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Speaker 1 (00:00):
John Jay and Rich tapping New Year.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
So Zayan is taking up residency in Las Vegas in
the Park MGM, which is one of my favorite hotels
because it's non smoking, and we're gonna make sure you're there.
So today we're giving away a trip to go see him.
We're gonna given concert tickets to two Knights State the
Park m GM, and one hundred dollar gas card to
help get you there.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
We're gonna play a game.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
So we're gonna play a game, right, Okay, so we
need a contestant, so call right now to play eight
seven seven ninety three seven one oh four seven.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We'll play the game. Why we play the game?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Can you believe that Stranger Things is not number one
on Netflix anymore?

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It was only number one for like four days?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Right?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
What is now? Runaway?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
I wonder if it's because people went to go see
it in theaters, so they didn't care to watch the
finale on actual Netflix.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I wonder if anybody went to go see it in
theaters almost on.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Netflix, almost you were going, I didn't have a chance to.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
I ended up going out of town.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
I didn't realize I needed to go out of town
when I got the tickets so I didn't get to go,
but I know I was really sad.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Literally all my friends went theugh we number one for
a while.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
A couple of days. Think about The Beast in Me,
which is still top ten. It was Beast in Me
was number one for like six weeks, like some of
these shows six like The Diplomat was number one for
six weeks. So it's like, I'm just shocked at a
show like Stranger Things, which has been living on virally everywhere,
and it's not only number one for four days, which,
by the way, Runaway is fantastic.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Have you seen it? How far are you?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
I'm on episode five.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh, I have one episode left. And I really like
this show. I really like the author of this show.
We talk about these shows all the time.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Like Harlan Cob something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, but I'm gonna tell you, I don't want to
root it for you, but somebody that I love on
that show is no longer with us.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I was watching that show. I couldn't believe it. In fact,
I'm hoping there's a twist where this person is not dead.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
No, I knows a.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Lot a lot of people die on this show.

Speaker 6 (01:47):
It's basically The gist of it is basically like a
dad is looking for his daughter who got caught up
with like kind of the wrong people. She started dating
this guy, got into drugs, and now she's missing, and
he's like unfolding all of these things, and her missing
is somehow connected to her boyfriend's murder. So it's it's

(02:09):
a lot of like twists and turns so far, which
is really cool.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
And there's these two kids that grew up in the
foster care system that are going around murdering a bunch
of people. There's a couple of different storylines, but they're
all connected. It's really good actually. But anyway, that's number
one on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I mean it was.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
It's wild because that's a show no one ever heard of,
no one knew was coming, right, the known stranger Things
becoming like thet you think stranger things just on the
hype below would be number one.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
By the way, I thought the ending was decent.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Do you know how I feel about it?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
That's the way to put it. It's it's okay, But
I have so many unanswered questions, you do, Like the
most basic one is how did Max even walk in graduation?
If she was in a coma the whole time. I
know she would have credits. Oh cool, she can't do it,
she was in a coma.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
I want to know what happened to Derek's family, Mike
where Why can't we die?

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Of that loose end?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
That's the longest, you know, the epilogue, the ending where
they like everything's fine now. That was like almost an
hour and they still didn't solve all the problems.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
My issue is that they can shoot a gun at
the mind flare and the bullets mess with it, but
you can't kill the demo organ or the dogs or
the gun.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
They come right at you.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I thought it was too I thought that was too
easy too. When that happened, I was like, that was
like three minutes.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, jeez, yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I was a little not gonna lie. I was like,
I think a little let.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
Down by the ending.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I thought it was cute. Don't get me wrong. I
cried like a baby, but I just feel like I
was waiting for something bigger.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
So my son Dudg says to me yesterday, he said,
there's a rumor that they're going to drop one more episode.
They need to because he explained a lot of stuff
on the last episode, which I went back to go, look,
he's right. Like at the graduation, they're saying that they're
still in Vecna's head. Everything's still in Vecna's head. The graduation.
If you look at everybody in the graduation, they're all

(03:49):
sitting like all the Vecna people like, oh interesting, and
there's people with signs that don't have anything on it,
and they're saying that all that is fake. It's still
in Vecna's And there's one more episode coming that they're
going to drop in INEX couple days.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah, well, here's what I said to him. I said,
because that's the whole fan theory. I go so far Dutch.
Every fan theory before the finale was wrong. Yeah, fan
theory is wrong. Nobody predicted what was going to happen
at the Stranger Things finale, Kyle, because I know you're
not Stranger Things fan. You haven't see it yet, but
let me just tell you. It was normal. It was
the most uneventful finale in the history of the finale.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
You could have called that there's a monster and we're
going to beat the monster, and that's about it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Also, Elle's powers at the l has these amazing powers,
doesn't use them at all for season three, four and five,
but at the finale also she could have saved everybody
a lot of problem.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Time with all my kids were saying about Millie Bobby Brown.
At first she's eleven. Now in the later episode she's
just Millie Bobby Brown fucking around normal.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, Nick, Nick is here to host the game. Hi, Erica, Hello,
I hope you are a fan of Zaane.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, what band was?

