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Bachelor Road Trip: Desert Edition · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is the Benn and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with i R Radio. This is another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous podcast and also another very special episode of
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  Speaker 1: the Almost Famous podcast. We have a part of the
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  Speaker 1: Almost Famous family with us, Bob Guinea Hello, and also
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  Speaker 1: my friend, very good looking fellow, Jason Tartick. Hello, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? Ben and Bob? What anter? So that's
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  Speaker 1: a nice that Ben and Bob has a nice little
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  Speaker 1: rhyme to it. I like, well, we'll talk about it later.
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  Speaker 1: I hearts listening. Okay. So here's the thing. This is
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  Speaker 1: a special episode for a couple of reasons. We have
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  Speaker 1: a journey to Las Vegas that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: sharing together. It's a boy's trip and we're driving from
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles to Las Vegas and our Hyundai Ionic five
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  Speaker 1: road tripping visiting some incredible places. I'm just gonna name
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  Speaker 1: off some of the spots right here that I have played,
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  Speaker 1: and I think one of the best road trips that
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  Speaker 1: anybody could ever imagine. Not only are we gonna be
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  Speaker 1: driving in style, but we're gonna be stopping at Mormon
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  Speaker 1: Rocks Viewpoint. I'm still in California, amazing place. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: been to any of them, not been to Mormon Rocks neither,
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  Speaker 1: nor do I know what it is actually, but I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Also Elmer's Bottle Tree Ranch, also still in California. These
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  Speaker 1: are all spots that were highly recommended when you start
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  Speaker 1: googling and planning for a road trip from Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: to Las Vegas. We're gonna do it all. We're also
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  Speaker 1: gonna go and I think you guys are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: pumped about this. This is kind of like the Kicker
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  Speaker 1: for me. We're gonna go to Calico Ghost Town Campground.
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  Speaker 1: This is a ghost ghost town. Let's pause here for
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  Speaker 1: a second. So this is a ghost town. Do you
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  Speaker 1: all believe in ghost Do you have a ghost story?
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  Speaker 1: The only thing I fear more than ghosts are clowns.
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  Speaker 1: So thankfully it's not a clown town. I have a
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  Speaker 1: big clown book. I don't know if you Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. I can't if a clown comes
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  Speaker 1: on like my body like freezes. If a ghost of
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  Speaker 1: a clown rolls in here, I'm I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it. I am not I I do.
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  Speaker 1: I do think that there's some type of spiritual presence.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there has to be right. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe that we just do all this work and
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  Speaker 1: live all this time and then just go away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I could see you, Like Ghostbuster should have been a
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  Speaker 1: Ghostbusters from Baschel role to be you, Hoover. I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: My and and uncle live in the house that um
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  Speaker 1: it burned. The one spot a time was a house
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  Speaker 1: that burned down and a girl died in it, and
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  Speaker 1: her name was Molly, and so they rebuilt the house.
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  Speaker 1: It was time after and they swear by the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Molly is living in the house, and the stories
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  Speaker 1: they tell about the lights flickering and plants moving and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff happening. It's actually so bad that my
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  Speaker 1: mom's sister's daughter, if you talk about Molly just from
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  Speaker 1: living in the house, she'll like start having a pack
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  Speaker 1: at that. She's like, I just can't do stop. So like,
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  Speaker 1: I get that because I experience that, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people have and those there's something to it. As
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  Speaker 1: I get older, I've had four people in my life
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  Speaker 1: who I trust and who I like admire, who have
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  Speaker 1: told me with all confidence that they've seen a ghost,
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  Speaker 1: that they've walked across the ghost that a ghost has
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  Speaker 1: confronted them. This happens often. It's wild, but as I
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  Speaker 1: get older, more people seem to talk about it. So
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  Speaker 1: we're also going to be stopping at zz y z
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  Speaker 1: X road. I can't tell you anymore. It's all surprised.
