Speaker 1: Hey everybody, Hey, hey, hey, hey, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 1: How's it going. Oh boy, y'all. Uh, if you've been
Speaker 1: following us, you know we've been on a bit of
Speaker 1: an adventure all across Yeah, all across the US, the
Speaker 1: whole southern ASP, basically from Atlanta to Vegas, l A
Speaker 1: up home, through Utah and Colorado. And it's been amazing.
Speaker 1: I think we counted and it was sixteen states, fourteen
Speaker 1: hotels in about twenty days. Yeah, so truly, uh magical,
Speaker 1: wonderful trip, with most of it with our good friends
Speaker 1: Cherry and Jason, who you know from the show regular
Speaker 1: listeners might have heard their Pandemic love Story episode. Uh,
Speaker 1: their dear friends, and we had been planning a trip
Speaker 1: out west ourselves. We started talking to them. We've been
Speaker 1: wanting to travel with them as well, and you know,
Speaker 1: they never got a honeymoon or an anniversary because they
Speaker 1: got married in the pandemic. So that kind of led
Speaker 1: to us all deciding to take this trip together. And
Speaker 1: I'm really glad we did. Yeah. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, some friends there and you know, on a
Speaker 1: I guess on a sad or note, um, it was
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hard start. Our producer, Pup
Speaker 1: Hobbs passed away just a couple of days before we left,
Speaker 1: and so that was just sad because you know, we
Speaker 1: wanted to take a really fun trip and we were
Speaker 1: worried about him because he's an older He was an
Speaker 1: older guy, and a little worried about him. Uh, but
Speaker 1: it was really nice to have some friends there to
Speaker 1: sort of help keep your spirits up and you know,
Speaker 1: at least for me, keep my mind in the present
Speaker 1: and not at home. Oh yeah, me too. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, we debated whether or not we would even
Speaker 1: go because we got hit so hard with this so suddenly.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an old dog, but it was still
Speaker 1: very unexpected. We really thought that we had everything worked
Speaker 1: out for him, really good pets that are lined up,
Speaker 1: who was a who used to work in a VETS
Speaker 1: office for many years, Like everything was good and this
Speaker 1: was really ou don't know where. We debated whether or
Speaker 1: not we would still go, but there was so much
Speaker 1: in place already, and and you know, even people said
Speaker 1: like you should, you know, and I think we felt
Speaker 1: the same way. Um, it just would have compounded the
Speaker 1: tragedy to also lose out on this trip. And our friends,
Speaker 1: and I mean, you know, the money notwithstanding that was
Speaker 1: probably the least thing on our mind, but but definitely
Speaker 1: was was a factor. But um, but yeah, in a
Speaker 1: in a way it was. You know, it's something very
Speaker 1: healing about seeing a lot of nature and being away
Speaker 1: from the regular program, you know, the regular every day
Speaker 1: routines and stuff like that. Especially his routine was a
Speaker 1: big part of our day. So it was it was
Speaker 1: so sort of weird, I guess because it was our
Speaker 1: it was a built in break. We already knew, you
Speaker 1: know that for this time we wouldn't be seeing him,
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be doing his routines. So it was almost
Speaker 1: like uh delaying of morning, I suppose. But I think
Speaker 1: it was nice to be away from home and heal
Speaker 1: a little bit. It was a little bit more at
Speaker 1: peace with it, yea, and then get home. And it
Speaker 1: definitely hurt to come home, but less painful than it
Speaker 1: would have been to be here and also be missing
Speaker 1: a trip and also be sad, you know, just everything, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly just piled up. A lot of sad things piled up.
Speaker 1: So but you know, we did come home to a
Speaker 1: different house than we left, more or less, and you know,
Speaker 1: we are still it was almost fresh coming home. It
Speaker 1: almost felt like a fresh wound because we stepped into uh,
Speaker 1: you know, our our regular life very disrupted and very different.
Speaker 1: And for that, uh, it's been a tough couple of days,
Speaker 1: UM and we haven't really been uh able to work
Speaker 1: that much, honestly, getting jumping back from this trip straight
Speaker 1: into the show, we decided to take a different angle
Speaker 1: this week. UM and instead of kind of doing half
Speaker 1: ass research with our brains half in the game, we
Speaker 1: decided to take a look at our own little ridiculous
Speaker 1: romance here and Cherry and Jason's. And we thought that
Speaker 1: we could bring all the story of our trip because
Speaker 1: it was so massive, it was so epic, There was
Speaker 1: so much that happened, UM, and it was kind of
Speaker 1: a cool experiment to see how two couples who both
Speaker 1: were celebrating, you know, our own relationships because we both
Speaker 1: Diana and I anniversary was the day that we left. UM.
Speaker 1: We celebrated our anniversary at the Oklahoma City Howard Johnson,
Speaker 1: the most romantic I think everyone there had a hacking cough.
Speaker 1: It was a very crazy, but we had many celebrations
Speaker 1: every day after that and Cherry and Jason. You know,
Speaker 1: we're basically never got their honeymoon, and it have been
Speaker 1: about two years since they've been married as well. So
Speaker 1: collectively we were like, this is a romantic trip. There's
Speaker 1: definitely a roll hot of ridiculousness to it because it
Speaker 1: put out the four of us together and it's absurd. UM,
Speaker 1: So we thought it'd be fun to just bring all
Speaker 1: story of our collective trip um, both in Vegas and
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. UM, and our next two episodes are
Speaker 1: going to be that while we sort of get back
Speaker 1: on our feet and dive back into our fun research
Speaker 1: and of course bring y'all the recryptulous Halloween episodes that
Speaker 1: are coming up. But I do hope that you'll enjoy
Speaker 1: these stories. You know, as we're doing it, we're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody's gonna care wants to hear
Speaker 1: about wants to listen to somebody else's vacation, but um,
Speaker 1: it was pretty fun. And and again when we get
Speaker 1: in a room with Cherry and Jason, we think it's funny.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I'll do too. Hopefully, So stick around. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of fun with Charing Jason. This
Speaker 1: episode and the next episode where we talk about Los
Speaker 1: Angeles and then we'll get back to our usual routine.
Speaker 1: That's right, But thank you all for joining us in
Speaker 1: this uh, in this tough time and UH and sticking
Speaker 1: by us. Y'all are the best listeners we could ask for.
Speaker 1: So true, so true and UH. And thanks to many
Speaker 1: of you for all your kind words who do follow
Speaker 1: us on social media and anty this news. Um, we
Speaker 1: definitely got some very kind messages. Thank you. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Um, So y'all enjoy. We're gonna jump right
Speaker 1: into our discussion with sharing Jason, let's do it. Hey
Speaker 1: the French come listen. Well, Eli and Diana got some
Speaker 1: stories to tell. There's no matchmaking, a romantic tips. It's
Speaker 1: just about ridiculous relationship. I love it. Might be any
Speaker 1: type of person at all, and abstract cons and don't
Speaker 1: work on great wall. But if there's just the second
Speaker 1: plan ridiculous roll. Yes, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the portrait. Oh yeah that is cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I love it. I need to buy a
Speaker 1: print of that hanged up on the wall. Well, I
Speaker 1: was wondering because well, first of all, I'm happy to
Speaker 1: have print, And second of all, I was I thought
Speaker 1: it was a little strange to just paint someone without
Speaker 1: letting them know first, But you know, I figured you'd
Speaker 1: be cool with it, Eli, and like, I like to
Speaker 1: use a lot of photos and stuff like that for
Speaker 1: reference this. But then I was really pleased for the
Speaker 1: way that one came out, so I was like, well, Ship,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to do more just regular portraits anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it came out really good, and
Speaker 1: I think you should definitely do more portraits of me,
Speaker 1: of me specifically series you think that ridiculous romance painting
Speaker 1: would be. It is certainly called for of the two,
Speaker 1: you know, Honestly, I will say with the AI art stuff,
Speaker 1: if anybody really wants some paintings of YouTube that can
Speaker 1: really right on and like computer paint me, that's true.
