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Vegas Pauly C on Las Vegas Casinos, Comps, Price Gouging · WiseKracks

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to Wisecracks beautiful Westgate, Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Pauli ce John.
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  Speaker 2: Got him in here. Uh that's thank you for coming. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: No, I love doing it. I love doing it. Oh
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  Speaker 3: really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks.
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  Speaker 4: I've been wanting this. I've been wanting this for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years now. We talked it.
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  Speaker 3: We first talked.
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  Speaker 5: I ran, yeah, I was ready to go that over
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  Speaker 5: at Venetian.
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  Speaker 4: But you're doing some stuff with Venetiana.
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  Speaker 2: I'm associated with them now. It's really a dream for me.
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  Speaker 4: It's been cool watching you.
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  Speaker 5: I've been following you now for whatever it's been three
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  Speaker 5: three or four years, three years, okay, And just the
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  Speaker 5: the the fun, the drama, the everything. I love that
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  Speaker 5: you're so authentic. You put it out there when you
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  Speaker 5: had the Taco place.
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  Speaker 3: And all of it.
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  Speaker 4: Not to bring up the Duke anything, but you know it.
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  Speaker 5: Just I like that you're so you don't mind putting
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  Speaker 5: yourself out there.
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  Speaker 4: Neil is the same way Bill is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I mean I just if they do something wrong.
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  Speaker 6: I like the lead people to know they throw me out,
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  Speaker 6: by the way for using my brain winning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thrown not a lot to play at. Caesar's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the vetalizations. I'm not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the treasure around.
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  Speaker 3: I can go on and on.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, and if they bam me, it's thrown
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  Speaker 2: me out. It's throw me out.
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  Speaker 5: And you both are very interesting to me because you
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  Speaker 5: you both don't mind saying how you feel.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Bill, Bill will pass our own sponsors.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: We went to the craft table last week, him and I.
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  Speaker 6: I said, I don't gamble at the tables. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I've I lost a lot of money when I was
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  Speaker 6: younger cambling, so I don't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I do make a lot of money now.
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  Speaker 6: So I said, John, I'm gonna give you a shot,
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  Speaker 6: because he's bragging about how lucky he is.
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  Speaker 2: John, come on, here's five nut. I okay, I go
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  Speaker 2: to the crap table. You go to the craft table,
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  Speaker 2: and the box person was just so nasty, miserable, and
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  Speaker 2: even though it was in this building, I still went
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  Speaker 2: after him. Throw me out. Fine, you can throw us
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  Speaker 2: how they cant them from home I don't care. I
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  Speaker 2: love the West Gat. I promote their stuff all the time.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, so's a lot of things I see,
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  Speaker 6: but now we watch your things.
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  Speaker 5: And he went in the best was he went in
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  Speaker 5: on Resorts World way back at like relentless, but he
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  Speaker 5: was before.
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  Speaker 2: Actually people started knowing him because of him. What's going
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  Speaker 2: on with it?
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  Speaker 5: But then they hired you, and they don't hire you,
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  Speaker 5: but they were they had something.
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  Speaker 2: They barred me, No they didn't.
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  Speaker 3: They barred me for a year and awo, okay, and
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  Speaker 3: then one day I got a call from Alex Dickson,
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  Speaker 3: super nice guy. And it's funny because when the phone
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  Speaker 3: call came in, it was a seven oh two number,
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  Speaker 3: and I knew it was, you know, something important, And
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  Speaker 3: I picked it up and it was Alex Dixon and
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  Speaker 3: they had made him president for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, he was only there for one hundred and twelve days.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of his friends had contacted me because
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  Speaker 3: he's an old school Vegas guy. He grew up on
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  Speaker 3: the West Side. And they said, you know, give Alex
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  Speaker 3: a chance, you know, And I said, who am I
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  Speaker 3: to give Alex a chance? I said, they're not going
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  Speaker 3: to give alex A Chance. I said, this is what
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna do to him. They're gonna he's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: in there a year, a year and a half. I
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  Speaker 3: actually said this. Several of his friends contact him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then they're just gonna throw him away and blame
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  Speaker 3: everything on him.
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  Speaker 2: And I was totally wrong, because he didn't make it
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  Speaker 2: the year.
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  Speaker 3: He was there one hundred and twelve days, so crazy,
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  Speaker 3: and they used them up and they.
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  Speaker 2: Throw them out.
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  Speaker 3: But we met and we talked about the entrance off
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  Speaker 3: the strip, we talked about the pizza place there, and
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  Speaker 3: we talked about the alcohol. That it's just a waste
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  Speaker 3: of time. But super nice guy, worship nothing but the best.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry that they used.
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  Speaker 2: They used him.
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  Speaker 3: They you know, organizations that are awful, organizations that are corrupt,
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  Speaker 3: they use people also. You know, that's one of the
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  Speaker 3: things that really aggravates me. They get a decent person
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  Speaker 3: in there, and because they don't know how to value
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  Speaker 3: their customers, they certainly don't how to value their employees.
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  Speaker 3: So you end up with a scenario where people are
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  Speaker 3: just being used and thrown away, used and thrown away.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember when the Fond of
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  Speaker 3: Blue opened up. You know, Jeff was like using employees
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  Speaker 3: like toilet paper.
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  Speaker 2: He was high executives. Yeah, they can throw them away.
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  Speaker 3: In the first month, right, Jeff needs to look in
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  Speaker 3: the mirror, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: You need to look in the mirror.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: That's why you kept throwing people away, because if.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody's a problem, you're the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And I have no problem saying that.
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  Speaker 3: And I have a great relationship with several people over there,
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  Speaker 3: and you know causes it causes me trouble because I know,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, I know the guy hates me. He's
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  Speaker 3: the only executive I ever met in Las Vegas. Watched this.
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  Speaker 3: They bring me upstairs, right, Poppy brought me upstairs.
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  Speaker 2: Poppy's a great.
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  Speaker 3: Guy, the guy that owns Poppy Steakers, and Poppy is
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  Speaker 3: projecting through his lens. And Poppy's lens is love, inclusiveness, tolerance,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's just giving of himself all day long, Poppy,
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  Speaker 3: and Poppy brings me upstairs, and I'm like, I'm cringing
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  Speaker 3: because I know I've been an asshole. Like I know
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  Speaker 3: that I attacked them before they opened because I knew
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  Speaker 3: they were gonna I knew they were never gonna make
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  Speaker 3: it open because I saw everything going on before it
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  Speaker 3: opened there. And Poppy brings me upstairs and I go
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  Speaker 3: to meet Jeff, and Jeff goes like, no, it's the
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  Speaker 3: only executive.
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  Speaker 2: And Brett Mumfson made fun of me.
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  Speaker 3: So those are the two executives at the Fallen Blow,
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Sofer and Brett Mumpson. Jeff turned his back on me,
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  Speaker 3: didn't shake my hand, I swear to God, and Brett
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  Speaker 3: muffs had made fun of me, like within the first
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  Speaker 3: ten seconds I met him, and I found out the
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  Speaker 3: story about Brett. I don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: I about nice.
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  Speaker 6: You know, even if you don't feel that way, you
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  Speaker 6: just put the clown makeup on for a second to
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  Speaker 6: project yourself nice.
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  Speaker 2: They don't. I mean, that guy's stealing paychecks.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and he ain't hired at five billion dollars, so
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  Speaker 3: why should he shake my hand? Oh he's so great, right,
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  Speaker 3: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care at this point. So are you allowed
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  Speaker 2: in there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, then I give him a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Credit for him. Okay. So I was very hard on resources.
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  Speaker 2: While that was very hard on the Fomblo. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: I get tired.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about this yesterday because Caesar's and MGM
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  Speaker 3: are just completely screwed, and I get tired of being negative.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's exhausting being negative. Good point.
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  Speaker 3: There are some great operators in town, Red Rock Resorts,
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  Speaker 3: the Fertitas. Ye oh my god, Like you could bring
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  Speaker 3: in I think I told you this. You can bring
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  Speaker 3: me into a Red Rock property and say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: big this place. He was gonna pay you one hundred
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars as a consultants.
