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Wednesday morning, January thirty first, twenty

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twenty four. It is the Beating the Book Podcast.

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It's Gil Alexander, the

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thirteenth Countum

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thirteenth Annual Vegas

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Lifestyle Pod, A Man's Guide

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to Sin City. Cannot believe

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I've been doing this for thirteen years.

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My god, this

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is a tradition unlike any other. It is the one

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non sports podcast that we

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do here on this feed, and it

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might be the single most popular, which probably

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should tell me something about all the sports stuff. But

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on the show today, this is a

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megapod. This is a Beating the Book Podcast

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trivia question. Who's the only person to appear

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on the megapod at least once every

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year since his inception? The answer to

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that is Mark Meltzer. Meltzer

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like Seltzer, everybody who joins us for the Lifestyle

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Pod every year. Hello, sir, how

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are you?

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I'm wonderful? How are you?

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I'm good? At Meltz Vegas on Twitter.

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Correct where do people find

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your stuff most often these days? Because you're splintered.

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Most often on during weekdays

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PLAYUSA dot Com and then

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travel stuff on the weekends or pretty

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much randomly whenever he's

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in the mood to post something over at travel

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zork dot com. Travel Zork the most

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recent thing outside

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of regular Vegas news, I

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did forty eight hours at Fountain Blue, which

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we can talk about forty

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eight consecutive hours on Christmas

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Eve and Christmas Day.

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Oh Man and live to tell about it. And the

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other guests, by the way, Todd and Will not on the Vegas

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Live Style because they don't live in Vegas, so they felt

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like they didn't have much to offer. But this guy does for

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sure. You know him as the only back

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to back Hilton Super Contest winner. Back

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in the day he cashed it millions. This year he

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cashed of course in Survivor as

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well, helping out Greg Jones entry.

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But what you may not know is that

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he's the greatest Vegas hacker there is as

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well in terms of getting you the most bang

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for your bu or not even spending a buck here

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in Vegas. Steve Fezick joins.

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Us, you know, I got to do a shout out to Anthony

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Curtis because I kind of learned from

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from Kurt that he was

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the king at getting the really good deals, and even

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with this Las Vegas Advisor, that would be my first

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tip is you have to absolutely get

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your fifty I guess his fifty dollars membership, and

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you get this cubeon book with all this two

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for ones and freebies and

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some maze and match plays and the like, and

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you literally could just come if you're like live in Nebraska

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and come to Vegas and burn through the book

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all like for four days. I

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don't think there's any cupons for font Blue, but there's

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plenty of other good stuff.

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Yes, all right, So how this works is we will get

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when we were younger, when we were eleven

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twelve years ago doing this, we talked about

2:41

nightclubs and Ace would come on here and talk about strip clows.

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By the way, Ace couldn't be here. Ace,

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I talked to him yesterday or texted with him yesterday.

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Apparently Marco's brother passed

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away, and so Ace is going to

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that. So our condolences to Marco Dangelos.

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So Ace can't be on this podcast,

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even though he wanted to be, to sort of harken

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back to his old shtick

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that we used to do here. But we'll talk about restaurants, about sports

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books. But we always start this and we'll get to Steve's hacks.

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But we also we always start with for

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those mark who are interested in coming

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to town for the super

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Bowl or for March Madness.

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I feel like it, you'll correct me if I'm wrong.

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Here, I feel like we have entered

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a whole noother world

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where, like again, pick your year

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eight years ago, we're like, yeah, my gosh, you a little more

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here. Now it's like exorbitant,

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beyond belief.

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That is true, and that's true of pretty

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much everything. So everything in Las

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Vegas is more money.

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You know.

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I remember being able to get a beer on

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the Vegas Strip for five bucks. That's

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now ten bucks. If it's cheap, thirteen

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bucks on average, you know. So you're

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looking at more expensive everything. And

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this with the large events f one,

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super Bowl, anything

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else, March Madness, whatever you have, they're

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just going to jack up the prices because they know that

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people are coming here and they're gonna splurge

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because it's there. Maybe they're one big

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expense for the years.

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Give me the example, what you texted me yesterday from

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Caesar's for the super Bowl.

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So for the super Bowl, we're looking super

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Bowl is insane because when I moved

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here first about twelve years ago, you

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could wake up early, go to sportsbook, have

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a seat, reserve your spot for

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the day. Yes, whether it's super Bowl, March

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Madness, whatever it is. You could

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do that.

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Now just because your butt was in the seat.

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First right, first come, first serve. There

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are still a few sports books like that South

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Point, for example, but

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there's not many. If you're on the Strip

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and you want to go to Caesar's Palace to watch

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the Super Bowl, it's gonna cost you five hundred

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bucks. And that's not even

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in the sports book. That's seating behind

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the sports book bar, like by

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the entrance to Omnia Can.

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And the hack was that you would get up at

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eight am, you stumble to the sports book

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and you just say reserved for Steve Fessik,

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and you just put a sheet of paper down, and

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then you'd come back at like like eleven, and

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someone would be sitting there like, that's my that's

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my seat.

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I'm Steve Fessi. Yeah, it says reserve studio exactly.

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That used to be. So this used to be the case. Because we talked again

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for years, I think about when we did this ten years

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ago. This is how it used to be for those

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of us of a certain age who were

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young when we were in the early two thousands

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and the hard Rock was the biggest place in town. We

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used to say on this podcast, it's like if

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I was all my buddies drink, but

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I was the guy who got up first thing in the morning

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to rehab right, and I threw a towel

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down on four lounge chairs, and those

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were a lounge chairs for the rest of the day. Think

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how old that makes me sense?

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Just so you know, at an MGM

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property, you have to reserve those online

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if you want to get it. Just a lounge chair, not even

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a cabana or something nice and fancy,

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a lounge chair just to lay in and read

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a book. Oh, it'll only cost

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you about twenty bucks. But there is now a.

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Charge for that, So five hundred dollars.

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At Caesar's for the Super Bowl and the Cromwell

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as well as the same thing there, it's about

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four hundred and fifty dollars, and then there's

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an admin fee of another I

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believe it forty to sixty somewhere in between

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there.

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At least in the case of the Cromwell, which, for those

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who don't know, is a sort of boutique

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hotel on the corner of Flamingo

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in.

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The that's about twenty seats, has about

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twenty seats.

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At least you're right there and the screens are right in front

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of you, and it's cozy, and it's twenty used to be the Barbary

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Coast used to be the Barbary Coast.

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And then Bill's, oh yes,

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Bill's a gamblin hall in between.

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Then Bill's a gamblin hall in between. Barbarie Coast

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is what the gamblers remember it as with Vacaro

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and all those guys back in the day. So the

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five but at Caesar's five hundred dollars, not even

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to sit in a seat. There's a sports bar as

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markets are going behind the sports book and

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then against the wall basically against

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the Bobby Flay place or.

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What is you're in the hallway is in the hallway,

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so you know when you walk toward like

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walk around toward the forum shops.

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So isn't the average person You and I are both

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East Coast guys, our buddies who would always

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fly into town for like big events. They'll

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never come again for this kind of shit, will they.

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I honestly don't know the economy today,

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people are spending so much money on so many

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things that I just I

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don't know, I don't know what people are making,

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you know, and I don't know

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where we'll see. I guess is the right answer. March

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Madness is the same price March Mandess a little

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more, and it's per day, So if

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you're looking at per data, per half day.

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It depends on what you book. So you could

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book one session, you know, the early games

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or the late games. You could book the entire

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day. You could book fan caves,

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you know, for over ten grand for

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a group of you know, twelve to

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fourteen people. It really depends

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on where you are. And you know,

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there's two different ways to look at reserving

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a chair and you know, getting the most bang

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for your buck. Place Lake Caesars

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Palace, you're going to get a few beers, a futuring

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tickets for domestics that will probably

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cost you about thirty dollars. Whereas

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if you go to Circa and you're and

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some other places, if you're reserving a spot,

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that also that'll includes your food and beverage,

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so you know you're getting

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at least something back for your money other

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than a you know, and thank the

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few drinks.

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This is where it's come man.

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So here's what here's how to combat it.

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Here we go.

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You have to become a VIP at

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a casino. So what you need to do is you need

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to get really good at one

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thing sports betting, online

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poker, video poker, or

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blackjack. All our beatable

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games. Video poker is kind of more be it's

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beatable with cops, all right, it's like ninety nine

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point six percent. So I just looked at the Bob Dancer.

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By the way, it's it's kind of like a thesis you

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have to if you actually try to learn how to play. Even

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the jacks are better, a relatively easy game to play,

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but it's like, oh, penalty cards, you got to game. You got

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that king ten suited, but you see a nine

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or a jack, you know you got to get

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rid of that ten. You otherwise if if you just

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have a bunch of blanks, you keep the king on the ten.

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But the bottom line is you stack

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stuff. So you like, you play your video poker and

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you get your VIP status, and

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you play during a weekend with a

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giving away a car and other stuff, and so

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you be sure to get that trip comped. You can

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play boatload video poker and you're gonna get

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double and triple credit and you're immediately gonna become

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a diamond in one weekend. And now once

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you're a diamond, now we're starting to style a little bit because

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now it suddenly gets a whole lot easier. As

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an example, like get Caesars, which about drinks. I

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need a free drink them at Caesar's Palace.

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All right, Well, you can go to.

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Crap State when just buying for a thousand dollars and don't

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don't don't play, don't bet anything. You can bet

9:20

the pass line, but it's like fifty dollars

9:22

to play crabs. Just pretend to say I'm

9:24

analyzing, you'll have I'll have an Apple

9:26

martini, and no one will say anything

9:29

on a crowded crap stab.

9:29

But you can just do that. So that's one easy way

9:32

to drink for free.

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Or you obviously can go to a bar at a lot of

9:34

places, put one hundred dollar in the machine

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and you really play two hands, and then playing

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video poker and you can get free drinks. But

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when you're a seven star, then it gets so easy.

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Walk into sports books like I'm a seven star, okay, and they'll

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just print you out four tickets.

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Although I will say with these, with this seating

9:50

like seven stars doesn't don't shay them anymore.

9:52

Yeah, you're not going to be able to get a seat. And I think you got to

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go off strip. I think Mark correct me if I'm wrong.

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Bold. I think Boulder Highway.

9:57

You go to a Sam's down or you go to an

10:00

Arizona Charlie's.

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You go to a place like that, and I think you're

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not gonna have to do.

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You could even have a great sports

10:06

book experience. Green Valley Ranch, Red

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Rock. They both have very

10:11

nice books, free complimentary seeds,

10:13

first come, first serve the way we grew

10:15

up with it, So that is available.

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Like I said, South Point to another one. Palms

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has an underrated sports book that doesn't

10:22

charge, so if you want to go there

10:24

as well. But there's also all these viewing

10:26

parties. You know, these watch parties that

10:29

are all encompassing. You know, where you get your

10:31

food, you're drink, you know for the three

10:33

hours of the game, maybe a couple hours in advance.

10:35

You know what circu charges for the Super Bowl in marsh Madness.

10:38

I was it was locked up when I went to

10:40

check. But it's it's it's

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it's not cheap.

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What occurs to me on all this though, I use my buddy Tommy

10:47

and DC as sort of the barometer for all this stuff. Right,

10:49

Tommy and all our buddies in DC, we used to meet

10:51

for years and years and years in Vegas when I lived in Cali

10:53

and they live in d C. And you

10:56

know the look you have breaking

10:58

news behind you, it's always hockey. The

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It curs to me that someone like Tommy, and I

11:04

think he represents most people that don't

11:06

live in Vegas will hear this and

11:08

they'll say, yeah, but I'm not coming

11:10

to Vegas to go off the strip to

11:12

some place to watch the Super Bowl. I'm just not.

11:15

And so their whole attitude is going to

11:17

be I either just suck up the cash

11:19

and spend it on the strip or I don't come

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at all.

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My friends are the exact same way. Yeah, And

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they're great references for us

11:26

that are sort of in the middle of this every

11:29

day. You know that it's good to

11:31

get the mindset of the visitor, which

11:33

we are not. It's great to have those

11:35

kind of references.

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We're too close to the sun, but they keep us grounded

11:38

on that because I do think like even when you know, I always suggested

11:41

them. I was like, you got to go to Circus Sportsbook. You gotta go

11:43

to so this is on a normal weekend. You got to go to Circus

11:45

sports Book. And they went once and they

11:47

loved it and it's amazing and they thought

11:49

it was awesome. And then afterwards I'm

11:51

like, oh, so you think you'll come to Circle again.

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No, no, I'll just go to Strip.

11:55

You know, it's not just my friend similar

11:57

again. Yeah, they went there,

11:59

like, wow, this is great. It's a large sports book

12:01

stadium to swim is fantastic, it's beautiful.

12:04

We're going to go to El Cortes for a half

12:06

hour. We're going to burn through two hundred

12:08

bucks and play six or three to two

12:10

blackjack for a half hour. Say

12:12

that we're a downtown walk from one

12:15

end over to the plaza and then that's

12:17

their downtown experience. Yeah, you know, maybe

12:20

a little pit stop somewhere on the way, but yeah,

12:22

where.

12:22

My guys are like, I just put me in the middle of the action with the most

12:24

girls and that's how.

