Speaker 1: Check it down Man Now Down Now, Thursday, January twenty
Speaker 1: The Beating the Book Podcast. It is the show that
Speaker 1: is perhaps most anticipated in the year, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: It's the one non sports show that we do. It
Speaker 1: is the ninth annual Vegas lifestyle podcast. A man's guide
Speaker 1: to Sin City restaurants, sports, books, concert residencies, weed, opening
Speaker 1: of hotels, closing of hotels. We'll talk all about it
Speaker 1: on the show with our esteemed panel, obviously the regulars
Speaker 1: this year, Mike Palm from Circuit Sports, Todd wishing of
Speaker 1: a gentlemen. Thank you for joining us. Todd, you're in
Speaker 1: Jersey right. Thank you for the extra effort. Todd, I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. How's your time with your family going? Oh
Speaker 1: it's just beautiful. Do you Carl explain? You know, Orthodox
Speaker 1: choose are some of my favorite so you know how
Speaker 1: it goes. Mike, Thank you for being here. Is always
Speaker 1: MIKEY appreciate it. I'm very excited to hear all of
Speaker 1: Todd's recommendations. A guy who's known for not having a
Speaker 1: life will give us some lifestyle tips. He has neither
Speaker 1: a life nor style. We established that last time. I'm
Speaker 1: proud to be categorized as you're categorizing me. Um. Sports
Speaker 1: betting is what I love to do, so that is
Speaker 1: my life. Thank you Mike as always joining us for
Speaker 1: the ninth consecutive time on the show, being the ninth
Speaker 1: annual Vegas Lifestyle Podcast. Ladies and Gentlemen, Meltzer like Seltzer,
Speaker 1: Mark Meltzer, everybody. How you doing, Mark? I am doing wonderfully,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. A extra art dugga don Us
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Speaker 1: I have so many? Just me on Twitter. Just follow
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Speaker 1: without the correct back in the day, alright, correct, alright, Mark.
Speaker 1: So we always start the Vegas Lifestyle Podcast with the
Speaker 1: current events. Current events meaning big events happening in Vegas. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is eleven days away. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if we're too close to the sun on that. And
Speaker 1: it's not even worth going through super Bowl parties if
Speaker 1: people even throw super Bowl parties anymore. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: you'll tell us. Obviously, the March Madness is right around
Speaker 1: the corner and the super Bowl. It's called the big Game.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, that's correct, the rather large event. But there
Speaker 1: is March Madness obviously marking there is obviously the big
Speaker 1: thing this year the National Football League Draft, which is
Speaker 1: going to be nuts when this happens in late April.
Speaker 1: Tell us about March Madness parties and about the draft. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: it's try to tell this out in a very tidy bowl. Um,
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. There are parties everywhere, same as every year.
Speaker 1: The prices at minimum a hundred bucks, and that typically
Speaker 1: will include all the food you can eat, oil, the
Speaker 1: all the beer you can drink, and then it goes
Speaker 1: up from there. So your lower end parties are gonna
Speaker 1: be a hundred bucks guaranteed seat and TV to watch
Speaker 1: the game. But you can go places like the South
Speaker 1: Point or a Gold Coast and just go for free
Speaker 1: and pay for your food and drinking you wish and
Speaker 1: watch the game with a lot of people. So Super
Speaker 1: Bowl is still a thing, believe it or not. March
Speaker 1: band is, though, is legitimately it's blowing away the super Bowl, like, uh,
Speaker 1: the price wise and event wise and excitement wise, everything
Speaker 1: is now March Madness because that's a much younger crowd,
Speaker 1: a much more energetic crowd. It's just a lot more
Speaker 1: people in town doing way more things than just watching
Speaker 1: the one ft ball game. Um. So, this year, one
Speaker 1: of the more popular parties for March Madness just put
Speaker 1: their party on sale, the Cosinpolitan at the Belmont Ballroom,
Speaker 1: which doesn't even guarantee seating um for the games, but
Speaker 1: it's two hundred and fifty dollars per day for open
Speaker 1: bars and access to watch all the games in a
Speaker 1: bowl like that's for Thursday and Friday, the two big
Speaker 1: days of the tournament. Saturday, the price comes down a
Speaker 1: little bit to one fifty, and so that's a premium
Speaker 1: party that you're paying to be there. They have popa shot,
Speaker 1: they have they have a ton of activities in addition
Speaker 1: to just TVs and couches and um, you know, cocktail
Speaker 1: tables and barstools to watch the game. But a year
Speaker 1: paying to be at the Cosopolitan, you're paying for that
Speaker 1: special event and you're paying per day. Caesar's Palace um,
Speaker 1: there are not tours for charging for reserve seating over
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars just to sit every day to watch
Speaker 1: the game, you know. But there are still plenty of
Speaker 1: sports books around town. The bottom line, if you're looking
Speaker 1: on the strip, you're gonna pay. If you look off
Speaker 1: the strip, you'll either pay less or not pay at all.
Speaker 1: Um and have some general admission stuff. Again, South Point
Speaker 1: a great, a great place to watch the game. You
Speaker 1: can go to any of the sports books. You just
Speaker 1: have to get there early. Um. And when I say earlier,
Speaker 1: I mean before tip for March fandess an hour or
Speaker 1: two hours before kickoff for the Super Bowl. So there
Speaker 1: are still plenty. But the guideline I try to tell people,
Speaker 1: the more luxury the place, the more luxurious to higher
Speaker 1: end the fans here, the more you're gonna pay, the
Speaker 1: more willing, the more app they are, I guess to
Speaker 1: charge people to watch events there. Um. And then we
Speaker 1: have the draft, which you just mentioned in April, and
Speaker 1: they're projecting six hundred thousand people coming to Vegas for this. Now,
Speaker 1: for for comparison, you're looking at Memorial Day weekend is
Speaker 1: three hundred and change. They're injured and changed thousand people.
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve four hundred thousand people. They're expecting the
Speaker 1: draft to be busier than that. They're closing off the
Speaker 1: strip by Flamingo um so where the Blaggio stage will
Speaker 1: be for the Red carpet, and then the stage over
Speaker 1: by the Caesar's Form behind the link. That is, the
Speaker 1: whole strip in that area is going to be walkable.
Speaker 1: It'll be amazing, but it's also gonna be a cluster.
Speaker 1: And if you hate crowds, stay the hell away from
Speaker 1: that area. Um you know, but the hotel price they're
Speaker 1: jacked up. I was looking this morning Circus Circus Circus
Speaker 1: Circus a hundred and seventy nine dollars per night during
Speaker 1: the draft the cause of polity. That makes the Cousin
Speaker 1: Politan a two hundred and twenty five dollars a night
Speaker 1: look like a bargain. So you know you're gonna be
Speaker 1: paying out the wazoo. But it's gonna be an amazing
Speaker 1: experience if you're into that kind of thing. Personally, I
Speaker 1: will stay the heck away from that place. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be anywhere near it. I have had more
Speaker 1: requests from people already about the NFL draft. Friends of
Speaker 1: mine who want to come into town for the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft because it really is a one time Event's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen again for all we know. And also as
Speaker 1: a point of comparison, we just had CS, the biggest
Speaker 1: convention on the calendar here in Vegas this year. For CS,
Speaker 1: I heard estimates of close to four hundred thousand people,
Speaker 1: up from like one two hundred thousand in previous years.
Speaker 1: This place was overrun with people at c S. I
Speaker 1: cannot imagine what six hundred thousand people will feel like
Speaker 1: for the Draft, but they'll be all kinds of NFL
Speaker 1: people here. I think all the sports books in town
Speaker 1: will actually put out NFL Draft props in volume, so
Speaker 1: there's a betting angle to it. So I mean, I
Speaker 1: cannot wait, absolutely can't wait for the NFL Draft. Mike,
Speaker 1: You're doing anything special for any of those events at Circle, Well,
Speaker 1: so let's start with the Super Bowl. Um, we have
Speaker 1: we have dual parties. We have a retail party on
Speaker 1: the twelfth floor in the ballroom. UM that is one
Speaker 1: seventy five per head um for the main ballroom, and
Speaker 1: that includes all you can eat and drink uh, and
Speaker 1: mostly you get groups of anywhere from eight to twenty
Speaker 1: people that that sign up for that. Then we also
Speaker 1: have six man caves where you have a private room
Speaker 1: to watch in your own your own server and and
Speaker 1: um I believe that starts at to twenty ahead and
Speaker 1: it's a minimum of twelve people up to twenty for
Speaker 1: the man caves. Then there's the party outside of the
Speaker 1: Downtown Events Center for Super Bowl we had over six
Speaker 1: thousand last year. That's where we put all too our
Speaker 1: casino players um uh. They have a section right in
Speaker 1: the center there outside and then they have all their
Speaker 1: own free food and drink in their own buffet that's
Speaker 1: set up in the tent out there for for the
Speaker 1: rest of the seating, the general seating, it's sixty dollars
Speaker 1: beverage minimum, so you can reserve your table. Let's say
Speaker 1: you reserve a table attendant six hundred and then you
Speaker 1: get six hundred in uh six hundred and gift cards
Speaker 1: for use for beverage that day. Then they also have
Speaker 1: sixteen man caves. Uh they're like um uh eight up
Speaker 1: upper deck and eight lower deck, and they vary in
Speaker 1: price from three to four thousand, depending on the size
Speaker 1: of them. They see the from twenty to thirty people
Speaker 1: also depending on the side. So that's a big party
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl. I think what we do for March
Speaker 1: Madness is really terrific. It's a it's a set up
Speaker 1: in the ballroom. UM, it's open to get in if
Speaker 1: you just want to get there and get a seat.
Speaker 1: It's free. You know, you pay as you go for
Speaker 1: food and drink. We have free blackjack tables, the crafts table.
Speaker 1: We're thinking about setting up a video poker UH section
Speaker 1: up there for the first time. We'll have obviously circuits spoorts,
Speaker 1: just like for Super Bowl instead of William Hill. Since
Speaker 1: we're running our own book that also has the man
Speaker 1: Cave options for March Madness. UM, if you purchase the
Speaker 1: man Cave, you can either purchase it in a six
Speaker 1: hour block or for the whole day at prices very
Speaker 1: on that. If you purchase one on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 1: We're also going to have the room open Wednesday night
Speaker 1: for the play in games. You'd either have your choice
Speaker 1: of getting your man Cave on Wednesday as well or
Speaker 1: on Sunday. UM. So there's some good deals there, but
Speaker 1: it's open to the public. You know. I started this
Speaker 1: when Derek Watt the FitzGeralds in two thousand eleven in
Speaker 1: October two thousand and eleven. The first March Madness we
Speaker 1: did was in two thousand twelve and it was just me,
Speaker 1: a porter and a cocktail server in the ball room.
Speaker 1: We said, well, open it up. We have four big
Speaker 1: screens and see if anybody comes. And now it's gotten
Speaker 1: to the point where, you know, we we fill the
Speaker 1: We fill the ballroom with five plus plus people every day.
