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Gambling Arcades, Vegas Deals & Remembering Dolly Parton · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to Wisecracks. Bill Krackenberger, John Orlando,
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  Speaker 1: over here at Circa. Look at the sportsbook. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people over here signing up today with the proxies. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's busy. It's getting busier because we're getting down to
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  Speaker 1: the third week of preseason. Here we have a couple
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  Speaker 1: weeks away until the start of regular season. And speaking
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  Speaker 1: of which, I was talking to Scott that we had
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  Speaker 1: on the show, Vegas Horse Pools, who was a great proxy,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. He's so meticulous. So Vegas Horsepool on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: I was asking him some of the same questions that
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  Speaker 1: I asked about getting your picks in on time and stuff. Scott,
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  Speaker 1: he said the same thing. I always wondered if you
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  Speaker 1: don't put your pick in. Does the proxy get a
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  Speaker 1: hold of you? He said, oh, we have to. And
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  Speaker 1: if I don't get a hold of you, I'm picking
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  Speaker 1: what I feel is the biggest favorite that you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have yet in your survivor, or I'm picking the top
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  Speaker 1: five in the other, in the other contest. So I
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  Speaker 1: like to hear that because, uh, even I have forgot
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  Speaker 1: to put picks. I'm embarrassed to tell you, I have,
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  Speaker 1: I was in a different contest in town and, um,
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  Speaker 1: I have forgot to put pics in. Even though I
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  Speaker 1: have an alarm. I put an alarm on my iPhone,
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  Speaker 1: my iPad. I even forgot to put pics in on
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like people listening to you hear that are
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  Speaker 2: all going, how could.
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  Speaker 3: You forget to put, it's such a big thing. How
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  Speaker 3: does it, explain how it happens.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get the advantage of last minute not
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  Speaker 1: knowing any information. So I always set the alarm for
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  Speaker 1: like a half hour or 45 minutes before the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Just so happens something came. I put snooze on it
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  Speaker 1: or something. I wound up betting a game. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a Saturday, college football Saturdays, and I
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  Speaker 1: messed up once. I did.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you along those lines because that's
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  Speaker 3: pretty interesting because things can change. People get hurt. They
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  Speaker 3: get scratched from a game or whatever. So that's your reasoning, right?
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  Speaker 1: So do you have a … And the lines move. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And in the circle of millions, the lines move. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have a.
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  Speaker 2: Backup pick in case someone, an injury gets announced or
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  Speaker 2: something every week?
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  Speaker 1: I don't really think of a backup unless something does happen.
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  Speaker 3: So you think of it in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: You have to think instantly.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Or sometimes if I was between two picks, I'll use
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  Speaker 1: the one. Okay. Yeah. By the way, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what that number says over there. J.H., what's that number say?
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  Speaker 1: How many people are in Circus Survivor? Without me turning around. $ 12, 443. $ 12, 443. $ 7. 5 million. Yeah, $ 7. 5
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  Speaker 1: million overlay now, but that's going to be... We're going
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  Speaker 1: to go over it by millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The millions still is probably some of the good value
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  Speaker 1: there in the circa millions. And, of course, the grandissimo.
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  Speaker 3: 29 entries in that one.
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  Speaker 1: There's 29 in there? There was 18 when we were
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  Speaker 1: here last week.
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  Speaker 3: Was it really?
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  Speaker 1: 11 more people have signed up.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of money, man.
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  Speaker 1: There are $ 100, 000 in entry.
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  Speaker 3: Most of those are groups going in, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't sign up yet. We have a group.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't sign up yet. You know, the guys from
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  Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach. Right. Oh, speaking of which, so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the fans of the show, if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: say that, I wouldn't have caught it. I say one
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  Speaker 1: of the fans of the show. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: reveal his name, but he doesn't want to be talked about.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, tell John verbatim, hey, Mr. Bill, tell
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  Speaker 1: John if he needs help buying part of your action,
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  Speaker 1: I'll gladly put up the other action.
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  Speaker 3: Is that my buddy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's your buddy. Well, it's your buddy that put
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  Speaker 1: up the World Series main event.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: He said he'll put up anything up to $ 30 or
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  Speaker 1: $ 40 for you. So he's going to be in town.
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  Speaker 1: I told him we'll take him to lunch or dinner
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  Speaker 1: or something. I love it. And he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: in town. So, I wanted to start off the show
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't. I went right into the subject matter
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  Speaker 1: there because we are at Circa here. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: it was going to affect me like it did. My
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  Speaker 1: dad was a big Dolly Parton fan. And he loves
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  Speaker 1: Reba McIntyre. He loves country music.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 1: Even my mom, who grew up with Doo-Wop from the Bronx,
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  Speaker 1: she wound up liking country music. I took him to
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  Speaker 1: go see the couple Faith Hill and.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw.
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  Speaker 1: God, terrible. Tim McGraw. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. I
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  Speaker 1: got them backstage. Wow. I had some good connections there.
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  Speaker 1: And they were such nice people.
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  Speaker 3: They were both very nice.
