Speaker 1: Check it out, Man Gil Alexander. This is the fourteenth annual,
Speaker 1: fourteenth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast on the Beating the Book
Speaker 1: feat and the Betting Dork feed before that, and this
Speaker 1: is the one podcast of the year that we do
Speaker 1: that is not singularly sports betting focused. We always save
Speaker 1: it for the week between the championship games and the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because it's a dead week. So we talk
Speaker 1: about for the fourteenth straight year just Vegas shit. And
Speaker 1: what I mean by that is when we were younger,
Speaker 1: that meant nightclubs and things like that on day clubs.
Speaker 1: But now we're old, so we don't really talk about
Speaker 1: that so much anymore. But we do talk about restaurants, sports, books, apps.
Speaker 1: Steve is here. By the way, let me just introduce
Speaker 1: Mark Meltzer. First, the megapod, the Beating the Book podcast,
Speaker 1: and Betting Dork before that has existed. It's the year
Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Only one person has been on at least
Speaker 1: one podcast every single season, and that is this particular
Speaker 1: show every year, and that's Mark Meltzer. Everybody, they're on
Speaker 1: the bottom left at Meltz Vegas Meltzer like Seltzer, what's
Speaker 1: happening Mark, I look.
Speaker 2: Forward to the numerous text messages that quote. You're saying,
Speaker 2: Meltzer like seltzer because you're the only one left. Everything
Speaker 2: is male to last pole day in Vegas. I'm heading
Speaker 2: back east and just did some laundry, cleaned out my
Speaker 2: knit caps and my jacket for the first voyage back
Speaker 2: east for seven years.
Speaker 1: So Meltzer and where can people find your stuff? Let's
Speaker 1: get that out of the way first. Where can you
Speaker 1: be found most often?
Speaker 2: Most often you'll find me at casinos dot Com. That's
Speaker 2: regular news and views, so to speak. You'll find me
Speaker 2: at travels orc once a week and that's either Vegas
Speaker 2: news updates or like a hot topic that's regarding players,
Speaker 2: clubs and rewards programs as a release to Vegas and casinos.
Speaker 2: And then you'll find me here there, and you know,
Speaker 2: and everywhere. I have a bunch of stuff coming out
Speaker 2: on covers this week, maybe next week, so then that'll
Speaker 2: be based on basically some cheap gambling things. Where to
Speaker 2: play cheap blackjack, where to roll where to roll the
Speaker 2: bones for cheap and get good odds at the same time.
Speaker 2: So that's where I'm at today.
Speaker 1: Mark is going to represent the everyman here, whereas Steve Fezick,
Speaker 1: the only back to back winner of the Hilton Super Contest,
Speaker 1: might be for the more diehard folks who I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe have a little more cash on him. He Steve
Speaker 1: will teach us how to chinse Vegas out of every
Speaker 1: dollar that he possibly can. How you do it, Steve? Good?
Speaker 1: Is that accurate presentation?
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 4: You know all of us are going to go to
Speaker 4: like the Pass and get a players card. This is
Speaker 4: an old town Henderson and get the nine to ninety
Speaker 4: nine Prime Rib Special together, or Ellis Island with all
Speaker 4: the Cupons and get the steak dinner for thirteen dollars
Speaker 4: to show I'm just not an elitist country club bowl.
Speaker 1: This is where Mark and Steve ran a foul last
Speaker 1: year on this kind of thing. By the way, Steve unprovoked,
Speaker 1: I said, everybody, we're doing Vegas lifestyle today on a
Speaker 1: numbers game, and a lot of tweets came in They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: could you tell Steve, like we don't have that kind
Speaker 1: of do what he has.
Speaker 4: So I got something for every budget, even for a
Speaker 4: budget the size of crack Man's Wow.
Speaker 1: Speaking of whom Bill Krackenberger everybody on the fourteenth annual
Speaker 1: Vegas Lifestyle podcast, What's Happening to Billy?
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me on. You know, I've never met Mark,
Speaker 3: but however he's a great follow I just looked up
Speaker 3: his and of course we follow each other for years
Speaker 3: at Mark at Meltz Vegas on Twitter and a great
Speaker 3: follow and like you said, the sites he works for
Speaker 3: puts up things, it's fantastic. So it's great to meet him.
Speaker 3: And of course I follow Steve. I follow Steve. I
Speaker 3: like his everyday ramblings on Twitter, and and of course
Speaker 3: Gil you I do your show from since day one.
Speaker 3: We've been together on Thursdays on VSON, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: the invite here. Listen, I'm out every single day. I'm
Speaker 3: out to eat, I'm out around town. I just know
Speaker 3: that I put, you know, twenty seven thousand miles on
Speaker 3: my car a year, and I don't go out of
Speaker 3: town with it, so that's pretty hard to do. So
Speaker 3: there we go.
Speaker 1: Well, and that's why that's why you all are here,
Speaker 1: because all are experts on what we're about to get into.
Speaker 1: And I want to start with we did this last
Speaker 1: year too. But I hate to say that we got
Speaker 1: to start with the bad stuff, which is melter. I
Speaker 1: go to you, come on, you know where I'm going.
Speaker 1: You know where I'm going with this. No, when we
Speaker 1: were kids, when we were kids, and but I mean
Speaker 1: when I mean kids, I mean like ten fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: In earlier I would say I always give the hard rock. Example.
Speaker 1: Used to be able to go down to the pool
Speaker 1: with rehab early in the day. I'm the first person
Speaker 1: to put my towel on a lounge chair. It's mine
Speaker 1: for the whole day, me and my buddies. But through
Speaker 1: three more on three more lounge shares, those were our
Speaker 1: chairs for the rest of the day. That is old Vegas.
Speaker 1: Old Vegas is long gone. Day clubs, nightclubs. And you
Speaker 1: texted me during when Fezek and I were doing a
Speaker 1: numbers game yesterday, no Monday. You texted me during that
Speaker 1: show to let me know what the super Bowl, oh no,
Speaker 1: March Madness pricing was. Can you explain to folks who
Speaker 1: are thinking about coming into town for the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: or March Madness what the prices are these?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty insane price wise, So there's essentially you
Speaker 2: could still get a general admission seed in sports books,
Speaker 2: I would say ninety five percent of a year, So
Speaker 2: don't freak out. But when there's a large event like
Speaker 2: the super Bowl, like March Madness, because he knows are
Speaker 2: looking to you know, their corporations. They have to make
Speaker 2: more money every quarter of every year. So when you
Speaker 2: think about in that mindset, they're going to look to
Speaker 2: nickel and dime wherever they can. In the sports books,
Speaker 2: you know are our target number one for major events
Speaker 2: because they know people are going to go, and they
Speaker 2: know people are going to pay, which is the worst thing,
Speaker 2: because the best thing you can do if you don't
Speaker 2: want prices to continue rising is not pay that. However,
Speaker 2: people don't seem to care. So what I said you
Speaker 2: on Monday was the Caesar Palace sports book for March Madness.
Speaker 2: The prices start at five hundred dollars per day per person.
Speaker 1: And that's that's intercession per session.
Speaker 2: In the yes, correct per session. Thank you for clarifying that.
Speaker 2: And that's inside the main sports book. And you get
Speaker 2: three beers with that every day. You know, that'll that'll
Speaker 2: that'll feed, that'll give you enough drinks for a few hours.
Speaker 2: I guess not. Whatever you can sit behind the bar
Speaker 2: at the USUS Palace sports Book for under two hundred bucks,
Speaker 2: which normally is a walkway from you know, the casino
Speaker 2: area to the Forum shops. It's outside of Omnia, so
Speaker 2: you're sitting like what I'll feel like a mile away.
Speaker 2: But they're not the only ones that charge that much money.
Speaker 2: If you go to Top Golf, you can get Bay
Speaker 2: packages that are going to start at like one hundred
Speaker 2: bucks a person and per day for four you know,
Speaker 2: it's it's insane. The Cosmo Party, it's it's open booze.
Speaker 2: You can play hoops there. It's one of the better parties,
Speaker 2: but it's going to cost you three hundred bucks a day.
Speaker 2: Found Blue has their theater. They're going to charge you
Speaker 2: a couple hundred bucks a day. Westgate's one of the
Speaker 2: great bargains where you can actually get in there for
Speaker 2: probably around one hundred to one hundred and fifty bucks
Speaker 2: a day in the International theater just for a seed.
Speaker 2: You know, you can get the good lines, you get
Speaker 2: fair lines there. South Point remains one of the best deals.
Speaker 2: You know, it's off the strip, but they've got the ballroom.
Speaker 2: They've got the ballroom with free entry, cheap eats, good odds,
Speaker 2: So that's always a good thing for groups. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, and we're looking March ban'szek mentioned Ellis Island earlier.
Speaker 2: I was looking at prices at Ellis Island for March Madness,
Speaker 2: and they start at one hundred and seventy five dollars
Speaker 2: per day for their March Badness party.
Speaker 1: It's Ellis's Island, Ellis Island.
Speaker 2: It's everywhere, so it's not even it's it's not even that.
Speaker 2: It is just the Vegas Strip, which is the predominant
Speaker 2: place where you're gonna have to pay money, but it's
Speaker 2: reservation fees and such. It's literally everywhere, serga. You know,
Speaker 2: the prices are off the charts. You can walk into stadiums,
Speaker 2: swim for the Super Bowl, you know, pay under two
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, but that's standing room only. If you want
Speaker 2: to see, you're gonna pay more.
Speaker 1: So, uh, you know, it's just the reason I start
Speaker 1: with for.
Speaker 2: March sticking with March Bandess though, it's insane because it's
Speaker 2: the first two days are more money than the next
Speaker 2: two days. Sunday is pretty much getaway day for visitors,
Speaker 2: so there are there are very few parties and you
Speaker 2: could probably just walk into the book on that day.
Speaker 2: One thing I recommend to people is a look off strip.
Speaker 2: If your budget conscious, b if you don't really care,
Speaker 2: just walk around and you can walk, you know, from
Speaker 2: book to book, from casino to casino, from bar to
Speaker 2: bar and catch enough of the games, you know. But
Speaker 2: if you do want to see it's gonna you're either
Speaker 2: going to have to get there super duper early. When
Speaker 2: I moved here, you talk about fifteen years ago. When
Speaker 2: I moved here, they were the legends of people paying
Speaker 2: homeless to stay overnight in a sportsbook so they had
Speaker 2: a seat for tip off at eight am. You know,
Speaker 2: for the first game of March Madness. That's no longer
Speaker 2: the case because the books will be closed.
Speaker 1: I just you know, the Caesars thing. Just the first
Speaker 1: day of March Madness and the second thurs name Friday,
Speaker 1: one session is over five hundred dollars. When we say
Speaker 1: one session, that's a half day, so it's the early games,
Speaker 1: you know how it kind of breaks up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the day. The first and second day of
Speaker 1: March Madness, the full day is almost nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: If you want to a question, I'm looking at some
Speaker 2: tweet that it's full day is eight to fifty early
Speaker 2: session five point fifty. In late session is is six fifty.
Speaker 1: There you go, Okay, So I just I just throw
Speaker 1: that out there because I think that's the way to start,
Speaker 1: because I think that's the biggest sort of sticker shock
Speaker 1: for anybody. And when it comes to the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: then it's not quite that expensive, or is it.
Speaker 2: It's yes and no. Your super Bowl is one day,
Speaker 2: so you're obviously only paying for that one day. South
Speaker 2: Point as I, as I mentioned, always always has their
Speaker 2: free party in the ballroom. Great option. But if you're
Speaker 2: at a casino, you're going to be paying, you know,
Speaker 2: somewhere around five hundred bucks a seat. If you're an Aria,
Speaker 2: you get it's three point fifty for a lounge chair
Speaker 2: and that in that sportsbook that needs very new screens
Speaker 2: because I feel like they've been here since day one.
Speaker 2: But you get a free buffet with that, so you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: you get a little something with it. Uh, one of
Speaker 2: the sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I I don't mean to start with the bad stuff,
Speaker 1: but that's I mean, most people, I think Mark, you
Speaker 1: and I are simpatico on this. We come from the
Speaker 1: East Coast our buddies from the East Coast, right, And
Speaker 1: you know, we've talked about this before on this podcast,
Speaker 1: where it's like, hey, go to Circa. It's fun and everything,
Speaker 1: and they go once and they love it and it's
Speaker 1: the most wonderful thing they've ever seen in their life.
Speaker 1: But they're stripped people. Right, So if you say, are
Speaker 1: you going to go back to Circa, right, They're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: well it was great. Don't get me wrong. I love
Speaker 1: the experience, but I'm just gonna go back to the
Speaker 1: strip against I think people are just locked into the Strip.
