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Hearts Alive Village Animal Rescue & BigHead Team Gets Competitive | 347 · Hey BigHead: The Vegas Local Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: I have been getting a lot of these mascot reveal videos on my like whenever I guess someone graduates and they were the mascot, they finally can reveal that they were.
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SPEAKER_06: Do we want to reveal who the mascot is?
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SPEAKER_06: I don't feel like you wanna you wanna ruin that surprise.
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SPEAKER_01: But then you don't know who the new one is.
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SPEAKER_06: I think it's you don't need to know.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you don't need to know.
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SPEAKER_06: Like I don't need to see what Mickey Mouse looks like underneath his costume.
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SPEAKER_02: That's different.
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SPEAKER_07: Imagine like Benny the Bull is just like chopped, and then your your image of Benny the Bull is just like completely ruined for.
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SPEAKER_01: Did you know college mascots are actually dominated by women?
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SPEAKER_06: Really?
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SPEAKER_01: Most of them are women.
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SPEAKER_01: Interesting, huh?
0:35
SPEAKER_06: That's very interesting.
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SPEAKER_06: Where is this where is this information coming from?
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SPEAKER_01: I don't remember, but I did read it.
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SPEAKER_06: That sounds like fake news.
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SPEAKER_06: That's what that sounds like.
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SPEAKER_06: That sounds like you just made it up.
0:43
SPEAKER_06: I didn't make it up.
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SPEAKER_06: Alright, well, show me show me your sources.
0:46
SPEAKER_01: I'll find it.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll send it to you.
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SPEAKER_06: Good.
0:51
SPEAKER_06: Well, that was a solid start to our episode.
0:53
SPEAKER_06: I think that should just be the start to our episode, right there.
0:56
SPEAKER_06: Do it.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's done.
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SPEAKER_01: Hot mic.
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SPEAKER_06: Hot mic.
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SPEAKER_06: Gina.
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SPEAKER_01: Gina.
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SPEAKER_01: Brandon.
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SPEAKER_06: Brandon, hit us with it.
1:04
SPEAKER_07: A little scared.
1:06
SPEAKER_06: Brandon's so good at the Trump impersonation, the Trump voice.
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SPEAKER_06: And we we caught him on that hot mic, and it was so spot on.
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SPEAKER_06: But now, now that he knows that we know, he's so bashful about it.
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SPEAKER_06: But what are you gonna do?
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SPEAKER_06: You win some, you lose.
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SPEAKER_07: Get a little flustered, you know.
1:22
SPEAKER_07: It has to be like a stim, it has to come out naturally.
1:26
SPEAKER_06: We're just gonna start recording Brandon at all hours.
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SPEAKER_01: Put a mic in his office.
1:30
SPEAKER_06: As soon as he walks in, he's just recorded from nine to whatever time he leaves.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna bug your car, bug your house.
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SPEAKER_06: Got it all.
1:39
SPEAKER_06: Uh we got a big episode today, exciting episode today.
1:42
SPEAKER_06: We have a lot going on.
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SPEAKER_06: We're gonna talk about ghost kitchens.
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SPEAKER_06: We're gonna talk about ghost hotels.
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SPEAKER_06: Not the spooky kind, Julie.
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SPEAKER_06: Don't give me that.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't think I know what you're talking about.
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SPEAKER_01: Good.
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SPEAKER_06: That's the whole point.
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SPEAKER_06: The less you know, the better.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh, we're gonna talk about being one of us is the juror in the Tupac Shakur case.
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SPEAKER_06: Brandon.
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SPEAKER_06: Brandon, are you on the jury for the Tupac Shakur case?
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SPEAKER_07: Hey man, never know.
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SPEAKER_06: Um, we did all we did, I do want to talk about uh the episode we had with Dustin Marks and the Kaiser.
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SPEAKER_06: That was a fun episode.
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SPEAKER_01: They're wild.
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SPEAKER_06: They are wild.
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SPEAKER_06: For those of you that missed it, they are two cheats that who cheated at blackjack in the in the 80s and made a shitload of money and never got caught, which blows my mind.
2:27
SPEAKER_06: I I I don't know how you could go that long and not get caught, but I guess the 80s were a different time.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh but it it was fun.
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SPEAKER_06: It was fun to hear those stories.
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SPEAKER_06: I think it was really, really cool to to see how they did it.
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SPEAKER_06: And um yeah, it would never it would never fly today though.
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SPEAKER_01: No, absolutely not.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm sure they have you know dozens of stories that we didn't even hear.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: So well, definitely check out their podcast, She Gene at Blackjack.
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SPEAKER_06: Really, really awesome, two awesome guys.
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SPEAKER_06: The one thing that bothered me was the Kaiser, when he walked in, he introduced himself and told me his real name.
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SPEAKER_01: Ooh, I still don't know it.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't ruin the illusion.
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SPEAKER_06: No, I'm not going to say it's just like it's like knowing who the mascot is underneath the underneath the costume.
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SPEAKER_06: You don't want to know, but you know that somebody's in there.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: You know he wasn't born the Kaiser, but you don't want to know his name.
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SPEAKER_06: And the entire episode, I was fighting myself internally not to call him by his real name.
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SPEAKER_07: But by his government-issued name.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe he legally changed it.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, maybe.
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SPEAKER_01: Now it says Kaiser.
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SPEAKER_06: But yeah, really cool, really cool guys.
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SPEAKER_06: Um, really glad they came on, and I definitely want to hear more stories as they come on.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh there was a little incident down at Treasure Island.
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SPEAKER_06: Did you see?
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SPEAKER_06: Did you guys see this?
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SPEAKER_06: No.
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SPEAKER_06: What happened?
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SPEAKER_06: Treasure Island was offering free play.
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SPEAKER_06: I got this pulled up right here.
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SPEAKER_06: $200 in free play at Treasure Island turned into absolute chaos after midnight tonight.
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SPEAKER_06: This was last night.
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SPEAKER_06: This is yesterday.
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SPEAKER_06: So Treasure Island basically is offering$200 in free play for you know for locals, the public.
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SPEAKER_06: And obviously, as you can imagine, especially in this day and age, everybody's gonna want to sign up.
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SPEAKER_06: They're gonna want to, you know, get take part of the$200 in free gambling.
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SPEAKER_01: Um free play for anything, like slots, table games, everything.
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SPEAKER_06: I don't know what the terms were.
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SPEAKER_06: Okay, but all I know is$200 in free play at Treasure Island.
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SPEAKER_06: Um, it was a big promotion online, a few influencers also posted about it.
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SPEAKER_06: Um good deal.
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SPEAKER_06: So everybody knew about it, everybody found out.
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SPEAKER_06: So this person posted on the Vegas local Reddit.
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SPEAKER_06: We stood in line for hours.
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SPEAKER_06: Some workers in suits started to cut off the line around 7 p.m., carrying a sign to show where the end of the line was.
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SPEAKER_06: Long story short, around 11 57 p.m., a security guard went around informing us that at midnight no one would be getting the$200 free play.
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SPEAKER_06: And these guys, the person that wrote this, they got in line at 6 50 p.m.
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SPEAKER_06: So they were in line for almost five hours, six hours.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh they said instantly the start the crowd started to scream.
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SPEAKER_06: I felt horrible.
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SPEAKER_06: People started to film the yelling and threatening to sue.
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SPEAKER_06: Blows my mind.
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SPEAKER_06: Blows my mind to sit in line for five hours for$200 in free play that you're probably going to lose, anyways.
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SPEAKER_06: Well, it baffles me.
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SPEAKER_06: But yeah, apparently a little chaotic down at Treasure Island.
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SPEAKER_06: I can probably guarantee that these promotions will probably not happen again, unfortunately.
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SPEAKER_01: No, definitely not.
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SPEAKER_01: Unless they put a stipulation like first 500 people.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: Crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm surprised they didn't do that in the first place.
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SPEAKER_06: I I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess maybe they didn't think all those people would show up on a Wednesday.
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SPEAKER_06: For$200 in free play, I guess they I guess they underestimated the uh the the desire to gamble free money.
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SPEAKER_01: You know where we would never have this issue?
5:52
SPEAKER_06: Where's that?
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SPEAKER_01: Brandon's Fun Hotel.
5:56
SPEAKER_01: Brandon's Fun Hotel.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody's showing up to it.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's gonna be 10 people.
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SPEAKER_07: Everyone's showing up to the fun hotel.
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SPEAKER_07: Who is your uh entertainment, Brandon?
6:05
SPEAKER_07: Oh, J Lo.
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SPEAKER_07: I got Max Crosby on deck as well.
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SPEAKER_07: They're gonna re-enact Titanic on the pirate ship.
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SPEAKER_07: Ridiculous.
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SPEAKER_07: Come on, that one be entertaining to you.
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SPEAKER_06: As you're saying this out loud, your your hotel sounds chaotic, Brandon.
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SPEAKER_06: It sounds so so scattered all over.
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SPEAKER_06: You have J Lo, you have Max Crosby, you have the Titanic.
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SPEAKER_07: And Dick's Last Resort.
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SPEAKER_06: And Dick's Last Resort.
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SPEAKER_06: Who are you targeting again?
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SPEAKER_07: Oh, just like the undergrads, you know, here for a bachelor party or a spring break.
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SPEAKER_07: Here for a good time, not alone time.
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SPEAKER_07: That's right.
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SPEAKER_07: And we're gonna partner up with Peppermint Hippo as well.
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SPEAKER_01: No, you can't you can't add that.
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SPEAKER_07: No, I've added it.
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SPEAKER_07: As the judge, I'm okay with Peppermint Hippo and Friends of the Show.
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SPEAKER_06: You can add that.
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SPEAKER_06: In fact, we can all add Peppermint Hippo to our hotels.
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SPEAKER_06: We're all getting Peppermint Hippo.
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SPEAKER_01: I want um what was the other one he said?
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SPEAKER_06: Oh, uh Las Toxicas?
6:53
SPEAKER_06: Las Toxicas.
6:54
SPEAKER_06: Which he when he said BBL, it confused us because to him it was Big Booty Latinas, but it's also known more commonly now as Brazilian buttlifts, right?
7:06
SPEAKER_01: That's the only way I've ever known that acronym.
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SPEAKER_06: I didn't realize I forgot that it even before BBLs were a thing, big booty Latinas was what BBLs were.
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SPEAKER_06: And when he said that, I just totally forgot it.
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SPEAKER_06: But yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: Thanks, Derek.
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SPEAKER_06: Derek O'Caula.
