Prove You're Gen X: Memories and Digital Age Funny-isms

Remember the distinct sound of a dial-up modem connecting to the internet? That nostalgic memory sparked a wide-ranging conversation about what truly defines the Gen X experience in our latest episode. Our hosts and guests shared personal touchstones—from using physical phone books and Thomas Guides to the satisfaction of slamming down a corded phone during arguments—creating an authentic time capsule of growing up between analog and digital worlds.

The musical memories proved especially powerful as everyone recalled their first CDs (Whitney Houston featured prominently), and the patient art of recording songs from the radio onto cassette tapes to create mixtapes. This primitive playlist creation represents a level of dedication to music that today's streaming generation might find hard to comprehend, yet captures the essence of what made this transitional period so special.

When our conversation shifted to modern digital challenges, particularly around content creation and social media algorithms, the generational perspective became even more valuable. The group tackled TikTok strategies, debating hashtag relevance and promotion tactics while reflecting on advice that cuts through algorithmic excuses: "The reason why you're not getting views isn't because of the algorithm—it's because your content sucks." This brutal honesty sparked discussions about consistency, quality, and adaptation.

What makes Gen X unique is precisely this bridge position—having grown up analog but adapted to digital life. We've witnessed the complete transformation from physical mixtapes to streaming services, from encyclopedia sets to Google searches, from Thomas Guides to GPS navigation. Subscribe now to join our weekly conversations that blend nostalgic reflections with practical insights about navigating today's ever-changing digital landscape.

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Editing by Team A-J
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Transcript

Show Introduction and Weekly Check-ins

Maurio Dawson 0:00

Where do you go? Where do you go to? I wanna know how do you do that thing you do? Follow you blindly. I'll be your fool. Where do you go to? Where do you?

Rick Costa 0:14

go. Where do you go to? I wanna know how do you we lost our host. Hi everybody, welcome to our live hi everybody I was looking for my paper.

Carmen Lezeth 0:34

I printed that was hilarious I was doing a little jamming over there. That was wrong. Oh shoot hi everybody. Welcome to the show, just hanging out winging it how you doing, rick, what's up?

Rick Costa 0:50

what's up doing good so what's the update?

Carmen Lezeth 0:52

how did today go for you?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 0:54

because today was okay. Um, you know, I spoke to the head of security today, so they are gonna keep looking at the cameras and stuff. He'll be the the one to do it and I have a meeting with the big boss on Monday to kind of see how to go about you know from here on and what they're going to do and stuff like that.

Carmen Lezeth 1:13

But you felt better today.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 1:16

I was still a little off because I was by myself in there for like almost two hours but like some of the other girls kept coming in to check on me and stuff like that.

Alma Dawson 1:26

so to make sure I was okay.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 1:28

Um, even the the chairman um even said you know if you need to lock the door if you don't feel safe and stuff. So you know, at least they're looking out rick, how was your friday and your week?

Rick Costa 1:43

not too bad. It wasn't too bad this week, work-wise, thankfully, yeah, so it was pretty good. It was pretty good, Not too crazy, except for Monday. Monday was like literally nonstop. I'm like I can't even breathe. It's like one thing after another, after another, from beginning to close. It was like wow. But then the rest of the week was pretty chill.

Carmen Lezeth 2:00

I'm just, I'm ready to not be working anymore, Like you know, like I'm okay doing this work, but I'm, I'm done. I don't know. I don't know why the universe isn't aware of my thought process and what I want. I'm confused by that. I I got up early this morning and I went and had the girls looked at and I'm fine, we talked about that on air in the green room, anyways. I think we talked about that on air or in the green room, anyways, I think we talked about it on air. We did right. I don't know, I haven't had a minute to do everything from yesterday, so I haven't listened to it. But yeah, so that was a weird way to start my morning Because usually I go right to work at like 7 am on Friday morning. So that was weird. But yeah, it's all good, everything's fine, nothing too big or whatever.

Carmen Lezeth 2:50

I did touch base with ted hicks, um, so he says, hi, he's doing really well. Um, I don't don't know exactly what's going on. I mean, I do, but I don't want to. I don't know what he has decided to share or not share, but it was just really nice to touch base with him. He's doing really well and he's really happy and he's going to come on the show sooner rather than later. This is a text message. Let me see who it is. Oh, it's Mario, my good lord. My good lord, they're looking for the link. They're looking for the link.

Rick Costa 3:29

Where's my link?

Carmen Lezeth 3:30

Can I just say how much I love hanging out with you guys. I don't want to come on here, but then I laugh so hard. You guys are funny. How was your week? Or how was your day?

Alma Dawson 3:45

It's rough right now.

Maurio Dawson 3:46

It's hot out here for a camp.

Alma Dawson 3:48

Spring is springing. Spring is springing.

Carmen Lezeth 3:51

Wait, did you guys? Are you guys okay from the rainstorm today here in Los Angeles?

Maurio Dawson 3:58

Oh my God, we survived the tornado from yesterday because you know it was a tornado.

Carmen Lezeth 4:04

Well, I'm laughing because two people Canceled appointments today with us and our team Because it was literally Misting out you know some people melt.

Maurio Dawson 4:17

You know, it's California.

Carmen Lezeth 4:21

What did Elma just say? Whatever, I decided not to drive because our because my clients places in the palestinians, I don't have to drive there. We rented some space so I can literally just walk. You know what I mean? It's probably like a mile and a half, but it was raining, you know. So I was like okay, cool, I'm just gonna walk down. I figured, by the time I drive and try to find parking. Do you know what I mean? I could. So I was like you know, I'm just going to walk down. I figured, by the time I drive and try to find parking. Do?

Maurio Dawson 4:46

you know what I mean so.

Carmen Lezeth 4:47

I was like you know, I'm just going to walk down, and when I was leaving, my neighbor was like you're going to walk in this rain.

Alma Dawson 4:56

I'm like what rain.

Maurio Dawson 4:59

What rain?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 4:59

You're like bitch, I'm from Boston. We walked through the snow.

Carmen Lezeth 5:05

I'm still from Boston, that's what I realized, but it was just too funny. But two people canceled on us. They were like could we do it on Zoom? And I'm like really.

Joy Gouge 5:15

We kind of all wanted to be together.

Carmen Lezeth 5:17

That was the point and we were like it's OK, we understand, the snow is a problem. The snow, the rain, the a problem the snow, the rain I mean yeah, if you've never lived like like.

Alma Dawson 5:30

I think the heaviest rain I've ever experienced was florida, but I've been in el salvador during their monsoon season and but florida was absolutely bonkers and we were there during spring break and I mean you literally could not. We literally got to the car. Okay, so I'll say it like this he said we need to go, we need to go.

Joy Gouge 5:51

It's going to start raining. We need to go.

Alma Dawson 5:53

We need to go. It's going to start raining. We need to go. We need to go. It's going to start raining.

Maurio Dawson 5:58

They're like no, it's fine we need to go.

Alma Dawson 6:00

It's not raining. He's like it's about to start raining, literally we're in Charleston. So we're walking towards the exit of Walt Disney World, we're at Magic Kingdom, we're walking towards the exit and all of a sudden the skies just open up. And when I mean people scattered, they scattered, they found any awning, any building to just go into, and he was like I told you, I told you just go into. That's funny. And he was like I told you, I told you that's rain.