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  Speaker 1: They were so nice. You know, my dad was in
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  Speaker 1: a wheelchair. And Tim McGraw helped him out in the
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  Speaker 1: wheel to take a photo. I couldn't believe it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: Tim McGraw. And I probably didn't know who he was
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  Speaker 1: until that night. We were in a stadium. They sold
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  Speaker 1: out like a stadium. They were big back then. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if they are now. They were big. But
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  Speaker 1: country people in general.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Faith also had the NFL song for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 3: Before Carrie Underwood. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I didn't know that. I thought that was Hank
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  Speaker 1: Williams Jr. 's song. Or maybe it was a different song.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: The song before the games.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 3: NFL Sunday or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to read something by Johnny Katz, our
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  Speaker 1: local guy in town here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton said of our city, I've always loved Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: It's a magical place. It's a special, special place. To
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  Speaker 1: have the show come from there, it adds a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of energy and different kind of excitement whenever I'm there. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen some videos of her at the Golden Nugget
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  Speaker 1: with Steve Wynn, Frank Sinatra. Really cool videos made in
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  Speaker 1: some of the suites up top there. And when he
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  Speaker 1: signed her to a residency there, she was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be here. For Dolly Live in Las Vegas residency, she
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  Speaker 1: had to cancel it. She canceled twice, but she was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to come back and do it in September next month. Oh, man. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: May she canceled.
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  Speaker 3: Tiny little thing, too, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's the thing. I said to John when he
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  Speaker 1: came in today, I said, John, your dad has to
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  Speaker 1: know Dolly Parton. He said, no Dolly Parton? I said,
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  Speaker 1: of course she does. Of course he knows Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 1: And you opened up for her. Twice, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Once at Opryland in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: Like with the Grand Ole Opry? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. And once over at... She had a thing called
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  Speaker 3: the Dixie Stampede.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: In Branson.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Which was like a rodeo show you watch live.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And you eat right there while you're watching the thing,
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  Speaker 2: like a little box lunch they bring you.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. And I opened for her on.
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  Speaker 1: So you met her? Yeah, yeah, a bunch of times.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, super nice, yeah. And then she came to our
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  Speaker 3: show in Branson once and.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So your dad really knows her.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And... um, she was so charitable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, always having, someone just told me that she has
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  Speaker 1: a book thing in Tennessee that every kid gets a book,
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  Speaker 1: a book mailed to them every month. That was one
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  Speaker 1: of her charities. She has so many different charitable causes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not having children, not having a family. I'm sure that
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  Speaker 1: she's going to have a lot of, uh, she's very,
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  Speaker 1: very wealthy woman. Yeah. Hundreds and hundreds of millions, like
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Over half a billion dollars I read. And, uh,
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  Speaker 1: Born in a little one-room shack, which she recreated at Dollywood,
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  Speaker 1: I read.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like Dolly looked pretty much the way
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  Speaker 2: I first remember her, like probably when I was like
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  Speaker 2: seven or eight years old. I feel like she looked
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  Speaker 2: that way her entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable. John, she was on air a couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: It looked amazing.
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  Speaker 1: She was on air and looked great.
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  Speaker 3: Looked amazing. Certainly didn't look 80.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly didn't look 80, that's for sure. And, John, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I read something recently. Her publicist put out something, and
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  Speaker 1: it was actually her nephew. Dolly Parton made an emotional
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  Speaker 1: final request to the family before her death. Dolly Parton
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  Speaker 1: emotionally requested that she be laid to rest in a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful bed of plush cotton. That's what she wanted. After
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  Speaker 1: a life, this is her words, after a life of
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  Speaker 1: wearing heavy rhinestones... I think I deserve to be comfortable
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  Speaker 1: and be laid to rest in a bed of cotton,
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  Speaker 1: said her nephew and head of security, Brian Seaver, in
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  Speaker 1: an Instagram video announcing her passing. So he told viewers
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  Speaker 1: it was an honor mixed with pride and great sadness
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  Speaker 1: to share a part in all the years. Her husband,
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  Speaker 1: Carl Dean, who died two years ago, she was so
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  Speaker 1: dedicated to him. She didn't say what happened, but she said,
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  Speaker 1: me being so dedicated to him, I probably overlooked my
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  Speaker 1: own health. And I'm hearing that she had cancer. Sad.
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  Speaker 1: Really sad. And she was such a good person. So
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  Speaker 1: it actually affected me, thinking of my dad and mom
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  Speaker 1: and thinking of my dad and how much he loved
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Parton. He loved Dolly. So, John, there's a big
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  Speaker 1: thing in the room here I have to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what happened to Vegas Matt yesterday? It
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  Speaker 1: was revealed yesterday. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Wait, I read this. He got 86 from the Venetian.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I want to save over slots.
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  Speaker 1: So, this is an insane PR move. Who is in
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  Speaker 1: charge of the Venetian that wants to make money for
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  Speaker 1: their company? Like, this is a public company. Like, the
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  Speaker 1: board of directors and stockholders and shareholders. Vegas Matt's giant.
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  Speaker 3: Giant. He's a giant.
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  Speaker 1: Gets millions of views. Got millions of people that love him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever he goes. He has seminars. He gives them around
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  Speaker 1: the country.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Giant seminars. Brings a ton of people to casinos. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot believe how stupid these people are over at the
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  Speaker 1: Venetian to throw him out.