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  Speaker 2: What would you do here? How would I improve the Durangum?
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  Speaker 3: I love?
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  Speaker 2: The sports book is perfect, great, the rules are great.
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  Speaker 3: They have the great Crafts game.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, so you know, you have to acknowledge the
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  Speaker 2: great operators.
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  Speaker 3: I can go through Vegas and he's like, you know
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  Speaker 3: the South Point, that guy Michael, Michael Going is a
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  Speaker 3: world champion, world champion because he's a game and.
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  Speaker 4: They're so loyal to him, his employees. But there's people
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  Speaker 4: in the game.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, you got Red Rock, you got Michael Going,
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  Speaker 3: you got a couple of operators downtown Derek Stevens, Jonathan Jossel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm I'm involved with him. Ye, So you
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  Speaker 3: know there's a little bias there.
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  Speaker 4: But he's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I'm not involved with Derek at all, but I'll still.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you wow. Yeah, Like you know, look what he
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  Speaker 3: did with the Canadian currency, like right, and I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if you're a member, but he opened.
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  Speaker 2: Right during COVID, Derek, And.
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  Speaker 3: So what did he do? He gave away and I
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  Speaker 3: don't remember the number, but it had to be like
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  Speaker 3: six thousand airline tickets, right, Yes, you should all fly
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  Speaker 3: you here?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody else I can tell you this. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: as strong as Derek.
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  Speaker 3: If I was opening during COVID, I would have.
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  Speaker 2: Been under my desk crying like girls.
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  Speaker 3: I would have been like, oh my god, i'spend a
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  Speaker 3: billion dollars of opening during COVID. So there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: that guys like Derek are successful.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hey didn't didn't Circa and Resorts World both open
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  Speaker 5: during COVID.
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  Speaker 3: Right, and look at the look at the look at
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  Speaker 3: the attitude difference. You know, you go down to the Circa,
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  Speaker 3: you get have a great time. There's there's more creativity
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  Speaker 3: in Derek Stevens pinky yeah than there is in the
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  Speaker 3: whole Resorts World company.
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  Speaker 2: Like everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 3: I've been to Resorts World, Caskills looks like a hospital.
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  Speaker 3: It's boring.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing going on there. I've been to Resorts World Queens.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a hospital. There's nothing going on there.
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  Speaker 3: There's what like your corporate policy is what boredom? Your
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  Speaker 3: corporate policy is to be as dry and as office
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  Speaker 3: or hospital looking as possible.
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  Speaker 6: Some believe, well, no one has the pulse of the
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  Speaker 6: casino resorts that knows what.
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  Speaker 3: It's every property, It's not just the one in it's
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  Speaker 3: go to the one in Queens, go to the one
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  Speaker 3: and Caskills like, I've been to them, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't have any kind of relationship at all
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  Speaker 3: with Derek, but I'll go outside and I'll say, wow,
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  Speaker 3: look at this pool area.
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  Speaker 2: Who would have thought of this? I would have never
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  Speaker 2: thought of that.
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  Speaker 3: Right, that's sports book And you know the other reason
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  Speaker 3: you give Derek a lot of credit is because sportsbook business.
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  Speaker 2: And you know this because you're beating them, right. Sportsbook
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  Speaker 2: business is a terrible business.
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  Speaker 3: And he's making a whole property around this based on
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  Speaker 3: the like, pick the worst thing to make a property, right.
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  Speaker 3: You know when I say worst, I mean the most
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  Speaker 3: marginal money work. Sure, and there he is sure and
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  Speaker 3: he still exists.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, shakes everyone's head at the tops at the sportsbook.
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  Speaker 2: We've had him on a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm pretty close to them, so you know,
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  Speaker 3: I want to be a little more positive, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I know I'm constantly bashing Tom Reeve and Caesar's and
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  Speaker 3: the other thing about MGM is I love the employees
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  Speaker 3: at MGM, and there's so many old school, great employees
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  Speaker 3: over there. But they're stuck in a scenario. And you
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  Speaker 3: guys know this. They sold all their real estate, every
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  Speaker 3: last property, and I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I know Caesars didn't sell every property.
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  Speaker 3: They still own things like the Flamingo. Every last property
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  Speaker 3: with MGM has been sold to the read so they
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  Speaker 3: no longer control it. And that's going on. And at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, they're buying back their stock. I say
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  Speaker 3: to financial people, I say, I want you to find
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  Speaker 3: me another company that has brought back forty percent of
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  Speaker 3: its float over the last five years.
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  Speaker 2: And the stock's down.
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  Speaker 3: Like they had a twenty billion dollar market cap now
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  Speaker 3: their market cap is nine billion.
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  Speaker 2: So they're out there borrowing money. Now. I know they
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  Speaker 2: borrow money to build their I Gaming Network.
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  Speaker 3: But they also borrowed a lot of money and brought
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  Speaker 3: back I'm sorry, they borrowed a lot of money and
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  Speaker 3: invested it in what Jamie Fox at seven million dollars
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  Speaker 3: a year, Hey Jamie Fox? That nothing. I love Jamie Fox.
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  Speaker 3: If you ask me who the most talented person is
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  Speaker 3: in entertainment, think about it, music, dancing, comedy, acting.
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  Speaker 2: Am I missing something?
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  Speaker 3: He's a five tool guy, But sports gaming it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: It's just some reason. It just doesn't. It doesn't match
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  Speaker 3: for me.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing they'd they'd beenced fore.
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  Speaker 3: Hilarious guy, great guy.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him in it, so him inn as Caesar's
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  Speaker 2: commercial or maybe an MGM commercial.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, what did they pay that? Somebody told
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  Speaker 3: me he got paid two million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he was well.
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  Speaker 3: But it just doesn't make any sense. You know. I
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  Speaker 3: gambled the other night with a guy who I tangentially know.
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  Speaker 2: His name is Maddy Bets. He said, I R okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: do you have a guy like Maddy Bets?
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  Speaker 3: Half a million dollars a thousand times one of three?
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  Speaker 3: And this is the mistake that corporate people make when
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  Speaker 3: you look at pen Pen Gaming pen Gaming. That guy
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  Speaker 3: Snowden is looking through his prism. This is the problem
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  Speaker 3: with casino executives. They're looking through their prison. So he's
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  Speaker 3: looking through his prism and he sees Dave Portnoy again.
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  Speaker 3: Dave Portnoy is a fantastic personality, fantastic guy, wildly entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: But think about his message, think about his show, think
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  Speaker 2: about what he does.
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  Speaker 3: He's an iconoclast, right, a bit of an iconoclast. He's
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  Speaker 3: a capitalist. He believes in getting great value on his
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  Speaker 3: sports bets, on his gaming, and he is twenty million followers. Okay, yep.
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  Speaker 3: So when Penn Gaming did the deal with portnoying, did
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  Speaker 3: they really think that Dave Portnoy's twenty million followers who
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  Speaker 3: are going to be like Dave, They're gonna be iconoclass
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be rebels, They're gonna be guys who are
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  Speaker 3: looking for that extra half point. They're gonna be guys
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  Speaker 3: that and you know this because you're in sports gaming.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be guys who are gonna be looking for
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  Speaker 3: that bonus, but that sign up bonus. So while Dave
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  Speaker 3: is amazing and all the stoolies are hilarious and incredible
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  Speaker 3: and everybody's entertaining. It's not really a customer base that
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  Speaker 3: you want because they're always going to be looking for
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  Speaker 3: the best deal, the best value. So yeah, give Dave
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  Speaker 3: all that money. And of course it was a total disaster. Yep,
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  Speaker 3: twenty million stoolies are not going to suddenly say, oh
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  Speaker 3: my god, Dave is part of this, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: join Penn Gaming Sportsbook.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm no.
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  Speaker 3: They're the kind of guys who are looking for an edge.
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  Speaker 3: They're the kind of guys who are looking for a price.
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  Speaker 3: They're the kind of guys who are cool and iconoclass
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  Speaker 3: and so it's just idiotic.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, and these corporate guys look through this Lene Now,
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  Speaker 2: to me, it's disrespectful.
