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June 1, 2023 45 mins
In tonight’s episode of "Crystal’s Nightcap" Vin Diesel joins the show, we drop it low with Flo Rida, I cry in front of Taylor Swift’s face and something long went all the way down my throat I had to take off work, and MORE!
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Hello to your beautiful throat throttler.It's Crystal Rosas back with another episode of
Crystal's Nightcap. Tonight, Vin Dieseljoins the show. We drop it Low
with Flo Rida. I cry infront of Taylor Swift's face and something long
when all the way down my throatit hurts so bad I had to take
off work. Give us. Myname is Crystal Rosas. I'm a twenty

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something Latina who just moved from Californiato the Big Apple. It's happy.
Sorry, that was my cat frappuccino. They're still getting used to the city
life. Anyways, Where was Im Oh yeah, I take over afternoon
radio every day on the world famousZ one hundred. But when nightfalls,
I'm looking for all the cloud Ican get and casually searching these streets from

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my Prince Charming. Come on thissexy single journey where we'll go on a
date with a new guy from theapps every week, host red carpets and
interviews, and weasel our way intothe secret society of New York's top social
lights. Oh yeah, and someone'salways watching. That's my overprotective mom.
This is Crystal's Nightcap. Welcome back. Thanks so much for hanging out.

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If you have not subscribed, pleasesubscribe. Share the podcast with your friends
if you're really liking it. I'mlive on the radio New York City on
ZE one hundred, New York's numberone hit music station. That's ZE one
hundred point three. I'm on tonsof stations on the weekend, so to
see which ones and when, checkout my socials on everything. We're at
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just gonna get straight into it.Sit back, relax. It's Crystal's Nightcap,
Wouza's Happy Thursday. I don't thinkI've ever posted that pod this late.

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Please bear with me. It hasbeen an crazy, crazy, crazy
last weekend, very up and down, absolutely diabolical a week. But nonetheless,
we are here and we are breathing, and we're drinking a lot of
water and down the road. I'lltell you what's going on, but we're
going to keep it to what happenedlast week because it is crazy. I

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told you in the last episode thatI was going to bring David Ghetta on
as a guest, but I lied. I'm actually bringing Vin Diesel on as
a guest. So, without furtherado, here we go, ladies and
gentlemen. Vin Diesel checking into Zone hundred, New York. What's going

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on? Hey Max, Hey Chris? So, how are you guys doing.
We are doing so great. Imean, welcome home and thanks for
chatting with us. How are youdoing? Oh? I love that welcome
home? He said, I lovethat welcome home. That's what it's all
about. Dude, you got thenumber one film on the planet. How

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has this journey been for you?Oh my god, Well, it's it's
such a blessing and it's only becauseof the fans. And to be at
a tenth film, a tenth filmin a saga, a continual saga with
the longest love story, the longbrother and sister story in history. That's

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profound. And as a poor kidfrom New York, I gotta throw that
in, as a kid in NewYork, I gotta says, it's a
miracle. The fact that we madethe movies a miracle. The fact that
the movie is out as a miracle. The fact that the movie is number
one is a miracle. I don'tknow how to celebrate the fans that have
elevated this through the world. Iget get two ways. You can give

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us a million dollars each both personto celebrate. Oh God. But also
you keep calling us your fans.I would expect you to call us your
family. You're my family family,You're my global family. And and so
we just this is just a launchof part one. So it's fast X
part one. And I gotta shoutout this studio universe, those different than

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other studios. We did a worldglobal premiere. We did the global premiere
at the Coliseum in Rome. Yeah, and after the movie comes out,
they asked me, or maybe theyasked my wife, but they asked me,
the real boss. But they askedme if I would do a gratitude
tour? Would I go to differentcities and to a gratitude tour and tell

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all fans how grateful we are thatthey've rode with us for so long.
Wow, and you started this franchisebefore you were even a dad. I
mean you started you were such adifferent place in your life. How looking
back from there to where you arenow with the tenth movie, what are
the differences? Chrysto, You're soright, I was not a dad a

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shot. I'm gonna tell you alittle story when I did this scene in
Fast one where I'm running up thealley and Brian O'Connor pulls this car up
and says, get in. Gethim. In that scene, he told
me that he had a daughter,and I could not believe that he was
a father. Jump cut to fastforward when my daughter is born, Similcha

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is born. He's a guy that'stelling me to cut them melcal Cord.
I mean, it's so profound thisrelationship, this family fabric that we have
in the movie that it's like,you know, what if if I died
tomorrow and the world just knows thatI'm about family. God bless this entire
franchise has been just that. Andbefore we get you out of here,

