I GOT GURNIED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM

In tonight’s episode of “Crystal’s Nightcap”, we have another a TV appearance, we hit the Top of Rockefeller Center,  let’s check out Olivia Rodrigo’s Tour Bus, I enter Nicki Minaj’s #GagCity, I also enter the emergency room on a gurney, and MORE!

Episode Transcript

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Hello to your Grandpa's a gurney.It's a Crystal Real Saz back with another
episode of a Crystal's Nightcap. Tonightwe have another TV appearance. We at
the top of Rockefeller Center. Let'scheck out Olivia ol Didigo's tour bus.
I enter Nicki Minaj's Gag City andit also entered the emergency room on a
gurney, sit bag. Relax,It's Crystal's Nightcap. You are so lucky

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that I'm here because no cap,no exaggeration. I almost died this weekend.
I had to be gurnied to thehospital after Gag City, and I'm
telling you all about that and moreand tonight's episode. Thank you for being
here. Please subscribe if you haven'tshared the pod with your friends. If
you're really liking it, I'm like, oh am, I good, I'm

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having another episode. Okay now.I'm live here in New York City Monday
through Friday two to six pm onZ one hundred. I'm on every top
forty station pretty much across the country. On the New Hitlist eleven to midnight.
I'm on tons of stations on theweekends. To check which ones you
know where to find me on everything. I'm at Lace Carrystal Rosas. Now
let's get into all of it,right MEO, sit back, relax,

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It's Crystal's Nightcap. Last week's episodewas so much fun. I spent the
whole week with my boyfriend Zaddie.I had some funny Facebook marketplace interactions with
his sister, talking plants with hisgrandma. I went to see Shakira.
I went to the Lounge r inGrandego's too all the time here in the
city, And if you haven't alreadylistened to last week's episode, you should

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go back and listen. It's areally great one where I also go to
P eleven third grade career day herein New York City. But after I
left off with you, I wasinvited to one of the most amazing nights
ever, the Nicki Minaj Concert.Some drama that had to do with me
at this concert because there's also ahuge charity benefit gala that I was invited

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to through work, and this isa huge deal. It's like networking with
who's who in my industry, allthe way from the top executives all the
way to music managers and record labelreps and my own peers. I didn't
go last year because Zaddi was intown, and it was like the first

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time I was invited in Zadi wasthere, and I couldn't really ask for
a plus one, and I wasn'tgonna just leave Zaddy to go to a
fancy gala, gala, gala,whatever. So I was like, Okay,
you know, I'll go next year. And here we are next year,
and on the same night of thegala, I had floor tickets to
see nick Minaj. Thank you tomy best nie David. David is just

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my life, my love, mylight here in New York City. He
literally, I've said it before,David is my go to. He is
probably the closest thing to have towhat I have family here in New York.
If something happens, if something's goingdown. I have called David on
for a multitude of situations, bawling, crying, asking if he can help

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me. And David is always thatone. So David invited me to go
see Nicki Minaj floor seats at Barclays. My job had tickets for me to
see at MSG, but it wasgoing to be nosebleeds and so I was
like, I'm trying to really seeNiki. I'm trying to have her foot
gag me in gag City. Ifyou don't know what gag City is,

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it's just part of her tour.Like wherever Nikki is on tour, that
is gag City, And this pastweek gag City was in Brooklyn. I
love Nicki Minaj. If you've listenedto The Nightcap from day one, you
know that I've had a very tumultuousrelationship with Nicki Minaj. At the end
of the day, she wrote andrecorded your Love one of my favorite songs

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on the planet, and I cannever hate her because of that, Like
I am a very kind of thatperson, whereas like if you make one
piece of art that I have I'mvery obsessed with, there is just no
way that I can actually hate youforever. But being a Nikki fan,
being a barb, it's extremely difficultbecause she says things, it does things
where we're just like, what isgoing on. I can't even defend her

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sometimes I'm embarrassed sometimes, but thatis just the life of being a barb.
I don't agree with everything she said, I don't agree with everything she's
done, but I do love herart. I love her music. I
love her last album being Friday too, obsessed, obsessed, obsessed like me
and Zaddi were just blasting that overand over and over again. And so

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the fact that Gasity was pulling upand I have the opportunities to see floor
seats, Yeah, it's it's thecrystal in me that's gonna pick floor seats
to Nicki Minaj over a fancy SchmanciWork Network charity galas. So that's what
we had to do. And ofcourse I had to come. I'm correct.
I had this like pink spiderweb dazzledjumpsuit that I got that was like

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crazy expensive, and what's expensive I'veever paid for sweats? But I'm like
whatever, I'm I'm gonna wear thisand it's everything I got all dressed up.
Me and David took our little bootiesto the train. We met some
other barbs there, so we gotsome content on the train. We're having
so much fun. We get tothe show and merch is like sixty dollars
for a dank t shirt. ButI'm in gag city and I really want

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to remember the fact that I'm mygag city, So yes, I'm gonna
get merch. I pull up tothe seats and we're on the floor,
honey, we're we're last row,but we're on the floor. I mean,
how are you hating from outside theclub? You can't even get in?
Uh yeah, So we are onthe last row of the floor seats,
and I would want it no otherway. I'm like, I'm kind
of debating, like do I wanta drink tonight? Do I not want

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to drink tonight? I have aearly day tomorrow morning. Do I want
to drink? The answer is maybe. So I get two drinks for me,
I get one drink for David.David wanted to be responsible, and
I was fine with that, LikeI wasn't drunk, like to like beer
type situation. Seltzer's for me.I'm totally fine with that. And the

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alcoholism in me wanted to go harder. But the practicality of me and the
trethea now that I am venturing tiptoeingbig toe in the Senora life, I'm
just like, you know, Icould go out and just tap too drinks
and not guesh lost the floor seatsto see Nick Manaj as I can.
So she comes out and oh mygosh, she is just gorgeous. Her