Maurio Dawson 6:30

No, but it had already rained earlier that day, so I already knew, I had an indication. I'm like, okay, this is going to happen again because we were. Okay, cynthia, you've been to Disney World, so you know, so we go to. We were right by the castle and all of a sudden it rained so hard the waters literally flooded up past the sidewalk in a minute. I was like what is going on?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 6:56

That is Florida weather.

Maurio Dawson 6:58

From that right.

Alma Dawson 7:00

But see, when that happened, I was inside on a ride, so I didn't see that.

Maurio Dawson 7:05

Nope. So I'm like we got to haul the iceberg. We got to go now.

Carmen Lezeth 7:10

You know what I feel so out of place because I've not been to Disney World.

Maurio Dawson 7:15

That's not the point. We're talking about the rain. It ain't the point. Well, I'm in.

Carmen Lezeth 7:18

Florida. I'm in Florida.

Maurio Dawson 7:20

I think, Florida sucks, I'm just

Alma Dawson 7:22

going to say that I think Florida sucks.

Carmen Lezeth 7:23

Even their sunny weather sucks.

Alma Dawson 7:25

Sorry, you miss the best part of Florida.

Maurio Dawson 7:27

Yeah.

Alma Dawson 7:28

You miss the best part of Florida.

Carmen Lezeth 7:31

What's the best part of Florida Disney?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 7:34

World.

Carmen Lezeth 7:34

I only go there to see my brother from another mother. I have no interest and I've never been to a Disney. I've been to Disney here, whatever this Disney is, and I drop people off and I was at the D23 thing inside, but we just had dinner and then I left as all the stars were coming. I was like, all right, Billie, I'll talk to you later. Have a great time.

Alma Dawson 7:58

I don't know if she's really from LA, I just don't know. I'm not from LA. She's from. Boston.

Maurio Dawson 8:04

Cynthia is not from LA, but she's Disney all day, that's right.

Carmen Lezeth 8:09

Disney all day. The next time I'm in? No, I'm not going to say that, I was going to say the next time I'm in Florida, but I don't want to go. I don't want to go. I've been to Universal. Does that count? No, wow.

Rick Costa 8:23

Totally different. I no, no, wow, totally different. Florida I've been there. Once my boss flew me down there for training and I never got any training until the very last day.

Alma Dawson 8:31

It's called teamwork and all of that and so I didn't know that.

Rick Costa 8:36

You know it'll down listen little bitch, it'll down for it, but. But it's really brief, it doesn't last long.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 8:46

No, it doesn't.

Rick Costa 8:48

That's what it does.

Alma Dawson 8:51

It will downpour.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 8:52

It will flood in like five, ten minutes. Then the sun comes out. It's all dried within 20 minutes. Then, like a half hour later, it does it all over again. It just becomes very muggy.

Alma Dawson 9:04

Literally it's not raining. He's like hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. So we're like dashing to get to the monorail, to get to the no, we're walking, I'm hauling ass, I'm like I'm not. But then, literally, we're getting our stuff in the car and as soon as I close the door, the skies open up. I can't see.

Carmen Lezeth 9:25

You seem like being a bug on the wall of their relationship. You can totally see what's happening.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 9:34

It's so cute and you can't when it rains like that when it rains like that, you can't see anything in front of you. You just have to sit in the car and wait it out and that's it.

Carmen Lezeth 9:48

Okay, guys, we have 14 minutes talking about the damn motherfucking weather in Florida. I'm done, okay.

Alma Dawson 9:55

Disney weather Florida all of a sudden, you started it.

Maurio Dawson 9:59

You started with the storm.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 10:03

I'm going to let you guys.

Alma Dawson 10:04

listen to it again, you guys know I'm talking about it.

Weather Talk: Florida Rainstorms

Carmen Lezeth 10:09

Okay, we're going to listen to a little music. We're going to listen to a little music. Hold up, hold up. Let's see if any of you are really Gen Xers. Okay, let me just throw this out there Enjoy.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 10:40

Here's the story.

Carmen Lezeth 10:42

I don't know this song. I did the same thing, Ma yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 10:48

Hey, uh-oh.

Joy Gouge 11:00

I don't know.

Alma Dawson 11:03

Another one.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 11:16

Oh, that noise. The most annoying noise in the world is that one you have to take my AOL count.

Maurio Dawson 11:22

I still have my AOL count. Sorry, you're not going to believe this.

Rick Costa 11:27

When it got to 1980 at the refrigerator it froze for me. I can see you guys reacting to it. I don't know what to tell you I was on, I didn't freeze he updated his internet.

Carmen Lezeth 11:40

He can't load pages.

Rick Costa 11:41

I was hearing the music from off of one of you guys. I could barely hear it. I heard he can't load pages. I was hearing the music from off of one of you guys. I could barely hear it. I heard carry on my wayward son.

Carmen Lezeth 11:51

He used to be me with all the issues.

Maurio Dawson 11:53

I don't know that song either.

Carmen Lezeth 11:55

That was for white folk, because we didn't know that song.

Alma Dawson 11:57

I was like I don't know that song.

Rick Costa 12:00

I was from a show called Supernatural. Supernatural was a. I'll be up Cynthia's alley.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 12:06

I haven't heard that song before.

Carmen Lezeth 12:07

Yeah, but you can tell that really because she's saying it very nicely Joy, you can come up if you want. We miss you, Joy. She usually comes up all the time. But, Joy, the link is in the. Oh, I have to send it to her phone. I'm going to send it to you on your phone. No pressure, but if you want to come you can come up.

Maurio Dawson 12:25

Speak amongst yourselves.

Carmen Lezeth 12:26

I have not gotten it yet. I know she didn't get it because she would have told me, and I'm trying not to put no pressure on her.

Alma Dawson 12:38

That money coming back to my account.

Carmen Lezeth 12:40

That money coming back to my account, if you ain't getting it, I am definitely getting it you got.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 12:44

Oh, trust me, I am definitely getting it. I know I'm definitely getting it.

Carmen Lezeth 12:47

I mean, it was kind of the day before you went on vacation. I wasn't expecting yeah, um, okay, speak amongst yourselves. I gotta send this to joy. Let me tell you how cool.

Rick Costa 12:57

Let me tell you how cool joy is okay. So a couple saturdays ago so we, with the thing I do, we do like a monthly broadcast with the team If they're available. Nobody was available, so it was just me. I said you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna vent, I'm gonna let y'all know what it's really like living with a dementia person. And I maybe said too much, I don't know. Right after the broadcast was over, joy called me right away and was like I want to help you, Are you okay?

Rick Costa 13:27

I was like, wow see, that's a real one, right there.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 13:29

Yeah, joy is I can't do it.

Carmen Lezeth 13:34

Joy man, Wait a minute.

Maurio Dawson 13:37

No, that's that Gen X for you yeah, does it work?

Carmen Lezeth 13:43

I'm trying to do my yes On Max. Does it work?

Alma Dawson 13:45

I'm trying to do. My now is the pit.

Maurio Dawson 13:46

Yes.

Alma Dawson 13:47

On Max. What is it the pit?

Maurio Dawson 13:52

Yeah, the pit P-I-T.

Alma Dawson 13:55

Yeah, and basically it's like one day in the ER and it's Noah Wiley who was in the ER. Remember the original? I heard about it. Yes.

Maurio Dawson 14:05

It's really good.

Alma Dawson 14:06

Yes, yes, so they start like hour one right when the shift starts and they set everything up and then the next episode is hour two. So it like goes.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 14:16

Oh, I love that.