Speaker 1: They'd be like this is Elien Diana with a painted
Speaker 1: by money carrying a corn dog in each hand. They
Speaker 1: probably could do it. Wait a minute, are we carrying
Speaker 1: a corn dog in each hand? Or was Monee carrying
Speaker 1: a corn dog in each hand? Wilt, Well, that's up
Speaker 1: to the AI. But it's that kind of thinking that
Speaker 1: AIS don't have that we are going to really miss
Speaker 1: one day. I would love to see a painting mon
Speaker 1: did here hold these corn dogs. It's all catchup and
Speaker 1: mustard colors. I am in him painting with the corn dog.
Speaker 1: Corn dog? Sure? Both hands? All right? Well, hey, everybody
Speaker 1: was so excited today because we have two of our
Speaker 1: favorite guests, two of your favor of guests. Honestly, we
Speaker 1: have Cherry del Rosario and Jason Mallory here with us today,
Speaker 1: who just joined us on an amazing cross country trip.
Speaker 1: Welcome to back to the show. You guys, Hey, thank
Speaker 1: you for having us. We've seen you day and on
Speaker 1: the East Coast. The lighting is different, vibes are different.
Speaker 1: Tap water everything tap water. Cherry and Jason, you all
Speaker 1: joined us previously for our episode about pandemic romances because
Speaker 1: you all, of course had your whole wedding interrupted by COVID.
Speaker 1: You had to kind of reschedule everything, rework everything, do
Speaker 1: it wait differently than you thought. And uh, within all this, Jason,
Speaker 1: you never got your bachelor party YouTube, never got your honeymoon.
Speaker 1: So this trip kind of was born a little bit
Speaker 1: out of that, right, Yeah, we we have never We
Speaker 1: didn't even take a trip after anywhere. Damn. So it's
Speaker 1: been two years since we've traveled together anywhere. So this
Speaker 1: was kind of like a honeymoon for us anniversary. Also,
Speaker 1: it's also around the same time that we did you
Speaker 1: know that all of us got married. Uh, was an
Speaker 1: anniversary trip as well. Yeah, and you know we'd never
Speaker 1: hear about a friend's honeymoon without saying, let me in
Speaker 1: on that action with you. You're going somewhere. Can a
Speaker 1: bitch tag along? Yeah? I mean that's why it really
Speaker 1: isn't honeymoon per se. Right, our best teaser right there
Speaker 1: with us next Flora what a honeymoon is and isn't.
Speaker 1: I could we could be heading on down to Costco
Speaker 1: and being down one are the three bullet points for
Speaker 1: something that has to make it a honeymoon, right? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think you could have a local honeymoon. I think
Speaker 1: people do that. Yeah, like a staycation. Yeah, you go
Speaker 1: get a hotel room in your own city and just
Speaker 1: get away from home. So I would say recently married.
Speaker 1: I guess not recently Okay, the first trip, the honeymoon
Speaker 1: is the first trip you've taken since you were married,
Speaker 1: and uh, it has to at least flirt with the
Speaker 1: idea of being romantic, right, and I think that's is
Speaker 1: that it, that's it. It's just too criteria criteria. Then, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was our honeymoon. Nobody gets nobody gets hurt, nobody
Speaker 1: nobody gets hurt, and you're still married at the end.
Speaker 1: That's very us a little threatening. I don't want to
Speaker 1: each other in the beginning of the trip, and we
Speaker 1: said hands in the air, if you do what I say, nobody, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody send us your criteria for a honeymoon. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take everyone's suggestions for what the criteria of your honeymoon are.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put together the perfect list for what defines
Speaker 1: a honey And I really start policing people about this
Speaker 1: because that's going out the hand take. And then you know,
Speaker 1: should un an email take us with you on your
Speaker 1: honeymoon and we can do a little investigative reporting. Yes,
Speaker 1: it seems pretty good to me. I prefer to have
Speaker 1: our own room, but I mean, you know, we have
Speaker 1: to be in this room with you. I guess you
Speaker 1: can do. Remember when Nickelodeon used to be, like, you know,
Speaker 1: you can have Katy Perry come on your come to
Speaker 1: your house and play a concert for your dad, or like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I missed that one, but sure, I
Speaker 1: mean that, But it used to be like scenario like
Speaker 1: celebrity your house takeover. Okay, yeah, concert party. And I
Speaker 1: remember really dreaming as a child that I would get
Speaker 1: a Nickelodeon contest like concert at my house. Maybe you
Speaker 1: guys can do that, is what I'm saying. It's like,
Speaker 1: you know, you win a thousand dollars. Yeah, okay, y'all
Speaker 1: just come on the honeymoon with them. Uh yeah, we
Speaker 1: we just got to figure out where the thousand dollars
Speaker 1: comes from. Dear heart, please provide for this um un
Speaker 1: sanctioned contest that we've decided to start. Well, you guys
Speaker 1: kind of one that because you got the hosts of
Speaker 1: Ridiculous Romance to join you on your honeymoon in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas and Los Angeles. So we already talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about our trip out there. Um, but let's pick
Speaker 1: up with when you will arrived on It was Tuesday
Speaker 1: afternoon and your flight from Atlanta landed, and Diane and
Speaker 1: I were all checked into our room at the Bellagio
Speaker 1: and we came to pick y'all up at the airport.
Speaker 1: Well one thing I will say that was nice is
Speaker 1: I was primed and ready for uh like airplane violence. Sure,
Speaker 1: I like there's so many people, there's so many airplane freakouts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was nice. All right, good start, good start. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I got to see, you know, some of the mountains
Speaker 1: on the way, in some of the canyons and what
Speaker 1: have you. Beautiful flight is a beautiful drive, so I'm
Speaker 1: glad that from above it also looks as good. It
Speaker 1: was gorgeous. They let me find the plane for a
Speaker 1: few minutes. Oh that's so nice. Yeah, you mean it.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. You can't we won't let you land, okay, landing,
Speaker 1: bring little Ason up to the cockpit, make his dreams
Speaker 1: come true like the Bellaggio. First of all, initially, Eli,
Speaker 1: you had already, you're already working. I don't want to
Speaker 1: call it a scheme, but yes, I did a lot
Speaker 1: of research into points and uh get Vegas rewards and
Speaker 1: this app that gets you free rooms. You can message me.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you all about it. But it did it didn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it did get us a few free nights at the Placio,
Speaker 1: and which is not somewhere that our budgets would have
Speaker 1: let us stay normally. No, not at all. That was
Speaker 1: not even on the list as possibility until you started
Speaker 1: getting this compt Yeah, we were like in the list
Speaker 1: of hotels, it was under the category of we won't
Speaker 1: be staying here because we can't afford it under the
Speaker 1: red right. I mean, I'm not trying to sund like
Speaker 1: an ad for the Bellagi because first of all, they
Speaker 1: don't need it. They don't take out, they don't need ads.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they serve ads, but it's like, um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean just it's been a minute since I've stayed
Speaker 1: in any kind of hotel because of the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: so for that to be our first re entry into
Speaker 1: the hotel where I was like, okay, okay, it's a
Speaker 1: very nice room. Yeah, I was lovely. It lived up
Speaker 1: to the name. I was worried that it would be
Speaker 1: you know, stuffy and kind of like, oh, I feel
Speaker 1: like I can't touch anything like old money. By I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone knows that we're not supposed to be here. But
Speaker 1: it was really just really nice. That's comfortable and pretty,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I like Bellagi more than I thought for sure. Yeah. Beautiful, beautiful, welcome,
Speaker 1: beautiful start to the vacation. Just walking in a casino
Speaker 1: and like the lobby itself was just was a gorgeous
Speaker 1: you know, with all the colors, all the sculptures, was
Speaker 1: very like beautifully done space. Yeah, they have their school
Speaker 1: like Chijuli ceiling. I think it's Chijuli the glass and
Speaker 1: then the conservatory that they have at the bellagio, which
Speaker 1: is free and anyone can go look at it. They
Speaker 1: had just changed it over to the autumn stuff and
Speaker 1: it smelled amazing, and the whole lobby like just pip
Speaker 1: in the face with ball pumpkin cinnamon vibes obnoxious, you know,
Speaker 1: to the grocery store and those those brooms are right
Speaker 1: there and you're just like smacking. But no, like like
Speaker 1: you know, light and perfect. Don't let us have that
Speaker 1: cinnamon normally it won't let you looking for it. It
Speaker 1: was Chijuli. By the way I looked at it was
Speaker 1: like if anyone can afford Chajuli, it is. They don't
Speaker 1: make it beautiful. You felt like you're under a canopy
Speaker 1: of color and just nature. Yes, there is one thing
Speaker 1: I would have done differently. I would have sense it's
Speaker 1: a whole fall thing, which July I would have put
Speaker 1: in a big old like scarecrow with a pumpkin head.