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body is bodying and seeing her face. I've only seen nick Minaj another time,
which was at the VMAs a fewyears ago. I don't know if
it was it was last year,the year before. It was a year
before, because I didn't even getinto the VMA's last year, even though
they had me on the red carpet. Yeah, it was a year before
last year, so this must havebeen twenty twenty two. Yes, I

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did the red carpet, And thenwe did get tickets to see the VMAs
and Nikki was awarded the was itthe Vanguard a ward? Like? She
was honored, and so she dida short mashup of her hits and it
was so good though I was screaming, like I almost wanted to cry.
But then we could pull up toGag City and the first of all,

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I'm going to say a few syllables, And if you know what I mean
by these next few syllables, thenyou and I are forever going to be
besties in the cave. And ifyou don't know these next few syllables,
then you have some work to doon your on your Earth history. D

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j boof, d j boof,why do you know? Dj boof?
Who is dj boof b as aboy o oh as an octopus f as
in Frank dj boof doj Boof Towardsthe end of Wendy Williams show was Wendy

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Williams's dj oh like we think weirdlylike dated her or something weird went on
because after the whole Wendy Williams KevinHunter fiasco blew up. DJ Boof was
her what I'm gonna assume side sidepiece. I remealther were like posting photos

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like in a pool together. Butyes, please brush up on her Wendy
William's history aka your Earth history,because you need to know who DJ Boof
was. DJ Boof was opening forNicki and he was playing so many like
good Nikki songs and that's the thingis that Nicki has so many hits that
she can't even play all of them, and that's the hard thing. Nonetheless,

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the party was already cracking when DJBoof pulled up, and then after
it, Actually, I think DJBoof has me. I think he has
me blocked because I I was madat him for some reason. What did
he do? Did he slander her? He must have slandered her, because
there's no reason that I would havegone hard on DJ Boof to the point

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where he I think, oh no, he didn't block me. Okay,
good, he didn't block me.So we're cool. We're fine, no
problems. You know, he's doingbig things. The fact that he's opening
up for and then he's been hangingout with Wendy Wait lately too, so
eater shout out to DJ Boof.All right, thank you for not having
me blocked. But yeah, DJBoof had a crunkin. And then Nikki

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came out and she's just gorgeous.Her outfits are on point. The set
is ridiculous. I posted a realtoday. Go check it out on my
ig at la crystotal size. Theset was the coolest set I've think I've
ever seen. Like the graphics onthe set were so unique. I mean,
at one point, she's doing chunLee and you with a set,
it looks like you're in this madstreets of gangs to China. And then

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another one she's doing like one ofher like more Caribbean songs, the one
with Drake, so now like you'retotally transported into a Caribbean paradise. And
then it's just so crazy and cool. The way that they were able to
do that set design and her outfitsare just on point. And then she
played a lot of songs from hernew album. She played a lot of

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like sower songs that I kind ofnoticed, and like, towards the middle
end, Dish, I'm kind oflike, do I want to stay for
the whole thing? But I wantto stay for the whole thing. But
then I'm like, I need tostay for the whole thing because I want
to hear Anaconda. I want tohear super Freaker girl, Like that's all
I care about. So I stayfor the whole thing. Me and David
are living our best lives in NickiMinaj. She brings it and the fact

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that she was in Brooklyn, becauseBrooklyn is just like right next to Queens.
She's from Jamaica, Queens all Queens. People pulled up for her,
and she's had a lot of showshere. She's like a Madison Square Garden
show. She has a show andprudential shows all over. She's booked and
busy, and now officially it isthe highest grossing tour for any female rapper.
So she is making history as anartist and it is just amazing and

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I'm very, very thankful that Davidinvited me to go with him, because
that is just a hot and popingticket and I can't believe that I made
it. So I was able todo that. And then also I was
invited to do the morning TV showon Fox five here, our local channel
here in New York City, goodDay New York. The anchors are Rosanna

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Scatto, who is a New Yorklegend, and Kerr Metafie, who is
a sports legend and sports anchorer legend. And so they had me on because
I was promoting the twenty twenty fouriHeartRadio Music Awards. So usually I do
this with my partner here at work, but this time he couldn't make it,
so I was going to do itby myself, and I was kind
of nervous. I was like,oh my gosh, like this is kind

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of crazy. I haven't done oneof these by myself yet. But I
am totally prepared. I can totallydo this. I have my talking points,
let's get to it now. Usuallybecause my partner's there, he's really
good just like kind of like blabbingand carrying stuff, and sometimes I have
to figure out a way to likeeven get in when he's there. But
this time I assumed that the hostswere going to carry most of the conversations,

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but they actually leaned on me alot to carry most of it,
which was different because I've never hadthat happen before. I feel like I
was a little underprepared. I shouldhave had a little more filler things to
add, but all in all,I did a really good job. At
the end, they asked me whichartists that they think I should look out
for, and I said to BrittaCarpenter, who was on tour right now

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with Taylor Swift, or she wason tour, I think she ended the
opening up for her by the timeshe was on tour. And so then
one of the hosts was talking abouthow oh I heard her, didn't she
have a scandal with like a churchhere in Brooklyn, and like now the
pastor's in a huge trouble, Andso those kind of like spind it to
be kind of like negative about Sabrina, and I was trying to make it

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positive about her. So I kindof had to tussle a little bit back
and forth to kind of play devil'sadvocate and to kind of defend I just
I just know that I didn't reallywant to get into it because a lot
of people watch that show and itcan get back to like our bosses and
the record label people, and Ilove Sabrina, so I know that there

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is a little riff in that area. But I just tried my best to
kind of not get into that pitof like talking negatively. So I tried
my best to defend and I triedmy best to keep it lighthearted and focus
it more on the music. Butthat was pretty tough. That was pretty
tough because these anchors are so good, They're so seasoned, they're up to
day with everything, so it wasa little tough for me to try to