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  Speaker 3: We are I'm a gamble.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a degenerate gamble. I don't I don't hide it
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  Speaker 2: from anybody.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I've been right, I've got I've got my issues.
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  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, I'm not going.
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  Speaker 2: To just follow.
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  Speaker 3: If they would look through there, if they would stop
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  Speaker 3: looking through their lens, I'm not just going to follow
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  Speaker 3: Dave Portnoy or Jamie Fox, and.
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  Speaker 2: Those are two people I love. I think is effing amazing, But.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to follow them to a shitty product,
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  Speaker 3: so why and but corporate thinks that that's what's gonna happen, right,
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  Speaker 3: And now you.
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  Speaker 2: See Caesar's doing it over and over and over going.
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  Speaker 3: If I see one more vander Pump or one more
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  Speaker 3: Gordon Ramsey, it's like, stop already, You're boring the hell
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  Speaker 3: out of everybody. It's at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 3: This is my opinion. It's very subjective. It's lazy thinking.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, Caesar's can't come up with anything, so
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  Speaker 3: they just keep calling up Gordon Ramsay because of formula. Right,
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  Speaker 3: it worked once and now they're just going to keep
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  Speaker 3: doing And it's really awful about it. And I think
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  Speaker 3: you may know this because you're a gambler. You said
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  Speaker 3: you're a gambler. What's really awful about it is is
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  Speaker 3: that as gamblers, we want to see different We want
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  Speaker 3: to see a different product. We don't want to see
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  Speaker 3: Gordon Ramsey. You know, a million times we'd rather see
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  Speaker 3: Joe's Burger and Sam's Burger and Eddies Burger than one
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  Speaker 3: more Gordon Ramsey burger. They don't understand that AD eighty
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  Speaker 3: a d HD people people who are gamblers. Our addiction
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  Speaker 3: is always the action, something different, a different game, a
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  Speaker 3: different sporting event.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best thing.
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  Speaker 3: But their but their mentality is formula formula, formula formula.
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  Speaker 3: So what do they end up doing? What is Caesar's doing?
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: You're boring the hell out of your customers, just like
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: resorts well did unintentionally? You think about Steve Win, I mean,
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: he's the icon, He's the god. Every part of Steve
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Win's property thrills the eye. You know. I was in
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: the wind a couple of months ago, I'll never forget it,
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: and I walked by a couple of guys and they're
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: standing like this.
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: And there having a conversation about the tray.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Ceiling at the Wind, right and how beautiful it is
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: right now. This is seventeen years after the wind opened up,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: and they're still standing their mess.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: Maraz.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: I actually learned from watching Steve the other day that
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: curve is called the Arabesque. Who so according to Steve,
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: and I think he's right, the Arabesque, which is the curve,
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: is thrilling to the gambling. Wow, right, So I was,
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: and I was so fascinated to hear him talk about
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: that because I was walking by the wind and I said, Wow,
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: there's just something about the two curves of this building
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: that makes me want to go in. Now when I
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: go to City Center and I stand, I knew city Center,
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: city Center. People don't understand that.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: People haven't really done the research. City Center almost bankrupted MGM.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Yes right.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: They had to sell. They had to sell Treasure Island
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: to Phil Ralphin to raise enough money to stay open.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: They had a mortgage up in New York, New York.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: They were paying fifteen percent for the money, so it
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: almost bankrupted. If you're and same thing with fonton Blue,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: whoever the architect is from font and Blue come up
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: from the south and what do you hit? A cold
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: blue wall?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: That's about crazy.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: It's about as inviting as what true. Yeah, you know,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: when you're a gambler and you're gonna go someplace. Talk
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: about the Bellagio, which obviously Steve doesn't anymore. He got
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: two years out of it before it was stolen from him.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, it opens up to you.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: It's a lake. I ran into the director of I
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: guess he's the director of landscaping. Somebody said to me,
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be flying in palm trees early in the morning,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: if you want to come and sit now when they
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: say flying in, in other words, they're gonna put them on
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: the crane.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: And fly them over.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: So of course I made the video and I ran
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: into the director of the wind.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I guess he's the director of landscaping, and he said to.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Me, Paul, and I was complimented because I said, wow,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this or not, but
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: the little pond in front of the wind, everything was
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: updated around it.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: They've put all kinds of lights, they put all extra
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: palm trees. They made it absolutely, they improved it one
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: hundred percent.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: He said to me, Paul, water lighting and foliage is
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: in our DNA here at wind. And I said, yeah,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: you think about it. Think about how bad city Center looks.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: I don't want to look at City Center. I don't
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: want to look at the Fonda Blue. Now, to be fair,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: the Fonda Blue is beautiful on the inside. But again,
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: but again, if you know Steve Win, if you really
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: studied him and heard like eighty million, uh you know
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: speeches that he's given him and Elane had a huge
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: fight over that cold blue collar that Jeff has throughout
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: the property and Steve's perspective, and Elaine wanted that color
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: in a restaurant, and Steve said to Elaine, I do
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: not want that collar in my casino. So you guys
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: remember the Mirage right before that cold blue that was nowhere.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Nowhere in the Mirage.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I mean when you walked in the Marage, they had
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the soft yellow, right and what they had and they
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: had the rainforest, yeah, some fish tank behind them. There's
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: some fantastic operators that have come through Vegas. Steve went
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: of course, Sheldon Natleson, who was a constant businessman. The
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Fertiga is now I would say, you know, they've got
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: it over everybody. Yeah, I mean maybe it would be
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Michael gorm but he's a eighties now, you know. But
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: these great operators. Derek Stevens is incredible, Jonathan Jostly is incredible.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: So I almost am starting to feel bad because the
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: corporate people that came in and the people that really
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: don't have any talents that are running two major corporations
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: in Las Vegas, right, wow, And this is what I'm
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: angry about. People say, I mean, you know, my partner says,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: he's so angry. What are you angry about, Paul? They
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: ruined my medicine. My medicine is gambling. I need to
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: gamble for medical reasons. I'm really not kidding. I have
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: a deficiency. And so you came in. You stole the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Blagia from Steve Win. You know, the stock went down
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: to eleven and they rushed in there. Actually was Corbarian,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Kirkaborian whatever it is, Grekorian, I never say that the name people.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: It was actually Korean.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: But the MGM people took it. And what have they
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: done with What have they done? What have they done
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: with MGM? All they did was they sold off They
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: sold off the Mirage, they sold off Treasure Island, they
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: sold off Circus Circus. They paid five point six billion
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: dollars for the Cosmopolitan when they could have had it
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: for one point seven billion. In two thousand and four,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: team Blackstone walked with four billion dollars.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Is the biggest profit that Blackstone ever made it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: And so what have they done? The corporate people that
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: have stolen Steve's legacy, They've done nothing. And Caesar's I mean,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: don't even get me started. So this is what's happening
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: right now. Twenty twenty six and you know it, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: you know it, and everybody in town knows it. These
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: two companies, Caesar's weigh more than MGM because there's still
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: some quality product and there's still some fantastic people at MGM.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Caesar's primarily has destroyed Las Vegas, how by giving it
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: a black eye with the private price cougey. When you
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: are charging fourteen dollars for a bacon, egg and cheese
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: sandwich right now, you're not charging that here's credit to
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: the win. You're not charging that to people who are wealthy.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: You're charging that to Middle America. So Middle America is
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: coming to Vegas. They're getting a coffee and a bacon,
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: egg and cheese sandwich and it's twenty seven dollars with tax.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: What is that? That's a black eye to lost. You're
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: ruining Las Vegas.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: These two companies have done. Now. The Wind will tell you,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: In fact, they talked about it in a conference call.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: The Wind will tell you, and I will tell you
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: from personal perspective, the win. When you go in there
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: and you buy food, they do not gouge you. It's
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: not cheap. I'm not going to tell you it's cheap.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: But I went in the wind the other day and
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I got a large caramello, which is an involved coffee.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's tall.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it's gotten. It's got all kinds
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: of stuff in there. Then she goes to charge me.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Because I'm so damaged by Las Vegas, I immediately think
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I give in her twenty ill don't. I'm like, this
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: is gonna be eleven seventy five, it's going to be
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: twelve twenty five.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: It was eight oh one.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Now is that cheap? No? But I don't feel gouged, right,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: do you understand?
