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Speaker 1: y to May and are starting our new theme month
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Speaker 1: it's it's hard to talk about gambling right now, but
Speaker 1: we will anyway. So we are doing a whole month
Speaker 1: on gambling casinos Vegas and other gambling cities. And I
Speaker 1: feel like we're going to talk about a lot about
Speaker 1: the American dream this month, ye like much like Spring
Speaker 1: Break month. Also, I just feel like we might solve
Speaker 1: the conundrum of the American dream over the next five weeks.
Speaker 1: So just you know, be ready for You're welcome. My
Speaker 1: father always says that Las Vegas should be the capital
Speaker 1: of the United States of America. Oh yeah, no, I Um,
Speaker 1: I was telling you guys, I went through a phase
Speaker 1: of being wanting to be a kind of like self
Speaker 1: taught scholar of Vegas history because I was trying to
Speaker 1: write something about Vegas when I was in college. And um,
Speaker 1: I think there's a book by a former l a
Speaker 1: weekly columnis who's name I'm totally blanking on, but it's
Speaker 1: called the Most Honest City in the world. And uh,
Speaker 1: because it's the only one that doesn't lie about what
Speaker 1: it insane crock America is it just it's all out
Speaker 1: there on the surface. That's why it's the capital. Yep Um.
Speaker 1: There's some really good Las Vegas books. There's a book
Speaker 1: called The Green Felt Junk All that's like an original
Speaker 1: like forties or fifties, like on the floor it must
Speaker 1: be whenever Las Vegas was was actually founded, but it's
Speaker 1: a in the casinos. In the world of casinos, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas was founded long before the fifties. Yeah, Las Vegas
Speaker 1: was a little like you know, watering town for it's insane.
Speaker 1: The origins of Vegas World, We'll we'll get into that
Speaker 1: more later. We're going to do a whole episode about
Speaker 1: a Vegas specific episode, History of Vegas episode. But I
Speaker 1: have a quick gambling question for you guys as we
Speaker 1: begin our journey. What is the most you have ever
Speaker 1: lost or one gamble? Oh no, not that much. It
Speaker 1: always I mean, I've never had that much money to
Speaker 1: put down Camblane. Yes, And if I have money, I
Speaker 1: like to hold onto it. I have a very strict
Speaker 1: twenty limit with gambling that I have observed. Always after
Speaker 1: I had a U I watched a friend go and
Speaker 1: have like a whole gambling addiction over the course of
Speaker 1: twenty four hours in a casino. Yeah, it was just
Speaker 1: really I was like, okay, twenty dollar limit for the
Speaker 1: rest of my life. But I did win two bucks once.
Speaker 1: I won like three fifty ones at Morongo Casinos, which
Speaker 1: was like very exciting for me. But I think I
Speaker 1: lost the most actually the most recent time I gambled,
Speaker 1: which was in Atlantic City with the Blank Check Boys,
Speaker 1: and I mean I was maybe just It was also
Speaker 1: the first time I live I did live poker um,
Speaker 1: which will definitely get into this week more, but uh it.
Speaker 1: And there was something about the extra high of that
Speaker 1: that I think just inspired me to just keep pouring
Speaker 1: money into because I was like, this is fun, this
Speaker 1: is fun. I'm every fun. And then it was like,
Speaker 1: oh ship, I've lost like two order bucks um, which
Speaker 1: is like against such small potatoes for like big time gamblers.
Speaker 1: I'm sure everybody's like rolling their eyes at us who
Speaker 1: gamble at all, but like for me, that was a
Speaker 1: lot of funny. Um. I really want to play pachinko.
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be, um the thing that
Speaker 1: would make me give all my money away to a
Speaker 1: machine because I love pinball, sure, and when I don't
Speaker 1: love that, like I would rather give all my quarters
Speaker 1: to a pinball machine and then pay for the experience
Speaker 1: of playing pinball then just for a slot machine, because
Speaker 1: it's like not that fun to do a slot machine.
