Goodbye 2020

Ring out 2020 with Meg, Grady, and guest host Agata Zachary as they share some of their best New Year's Eve stories and welcome some old friends. Learn about Grady's New York New Year adventure, how Agata learned about an unusual South American New Year's tradition, and what Meg has set for her New Year's resolution.

In the second half of the show,  Steve Kim, founder of Wild Entertainment, a talent and marketing agency based in Las Vegas stops by. Tune in for his advice on physical fitness, self-care, and meeting the challenges of entrepreneurship in the current business climate.  It's the perfect way to get energized and ready for 2021!

Transcript

Meg: Hello lovelies, you are back In the Grind with Meg and Grady. I'm Meagan Ryana. 

Grady: This is Grady Marin. 

Meg: And our co-host-- 

Agata: Agata Zachary.  

Meg: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Tonight is the ending in the beginning to a new journey. 

Grady: Happy New Year. 

Meg: Yes, we got through 2020 guys and the truth is-- 

Agata: Thank God! 

Grady: **** off, 2020 

Meg: We have all been through a lot of changes, you guys, and although change may seem difficult or scary to many, it was also a time for growth, discovering our values, ourselves, and our truths, and maybe becoming a lot more creative in so many ways. I've always found the night before the new year so magical, all the sparkly outfits, the glitter and excitement. 

Grady: She had a psychedelic trip. I have a feeling. 

Meg: How did you know? 

Grady: See? Told you, Agata. I knew it! 

Agata: OK, well let's see. Let's see. What did you do last year for New Year's Eve, Meagan? 

Meg: For the past eight years I was in a casino passing out plastic champagne glasses in Vegas, but I think last year I was off. And I went to Palm Springs, California. Oh my God, so beautiful. 

Agata: Ah, relacing, slow paced. What did you do there? 

Meg: Well, it was such a lovely little city with flowers and palm trees, and I went to a party, and I might have had a little brownie mushroom, mushroom brownie. 

Grady: I knew it. 

Agata: Do you even remember, then, being in Palm Springs? 

Meg: You know what? It made being in Palm Springs even more beautiful, but I ended up being in Palm Springs that night, but then when I got back to my hotel room after bringing in the new year, I was laying in bed, it hit me. And I thought just enjoy it, Meagan, you're on a mushroom right now, just enjoy it. 

Grady: You were floating on a mushroom? 

Meg: I actually looked like, I was... I looked out the window, and the walls were gone, and it looked like the universe, and the curtain was blowing off the balcony, but it was like it looked like the curtain was blowing into it.  

Grady: Majestic. 

Meg: Yes, it was and then there was a silver lining all around the ceiling. It was gorgeous. 

Agata: Sounds beautiful. 

Meg: And then I went hiking the next day, and I felt like very open and just great. 

Grady: Did you have whatever mushrooms that you had the night before? 

Meg: No, but I think they were still in my system because I had a lovely hike.  

Grady: We had a lovely time in Palm Springs, too. Agata brought a bladder bag to the Ritz Carlton. 

Agata: What? Listen, that's not bladder—no, no, no. Meagan don't even go there. It wasn't bladder bag, OK? 

Grady: It was. 

Agata: A few days before we arrive in Palm Springs, we’re in Vegas at expo, and several companies were passing their marketing materials, right? And the one company was passing, like, flexible little bag-like alcohol, great fitting into the bars bag. So, I took those bags—to make it even funnier, it was some kind of healthcare company, right?  

Grady: See, it was a bladder bag. 

Agata: So, Grady and I and our husbands went for some drinks at Ritz Carlton restaurant, and I filled up this, as he called it, bladder bag with vodka. and I had it in my tiny cute purse, right?  

Meg: Oh, I like that. 

Grady: She's just cheap as ****.  

Agata: You are. You are crazy. Listen to me, you should know— 

Grady: Fifteen dollars apiece, not even. 

Agata: That's not even that. It’s not about fifteen dollars. You tell me, listen, we've been going out drinking for years now. How many times did they get my drink right with those 15 or 25?  

Grady: Never 

Agata: Thank you. I gotta spice it up and that **** is right there in my purse in the “bladder bag.” 

Grady: You could take her to the best restaurant in the entire world with the best mixologist, and this woman over here is making her own drink at the end of the night. 

Agata: Yeah, I'm from Poland. We all about vodka, baby, and you Americans never serve enough. 

Grady: And you butcher, you butcher it with water, though. 

Agata: What? 

Grady: You butcher your vodka occasionally with water. 

Agata: Now what you're saying it was adding some ice cubes to martini when it was too sweet, OK? 

Meg: Agata, didn’t you say something about panties this year? 

