February 9, 2022 • 54 mins
The Morning Hack…If you're getting married this summer...I’ve got the 3 songs to NOT play at your reception, because no one wants to hear them. Lisa Ling has got a series on HBO Max focusing on Asian culture and cuisine and focuses on a few spots right here in Southern California! When you hear his voice on a football game…you know it’s a big one! Al Michaels joins us! Malik Muhammad joins us for a book recommendation for Black History Month! And Los Angelitos Bakery is selling Rams Conchas for the Super Bowl!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
From Hollywood. Thank you for listening to us on air
with Ryan Seacrest. I was rushing to sit down in
the chair and I sipped tea and I got a
hiccup sipping the tea. Now it's not good timing. Hiccup. No,
(00:20):
so let me see when y'all scare me. I can't
do that spider on you. Yeah, but that wasn't that scary?
Stock market crashed? Oh that scares me a little bit.
You got one? Oh my gosh, your ex girlfriend's calling me.
(00:41):
Oh that scared of me. Which ex girlfriends calling you?
All of them at the same time. I wouldn't mind
my ex girlfriend calling you. There's one that I like
in particular. Did she call you? No? She did not.
That was me just trying to gare you. But no,
but that, guys, was hoping that she did call you. No,
(01:06):
is she's listening. Please call Tanya. I would love to
hear what you guys talk about. I usually ask her
for recipes for things. Did she get back to you? Well,
next time, say call me sometime and then you tell
me how that goes. Well? Do you got it all? Right? See,
that's why being friends with your exes is so important.
(01:29):
Because you still ask her for stuff. If I wasn't
friends with her, you wouldn't be allowed to do that
because you'd want to be team Ryan. For sure. I'm
still team Ryan, right, but there's no team to pick from.
You can be team both of us. Correct, We're just
team separate. Does that look? I just think it's funny
(01:51):
where your head went. Yeah, I just want you to
be happy. Actually seeing you're smiling faces every morning makes
me almost happy. I guess I mean baby steps, right,
baby steps? All right? We got a lot to get to.
(02:14):
It's Super Bowl weak and five days to the world's
biggest holiday, Valentine's Day. Sunning hot. Today in the mid eighties,
we may see ninety Wow, it's crazy so much today
we got a great show, Holsey tickets for every hour.
Lisa Ling has a new series on HBO Max that
(02:35):
I get sucked into and I really love it about
uh different cultures, Asian cultures and the foods that we
eat that have so much history behind them, and how
those foods got to different cities, even places here in
southern California, where she talks about Boil Heights and she
goes to eat there, and she goes to little Tokyo,
(02:58):
Little Saigon. So he'sa laying one of the best investigative
reporters I think of our time. I just I really
think she's great. So that's coming up. If you like
food shows, this is one that's educational and and it's
almost like watching a history lesson with great food. All right,
(03:20):
So that's happening. The most famous voice certainly this week,
Al Michael's, is going to be covering the super Bowl
on Sunday. And he's got a great sense of humor. Yeah,
and so he's coming on with us. It's been said
publicly that this game will be the last game that
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Al Michael's legendary football broadcaster covers for NBC. But I
have a feeling knowing Al that he just doesn't want
to stop. So we have to ask him about that
because I'd like to know where are you going after
this Sunday? And he's going, I mean, my guests, I
don't no I'm talking about it yet. I guess is
(04:02):
he's going somewhere. So we know for a fact he's
not retiring or anything like that. We don't know much
for a fact. I'm just telling you the guy is
the best in the world. And someone else is going
to offer him a job if he doesn't stay an NBC.
And he's not staying NBC. He said that, So that's
gonna be interesting. Monica, good morning, and thank you for listening.
(04:25):
So what's going on with your boyfriend? Hi? Ryan, good morning.
So my boyfriend Luke, So we've been together for three
years and my sister recently just had a baby, and
you know, we talked about kids before we talked about marriage.
You know, we we think that that's like we're in
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the race for that. Like he is just so awkward
with kids. He doesn't know how to hold them. He
he he doesn't know how to talk to them. It's like,
I don't know if this is a Flaglet um me
if this is like an end all. So your boy
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you don't have kids, but this is other people's kids,
but you you think about having kids with him? Yes,
of course. I mean, look, I gotta defend your boyfriend here.
I don't have kids, and but for my niece, you
didn't want me holding your kid because I didn't know
how to do it. And now I have a niece,
(05:30):
I understand a little bit more about what it's like.
But for some men who aren't around babies. We don't
really know how to pick them up, how to hold them,
and certainly how to get them to stop crying. Yeah,
but I don't think it's a deal breaker. I would
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not put this into the category of breaking up the relationship.
It's definitely not a deal breaker. When I'm at Michael,
he I swear he would almost drop his niece all
the time, like and I was like, oh my gosh,
Like he is just not great with babies, And as
soon as he became a father, it's almost like a
light switch. I think this maternal instinct that takes over you,
and he is the best dad. And I was just
(06:15):
telling him last night, like he there's nobody that can
put Survey to sleep better than him, Like he's like
a baby whisper. So it's like that'll come around. That
will come with time. So it's definitely not a deal breaker.
Is this practice more of I get that m dolt
or a dog? Yeah, well, look this is overcomable, if
(06:40):
that's even a word. So good luck with the relationship, Monica,
Thank you for calling. So Michael not great with babies
until he became daddy, and now daddy is good with babies. Daddy. Yeah,
he's the best daddy ever. What's I'm saying, daddy? Daddy?
You say it, daddy? What do you think? I mean?
(07:03):
What sexy? It does not sounds sex? Do you call?
Do you call your boyfriend? Daddy? No? Then why does
it sound sexy? It's the way you say it, Yeah, Sad,
I don't know it sounds fine. I don't. I don't
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mean anything by it. I think it sounds cube and
not sexy. Right now, Daddy, here as your morning hack
next not to play at your wedding reception. If these
three songs are on your playlist at your wedding, people
are not gonna love you for it. And I have
no offense to any of these artists, but I'm just
(07:47):
telling you what it says here. It's a thing I
had to do, not playlist for my wedding. Yeah, some
people get really turned off by certain songs. So if
you're playing on including these songs at your reception, this
is not my opinion, this expert's opinion. Someone will not
be happy about it. And here are the songs. Yeah, right,
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let's foot let's you have to be like the bright
amount of buzzed or drunk to enjoy this dance. Well,
for me, there's not enough alcohol at the bar. You
don't want to do that, right, all right, here's another one.
They say not to play that. People don't like to
hear that wedding to knock yourself. Why why does that
(08:46):
song get such a bad rap? That's good song. I
don't know, And no one really gets everybody involved when
that song comes on. Literally everyone does the dance. So
here's the other one. They say, not to play your
wedding receptions coming from coming from sway. I've never heard
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this song heard Cotton Cotton Night Joe by Rednecks, That's
who did that song. But if you want to keep
people happy at your wedding reception, they say those are
the three least favorite. Today's quote of the day, Impossible
is just an opinion on air with Ryan Seacrest. Let's
(09:38):
get the deadline. Well, if you're still planning to purchase
Super Bowl tickets to see the Los Angeles Rams take
on the Cincinnati Bengals, be prepared to sholl out. We
know hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars more for parking
near the venue. Yeah, tickets to this Sunday's big event.
And so if I stadium in Inglewood, we know are
well above four thousand dollars, and that's seats up very
(10:01):
very high in the nosebleeds um. On stub Hub, we
saw that the highest price parking option was also more
than four thousand dollars. Vanessa Brian is fighting for girl power.
Just days ahead of Super Bowl fifty six, the wife
of the late Kobe Bryant, was honored at the third
annual Sports Power Brunch presented by Champion, which spotlighted powerful
(10:23):
women in sports and entertainment. During the ceremony, and this
all took place yesterday, and she said, as a mother
of four strong girls, I care deeply about not only
leveling the playing field for girls, but elevating it. She
said in her speech, I want to instill in our
young people that girls are just as good as boys
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there you go. Thanks for having us on Ryan Seacrest
with you on this Wednesday morning. We've got you know,
thanks to TikTok, you can learn so much. You can
you can laugh, and you can learn, and you can discover,
and you can also be jealous as some of that
(11:25):
people doing the stuff they're doing on TikTok, which I
am of. This next guest of ours, Gino zen Russo,
is with us right now. Is that right? That's right?
How's it going, Gino? It's not going as well for
me as it is for you. Bro. Let me just
tell you he is on a mission on TikTok to
find the best breakfast burrito in southern California. That is
(11:47):
my favorite thing to have on a weekend if I've
got time, I want to find a great breakfast burrito
and just moan about it. So how did this start
for you? Why did you start? You know? I would
say my love for breakfast burritos came in high school.
We had a I went to high school in the
in the San Francio Valley and we had a breakfast
(12:08):
brio for two fifties and it was incredible. So that
kind of started it. But what rekindled the flame was
during COVID. Uh, Like back in you know, early COVID,
my roommates and I were going getting breakfast burritos every
weekend or making them whenever the case was, and I
kind of claimed that I was the breakfast brio expert.
And from that point we kind of talked about making
(12:30):
a burrito rating page and I was like in July,
I made it, and I finally started posting videos this
past fall. Name some specific places where you found some
of the best right now. My favorite is a place
in Malibu called Lili's Cafe or Lily's Malibu. It is
out of this world. It's massive. It's like you have
(12:51):
a regular for like twelve bucks and a large fort
and it's huge. And they put refried beans in it,
which is to me is an add on. It's just
it takes to the next level if done right. That's
not everyone's favorite for me personally, UM, I like that.
I went to a place in Culver City last weekend
called Servi Teca and that was very good. It had
(13:12):
really crispy tater tots. It was kind of a nice
crunch at every bite that those are probably my two
favorite at this moment. Like the tater taught works for me,
but I do get a little frustrated when a breakfast
burrito has rice and potato. It's just two, you know,
it takes away from the real good favor. Yeah, you
(13:33):
know what, I'm not a big rice guy on my
breakfast burritos. I for me, it's all about keeping the
base ingredients really good and really fresh. So the egg's
got to be nice and fluffy and preferably scrambled. You know.
Some places kind of just flipped them on the griddle
and they're more like an omelet, and so they're kind
of dry. I like a nice, fluffy, scrambled egg and
(13:54):
crispy tater tater tots. From that point, anything else is
just kind of uh, they seen on the cake. Okay,
I have to ask if you have tried Nicks and
stale beach. No, But I I follow this guy on TikTok.
That's been I did it a couple of weeks ago,
and I've seen it on some lists that I've been
really wanted to try. This is gonna blow you away.