Speaker 1: And when we sit here and we say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go to the South Point, which are all
Speaker 1: great recommendations, right, you go to the South Point, you
Speaker 1: can go to the West Gate, and you know this,
Speaker 1: I know my buddies just don't have the bandwidth for
Speaker 1: that for whatever reason, right, they're just gonna be like, nah,
Speaker 1: we're staying on the Strip, so we're gonna pay out
Speaker 1: the the booty hole. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know what, when you're younger, you're a little
Speaker 2: bit more willing to spend you know, the twenty you
Speaker 2: know they the ten to fifteen dollars for an uber
Speaker 2: off the strip, to save a few bucks. But when
Speaker 2: you're older, you definitely are sort of stuck in your ways.
Speaker 2: That's how I am with restaurants nowadays. You know, I
Speaker 2: go to the places I like, and I've tried almost
Speaker 2: everything that I want to try at this point. You know,
Speaker 2: when there's a new restaurant opening, I definitely want to explore.
Speaker 2: But for the most part, I'm sticking with the try,
Speaker 2: you know, the trying true things. And the people that
Speaker 2: Dad love Circa have a good reason to love Circa.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic, But I though it's fantastic, you know. But
Speaker 2: like you said, you know, the majority of people that
Speaker 2: visit Las Vegas stay on the Vegas Strip, and and
Speaker 2: they are they're less apt if you stay Think about
Speaker 2: it the way I like to think about it is
Speaker 2: that you're here for seventy two hours. You don't want
Speaker 2: to spend one of those hours in a cab going
Speaker 2: back and forth to and from the Vegas, your hotel
Speaker 2: and casino. You really just want to spend five minutes
Speaker 2: to walk to the next property four five to difte mins,
Speaker 2: depending on how fast you walk through Aria to get
Speaker 2: to park MGM.
Speaker 1: Billy, I'll meet you Ellis Island for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty bucks each to spend a Sueral Sundata. So it's island.
Speaker 3: So this is actually even shocking to me hearing this.
Speaker 3: I didn't know this. I didn't know that a local
Speaker 3: casino like Ellis Island is charging for parties. And I
Speaker 3: just didn't know this. I didn't know this went on.
Speaker 3: I thought it was I thought the locals were all free.
Speaker 3: I believe now I could be wrong about this. Mark
Speaker 3: would don't like the local casinos like stations and stuff.
Speaker 3: They're not charging for a long Boulder Highway and stuff.
Speaker 3: They're not charging for people to sit down. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: think for super Bowl or March vandas are they Mark.
Speaker 2: Correct, that's correct. What they what they are charging though,
Speaker 2: is for parties, like we're saying the off Strip. You
Speaker 2: can definitely get a general emission seat, you got to
Speaker 2: arrive early. But if you want a secured seed reserve seat,
Speaker 2: you can also Westcat do the same thing. You could
Speaker 2: pay two hundred bucket to preserve a seat during the
Speaker 2: Super Bowl at the Westgate, or you could take your
Speaker 2: chance and just show up. You know, it's really a
Speaker 2: matter of what are your priorities. But you're right. The
Speaker 2: offstrip books you could sit for free, but the parties
Speaker 2: like stay. Every station casino property has about five different
Speaker 2: has about five different parties in their different restaurants and bars.
Speaker 2: So you can check out their blog they have. They
Speaker 2: detail everything from Green Valley Branch to Durango to Red
Speaker 2: Rock and sun Says Station. You know, every property of theirs,
Speaker 2: you know has multiple parties.
Speaker 1: So Zik is chomping at the bit because I know
Speaker 1: where he wants to go with.
Speaker 4: Well, you probably do, so all I'm hearing is complaining
Speaker 4: and bitching and everyone's upset about like all this costs,
Speaker 4: So how do I gain the system so I can
Speaker 4: sit and watch my Super Bowl and drink and have
Speaker 4: a good time. And it goes back to don't be
Speaker 4: the peanut butter approach guy. Don't be walking around if
Speaker 4: you're in Vegas or not in Vegas. Don't gim with
Speaker 4: thirty different casinos and they all think that you're like
Speaker 4: a real low level gambler and you're not gonna get
Speaker 4: any perks. Focus specialize. I mean, it's not gonna do
Speaker 4: any good at Bolaggio, But go to a place the
Speaker 4: size of say the Palms or Treasure Island or downtown.
Speaker 4: You know, go ahead and play in the Four Queens
Speaker 4: and be a little mini whale there. Give show them
Speaker 4: the play, Billy'll be what first got to tell you
Speaker 4: about four Queens and all the promotions, video poker things
Speaker 4: like that. Don't try to score these great comps. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'll use an example. So I barely play at the Poms,
Speaker 4: but I had a good bet size. So what's this? Boom?
Speaker 4: The Poms wants me and an invited guest to go
Speaker 4: to their super Bowl party. And I get these all
Speaker 4: the time, and it's not like I'm playing that much.
Speaker 4: So if you are a gamble and you're gambling already,
Speaker 4: why spend an hour here, an hour there, walk over
Speaker 4: the Cosmo walk to Bolagia. No, take a mid level
Speaker 4: strip property and become a mini whale there so you
Speaker 4: get invites and you don't have to pay nothing, and
Speaker 4: you just show up in there and you talk to
Speaker 4: your host and boom, you can get a seat.
Speaker 2: That's a great strategy. And it's I always tell people,
Speaker 2: do you want to be the big fish in a
Speaker 2: small pond or the small fish in the big pond?
Speaker 2: You know that's that is, those are words to live
Speaker 2: by for me when you're looking at rewards and maximizing
Speaker 2: your dollars. And uh, back when I was a East
Speaker 2: Coast gambler, my old original handle, back when I first
Speaker 2: met you, Gail, I used to go to show Boat,
Speaker 2: not the greatest property, but my bank girl went so
Speaker 2: much farther there, and you did it uses Palace, which
Speaker 2: at the time Caesars owned both of them. But because
Speaker 2: I played it their lesser property, I got everything. I
Speaker 2: got the greatest comps, the greatest suite, you know, all
Speaker 2: for the same budget that I would spend at Borgata
Speaker 2: and get nothing at ES's Palace get nothing. So it
Speaker 2: really doesn't matter where you play and what you what
Speaker 2: your goals are is really what matters is my friends
Speaker 2: are busy. Their goals are not the same as mine,
Speaker 2: and they do want to go to the nice, fancy place,
Speaker 2: the news thing. They're not looking for rewards. That's their trip,
Speaker 2: you know. When I'm not with them.
Speaker 1: I'm not like that though, right, which is why I mean,
Speaker 1: the reason we do this podcast is partially for Physic's
Speaker 1: advice on that, because I think it's great actionable stuff.
Speaker 1: But I do think the whole time you're saying that, Steve.
Speaker 1: The whole time I'm thinking, yeah, my buddies, I tell
Speaker 1: them that. Right. If I'm like, okay, guys go to
Speaker 1: the poems like as soon as I in any way
Speaker 1: inconvenience them or what they'll deem as an inconvenience, they'll
Speaker 1: just be like, ah, shut up.
Speaker 4: It's very difficult. Basic strategy. Don't have eight guys go
Speaker 4: to the strip together because you're never going to agree
Speaker 4: on where to go to dinner and to do it.
Speaker 4: If like three is a great number, I found like
Speaker 4: two to four is a good number. Most people you
Speaker 4: know can reach a common ground. And I will say
Speaker 4: this if it's become in Vegas. If you're not a
Speaker 4: VIP of some status at a casino, you are at
Speaker 4: the bottom. So even if at like a world class
Speaker 4: resort like Win, I love the Win, But if you're
Speaker 4: just going into the wind without any status, you're waiting
Speaker 4: in the long lines, it's not going to be as
Speaker 4: enjoyable as say you're as having the royalty treatment at
Speaker 4: a four star or three and a half star restaurants
Speaker 4: and experiencing the casino you go in and just being
Speaker 4: a diamond member and it's easy to become a diamond
Speaker 4: member or platinum member. Boom. Now you're checking in in
Speaker 4: the Diamond lounge. You're not waiting in an hour line,
Speaker 4: maybe an hour and a half line to get into Vegas.
Speaker 4: Once you do that, you'll you'll look at that line
Speaker 4: and you'll say, I'm never going through that again. Mark's
Speaker 4: mentioned he doesn't even want to be in a cab
Speaker 4: for ten minutes. Imagine waiting in line for an hour
Speaker 4: and a half to check in at Caesar's or Bollaggio.
Speaker 1: By the way, a twenty dollars bill still works on those.
Speaker 1: Just go to the front, somem of twenty you'll go
Speaker 1: to the front of the line. Just the most actionable
Speaker 1: advice I can give you. But I'm curious all three
Speaker 1: answers to this. So Stevie, I know you like for
Speaker 1: you Caesar's. The key point that I don't think people
Speaker 1: know from year to year, even though we mentioned that,
Speaker 1: is this status stuff is transferable to other properties. So
Speaker 1: what is Steve in your opinion? Then we'll ask for
Speaker 1: Bill and Mark Xelso what is your opinion the casino
Speaker 1: to do that at to elevate quickest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So Caesar's is the best one to start with
Speaker 4: because they have ten times tier credit days and seven
Speaker 4: times tier credit point days, so you can become a
Speaker 4: platinum in like twenty minutes on a ten time point day.
Speaker 4: And by the way, just you know, gamble responsibly. Get
Speaker 4: Here's Bob Danswers. Jack's are better video poker. You're playing
Speaker 4: at ninety and a half to ninety nine and a
Speaker 4: half percent game like you put through if you want
Speaker 4: to become a diamond, I think you have put fifty
Speaker 4: thousands through. That sounds like an insane amount, but you're
Speaker 4: at your disadvantage. It's like seven hundred bucks. You might
Speaker 4: you might I get unlucky, you might lose fifteen hundred.
Speaker 4: You know what, you got three buddies in town. You
Speaker 4: all want to become a diamond, pull it, sit down together,
Speaker 4: say we're all going to you know, we're all going
Speaker 4: to share in this and we're all going to get
Speaker 4: a diamond card. Now boom, we're going to be going
Speaker 4: to the Bahamas. If you're on the East Coast, you
Speaker 4: get to go to the Bahamas in the wintertime for free.
Speaker 4: I've done it. It's like you can't believe it. This
Speaker 4: is actually working. They're not charging me nothing, you know,
Speaker 4: to stay, you know, down there at Great Vacation. And
Speaker 4: then once you have that diamond card. Gil you mentioned
Speaker 4: the matching status, so I got my seven stars. I
Speaker 4: go over to the wind. They're like, oh, we match,
Speaker 4: we'll give you a win black. I'm like, what are
Speaker 4: the benefits. They're like, well, you get two free rounds
Speaker 4: of golf, and I'm like, there's no way this is
Speaker 4: going to work. It's eight hundred dollars per person. I
Speaker 4: walk up to my host, I'm like, uh, can I
Speaker 4: have two rounds of golf? And he punches me up.
Speaker 4: I have hardly any play and he's like, when would
Speaker 4: you like to play, mister Fasick. I'm like, I can't
Speaker 4: believe it. Yeah, so you get the idea. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's so valuable to have these matching stats. Fump Blue
Speaker 4: gave me two free nights just for being a font
Speaker 4: Blue Royal, and I never play there, Billy, you got
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: Now I'm more I'm more stick to local places myself,
Speaker 3: because I like what the Mark said, being a big
Speaker 3: fish in a little pond. I'm just looking at my
Speaker 3: just a recent mail like this, this is just recent
Speaker 3: mail that I have, and it's just local places Tuscany.
Speaker 3: I like the restaurant. I'm sorry, I don't know the
Speaker 3: name of it, but there's a Goodisseca Bistecca is over there.
Speaker 3: I think it's great. They give me one hundred bucks
Speaker 3: every month to go spend there. Plus I earn a
Speaker 3: lot of dollars there and on Mondays and Thursdays they
Speaker 3: have matching points. I'm seeing here, so you can get
Speaker 3: double that. I mean, so I like going over there.
Speaker 3: I think that has some decent video plob for nothing
Speaker 3: crazy many almost ninety nine percent, but they have bonus
Speaker 3: days and I love going there for that. This is
Speaker 3: the South Point. I absolutely love the South Point. I
Speaker 3: go there, you know, three or four times a week.