Speaker 1: And last year I think everybody everybody from Visa and
Speaker 1: came down for at least one day and hung out
Speaker 1: uh to experience the ballroom. And then for the Draft
Speaker 1: we're going to have a party at the events center
Speaker 1: as well. It's actually going to be sponsored by some
Speaker 1: NFL agents that are that are renting out the event
Speaker 1: center going to throw their own party. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of potential draft picks, howe players that are
Speaker 1: eligible in the draft, and I'm waiting on details on
Speaker 1: that and I'll share them with with you on pace
Speaker 1: and you know, when we get those who's actually gonna
Speaker 1: be there, But it's gonna be a viewing party that's
Speaker 1: gonna feature guys that will probably be chosen in the
Speaker 1: first round. Wow, I'm glad I asked, that's big time
Speaker 1: right there, and that will and it will be a
Speaker 1: what hotel specifically that this will be. This will be
Speaker 1: at the Events Center right next to the d Downtown
Speaker 1: the outdoor arena. Got you at the event center right
Speaker 1: next to the d Downtown. Okay, all right, and I'll
Speaker 1: just do this off the top of my head. We'll
Speaker 1: just go in whatever direction. Obviously, by the way the
Speaker 1: Derby to the main spot. You know for years that
Speaker 1: we've watched the Derby, uh as the south Point Hotel casino.
Speaker 1: They have this massive ballroom to watch Kentucky Derby. If
Speaker 1: the four of us went, we would ring down the
Speaker 1: average age by about thirty years. That's how old the
Speaker 1: crowd is for the Kentucky Derby. That's deskmark on for
Speaker 1: Super Bowl parties, where's like, if let's say a person
Speaker 1: is not really as interested in the gambling and is
Speaker 1: more interested in the watching of the people and likes
Speaker 1: to watch a younger group of people rather than an
Speaker 1: older group of people. Not that there's anything wrong with
Speaker 1: younger or older people. Uh, it would be the hot
Speaker 1: hip super Bowl party to be at. Honestly, I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you one specific party but what I can tell
Speaker 1: you is go to the Strip and go to the
Speaker 1: Cousin Politan, go to pont A Hollywood. The link possibly
Speaker 1: will have some attractive people for you to look at. Um,
Speaker 1: but the younger, the younger, the general crowd at the
Speaker 1: hotel and casino, the younger the people to look at.
Speaker 1: Ari is always a fun place to look at. People.
Speaker 1: Park MGM and and the park in general should have
Speaker 1: some should have some parties. But I've stayed away from
Speaker 1: the specific parties this year um as far as my focus,
Speaker 1: just because there's so many of them and I just
Speaker 1: honestly can't keep track. There are hundreds of parties that
Speaker 1: are could be happening. Let's be honest. And you don't
Speaker 1: care anymore, do you? I do care? Uh? Not for
Speaker 1: not not for not for me, Because I this I
Speaker 1: wore a Yankee had one day to to the Strip
Speaker 1: for the super Bowl a few years ago, and I
Speaker 1: could not believe them any people talk to me. I
Speaker 1: threw the hataway. I'm like, I can't deal with all
Speaker 1: these people and so that. But that's just me. I'm
Speaker 1: a grumpy old man. I've been a grumpy old band
Speaker 1: that was a teenager, so um, that I'm not the
Speaker 1: best person to ask as far as being social with
Speaker 1: stuff like this is just the default answer to that
Speaker 1: question every time, every time. Yeah. Now, by the way,
Speaker 1: I didn't get to mention the Super Bowl party that
Speaker 1: will be at my apartment. Now, the second bedroom with
Speaker 1: its own bathroom and air mattress are very affordable. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: there are no TVs in the living room or anywhere
Speaker 1: to sit down, so you have to bring your phone
Speaker 1: to watch the game, but other than that, it's a
Speaker 1: very affordable option. By the way, you're joking, But you know,
Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft, it actually crept into my mind
Speaker 1: what I could get for renting out my apartment for
Speaker 1: those few days. Not that I want to do that,
Speaker 1: but it's probably an exorbitant price because of the hotels
Speaker 1: being all jacked up. By the way, do you really
Speaker 1: think six hundred thousand people are gonna come here for
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft? Do you think that's just predicting. I'd
Speaker 1: like to take the under on that if there was
Speaker 1: a way to bet on that and a way to
Speaker 1: actually get an accurate number, because I've seen some of
Speaker 1: these insane crowds at in Vegas and I can't believe
Speaker 1: that there's that many people are gonna fly here just
Speaker 1: to watch Roger Goodell go with the third pick. The
Speaker 1: forty Niners played Southern Mississippi Cavon Schmuley Goldbirds. Well there
Speaker 1: the reference points to this is I believe that Nashville
Speaker 1: last year at three people. So when you take the
Speaker 1: when you take the average weekend in Vegas and then
Speaker 1: just add the extra people that will come here for that,
Speaker 1: that's I think where they estimate the number. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just you just smacked me down, because if they
Speaker 1: got three hundred thousand in Nashville, then I stand correctly,
Speaker 1: just another losing bet Toddy because that'll be over just
Speaker 1: at the other side. Now these yeah, just get out
Speaker 1: of it. You have time all right now. For those
Speaker 1: who have listened to this show the previous eight years,
Speaker 1: this episode of the Beating the Book podcast, uh, they
Speaker 1: will know for that that for many of those years
Speaker 1: I basically lived at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 1: And it is, uh, it is not a source of
Speaker 1: pride for me to say that besides the actual places
Speaker 1: of residences that I've lived in my life, my childhood
Speaker 1: home with my parents at college wherever I lived as
Speaker 1: an adult. That the building that I've been in the
Speaker 1: longest amount of elapsed time besides those places, is the
Speaker 1: Stinking Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. And Mark
Speaker 1: there was some very emotional news for those who have
Speaker 1: missed it. Yeah, it's gonna be. It's really said, you
Speaker 1: know we I know, I make you as hard Rock Hill.
Speaker 1: So for me, this is a very sad time and
Speaker 1: we still need to We still have about ten days
Speaker 1: to go before it closes. Io the hard people people
Speaker 1: are gonna think I'm crazy when I say this. I
Speaker 1: don't step into that hotel for because it it is.
Speaker 1: It is an emotional experience for me. I spent so
Speaker 1: much time in there, and and it was really younger days, right,
Speaker 1: so there's so many memories of that place. I will
Speaker 1: do it, but it is very difficult for me to
Speaker 1: set foot in there. What's happening to the place. So
Speaker 1: they're closing it the day after the Super Bowl. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be renovated and will reopen after election Day. No
Speaker 1: specific date yet. Um at as Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a Virgin of hotel that you see.
Speaker 1: I believe they have in Chicago and San Francisco. Right now,
Speaker 1: they're building one in New Orleans and another in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And uh so it'll be that Mohegan's son will operate
Speaker 1: the casino. Uh they operate casinos in Connecticut. In Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: the sports book operator we don't know yet because CG
Speaker 1: will no longer exist. Um so will will Mohegan bring
Speaker 1: their partner from Pennsylvania, which is univert to Las Vegas?
Speaker 1: Will it be somebody else? We don't know yet and
Speaker 1: they haven't made any official or unofficial statement, so I
Speaker 1: have honestly no clue as to who will operate the
Speaker 1: sports book there. And by the way, sorry, I did
Speaker 1: a quick Google search for Airbnb for Todd. You can
Speaker 1: get about thirty two bucks a night on Airbnb for
Speaker 1: your for your bedroom. But it didn't no TV, no ferna,
Speaker 1: you're in the living room. You have to watch the
Speaker 1: game on your phone, which h that that that That's
Speaker 1: all I got as far as the AIRBMB, I didn't
Speaker 1: really do too deep of the dive on that. Sorry.
Speaker 1: It's a rustic experience. It's more like camping a rustic experience.
Speaker 1: Start started, digress started to digress from the hard Rock Hill.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, you and I are gonna walk
Speaker 1: through there. I know the Circle Bar has long been renovated.
Speaker 1: And when I say renovated, what I really mean is
Speaker 1: they did up like the hard Rock was this iconic
Speaker 1: Peter Morton Hotel that was say what you will, But
Speaker 1: there was a time in Vegas for those of us
Speaker 1: at a certain age where the hard Rock was everything
Speaker 1: and it was the center of all parties and all
Speaker 1: young people in Las Vegas. And over the last decade
Speaker 1: they just did renovations for the sake of doing renovations.
Speaker 1: None of them were any good, and they kind of
Speaker 1: screwed up the whole iconic Circle Bar in the middle
Speaker 1: and h but we're still gonna go in there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have one last stroll in there. I haven't set
Speaker 1: foot in there in years. We're gonna do it before
Speaker 1: it crashes. And I know people are like, what's wrong
Speaker 1: with you? It's a building, But you know, there are
Speaker 1: certain places like that, and for me, a lot of
Speaker 1: memories there at the hard Rock Hotel, lots of memories.
Speaker 1: Now with every departure of a hotel, though of course,
Speaker 1: there is oftentimes a rising of a hotel somewhere else
Speaker 1: and Mike obviously the big one which makes you know,
Speaker 1: my piddly hard rock from yesteryear look like crab is
Speaker 1: the Shangri Law That is circa scheduled open in December
Speaker 1: of this year. Yeah, that's right, you know, target mid December,
Speaker 1: so you probably right after the Rodeo leaves is the
Speaker 1: right time to open it because that's that slow little
Speaker 1: period as you build up to New Year's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a good soft opening. So everything is on schedule,
Speaker 1: will open with five and twelve rooms eventually seven seventy seven.
Speaker 1: That gives us some flexibility to build out those remaining
Speaker 1: floors based on what is our sweet need. What's the
Speaker 1: hotel mixed look like? Um, three sixty five day a
Speaker 1: year pool cool deck, although we don't want to use
Speaker 1: that term cool and we'll tell you what that's called.
Speaker 1: This outdoor aquatic amphitheater, right, they'll unveil the name of
Speaker 1: that space as well. There's really six different cools um
Speaker 1: with the upper two pools being heated year round, um uh,
Speaker 1: and the and the screen ft screen for viewing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's really gonna be when you talk about throwing parties.
Speaker 1: When you talk about March Madness and Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: Master's Weekend and and NHL and NBA Finals and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, I mean, that's that's going to be the
Speaker 1: place where we throw the parties starting so uh. And
Speaker 1: we think also that that the pool deck will be
Speaker 1: a great spot for a lot of corporate parties as well,
Speaker 1: especially in the evenings. But yeah, a three story sports book,
Speaker 1: the largest in the world. We just announced our restaurants yesterday.
Speaker 1: Gil Um Steakhouse is gonna be Barry Downtown Prime. That's
Speaker 1: core Chef Berry, famous from the nine Group and a
Speaker 1: lot of his team coming together for that. Paul sagging
Speaker 1: Off from Zingerman's and Ann Arbor is going to have
Speaker 1: our twenty four hour restaurants Sagan, a Delicate testin Um.
