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
Navigating Workplace Drama, TV Show Deep Dives, and Holiday Cheer
Ever wonder how Cynthia manages to maintain her cool amidst workplace chaos? Tune in to hear her hilarious recount of dealing with a frustrating coworker in the pathology department and the strategies she uses to keep her professionalism intact. We also chat about our exciting first live stream on TikTok, the potential ban looming over the platform, and what the Supreme Court might have to say about it. Our lively banter with listeners, including newcomers Melanie and Charlie, keeps the atmosphere upbeat and engaging.
Get ready for an entertaining exploration of TV shows and movies! Cynthia shares her first impressions of the sci-fi classic "Stargate SG-1," while we also touch on shows like "9-1-1" with Angela Bassett and the interconnected world of series such as "Chicago Fire" and "FBI." Our conversation flows from the intense drama of first responders to nostalgic reflections on superhero films, debating the merits of Henry Cavill as Superman and appreciating classic portrayals like Michael Keaton's Batman. We even sprinkle in some light-hearted celebrity admiration with a nod to Shemar Moore and other actors who keep us glued to our screens.
As we wrap up, the holiday spirit takes center stage with festive reflections on post-Christmas plans and the joy of the season. We chat about our mixed feelings towards the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from excitement to fatigue, all while reminiscing about beloved classics like MASH. The episode closes on a warm note, embracing the little joys in life and encouraging our listeners to stay positive. Join us for a heartwarming blend of laughter, insights, and camaraderie, perfect for finding joy in everyday moments.
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Music By Geovane Bruno, Moments, 3481
Editing by Team A-J
Host, Carmen Lezeth
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Wait, let me back up. Hi everyone, welcome to All About the Joy. This is Cynthia Ruiz Lopez and this is Rick Costa. This is a show we do every week on Thursday night, 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern. The reason why I'm being a little weird is because I think we're live on TikTok right now, and this would be our first time being on TikTok. How are you guys doing? How are you Good? Why are you guys doing? How are you? Why are you giggling? Hey Melanie? How are you? Hey Mel, why are you giggling?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Because if I don't laugh, I will cry. It's been one hell of a week.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, girl, what's going on? What happened?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:to you this week. Go ahead, what happened? My coworker man is just driving me crazy. Just complains about everything and does nothing.
Carmen Lezeth:No, but you posted on Facebook. Today she ain't on your Facebook page. You posted something and I was like that's her coworker. You wrote something she needs a muzzle. Yeah, you said, can humans have a muzzle? I was like Cynthia's rare today, so what'd she do?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Like I said, so the past couple of days we haven't had too many cases come in to work on, but there's other stuff to do in the office and she, literally she's been there a lot longer than I have.
Carmen Lezeth:Why don't you tell everyone what it is that you do, in case we have any new viewers?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:So I work in pathology and I work with a doctor who deals with sarcoma cases, so I basically prep all his slides and things like that for him. So there's always stuff to do, there's always cases.
Carmen Lezeth:Your goal is to work with more dead people. I got you. Yeah, Melanie just said wait a month before you get too invested in TikTok.
Rick Costa:I don't know what that means Because of the TikTok possible ban thing, whatever.
Carmen Lezeth:No, the Supreme Court's going to hear it. Melanie, I've been invested in TikTok since it was musically. I've been a TikTok person since it was all just dancing. So I'm not like I'm not investing more, it's just we've never been able to go live and we've never. I don't do lives on there, but thank you for the heads up. But the Supreme court has agreed to hear the case and they're going to listen to it on January 10th, which is quite fascinating. When they want to go fast, they go fast, but who knows how it's going to end up. I think it'll be bad for us if they end TikTok, but we'll see how it goes. We're going to move on. Go ahead, cynthia. You're a horrible co-worker from hell.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Yeah, Yesterday I snapped at her because she says in front of the doctor oh, we have no cases today, what are we going to do? And I'm like looking at her do other stuff, I'm like, are you really asking me and not just busy doing his stuff in his office? But I know he can hear and she's here more organized than I am. Well, there's other jobs we need to do.
Carmen Lezeth:So let's do that. So I'm so. I'm confused, though, like why doesn't? Is she testing you?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I'm confused I don't know. I think her age. I think she's going, I don't know rick, I just changed the focus.
Carmen Lezeth:Does it change on tiktok what it looks like does? That look better on tiktok yeah, it's bigger yeah it gives you more options. I'm sorry, I just noticed when you were talking, a little thing went over and said change dimension, or something. I'm like okay, it's like let me work my technical magic in the background. Okay, I'm pretending to listen. I'm like mm-hmm, so she's, but isn't she going to retire? Didn't we have this conversation Not?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:anytime soon, unfortunately, but is there?
Carmen Lezeth:anybody else in the office?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:is it just the two of? You okay, that's why you losing it, that's why you yeah so you know, earbuds go in, music goes on and I do what I gotta do what is her reasoning?
Carmen Lezeth:is she trying to get you in trouble or something Is she trying to like?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:It seems like that because it seems like she's been there for so long, so she knows everything, but tries to act like she doesn't and tries to like test, you know, to see if I'll do it, or so I'm not playing her game.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, isn't this one of your people?
Rick Costa:Yeah, but this is not a religious broadcast. Lj.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, lj, this is absolutely not a religious broadcast and I get vile sometimes if you get me upset no, I would not, but just be kind and lovely because this is a beautiful space and we want to keep it that way. So welcome, we're glad you're here. What does one day at a time request mean?
Rick Costa:It's a song. One day at a time, it's a song.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, okay, One day at a time is also something they say in AA all the time. I was thinking that was like hey, Charlie. Charlie, how are you In the hole she goes? I don't even know what that means, charlie. What are you talking about? What is about her co-worker? Is this about her co-worker? Like? What is he talking about?
Rick Costa:I'm like, I'm so confused I would never say oh, what are we gonna do? No, baby, look busy, I think she's trying to test you, though.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, is she? That's what I don't understand. What is her purpose? Yeah, I have no idea, especially if the doctor can hear you. Oh, whoever is the problem? Okay, they go, that's right, charlie. Um, she's been there for a long time. I'm trying to figure out. The doctor can hear you. It's not like he's in another room or something. Why is she? You know what I mean, like why is she doing this on a regular basis?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I don't know. I honestly don't know, and you can tell, even the doctor gets annoyed with her sometimes melanie.
Carmen Lezeth:Melanie, you're so right. One day at a time is an old TV show too. That's absolutely correct. They did a remake too. Did they do a remake? Yeah, I don't think it went well. It was like with Rita Moreno too. It was like with the whole Latino cast.
Rick Costa:Oh, I loved them. Valerie Bertinelli right.
Carmen Lezeth:That was the original right.
Rick Costa:Yeah, I thought she was fine, right? Yeah, I thought she was fine.
Carmen Lezeth:Here's the thing we were going to talk about today. You guys know very well that I've been asking you both to watch different shows, so let's back this up. Let's back this up. I am a proponent of never talk about something you've never seen, right? Y'all know I hated a certain professor at the University of Vermont where I went to college. Hated him, but the one thing I have to give him credit for. He said never talk about a movie you've never seen. I don't care what you think you know, never do it, because you're always going to look like an idiot. And you know what. I have taken that and have done that in my entire life. Because it's true, don't talk about a book've not read. If you don't know something, don't talk about it, just don't all right. And when you guys ask me to watch something, as long as it's within my genre, I'm open to it. But the two of you are like, no, I ain't gonna watch stargate, as you want, I don't know if I can wait and then you 9-1-1.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, don't even try to be all innocent over here, baby, because you were like 9-1-1. Oh, don't even try to be all innocent over here, baby, because you were like 9-1-1 firemen. So I requested that two people please watch each other's show so we could have a conversation about it. Is that fair? Yeah, all right, cynthia, let's start with you. You watched stargate, sg1 and rick and I huge fans. What did you watch? Did you watch both first episodes or I just watched the first?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:episode right now Of the pilot yeah, the pilot. So I was a little lost at the beginning because I felt like I had to keep checking. I was like, did I start in episode two? What did I miss? Because they like already started talking about the Stargate and it was already there and I was like wait, is there something before this that I'm supposed to watch? Yeah, you're overthinking it.