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Yeah, that's that's really the tour. So

12:28

it's it's difficult for the

12:30

value seeker that wants that

12:32

as well, and that's what I try to find,

12:34

you know, where those little places that you

12:36

can find some special things that I

12:38

think Steve is going to be very helpful with

12:41

that kind of information.

12:42

If they want to come from March Madness, they should be booking

12:44

it now.

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Yes, the so there are two group

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Facebook groups that I follow for

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all of this information. Big Game

12:52

Vegas for the Super Bowl. It

12:54

might be a closed group right now, but they'll let

12:56

anybody in. They just want

12:58

to weed out spammers. And then March

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Madness in Las Vegas, those exact

13:03

words. They have all of the parties,

13:05

all the sports books, all the prices, but

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the members have been here before so

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they can share, you know, what the

13:12

experience was at those parties, at

13:14

those sports books.

13:15

Before we get to your Vegas hacks here, since we're talking about

13:17

sports books, let's just say on any weekend,

13:19

let's not talk about Super Bowl and March Madness there, but

13:22

just in terms of where are the nicest,

13:24

where are the best sports books in town? We'll do the

13:26

bricks and mortar and then we'll actually do the apps part

13:28

of it. The bricks and mortar circa is a number

13:30

one. We all agree yes, Circa Sports,

13:33

which is in downtown Las Vegas.

13:35

It's the biggest sports book in the world. It's known for

13:37

two things. It's known for stadium Swim, which is the pool

13:40

which has a makeshift sports

13:42

book by proxy out there as well

13:44

and screens, and then the actual bricks and mortar

13:46

in house. It's the greatest sports book in the world. The

13:48

whole hotel is around the

13:51

sports book, if you will. That's a number one I would

13:53

say the sexiest ones on the strip. Just in terms of

13:56

the screens, the win is

13:58

pretty tough to beat with its sort of like stock

14:01

market, midtown Manhattan kind of feel

14:04

to it. I'm trying

14:06

to think besides the wind, like, what is the uh,

14:08

what's the hottest looking one? I mean, Cosmo

14:10

has beautiful screens, but it's small. Cromwell

14:13

has nice but it's small.

14:14

I think you got to go with the iconic Caesars and even

14:16

Mirage.

14:17

Caesars is iconic, Yes, Mirage

14:19

too.

14:19

Wow, the Mirage. The screens they are

14:22

very very they're fading very fast.

14:24

They're getting down to that Blaggio level,

14:26

which is amazing that the MGM

14:29

is not updated the screens at Blaggio forever.

14:32

Do you remember when the Bolagio was the place

14:34

to be for It was.

14:35

Just incredible, no doubt, And

14:37

part of it when the Bolaggio built the two new towers,

14:40

it got overcrowded. So it used to be you'd walk

14:42

through there and you'd see the Chiluly stained

14:44

glass, and you'd see and and go to

14:46

the Blaggio Boom free, the fountains

14:49

free, spectacular, the

14:52

atrium you walk through spectacular

14:55

free, you see the stained glass spectacular

14:57

free. There's three things right there that I would

14:59

go there to see. And then I walk into a

15:01

new resort. I don't want to pick on anyone, like the

15:04

Fontflau and how they f't it all up and

15:06

there's like nothing. There's like one like

15:08

panel of things that like

15:11

you like like like flows and there's

15:13

a cool chandelier. Well you know what, there's a cool chandelier at

15:15

Cosmo and it's better.

15:16

Yeah, let's talk about Found Blue for a segment, because

15:18

Okay, we talked Steve you famously

15:21

on Twitter. I did as well on a numbers game and on the po

15:23

not so much on the podcast, but on a numbers game. F

15:25

one was a just a

15:28

disaster. If you're a local if you

15:30

live here as beautiful as it was the night

15:33

of the actual race, and it was gorgeous to look

15:35

at it. It was a great postcard for

15:37

the city of Las Vegas.

15:38

They made our lives horrible for

15:40

six months one point three billion impact.

15:42

I'm still waiting to see the breakdown

15:45

of where the gaming revenues and the

15:47

room revenues and the enhancement

15:50

to the economy is bringing, because I've heard

15:52

all types of businesses say, you know, look, our

15:54

business was down thirty percent because no one came to us

15:56

anymore. Yeah, you know, just in that corridor.

16:00

It feels like places like the Win The

16:02

Win, which were on brand with F one

16:05

as like a really wealthy brand.

16:08

They made out well. But you're right, most

16:10

of the properties like a New York and New

16:12

York let's just say they didn't

16:15

get shipped from this event.

16:16

But no, but god, they got the disruption and their

16:18

employees like all showed up twenty minutes

16:20

late for work every day because their commute

16:22

was an hour from Summerland instead of twenty eight minutes.

16:24

So we thought after half one and by the way, it's a ten

16:26

year contract, these get broken all the time. We expected

16:28

to go on I don't know what, one or two more years and then

16:31

it'll go away. That's the convension. Who knows

16:33

you're you're not, you're shaking like you don't don't know.

16:35

I don't think so. I think that enough people

16:37

that pay

16:39

the coffers, that employee enough people that MGM

16:42

or MGM resorts when

16:45

Venetian, those companies did make

16:47

enough money and they pay enough employees

16:49

here, they pay enough in tax dollars

16:51

that I think their their

16:54

voices stand a little bit louder.

16:56

So I would not be surprised your your

16:59

thoughts are are fair, given

17:01

you know everything else that happened

17:03

to it, you know, but does it twenty percent

17:06

speak louder than the eighty percent?

17:08

That's really the question. And I kind

17:11

of hedged towards the

17:13

casinos where they

17:17

seem to get what they want.

17:18

I'm gonna disagree because

17:20

I've spoken to like the casino employees and they're

17:23

so distraught over this. And I see the

17:25

revenues and maybe it's slightly higher

17:27

for the for the elite places. So but an MGM

17:30

only has a few elite places and then the rest of it's

17:32

like the New York New York et cetera. I'm

17:34

gonna go to the Clark County Commissioner and Jim Gibbons,

17:37

and here's I am certain

17:39

that there's relationships with these construction companies

17:42

and the people actually doing all this work and making their

17:44

lives miserable, that those people are making

17:46

a whole bunch of money, and there's a tie.

17:48

Into the commission.

17:48

And I've actually famously said I could become mayor

17:51

in this town.

17:51

I could run from here that on that

17:53

one.

17:53

Promise, on the one time we'll eliminate f one

17:56

racing on the strip, that no other promises

17:58

int your life. Anyone who works on the strip or

18:00

visits the strip would say, of course, I'm voting for you,

18:02

even though you say stupid things on Twitter.

18:03

That's right. It could be a one policy

18:06

guy.

18:06

But I talked to my buddy Nick, who was running as a council

18:08

member, and he educated me. He says, Steve, the mayor has

18:11

nothing to do with this. It says all the Clark

18:13

County Commission's decision. And

18:15

you know what, if they have relationships

18:18

with some of these local construction companies,

18:20

which I'm sure they do, what's that what's

18:22

that line to like you all the rest of you are just guests

18:24

in my town.

18:25

Yeah, just remember giving and for guests

18:27

here.

18:27

To further sort of support your points.

18:31

The set up time for the first F one race

18:33

was nine months. Yes, the future

18:35

is only three months. So when

18:38

you're looking at construction companies,

18:40

maybe having a little

18:42

bit too much influence in the first year, maybe

18:45

that goes away is there's less time spent building

18:48

out the track.

18:48

I'm gonna set. I'm gonna set the over under at two

18:50

at three and a half total number of

18:52

F one races that happen here, so two more

18:55

tops, I think.

18:55

And people were miserable and people who came

18:58

in August there was so much construction.

19:00

The tourists were miserable.

19:01

That they're that they're like literally like I

19:03

arrive at the airport and it's taking

19:06

me like thirty eight minutes but to get to but

19:08

you know.

19:08

But you know what the issue with that is that

19:11

the average daily rate for hotel rooms

19:13

went up. Hucket been seen did

19:15

not go down.

19:16

But it went down. It they thought it was going to be here,

19:18

it was.

19:19

It was huge. It was They broke records

19:21

in November for room rates.

19:23

The Super Bowl is going to break records for room rates.

19:26

Again, but it's only for three days. The experience

19:28

is only enhanced for three days. And I know, but the month for

19:30

the month. When you're looking at corporations, they're

19:32

looking at quarter revenue. So

19:35

what your what your what

19:37

you're talking about? I think there's apples

19:40

and oranges here.

19:41

But how can you attribute I'm going to go apples to apples?

19:43

How can you attribute November one revenue

19:45

to be? How can you say F one helped enhance

19:47

that when the race was was November you

19:49

know, nineteenth.

19:50

I agree, they they the game. The

19:52

Gaming Commission

19:55

does not break it down by day. They break it down by month.

19:57

Well there's a reason for.

19:58

That, and I know that, and and and also

20:00

the bottom line is like the rising tide lifts

20:02

all boats. Like like you guys were mentioning,

20:04

people have all this there's all this loose money

20:06

that's running around. The economy is good and people

20:09

like just across the board

20:11

are spending more and more money. So of course the revenue

20:13

went up in Vegas in the fall. You know what, it would

20:15

have gone up if they would have canceled like three conventions.

20:18

I mean people were still gonna come. It was

20:21

also go off F one

20:23

because it happened, all right, but it was also the

20:25

weekend of how those

20:27

crosswalks, right, They they covered

20:30

all the crosswalks, so god forbid,

20:33

you could catch a glimpse of their silly race

20:36

if you were just a tourist walking on the strip

20:38

or across the strip, and then on

20:41

top of that, shood you away

20:43

aggressively if you dared

20:45

even linger for a second to see

20:48

if you could get catch a glimpse of it. It

20:50

was just what's the opposite of pitch perfect?

20:52

Assholeish? That's what it was.

20:54

Yeah. The different thing if you look at the

20:57

NFL and the way they're treading Las Vegas,

20:59

and I think we would probably move on from this. But the

21:01

way they're treating Las Vegas, they're

21:03

treating it so much better than the Corporation

21:06

of F one did, and F one needs

21:08

to take notes and get more involved

21:10

so they can at least and they should

21:13

be explaining how they're and why they're doing

21:15

things. And they really look for a cash

21:17

grab, it seems like for that first year,

21:19

but they really have to get back into

21:22

it. The NFL is planting trees around

21:25

the city that they beyond the

21:27

Allegiance Stadium where the game's going to take place.

21:30

Just to involve themselves with the community.

21:32

They're putting on events for charities and things

21:35

like that. They're doing so much more for

21:37

Las Vegas than F one did. And

21:40

if one really needs to look in the mirror, and

21:42

it just the way they try to do businesses of corporation.

21:45

And just when we thought F one was going to be the worst

21:47

thing, along comes the

21:51

final construction and the finally

21:54

the opening of the Fountain Blue, which

21:56

is what twenty years in the making since they

21:58

started construction on this. Now the Fountain

22:00

Blue is an

22:03

iconic Miami hotel. Those who Miami

22:05

remember, you know, will know the Fountain Blue as

22:07

this great hotel on Collins Avenue

22:09

in Miami Beach and it's awesome.

22:12

But they have a casino

22:15

now in what you

22:17

know the Strip. For those who are somewhat

22:19

familiar with Vegas, the northern

22:22

part of the Strip is generally considered

22:24

to be the win or let's say, Resorts

22:26

World, and the win on that side. The win is

22:28

a dog leg right from south to north

22:30

if you're in golf terms, and the north part is

22:32

the win and the southern part is

22:34

Mandalay Bay. That's generally considered

22:37

the Strip. I know we call the south point tip of the Strip, but we

22:39

were just joking around. So that's

22:41

it. But if you go north of the win,

22:45

it then becomes this no man's

22:47

land area all the way to the stratosphere

22:50

and it is considered not a wonderful

22:52

Now people are like, what do you mean. It's just north of it. No one

22:54

goes there, and that's where the Fountain

22:56

Blue is. And Stevie, I'll

22:58

let you start, which is when a new

23:00

casino happens, like Derek Stevens. We're here at the

23:03

d which is owned by Derek Stevens. He also owned Circa.

23:05

He was pitch perfect

23:08

when he opened Circa, ingratiating

23:10

himself in every way to not only the

23:13

customer, but also to all of the old

23:15

Vegas heads that have been here

23:17

for decades before him, because he had to

23:19

combat, let's face it, you're all

23:21

our guests here kind of attitude that exists

23:23

here. God, could the

23:25

Fountain Blue have done any things worse?

23:27

Yeah?

23:27

And you know across the board, So starting out, Steve Wyn

23:29

told you how to build.

23:30

A parking garage.

23:31

All right, So if you go into Treasure Island

23:34

or you know, the wind and it's just laid

23:36

out right. So the font blue parking garage is laid

23:38

out completely wrong. You can't one. You don't even

23:40

know where to go if you didn't. But I did

23:42

my homework. I knew turn on Elvis Presley Drive.

23:45

So I get into the South parking. Then

23:47

I get screwed because I park and I consider

23:50

myself not to be, you know, a genius

23:52

or or a stupid person. I'm like somewhere along

23:54

I usually and most places can walk once

23:56

I park the car and find the casino without

23:58

like literally I don't know which way

24:00

to go. There's no signage, there's no nothing, and

24:02

so I'm getting progressively angrier and angrier,

24:05

and finally I figure out how to go, and

24:07

it's like there's these fire doors and I'm like,

24:10

I feel like I'm in the old Cortel's downtown.

