July 15, 2025 • 51 mins
In tonight’s episode of Crystal’s Nightcap, the worst escape room Zaddy and I ever did, our friends pull up for 4th of July weekend, fighting with some karens, getting denied from every lounge in NYC, browning out for the first time in a long time, and MORE!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello to your beautiful chest to Chugger, It's Crystal litl
Saz back with another episode of Crystal's Nightcap Tonight the
worst escape Room Zaddie and I ever did.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Our friends pull up for Fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Fighting with some Karens, getting denied from every lounge in
New York City, browning out for the first time in
a long time, and more.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, who's in here? It's so dark? Ew? What's dripping?
You have to step on something something? You're now inside
Crystal's case.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now, Zaddy really wanted to be on the pod this week,
but poor baby, he had the SuDS. When he got in,
he had the SuDS. He was sniffley, he was coffee
throat was gone. So we just relaxed. I took it in.
I told you last week. I think that I made
some Carlito for him, gott a lile boyl some so
Beata so that he could feel better. But I was
(00:54):
still dragging him out and about in these streets of
New York cityy When we woke up Saturday, it was
so hot. I mean, there's a crazy heat wave going on.
But we just wanted to do kind of nothing but
something at the same time. So we took a little
stroll to Central Park and we checked out the new pool.
They had had the pool open before at the Davis Center.
(01:16):
I think it converts into a skating rink during the
fall and then ice rink during the winter. This is
the first time in many years that they converted it
back to a pool, and this was only I think
the second day that it was open. So we walked
over there, not to get in the pool. I just
want to check it out. I just want to see
the vibes. I just want to see what was going on.
We pulled up around eleven in the morning, and girl,
(01:38):
the line was so crazy. I don't even know why
people were standing in the line. That line must have
taken probably three four hours. It was kind of a
hot mess. They were having intervals with the pool. There
wasn't even that many people in the pool. It's a
huge pool.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a big pool, like.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Like as big as the Conquered Waves in at the
Conquered Water Park. What is it not stop raging waters,
it's the other one. Oh my gosh, bro my brain
is like frying. It's kind of scary that I forget
places named in the Bay because it's even though it's
not been that long that I haven't lived there. Water World,
(02:20):
it hasn't been that long that I haven't lived there,
but I just don't spend that much time there. So
normal things highways, streets, freeways, parks, restaurants that I used
to go to and grew up in the Bay. I
like forget the name. Sometimes we yes water World and conquered.
I believe it's as big as a wave pool there,
but they just didn't have a whole lot of people
(02:41):
in there. The line was crazy. I was shook that
people were even waiting in the line, but it was
nice to just see what it was like and just
decide to never ever go back because we're not waiting
in that line.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Afterwards, we had a little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Lunch and then we met up with our friends. Oh
my gosh, I don't think i've ever told you the story.
I think I might have told you the story of
our friend. We'll call him Louis. All right, So back
within like the first year that I lived here in
New York City, I was doing my podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It got on the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I got the actual newspaper, and to like kind of
promote that I was in the New York Post with
Crystal's nightcap. I and my my good close friend, my
neighbor Jace, we went to Times Square and run a
round and we were just like doing content with the
(03:33):
newspaper that I was on to strangers. And afterwards, to celebrate,
went to one of my favorite rooftops at the time,
which is not my favorite roof top anymore because now
they're charging to get in. When I literally invented you,
I invented you. But yes, we went to this rooftop
and we were partying, and we met this couple Louie
and his partner, and it turned out that Louis was
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from the Bay and I was sharing that I'm on
the radio and on the newspaper.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He's, oh my god, you're famous. You're so cool, You're
gonna be so big. You're like Ryan Seacris watch out.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, righte yeah, rye
right yeah right. But we had stayed friends since that day.
He was buying us drink, so we're having so much fun,
and we had stayed friends. Every time I would post something,
he would like celebrate it and throw so much love
to me. And whenever Louis was back in the city,
which wasn't very very often, but we would make sure
to link up because we just really vibe that day,
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and that hasn't really happened with a lot of people
that I've met around here.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So Louis was always this guy that and him and his.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Partner who she is just amazing, who is older than us,
but also it's so sweet and fun and lives in
the Bay and just good vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We were just we are both just the life of
the party.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So down the road I meet Zaddi, and Zaddi and
I start dating and we're a boyfriend and girlfriend. And
Zaddy is working hard. He's in his tech sales world.
He's trying to expand the business. He's going to these
conferences around the country. He'll go to Austin, he'll go
to Vegas, He'll go to Florida for these conferences, these
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tech conferences.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And he learned about this up and coming.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Brand that was really big and they're obviously in the
tech space and they're doing something very different, and Zaddy
loved the idea of it and just thought it was
great and really wanted to get in there early to
work with them. So he met one of the guys
at the conference, and he thought this guy was fun
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and cool, and so they became cool, but like not
that that cool. And because he only met at the conference,
and so after the conference, Zaddi was gonna invite him
to a Warriors game because this man lived in San
Francisco and so he wanted to invite him to a
Warriors game and like was hoping that he would go,
and like he felt like they kicked it off with
the vibe, but he doesn't want to be too pushy,
but he really wants to meet the C class levels
(05:56):
of that business. So this guy is a good connect.
So Zaddi's talking to me about this man and about
how he's really excited to inviuy him to a word
a game and means, Zaddie are at Danner. I'm like,
what's this man's name? And he goes, his name is Louie,
and I'm like, Louie, what's this guy's LinkedIn? Like, let
me check it out. So I see this guy on
his LinkedIn, I say, Babe, I think I know this man,
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because mind you, I haven't seen Louis in a while.
But I'm like, Babe, I think I know this man.
I think I've partied with him before. I think I'm
friends with him. So I go to my Instagram and
sure enough, it is the same guy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's Louie.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's my like degenerate, like diabolical, like hilarious, like party animal.
Louie is this high level, this high level designer at
a pretty big tech startup, and we're like crying, laughing,
like babe, if you would have told me from forever
(06:54):
ago that this was Louie, that this was who you
needed to talk to, like, I would have had to
end a meeting with him like yesterday. We had been
partying with us on the bay like when we first met.
That's so funny. So Zaddy invites Louie to the Warriors game.
They're all hanging out, and Zaddy tells because at this time,
I'm still covering Zaddy's face.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Zaddy is still known as mister Clean to the world.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And Louie is always like making fun and joking about
the mister Clean face. He's like, hah, that's hilarious, Oh
my gosh, killing it. But Louie doesn't know that mister
Clean is actually Zaddy. So Zaddi invites Louie to a
Warrior's game. They're all hanging out with the sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Or whatever, and then.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Zaddy tells him, Oh, yeah, I have a girlfriend now
and he's like, oh really, who Crystal. They're like, oh Crystal,
who's Crystal? Crystal Rosas.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It was like wait what?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And then Zaddy shows Louie a picture of me in
him together and he's like, wait, I'm like not okay,
Like I love her, Like she's the most adorable little
thing ever, Like she's famous, you're dating, Like, Louie jokes
that I'm famous. We know that I'm not famous. He
just jokes that I'm famous. So he's just like, she's famous,
probably are you kidding me? And then it was just
such a funny, hilarious situation. And so Louie was in
(08:09):
town this weekend with his amazing lady, and he was
in town with some friends. So we were all gonna
get dinner together and then link up and see what
the night had entailed for us. So we ended up
booking reservations for them at this place how we really
love called Awkwoods and the Flat Iron, and it's so good.
It's an Italian Japanese place, which is pretty odd, but
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it's so good. They have sushi, but they also have
pizzas there, and it's cute. It's a foofity foffye. It
has a really good vibe. It's kind of like a
sophisticated and like more modern and more.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Dimly lit catch. So that's what this place was.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And we were having dinner there and we're celebrating that
Louis got a promotion, really big news for Louie, so
we're really excited for him and his new endeavor and
we're thankful that we got to celebrate with him because
we've never actually hung out with Louie together. Zaddi's hung
out with Louie in Florida, in Vegas. I've never hung
(09:08):
out with Louis outside of New York City, and we
have been back home at the same time, but Louie
has had family over, so it was kind of like
a hot mess but not finally We're all going to
hang out together and it's everything, like he's just so
fun and we're just ordering this and that drinks and
blah blah blah. His cousin and her friends are there,
so it was such a good vibe. And then afterwards
the group was kind of there was I think seven
(09:30):
of us or six, yeah, seven of us. So the
group was on different vibes of what they wanted to
do because it was Pride weekend and part of the
group was going to celebrate Pride and me and Zaddy
we're not in that like uns club like bar with
plastic cups, era and the loud music.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's just it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Zaddi's very sensitive to that sometimes, so we wanted to
go to like a low key lounge and not It's
what Louis wanted to do too. But Louis was also
here to visit his cousin that he like never sees,
and the cousin and her friends wanted to go to
a gay bar in the West village. So we all
go there together and we're waiting outside a girl, there
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is a line girl, there is a cover charge girl.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There is strobe lights.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Going on in there. There are like NYU kids stumbling out.
Zadi just looks. I mean, I could tell he's about
a crash out, like he's just not having it. Me.
I could go like anywhere, I have no problem, but
Zaddi's and I've explained it to before.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He's in HSP.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He gets hyper sensitive overload sometimes, especially in crowds and
sweaty crowds and a loud, sweaty crowds. Like Zaddy is
just a tall man, like he just is always getting
knocked over right people.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
He just that's just not his scene. And like.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The girl's wearing no clothes and like the guy's wearing
no clothes, Like it's just it's not Zaddy's see, Like
he just likes to be chill and a lounge, dim lights,
sipping on some like very very low alcohol level if anything,
a mocktail, like maybe jazz playing. Zaddi is the ying
(11:15):
to my yang, Like you know me, you know that
from day one, we have just been club rats and
we have been at the parties.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But you know it was, you know a few.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Years ago that I started kind of aging out of
that culture too. Remember when when Zaddy and I broke
up and I ended up on a boat rave here
in New York City, and I almost wanted to jump
off the boat because the music was just too loud
and it was just too much for me. Like I'm
thirty one now, Like I just I really have partied
really really hard, and I'm okay to do that sometimes,
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but especially if Zaddy, I just want to make sure,
like my man is happy too. So he gave me
that look that I knew he was about a crash
out if we went into this place. So I told Louie,
I said, Hey, Louie, we're gonna go take a walk
and we're gonna meet you guys like maybe in like
thirty or forty minutes. We just need to breathere. And
he said, oh, you guys don't want to come, Let's go, like,
come on, let's go party. I'm like, I know, I know,
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but you know, I think this is just isn't really
Zaddy scene. And it's like not really mine right now either,
Like we just we kind of wanted to do something
a little low key.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So we just are gonna go take a walk.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We're gonna go take a walk to Washington Square Park
and we'll meet you in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like it's okay. And said, oh yeah, yeah, no problem, okay,
we'll see you guys in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So Louie waits for his cousins that are pulling up
on the taxi and then me and Zaddy we start
walking down to Washington Square Park and Zaddi's like, thank
you so much for handling that with so much poise,
and for not throwing me completely under the bus. That
was a one crystal because I have been known and
I have in the past kind of used Zaddi to
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throw things under the bus when we both don't want
to do something which isn't nice, like, and I don't
do it like on purpose, but it's just.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Easy for me to pass the blame to him.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But in this case, I too did not want to
be an a packed, sweaty club with naked people drinking
out of plastic cups like that just wasn't what I
wanted to do on my Saturday night for Pride weekend,
because Pride weekend just gets so crazy. So Zaddy and
I start walking around and we head to Washington Square
Park and it looks like the purge. There are police barricades.
