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Betting on Vegas with Boomer's Sportsbook | 329 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

0:02
SPEAKER_01: Boys and girls, look at us.
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SPEAKER_01: New and improved.
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SPEAKER_01: This is Big Head 3.0, not even 2.0.
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SPEAKER_01: New studio, new everything.
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SPEAKER_01: New backdrop for Andrew.
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SPEAKER_01: I like the fact that I can look at myself on the screen as I'm talking.
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SPEAKER_04: You really took that away from us and kind of rude.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that the worst thing about this?
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SPEAKER_04: It is the worst thing.
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SPEAKER_01: How often would you look at yourself?
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SPEAKER_01: All the time.
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SPEAKER_01: Did you?
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, all the time.
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SPEAKER_01: Good now.
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SPEAKER_01: I can look at myself too.
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SPEAKER_01: Actually, I may have to move it because I'm gonna, it's gonna be very distracting if I keep looking at myself while the camera's on.
0:35
SPEAKER_01: Welcome back, boys and girls.
0:37
SPEAKER_01: We are back in a new studio.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think this is, we're not gonna call this season three, are we?
0:43
SPEAKER_04: We're just gonna call it just We're in season three already.
0:45
SPEAKER_01: Oh.
0:47
SPEAKER_01: Season.
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SPEAKER_04: This is 3B.
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SPEAKER_01: 3B.
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SPEAKER_01: Season 3.5.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh yes, very excited.
0:52
SPEAKER_01: We're in a new studio.
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SPEAKER_01: Brandon, what do you think of the new studio?
0:56
SPEAKER_01: We are working our way towards building out the rest of the warehouse here.
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SPEAKER_01: And we'll we'll post some behind-the-scenes stuff on social media.
1:02
SPEAKER_01: But what are your first thoughts?
1:03
SPEAKER_01: This is your first day in the new studio.
1:04
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, dude, the digs are sweet.
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SPEAKER_05: Like that.
1:06
SPEAKER_05: Your background looks a lot more like sophisticated and bougie, doesn't it, Julie?
1:09
SPEAKER_04: Like yeah, he needed it.
1:10
SPEAKER_01: It's like you know, it pains Julie to say a compliment without having an insult in their only when it's to you.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: I I appreciate that so so much.
1:20
SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, yeah.
1:22
SPEAKER_01: I I'm I'm really enjoying this.
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SPEAKER_01: I I like I like the new setup, I like the new office.
1:26
SPEAKER_01: Um, you guys for you guys have your first offices that you've ever had before, which is awesome.
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SPEAKER_04: It is great.
1:32
SPEAKER_01: The only downfall, of course, is no windows for either of you.
1:35
SPEAKER_01: That's okay.
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SPEAKER_04: That's okay.
1:36
SPEAKER_04: I did walk into Brandon's earlier and I was like, whoa, your room feels like an asylum.
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SPEAKER_05: Like the sterile white lights up there as well.
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SPEAKER_04: White, yeah, white lights, white walls, white desk.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah, white chair.
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SPEAKER_01: White on white.
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SPEAKER_01: Brandon keeps it clean in there.
1:49
SPEAKER_01: Are you kidding me?
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SPEAKER_01: Simple, man.
1:50
SPEAKER_01: But uh, we actually Brandon's probably gonna need Julie to help decorate his office eventually.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: Otherwise, it's gonna be all Caitlyn Clark posters.
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SPEAKER_05: And a Tom Brady pop figures.
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SPEAKER_04: The two loves of his life.
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SPEAKER_04: That's good.
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SPEAKER_01: I love the fact that when I when he showed up today, he had a he had his bag in his left hand and a Caitlyn Clark figure.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all he needed.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all he wanted.
2:11
SPEAKER_01: Um, but no, I think it was this new studio is gonna be great, the new office is gonna be great.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm really excited for it.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna build out more space to have a more dedicated um performance area where we have some live music.
2:23
SPEAKER_01: We have Mojo Juju coming up in a few weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be fucking awesome.
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SPEAKER_03: Hell yeah.
2:28
SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna play, and it's quiet in this complex.
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SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna play as loud as we want to.
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SPEAKER_01: Good.
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SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be incredible.
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SPEAKER_04: Good.
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SPEAKER_01: I may even get up and sing, you never know.
2:36
SPEAKER_04: They don't want that.
2:37
SPEAKER_01: Are you sure about that?
2:38
SPEAKER_04: Yep, I talked to them.
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SPEAKER_01: They specifically said whatever you do, don't ask you.
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SPEAKER_04: We'll do anything as long as Andrew's not on the mic.
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SPEAKER_04: Keep him away.
2:46
SPEAKER_01: That's so fucked up.
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SPEAKER_01: That's so fucked up.
2:49
SPEAKER_01: Uh well, we got a big episode today.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do a two-party today because we have us internally here, but then we also have Boomers Sportsbook coming on later.
2:58
SPEAKER_01: Are you excited for that, Julie?
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SPEAKER_04: I am excited for that.
3:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm excited because I'm a degenerate sports gambler.
3:04
SPEAKER_01: And Boomers seems like it's a I don't even would you call them up and coming sports book around town?
3:10
SPEAKER_04: They are up and coming, and obviously we want them to talk more on it, but like they have seen some pretty significant growth.
3:16
SPEAKER_04: But I think the the interesting thing about them is my understanding is they're the only independent sports book in Nevada at the time.
3:23
SPEAKER_01: Really?
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SPEAKER_04: There is no other independent sports book right now.
3:26
SPEAKER_01: You know, it's funny because as we once we found out about boomers, we I first found out through them by not by seeing them out and about, but by having them reach out to us, I believe it was.
3:36
SPEAKER_01: Um, and now that I've seen their logo, I've seen them, and I've kind of watched a few interviews on them, I see them everywhere now.
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SPEAKER_01: They're at uh local bars around town, they have social media ads left and right, they're doing a really good job at marketing their brand.
3:48
SPEAKER_01: And I like that they're just I don't I don't want to say the underdog, but I I like the they're what's a little smirk.
3:56
SPEAKER_04: I was laughing because you said underdog and their logo is a dog.
3:59
SPEAKER_04: Sorry, sorry.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe that's the correlation.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: But I I like the fact that they're they're because they're relatively new, because they're not as large as the ones that are on the strip, they can pretty much do anything.
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SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And I I think it's gonna be great.
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SPEAKER_04: And they're all over the state, too.
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SPEAKER_04: It's not just Las Vegas, they're all over Nevada.
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SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
4:17
SPEAKER_01: Uh Julie, by the way, I just want to say my eyes are up here.
4:22
SPEAKER_01: I can see that you're looking at my shirt pretty significantly.
4:27
SPEAKER_01: And if if for those of you that don't love money.
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SPEAKER_01: For those of you that are just listening and not watching, we have a new shirt from our girl Dana June that says, What, Brandon?
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SPEAKER_01: I love money.
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SPEAKER_01: Chapter three, how to cocktail.
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SPEAKER_01: And her book, our guest that we had on Dana June, financial literacy expert.
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SPEAKER_01: She her the the first uh third chapter, the first sentence in the third chapter was I love money.
4:52
SPEAKER_01: And for those of you that are uh following us along, you may or may not remember the Dana June episode.
4:58
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna pull it up.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna play a quick little game, just a quick little game for you guys.
5:01
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
5:02
SPEAKER_01: Uh let's pull up that Dana June episode real quick.
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SPEAKER_01: Dana June, let's see what happens.
5:06
SPEAKER_01: First of all, if we type in Dana June in the YouTube, uh, we are not the first one to show up, so that's a problem.
5:12
SPEAKER_04: Embarrassing.
5:13
SPEAKER_04: That's super embarrassing.
5:15
SPEAKER_01: Um well, we're gonna Photoshop us being the first place.
5:18
SPEAKER_01: Right.
5:18
SPEAKER_04: That's what we're gonna do.
5:19
SPEAKER_01: Uh all right, let's pull this up real quick.
5:21
SPEAKER_01: Uh by the way, Julie, you didn't do timestamps on this one.
5:24
SPEAKER_04: I didn't do timestamps on Dana June.
5:26
SPEAKER_04: No.
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SPEAKER_04: I must have just watched it then.
5:28
SPEAKER_01: You no, I I I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: I love the fact that you're just your team player.
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SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
5:33
SPEAKER_01: Um let's see.
5:35
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what Julie doesn't have that we have?
5:37
SPEAKER_01: What does Julie have that we don't have?
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SPEAKER_05: Autograph copies of how to cocktail.
5:41
SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, you guys have it.
5:42
SPEAKER_04: I don't.
5:43
SPEAKER_01: I uh yeah, you know what?
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SPEAKER_01: It's it's pretty it's pretty awesome.
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SPEAKER_01: It was one of the first things I made sure to show off in my office.
5:48
SPEAKER_01: That in the uh Lana Turner.
5:50
SPEAKER_04: Well, you know what I'm gonna have that you guys aren't gonna have?
5:53
SPEAKER_04: I don't know if I want an autograph copy of anything but Nirvana.
5:57
SPEAKER_04: That is true.
5:57
SPEAKER_01: Our boy Eric Gladstone.
5:59
SPEAKER_01: What a great guest he was, by the way.
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SPEAKER_04: I know.
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SPEAKER_04: Eric, if you're listening, I can't not explain how devastated I was to miss your episode.
6:05
SPEAKER_04: That was a good episode.
6:06
SPEAKER_01: That was a good episode, but uh, I don't know why you did a double negative.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that a double negative?
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SPEAKER_01: I can't not.
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SPEAKER_04: I might I just probably misspoke.
6:13
SPEAKER_01: Listen, you point out every time I misspoke, so uh obviously the tables are gonna be turned.
6:18
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
6:19
SPEAKER_01: So this we're we're gonna we're gonna call this part this part of the show the bragging hour.
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SPEAKER_01: Are you ready for the the bragging second?
6:27
SPEAKER_01: I I I'm work tit working title, okay?
6:28
SPEAKER_01: Working title, Julie.
6:30
SPEAKER_01: So we had Dana June on the episode.
6:32
SPEAKER_04: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: I suggested to her, because she said in a previous podcast that she's not a fan of merchandise, she doesn't really want to do that.
6:39
SPEAKER_01: So I suggested, you know what?
6:40
SPEAKER_01: I think you should do merchandise.
6:42
SPEAKER_01: I think you should do something similar to like the Austin 316 shirts that you would see around, except instead of Austin 316, it would say something along the lines of you know DJ 31 or something like that.
6:55
SPEAKER_01: And the meaning of it was chapter three, a sentence one.
7:04
SPEAKER_01: Chapter three, sentence one, and what is that?
7:08
SPEAKER_01: I I know you're not a big into selling mark.
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SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_01: If you would ever have like those don't hold C B Austin like Austin, at the end of June, three verse one.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what you need.
7:19
SPEAKER_01: And then you and then on the back, you have a cocktail and money manifest.
7:24
SPEAKER_01: What do you think she said in response to my idea?
7:27
SPEAKER_01: Brandon, we'll start with you.
7:29
SPEAKER_05: Sounds good.
7:33
SPEAKER_01: Julie?
7:34
SPEAKER_04: That's a really stupid idea.
7:36
SPEAKER_01: You think she said that was a stupid idea?
7:38
SPEAKER_04: I think she was channeling Jonathan Johnson, yeah.
7:40
SPEAKER_01: That's a really dumb question.
7:42
SPEAKER_04: That's a really dumb idea.
7:43
SPEAKER_04: Uh no, I actually think that she probably said, um, yeah, and you'll be the first one I give it to.
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SPEAKER_04: That's what I think she said.
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SPEAKER_04: Something to that effect.
7:52
SPEAKER_04: That's a good idea.
7:52
SPEAKER_01: That's a good one.
7:53
SPEAKER_01: Let's see what she says.
7:55
SPEAKER_01: And then they're gonna that's that's a first creative type of uh merchandise idea.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: I know I love that.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: I love that.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: I will definitely look into that.
8:03
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people have been telling me they want merch, and I'm like, Okay, so she's definitely look into that.
8:07
SPEAKER_01: Fast forward to today, we have the shirt.
8:09
SPEAKER_01: She clearly looked into it.
8:10
SPEAKER_01: She looked into it.
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SPEAKER_01: Clearly, she looked into it.
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SPEAKER_01: Clearly, she has a number one best-selling tea, and uh, I want to say that we're the reason for the best-selling tea.
8:19
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Dana June.
8:20
SPEAKER_01: Shout out to you.
8:20
SPEAKER_01: Shout out, shout out to me for coming up with the idea.
8:22
SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Dana June.
8:24
SPEAKER_01: I want to say one more bragging thing, if that's all right with you.
8:27
SPEAKER_04: I guess.
8:28
SPEAKER_01: We had the chance to go to serial killer speakeasy.
8:33
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to say that we're the sole reason that they sold out every show.
8:39
SPEAKER_01: And I don't want to say that we're the reason that they added an additional day to their Las Vegas touring, but they sold out every show.
8:49
SPEAKER_01: They added an additional day.
8:51
SPEAKER_04: I feel like we played a part.
8:52
SPEAKER_01: I think we played a pretty small.
8:54
SPEAKER_04: I think we played a part in it.
8:55
SPEAKER_01: We had we had the head writer, the creative director on.
8:58
SPEAKER_04: Mm-hmm.
8:58
SPEAKER_04: Draven.