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maneuver that situation. But I feellike I handled it well and I handled
it with class, and I gotso much love for doing that segment.
It was a short segment. Ithink it was like seven minutes or something,
but I tried my best, andI know how I'm going to be
better next time. And I'm reallythankful that I have these opportunities. Back
home in San Francisco, I wasn'treally able to do TV, and I

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always really wanted to sow the factthat I am able to do it.
Every once in a while here inNew York. It is a dream.
So we did that, and thenOlivia Rodrigo is also in tour. She
has four sold out shows at MadisonSquare Garden. She has this Guts World
tour bus that fans could go andtake pictures at and get merged and things
like that. So I was ableto get early access for that so I

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can record socials and it was socute and her fans were lined up hours
ahead of time to try to bethe first ones on the tour bus.
And it's just such a vibe.Olivia Rodrigo is a force to be reckoned
with, and she's really sweet.I've got to work with her before and
interviews a few times, and she'salways been really, really nice. And
I remember at jingle Ball in LAwhen I like squirmed my way to the

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front trying to get content for iHeart, and she literally blew a kiss at
my camera and said, I loveyou, Olivia. I will never forget
that. Why was I gonna sayforgive no, Olivia, I will never
forget that, but for real,congratulations. She is the egg girl right
now and absolutely murdering the game.So okay, we did Nikki Gag City.

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We did the thing. Okay,now, looking through my notes real
quick if you concert twotual windows,Oh okay. So here comes Friday night
and I'm on air Saturday morning,so I'm going to keep it a light
tie. And right on Friday night, I get invited to a grand opening
of this new Thuckle place at RockefellerCenter. So if you go to Rockefeller

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Center and you go to the basement, it's like stores and shops and food,
and there's this new Thuckle spot thatinvited me to their grand opening,
and I was able to bring afriend, so me and Shelley Rome.
Shelley does late nights here at Zone hundred. We also do the new
Hitlist together here on Z one hundred. I invited her and she was totally
down to go check it out withme. So we pull up. It's

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a small spot, but the foodis bang in. It's so hard to
get good Mexican food. I've saidit so many times. I'll say it
again. It's really hard to getgood Mexican food here in New York.
And it shouldn't be like that,but it is. But this was bomb.
It was so bomb, and Ioverfed myself but it was a good
time. And then my other coworkerwho have been hanging out a lot with

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and one of my good friends herenow Jules, she met up with us.
So she met up with us,and I had these passes for this
new attraction at the top of theRockefeller called the Beam, and the Beam
opened back in December, and it'sbasically do you remember seeing this iconic legendary
photo of New York City back inlike maybe the twenties or thirties, where

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men are eating lunch on a steelbeam thousands of feet maybe hundreds, maybe
not thousands of feet up in theair on their lunch break, and they
are building the skyscrapers of New YorkCity and there's no harnesses, there's no
nothing. Well, I don't exactlyknow what that photo is called, but

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this attraction is called the Beam.And you get strapped onto essentially the beam.
They're like recreating the lunch box thing, and they lift you up on
a pole. So this long flatbeam you're sitting on is standing up and
getting elevated by a single pole andthen you rotate and you are dangling on

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like the sixtieth floor of New York. I don't know what floor it is,
but it's the top of the rock, so maybe like seventy or something.
And you're just like dangling and yousee the entirety of New York City
and you're literally dangling on this beamand then it twists you back. You
take some photos, and you comeall the way down. So I remember

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saying the Beam when it first startedand opened in December, and because this
Taco spot was doing the gard opening, they offered me a few tickets to
the Beam, or so I thought. We pull up to the elevator's rock
and I notice as I'm pulling upthe tickets for my phone that I actually
only have two tickets to Express elevatortickets and two Beam tickets. So I'm

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just like, it's me, Shellsand Jules. What am I going to
do here? Like? How amI going to finess this? So this
is is older man that is scanningthe tickets for the Express elevator right and
the line for the regular elevator forthe top of the rock, like probably
forty five minutes just to get himthe line for the elevator of the Rockefeller
Center. So I'm like, ohmy gosh, how am I going to

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get all of us in. Soit says older, probably like mid seventies
man Robert is his name a gemand he's using his like foam thing to
scan the express tickets to get uson the elevator to go up to the
beam. The problem is I onlyhave two. One of them beeped already,
and then the other one is likenot beeping. And he's like,
well, I don't know why thatone's not working, but what about your

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other? Let me see the otherexpress ticket. I'm like uh uh,
and I'm scrolling and I'm just likeuh uh, I'm kind of playing dumb.
I'm playing dumb, and he's like, let me get my supervisor.
Like he's being a hella nice.He's confused why it's not working. He's
being really nice. He doesn't knowwhat to do, so it's like,
let me talk to my supervisors.Like ping's a supervisor on his little microphone

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and he's like, I don't knowthese express pesses and I think there's only
two. And then they hang upand he goes that just go in and
he just lets us in. I'mlike, yes, yes, okay,
how are I'm gonna get these girlson the beam? Now because I only
have two tickets and there's three ofus, and I just feel bad,
like I don't want one person tobe left. I'm not gonna be like
I'm gonna I'm gonna ride the beam. I'm gonna ride the ePRESS line.