(13:18):
It's what time is it, It's probably like eleven thirty.
There are a whole bunch of young kids. There's garbage everywhere,
there's broken beer bottles, there's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Empty vape cases.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You can't say there's cigarette boxes because there's no more
cigarette boxes, but there's vape cases everywhere. There's just you know,
these kids, these kids instead of leaving like cartons of cigarettes.
They just leave dead vapes like all over. There's like
it's like zombies walking around. It is the apocalypse. It
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is so scary. Washington Square Park. It's like a warm,
humid night, probably seventy eight degrees. And I go up
to the police. I'm like, is was there a party
or something here? Like did something happen today? And They're
like no, this is like every night of summer. We're like,
are you serious. They're like yeah, we kick everybody out
after midnight.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm like, dang, So it's kind of crazy to see.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I just I've never really been around Washington Square Park
that late, just roaming around, and I honestly never want
to go back again.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That was scary as heck. People are in the water
fountain like splashing around. It is. It's a sight to see.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'll tell you that, if you are still in your
delinquent era, I would say definitely hang out at Washington
Square Park after ten pm any hot weeknight of summer
in New York City because it is a sight to see.
We didn't even feel safe being there, like like we
didn't even want to be there because we thought we're
going to bullied by some of the college kids.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So we left.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We went to one of our favorite bars that we
go to around Union Square call Dear Irving, and then
we went to another bar I've actually never been to
down there, but I love the Lilies. This one is
called Lily's Establishment. It's also there in Union Square. There's another,
not to get confused, Lily's Times Square. That one's also
my favorite, or Lily's Hell's Kitchen. But yeah, this one
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was Lily's Establishment, and we're familiar with Aria, and we're
familiar with the drinks. So we're just getting like a
drink or two and hanging out there. And then our homie,
Louie comes back with his girlfriend after they raged, I
mean they were raging. They were unsing and he was
just sending us videos having a good old time, and
me and Zaddie were just chit chatting. And then we
hang out for like an hour and a half or
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two more with Louie and his amazing girlfriend, and then
we head back home. We head back home, all good.
That was our day in New York City, Central Park,
all the things. And then Sunday we wake up and
Zaddy's cousins are in town.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I haven't met them before.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
But they're in town because their daughter's birthday, like five
or five years birth and her birthday trip.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Is to go to New York and have the best
New York trip ever.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I'm talking about a tea party at Eloise's the Plaza.
I'm talking about the Central Park Zoo. They're going to
Stardust Diner. They're going to the sugar Factory. Like I
was jealous. I was not part of this itinerary, Like
this itinery was a five year old dream, and because I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A grown adult, I was like, heck yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So they invited us to do the zoo part of it,
and I was so thankful to go hang out with them.
And you know, you get nervous when you don't when
you haven't met part of you know, your spouse's family
or your man's or whatever. But they were so nice
to me. They were so sweet. The little girls were
so silly and funny, and they love Zaddie. They love
their uncle and they're just like poking fun at him
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and like just like playing with him and jumping all
over him. And it was so flipping cute. And the
moms were so fun to hang out with. Two they
were really engaging with me and like talking to me
and trying to learn about me and Zaddy in our
relationship and all the things, because we haven't really been
able to sit down and talk like that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And it was just really nice to get to know them.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And I'm really thankful that they were so sweet and
welcoming and warm to me. And I'm really excited for
the wedding because they're so down and so excited and
asking if we need help with anything. And they live
right by where we're gonna have the wedding, so they're like,
we could have the after party there. I don't think
we're actually gonna have the after party there, but it
was sweet of.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Them to even offer.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But I'm so so so excited that I got to
meet them and they were just the sweetest ever.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So we hang it out the zoo for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And girl, why am I walking down like a path
of the zoo and I feel something attack my neck
and I like try to grab it, but it's not
coming off, you know, and like a bug sticks to you,
maybe a mosquito or something, and it bites you and
then you get it off immediately it'll come off. This
did not come off I was I had to pinch
this thing with my nails, and I look at my
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nail and it's a fricking stinger. I got stung in
the neck by a bee. Luckily I'm called cool and
it did her. But I didn't cry. I didn't I
didn't make a huge scene. I made a moderate scene.
And the kids weren't there, so I didn't scare anybody.
But yeah, your girl got stung by the bee at
the Central Park Zoo and then we went to hang
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out with the snow leopard. We got to see the
legs of the snow leopard. I think they were a
little scared. But the most coolest part for me was
watching the grizzly bear. It was just so big, and
we were there for a second trying to see if
it was gonna move because it was just sitting down
for the longest time. But then finally it got up
and it it did a whole fashion show for us.
It went all around the whole enclosure and it was
so cool to see a huge, huge grizzly bear, and
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Zadi and I took some photos. And then after that
was when we went Fragrance shopping.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I talked to you about that we had our.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Evening at flat Iron, the little Italy stand out front
of Flat Iron, Jadda's signature.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Lacker Quadrantini Gelato Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Hu was working with Loacker for this and promoting this,
and there was a bit a big beautiful line to
meet Jada. Jada, Yeah, Jada, the world renowned chef. And
now Zaddy is obsessed with putting olive oil on his
Sundays and on his ice cream, it on anything, and
he never had had the Loacker wafers before, so he
was like, oh my gosh, I'm obsessed. I actually got
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him like four different flavors to take home, So now
that is one of our staples.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I thank you Loacker and Zaddy.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And I got to go to Broadway to see Harry
Potter and The Curse Child, which is one of my
all time favorite favorite Broadway shows. If you're gonna go
to Broadway, if it comes to the jaw dropping this,
I would go see that one.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It is a little long, but it's so.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Enticing and it's a whole new Broadway show just for
Harry Potter, Like the story was made for Broadway. It's
pretty much Harry Potter's son and what he gets into
and the struggles of being Hairry Potter's flip and sun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The magic on stage is everything. This is my third
time watching it. I will watch it anytime I have
the opportunity. I am so thankful for Harry Potter and
the Curse Child. Anytime they want to have me out,
I will be back. So Zaddy loved it. He was
jaw dropped, he like and I screamed again at the
top of my lungs for another part of it. It's
it's good. It's a little frightening. It's not too frightening
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for the kids, but some parts are a little scary.
You're just looking at the stage and the set design
on what they're doing, thinking, how the flip are they
doing this?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
How are they doing this? So it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And if I were you again, I would go watch
Harry Potter and the Curse Child. And then our friends
came to town, our friends that we went to Greece
with that last year, whole year ago. Oh my gosh,
I want to go back so bad. We had the
best time with them. They're just so easy to travel with.
They're very good at the flow, They're very fun they
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don't have kids, so it's really just us and we
are easily in and now hopping out of ubers.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But they pull up and.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We we go get some drinks, we have some dinner,
we do some funny tiktoks.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I take them to the Edge.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
There's a restaurant called Peak at the Edge, and now
they're forcing you to get a prefixed menu, which really
irks me for lunch, and it double irks me that
they took one of my favorite drink, they're the Bee's Knees.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But the lunch is still pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And they're being more flexible now with the lunch because
when I took my family over New Year's, I took
the duck and our son and my brother and my
little prima. I took them for New Year's for brunch
and the prefixed menu is just too much food. So
they're being more flexible with it now, which was nice.
But yeah, and the good part is that when you
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go and have lunch or dinner at Peak, you automatically
get access to the edge there, which is an attraction.
I've talked about it before, like over one hundred stories
up and you just get these iconic views of New
York City and you're literally on the edge of a
building and there's glass like where you can jump on.
Well you don't, you're not supposed to jump on. Actually
I got in trouble for jumping on it. But there's
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glass that you can just look all the way straight down.
You can step on this glass thing and you can
just look all the way straight down from one hundred floor.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So that was cool.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We did that and then we went to squid Game
the experience. I've actually worked with them before, but they've
been stings.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You with the tickets. That's okay. We paid for them anyways,
and we went because it was fun.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
They are into the newest season of squid Games, and
I just love this experience thing.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Now. Zaddi is very competitive.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I've said this before if we are playing something, if
we're doing something, he wants to win and he's not
happy if he's not winning.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The first part of.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The squid Game experience was the one where you jump
on the glass on the bridge and if you jump
on the wrong one, you fall. They have about their
own rendition of this. Zaddi was in the first group
to do it. And we're all there and you're all
doing it together, but he kind of interpreted the instructions wrong.
So when she said take your first step, he took
a first step, but it you're supposed to take the
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first step to.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
The green one that you remember, and wasn't.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So the first experience, the first step that he got out,
he lost, and I just automatically knew he was going
to be in a salty mood for.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
The entire experience because he was like, what were those instructions?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Like she said the instructions wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
She said take a step, like she didn't take She
didn't say take your step that you need to take,
And in his defense, she did say the instruction is wrong,
but also not in his defense, like he's just so competitive.
Sometimes we're like, boom, he's now salty. But that wasn't
the whole time. I mean the next game, we were
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playing marbles, and I've already played these games before, so obviously,
like I have a little bit of an advantage, so
I'm going to be a little better.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So I start doing a trick with the marbles that
he's like, you're cheating.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You can't do that, You're cheating, And then he ends
up doing the same trick that I'm doing. I'm like, okay, whatever,
we play a few more games in squid game. The experience,
I don't want to spoil it for you, but it's
really fun. It's about an hour you're in You're in
a group with a whole bunch of other strangers, so
you are competing with random people. I think there was
how many of us were there? There were one, two, three, four, eight, twelve, sixty, yeah,
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twenty in a group and you all, you know, by
the end of it, are all together and you're all
kind of having inside jokes and it's really fun.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I would go do that one if I were you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
And then it's time to go figure out what we're
gonna do for New Years.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So one of my.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Church brothers, he works for the City of New York,
and he entered for this lottery for passes for city
employees to get for their friends and family to watch
the Macy's fireworks show on the Brooklyn Promenade. So I
thought this was amazing, because it is a hot mess
trying to watch these New York fireworks from anywhere every
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Fourth of July. The first fourth of July, I was here.
I know, my Primagabi was with me. I don't no,
no no. The first Fourth of July that I was here,
actually we spent it at Coney Island. There was like
a Doja cat event that I hosted, so I did that,
and so it was in Coney Island.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
The second one, I think that's the one.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
That gave at GAVI was at with me and I
don't remember what we did.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I don't know where. I think we watched them for
my roof.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, we watched the fireworks from my roof and my building.
Last year for Fourth of July, I was hosting at
Hudson Yards. It was on the west side the fireworks show.
So I was in an awesome cool spot because I was
just right there on the west side. And then this
year I didn't have anything for work to do, so
I was like, this is a perfect idea, like having
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these these tickets. So it was me, our friends Letty,
and my girl Michelle. We're all gonna hang out at
the Brooklyn Promenade. I brought my blankets, I brought little
charcuterie stuff. I wanted us to get there early so
we can get a good spot, because you know, if
it's free, there's going to be a lot of people.