(14:15):
When you're talking about the crispy potatoes. It's Webb plus
they chop up some bacon in there, and there's potatoes,
but you can order them crispy to make them crispy
inside the brato and then you get to rito toasted
on the outside, and that's the way to go. That's
what Service techt did. They kind of toasted the burritos,
so the tillo is nice and crispy. Yeah. The other
(14:36):
thing that's big for me, and I always say this
in my videos, is I like a a nice dispersion
of ingredients meeting. I don't like to just bite into
a chunk and just get straight avocado or straight bacon. Yeah,
I have that I think. By the way, Gina, if
you want to see him on TikTok Instagram, he's ray
to Rito. That's what you at ray to Rito, so
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you can check that out. And you know, I, I know,
I feel like I'm doing the people's work here. There's
you know, the people are passionate about their breakfast burritos.
And I don't have a ton of following, but the
amount of comments and people saying you've gotta try this place,
you gotta try this place, order like this, It's been
pretty cool to see the work of the people. You're
essentially an elected official and keep basically right. Yeah, you know,
(15:20):
thanks for coming on, take care, thanks for having me.
I appreciate it. You got it. I mean, where is
my social media guy, David Abers? Why am I? That's
what I need time off to go do that. You
can do that, but it takes time. Just do one
a week, just starts. Could do a We could do
a version of that, like on a Saturday afternoon where
(15:41):
we hit four spots. Right, yeah, but we's the burritos.
I gotta think of niche. I think it's something else.
I mean, not bagels. I'm not passionate about bagels. I'm
not passionate about olive oil. But no, but I could
(16:03):
do that with like some different bakeries and things in
we'll find out. We'll pick something that's universal. I mean
Burgers I am into, uh talkers him into, but I
feel like so cliche. But Buffalo Wings I love um sushi.
I'm down. But we'll figure it out. We have to
decide right now. So we got out. Michael's gonna be
(16:25):
broadcasting a big Super Bowl game. He's coming up later
this morning, and he's a good guy and he's great
at covering these games. So we'll talk to him about
what's going into preparing for the Super Bowl right now,
tiny with the trending before cut. Okay, so this is
gonna be a little bit of a deep trending report
(16:45):
because I really got into the weeds um from a
quote that g Hadd gave in this article for in Style.
So she hasn't really spoken much since her split from
Zane back in October of last year. Remember how messy
that was in the press. But she Yeah, but she
talk about kind of the reason why she chose to
peel back her public persona a little bit because of
(17:06):
her mom being on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Um.
So I don't know if you notice, but when she's
not rocking the runways, she's literally like on a farm,
song's makeup, chilling with horses. Just kind of she took
a little bit of a scale back approach to life.
But this is the whate that got me thinking. Okay,
she said, I've been reminded that when we get time
(17:27):
with people, just really appreciate it and take it all
in and try not to wish away moments even if
there's something hard, to find something beautiful in it. So
I wanted to focus on the appreciate the time that
you have part because I'm a planner person, and I
think a lot of people are that way their goal oriented.
You think in the future, but everybody says the key
to happiness is living in the moment and being present
(17:50):
in what's actually happening and not thinking too far ahead.
So I can go a few hours like this and
then I just get back to thinking about the future
and I get anxious again. So I wanted to talk
about how you really can actually practice this. Well, who's
good at that? I think I live in the moment,
but I also am a planner. But I plan so
(18:11):
that I can live in the moment. Like I don't
like to do stuff sometimes last minute and scrambling and
adding all this extra stress. So like I'll plan stuff
that's like maybe months away, and that's it, and then
I don't have to think about it. See you do.
I have it worse because I plan ahead, but then
in the moment, I'm planning what is next, and it's
(18:32):
a real problem. For example, at lunch, I'm planning dinner.
If we're traveling, we're somewhere, I I can't help, but
and I talk about it over and over and over again.
I'm a big, big planner, and I also I never
want anybody to be bored, and so I want to
make sure they know what's coming, what's next, what we're
(18:53):
going to. Yeah, traveling is different. It's nice to sometimes
have that planned thinners, events, activities. Too much in the
moment can leave you without future moments. You know. Yeah,
so were we in this moment together? I think so
(19:16):
kind of because I was thinking about what we got
to do next, because I have to think that way.
So coming up next, we have got Halisey tickets at
the Hollywood Voult with Ryan seats. Well, it's a big
week in the City of Angels. If you're in town
visiting for the big game coming up on Sunday, Welcome
(19:37):
to our great city and you're welcome for the sun
and the heat because you probably came do somewhere cold
or really cold. Um. Everything is all about the game.
People are talking about the snacks that they're gonna get
people a pre ordering food. I'm gonna do buffalo wings.
I'm gonna do a layer dip. I'm going to do
(20:00):
I might do some mini burgers. I like. I like
bite sized fingers foods for my Super Bowl. Uh. And
then we have Diana on the line. Deanna Huntington's Park
corner of Los Angelitos Bakery and Los Angelitos Los and
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Halitos Bakery, and Deanna's father and grandfather, both Cuban refugees,
opened the bakery, which means they're celebrating their thirtieth anniversary
this year, and they're really celebrating by making conchas, a
Mexican sweetbread consisting of two parts sweet enriched bread roll
and a crumbly cookie. But the special part is she's
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making rams versions the ram colors. Good morning Deanna, Good
morning Ryan. How are you starving? I'm describing a big definitely. Well, so,
how popular are the ram Um? They are very popular.
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We actually first came out with them about three years
ago when they first made it to the Super Bowl.
But I think now that they've been here in l
A a couple of years, and now that they're back
at the Super Bowl here at home, Um, they're super popular.
I mean people are coming from an hour away just
so that they can pick them up and buy them.
Isn't that cool to have a product you discovered a
product that people will drive hours for right, and I
(21:29):
thank my dad for that because he's a diehard Rams
fan from the beginning when they were initially out here
in l A before they moved and came back. So
he was like, let's do something, you know, let's change
the colors, and I like, definitely, let's do it. So,
you know, I give him all the credit for that
as well. And Danna. He started changing the colors on
top of the conches in after Kobe Bryant passed away, correct, yes,
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after he passed we did that to honor him. Uh,
you know, for all the years and dedication we had
for Los Angeles and the Lakers. We changed the last
super bow and yellow to represent the Lakers, and one
of our followers actually came up with the Kobe Gunha name,
so we stuck with that for the last two years. Yeah,
I mean, an amazing way to salute such a great
in our city. And from there you begin changing the
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colors to match the l A sports teams like the
Dodgers too, right right when they made it to the
World Series, we definitely had to represent our our boys
in blue. So we had the white and the blue
and very popular, especially after they won the World Series,
so we've kept that as a staple on our our
menu as well. This is Danna, co owner of Los
and Helitos Bakery. And if you want to have something
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really fun for your super Bowl party, get some of
these l a rams because they just look so festive
and you know they taste good and everybody is gonna
love seeing them on the table in front of the TV. Danna,
good luck, Thank you for sharing your story. Is a
pleasure to meet you, and up you sell a lot
of conches. I hold so too, But thank you guys
(22:58):
so much for having me a good morning. But she's
got special ones for Valentine's Day that I'm gonna pick up.
There's justin Bieber. You can't just play a song out
of that. It's I gotta keep moving. Yeah, they're beautiful
to Valentine's Stay Chess on air with Ryan seacrest Our
(23:22):
wish I think has come true. We were just talking
about the global, the globally famous Lisa Ling and I
see her coming into our zoom Now, Lisa, how are you.
How's it going? Well, it's going great. We were talking
about you a couple of shows ago, um, because I'm
(23:43):
obsessed with your new HBO Max series. I see why
you're hosting it, because you know you have roots in
that culture. But it's really a job that I would
have auditioned for myself because I find it. It's called
take out with Lisa saying, I find so much interest
(24:03):
in the history of food and the people that are
behind that kind of history, and that's really what this
show is about. Sure, you get to eat some cool stuff,
but it's about finding out how it all came to be.
It is Ryan, and I'm so glad to hear that
that's something that is of interest to you. I'm very
specific about the fact that this isn't a cooking show.
(24:25):
It's a food show because frankly, I don't cook. And
the reason, well the reason I don't is because my
grandmother never wanted me to cook, because for her, the
restaurant was solely a means for survival. You know, my
grandparents came to America in the late forties. Even though
they were both very educated. My grandfather got his undergrad
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at n y U in the early thirties and an
MBA from University of Colorado. My grandmother had a degree
from a university in England. But when they finally moved
here in the late forties. He couldn't get a job
in finance because he was Chinese, and so they ended
up doing a bunch of odd jobs and eventually scraped
up enough money to open a Chinese restaurant. Neither of
(25:06):
them had ever cooked before, and so they had to
toil away in this restaurant. They learned how to cook from,
you know, these Chinese cooks, and and that became the
pathway towards some semblance of the American dream. And that's
the story for so many immigrants in this country, not
just Asian Americans. But it's interesting because you talk about
the history, and over the last couple of years, Asians
(25:30):
have been on the receiving end of a lot of
scapegoating and violence in the wake of COVID. But when
you really dig into the history, there's been a long
history of violence against Asians. But yet the food has
somehow transcended all of that. But it was fast. I mean,
I've seen several episodes. It was fascinating to me too,
as a food lover of New Orleans food. Right, I've
(25:51):
been there for work and you go there and you eat,
but I didn't truly understand the history of that food
and how it came to normand at the beginning, Well,
it's true, I mean New Orleans style food, particularly gumbo,
which has become like an American staple. You know, it's
kind of a hodgepodge of a lot of different flavors um.
(26:12):
But interestingly enough, gumbo might not have shrimp in it
if it weren't for the early Filipino settlers who jumped
off Spanish galleons in the seventeen hundreds, before the United
States was even the United States, about two hundred uh
men from the Philippines. They were either indentured servants or sailors,
and they built a life for themselves, not on the
(26:34):
West Coast or East coast, but in the Bayous of Louisiana.
And there's a town currently um in southern Louisiana called
Jean Lafitte, and the mayor there, who's a blonde, blue
eyed guy, tells me that he believes that the population
of his town has Filipino blood running through it, including himself. Yeah,
(26:55):
which is it's it's so interesting when they if you
haven't seen this episode, they dump out the is it
was it the shrimp boil or the the big deep
boil what they called the bowl down there where they
put the corn out and they just lay it all
on on the table on newspapers, and you just go
for it and you eat it with your hands, and
and you know, that is what they do in the Philippines.
