Good Night New York 4-10-25

From Fox 5, it's time for a good night, New York

Good evening, I'm Crystal Young. And I'm Ryan Christopher. Welcome here to Good Night, New York

Crystal, we have an amazing show lined up this evening. Okay. But I feel like tonight we're in a bit of a party mood, you know what I'm saying

Oh, what do you mean a bit? We're in a party mood. All right, we are in a party mood straight up

That's because last night on the show we were talking about New Yorkers and their sleep patterns

And New York is the third best city to live in when it comes to getting a restful sleep

Which sounds like, really? Crazy. How could that be possible? A city that never sleeps

Well, there's a nightclub down in Miami. It's called Eleven. And now Mayor Adams, apparently, he's open to the idea of bringing Eleven here to New York City

And he was on Andrew Schultz's podcast to chat all about it. I hope you haven't been Eleven in New York

I spoke to some folks. We may be rolling out. Oh, wow. Yeah, no, we need a 24-hour district

The last thing we need to yell, New Yorkers, go to sleep. Go to sleep. We need that

Because then you have illegal after parties and you don't want that. Right, right, right. It's crazy

It's a disaster we don't have an 11. It is, brother. So as far as the 11 nightclub, the multi-level 24-hour downtown Miami nightclub opened back in February 2014

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kendall, and Kylie Jenner are frequent guests. And the club has hosted parties for the likes of Snoop Dogg, Derek Jeter, Nicki Minaj, Post Malone

What? Oh, my God. The names go on and on. So here is the $64,000 question

Does New York really need a 24-hour nightclub? I think we both agree on this

Our answer is yes, we do. We'll help you open it. I'm just saying, now listen, I almost went to the one in Miami for my bachelor party

Okay, I love the almost. What do you mean by that? Well, the beginning of the bachelor party, I said, you know what

I don't want to do any of those crazy clubs. You can insert the word before club

You know what I'm talking about. And then by the end, I was like, you know what? I'm down for whatever

And then my one buddy was like, I told my wife no strip clubs on the trip. I was like, oh, apparently nobody's having fun this time

But I heard that. Was that his voice when he said, I am unable to attend with you if you go

Pee Wee Herman was my groomsman, apparently. But, you know, this is one of those clubs where they have, like, multiple levels

There's a dance club. Then there's, like, a strip section. Then you can have dinner there. I mean, there's, like, so many activities all happening at once

So I feel like this would be great for New York City. I feel like I have enough buttons on button to go, like, right now

Is there too much chest hair? No, no, no, no. I love those little chest hair

Okay. Let's put them away. No, no, no. Come on. Let it all hang out

Okay. Yeah, why not? All right. It's 11 o'clock at night. How about you, Chris? I mean, it'd be fun

I think New York is the city that never sleeps. We always say we do it bigger

We do it better. So bring it on. Yeah. All right. It'd be a lot of fun

Party at 4 a.m. That's like the one they're talking about bringing casinos to the city. Exactly

I don't think it's going to bring much more crime. You know, I mean, people are looking for fun stuff to do, especially when it comes to tourism

I agree. And this would only add to it. All right. I get up at 4 o'clock, so do you

So maybe we can just go to the club and just keep it pushing. Why not? Right. Hey, we can sleep there or never sleep

One eye open, hair sticking up, whatever, don't judge. Right. Wouldn't be much different from what we already show you every night here

But speaking of sleeping, a woman who seemingly works 24 hours from acting, executive producing, and directing is our next guest

This is exactly how I like it. Two olives, extra dirty. God damn it

How the hell did you know? I'm always. I am delighted. And pissed off at the same time

Well, our next guest is currently in Survival of the Thickest. I love that title

On Netflix. She's also starring in and executive producing Desire, a temptation story

You have to say it like that. Desire, which I'm very white voice, which premieres on Lifetime on April 19th

All right. Thank you for the very white voice. We appreciate that. She's a longtime actress, both film and TV

Also a director. We're talking about Miss Tasha Smith. Welcome here to New York, Tasha

Welcome, Tasha. Thank you for your time. It's so good to see you. Fabulous in your sweet donut

