WEBVTT - Vegas Drum Sticks 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:05.480 Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:09.280 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.280 --> 0:00:12.880 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.800 crackheads in the Ghetto Cutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.880 pill poppers in the penthouse the clearing House of hot 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.639 takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:31.600 Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere. Another 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:36.559 weekend is here, and of course, well Saturday, Saturday, Saturday 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.400 and a Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny g 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:48.160 is upon us in the Magic Podcast studio, and Danny, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.920 I am excited to be here on a Saturday. Uh clear. Yes, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.120 the checks in the mail unless it's not. Unless it's not. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.279 But I do, I do have some good story to tell. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.440 I'm looking forward to because some of the stuff I 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.959 probably should have gotten to on the radio show. Oh 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.160 hell now, yeah, But I felt like we could go 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.080 a little more in depth on the podcast. So you 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.160 went to Vegas a few weeks ago, I just went 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.800 to Vegas last weekend. And so we're gonna have the 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.440 Mallard travel log on this edition of the Fifth Hour, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:29.039 which is a tremendously important piece of audio content that 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.119 many people did not realize they need, but desperately, one 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.039 that is much better than hearing you suddenly becoming an 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:41.880 expert on NBA and college basketball. Yeah no, no, no, no, 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.920 yeah no no, that's not not going on. But so 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:53.000 I've got on the Mallard travel Log. We've got ammonia Mania, Tabernacle, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:58.840 Welcome to Suckersville, and of course odds and ends, kids 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:02.120 say the darndest things, and uh and a whole lot 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.600 more so that I think we should just get right 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:07.440 into him. I don't wanna know small talk, right, I mean, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.560 is anything you wanna begin with your dan, anything that 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.399 that's really on on the tip of your tongue, as 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:19.280 Marcel would say, Let's get into it. Yeah, alright. So 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.320 the Mallard Travelog, now, we we had Scott Farrell on 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:28.760 last week on Friday, and then I scdaddled to lost 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.920 Wages and about I visited Vegas, first time I had 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:36.840 been there in almost three years since the pandemic began. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.760 I dodged since city. This was not intentional, but I 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:44.320 just didn't want to go anywhere. I said, you know, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:48.320 travel was kind of shutdown. Vegas was shut down So 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.839 now why did I end my truancy? Why was this 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.200 trip different than than all as well? Mainly the reason 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.880 I went was because my wife was going out of 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.560 town with her girl ends, so she thought, hey, you 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.360 should go to Vegas. So I was like, all right, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.359 I'll go to Vegas. Whatever. So I did a guy's 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.920 trip to UH to Vegas. I went with one of 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.960 my my buddies. I've known this guy since high school, 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.040 gambling buddy of mind hunter. And we packed up the 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:24.360 old station wagon and headed to the gambling mecca of 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.440 of Laws Ages, Nevada. There and UH and I drove. Now, 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.560 I'm not a big flyer dandy. I don't fly. I 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.040 don't think. I think. I've only flown to Vegas once 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.720 and that was when one of the fight companies paid 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.320 for me to fly there. But other than that, I 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:44.920 actually don't mind the drive drivers. I'm into the drive. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.040 I'm hip with the drive, so I just feel like 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.400 it's it's a better way to go. I like all 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.560 the desert towns. I kind of know certain restaurants in 0:03:55.720 --> 0:04:00.920 Barstow and Apple Valley and places like that. Between l 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.240 A and UH in Vague. Did you stop in beautiful Baker. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.200 You know, I didn't stop in Baker this time. I 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:13.360 waived at Baker on the way there. Uh, stopped in 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:18.560 Apple Valley, Okay, which is I think the mark, and 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.080 then Barstow is like the fifty percent mark, and then Baker, 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:29.120 California is it's about seventy give or take um, but 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.400 rather uneventful drive. I did lose a bet though, on 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:38.080 the way there. I thought I knew where Zizi's Road is, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.480 and it turns out that I guessed wrong. Yeah, it's 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.560 actually right before Baker. Well yeah, I thought it was. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.400 For some reason, I thought it was after Baker, and 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.880 I f that up because I wasn't paying attention, clearly, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.039 because I always get excited when you see Zizi's Road. 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.279 That's one of the most famous roads in America. And 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.440 they I think they actually did a little movie about 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.400 Zizi's Road, if I remember correct. I lost the bet. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.160 I lost like a five dollar bet, So that was 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.280 a bubber. We did stop in Prim. We got a 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.640 little late start on the trip to Vegas, and we 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.000 wanted a wager on some of the early NBA games. 