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Massive Jackpots, Casino Deals, And Industry Updates · Desert Degens Podcast

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  This is the big one. This is a lot. I
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  told you this, Mike. It happens like
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  almost every month. It's really It's
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  really
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  >> here every morning at 8:00 a.m. and
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  you're here before me. And the day that
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  I show up here and you're not here, I'll
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  know you hit the mega bar. Flamingo
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  napping.
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  >> This next story.
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  >> Yeah. This one I
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  >> I'd like to I'd like to say something
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  about this.
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  >> Opening the Resorts World Poker Room.
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  They actually went around and and stole
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  a lot of the really good dealers around
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  town.
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  >> Keep on talking about this. Like it
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  seems like Vegas is caring less and less
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  about the everyday person like us.
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  >> In the category of I hope this is us one
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  day. Our lead story is that someone just
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  smashed the $12.3 million
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  >> meabucks. What?
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  >> Yeah. No, this is the big one. This is
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  >> a lot. I told you this, Mike. It happens
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  like almost every month. It's really
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  It's really ridiculous.
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  >> Not this one. This is the big one. This
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  is the really big one. system went
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  progressive.
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  >> It's crazy. And what's really
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  interesting is they're not releasing any
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  more data about it yet.
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  >> Well, they just haven't said like who it
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  is or where it happened. Exactly.
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  Usually
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  >> want to.
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  >> Well, but you think the casino would
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  want everybody to know and Oh, yeah.
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  >> So, I'm thinking maybe next week or the
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  week after. At some point, we're going
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  to know,
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  >> right?
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  >> But fun story to lead off with.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> We don't ever play Mega Bucks, so I
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  guess it probably won't be us.
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  >> I do. Do you?
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  >> But not on camera. Oh, okay.
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  >> And I only put $21. Seven spins. Okay.
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  >> If you're going to hit it, you're going
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  to hit it.
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  I don't ever put more than that.
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  Seriously, 21 bucks. It's three. Well,
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  the ones that I play are $3. And now I
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  think they actually have some that are
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  $5.
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  >> I come here every morning at 8:00 a.m.
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  and you're here before me. And the day
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  that I show up here and you're not here,
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  I'll know you hit the mega bucks.
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  >> Oh, no. You'll know before you get here.
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  >> Okay. So, I'll get a photo.
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  >> I might not even get in the car. I might
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  run to your house faster.
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  >> All right. Well, I Please don't run and
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  like and then die on the way over there
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  cuz you don't run anymore. So, like
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  don't do that.
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  >> I don't run. Um, you know, 25 years ago
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  when David Copperffield started here.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> You were still running back then.
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  >> I did.
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  >> So that was that was a while ago. That
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  guy's been here forever.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> It's uh he he started his residency like
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  and it's just crazy that it's been over
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  25 years. But
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  >> it was like the turn of the century.
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  >> Yeah. I saw him live.
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  >> My wife got caught up on stage.
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  >> Yeah. I saw him live with a group of
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  people at Tahoe
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  >> at Lake Tahoe. He took two of the people
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  I was with wedding rings and joined them
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  together.
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  >> You your friends were in the show, too.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Amazing. That's crazy.
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  >> And they were And I know that it was
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  their rings. I I They were my friends.
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  Okay.
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  >> And they have no idea how it happened.
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  >> It's been so long since this happened
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  that I don't remember exactly what the
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  circumstances were. There were no
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  iPhones yet, so there's no pictures of
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  any of this. Right.
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  >> Uh I believe that we got a a cassette
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  tape
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  >> as like a
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  >> like a little
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  >> memory of
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  >> memory of the thing.
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  >> I believe that.
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  >> But I don't remember. I just remember
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  her like kind of getting caught up on
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  stage and the rest of it's kind of
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  blank. And then I remember getting and
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  who knows what that tape is.
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  >> You don't even remember what he did or
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  like did he
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  >> not really what the trick was or Okay.
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  >> No, she doesn't. I've asked her a couple
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  years ago and she couldn't remember.
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  >> Remember? Wow.
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  >> It's been a while. You would think that
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  if you were caught up on stage, you
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  remember that, but
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  >> yeah, I remember when I got called up at
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  SeaWorld and uh and the dog a little a
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  dog came up and started licking my face.
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  I remember that. I got to pet pet a
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  dolphin also.
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  >> I got called up on stage for tape face.
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  >> Tape Face. Okay. Okay.
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  >> And it's a lot newer than
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  >> Funny cuz we we went with our friends
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  Phil and Robin, right?
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  >> And Phil gets called up on stage. I'm
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  like,
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  >> "Oh, good." Yeah. Laughing. Yeah. Phil
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  got called
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  >> in the show like this is towards the
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  beginning of the show
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  >> and throughout the show he's picking
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  more and more people and the very last
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  thing was he comes over and grabs me
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  Phil's like
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  >> exactly exactly that's
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  >> whatever anyway 25 years coming to an
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  end uh the word on the street is that
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  there's uh
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  >> he did some things that they're not
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  thrilled with. I'll just leave it at
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  that.
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  >> Okay.
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  >> Uh and and they're just they feel like
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  they should part ways. So I don't think
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  this was necessarily mutual. He kind of
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  makes it out to be that he's got this
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  next thing coming. It's going to be
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  bigger and better than anything he's
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  always say. Okay. So,
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  >> yeah.
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  >> Uh
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  >> well, I'd like to see what that is.
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  >> You know, I don't know for sure exactly
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  what happened.
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  >> Uh but in my research and there was
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  multiple sources saying that there were
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  some allegations and stuff and they were
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  just kind of like it's best for us to
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  just go part ways and it's end of his
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  contract. So, they didn't like
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  >> you just stop it immediately kind of
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  thing.
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  >> He was done anyway. This is a good time.
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  >> Contract's over. April 30th, 26, 2026.
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  Last chance to go see him over there at
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  MGM Grand. So, David Copperfield. Yeah.
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  Uh, Caesar's Entertainment. This is
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  crazy. Didn't have this on my bingo
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  card.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Uh, last year or this year, but come and
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  it kind of makes sense. We've been
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  talking about how much Caesars have been
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  struggling. Stock prices has been
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  tumbling. I didn't realize like how
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  badly
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  >> until the first story that we did and it
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  was like you go back five years and it's
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  just like, oh my lord. I went back I
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  went I only went back a year I think on
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  that you know the charts that they have
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  if you pull up anything crypto or
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  anything stocks and I went back like a
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  year and it was like $123
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  >> dollar per share
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  yeah that's a massive
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  >> crazy and then you know my my wife we
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  were talking about this she's like the
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  offer is only 7 billion obviously 7
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  billion is a lot of money but you think
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  about
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  >> they just buy it for 17 billion
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  >> I'm not so sure about that I didn't do
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  that research I was just thinking more
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  along the lines You think about like a
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  fountain blue like one building they for
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  two billion but you know just for one
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  thing and Caesar has half the freaking
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  strip let's say 25% of the strip
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  >> the Elderorado was the the the Chronos
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  were the ones that bought it and I think
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  it was 17 billion and that was 5 years
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  ago or four years ago
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  >> almost a third of of what they paid.