Maurio Dawson 14:18

Yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 14:18

I heard that they actually had a team of doctors and nurses come on set to actually show them exactly what they do, and everything that they do on the show is real, like exactly how it's all the protocols and everything.

Maurio Dawson 14:34

Yeah, it's accurate and I mean just just being in. Anybody who's ever been to an er and you've seen some of the woohoo that the ER waiting room, you see all of that.

Alma Dawson 14:49

Oh yeah, it's so good.

Maurio Dawson 14:50

They deal with a lot of different issues.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 14:52

Oh yeah, I hear about it all the time. My sister works in the ER.

Maurio Dawson 14:57

She is a saint in my head, in my heart.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 15:00

She has seen it all and heard it all.

Maurio Dawson 15:05

Yeah, that takes a special kind of love Okay.

Alma Dawson 15:10

And all the you know just all the, everything, because if you're in the emergency room. It's an emergency or a tragedy, or you know all of that.

Maurio Dawson 15:19

There's never good news in the ER. Exactly.

Alma Dawson 15:22

What are we?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 15:22

talking about. We're talking about the show the Pit, but then now we're talking about being in the ER. We're talking about the show the Pit, but then now we're talking about being in the ER, you're supposed to be a multitasker.

Alma Dawson 15:29

Come on now. Remember that time last year.

Carmen Lezeth 15:33

Carmen, when I was in the ER.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 15:35

What Uh-oh.

Rick Costa 15:39

Carmen said she's not a multitasker. She says that all the time.

Carmen Lezeth 15:42

I say it all the time I'm not a multitasker at all.

Maurio Dawson 15:46

Come on, gen X, pull it together, let's go.

Carmen Lezeth 15:50

Do a little raw tonight.

Maurio Dawson 15:52

Yeah, I'm a little spicy, a little saucy.

Alma Dawson 15:57

What's going on?

Maurio Dawson 15:58

Well, thank you for joining all of us.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 16:02

I guess today's my turn.

Carmen Lezeth 16:06

I'm waiting for Joy to come up. She just told me she's coming up, so we'll see.

Alma Dawson 16:09

We were talking about the show we're watching on Max.

Carmen Lezeth 16:14

I'm not watching that. I don't know what it is. It's about the ER. I don't want to watch a show about ER anyways.

Alma Dawson 16:22

It's still good. It's good drama, it's good drama.

Maurio Dawson 16:24

It's good drama. I got to tell you this one. They even had a board, a betting board on an accident, on what was going to happen.

Carmen Lezeth 16:38

Okay, that's probably true, what happens in real life?

Rick Costa 16:40

But I don't want to know that.

Carmen Lezeth 16:42

I don't want to know that.

Rick Costa 16:44

Who had a betting board.

Maurio Dawson 16:46

Nurses and doctors in real life, but I don't want to know that. I don't want to know that who had a bedding book.

Rick Costa 16:50

The nurses and doctors.

Alma Dawson 16:51

The nurses, the doctors and the social worker In the show.

Rick Costa 16:53

What are?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 16:54

you talking about in real life? No, in the show, but I'm sure it happens in real life.

Maurio Dawson 16:57

They had an actual board saying, okay, this is going to happen at this time on this corner. Who's got 20 on it? They're like I got 20 on hitting that pedestrian.

Carmen Lezeth 17:08

You know they probably do that to just have fun.

Maurio Dawson 17:11

Just to have fun on Like. Are they betting people?

Carmen Lezeth 17:15

are going to die and stuff.

Maurio Dawson 17:17

No, they didn't bet on people dying, no, no, they just bet on the accident. Yeah, who's going to do what?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 17:26

Yeah, no, they don't bet on the accident. Yeah, who's going?

Maurio Dawson 17:27

to do what? Yeah?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 17:28

no, they don't bet on death. Ed is not fun.

Carmen Lezeth 17:31

Yeah, I've been to the emergency room in my life probably five, six times.

Maurio Dawson 17:37

Yeah Well.

Carmen Lezeth 17:39

Twice, for well, I know you win, but twice because I had an allergic reaction to something and I couldn't breathe. It's like if you don't get to an, I didn't have an EpiPen one of the times.

Maurio Dawson 17:52

Oh, wow.

Carmen Lezeth 17:55

I carry it with me all the time, but yeah, the ER. Are we going to talk about this Really?

Maurio Dawson 18:01

No no.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 18:02

I'm like what are we talking about you were busy you said talk amongst yourselves absolutely right.

Carmen Lezeth 18:10

All right, prove that you are truly a gen x person. Give me something that would absolutely make us understand that you are gen x. You cannot say you drank water out of a hose.

Maurio Dawson 18:21

It's been done I said that yesterday I know I.

Carmen Lezeth 18:25

That's why I said you can't say it.

Maurio Dawson 18:27

I used a phone book. I had to turn the TV with my hand, I used the Thomas Guide.

Carmen Lezeth 18:38

A what the Thomas Guide. That's really for only people in Los Angeles.

Maurio Dawson 18:42

Right.

Carmen Lezeth 18:45

You don't know what a Thomas Guide is either. It's a manual GPS, it's a map, oh, an atlas.

Alma Dawson 18:52

No no.

Maurio Dawson 18:55

It's a thick book. It's a mini-sized phone book. It was really flat and wide. You have to go to the address on that page and you have to go from page.

Alma Dawson 19:05

You have to go to the address on that page and you have to trace your way back to your address and follow the map to that address flipping through the book and it was like the whole all of Southern California in grids. Basically each section was like a different grid.

Carmen Lezeth 19:22

If you went up north, you would get one from up there, like you'd get them from from all different parts, but it's like before we had gp. Oh god, hold on a second.

Alma Dawson 19:30

Oh, that's definitely a california thing, and then also, what was it? Uhf and vhf? Remember you had to switch it. Oh yes, hi joy okay, yeah, okay, yeah um.

Carmen Lezeth 19:41

How are you doing?

Joy Gouge 19:44

doing okay. I'm doing okay. I'm finally got my voice back. So I've been. I got sick on the cruise, the end of the cruise and um, but I'm doing much better now.

Carmen Lezeth 19:58

The cruise where you were in aruba texting me to ask where we're not to stay. Joy, before we go any further, I don't think I've introduced you to Alma. Alma, this is Joy. Alma is Mario's better half, so I'm introducing the two of you.

Alma Dawson 20:20

Hi, it's good to meet you. Good to meet you too.

Carmen Lezeth 20:24

Okay, so I'm sorry, go ahead. Alma, it's good to meet you. It's good to meet you too.

Alma Dawson 20:27

Okay, so you went on your trip. I'm feeling. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead, alma. What'd you say? Better is true, I am the better half, yeah.

Gen X Nostalgia and Technology

Carmen Lezeth 20:39

So you went on your trip. You weren't feeling well, but now you're feeling better. But I have another question How's your mom doing?

Joy Gouge 20:47

Cause I see if you weren't feeling well, but now you're feeling better.

Carmen Lezeth 20:50

But I have another question how is your mom doing, because I see the posts on facebook. How is she doing? Yeah, she's doing a little better, so okay, so, yeah, yeah, all right. Well, we're keeping her in prayer, of course. Um, so what else is going?

Joy Gouge 20:56

on, oh my gosh, bracing for the storms what storms?