8:59
SPEAKER_01: Draven, he was fantastic.
9:00
SPEAKER_01: We didn't get a chance to see him that night.
9:01
SPEAKER_04: I know.
9:02
SPEAKER_04: I I don't think he was there that night.
9:03
SPEAKER_04: It's okay.
9:04
SPEAKER_04: We missed you.
9:04
SPEAKER_01: We missed you, Draven.
9:05
SPEAKER_01: You were uh you put on a great show though.
9:07
SPEAKER_01: That was it was a really, really fun show.
9:09
SPEAKER_01: The Dahmer guy scared the shit out of me though.
9:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the actor that played Dahmer, I think, was was my fave of the night, for sure.
9:16
SPEAKER_01: He before uh we got in there, we were in line and he was staring me down in his Dahmer.
9:22
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he really locked onto you while we were in line.
9:25
SPEAKER_04: I forgot about that.
9:26
SPEAKER_01: It freaked me out a little bit.
9:27
SPEAKER_04: He was stalking you.
9:28
SPEAKER_01: It freaked me out a little bit.
9:29
SPEAKER_04: That was crazy.
9:30
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
9:31
SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, Brandon, you unfortunately didn't get a chance to see it, but it was a really, really good show.
9:36
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm I'm glad I'm glad they they came to Vegas.
9:38
SPEAKER_01: How were the drinks?
9:39
SPEAKER_01: Drinks were good.
9:40
SPEAKER_01: I actually I thought I was gonna like the clown cocktail better, the best, but I actually I didn't.
9:47
SPEAKER_01: I liked the Dahmer one.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: I don't remember what it was.
9:50
SPEAKER_04: It was like a vodka crayon.
9:51
SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's all about Dahmer for you, man.
9:53
SPEAKER_01: It's all about listen, it was a very Dahmer night for me.
9:55
SPEAKER_04: I think my favorite one was shockingly, because I do not like dark liquor at all.
10:00
SPEAKER_04: But the Ed Geen one was my favorite because it was the least sweet out of all of them.
10:04
SPEAKER_04: That was the first one, right?
10:04
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that was the first one.
10:05
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, it was really good.
10:07
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then we had an entertaining couple in front of us.
10:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Brandon, what you really missed out on was As great as the show was, we had a additional show right in front of us.
10:16
SPEAKER_01: Julie, why don't you fill us in here?
10:18
SPEAKER_04: So there was this man, and Andrew was was distracted doing whatever he was doing in his seat.
10:23
SPEAKER_04: And I could not stop staring at this man in front of us.
10:27
SPEAKER_04: He was wearing this shirt, couldn't figure out what was on it.
10:30
SPEAKER_04: So I kind of leaned in a bit closer, and then I realized he was wearing a button-up shirt completely made out of green boobies.
10:37
SPEAKER_01: Oh my.
10:38
SPEAKER_04: There were hundreds of screen.
10:39
SPEAKER_01: It looked like fish scales at first.
10:41
SPEAKER_01: I thought it was a fish scale shirt.
10:43
SPEAKER_04: It did.
10:43
SPEAKER_04: And then on top of all of it, so he's already an interesting character based off of that, right?
10:47
SPEAKER_04: But he's there with this woman, and you know, they're kissing, whatever, having a romantic night at the serial killer speakeasy.
10:54
SPEAKER_04: And then he goes to pick up his phone.
10:56
SPEAKER_04: I'm sitting right behind him.
10:57
SPEAKER_04: I didn't mean to look, but he's getting a phone call from quote, my hot wife with a red heart emoji.
11:04
SPEAKER_04: He answers it, talks for a few minutes, hangs up, and leans over and kisses the girl next to him.
11:08
SPEAKER_05: Very lusty.
11:09
SPEAKER_04: But I have been thinking about this, Andrew.
11:11
SPEAKER_05: Let's hear it.
11:11
SPEAKER_04: Hot wife is a term.
11:15
SPEAKER_04: So I'm thinking that he's in an open relationship.
11:18
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
11:18
SPEAKER_04: Because hot wife is like, this is my wife who sleeps with other men.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
11:22
SPEAKER_04: That's what that means.
11:23
SPEAKER_04: So I think that they might just be like polyamorous.
11:26
SPEAKER_01: Open relationships are a big thing these days.
11:29
SPEAKER_01: They are.
11:29
SPEAKER_01: It's very it's more popular now, I feel like, than it's ever been.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: At least more accepted.
11:33
SPEAKER_01: Accepted and publicly, you know, right than than anything.
11:37
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
11:38
SPEAKER_01: But uh, yeah, it was it was interesting.
11:40
SPEAKER_04: Couldn't be me.
11:41
SPEAKER_04: I am like too jealous of a person.
11:43
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I couldn't imagine your husband and you No, I think both of us are very much like don't.
11:50
SPEAKER_01: In fact, the the time that we have hung out, a majority of guys have come up and flirted with your husband, more so than anything.
11:56
SPEAKER_04: You know what?
11:57
SPEAKER_04: That's not new.
11:59
SPEAKER_04: He's he's very handsome, he's very pretty, he's well groomed.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: He's easy to talk to, he's got great teeth.
12:04
SPEAKER_04: He's got phenomenal teeth.
12:05
SPEAKER_01: I love when we all hung out at Cornish Pasty and he whispered to you, I guess I don't have that nice of teeth because nobody's complimented me yet.
12:14
SPEAKER_01: And I was that was the first thing I noticed was his teeth.
12:17
SPEAKER_04: He's got great teeth.
12:18
SPEAKER_01: He's got great teeth, but I didn't it was the first time him meeting his wife's boss.
12:22
SPEAKER_01: I didn't want to be like, oh, you have great teeth.
12:25
SPEAKER_01: First thing I said, but I wanted to try to find a segue into it.
12:28
SPEAKER_04: You should have just said it.
12:29
SPEAKER_04: I think he knows that I would never work for somebody who's not weird like you.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: So am I weird?
12:34
SPEAKER_04: A little, but we're all weird in a good way.
12:37
SPEAKER_04: But yeah, so you missed out on Titty Man at Serial Killer Speak Easy, along with the phenomenal local local actors and actresses.
12:44
SPEAKER_01: So question for you, Julie, and this is a question for you too, Brandon.
12:46
SPEAKER_01: What would you do in this situation?
12:47
SPEAKER_01: Let's say the roles are reversed, and uh he's with this woman and it's his wife.
12:54
SPEAKER_01: Let's say we know it's his wife, or we assume it's his wife, right?
12:58
SPEAKER_01: The wife gets up, goes away.
13:00
SPEAKER_01: We see the guy because we're sitting right behind him, and we can't not look.
13:03
SPEAKER_01: He's texting somebody else saying, you know, I miss you, I love you, whatever.
13:07
SPEAKER_01: I wish you were here with me, whatever.
13:09
SPEAKER_01: Would and if you had a chance to tell the wife when she comes back, would you say anything to her?
13:15
SPEAKER_04: Absolutely not.
13:16
SPEAKER_01: You wouldn't.
13:17
SPEAKER_04: No, I think in that situation, because they're strangers, it's not my place to intervene.
13:22
SPEAKER_04: Now, I have a friend who I have found out that she's cheating on somebody, and I have absolutely told her, like, listen, I know this, and either you're gonna fess up to it or I'm gonna go tell them what you're doing.
13:32
SPEAKER_04: Like, if it's someone I know personally that I care about, like I will get involved, but with strangers, that seems like walking a fine line of like you don't know how someone's gonna react and they don't know you, so why would they trust you in the first place?
13:43
SPEAKER_04: And they might just take it out on you.
13:45
SPEAKER_01: You don't think it's a girl code?
13:47
SPEAKER_04: I mean, there is girl code with some things, but also I know a lot of women that cheat too.
13:52
SPEAKER_04: So it's like cheating, I don't think is like a a gender code type thing.
13:58
SPEAKER_01: Now, Brandon, let's say it was the roles reversed, it was the dude.
14:02
SPEAKER_01: The dude walked up and got up, and then the girl was, you know, texting some other guy.
14:06
SPEAKER_01: Would you say anything to the guys on on the slide?
14:08
SPEAKER_05: No, I probably wouldn't actually tell them, but I would go right to Reddit and upload it.
14:16
SPEAKER_05: They will find that guy and his wife immediately, and I'll let them do the work for me.
14:21
SPEAKER_01: Brilliant.
14:21
SPEAKER_01: Listen, he Brandon Brandon is is is the the epitome of working smarter, not harder.
14:27
SPEAKER_04: That is true.
14:28
SPEAKER_04: Have you ever seen like the TikToks in Reels where it's like, if your boyfriend was on this flight at this time, blah blah blah blah.
14:35
SPEAKER_05: They get found.
14:36
SPEAKER_04: They do get found.
14:36
SPEAKER_04: It's crazy.
14:37
SPEAKER_05: Dirty.
14:38
SPEAKER_04: But to that point, I guess maybe I would, before the girl came back, I might lean up to the guy and be like, hey, like, I saw what's going on, like, you know, figure that shit out.
14:47
SPEAKER_05: Lock it.
14:49
SPEAKER_04: Call him out to his face, but don't like intervene, you know.
14:53
SPEAKER_04: That's fair.
14:53
SPEAKER_04: Maybe.
14:54
SPEAKER_04: That's fair.
14:54
SPEAKER_01: I get that.
14:56
SPEAKER_01: Uh, you know what we haven't had in a while?
14:58
SPEAKER_01: The Julie segment.
15:01
SPEAKER_04: Zombie.
15:03
SPEAKER_04: Zombie.
15:05
SPEAKER_04: My timing was so awesome.
15:08
SPEAKER_01: I think this was the third or fourth beer at the St.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: Paddy's episode.
15:11
SPEAKER_04: I think I was double fisting at the time.
15:12
SPEAKER_01: You were absolutely double fisting.
15:14
SPEAKER_01: There was a moment where you triple fisted.
15:16
SPEAKER_01: It was really impressive.
15:17
SPEAKER_01: Um, but Julie, you got a few things for us to talk about?
15:20
SPEAKER_04: Um, I do.
15:20
SPEAKER_04: Let's see what you got.
15:22
SPEAKER_04: So, like me and Brandon were saying before we started recording, it is a very sports-heavy episode.
15:27
SPEAKER_04: Um, and Brandon will take over for a lot of it.
15:30
SPEAKER_01: You don't want to do any sports?
15:31
SPEAKER_04: I don't know enough about it, you know.
15:33
SPEAKER_01: I kind of want to hear uh I I want to hear Brandon's side of it, but I I do want to hear you chime in every now and then.
15:38
SPEAKER_04: Okay, I'll chime in.
15:39
SPEAKER_04: But nice sticker, by the way.
15:41
SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
15:42
SPEAKER_04: I voted today.
15:43
SPEAKER_04: Primaries, go vote.
15:45
SPEAKER_04: It I guess it'll have passed by the time this comes out.
15:48
SPEAKER_04: But um the Raiders.
15:50
SPEAKER_04: We know them.
15:51
SPEAKER_04: Some of us love them, some of us do not.
15:53
SPEAKER_04: Um I think a lot of people are excited for this upcoming season to see what changes.
15:58
SPEAKER_04: However, not football related, one thing that they are doing is they're trying to break the world record for most amount of people doing CPR at the same time.
16:07
SPEAKER_04: They have 5,000 people doing CPR training on June 13th at Allegiant Stadium.
16:13
SPEAKER_04: Isn't that crazy?
16:14
SPEAKER_01: That's impressive.
16:14
SPEAKER_04: I know, I think that's insane.
16:16
SPEAKER_04: So I I think it's like a good way of them giving back to the community and trying to get more involved again as we gear up for this season.
16:23
SPEAKER_05: Love that.
16:23
SPEAKER_04: It's really all I had to say about that one.
16:25
SPEAKER_05: Brandon, do you know how to give CPR?
16:26
SPEAKER_05: I do not, but do you know that's the I had training in high school, but dude, I'm just chatting with my friends.
16:33
SPEAKER_05: I'm I'm not doing the CPR.
16:35
SPEAKER_01: Can you give the can you give the heimlick at least?
16:37
SPEAKER_01: I can try.
16:38
SPEAKER_01: Oh God, I am so.
16:39
SPEAKER_01: No one be alone with Brandon.
16:40
SPEAKER_01: Don't be alone with Brandon.
16:42
SPEAKER_01: Good time.
16:42
SPEAKER_04: You know what Michael Scott says about CPR?
16:45
SPEAKER_05: What does Michael Scott say?
16:46
SPEAKER_04: What song does he sing?
16:48
SPEAKER_04: First I was afraid, and then I was tetrapod.
16:51
SPEAKER_04: She goes, no, it's that was such a good episode.
16:58
SPEAKER_04: Really good.
16:58
SPEAKER_04: And then you've got Dwight just cutting open the dummy.
17:01
SPEAKER_01: No clamories.
17:03
SPEAKER_04: Very Ed Gean.
17:04
SPEAKER_04: That was very Ed Gean.
17:06
SPEAKER_01: Very Ed Gean.
17:07
SPEAKER_01: Dwight was clearly an Ed Gean fan of the good for the Raiders, though.
17:12
SPEAKER_01: I mean, honestly, Brandon, maybe you should go to that GPR episode.
17:15
SPEAKER_04: Brandon needs to.
17:17
SPEAKER_04: You've got a 12-hour window to make it.