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  Speaker 1: The world's tallest thermometer? How tall? Do we know? How tall?
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  Speaker 1: Have we? Gotta wait? There's no details this yet because
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  Speaker 1: this is all going to be an experience. As we're
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  Speaker 1: driving in style, We're going across uh the land of
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  Speaker 1: from from Los Angeles Lasvega. It's not a long roach
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  Speaker 1: or it's like four hours and I've done it many times.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been at a world's largest or smallest anything? Earliest,
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  Speaker 1: big corn maze, twine? Yes? Interest you see that. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that's like from vacation or not, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I've seen it. Did you take that
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  Speaker 1: from a movie? And they okay, yeah, and they have
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  Speaker 1: taken that because anybody that has anything the world, like
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  Speaker 1: the world's tallest thermometer. When I see that on the
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  Speaker 1: list of things we should stop at, you gotta stop.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how many times in your life can you
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  Speaker 1: see the world's biggest or best anything. Alright, we're also
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  Speaker 1: stopping at Alien Fresh Jerky. Jerky fans love jerky? Who doesn't?
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  Speaker 1: What's the alien part? All surprises? Surprises? Yes in Seven
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  Speaker 1: Magic Mountains? Wait? Wait, wait, do you believe in aliens?
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  Speaker 1: I do? I think there's just no way I believe
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  Speaker 1: in jerky? Yes, I mean I think, I guess I do.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of along the same lines as go I
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  Speaker 1: have one last question. I getting off the road trip,
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  Speaker 1: But why do you think that we as humans think
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  Speaker 1: aliens are the look that like we always see him
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  Speaker 1: as with the big heads. Do you have any theory
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  Speaker 1: on that somebody must have saw something? Maybe we'll ask
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  Speaker 1: someone at the stop. It's gonna be incredible trip. Boys.
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  Speaker 1: I am so pumped for this journey. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: think you know it's not often that you can get
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  Speaker 1: away go to an incredible music festival. Right. This is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be probably my fifth year attending the I Heart
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  Speaker 1: Music Festival. It is an awesome experience. You see some
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  Speaker 1: of the best talent in the world. And the cool
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  Speaker 1: part for me is you know you're there and the
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  Speaker 1: stage rotates and so you have somebody on stage not
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  Speaker 1: many minutes later, somebody else comes up on stage. Not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of lull and there's no law that. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's little activities in between. It's a great event. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And being in Vegas is a lot of fun obviously. Yeah, Jason,
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  Speaker 1: and we're talking about that. We both love Vegas. Big
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  Speaker 1: Vegas guys that I went to I heeart with you
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen. I'll never forget you wore
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  Speaker 1: the wolf shirt. Just unbelievable red carpetwork right there, and
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  Speaker 1: Blake was there, Nick Vielle was there. I mean that
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  Speaker 1: was great. So I've been before, but the person is
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  Speaker 1: always wanted to go. My mom when I went to
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  Speaker 1: that trip, she always talking like I would die Togo,
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  Speaker 1: I would die to go, and through my heart, they're
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  Speaker 1: actually going to take and bring my mom this first time.
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  Speaker 1: She's so excited. She's it's literally like three months before
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  Speaker 1: and she's like shopping like three months ago. She was
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  Speaker 1: like like should I wear this outfit. She's like talking
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  Speaker 1: to her friends like she is so excited and she
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  Speaker 1: loves both of YouTube, so she can't wait to meet
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  Speaker 1: you guys. She's already met you. Yeah, yeah, we did
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  Speaker 1: this at any show together. I love her. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: brought my parents out to two years ago for it
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  Speaker 1: because they were so excited and they watched it every
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  Speaker 1: year on TV. Now they still talk about it. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it's a blast. And so your mom, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to set expectations too high because that's never fair.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I think every expectation she has is going
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  Speaker 1: to be far exceeded. And really nice of you to
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  Speaker 1: like and like, you know, work with I heart to
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  Speaker 1: get her out there. I'm I'm like big on negotiating, right,
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  Speaker 1: I always preached that, and so when I heard asked
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  Speaker 1: me to be part of everything that we're doing here,
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  Speaker 1: I said, there's only I only negotiate one contingency. Can
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  Speaker 1: my mom come? And I said, And so it brings
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  Speaker 1: us into then obviously Vegas is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: We've you know, this will be your first time, Bob,
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  Speaker 1: it's I mean, we can talk on and on about that.