Carmen Lezeth 21:02

oh my god, we're back to weather. What are we?

Joy Gouge 21:04

talking about, and that's what was wrong. I heard a noise and it was like oh god, my storm doors open, so it was like flapping back and forth in the wind.

Carmen Lezeth 21:14

Okay but where are you again, because I don't think all of our audience knows where you are. We're in memphis, in memphis, and you guys have what storm coming through.

Joy Gouge 21:23

And we've got like that whole storm that's moving from well, I think it came from California and then moving across the country and we are at a moderate to high risk of tornadoes tonight.

Carmen Lezeth 21:40

Oh, wow, yeah, no, yeah, that scares me. So you guys, you guys got a warning or whatever. Is that? What's happened?

Joy Gouge 21:50

And so, and we're under a tornado watch right now yeah, oh my god, that just scares me that scares me here with earthquakes.

Carmen Lezeth 21:59

It just happens like we don't have any warning or whatever, and I kind of prefer that, in a way, because especially when I watch people on the east coast with the whole hurricane, like the, they're boarding up everything and they're, you know, everyone's going to the grocery store I'm like, oh, my god, my anxiety, yeah, so, um. So how long is the bracing for the tornado thing? Um, it's.

Joy Gouge 22:19

I just got another alert and it's till 3 am.

Maurio Dawson 22:23

Oh, okay all right so I have family in Little Rock, so I understand Yep. So yeah, they've already called to let us know that they're on watch too, so it's coming right through there.

Joy Gouge 22:35

It is, and actually I think they are supposed to get it a little worse than we are.

Maurio Dawson 22:39

They are. Yeah, my dad lives in Dumas, arkansas, and he got hit by a really bad tornado years ago. Luckily it touched down. It took the roof off the high school, but it didn't touch his house and he's literally right next door to the high school. Wow, yeah, so you know tornadoes. I understand what you're saying, carmen. Tornadoes are scary because they're they are. You don't know.

Carmen Lezeth 23:06

Yeah, rick is going to jump off for a second because he's going to try to reboot, because, joy Rick, can't see you For some reason.

Alma Dawson 23:18

You can log off, so joy. Quick question the cruise that you went on, was this the one where you were going to have your dog with you?

Joy Gouge 23:28

No, that was the cruise in may last night okay, okay.

Alma Dawson 23:33

Well, how was that cruise without, without the, the accommodations? Was it a good experience?

Joy Gouge 23:38

it was actually fantastic. I could not have asked for anything any better. It was amazing okay, awesome, awesome.

Alma Dawson 23:50

I was wondering if it was all it was, you know, because you were like, we'll see how it goes, so I'm glad that it was good yeah, it really was.

Joy Gouge 23:59

There was what ended up being is about. All in total was like 60 some blind people and 40 dogs wow a lot of dogs that is, it is amazing. Yeah, but it was they. Carnival and I had to give. I mean, carnival was amazing about training their staff on how to deal with blind people Absolutely fantastic.

Alma Dawson 24:30

That's awesome. That's awesome. Glad to hear that. I'm glad to hear that. But see, I would have been one of those people. I see the dogs and I want to pet and I have to stop myself. I have to stop, I know I'm like, oh so cute, I'm the same way I know Well, they did have a mission three to stop.

Alma Dawson 24:49

I know I'm like I'm so cute, I'm the same way I know. Well, they didn't have I never touched. Oh, they did a meet and greet they did awesome. Yeah, I would have been first in line, oh yeah oh yeah, no, no, I like even dogs.

Carmen Lezeth 25:01

I don't touch anybody's dogs. I don't. I love dogs, but I don't touch them at all, ever. I respect the respect, the space. They're like children. Would you ever go up and touch somebody's child? That's how. I look at it. I actually ask for permission. That's what I mean?

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 25:16

Can I say?

Alma Dawson 25:16

hello. I always say can I say hello to your dog? And then most people say yes, but there are a few that say no, my dog's not really friendly and it's like no problem you know well the big, the big clue is when they have the thing on their, on their nose across the street.

Carmen Lezeth 25:38

It's all good, yeah, um, yeah people here are very weird about their dogs too. Like, especially if the dog comes up to you you know you want to say hi, but I still. I've learned my lesson. I just I just walk away and move over. People get really weird here about their dogs. I don't know, so joy, how can you prove that you are gen x? If you are gen x, are you gen x?

Joy Gouge 26:02

I think so. Um, I don't even remember now how the ages are I just keep up with it.

Carmen Lezeth 26:11

No, no, gen X is. You have to be born between the ages of 1965 and 1980. Oh yeah, I was there, yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 26:22

She said yeah, I was there, that was me.

Carmen Lezeth 26:26

Yeah. So, Mario, what did you say was your proof that you were Gen X? I forgot.

Maurio Dawson 26:32

Oh, having to turn the television without a remote, that's true. And, like I almost said, vhf and UHF television, yep.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 26:40

And what?

Carmen Lezeth 26:40

was yours. Mine was using a phone book. Oh, that's right, and we talked. Oh, we were talking about the Thomas guide, that's right. That's right.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 26:47

Oh, we were talking about the Thomas Guide.

Carmen Lezeth 26:48

That's right. That's all he was talking about. Yeah, and mine is.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 26:54

I just remember exactly where I was during the Challenger. Oh yeah, I remember that too.

Carmen Lezeth 26:58

Yeah that was fierce.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 27:02

Yeah, we were living on Forbes Street.

Maurio Dawson 27:04

Sad fact, but a fact indeed is. Ron McNair was one of my church members, really.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 27:11

Yeah.

Maurio Dawson 27:12

That affected us very deeply because we had to go back to church right after and he had just been there just a few weeks before, so it was yeah. I remember that very vividly.

Carmen Lezeth 27:27

Oh man, I'm so sorry. Yeah, so I remember that very vividly.

Maurio Dawson 27:29

Oh man, I I'm so sorry yeah, so I remember that, yeah, that's, that's it it's kind of like when people yeah, anyways, I don't want to get dark, but no, no, no no, no, I was gonna talk about 9-11.

Carmen Lezeth 27:40

It's the same thing like, oh, this is yeah, yeah, hold on a second this is to be less anxiety-driven for me today. Okay, rick, that was a mistake. Now I can't get back on. We'll keep trying.

Rick Costa 27:54

Oh no.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 27:58

How about MTV, ooh MTV, when they used to play music.

Maurio Dawson 28:03

Yeah, we had to all run to our televisions and wait for Michael Jackson's Thriller to come out Before DVR. You had to run in front of the TV and wait for the music video or for the song to come out.

Alma Dawson 28:20

Using a dial telephone and the Apollo Moon landing, that's what Lenny said oh wow, the Apollo Moon landing.

Maurio Dawson 28:27

Wait, the Apollo Moon landing. That's what Lenny said. Oh wow, the Apollo moon landing.

Carmen Lezeth 28:29

Wait the Apollo moon landing.

Maurio Dawson 28:31

I wasn't around.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 28:33

Wasn't that 69?

Joy Gouge 28:35

Yeah that's boomer land. That's what I'm thinking was 69, I think.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 28:40

I thought that was 69, so that would be Gen X wouldn't it?

Carmen Lezeth 28:42

Oh, let me see. Maybe she's right, maybe I'm in denial, okay, when was the.

Alma Dawson 28:47

I wasn't there yet using that, but the rotary phone remember I remember rotary phone.