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  Speaker 3: So, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Venetian has games with meters on. Those meters are almost... Listen,
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  Speaker 1: almost every machine has a progressive. So... If you walk
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  Speaker 1: up to a machine, one has a progressive at a must-hit,
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  Speaker 1: or one has a, you know, let's not even use
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  Speaker 1: the must-hits. They have progressives. One is a Flaming Sevens machine,
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  Speaker 1: and it's up to $ 1, 239. The one next to it
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  Speaker 1: is $ 1, 749. The other ones are $ 1, 050, $ 1, 020. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to play the one that's $ 1, 749 if you can get
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  Speaker 1: on it. Right. It's basically what they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. they do it with an advantage on must hits,
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  Speaker 1: on things that are high, on these other progressives. But
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Matt and his team make no secret there's two
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  Speaker 1: of the members of his team that or advantage gamblers
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  Speaker 1: for 20 years. So, of course they're going to play
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  Speaker 1: the machines with the better payouts or better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course they're going to do that. This is unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: what happened. We aren't talking about card counting here or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Let's say you play a pie gal progressive
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  Speaker 1: or a progressive meter at one table, and it's different
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  Speaker 1: at the other table. So if I move from that
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  Speaker 1: table and I want to get on the table with
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  Speaker 1: the higher progressive, and I want to get in there
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  Speaker 1: and stand behind, is that frowned upon?
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  Speaker 2: It's very similar to I moved from, oh, is that
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  Speaker 2: 6-5 blackjack?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to 3-2. What's the difference?
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what someone called me that before the show. Really?
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  Speaker 3: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 1: I'm on six to five. You're not going to ban
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  Speaker 1: me or throw me out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm playing single zero roulette instead of the one now
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  Speaker 2: that has three.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: It's just unbelievable, especially that. I know there's some people
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  Speaker 1: that are sponsored by them. Yeah. That are allowed to
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  Speaker 1: take videos in there, and what do you think they're playing? Now,
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  Speaker 1: I like them. I actually like the guy.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: So, but.
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  Speaker 3: There's clearly.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I don't get it.
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  Speaker 2: There's clearly a disconnect between, like, operations and security and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, game supervision and PR and marketing side. It's
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  Speaker 2: like all players are not created equal. Like, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 3: It's just crazy to do.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't get it. You're looking for business for
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  Speaker 1: your place. You've got Vegas Matt in the place playing things, filming.
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  Speaker 1: We're at Venetian. Have at it. Have at it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And by the way, who cares who wins the jackpot?
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: Why is that even an issue?
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  Speaker 1: Casinos all do frown upon you going in and checking
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  Speaker 1: the machines for different jackpots that Joe Publix put up,
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  Speaker 1: that Square Players put up. That's the kind of machines
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  Speaker 1: you have. Take the machines out then if you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to have those progressive kind of jackpots in there.
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  Speaker 3: Go back to triple bar, triple bar, triple bar.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, cherries. Whatever, right?
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  Speaker 3: Magnificent sevens. Flaming sevens.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is. John, I want to talk about did
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  Speaker 1: you know about the case here in town that this guy,
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  Speaker 1: they said he's a professional gambler. I don't know him though,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know the guy, but Supposing he's a
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  Speaker 1: professional gambler, but he was betting with sights, they said.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: He was betting at all the sportsbooks. And when he
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  Speaker 1: was betting at the sportsbooks, supposedly he was laying action off.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know actually what he was doing, but they
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  Speaker 1: arrested him. And they called him a... I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: read it. A professional gambler who was accused about a
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  Speaker 1: Nevada Gaming Control Board of running a multi-million dollar bookmaking
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  Speaker 1: operation had all criminal charges dismissed against him. Um... And
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: his charges, even the FBI said there's nothing there. So
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: this is a case where maybe they arrested someone without
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  Speaker 1: knowing actually what he was doing. His wife, his ex-wife
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  Speaker 1: actually ratted him out and said he was doing all
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: these things and she wanted more custody or more child support,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was. And it was a big headline. It's
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: like the godfather when, well, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: actually like the godfather because he was guilty. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Corleone. It's like, The end when Tom Hagen stands
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  Speaker 1: up and says, Senator, this committee owes an apology. No
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  Speaker 1: one's apologizing. They're all walking. Everyone's going their own ways.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They already did the damage by embarrassing him. Right. So
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: it's kind of the same thing. They embarrassed the guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know him. I don't know his name. Wow.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: But they embarrassed the guy, and that's something that came out,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought it was pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 2: How long do you know from the time he got
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  Speaker 2: arrested to the time he got cleared?
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  Speaker 1: A month.
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  Speaker 3: A month.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a month.
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  Speaker 3: That's like a month of hell, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. No, definitely. So... Someone just came by. Our
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  Speaker 1: buddy lives in Okinawa, Japan. Just came by here. I've
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  Speaker 1: known him for a couple years. He follows all the
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  Speaker 1: shows and watches the shows. And he said, I said,
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  Speaker 1: where are you staying?
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Circa.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I got the deal for 400 bucks. I said, oh,
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: that's a great deal. I want to talk about that.