Speaker 4 (05:00):
I don't know if I'm gonna get it right.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I don't think you are question what band? What band
was he? Er Erica? What band was he in? I
don't know what band he was in?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
I could tell five directions.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay, Well, good.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
I mean, I mean good luck on this, Erica.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
We're playing.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Sane specific trivia.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
What you do? You're just calling for what just for
the heck of it? Or what?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Because you want to go to Vegas?

Speaker 6 (05:26):
I also love the park MGM.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Okay, well, worst case scenario, you'll get that. You'll get that.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Okay, Okay, just the four of us will play.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Okay, here we go. One round of the game. I
like to call Inzane in the membrane. These are either
facts about Zayane or ones that.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I just made up. Okay, We're gonna start with John J.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Van s.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
John Jay, despite being a global pop star, Zaane openly
admits that he cannot swim.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
So my answer is, what do you think that's a
real or fake?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I think that's fake.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm sorry, John Jay Zay cannot swim.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Wo oh my.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I don't know anything about him.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I know who he is.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
I know who you are. Next time we do John J.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
FAXTX, you'll do great, okay, rich Rich Zay once recorded
a song for a live adaptation of a Disney classic.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Oh yeah, I mean that's gotta be true. That's true.
That is that is azane fact.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
That is insane and it is a fact. And I've
got the song pulled up right there, Rich.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
You show you know classic Shine Shim lies.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
The animated version of fifty Shades of Gray. All right,
good job Ridge on the board.

Speaker 5 (07:09):
At one point, Peyton, in a post X Factor interview,
Zaye told Entertainment Tonight that his original idea for the
name of One Direction was Puzzles.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Okay, so I think they did. I think they were
on X Factor.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
No, maybe not.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's insane and false. I think they were with the
cow guy.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, yeah, I mean and he was an X Factor
is the X Factor? Yeah he was x Factor.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Okay, I'm gonna say insane.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
True. Okay, you would have been right the first time.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Zay never pitched an original name for one direction, and
it definitely would have been Puzzles.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
But you know why guys puzzles pieces?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
No, that's the puzzle. Oh oh, why would you anyway?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
I just I got thrown with the X Factor.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
They got discovered on X Factor.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
They were all all pal five. Simon was like, all
you guys aren't good enough to make it on your own.
Let me put you in a band.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
All right, No points for Peyton Kyle.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
Zane's full name is actually Zanzibar Thomas Malick. I.

Speaker 6 (08:17):
I don't think it's Santa Bar, but maybe it is,
but I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Just go with false.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Kyle on the board at one point, didn't look up
what his actual name is, but it's definitely not Zanzibar.
All right, Good job Kyle Ridge and Kyle on the
board each is one point.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Erica could look I'm ready.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Zane's audition song for The X Factor was Mario's let
Me love you.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Why Mario is either I do. I'm gonna say that
is a fact. Wow, good job.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
All right, we have a three way two okay, guys,
three way tie and I've got a tie breaker question
right here?

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You name is your buzzer?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
You need to tell me Rich, Kyle and Erica who
is the secondary vocalist in this Zane.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Song and all the last pacing? Eric, think about that.
It's the biggest star in the world. Oh, my gosh,

(09:36):
biggest star in the world. I don't know. Rihanna, No,
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Does anybody want to help her out?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Taylor Swift?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Taylor Swift is.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Correct, Taylor Swift.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I'm sorry on.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
The phone though.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's why. What are you doing today? Eric? Are you
going back to work today? Unfortunately? What do you do
for living?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Adult probation?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
What does that mean? Adult probation? Yeah? I supervised people
on probation. Oh yeah, I'll be in my appointment at
two thirty. I'll see you there. All right, sounds good. Well,
did you have a good Christmas?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
I did. I had a great Christmas in a really
good New Year.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
Good.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Actually, just got back from Vegas.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh well, it looks like you're going again. All right,
So I'm excited. Thank you hold on line.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
We are setting you up with tickets to see Zane,
also hotel to nast day at Parking GM and a
hundred a guess card to get you there, and we're
gonna do it again tomorrow morning, every single day this week.
So hopefully maybe tomorrow we can find Zaane fans, so
people that really want to go see Zaane.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
So that's tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
In the meantime, I was thinking, or a lot of
people do yours resolution is, you know, lose weight, get fit,
you know, that kind of stuff, and that's usually mine.
But I lost it and I ate like a psychopath
for the I think for the last month. But the
last two weeks was crazy, and I was thinking, I
think that's very relatable, right, the last two weeks.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
Yeah, I kind of feel like that's the time of
year where you just sort of say, it's the holidays,
just eat it.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
The stuff's in front of you and it's delicious.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
But is there anything like could you think of what's
the best thing you ate? Oh, what's the best thing
you ate over the holidays?