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  >> Wow. Um, and then Caesars not only has a
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  quarter or, you know, a third of the
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  strip here, whatever it works out to be
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  because it's it's not just Caesars, but
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  you got Flamingo and the Horseshoe and
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  >> Paris Harris, all these things and they
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  own a bunch of other stuff around the
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  country.
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  >> Um,
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  >> it doesn't seem like a lot of money.
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  >> So, I mean, like they're really really
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  struggling. We'll see if this ends up
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  happening. They, you know, they also in
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  the link and the the prominade and all
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  this other stuff. I mean, it is
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  >> kind of nuts. We'll see what happens. I
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  mean, maybe they come in. You know,
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  Caesars is kind of hated in this town
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  now by by locals and visitors because of
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  things that they were doing to to
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  customers in terms of a lot of
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  customers.
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  >> They just, you know, they they over
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  gouge like if they we're going to pay
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  $17 million and we're just our business
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  model, this is a typical thing in and PE
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  >> uh you buy and then we're going to raise
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  all the prices and that's going to be
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  instead of a seven-year payback, we're
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  going to get a four-year payback but
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  just charging more. Right.
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  >> A t very typical. We had a company that
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  got bought uh one time and that was the
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  first thing they did. They just raised
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  all the prices.
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  >> Yeah. I went back and looked and it just
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  uh
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  >> and they just get crushed.
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  >> Get away with it for a little bit and
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  then people are just like whatever.
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  >> Why?
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  >> So, we'll keep an eye on that. That's
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  obviously
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  >> a pretty major story.
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  >> It's a huge story. We love going to
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  Caesars for some of the things that they
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  have, but being gouged is no fun. No one
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  likes to be gouged.
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  >> Well, it's major to me because it just
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  it isn't like a casino someplace.
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  >> Yeah. And they've got some really good
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  restaurants and they've got good shows.
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  I don't know.
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  It gives you a sour taste.
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  >> If they if they do trade hands, it will
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  be a master story. It could change the
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  shape of Las Vegas forever. Hopefully in
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  a good way. Who knows which way it would
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  go.
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  >> Petito would do. What do you think for
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  Do you think he would go with the
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  business line that they have here at
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  stations like his brothers?
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  >> I don't know
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  >> cuz I don't know if that would be the
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  right decision on the strip, but who
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  knows?
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  >> I don't know. It's hard to say. I don't
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  want to speculate on that.
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  >> Yeah. I mean, I think that, you know,
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  the goal would be just kind of like when
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  the Rio gets acquired, like, you know,
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  that that person, whoever it is, that
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  group is going to have their plan,
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  they're going to they're going to go
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  through, is it going to be a remodel? Is
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  it going to be
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Uh, you know, new new restaurants come
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  in, new things that they have
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  partnerships with. Is it going to be
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  we're going to bring Old Vegas back and
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  try to get
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  >> Who who knows which way. worked for the
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  Coranos back in the day and that's what
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  they were all about was constantly
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  reinvesting in your building and making
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  it better and better and better and it
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  seems like they went away from that when
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  they bought Caesars. Who knows what the
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  Patitas would do but hopefully moving
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  forward it gets better cuz it's
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  struggling and it's it's just it's bad.
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  >> Speaking about Caesar's property,
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  >> but wait,
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  >> there was a flamingo napping.
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  >> This next story.
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  >> Yeah, this one I
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  >> I'd like to I'd like to say something
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  about this guy. Okay.
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  >> Um, he's, you know, this is how you
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  become a star.
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  >> He did get arrested. Yes, he did get
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  arrested. This guy's an idiot.
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  >> You steal one of the flamingos that they
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  have live birds.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> he was choking it
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  >> on camera. I don't know about that part.
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  >> Yeah, this guy's just an idiot. I have
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  no problem calling this guy out. Um, he
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  was arrested.
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  Uh, alleged flamingo incident, which we
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  have on film. It's everywhere.
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  >> Yeah. Yeah. Um, I hope he gets in a lot
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  of trouble. I really
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  >> He's got four felony counts.
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  >> I hope he gets in Well, who knows? I
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  mean, I hope that someone chokes him,
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  but without me saying that,
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  >> then they would get in trouble.
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  >> Without me saying, maybe they'll keep it
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  quiet.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> Maybe they won't uh do it on film. I
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  don't know. I just I there's no there's
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  no place in society for people that do
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  things.
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  >> Don't say it. Don't say it, Ryan.
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  >> Things like that.
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  >> We don't say that on the
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  >> I know. That's why I said [ __ ]
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  >> 6:15 in the morning on March 3rd, 2026.
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  I love to know. Was this guy like out
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  all night drunk? He's like his buddies
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  are like, "Hop the fence, man. Grab the
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  flamingo. Do it, man. Come on."
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  >> 100%.
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  >> You know, one of those types of things.
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  Luckily, there there was this one time
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  where we're in a parking lot. I was
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  really drunk and Ryan's like, "I bet you
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  won't jump on the back of that guy's
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  truck.
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  >> I have a picture of that. We can throw
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  that up on the
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  >> Oh, we can throw that up on the throw it
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  there." Yeah. So, there's like this guy
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  had like What is that? Like a horse a
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  bouncing horse? Yeah. Like for kids.
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  He's like, "I bet you won't jump up
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  there." And did he even just stop up
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  there? Did he even ask him how much he
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  was betting
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  >> some random guy's truck?
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  >> Yeah. So, luckily Ryan was never like,
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  "I bet you won't go choke out a
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  flamingo."
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  >> No, no, no. That would not happen.
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  >> I'm not going to try and get you to do
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  >> I've stopped drinking.
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  >> This is This is why
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  >> I don't want you to do any felonies
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  there.
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  >> Uh I love this promo.
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  >> Yes. Yes.
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  >> I love this guy. Derek Stevens, man.
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  >> He is awesome.
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  >> He's been nice to us.
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  >> We've stayed down here at his place,
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  Circa. This guy's awesome, man.
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  >> It's It's hard to imagine the CEO of any
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  other casino group here ever spending
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  the type of time that he
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  >> taking time just to talk to you.
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  >> I mean, just really, really impressed.