Speaker 1: Really is in he's the scarecrow. And then every once
Speaker 1: while he gets off the scarecrow thing? What is the
Speaker 1: scarecrow thing called? What do you put a scarecrow on
Speaker 1: the sticks? Just because steak I guess, I guess it,
Speaker 1: climbs down, take something and says, hey, I did all this.
Speaker 1: If you want to know more, next you could have
Speaker 1: like a little Q and a yeah and a and
Speaker 1: then you pay them, you know, you pay, you pay him,
Speaker 1: but he keep out of nowhere. I didn't know he
Speaker 1: was another phad. Jump to l A. But you know,
Speaker 1: the big thing in l A is all the people
Speaker 1: dressed a spider man that will like if you take it.
Speaker 1: Are the girls in Las Vegas, the streets on Fremont
Speaker 1: Street that like picture with them? The show girls? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're grabbing you like. So basically, basically you're looking to
Speaker 1: turn Chihuli into one of those streets show girls, but
Speaker 1: in a scarecrow costume. I deserve better. It's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: hard up for money these days for a glass artist,
Speaker 1: nobody cares for his art, and this is a great
Speaker 1: spot for a break. We will be right back. Welcome
Speaker 1: back everyone. We saw the Conservatory, the Blagio, this autumnal wonderland.
Speaker 1: We we had beautiful rooms we stayed in, and then
Speaker 1: that night we had reservations for the Baccanal buffet at
Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace, fancy Palace, because you know, we had to
Speaker 1: get some buffets in. Everybody was always talking about Vegas buffets, right,
Speaker 1: and it was pretty amazing. Because of Eli's little tricks
Speaker 1: that he was doing with credit card points and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, he got a bunch of rewards cards. So
Speaker 1: we had a very fun experience of showing off your
Speaker 1: diamond status. Diamond status at Caesar's, which gets you priority
Speaker 1: lines and like Caesars ain't paying me anymore for this,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this. You do get skip lines, you
Speaker 1: get free parking and stuff. So that was super nice
Speaker 1: and normally it's for people who spend a lot of money,
Speaker 1: but we just got it by opening this hotel credit
Speaker 1: card that we kind of needed anyway, and it just
Speaker 1: happened to give us diamond status for the year, so
Speaker 1: we figured we'd go make the most of it, and
Speaker 1: it was crazy, honey. That was the buffet where we
Speaker 1: were esported the fine past the norms that like, excuse us,
Speaker 1: they they pushed people out of the way. For us,
Speaker 1: it was very uncomfortable where the high comes, where you
Speaker 1: get oh, I'm changing. Wait, maybe I am better than
Speaker 1: these people in my body. I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is what celebrities feel like. I understand now. It
Speaker 1: was absurd. I loved it. I do it again, and
Speaker 1: I do feel a little better than everyone else. Now
Speaker 1: that's there's a little piece lives in me. Now it's
Speaker 1: never going away. It was kind of nice to be
Speaker 1: on the road after that and like really kind of
Speaker 1: just normal hotels and stuff and be like, remember who
Speaker 1: you are. You don't have done in status everywhere. Let
Speaker 1: me go. Let me ask you this. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: at the we're at the buffet, you're watching your diamond status.
Speaker 1: We're starting to get escorted. If I had gone, I'm
Speaker 1: a man of the people. So I'm going to wait
Speaker 1: in line right these folks because I am, like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm you know, Bernie Sanders. I got my
Speaker 1: mittens on. Yeah, I got my mittens on. I'm Would
Speaker 1: you have left me to wait in the line? Yes,
Speaker 1: all three of us immediately. Yes, we were all very hungry,
Speaker 1: but well, what's the other option? Wait with you? Yes,
Speaker 1: after all the working life did to get this diamond status. Yeah,
Speaker 1: building out applications there, we had eight o'clock reservations there
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. That's not utilized this diamond status. We'd
Speaker 1: be in a line probably extra thirty minutes past our reservations.
Speaker 1: So I'm not about that. It's all right here here
Speaker 1: eight o'clock for our reservation. Yes, thank you, Johnny. You know,
Speaker 1: to be fair, I did keep my mouth shut, and
Speaker 1: I did and you did wait enjoy between us? Why sorry, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm a man of the people, but not todaytail is
Speaker 1: awaiting us. There's a metaphor in here for capitalism somewhere.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's a metaphor. I think it's
Speaker 1: just a straight example money changes. Heard it here first. Yes,
Speaker 1: status makes you a bad person. Sorry to everyone we
Speaker 1: shoved out of the way. They were still food left
Speaker 1: when you got in there. Everyone, If y'all are not
Speaker 1: exploiting the point system, I need to tell you that
Speaker 1: you should be. Points are everything, and I will evangelize. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's pretty great. It's pretty great. I mean you know,
Speaker 1: there's a whole it's built on the backs of a
Speaker 1: whole system of exploitation that you know I can't fix.