7:23
SPEAKER_06: This is the part of the show where you had the the more you know gif flag.
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SPEAKER_06: Right.
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SPEAKER_06: Thinking about you, Derek.
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SPEAKER_06: Thinking about always thinking about you.
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SPEAKER_06: Um I'll tell you where else you wouldn't have this problem with a$200 free play is when you're become a Vegas local member and Boomers is giving away$250 in free play online to one lucky Vegas local member.
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SPEAKER_06: Just go to VegasLocal.com and sign up to be a member for free, Julie.
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SPEAKER_01: For free.
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SPEAKER_01: Good plug, by the way.
7:51
SPEAKER_06: But listen, we're not gonna have fights at Treasure Island with our$250 free play at Boomers.
7:56
SPEAKER_06: No, you're not.
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SPEAKER_06: You can just From the convenience of your own home.
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SPEAKER_06: From the convenience of your own home.
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SPEAKER_06: You don't even have to be wearing clothes.
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SPEAKER_06: You can just be buck naked in your living room, winning$250 from Boomers Sportsbook.
8:07
SPEAKER_06: Shout out Boomers.
8:08
SPEAKER_06: Shout out Boomers.
8:09
SPEAKER_06: Yo, family.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh we talked about the Tupac Shakur case.
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SPEAKER_06: Uh so basically what happened for those of you that are out of the loop, uh, the murder trial for my godfather, Tupac Shakur, uh, who passed away like 30 years ago.
8:24
SPEAKER_06: He was murdered 30 years ago.
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SPEAKER_01: Was it the 90s?
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
8:27
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it was right after a Tyson fight.
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SPEAKER_06: Um, he got shot when uh he was in the car with Shug Knight and he got rolled up on and got shot.
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SPEAKER_06: There's only one person that got arrested for his uh quote-unquote involvement, and that's Dwayne Keefe D.
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SPEAKER_06: Davis.
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SPEAKER_06: Um so that's what the trial is about.
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SPEAKER_06: Is he's you know, he was charged in 2023, um, and now he stands accused of orchestrating Shakur's uh Tupac's murder and faces a count of murder, the deadly weapon.
8:56
SPEAKER_06: Fine.
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SPEAKER_06: The story is this case is gonna be such a huge, huge case that it bl baffles me that the jury selection was yesterday or started yesterday.
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SPEAKER_06: People are trying to get out of being a juror.
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SPEAKER_06: I personally I don't have kids, I don't have a wife, I don't have you know, I have a cat.
9:14
SPEAKER_06: But other than that, I don't have you know any necessarily major reason to not want to be a part of this.
9:19
SPEAKER_06: I would absolutely want to be a part of this because I want to be involved in this.
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SPEAKER_06: And also, once it's over and done with, I can write my tell-all and make millions of dollars and sail off into the sunset.
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SPEAKER_06: How do you feel about that, Julie?
9:33
SPEAKER_01: I get it.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, I personally, if it was me, I would want to be involved too, and I am married, and I but I don't have kids.
9:39
SPEAKER_01: Poor Tyler.
9:40
SPEAKER_06: Tyler's Tyler's just gonna be like, all right, see you in a few months, Tyler.
9:44
SPEAKER_01: He'd be fine.
9:45
SPEAKER_06: Um You weren't alive during the OJ case.
9:47
SPEAKER_06: You don't know how long were you alive during the OJ case?
9:49
SPEAKER_06: It was like 95, 95.
9:50
SPEAKER_01: No, I was not.
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SPEAKER_06: Um anyway, those jurors were gone for forever, it seemed like it was a big deal.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I mean it it it happens quite frequently, it's just not always a high profile case.
10:02
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, but what I was saying is I love true crime, regardless of who's involved in it, and now it is a high profile case, so that's even more interesting, and the public knows the figures involved.
10:16
SPEAKER_01: So personally, I would be heavily invested in what's going on.
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SPEAKER_01: But I do see the point of if someone finds out you're on the jury and they disagree with whatever the ruling is, then like you could become like a target for hate.
10:32
SPEAKER_06: Listen, it's a 30-year-old case.
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SPEAKER_01: There are people that are so passionate about Tupac still.
10:38
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, listen, I get it, but you're not the one that pulled the trigger, you're not the one that did anything to to harm him.
10:45
SPEAKER_06: You're just a guy in you know who or a girl who got chosen to be part of this jury selection.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you find this guy not guilty, if the jury finds him not guilty.
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SPEAKER_06: So you think all twelve of them are gonna be targeted if they found not guilty or if he is found guilty?
11:01
SPEAKER_01: N not necessarily, but it it could happen to one person if they go off bragging about like, I found him not guilty, blah blah blah blah blah.
11:09
SPEAKER_01: That could piss somebody off.
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SPEAKER_01: That's fair.
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SPEAKER_06: Listen, I I I I I get that point.
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SPEAKER_06: As you get older, you want to take less risks, and that's obviously pretty risky of not necessarily being a you know major target, but uh definitely somebody that you know you don't want to say the wrong things in public because you will be you know asked to come out and you know talk to these reporters.
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SPEAKER_06: You don't have to, you don't even have to reveal your name, I don't think.
11:32
SPEAKER_06: But um I see I see that argument.
11:35
SPEAKER_01: Well, and I was thinking even more so just like online, even if no one's bothering you in person, like you might face some really heavy backlash online.
11:43
SPEAKER_06: Well, I think they do a pretty good job at uh being anonymous during the case.
11:47
SPEAKER_01: Right.
11:47
SPEAKER_06: And if if you d end up coming out where you say you're part of it, I think you get kicked off.
11:53
SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, I'm talking about afterwards though.
11:54
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
11:55
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
11:55
SPEAKER_06: I don't know.
11:56
SPEAKER_01: Brandon?
11:57
SPEAKER_06: Brandon?
11:57
SPEAKER_06: Brandon?
11:58
SPEAKER_06: No.
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SPEAKER_06: I say yes, be a juror.
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SPEAKER_06: Brandon, do you know who Tupac is?
12:01
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
12:02
SPEAKER_06: Brandon, do you know who Tupac is?
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SPEAKER_07: You know, in fact, do you know you have to be obsessed with like the conspiracy theories?
12:07
SPEAKER_07: Because as a kid, I was like big into rap.
12:09
SPEAKER_07: I was like a big MM guy, big Dr.
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SPEAKER_07: Dre, and then you know, we sort of develop, you're like, oh, what about the OGs like Tupac?
12:16
SPEAKER_07: But nowadays, I mean, I'm a sloth.
12:18
SPEAKER_07: I'm not gonna lie, I'm a sloth.
12:20
SPEAKER_07: And jury duty sounds like the last thing I want to do, even if it's for Tupac.
12:24
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, like I told Julie, it's like every time I have to work, I'm out.
12:28
SPEAKER_07: I'm taking a nap.
12:29
SPEAKER_07: And anytime the homies come into town, they want to go to the club, that expends like a month of like my energy.
12:36
SPEAKER_07: And I don't want to do anything after that.
12:37
SPEAKER_07: How old are you?
12:38
SPEAKER_07: I am 23.
12:39
SPEAKER_07: You're 23 and you take midday naps?
12:41
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
12:41
SPEAKER_07: Every day?
12:42
SPEAKER_07: Well, most days.
12:43
SPEAKER_07: What time do you take a nap?
12:44
SPEAKER_07: Like 2 15 when I get off.
12:47
SPEAKER_01: I told you, he gets home and he's right to bed.
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SPEAKER_07: That's why I don't respond sometimes after like two o'clock.
12:53
SPEAKER_07: I'm actually like asleep.
12:54
SPEAKER_06: How long are you napping for?
12:55
SPEAKER_07: Dude, some days it's an hour, some days it's three.
12:59
SPEAKER_07: Depends.
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SPEAKER_01: You don't set an alarm.
13:01
SPEAKER_07: I do, I just sleep right through the alarm.
13:03
SPEAKER_07: Brandon did.
13:04
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
13:04
SPEAKER_06: So if you're if you're here, let's say you're here later than usual, do you crash out almost instantly?
13:11
SPEAKER_06: Like, do you feel like, oh it's past my nap time?
13:14
SPEAKER_07: It's really dangerous because sometimes I only mean to like go to bed till like six, and then it turns out it's like 8 30.
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SPEAKER_07: I'm like, fuck.
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SPEAKER_07: Like my day's gone.
13:22
SPEAKER_07: You wake up at 6 30, it's dark out, you don't know if it's a M or PM.
13:25
SPEAKER_07: Dude, it there's been plenty of moments where I forget what day it is after work.
13:29
SPEAKER_07: I'm like, dude, holy shit.
13:30
SPEAKER_07: I should be getting ready right now.
13:32
SPEAKER_07: Oh, wait, no.
13:33
SPEAKER_07: It's actually nighttime.
13:34
SPEAKER_06: That's pretty funny.
13:35
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
13:35
SPEAKER_06: I had no idea you you need naps that badly.
13:38
SPEAKER_06: So yeah, this being a juror wouldn't would it would cut into my naptime.
13:42
SPEAKER_07: Cut into your naptime.
13:43
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
13:43
SPEAKER_06: It's a big issue.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it is a big issue.
13:44
SPEAKER_01: Dozing off in the jury box.
13:46
SPEAKER_06: Oh yeah.
13:47
SPEAKER_06: So that'll go over well.
13:48
SPEAKER_07: Yeah, no, I don't think they'd like me.
13:50
SPEAKER_07: I think I'd miss some details and vote the wrong way.
13:52
SPEAKER_06: Um, I actually did that one time.
13:54
SPEAKER_06: I fell asleep when I was a kid.
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SPEAKER_06: I fell asleep and woke up and it was 6 30, and I was on the East Coast, so it was it was dark outside.
14:01
SPEAKER_06: And I took a shower, got up, went to Catholic school, so I got my uniform on, got my tie on.
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SPEAKER_06: I got onstairs and my mom's setting the table for dinner.
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SPEAKER_06: I was like, what are you doing?
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unknown: Like, I don't know.
14:13
SPEAKER_06: Going to school?
14:14
SPEAKER_07: You're just LARPing.
14:17
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that was wild times.
14:18
SPEAKER_06: Um but no, let's see.
14:20
SPEAKER_06: So jurors who did get paid.
14:22
SPEAKER_06: So Michael Knox from the OJ Simpson murder trial, he was dismissed from the jury before the verdict, but he landed a hundred thousand dollar book advance for the pri the private diary of an OJ juror.