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure, same thing with the wind.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: I remember two years ago, when I was really attacking
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Resorts World, I would go into the wind and I
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: would get a cocktail. Now the wind is you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it's the top of the top, right, and I would
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: get a cocktail.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: It was nineteen dollars.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: I would get a whatever it was. What do they
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: call that drink with the coffee in it?
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Martino.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I'll get the espresso Martinez, nineteen dollars. I'll go across
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the street and I would buy the same espresso Martin years,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: it's well twenty seven to fifty. That's insane. And I
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: was like, I was like, you're gonna charge eight dollars
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: ATL And that's when I knew. That's when I got
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: the sense that they're completely, completely incompetent. And then the
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: more angry I got, the more I went in on them.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: And then one day I showed up there and they're like,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: get out.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Of the building.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: And I saw that video. I was like so shocked
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: because I'm an American and I kind of thought free
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: speech was sort of like everywhere, but people online were like,
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: you're an idiot. You can't go against the company like
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: that and not expect to get kicked out. But honestly,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I expected to not get kicked out. I didn't know
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: that like being critical, sure, you know what I mean, Like,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you know the thing that these corporations need to learn,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: especially resorts, well but a lot of them, and I
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: didn't learn it until I was fifty seven years old.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Fifty eight years old, there's so much to learn from
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: your critics. I'll go into my chat and every once
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: in a while I'll see something in there that says whatever,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: and I'll be like, okay, all right. I mean even
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: this morning I posted something and someone said pull the
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: book that you're talking about. It's not barbarians at the gate,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: it's not lions at the Gate, it's Caesar's Palace.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Coup I got. I said, you're right.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I just remember now you reminded me of what the
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: name of the book was that I was referencing in
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: this video. And so you can learn. You have the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: power of a thousand minds in my social media that
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: people commenting.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I'm learning facts, I'm learning figures, I'm going deeper on things.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: So the open mind. Now, let's talk about Jonathan Jossely.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: From minute Yeah, I was gonna ask you. I wanted
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: to know how to come about I'm gonna tell you.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: And one of the reasons I got chills sometimes when
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I talk about this because when I was at my lowest,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: but there was another content creator. I'm not gonna mention
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: her name, but to me, she's the devil. There was
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: another content creator that I was at war with in
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas because a million different reasons. She put it
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: out up there that I'm a total liar and I'm
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: this and she did a post two years ago and
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: it said no corporation in Las Vegas, not the circa
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: where he's bored which is not true.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Derek never borrored me. I have a decent relationship with
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the circa.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Richard Wilke is a fantastic, fantastic guy of a great relate.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: He never barred me.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: In fact, he got angry when she posted that Red
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Rock will find out the wind He's bored. She said
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that I was bored everywhere and that no one will
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: ever do.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Business with me in Las Vegas. Yeah, it took two
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: more years, but.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I give Jonathan going back to Jonathan, I give Jonathan
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: so much credit because no matter how dark my days were,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: no matter how bad things were for me in Las Vegas. Yeah,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: and I know for a fact he never told me.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: But I know because he alluded to it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: He never put it in my face, because he's not
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: that kind of guy.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I know that Jonathan took phone call after phone call.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Why are you dealing with this guy? Why are you
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: supporting this guy? Why are you still standing by this guy?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: What and my darkest days? I know he took the Yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: you know, he never wavered, you know, And that's the
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: genius of someone like Jonathan. He's so tolerant. Yeah, so
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: now we have this amazing relationship. In fact, I'm going
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: there at eleven o'clock. I livestream Blackjack from there. I
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: changed a few rules over there. I came up, I said, Jonathan,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: and you know you're old, tall, small. It's one fifty
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: to one. I remember when it was one seventy five
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: to one on the crap table. One day I woke
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: up and every corporation had changed into one hundred and
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: fifty to one. Now the house edge is seven percent
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: at one seventy five, which is a healthy house edge.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: You're a candle, you know that. And they had to
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: make it one fifty to one and pick up a.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Twenty percent house session. I said, Jonathan, why don't you
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: put it back? Now? This is not a selfless act
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: by me. The things that I do are not because
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I'm a great guy or I'm selfless. I want him
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: to do it for two reasons. Number one, it's great
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: for the gambler. Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Number two, I want the social media.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Of saying, wow, look at this applause to put back.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Well that's the ego, Well this is actual. There's a
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: third part. I'm sorry, you're right, the ego part. But
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the second part is I want the content. So I
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: was over there already twice. One time I was with
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: my partner, and my partner loves betting the old tools small.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I don't agree with it because it's a seven percent
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: house edge, but he bet it and he hit it,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: and he hit it live on camera and I caught Look,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: I caught the dice in the mid air. It was
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: a video I did, and the dice were actually on
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: the three which we needed to hit, and then.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: It rolled in the three.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So that's good social medium. Amazing, and that's why I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: like when they change the rules now more credit to
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Jonathan jossely. So I say to Jonathan, he's opening table
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: games in his front casino there. I don't if you
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: guys have seen it enough. There's a front casino and
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: we're working on a project together. I don't know if
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: he's really ready for me to disclose it whatever, But
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I said, Tom, Jonathan, I said, if you're going to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: put a casino in the front there, I needed to
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: be the best or the best because I'm going to
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: be doing social media there.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: There's gonna be other influencers there. I need something to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: talk about.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: He goes, Okay, Paula, what do you want? I said,
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I want you to put. And again there's ego in this.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: So I apologize before I say this, but I'm sorry
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: my ego in flakes when I say this. Johnath said,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I want you to put strip rules downtown on the
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: black jack get Okay, So this is the first. I mean,
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: there might be one other place. I don't know conclusively,
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: but I'm pretty certain there's no.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Strip rules for blackjack downtown. The point is there's strip rules.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So that's re splitting Ace's surrender of course three to
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: two and.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Of course double after splits. Yep, that's great they put
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: strip rules downtown.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But not only that. I say, but I need this,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: and you need to put unlimited splitting because I found
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: out over.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The last two months. This is something I only found
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: out sixty days ago.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: I found out sixty days ago since I posted started
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: posting gambling clips. What are the clips that do the
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: absolute best? Of course, I get my metrics.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: What worked, what worked, what worked? If it works, what
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: am I gonna do? I'm gonna keep going back to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the well.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Hell, I went to the lake up there in Death
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Valley for six times. I worked for content when it
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: filled up with water, filled up with water twice in
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: the last two years, so I knew that splitting was
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: like amazing and social media with the clips. So if
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you get resplit sevens resplit, he's god. If he got
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: a four split, I have a four split on YouTube.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It's got over two million years. It hasn't happened yet,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: of course, because he just he hasn't opened the game yet,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: so he's opening on February fifth. But if I get
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: a five split, in other words, two's five times against
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: a six or six times, I once had it. I
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: once had eight six times. The only other casino that
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I know him in America that has that rule as
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Bohegan Sun in Connecticut.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: They have unlimited splitting. The only place, and I'm sure
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: there are places in Michigan that have it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I'm sure there are places in Washington State that have it,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: but nowhere in Vegas has it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So what did he do? What did Jonathan Jossell do?
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: He put strip rules, and he put unlimited splitting, which
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: is worth another couple hundreds of a percent. So he's
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: got now he has, and now I can do social
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: media on it. This conclusively, I can tell you, is
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the best six deck blackjack game in Las veg without
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: a doubt that Yeah, because it's stripples which is two
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: six and then a couple of points for the repat.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: So guys like that, you know that will work with me.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: He really understood the value of social media. He's started
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: for and if you built that slot to night sir,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: that slot section for.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: So he'll tell the story and I'm gonna quote him directly, yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: because he's not here twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, he started
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: dealing with the slot influencers and Brian Christopher and a
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: lot of people on YouTube, and he took the phone
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: calls and I'm quoting him here. Guys we called me
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: up and they would say, why are you dealing with
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: those people?