Chef said, I told Chef he looked good. He said, I know. Well, so do you

I know. I know. All good. Congrats on all the recent success

I mean, the first show here, I first heard about the series. What was your first reaction

Honestly, when I read the series, I was told about it through Michelle, and I read the material

and I was like, this me, okay? I've got to be this woman. Honestly, I love Marley

I love Marley Mavis and Khalil's relationship. I love all the love storylines that we have going on

I love how diverse the show is. It's so much fun. And not only is it fun, but it's funny

It's so funny. But it has heart. What was it like doing your first kind of intimate girl-on-girl

Did that make you nervous? Honestly, I was not nervous because of Jerry, to tell you the truth

I directed her on a show called Harlem. And while I was directing her, right, I love Harlem

And I was like, I want that in my scene partner. And then I got a chance to get that with Jerry Johnson

I was so happy to work with her. She's so lovely and she made me feel so comfortable

And she taught me a lot of things. I'm sure she did

I didn't believe it at that. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And did you teach her a thing or two when it comes to directing

Because I know that you directed two episodes of this series as well. Yes, I got a chance to direct her again in this

And you know I can say that I taught her anything but I showed her a lot of my process I guess you know and she enjoyed working with me as a director So for her and I to be able to have a chance to be scene partners that was wonderful

Honestly, we rehearsed, you know, it was just a wonderful experience with her

Gotcha. Now, I love people that don't stay in their lane. Did you really want to direct

Like, what is it that you learn about being on camera directing and vice versa

I feel like it's helped me be a better actor. And also, like, I taught acting classes for about 20 years

Oh, my. I'm an acting teacher. I have an acting school called TESOL. And my school would be a place where a lot of directors would come

writers would come. I would talk with directors and prep them on their work, you know

and what they were about to direct. So I said, I need to do this myself, you know

And so I went, and I went to USC for a summer program

and then directed my short film. And now here I am. Right

Several episodes of television later, I've been having the best time. We got to talk about Desire

Oh, let's do it. A temptation story. Desire is such a fun movie

I mean, Kendra is a wonderful character. I've never gotten a chance to play a character like that before

But what she goes through in this movie, I feel like is going to resonate with so many women

Because so many women, they will jump into a relationship so fast without allowing themselves to take their time, investigate the relationship

You collect these red flags in relationships. You could be dating. You get a red flag

You collect it. You keep going. You get another red flag. You collect it

And keep going. Instead of allowing yourself to acknowledge that red flag and possibly get out of that relationship to save you time and money

Yes. It's like, what is the red flag for? Not to collect for you to go, okay, wait

Like, right. Exactly. Let me think about this. What does this mean? I'm going to get more of this down the road in a relationship

I hope women look at this, learn something, and take their time when it comes to relationships

Take some notes. Like, be hopeful, but be intentional and investigate. Just investigate

I like that. Dig around a little. You know what I mean? Because some men, they'll present their best self

You know what I mean? And sometimes with us women, if we're lonely, if we're dealing with, like, past traumas and abandonment issues

we'll end up embracing relationships because it looks like love and safety

but then if you allow it some time you discover it's not it could be a hidden agenda so when you

see this story with kendra and malcolm it's interesting and it gets dangerous great energy

oh thank you back at you thank you yeah we appreciate it thank you for hanging out with us

gotta come and sway though yeah you know i had to put on my blue suede

All right, Crystal, it's time for a little bit of golf. You ready

I am so ready. Ooh, four, watch out. With legendary Masters Golf Tournament underway earlier today in Augusta

Crystal and I, we thought we should get into a little golf in spirit ourselves. Let's head out onto the Lynx

Yes, that's right. We ventured to one of the five Iron Golf's six locations here in New York City

to have some eats and some drinks and some swings. Now, one of us was better than the other, but I'll let you guess who

Take a look. Crystal, this food spread is getting us ready for the Masters

And you're eyeing this one right here. I am. I am. I think it's because I've never heard of anything like this

I mean, pimento, yes, but then a jelly, and it's popular, and people love it

Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Get in there. Pimento cheese and jelly. What do you think