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They lay out food in what's called the kamayan on
these banana leaves and everyone eats with their hands. And
so the shrimp boil, and you know, many people now
have experienced like a seafood boil where they just kind
of dump all the food out on a table. The
parallels between that event that's become kind of an American
cultural experience and with the Filipinos have always done is
(27:39):
just like it was uncanny to me. Yeah, it was
cool to see Lisa Ling with us. Take Out with
Lisa Ling is streaming on hbox. You actually went to
Little Saigon Uh in Orange County and Little Tokyo and
Boil Heights. Tell me, I've not seen that yet, So
tell me about that. Oh my gosh. So we did
a whole episode in Boil Heights, California, which most people
(27:59):
think of as more of a Latino community and it is.
But after the Japanese were released from prison camps after
World War Two because a d twenty thousand Japanese Americans
were interned and accused of spying on the US government.
They had lost everything, they lost their businesses and their homes,
and so many of them settled in Boil Heights because
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it was one of the only places that they could
afford to live or were allowed to live. And so
shortly after World War Two there was this thriving Japanese
American community. And now there's only one Japanese restaurant still standing,
but there are still these incredible vestiges of the Japanese
community in Boil Heights. And one of the pop ups
that we went to is this like Mexican Japanese food
(28:43):
fusion Um that started in Boil Heights and their signature
dish is a hot cheeto massub. You know. The massubi
is the Japanese part, which is basically a rice ball
and spam with hot cheetos on top, which is like
the homage to the woman's Mexican roots um. And that's
what in some ways Boil Heights has has come to represent,
(29:06):
like this kind of just this melding of so many
different cultures and that one Japanese restaurant that's still standing there.
It's called Otomi san Um the owner of it. The
Latino community considers her kind of their Japanese mom um
and it's just a really beautiful experience in episode I
think you'll like it. Since you're in l A a a lot,
you might checking out those restaurants. I will get the
(29:28):
region and checking out the restaurants, Lisa, I want to
so you're gonna host. You don't need me to do anything.
You don't need like a sidekick for this, right like
you're going to do it on your own. You know what, Brian,
I'd love to have you along. We have to convince
HBO Max to green light another season, but I would
love to have you along. Well, I'm gonna keep talking
about it and maybe they'll, you know, they'll they'll do
(29:49):
something about it. Uh, maybe we can do it back
in Atlanta, because I know you're from from Atlanta. Yeah,
we could do there. And yeah, I've known you for
a long time. But I tell you that when you're
docuseries is on CNN, it is some of the most
unbelievable territory that you uncover and that you discover that
(30:11):
no one does like you. It's really it's I know,
it's a lot of work and it's sometimes it's probably tough,
but it's really powerful. Well thank you, Ryan. I mean, yeah,
you and I probably have known each other for over
thirty years and we were just like these scrappy kids
starting in this business. And I am so proud of you.
I mean, you've just become such a like a fixture
(30:34):
in your American household. And you know, I love that
you're still you know, on the radio talking to people
every day with these you know, your beautiful co hosts
um and yeah, I'm just I'm so proud of you. Well,
thank you. It is the same that I have for you.
So we'll keep talking about the HBO series. Let me
know if you get a season two and we'll do
something be fun. I would love that. I'd love that.
(30:55):
Take good care of yourself least. Bye bye. Thanks everyone,
if you haven't seen it, and I mean I think
we all in southern California in Los Angeles kind appreciate
all the different cultures of food here and to see
the history of it is it's it's it's like a
class I wish they would teach in school. Well, it's
(31:15):
also her delivery. It's the way she tells a story.
It's so captivating you just want to keep listening to
her and watching her. It's so very true. She's from Sacramento, California,
she was born there. But it's brilliant storytelling. Yeah, so
thank you Lisa for coming on. Kayla Thomas. Let me
(31:39):
hear you say it one or two point seven Kiss FM? Seven?
Kiss FM. Doesn't that feel good? It does. It's been
a dream, I believe me. We have all dreamt of
sitting in front of these microphones here at Kiss So
welcome our newest personality on the air, Kayla Thomas. So
you gotta couple of well, you've got a couple of
(32:01):
programs so you can love them PM to five am
Monday through Thursday, and then you've got two afternoons on
Saturday and Sunday. So they're working you every day. Yes,
and I'm ready to hit the ground running. Let's get
some background. It's so exciting, you know, Kayla, we all
were fans of Kiss FM before any of us walked
through this door. I listened to Rick D's as a
(32:22):
kid growing up in Atlanta and just thought the sound
of the radio station was so cool to be at
the epicenter of Los Angeles, southern California, near the beach,
near the mountains where Hollywood is, like nothing was better.
You probably had those same kind of feelings. Yeah. Absolutely,
I think every radio personality wants to come to kiss,
(32:43):
especially in you know, it's in Los Angeles. I'm from
the East Coast and I've always wanted to work for
I heard radio and I said, you know, if I
can get to kiss, uh, then my my life is made. Yeah,
there there were Sysney. We telling me a couple of people.
Every every job here, for every job, there's somebody that's
wanted to take us down to get it. And I
(33:06):
didn't realize that so many people wanted to come after me.
Sissy and too, you told me, which is why I
decided to state for so many more years. You know
what I mean, what it is once we get in here,
we don't want to give it up, you know. All right,
So you're born in Pennsylvania outside of Philly. Yes, I
was born in Philly and then I the majority of
my life I lived in Maryland. So how did you
(33:26):
get the job here? Well, it's actually a funny long
story short. Uh, my mentor is Helen Little. She works
at Light of Him in New York. And I was
working at a before this. I was working at a
radio station in Trenton, New Jersey, and it's right near
Q one o two in Philly. And she said, Kayla, like,
there's an opening for a night jock at Q one
o two. You need to apply. And I'm like everybody
(33:48):
is probably applying for this job, but okay, I'll do it.
So I said, you know what, let me do something
to stand out to get the program director's attention. So
I sent him a pizza. I called the pizza company.
I said, this is gonna sound really really weird, but
can you take out a slice and then right on
the box. I've been missing slice to your pie on
(34:13):
a date. Yeah, So they sent it to him. But
I did all that and Buster wasn't even there. But
it's okay. The people who were there, you know, they
space timed him and they showed him the pizza and
the note, and he texted me and said pizza girl.
I was like, that's my name, that pizza girl. And
I said, yes, please listen to my demo real and
my resume and all that stuff, and uh, he said,
(34:35):
you know, we're already done the line with somebody, but
I want to send your stuff higher up because you
have a chance to be with I Heart Radio as
Marca thank you. So he sent it up to John Ivy.
John Ivy contact me a few weeks later and the
rest is history. John the former program director here Beyond,
is now the programer. But John Ivy had that gig
for twenty years. He hired me, so he's been around
(34:55):
for quite a long time. Was that was that call? Well,
he can also not be awesome? World changed my life.
You're new, so she's gonna be nice to you. Uh
what was that call? Like, I remember when it was
for me. What was it like for you? Well, it
was just like so surreal because he said, Kayla, I
have listened to your stuff. It was sent up to
(35:18):
me and I want you in my company, like I
want you in this company. I think you have potential
and um, I want to find a place for you.
And so it was like over a couple of months.
This was back in August, and then eventually he brought
Biada into the mix and then I started talking with
her and that's when kiss was introduced into the scene.
My favorite part of this is saying the call letters.
(35:40):
I get to say so many times a day, and
every time I get so excited about it. So you
moved into apartment in Burbank, this Kyle Thomas. You're gonna
hear her eleven o'clock at night she starts, then on
the weekend. She's the newest on air member to our
team here. But you're going an apartment in Burbank. I
hear with her boyfriend of one year. It said, yes, Tyler, Yeah,
he literally gets it in a few hours. I want
(36:02):
to go pick him up. You definitely haven't lived here
long enough because I think you're going to the airport airport.
Burbank Airport is easy, Burbank. Yeah, it is a Burbank airport.
Then you talked to us about it, uh, and you
(36:22):
guys met back east. Yeah, so he lives and he
grew up in Philly as well. We met him. Bumble jobs.
I am living proof that it works. And now he
was like, no, I'm coming to l A with you,
Like I'm not going yeah, Like let's like you're not
going out there but exactly, And he was like, all right,
let's let's make this work of angels by yourself. You
(36:44):
mean dangerous out here. Well that's great. It's so nice
to meet you, Kayta. Welcome to our team. Look forward
to hearing you and good luck with everything. Thank you
so much. I'm excited to meet you all in person
and start working with you. Guys. Yes, take care of
thank you and say the letters the best on airs.
(37:10):
A couple of years ago, back in we were all
miserably depressed and looking for positive spirits in our lives
and we met Malik. Malik has a black owned, family
owned and community own bookstore. He's got two locations, Crenshaw
Mall and Baldwin Hills in the Westfield, Vancover City. But
(37:32):
we met him and he brought us back. He gave
us life, and he has an incredible ability to convey
positivity and generosity just by speaking with him, and it's
the reason we kept having him on. And then he
(37:54):
launched his podcast, Malik's Bookshelf, bringing the world together with books,
culture and community, which is available where you get your podcast.
He's a superstar. Now, thank you for the introduction. Appreciate
everything you've done. Very very welcome. Now. Recent guests on
(38:15):
Malik's podcast which once he was on our show. We
turned to each other and said, this man needs to
be sharing his his outlook on life. It's what the
world needs and he's doing he said, what You've got
eleven episodes and you've had different guests on the show
like Spike Lee and Terry Crews and some great conversations. Huh.
(38:37):
I've been fortunate to get a lot of interviews with
a lot of wonderful people. Just like the heavens opened
up and they just showed up at Maliks called me,
it's just been a just been a suit full of opportunity.
All you present me with this podcast, Malik, bookshelf bringing
a world together with books, culture and can that's it?
(38:59):
I love it all right. Well, then, while we're on
the topic of books, this month's book review for Black
History Month, what do you recommend? I came across this
wonderful book that I thought was a great and inspiring
book for Black History Month. This young man the name
of the book is called Ahead of the Game by
Kevin J. Ryan, and it's a book about a young man,
(39:21):
this twenty five year old CEO Delaye Parston Neil, and
he fussed open the tech industry with his vision in
two thousand and eighteen. And this is what this book
is about. It about is his life and all the
obstacles he had to overcome to create his um tech
company called Playbverse. And so a guy Kevin Royn has
(39:45):
been following him. He's a writer for about several years
write articles in the Entrepreneur in tech world, and so
he was fascinated with de Lane, who had a vision
to create a platform where high school students, college students
can play video games and from the you know, because
of the East sports industry, which is a billion dollar
(40:08):
gaming world, and so he wanted to create a platform
with high schoolers and college kids can become athletes playing
each sports. So he created this play first company, which
is a team base um each sport company that allows
where he connects different students in high schools and colleges
(40:30):
to be able to play competition with each other. And
so I thought that was fascinating because you know that
it creates confidencing kids when they you know, it's a
lot of you know, people at school, they don't play
physical sports like baseball, basketball and so forth, and run track.