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  Speaker 1: So listen to this, John. It's $ 400. It's on here.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Since we're here. This review journal pisses me off. They
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  Speaker 1: erase the content on there unless you buy it for
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  Speaker 1: $ 9 a month. But I'm just trying to promote Circa. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I know that there there's a deal here and the
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  Speaker 1: deal is is 400 bucks yep for two nights two
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  Speaker 1: nights you get 200 back in food in any of
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  Speaker 1: the restaurants and there's no other resort fee or anything
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: it's all in by the way you have full access
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: to circus swim yeah and and i think you even
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: get seats out there for free so you get it's
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  Speaker 1: amazing this is all all involved that's a great deal
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: that's what he took advantage of but i wanted to
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: say it was in this article but of course i
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: can't read it now um The Plaza has a deal
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: like that going. Golden Nugget also. This is downtown. Golden
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Nugget also has a deal like that going. It's called
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: an all-inclusive deal. Like the Vegas one, the Golden Nugget one, $ 1. 99
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: package includes two nights, midweek, $ 50 in food. Basically, it's
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: $ 75 a night. The Golden Nugget, like here, is one
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: of the nicer hotels. Sure. downtown. So, it was just
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: a really good deal. I've seen the deal still going here,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: and I kind of didn't realize the deal was still going.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: They're building a new casino, by the way. Now that
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: I thought about it. I shouldn't say they're building. It's
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: been proposed. Another new local casino. You know, I didn't
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: think that we had room in this town for more
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: local casinos, but I guess we do. So, they're proposing
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: a casino down, it's between the South Point And the
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Silverton on the Las Vegas Strip, one of the properties
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: that used to be there is now going to, they're
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: proposing a new casino hotel. I seen that local place
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: there and I was like, wow, I can't believe we
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: can still have all these local casinos here. Durango opened up.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: It's so popular that they're building... Another tower. Another tower, garage,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: movie theater, bowling alley.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: It's just... They make these places a family of... By
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: the way, we love Durango Station.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: It's so nice.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: They call it Durango.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I love Red Rock, too. I think... Just because they
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: threw me off of the app for being a winning
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: player doesn't mean I can't talk good about the different things.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: The properties are great, great places, and And still one
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: of your hangouts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Still one of your hangouts.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I've never set foot in the Silverton. Oh.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Have you? Yeah. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah? Yeah, it's a
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: big local place.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Is there a sportsbook?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: A couple good restaurants there. Who's their sportsbook connected to?
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: You don't bet there?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: No.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: It's Circa at Silverton? Oh, wow.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, Silverton Circa. Wait, I'm wrong. I'm wrong. I'm wrong.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: It is Circa now, and I have been in there
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: because you can just go in there and park right close.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: You don't have to go downtown here for the sportsbook. Silverton,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and they also have one at Tuscany, right? Is that
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the tree in town?
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: J-H with the 411. I like it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Good man. Tuscany is a great location, too. You can
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: just park, walk right in to Circa Sportsbook. But Circa
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: is in Silverton. I absolutely forgot. I've been to that
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: sportsbook many a time. It's a cool little quaint sportsbook.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: over there, and I just forgot. I thought it was
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: like William Hill. I didn't want to give them no
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: press because, you know, they blocked me, by the way.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. They blocked me on Twitter. I blocked
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: them back.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: That's hilarious.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Stop that. We don't want any winners. Get
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: out of here. Yeah. You know, I had the thing
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: from Matt. You know, I teased Matt last week about
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: driving all over the country, Matt Chapros. Yeah. You know, driving. Sorry.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Let's say this right. flying all over the world.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And, you know, first class private jets.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: He flies private, right? Yeah, he flies private.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, he's got big family money. I'll keep on
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: saying that. If he doesn't like it, it's great. So
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: he liked the bonus episode last week. I gave him a,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I did an interview with a guy, Jay Cohen, which
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: is also up on YouTube. Yeah, I saw it. Did
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: an interview there. Incredible story of history, you know, history
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: of his days offshore. And, yeah, just really, really interesting
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: how how much trouble this guy went through. He was
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: making so much money. He was making, you know, seven
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: figures a year on the stock exchange. He left to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: open up the first, let's just call it what it was.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: It was the Cauchy and Poly market, the prediction markets,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: before they were, back in the late 90s, early 2000s. So, unfortunately,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: he was out of the country in Antigua, and the
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: government here hated he was dealing with the United States,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and they closed him down. Well, they didn't close him down.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: They locked him up. He came back to fight the charges.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: They locked him up, and he went to jail over
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: at Nellis here for a couple of years. And he
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: doesn't even have a citizenship now, he pulled. And his dad,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: like 92 years old, lives in the States, and he
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: can't even come back and see his dad. It's really sad.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: He did his time, and they got some money off
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: him and stuff. But anyway, that was an interview I did.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: You guys want to check that out. He owned World
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Sports Exchange, him and his partner. The day it closed,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: his partner killed himself. Yeah, Steve.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Steve committed suicide the day they closed. So really, really
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: sad story there. But it's on YouTube if you guys
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: want to check it out over on Wager Talk's page.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So let's look at this ticket, though. This week's ticket,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: this is a revisit from the eight-leg parlay. $ 20. To
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: win $ 15, 000 over on WagerWire.com and the WagerWire app. So crazy. Now,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: they're down to their last leg. They've won so many UFC.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So many UFC. Look at this. Paddy Pimlet was an underdog.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Put to Benoit St. St. Denis. St. Denis. Yep. As
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a 150 dog. But they won all these different. Seven
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: legs have been won. They're down to one. One leg.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: One leg. Dodgers to win the World Series.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. They're down to the Cy Young.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mizorowski. Am I saying his name right?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He's going to win.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe you should sell now. It's the end of that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You got the black cat of black cats.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Come on. Who else is going to win it? He's
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: winning it.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Honestly, even he said this is basically a done deal. Yeah.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: As long as he can make it to the finish line.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That guy's been lights out.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He's never pitched more than 130 innings in a season.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: He's at 145 already.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: He's headed into the start. I think he starts today.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: The Brewers in a battle for number one, so it's
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: unlikely they shut him down.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: No, they're not shutting him down.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: They're not shutting him down ahead of the playoffs. He's
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: probably going to win. We know it. So this $ 20
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to win $ 15, 370 is actually worth right now $ 14, 345. So
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: do you take a risk of giving someone $ 14, 000? $ 345, 000
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to win $ 900? Is it that big of a lock
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that he wins? After you said it, no, but besides that.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: When you say it like that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not paying $ 14, 000 for your $ 345, 000. Good luck, kid.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: We wish you the best. But I'm going to say
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: this is a no-buy for me. Even though everyone's saying
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: it's easy, it's basically done.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's robberies sometimes, right?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes things happen that are, you know.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: People get snubbed.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: We see events go down the wrong way.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: You ever watch one of your fights and say, this
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: guy definitely won? Constantly. All the time. I know boxing
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: was like that for years.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: It's like, what fight are the judges watching sometimes?