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what does this mean to you allthe castmates? Man, everybody from Luda
you know what I'm saying, tothe rocket coming back to the rocket,
Rocket coming back looking down, Paul, you know, from everyone who has
been a part of this, Whatdoes it mean to you all to be
this familial unit? Oh Maxwell,it means everything because the undercurrent of the

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Fast franchise's unity. Obviously we werethe pioneers of multiculturalist and obviously we were
the pioneers of having a film wherepeople could be from all over the world
sitting at that barbecue table and reallyreally really embraced the idea of being family
members. That's beautiful. I wasgonna say that, it's so nice of

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you to continue to show up foryour family and your friends. I know
that you're only popping into different AMCmovie theaters. Who're you stopping by at
the one here at Empire twenty five? What kind of movie watcher are you?
Are you the one talking laughing?Are you quiet? Are you the
eater? I knew you were gonnago there, because you're gonna go there.

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Okay, I said you went there. I'm gonna be honest with you.
I was the guy that one ofmy boys two time square the same
a movie, and there was aWe made sure there was an empty seat
in between each one of us,and we were the loudest stopping people in
the rowdy. That's who we were. Yes, we were those guys.

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Guy, I hate to tell youthat, but we were those New Yorkers.
We were those real hardcore New Yorkers. And you know new Yorker never
sits next to his boy. There'salways the empty seat in between him.
You gotta lea space. You gottalea space. You're the one on the
screen. So thank you so muchfor all the love you're giving to your

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family us all the time. Wecan't wait to see more. I know
you're you're on some spinoffs for Fastand Furious, right, we have spinoffs
coming, um, we have.This is only part one. This is
just an amazing smile that we're fillingthrough the phone and through the speakers.
Man, and thank you for alwaysshowing New York love. You never forget
where you're from, and we loveyou, yo, Chris So, I

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will never forget where I came from. I was a breakdancer in eighty three
at Columbus Circle in Washington Square Park. I was a bouncer at the time
of Mars ten eighteen. I willnever, ever, ever, ever forget
where I came from. Yeah,back, so Crystal, Thank you guys.
I feel blessed that you guys aretalking to me. I'm just a

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poor king from New York. I'mtrying to get out of the ghetto.
I love you. Brilliance coming in. What is life like? How?
Oh my gosh? Okay, obviouslythat is him checking into promote Fast ten,
Fast and Furious ten. Now letme just say that I found out

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that call was happening literally that samefive minutes. I was live on my
show here on ZE one hundred andthen our homie Garrett, who actually is
part of the morning show on ElvisDuran and the ZE one hund Morning Show,
He's like, Crystal Um, VinDiesel wants to go on. Can
you guys do a phone real quick? I'm like, what is this dead?
Assay? Yeah? I was like, I'm I guess here's the hotline

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if you want to put him through. And sometimes people will call us and
say that things like this are goingto happen, but then something doesn't end
up happening, And I'm just like, why the heck would Vin Diesel want
to talk to us? But that'swhat happens when you're on literally New York's
number one hit music station. We'rea big deal. I was gonna say

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kind of, but no, wereally are. I forget, you know,
when you're in it, you forgethow popping it is. But this
really is the number one radio stationin all of New York. So of
course, when there are celebrities andartists that want to push their things and
want to promote or even like hesaid, to a gratitude tour, like

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he mentioned, they want to cometo ZEE one hundred, especially if he's
from New York. If you're fromNew York, you know, like ZEE
one hundred is the popping station.So not not to put other stations down.
Just Ze one hundred is just alike, that's what ZE one hundred
is. So it is bonkers thathe took the time. He was so
he's so trained. Did he hearthat? Man? He is so media

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trained, like to the t likemaking sure to say our name, he
said, Who would say Crystal?He would say Maxwell, Like, oh,
I knew you were gonna go outthere, I knew you were gonna
ask that. He is just sosweet. I cannot wait to hopefully one
day meet him and touch his beautifulbald head in person. But who would
the thought Van Diesel. Now,I didn't fully lie about David Getta.

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He did come in and we didan interview on our show as well.
You can see on our YouTube channel. Go to Ze one hundred YouTube.
Here's a drop. He didn't doa drop with my name in it,
but that's okay. He was like, these are too many. Can y'all
cut him down? So we didn't. We scratched out everything that had our
names in it. But let's hearhim what David Getta had to say real

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quick. Hey, this is DavidGetta on Z one hundred, New York's
number one hit music station. Heis the man. David Getta is like
the top DJ in the world,like the og DJ. And when he
came in, he was so sweet. He didn't know that we were live

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on the radio, so like,we're alive, We're live right now.
I'm like, yes, you're onthe radio right now. We just played
your song and the interview was cool. It was short, but it was
cool. I would say, gocheck it out. I'd see you one
hundred dot com. I'll put thefull thing in the next episode. But
this is what happens. This iswhy I love being here in New York