Speaker 3: Stations casinos, I like going there too. I like going
Speaker 3: to some of the cascine. By the way, Todd just
Speaker 3: text me and said that Red Rocket is charging for
Speaker 3: seats for both events. But I also have like the
Speaker 3: Venetian because I went there and gave them a big
Speaker 3: play on a bonus that my buddies found and they
Speaker 3: didn't have enough money for it. By the way, I
Speaker 3: went partners with Randy McKay over the phone over video.
Speaker 3: Those things always don't work out. It was a giant machine.
Speaker 3: The one hundred and thirty five dollars will spend. We
Speaker 3: were in stupid money, stupid put it this way. We
Speaker 3: hit an eighteen thousand dollars bonus at the end and
Speaker 3: lost money. So you don't always wins. But they've been.
Speaker 3: But they've been sending me some good bounce back offers
Speaker 3: since then. Give me about two thousand in cash. Food there.
Speaker 3: I go to the Mediterranean restaurant there constantly and mark
Speaker 3: what's that name to the met the place. It's been
Speaker 3: there for years. It was over at Cosmo first, now
Speaker 3: it's over at the Venetian. It's famulous milos. Thank you Milos.
Speaker 3: I've been I I get free melos every month. I've
Speaker 3: been going there once a month for free. So I
Speaker 3: like going to the local casinos. But let me, let's
Speaker 3: not fool around. The win is the class of the town.
Speaker 3: My favorite casino to go to. It's just the ambiance,
Speaker 3: the restaurants overlooking the golf course there. They have some
Speaker 3: overlooking the pools. They have so many good restaurants and
Speaker 3: it just you just feel like you're walking into Royalty there.
Speaker 3: I've seen Steve win there. I've seen a Lane win
Speaker 3: there multiple times. Back years ago when when the when
Speaker 3: the pandemic came and everyone was having fifty nine dollars
Speaker 3: and twenty nine dollars rooms to Win also had seventy
Speaker 3: nine dollars rooms. There was a giant fistfight. It was
Speaker 3: videotaped by the pool at the encore. It was unbelievable
Speaker 3: and Elaine Win said, that's enough of that. We will
Speaker 3: now be the highest rack rate on the strip. Basically,
Speaker 3: what I'm getting to is they keep the riff raff
Speaker 3: out of the joint, so you're gonna pay for that.
Speaker 3: Though you're gonna pay more for a cup of coffee.
Speaker 3: If you're paying, you're gonna pay more for an ice
Speaker 3: cream cone than almost anywhere else. But you're paying for
Speaker 3: the safety of the place. You're playing for the class,
Speaker 3: the elegance, the marble, the Carrera marble from Italy, and
Speaker 3: the tiles. And I love the Wind. I don't. I'm
Speaker 3: the sports book there. It's a yes, it's much smaller,
Speaker 3: but Doug is very good to myself, He's very good
Speaker 3: to Steve. The Wind is my favorite place in town.
Speaker 2: I got the win yeah, ahead, I was gonna just
Speaker 2: follow what you guys are saying on the reward stuff.
Speaker 4: But go see everything Bill said about the Win. I've
Speaker 4: never had a bad meal, and think about it's not
Speaker 4: just about the food, It's about the ambiance. It's about
Speaker 4: raising your spirits in life. So if you're staying with
Speaker 4: your family and maybe you get a casino rate and
Speaker 4: you're paying eight hundred a night, you know what, if
Speaker 4: there's four of you, you're all paying two hundred a
Speaker 4: night for a life experience. That is just tremendous. Best
Speaker 4: buffet in town in my opinion. If you're a carnivor,
Speaker 4: you might prefer Caesar's, but that Win is just outstanding.
Speaker 4: And from the low end, well they have no low ends,
Speaker 4: but like the coffee shop or a leg Gros, the
Speaker 4: Italian place to if you have never gone to Delilah's
Speaker 4: their supper club, that is like a world class experience.
Speaker 4: You will literally go home, like a year from now
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I remember that night I had at Delilah's. Wow,
Speaker 4: that was just outstanding. And just personally, I've always found
Speaker 4: like when I'm at Aria or a Venetian or palazzo
Speaker 4: and I go to a really nice restaurant there is
Speaker 4: just not the same for whatever reason. Then going to
Speaker 4: Wingley or Mazuma's or all these restaurants at the.
Speaker 1: Wind will we will circle back to the Wind because
Speaker 1: all that you're saying is right. It's the only place
Speaker 1: I still feel like I'm on vacation when I'm in town.
Speaker 1: The last thing on the rewards mare.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh so there's a couple of things, and don't
Speaker 2: disagree with anybody at all. There's a great website called
Speaker 2: Miles Talk where they talk about points rewards nationally as
Speaker 2: well or entered worldwide as well as Las Vegas. He
Speaker 2: has a thing called the Status Status Match Merry Go
Speaker 2: Round where you can take like Steve said, you could
Speaker 2: take your Caesar's rewards, then whenever there's promotions with other properties,
Speaker 2: take your diamond card. I did it. I went from
Speaker 2: Caesars to Fountain Blue, got my upgrade there, tried to
Speaker 2: go to their Vexian Venetian rewards. I was not matching
Speaker 2: Fountain Blue at the time, but they were doing other programs,
Speaker 2: and besides, they weren't giving out any of the good
Speaker 2: stuff with their new rewards program, which a whole other
Speaker 2: issue about satisfacching. But you can always do this kind
Speaker 2: of merry go round. So if you focus your play
Speaker 2: on one, you can always find promotions to dabble in
Speaker 2: other properties explore them. When I did my upgrade over
Speaker 2: I had Felt in Blue. They gave me one hundred
Speaker 2: dollars free dinner or food credit. I combined them with
Speaker 2: a friend of mine. We had a wonderful night out
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty dollars in comp states, wine, drinks.
Speaker 2: Everything was fantastic time. So that's another way to go
Speaker 2: if you're looking just to maximize and get everything from
Speaker 2: everywhere that you can. Another way you could do that
Speaker 2: is with what they call the Founder's Card. It costs
Speaker 2: about four hundred bucks a year, and previously they would
Speaker 2: give you they would give you upgrades, a different rule
Speaker 2: travel rewards program, so it could be your worldwide hotel programs,
Speaker 2: it could be a casino. They previously met gave you
Speaker 2: diamond to Caesars, So essentially you're paying four hundred bucks
Speaker 2: to get diamond to Caesars. In order to keep it,
Speaker 2: you have to spend the money to keep it. But
Speaker 2: you can use that to match elsewhere, which is fantastic,
Speaker 2: but they're no longer with Caesars there with a WIN,
Speaker 2: so you're going to be able to get an upgrade,
Speaker 2: pay to get an upgraded rewards program at Win, which
Speaker 2: I totally agree, is the top of the top. It's
Speaker 2: top of the food chain in the Las Vegas. There
Speaker 2: are luxury resorts in Las Vegas, Venetian, Bolagio, Cosmo, but
Speaker 2: there nothing comes close to the service and the atmosphere
Speaker 2: Wind and I still love it. And also, if you
Speaker 2: want a great cup of coffee, Earth Cafe in the
Speaker 2: little shopping promenade, fantastic massive cups of coffee that gilly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you don't, if you don't gamble, just go
Speaker 4: into the MGM sign up for that for that credit card. Boom,
Speaker 4: you're pearl. Now that you're pearl, you can start doing
Speaker 4: this Merry Go round that mister Seltzer has told you
Speaker 4: how to do. And and and just I love that
Speaker 4: you mentioned that Earth Cafe because the Wind has so
Speaker 4: many little Easter eggs. As you're walking around, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, through the shopping area and even the convention
Speaker 4: center area. I would never, of course walk through the
Speaker 4: convention arey wall convention is going on and sample the
Speaker 4: food or the coffee especially. No, not me, but like
Speaker 4: one of my favorite hidden secret walks is you walk
Speaker 4: back by the conventionary and the wind and you can
Speaker 4: go into the back area and just walk right out
Speaker 4: and get that view of that golf course. So if
Speaker 4: you're not you know, if you're not a golfer, you
Speaker 4: can walk out and actually be you know, on the
Speaker 4: you know, the teeing areas of a hole and get
Speaker 4: the view and the sphere and it's just spectacular. It
Speaker 4: doesn't cost you anything.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's let's move on. We'll circle back to the
Speaker 1: win or our favorite sportsbooks and that stuff, but real quick
Speaker 1: before we get to that. Last year, at this time,
Speaker 1: we were a bunch of complainers. We were fetching about
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of stuff, not just the prices for
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and March madness. We were complaining about the
Speaker 1: Fountain Blue which came into town, did everything wrong, the
Speaker 1: way that they tried to whatever the opposite of ingratiate
Speaker 1: themselves is to the town right. And the other thing
Speaker 1: we complained about hugely and justifiably was f one for
Speaker 1: tourists and residents alike who were here for a five
Speaker 1: month period before the F one race at the end
Speaker 1: of November of twenty twenty three, we were still smarting
Speaker 1: from that and we're like, holy crap, this thing's going
Speaker 1: to happen nine more times. God help us. Am I
Speaker 1: correct in saying that F one wasn't nearly as bad
Speaker 1: this year, right, that that is not as big of
Speaker 1: a problem as it was, and that the Fountain Blue
Speaker 1: is kind of like, okay, well we know what it is,
Speaker 1: and some people actually like that is that fair.
Speaker 4: Spot on, mister Alexander. In fact, thank you. I hate
Speaker 4: F one more than anyone, as you know. Yes, and
Speaker 4: that's why the Drop of Canada has been under construction
Speaker 4: Tropicana Road for eighteen months because they got all the projects.
Speaker 4: You know, no problem building up and down all these
Speaker 4: bridges for F one, But I have done a one
Speaker 4: to eighty on the font Blue. Now, part of it
Speaker 4: could be that, you know, they caught me for a
Speaker 4: couple of nights, which isn't going to hurt you know,
Speaker 4: their status. But they do a lot of things, right,
Speaker 4: I mean, those those restaurants, that Mama Wolf restaurant, that's
Speaker 4: my second favorite restaurant, I would say, no boo. And
Speaker 4: the top three I'd say no bo and Caesar's font
Speaker 4: Blue and Delilah's in the wind, you know, as far
Speaker 4: as overall experiences. But if you go to the video
Speaker 4: poker bar area by the sports book, you can get
Speaker 4: a premium like old fashioned, like a twenty five dollar
Speaker 4: Old Fashion. Just throw on like Meltzer. Just put one
Speaker 4: hundred dollars into the video poker machine markets you've done
Speaker 4: it right, and then drink like you are a.
Speaker 3: Like you're done aristocrat. Right.
Speaker 2: I have some bad news for you. Fez. The change
Speaker 2: their policy and now they cap the drinks at eighteen dollars.
Speaker 2: I will not say, I will not say what I drank,
Speaker 2: but I did have a one hundred dollars glass of
Speaker 2: bourbon when they first opened, just because they were still
Speaker 2: figuring out their policies. But now they're just sort of
Speaker 2: the bar there is sort of the same as every
Speaker 2: other video poker bar where you can get up to
Speaker 2: eighteen to twenty seventy dollars.
Speaker 4: You know, Gilly before pre production we uh market we're
Speaker 4: talking about. You go into the high limit area and
Speaker 4: a lot of them have double deck blackjack, so know
Speaker 4: how to play basic strategy and you sit down one
Speaker 4: hand into the double deck. Well, there's no midshoe entry.
Speaker 4: You can't play, that's the rules, but you can still
Speaker 4: order drinks. So coincidentally, the cocktail waitress might be right
Speaker 4: there when you sit down after one hand. It's going
Speaker 4: to take a good eight minutes to cycle through that
Speaker 4: double deck. And so you go out and order your
Speaker 4: old fashion, your apple martini, whatever you like, it'll be
Speaker 4: in your hands, and then the shuffle happens, and you
Speaker 4: know what you can do. You can and people do
Speaker 4: this all the time.
Speaker 3: You can.
Speaker 4: You can just you get up and go. Actually, but
Speaker 4: you can play one hand, and you just say as
Speaker 4: soon as you lose one hand, and so that costs
Speaker 4: you a dollar, you're at a half percent disadvantaged basics
Speaker 4: brategy player, it's going to cost you one dollar. You
Speaker 4: lose a hand, you're like, oh, I got a bad
Speaker 4: feeling about this. Deal me out and just walk with
Speaker 4: your old fashioned.
Speaker 2: The big surprise with this tip is that Zick doesn't
Speaker 2: look for an eight card shoe or an eight deck shoe,
Speaker 2: so we can sit there longer and not play.
Speaker 3: Rights the mid deck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's better.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 4: There are some that.