17:19
SPEAKER_05: I got compliance with the big head show, you know.
17:21
SPEAKER_05: Yes.
17:21
SPEAKER_01: That's a no PR.
17:22
SPEAKER_01: We'll get your media pass for it too, so you get right up front there.
17:25
SPEAKER_04: Perfect.
17:26
SPEAKER_04: And then secondly, this one, I came across the most ridiculous map ever.
17:31
SPEAKER_04: That I think if anyone in Las Vegas saw it, they're gonna be pissed.
17:36
SPEAKER_04: Do you have it pulled up a channel?
17:37
SPEAKER_04: I have it pulled up.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Brandon, do you are you looking at it?
17:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm looking at it through your computer.
17:41
SPEAKER_01: I sent it in your group chat.
17:43
SPEAKER_01: Uh check it out.
17:44
SPEAKER_04: How do you feel about this?
17:45
SPEAKER_01: This is the most ridiculous AI map.
17:48
SPEAKER_04: Las Vegas neighborhood by neighborhood.
17:51
SPEAKER_01: I hate everything about this.
17:53
SPEAKER_04: I do too.
17:54
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, I know I don't live all the way over there.
17:56
SPEAKER_04: I know that's not my area.
17:58
SPEAKER_01: I know the strip doesn't go directly horizontal across east to west on the whole city here.
18:04
SPEAKER_04: Now I will say I did go to this account, and the whole thing is just trash.
18:11
SPEAKER_04: But this popped up on my for you page late, uh, I think last night.
18:14
SPEAKER_04: And I was like, wow, I have to share this with everybody.
18:17
SPEAKER_01: Julie, I had no idea you lived up in Aliante on the northeast.
18:20
SPEAKER_04: I know.
18:21
SPEAKER_04: I didn't know I lived all the way up by Nellis slash Aliante.
18:24
SPEAKER_01: I also love that Henderson just gets no love whatsoever.
18:26
SPEAKER_01: Henderson just got the cut.
18:28
SPEAKER_04: I know.
18:28
SPEAKER_04: I'm like, Summerlin's kind of in the right area.
18:31
SPEAKER_04: Sort of.
18:32
SPEAKER_04: I mean, maybe it's a little too north.
18:33
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't.
18:34
SPEAKER_01: Listen, there's there's more wrong than right.
18:37
SPEAKER_04: I know.
18:37
SPEAKER_04: And honestly, I know that I'm like still what newer here, but I have not heard of some of these places before.
18:44
SPEAKER_01: I I think they're all I think they're all relatively legit.
18:48
SPEAKER_04: Also, my understanding is that the strip is actually in Enterprise.
18:54
unknown: Yeah.
18:55
SPEAKER_04: So do you see how Enterprise is all the way down there at the bottom?
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this the I love some of these comments.
19:02
SPEAKER_01: This map makes me want to fight someone.
19:04
SPEAKER_01: Or uh What the Heli?
19:06
SPEAKER_01: What the helly?
19:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
19:08
SPEAKER_01: I spun it around several times.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: I don't think I still figured it out.
19:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a shit show.
19:11
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
19:11
SPEAKER_01: It's bad.
19:12
SPEAKER_04: I think it's pretty good.
19:13
SPEAKER_04: I like it.
19:14
SPEAKER_04: I think it's fun.
19:15
SPEAKER_04: Um, fun to look at.
19:16
SPEAKER_05: It's rage bait for sure.
19:17
SPEAKER_05: The strip is like the equator.
19:19
SPEAKER_05: You just have to cross it on.
19:21
SPEAKER_04: Absolutely.
19:22
SPEAKER_04: The time zones are different on each side of the strip.
19:25
SPEAKER_01: It's a whole thing.
19:25
SPEAKER_04: And then lastly, for me, is so we know the Cromwell is now a Vanderpump, right?
19:31
SPEAKER_01: Your girl.
19:32
SPEAKER_04: My girl, Lisa.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Lisa Vanderpump.
19:34
SPEAKER_01: Lisa, come on the show, please.
19:37
SPEAKER_04: Lisa, please.
19:38
SPEAKER_04: Please come on the show.
19:40
SPEAKER_04: Also, girly, saw you outside the Vanderpump Hotel the other day taking pictures.
19:44
SPEAKER_04: You looked good.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: Ooh, did she?
19:46
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, she looked so good in front of like this car.
19:48
SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
19:48
SPEAKER_04: She looked like Lisa.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: I know.
19:50
SPEAKER_01: We love that.
19:51
SPEAKER_04: But at Vanderpump.
19:52
SPEAKER_04: Yes.
19:53
SPEAKER_04: So Dre's nightclub, right?
19:55
SPEAKER_04: I have not been, but I feel like everyone's familiar with it.
19:58
SPEAKER_04: They are kind of trying to go back to this like Vegas all-you-can-eat buffet style thing, but make it nightclub edition.
20:06
SPEAKER_04: Okay.
20:06
SPEAKER_04: If that makes sense.
20:07
SPEAKER_04: So they're doing a$99 open bar at Dre's.
20:13
SPEAKER_04: They've called it the all-inclusive nightclub experience, and it is a part of the rebrand.
20:18
SPEAKER_04: And the tickets include expedited entry and open bar for the duration of the night.
20:23
SPEAKER_04: So you it's gotta be just the nastiest liquor ever, right?
20:27
SPEAKER_01: It's gotta be well tequila, well vodka, well rum, well everything.
20:31
SPEAKER_04: It's gotta be so bad.
20:32
SPEAKER_04: And then coupled with that, they also have this like, what is it, cotton candy and caviar package for$700.
20:41
SPEAKER_01: Listen, nothing goes better with my well tequila than a cotton candy caviar package.
20:46
SPEAKER_04: I know.
20:46
SPEAKER_04: So all in one night at Dre's for roughly$800, if you add the$99 with the$695, you can get expedited entry, open bar for the duration of the night, champagne service, caviar, cotton candy, hookah, and a new dessert menu.
21:02
SPEAKER_01: I love this.
21:03
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm not gonna go to it.
21:05
SPEAKER_04: I'm not gonna do that.
21:06
SPEAKER_04: I'll feel sick.
21:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it'll be uh it'll be something where I'm regretting the next day or two.
21:10
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, but for like think about like college kids, like the group that normally goes to Dre's.
21:14
SPEAKER_01: Listen, I don't think we're the demographic, or at least I'm not the demographic.
21:17
SPEAKER_04: Brandon's the demographic.
21:18
SPEAKER_01: Brandon's definitely.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: I think Brandon, if Brandon was allowed back into Dre's, I think he would absolutely be the demographic.
21:23
SPEAKER_04: Right.
21:24
SPEAKER_04: I forgot they have his photo up front.
21:25
SPEAKER_04: This man not allowed this man blacklisted.
21:29
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
21:30
SPEAKER_01: Uh listen, I I'm all for trying new things.
21:33
SPEAKER_01: I think 99 open bar.
21:35
SPEAKER_01: I've spent way more money on alcohol, especially after you get past a certain point.
21:39
SPEAKER_01: You don't care what you're drinking as long as it's alcohol.
21:42
SPEAKER_01: And I've spent well more than$100 uh on my tab in the past.
21:46
SPEAKER_01: So I like the concept, I like the all inclusive, and I like the new ideas that they're trying.
21:52
SPEAKER_01: I hope it works out.
21:53
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it will, but over or under how many, how many months do you think this will last?
21:57
SPEAKER_01: This this promotion?
21:59
SPEAKER_01: Let's say.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Two months?
22:01
SPEAKER_04: I was gonna say four.
22:02
SPEAKER_04: You say four months, so what's I think it'll make it through summer.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: So you think after September?
22:06
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
22:07
unknown: Yeah.
22:07
SPEAKER_01: Breno, what about you?
22:08
SPEAKER_05: You guys are more optimistic than me.
22:09
SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna lie.
22:10
SPEAKER_04: You say in 30 days?
22:11
SPEAKER_01: I I think like a mub.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: Oh hold on.
22:13
SPEAKER_01: This just didn't.
22:14
SPEAKER_01: They actually just canceled the Dre's 99.
22:17
SPEAKER_04: No, they didn't.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: No, they didn't.
22:18
SPEAKER_01: No, they didn't.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: No, they didn't.
22:20
SPEAKER_04: No, Lisa, sorry.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, Lisa.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: Uh we'll see.
22:24
SPEAKER_01: We'll see.
22:24
SPEAKER_01: We'll maybe we'll do a big head outing at Dre's.
22:26
SPEAKER_04: No.
22:28
SPEAKER_04: Nope.
22:28
SPEAKER_04: We'll all be so sick.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:30
SPEAKER_01: We'll call out the next few days.
22:31
SPEAKER_01: We'll we'll do it on a Friday, so we're good to go by Monday.
22:34
SPEAKER_04: Maybe.
22:35
SPEAKER_04: Brandon, what do you have to tell us about Mitch Marner?
22:37
SPEAKER_05: Dude, he's like the second coming of Christ to Vegas.
22:40
SPEAKER_05: To Brandon from Vegas?
22:42
SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
22:42
SPEAKER_05: Dude, he loves that guy.
22:44
SPEAKER_05: He was in the middle of the club.
22:45
SPEAKER_05: He posted, he's like, Mitch Marner.
22:47
SPEAKER_05: Who is Mitch Martner?
22:49
SPEAKER_05: He is Vegas' newest star.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: What does Julie give me this look for?
22:54
SPEAKER_04: It's not for real.
22:55
SPEAKER_05: Yes, who's Mitch Marner?
22:56
SPEAKER_05: No, he's like, he just came here like last season.
22:59
SPEAKER_04: He doesn't watch hockey.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: Well, the hockey player.
23:02
SPEAKER_01: But yeah.
23:03
SPEAKER_01: I only watch Golden Knights when they're in the Stanley Cup, which is the right now.
23:06
SPEAKER_04: Okay, and then you would know who he is.
23:07
SPEAKER_04: Oh, Mitch Martiner?
23:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I thought you said Mitch Mana.
23:12
SPEAKER_01: You didn't emphasize the R.
23:14
SPEAKER_04: I thought you said Mickey Mouse.
23:16
SPEAKER_01: Oh, Mitch Martyr.
23:18
SPEAKER_01: Sorry, so I'm sorry.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: Start over now that I know who that that we're all on the same page of who Mitch Martiner is.
23:23
SPEAKER_04: Right, my bad for not knowing.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: I thought you were talking about the politician Mitch Martiner, but you were talking about the hockey player Mitch Martiner.
23:28
SPEAKER_05: But yeah, he vote for Mitch.
23:30
SPEAKER_05: He was this all-star hockey player with the Toronto maple leafs his whole career.
23:34
SPEAKER_05: Right?
23:34
SPEAKER_05: The moment he goes to Vegas during free agency or whatever, they're like, oh, we don't need him anyways.
23:40
SPEAKER_05: And guess what?
23:41
SPEAKER_05: He's absolutely shitting on these guys.
23:44
SPEAKER_05: Like, he broke the fastest hat-trick record in Stanley Cup history by like 10 seconds, which is three goals in six minutes or something like that.
23:53
SPEAKER_05: That's wild.
23:53
SPEAKER_05: That's insane.
23:54
SPEAKER_05: Wild.
23:55
SPEAKER_05: But the crazy thing is I didn't even get to watch it happen live because my streaming service was cooked.
24:00
SPEAKER_05: So you just caught the replays?
24:01
SPEAKER_05: Well, dude, I watched the game as we were choking the lead.
24:05
SPEAKER_05: So I'm like, what is happening right now?
24:07
SPEAKER_05: Mitch Martner save me.
24:09
SPEAKER_01: Mitch Martiner save me.
24:11
SPEAKER_01: Save me, Mitch Martiner.
24:12
SPEAKER_01: You're my only hope.
24:13
SPEAKER_01: Take the wheel.
24:14
SPEAKER_01: Mitch Martner, take the wheel.
24:15
SPEAKER_05: And you know what?
24:16
SPEAKER_05: The moment I walk away in double OT, we win the game.
24:20
SPEAKER_05: It's like I'm the bad curse or something.
24:22
SPEAKER_04: You probably are.
24:23
SPEAKER_04: Quit watching.
24:23
SPEAKER_04: Dude.
24:24
SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
24:24
SPEAKER_04: For the rest of the season.
24:26
SPEAKER_01: You're the bad curse for the Vegas Golden Knights, and Donald Trump was the bad curse for the New York Knicks.
24:30
SPEAKER_01: He showed up at the Knicks game yesterday, and that was a first loss.
24:32
SPEAKER_05: Those New Yorkers must be pissed.
24:35
SPEAKER_05: I think they are.
24:36
SPEAKER_05: I saw clips of them fighting in the subway after the game.
24:39
SPEAKER_05: I'm not gonna lie.
24:40
SPEAKER_05: You could probably find it.
24:41
SPEAKER_05: Oh, for sure.
24:42
SPEAKER_01: It's it did you see them hear them boo when they showed him during the national anthem?
24:46
SPEAKER_01: They were singing the national anthem.
24:48
SPEAKER_01: They showed Donald Trump in the loudest boo in the entire that I've ever heard during a national anthem.
24:53
SPEAKER_01: That was insane.
24:54
SPEAKER_05: Like politics aside, making you wait for like three hours.
24:57
SPEAKER_04: Clock it.
24:58
SPEAKER_05: What is this?