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and doing what I do. Imean, it's just so much different than
when I worked in San Francisco.It was really rare that artists came in
it and then also on top ofit, when bigger artists came in,
I was still like, you know, the night jock or the intern.
So I didn't have one on onechats as much as I would have liked

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to with them. I did alot of the third and fourth tier interviews,
which obviously those anchored me to havethese opportunities now, so I'm really
thankful for that. But just beingin New York City is just such a
different beast. You're gonna get arandom text from a coworker that Vin Diezel

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wants to talk to you and promoteand say thank you and promote his movie.
That David Guetta is going to comein and be live on your show
for ten to fifteen minutes. Itis just so cool that I have access
and that we here in New Yorkhave access to things like this, and
especially our station, Like I said, we are like the heritage station.
We are the coveted station for Topforty and for movies and celebrities and influencers.

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So it's just awesome that I getan opportunity like this. I didn't
get opportunities like this in San Francisco, and it's just a different market.
It's a different ball game over there. So I am so so, so
so thankful, And not to saythat San Francisco doesn't deserve it or that
they aren't as popping, Like whyDondi Fran was the it when I was

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on it, Like and it's stillthe it. It's just different. You
know. You get a lot ofthat stuff in LA because that's the kit
where the movies and the celebrities andinfluencers are. But San Francisco not so
much. The cool things that Idid get to do in San Francisco though
we're go to the actual shows.I would go to the concerts and interview
artists there. That was fun.I remember being on Post Malone's tour bus

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that was crazy. And I rememberI did Melanie Martinez. One of her
songs is on the radio now.I got to do her concert. A
few other ones that stand out tome. Ed Sheeron. I remember when
the JV Show sent me to doEd Sharon because JV didn't want to go,
so he was like, Crystal,you could go. I was like,
what, I'm gonna interviewed Sharing?This is crazy. So I did

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do cool stuff like that, Buthere is just like every week we get
to do things like that. There'sa huge artist that was a rapper,
returned country artist. His name isJelly Roll and we just did an interview
with him. Today. We didan album listening party and he's so sweet.
Heat was part of our event lastweekend, which I'm going to talk
about right now. So last weekend, let me just tell you was it

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was a movie. It was amovie. It started off Thursday after work.
I headed with my coworker Josh Martinez. We drove down to the Jersey
shore. Ze one hundred has thisincredible event called Ze one hundreds Jump Start
to Summer and the first year wewere part of it. Last year only
the morning show was part of it, and then this year only US Afternoon

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Show was part of it. It'sat this place called Jenkinson's Boardwalk at Point
Pleasant. It's kind of like it'snot like the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk.
Like the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk islike a Hollywood movie boardwalk. The boardwalks
in New Jersey are like Jersey boardwalks. I can't even really explain it.

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It's not growth, it's not nasty, it's not bad, it's just it's
just not the Santa Cruz Beach boardwalk. But it's still it's just really different.
It's different and it's a different crowdand this party that Ze one hundred
puts on is the kickoff Fromorial Dayweekend party, so people usually are there
like six in the morning to getcrunk. Our events are at ten am.

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And the headliner was flow Right andthe artist I just mentioned, Jelly
Roll, was opening for him amazing. And I was coming off of a
really interesting week because my family,my mom and also were just in town
the week before and then that weekmy boyfriend Zaddy was staying with me and

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then left. So I was kindof I get in a funk whenever my
family or my close friends come andvisits me and then they leave because I
just get so excited being with themall the time and seeing them all the
time, and then it's back tome just being with my cats. So
it was a tough transition, butI decided that I was going to have
so much fun and I was goingto be present. I was like,
you know what, I'm going tobe present. I'm not gonna let the

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sadness of my people leaving me affectmy day and I'm just gonna go show
up, be my extra self andhave fun on and so I did that.
The first thing I did was gotall my business out the way,
I had to shoot some videos.I had to shoot some social stuff,
and then I went straight to thebar. I started drinking. I had
like one drink. I wanted tobe stable because I still had to do

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my radio show live there. Butthen Jelly Roll went on and I was
like drinking with my coworkers, andthen freaking flow Rida went on. Well,
first we did the meeting great withflow Rida and we took pictures with
him. He was super sweet.He's huge, like hell at all,
like six something in like big,has his like chains. It was looking

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fresh, like this is Flowrida.And we first announced the show. I
was like Floorrida, like okay,like all right, flow Rida. But
when I saw him in person,I was like dang, like this is
an icon, like this is alegend. And then a floor Rida hit
the stage while we were recording ourshow live on the side of the stage,

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and Floorrida is bringing out bottles andbottles and like shoving alcohol down my
throat. I'm on stage tworking likeapple bottom jeans boots with the fur next
to flow Ride. It is crazy, like it is insane to me,
Like I have a boyfriend, soI'm not gonna be you know, backed
it up on a floor Ride andI'm gonna be respectful. But I wanted
to so bad. I was justlike, I want to walk off.