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That's a waste of time.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: These YouTubers are a waste of time. He was on it,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: what five years before anybody else, and that's why when
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: he reached out to me, I had one hundred thousand followers.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: When he reached out to me, Yeah, I was like,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: oh my god, the casino owner is going to do
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the first person to talk to me, first casino owner. Yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And I was just like rolling. I was so excited.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: So I still have a great relationship him and I
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: will always remember that in my darkest days, you know, Jonathan.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Was there was that one of your like proudest moments. Also,
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: like he called me two years because that's the biggest reward,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: right from Okay, what you're doing.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: So I'll tell you who I am because I don't care.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: I'll admit things and they're semi embarrassing, but.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I don't give any f's.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sixty one years old and I get no f's.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Ken shredded by the way, right, Yeah, there's a restaurant
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: in West Las Vegas, like four miles west on Saharan.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: It's called me either the Spotted Pig. I should remember
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the name, right, It's called something Pig and what it
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: is is an Asian restaurant and they have they cook
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: the food in front of you whatever. That was the
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: very first people who called me two and a half
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: years ago and said will you come down.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: We'll give you a free meal. Whatever.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: I was in the basement.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I started crying.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I mean I cried like a little girl. My girlfriend
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: knows how emotional I am.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Which is key when you're a gambler and you're dealing
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: with the public. The reason you have to be emotional.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: The reason you have to be says it if the
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: reason you have to be a person who cries, the
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: reason you have to be a person who hurts, the
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: reason you have to be a person who knows pain
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: is because your customer base is going through all of
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: these emotions on an effing weekly basis.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And if you can't have the empathy to.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Understand that your customer's going through this, do not be
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: in this business.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: And that is why I am so angry with the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Tom Reeves of the world, with the Jeff Sofers of
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I'm so pissed at them because they have no idea
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: how the time of how we are suffering as degenerate
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: gamblers and what we need is gamblers and how we
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: need to be treated. And f you if you don't
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: feel our pain, you know, and I'll get again.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I'll step back. A terrible losing streak.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: In twenty eighteen, I was making all kinds of money
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and I was at the Wynn and there's a casino
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: host day named Ariselli.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't even remember her last name, but I remember
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: her first name. It's ARISSELLI that actually may be her
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: last name.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I think that may be her last name, but it's.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Arcelly to me.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I remember how sensitive she was, you know when I
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: lost one hundred grand. I remember how kind she was.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I remember the way she treated me. I remember you
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: could go into a Resorts World tomorrow and it was
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: fifty grand. Nobody gives two f's the employees. And then
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the other thing that happens is and this is why
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I know I'm right about things. I get the dms.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Once I put a concept out there, I get.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: The DMS whether I'm right or wrong. So I get
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: the dms that say, hey, look what happened at Resorts World.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: They had all this just happened. They had all kinds
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: of streamers there, and the streamers were streaming, so they're
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: pumping money into your slot machines. Let's just look at
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: the mask because you're a mask guy. They're pumping money
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: into your SLA machine, so you're making money there. They're streaming,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: so they're advertising Resorts World, and it's a win win,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: which is a cliche, but it's the truth. It's a
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: win for everybody. I heard that the management Resorts World
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: went to the streamers and said, you have to have
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: a thirty thousand dollars a year. THEO here. This was
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: DM to me and confirmed by two other people. I remember,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: you have to have a thirty thousand dollars a year folk,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: if you want to come in here.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: A stream Are you kidding me?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: If I controlled Resorts World, I'd have every streamer, every
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: slot streamer that I could find. I would be setting
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: them invitations. I'd be giving them free rooms. If you
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: go into Resorts World, it's Wednesday, perfect time, It's Wednesday.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: What ten o'clock in the morning. If you go into
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Resorts World right now, they have thirteen hundred slot sheet.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Now, granted it's Wednesday, it's ten am. It's probably the
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: absolute slowest time in Las Vegas, you know, during the week.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: But don't have seventeen people playing on thirteen hundred machines. Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: it's still not normal. It's still you have seventeen people there.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Why don't you have seventeen people and fifty slot streamers
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: or want to be slot streamers that you recruited from
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: all over the world, all over the country wherever, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: put them in there and took it not they also
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: do things over there, and I get the dms. I've
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: had direct dms. I'm not gonna exaggerate and tell you
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I had this twenty times, but I swear I had
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: it five times.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I had this DM five times.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: My casino host at Resources World told me that I'm
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: not losing enough money my casino resorts of my casino
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: host that Resources Wild said.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: That they don't want people who are short players.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: In other words, you would get a gambler, a degenerate
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: and maybe one time he comes here and he happens
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: to hit, and he hits big for an hour or two,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: and maybe that one time in his life he says,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going to hold onto this one
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: hundred grand. I'm going to enjoy my time at Resorts World.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I'm up one hundred grand. Resorts Wild the sending him DMS,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: we don't want you because they did that one time.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Even if you feel that way, even if I.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Feel that way, you can't tell a guest that ever.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: And this is the zeitgeist, this is the corporate mentality.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: And who's writing Resources World right now? Brian Sandovel, the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: ex governor of Nevada.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He's the CEO. So I put it out into the world.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Why is Brian Santava And then the professionals and I'm
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: not gonna give an names.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Because I don't want to pose anybody.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: But a guy who really knows what he's doing in
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas and deals with says to me, Paul, you're
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: absolutely right. Brian Sandibal has absolutely no knowledge about gaming,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: none whatsoever.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Why is he running the place?
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna tell you why he's running the place
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: because the mindset of the corporate people from Malaysia right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Think about Malaysia, think about China, think about Japan, think
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: about the mentality in the in the East.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: The corporate mindset.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Is, we've got a problem. We should put someone in
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: there who's very strong with the government, who has a
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: strong official title. Someone maybe they're gonna f with a
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: little less. In other words, instead of the American zeitgeist,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: which is rugged individuality, creativity, doing something different, that Eastern
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: mindset went right back to let's put someone official, someone
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: of authority, someone who's gonna protect us, into the position
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: of power. It's exactly the wrong move for that property.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: They needed Derek Stevens in there, they needed Jonathan John Avision,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: they need the or Tita's in there, they need Michael
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: going in there, they need Kenny Epstein. In there, I
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: can tell you the six people, the seven people that
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: should be running resources world. It's not Brian Sandebar, right,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: So they just get it completely backwards. Because and again
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: as an old man, I know this. This is one
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: of the biggest pieces of advice I could give to anybody,
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: especially young people.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Stop looking through your prism.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: When you look through your prism, in other words, you
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: see everything through your lens.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: You see nothing.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: You have to get outside of them. And social media
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: is great.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Because it teaches me to get outside of the box,
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So I'll put something out
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: there now. I'm gonna give some some props. I'm gonna
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: give some credit and give some love to the Fond
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: of Blue. I'll do a piece and I'll say, wow,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: the font of Blue.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: And I knew this because of my DMS.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: The Fond of Blue is really killing it with comps.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: They're doing unbelievable with comps.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: They're given everybody comps. Because again I.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: See it in my DMS. I do the piece.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: While the Fond bu was really they did weren't.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Originally Originally they were tight as f but after a
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: year of suffering, they got incredible with comps. I go
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: and I do the piece Fonda blues, and they're the
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: comments one person if not, I barely have a pulse.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: I gamble there twice for four hundred dollars. I got
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: three free. And the rooms there again more credits to
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: the fair.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Gorgeous, the finishings on the insert the place is a museum.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: On the inside, it is beautiful. But but the Metropolitan
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Museum of Art is not conducive to gambling. So even
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: though it is gorgeous, and even though I give a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: lot of credit to the interior or whatever, it's completely
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: wrong for gamblers. This is a cliche, but it's true.
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: The high ceiling, no, they did a study of gambling
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: return on a square foot basis, and the low ceiling
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: like they have at the wind the low ceiling like
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: they have in most of the Venetian That creates a
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: feeling of comfort, a feeling of security, and so people
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: gamble more.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: The h ceiling makes you feel like this is actually
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: a mistake.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: The high ceiling makes you feel exposed, It makes you
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: feel vulnerable. You want to give gamblers that comfort, so
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: I will I will blame the chef primarily, and whoever
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: the architect is and I actually looked it up.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: It's a guy from Miami.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: You know these Miami guys keep your freight going back
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: to these Miami doesn't.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It's completely the wrong building.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: The ability of your thoughts on the new hard Rock,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: what do you think that's gonna shake?