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  >> Yeah. Walk up to him at any time. You
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  ever see him, he'll shake your hand,
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  he'll give you a few seconds or minutes
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  of his time.
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  >> I can't say enough nice things about
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  this guy. Now, I don't know that the CEO
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  of Caesars or MGM or Station wouldn't do
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  that.
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  full disclos
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  that were there was you know like NG and
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  uh Cowboy and Judo who they were we were
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  there with support and and know at the
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  time we were like 10,000 subscribers and
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  he didn't ask he didn't care about any
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  of that he just shook our hands like do
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  you mind if we do a quick interview with
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  you no problem
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  >> asked questions and he was there for us
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  >> and then he does a promo like this which
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  I think is really smart because there's
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  tension between the US and Canada and
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  and traveling right now.
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  >> Uh you know it just
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  >> not we don't want to be into politics
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  stuff guys. I'm just trying to state
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  some facts.
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> You know it is more difficult for people
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  to come visit the United States right
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  now. The the conversion rate between the
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  dollar and the Canadian dollar is is not
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  very good right now for Canadians. And
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  this fluctuates back and forth. I mean
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  there's been times where I've gone to
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  Canada cuz I I spent quite a bit of time
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  in Canada where you my dollar got me
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  like a buck 40 in Canadian. And there's
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  been times where I've gone up there
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  where it was like almost exactly even.
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  There was one trip where it was almost
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  exactly par, right?
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  >> And so this obviously is is cyclical and
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  goes back and forth. But right now as a
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  Canadian, you come here with a Canadian
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  dollar, you're going to get I think it's
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  in the range of like 40 or 60 cents. I
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  mean 60ents.
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  >> So that's a big haircut that my friends
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  in Canada that like want to come have
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  traditionally come to visit over the
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  last few years, they're like even
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  staying with you for free. It's like
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  it's still I still got to go out and do
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  stuff. And um so they're doing an appar
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  thing where they every dollar that you
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  bring their Canadian they will match it
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  to be a US dollar. That's pretty cool.
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  >> And this extends to the circa the D and
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  the Golden Gate all the properties that
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  he owns. And it extends a bunch of
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  across a bunch of things. The room rate
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  and uh drinks and shows and food and
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  gambling.
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  >> I don't know. Really really smart. I
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  mean now it also just goes to show you
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  how big of a house edge the casinos
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  have.
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  >> Yeah. It's like, oh, we'll just take a
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  40%
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  >> loss off your gambling.
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  >> So, I think that that's actually
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  beatable. I think that if you're a smart
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  Canadian,
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  >> you come down and you gamble smartly,
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  you can probably come out ahead on that
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  >> and go back with the same amount of
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  money you came back.
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  >> But the problem is, and and we all know
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  this. I've been a tourist in Vegas
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  before.
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  >> Time is your biggest enemy. Even if you
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  have a win, even if you like are able to
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  arbitrage the difference in the the the
• 12:45
  dollar to the Canadian dollar,
• 12:47
  >> Yeah. You're now at the circa. It's a
• 12:50
  great property. The casino's right
• 12:51
  downstairs. We spent uh 72 hours or
• 12:54
  whatever it was
• 12:55
  >> at the circa this summer. We did. We
• 12:57
  went to They had a great promo and even
• 12:59
  I fell victim to that.
• 13:00
  >> I think I lost $500.
• 13:01
  >> I lost more than that.
• 13:04
  >> I had to go to the ATM.
• 13:06
  >> It happens. It happens.
• 13:07
  >> Yeah. Anyway, it's a great It's a great
• 13:10
  go check them out. It's uh it's been
• 13:11
  really successful.
• 13:13
  >> Uh 15,000 plus Canadians have come down
• 13:15
  and done that. Seems pretty good to me.
• 13:17
  strong.
• 13:17
  >> If you're up in Canada,
• 13:18
  >> over 2,700 rings booked. That's strong.
• 13:21
  >> Yeah. And then on top of it, if you're a
• 13:22
  Canadian, you come down there, you can
• 13:24
  meet us.
• 13:25
  >> Yeah.
• 13:25
  >> Just email meet us at desertens.com.
• 13:28
  >> Uh big another big jackpot, an hour top
• 13:30
  dollar.
• 13:31
  >> Yeah.
• 13:31
  >> Uh that's pretty cool. That was on March
• 13:33
  5th, 2026.
• 13:35
  >> The golden nugget.
• 13:36
  >> Yeah,
• 13:36
  >> we played there, but not on camera.
• 13:38
  >> No. Well, I think that uh they won't let
• 13:40
  us film.
• 13:41
  >> Well, the lady didn't know.
• 13:42
  >> That was pretty funny.
• 13:43
  >> She didn't think you're allowed to film
• 13:44
  anywhere.
• 13:45
  >> No. Nothing against the golden nugget,
• 13:46
  right?
• 13:46
  >> Uh we we so we one day we like we walked
• 13:49
  all of free Fremont Street. Yeah. We
• 13:51
  started down at Elcortez and we ended at
• 13:52
  the plaza
• 13:53
  >> and we walked into literally every
• 13:55
  single casino to ask their policy,
• 13:57
  right?
• 13:57
  >> And then I took like really good notes
• 13:59
  just so I could know in the future where
• 14:01
  we can go and where we can't go cuz we
• 14:03
  figured, oh, we're going to do like a
• 14:04
  free Mont Straw crawl, free street crawl
• 14:06
  one day or some other thing cuz it it's
• 14:08
  easy to hit a bunch of casinos at once.
• 14:10
  And we walk into Golden Nugget and
• 14:12
  they're like, lady's like, you can't
• 14:13
  film anywhere in this town. Yeah,
• 14:15
  >> you can't take any pictures. Any I'm
• 14:16
  like like we
• 14:17
  >> What are you talking about? Just film.
• 14:18
  >> Look at my phone. This is us in a casino
• 14:20
  game.
• 14:20
  >> Oh, no. That's illegal. You can't do
• 14:22
  that.
• 14:22
  >> You should never do that again.
• 14:23
  >> Pretty funny. So,
• 14:24
  >> she just didn't know.
• 14:25
  >> She didn't know. But anyway, Golden
• 14:26
  Nugget. Uh, great. I actually I really
• 14:28
  like it's one of the nicer places down
• 14:29
  there. I think before Circa opened up, I
• 14:31
  thought that was the best one. They did
• 14:33
  that really nice remodel. Slide through
• 14:35
  a pool. You can build a water slide
• 14:37
  right pool is really cool.
• 14:39
  >> Yeah.
• 14:39
  >> Um, not too much more on this. I just
• 14:41
  again one day maybe we'll hit a $400,000
• 14:43
  jackpot. like that.
