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Vegas Headlines, Sphere Shows, And Big Changes Coming to Las Vegas · Desert Degens Podcast

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  The A stadium is actually happening.
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  >> Yes. At this point, it's more than
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  happening.
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  >> 1st to 25th, [music]
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  >> but uh 26 to 125th,
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  >> $1,000 [music] seat.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> I mean, it seems like you can finish top
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  120.
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  >> Makes you wonder if these uh cyber
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  [music] attack people actually when they
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  say they won't do what they're planning
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  [music] on doing if you give them some
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  money.
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  >> Caesar, speaking of Caesars, try to
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  group all these things together. Three
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  show bundle. Three shows [music] for
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  $149.
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  >> Kind of cool because a lot of shows here
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  are $149.
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  [music]
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  >> All right, guys. Today's lead story is
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  not a fun one. [music] We don't like
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  covering nonfun things,
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  >> but it's big news. It's made national
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  news. I think uh
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  >> my parents even heard about it back in
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  DC.
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  >> They did.
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  >> Cyber attack on the win.
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  >> This is not the first time, Mike.
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  >> This has happened. MGM properties.
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  >> MGM got crushed.
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  >> Properties.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> MGM last year was like down.
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  >> Card system was down. The every slot
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  machine was like
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  >> completely down.
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  >> They didn't just threaten.
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  >> No, this was bad. Yeah.
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  >> Reportedly this time, uh, they're
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  looking for $1.5 million in ransom in
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  Bitcoin.
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  >> In Bitcoin,
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  >> looks up to 22.34
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  Bitcoin.
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  >> Man, I had 20 Bitcoin at one time. Don't
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  even get me started.
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  >> Don't even talk about it.
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  >> Oh boy. Oh jeez. Horrible, Mike. Oh boy.
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  Uh Wayne's not making comments on this,
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  but uh you know, hopefully this this
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  won't go any further than it is right
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  now. Supposedly in this situation,
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  >> they're compromising employee data.
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  Yeah.
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  >> And employee credit monitoring and
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  identity protection stuff.
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  >> So it isn't public facing. Obviously,
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  we're we concerned about the employees
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  as well, but it's not I think as big of
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  a
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  >> makes you wonder if these uh cyber
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  attack people actually when they say
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  they won't do what they're planning on
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  doing, if you give them some money,
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  whether they get greedy or not and come
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  back a month later and say, "Well, now
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  we're going to just
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  >> get we want another 10 million or
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  another 20 million or another."
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> This is the challenge with all this
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  because you don't know. It's like, okay,
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  well, if you give me one and a half
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  million, right,
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  >> certainly you'll give me five.
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  >> Yeah. Anybody give me one half million
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  give me 5 million. Yeah.
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  >> It's that thing from Planes Change
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  deals. Anybody that paid $20 for a cab
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  should only pay $40 for a cow.
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  >> Right. Exactly.
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  >> So, all right. On to the fun stuff.
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  Right off the bat,
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  >> we kind of broke this last week.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> We were hinting at it. We had heard
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  rumors. We We have a friend that
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  potentially might work
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  >> in the atmosphere of the sphere.
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  >> Absolutely. Will work it. Yes.
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  >> What can we say that without getting her
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  in trouble in trouble?
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  >> Okay. So, anyway, we had heard that this
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  this was a done deal.
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  >> It's just what she hears also, right?
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  >> But she's kind of in the end. So,
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  >> they talk they talk a lot. talk.
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  >> They talk a lot.
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  >> She said they're coming and it looks
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  like they are.
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  >> Metallic is going to be here as of right
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  now October.
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  >> My bet on this, if I was a betting man,
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  >> we're sitting in a casino, so I probably
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  am a betting man,
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  >> right?
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  >> I'm going to guess that they're going to
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  have more shows. What they what they
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  they typically do is
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  >> get all this hoopla, get the first shows
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  all sold out,
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  >> then they Oh, well, by popular demand,
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  >> there's only one band that's been there
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  that did not add more shows.
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  >> And that was Fish. They did three shows,
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  >> they they actually did add more shows
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  because they're coming back,
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  >> but they didn't at the time is what
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  we're talking.
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  >> I got what you're saying.
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  >> Yes. I mean, they could come back 10
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  years from now and they would have added
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  more shows.
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  >> So, like at the time for them, Exactly.
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  >> Everyone else that's come there has
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  added more shows. Okay. I was actually
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  just talking to
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  >> you mentioned in my ear Zack Brown might
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  have potentially not added more shows
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  either.
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  >> No, he did. She talked about it.
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  >> Okay. Well, there you go. So, we
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  >> But it was I think it was Did he go away
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  for a month and come back?
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  >> Who's that?
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  >> Zack Brown or not?
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  >> Yes.
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  >> Yeah, I think it might have been
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  >> He was gone and came back. I think
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  that's what she meant. It was a part of
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  the same ticket sale batch,
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  >> right?
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  >> So, it wasn't uh
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  >> It was It was a good show. Everything
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  that we've seen there has been amazing.
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  I mean, it just the graphics.
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  >> Metallica is gonna be insane.
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  >> Metallica is gonna be nice.
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  >> I don't know that I can do it. We're
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  looking at uh prices yesterday and it
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  was about 750 plus tax and service fees
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  and
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  >> yeah well we live here and that's the
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  joy of living here is that we can wait
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  >> and buy last minute so that helps us. Uh
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  my brother wants to come out for this
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  and I think he's already buying tickets
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  today. He's he's going he's going
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  >> the pre-sale's happening right
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  [clears throat] before this comes out I
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  believe. Um, again, my guess is they're
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  going to add more dates. Once they add
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  more dates and there's more supply,
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  >> right?
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  >> And so that'll lower the demand a little
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  bit in terms of like the the crazy
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  ticket prices,
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  >> we'll probably bite the bullet and go
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  see it no matter what and try to just
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  find the cheapest day that we can go
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  >> cuz I like seeing everything that's
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  there.
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  >> Love to see Metallica there.
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  >> And the next thing we're going to go see
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  there
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  >> is right after recording this a couple
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  days from now, we're going to go see
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  this. I think it's aluminum illuminarium
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  or I can never get the right. It's it's
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  a rave. see everything there. It screws
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  up my sleep schedule cuz it starts like
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  late at night and
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  >> I'm used to crazy graphics that those
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  are amazing.
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  >> It's a ton of fun.
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  >> The uh the only thing that makes me sad
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  about the sphere right now is the August
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  dates that we reserved for this year for
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  dead in company
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  >> just got just got well cuz it's you know
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  there's no more dead company I guess at
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  least in its current
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  >> incarnation and so those dates were
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  >> Backstreet Boys got added that's what it
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  was. I'm sure I was trying to remember.
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  They've actually always added the extra
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  dates,
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  >> right?
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  >> Uh if you haven't gone and see that
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  show, Mrs. DJ highly recommends it. We
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  had some footage of that last week. So,
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  [music]
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  >> right.
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  >> All right, moving on.
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  >> The A stadium is actually happening.
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  >> Yes, at this point.
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  >> It's more than happening. They have they
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  have started building the structure.
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  >> They have finished
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  >> not just a hole,
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  >> the foundation,
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  >> right?
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  >> Which is a a massive accomplishment.
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  It's so funny cuz no one thought that
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  this was actually going to happen.
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  >> I know.
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  It's like the Bright Line train. People
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  believe like this is still not going to
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  happen.
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  >> Oh, but we drove by that yesterday in
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  the parking garage.
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  >> Gigantic parking structure. Like they
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  don't start building stuff like this and
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  then
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  >> and then not make it happen. I mean
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  there are some examples I'm sure
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  somewhere in the world. But once you
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  spent a billion, you're going to
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  >> spend the other billion.
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  >> They did build Fountain Blue
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  >> and it sat there for 15 years.
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  >> A great example.
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  >> Until they finally finished it. So
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  >> yeah, that is a great example.
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  >> But this ace stadium is coming.
