May 15, 2023 • 45 mins
In tonight’s episode of Crystal’s Nightcap let’s watch “New York, New York” on Broadway, we interview THE JONAS BROTHER’S, we take my mommy and abuelitos out to Central Park, we hit a “Speakeasy and Prohibition” Tour in the city with my primos and MORE!
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Hello to your beautiful hand hooptie.It's Krystal Rosas back with another episode of
Crystal's Nightcap. Tonight, I tellyou how my meeting went with my bosses.
I went to see New York,New York on Broadway with my Alwi
Lethos and my mom. We wentto Central Park for Mother's Day. I
interviewed the Jonas brothers and all asudden right ex to Joe Jonas my pitymos
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in town. So we went toa prohibition Speak easy tour here in the
city. I'll tell you all thehot spots he went to as well.
Give us. My name is CrystalRosas. I'm a twenty something Latina who
just moved from California. It's theBig Apple's Happy. Sorry that was my
cat frappuccino. They're still getting usedto the city life. Anyways. Where
was I am? Oh? Yeah, I take over afternoon radio every day
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on the world famous Z one hundred. But when nightfalls, I'm looking for
all the cloud I can get andcasually searching these streets from my Prince Charming.
Come on this sexy single journey wherewe'll go on a date with a
new guy from the apps. Everyweek host red carpets and interviews and weasel
our way to the secret society ofNew York's top social life. Oh yeah,
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and someone's always watching. That's myoverprotective mom. This is Crystal's Nightcap.
Happy Monday. Yeay yeay, yeay, yeay yay. Hope you had
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a little check and how we feelin how we do in scale A one
to ten. I'm I'm good,I am good. I'm a little sad
because my family is leaving New YorkCity today, I just left them,
and their flight isn't until a littlelater when I'm already at work, So
I was saying bye to everyone.My awalita Ama, she was doing the
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Sign of across to me and prayingfor me as I was leaving and getting
teary eyed and about to cry,and my mom too. So it's just
it's tough. And even for someof you, you're probably like, didn't
you just see them last month?Why are you always so emotional every time
you leave your family. It's stillreally hard for me, Like I'm so
happy and my most self around myfamily, so living so far from them
is tough. And I know I'mgoing to see my mom in July,
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which is good, but I don'tknow the next time I'm going to go
home to see my awaditos because it'sjust so busy and I have a lot
going on. Summers are really busyhere in New York City. I have
a lot of traveling that I'm goingto be doing coming up as well.
So it's just tough. But I'mso thankful I got to spend these past
two weeks with them. It wasso funny and fun having them in my
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apartment with me and my kiddikat Frappie. There's four of us living together.
They're the funniest and best roommates.I'll get into that all a little,
but let's get into the nightcap now. Sit back, relax. It's Crystal's
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nightcat. What's up, y'all.It's Suk Suk with the good Kuchi with
the good kid Suki, Hannah andwait with Crystal Rosas. Thank you Suki.
So in last week's episode, Iwas going through a lot of stress.
I was really worried because I hadan air check meeting coming up with
my bosses, which means that theywere going to go through one of my
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shows I do on the weekends,cut all the audio that I talk,
all my breakes, all my talkbreaks, and go over it with me
and pretty much just criticize me andsay what I need to work on.
I thought that they were going topick like the worst weekend ever from my
shift because I was just so tiredof traveling back and forth. I had
done a whole week afternoon show justby myself, like unprovoked, unannounced.
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I didn't even know I was goingto be doing the show by myself,
but We had the meeting on Tuesdayand it went really well. I mean,
some of the things that they toldme to work on are just really
simple things. If anything, I'mkind of doing a little too much and
they kind of want me to justkeep it really chill, keep it more
laid back. I don't have togo off and as hard as I do
with my shifts, and that waseasy. One tough thing about the weekend
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shifts that I do working on theradio is that a lot of times the
songs that I talk into because obviouslywe talk in between songs and sometimes into
commercials, but there have really shorttalk breaks, sometimes zero seconds, so
we don't want to talk over nothing, which means talking over a dead air.
But they in those cases, insteadof me trying to fit everything really
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quickly or it's sounding too rush,they just want me to say the station
name and that's it. So I'mlike all right and not gonna lie.
That's a majority of the talk breaksare zero to five seconds, so that
means that I'm just gonna have tobe a little more chill and think of
more creative ways to deliver those samepositioning statements. For example, zero one
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hundreds is it's SEE one hundred,New York's number one hit music station,
while Danny for nine it's well,Danny for nine the base number one hit
music station. When I'm in Texasninety six seven, Kim Mouston's number one
hit music station, Fresno BET ninetyfive, Friend was Home for hip hop,
it's hinds. Yeah, I dolike six, seven eight of those
a weekend. And if we're justtalking in between songs that are like zero
seconds to three, four to five, then that's really all I have to
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say instead of trying to think ofsomething creative to say about the song or
the artist coming up, I'm justgoing to keep it light and lit.
And that was pretty much the onlything they really said so great air check
meeting. They said that my contentis really on point, and then I
always bring the energy and I'm alwayscreative. So I'm happy that at least
they really liked what I've been upto and my progression. So that was
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that. On Tuesday, Wednesday,Wednesday, we had the opportunity to have
an album listening party, a prealbum listening party with Jonas brother fans here
ed ZE one hundred. So whatwe did leading up to it is.
We were looking for Caller one hundredon ZE one hundred and they would be
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in to go to the pre albumlistening party for the Jonas Brothers because the
Jonas Brothers album did come out untilThursday night. Oh this was Thursday,
not Wednesday. My bad. Itdidn't come out till Thursday night. So
that day we were going to havea little party with the listeners and they
were going to be able to listento the album with us before everybody else.
So I knew that we were goingto be hosting this, but I
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didn't know that at the end,the Donas Brothers were going to come and
surprise everyone and we were going todo a short interview with them, which
is insane. Now. I've donean album listening party before. We did
it with Harry Style's album Harry's House. Harry didn't come through, but it
was still really fun and this onewas cool too. It was me and
my partner and we had probably liketwenty to twenty five listeners in the conference
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room, and the national team wasthere to do coverage of it with cameras
and all that, and Digital wasthere as well, and our promotions team
was there helping too. So itwas really fun and I love the Jonas
Brothers. Girl, we go backto like pre Camp Rock days. The
Jonas Brothers actually performed at the AlamedaCounty Fair in Pleasanton, California, back
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back back back in the day,and I remember my dad would always take
us to the County Fair and weshowed up like the day after the Jonas
Brothers performed. I was like Bobby, we missed the Jonas Brothers by a
day. I was probably in middleschool. I want to say, I
think Nick Jonas is only like ayear older than year around my age,
But so I was always in lovewith the Jonas Brothers and then Camp Rock
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that whole era, and then inhigh school my best friend Audio, I
brought her up a few times.Her dad surprised her and I for her
birthday with literally third row tickets tosee the Jonas Brothers for the Jonas Brothers
World Tour. This is in twothousand and nine. I was probably fourteen
years old and me Audium and thenmy mom drew rob Us. It was
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insane, like we couldn't even believeit, Like it was probably one of
the best days of my youth.And we loved the Jonas brothers, and
we even tried to sneak like throughthe tunnel's backstage. We didn't make it,
but we got clothes and it wasjust like everything. And so,
you know, growing up, Iloved the Jonas brothers and I did one
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time run it to Nick And I'vetalked about this before at one of our
one of my first Wild Lady fornine jingle balls, he was not the
nicest to me. He was not, But then I ran into Joe Jonas
when he was part of d NCpretty much the same thing, and he
was so sweet, so nice.He complimented my braids, my corn rows,
and I think that was. Oh. We recently, I think a
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year or two ago, did azoom interview with Joe Jonas when he was
from his music with DNC as well. But other than years ago at our
Wild New for nine jingle ball,I hadn't seen Nick or Joe or talk
to them in person. So doingan interview with the actual Jonas brothers in
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a collective was crazy. And likeI was just sitting in that room while
we were all listening to the album. And the album was great, by
the way, Oh I already saidthat, but it is back to the
point. I was just in awethat I was sitting there, like in
New York City at Z one hundredI Heart Radio, the dang mother Ship
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with awesome listeners and we're all justlike listening no big deal to the new
Donas Brothers album, the album beforeeveryone else, Like it was just so
cool. And then none of thelisteners know that the Donors Brothers are going
to come out and we were gonnasurprise them. Man, it was such
a moment. And then they docome out, and it's just like we're
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saying hi, and I'm sitting rightnext to Jonas. Who oh my Lanna,
this man is just he is.He is a site to look at.
He is a site to look atand so cool and so chill,
and let's just also let's let's let'sturn our heads a little bit because Kevin
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Jonas he is he is daddy allof us like he blew up like he
is dang. He was looking scrupturesas well. And Nick Jonas he's there.
I mean, as I said,I Nick Jonas, okay, but
no, like it was everything andit was a short, quick interview.
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We just kept it to the musicand how they have two shows at Yankee
Stadium, which is a huge deal. And how they're together again because we
didn't know if they were going tomake an album together when they broke up.