24:12

You know.

24:12

It's like it's like why did Why

24:14

is this like the worst parking garage

24:17

on the strip. And they finally break through.

24:19

I'm like, Okay, now I'm gonna enter the casino.

24:21

Nope.

24:21

Now it's like the registration area and there's and I've already

24:24

walked a third of a mile and I'm still

24:26

a fourth of a mile from the casino. So you know, right

24:28

off the bat, I'm in. I'm agitated, I'm

24:31

angry. It's like, how can they spend four billion

24:33

dollars and not put a sign to tell Dumbo

24:35

me how to get into the casino. And

24:38

you know, it's funny how places

24:41

you talked about getting all

24:43

the social influencers everyone to do positive

24:45

reviews. This is documented in the book

24:47

Super Casino when when they opened

24:49

up the Luxor, they screwed it up and

24:52

they didn't comp the taxi get cab drivers like

24:54

to the shows and the like, so everyone bad amount

24:56

the Luxu. This is nineteen ninety three and now

24:58

we're in twenty twenty four and these guys still

25:00

screwing it all up across the board.

25:02

You stayed there, Mark, I did.

25:05

I so I

25:07

My experiences have been a little bit different,

25:09

but not entirely different with the garage. When

25:12

I went there the first the day it the

25:14

day after it opened the because it opened at

25:16

midnight, so I went the next day. I

25:19

parked as soon as I could because I

25:21

heard car stories.

25:23

Of getting out right like it, So I.

25:25

Parked literally maybe

25:27

ten cars from the from the entrance exits,

25:30

because I'm like, I'm like, I can't be

25:32

dealing with this, so and

25:34

then you know, the walk is kind of similar

25:37

to the Venetian lengthwise from the parking

25:40

garage. That

25:42

part was was not so annoying when I did stay

25:44

there, though, I valeted. They have a great valet

25:47

service, but you got to pay for it. Even

25:49

if you're on the middle level,

25:51

you can only get complimentary valet of

25:54

their rewards program if during

25:56

the weekday. If you're on the upper middle

25:59

level, you get it free every day,

26:01

but it will cost you fifty bucks otherwise.

26:03

I believe the biggest thing is, though,

26:05

is that when you start a property here, when you open

26:07

a property, you want to do it the

26:09

Derek Stevens way. You want to ingratiate yourself

26:11

both to locals into the city.

26:13

Let's say, kid on a very important point with the luxur

26:16

and the parking garage two

26:19

different things. Derek does a great job

26:22

ingratiating himself with the right shair drivers

26:24

to get good word of mouth. They hold

26:26

events, They've held events for them in the past,

26:29

they held events for them, so they know where to

26:31

drop people off, where to come. They gave them

26:33

gift baskets, very very smart

26:35

intelligently to do it. Also, garag Mahal,

26:38

the name of the parking garage for Circa,

26:40

is spectacular and easy to get

26:42

in and get out. The horror stories I've heard

26:45

with Fountain Blue are people parking

26:47

on the upper levels and taking two

26:49

hours to get out of the garage, just

26:51

on a regular night.

26:52

By the way, let me just interject by saying I didn't intend to

26:54

start the show with all the negative with the high price

26:56

of Super Bowl and with

26:59

that one and with Fountain Blue, we have one more negative thing,

27:01

but we're gonna get to all the good stuff after that. But the

27:04

biggest thing about that is the opposite of deer.

27:06

Right. So you build a property like when the

27:08

when Virgin opened, Let's use that as an example.

27:11

Virgin opened. Hard Rock was this

27:13

iconic place for those of us when we were young with

27:15

the Lagoon Pool and that's where we went in this offstrip

27:18

and then the hard Rock which is going

27:20

to be at the Mirage here now the building that is the

27:22

Mirage coming up in the future,

27:25

whether they're going to have that iconic guitar in the middle

27:27

of the strip, or not remains to be seen. Now. The first renderings

27:29

had this massive guitar, but the hard rock became

27:32

virgin. The virgin quote

27:34

unquote opening was one of the

27:37

most depressing things ever. Mark

27:40

and I were there. I all of

27:42

the ghosts from the past hit me and

27:44

I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

27:47

They just basically put lipstick on the hard rock.

27:49

Was an awful opening, but the Fountain Blue took

27:51

it one step further. They just showed up

27:53

and they're like, we're gonna charge

27:55

thousands of dollars for you get

27:57

a table at our crappy sports book,

28:00

and we're gonna charge like minimums. Right. Why

28:03

did they think they could just show up

28:05

and do that?

28:06

So the try to get in the

28:08

mindset of the people that are operating in

28:11

whether it's whether it's right or wrong, the one they're

28:13

fired or the ones that's yes. Exactly,

28:16

four people for Big currently

28:18

four executives are gone. They have a new president.

28:20

I believe that has to go before the Nevada

28:22

Gaming Control Board to get approved.

28:25

They opened a minute ago.

28:26

So here's here's what happened. And I look

28:28

at this property similar to the to

28:31

the way I looked at the Cosmopolitan when it first

28:33

opened. They're trying to create an

28:35

atmosphery or of luxury in

28:39

their minds. They're offering in a luxury product

28:41

on par with win Now.

28:44

Now, now, whether or not we agree with

28:46

that, just get in their mindset and try

28:48

to understand the way they why they're

28:50

doing what they think is the right thing for their

28:52

business. So when the Cosmo

28:55

opened, that was a similar thing. They wanted

28:57

to go for the young, rich people luxury

28:59

property, and

29:02

they did that for about four

29:04

or five years, maybe without ever making

29:06

profit. Then they sold the property,

29:08

hired a new person

29:11

to oversee the company from MGM

29:13

Resorts, Bill McBeth I believe

29:15

was his name, and he flipped things around.

29:18

He moved the sports book from the first from

29:20

the second floor to the first floor, removed

29:22

a bunch of slot machines. The

29:24

video poker bar at the sports book makes

29:27

more money than

29:29

the one hundred and fifty slot machines that used

29:31

to occupy the area.

29:34

Restaurant. Point right, every people,

29:36

But it took them five years to get to that point,

29:38

is what I'm trying to say. And today now i'm

29:41

GM owned it, and who knows what's going to happen.

29:43

I understand all of that.

29:44

So all that to say, they're

29:46

trying to create something that I don't know

29:48

that there's a need, want,

29:51

or or budget for.

29:53

They're dumbos.

29:54

They're dumbos because anyone who walks through the

29:56

Winn or the Encore, the

29:58

beauty, yes, and the and

30:00

just the little details, the parasol down

30:02

bar, it's a place I want to spend and lose

30:05

all my money.

30:05

Yeh see, Steve, the win in the Encore is still

30:07

the only place in town where when I enter

30:09

it, I still feel like I don't live here and I'm

30:11

on vacation.

30:12

Yeah, whereas I'm amazed. I walk in the font

30:14

Blue and I'm sorry. It's like it's

30:17

like New York, New York. It has nothing.

30:19

It has the ambiance of a Miami airport.

30:21

In nineteen seventy three.

30:22

I walk into the high Limit room limit

30:24

five hundred dollars, three hundred dollar, three hundred dollar minimums,

30:27

not one person gambling. I asked them, you know,

30:29

like I'm in high limit rooms rooms all the time.

30:32

The circuit at, by example, has one hundred dollars

30:34

and five hundred tables. They even open up some fifty

30:36

dollars tables when they're slow, and I'm like,

30:38

why don't you have some lower tables and they said,

30:40

oh, well, well my boss said that

30:42

that it has to be a three dollar minimum. And I'm like,

30:44

well, your boss is an idiot, and no one is going to

30:47

gamble here and he or she will be the next

30:49

one fired.

30:50

So again thinking about their mindset

30:52

again, not not my the way I

30:54

would do things, but the way they're looking at is

30:57

they want to have an exclusive

31:00

customer that is not walking over

31:02

from Circus Circus, you

31:04

know, or from New York, New York. They want

31:06

that.

31:07

Again, none of those people are gonna are

31:09

gonna go there. They're all agree

31:12

Mark and understanding that though that shows

31:15

such a lack of knowledge of their lay

31:17

of the land. Yes, right, Like it's like that

31:20

it doesn't take that long for them to realize,

31:22

oh, we're not exactly in the best part

31:25

of the strip. We're that's not

31:27

gonna succeed. So even if that's in their mindset,

31:29

how can that be in their mindset after like ten

31:31

minutes.

31:32

And I don't even like Resorts World, but I

31:34

like it way better than the font blue.

31:36

So that's exactly that customer. They're looking for

31:38

that that maybe.

31:39

You give them more comps than they can be an RFB,

31:42

you know with you, and maybe they have to pay it when they're

31:44

gonna go to Resorts World because it's a better location.

31:47

At least it's a little bit closer to you know, to

31:49

this. You can just walk across the street. Is there. I'm with

31:51

you, all right, last

31:53

negative thing, and before we get to the good stuff,

31:56

I can.

31:56

Tell you a lots of good stuff about Funtain Blue. If you

31:58

want a good stuff, give us

32:00

good So everyone there is great, very

32:02

nice people, very nice staff. They plucked

32:05

some of the best people from

32:08

the strip, so that's a good thing.

32:11

Fair during prices. I think I

32:14

paid sixteen dollars for an Angel's

32:16

Envy. Cocktails are somewhere between

32:18

sixteen and twenty, which is fair for the

32:20

strip. Food

32:24

was decent, as I shared

32:26

with you yesterday, Pappy Steak, the over

32:29

the top club steakhouse mark. That

32:31

is the most ridiculous thing I've ever

32:33

seen in my life. But people are loving it.

32:36

And they're not influencers, are not paid

32:38

people. They're just people that are going for

32:40

that vibe. Meanwhile, I went downstairs

32:42

to the normal traditional steakhouse

32:45

dons. It was good. It was good. It was expensive,

32:47

but it was good.

32:48

Mark sent me this whole video from a place called Poppy

32:50

Steak. Pappy Pappy, I've seen

32:52

it. Yeah, yeah, I would be screaming

32:54

at them, give me my goddamn steak already,

32:56

like stop with the show, give me my steak. But

32:58

you're saying you could do that. Yeah, so, Rich,

33:00

I can a fort one thousand dollars old steak.

33:03

Honestly, that is what they do. It's like the five

33:05

hundred dollars somebody you've referenced this the other

33:07

day. To me, it's like the five hundred

33:09

dollars that they used to have at the Paris Burger

33:11

place, you know that kind of thing. It's it's you

33:14

don't have to get that. But if you're one

33:16

of those people that does enjoy bottle

33:18

service at a club where they, you know, run

33:20

around with sparklers and have your name on

33:23

on a placard, that that's there for you.

33:25

Okay.

33:26

So you know, my experience there was

33:28

was totally fine. I was very open to

33:30

it. It was very crowded

33:32

because it was forty eight hours on Christmas

33:34

Eve and Christmas Day, but as a jew.

33:37

Those are the assignments say you get.

33:40

Why aren't you, by the way, why aren't you doing like the

33:42

the Instagram thing like these guys like these guys like

33:44

why can't you do a video? And at the end of it, everyone to

33:46

go Vegas MACKI MA.

33:48

Yeah, I got no time for that.

33:49

You got no time for that? Okay, last negative

33:52

thing. This is back to the sports bett well, no, back

33:54

to the sports better and then I promise

33:56

you will get some good stuff apps the

33:59

average sport it's better. Who's familiar with the apps?

34:01

In New Jersey or in Illinois or

34:03

whatever state you're betting in and you're coming

34:05

to Vegas for doesn't have

34:07

to be the Super Bowl March maadis maybe just a random NFL

34:10

week And the expectation

34:13

is is that you're going to have

34:15

a similar experience and to

34:17

this date and we're doing this at the end of January

34:19

twenty twenty three, just a market to

34:22

this moment that

34:24

ain't that ain't reality like

34:26

our First of all, nothing is on a computer.

34:29

It has to be on your phone that's here

34:31

in Nevada. So that's the first difference.

34:34

The apps are generally

34:37

horrific Caesar's up until

34:39

this moment. Caesar is just making a change now, so

34:41

the jury's still out. But up until this moment, the

34:43

Caesar's Nevada app is the most frustrating

34:46

app on God's Green Earth BETMGM.

34:49

Nevada has just changed to a new BETMGM.

34:51

The outlook looks good, but we're

34:54

a little too soon, like the date of this podcast

34:56

is a little too soon to actually have proper judgment

34:58

on either of those.

34:59

Oh I didn't like initially, but maybe that's just

35:01

a gut. I got to learn how to navigate.

35:03

Me too, me too. I give it a little grace for that. But

35:05

generally speaking, we don't have

35:07

so, we don't have DraftKings, we don't

35:09

have fan Duel. They are not in the state

35:12

of Nevada, so you're you know,

35:15

your experience with having hundreds

35:17

of options for random

35:19

games just doesn't exist

35:21

here. And I don't know what your advice

35:24

would be to them, Steve, Because getting back to my friend Tommy,

35:27

I don't think Tommy is going to download

35:29

a station's app. I don't think Tommy's

35:31

downloading the boyd app because they're

35:33

not. I'm sorry you, sir.

35:35

You didn't touch on the most annoying thing

35:37

for for tours, and that's in person

35:39

registration for the app.