Maurio Dawson 28:54

Yeah, I do, oh, yeah it was 1969 oh, that's, but you, I mean we were like well I wasn't born yet I wasn't here, sorry.

Joy Gouge 29:06

Neither was.

Carmen Lezeth 29:06

I I can't Okay so yes, the Apollo moon landing was during the Gen X period. But if you were born in 1965, you were like two, two, you were like four, four.

Alma Dawson 29:22

Yeah, yeah, hey.

Carmen Lezeth 29:27

I only do accounting for a living. All right, stop it.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 29:30

I'm just kidding it's okay, I love how we all just got quiet too like wait a minute.

Alma Dawson 29:38

That's not right oh my god, I'm so tired when she said the telephone, yeah, the pleasure of actually hanging up.

Maurio Dawson 29:51

On someone, yep.

Alma Dawson 29:52

Kiss.

Maurio Dawson 29:53

Oh, it hurt Slamming the phone or just taking the phone off the hook.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 29:58

Yep, that's how you block them, oh that was a block back then.

Carmen Lezeth 30:04

True, but how about when you called somebody and you heard the beep and they were busy? Oh, I hated that, especially when it was a busy signal.

Maurio Dawson 30:13

Oh, the call waiting. But didn't you love when Star 69 came into play.

Alma Dawson 30:19

Oh, Star 69. Yeah.

Carmen Lezeth 30:23

So weird. Wow, okay, we're Gen X.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 30:25

We're.

Carmen Lezeth 30:25

Gen X. Yeah, and that cord was so long Remember.

Joy Gouge 30:32

It would get all twisted.

Maurio Dawson 30:34

Yes.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 30:34

Yeah, oh, my God, melanie, yes.

Carmen Lezeth 30:38

That's right. Waiting by the radio for your favorite song to record it with your cassette.

Maurio Dawson 30:43

Yes, yeah, yeah, I was creating a playlist before there was creating a playlist before there was creating a playlist, having your boombox with you, carrying it around. If you liked a girl, you sit up there all night long recording songs on the radio and then you go to school and say I made this for you.

Carmen Lezeth 31:04

And there was like songs by Journey would be on there too.

Joy Gouge 31:07

Oh, I still love Journey for you and there was like songs by Journey would be on there too. I still love.

Carmen Lezeth 31:11

Journey, I still love Journey. He's one of the best singers on the planet. He really is.

Alma Dawson 31:16

Oh, Steve Perry is awesome, yeah. And my first CD was Whitney Houston.

Carmen Lezeth 31:21

Yes, rick is missing it because you know he loved him some Whitney. Oh, I know He'll preface it first by saying but I really only listen to religious music.

Maurio Dawson 31:31

And then, he'll say If I'm going to listen to secular, it's got to be.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 31:36

Whitney.

Carmen Lezeth 31:38

Whitney. Oh, I want to dance with somebody. Remember when that video came out?

Maurio Dawson 31:43

Her first video. I remember standing on the love video.

Carmen Lezeth 31:47

Oh, I can't sing that, but I can sing it, but it'd be bad.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 31:56

You sing it very well in your car huh.

Joy Gouge 32:00

What.

Maurio Dawson 32:00

Would it be bad or would it be bad adjacent?

Carmen Lezeth 32:04

No, it'd be bad. Adjacent I can sing, but my voice does not sound good. That's how I say it. I'm not off key, I just don't have a beautiful voice. You know what I mean. I hear a key very well, okay. Okay, I just did it. It was bad.

Maurio Dawson 32:28

We just moved on through. We need to go karaoke and get a private room so you can just sing your heart out, I do karaoke.

Carmen Lezeth 32:34

That's the whole point of karaoke. The one thing I can't stand when you do go do karaoke is when there's a professional singer in the room.

Alma Dawson 32:42

Oh my gosh.

Carmen Lezeth 32:44

The whole point is to sound horrible.

Alma Dawson 32:47

That is the whole point. And to have fun.

Carmen Lezeth 32:51

Why do I think Alma sounds good when she's singing?

Maurio Dawson 32:53

She's embracing.

Carmen Lezeth 32:55

I can see it, we said Whitney Houston, and you came back. How you doing. Did you miss us?

Rick Costa 33:04

I did.

Alma Dawson 33:06

You missed my whole. My first CD was Whitney Houston. That's why you came back out.

Rick Costa 33:13

That's the one that had oh, I want to dance with somebody.

Carmen Lezeth 33:20

No, it's not no, here we go.

Maurio Dawson 33:22

No, it's not, it's marriage.

Alma Dawson 33:26

My first Whitney CD.

Maurio Dawson 33:27

I didn't say her my first Whitney scene.

Alma Dawson 33:28

No, I didn't say her. He said my first he said her ma'am.

Carmen Lezeth 33:34

I said mine I don't know what he said. This is love. This is a real relationship.

Alma Dawson 33:39

He asked me that has that song. Yes, that was behind the scenes. Behind the scenes.

Carmen Lezeth 33:49

Joy. You can't see, but Mario is jumping all up in front of Alma, making it like she ain't even around on the show.

Joy Gouge 33:55

Okay.

Maurio Dawson 33:58

Not at all.

Carmen Lezeth 33:58

It's him and the camera, because if we had to choose, Choose your words wise, choose your words.

Rick Costa 34:11

I believe I said, was that the one with?

Carmen Lezeth 34:15

and then I said the song yeah, why are you even getting into?

Alma Dawson 34:24

it Are you crazy? You stink too.

Joy Gouge 34:27

Rick just chose sides.

Carmen Lezeth 34:29

Rick chose violence.

Maurio Dawson 34:31

Rick chose violence Anyway we all look good on TikTok, so there, how about?

Carmen Lezeth 34:38

that. Oh, that's cool. Oh, we're on TikTok, did I put?

Maurio Dawson 34:41

us on TikTok.

Carmen Lezeth 34:43

Whose is it though? Is that yours or my TikTok?

Maurio Dawson 34:45

That's mine. No, it's yours. I'm on your page.

Carmen Lezeth 34:48

I try not to put it on TikTok, because we're never there and nobody looks at it. Anyways, I'm looking at it. So there you know what I have to do. Some native lives on there. So I'm going to do them with Bruno, and then Bruno might come on the show. Oh, you guys don't know who Bruno is.

Maurio Dawson 35:10

Bruno's the gentleman we don't talk about Bruno. I'm sure he's never heard that, ever, but he's the gentleman. He's the gentleman from, uh, bruno, from Abbott Elementary, right? That's right, yeah, yeah how do you know?

Carmen Lezeth 35:17

oh, you know, bruno Amato hey Bruno hey, bruno, so he's um, he just joined uh TikTok the other day and we found each other. But I've known him for a long time and the thing that's really cool about Bruno's story is that he, you know, recently started acting, and I don't mean recently, it's been I think like 20 years or something, but he was an iron worker.

Alma Dawson 35:43

Nice, and he just made and he's in.

Carmen Lezeth 35:46

he was in the military and stuff and then he was an iron worker. Joy, you getting a cold god bless you.

Joy Gouge 35:52

Oh, I've got. I've got like some draining stuff going right now, so it's all a desk, it's like flying around and okay just making sure.

Carmen Lezeth 36:02

Um, okay, I want to hear what they talking about. What's going on?

Maurio Dawson 36:06

I was telling I was trying to give her character reference on abbott elementary because that's our favorite show, and so I was telling her who bruno was.