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  >> Foundations in. So, like the rest of it
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  now,
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  >> from what I understand of all this, it
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  goes much quicker cuz the the
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  foundations, all the concrete pouring,
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  which is more complicated. There's also
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  times of the year here where it gets too
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  hot. You can't pour concrete. So, there
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  were some delays
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  >> uh for that last year, I believe. Uh
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  they got to dig the footings and
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  everything. And so, it's like there's
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  stuff that happens like in the ground,
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  under the ground, all that stuff that's
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  happening that you can't even physically
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  see. Well, now that that's all done,
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  it's just like an exoskeleton now that
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  they're putting on.
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  >> They got to put all the secret tunnels
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  in, too. You know, in Vegas, we have
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  secret tunnels to everything. Well,
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  that'll be the Tesla loop.
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  >> That was another conspiracy theory.
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  >> It is. It is. It's like the sneaker
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  tunnel that goes from the White House to
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  the Pentagon.
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  >> Exactly. Well, Kennedy used that, right?
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  >> Right. So,
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  >> yeah, it's a long walk.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> that's a long walk.
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  >> You should have been in a tunnel in
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  Dallas
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  >> too soon,
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  >> right?
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  >> Okay.
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  >> So, 2026, uh, sorry, they're still on
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  track for 2028.
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  >> The 2028 season. So, we're about to play
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  the 2026 27 season and then I guess the
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  27 season and then the following year.
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  So, we're hopefully two more baseball
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  seasons away.
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  >> Yeah. I spoke with an ace big A's fan
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  from Oakland yesterday when we were at
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  the casino and I said, "Are you excited
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  that they're coming here?" And he goes,
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  "No, I don't want him to leave Oakland."
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  Is that right?
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  >> Cuz he lives in Oakland. He doesn't want
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  to have to travel here. I go, "But it's
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  going to be so cool to come to Vegas and
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  you you come here, you gamble, you're
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  going to have fun. Go to an A's game."
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  He goes, "No, I I don't want him to
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  leave. I love it. I love that they're an
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  Oakland team.
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  >> Not everybody likes Vegas."
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  >> Yeah. He wants to come gamble, but he
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  just
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  >> We love Vegas. We're here. I'm happy
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  they're coming.
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  >> I told him I'd go with him to a game if
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  he wanted to. So, we'll see. Maybe he'll
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  look us up again.
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  >> The thing that I think is going to be
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  interesting from here now that we're at
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  this phase where we know the stadium's
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  coming,
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  >> right? Like, we know that that is going
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  to be there.
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  >> Stadiums are an economic driver.
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  Absolutely. every every city that's ever
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  put in a stadium. Now,
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  >> there's all kinds of controversy of is
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  it actually worth it? That's not what
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  I'm talking about here. Like, should you
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  have public funding for it? And like, is
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  it worth the $23 billion to put in the
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  stadium?
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  >> That's not what I'm going to argue here.
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  What I'm just talking about is you put
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  the stadium in, stuff gets built around
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  it. We lived in San Diego as a for
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  instance for 7 years before moving back
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  to Vegas and where Petco went was
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  >> I can't say the words, a poop hole.
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  Let's say neighborhood neighborhood. It
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  was not a very nice neighborhood. Petco
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  Park goes in and slowly but surely
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  everything around it became one of the
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  nicest parts of San Diego,
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  >> right?
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  >> I think that we're going to see some of
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  that here. And so what does that mean?
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  What does the corner of MGM Grand turn
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  into and look like?
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  >> I think the real interesting thing is
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  what happens to Luxor?
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  >> Luxor Excalibur specifically Excalibur.
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  >> Those are getting a little bit old and
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  grungy. I do wonder if it's just going
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  to renovate or if they're going to
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  implode Excalibur at some point and just
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  start over.
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  >> That's my guess. I think they take
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  either that property or potentially both
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  properties.
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  >> It's possible. There was talks about
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  that a year ago.
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  >> Yeah. Well, that was a
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  >> but it was a it was a fake news. Yeah.
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  >> So, anyway, I think that that'll be
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  interesting to see where things go.
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  >> I'm looking forward. I love baseball. I
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  love sitting out there. It's It's not a
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  dome, but the way they're building it,
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  the structure that they showed at least,
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  you never know until it's done what it's
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  going to look like. It looks pretty
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  awesome. And to have an outside air feel
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  and just drinking a couple beers and
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  watching baseball for nine innings, I I
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  really enjoy it. So, I'm looking forward
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  controversial amongst locals of where
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  it's located.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> I think it's in a great spot. They just
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  redid that whole Tropicana interchange.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> the highway is still kind of a
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  >> a mess
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  >> show. People want to say the the bad
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  words today.
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  >> It's a mess. I don't know what they were
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  thinking, but they the interchange is
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  beautiful. Like you have
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  >> seven or eight turn lanes coming up off
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  that Tropican interchange. There's extra
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  lanes on
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  >> I wish they had a better way out of the
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  back because there's all these little
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  motel and stuff back there that I wish
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  there was a way that they could just
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  >> imminent domain type thing or something
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  >> and just and just make a better way to
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  get in and out.
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  >> Yeah. It's just they did that to my
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  grandparents down in Arizona. They built
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  a freeway straight through their house.
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  >> They said, "Here's market value and they
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  weren't happy about it. They they can do
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  that."
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  >> I mean, I I think I talked about this
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  last week.
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  >> You have MGM, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay
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  Bay, all where you can just see it right
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  from their, you know, from their
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  property.
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  >> That's a lot of hotel rooms. A lot of
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  people come visit and go to the games.
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  >> You know, I think for for a local
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  perspective, it's actually not
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  necessarily in a bad spot. You can come
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  in down Frank Sinatra Park at you know
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  New York or something over there and
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  just like walk over.
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  >> Uh I I don't think it's going to be that
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  bad. Park in Mandalay Bay easily walk
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  over
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  >> even Lux Rock Caliber you can come in
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  from the east side. The same with MGM.
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  You can come in from the east side.
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  >> That's true. Right there. So we'll see.
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  Plus I think you know the Tesla loop is
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  coming. Maybe it get ends up down there
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  shortly after the stadium opens. So that
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  gets more people move for other parts of
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  the city down to there. So yeah,
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  >> uh there's actually I think a story on
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  the on the list today.
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  >> All right. Caesar's Race and Sports Book
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  is opening at the resort at Summerland,
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  which was
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  >> And I was going to ask you about this.
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  The Resort at Summerland.
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  >> It's where uh JPF plays.
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  >> Oh, so it's Rampart. That's right. They
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  renamed it.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Okay. So Caesars is taking over that
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  sports book cuz Caesars didn't open own
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  Rampart, right?
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  >> It's a Caesars branded sports book. So
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  you have this thing now where there's
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  STN sports books get like loaded into
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  places and there's the Boomer sports
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  book that gets loaded into places and
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  >> what's the William Hill that's in like
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  all the bars? It's like just kiosk.
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  >> Okay, so that's going to be out at the
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  resort or something. Okay, cool.
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  >> And from what I understand here, they're
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  building,
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  >> you know, a new structure or place
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  within there rebranding the sports book.
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  This opens on March 3rd. Yeah, we uh we
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  might be out there
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  >> uh for that day. I think March 3rd might
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  we might be out there on the second
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  actually. I think we're plan on going up
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  there. We haven't gone to see our
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  friends up there.
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  Famous and Chicky. So,
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  >> yeah, let's get up there.
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  >> Maybe we'll just stop by and take a peek
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  through the curtain.
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  >> I imagine by the day before it opens,
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  >> they'll they'll just have it like open.
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  It's not going to be behind a curtain or
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  a wall anymore. So,
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  >> BPF plays there so much that maybe he
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  can get us like a backstage pass.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Looking at you.
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  >> They don't they don't use his He doesn't
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  use his card though. So,
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  >> that's true. But they know him.
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  >> They don't even know he's there.
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  >> Oh, they know him. Oh, they know.
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  >> That's coming out there right up there.
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  >> Uh this is an interesting one. On the
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  next thing, Caesar. Speaking of Caesars,
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  try to group all these things together.