I think I like it. You said you also wanted the brisket and I wanted that, but I'm going to be a gentleman here

You keep stuff in your face and I'm going to try a wing. How do you like that? That's a kind co-host

That's what you do. You know, be a gentleman about it. Oh, these wings. I can hear the crunch

Have you tried the balls? I don't have the balls to try the balls

Yes, I do. All right, so we're about to throw down here in this golf simulator here at Five Iron

I've golfed a few times in my life. Crystal, this is your very first time ever? No, I'm golfing no times

I'm still chewing my food, yet I feel ready. And you're holding that thing like it's a, like not a golf

You're about to hurt somebody with that thing. Put it down before you're hurt. All right, so, you know what

I don't really know what I'm doing, so let's get the help of a real pro. We got Sean here. Coach Sean, you're going to break it down for us

I golf like once a year maybe. No problem. What should we do? Give it a couple of swings and then critique it or you tell me

How about you get into your golf setup for me right now? Grip looks pretty good

Set up a little bit. I'd like to feed a little closer together maybe. Okay

And what we actually like to say is we like to kind of let's stand Paul real quick. So good

We want to bend from the hips. Okay. So you're going to feel your hips kind of kick out a little bit

Like a squat. Yep. And your knees are a little flexed just like that. Perfect. Good

All right. And then, yeah, sure. Take me a few swings right now. Excellent

Perfect. There it is. Watch that shot. Look at that. There you go

Hole in one. Perfect. How about that? Nice. Let's go. Come on, Sean

Good job. Okay, so you got me a slightly different clubs in the one that

Ryan pulled out why I have this one so this is just the ladies 9.9 right here. Okay, so it's just the ladies flex is just a

little bit lighter even easier to use. All right, let's first start with trying to hold. Yeah

okay so your left hands are going to go they say on top of the golf club to give me a left It for them hand And you going to just put it right there And what we like to say is you hold it with your fingers Oh Okay Yeah Yep you doing great there

And then we turn this right over just like that. Wrap your hands right around there. Good

Perfect. Yes. Okay. And now you're going to bring your right hand in. Okay

Same kind of concept right there. Wrap it right around. Okay. Give me this thumb and put it right here

Okay. Perfect. Okay. And you slide those kind of close together. Oh, got you

Excellent. Okay. Excellent. All right, I feel like I got a good grip. Good. I have a good grip, not on life, but on this club

Okay. And then you're going to go shoulder-width apart with your feet. Okay. Beautiful

And that ball's going to be right in the middle right there. Okay. Excellent. We want to rest this club right down

I feel like I have a weird form. Why am I like this? No, you're doing good

Okay. Okay. All right. Now give me a half step closer. Okay. Perfect. Right there

My nose is, I want to scratch it, but I don't want to move my hand placement. Spread your feet out just a little bit

Good, good, good. Okay. Okay. Now, the goal for swinging. Yeah, okay. We like to say we try to take a wide form of our arms on the golf club and bring it back this way

And then as we come through, boom, we're going to hit the grass and point out that way

Got your back foot turn with you as well. There you go. So you can get into the golf pose

Okay, we want to get into the pose like this, right? Yes, got you. Okay. Excellent. All right

So you want to try to give it a go? All right, here we go. One, two, three. Nice, good try

I'm awful. I'm going to take my day job and my night job

I'm sorry I was so bad. Somehow we made it out alive. Nobody got hit in the face with a club

Absolutely. You know what? God always gives you something, and apparently my thing ain't golf

Apparently not. I'm not about to be Tiger Woods. Maybe putt-putt, though. Maybe that's our next adventure. Okay

All right. Maybe I should just stick to the talking lane. Could be. All right, but still ahead

Maybe you want to start a franchise like your own five-iron golf. Yes. Okay, so maybe you could be an owner of a five-iron golf

There you go. That'd be cool. We're going to tell you about a brand new venture. Yes, that's right

It's sort of like the Zillow for franchising. It's called Franzi. We're going to explain when Good Night New York comes right back