So We pull up and the area that we're at
is completely blocked off, so it's really good.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
There's not a whole bunch of people there.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We set up our blanket and it's right in front
of the barges that the Macy's fireworks aren't going to
show off, So we're kind of sitting there. The boys
go around find some pizza. Me and Linz are eating
some hummus. Michelle eventually gets there. We get up to
go to the bathroom while the guys are at our spot,
and we come from the back from the bathroom, it
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is crowded like it it's a crowd, and everyone's crowded
around our blanket and I'm like, excuse me, excuse me,
and I go sit in my blanket. Zaddi and his
bro are standing up. Me and Michelle and Linz are
sitting on the blanket and it's kind of getting tense,
like people are starting to step on our blanket. People
are starting to scoot their crusty shoes under our blanket.
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We're just like okay, and then I'm kind of chattering
with the girls. I'm like, should I lift the blanket up?
And there's these like old ladies behind us. Okay, these Karens,
if you will, And they're the ones that are stepping
on our blanket a little bit, asking us to move
some of our stuff, and I'm just like, we've been
here for hours.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Like it's good, we're fine, we're chilling.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
She taps on the man in front of her at
the barricade and is like, Hi, can I squeeze in?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
He goes, I've been here since two pm?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And she just rolls her eyes at him, and then
she kind of looks at me and is like, this
man's saying he's been here since two pm?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Do you believe that? Do you believe?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And I'm like, yes, I do believe that we've been
here since four. We weren't, but I'm like, yes, I
do believe that we've been here since four. And there's
there's people that have been waiting here to get this
good view, and she's kind of scoffs, and then I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
To the girls.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm like, should we lift the blanket up so like
the guys can get closer to us, or the guys,
you guys want to take your shoes off so you
can stand on the blanket.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And the ladies go yeah, you should pick your blankets up,
and we're like okay, and then another lady of the
same care and group goes, yeah, the fire says no blankets,
and I'm just like, well, the cops on U said
with the blankets. They checked her bag, so I don't
know what the problem is. I end up lifting up
the blanket anyways, and as soon as they lift up
the blanket, they swarm us like anchovies.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So now we're all in this like crowd.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's not a huge crowd, but like around it was
packed in, and one of the Karens is right behind me,
and the fireworks are starting, and I like grab Zaddy's hand,
who's like diagonal. I'm like, hey, baby, comes stand right
behind me, like you know, God forbid. I want my
man to be cuddling behind me, and I just want to,
you know, bump it up a little bit behind him
while we're watching this romantic fireworks. And the lady goes, oh, yeah,
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I just know it's okay. I don't want him in
front of me, and I just look at her, and
then Zaddy's just like it's fine as fine as fine.
It's not fine, it's not fine, Like these ladies are
so entitled, like they had just gotten there and like
are complaining and stepping on blankets and like asking people
to move for them when we were the ones here earlier,
Like you snooze, you lose, you come early, you get
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a good spot. You cannot be in the back complaining
or in the side trying to squeeze and complaining. Zaddi
does not like confrontation. He's totally against it. So I
already know that, like if I start anything, he's not
going to back me up. He's just gonna be like stop, stop, stop,
because he's always like be the bigger person, be the
bigger person. I'm like, babe, you're tall. You're always a
bigger person. You are tall, Like, come stand behind me
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so I can back it up. He doesn't want confrontation.
These Karens are still like yapping and being annoying, and
then they're like yapping, yapping, yapping while we're trying to
watch the fireworks, and even Michelle turns around at the
same time that I'm like, oh my gosh, you don't
stop talking, and me and Michelle.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Go sh we hush, we hush.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But then we start laughing, and then we start kicking
and then we just start like having a dance party
by ourselves. Me Michelle are living our best lives and
it ends up being so much fun. Zaddi like he
gets annoyed in those cramped situations. He gets annoyed at
those people that are causing tension around us. I can
scoff on it for a little bit and then just
start trolling and laughing. But yeah, it was tense for
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a little bit, but it was awesome and it was
a long firework show. I mean, they really put it
on for us. We are so blessed. This is probably
the best firework show in the country.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm telling you. There's four barges that fireworks are.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Just yeating out of and they close the Brooklyn Bridge
all the Brooklyn Bridge. It just has tons of fireworks
coming off and cascading down like a waterfall.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It was crazy, and.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'm so thankful we had that spot because anywhere else
like like we had.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
A one VIP viewing area. It was so so, so
so good, except for those Karens that were annoying. So
after that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
We decided to just like chill out in that area
a little bit to let the traffic die down because
there's thousands, thousands of people. They're going to try to
get on the trains and whatnot. We end up wandering
to a little Mediterranean restaurant, We get some drinks, we
stop for a little bathroom break, and then we're just
kind of wandering Brooklyn for a little bit and decide
that we want to go to some lounges. So we
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get back on the train. We head back into the
city and there's like one lounge that we've been talking
about wanting to go to, Mulberry. I went with my
bestie here, David before he took me to the Milberry.
I think for his birthday. Yeah, it was for his birthday,
like a year ago. We pull up to the Mulberry
and I'm like, hey, how's it looking. Is there space
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down there? He's like, oh, yeah, it's pretty slow, except
for he can't come in. He has shorts on. I'm like, oh,
Zady has shorts on, shorts and nice sneakers. But they're
not letting us in, and we're like, okay, so we'll
go to somewhere else. So we try to go into
another lounge and they're like, yeah, buddy, you ask some
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shorts on.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
We can't let you in with those shorts. I don't
want to like noted noted.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I'm like, you know what, there's a speakeasy I know
of Laskina. Let's go down there. It's it is somewhat
of a lounge, but you know, it's for the July
here in the city is probably quiet because a lot
of people leave the city for Fourth of July, so
I'm sure it won't be too crazy. We get down.
It is a frat party. It's completely the demo has
completely changed from one I used to go to Laskina.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Now it's a rave.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's a frat party, and we don't want to be
there at all, so we leave. My bestie Michelle is
taking us to some other places that are more low
key and cutie and.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Some like place that I've literally never been before.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And then we eventually end up at a bar really
close to Alaska Now, which is fine. We're kind of
hanging out there for a little bit. It's okay, the
vibe is okay. And then Michelle leaves, and then our
homies want to keep raging for a little bit, so
we I tell them, I say, you guys, if I
do another drink, I'm doing five. I'm not going to
do just one more drink because if I'm going to
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drink again, I want to get curly. They're like, let's go,
Let's go somewhere. So we try to go to this
place in Chinatown called the Basement. It was super creepy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We left. Then we went to this place called Whiskey
Tavern and.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It was also in Chinatown and they were playing Shrek
and Wicked on the TVs, which I like, my happiness overload.
I'm like, give me a cranberry vodka right now. We
are going back. We are going back, So I start
chugging a cranberry vodka. Zaddy has a drink, our friends
have a drink. I chug another cranberry vodka. I meet
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a cool girl at the bar. I get shots for
her and I and before you know it, I'm just
dancing on the bar and ringing the bell and it's
college crystal back and full of force. And it was
definitely a brownout. It was definitely a brownout. We haven't
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blacked out since the Bad Bunny Blackout of twenty twenty two,
and you know, I was hopeful that I wouldn't again.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I wouldn't consider this a full blackout.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Even though I did fall asleep in the taxi on
the way home, according to.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Zaddi, and I did through up.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I did throw up in the trash can in my room,
but I was conscious enough to take the trash cat
out of my room and put it in the hallway.
I woke up in my bed alone. Zaddie was on
the couch. Allegedly I was pretty mean to him on
the way back. He did do something that annoyed me
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pretty bad. But when we woke up, he told me
that he before I went to sleep, he prayed, and
then when he woke up, he prayed more, and then
he watched his like service that you know, his Sunday
service that is also like streamed online.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So he watched that, and.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That he really apologized for, you know, what he did
that night and the way that he acted, and he
also wanted to send an apology text to someone that
was very important to me that I thought was necessary
as well. And I just started crying of happiness and
thankfulness that like he really understood, like why I was
hurt and that what he did was foul.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, it wasn't like that that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I mean, his opinions were valid, but his execution on
his opinions were super lame, and he acknowledged and apologized
and prayed about it, and I drank about it like
I drank about it. He prayed about it. Definitely mine
is worse. I would say that mine was worse, but
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I literally did not know what to do. And I
was just like, I just want to literally brown out
right now, like I've exhausted all options here. And I
was just so happy and even more in love with
him that he apologized to me and to the person
that he heard and that he acknowledged that his actions
like were not the best thing to do.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
And that is all I could freaking ask.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
That is all I can ask because if he was,
because he can be stubborn sometimes, but if he and
there's really tough times that we have sometimes, if he
can take a step back and lean on God for it.
God is always going to be right, like God is
always going to lead with love, and that's what I
tried to do and be.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And if I'm not leading with with alcohol, that's not right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
That wasn't right for me to decide to get drunk
that night, but it is what it is, and I
hope that going forward, when I have those tough times
where I feel like I'm exhausting all options. I could
lean on God too, and I feel like I tried
but it didn't really work, and I feel like I
just want to straight to alcohol that night, but you know,
he didn't, and he went to God at the end
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of the night when I was being mean, and I
apologized him to him for being mean to him, and
we got ready because we were going to go to
watch the Mets. Uh huh another baseball excursion? What our
fourth freaking game of the season. Why are we always
watching baseball? It's because Zaddi loves baseball and his dad
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didn't want to be a dad, So I'm going to
be his dad and happy to take him to baseball games.
And I thank you so much to our homie Tommy
with a Savvy Seats.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
He was the ultimate hookup. I mean this was this
was a.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Suboy series, so the Yankees and the Mets were playing,
so it was packed and the seats were crazy. But
Savvy Seats vip s a v v y s e
a t S VIP on ig. He hooked it the
flip up and he has VIP services for all ticket events.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
No fees, fast delivery.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Someone I truly trust because he was a real one
and he hooked me up big time. So I know
that he's gonna hook it up for you too if
you let him know that Crystal old us I sent you.
So whatever events here in the city or around the country,
he can pretty much hook you up for anything. So
thank you to Savvy Seats. You are the man s
A v v y s e A t s vip
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on ig, So go give him some love.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
So he hooked it up. We were able to go.
We took the train.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I was extremely hungover and that was completely my fault.
So I just wanted to be a real one, and
I also started getting the SuDS. But I wanted to
be a real one because Zadie is such a real
one for me and I want to suck it up
and have a good baseball time with him his friends.
So we get to the Met Stadium. I love the
Met Stadium. It is probably my third favorite stadium in
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the world. Number one, the Giant Stadium is pretty much unmatched.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
I'm so sad that the Coliseum in the Oakland is
is out of there because those shread of chicken nacho
fries were my favorite of all time. Oh my gosh,
they were so good. Or the tread of chicken nachos. Yeah,
and then yeah. Number three right now is the Met Stadium.
I will, I will gladly go back because their food
is crazy and the stadium is just so nice and
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it's just so live, and that the fans are just
so fun and like it's just true New Yorkers. The
Yankee Stadium is cool. It's just it's just not. I
just don't like it as much. And everyone can agree.
