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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant,

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Speaker 1: and this is the Stuff you Should Know the podcast. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it is Chuck Josh. Um. How's it going great? I'm

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Speaker 1: excited about this one. Really? How you know my favorite

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Speaker 1: casino or favorite Scores has everything? Casino? How we talked

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Speaker 1: used to say it was a close second to Good Fellas,

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Speaker 1: but I believe this is edge. I watched it again

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Speaker 1: the other day. Man, and I love Casino the movie.

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Speaker 1: It might edge Goodfellas out. I can't believe you're saying that.

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Speaker 1: But to each his own. We always say to me,

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Speaker 1: it's like flip a coin. That mean Streets and Good

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Speaker 1: I've not seen Main Streets, should I? Yeah, that was

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Speaker 1: the first one he did with the Neros. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: Harvey Catel. Yeah, alright, casinos casinos. Well, now we've already

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Speaker 1: this one, okay, because your favorite part out UM I

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Speaker 1: read UM that casino winnings for June in Las in Vegas, Nevada,

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Speaker 1: or in Nevada as a whole are We're up sixteen

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Speaker 1: percent over last year, which is a good sign because

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Speaker 1: one of the things that UM are pretty much recession

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Speaker 1: company stock, tobacco company stock, and gambling company stock. By

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Speaker 1: in Nevada for gambling is up six is a good sign. Conversely,

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Speaker 1: it's down like eight percent in Atlantic City. But that's

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Speaker 1: So what I mean, You've been to plenty of casinos, right,

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Speaker 1: it's weird to say that I love gambling. What's your

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Speaker 1: what's your game? Oh, you know black jack sports book.

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Speaker 1: So um chuck. You know casinos, Well, gambling itself is

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Speaker 1: guy and told him what to bat based on what

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00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: number who are about to come up? And this guy

422
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: one so much that the security followed him up to

423
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 1: was to the room and found the guy there, found

424
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,040
Speaker 1: out he was from Vegas and we're like, why did

425
00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,679
Speaker 1: you come to Atlantic City to play Keynoe? And that

426
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: was that. That was in an article in Harper's. You

427
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: know what happened to him? He got busted. I'm sure

428
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,520
Speaker 1: any longer. Yeah, I don't know if Atlantic City has

429
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: that kind of pull. In Vegas though, where they can,

430
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,479
Speaker 1: you know, rub you out. They don't dig a hole

431
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: in the desert there, They just do the old submit

432
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: shoes in the ocean. Yeah, with the fishes toss you

433
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 1: off the boardwalk. Yeah, but then you have to pay

434
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,800
Speaker 1: for the guy you just killed, to the to the

435
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,400
Speaker 1: people in Vegas. Right, Yeah, you got Backara what you've

436
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:44,720
Speaker 1: talked about. And if you've never played it, it it seems complicated,

437
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 1: but it's really not. The object is to get close

438
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 1: to nine instead of twenty one, but you only get

439
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: two or three cards, and the total if it's more

440
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,720
Speaker 1: than ten, you refer to the right hand number. So

441
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,400
Speaker 1: if you get a nine in a six, your hand

442
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: isn't fifteen, Your hand is five. If you get a

443
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 1: nine in six, your hand isn't fifteen, it's five. Where

444
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 1: come from the one five? It's the digit on the

445
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,160
Speaker 1: right hand side. If your hand totals thirteen, your hand

446
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: is really a three six. There's no five in there,

447
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: no nine in a six, total fifteen oh, I got you.

448
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: So you added up and then take the right hand

449
00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:30,640
Speaker 1: digit of the double digit, yes, and your object. Yes,

450
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: it's I mean it's not easy, but it's sort of

451
00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: easy that I've never played, because, as is pointed out

452
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 1: in the article, like it's usually away from the rest

453
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: of the casino and yeah, it's like you have to

454
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,880
Speaker 1: be wearing a tuck to get into the Baker Ross

455
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: typically known as a big money game because the guys

456
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: because you know why, it's because it's got the best

457
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: or the least amount of statistical advantage. So if you've

458
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 1: got a lot of money, you're probably smarter to be