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  Speaker 1: My first time in Vegas. It's been a lot, a
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  Speaker 1: lot more and I should probably admit, well that bleeds
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  Speaker 1: is my next question. Then how many times have you
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  Speaker 1: been to Vegas? Can you even count? No, I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's been it's been a lot, lot, lot, But it's
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  Speaker 1: always been like there's been a lot of so for example,
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  Speaker 1: this will be kind of interesting. Uh maybe so right
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  Speaker 1: after the Bachelor atte before they made me the Bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: So this is back in two thousand three, two thousand four,
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  Speaker 1: they did the first We did the first um sort
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  Speaker 1: of like show get together of everyone that had been
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  Speaker 1: on the show up until that point, and we did
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  Speaker 1: it in Vegas at the hard Rock and um, it
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  Speaker 1: was such a great time, like to the to the
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  Speaker 1: point of just bananas good time. And I tried to
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  Speaker 1: leave three days in a row, like literally had a
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  Speaker 1: flight and was on my way to the airport, and
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  Speaker 1: something happened that I missed my flight. And then I
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  Speaker 1: got to the point where I was I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do something on the It was like I think
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  Speaker 1: it was around the time of the Emmy's as well,
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  Speaker 1: and I was gonna do something on the red carpet
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  Speaker 1: and I literally could not get home, Like I just
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  Speaker 1: I rented a car and drove back. Oh I got
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  Speaker 1: it was nut. I was there. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be there for three days. Um, I say,
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  Speaker 1: I was probably there for a solid week, you know,
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  Speaker 1: tipped the tail. But it was a very very fun
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  Speaker 1: adventure and that was that was kind of what kicks started,
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  Speaker 1: those whole like reunion things that would happen, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Um so, uh yeah, it was pretty fun. So that
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  Speaker 1: was a really good time for me in Vegas. And
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  Speaker 1: then I wanted to talk to Jason. You're a big
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  Speaker 1: poker player. I love playing poker. So when you come out,
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  Speaker 1: do you camp out in a poker room and just
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  Speaker 1: go for it? Or what the problem with dead is?
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  Speaker 1: If you're gonna do the poker thing and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it right, you gotta have you gotta bring your bankroll,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't be social because you have to sit
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  Speaker 1: in those rooms for like twelve hours. It's a rare
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  Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna do because I'm usually going to Vegas
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  Speaker 1: and social. But we actually when you said that, it
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  Speaker 1: reminded me. We filmed in Vegas for the season I
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  Speaker 1: was on Rebecca and I think one of the like
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  Speaker 1: memories I'll never forget about Vegas is we got to
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  Speaker 1: go to Wayne Newton's house and he gave us a
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  Speaker 1: tour of like all the stuff he and his house
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  Speaker 1: is like a museum, Like I remember the one where
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  Speaker 1: it's like framed and he had a note from Vegue
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  Speaker 1: or from Elvis and like all these things from like
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  Speaker 1: he like Liberaci's car, like the craziest stuff. And so
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  Speaker 1: that was like one of those memories from Vegas. I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget. Speaking of great cars. Obviously, Hyundai and the
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  Speaker 1: Ionic five is going to be our mode of transportation.
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  Speaker 1: This car flies to beautiful sick. You said something. We're
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  Speaker 1: in the car earlier, you said something, uh that I
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  Speaker 1: want to take with me. You said, you when you
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  Speaker 1: sit in the car, you feel I felt very relaxed
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  Speaker 1: and freshed. It's because it's very like clean in there.