14:32
SPEAKER_05: That's crazy.
14:33
SPEAKER_06: That's a prime example.
14:35
SPEAKER_06: You could have easily made six figures being a juror in this case, but we each their own.
14:41
SPEAKER_06: So I say yes.
14:42
SPEAKER_06: Brandon says no.
14:43
SPEAKER_06: Julie, you say maybe.
14:45
SPEAKER_01: I say yes, but I can see the other side.
14:47
SPEAKER_06: No.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: All right.
14:48
SPEAKER_06: Well, stay tuned for all the latest information on the Tupac case.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: Clark County, call me.
14:54
SPEAKER_06: Clark County, come on, big head.
14:55
SPEAKER_06: Block me.
14:57
SPEAKER_06: Have you guys ever been on jury duty before?
14:59
SPEAKER_06: No, not yet.
15:00
SPEAKER_01: I was called for jury duty, and of course, mine would be the last case to get assigned for the day.
15:06
SPEAKER_01: So it's me and the last group sitting there.
15:08
SPEAKER_01: It's like four in the afternoon.
15:10
SPEAKER_01: I've missed an entire day of work.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: I'm sitting there and they go, We actually don't need a jury for this case, and we're not gonna validate your parking because you weren't called for jury duty.
15:20
SPEAKER_01: So I lost not only my paycheck for that day, but the money I spent on parking.
15:25
SPEAKER_06: That's a scam.
15:26
SPEAKER_06: That's bogue.
15:27
SPEAKER_01: And that's the only time.
15:28
SPEAKER_06: That's annoying.
15:29
SPEAKER_06: I'm sorry to hear that.
15:30
SPEAKER_06: I I got I didn't get chosen, but I got uh I had to go to jury duty one time and you know I charmed my way out of it.
15:36
SPEAKER_06: Not that I don't want to, you know, represent my country and do my do my duty.
15:42
SPEAKER_06: My civic service.
15:43
SPEAKER_06: But I had places to be.
15:44
SPEAKER_06: People had things to do.
15:46
SPEAKER_01: I was I was plotting ways to get out of it, but there was absolutely no way that I could have.
15:50
SPEAKER_06: Would you what would have been your I mean, obviously we're not gonna lie, we're not gonna lie to get out of jury duty.
15:54
SPEAKER_06: We'll be honest and forthright, but if you were to be up there, what would you say to try to get out of jury duty?
16:02
SPEAKER_01: I would literally just say that I have something in my life that is related to the case.
16:07
SPEAKER_06: That's boring.
16:07
SPEAKER_06: You're chosen.
16:09
SPEAKER_01: Not really.
16:10
SPEAKER_06: If a lawyer doesn't like the way you look or the the tone of your voice, they don't care.
16:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, what what would you say?
16:19
SPEAKER_01: Chosen immediately.
16:21
SPEAKER_01: Faker.
16:22
SPEAKER_01: My grandfather.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: Sympathetic.
16:24
SPEAKER_04: My great-great-grandfather.
16:28
SPEAKER_04: He's from Italy.
16:29
SPEAKER_04: He's on his deathbed.
16:31
SPEAKER_06: I need to go see him.
16:32
SPEAKER_01: If your great-great-grandfather is still alive, that's really impressive.
16:37
SPEAKER_06: I'm 41, so he would have been 120, 110, something like that.
16:41
SPEAKER_01: Think that's a record.
16:44
SPEAKER_06: If a lawyer hears that, they they wouldn't, you don't think they would send me to Italy to go see him?
16:49
SPEAKER_01: No.
16:50
SPEAKER_01: They're gonna send you, you think they're gonna pay for your own?
16:52
SPEAKER_06: They might if I'm a good if I'm good at bullshit.
16:54
SPEAKER_01: Or I feel like if if you just got up there and you were like, hey, you know what?
16:57
SPEAKER_01: Like I'm I'm diagnosed, I'm a pathological liar.
17:02
SPEAKER_01: Maybe then they would dismiss you.
17:05
SPEAKER_06: That sounded a little too natural coming out of your mouth.
17:08
SPEAKER_06: You you've you've practiced that before, haven't you?
17:11
SPEAKER_01: No.
17:15
SPEAKER_06: Even that laugh scared the shit out of me, too, but that's all right.
17:18
SPEAKER_06: Uh all right, well, Tupac Shakura.
17:21
SPEAKER_06: Rip.
17:22
SPEAKER_06: R.I.P.
17:22
SPEAKER_06: Shout out Tupac.
17:23
SPEAKER_06: R.I.P.
17:24
SPEAKER_06: in peace.
17:25
SPEAKER_06: Uh we talked about the ghost hotels, and Julie was very confused about this.
17:30
SPEAKER_06: Uh our girl, you know, I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna post about I'm gonna put it on my episode.
17:35
SPEAKER_06: Our girl Heather Collins, she um made a post about the Oyo uh hotel.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: If you guys I okay, I have I do know what the ghost hotel is then.
17:45
SPEAKER_06: Alright, so let's Brian, have you heard this?
17:47
SPEAKER_06: I have not.
17:48
SPEAKER_06: Alright, so let's play this real quick um so you can kind of get the gist of what's going on here.
17:53
SPEAKER_00: In my 36 years of living in Las Vegas, I've never seen something so hilarious, but there's no palette hotel in Las Vegas.
18:01
SPEAKER_00: This is what's happening.
18:02
SPEAKER_00: You know how on Doordash they have like secret ghost kitchen, but they're like out of regular restaurants that we know about.
18:08
SPEAKER_00: Well, I think that's what Palette is trying to do here.
18:11
SPEAKER_00: Because Palette is Oyo Hotel, which is so funny because on hotels.com, this is not what this casino looks like outside.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: And the reason why people are having trouble finding it is because they used 117 East Tropicana instead of their real address 115 East Tropicana.
18:28
SPEAKER_06: So basically what's going on is Oreo is pretending to be this palette hotel on other booking websites like booking.com or whatever it is.
18:36
SPEAKER_06: And they're showing fake photos.
18:39
SPEAKER_06: They're or they're just not showing any branded photos of what the hotel actually looks like.
18:44
SPEAKER_06: Um, and it's and that they they changed the address on it.
18:48
SPEAKER_06: So you don't, if you look up the address, you're not gonna find the old Hooters hotel, you're gonna find nothing basically on the strip.
18:54
SPEAKER_01: Uh, but that's that's the game that they're playing, which I even saw one where it was a picture of like the Oyo front desk, but they had used AI to put the palette logo where it normally says Oyo behind the front desk.
19:07
SPEAKER_06: Blows my mind.
19:08
SPEAKER_07: Fucking crazy.
19:09
SPEAKER_01: Brandon, would you stay at Palette?
19:11
SPEAKER_07: Hell no.
19:12
SPEAKER_07: No chance.
19:13
SPEAKER_07: I'm staying at the link for$200 a night next to Hash House of Go Go and the High Roller.
19:20
SPEAKER_01: You know, me and Tyler were talking about Oyo, though.
19:22
SPEAKER_01: We were like, they might actually get quite a bit of business with the ballpark next door.
19:27
SPEAKER_01: Oh, they definitely will.
19:28
SPEAKER_07: Where it's supposed to be, next to the ballpark.
19:30
SPEAKER_01: No, Oyo already exists.
19:32
SPEAKER_01: And it the they're building the ballpark right next to the street.
19:34
SPEAKER_07: I was told how long have you lived in Vegas, Brian?
19:37
SPEAKER_07: Like, this is my first blue year.
19:41
SPEAKER_01: Oyo is like normally all over the place.
19:44
SPEAKER_01: And they're like one of those extended stay, low lower quality.
19:50
SPEAKER_06: Oyo used to be the Hooters Hotel.
19:51
SPEAKER_06: Oh, word.
19:52
SPEAKER_06: Do you do you remember the Hooters Hotel?
19:53
SPEAKER_06: No.
19:54
SPEAKER_01: Do you know where the Hooters is off the strip?
19:56
SPEAKER_06: Have you heard of Hooters?
19:57
SPEAKER_06: Oh yes, because Hooters had a hotel in Vegas.
20:00
SPEAKER_06: And it was Imagine.
20:02
SPEAKER_06: Have you been to a Hooters?
20:03
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
20:05
SPEAKER_06: They know you by name.
20:08
SPEAKER_01: They they're family friendly now.
20:10
SPEAKER_01: Are they?
20:11
SPEAKER_06: Oh god.
20:11
SPEAKER_01: They changed their uniform.
20:12
SPEAKER_06: That's disappointing.
20:13
SPEAKER_06: Well, either way, imagine if Hooters, the restaurants you've been to, had a hotel.
20:18
SPEAKER_06: It's exactly like you would expect it to be before they became friendly friends.
20:22
SPEAKER_06: Anyways, Hooters, the hotel, changed the name to Oyo.
20:26
SPEAKER_06: Maybe they got bought out.
20:27
SPEAKER_06: I don't know what happened.
20:28
SPEAKER_06: Don't really care.
20:29
SPEAKER_06: But I really don't think much was improved other than just the name changing.
20:33
SPEAKER_06: So now Hooters slash Oyo is is pretending to be this great hotel that is, you know, obviously not, which blows my mind that they thought this was a good idea.
20:45
SPEAKER_06: And I I I don't even know the legality behind this, but it it's gotta be illegal, right?
20:51
SPEAKER_06: Maybe I don't know.
20:53
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we just don't have a law about it yet, because I don't I mean, obviously we know it's been happening with restaurants, but I don't know if it's ever happened with hotels before.
21:02
SPEAKER_06: It yeah, I I don't I don't know either.
21:04
SPEAKER_06: You're right.
21:04
SPEAKER_06: It has it's that's what ghost kitchens are.
21:07
SPEAKER_06: These restaurants will pretend to be, you know, this fancy Italian place when in the end it's actually Domino's or something like that.
21:14
SPEAKER_06: But you see the fancy Italian place with a totally different name with high quality photos, and you're like, oh, that pizza looks good.
21:20
SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna order a pizza from this hot new Italian joint.
21:23
SPEAKER_06: Turns out it's shows up in a Domino's box.
21:26
SPEAKER_06: So that leads us to the game that we're about to play.
21:31
SPEAKER_06: Let's play a little uh theme song.
21:32
SPEAKER_06: Let's see.
21:33
SPEAKER_01: I gotta move my mic because I can barely see the screen right now.
21:35
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
21:36
SPEAKER_06: Well, let's let's play a little game show theme song.