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  >> Three show bundle.
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  >> Three shows for $149.
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  >> Kind of cool because a lot of shows here
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  are $149.
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  >> Yeah. And it's a it's like an Alec
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  heart. Yeah.
• 12:43
  >> Build your own show bundle. They have
• 12:45
  what is this? One, two, three, 12, 15
• 12:47
  shows on this list. Popular shows. The
• 12:50
  Piff Men Dragon. You got Donnie Osman.
• 12:52
  I'm not going to read every one of these
• 12:53
  things, but uh the MJ live one we've
• 12:55
  seen. Really, really great show.
• 12:57
  >> Really good. Yeah, you should definitely
• 12:58
  add that to your list of three if you're
• 13:00
  going to pick from this.
• 13:01
  >> Yeah, couple of these we have seen like
• 13:03
  menopause that wasn't that great. It's
• 13:05
  in a smaller showroom. It wasn't as
• 13:07
  good, but but Piff
• 13:08
  >> Laugh Factory you can usually get in
• 13:10
  there for less than 50 bucks. So, I
• 13:12
  wouldn't spend the the third of the 149
• 13:14
  on that. But we've been to Battlebots.
• 13:17
  We've been we've been to a lot of these.
• 13:19
  >> I'd be curious which three show package
• 13:20
  you guys would pick.
• 13:21
  >> Right. Uh, for me it would it would be
• 13:23
  for sure if I was if I had never been to
• 13:25
  Vegas or knowing everything that I know
• 13:26
  now, but I hadn't seen these shows, MJ
• 13:28
  Live for sure would definitely be on
• 13:30
  there. I love the hologram thing that
• 13:31
  they do. That's probably the premier
• 13:32
  show on here. Believe it or not, Pith
• 13:34
  the Magic Dragon.
• 13:35
  >> That guy is really really funny. It's
• 13:38
  It's really good. And then I think the
• 13:40
  last one I would pick would be Wayne
• 13:41
  Newton just because it's nostalgic. It's
• 13:44
  uh a little bit sad. Same with Donnie
• 13:46
  Osman. But
• 13:47
  >> I haven't seen that one. Don't really
• 13:48
  care as much. I haven't seen it either,
• 13:50
  but they're both kind of
• 13:51
  >> old is uh it's just sweet. You know, the
• 13:53
  guy is still still doing this in into
• 13:55
  his late [music] 80s.
• 13:56
  >> I've been to the paranormal and that
• 13:58
  mind reading and it's creepy.
• 13:59
  >> That one's good, too.
• 14:00
  >> It's really good. It's creepy. Good.
• 14:02
  >> I think that the good thing about this
• 14:03
  is
• 14:05
  >> this gives me some hope that some of
• 14:07
  these
• 14:08
  >> casino executives
• 14:09
  >> are seeing some [clears throat] of the
• 14:10
  writing on the wall and trying to get
• 14:12
  people back and valueminded. Yeah.
• 14:14
  Because all these shows are typically
• 14:17
  $149 each,
• 14:18
  >> right?
• 14:19
  >> Or even if you can get a ticket to one
• 14:21
  of these shows for 80 bucks or whatever,
• 14:24
  >> you're it's it's a really good deal.
• 14:26
  This bundle is a really good deal.
• 14:28
  >> So, go check that out while supplies
• 14:30
  last.
• 14:30
  >> Yeah. Right. They might stop it quickly.
• 14:33
  >> Who knows?
• 14:34
  >> All right. So, we threw in a story. This
• 14:36
  is more an art orbit. You guys are going
• 14:38
  to know more and more about us
• 14:40
  >> as we do more podcasts, but Ryan and I
• 14:41
  both come from a poker background. Uh I
• 14:44
  had started actually a poker affiliate
• 14:45
  company in 2004 and was really deeply uh
• 14:49
  rooted in the poker industry. Went to my
• 14:51
  first uh World Series main event uh the
• 14:53
  year that uh Greg Reamer had won which I
• 14:55
  think was 2005 maybe 2006 right around
• 14:58
  there
• 14:59
  >> covering that uh you know just I've been
• 15:01
  around it forever and seeing this promo
• 15:03
  here brings a smile to my eyes. I mean
• 15:05
  >> they did this last year they're doing it
• 15:07
  again.
• 15:08
  >> Smile to your eyes. Yeah. Okay.
• 15:09
  >> They did it last year. My Mrs. DJ
• 15:11
  actually qualified for this last year.
• 15:14
  Um, but I think last year they did it 50
• 15:18
  50 hours. This year they're doing 100.
• 15:22
  >> And this is doable.
• 15:23
  >> It's a lot of hours.
• 15:23
  >> It's March 1st to May 24th.
• 15:26
  >> If you play 100 hours at the live poker
• 15:28
  game, right?
• 15:28
  >> So you go in there and play one, three
• 15:30
  or two five or whatever games they have
• 15:32
  going on at the Horseshoe in their poker
• 15:34
  room.
• 15:34
  >> For every hour, you know, you towards
• 15:37
  your 100, you you're chalking up time.
• 15:39
  When you hit 100 hours, you qualify for
• 15:41
  the tournament, right?
• 15:42
  >> And this is a gigantic free roll. It's
• 15:43
  over $400,000 in value. 1st through 25th
• 15:47
  in the free roll, get a $10,000 main
• 15:50
  event seat,
• 15:51
  >> which is insane.
• 15:51
  >> And if you've never played it, it is a
• 15:54
  poker player's dream to play that
• 15:55
  tournament.
• 15:56
  >> And we've both done it.
• 15:57
  >> Uh the day that you get knocked out of
• 15:58
  it will be one of the worst days of your
• 16:00
  life.
• 16:00
  >> It's rough. It's a rough walk out of the
• 16:02
  building.
• 16:03
  >> Yeah. We were hanging out with Abby
• 16:05
  Poker last night. She came by and we
• 16:06
  were talking and I was just like, you
• 16:08
  know, the the worst day of the year
• 16:10
  >> for a poker players, the day you get
• 16:11
  knocked out of the main event cuz she
• 16:12
  was talking about getting torched in the
• 16:14
  main event last year in the first hour.
• 16:15
  >> First hour.
• 16:16
  >> She's like, I had the third nuts against
• 16:17
  the first the the nuts. And she's like,
• 16:19
  I can't believe the guy had 95. I'm
• 16:20
  like, it's the main event. Believe it.
• 16:22
  So, you learned that lesson early on.
• 16:23
  Usually once someone's all in in the
• 16:25
  first hour, they got the goods. You just
• 16:26
  you got to fold. Yeah.
• 16:28
  >> And if they're if they got the guts to
• 16:29
  do it, just good for them.
• 16:30
  >> Yeah. Right. Just walk away from
• 16:32
  >> walk away. Not only do you get first
• 16:33
  through 25th, but uh 26th through 125th,
• 16:38
  >> it's a lot of places.
• 16:38
  >> That's $1,000 seat.
• 16:40
  >> Yeah.
• 16:40
  >> I mean, it seems like you can finish in
• 16:41
  the top 125.
• 16:42
  >> $1,000 entry. So, if you can make it up
• 16:45
  to 125th,
• 16:46
  >> yeah,
• 16:47
  >> that is a lot of seats.
• 16:49
  >> I think last year they were saying they
• 16:51
  had
• 16:52
  >> it wasn't a large number. I want to say
• 16:54
  it was like 600 to a,000 people that
• 16:56
  actually qualified.
• 16:58
  >> So,
• 16:58
  >> it's like 20% of the field.
• 17:00
  >> It's in that range somewhere. I think
• 17:01
  last year, I'm not positive, but I
• 17:02
  remember Melanie talking about it and
• 17:04
  thinking, you've got a really good
• 17:06
  chance at at least a thousand minimum.
• 17:08
  And she actually in her live play was up
• 17:11
  by the end of it three or 4 hundred
• 17:12
  bucks after she got 50 hours. But 100
• 17:15
  hours is a lot of commitment. Um, if you
• 17:17
  can do it,
• 17:17
  >> it's a long time.
