Carl Lentz
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537 appearances
7 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
Carl Lentz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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belong to talk because we had a bigger priority which was to save our family.
More accurately, for me to save my own life and then work to try to save our marriage and then work to try to save our family. And very difficult because my instinct is to go to war immediately. Save my own life?
give context, give clarity. And the way all that went down, we had to make a choice right up front, which way are we going to handle this chapter? And for me and you, I think the best advice that we got was you cannot, for me, you cannot save face. and save your life at the same time. I remember hearing that going, well, that doesn't work for me because I want to salvage my reputation.
I want to tell people what happened. I want to do all this stuff.
Yeah, that's it.
Cartoon Mickey, what was his name?
Cowboy Ken, there you go. And I need to get in a place of healing because I am in deep, deep trouble. And I really chose... That's an understatement. Healing... over reputation protection. It's very difficult. It wasn't easy.
God, the better it got. It didn't mean the voices ever went away or you could see things out of the corner of your eye or hear stories or see... Things being spun. But once you make that choice to go, I don't really care. At the end of the day, there's nothing to salvage here. People are going to think what they're going to think. All I care about is trying to save what matters.
All I care about is trying to save this family.
I was in really, really, really deep, deep trouble. And I remember immediately thinking that this is going to be a different road. The night that all that stuff went down, or the day after at least, we were staying at a friend's house because we had sold our house. In New York. In New York. New Jersey.
Yeah, and staying in a friend's house in Brooklyn, and they graciously let us use their apartment. And when all this stuff went down, we were obviously just shell-shocked, reeling. Why were you shell-shocked? You knew the whole time.
Yeah. It makes me feel weird to even talk about it. But then I got a call from the person who lives there. And he said, basically, I want, you know, somebody that worked for him. He said, you guys have to leave because the owner of this place does not want to be associated with you.
Oh, damn.
Like, where does he want us to go? He's like, doesn't care. He wants you out within a couple of hours. And we are, all of our stuff's here. Our kids are here. There's, you know, some photographers and reporters around taking photos. And all this stuff is flying around. And our kids are like, what's going on? I remember we had to take everything we have in this apartment. Daddy, did you cheat?
Late at night. In Brooklyn. And then we got a U-Haul and a U-Haul van. And we're just throwing stuff in there. And our kids still don't really know what's going on. And we're just, you know, I'm in like a weird comatose trance mode of just don't even know where I am. You're trying to survive.
And me and Roman were in the U-Haul and we just started driving.
Oh, my God.
We started driving. I remember getting on the highway, pulling out of, you know, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And I just remember thinking, like, what are we doing? Where are we going to go? And Roman's next to me. He's my little guy still. He's, Dad, what are we doing? Why don't we have anywhere to go? And I couldn't get a hold of anybody at that point.
I don't know. You know, you can rent a home overnight almost. A lot of people were kind of going to, Handle this however way they're going to handle it. And we finally found our friend, Kim Clark, who said, come and stay with us in Connecticut. And our first couple nights, we really felt like, man, the whole world has ended. You know, we have been. It was COVID as well. It's COVID. It's so weird.
We have no idea which way is up right now. We're in trouble. And that was one of those nights I'll never forget. I'll never forget sitting in that car. Yeah, I bet.
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