Speaker 1: So just take my point part of the problem. That's
Speaker 1: not think too hard. Yeah, I guess we worked hard. Okay,
Speaker 1: we worked hard. We're not rich people by any just
Speaker 1: the lifestyle a little bit of a few points of
Speaker 1: the you know, so we don't lovely buffet dinner. We
Speaker 1: stuffed our faces, uh, any any particular highlights you'll want
Speaker 1: to point out. I just I think it was beautifully
Speaker 1: presented of how you know, it wasn't just several large
Speaker 1: troughs of bood that you scoop slap on your plate,
Speaker 1: you know, some kind of like presentations, some elegance like
Speaker 1: you you know, the whole thing where they say you
Speaker 1: eat with your eyes as well. That's like it was
Speaker 1: definitely a feast for the eyes. There was, like I
Speaker 1: love just looking at all the food. How prevented. And
Speaker 1: also I don't know if they've always done that or
Speaker 1: if that was just the thing that they developed because
Speaker 1: of um, the COVID. Because the little preportioned were great
Speaker 1: because I'm not over stuffing myself on one thing, so
Speaker 1: that I try. Yeah, exactly, the perfect little portions. You
Speaker 1: just a taste. I do have an issue of twelve
Speaker 1: year old plates. When I go to a phase, like
Speaker 1: for example, you know, I just I don't know what
Speaker 1: to get, so I just kind of enough with like
Speaker 1: you know, a cheeseburger with some cheesecut and some and
Speaker 1: some crimbrew Let ice cream and then a brown classic
Speaker 1: children's meal Cramberley. They love it. They like to break
Speaker 1: the top. I first of all, I was I was
Speaker 1: giving Crimberle as a child. Oh no, wonder to the
Speaker 1: motives children. Did they have a little blowtorch in the
Speaker 1: kitchen to like my grandmother did use a blot come
Speaker 1: from money? But we did. We still have a fancy
Speaker 1: bitch in there somewhere. Well. Food was a very big part,
Speaker 1: you know, my family growing up, so you know, like
Speaker 1: it is for everybody, I guess, but you know, like
Speaker 1: it was very like, you know, food was a big thing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, ok, you know we were that, we were
Speaker 1: into that. But pless the buffet issue for me is
Speaker 1: I do wish that some buffets. This is a stupid
Speaker 1: thing to say, but it's like I wish I could
Speaker 1: go to buffet. That was a buffet, but it was focused,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We focused on these like
Speaker 1: three areas, perfected them and you can as much as
Speaker 1: you want of these things, like I would be down with.
Speaker 1: But again it's like, I'm not going to start my
Speaker 1: own buffet, so I get it because I mean my
Speaker 1: thing with buffets in general, and and even the bachan
Speaker 1: All buffet, which was very good. I really liked pretty
Speaker 1: much everything I ate, but it was like a hundred
Speaker 1: different foods that were all like a seven out of ten.
Speaker 1: And like, at the end of the day, if I'm
Speaker 1: spending a hundred bucks on a meal, which is not
Speaker 1: something I would do at the end of most days, um,
Speaker 1: I would rather it be the single most amazing dish
Speaker 1: I've ever had than a hundred very good dishes. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had that same with both the buffets that we did,
Speaker 1: and I was like, this is cool experience. It was
Speaker 1: definitely rad to be like pile shut up, try it,
Speaker 1: move along to the next thing. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: for the price tag, I'd rather just get it one
Speaker 1: plate of really really good food, which we did do
Speaker 1: several times. So I'm happy. Yeah, like that famous quote,
Speaker 1: like you know, but tis better to have one good
Speaker 1: plates to have hundreds of mediocre plates. I think Plato
Speaker 1: said that once. So yeah. The next day was pool
Speaker 1: day though, pool day, which Bellagio is an amazing pool,
Speaker 1: gorgeous complex. I guess they have like seven pools or
Speaker 1: something right or several anyway, and they had some with
Speaker 1: like fountains, and then that we were like, we're going
Speaker 1: to be mermaids in there. Your hair. The day bed
Speaker 1: is the way to go. Oh man, four of us
Speaker 1: on a big old day be circular couch basically. But
Speaker 1: they were like, the service was amazing all throughout the
Speaker 1: Bellaggia really, but the service there's they were like struggling
Speaker 1: with really heavy umbrellas to make sure that we were
Speaker 1: fully shaded and we had our own server, and again
Speaker 1: it was just diamond vibes, like we're like, mmmm, this
Speaker 1: is gold status right here. You tried to you tried
Speaker 1: to move that big heavy umbrella on your own. I
Speaker 1: gave it a shot. I gave it the old college dry.
Speaker 1: But it's a big heavy umbrella. So we we asked
Speaker 1: our server if someone could move, because honestly, it's like
Speaker 1: it could have been done, but it also could have
Speaker 1: toppled over and landed on someone. It was just like,
Speaker 1: we should not be doing this ourselves. It feels like
Speaker 1: the kind of thing that they would prefer you not
Speaker 1: because you could really mentioned it to our server and
Speaker 1: then she's like, oh, I'll get someone to move it.
Speaker 1: And then like young Henry Cavill shows up. Don't worry,
Speaker 1: I'll move the umbrella for you. Like Mr Muscles was
Speaker 1: a lifeguard. Yeah, it was the lifeguard. He just jumped
Speaker 1: down swiftly from just like I'll move this. What if
Speaker 1: someone had started drowning at that exactly? There was like
Speaker 1: six other lifeguards. He's like, wait a minute, I got
Speaker 1: an umbrella for a gold member here. You gotta waite.
Speaker 1: Yeah we got, we got the shade we needed. So
Speaker 1: lovely pool day, you know, I think we all got
Speaker 1: our relaxation in feeling good, feeling fine. And that night
Speaker 1: Amaze sing Show. We got to go see the Circus
Speaker 1: Love Show. It's the Beatles Show, all Beatles music rearranged
Speaker 1: by uh some brilliant people including Paul McCartney I know
Speaker 1: is heavily involved in it. Uh. And then it's a
Speaker 1: bunch of circus sol jumping around and dancing and flips
Speaker 1: and Chappie's Craziness. Yes, it's wonderful. And Eli, I've seen
Speaker 1: it a couple of times. That was your third time, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we went on my bachelor party, which is the
Speaker 1: first time I went to Vegas, and then Diana, you
Speaker 1: and I went back to Vegas, and I was like,
Speaker 1: we gotta see this show. And then we went back
Speaker 1: with Cherry and Jason and I know, at least Cherry
Speaker 1: you are a lifelong Beatles fan, right, and so we
Speaker 1: knew this show. We had to go see this show again.
Speaker 1: As soon as it was released, like thousands six, I
Speaker 1: was like, I will be in Vegas one day, right,
Speaker 1: and I will see this show. That is really the
Speaker 1: number one thing that I wanted to do in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Wash did it live up to? Oh? Everything you wanted
Speaker 1: it to be? Everything and more? Like just immediately as
Speaker 1: soon as the music began, a student like this beautiful
Speaker 1: instrumental version of because these actors walking on stage with
Speaker 1: just umbrellas and just the flighting and smoke, just beautiful
Speaker 1: to open the show, just just tears immediately. It was
Speaker 1: very much John John Paul Ring of George, Oh where
Speaker 1: are they from? Where are they from? The show? I
Speaker 1: will say one thing very exciting to happen to us
Speaker 1: on our way to Yeah, we had we had put
Speaker 1: on put on our Sunday best for this show on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday, A nice dinner afterwards too. This was like
Speaker 1: a nice night out kind of And we're walking from
Speaker 1: Gagio up to a Mirage, which is a hike, and
Speaker 1: as we're exiting the Blaggio, this car, like a taxi
Speaker 1: pulls up next to us and the guy rolls down
Speaker 1: his window. He says, hey, hey, what's what's the convention
Speaker 1: in town? And we're like, we we don't know, we
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. He says, oh, well, you
Speaker 1: guys are just so stylish. I thought there must be
Speaker 1: something going on. We're like, did he think we were
Speaker 1: part of the style convention? Style convention? But that was
Speaker 1: a very um affirming, yeah compliment. I felt great after that.
Speaker 1: I was like, we all made good choices to wearing
Speaker 1: clothes over there. Oh, I mean that's Vegas for you
Speaker 1: right there. That's it in a nutshell. Well, that night
Speaker 1: we got to go to Wolfgang Puck's Lupo restaurant for
Speaker 1: dinner and we had a really really nice dinner and
Speaker 1: then Cherry had arranged pre arranged as surprise desserts for us,
Speaker 1: because we were all they're celebrating our anniversaries and everything,
Speaker 1: like we said, so she had pre arranged this really
Speaker 1: beautiful cake and they, you know, they're like trying to
Speaker 1: close I guess while we were there. So they were
Speaker 1: like clearing up our ship, and they brought out the
Speaker 1: cake and it was like beautifully handwritten message that said
Speaker 1: happy birthday. And we were like, oh, whose birthday is?