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Flow Ride is so bad. Ijust want to like get dirty on this
stage. But it was crazy,like a whole bunch of girls were on
stage talking with him. He wasliterally just pouring alcohol into our mouse.
It was all over the stage.He was just shaking champagne bottles, just
squirting us all with them. Itwas I couldn't even believe it was real
life, Like I'm getting excited justthinking about it. And I was having

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so much fun and then Maxwell writtenme off the stage. But like,
come, I wait to finish thisbreak whift of talk here we've shot here.
I'm just like, yo, onehundred, love you so much.
I'm Cristel. We're live at Jacobsays, flow Rider literally just poured a
shot of my mouth. Floor Riderjust gave me a rose like I just
dropped a low on stage to flowRide that you better come down here right
now. I love you like itwas a hot, beautiful mess. But

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I mean, when you schedule meto be live on the radio and you
have flow ride in the air,like, what do you expect me to
do? What do you expect meto do? So it was really fun.
It was just the time of mylife. And it was done by
like six thirty in the afternoon.So I got my cabooth in a little
car and I just ride shared allthe way back to the city. Because

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I had a morning shift that nextday. I was chugging water. I
had my morning shift. It wasall chill and Saturday after work, I
linked up with my girlfriend slash boyfriend, dj Yo Yoli. She is a
worldwide DJ. She DJ's everywhere crackingand popping in Las Vegas, and she

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was in town to DJA Tribute Nightin Brooklyn. She does these every year.
She did them last year and itwas so fun, and this year
she was back at it again.Because I was severely intoxicated from the night
before, I had a crazy hungoverand because my esophagus was on fire.
Y'all know I have a problem withacid reflex in my esophagus and stomach.

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I was like, we're not goingto drink but and I'm not going to
go out with you tonight, butwe're gonna have a good old day in
the town. So Saturday, whenI got off my shift, I played
tour guide with Yoli and I tookher to all of my like a lot
of my favorite places in the city. There were some markets, we went
to Washington Square Park, I tookher to Bryant Park. I took her
to some sightseeing places, and wewent to dinner, and we would have

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appetizers everywhere as well. I meanjust being with her. I just I
miss my family, I miss myfriends. I miss Yoli. I only
get to see her when I'm inVegas. Like I literally only see Yoli
when I'm in Vegas. That's againshorter and shorter every year. I used
to go to Vegas like three,maybe four times a year. Now it's
a getting cut down to just oncefor iHeartRadio Music Festival, or twice because

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some of my family lives there nowfor the holidays. But I miss her
so much and I love her andjust seeing all of her manifestations are coming
true. Everything that she's wanted iscoming true. She is just glowing and
doing so well and making amazing connections. And when you just see your friends

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glow up and her and I havegone through like the pits together like we
have gone through the worst of theworst and have been there for each other.
So I'm just seeing where we arenow and the growth. I'm just
so proud of her, and I'mso happy for everything that she is accomplishing.
So it was really great for mysoul to see her. I just

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couldn't go out. I just reallycouldn't. I had church the next day,
and I had to work because Ihad to be at Taylor Swith concert
at my Life Stadium. Oh myGod, for me, I have to
work at Taylor Swith concert. SoI called it a night. Early.
On Saturday night, my other Pettymagavi, was in town. She was in
town with some friends, so Ididn't feel bad that I didn't hang out
or see her because she was procupiedin doing her own thing. And I

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just just did not feel like drinkingthat night because I knew that I drank
Friday and then I wanted to drinkfor Taylor's show at my Life. So
Sunday I woke up. I wasfine, I was rested, I went
to church, I was of myfellowship. I hosted hospitality again, and
then here we freaking go Taylor Swift'serastur I am one of the biggest swifties

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in the whole world. I'm goingto say that right now since her my
Space days. Taylor is the reasonI started picking up the guitar. I
know how to play the guitar.I started playing because of Taylor. I
started writing music because of Taylor.Every single album back to Front Love Folklore
maybe not my favorite evermore. Itwas getting tough, but we bounced back

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with Midnights, my favorite album ofall time. Of hers, it's really
hard, I mean, speak Nowis up there, So's Red, SOA's
Lover my all time favorite song,obviously love and being able to go to
her show. Oh and also Iwas hosting the little activation that we had
at the show, So we hadone of those three sixty cams with different

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tailor shift eras and all the backgroundsof it, and it was just iconic.
And I got to take my bestbest brand mushell. So we headed
to MetLife. We went on thetrain. I made her to pack some
alcohol and goodies so I would beprepared for it. We show up early.
We get there at like five tothe show doesn't start until eight,