Everyone can agree. And the entertainment at the Met Stadium
is so good too. So we were walking around, we
were having so much funds. I got Daddy his soft
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serve ice cream. I got him his cheese stay that
he threw away because it was so nasty. It really
was so nasty. And I'm proud of himim for throwing
it away, because that would have been a really rough
night for us if he ate that chili cheese steak.
So do not get the chili cheese steak. But I
got a sausage. I'm a sausage girl. I love the
sweet sausage. I love the loaded fries. Oh my gosh, girlfriend,
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like they have so much food there, you guys. They
have a fries a fry's station, like a fries station there.
They have like egg rolls, like mozzarella chicken egg rolls.
They have like bacon cheese egg egg rolls. They have
just the coolest food there, pulled pork. It's just so amazing.
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Ten out of ten. I love the met Stadium. So
we were there for a little bit. We got standing
room seats, so we didn't have actually seats because we
just wanted to get in the door. And girl, there
was no seats. There was not even standing so it
was pretty rough. But I was getting heat stroke, Yes,
I sure was. I was getting a heatstroke there, and
I was trying so hard to just enjoy myself and
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not be a downer, but I was about to pass out,
and I I didn't.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Want to tell him should we leave? Can't we leave?
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Because I didn't want to be that girl, but that
girl was melting, And thank goodness that around the sixth ending,
I played it really good. I played it really good.
I thought I pretended that I heard Zaddy mumble should
we leave? He absolutely didn't, but but I looked at
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him and said, wait, what did you say? Babe, should
we leave. That sparked him to like be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
No, I didn't say that, but like, I mean it
is really hot, like we could leave. I'm like okay,
like what are you thinking? And he was like, well,
we'll leave after this, Like let me just watch this
and we'll leave after this. I was like perfect.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
So really soon after we left, I just again, I
just didn't want to do that to him, Like he
loves baseball games.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Like I love Wicked.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Like I'm gonna watch the entire Wicked movie.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Again and again and again. I'm gonna sing along to it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
And Zaddy likes to watch the plays and actually watch,
likes to watch what's going on, and likes the atmosphere
of a baseball game. And even though it's pretty loud
for him, he has his air pods in so it's
noise canceling, so he's fine.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
So that is his thing.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And he is just like a little kid when he's
at a baseball game, wanting his ice cream and wanting
his lemonade. And I just you know, we do so
much for me that I'm like, I'm going to stick
it out. And I did, and I'm very thankful that
I did, even though the swamp ass was swamping, and
even though the boob sweat was sweating, and even though
I almost had a heat stroke, I did it for him.
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And again thank you to Tommy at Savvy Seats. And
it was cool, it was fun. We took a little
rest back home, we got back up, and then we
went to another little restaurant and we went out for
a few bars. And because I was I was really hungover,
like I was going through. I was sick, like I
had the SuDS, I had a sore throat, I was
taking mucinex and day quill, and I was extremely hungover.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
So that was just a terrible recipe. But I got
it together.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I got us up, and we wanted one night last
night with our friends. But I just could not fathom
drinking anything ever again, Like I'm literally never drinking in
my entire life. Me and Zaddy were again lit off
the mocktails and we love them, girl, We loved them,
and we were having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Our friends were having a drink here and there.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I mean, trust me, I had enough drinks the night
before for all of us the entire week. But we're
going from one speak easy. I've told you of it
before pat and Pending. It's a coffee shop during the
day and at night the back is a nice, low
key bar, very crafty, cool, awesome different drinks.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
So we went there. I took them too.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We took them to Oscar Wild, which is a very
touristy famous spot here in the city. So we were
just hopping around. We were hopping around sound to different
places we went to. I think we went to Lili's again,
and it was just so fun and fresh, and it
was such a nice evening and we were just walking
around sad.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That they had to leave.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Who were sad that they had to leave, But we're
going to see them again soon. It was really awesome
that they got to come and spend a few New
York City summer at nights with us. They're just so
fun and I'm so thankful for their friendship. And even
at one time when we were walking down the street,
I mean there, Zaddy and our friend and his friend
are have been friends since they were in middle school,
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so they go way way back, and they're just kind
of delinquents together, you know how they have them the
fire escapes on the sides of the apartments here in
New York when you're walking around, Zaddi goes, yo, I
dare you to jump on that and start climbing up
to the first floor or the second floor technically, And
I'm just thinking, like, there's no way he's going to
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do that right now, and like there's it's it's high
out there, like I don't think he can reach it,
and I don't think he's strong enough to go up it.
But he kind of stares at it for like half
a minute, and I'm just like, he's not going to
do that, like there's just no way, and he just
jumps like an ape and starts arming it arm, one
arm at a time, the fire escape and he.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Gets up to the second floor and we're all like
what the heck, like how did it?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
And I'm like that's crazy, And I was just like
I'm not gonna lie to you. I did not know
that you were strong enough to do that. I did
not think that you were that strong. Like good for you, bro,
you'd be hitting the gym. And then I'm like okay, honey,
like it's your turn, like you have to do it too,
and he's like nah, like I'm not he was scared.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
He was scared.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I'm like how are you gonna dare someone to do
something but then you yourself are scared and you don't.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Want to do it.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
No. It was so fun though, and I cannot wait
for them to come back soon, hopefully this fall.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
That'll be really fun. And that's just been going on
one in my life and in.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
My crevices, and I cannot wait to chat with you
in next week's episode because my prima Gavi is in
town and I have a huge announcement about my native honor,
and I have a huge announcement about a huge Bridezilla
meltdown that I had between me and my brother Junior
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and my mom Sandririta. So we're going to share all
that and more in a next week's episode of a
Crystal's night Cap. Until then, I'll see you. I'm an
next one. Love love, love you, and thank you for
being on the best. We actually, let's do our daily
motivator for the day. We haven't done that one yet.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Today.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
It is called m undo burdens. How many of your
struggles are self imposed? Certainly in all of them, but
probably many of them are. As you go through each day,
you struggle with various challenges as valuable as challenges can
be Some of them are likely unnecessary, and you could
do something about them. Ask yourself, what challenges are you
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running to again and again that you could take action
to solve and eliminate once and for all. Doing so
would free you to pursue more worthwhile fulfilling activities. As
strange as it may seem, some struggles can become so
familiar that they turn into habitual behavior. You have the
power to rid yourself of those dispiriting habits. Dispiriting habits yep,
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imagine the tasks that occupy your time looking for activities
that don't really gain you anything, but that have become
so comfortable you don't think much about them. Maybe it'd
be a lot better off without them. You can't avoid
many of life's burdens, yet you absolutely can avoid placing
your own undue burdens on your time and efforts. Seek
to rid yourself of those, and you're likely to find
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opportunities for doing so. How does that feel.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Undo burdens? Uh, that's just reminding me how lazy I am.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Whant to get home from work and I just want
to like coutraw and not do anything, And I'm just
sitting there thinking Zady pays for me to go to
a beautiful gym, and I'm just right here and I
could be in the sauna the spa, doing some laps,
doing yoga, and I'm just lazy as heck. So please,
someone bully me into going to the gym. Please me myself.
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I need to bully myself into going to the gym.
Maybe that'll help. I want to get rid of my
floppy arms by the big day. Ugh, it's so hard
out here. I don't know what your burden is or
the challenge, or maybe something that you're doing that is
a habit that you just don't like. Hopefully we can
think about those and then soon now we're going to
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get into our last prayer of the day. I know
we aren't all open to prayers, and that's totally cool.
I love, love, love you, and I will see you
on the next one. But if you're down, or maybe
you're curious, or maybe you love this section, we read
it from a book called Jesus Calling and Join Peace
in His Presence by Sarah Jung. You can get this
on Amazon. It's a daily calendar of prayers on how
to stay present. This one today says, do not worry
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about tomorrow. It is not a suggestion, but a command.
I divided time into days and nights so that you
would have manageable portions of life to handle. My grace
is sufficient for you, but its sufficiency is for only
one day.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
At a time.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
When you worry about the future, you heap day upon
day of troubles into your flimsy frame. You stagger under
this heavy load which I never intended you to carry.
Throw off this oppressive burden with one quick thrust of trust.
Anxious thoughts meander about and crisscross in your brain, but
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trusting me to brings you directly into my presence. As
you thus affirm your faith, shackles of worry fall off. Instantly,
enjoy my presence continually by trusting Me at all times
Matthew six thirty four, two Corinthians twelve nine, Psalm sixty
two eight. I feel like I've been so much better
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at this. I feel like I don't have a lot
of anxiety or stress as much as I used to,
because I really do do this.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Like when I get home.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
When I go home, when I'm in bed, I look
at my calendar for the next day, and I see
what it's about and I just think cool, as long
as I've already prepared for things that I am gonna
have coming up, I'm fine, and we all have the
control to prepare. But all I could really do is
think a day at a time. I feel like that's
so much harder, right, easier said than done, And for me,
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for a long time, I would just stress and stress
and have anxiety and anxiety. But there is no cure
to anxiety other than just being grateful and thankful of
the present moment. Like that's the only way to cure anxiety,
is just to be thankful for now. Because we cannot
control the present. All you could do is be prepared
for it, but you really can't control. So I hope
that that has helped you. Whenever you're feeling anxious about
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the present, just put all those anxieties and stresses. And
I feel like I've shared this exercise with you before.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
But I have.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Like a really beautiful, pink, glittery iridescent name brag designer
bag in my brain, and whenever I have anxiety or stress,
I grab it and I throw on the floor. I
unzip this really pretty duffel bag and I just throw
all my anxieties. I physically just toss them, my anxieties
into the bag. I zip it up, I pick it up,
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and I throw it up to God. I throw it
up and I say, God, you handle that. I'm done
with it. I'm done thinking of stressing or worrying about this.
And I feel like it helps so much just if
you literally throw it to God, because God will always
take care of all of your stresses and you'll realize
there's really actually not that much to stress about. Girl.
I used to stress about, like putting on makeup and
doing my hair for an interview that day. I used
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to be like, oh my gosh, I have to do
my hair makeup. But then I'm like, I get to
do my hair makeup, I get to put on any
YouTube video I want. I get to put on any
podcast I want. I listen to the JV Show every day.
I miss them so much. The Davis Show is Lee
and a Grahma Dress. I listen to them every day
and I just hang out with them and they make
me giggle, and that that definitely like gives me something
to look forward to. Or I'll put on some other
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podcasts I like just Trish to canceled podcast, whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
It is, I'll listen to some new music.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
So I hope that if you feel like you're just
waking up stressed with anxiety, just put on something to
take us stress away. If you're feeling lonely, you know,
listen to something that doesn't make you feel Oh, maybe
call a few friends to see who's gonna answer on
my walk homes I like to call. I'll call my mom,
I'll call some of my premas, I'll talk, I'll call
some of my theas. I'll just start chip or chapter
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in until I get all the way home. So I
hope that that has helped you.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I know it's a.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Lot easier something done to not be stressed and not
have anxiety, but I hope that these exercises and these
ideas can help you out and just know that God
is going to take care of everything. You don't got
to worry about nothing. God got us in the best
of ways. And if something doesn't pan out exactly how
you want, it's okay. We can learn from it, or
maybe it wasn't right for us in that moment, or
I know God will have a bigger and better path
for you. So I hope this helps you. Thank you
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again for another episode of Crystal's night Cap. I love,
love love you and I will see you on the
next one.