Speaker 1: The last time I went to Las Vegas, I definitely
Speaker 1: lost the most I ever have, but it was probably
Speaker 1: still about like a hundred bucks, maybe like sixty bucks
Speaker 1: on one game of poker because I was like betting
Speaker 1: only really low stakes things. Was that I was doing
Speaker 1: the whole time, and what I've always done is just
Speaker 1: like the really cheap slots, and so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do one expensive game. I like watch the
Speaker 1: blackjack table for a while and I was like, uh,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just go do a machine. So I did
Speaker 1: like an expensive poker machine and just lost immediately. Machines
Speaker 1: it's just like no bad vibes. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they just like use bad luck for me. That The
Speaker 1: thing is also like being a gambler, even if you're
Speaker 1: not superstitious, will bring out your inner superstitious freak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was trying to like lean into it. More because
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm in Las Vegas, I should like
Speaker 1: gamble and have a drink because I'm not a big drinker,
Speaker 1: you know. So I got a tequila Sunrise and it
Speaker 1: was amazing and uh yeah, but then I was like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel good to lose money. It is not fun.
Speaker 1: It's not fun at all. Money. Do you guys have
Speaker 1: favorite games or I like black jack? Black Jack is
Speaker 1: like the perfect length for my attention span. Yeah, pokers
Speaker 1: too long. I I won the two fifty dollars on
Speaker 1: it was like a single slot game. It was like,
Speaker 1: you know, just within five minutes at the slots. And
Speaker 1: then I was like I love slots, and I was like,
Speaker 1: don't press my luck. But um as for gambling at home,
Speaker 1: which one can do now, maybe should not. But I
Speaker 1: got in the habit of getting either like a regular
Speaker 1: lottery ticket or a scratcher, Like I limit myself to
Speaker 1: one a week, but I still feel like so gross
Speaker 1: about it. Somehow remember this coming out at one point
Speaker 1: and I was just like, oh, we have to talk
Speaker 1: about this. I had a brief brief scratchers period for
Speaker 1: like one summer where I only get one at a time,
Speaker 1: and I only get one a week, but it still
Speaker 1: feels really like yucky somehow. But I remember when I
Speaker 1: was a kid, for my birthday, my grandmother and aunt
Speaker 1: would give me like five scratchers, and I would just
Speaker 1: sit down and be like, wow, it's so crazy. They're
Speaker 1: either giving you zero dollars or they're giving you like
Speaker 1: millions of dollars, and usually they give you just enough
Speaker 1: to buy another ticket. This is my experience. If you'd
Speaker 1: buy like a three dollar ticket, you're gonna win it,
Speaker 1: usually at least three dollars on it, and it's just
Speaker 1: like do you want to go in and do it?
Speaker 1: You're just going to get another one? Like my kid
Speaker 1: and his friend I got a scratcher that I was
Speaker 1: I told them that they could like have the money
Speaker 1: from and I think it was like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like twenty five bucks or something, and they donated it
Speaker 1: to charity, and then I felt so bad. I was like, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: but like now I have to give you that money also,
Speaker 1: like I'm matching you, because that's not in the spirit
Speaker 1: of a scratcher. If you're supposed to pour it back
Speaker 1: into the game, no good causes forget it. Um. I
Speaker 1: had a really quick thing to mention though that I
Speaker 1: thought was super interesting and we don't have to get
Speaker 1: into it that much. But um, it's just very bizarre
Speaker 1: that there is a restless leg syndrome and parkinson Parkinson's
Speaker 1: medication called Rickquip. And then there's a few others that
Speaker 1: have different brand names, UM their dopamine agon is, and
Speaker 1: they actually can cause compulsive gambling disorders. It's a side
Speaker 1: effect of the drug. UM, So there have been My
Speaker 1: mom actually brought it to my attention. I was like,
Speaker 1: we're doing gambling month and she was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: have to just mention because if you look into it,
Speaker 1: it's super crazy. It's like an overnight shift when you
Speaker 1: start taking the medication. These people be um, super addicted
Speaker 1: to gambling. And then there was one woman who I
Speaker 1: read about she stopped and then a week later was like,
Speaker 1: I can't believe I was ever gambling. What the fuck? Um?