• 17:18
  >> Uh, mostly locals are the ones that do
• 17:20
  it unless you come out here really often
• 17:23
  >> u, and you do long sessions.
• 17:25
  >> But it's a it's a cool promo.
• 17:27
  >> It's 25 4-hour sessions. It's I mean
• 17:29
  it's
• 17:30
  >> don't don't forget about 126 through
• 17:32
  $225th.
• 17:33
  >> Yeah.
• 17:33
  >> I mean for me I would kind of want to
• 17:35
  forget about it because that mini man is
• 17:36
  such a
• 17:36
  >> but it's another $550.
• 17:38
  >> How many times am I going to want to say
• 17:40
  s show?
• 17:41
  >> Yeah. Why do you keep saying that?
• 17:42
  >> I don't know. It's like just the only
• 17:43
  words I can come up with today. It's
• 17:44
  crazy. That's what that that video that
• 17:46
  uh
• 17:46
  >> the mini is. I played it. I'll never
• 17:49
  I'll never play that again.
• 17:50
  >> Yeah. It is it is just a allin fest
• 17:54
  craziness.
• 17:54
  >> First first orbit. Yeah. All in. All in.
• 17:56
  >> It's crazy. like guys turning over 97
• 17:59
  suited like I'll go reby.
• 18:00
  >> Well, they let you reby. Yeah, that's
• 18:01
  why that's the reason why.
• 18:02
  >> Unlike the main event, the main event
• 18:04
  you get one bullet and that's it. If you
• 18:06
  if you show up and and bust out like
• 18:09
  like Abby did, you can't go give them
• 18:11
  another $10,000 and get back in. You
• 18:13
  only get one buy in. So, it's funny how
• 18:16
  these other tournaments work where they
• 18:17
  multiple rebys. These people come with
• 18:19
  thousands of dollars in their pocket and
• 18:21
  they just keep on firing, buying after
• 18:23
  buying after buying. It's crazy. And
• 18:26
  with the new app, you like you get
• 18:27
  busted out while you're still sitting
• 18:28
  down. It's like, "Okay, rewind." Okay,
• 18:30
  where am I going? There there's, you
• 18:31
  know, the next table. I'm gonna walk
• 18:33
  over there. So,
• 18:34
  >> yeah, which I've I've been there.
• 18:37
  >> Yeah. [laughter] I I don't usually if I
• 18:39
  do one.
• 18:40
  >> I've had to do it.
• 18:41
  >> Yeah. I mean,
• 18:42
  >> one one is enough for me.
• 18:44
  >> The thousand tournament though, really
• 18:45
  good tournament, good value. Uh, you
• 18:48
  know, I think that any of those places
• 18:50
  up in up there,
• 18:51
  >> 125 places. That's
• 18:52
  >> And obviously if I want a mini main
• 18:54
  seat, I go play it. Yeah.
• 18:55
  >> But it's not something I'm gonna go
• 18:57
  personally sign up for
• 18:58
  >> and try again
• 18:58
  >> with your own money.
• 19:00
  >> Um, this next one I'm actually super
• 19:02
  excited about.
• 19:02
  >> I'm a I'm a geek. What are you going to
• 19:04
  do? It's uh I think it's fun. This feels
• 19:07
  like uh the Jetsons but but underground
• 19:09
  cuz the Jetsons were in the air, right?
• 19:11
  It's more like Total Recall to me with
• 19:13
  Arnold Schwarzenegger down under the
• 19:14
  city, all the secret tunnels. And that's
• 19:17
  that's what he's doing here in this town
• 19:19
  with this Tesla loop. It's crazy.
• 19:21
  >> The Vegas Tesla Loop, the the Boring
• 19:23
  Company.
• 19:24
  >> Yeah.
• 19:25
  >> I I remember thinking
• 19:27
  when I first heard that name.
• 19:28
  >> I wondered if he was just trying to hide
• 19:30
  money or something like I'm going to go
• 19:31
  build a tunnel underground and use
• 19:33
  millions of dollars instead of paying
• 19:35
  taxes on it. We're driving over a
• 19:37
  trillion dollars of $100 bills that just
• 19:40
  got like hiding underneath there.
• 19:41
  >> I don't know. It was weird.
• 19:42
  >> It's so It's a funny story. When I first
• 19:44
  heard the Boring Company, my mind didn't
• 19:46
  go with like drilling a hole under the
• 19:48
  one with like
• 19:49
  >> sleeping,
• 19:50
  >> you know? I'm like that's
• 19:51
  >> he's opening a very boring company.
• 19:53
  >> Yeah. And then I realized like I'm not
• 19:55
  not the smartest person in the room.
• 19:56
  >> Oh my god.
• 19:57
  >> You know, right. Maybe she didn't trust
• 19:59
  me with business operations. So I don't
• 20:02
  know. But the cool thing is they've
• 20:03
  opened up a Tesla loop station at Lontin
• 20:05
  Blue now. And for whatever reason, well,
• 20:08
  I guess I kind of know the reason, but
• 20:09
  there's like this like conglomerate now
• 20:11
  of loop stations up at that edge of the
• 20:13
  strip.
• 20:15
  Resorts World, Westgate, the the Win are
• 20:19
  all Tesla loop stations
• 20:20
  >> all the way over to the convention
• 20:22
  center. Yeah. So, the convention center
• 20:23
  was where like you said was
• 20:25
  >> the convention center is so big. The
• 20:28
  first loop stations were just connecting
• 20:30
  the different halls of the convention
• 20:32
  center. So, you didn't have to walk a
• 20:33
  mile. You just hopped in the Tesla under
• 20:35
  the ground and 2 minutes later, you
• 20:37
  know, when I went to a convention there,
• 20:40
  I got one of those little electric carts
• 20:41
  and rode around cuz I had just sprained
• 20:43
  my ankle.
• 20:44
  >> Okay. That was like I was hoping there
• 20:45
  was a reason why.
• 20:46
  >> So, yeah, I was like, I'm not walking on
• 20:47
  a sprained ankle. This place is massive.
• 20:49
  >> How lazy are you?
• 20:50
  >> So, I got a little electric cart. Okay.
• 20:53
  Yeah, it was running over. It was pretty
• 20:54
  awesome. Get out of my
• 20:56
  >> my inner Doyle Brunson. Yeah. Just
• 20:58
  plowing through.
• 20:59
  >> He was He was 80 years old.
• 21:00
  >> Yeah. But he didn't have a sprained
• 21:02
  ankle.
• 21:02
  >> No.
• 21:03
  >> I mean, when I'm 80, hopefully I can
• 21:04
  just walk.
• 21:04
  >> He was 80 years old. He was uh
• 21:06
  >> I can just walk.
• 21:07
  >> I I miss him being on this.
• 21:08
  >> I don't want to sprain my ankle.
• 21:09
  >> He was He was a great He was a great
• 21:11
  ambassador for poker.
• 21:12
  >> He was awesome. Yes.
• 21:13
  >> Um not only does Fountain Blue now
• 21:14
  connected, but you can take a trip out
• 21:16
  to the airport.
• 21:18
  >> The loop got to the airport.
• 21:19
  >> Yeah. So it's like
• 21:19
  >> it's open
• 21:20
  >> over the ground though.
• 21:21
  >> Oh, okay.
• 21:22
  >> Yeah. So it's not fully bored.
• 21:23
  >> Okay. So, it's like it's like under the
• 21:24
  ground and it comes up, pops out and
• 21:26
  it's like I think it goes right past
• 21:28
  trop.
• 21:29
  >> Really? Okay.
• 21:30
  >> So,
• 21:30
  >> there is a lot. I know where that lot is
• 21:32
  that they've been building.
• 21:33
  >> Yeah.
• 21:34
  >> Something, but I didn't know that's what
• 21:35
  it was. Okay. So, it pops up there. Do
• 21:36
  you have to walk from there?
• 21:37
  >> I feel like I need to go down there and
• 21:38
  investigate exactly where this thing
• 21:39
  comes out.