Hello to your beautiful chest to Chugger, It's Crystal litl
Saz back with another episode of Crystal's Nightcap Tonight the
worst escape Room Zaddie and I ever did.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Our friends pull up for Fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Fighting with some Karens, getting denied from every lounge in
New York City, browning out for the first time in
a long time, and more.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Hello, who's in here? It's so dark? Ew? What's dripping?
You have to step on something something? You're now inside
Crystal's case.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now, Zaddy really wanted to be on the pod this week,
but poor baby, he had the SuDS. When he got in,
he had the SuDS. He was sniffley, he was coffee
throat was gone. So we just relaxed. I took it in.
I told you last week. I think that I made
some Carlito for him, gott a lile boyl some so
Beata so that he could feel better. But I was
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still dragging him out and about in these streets of
New York cityy When we woke up Saturday, it was
so hot. I mean, there's a crazy heat wave going on.
But we just wanted to do kind of nothing but
something at the same time. So we took a little
stroll to Central Park and we checked out the new pool.
They had had the pool open before at the Davis Center.
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I think it converts into a skating rink during the
fall and then ice rink during the winter. This is
the first time in many years that they converted it
back to a pool, and this was only I think
the second day that it was open. So we walked
over there, not to get in the pool. I just
want to check it out. I just want to see
the vibes. I just want to see what was going on.
We pulled up around eleven in the morning, and girl,
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the line was so crazy. I don't even know why
people were standing in the line. That line must have
taken probably three four hours. It was kind of a
hot mess. They were having intervals with the pool. There
wasn't even that many people in the pool. It's a
huge pool.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's a big pool, like.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Like as big as the Conquered Waves in at the
Conquered Water Park. What is it not stop raging waters,
it's the other one. Oh my gosh, bro my brain
is like frying. It's kind of scary that I forget
places named in the Bay because it's even though it's
not been that long that I haven't lived there. Water World,
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it hasn't been that long that I haven't lived there,
but I just don't spend that much time there. So
normal things highways, streets, freeways, parks, restaurants that I used
to go to and grew up in the Bay. I
like forget the name. Sometimes we yes water World and conquered.
I believe it's as big as a wave pool there,
but they just didn't have a whole lot of people
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in there. The line was crazy. I was shook that
people were even waiting in the line, but it was
nice to just see what it was like and just
decide to never ever go back because we're not waiting
in that line.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Afterwards, we had a little.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Lunch and then we met up with our friends. Oh
my gosh, I don't think i've ever told you the story.
I think I might have told you the story of
our friend. We'll call him Louis. All right, So back
within like the first year that I lived here in
New York City, I was doing my podcast.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It got on the New York Post.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I got the actual newspaper, and to like kind of
promote that I was in the New York Post with
Crystal's nightcap. I and my my good close friend, my
neighbor Jace, we went to Times Square and run a
round and we were just like doing content with the
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newspaper that I was on to strangers. And afterwards, to celebrate,
went to one of my favorite rooftops at the time,
which is not my favorite roof top anymore because now
they're charging to get in. When I literally invented you,
I invented you. But yes, we went to this rooftop
and we were partying, and we met this couple Louie
and his partner, and it turned out that Louis was
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from the Bay and I was sharing that I'm on
the radio and on the newspaper.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
He's, oh my god, you're famous. You're so cool, You're
gonna be so big. You're like Ryan Seacris watch out.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, righte yeah, rye
right yeah right. But we had stayed friends since that day.
He was buying us drink, so we're having so much fun,
and we had stayed friends. Every time I would post something,
he would like celebrate it and throw so much love
to me. And whenever Louis was back in the city,
which wasn't very very often, but we would make sure
to link up because we just really vibe that day,
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and that hasn't really happened with a lot of people
that I've met around here.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
So Louis was always this guy that and him and his.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Partner who she is just amazing, who is older than us,
but also it's so sweet and fun and lives in
the Bay and just good vibes.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
We were just we are both just the life of
the party.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
So down the road I meet Zaddi, and Zaddi and
I start dating and we're a boyfriend and girlfriend. And
Zaddy is working hard. He's in his tech sales world.
He's trying to expand the business. He's going to these
conferences around the country. He'll go to Austin, he'll go
to Vegas, He'll go to Florida for these conferences, these
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tech conferences.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And he learned about this up and coming.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Brand that was really big and they're obviously in the
tech space and they're doing something very different, and Zaddy
loved the idea of it and just thought it was
great and really wanted to get in there early to
work with them. So he met one of the guys
at the conference, and he thought this guy was fun
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and cool, and so they became cool, but like not
that that cool. And because he only met at the conference,
and so after the conference, Zaddi was gonna invite him
to a Warriors game because this man lived in San
Francisco and so he wanted to invite him to a
Warriors game and like was hoping that he would go,
and like he felt like they kicked it off with
the vibe, but he doesn't want to be too pushy,
but he really wants to meet the C class levels
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of that business. So this guy is a good connect.
So Zaddi's talking to me about this man and about
how he's really excited to inviuy him to a word
a game and means, Zaddie are at Danner. I'm like,
what's this man's name? And he goes, his name is Louie,
and I'm like, Louie, what's this guy's LinkedIn? Like, let
me check it out. So I see this guy on
his LinkedIn, I say, Babe, I think I know this man,
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because mind you, I haven't seen Louis in a while.
But I'm like, Babe, I think I know this man.
I think I've partied with him before. I think I'm
friends with him. So I go to my Instagram and
sure enough, it is the same guy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's Louie.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It's my like degenerate, like diabolical, like hilarious, like party animal.
Louie is this high level, this high level designer at
a pretty big tech startup, and we're like crying, laughing,
like babe, if you would have told me from forever
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ago that this was Louie, that this was who you
needed to talk to, like, I would have had to
end a meeting with him like yesterday. We had been
partying with us on the bay like when we first met.
That's so funny. So Zaddy invites Louie to the Warriors game.
They're all hanging out, and Zaddy tells because at this time,
I'm still covering Zaddy's face.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Zaddy is still known as mister Clean to the world.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And Louie is always like making fun and joking about
the mister Clean face. He's like, hah, that's hilarious, Oh
my gosh, killing it. But Louie doesn't know that mister
Clean is actually Zaddy. So Zaddi invites Louie to a
Warrior's game. They're all hanging out with the sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Or whatever, and then.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Zaddy tells him, Oh, yeah, I have a girlfriend now
and he's like, oh really, who Crystal. They're like, oh Crystal,
who's Crystal? Crystal Rosas.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
It was like wait what?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And then Zaddy shows Louie a picture of me in
him together and he's like, wait, I'm like not okay,
Like I love her, Like she's the most adorable little
thing ever, Like she's famous, you're dating, Like, Louie jokes
that I'm famous. We know that I'm not famous. He
just jokes that I'm famous. So he's just like, she's famous,
probably are you kidding me? And then it was just
such a funny, hilarious situation. And so Louie was in
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town this weekend with his amazing lady, and he was
in town with some friends. So we were all gonna
get dinner together and then link up and see what
the night had entailed for us. So we ended up
booking reservations for them at this place how we really
love called Awkwoods and the Flat Iron, and it's so good.
It's an Italian Japanese place, which is pretty odd, but
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it's so good. They have sushi, but they also have
pizzas there, and it's cute. It's a foofity foffye. It
has a really good vibe. It's kind of like a
sophisticated and like more modern and more.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Dimly lit catch. So that's what this place was.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
And we were having dinner there and we're celebrating that
Louis got a promotion, really big news for Louie, so
we're really excited for him and his new endeavor and
we're thankful that we got to celebrate with him because
we've never actually hung out with Louie together. Zaddi's hung
out with Louie in Florida, in Vegas. I've never hung
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out with Louis outside of New York City, and we
have been back home at the same time, but Louie
has had family over, so it was kind of like
a hot mess but not finally We're all going to
hang out together and it's everything, like he's just so
fun and we're just ordering this and that drinks and
blah blah blah. His cousin and her friends are there,
so it was such a good vibe. And then afterwards
the group was kind of there was I think seven
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of us or six, yeah, seven of us. So the
group was on different vibes of what they wanted to
do because it was Pride weekend and part of the
group was going to celebrate Pride and me and Zaddy
we're not in that like uns club like bar with
plastic cups, era and the loud music.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's just it.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Zaddi's very sensitive to that sometimes, so we wanted to
go to like a low key lounge and not It's
what Louis wanted to do too. But Louis was also
here to visit his cousin that he like never sees,
and the cousin and her friends wanted to go to
a gay bar in the West village. So we all
go there together and we're waiting outside a girl, there
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is a line girl, there is a cover charge girl.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There is strobe lights.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Going on in there. There are like NYU kids stumbling out.
Zadi just looks. I mean, I could tell he's about
a crash out, like he's just not having it. Me.
I could go like anywhere, I have no problem, but
Zaddi's and I've explained it to before.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He's in HSP.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
He gets hyper sensitive overload sometimes, especially in crowds and
sweaty crowds and a loud, sweaty crowds. Like Zaddy is
just a tall man, like he just is always getting
knocked over right people.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
He just that's just not his scene. And like.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
The girl's wearing no clothes and like the guy's wearing
no clothes, Like it's just it's not Zaddy's see, Like
he just likes to be chill and a lounge, dim lights,
sipping on some like very very low alcohol level if anything,
a mocktail, like maybe jazz playing. Zaddi is the ying
(11:15):
to my yang, Like you know me, you know that
from day one, we have just been club rats and
we have been at the parties.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
But you know it was, you know a few.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Years ago that I started kind of aging out of
that culture too. Remember when when Zaddy and I broke
up and I ended up on a boat rave here
in New York City, and I almost wanted to jump
off the boat because the music was just too loud
and it was just too much for me. Like I'm
thirty one now, Like I just I really have partied
really really hard, and I'm okay to do that sometimes,
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but especially if Zaddy, I just want to make sure,
like my man is happy too. So he gave me
that look that I knew he was about a crash
out if we went into this place. So I told Louie,
I said, Hey, Louie, we're gonna go take a walk
and we're gonna meet you guys like maybe in like
thirty or forty minutes. We just need to breathere. And
he said, oh, you guys don't want to come, Let's go, like,
come on, let's go party. I'm like, I know, I know,
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but you know, I think this is just isn't really
Zaddy scene. And it's like not really mine right now either,
Like we just we kind of wanted to do something
a little low key.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So we just are gonna go take a walk.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
We're gonna go take a walk to Washington Square Park
and we'll meet you in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Like it's okay. And said, oh yeah, yeah, no problem, okay,
we'll see you guys in a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So Louie waits for his cousins that are pulling up
on the taxi and then me and Zaddy we start
walking down to Washington Square Park and Zaddi's like, thank
you so much for handling that with so much poise,
and for not throwing me completely under the bus. That
was a one crystal because I have been known and
I have in the past kind of used Zaddi to
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throw things under the bus when we both don't want
to do something which isn't nice, like, and I don't
do it like on purpose, but it's just.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Easy for me to pass the blame to him.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
But in this case, I too did not want to
be an a packed, sweaty club with naked people drinking
out of plastic cups like that just wasn't what I
wanted to do on my Saturday night for Pride weekend,
because Pride weekend just gets so crazy. So Zaddy and
I start walking around and we head to Washington Square
Park and it looks like the purge. There are police barricades.