They were all kind of doing theirown solo projects. So them being
back, being back collectively making sureto give New York club. They're from
Jersey, so they love New YorkCity and it was just everything. I'm
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so thankful. They were so sogreat. You can watch the full interview
on our Z one hundred YouTube.They were really nice, they were really
present. It was pretty surface levelquestions just because when it comes to stulf
like that, the listeners really justwant to hear about the album and then
making the album and what they haveset on tour, and we don't want
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to make them uncomfortable by asking questionsthat are personal, so we kept it
to the album and it was great. I mean, coming off the heels
from last week's Jalo interview and thenthis week do it a Big Banker again
with the Jonas brothers, It's like, these are the opportunities that New York
has to offer me, and thisis why I got to keep going and
keep grinding, because I'm hoping thatone day I can do things like this
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completely by myself and one on onewith the artists and kind of have them
open up a little more and beon a more personal basis so that they
can feel comfortable with me and thatwe can just dig deeper yet on a
deeper level of what's going on.But every single step is just more more
experience for me. To keep itgoing, keep it going. I'll pray
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and across my fingers. One day, maybe I could do a Taylor interview
that would be iconic. We're manifestingthat we're throwing that into the world because
I've just done so much in sucha little time. It's my two year
anniversary of moving here to New YorkCity next week, and we just cannot
believe it like it is. It'shappening. It's a thing. Thursday nights,
I meet up with my familia andwe go to watch the play in
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New York, New York, whichis set in the forties, and it
follows like three to four different storylinesabout either immigrants that are moving here to
New York for the first time,actresses that want to make it here in
New York, couples that are movingand trying to Navigate New York and it's
a really really cute play. Imean, the first opening sequence is just
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a man screwing on light bulbs toa big New York New York sign and
just saying I love New York City. And then the Frank Sinatra's song starts
kind of going, and I'm notgonna I get teary eyed because I still
I still can't believe that I'm hereand my family's here, Amapa are here?
I mean I talked in last week'sepisode that a Ba comes from a
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really small town in they didn't haveopportunities at all out there, Like he
literally had to move because there wasno jobs. And Ama she grew up
on the front. She grew upin Mahikali, and she didn't know what
her life was going to entail.But I actually learned a little bit about
Mama's life in her younger life,which is lightweight iconicum. I'll get into
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that a little bit, but yeah, just I don't think they ever thought
that they would have grandkins that arenow doing it big in New York and
moving across the country and really livingout their American dream. And my mommy,
she means so much to me too. She's always making trying to do
everything for us and making sure thatwe have fun. So she got the
tickets for us for New York,New York, and it was such a
cute play, even though a Baliterally fell asleep and was snoring at one
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point, I had to nudge aboutwake up. And my kind of was
too. There are some relaxing partsto the play. And they're older.
I mean, I'm as eighty oneup seventy seven, so there's not people
around their age really walking around NewYork City. There's not a lot,
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so it's it's a tough city forthem to navigate. But they were out
and about and they were doing it. After that, I wanted to take
them to Restaurant Row, and I'veshared Restaurant Row before is a really iconic
street in Midtown on forty sixth wherethere's a whole bunch of restaurants and cute
little bars. So I took themto the Air. I took them to
a Mexican restaurant there, and aswe got there, Upo starts freaking out,
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almost hyperventilating because he cannot find hisiPhone. Appa has a good old
iPhone five and he can't find it. And so luckily that morning, my
mom and I actually made sure thatwe had him tracked his device tracked on
our phones, so we were ableto pull up his phone and it was
at the theater. So we're like, don't worry about like, we're gonna
go back. We're gonna run realquick. You I stay here at the
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restaurant. We're gonna go run andget your phone. So I'm running and
my mom is wobbling right next tome, trying to make it back to
the theater. Hopefully they didn't lockall the doors and there's someone coming out
that can help us get back in. We're running through the streets of New
York City. It literally feels likea movie. And we pull up and
all the doors are locked, sowe're like, dang it. And then
we see someone coming out of likea side entrance that it looks like a
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worker. We'll go hello, Hello, Hi, can you help us?
And he goes, yeah, sure, did you lose something? And we
said yes, iPhone And they're like, oh okay, I'm like a red
iPhone. And another guy comes outand he's more aggressive. He's like,
y'all got to check your stuff beforeyou leave. You guys need to check
your things before we leave. Wetell you, and we're like, it's
literally my grandpa's he's almost eighty yearsold. He's like, okay, but
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if it's not luck to put themanager's room, then you're gonna have to
come back tomorrow. Sorry, you'regonna have to come back tomorrow. I'm
like, it's fine, I livehere, there's no problems. We just
want to see if maybe it's there. And the other guy was being nice
and he was like, okay,let me go check. What color is
it? I was like, ithas one camera on the back. It's
like an iPhone five and it's red. You're you're not gonna miss it.
And we were in row G righton the edge and he said, okay,
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let me check. So he runsin and the other guys kind of
giving us attitude still, and we'rejust like, okay, dude, like
why are you antagonizing us? Likejust go home, go home, your
shift is over, go home,Okay, We're just trying to get out.
When he feels I phone, We'regonna be fine. Because Apa is
he loves his phone. He's alwayson Facebook. He's always looking at memes
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and videos. Something about a BAand Facebook is that he be sharing like
the most wild things. He'd besharing these graunchy, raunchy videos that we're
just like, APA should not besharing these things. We don't think that
he knows that he's sharing it onFacebook, but he is. I'm talking
about like you know, it's likequick videos from like trees that are not
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the USA, and they're kind ofrated borderline are There's like one video that
IPO shared of this this man ona ladder painting some street and he is
in basketball shorts and he is paintinga house with two paint brushes, but
he keeps one of the paint brushesin the middle of his booty cheeks and
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switches them out to get like afiner lines. And then you'll use a
big one and put the other oneand back in his booty cheeks. A
bout sharing videos like this on Facebookand our theol is the one that brought
it to our attention to my momand was like, you need to tell
your dad to stop sharing these weird, creepy things like word plays that are
very inappropriate, jokes that are veryvery inappropriate on videos on Facebook. Like
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everything in Spanish just doing a lot, and my mom and I don't know
how to approach Up about this,so we've just kind of let it go.
But it is it's gross. Nonetheless, up I love to be honest.
He wakes up and goes get hiscoffee and he's just scrolling on Facebook
and he loves it and he lovesto check in on our group chats and
he's always looking at old pictures.So I has also a lot of pictures
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on his phone. So we werereally faking out that. You know,
when someone loses their phone, it'slike a big deal, and up I
was really really upset that he losthis phone. He was like shaking nervous.
So we are just kind of waitingthere in anticipation, hoping that they
find the phone. And luckily theguy came out and he was like,
you said it was a red iPhone, right, and we're like yeah,
and he said what color is acase? And he said it's a clear
see through case and so oh hereit is like perfect, thank you so
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much, thank you, thank you. So then my mom and I a
scurry back and I'm like, Mommy, why don't we pull a prank on
a by and tell him that wedidn't find his phone and that someone stole
it. And he's like, no, because he's gonna get hella nervous.
And last time we pulled a prankon him, he got his stroke.
I don't know if I told youthat story. Did I tell you the
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story about how my uncle, myuncle pulled a prank on a ba that
I got fired from my job herein New York and up I literally had
a mini stroke and went to thehospital. I'm I'm laughing, not because
he like of the stroke and allthat, just because the fact that it
was a prank that sent him.So my mom was really breaking out and
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she was like, we can't.I's too old. We can't be pranking
him anymore. He's gonna get astroke, and we cannot get a stroke
out here in New York. It'sgonna be bad. So like, okay,
fine, fine, fine, Sowe don't prank him. But we
pull up and am I sitting downat the bar with a margharita and we're
just like, I'm okay, Iguess we're getting drunk tonight. So Ama
tells me, let's just get somedrinks. You get a drink. Your
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mom could get a drink too.My family does not drink. My mom
doesn't drink at all. And mygrandma Amash has a drink every once in
a while. She have like acute pinako lava or margharita, but it's
very rare. It's like on birthdays, on her birthdays, and that's really
it. So okay, im,are we gonna get slashed? And I
like, are we gonna get youdrunk? She's like no, no,
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no, no no. I waslike, I'm have you ever gotten drunk
before? And it was just meand her on the table and Appa and
my mom on the other table.They were having their own conversation. Miama
were having our own conversation. AndAma was like, actually, yeah,
one time I did get drunk.And I was like, why you got
drunk ones? And she's like yeah. And I was like, why only
ones like you didn't drink and shewas like, well back then, like
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we didn't really drink. Well,I was always driving, I was always
the d D. I never reallywanted to drink. But I did get
drunk one time with Appa when theywere younger and they had just gone married,
and they went to a bar andshe said she had a little too
much to drink. And I waslike, did you throw up? And
she was like no. And Iwas like did you black out? And
she was like no. And Iwas like did you get carried home?
And she was like no. AndI was like, I'm out, you
need to get slashed, like youneed to black out. She's like no,
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no, no, no no,And so I ordered I kept ordering
us drinks and then she started talkingto me about everything, like when she
first when she first graduated high school, she wanted to get a job and
start working, but her dad didn'twant her to work. He wanted her
to continue school, and she waslike, no, I just want to
make that money. I want toget that bag. So she was nineteen
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and she asked if she could movefrom a equo to LA with her sister,
and her sister was already married andhad a family and everything, and
her dad was like okay. Soshe was able to just leave the house
at nineteen to live with her sister. And that's why she was going to
the by list all the time everyweekend. And she had a boyfriend.
She had a little white ting.She had a white boyfriend from in Fossil
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in Fossil Texas, but he alsospoke Spanish, and she dated him for
a little bit and then he wantedto get married to her and she was
like, no, I don't wantto get married yet, so no,
and he was like fine then likewe got to be done, and she
was like fine then by so shebroke up with him, and then she
kept living her best single life andthen she shortly after that met a BA
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at another bagley at another dance,and up on her started dating a little
bit, and she had her papersand everything and Appa didn't and Apa was
like, okay, like let's getmarried, and she was like okay,
like I can get married because hewanted to have kids, and she was
like I'm not rushed, but Idon't mind getting married. So they got
married. And the day that theywere getting married, I found out that
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a BA had lied about his age, that he was actually four years younger
than her. And she was like, I'm not marrying you like you lied
like your hella younger than me.I don't want to marry you. And
he was like, too late,too late, we're married. So he
pretty much bamboozled her into getting married. And but they're fine. I mean
they've been married ever since. Andthen the way she found out, she's
like, I didn't even know thatI got pregnant. I was like what.