Speaker 1: And you had and you had specifically told them right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is the restaurant reached out to me
Speaker 1: via text to confirm my reservation, and you know, after confirming,
Speaker 1: they're like, are you guys celebrating a special occasion? Like, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: we are, I know, without giving so many details, I said,
Speaker 1: we're all celebrated rating our anniversaries. Um, so I would
Speaker 1: look and I said, you know, we can personalize this
Speaker 1: and everything like amazing vegas. I mean, so I said, yes,
Speaker 1: I could you say happy anniversary to us? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: yeah to us, to us because we're all celebrating her
Speaker 1: in appreciate. I thought would be a really fun surprise
Speaker 1: for everybody, you know, for our meal and just bust
Speaker 1: out with this anniversary cake, you know, and it comes
Speaker 1: out and said happy. Well, you know at the end
Speaker 1: of the day though we still we still ate it.
Speaker 1: You can send it back like how you know we decided.
Speaker 1: We decided, yeah it was it was happy birthday to
Speaker 1: each of your marriages, which are celebrating celebration Stone exactly.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a phenomenal it was food was phenomenal there,
Speaker 1: thank you for real and why you're very And he's
Speaker 1: a regular listener in front of the show. So you thought,
Speaker 1: yeah that wolf Gang were Wolf. We're wolf Gangs, wolf Gang,
Speaker 1: wolf Gangs, Wolfgang for the wolf Gang wolf Gang reach out.
Speaker 1: We'd love to have you on the show. We would
Speaker 1: love to love you, babe. That night, I believe we
Speaker 1: decided that we were going to hang out in the
Speaker 1: hotel room for a little while. After we walked around
Speaker 1: for a bit and Cherry and Diana you all hung
Speaker 1: out in the room while Jason and I decided we
Speaker 1: would go get us some drinks. Yeah that in Vegas
Speaker 1: you can go to the CVS and they sell full
Speaker 1: liquor and everything you could ever want. Um, that's pretty
Speaker 1: late and uh, if you haven't been to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Everything is very big, which means everything is very space
Speaker 1: to part which means everything's a long walk. But the
Speaker 1: Belagio right across the street from a CVS, so we thought, hey,
Speaker 1: this will just take a second. I mean, it's like
Speaker 1: being around and I'm as you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's just like bridges and corridors and just like all
Speaker 1: over the place. My my big memory from I think
Speaker 1: it was that night was the guy on the way back.
Speaker 1: He was like, hey, well there's no more jacking off
Speaker 1: tonight because he was trying to get into a limo
Speaker 1: to go see a strip club. We have wives, have wives, sir,
Speaker 1: how dare you suggest? And if we go to a
Speaker 1: strip club they're coming to damnit. Yeah. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a long ass walk, it was. It was. It
Speaker 1: was quite a journey. But you know what, at the end,
Speaker 1: we did get something that I haven't had in almost
Speaker 1: a year, which is Torrito's. Oh wow, I didn't realized
Speaker 1: that was such a special treat. Yeah, we got the
Speaker 1: reward Dorito's free household. Is there health reason for that? Oh? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Like we came back, I remember you Cherry
Speaker 1: reacting like, wait a minute, are these Tritos? Wow, it's
Speaker 1: like you broke your sobriety. No, no, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: during during quarantine, we are the worst food comfort ourselves.
Speaker 1: We're all we're all upset, so we're just eating all
Speaker 1: the things that you know, awful for us but just
Speaker 1: made us happy. Urrito's was high up on the list
Speaker 1: fresh all right, and we just ate lots of Gritos, Skittles.
Speaker 1: I wish, I wish we had, but we did not.
Speaker 1: Reminds me of childhood, just like my grandma used to
Speaker 1: torch modest child. Yeah, I did a similar thing because
Speaker 1: the Eminem's world is also on this strip. And my
Speaker 1: food that was trashy and killing me slowly during the
Speaker 1: quarantine was peanut butter of an M So I was
Speaker 1: eating insane amount of them and I have not had
Speaker 1: them in a while, and I was like, damn it,
Speaker 1: I'm going again. So isn't there some because something special?
Speaker 1: There's like a secret room or a treasure chest or
Speaker 1: something in the eminem store. What is that? There's like
Speaker 1: a well, the only thing. The first time I went
Speaker 1: to Vegas, it was August. We went in August, which
Speaker 1: is an insane time to go Las Vegas. It's very,
Speaker 1: very hot, and we were taking our first walk up
Speaker 1: the street. We were at MGM Grand, which is pretty
Speaker 1: far south on the strip, and we're walking our way
Speaker 1: north and one of the first buildings you come across
Speaker 1: is the Eminem store, and so me and all my
Speaker 1: friends we go inside and they're like, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is nice. There's some air conditioning, and we make our
Speaker 1: way upstairs. The Eminem stories like four stories tall, and
Speaker 1: when you get up to the top floor there's a
Speaker 1: little movie theater and it runs about like an eight
Speaker 1: minute movie every ten minutes or something like that. So
Speaker 1: we're like, hell, let's just go sit down in the
Speaker 1: air conditioning, and we watch the four D eminem adventure movie.
Speaker 1: I think they're like diffusing a bomb. It's a very
Speaker 1: exciting you eat with your eyes too, you know, so
Speaker 1: you want to watch them m yeah. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: was Cherry and I were definitely in the hotel room,
Speaker 1: like I wonder, I hope they're okay. Finally, like forty
Speaker 1: days and forty nights later, we got back with the
Speaker 1: bottle of tequila and a bottle of vodka and some
Speaker 1: sprite board, some drinks, poured some drinks and fell asleep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we're old. But that was okay because the next
Speaker 1: day we had a really cool experience ready like lined
Speaker 1: up for us, which was Me a Wolf's Omega Mart.
Speaker 1: But before we get into that, let's take a quick
Speaker 1: break and we're back. I have been looking at Me
Speaker 1: a Wolf for a while because I got served up
Speaker 1: some ad for their Santa Fe experiences, like an Alice
Speaker 1: in Wonderland thing, I think, and so ever since I
Speaker 1: saw a few years ago, I was like, I've got
Speaker 1: to see Hima Wolf. This is weird and cool. So
Speaker 1: we yeah, we were very excited to go to the
Speaker 1: Omega Marts. You should look into it, because I think
Speaker 1: the less you know about it, the better you know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go see it, but it's it's
Speaker 1: so cool. It's just this very I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: just the word immersive keeps coming up, but that's what
Speaker 1: it is. You step into this kind of art experience.
Speaker 1: When I was like, as an like, I'm not an
Speaker 1: artist of physical medium like that. I'm more of a writer.
Speaker 1: But like Cherry, I was thinking about you, like because
Speaker 1: you kind of split up and looked around, but I
Speaker 1: was thinking about you a lot, and I was like
Speaker 1: you it must be. It was so fun as a
Speaker 1: graphic designer to come up with all these fake products
Speaker 1: that they had in store, these kind of like takes
Speaker 1: on product, like kind of satirical takes on products that
Speaker 1: they had. Just coming up with the ideas, I would
Speaker 1: have had the best time just coming off with some
Speaker 1: of that ship exactly like as a as a graphic designer.