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I'm gonna ride the beam. ButI feel bad. I don't want to
tell one of my friends they cango. It'ss like awkward. And we
get up to the elevator and wemeet this guy we'll call him Carl,
and he's just like I don't know, probably like Puerto Rican kid, like
Damaican kid, probably in his likeearly twenties. And I just start chopping
it up with the elevator security guythat's letting us up to the top of

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the rock. I'm like, oh, Carl, like you done the beam
yet? We're so excited we're gonnado the beam. He's like, no,
no, I'm not doing them.I'm like you, are you scared?
Are you scared of hides? I'mjust like buttering up Carl, Okay,
And Carl is loving it and he'staking it and it's like nine o'clock
on a Friday night and he isjust love being us, like we are
just flirting up Carl. Right.So we finally get to the top of

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the rock and Carl's leading us towhere the beam is and I go,
hey, Carl, by the way, do you have like an extra ticket
for the beam? I thought Ihad more, but the event only gave
me two. And I have mygirl here, and he goes, let
me see what I could see.I'm like you, Carl, So I'm
just like, She's like, I'mgonna get us into the beam. I'm
gonna get us into the beam.So that we're talking about the beam,

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the girls are very confused. Theyhave no idea what I mean by the
beam. They're thinking I'm talking abouta freehold or something. And I tell
them I'm like, y'all, we'regonna be dangling off the side of the
rock, on the top of therock. And Shelly's like absolutely no,
hell, and I'm gonna come backdown. I'm not doing I'm not doing
it. Shelley does not like heights. She's light weight, afraid of heights.
So I'm actually, I don't careyou're getting on. Like, if

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we're gonna be and we're beaming together, we're all gonna be beaming up the
sky. So she's like, no, no, I'm not gonna do.
I'm not gonna do. I'm like, yes you are, Yes you are.
I'm kind of convincing her, andI'm starting to convince her. So
we're getting to the beam and Carllooks at us and he kind of like
whispers a marror. He's like,man, I really want to help you
out, but my supervisor is righthere, and they're never here. And
I really thought I was gonna beable to help you out, but I

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don't think I can because my supervisoris here. And I'm just like shoot,
but I tell him, no problem, Carl. You know you're the
man. It's okay, It's totallyfine, Carl. We really appreciate you.
Like, well, why I takeit? And I don't think so
Carl takes us up all the wayto the top, top, top,
top top of the rock and it'sjust so cool. We're looking at New
York City. We're looking at differentbuildings and there's like a man that's there.

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He's like, oh, that's thatbuilding and that's that building, and
I'm like, how do you knowthat? And he goes. Because I'm
a tour guide, I'm actually touringright now, and they're over there.
I'm like, oh, wow,so we got a five minute little free
tour of all the beautiful cities herein New York, buildings here in New
York. So then by this time, I've kind of just like burnt time
maybe to see if the supervisor atthe top of the beam is gonna like

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leave. And then Carl kind ofcomes back and he's like, oh,
you guys are having fun, Like, are guys ready to the beam?
And I'm like, yeah, there'syour supervisor still there. He's like,
yeah, it's no problem. Iwas I was just asking. So we
go to get in lines to getour tickets scanned at the beam right and
I I'm kind of talking loudly andwe're getting our tickets scanned, and the

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guy goes, oh, you onlyhave two, and I'm like, yeah,
she's not going. She doesn't she'sscared to hide, she's not going.
And he's like, oh, okay, cool, cool, Yeah,
you guys can just go. AndI'm kind of out loud saying, ah,
I think this is new, thisis just a few months and Carl
goes, yeah, it's like it'slike a few months old. And then
I hear this man standing at thecorner. He's like, yes, it
opened un December, blah blah blah. And I look at him. I'm
like, that's the supervisor. Andhe has a name tag. Let's say

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his name is Marty. So I'mlike, oh, Marty, like,
have you done the beam yet?And he's like he's like, oh,
yeah, I've done the baby.He's like, there's like another like gay
Dominican man. He's like he lookslike, honestly, he looks like bubble
Bass from SpongeBob. Do you rememberbubble Bass, the food inspector that goes
to food inspect at Krabby Patties andthen he actually is a scammer and he

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puts the pickles under his tongue.Remember bubble Bass. He looks like a
bubble Bass. But he's like sosweet and so cute in like cotally and
so he's just like, yeah,like I've done the beam. I was
like, you gotta get Carl onthe beam. Carl's scared to go on
the beam. I was like,I need to buy Carl a ticket.
He's like, Carl doesn't have tobuy a ticket, he can just go
up. And I was like,oh, you watch like I'm gonna get

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him on. I was like,Marty, why don't you get Carl on?
And he's like I cannot convince him. But it's so fun. You
guys are gonna have so much fun. And I'm so excited. Now by
this time, we're already in,like we already are in into the beam
and Carl loves us, Marty lovesus. I'm talking and chopping it up
and making friends with the workers thatare all there, and I'm just like,
nu, yuck, and I'm justlike, we've got to be on
the beam, shally get ready,like all these things, and they are

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just like loving us that they justkind of all forget that, like only
two of us are supposed to beon the beam. And so I drag
Shelley on and she's almost beating meand fighting me and kicking me to not
let her get on. She's like, I do not want to do that.
I don't want to do I don'tAnd I was like, come on,
larn, tell her, tell her, Marty, tell her Marty that
she needs to go. And it'slike, don't worry. You're safe and

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you're gonna be strapped in and likeblah blah, blah. Everyone's rooting on
Shelley and the ride is literally onlylike in totality, probably thirty seconds.
But we go up and I'm justlike, hends up. Yeah. And
then we turned we spin around fromthe beam. We're all the way up,
we see everything. Shelley is probablyhamster pooping herself right now, but
I don't care. We turn backaround, we're doing all the selfies.