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She was like, yeah, abah is the one that had a
stomach ache. So we had totake into the doctor and the doctor was
like, how long have you allbeen married? And she was like,
oh, just a few months.And he was like, let me check
your real quick checks. I'm Iwas like, oh, his stomach hurts
because you're pregnant. I was likewhat. So I was pregnant with my
momma and didn't even know wit,which was crazy. So I think that's
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a thing. My cousins that Iwas with this weekend told me that's a
thing that sometimes the male counterpart doesfeel symptoms when the woman is pregnant.
Didn't know that, but very interesting. I guess that's kind of what happened.
But yeah, and then what didshe do? Oh? Yeah,
I used to work before she marriedup bas she was working at the factories
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that make shower curtains and she wason the line helping to make little holes
in the shower curtains, and sothat's what she was doing. She was
getting her bag and she bought herselfa car, and she had her car
for a little bit and then Ibought didn't have a car, and he
was like, oh, I'm gonnatake her car to work in the morning
while she's asleep, and he totaledher car completely totaled it. I was
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like, damn, I would haveleft him. She was like, I
couldn't leave it. We were married. I was like, dang, but
yeah, men are the worst.No, I'm just kidding. I might
have been through it. But theyhave been married for well. They had
their fiftieth year anniversary like a fewyears ago, so it's it's gonna be
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sixty years soon, which is acray cray. And they've bicker all the
time. I mean it's I canimagine how tough it would be to be
married to someone for that long.And they're constantly just like bickering. But
it's really fun. I mean,they're they're iconic. She's the queen,
and it was just so fun hearingAmas stories for when she was young.
Apo was also sharing stories about whenhe was first coming to America, and
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it was really hard because Amal wentto high school and she did learn English,
but up I didn't. He didn'tknow English at all when he came
over here, and he said thatduring that time, it was really common
for people to get immigration called onthem, and he was like, it
was really sad. It was reallyhard. Like they would come in a
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green car and you knew that someonewas going to get deported, and then
someone would get deported, and ifthey were able to get the money to
come back to California, then theywere really lucky. And sometimes your friends
would get deported and you'd see themwithin the next two weeks. But sometimes
they would get deported and you wouldnever see them again. And a lot
of times when people would get deported, they would just go straight to their
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country. They didn't want to goback where they lived in California or in
America because then everyone else they livedwould get got too. So they would
go with no money, like noclothes, literally whatever they had on them.
And if their homies whoever they livedwith, were cool, they would
try to spot them and give themmoney to come back. Well, sometimes
they would come back and all theirstuff would be jacked. It was just
messed up. But a lot oftimes our own people would call immigration on
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us just because they were haters,just because they were jealous or envious or
salty or you know, you kindof got into an argument with somebody and
they knew you were illegal, soeven if they were also illegal, they
would call immigration on you and youwould get got. And after Amanapa got
married, Aba had a hitch thatthere was his hater on him and they
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called immigration on a. Ba showedup to a to their house. Aba
was already gone for work and mI was there and she was like,
Oh, what's going on? Andhe was like, oh, um,
does who it? I live here? We heard that he doesn't have papers
and she's like, he does havepapers, like we're married. And then
my mom was a baby crying inthe room and she's like, listen,
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that's my daughter. She was bornhere, Like he has papers. And
she was like, well, showme your passport and he was gonna she
was in good and they're like,actually, like never mind, it's fine,
Like we believe you guys. AndI did have his papers. But
the guy that was a snake thatcalled immigration on my grandpa, he didn't
know that my grandpa had papers already. He was just being a hater and
I asked up. I was like, wait, what about that? Man
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like, did you ever know forsure? He's like, well, I
never knew for sure if it wasthis guy, but after some years in
investigating, like, I did thinkthat it was this one guy that did
it. Nonetheless, I had mypapers, so it was all. But
yeah, it was. It wasa tough time back then. It was
really really common. It's different now, obviously, but there's still there's still
so many injustices when it comes toimmigration. Some of my own family members,
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they're still trying to get their paperslegally, and it just takes so
long, and it's so hard andso rough. And these are people that
grew up here, their parents broughtthem over to have a better future and
have a better life. And Iknow everyone has their own stance on immigration
and whatnot, and some are onone side of the spectrum and someone around
others. And I think that everyonehas every right to have their opinions.
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Like I'm not intruding on any ofthat, but America was built on immigrants,
and America is stolen land. Alot of the land here did belong
to me, had got one point, and did belong to indigenous people.
And I think that we should justcontinue to treat everyone with respect and know
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that people really just want a betterlife. And that's why we are so
lucky to live here and grow uphere. And I'm so lucky that I
was born here because I see someof my family members that have struggled a
lot and still struggle a lot justto do basic things, and some of
my cousins can't even travel because theydon't have the status too. So just
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be nice, be gracious, knowthat everyone has their own struggle, and
not one person is better than someoneelse just because of whatever status you have.
But yeah, hearing what my grandparentswent through in their journey is like
it was. It was a really, really, really tough time, and
I'm so thankful that they went throughall those hardships because I have such an
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amazing life and I'm able to dothings that I never thought I was able
to do. I was able togo to college, have a fun high
school, private high school life,and study and learn a lot and take
advantage of opportunities in turn, andnow I'm living this crazy dream. It's
still a dream that I live hereand do all the things that I do
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here in New York, and it'sall because of them and their sacrifices.
I'm just super super thankful and superthankful that they were able to be here
and see the life that we live, and that they were able to give
me. It was everything. Andgetting on my drunk was everything too.
She had three margaritas and half ashot. She was twisted and turn and
she was just living her a bestlife, but not it. It was
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such a great time with them.And then on Saturday, I worked.
After work, we went to TommyBahamas, which is a cute little restaurant
here. There's a few Tommy Bahamarestaurants. It's after the clothing company,
but it's totally a Manapa's style,like she likes all tropical que vibi.
So I took them there, tookthem around Fifth Avenue for a little bit,
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took them to the cathedral, theSaint Patrick's Cathedral, which is like
the cathedral of New York City,so so beautiful, so nice. You
for sure need to check it outif you're out here in the city.
And then at home, and mycousins were in town, so I want
to hang out them for a littlebit. The same cousins from my window
side, from where my grandpapas fromsandozod Angle. So they had planned to
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do a night prohibition bar tour,and I've seen tours like this before,
I have never done one here inNew York City. So they invited me
to go along with them, andit was so cute. It was so
fun. Our tour guide was great. I really love learning the history about
places, and I didn't. Ofcourse, New York City has so much
history, but when you hear someoneexplain it, it's just it's just really
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fun, Like there's so much drama, there's so much going on. And
he was teaching us about how prohibitionstarted, and it actually started because when
a lot of immigrants were coming in, they would bring their different types of
alcohol, and this alcohol did nothave the alcohol like percentages intake percentages.
So they were getting twisted in turn, the guys were getting twisted in turn,
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and we're starting to be up thewhy it was Hella crazy and the
wives were just getting fought up becausethe guys would come home drunk as hell
beat them up, and their wiveswere like, we don't like this,
we need to put a stop tothis. So it was actually Rockefeller who
the woman kind of came together andproposed this Prohibition because Rockefeller was really into
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oil and he did not like ethanol, which was the type of alcohol that
was kind of competing with oil.So he was like, you know,
well, yeah, I'm going togive money to who I need to give
money to the lobbyists, the wholelobby of it all, and he gave
money to hell of politicians and theystarted giving the women the right to vote,
the right to vote, and thenwomen voted to ban alcohol, which
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started the prohibition, which meant thatall the speak easies started coming out and
about you know, speak easy asactually only lasted on average two days,
and then they would get shut downand then they would that was happening,
and then a lot of alcohol isbeing smuggled in from Canada. What up,
Canadians would love you. And thenpeople were making their own at home.
Moonshine was a big thing. Andthen after about twelve years, this
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man on the radio and NBC Radio, I forgot his name, but he
goes live on the radio and heis making beer on the radio and drinking
it during the prohibition, and he'stelling his listeners, Yo, we all
know that this prohibition is stupid.A lot of the times when we get
alcohol confiscated from us. The copsare drinking it anyways, everyone is drinking
on the low. Can we juststop this nonsense? And eventually prohibition becomes
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unbanned. But because the prohibition,a lot of bars were like storefronts and
a lot of bars were like downin basements, really sneaky, deaky.
