Speaker 1: It's nice to be back at work though. Guys, or
Speaker 1: were we six weeks apart from one another?
Speaker 2: Do you miss me?
Speaker 1: I actually didn't think about you once, except for when
Speaker 1: you sent me a happy Birthday text on the wrong day.
Speaker 2: Did you miss me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Of course I saw you, probably a bit more.
Speaker 1: But no, I haven't seen you for like four week Christmas.
Speaker 2: Nothing's changed, God.
Speaker 1: No, nothing's changed.
Speaker 2: You're in New York.
Speaker 1: I went to New York. I went to New York
Speaker 1: and then I went to the Caribbean. But you know how,
Speaker 1: like when you're in America or places like that, like
Speaker 1: sometimes weird things just happen. So New Year's Day, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. I had a little bit of a hangover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, shocked. What times you go to bed New Years? E?
Speaker 1: Oh? Oh like five? Oh?
Speaker 2: Mom? I know Mom's normally asleep by what so.
Speaker 1: New York, New York. But we'd also only just got there,
Speaker 1: so we were a bit so we slept in late work.
Speaker 1: Cutlet we partied on news.
Speaker 2: E Did you get the glasses where it says twenty five?
Speaker 1: I wanted them. I didn't get them, but I had
Speaker 1: a top hat, really a plastic top hat. There was
Speaker 1: a top hat or a headband option, and I went
Speaker 1: the top hat.
Speaker 2: New York really know how to do New Year's.
Speaker 1: And for like the days leading up to it, every
Speaker 1: street corner is just selling those glasses and the hats.
Speaker 1: And then I got to News even I was like,
Speaker 1: how do I not have the glasses? I kind of
Speaker 1: thought were we were going then have the glasses, but
Speaker 1: they didn't, but they had the top hats anyway. So
Speaker 1: Newyear's Day we were not feeling our sparkling best, and
Speaker 1: like over there, you just you just go on the
Speaker 1: internet and order whatever you want. Things just happen. So
Speaker 1: we ordered ivs to get like rehydrated. Everyone's doing them now.
Speaker 2: You really were, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And they just they take away your headache, They give
Speaker 1: you hydration, some vitamins.
Speaker 2: There's the difference. In Australia, we go and get a slurpee. Yeah,
Speaker 2: in America they pay down a couple of europane exactly.
Speaker 1: What he enrolls the nurse into the hotel room, gives
Speaker 1: all our friends likes. We watched a movie, went back
Speaker 1: to sleep, and then woke up.
Speaker 2: And they really work.
Speaker 1: I you know how I know they work because I
Speaker 1: woke up at like six point thirty on Yesday night,
Speaker 1: and I was like, let's go again. I'm a woman,
Speaker 1: I feel amazing. Let's go out for dinner. We were
Speaker 1: going to stay and we like, it's nears day, let's
Speaker 1: go out for dinner. So we went out for dinner.
Speaker 1: We came good, went out for dinner, went to meet
Speaker 1: some friends after dinner, and then things were kind of
Speaker 1: packing up. Even though it's a city that never sleeps,
Speaker 1: things were kind of closing because it was New Year's Day,
Speaker 1: everyone's peak. And these guys, these American guys, are like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a cool bar that's open around the corner. It's
Speaker 1: a bit of a dive let's go there. So we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: So there's six of us. So we walk into a
Speaker 1: like a dive bar. Like it's like, I want to say,
Speaker 1: fifteen meters wide, twenty five meters long, just a long, skinny.
Speaker 2: Very New York like locals only like old school, like
Speaker 2: like in Coyote, ugly like.
Speaker 1: That, minus the bras on the roof.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 1: So there's like a couple of little booths, so four
Speaker 1: other people as there's ten of us in the bar.
Speaker 1: Right there's a little juke box in the corner. We're
Speaker 1: just having a few nightcaps, thinking this is it and
Speaker 1: then we'll go home. And then this girl walks in
Speaker 1: and goes to the jukebox, right standing right next to
Speaker 1: me on her own, mind you, putting her dollar bills
Speaker 1: in and I look up and look left. It's Rihanna
Speaker 1: red Ye. Wasn't someone that looked like wasn't someone that
Speaker 1: looked like I looked at my friend Lucy and I
Speaker 1: was like, Lucy, that's Rhianna. She was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's Ray.
Speaker 2: Now at this point, are you thinking, is she going
Speaker 2: to request her own song on the track?
Speaker 1: No, the jukebox was full of like Bruce Springsteen and
Speaker 1: the light on her own with a security guard, but
Speaker 1: on her own. So she goes and stands at the
Speaker 1: end of the bar and I'm like, no one else
Speaker 1: has noticed. And I see Paul down the end and
Speaker 1: he looks at me. He's like, sick. That's Rihanna. Sick
Speaker 1: like he couldn't really care less to be honest.
Speaker 2: But typical. Yeah, I know, bloody.