Carmen Lezeth:Overthinking it, I know.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:So then when they started talking about how he wrote something and it was a lie, and I was like, oh, okay, now I get it. Wait what? Who wrote what? I don't know the character's name, but the main guy.
Carmen Lezeth:The hot main guy Richard Dean Anderson, who plays Colonel Jack O'Neill. Okay, he did what he said. Who wrote?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:a lie. No, they said that he wrote something, but he didn't put the full truth about what he found.
Rick Costa:Oh, the report. Yes, he lied about what they did in the movie. He said that, oh yeah, we used the bomb to wipe out everything, but it was a lie.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, this is the beginning, okay, right, right, I'm so sorry, I'm confusion. Okay, go ahead, go ahead.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:So when they started talking about that I kind of figured okay, now I get it. So as I'm watching it, I was like I'm getting into it and of course the graphics is definitely 1990s graphics, so of course I'm creating that she texted me and I'm like this was 1997.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know what she thought I said, macgyver, I know, I know.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Go ahead, I started getting into it and I was just like, and then I got to the end and I was like, okay, this is why she wants me to watch the second episode, because it left you in a cliffhanger with one of the guys military guys getting struck with that little alien thing so now it's an.
Carmen Lezeth:M the little alien thing, the guauld, which is the symbiote. Come on, rick, don't make me look stupid here.
Rick Costa:That little hideous snake.
Carmen Lezeth:Which is so funny, because I watched the pilot again. Rick did too. We both watched it again and it was so funny. I'm like I don't think we see the snake that much ever again, you know, except when it comes out of Teal's body and stuff once in a while, but we don't really. They really were graphic in the beginning of it with that. Yeah, anyways, go ahead. Okay, so you go ahead.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I I will continue to watch it. I will. Yeah, it was a little interesting, okay. I gotta say, though I'm not a truckie, you know that I love star wars, but this was not the sci-fi and it was a little more interesting in this than I would say in star trek, because it's more your flavor, yeah, your flavor action, and you know stuff like that.
Carmen Lezeth:So and it's more there, more evil in it, which you seem to like, and more darkness yeah.
Rick Costa:It's sci-fi, but in present time instead of way in the future.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Right, exactly yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so you're not against it. You're going to watch the second episode. Well, I should have said you should watch the first two episodes. I forgot that the pilot is actually two episodes. No-transcript, although it's always a forest in Canada, and then everybody speaks English. All the aliens speak English. Oh, melanie, stargate SG-1. You'd have to Google it and find out. It should be free.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:It's on Hulu. Is that on Pluto?
Carmen Lezeth:Yes, it's on Pluto, it's on Pluto because Hulu's not free. Okay, so you liked it, Did you like? Okay, I thought you might enjoy the scene where they're at the conference room and he first meets Sam and she's. My organs are on the inside, not on the outside.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I love that part and she's my organs are on the inside, not on the outside. She's like she has to fight with them. You know so. But, cynthia, I'm so glad you watched it and I hope you do watch it, because I think it's really good and you're gonna know right away the episodes I like versus the episodes I think you and Rick would like, the ones that are more horrific, dealing with the guauld. The guauld are the ones whose eyes glow. Those are the gods. They, they're gods, and it's really interesting because they turn around and they do these analogies right with religion and whether you believe in God or not, it's interesting. What, hey, mario?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Hey, mario, it's funny because as I was watching it, I kept referencing it to other movies and shows, like with the portal. It kind of reminded me of the movie Thor, how they had that portal Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah. The creature coming out of the belly reminded me of the movie Aliens, when they're at the diner and the thing's coming out the stomach. So I kept referencing other movies and shows. So it was kind of cool.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, I mean, I think that's the thing about sci-fi, though. Right, look at 2001 Space Odyssey. That's all I need to say. I know you've never seen that movie, but if you saw that movie you would see where the template comes. It's like the Shakespeare, right, we have Shakespeare as a template for a lot of stories. There's like 2001 Space Odyssey feels like you know.
Carmen Lezeth:So once you see that movie, you start to realize oh, you know, mario, I haven't sent you an email because I know, first of all, the times I do, you don't respond. And then I know, based on some of the things that I've been hearing and seeing, I don't want to put pressure on you. If you want to come on this show, you need to just let me know. That's how I do it with Joy. That's how I do it with everybody. I'm not sending out emails to everyone expecting you to be on the show and then you don't show up. So if that's what that meant, right there, I'm trying not to pressure you. That's all. That's all that's about. The only people who are forced to be on the show regularly, forced to be on the show regularly are not even the show regularly, are not even here today.
Rick Costa:No, I'm just you know what I thought was funny too was the this is talking about samantha again the guy they were like trying to test her, whatever is. Have you ever done this? Whatever crazy move in an airplane.
Carmen Lezeth:And she said yes yeah, she's like I won't be. Like what else have you ever done? A g4 somersault on the back, flip a blah, blah, blah, blah and go down there and she's yes, it was so good, it was perfect. I knew you would like that. Yeah, and the thing that's really cool this is just a little. I probably I don't think I'm, it's not a spoiler or whatever you can clearly tell that Colonel Jack O'Neill and Samantha Carter. There's going to be something between them. But let me tell you, it takes like nine seasons before it's great though. It's like great tension. You know what I mean. But they because of their professionalism what is it? Their professional? Because they're in the military. They can never get together and they never do right. Well, wink, wink, but they don't. But they have all these crazy stories of like dream sequences and they wake up on a different planet. They don't know who they are and then they still hang out together, but they don't know if they were together together. You know which episode I'm talking about, rick.
Rick Costa:There's alternate timeline ones. It's so well done. There's a whole bunch of timelines coming. One Wait, they thought of everything.
Carmen Lezeth:It's so well done. Melanie just said the only forced ones are the ones we currently see. That's right, that's how it works. Melanie, you're forced on here to make sure you comment. Don't even try to comment, you're forced here. Number one fan, rick, went out of his way after bashing the whole fireman thing. Whoa, you were always bashing us because you thought we were only watching. I was slightly mocking because you thought we were only watching.
Rick Costa:I was slightly mocking, because I make them up a lot.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, okay, semantics. Okay. I'm sorry, did I use the wrong word? Did you say lightly mocking? Tell us what you think we're listening. You watched the pilot, right.
Rick Costa:Yeah, whatever's the first episode, that's what I watched. Yeah, and it's what you think we're listening. You watched the pilot, right? Yeah, whatever was the first episode, that's what I watched. Yeah, and it's what I thought. It's what I expected. It was the life of a firefighter stuff they go through. But then they also had drama also along with it. They had a couple get divorced because they found out about something about him. So I don't spoil it either. I mean it was interesting. I'm not going to say it's oh, my god, I can't wait to see more, but it was interesting.
Carmen Lezeth:The light dig, the light dig it was a good show you watched the second and third episode.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Would you continue? Would I yeah okay, I just started re-watching it again. I love that show. I think it's so good.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, I just started re-watching it again. I love that show. I think it's so good.
Rick Costa:Oh 9-1-1.
Carmen Lezeth:So we're talking about 9-1-1. It's the show starring Angela Bassett and Peter Krause. That is how you say his name, krause.
Rick Costa:If you look it up, it's 9-9-1.
Carmen Lezeth:It's 9-1-1. There's a whole bunch of them, but you just want to do the original 9-1-1 with Angela Bassett and Peter Krause. But the thing that's really cool about 9-1-1 is I do like their relationships and all of the people. But it's not really about just firemen. It's about first responders, because it's also about the people just as much in the call center, and that's what I felt.