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: So I waited. I told this story on another podcast
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I saw the hard Rock opening. I know who I am,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: I know what I do. I'm not saying I waited.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I like to say waiting, but I guess I was waiting.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I waited eighteen months for the hard Rock to contact
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: me because I said to myself, you know, I'm walking
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: by here every day. I'm somewhat of a casino critic.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: And then the cole came from Joel Loopo.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: And again I don't want to say I cried when Joe.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I didn't cry when Joel Loopo called me, but I
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: definitely willed up with emotion because you have to realize
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I've been on the street suffering for years.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: See, I've been on the street's fighting with the dinosaur.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I call it the dinosaur. No, we all know who
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: she is. I've been fighting with her.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: She's been telling me no one's ever gonna deal with you.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: You're a piece of garbage of this or that.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: So when Joe LOOPO called me, it to me, it's
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: a very it's an honor. Sure's executive.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: People don't know started out the star Dust went over, right,
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Is that just a little like a sportsbook guy went
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: to the.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: U, regular guy went down to Florida. Now he's running
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: the Heart. He's the boss of boss.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: He was very good.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: He's been very good to Tonio over the year. Yeah,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: it's like it's him. Yeah, this is Joe Joe, this
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: is Joe Loop. He's here, He's here, He's here, He's here,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: he's here, He's And it's funny.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Because I have a little bit of a relationship with
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: as Rostein's daughter, Stephanie. And Stephanie told me, of course
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: all I know all about her father from the movie
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: is I need Joe.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Joe Loop says to me. He's telling me he's graz
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: I was director of the Star Dust Sports Book.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh my god, like full circle, mom.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: So getting back to the hard rock, so calls me,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: and I saw the comping at the Mirage before they
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: closed up. It was off the charts.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: They were giving away so many.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Comps at the Mirage before they closed, so many cash offers,
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Like I gambled there once they sent me eight thousand
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: dollars in cash offers, you know, just cash cash.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: So when I met with Joe, Joe said to me,
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: he said, you.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Know, I comped. I comped the Mirage similar to the
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: way that I would comp Atlantic City.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: I overcomeed.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: He calls it reinvestment. So when you asked me about
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: the hard Rock, when you asked me about Las Vegas,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: when you asked me up with that property, we asked
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: me about Joe Lupo, when you asked me about the
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Seminole Indian Tron. Yeah, oh my god, they're coming to
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Las Vegas. First of all, they have the premier piece
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: of real estate on the strip. Here's the elbow of
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: the Las Vegas Strip. Joe took me up in the building.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: You know, he took me up.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I did a video.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: So he says to me, Paul, we're right on the elbow.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: He goes, look that way. I look that way, right
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: down the strip. I looked this way, right down the strip.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, Joe, this property actually is
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: almost over the strip. I said, the vis here you
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: have twenty or thirty suites on the east side of
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: the building that are like shopping.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: But it was so much more than that.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: So he told me that his strategy is to reinvest.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: He calls it reinvestment. I'm going to steal his term.
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: I never heard it before.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: He reinvests in the customers, he comps them, He reinvests
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: in them in order to make them oil customers. So
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: you have the seminole tribe who doesn't have to borrow
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: money from anybody, right, he doesn't have to borrow money
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: on the building. You know valleys. They're borring on the
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: building in Chicago before it's even built. They're borring on
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: every single building and a half. They have no money to
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: build Las Vegas. They're dead broke. I put up their
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: bonds yesterday. They're paying twenty one of their bonds is
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: paying a twenty four percent interest rate.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: When you have.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Something in the market that's paying twenty four percent, it
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: might be in trouble, you know what I mean. So
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: they have no capital constraints. Card Rock, they have Joe Lupo,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: they have that beautiful building. They have the premier place
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: of the premier piece of real stay on ship. If
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: I was Caesar's, you know, I'd be quaking in my
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: booth stuff.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd be like, oh, oh my god.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah look what.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: They're bill, We're dead. It has to look like God'szillaton.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: I think what the original hard rock kid for Vegas
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: back in what was that ninety five?
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: The original Office Way batter What that did? Tymeas City.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: It's totally straight.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: It's gonna it's gonna be a game change.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: But I think it's going to really be the nail
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: on the coffin the game for Caesars. I really didn't
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: out of Caesar. If you got that, you mean yeah,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: This week's Wager Wires segment, we got to do one
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: without John Orlando. He talks the whole frigging show. All right,
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: John Orlando, sorry about that. You're You're out like the
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: god Father to Tom. You're out, Tom, You're out.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: John.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: So, uh, this particular bet here one hundred and fifty
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: bucks to win forty five hundred Patriots Super Bowl future.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Thirty to one.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: Current bet value sixteen hundred and thirty two dollars. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: want to tell you they're plus one eighty five now
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: one eight around there maybe going down to like one
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: seventy five. I would actually keep this, keep this ticket
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: if I was you, my friend, the owner of this ticket.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Now if the forty five hundred, if your average bets
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty, I understand why you want to
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: sell half it is or sell some of this. But
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: you have such a great bet here for one hundred
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: and fifty bucks.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I think you go with it.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: I really do.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: I don't think you take the cash out on this
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: particular one or cash out on this one. Patriots were
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: like eighty to one or something at the beginning of
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: the season, So I still like I like your odds
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: at thirty to one.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I like your bet. I would keep it. Hopefully you
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: cash this in.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Anyone can win this game, and everyone I know everyone
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: loves Seattle. It's all I'm hearing every person Seattle, Seattle's yeah.
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: I think you have a chance in this one. Of course,
• 41:48
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• 41:51
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• 41:53
  Speaker 2: We have two questions from people we want to know.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Garnett Barnsdale says that can we name his favorite restaurant
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: in town, including steakhouses? Do you have favorites. Well, I
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: try not to eat.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, but I was blowing you.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: Try not to try to eat.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I like it turns out. And this is for
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: all you eighty and a lot of gym guys know this.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: Here's more old man advice. There's tremendous dopamine and fitness.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: So if you're a compulsive gambler, if you're an addict,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: if you're a drinker, if you're a drug addict, A
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: lot of people that are in that space, and I
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: consider myself to be in that space. A lot of
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: people that are in that space can find incredible relief
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: from the gym because there's so munch dopamine and working out.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: There's I mean, I was at the gym this morning.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: When I do two hundred pounds on the pull down,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: it's it just feels so good and it gives me
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: that ruck.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm so I'm not on any drugs right now.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I'm on coffee and fitness.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Everybody thinks I'm on drugs, I'll tell you straight out.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I'll take a drug test.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I'm on coffee and fitness.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: I was just at the gym for a now in
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: fifteen minutes. I came here feeling good.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: So what was the original question?
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: Just favorite but not I'm not need it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: But I went to bow the other night and I
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: was blown away. Joint.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: That's where I'm doing. I'm doing.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: So we're in We're like, oh my god, what is this?
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Wow? I just get bringing that.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shut up, you believe it's beautiful.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: So we're actually inserting this this episode right here into
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: my twenty four hour I do it every year. We here,
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: twenty four hours straight podcast, twenty four hours podcast.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: I'm doing it inside Boa.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: That's just unbelievable.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: The next week.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: These are the moments. These are the moments from the
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: universe that tell me I'm in the right place. My
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: sister says, when that happens, and it happens to me
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: all the time. Yeah, constantly, you are in the right place.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: That's where the universe wants to be.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: How how did good?
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: I've seen you at the uh Steve and by the way,
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: I know, I.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Talked to him.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: No, great, this is great.
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: I seen you at Steve Schiggle, friend of mine, Steve Siles.
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: He's well, he's the he's the ultimate entrepreneurship yes. I mean,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: people don't know this, but I would. I would have
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: to say that. I don't know anybody you've dropped in town.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: Anybody that came to town, got on a plane, it
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: came to Las Vegas. It is two thousand.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Is there another guy that's done as much as Steve Siegel?