21:38
SPEAKER_06: See if this works.
21:42
SPEAKER_06: All right, everybody! Welcome to I don't know the name of it.
21:49
SPEAKER_06: Uh we'll figure it out.
21:50
SPEAKER_07: We'll figure it out in the game.
21:52
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
21:53
SPEAKER_06: I'm your host, Jack Mayhoffer, coming at you live from the big death.
22:00
SPEAKER_06: What's that look for?
22:05
SPEAKER_01: Jack Meyhoff.
22:08
SPEAKER_06: Um yeah, we're we're we're also a family-friendly show.
22:12
SPEAKER_06: We're like we're like Hooter's present day now.
22:14
SPEAKER_06: We were raunchy, but now we're we play it safe.
22:17
SPEAKER_01: Right.
22:17
SPEAKER_06: All right, so I'm gonna show you uh some pictures.
22:20
SPEAKER_06: We're gonna show you we'll see how it goes.
22:22
SPEAKER_06: First of all, we're gonna get Heather off the screen.
22:23
SPEAKER_06: So goodbye, Heather.
22:25
SPEAKER_06: Let's get her out of here.
22:29
SPEAKER_06: Goodbye.
22:29
SPEAKER_06: All right.
22:30
SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna show you ten photos and I'm gonna tell you where they're from, what the ghost kitchen is, and you're gonna tell me what the restaurant actually is.
22:40
SPEAKER_01: And you're sure they're all places we would know.
22:42
SPEAKER_06: Yes.
22:43
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
22:44
SPEAKER_06: Yes, absolutely.
22:45
SPEAKER_06: All right, so the first one is called The Burger Den.
22:49
SPEAKER_06: And let's pull this over real quick.
22:51
SPEAKER_01: Are me and Brandon competing?
22:53
SPEAKER_06: Yes, so let's actually go one at a time.
22:55
SPEAKER_06: So you each get one question each.
22:56
SPEAKER_06: So Brandon, we'll start with you.
22:58
SPEAKER_06: The Burger Den, big stacked burgers built for late night cravings.
23:03
SPEAKER_06: Is this burger from Red Robin?
23:07
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
23:08
SPEAKER_06: Is it from Denny's?
23:09
SPEAKER_06: iHop or Applebee's?
23:12
SPEAKER_06: Applebee's final answer?
23:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
23:15
SPEAKER_06: Ooh, so sorry.
23:17
SPEAKER_06: It's B Denny's.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: That's what I thought too, because it looks just like a Denny's ad.
23:22
SPEAKER_06: You know what a Denny's ad looks like?
23:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
23:24
SPEAKER_01: You haven't seen a Denny's ad?
23:25
SPEAKER_01: I don't think I have.
23:26
SPEAKER_06: Oh shucks.
23:27
SPEAKER_06: Onto the next.
23:28
SPEAKER_06: Alright, well then here's a little curveball at you, Julie.
23:31
SPEAKER_06: You're next.
23:31
SPEAKER_06: This place is called.
23:34
SPEAKER_06: I think I know those.
23:36
SPEAKER_06: It's just wings.
23:38
SPEAKER_06: Crispy wings, bold sauces, and no distractions.
23:41
SPEAKER_06: Is this A, Buffalo Wild Wings?
23:43
SPEAKER_06: B Applebee's.
23:45
SPEAKER_06: C, chilies, or D, BJ's restaurant.
23:49
SPEAKER_01: Hmm.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: That is.
23:53
SPEAKER_06: Take your time with this.
23:55
SPEAKER_01: See, I was thinking wing stop, and then you didn't give me that as an answer.
23:59
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go with Buffalo Wild Wings.
24:01
SPEAKER_06: Final answer?
24:02
SPEAKER_01: Final answer.
24:03
SPEAKER_06: Ooh, so sorry.
24:05
SPEAKER_06: Chili! Chili! Chilies, ladies and gentlemen.
24:09
SPEAKER_06: Uh now this one, unfortunately.
24:12
SPEAKER_01: Are you gonna leave all of them up there?
24:14
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's right.
24:15
SPEAKER_06: This one, so you can look at all this delectable, delicious food that we have here.
24:20
SPEAKER_06: This one is no longer in business, but this was like the first major one that people, when they found out, they were like, wow.
24:29
SPEAKER_01: Like the ghost kitchen's no longer in business, or the actual place is no longer in business?
24:32
SPEAKER_06: The ghost kitchen is no longer in business.
24:34
SPEAKER_06: It's called Pasquale's Pizza and Wings.
24:37
SPEAKER_06: Mmm, that does look good.
24:39
SPEAKER_07: That shit is dominoes.
24:40
SPEAKER_06: Big pizzas, bold wings, and classic comfort food delivered straight to your door.
24:45
SPEAKER_01: I already have a guess for what that is, but it's Brandon's turn.
24:47
SPEAKER_06: Brandon, is this Pizza Hut, Chuck E.
24:50
SPEAKER_06: Cheese, Peter Piper Pizza, or California Pizza Kitchen?
24:54
SPEAKER_06: Oh wow, none of them.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: My guess is on that list.
24:58
SPEAKER_06: Chuck E.
24:59
SPEAKER_06: Cheese.
25:01
SPEAKER_01: Definitely Chuck E.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: Cheese.
25:02
SPEAKER_01: It's Chuck Eese.
25:05
SPEAKER_01: Very good.
25:05
SPEAKER_06: Brandon's in the lead.
25:06
SPEAKER_06: 1-0.
25:07
SPEAKER_06: Have you eaten from Pasqualis, aka Chucky Cheese before?
25:10
SPEAKER_06: No, I have not.
25:11
SPEAKER_01: You've never eaten out of Chuck E.
25:12
SPEAKER_01: Cheese?
25:13
SPEAKER_06: No, I haven't.
25:14
SPEAKER_06: Brandon, you well I guess Chuck E.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: Cheese was like dead for your childhood.
25:19
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Brandon.
25:20
SPEAKER_06: Brandon is still in his childhood, too.
25:22
SPEAKER_06: Chuck E.
25:23
SPEAKER_01: Cheese is like the poor man's David Busters, just so you know.
25:25
SPEAKER_06: Really?
25:27
SPEAKER_06: Shout out Chuck E.
25:28
SPEAKER_06: Cheese.
25:28
SPEAKER_06: Uh, this one is called the Meltdown.
25:32
SPEAKER_06: Grilled sandwiches stuffed with melted cheese and comfort food filling.
25:36
SPEAKER_01: I have to interrupt.
25:37
SPEAKER_01: I'm glad that you're showing me this because there are plenty of times that I have almost ordered from the meltdown.
25:42
SPEAKER_06: Really?
25:43
SPEAKER_06: Well, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised or maybe disappointed on it.
25:46
SPEAKER_01: Alright.
25:47
SPEAKER_01: Give me my options.
25:48
SPEAKER_06: We have A, Denny's, B, Applebee's, C, Chili's, or D, BJ's.
25:56
SPEAKER_01: It's gotta be BJ's.
25:58
SPEAKER_06: Final answer?
25:59
SPEAKER_06: Yep.
26:00
SPEAKER_06: I'm so sorry.
26:01
SPEAKER_06: Ding! Oh, it's Denny's.
26:04
SPEAKER_01: Denny's again.
26:05
SPEAKER_01: Look like the bread.
26:06
SPEAKER_06: It looks like the bread.
26:07
SPEAKER_01: But it's not from a Denny's ad, so I can't identify.
26:11
SPEAKER_06: I had to throw you curveballs because you watch so many ads.
26:15
SPEAKER_06: Now I gotta not show you ads.
26:17
SPEAKER_06: Alright, next up.
26:19
SPEAKER_06: We have uh pardon my cheesesteak.
26:24
unknown: What?
26:25
SPEAKER_06: Just gonna leave it at that.
26:27
SPEAKER_06: Mmm.
26:28
SPEAKER_06: Delicious.
26:29
SPEAKER_06: Loaded cheesesteaks made for messy late night eating.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: I already know what it is.
26:35
SPEAKER_06: Which restaurant does this make?
26:36
SPEAKER_06: Which restaurant is making this food?
26:38
SPEAKER_06: Is it again a Denny's?
26:40
SPEAKER_06: B Red Robin, C, IHop, or D, Outback Steakhouse?
26:45
SPEAKER_06: Oh.
26:46
SPEAKER_06: These are tough.
26:48
SPEAKER_06: They're getting tougher.
26:49
SPEAKER_06: I'm gonna lean outback.
26:50
SPEAKER_06: Final answer.
26:52
SPEAKER_06: Final answer.
26:53
SPEAKER_06: Ooh, so sorry.
26:56
SPEAKER_06: Julie, do you want to take a stab?
26:57
SPEAKER_01: Nope, mine wasn't on the list.
26:59
SPEAKER_06: What would you have said?
27:00
SPEAKER_06: Firehouse.
27:00
SPEAKER_06: Ooh, firehouse.
27:01
SPEAKER_06: I thought it was Mike's way or something.
27:04
SPEAKER_06: This is uh iHop.
27:06
SPEAKER_06: iHop making cheesesteaks.
27:07
SPEAKER_06: No, they had cheesesteaks.
27:08
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't trust it.
27:09
SPEAKER_06: International House of Cheesesteaks.
27:11
SPEAKER_06: How about that?
27:12
SPEAKER_06: All right.
27:12
SPEAKER_06: Next up we have room.
27:14
SPEAKER_06: I think we're over halfway done.
27:15
SPEAKER_06: So I know we're blowing through this.
27:17
SPEAKER_06: Uh but right now.
27:19
SPEAKER_06: You guys are not doing well at all.
27:21
SPEAKER_03: I know, I know.
27:22
SPEAKER_06: Next up is the Tender Shack.
27:24
SPEAKER_06: Julie, this one's for you.
27:26
SPEAKER_06: I know you're a big chicken tendies type of gal.
27:30
SPEAKER_06: I already know it.
27:31
SPEAKER_06: Crispy chicken tenders, fries, and dipping sauces.
27:33
SPEAKER_06: Done simple.
27:35
SPEAKER_06: Is this A BJ's?
27:38
SPEAKER_06: B Outback Steakhouse.
27:40
SPEAKER_06: C Red Robin or D chilies?
27:43
SPEAKER_01: Just kidding.
27:44
SPEAKER_01: That looks like cane sauce if I've ever seen cane sauce.
27:48
SPEAKER_01: Um cane sauce is cane.