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It's what time is it, It's probably like eleven thirty.
There are a whole bunch of young kids. There's garbage everywhere,
there's broken beer bottles, there's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Empty vape cases.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
You can't say there's cigarette boxes because there's no more
cigarette boxes, but there's vape cases everywhere. There's just you know,
these kids, these kids instead of leaving like cartons of cigarettes.
They just leave dead vapes like all over. There's like
it's like zombies walking around. It is the apocalypse. It
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is so scary. Washington Square Park. It's like a warm,
humid night, probably seventy eight degrees. And I go up
to the police. I'm like, is was there a party
or something here? Like did something happen today? And They're
like no, this is like every night of summer. We're like,
are you serious. They're like yeah, we kick everybody out
after midnight.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm like, dang, So it's kind of crazy to see.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
I just I've never really been around Washington Square Park
that late, just roaming around, and I honestly never want
to go back again.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That was scary as heck. People are in the water
fountain like splashing around. It is. It's a sight to see.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'll tell you that, if you are still in your
delinquent era, I would say definitely hang out at Washington
Square Park after ten pm any hot weeknight of summer
in New York City because it is a sight to see.
We didn't even feel safe being there, like like we
didn't even want to be there because we thought we're
going to bullied by some of the college kids.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So we left.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
We went to one of our favorite bars that we
go to around Union Square call Dear Irving, and then
we went to another bar I've actually never been to
down there, but I love the Lilies. This one is
called Lily's Establishment. It's also there in Union Square. There's another,
not to get confused, Lily's Times Square. That one's also
my favorite, or Lily's Hell's Kitchen. But yeah, this one
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was Lily's Establishment, and we're familiar with Aria, and we're
familiar with the drinks. So we're just getting like a
drink or two and hanging out there. And then our homie,
Louie comes back with his girlfriend after they raged, I
mean they were raging. They were unsing and he was
just sending us videos having a good old time, and
me and Zaddie were just chit chatting. And then we
hang out for like an hour and a half or
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two more with Louie and his amazing girlfriend, and then
we head back home. We head back home, all good.
That was our day in New York City, Central Park,
all the things. And then Sunday we wake up and
Zaddy's cousins are in town.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I haven't met them before.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
But they're in town because their daughter's birthday, like five
or five years birth and her birthday trip.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Is to go to New York and have the best
New York trip ever.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I'm talking about a tea party at Eloise's the Plaza.
I'm talking about the Central Park Zoo. They're going to
Stardust Diner. They're going to the sugar Factory. Like I
was jealous. I was not part of this itinerary, Like
this itinery was a five year old dream, and because I'm.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
A grown adult, I was like, heck yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
So they invited us to do the zoo part of it,
and I was so thankful to go hang out with them.
And you know, you get nervous when you don't when
you haven't met part of you know, your spouse's family
or your man's or whatever. But they were so nice
to me. They were so sweet. The little girls were
so silly and funny, and they love Zaddie. They love
their uncle and they're just like poking fun at him
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and like just like playing with him and jumping all
over him. And it was so flipping cute. And the
moms were so fun to hang out with. Two they
were really engaging with me and like talking to me
and trying to learn about me and Zaddy in our
relationship and all the things, because we haven't really been
able to sit down and talk like that.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And it was just really nice to get to know them.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
And I'm really thankful that they were so sweet and
welcoming and warm to me. And I'm really excited for
the wedding because they're so down and so excited and
asking if we need help with anything. And they live
right by where we're gonna have the wedding, so they're like,
we could have the after party there. I don't think
we're actually gonna have the after party there, but it
was sweet of.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Them to even offer.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But I'm so so so excited that I got to
meet them and they were just the sweetest ever.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So we hang it out the zoo for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And girl, why am I walking down like a path
of the zoo and I feel something attack my neck
and I like try to grab it, but it's not
coming off, you know, and like a bug sticks to you,
maybe a mosquito or something, and it bites you and
then you get it off immediately it'll come off. This
did not come off I was I had to pinch
this thing with my nails, and I look at my
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nail and it's a fricking stinger. I got stung in
the neck by a bee. Luckily I'm called cool and
it did her. But I didn't cry. I didn't I
didn't make a huge scene. I made a moderate scene.
And the kids weren't there, so I didn't scare anybody.
But yeah, your girl got stung by the bee at
the Central Park Zoo and then we went to hang
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out with the snow leopard. We got to see the
legs of the snow leopard. I think they were a
little scared. But the most coolest part for me was
watching the grizzly bear. It was just so big, and
we were there for a second trying to see if
it was gonna move because it was just sitting down
for the longest time. But then finally it got up
and it it did a whole fashion show for us.
It went all around the whole enclosure and it was
so cool to see a huge, huge grizzly bear, and
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Zadi and I took some photos. And then after that
was when we went Fragrance shopping.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I talked to you about that we had our.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Evening at flat Iron, the little Italy stand out front
of Flat Iron, Jadda's signature.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Lacker Quadrantini Gelato Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Hu was working with Loacker for this and promoting this,
and there was a bit a big beautiful line to
meet Jada. Jada, Yeah, Jada, the world renowned chef. And
now Zaddy is obsessed with putting olive oil on his
Sundays and on his ice cream, it on anything, and
he never had had the Loacker wafers before, so he
was like, oh my gosh, I'm obsessed. I actually got
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him like four different flavors to take home, So now
that is one of our staples.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I thank you Loacker and Zaddy.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
And I got to go to Broadway to see Harry
Potter and The Curse Child, which is one of my
all time favorite favorite Broadway shows. If you're gonna go
to Broadway, if it comes to the jaw dropping this,
I would go see that one.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
It is a little long, but it's so.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Enticing and it's a whole new Broadway show just for
Harry Potter, Like the story was made for Broadway. It's
pretty much Harry Potter's son and what he gets into
and the struggles of being Hairry Potter's flip and sun.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So it was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The magic on stage is everything. This is my third
time watching it. I will watch it anytime I have
the opportunity. I am so thankful for Harry Potter and
the Curse Child. Anytime they want to have me out,
I will be back. So Zaddy loved it. He was
jaw dropped, he like and I screamed again at the
top of my lungs for another part of it. It's
it's good. It's a little frightening. It's not too frightening
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for the kids, but some parts are a little scary.
You're just looking at the stage and the set design
on what they're doing, thinking, how the flip are they
doing this?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
How are they doing this? So it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And if I were you again, I would go watch
Harry Potter and the Curse Child. And then our friends
came to town, our friends that we went to Greece
with that last year, whole year ago. Oh my gosh,
I want to go back so bad. We had the
best time with them. They're just so easy to travel with.
They're very good at the flow, They're very fun they
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don't have kids, so it's really just us and we
are easily in and now hopping out of ubers.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But they pull up and.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
We we go get some drinks, we have some dinner,
we do some funny tiktoks.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I take them to the Edge.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
There's a restaurant called Peak at the Edge, and now
they're forcing you to get a prefixed menu, which really
irks me for lunch, and it double irks me that
they took one of my favorite drink, they're the Bee's Knees.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
But the lunch is still pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And they're being more flexible now with the lunch because
when I took my family over New Year's, I took
the duck and our son and my brother and my
little prima. I took them for New Year's for brunch
and the prefixed menu is just too much food. So
they're being more flexible with it now, which was nice.
But yeah, and the good part is that when you
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go and have lunch or dinner at Peak, you automatically
get access to the edge there, which is an attraction.
I've talked about it before, like over one hundred stories
up and you just get these iconic views of New
York City and you're literally on the edge of a
building and there's glass like where you can jump on.
Well you don't, you're not supposed to jump on. Actually
I got in trouble for jumping on it. But there's
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glass that you can just look all the way straight down.
You can step on this glass thing and you can
just look all the way straight down from one hundred floor.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
So that was cool.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
We did that and then we went to squid Game
the experience. I've actually worked with them before, but they've
been stings.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You with the tickets. That's okay. We paid for them anyways,
and we went because it was fun.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
They are into the newest season of squid Games, and
I just love this experience thing.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Now. Zaddi is very competitive.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I've said this before if we are playing something, if
we're doing something, he wants to win and he's not
happy if he's not winning.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
The first part of.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
The squid Game experience was the one where you jump
on the glass on the bridge and if you jump
on the wrong one, you fall. They have about their
own rendition of this. Zaddi was in the first group
to do it. And we're all there and you're all
doing it together, but he kind of interpreted the instructions wrong.
So when she said take your first step, he took
a first step, but it you're supposed to take the
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first step to.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
The green one that you remember, and wasn't.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
So the first experience, the first step that he got out,
he lost, and I just automatically knew he was going
to be in a salty mood for.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
The entire experience because he was like, what were those instructions?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Like she said the instructions wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
She said take a step, like she didn't take She
didn't say take your step that you need to take,
And in his defense, she did say the instruction is wrong,
but also not in his defense, like he's just so competitive.
Sometimes we're like, boom, he's now salty. But that wasn't
the whole time. I mean the next game, we were
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playing marbles, and I've already played these games before, so obviously,
like I have a little bit of an advantage, so
I'm going to be a little better.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So I start doing a trick with the marbles that
he's like, you're cheating.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
You can't do that, You're cheating, And then he ends
up doing the same trick that I'm doing. I'm like, okay, whatever,
we play a few more games in squid game. The experience,
I don't want to spoil it for you, but it's
really fun. It's about an hour you're in You're in
a group with a whole bunch of other strangers, so
you are competing with random people. I think there was
how many of us were there? There were one, two, three, four, eight, twelve, sixty, yeah,
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twenty in a group and you all, you know, by
the end of it, are all together and you're all
kind of having inside jokes and it's really fun.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So I would go do that one if I were you.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
And then it's time to go figure out what we're
gonna do for New Years.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So one of my.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Church brothers, he works for the City of New York,
and he entered for this lottery for passes for city
employees to get for their friends and family to watch
the Macy's fireworks show on the Brooklyn Promenade. So I
thought this was amazing, because it is a hot mess
trying to watch these New York fireworks from anywhere every
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Fourth of July. The first fourth of July, I was here.
I know, my Primagabi was with me. I don't no,
no no. The first Fourth of July that I was here,
actually we spent it at Coney Island. There was like
a Doja cat event that I hosted, so I did that,
and so it was in Coney Island.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
The second one, I think that's the one.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
That gave at GAVI was at with me and I
don't remember what we did.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I don't know where. I think we watched them for
my roof.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Yeah, we watched the fireworks from my roof and my building.
Last year for Fourth of July, I was hosting at
Hudson Yards. It was on the west side the fireworks show.
So I was in an awesome cool spot because I was
just right there on the west side. And then this
year I didn't have anything for work to do, so
I was like, this is a perfect idea, like having
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these these tickets. So it was me, our friends Letty,
and my girl Michelle. We're all gonna hang out at
the Brooklyn Promenade. I brought my blankets, I brought little
charcuterie stuff. I wanted us to get there early so
we can get a good spot, because you know, if
it's free, there's going to be a lot of people.