35:41

Okay, yes, because funding you

35:43

got to actually physically give.

35:44

You money, but only the first time. After

35:46

that you can use uh. I believe it's play plus.

35:49

You can fund through through the app, but the first

35:51

time. And I called the time

35:53

out for you because you mentioned offstrip properties.

35:56

If people want to go to the Westgate or the South

35:59

Point or to Station because he knows,

36:01

you know, for their app, they have to physically visit

36:03

those properties. Not doing that, Open

36:05

the you know, register for the account, open

36:08

the account, tenn up for the Players Club, all

36:10

of that so they can get the good odds that are

36:12

available. Same with Circa at least Circa

36:14

though now has five different outlets

36:17

where you can go. Tuscany right near to the

36:19

street is awesome, or Silverton.

36:21

Now I'm at Tuscany all the time making bets

36:23

there.

36:23

Yeah, it's it's a great option, but sorry sorry.

36:25

Intercentcas

36:27

opened twenty four seven. A lot of these apps

36:30

like like, what's this? You limit

36:32

a zero? It's after ten pm a night, It's right.

36:35

The app is not open twenty four to seven,

36:37

so I guess what all I'm saying by that is, if you're

36:39

coming in from out of town, just

36:42

know that frustration is

36:44

in front of you. If you have a high bar

36:47

it just just set the bar low and

36:49

just just think of it as

36:51

a bricks and mortar experience. That would be my advice,

36:53

Like, don't even bother with the apps at this point. Now, this

36:55

could be like a month from now. That could be different. We could be like,

36:58

oh my god, these are so great and you're like, no,

37:00

no chance. MGM is so great. But right

37:02

now, as of this moment, it ain't great with

37:04

the apps.

37:05

But you know, I feel like we've talked to all this negative stuff,

37:07

but we got all this positive.

37:08

So here's the positive stuff. So let's start with the positive.

37:10

But we'll get to restaurants. Let's start with Steve.

37:12

You are the the king of the hack here. I don't want

37:15

to take any thing away from Mark because I know he knows how

37:17

to hack it to But this guy right here, oh my.

37:19

God, he's another level from any human

37:21

being.

37:22

This dude has changed

37:24

my life. What

37:26

would Let's start at the beginning, and let's

37:28

think about a person who's coming into town.

37:31

What is your first bit of advice to them. So

37:33

the gyms are free.

37:35

So you can go into several there's several gyms,

37:37

there's no gatekeeper anymore, and go

37:39

into the rio all the way up to the

37:42

Caesars Palace. Just walk in like y'all

37:44

in the place. You got to sign and so sign your

37:46

name and walk in and work out. No problem

37:48

at all. World class gym,

37:50

all complimentary. You can be staying at El Cortez.

37:53

You can work out at a some gyms

37:55

you can't, and some gyms you can. See just learn

37:57

this is post COVID. What happens. They scale

38:00

so much on the staffing and they never hired anyone,

38:02

so there's just no gatekeeping going on. And

38:04

frankly, nobody works out when they're in Vegas. So you get

38:06

to work out for free at a world class facillita.

38:08

It's a beautiful thing. You and I meet at Caesars all

38:10

the time. We just hang out there. Yeah, to

38:12

work out. Besides

38:15

gyms, I

38:17

just give I'll give the floor to you because I know. Let me just start

38:19

from my experience with you. One of the very

38:21

easy things that Steve has taught me is that

38:25

the best comp program for sports better. Specifically,

38:27

we're talking out. The best comp program in town is

38:29

Caesars. Right, So for years I would

38:31

make my tennis bets and I'd kind of be like, I don't

38:33

really want them to know that it's me. And

38:35

Steem's like, you're an idiot, And he didn't really

38:38

say that, it's right. He's right. He's like, you're an idiot.

38:40

Go to Caesar's. Look at all these things. I get

38:42

well, all these points. And I was like, oh my god, I am an idiot

38:44

and I should have been listening to you all these years. So

38:47

like the very basic thing, and I'm not even seven

38:49

stars. Seven stars is the highest, which you are. I'm

38:51

diamond elite. But I get four

38:54

drinks for free every day. I'm not

38:56

a drinker, right, some people use it for alcohol, but

38:58

I can roll up to Caesars every

39:00

day of my life and I do right

39:03

and grab today. I'll have

39:05

two Gatorads and two Apple Juices, or

39:07

I'll have four Fijis or whatever.

39:10

I know you're waving negative ev go to

39:12

Starbucks, get your super duper

39:14

mocha, saucy voss.

39:16

Steve does.

39:16

That's Steve and that and that's your bank.

39:19

But you do every day.

39:20

Yeah, So I park in the Seven Stars

39:22

VI I p vl A, where they just how good

39:24

is this?

39:24

It's un flamingo.

39:25

They leave my car right up

39:27

front.

39:28

Its beautiful.

39:28

They don't even drive my car, so they just hand me

39:30

the keys and say, you're right there, mister, mister

39:32

fick, right between the McLaren and

39:34

the Lambeau. You can go ahead

39:37

and get into get into your sedan,

39:39

and and and and I've got my So

39:42

you cut the line. You can cut the

39:44

line plane poker and cut the line cab like cab

39:46

if you have to take it, or cut the line like at Starbucks.

39:48

Okay, but let's be clear. To get this status,

39:50

you have to bet there.

39:51

A lot, yes, and and there's but there's four vehicles

39:54

to get seven stars. Really, sports is

39:56

the best example. Last years Caesons offered

39:58

heads tales is one hundred you get beat

40:00

heads or tails.

40:01

Or you get bet both. You get bet one hundred thousand on

40:03

heads. You've got one hundred thousand tips.

40:05

If you have money, you can become seven stars just

40:07

by not winning, but by not losing

40:09

making bets like that. And they have all kinds

40:11

of tier credit bonuses if you bet over

40:13

ten thousand or twenty five thousand or fifty

40:15

thousand, they double what your tier

40:18

credits.

40:19

Nothing to do with winning, just being active, just

40:21

being active exactly. And they deal

40:23

live wagering.

40:24

They deal so many different ways that if you're

40:26

a sharp sports better you can get

40:28

and you know, disappoint

40:30

Todd's not with us today, but Todd's very good

40:32

with live wagering, giving you suggestions.

40:34

You don't have to win, just have to break even, you know, to get

40:37

to get all this stuff. You also can

40:39

if you're a good blackjack player. They've got good blackjack

40:41

roles. You can play blackjack. They have good video

40:43

poker. Ninety six jacks are better. You can

40:45

play video poker.

40:46

To go ahead, and again you stack this stuff.

40:48

You wait till there's an event and they're giving away

40:51

really good stuff and you get all these

40:53

drawing tickets while you're getting all these points and

40:55

you're accumulating and the like, and even

40:57

just being a diamond. And you can't become a diamond

40:59

in a day. In a day if you're hell

41:02

bent on it, you're styling. You got a

41:04

free vacation of the Bahamas, my friend, you can.

41:06

You can go to paradise in the Bahamas.

41:08

Atlantis, Yes, and stay for free

41:11

now don't have to gamble a nickel.

41:12

Do you agree with me that five years from now we

41:14

will look back at this conversation. We'll be like, remember

41:16

when they used to give out free trips to the Atlantis

41:18

in the It's unsustainable.

41:21

It's unsustainable.

41:21

It is it is so good to you know, just

41:24

and I like Hawaii better than the Bahamas quite

41:26

a bit better.

41:26

Yes, yeah, but I but Hawaii's twelve hundred

41:29

to night. But free is free, and free is free.

41:31

Heel is free, and so if you're on the East Coast especially,

41:33

and it's so easy to get.

41:34

To wish Nev right, he has

41:36

a free flight, like everybody gets a free

41:38

flight into Vegas and out if you get the

41:41

certain status. This is all Caesar's, by

41:43

the way, leaps and bounds ahead

41:45

of every other comp program when

41:47

it comes to sports betting, because if you go to any other casino,

41:49

like it's pennies on the dollar, but

41:52

like Caesars is actually substantive. That's not as substantial

41:54

as it was a year ago, we have to say.

41:56

And they're good even if you're not a sports better across

41:58

So like with locals giveaway, it's you

42:01

you get fifty credits. Boom, you go

42:03

in and pick up you know, your your your

42:05

nice liquor bottle that they're just giving away to locals

42:07

each and every Friday.

42:09

They really do a fantastic job.

42:11

So Caesar's is your vehicle

42:13

to getting the best bang for

42:16

your buck as a gambler.

42:17

Now, the trip to the Bahamas, the flight in

42:19

and out of Vegas, that's all seven stars. That's

42:22

the highest status. But

42:24

like Steve says, there's a way to game that where you come on

42:26

the on the weekends where you can

42:28

sort of game the game. Now, if you don't have that kind of

42:30

flexibility, and most people don't, it still

42:32

is a matter of when you come with your buddies for a weekend

42:35

or whatever. It is, just go

42:38

crazy at caesar specifically

42:40

if you if that's where if you if you're like all

42:42

things being equal, you're deciding, hey, where should I

42:44

stay? Go to with Caesar's property, so

42:47

you and you don't have to stay there.

42:48

But everybody use one card, don't use

42:50

four cars, right, everybody gambles on

42:52

the same card, and then you'll all stay and

42:54

that way you can get a room Compton.

42:55

You can all bundle into that room together.

42:57

And that's good advice for no matter what pro

43:00

like. If so, if you're at MGM rewards

43:03

their program, focus your spend

43:06

at that property, at their properties,

43:08

because you're going to get the most bang for your buck. You

43:11

know, whether it's the same level or not as

43:13

Caesers, that's you know, that's up to you to figure

43:15

out. But wherever

43:17

you are, if you're looking to maximize your

43:20

comps, focus on where you're

43:22

going to get the best rewards. If it's Caesars, that's great.

43:24

If it's Win that's great too. If it's

43:26

a resorts World, you know, whatever.

43:28

Venetian has a new program starting up next

43:31

month. So wherever it is, just

43:33

focus your spend. I used to as

43:35

a tourist, I used to always spend

43:37

more where I was staying because I knew I could

43:39

get comps for the places I want to be, you

43:42

know, as opposed to you

43:44

know, putting my I could spend five

43:46

hundred bucks upon a Hollywood instead of one

43:48

hundred dollars at New York, New York plan of Hollywood

43:51

and uh down on the line, you know, Treasure

43:53

Island, Venetian, whatever, and you're.

43:55

You're screwed in Vegas, if you're not VIP,

43:58

you're done so and even if you're rich, you're

44:00

not going to get treated right because like you go, if

44:03

you don't have status, you're waiting in line for an hour, even

44:05

if you're getting like the Presidential Suite and paying through

44:08

the nose for it. Whereas as soon as your

44:10

Diamond Now you're checking in the Diamond registration,

44:12

yeah, seven stars, seven star registration,

44:15

No, you cut the line completely. You're

44:17

checking in at eleven am. You could get your

44:19

late checkout at two pm. Across

44:21

the board, I would much rather

44:24

be a seven stars at Caesars and

44:26

stay at the wind even though the I say Win is

44:28

slam dunk five stars, greatest

44:30

hotel and Caesars is a four star.

44:33

But you know, the VIP Caesars grave way

44:35

better than when.

44:36

Great way to put it. And even in the most simple

44:38

things like go just make it relatable. If you're

44:40

here on a Sunday morning in a football game and you're like, oh

44:42

my god, the line is fifty people

44:44

deep. I got here too late. Even if you're diamond

44:47

delete you go right to the front of your own

44:49

specific line, right. You know, the

44:51

Starbucks thing with seven stars is a whole nother matter.

44:53

But that but that's like a specific thing

44:55

for sports betting. It's like you go right to the front line,

44:58

like you cannot put a price tag on it. You cannot.

45:00

Gronkowski is waiting for Starbucks and I'm

45:02

and I'm going to the front.

45:04

That's right.

45:05

Well, the pores can just order advance

45:08

on their phone and not have to wait online New

45:10

also or that Starbucks. But that's that's

45:12

a different story.

45:13

I feel like we almost like wet ahead of ourselves

45:15

because Ace used to say this on them when he used to do the Vegas

45:17

lifestyle with us too, which is I think the average

45:20

person, like where again to use the expression

45:22

too close to the sun? I think the average person

45:24

doesn't necessarily even get again,

45:27

trying to use Tommy as my example, forgive

45:29

me Tommy when he

45:31

comes to Vegas and he plays blackjack, I don't

45:33

even know that he knows that he should

45:35

be getting raided at all times.

45:38

Like that's maybe where we should have started

45:40

with all this, which is you should always

45:42

be letting them know what you're

45:45

doing.

45:45

I'm going to give an advanced concept. Okay,

45:48

this is this is an over the top flying

45:50

elbow. If

45:53

you really want to All right, Yeah,

45:55

you go in and you buy in for a thousand dollars at

45:57

blackjack table, right, they ask for your rating card.

45:59

You say, I'm just gonna play for a couple minutes, which would you

46:01

think would be a mistake, But it's not. Okay.

46:04

So let's say you win five hundred dollars,

46:06

you're happy, you cash out, you win your five hundred

46:08

dollars, You go to the next table, rinse, and

46:10

repeat, same thing, only gonna play for a

46:12

little while.

46:13

But let's say you lose five hundred dollars.