27:50
SPEAKER_06: Raising cane's is not on the list.
27:51
SPEAKER_06: I'm sorry.
27:53
SPEAKER_01: This is hold on, can you rapid fire my answer choices?
27:56
SPEAKER_06: Yes, it's BJ's, Outback Steakhouse, Red Robin, or Chili's.
28:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna go with Outback because of the fries.
28:04
unknown: Why?
28:05
SPEAKER_01: They look like the fries you get with steak.
28:08
SPEAKER_01: You don't eat steak.
28:09
SPEAKER_01: But I've seen the fries.
28:12
SPEAKER_06: Well, you'd be correct.
28:15
SPEAKER_06: One in one.
28:16
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
28:17
SPEAKER_01: Very nice.
28:17
SPEAKER_01: It's all tied up, Brandon.
28:19
SPEAKER_06: We have cleaning up, cleaning up two, three, four.
28:22
SPEAKER_06: Four more, four more to go.
28:24
SPEAKER_06: Alright.
28:24
SPEAKER_06: Alright, next up is a favorite of mine.
28:28
SPEAKER_06: Banda burrito.
28:30
SPEAKER_06: Coming at you live.
28:32
SPEAKER_06: Look at how good that looks.
28:33
SPEAKER_06: Comes with a saxophone, too.
28:34
SPEAKER_06: Oh, I think so.
28:36
SPEAKER_06: Loaded burritos with big portions and bold Mexican-inspired flavors.
28:41
SPEAKER_06: Brandon, is this A, IHop.
28:45
SPEAKER_06: B, chilies.
28:46
SPEAKER_06: C, Denny's, or D, Applebee's.
28:50
SPEAKER_06: Chili's.
28:51
SPEAKER_06: Final answer.
28:52
SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
28:53
SPEAKER_07: Ooh! So sorry.
28:55
SPEAKER_07: Why would you say chilies?
28:56
SPEAKER_07: I don't know, man.
28:57
SPEAKER_07: It's about the display.
28:58
SPEAKER_07: It doesn't look so.
28:59
SPEAKER_07: It looks very chili.
29:00
SPEAKER_07: Is it Applebee's?
29:01
SPEAKER_06: No, it's Denny's.
29:02
SPEAKER_06: Denny's Denny's.
29:04
SPEAKER_06: Look at Denny's with the saxophone and the pint of beer.
29:06
SPEAKER_06: Denny's had like three or four hits already today.
29:08
SPEAKER_01: You notice how it's like the same four restaurants that have a bunch of ghost kitchens?
29:12
SPEAKER_01: Shit, load of ghost kitchens.
29:14
SPEAKER_06: Trust no one on these ordering apps.
29:17
SPEAKER_06: Um all right, three left.
29:18
SPEAKER_06: We have chicken sammies.
29:21
SPEAKER_06: Here we go.
29:21
SPEAKER_06: Chicken Sammys coming at you.
29:23
SPEAKER_06: Let's see.
29:24
SPEAKER_06: This actually doesn't look that bad.
29:26
SPEAKER_06: I don't know where that is.
29:27
SPEAKER_06: Crispy chicken sandwiches made for serious sanctions.
29:28
SPEAKER_01: Can you make it bigger?
29:31
SPEAKER_06: Sure, sure, sure.
29:32
SPEAKER_06: Let's see what we got here.
29:34
SPEAKER_06: How about that?
29:34
SPEAKER_06: Let's just zoom in there.
29:37
SPEAKER_06: Alright.
29:38
SPEAKER_06: Crispy Chicken Sandwiches made for serious sandwich people.
29:41
SPEAKER_06: Is this A, Applebee's?
29:43
SPEAKER_06: B, red robin.
29:44
SPEAKER_06: C Outback Steakhouse.
29:46
SPEAKER_06: D Denny's.
29:47
SPEAKER_06: I feel like we can just basically use the same multiple choice.
29:50
SPEAKER_06: Pretty much.
29:50
SPEAKER_06: All of these questions.
29:51
SPEAKER_01: Except that's gotta be Red Robin because the sesame seed buns and the onion rings.
29:59
SPEAKER_04: Jesus Christ.
30:00
SPEAKER_04: You're so good at this, guys.
30:01
SPEAKER_04: Right.
30:02
SPEAKER_04: How?
30:03
SPEAKER_04: No way, dude.
30:04
SPEAKER_01: Because none of those other places use sesame seed buns, to my knowledge.
30:08
unknown: What the fuck?
30:08
SPEAKER_06: I think we need to talk about your eating habits, Julie.
30:11
SPEAKER_01: I've only had red robin once and I was like 11.
30:14
SPEAKER_04: This is becoming a runaway.
30:16
SPEAKER_06: Wow, what a joke.
30:17
SPEAKER_06: We are uh we have the last one or the last two left.
30:22
SPEAKER_07: I need to get this.
30:22
SPEAKER_07: And Julie needs to get the next one.
30:24
SPEAKER_06: For the win.
30:25
SPEAKER_06: Or for the tie.
30:26
SPEAKER_06: For the tie.
30:28
SPEAKER_06: Oh my god.
30:32
SPEAKER_06: This one is called Super Megadilla.
30:35
SPEAKER_06: Oversized quesadillas packed with the fuck is that?
30:41
SPEAKER_01: Meat.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: He pulled this from Reddit.
30:44
SPEAKER_07: What are we supposed to make of this?
30:45
SPEAKER_06: Super Megadilla.
30:46
SPEAKER_06: Which restaurant is actually making this food?
30:48
SPEAKER_06: Is it A, I hop, B, Denny's, C, Chili's, or D Red Robin?
30:53
SPEAKER_01: Or E andrew's kitchen.
30:54
SPEAKER_06: Or E my dinner last night.
30:56
SPEAKER_07: It's totally E.
30:57
SPEAKER_06: What?
30:58
SPEAKER_06: You said Denny's?
31:00
SPEAKER_06: Denny's is on there, yes.
31:01
SPEAKER_07: I've always skipped Denny's.
31:03
SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna bet Denny's.
31:04
SPEAKER_06: You're going Denny's?
31:05
SPEAKER_06: Final answer?
31:05
SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
31:06
SPEAKER_06: I am so sorry, Brandon.
31:07
SPEAKER_06: A IHOP.
31:09
SPEAKER_01: That looks repulsive.
31:11
SPEAKER_06: It looks terrible.
31:13
SPEAKER_06: They served that in jail, I believe.
31:15
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that looks just for anybody that's just listening to this episode, please watch this on YouTube because that is horrendous.
31:23
SPEAKER_06: And Julie, since you basically won, but just for bragging rights, if you want to do the last ones, called Slow Roast.
31:30
SPEAKER_06: Slow roast?
31:30
SPEAKER_06: Slow roast.
31:31
SPEAKER_06: Alright.
31:32
SPEAKER_06: And this is uh this actually looks pretty good.
31:36
SPEAKER_06: Slow roasted comfort food with hearty home style feel.
31:39
SPEAKER_06: Is this A, Outback?
31:42
SPEAKER_06: Black Bear Diner, C, BJ's, or D, Chili's.
31:49
SPEAKER_01: It's either Outback or the Bear place.
31:53
SPEAKER_06: Black Bear Diner.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Black Bear Diner.
31:56
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna stick with Outback because I think the chicken looks like Outback Chicken.
32:02
SPEAKER_06: Final answer.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: I guess.
32:04
SPEAKER_01: I don't feel as confident this time.
32:06
SPEAKER_06: I'm so sorry.
32:08
SPEAKER_06: Brandon, for shits and gigs, do you want to give it a shot?
32:10
SPEAKER_06: Did you say chilies?
32:11
SPEAKER_06: Uh chilies is on the chilies.
32:13
SPEAKER_06: It is not chilies either.
32:15
SPEAKER_06: It's either Black Bear Diner or BJ's restaurant.
32:18
SPEAKER_07: Oh, we both got it wrong.
32:19
SPEAKER_01: I mean, I guess it could be BJ's, but I'm gonna go with Black Bear.
32:23
SPEAKER_06: You would again be wrong because BJ's restaurant and brew house.
32:27
SPEAKER_01: I stole one.
32:28
SPEAKER_01: I'm chilling.
32:29
SPEAKER_06: You did.
32:30
SPEAKER_04: But the fact that you know all of the side dishes, so with these.
32:34
SPEAKER_01: Listen, I was a vegetarian for so long that when it comes to the fries and the onion rings, and because people want to go out for burgers, and I don't want to be the one person that's like, no, we can't do that.
32:44
SPEAKER_01: So I'm really well versed in French fries, onion rings, tater tots.
32:48
SPEAKER_01: You had an advantage, man.
32:50
SPEAKER_06: I think you just outed Tyler's eating habits, then, is what you did because Tyler's eating habits.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: I actually was only a vegetarian for like a year after we met.
32:57
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
32:57
SPEAKER_01: So this was this was all pre-Tyler.
33:00
SPEAKER_06: Listen, out of all of these choices, the one that looks the most delicious is the Super Megadilla, which is that uh my dinner from what I said.
33:07
SPEAKER_01: It literally looks like somebody got sick in the middle of the case.
33:10
SPEAKER_06: That was dreadful.
33:10
SPEAKER_06: I can't I don't even want to pull it up.
33:12
SPEAKER_01: It's a whole thing.
33:13
SPEAKER_06: But either way, well done, boys and girls.
33:15
SPEAKER_06: All right, so here's the deal.
33:16
SPEAKER_06: We have a date.
33:17
SPEAKER_06: We gotta go.
33:18
SPEAKER_06: We got to go.
33:19
SPEAKER_06: We're gonna go to the racing zone.
33:22
SPEAKER_06: Uh I say you place a little friendly wager.
33:24
SPEAKER_06: Anyone that beats me will get$100.
33:27
SPEAKER_06: And that's not to say that I'm a good driver, it's to say that I think I'm a shitty driver, but I think both of you are shittier driving.
33:34
SPEAKER_01: You literally, you literally don't drive.
33:36
SPEAKER_01: Your car drives for you.
33:37
SPEAKER_01: This is the first time you're gonna be actually operating a vehicle in years.
33:41
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, they don't have that option?
33:42
unknown: No.
33:43
SPEAKER_06: Oh shit.
33:44
SPEAKER_01: Imagine they put a Tesla in it.
33:47
SPEAKER_06: Self-drive.
33:48
SPEAKER_06: Just Elon take the wheel, baby.
33:50
SPEAKER_01: I will say I've only ever driven like fully automatic normal cars.