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.240 They start in the afternoon, so we made it to 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:21.000 two Prim, which is right across the California border. If 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.159 you're not familiar with the geography, this is the Mallar 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:30.520 travel Log, which is an amazing, amazing piece of audio. 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.200 So I made it to Prim. One of the hotels 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.320 Buffalo Bills completely closed. That's where the old Rickety roller 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.720 coaster is. Yeah, yeah, that's that place is shut down. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.560 So there's only Whiskey Peats on one side, and then 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.880 there's the Prim Valley Resort. But Whiskey Peats doesn't have 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.440 a sports book, so we had to go to the 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.800 Prim Valley Resort because they've got a sports book. So 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:01.000 I I wager and I did some handicapping and wagered 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.680 on a an NBA gamean Mavericks plus the points against 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.640 the jazz Insalt Lake. So I got that bed in. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.159 Then we headed down the road another forty miles or 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:16.800 so from Prim to to Vegas Proper and we pulled 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.760 up to the MGM Grant. Now, have you stayed at 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.000 the MGM Grand Danny? Have you spent any time there 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.279 back in the day? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's a massive, 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.239 massive hotel. Uh and uh, the wife had actually booked. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.839 She got she found a cheap room online. Now normally 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.279 in the past I would hit up a friend in 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.400 Vegas and try to get camped. But I actually paid 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.360 for the room, so that's a step in the right directions. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.920 I paid for the room and it was really cheap. 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:53.320 It was a really good deal online until until Danny 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.359 I went to check into the hotel because I paid 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.240 for it on one of the travel websites. And then 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.200 they they said, well, you've got to pay for park 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.520 and uh. And I said okay. And then then I said, well, 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.360 that's kind of lame. And then they said, well you've 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.440 got it. You've got this resort fee. You you've got 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.080 to pay the resort fee and uh. I said, well 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.160 that's stupid. Uh. And then they were like, well we 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.600 we we have to actually charge your credit card an 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.400 extra hundred dollars for incidentals. By the time they got 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.560 done bending me over the counter there just ram it. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.320 We were at if I if I'm right on the map, 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.080 I think it was over three hundred dollars that they 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:40.320 had taken. Yeah, some of that I got back, but 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.480 to me, Danny and maybe I'm I'm not that right. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:48.080 So if you pay the resort fee, shouldn't that include 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.520 the parking. Isn't that part of the resort fee? Why 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:52.800 would that not be part of the resort. It's at 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.920 the resort, why would that not be part of the resort. No, 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.640 you're absolutely right, And that's why you have to do 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.560 a lot of research while you're booking for Vegas, because 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.920 you need to see what that final bill is gonna 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.440 look like. And if they have free parking, almost all 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.360 of them are trying to charge something and at tax. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.640 It's not fun because we're helping to fund things like 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:22.840 the brand new Allegiance Stadium. Yeah, it's it's crazy. That's 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.800 pretty much what what I had to say to them, 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.520 I guess or they said to me. But yeah, man, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.760 oh man, what a scam. So they give you the 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.640 cheap hotel online, you think you're getting a deal, and 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.880 then you get there and you have to empty your 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:45.800 pockets out somebody money, man oh man, oh man. Uh. 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.920 And as many have pointed out, Danny and I love 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.160 Vegas and I'll go back. I'll probably go back several 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.800 times this year. I'm a big fan of eights. But 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:57.640 when the mob was in control, that was when Vegas 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.960 was at its best. That's when they appreciated the customer, 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.720 and they would give you free parking, they give you 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.680 a big giant meal for like ten bucks, and it 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.640 was amazing. Just no going there. You're gonna basically pay 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:15.640 through the teeth. Yeah, there's there's a lot of that anyway. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:21.240 So after checking in and emptying out my pockets, quickly 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.720 dumped the bags in the room and and made my 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.319 way to the sports book and I had to get 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.760 my other NBA locked. The people seem the Clippers plus 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:31.640 one and a half against the Lakers. That was my 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.200 other NBA lock of Friday last Friday. Did you say 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:40.559 the people Seemen the People's team a lot of your people, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.120 Danny Purple and gold people in the sports book and point. 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.360 Did I enjoy their agony? I'm not gonna lie to you. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:51.160 I thought, boy, that is just wonderful watching them all 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.360 squirm as their team lost to the Clippers with no 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.280 no guys I've ever heard of on the Clippers and 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.280 they still want it to what is still wrong with 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:03.760 the Clippers? It was enjoyable. You pay me five thousand dollars, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.920 I'll endorse a game magazine. It was absolutely enjoyed. Hell no, 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:11.840 I would tell you though, those losses go down a 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.240 lot easier with some championships in the back pocket. Well, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:19.120 they haven't had any since Kobe, any legitimate championship, all right. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.439 They just want to point that out. I think we 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.600 all know that Anty was basketball. That is a bogus championship, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.880 and it's been proven bogus the one, the one from 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.480 how they performed in recent years, that that was just 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:34.880 a product of them having four months off before the 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.880 NBA Finals, royals having their problems on the road. I'm 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.920 Ben Malick, and when they don't have four months off, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.880 motherfuck they suck. Okay, that's the reality. But the Dodgers 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.480 championship in the bubble, that one counts well, yes, because 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.880 that was the most teams ever uh in the postseason. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.880 And baseball is it was against the norms of baseball. 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:01.800 Forms of baseball are the it's a marathon, not a sprint. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.360 It is a marathon, not a sprint. But that season, okay, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.280 that particular season was a sprint and a lot of 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.840 teams that were supposed to be good. And I covered 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.920 baseball all the time. One of the problems with baseball 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.440 is those knuckleheads can take a month off and not 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.280 play well for a month. And it doesn't really matter. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.559 You're just getting the playoffs and that's that. Get back 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.360 to the story. So I enjoyed my time at the 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.480 sports book, and I won both the bets that I 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.240 made that day, and I was very happy with that. 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.600 Paid some dividends because I have no no life. But 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.800 I only had one complaint. You know what that complaint was, Danny? Well, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.040 really quick, were you doing your famous Mallard calculator where 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.560 you're like, okay, that's fifty towards the hotel they robbed 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.200 me on? I did? I did? I said, I was like, 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.839 how much do I have to get here to get 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.720 my money back? So I'm squared up on the on 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.680 the expense. I was absolutely doing that. Um. But my 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.640 only complaint, Danny, was, and you don't know this, but 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.960 it was the constant smell of ammonia, very strong smell 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:14.000 of ammonia. And I had to change seats three times 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.319 in the book in the sports book there and the 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:23.520 reason I had to change seats multiple times here, what 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.520 do you think? What do you think happened here, Danny? 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.560 Why would I have to do that? I'm gonna guess 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:34.760 chain smoking was involved. Well, there was some chain smoking. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.880 That people were doing, but that was not it. It 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.160 was Uh the reason that I changed seats three times. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:45.120 One of them was because of somebody doing some tremendous smoking. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.839 I think they They don't mean in an ashtray. There 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.400 their lungs of the ashtray. It was an amazing thing. Uh, 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.920 never seen that kind of smoking. For then the other 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.600 times I moved though, because of the constant smell of ammonia. 0:12:57.120 --> 0:12:59.760 It turns out the sports Book was double dipping as 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.040 a homeless shelter, much to my amazement. Here we had 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.560 multiple transience who had wandered off Las Vegas Boulevard the 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:11.280 Strip and they were they were deep into You know, 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.000 there's different levels of anything. And those people that are 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.800 homeless that are living in their cars and they try 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.040 to take care of themselves and shower and do as 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.560 much as they can, and it's difficult. Then there's the 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.720 other group that is just let it go. And several 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.320 of those homeless folks, those poor chaps we're in the 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:34.000 sports book. One of them was sleeping, I fell asleep. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.480 Another one was actually watching the games, but they both 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:42.840 wreaked of urine and uh it was I mean, Doc 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.480 Mike would have been in heaven, it would have been 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.439 shangra la for Doc, but for the rest of us, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.720 it was like, holy crap, and what do we holy 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.280 can only haven't want to watch the games. I got 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:55.880 a little action on it, I got I got a 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:58.600 homeless city breaking out of here was like, stopped the 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.880 fuck up? Man, oh man, oh man. Now, eventually security 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.920 got over there, and it took it seemed like it 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.000 took like an hour for them to show up and 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.839 then move because legally there's a lot of hoops you 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.800 gotta jump through to get someone to leave the place. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.600 So I did notice their technique, the securities technique, because 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.520 they were multiple homeless people there. So they asked the 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.760 homeless to head to wake him up, so that was 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.800 number one. Then they got a head, he got a 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.320 photo I D and uh. And then you know, most 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:33.160 hardcore homeless people don't have a photo I D. They're homeless. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.960 They don't have an address anyway, so they didn't have 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.880 an I D. And they escorted them out to Las 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:43.640 Vegas Boulevard. However, in a matter of truth and reporting 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.200 here it turns out that you can take the homeless 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.640 person out of the sports book, but you cannot take 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.400 the smell out of the sports book that that was 0:14:54.840 --> 0:15:00.760 still p you it's not it's Tony, No, it's real. 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.480 It didn't happen, it happened. I was there. I saw it. Uh. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.200 It smelled like the men's room on a Jersey Turnpike 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.560 that hadn't been cleaned in like four or five days. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.360 It was pretty crazy. And but I won my bets, 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.800 and so eventually I went up and took a shower 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.680 and the smell of pits went away. So there was that. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.360 So that was a lot has happened since Robert de 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.920 naro A k Ace was kicked out of running the casino. Yeah, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.640 things things have gotten a little bit different. The customer service. Uh, 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.960 you know, I'm just I'm just saying, I'm just saying, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.200 all right now, that was a shaky start to my 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.960 Vegas ship on Saturday, though Mallard travel log continues. Danny g. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:44.680 On Saturday the highlight I went over to the Fremont 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.120 Street experienced. Now are you are you a big Fremont 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:50.480 Street experience guy? I know you went to Vegas a 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:55.880 few weeks ago. Yeah, you're talking old Vegas, oh, downtown Vegas. Yeah, No, 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.520 it reminds me too much of Reno and I need 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.160 a shower. Were immediately, Oh yeah, yeah, I love that. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.840 Though I love that about it. It's very seedy. It's disgusting. 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.520 Now while the vast majority of people out of town 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.880 they go to Vegas, they all go to the Strip. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.160 That's the experience they want to me. The real Vegas 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:19.080 is downtown Vegas. That's the real Vegas, that not the Strip. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.240 And the Strip is great and all, and I usually 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.480 stay on the Strip, but I love downtown Veggas. That 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.240 area around the Golden Nugget. They got the zip line 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:34.680 going right down the street is a strippers booze, any 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:40.080 kind of pharmaceuticals you might need, degenerates, debauchery, but the 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.760 good times, well, it's like Venice Beach. If Venice Beach 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.600 had sex with Bourbon Street they had a baby, it 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:54.400 would be Old Vegas. It's like New York's Times Square 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.360 before they cleaned it up. Yeah, I went and how 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.080 all the peep shows and all that before Giuliani got 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.280 in there and cleaned up. But you know, it's it's uh, 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.840 it's a freak show. It's a carnival in in Fremont Street. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.200 So I found free parking which I was happy about. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.320 When I went over there, I was like, Oh, that's good. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.679 That's we're off to a good start. And so I, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.920 you know, it's winding around, and I love going to 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.840 the Golden Nugget. They have the coolest pool and if 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.600 you ever go to Vegas you have kids, they have 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.840 a slide that goes right through the pool, and they 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.239 have a tank. Obviously it's filled with like sharks and 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.600 you know, different kinds of fish, huge fish, and it's 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.399 really awesome. They did a tremendous job, and so I 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:36.200 always checked that out. And now the pool was closed 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.720 because it was cold in Vegas. But then as I 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:42.720 was walking out of the Golden Nugget, I saw the light. 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:46.400 I saw the light, Danny, I saw it. I witnessed it. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.959 The brand new Circle Hotel. I didn't even know this 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.080 was a thing. I had been keeping up on Vegas, 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.600 but since the last time I was in Vegas, they 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.560 built this monstrosity of a hotel right across from the 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:07.440 Golden Nugget. Brand spanking new, and it's so immaculate that 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:10.719 they actually had a security guard checking your driver's license 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:14.440 to get in. I'm wearing a bathround. I did to 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.919 scan your driver's license. How crazy is that? Now? Did 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.679 it look out of place around the rest of the 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.720 older structures. Well, it was very large, and that caught 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.560 my attention, and it didn't look new, and I thought, well, 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.080 that's not something I normally see in this part of town. 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:34.879 So I normally, if I am asked to show my 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.360 ID to go and do a building, I'm not I'm 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.600 not gonna do it. I was very reluctant to hand 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.760 over my driver's license. This is so stupid. So for 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:45.879 me to walk into a casino, I gotta show my 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.280 I D what is this? But I did? And uh, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.199 I gotta tell you. I walked in. I didn't know 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:57.960 what to expect. They're like, welcome, Mr Miller. Eat well, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:04.560 he exactly, Oh hey, Bill Miller. It was stunning, tip 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:09.120 top condition, spotless. Now, part of it might have been 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:11.359 that I had just walked through the Golden Nugget and 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.280 a couple of other hotels that I think we're last 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.120 updated in, so that might have been part of it. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:23.399 But this thing was nuts so and uncontaminated by the 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:30.240 hoodlums outside the doors, the unwashed, and so I wandered around, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.480 and I every corner I turned. I was like, wow, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.800 this is this is really cool, and then I had 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:43.800 the Eureka moment there it was Casablanca, the Tabernacle. Uh, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.199 this is the sports book. But not just a sports book, Danny, 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:54.040 this was a religious experience. Oh yes, this was a sanctuary, 0:19:54.480 --> 0:20:00.240 this sports book. The video boards three stories high. I 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:06.760 sent out a photo on Twitter. Ye, this thing was amazing, Danny, 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.960 three stories high. It had the quality of so Fi 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:14.959 Stadium meets Jerry's world. As far as you know the scoreboard, 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.360 I'm sure Allegiance Stadium has a nic scoreboard. Two. I've 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:23.720 never been there. Uh, but stadium style seating that that 0:20:23.920 --> 0:20:30.600 Musburger operation has studios there. Visten Baby, it was. It 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.120 was intense. I was only planning on just walking through 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.439 the hotel. I ended up staying there a couple of hours, 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.000 and I was like, how so enamored? I was like 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:42.200 watching hockey games I didn't care about. I watched a U. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:47.119 C Irvine College basketball game shout out and Eaters that 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:49.040 I really didn't I would not have watched. But I 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:51.800 was like, Wow, this is amazing and it's so co 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.399 haveent app you can download because they only have the 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.399 audio for one of the games. There's every game you 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:58.679 could possibly want, and so there's an app you can 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.280 download and then listen to the different video feeds with 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.879 the audio. So nice. I mean, I I don't think 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.000 they spared an expense on anything. And I'm already thinking, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.159 I when can I go back. I'm like, gotta, I 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:15.800 gotta go check that out. And I'll stay in that 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.919 part of Vegas and maybe I'll go over to the 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:22.000 Plaza or something like that, which I think is one 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:26.400 of the great spots for depression. And I like the Plaza. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:31.239 But there's a Greyhound bus station at the Plaza, and 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.400 so you see people coming to Vegas on the Greyhound 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.200 bus that have their last like dollar in their pocket. 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.600 And then you see people leaving Vegas that have their 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:47.040 last dollar in their pocket. If you know what I'm saying, Danny, right, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:55.600 I mean, this is uh never, it's not boring, it's 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.400 it's interesting. So the last I got a couple more 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:01.920 things here on the Mallard Travelogue. I know we're getting 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:06.240 a little long on this. Welcome to Suckersville. So over 0:22:06.280 --> 0:22:08.080 the years, as you know, Danny, because I worked with 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:10.280 you for a long time, you know, I have ranted 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.800 about avoiding when you go to a place like Vegas. 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:16.640 You want to avoid being an easy mark. You don't 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:18.400 you want to be the sucker. And so I've done 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:20.399 p s A s on the radio. I've done interventions 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:23.360 and so I know a thing or two because we've 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:24.920 seen a thing or two over the years when it 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:28.680 comes to sports betting and gambling and all that, and 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:32.919 and many people are just reckless, and money management is 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.840 part of it, but the biggest thing is discipline and 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:37.399 keep your eye on the price. Don't be it. You 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:39.879 don't want to be a square. A square gambler is 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:45.679 an average, unsophisticated gambler who bets on hunches and you 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.439 know whatever Skip Bayliss or stephen A. Smith say, They're like, 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.040 all right, he thinks this is gonna happen. So you 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.240 bet on that where they have some kind of system 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.399 or something like that, and the mathematical advantage that the 0:22:57.480 --> 0:22:59.520 sports book has, you have no chance of winning if 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:02.840 you're like uh. And the people who run those sports 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.600 books love the person who's the square gambler because they 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.480 know they're gonna win in the end. And there's like 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:11.760 there's three types of people that bet money in a 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:16.720 sports book. Uh, there's the square gambler who has no information, 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.240 there's the better who has some information, and then there's 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:24.600 the wager slash cartel that has all the information. But 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:26.760 I'm more of like a better. I have some information, 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:29.679 but I don't have all the information. Uh. And I 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.159 wish I was a wager or an insider part of 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.159 a conglomerate that has all the information. But anyway, so 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.159 the reason I'm bringing this up day so I the 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:41.800 buddy I came with, who is I've known for a 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:45.280 long time and he's a big fan of mixed martial arts. 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.639 This is his thing. He loves the m M A world. 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:53.040 That's his jam. He's Mr UFC. So there was a 0:23:53.119 --> 0:23:55.600 big UFC card, not even really a big card. It 0:23:55.640 --> 0:23:58.280 was a small card. I guess they have it every 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:01.720 weekend at the training facility in Vegas. It's on pay 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:03.960