she's just going on and on and on. So I'm listening to music. Then, all of a sudden, she'll turn around and say something. I'm like what? Oh, you're talking to me.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay. Well, I'm going to prey on that situation for you, because I feel like that could get really bad quick. That's one of those situations where you either want to have a really good relationship, even if it's a professional in a small office like that, or it's going to get bad and untenable.
Rick Costa:Hopefully she'll retire soon. She's going to retire.
Carmen Lezeth:She's one of those people, right? She ain't going to retire. She's one of those people right? She ain't going to retire. She's not going to retire.
Cynthia Ruiz:I don't think so. How old is she? She's about to turn 60.
Carmen Lezeth:She's not going to retire. Are you kidding me? You want to wait until you're at least 67 to get the most benefits from your retirement plan, unless you're already rich? Trust me, I've investigated this.
Cynthia Ruiz:You know what I mean.
Carmen Lezeth:Like I got this shit down pat. I was like when do you get Medicare? Look it, I'm looking for the day I can retire. It ain't going to be anytime soon, because I don't want to live, you know, in Arkansas or whatever. I don't want to live, you know, in Arkansas or whatever, I don't know. Okay, with that, everyone, we're at the hour mark. I'm so grateful for everyone who's tuning in and listening. Thank you to everyone in the chat. I'm so grateful for everyone who shows up. Remember we do have swag at allaboutthejoycom. The store store is there. Please follow us and like us. Look at the beautiful t-shirt that Cynthia is wearing and the hats and the cup, the slurpy cup that Ricky just got.
Rick Costa:I didn't slurp. I was good today.
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't slurp I know, last week we were cracking up on that thing. It was so funny and Andrea ain't got no swag because she don't love us, but she's going to get something soon. I love you, wands. It's just been a minute so I have to be mean to you a little bit. You do get that love, right.
Andrea Nunez:Yes, I know.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I love you girl. All right, so everyone, thank you so much. We'll see you again next week. And remember, it really is all about the joy. Bye everyone, bye, bye. Thanks for stopping by. All About the Joy. Be better and stay beautiful folks. Have a sweet day.