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We take photos, and then wecome down and Shelley is just like,
I cannot believe I did that,but I'm so happy I did that.
That was pretty cool and I'm sothankful that she grew some boody thusts to
get up there and get on thebeam with us. So that was amazing
and fun and fresh. And thenafterwards we're walking around the rock and we
see like a little like lounge area, maybe some cuffecito maybe some and I'm

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like, hey, can I havea coffee? They're like we're closed.
I'm like, bro okay whatever,We're just gonna vibe to ourselves. So
we're sitting on the couches, we'revibing to ourselves and they come up.
They're like, hey, we havehot chocolate. THO do you guys just
want it for free, and we'relike yes, Like, how did that
night turn out so perfect? Iam telling you, if I found out
that I only had two tickets,I would have freaked out on how I

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was gonna get us up and onthe beam with the three of us.
But all you gotta have is asmile and some good vibes and just kind
of like chop it up with thesepeople and botamom butter being you're gonna be
in everywhere with a good time.So on top of it, we got
free chocolate. It was the bestFriday night ever. I got free thackles,
I got us up on the expresspass, I got us on the

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beam, and now we're capping itoff with some cho and we're just looking
at the beautiful, beautiful Manhattan skylineand we're just talking and gossiping and just
girl talk. We were up therefor like an hour. We came back
down like maybe like ten or somemaybe my time is a little off,
but you know me. So itwas a really great Friday night. And
then the next morning is when allhell broke loose. So I am up

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at eight thirty, my alarm goesoff, I burrito roll out of bed,
I brush my teeth, I makemy milkshake. It's nine o'clock.
I'm walking out of my apartment.I'm pushing the elevator to go downstairs,
and I feel some cramps down inmy pelvic region, and I'm like,
oh, man, okay. Thatmeans either like I'm all my time of

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the month or it's coming. AndI was like, wait, that's weird
because I just had my time ofthe month two weeks ago, and I
have a regular time of the month, so that's weird. Maybe I'm just
like having some weird cramps or whatever. So I go downstairs, I get
on the bus and I start havingmore cramps, and I'm like, oh

(26:52):
my gosh, oh no, notagain. Then the cramps go from a
three and they catapult to a seven. And now I'm getting closer and closer
to the NQRW where I'm supposed toget on the train to my job uptown.
And as I'm on the bus andi'm approaching it, I'm like,

(27:15):
oh my gosh, no, notagain. Not the cramps again. Not
the same cramps again. And I'mlike curled up, and I'm like,
I need to go to the emergencyroom because I know what's going to happen.
Now, I'm gonna rewind you toChristmas twenty twenty three, this exact

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Christmas that we just passed. Iwas at home with Zaddy in his apartment.
Zaddy just broke his toe on ChristmasDay night eve eve, So this
is Christmas Eve. He had justbroken his toe. We're at his apartment

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and he has a gash and likefifteen stitches on his thigh. He has
a broken, inflamed toe, andI'm on the bed side next to him,
and I started getting these crazy crampsand I'm like, babe, I
don't know what's happening. Like Idon't know what's happening. I'm like curling,
and I'm curling and I'm curling,and I I'm already freaking out because

(28:21):
he's already sick, and I don'tthink that I'm healthy enough to drive myself
to the er. He cannot drivehimself. So I turn on a scorching
hot bath and I put myself inthe bath and I cry myself in the
bath for probably three and a halfhours with these unbearable cramps. I'm not

(28:41):
bleeding, I'm like not discharge,like I know that's a little TMI whatever,
but I just I don't know what'shappening, and I've never gotne cramps
like this in my whole life,and I'm freaking out, but I also
don't I cannot go to the emergencyroom. So I'm just like I'm gonna
tough it out. I'm gonna toughit out. I'm okay, okay,
and I'm just like heating crying inthe bubble in the bubble bath, just

(29:04):
like so uncomfortable. So that happened, and that happened for a few hours,
and then after that, like Iwas totally fine, Like I was
totally okay. I go to thedoctor the next morning. I do go
to plant Parenthood and they check meup and they're saying that there's absolutely nothing
wrong with me, and I'm likeokay, and they're like, maybe when

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you go to your regular physician,you can get like a papspre and see
if anything's going on. So lastmonth I do, I go to the
doctors, I get a papesmere andI get all my work done, like
every single thing done. I toldher about the cramps, and all the
results came back that I was totallyfine and normal, and she said,
and she was like, do youwant to maybe go for an ultrasound to
see if anything's going on in there? And I was like, actually,

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I haven't had that cramp since December, so I'm gonna be fine. Well,
these cramps came back in full forceSaturday morning, and I hop off
the bus and I'm standing at thetrain and I'm like, I cannot go
to work right now because I knowwhat's going to happen for the next few
hours. Like I don't know howlong it's going to be, but I'm

(30:10):
hurting so bad right now. Ineed to call my boss and tell her
that I cannot go in. SoI call her and I start freaking out
and I kind of start crying,and she's like, don't worry, like
please take care of yourself, likeI'll figure it out. And I was
like, okay, mind you.I'm not just on on Z one hundred,
like I'm on six other stations onthe weekends, so I have to
I'm like emailing my other bosses,telling them, Hi, it's an emergency,

(30:33):
Like I need coverage. Hid it'semergency, I need coverage. So
I'm telling them all I need coverageand They're all like totally, like of
course, like please let us keepus updated. I hope you're okay.
So I am on seventh Avenue.The med right that I need to get
to is on eleventh, and Idon't know where another one is. So
I start wobbling like a crazy person, crying my eyes out and screaming in

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pain, wobbling like I just gota bit by a zombie. Avenue after
avenue, I keep turning my backsaying if possibly the bus is there,
but it's not. Taxis don't driveyou towards avenues, like they don't.
They are not gonna drive you downacross Manhattan, like they just don't do
that. Like they're only going topick you up if they're going to make
more than like twenty bucks. SoI knew that I couldn't fly down a

(31:22):
taxi. And if I go upto a random car screaming crying, they're
gonna think I'm a crazy person andthey're not gonna help me. So I
knew that I had to just wobblemyself to the emergency clinic. So I
get to the emergency clinic and I'mcrying and I'm like holding myself because I
was about to crawl my way there, and I look at the guy in

(31:45):
the front. I'm like, Ineed a doctor. I need a doctor
now, Like I'm screaming, likeI need a doctor right now. And
he goes give us a few minutesto stay right there, and I'm just
like hunched over in a fetal position, like crying on the chair of the
waiting room of the med right andhe's just like on the phone, like
taking an information from someone else,like not caring that I'm an excruciating pain.