46:15

You know what, I think, I'm gonna stick around a little while and

46:17

then you pull out the rating card and you give it to them.

46:19

So what does this do? You will become the world's

46:22

worst blackjack player in the city, never

46:25

ever, ever, ever win.

46:27

All you do is log losing sessions.

46:30

So you can imagine, now the theoretical

46:32

will say, your THEO, I'll be using

46:34

your card all the time. Your THEO says he should have lost

46:36

sixty eight dollars, Whereas the way you

46:38

play, theo's gonna say he should only have lost forty six

46:40

dollars. Because they're going to getting raided like three quarters

46:42

at a time. But when you but this guy

46:44

lost twenty two hundred dollars. So if you get a host, he's

46:46

like, if he's got a art, it's like, oh, we got to comp

46:49

this guy a meal here, come on, you know, we got

46:51

to give him a break on his room rate.

46:52

Your THEO being your theoretical for

46:54

those who don't know what he was talking about, not a not

46:56

a dude named THEO who shows up on it the

46:59

h that that is that that's my favorite

47:02

version of Steve Vesick is the because Steve is a

47:04

is a pros pro gambler, but his

47:07

ability to act like a

47:09

dumbass is one of his greatest strengths.

47:11

And that's that's a very fundamental example

47:13

of that. Oh I can be stupid. Oh you

47:16

you you've done it here in the last forty eight hours,

47:18

right, don't you do it all the time, all the time. It's

47:21

it's a sun to behold all

47:23

the tricks. What's another trick where you're like, you're

47:25

where You're just talking about one at the south Point where you were doing

47:28

Maybe I'm mistaking it, but you were, but you literally

47:31

anything you can do to show that you're

47:33

the world's dumbest gambler is

47:35

an advantage play.

47:36

Yeah, So as an example, if you're playing blackjack,

47:39

I you want to make some

47:41

mistakes. You don't want to play perfectly because the computer

47:43

will then say he's you know, he's not a winning player.

47:45

You know, and maybe you aren't if you do enough of this. But

47:48

like one of my things, I always ensure when the deal is an ace

47:50

up, I missplay one thirteenth in my hands.

47:52

That's it.

47:52

That's a crushing disadvantage. It's a big mistake

47:55

to ensure. But I don't ensure.

47:56

So do you You literally have a thing in your head where

47:58

you're like, well, it's about time for me to do something stupid.

48:01

Yeah.

48:01

Yeah, So so like I'll

48:03

use an example, and they don't sure for the fallout, They ain't sure

48:05

for less, so it doesn't cost me that much. I double

48:07

for less twelve against a three. If I get twelve

48:09

against the three, I double down for a dollar

48:12

or five dollars. It's incredibly stupid

48:14

that yo, doubling down hard twelve and it is

48:16

incredibly stupid.

48:17

Yeah, but it's not. It's not actually

48:19

that stupid.

48:19

Like if you do it for five bucks, it costs you like a dollar in expectation,

48:22

and so think about that, you're literally tossing

48:25

a dollar to the wind to look really really

48:27

stupid, because it is stupid. But there's

48:29

plenty of other things people do that are incredibly

48:31

stupid that Like they'll stand on a seven

48:33

against a nine with a five

48:36

hundred dollars betout that that probably costs

48:38

them like like an eight percent THEO. You

48:40

know that they probably cost them forty bucks to make that one

48:42

decision.

48:42

It doesn't even look stupid. Bringing this back to sports

48:45

betting, do you ever do this in your app? So

48:47

like Jay Rudo used to be the vice president of race in Sports.

48:49

My good friend over at MGM, he

48:51

used to say to me, with all my heat, with all the

48:53

tennis best, he's to say, gill throw in like

48:56

a really stupid NFL parlay

48:58

just to keep them off. Do you ever

49:00

do that kind of stuff? Yeah?

49:01

And in fact, my buddy Pastrami is always on

49:04

me. He's like, gosh, darn it stopped like getting

49:06

a new account and firing in live the

49:08

first week. You should just be betting every NFL

49:10

game forty dollars forty four

49:12

to forty on each and everyone. You know

49:14

what, go ahead, and buy a half point

49:16

because it's so incredibly stupid to

49:18

buy half points that like by definition

49:21

if you're buying one.

49:22

Yeah, that's one of my pet peeves too.

49:24

It's like they we become like an

49:26

industry where like people like like they

49:28

love to parlay big money line parlays and big underdog

49:30

parlays and buy half points and these

49:32

non wong teasers, and I'm.

49:34

Like, literally, it's not me.

49:36

I'm like, I'm like, go get one hundred geeks from the University

49:38

of Chicago that bet sports for a living. All

49:41

one hundred will tell you all of those items

49:43

are incredibly stupid.

49:44

Yeah, yeah, this is just this was just

49:46

again another method too. If in the in

49:48

the world of limitation, right in the world

49:50

limity and cover yourself by the way

49:52

the nickname Pastrami? Is there anything better than that?

49:55

Is that a great? How what do you like to be known as Pastrami?

49:57

That's awesome? Call me more to

49:59

Dell from Good.

50:03

I used that name because his last name is

50:05

is a Deli sandwich. So I used a different Deli

50:07

sandwich.

50:08

His last name is Uh.

50:11

I had a Tony Clifton

50:14

Dealy sandwich yesterday. It was pretty good. Over

50:16

Durango.

50:17

Oh okay, we'll get in that momentarily. Uh,

50:19

do you have anything to add? You look like you were rich in to say something.

50:22

I kind nothing anything else. Steve

50:24

with like in terms of like again, what's

50:27

a quick So so you gotta in

50:29

order to get these status these statuses,

50:31

is that the pronunce is that the plural of status

50:33

is statusies you. Uh,

50:36

you do have to just

50:38

make sure you are getting rated

50:41

for everything, make sure you are

50:43

getting points. So what happens with like a Caesar's is

50:45

you have, uh, on the one hands, you have

50:47

tear points to get you to the other statuses, and then

50:49

you're also accumulating rewards points.

50:52

Yes, so with rewards points. I went

50:54

with Debra Song fashion stylist to Nobu

50:57

same night that Stevie's with his lovely

50:59

wife and child, and I

51:02

could speak for Steve without even knowing them. None of us

51:04

are paying a thing because we're all using our rewards

51:06

points at no boo. So we you know, when you accumulate

51:09

all these rewards points, you have these amazing dinners

51:11

and stuff. The drinks

51:13

that I was talking about, which are just four free

51:15

drinks that has nothing to do with your rewards points. They're

51:17

just like here, here are your drinks for the day.

51:19

Or pineapple Martin Yees valued it at twenty

51:21

four ninety five. Here you go, all

51:23

complimentary so well.

51:25

I used to say the greatest part of living in Vegas

51:27

was all the concerts and the easy accessibility,

51:29

which we'll get to. I think

51:31

this is just as good, Like this is the best part

51:34

of living.

51:34

In and you can and drinks are free. Like I was shocked

51:36

Market paid sixteen dollars for a drink because

51:38

drinks are free. How can I, like, I know, fun Blue

51:40

sucks if he couldn't get a free drink easy, because,

51:43

like I said, you walk to a crap say you.

51:45

Hand them one thousand dollars.

51:46

Yeah, but you're not going to get the same quality drinks

51:49

at the tables. I was playing pig out poker,

51:52

which is my favorite game of choice. I

51:54

asked what kind of bourbon they have for comps.

51:58

I can't remember. I believe it was Jim Beam

52:00

from the Gun was the best at

52:02

this luxury hotel.

52:03

Well, most of the VIP rooms

52:05

though, right, yeah, I don't from the VIP.

52:08

I have to apologize my money is

52:10

not as large as as yours, so you have to

52:12

I'm here playing at the quarter tables

52:15

at twenty five dollars tables large. I don't

52:17

have the I don't have the funds, and

52:19

neither do ninety nine percent of the people visiting

52:21

funds.

52:22

You just have to pretend to gamble.

52:23

You walk into the VIP area, you go to a craps

52:25

table, you buy in for five thousands.

52:27

Who's got five thousand dollars to buy in for?

52:29

Who has from Killy?

52:31

You're not gonna actually gamble what that? You're just going

52:33

to pretend you are. We should have established

52:35

that's that Steve is gonna Steve is not you,

52:37

and you are not Steve, and they're too right.

52:40

That's why I'm keeping quiet for the most part. Because Caesar's

52:42

hotels are dumps. But God bless

52:44

have a great time.

52:45

I actually think that the Caesar's Palace

52:48

wing where they have the Octavius.

52:49

Yeah, the Augustus is the nicest tower because you

52:51

feel like you're not at that shithold casino.

52:53

Well, the Augustus, the Augustus.

52:55

I love Caesars, but but you see the meltzer.

52:57

Meltzer from off the top row for real.

53:00

See the problem with mark is that he's never stayed

53:02

at the Augustus Tower.

53:03

I have that overlooked the fountains I have.

53:05

Okay, you say so, you you'd.

53:06

Agree that that's it's anctacular room,

53:08

right, it's a fine room.

53:10

Again, it feels like you're not in the casino, which

53:12

is God bless.

53:13

Is the is the Noboo Hotel?

53:15

Any good? In the middle of that.

53:17

Very nice rooms? Okay, you're

53:20

you're sort of in the middle of the

53:22

entire mega complex.

53:26

It's just too it's so big and because

53:28

it's been built up over the past fifty

53:30

years. Yeah, you know there's a tower here.

53:33

There a mile away, there's another tower a

53:35

mile away is a mall. It's just insanely

53:38

laid.

53:38

But wait, we have the seven stars cards.

53:41

So when we go into.

53:41

That like jumbo pool, how.

53:43

Much does it cost out of pocket for a seven

53:46

star status?

53:47

Nothing?

53:47

You just got a lot of sports. Just got a lot of sport.

53:49

That's it. You don't you don't bet with money. How

53:52

much money do you have to have in action?

53:54

Well, I tell you what, I'm going to throw this out

53:56

to you. I will I would welcome partnering

53:58

with you that we can play against these and

54:00

get you a seven star.

54:01

I don't want Caesar said, you're

54:03

out, yes, Ud, you know I've you know, I love

54:05

Gil, you know the Cosmo.

54:07

But going back, going back to like that seven

54:09

stars. So they have the seven Stars pool, which

54:11

is nothing special. It's not but it's

54:13

on like the third floor of the pool area. But you go

54:15

up there and it's like, like you mentioned, it's

54:17

true, Caesars is so enormous,

54:19

but now you're like, you feel like you're in a boutique.

54:21

Absolutely, I'm generally like you

54:23

where I have my favorite spots. And I was always

54:26

like, eh, Caesar's whatever, but like he's

54:29

so right, Like I mean, that's that's

54:31

the one. And I live right in the middle of the strip. So for me, it's

54:33

a sugar and if I don't take advantage of it, right.

54:35

Oh great, I see. I'm pisched.

54:36

You Dan.

54:37

Listen to me fifteen years ago when I started telling her about.

54:39

Mark, You're like Kramer.

54:40

You're like Kramer, You're directionally, you're right where fast

54:42

food sucks. And remember the episode with the Bad

54:45

Chicken where he's like Kenny Rodgers Roasters.

54:46

He's like, bad Chicken, stay away from

54:49

it. Stay and then he actually tries it.

54:51

And he's like, I'm hooked on the chicken, Jerry,

54:54

I love the chicken for the Acousta's tower.

54:57

The definitely not.

54:58

But yes, anything else on this

55:00

that you wanted to bring up for people or I we covered like

55:03

the basics. I think we covered it well.

55:04

It's better to be It's better to be a king at a

55:06

three star than to be a joker

55:09

at a four or five star. In the one place that I

55:11

think when I don't think all the hacks

55:13

in the world are going to help you with the win. It's so exclusive

55:16

and people you literally do like Mark

55:18

was metic, you have to have to gamble like a king, whereas

55:21

you can be fake, a fake big gambler

55:23

and get the top stats. The one thing I left

55:25

out the seventh star here's the beauty

55:28

which about other properties matching

55:31

statuses, so.

55:32

That which Fountain Blue didn't do, but

55:34

so Circa.

55:36

They will do it. I'll explain that after.

55:38

Free parking for Fezik at Circa just because

55:40

I show them all I'm a seventh star, so Caesars thinks

55:42

I'm a good customers said they do too, so they

55:44

give me like the Legends card that I can

55:46

park for free.

55:47

Go into Mirage. What's this. Oh you're seventh star.

55:49

Oh you're a VIP with us two.

55:50

And you know what, we appreciate you so much, even

55:53

though you've never gambled. We're going to give you two hundred

55:55

dollars in comp unity points.

55:57

And that's why you focus on one property,

55:59

because because that one thing can

56:01

get you access everywhere.

56:03

Right the Palms matches. You

56:05

go in the Palms, they have a little VIP area used

56:07

to walk in. By the way, you have a matching status, you

56:09

can free coffee, free donuts, free cookies.

56:11

By the way. I swear by the Palms like that,

56:14

the movie theater there, the food court,

56:16

the concerts venue, and some

56:18

nice restaurants do I swear.

56:19

By the end the free VIP room for you now, so

56:23

my registration, I'll show you.

56:24

Let's talk about some of the music. Also real quick,

56:27

okay, great venues here. The

56:30

one at the Palms is called what pearl,

56:32

pearl, Pearl, beautiful small venue. I

56:35

saw Babyface there, Tony Tony, Tony,

56:38

Christopher Cross like you name it. I've seen it

56:40

there. You're laughing at me, but it's my jam. All those people.