So We pull up and the area that we're at
is completely blocked off, so it's really good.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
There's not a whole bunch of people there.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
We set up our blanket and it's right in front
of the barges that the Macy's fireworks aren't going to
show off, So we're kind of sitting there. The boys
go around find some pizza. Me and Linz are eating
some hummus. Michelle eventually gets there. We get up to
go to the bathroom while the guys are at our spot,
and we come from the back from the bathroom, it
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is crowded like it it's a crowd, and everyone's crowded
around our blanket and I'm like, excuse me, excuse me,
and I go sit in my blanket. Zaddi and his
bro are standing up. Me and Michelle and Linz are
sitting on the blanket and it's kind of getting tense,
like people are starting to step on our blanket. People
are starting to scoot their crusty shoes under our blanket.
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We're just like okay, and then I'm kind of chattering
with the girls. I'm like, should I lift the blanket up?
And there's these like old ladies behind us. Okay, these Karens,
if you will, And they're the ones that are stepping
on our blanket a little bit, asking us to move
some of our stuff, and I'm just like, we've been
here for hours.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Like it's good, we're fine, we're chilling.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
She taps on the man in front of her at
the barricade and is like, Hi, can I squeeze in?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
He goes, I've been here since two pm?
Speaker 1 (27:07):
And she just rolls her eyes at him, and then
she kind of looks at me and is like, this
man's saying he's been here since two pm?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Do you believe that? Do you believe?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
And I'm like, yes, I do believe that we've been
here since four. We weren't, but I'm like, yes, I
do believe that we've been here since four. And there's
there's people that have been waiting here to get this
good view, and she's kind of scoffs, and then I'm talking.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
To the girls.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I'm like, should we lift the blanket up so like
the guys can get closer to us, or the guys,
you guys want to take your shoes off so you
can stand on the blanket.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (27:33):
And the ladies go yeah, you should pick your blankets up,
and we're like okay, and then another lady of the
same care and group goes, yeah, the fire says no blankets,
and I'm just like, well, the cops on U said
with the blankets. They checked her bag, so I don't
know what the problem is. I end up lifting up
the blanket anyways, and as soon as they lift up
the blanket, they swarm us like anchovies.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So now we're all in this like crowd.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
It's not a huge crowd, but like around it was
packed in, and one of the Karens is right behind me,
and the fireworks are starting, and I like grab Zaddy's hand,
who's like diagonal. I'm like, hey, baby, comes stand right
behind me, like you know, God forbid. I want my
man to be cuddling behind me, and I just want to,
you know, bump it up a little bit behind him
while we're watching this romantic fireworks. And the lady goes, oh, yeah,
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I just know it's okay. I don't want him in
front of me, and I just look at her, and
then Zaddy's just like it's fine as fine as fine.
It's not fine, it's not fine, Like these ladies are
so entitled, like they had just gotten there and like
are complaining and stepping on blankets and like asking people
to move for them when we were the ones here earlier,
Like you snooze, you lose, you come early, you get
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a good spot. You cannot be in the back complaining
or in the side trying to squeeze and complaining. Zaddi
does not like confrontation. He's totally against it. So I
already know that, like if I start anything, he's not
going to back me up. He's just gonna be like stop, stop, stop,
because he's always like be the bigger person, be the
bigger person. I'm like, babe, you're tall. You're always a
bigger person. You are tall, Like, come stand behind me
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so I can back it up. He doesn't want confrontation.
These Karens are still like yapping and being annoying, and
then they're like yapping, yapping, yapping while we're trying to
watch the fireworks, and even Michelle turns around at the
same time that I'm like, oh my gosh, you don't
stop talking, and me and Michelle.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Go sh we hush, we hush.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But then we start laughing, and then we start kicking
and then we just start like having a dance party
by ourselves. Me Michelle are living our best lives and
it ends up being so much fun. Zaddi like he
gets annoyed in those cramped situations. He gets annoyed at
those people that are causing tension around us. I can
scoff on it for a little bit and then just
start trolling and laughing. But yeah, it was tense for
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a little bit, but it was awesome and it was
a long firework show. I mean, they really put it
on for us. We are so blessed. This is probably
the best firework show in the country.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
I'm telling you. There's four barges that fireworks are.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Just yeating out of and they close the Brooklyn Bridge
all the Brooklyn Bridge. It just has tons of fireworks
coming off and cascading down like a waterfall.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
It was crazy, and.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'm so thankful we had that spot because anywhere else
like like we had.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
A one VIP viewing area. It was so so, so
so good, except for those Karens that were annoying. So
after that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
We decided to just like chill out in that area
a little bit to let the traffic die down because
there's thousands, thousands of people. They're going to try to
get on the trains and whatnot. We end up wandering
to a little Mediterranean restaurant, We get some drinks, we
stop for a little bathroom break, and then we're just
kind of wandering Brooklyn for a little bit and decide
that we want to go to some lounges. So we
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get back on the train. We head back into the
city and there's like one lounge that we've been talking
about wanting to go to, Mulberry. I went with my
bestie here, David before he took me to the Milberry.
I think for his birthday. Yeah, it was for his birthday,
like a year ago. We pull up to the Mulberry
and I'm like, hey, how's it looking. Is there space
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down there? He's like, oh, yeah, it's pretty slow, except
for he can't come in. He has shorts on. I'm like, oh,
Zady has shorts on, shorts and nice sneakers. But they're
not letting us in, and we're like, okay, so we'll
go to somewhere else. So we try to go into
another lounge and they're like, yeah, buddy, you ask some
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shorts on.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
We can't let you in with those shorts. I don't
want to like noted noted.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
I'm like, you know what, there's a speakeasy I know
of Laskina. Let's go down there. It's it is somewhat
of a lounge, but you know, it's for the July
here in the city is probably quiet because a lot
of people leave the city for Fourth of July, so
I'm sure it won't be too crazy. We get down.
It is a frat party. It's completely the demo has
completely changed from one I used to go to Laskina.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Now it's a rave.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
It's a frat party, and we don't want to be
there at all, so we leave. My bestie Michelle is
taking us to some other places that are more low
key and cutie and.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Some like place that I've literally never been before.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
And then we eventually end up at a bar really
close to Alaska Now, which is fine. We're kind of
hanging out there for a little bit. It's okay, the
vibe is okay. And then Michelle leaves, and then our
homies want to keep raging for a little bit, so
we I tell them, I say, you guys, if I
do another drink, I'm doing five. I'm not going to
do just one more drink because if I'm going to
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drink again, I want to get curly. They're like, let's go,
Let's go somewhere. So we try to go to this
place in Chinatown called the Basement. It was super creepy.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
We left. Then we went to this place called Whiskey
Tavern and.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
It was also in Chinatown and they were playing Shrek
and Wicked on the TVs, which I like, my happiness overload.
I'm like, give me a cranberry vodka right now. We
are going back. We are going back, So I start
chugging a cranberry vodka. Zaddy has a drink, our friends
have a drink. I chug another cranberry vodka. I meet
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a cool girl at the bar. I get shots for
her and I and before you know it, I'm just
dancing on the bar and ringing the bell and it's
college crystal back and full of force. And it was
definitely a brownout. It was definitely a brownout. We haven't
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blacked out since the Bad Bunny Blackout of twenty twenty two,
and you know, I was hopeful that I wouldn't again.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I wouldn't consider this a full blackout.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Even though I did fall asleep in the taxi on
the way home, according to.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Zaddi, and I did through up.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
I did throw up in the trash can in my room,
but I was conscious enough to take the trash cat
out of my room and put it in the hallway.
I woke up in my bed alone. Zaddie was on
the couch. Allegedly I was pretty mean to him on
the way back. He did do something that annoyed me
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pretty bad. But when we woke up, he told me
that he before I went to sleep, he prayed, and
then when he woke up, he prayed more, and then
he watched his like service that you know, his Sunday
service that is also like streamed online.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
So he watched that, and.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
That he really apologized for, you know, what he did
that night and the way that he acted, and he
also wanted to send an apology text to someone that
was very important to me that I thought was necessary
as well. And I just started crying of happiness and
thankfulness that like he really understood, like why I was
hurt and that what he did was foul.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
I mean, it wasn't like that that.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I mean, his opinions were valid, but his execution on
his opinions were super lame, and he acknowledged and apologized
and prayed about it, and I drank about it like
I drank about it. He prayed about it. Definitely mine
is worse. I would say that mine was worse, but
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I literally did not know what to do. And I
was just like, I just want to literally brown out
right now, like I've exhausted all options here. And I
was just so happy and even more in love with
him that he apologized to me and to the person
that he heard and that he acknowledged that his actions
like were not the best thing to do.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
And that is all I could freaking ask.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
That is all I can ask because if he was,
because he can be stubborn sometimes, but if he and
there's really tough times that we have sometimes, if he
can take a step back and lean on God for it.
God is always going to be right, like God is
always going to lead with love, and that's what I
tried to do and be.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
And if I'm not leading with with alcohol, that's not right.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
That wasn't right for me to decide to get drunk
that night, but it is what it is, and I
hope that going forward, when I have those tough times
where I feel like I'm exhausting all options. I could
lean on God too, and I feel like I tried
but it didn't really work, and I feel like I
just want to straight to alcohol that night, but you know,
he didn't, and he went to God at the end
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of the night when I was being mean, and I
apologized him to him for being mean to him, and
we got ready because we were going to go to
watch the Mets. Uh huh another baseball excursion? What our
fourth freaking game of the season. Why are we always
watching baseball? It's because Zaddi loves baseball and his dad
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didn't want to be a dad, So I'm going to
be his dad and happy to take him to baseball games.
And I thank you so much to our homie Tommy
with a Savvy Seats.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
He was the ultimate hookup. I mean this was this
was a.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Suboy series, so the Yankees and the Mets were playing,
so it was packed and the seats were crazy. But
Savvy Seats vip s a v v y s e
a t S VIP on ig. He hooked it the
flip up and he has VIP services for all ticket events.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
No fees, fast delivery.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Someone I truly trust because he was a real one
and he hooked me up big time. So I know
that he's gonna hook it up for you too if
you let him know that Crystal old us I sent you.
So whatever events here in the city or around the country,
he can pretty much hook you up for anything. So
thank you to Savvy Seats. You are the man s
A v v y s e A t s vip
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on ig, So go give him some love.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
So he hooked it up. We were able to go.
We took the train.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
I was extremely hungover and that was completely my fault.
So I just wanted to be a real one, and
I also started getting the SuDS. But I wanted to
be a real one because Zadie is such a real
one for me and I want to suck it up
and have a good baseball time with him his friends.
So we get to the Met Stadium. I love the
Met Stadium. It is probably my third favorite stadium in
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the world. Number one, the Giant Stadium is pretty much unmatched.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
I'm so sad that the Coliseum in the Oakland is
is out of there because those shread of chicken nacho
fries were my favorite of all time. Oh my gosh,
they were so good. Or the tread of chicken nachos. Yeah,
and then yeah. Number three right now is the Met Stadium.
I will, I will gladly go back because their food
is crazy and the stadium is just so nice and
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it's just so live, and that the fans are just
so fun and like it's just true New Yorkers. The
Yankee Stadium is cool. It's just it's just not. I
just don't like it as much. And everyone can agree.
Everyone can agree. And the entertainment at the Met Stadium
is so good too. So we were walking around, we
were having so much funds. I got Daddy his soft
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serve ice cream. I got him his cheese stay that
he threw away because it was so nasty. It really
was so nasty. And I'm proud of himim for throwing
it away, because that would have been a really rough
night for us if he ate that chili cheese steak.