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and I'm making sure to get allof my social media stuff out the way
because I don't want to look likea hot, sloppy mess on socials.
I get some cringe ger naws outthe way, which was good. And
then also Zee one hundred has anentire speaker and microphone and we're only playing
Taylor songs. Now, I'm notgoing to be the annoying person thinking that
I can outsing Taylor. So I'mnot gonna karaoke like that is. Nobody

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wants to hear that. People wantto hear Taylor. I'm gonna do my
best Taylor Swift impersonator situationer. Sothat's exactly what I did. In my
white cowboy shiny boots, in mypink shiny fringe a dress, in my
big old hair do. I wasa Taylor Swift impersonator, and people thought

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I was dead as hired. Imean, sure, me and Taylor might
have different body types. I mightbe a little thicker than a snicker compared
to Taylor, but that was mystage. It was me on the concourse
of MetLife, performing for you likeyou could have thought it was Taylor.
It was so much fun. Peoplewere asking it to take videos of me,
taking pictures with me. I reallygot into it because one else in

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my life am I going to bea Taylor Swift impersonator. And it was
iconic, it was a thick.I had the time of my life.
It was literally a dream come true. And while I was doing it,
on the side, I would hidebehind a bush and take shots. So
me and Michelle were we weren't likesuper super sloppy by the time we got
because we wanted to pace ourselves.I wanted to make sure that I took

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my last SIPs of alcohol while Iwas singing Lover and watching Taylor perform Lover
for me. So me and Michellewe are sprinting in. We get into
our seats, the best seats inthe house, like literally center, it's
like section one hundredth center. Wesee the whole arena, we see the

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whole stage, and a Michelle justgoing and getting trulys in white claws for
us. We're just chugging drinking wateras well, like we're making sure that
we're not gonna die. And thenthe woman next to us there's these like
two funny ratchet chicks who like,who are the only people that brought four

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twenty accessories? And I'm like crackingup looking at them going off, and
I am just like having the besttime of my life. So Taylor Swift,
I mean everything, like bawling myeyes out, like I just can't
wait until the day I find thelove of my life. And I am
just screaming Taylor Swift's lover to hisface and he just loves it and appreciates

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it so much, Like I reallyhaven't found someone yet that I love as
much, or love enough or connectto the song enough to like sing that
two and four like a partner,you know what I'm saying. So I
just I cannot wait for that day. I really cannot. And what I
tell you, Taylor is everything likeshe every song, every word. We

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are there from beginning to end.And then it's the dread of figuring out
how to get home from freaking MetLife Stadium and New Dang Jersey. I
hate Met Life Stadium. I've toldyou before that when I went to see
Lady Gaga there, it took usthree and a half hours to get home.
And we heard that if you takethe train home, if you take

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the New Jersey trains at home,it's the easiest and fastest way. Because
when we tried to take a ridesharelast time again, it took three and
a half hours. So Michelle andI am we're fine, Like, we
are not tipping over. We arenot hella hella drunk. By this point,
we have already paced ourselves maturely enoughto be like only like fort drunk

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on our way home. So we'relooking at the train and we're seeing this
the longest line I've ever seen inmy life, Like this zig zag is
unlike anything. And I'm like Michelle, no, we are bombarding all these
barricades. We are. This isthe game plan. You're gonna follow me
and we're just going to cut thewhole thing and jump over every single barricade
because it's zig zag barricades and deweyand dewey. Yes, we flip in

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dow. We made it on thefirst train out of MetLife into Manhattan,
Yes we did. Now the problemis the conjunction train. The conjunction junction,
what's your function? The mess wasgetting onto the connecting trainer actually got
us to Manhattan. Because now there'smore and more people on these platforms and

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the trains are packed and like likeliterally sardines, you cannot move. So
I run from the connector to thenext junction. And Michelle's now on the
edge of the door. She hasone foot in the train, one foot
out the train. Like, Michelle, get your foot in. She's like,

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I can't. There's room, Isaid, Michelle, get in.
And now, like the people aroundus are getting mad because we're kind of
like holding up the train. I'mlike, Michelle, get in, And
now the people are like, getoff, get on the next train.
Just get off the next train.There's no room for you, guys.
There's no room you guys. Getget in. Like now the sweeties are
revolting against us. And I'm justlike Michelle, if you don't get your

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foot in here. And the guythat's like checking the doors, there is
literally a person closing door by doorof the trains. He goes. He
guys like, there's a next trainin two minutes. There's an next train
in two minutes. And I'm I'mI know that even if there is the
next train in two minutes, it'sgonna take us forty five minutes to get
out of here if we get onthe next train. I already know.