Rick Costa:Because it's also about the people just as much in the call center and that's what I felt I learned so much about I think that was the very first thing on the show was the woman doing the call center and she was saying how stressful it was. And sometimes she goes home and she like brings the stuff with her because it's in her mind. Oh my god. And the fact that she doesn't always know what happened because they hang up before she finds out the resolution which drives them crazy, which makes total sense.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I never even thought about that yeah and same with the firefighters, because buck was always like I want to go in too, and they're like no, this is where your job ends at the glass doors.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, so they have that rule that when the firemen I don't know if this is true everywhere, it's just on the show, but when firemen do their job and they bring and like the unit brings the emergency people to the hospital and the doctors and the nurses take them, the firemen don't go in because their job is done at the glass doors of the hospital.
Carmen Lezeth:It's kind of cool because then they have to detach and go to the next emergency and so you learn all these different things. I happened to catch the episode Cynthia where. Remember when no spoiler alerts, but remember when they take hostage the call center. Remember when that whole thing happens and it's so weird because there's this huge traumatic thing that happens at the call center. Finally they get saved, but within 30 seconds of them being saved, all the other call center people who were not like their other places they had called them in and bust them in to have them come in and start taking emergency calls, as there were dead bodies on the ground because they have to keep the city going and I was like that's so like those little moments oh, my God, cause that's the main one in this part of town. I thought that was cool. Yeah, what are you looking at? What are you looking at?
Rick Costa:Tony wanted me to confirm if he was on Tik TOK or not. I'm like, oh my God.
Carmen Lezeth:He couldn't wait to after the show, like he's so weird. He's so weird that is so cheesy.
Rick Costa:My God, lord, he's so weird, that is so cheesy.
Carmen Lezeth:My god, lord jesus, anyways are we still on tiktok, rick? That's fine, yes, we are. So you were and I know this might be like a boring part of the conversation not boring, but like a weird part you kept talking about and I think this is important to notice. You were like the baby in the toilet, the the baby in the toilet because there's an emergency in the pilot, where a guy calls 911 because he can hear a baby in the wall and he thinks somebody flushed a child down the pipe, like down the toilet or whatever, and they go in and they rescue this infant born. It was basically a teenager had a baby and flushed it down the toilet and they go in and try to. But you were shocked. That was even a thing, almost to the point. You thought it was unbelievable I can't believe it.
Rick Costa:I thought it was funny, though, too, because they looked at him like because, he was high he was, I'm not high or anything, maybe a little bit.
Carmen Lezeth:That's the bong right there. You know what I mean. So, yeah, and then when I text you back, or when I emailed you back, I'm not surprised by that story, because, cynthia, I think as another woman we've heard those horrible stories, especially growing up poor. Hello, I work in a hospital.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Oh, my God that's so true.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm talking about just me. Growing up up as a woman, I've heard these horrible stories, what I thought was unbelievable, which is where I think they might have stretched right because, to make the start, the baby was alive like no, it could, still it could. I'm sure it could have happened. I'm just saying that's where I thought usually I would think after all that time, after all that time, you got to think about it.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:So when a baby is born, it's in water, hi Anthony. So it comes out, it can still breathe in the water. You have this water there, but they heard the baby crying. That's why, when it was believable. Yeah. So Hen was like make sure no one flushes the toilet, because then the baby could drown. The baby did stop breathing, but you have really 20 minutes to get your heart rate going before they call it.
Carmen Lezeth:Melanie, this sounds like a new version of emergency. It may be. There's so many. Don't get me started on how many emergency, on how many firemen shows there are now, because there's 911, lone Star. I've been watching Chicago Fire. There's so many of them now. I watched SWAT the other day. I had no idea what that was about. I was like, let me check this out. But I'm not addicted to that, although I must say, shamar Moore, lord, amen, amen for the beauty that the Lord bestowed on all of us. Shamar Moore, hi, diane, thank you for visiting.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, anthony, a year ago. I only have to wear this till December 30th and it's so much better. But a year ago I hurt the back of my hand and I hit it against the corner of a desk and I didn't think it was that big of a deal. It felt like I had. When you stub your toe, you're like, oh my God, oh my God, and then you're fine. That's what I thought I did, but actually I really did a lot of damage. And so after going to doctors whatever I went to physical therapy. I was afraid I'd have to have surgery. But I don't.
Carmen Lezeth:I've been wearing, I've been. I have very many of them, but I've been wearing them. The thing is you don't usually see them because I do this and so no one ever notices it because it's behind. So I've been wearing it for the past year, basically, or eight, nine months at least on here. But the I had a huge bump right here. It's absolutely down. It's totally down, I know, and the cyst that was up here it looks like you can still see it, but it's still a little bit level and after December 31st we're just going to go with it.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:All right.
Carmen Lezeth:And see how it goes. I know I'm so excited, but thank you for asking, anthony. I really appreciate that. Thank you, oh, diane, are you talking about the episode?
Rick Costa:Oh, Diane, are you talking about the episode?
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, the baby, probably. Yeah, oh, it's just an episode on 9-1-1. Just an episode on 9-1-1. Tell the truth, carmen, you just lost. I'll put that one. Anthony said the same thing I wish. Who are you, anthony? Who are you beating? I wish Goodness Lord. Yeah, no, I don't think I've ever really beat. I've beaten up two people, but I was a kid. I was under the age of 11, 15, 15, 15, 11, I can't remember 26, 26, no, I'm just kidding. No, I really was a kid. I've never hit another person. Last week, it was last week. Yeah, yeah, no, I would never hit another person Last week, last week, it was last week. Yeah, yeah, no, I would never hit someone. Do you guys? Have you guys ever beat up anybody or hit anybody?
Rick Costa:My brother. That's about it.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait, look at Cynthia. Really Okay, wait, your brother doesn't count, because that was just simply fun, like wrestling, like kids wrestle.
Rick Costa:Mostly.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm waiting to hear Cynthia Okay.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Cynthia go ahead. Oh no, this is when me and Juan first started dating. No, it wasn't Juan, oh my God.
Rick Costa:I was about to get juicy.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm like Juan is her husband. We're all freaking out what.
Rick Costa:Either that or an ex, let's go.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:No, it was a friend that I was living with at the time. Me and her got into an argument and she I was outside her house. She was inside and she had a screen door and I'm the type of person you can scream and yell and do everything in my face, but the minute you touch me it's a done deal.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh no, oh okay, she hit you first, yeah.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:So she hit me with the door and so I started bleeding on the side of my eyes. So I went into the house and I just started talking crap about my mom, who passed away.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, Do I know who this person was? No, let me just send this to Mario in case he wants to come on.
Rick Costa:I chose violence in my late 20s and early 30s.
Carmen Lezeth:Mario, I just sent you a text with the link if you want to come on. I don't know if you want to come on, but you're more than welcome to come on. I chose violence. Is that the only person you beat up? Did you beat her up? Good, though.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I think I did.
Carmen Lezeth:I just want everyone to know. Everyone thinks Cynthia is so nice and everything, but it's not true. Everyone thinks I'm the mean one up here, right, if you guys are thinking about it, you're like Carmen man she's hard, she swears, she's so ghetto, she did this, she hardcore, she blunt, which is what you get over here but over there, over here, but over there, oh over there, go ahead, oh there was another one. Oh, sammy, our buddy sammy. Hey, mario cynthia's just telling us who else she beat up.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Okay, sammy, go ahead, so his ex-girlfriend thought I had called her a bitch, and which I didn't. And she again got in my face yelling all of a sudden that I was just letting her go, and again she put her hands on me. So I pushed her so hard she you never seen those movies where somebody just flies across the sidewalk like on their butt, like they slide.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:She literally did that and she came out of her shoes she says it with a little pride, though she said a little pride, that's weird and then we just started fist fighting and my other friend was in the car watching and I don't even remember exactly what happened, but he told me that I dragged her from one car to the other, yeah, and then they just broke us up, okay.
Rick Costa:All right, we're 10 people with cell phones videoing the whole thing. I know.
Carmen Lezeth:I know right. I'm just saying again. I just want everyone to realize I'm actually the nice one, just throwing that out there. Go ahead, mario, how you doing what's up, what's up, sir, turn your volume down just a little bit.
Maurio Dawson:Are you hot? I mean you're fine and hot, but I mean your mic is hot. Okay, I think I can hear you a little bit. Can you hear me?