Speaker 2: Strategy also works at the video poker bar in the
Speaker 2: high limit rooms as well. You could you know, throw
Speaker 2: throw some money and play a few hands, get a
Speaker 2: high quality drink that year. Not gonna got a casino
Speaker 2: four and uh, you know, if that's how you want
Speaker 2: to roll, God bless, have a great time, not how
Speaker 2: I roll my bath room play it. That's my issue.
Speaker 4: Never ever use a bathroom a community bathroom in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4: Always going bill, you've done this right, You've especially had something,
Speaker 4: you have the wrong thing to eat. You eat a
Speaker 4: big buffet boom going going to the high limit that
Speaker 4: no one's ever in those bathrooms and and and they're
Speaker 4: pretty nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how about those highlights when you go in the
Speaker 3: high limit rooms. Uh, Caesars used to have it. And
Speaker 3: in the back of their high limit table games area
Speaker 3: they have, you know, a little food set up and
Speaker 3: no one's checking for your seven star card. Just there's
Speaker 3: probably all over town. Now I don't do this, but
Speaker 3: I know that all over town they have these little
Speaker 3: high end especially on the weekends, clubs set up on
Speaker 3: the weekend for the higher players. You know, you're addressed
Speaker 3: nice here, you act as if I mean they had
Speaker 3: homeless people in these places. Years years ago, and people
Speaker 3: suing that they couldn't and then they want Actually you're
Speaker 3: allowed to walk into any high limit pit and watch
Speaker 3: the players. Some people don't like that. Now there's those
Speaker 3: private rooms and stuff, but they have the high limit
Speaker 3: areas set up with a little buffet like snacks and
Speaker 3: little like little mini cheeseburgers or whatever sliders, and you
Speaker 3: can just walk right in if you just act as if.
Speaker 4: That's why Palms has so Palms by the registration area,
Speaker 4: just walk in. There's a couple hosts there. Just just
Speaker 4: act like you know them, wave to them and just
Speaker 4: get your coffee. Go ahead and get your muffins. Get
Speaker 4: with you and I will do that.
Speaker 3: It's fun, do you guys?
Speaker 1: Wait, let me let me just clarify that. So are
Speaker 1: you saying, like, you know how the Tower Suites at
Speaker 1: the Aria has like a little buffet at the bottom there,
Speaker 1: but you're not necessarily staying in a Tower Suites room
Speaker 1: or at the bellagio, there's that when you walk into
Speaker 1: the beautiful lobby. You know, if you go right to
Speaker 1: the right there there's like a door with all kinds
Speaker 1: of shit in there too. Are you saying you just
Speaker 1: walk in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no too, you need to get in some of
Speaker 4: the wind medium and place doesn't have a a what
Speaker 4: do they call that someone at the door. They don't
Speaker 4: have a doorkeeper. Basically to check.
Speaker 1: Just check out. Let's get to the good stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: crescendo to restaurants. But let's let's drift back into sports
Speaker 1: and sports betting. Let's talk about brick and mortar sports books,
Speaker 1: and then we can talk about apps brick and mortar
Speaker 1: sports books if you had to watch a game there.
Speaker 1: Let's not talk about Super Bowl March Matis. Let's just
Speaker 1: talk about a on a normal day in Vegas. Let's
Speaker 1: say a football weekend. I'm on a college football Saturday
Speaker 1: or even like a Wednesday watching NBA. What are your
Speaker 1: favorite sports books to hang out in.
Speaker 3: Bill Okay for fandom. If I'm with my friends and
Speaker 3: you know they love to hang out, you know their
Speaker 3: East Coast guys from back to back East, and they
Speaker 3: want to come into town, I'll go to a circa
Speaker 3: or West skate where they're getting experience like they've never
Speaker 3: seen before, Giant screens all around them and it's just
Speaker 3: like the Mega of the world. Now, if I'm just
Speaker 3: with one friend and I want to hang out and
Speaker 3: get some free drinks, and I'll go to the Wind
Speaker 3: because the Wind Sports book is great to me, and
Speaker 3: you know, I get drinks and stuff. But if I'm
Speaker 3: in a group, I like going to like the West Gate,
Speaker 3: I'll hit up John Murray or someone there and they'll
Speaker 3: get me into a even one of the Boots or something.
Speaker 3: They're very good to me over there at the West
Speaker 3: skate with with a group. But like I said one friend,
Speaker 3: I'm probably going to go to the Wind Veez, I'm.
Speaker 4: Going to the Wind. I love that deep boutique feeling there.
Speaker 4: But Circa I'm gonna I'm gonna Spiller. I'm gonna say
Speaker 4: Stadium swim is kind of part of the casino watching
Speaker 4: games and stay in swim. You don't need a seat,
Speaker 4: don't pay for a seat, just jump in the pool
Speaker 4: and watch the games. It is just tremendous. Caesars Palace.
Speaker 4: You know, we've Todd, Todd, Gilly and I have hung
Speaker 4: out there. Just then those recliners in the back. It's
Speaker 4: it's so dark and it's very relaxing. It so yet
Speaker 4: stations Westgate, they it's cavernous. It's they do a nice job.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And and I think stations the high end stations, Green
Speaker 4: Valley and Red Rock, and certainly South Point. I like
Speaker 4: south Point separates the race book from the sports book.
Speaker 4: That is really nice because those two groups don't always
Speaker 4: play nice together.
Speaker 1: They don't, that's right. I will also concur that Circa
Speaker 1: for those who don't know Circa's sports book, downtown casinos
Speaker 1: are I mean, resort properties are known for things Circa
Speaker 1: is known for, Like when you think of it, it's
Speaker 1: the sports book, the world's largest sports book, and of
Speaker 1: course what Steve said, stadium swim as part of that
Speaker 1: adjunct to that. And I agree with the with the
Speaker 1: Wind call. We don't usually talk about the Wind sports book,
Speaker 1: but it's like a stock Market times squarish kind of look.
Speaker 1: It's super well lit. You just feel, just like the
Speaker 1: Wind brand, that you're in the best place. Though, I
Speaker 1: will say, like another sort of hidden gem on the
Speaker 1: strip when you can't get a seat somewhere else or
Speaker 1: the other places are too smoky or whatever. I think
Speaker 1: I brought this up last year too, The Cromwell, which
Speaker 1: is right in the middle of the strip, corner of
Speaker 1: Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard, it's only about twenty seats.
Speaker 1: Like the Cosmo, it's small Cosmopolitan, but both of those
Speaker 1: books have great screens and are usually accessible. Cosmpolitan maybe
Speaker 1: not as much, but the Cromwell's kind of a hidden
Speaker 1: gem that there's all always a seat available in.
Speaker 4: You know, let me talk about the Cromwell. Also because
Speaker 4: Paris Flamingo horseshoe. These are dumps.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 4: The Cromwell used to be the Barber Coast. It is tremendous.
Speaker 4: So if you're like a seven star and you go
Speaker 4: in there, they're going to upgrade you to their suites.
Speaker 4: I've stayed there numerous times. They have a pinball machine suite.
Speaker 4: They in the book Koenix book The Sharp Money. He's
Speaker 4: like Doldale says, we got sweites and they're nice, and
Speaker 4: he says, and they're not kidding. Those are some of
Speaker 4: the best suits in the most easily accessible suites. Just
Speaker 4: book a normal room. You got some status, you're like,
Speaker 4: go to see a host. They're like, I'll give it.
Speaker 4: I'll let you upgrade for one hundred nights. Sometimes they
Speaker 4: give it to you for free.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Cromwell rooms are beautiful, absolutely not what do we
Speaker 1: think the nicest by the way. I haven't done a
Speaker 1: staycation in a while, but I used to say Palazzo
Speaker 1: had the best rooms on the strip? Is that still true?
Speaker 2: Mark Ah, They've been redesigned. It's it's honestly that's at
Speaker 2: this point there are so many nice rooms in Las
Speaker 2: Vegas that it is difficult to say that something. They're
Speaker 2: either really nice or they're not, like there's very little
Speaker 2: in between, if that makes any sense. Plots of Benetian
Speaker 2: rooms are redesigned or upgraded. MGM grand is upgrading all
Speaker 2: their rooms have already started upgrading their rooms. They're going
Speaker 2: to finish that this year. Win is still nice. I
Speaker 2: believe they're going to redo the Encore rooms this year, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, a great tip. All the Encore rooms
Speaker 2: are sweets, So if you're looking to say a WIN,
Speaker 2: you can get a much larger room if you say
Speaker 2: in the Encore Tower instead of the Win traditional tower,
Speaker 2: the original tower. Just a little tip on there. But
Speaker 2: I've always loved the Palazzo just vibe wise. It's one
Speaker 2: of my favorites. And we talk about the good restaurants.
Speaker 2: Yardbirds still one of my favorite restaurants. I go there
Speaker 2: for conferences all the time. I much rather if I'm
Speaker 2: going between Venetian plots, I'd rather spend time inside the Palazza.
Speaker 2: But you have a lot.
Speaker 4: They they what makes them outstanding the rooms is they
Speaker 4: they are a dude dual level. There's like a four
Speaker 4: step drop and there's like a gate there. So if
Speaker 4: you're staying, like with four people, it's almost like you
Speaker 4: have a separate like living area below it just maybe
Speaker 4: the same square foot but it feels bill you stay
Speaker 4: at those places, doesn't feel like so much more space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's down it is. They're all sweets, They're they're
Speaker 3: they're really nice. They absolutely are nice. You know, when
Speaker 3: I'm over there, I spend most of my time if
Speaker 3: I'm at the wind But as Mark said, the Palazzo
Speaker 3: is just such class, such great restaurants over there in general.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite steakhouses there, it's between the Venetian
Speaker 3: and the Palazzo's cut is fantastic Wolfgang Puck steakhouse. It's
Speaker 3: also a bust out joint. It's one of the most
Speaker 3: expensive steaks in town. So but but it's good.
Speaker 2: Sports book bits for you. If you want Paris itself
Speaker 2: to quote, Physick is a dump, but their sports book
Speaker 2: has been recently renovated, so it's it's way nicer than
Speaker 2: it's it's the nicest part it was. It was finished
Speaker 2: last year. It's actually been done for a while, right
Speaker 2: around March Madness, I believe, but it's super nice now.
Speaker 2: It looks very much like the Palm sports Book, which
Speaker 2: is a William Hill sports book. Similar design, much nicer
Speaker 2: than it used to be. Not the best, but but
Speaker 2: way nicer than it used to be. And connected to
Speaker 2: Paris is toport you because you know they used to
Speaker 2: be balleys. They no longer have a sports book. So
Speaker 2: that sportsbook feeds two connected hotels. Just on on that tip.
Speaker 2: Another sportsbook off the strip that nobody mentioned. That is
Speaker 2: one of my favorites, and I think a legitimate destination
Speaker 2: sports book the way circa is for people to go downtown.
Speaker 2: The Durango Sports Book with the connected sportsman lounge, restaurant
Speaker 2: and outdoor area is just a phenomenal sports betting environment.
Speaker 2: You have a traditional sports book on the inside, you've
Speaker 2: got a great sportsbook bar where you don't even have
Speaker 2: to sit in a lounge chart you could bang around
Speaker 2: video poker. They have decent pay tables there if you
Speaker 2: want to eat something, you can go right next door
Speaker 2: and get a view of the sportsbook video screens. It's
Speaker 2: an absolutely fantastic place, and I recommend if anybody's ever
Speaker 2: looking for something off the strip, it's a fantastic It's
Speaker 2: a great place to go, and it's one of my
Speaker 2: it's one of my favorite locals casinos, and I live
Speaker 2: equidistant now between Pallaestation, Red Rock and Durango. I spent
Speaker 2: most of my free time going to Durango, whether it's
Speaker 2: to eat, hang out, gamble, whatever the thing may be.
Speaker 2: A few other surprises. Some coast in Summerland recently renovated
Speaker 2: or built a brand new sports book. It's sort of
Speaker 2: theater style and it's it's reminiscent think about a smaller
Speaker 2: version of a traditional sports book like Circa or Westgate.