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Has there been you? You guys?
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: No more local people?
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: And I know who's done.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: No, I don't know.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: You're right, the guy, the guys everywhere when he was
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: what thirty three years old?
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I heard he came right, you know, pink pox donut.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: So what's the last time you had a donut? Will
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: you eat a donut? You can do any sugar? Is
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: there sugar in it?
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: I'm actually extremely fat right now, if you can believe.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I swear to god. My girlfriend's not happy.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: She wants me totally shredded.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: But that's that's an I'm sorry.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: So I avoid the eating.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: But baba, wow, yeah, last one here other than himself,
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: which Vegas influencers does he recommend for gambling, food, lifestyle accombinations?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Except okay, So it's funny.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: It's funny that I'll say this now because he came
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: he came after me a little bit when I misinterpreted
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: the roulette at the at the Venietie. I'm gonna get
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: full disclosure. Yeah, so I start this cursing war with
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: the guy, you know. And then Jonathan Jostle says to me,
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Paul D. John mhaffrey is a nice guy. Oh yeah, Like,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: why are you.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Going after him like this?
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: But he had attacked me for no reason. He said
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: I was a problematic. He kind of reminded me of
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: what the dinosaur did to me. He said, he's a
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: problematic influencer.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Is math is wrong? Let me tell you what I
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: did with the roulette. I'm gonna tell you what. I'll
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: admit it. The way the numbers were.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Set up at the roulette made it the equivalent of
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: four zero roulette. It was a ten percent house edge,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: which is four zero roulette, but the colors were still
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: too zero roulette. So I went in and I said,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: oh my god, four zero roulette is here, and McCaffrey
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: came in on me and said, what are you talking about.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: It's not for zero roulette, and then he I was
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: half right, But what upset me about it was is
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: the way he didn't engage me in conversation. He just
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: put it out into the universe that I'm a problem.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: So I started a cursing war with him. But to
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: get back to who you're asking, A guy like McCaffrey,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: who stands on facts, who stands on numbers, who stands
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: on data, That to me, John Anthony Curtis. I don't
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: know if I don't know if Anthony Curtis is really
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: an influencer.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been on.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: Our but my god, I mean you have to respect.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Oh you know what if you said who came here
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: in the eighties and made something out of nothing? I
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: would say Anthony Curtison. Maybe he doesn't have the financial
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: success the same as Steeple, though I don't want to can't.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Count Anthony's money.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: But looking at Anthony Curtis in the eighties, the nineties,
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: and the odds, let's just use those three decades. How
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: many people do you think came here with a dream
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: to do something like what Anthony Curtis has created and
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: didn't make it. So I would say that Anthony Curtis
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: is one out of us, one out of twenty thousand entrepreneurs.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: How many people came here to do he care here's
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: a gambler. He came, here's a game. He's got a
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: great publishing company. He's got the newsletter, he's got the podcast,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: he's got the information, he's you know, he's very emotionally steady.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: He's amazing. So there are some absolutely amazing people down
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: So I would say Anthony Curtis mahaffrey. Who else stands
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: on the fact.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Oh that's good, that's great, that's great.
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: I don't know if you're gonna have any Oh really, yeah.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: John mcaffrey's and I've worked for.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: A before, and he is you can't question his numbers, numbers,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: and he goes around and you know, of his own volition,
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: he's going to every single establishment, which is tiring and
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: giving you the rules.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Who else is do it everywhere?
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: So I think the name of his site is Vegas
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Advantage or something like that, right, Vegas Advantage dot com.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: If you want to know what blackjack is going on
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: at Jerry's Nugget, which by the way, is a great
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: game down there, if you want to know John McCaffrey
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: and Las Vegas Advisor and Os Vegas Advice is incredible
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: love and if you are if you are short on.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Money, Las Vegas advisors. No, they're great. They have the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: un put together.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: You can put together a vacation in Las Vegas based
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: on Anthony Curtis.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's Old Vegas. Yes it is. He really goes
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: and gets it.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: A couple couple degenerate questions.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, what's the most you ever want in one session?
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: What's the most you ever lost in one session?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Okay, So the big story with me is I lost
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: a million dollars in a week. I got a million dollars.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Look, I never had any expectations for my life.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: You know, if you are really in pain and you're
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: honest with yourself. I can remember being sixteen years old
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: and I was standing in my backyard at my house
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: and I said, Wow, you're in big trouble.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Dude.
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: You know you got this gambling thing. You don't want
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: to stop gambling at sixteen sixteen, I swear to that, Wow,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: you know you're awkward, You're socially awkward.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: You're never going to meet any girls. I said that
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: to myself. I said, oh, you know, who's who's.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: Gonna you know? And when you're sixteen, seventeen eighteen, you're
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: raging with hormones I'm not meeting any girls. I didn't
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: go to the prom.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was just like, geez, I can't. I
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: can't get anybody.
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: And back then, gambling wasn't considered cool at all.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: It wasn't my circle, was it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: So I grew up on the North shoal Long Island
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: and the kids were super into the gambling. They were
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: gross too. Yeah, they were great kids. So I was
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: doing that and I knew I was in trouble. So
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: I had knew expectations for my life. Yep. So this
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: to me is all like, wow, I have.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: You know, you guys just got to believe nice.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: So much gratitude every time I deal with someone, you know,
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: I mean I have. I mean I had a relationship
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: with Cliff Atkinson. Of course they let him go from
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: the Virgin, but he wasn't president of the Virgin. Joel Loopo,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: Patrick Nichols, the president of the Venetian. Skylar Dice is
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: the general manager of the strat. He's amazing idea with him.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Jossel. Of course, Cammy, you know, Cammy contacted me.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you a funny story about Cammy at the Westgate.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: She said, wait, tell me about so you lost a
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: million in a week. But look of the way I
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: Look the way I do that.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: You see the way I do that.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: You got to keep me on the chair. Look at
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: this a d HD. Oh, we went up the rails.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: We don't know where we went.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I came out here. So what happened was when I
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: got a million dollars the positive of my checking account
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: on June thirtieth, nineteen ninety. How did that happen?
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: So, okay, I grew I grew up in a very
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: privileged area. So I'm a lunatic, but I have great ideas.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: I have creative ideas. When you grow up in a
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: privileged area, what happens.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: This is like the biggest gripe that people could could
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: have if they wanted them.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: When you grow up in a privileged area, you are
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: surrounded by a lot of capital that's chasing ideas. So
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: I'm twenty four. I have this telecommunications company. It was
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: a payphone company. I have twenty payphone companies, twenty payphones.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: I have twenty payphones. Every week, I'm making one thousand
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: dollars in quarters. Right. In fact, when I went to
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Times Square, I didn't have to change the quarters. I
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: used to just put the quarters in the slot. I'm
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: not going to get too into the details on that,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: but I'm changing the quarters over. He's laughing because he
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: knows what I'm talking about. I changed the quarters over
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: into dollars. The money either goes to Times Square, we
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: don't need to go any further there, or it goes
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: to Belmont Racetrack. So every week, one thousand dollars and
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: one thousand dollars when you're twenty four years old and
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: it's nineteen eighty seven, twenty three years old, really twenty
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: three or ninety days, that's a lot of money. But
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: I'm blowing in every week Times Square.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: And Belmont Racetrack.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: So I grew up around the corner from a kidnamed Bruce.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: He went to Wharton. He's a genius. You know, he
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: never got less than an A in high school or college.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: But we're friends. You know, I'm not saying he took
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: pity on me. We used to gamble together and we
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: had a great time. So he's in my world and
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: he comes to me. I'm twenty three years old, and
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: he says to me, pol there's not a lot of
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: opportunities in this world. You know, this is before the computer,
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: this is before AI, this is a payphone.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: You know, there's not a lot of opportunities as world.