So do not get the chili cheese steak. But I
got a sausage. I'm a sausage girl. I love the
sweet sausage. I love the loaded fries. Oh my gosh, girlfriend,
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like they have so much food there, you guys. They
have a fries a fry's station, like a fries station there.
They have like egg rolls, like mozzarella chicken egg rolls.
They have like bacon cheese egg egg rolls. They have
just the coolest food there, pulled pork. It's just so amazing.
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Ten out of ten. I love the met Stadium. So
we were there for a little bit. We got standing
room seats, so we didn't have actually seats because we
just wanted to get in the door. And girl, there
was no seats. There was not even standing so it
was pretty rough. But I was getting heat stroke, Yes,
I sure was. I was getting a heatstroke there, and
I was trying so hard to just enjoy myself and
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not be a downer, but I was about to pass out,
and I I didn't.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Want to tell him should we leave? Can't we leave?
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Because I didn't want to be that girl, but that
girl was melting, And thank goodness that around the sixth ending,
I played it really good. I played it really good.
I thought I pretended that I heard Zaddy mumble should
we leave? He absolutely didn't, but but I looked at
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him and said, wait, what did you say? Babe, should
we leave. That sparked him to like be like, oh.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
No, I didn't say that, but like, I mean it
is really hot, like we could leave. I'm like okay,
like what are you thinking? And he was like, well,
we'll leave after this, Like let me just watch this
and we'll leave after this. I was like perfect.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
So really soon after we left, I just again, I
just didn't want to do that to him, Like he
loves baseball games.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Like I love Wicked.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Like I'm gonna watch the entire Wicked movie.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Again and again and again. I'm gonna sing along to it.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
And Zaddy likes to watch the plays and actually watch,
likes to watch what's going on, and likes the atmosphere
of a baseball game. And even though it's pretty loud
for him, he has his air pods in so it's
noise canceling, so he's fine.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
So that is his thing.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
And he is just like a little kid when he's
at a baseball game, wanting his ice cream and wanting
his lemonade. And I just you know, we do so
much for me that I'm like, I'm going to stick
it out. And I did, and I'm very thankful that
I did, even though the swamp ass was swamping, and
even though the boob sweat was sweating, and even though
I almost had a heat stroke, I did it for him.
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And again thank you to Tommy at Savvy Seats. And
it was cool, it was fun. We took a little
rest back home, we got back up, and then we
went to another little restaurant and we went out for
a few bars. And because I was I was really hungover,
like I was going through. I was sick, like I
had the SuDS, I had a sore throat, I was
taking mucinex and day quill, and I was extremely hungover.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
So that was just a terrible recipe. But I got
it together.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
I got us up, and we wanted one night last
night with our friends. But I just could not fathom
drinking anything ever again, Like I'm literally never drinking in
my entire life. Me and Zaddy were again lit off
the mocktails and we love them, girl, We loved them,
and we were having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
Our friends were having a drink here and there.
Speaker 1 (42:18):
I mean, trust me, I had enough drinks the night
before for all of us the entire week. But we're
going from one speak easy. I've told you of it
before pat and Pending. It's a coffee shop during the
day and at night the back is a nice, low
key bar, very crafty, cool, awesome different drinks.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
So we went there. I took them too.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We took them to Oscar Wild, which is a very
touristy famous spot here in the city. So we were
just hopping around. We were hopping around sound to different
places we went to. I think we went to Lili's again,
and it was just so fun and fresh, and it
was such a nice evening and we were just walking
around sad.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
That they had to leave.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Who were sad that they had to leave, But we're
going to see them again soon. It was really awesome
that they got to come and spend a few New
York City summer at nights with us. They're just so
fun and I'm so thankful for their friendship. And even
at one time when we were walking down the street,
I mean there, Zaddy and our friend and his friend
are have been friends since they were in middle school,
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so they go way way back, and they're just kind
of delinquents together, you know how they have them the
fire escapes on the sides of the apartments here in
New York when you're walking around, Zaddi goes, yo, I
dare you to jump on that and start climbing up
to the first floor or the second floor technically, And
I'm just thinking, like, there's no way he's going to
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do that right now, and like there's it's it's high
out there, like I don't think he can reach it,
and I don't think he's strong enough to go up it.
But he kind of stares at it for like half
a minute, and I'm just like, he's not going to
do that, like there's just no way, and he just
jumps like an ape and starts arming it arm, one
arm at a time, the fire escape and he.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Gets up to the second floor and we're all like
what the heck, like how did it?
Speaker 1 (44:07):
And I'm like that's crazy, And I was just like
I'm not gonna lie to you. I did not know
that you were strong enough to do that. I did
not think that you were that strong. Like good for you, bro,
you'd be hitting the gym. And then I'm like okay, honey,
like it's your turn, like you have to do it too,
and he's like nah, like I'm not he was scared.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
He was scared.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
I'm like how are you gonna dare someone to do
something but then you yourself are scared and you don't.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Want to do it.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
No. It was so fun though, and I cannot wait
for them to come back soon, hopefully this fall.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
That'll be really fun. And that's just been going on
one in my life and in.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
My crevices, and I cannot wait to chat with you
in next week's episode because my prima Gavi is in
town and I have a huge announcement about my native honor,
and I have a huge announcement about a huge Bridezilla
meltdown that I had between me and my brother Junior
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and my mom Sandririta. So we're going to share all
that and more in a next week's episode of a
Crystal's night Cap. Until then, I'll see you. I'm an
next one. Love love, love you, and thank you for
being on the best. We actually, let's do our daily
motivator for the day. We haven't done that one yet.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
Today.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
It is called m undo burdens. How many of your
struggles are self imposed? Certainly in all of them, but
probably many of them are. As you go through each day,
you struggle with various challenges as valuable as challenges can
be Some of them are likely unnecessary, and you could
do something about them. Ask yourself, what challenges are you
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running to again and again that you could take action
to solve and eliminate once and for all. Doing so
would free you to pursue more worthwhile fulfilling activities. As
strange as it may seem, some struggles can become so
familiar that they turn into habitual behavior. You have the
power to rid yourself of those dispiriting habits. Dispiriting habits yep,
(45:55):
imagine the tasks that occupy your time looking for activities
that don't really gain you anything, but that have become
so comfortable you don't think much about them. Maybe it'd
be a lot better off without them. You can't avoid
many of life's burdens, yet you absolutely can avoid placing
your own undue burdens on your time and efforts. Seek
to rid yourself of those, and you're likely to find
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opportunities for doing so. How does that feel.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Undo burdens? Uh, that's just reminding me how lazy I am.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
Whant to get home from work and I just want
to like coutraw and not do anything, And I'm just
sitting there thinking Zady pays for me to go to
a beautiful gym, and I'm just right here and I
could be in the sauna the spa, doing some laps,
doing yoga, and I'm just lazy as heck. So please,
someone bully me into going to the gym. Please me myself.
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I need to bully myself into going to the gym.
Maybe that'll help. I want to get rid of my
floppy arms by the big day. Ugh, it's so hard
out here. I don't know what your burden is or
the challenge, or maybe something that you're doing that is
a habit that you just don't like. Hopefully we can
think about those and then soon now we're going to
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get into our last prayer of the day. I know
we aren't all open to prayers, and that's totally cool.
I love, love, love you, and I will see you
on the next one. But if you're down, or maybe
you're curious, or maybe you love this section, we read
it from a book called Jesus Calling and Join Peace
in His Presence by Sarah Jung. You can get this
on Amazon. It's a daily calendar of prayers on how
to stay present. This one today says, do not worry
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about tomorrow. It is not a suggestion, but a command.
I divided time into days and nights so that you
would have manageable portions of life to handle. My grace
is sufficient for you, but its sufficiency is for only
one day.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
At a time.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
When you worry about the future, you heap day upon
day of troubles into your flimsy frame. You stagger under
this heavy load which I never intended you to carry.
Throw off this oppressive burden with one quick thrust of trust.
Anxious thoughts meander about and crisscross in your brain, but
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trusting me to brings you directly into my presence. As
you thus affirm your faith, shackles of worry fall off. Instantly,
enjoy my presence continually by trusting Me at all times
Matthew six thirty four, two Corinthians twelve nine, Psalm sixty
two eight. I feel like I've been so much better
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at this. I feel like I don't have a lot
of anxiety or stress as much as I used to,
because I really do do this.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
Like when I get home.
Speaker 1 (48:44):
When I go home, when I'm in bed, I look
at my calendar for the next day, and I see
what it's about and I just think cool, as long
as I've already prepared for things that I am gonna
have coming up, I'm fine, and we all have the
control to prepare. But all I could really do is
think a day at a time. I feel like that's
so much harder, right, easier said than done, And for me,
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for a long time, I would just stress and stress
and have anxiety and anxiety. But there is no cure
to anxiety other than just being grateful and thankful of
the present moment. Like that's the only way to cure anxiety,
is just to be thankful for now. Because we cannot
control the present. All you could do is be prepared
for it, but you really can't control. So I hope
that that has helped you. Whenever you're feeling anxious about
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the present, just put all those anxieties and stresses. And
I feel like I've shared this exercise with you before.
Speaker 2 (49:36):
But I have.
Speaker 1 (49:37):
Like a really beautiful, pink, glittery iridescent name brag designer
bag in my brain, and whenever I have anxiety or stress,
I grab it and I throw on the floor. I
unzip this really pretty duffel bag and I just throw
all my anxieties. I physically just toss them, my anxieties
into the bag. I zip it up, I pick it up,
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and I throw it up to God. I throw it
up and I say, God, you handle that. I'm done
with it. I'm done thinking of stressing or worrying about this.
And I feel like it helps so much just if
you literally throw it to God, because God will always
take care of all of your stresses and you'll realize
there's really actually not that much to stress about. Girl.
I used to stress about, like putting on makeup and
doing my hair for an interview that day. I used
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to be like, oh my gosh, I have to do
my hair makeup. But then I'm like, I get to
do my hair makeup, I get to put on any
YouTube video I want. I get to put on any
podcast I want. I listen to the JV Show every day.
I miss them so much. The Davis Show is Lee
and a Grahma Dress. I listen to them every day
and I just hang out with them and they make
me giggle, and that that definitely like gives me something
to look forward to. Or I'll put on some other
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podcasts I like just Trish to canceled podcast, whatever.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
It is, I'll listen to some new music.
Speaker 1 (50:49):
So I hope that if you feel like you're just
waking up stressed with anxiety, just put on something to
take us stress away. If you're feeling lonely, you know,
listen to something that doesn't make you feel Oh, maybe
call a few friends to see who's gonna answer on
my walk homes I like to call. I'll call my mom,
I'll call some of my premas, I'll talk, I'll call
some of my theas. I'll just start chip or chapter
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in until I get all the way home. So I
hope that that has helped you.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I know it's a.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Lot easier something done to not be stressed and not
have anxiety, but I hope that these exercises and these
ideas can help you out and just know that God
is going to take care of everything. You don't got
to worry about nothing. God got us in the best
of ways. And if something doesn't pan out exactly how
you want, it's okay. We can learn from it, or
maybe it wasn't right for us in that moment, or
I know God will have a bigger and better path
for you. So I hope this helps you. Thank you
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again for another episode of Crystal's night Cap. I love,
love love you and I will see you on the
next one.
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