Alma Dawson 36:12

Oh, okay, great yeah, elementary is like they have a camera at my school right I'm like oh, oh, that's so cool.

Carmen Lezeth 36:21

He's been on a lot of shows and stuff and he's a character actor and he's a good guy and um. So I asked him if he'd be on the show and he said he would, maybe like in April or something. So, um, but yeah, but we're going to do a live on Tik TOK so that we can both figure it out. But I made a post today. I was laughing because I listened to Gary V. Do you guys know who Gary V is? Yeah, he's a motivational anyway, he's a cool guy, but anyways, but he said something that was so true. He goes.

Carmen Lezeth 36:49

The reason why you're not getting a lot of views or a lot of followers isn't because of the algorithm, it's because your content sucks. He goes. And you can keep blaming the algorithm all you want, but all the algorithm is is customers like they don't want to watch your stuff, so they pass, they move on. He's like so, fix your content. So I did a tiktok. I'm like I totally agree, and I realize now my content sucks, so I'm gonna do better. You know, bruno chimed in about that, but it was just, it's just so funny and um, but he's right, you got to change it up, you got to fix it and just I'm not consistent, so I don't do stuff consistent. I'll do it for like three weeks. I'll post like two, three times a day and then I'll be tired and exhausted and not do it, and I know that's part of it. You have to do it consistently.

Maurio Dawson 37:39

It's a job.

Carmen Lezeth 37:40

It's a job. It's a job yeah.

Joy Gouge 37:52

Now with TikTok, because I've not been on there a long time, because it was a little less accessible. So do you use like?

Carmen Lezeth 37:57

hashtags and stuff too. There's a big debate right now about whether or not hashtags matter anymore. I think hashtags still matter because it helps people find content. So if I go into the search engine and I say you know carnival or whatever, let's say I'm looking. I mean than anybody who actually put that as a hashtag.

Carmen Lezeth 38:19

But what they're also saying is that, especially because AI has been introduced in every level, especially also on TikTok, is they know what you're talking about. You know what I mean. Like they know they're grabbing the words as well too. So I don't think it hurts, but I don't think it's the answer to why you know people are or are not using or watching your content. Now, I did a test last week and I or or two weeks ago test last week and I, or or two weeks ago, whenever we had Nilou on, I did a test before she came on, I did an ad for her um show and then I did like two other posts and I paid for it. So I paid like I think it was like $12 for all three of them just to go to see how many views that we get, and I did get over a thousand views on each video and it was only $12.

Carmen Lezeth 39:09

Yeah, but I don't want to have to pay for that every time. You know what I mean. Like you want to. I mean, if I'm making money from there, then I'll invest money in there, you know so.

Maurio Dawson 39:18

But do you? But do you think that by you paying for that, except for the accessibility, it put more eyes on you, which in turn can create more eyes on you later on?

Carmen Lezeth 39:35

There is no doubt that that is absolutely true. That's on any platform. I did the same thing on LinkedIn. I did the same thing. Well, I've never put money on Facebook and Instagram, but there was a third one I did, I forget. But yeah, there's no doubt advertising in anything works right. The problem is is for me, I don't have that kind of money to do that for every post, even though it's only like, even if I spend $12 a day. That's a lot of money, you know what I mean yeah it is, it adds up, yeah.

Carmen Lezeth 40:01

So it's kind of a catch 22. I think if I go live and I do some native content and this is for everyone, by the way, I'm not just saying you know me or whatever, but go live on TikTok you'll get more eyes. I mean, in the beginning you won't, you'll get like two or three people or something or whatever. But then you know, eventually, if you keep doing your content, you'll get more and more views and I think it gets you, if you're a business account, much more. So I was a business account for a while and I went back to individual. I tested it. I got many more views if I did business and you also get all of the stats. You get so much more stuff. If you're a business account, what you don't get is the possibility to be in the creator fund, which is what everybody wants right.

Carmen Lezeth 40:45

So if you have a business account, it really is all about ads and you know what I mean and like you're selling something or whatever and you can do that. You can do affiliate, affiliate marketing. How do you say it? Affiliate, yeah, thank you.

Carmen Lezeth 40:59

Whatever marketing and I don't, I don't want to sell stuffage, you know I'm not opposed to it, but like that's not my jam either you know, so I've been testing it out, but I think the most important thing is native content, not using third-party platforms, making your content on there and also being consistent on a regular basis. That's what I've seen. That's how I've gotten all my followers, you know, and I don't have that many followers I have like 7 462 but I love them all.

Rick Costa 41:31

That's a lot that's a lot I think I have two, but it's actually.

Carmen Lezeth 41:38

I mean, I mean I didn't mean to say it that way. I mean not in comparison to everyone else on that platform that has hundreds of thousands of yeah or millions, yeah, yeah well.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 41:47

Millions, yeah, yeah Well millions, please.

Carmen Lezeth 41:50

And Bruno's been on there for a minute and already has. You know, he's been on there, I think, two weeks and he's almost at like I don't know, 3000, 4,000 followers. But he also comes to the table because he's on a TV show. You know what I mean, and so you know people who know Abbott, Elementary or whatever are. You know what I mean. And plus, anyway, you bring what you bring to the table, also with your celebrity or whatever, if you have that, you know so. But yeah, it'd be cool too when we go live, If you guys want to come live with us, that'd be fun, you know. But we're not going to do it here, we're going to do it on TikTok. So, native, you know, does that make sense?

Carmen Lezeth 42:25

Yeah, We'll let you know when you come, you know.

Maurio Dawson 42:28

I'm just so joking. Calm down, simmer down.

Maurio Dawson 42:31

Simmer down, simmer down. What do you?

Carmen Lezeth 42:34

mean simmer down. He's so funny because he's saying simmer down. And now I'm getting more upset. What, what, what.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 42:42

So don't you know? You're not supposed to tell a woman to relax or sit her down, and yet I still do.

TikTok Strategies and Content Creation

Carmen Lezeth 42:52

Mara's a pain in the ass, mara are you? Okay, mara, how you doing girl 30 years, she's just fine she's blinking she's just fine. Rick, you're on TikTok. How are you doing with gaining followers? How are you feeling about it? You've been playing a lot with TikTok as well lately.

Rick Costa 43:23

No, I'm just doing my regular broadcast. I do daily on there too with Restream, that's all. I'm not really doing anything specific.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 43:31

You get more followers.

Rick Costa 43:35

It's about I was doing follow for follow for a long time and now it's about pretty much 50-50.

Carmen Lezeth 43:41

What's follow for follower? What's that mean?

Rick Costa 43:44

Follow me, I follow you.

Carmen Lezeth 43:46

Oh yeah, I don't do that.

Joy Gouge 43:49

Oh. I've got big trouble doing that why?

Carmen Lezeth 43:55

Why did you get in trouble, Joy?

Joy Gouge 43:57

Because I followed some people back, because when I first started in social media and like broadcasting, I was following people that I should not have been following. I mean it was bad and it was like okay, I've got to go through, I can't follow everybody that follows me. Because it was just like oh yeah let's know.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 44:21

Let's know.

Joy Gouge 44:24

What does oh mean? Okay, that's a perfect example, because this is when I first got on Periscope. I was following people you know and their stuff would come up and I was like, okay, you know innocent name, so I click on it. The guy's naked in a bathtub.