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, anyway, we're going to say no
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: to this one. But there's a great, great marketplace over there. WagerWire.com
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: and the WagerWire app.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Now, Bill, you've talked about this before.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: When you see something like that, $ 20 up to $ 15K,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I know you're against the parlay, but those are okay $ 20, no?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Or are you saying it just adds up?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: For me, it adds up. The $ 20.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Is a college kid, whatever, does that 100 times at $ 20.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: John, perfect example. Let's say you're playing a poker tournament. Yep. Okay?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: This is going to draw a parallel, but maybe not really.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: A poker tournament that you have an overlay in or something.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Not even an overlay. You do play in the overlays.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: It's a good edge. But let's say you're playing in
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a poker tournament. That's a senior tournament. You think it's
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a good value.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Senior tournament today at Venetian.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You think it's a good value. How much money?
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: $ 300.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: All right. $ 300 senior tournament. There's going to be guys
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: your age. Yeah. Which you just turned. You just barely
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: went over the senior age. I'm just saying that it's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: an edge.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe to play with someone that's 80.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe to play someone that's not.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I feel the difference.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Nothing to do with them being old. Maybe they're not
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: as schooled as much in poker as you have been.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: The game's changed a little bit.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: The game's changed a little bit or something like that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And I love when I see one of the old
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: guys win.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: When they get short late in the day... Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Get a little tired all in.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: They do just go.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Let me get out. Yeah. Okay. I'm done. So... I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: think if you bust early, you get cracked by... They
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: have a pair of 10s, and you have aces, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: they beat you. Yep. Big flop of 10, and you're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: out of the tournament now. So now what do you do? Sometimes,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: especially you, with people, you'll go out to the casino
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and play blackjack, bonus bets or side bets. You shouldn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: do that. Correct. Parleys, you shouldn't do it. You should
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: stick with straight bets. It's a better mathematical game than
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the side bets. Right. But... I know people that cannot,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: cannot play a poker tournament or go out and play
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: poker without hitting the table games first or a slot
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: machine first. And that's why I laugh when I see
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: these people saying, oh, we're getting rid of the poker room.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Get rid of the poker room.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: How do you get rid of the poker room? It
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: brings so many people in for other areas. 100%.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: And for other things.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: So, John, I want to read something that... Someone sent
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to me. You know, it's often one of those maybe
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Facebook posts and people retweet. I almost said retweet it
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: because I don't really do Facebook. I had it, but
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I don't really do it that often. So I like
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: this thing. It's a little bit long. Let me read it, though,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: because people are going to get it that watch the show.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: We have a crowd that's a little bit older crowd
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: or our age. And I grew up in Kingsburg, New Jersey,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: by the way. but never thought I was raised by
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: low-slash-middle-income parents during a time when most everyone treated each
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: other with respect. We didn't eat a lot of fast
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: food because that was considered a treat, not a food group.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: We drank orange tang Kool-Aid made from water that came
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: from our kitchen sinks with real sugar. We ate bologna sandwiches,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: even tuna, which was, you know, in a can, not
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: out of a pouch. Peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: hot dogs, pot pies, mostly homemade meals considered mainly of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you know, meat and potatoes. Bread and butter, homemade stuff.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: We didn't have money in the town I grew up in.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But we didn't know. Both my parents worked. My mother
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: worked two jobs. My father worked two jobs to give
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: us a better life and living like they did. So
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: we grew up during a time where we mowed lawns,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: pulled weeds, babysat, helped neighbors with chores, be able to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: earn our own money, went outside to play a lot
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of games, ride bikes, Red Rover, dodgeball, run with siblings
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and friends, and played hide-and-seek. That was one of our
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: big games. We drank tap water from the hoses. Now, granted,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: this is me, not John and Beverly Hills, but this
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is me, how I grew up, really.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Come on, I drank tap water out of a hose.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: You never drank tap water.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Out of a hose.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Of course I did. Okay. A bottle of water was
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: unheard of as a kid.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Am I right? Unheard of.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: My grandmother and even my mom would say, you're paying
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: for bottled water and glass. And if we had a Coke,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: it was in a glass jar. It's true. We watched
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: TV shows that we were raised on. Happy days. I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: loved Brady Bunch. I watched these shows.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I love Lucy.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love Lucy, Gilligan's Island, Leave it to Beaver, Bonanza, whatever, Bewitched,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Little House on the Prairie. After school, we came home.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: We did homework, chores for going outside, having our friends over.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: We would ride our bikes for hours. I loved riding
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: my bike. Me too. I loved it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: How many times did you have an accident?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Accidents.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, tear up your knee.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Tear up your knee, but... What are you going to do?