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  Speaker 1: It's very crisp. It's like beautiful interior. Oh that's interesting
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  Speaker 1: like that, like I felt destressed and you have the
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  Speaker 1: calming waves going. Yeah, the music has an option on
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  Speaker 1: there for calming waves or if you know, you get
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  Speaker 1: a little anxiety. I'm usually not a fan of road trips, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: I would prefer to fly. I like the couple hours,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes of just no responsibility. Everything's out
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  Speaker 1: of my hands. I just get to sit back and relax.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm very excited for this road trip, not only
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I took the time to plan all
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  Speaker 1: these wild stuff I tried um and I want to
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  Speaker 1: have this experience with you all. This journey is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be very very special to all of us. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: also just excited to drive this car in style to
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  Speaker 1: go up to I mean, I would put Vegas is
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite cities. But let me tell you why.
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  Speaker 1: I do love a good round of blackjack like it's
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun for me. But as I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten older, Vegas has changed for me. We filmed during
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  Speaker 1: my season in Vegas when I was the Bachelor, so
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  Speaker 1: I got to do a lot of cool things around Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of stuff. I've been to multiple Bachelor
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  Speaker 1: parties in Las Vegas. That is not my favorite way
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  Speaker 1: to do Vegas, though, I like to go now with
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  Speaker 1: my wife, Uh, stay in a hotel, pick a few
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  Speaker 1: great places to go to dinner, play blackjack up before dinner.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of my style because I like to go
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  Speaker 1: to bed early in Vegas because I like to wake
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  Speaker 1: up walk the strips. Well, when you're married, there's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of reasons to say, well, what if your
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  Speaker 1: wife's with you having a blast Jason, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: that in me. Yeah, I like fired up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to say that, like that's my style.
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  Speaker 1: But I've been to the clubs in Vegas. There are
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  Speaker 1: a lot of we've been together, there are a lot.
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  Speaker 1: For me. You definitely go into like statue mode. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't love it, like people too loud of music, um,
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  Speaker 1: too many like things blowing on me, like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like different fog machines, and then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden it's cold for a second and then it's really
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  Speaker 1: hot again. There's too many temperature change the temperature changes
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  Speaker 1: in there you have to deal with. It's it's aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. It's a roller car to man, I
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  Speaker 1: come alive in Vegas. I love it. I just love it.
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  Speaker 1: So are you guys? Club guys? Like, can you still
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  Speaker 1: pull that off? Do you still enjoy it? Do you Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So let me let me preface this by saying the
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  Speaker 1: reason that I would still go to a club with
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  Speaker 1: you all, if you're like, hey, let's do this. This
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  Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun. I would enjoy going
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  Speaker 1: with you guys and having that experience. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how long I would stay, but I'd be there. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I just have never woken up the next day for
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  Speaker 1: for any reason and gone, wow, I'm so glad I
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  Speaker 1: did that. So I want to ask you, do you
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  Speaker 1: enjoy that part of Vegas? I you know I do?
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  Speaker 1: Um So, So, my wife used to open nightclubs and
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  Speaker 1: all over the country and like Miami, you know, New York,
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  Speaker 1: l A. And she was a big part of opening
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  Speaker 1: up what was formerly the s LS casino here on
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  Speaker 1: the in Vegas rather on the Sahara footprint there. And
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  Speaker 1: um so I was never really a big club guy
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  Speaker 1: prior to you know, starting to date her and stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and but she would always go and they literally wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: even get ready to go out until like midnight. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, what, you know, this is bananas. But I
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  Speaker 1: really ended up having a great time. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're with the right people, I think it can
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  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Um but I know what
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  Speaker 1: you mean, Like there is a certain element when you're
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  Speaker 1: at the clubs, the music still you know, you're not talking.