33:54
SPEAKER_01: So this is gonna be real interesting.
33:56
SPEAKER_06: Brandon's never heard of a manual or stick shift before.
33:58
SPEAKER_07: Never heard of a stick shift before.
33:59
SPEAKER_07: Exactly.
34:00
SPEAKER_06: So it's gonna work out in my favor.
34:01
SPEAKER_06: It's gonna be great.
34:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, thanks, Jack Mayhoff.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: This was a really fun game.
34:07
SPEAKER_06: Stay tuned for uh more Big Head after this because we have Hearts Alive coming in to talk a little bit about their uh upcoming events and how we're gonna partner with them.
34:17
SPEAKER_06: But yeah, we'll see you at the racing zone and we'll be right back.
34:19
SPEAKER_07: Cool.
34:20
SPEAKER_07: Toodles.
34:20
SPEAKER_06: Toodles.
34:22
SPEAKER_06: All right, Julie, we're back.
34:25
SPEAKER_01: We're back once again.
34:26
SPEAKER_06: Once again, here we are.
34:27
SPEAKER_06: Well, listen, Big Head.
34:30
SPEAKER_06: I want to do a little something different with our show.
34:32
SPEAKER_06: You know, every now and then we have uh a good amount of guests that we have on, and they're you know, people like Piff the Magic Dragon, entertainers, or CEOs, or you know, musicians, whatever it is.
34:45
SPEAKER_06: We've had so many incredible people on that to share their stories, and there's so many more people out there too.
34:51
SPEAKER_06: But I also I wanted to give back.
34:53
SPEAKER_06: Uh you know, we we take so much and we you know we have so many incredible people in Vegas that have come to us and shared their stories.
35:00
SPEAKER_06: But now I I feel like with Big Head, we can give back to the community in some somehow, some way.
35:06
SPEAKER_06: And we look we were looking for foundations to kind of partner with.
35:11
SPEAKER_06: Um, and the first one we came across, actually, you came across it, right?
35:14
SPEAKER_06: Was Hearts of Live Village.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: That's true.
35:16
SPEAKER_01: You know me and my passion for animals.
35:18
SPEAKER_06: We do love our animals.
35:19
SPEAKER_06: We do.
35:20
SPEAKER_06: You have how many dogs?
35:21
SPEAKER_01: I have two now, but my family has always had ample amounts of pets.
35:27
SPEAKER_06: So where'd you get your dogs from, by the way?
35:29
SPEAKER_01: Um one of them was on a like a farm in Texas and wasn't being taken care of correctly.
35:37
SPEAKER_01: And the other one was somebody else in San Antonio who had an accidental litter.
35:41
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
35:42
SPEAKER_01: And they couldn't take care of him.
35:43
SPEAKER_06: And that was that.
35:44
SPEAKER_01: And that was that.
35:45
SPEAKER_06: I have uh I have a cat, a little orange wild child.
35:50
SPEAKER_06: He is uh he keeps me on my toes and he's very expensive, but he I love him to death.
35:54
SPEAKER_06: Um but Hearts of Life Village was a no-brainer for everybody on the team, Brandon included, even though Brandon doesn't have any pets at the moment.
36:01
SPEAKER_01: He wants one, but his family doesn't want exactly.
36:04
SPEAKER_06: We're negotiating with his parents to try to get him to uh allow them to have a pet in there.
36:09
SPEAKER_06: Um but no, Hearts of Life Village, they what they do in this community and what they do for um animals of of all kinds is so great.
36:18
SPEAKER_06: And so today we have Christy from Hearts of Life Village.
36:21
SPEAKER_06: Christy, you were the owner or the the founder of Hearts of Life Village.
36:26
SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes, yeah.
36:28
SPEAKER_02: I'm the founder.
36:28
SPEAKER_02: I like to say it was my it was all my daughter's fault.
36:31
SPEAKER_02: Yes, because it was uh you know a little girl's dream that turned out to be her mother's as well.
36:36
SPEAKER_02: And we beautiful we went for it.
36:38
SPEAKER_06: How old was your daughter when she brought this up?
36:40
SPEAKER_02: She was she was about 10 and a half at the time.
36:43
SPEAKER_02: She's 24 now.
36:44
SPEAKER_06: That's wild.
36:44
SPEAKER_06: So for 14, 15 years you've you've been in charge of Hearts Alive.
36:48
SPEAKER_01: We've been building it.
36:49
SPEAKER_06: I love that.
36:50
SPEAKER_01: What was it that made you go from, you know, my my daughter mentioned this or however she brought it up to you to okay, let's go ahead and do it.
36:59
SPEAKER_02: Um I I would have to say it was our volunteer experience in a little rescue shelter that was here that we'd been working with for a couple of years.
37:09
SPEAKER_02: And uh it all culminated at the end of her fifth grade when I was cleaning out her desk, you know, and all the composition notebooks you're deciding as a parent what to keep, what not to keep.
37:21
SPEAKER_02: And she had written in there um, if I had one wish, and she wrote all about that she would have a rescue and a sanctuary, and she would call it Hearts Alive, and she would rescue everything from goats and pigs to dogs and cats and horses, and um kind of wrote on and on about it.
37:38
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, holy mackerel.
37:40
SPEAKER_02: So anyway, took the composition notebook home and asked her that night, and she said, Yeah, it's my dream, it's what I want to do, but I didn't think it was possible because you work so much.
37:50
SPEAKER_02: So I was like, ouch.
37:53
SPEAKER_06: Where were you living at the time?
37:54
SPEAKER_02: Um I mean here in Vegas.
37:56
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
37:56
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, we're just you know, I I had my own company for 28 years.
38:01
SPEAKER_02: She was right.
38:02
SPEAKER_02: I worked my tail off way over 40 hours a week.
38:07
SPEAKER_02: And sometimes my kids wouldn't see me when it was trade show time, for instance.
38:11
SPEAKER_02: You know, we were a large format digital printer, so we did all the trade shows, and you're sp you know, spending nights at your shop.
38:18
SPEAKER_06: 25 hours a day, eight days a week.
38:20
SPEAKER_02: That's true.
38:20
SPEAKER_02: When it's your own company, that's what happens.
38:22
SPEAKER_02: And so she was right.
38:23
SPEAKER_02: And to be real, I was pretty disillusioned.
38:26
SPEAKER_02: And I said, that's not gonna keep my daughter from her dream, this crap that I'm doing that I don't really love.
38:31
SPEAKER_02: What do we mean to?
38:32
SPEAKER_02: You know, we can start small, and that's what we did.
38:34
SPEAKER_02: We started small with a little pet food bank and we named it Kendall's Cupboard.
38:38
SPEAKER_02: And then we rescued our first dogs into a foster program in 2014, and now almost 19,000 animals later, plus, you know, plus plus plus.
38:50
SPEAKER_06: Yeah, plus plus plus.
38:51
SPEAKER_06: Can we brag about you?
38:52
SPEAKER_06: You did so 19,000 plus animals, more is it correct me if I'm wrong, more than 110,000 treated?
38:58
SPEAKER_06: Is that sound about right?
38:59
SPEAKER_02: Oh gosh, I can't imagine.
39:01
SPEAKER_02: Actually, we started really keeping track when because we just started um the access to care model, getting clinics, because all we were trying to do is say, holy mackerel, we're never gonna rescue our way out of this problem.
39:15
SPEAKER_02: And why are these pets ending up in the system in the first place?
39:18
SPEAKER_02: And let's get upstream of it somehow.
39:20
SPEAKER_02: That was the goal.
39:21
SPEAKER_02: And what we were seeing as we were rescuing, rescuing owner surrenders or you know, pulling dogs from the shelter, people were desperate, they couldn't access care for their pets, and so we started providing medical care to try to keep the family together so we wouldn't have to rescue the animal.
39:40
SPEAKER_02: Home is the biggest piece of the puzzle if we really think about it.
39:43
SPEAKER_02: So that's how the access to care thing started, which really didn't start till 2020.
39:48
SPEAKER_02: And it was such a grind because it it was the first one in our state, a full service, nonprofit animal hospital providing low-cost care.
39:58
SPEAKER_02: And it was a grind.
39:59
SPEAKER_02: It was really hard to get the right people on the bus, the right doctors, the right team, um, formulating how we could like provide care without drowning ourselves in you know, in loss.
40:12
SPEAKER_02: And so getting that formula took a while.
40:14
SPEAKER_02: We started keeping track really well in 2025.
40:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
40:18
SPEAKER_02: And in that year, we saved all we served almost 25,000 pets in one year.
40:24
unknown: Wow.
40:24
SPEAKER_02: So um, we're on track to do more than that this come this 2026 because we have two clinics now.
40:30
SPEAKER_02: So I love that.
40:32
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, big impact.
40:33
SPEAKER_05: Before we dive, oh let me move this camera over a little bit.
40:36
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
40:37
SPEAKER_05: Sorry.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: Oh, we're a little off center.
40:50
SPEAKER_05: I just wanted to make sure we have more of Chris together.
40:53
SPEAKER_06: Uh give it a second and then start your question.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: Before we dive any deeper um with like the more specific questions, can you just tell us everything that Hearts Alive Village offers in totality?
41:06
SPEAKER_01: Of course, we know you have the foster system and you have your rescues and you have the clinics as well, but there are quite a few other things that y'all offer as well.
41:14
SPEAKER_02: Right.
41:14
SPEAKER_02: Well, what what ends up happening is when you create a program like access to care and you have doctors and you have all these other other things start to happen for you.
41:25
SPEAKER_02: Like people start coming and saying, Hey, could you provide this?
41:28
SPEAKER_02: Hey, now that you have these doctors.
41:30
SPEAKER_02: So for instance, Clark County came to us and said, Now that you have this hospital, would you be interested in doing veterinary forensics necropsies for animal cruelty cases?
41:42
SPEAKER_06: Which is what what is that?
41:43
SPEAKER_02: So that's animal autopsies.
41:45
SPEAKER_06: Okay.
41:45
SPEAKER_02: To provide, you know, to collect evidence basically on a suspected cruelty case.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: Wow.
41:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, high-resolution photographs, a total animal autopsy, a veterinary statement that would become a court document.
42:00
SPEAKER_02: And then also a part of that is that our doctors would be expert witnesses in court as well.
42:05
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
42:06
SPEAKER_02: So we there was one, I guess, VCA vet that would maybe do them every once in a while.
42:14
SPEAKER_02: And they would come out to be like, you know, one-page documents or something.