• 21:40
  >> I wonder if you have to walk from there.
• 21:41
  That's not a short walk.
• 21:42
  >> No, but it it from my understanding you
• 21:44
  can get a trip from the airport and
• 21:45
  they're they're going there. So, we're
• 21:47
  going to go do I know the cabs don't
• 21:48
  like
• 21:49
  >> by next week we'll investigate. Go down.
• 21:50
  >> I would like to go ride that whole
• 21:52
  system. Yeah,
• 21:52
  >> we should do that.
• 21:54
  >> Put that on the next
• 21:55
  >> any reason to It doesn't really go to
• 21:57
  any casinos that we go to often.
• 21:58
  >> No, but it would just be
• 21:59
  >> it would be fun to go deal.
• 22:00
  >> We could day drink.
• 22:02
  >> Oh,
• 22:02
  >> and we could have a drink at each one
• 22:05
  and they would drive us from each one.
• 22:07
  >> That sounds fun.
• 22:08
  >> And then I would be concerned about the
• 22:09
  driver like hitting the wall the whole
• 22:10
  time cuz it is freakish being down here.
• 22:12
  >> You told me. I haven't done it.
• 22:13
  >> We haven't been in there yet.
• 22:15
  >> Oh, we have we have some footage. I'll
• 22:16
  I'll throw it up there. I want to go get
• 22:18
  our own footage of us in the Tesla
• 22:20
  together
• 22:21
  >> from this week. It'll We'll use this
• 22:23
  footage I have I have somewhere. It is
• 22:25
  It is.
• 22:26
  >> Yeah, I've never done that. I know that
• 22:28
  it's there. I obviously
• 22:30
  >> You obviously know the size of my Tesla
• 22:31
  cuz I have I have a Model Y. This
• 22:33
  thing's like this. This tunnel's
• 22:35
  >> like you're touching.
• 22:36
  >> It feels like it's inches bigger than
• 22:37
  the car, but it's it's bigger than that.
• 22:39
  But it, you know, it is if you're
• 22:40
  claustrophobic, it's it's kind of wild.
• 22:42
  And for right now, they have a driver,
• 22:44
  but they're they're eventually
• 22:46
  autonomous.
• 22:46
  >> Yeah. Wow.
• 22:47
  >> Cuz they haven't gotten the approval yet
• 22:48
  to be fully autonomous.
• 22:49
  >> Oh, I thought that it was.
• 22:50
  >> It's the technology already exists. It
• 22:53
  just they they haven't turned off.
• 22:54
  >> Oh, yeah. We've got cars driving around
• 22:55
  town on the streets. Seems like it'd be
• 22:57
  safer in a tunnel than out on the
• 22:58
  streets with other people.
• 23:00
  >> So, but anyway, I'll see if we can get
• 23:02
  down in the next week or two and try to
• 23:03
  get some footage cuz for me, this is
• 23:04
  super freaking cool. It makes me think
• 23:06
  of the metro. This is totally not Vegas,
• 23:09
  but the metro got all the way out to
• 23:10
  Dulles airport now in Washington DC. And
• 23:13
  when we got off there, you like I I did
• 23:15
  it just to just to experience it. You
• 23:17
  walk under the parking lot at Dallasos
• 23:19
  airport and pop up in Dallas airport.
• 23:21
  >> Okay.
• 23:21
  >> And I I don't know if it's going to be
• 23:23
  something similar to that or or what,
• 23:24
  but I think it's going to be amazing if
• 23:26
  you can land at the airport, hop in the
• 23:28
  Tesla loop, you know, let's say within 5
• 23:30
  years from now, and go to any casino in
• 23:32
  town. That would be cool.
• 23:33
  >> Oh my lord. Like what a better way than
• 23:34
  dealing with an Uber or a taxi. I'm
• 23:36
  sorry. Uber and taxi.
• 23:37
  >> Oh yeah, you're you're hurting people's
• 23:38
  feelings now.
• 23:39
  >> All right. This next story bodess really
• 23:42
  well for Vegas.
• 23:44
  >> Yes.
• 23:44
  >> I was starting to worry a little bit.
• 23:46
  >> Of course,
• 23:47
  >> all these headlines coming out
• 23:49
  >> here dying.
• 23:50
  >> Yeah. I mean, it's it's kind of a weird
• 23:52
  back and forth because when the Vegas
• 23:55
  dying headlines are out
• 23:57
  >> and the hotels are starting to do things
• 23:58
  like we just talked about was $149 show
• 24:00
  special. Like I want more people to come
• 24:02
  to Vegas, but in some ways I don't want
• 24:04
  more people to come to Vegas cuz it's
• 24:05
  more traffic and more whatever. But
• 24:07
  overall, I want our economy to progress.
• 24:09
  Yeah. I want the economy to be strong.
• 24:10
  I'd rather it be busy and crowded if I
• 24:12
  had to pick between the two. And so
• 24:14
  seeing this
• 24:16
  >> uh headline here makes me really happy.
• 24:18
  Very good news.
• 24:18
  >> The LVC
• 24:21
  >> VA acronym, it's like the Las Vegas
• 24:24
  Convention Authority, I believe, or
• 24:26
  something along those lines,
• 24:28
  >> uh has signed 447 room nights,
• 24:31
  >> uh 28% new to Vegas for additional
• 24:35
  conventions that are coming into town.
• 24:37
  So that is really really good news.
• 24:39
  >> Huge.
• 24:40
  >> Uh and and I did some additional
• 24:42
  investigation because I'm like well
• 24:43
  because I have my show this is this.
• 24:45
  Yeah. So it's like Burlington. I haven't
• 24:46
  heard of them. I I don't know if it's
• 24:48
  like is that Burlington
• 24:49
  >> Coat Factory? They're having a big
• 24:50
  convention here. [laughter] We have the
• 24:52
  chance to get some nice coats.
• 24:54
  >> Yeah. I don't know what what that is,
• 24:55
  but Emerson Electric, they're obviously
• 24:57
  a huge company that I'm aware of.
• 24:58
  Philips Healthcare. I don't know this at
• 25:02
  uh IIA, a CF technology industry
• 25:04
  association. They must be pretty big to
• 25:06
  be able to to make it into headlines.
• 25:08
  But
• 25:08
  >> good news cuz the convention industry
• 25:10
  here is kind of the backbone of
• 25:12
  everything,
• 25:12
  >> right?
• 25:13
  >> Uh you really see an uptick in traffic
• 25:16
  over at the Venetian, over at the wind,
• 25:19
  at the West, all these like surrounding
• 25:20
  properties, especially now that they're
• 25:22
  connected,
• 25:22
  >> especially midweek because they stay for
• 25:25
  the the midweek.
• 25:27
  >> They fly everybody out here. they stay
• 25:28
  in the midweek and then when they go
• 25:30
  home or some of them extend
• 25:32
  >> um then all the tourists come for the
• 25:34
  weekends who aren't the convention
• 25:35
  people. So midweek business will be way
• 25:38
  up from these conventions
• 25:40
  of the Vegas economy. You if you ever
• 25:42
  look to book rooms here, it's like $29 a
• 25:46
  night for Sunday through Thursday and
• 25:49
  it's like $500 a night for Friday and
• 25:51
  Sunday because everyone's driving in
• 25:52
  here from California flying in here. D.
• 25:54
  So, as Ryan was saying, that midweek
• 25:56
  business is really important at the
• 25:57
  convention [music] center. Uh,
• 25:58
  convention brings in a whole host of
• 26:01
  different people that might not have
• 26:02
  ever come to Vegas because they're
• 26:03
  coming here because they're coming to
• 26:05
  that convention. And
• 26:06
  >> it's it's also really easy to find those
• 26:08
  people around town because they all have
• 26:10
  lanyards.
• 26:10
  >> That's right. [laughter]
• 26:12
  Such
• 26:12
  >> It's really good when you walk up to a
• 26:14
  poker table and four people on the table
• 26:15
  have lanyards on.