Grady: I didn't hear anything about panties. When did this come up? 

Meg: She was talking about wearing her good luck (coughing). 

Agata: Mushrooms coming back. 

Meg: (rasping) Hold on. Hold on. I gotta smoke my cigarette.  

Grady: Oh wow 'cause she's, she's had COVID for the last week, so-- 

Meg: It’s not funny guys. 

Grady: It's definitely not, but we're sitting in the lion's den, so what the hell. 

Agata: Well, then you know my story about pendice my savior, if you're looking to get a little bit more healthier. OK, so would you believe in some countries like Italy, and some South American countries, they believe that you need to wear brand new panties for New Year’s Eve. 

Meg: What? 

Grady: Wow, what do men wear? 

Agata: Yes. Not only they need to be brand new, but depending on the color you wear, that's what you're going to get the coming year. So yellow is for money, green is for wealth and nature. And red is, guess for what? Love and romance. 

Grady: Wow. 

Meg: What if you go commando? Grady: Yeah, I don't know. 

Agata: Well, with enough mushrooms. 

Grady: Did you go commando when you went hiking? 

Meg: Probably. I don't like to wear panties, sometimes. I like to air it out. 

Grady: Do you wear your bra? 

Meg: Sometimes. 

Grady:  OK, it's getting too exotic for me. What do men wear then? I know all men don't wear panties, so the men that don't wear panties, what are they supposed to wear? 

Agata: Well, if you're in Meagan Country, you can go commando. Otherwise, I would assume they buy boxers, maybe in different colors, OK? 

Meg: Grady's gonna layer like 10 boxers on top of each other, so he can have it all. 

Grady: I need all the colors. All of them. 

Agata: He wants it all. He wants the money, nature, and love. 

Grady: All color. 

Agata: What did you do last year, Grady? 

Grady: Well, we went to Florida Biltmore Roaring Twenties theme party, watched fireworks, had a really good time. Definitely wasn't in the frigid Ohio. I had to get the hell outta here. 

Agata: Florida's a party in itself isn't it, for New Year's Eve, especially, right? 

Grady: Yeah, it was. I'm gonna miss it this year. 

Meg: She knows how to throw a party. 

Grady: She does. 

Agata: So, it's all about friends, party, and dancing. 

Grady: Her parties are a little wild though. I mean they have full bottles they're drinking from.  

Agata: Oh yeah. 

Grady: I don't know. I loved her parties. Matter of fact, during quarantine time it was still under the threshold that we were allowed. We were out at a bonfire, and we were having a really good time. People didn't think that I actually didn't dress in suits all the time. They were very shocked that I came looking like a country boy because they didn't know I was from Ripley, Ohio. 

Agata: Meagan, you would be surprised. Yes, I had a bunch of friends. 

Meg: (gurgles) I had to gurgle my champagne guys. 

Agata: Please stop lying. It was vodka. 

Meg: All right, I think I hit the mute button. 

Grady: She’s turned herself off. Oh, she's turned me off. 

Meg: I'm back! Oh ****. 

Agata: Please take the alcohol away from her. 

Grady: Are you drunk already? 

Meg: (snorting sound) 

Agata: She snorted. 

Meg: Oh sorry, sorry sorry . 

Agata: That's OK, I'll make (snorting sound) you feel better. 

Grady: She's going to be out before we finish recording. 

Meg: Can I sleep on your couch tonight?  

Grady: Yes. 

Meg: I love you. So, Grady, do you have a New Year's resolution? 

Grady: I don't necessarily have a resolution, I just want to be happy and healthy, and I know that so (snore). However, I have a New Year's story. 

Meg: Oh, let's hear it. 

Grady: I just have a memorable story from when I was a hell of a lot younger, and we went to New Year's party in Rockefeller Center downtown. I tried to get tickets to Planet Hollywood, and I could not afford 'em. They were literally like $3000 or $4000 apiece, so... 

Meg: Wait. Isn't Planet Hollywood in Vegas? 

Grady: Well, they got 'em all over the place. 

Meg: Yeah, but what was so special? What was going on there? 

Grady: So, it's right where the ball drops, and so they have a second story balcony so you can look down and you can see all the performances. And so, we went out there. We were dressed to the nines. And, by the way, when you go to New York City for New Year's Eve, you’d better be wearing a parka. You better be prepared for some frigid subzero temperatures, so I can imagine. Yeah, it was bitter, bitter cold  

Meg: What a ******* nightmare. 

Agata: OK, Las Vegas Girl. 