42:18
SPEAKER_03: Sure.
42:19
SPEAKER_02: Our veterinary statements are very in-depth.
42:21
SPEAKER_02: But that wasn't one of those things that, you know, became a program because it was it we didn't know until they came to us and said, we don't have this in our community.
42:30
SPEAKER_02: Can you provide it?
42:31
SPEAKER_02: Right.
42:32
SPEAKER_02: And so we said yes.
42:34
SPEAKER_02: And we also do things like access to care vouchers in the field for our animal protection officers.
42:40
SPEAKER_02: That was um something that we realized that these animal protection officers are out there and having to literally be just punitive all the time.
42:48
SPEAKER_02: And how unfair is that in a space where we know how high veterinary costs are.
42:54
SPEAKER_02: You're basically putting a citation on a family who's living in poverty, who can't resolve the access to care issue for their animal.
43:04
SPEAKER_02: The animal's confiscated, most likely euthanized for its condition, traumatized, traumatized kids, traumatized people.
43:11
SPEAKER_02: It's like nobody loved that.
43:13
SPEAKER_02: Right.
43:13
SPEAKER_02: And so we um we wrote a grant that Best Friends actually funded, and it was such a success that it became a government-funded program from then on.
43:25
SPEAKER_02: They can't live without this incredible community tool to help people, and and everyone that we've helped stays home, you know.
43:35
SPEAKER_02: A lot of times it just takes one intervention, but getting that consensus, but so having this hospital has opened up all kinds of opportunities for way more um programming.
43:46
SPEAKER_02: Uh, we help uh veterans, we have a veterans program called Charlie Mike.
43:50
SPEAKER_02: That's something we've been doing for ages because it just felt like the right thing to do.
43:54
SPEAKER_02: We were reached out to by um VA case managers who were like, what do you have any resources here?
44:03
SPEAKER_02: Because they're just scrapping trying to find resources for their veterans.
44:07
SPEAKER_02: And what do you mean by resources for their veterans?
44:11
SPEAKER_02: Anything.
44:11
SPEAKER_02: They're these case managers are advocating for their veterans, trying to make sure they get the health care they need, trying to make sure of that they get into the right housing.
44:20
SPEAKER_02: Well a lot of times these folks have animals and they may need to get some health care and they don't have anywhere for their animal to go because they've got nobody.
44:29
SPEAKER_02: So for us to be able to hold on to that animal instead of this this man or woman going into medical crisis getting picked up by ambulance, the animal taken to the animal foundation and they lose their best friend.
44:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
44:42
SPEAKER_02: Right.
44:42
SPEAKER_02: Because they've been trying to keep their best friend by postponing their own health care.
44:46
SPEAKER_02: Stuff like that.
44:48
SPEAKER_02: So we became the VA case manager's best friend and we just provided whatever we could for veterans and their pets.
44:56
SPEAKER_02: And then we've even placed uh uh you know companion animals with veterans who are just kind of getting back into the community out of homelessness and into stable housing and you know keeping you know meeting their neighbors because they're out walking their dogs or you know a reason to get up in the morning and we support those relationships ongoing.
45:17
SPEAKER_06: Beautiful.
45:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah so it's it's a it's another gap of resources for the community member that you know is vulnerable like their animals are.
45:26
SPEAKER_06: You know what's wild is I would never have thought of those issues happening about it's because they've never happened to me but it would break my heart if I was in a situation like that where you know I I did lose my best friend or anything like that.
45:39
SPEAKER_06: So the fact you guys are able to you know kind of fill in those roles and and be that that role is is beautiful.
45:44
SPEAKER_06: That's wow.
45:45
SPEAKER_05: That's incredible.
45:46
SPEAKER_02: Well there's someone on the other end of that leash and they're a part of the solution.
45:50
SPEAKER_02: Yeah that's a thing I think we've missed in animal welfare a lot of times is that I think if you you know you've heard that old paradigm if you can't afford a pet you don't deserve one.
46:00
SPEAKER_02: Right.
46:01
SPEAKER_02: Well that's so backwards thinking because if you realize how many pets live in poverty with their people um that's that just doesn't fly.
46:12
SPEAKER_02: Like what we need is is support.
46:15
SPEAKER_02: Right.
46:15
SPEAKER_06: You know we went to the Brandon and I went to the cat cafe and was it Lena is that Lena who was amazing best volunteer coordinator and community engagement guy.
46:26
SPEAKER_06: We love you Lena we love you Lena shout out Lena um she was sharing some stories and she knew all the cats backstories that were there and there were probably 20 30 cats everywhere you look there was another cat to just pop up.
46:37
SPEAKER_06: But she mentioned that there were there there's one cat in particular that was so friendly but for some reason he he was uh adopted but then give uh he was given back or returned does that happen often not too often we it you know over time and really actually the national average has kind of stayed true for us too good we don't see much more than any than like a five percent return most of the time it's in you know the two and a half three percent are there ways to prevent that or things to really try yeah we try so hard what do you try to do yeah I'm telling you there's only so much you can control um what I try to tell my team all the time because you know you want to take you take so much responsibility you put so much into these souls that you've healed them you've helped them you know not be afraid and you're ready and I try to tell my team look you're opportunity facilitators that's what you are for these animals and for these families who are ready to you know welcome a new family member but you don't ultimately don't have control.
47:40
SPEAKER_02: Yeah that's why so many of the myths like uh there's you know have been rescues who won't who won't adopt to people who rent because I don't know they won't adopt to people who rent or that live in an apartment or you know the anyway it's just there's so many things like that but really um adoption counseling trying to find that right fit we do these things called trial placements or foster to adopts okay so that people don't have to make that commitment right up front.
48:09
SPEAKER_02: They say hey man take this kiddo home for a trial spin.
48:12
SPEAKER_02: Let's make sure it's a good fit for you and them and you're our partner in this exploration of a solution for this animal if it's not with you please don't feel bad.
48:23
SPEAKER_02: We're here you'll help us learn more about how to better fit them the next time so it's all about partnership and that's how we try to handle adoptions and if there is a return you try to pat the team on the back and you know it's not your fault we've got another opportunity.
48:40
SPEAKER_06: Do they take it personal?
48:41
SPEAKER_02: It it's we've we've really come a long way in learning that it's not anybody's fault.
48:48
SPEAKER_06: Sure.
48:48
SPEAKER_02: I get that but it's hard not to sometimes you're like dang it I thought that was the right yeah.
48:54
SPEAKER_06: Do you have pets yourself?
48:56
SPEAKER_02: I do.
48:56
SPEAKER_06: What do you have?
48:57
SPEAKER_02: Oh many many many and the and a lot of list goes on they do and a lot of them come to me you know temporarily my house is always full giving animals a break from the from the kennel but my house is mostly full with uh super seniors and special needs like for instance I have a double amputee doggy um there's just you know they the ones that end up with me most of the time have a real hard time getting adopted into the general population.
49:28
SPEAKER_06: Is your daughter the one that helped you start this is she part of the she is my right hand.
49:33
SPEAKER_02: Is she yeah so she she still is with Hearts Alive absolutely and she has played every role she plugs in every place.
49:40
SPEAKER_02: She actually is and one of the things that she had an incredible affinity for is once we had the the hospital she became a veterinary assistant and she's one of our best you know to plug in and she's there doing recovery she can monitor surgery she can you know she does all of that she's a great but she's also been an adoption counselor and or she used to you know sell stuff when we had a thrift store which thank God we don't have anymore.
50:09
SPEAKER_02: But yeah she manages some of our really important grants and um and and manage the medical for a lot of our access to care clients.
50:17
SPEAKER_06: Love that yeah when you are taking an animal in what's the cost of it for you because I some I'm sure are extremely expensive some probably just are easy going whatever what what average it what is average it boils down for us because we save about 2500 animals a year.
50:36
SPEAKER_02: Yeah um and it it boils down to probably about eight or nine hundred dollars per animal for us at the end of the day.
50:44
SPEAKER_02: It's about a$1.8 million dollar a year nut for rescue for the rescue program itself.
50:52
SPEAKER_02: Wow and that's everything that's the people the caregivers you know the supplies the medical it comes down to about eight to nine hundred of an animal.
51:02
SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
51:03
SPEAKER_06: Yeah yeah um do you have a question?
51:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah so um something that Lena was sharing with me that I also excuse me obviously saw on the Hearts Alive Village website as well is that um in order for people to contribute to these funds you have multiple different like portals like there's the overall umbrella donate portal but then there's like specific causes yeah as well.
51:28
SPEAKER_01: Can you tell me more about like why y'all break them down into specific causes or you know what the current ones are what you know what I mean.
51:34
SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
51:35
SPEAKER_02: So I mean we'll raise money very specifically for a case like right now we have a case um in his name is Summit.
51:43
SPEAKER_02: He was found on Mount Charleston and he had a belly full of rocks and his skin was yeah so he's really working hard to heal right now.
51:51
SPEAKER_02: What's wrong with people we'll raise we'll raise money really specifically for an individual animal and of course we just raise general you know yeah of course uh but I it's it's really based on trying to inspire and catch people with what might they be passionate about because we do so much.
52:11
SPEAKER_02: Some people are really passionate about our veteran program um and they realize how much we're helping veterans and and those little families you know stay together or some people might be just interested in cats.
52:24
SPEAKER_02: Right.
52:24
SPEAKER_02: And so we do kind of want to make sure that we can run the gamut and find something for everybody to be passionate about and we're really careful about those kind of dedicated dollars that that's the program they stay within.
52:37
SPEAKER_02: Right.
52:37
SPEAKER_02: So um you know we want people to feel that sense of trust in us and that you know we we're gonna take their money and their passion that and what they're passionate about and we're gonna make better things happen for animals with it.
52:51
SPEAKER_06: You seem like you have a huge heart.
52:52
SPEAKER_06: I can tell that obviously already and I said I'm even meeting you 30 minutes ago I feel very comfortable with you.
52:58
SPEAKER_06: You're very just easy to to talk to but do you ever get angry about some of the things that these people do to these dogs and cats and just beautiful animals.
53:07
SPEAKER_02: And horses too right all of the horses too um yeah and I'll be real with you I never expected as a very hypersensitive overempathetic hardcore emotional animal lover to be able to be faced with some of the things that I'm faced with now.
53:30
SPEAKER_02: For instance the forensics program and the animal cruelty has uh we've struggled to have people want to be involved in it in our on our team because it is such a difficult um thing it beats up your psyche like you can't imagine and we've I've been through six doctors who don't who think they want to do it and then they're like I can't do this anymore.