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  Speaker 1: But this was me, and this is me at twenty
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  Speaker 1: like two, I wasn't like I wasn't into it. Like
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  Speaker 1: at twenty two even I was like this, this feels
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  Speaker 1: too much, too much social anxiety from Yeah. See I
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I was way too and stuff, I
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  Speaker 1: loved it. I was like, let's go, let's have a
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  Speaker 1: good time. I'm not like a really like half as
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy. If I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do it right. But I'm not gonna go to the
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  Speaker 1: club every weekend. But when I go, we're gonna do
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  Speaker 1: it right. We're gonna stay out, We're going to the
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  Speaker 1: diner at six am. And then the next day I
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  Speaker 1: would be like, you know what, that was a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. Now today I don't want to go
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  Speaker 1: to a club. And I truly mean this un less
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  Speaker 1: like significant others are there with us too much of
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  Speaker 1: I had all the bullshit, what's the point of it?
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  Speaker 1: But when you have you're like significantly supposed like six
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  Speaker 1: couples and you're not doing it often, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: good dj and you're just like dancing and on top
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  Speaker 1: of the world, having so much fun. I'll do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's a that's a perfect
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  Speaker 1: storm right there. I don't want to be with a
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  Speaker 1: bachelor party going to a club. No, it's too many
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  Speaker 1: headaches and bullshit and it's just but if you're going
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  Speaker 1: through a significant other, it's I feel like Vegas has
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  Speaker 1: been usurped to a certain degree as like to certain
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  Speaker 1: to Nashville, Like Nashville has become more of a bachelor
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  Speaker 1: bachette party destination, I feel maybe than Vegas. You know. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you never know broadways nuts, right, it used
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  Speaker 1: to not be that way. No, it's all Vegas all
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  Speaker 1: the time, all the time. Okay, So we're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: through the things that people best know Vegas for. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you have the nightlife scene. You also have the casinos. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We were chatting a second ago and I wasn't really
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  Speaker 1: listening because I was one I'm being intrigued on this show.
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  Speaker 1: But you have had some success at the tables, right,
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  Speaker 1: you have some stories to share. So I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: throw it to you two to kind of share your
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  Speaker 1: success stories. Now, just to be clear, it's not always
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  Speaker 1: it's not always a story. So like, there's been some
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  Speaker 1: rough times as well. Oh, I'll let you know. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's been highs and I mean there's been times
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  Speaker 1: where I have one thousands of dollars and times I've
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  Speaker 1: lost thousands of downs when I go to Vegas, I
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  Speaker 1: go with a very high risk tolerance, like let's ride
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  Speaker 1: this wave. I bring the amount I want to bring,
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  Speaker 1: and it is what it is. And I stopped at that.
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  Speaker 1: Now I do have a good strounds just in um
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  Speaker 1: at Wind Casino not too long ago, and I was
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  Speaker 1: with a buddy who I've never seen this. He looks
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: at Roulette and he he tries to find trends and
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this guy's out of there, like come on.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: And he's looking and he's looking at eight different tables
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and he finds one and he he puts a hunter bucks.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: He's hammering, he's hammering, hammering, keeps going, keeps going, double down.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: He turned that a hundred bucks into like fifteen thousand.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't I wouldn't have like actually believed his
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: theory as I saw it in action. And I know
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: you have Roulette sor But before I tell you that story,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: we're also at this is a crazy story. We're at
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: a casino and we get invited to this. It's like
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a high rollers experience for the super Bowl, just because
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: we know a guy who's in marketing gives us passes
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and we're talking to a very high level executive within
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: this casino management group. And it's right before the Super Bowl,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: about twenty minutes before kickoff, and I asked the guy,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: said to him, what do you want for this casino
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to happen during the game? And he said to me, well,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I can't get into the specifics about that because I
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: asked him how much. I go, Okay, let's talk about
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the industry. How much is being been on the super
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Bowl today, not this casino. The whole industry said billion dollars.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: So what does the industry, not this casino want to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: happen because we want l A to win by three?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Like why because because if l A wins by four,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that's where the money isn't a lot of people have