459
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: playing back. Yeah, and because of that loads statistical advantage. Um,

460
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,840
Speaker 1: a lot of times Cassine know say hey, thanks for playing,

461
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,360
Speaker 1: you owe us three percent of everything you just want. Yeah,

462
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 1: I think background is one of those that takes it

463
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: off the top, right, is that right? I think so

464
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 1: I would imagine pokers like that as well. It's called

465
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: a rake and poker. Yeah. They essentially just you're what

466
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: you're doing in poker is they're hosting the game essentially

467
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: in supplying you with a dealer for a fee. Right,

468
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,800
Speaker 1: So there sometimes you're charged, Um, the rake will be

469
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: based on how long you spend in there or how

470
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 1: much you win that kind of thing. Yeah, but poker's poker,

471
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 1: that's right, right. And then there's video poker, which is

472
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,880
Speaker 1: pretty close to slots that has some laws that say

473
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: you have to pay out x percentage of time, that

474
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Another sucker game if you ask me. Yeah,

475
00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: they have those all over the place here in Atlanta,

476
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: like in gas stations and stuff. Oh and interestingly, slots

477
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:53,640
Speaker 1: and video poker aren't monitored. They're just set up and

478
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: you just go play. They don't have like cameras above

479
00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 1: each one like they do all the other games. Yeah, well,

480
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,440
Speaker 1: they don't have people watching the slots area. They're self

481
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:08,520
Speaker 1: managed essentially, So Chuck, let's talk about the casino experience,

482
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: shall we. Well, they get you in there, they load

483
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: up on liquor while you're playing for free, which helps.

484
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: They give you food comps sometimes, like hey, sir, would

485
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: you like to buffet tickets here? And would I? They

486
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: they won't show you too, They won't show any clocks.

487
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,959
Speaker 1: You won't find any big clocks or windows. And casinos

488
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: to this day they the whole thing is designed to

489
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: to basically, um I guess simulate eternal twilight early evening. Yeah,

490
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: the nights, just the lights are and that is the

491
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: weird thing when you you can't tell and people gamble

492
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: at all hours. That's why I was surprised. Like, you'll

493
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: go down at four in the morning and you can't

494
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:54,800
Speaker 1: tell the difference between that and noon. Sometimes a little creepy. Yeah,

495
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: it is very creepy. They do not pumping oxygen, No,

496
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: they don't. Apparently that would be extremely illegal, which makes

497
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: sense the felony. It's basically drugging people. But the whole

498
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: premise of that was that you basically gave people a

499
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: rush or it kept them awake so they would stay

500
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: and not get tired. Uh. Contrary to that, Um, Like

501
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: you said, people will often be comped food, drinks, rooms

502
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: kind of drunk. You might spend a little more. But yes,

503
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: if you are, if you're lucky enough to be camped

504
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: the room, UM, and you're a slot person, you're probably

505
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 1: a member of the slot club, which you need to

506
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: join when you um. When you check in, it usually

507
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: doesn't cost anything. But basically you have a card that

508
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: tracks your play. UM. And you don't want to be

509
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: bashful about this. You don't want them to notice you.

510
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: You wanna if you if you're looking to get camped,

511
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: you go ahead and let them know you're you're here

512
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah, and if you want to get camped

513
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: and you're not a slat person, you can just ask.

514
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: If you have a lot of money you want to

515
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: spend and you're like, this is what I'm gonna start

516
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,920
Speaker 1: doing this. You tell them you go to someone and

517
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: say hey, and to get my play rated. H And

518
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: they will basically just put you on a list and say, okay,

519
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: we'll start tracking and seeing what kind of money you're losing.

520
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: But as the Grabsher points out, it is a sucker

521
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: bet to spend more than you normally would or just

522
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: to get camps, because you're going to spend more money

523
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: in losses than you would just haven't gotten the room

524
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: or gotten the buffet. Yeah, and Vegas is still cheaper,

525
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: maybe than some places, but it's not like the old

526
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: days where it was like a hotel room is twenty bucks,

527
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: in the buffet is five. Like it's it's a a

528
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 1: vacation destination. Now they get you with the room charges

529
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: now to or the shows. The shows kids, Uh, they

530
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: got stuff for the whole family now to keep everyone

531
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: busy while mom and dad are giving away their money

532
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: college fund, said Chuck. UM security is kind of an issue, right, Yeah,

533
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,719
Speaker 1: there's the ubiquitous I in the sky, which apparently they

534
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,640
Speaker 1: don't necessarily have. Over the slot areas, every other table's

535
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: got a camera watching it, and the whole the whole

536
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: process of UM security is ground up right the front.