• 14:45
  >> I just want to hit the $12,000 grab,
• 14:46
  >> right? Just once.
• 14:47
  >> My lord.
• 14:49
  >> Lot of res uh resorts world news right
• 14:50
  now.
• 14:51
  >> Lot.
• 14:51
  >> We'll start with the the fun stuff. It
• 14:53
  is right now as this comes out right in
• 14:55
  the middle of March Madness or the
• 14:57
  beginning of it. March Madness,
• 14:59
  >> everything in town changes. I thought
• 15:01
  that this was an interesting story. Uh
• 15:03
  they're converting their theater like
• 15:05
  where we saw theater gone like where
• 15:07
  we've seen
• 15:08
  >> the four busiest days in Vegas each
• 15:10
  year.
• 15:11
  >> What was it? Carrie Underwood. We've
• 15:12
  seen we've seen other things in there. I
• 15:13
  mean, there's a giant giant theater
• 15:15
  holds thousands of people.
• 15:17
  >> Uh it's like get in here and come watch
• 15:20
  minimum, I think.
• 15:21
  >> Starting. Yeah. Starting everything.
• 15:24
  Okay.
• 15:24
  >> Right. You want to be closer and
• 15:25
  actually see the game.
• 15:26
  >> Sure. Well, they're going to have big
• 15:27
  screens there.
• 15:28
  >> It's $200 for the ticket and it's
• 15:29
  probably $40 for the binocular rental.
• 15:31
  >> There you go.
• 15:32
  >> So, you know, cuz if you're at the back
• 15:34
  Yeah.
• 15:35
  >> Um, makes sense.
• 15:36
  >> One thing you won't be doing much more
• 15:37
  at resorts while it's playing poker.
• 15:39
  >> That's closing. I know a month. Crazy. I
• 15:42
  didn't see that coming either.
• 15:43
  >> When they opened the Resorts World poker
• 15:45
  room, they actually went around and and
• 15:49
  stole a lot of the really good dealers
• 15:52
  around town and promised them how great
• 15:53
  it was going to be.
• 15:54
  >> Yeah.
• 15:55
  >> It's called poaching.
• 15:56
  >> Poaching. Yeah.
• 15:57
  >> Um and they got a lot of good dealers
• 15:59
  and floor people and they knew within
• 16:02
  about the first two months cuz I'm in
• 16:03
  the poker industry that it was a bad
• 16:06
  move, especially the ones that left the
• 16:08
  win. The wind dominates in this city.
• 16:10
  >> We have a funny story from the first day
• 16:12
  that they that it opened. We went to
• 16:13
  play poker there and they use RFID and
• 16:15
  all the chips there, which is like a
• 16:16
  little computerized chip inside all the
• 16:18
  poker chips, all the casino chips.
• 16:20
  >> Uh, you know, like the $1, the $5, the
• 16:22
  $25, the chips that you're used to
• 16:24
  playing blackjack, etc. with same ones
• 16:26
  that you play poker with. And so we want
• 16:27
  to cash out.
• 16:29
  >> I can count. Yeah, that's just one of my
• 16:31
  gifts. I'm able to count.
• 16:32
  >> Yeah, he's he's got a gift.
• 16:33
  >> I could probably count up to
• 16:35
  >> 1,7.
• 16:37
  Luckily, I didn't win that much.
• 16:38
  >> You only had 620,
• 16:40
  >> whatever it was. I forgot the number now
• 16:41
  around that.
• 16:41
  >> Anyway, the lady is like trying to
• 16:42
  convince me that I was several hundred
• 16:44
  left.
• 16:44
  >> Yeah, like 400.
• 16:45
  >> I'm like,
• 16:46
  >> but it says it that the chips are red on
• 16:48
  this little panel they have on the
• 16:50
  counter,
• 16:50
  >> but if the chip is just a little outside
• 16:52
  of that, it won't register.
• 16:54
  >> So, I'm like moving around. You have to
• 16:55
  figure out. She's like the
• 16:56
  >> She goes, I'm telling you, the screen
• 16:58
  says it's 400.
• 16:58
  >> It was really funny. So, I had to get
• 16:59
  the manager over there and they're like,
• 17:01
  well, we can't pay you out more than
• 17:02
  this. And they're like both now arguing.
• 17:04
  No, no, recount it.
• 17:05
  >> It says cashier here. You guys should
• 17:07
  know how to count.
• 17:07
  >> They're like, "We can't we're not
• 17:08
  authorized to give you anything more
• 17:09
  than what the thing says."
• 17:10
  >> It was crazy. It was crazy. Well, it was
• 17:12
  their first day. They were They were
• 17:13
  just learning.
• 17:14
  >> Yeah. They were also learning how to run
• 17:15
  the food court.
• 17:16
  >> That I feel like I sound like Vegas
• 17:18
  policy right now. I got You do sound
• 17:19
  bad.
• 17:19
  >> Yeah. He He doesn't like it over there
• 17:21
  either. We're going to move on. It's a
• 17:22
  beautiful casino. We've We've had a lot
• 17:24
  of good times there. They don't let us
• 17:26
  record there anymore either. So, I still
• 17:27
  >> Anyone?
• 17:28
  >> Yeah. Yeah. It's not just us.
• 17:29
  >> They made We didn't make any mistakes.
• 17:31
  Someone else made a mistake for
• 17:32
  everyone.
• 17:32
  >> My My actual hope is that they go back
• 17:35
  to letting us record. let us come there
• 17:36
  more. I I like the property. It's
• 17:38
  bright. They have good food.
• 17:40
  >> My hope for them is that they lower the
• 17:42
  prices a little bit, get it, you know,
• 17:43
  just again there's a lot of gouging kind
• 17:44
  of stuff that happens, let us record.
• 17:47
  >> Nice hotel. We've stayed there. I I back
• 17:49
  in my old days, I spoke at a convention
• 17:51
  there
• 17:51
  >> and they gave me a free room. So, we my
• 17:53
  wife and I went down there. Beautiful
• 17:55
  room. Went down there, did my talk.
• 17:56
  Yeah.
• 17:56
  >> Then I had to go to the
• 17:58
  >> food. Great food.
• 17:59
  >> Really good food.
• 18:00
  >> Uh
• 18:00
  >> this is a weird one here.
• 18:02
  >> The construction house.
• 18:03
  >> Construction. Yes.
• 18:04
  >> Well, I think it's a prelude. We keep on
• 18:05
  talking about less visitors.
• 18:07
  >> Yeah.
• 18:08
  >> Gambling revenue.
• 18:09
  >> People moving
• 18:11
  >> here, which is weird cuz everyone's
• 18:12
  bailing out of California.