But this guy says, hey, the tech world is glowing
the video games and being out there. Let's try to
(40:52):
create a sport with kids can play with other teams
all over this country. And I thought that was a
fascinating story about the Lane partner and what he had
to do to set up a tech company and the
people did he met, such as Sean. This guy's raised
a hundred million dollars in venture capital. His company evaluation,
(41:14):
I believe it's over five hundred million dollars. He has
over a hundred and twenty employees now and he did
that in a short span of a few years. That's
what's crazy. He's been inspired by Sean Diddy colons, he's
been inspired by j C. And one of the quotes
that he said would he tell kids about his venture
(41:35):
and his journey is don't give up no matter what,
because it's not easy. He busted up in the tech
world's on about one percent black in that industry and
he's a CEO and he's twenty five runs. That's incredible.
That is a great story. I look forward to seeing
that and it's inspiring to hear those kinds of stories.
(41:58):
And it's called ahead of the game. Check it out,
Malik Mohammed, You can check out his podcast always to
thank you so much for coming on. It's great to
hear your voice and we'll talk real soon. Keep it up, Malik,
thank you, Royn, thank you, everybody, Thank you, Bye bye.
I mean, he is so special, he is so unique.
(42:18):
He is so I would say it's contagious when he
starts to get fired up about something like that. And
I mean, the guy reads the book and has that
much enthusiasm for his love of it, and that's a
great story. Year old makes it like that. I mean,
(42:43):
the man doesn't feel pressure, but if one did, this
would be a pressure cooker coming up. It's a big
game on Sunday, just Super Bowl. And al Michaels joins us, all,
how are you? I am phenomenal. Now I haven't seen
you since real it has. We worked together in Rio,
(43:05):
and yeah, we shared some actually we shared some fun
times in Rio. We had some great times in Rio,
and then you dumped me. He was supposed to stay
in touch and have dinner in l A like you know,
every couple of weeks, and the hell with me, right,
I hear you? Man. I just want to play back
some vintage al Michaels as we get into talking about
(43:27):
this weekend. Take a list. Deep down field, he's got cocked,
he's gotta get out of bounds. Stafford, deep fail, He's
got tough again. He's at the ten. He spikes it
there and Matt Gave will come in and try to
win the game. Matt Gave it had the rims by
(43:55):
the hair of the skinny teeth. Ree games so far,
I'll walk off. Yes, how Michaels in action? You do
get that excited, don't you? I do. I mixed metaphors
there too, but they had gone right. I got fourteen
different things going on at one time. That was That
(44:18):
was a That was a fabulous game. That was tremendous
and you know the Rams had a twenty four point lead. Yeah,
that was all those games. Last six games, the four
in the Divisional, the two championship games last week have
all been great. So I'm just praying we can get
a lucky seven this coming Sunday. So how Michaels with us?
(44:38):
He will be calling the game on Sunday. What have
you learned about the week's preparation and what's on everybody's mind.
It's a great matchup. I mean the Rams were built
to play in this game on this day because they
went all in. They got Matthew Stafford, they made a
big trade, they got Von Milner, picked up Bobby j uh,
(45:00):
got Eric Weddle out of retirement. So the Rams along
the way, we're built to play in this game. They've
gotten there. The Bengals, I think captivated everybody around the country.
You know, they win their first game against the Las Vegas,
and then the second game against Tennessee, dramatic game, even
though Burrow gets sacked nine times, they still wanted. And
then I think the whole country kind of gravitated unless
(45:24):
you were Kansas City fan, towards the Bengals to be
down one three, eighteen points on the road, come from behind,
beat Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and and that group.
So I think the country, you know, kind of sat
up and went Wow, that team is really interesting and fun.
And Joe Burrow looks like he's a guy who enjoys
(45:44):
playing so much that nothing is too big for him.
So I'm looking forward to a hell of a game
on Sunday. Well, let's be honest, I know what you're
looking forward to, not having to fly to a city,
you know me, But you know what, I'll tell you something.
I didn't realize that mileage is only sixty cents a
mile because it's eight miles to the stadium, so there's
for a und trip. I mean, I thought we were,
(46:08):
you know, with with inflation and everything else over the
past twenty years, it would should be a buck in
a quarter. But you know, I'll tell you what though, man, Uh,
not having Diodo an airport is a dream. Because some
people say that Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth. Well,
you and I both know that sometimes an airport can
be the unhappiest place. I've seen quite a few in
(46:31):
my day as well. Yes, I get it. All right,
let's talk about you while we have you. Uh, this
has been said publicly is the last game under your
current NBC contract. However, I don't hear any fatigue in
your voice. So what happens after this Super Bowl? Well?
(46:51):
I do know this. The last two games I have done.
I did a Kansas City Pittsburgh game and that was
the end of been rough Lilisberger's career. He's retiring. I
did Tampa Bay and the Rams, and then Tom Brady,
at least for the moment, has said that's his last game,
he's done. I will tell you, unless something happens, or
(47:14):
unless something is not available to me, this will not
be my last game. I love doing what I do.
I enjoy it immensely as much as I ever have.
There are opportunities out there for me and options. And Uh.
I promised before the season to myself, don't get distracted
by all the stuff that's going on. Deal is up.
(47:35):
I know there's some stuff you know that that's happening,
and I let my representative handle that. And I said
to him and to myself, I want to enjoy this
year to the fullest. And I have. I've got a
great group, you know, Goodelli and Essakoff and collins Worth
and Michelle Tafoya, who's wrapping up her broadcasting career. She's
going to other things as well. But for me, I
(47:57):
want to keep doing this and if I have to
change us to do it, and I believe I will. Uh.
You'll see me somewhere next year, all right, So is
it Fox or CBS? No, it's probably going back to
Hawaii and doing uh Punah against which is where I
started my career at kgU and holde Alulu back in
nine seven. I highly doubt that's where you're gonna end out.
(48:20):
And you know what those are, Those are great times,
let me tell you. And the one time, believe it
or not, the one time I met Barack Obama he
was out of office, he've not for about two much
or saw m at a golf course in Palm Desert
and what do you think We talked about Punaho. That
was Janmo Monter in Honolulu, and we talked about the
coach at that time and a lot of the players
at that time. So that was the beginning of my
(48:42):
career and uh, it was. It was wonderful, great memories. Well,
how does it make you feel the Amazon is gonna
have live sports? I mean, what do you think about
Amazon Prime their Thursday night games coming. We're in a
different world, you know that. Uh, streaming as gigantic and
I think you know, Amazon went all in on this
(49:04):
and they're spending I think close to thirteen billion over
ten years to get one game a week as of
the moment on Thursday Night. So, uh, there are gonna
be different players in this mix as we go forward.
I mean, it's a different world. It's not just over
the air television anymore. We went over there, and then
we went to cable and now we're streaming all kinds
(49:26):
of different platforms. So I wasn't surprised. There were rumors
out there that, you know, either Apple would get in
or Google or whomever, and it turned out to be
Amazon to get that package. So we're in a different
world right now. And you know, I gotta tell you,
on one hand, it's pretty exciting. You don't know what's
gonna happen. It's kind of a bit of a new frontier,
(49:47):
and I'm as curious as anybody to see how it
turns out. It sounds like you know an awful lot
about Amazon, though, Well, I got a truck right outside
my house right now, the lined T shirt right before
we let you go Al Michael's with us. You can
check them out NBC this weekend for the Super Bowl. Uh,
I think I remember this. You don't eat vegetables, right,
(50:10):
you know it? Now? We were down there in Rio,
right and I had to replay a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah,
he was. It was moaning about the fact that it
came with a sign of greens. I mean not only greens, mushrooms,
beach carrots, everybody thinks. I mean, Ryan, they were a
little like nine different colors. If that baby comes out
of the ground getting off that plate, you know, farm
(50:35):
to table, I'm farm to dumpster. I've never I've never
forgotten that moment. It was a lot of fun. Well listen,
good luck this weekend. I would love to rekindle our
date sometime near where you live. I think we know
the spot and um, I look forward to seeing you
this weekend. Buddy, thanks for coming on my pleasure A man,
stay well all right? Album by you kind of just
(50:59):
want to keep hearing his voice. Right, it's Michael's the
guy's legend. It's Sunday night. Yeah, on air with Ryan's Secrets.
You know, this is a story that Sisney has about
a new skincare trend, and Tom's has been worried about,
(51:20):
you know, some of his falling skin over the last months, um,
namely around the neck and other parts. So he's very
interested in hearing if this is gonna help him with that.
So Sisney, do tell about the new skincare trend called slugging. Yeah.
So this is all over TikTok, and the skincare trend
(51:41):
actually originally in South Korea, but has become mainstreams of
thinks to like several dermatologists and other skincare enthusiasts who
back this theory up. So it involves a technique of
using like aquifer or vassiline on your face after you
do your night least in care routine. So what it does, basically,
(52:03):
it absorbs and it acts as a barrier, locking in
the moisture onto your skins, and then you kind of
just do like a thin layer of like you know,
aquifer or vasseling all over your face and you go
to bed. And I've heard of using vesseling before. I
had only used it to remove makeup in the past,
like I makeup, but I had never tried this, and
so I did it last night. And I gotta tell you,
(52:23):
I woke up this morning and my face just feels
like like baby skin, so soft. So it's all over TikTok.
I know, let's try it. I've done it around my like,
I've done it on my eyes and under my eyes.
I've never done a whole face. I think it's the
way to Maybe it's not like every night, but just
(52:45):
almost like as a little treatment, you know. But there
is a p s a slugging is not for everyone.
Dermatologists did clarify that if you decide to slug um,
this is best for people who live in dry climates
and if you have dry skins, so like I have
very ray dry skin. I've never had oily skin, so
if you have oily skin, it might not be for you.
F y. I I don't know about the smell of
(53:06):
vasoline near me and near my nose. It doesn't smell
like anything, mean nothing. I was like petroleum jelly, which
smells like nothing, which smells to me. You don't smell vasoline.
I think there is like a little smell. I get
what you're saying. And for me, it's like a mix
because I use awkward for on my baby's butt in
a weird way. I like think about that when I
(53:28):
was putting it on last night. But yeah, well, slugging
not for everybody. But if you do check it out,
let us know. It goes on air with Ryan Secret
That's gonna do a fresh tomorrow. Mary J. Blige is
on getting set for the Super Bowl halftime show, so
we get a preview from her. Also Ryan's roses you
(53:51):
found a burner phone in his husband's jim bag. That's
and we pay your bills all day tomorrow. Take good
care of yourself. Thanks are listening to On Air with
Ryan Seacrest. Make sure to subscribe and we'll talk to
you again tomorrow
From Hollywood. Thank you for listening to us on air
with Ryan Seacrest. I was rushing to sit down in
the chair and I sipped tea and I got a
hiccup sipping the tea. Now it's not good timing. Hiccup. No,
(00:20):
so let me see when y'all scare me. I can't
do that spider on you. Yeah, but that wasn't that scary?