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you. I'm going to put up
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: all of my bar miss.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: For money, which was twenty five thousand dollars he still has.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: He's now remember he's twenty five years old.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Right, this guy still has his bar miss for money
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: from when he was thirteen years old.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: God bless him, right, So he has his barms money.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: He puts the whole twenty five thousand dollars into what
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: we're doing. Our ROI was about sixty six percent. We
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: got our money back at the year and a half.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Wherever we put a payphone out in New York City
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: there were sixty thousand payphones out of one. But wherever
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: we put it out, we got an ROI of sixty
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: six percent.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So we had our money back in eighteen months. Wow,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: we're putting hi out, puttinghim up on while.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: The time time goes by when you're an old man
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: and you look back, my god. So in six years
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: we went from my twenty phones to seventeen hundred and
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: forty one phones. I still remember the number A European
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: company paid US six million dollars, which we split.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I got three million. I was twenty nine. He got
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: three million.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: He still has his. He grew his three into thirty.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: I grew my three into like, you know, nothing but trouble.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: So we saw it.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: We saw it.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: We saw that the six million dollars. So I in
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: October I took a half a million dollar loss on
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: one trip. I'll never forget that. I was at the Mirage.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: I told you the story about splits. So I'm betting
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars a hand in the Mirage high limit pit.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: At the time, it was still relatively new because the
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: Mirage opened on November twenty second, nineteen eighty nine, and
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: this is October of ninety four, so it's the same
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: high limit pit. I'm sitting there. I get I think
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: it was nine. I split them four times. I had
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: a double twice. I ended up with sixty thousand dollars.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: On one hand.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Oh good, the deal of breaks to get one hundred
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: and twenty thousand dollars. I still lost half a million.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: On the trip. And my girlfriend at the time, who.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: Was a stripper who I only met because I basically,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: you know, I said, please be my girlfriend. If you're
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: my girlfriend, I'll give you one thousand dollars a week. Please.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: I still remember. I still remember. You know, I don't
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: sugarcoat anything. She was the first girl.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I ever had whose waist was smaller than her hips.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: And I was just like, oh my god, oh my god.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: You know, I never saw that. I was twenty seven
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: years old and I never saw an attractive woman in
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: my life. So I lived with her, and at the time,
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: I remember, we got the Mirage and she thought, I
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: want all my money back because she saw me win
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: that one hundred and twenty thousand dollar hand and she
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: I never forget. She looked at me, she said, Okay,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: we got our money back.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Now we can go home. And I was like, honey, I'm.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Still stuck three hundred thousand. You know, she had no
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: concept of like. So that was that was October. So
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: now I gamble all through the winter. So I go
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: to back to the Mirage again. I go to the
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: miraj I win two hundred and twenty thousand Maraje and Caesar's.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: I go to Caesar's Lake Tahoe when they still took action.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: They don't take action up there anymore. It's all by Bally's.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: It's a joke. They don't even have table games until
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: four o'clock. Wow.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: I go to Bally's, which is which at the time
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: was Caesar's Tahoe.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: I win eighty thousand, and they would take an action.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: So now I'm up three hundred. I go to Hawaii
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: with my girlfriend and my friend who was a troubled person.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: You know, I was taking him everywhere. He's very troubled.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: He worked for me for a while and he was
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: in enjoy. He found a crack house in Honolulu.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I was like, dude, I take you.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: To Hawaii and you find a crack house in Honolulu whatever,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: no names.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: We come back to Los Angeles.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: Of course, we stayed the Beverly Wilshi because I'd seen
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: the movie Pretty Woman. I get bored.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: After one DASH said let's go back to Vegas. I
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: come back to Vegas.
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: I went one hundred. So I won four hundred thousand
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: dollars in twenty eight days. This was February of ninety five.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: Now and now here's your answer after all of that,
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: and I apologize, No, no, this is great. On April eighteenth,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five, I came here with five one hundred
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: thousd I still remember the exact weekend. It's very easy
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: to do this because unfortunately, on Wednesday, April twentieth, nineteen
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: ninety five, Terry McVay blew up the Oklahoma City Building.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: So I remember that week. That week is in my mind.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I came there that Monday right with my whole family.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: I had five one hundred thousand dollar credit lines. One
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand at Bally's, one hundred thousand at the brawe
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand at the desert In, one hundred thousand at MGM,
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: and one other one hundred thousand.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: I'd have to think about it, but I had five
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: of them. I remember I read WIRA maybe back there. Well,
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: who did I owe? When I was done?
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: I owed valleys, I owed the desert In, I had them,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: owed the mirage the MGM.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: I got lucky with timing. They cut me off.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: They cut me off because what happens is when you
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: start taking out a lot of markers.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Yep. The MGM said to.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Me, you owe money all over town.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: We're not going to give you this marker. What's more,
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: you kid? You know what I mean?
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: Right? And then I forget the guy at the desert
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: and said, you're young, you'll I was twenty nine when
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: I lost a million. Because you're young, you'll recover. So
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: I lost a million dollars that week. Five of it
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: was in markers, five hundred thousand markers and five hundred
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: thousand in cash.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Wow. It took me eight years to pay off those markers.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Oh wow. And I was dating a girl in the
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: end of the nineties and every end she was from
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: the Dominican Republic, so she had no understanding of like
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: American casinos or American commerce. And she goes in my
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: check book and she sees this check every month of
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: fifteen hundred dollars to Parable. Right, this is funny. It's
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: a funny story. I love this story. I never told
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: this in social media. I never told this on a podcast,
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: So something new. So she sees this check for fifteen
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: hundred dollars to Parable, and she said, and they can go.
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: She's very, very jealous, and you know, we have sort
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: of a tumultuous relationship and they never forget it. And
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: I'm paying off the Powa Bowl. Check is fifteen hundred
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: dollars every month to Paris Balle's They call it Powabowl Corp.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: Because Paris was right next to Bally's and they built
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: them next to each other. And I'm paying the Power
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: Bowl Corporation fifteen hundred dollars every month to pay off
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: one hundred thousand dollar mark And she comes up to me, just.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: I want to know who is this parable though that you?
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: I'm giving fifteen hundred dollars a month to a true.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Story, So help me. God, I love that.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this, par I'm like, listen, I got good news
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: and bad news.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: The good news is not cheating on you.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: The bad news is I'm a degenerate gambler paying off
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: five hundred thousand dollars in markers. Wow.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Wow. I didn't say that to her, but I could have.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: It would have been funny. Did you wanted to go
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: back to the president of the person here?
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, key? Why how do you have a good relationship?
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: Yees? She was fantastic. You know, this is this, this
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: is a funny story. It's only take this to take
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: less than a minute. I feel like I'm talking No,
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: you're good, this is okay. So I'm getting these calls
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: from somebody said, come to the West Gate. We want
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: to show you what happened was I have a friend
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: named Raoul Great. A lot of the contacts that I
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: have are not necessarily executives, but I get a lot
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: of super successful people and also high rollers that contact
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: because they watched the show. So this guy, Raoul is
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: a great guy, and he lives in Ohio and his
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: dad is a huge high roller here and everywhere.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: So they're in the Elvis suite.
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: So he contacts me and he says, Pully, I'm in
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: the suite upstairs. And I got like, oh my god,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: look at that, and I do a video. Cammy saw
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: it and she contacted me and she said, Paul, I
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: want to tell you that because you were here and
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: because you felled over the Elvis sweet and in the video,
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: I said, this is the Elvis Swite. You guys are
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: the West Gate. You know, you guys are the old International.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Maybe you guys should embrace Elvis. I just walked in here.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: There's a brand new Elvis thing in the front. No ego.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: But where did that come from? You know what I mean?
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: So Cammy contacts me and she.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: Says, pulled. I want you to know that we redid
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: the suite.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: There's an video of this. You know there's video proof.
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: I'm no egos video proof.
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: We redid the suite and we put all Elvis stuff
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: in there and made it the Elvias sweet because you
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: said to us, why don't we embrace Elvis?
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: And now I come here today and I haven't been
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: here like six months. Elvis here.
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: Okay, last question is I know you you have to go.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: I want you to do me a favor.
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want you to give me your super Bowl prediction,
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: But will you end it with your signature tagline after
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: you give me the prediction?
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: Oooh okay, uh, I can't help, but I have to
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: take the four and a half points. I'm just a
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: dog player from back from wherever. So I'm going with
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: the underdog Vegas, polly See, it's beautiful