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And I need to go home.Mommy works tomorrow. I need to get
home, Like Michelle, get on, get on. She's like, Crystal,
I can't. I cannot get on. I don't fit. I don't
fit. And now they're getting rowdy. Now the Swifties are like, get
off. Yeah, I'm the nexttrain. It's in t two minutes.
The next rae's and two minutes.You guys need to get off, please
get off, get off. I'mlike, oh my god, Michelle.
Michelle's like, Crystal, just gowithout me, Like it's okay, I'm
gonna get on the next train.And I'm not gonna go without Michelle.

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Like I am not leaving, LikeI want to get home to trust me,
but I cannot leave a friend behind. That's just not the kind of
person that I am. Like,if I'm going with you, I'm leaving
withcha, and I ain't leaving youbehind. And I know some people,
and I've been in some situations wherepeople have left me behind, and those
people they ain't it no matter what. Like I was not raised like that.

(29:03):
I was raised that wherever you go, you stick together, and if
you're with friends, like you don'tleave friends behind and you don't let friends
leave. So I'm not gonna leaveMichelle behind. I'm not gonna let her
stay there. I felt defeated,like I've never felt defeated in my life.
And as soon as we got off, I took my foot off the

(29:26):
train. Everyone started cheering for us, like yeah, good, get off,
get on extra. And then thedoors closed and the train takes off,
and I am like, so defeated. Michelle's like, I'm sorry,
I told you go without me.I'm like, it's okay, Michelle.
I'm not gonna ever leave. Iwould never leave you. I would never
leave anybody. It's fine, it'sfine. I guess we'll just wait for
two minutes. We wait for twominutes that felt like twenty hours. We

(29:51):
make our way on the next trainand we have to wait until the whole
train is packed. Now we're waitinguntil the other conjunction train comes. Yes,
it's forty five, and I lookat Mi Sean. I'm just like
Michelle, we could have been there, we could have been home sleeping right
now. She's like, you wereright, I should have figured out a
way. I'm like, Michelle,I know I was right. I know
I was right. She's like,I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm gonna

(30:11):
say it's okay. It's Okay,I'm not mad. It's fine. It's
fine. At least we have seats, you know, like, it's fine.
At least we have seats. Soyeah, the chain the train took
another forty five fifteen minutes until ittook off, until it took off,
and it was only a ten minuteride. It was only a ten minute
conjunction junction ride. But it's okay. And mind you, my feet are

(30:32):
bleeding, they are blistering in thesedang boots. I am limping and have
been limping since we left. Sonow we finally make it Depen station,
weake it a Penn station, andnow I have to figure out how to
get a tax seat. And Michellelike, I'm just very quick with it,
Like I'm just like one two onetwo out. And Michelle she like

(30:52):
lollygags. She's like, oh,how am I gonna? Where am I
gonna? And I'm like, Michelle, come on, like you know how
to get home. Just you're gonnatake the taxi. Just get the next
taxi. She's like, how I'mjust call the taxi, Michelle, You've
lived in New York for how long? Just hail a taxi will come for
you. You're going the exact oppositeway of me. I'm going the opposite

(31:15):
way of you. I'm sorry,like I cannot walk anymore. My feet
are bleeding and blistering, like Ineed to go home. So in this
situation, I am going to leaveyou because now we've made it on the
island, that I've done the bestI could do, Michelle, and you're
going all the way downtown. Youcan find a taxi from here or right.
I'm gonna wobble and find one formyself. So I'm wobbling where I'm

(31:38):
literally dropped off a Madison Square garden. There are swifties all around me.
It's like an Aunt farm in here, and I'm I'm limping down thirty fourth
and eighth Avenue, and every singletaxi is taken because this is the busiestreet
ever and because all the swifties aregetting off, so that means I have
to walk. I have two armycrawl in my fringe sparkly dress and my

(32:07):
white shiny cowboy boots and my bigold hair. I have to army crawl
two avenues because my feet cannot takethis anymore. Do I make it?
Absolutely? Do I hail a taxi? Absolutely? I fond floors, crawl
into the taxied and I make ithome. I make it home, and

(32:34):
it was probably like mid mid liket, like midnight and a half or something
like that. I don't know.I can barely rip these boots off because
they my feet are so swollen andblistered and bloody that they like they're at
this point one with the boot,they are like dried and crusted into my
boot, like the song comes offin my boot. As I'm like still

(33:01):
kind of drunk, very tired,so hungry, so dehydrated. With those
boots off, I slither into bedand I just croake. I croak until
twelve thirty the next day, whichis like the little last second that I

(33:22):
have to roll out out of bed. The next day is a Monday.
The next day is Memorial Day Monday, and like a dufus, I took
the last Monday off to spend itwith my boyfriend. I shouldn't have done
that, Absolutely ten out of tenshould not have done that. I should
have worked that Monday. I shouldhave worked and then took in off Memorial