Stock market crashed? Oh that scares me a little bit.
You got one? Oh my gosh, your ex girlfriend's calling me.
(00:41):
Oh that scared of me. Which ex girlfriends calling you?
All of them at the same time. I wouldn't mind
my ex girlfriend calling you. There's one that I like
in particular. Did she call you? No? She did not.
That was me just trying to gare you. But no,
but that, guys, was hoping that she did call you. No,
(01:06):
is she's listening. Please call Tanya. I would love to
hear what you guys talk about. I usually ask her
for recipes for things. Did she get back to you? Well,
next time, say call me sometime and then you tell
me how that goes. Well? Do you got it all? Right? See,
that's why being friends with your exes is so important.
(01:29):
Because you still ask her for stuff. If I wasn't
friends with her, you wouldn't be allowed to do that
because you'd want to be team Ryan. For sure. I'm
still team Ryan, right, but there's no team to pick from.
You can be team both of us. Correct, We're just
team separate. Does that look? I just think it's funny
(01:51):
where your head went. Yeah, I just want you to
be happy. Actually seeing you're smiling faces every morning makes
me almost happy. I guess I mean baby steps, right,
baby steps? All right? We got a lot to get to.
(02:14):
It's Super Bowl weak and five days to the world's
biggest holiday, Valentine's Day. Sunning hot. Today in the mid eighties,
we may see ninety Wow, it's crazy so much today
we got a great show, Holsey tickets for every hour.
Lisa Ling has a new series on HBO Max that
(02:35):
I get sucked into and I really love it about
uh different cultures, Asian cultures and the foods that we
eat that have so much history behind them, and how
those foods got to different cities, even places here in
southern California, where she talks about Boil Heights and she
goes to eat there, and she goes to little Tokyo,
(02:58):
Little Saigon. So he'sa laying one of the best investigative
reporters I think of our time. I just I really
think she's great. So that's coming up. If you like
food shows, this is one that's educational and and it's
almost like watching a history lesson with great food. All right,
(03:20):
So that's happening. The most famous voice certainly this week,
Al Michael's, is going to be covering the super Bowl
on Sunday. And he's got a great sense of humor. Yeah,
and so he's coming on with us. It's been said
publicly that this game will be the last game that
(03:41):
Al Michael's legendary football broadcaster covers for NBC. But I
have a feeling knowing Al that he just doesn't want
to stop. So we have to ask him about that
because I'd like to know where are you going after
this Sunday? And he's going, I mean, my guests, I
don't no I'm talking about it yet. I guess is
(04:02):
he's going somewhere. So we know for a fact he's
not retiring or anything like that. We don't know much
for a fact. I'm just telling you the guy is
the best in the world. And someone else is going
to offer him a job if he doesn't stay an NBC.
And he's not staying NBC. He said that, So that's
gonna be interesting. Monica, good morning, and thank you for listening.
(04:25):
So what's going on with your boyfriend? Hi? Ryan, good morning.
So my boyfriend Luke, So we've been together for three
years and my sister recently just had a baby, and
you know, we talked about kids before we talked about marriage.
You know, we we think that that's like we're in
(04:47):
the race for that. Like he is just so awkward
with kids. He doesn't know how to hold them. He
he he doesn't know how to talk to them. It's like,
I don't know if this is a Flaglet um me
if this is like an end all. So your boy
(05:10):
you don't have kids, but this is other people's kids,
but you you think about having kids with him? Yes,
of course. I mean, look, I gotta defend your boyfriend here.
I don't have kids, and but for my niece, you
didn't want me holding your kid because I didn't know
how to do it. And now I have a niece,
(05:30):
I understand a little bit more about what it's like.
But for some men who aren't around babies. We don't
really know how to pick them up, how to hold them,
and certainly how to get them to stop crying. Yeah,
but I don't think it's a deal breaker. I would
(05:53):
not put this into the category of breaking up the relationship.
It's definitely not a deal breaker. When I'm at Michael,
he I swear he would almost drop his niece all
the time, like and I was like, oh my gosh,
Like he is just not great with babies, And as
soon as he became a father, it's almost like a
light switch. I think this maternal instinct that takes over you,
and he is the best dad. And I was just
(06:15):
telling him last night, like he there's nobody that can
put Survey to sleep better than him, Like he's like
a baby whisper. So it's like that'll come around. That
will come with time. So it's definitely not a deal breaker.
Is this practice more of I get that m dolt
or a dog? Yeah, well, look this is overcomable, if
(06:40):
that's even a word. So good luck with the relationship, Monica,
Thank you for calling. So Michael not great with babies
until he became daddy, and now daddy is good with babies. Daddy. Yeah,
he's the best daddy ever. What's I'm saying, daddy? Daddy?
You say it, daddy? What do you think? I mean?
(07:03):
What sexy? It does not sounds sex? Do you call?
Do you call your boyfriend? Daddy? No? Then why does
it sound sexy? It's the way you say it, Yeah, Sad,
I don't know it sounds fine. I don't. I don't
(07:26):
mean anything by it. I think it sounds cube and
not sexy. Right now, Daddy, here as your morning hack
next not to play at your wedding reception. If these
three songs are on your playlist at your wedding, people
are not gonna love you for it. And I have
no offense to any of these artists, but I'm just
(07:47):
telling you what it says here. It's a thing I
had to do, not playlist for my wedding. Yeah, some
people get really turned off by certain songs. So if
you're playing on including these songs at your reception, this
is not my opinion, this expert's opinion. Someone will not
be happy about it. And here are the songs. Yeah, right,
(08:12):
let's foot let's you have to be like the bright
amount of buzzed or drunk to enjoy this dance. Well,
for me, there's not enough alcohol at the bar. You
don't want to do that, right, all right, here's another one.
They say not to play that. People don't like to
hear that wedding to knock yourself. Why why does that
(08:46):
song get such a bad rap? That's good song. I
don't know, And no one really gets everybody involved when
that song comes on. Literally everyone does the dance. So
here's the other one. They say, not to play your
wedding receptions coming from coming from sway. I've never heard
(09:14):
this song heard Cotton Cotton Night Joe by Rednecks, That's
who did that song. But if you want to keep
people happy at your wedding reception, they say those are
the three least favorite. Today's quote of the day, Impossible
is just an opinion on air with Ryan Seacrest. Let's
(09:38):
get the deadline. Well, if you're still planning to purchase
Super Bowl tickets to see the Los Angeles Rams take
on the Cincinnati Bengals, be prepared to sholl out. We
know hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars more for parking
near the venue. Yeah, tickets to this Sunday's big event.
And so if I stadium in Inglewood, we know are
well above four thousand dollars, and that's seats up very
(10:01):
very high in the nosebleeds um. On stub Hub, we
saw that the highest price parking option was also more
than four thousand dollars. Vanessa Brian is fighting for girl power.
Just days ahead of Super Bowl fifty six, the wife
of the late Kobe Bryant, was honored at the third
annual Sports Power Brunch presented by Champion, which spotlighted powerful
(10:23):
women in sports and entertainment. During the ceremony, and this
all took place yesterday, and she said, as a mother
of four strong girls, I care deeply about not only
leveling the playing field for girls, but elevating it. She
said in her speech, I want to instill in our
young people that girls are just as good as boys
and oft times better. In the free daily word game
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there you go. Thanks for having us on Ryan Seacrest
with you on this Wednesday morning. We've got you know,
thanks to TikTok, you can learn so much. You can
you can laugh, and you can learn, and you can discover,
and you can also be jealous as some of that
(11:25):
people doing the stuff they're doing on TikTok, which I
am of. This next guest of ours, Gino zen Russo,
is with us right now. Is that right? That's right?
How's it going, Gino? It's not going as well for
me as it is for you. Bro. Let me just
tell you he is on a mission on TikTok to
find the best breakfast burrito in southern California. That is
(11:47):
my favorite thing to have on a weekend if I've
got time, I want to find a great breakfast burrito
and just moan about it. So how did this start
for you? Why did you start? You know? I would
say my love for breakfast burritos came in high school.
We had a I went to high school in the
in the San Francio Valley and we had a breakfast
(12:08):
brio for two fifties and it was incredible. So that
kind of started it. But what rekindled the flame was
during COVID. Uh, Like back in you know, early COVID,
my roommates and I were going getting breakfast burritos every
weekend or making them whenever the case was, and I
kind of claimed that I was the breakfast brio expert.
And from that point we kind of talked about making
(12:30):
a burrito rating page and I was like in July,
I made it, and I finally started posting videos this
past fall. Name some specific places where you found some
of the best right now. My favorite is a place
in Malibu called Lili's Cafe or Lily's Malibu. It is
out of this world. It's massive. It's like you have
(12:51):
a regular for like twelve bucks and a large fort
and it's huge. And they put refried beans in it,
which is to me is an add on. It's just
it takes to the next level if done right. That's
not everyone's favorite for me personally, UM, I like that.
I went to a place in Culver City last weekend
called Servi Teca and that was very good. It had
(13:12):
really crispy tater tots. It was kind of a nice
crunch at every bite that those are probably my two
favorite at this moment. Like the tater taught works for me,
but I do get a little frustrated when a breakfast
burrito has rice and potato. It's just two, you know,
it takes away from the real good favor. Yeah, you
(13:33):
know what, I'm not a big rice guy on my
breakfast burritos. I for me, it's all about keeping the
base ingredients really good and really fresh. So the egg's
got to be nice and fluffy and preferably scrambled. You know.
Some places kind of just flipped them on the griddle
and they're more like an omelet, and so they're kind
of dry. I like a nice, fluffy, scrambled egg and
(13:54):
crispy tater tater tots. From that point, anything else is
just kind of uh, they seen on the cake. Okay,
I have to ask if you have tried Nicks and
stale beach. No, But I I follow this guy on TikTok.
That's been I did it a couple of weeks ago,
and I've seen it on some lists that I've been
really wanted to try. This is gonna blow you away.