Carmen Lezeth 44:48

Oh, all, right now. Spicy joys in the house.

Rick Costa 44:54

Periscope had it all. They had people doing a nasty film in it. I'm like, no, no, wait, wait. So Periscope was it all. They had people doing a nasty film in it. I'm like, no, no, wait, wait so.

Carmen Lezeth 45:00

Periscope was X-rated. You didn't tell me that, Rick.

Joy Gouge 45:06

Some of the stuff was really really bad. Oh, wow, yeah, wow yeah.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 45:11

Wait.

Carmen Lezeth 45:12

Periscope belonged to TikTok. I mean, yeah to Twitter, right To Twitter. Yeah, why would they allow that?

Rick Costa 45:19

Well, you have the opportunity to say please block this, and then they would eventually see it and block it. But towards the end, nobody was checking nothing.

Joy Gouge 45:26

Yeah, it was bad. It got really really bad. I know I had to clean up somebody's account and I saw some stuff I can't unsee.

Carmen Lezeth 45:44

That's the word.

Joy Gouge 45:47

It was a business account that I was handling at the time and it was like you can't unsee. Wow, it's like anybody can go on there and see who you are following. I said, this is a business account. If you want to do that stuff, go make you another account, but don't do it on your business account.

Carmen Lezeth 46:11

I'm always shook at how secure people are with their ugly bodies. Some people really should know. But you know I'm always impressed by that because I've seen some things I cannot unsee too.

Maurio Dawson 46:25

You know what I mean. Confidence is key.

Carmen Lezeth 46:28

Yes, confidence is very key.

Maurio Dawson 46:32

Just saying not to judge. You said they put the ugly in ugly.

Carmen Lezeth 46:39

I did not know that there was x-rayed stuff on Periscope. I mean. I heard a lot of bad stuff about Periscope, but I never heard that it had all that. Wow, I was never part of that whole thing.

Joy Gouge 46:51

And there was a lot of good stuff on there. You know it really was, but you know I mean mean it had its dark side too. Yeah, I mean, I was on. I was on a on like the twitter um shoot, what was it called it was and I was only on this group for six months because I couldn't handle it. We were tasked to go and find child porn. That was bad, it was really bad. That was on Twitter, it was on Periscope, but it was through Twitter.

Carmen Lezeth 47:33

Okay, we need to bring this back to Joy. I don't mean the person. I don't want to talk about this stuff no more.

Joy Gouge 47:42

Yeah, it's that that goes into like the dark side.

Alma Dawson 47:45

Let's go back to the light yeah okay, I have another one about gen x, who you started off with 8 Tracks and you ended up with CDs.

Maurio Dawson 48:03

That's all, gen X.

Alma Dawson 48:04

That's all, gen X.

Maurio Dawson 48:07

And a good old 45.

Carmen Lezeth 48:10

Oh yeah.

Maurio Dawson 48:11

Do you?

Carmen Lezeth 48:12

guys remember Pagers.

Maurio Dawson 48:14

Yes.

Carmen Lezeth 48:16

Oh my God, that was so dorky. That really was a dorky time, it really was.

Maurio Dawson 48:21

It was a pager, so you can get somebody can page you so you can go run to the pay phone Exactly To call them back. Yes, Like it was an emergency and don't beat me 911.

Rick Costa 48:34

Right, I beat you 911.

Maurio Dawson 48:38

Why I beat you 9-1-1 why you didn't answer me right away, because I had to find a payphone the only people that were cool with pagers were surgeons and doctors.

Carmen Lezeth 48:45

Like those are the only people back then that I felt were cool with pagers, but that was or you would go.

Maurio Dawson 48:50

You would go to a payphone and page them with that number so they could call you on the payphone you ever done that or you were cool if you had somebody who could give you on the payphone you ever done that or you were cool if you had somebody who could give you an unlocked block cell phone. Remember the big block, the big brick cell phone.

Joy Gouge 49:07

The big phone. Yes, it weighed like five pounds.

Maurio Dawson 49:10

Yes.

Carmen Lezeth 49:13

How about calling Collect? How many times you guys called Collect? Oh my gosh, they wouldn't accept the call.

Maurio Dawson 49:22

I got one.

Rick Costa 49:25

What about don't call me until after nine o'clock on the cell phone, because that's ten minutes of free.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 49:30

Yes.

Maurio Dawson 49:33

Or don't call me long distance after a certain time. Oh my gosh.

Joy Gouge 49:40

Party lines. Do you remember party lines?

Carmen Lezeth 49:42

party lines. You see how she's always going towards the porn kind of. You know what I mean. I said party lines. That's what I heard. I hear a lot of relationship stuff yo Joy, I don't receive that.

Maurio Dawson 49:58

I don't believe that's where you were going.

Joy Gouge 50:01

No, it was not. It was like four people. A party line was like four people.

Maurio Dawson 50:07

In your neighborhood was like on one phone line that if your neighbor was talking you had to wait till they were finished, but you know what that was more of a southern thing, because my grandmother had that same thing and if they were on, somebody was on the phone my aunt, who was in a different house on the same phone line, or my great grandfather, they can all pick up the phone and listen to your conversation. So you better be clear for who you're talking about exactly, yeah. Yeah, I remember that. That's definitely a sudden thing.

Carmen Lezeth 50:44

When you said party line, I remember there were calls. You could make phone calls to like a 909 number.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 50:50

You know what.

Carmen Lezeth 50:51

I'm talking about, yeah, party lines Like they were, like you know, for the one 900.

Maurio Dawson 50:56

That's right, Get your mind out.

Carmen Lezeth 50:57

They were like you know for, oh, you're talking about the 1-900s.

Alma Dawson 50:59

That's right. Get your mind out of the gutter, that's where Carmen was.

Maurio Dawson 51:05

Carmen was in the gutter. She was trying to take you there.

Joy Gouge 51:09

That was an East Coast thing, apparently, carmen Carmen she just went all the way back to the deep end. No way, wait, wait.

Carmen Lezeth 51:25

I'm going to mute you all and say my piece. But it's true, right, cynthia? When she said that, that was the first thing I thought of. I'm like what's wrong calling a 900 number? No, it's a 900 number. No, it wasn't 900 numbers.

Rick Costa 51:39

No, that is so funny For some people that did give them joy.

Carmen Lezeth 51:48

Thank you, Pastor Rick.

Maurio Dawson 51:53

He heard it in confession.

Carmen Lezeth 51:56

Oh my God, that was a good laugh that was good.

Rick Costa 52:03

Anybody bring up AOL accounts Well.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 52:05

Mario still has one, mario still has it.

Carmen Lezeth 52:09

You just emailed me at AOL I know why didn't you hold on to it. It's kind of cool now. It's kind of vintage cool.

Maurio Dawson 52:16

Because I don't feel like changing my email. It's just easy. I can't find mine.

Carmen Lezeth 52:21

I can't get it back. I wish I would. I wouldn't use it, but I used to have.

Maurio Dawson 52:25

I've never stopped using it. I have three email addresses, but everybody still has my AOL account, so that's what I keep. I bet you use.

Rick Costa 52:35

MySpace too, the pastor.

Carmen Lezeth 52:36

but you know, I bet you use MySpace too.

Maurio Dawson 52:38

The pastor is dissing you. Right there, you guys would be in my 35 right now how about that?