And so the first one we wentto was Ricky's, which is on fifty
fifth Street actually really close to whereI live and around Eighth Avenue, so
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freaking cute, such a cute bar, never been there before, and like
Lounge's lounge bar, and like dark, dark, dark, very dark,
very sexy. Loved it there.We all got a drink there, and
then we headed to my favorite barin New York City. I'll always bring
it up, Lily's Victorian in Midtown. I didn't know that was a speak
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easy to speak easy because it doesfront as a Victorian shop, like it
looks like a lamp shop in thefront, and then you go in and
it's huge ceilings, beautiful artwork everywhere, everything's like Victorian era, so so
pretty. We had a drink there, and then we headed to this amazing
speak easy next two valeries and thereason I remembered Valeries was because Valeries was
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the first date that I had withPlant Daddy, Remember the guy that I
went out with that We went onlike two dates him. He was great,
He was great, but yeah,so I went on a date with
him there and next door there's thislike locked door you had to like buzz
in, and then you go downlike three sets of just like it looks
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like regular like an office space typestairs. You go down two to three
flights and then you go into thissexy lounge bar area. It's called Madame
George and a little expensive, butit's so cute. They have little a
little bit of food there too.Oh my gosh, this is the most
speak easiest, speaky, easy,easy, low key bar i've been to
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a New York City, like whenyou think of like a true true,
true, speak easy. This isdefinitely so cool, so cute. They
have live music, live jazzist there. Oh my gosh, it was everything,
So definitely trying to make reservations thereat Madame George. It was a
for Saturday night and Friday night andit wasn't packed or anything, so it
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shouldn't be too too hard to geta reservation in there, but that is
definitely a part. And so Iwas asking our tour guide, were are
some other really cool speak Easy andhe said he hasn't been to this one,
but everyone talks about it. It'sby Madison Square Garden. It's called
patent pending. Patent pending, soI'm trying to make a reservation there too
to check it out. But Ithink that out of it's funny because the
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first part I went two Ricky's.I always walked by it. I even
peaked in one time. It neverwent in, so cute, great drinks
and they had like these grilled cheeses, which is really good too. Lily's
number one bar in the city forme. I love Lilies. The food
is everything. Like if you canget dinner or lunch there, do it.
I love Lilies. And then thatMadame was at Madame George. Yeah,
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that one is like a real,real speak Easy and I'm gonna try
to hit up, like I said, this other one patent pending, to
see what the vibe is there.But yes, definitely ten out of ten
recommend all of those. So that'syour little Speak Easy Prohibition tour for you.
If you're in the city. Iwould say go because like it's really
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fun to hear the history, andit's fun that someone's leading you around and
you're with a group and it's it'sjust fun. And even if it's just
a couple, or even if you'reby yourself, like there's people there,
so you get to meet people andyou get to hear cool stories and you
get to know other people. AndI think I want to do they have
a gangster like a gangster Mofia tourdowntown. I think I might want to
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try to do that one when Zaddiegets into town. So that's what we
had. That was really fun.And then after that we went I took
everyone to PhD Terrorists, which isa rooftop bar in like really close there.
I always like to take everyone therebecause you get a good view of
Times Square and the drinks are cuteand it's a little rooftop vibe. So
we were there for a little bitand then we heard some music downstairs in
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the basement. We're like, what'sgoing on, Like, I'll come down.
It's a club night, come down. We go down. It's called
fish take no fish bowl, fishbowl. We'll get in there, complete
sausage fest. I'm like damn,there is no oh oh, this is
a gay club. This is agay club. Let's throw it down.
So me and my cousins we werejust getting down the gay club. There's
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like these two guys that were aroundto us, and I started like,
obviously gay, and I started todance with one of them kind of started
like a backing up, and theother guy started getting jealous and getting mad.
I'm like, okay, I didnot know y'all were together. My
bad. Also he's gay, Likeit's okay. I don't know, like
I maybe some people don't think that'sokay. I think it's like fine to
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dance if you're not even like actuallytrying to do nothing with nobody. But
yeah, his boyfriend was not aboutit was not about me backing it up
on him. So that was thething. I didn't drink a whole whole
lot. I had to work.This was Friday night. Yeah, this
was this was Friday night, soI had to work early Saturday morning.
I had my Saturday shift, soI didn't really drink a lot. I
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think I left the club around oneone thirty ish. But it was so
fun and honestly, like, mycousins are just so fun and they always
include me, and I love hangingout with them. I'm so thankful that
they wanted to hang out with metoo, and that we just got to
catch up and we've got to sharethings that we haven't been able to share
before. Or they're married, soI'm hearing about married life and what that
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is and what it entails. Andtheir stories are hell of funny about being
married. So it was really great. And then Saturday, I went out
with them again to this place calledChantel Rooftop because it was one of their
friend's birthdays and it was cute vibestoo, like we got like three bottles.
Everybody was drinking. I wasn't.I wasn't trying to drink too much
because I had church the next day. But just being with my cousins and
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getting to know them more. I'mjust so thankful whenever my family comes into
town, and I was happy thatI was able to show them around the
city. And I'm really really thankfulfor them, like they're I'm really proud
of their glow up, Like theyhave each studied and worked so hard and
now they're doing really great things intheir fields. One of my doctors is
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a respiratory nurse, and one ofmy cousins is in it. And one
of my cousins works in luxury carsand fixed luxury cars, and one of
my other cousins he's in sales.And you know, our parents, they
have humble upbringing. So just knowingthat we're able to make them proud and
we're able to have fun with eachother still and even BASSI had our parents
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too to places like this because theybrought my theois as well. Just I'm
so so happy and thankful I gotto see them and spend time with them.
There ain't nothing like again Lee again, turn it with their cousins.
So I was so happy that Iwas able to be around them. So
that was Saturday, and then Sundaywe went to Mesa and can you believe
we have a new priest at thechurch I go to. He forgot to
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announce that there was hospitality to theright with tea and coffee and little snacks
if you'd like to join for free. So there was an announcement about hospitality
and we were all shook. Andthen little homie Mark, he's the one
that does the readings up at church. He when Mass was ending and he
noticed that the priest was not doingthe hospitality announcement. He looked directly on
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me. He was like, oh, I don't know, I don't know
what to do. I don't knowwhat to do, and he was just
like we were all shook where itwas like, how dare he? No,
No, the PRESI didn't do iton purpose. It was an accident,
but it's still the normal crew thatgoes to hospitality. So and plus
my authos and my mom was there, so it was okay. There was
like seven of us. It's allgood. We had our cafesito, we
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had our little bits. I broughtgrapes this time and oranges, so we
had like, okay, little extra. It was great to catch up.
And then after that, me andmy willows and my mom we went to
Central Park so we can do thecity bike tours. Well, we didn't
get on the bikes. It wasthe little carriages with the bike rider.
We wanted to do the horse ones, but yo, that's like hell of
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expensive and it's the same thing,you know, horse bike, You're still
going through the city. So wedid the bike one and our tour guide
was incredible. His name is Doand he's been living in New York since
he was eleven. He has donethese bike tours for fifteen years. And
he is like an encyclopedia of NewYork City, Like he knows everything about
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some park, how many acres,how many trees, how many movies were
filmed there, which movies, whatscenes? Like he and we thought that
he was making up these facts,but then I like did a quick google.
He was not capping on nothing.He is the best bike tour guide.
If we're gonna do a bike tourguy, I really encourage you to
do one at Central Park, butonly do it with Do. When you
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go to Central Park, do itwith Do because he just is with all
the facts and comes equip and heloves it. And there's nothing like being
on a tour with someone that loveswhat they do. And he's just a
jolly guy. He was so great. He was so great. That was
amazing. And then afterwards we wentto my apartment and we ordered food in
some Goomi that China. We hadsome Chinese food and did a little a
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little dinner. They're downstairs out whereI live, the little lounges that we
have, and then we called ita night. And today they're leaving.
When I go home, it's goingto be an empty apartment. But it
was such a great two weeks withmy Amadiethos. I had so much fun.
I love them so so much.I'm so thankful that my mom helped
bring them out and they all cameout and it was everything. So that
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was our little New York City asstravaganza. I have a chill, chill
week this week coming up. I'mmaking sure that I am just going to
be focusing on me and I actuallydo have an appointment next week with a
guest drow enturologist. I don't knowthe guy to check out my esophagus because
you know, I'm always complaining aboutheartburn and that my esophagus is on fire.
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I finally made an appointment to getthat checked out. So that's some
big news. And I don't haveany interview scheduled yet. We'll see what
pops up if something does or doesn't, but I'll give you posted in next
week's episode, which is dropping onTuesday night. Okay, next week it's
Tuesday. I'm taking Monday off.Your girl needs a day off. But
that is another episode of Crystal's Nightcap. Thanks for hanging out I Love Love
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Love You. Please subscribe. Ifyou have not followed me on everything,
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today, I am push through resistance. It's not particularly useful to examine why
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you experience resistance. The key isto break through that resistance and to get
your work done. You feel guilty, reluctant, ashamed, board, fearful,
frustrated and decisive, and so muchmore. But those are just feelings
and they can influence your actions onlyto the extent that you let them.
Do you really want to feel betterthan choose to focus more on what you
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can do and less on what youfeel. Your feelings are real, they
matter, and you can significantly improveyour feelings by putting them aside and working
in the direction of achievement. Pushthrough the initial barrier of your resistance,
then keep going step by step,getting good things done, even when you
don't feel like doing it. Youcan take action even when your internal resistance
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is strong. Here, your will, your intention can be stronger. Oh
that was deep. That was thatwas really deep. You know, I
did this today. I did thistoday. I've been a little sad that
my family's leaving. I'm just like, dang, like, what do I
have to look forward to? Eventhough I have an amazing job and I
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love where I live and all that, and my cat is amazing, sometimes
it is kind of like, Okay, here we go, another day,
another day. But I did tellmyself when I got in today, I
was like, I will have agood day. I'll have a good day
on air, and I'm gonna thinkhappy thoughts. And I feel like it
does help sometimes when I really justam struggling and I'm struggling to start my
show off and I already feel likeI'm in a bad mood, I really
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do tell myself my brain, I'mgonna have a gray show today and I'm
going to be happy and I'm goingto give my best. And even saying
that and thinking that, really itreally does help. Like you really can
focus yourself away from those those bad, tire drained thoughts and and feel a
little more positive about it by justtelling it to yourself. Dang that that
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helped a lot today. I neededthat. I needed that. I hope
I helped you. Thank you somuch again for hanging out another episode of
Crystal's Nightcap. I will see younext Tuesday. Okay, I love,
love, love y'all. See youall the next one.