Speaker 2: You know, just a nice small, small but larger space
Speaker 2: and brand new screens and that that similar dark environment
Speaker 2: that I can't remember who mentioned, but I love a
Speaker 2: dark vibe on the sports book where it makes the
Speaker 2: screens feel even brighter. That's a brand new that opened
Speaker 2: last year. What do you call it? Ellis Island is
Speaker 2: building out a new sports book. So I'm not sure
Speaker 2: one that's going to be completed. I believe this summer
Speaker 2: sunset station off the strip. They just redid their sports
Speaker 2: book and Mandola Bay a couple of years ago replaced
Speaker 2: their screens, and it looks really good there. You're at
Speaker 2: Mandalay Bay and it feels the proper what's that I said,
Speaker 2: I had no idea they did either.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think a lot of people know to
Speaker 2: that know that. But it's such a dark environment there
Speaker 2: as well, and the screens look super duper bright. And
Speaker 2: one of my my favorites in this area where I
Speaker 2: live is Rambart because you know, they use the same
Speaker 2: lines as uh as South Point. But it's a nice, small,
Speaker 2: comfortable sports book with different types of seating and and
Speaker 2: plenty of room for people. And it's because you're out
Speaker 2: in the burbs, you could trick. You could generally find
Speaker 2: a seat there.
Speaker 1: See this is why I have you on because Paris
Speaker 1: is literally across the street. I had no idea that
Speaker 1: book was open, And then I had no idea Mandalay
Speaker 1: had new screens finally, because it used to be so
Speaker 1: bad in there, like the screens were so poor that
Speaker 1: you would never even think to go there. Does the
Speaker 1: does the Virgin Betfred's sports book? Is that even a thing?
Speaker 2: So Virgin is going through some major changes right now.
Speaker 2: Mohegan Sun is out his casino operator, Betfred is out
Speaker 2: his sportsbook operator. They come the owners who licensed the
Speaker 2: Virgin brand. It's not a Richard Brandton joint, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a third party license. So they're going to take
Speaker 2: over operations of the casino and sportsbook. We don't have
Speaker 2: a sportsbook operator officially announced yet. There are rumors, but
Speaker 2: I nothing that I feel comfortable sharing. So that's you
Speaker 2: know that that's a tiny, tiny sportsbook, though I think
Speaker 2: you might be able to fit fifty people in there
Speaker 2: at the most.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious that did bet Fred ever even get
Speaker 1: licensed in Nevada in the end?
Speaker 2: Well, to operate here you can be licensed, but they
Speaker 2: never got a mobile license. And interesting enough, Bally or
Speaker 2: a company called Canby who operates sports books all over
Speaker 2: the country, they just they're gonna going for approve licensure
Speaker 2: approval for retail sports betting. And what that means is
Speaker 2: that they do the sports books for Bally's. So they
Speaker 2: were going to when day launch or once they get
Speaker 2: approved they'll be ready to launch at Bally's Lake Tahoe
Speaker 2: later this year. And if Tropicana ever gets or if
Speaker 2: Bally's ever gets things together for the old Tropicana site
Speaker 2: and built a new casino, chances are they'll be the operator.
Speaker 1: Wait, I thought the old Tropicana site was supposed to
Speaker 1: be the ballpark.
Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be a ballpark, hotel, casino, retail complex.
Speaker 2: It's going to be way more than just the stadium.
Speaker 2: The stadium is the stadium is only nine and a
Speaker 2: half of the thirty five acres thirty five.
Speaker 1: It's so impossible to believe they're thirty five acres there.
Speaker 1: That's incredible to me. We'll come back to the apps
Speaker 1: here in a second. I just brief aside because I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about this. So for those who are vaguely aware
Speaker 1: of Vegas, the old iconic hard rock which we all
Speaker 1: grew up in, or I'll speak for myself, I grew
Speaker 1: up in is now virgin where the Mirage is. Right.
Speaker 1: What we knew was the Mirage, which was an iconic
Speaker 1: property which was the biggest in the early nineties. The
Speaker 1: Mirage was it in Vegas that is now going to
Speaker 1: be the new hard rock, and are we still when
Speaker 1: is that supposed to be completed? How many years from now?
Speaker 1: And also when is the ballpark supposed to being play
Speaker 1: but when is the heart? When is the hard rock
Speaker 1: supposed to be completed? And are we still going with
Speaker 1: this iconic massive blue guitar that's going to exist? Is
Speaker 1: that going to be the new strip?
Speaker 2: So the target for hard Rock opening is still twenty
Speaker 2: twenty seven. I'll believe it when I see it, because
Speaker 2: they are just getting the volcano is gone, the atrium
Speaker 2: is gone. It looks like a you know, just the
Speaker 2: framing of the property is still there. The pillars are
Speaker 2: in the ground. From what I understand, to build the
Speaker 2: guitar hotel tower. That that hotel tower will be separate
Speaker 2: but connected obviously to the rest of the property, which
Speaker 2: will which is being gutted entirely from the ground to
Speaker 2: the ceilings the stadium. They're looking at first pitch for
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight. Again, I'll believe that when I see that,
Speaker 2: because there's there's a supposed to start construction on that
Speaker 2: this year, but who knows what's going to happen there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's amazing to think that the biggest the most
Speaker 1: iconic thing on the Las Vegas Strip is going to
Speaker 1: be a big hard rock guitar one day. Hard you know,
Speaker 1: hard to imagine, but that will be the case. The
Speaker 1: renderings that thing is massive. Okay, about apps, Let's say
Speaker 1: you're coming into town March Madness, super Bowl, maybe just
Speaker 1: a random other weekend, maybe for conference tournaments, maybe for
Speaker 1: an NFL weekend, week ten, week eleven, whatever, Steven Bill,
Speaker 1: what are the apps? If people are doing this right now? Again,
Speaker 1: I preface it by saying, I don't know if my
Speaker 1: buddies are going to come in town and have the patience. Well,
Speaker 1: I know one of them will, right, There's always one
Speaker 1: guy in the group will be like, I want to
Speaker 1: do this right. I want to get as many apps
Speaker 1: as I can, and if I can fund them, great.
Speaker 1: Which apps must they download on their phone and then use?
Speaker 4: Steve, there's four of them. You need to have Circup,
Speaker 4: and you need to have Westgate because they're the two best,
Speaker 4: and they're lightning fast and they're so easy to navigate.
Speaker 4: You need to have the Win because they have the
Speaker 4: most unique good lines and the like. Although every now
Speaker 4: and then the app goes down to get to re
Speaker 4: install it, in the like, so it's a little it's
Speaker 4: not as functionally easy as a circle in the West Gate.
Speaker 4: And I'd say station. I think that would be my
Speaker 4: big four that I would go with Bill, What do
Speaker 4: you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with the on stations and when if you're
Speaker 3: looking for an extra half a point here and there
Speaker 3: on the marquee teams against the marquee teams, you'll probably
Speaker 3: find them at stations and closer to game time. Sometimes
Speaker 3: it's amazing. I really don't like the bet a lot
Speaker 3: of things game times because and just like Steve, the
Speaker 3: market's pretty efficient. But yet Steve and I find bets
Speaker 3: every single week, every single week of the NFL season,
Speaker 3: there's something to bet at ten to ten when the
Speaker 3: game's kick at ten o'clock. Because the win all gets
Speaker 3: a pit player coming in and bet two hundred thousand
Speaker 3: of a game. They want to get off a little bit,
Speaker 3: they'll offer an extra point sometimes I've seen a point
Speaker 3: all throughout these playoffs. I have seen stupid totals fifty
Speaker 3: three when it's fifty one out there by the way,
Speaker 3: that game land to fifty two. You know. Now, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of during the regular season. Also, they give
Speaker 3: you some extra things there, So I don't mean to
Speaker 3: be talking about the win. They don't pay me anything
Speaker 3: for doing it, that's for sure. But the win app stations,
Speaker 3: even though I'm not allowed to play on it, Steve's
Speaker 3: not allowed to play on it, the station's app good
Speaker 3: to have and I do love, as Mark said, absolutely
Speaker 3: love the Durango Sportsbook area there. They have the George
Speaker 3: great restaurant Howards. You could sit overlooking the entire sports book.
Speaker 3: Really open air, bright roomy, great place to also watch games.
Speaker 3: So I'll tell you the good bet about stations. They
Speaker 3: throw people out that win, but they have a lot
Speaker 3: of good things too, especially for the locals and people. Also, yes,
Speaker 3: I would have the circa. Circa went down to pick
Speaker 3: them the other day at game time on the Kansas
Speaker 3: City game. Someone came in, but they were certain tis
Speaker 3: half a million dollars five right now you can go
Speaker 3: on the app. I look just to see what it
Speaker 3: was before the show. They're taking three hundred thousand on
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. I don't know anyone in town that's
Speaker 3: taking that much money on their app. Now you can
Speaker 3: go to the counter and dump out as much money
Speaker 3: as you want at one of the big ones MGM, Caesars,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I'm sure you could do that, but we're
Speaker 3: talking apps. Circa app West Skate, I agree, and the
Speaker 3: Westgate app fantastic one o eight juice on the NFL,
Speaker 3: and you know what I do. I also have the
Speaker 3: south Point app, so south Point also has a good app,
Speaker 3: and they don't charge juice extra juice. They instead of
Speaker 3: going to minus three minus twenty, they go to three
Speaker 3: and a half, so they stay three to three and
Speaker 3: a half. It's a key sportsbook that I bet throughout
Speaker 3: the year in the NFL. And baseball lines. They have
Speaker 3: good ten cent baseball lines, which is becoming a thing
Speaker 3: of the past. So there we go.
Speaker 1: That's right, they go. They go dime lines higher than most.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of things. First of all,
Speaker 1: out of towners, you're going to get frustrated with the
Speaker 1: exception of Circo or Westgates app. You're probably going to
Speaker 1: get frustrated with the user experience with you know, MGM
Speaker 1: and Caesars. They're better than they were, but they still
Speaker 1: are or funky. I agree with you guys about stations.
Speaker 1: You actually at stations. I can only speak in tennis terms,
Speaker 1: but when you go to the counter, the lines aren't
Speaker 1: as good as the ones on the app. So there's
Speaker 1: that as well, which may surprise you. It did me,
Speaker 1: by the way. And then the other thing that I
Speaker 1: think I'm going to anticipate what Meltzer would say here
Speaker 1: is the other pain in the ass is you have
Speaker 1: to fund these all in person, correct, So that's the
Speaker 1: biggest culture shock.
Speaker 2: So for I was actually going to ask Bill and Fez,
Speaker 2: what do you guys recommend on the Vegas Strip for
Speaker 2: people who because you do have to register for the
Speaker 2: first time in person, and tourists are generally lazy, you know,
Speaker 2: they don't want to drive out to the other places,
Speaker 2: what are the apps around the Vegas Strip that you
Speaker 2: would recommend, Because for me, it would be circa because
Speaker 2: you could go to Tuscany, which is a five minute
Speaker 2: walk from Horseshoe and Cromwell, and you're going to get
Speaker 2: good lines there. However, if you want to get the Westgate,
Speaker 2: you can hop on to the monorail to get there
Speaker 2: pretty quickly, but it's going to take you fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty minutes to get there. Same with's health points. So
Speaker 2: which would you recommend for people who want the best,
Speaker 2: the best options that are near or on the Vegas Strip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, idea, what you get them all? If there's ways
Speaker 4: even with the strip, there's sneaky ways in the strip.
Speaker 4: For instance, if you're driving in from like Los Angeles,
Speaker 4: you're coming in from Henderson on I fifteen, boom, Dean
Speaker 4: Martin Drive is your friend. You exit there and it
Speaker 4: takes you right by Manlay Bay and you're little, and
Speaker 4: if you're a Pearl member, you park for free, but
Speaker 4: you still get a couple at least an hour for free.
Speaker 4: And you walk, you get whisped right into the Manley Bay.
Speaker 4: That's an MGM joint. And it's funny. There are certain
Speaker 4: properties gil that always showed a loss versus their other properties.
Speaker 4: So for Haras, like the Balis used to be the
Speaker 4: one sports book that they would always lose in because
Speaker 4: every pro that they are parking, like right next to
Speaker 4: the sports book there they called an SBX parking And
Speaker 4: may as well said parking for fees that you can
Speaker 4: just pull it and walk right in. So but the
Speaker 4: Mandalay Bay is the only MGM property I know of
Speaker 4: that I can get in and out of, even with vallet.
Speaker 4: That's that's my go to for going into MGM. I
Speaker 4: don't know about you guys.
Speaker 1: Well you walk yeah to the sports book.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you don't have to. I know with
Speaker 3: the MGM app, you can actually live in New Jersey
Speaker 3: and just as soon as you're flying to Vegas, it
Speaker 3: transfers over You don't have to even reapply or anything.
Speaker 3: So that that's a big that's a big plus. Uh,
Speaker 3: because people are lazy. Mark said it right. People when
Speaker 3: they're here, they get caught up the neon, the adrenaline.
Speaker 3: They don't want to walk around and drive around and
Speaker 3: take ubers and the mono rails to sign up for
Speaker 3: a count. You're absolutely right, that's the plan before you
Speaker 3: get here, but it doesn't happen that way. So uh.