24:59
SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
25:01
SPEAKER_04: Brandon, you know what it is, right?
25:03
SPEAKER_04: It's like I didn't until you mentioned it.
25:05
SPEAKER_04: Clock it.
25:06
SPEAKER_04: Clock it?
25:06
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's like um like tea, absolutely, on point.
25:11
SPEAKER_04: You're right.
25:12
SPEAKER_04: Clock it.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: I want to start doing that.
25:14
SPEAKER_04: Okay, you have to do it correctly.
25:16
SPEAKER_04: Like this.
25:16
SPEAKER_04: Like you're holding a roll of pennies.
25:19
SPEAKER_04: Squeeze it.
25:20
SPEAKER_04: Clock it.
25:21
SPEAKER_01: Hey Julie, can you fill out that expense report?
25:23
SPEAKER_01: Clock it.
25:24
SPEAKER_01: Look at that.
25:25
SPEAKER_04: No.
25:25
SPEAKER_01: No.
25:26
SPEAKER_04: No, it's like um, Brandon, you know I love your shoes, so I'm just gonna use them as an example.
25:31
SPEAKER_04: It's like if I was like, Did you see Brandon's shoes today and you were like, clock it?
25:35
SPEAKER_04: Like if they were ugly.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: If they were ugly.
25:38
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if they were ugly.
25:39
SPEAKER_01: If we ever have that conversation and I say clock it just like that, you have free reign to become the new boss.
25:44
SPEAKER_03: Okay, perfect.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Whoever I say it to has free reign to challenge me to become the new boss.
25:50
SPEAKER_03: Perfect.
25:51
SPEAKER_01: Sorry for interrupting.
25:52
SPEAKER_01: We have good news, bad news, and better news.
25:54
SPEAKER_01: The bad news is unfortunately we lost the last two minutes of the first part of this episode.
25:59
SPEAKER_01: The good news is you really didn't miss much.
26:00
SPEAKER_01: We talked about a free T-Paying concert going on here in Vegas.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: I sang by you a drink, Brandon got up and danced on the table.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: It was weird.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: The better news is now that I have your attention, we have this brand new partnership with Boomers Sportsbook, which is the newest independent sportsbook here in Vegas.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you a little bit about it.
26:17
SPEAKER_01: With Boomers, you can bet on anything.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: NFL, NBA, MLB, UFC, you name it, chances are you can probably bet on it.
26:24
SPEAKER_01: Sign up with Boomers and they'll match up to$250 after your first deposit.
26:29
SPEAKER_01: And also use the code word Big Dog, and they'll give you$50 in free play after the first$100 bet that you make.
26:36
SPEAKER_01: Everybody that knows me knows I'm a pretty big gambler.
26:38
SPEAKER_01: I like my chances with boomers.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: And anybody that knows boomers knows that it's where Nevada plays to live.
26:43
SPEAKER_01: Let's get on with the job.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: Since you called me out for doing this every episode, Julie!
26:55
SPEAKER_04: Julie!
26:56
SPEAKER_01: Welcome back, boys and girls.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: This is the second part of our first episode in the new studio.
27:02
SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty excited for it.
27:04
SPEAKER_01: Um, before we get into the guests that we have on, actually, Brian's here now with us.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: I have a question for you, Brian.
27:09
SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
27:09
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what sports betting is?
27:11
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: I live in Vegas.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever placed a bet in your life?
27:15
SPEAKER_01: I've placed a bet for other people in my life.
27:19
SPEAKER_01: Wait, you what do you mean you other people?
27:20
SPEAKER_01: You haven't placed a bet for yourself?
27:21
SPEAKER_01: No.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: Because you're a company man?
27:23
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
27:24
SPEAKER_01: Good for you.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
27:26
SPEAKER_01: Well, I've placed many bets.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: And so anytime we have a chance to talk about sports betting or just gambling in general, I am all for it.
27:33
SPEAKER_01: And that's specifically why I wanted to make sure our first guest in the new studio, the head of trading for Boomer Sportsbook, Nick Bogdanovich, thank you so much for being here.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the show.
27:43
SPEAKER_01: My pleasure.
27:45
SPEAKER_01: Uh so f before we get started, I want to learn a little bit more about you, I want to learn more about the process, but explain to me what the head of trading does.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: I kinda, I mean, listen, every good lawyer asks the questions they already know the answer to.
27:58
SPEAKER_01: I know the answer to this.
27:59
SPEAKER_01: But I want the people at home to hear it straight from your mouth of what the head of trading does for Boomer Sportsbook.
28:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you know, forever, uh, it was never trading.
28:08
SPEAKER_02: It was always director of sports or bookmaker or whatever.
28:11
SPEAKER_02: Trading is a sort of a Johnny Cum lately title everyone has since uh Paspa got overturned and the DraftKings and William Hills of the world came across the pond.
28:22
SPEAKER_02: So when I broke into the business in 86, we were just sports book directors, and I prefer that.
28:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
28:27
SPEAKER_02: Uh trading sounds like we're on uh Wall Street, even though we do a lot of the same thing.
28:32
SPEAKER_02: It just for whatever reason, it it sort of I don't want to say it irritates me, but I do prefer being called a bookmaker or sports book director.
28:40
SPEAKER_01: It irks you.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: It irks you irks.
28:42
SPEAKER_02: That's right.
28:42
SPEAKER_04: Is there a reason you didn't stick with the title you prefer?
28:46
SPEAKER_02: You know what?
28:46
SPEAKER_02: I don't I didn't even know what uh at Boomers, I don't even know what my title is.
28:50
SPEAKER_02: Joe said, hey, we're putting a company together, you want to work?
28:52
SPEAKER_02: I said, sure.
28:53
SPEAKER_02: So I I I I know everyone hat loves fancy titles, and sometimes that gives them a little extra perks or some extra money, but you know I Joe was gonna run the company, I was gonna be the one booking the sports.
29:06
SPEAKER_02: I didn't I I didn't even know what what my title was, our care.
29:10
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
29:10
SPEAKER_04: Okay, love it.
29:11
SPEAKER_02: Well said.
29:11
SPEAKER_02: How long have you been involved with boomers?
29:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh we opened in Nevada August 1st.
29:16
SPEAKER_02: So we're moving in on the uh 10-month mark.
29:19
SPEAKER_02: Congratulations.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: Boomers, I feel like, especially since we because I I'll be completely honest.
29:24
SPEAKER_01: I didn't hear about boomers until you guys reached out to us.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: And right now that I saw boomers, now that I see the branding, I see it everywhere.
29:32
SPEAKER_01: You guys are all over social media, you're doing a great job with that.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: I see you at Ellis Island, I see you at uh the village pubs, you guys are everywhere.
29:40
SPEAKER_01: You're definitely taking over Vegas outside of the strip, and I love that.
29:45
SPEAKER_02: We're trying.
29:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh and like you said, name recognition, very, very critical.
29:50
SPEAKER_02: And we're just trying to get boomers out as much as we can.
29:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I still get a lot of people I know, I run into them and I say, What are you doing?
29:59
SPEAKER_02: And and they don't know what boomers is.
30:00
SPEAKER_02: So that's the challenge.
30:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we're trying to, you know, grab a little piece of the pie.
30:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean, MGM, William Hill Caesars, Circa, Stations.
30:10
SPEAKER_02: They got a big stranglehold on sports betting here in in Nevada.
30:14
SPEAKER_02: So we're just trying to get our little sliver, and by doing that, we have to get Boomers' name out there.
30:19
SPEAKER_01: Listen, get sports sports betting, sports trading, whatever you want to call it, it's uh it's still continuing on the upward incline.
30:26
SPEAKER_01: Like I it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
30:28
SPEAKER_02: It's only going to get larger and larger.
30:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's fun uh for sure.
30:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
30:34
SPEAKER_02: I mean, people once they start it, it's very hard to stop.
30:37
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's very social.
30:38
SPEAKER_02: Uh a lot of people still go to the books because they like to cheer in their bets with 20 or 30 other crazed lunatics.
30:46
SPEAKER_02: So it's it's fun.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: And it's challenging too.
30:49
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, you can, you know, you get all the stats on ESPN now or CBS Sports Line, and you can study, and and it feels good when you figure out the puzzle and you and you got the winner.
30:59
SPEAKER_02: So it really does two things besides you winning the money, it makes you feel pretty good about yourself.
31:04
SPEAKER_01: 1000% it does.
31:06
SPEAKER_01: I've been on the winning side of things, and I felt like I'm king of the world, and I've been on the losing side of things, and I've been like, oh, why did I why did I place that stupid bet?
31:14
SPEAKER_01: I'm such an idiot.
31:15
SPEAKER_01: But it's it's it's it's the love of the game.
31:17
SPEAKER_01: It's the love of the game, and it adds a new dynamic to sports as well.
31:20
SPEAKER_02: Like, no, no doubt.
31:21
SPEAKER_02: Listen, uh, it's hard to sit down and just watch a game without some other interest.
31:28
SPEAKER_02: Whether you the fantasy sports is huge because you're still there in the third and fourth quarter.
31:35
SPEAKER_02: You're trying to see if your guy got 17 points, nine rebounds, whatever mark we have set for him to eclipse.
31:41
SPEAKER_02: So, and then you know, gambling just makes it a little more interesting.
31:45
SPEAKER_02: So, fourth quarter, it's 37-nothing, but the total's 40 and a half, you're still tuning in.
31:52
SPEAKER_02: So, uh, yeah, no, there's no question it makes the games way, way more interesting.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
31:57
SPEAKER_01: You know what I love so much about this is I can I understand everything you're saying.
32:00
SPEAKER_01: To Julie, it's like we're speaking a different language.
32:02
SPEAKER_04: It's a foreign language.
32:03
SPEAKER_01: And we're gonna get into that.
32:03
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna get into the beginner, we're gonna get into what it's like as a beginner versus uh somebody who's been in the game for a lot longer.
32:09
SPEAKER_01: Um, and also I want to talk more about how you know all these stats are available at you know at your hand, but I want to learn a little bit more about you.
32:17
SPEAKER_01: You are born and raised in Vegas, right?
32:19
SPEAKER_02: I am born in uh Sunrise Hospital, 1962.
32:23
SPEAKER_02: First year it was open.
32:24
SPEAKER_02: So I've seen this town go from a tiny little place to a absolute monster.
32:30
SPEAKER_01: Look at you, one of the first babies born in Sunrise and one of our first guests on Big Head at the new studio.
32:34
SPEAKER_01: How about that?
32:35
SPEAKER_01: You're just making your mark all over town.
32:38
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, I I I absolutely love Las Vegas.
32:40
SPEAKER_02: Couldn't be more proud of the community.
32:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was a great place to grow up.
32:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, everyone always thinks of Vegas and they only think of the strip, but yeah there are elementary schools and little league fields here in Las Vegas as well.
32:53
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: Would you have you lived anywhere else uh other than Vegas during your time?
32:57
SPEAKER_01: Or you you've always always been here?
32:59
SPEAKER_02: I had four years in college uh in Lewiston, Idaho.
33:02
SPEAKER_02: Absolutely love that.
33:04
SPEAKER_02: And I sort of bounced back and forth.
33:07
SPEAKER_02: There was a from 2008 to 2012, I was running a book in Reno, but I kept my home here and I was just bouncing back and forth on Southwest.
33:14
SPEAKER_02: All the stewardesses knew me.
33:16
SPEAKER_02: So uh but yeah, for the most part, it's been Vegas.
33:20
SPEAKER_01: Side note, totally unrelated.
33:22
SPEAKER_01: How do you feel about Southwest changing the way that they do all their things?
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Interesting.
33:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I'm gonna I have no real opinion, but I will defer to Southwest because they seem to make all the right moves.
33:34
SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna say they did the right thing.
33:36
SPEAKER_02: All right.
33:36
SPEAKER_02: God bless them.
33:38
SPEAKER_04: Now, speaking of sports betting, like with Reno and where you went to college and stuff, did you know that you wanted to be in sports betting the whole time, or when did that revelation come to you?
33:50
SPEAKER_02: No.
33:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh I got out and I was 21 years old.
33:53
SPEAKER_02: I had a degree, a business administration degree uh from Lewis Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, so I had to plug that.
34:00
SPEAKER_02: Uh and I came out I came home.
34:02
SPEAKER_02: Shout out.
34:03
SPEAKER_02: I came home to Vegas, and I really had no idea what I wanted to do, and I bounced around two different jobs, and I said, this isn't going anywhere.
34:12
SPEAKER_02: So I sort of re-evaluated and what's my passion?
34:14
SPEAKER_02: Well, there's not a bigger sports fan in the world than me.
34:17
SPEAKER_02: I love all sports.
34:18
SPEAKER_02: I don't, it doesn't matter what it is volleyball, women's softball, golf, tennis, you name it.
34:23
SPEAKER_02: So I got a job writing tickets at the Sands in their sports book in 1986.
34:29
SPEAKER_02: And it wasn't like I just wanted to get into something I liked.
34:33
SPEAKER_02: I didn't know it was going to be a career for 40 years, but I just started working my way up the ladder, and uh here I am 40 years later.
34:41
SPEAKER_02: I'm still in the same industry.
34:42
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember the what's the what's the first most memorable bet that you placed yourself back in the day?
34:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I can remember, yeah, there was two of them.
34:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
34:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh and I lost them both.
34:52
SPEAKER_02: So that's okay.
34:53
SPEAKER_02: That should have been an omen is get out, get out.