Hello to your beautiful hand hooptie.It's Krystal Rosas back with another episode of
Crystal's Nightcap. Tonight, I tellyou how my meeting went with my bosses.
I went to see New York,New York on Broadway with my Alwi
Lethos and my mom. We wentto Central Park for Mother's Day. I
interviewed the Jonas brothers and all asudden right ex to Joe Jonas my pitymos
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in town. So we went toa prohibition Speak easy tour here in the
city. I'll tell you all thehot spots he went to as well.
Give us. My name is CrystalRosas. I'm a twenty something Latina who
just moved from California. It's theBig Apple's Happy. Sorry that was my
cat frappuccino. They're still getting usedto the city life. Anyways. Where
was I am? Oh? Yeah, I take over afternoon radio every day
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on the world famous Z one hundred. But when nightfalls, I'm looking for
all the cloud I can get andcasually searching these streets from my Prince Charming.
Come on this sexy single journey wherewe'll go on a date with a
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our way to the secret society ofNew York's top social life. Oh yeah,
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Happy Monday. Yeay yeay, yeay, yeay yay. Hope you had
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a little check and how we feelin how we do in scale A one
to ten. I'm I'm good,I am good. I'm a little sad
because my family is leaving New YorkCity today, I just left them,
and their flight isn't until a littlelater when I'm already at work, So
I was saying bye to everyone.My awalita Ama, she was doing the
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Sign of across to me and prayingfor me as I was leaving and getting
teary eyed and about to cry,and my mom too. So it's just
it's tough. And even for someof you, you're probably like, didn't
you just see them last month?Why are you always so emotional every time
you leave your family. It's stillreally hard for me, Like I'm so
happy and my most self around myfamily, so living so far from them
is tough. And I know I'mgoing to see my mom in July,
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which is good, but I don'tknow the next time I'm going to go
home to see my awaditos because it'sjust so busy and I have a lot
going on. Summers are really busyhere in New York City. I have
a lot of traveling that I'm goingto be doing coming up as well.
So it's just tough. But I'mso thankful I got to spend these past
two weeks with them. It wasso funny and fun having them in my
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apartment with me and my kiddikat Frappie. There's four of us living together.
They're the funniest and best roommates.I'll get into that all a little,
but let's get into the nightcap now. Sit back, relax. It's Crystal's
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nightcat. What's up, y'all.It's Suk Suk with the good Kuchi with
the good kid Suki, Hannah andwait with Crystal Rosas. Thank you Suki.
So in last week's episode, Iwas going through a lot of stress.
I was really worried because I hadan air check meeting coming up with
my bosses, which means that theywere going to go through one of my
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shows I do on the weekends,cut all the audio that I talk,
all my breakes, all my talkbreaks, and go over it with me
and pretty much just criticize me andsay what I need to work on.
I thought that they were going topick like the worst weekend ever from my
shift because I was just so tiredof traveling back and forth. I had
done a whole week afternoon show justby myself, like unprovoked, unannounced.
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I didn't even know I was goingto be doing the show by myself,
but We had the meeting on Tuesdayand it went really well. I mean,
some of the things that they toldme to work on are just really
simple things. If anything, I'mkind of doing a little too much and
they kind of want me to justkeep it really chill, keep it more
laid back. I don't have togo off and as hard as I do
with my shifts, and that waseasy. One tough thing about the weekend
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shifts that I do working on theradio is that a lot of times the
songs that I talk into because obviouslywe talk in between songs and sometimes into
commercials, but there have really shorttalk breaks, sometimes zero seconds, so
we don't want to talk over nothing, which means talking over a dead air.
But they in those cases, insteadof me trying to fit everything really
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quickly or it's sounding too rush,they just want me to say the station
name and that's it. So I'mlike all right and not gonna lie.
That's a majority of the talk breaksare zero to five seconds, so that
means that I'm just gonna have tobe a little more chill and think of
more creative ways to deliver those samepositioning statements. For example, zero one
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hundreds is it's SEE one hundred,New York's number one hit music station,
while Danny for nine it's well,Danny for nine the base number one hit
music station. When I'm in Texasninety six seven, Kim Mouston's number one
hit music station, Fresno BET ninetyfive, Friend was Home for hip hop,
it's hinds. Yeah, I dolike six, seven eight of those
a weekend. And if we're justtalking in between songs that are like zero
seconds to three, four to five, then that's really all I have to
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say instead of trying to think ofsomething creative to say about the song or
the artist coming up, I'm justgoing to keep it light and lit.
And that was pretty much the onlything they really said so great air check
meeting. They said that my contentis really on point, and then I
always bring the energy and I'm alwayscreative. So I'm happy that at least
they really liked what I've been upto and my progression. So that was
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that. On Tuesday, Wednesday,Wednesday, we had the opportunity to have
an album listening party, a prealbum listening party with Jonas brother fans here
ed ZE one hundred. So whatwe did leading up to it is.
We were looking for Caller one hundredon ZE one hundred and they would be
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in to go to the pre albumlistening party for the Jonas Brothers because the
Jonas Brothers album did come out untilThursday night. Oh this was Thursday,
not Wednesday. My bad. Itdidn't come out till Thursday night. So
that day we were going to havea little party with the listeners and they
were going to be able to listento the album with us before everybody else.
So I knew that we were goingto be hosting this, but I
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didn't know that at the end,the Donas Brothers were going to come and
surprise everyone and we were going todo a short interview with them, which
is insane. Now. I've donean album listening party before. We did
it with Harry Style's album Harry's House. Harry didn't come through, but it
was still really fun and this onewas cool too. It was me and
my partner and we had probably liketwenty to twenty five listeners in the conference
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room, and the national team wasthere to do coverage of it with cameras
and all that, and Digital wasthere as well, and our promotions team
was there helping too. So itwas really fun and I love the Jonas
Brothers. Girl, we go backto like pre Camp Rock days. The
Jonas Brothers actually performed at the AlamedaCounty Fair in Pleasanton, California, back
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back back back in the day,and I remember my dad would always take
us to the County Fair and weshowed up like the day after the Jonas
Brothers performed. I was like Bobby, we missed the Jonas Brothers by a
day. I was probably in middleschool. I want to say, I
think Nick Jonas is only like ayear older than year around my age,
But so I was always in lovewith the Jonas Brothers and then Camp Rock
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that whole era, and then inhigh school my best friend Audio, I
brought her up a few times.Her dad surprised her and I for her
birthday with literally third row tickets tosee the Jonas Brothers for the Jonas Brothers
World Tour. This is in twothousand and nine. I was probably fourteen
years old and me Audium and thenmy mom drew rob Us. It was
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insane, like we couldn't even believeit, Like it was probably one of
the best days of my youth.And we loved the Jonas brothers, and
we even tried to sneak like throughthe tunnel's backstage. We didn't make it,
but we got clothes and it wasjust like everything. And so,
you know, growing up, Iloved the Jonas brothers and I did one
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time run it to Nick And I'vetalked about this before at one of our
one of my first Wild Lady fornine jingle balls, he was not the
nicest to me. He was not, But then I ran into Joe Jonas
when he was part of d NCpretty much the same thing, and he
was so sweet, so nice.He complimented my braids, my corn rows,
and I think that was. Oh. We recently, I think a
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year or two ago, did azoom interview with Joe Jonas when he was
from his music with DNC as well. But other than years ago at our
Wild New for nine jingle ball,I hadn't seen Nick or Joe or talk
to them in person. So doingan interview with the actual Jonas brothers in
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a collective was crazy. And likeI was just sitting in that room while
we were all listening to the album. And the album was great, by
the way, Oh I already saidthat, but it is back to the
point. I was just in awethat I was sitting there, like in
New York City at Z one hundredI Heart Radio, the dang mother Ship
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with awesome listeners and we're all justlike listening no big deal to the new
Donas Brothers album, the album beforeeveryone else, Like it was just so
cool. And then none of thelisteners know that the Donors Brothers are going
to come out and we were gonnasurprise them. Man, it was such
a moment. And then they docome out, and it's just like we're
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saying hi, and I'm sitting rightnext to Jonas. Who oh my Lanna,
this man is just he is.He is a site to look at.
He is a site to look atand so cool and so chill,
and let's just also let's let's let'sturn our heads a little bit because Kevin
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Jonas he is he is daddy allof us like he blew up like he
is dang. He was looking scrupturesas well. And Nick Jonas he's there.
I mean, as I said,I Nick Jonas, okay, but
no, like it was everything andit was a short, quick interview.
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We just kept it to the musicand how they have two shows at Yankee
Stadium, which is a huge deal. And how they're together again because we
didn't know if they were going tomake an album together when they broke up.
