WEBVTT - When Did This Become a Walmart? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.400 When did this become a Walmart? It's one more thing. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:09.160 I'm one more thing that reminds me I'm a little 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:10.480 late to the party, I guess. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.760 But the whole gag where somebody goes hun a rant 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.080 and the answer is, ma'am, this is a Wendy's right, 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.759 does it never fails to amuse me. Right. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:26.599 It's always funny. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.000 Like my old buddy Brian the Umpire, you know, we'll 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.000 be having lunch or something like that. His phone will 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:34.240 ring and he'll be like, sorry, Jesus, give me a minute, 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.680 Give me a minute. He'll talk, you know, for five minutes, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.000 then say wrong number every time. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.199 That is pretty funny. So I was in Vegas over 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.640 the weekend, couple of things to clean up on one 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.360 talking about seeing the Eagles and how they're almost eighty 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:55.840 years old and they shuffle around the stage and talk like, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.240 you know, an old man, but then they sing and 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.560 play fine, which I couldn't figure out. He did get 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.600 a text from somebody who works with dementia patients, and 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:07.240 music is stored deep in the brain. That's why people 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.000 with dementia thrive and kind of come out of it 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:12.679 when they hear music. Your ability to sing every word 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.640 and remember every word hangs around long after all the 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.640 other stuff, And that's one of the reasons they're kind 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.679 of studying and trying to figure out what is it 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.800 about the way we store music stuff, and can we 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.600 do that for other stuff, to try to figure out 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.839 how dementia works and everything like that. But it's clearly true, right, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.720 clearly true. It's just I don't know, it's interesting. 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:34.760 Oh yeah, I'm sure I could recite, like, I don't know, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.800 the entire Declaration of Independence from memory if it was 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.040 set to music. And I like the music, but I 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.240 memorize all of it easily. But the fact that it's 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.560 also your body movements. So you got this eighty year 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.560 old guitar player. It's like his hands are shaken as 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.080 he gets a pick off his thing. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.160 Or whatever, and then he just launches into playing like 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:54.520 he's twenty seven years old. I mean, what the hell 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.160 is that? But I don't know. It's a cool thing, 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.720 and maybe that will be an answer to unlocking the 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.360 way our brain's work and all that sort of stuff. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:06.880 Other couple other things about Vegas before I really, I'm 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.640 sure I'm going to get criticized for being h I 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:17.240 don't know what is the right term. We have fun 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.680 with this looking down on people early later which elitists, Yeah, exactly. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.560 I'm sure I'm gonna be criticized for being elitist, but 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:27.160 I'm gonna say, but saw the best street performance I've 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.280 ever seen. And luckily I was there with my son, Henry, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.880 who's thirteen and he really hates Las Vegas, but we 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.400 were there to see the concert. We saw a street 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.600 performance of these I guess you'd call him acrobat. They're 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.440 kind of breakdancer dudes, a bunch of black guys, which 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:44.639 I got to mention because that was really a part 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:47.520 of their act, was them being black and making all 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.840 these racially insensitive jokes that really made people laugh. But 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.880 just I've always been amazed by this kind of entertainment 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.560 that is so unstructured. It's like the old Vaude days 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:06.160 that you have honed your act one hundred percent around 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:11.040 necessity of like are people stopping and watching? Are they 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.160 staying and watching? Are they giving us money? And I mean, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.480 and you see, so you would learn what jokes work, 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:18.360 what things don't work, and I mean you'd have to 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.360 actually apply all that because it's the only way you're 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.240 gonna make it function. And these guys had quite the 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:28.120 honed act of getting your attention with loud music and 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.840 breakdancing and all this different sort of stuff. And they 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.120 were super fit dudes, and then stripping off their shirts, 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.640 which I'm sure many of the women in the crowd enjoyed. 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.880 And when it went to ask later to ask for tips, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.360 the one guy said, women, for a hundred bucks, you 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:45.320 can go home with one of these guys. Guys for 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:46.800 ae hundred bucks, you can also go home with one 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.320 of these guys. We aren't gay, but one hundred dollars. 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:53.960 One hundred dollars. But they were all black guys. In 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.720 one of his lines that he kept repeating, he was 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.520 building up to their ultimate trick bringing people out of 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.280 the crowd, where he's gonna have a bunch of people 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.200 stand in a line, and this other dude was gonna, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:10.200 in theory jump over them and talking about how horribly 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.720 it could go wrong, they could get their next broken, 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.960 all these different things. But he's going around into donating money. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:18.600 He's trying to build up the amount of money people 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:20.279 were putting in the bucket as they go around and 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:24.080 everything like that. Before they do their their trick, and 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.000 and he said, you know, you should respect us. We're 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.040 not on drugs, we're not listening to hip hop music. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.560 You know, we're all students. We're studying, and we're out here. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.760 We're trying to earn a lot honest living. So that's 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.000 a good reason to donate. And if you don't donate, 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.960 we're gonna come and break into your homes tonight. Oh 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:44.960 my god. A good thing to say. But for the 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.800 actual trick, and they were all just unbelievable freaking acrobats, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.599 the strength they displayed, and just all of them could 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.440 do that thing where you just do a full flip 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.960 on the on the pavement, which is just amazing to me, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:01.159 just I mean just just constantly just hopping and flipping 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.520 around anything like it. But this guy, they cleared out 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.280 the crowd and everything like that. He lined up the 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.000 people he had him bent down and put their hands 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.320 on their knees, so they were a little bent down, 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.200 but there was six of them in a row. And 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.200 then he said, take that last one off. I'm not 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:16.200 feeling today and I hate to kill a guy. So 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.320 they lose little guy out of them. That's a funny 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.400 thing also to say but he went running down there 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.880 on the sidewalk and leaped into the air and did 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.960 a flip in the air, a somersault in the air, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.000 and landed on his feet and ran off down the 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.479 sidewalk again, jumping over his people. And everybody was like, 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.880 holy crap. And I don't know how much money they 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:37.599 made off of there was six of them, but we 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.960 gave him twenty bucks. I thought that was easily twenty dollars. 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.440 With the entertainment. Oh sure in Vegas? Are you kidding me? 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.040 And I spider, if they do that all day, they 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:45.240 could make some pretty decent money. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:45.480 Yeah. 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:46.800 I was just gonna say, I wonder how many shows 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:47.320 the day they do. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:51.200 Yeah, we'll come break into your house tonight. That's a 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.760 pretty funny joke for a whole bunch of white people 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:58.360 standing on the sidewalk. Yeah, you know, I took your 0:05:58.400 --> 0:05:59.320 early point. Though. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:04.760 That's so true about sports and entertainment and for all 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.080 of the oh my gosh, to to see a great 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:11.159 video of a guy taking down the Hollywood stars for 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:15.360 lecturing people about politics and how you're the last people 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.000 in the world to be lecturing people who work sixty 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.080 hours a week to feed their families. 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:21.719 Blah blah blah. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.640 You know nothing about real people in their real lives, 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.039 and the effect of government policy on them is great 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:32.719 and funny. But in show business and stuff, there's no sympathy. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.640 You either deliver the goods and succeed, or you don't 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.520 and you fail. And those guys out there, like you said, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.440 nobody's saying. You know, it's not like they were in 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:49.200 academia where they had tenure. No, they either bring the 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.200 goods and get them people to give them money or 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:56.000 they don't. That's meritocracy its finest. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:07:02.560 Yeah, and pretty impressive. Yeah. The uh, maybe you can 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:07.479 explain this to me, Katie. The getting your picture taken 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.560 with people who are practically naked on the sidewalk? What is? 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.600 What is that whole thing? I've never had any inclination 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.840 into it, like super hot almost completely naked chicks or 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.320 super hot almost completely naked dudes who just stand there 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.280 on the sidewalk, And you. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:27.000 Can not entirely sure why you think I would know 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:27.880 something about. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.920 Well, maybe as a woman either, I found that offensive. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.200 I thought maybe as a woman you'd understand the dude part. 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.240 Getting your picture taken with a practically naked man I mean, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.840 who do you show that to? And what is the. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.040 I think that whole thing's creepy, be. 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.920 Honest with you, it's it seems obvious to me. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.320 It's the look how crazy things were in Vegas, because 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.160 everybody who goes to Vegas tells the same sort of 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.520 Oh you were crazy, you got so drunk, or playing 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.880 cards till exa clock and look at this hot guy. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:01.320 Or no, I don't think it's a hanging out thing. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.400 It's maybe just like a look like a spectacle, look 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:03.920 what I saw. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.920 Look how crazy things are in Vegas? Yeah, I don't know. 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.480 Do they still It's been so long since I've been 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.880 to Vegas? Are there still all those little escort cards 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:14.880 all over the sidewalks? 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.280 Yeah? Really, That's what I'm gonna get to if it's 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:18.840 been a long time since you've been to Vegas, because 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.880 it has changed over the years, and I just finally 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.840 have recognized that. But the other side of the street 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.160 performer thing, though, is funny. It was right before I 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:30.040 got to the really impressive street performer that I was like, Wow, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.760 these guys are incredible. There was this guy. So now 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.160 anybody can have a portable amplifier setup it used to 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.200 be not that long ago, Like loud speakers and amplifier 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:44.520 stuff are really heavy and expensive and everything, but now 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.040 they're super light and cheap, and so you can get 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.920 a really good amplifier speaker situation, don't it's not very 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.520 much to carry it around and set it up and 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.120 battery powered and do your thing. So this is this 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:01.120 Hispanic guy singing in Spanish, and he had this thing 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:04.480 set up on the corner, and he was the worst 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.040 public singer I've ever seen. I mean, just like, not 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:12.320 even close. Like I've known a few people that don't 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.520 realize they have no rhythm or can't carry a tune, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.000 and they don't know it because they can't hear it 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.920 in their own end. But this had zero singing ability. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.600 And he's out there in the corner completely alone. Nobody 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:24.560 was gathering around him. I don't doubt anybody gave him 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.319 a cent all day. How long would you do that 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.560 before you realize, oh, I just I'm not making any 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:30.960 money here. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.000 Probably wonder what's wrong was he was he strumming a 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:40.520 guitar or anything he had he had, you know, backing 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:41.880 tracks on CD or whatever you're singing. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:48.319 Looks they hammered. No, it didn't seem to be. It 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.680 seemed to be putting out a real effort, but nobody 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.000 was even slowing down to looking just made a request. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.079 And then I saw one family do in the street. 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.240 It just looked like a family looked like a husband, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.280 uh wife, and then their kids playing music and they 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.880 like full on music, guitar, bass, drums, everything like that, 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.920 but the kids looked miserable. These little kids just looked miserable. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.320 Made me feel horrible for them, standing out in the 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.440 hot sun, playing for crowd walking by because your parents 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:19.679 made you. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.000 I guess I'm not down with that. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:25.320 Yeah, I didn't read Jackson fivey vibe there, but so 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.319 I have. I used to go to Vegas a lot, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:33.200 but I realized I haven't been to Vegas hardly at 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.240 all in like twenty five years. I mean, it's been 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:38.760 a long time, but I used to go a lot 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:43.559 way back in the day and I really enjoyed it. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.000 It had and I've had a couple of people say 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.360 to me recent years off Vegas sucks, I hate Vegas, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.280 It's awful. Everything like that. Really, I really like I 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.040 hadn't really paid any attention because I hadn't been much. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.840 It is awful now it has changed into something different. 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.800 It is Walmart with booze. It is just the unwashed 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:08.400 of unwashed masses jammed together in their cross and tank tops. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.800 This is the elitist part. This is the elitiest part. Yes, yes, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.679 this is the elast And that's not what Vegas used 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.720 to be. I remember when, like I would go with 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:17.000 people and there was kind of a thought that you 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.040 kind of ought to dress up a little bit and 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.720 look good and go around in a kind of nice shows, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.199 a nice dress. But it isn't. That is not the 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:25.680 vibe anymore in Vegas. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:26.160 Really. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.760 Yeah, I'm sure it makes more money than it's ever made, 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.680 but it's it's a different thing now. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.600 And it may have been a full decade ago that 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.600 I first became aware that it. Vegas became a huge 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.880 family vacation destination, right, And I remember back then it 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.480 was like second to our Orlando, Florida still as a 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:45.439 travel destination. 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.800 Yeah, but it is, it's a definitely a they went 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:54.240 for a different price point and then I mean it's 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.000 it's it's more like Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or the 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.520 places like that. If you've ever been than it then 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.720 you know Frank Sinatra and the rat Pack. Definitely, which 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.520 is fine if that's what you want, but it's not 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:10.120 the same thing as it used to be. And dirty. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.640 It just came off to me as like dirty and 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:16.520 just I don't know, not where I want to walk 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.920 around like Kent. Yeah, low RENI my hotel was dirty 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:25.640 and smoky. I'm like a blast. If that's what you want, 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:26.320 that's what you want. 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.440 Yeah, I haven't been in ages, Judy. My wife has 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.840 never been to Vegas, never been, and I keep saying, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.400 we're gonna go. 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.079 You just got to see the strip. You've got to 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.800 see the excess. It is something to see. There's still 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.520 a couple of really nice places to stay. I talked 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.800 to some people that are into Vegas, like said, unless 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.319 you stay at Aria Bellagio and one other place, it 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.760 is pretty dirty and grimy. But there are still some 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:49.640 nice places to say that are just freaking insane. I 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.160 mean how nice they are. There's nothing like that anywhere 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:52.880 else in the world. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:57.280 It's been fifteen years, I think, but I really enjoyed 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:58.000 the old strip. 0:12:58.160 --> 0:12:58.880 Fremont Street. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:12:59.200 Yep. 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.480 If you're going down there. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.560 It's kind of quaint and and well old timey. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.679 Yeah, just like it felt just like a little less chaos. 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.920 Uh, it was nothing but chaos. It was just shoulder 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.760 to shoulder stumbling around Pug. A lot of smell of 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:20.240 weed too, A lot of weed. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:20.480 Yeah. 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.480 Yeah, weed is the thing now. Yeah, not with your money. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:27.480 I got other things I could do. Well, I guess 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:27.920 that's it.