Carmen Lezeth:No, you can turn it up. Turn it up then. I don't want you to not be able to hear us. Okay, can you hear us now?
Maurio Dawson:I can hear you now?
Carmen Lezeth:All right, I'm just going to turn you down here and see if that works a little bit. Okay, go ahead. How are you doing? What's going on?
Maurio Dawson:I'm well. I'm vacationing with my family in my in-laws house. I'm not at home.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh, I think that's the other reason why you told me you were going to be leaving. You sent that with an email. So why are you like I haven't gotten an email?
Maurio Dawson:I'm like no, I haven't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have not gotten an email for quite some time, ms Lamb.
Carmen Lezeth:Ms Lamb, you know what I'm going to send you. So this is how organized I am. I'm going to send you all the emails that you didn't respond to. So I'm like I think Mara, and then you're, then, when I don't send you, you like charlie. Charlie does the same thing. You know, that's not true. Charlie's actually good. When we see him here, we link him, he comes on.
Maurio Dawson:I'm just okay. Okay in my defense. I'm terrible, not in my defense, but I'm terrible with checking emails.
Carmen Lezeth:If you want to catch me, give me your ig and then I'll respond yeah, let me work around your schedule because I'm not busy, but okay, no, I'm just kidding, I'm messing with you. We're on every Thursday. Every Wednesday I send the link. You could just be like. You know what I think karma is going to be on tomorrow. Let me let her know I can come on.
Maurio Dawson:Listen.
Carmen Lezeth:Listen.
Maurio Dawson:I do all the things. I've had foot surgery. I've been doing things you know.
Carmen Lezeth:Listen, I saw some stuff on Facebook too and I was like okay, he, for real. Now I sent you some information, right?
Maurio Dawson:I responded to some no, and I responded to you, remember I said thank you.
Carmen Lezeth:I know you did, but that's what I'm saying is so when you want to see something, you see it.
Maurio Dawson:Ma'am, don't come for me unless I'm sitting for you.
Carmen Lezeth:Don't do it I'm not getting in trouble on this one, because I would love to have you on the show on a regular basis. But you know I I can only do what I can do and I'm trying to be respectful.
Maurio Dawson:So but you're doing good you're with family yes, I'm doing really well for the holidays for For the holidays, for sure. I'm limping but we're doing fine.
Carmen Lezeth:Wait, you're limping.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, I had foot surgery.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Why? What happened?
Maurio Dawson:Well, listen, it's complicated. Since I've been on this weight loss journey, I've been in the gym a lot, so I ended up with ingrown toenails on both feet. So, no bueno, that hurts it very much, does.
Carmen Lezeth:So you had to have surgery to get that taken care of On both feet.
Maurio Dawson:Wow, yeah, okay, that's both feet, wow yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, that's just hard.
Rick Costa:What do you recommend to prevent that in the future? Like get bigger shoes or something. I don't know, but you know, for me it's kind of hereditary.
Maurio Dawson:My dad had them really bad. The last time I had a really bad one was a year ago when I was a kid, but I hadn't had any. But now, like I said, I've been in the gym, so much I guess.
Carmen Lezeth:But shouldn't you maybe go and get a pedicure once every couple weeks?
Maurio Dawson:You know what that would be smart.
Carmen Lezeth:No, I'm just saying.
Maurio Dawson:No, I'm not disagreeing with you at all.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, because I also have that inclination where I was told I did years and years ago and I was like I guess that's what. Then every week I gotta get a pedicure, so I don't go every week. But I was like that's all. I needed an excuse for less. Yeah, okay, but I'm glad you're doing okay and I'm glad it's only that I know that doesn't seem right for you, but it's not like something else.
Maurio Dawson:No, no, no, no, no no.
Carmen Lezeth:So have you ever seen Stargate SG-1? I do and I don't like it. Okay, don't say that because Cynthia's not going to watch it. If you don't like it, oh, I'm sorry.
Maurio Dawson:It was great, it was wonderful.
Carmen Lezeth:Did you watch? I know you watched 9-1-1.
Maurio Dawson:I know you do. Oh, that's my jam, I'm all in.
Carmen Lezeth:See, I watched 9-1-1, 9-1-1.
Maurio Dawson:Lone Star. I've been in since day one.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Yeah, did you watch Chicago Fire?
Maurio Dawson:I used to. We were on the show Alma and I. We watched all of them.
Carmen Lezeth:We would do Fire Med and PD fire med and pd so and like, especially when they we were so deep in it, we were ready for the crossovers.
Maurio Dawson:So right, they had all the crossovers, right.
Carmen Lezeth:But I think we checked out about two seasons ago yeah, because chicago fire lost so many people who are critical to the show. Yeah, like the minute jess left it was. Is that his name? Just the guy? By the way, here's the other thing I hate about these shows. I'm just gonna say something. When you watch any interviews with people because you know you love a show, you start and you find out like half the cast is british yeah, that's just like buck yeah, british it's so no, he's um australian australian.
Carmen Lezeth:okay, I just mean they haven't. They're not american, they don't. They do American accents and mannerisms so perfectly that you don't know in your stuff, so I loved it. I think his name was Jess, was on Chicago Fire and the minute he left I was done. I was done.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, I'm also. I'm a big FBI show. I love all the FBIs.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know what the FBI is. Is that like SWAT?
Maurio Dawson:No SWAT is no, okay, so is Isn't.
Carmen Lezeth:SWAT with Shamar Moore.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, because I just watched that the other day. Fbi is on Paramount Plus or CBS. They have it's most wanted In FBI International. So it's just like the Chicago's. No, it's just like the Chicago's, but it's really good and it's a Dick Wolf show. So the people you miss from Chicago Fire.
Carmen Lezeth:There are no shows.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Yeah, so weird, oh no.
Carmen Lezeth:And you know what's weird in real life? I hate all law enforcement and yet on my TV shows I'm like oh that's my jam, that's the jam because they're the good guys.
Carmen Lezeth:Anthony just said I love Stargate SG-1 and all the TV shows based on it. I, anthony, just said I love Stargate SG-1 and all the TV shows based on it. I have all of them on DVD and Blu-ray. I know right. Melanie said I will look for both of those shows and watch them. I am so glad that you might. I think you might like 9-1-1. I don't know if you're a sci-fi person, but Stargate SG-1 is Rick and mine favorite. Rick, I wouldn't say it's your favorite.
Rick Costa:What's your list of sci-fi stuffage? If I had to?
Carmen Lezeth:pick just one. We know it's Star Trek Next Generation. We know that. After that, which one is it After?
Rick Costa:that so many SG-1's up there. You didn't like the new Battlestar Galactica. I loved it.
Carmen Lezeth:BSG, I mean. I watched it all, but it's not my jam. It's too dark. Cynthia would love that. Cynthia would love that. Yes, she would. Bsg Battlestar Galactica the new one, not the new one. It's not new anymore, it's 10 years old. But with Edward James Olmos, with Edward James Olmos. Yeah, did you ever see that, mario?
Maurio Dawson:Which one Battlestar? I watched it back in the 80s.
Carmen Lezeth:No, no, no. Nobody liked that one.
Maurio Dawson:That's the only one I saw. I'm more like with Cynthia. I'm in the Star Wars jam, all of those it was great having you both on the show. Rick and I are going to go over here and have our conversation Right, if I had like a thing that moved it over Star Wars up and down Star Wars on the side.
Carmen Lezeth:I need like a curtain that just blocks.
Maurio Dawson:That's all right. Star Wars on the side. There we go, right there. Star Wars is like here Right here my jam, right, here Right here.
Rick Costa:Question my damn, how much more likely would you try a new show because there's one person on there that you really love, even if the show's just not my genre?
Maurio Dawson:I've done that in the past. And then I'm like, oh, this is trash, I'm turning it off. You have to get me in the first. You got 10 minutes and then I'm out.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, but that's how? But that exactly how cynthia got me to watch 9-1-1 because she said, and I was, I'm not gonna watch no cop show or no fireman show. I love firemen, but not like that. But all you had to say was I had no idea. Angela bassett, I was like, I'll watch it, I'm gonna watch it yeah mario. As a black, you understand what I'm about to say. Why are her wigs so bad? On that show, mario.