Grady: It was a nightmare because when we got down to, I'll call it ground zero. When we got down to where the ball drops you couldn't even move, there was so many people. And in order to get into the crowd you had to have got there probably several hours in advance, and we didn't get there in time. But you have to stay there. So that means that people are—how are they using the facilities? They're using them right there. 

Meg: Really? 

Grady: Yeah, they're using the facilities in cups. They're doing number twos right there. 

Meg: What?  

Grady: Yes? Because they can’t move for hours. 

Agata: I’m vomiting. 

Meg: Sounds like Vegas. 

Grady: Yes and I just didn't know anything about that. The not so funny part of the night is I actually took somebody that I was dating, and he dumped me. 

Agata: He had to take a ****. 

Grady: Well, yeah, literally the meaning of it. He dumped me, and so he found somebody to go hang out with for the night.  

Agata: And then he couldn’t move. 

Grady: That's OK because I met somebody in the crowd who said I've got an apartment in Park Avenue, and you can see all the fireworks, and we're having a house party. So, if you want to come to that. So, I had a hell of a time partying in Central Park, and I watched all the fireworks, and I got to see everything that I wanted to see and much more. OK, I think we're having a guest speaker come on soon. He's a very successful entrepreneur himself. 

Meg: Sorry, I was too busy looking at his bio. He's just ******* super-hot. Is that like an 8 pack? 

Grady: Yeah, but you were on the dating show with him. Steve Harvey. 

Meg: Yes, and his name is Steve Kim, Steve Kim's actually an entertainer in Vegas. He was a Chippendale for a very long time. And he owns his own business. He's a very successful, beautiful, hot, sexy man. 

Grady: Aside from all of that, he also performed live on Fox News New Year's special. He also won several awards. He won the 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year, 2013 Small Business Excellence Award, 2013 green employer of the Year Award, and we'll be talking to him soon. 

Meg: Woo! 

(phone ringing) 

Meg: Hi, Mr. Kim. 

Steve Kim: Hey, Meg. 

Grady: It's good seeing you here and thanks for joining us. 

Steve Kim: In order to be one of your first guest. I’m only the second one, right? 

Meg: Yeah. 

Grady: You are, actually, and we're celebrating New Year's and bringing in New Year’s the most proper way with you. I've been told you're the party. And have our a cohost here, Agata Zachary, who's joining in, and so, I think you just had a question for him. 

Agata: Yes, Mr. Kim. Well, we had a very short conversation right before that. And I also must see on your pictures, and you look like a mountain of muscle. I was wondering, because you mentioned something about diet. I'm looking at your picture, and like how the hell do you need to diet? 

Steve Kim: I can really get in shape. Trust me, that's something I've been good at for a long time, and I just looked up for the last few years because I was all about the business, and then I got way too, you know, always working, never taking care myself, work, work, work. And I grew the business but at the same time I let my health slip. And then I had these back problems and knee problems. I'm out playing disc golf, and I'm ******* my knee up. I'm like, this is ridic. I'm an athlete. I can't be walking around limping and stuff like, so I'm going back into the old basics. Intermittent fasting. I eat about sometimes, 48-hour window, it depends. 

But I eat within a 48-hour window 'cause you shouldn't have to eat more than that. After that you have to process and digest and get rid of it. People eat all the time, you know, always in digestion mode. It’s just about your body, your metabolism. Your body has to go through a cleanse. You gotta eat less more often— 

Agata: This is some great information because of a New Year's Eve resolution, we're talking about it earlier. And then I hear more and more people were doing the fasting you were talking about. 

Steve Kim: Yeah, it's amazing. It's very very smart. I mean there's a lot of great science behind it. It's anti-aging. You know if you fast for three days that third day you're in a topogene. That’s when your body starts cleaning up its cells. They start reproducing and getting rid of all the old stuff, and it makes you young. My dear junk food is like chicken and rice and kimchi and seaweed. 

 Grady: Kimchi sounds so good. 

 Meg: What the **** is kimchi. 

Steve Kim: Kimchi is the fountain of youth. Write it down. Swear to God. 

Grady: Fountain of youth, listeners. 

Steve Kim: It’s the greatest secret you could ever—yeah, you know, that they even said something like kimchi helping to kill COVID. It's like eating sauerkraut all the time. 

Agata: Wait. Is Kimchi a version of sauerkraut, just spicy? 

Steve Kim: It’s similar, yeah exactly. It’s like sauerkraut, just spicier. 

Agata: Then I’m good. Yeah, I'm good. I'm from Poland. That's all we do, vodka and sauerkraut, so I should be good to go. 

Steve Kim: So, you're good, too with it. All right.  

Agata: Yes! 

Steve Kim: Eat that sauerkraut. 