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: You came back from it. You were riding it the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: next day. 100%. We've got to tell our parents where
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we were going, who we're going with, and what time
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: we'd be back. You learn from your parents instead of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: disrespecting them and treating them as if they know absolutely nothing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: What they said was the law, and you did not
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: question them.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Any adult.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Any adult. You did not question. You knew better. You know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: when the sun was starting to set, you better be home.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: In school, we said the Pledge of Allegiance. We stood
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: for the national anthem. Listened to our teachers. We watched
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: what was said around our elders because we knew if
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we disrespected any grown-up, we can get our behinds whipped.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It wasn't called abuse. It was called discipline. We held doors,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: carried groceries, gave up a seat for older people without
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: being asked. You didn't hear curse words on the radio
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and in songs on TV. That's John. And if you cursed,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: you got caught. You had a bar of soap stuck
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in your mouth. Well, that really wasn't me, but I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: did go to Catholic school when I was real little,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and we did have nuns that were very tough back
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in second grade. I remember that. I had to stand
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: in the corner.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Do you remember having to write like a... I will
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: not use bad language. I will not use bad language
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: like a hundred times or whatever.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: You'd have to do that as a punishment. Yes, thank you. Yes, ma'am. Please. Yes, sir.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: A part of our daily vocabulary. I grew up to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: respect the nation, the flag, and that was long. No,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I like that. But I've seen that, and I wanted
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: to reread it because sometimes you get lost.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Times have changed.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: All the things that we do and stuff, you get
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: lost a little bit.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Bill, how about this?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, like, getting dropped off at the mall
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: with your friends?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Or going there with your parents and your friends, and
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the parents would go shopping.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: We'd meet in a couple hours.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And they do. Meet right back. Sync your watches up.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Meet right back here at 3. Right. Right back here, right?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So true. Yeah. John, we went to the Italian American
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Club the other night. Yes. So good, isn't it? Again,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I know we plug them every week. Guys, and everyone
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that says to me, Bill, thank you for telling me
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: about the Italian American Club.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We went there again the other night. I mean, it's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: just such a, not only some of the best homemade
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: food in town. Some of the most reasonable food in town.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And I go to these strip restaurants. You know, last
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: night I went, a piece of fish was $ 170 at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a restaurant I went to last night.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Last night?
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for a piece of fish. One of the restaurants
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I like. I don't want to throw them under the bus.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, Dover Soul. Table side Dover Soul. You can
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: go to Michael's, Carbone, anywhere. It's $ 150. It's just, I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: just think of.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: You get a beautiful bowl of pasta for $ 25 over there.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Veal parmesan or chicken parmesan for $ 35, $ 32. And it's great.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: It's great.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: The ambiance is great. Homemade sauce, ambiance. It's a good spot.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: You're back in the 60s. We went the other night. But, John,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: this has happened to me. You go in a restaurant sometimes,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and when you go in, sometimes— I don't mean to
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: be gross, but a food cook, maybe didn't wash his hands.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: I was in, like, Howard Beach, Queens, which Howard Beach
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: is known to be a town of very important people
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: in a certain genre, as you guys know. Like, John
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Gotti lived there. I think the house is still there.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: So they have these places along the water. They're really nice.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I was in a restroom. I had to meet someone
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in a restroom. I watched a guy come out of
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the stall with a cook uniform on and went right
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: out the door. I said, that's it. I walked out,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: got done washing my hands, went. I told the buddy, listen,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: we got to get out of here. I just seen
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a cook come out of the stall, did not wash
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: his hands in the bathroom. I'm nuts like that. I
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: got to leave. Yeah. So it happened a second time
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: to me. I'm not going to say where in town
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. And I said, oh, how can you not?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: How can you not? And this is a chain here
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: in town that's a very popular breakfast chain. How can
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you not tell your employees they have to? There's signs there. Right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: When they get hired, you have to tell them it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: You have to tell them.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: You know, it happened to me the other day. There's
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a Seinfeld scene. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Poppy's going to make
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: something special for you. Yeah. And, you know, he comes
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: out of the bed and doesn't wash his hands with
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the dough. He's, oh, I'm going to make something special,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you know. Oh, God. Just a funny thing. There was
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: a wrongly arrested Peppermill guest at the Peppermill Casino, not
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the restaurant here in town. In Reno? No, I think
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they had it in Reno. Yeah. So a Nevada man
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: was falsely arrested. The facial recognition picked him up as
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: somebody else, as you see there. That's the real guy,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and that's the guy. He looks like him.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: It's fair.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: They look like him. And he was thrown out of
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the casino. It was flagged by property surveillance system and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: their facial recognition. So now he is very upset at this,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the way they treated him. He was misidentified. I don't
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: know if that's a proper word. And he said, the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: cop that came in there, he told him, he said,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I'm misidentified. Look at my name. Look at my thing.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: They said, no, you have fake ID. They didn't even