Maurio Dawson:Yes, and she's the EP. That's the bad thing, so that's a choice.
Carmen Lezeth:That's a choice and I know she's probably going to be as realistic as possible. As a black cop, I'm like there is no black woman cop. Okay, but wait.
Maurio Dawson:Shout out to the Tina out to the tina turner tribute. In that that most recent episode, I screamed I'm like that's the tina turner wig for when she beat ike's ass. That was perfect. That was a specific wig. That was the tina turner. That's when she beat Ike's ass wig, that was the good wig, it's just too funny.
Carmen Lezeth:You're right, I thought the same thing. Oh, anthony said Cynthia would like Eureka and Warehouse 13. Ooh, eureka, she would not like Eureka. Eureka is one of my favorite shows. I love Eureka. Let me tell you why. You've never. I don't, rick, we need to have, we're gonna have our own show, baby, because, mar, have you ever heard of eureka? I have, okay the thing about eureka.
Carmen Lezeth:It's more. It's very it's bubblegum sci-fi, which is a term I've made up. I just want to clear that up, because someone's gonna steal that and make it like a thing it's like start struck next generation. It's very clean, very joyful. It's so good though, but it's a really fun show and it's about all of these really brainy, smart people who live in this town.
Maurio Dawson:It's easy watching, though.
Carmen Lezeth:It's easy watching. I think it's only six seasons, they didn't last that long, it's easy, cynthia.
Maurio Dawson:You were like, okay, I can dig this, it's easy. It's like, cynthia, you could get. You were like, okay, I can dig this, it's easy watching.
Rick Costa:It's not future either, it's present day. It's present day.
Carmen Lezeth:It's present day and it's all about these incredible scientists and they live together in this town and all of these things happen because they're creating things. And what's really weird is, when they create these things, you realize it's like oh my god, that's actually what we're dealing with now. Did they really do that? It starts to freak you out a little bit. But yeah, Warehouse 13 was an offshoot of Eureka. I didn't like Warehouse 13 too much. I loved it. Yeah, I didn't love it.
Rick Costa:I almost cried when it was ending. I was like what?
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, oh, in Eureka there's a hot guy on there. That's why I kept watching it. I forget his name he was just hot. He was. We are women. She gonna understand what I'm saying when she sees it. She married, but she ain't dead. Gotta give people incentive to watch things. Okay, give incentive. What? Warehouse 13 was a little bit different. What was it about? They did the.
Rick Costa:Finding artifacts that actually were like evil and but they were scattered all over the earth, so their job was to try to find them and keep them in the warehouse so people would be safe, because a lot of them would. You could end up dead from this. Sometimes it got a little scary, even.
Carmen Lezeth:I think she might like Warehouse 13 more than Eureka, but Eureka is really easy viewing. That's very true. It's like Star Trek.
Rick Costa:Next.
Carmen Lezeth:Generation, very easy yeah, whereas Star Wars is like deep, negative, bad.
Maurio Dawson:It is not deep and negative.
Carmen Lezeth:Evil.
Maurio Dawson:It's good versus evil.
Carmen Lezeth:In a horrific, dark world.
Maurio Dawson:It is not. There are beautiful worlds intact. It's like we live in now.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:It's really.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't hate Star Wars, it's just not my first one. I've watched Star Wars. I don't need to watch. No, not Colin Ferguson. Okay, anthony's asking. Am I talking about Colin Ferguson? He's the lead in it. Anthony, do you not know me, my type of man yet? No, just kidding. He is the doctor who's married to the black woman and I forget her name and she is a beautiful actress and I can't remember her name. I can't remember, but you know who I'm talking about. He ends up dying on the show Spoiler alert Spoiler the hot guy, but he dies later and then he comes back because it's an experiment. You know what I mean? It's one of those things. I forget his name, but if you said his name, I could see him Just telling it all. There's an episode that, for some reason, I don't even remember. For some reason, he ends up naked.
Maurio Dawson:I don't remember, but she remembers the nudity. I forget the face, can't forget the face, but I remember the body.
Carmen Lezeth:I have to tell another part of the story. So when this movie was, this movie, when this show was out, I was watching it while it was out. So this was back in I don't know way back. It wasn't like we had DVR and all that other stuff. So we're watching it. Yes, ed Quinn, that man is so fine.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, so I was working at the time in Hollywood and I would have to drive by this place and then, because I couldn't go into the, I couldn't go into the property. I had to park in a different place and it was always near, near this, like Equinox or I don't know some gyms. It wasn't Equinox but a gym, so I would park over there because I knew it'd be free parking, my car would be safe, whatever. And then I'd walk up to where I had to go work and I went there and one day he came out of the gym and I was like and I'm never starstruck, but I was I just stopped and I was like that man is so fine. I could not believe. I didn't say it out loud, but I was it because you remember his naked body?
Maurio Dawson:is that why it was?
Carmen Lezeth:I wish I could pull up a picture and put it up here, because you would see what I'm talking about here. The man is fine. Yes, he played Dr Nathan Stark Exactly. Thank you, anthony. Yeah, I guess I could pull up a picture, but that'd be a little bit weird. Ed Queen is the actor. That's a little weird. That's a little bit too much. Oh, but that's a beautiful man right there. And Shemar Moore, though, which is fine if he is gay, but he's so good looking. He's too pretty sometimes.
Maurio Dawson:Is he? I don't think he is. He has a partner now and a child, so I don't think so.
Carmen Lezeth:That don't mean nothing, but here's what I'm saying and I don't care. It's not like if he wasn't I'd have a shot, but the thing about Shamar Moore is that-.
Maurio Dawson:I didn't say nothing to that, Shemar. I'm not confirming or denying no rumors. That ain't none of my business. That's your business, man.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm just talking about how he's gotten too Do you know what I mean? He's gotten overly pretty. So there's this weird thing where men get a little bit over If it takes more I know it takes more time for Shemar Moore to get ready in the morning than it does me. That's all I'm saying, that's how.
Rick Costa:I'm going to put it.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, that's how I'm going to put it, and that to me. So I tried to watch SWAT and I was like the love is gone. Now I can't. What's your?
Maurio Dawson:name, okay, the guy who plays Buck's boyfriend is on SWAT.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I'm sorry, the guy who plays Buck's boyfriend on 9-1-1 is on SWAT.
Maurio Dawson:Oh yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, why are you putting this up here? I have to show everybody who Ed Quinn is. Jesus, that's Ed Quinn. He is fine. By the way, that's a bad picture of him. Okay, that's a bad, that's a bad picture of him. Thank you, rick. Is it he pretty? That boy is pretty. Eyes, speaking of pretty. Have you guys all watched the superman trailer? Let's talk about it. Have you all seen it?
Maurio Dawson:I have not. I've only seen. I only saw the teaser trailer. I haven't seen the whole thing yet. This is what the ace superman the 95th superman.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, the name of the actor. Oh wait, melanie just said the original swat rock.
Maurio Dawson:There was an original swat yeah, back in the 70s and 80s, yeah, okay I didn't watch that one would I know it yeah, I did. That's just don't. That's the one I remember. I even remember the theme song. It's still in my head right now.
Carmen Lezeth:You're going to sing it, go ahead and sing no, it was this music.
Maurio Dawson:It would go.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Oh yeah, I remember that. That's the theme song.
Maurio Dawson:I know it.
Carmen Lezeth:Rick, you don't know the SWAT song, the SWAT show, the original.
Rick Costa:I don't think I watched it.
Maurio Dawson:If I remember the theme song, you remember the theme song, that means you saw it.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I did. I probably did, I just don't remember it. Rick is doing other stuff today. I can totally tell You're on Tony's show right now.
Rick Costa:No, I was trying to see if I could see Ed Quinn's picture.
Maurio Dawson:He's trying to find you the naked Ed Quinn picture.
Carmen Lezeth:I want to see a better picture of Ed Quinn. We're good.