• 18:14
  >> Yeah. But they're I mean,
• 18:15
  >> but they're skipping right over going to
• 18:16
  Texas or going to Colorado Utah or
• 18:18
  Colorado. Yeah.
• 18:20
  >> Yeah.
• 18:21
  >> You start to see additional foundational
• 18:23
  cracks. No pun intended. Like we're
• 18:26
  saving that one up all day, right? That
• 18:27
  was pretty fun. Thank you. Um
• 18:29
  >> that you see more and more things
• 18:31
  happening here that just kind of point
• 18:32
  to some uh oh problems again. You got
• 18:35
  visitation down, the the airport numbers
• 18:37
  coming down. You got gambling revenue is
• 18:39
  down. You have construction now down.
• 18:42
  This is the largest construction decline
• 18:45
  in the country. There's 330 360 metro
• 18:48
  markets that they analyze. So it's like
• 18:50
  the top that's like probably 90
• 18:52
  something% of the population of that
• 18:54
  country, the top 360 metros,
• 18:55
  >> right?
• 18:56
  >> Um
• 18:58
  >> they lo they lost 8,600 construction
• 18:59
  jobs.
• 19:00
  >> Insane. This is on par with what's been
• 19:02
  happening in New York City, right?
• 19:04
  >> New York City has lost a lot of
• 19:04
  construction jobs. It's having a an
• 19:06
  exodus as well.
• 19:07
  >> It's very interesting to me because
• 19:09
  Vegas and Nevada has been the the number
• 19:12
  one in influx state for all these years
• 19:15
  >> or number two or three. It was always
• 19:17
  like up there. When we first moved here,
• 19:18
  it was number one.
• 19:19
  >> I think the Phoenix area
• 19:21
  >> like Idaho was really up there. Texas is
• 19:23
  way up there right now.
• 19:24
  >> Well, Nevada's like starting to lose
• 19:26
  that edge. And I don't know that there,
• 19:28
  you know, I think in some cases, you
• 19:30
  know, again, not I don't want to be in
• 19:32
  political territory, but a lot of cases
• 19:35
  people are leaving these other states
• 19:37
  because they don't like the way they're
• 19:39
  being treated, right? They're they're
• 19:40
  leaving because of high taxes, high cost
• 19:41
  of living, whatever it might be, their
• 19:43
  their political beliefs. And Nevada's
• 19:46
  been a very purple state, so it's like
• 19:47
  it's appealed to a lot of places. It's a
• 19:49
  tax-free state. It's it's got a lot
• 19:51
  going on. But when the economy has
• 19:53
  underlying problems, now it affects this
• 19:56
  as well. And it's going to start to
• 19:57
  affect, you know, dealer jobs and show
• 20:00
  jobs and uh culinary union jobs. And now
• 20:03
  >> tourism is down. You work less hours if
• 20:06
  you work in the casinos. They don't need
• 20:07
  as many people to be there. So,
• 20:09
  >> as a percentage, it's an 11% decline. As
• 20:11
  a raw number, again, it's it's on par
• 20:13
  with New York City.
• 20:14
  >> Yeah. Big number.
• 20:14
  >> I hope this turns around. Obviously, we
• 20:16
  live here. Our our future and and
• 20:18
  everything that we do uh is predicated
• 20:19
  on Vegas doing well. And we like to have
• 20:21
  places, different places to play. We
• 20:24
  don't want to just have to play in one
• 20:26
  casino.
• 20:27
  >> But but you know what number is going up
• 20:29
  because of us?
• 20:30
  >> Just because of us.
• 20:33
  >> The airport number. We're going to fly
• 20:35
  next month.
• 20:36
  >> We're going to fly. We're going to leave
• 20:37
  the state and we're going to fly back.
• 20:39
  >> Come visit us too. So it's like a
• 20:41
  circle.
• 20:41
  >> So that number is going to go up by four
• 20:43
  people, four tickets.
• 20:45
  >> The number of incidents with TSA might
• 20:47
  go up as well. I hope that
• 20:48
  >> from you or me?
• 20:49
  >> Me. Oh,
• 20:50
  >> I don't like TSA.
• 20:51
  >> I heard free checks closed right now.
• 20:53
  >> Oh, wow.
• 20:54
  >> I heard that. My skin kind of called. I
• 20:55
  hope they reopen if I leave.
• 20:58
  >> I I'll be I'll be standing like No, no,
• 21:00
  no, no. You can like pet me. I'm like,
• 21:03
  calm me down.
• 21:04
  >> Uh,
• 21:06
  someone's leaving.
• 21:08
  >> Love this guy. I love this guy. We've
• 21:09
  seen his show. Matt Franco just signed a
• 21:11
  fiveyear extension at the link
• 21:14
  >> through 2030, which uh I I don't know if
• 21:16
  it was because that map doesn't quite
• 21:18
  add up. Maybe it's, you know, I don't
• 21:20
  quite know, but they
• 21:21
  >> they're giving him a huge contract and
• 21:22
  then they might sell,
• 21:24
  >> right? Yeah. Hopefully he has it in his
• 21:26
  closet if it's still they have to buy it
• 21:29
  out.
• 21:30
  >> Uh
• 21:31
  >> he's he's a cool cool show. Matt Franco,
• 21:33
  if you if you come to Vegas and he's not
• 21:35
  that expensive either. And there's
• 21:36
  actually a lot of ways you can get free
• 21:38
  tickets to Matt Franco. There's guys on
• 21:40
  the strip that'll say like go see a time
• 21:42
  share, go see whatever these things are.
• 21:44
  Do you want to see a free show? these
• 21:47
  people sometimes. Matt Franco's on this
• 21:49
  list sometimes. So, yeah, it's a cool
• 21:51
  show.
• 21:51
  >> It really is a good show. It would be
• 21:52
  one that I would pay for and feel like I
• 21:55
  got my money.
• 21:55
  >> Even better when it's free.
• 21:56
  >> Yeah, we got to go for free. There's
• 21:58
  some local uh deals here. It pays to be
• 22:00
  a local in some ways. We get we get
• 22:02
  that.
• 22:02
  >> Um super charismatic guy.
• 22:04
  >> Yeah.
• 22:05
  >> Great performer.
• 22:06
  >> Um I encourage you to check out his
• 22:08
  YouTube channel as well. I mean, the guy
• 22:10
  just uh he he really interacts with
• 22:12
  people in a in an amazing way and just
• 22:14
  has like this these great facial
• 22:16
  expressions and is just a consent
• 22:18
  professional.