Speaker 1: Chris and Grace that run American Coney Island here are
Speaker 1: going to have a it's called Victory Burgers and Wings
Speaker 1: that that overlooks the sports book from the second level
Speaker 1: and operates in conjunction with the sports book. Will have
Speaker 1: an Asian concept from the owners of Latti called eight
Speaker 1: East Um that's really a fusion of a lot of
Speaker 1: different types of Asian foods, and will feature some really
Speaker 1: great wine and and and and and upbeat music. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then the Barbecue project Barbecue that we currently operate
Speaker 1: downtown on Fremont Street, also will be connected right with
Speaker 1: the building front on Fremont, So we're excited for that. Um.
Speaker 1: Probably next month we'll have the announce of some of
Speaker 1: our bars with what bars we're gonna have on the property,
Speaker 1: and then uh, the naming of the of the pool
Speaker 1: deck as well. So we're very very excited for it.
Speaker 1: It's been about seven years in the making, between acquiring
Speaker 1: all the real estate downtown and all the different things
Speaker 1: that needed to happen in order to put this project together.
Speaker 1: So yeah, big news coming at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: the naming of the pool deck. Did you how how
Speaker 1: big was that screen by the pool? It's a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight feet long UM with a with a
Speaker 1: you know, a sixteen nine race sido. So if you've
Speaker 1: been to the Downtown Events Center and you've seen that
Speaker 1: screen that we we do the viewing parties on for
Speaker 1: the nights games and all that, it's three times the
Speaker 1: size of that screen. Oh my goodness, you'll be able
Speaker 1: to see it from you'll be able to see it
Speaker 1: from the from the ninety five as you're as you're coming,
Speaker 1: as you're heading downtown. And the intention is to show
Speaker 1: sports on those TVs. Yes, obviously the pool is going
Speaker 1: to feature music in DJ's um, but there there's gonna
Speaker 1: be you know, many times we're the background is going
Speaker 1: to be sports obviously, uh at that pool, and the
Speaker 1: volume will be on sports as well for major events. Man.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking all those all those times I was
Speaker 1: in the lagoon at the hard Rock and I had
Speaker 1: bets going on baseball. Imagine if there was this massive
Speaker 1: screen where I could do both at the same time.
Speaker 1: You know, every Sunday in the summer, Derek takes a
Speaker 1: group of people to a different pool in Vegas right
Speaker 1: to see what's good, what's bad and all. And he
Speaker 1: would always get so upset, like when they didn't have
Speaker 1: they didn't have a major event plane it would be
Speaker 1: the NBA finals or the NHL finals, or he said,
Speaker 1: how can that people come to this pool and not
Speaker 1: be interested in the sporting events. So he he wants
Speaker 1: to combine that, and there's also gonna be thirty two
Speaker 1: cabannahs as well, so people have the opportunity to purchase
Speaker 1: cabanas and and control control their own volume and content
Speaker 1: for sports. The The number of times I checked baseball
Speaker 1: scores without a screen at the pool can only be
Speaker 1: calculated in the millions. It is really true. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: all that to both of you and Derek. Derek Stevens,
Speaker 1: of course, is whom Mike is referring to. Who is
Speaker 1: the owner of the d Hotel and the Golden Gate Hotel.
Speaker 1: Say Gil yes, just to interrupt you, um to and
Speaker 1: to double uple what Mike just was talking about. The
Speaker 1: I walked through the structure a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: that pool, Dick or the whatever they're calling it is amazing,
Speaker 1: Like it looks massive. They have the structure built for
Speaker 1: where that TV will go and it is going to
Speaker 1: be the place to be from March Band to six year.
Speaker 1: It's for the super Bowl next year. People need to
Speaker 1: like just pay attention when they open up reservations for
Speaker 1: uh for next year because it's gonna be pretty pretty
Speaker 1: damn awesome if you're looking for Marchband super Bowl party
Speaker 1: next year, whether it's the pool or the actual sports book.
Speaker 1: The screen area for the sports book is ridiculous there's
Speaker 1: outside of the West Gate, there's nothing even close to it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm fairly uh, I've been to just
Speaker 1: about every sports book in Vegas, and I'm so excited
Speaker 1: for us. And also I'm excited for some short fried
Speaker 1: rice at the new Asian restaurant that's gonna be there
Speaker 1: because you you show me fried rice with short ribs
Speaker 1: and you all shoe your man with a smile on
Speaker 1: his face. You'll be there every day. And I know, alright.
Speaker 1: So since Mike Mike already started the Let's Get Hungry
Speaker 1: portion of the show and and also talked about, of
Speaker 1: course the sports book that is opening at Circa unlike
Speaker 1: any other schedule for December, along with the whole hotel.
Speaker 1: So let's start with sports books besides the opening of
Speaker 1: Circa at the end of the year. Let's start with Todd,
Speaker 1: because Todd's a sports book kind of guy. What are
Speaker 1: your go to sports books in town sir? Well? Because
Speaker 1: I live right near the South Point, I'm very often
Speaker 1: at the South Point. Um, if you like um secondhand smoke,
Speaker 1: it's the place to be. Uh. There is that. That's
Speaker 1: actually my only complaint with the South Point sports book
Speaker 1: actually is the second hand smoke. Other than that, I
Speaker 1: love the South Point sort of sports books because you've
Speaker 1: got many, many, many many televisions and they have good
Speaker 1: coverage on the television. So like the west Gate has
Speaker 1: more beautiful screens and everything. But you can go there
Speaker 1: and you know, ask for your game and you know,
Speaker 1: let's say it's a college basketball game, you want to
Speaker 1: watch it, and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we'll get
Speaker 1: it up, and it's like you missed the whole first
Speaker 1: half because they think their time with the screens, whereas
Speaker 1: at south Point, you know, they get that stuff up
Speaker 1: fast and so they, in my opinion, had the best
Speaker 1: coverage like that. UM. I've been to a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of sports books UM and some have you know, Green
Speaker 1: Valley Ranch I got. I used to go to a
Speaker 1: lot UM. It has some nice screens there, but I
Speaker 1: just like the UM. Also, I know all the people
Speaker 1: at the South Point, so if I ask him for
Speaker 1: a game, they'll put it up for me right away.
Speaker 1: So it's just much more convenient like that. But if
Speaker 1: you've never been to the West Gate, obviously that's something
Speaker 1: you want to see. UM. It will be obviously taken
Speaker 1: over by Circle once Circa has their brand new giant
Speaker 1: sports book, and Westgate will be in ruins. I'm sure
Speaker 1: at that point. Um after Circle has a gigantic new
Speaker 1: sports book that they're going to be having. And now, Mike,
Speaker 1: are you gonna have that smell that they have when
Speaker 1: you first walk in Westgate? Um? Because I can? I can.
Speaker 1: I just say this what I always say to people
Speaker 1: when I I love the people who who run the
Speaker 1: West Gate. Of course we're we're all friendly with them,
Speaker 1: but I do feel like I have a rash every
Speaker 1: time I leave there, Like I just don't understand why
Speaker 1: they can't make the lights like they can't? Why why
Speaker 1: so dim? Why so dim? Can we just jack up
Speaker 1: the lights a little bit? That would be my only
Speaker 1: complaint there by the way, I'm just I'm just kidding around.
Speaker 1: Although the smell can't be a little you know, I
Speaker 1: can't be I'm just kidding, but I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that you know, the sports book thing, We've
Speaker 1: done this over the years and ever its evolved because
Speaker 1: there were years is we would come on for the
Speaker 1: sports book part and I remember talking about like Legassi
Speaker 1: Stadium at Palazzo and Legassi Stadium is like a stone
Speaker 1: throw from where I live. Not only do I not
Speaker 1: go to Legassi, I don't ever even think about it anymore.
Speaker 1: So like the way we've taken in sports books over
Speaker 1: the years has definitely evolved. Um I still because it's
Speaker 1: in my bo right, yeah, because it's the you know,
Speaker 1: Arif to me is like an extension in my living room.
Speaker 1: It feels like comfy couches. Uh. It's tucked away in
Speaker 1: the back of the Aria. It's a different kind of
Speaker 1: sports book. The angles on the screens quite frankly, aren't
Speaker 1: that good. Like Todd was talking about the coverage that
Speaker 1: he has, particularly in his section, the Wishnevs section at
Speaker 1: the south Point, where he's got both walls. Um so
Speaker 1: he's optimal there with the coverage. ARIA is not really
Speaker 1: like that. But if you want a nice, cozy sports book,
Speaker 1: it's the place to be. I still think the glitziest
Speaker 1: screens and some of the nicer screen in town are
Speaker 1: at the Cosmo. It's a very small sports book and
Speaker 1: you probably you know, for big events, want to know
Speaker 1: somebody to get actual seats. Um. But those screens are beautiful,
Speaker 1: they are sharp screens, and there's a Starbucks right there,
Speaker 1: so I still like those a lot. Um the one
Speaker 1: that you know, I think I would add to the
Speaker 1: list this year. Maybe I added it last year. I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure if I did or not. And I've
Speaker 1: only been there a couple of times. But and Mark,
Speaker 1: you can speak to this. The Link is a little different,
Speaker 1: isn't it with their sports books these little points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Link is a very different sports book, and it's
Speaker 1: really made for groups with the it's called the book,
Speaker 1: just the book. What the way they sell it is
Speaker 1: that there are little living room sections that they call
Speaker 1: fan caves. Um, but you have control of four TVs.
Speaker 1: You can play Xbox on one of the TV while
Speaker 1: you're watching the games. Um. There's a self served beer
Speaker 1: thing that you don't really need because you're required to
Speaker 1: use a waitress to bring you boots and food. So um.
Speaker 1: When you're in those little pods, it's a cool it's
Speaker 1: a cool vibe. And the seat up to from ten
Speaker 1: to twelve people on a couch and chairs that are
Speaker 1: in each section, So definitely different. You know, Park m
Speaker 1: Gym renovated from when they first opened their book, and
Speaker 1: that has sort of a more sports bar vibe than
Speaker 1: a sports book. Vive But those are just different ways
Speaker 1: to enjoy it. You know that you mentioned great screens.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the wind. The wind has amazing beautiful screens.
Speaker 1: Um where in there. It's beautiful. Yeah, it's it's gorgeous,
Speaker 1: but you gotta you're gonna pay if you for the
Speaker 1: most part, unless you're betting on horses. Have they have
Speaker 1: they not scrapped that yet? They still they still make
Speaker 1: you pay for seats in there pretty much at big
Speaker 1: events like on a football Sunday, do you have to
Speaker 1: pay to sit? I believe the general seating is free,
Speaker 1: but the couches are for you have to pay for well,
Speaker 1: the couches for sure, I wonder because you know, when
Speaker 1: it first I heard you, I heard you have to
Speaker 1: pay for to get even regular seats for NFL Sunday
Speaker 1: at win And like I know for sure you have
Speaker 1: to pay places like Caesar's and caesar Sports Book isn't
Speaker 1: even that nice, right Caesar's is a dark, rash filled
Speaker 1: dungeon also with a bar now in the back that
Speaker 1: messed it up to begin with. But the but when
Speaker 1: is You're right? When has the glitziest screens in town? Currently?