537
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 1: The first defense in UM I guess against cheating or

538
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: fraud or theft is the dealer him or herself because

539
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: they're really paying attention to the game, and they're going

540
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 1: to see clear as day if you're palming cards or

541
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: um counting cards, whatever you're doing. They're trained to look

542
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: out for that stuff, right, and they know this game

543
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 1: is literally their job to play this game every day

544
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: for hours on end UM, so they know if something's

545
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: weird about it, right. And then above them, you've got

546
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: table managers and pit bosses watching out over an area, right,

547
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,400
Speaker 1: And they're not just watching customers, they're watching the dealers

548
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: and the managers. Everybody's watching everybody else. Yeah, that's a

549
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: great part because you know they break down the security. Sorry,

550
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: I had a moment there that when he bust the

551
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: country bumpkin who's not who's got taken on the slots

552
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: and that his country bumpkin uncle try to get him

553
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: like reinstated, and de Niro's like, I can't do it.

554
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: It's like you sure, you want to think about this,

555
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: and he had that great line He's like, what you

556
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: people don't ever realize is that you're all just guests here.

557
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: And he's right because he eventually left the The guy

558
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 1: who got taken on the slots, his name was he

559
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: used to host like a d movie. Yeah, and Billy

560
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: Bob something. Yeah, he was awesome. Yeah, I can't remember.

561
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 1: He was great though. He was pretty funny dude. Um,

562
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to him. He's around him, sure, okay, um.

563
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: And then above that you have security who are monitoring

564
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: everything on TV, right, lots and lots of TVs, lots

565
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: and lots of cameras, and they can train in each

566
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: one to look at whatever they want, Like it's not

567
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: just the tables, all the ins and outs, the exits,

568
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: the bathroom, not in the bathrooms, but these are all

569
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 1: heavily policed by cameras, and uh, I don't know. I

570
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: could see them monitoring the bathroom. I could see that too, actually,

571
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 1: And in Ocean's eleven, if you remember one of the

572
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: little tricks they used to get the cameras out of

573
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: the way, it was Casey affleck In in uh, James

574
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: CON's kid, what's his name? James CON's kid. They got

575
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: in the argument and and he'd let go of the balloons,

576
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: and the balloons covered the camera was long enough to

577
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: to get whatever they needed to get done done. That

578
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: was a great movie too. The first one was really good,

579
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: I think, and not the original, I mean the first

580
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: Soderberg Okay, the original was awesome. Yeah, yeah, I can

581
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: watch that like all day every day. I like that.

582
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: I like the Redo as well, though I thought it

583
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: was glib. I really Matt was glib. I thought the

584
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: whole thing was glue. Um. So chuck. If you're a

585
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 1: chump like me and you walk around casinos with like

586
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: your your your money in your hands, right, just kind

587
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 1: of smiling at people, like where do I put this?

588
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: How do you stay on? Security's good sign? Well, if

589
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: you're the casino expert, here's a few tips. You don't

590
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: want to touch any of the gaming equipment, like don't

591
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 1: grab the roulette wheel and say this feels need o,

592
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: don't They say not to use two hands to do anything, right,

593
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: like always kind of keep one hand off off the stuff,

594
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: and it doesn't hurt to keep the other hand in

595
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: sight the hand you're not using. Don't on the table.

596
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: It don't go up to a craps table with like

597
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: one hand in your pocket and then like lower the

598
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: dice below the table and then blow on them and

599
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: then throw them. And also don't ever ever tickle the dealer.

600
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: They don't like that. Yes, you're not supposed to. You

601
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: can't hand your money to a dealer. Always your money

602
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: on the table, on the table, and don't expect them

603
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: to cash anything out. They'll give you chips, but when

604
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: you want your chips to turn back into money, yea,

605
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: the dealer's not going to help you, which we should mention.