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: trust him.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: So facial recognition for as good as we are with
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: all these AI and everything. Sure. Could be wrong sometimes.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: He has a court case. He has a legal case. Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: He has a legal case here, and I read that,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: and I just said, wow. Sometimes these people, even the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: fingerprint check, you throw them out. You're treating them like
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a criminal here. Before you're starting to arrest people, make
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: sure you have the right guy.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Because that's a serious thing.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That's very serious, in my opinion.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: He'll win that one.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I've talked about these casinos down in Baltimore. Excuse me
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: for calling them casinos. They're gambling arcades. And that's how
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it's set up. It even says the word Caesars on it. Arcade.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: It says arcade, though. It doesn't say casino. These are
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: all over Florida. I've seen them when I was down
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: in Florida. I've seen them in multiple places that someone
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: took me in all different towns in Florida. But they've
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: cracked down on them the last couple of years to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: close these down. It's real simple. They're gambling establishments. You're gambling,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: but they're not regulated by any gaming council or committee. So, like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: here in Nevada, I think it's 85%. A machine has
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to pay 85%. Some are set much higher than that. Like,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: dollar machines are $ 5 or $ 10, $ 25. They're set 95%
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: or 92%, but most of the penny machines are in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the 80s. So... But at least during the 80s, these
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: machines have no regulation. They could be set to 10%. Right. Literally.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: There's nothing at all. So officials have seized over $ 14. 4
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: million in cash. Thousands of illegal slot machines since 2025.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And people have.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: No chance of winning.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: People have no chance.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Literally no chance.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: But this is how... There's got to be a better word.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say... They're not stupid or anything.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: They're just maybe bored. a lot of the seniors are
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: pushing back against a statewide crackdown, saying they like going
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: to them. That's something to do for today. The storefronts
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: are virtual social hubs, even as regulators target them for
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: operating illegal slot machines.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: It's so crazy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: But it's amazing that the seniors, some of them are mad,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: but there's casinos all over Florida now, especially southeastern Florida.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But I even think when I was driving across the state,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I went to Tampa, of course, but then there's a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: poker room in like Fort Myers slash Naples, poker room there.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And then there, I drove through the center of the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: state because I wanted to check out, someone told me
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: there's great bonus machines in there. It was Immokalee. It's
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: a giant casino in the middle of nowhere. I couldn't
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: believe it. 45 minutes from like Fort Myers, an hour
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: from Fort Myers, inland between, you know, going across the state,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and you can catch Alligator Alley from there. But I
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: couldn't believe the size of this casino that was there.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: And even across Alligator Alley, there's a little casino they
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: built recently. Very small, but it's like a truck stop.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: So it's just amazing that the seniors, you know, I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: want to give you one of the quotes of one
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of the seniors. Who wants to sit in front of
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: a TV for eight hours? It's more like a little
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: social club or community of people. Florida senior Linda Pregno
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: told WINK News in Fort Myers. There's a lot of
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: them at Fort Myers, too. Anyway, it's like an arcade,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: but it's illegal gambling. You're putting real money in, and
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: you're getting money out. I know they're really cracking down
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: on them. John, I want to talk about one of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: your guys, Shug Knight.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Shug Knight.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: That's one of your guys. Am I saying the name right?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Suge Knight.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Suge.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I think he's in jail, right?
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: He is not one of my guys.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in jail. He's in jail. Okay. So there's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: this case now about Tupac. Now this guy in town
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: wrote a book and talked about the situation. He arrested him,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: got himself arrested as one of the shooters of Suge
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Knight in the car, supplied the gun, whatever it may be.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: So Suge Knight said this week, people don't know this.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: But we actually smoked Tupac Shakur's ashes in a room
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They smoked in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a Las Vegas casino hotel room. So, Marion Chug Knight
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: claimed in a new interview that Tupac Shakur's ashes were
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: rolled into blunts and smoked by friends and family in
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: a Las Vegas hotel room after his death. Knight claimed
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: he paid a funeral worker a million dollars in cash
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to expedite his cremation remains. The bizarre allegations briefly overshadowed
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the headlines generated by the trial of Dwayne Keith D. Davis.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: for Shakur's murder, which began this week in Vegas. But, yeah.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Is that even possible? That sounds crazy. Yeah. According to
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: many people here, I guess you can just throw it
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: in the... I got to be blunt. I'm saying the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: word blunt, and I'm talking about blunts. I don't even
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: know what a blunt is. So a blunt is a
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: rolling paper, or no, a brown rolling paper. It's just
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: a different type of a rolling paper. They call it
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: a blunt, but it's a marijuana cigarette, right? I guess.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: We're both looking at GH.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's a tobacco leaf. Oh, there you go.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: But it's like stronger than a cigarette.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Is a tobacco leaf stronger than a... We're clueless. Clueless.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I'm going to start smoking and drinking and everything. Count
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: me down a little. So they were rolled into blunts
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: and smoked by friends in a hotel room shortly after
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: his death in 1996. And how about this? Knight said...