34:56
SPEAKER_02: It was Hearns Hagler, uh the biggest fight, I think, ever in town.
35:01
SPEAKER_02: Uh the most famous three rounds of boxing of all time.
35:04
SPEAKER_02: I bet the hitman.
35:05
SPEAKER_02: I love Tommy Hearns.
35:07
SPEAKER_02: Uh and I took a good plus price on him.
35:10
SPEAKER_02: And it looked pretty good in the first and second rounds.
35:12
SPEAKER_02: He was, I think, getting the better of Marvin, but then Marvin wore him out and he got tuckered out and he got taken out.
35:18
SPEAKER_02: So that was my first big bet loser.
35:20
SPEAKER_02: And then I my second big bet loser was the Patriots versus the Bears when the refrigerator Perry scored the touchdown.
35:28
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think it was in 86, and New England scored first, and then the Bears got the next 50 something.
35:33
SPEAKER_02: So it was my first two big bets were colossal failures, and for some reason I stayed with it.
35:39
SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the Patriots losing is a sensitive subject here.
35:42
SPEAKER_01: It's a for for me, I'm from Massachusetts and the diehard, Brady, Patriots, the whole, the whole shebang.
35:48
SPEAKER_01: And obviously, you know, we've had plenty of years of winning and lots to be uh happy about, but those there's one one major moment that's the undefeated season that always got me close.
35:59
SPEAKER_01: But then we got the 28-3 Super Bowl, and that for me kind of evens things out.
36:03
SPEAKER_01: So I'm okay with that too.
36:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, those were incredible games.
36:07
SPEAKER_02: David Tyreek and the uh Matt Ryan Falcons meltdown.
36:11
SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
36:12
SPEAKER_01: So you've worked at Binions, Mandalay Bay, William Hill, Circa, and now Boomers.
36:18
SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like you've what's what's the biggest lesson you've taken from working at all of these huge names?
36:23
SPEAKER_01: And these are just a few of the huge names that you've worked at.
36:26
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh you know, every every job's been a little different.
36:31
SPEAKER_02: Uh this is the very first startup, I'd say, so it's very, very difficult to crack into uh uh a fully grown industry.
36:40
SPEAKER_02: So uh very challenging from that aspect.
36:44
SPEAKER_01: Uh but again, you've only been around for 10 months, and you guys are already making a mark, not only in in Vegas, but in northern Nevada too.
36:51
SPEAKER_02: All over Nevada.
36:52
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're trying to make get an imprint all over the state.
36:56
SPEAKER_02: Like we're going into jackpot real soon, and that's at the very tip of Idaho, and we're in Lake Tahoe.
37:02
SPEAKER_02: Uh Elko.
37:04
SPEAKER_02: Elko, yeah, uh Fallon.
37:06
SPEAKER_02: Uh y'all are in Reno too.
37:08
SPEAKER_02: Elko, Reno, Parsons City, five locally, and some more to come.
37:13
SPEAKER_02: So, yeah, we're we're trying to circle the state.
37:16
SPEAKER_01: Listen, all you like you said, all you want is that little sliver.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: There's enough to go around.
37:19
SPEAKER_02: Hey, listen, those guys, they they got all the business in the world.
37:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, we're just like we're just trying to get a little sliver of that chocolate cake.
37:28
SPEAKER_01: Listen, outside of the big names and the ones on the strip and the William Hills, I don't know of any other sports book other than Boomers that's not part of that big gang there.
37:39
SPEAKER_01: So I mean you guys again are making your mark and you're only 10 months in.
37:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, I think when Joe envisioned this company, uh it was gonna be the only Nevada independent sports book, and we we figured that might appeal to some people.
37:50
SPEAKER_02: So and and I think we're doing it right.
37:53
SPEAKER_02: Uh we do a lot of sm promotions, uh we got great pricing.
37:59
SPEAKER_02: So we're trying to grab and attract the customer, and I think once we get them, uh they'll stay with us.
38:04
SPEAKER_02: I agree.
38:05
SPEAKER_04: And can you explain?
38:06
SPEAKER_04: Sorry, I really don't know any of the jargon or lingo.
38:08
SPEAKER_04: What is what is an independent sports book versus what I see when I go to the strip?
38:13
SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, well, like the MGM, they have 15 properties, so they have 15 different sports books.
38:21
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
38:22
SPEAKER_02: Caesars has uh well, 70 or 80.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: Uh so when you go into one of their properties and casinos, there's a there's a Caesars or slash William Hill sports book in it.
38:34
SPEAKER_02: Well, we're not we're in an office building at 215 in Russell.
38:39
SPEAKER_02: Right.
38:39
SPEAKER_02: So we're going around to all these casinos and trying to lease space from them.
38:43
SPEAKER_02: So we're independent.
38:45
SPEAKER_02: We're not affiliated with the casino whatsoever.
38:47
SPEAKER_02: We're just we just want to partner with those casinos and deliver a a service for them, and that's a a good sports betting outlet.
38:54
SPEAKER_04: Okay, that makes sense.
38:55
SPEAKER_01: What is with that different relationship compared to MGM and Caesars?
39:00
SPEAKER_01: What does that allow you to do?
39:01
SPEAKER_01: What kind of flexibility does that give you guys to to uh be able to do?
39:06
SPEAKER_02: Well, I think we can be a better partner for the casinos.
39:09
SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean we're in Ojos Locos in North Las Vegas.
39:13
SPEAKER_02: I mean we care about Ojos Locos.
39:16
SPEAKER_02: If Caesars was to they had their kiosk in there, you think Caesars really cares about Ojos Locos?
39:22
SPEAKER_02: I I highly doubt it.
39:24
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, I mean I I think we will have a better relationship uh with the casinos we go into than anyone else in the state can.
39:33
SPEAKER_02: You've been in the game for a while.
39:34
SPEAKER_01: How do you feel like sports betting has changed over the past thirty years of being involved in the game?
39:40
SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's changed.
39:40
SPEAKER_02: It's it's night and day.
39:42
SPEAKER_02: From when I first got into it in 1986.
39:44
SPEAKER_02: Well, when I first got into it, we were handwriting tickets.
39:47
SPEAKER_02: There was no computers.
39:48
SPEAKER_02: So we would write out the bets, the game was over, it was three copies, one for the customer, one for the book, and one for audit.
39:57
SPEAKER_02: And then we'd have to grade the tickets.
39:59
SPEAKER_02: We I did a lot of grading of tickets, so we learned from the ground up what to do.
40:04
SPEAKER_02: What does that mean, grading the tickets?
40:05
SPEAKER_02: Well, you gotta figure out what to pay.
40:06
SPEAKER_02: So if a guy had a hundred dollar four-team baseball parlay, you gotta f it it it takes it's you gotta figure out it, you know, 100 wins 982.
40:15
SPEAKER_02: Now the computer does it for you.
40:17
SPEAKER_02: All you do is a few keystrokes and boom.
40:19
SPEAKER_02: Right.
40:20
SPEAKER_02: And obviously the mobile app, that's that's the big difference.
40:24
SPEAKER_02: I mean, people have that in their hand.
40:26
SPEAKER_02: You got a sports book in your hand 24-7.
40:29
SPEAKER_02: So before you had to drive down to the strip, walk into the park, walk into the place, saunter through a big casino and get to the counter and have some dialogue with a ticket rider.
40:40
SPEAKER_02: So it's much easier now.
40:41
SPEAKER_02: You just get on your phone and take, you know, you're not under any pressure.
40:45
SPEAKER_02: There's no one behind you waiting to, hey, you're taking too much time.
40:49
SPEAKER_02: You can scroll down your app and figure out your bets.
40:52
SPEAKER_02: And that's why I think sports betting has just grown so fast as is the mobile app, is it it's a game changer.
40:59
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you're gonna be able to give a definite answer for this, because I don't know if there is one, but do you feel like today compared to 1986, is it better, worse?
41:07
SPEAKER_01: Are there there's some things that are good, some things that aren't?
41:10
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just different.
41:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
41:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh the menu is so much bigger now.
41:14
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
41:15
SPEAKER_02: Back when when we were doing this in the earlier late 80s, early 90s, I mean, there was hardly any props.
41:22
SPEAKER_02: Now you can get thousands and thousands of props a day.
41:26
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's it's crazy what you can bet on now.
41:29
SPEAKER_02: Because the competition, listen, uh technology kicked in with algorithms and you know, they can produce numbers for thousands of players like this.
41:40
SPEAKER_02: Whereas before you'd have to if you try to do it by hand, you know, looking at uh just stats and trying to make a number take forever.
41:48
SPEAKER_02: Now a computer and algorithm can kick all those numbers out in mass and in a matter of seconds.
41:53
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, the the menu is just hundreds and hundreds of times bigger than it ever was.
41:59
SPEAKER_01: Listen, there's clearly you know your stuff.
42:01
SPEAKER_01: I I'm not doubting that, nor would I ever question that.
42:04
SPEAKER_01: But just to add a little cherry on top, is it true that you're in the sports betting hall of fame?
42:08
SPEAKER_01: Is that right?
42:10
SPEAKER_02: I am.
42:10
SPEAKER_02: Uh went in a uh a couple years ago in the second class, so that was uh very exciting for me.
42:16
SPEAKER_01: Uh how does one get into that?
42:19
SPEAKER_02: Well, there's a there's there was a committee of 18 that uh nominated and voted me in, so uh I had to impress a few people.
42:30
SPEAKER_02: But uh yeah, no, there's i i it's located at the circa.
42:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
42:34
SPEAKER_02: Uh and there's some some pretty big names in there.
42:38
SPEAKER_02: Billy Walters, Bob Martin.
42:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh those are the Bob Martin's considered the dean of bookmakers, Billy Walters considered the greatest sports better of all time.
42:48
SPEAKER_02: So it's nice to be uh in in in that company.
42:51
SPEAKER_01: You ever met Billy?
42:52
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
42:52
SPEAKER_02: I've been battling his battling him since 1989.
42:55
SPEAKER_02: I I remember exactly when I met him.
42:57
SPEAKER_02: It was November of 1989.
42:59
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
42:59
SPEAKER_02: I was working at Binion's horseshoe, and Jack Binyon walked Billy into me and said, he knew I was only 28 at the time, really green, trying to learn the job, and he said, Nick, this is Billy Walters, gave me his phone number.
43:12
SPEAKER_02: He says, if you ever need any have any questions, yeah, call this man.
43:16
SPEAKER_02: So Jack and Billy were very good friends, and uh so I'll never forget that day.
43:22
SPEAKER_01: Is it true that somebody like Billy could change the line based on what he bets?
43:25
SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily specifically Billy, but just people like him.
43:28
SPEAKER_01: Oh, for sure.
43:29
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah.
43:32
SPEAKER_02: Someone could bet a thousand dollars and change the line because we respect him.
43:38
SPEAKER_02: And someone could bet two million dollars and we wouldn't move the line just because we just know it's a recreational bet.
43:44
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, you definitely play the faces in this industry.
43:47
SPEAKER_01: So interesting.
43:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Billy has an interesting story.
43:49
SPEAKER_01: Anybody listening at home, Billy has such an interesting story and such an interesting thing he's he's had ups and downs and trials and tribulations, but he's in terms of sports betting, he's one of the top guys.
43:59
SPEAKER_01: He's probably One of the most well known sports betters, I feel like, in the history of sports betting.
44:04
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree with that?
44:05
SPEAKER_02: Oh no, there's no question.
44:06
SPEAKER_02: He's number one.
44:06
SPEAKER_02: He's he's Babe Ruth of sports better.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:09
SPEAKER_02: And his story is uh off the charts uh interesting to say the least.
44:14
SPEAKER_02: Very much.
44:15
SPEAKER_04: Well, getting back to boomers, how did it come to life?
44:19
SPEAKER_04: What was what was the idea?
44:20
SPEAKER_04: How did y'all get together and decide this is what you were gonna do?
44:24
SPEAKER_02: Well, we've uh me and Joe worked together at Caesarslash William Hill.
44:29
SPEAKER_02: It was William Hill.
44:30
SPEAKER_02: Uh for 10 years, he was the CEO and I was the director of trading.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: And let me jump in.
44:35
SPEAKER_02: Let's give everybody Joe Asher is the what's his role?
44:38
SPEAKER_02: What's his title at Boomer?
44:39
SPEAKER_02: He's the he's the owner of the company.
44:40
SPEAKER_02: He's the he's the the brainchild behind Boomers.
44:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh the company's named after uh uh his dog.
44:47
SPEAKER_02: Uh love that he uh so he had an idea.
44:51
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, we had such success at William Hill slash Caesars for 10 years, and he had been out of the game for a year or two, uh, but he wanted to get back in it, and he and he saw, hey, we got a shot here, let's take it.
45:05
SPEAKER_02: So I was working at Circ at the time and he he asked me, would you if I if I start up a company, would you be interested in coming along?
45:14
SPEAKER_02: And he told me what what was involved.
45:17
SPEAKER_02: I said, sure, let's let's try to run it back.
45:19
SPEAKER_02: So uh here we are uh 10 months into this foray, and I I I think we're we're progressing nicely.
45:27
SPEAKER_01: Would the day-to-day uh for you compared to when your day-to-day was at circa?
45:32
SPEAKER_01: Is it more along the lines of circa had a system in place and you just followed it?