Carmen Lezeth 52:45

I liked MySpace. I liked MySpace.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 52:48

You remember, you could design it put some music in the background yeah, I almost said she didn't like MySpace you like Facebook better?

Alma Dawson 52:57

I think I like when Facebook came around.

Weekend Plans and Show Wrap-up

Maurio Dawson 52:59

I did like Facebook better.

Alma Dawson 53:01

The beginnings of it.

Carmen Lezeth 53:03

Yeah, now it's what it is. All the politics around. It is just painful. Alma, what are you doing this weekend?

Alma Dawson 53:13

I have a field trip tomorrow with the kiddos on a Saturday. Yes, she can't come home to me after I have a field trip tomorrow with the kiddos On a Saturday.

Maurio Dawson 53:20

Yes, I told her she can't come home to me after.

Carmen Lezeth 53:23

Where are you going, though, can we?

Alma Dawson 53:25

ask where you're going. We're taking the kids to Medieval Times, oh fun. Usually he'll chaperone too, because he's a volunteer. He'll chaperone, but he can't go tomorrow because he is deathly allergic to horses.

Maurio Dawson 53:41

Allergic to horses, oh yeah, so I have to go by myself.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 53:47

Yeah.

Carmen Lezeth 53:48

Oh well, have fun. That sounds like a lot of fun.

Alma Dawson 53:52

You know a lot of them. They've never been, so it's a good time.

Carmen Lezeth 53:56

No, it's a great time, Rick. What you doing? Any big plans this weekend? You watching 9-1-1?.

Rick Costa 54:03

Hopefully catching up on a lot of sleep.

Carmen Lezeth 54:04

And this Is Us.

Rick Costa 54:07

And perhaps this Is Us. This Is Us intrigues me a little bit more than 9-1-1, to be honest, I promise you, rick, I think you're going to like it.

Maurio Dawson 54:16

I think you're going to love it, actually, because you can relate to a lot of the stuff that's going to happen throughout the stories, from the beginning towards the end. You'll really relate. I think you're going to love it.

Alma Dawson 54:28

Yeah, it's a great, great show.

Carmen Lezeth 54:31

Okay, so maybe this is us one or two episodes. Once you watch one episode, you're going to watch it all You're going to go, maybe you won't. I don't know because you're interesting, that's all I'm saying. Any other plans, rick?

Rick Costa 54:43

Anything else. If the other fellas are ready, maybe do another X-Men review.

Carmen Lezeth 54:50

Oh yeah, you guys do all the reviews now of the cartoon.

Rick Costa 54:53

I think Brian should be back tomorrow, I think.

Carmen Lezeth 54:58

And you guys are going to be on YouTube on your channel at rickcostacom.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 55:01

That's where we can find you right, what do you mean?

Carmen Lezeth 55:04

not necessarily that's where they can find you.

Rick Costa 55:08

You can find the YouTube link there.

Carmen Lezeth 55:09

yeah, Dude, I'm trying to help promote you. Tomorrow you can say what are you doing? So tomorrow night you think you're going to be on your show. What's the name?

Rick Costa 55:18

oh, I don't know. It depends on their availability okay, well, check it out.

Carmen Lezeth 55:22

Well, I hope you guys do it, because I know you guys have a lot of fun. I personally think it's boring and I went on there and said hi, and then I was like it's boring it's a whole tree, he knows.

Alma Dawson 55:40

I say it with love, shady, he wants me to lie to you. It's inside your head.

Carmen Lezeth 55:46

It's not interesting, because I don't watch the show, I don't watch the cartoon they watch, and I'm saying cartoon on purpose just to piss you off. Animation.

Rick Costa 55:58

Who are.

Carmen Lezeth 55:59

I am being okay. I'm sorry, rick. I apologize.

Rick Costa 56:02

Wait, wait, wait. Cartoon to piss who off you.

Carmen Lezeth 56:04

Why would?

Rick Costa 56:06

that piss me off. He's going to say animation I don't say that.

Carmen Lezeth 56:11

Anyways, I am trying to promote his show and he's like I don't know, I don't know.

Rick Costa 56:17

Rick Costa. Rick Costa on YouTube. Look me up that way.

Carmen Lezeth 56:21

Rick Costa on YouTube.

Rick Costa 56:23

At the at sign. Go to search at Rick Costa See.

Carmen Lezeth 56:29

Joy what you doing this weekend? As little as possible.

Maurio Dawson 56:35

Oh that's right. Good answer, good answer, good answer.

Carmen Lezeth 56:40

You're going to be able to rest and stuff.

Joy Gouge 56:43

I'm hoping I'm not going to be cleaned up after a storm.

Maurio Dawson 56:46

No we're not going to speak to that.

Carmen Lezeth 56:48

No, it's going to be fine, it's going to pass on by.

Maurio Dawson 56:51

It's not going to hurt nobody, it's not going to do nothing.

Carmen Lezeth 56:54

It's just going to be like a little darkness.

Maurio Dawson 56:56

Drizzle, a little drizzle.

Carmen Lezeth 56:57

It's not going to do nothing, it's just going to be like a little darkness and it's going to drizzle, which here would be mud slides, I guess well, let me tell you this one quick thing.

Joy Gouge 57:07

I was going to go outside and fix the cover on my grill and I walk out there like where my grill normally sits, and it's like where's my grill? And I was like where is it? And then I like take a step forward. It's like my grill is off my patio laying on it oh wow, no that wind, that wind is whipping all right

Carmen Lezeth 57:31

yeah, okay, yeah, but it's not. But it's just so you left it. You didn't mess with it, you just left it. Oh no, I got it at my brother-in-law.

Joy Gouge 57:40

He helped me get it at the storage building.

Carmen Lezeth 57:42

Oh, okay, you put it somewhere.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 57:45

Make sure your phones are charged and everything. You got a little emergency bag, just in case.

Carmen Lezeth 57:51

Oh yeah, cynthia, what you doing this weekend? Staying in.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 57:56

Watching, just like us. No, this is us, cynthia. What you doing this weekend? Staying in watching, just Like Us? No.

Carmen Lezeth 58:01

This Is.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 58:01

Us oh.

Carmen Lezeth 58:02

This Is Us.

Maurio Dawson 58:03

She's going to be watching some show, not just our kids' little bar show. They not like us.

Cynthia Ruiz Lopez 58:08

She's like if I just stay in, because the St Patrick's Day parade is on Sunday and it's right behind my house we have a marathon here in.

Carmen Lezeth 58:19

LA on Sunday too.

Maurio Dawson 58:20

Yeah, we sure do.

Carmen Lezeth 58:22

Yeah, okay, so you're going to be chilling at home. Oh, we're going to the museum.

Alma Dawson 58:26

Sure Sunday is. Spring Museum Day.

Maurio Dawson 58:28

Yeah. Yeah, it is so we're going to the Academy Museum for the first time.

Carmen Lezeth 58:35

Oh, it's beautiful.

Maurio Dawson 58:39

Oh, it's beautiful. Oh my God, I love it there, yeah, my daughter, she's gone multiple times. We haven't gone yet. We've been to every museum, except for that one.

Carmen Lezeth 58:42

Everyone, thank you so much for hanging out. I appreciate you all and, yeah, remember, at the end of the day, it really is all about the joy. Bye everyone, good night, bye, bye.

Maurio Dawson 58:54

Joy.

Carmen Lezeth 58:57

Thanks for stopping by. All About the Joy Be better and stay beautiful. Folks have a sweet day.