• 22:18
  >> We even have in our notes that he's an
• 22:20
  undervalued performer that people you
• 22:23
  don't realize how good he is until you
• 22:25
  see him and then you're like, "Wow,
• 22:27
  >> how's this guy not bigger or just more
• 22:29
  popular?" I mean, and he is popular, but
• 22:31
  I mean bigger. How how come not
• 22:33
  everyone's talking about this guy
• 22:35
  because he's that good?
• 22:36
  >> I think he I think he won America's Got
• 22:37
  Talent. He was certainly on there.
• 22:39
  >> Uh I think that he started with the
• 22:40
  million dollar
• 22:42
  >> uh show or whatever.
• 22:43
  >> This is all you right here.
• 22:45
  >> No, number 10.
• 22:46
  >> No, no, no. I I don't have I don't have
• 22:48
  uh
• 22:48
  >> No, I I don't even know anything about
• 22:49
  this.
• 22:50
  >> Oh, well, this is it's zero bond. It's a
• 22:51
  opening at at the uh the win and this
• 22:55
  just kind of goes towards this. We keep
• 22:57
  on talking about this like it seems like
• 22:58
  Vegas is caring less and less about the
• 23:00
  everyday person like us that bets 1 2 3
• 23:05
  4 5 a spin plays
• 23:08
  >> five 10 $25 a hand at blackjack
• 23:12
  >> right
• 23:12
  >> something in this range has kind of been
• 23:14
  >> our sweet spot our whole life
• 23:17
  >> well now they're looking for people that
• 23:18
  are in the high limit room that are
• 23:19
  betting $25 $100 a spin and they're
• 23:21
  catering more towards that you want a
• 23:23
  free room you got to be at that those
• 23:24
  levels you got to be playing a couple
• 23:27
  hundred a hand blackjack. You got to be
• 23:29
  interested in spending $500 a couple on
• 23:31
  a meal.
• 23:32
  >> Well, this goes towards this. This is a
• 23:34
  club that's opening zero bond at the
• 23:35
  win. $2,700
• 23:38
  in annual dues plus $1,000 initiation
• 23:40
  fee.
• 23:41
  >> It's it's a club at the win. They're
• 23:43
  just like they're trying to get more
• 23:44
  affluent people to go over there. So,
• 23:46
  something similar to the club at the top
• 23:48
  of Mand Foundation Room. We actually
• 23:51
  consider joining that at one point and
• 23:52
  that might be something we go do. We
• 23:54
  have to go look at this thing. um
• 23:55
  >> after they're in the middle of
• 23:57
  renovations there for that. But I'm
• 23:59
  wondering if this place is is really
• 24:02
  going to be comparable to that or cuz
• 24:04
  Foundation Room has food where you can
• 24:06
  spend your your dues on food. They give
• 24:08
  you free stuff that
• 24:10
  >> drinks every time.
• 24:11
  >> It could be a write off. So you get the
• 24:12
  you get the tax write off.
• 24:13
  >> But I'm wondering here does the
• 24:15
  membership just get you in and then you
• 24:17
  have to buy all your drinks?
• 24:18
  >> They haven't said yet that I could find.
• 24:19
  I was looking
• 24:20
  >> uh it's a foundation tier so it's just
• 24:22
  you know
• 24:23
  >> uh if the price is going to go up from
• 24:24
  here is what they were saying
• 24:26
  >> uh it's a private members only club
• 24:28
  >> it's not a bad place to be the win is
• 24:30
  >> I love the win it just again it just
• 24:32
  shows you that more and more
• 24:34
  >> focus and energy is moving towards
• 24:36
  people that have this kind of this kind
• 24:38
  of money
• 24:39
  >> and where are these people coming from
• 24:41
  >> we were we were like looking at okay
• 24:43
  Mandalay Bay is just inside baseball for
• 24:45
  us it's the closest casino on the strip
• 24:47
  from our house we could be in like 11 or
• 24:49
  12 minutes. It's actually beautiful.
• 24:51
  >> Great view. And then again, it was like
• 24:52
  a couple thousand a year. We were going
• 24:54
  to get $1,600 of that back. We were
• 24:55
  going looking at splitting it. So, it
• 24:57
  was going to be like basically
• 24:58
  effectively 20 show tickets to House of
• 25:01
  Blues. Also, like you could go to
• 25:03
  anything at House of Blues.
• 25:04
  >> Yeah.
• 25:04
  >> I mean, that's pretty awesome.
• 25:06
  >> We're recording this at like 8:00 in the
• 25:07
  morning and our friend DQ is in town.
• 25:09
  He's already texted me.
• 25:10
  >> You know what I thought said when I saw
• 25:11
  that pop up pop up on there? I thought
• 25:13
  it said Justin Timberlake.
• 25:14
  >> No, no, I don't know him. Yeah. Like
• 25:16
  when did you meet Justin Timberlake?
• 25:18
  >> DQ is the kind of guy that would really
• 25:19
  like this this place. Yeah.
• 25:21
  >> Hello DQ. Hope whatever you just texted
• 25:23
  me was like another big win.
• 25:24
  >> You just said hello DQ and I looked over
• 25:26
  there. I was like squirrel.
• 25:27
  >> Yeah, that could be it. All right. We
• 25:29
  have a new art museum coming, Ryan. The
• 25:31
  Southern Nevada Art Museum. It opens in
• 25:33
  the art district.
• 25:34
  >> This is a really fascinating area of Las
• 25:36
  Vegas that most visitors never go to.
• 25:38
  >> True.
• 25:39
  >> Uh but it used to be a little shady back
• 25:41
  in the day. So they're cleaning it up a
• 25:44
  little. This was like the type of town
• 25:45
  that part walk around at night
• 25:46
  >> or during the day.
• 25:47
  >> Well, I walk around.
• 25:49
  >> Maybe you I don't really want to be down
• 25:50
  there during the day. Walk around during
• 25:51
  the day.
• 25:51
  >> It is I love these parts of the country
• 25:54
  that have been revitalized. And you
• 25:55
  know, there's some spots back. We're
• 25:57
  we're about to go visit Washington DC,
• 26:00
  >> which is my hometown
• 26:01
  >> and
• 26:02
  >> the the the stadium district where the
• 26:04
  Nationals are is another really great
• 26:06
  example of this.
• 26:07
  >> I mean, that was one of the scariest
• 26:09
  neighborhoods in the country. San Diego
• 26:11
  has a similar area by Petco Park that
• 26:13
  was not a great area. Right.
• 26:15
  >> Uh, this is not a stadium district.
• 26:16
  >> I don't think San Diego's Petco Park
• 26:18
  compares to DC's national.
• 26:22
  >> San Diego is pretty soft.