(33:44):
Day. I knew this was goingto happen. I knew I was going
to be a hot mess for thatshift, but my coworker, my partner,
took it off, so now Ihave to do the whole shift by
myself, which is which is fine, But when you're hungover, rused,
bleeding, blistered, sore, thatsequence fringe dress ripped up my entire arms

(34:08):
because whenever you wear sequins like ano sleeve sequence, your under arms,
the chafing is on another level.So my under arms are raw chicken,
raw bleeding chicken. So when youare having to push buttons and talk on
Memorial Day, I'm just I amin utter pain. But I did this

(34:29):
to myself. I did this tomyself, never taking a day off again
for anyone. So it was thebest and the worst. I mean,
when you go see a Taylor Swiftaerostur, it is war zone. It
like it is a war like youand your entire tailor Swift repertoire. You

(34:52):
are literally going and fighting for yourlove of Taylor, and some of you
might make it and some of youmight make it out bleeding without a voice.
So that was my Monday, andI was still in full recover mood,
like I had to wear like flipflops to work because I couldn't walk.
I was still wobbling all right.I had to take a taxi home

(35:15):
from work because I couldn't walk.I sleep, drink water all day Monday
night. Tuesday, I wake upwith a text from my co worker,
Hey, my bad, I'm notgonna make it in again today. I'm
like, are you freaking kidding me? Give me a break, give me
a dank break. But here Iam again doing the same thing, limping

(35:36):
to work, still raw, chickened, like I finally washed my hair,
it's crusty, but we make itto work the second day. I finished
work that night and have like aterrible conversation, like a conversation nobody wants
to have. And then the nextday I have to wake up at five

(35:58):
in the morning because I have anescoptop endoscopy endoscopy. As I've mentioned,
I have a really odd, unbearablesituation when it comes to my esophagus and
then when it comes to acid reflex. It just happens when you're a throatcoat.

(36:21):
But it's been so bad that alot of people have reckoned. Ammended
me to go to the doctors.I went to the doctor and he checked
me out a little bit, andhe said, we're gonna do endoscopy for
you, which is when they putyou to sleep and they put shove a
camera down your throat into your stomachto see what the flip is going on.
So I couldn't drink or eat,Like it wasn't that bad, like

(36:43):
midnight that night before, but Idid have to wake up butt crack early,
and you know me, like,I hate waking up early. It's
the pain of my existence. Butfor science, for health, I gotta
get myself together here, okay,adulting. And so I got up hella
early and went to the endoscopy toget that endoscopy thing done. And my

(37:08):
doctor said that I might feel fineafter or I might have to take the
day, just depending on you.And I went under. They did the
whole thing, they put the cameraeverything and everything, and then I woke
up and it felt like someone hadfisted my entire esophagus, like it hurt

(37:29):
soap bad, and I could likebarely talk, like I felt my whole
like neck, and like even belowmy neck, like areas I didn't even
know could feel bruised, felt bruised. I don't know if I'm a baby,
I don't know if it's just reallysensitive down there. I just you
know, it's just been a lot. I was screaming at the top of
my lungs for Taylor. I wastaking shots and alcohol and screaming at the

(37:51):
top of my lungs for flow Rita. I had like a crazy conversation Tuesday
night. It was just like alot. So I get out of the
endoscopy and thank you too, myLord and Savior Jesus Christ, my best
friend, my twin David, producerDavid. He picked me up when the
doctor told me, like, youneed someone to pick you up because they

(38:12):
need to sign you out. Iwas like, I can't even think of
anybody that would do that for me. And the first person I thought about
was you know what, David.I think David would do that for me,
because you know, I got peoplelike that out here. I was
thinking of asking maybe Michelle, butshe has kids and gets them up for
school and stuff, so I didn'treally want to ask her to go out
of her way. And my othercoworkers like a no coworker, we're gonna

(38:34):
want to pick me up at ninein the morning and sign me out,
like the only person I really thoughtlike, Okay, maybe he would care
enough was David, and David hadabsolutely no problem. So sweet. He's
just he is everything for me.I'm so lucky for David. So David
went out of his way and topick me up, and I was just
feeling so sore, but I wasalso hella hungry and hella thirsty. He
dropped me off of the store soI can get some broccoli tureder soup,

(38:57):
and I emailed my boss. Iwas like, yo, I thought I
was going to come in today,but I do not feel good at all
after this procedure I had, I'mgoing to take a day and he's like,
yeah, cool, no problem.So I spent all of Wednesday just
in my room, crying of painand watching this amazing show on Amazon Prime
called Jury Duty. Oh my god, I fall in love with that guy.