Rick Costa:Who are you naked? Where's the pop-up button?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Oh wow, I know.
Carmen Lezeth:We don't need another picture of Ed Quinn, so the new actor for the new Superman is David Korn Sweat. Is that how you say his name, korn Sweat?
Maurio Dawson:Korn Sweat.
Carmen Lezeth:Korn Sweat.
Maurio Dawson:Oh, I thought you said Korn Sweat. I'm like Korn Sweat.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to tell you, Rick, why don't you tell us? I was surprised by what you text me. What did you think of the trailer?
Rick Costa:I was fearful because I did see creature commandos, which is supposed to be like the actual beginning of the new version of dc and I was like what is this?
Rick Costa:this is how y'all gonna start at dcu now. What? Um? But then I saw this trailer and I was like, oh okay, this is much better than I thought it was going to be. I thought they tried to put a little bit too much in there. Like a lot of characters are in there. I'm like a lot of people don't know who these people are. So this is the first trailer, like you, you stuff too much in there. But yeah, you got to see that the guy definitely did a good job acting it. You kind of felt like you know how we all thought Christopher Reeve Pause. I just saw the Superman, christopher Reeve stuff.
Maurio Dawson:Yes, the documentary. You gotta have tissues, it's so.
Rick Costa:Oh my God, it's amazing. If you don't have tissues, you're in trouble. It was like wow. But when you watch this guy, I'm like okay, he's taking it serious as Christopher Reeve. In my opinion, he's really taking it seriously, he's doing a good job. It feels like Superman, although some people are like, yeah, you like Superman, but you don't feel like it really to me. But so far, so good.
Carmen Lezeth:How did you feel about Henry Cavill, cabal Cabal.
Rick Costa:I think he did a good job. I enjoyed his interpretation, but did it feel like superman that I knew growing up a little darker?
Carmen Lezeth:also another british man, another english person, and I never knew that until I saw an interview and I was like what?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:like yeah so you were a big henry cavill.
Rick Costa:Superman, you weren't loving it I didn't't think I did good. I thought it was a decent interpretation but, like I said, it wasn't the Superman I'm used to growing up. You know, superman I grew up was like does no wrong. He's not dark at all, he's always very. You know, gotta do the right thing. Apple pie, american, you know. But Cavill was a little bit like, you know.
Maurio Dawson:That's Zack Snyder's interpretation of it. It really wasn't Henry Cavill, it was Zack Snyder, the director's writing and interpretation of it, because he also had to do the justice league, which in turn went into the what was the one with the rock, black black Adam, and so it's all of Zack Snyder's universe. Now we're going back into James Gunn's universe and his whole thing because, for people who don't know, james Gunn did Guardians of the Galaxy and all of those movies. So you know, his ideas are just a little more shifted, I guess, creatively, and some of his stuff is fun and some of it I don't enjoy. So we'll see how this goes.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Cynthia your thoughts. I've never been a Superman or DC comics fan, so when I saw the trailer I was like, eh, that's okay. The whole super dog, I don't know.
Carmen Lezeth:Crypto. His name is Crypto, yeah.
Rick Costa:I'm going to tell you something. Here's where they messed up. If later on they show that Crypto can fly, like he does in every other iteration of the show and he just ran through the snow fast in the stupid trailer what was that? Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
Carmen Lezeth:Well, we don't know yet, we don't know, but you know we don't know yet we don't know, but you know, like we don't know what the story is. But okay, but, cynthia, you're saying just in general, that just fell off for you, yeah.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Yeah, I just, and like you said, rick, they did show a lot of characters and it was almost like, too much like yeah, I didn't.
Carmen Lezeth:Trailers in general are just. I I wrote I talked about this in a podcast I did. There used to be an art form where people were able to make a trailer and you were intrigued by it but you didn't know the whole story and it was like 90 seconds long, you know what I mean. It wasn't like 17 minutes and it wasn't like the whole story and that art form. I don't know where it went, but I have yet to watch a trailer. That has made me be like oh my God, I need to see this movie. I only go see a movie because of word of mouth or people talking about it, but usually the trailers I'm like all right enough already. Like enough.
Rick Costa:Yeah, or what's the most?
Maurio Dawson:annoying thing is when they've literally showed you the best parts in the trailer, or they'll show you something that's in the trailer, that's not in the movie.
Carmen Lezeth:That pisses me off. Why do they do that?
Maurio Dawson:That pisses me off Because I'm like wait a minute. Didn't they show this in the trailer? I'm looking for this scene when is it at?
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I used to think that was a cool thing to watch these little snippets of movies and be intrigued, but now I just get annoyed by it. I hate watching trailers that are that long. Look, I'm going to be honest with you. I honestly don't care for DC comics at all.
Carmen Lezeth:But when I was younger I went and saw Superman one 19 times. I saw it over and over again. I used to sneak into the movie theaters when I cut school or after school and I would just sit there and you could do that back then. I'm not advocating anybody to do that, but it was also like a place to be. But I loved that movie and I loved Christopher Reeve Like I really believed him and it was sad what happened to him. And I loved Christopher Reeve Like I really believed him and it was sad what happened to him and that whole document. I don't want to go there, but I just.
Carmen Lezeth:And then his son is so beautiful, like his son is actual. Okay, all right, I'm sorry, I know, I know, okay, anyway, that's a whole other issue, okay, and then you know. Then, dana, like it's just all, everyone should watch the documentary. But anyways, superman. The original to me was just so it embedded in my heart that it's hard for any of them to master it for me, and every time a new superman comes up, I'm like yep, dope, like I come to it with a bias. I feel like that was.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Batman. I feel Michael Keaton was the only Batman.
Maurio Dawson:Agreed.
Carmen Lezeth:I will say, though I did like the other one, who's the one?
Maurio Dawson:Not Dark Knight. Please don't tell me Dark Knight.
Carmen Lezeth:No, what's his name?
Rick Costa:Val Kilmer, christian Bale.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh yeah, okay. What I liked about Christian Bale, though, was that he scared me, because it really was dark. It was like he scared me, and he's a nice man. It's like what's happening here.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:As far as the Joker, jack Nicholson love him hands down. But Heath Ledger, he did do a very good job.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, he did.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I'm sorry.
Carmen Lezeth:I love Joaquin Phoenix, but I did not like him as a doper, I need you to talk into your mic or whatever, because you've gotten really low. I don't know what happened. Cynthia, have you guys noticed she's gotten very low. I'm going to put you up more.
Rick Costa:Is it Margo that played Lois Lane in the original Mar? No, not Margo. What's her name, margo?
Carmen Lezeth:Slane Margo Kidder.
Rick Costa:Kidder. Yeah, it still cracks me up when he grabs her when she's falling. Don't worry, ma'am, I've got you, you got me. Who got?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:you, that's a good one.
Rick Costa:Still cracks me up.
Carmen Lezeth:Cynthia, I don't know why your volume's gone down. It's okay. I'm not going to say it again. It's just we're having this great conversation. I hate in the editing when I have to just mute you because I can't fix you. Adam West is Batman. Okay, melanie, she is putting us down with that statement. That's TV. Adam West was the original, first Batman 1966,.
Maurio Dawson:I got you.
Carmen Lezeth:We can't even fight with you, Melanie. Adam West is Batman. She's not like I think I like Adam West better. No, Adam West is Batman.
Maurio Dawson:Eartha Kitt is Catwoman.
Rick Costa:Every Catwoman on that show.
Carmen Lezeth:I loved Every Catwoman.
Maurio Dawson:What Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt were both great Catwomen.
Carmen Lezeth:You guys know more than I do. The only thing I know about DC comics, I'll be honest with you, is when I used to watch the Super Friends, the cartoon, that's it.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, okay, I'll give you that the Justice League.
Carmen Lezeth:Wonder Twins Unite they were my favorite.
Maurio Dawson:Wonder Twin Powers Activate Form of a bucket of water.
Rick Costa:Gleek, grab the bucket. We're gonna fly, let's go.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:It's true though they would do that in form of a cheetah. Bucket of water. Oh, that was so fun though.
Carmen Lezeth:Can you hear me?