45:36
SPEAKER_01: And then now at Boomers, it's kind of like you're the ones creating the system in place for your day-to-day?
45:41
SPEAKER_01: Or what's what's your day-to-day like compared to when it was at Circa or Yeah, well my role at Circa was a little different than role other roles I've had.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh I was in charge of college football and college uh basketball when I was there, whereas opposed now I'm more of managing people and all sports.
46:01
SPEAKER_02: So I really uh it was a lot of fun at Circa for three years.
46:05
SPEAKER_02: I can't speak uh enough highly enough about that organization.
46:09
SPEAKER_02: Derek and Mike Palm, they do a great job down there.
46:12
SPEAKER_02: Uh but here's now, yeah, I'm managing eight to ten people, booking all the sports.
46:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh we got a small crew, uh, so working a lot of hours.
46:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh and it's a good thing I I'm pretty familiar with all the sports.
46:28
SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, I I get in every morning about 5 45, start booking the baseball and basketball or whatever on the menu that day, and before you know it, you look up and it's five o'clock.
46:39
SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, we're we work a lot of hours, but they're fun hours.
46:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, it's you know, I I it's definitely not a job.
46:47
SPEAKER_02: It's it's definitely a passion.
46:49
SPEAKER_01: Has it changed the way you look at sports because you're it's just you're surrounded by it?
46:53
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean I when I was growing up, I had favorite teams.
46:57
SPEAKER_02: You know, I like Notre Dame football and I like Green Bay Packers and I like the Yankees.
47:01
SPEAKER_02: Not my favorite team is who make us makes us money that day.
47:04
SPEAKER_02: So I mean I it's sad to say.
47:06
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it really is.
47:07
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I still sort of root for the Niners, and but if it's a big enough decision, I have to root for the other side.
47:14
SPEAKER_01: I get that.
47:15
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
47:15
SPEAKER_01: So just uh we're gonna dr give a little education lesson to Julie.
47:19
SPEAKER_04: Please.
47:20
SPEAKER_01: When you're placing the when you're creating the line, minus three, whatever, you don't necessarily create it with the intention of that's what you think is gonna happen.
47:28
SPEAKER_01: You th you place it with the intention of that's what you think is both sides are gonna be betting on, so it's even.
47:32
SPEAKER_01: Is that true?
47:33
SPEAKER_02: Well, you try to get to a number that will create two-way action.
47:36
SPEAKER_02: You don't want to put up a number where you just get buried on one side.
47:40
SPEAKER_02: So in football, say the giants are three.
47:44
SPEAKER_02: Well, you hope that it either goes to two and a half or maybe it goes to three and a half.
47:48
SPEAKER_02: You don't want to open the giants three and it goes to seven.
47:50
SPEAKER_02: That means you probably put up a pretty weak number.
47:53
SPEAKER_02: Right.
47:53
SPEAKER_02: And you probably have a pretty big decision and you need the dog.
47:56
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, when you put up a number, uh you want to get to the the right number as fast as you can possibly get to it.
48:04
SPEAKER_02: So uh, you know, the whole idea is try to get two-way action on both sides.
48:09
SPEAKER_02: It's never the case.
48:10
SPEAKER_02: You never have a balanced book.
48:11
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
48:12
SPEAKER_02: Uh you usually always need a side.
48:14
SPEAKER_02: Uh but yeah, uh you just try to put up as solid as a number as you can.
48:19
SPEAKER_02: Uh and if you don't put up a solid number, get to a solid number as fast as you can.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: What's the feeling like when you put up a number?
48:25
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, you've you've I'm sure you you can say it's about all sports sports books.
48:29
SPEAKER_01: They majority of the time it seems like they're spot on with the numbers.
48:33
SPEAKER_01: But there are times where the numbers are very askewed from where you first open to where it is when the the game starts.
48:40
SPEAKER_01: What's it feel like to you when you're when you place a or you create a number and you're way off?
48:45
SPEAKER_02: Well, it's gonna happen a lot because there's so many markets now.
48:49
SPEAKER_02: Say we in the 80s or the 90s, we'd have to in a bit in a betting day, there's a hundred different things you have numbers on.
48:57
SPEAKER_02: Today you have thousands and thousands and thousands.
49:00
SPEAKER_02: So you you know you're gonna be off.
49:02
SPEAKER_02: Like the the biggest example right now, it's baseball season.
49:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we got props on on on uh batters walks and and strikeouts by pitchers and a number of innings they're going and singles and doubles.
49:16
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's all uh imported from an algorithm.
49:21
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
49:21
SPEAKER_02: But there's zero chance that those numbers can all be good.
49:25
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's impossible.
49:26
SPEAKER_02: So like I said, i they're gonna be off.
49:29
SPEAKER_02: You just gotta move them super fast and try to get to a a number that's decent.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: So makes sense.
49:36
SPEAKER_04: I so when I was researching boomers to put together our questions and and whatnot for today, I saw We, we were researching boomers.
49:44
SPEAKER_04: When I was researching boomers.
49:47
SPEAKER_04: Big head.
49:48
SPEAKER_02: That's how we got the name.
49:50
SPEAKER_04: Right.
49:50
SPEAKER_04: Um, but I saw a lot of the the phrasing and keywords that y'all use, like player first.
49:56
SPEAKER_04: I don't have a clue what that means.
49:58
SPEAKER_04: So what does it mean for a sportsbook to be player first?
50:02
SPEAKER_02: Well, we try to be player friendly.
50:04
SPEAKER_02: So, like in the NFL last year, uh everywhere in town, either side you bet, you had to lay a dollar ten on each side.
50:11
SPEAKER_02: So that's like 110 to win a hundred.
50:13
SPEAKER_02: At boomers, we you could lay 105, so you bet 105 to win a hundred, so it's cheaper.
50:19
SPEAKER_02: It was a discount, it was it was for the player, we were player friendly.
50:23
SPEAKER_02: Baseball right now, we have a 10 cent line up to$1.40.
50:27
SPEAKER_02: So at Boomers, the Yankees are minus 10 and Cleveland is even money.
50:33
SPEAKER_02: We're at if you go to a lot of places on the strip, it's minus 120 and even.
50:39
SPEAKER_02: See, we're 10 cents cheaper at Boomers, so we're player friendly.
50:43
SPEAKER_02: So we try to give the better a little more value so they'll come play at Boomers, so we're player friendly.
50:50
SPEAKER_04: Makes sense to me.
50:51
SPEAKER_01: And it it really does make a huge difference.
50:53
SPEAKER_01: Not only just to the to the the financial side of things for the player, but also just for the the the mental thing, like the the emotions.
51:00
SPEAKER_01: Like I feel better when I see three to blackjack compared to a hundred percent it's exactly what it is.
51:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
51:05
SPEAKER_02: In the old days, everyone paid three to two on blackjack.
51:09
SPEAKER_02: Now if you're lucky to get you get six to five.
51:11
SPEAKER_02: So listen, it's the same thing.
51:13
SPEAKER_02: Would you rather take plus a dollar fifty on your blackjack or plus a dollar twenty on your blackjack?
51:19
SPEAKER_02: Well, it doesn't doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out which one I'm taking.
51:23
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
51:24
SPEAKER_02: Same thing with sports betting.
51:25
SPEAKER_02: Search for the best price or or the best payout.
51:28
SPEAKER_02: So no, go ahead, please.
51:29
SPEAKER_04: I was gonna say, so is that the the reason that I mean obviously you're biased, but is that the reason that somebody would choose boomers over other sports books, or is there a different reason that you think that would be the main reason.
51:42
SPEAKER_02: But my sugg if you're a sports better out there, I obviously you only have X amount of dollars you can spend, but I would get as many mobile apps as humanly possible because you never know when you're gonna get a better price here or there.
51:58
SPEAKER_02: And in the long run, that really keeps you in the game for a long, long, lot longer time.
52:04
SPEAKER_02: So even though I'm trying to I'm not trying to promote other people's business, but you really should, if you're a sports better, if you can afford to get three or four mobile apps, do it because it's gonna be so helpful to you in the long run.
52:17
SPEAKER_02: Shopping the line and you know, shop the line, shop the price, the whole nine yards, and we might offer a a a prop that the others aren't, and and they may be vice versa, they might have something we don't.
52:29
SPEAKER_02: So but yeah, uh if you're a sports better, please do yourself a favor, get as many many apps as possible.
52:36
SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you another reason to choose boomers over any other sports book is because there's a big head promotion now.
52:41
SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, there is a big head promotion.
52:43
SPEAKER_01: We were but let's let's save that to the end of the episode.
52:45
SPEAKER_01: Okay, little cherry on top of it.
52:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
52:49
SPEAKER_01: Um you guys started in August of last year, you you said.
52:54
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, you made it right before uh you know football really got up and going.
52:59
SPEAKER_01: Is you you say you get in at five and leave at five every day.
53:02
SPEAKER_01: Is football a lot more chaotic for you and or is it pretty much pretty consistent across the year?
53:08
SPEAKER_02: Uh you know, it's funny.
53:09
SPEAKER_02: In the old days, it used to be you had to make money during football season, and the other eight months you you hold on for dear life, and you'd be able to take the summers off.
53:20
SPEAKER_02: June, July, August, we take off.
53:22
SPEAKER_02: The bookmakers back then we'd golf and all go to California to cool down.
53:26
SPEAKER_02: But now there's so much going on year round.
53:29
SPEAKER_02: I mean, our tennis and golf, now World Cup.
53:33
SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's so much on the menu these days that you really year round you stay busy.
53:38
SPEAKER_02: So there really is no downtime.
53:40
SPEAKER_02: Yes, football is still king.
53:41
SPEAKER_02: Yes, football is still the busiest time of the year.
53:44
SPEAKER_01: College or pro is king for you?
53:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh well for me, king is college because I enjoy college more.
53:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but there's nothing pro football is the king, it's not even close.
53:54
SPEAKER_02: Uh everyone is involved some form or fashion with pro football.
53:58
SPEAKER_02: So, but I I you know, I enjoy all seasons.
54:01
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I'm a man of all sports.
54:03
SPEAKER_02: Uh, but yeah, football is king for sure.
54:06
SPEAKER_01: Uh by the way, just I don't know if you're able to answer this or not.
54:09
SPEAKER_01: What are your thoughts on the Raiders this this upcoming season?
54:11
SPEAKER_02: I think they're gonna be very much improved.
54:14
SPEAKER_02: Not that they couldn't be because they were so bad last year.
54:18
SPEAKER_04: Anything's better, right?
54:19
SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
54:19
SPEAKER_02: But I I think they had a uh a good off season.
54:22
SPEAKER_02: I think the coaching change was good, I think they had a good draft.
54:25
SPEAKER_02: It'll be interesting to see how the Mendoza situation plays out.
54:28
SPEAKER_01: How do you think he'll be?
54:30
SPEAKER_02: I think he'll be a good NFL quarterback.
54:32
SPEAKER_02: Uh will he play from day one?
54:34
SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
54:34
SPEAKER_02: We'll have to when they get into camp, if he's every bit as good in camp as Cousins, I think they got a roll with him.
54:42
SPEAKER_02: Sure.
54:42
SPEAKER_02: But if Cousins is just so far ahead of knowing the uh offensive system and then let the kid learn, whether it's two games, five games, eight games, his time's coming.
54:54
SPEAKER_02: So but I I think the Raiders will be much improved.
54:58
SPEAKER_02: Only problem is they're just in a very, very tough division.
55:01
SPEAKER_02: I mean, Broncos, Chargers, and and KC.
55:05
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's brutal.
55:06
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's the that's the group of death right there.
55:09
SPEAKER_02: So they will definitely be improved.
55:11
SPEAKER_02: I think they're definitely heading the right direction.
55:13
SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
55:13
SPEAKER_01: What do you think of and again they're gonna definitely get sidetracked with the Mendoza talk, but I'm very intrigued by it because Mendoza has the the aura, the personality that doesn't necessarily match the Raiders' lifestyle personality, but most people feel like he's gonna he's the the change that the Raiders need for it.
55:32
SPEAKER_01: Do you agree with that or do you feel like there's funny?
55:35
SPEAKER_02: If you see the Mendoza in the interviews and in real life, he is sort of completely anti-raider.
55:41
SPEAKER_02: He's sort of like uh Mr.
55:43
SPEAKER_02: Rogers, Milk Toast.
55:45
SPEAKER_02: Well, you get him on the field, he's a beast.
55:48
SPEAKER_02: Did you see that the championship game uh against the the Miami?
55:52
SPEAKER_02: He took nine hits going into the uh he's he's he's just he's just physical and tough.
55:56
SPEAKER_02: I mean the Ohio State game, they were just just killing him, and he kept getting back up.
56:01
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, no, off the field, he's completely anti-raider.
56:05
SPEAKER_02: On the field, he's I think full-blown raider on the other side.
56:09
SPEAKER_02: It's tough as nails.
56:10
SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm listening being here in Vegas, I want all Vegas teams to do well.
56:14
SPEAKER_01: Um and I love the fact that you know the Golden Knights are in the Stanley Cup right now, and they're you know they leading?
56:21
SPEAKER_01: I I think are they still down?
56:22
SPEAKER_01: We'll see.
56:23
SPEAKER_01: They they were down 2-1.
56:25
SPEAKER_01: But either way, I I I want every Vegas team to do well, and I am excited for the for the Raiders.
56:29
SPEAKER_01: I'm excited for Mendoza.