53:50
SPEAKER_02: I'm having nightmares this is terrible um I personally do all of the full body radiographs of the deceased um all the photographs I do the the necrops with our doctors I take all the pictures all the notes put together the draft veterinary statements and administrate the entire program that's about to change because some of our forensics doctors are actually going to come on full time they were doctors that I was paying per hour that work somewhere else but now they're gonna come and work for us which is a beautiful thing.
54:27
SPEAKER_02: So I'll be able to kind of absorb that into their regular but it yeah it's hard.
54:34
SPEAKER_02: And um yeah you can kind of feel a lot of despair about it because you go from over the top anger to just straight up despair and we've also worked really hard to try to find a way to face these things because it's so critically important that these victims get justice.
55:00
SPEAKER_02: What we're looking for is truth and um and also you know for for people to be held accountable that deserve to be held accountable.
55:08
SPEAKER_02: So it is we're very driven by that but um but yeah it's a really hard toggle to be hopeful and trusting as we adopt these animals out into the world and go, please God, don't be a monster.
55:22
SPEAKER_02: Right.
55:23
SPEAKER_06: Please you know on the flip side do you have a feel good story that comes to mind when somebody asks you what's a good story a success story?
55:30
SPEAKER_02: Please hit me with the feel good I literally live the feel good okay good please get give it to me the things that buoy us are even the live cruelty cases that come in but they're just they just the the redemptions uh the inspiration of some of these animals so for instance um we had a boy named Chowder who was a husky who was brought into us whose legs were completely retracted his back legs were completely redracted up into his body even our doctors were like there's no way I think we'll have to amputate this one I don't know if this one's he just wheelbarreled all around because he just couldn't use his back legs.
56:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah he was a mystery we're like why can't he walk?
56:10
SPEAKER_02: What's going on?
56:11
SPEAKER_02: We went to the specialty center we had it's not like anything was broken.
56:15
SPEAKER_02: No we had orthopedic on him we had neurology we're like what's going on well the neurologist made a comment and said well his prostate's a little bit big maybe he ended up with like a really bad prostate infection at some point and it hurt so bad to walk so we neutered him of course um put him on a long-term you know antibiotic therapy all of us and did started swim started acupuncture started stretching started doing all these this dog it took a year this dog runs like the wind his he didn't ever had to have one leg amputated yeah he and the other cool part is at the same time as we had him we had another kiddo who had his head knocked so hard that his retinas were detached so he was blind but the two of them became such great friends he they helped each other you know gene was playing with chowder and chowder got stronger in his legs and Chowder was Gene seeing eye dog and it was like I have chills today and they both have the best homes on the planet.
57:20
SPEAKER_02: Chowder was adopted into a home who she's a field biologist so he travels he goes out on the field with her look at me I literally I told you Brandon zoom in on those goosebumps real quick if you don't mind I live for this kind of stuff and our team lives for it and and we're we're full of it and so when you know we talk about the hard stuff that comes at us what we try really hard to do is just get put ourselves right into gratitude because there's just so many so many more of those good stories.
57:53
SPEAKER_06: Listen I'm gonna go out on a limb I'm gonna say you're my favorite guest we've ever had on my guy's down by far.
57:58
SPEAKER_06: For what you're doing and the the feel good stories oh you have a heart of gold christy I don't know I get nightmares watching Dateline so I don't know how you do it with with everything that you do and everything that you've seen but it takes it takes such a big heart to be able to do what you do and for 14 15 years plus and continue to do that too.
58:17
SPEAKER_02: God bless you many that we do now is I go over to Smith's before I go to take care of these animals and um for forensics.
58:29
SPEAKER_02: And we've decided that we needed to be healed and honor them and do something beautiful.
58:37
SPEAKER_02: And so I buy these flowers and we create these really beautiful memorials for these animals and then I take photographs so that that's the photograph I remember.
58:46
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
58:46
SPEAKER_02: And then I share that with the animal protection officers who responded to the call so that they can also and the response from that the gratitude from that saying my gosh you know thank you so much because those are traumatizing.
59:03
SPEAKER_01: And it it's a level of closure that doesn't have to be as ugly as as what is associated with that.
59:09
SPEAKER_02: 100% that works because that that's the picture in my mind now that I see that comes to me when I think about the cases is the is the beautiful memorial that we make.
59:21
SPEAKER_01: And you really do I mean yeah that included but you you and your team do so much to integrate the whole rescue community of Vegas in totality like Lena was telling me I don't remember his name but you you mentioned getting the dog and swim.
59:37
SPEAKER_01: Y'all have like a swim therapist of some sort that y'all work with and I've also heard stories about people wanting to give to Hearts Alive and you being like of course we would love the support but look at all of your options because like I I'm grateful for you to help any animal rescue here.
59:56
SPEAKER_02: Well I'll tell you what um our sister I I call them sisters our sister organizations like Nevada SPCA and Heaven Can Wait uh our the executive directors of those organizations we meet once a month because we are so desperately trying to collaborate to figure out you know to just kind of well one person can't do it all no and keep creative like what do you need what do you need we share donors I and you know it they're wonderful they're very generous human beings everyone's so invested in the holistic landscape and the success of everyone else so yeah really is there is no competition no really in your world you know there is for donors but we're all just trying to do the same thing and so everyone I mean I'm just really grateful to have that camaraderie.
1:00:48
SPEAKER_01: Right and yeah better way of saying it nobody's doing what y'all do for selfish reasons.
1:00:55
SPEAKER_02: Yeah that's right no I do want to touch base on you have a lot of events a lot of things that that are going on can you share uh what what you have on your docket your upcoming calendar oh Lina's so much better than this than me but yeah where are you at I am so stoked about she's taking on that pickleball tournament that's coming up like next week it's the 23rd that's in our newsletter.
1:01:16
SPEAKER_02: It's in our newsletter Vegas local newsletter yeah we're super excited about that it's really fun it's in Henderson there it's a chicken and pickle in Henderson and it you know helps us to raise funds and gets gets our community together and we've got some fun you know auction prizes and stuff like that.
1:01:33
SPEAKER_02: Lena's been working her tail off getting that ready but we also we're batting around the date for our end of year little gala that we put together or I kind of want to make it not so much a gala but a celebration of the year and have everybody come together.
1:01:49
SPEAKER_02: It's called Tales of Hope usually it's the first week in December so keep your eyes open for that save the date we're thinking about that.
1:01:56
SPEAKER_06: So Julie how's your pickleball game by the way I've never played okay good really bad.
1:02:01
SPEAKER_02: Brandon you we've got some competitive uh folks and one of our doctors is highly competitive and she and her son almost won it last year.
1:02:09
SPEAKER_01: Whoa I'm more of a spectator ticket kind of person.
1:02:12
SPEAKER_01: Me too me too.
1:02:14
SPEAKER_06: Well there listen we're gonna do our best to try to raise as much awareness and and and money to help help you guys out but for anybody else that's listening that's a Vegas local even if you're not what are some other ways that they can help Hearts of the Live Village?
1:02:28
SPEAKER_02: Oh man uh I mean we have six locations and all kinds of fun stuff to do like uh we have uh a big food bank that people can come and help with the distribution of food to folks and their pets that are struggling.
1:02:42
SPEAKER_02: Uh we have the retreat which is really fun they can do field trips with the dogs and get them out.
1:02:48
SPEAKER_02: You can take them for a hike up in Mount Charleston and have a good time.
1:02:51
SPEAKER_01: I don't mean to interject it's the coolest thing ever they all have little backpacks that like you can take for the day with you and the dog so that you have whatever you need.
1:03:00
SPEAKER_02: Yes sorry I didn't mean to interject you're right it's like but we we want these kids to have every opportunity.
1:03:06
SPEAKER_02: And every time honestly a dog gets to meet a new person and they get out there they're actually 11 times more likely to get adopted because guess what you're sharing with your friends you're talking about it they have these opportunities we've even let dogs go camping.
1:03:22
SPEAKER_02: But anyway so but there's also you know just the basic stuff like cleaning and and you know loading enrichment congs and and just spending time and cuddling on a couch with them.
1:03:33
SPEAKER_02: I'm into that yeah we got the cat cafe which is way fun we love the cat cafe it's very chill vibe it's you know you can hang out there and there are like 30 cats in this cat cafe everywhere you look there's a cat a new cat popping up some asleep and some are you know looking for affection yeah and then you also have uh a a band uh like once every week in a while so yeah we yeah this one was new this is a new idea Lena yay Lena um but we we kind of had started this last year or where we were doing um acoustic open mic night or you know whatever and so we would set up some chairs and we'd snap our fingers instead of clapped because we well what if we scare the cats right they they didn't care right they loved it they're on people's laps they're sitting up by the the equipment I mean they were just so cats love it man they love to jam I love this I love this right we have yoga in there sometimes you know we just try to find all everybody's trying to be creative and figure out how to bring the community in yeah and help animals I love that you're creative and you're always thinking outside the box which is awesome you're having fun with it too oh and don't forget our adoption center in Henderson how could we forget the adoption center in Henderson don't forget it's really don't forget it's a life saving machine Brandon are you are are you gonna adopt the dog after this yes he says yes perfect um well Christy you're a rock star for everything you do you and your team everything that you guys have have been involved with and continue to do where can people find more hearts alive villages heartsalive village dot org is where to go what about there's also a social media yeah social medias uh hearts alive village las vegas for our Facebook and heartsalive animal rescue on Instagram you got it all yeah we got it all I love this and then I want to interject too we will be adding a donation link on our website as well um heybighead.com heybighead.com.com right to make sure that any of our listeners if it's just if it's easier for them to click from our website to get to yours they'll be able to do that and thank you keep an eye out on the newsletter on the website and our social media you're gonna get more things you're gonna get all sorts of animals hitting you in the face with all these I want animals all the animals to hit me in the face.
1:05:44
SPEAKER_06: Give me all the stories I will I I don't know if I I don't know if my heart can take the bad stories like the one story you told me that that crushed me right there I have so many good ones I got so many good ones give me more good ones uh well christy this is great we're excited to work with you um and we're so thankful to to for you have you come on and share your story and uh we're excited to see what else we can do with uh with you guys so thank you I appreciate it hearts of live village boys and girls well Brandon I think I'm done do you have any last words you want to shout out no microphone Brandon but that's okay um we'll catch new episodes each week on heybighead.com and we'll see you at the next adoption event see ya