Speaker 3: I know the MGM mapp you could just you know,
Speaker 3: it just transfers over all your information and you have
Speaker 3: it without having to go anywhere. So that's good to do.
Speaker 2: I've got some bad I got bad news on you
Speaker 2: have you still have to go to If you've never
Speaker 2: been to the Las Vegas Sportsbook for for bet MGM,
Speaker 2: you still have to go and do the first time.
Speaker 2: You have to verbally or not verbally, visually be there
Speaker 2: to make sure your wallet speaks otherwise. Yeah, just the
Speaker 2: one time. But still if you know it's five minutes,
Speaker 2: you know, I got to you know that that's a
Speaker 2: lifetime in on the Begas Strip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to speak to the secret valet for
Speaker 4: if you're a seventh star and I love it. See
Speaker 4: has a seven star valet on Flamingo Road. So you
Speaker 4: get off I fifteen, you're heading towards the boulevard gridlock.
Speaker 4: Before you hit gridlock, boom, you're between the Blaggio and Caesars.
Speaker 4: They're unflamingoed. You turn left and you're into the seven
Speaker 4: Stars valet. You hand them your keys. They only ask
Speaker 4: me for a ticket, right and you're right there by
Speaker 4: the gym. You're right there by the Augustus Tower, the
Speaker 4: VIP check in area. It is so convenient Starbucks for
Speaker 4: my free drinks and it raises your spirits. And then
Speaker 4: you walk out and they don't park you. They just
Speaker 4: leave your car right in the curb there. It's like
Speaker 4: they hand you your keys to say, oh yes, mister Fez,
Speaker 4: your car's right there. And now you're back on I fifteen.
Speaker 4: Time is money, Like Mark said, if you can get
Speaker 4: access to that that seven star is that valet parking
Speaker 4: is better than any valet anywhere.
Speaker 1: That's what I was.
Speaker 2: Going to say. On the other side of the street.
Speaker 2: The Ballet for the I believe it's in North Vallet, Bolaggio.
Speaker 2: It's a very similar toch me just hop in, hop out.
Speaker 2: It's great. Nobody knows about it. You buy the sports
Speaker 2: book there if you really do want to hit and
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to set up your quick
Speaker 2: MGM and you're driving in, it's a great way to
Speaker 2: do it because you know, and if you have status,
Speaker 2: it's no no no charge or discount of charge what
Speaker 2: however that would work.
Speaker 3: The Caesars is better because they have more spots there.
Speaker 3: They leave your car nothing a twenty dollars. By the way,
Speaker 3: I don't think that you have to be a seven
Speaker 3: star if you give them a twenty dollar bill twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: Hey guys, I'm going to make a couple of bets
Speaker 3: for twenty dollars. You're leaving your car right there. Act
Speaker 3: as if just give them the twenty they're going to
Speaker 3: leave your car right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For the people who have a car and want
Speaker 1: to get around, that parking lot is and that's a
Speaker 1: great that's a great bit of advice. You don't have
Speaker 1: to be seven stars. Just slip them the twenty. A
Speaker 1: twenty dollars bill will still get you most things in
Speaker 1: this town. Oh it's a lot of Briday night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well Friday, you're going to give them fifty. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know when you don't want When it was Pacquiao
Speaker 1: Mayweather And this is a while ago, you know, and
Speaker 1: the and the and the taxi line was one hundred deep,
Speaker 1: A twenty still did the trip. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: things we said in there that yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: thousand years ago, that's true.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Are you carrying fifties though, that's the thing. A couple
Speaker 1: of things in there. One if you have a car,
Speaker 1: Besick mentioned Stevie mentioned Dean Martin Boulevard, Dean Martin Road
Speaker 1: or whatever it's it is a it is a road
Speaker 1: that runs parallel to the strip just west of the Strip,
Speaker 1: which is really the biggest Vegas hack there is right
Speaker 1: use that you'll get places quicker than anybody you could
Speaker 1: imagine getting.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The other thing is we're talking about MGM and that
Speaker 1: particular app somebody told me Kelly Kelly Bidlin figure it
Speaker 1: out from somebody else that you might be able to
Speaker 1: bet on bed MGM using a laptop now here. They
Speaker 1: don't advertise it, but it's a possibility that you're able
Speaker 1: to do it now, which is a big development. And
Speaker 1: then the last thing I wanted to say is, also
Speaker 1: you just know this for out of towners, you could
Speaker 1: run into some frustrating things with Big One, Caesar's and MGM.
Speaker 1: My NBA draft story is perhaps you know a teaching
Speaker 1: moment for all of us, which is when you go
Speaker 1: to MGM, oh look, my MGM app has this great line,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bet it at the desk as opposed
Speaker 1: to on the app, they will oftentimes tell you it's
Speaker 1: not available here. You have to bet it on the app.
Speaker 1: So that's another reason to have your apps funded. And
Speaker 1: they can also like do the okie doke on you
Speaker 1: where they're like, yeah, just fund the app, And then
Speaker 1: when you try to bet it on the app, you're
Speaker 1: limited to a ridiculous number because of their stupid algorithm.
Speaker 1: So that becomes a whole thing super frustrating. It's not
Speaker 1: because you're you're great, right, even if it's a bet
Speaker 1: likely to lose. I like my NBA draft bet, they'll
Speaker 1: be like about thirty three bucks on the app, give
Speaker 1: me my money back. I wouldn't have put the money
Speaker 1: on the app that you induced me to go put there.
Speaker 1: I wanted to bet it here. You told me to
Speaker 1: bet it on the app, and I can't bet it
Speaker 1: amount of money that I want to. So that's one thing.
Speaker 1: Caesar's the same NBA draft spun me in front of
Speaker 1: my eyes right from a fifty to one to twenty
Speaker 1: five to one, which is super illegal or should be.
Speaker 1: But they can always lie to you, which they do
Speaker 1: and say, oh, someone must have been at across out
Speaker 1: at the exact same time. Fuckers liars, right, So there's
Speaker 1: all that exactly. So there are those moments. Just know
Speaker 1: that these things still exist in town. But hopefully you
Speaker 1: don't run into any of those things. I do want
Speaker 1: to get to restaurant before we leave. We've mentioned a
Speaker 1: bunch I would like to start, and then you guys
Speaker 1: can fill in the gaps because I have my restaurant's
Speaker 1: a choice that I would like to get to. And no,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving up the secret sushi spot. Let me
Speaker 1: just start there. But if you love sushi. Sorry, Steve,
Speaker 1: you love sushi Sen if you're willing to travel for
Speaker 1: sushi Sen in Summerland, Sen and Buddo for a little
Speaker 1: more of a high end experience, fantastic, k E, b
Speaker 1: U t O, All kinds of great sushi in this
Speaker 1: town flown in or driven in from California every day,
Speaker 1: so it is like a very top notch sushi place
Speaker 1: in this country. I put Vegas up there in the
Speaker 1: top three. As far as like the Strip itself. Meltzer
Speaker 1: mentioned Yardbird. If you like fried chicken and watermelon at
Speaker 1: Venetian always a go to Carbone at at Aria when
Speaker 1: it comes to Italian is top notch. So is Sinatra
Speaker 1: at Encore, which is fantastic. Billy and I have gone
Speaker 1: to the Italian American Club off the Strip if you
Speaker 1: want that old school feel or Piero's, there are those.
Speaker 1: There's a place in summer Land again which is like
Speaker 1: if you're real foodie, a place called I want to
Speaker 1: get this. I want to get the name right on it.
Speaker 1: It's called Anema by Edo a n I m a
Speaker 1: ed oh ed O the name of the U. The
Speaker 1: chef there am by Edo, which is fantastic. Park MGM
Speaker 1: on the Strip Bevets. When you talk about like steaks,
Speaker 1: the Vets has just great. You know. Meltzer mentioned this
Speaker 1: last year an amazing hamburger. By the way, I think
Speaker 1: the best hamburger is the Vets at Park MGM. And
Speaker 1: then downtown Oscars. Bill Ady hit me to the best
Speaker 1: burger at in downtown was at Oscars named after what's
Speaker 1: my man Oscar's last name? Meltzer? What's his last name?
Speaker 1: Thank you, brains going away. It's leaving us slowly. So
Speaker 1: there's so many places. My my favorite steak is still
Speaker 1: s w at at wyin On Andiamo at the d
Speaker 1: is fantastic. There's so many spots that I'll just throw
Speaker 1: those out and we'll circle around. Billy, what do you.
Speaker 3: Got a barriers downtown? So let's start a steak bars downtown.
Speaker 3: I had two bed sws in a row, so I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna put. I used to love s W when
Speaker 3: Mario and oh my god, there's the greatest major d's there.
Speaker 3: Mario's now in charge of Cosmo all the food. I'm
Speaker 3: not Cosmo, I'm sorry. What's the Fountain Loop? He's in
Speaker 3: charge there of all the restaurants I used to love
Speaker 3: that place, but it's still good. I'm not saying that. Listen,
Speaker 3: I told you about all my high points at the
Speaker 3: Winnow of the restaurants, I love Steak Stove, I told
Speaker 3: you guys cut I like the Venetian. I do like
Speaker 3: Peter Louver's at the Forum Show, it's actually Finn Caesar's.
Speaker 3: I've had. I've had two good meal free good meals there,
Speaker 3: one bed but I love I love that steak there,
Speaker 3: but my number one steak. I'm still going to the
Speaker 3: old Reliable. It's unbelievable that the place has been there
Speaker 3: twenty years. I'm still going even though it's a seafood place.
Speaker 3: They say Joe Stonecrab at the Forum Shops, I think
Speaker 3: it's one of the best steaks in the world with
Speaker 3: their little side season and neighboring unbelievable. Now let's go
Speaker 3: to Asian Food. Let me just tell you, big hidden
Speaker 3: gym for years now, it's out there, words out I
Speaker 3: go all the time. It's just the pain to get in.
Speaker 3: Eight eight eight Japanese Barbecue on the corner of Spring
Speaker 3: Mountain and Decatur. It's an all you can eat premium food.
Speaker 3: The premium it's a little bit more money, so premium.
Speaker 3: But by the way I said a little bit more money,
Speaker 3: people just complained it went up three bucks. It's thirty
Speaker 3: three dollars now instead of twenty nine thirty three bucks
Speaker 3: all you can eat premium. You can get even the
Speaker 3: wag doing stuff for another ten dollars, forty five dollars
Speaker 3: all you can eat. It's ridiculous quality. I'll just tell
Speaker 3: you one thing. They have never once, and I've been
Speaker 3: there a dozen times, made money on me. I have
Speaker 3: made them pay. So not that I'm going there to
Speaker 3: make them pay. It's just that good, great place. Hard
Speaker 3: to get in. You have to use their Yelp reservation system.
Speaker 3: It gets full every single night. Love that place. We
Speaker 3: have some great spots in Chinatown, some great great places
Speaker 3: all up and down Spring Mountain Road. Now pizza pizza
Speaker 3: places in town. Very I'm very tough on pizza. I'm very,
Speaker 3: very tough. You know. It's funny. I just tried a
Speaker 3: califlower pie and I was like, cauliflower, I'm not try
Speaker 3: I would never try something like that, and the East
Speaker 3: Coast scot give me, give me a break. But my
Speaker 3: buddy had it, and I was like, what is this
Speaker 3: this look how thin this crust is. It looks great.
Speaker 3: Let me try. I actually liked it. I can't believe it.
Speaker 3: That's that's over at dom DeMarco's on which which, by
Speaker 3: the way, we have all been there. Don de Marco's
Speaker 3: shout out to them. That great pie is al over there.
Speaker 3: They have some great pizza, uh, you know, trying to
Speaker 3: follow the tradition of Dom DeMarco and Brooklyn, and they
Speaker 3: have some certain pies there. But that cauliflower pizza I
Speaker 3: just had. I also like there's a pizza place right
Speaker 3: there in Chinatown. Unbelievable. It's in Chinatown. If you like
Speaker 3: that type of pie that it's called Double zero Pie.
Speaker 3: It's really popular now too, because a couple of guys
Speaker 3: gave it some high ratings. Uh, Double zero is one
Speaker 3: of the pizzas in town. I also like there's some
Speaker 3: still places. I like it on the Casino at the
Speaker 3: Casino Fountain, Blue Miami Slice. But yeah, they're bust out places.
Speaker 3: Eight bucks Slice. But however, buy a pie, you get
Speaker 3: a whole pizza for thirty six. Why would you put
Speaker 3: You know, if you're buying the slices for ten bucks,
Speaker 3: you're gonna pay a lot more so, that's some good
Speaker 3: places there. I really don't have anything else for now.