Speaker 1: The portion of the the immersive experience that was most
Speaker 1: interesting to me was was the grocery store because of
Speaker 1: all the like fun labels and designs and logos that like,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody had a great time designing. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: couldn't it be me? I want this job. It was
Speaker 1: a little like I did think of one thing that
Speaker 1: was interesting without spoiling it too much. But as like
Speaker 1: you know, there is like a little bit of a
Speaker 1: mystery to solve there where you have to pay attention
Speaker 1: to similar, Yeah, you have the option to follow it
Speaker 1: or not. And what funny was like y'all like I'm
Speaker 1: a notorious cut scene skipper in game, Like I want
Speaker 1: games to get to the point, and I'm like I
Speaker 1: have I will watch some cut scenes and like bywear
Speaker 1: games and stuff like that, But and dialogue trees. But
Speaker 1: a lot of times I'm just like, I ain't watching that,
Speaker 1: And so for me, I amediately just gravitated towards the
Speaker 1: more immediately accessible stuff, whereas y'all actually took the time
Speaker 1: to engage with the multimedia aspects of it that you know.
Speaker 1: And and it's not like I skipped every part of it,
Speaker 1: but I did. I did like the fact that it
Speaker 1: was engaging for both types of visits. Yeah, definitely, and
Speaker 1: people who aren't necessarily as interested in that, right, because
Speaker 1: you could just go through and and be appreciating and
Speaker 1: dazzled by the world they build inside and the way
Speaker 1: they play with lights and sound and sets all this stuff.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, you can like do the reading and watch
Speaker 1: the videos that they have at various kiosks, and uh
Speaker 1: and there is a story that sort of unfolds for you. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They had some really meditative parts that were like and
Speaker 1: if you had the time, you could just sit there
Speaker 1: in that one room and like, I don't think about
Speaker 1: your life and maybe some answers would come to you.
Speaker 1: I don't bring my diary and just like think about
Speaker 1: I was saying, it would be cool to go for
Speaker 1: like a first date totally somewhere quiet, find a corner
Speaker 1: and like kind of get to know somebody and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're surrounded by all these beautiful lights and art and really,
Speaker 1: you know, spend time with each other. If anyone goes
Speaker 1: on a first date to a meal wolf experience, please
Speaker 1: write in and tell us if it actually it was
Speaker 1: awesome or if you were like I wanted to shake
Speaker 1: him off so quick I tried to lose I tried
Speaker 1: to lose him when I crawled through the portal, body
Speaker 1: followed me, Cherry. Thank you for tying this episode back
Speaker 1: to the theme of our show. Thank you again. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is our date night as well. Right, we had to.
Speaker 1: We had you know, when we planned it, were like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're all friends and we want to spend
Speaker 1: as much time together as possible. But of course, the
Speaker 1: two couples on a trip intended to celebrate our anniverse three,
Speaker 1: so we knew we'd want some private time as well,
Speaker 1: so we built in some date nights. And I know
Speaker 1: you guys had a really wonderful meal, right, he had
Speaker 1: like a fancy dinner. Well, excuse me, the library right, yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 1: it's called the library at nomad, just surrounded by books,
Speaker 1: very warm like red booths and very cozy, warm lighting.
Speaker 1: Just the ambiance is spectacular and it's definitely one of
Speaker 1: the most romantic to eat. I think in Vegas is
Speaker 1: just gorgeous. Um, but Jason has some well like okay,
Speaker 1: like the night was wonderful and this didn't go on
Speaker 1: for too long, but I guess there was like an
Speaker 1: Errorsmith concert. Oh yeah, they have a residency at Park MGM.
Speaker 1: So you know, we're today, we're seeing did We're both
Speaker 1: dressed up. We're at this fancy place, but at their bar.
Speaker 1: All these Arismith fans started spilling out into the main
Speaker 1: dining room to the point where these two guys were
Speaker 1: just like these two Like, I mean, they weren't exactly
Speaker 1: dressed for the venue first of all, and they were
Speaker 1: standing right next to our table just jabbering about like
Speaker 1: you know, football or whatever, like yeah, Manna, I love
Speaker 1: football all this stuff. And I was like, look for
Speaker 1: a bar, but we specifically wouldn't have an experience. So
Speaker 1: the waitress I was like, hey, do you mind if
Speaker 1: we move a few tables down, and then you know,
Speaker 1: she moved. It was totally cool about it, and then
Speaker 1: they sat down and she had to come up and
Speaker 1: be like, sir, these are for people eating, don't you
Speaker 1: understand how a restaurant works, not after concert. I was
Speaker 1: just like Steven Tyler, come get your fans, you know.
Speaker 1: But they bounced pretty quickly and the rest of you all.
Speaker 1: Eventually all of the Aerosmith fans left the bar and
Speaker 1: no shade to Aerosmith, and you know, lots lots of
Speaker 1: leather was worn and yeah, yeah, open vests. I imagine
Speaker 1: they all left and it was much quieter, much more romantic,
Speaker 1: and as far as the meal went. You know, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to close my eyes. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: miss a thing at our own concert. But you also,
Speaker 1: we had another special request for a dessert, right they came? Correct?
Speaker 1: They can't, yeah, because you also put in a request
Speaker 1: for any thing. You know, a lot of times when
Speaker 1: we do our reservations, they ask you if it's a
Speaker 1: special occasion, right, And honestly, every time I say, yesterday better,
Speaker 1: no matter of it isn't it is because you never
Speaker 1: know what kind of like one little parking might get
Speaker 1: exactly every day, is a special occasion that's exactly right
Speaker 1: at your establishment, it is I put down that it
Speaker 1: is our it was our honeymoon. Yes, so I just
Speaker 1: because I'm like, I don't know they might give us something,
Speaker 1: and I completely forgot about it. But they showed up
Speaker 1: with this cotton candy on a big, very long stick
Speaker 1: and then they put the stick on a little stand.
Speaker 1: So it was just basically presenting a fans way of
Speaker 1: presenting cotton candy and a card that's congratulations, and everybody,
Speaker 1: all the staff of the restaurants signed it very and
Speaker 1: just unexpected, because again I totally forgot I even did that.
Speaker 1: So they're like, just when we all wanted to say
Speaker 1: congratulations on getting married, and we're all very glad that
Speaker 1: you're here with us tonight. And it's very sweet. And
Speaker 1: they also gave us port wine with our dessert for
Speaker 1: free complimentary. Yeah, and we also had a dessert along
Speaker 1: with that, just like some kind of coffee. I think
Speaker 1: they called it coffee cake, but you know it's not
Speaker 1: yeah faces like Vegas. So it's it's like deconstructed like
Speaker 1: you know home with like granata, granata granita, yeah, ice
Speaker 1: kind of shaped ice, different flavors. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: coffee granites. I have had a weird side effects from
Speaker 1: that car, and then that they gave us that is,
Speaker 1: you know, well just since we got back. The card
Speaker 1: they gave us was signed by all the people, and
Speaker 1: you put a card on our fridge, and it's the
Speaker 1: first thing I see whenever I opened the fridge and
Speaker 1: someone signed the card. Tuna Mad number eight. I mean,
Speaker 1: so there's more than seven tunaments to No Mad Library
Speaker 1: if you want to, if you want to take it there.
Speaker 1: The the thing that you saw on the card are
Speaker 1: quiet hilarious. The names they haven't chosen to use, or
Speaker 1: if they are their real names, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: they are hilarious. That's why I like, I'm like, I'm
Speaker 1: keeping this forever because it's really funny and it's very
Speaker 1: Yeah right, number eight. Yeah, every time I open the
Speaker 1: first time, I'm like, oh, number eight. Of course, while
Speaker 1: y'all were doing that, we went to a place called
Speaker 1: best Friend by Roy Choi. It's kind of an opposite
Speaker 1: direction where we were kind of like Shureley, we'll have
Speaker 1: lots of dress up time and fancy meals, so we'll
Speaker 1: just do something casual together tonight. Yeah. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: nice way of of of of explaining that we didn't
Speaker 1: plan very much. Actually, to both the date nights, we
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, we'll figure it out. This is what happens.