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It was so frustrating. Then thissweetheart of a woman comes out from
like the back and she's like,are you okay? And I'm like no,
like I really need a doctor rightnow. I need a doctor right
now. So then she tells thedoctor. The doctor comes out and he's
like here, like take a yearand sample, and I grabbed the year
and like thing. And I justwent to the bathroom before I left my
house. I just went pee beforeI went home. So I'm like,

(32:30):
dang it, this is gonna beso hard for me to go to the
bathroom. But I remember last timewhen I tried to go to the bathroom
back in December, it hurt sobad. Like any pressure that I like,
like mustard to kind of push downthere hurts so bad. So I
was just like, oh my god, this is gonna be so painful,
and I just pete. I don'tknow how the hell I'm gonna go to
the bathroom, but okay, SoI go into the bathroom. I'm screaming

(32:52):
like I'm giving birth. I tellthe nurse, I'm like, man,
can I please get some water?Like I need so much water right now,
Like there's no way I'm gonna likeI'm gonna pee, like I need
hell of water. And she's likeholding me and giving me glasses of water.
And as I'm trying to pee,I'm screaming at the top of my
lungs like this is so crazy.It hurts so bad. On scale of
one to ten, it's hurting anine. It's hurting so bad. And

(33:13):
then the doctor says, I'm callingthe ambulance, like I cannot help you
here, like you need an ambulance. I'm like, can you do blood
work or something? He's like bloodwork is gonna take days to come back,
like you need to get into anambulance. I'm just like, bro,
like I'm not about to pay tenthousand dollars for a day ambulance right
now in the middle of New YorkCity, Like I do not have the
funds for this right now, LikeI'm saving for a trip, and I
like, I'm just like my accountis not in the area to I just

(33:34):
want to, like I cannot bespending money in an ambulance right now.
I'm like, don't call the ambulance, Like, don't call the ambulance,
just like, can you help meout? Can you check me out down
there? Can you do something?And he's like, I'm calling an ambulance.
I'm calling an ambulance. Like thesedoctors they're not for that, Like
they could probably stitch you up forsomething. They could probably, but they're

(33:55):
they can't really give you pain medicationif they don't know what's going on.
They're they're like more like surface leveldoctors that can do some test for things.
But I just knew that it wastrue. I don't really think that
him at these small emergency clinics couldreally help me, Like I really needed
to go to a facility. Soin the next five minutes, as I'm
screaming at the top of my lungs, I'm on the toilet, and my

(34:20):
hands are going numb, they're crampingup, and my jaw is going numb,
and I can barely talk, likeI feel like my mouth is swilling
up, and I'm like, amI bad to get a seizure? Like
what's happening? I'm trying to takedeep breaths because I know that I could
also be suffering from like a panicattack an anxiety attack, like I do
get those, i haven't gotten themin a while because I know how to
manage them now. But because allof this is happening, and I'm really

(34:45):
stressed, because I'm by myself,like I don't have any family here,
like don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm really really stressed. So I'm
trying to breathe and I'm trying tocalm down. But it was when my
hands and my arms started going numband my mouth started going numb that I
was like, I think I doneed to go to the doctor. I
think I do need to go intothe ambulance. And I'm just like I
hate being that girl, like I'mso mad. I'm about to be a

(35:07):
journey girl right now, Like Ihate this. So then I'm on the
toilet, like my pants are down. The EMT's come in and they're like,
are you okay, And I'm justlike I don't know what's happening,
Like I'm no, I'm like Ican't talk, like I don't know what's
going on. And he's like,okay, like pull your pants up please,
and we're gonna like roll you out. They fucking roll me out.
They rolled me out on a journey. He's like trying to have me explain

(35:30):
what I'm feeling, and I'm like, I just I don't know what's happening.
I just feel like the craziest cramps. I feel like people are stabbing
me right now and like twisting theknife in my pelvic and my stomach,
and he's okay, we're gonna getyou to the ear right now. So
they get me into the actual erlike at actual hospital, and they were
so nice, they were so sweet. The amts were really amazing, and

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I call David, like I wasgonna call Michelle, but Michelle didn't have
a car, so I called Davidand I'm like, David, like I
don't really know what's happening, butlike, are you busy right now?
And he's like yeah, what's goingon. He's like, can you please
come and meet me at the hospital. He's like, I'll be right there.
He literally drops his whole life andwithin the next thirty minutes, like
David is right there and the doctorsare taking my blood. There. I'm

(36:14):
telling them that I need pain.Mekay, I need pain. I need
something for the pain. I needsomething for the pain. Because the pain
was so scruciating. They hooked meup to an ivy. They're taking my
blood. I'm on an IVY nowI'm feeling like a little better. I
call my mom and I'm just likeMom, like, please don't stress,
but like this is happening, andshe's like, okay, like you know,
it could be this. It couldbe this. Don't worry me.
How like it's it could be common. Don't worry. Like I don't think

(36:36):
that anything crazy or bad it's gonnahappen. When the doctors tell you this
is happening, then it could soundcrazy, but you're gonna be okay,
You're gonna be fine, and justmake sure you give me David's number.
So I'm like kind of in andout of panic attacks. But the thing
about the cramps is that like they'rethere, but then they go away,
but then they come back in afew minutes, or they'll come back in
like twenty minutes, and then they'llcome back crazy, and then sometimes it

(36:58):
won't come back that crazy. Butit's like the way the cramps the waves,
it's like waves of cramps. Soit's so weird. And no,
I'm not pregnant. I'm not pregnant, So it was just like it's just
weird. It's not like a constantpain, but when the pain is there,
it's like crazy. And this wenton from nine in the morning.