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: money on since the money line, Uh, since the plus four.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So with l A can win by three, it's the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: strike zone. I'm like, l is not one in by three.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I mean there's weirdnessed extra points, there was weird pass
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: interfererence calls. There was the most bizarre things happening in
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. L A one by three. I'm like, wait,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: what do you do with that? My mind goes to this, Uh,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: if there is a massive industry in which they will
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: be enticed or favored by billions and billions and billions
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of dollars. I don't know if it's a coincidence when
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: things work out in their favor and you should do
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: due diligence before the money lines. On games, it's always
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: so unbelievably close, you know, it's like, how do they
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: do this? And so much, so much is object and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: I want to get too down the Las Vegas conspiracy theories,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: but there's so much a subjective in decision making for
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: refs that they can have a huge impact on the
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: outcomes a lot. I just don't know how you get
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: a bunch of humans who are like battling it out
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: every play. I don't know how you kind of control
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that environment. It feels so uncontrollable to me. Those humans. Yeah,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: those humans are like cast of a bachelor yeah show,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and it's like the executives on top, who are the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: ones that are playing with the checker pieces. I want
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to be casted as like Tom Brady. That's I mean,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: that would be cool. I wish somebody at some point
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: he looks like a type of guy that can be
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: the quarterback. Yeah that works, Um, Bob, you were telling
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: us a really awesome table story. Yeah so um so
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: so I love I love Roulette, and I also love
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the trending. So I see that's how you play. Oh yeah,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: totally so so. A buddy of mine who used to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: be a drummer in my band many years ago, became
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a dealer. He and he started in a local Michigan
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: casino and now he actually works out here in Vegas
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and um, but when he was at the Michigan casino,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: we would talk about, you know, because he knew I had.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I had the same numbers I play every time. It's
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: on the wheel, not the board, right, meaning I look
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: at the number I like, which is number twenty five,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I go three to the right, three to the left.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll pepper in like we were talking about today,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like nineteens that one number on the outside, So if
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I go four to the right, four to the left,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: whatever it is. But they're all in a zone on
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: the wheel, right, So not they're all over the board,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: but that those numbers are randomly on that wheel in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: this zone. One of them's double zero, one, ten, twenty nine, um,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: you know, so anyway, they're those they're on this little
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: space nineteen. So I would start watching for those numbers,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and I would come in when my band was touring
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and I'd be like, oh, man, we've got, you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a couple hundred bucks. I'm gonna, you know, play Roulette.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: And I would my but he would say, trust me,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: if you're good to the roulette dealers, the good roulette
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: dealers can get it in his zone. He's like, they
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: might not be able to hit the number every time,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: but if the wheels not like freaking outgoing fast, they
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: can control the speed, they can get it into a zone.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And I was I was like really, He's like yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: So anyway, it became a thing where my first thing
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to do is I'd come up and be like, hey,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: what's up. Man. I'm always like super nicely dealer, and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I always put him in the game. So I'll be like,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'll put like, you know, twenty bucks on on red
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: twenty five, and I'll put another nickel top chips with
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the dealer. Thanks, man, I'm like twenty five, but let's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: do it, you know. And I would I would just
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: stay on it, stay on it, stay on it, even
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: if it made me exhaust my bank roll before I
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: ever hit it. But they would try and if they're
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in that little zone, I'd be a winner. So my
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: band from TV was out here doing a Vegas gig.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: This is several years ago, and we're at a casino.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: We've got like four hours to kill after sound check,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and so I decide I want to go and just
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: play a little really so, and I'm the singer in
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: this band, by the way, and that's an important part
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: of the story, because I lost my voice screaming because
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I was going so crazy. So I'll go out the table.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm going for my numbers. I'm doing
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: my thing. They so I'm like, oh my god, this
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is great. Now I don't have I haven't maxed anything