Speaker 1: We've been married too long, You're like anniversary whatever. But
Speaker 1: it was amazing. I love that some of the best
Speaker 1: food I've ever eaten. Incredible. That line is so cool.
Speaker 1: The vibe was really cool, like the food was out
Speaker 1: of control. Roy Choi is like a pretty well known
Speaker 1: chef and he decided to do something that was more
Speaker 1: like street food from his childhood, like kind of like
Speaker 1: low concept uh food did but it was done so well.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievably good. Best noodles I think I've ever had. Well,
Speaker 1: this was so great about it? Is this a lot
Speaker 1: of Korean barbecue there? So I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: well in Elisa vegetarian, so I'm like, well, what you know,
Speaker 1: is there anything on the menu for him? Is this
Speaker 1: meal going to be worth it? And one of the
Speaker 1: best things about it was that the vegetarian noodles and
Speaker 1: the barbecue veggies that they served were insane. They were
Speaker 1: so good that I was like, wow, you know, barbecue
Speaker 1: barbecue places need to take note that you can char
Speaker 1: grill some carrots and really impressed me. Because it was
Speaker 1: so so good. So it was really cool, and everybody
Speaker 1: in there was all rowdy and they like we saw
Speaker 1: a guy and his wife get up and start waltzing
Speaker 1: like like they were dancing to something together, and that
Speaker 1: was really cute. I was like, everyone in here is
Speaker 1: having a really good time. So that was really fun.
Speaker 1: Jason was going to come out and gamble with us
Speaker 1: because we were still bopping around. Late. We went to
Speaker 1: the Juniper Lounge and had a drink and we went
Speaker 1: into Excalibur. We were enjoying Excalibur and sat down at
Speaker 1: a table in New York, New York and text from Jason,
Speaker 1: as is going to sleep, but I'm going to come
Speaker 1: out and meet you. And then and then what happened Jason, Well,
Speaker 1: was this the night that I said I don't want
Speaker 1: to walk, no, no, But you just were like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come out and meet you, and back where we
Speaker 1: were like we're at Paris. I believe the next day
Speaker 1: you said you fell asleep with your phone in your
Speaker 1: hand as you were texting that, Oh yeah, I had
Speaker 1: a message on I was like I'm coming out and
Speaker 1: I literally was not my face, preparing to go to bed,
Speaker 1: and he came out of the bathroom. He was already
Speaker 1: asleep on the bed. He mostly before me. When you
Speaker 1: make a sedentary forty four year old man walk like,
Speaker 1: my apple Watch literally was like wow games today, Like
Speaker 1: my apple Watch was the most impressed I've ever seen it.
Speaker 1: I did cross twenty steps twice on that trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It's a lot. It's a lot. Really. It
Speaker 1: really seemed like my Apple Watch thought this was the
Speaker 1: new normal, and I was like, no, I'm sorry, this
Speaker 1: is a couple of weeks, just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I had the opposite where I've been using new to
Speaker 1: record my meals and try and track what I'm eating
Speaker 1: and stuff. And in Vegas they kept saying, hey, Lea,
Speaker 1: you haven't recorded dinner yet, and I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to tell you what I'm eating. Out of here,
Speaker 1: get out of my business or something. Yeah. Sure, we'll
Speaker 1: just say sprouts, some carrots, sprouts. Yeah. And he's like,
Speaker 1: just don't don't work, don't tell you. He's always listening.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments of the trip it was
Speaker 1: just me out late one night ever, but he was
Speaker 1: asleep and I sat down at the blackjack table and
Speaker 1: these uh these two drunk couples came up to play too,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't really very drunk myself, but they were
Speaker 1: having a great time, but in a fun way. They
Speaker 1: weren't like obnoxious. And they're screaming and hooting and hollering
Speaker 1: because they're winning. And the pit boss, the guy who
Speaker 1: like sort of monitors the all the games going on,
Speaker 1: walks over as they're shouting one time and he says, hey, guys, guys, guys,
Speaker 1: I got people sleeping upstairs. And they all like stopped
Speaker 1: dead and we're like, oh my god, sorry, and started whispering.
Speaker 1: And he's like, are you kidding me? This Vegas? You
Speaker 1: can say whatever you want busts out laughing. I bought
Speaker 1: it for half a second. I bought it too. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, we are being really loud
Speaker 1: you telling the story. I bought it. You're literally like
Speaker 1: casino Like also, who would call down to it's just
Speaker 1: too loud tonight. The ceilings are two ft tall, Like, no,
Speaker 1: it's good because they was kind of young too, right,
Speaker 1: so he was probably let me play off. They've probably
Speaker 1: been yelled at again, Yeah, totally, maybe put a bed
Speaker 1: down there and if you can sleep on the casino
Speaker 1: floor you can sleep preferring. Wow, it's like the Princess
Speaker 1: and the Peak. Yeah, if you can sleep through the
Speaker 1: craps game, we'll put two dice under your mattress. If
Speaker 1: you can sleep through the night, then a true princess
Speaker 1: beget trust it. I don't like that. I'm like, I'd
Speaker 1: rather get a call for a real I'd rather sleep
Speaker 1: in a broom, closet, h somewhere amazing. So that was
Speaker 1: a really fun night. I loved our date night. It
Speaker 1: was a great time. Um. And then I guess the
Speaker 1: next day was our last day in Vegas, Is that right?
Speaker 1: Or last? Yeah? Yeah, And so we had plans to
Speaker 1: do Fremont Streets, which is of course a crazy experience.
Speaker 1: That's Old Vegas where all the old like Golden Nugget
Speaker 1: and binions and Horseshoe and all that stuff started. So
Speaker 1: we're very excited about that day. We had our breakfast
Speaker 1: buffet that morning, UM at the wind which is a
Speaker 1: very fancy, very fancy hotell some sites the fanciest hotel
Speaker 1: on the stretch. And I know Cherry and I talked
Speaker 1: a lot about this, but but it was another place
Speaker 1: where I thought it would be really stuffy and like
Speaker 1: fro you know, sort of, But it wasn't. It was
Speaker 1: really fun. It had a really fun vibe without being tacky.
Speaker 1: It was fancy without being stuffy. It was just yeah done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really really well done. It full to be fair, though,
Speaker 1: I was ignored by the crepes lady, the lady who
Speaker 1: made creeps. Yeah, hands on crepes, so I wanted a
Speaker 1: was still upset about that crazy I mean, honestly, the
Speaker 1: buffet experience overall was not that. It was not the
Speaker 1: same as backing all service was. I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: a special person. Of course, we weren't there. We didn't
Speaker 1: have diamond status. We were regular red status at the
Speaker 1: wind So we walked in. They beat us with canes,
Speaker 1: they shoved us out of the way while they let
Speaker 1: some diamond members through. That used to be me. I
Speaker 1: know what it's like now. It's worse to have had
Speaker 1: it and lost it than never had it at all,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't. Eventually eventually got a crazy cre
Speaker 1: That's good. That crap is probably the best part of
Speaker 1: the meal, It's true. Um. But a really big thing
Speaker 1: that night was the Neon Museum and the Fremont Street
Speaker 1: experience and the Neon Museum is really cool. We had
Speaker 1: not done this one and are any of our other
Speaker 1: times that we've been. Um so I'm really excited that
Speaker 1: we got You've got a book it way in advance. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, the tours are pretty small and they only
Speaker 1: run every hour. They're they're pretty short. Um so you've
Speaker 1: they sell out at almost every night. I believe. It's
Speaker 1: basically uh they call the Bone Yard. It's just like
Speaker 1: old Neon signs from like classic Vegas, all laid out
Speaker 1: on the ground and these big piles like almost like
Speaker 1: a junkyard, but they're all turned on and lit up
Speaker 1: and it's so cool. It was really hard rock, cafe, guitar,
Speaker 1: just tons of stuff that was really cool. It was
Speaker 1: just a really cool like history of Vegas kind of
Speaker 1: quick quick history of Vegas. Have very very quick short
Speaker 1: history of Vegas like hard rock guitar, OHT or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's very big, it's very climbable, and I do, yeah,
Speaker 1: you should. They should allow you. You suggested it to
Speaker 1: me at the time. What wouldn't take to get up there?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, maybe that's my circ to sell
Speaker 1: at audition. You climbed to the top. Jump just flip
Speaker 1: off that land on your feet. Yeah, it's me, Paul McCarney.