In this current economy, not only do most people have a full-time job, but a lot of

them have a side hustle. So whether it's their own small business or even investing in something else, you know

you got to keep that ball rolling. Yeah, and that's why there's this new company. It's called Franzi. It just started, and now it's kind of like the Zillow of franchising

and its goal is to create one million entrepreneurs, and joining us to talk all about it is the founder, Alex Smirznack

Welcome to Good Night New York, sir. Yes. Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here

Well, thank you. I didn't know if you were going to just be like, hey, you guys want a franchise

Congratulations. Yes, exactly. Maybe not that, but you're helping so many entrepreneurs

and this is a great way. How do people get started? Do they need the money up front

How does this all work? So I think we were actually just talking about it a second ago

I think a lot of people think of McDonald's or Subway when they think of franchising, right

It's these big, expensive concepts. But what people don't realize is there is a franchise for everything

It's 8% of our country's GDP, and it ranges from a company called Card My Yard

which is those, like, you know, Happy Birthday Ryan, you know, yard signs that are in

That's $10,000 to get into all the way up to a social school. That's $5 million to get into

There's everything in between Hilton's a franchise, home services franchises, Orange Theory's a franchise

It really touches everything, and there's something for everyone. So how does Fransy work

If someone says, you know, I have X amount of money, and I don't even care what the franchise is, but I want to get into this business, do you help guide them

You know, what do you do for them? So a number of things, as you mentioned at the beginning, is Fransy is kind of like the Zillow for franchising

So you go there, and you'd say, hey, I'm in New York City, or I'm in Charlotte, North Carolina

I've got $200,000 to invest. And then we have you answer all of these kind of curated questions about yourself

And then we use AI to match you with a handful of the 3,000-plus franchise concepts that are out there

And then we provide you with an expert coach to hold your hand through that process of, you know, why is this a good brand for you

What hesitations do you have about this one? Let's iterate that list again, all the way down to helping you get financing and then become a franchisee or an entrepreneur with that brand

Nice. You actually left Ernest & Young, correct, to start this business

I served my time for a year and a half. You did your thing, but I mean, were you nervous when you first made that jump, leaving like a 9 to 5 and then starting this

Incredibly. I mean, I remember I was at dinner with my parents, and they're like, you shouldn't quit your job

You went to school, did a great school for four years, and you got this job at a big four

You made it. I was like, it doesn't feel like it. I think like a lot of Americans, the 9 to 5 wasn't cutting it for me, and I just didn't feel as excited or as fulfilled

And so I had had a little stint in college doing a laundry business, you know, undergrad

And I learned more doing that than any class I took at Wake or project I was on at Ernst Young And I was just drawn towards I got to do this again So I left EY to start another laundry business I couldn stay away from the dirty clothes Yeah apparently so Are you still doing it

Can you wash our laundry tonight? We are not in New York yet, but we're in the 20 other

20 guys. I'm sorry. I can't help you. Yeah, okay. If you send your dirty underwear to LA, I'll try to help you

We'll never see him again. Don't ever send your dirty underwear anyway. I have one more question before we go

Do you ever have people that don't have enough money for a franchise and then you're like, hey save up and get back to us is that ever an issue I'm glad you asked so

there are franchises that are again 10k to get into but we also have a portion

of our marketplace that pairs really good operators with capital partners so

if you went you said look I've run three McDonald's before as a manager but I

don't have enough capital to build my own we'll partner you with investors I'll

say hey crystal I'm gonna back you in this journey you'll be a sweat equity partner but now you actually have equity in the business versus being an employee

of it. So there is an opportunity for everyone. We want to make entrepreneurship accessible

for everyone in America. I love it. So they won't say, eat a happy meal and get back

to me. No. Okay. Thank you. Great, great, great, interesting idea. Continued success with it. I feel like

you are helping a lot of people. Thank you. I appreciate it. Online. Franzy, Alex, we appreciate your time

And coming up, I don't know if you're hungry, Alex, but we got some seafood coming up. So we're not talking about just any

seafood. We got oysters, we got caviar, we got lobster. Stay if you want

What more do you want? It's all coming up next on Good Night. We'll be right back. All right, well, if you love oysters

if you love seafood, you don't need a reason for the season to enjoy them, but right now, a warmer

weather, it's right around the corner, and we're talking oysters, cocktails, we're talking about

lobster crystal, everything is on the menu tonight on Good Night New York. All the things