Speaker 1: But I do you know, like last year, I when
Speaker 1: I watched the Raiders Redskins, like on a Sunday night,
Speaker 1: I had to pay fifty bucks just for the pleasure
Speaker 1: of being in there. So keep that in mind with
Speaker 1: the win. But you know what I'm saying, Mark about
Speaker 1: like the evolution that is, think about like Lagassie, and
Speaker 1: think about like what we used to think. We're great
Speaker 1: screens like with the Venetian, right, oh man, great screens
Speaker 1: at the Venetian. Those were like really good. And remember
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the decade, this past decade, the
Speaker 1: M was the epicenter. And now if you walk into
Speaker 1: the M, those screens are unwatchable, unwatchable, absolutely unwatchable the M.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you do have to tip your
Speaker 1: hat to west Gate they do have a gorgeous screen. Yes,
Speaker 1: well they did a big renovation a couple of years ago. Mikey, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I want to hear some news
Speaker 1: about the d Sports book from Mike. Well, we are
Speaker 1: doing we're doing a remodel on the second floor. Mark,
Speaker 1: that's gonna start, um the Tuesday after Super Bowl. We're
Speaker 1: eliminating our show room. Uh, and so we're gonna use
Speaker 1: that space we're gonna move where the sports book currently is,
Speaker 1: which is adjacent to the view bar, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: move it over into the showroom space. UM, and we're
Speaker 1: building a brand new bar uh in that area. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a sports bar. UM. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to get food at it. They'll be seating as well,
Speaker 1: and possibly a a studio that a network might use. UM.
Speaker 1: We'll have more details uh coming up right after Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole second floor is being remodeled. UH.
Speaker 1: And this this new bar is gonna be awesome. And
Speaker 1: and this its book area where Circuit Sports is, and
Speaker 1: this little studio UM should be uh should be pretty
Speaker 1: pretty spectacular when we get done with that. It's scheduled
Speaker 1: to open Arch sixteen. So there's no better way to
Speaker 1: stress test the bar than to open it on the
Speaker 1: eve of St. Patrick's Day. We forgetting any sports booker?
Speaker 1: Do we get them all? Mark? What do you think? Well?
Speaker 1: I wanna. I'm gonna give you one that people probably
Speaker 1: don't know about. And it's not it's not big. But
Speaker 1: when we're talking about screens, they they invested over a
Speaker 1: million dollars in their screens and it's at at Cromwell. Kill. Um.
Speaker 1: It's it's a beautiful little sports book. But I mean
Speaker 1: there's probably only seating for forty people. But you know,
Speaker 1: you're you know, that doesn't really matter if you're only
Speaker 1: you're only with a group of four or five guys.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great place to watch the sports.
Speaker 1: It's right there at the back entrance the valet there
Speaker 1: at the Cromwell, which is really what I think is
Speaker 1: a really nice hip boutique property, and people don't know
Speaker 1: about it. Here's the problem. The hours are very abbreviated,
Speaker 1: right They like on week on weekdays they don't open
Speaker 1: until noon, right. Um. So I I constantly complained to
Speaker 1: Bill Sadler and those guys that Caesar's about you need
Speaker 1: to get this book open. It's so nice. You've invested
Speaker 1: a lot of money for me. I'll just say for me. Um. Personally,
Speaker 1: I like the Red Rock Sports Book. I like to
Speaker 1: be able to bet horses and watch sports at the
Speaker 1: same time. They have the separate lines. The South Point
Speaker 1: is a little harder because they segregated, so you don't
Speaker 1: have all the sports on in the race book, right. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think the Red Rock is very comfortable and
Speaker 1: you don't really have to deal with the smoke the
Speaker 1: way you do at the South Point. That's interesting about
Speaker 1: the Cromwell, Mike. You know, for anybody who has UH,
Speaker 1: for anybody not familiar, the Cromwell is where the Barbary
Speaker 1: Coast used to be. And I like to joke about
Speaker 1: the Cromwell that it's the hotel is just an excuse
Speaker 1: to have Drey's nightclub on top the Cromwell. If you've
Speaker 1: ever been in those rooms, those rooms are beautiful at
Speaker 1: the Cromwell, really nice boutique hotel. And I would say
Speaker 1: that those rooms, along with those at the Palazzo are
Speaker 1: still there are still the nicest, biggest rooms on the strip.
Speaker 1: I would say, now you can you can certainly pay
Speaker 1: upwards at the at Cosmopolitan and at you know, Win
Speaker 1: and Encore is still beautiful. Winning Encore still the only
Speaker 1: hotels that make me feel like I'm on vacation even
Speaker 1: though I live here. So there are those, for sure,
Speaker 1: But just in terms of standard rooms, when we're talking
Speaker 1: just the standard suites, Palazzo and Cromwell from me, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm leaving anything out. Mark. I love
Speaker 1: the Cromwell as because you know, It's probably my favorite
Speaker 1: place to gamble on the Vegas Strip. They have plenty
Speaker 1: of three, plenty of three to blackjack that's affordable. They
Speaker 1: have single zero roulette for I believe it's twenty five
Speaker 1: dollar minimum, and then they have a hundred times craps.
Speaker 1: I love the rooms. I love the Bucatini. I believe
Speaker 1: it is from Giotta. Um, it's just the staff. There
Speaker 1: is phenomenal um on the casino floor. And uh, the
Speaker 1: only issue I have with the sports book is when
Speaker 1: you want to go there, they charge receipts and they
Speaker 1: put up ropes so that you have to get permission
Speaker 1: to walk in there. Um, So if you're there on
Speaker 1: a football Sunday, for example, you're gonna have to pay
Speaker 1: fifty two bucks just to watch the game. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's not fun for me. But you know, otherwise,
Speaker 1: I love the casino. Todd's real question was where the
Speaker 1: eighteen year old Russian tennis player I tried. I tried
Speaker 1: to skirt that delicately, Todd wishing if it was famously
Speaker 1: creepy when we were talking about Amanda and Misamovo on
Speaker 1: a numbers game on Visa. I was not creepy. I
Speaker 1: was very excited because she was able to come back,
Speaker 1: and stead, you're very excited. I was only about our bed.
Speaker 1: You're you're exciting her, Todd, I don't get that your excitement.
Speaker 1: Maybe google her, which said this guy is being a
Speaker 1: little creepy, regardless of the intent. Alright, so now we
Speaker 1: will we'll segue because you mentioned Giata. Michael Lombardi couldn't
Speaker 1: stand Giadas by the way more, I believe it. I don't.
Speaker 1: I can all. I like the and that one dish.
Speaker 1: Everything else sucks. I went the first week and I
Speaker 1: just remember we just ordered everything in the world. I
Speaker 1: don't remember being particularly great though. Another place that's like
Speaker 1: right by where I live, and I never think to
Speaker 1: go there, by the way, I've actually been to that one,
Speaker 1: you know, I haven't been anywhere, Gil, I've actually been
Speaker 1: to that terrible Oh you didn't like it either? Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: every year on the show, and this is probably the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that the Veggat Lifestyle Pod has had impact on,
Speaker 1: I would say, is restaurants, not just the high end
Speaker 1: ones like Carbone, which I've recommended year after year after year,
Speaker 1: which is still my favorite restaurant in all of Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: But other places, like when Marco and Ace were here
Speaker 1: urban Rye and I brought up I introduced him and
Speaker 1: all of us to the Oyster bar at Palaestation. All
Speaker 1: of these places we used to talk about for years.
Speaker 1: That really ony Amo, by the way, Mike, you probably
Speaker 1: don't even know like we talked about ony Amo for years.
Speaker 1: Mark Uh, Marco, what I used to go to ony Amo?
Speaker 1: We used to have a ball they're eating and diy Ammo.
Speaker 1: By the way, all those new restaurants you just mentioned, Mike,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine even the steak place. I can't imagine
Speaker 1: it being as good as ony Amo, which along with
Speaker 1: s w at Wynn to me, are the most consistently
Speaker 1: great steakhouses in all of Las Vegas. Andy Amo is
Speaker 1: like second to none to me. Well, thank you, gil I.
Speaker 1: I I'm not joking when I say it ruined me
Speaker 1: taking my wife out for sneak because she compares everywhere.
Speaker 1: We go to ony Amo and right away she doesn't
Speaker 1: like the steak as much and it ruins the meal.
Speaker 1: So I have to take her to Italian or fish
Speaker 1: places so that we can have a night's experience. So
Speaker 1: so I guess the that's and that's so true. It's
Speaker 1: the same way with with me. The I guess the
Speaker 1: the object here is to come up with places that
Speaker 1: we've discovered, Uh, new ones or there isn't Mike and
Speaker 1: Totter here, so it's gonna be new by default. Um,
Speaker 1: but I'll just start with something out of the way,
Speaker 1: which is not on the strip. I know you are Mark,
Speaker 1: but are you guys familiar with the comic Joe Koy
Speaker 1: by any chance Filipino comics, very very very familiar. Oh,
Speaker 1: realized Mike. Mike knows everything. I love that about Mike.
Speaker 1: He's very well rounded individual. Um, Joe owns this restaurant
Speaker 1: way out where. What area of Las Vegas is that? Mark?
Speaker 1: Technically it's Spring Valley near Summerland. Okay, So I go
Speaker 1: and get rehab because I pop my Achilles for those
Speaker 1: who don't know, I pop my second Achilles of my life.
Speaker 1: So I go out in that direction, I get rehab
Speaker 1: and fashion style is never song. Let me know. It's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: Joe Koy has this restaurant out here, Shabu Shabu restaurant,
Speaker 1: which is the equivalent like a Japanese fon. Due for
Speaker 1: lack of a better term. And the name of the
Speaker 1: place is Yo g A y o j i E.
Speaker 1: Now it's not close to the strip, so if you're
Speaker 1: just coming into town, just know that if you're if
Speaker 1: you want to go do this place, it is a
Speaker 1: bit of a drive, so it's like it's an event.