Speaker 1: And it works because there it's basically like the dopamine receptor,
Speaker 1: I think it's called the D three receptor causes like
Speaker 1: motor problems like tremors um and it also is like
Speaker 1: a dopamine center, so the dopamine agones can inhibit the
Speaker 1: tremors by mimicking dopamine in the brain, but they're like
Speaker 1: fiddling with the D three receptor, which is also the
Speaker 1: reward system, so they make it a much more intensely
Speaker 1: pleasurable experience. Um, when you're winning it gambling, if you're
Speaker 1: having great sex, if you're eating delicious food or whatever,
Speaker 1: so you become like physically incapable of quitting what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Why isn't this like a big black market drug? Like
Speaker 1: why aren't the kids doing this? I know they aren't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it sounds like such a sci fi movie president
Speaker 1: at a premise, like it's a drug that just makes
Speaker 1: everything that already feels good feel even better because everybody's
Speaker 1: just like worn out their pleasure receptors and and just
Speaker 1: eats more and more and more. Um. Well, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: also a great screenplay idea, somebody free idea. I just
Speaker 1: gave one atom, always given out free ideas. There's something
Speaker 1: sort of like this in a series of cyberpunk novels
Speaker 1: that are fake authored by William Shatner. Oh my God,
Speaker 1: that I looked up recently because there was a joke
Speaker 1: about them on The Simpsons on an old Simpsons What
Speaker 1: are they called Tech War is a science fiction novel
Speaker 1: written by William Shatner and uncredited science fiction author Ron Goulart.
Speaker 1: It was first published by G. P. Putnam Sons in October.
Speaker 1: It has nine in the series, spawning a comic book
Speaker 1: and TV series, video game, in a TV movie. It's
Speaker 1: called tech War, and tech is spelled t e K,
Speaker 1: and tech is the drug spice in the Dune universe.
Speaker 1: It's like and it's set in the twenty second century.
Speaker 1: A former cop who is framed for dealing tech. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: YOI okay, will Ever in the mood. Yeah, it just thought.
Speaker 1: I thought something about the like fiftieth generation photocopied version
Speaker 1: of a cyberpunk novel was funny. I think the thing
Speaker 1: about the dopamine and the thing about you know, test
Speaker 1: your friend who kind of went through an entire arc
Speaker 1: over you know, twenty four hours at a at a casino.
Speaker 1: There is some way in which gambling just feels like
Speaker 1: this microcosm again of just like the experience of living
Speaker 1: in capitalism. It's like a way to do it all once, uh,
Speaker 1: in a really intense way and in a short amount
Speaker 1: of time, like do do the It's it's capitalism concentrate um,
Speaker 1: and and the fact that it is uh, you know,
Speaker 1: completely arbitrary and um, it doesn't really have anything. It's
Speaker 1: it's not a meritocracy. I gambling is not necessarily a meritocracy.
Speaker 1: There's some skill involved in some games, but not not overall.
Speaker 1: And uh and yet people still will pour their lives
Speaker 1: into it and often destroy their lives um because it
Speaker 1: still feels like there's still this like kind of hope
Speaker 1: and optimism at the base of every Every chance is
Speaker 1: another chance to make back that money and more, which
Speaker 1: is also yeah, what capitalism is all about. Draw your
Speaker 1: money away, it'll come back to you. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's also it can be. It's the kind of thing
Speaker 1: where it's like if people are along for the ride
Speaker 1: and then someone gets really sucked in and starts to
Speaker 1: show obvious signs of like struggling within it, it's a
Speaker 1: very weird thing to see, how like you try to
Speaker 1: take people along for the ride. And we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about that later when we talk about California split. But
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like this kind of thing where you
Speaker 1: want to experience it with someone but by nature, like
Speaker 1: this is an experience where you're going to be in
Speaker 1: opposite emotional places. At least, it's not a like collective experience,
Speaker 1: I guess in the way that you would hope it
Speaker 1: would be. Um. Yeah, with my friend, she was walking
Speaker 1: around at one point like whispering to like, you know,
Speaker 1: the superstition and the kind of like feeling like you're
Speaker 1: communing with like the whole casino. It was just really
Speaker 1: scary to see. Uh, I don't know. It haunts me still.
Speaker 1: And also I just also watched that Simpsons episode where
Speaker 1: Marge becomes a gambling addict where they open a casino
Speaker 1: and Marge goes through the whole cycle of gambling addiction.
Speaker 1: Great episode, great March episode. Well should we take a
Speaker 1: night call. Let's just do it. We got a bunch
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Speaker 1: your vagus conspiracies. UH, give us everything you got about, uh,
Speaker 1: the wonderful world of losing money for sport, for fun
Speaker 1: and pleasure. We're going to take a quick break and
Speaker 1: when we come back, we're going to take a night call.