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Yeah, it's doable Speaking of bucket of water, rick did you watch Wicked?
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, Rick. Rick was the only one who hadn't seen wicked. Go ahead, rick, let us know what would you like to know?
Maurio Dawson:your thoughts. What did you think, did you?
Rick Costa:love me, did you hate it? You know what I liked, so this is gonna take you back. So long years ago I was with these online friends and we were like, let let's make a story. And they'd be like you'd write a couple sentences, the next person write a couple sentences, the next person write a couple sentences. But you got to make sure it stays coherent. And these people were like y'all just made a mess. This is supposed to be one story. So somehow I pulled everything they did, which was all not even related, and made it make sense. They did which was all not even related and made it make sense. I was so stinking proud of myself. But to do what he did, to take a classic, known story that everybody knows and create this ginormous backstory that completely makes sense, that you almost think, yeah, this is how it was in 19,. Whenever this was created, like he was totally believable. Yeah, this is what happened. We just didn't know yet.
Carmen Lezeth:So I thought that was really good so you're complimenting the author of the second book, but how did you like the movie?
Rick Costa:okay, it wasn't. It was not all singing, like people kept telling me yeah, it's a movie, it's a true diet and so yeah, the sync, like if it was totally singing. I'm not gonna lie, that would probably annoy me, but it never really pulled me out when people started singing, because that will happen sometimes if it's too much and obviously everybody's singing without a point. It was beautiful, well done. Blah, blah, blah. I enjoyed the story. I enjoyed. What's her name now? Cynthia?
Maurio Dawson:Arillo, cynthia Arillo. No, no In the movie Ariana Grande.
Rick Costa:No, yeah, alphaba, I couldn't think of it Like her journey. Her real name is Cynthia Cynthia Arreola yeah but we're talking about the movie, so I'm saying in the movie oh, alphaba, sorry, yeah, yeah. So I liked her journey and I felt bad for her that her father rejected her and I was like that sucks, it's not her fault, she would want green, whatever.
Carmen Lezeth:You know who her father is. Okay, spoiler, I won't say it no, no no. I'm sorry, go ahead.
Rick Costa:And that's fun when they do encounter each other. He was like oh, it's you. And she's still like I don't know who you are, but no, I thought in the end it was a good story, do you?
Carmen Lezeth:want to end. It was a good story and I'm like it's such a big deal, though, like why everybody loves it why, oh, I'm asking you, could you? Because you're talking about it very technically and stale, so I'm like I feel like you're forcing yourself to say you liked it, but maybe it's not like you wouldn't watch it again. You wouldn't go watch it in the movie theater and watch it again. That's okay.
Rick Costa:I didn't mind watching it again. I thought it was.
Maurio Dawson:are you? Were you invested enough to be willing to go see part two?
Rick Costa:Oh yeah, as soon as it was over, I was like wait, this is only part one, Wait, there's more. Yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Mauro, you hated it, I could tell you hated it.
Maurio Dawson:For me it was trash.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Garbage.
Carmen Lezeth:I think, you went opening night right, did you go?
Maurio Dawson:No we went before opening night so and I went with the girls. Of course they were next to me crying yeah, because for them both Marissa and Alma are both empaths. And then they also related it to themselves as far as minorities and what we as minorities go through in society being pointed out, being ostracized, being being seen as less than or not worthy of. So they were on a different type of empathetic journey with it, yeah, and then at the end, when they were saying to find, when she's saying to find gravity, they were just. That whole thing was just amazing for them. So I enjoyed it and I enjoyed taking the ride with them and I enjoyed the ride myself. There were some really great scenes.
Carmen Lezeth:Jonathan Bailey was phenomenal. Yeah, he was great and he did all of those.
Maurio Dawson:There were no stunts with his books and stuff. He did all of that himself.
Carmen Lezeth:He was amazing yeah he was amazing. Yeah, Cynthia, you also hated it. This is quintessential for you what you love, oh yeah.
Rick Costa:And then, when they did the flowers, the like, I was like oh, poppies.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:The flowers yeah.
Maurio Dawson:There were a lot of Easter eggs if you caught them, if you were paying attention. There were a lot of easter eggs if you caught them, if you were paying attention. There were a lot of easter eggs like even at the beginning, when you see dorothy walking on the illiberal walking on in the poppies to, you get the where the idea, or with the, the poppies come in. Later on you understand why they were there.
Carmen Lezeth:It's just the shoes let's just give some love to john chu right, the director who is just it does just an incredible yeah feat that he was able to create and masterful I. I find it weird that anyone, if he doesn't win best director, it's just going to be weird.
Maurio Dawson:Not that the nominations should be enormous this year, for sure.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean, he was just everything that he was able to pull together and make this magical place is just an incredible thing, yeah.
Maurio Dawson:I loved it and the train and the wizard were not CGI.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, no, nothing was CGI.
Carmen Lezeth:I mean they actually planted all of those. You know they, I mean, and I think I mean you know people get so afraid of AI and I know not in my lifetime I don't think AI is ever going to be able to take over the creativity of an individual human being. The creativity of an individual human being. It will assist us, but I don't think like cgi is great, but cgi could not create what you saw on screen, not in that way. It's so much more tangible. You know what I mean? Too late, it's richer.
Rick Costa:What about the monkeys? When the monkeys changed? I'm not gonna spoil it, that's not wings, when they get wings, or whatever I'm not spoiling anything.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know every single technical thing, but when you watch any of the interviews, like and you watch and you can say they made every area an actual place so that they can walk into it, so that they could, they weren't working with a green screen, which is usually what actors are doing, like I love marvel, but all of that is CGI. You know what I mean? Like all of them are working in front of green screen. I'm not saying all of it, but most of it, and you can tell the difference. I'm not saying you can tell the difference, but you can feel the difference because actors work differently.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't care how great you are, you could be Meryl Streep and I and I love Meryl Streep or Viola Davis. These are the two greatest actresses of our time. I think these two women working in front of a green screen and working in front of a real live set are probably the only two people I think that could probably pull it off and not flinch, but I think it changes you as an actor when you are actually interacting with an actual place. You know, but you know.
Rick Costa:I'm nobody.
Carmen Lezeth:What do I?
Rick Costa:know the actresses on Agatha all along because they wanted purposely no CGI. They want everything to be real and they're like it's just so cool that we're actually walking in this place. It's not, you know, something's there, it's actually there and they loved it. Yeah, it's tangible.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, it's tangible.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, it gives the actors more to work with too.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, I think that's why I love theater too, because when you're in theater, when you're doing a scene on stage, you're physically there. You know what I mean. It's not about the camera angle or whatever. You're physically in the space. And I've always told you guys this.
Carmen Lezeth:I know that other more brilliant people who know about acting would disagree with me, but there is a difference between theater acting and television and film acting. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying there is a difference. And the reason why I suck in front of a television camera being an actor, I can't be that fresh 20 times on the same scene over and over again. And people who can do that are why they're working as actors on television, cause you don't just film something once on television, you film it like five or six times. Cause they have to do different angles. Yeah, they have to do your, they have to do your point of view, my point of view. They have to do the camera behind you, looking over there, and then they slice all that up. That's a different kind of acting and I admit it, I know my strengths and that was not one of them.
Maurio Dawson:That was interministriated, sadly for the acting world.
Carmen Lezeth:sadly for television and film, I will not be an actor in some great movie, I'm sorry. It's a tab limit. You know what I mean. All I can can just do it. There's one, take, yes, one and done. You rehearse it over and over again, but at the end of the day, when that curtain comes up, that's it. It's on point and you go ahead. It's oh, go ahead what?
Maurio Dawson:go ahead, mario I say one more thing just to let you know, rick, I don't know if you're aware of this, but when she's singing defying gravity, she's in a harness and she's actually flying while she's singing live singing do you understand how hard that is?
Carmen Lezeth:so cute was? Jonathan bailey actually said that. They asked him what was your favorite part of working on this movie and without skipping a beat, he said watching Cynthia in a harness. And then she yeah, and there was another part too that he talked about where, because they had built the thing, that were, birds that were in the like, the roof or whatever, were like stuck in there and whenever she would sing, they would sing.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah.