(14:15):
When you're talking about the crispy potatoes. It's Webb plus
they chop up some bacon in there, and there's potatoes,
but you can order them crispy to make them crispy
inside the brato and then you get to rito toasted
on the outside, and that's the way to go. That's
what Service techt did. They kind of toasted the burritos,
so the tillo is nice and crispy. Yeah. The other
(14:36):
thing that's big for me, and I always say this
in my videos, is I like a a nice dispersion
of ingredients meeting. I don't like to just bite into
a chunk and just get straight avocado or straight bacon. Yeah,
I have that I think. By the way, Gina, if
you want to see him on TikTok Instagram, he's ray
to Rito. That's what you at ray to Rito, so
(14:57):
you can check that out. And you know, I, I know,
I feel like I'm doing the people's work here. There's
you know, the people are passionate about their breakfast burritos.
And I don't have a ton of following, but the
amount of comments and people saying you've gotta try this place,
you gotta try this place, order like this, It's been
pretty cool to see the work of the people. You're
essentially an elected official and keep basically right. Yeah, you know,
(15:20):
thanks for coming on, take care, thanks for having me.
I appreciate it. You got it. I mean, where is
my social media guy, David Abers? Why am I? That's
what I need time off to go do that. You
can do that, but it takes time. Just do one
a week, just starts. Could do a We could do
a version of that, like on a Saturday afternoon where
(15:41):
we hit four spots. Right, yeah, but we's the burritos.
I gotta think of niche. I think it's something else.
I mean, not bagels. I'm not passionate about bagels. I'm
not passionate about olive oil. But no, but I could
(16:03):
do that with like some different bakeries and things in
we'll find out. We'll pick something that's universal. I mean
Burgers I am into, uh talkers him into, but I
feel like so cliche. But Buffalo Wings I love um sushi.
I'm down. But we'll figure it out. We have to
decide right now. So we got out. Michael's gonna be
(16:25):
broadcasting a big Super Bowl game. He's coming up later
this morning, and he's a good guy and he's great
at covering these games. So we'll talk to him about
what's going into preparing for the Super Bowl right now,
tiny with the trending before cut. Okay, so this is
gonna be a little bit of a deep trending report
(16:45):
because I really got into the weeds um from a
quote that g Hadd gave in this article for in Style.
So she hasn't really spoken much since her split from
Zane back in October of last year. Remember how messy
that was in the press. But she Yeah, but she
talk about kind of the reason why she chose to
peel back her public persona a little bit because of
(17:06):
her mom being on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Um.
So I don't know if you notice, but when she's
not rocking the runways, she's literally like on a farm,
song's makeup, chilling with horses. Just kind of she took
a little bit of a scale back approach to life.
But this is the whate that got me thinking. Okay,
she said, I've been reminded that when we get time
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with people, just really appreciate it and take it all
in and try not to wish away moments even if
there's something hard, to find something beautiful in it. So
I wanted to focus on the appreciate the time that
you have part because I'm a planner person, and I
think a lot of people are that way their goal oriented.
You think in the future, but everybody says the key
to happiness is living in the moment and being present
(17:50):
in what's actually happening and not thinking too far ahead.
So I can go a few hours like this and
then I just get back to thinking about the future
and I get anxious again. So I wanted to talk
about how you really can actually practice this. Well, who's
good at that? I think I live in the moment,
but I also am a planner. But I plan so
(18:11):
that I can live in the moment. Like I don't
like to do stuff sometimes last minute and scrambling and
adding all this extra stress. So like I'll plan stuff
that's like maybe months away, and that's it, and then
I don't have to think about it. See you do.
I have it worse because I plan ahead, but then
in the moment, I'm planning what is next, and it's
(18:32):
a real problem. For example, at lunch, I'm planning dinner.
If we're traveling, we're somewhere, I I can't help, but
and I talk about it over and over and over again.
I'm a big, big planner, and I also I never
want anybody to be bored, and so I want to
make sure they know what's coming, what's next, what we're
(18:53):
going to. Yeah, traveling is different. It's nice to sometimes
have that planned thinners, events, activities. Too much in the
moment can leave you without future moments. You know. Yeah,
so were we in this moment together? I think so
(19:16):
kind of because I was thinking about what we got
to do next, because I have to think that way.
So coming up next, we have got Halisey tickets at
the Hollywood Voult with Ryan seats. Well, it's a big
week in the City of Angels. If you're in town
visiting for the big game coming up on Sunday, Welcome
(19:37):
to our great city and you're welcome for the sun
and the heat because you probably came do somewhere cold
or really cold. Um. Everything is all about the game.
People are talking about the snacks that they're gonna get
people a pre ordering food. I'm gonna do buffalo wings.
I'm gonna do a layer dip. I'm going to do
(20:00):
I might do some mini burgers. I like. I like
bite sized fingers foods for my Super Bowl. Uh. And
then we have Diana on the line. Deanna Huntington's Park
corner of Los Angelitos Bakery and Los Angelitos Los and
(20:22):
Halitos Bakery, and Deanna's father and grandfather, both Cuban refugees,
opened the bakery, which means they're celebrating their thirtieth anniversary
this year, and they're really celebrating by making conchas, a
Mexican sweetbread consisting of two parts sweet enriched bread roll
and a crumbly cookie. But the special part is she's
(20:46):
making rams versions the ram colors. Good morning Deanna, Good
morning Ryan. How are you starving? I'm describing a big definitely. Well, so,
how popular are the ram Um? They are very popular.
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We actually first came out with them about three years
ago when they first made it to the Super Bowl.
But I think now that they've been here in l
A a couple of years, and now that they're back
at the Super Bowl here at home, Um, they're super popular.
I mean people are coming from an hour away just
so that they can pick them up and buy them.
Isn't that cool to have a product you discovered a
product that people will drive hours for right, and I
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thank my dad for that because he's a diehard Rams
fan from the beginning when they were initially out here
in l A before they moved and came back. So
he was like, let's do something, you know, let's change
the colors, and I like, definitely, let's do it. So,
you know, I give him all the credit for that
as well. And Danna. He started changing the colors on
top of the conches in after Kobe Bryant passed away, correct, yes,
(21:53):
after he passed we did that to honor him. Uh,
you know, for all the years and dedication we had
for Los Angeles and the Lakers. We changed the last
super bow and yellow to represent the Lakers, and one
of our followers actually came up with the Kobe Gunha name,
so we stuck with that for the last two years. Yeah,
I mean, an amazing way to salute such a great
in our city. And from there you begin changing the
(22:14):
colors to match the l A sports teams like the
Dodgers too, right right when they made it to the
World Series, we definitely had to represent our our boys
in blue. So we had the white and the blue
and very popular, especially after they won the World Series,
so we've kept that as a staple on our our
menu as well. This is Danna, co owner of Los
and Helitos Bakery. And if you want to have something
(22:37):
really fun for your super Bowl party, get some of
these l a rams because they just look so festive
and you know they taste good and everybody is gonna
love seeing them on the table in front of the TV. Danna,
good luck, Thank you for sharing your story. Is a
pleasure to meet you, and up you sell a lot
of conches. I hold so too, But thank you guys
(22:58):
so much for having me a good morning. But she's
got special ones for Valentine's Day that I'm gonna pick up.
There's justin Bieber. You can't just play a song out
of that. It's I gotta keep moving. Yeah, they're beautiful
to Valentine's Stay Chess on air with Ryan seacrest Our
(23:22):
wish I think has come true. We were just talking
about the global, the globally famous Lisa Ling and I
see her coming into our zoom Now, Lisa, how are you.
How's it going? Well, it's going great. We were talking
about you a couple of shows ago, um, because I'm
(23:43):
obsessed with your new HBO Max series. I see why
you're hosting it, because you know you have roots in
that culture. But it's really a job that I would
have auditioned for myself because I find it. It's called
take out with Lisa saying, I find so much interest
(24:03):
in the history of food and the people that are
behind that kind of history, and that's really what this
show is about. Sure, you get to eat some cool stuff,
but it's about finding out how it all came to be.
It is Ryan, and I'm so glad to hear that
that's something that is of interest to you. I'm very
specific about the fact that this isn't a cooking show.
(24:25):
It's a food show because frankly, I don't cook. And
the reason, well the reason I don't is because my
grandmother never wanted me to cook, because for her, the
restaurant was solely a means for survival. You know, my
grandparents came to America in the late forties. Even though
they were both very educated. My grandfather got his undergrad
(24:46):
at n y U in the early thirties and an
MBA from University of Colorado. My grandmother had a degree
from a university in England. But when they finally moved
here in the late forties. He couldn't get a job
in finance because he was Chinese, and so they ended
up doing a bunch of odd jobs and eventually scraped
up enough money to open a Chinese restaurant. Neither of
(25:06):
them had ever cooked before, and so they had to
toil away in this restaurant. They learned how to cook from,
you know, these Chinese cooks, and and that became the
pathway towards some semblance of the American dream. And that's
the story for so many immigrants in this country, not
just Asian Americans. But it's interesting because you talk about
the history, and over the last couple of years, Asians
(25:30):
have been on the receiving end of a lot of
scapegoating and violence in the wake of COVID. But when
you really dig into the history, there's been a long
history of violence against Asians. But yet the food has
somehow transcended all of that. But it was fast. I mean,
I've seen several episodes. It was fascinating to me too,
as a food lover of New Orleans food. Right, I've
(25:51):
been there for work and you go there and you eat,
but I didn't truly understand the history of that food
and how it came to normand at the beginning, Well,
it's true, I mean New Orleans style food, particularly gumbo,
which has become like an American staple. You know, it's
kind of a hodgepodge of a lot of different flavors um.
(26:12):
But interestingly enough, gumbo might not have shrimp in it
if it weren't for the early Filipino settlers who jumped
off Spanish galleons in the seventeen hundreds, before the United
States was even the United States, about two hundred uh
men from the Philippines. They were either indentured servants or sailors,
and they built a life for themselves, not on the
(26:34):
West Coast or East coast, but in the Bayous of Louisiana.
And there's a town currently um in southern Louisiana called
Jean Lafitte, and the mayor there, who's a blonde, blue
eyed guy, tells me that he believes that the population
of his town has Filipino blood running through it, including himself. Yeah,
(26:55):
which is it's it's so interesting when they if you
haven't seen this episode, they dump out the is it
was it the shrimp boil or the the big deep
boil what they called the bowl down there where they
put the corn out and they just lay it all
on on the table on newspapers, and you just go
for it and you eat it with your hands, and
and you know, that is what they do in the Philippines.