56:43

Then there's also, of course Bruno

56:45

Mars has a residency. He comes and goes.

56:48

Brutal Mars is the Michael Jackson of this generation. If

56:50

you haven't seen him, it is expensive. But if you have not

56:52

seen Brute Mars, you must see him once. It

56:54

is awesome. Besides

56:56

Bruno Mars, what would you say, is is Adele

56:59

doing her resident?

57:00

See here?

57:00

Still? Still I've still not seen every weekend

57:03

every weekend she does.

57:04

Yep, it's called weekends with the Dell Caesars

57:06

Palace. If you're a seven star guy, you should

57:09

you should know this by now.

57:10

They gave they gave me two free tickets to a Dell.

57:12

I didn't go see her.

57:13

I have to Well, can you guys please

57:15

go together and just record your just record

57:17

yourselves.

57:18

Do you imagine me and Steve Adel sort

57:20

of.

57:21

Rocking back and forth having a good old time.

57:23

That would be awkward, but

57:26

that's the the I again before you

57:28

know that? To me is the single greatest part

57:30

about living in Las Vegas is the accessibility,

57:32

the easy accessibility to great music.

57:35

Always as you two at the sphere, you two

57:37

at this. Of course I buried, we buried. The headline

57:39

the sphere is you know, when we talk about

57:41

iconic things. The sphere is that sphere

57:44

in Vegas amazing? It's amazing.

57:47

So what is it? Markets? LED screens,

57:49

every little tiles at LED screen at

57:52

the sphere and it makes for this amazing thing. And you too

57:54

as a residency there. I have still not seen them.

57:56

I've seen it. I don't even like the band,

57:58

but it was fucking amazing. You gotta

58:01

go the just the the

58:04

venue, the production of it all is

58:06

intoxicating. It's fantastic.

58:09

And are there some seats that are under

58:11

the overhang that they don't get the full experience?

58:13

Yes, it's almost impossible unless

58:16

you're on the bottom level the one hundreds

58:18

or the general admission, almost

58:20

impossible to see above you. But there's

58:22

so much in front of you that I

58:25

think it's a little overblown that you can't see

58:27

everything because you're just not seeing the roof right,

58:30

you know, like you're the But the video

58:32

screens do go that high so that if

58:34

you want, you know, if you're not wobbily

58:36

like I am and have you know, issues with balance,

58:39

you could really look all the way to the ceiling

58:41

right above your head and watch your production.

58:44

It's fantastic.

58:45

And in the further and like, if you're sitting far away

58:48

at a normal concert venue, you might you might be bummed

58:50

about it, But there at the Sphere you still get.

58:52

A lot of the Yeah, I said in a two hundred section,

58:55

which is sort of mid range on the price wise,

58:58

and I have the

59:00

band looked tiny, but the production of

59:02

it was so over the top

59:04

that, you know, being that far away, I didn't

59:07

feel like it was that far away, if that makes

59:09

any sense, because it was just it's

59:12

it's it's really just you

59:14

feel like you're just inside of this bowl

59:16

which you are, and the band is they're

59:18

performing, and you're watching a giant, a

59:21

giant spectacle beyond just a concert.

59:23

Katy Perry still doing Resorts World.

59:25

Nope, she's done. She's done.

59:27

By the way that no one told me I was going to a Broadway show.

59:29

When I saw that, I was like, what the hell are watching?

59:34

Big breaking news as we record

59:37

this? Dead and Company are did the next band

59:39

to do a residency at the Sphere.

59:41

I don't know who they are.

59:42

You don't know who the Grateful Dead are?

59:43

Oh, dead End Company, Dead in Company.

59:45

I didn't know they changed their name.

59:46

Yeah, well, I believe somebody

59:49

died from the band The Grateful Dead probably

59:53

years ago. I think they've been touring

59:55

His Dead and Company for years and they're

59:57

going to do two weeks of shows then with John Mayer

59:59

playing guitar, and then Fish'll

1:00:02

come in for four shows later this year as well.

1:00:05

Was it was that Sean was that in my ear? What is he saying about

1:00:07

the dead Jerry

1:00:10

Jerry Garcia, the late Jerry Garcia and.

1:00:12

Then one of the unappreciated music. I know that

1:00:14

both of you are, you know, so much

1:00:16

better with music, and and like I like

1:00:18

the tribute bands I liked. I think it's like cool

1:00:20

them at them and other places. I

1:00:23

enjoy those.

1:00:23

But that's that's the the greatest

1:00:26

part about Vegas is I related to San Francisco and San

1:00:28

Francisco. If like a big musical artist, let's

1:00:30

just take I'll take one that I'm like Luke

1:00:32

warm up Maroon five. Right. If Maroon

1:00:34

five is playing off the shoreline down you

1:00:37

know, the freeway in San Francisco all

1:00:39

the way down in the South Bay, I have to like

1:00:41

consider, like do I really want the hassle to go see

1:00:43

fucking Maroon But in Vegas,

1:00:46

I live in the middle of Strip it's like they're at Mandalay Bay. I'm

1:00:48

like, well, I'll roll out. I

1:00:51

could walk to them, right. So it's like, of course I'll go see it.

1:00:53

Lady Gaga, of course I'll go seere, she's right next door,

1:00:56

Anita Baker, Janey Jackson, doesn't matter.

1:00:58

I'll go see anybody. And what a does? It sort

1:01:00

of expands your musical horizons because

1:01:02

you're like Chicago Steely Dan

1:01:04

before Walter Becker, A'll go see oh seeing

1:01:07

them all doobies. Michael McDonald can't

1:01:09

sing anymore, but like all of these, all

1:01:11

of these groups, and that's what makes this so

1:01:13

if you come for a sporting event, try

1:01:15

to get a concert in us.

1:01:17

Beenzik reminded me of another positive

1:01:19

and Folm Blue. There's a bar called the Nowhere

1:01:21

Lounge. It's sort of hidden

1:01:23

by the elevators in a hallway, but they

1:01:25

have live music there for free

1:01:29

every night, and uh, you know, it's like

1:01:31

nice. It's like a jazz band kind of thing and

1:01:34

uh just nice, chill vibe.

1:01:36

I love the Blaggio as the piano player by the

1:01:38

Richnario, Like I love

1:01:40

casinos to give you something and like everything

1:01:43

they're just trying to take advantage of.

1:01:44

My second favorite bar in Vegas, that one right

1:01:46

there at the front of the Pititrozian. It's a great

1:01:49

place. It's a great place if you're a not

1:01:52

very big cigar smoker, but you want to smoke

1:01:55

a cigar because you're in Vegas. You want to do it up,

1:01:57

you know, in the old school way. You're

1:02:00

you're open enough so that your

1:02:02

cigar smoke's not going to offend anybody that's

1:02:04

nearby. So if you like me and you're

1:02:06

always concerned about offending somebody with your odor

1:02:08

of your cigar, you could sit out there

1:02:11

in the lobby. The drinks are great, the piano

1:02:13

is great, the vibe is just amazing. The Chiluly

1:02:17

glasses Fez said is right there. Outside

1:02:19

of that, it's just a great vibe. Chandelier

1:02:22

bar is also my favorite.

1:02:23

As you know, yes, the high end experience

1:02:25

is musical wise and fine dining in

1:02:27

Vegas. It's just I don't mind paying, you know, it's

1:02:30

I like, I like it, you know, I look at like I went

1:02:32

to the wind I went to Mazumi's, which is like

1:02:34

Benny Amahanas, but liked on steroids

1:02:36

like that much better. It was it was tremendous. I went to

1:02:38

Wingley at the at the wind every when

1:02:41

every restaurant at the wind Encore

1:02:43

is tremendous. You cannot go wrong.

1:02:46

A leg grows. I love is you know, to be

1:02:48

more casual. So there are so many like

1:02:50

we we did. We did the berries here at

1:02:53

Circle like like the which I thought was

1:02:55

spectacular for my meal.

1:02:57

I love.

1:02:57

I love that you have segued right into the restaurant's

1:02:59

full I like, well, but

1:03:02

you make a good point, which is with all the hacks that you

1:03:04

were talking about. So the the you know, someone listening

1:03:07

to you and be like, what a cheap bastard? Right,

1:03:09

No, we actually and I'll speak for

1:03:11

you too. I am thrilled

1:03:14

to spend money if it's fantastic,

1:03:17

I have zero problem with it. And

1:03:19

I'm sorry to have cut you off, but you the win you

1:03:23

brought up wing Lay. Wingley is like super high

1:03:25

end Shinese. The Duck is just on. Oh have

1:03:28

you been to I mentioned this last year on the show. I think

1:03:30

for the first time Delilah's.

1:03:31

I've not been able to get in yet.

1:03:33

So I've been a

1:03:36

few times. You know people, Yes

1:03:38

I do. Actually, it's the win Deborah

1:03:41

and I got the Booby Prize one time. So

1:03:44

in the summertime, there's indoors and there's

1:03:46

outdoors. One time we got the Booby

1:03:48

Prize of outdoors. And if you're going to be outdoors,

1:03:50

it's not worth going, so we were we were

1:03:52

a little miffed about that. Matt Brown

1:03:55

was on the waiting list for two months and they put him outdoors

1:03:57

like brutal. But if you're inside,

1:04:00

it transports you back to a different time

1:04:02

period into the nineteen like the Roaring

1:04:05

twenties. It's it's amazing. It's loud.

1:04:08

You sometimes have trouble hearing, so if you if that bothers

1:04:10

you, sorry, But the food is quite good

1:04:13

and the experience is unlike anything else

1:04:15

in Vegas. Excuse me, I know

1:04:17

there are other sort of what

1:04:19

do you call these places speakeasies or what they're

1:04:22

speakeasies, But they're.

1:04:22

Like dinner, dinner, theater, dinner theaters,

1:04:25

rightair, supper clubs, super

1:04:27

club, the right way to supper

1:04:30

clubs. Supper club over Mayfair

1:04:32

over is another one, but I wish

1:04:34

I have not been to.

1:04:35

But Delilah is fantastic

1:04:38

as a Vegas experience. The win is you're right, you

1:04:40

can't go right. The number one.

1:04:41

I don't think anyone could possibly disagree with this.

1:04:44

The number one dining experience. If you can

1:04:46

get the table on a like ninety

1:04:50

degree day and night's

1:04:52

falling, and you can go to SW Steakhouse and

1:04:54

you can get a table that's not outdoors.

1:04:57

It's not indoors, but it's adjacent.

1:04:59

It's like right where the sliding doors are. Yes,

1:05:02

that experience with that lake of dreams

1:05:04

right there and the big frog that comes out, it

1:05:06

is just world class.

1:05:07

Honestly, when we talk about the wind, I want to just

1:05:10

go there and hang out all day. It is really

1:05:12

the most beautiful.

1:05:13

Hotel's get comped. Cracker Show us How to Play Video

1:05:15

Pop one hundred thousand a week s w

1:05:17

SW.

1:05:18

We talk about steakhouses specifically on this show

1:05:20

for many years. I still rate SW

1:05:22

as one of my top steakhouses. It's funny when I say

1:05:24

that to some people. Some people object to it. I'm

1:05:26

like, I here's what I value in a steak restaurant

1:05:29

that consistently every time I'm going to get

1:05:31

a great steak. Now I'm a fill a guy. We've talked

1:05:33

about this in past. Usually order what

1:05:35

you order through your whole life. If

1:05:37

I go to Berries at Circa,

1:05:40

no offense because Circa's got a bunch of great restaurants.

1:05:42

What we talking about, Blake Barry's, I've had kind

1:05:44

of hit or miss with you. I had a hit, but I've had a miss

1:05:46

before there on my fil a. It was like a tendon in there

1:05:48

a couple times. Now. I don't want tendons

1:05:51

through my file at sw every time perfect on

1:05:53

Diamo's here at.

1:05:54

The d right where we're bloing, spectacular,

1:05:56

always fantastic, It's always great

1:05:59

and beyond, by the way.

1:06:01

So I have the win. I think we've mentioned every place at the

1:06:03

wind but at Circa that

1:06:06

so in addition of Berries, which is downstairs, was a take

1:06:08

place. The Asian Place is spectacular.

1:06:12

What's the name of eight eight eight it's

1:06:14

eight.

1:06:15

It's an offshoot of Latai, which is down

1:06:17

the street from the day the original.

1:06:20

It is second none.

1:06:22

It's fantastic, and

1:06:24

the Saginaw's the delis it's not cheap,

1:06:27

but it's it's excellent.

1:06:28

The Victory Burger not cheap excellence.

1:06:30

I don't love the Uh. I didn't love the the

1:06:32

Matza ball soup there at Saganaws.

1:06:34

But other than that, baby, that's

1:06:36

where you get the best mansa ball soup in a casino.

1:06:38

You know, this is a great point.

1:06:39

The El Cortes, it's a total dump, but

1:06:41

they have a Bugsy Seagulls. Seagulls is

1:06:43

a restaurant, is like a gem and they have like

1:06:46

like there there's a day I think Wednesday that's

1:06:48

like half price for fifty and olders to

1:06:50

go there. And their prime rib specials and

1:06:52

the like are really that's really there's

1:06:54

all around the valley. You know, there's really good deals.