Carmen Lezeth:Wow, yeah, gave me chills. Yeah, I'll find that interview and I'll send it to you guys. Yeah, it's amazing.
Rick Costa:So yeah, they had a similar thing on Agatha along too, where they flew on brooms and they all said, oh my God, that was so fun.
Carmen Lezeth:Have any of us watched this show?
Maurio Dawson:No, yeah, agatha, all along, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Did you? No, I haven't watched it it's.
Maurio Dawson:Marvel, Of course it's Marvel.
Carmen Lezeth:And I love Marvel, but I'm done. I'm done with Marvel. I need a break. I need a 10-year break and then I'll come back. Yeah.
Maurio Dawson:I'm already excited for Ironheart. It's a Black woman leading the show. I'm already there.
Carmen Lezeth:I'm excited because Denzel Washington slipped about Black Panther 3.
Maurio Dawson:He got in trouble for that right.
Carmen Lezeth:He got in trouble. He apologized, but it's Denzel Washington.
Maurio Dawson:Are they saying what he's going to be? No, they're alluding to.
Carmen Lezeth:I don't know.
Maurio Dawson:Yeah, they alluded to it already. It's out there.
Carmen Lezeth:It's out there, but he had to apologize because he talked about it and no one had talked about it yet.
Maurio Dawson:It was supposed to be a surprise.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, it's Denzel, it's so cute.
Maurio Dawson:It's Denzel. I'm 70 years old. I don't know what the hell I'm going to say.
Carmen Lezeth:That's right. Anthony said I didn't much care for Agatha all along Interesting. Yeah, I've never seen it so since it's a very slow burn, but when you get to episode 7, Patti LuPone's episode.
Rick Costa:Yeah, she's amazing.
Carmen Lezeth:She's in it. Oh yeah, I love her. I'm still not going to watch it, but I love her Theater queen, come on, she's amazing.
Maurio Dawson:And she sang in the show.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, Isn't Agatha all along from the original? What was the?
Maurio Dawson:It's from WandaVision.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah, and I didn't even love WandaVision. I struggled through that. I know Y'all are going to be upset. I struggled through watching that whole thing and I know I'm sorry, the only Disney. I'm not going to say Disney, not gonna say disney. But the only shows I've loved that I would watch again after the marvel movies was like loki. There was two. There was another one too, the one with hawkeye. I liked that one which one the show with hawkeye on it, what he had a what is it you mean jeremy renner?
Maurio Dawson:yeah because you've been saying hot guys all day.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:I didn't say hot guys you know, hot guy, hot guy, I'm like. Which one I haven't even remembered it.
Carmen Lezeth:I forget what it was, but I liked that one.
Maurio Dawson:Hot guy. That's the name of the show.
Carmen Lezeth:Yeah and then, but those are like the only two Loki and that, and then there was one more. I think that I, like my brain is blanking out there's another really good one.
Maurio Dawson:It was just too many it was just too many like.
Carmen Lezeth:I didn't like the hulk one, the she hulk. What was she good? No, that wasn't that great, that wasn't good. And I tried to go through them all and I'm like you know what? We need a break. We need a break is what happened sorry, captain america's coming out.
Maurio Dawson:Anthony mackie's the new, the new captain.
Carmen Lezeth:I have to watch out because I have to support. Okay Doesn't mean I have to like it.
Maurio Dawson:We'll suffer, suffer.
Carmen Lezeth:Wow, it was nice having you on the show, Mario.
Rick Costa:Hopefully we'll have you back in 2026. Thank you, melanie said Hawkeye from MASH.
Carmen Lezeth:I love Melanie because Melanie just shows up her age Hawkeye from MASH. Hawkeye from MASH. I love Melanie because Melanie just shows up her age Hawkeye from MASH.
Maurio Dawson:I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not familiar with that show.
Carmen Lezeth:Are you being funny? Everybody knows MASH. That was one of the greatest shows ever.
Maurio Dawson:I don't know that show.
Carmen Lezeth:Oh my god, because you're so young, all you have to do is be part of Hollywood. Mash was one of the best shows ever made.
Maurio Dawson:I know what.
Carmen Lezeth:MASH is One of the best closing endings of all time of the TV show. Was MASH Hot?
Maurio Dawson:Lips, Fool Hand, all of those people.
Carmen Lezeth:And I loved Hot Guy. He was also good looking, hot Guy. I'm sorry, okay.
Maurio Dawson:Are we still?
Carmen Lezeth:on TikTok. That's so weird that we would last this long, does it? Let us go that long, let me check.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:Oh, I've watched live TikTok for three hours one time, really.
Carmen Lezeth:So it goes that long. Oh yeah, I have no idea how to tell. I can't watch myself. Anyways, are you able to see? I'm going to try to find it. I just want to see, just so I can know that this was part of what. Data is just incredible cool numbers too. So that's cool. Wow, so much fun, okay, cool. Everyone in tiktok. Thank you for visiting. Really appreciate you stopping by, mario. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. I will go out of my way and motherfucking Instagram you, I guess.
Maurio Dawson:Please and thank you, and then have you not show up anyways, okay, whatever. You know what Don't come for me unless I send for you. Okay, you know what?
Carmen Lezeth:No, here's the thing, though. If you don't see it and you can come on, just do what you did today. That's why we have to deal with Charlie. It's the same thing. If Charlie wants to come on, he just needs to text me and let me know, and we're going to put him up. But I love what Charlie does. Charlie's just like in and out. He comes in and then, if he wants to stay, he lets us know. You know what I mean. So thank you for stopping by. I appreciate you. Please tell Alma. We said hi, I will. Christmas is next week. Yes, what are you doing, cynthia, for Christmas? Oh, you already had your family dinner thing.
Cynthia Ruiz Lopez:We had our family dinner about Christmas.
Carmen Lezeth:Day we go to my daughter's house and spend it with everyone, with the family there. And Rick, are you guys doing anything special for Christmas? I'm going to my cousin's house again. Your what With the family there? And Rick, are you?
Rick Costa:guys doing anything special for Christmas? Is your family coming over?
Carmen Lezeth:I'm going to my cousin's house again. You're what.
Rick Costa:Going to my cousin's house again, oh cool, cool, cool, cool.
Carmen Lezeth:I am going to be resting again. I'm going to be traveling. I'm not traveling. Don't call me, don't text me, don't bother me. I'm going to be curled up on my couch. I'm gonna be resting by myself. I am going to normalize being okay, being by yourself and I know, cynthia's, you like being by. I'm like because I'm tired. You hear me, I'm exhausted, I'm exhausted. I need a break. So, like for four days, I don't want nobody bothering me. Nobody, I don't. Even if there's an emergency, deal with it, deal with emergency, deal with it. Deal with it. Call 9-1-1, 9-1-1. Exactly so, cynthia, thank you. Always being on the show. Really appreciate you, rick.
Carmen Lezeth:Thank you for being on the show, as always too, and we do this every Thursday night, 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern. We have a website called allaboutthejoycom. Please go check that out. Thank you everyone for visiting LinkedIn. I want to give a shout out to LinkedIn Also. We have over 700 followers there. That's a big deal. I don't think you guys understand. I ain't asking nothing and it's like people keep following us. It's a trickle, but it's LinkedIn, which is a professional website, social media site, so I'm very proud of that. So, thank you so much, melanie. Yes, it might just be me, I don't know. No, are you guys? I don't know if you guys will be able to come on, will you?
Rick Costa:I'm not doing nothing.
Carmen Lezeth:It's on the Thursday.
Maurio Dawson:Yes, after Christmas. Yeah, I'm free.
Carmen Lezeth:Okay, we will be back talking about our Christmas loves and joys and then I'll go back to being quiet and by myself and enjoy the rest of my weekend. All right, everyone, thank you for stopping by. Be good. Remember it is always all about the joy. Bye, everyone, bye, thanks for stopping by. All About the Joy. Be better and stay beautiful folks, have a sweet day.