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I got discharged at two in theafternoon, and I just was so distraw.
The doctors said that like everything cameback fine, so they didn't really
know what was going on. Ihad an ultrasound and there was nothing crazy
abnormal with the ultrasound, so they'retelling me to go to a specialist,

(37:46):
which I'm booking for this coming week, and I don't really know. I've
heard of different things some of mycousins. My mom like reached out to
one of my cousins that has hadissues before with pelvic pain, and there
could be different things going on,but the fact that like it happened once
in December, and it was reallyreally bad, and now it's happening again

(38:06):
in April. I just wish thatI would have gotten the sonogram back when
I could have and avoided this wholeambulance fiasco and all of these crazy medical
bills I'm about to yet, becauseI might have been able to prevent this
if I could have gone the doctorsto like look deeper into what's going on
in my crevices, so the crevicesare not doing well, they're not doing

(38:30):
well. The next day they putme on some types of medications and some
types of antibiotics, like because theywere doing a lot of stuff down there.
I was just like really sore,like you're just not used to that.
And I just felt so sore andlike in a weird ways, and
I was just kind of scared becauseI still don't know what's happening. And

(38:53):
I I was able to like relaxand rest. On Sunday, I took
a ride share to church, likeI still wanted to go to church and
see my church people when I wasnot feeling good, but I went anyways.
I was just like I really needGod, like even in my dark
times, like I need to getup and go to see my family and

(39:17):
my people at church. And thenafter that I picked up my antibiotics,
and so I was like on mymedication. They were just like giving me
things to make sure just in casethere's not an affection or a case thees
not of this and that. Sothey put me on these antibiotics. And
then the next day I woke upand took the antibiotics, and I had
like a really bad reaction to them. I was like throwing up and like

(39:37):
heaving and heaving like I couldn't stop. But I just felt so tired and
still very sore and sick, andlike all the needles that they were putting
in my arm, Like my armis just like completely like green right now.
And it's just like scary, likebeing like having those episodes and not
knowing what's going on, and there'sso many things that go on in your

(39:58):
brain. And I am just sothankful for David, like he made me
feel so comfortable. Like when hepulled up, I was on like a
non cramp moment, so I wasjust kind of like chilling their vibing and
like it could have looked so extralike I was being like such a drama
queen. But I was just like, oh my god, David, of
course you come in when I'm liketotally fine right now. But David is

(40:21):
just I'm so thankful that I havesomeone like him here that will drop anything
that they're doing to make sure I'mokay. And I feel like I do
have other people like that, butlike, David is just someone that I'm
just so thankful for. And Italked to my girl Michelle about it too,
and she's like, she told meI would have been that. I
was like, I know, Michelle, like you had your kids. I
didn't want to bother you. Iknow you're really busy with work, and
I know you would have came.But I'm just so thankful that that David's

(40:44):
in my life. And like Idon't even know how I'm ever going to
repay him for that. But yeah, it was like really really scary,
and I ended up taking the dayoff on Monday just to recoup more and
just to make sure that I wasgood, and like, it's just kind
of also really a lot on mymind because I don't know what is going
on. So I booked some appointmentsfor next week. I actually booked some

(41:06):
appointments for my doctor in California thatI've my primary doctor over there. They've
helped me with a lot of thingsin the past, and I just really
trust them and I really want themto look into this and see what's going
on. I'm just a little nervous, but we all have things going on.
I don't think it's going to beanything too bad. I'm hoping not.
I mean, you know me,I talk about it all the time,
and it's just one of those things, like when you're getting older and

(41:29):
women. We go through these thingsso much on different scales. And I
I love attention when I want attention, but when I don't ask for attention
or want it, like, Idon't like it like that. So I
don't like sympathy attention like I don'tlike like putting things like I don't really

(41:50):
want to like pose it on socialmedia like that. Like you are my
writer die Like you and I hangout together every week or every free weeks.
I if I'm not consistent with you, but you know things like this,
I'm open to chatting with you becauseI love you and I trust you,
and I know you love me,and there's a reason that you hang
out with me every week when youdo. And so that's why I feel

(42:15):
comfortable telling you this. But likeother people that know me more surface level,
like coworkers or just like like peopleon social media or people that I'm
not that close to, like it'sit's just really private and it's kind of
like tough to go through as Ilike am talking about on a podcast.
But like I mentioned that you're mywriter dies, so I I don't feel

(42:37):
weird talking about that, but withyou, it's just it's just kind of
scary. And I hope that Ifigure out what's going on. I hope
that I get on a plan tomake sure that it doesn't happen in the
future, because I don't want itto happen like a really awful situation,
you know, like on a flightor like and but a party, I

(42:58):
don't know, I don't know,like on a vacation. I don't know.
Like luckily it just happened on amorning or I had one of my
Saturday shifts, so it wasn't thatbad. But I don't want this to
keep happening, and I want tomake sure that whatever is happening to me
with my health, I am ontop of it and in front of it.
So uh, yeah, that's whereI'm at right now. I'm sharing
this with you because we all gothrough things like this, some maybe even

(43:22):
more severe, and you're not alone, and it's just scary and it's hard,
and I'm very thankful that I havepeople around me that support me,
and that Lena Zadie was checking inobviously all the time, making sure that
I was cool, and my momwas just like ready to hop on a
flight to make sure that I wasokay, and David was just stopped everything

(43:43):
he was doing in the morning tomake sure that I was fine. So
I'm very thankful, I'm very happy, I'm very blessed. I'm still like
a little sore and tender down there, like those cramps like really did some
to me. I just am readyto figure out what it is. So
that was my emergency room experience.Gag City sent me to the room.