(39:21):
Ronald Oh ten out of ten.He is everything. Oh he is
wow. Wow. He actually likejust came to Ze one hundred to do
the morning show and I was like, dang, I wish i'd have seen
the move the show before that.I would have been all over that.
But yeah. So there's this funnyshow on Amazon Prime called Jury Duty.

(39:44):
It essentially is like the Truman Show. Jim. Yeah, Jim Carrey,
right, Jim, Yeah, JimCarrey. The Truman Show where they tell
this guy that they want to doa documentary about jury duty, but it's
actually all made up. It's alla scene. They're all paid actors.
Everything is an act and like funnystuff keeps happening in the shows. There's

(40:07):
like really weird characters and they it'sjust kind of to see how this guy
Ronald is gonna is gonna react.And Ronald is like the sweetest, nicest,
Like if you could craft like thenicest and like cutest man, it
would be Ronald. And he's twentynine. He's like fine as hell and
he's just so sweet. I waslike, Ronald, Ronald, marry me.

(40:31):
Yeah, He's everything. So Ispent the whole day watching and like
like crying from pain, but alsolike laughing so hard because of this show,
Like all day. I binged theentire season, and I also binged
the entire like when the actors talkover it. So I saw it essentially
two times and it was so good. So that was a great Wednesday.

(40:52):
But yeah, I didn't come intowork yesterday. That's why I didn't drop
the pod Monday. I was deadTuesday, still dead. Wednesday actually physically
in pain again, and today I'mback. So there it is. I
hope you enjoyed it. Another episodeof Crystals Nightcap. I need to sleep,

(41:14):
I need to drink a lot ofwater, and I need Jesus most
of all. I am off thisweekend, which is great, but I
have so much work that I haveleft for tomorrow, which is not great.
I have some people in town.I do have to work on Sunday
afternoon, but it's going to bea fun shift because it's I'm like hosting
at a soccer team, so that'sgoing to be really fun. And then

(41:36):
it's David's birthday this weekend, soSaturday night we're going to do stuff with
him, so it's going to bea good nick I'm going to try to
watch a Little Mermaid with my besties. I haven't watched it yet, but
I've heard great things. And yeah, that's why I'm very late. That's

(41:57):
my excuse. All right, letme drop it low to flow, write
a let me straighten all my vocalcords to Taylor Swift and blister home.
Let me get a camera shoved downmy esophagus, and let me live my
best life this weekend, all right, I love you so so much.
We're going to do our final wordsof encouragement. A making meaning. You

(42:21):
don't find meaning so much as youmake it. In any arena of life,
the meaning you experience is a functionof what you put into it.
Is a particular job or relationship orjourney meaningful that depends on how you invest
yourself in it, embracing responsibility,working through challenge, being creative, dependable,
persistent. These create meaning in spendingtime and utilizing resources. Life's meaning

(42:45):
is lived. Places that have nomeaning for anyone else can be especially meaningful
to you because of what you've donein those places. Consider what you're doing
today to make meaning in the placewhere you are. Offer time, attention,
and an effort to it, andit will have meaning. Do what
you can do, and what youdo brings new meanings into being. Life

(43:07):
is as meaningful as you choose tomake it. With your time, with
your focus, with your actions.Make meaning. Oh Oh my gosh,
that's so good, that's so true. I mean, this really makes me
think of the whole flow ride,a situation at the Janks boardwalk, because,

(43:28):
as I mentioned, I was justlike not feeling good, Like I
just I get so emotionally drained.I get so emo when my fam and
friends leave me. And at theend of the day, I was like,
I have an amazing job, andI have this amazing event like at
a beach where I get to beon the radio and I get to drink

(43:52):
if I want to. I shouldn't, but I should can. Maybe I
won't as much next year. Sorry, if my bosses are listening. I
wasn't that bad. Okay, itwasn't that bad. I made sure to
drink the most, like after theshow's done. But I really was like,
I'm gonna just go off and makesure that I have the best time
by myself. And I did,and I did, and same with Taylor.

(44:13):
Like a lot was going on inmy mind while I was at Taylor's
show, and a lot of ithad to do with the relationship I'm in
and like just unsettling feelings that I'vebeen having. But I kind of did
put a lot of that aside.I was like, I'm just gonna have
fun me and Taylor and Michelle andthese amazing girls next to us. And

(44:34):
I did, and I had somuch fun. And this is really true,
like making meaning has to do withyou and what you put into that,
so I really needed to hear this. Thank you to myself and to
us, to all of us,Thanks all of us for being here.
Thank you. I love you soso much. To make sure you subscribe

(44:58):
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you're really liking it. I'm livein New York City Monday through Friday two
to six on ZE one hundred,New York's number one hit music station.
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