(27:17):
They lay out food in what's called the kamayan on
these banana leaves and everyone eats with their hands. And
so the shrimp boil, and you know, many people now
have experienced like a seafood boil where they just kind
of dump all the food out on a table. The
parallels between that event that's become kind of an American
cultural experience and with the Filipinos have always done is
(27:39):
just like it was uncanny to me. Yeah, it was
cool to see Lisa Ling with us. Take Out with
Lisa Ling is streaming on hbox. You actually went to
Little Saigon Uh in Orange County and Little Tokyo and
Boil Heights. Tell me, I've not seen that yet, So
tell me about that. Oh my gosh. So we did
a whole episode in Boil Heights, California, which most people
(27:59):
think of as more of a Latino community and it is.
But after the Japanese were released from prison camps after
World War Two because a d twenty thousand Japanese Americans
were interned and accused of spying on the US government.
They had lost everything, they lost their businesses and their homes,
and so many of them settled in Boil Heights because
(28:21):
it was one of the only places that they could
afford to live or were allowed to live. And so
shortly after World War Two there was this thriving Japanese
American community. And now there's only one Japanese restaurant still standing,
but there are still these incredible vestiges of the Japanese
community in Boil Heights. And one of the pop ups
that we went to is this like Mexican Japanese food
(28:43):
fusion Um that started in Boil Heights and their signature
dish is a hot cheeto massub. You know. The massubi
is the Japanese part, which is basically a rice ball
and spam with hot cheetos on top, which is like
the homage to the woman's Mexican roots um. And that's
what in some ways Boil Heights has has come to represent,
(29:06):
like this kind of just this melding of so many
different cultures and that one Japanese restaurant that's still standing there.
It's called Otomi san Um the owner of it. The
Latino community considers her kind of their Japanese mom um
and it's just a really beautiful experience in episode I
think you'll like it. Since you're in l A a a lot,
you might checking out those restaurants. I will get the
(29:28):
region and checking out the restaurants, Lisa, I want to
so you're gonna host. You don't need me to do anything.
You don't need like a sidekick for this, right like
you're going to do it on your own. You know what, Brian,
I'd love to have you along. We have to convince
HBO Max to green light another season, but I would
love to have you along. Well, I'm gonna keep talking
about it and maybe they'll, you know, they'll they'll do
(29:49):
something about it. Uh, maybe we can do it back
in Atlanta, because I know you're from from Atlanta. Yeah,
we could do there. And yeah, I've known you for
a long time. But I tell you that when you're
docuseries is on CNN, it is some of the most
unbelievable territory that you uncover and that you discover that
(30:11):
no one does like you. It's really it's I know,
it's a lot of work and it's sometimes it's probably tough,
but it's really powerful. Well thank you, Ryan. I mean, yeah,
you and I probably have known each other for over
thirty years and we were just like these scrappy kids
starting in this business. And I am so proud of you.
I mean, you've just become such a like a fixture
(30:34):
in your American household. And you know, I love that
you're still you know, on the radio talking to people
every day with these you know, your beautiful co hosts
um and yeah, I'm just I'm so proud of you. Well,
thank you. It is the same that I have for you.
So we'll keep talking about the HBO series. Let me
know if you get a season two and we'll do
something be fun. I would love that. I'd love that.
(30:55):
Take good care of yourself least. Bye bye. Thanks everyone,
if you haven't seen it, and I mean I think
we all in southern California in Los Angeles kind appreciate
all the different cultures of food here and to see
the history of it is it's it's it's like a
class I wish they would teach in school. Well, it's
(31:15):
also her delivery. It's the way she tells a story.
It's so captivating you just want to keep listening to
her and watching her. It's so very true. She's from Sacramento, California,
she was born there. But it's brilliant storytelling. Yeah, so
thank you Lisa for coming on. Kayla Thomas. Let me
(31:39):
hear you say it one or two point seven Kiss FM? Seven?
Kiss FM. Doesn't that feel good? It does. It's been
a dream, I believe me. We have all dreamt of
sitting in front of these microphones here at Kiss So
welcome our newest personality on the air, Kayla Thomas. So
you gotta couple of well, you've got a couple of
(32:01):
programs so you can love them PM to five am
Monday through Thursday, and then you've got two afternoons on
Saturday and Sunday. So they're working you every day. Yes,
and I'm ready to hit the ground running. Let's get
some background. It's so exciting, you know, Kayla, we all
were fans of Kiss FM before any of us walked
through this door. I listened to Rick D's as a
(32:22):
kid growing up in Atlanta and just thought the sound
of the radio station was so cool to be at
the epicenter of Los Angeles, southern California, near the beach,
near the mountains where Hollywood is, like nothing was better.
You probably had those same kind of feelings. Yeah. Absolutely,
I think every radio personality wants to come to kiss,
(32:43):
especially in you know, it's in Los Angeles. I'm from
the East Coast and I've always wanted to work for
I heard radio and I said, you know, if I
can get to kiss, uh, then my my life is made. Yeah,
there there were Sysney. We telling me a couple of people.
Every every job here, for every job, there's somebody that's
wanted to take us down to get it. And I
(33:06):
didn't realize that so many people wanted to come after me.
Sissy and too, you told me, which is why I
decided to state for so many more years. You know
what I mean, what it is once we get in here,
we don't want to give it up, you know. All right,
So you're born in Pennsylvania outside of Philly. Yes, I
was born in Philly and then I the majority of
my life I lived in Maryland. So how did you
(33:26):
get the job here? Well, it's actually a funny long
story short. Uh, my mentor is Helen Little. She works
at Light of Him in New York. And I was
working at a before this. I was working at a
radio station in Trenton, New Jersey, and it's right near
Q one o two in Philly. And she said, Kayla, like,
there's an opening for a night jock at Q one
o two. You need to apply. And I'm like everybody
(33:48):
is probably applying for this job, but okay, I'll do it.
So I said, you know what, let me do something
to stand out to get the program director's attention. So
I sent him a pizza. I called the pizza company.
I said, this is gonna sound really really weird, but
can you take out a slice and then right on
the box. I've been missing slice to your pie on
(34:13):
a date. Yeah, So they sent it to him. But
I did all that and Buster wasn't even there. But
it's okay. The people who were there, you know, they
space timed him and they showed him the pizza and
the note, and he texted me and said pizza girl.
I was like, that's my name, that pizza girl. And
I said, yes, please listen to my demo real and
my resume and all that stuff, and uh, he said,
(34:35):
you know, we're already done the line with somebody, but
I want to send your stuff higher up because you
have a chance to be with I Heart Radio as
Marca thank you. So he sent it up to John Ivy.
John Ivy contact me a few weeks later and the
rest is history. John the former program director here Beyond,
is now the programer. But John Ivy had that gig
for twenty years. He hired me, so he's been around
(34:55):
for quite a long time. Was that was that call? Well,
he can also not be awesome? World changed my life.
You're new, so she's gonna be nice to you. Uh
what was that call? Like, I remember when it was
for me. What was it like for you? Well, it
was just like so surreal because he said, Kayla, I
have listened to your stuff. It was sent up to
(35:18):
me and I want you in my company, like I
want you in this company. I think you have potential
and um, I want to find a place for you.
And so it was like over a couple of months.
This was back in August, and then eventually he brought
Biada into the mix and then I started talking with
her and that's when kiss was introduced into the scene.
My favorite part of this is saying the call letters.
(35:40):
I get to say so many times a day, and
every time I get so excited about it. So you
moved into apartment in Burbank, this Kyle Thomas. You're gonna
hear her eleven o'clock at night she starts, then on
the weekend. She's the newest on air member to our
team here. But you're going an apartment in Burbank. I
hear with her boyfriend of one year. It said, yes, Tyler, Yeah,
he literally gets it in a few hours. I want
(36:02):
to go pick him up. You definitely haven't lived here
long enough because I think you're going to the airport airport.
Burbank Airport is easy, Burbank. Yeah, it is a Burbank airport.
Then you talked to us about it, uh, and you
(36:22):
guys met back east. Yeah, so he lives and he
grew up in Philly as well. We met him. Bumble jobs.
I am living proof that it works. And now he
was like, no, I'm coming to l A with you,
Like I'm not going yeah, Like let's like you're not
going out there but exactly, And he was like, all right,
let's let's make this work of angels by yourself. You
(36:44):
mean dangerous out here. Well that's great. It's so nice
to meet you, Kayta. Welcome to our team. Look forward
to hearing you and good luck with everything. Thank you
so much. I'm excited to meet you all in person
and start working with you. Guys. Yes, take care of
thank you and say the letters the best on airs.
(37:10):
A couple of years ago, back in we were all
miserably depressed and looking for positive spirits in our lives
and we met Malik. Malik has a black owned, family
owned and community own bookstore. He's got two locations, Crenshaw
Mall and Baldwin Hills in the Westfield, Vancover City. But
(37:32):
we met him and he brought us back. He gave
us life, and he has an incredible ability to convey
positivity and generosity just by speaking with him, and it's
the reason we kept having him on. And then he
(37:54):
launched his podcast, Malik's Bookshelf, bringing the world together with books,
culture and community, which is available where you get your podcast.
He's a superstar. Now, thank you for the introduction. Appreciate
everything you've done. Very very welcome. Now. Recent guests on
(38:15):
Malik's podcast which once he was on our show. We
turned to each other and said, this man needs to
be sharing his his outlook on life. It's what the
world needs and he's doing he said, what You've got
eleven episodes and you've had different guests on the show
like Spike Lee and Terry Crews and some great conversations. Huh.
(38:37):
I've been fortunate to get a lot of interviews with
a lot of wonderful people. Just like the heavens opened
up and they just showed up at Maliks called me,
it's just been a just been a suit full of opportunity.
All you present me with this podcast, Malik, bookshelf bringing
a world together with books, culture and can that's it?
(38:59):
I love it all right. Well, then, while we're on
the topic of books, this month's book review for Black
History Month, what do you recommend? I came across this
wonderful book that I thought was a great and inspiring
book for Black History Month. This young man the name
of the book is called Ahead of the Game by
Kevin J. Ryan, and it's a book about a young man,
(39:21):
this twenty five year old CEO Delaye Parston Neil, and
he fussed open the tech industry with his vision in
two thousand and eighteen. And this is what this book
is about. It about is his life and all the
obstacles he had to overcome to create his um tech
company called Playbverse. And so a guy Kevin Royn has
(39:45):
been following him. He's a writer for about several years
write articles in the Entrepreneur in tech world, and so
he was fascinated with de Lane, who had a vision
to create a platform where high school students, college students
can play video games and from the you know, because
of the East sports industry, which is a billion dollar
(40:08):
gaming world, and so he wanted to create a platform
with high schoolers and college kids can become athletes playing
each sports. So he created this play first company, which
is a team base um each sport company that allows
where he connects different students in high schools and colleges
(40:30):
to be able to play competition with each other. And
so I thought that was fascinating because you know that
it creates confidencing kids when they you know, it's a
lot of you know, people at school, they don't play
physical sports like baseball, basketball and so forth, and run track.