Speaker 1: But the food is so good, Like Joe Coy decided
Speaker 1: to invest in this because it's like the only thing
Speaker 1: his son would eat. And it's essentially you dip meats
Speaker 1: and noodles and all kinds of ship into this fondue
Speaker 1: of your choosing, and it is so good that I
Speaker 1: cannot recommend it enough. Every time I go to rehab,
Speaker 1: I think to myself, I I gotta go to Yo
Speaker 1: j because this place is phenomenal. And so that would
Speaker 1: be my first sort of out of the way recommendation
Speaker 1: this year. I haven't a recommendation. Gil Yes, if you
Speaker 1: like falafel and you like being told what you're gonna order,
Speaker 1: but it is, Yes, it is delicious hummus grill on
Speaker 1: Sahara just off the strip, just to the west of
Speaker 1: the drip. If you like falafel, it is a real
Speaker 1: authentic Israeli falafel. And if you try to order, they'll
Speaker 1: tell you no, no, no, you don't want that. Let
Speaker 1: me let me order for you. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: you want anyway, even if you let them tell you
Speaker 1: what they think you want. It is fantastic. And I
Speaker 1: will say this because Todd and I have been on
Speaker 1: numerous occasions, and Todd has his experience because he doesn't
Speaker 1: speak Hebrew as well as I do. I actually get
Speaker 1: to order there. But Todd they just run him over
Speaker 1: in that right time. Is that exactly what happens because
Speaker 1: you don't know Hebrew, you speak of religious they try
Speaker 1: to call them. I call them on there. It's really bullshit,
Speaker 1: which is actually exactly what he does. But the h
Speaker 1: I am not typically like unless you're having falafel in
Speaker 1: the Middle East, like American made falafel is usually dry
Speaker 1: and disgusting. It's like eating sandpaper. But this place they're
Speaker 1: falafel is socking good. Um hmss grilled. That was a
Speaker 1: Todd wishing of discovery. Well done. That's a good one. Mikey.
Speaker 1: You know yo, I don't know if you've heard of
Speaker 1: this place. I really like it. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: local place. It's called the Sparklings. It's on It's on
Speaker 1: It's on Rainbow in the southwest part of the city,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a different environment. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: bar and restaurant. But I think they have really good
Speaker 1: cocktails and for for me, they have good specials, good
Speaker 1: uh different entree specials each night. There's a they have
Speaker 1: talked talking about short ribs. They have great short ribs
Speaker 1: um and I don't know if any of you guys
Speaker 1: have ever eaten there, but it's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: local places. What's it called again, The Sparklings s p
Speaker 1: A R K l I n g as the Sparklings. Wow, No,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that meltzer. You know what I'm saving
Speaker 1: for you? What are you saving for me? Where we
Speaker 1: went with fashion stylist ever Song and we had that
Speaker 1: massive amount of meat. Well, I ended my year eating
Speaker 1: one of the best meals of a year at Major
Speaker 1: Domo at the Pazza, when I started the year across
Speaker 1: the hallway from Majordomo at Moon Palace with you so
Speaker 1: and and honestly, it was not an exciting year of
Speaker 1: new restaurants for me. So it was not that's right.
Speaker 1: Get there's a lot of Asian restaurants opening and a
Speaker 1: lot of seafood restaurants opening, and I just don't get
Speaker 1: excited about that like I do with a new chicken restaurant,
Speaker 1: or do like Yardbird, or do steakhouse. Um, like we've
Speaker 1: touched on already. Um, those are my Those are my James,
Speaker 1: and they're just not the cool food for millennials. They
Speaker 1: don't photograph very well, so I can't really get too
Speaker 1: excited about that. But you know, um, Majordomo was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Like you said, we had a massive piece of meat.
Speaker 1: I think it was like three humongous short ribs for
Speaker 1: the three of us, and it was it was two
Speaker 1: dollars for the table something like that. It was expensive,
Speaker 1: but it was delicious and we didn't even eat all
Speaker 1: of it because they said the service in the future
Speaker 1: will include a bowl of fried rice and short rib.
Speaker 1: And as I mentioned earlier, you give me fried rice
Speaker 1: and short rib and I'll smile. That is Majordomo, by
Speaker 1: the way, for people. Majordomo is the second Vegas restaurant
Speaker 1: for Korean American Washington Redskins fan David Chang, who has
Speaker 1: tons of restaurants all over New York City, but he
Speaker 1: has Momofuku at the Cosmo, which is really good. Um,
Speaker 1: one of the places I love to go to Momofugo,
Speaker 1: although they took the Jadori chicken off the menu, which
Speaker 1: pisces me off. But then Majordomo is at the Pilazza
Speaker 1: where Carnavino used to be. Um, and that's where we
Speaker 1: had that. But across the go ahead, before you go
Speaker 1: any further. Is he opening a new restaurant I heard
Speaker 1: called Clem Haskins. He is opening a restaurant, though where
Speaker 1: where inside It's a secondary restaurant inside of Majordomo. So
Speaker 1: I believe it's gonna be a Brazilian barbecue Korean barbecue
Speaker 1: barbecue much different. Yes, I thought they were serving the
Speaker 1: Brazilian barbecue style. Oh, I thought the headlines at Korean barbecue.
Speaker 1: You're probably right. Okay, yeah, no Korean bar I'm all
Speaker 1: down for Korean barbecue. But I'm but tell but but
Speaker 1: where we went yesterday? You know how you go and
Speaker 1: you eat certain places on Diamos. An example, Carbone yard Bird,
Speaker 1: when we had fried chicken at Yardbird of Venetian, which
Speaker 1: was a staple of our restaurant recommendations. On this show.
Speaker 1: I mean, so many of these places, oyster bar, I'm
Speaker 1: forgetting so many of them. There's that, there's that place
Speaker 1: at that old school, More Toronto's over there at mar
Speaker 1: Toronto's at at Paris which the meatballs. Like, there's certain
Speaker 1: places you eat where you cannot stop thinking about the
Speaker 1: food into the next day. And yesterday me and me
Speaker 1: and Mark went to because when we went to Major Domo,
Speaker 1: they said, oh yeah, right across the hallway here, like
Speaker 1: this is the high end place, but right across the
Speaker 1: hallway they're gonna open this slider's place. And what was
Speaker 1: it called Moon Palace? Yes, all right, so we got
Speaker 1: sliders yesterday and you know you're probably thinking sliders was
Speaker 1: like some white cattle stuffs. How good was that? That?
Speaker 1: Like I cannot stop thinking about I want to go
Speaker 1: today again. It was kind of perfect. The we got
Speaker 1: double sliders instead of singles because we are and they
Speaker 1: sell triple, so we're sort of in the middle because
Speaker 1: we're like that triple. I didn't even know the little triple.
Speaker 1: I believe they had a triple on there as well.
Speaker 1: So it's expensive for a slider. I mean, we paid
Speaker 1: I think eight dollars for a double slider. Um not
Speaker 1: not cheap by any by comparison to Whitecastle, where you're
Speaker 1: paying not even a dollar for a slider. So these
Speaker 1: are just a bazillion times better. They use like real beef,
Speaker 1: and they don't saturated with onions. They use a moderate
Speaker 1: amount of minions so that you burp it up for
Speaker 1: at least two hours, but it doesn't overwhelm anything else
Speaker 1: in your in your system. It was and the thing,
Speaker 1: the toasted buttery buns were phenomenal. The little anybody chips
Speaker 1: were for me. I don't really like chips, but they
Speaker 1: were tasty. Um. It was just a great spot. And
Speaker 1: I was saddened to learn we were told when we're
Speaker 1: a major DOMO that they would be open twenty four
Speaker 1: hours a day. They're actually only open five hours a
Speaker 1: day right now. Yeah we thought that was like a
Speaker 1: late night place. Yeah yeah, but right now it's eleven
Speaker 1: of four And I sent people saw me tweet from
Speaker 1: there yesterday and they ran out and we're like, dude,
Speaker 1: it closed it for what are you talking about? But
Speaker 1: the good thing, that good thing. We had lunch there
Speaker 1: because it was phenomenal and I will definitely be back
Speaker 1: sooner than later. Todd, we gotta go. I'm telling you, Mike,
Speaker 1: we gotta go. It's it's so good and the onions
Speaker 1: were so perfect in there. And by the way, it's
Speaker 1: not the size of a white Castle slider. It's double
Speaker 1: the size of that when you say triple maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's probably six times the size when you
Speaker 1: look at two pieces of beef. And it was definitely
Speaker 1: a double burger. Like they use Hawaiian rolls, which is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I can't even handle I barely eat bread nowadays, so
Speaker 1: for me to have bread and like, I'm always excited,
Speaker 1: but this is beyond comparison the toasted all I get
Speaker 1: the chills right now. Kind of hate you right a
Speaker 1: little bit ill. I don't want to have to drive
Speaker 1: over to the to the gun show. I definitely hate you, guys,
Speaker 1: because I haven't had sugar carbs in over seven months.
Speaker 1: And this is not a fun conversation. It sounded like
Speaker 1: you ordered straight off the fat Causer menu. Did they
Speaker 1: have that? It's kind of the whole menu is kind
Speaker 1: of the fun Causer. By the way, the chips that
Speaker 1: that Mark is talking about, they have different kinds of
Speaker 1: chips and one of them is like a buttery chip
Speaker 1: and it was crispy and potato e at the same time.
Speaker 1: It was so good. Um, I can't get enough. Is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be like a thousand pounds if I'm not already.
Speaker 1: But it was spectacular. We need to get you back
Speaker 1: out on the tennis court already. You gotta fix those
Speaker 1: achilles because it sounds like you're you're eating yourself up
Speaker 1: a storm. It's amazing with the achilles. Uh, it's you know,
Speaker 1: in the nineties, when I did my first popping of
Speaker 1: the achilles six months, then the medical philosophy was for
Speaker 1: six months, don't do anything because you might rerupture it.
Speaker 1: Now like I'm not even three months and I'm limping
Speaker 1: around already without boot or crutch or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And it's terrifying because it's just it's just a mental thing.
Speaker 1: But tennis court is far away time. I got about
Speaker 1: six more months for the tennis court, but I'll have
Speaker 1: to bionic achilles by that point. So look out. Did
Speaker 1: you want to tell people where the most dangerous tennis
Speaker 1: court and all down in? Yes, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: dangerous tennis courts, both financially and physically. It's the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Invitational Courts on Las Vegas Boulevard South, and uh,
Speaker 1: if you don't know what you're doing, you could lose
Speaker 1: a lot of money there in bets and you may
Speaker 1: even rob shirt Achilles. It's fantastic. I had Dwight Powell
Speaker 1: of the Mavericks ropshts Achilles the other night. Was that
Speaker 1: not exactly like he pounds? It was exact same thing,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the customary. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you financially at all, why do you step on the jokes?
Speaker 1: How do you step on the jokes? Todd? I was
Speaker 1: in the middle of a joke. I'm sorry, I thought
Speaker 1: I apologize. What made you think I stopped talking when
Speaker 1: I was talking because there was a pod? I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: What were you What were you saying? What did you
Speaker 1: say to Mikey? I was saying, Mike Palm, it's not
Speaker 1: dangerous for him financially because he always chintzes you on
Speaker 1: the line. Chintzes you on the line, Mike, are you
Speaker 1: still there? I have a question? You know. Has Deborah
Speaker 1: Song officially changed her name to fashion stylist Era Song? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give her props so that she can
Speaker 1: like grow her business by calling her that. And if
Speaker 1: I say it enough, people will be like, what's this
Speaker 1: fashion stylist Debora song thing? I think people are googling
Speaker 1: her right now? Yeah, well they should. By the way,
Speaker 1: can I just say this about fashion stylist Debba Song,
Speaker 1: Debor Song? And I never gave a about fashion. I
Speaker 1: really didn't for the first four decades of my life,
Speaker 1: never cared about it. She proved to me, and this
Speaker 1: is for dudes everywhere, and this is great for sports
Speaker 1: betters because we typically a sports betters were not exactly fashionists.