Speaker 3: I love steaks, I love pizza, I love Chinese food.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna chime back in on the Pizza place because
Speaker 1: I just want to say this, because I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever mentioned this place on the podcast. Maybe we
Speaker 1: have before. It's not on the strip. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people listening there, like I just want to
Speaker 1: play on the strip. Okay. It's a really short, really
Speaker 1: short uber drive to Noura's. Noura's on Flamingo. It is
Speaker 1: the best value of any restaurant in town. You can
Speaker 1: eat like a king there for and bring all your
Speaker 1: friends you will. You will be so happy with the
Speaker 1: price of everything. And they have my favorite single pizza
Speaker 1: in all of Las Vegas, which is the Salami Pizza.
Speaker 1: Thank me later. Salami Pizza at Nora's so good. As
Speaker 1: I'm talking about it, I'm like, how do I get
Speaker 1: there today? So oh, I'm sorry, I jumped in line again.
Speaker 4: Vez Downtown Evil Pie is pretty cool spot hole in
Speaker 4: the wall bar. They got good pizza. Good pie Downtown's good.
Speaker 4: Even Pizza Rock in Green Valley Ranch I think quite
Speaker 4: good as well on Pizza's. You know, I want to
Speaker 4: give a culinary day at Caesar's food wise, if you're
Speaker 4: staying at Caesars, I know Caesar's inside and out. You
Speaker 4: want to do breakfast at Americana Cafe. Everything is excellent there. Lunch,
Speaker 4: they have a special Peter Luger's that Bill likes. Gill
Speaker 4: not so much, but they have for forty six dollars. Now,
Speaker 4: you get the burger, you get your Caesar salad or
Speaker 4: your onion tomato salad, which is excellent. You get fries,
Speaker 4: and you get an ice cream Sunday and they make
Speaker 4: their own whipped cream and it is just outstanding.
Speaker 2: Did they give you a pillow for a nap after lunch?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get there. So, like, if you've go to dinner,
Speaker 4: never get steak for two. If you get steak for two,
Speaker 4: it's like one and a half times as much steak
Speaker 4: for one. So just get the steak for ones. If
Speaker 4: you have like four people, get three steak for ones.
Speaker 4: It'll be more than enough for everybody at dinner. Okay,
Speaker 4: you eat all that food dinner time. You go to Noble,
Speaker 4: you got your diamond card you get you can use
Speaker 4: those free drinks for the twenty five dollars old fashions
Speaker 4: or the pineapple martinis. So that's you can go to
Speaker 4: Stanton Social Prime or you can go there. Curiously, you
Speaker 4: can't go to Hell's Kitchen. They don't value it there.
Speaker 4: But at Nobu, I gotta tell you, don't go to
Speaker 4: the one in Paris or Flamingo, go to the one
Speaker 4: at Caesar's. It is just world class. To be sure
Speaker 4: to get a drink at the bar before taking the
Speaker 4: whole experience celebrity sightings there and ask them say what
Speaker 4: are you known for? Because they have like like I
Speaker 4: don't even like yellowtail like an appetizer. It's tremendous. And
Speaker 4: they have a thing called beef wagoo tacos. And if
Speaker 4: you think all beef has created the same gil, what
Speaker 4: do you think about those wagu tacos at Nobu.
Speaker 1: Fucking fantastic is what they are.
Speaker 4: They're like I think, like eighty dollars an ounce, but
Speaker 4: it's worth it.
Speaker 1: They're all Your recommendations are great, Stevie, and build Nobu
Speaker 1: at Caesar's is fantastic. Your stuff at the Wind that
Speaker 1: you said earlier, wing lay for the duck Delilah's again
Speaker 1: for a supper club experience we talked about last year.
Speaker 1: I recommend Delilah to anybody who can get in there.
Speaker 1: You got to call months in advance, though, and in
Speaker 1: the summertime they open the seating to the outdoors. You
Speaker 1: do not want outdoor seating. That's the booby prize. You
Speaker 1: want to be indoors. If you hate loud blazes though,
Speaker 1: you don't want to go there. It's very loud, but
Speaker 1: it transports you into the nineteen twenties, the Roaring twenties
Speaker 1: with the music is it is an unbelievable experience. I'll
Speaker 1: let Meltzer go. But I have one more downtown that
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned last year that needs to be mentioned.
Speaker 1: Go ahead to Mark, Mark, all right, I.
Speaker 2: Got a slew for you. My current favorite steakhouse is
Speaker 2: Don's over at Fountain Blue. There are two different steakhouses there.
Speaker 2: Don's is the traditional one on the first floor. They
Speaker 2: also have one upstairs where you can get a steak
Speaker 2: delivered like bottle service style. Very strange, but and people
Speaker 2: love it. Not just on my thing. Pappy Steak is
Speaker 2: called It's from the Fountain Blue of Miami. Carver Steak
Speaker 2: over Resorts World. Still a fan of it. John Georges,
Speaker 2: you turned me onto that years ago. Still a fan. Andiamo.
Speaker 2: You mentioned strip steak over at Mandala a Bay. They
Speaker 2: cook their steaks over wood, which gives it a different
Speaker 2: flavor than other steaks. They just redesigned the restaurant still
Speaker 2: looks great. Steaks are still good. Bavet, you mentioned that
Speaker 2: burger to dive for the steak is fine. The bacon
Speaker 2: if you are a large person that likes to eat
Speaker 2: fatty foods, the bacon there is in seen. They also
Speaker 2: have a very special cocktail menu with some special old
Speaker 2: fashions if you're into those. One other tip with Bavets.
Speaker 2: If it's if it's sold out, just walk in, go
Speaker 2: all the way to the back and look left and
Speaker 2: there's a there's a secret bar and with a few
Speaker 2: tables where you can either eat, drink, eat and or drink.
Speaker 2: So uh I guess that's also yeah.
Speaker 1: Also with the Vets, the most glutenous great bread in
Speaker 1: town as well, so they have a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: That's the bread. The bacon that Mark's talking about is
Speaker 1: like this sweet, thick bacon, like you can't even explain it.
Speaker 1: It's so good bacon.
Speaker 2: It's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: And they have the lugar.
Speaker 4: Bacon is really good, and they're the same thing with
Speaker 4: the bread. They bring out all these reds and these
Speaker 4: specialty chocolates and it just keep tip them good and
Speaker 4: and you get them to go and they'll just bring
Speaker 4: out like enough to feast on your family.
Speaker 2: Lugers is where I learned about the bacon appetizers and
Speaker 2: the bacon at Lugers. I I've only had New York
Speaker 2: and it's fantastic. I can keep going with some uh,
Speaker 2: with some a.
Speaker 1: Couple, But I want I want to say one more
Speaker 1: thing before before you, before you go on Strip Steak.
Speaker 1: The other thing I wanted to say about Strip Steak
Speaker 1: maybe i'm is it still like tons of seating. Because
Speaker 1: the great thing about Strip Steak was if it is
Speaker 1: crowded in town and there are no reservations to be
Speaker 1: had and you need a reservation that night, Strip Steak
Speaker 1: at Mandalay Bay is always the best hack for that
Speaker 1: because it's still an awesome steak. No one ever thinks
Speaker 1: about it because it's in the back of Mandalay towards
Speaker 1: the Aces Arena, and it's always comes through in a pinch,
Speaker 1: so I'll throw that in.
Speaker 2: That's a good tip, I've I've never heard that before,
Speaker 2: so thank you for that.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: More. A couple more steak places. Scotch eighty over at
Speaker 2: Palms has a very delicious rib cap bizarre bizarre meat
Speaker 2: that used that used to be a Sahara is moving
Speaker 2: over to the Venetian And while it's while it's not
Speaker 2: a steakhouse, it's a meatthouse and it's all kinds of
Speaker 2: delicious meats and I'm a big fan of that place.
Speaker 2: And it's it's one of those restaurants where the menu
Speaker 2: is so large that it's overwhelming. But if you tell
Speaker 2: the staff how much money you want to spend, they
Speaker 2: will feed you for as many courses as you can handle.
Speaker 2: I think I we said the last time I was there,
Speaker 2: we want to spend one hundred and fifty dollars per
Speaker 2: person that includes wine. We got I think seven or
Speaker 2: eight courses plus wine for the night. You know, one
Speaker 2: giants steak to share, then a bunch of little you know,
Speaker 2: shareable plates and it was a fantastic dinner.
Speaker 1: That's that's outstanding advice because just give them a price,
Speaker 1: let them bring the meat for you because you will
Speaker 1: legitimately get pissed off trying to navigate that menu by yourself.
Speaker 2: And then uh and some non uh non steakhouses because
Speaker 2: I do eat some non steak. We talk about Asian food,
Speaker 2: You guys left off one of my favorites, Ping Pang
Speaker 2: Pong over a Gold Coast still still one of the
Speaker 2: greatest values in all of Las Vegas. I when I
Speaker 2: first started visiting Las Vegas, I would stay at the
Speaker 2: Gold Coast because I could afford to stay the Gold
Speaker 2: Coast and Ping Pang Pong I just I was just
Speaker 2: there two weeks ago after McCallen tasting at the Ria,
Speaker 2: and it is still fantastic and uh surprisingly no line
Speaker 2: on the Saturday night.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Lattie Downtown is a great restaurant. I feel like Asian food.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Also staying downtown Esther's, you guys, I think gil my
Speaker 2: secret forgot that pizza off is still a great place
Speaker 2: downtown as well. One of the great things about the
Speaker 2: Esters area the Arts district. There are a ton of
Speaker 2: breweries in that area, all walkable, so you could bang
Speaker 2: out five different places to get beer and then end
Speaker 2: up at Ester's, which getting a reservation there might be
Speaker 2: a little bit difficult, but there's but there's a bar
Speaker 2: you could sit at if you just want to grab
Speaker 2: some delicious food. We messed you.
Speaker 1: Ester's expanded into a bigger space, so it lost a
Speaker 1: little of its charm. But the food and I always recommendze,
Speaker 1: like just go there and get the spaghetti. That's it.
Speaker 1: Don't go grageous spaghetti, and the and the bread there
Speaker 1: is awesome too if you're in.
Speaker 3: I was just last week. Place is great. Place is great.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I need to find out their right name. But the
Speaker 2: chef there also has a restaurant in my neck of town,
Speaker 2: Summer Lane called Solo El Policieto I believe, or a
Speaker 2: police do well Solo. It's over Tivoli Village. It's delicious
Speaker 2: and it's Italian food and super nice guy. I met
Speaker 2: him at once when I was eating at the bar there,
Speaker 2: and it's an excellent off strip restaurant. If you look
Speaker 2: at for Italian food. We mentioned Bevett's Burger, the Tavern
Speaker 2: Burger over at Found Blue. We were talking about the
Speaker 2: video poker bar. The burger there is actually solid and
Speaker 2: they have my favorite local beer, Atomic Duck from Abel
Speaker 2: Baker Brewing, which don't see it everything. I'm glad that
Speaker 2: Bill mentioned Miami Slice because I the slice there was
Speaker 2: so good, Honey, it it just bothers me. Is in
Speaker 2: New York gonna pay nine dollars for a damp slice
Speaker 2: of pizza. But like Bill said, if you buy the
Speaker 2: pie you can, you'll save a few bucks and probably
Speaker 2: a smarter way to go. Yardbird over at Venetian is
Speaker 2: still one of my favorites. Jalao at Cosmo it's a
Speaker 2: it's always good, and they have Sangria hour. We can
Speaker 2: get discounted sangria and they have some meg you know.
Speaker 2: I love Hilo, the little Papa's Bravas, the little potatoes there,
Speaker 2: the little mini burger, everything there is Delights said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we we have to get back to. Uh the overlookd
Speaker 2: Grill a Cosmopolitan for the breakfast burrito there one of
Speaker 2: the best.
Speaker 1: Uh So, when the pool is open at the Cosmopolitan,
Speaker 1: they have this overlooked grill that's open next to it,
Speaker 1: and the burrito there is not the burrito that's indoors.
Speaker 1: The burrito is not the same one as the one
Speaker 1: that's indoors at what's the name of that place? The
Speaker 1: Henry Henry, the much better burrito. But what's the biggest
Speaker 1: thing about the Overlook Grill, though, is you tell me
Speaker 1: I go there for the breedo you Jacamo.