Grady: We need all the immunity we can get. Meagan's been giving us the COVID-ness right here.  

Steve Kim: I heard! What have you been messing around with? Are you messing around with the COVID? 

Meg: I have. 

Grady:  I'm gonna take her screen away. 

Steve Kim: You'll have to get a mask on your mouth. I don’t know. This world sucks. I don’t know what’s happening. They need to let us go back to real life and start working. And I know they're gonna take care of this virus, but it’s destroying everyone’s businesses, you know? 

Grady: This year has been pretty bad. Like, I totally understand completely where you're coming from because the PPP funds that they gave you initially at the beginning of the year, that's been long gone. You know they keep shutting down. The economy keeps shutting down. The states were not able to really function. Businesses have, for the longest time, not been able to be viable unless they're able to actually operate their business. And now with, curfews, and now with limitations, and now, you know, picking and choosing what businesses can and cannot be open. It's detrimental to business. 

Steve Kim: Yeah, I mean I just wish they would have just said hey, you know what? You're not gonna have any business, but your bills will go down. We're gonna stop charging you for rent, and all the utilities, and everything in the marketing fees,  and, like I gotta pay every month, thousands of dollars, no matter what. 

Grady: Yeah, it's so and I don't know where they think we're supposed to come up with all of this money. I mean, for businesses, we've been investing a lot of our personal savings, us especially, so we have a medical and billing record retrieval company, and we've been investing most of all of our savings back into the business because initially we obviously were one of the necessary businesses to operate working in the medical field with, you know, taking the medical and billing records and then moving them to where they need to go, but there's that lag six months later where you don't initially have the business that you did because no one's driving a ******* car, so nobody is getting into an accident and nobody's needing medical records, right? 

Steve Kim: It's affecting everyone there. 

Meg: Tell us about your business, Mr. Kim. 

Steve Kim: Oh yeah, I'm becoming the next Hugh Hefner or something. So, I've always had this dream of having a show that just blows you away, that hits everyone, every level 'cause I've been doing it for so long, I know what those levels are. 

Agata: We can't wait to see it. 

Meg: Yeah! 

Grady: You have a podcast, right? 

Steve Kim: Yeah, it's actually The Wild Life, and The Wild Life is, you know everyone in my business, at Wild Entertainment. So we got wild boys, wild girls. We’ve got striptainers, little fantasy date, love bunnies, play girls, oh ****, we’ve got everything, right? We have all these brands, and it's all different types of entertainment. 

Grady: And you dated Meagan on the Steve Harvey show, right? 

Meg: That's how we met, on the Steve Harvey— 

Steve Kim: We just always get along. We’re both natural good spirits. We've always had that crystal energy spirit, you know? 

Agata: So, I was going to ask you, since Meagan is out of the picture, are you dating now? Because in case we have any inquiries after podcast from our listeners, are you single? 

Steve Kim: Yeah, yeah. I just started dating someone kind of. 

Agata: Oh, congratulations! 

Grady: Damn. 

Steve Kim:  Yeah, it’s, uh, it's new. 

Grady: So, you found love in 2020? 

Meg: Aw, that’s sweet. 

Agata: So, Steve, I seen you had few businesses. What do you actually do? Because it on your website it shows so many interesting things as far as the business. What do you currently do? Because I was again, it's just like so refreshing to see such a, you know handsome looking guy. And then you all into technology and computers and you know a lot of stuff about programs. I mean, this just blows my mind. So, what do you do now? 

Steve Kim: Thank you, I appreciate that. I’m the owner of the company. Basically, the brand is Wild, and primary division is our entertainment division. We do exotic experiential entertainment, which is everything from the exotic dancers, go-go girls, burlesque girls, to the hot guys, Magic Mike, male models or companionship. Uh, golf caddies, card dealers. I mean, you name it. So, all that stuff with exotic entertainers, that's my scene, and you can book 'em all through me. And we also have dancers across the West Coast, we’re expanding, too, across America. And then I just happen to have connections, and I can connect you to the hottest guys and girls there are in Las Vegas. 

Agata: OK. Well then how do we connect with you? Is there a website? Or how do we book hot people? 

Steve Kim: It’s wildentertainment DOT agency. Just www.wildentertainment.agency. And we're growing, and we're gonna be ready for as soon as things bounce back.  

Agata: Oh, you know, we should be good to go by March. I think things gonna start coming down my March, and people are gonna start to travel and party more so. Well, thank you for taking your time to talk to us. I really enjoy talking to the hottest guy I've seen for a while. 

Steve Kim: Oh my God, you guys are crazy, thanks but you know appreciating me and bringing me on a lot of fun. I hope you guys come to Vegas. We can all get together, and I will show you a great time like a time you never had before hell. 