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: out yet, you know, so the first time. So I'm like, hey,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: nothings sweeter than a repeater. Let's do it again. They
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: do it again. I'm like, oh my god. So now
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I've hit my number twice in a row. So now
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I go table max. I'm like, dude, come on, three,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: can we do this. I'm like, you know, I think
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I put a quarter on top. I'm like the top
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: chips yours, you know, that's seventy the dealer. If it
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: hits and boom, he hits it. Damn, that's three. Now
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: we got a crowd of people around the table. The
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: pit boss comes over. They they're like, you know, hey,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to this guy's going on break. Yeah
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: what this guy? So they put the dealer on break.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: The new person comes in and I already had all
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: my numbers placed at this point, so I have kind
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of a lot on the table. She hits double zero,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: another one of my numbers in the zone. Right then
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the next time she spends it, she has again. So
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: there was just I mean, I walked out of there
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: with I was say it was it was a consider
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: rible amount of money, to the point where I was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: afraid that I was gonna get jumped or something, you
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, Because it was like kind of
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: everyone knew I won this money, and everyone's like cheering
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and crazy as am I and um and this was
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: many years ago now, but like I remember walking away
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: with like a couple of racks of chips and then
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: realizing on my way to the casino that I would
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: have to, you know, basically be on the hook for
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that if I also, I was like, I'm gonna keep
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: gambling for a little bit later and not to cash
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: all this in right now. I did, of course pay
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: my taxes as I ami, you know, understanding citizen. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I will say it was it was the most awesome
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: moment because I've never had it where it's hit that
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: many times in a row. We're trying the zone theory back.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit trying. I'm just sitting with you guys
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, Okay. So to close this all up, though,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: so Vegas obviously has the nightlife. It has the casinos,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: great restaurants, great restaurants. I mean the food in Vegas,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: That's what I said, that is one of my favorite things.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I do love a good casino, yeah I do, uh,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And I do enjoy going out with my friends. But
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the food in Vegas. If you could just like go
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to Vegas and do it well, I think you could
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: try some of the best food from you know, some
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the chefs from from all over the world come
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: in and do a restaurant there. Uh. And then you
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: know the shows. You have incredible music, great shows going
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: on in Vegas. It's a fun environment. But I will say,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: uh that I heart music fest uh is is the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: best show, the best experience I've had in Las Vegas. Electric.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: It's electric. The arena's full. You know, everybody's excited. Uh.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: It has all different genres of music, right. You can
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: have country mixed in with somebody from a totally different
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: genre come through. You can hear a lot of music
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard before. Uh. It's just a great time.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna be traveling there in the Hundai Ionic.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Five things to uh for doing this. I mean, I mean,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: how close it, guys that we get to do this
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: experience together. Your mom gets to meet you in Las Vegas. Uh,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be going there in an incredible vehicle.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's like a pinch you know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: pinch me moment. How is this? I mean, it's just
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great trip. Oh, I can't wait. I
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: think it would be awesome. I'm coming down the days.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I gotta get my life to come. Because she hasn't
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: been back to Vegas since we had kids. She hasn't
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: really done much. We are one year old, you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: because of COVID and everything. I gotta get her out
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: of the house. She's got to come. We're outfits where
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we match the color of the car. Oh my gosh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that means light ensemble. I like it. I like it,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and I mean I can't imagine pulling up the ghost
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Town and all white man. That's scary. It's gonna be nice. Okay, well, boys,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this is a lot of fun. But now we've got
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: to hit the road in our new fully electric Hyundai
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Ionic five. Boys, are you ready? And Bobby, let's do this.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Let's do it. JT. We're gonna buckle up, put our
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: hands on the wheel. I'm gonna drive. Okay, I'm the safest.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: That's a smart move, Bob, backseat probably, oh yeah, back
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: seat on the man. I like to lay down. We
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: can do Okay, yeah, we'll switch it one of the
• 25:03
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