Speaker 1: But she proved to me that people really treat you
Speaker 1: like the way you dress matters. I never thought it mattered,
Speaker 1: but people treat you differently when you dress a certain way.
Speaker 1: And she has an unbelievable eye for stuff, because no
Speaker 1: one had ever in my life every said like, oh man,
Speaker 1: what were those shoes? Oh man, what's that shirt you're wearing?
Speaker 1: But as soon as she started picking out closer me
Speaker 1: and by the way, she hasn't in like two years.
Speaker 1: She's like banning me from new clothes apparently. But like
Speaker 1: when she did, um, everyone would stop me all the time.
Speaker 1: So anyway, people should google her that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Um was a where we're at? Oh other resta any
Speaker 1: other restaurants like fried Chicken? You brought up Yardbird? These
Speaker 1: like these different fried chicken spots that have popped up
Speaker 1: that aren't as high end as Yardbird. Yardbirds at Venetian,
Speaker 1: which again I can't say enough about because they have
Speaker 1: a dish that's fried chicken waffles with syrup infused with
Speaker 1: bourbon and watermelon. It's just the greatest ever. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: so good. But these are like crackshack popped up Patty
Speaker 1: Bees at the Cosmopolitan. These these fried chicken places, I
Speaker 1: don't love any of them. Nope, spiders, fried chicken sliders.
Speaker 1: That's all I need. You could have all the chicken
Speaker 1: waffles you want. Just hooked me up with the sliders.
Speaker 1: By the way, this isn't specific to Vegas, but have
Speaker 1: you had the Popeyes chicken sandwich in No I almost
Speaker 1: had in Los Angeles over the weekend, but decided to
Speaker 1: go get some pies. Dude. That is really good. They're
Speaker 1: very generous with the chicken and those chicken sandwiches. Have
Speaker 1: you had those micro Todd Todd You can't have it?
Speaker 1: Probably the best thing about it is the portion. Yes,
Speaker 1: I agree. The best thing about it is the portion.
Speaker 1: I will give you that. Yep. Um. Any restaurants were
Speaker 1: leaving out new ones, maybe we haven't thought about all right,
Speaker 1: So here's what I have for restaurants. Mabel's at the
Speaker 1: Palms I really enjoyed. I've heard mixed reviews since my
Speaker 1: last visit, and which was I believe also with you. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a barbecue at the Poems. Yeah, it's barbecue. The
Speaker 1: bath the fatty brisket is was delicious. The last time
Speaker 1: we were there. Blue Ribbon reopened their sushi restaurant at
Speaker 1: Red Rock. Um, it's it's Blue Ribbon. I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. So that's a great point because for years
Speaker 1: on this show, Blue Ribbon at Cosmopolitan was my go
Speaker 1: to spot, and then it disappeared because the Cosmopolitan was like,
Speaker 1: we're bringing in this other sushi place. F you Blue Ribbon.
Speaker 1: You guys gotta do something else, and so Blue Ribbon
Speaker 1: took their traditional sushi place and now it took it
Speaker 1: all the way out to Red Rock, which I have
Speaker 1: come out and eating with you one time. But like
Speaker 1: I cannot say enough about Blue Ribbon You're right. Is
Speaker 1: blue Ribbon is blue Ribbon. It's phenomenal. Yeah, and just
Speaker 1: remember the one that Cosmopolitan is a generic, not generic
Speaker 1: a more American restaurant focuses on seafood and steaks. It's
Speaker 1: blue Ribbon Brasserie, which is not the real correct it
Speaker 1: is the real blue Ribbon. It's it's fucking delicious. I
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal steak there, but that's beside the point.
Speaker 1: Carbone I finally had this year after you raving about it. Phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Carbone atmosphere and food to me is still second in
Speaker 1: the greatest restaurant the The problem that the only negative
Speaker 1: I've heard about that place is that it's expensive, and
Speaker 1: it is, but you get what you pay for. It's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Um One new another, another new place that opened. Uh
Speaker 1: is a brewery called for a company in Vegas called
Speaker 1: Able baker Um. They have a kitchen. It's called the
Speaker 1: Arts District Kitchen and it's from a local uh I
Speaker 1: guess bar restaurant owner at where I live. Five five
Speaker 1: craft and kitchen, and they make an amazing bond Me
Speaker 1: sandwich and uh I just get the pork belly bond
Speaker 1: me and a ton of beer and it's an amazing night.
Speaker 1: And there the able Baker beer is phenomenal. They have
Speaker 1: about thirty different taps that they make their and they
Speaker 1: make it right in downtown Vegas, which is kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Uh somewhere in between the Strat and uh Fremont Street,
Speaker 1: um walking distance between both, but you probably don't want
Speaker 1: to walk in that area. UM. Bunch on Cream fried
Speaker 1: Chicken is another one that I actually I think I
Speaker 1: went to two years ago for the first time and
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal kream fried chicken. If you're into that. UM
Speaker 1: and Italy over at Park MGM, you know, and this
Speaker 1: is something Todd could actually eat. I think you could
Speaker 1: go there and get a charcouter re plate and it
Speaker 1: is phenomenal. Cheese and meat there's there's there's no bread involved.
Speaker 1: I'll let you wanna dip a little uh bread in
Speaker 1: some oil there. It's they have a ton of different
Speaker 1: restaurants there. It's kind of like a fancy food court.
Speaker 1: But the charcouterie I had a couple about a month
Speaker 1: ago and it was phenomenal. You went and had charcouterie
Speaker 1: without me at Italy by the way, listen todd joke.
Speaker 1: Todd's joke. When I had you for my my surgery,
Speaker 1: I developed a blood clot that that quickly moved to
Speaker 1: a massive pulmonary embolism and almost almost bit it for
Speaker 1: me once and for all. But they blasted it out
Speaker 1: and I'm okay. But Todd joked that they were going
Speaker 1: to find what was the time You're like, what's this
Speaker 1: massive cheese bowl? And we get there and he's got
Speaker 1: like a ball of cheese in that was dipped in oil.
Speaker 1: He's wondering what he's losing. I'm like, oh, well, it's
Speaker 1: probably not this giant cheese ball you're eating. Uh yes,
Speaker 1: probably not this giant cheese bowl that we own in
Speaker 1: your lungs. Anything else restaurant wise or we covered pretty
Speaker 1: good there. I think I think we're pretty good. I mean,
Speaker 1: I still love a lot of the steak places you mentioned. Um,
Speaker 1: you know you've already mentioned a lot of one thing
Speaker 1: that a couple that we missed. My favorite very actually
Speaker 1: two of my favorites. Uh John George's again, you turn
Speaker 1: me onto it. The short Rib. They're phenomenal. I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm talking a lot about short Rib and I
Speaker 1: should be talking about steak Heritage Steakhouse over at the
Speaker 1: Mirage is also fantastic, and Prime is always wonderful over
Speaker 1: at Bloggio. And you can sit out on the patio
Speaker 1: and watch the NFL Draft while while you're there. Yeah
Speaker 1: you can. But I'm just gonna I'm just gonna shout
Speaker 1: out on Diamo and s W one more time because
Speaker 1: absolutely they are still to me a cut above, no
Speaker 1: no pun intended. Um. And then our favorite breakfast place
Speaker 1: over the years has been Rise and Shine. That was
Speaker 1: a Marco recommendation. Whenever Felika comes into town, we go
Speaker 1: Rise and Shine. We've been there together as well. A
Speaker 1: massive portions over there at Rise and Shine, a couple
Speaker 1: locations here in Las Vegas. Um. And then there's just
Speaker 1: all kinds of all kinds of other spots. Um. It
Speaker 1: is really talk about You didn't talk about buffets. But
Speaker 1: I'm more of a buffet guy. I'm not really a
Speaker 1: fancy pants eater like you guys are. Sounds like you're
Speaker 1: very into sophisticated palettes and nonsense like that. I like
Speaker 1: to get in and pound and get out. Now, granted
Speaker 1: I can't eat anymore, but back when I used to eat.
Speaker 1: The buffet was the way to go. Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: You always default to the bullshit. Oh you guys are
Speaker 1: too fall fall fall, and I'm not that's always a
Speaker 1: very appealing. Um. But the truth is is that we're
Speaker 1: not like that at all. We just like to eat.
Speaker 1: And so, yeah, like there's plenty of places. You're right
Speaker 1: with the buffets. I would say Caesar's is number one. Still,
Speaker 1: I like the wind buffet. Oh yeah, the wind buffet.
Speaker 1: You're right, the wind buffet is excellent. The only problem
Speaker 1: with the wind buffet is you have to wait in
Speaker 1: the line for like a thousand years. So you want
Speaker 1: to like like talk to a host or something and
Speaker 1: try to like, you know, jip your way into the
Speaker 1: fast line, ship your way in. Uh Federalle mentioned to
Speaker 1: the Bellaggio into the m anyway. That's a lot. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's tons. I'm sure we're forgetting a whole bunch, but
Speaker 1: but that's just I'm so hungry right now. As far
Speaker 1: as concert residencies, the the greatest thing about living in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas is not proximity to sports books, because you know,
Speaker 1: we've we all have ways of betting. Uh. For me,
Speaker 1: it's the proximity to great musical acts playing up and
Speaker 1: down the Las Vegas Strip. So when I lived in
Speaker 1: other places like d C, like San Francisco, you know,
Speaker 1: if there was a group that I wasn't necessarily that
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily in my wheelhouse, I would never even consider
Speaker 1: going to it because it would involve getting in a
Speaker 1: car going into you know, going down the freeway or
Speaker 1: the beltway in d C or whatever it was. It
Speaker 1: was all a big hassle. In Vegas, I end up
Speaker 1: going to see not only acts that I love, but
Speaker 1: ones that i'm you know, kind of indifferent about. But
Speaker 1: since they're just like I can roll out of bed
Speaker 1: and see them, because they're just a stone strow away
Speaker 1: from where I live. I'll go see Maroon five, right,
Speaker 1: I'll go see Phil Collins. I'll go see Barry Manilow
Speaker 1: at the West Gate by the way. That was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anybody said. I'll go see like that.
Speaker 1: So that the beautiful part about living in Vegas to
Speaker 1: me is that. And my favorite I just have to
Speaker 1: say that the guy that stands above the Fray, the
Speaker 1: and Diamo and n sw of of Concerts, and I
Speaker 1: don't care what kind of music you like, you must
Speaker 1: go spend the money once and go see Bruno Marrison concert.
Speaker 1: I've seen him five different times over the years, starting
Speaker 1: when I saw him at MGM Grand and my buddy
Speaker 1: Tommy was like, we just saw like Prince on the
Speaker 1: way up, didn't we. I was like, yeah, we did.