• 26:16
  >> Yes.
• 26:17
  >> If you've ever watched rounders,
• 26:19
  everyone starts to drool a little bit
• 26:21
  like
• 26:21
  >> I've never played before, but I just
• 26:23
  want to try it out. Yeah.
• 26:24
  >> There's a saying in New York City, how
• 26:26
  do you spot the tourist?
• 26:28
  >> Yeah.
• 26:28
  >> And it's cuz they're looking up,
• 26:29
  >> right?
• 26:31
  >> Put their mouth.
• 26:32
  >> Wow, look at the big buildings.
• 26:33
  >> Yeah. Cuz it's just, you know, it's
• 26:34
  everything's
• 26:35
  >> So when they go see, how do you spot the
• 26:36
  tourist? They got they got they got the
• 26:38
  lanyard on.
• 26:38
  >> Yeah.
• 26:39
  >> All right.
• 26:40
  uh Formula 1 next year.
• 26:43
  >> This is interesting.
• 26:44
  >> This is kind of interesting because
• 26:45
  these numbers have been really expensive
• 26:48
  the first few years of Formula 1. So,
• 26:51
  this is interesting.
• 26:52
  >> What's interesting to me is how to spin
• 26:54
  a headline.
• 26:55
  >> Yeah.
• 26:55
  >> Right. Cuz it's just like Formula 1
• 26:57
  stance has been the most successful
• 26:59
  Formula 1 in the world has been in
• 27:01
  Vegas. And it's like they've changed
• 27:03
  Vegas and and Vegas would be dead
• 27:04
  without Formula 1 and all these
• 27:06
  different things. Now, Formula 1's
• 27:08
  announcing uh best available pricing and
• 27:11
  they're trying to like help sell more
• 27:12
  tickets, make it more affordable to get
• 27:15
  all the seats sold. So, maybe maybe they
• 27:17
  didn't sell out as much as we're trying
• 27:19
  to lead on. Or maybe there's additional
• 27:21
  opportunities in different parts of the
• 27:23
  track to fit even more people in, which
• 27:24
  would be even better.
• 27:26
  >> It's really interesting. Again, this is
• 27:28
  one of these things where don't believe
• 27:29
  everything you read or hear. Yeah.
• 27:31
  >> Because
• 27:31
  >> wait till you hear it from us.
• 27:33
  >> Yeah. If you hear from us, you know it's
• 27:34
  it's absolutely got to be true,
• 27:36
  >> right?
• 27:37
  And we also just got a
• 27:40
  >> uh relationship. We've started a
• 27:42
  relationship with Ellis Island, which is
• 27:45
  right next to the paddock
• 27:47
  >> uh for Formula 1, which we talked about
• 27:49
  in one of our videos the other day, but
• 27:51
  we're hoping that next year for Formula
• 27:53
  1, they have a rooftop. Look straight at
• 27:55
  the track.
• 27:56
  >> We're hoping next year we can maybe get
• 27:58
  >> They actually invited us this year at
• 27:59
  the last second
• 28:00
  >> and we already knew what the weather
• 28:01
  forecast was at that point.
• 28:03
  >> Supposed to be raining.
• 28:03
  >> I think that's why there was uh some
• 28:05
  people dropping out.
• 28:06
  just misting.
• 28:07
  >> But hopefully by next year we can get up
• 28:09
  there and watch that. I've never been to
• 28:10
  a Formula 1 race
• 28:12
  >> and I love racing.
• 28:14
  >> I would absolutely love to go to this.
• 28:15
  >> So yeah,
• 28:16
  >> I really hope that our relationship with
• 28:17
  Ellis Island coming this year. By the
• 28:18
  way, if you guys go to Ellis Island, uh
• 28:22
  starting like in mid-March, we're going
• 28:23
  to have a free play offer which will be
• 28:25
  really really cool. You're going to go
• 28:26
  to desertens.com
• 28:28
  and in about two weeks, go register
• 28:30
  there and be able to then take that
• 28:31
  email and go into the players desk and
• 28:33
  say, "I want to take my Desert DJ's free
• 28:34
  spin." Yeah.
• 28:35
  >> And they're going to give you $1,500 to
• 28:37
  $1,000 in free play. You'll spin a wheel
• 28:39
  and there's $1,000.
• 28:40
  >> $15.
• 28:41
  >> Sorry. Did I say 1,500?
• 28:42
  >> Yeah. 1,500. $15.
• 28:44
  >> Luckily, Ryan,
• 28:46
  >> I'm just checking.
• 28:47
  >> It's anywhere in between there.
• 28:49
  >> Obviously, there's going to be a lot of
• 28:50
  $15 spins. It's It's the way this works.
• 28:52
  But we've been assured that
• 28:55
  >> if we get hundreds of people that come
• 28:56
  through there,
• 28:58
  >> someone will get a hundred. Someone will
• 29:00
  get 200. Someone will whatever the
• 29:01
  numbers are in between the breakdowns.
• 29:03
  There will be some bigger numbers than
• 29:05
  just $15, but it's free money. Head down
• 29:07
  there.
• 29:08
  >> I'm told the average prize or the most
• 29:10
  most aware prize will be 25.
• 29:11
  >> 25, right?
• 29:12
  >> But there is there legitimately will be
• 29:14
  a chance to get that,000. I'm looking to
• 29:15
  see your first DJ Nation member.
• 29:18
  >> Let us know whoever it is. If you get
• 29:20
  the thousand, absolutely let us know. We
• 29:22
  don't we don't have to say your name,
• 29:23
  but we just want to know that it
• 29:24
  happened.
• 29:24
  >> Yeah, that'll be very cool. All right.
• 29:27
  Other really cool news.
• 29:28
  >> Yes. I like seeing stuff like this.
• 29:30
  >> This is cool for us.
• 29:32
  >> The Plaza has announced their live
• 29:33
  streaming tables. Uh MGM also has a uh
• 29:36
  something going on. We'll talk about
• 29:37
  that in a second as well. But these
• 29:39
  companies are starting to come around
• 29:41
  >> to things happening in their building.
• 29:44
  Yes.
• 29:44
  >> And that happening then simultaneously
• 29:46
  on the internet.
• 29:46
  >> Yeah. And bringing people Yeah. That is
• 29:49
  what we like today
• 29:50
  >> for us in our industry. Obviously great
• 29:52
  news.
• 29:53
  >> MGM is over the top with this. But let
• 29:56
  me just get through the plaza part
• 29:57
  first. So, the non-smoking room that
• 30:00
  used to be the Brian Christopher room,
• 30:02
  >> right?
• 30:02
  >> And for people that were, you know, had
• 30:04
  all this hearsay about Brian
• 30:06
  Christopher's relationship with the
• 30:07
  plaza falling out, da da da, he just did
• 30:08
  his big birthday bash there. They're
• 30:10
  fine, folks. It just it wasn't it wasn't
• 30:12
  working for that room. So, don't just
• 30:14
  start making things up.
• 30:15
  >> We did go in there a couple times and it
• 30:16
  was slow, but I think this might help
• 30:18
  it. Actually, I think this could really
• 30:20
  help that room.
• 30:20
  >> So, there uh this is a little bit
• 30:22
  different than what we do. you'll be a a
• 30:24
  patron going in there to play blackjack
• 30:27
  or or roulette
• 30:28
  >> and the plaza is going to have their own
• 30:31
  channel. So, the casinos are getting
• 30:32
  into social media now,
• 30:34
  >> which
• 30:35
  >> you know, it's like what are you doing
• 30:36
  coming on our turf,
• 30:37
  >> right? Well,
• 30:38
  >> but I actually don't think of it that
• 30:39
  way. I'm very very happy that they're
• 30:41
  doing this. You know, Hustler's been
• 30:43
  doing this in poker for a while now and
• 30:45
  it just helps all the other streamers. I
• 30:46
  think that a rising time
• 30:48
  >> uh raises all ships. Yeah.
• 30:50
  >> So, uh really really good news, I think.