1:06:57

We're talking about high end, but there's

1:06:59

something for everyone in terms of budgets.

1:07:01

Plus two twenty one tennis winter just came home. Yeah

1:07:04

pumped. Okay, So can

1:07:07

I just go through a bunch of restaurants here Strip

1:07:09

and non Strip and you tell me if you've been

1:07:11

in if you like, let's start with Okay, breakfast,

1:07:13

We've brought up Rise and Shine is off Strip. That's kind

1:07:15

of a place that we like to go to. If we're

1:07:17

talking about sushi off Strip and I know people

1:07:20

are like, hey, are you gonna give away the sushi spot. I'm

1:07:22

not. I have a sushi spot that I keep to myself, but

1:07:24

beyond the one that I love. The best sushi

1:07:27

to me out of out in this town Sen

1:07:30

of Japan. Sen of Japan,

1:07:32

which is out in summerland, Kabuto

1:07:34

on Spring Mountain. It's pricey, but

1:07:37

it's spectacular if you are a sushi snob.

1:07:39

Sen and Kobudo are two spectacular

1:07:42

places. Best buffet in town Bacchanal.

1:07:44

It's Caesar's another sort of Caesar's

1:07:46

perk. The Baccanal Buffet is food for

1:07:49

days, food for days. Yeah.

1:07:51

The one thing about the Baccanol is the line so long,

1:07:53

and if you've got your VIP staff diamond

1:07:56

or right right to the front boom and you're

1:07:58

styling. If you're me lover, I

1:08:00

think Baccanol goes the head of the class. If

1:08:02

you I think I find the ambiance

1:08:05

of the wind to be slightly superior. It's

1:08:07

a little bit of a cattle call with different lines

1:08:09

at the Boccanol, with all the different lines for the seafood

1:08:12

and the like.

1:08:12

You are one hundred percent right because the Winds

1:08:14

Buffet is right below that, but healthier,

1:08:18

quite as good, healthier.

1:08:19

And then one other option. I'll

1:08:21

give you a Texas D Brazil which is not

1:08:23

in a casino. It's a Brazilian steakhouse.

1:08:26

I personally my family like, we love

1:08:28

Texas deepouse. Wow, what's it called Texas

1:08:31

D Brazil A Texas de Bras. It's one of

1:08:33

those Brazilian steakhouses where they come

1:08:35

out with with the lamb and the like and they cut

1:08:37

it off the off the bone and say

1:08:40

would you like some full at would you like some bacon wrap,

1:08:42

chicken, et cetera. And it's in the fact, it's

1:08:44

in the mall that's right where the two

1:08:46

fifteen and the fifteen are spite D you

1:08:48

mean D D E or just Texas

1:08:52

the letter D apostrophe Brazil.

1:08:55

If you're looking for the old school mafia

1:08:59

rat Vegas experience. Terms of restaurants,

1:09:01

Pieros which is right next to the

1:09:04

West Gate, which is where they film part

1:09:06

of Casino, and the Italian American Kitchen,

1:09:09

which is well it's Sahara. Yeah,

1:09:11

okay, those are off strip. In terms of like

1:09:14

I talk about some on strip properties. Best

1:09:18

lunch value in town Melos still to

1:09:21

me, which is now at the Venetian, no longer

1:09:23

at the Cosmo. I prefer it at the Cosmo, but still

1:09:26

a great lunch deal Park

1:09:29

MGM Bavets. You and I have had

1:09:31

a steak there before. The greatest bread

1:09:33

in town, maybe Bavets.

1:09:35

The secret tip that very few people

1:09:37

are familiar with is the burger there is

1:09:40

super super expensive. It's like thirty five

1:09:42

bucks good, but it is phenomenal.

1:09:45

It is like appointment appointment

1:09:48

burgers. It's so expensive

1:09:50

though, you're only going to have a maybe once a year at

1:09:52

the most. But it's become a destination

1:09:55

for my friends whenever they visit

1:09:58

now to make sure that we have a one of

1:10:00

those burgers in there. It's

1:10:03

just so great and there and uh,

1:10:05

if you if you've been to the Vest, there's

1:10:08

a speakeasy so to speak,

1:10:10

in the back where you can't even you don't even

1:10:12

know there's another bar, but there's a

1:10:14

bar all the way in the back to the left

1:10:17

has some tables, some bar seats,

1:10:20

so you could just sit up there and you know, walk up

1:10:22

and eat. If you don't have a reservation, there's

1:10:25

good call and you can and there's a couple of

1:10:27

tables down there as well. So if

1:10:29

your last minute idea, Hey heard

1:10:31

about that burger, just see if you can get

1:10:33

a spot at the bar.

1:10:34

Look at you. I didn't know about that. Also,

1:10:37

Park MGM is a smoke free casino. It

1:10:39

also has Italy for those in New York City.

1:10:41

You know, really cool play, really cool play

1:10:43

to see the Vegas Gold Nights.

1:10:45

That's weirding, that's right.

1:10:46

They also just opened there.

1:10:49

The Nomad Library is really good, nice place to

1:10:51

catch a drink. They just hope there's a

1:10:53

new food truck. Cuban,

1:10:57

John Favreau and Roy Choi are

1:10:59

the the brains behind it, so to speak

1:11:01

from based on the movie Chef. So

1:11:05

that's the that's the concept. They basically

1:11:07

pulled out maybe thirty slav machines

1:11:09

and just put a truck right opposite of the

1:11:11

High Limit Room.

1:11:13

No. I was gonna say, I hadn't been there in a long time, and the nd season

1:11:15

NBA Tournament was there, and I was walking through it and I'm like, what the

1:11:18

but there's a food truck in here now it's great.

1:11:20

Mark, How do you feel about the old school gourmeet rooms?

1:11:22

I love you Go Seller and the Four Queens or

1:11:24

Circus Circus Steakhouse and Circus Circus and

1:11:26

you're walking through Circus.

1:11:27

And you're like what a dump. This can't be good, but

1:11:30

it is a really good rest uh my.

1:11:32

Stake the last I haven't been there in a few years,

1:11:34

probably since before COVID. The

1:11:37

price was has gone up exponentially

1:11:40

to where it's now not really the bargain

1:11:42

for going into that dump. Oh so

1:11:45

it's not quite the same and you're gonna

1:11:47

pay the same price you would add Circus Circus

1:11:49

that you're gonna pay maybe

1:11:51

not a win, but maybe at the Venetian for steak.

1:11:54

And so if you're like our buddies that are like,

1:11:57

I want to go to the nice place. I want to go to places

1:11:59

I want to be. You know, are you gonna

1:12:01

go off your beaten paths to Circus Circus?

1:12:03

Are you gonna go you know somewhere that you want

1:12:05

to go?

1:12:05

You know?

1:12:06

Are you gonna go to s W.

1:12:07

And this is random, has nothing to do with anything we're talking about.

1:12:09

Are you familiar with this? Like R and B place

1:12:11

by the stratosphere, we're like to have vinyl

1:12:14

records. We got to look into that.

1:12:16

That's you got to look into that. But

1:12:18

by the way, speaking of expensive

1:12:20

but always delicious bizarre meat is just

1:12:23

it is. Yeah, it's a It's considered

1:12:26

a steakhouse, but to me, it's a meat It's

1:12:29

a treasure trove of meat, and it

1:12:31

is and it's very expensive,

1:12:33

and the menu is so intimidating

1:12:36

because it's so large. But if you have

1:12:38

that's it. Sahara used to be the SLS

1:12:41

used to be Sahara, then it was SLS. Now it's

1:12:43

Sahara again. But it's one of the best

1:12:45

restaurants in Las Vegas, and it's one of those

1:12:48

just experiences that you're not going to

1:12:50

get anywhere else.

1:12:51

That's a great point. The only thing I will recommend

1:12:53

there is let the let the

1:12:55

server pick your food. What I'd

1:12:58

like to do, because if you try to navigate a

1:13:00

menu, it actually annoys you.

1:13:02

If you tell them you have a budget of X

1:13:04

amount of dollars, suspend, they will feed

1:13:06

you eight courses of divine

1:13:09

meat and maybe even a little foig

1:13:11

wah cotton candy.

1:13:14

That that is The Instagrammers love that

1:13:16

little uh thing of eating little

1:13:18

baby rabbits.

1:13:19

You know I would be remiss.

1:13:22

Rabbits wait fatal

1:13:25

attraction stuff.

1:13:27

The best two ounces of food

1:13:29

you will ever consume. Gil knows where I'm going.

1:13:32

The beef wagu tacos at

1:13:34

Nobu. I defy anyone who

1:13:36

doesn't feel your down mark.

1:13:38

You agree, I've never had it, it's because

1:13:40

but but now that I know it's available,

1:13:43

I will. I will approve somebody taking me

1:13:45

to Nobu.

1:13:46

It is I'm available

1:13:49

it Literally, I like, I'll

1:13:51

have just two of them right along with the yellowtail

1:13:54

and and and and whatever else. And

1:13:57

the next day I'm like, oh, it's

1:14:00

so good food.

1:14:01

That makes you think about it. And I don't mean in a bad way,

1:14:03

I mean think about it a good way.

1:14:04

The next day it makes you realize American Wagoo

1:14:07

is trash, you know, compared to like the real

1:14:09

wagu where it just melts in your mouth

1:14:11

and it is just so delicious.

1:14:13

So we're screwed. There's no good deals, there's no cheap

1:14:16

eats that's good in town. Aymar. Yeah.

1:14:18

This. Here's some other staples from the show in

1:14:20

terms of strip restaurants. Carbone at

1:14:22

Aria, Oh yes, still is a faver. Still,

1:14:24

it's still my home game. Still to me, the best

1:14:26

atmosphere of any restaurant

1:14:29

in all of Vegas. It's Motown till ten,

1:14:31

it's hip hop afterwards. Yardbird,

1:14:33

which is an old staple on this show, the Fried Chicken

1:14:36

and the Waffles and the water melon over at Venetian

1:14:39

Mott thirty two over

1:14:42

at Palazzo. Got

1:14:44

to add that one this year. Pretty damn good

1:14:47

all across the board. Off strip

1:14:50

for those who want to venture, because I got

1:14:52

to put these in in Summerland

1:14:54

if you want to venture that far. A place called Adima

1:14:56

by edo An I am a.

1:15:00

I am a by ed O ed Oh,

1:15:02

that's a chef's name. Really

1:15:04

really good if you're a foodie. And

1:15:07

my, oh, by the way, one more strip oyster

1:15:09

bar, it's Palaestation. We always mentioned that too.

1:15:12

Fourteen seats in the middle of Palestation. Get

1:15:14

the pan roast. It's incredible. But

1:15:17

two more off strip Esther's

1:15:19

Kitchen. I've heard it in the Arts

1:15:23

district of downtown. It is

1:15:25

my favorite non strip restaurant

1:15:27

in all of Lost movies. Have you ever been? It

1:15:30

is so good. Just

1:15:32

get the spaghetti, just just rate

1:15:35

the bread is fantastic. Just get the spaghetti and

1:15:37

meatballs. It is so good. And

1:15:39

then one I haven't been to, which I'm hearing is like the

1:15:41

next off strip place to go to, Sparrow

1:15:44

and Wolf. I'm told by people is fantastic.

1:15:47

It's been one of the most popular local spots

1:15:50

for about five years.

1:15:51

Yeah, I've never been Rye.

1:15:54

I don't know that herbs

1:15:56

and Rye is the place that we've talked.

1:15:58

Great happy hour, you know, half priced pretty

1:16:00

much all day.

1:16:01

Just turn up the blights for God's sakes, I can't

1:16:03

see my steak.

1:16:05

Sorry, you should order just more

1:16:07

bloody. The blood the blood

1:16:09

shines, man.

1:16:09

I literally, could you turn on the lights a little because they almost

1:16:12

even a meeting. Yeah, they have a steak happy

1:16:14

Were there anything else I have missed on?

1:16:16

So some favorites of mine on

1:16:18

the steak side. Carver Steak I still over

1:16:21

Resorts World. We went there. It's probably my the

1:16:23

newest steakhouse that I love. Speaking

1:16:26

of like new and old stuff.

1:16:29

Just the first place I went after my father died was

1:16:31

with you to the Carver Steak that.

1:16:33

We're supposed to go that AAMA with e Bay

1:16:35

eighty oh whatever years ago. But

1:16:38

yeah, but the uh, the

1:16:41

vaginant stylist was not able to make it, so

1:16:44

we were not able to make it. Scotch eighty at Palms

1:16:46

is a I think an underrated steakhouse that

1:16:50

used to be the nine. Yeah, I guess yeah, that's

1:16:53

an underrated one. I still like Strip

1:16:55

Steak over at Mandelay Bay Andiamo,

1:16:57

I think and never. You cannot

1:16:59

say enough good things about Hendiamo.

1:17:02

And it's at the d and it's downtown. It's

1:17:04

a great option here. Oscars is also

1:17:06

downtown. That's a solid, a solid

1:17:08

steakhouse. That's Bill Lady spot. John

1:17:11

Georgia is still one of my favorites. You recommended

1:17:13

to me years ago over at Aria great

1:17:16

steakhouse.

1:17:17

John George known for its uh what's

1:17:20

the short short? Amazing short

1:17:23

the short by the way Oscars which you mentioned

1:17:25

downtown.