Speaker 2: When you and Todd looked at that table side preparation
Speaker 2: for the GUACAMOLEA, you might have tiered a little bit.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Neither I nor Todd I wish never
Speaker 1: do like like love GUACAMOLEA. We're not guacamole people. But
Speaker 1: this one is so good good. You talked as Stevie
Speaker 1: you were talking about earlier about how like you think
Speaker 1: about certain things after the fact. I wait for the
Speaker 1: AOL to reopen just so I can go back and
Speaker 1: have that look so good.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Mark, I was gonna keep going down my list.
Speaker 2: I got a handful, okay, didn't Typhong over at over
Speaker 2: at the Aria, very very expensive but delicious. And if
Speaker 2: I'm going to paint and what's your food, I want
Speaker 2: it to be delicious. And that's what Miami Slice and
Speaker 2: did In Typhong have in common. You can find cheaper
Speaker 2: places off the strip, but if you're on the strip
Speaker 2: and you want delicious soup dumplings, I don't think there's
Speaker 2: a better option leaving the strip to a crack, said Hobak.
Speaker 2: Korean barbecue over in Chinatown. Fantastic and a great price
Speaker 2: as well. The one you mentioned, I believe you said
Speaker 2: eight to eight is also a good one if you're
Speaker 2: looking for a good value over at the Cosmopolitan Bees
Speaker 2: that you can get a you can get some chicken tenders,
Speaker 2: a chicken sandwich, a side, and uh and that'll cost
Speaker 2: you under twenty bucks, which in Vegas parlance, finding a
Speaker 2: meal for under twenty bucks is few and far between,
Speaker 2: so that's always a favorite of mine. A couple of
Speaker 2: new restaurants, Gordon Ramsey Burger just opened over Flamingo and
Speaker 2: another vander Pump restaurant just opened at Flamingo the property.
Speaker 2: The Gordon Ramsey Burger is all in front, it's in
Speaker 2: the strip frontage, and the Kiss the Flamingo is almost
Speaker 2: unrecognizable in that part of in that part of the property.
Speaker 2: I'm not a fan of the Vanderhump food, but the
Speaker 2: places are beautiful. If you're a fan of hers.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put the kebash on two restaurants, avoid them
Speaker 4: at all costs. Vander Pump and mister chall and here's
Speaker 4: why you go to these places and you order, Like
Speaker 4: my wife said, I'd like to get a filet, but
Speaker 4: I don't want I just want to play it. Can't
Speaker 4: do it, Gotta put the chef's special sauce on us,
Speaker 4: you know what. F you guys can't can't give me,
Speaker 4: can't give my wife a playfully you know what? Then
Speaker 4: then I will never come back. It's like these places
Speaker 4: that that the chef thinks he's bigger than you and
Speaker 4: you gotta have it his way or the highway. Well
Speaker 4: it'll be the highway, sir, No, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeahs, mister Chows is the one right above Peter Lugers, Yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a similar experience. It was discussed. I was like,
Speaker 1: this is I'll never I don't know why we ended
Speaker 1: up there. I'll never go back. I just have to
Speaker 1: say this about like staying places, because we want to
Speaker 1: say the bad stuff too. I was at the airport
Speaker 1: heading back to San Francisco the other day and uh
Speaker 1: Persa was messing with my coffee bean order. The guy
Speaker 1: observed like they were getting they were getting annoyed, like
Speaker 1: the employees were getting annoyed when it was completely their fault.
Speaker 1: Were getting, you know, putting themselves in the situation to
Speaker 1: get annoyed. And he goes, this is nothing. He goes,
Speaker 1: whether you hear this story, I just got bed bugs
Speaker 1: over at the Flamingo and they acted like I'm the asshole.
Speaker 1: So don't stay at the Flamingo either, if I may
Speaker 1: say that as well. You want to flirt with that
Speaker 1: kind of thing.
Speaker 4: Hey, we've been to so there is about food and
Speaker 4: how what you mentioned. Don't be stuck outside like at Delilah's.
Speaker 4: But where you want to be outside when the weather
Speaker 4: gets better. I got to tell you I have become
Speaker 4: a huge believer in these rooftop lounges, the old Voodoo Lounge,
Speaker 4: the Ghost Bar by the Pomps. But now that Legacy
Speaker 4: Club downtown, I would argue when they have the fireworks
Speaker 4: on Friday night during the summer. If there is a
Speaker 4: bucket list of one thing you should do when you're
Speaker 4: in the summertime in Vegas, it's to go to Circa's
Speaker 4: Legacy Club at dusk.
Speaker 1: Stevie loves the Legacy Club. That's it, that's his spot.
Speaker 1: Didn't used to go and I goes there all the time. No,
Speaker 1: it's great. Absolutely, Mark was that the list.
Speaker 2: The bar there by the way, at the Legacy Club,
Speaker 2: you can order half shots for if you're a bourbon
Speaker 2: fan and pay half the price and sample many, many
Speaker 2: different ones if you're a fan of whiskey bourbon scotches.
Speaker 2: So I did that once and it was one of
Speaker 2: the most phenomenal times. But the outside part is beautiful
Speaker 2: if you're just looking for a hang.
Speaker 1: Last thing I want to mention because we used to
Speaker 1: you know, I always talk about when we were younger,
Speaker 1: we did hold nightclub reviews and then Ace would come
Speaker 1: on here and he gives hacks for the strip club crowd.
Speaker 1: We were, Oh, we were so young. But now, like
Speaker 1: you know, even like shows. I used to go to shows.
Speaker 1: Now the only one I can ever recommend is Absent
Speaker 1: because I haven't been to a show in town since,
Speaker 1: like pre pandemic. I don't know if any of you
Speaker 1: all go to shows. You know. The one thing that
Speaker 1: I do want to say about about Vegas is, and
Speaker 1: I'll say this every year, the best part about living
Speaker 1: here has nothing to do with sports, because believe me,
Speaker 1: there's better places than Las Vegas just depend on sports
Speaker 1: in Nevada. But it's the music. If you are a
Speaker 1: fan of music. I always say this when I have
Speaker 1: been bigger. He's like San Francisco or DC, if there
Speaker 1: was you know, if it's in your strike zone of
Speaker 1: what you like musically, you'll go see it. But if
Speaker 1: it's a little bit out of that, the schlep is
Speaker 1: such that you're like, eh, again, I'm not going because
Speaker 1: it's too much of a pain to go see so
Speaker 1: and so act you know, wherever. But in Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: the proximity of everything is the greatest part of all
Speaker 1: of it, So it's nothing right. I always say Bruno
Speaker 1: mar is the best show in town. If you live
Speaker 1: here long enough you see it multiple times, I would
Speaker 1: always recommend it. It's very expensive, but he's the you know,
Speaker 1: he's the Michael Jackson of this era. But beyond right,
Speaker 1: I always say, it's like, you know, Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: really love Maroon five, but if Maroon five is right
Speaker 1: next door at Mandalay Bay, right, or if Lady Gaga's
Speaker 1: right next door at Park MGM, or you pick your artist,
Speaker 1: I'll go see everybody because it's so interesting to expand
Speaker 1: your musical horizons like that. So to me, that is
Speaker 1: still the greatest and you brought up the Palms earlier.
Speaker 1: My act like Tony Tony, Tony, Raphael Sadiq babyface the
Speaker 1: fact that they're all at the Palms. I'm there all
Speaker 1: the time watching those shows when i can. But even
Speaker 1: like this, like there's a weekend in March where I'm
Speaker 1: going out of town, I'm like, oh damn, Jeffrey Osborne
Speaker 1: is at the Orleans. I'm serious, I'm so bummed about it. Right,
Speaker 1: but every if you come to Vegas, my advice would
Speaker 1: be just check to see what concerts are in town
Speaker 1: that weekend because you will be a.
Speaker 3: Mad excellent excellent Sphere.
Speaker 4: The Sphere is such a world class venue. It's so unique.
Speaker 4: You'd go there just to see the venue. And the
Speaker 4: Eagles are there. It's fantastic. A quick review. I did
Speaker 4: see Absence and it is outstanding.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: The one thing that sets that aparts very adult show,
Speaker 4: there's like almost twice as many half naked men then
Speaker 4: there certainly are half naked women. So just throwing that
Speaker 4: out there, that that was I found that little. You know,
Speaker 4: the traditional vaudeville, you know, burlesque show in Vegas has
Speaker 4: has the women and so your wife will probably like it.
Speaker 1: A lot this. I'm so glad you brought up the
Speaker 1: sphere because that would have been ridiculous of us not
Speaker 1: to bring up the sphere. I never went to see
Speaker 1: you two because I'm not a YouTube fan, but I'm
Speaker 1: not also not an Eagles fan. But we finally went
Speaker 1: to go see the Eagles, me and my my friends
Speaker 1: Randy and Stacey. We went to see the Eagles, and
Speaker 1: You're right, man, just for the visuals alone, I thought
Speaker 1: they kind of like, I almost felt like the Eagles said,
Speaker 1: you know, they almost like shot their load the first
Speaker 1: half of the concert with the visuals because I think,
Speaker 1: like I can he almost hear Don Henley being like
Speaker 1: they should focus on us the next half of the show, right,
Speaker 1: But visually it was unbelievable. I'm also recommended also.
Speaker 2: A lot of money to do the production for that,
Speaker 2: so like you two had some songs where they had
Speaker 2: no production on it less so to pay attention to
Speaker 2: them more so, probably because they couldn't afford to where
Speaker 2: they didn't want to spend the money on it, because
Speaker 2: even though they're making bank on all the shows, that
Speaker 2: the production costs on here are kind of insane.
Speaker 1: The only recommendation and is don't get seats under the
Speaker 1: overhang on the first floor. Those are the only bad
Speaker 1: seats where you can't see everything other than that, like
Speaker 1: even at the top, which, by the way, if you're
Speaker 1: scared of heights, it takes you a second to be like, whoa,
Speaker 1: this is steep as all get out. But those are
Speaker 1: great seats as well because you get to see you know,
Speaker 1: the the scope of the visual. But all that is great.
Speaker 1: So that'd be my last piece of advice. We forget
Speaker 1: anything anything else. No, So it's one.
Speaker 2: I publish a list of shows happening in the month,
Speaker 2: so in a couple of days you'll get everything, all
Speaker 2: the big shows, all the residencies happening uh in the
Speaker 2: for the month, so everything from Sticks at the Venetian
Speaker 2: to anym or Anima I'm not even sure how to
Speaker 2: say it. The music is boring to me Anima over
Speaker 2: at the sphere. So you can catch you can catch
Speaker 2: a list of everything and make plans that way if
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 3: Mark singing, what's sticks this weekend? You know, I honestly
Speaker 3: they were getting back. I heard they were getting back
Speaker 3: for a couple of shows, and I just didn't know
Speaker 3: if that was part of this weekend. He has the
Speaker 3: greatest voice. So I I do love that theater there.
Speaker 3: And I didn't know if the if dennisseem was coming
Speaker 3: back with Sticks or not.
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know. And it it does look
Speaker 2: like on the Venetian page that he's a member here,
Speaker 2: so I will so, but honestly, it doesn't there's no
Speaker 2: like specific listing for it.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, you can make the.
Speaker 2: Top ten songs.
Speaker 3: Which one is.
Speaker 4: It? Sticks? Is renegade?
Speaker 3: Right you know?
Speaker 4: Oh mom? And fear for my life?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, from the law.
Speaker 4: By the way, I want to be a renegade and
Speaker 4: get it still. Eat cheap, go up, up and down
Speaker 4: the Boulder Highway and get a two fifty shrimp cocktail
Speaker 4: on the skyline. And like I said, you can stop
Speaker 4: at the Pass Casino and on Water Street use your
Speaker 4: player's card. You didn't get like a ten dollars prime
Speaker 4: ribbed denderds quite good?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, No, he's right, take your life in
Speaker 3: your hands. But it's okay, that's right.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta cheap death, you gotta cheat death.
Speaker 1: But other than that, it's a great recommendation.
Speaker 2: For bargain anything for a bargain.
Speaker 1: That's a great call on sticks by the way, that's
Speaker 1: a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: Michael McDonald's here with the Doobie Brothers. Sure I'll go
Speaker 1: check that out. Before Walter Becker died with Steely Dan,
Speaker 1: I was like, sure, I'll go see that. He had
Speaker 1: a colostomy bag like while he's performing. So Styx is
Speaker 1: a great example of like a band I'd never go
Speaker 1: see them, but it's like, oh, they're all back together.
Speaker 1: Sure it's right down the street. Why not?
Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Bill Krackenberger's at Bill Crackman with a K. You know,
Speaker 1: his podcast is Wise Cracks And of course every Thursday
Speaker 1: he's on with me on a numbers game for our
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Speaker 1: am Pacific. Bill and I never talked beforehand about what
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