606
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: The reason they use chips is a to keep track

607
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: of things easier and b because you feel a lot

608
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: better losing a hundred dollar chips the chip than you

609
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: do a hundred dollar bill. It's it's just like a

610
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: debit card. Like there's so many things that you normally

611
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: just wouldn't buy if you had to shell out cash

612
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: for it, but you totally get because it's debit card.

613
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: You can watch people play, but just watch. Don't go

614
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: up to people at the table and start talking to them.

615
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: Don't tickle other players. Don't tickle players. Don't touch your chips.

616
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: A few place to bet. It's final once you put

617
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: it down. Don't reach across the table and knock over

618
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: everyone else's chips. Ask for some help, and uh, don't

619
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: like put your drink on the table. Although I've done that.

620
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: People do that. They say not to do that, but

621
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: I've done that. I don't think it's the end of

622
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: the world. Agreed, Especially black check. There's no other place

623
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,720
Speaker 1: to put it. Usually there might be like a little

624
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: thing right here. Like a lot of times, it's just

625
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? What am I gonna do? Exactly?

626
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: Um So, Chuck, we talked about riverboat gambling in Native

627
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: American casinos, and both of those are fairly recent in origin,

628
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,959
Speaker 1: really about the early nine nineties, late eighties, right, So

629
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: a Native American casinos, their existence can be traced back

630
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:22,320
Speaker 1: to one guy. He was the head of the the

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Speaker 1: and basically he figured out a loophole in the way

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Speaker 1: that Native American territory is treated. It is technically sovereign ground, right,

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Speaker 1: but criminal law extends into the sovereign area. So if

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Speaker 1: federal government has jurisdiction to investigate that crime. But if

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Speaker 1: something is legal in that state where that territory is,

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Speaker 1: then by extension, there's no crime that can possibly be

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Speaker 1: committed if that is carried out within the Native American territory,

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Speaker 1: it becomes a matter of civil law. Civil law doesn't

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Speaker 1: extend in the Native American territory, right, Yes, So basically

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Speaker 1: they said, hey, if you can allow gambling in California

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Speaker 1: and arcis are reservations in California, and if it's just

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Speaker 1: a lottery, yeah, then we can do that here however

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Speaker 1: we want, because it's a civil matter exactly. And as

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Speaker 1: an aside related to that, if you fall and break

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Speaker 1: your leg and a Native American casino, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to to sue anybody. No, no, no redress

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Speaker 1: for that, no redress. And riverboats, Josh, how that usually

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Speaker 1: works is you go on a cruise quote unquote two

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Speaker 1: hour cruise but it's not so much a cruise because

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Speaker 1: you don't go anywhere. The boat just stays there and

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Speaker 1: that's just your allotted time two And it is specific

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Speaker 1: and you can't just say can I stay a little longer? No,

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Speaker 1: They're probably like no, but you can leave and then

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Speaker 1: come back. Yeah. And and a lot of times they'll

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Speaker 1: have a lost limit too, they'll be like, you can't

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Speaker 1: lose over five. But apparently much the same way with

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Speaker 1: the government in venice Um, state legislatures have been like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, we really come to depend on this riverboat

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Speaker 1: gambling tax money, so you know what, go crazy, go nuts,

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Speaker 1: stay on as long as you want to lose as

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Speaker 1: much as you like. We are rolling in it because

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Speaker 1: of you. So chuck, um, I guess if a casino

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Speaker 1: comes to your town, anybody who's ever seen that Simpsons

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Speaker 1: episode knows that it's a boon for the community, right,

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Speaker 1: big business, dude. Everyone's happy, everyone's making tons of money,

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Speaker 1: everybody's got jobs, money for free. Yeah, exactly. No. So

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Speaker 1: studies show that there's actually a negative economic impact on

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Speaker 1: um a local community by a casino. And it's pretty

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Speaker 1: simple why most casinos play is carried out by locals

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Speaker 1: who come into the casino and lose their money, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily by tourists who wouldn't have come there otherwise and

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Speaker 1: are having an economic impact. That definitely accounts for a

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Speaker 1: substantial portion. But when you take it all into account,

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Speaker 1: the local economy actually loses money when a casino comes

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Speaker 1: to town. That's right, Josh. At least several studies have shown.