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I don't think it was obviously ithad nothing to do with gag City.
But if something like this has happenedto you before, maybe drop me a
snapchat at lat Crystal lital Sauce orig message at lack Crystal Retal Sauce to
hear about your experience and maybe youknow or have an idea or have someone
that can help me with it.I'm pretty confident in my doctor's back in
the bay, but I'm sure thatyou maybe heard of someone or something like

(44:27):
this that has happened to So ifyou know, like that to tip me
up. I'm really happy that I'mokay and I'm feeling a lot better.
It is really scary in the momentwhen something like that happens too. So
if it's happened to, like,oh my gosh, you know how frightening
it is and how we don't wantto be at the er. Ever,
it's the worst place on earth.We survived and we will survive. And
that is what is going on literallyin my crevices. So on that note,

(44:52):
let's get into our daily and motivator. Okay, this is where I
like to just give you a littleuplifting message for the end of the day.
I find this at great day dotcom if you ever need one when
I'm out here, you can lookup what the daily motivator is for the
day that I'm not with you.Today's is called create Goodness. You can't

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solve all the problems of the worldWhat you can do is create goodness right
where you are. Create goodness inthe way you live, with the people
you encounter. Create goodness with theproblems you solve, with your kindness,
and with your positive presence. Asentertaining as it might be to fantasize about
the world doesn't really need a dramaticsuperhero. Life always has and will continue

(45:37):
to benefit from good people living goodlives of purpose and integrity. A small
kindness has a capacity to reverberate endlesslythrough life, and there's always some small
kindness you can offer. Beyond that, you can have the audacity to be
happy every now and then, toenjoy life, to share the joy you
can delight in the beauty, wonder, mystery, and challenge of the universe

(45:58):
in which you exist. During goodnessis made in the countless ordinary moments,
not in some grandious scheme. Makesome more of that goodness right now,
I like this one life's in Duringgoodness is made in the countless ordinary moments,
countless ordinary moments that like the accumulationof your life. That is so

(46:21):
true. It's more of like theordinary things. But to make the ordinary
things good, that's really on you. I love that create goodness in the
way you live with the people yourcounter create goodness with the problems you solve
in your kindness. It is sotrue, like, especially in the beginning,

(46:42):
you can't solve all the problems ofthe world. I think when the
pandemic was happening and all the GeorgeFloyd stuff was happening, like I got
so emotionally involved and I was outand I was like in the streets and
I put so much of like myselfin there. And there's a lot of
people that we needed to do that, to band together to try to at
least make voices heard that aren't heard. And it was tough though, Like

(47:07):
it was tough, and it takesa lot of like emotion. There are
some people that can dedicate their wholelives to that, and there are some
people that can't. And if you'reone of the people that can't, then
what you can do is just makejoy and peace and kindness in those daily
interactions you have with everyone, andthat alone is doing goodness in the world.
Because it's true, like we cannotsolve all the problems. We can't
save everyone and everything. So it'sreally up to you and you are present

(47:30):
and where you are right now,to help with to help a little bit
in the world. It's kind oflike a domino effect if we all just
do that and we all just sharethat love in that light. It's a
little bit just with any type ofinteraction for what you can for your capacity.
I think that that that's really what'sgoing to help. I hope that
you liked that reading. I likedit too. I hope you enjoy the

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Daily Motivator. Now we're going tomove on to our closing prayer. I
hope you can stick around. Butif yeah, it's totally okay. If
you don't really believe in religion andthings like that, but you still want
to stick around wherever I say,like me or God or Jesus or faith,
just think of like love and lightand happiness. This book again is

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called Jesus Calling by Sarah Young,enjoying Peace in His Presence, and it
kind of just reminds you every dayto try to be present and try to
find joy and try to trust.So today's April, all right, This
one says, trust me in everydetail of your life. Nothing is random
in my kingdom. Everything that happensfits into a pattern for good. To

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those who love me. Instead oftrying to analyze the entricities of the pattern,
focus your energy on trusting me andthinking me at all times. Nothing
is wasted when you walk close tome. Even your mistakes and sins can
be recycled into something good through mytransforming grace. Even your mistakes and sins

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can be recycled into something good throughmy transforming grace. It's true, when
you were still living in darkness,I began to shine the light of my
presence into your sin stained life.Finally I lifted you up out of the
mire into my marvelous light, havingsacrificed my very life for you. I
can be trusted in every facet ofyour life. Dang, that hit me

(49:23):
this part. While you were stillliving in darkness, I began to shine
the light of my presence onto yoursin stained life. I lifted you up
out of the mire into my marvelouslight, sacrificing my very life for you.
I can be trusted in every facetof your life. Dan, I'm

(49:45):
not gonna lie to you. That'sthe reason I really do believe and I
do trust is because during the Panorami, when I was so dark and I
briefly talk about it sometimes. Butlike when I was so down bad that
I only wore black and gray likethose, I wore this same gray sweatshirt

(50:06):
and black leggings and black shirt,like that is what I wore all the
time. I didn't feel good aboutmyself. I didn't want to wake up.
And I feel like when my momstarted showing me God's love, which
has always been around, you know, I just never wanted to see it.
When I finally got that like littlelight and glimmer of God's presence,
like it just completely changed me.Which is why I'm so devout in my

(50:30):
faith, because that's the only thingthat got me out of the darkness,
which is like obviously heavy. Buta lot of people go through things like
that, and I tell you thisall the time. It's really good to
feel and to know that there issomeone that just loves you no matter what,
and that has a plan for youand that you can trust and even
when your life feels very chaotic andstressful and like God is just like trust

(50:54):
me, Trust me. Even thethings that don't work out for you,
Trust me. It's going to becool, it's going to be fine.
You're going to get everything that youwant and more. And I hope that
you can feel that way too aboutlove and light and energy whatever that is
for you. That was Jeremiah seventeenseven, Romans eight twenty eight, Psalm

(51:15):
forty two and one, Peter tonine. Nice. All right, Amen
to that, and Amen to you, and thank you so much for hanging
out with me for another episode ofa Crystal's night Cap. I hope you
enjoyed it. I hope whatever you'regoing through, maybe you're going through a
dark time. Maybe you know friendgoing through a tough time, link them

(51:36):
up with that daily motivator, thewww dot Great Day dot com, or
even this book if you kind ofare trying to creep creep God into their
lives, this Duce's Calling Book.That's what I send this book to a
lot of my friends because it justreminds you every single day that there's already
a plan and it's all good andit's going to be totally fine. We
really need to hear that more nowthan ever. I love you so so

(52:00):
much. Please share the pod withyour friends if you're liking it. I'm
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(52:21):
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