56:30
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad Max Crosby's sticking around.
56:32
SPEAKER_01: So um all good things here, but I'm very excited for it.
56:35
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, Julie.
56:37
SPEAKER_04: So you have been in the industry for decades, like we've covered earlier.
56:42
SPEAKER_04: What um what do you want boomers' legacy to be?
56:45
SPEAKER_04: What do you and Joe envision as the legacy of boomers in the long run?
56:51
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, that's a good question.
56:54
SPEAKER_02: I guess you'll be able to ask Joe in a couple weeks.
56:57
SPEAKER_02: But that is true.
56:58
SPEAKER_02: From my aspect, from what I deliver, I deliver the sports, you know, the bookmaking tool of boomers.
57:07
SPEAKER_02: So I I I just like to put out a a really player-friendly product.
57:12
SPEAKER_02: So have a very deep menu with good pricing, and that makes me happy.
57:17
SPEAKER_02: I just I I like it when they get on there and they say, wow, you got 200 to 1 on this guy to win a golf tournament when you might be able to find 150 elsewhere, or you can lay$1.5 in the NFL instead of$1.10.
57:31
SPEAKER_02: That makes me happy.
57:31
SPEAKER_02: So as long as uh from the bookmaking aspect, we put out a really good product with good pricing, that's the legacy I'd like to be for boomers.
57:39
SPEAKER_04: And I've got a a more personal question about like me.
57:42
SPEAKER_04: So I have I've never placed a sports bet outside of like, you know, silly office type stuff.
57:48
SPEAKER_04: And I haven't had a chance to check out the boomers app yet either.
57:51
SPEAKER_04: Is it something that you would say is beginner friendly, or do you kind of need to have your footing?
57:56
SPEAKER_02: It's so beginner friendly, even I can use it.
57:58
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
57:58
SPEAKER_02: And I can't I'm I'm technologically challenged.
58:02
SPEAKER_02: Like I I I went to college right when computers were coming of age.
58:06
SPEAKER_02: So I'm behind the curves.
58:07
SPEAKER_02: These young kids now we got working for us.
58:10
SPEAKER_02: I mean, it's incredible what they do with a computer.
58:12
SPEAKER_02: So I uh I can barely get it turned on in the morning.
58:16
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, no, it's so it's very user-friendly.
58:18
SPEAKER_02: Okay, good.
58:19
SPEAKER_02: Do you miss the face-to-face interactions?
58:20
SPEAKER_02: 100%.
58:21
SPEAKER_02: I loved it.
58:22
SPEAKER_02: Uh when I that my I don't want to say it's my favorite job, but uh it was when I was running the Binions Horseshoe, all the poker, it was the poker capital of the world, and I was behind the counter, so I got to know Doyle Brunson and Chip Reese and Johnny Chan and all the legends of the poker, and they they all bet sports too, so that's how I got to know them.
58:42
SPEAKER_02: But uh being behind the counter is gone.
58:45
SPEAKER_02: We're we're in an office building now, so all you see is a name on a screen.
58:49
SPEAKER_02: You don't know if John Smith is the greatest guy in the world or he's a he's a jerk off.
58:55
SPEAKER_02: Uh I mean, so we really miss meeting people and talking to them.
59:00
SPEAKER_02: It was great.
59:00
SPEAKER_02: I mean, at the Sands, I can't tell you how many people I met there.
59:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
59:04
SPEAKER_02: And but now that's that you know, the game has changed.
59:07
SPEAKER_02: That's the way that's part of one of the many changes.
59:10
SPEAKER_02: Uh everyone, just like DraftKings, they're in a huge building.
59:13
SPEAKER_02: They're not gonna meet any of their customers, they're just account 1009876 and Jones.
59:20
SPEAKER_02: So it's very impersonal, but that's the way it is.
59:23
SPEAKER_01: That's the way it is, unfortunately.
59:25
SPEAKER_01: Um being that you have locations all over not only this state, but you're like you said, you're you're growing elsewhere in other states too.
59:31
SPEAKER_01: Are there any locations that have surprised you with the amount of money that you've had coming in through them?
59:37
SPEAKER_02: Uh no, but I've been very happy so far with uh the results.
59:42
SPEAKER_02: With the results.
59:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, uh I'm really, really proud to be associated with the Ellis Islands and the Casino Valley Verdes and the Casino Fandangos of the world.
59:52
SPEAKER_02: It's it's great.
59:53
SPEAKER_02: And uh like I said, I think right now, currently, as we do this interview, we have 12.
59:59
SPEAKER_02: I think before football, we'll be up to 18.
1:00:01
SPEAKER_02: And wow we're looking to grow and grow and grow.
1:00:05
SPEAKER_02: And you know, whoever will have us will be uh glad to do business with them.
1:00:09
SPEAKER_02: This may be a joke question, but why Ellis Island?
1:00:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that would be a joke question.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_02: Okay, good.
1:00:15
SPEAKER_02: We'll save the same thing.
1:00:16
SPEAKER_02: But I but since I was born and raised here and I'm a local, Ellis Island is a great, great, it's a it's a great tourist place too, but it's it's really no uh uh locals love Ellis Island.
1:00:26
SPEAKER_01: Really they've put a lot of money into just though the the whole the whole location.
1:00:31
SPEAKER_01: Um the food there, the restaurants there are great, really good gambling there that I've I've I've won some good money at Ellis Island.
1:00:38
SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, and I I'm excited that Boomers is there too.
1:00:41
SPEAKER_01: That's that's really awesome.
1:00:43
SPEAKER_04: And go maybe win some more money at Boomers at Ellis Island.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:00:46
SPEAKER_01: Speaking of which, out of all three of us, even though she's the one that doesn't have as much experience, she's the only one that's in since the time she's been in Vegas, has won more than she's lost, which is Well, collectively, me and my husband.
1:00:58
SPEAKER_04: I don't really play, I just tell him when it's time to get up and leave.
1:01:02
SPEAKER_02: That sounds like a team effort for Dominic.
1:01:04
SPEAKER_04: It works, because he just wants to keep going, and I'm like, nope, we're up and we're out.
1:01:07
SPEAKER_02: That is true.
1:01:08
SPEAKER_02: And listen, the one thing I've seen over my 64 years in this town, that's what happens.
1:01:17
SPEAKER_02: The casino wears you down.
1:01:18
SPEAKER_02: If you stay there long enough, they're gonna get you.
1:01:20
SPEAKER_02: But if if you ever do get up and you want to get out of there, do yourself a favor, get out of there.
1:01:25
SPEAKER_02: You know, I I granted it's fun to play two hours, but you don't have to play two and a half hours.
1:01:32
SPEAKER_02: Walk walk out before you give them back their their money.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_04: Right.
1:01:35
SPEAKER_01: So before the algorithm was integrated and everything, what was your process of or what was the process of making a line?
1:01:45
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, for the longest time we had uh just a big folder with uh power ratings.
1:01:50
SPEAKER_02: Uh so you'd you'd have you'd have numbers.
1:01:54
SPEAKER_02: Let's take the NFL, it's the easiest one.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_02: So you'd have say you had San Francisco power rated nine and the Lions power rated 13.
1:02:04
SPEAKER_02: So that means San Francisco on a neutral field is four-point favorite over Detroit.
1:02:10
SPEAKER_02: Then you probably factor in some home field what it's worth, and maybe if they have a big opponent on next week, or if there are a lot of lot of injuries, and you come up with a number, boom.
1:02:21
SPEAKER_02: And then after the game's over, you you see how the game's been played out and bet, and then you adjust the power rating for each team, and you just keep going over and over, week after week.
1:02:33
SPEAKER_02: Who taught you how to make lens?
1:02:34
SPEAKER_02: Year after year, and voila, you have all this stuff now.
1:02:37
SPEAKER_02: Who taught you how to make lens?
1:02:39
SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, I when I broke in in 1986 at the Sands, we had a really strong staff.
1:02:45
SPEAKER_02: Uh Rick Heron, uh, he was the bookmaker, uh, lead bookmaker at the time.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_02: Uh learned a lot from him.
1:02:54
SPEAKER_02: Uh and there were some a few other guys that we I just picked up on, and and that and that's really how it how it started.
1:03:01
SPEAKER_02: Back then it was hard though because there was no internet and to get it in and very little TV as well.
1:03:09
SPEAKER_02: So to get information was really, really hard.
1:03:11
SPEAKER_02: You just you read a lot of newspapers, and sometimes the new newspapers were two, three days old.
1:03:17
SPEAKER_02: You're trying to get information out of it, and you talk to other bookmakers and you talk to sports betters, and that's how you tried to polish the number.
1:03:25
SPEAKER_02: Like I said, now you can go there's you can go on the internet and get any any stat you need, like this, or any injury information like this.
1:03:33
SPEAKER_02: There's services that provide that now.
1:03:35
SPEAKER_02: Back in the old days, it was just a scramble for information.
1:03:38
SPEAKER_01: We uh we had Stephanie Rosenthal on, who is the daughter of Frank Rosenthal in the movie Casino.
1:03:44
SPEAKER_01: And when she came on, she the way she spoke about her dad and the way she described it, he was such a detailed oriented guy.
1:03:50
SPEAKER_01: And clearly, I've anybody has seen the movie Casino, you know how detailed he is about how many blueberries are in each muffin.
1:03:56
SPEAKER_01: But just the fact I'm gonna fly flying around here, just the fact that he was so specific and so detail-oriented, and he was so good with picking winners, it always intrigued me of you know the the type of people that are successful in sports betting and what they look for, and not only them, but also the people that you know make the lines too.
1:04:13
SPEAKER_01: There's so much that goes into it.
1:04:14
SPEAKER_01: It's very intriguing.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_02: And Mr.
1:04:16
SPEAKER_02: Rosenthal was a member first in the first class in the sports betting hall of fame, and I met Stephanie down there, uh very nice lady, and she was came the last couple of years as well.
1:04:27
SPEAKER_02: So that's fantastic.
1:04:28
SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, no, i i it it it is wild.
1:04:31
SPEAKER_02: If I was to give any suggestion, uh there's so much out there, there's so many sports.
1:04:38
SPEAKER_02: Pick one out and mass try to master it.
1:04:40
SPEAKER_02: You know, you get you get too spread out.
1:04:43
SPEAKER_02: So uh, you know, and and and try to pick a a sport that's low liquid, so not NFL, not NBA.
1:04:54
SPEAKER_02: Try to pick tennis or golf or NASCAR, something where you might be able to get an edge on the bookmaker.
1:05:01
SPEAKER_02: That would be my suggestion.
1:05:02
SPEAKER_02: If you're a beginning sports better, coming out of college, you're a 22-year-old kid, and this stuff's uh looks fun and fascinating.
1:05:09
SPEAKER_02: Or are get into live wagering.
1:05:11
SPEAKER_02: I I think the the numbers are could be very soft there.
1:05:15
SPEAKER_02: So if you're a youngster getting out there, study study the crap out of in-play wagering.
1:05:19
SPEAKER_02: I think you'll find some weaknesses there and you might be able to capitalize.
1:05:23
SPEAKER_01: Boomers offers in in play?
1:05:25
SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_01: Love it.
1:05:26
SPEAKER_04: I know you mentioned with uh like with the internet and technology, it's kind of changed the game for uh setting a line, but is there and this might be a dumb question, but is there one sport that's like the hardest to book and another one that's the easiest to book?
1:05:39
SPEAKER_02: A hundred percent.
1:05:40
SPEAKER_02: Well the NFL is probably the easiest to book because there's only thirty two teams uh and you get all the injury information and the masses are involved in it.
1:05:54
SPEAKER_02: So that means there's a lot of recreational money in the pool or square money as we call it, as opposed to Professionals.
1:06:02
SPEAKER_02: Professionals can dominate the college.
1:06:04
SPEAKER_02: Sports pretty good.
1:06:05
SPEAKER_02: Uh but yeah, no, there's no question the NFL is the easiest of the book sports to book.
1:06:11
SPEAKER_02: The hardest sports are the ones I just mentioned, the ones with low liquidity, like NASCAR, it's really hard.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh years.
1:06:18
SPEAKER_02: The NASCAR betters, the Sharp betters have always beaten the bookmaker in NASCAR.
1:06:22
SPEAKER_02: They just have.
1:06:23
SPEAKER_02: They own us.
1:06:24
SPEAKER_02: It's not even close.
1:06:25
SPEAKER_02: And the prop betting, too.
1:06:27
SPEAKER_02: There's no question those are the hard, hardest numbers to make.
1:06:36
SPEAKER_01: Can you talk about in the history of you being involved, the biggest bet that you've taken on?
1:06:41
SPEAKER_01: Do you remember it?
1:06:44
SPEAKER_02: I think I've taken four or five seven figure bets.
1:06:51
SPEAKER_02: I can't remember.
1:06:52
SPEAKER_02: I I think it was I think it was 2.2 million on a Super Bowl to win.
1:06:58
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:07:00
SPEAKER_02: Did they win?
1:07:01
SPEAKER_02: Uh actually, no, the house won that one.
1:07:03
SPEAKER_02: I think the very the very first big bet over seven figures I took was from Carl Icon at Mandalay Bay on the Super Bowl.
1:07:12
SPEAKER_02: He bet a million four on the money line to win three hundred thousand.
1:07:17
SPEAKER_04: Anyway, did that even phase you?
1:07:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh no, that wasn't uh that wasn't not a big deal.