But this guy says, hey, the tech world is glowing
the video games and being out there. Let's try to
(40:52):
create a sport with kids can play with other teams
all over this country. And I thought that was a
fascinating story about the Lane partner and what he had
to do to set up a tech company and the
people did he met, such as Sean. This guy's raised
a hundred million dollars in venture capital. His company evaluation,
(41:14):
I believe it's over five hundred million dollars. He has
over a hundred and twenty employees now and he did
that in a short span of a few years. That's
what's crazy. He's been inspired by Sean Diddy colons, he's
been inspired by j C. And one of the quotes
that he said would he tell kids about his venture
(41:35):
and his journey is don't give up no matter what,
because it's not easy. He busted up in the tech
world's on about one percent black in that industry and
he's a CEO and he's twenty five runs. That's incredible.
That is a great story. I look forward to seeing
that and it's inspiring to hear those kinds of stories.
(41:58):
And it's called ahead of the game. Check it out,
Malik Mohammed, You can check out his podcast always to
thank you so much for coming on. It's great to
hear your voice and we'll talk real soon. Keep it up, Malik,
thank you, Royn, thank you, everybody, Thank you, Bye bye.
I mean, he is so special, he is so unique.
(42:18):
He is so I would say it's contagious when he
starts to get fired up about something like that. And
I mean, the guy reads the book and has that
much enthusiasm for his love of it, and that's a
great story. Year old makes it like that. I mean,
(42:43):
the man doesn't feel pressure, but if one did, this
would be a pressure cooker coming up. It's a big
game on Sunday, just Super Bowl. And al Michaels joins us, all,
how are you? I am phenomenal. Now I haven't seen
you since real it has. We worked together in Rio,
(43:05):
and yeah, we shared some actually we shared some fun
times in Rio. We had some great times in Rio,
and then you dumped me. He was supposed to stay
in touch and have dinner in l A like you know,
every couple of weeks, and the hell with me, right,
I hear you? Man. I just want to play back
some vintage al Michaels as we get into talking about
(43:27):
this weekend. Take a list. Deep down field, he's got cocked,
he's gotta get out of bounds. Stafford, deep fail, He's
got tough again. He's at the ten. He spikes it
there and Matt Gave will come in and try to
win the game. Matt Gave it had the rims by
(43:55):
the hair of the skinny teeth. Ree games so far,
I'll walk off. Yes, how Michaels in action? You do
get that excited, don't you? I do. I mixed metaphors
there too, but they had gone right. I got fourteen
different things going on at one time. That was That
(44:18):
was a That was a fabulous game. That was tremendous
and you know the Rams had a twenty four point lead. Yeah,
that was all those games. Last six games, the four
in the Divisional, the two championship games last week have
all been great. So I'm just praying we can get
a lucky seven this coming Sunday. So how Michaels with us?
(44:38):
He will be calling the game on Sunday. What have
you learned about the week's preparation and what's on everybody's mind.
It's a great matchup. I mean the Rams were built
to play in this game on this day because they
went all in. They got Matthew Stafford, they made a
big trade, they got Von Milner, picked up Bobby j uh,
(45:00):
got Eric Weddle out of retirement. So the Rams along
the way, we're built to play in this game. They've
gotten there. The Bengals, I think captivated everybody around the country.
You know, they win their first game against the Las Vegas,
and then the second game against Tennessee, dramatic game, even
though Burrow gets sacked nine times, they still wanted. And
then I think the whole country kind of gravitated unless
(45:24):
you were Kansas City fan, towards the Bengals to be
down one three, eighteen points on the road, come from behind,
beat Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and and that group.
So I think the country, you know, kind of sat
up and went Wow, that team is really interesting and fun.
And Joe Burrow looks like he's a guy who enjoys
(45:44):
playing so much that nothing is too big for him.
So I'm looking forward to a hell of a game
on Sunday. Well, let's be honest, I know what you're
looking forward to, not having to fly to a city,
you know me, But you know what, I'll tell you something.
I didn't realize that mileage is only sixty cents a
mile because it's eight miles to the stadium, so there's
for a und trip. I mean, I thought we were,
(46:08):
you know, with with inflation and everything else over the
past twenty years, it would should be a buck in
a quarter. But you know, I'll tell you what though, man, Uh,
not having Diodo an airport is a dream. Because some
people say that Disneyland is the happiest place on Earth. Well,
you and I both know that sometimes an airport can
be the unhappiest place. I've seen quite a few in
(46:31):
my day as well. Yes, I get it. All right,
let's talk about you while we have you. Uh, this
has been said publicly is the last game under your
current NBC contract. However, I don't hear any fatigue in
your voice. So what happens after this Super Bowl? Well?
(46:51):
I do know this. The last two games I have done.
I did a Kansas City Pittsburgh game and that was
the end of been rough Lilisberger's career. He's retiring. I
did Tampa Bay and the Rams, and then Tom Brady,
at least for the moment, has said that's his last game,
he's done. I will tell you, unless something happens, or
(47:14):
unless something is not available to me, this will not
be my last game. I love doing what I do.
I enjoy it immensely as much as I ever have.
There are opportunities out there for me and options. And Uh.
I promised before the season to myself, don't get distracted
by all the stuff that's going on. Deal is up.
(47:35):
I know there's some stuff you know that that's happening,
and I let my representative handle that. And I said
to him and to myself, I want to enjoy this
year to the fullest. And I have. I've got a
great group, you know, Goodelli and Essakoff and collins Worth
and Michelle Tafoya, who's wrapping up her broadcasting career. She's
going to other things as well. But for me, I
(47:57):
want to keep doing this and if I have to
change us to do it, and I believe I will. Uh.
You'll see me somewhere next year, all right, So is
it Fox or CBS? No, it's probably going back to
Hawaii and doing uh Punah against which is where I
started my career at kgU and holde Alulu back in
nine seven. I highly doubt that's where you're gonna end out.
(48:20):
And you know what those are, Those are great times,
let me tell you. And the one time, believe it
or not, the one time I met Barack Obama he
was out of office, he've not for about two much
or saw m at a golf course in Palm Desert
and what do you think We talked about Punaho. That
was Janmo Monter in Honolulu, and we talked about the
coach at that time and a lot of the players
at that time. So that was the beginning of my
(48:42):
career and uh, it was. It was wonderful, great memories. Well,
how does it make you feel the Amazon is gonna
have live sports? I mean, what do you think about
Amazon Prime their Thursday night games coming. We're in a
different world, you know that. Uh, streaming as gigantic and
I think you know, Amazon went all in on this
(49:04):
and they're spending I think close to thirteen billion over
ten years to get one game a week as of
the moment on Thursday Night. So, uh, there are gonna
be different players in this mix as we go forward.
I mean, it's a different world. It's not just over
the air television anymore. We went over there, and then
we went to cable and now we're streaming all kinds
(49:26):
of different platforms. So I wasn't surprised. There were rumors
out there that, you know, either Apple would get in
or Google or whomever, and it turned out to be
Amazon to get that package. So we're in a different
world right now. And you know, I gotta tell you,
on one hand, it's pretty exciting. You don't know what's
gonna happen. It's kind of a bit of a new frontier,
(49:47):
and I'm as curious as anybody to see how it
turns out. It sounds like you know an awful lot
about Amazon, though, Well, I got a truck right outside
my house right now, the lined T shirt right before
we let you go Al Michael's with us. You can
check them out NBC this weekend for the Super Bowl. Uh,
I think I remember this. You don't eat vegetables, right,
(50:10):
you know it? Now? We were down there in Rio,
right and I had to replay a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah,
he was. It was moaning about the fact that it
came with a sign of greens. I mean not only greens, mushrooms,
beach carrots, everybody thinks. I mean, Ryan, they were a
little like nine different colors. If that baby comes out
of the ground getting off that plate, you know, farm
(50:35):
to table, I'm farm to dumpster. I've never I've never
forgotten that moment. It was a lot of fun. Well listen,
good luck this weekend. I would love to rekindle our
date sometime near where you live. I think we know
the spot and um, I look forward to seeing you
this weekend. Buddy, thanks for coming on my pleasure A man,
stay well all right? Album by you kind of just
(50:59):
want to keep hearing his voice. Right, it's Michael's the
guy's legend. It's Sunday night. Yeah, on air with Ryan's Secrets.
You know, this is a story that Sisney has about
a new skincare trend, and Tom's has been worried about,
(51:20):
you know, some of his falling skin over the last months, um,
namely around the neck and other parts. So he's very
interested in hearing if this is gonna help him with that.
So Sisney, do tell about the new skincare trend called slugging. Yeah.
So this is all over TikTok, and the skincare trend
(51:41):
actually originally in South Korea, but has become mainstreams of
thinks to like several dermatologists and other skincare enthusiasts who
back this theory up. So it involves a technique of
using like aquifer or vassiline on your face after you
do your night least in care routine. So what it does, basically,
(52:03):
it absorbs and it acts as a barrier, locking in
the moisture onto your skins, and then you kind of
just do like a thin layer of like you know,
aquifer or vasseling all over your face and you go
to bed. And I've heard of using vesseling before. I
had only used it to remove makeup in the past,
like I makeup, but I had never tried this, and
so I did it last night. And I gotta tell you,
(52:23):
I woke up this morning and my face just feels
like like baby skin, so soft. So it's all over TikTok.
I know, let's try it. I've done it around my like,
I've done it on my eyes and under my eyes.
I've never done a whole face. I think it's the
way to Maybe it's not like every night, but just
(52:45):
almost like as a little treatment, you know. But there
is a p s a slugging is not for everyone.
Dermatologists did clarify that if you decide to slug um,
this is best for people who live in dry climates
and if you have dry skins, so like I have
very ray dry skin. I've never had oily skin, so
if you have oily skin, it might not be for you.
F y. I I don't know about the smell of
(53:06):
vasoline near me and near my nose. It doesn't smell
like anything, mean nothing. I was like petroleum jelly, which
smells like nothing, which smells to me. You don't smell vasoline.
I think there is like a little smell. I get
what you're saying. And for me, it's like a mix
because I use awkward for on my baby's butt in
a weird way. I like think about that when I
(53:28):
was putting it on last night. But yeah, well, slugging
not for everybody. But if you do check it out,
let us know. It goes on air with Ryan Secret
That's gonna do a fresh tomorrow. Mary J. Blige is
on getting set for the Super Bowl halftime show, so
we get a preview from her. Also Ryan's roses you
(53:51):
found a burner phone in his husband's jim bag. That's
and we pay your bills all day tomorrow. Take good
care of yourself. Thanks are listening to On Air with
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