Speaker 1: Oh you've got to do is climb this hard rock cafe.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you, Paul, Paul. Anything for you, Sir Paul.
Speaker 1: They don't let you climb. They don't let you. Don't
Speaker 1: let you climb it, don't start climb. And I bet
Speaker 1: they'd let Paul climb, Sir Paul. He shouldn't. They shouldn't.
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he needs to be preserved. You don't hurt yourself. Called.
Speaker 1: If Paul McCartney shut up and said, oh I'd like to,
Speaker 1: I'd like that's Ringo, isn't it. If Ringo Star shut old,
Speaker 1: look the cloth and the adul well Ringo Ringo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they'd let him do it, can do it? Just kidding.
Speaker 1: I love Ringo. I will say. Fremont Street, you know,
Speaker 1: was my first being in a crowd post quarantine free
Speaker 1: cat It was incredibly packed. It was very packed and
Speaker 1: like you know, Vegas ain't no mass nowhere, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, You maybe see one or two and like,
Speaker 1: up to that point, I have been fine because you know,
Speaker 1: we got the booster and everything, and you know, obviously
Speaker 1: We're just like, hey, boaster, you're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: your work cut off for you. But you know, it
Speaker 1: was just kind of this like weird moment where I
Speaker 1: was just like packed into all these people and they
Speaker 1: were also so close, and it's like there might as
Speaker 1: well have been like an old lady who was like
Speaker 1: give us a kiss. Oh my god, you know, like
Speaker 1: both who can breathe and the hardest, you know, Like
Speaker 1: I was just like, you know, it was just like
Speaker 1: an intense experience, and then I was just like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm here, you know. Right. We went
Speaker 1: to the Golden Nugget and it was fine. We played
Speaker 1: black jack, uh, Diana and Cherry played slots and stuff.
Speaker 1: We went to Yeah we love the Circa. It was
Speaker 1: great and we played a little Shop of Horrors themed slot.
Speaker 1: So we were just thinking, suddenly Seymour at the top
Speaker 1: of our luans. We had some cocktails, so we may
Speaker 1: have had a cocktail cloud as we usually we're together
Speaker 1: and so fun though, and I really wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about it because we had this this crazy uber driver
Speaker 1: like a couple of days before who had told us
Speaker 1: to go to Fremont and he kind of like Wilfred
Speaker 1: Brimley had a very strong like accident, No New York.
Speaker 1: I mean it was like Wilford Brimley worked at the
Speaker 1: shipyards in New Jersey. That's what this guy looked like.
Speaker 1: I've been to prison. He got yeah, knuckles, tattoos. Right.
Speaker 1: So as soon as we got in the car, he
Speaker 1: was like, you know, being a good driver. He's trying
Speaker 1: to give us some recommendations. You while we were in visiting.
Speaker 1: Real character. You gotta go to Fremont, ladies. There's stuff
Speaker 1: up for you down there. There's a guy down there
Speaker 1: and let you kick you. You could kick up as
Speaker 1: hard as you want the nuts and you don't fold up.
Speaker 1: If you make him flinch, you get you get to
Speaker 1: keep your twenty dollars or whatever to kick him in
Speaker 1: the balls. But he said he brought like a bunch
Speaker 1: of friends of his who was brought home with these
Speaker 1: knuckle had friends of mine. I'm nuts nuts friends, numb nuts.
Speaker 1: You know what these numbnuts did was a linebacker, you know,
Speaker 1: he was a starting kicker or something. That's right, some football.
Speaker 1: The nuts. He didn't fall out. He did not fall
Speaker 1: as our driver Mike or has he referred to himself,
Speaker 1: Uncle Mike, Uncle Mike, and he kept all his white
Speaker 1: with chicken ship. Yeah, uncle Mike said, my chicken ship white,
Speaker 1: chicken ship white. You know what she did. She told
Speaker 1: me to go take a picture with the topless nun.
Speaker 1: Put one boob on each shoulder. Chicken and girls, here's
Speaker 1: something for you. There's manicures. Do not know me at all, sir,
Speaker 1: what's for us? What's for us? Okay? But then it
Speaker 1: was time to leave Vegas the next day. So it
Speaker 1: was kind of silly, I guess of us to be like,
Speaker 1: let's get real messy on Fremont and then wake up
Speaker 1: her nice and check out to Los Angeles. We did,
Speaker 1: all right, well, go ahead. Oh, some of my co
Speaker 1: workers told me to make sure I had enough gas
Speaker 1: and water and an extreme word, but yes, I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, hey, are we gonna die on the
Speaker 1: way los Angeles? Like am I going to be? It's
Speaker 1: just us and two camels, as much water as you
Speaker 1: can carry on your belt, cartoon of a skeleton next
Speaker 1: to you know. So spoiler alert, we did make it
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. Um, but you know, you get the
Speaker 1: four of us together talking about our vacation, we're gonna go.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go. Are you all bored yet? Are you
Speaker 1: like I don't care about your stupid fan like part
Speaker 1: of me is like, this is the most annoying thing
Speaker 1: we could do to you. But I hope that you
Speaker 1: have had fun laughing along with us and dreaming of
Speaker 1: your own vacation or please tell us you know any
Speaker 1: stories you might have about your US experience and honeymoons, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would love to hear those and share them on
Speaker 1: the show. But who was your favorite uber driver? They
Speaker 1: are characters for real, um, But we are gonna we
Speaker 1: are going to step away today's and and come back
Speaker 1: next time and finish talking about our Los Angeles experience,
Speaker 1: a whole different vibe, a whole different time. We have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun there too, And how cool to
Speaker 1: have friends that you can do two very different cities
Speaker 1: with and still have a good time like each other
Speaker 1: when you get home. Miss happened on Hollywood Boulevard Episode two? Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happened in l a breakdown of
Speaker 1: our friendship. Ready, things got pretty ugly, but no, thank
Speaker 1: you so much to tune in. Please reach out to
Speaker 1: us and tell us all about your experiences of course
Speaker 1: you can shoot us an email Dick Romance at gmail
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Speaker 1: at Dynamite Boom and I'm at oh great, it's Eli,
Speaker 1: Cherry and Jason. Where can people find you to follow you?
Speaker 1: Because you're so fun and delightful and they want talented
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Speaker 1: on Instagram as I should know this, Um, it's at
Speaker 1: Normal World Underscore at Normal You're right, Normal World. I
Speaker 1: had to tag you earlier today, so okay, So yeah,
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Speaker 1: and I think TikTok so I finally on it. There
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Speaker 1: so tune in next time, we're gonna finish talking about
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and then we'll get back to our histories
Speaker 1: and everything like that. Yes uh and and Recryptulous Romance
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