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah? I conect? What do you got rich? It was
a strawberry milkshake, with a burger from Hop Dottie like
and fries and trumble fries. So I was I was
full for days. It was amazing, amazing.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Eight seven, seven, nine three seven one four seven. What's
the best thing you ate over the holidays? So about you, Payton.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I had some homemade to mollies. My friend's mom made them.
They were gone. They were beef.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
I think they're so good, I would say I over ate.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
That's the best thing that is Trader Joe's peppermints slash
cookies and cream ice cream. It's both of them in
one and you just eat it together and it's just
something about those flavors combining.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
It's just too good.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
And are those things? All the peppermint things seem like
they're gone from Trader Joe's.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
I was there.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
Yesterday holiday stuff like it's just gone.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah, they sell.

Speaker 6 (12:21):
Out, they sell out, and then they're done, and then
they only get it once a year.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
In fact, there was actually something on.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
TikTok that I literally went to Trader Joe's yesterday for.

Speaker 4 (12:29):
It's apparently the best salt you've ever had.

Speaker 6 (12:32):
It's Portuguese salt, and apparently Trader Joe's only gets it
once a year during the holidays, and I was too late.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Too late to get it.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
So if you go try to get it today, it's
you're too late.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Apparently people stock up on this because they only get
it once a year.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
You never heard of it.

Speaker 6 (12:45):
I'm just gonna have to remember next year during the
holidays to go get it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
So I weighed myself yesterday getting twenty pounds. Twenty pounds
on vacation.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Okay, impressive, but you will probably lose that by Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I've been Normally, when I try to lose the weight
that I've gained, I do some SNA sessions and it
goes away really fast. But I gained this weight doing
SONA every day, so like this is legit.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well, what was the best thing you ate? Well, that's
a tough question.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
I wish I would have had some prep on that,
I think for me. So over the over the vacation,
we had a couple of things happen. One is that
my my aunt we had a funeral for my aunt.
My aunt, Malu died and the funeral was in Tucson.
And you know, I'm a half Mexican. This is on
my Mexican side, so they had a big Cardinsalla party

(13:34):
after amazing the funeral. But my sister, who has zero patients,
and when she's hungry, you can't be around her.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
She's hungry, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
And she's like I did now. So the Cardinasala was
a two. The funeral's over, like at eleven eleven, thirty twelve.
So we went to in Tucson to the Weto Canelo right,
which she's been therefore of course, and what a Canal
is fantastic and they've really exploded.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
And they're they're humongous. The store is huge, but it
was also we went to what a Canelo.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
I had a couple of hot dogs and our dogs
and had some carnisan and a burrito, and I ate
a lot of food and I had the fly and
I had the rice putting, had all this stuff there
and then we went to the Carnaisan one and a
half hours later, no like, from Canelo to the funeral
to the dinner, like, because my sister was so unreasonable.
I was so full right in my life, Well you

(14:24):
didn't have to eat, okay, So we go to the
Carnasala funeral and that food was phenomenal, right, homemade cannaissan
will cook the way it's supposed to be, but I
was so full I couldn't really enjoy it. But I
ate it anyway. But I know that that food was
the best food I had over the holiday. In fact,
my uncle sent it WhatsApp apologized because I didn't eat enough.

(14:48):
According to them that they thought something was wrong with
the meat. Really yeah, the meat was I was like,
they didn't know. We went to wet A Canelo and
I had four hot dogs before before we had lunch.
Why four because I loved Because there's a long line.
So when I get to the end of the line,
I love son orange dogs. So I thought, I'm starving too,
so I'll just get too. But wait, what if they're

(15:10):
really really good, I'll get four. And they were okay,
but they weren't like because because of my cousin my
uncle's carna that that food was average.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Does that make sense on any other day that would
have been the best. Yeah, So that's what I ate.
That was really bad.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
And of course my wife made chocolatechip cookies and she
made it. I just ate everything. I had, milk DUTs.
I kind of got me Junior mints. I ate a
box of Junior mints and everything
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