• 30:53
  And so they're going to have the Plaza
• 30:54
  streaming thing that'll go out on their
• 30:57
  channel starting here, I think
• 30:58
  immediately on the weekends. So go
• 31:00
  subscribe to the Plaza. Go watch people
• 31:02
  play there.
• 31:03
  >> Casino Network.
• 31:04
  >> Las Vegas Casino Network is what they're
• 31:06
  calling that. That's an interesting name
• 31:08
  to the channel. Then MGM at Park MGM has
• 31:12
  made a room
• 31:14
  >> just for people like us to go in there
• 31:16
  and play whatever game they want.
• 31:18
  >> This is freaking amazing.
• 31:18
  >> It is a $100 minimum. So it's not like
• 31:20
  you can just go in there and play $5
• 31:22
  bets. No matter what your channel is,
• 31:24
  it's a $100 minimum. So, it makes
• 31:26
  >> And they don't care about what size
• 31:27
  channel you are. No. Which is the thing
• 31:28
  that I'm really happy about.
• 31:29
  >> You can have 1,000 subscribers. You can
• 31:31
  go in there. You have to book it. Yeah.
• 31:33
  >> And if you give them 24-hour notice,
• 31:35
  they'll put whatever table game you want
• 31:37
  in there.
• 31:38
  >> They don't have slots in there yet.
• 31:39
  >> Well, the guy last night said,
• 31:41
  >> he said last night they can they can
• 31:44
  make things happen. So, you just have to
• 31:45
  get with them, talk to them about it,
• 31:47
  tell them what you want to do. This is
• 31:49
  Vegas. If in Vegas, if you're willing to
• 31:53
  spend the money, they're willing to
• 31:55
  accommodate. I
• 31:56
  >> mean,
• 31:56
  >> we've learned this.
• 31:57
  >> I'm excited that there was a team of
• 32:00
  people down there.
• 32:01
  >> This is not like some fly by night
• 32:02
  operation. They taken a whole room off
• 32:04
  the high limit
• 32:06
  >> uh room, not the slots, but the the
• 32:09
  table games room because they have two
• 32:10
  different rooms at Park MGM. So, they
• 32:12
  have this whole enclave in there that
• 32:14
  fits three tables
• 32:14
  >> and it's quiet.
• 32:15
  >> It's quiet. So, for streamers, it's
• 32:17
  perfect. They'll turn the music down.
• 32:18
  Uh, and that's actually where we met
• 32:19
  Abby Poker last night. She was in there
• 32:21
  talking. So again, go go go check her
• 32:22
  channel out. She's got Abby Gambles now.
• 32:24
  So if you want to watch some gambling
• 32:26
  stuff, she's going to do that. Super
• 32:27
  nice girl. And
• 32:28
  >> we met we met the director.
• 32:31
  >> Yeah. And they're like, they were super
• 32:33
  excited. They didn't know who we were.
• 32:35
  They're like,
• 32:35
  >> they wanted us to book right there.
• 32:36
  They're like, "What do you want? Give us
• 32:37
  a date. We'll do it. Let's do it."
• 32:38
  >> So I got the guys info. We're probably
• 32:40
  going to do something. They have a a
• 32:42
  free promotion on there. We're not gonna
• 32:44
  Did he confirm the $100 minimum
• 32:47
  >> or was that
• 32:47
  >> Yeah, he that's what he told me. Minimum
• 32:49
  bet in there is $100. Okay.
• 32:51
  >> I don't know if on the roulette table
• 32:52
  that means a h 100red per spin spread
• 32:54
  out, but like a hand of blackjack was
• 32:56
  $100.
• 32:57
  >> Yeah. Typically on uh on roulette that
• 32:59
  means $100 total on the outside or $100
• 33:02
  total on the inside. So you can bet
• 33:04
  >> $10 on on 10 numbers.
• 33:06
  >> 10 numbers. Yeah.
• 33:07
  >> Uh and Abby was that's what she was
• 33:08
  doing in there and her exact words were
• 33:10
  >> I got torched playing. I'm sorry to hear
• 33:13
  that sometimes. That's
• 33:14
  >> Did you check and see if was a single
• 33:15
  zero in there?
• 33:16
  >> I didn't I did not check that out.
• 33:18
  >> Yeah, we might have a picture of it. The
• 33:20
  table.
• 33:20
  >> We'll go take a look at that. But
• 33:22
  >> uh again, exciting times.
• 33:23
  >> Yes.
• 33:24
  >> I don't know.
• 33:25
  >> Oh, by the way, Parkin Gym has all their
• 33:28
  cameras set up,
• 33:29
  >> but they will actually give you the
• 33:31
  footage so that you can take it home.
• 33:33
  >> Yeah.
• 33:34
  >> You don't have to live stream it right
• 33:35
  there while you're doing it.
• 33:37
  >> Um you can take the footage home
• 33:39
  >> and edit it however you want. They he
• 33:42
  did say they do ask that you say thank
• 33:44
  you to Park NGM, which is not hard to
• 33:47
  do.
• 33:47
  >> It's it's a compliance thing. He was
• 33:48
  telling me like kind of the inside
• 33:50
  baseball stuff with this. I hope he
• 33:51
  doesn't mind that I'm talking about
• 33:52
  this. [music] But
• 33:54
  >> in order for the casino to officially
• 33:55
  put it on, it has to be their
• 33:58
  >> thing. And so like from a legal
• 33:59
  perspective, like they're filming it,
• 34:01
  it's their footage, but they're giving
• 34:02
  it to you,
• 34:03
  >> right?
• 34:03
  >> And like they use their phone to film
• 34:05
  it,
• 34:05
  >> right?
• 34:06
  >> But their compliance is,
• 34:08
  >> hey, just give us a shout out. Don't say
• 34:09
  that this place is the worst place
• 34:11
  you've ever gambled in your life. Just
• 34:12
  say thank you to Parkm and get to
• 34:15
  mention where you're at. This is a uh
• 34:17
  Nevada Gaming Control Board. We do that
• 34:19
  all the time.
• 34:20
  >> It's It's weird. So,
• 34:21
  >> right now we're at Station's Casino
• 34:22
  right now at the Green Valley.
• 34:23
  >> Thank you Station Casinos for us.
• 34:25
  >> They let us do this. Yes.
• 34:26
  >> And we play here all the time. So, we've
• 34:29
  had a great relationship here.
• 34:30
  >> Absolutely. What I was going to just say
• 34:32
  real quick, last thing on this without
• 34:33
  uh going too deep into this. I'm excited
• 34:36
  to see a company like MGM. Yeah. You
• 34:39
  know, here is a very large corporation
• 34:41
  that has properties all over the world,
• 34:43
  you know, one of the premier gaming
• 34:45
  operations in the world.
• 34:47
  >> All of sudden, you're seeing them really
• 34:50
  adopting this online stuff, which I
• 34:52
  getting into this, one of the things
• 34:53
  Ryan and I talked about, I thought, you
• 34:56
  know, the two biggest risks that we had
• 34:58
  >> doing this channel or a YouTube having
• 35:01
  second thoughts about having gaming
• 35:02
  content.
• 35:03
  >> Yeah. you know, when they uh in March,
• 35:05
  you know, so 3 months after we had
• 35:07
  launched doing this, they put out an
• 35:09
  official policy, which can change any
• 35:12
  time, right? But at least they have an
• 35:13
  official policy right now of what we're
• 35:15
  doing is explicitly
• 35:17
  >> allowed. So I'm like, that's good. Like
• 35:20
  seeing that and then seeing MGM, you
• 35:22
  know, again, who you because Resorts
• 35:24
  World did this like you can do it, but
• 35:25
  you can't. So that stuff makes me
• 35:27
  nervous. But
• 35:28
  >> when a company like MGM makes a
• 35:30
  commitment to doing this,
• 35:31
  >> yes,
• 35:31
  >> they're really in. That's That's the way
• 35:33
  it looks. I'm just hoping that they
• 35:35
  don't
• 35:36
  >> do this for six months and then say the
• 35:38
  only way you're allowed to film is if
• 35:39
  you use our room.