Speaker 1: She's just standing there on her own, minding her own business,
Speaker 1: having a few drinks. I went to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Was she chatting with her security gain.
Speaker 1: No, just on her own with a drink. Yeah, having
Speaker 1: a future killers, knocking back a few killers. So I
Speaker 1: went to the bathroom. I came out of the bathroom
Speaker 1: and I went to the bar to get a.
Speaker 2: Drink and she trying to go near her.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, there was it was just like a time.
Speaker 2: Don't tell me, she sparked.
Speaker 1: She goes, what's up? And I was like, I was
Speaker 1: trying to be like I didn't really know who. Well,
Speaker 1: I was just like I don't want to go fangus.
Speaker 1: I was like hey, and she goes, oh, you're not
Speaker 1: from around here, and I was like, nah.
Speaker 2: I'm Thisaien. Does you have your top ad on from
Speaker 2: the night before?
Speaker 1: And she said, I'm from the Bahamas? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to like I could not have been more dorky.
Speaker 1: Paul's at the other end of the bar just shaking
Speaker 1: his head looking at me like what are you you doing? Anyways?
Speaker 1: Like I panic, I was like, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a drink. She goes, yea, I have a tequila. I've
Speaker 1: got some tequilla. Have a to killer with me.
Speaker 2: Did you introduce that, Lauren?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what I said, to be honest,
Speaker 1: but I had the.
Speaker 2: Tequila when she said I'm Rihanna.
Speaker 1: I don't think she said I'm Rihanna. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think she did. I think I don't think she needed to.
Speaker 2: Did you swap instagrams? Do you want me to tag
Speaker 2: you Rihanna? Well?
Speaker 1: Then, so we had a few tequilas and then I
Speaker 1: was like, well, let me buy you a drink you
Speaker 1: bought You've shouted me a couple Yeah, absolutely, She goes, no,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I was like, no, let me buy your drinks.
Speaker 1: She goes, okay, I'll have a prosecco. And I was like,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, should we get a bottle of champagne?
Speaker 1: Like by this stage, I'm like, we're friends. Shall we
Speaker 1: get a bottle of champagne?
Speaker 2: She goes oh, She's like I'm not.
Speaker 1: We ain't friends. So she bought it the cheapest drink
Speaker 1: she could probably like, let's she was trying to. So
Speaker 1: I brought it and I came out in a little
Speaker 1: little mini bottle of prosecco and she pulled and she
Speaker 1: was like, thanks, cheers, And I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to my friends now. So I go back
Speaker 1: to my girlfriend Lucy well because I run out.
Speaker 2: Of things to say, and she just shut you down.
Speaker 1: The next minute, this Ferrari pulls up out the front
Speaker 1: of this bar and this guy bounces in and the
Speaker 1: security goes, does anyone want to leave? And we were
Speaker 1: like what and he goes because we're locking in and
Speaker 1: it's asap, Rocky through the door, Shimmy's up the bar,
Speaker 1: jobs behind the bus stops are they dating? They're married
Speaker 1: with two children?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Starts pouring tequila shots and handing them out for everyone.
Speaker 2: So what are still life? What?
Speaker 1: It was so random?
Speaker 2: Meanwhile at Sonderbar on set right thinking I'm living my
Speaker 2: best life.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I was like if two of my best friends
Speaker 1: weren't there, I wouldn't have believed that it happened. Not
Speaker 1: a photo was taken.
Speaker 2: What did you say to?
Speaker 1: I just took his tequila and didn't say any.
Speaker 2: Did you lock in? Like?
Speaker 1: We locked in?
Speaker 2: And how long? We therefore partying with asap and re re.
Speaker 1: To pack up our hotel room in two hours to
Speaker 1: get to the airport. By the time I got home
Speaker 1: was very late.
Speaker 2: IV. Did you say goodbye to?
Speaker 1: I think I want another? What about that? You have
Speaker 1: a bottle of champagne. No thanks, that's.
Speaker 2: Unbelievable, right, How did you get yourself in these situations?
Speaker 1: A sa Rocky in his Ferrari and then he went
Speaker 1: out the front and had a cigarette and Paul was like,
Speaker 1: I might go have a smoke. And I was like, careful,
Speaker 1: you don't know what's going to happen. What I don't
Speaker 1: know in America, everyone's everyone's not smoking cigarettes. Over there.
Speaker 2: You having a special smile.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I don't need a big boy down.
Speaker 1: We got a flight to catch Paul. Yeah, anyway, re
Speaker 1: Ra and then sorry, I watched a video that she
Speaker 1: posted on Years during the countdown three two one, Happy
Speaker 1: New Year, and she goes, I haven't had a drink
Speaker 1: in three hundred and sixty five days, and.
Speaker 2: Then her first drink was the prosecco apparently apparently apparently
Speaker 2: New Year's Day into it, ripped the vand aid off
Speaker 2: just one last time, you said, should we get a bottle?
Speaker 1: No thanks? Jason Lauren, Jason Lauren wake up feeling good
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