Speaker 1: Like he is the Michael Jackson of this air. So
Speaker 1: if you if you can spill out cash to go
Speaker 1: see Bruno Mars, I would always recommend that um and
Speaker 1: then the other ones that are kind of all around
Speaker 1: the place. Boys two Men is at the Barrage. I
Speaker 1: think baby Face might replace that might have replaced Boys
Speaker 1: to Men, or they're doing a tandem thing at Planet Hollywood,
Speaker 1: Christina Aguilera, j low Backstreet. They replaced Britney Spears and
Speaker 1: Line Ritchie, but Lona Richie came into town, did some
Speaker 1: stuff at the Wind, Anita Baker, Kenny Loggins, different ones
Speaker 1: at the Wind. I mean there's all over the place,
Speaker 1: And of course the biggest, most extravagant one is Lady
Speaker 1: Gaga at Park MGM, who does not one but two
Speaker 1: different types of shows, a big, massive concert with all
Speaker 1: of her popular hits and then she does this jazz
Speaker 1: show which I went to, by the way for New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, and she's a potty mouth, cursing the entire time,
Speaker 1: which I thought was weird. But she is phenomenally talented.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you that Bruno was the best
Speaker 1: to me. I love Little Richie just because I'm that
Speaker 1: kind of guy. But you know, there's something for everyone.
Speaker 1: Steely Dan, before Walter Becker died, was here. I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to think Chicago would come into town and play
Speaker 1: at the Venetian, not with Peter Stera, but with their
Speaker 1: knockoff sixty year old Canadian dude who sounds just like it.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what you're I don't know what
Speaker 1: your guys favorite ones are in town, but there is
Speaker 1: just something for everyone. The greatest thing about Vegas, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great year. We already said NFL
Speaker 1: Draft Circus opening. But concerts, man, this is the concert
Speaker 1: capital of the world. Who has Aerosmith has a residency here?
Speaker 1: Is that right? That is correct? There? Actually, I believe
Speaker 1: during their last few shows in the next couple of months.
Speaker 1: My friends saw the show in November and they were
Speaker 1: they paid to stand on stage, and they had their
Speaker 1: own bar on stage, and they had their own restroom
Speaker 1: and they're like they were inches away from Steven Tyler.
Speaker 1: Now I'd not an Arrowsmith fan, so I didn't go,
Speaker 1: but the experience sounds phenomenal, and uh, you know that
Speaker 1: that's what these residencies are doing for for some of
Speaker 1: the young and we're calling grandparents younger artists. Um in Arrowsmith.
Speaker 1: But they're they're upping the anti they're creating. Like you
Speaker 1: mentioned Lady Gaga, the production on that show is insane. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're giving away in your driver so
Speaker 1: you can hear different mixes of the Aerosmith show when
Speaker 1: you get those tickets on stage. Um, they're creating a
Speaker 1: unique thing. All the sets are specific to Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: so like when def Leppard was at Plant of Hollywood
Speaker 1: last year, although that entire set and the setting everything
Speaker 1: was specific for the venue, and they will not do
Speaker 1: that show anywhere except for Plant of Hollywood. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of a cool thing if you're into those bands.
Speaker 1: You know I'm not, But Kelly Clarkson is actually one
Speaker 1: that I'm looking forward to. Um, she'll be over at
Speaker 1: Plant Hollywood later this year. Uh, this Orpeans. I have
Speaker 1: a friend from l A that was going to fly
Speaker 1: to Germany to see them UH this year, but now
Speaker 1: they're doing a residency for the month of July at
Speaker 1: the at Pint of Hollywood as well, and he's now
Speaker 1: coming to l A. He might act, or from l A.
Speaker 1: He might actually live at pont Hollywood for the month.
Speaker 1: Who knows, he could pull a hard rock hill and
Speaker 1: become plant of Hollywood Joe. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so there's Honestly, you didn't even touch the tippity
Speaker 1: Iceberg on residencies for this year. And there there's a
Speaker 1: lot of older artists um that are performing this year.
Speaker 1: I think the who is going to be It's Caesars Palace,
Speaker 1: Van Morrison staying, Rod Stewart, Doobie Rod Stewart. The Doobies
Speaker 1: are at the Venetians. So is Easy Top in Chicago
Speaker 1: and Foreigner like what this is a classic. It's it's ridiculous,
Speaker 1: you know. And over at UH over at when you
Speaker 1: have one of the person I saw on concert for
Speaker 1: my first three shows ever out of like a thousand
Speaker 1: shows I've seen, my man Brian Adams is doing three
Speaker 1: nights a three night limited engagement at Win playing all
Speaker 1: the hits, so you know there's and then they also
Speaker 1: have Dwight Yoakum on a different side of defense, you know,
Speaker 1: with country music. And then they have Diana Ross, which
Speaker 1: appeals to the gills of the world, even not the heart,
Speaker 1: maybe not the hard rock hill. Yeah, I want to
Speaker 1: see Diana Ross seventy five years old. She was phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Do the Dubies. Is Michael McDonald with the Dubies or
Speaker 1: is that Doobie's sons? Michael McDonald, That's what I wanted.
Speaker 1: I believe it's without him. I believe he tours by himself.
Speaker 1: And a lot of these are cover bands because you
Speaker 1: know who is it that just played um at Palace,
Speaker 1: not Foreigner but Journey. Journey had the non the non
Speaker 1: the new singer, and so it's a cover band. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know to me that that's not appealing to me. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: Stephen Perry, that was his name of Stephen Perry was
Speaker 1: his name? Yeah? He uh yeah. They have this guy
Speaker 1: on YouTube. They found this Filipino sounds just like him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like, that's the same thing with Chicago. They they've
Speaker 1: replaced Um their lead singer over the years, Gil, you
Speaker 1: didn't mention one of the best residencies in Vegas. Oh no,
Speaker 1: what an evening with Todd Wishnav where he goes through
Speaker 1: all of the and the Sunshine Band hits. Would you
Speaker 1: like a sample here it goes? That sounds like that
Speaker 1: sounds like what do you say? That sounds like a
Speaker 1: free show on Fremont Street during the summer. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: it's fantastic. There's some really great hit and those are
Speaker 1: the residencies like Jeffrey Osborne will come into town Shirley
Speaker 1: Murdoch for all the R and B fans like myself,
Speaker 1: it's just it's puhenomenal. Jeffrey Osborne came to the Golden Nugget,
Speaker 1: people had to get out of my way. I was like,
Speaker 1: I cannot be stopped. Um, so there's all kinds of
Speaker 1: stuff for that. Where is so quiet as the guy
Speaker 1: that fronts for Journey Now? Well, thank you at the best? Uh.
Speaker 1: Two shows that I've been to this year were Gwen Stefani,
Speaker 1: A Planet Hollywood, um m hm, and Uh A lot
Speaker 1: of Energy, a lot of set changes, costume changes are
Speaker 1: very good. We had great seats too. We were like
Speaker 1: six rows back. Um. And then I'm with you. Yo.
Speaker 1: I could see Lionel Richie every three months and it's
Speaker 1: just awesome his shows. I do want to say that.
Speaker 1: You know, I went to when Madonna was at Caesar's
Speaker 1: those three nights. I went to one of those performances,
Speaker 1: and it was the worst experience of my life from
Speaker 1: a musical. Just avoid Madonna wherever you are, and if
Speaker 1: she's coming to your town, your state, or you're in Vegas,
Speaker 1: do not pay any money. Do not waste twelve hours
Speaker 1: of your life for this Prima Donna badge from Madage
Speaker 1: from Bay City. An absolute, an absolute abortion of an experience.
Speaker 1: We'll explain what happened, Mike, explain it. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's all alive. It's all again up. I mean, they
Speaker 1: tell you the shows at nine and the doors open
Speaker 1: at eight. Then you get there and the shows at ten.
Speaker 1: The doors open at nine, and so my wife and
Speaker 1: I got seated about nine thirty, okay for a ten
Speaker 1: o'clock show, there's no Well, the opening act is thirty
Speaker 1: minutes of some some tribal drums or whatever they brought out,
Speaker 1: uh at about ten fifteen, and then you sit there
Speaker 1: and then about eleven people start stirring, people want to
Speaker 1: know what's going on. People want refunds. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a Thursday night, it's the eleven o'clock people. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of older people there, um and the crowd. The
Speaker 1: only fun I had was trying to get the crowd
Speaker 1: to riot. I really tried to incite a lot of
Speaker 1: people about they can't do this this way, no justice,
Speaker 1: no peace. She took this, she took the stage at midnight,
Speaker 1: gil midnight, okay, and then and then was outraged people
Speaker 1: were booing her. I left that one twenty We finally
Speaker 1: walked out. She had played one verse of one song
Speaker 1: that I recognized, and all it was was a quick
Speaker 1: verse of Papa don't preach, so she could go into
Speaker 1: this tirade about the Nine States trying to restrict reproductive
Speaker 1: rights and all of this, and it was it was
Speaker 1: just it was just an onslaught of political stuff and
Speaker 1: it was just awful. That is I'm sorry, but like
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bank, both the residencies, well, my worst show
Speaker 1: of the year was the Janet Jackson show, which came
Speaker 1: and went at Park MGM. Janet Jackson had a set list.
Speaker 1: You could see, you know, you look at the set
Speaker 1: list before they happen. She had thirty seven songs on
Speaker 1: the set list, so I knew, once you see that,
Speaker 1: you know your toast because it's all one big giant medley. Like,
Speaker 1: there's nothing I can't stand more than an artist playing
Speaker 1: like sixty to ninety seconds of the song and then
Speaker 1: moving on. I'm like, that's my fa Vard song, yours.
Speaker 1: Stop doing that. I can't stand that. Her whole show
Speaker 1: was like that. So that was the worst. And I
Speaker 1: agree with Mike's Gwen Stefani, who was not really an
Speaker 1: artist that I would necessarily gravitate towards, but it's it's
Speaker 1: literally across the street from me. So I went, you know,
Speaker 1: we went to go see Gwen Stefani and it was great.
Speaker 1: That was the best of all the planet Hollywood residencies.
Speaker 1: It like blew j Lo away, It blew everybody away.
Speaker 1: I thought it was really, really good. I walked out
Speaker 1: at j Lo my wife. I took my wife and
Speaker 1: her sisters. They liked it. I didn't like it at all.
Speaker 1: Y'all way too much dancing and talking, not enough singing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: dobility of the imitation of j Loo. When she was there,
Speaker 1: she This was j Loo's big personality in the In
Speaker 1: the show, she goes like this, she goes, where are
Speaker 1: you from? Maybe like San Antonio? Oh, wow, Texas? Where
Speaker 1: are you from New York? Where are you from New York? Oh?
Speaker 1: Ship to people from New York. So that's all I
Speaker 1: remember from that show. And the other thing. The other
Speaker 1: thing was in the middle of the show, she felt
Speaker 1: the need to go, I know y'all staring at my cootie,
Speaker 1: and I was like, actually, I really hadn't even thought
Speaker 1: about it till you mentioned it. Um, that was kind
Speaker 1: of That's kind of all I remember. She's for girls,
Speaker 1: she really is. Yeah, they liked it that The three
Speaker 1: women I went with liked it. Another show, I took
Speaker 1: my wife to see Mariah Carey at Caesar's Best. Oh.