• 26:23
  >> Navy. Oh man, that was that was just a
• 26:25
  spot that uh I drove through every now
• 26:28
  and then. I was like, "Please don't let
• 26:29
  my tire go black. Please don't let my
• 26:30
  tire go black.
• 26:31
  >> Please don't let my car break down."
• 26:32
  >> Um, this is pretty cool. I mean, the
• 26:33
  arts district, bunch of new restaurants,
• 26:35
  bars, shows Friday.
• 26:38
  >> One of the best barbecue places we've
• 26:39
  been to in a while down there.
• 26:40
  >> It's my favorite barbecue.
• 26:42
  >> Eers is amazing. That's not barbecue.
• 26:44
  >> No, I'm saying another restaurant.
• 26:46
  Esters is amazing. There's a really good
• 26:48
  brewery down there. Couple actually. U
• 26:51
  there's a wine bar across from Eers.
• 26:53
  There's a sushi place across. They're
• 26:55
  all like so close walking distance.
• 26:57
  >> If I was to pick my single favorite
• 27:00
  restaurant in Las Vegas, I probably
• 27:01
  would say
• 27:01
  >> Esther. I It's It's that good. My
• 27:05
  favorite like Vegas experience
• 27:07
  restaurant is the Mayfair.
• 27:09
  >> Mayfair is amazing. Yeah. But in terms
• 27:10
  of like the place that we're going to go
• 27:12
  on a regular basis, I mean Esther's
• 27:14
  Kitchen, it's off the strip. Prices are
• 27:15
  good. The food is
• 27:18
  >> as good, like you feel like you're in
• 27:19
  Italy. It's like all freshlymade pasta.
• 27:21
  It's it's these artisan dishes. It's not
• 27:23
  just your spaghetti and meatballs,
• 27:25
  although their spaghetti meatballs is
• 27:26
  really effing good.
• 27:27
  >> Everything.
• 27:28
  >> So, haven't had a bad dish there.
• 27:29
  >> Really excited about the uh about this
• 27:32
  art museum. Just go check out just
• 27:33
  something different.
• 27:34
  >> Uh
• 27:35
  >> there's no date on Oh, yeah. Early
• 27:37
  March. So, it's going to open up soon.
• 27:38
  So we might go down to first Fridays in
• 27:41
  uh in April and go check it out cuz
• 27:43
  there's that that's the first Friday of
• 27:44
  every of every month. So we have the
• 27:45
  last Friday of every month as our group
• 27:47
  full
• 27:47
  >> if we're here.
• 27:48
  >> First Friday I think we're going to be
• 27:49
  here.
• 27:50
  >> Mathematically it can't be any more than
• 27:52
  the 13th.
• 27:53
  >> Yeah.
• 27:54
  >> So we could we we should be here.
• 27:55
  >> Be here. We should be here.
• 27:56
  >> Yeah, we should be here. So maybe
• 27:57
  >> we do have some things coming up here in
• 27:58
  the
• 27:59
  >> pictures. We've said it in many videos.
• 28:01
  You check out the website to find out
• 28:03
  about all the things these days, guys.
• 28:06
  >> Uh another residency. I might go see
• 28:08
  this one. I actually have an interest in
• 28:09
  this. I've never seen him.
• 28:10
  >> Never seen him.
• 28:11
  >> Uh we don't really have a relationship
• 28:13
  with it. Wouldn't be any comps, but he's
• 28:14
  going to be here October 2nd, 3rd, 7th,
• 28:16
  9th, 10th.
• 28:17
  >> That's a lot.
• 28:18
  >> Five nights. Solid.
• 28:20
  >> My guess is it sells out then there's
• 28:21
  more dates. This is the trend.
• 28:23
  >> This is Josh Groin.
• 28:24
  >> Uh if you haven't seen a show at
• 28:26
  Caesar's Palace at the Coliseum, great
• 28:28
  venue.
• 28:28
  >> Great venue.
• 28:29
  >> I'm not a fan of the the the upper upper
• 28:31
  deck. I feel like I'm just watching it
• 28:33
  on TV somewhere, but if you can get a
• 28:35
  mid deck seat,
• 28:38
  >> we've seen some great acts there. I've
• 28:39
  seen uh Brooks and Dons with Ruben
• 28:41
  McIntyre. We saw Grth Brooks in there.
• 28:42
  We saw Rod Stewart in her together.
• 28:45
  >> Chelsea Handler there.
• 28:46
  >> Oh, yeah. I mean, that would be
• 28:47
  something that I wouldn't mind being in
• 28:49
  the upper upper.
• 28:50
  >> Yeah. You didn't It's comedy.
• 28:51
  >> Yeah, it's comedy.
• 28:52
  >> But it was still It's a great
• 28:53
  >> She's funny. I saw I've seen a couple of
• 28:55
  things that she sticks out.
• 28:57
  >> She's got that nasty runchy humor, you
• 28:59
  know. I like it. Yeah, I know you do.
• 29:00
  There's there's one fan of ours that
• 29:02
  watches that probably wouldn't
• 29:02
  appreciate her or he was a fan. He said
• 29:04
  he unsubscribed. No, he doesn't like we
• 29:06
  also saw last Mar said an error. I'm not
• 29:07
  sure she's coming back.
• 29:09
  >> I I've always been a big fan of hers.
• 29:11
  >> It would be ironic if she didn't come
• 29:12
  back.
• 29:13
  >> It would be because she put so much work
• 29:15
  into the show.
• 29:16
  >> Terrible joke,
• 29:17
  >> you know. No, it was good. It was but a
• 29:18
  bump bump. I had the the cracks in the
• 29:20
  foundation with the construction jobs.
• 29:22
  You got the ironic thing. It was a great
• 29:24
  show. It wasn't just your typical
• 29:26
  concert. She was basically like reading
• 29:27
  her diary.
• 29:28
  >> Yeah. if you will,
• 29:30
  >> explaining the songs, explaining her
• 29:32
  life, all the things that came together.
• 29:34
  There wasn't really a dry eye in the
• 29:35
  house. I mean, it was pretty emotional
• 29:37
  >> crying. Really?
• 29:38
  >> Yeah. I uh I was crying cuz Michelle was
• 29:40
  crying. I was upset. She was upset.
• 29:42
  >> Oh, man. Mike, you got that. I got that,
• 29:44
  too. Whenever Melanie starts tearing up,
• 29:47
  I'm like, "Oh, don't do that. Why would
• 29:49
  you do that?"
• 29:50
  >> She had some, you know, abuse issues
• 29:53
  >> and so she was, you know, talking about
• 29:54
  it and it's sad.
• 29:55
  >> Yeah. You don't want to hear about that
• 29:56
  stuff. And there was one of the songs
• 29:57
  that
• 29:58
  >> she had to get it out though. I think
• 29:59
  that's part of moving on.