They were all kind of doing theirown solo projects. So them being
back, being back collectively making sureto give New York club. They're from
Jersey, so they love New YorkCity and it was just everything. I'm
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so thankful. They were so sogreat. You can watch the full interview
on our Z one hundred YouTube.They were really nice, they were really
present. It was pretty surface levelquestions just because when it comes to stulf
like that, the listeners really justwant to hear about the album and then
making the album and what they haveset on tour, and we don't want
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to make them uncomfortable by asking questionsthat are personal, so we kept it
to the album and it was great. I mean, coming off the heels
from last week's Jalo interview and thenthis week do it a Big Banker again
with the Jonas brothers, It's like, these are the opportunities that New York
has to offer me, and thisis why I got to keep going and
keep grinding, because I'm hoping thatone day I can do things like this
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completely by myself and one on onewith the artists and kind of have them
open up a little more and beon a more personal basis so that they
can feel comfortable with me and thatwe can just dig deeper yet on a
deeper level of what's going on.But every single step is just more more
experience for me. To keep itgoing, keep it going. I'll pray
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and across my fingers. One day, maybe I could do a Taylor interview
that would be iconic. We're manifestingthat we're throwing that into the world because
I've just done so much in sucha little time. It's my two year
anniversary of moving here to New YorkCity next week, and we just cannot
believe it like it is. It'shappening. It's a thing. Thursday nights,
I meet up with my familia andwe go to watch the play in
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New York, New York, whichis set in the forties, and it
follows like three to four different storylinesabout either immigrants that are moving here to
New York for the first time,actresses that want to make it here in
New York, couples that are movingand trying to Navigate New York and it's
a really really cute play. Imean, the first opening sequence is just
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a man screwing on light bulbs toa big New York New York sign and
just saying I love New York City. And then the Frank Sinatra's song starts
kind of going, and I'm notgonna I get teary eyed because I still
I still can't believe that I'm hereand my family's here, Amapa are here?
I mean I talked in last week'sepisode that a Ba comes from a
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really small town in they didn't haveopportunities at all out there, Like he
literally had to move because there wasno jobs. And Ama she grew up
on the front. She grew upin Mahikali, and she didn't know what
her life was going to entail.But I actually learned a little bit about
Mama's life in her younger life,which is lightweight iconicum. I'll get into
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that a little bit, but yeah, just I don't think they ever thought
that they would have grandkins that arenow doing it big in New York and
moving across the country and really livingout their American dream. And my mommy,
she means so much to me too. She's always making trying to do
everything for us and making sure thatwe have fun. So she got the
tickets for us for New York,New York, and it was such a
cute play, even though a Baliterally fell asleep and was snoring at one
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point, I had to nudge aboutwake up. And my kind of was
too. There are some relaxing partsto the play. And they're older.
I mean, I'm as eighty oneup seventy seven, so there's not people
around their age really walking around NewYork City. There's not a lot,
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so it's it's a tough city forthem to navigate. But they were out
and about and they were doing it. After that, I wanted to take
them to Restaurant Row, and I'veshared Restaurant Row before is a really iconic
street in Midtown on forty sixth wherethere's a whole bunch of restaurants and cute
little bars. So I took themto the Air. I took them to
a Mexican restaurant there, and aswe got there, Upo starts freaking out,
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almost hyperventilating because he cannot find hisiPhone. Appa has a good old
iPhone five and he can't find it. And so luckily that morning, my
mom and I actually made sure thatwe had him tracked his device tracked on
our phones, so we were ableto pull up his phone and it was
at the theater. So we're like, don't worry about like, we're gonna
go back. We're gonna run realquick. You I stay here at the
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restaurant. We're gonna go run andget your phone. So I'm running and
my mom is wobbling right next tome, trying to make it back to
the theater. Hopefully they didn't lockall the doors and there's someone coming out
that can help us get back in. We're running through the streets of New
York City. It literally feels likea movie. And we pull up and
all the doors are locked, sowe're like, dang it. And then
we see someone coming out of likea side entrance that it looks like a
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worker. We'll go hello, Hello, Hi, can you help us?
And he goes, yeah, sure, did you lose something? And we
said yes, iPhone And they're like, oh okay, I'm like a red
iPhone. And another guy comes outand he's more aggressive. He's like,
y'all got to check your stuff beforeyou leave. You guys need to check
your things before we leave. Wetell you, and we're like, it's
literally my grandpa's he's almost eighty yearsold. He's like, okay, but
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if it's not luck to put themanager's room, then you're gonna have to
come back tomorrow. Sorry, you'regonna have to come back tomorrow. I'm
like, it's fine, I livehere, there's no problems. We just
want to see if maybe it's there. And the other guy was being nice
and he was like, okay,let me go check. What color is
it? I was like, ithas one camera on the back. It's
like an iPhone five and it's red. You're you're not gonna miss it.
And we were in row G righton the edge and he said, okay,
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let me check. So he runsin and the other guys kind of
giving us attitude still, and we'rejust like, okay, dude, like
why are you antagonizing us? Likejust go home, go home, your
shift is over, go home,Okay, We're just trying to get out.
When he feels I phone, We'regonna be fine. Because Apa is
he loves his phone. He's alwayson Facebook. He's always looking at memes
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and videos. Something about a BAand Facebook is that he be sharing like
the most wild things. He'd besharing these graunchy, raunchy videos that we're
just like, APA should not besharing these things. We don't think that
he knows that he's sharing it onFacebook, but he is. I'm talking
about like you know, it's likequick videos from like trees that are not
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the USA, and they're kind ofrated borderline are There's like one video that
IPO shared of this this man ona ladder painting some street and he is
in basketball shorts and he is paintinga house with two paint brushes, but
he keeps one of the paint brushesin the middle of his booty cheeks and
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switches them out to get like afiner lines. And then you'll use a
big one and put the other oneand back in his booty cheeks. A
bout sharing videos like this on Facebookand our theol is the one that brought
it to our attention to my momand was like, you need to tell
your dad to stop sharing these weird, creepy things like word plays that are
very inappropriate, jokes that are veryvery inappropriate on videos on Facebook. Like
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everything in Spanish just doing a lot, and my mom and I don't know
how to approach Up about this,so we've just kind of let it go.
But it is it's gross. Nonetheless, up I love to be honest.
He wakes up and goes get hiscoffee and he's just scrolling on Facebook
and he loves it and he lovesto check in on our group chats and
he's always looking at old pictures.So I has also a lot of pictures
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on his phone. So we werereally faking out that. You know,
when someone loses their phone, it'slike a big deal, and up I
was really really upset that he losthis phone. He was like shaking nervous.
So we are just kind of waitingthere in anticipation, hoping that they
find the phone. And luckily theguy came out and he was like,
you said it was a red iPhone, right, and we're like yeah,
and he said what color is acase? And he said it's a clear
see through case and so oh hereit is like perfect, thank you so
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much, thank you, thank you. So then my mom and I a
scurry back and I'm like, Mommy, why don't we pull a prank on
a by and tell him that wedidn't find his phone and that someone stole
it. And he's like, no, because he's gonna get hella nervous.
And last time we pulled a prankon him, he got his stroke.
I don't know if I told youthat story. Did I tell you the
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story about how my uncle, myuncle pulled a prank on a ba that
I got fired from my job herein New York and up I literally had
a mini stroke and went to thehospital. I'm I'm laughing, not because
he like of the stroke and allthat, just because the fact that it
was a prank that sent him.So my mom was really breaking out and
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she was like, we can't.I's too old. We can't be pranking
him anymore. He's gonna get astroke, and we cannot get a stroke
out here in New York. It'sgonna be bad. So like, okay,
fine, fine, fine, Sowe don't prank him. But we
pull up and am I sitting downat the bar with a margharita and we're
just like, I'm okay, Iguess we're getting drunk tonight. So Ama
tells me, let's just get somedrinks. You get a drink. Your
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mom could get a drink too.My family does not drink. My mom
doesn't drink at all. And mygrandma Amash has a drink every once in
a while. She have like acute pinako lava or margharita, but it's
very rare. It's like on birthdays, on her birthdays, and that's really
it. So okay, im,are we gonna get slashed? And I
like, are we gonna get youdrunk? She's like no, no,
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no, no no. I waslike, I'm have you ever gotten drunk
before? And it was just meand her on the table and Appa and
my mom on the other table.They were having their own conversation. Miama
were having our own conversation. AndAma was like, actually, yeah,
one time I did get drunk.And I was like, why you got
drunk ones? And she's like yeah. And I was like, why only
ones like you didn't drink and shewas like, well back then, like
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we didn't really drink. Well,I was always driving, I was always
the d D. I never reallywanted to drink. But I did get
drunk one time with Appa when theywere younger and they had just gone married,
and they went to a bar andshe said she had a little too
much to drink. And I waslike, did you throw up? And
she was like no. And Iwas like did you black out? And
she was like no. And Iwas like did you get carried home?
And she was like no. AndI was like, I'm out, you
need to get slashed, like youneed to black out. She's like no,
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no, no, no no,And so I ordered I kept ordering
us drinks and then she started talkingto me about everything, like when she
first when she first graduated high school, she wanted to get a job and
start working, but her dad didn'twant her to work. He wanted her
to continue school, and she waslike, no, I just want to
make that money. I want toget that bag. So she was nineteen
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and she asked if she could movefrom a equo to LA with her sister,
and her sister was already married andhad a family and everything, and
her dad was like okay. Soshe was able to just leave the house
at nineteen to live with her sister. And that's why she was going to
the by list all the time everyweekend. And she had a boyfriend.
She had a little white ting.She had a white boyfriend from in Fossil
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in Fossil Texas, but he alsospoke Spanish, and she dated him for
a little bit and then he wantedto get married to her and she was
like, no, I don't wantto get married yet, so no,
and he was like fine then likewe got to be done, and she
was like fine then by so shebroke up with him, and then she
kept living her best single life andthen she shortly after that met a BA
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at another bagley at another dance,and up on her started dating a little
bit, and she had her papersand everything and Appa didn't and Apa was
like, okay, like let's getmarried, and she was like okay,
like I can get married because hewanted to have kids, and she was
like I'm not rushed, but Idon't mind getting married. So they got
married. And the day that theywere getting married, I found out that
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a BA had lied about his age, that he was actually four years younger
than her. And she was like, I'm not marrying you like you lied
like your hella younger than me.I don't want to marry you. And
he was like, too late,too late, we're married. So he
pretty much bamboozled her into getting married. And but they're fine. I mean
they've been married ever since. Andthen the way she found out, she's
like, I didn't even know thatI got pregnant. I was like what.