Speaker 1: That was phenomenal. It was really, I was So that
Speaker 1: was the show I was most pleasantly surprised by because
Speaker 1: you hear a lot of negative and now she's, you know,
Speaker 1: a prima donna and lip syncing and all that. It
Speaker 1: was actually a terrific show. Well, we went the first
Speaker 1: time around when she came and it wasn't that good.
Speaker 1: The songs weren't properly ordered. She hadn't picked necessarily all
Speaker 1: the right ones, and she was being her diva self.
Speaker 1: You can be your diva self if the show is great,
Speaker 1: but if the show sucks, you kind of just come
Speaker 1: off like an asshole. A year later or two years later,
Speaker 1: when they came back and she sort of had honed it,
Speaker 1: she was phenomenal. And you know, you you you sort
Speaker 1: of can't process like she had like eighteen number one records,
Speaker 1: Like her career is just incredible, how successful she's been.
Speaker 1: But yeah, she was. She was definitely good. I never
Speaker 1: got to see Selene Diona, never got to see Elton John. Um.
Speaker 1: I never got to see Donnie and Marie. I always
Speaker 1: I always wanted to see that. I never got a
Speaker 1: round doing Paula Abdul replaced Donnie and Marie at Flamingo.
Speaker 1: So I guess I gotta see that cheese balls at
Speaker 1: some point. I love it anyway. Um, all right, I
Speaker 1: guess we should end on weed. Mark. Please tell the people,
Speaker 1: don't act all shy. Your knowledge of weed is stupid.
Speaker 1: First of all, let me just point that out. Um,
Speaker 1: But where like, tell tell people the people who are
Speaker 1: coming into town who want to partake. What are the
Speaker 1: rules and regulations? So here's the deal. I am not
Speaker 1: nearly the expert that killed makes me out to be.
Speaker 1: I eat candy and it does stuff to me. So
Speaker 1: and I found what works for me, which does not
Speaker 1: work for everybody. So let's get that out the way. Anyway,
Speaker 1: venues to go Planet thirteen year Win is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: It's a great place. Um, it's a weird place to
Speaker 1: look at, um. And that's it's it's a pretty remarkable
Speaker 1: retail outlet and um m m Jane near the Orlengeer.
Speaker 1: Some go to places near the strip, but there's a ton.
Speaker 1: Now here's the deal as far as using it, because
Speaker 1: you can legally buy it. Anybody could illegally buy it
Speaker 1: above the age of one. Now, the problem is you
Speaker 1: can't use it just anywhere. You have to be inside
Speaker 1: of a residence to legally use marijuana. Um. So if
Speaker 1: you whether you're smoking, eating, bathing, um, you have to
Speaker 1: be technically inside of a residence to do that legally. Now,
Speaker 1: edibles obviously can be consumed anywhere without notice, um, whether
Speaker 1: it's in a hotel room or in a bathroom or whatever.
Speaker 1: So that's your thing. I'm telling you what's legal. Um,
Speaker 1: you do your own trip. I mean, if you walk
Speaker 1: into a casino nowadays, it's gonna just wreek of wheed.
Speaker 1: So that's obviously people are not following the law and
Speaker 1: the law doesn't really seem to care all that much. UM. Personally,
Speaker 1: I like the smell of that better than cigarettes, So
Speaker 1: that's that. That's just fine with me. But you cannot
Speaker 1: legally use it. You cannot legally transported from Nevada out
Speaker 1: to another state. Uh So if when you get to
Speaker 1: the airport at McCarron, there will be um little drop
Speaker 1: boxes to leave your product here. So you're not breaking
Speaker 1: the law because it's not a federal law where where
Speaker 1: cannabis marijuana weed is legal. Um, so you have to
Speaker 1: leave your your products here. Now. I know that people
Speaker 1: will travel with it, but you're legally not supposed to. UM.
Speaker 1: And that's really the the quick ins and out Oh,
Speaker 1: they don't take they don't take credit card um. And
Speaker 1: many of the retail outlets will are jaffee for a
Speaker 1: debit card, so you have to bring cash. I've used
Speaker 1: the credit card at those places. Probably a debit card.
Speaker 1: It could be if you have a if you have
Speaker 1: a bank. If you have a bank card, that's that's
Speaker 1: like a master card, slash whatever. You could probably use
Speaker 1: it as either or either way, but you because of
Speaker 1: the because of the federal banking laws, banks are not
Speaker 1: friendly with with marijuana stores so that you can't you
Speaker 1: can't walk through the Bellaggio token up something right, like
Speaker 1: he can't do that, and you're not supposed to anyway.
Speaker 1: But in these dispensaries, like you know, when I live
Speaker 1: in San Francisco for most of my adult life, it's
Speaker 1: like some dingy hole in the wall with a dude
Speaker 1: named Doug behind the counter, hooking you up right. And
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas it's like sleek, like an airport terminal.
Speaker 1: When you walk in there, you know, it's like professional operation.
Speaker 1: They're all different. There's like the mom and pop shot
Speaker 1: that has maybe three employees, and then you have the
Speaker 1: places like Panic thirteen, which is like the home depot
Speaker 1: of marijuana stores, you know, and it's it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of awesome. I can walk down the street, um, and
Speaker 1: there's a fantastic store right here. Unfortunately, they were always
Speaker 1: out of the product that I enjoy, so I don't
Speaker 1: go there as often as i'd like. To um. And
Speaker 1: that's how I found MMJ near the Orleans because they
Speaker 1: generally stop what I like. Yeah, for people who are listening,
Speaker 1: like I didn't know, Gilly, I don't, you're such a
Speaker 1: weed head. I was like, No, I was buying chocolate
Speaker 1: for my dad. For God's sake, get me some more chocolate.
Speaker 1: I like it. That's what I've heard about the statue
Speaker 1: and keeping the fridge, So who knows what? I know
Speaker 1: what you're talking all right now? On previous years, it
Speaker 1: will wrap this up because we're a little older than
Speaker 1: we used to be. But in previous years, at this point,
Speaker 1: we would talk about nightclubs and then we would talk
Speaker 1: about some depraved ship and it would get worse every year.
Speaker 1: But obviously aces no longer with us, so we're not
Speaker 1: gonna do the depraved ship. We'll leave that to UH
Speaker 1: in his honor. But like the nightclubs, I mean, the
Speaker 1: one thing that I would say about Vegas, just to
Speaker 1: wrap it up as a macro statement. And I'm curious
Speaker 1: if you guys agree with this. Four or five years
Speaker 1: ago and in one of its many iterations, one of
Speaker 1: its many incarnations, four or five years ago, this was
Speaker 1: really a nightclub day club town. And I think this
Speaker 1: is probably the biggest sort of umbrella statement I could
Speaker 1: make about Las Vegas. Now, that's how it was four
Speaker 1: or five years ago. It was all about um excess
Speaker 1: and we republic and all these day and that's all
Speaker 1: you heard about when Vegas was marketed, because of the
Speaker 1: Vegas Golden Nights, because of the Las Vegas Raiders, because
Speaker 1: of increased convention space. Vegas has really figured out that
Speaker 1: those things, those nightclubs and day clubs will still exist.
Speaker 1: But the real economy here now is in sports teams
Speaker 1: and conventions more so than it ever has been before.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's what drives this economy. And
Speaker 1: Vegas feels like a different place over the last three
Speaker 1: or four years than it did five to ten years ago. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe some of that because we've gotten older, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm on solid ground and saying that. Do you
Speaker 1: agree with that at all? If you're asking me? And
Speaker 1: I sort of agree. Um, it's just that people are
Speaker 1: aging out of the clubs that you're talking about, So
Speaker 1: where the twenty one year old millennial is now thirty
Speaker 1: one years old and they want something different. So I
Speaker 1: think it's a reinvention time for the clubs, and it
Speaker 1: happens every every seven or ten years. People's case just change.
Speaker 1: So I think we're seeing the uh, maybe the end
Speaker 1: of the E d M club that you know where
Speaker 1: you know that where it's sort of like steakhouses in
Speaker 1: my eyes, and this is everything goes back to State
Speaker 1: for me um but where steak houses were popping up everywhere,
Speaker 1: now they're only making great steakhouses. And that's sort of
Speaker 1: what we're looking at with Sus Mike is their plans
Speaker 1: for nightclub at Circle. No nightclub, No, I think yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the thought is that the biggest thing that's
Speaker 1: come out of the last five years is people's um
Speaker 1: penshiant or desire for day drinking and and people want
Speaker 1: to get out in the sun, and they want to
Speaker 1: be up and they want to drink earlier in the day.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know that necessarily big name
Speaker 1: DJs are where it's going to be at that it
Speaker 1: doesn't that business model just doesn't make sense because of
Speaker 1: the amount of money that you're paying them, what you
Speaker 1: have to charge for seats and drinks, and you price
Speaker 1: out too too much of the population to do that.
Speaker 1: So but I think people want to. I think people
Speaker 1: want to hang out, they want to look at other
Speaker 1: pretty people, they want to drink in the daytime. And
Speaker 1: I think that eight clubs signs these you know, eight
Speaker 1: figure DJs will still be popular moving forward. Will or
Speaker 1: will not be you said will will will will be?
Speaker 1: Just not where you are correct, We're just not. We're
Speaker 1: not doing a nightclub thing. You know, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a roof We're gonna have a rooftop bar, very high
Speaker 1: end rooftop bar that's gonna have incredible views of the
Speaker 1: strip in the mountains um that people can hang out at.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be you know, I'm sure the
Speaker 1: crowd will be older. It's not going to be it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a twentysomething's crowd. It's probably more of
Speaker 1: a later thirties, forties something crowd. And it's a little
Speaker 1: different variety. Yeah, it makes sense, makes sense. I think
Speaker 1: I think we've covered it. I think if you're coming
Speaker 1: to Las Vegas, this is a pretty good advertisement for it.
Speaker 1: It is a it is no kid, I mean, of
Speaker 1: all the years, maybe one of the more exciting ones
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Speaker 1: to come by and say hi to us at the
Speaker 1: Visa studios were at the South Point Hotel Casino, and
Speaker 1: there will be a new studio as as Mike pointed out,
Speaker 1: that's being renovated at the d in March and circa
Speaker 1: of course come December, so all kinds of things may
Speaker 1: evolve in all of those places. Ninth annual Vegas Lifestyle
Speaker 1: Show Demand's Guide to Send City. I appreciate all the
Speaker 1: love for this show over the years. For Mark Meltzer,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mark. I appreciate it as always been. You're
Speaker 1: a stalwart. And now I'm going on and getting sliders.
Speaker 1: Mike Palm, thank you as always, sir, Thank you, Joe,
Speaker 1: Thanks Mark. A lot of great information and Todd wishing
Speaker 1: of who I don't even know if we can hear anymore.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Todd say I learned a lot. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for listening as always, use all this
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