• 30:01
  >> Yeah.
• 30:01
  >> So,
• 30:01
  >> oh, speaking of moving on.
• 30:03
  >> Yeah,
• 30:03
  >> we can move on to the last topic.
• 30:05
  >> We are here.
• 30:05
  >> Okay. And speaking of traveling,
• 30:08
  >> this is pretty awesome.
• 30:09
  >> Yeah. Nonstop.
• 30:10
  >> Not that we're going there cuz we just
• 30:11
  found out that the
• 30:13
  >> return to player in Australia is
• 30:16
  absolutely horrible.
• 30:18
  >> But we but we would still go a great
• 30:20
  trip. It's a beautiful
• 30:21
  >> Maybe we could go back for the tennis uh
• 30:23
  tournament that you went to.
• 30:24
  >> Dude, I would love that. And casino in
• 30:26
  >> I've never been I've never been to a
• 30:29
  tennis tournament
• 30:29
  >> one of my favorite I've been to 70
• 30:31
  countries I'm a if you guys have been
• 30:33
  following this podcast for a while I'm a
• 30:34
  pretty welltraveled person it was a
• 30:36
  passion of my now I really don't want to
• 30:37
  go anywhere anymore
• 30:38
  >> and one of the reasons I would cuz
• 30:40
  Quantis is one of the best airlines in
• 30:42
  the world and it's nontop which is
• 30:44
  >> you have me at non-stop right
• 30:46
  >> like the idea
• 30:47
  >> of having a flight to San Francisco and
• 30:49
  then
• 30:50
  >> you know maybe to to to Hong Kong and
• 30:52
  then go to Australia that sounds
• 30:54
  terrible yeah A non-stop flight sounds
• 30:57
  great.
• 30:57
  >> And switching planes and yeah, I don't
• 30:59
  want to do all that.
• 31:00
  >> First flight's December 29th. Maybe we
• 31:01
  can be on that first flight. We can
• 31:03
  promote Quantis if you're listening.
• 31:05
  >> 787-9
• 31:07
  Dreamliner aircraft.
• 31:08
  >> I've been on one of those before.
• 31:10
  >> It seems like it'd be pretty.
• 31:11
  >> It's a gigantic plane. It's it's it's a
• 31:12
  beautiful plane.
• 31:13
  >> Uh I believe that
• 31:15
  >> if I remember correctly, and I I'm
• 31:17
  trying to get all my airlines and things
• 31:18
  straight, but we did a Singapore
• 31:20
  Airlines flight once and I think that
• 31:21
  was the Dreamliner
• 31:22
  >> and we we used to get all these miles.
• 31:24
  Yeah,
• 31:25
  >> that we don't get anymore. So, at some
• 31:26
  point here, I'm going to run out of
• 31:28
  miles and be very sad, but in our old
• 31:29
  business, we just earn
• 31:32
  Yeah. And we did and we ran ads. That
• 31:34
  was the key.
• 31:35
  >> We ran ads and and you could pay with
• 31:36
  your credit card and they give you like
• 31:37
  3x points and it's all gone now. Like
• 31:40
  they the these companies are not not
• 31:42
  letting you use a credit card anymore.
• 31:44
  >> But anyway, we we treated ourselves to a
• 31:46
  Singapore suite. We have like an
• 31:47
  apartment on the airplane and I believe
• 31:48
  that was the Dreamliner.
• 31:49
  >> Same same plane.
• 31:50
  >> So maybe maybe Quantis wants us to demo
• 31:52
  that. We can go on the plane, the four
• 31:54
  of us. We can share an apartment
• 31:55
  together. Yeah. And we can show the
• 31:57
  whole experience and their lounge and
• 31:59
  their airplane and go take a shower on
• 32:01
  the plane. We could block that part out.
• 32:03
  >> I don't need to see you in the shower.
• 32:05
  That's for sure.
• 32:05
  >> But, you know,
• 32:07
  >> that's it. That's the end of the
• 32:08
  episode, guys. We welcome our friends
• 32:10
  from Australia to come visit us on a
• 32:12
  more convenient flight.
• 32:13
  >> Yes.
• 32:14
  >> I never been to Sydney. I only went to
• 32:15
  Melbourne. So,
• 32:16
  >> I've never been to Australia and I have
• 32:17
  family that lives over there.
• 32:18
  >> Awesome place. I really love Melbourne.
• 32:20
  It's a hop, skip, and a jump. We could
• 32:22
  do. Yeah, it's it starts December 29th.
• 32:24
  The Australian opens in January. Oh,
• 32:26
  perfect.
• 32:26
  >> Your thought is lining up. Your whole
• 32:27
  plan. This is perfect, Ryan.
• 32:29
  >> I didn't even know that. So, that's
• 32:30
  pretty ironic again.
• 32:34
  >> Oh, boy.
• 32:35
  >> Here we go.
• 32:36
  >> That's it.
• 32:37
  >> All right.
• 32:37
  >> Uh, we have some events coming up. We
• 32:39
  leave with that. Uh, this is coming out.
• 32:41
  Yeah. So, March 27th, Ellis Island Group
• 32:43
  Poll.
• 32:44
  >> Yes.
• 32:44
  >> March, sorry, April 14th at National
• 32:47
  Harbor
• 32:48
  >> in Washington DC. MGM, we're doing a
• 32:51
  meet and greet. Whole bunch of people
• 32:53
  already signed up for that live stream.
• 32:55
  Then we have April 24th, another group
• 32:57
  poll at Ellis Island. You'll see a trend
• 32:59
  here. It's the last Friday of the month
• 33:01
  every month until October. In which
• 33:03
  case, all of a sudden, now November is
• 33:05
  Black Friday and we're going to move
• 33:06
  that one. Yeah.
• 33:07
  >> Through October, it'll be the last
• 33:08
  Friday of the month. Then we have July
• 33:10
  18th at the Rio.
• 33:12
  >> I'll go over there. Big party.
• 33:14
  >> Check that out. desertdens.com. It's the
• 33:16
  new website's up. You can go check all
• 33:17
  that out. Sign up for the mailing list.
• 33:19
  We got um emails about the podcast every
• 33:21
  week as well. Keep you up to date what's
• 33:22
  going on in Vegas.
• 33:23
  >> And download all the strategies.
• 33:25
  >> Oh yeah.
• 33:26
  >> Yeah.
• 33:26
  >> Strategies.
• 33:27
  >> You want You're going to want those with
• 33:28
  you when you go to the casino.
• 33:29
  >> Yeah. All right. Bye everybody. Bye
• 33:31
  everyone.
• 33:31
  >> See you next week.