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She was like, yeah, abah is the one that had a
stomach ache. So we had totake into the doctor and the doctor was
like, how long have you allbeen married? And she was like,
oh, just a few months.And he was like, let me check
your real quick checks. I'm Iwas like, oh, his stomach hurts
because you're pregnant. I was likewhat. So I was pregnant with my
momma and didn't even know wit,which was crazy. So I think that's
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a thing. My cousins that Iwas with this weekend told me that's a
thing that sometimes the male counterpart doesfeel symptoms when the woman is pregnant.
Didn't know that, but very interesting. I guess that's kind of what happened.
But yeah, and then what didshe do? Oh? Yeah,
I used to work before she marriedup bas she was working at the factories
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that make shower curtains and she wason the line helping to make little holes
in the shower curtains, and sothat's what she was doing. She was
getting her bag and she bought herselfa car, and she had her car
for a little bit and then Ibought didn't have a car, and he
was like, oh, I'm gonnatake her car to work in the morning
while she's asleep, and he totaledher car completely totaled it. I was
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like, damn, I would haveleft him. She was like, I
couldn't leave it. We were married. I was like, dang, but
yeah, men are the worst.No, I'm just kidding. I might
have been through it. But theyhave been married for well. They had
their fiftieth year anniversary like a fewyears ago, so it's it's gonna be
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sixty years soon, which is acray cray. And they've bicker all the
time. I mean it's I canimagine how tough it would be to be
married to someone for that long.And they're constantly just like bickering. But
it's really fun. I mean,they're they're iconic. She's the queen,
and it was just so fun hearingAmas stories for when she was young.
Apo was also sharing stories about whenhe was first coming to America, and
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it was really hard because Amal wentto high school and she did learn English,
but up I didn't. He didn'tknow English at all when he came
over here, and he said thatduring that time, it was really common
for people to get immigration called onthem, and he was like, it
was really sad. It was reallyhard. Like they would come in a
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green car and you knew that someonewas going to get deported, and then
someone would get deported, and ifthey were able to get the money to
come back to California, then theywere really lucky. And sometimes your friends
would get deported and you'd see themwithin the next two weeks. But sometimes
they would get deported and you wouldnever see them again. And a lot
of times when people would get deported, they would just go straight to their
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country. They didn't want to goback where they lived in California or in
America because then everyone else they livedwould get got too. So they would
go with no money, like noclothes, literally whatever they had on them.
And if their homies whoever they livedwith, were cool, they would
try to spot them and give themmoney to come back. Well, sometimes
they would come back and all theirstuff would be jacked. It was just
messed up. But a lot oftimes our own people would call immigration on
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us just because they were haters,just because they were jealous or envious or
salty or you know, you kindof got into an argument with somebody and
they knew you were illegal, soeven if they were also illegal, they
would call immigration on you and youwould get got. And after Amanapa got
married, Aba had a hitch thatthere was his hater on him and they
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called immigration on a. Ba showedup to a to their house. Aba
was already gone for work and mI was there and she was like,
Oh, what's going on? Andhe was like, oh, um,
does who it? I live here? We heard that he doesn't have papers
and she's like, he does havepapers, like we're married. And then
my mom was a baby crying inthe room and she's like, listen,
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that's my daughter. She was bornhere, Like he has papers. And
she was like, well, showme your passport and he was gonna she
was in good and they're like,actually, like never mind, it's fine,
Like we believe you guys. AndI did have his papers. But
the guy that was a snake thatcalled immigration on my grandpa, he didn't
know that my grandpa had papers already. He was just being a hater and
I asked up. I was like, wait, what about that? Man
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like, did you ever know forsure? He's like, well, I
never knew for sure if it wasthis guy, but after some years in
investigating, like, I did thinkthat it was this one guy that did
it. Nonetheless, I had mypapers, so it was all. But
yeah, it was. It wasa tough time back then. It was
really really common. It's different now, obviously, but there's still there's still
so many injustices when it comes toimmigration. Some of my own family members,
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they're still trying to get their paperslegally, and it just takes so
long, and it's so hard andso rough. And these are people that
grew up here, their parents broughtthem over to have a better future and
have a better life. And Iknow everyone has their own stance on immigration
and whatnot, and some are onone side of the spectrum and someone around
others. And I think that everyonehas every right to have their opinions.
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Like I'm not intruding on any ofthat, but America was built on immigrants,
and America is stolen land. Alot of the land here did belong
to me, had got one point, and did belong to indigenous people.
And I think that we should justcontinue to treat everyone with respect and know
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that people really just want a betterlife. And that's why we are so
lucky to live here and grow uphere. And I'm so lucky that I
was born here because I see someof my family members that have struggled a
lot and still struggle a lot justto do basic things, and some of
my cousins can't even travel because theydon't have the status too. So just
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be nice, be gracious, knowthat everyone has their own struggle, and
not one person is better than someoneelse just because of whatever status you have.
But yeah, hearing what my grandparentswent through in their journey is like
it was. It was a really, really, really tough time, and
I'm so thankful that they went throughall those hardships because I have such an
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amazing life and I'm able to dothings that I never thought I was able
to do. I was able togo to college, have a fun high
school, private high school life,and study and learn a lot and take
advantage of opportunities in turn, andnow I'm living this crazy dream. It's
still a dream that I live hereand do all the things that I do
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here in New York, and it'sall because of them and their sacrifices.
I'm just super super thankful and superthankful that they were able to be here
and see the life that we live, and that they were able to give
me. It was everything. Andgetting on my drunk was everything too.
She had three margaritas and half ashot. She was twisted and turn and
she was just living her a bestlife, but not it. It was
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such a great time with them.And then on Saturday, I worked.
After work, we went to TommyBahamas, which is a cute little restaurant
here. There's a few Tommy Bahamarestaurants. It's after the clothing company,
but it's totally a Manapa's style,like she likes all tropical que vibi.
So I took them there, tookthem around Fifth Avenue for a little bit,
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took them to the cathedral, theSaint Patrick's Cathedral, which is like
the cathedral of New York City,so so beautiful, so nice. You
for sure need to check it outif you're out here in the city.
And then at home, and mycousins were in town, so I want
to hang out them for a littlebit. The same cousins from my window
side, from where my grandpapas fromsandozod Angle. So they had planned to
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do a night prohibition bar tour,and I've seen tours like this before,
I have never done one here inNew York City. So they invited me
to go along with them, andit was so cute. It was so
fun. Our tour guide was great. I really love learning the history about
places, and I didn't. Ofcourse, New York City has so much
history, but when you hear someoneexplain it, it's just it's just really
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fun, Like there's so much drama, there's so much going on. And
he was teaching us about how prohibitionstarted, and it actually started because when
a lot of immigrants were coming in, they would bring their different types of
alcohol, and this alcohol did nothave the alcohol like percentages intake percentages.
So they were getting twisted in turn, the guys were getting twisted in turn,
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and we're starting to be up thewhy it was Hella crazy and the
wives were just getting fought up becausethe guys would come home drunk as hell
beat them up, and their wiveswere like, we don't like this,
we need to put a stop tothis. So it was actually Rockefeller who
the woman kind of came together andproposed this Prohibition because Rockefeller was really into
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oil and he did not like ethanol, which was the type of alcohol that
was kind of competing with oil.So he was like, you know,
well, yeah, I'm going togive money to who I need to give
money to the lobbyists, the wholelobby of it all, and he gave
money to hell of politicians and theystarted giving the women the right to vote,
the right to vote, and thenwomen voted to ban alcohol, which
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started the prohibition, which meant thatall the speak easies started coming out and
about you know, speak easy asactually only lasted on average two days,
and then they would get shut downand then they would that was happening,
and then a lot of alcohol isbeing smuggled in from Canada. What up,
Canadians would love you. And thenpeople were making their own at home.
Moonshine was a big thing. Andthen after about twelve years, this
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man on the radio and NBC Radio, I forgot his name, but he
goes live on the radio and heis making beer on the radio and drinking
it during the prohibition, and he'stelling his listeners, Yo, we all
know that this prohibition is stupid.A lot of the times when we get
alcohol confiscated from us. The copsare drinking it anyways, everyone is drinking
on the low. Can we juststop this nonsense? And eventually prohibition becomes
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unbanned. But because the prohibition,a lot of bars were like storefronts and
a lot of bars were like downin basements, really sneaky, deaky.
And so the first one we wentto was Ricky's, which is on fifty
fifth Street actually really close to whereI live and around Eighth Avenue, so
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freaking cute, such a cute bar, never been there before, and like
Lounge's lounge bar, and like dark, dark, dark, very dark,
very sexy. Loved it there.We all got a drink there, and
then we headed to my favorite barin New York City. I'll always bring
it up, Lily's Victorian in Midtown. I didn't know that was a speak
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easy to speak easy because it doesfront as a Victorian shop, like it
looks like a lamp shop in thefront, and then you go in and
it's huge ceilings, beautiful artwork everywhere, everything's like Victorian era, so so
pretty. We had a drink there, and then we headed to this amazing
speak easy next two valeries and thereason I remembered Valeries was because Valeries was
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the first date that I had withPlant Daddy, Remember the guy that I
went out with that We went onlike two dates him. He was great,
He was great, but yeah,so I went on a date with
him there and next door there's thislike locked door you had to like buzz
in, and then you go downlike three sets of just like it looks
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like regular like an office space typestairs. You go down two to three
flights and then you go into thissexy lounge bar area. It's called Madame
George and a little expensive, butit's so cute. They have little a
little bit of food there too.Oh my gosh, this is the most
speak easiest, speaky, easy,easy, low key bar i've been to
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a New York City, like whenyou think of like a true true,
true, speak easy. This isdefinitely so cool, so cute. They
have live music, live jazzist there. Oh my gosh, it was everything,
So definitely trying to make reservations thereat Madame George. It was a
for Saturday night and Friday night andit wasn't packed or anything, so it
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shouldn't be too too hard to geta reservation in there, but that is
definitely a part. And so Iwas asking our tour guide, were are
some other really cool speak Easy andhe said he hasn't been to this one,
but everyone talks about it. It'sby Madison Square Garden. It's called
patent pending. Patent pending, soI'm trying to make a reservation there too
to check it out. But Ithink that out of it's funny because the
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first part I went two Ricky's.I always walked by it. I even
peaked in one time. It neverwent in, so cute, great drinks
and they had like these grilled cheeses, which is really good too. Lily's
number one bar in the city forme. I love Lilies. The food
is everything. Like if you canget dinner or lunch there, do it.