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Speaker 1: And we'll get into gambling maybe on a different show,

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Speaker 1: but we should point out that, uh, the dark side

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Speaker 1: of casinos is about of their profits are generated from

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Speaker 1: the five percent of addicted gamblers. Yes, the profits are

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Speaker 1: coming from people out gambling problems, right, and probably most

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Speaker 1: of those people live like down the street. Yeah, maybe

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Speaker 1: work at casinos. Yeah, we should do one on gambling that.

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Speaker 1: There's so much more there. I don't want to breeze

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Speaker 1: over that. So that's it for casinos. Though, if you

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Speaker 1: want to know how craps works, we have a how

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Speaker 1: craps works article. We have articles on most of the

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Speaker 1: games that we talked about in here. Um, you can

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Speaker 1: type any of those up or you can find links

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Speaker 1: to them within the casino article. You can just type

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Speaker 1: casino c A S I N oh, yeah, which means

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Speaker 1: social club. It's a casine though. Um in the handy

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Speaker 1: search bar how stuff works dot com, which means it's

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Speaker 1: time for a listener mail. Wh what what happened to you? You? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we gotta we got a little plug for audio book.

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Speaker 1: We gotta insert here. Yes, we have two audio books now,

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Speaker 1: but the most recent one is the one that we're plugging. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: So it is the super Stuff Guide to Happiness and

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Speaker 1: it features us and Josh's niece and interview subjects and

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Speaker 1: different music and sound design. And it's about an hour

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Speaker 1: in seventeen minutes and agreed, even though it won't necessarily

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Speaker 1: make you happy, right, well, how how are people going

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Speaker 1: to buy this and go to iTunes and buy it

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Speaker 1: for three in the US? And it could be a

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Speaker 1: little more if you're in Australia. Sorry, I'm told but

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Speaker 1: they they said, I actually told them out in three

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Speaker 1: on it. Yeah, I saw that you need to be careful.

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Speaker 1: Same things like that. So yeah, help support us. Bite

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Speaker 1: on iTunes makes us look good. We don't get any

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Speaker 1: of it, no, that's true, but it does make us

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Speaker 1: look good, that's right. Yeah, yeah, and it makes us

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Speaker 1: feel good too, that's true. Yeah. So now it's time

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Speaker 1: for listener mouth Josh. This one I'm gonna call kind

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Speaker 1: of gross but funny. Just listen to Can You Sweat Colors? Guys?

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Speaker 1: It brought to mind a heroin question that my friends

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Speaker 1: and I have been grappling with for years. Sit down

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Speaker 1: and prepare yourself for this. Are you ready? Would you

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Speaker 1: rather sweat ranch dressing or always smell like Chinese food?

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Speaker 1: And here the clarifications. You would only sweat the ranch

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Speaker 1: dressing in times that would normally cause you to sweat.

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Speaker 1: The ranch dressing is consumable. The Chinese food smell is

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Speaker 1: the general smell of a small Chinese food takeout. Join

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Speaker 1: No amount of washing will make you not smell like

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Speaker 1: Chinese food, nor will perfumes and colognes abolish the smell.

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Speaker 1: It will simply compliment it. Let me know, guys, ps

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Speaker 1: follow me on Twitter. It would make me feel special

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Speaker 1: My answer is I would rather smell like Chinese food

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Speaker 1: because I'm such a heavy sweater. The ranch thing would

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Speaker 1: just be infinitely more embarrassing. I wish you'd sweat ranch

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Speaker 1: and you could always explain away the Chinese food saying gosh, sorry, man,

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Speaker 1: I just want to catch Chinese food, but you can't

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Speaker 1: explain ranch. Sweat neither, Kim medical science. What's your answer

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Speaker 1: is neither? Although my friend Eddie loves rance dressing so

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Speaker 1: much he might elect for that. He would just sweat

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Speaker 1: over his pizza. If you have a question for us

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