Agata: Hell yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Happy New Year, baby. 

Meg: Thank you so much for coming on our show today. And happy new year. 

Agata: Thank you, Steve! 

Steve Kim: Much love! 

Meg: Oh my God, that was such a fun interview. 

Grady: It was fun. He was a lot of fun. Resolutions for you, Meagan. 

Meg: I don't make resolutions; I always break them, and I always disappoint myself. 

Grady: Come on! We just talked to Mr. Kim, and that was lively. He created enough elation for you to look forward to in the New Yor- New Year! In New York. 

 Agata: Because Grady, when you when you think about it, you end the year in holiday season, right? So, you hang with your family in front of TV a lot of times because of the movies, because of Christmas movies, and memories, and blah blah. 

 Grady: That's what we're doing this year. 

 Agata: Right. So, what do you usually see in TV? Fat Happy Santa, cookies, ham, eggnog, fluffy blankets, Christmas trees, fireplace. 

 Grady: That sounds ******* depressing. 

 Agata: No, lot of people love it. That gives you this happiness exactly. And then right after that you're like happy and jolly— 

Grady: And fat. 

Agata: After New Year’s Eve you wake up. Yes, but happy right? 

Grady: Yeah. 

Agata: Drunk on sugar. And then you wake up the first day of New Year's Day, and what happens? You turn on TV, Santa gone, *******cookies gone. 

Grady: Ran over by a reindeer! 

Agata: Ah, yeah. You’re saying six packs, and workout, and machines, and protein drinks, and water and sweat and all that stuff, and you're like oh ****! And that's what Meagan is talking about, right? You wanna set the bar high 'cause you're like this is **** get real, right? So, you promise yourself, gym. You promise yourself saving money, all this depressing stuff, right? Therefore, this year, if it taught me anything, spending time that much with my family, and going through COVID, and being stuck with each other in a house, and a list of, so what it taught me, I just want to be kinder to myself and to others. So as far as my resolution, all I promised myself is this year I'm going to drink a little bit more water. 

That I'm gonna sit less, right, and move more, right? Right, and then I'm not going to be that self-centered. So, compliment one compliment a day for anybody. As long as I compliment somebody, that's 365 compliments 21 for me. What about you, Meagan? 

Grady: So, she's going to have more water after twice as much vodka from 2020. 

Agata: You got it. And no more hangovers. That's all it is. 

Meg: You know what? Maybe I'm gonna make a resolution, hmmm? OK, I want to be dickmatized this year.  

Grady: (laughs) What?! 

Meg: Like, I might want to meet, like, a tall, dark handsome man with a very large penis, who is actually a nice person with a job? Well, ****, he don't really have to have a job at this point, but just like a nice guy. 

Agata: Why you gonna lower your standards like that? What do you mean? He doesn't have to have a job? 

Grady: I wish she just get whatever amatized that she just talked about, so that she won't bring it up in every episode that we have! So can please somebody give her an amatized?! 

Agata: And please we need **** **** you remember? She needs them. 

Grady: I do not. We do not invite that. Thank you. You can hit her up on social media. She wants amatized. 

Meg: Dickmatized. 

Grady: That's a good way to end 2020. 

Meg: Yeah. You wanna raise your glass and toast with me? 

Grady: Yeah! 

Agata: Why not? It is the time. 

Grady: I'm tired of the ‘rona. 

Agata: Yay! 

Meg: The light of the full moon is waning from earlier this week, so let us toast to the afterglow phase. And let the moon shine upon our face and give thanks to the beautiful new year ahead. 2021, guys. 

Agata: Woo hoo. 

Grady: Absolutely. Can't wait to get rid of 2020. 

Meg: Let's take a look at what we've accomplished and let go of things that no longer serve us at this time, and let's look forward, hold your head up high. Accept yourself and don't give up 2021 we got this. Let's make the entire planet party with joy and happiness. We all are sparkling glow. Let everyone shine. Thanks for being In the Grind with Meg and Grady. 

 Grady: You thought of all that? 

 Agata: That's beautiful, Meagan. 

 Meg: Wow, thanks, Agata. 

 Grady: What big word you gonna use today? 

 Agata: Stop, she's being witchy spirituality loving girl. 

 Grady: Oh, see it was one a day. 

 Meg: Manifestation. Communication. Elevation. See you next year y'all. 

 Grady: Know what there's a lot of the elevation. 

 Meg: Let’s howl. Let’s howl at the moon. 

(howling) 

Grady: And elation in 2021. 

Agata: Happy 2021, guys! 

Grady: Happy 2021.