I love. Trust me, oysters taste even better, seafood taste even better on a historic boat

that's docked in the Hudson. I'm talking about Grand Banks. It is grand. It's back for its 12th season. Joining us is culinary director, Kerry Heffernan and CEO

Alex Pincus. Gentlemen, welcome to Good Night, New York. Thanks for having us. Great to see you guys

Yeah. Grand Banks is a beautiful setting. It is great for a sunset, but great at any time

And the food that you guys have bought, I mean, we are so ready. So let's talk about it. We're so

excited. It's our 12th season. We have these incredible different shellfish, lobster, crabs

shrimp, oysters, we even have some live scallops right here. Live. And I'm going to give you guys a live scallop

bump. Give me that fish. What exactly is a live scallop bump

That's what I put a scallop here. And then look at this caviar

Oh, come on. Which is that worth? Let's go. That is like

47 years. It's expensive. Oh my gosh. Hold on. We got a little Meyer lemon on top

Oh, it's a good thing I have a big mouth. There you go. This is a big schmear. You guys got to take one with us, too

Come on. All right, so here we go. All right, come on. Yeah, well, let's all bump. We all bump in. Cheers, Crystal. Okay

Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. Here we go. Three, two, one. All right, all right. Mm

Ooh, I got all mine. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Thank you to our friends at Pearl Street

Wow. Yeah, thank you to them as well. So tasty. That is good. That was so delicious. We got to let that marinate for about two minutes, and we'll be right back

Back here on Good Night in New York for more fun. We'll be right back. I'm done. All right, it feels like summer right now because we have Chef Carrie Heffernan along with Alex Pincus

They are here from Grand Banks, and we are about to enjoy more scallops

And these scallops actually have eyes? Yeah, if you can look here, they actually have 40 eyes on each side

Who knew? It is so cool. All right. And they move along out of your way if you're trying to catch them

All right, don't ever try to get over on a scallop because he's like, I see you

And I see you. With my 38th eye. Well, you know what? Don't try it. I see these lobster rolls right here

Can we talk about these? We've got to go right into the lobster. Oh, yes, yes. Oh, with caviar at the end

Are you serious with this? This is how we do it. Come on. We need drinks, too

Oh, we do. We do. We do need drinks. Let's distribute. Thank you, Alex. What are we sipping on here

A little bubbly for everyone. Thank you. This is a beautiful, bubbling rosé. Rosé on a boat

It's the way to go. Okay. It's the way to go. That's the whole premise of what we're doing. All right. All right. And wait a minute

We have two bottles of something here. Oh, this is our 10-year house-made rye whiskey

Oh. And that's our boat on the cover. So we serve this in-house

And only in our venues I love it How do you get people to leave? It's really tough

That's one of our biggest problems Okay, all right, gotcha Don't rock the boat That's right

Okay, I want to taste it Good luck kicking us out It's delicious Cheers Oh my gosh, excellent, excellent Cheers

All right, now If somebody wants to book an adventure On Grand Banks, how do they do so

Okay Go to our website, crew.fun Very simple All of our waterfront venues are there

Sorry, I'm eating a lobster. It's really good. C-R-E-W, crew? Yep. Crew.fun

That's another delicious restaurant. You're the head chef there as well. Absolutely. We have Holy Water

We have all these great restaurants. You have Drift In, all these great restaurants. Open it up. Do you ever sleep? I'll sleep on a boat

Sleep on a boat, I guess. Okay, but if he's a New Yorker, you know it's quality sleep. That's right

Only the best. Cheers, guys. Cheers. That's right. To Grand Banks, to summer, to warm weather, to seafood, to all the things

All that good stuff. All right. Coming up next. Oh, there you go. Enjoy it

And Crystal, I think we have to eat all this seafood now. Oh, I'm on the challenge. Coming up next, Family Feud with Steve Harvey

For now, I'm Ryan Christopher. And I'm Crystal Young. Thank you so much for watching. Good night