I love Lilies. And then thatMadame was at Madame George. Yeah,
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that one is like a real,real speak Easy and I'm gonna try
to hit up, like I said, this other one patent pending, to
see what the vibe is there.But yes, definitely ten out of ten
recommend all of those. So that'syour little Speak Easy Prohibition tour for you.
If you're in the city. Iwould say go because like it's really
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fun to hear the history, andit's fun that someone's leading you around and
you're with a group and it's it'sjust fun. And even if it's just
a couple, or even if you'reby yourself, like there's people there,
so you get to meet people andyou get to hear cool stories and you
get to know other people. AndI think I want to do they have
a gangster like a gangster Mofia tourdowntown. I think I might want to
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try to do that one when Zaddiegets into town. So that's what we
had. That was really fun.And then after that we went I took
everyone to PhD Terrorists, which isa rooftop bar in like really close there.
I always like to take everyone therebecause you get a good view of
Times Square and the drinks are cuteand it's a little rooftop vibe. So
we were there for a little bitand then we heard some music downstairs in
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the basement. We're like, what'sgoing on, Like, I'll come down.
It's a club night, come down. We go down. It's called
fish take no fish bowl, fishbowl. We'll get in there, complete
sausage fest. I'm like damn,there is no oh oh, this is
a gay club. This is agay club. Let's throw it down.
So me and my cousins we werejust getting down the gay club. There's
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like these two guys that were aroundto us, and I started like,
obviously gay, and I started todance with one of them kind of started
like a backing up, and theother guy started getting jealous and getting mad.
I'm like, okay, I didnot know y'all were together. My
bad. Also he's gay, Likeit's okay. I don't know, like
I maybe some people don't think that'sokay. I think it's like fine to
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dance if you're not even like actuallytrying to do nothing with nobody. But
yeah, his boyfriend was not aboutit was not about me backing it up
on him. So that was thething. I didn't drink a whole whole
lot. I had to work.This was Friday night. Yeah, this
was this was Friday night, soI had to work early Saturday morning.
I had my Saturday shift, soI didn't really drink a lot. I
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think I left the club around oneone thirty ish. But it was so
fun and honestly, like, mycousins are just so fun and they always
include me, and I love hangingout with them. I'm so thankful that
they wanted to hang out with metoo, and that we just got to
catch up and we've got to sharethings that we haven't been able to share
before. Or they're married, soI'm hearing about married life and what that
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is and what it entails. Andtheir stories are hell of funny about being
married. So it was really great. And then Saturday, I went out
with them again to this place calledChantel Rooftop because it was one of their
friend's birthdays and it was cute vibestoo, like we got like three bottles.
Everybody was drinking. I wasn't.I wasn't trying to drink too much
because I had church the next day. But just being with my cousins and
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getting to know them more. I'mjust so thankful whenever my family comes into
town, and I was happy thatI was able to show them around the
city. And I'm really really thankfulfor them, like they're I'm really proud
of their glow up, Like theyhave each studied and worked so hard and
now they're doing really great things intheir fields. One of my doctors is
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a respiratory nurse, and one ofmy cousins is in it. And one
of my cousins works in luxury carsand fixed luxury cars, and one of
my other cousins he's in sales.And you know, our parents, they
have humble upbringing. So just knowingthat we're able to make them proud and
we're able to have fun with eachother still and even BASSI had our parents
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too to places like this because theybrought my theois as well. Just I'm
so so happy and thankful I gotto see them and spend time with them.
There ain't nothing like again Lee again, turn it with their cousins.
So I was so happy that Iwas able to be around them. So
that was Saturday, and then Sundaywe went to Mesa and can you believe
we have a new priest at thechurch I go to. He forgot to
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announce that there was hospitality to theright with tea and coffee and little snacks
if you'd like to join for free. So there was an announcement about hospitality
and we were all shook. Andthen little homie Mark, he's the one
that does the readings up at church. He when Mass was ending and he
noticed that the priest was not doingthe hospitality announcement. He looked directly on
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me. He was like, oh, I don't know, I don't know
what to do. I don't knowwhat to do, and he was just
like we were all shook where itwas like, how dare he? No,
No, the PRESI didn't do iton purpose. It was an accident,
but it's still the normal crew thatgoes to hospitality. So and plus
my authos and my mom was there, so it was okay. There was
like seven of us. It's allgood. We had our cafesito, we
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had our little bits. I broughtgrapes this time and oranges, so we
had like, okay, little extra. It was great to catch up.
And then after that, me andmy willows and my mom we went to
Central Park so we can do thecity bike tours. Well, we didn't
get on the bikes. It wasthe little carriages with the bike rider.
We wanted to do the horse ones, but yo, that's like hell of
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expensive and it's the same thing,you know, horse bike, You're still
going through the city. So wedid the bike one and our tour guide
was incredible. His name is Doand he's been living in New York since
he was eleven. He has donethese bike tours for fifteen years. And
he is like an encyclopedia of NewYork City, Like he knows everything about
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some park, how many acres,how many trees, how many movies were
filmed there, which movies, whatscenes? Like he and we thought that
he was making up these facts,but then I like did a quick google.
He was not capping on nothing.He is the best bike tour guide.
If we're gonna do a bike tourguy, I really encourage you to
do one at Central Park, butonly do it with Do. When you
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go to Central Park, do itwith Do because he just is with all
the facts and comes equip and heloves it. And there's nothing like being
on a tour with someone that loveswhat they do. And he's just a
jolly guy. He was so great. He was so great. That was
amazing. And then afterwards we wentto my apartment and we ordered food in
some Goomi that China. We hadsome Chinese food and did a little a
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little dinner. They're downstairs out whereI live, the little lounges that we
have, and then we called ita night. And today they're leaving.
When I go home, it's goingto be an empty apartment. But it
was such a great two weeks withmy Amadiethos. I had so much fun.
I love them so so much.I'm so thankful that my mom helped
bring them out and they all cameout and it was everything. So that
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was our little New York City asstravaganza. I have a chill, chill
week this week coming up. I'mmaking sure that I am just going to
be focusing on me and I actuallydo have an appointment next week with a
guest drow enturologist. I don't knowthe guy to check out my esophagus because
you know, I'm always complaining aboutheartburn and that my esophagus is on fire.
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I finally made an appointment to getthat checked out. So that's some
big news. And I don't haveany interview scheduled yet. We'll see what
pops up if something does or doesn't, but I'll give you posted in next
week's episode, which is dropping onTuesday night. Okay, next week it's
Tuesday. I'm taking Monday off.Your girl needs a day off. But
that is another episode of Crystal's Nightcap. Thanks for hanging out I Love Love
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Love You. Please subscribe. Ifyou have not followed me on everything,
I'm at La Crystal Rill Size.You can listen to me in New York
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well. I Love Love Love You. Here is our inspirational motivation for it
today, I am push through resistance. It's not particularly useful to examine why
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you experience resistance. The key isto break through that resistance and to get
your work done. You feel guilty, reluctant, ashamed, board, fearful,
frustrated and decisive, and so muchmore. But those are just feelings
and they can influence your actions onlyto the extent that you let them.
Do you really want to feel betterthan choose to focus more on what you
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can do and less on what youfeel. Your feelings are real, they
matter, and you can significantly improveyour feelings by putting them aside and working
in the direction of achievement. Pushthrough the initial barrier of your resistance,
then keep going step by step,getting good things done, even when you
don't feel like doing it. Youcan take action even when your internal resistance
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is strong. Here, your will, your intention can be stronger. Oh
that was deep. That was thatwas really deep. You know, I
did this today. I did thistoday. I've been a little sad that
my family's leaving. I'm just like, dang, like, what do I
have to look forward to? Eventhough I have an amazing job and I
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love where I live and all that, and my cat is amazing, sometimes
it is kind of like, Okay, here we go, another day,
another day. But I did tellmyself when I got in today, I
was like, I will have agood day. I'll have a good day
on air, and I'm gonna thinkhappy thoughts. And I feel like it
does help sometimes when I really justam struggling and I'm struggling to start my
show off and I already feel likeI'm in a bad mood, I really
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do tell myself my brain, I'mgonna have a gray show today and I'm
going to be happy and I'm goingto give my best. And even saying
that and thinking that, really itreally does help. Like you really can
focus yourself away from those those bad, tire drained thoughts and and feel a
little more positive about it by justtelling it to yourself. Dang that that
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helped a lot today. I neededthat. I needed that. I hope
I helped you. Thank you somuch again for hanging out another episode of
Crystal's Nightcap. I will see younext Tuesday. Okay, I love,
love, love y'all. See youall the next one.
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