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: The scene unfolded in a hotel room rented by Tupac's mother.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: And the name A-F-E-N-I, Afeni Shakur, soon after her son died,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the most likely location, the Golden Nugget down here. So
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: we're talking all these things about the Golden Nugget. The
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Golden Nugget goes down in history again.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Who knew?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: For another thing.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Tupac's biological father, Billy Gerard, oh, I'm sorry, Billy Garland,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: claimed he met Afani one night before. standing Tupac Shakur
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: at that golden nugget. That's the reason why they wanted
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: to do it there. So, yeah. And she was, I guess,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: part of this or something. I just thought that was
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: pretty shocking, right? Beyond shocking.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about that.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's pretty crazy. I didn't know. I mean, I
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: guess if you can mix it in with marijuana, I guess.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: But wouldn't it? Isn't that funky?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: It seems crazy to me.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: You're taking his ashes and you're taking it inside of you?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, you know, speaking of that, John
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and I don't drink. Because we do stuff every day.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Every day we have shows. And I have sports bets
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to get in. You know, we're literally, I have to
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: have a fresh mind every morning. I can't be, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I just never did, even in high school. I never did.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: John and I both did partake in a drink the
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: other night, though. We did. I did a little taste
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Like a shot.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I drank the whole thing.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: You drank the whole thing. Because, you know, the owner
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of the Italian American coming over, bringing us shots it's
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: not nice to not to say no right right right
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: so I took a little taste of it you did
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the whole thing.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: I did the whole thing it was terrible a lemon cello.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Lemon cello is the name of it maybe you guys
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: know it better than me I guess it's an after
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: drink liqueur I guess so not a fan but yeah
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: so we did do we did a great cheesecake though Oh, yeah. Oh, great.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: What did you have for your meal? Did you have
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: chicken parm? Chicken parm. Yeah, John's a chicken parm guy.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: So good.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Good, right?
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And I only ate half of it because they
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: give you so much.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: And you guys didn't do the beans and greens at
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the beginning.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not a beans and greens.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Well, you probably know what it is, so that's why.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: It's escarole and beans. Back in the day, it was
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a peasant dish. Now, it's like so good. If you
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: taste it, you realize it's so good. It's something that
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: a lot of good Italian restaurants will have.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, you know what I had last? No, what night
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: it was? Monday night. Over at South Point, I had
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: something I've only had at Mother Wolf, those zucchini flours.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had one of them? No. It's the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: flour of the zucchini stuffed with ricotta cheese, lightly fried,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: real light.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Where did you have that, Don Vito?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I had it at Don Vito's. And just as good
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: as Mother Wolf. It's a good place. Yeah, Don Vito's
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: was great. Monday night's there. There's another plug for them guys.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Monday night you can do... If you use your points,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: it's half price. Any restaurant. You can go to Michael's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and it's half price. So any restaurant... is half price
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: but you know what i'm a little bit mad that
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: i bring the thing i might not have brought the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: brochure i'm a little mad at them right now oh
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: boy i didn't bring it i wanted to i wanted
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: to go after south point for a second to me
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: i listen i'm i'm mad that so i don't like
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the way the south point comp system works So, South Point,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: if you win playing video poker or win at something,
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: you get penalized. Like, one time I went to the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: host desk and asked for a comp, and I just
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: lost $ 1, 000 playing video poker. Right. I said, yeah, but $ 1, 000
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is a lot of money in a casino to lose
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: in one sitting, especially a local property. Sure. But I
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: was playing for promotional gift cards. They had Walmart gift
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: cards at the time. But I lose sometimes. You know,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I lost. And they said, yeah, you lose. You won $ 4, 000
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: last month. We can't give you a comp this month.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And so you lose the money back. Wait, wait, wait.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Time out.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Actually say that to you.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: First of all, I can't believe a host, there's no
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: other word to say it, would be dumb enough to
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: tell a, if that is your guidelines to go by. Right.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Imagine if Michael Gaughan knew that his hosts were saying, yeah,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: you won $ 4, 000 last month. Even though you lost $ 1, 000 today,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: can't give you a buffet, can't give you nothing. I
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: was just trying to get a coffee shop done. Figured
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: it was no big deal to get a coffee shop done.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: But it's so stupid. So, same thing. They were sending
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: me $ 75 a week to go in. And the food vouchers. So,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I just used it three months ago. I said, well,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they sent me $ 75. Go in. Use the food voucher.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: And I won $ 900. Right? So, I played a lot, though.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Didn't get to go to the... You get $ 75 four
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: times a month. I only went once during the month.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't go the other time. But I won the $ 900.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: And....
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: The next month, I noticed the offers came in. $ 10.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute. You cut my offer down.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I gave you all that volume. You cut my offer
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: down to $ 10 because I won $ 900. I don't understand
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: a casino that only... comps you based on your results,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: your previous results. Here, a perfect example, John. They have
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: seniors that go in and they play and what do
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: they do? They get $ 10. I was getting $ 75 last month.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: They go back to Anthem and Seven Hills. All the
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: country clubs in town. What do you think they talk
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: about with their dinners and among their groups of meetings
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: every month? You believe what Sal pointed this to me.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: You believe I'm not going there no more. You have
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: to gamble to make decisions That are gambling-related. That's all
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I can tell you. 100%. Yes. Some of the seniors
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: are going to say, well, I'm going to go. It's
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: close to my house. Others are going to go to
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: the M. Others are going to go maybe to Silverton
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: or Green Valley Ranch. They're going to go somewhere else
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: just because of what they heard in their meeting.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: It's insulting.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: It's insulting. Now, I just told you, I love South Point.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Old-school gambling, good video poker payouts, great buffet there for
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: the prices. Great sports book. I love the sports book there.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I love so many things about South Point. Restaurants are
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: my favorite, though. Michael's, Don Vito's, great steakhouse, great prime
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: rib place. So I like to talk very blunt about everything,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: and I had to tell you people what I feel,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: and maybe it gets to somebody at South Point. Trust me,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I can't see Michael gone chasing players away because they
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: hit a jackpot last month.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: So crazy.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Crazy. We'll see you next week on Wisecracks.