• 35:41
  >> That's the next hurdle.
• 35:42
  >> That would be bad.
• 35:44
  >> Yeah. Yeah.
• 35:44
  >> Well, for right now, that is how it is
• 35:45
  with table games.
• 35:46
  >> Yeah. With most places
• 35:48
  >> for MGM,
• 35:49
  >> MGM does not let cuz like I was talking
• 35:50
  to DQ about this. They do not let you
• 35:52
  film table games in the pit. Like no
• 35:54
  matter who you,
• 35:55
  >> right? You have to have a a private room
• 35:57
  or whatever like Vegas Matt does.
• 35:59
  >> Yeah. Something along those lines that
• 36:00
  you can get. But this streaming room,
• 36:02
  you'll be able to do it. Yeah.
• 36:04
  >> There. No problem. As long as you
• 36:05
  reserve it. Now, obviously, it might get
• 36:07
  popular and it might raise the bar for
• 36:09
  like, it doesn't matter who you are.
• 36:10
  Maybe you got to have 10,000, 50,000,
• 36:12
  100,000 subscribers
• 36:13
  >> or, you know, 10,000, 20,000, $100,000.
• 36:16
  Who knows? Who knows?
• 36:17
  >> We don't have either one of those
• 36:18
  things.
• 36:19
  >> No, we don't have 50,000. We'll get that
• 36:21
  one. This is like the YouTube uh
• 36:23
  monetization algorithm. We, you know, we
• 36:25
  got one thing, but not the other. We
• 36:27
  don't have,00. We get there, we get
• 36:28
  there, we get there. We also don't do a
• 36:30
  lot of table games or really any table
• 36:32
  games anymore on our channel. So,
• 36:34
  >> all right, to wrap things up,
• 36:36
  >> everything that comes in Vegas must go
• 36:38
  in Vegas.
• 36:39
  >> Is happening
• 36:39
  >> east side Canary March 5th.
• 36:41
  >> If you like watching things blow up,
• 36:43
  >> I uh I'd like to go down there and do
• 36:45
  this and watch our friends John and
• 36:47
  Christina from Vegas Advantage. We'll
• 36:49
  certainly have footage about this. We'll
• 36:50
  put a link to their site. Yeah.
• 36:52
  >> Uh and they might even have some footage
• 36:53
  next week that we that let us borrow and
• 36:54
  throw in this podcast. I don't want to
• 36:56
  get too close when they do this and get
• 36:58
  hit by a rock or something.
• 36:59
  >> I don't want to inhale the
• 37:01
  >> dust the asbestous.
• 37:02
  >> Yeah,
• 37:03
  >> that building's newer than that. I think
• 37:05
  >> that building's not that old. I'm
• 37:06
  surprised they're employing there, but I
• 37:08
  think,
• 37:09
  >> you know, when things when the business
• 37:10
  is that bad out there, what do you do?
• 37:12
  You can't let it sit empty forever. So,
• 37:14
  >> I uh now realize that one of the things
• 37:16
  that would have been good to have on the
• 37:18
  uh agenda here, the script would be What
• 37:20
  year was that building built?
• 37:22
  >> It really wasn't that long ago. Maybe
• 37:24
  2000. You think it's that new?
• 37:26
  >> Yeah, I do.
• 37:27
  >> It's a 26 year old building coming down.
• 37:29
  >> It's so
• 37:31
  >> It's really not that old.
• 37:32
  >> He thinks it's newer than that.
• 37:32
  >> I think it's newer than that. I do.
• 37:34
  >> They have a sink hole under it. Why do
• 37:35
  they
• 37:36
  >> I think they built it after I moved here
• 37:37
  and I moved here in 2005.
• 37:39
  >> Wow. What do you think's going to go
• 37:41
  there?
• 37:41
  >> Uh probably a neighborhood.
• 37:43
  >> Yeah,
• 37:43
  >> probably. Yeah, that's seems to be on
• 37:46
  that side of town. Any land that size,
• 37:49
  they put a neighborhood in.
• 37:51
  >> Like Dr. or Horton or someone will buy
• 37:53
  it and
• 37:54
  >> okay
• 37:54
  >> and they'll just throw up.
• 37:56
  >> Be interesting is like the demand in
• 37:57
  this area like there's there's the other
• 37:59
  casino that station went out there also
• 38:02
  is coming coming down or they they
• 38:04
  converted it. What was the
• 38:05
  >> which one?
• 38:06
  >> What's Boulder? No
• 38:08
  >> the other that they're turning it into a
• 38:10
  park or whatever. Where where is this
• 38:12
  Canary thing? I actually maybe on
• 38:13
  Boulder Highway.
• 38:14
  >> Yeah, it's on Boulder Highway. So
• 38:15
  >> Oh, there the
• 38:18
  um
• 38:19
  >> what was the other thing? Well, the
• 38:20
  other one that you're talking about um
• 38:22
  No, not uh
• 38:23
  >> they they tore the building down, but
• 38:24
  they left the parking garage.
• 38:26
  >> Oh, that was Fiesta. Fiesta. Yes.
• 38:28
  >> But this isn't that
• 38:28
  >> they are turning. No. Uh
• 38:30
  >> like I mean like
• 38:31
  >> it's not close,
• 38:32
  >> but it's like in the same kind of
• 38:33
  corridor.
• 38:33
  >> It's probably 5 miles at least away.
• 38:35
  >> Okay. So, it's in the same
• 38:37
  >> But Fiesta, yes, they are supposed to
• 38:39
  put like a skate park and a and a big
• 38:41
  park, which is weird.
• 38:42
  >> I think it's going to happen here.
• 38:44
  >> There's one right across the street or
• 38:45
  the highway. On the other side of the
• 38:46
  highway, there's a massive park. They're
• 38:48
  going to put another park. Well, I think
• 38:49
  it makes it's a good spot cuz it's kind
• 38:50
  of loud there from the highway and
• 38:51
  everything. So, like having using it as
• 38:53
  a park area, but what I'm thinking like,
• 38:54
  you know, they they tear down the
• 38:55
  canery. They they're going to turn this
• 38:57
  uh the Fiesta into a into a park.
• 38:59
  They're building that area out more and
• 39:00
  more. They're going to put more more
• 39:01
  >> home. Joker's Wild, we talked about it.
• 39:03
  >> There'll be more demand for more
• 39:04
  casinos.
• 39:04
  >> Yeah. Joker's Wild is right down the
• 39:06
  street also,
• 39:06
  >> which they're redoing.
• 39:07
  >> And they're redoing that one. They're
• 39:08
  not blowing it up. They're not turning
• 39:09
  it down. Yeah, we talked about that.
• 39:10
  >> Who knows what's going to happen, but
• 39:12
  yeah, maybe a neighborhood, which uh if
• 39:14
  you want to move to Vegas, uh reach out.
• 39:16
  We we know a realtor. We do.
• 39:17
  >> And uh you can move into one one of
• 39:19
  those homes and then visit one of these
• 39:20
  new casinos.
• 39:21
  >> And if you really want to move close, my
• 39:24
  neighbor's selling his house, so you can
• 39:25
  meet my neighbor.
• 39:26
  >> There you go. My neighbor.
• 39:28
  >> All right, that's about it for this
• 39:29
  week. We appreciate you all hanging out.
• 39:31
  Uh we we got a little bit more of a
• 39:33
  media episode this week. There was a lot
• 39:34
  a lot going on.
• 39:35
  >> I actually had to cut off topics.
• 39:37
  >> There's a lot happening this week in
• 39:38
  [music] Vegas. It's crazy. Vegas is
• 39:40
  happening.
• 39:40
  >> It's great.
• 39:41
  >> Yeah. So, all right guys, well,
• 39:43
  >> thanks for [music] being here with us.
• 39:44
  >> Yeah. Leave down in the comments again.
• 39:45
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• 39:47
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• 39:48
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• 39:49
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• 39:52
  >> All right.
• 39:53
  >> See youall next week, guys. See you
• 39:54
  guys.