1:17:26

The Burger Spectacular, yep, absolutely

1:17:29

years of many many years ago. Old friend Joe

1:17:31

forton Baugh and I destroyed Happy

1:17:33

Hour there and that burger as well. Destroyed

1:17:37

Loadus and Siam has a new location over

1:17:39

at bred Rock is sewed.

1:17:42

That guy ever became anything.

1:17:43

He went he went back to the least coast. He's

1:17:46

doing some some stuff with gambling. I don't know.

1:17:48

Lotus at Sion Loadus, Sion Staple.

1:17:50

The original is Great Red

1:17:52

Rock one over in Summer One which is near where

1:17:54

I live. Spectacular as well.

1:17:57

Leo at the Cosmo move remains one of my

1:17:59

favorite. It's it's a tapas place.

1:18:02

It's they have a nice little sangria

1:18:04

hour. So when it when it

1:18:06

first opens on the secret Pizza

1:18:09

correct on the second level of the Cosmo.

1:18:11

It's if it's secret,

1:18:13

how is that going to help me find anything?

1:18:15

Well, it's like it's the place with the line.

1:18:17

It's a long hallway.

1:18:18

If I can't find the pizza, then it doesn't help

1:18:20

me to say it's next to the pizza place.

1:18:22

The breakfast burrito at Overlook

1:18:25

Grill at the Cosmopolitan, it's

1:18:27

only available in summertime when the pool

1:18:29

is open. Don't get confused

1:18:31

because the Henry downstairs has

1:18:33

a breakfast burrito, but it's a traditional

1:18:36

fatty burrito that'll that'll

1:18:39

make you uh grow in the wrong

1:18:41

ways.

1:18:41

Correct.

1:18:42

However, this tight breakfast burrito

1:18:44

at the pool area is so delicious

1:18:47

and it's not overstuffed, which is

1:18:49

rare to find with the breakfast.

1:18:50

BURRITA meltzer and I'll go to the Overlook girl

1:18:52

that by the pool at the Cosmo. We've

1:18:55

had Todd with us before. They

1:18:57

make the guacamole right in front of you, which is not you

1:18:59

know, not range thing, but theirs is so good.

1:19:01

God, I hope Todd's not listening to this.

1:19:03

Oh no, he ate the entire freaking

1:19:06

guacamole bowl like he did. It

1:19:08

was incredible. And then the burritos,

1:19:10

you're right, they're great.

1:19:11

The breakfast Brido there is great. Also, dident type

1:19:13

Pung over Daria. It's

1:19:15

expensive, and you can find cheaper on Spring

1:19:18

Mountain in what they call the Chinatown

1:19:20

area, which is not really just Chinese,

1:19:23

but whatever, it's didn't. Type

1:19:25

fong me is just delicious.

1:19:27

They never get an order wrong. By the way, do you

1:19:29

like Ping ping Pong? Love Ping

1:19:32

ping Pong? Great? I think you're joking. It's great.

1:19:34

The next step is a couple of really

1:19:36

good deals. Hattie Bees at the Cosmo fifteen

1:19:39

dollars for a very filling meal

1:19:41

of chicken tenders, a couple

1:19:44

sides, and a drink, very

1:19:46

feeling. Ping Pang Pong is at

1:19:49

the Gold Coast, still one of my

1:19:51

favorites, and so I'll

1:19:53

give a price comparison. The

1:19:56

meal that I get at Carbone

1:19:58

with my friends person is

1:20:00

how much the entire meal for all of us

1:20:03

is at Ping Pang Pong differently, and

1:20:05

it's way different experience, but and

1:20:07

you're eating way more food

1:20:09

at Ping Pang Pong for the same price

1:20:11

per person at Carbone.

1:20:13

Pink Song is like the Christmas night thing for those

1:20:15

of us in the tribe.

1:20:16

Yeah, and also

1:20:19

in that area, rio Is has new owners

1:20:21

and they're renovating the property. I don't know if you guys

1:20:23

have seen this, please do they just

1:20:26

the first thing they've opened inside that's

1:20:28

new is the new food hall. They

1:20:30

have a Tony Lukes. It's a Philadelphia cheese

1:20:32

steak join but the all the prices

1:20:35

there are between ten and fifteen dollars for a

1:20:37

dish, fair price for off strip, but

1:20:40

the Tony Lukes, the pork sandwich there

1:20:43

as good as everyone from Philly says. So hungry,

1:20:45

it's so hungry fantastic.

1:20:48

Best show in town is still Absente, we

1:20:50

agree, Yeah, absinth that's Caesar's.

1:20:53

Yes, best melding of circ to so lash

1:20:55

in comedy, better than oh oh

1:20:58

is all sir.

1:20:59

I'm not a big show person because

1:21:01

they all bore me.

1:21:02

It is the only one I would recommend.

1:21:04

Okay, that's the only one I would.

1:21:04

Recom Awakenings and it was quite good.

1:21:07

Oh it was.

1:21:07

I give I give it high. Remind my guys that the wind

1:21:09

will be happy here. Anything else.

1:21:12

A couple of new restaurants coming away, all

1:21:14

Red Blake Shelton's Old, Red, Old,

1:21:17

Red, not old. Where's that outside

1:21:19

of the Horseshoe which used to be Balley's just

1:21:22

opened a couple of weeks ago. People are digging

1:21:24

that I'm not. I haven't been there. Country Music's

1:21:26

not my thing, so I'm not really in

1:21:29

a rush to get there.

1:21:31

What do you have?

1:21:32

What a Burger the Texas fast food

1:21:34

chain is opening near where you live. Yes,

1:21:37

where Bobby's Burger Palace used to be, sort

1:21:40

of by the Waldorf Astoria area. We

1:21:44

have another Gordon Ramsey Berger and another

1:21:46

Vendor Pump restaurant going into Flamingo

1:21:49

later this year, so you

1:21:52

know they're the restaurants. There's a couple of new

1:21:54

ones at Mandalay Bay, but it's

1:21:56

a lot of the same faces and names that you've

1:21:58

heard over the years, over the

1:22:00

recent past ten years or so.

1:22:02

So for for all the negative we had at the top,

1:22:05

it is still when it comes to music and food,

1:22:07

the greatest place on earth.

1:22:08

Yeah, there's there are so many good restaurants,

1:22:11

and like you said, the one thing to watch out

1:22:13

for is, you're gonna pay more

1:22:15

money on the Vegas Strip because it's

1:22:18

the tourist trap. It's a tourist area. Eighty

1:22:20

five percent of visitors you know, will so

1:22:22

or something to that effect, will stay on the Vegas

1:22:24

Strip. Prices are way more money, and like

1:22:26

you said, I don't mind paying more

1:22:29

more money. I think you both said this if you're

1:22:31

getting a quality product, and

1:22:34

there are places that will not deliver

1:22:36

you quality product for those high prices.

1:22:38

So it's live and learn, it's talked

1:22:40

to people. It's find

1:22:42

out where you're gonna get the best bang for your buck, because

1:22:45

not everywhere. That thirty five dollars burger

1:22:47

is not going to be as good as Bavets

1:22:50

at every burger joint.

1:22:51

Yeah, go ahead. As I say, speaking of which Peter Luger,

1:22:53

which is a staple of Brooklyn another they didn't

1:22:55

have a great burger there at this time, and.

1:22:57

The burger in Brooklyn is top

1:23:00

not that gotty that got me into

1:23:02

fancy burgers.

1:23:03

Mark.

1:23:03

I got two go to places I go when I want to

1:23:05

be cheap phasick again, and they are specifically

1:23:09

Ellis Island, the coffee that are the barbecue.

1:23:11

I find the barbecue to be exceptional. And then

1:23:13

South Point from midnight to six a m.

1:23:16

Four ninety five burger. They have all these specials.

1:23:18

I've never gotten a bad beal with these

1:23:20

these late night specials.

1:23:21

And the Ellis Island is specifically.

1:23:24

The Southwod What is that? Where is the burger at the South Boy

1:23:26

four from midnight to six am? Where

1:23:28

though?

1:23:28

At the Yeah in the cafe and

1:23:30

the Corona del Mar Cafe.

1:23:32

I like that Corona del Maark, I think, yeah, yeah.

1:23:34

The thing with the Ellis Island everything there's

1:23:36

cheap, it's it's fantastic. The barbecue

1:23:38

stuff, everything you're going to get is under twenty bucks

1:23:41

and crap.

1:23:41

They do their own beer. They've got their own root beer,

1:23:43

which is it's the best root.

1:23:45

Pater in town.

1:23:45

During the holiday season, they have the egg. People

1:23:48

travel into into Las Vegas

1:23:50

just to get their hen their homemade egg nod.

1:23:53

It's a half mile walk from the from the Horseshoe.

1:23:55

It's not bad at all. Right right down Flamingo,

1:23:57

it's on you, right down Flamingo on Covid there.

1:23:59

Yes, it's where the f ones go. They know what's

1:24:01

up.

1:24:01

Oh, they know what's up. That they do gentlemen,

1:24:04

I love it. This is great again.

1:24:07

From Vegas hacks to restaurants,

1:24:09

to sports books to apps,

1:24:12

do what hotels have botched it? Anything

1:24:14

in between and of course again sorry about the whole Super

1:24:17

Bowl and March Madness thing, but it is expensive here.

1:24:19

That's just how it is.

1:24:20

But it's on the bucket list. March Madness. You must come

1:24:22

with your friends.

1:24:22

Oh yes, you must do it once.

1:24:24

It's a great experience.

1:24:25

It's first weekend.

1:24:27

It is the not even the first weekend, the first

1:24:29

two days Thay Sriday,

1:24:31

when there's sixteen games per day. Saturday

1:24:34

the first day, and a lot of people do if

1:24:37

you look at the five hundred dollars rate

1:24:39

that you're going to pay for a seed, it gets cut

1:24:41

in half on Saturday and Sunday because people are

1:24:43

like, we did the we did the full day

1:24:45

and it's insane. Now it's time to go home.

1:24:48

It's also it's also like

1:24:50

brings to mind, it's the beginning of summer, right,

1:24:52

It's like it used to be a lot.

1:24:54

Well, it's also spring break. It's the beginning

1:24:56

of pool season. It's really just

1:24:59

a some times it's even US

1:25:03

Irish Irish holiday. Oh why

1:25:05

st Patrick say, why am I blank? It

1:25:11

is it is just daya night. It's

1:25:13

so much fun, it is.

1:25:14

It is just a blast holiday.

1:25:19

No, you're right, Thursday and Friday the first

1:25:21

week, it's it's awesome. Now it has been colder as

1:25:23

the years have gone by. It hasn't been pul

1:25:25

pool weather the last but.

1:25:26

We got warming good.

1:25:28

You're you're it's you're getting older, it's not getting

1:25:31

cooler.

1:25:31

Oh, it's not true. It's not true. Uh.

1:25:33

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1:25:35

first, the first and the only back to back winner

1:25:37

of the Hilton Super Contest. Thank you, buddy, appreciate

1:25:40

it.

1:25:40

Thank you for having me on. And Ben and will Hill and

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1:25:43

They'll be back. Are you here?

1:25:45

I'm here, I'm available the pile.

1:25:48

I was joking that they he would determine if he's back

1:25:51

with no, No, they'll be here. And

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1:25:58

gets a little ordery on on Twitter. Hello, it's

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1:26:03

And again, your work is most often seen

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a travel zorc.

1:26:06

And where else Play USA?

1:26:07

Play USA? Okay you don't

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want to be one of those Instagram guys who does

1:26:11

the videos like policy

1:26:14

or whatever he says at the end of his videos.

1:26:16

Honestly, I'm so bad at video. I have no time

1:26:18

to shoot video because, as you've seen me, I've

1:26:20

taken one hundred pictures from the

1:26:23

valet to this desk.

1:26:24

Yeah, but don't those guys make bank though they

1:26:27

can? Okay, I want you to make bank.

1:26:29

Yeah. Fine, I'm from a different era of

1:26:31

influencer. But the Twitter influencier.

1:26:34

Era is gone.

1:26:34

We're now over to Instagram, YouTube and

1:26:37

TikTok and I'm over it.

1:26:38

We need to get beef, wagu, tacos at nobu

1:26:41

and not paid.

1:26:41

Yeah, let's do that, and then you share

1:26:43

that and then people question whether how

1:26:46

whether you're paid to post the

1:26:48

pictures of the food.

1:26:49

Yeah, but those guys are negative too. I want

1:26:52

you to be like the honest one.

1:26:53

There are no honest winter all.

1:26:55

Well, I want you to be that.

1:26:56

They're all shysters.

1:26:57

Steve Fasick, Mark Meltzer.

1:26:59

Wait end on a negative note, kill Alexander.

1:27:02

Thank you. That's the thirteenth annual

1:27:05

Vegas lifestyle podcast Man's

1:27:08

Guide Decend City, a tradition unlike any

1:27:10

other. Our best to Marco,

1:27:12

who obviously has been a stable in his podcast for years. He

1:27:14

had a death in the family, and to Ace who is

1:27:16

joining him for that

1:27:20

on the East Coast, who couldn't be on. We miss

1:27:22

Ace being on this particular episode. Hope

1:27:24

we said something that is of value. Good

1:27:27

luck with all your bets beyond that, Thanks

1:27:29

for listening.