1:07:23
SPEAKER_02: Who's the decision maker of taking that bet at a size like that?
1:07:27
SPEAKER_02: Well, back then I conferred with my uh my immediate boss, but it was like a no-brainer because we were gonna write a ton of business to that Super Bowl anyway, and you know, he he betted four days in advance.
1:07:40
SPEAKER_02: So you had time to get money back on the other side if you wanted to.
1:07:44
SPEAKER_02: Uh but yeah, no, no, those bets are type are really fun.
1:07:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I love that.
1:07:49
SPEAKER_01: Do you sweat when you're when you're watching these games and you've taken a big bet and you you you're not necessarily involved, but your your business that you work with are I would say in different phases of my life I've sweated many a game.
1:08:00
SPEAKER_02: Uh just depends on the situation, how big the decision is, or how the week is gone, or how the day is gone.
1:08:08
SPEAKER_02: You know, sometimes you might be sweating a game for 200,000, you could care less, and another time you're sweating the game for 200,000, and it really means something to you.
1:08:16
SPEAKER_02: So it just depends on the situation.
1:08:18
SPEAKER_01: I tell you what I like about boomers, outside of everything you've already discussed, being player player first and everything.
1:08:23
SPEAKER_01: You have some really good pro like creative promos uh that you guys like you guys have the home run multiplier promo right now going on baseball.
1:08:31
SPEAKER_01: When you're creating these promotions, first of all, are you the one that's creating the promotions?
1:08:36
SPEAKER_01: Uh or is the team effort?
1:08:37
SPEAKER_02: There's a it's a team effort for sure.
1:08:40
SPEAKER_02: Uh we got some young kids uh in the office who got a pretty good creative brains and they do most of the work.
1:08:46
SPEAKER_02: They'll balance ideas off of me and you know I'll I'll I'll give them my two cents, but uh I got enough on my plate as is.
1:08:53
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, we got a team, we got a team who comes up with promotions, and they're trying like heck to make it interesting for the folks out there.
1:08:59
SPEAKER_01: Do you have to balance it between being financially smart and being marketing smart?
1:09:03
SPEAKER_01: 100%.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:09:04
SPEAKER_02: I mean, how much how aggressive can we be before it becomes a disastrous promotion for us?
1:09:10
SPEAKER_02: So you want to give them as much as you possibly can, but you also got to keep the lights on.
1:09:14
SPEAKER_02: So it's a definitely a balancing trick.
1:09:16
SPEAKER_02: Did you have any promotions for football last year before you st before you guys got started?
1:09:20
SPEAKER_02: Uh we had all sorts of uh little promotions for sure.
1:09:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh the the big one was laying the$1.5.
1:09:27
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that was a monster.
1:09:29
SPEAKER_02: But yeah, well, and we're gonna have a bunch this year too.
1:09:32
SPEAKER_02: We'll just we'll just keep coming up with uh whatever's relevant.
1:09:35
SPEAKER_02: So the World Cup's up next, so we're gonna you know, figure out if how we're gonna boost uh America to advance or Mexico to advance.
1:09:42
SPEAKER_02: Those will be the two biggest bet uh teams in the World Cup in in this town.
1:09:46
SPEAKER_01: How much do you know about soccer?
1:09:48
SPEAKER_01: Futebol.
1:09:49
SPEAKER_02: You know, I was never a big fan, uh, but it's grown on me, and I really do enjoy the World Cup every four years.
1:09:56
SPEAKER_02: I I like it when the guys play for their country.
1:09:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:09:58
SPEAKER_02: You know, they'll run through a plate glass window for to playing for their country.
1:10:02
SPEAKER_01: So it is fun to watch.
1:10:03
SPEAKER_02: It really is.
1:10:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh and I love it that it's in North American time.
1:10:09
SPEAKER_02: Usually it's you know in Asia or Europe and it's eight hours off.
1:10:12
SPEAKER_02: And that the time difference really kills action because people want to see it live and watch it on TV.
1:10:18
SPEAKER_02: So these days when there's no day baseball games, like on Monday, Tuesdays, and Fridays, when there's a World Cup, it's gonna be great to fill the day for sure.
1:10:26
SPEAKER_01: Uh before Julie asks the next question, I have a question for a random question.
1:10:30
SPEAKER_01: The day after the MLB All-Star game, there are no sports on for the mate for the big four, right?
1:10:36
SPEAKER_02: That's correct.
1:10:36
SPEAKER_01: Is that your is that like the slowest day for you of the year every year?
1:10:40
SPEAKER_01: Pretty much, yeah.
1:10:41
SPEAKER_01: That's so intriguing.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_01: I I don't know.
1:10:42
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess I understand why, just that's just the way it works with the schedule and everything like that.
1:10:46
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but it's pretty it's pretty interesting to know.
1:10:48
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, continue, Julie.
1:10:49
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
1:10:49
SPEAKER_04: Well, I was just back on the promotions.
1:10:51
SPEAKER_04: I know you said that the team creates them and then they'll bounce ideas off of you.
1:10:56
SPEAKER_04: But who who is the ultimate decision maker when it comes to yes, we're going to promote that.
1:11:01
SPEAKER_02: I think at the end of the day, Joe Asher has the final say.
1:11:04
SPEAKER_02: Uh well we'll run we'll run the promos by him and he'll say, Hey, that's a good one.
1:11:08
SPEAKER_02: No, that's that's no good.
1:11:09
SPEAKER_02: And he's got a pretty good feel for those stuff.
1:11:12
SPEAKER_04: That makes sense to me.
1:11:13
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
1:11:15
SPEAKER_01: Uh so just I just want to get your thoughts on some local teams before we wrap up, if you don't mind.
1:11:19
SPEAKER_01: What are your thoughts you've already talked about the Raiders?
1:11:21
SPEAKER_01: You're looking forward to seeing where the Raiders go.
1:11:23
SPEAKER_01: Uh Golden Knights are obviously going on right now, hopefully.
1:11:26
SPEAKER_01: Winning, losing?
1:11:27
SPEAKER_01: You don't know yet.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_01: We'll see.
1:11:28
SPEAKER_01: Potentially.
1:11:30
SPEAKER_01: No good, no good.
1:11:31
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
1:11:31
SPEAKER_01: Well, either way.
1:11:32
SPEAKER_01: Um ACEs, how'd the Aces do for you guys?
1:11:35
SPEAKER_02: The ACEs, uh, you know, well, ever since Caitlin Clark came in the league, the WNBA handle's gone way up.
1:11:41
SPEAKER_02: Oh, sure.
1:11:42
SPEAKER_02: It's been on more games are on TV, they're getting more publicity, you know, the players more.
1:11:47
SPEAKER_02: So the handle's gone up.
1:11:49
SPEAKER_02: So yeah, the WNBA handle is definitely on the rise.
1:11:52
SPEAKER_02: We're booking WNBA props now, which you know we would have never seen in a billion years.
1:11:57
SPEAKER_02: Never.
1:11:58
SPEAKER_02: So uh yeah, like it it's the it's the way sports betting is.
1:12:03
SPEAKER_02: Every single sport is on the uptick.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
1:12:05
SPEAKER_01: Uh athletics coming into town.
1:12:07
SPEAKER_01: You're excited to get it.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_01: Love it.
1:12:08
SPEAKER_02: I'm a big baseball guy.
1:12:10
SPEAKER_02: Always have been.
1:12:11
SPEAKER_02: Uh, I think they'll be great for this town.
1:12:14
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know, you know all the all the other team, Pittsburgh and Chicago, all the Bears fans and Steelers fans come.
1:12:20
SPEAKER_02: Well, don't worry, all the Yankees and Dodger fans are coming.
1:12:24
SPEAKER_02: Uh it's gonna be cool to have a uh a baseball place right out on the strip.
1:12:29
SPEAKER_02: So I I can't wait for the A's to come in.
1:12:31
SPEAKER_02: The timing looks great.
1:12:32
SPEAKER_02: They got incredible young talent.
1:12:34
SPEAKER_02: If they can just develop a few arms, I I think we could.
1:12:37
SPEAKER_02: I don't want to say we're gonna walk into a golden night situation where the Stanley Cup for the first year.
1:12:42
SPEAKER_02: I got spoiled.
1:12:43
SPEAKER_02: Can we get the A's in the World Series in the first year?
1:12:45
SPEAKER_02: That would be uh that would be incredible.
1:12:48
SPEAKER_02: Do you think they're gonna be called the athletics when they get here?
1:12:50
SPEAKER_02: I would hope so.
1:12:51
SPEAKER_01: Do you have any insider info on that?
1:12:53
SPEAKER_02: I don't.
1:12:54
SPEAKER_02: What do you know, Nick?
1:12:55
SPEAKER_02: I wish I did.
1:12:56
SPEAKER_02: Uh I hope I hope so.
1:12:58
SPEAKER_02: I mean, the athletics.
1:12:59
SPEAKER_02: I was watching the A's in 72.
1:13:01
SPEAKER_02: They won three World Series in a row.
1:13:03
SPEAKER_02: 72, 73, 74, Reggie Jackson and Bert Campanaris.
1:13:08
SPEAKER_02: They got a huge, a phenomenal, phenomenal history.
1:13:11
SPEAKER_02: So I I I hope they they keep it.
1:13:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:13:14
SPEAKER_04: I feel like I've got a weird one.
1:13:16
SPEAKER_04: So we've got uh, you know, the professional women's hockey coming to town.
1:13:19
SPEAKER_04: Are you all gonna take bets on that?
1:13:21
SPEAKER_02: We'll have to if they're here.
1:13:22
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
1:13:23
SPEAKER_02: Uh, you know, uh we there's what is there, professional lacrosse here and minor league hockey.
1:13:29
SPEAKER_02: I mean, we booked the minor league hockey, we mooked the minor league baseball.
1:13:33
SPEAKER_02: So I mean there's yeah, we'll have to do it.
1:13:36
SPEAKER_02: That's such a that's so intriguing.
1:13:38
SPEAKER_01: So you've you've seen what the past X amount of years have been in the sports betting world.
1:13:44
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, technology is is the big one right now.
1:13:48
SPEAKER_01: What do you think is the next monumental or monumental moment for sports betting in the near future?
1:13:55
SPEAKER_01: Like, do you see any milestone coming up that you think's gonna the direction's gonna go?
1:13:59
SPEAKER_02: That would be a good Joe Asher question.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_01: I can't wait.
1:14:01
SPEAKER_02: Julie, I hope you write these down so I don't forget to ask Joe these.
1:14:04
SPEAKER_04: They're on film.
1:14:05
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he just make it sure.
1:14:07
SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm like, yeah, the A's are gonna be$1.40 tomorrow.
1:14:14
SPEAKER_02: I'm worried about whether Brunson's gonna get 26 points tomorrow.
1:14:17
SPEAKER_01: Nick, what's the meaning of life?
1:14:18
SPEAKER_01: That's what I want to know for Joe.
1:14:20
SPEAKER_01: Um, no, Nick, Nick, this is awesome.
1:14:22
SPEAKER_01: We are so excited to not only be our newest uh sports betting with b with boomers, we also have a promo now.
1:14:31
SPEAKER_04: We do.
1:14:32
SPEAKER_01: We do.
1:14:32
SPEAKER_01: You want to read it off, Julie?
1:14:33
SPEAKER_04: Yes, I do want to read it.
1:14:35
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1:14:37
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1:14:55
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1:15:03
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1:15:06
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1:15:07
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1:15:10
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1:15:11
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1:15:12
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1:15:14
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1:15:16
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1:15:18
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's what it's all about.
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1:15:26
SPEAKER_01: Listen, I love money.
1:15:28
SPEAKER_01: You've seen the shirt.
1:15:29
SPEAKER_01: First thing Nick said to me when he saw me outside, he goes, I love money.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:15:32
SPEAKER_03: That's right.
1:15:33
SPEAKER_01: Uh well, Nick, this was awesome.
1:15:34
SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for coming in, sharing more info about boomers, sharing more info about your history.
1:15:38
SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm really, really excited to see the future of Boomers Sportsbook because you guys are, like you said, the independent sportsbook.
1:15:46
SPEAKER_01: And I I love the fact that you're getting into an industry that's very competitive.
1:15:50
SPEAKER_01: Um, and you're 10 months in and you're already, you guys are crushing it right now.
1:15:54
SPEAKER_01: And I I'm so excited to see what's next for the first year, second year, third year, and more excited.
1:16:00
SPEAKER_01: I'm excited for to bet on football in the next few months, too.
1:16:03
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, it's uh give boomers a chance.
1:16:05
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1:16:06
SPEAKER_01: Excellent.
1:16:07
SPEAKER_01: Well, Nick, this one's awesome.
1:16:09
SPEAKER_01: Brian, I didn't I didn't even ask you any questions on this episode.
1:16:12
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
1:16:12
SPEAKER_01: Do you have any last questions for Nick before we get out?
1:16:14
SPEAKER_01: I just need to learn more about sports betting.
1:16:16
SPEAKER_04: Me too.
1:16:17
SPEAKER_01: Brian needs to learn more about sports in general.
1:16:19
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1:16:21
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1:16:22
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1:16:24
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1:16:28
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1:16:29
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1:16:30
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1:16:30
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1:16:31
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
1:16:31
SPEAKER_01: Alright, we'll see you next week.
1:16:35
SPEAKER_01: Nicely done.
1:16:36
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, sir.
1:16:37
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