Speaker 1: So you gonna take this call from Haze. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's do it, and I'd call this.
Speaker 1: I just signed up for the Patreon I saw that
Speaker 1: you were doing gambling episode. This is a very quick
Speaker 1: gambling story. I used to work at a job where
Speaker 1: we would get cut really early every day for some reason. Uh,
Speaker 1: usually around like one or two pm, and like three
Speaker 1: times a week, a lot of people from the job
Speaker 1: and I would go to uh Commerce Casino because the
Speaker 1: traffic was light in the afternoon. This is the big
Speaker 1: casino by the to held the huge outlet mall down
Speaker 1: the five in Commerce obviously UH. And every time we went,
Speaker 1: maybe almost every time, but like pretty much every time
Speaker 1: we went, Kato Kalin was there. That's all. I love
Speaker 1: this night call. Thank you, great call from his friend
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Speaker 1: UM Commerce Casino is the bleakest and that is why
Speaker 1: it is the truest casino. Have you been? No? But
Speaker 1: I love it. But how do you know you love it?
Speaker 1: Because everyone I know who goes there, like only has
Speaker 1: incredibly dark stories about it um and it was a
Speaker 1: major plot point on True Detective season two. Right. Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: of course I'm obsessed with like the City of Commerce
Speaker 1: in the City of Industry because their names are the
Speaker 1: fucking City of Commerce and Industry. Yeah, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: obsessed at the Citadel. Yeah. I just heard a news
Speaker 1: story yesterday about how they are reopening the Citadels. Such
Speaker 1: a bad idea. Do you guys have a favorite Southern
Speaker 1: California Greater Los Angeles area casino or because I have
Speaker 1: never really been to any other than Morongo, which I've
Speaker 1: been to multiple times. Um. I ate at the restaurant
Speaker 1: at the top of Morongo when I won that money there,
Speaker 1: because I was like, what high rollers, We're gonna get
Speaker 1: us stake at Morongo Casino. No, I mean not really.
Speaker 1: I've done more video gambling in New Orleans where they
Speaker 1: have it everywhere, but I haven't been to the Hustler casino.
Speaker 1: I have not been to Hollywood Circle. I would love
Speaker 1: to go to Hollywood Park. I used to work by
Speaker 1: Hollywood Park and my coworkers and I we kind of
Speaker 1: had a similar thing where we got off work early
Speaker 1: because we were on this East Coast time schedule. So
Speaker 1: we would always be off at like three, and it
Speaker 1: was always this idea like We're going to go to
Speaker 1: the racetrack one of these days, and then never did it.
Speaker 1: I would still like to go. Yeah, I love Hollywood
Speaker 1: Park again, just like as a place that there were
Speaker 1: ads for that. I was like, oh, seems glamorous not
Speaker 1: to be a horrible person in a skuld but I
Speaker 1: mean not, I'm I'm being a good person, but I'm
Speaker 1: being a horrible skuld. Well yeah, as a friend of ponies,
Speaker 1: I can't deal with the racing like I can. I cannot.
Speaker 1: It makes me It's it just feels like it's so
Speaker 1: cruel and like unnecessed. And I keep being like, couldn't
Speaker 1: we have as much fun with like a snail race
Speaker 1: and they just crawling? Can't we can't we just like
Speaker 1: invertebrates and like maybe also we take better care of that.
Speaker 1: There's a turtle race and Marvista exactly. The turtle race
Speaker 1: is horrible. Yeah, I know, turtle race all animal racist
Speaker 1: that like, listen, we I think we need to maybe
Speaker 1: have like a like a may Back music type tag
Speaker 1: over all of rambling gamble in June. That's like this
Speaker 1: ship is evil. Like everything we're talking about is evil.
Speaker 1: Uh except scratchers. Uh yeah, I mean sure they fund
Speaker 1: our schools or whatever, but that shouldn't be that is autem.
Speaker 1: It's all the trap. I think. Also, Hollywood Park is
Speaker 1: one of those things where, like the idea of it
Speaker 1: was fun, but I'm sure if we had gone there,
Speaker 1: we would have been like, this is so depressing. Totally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the thing. We'll talk about this more
Speaker 1: later later in the California split section of the episode.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of a lot of gambling,
Speaker 1: even even if you're in some places in Vegas, but
Speaker 1: like especially if you're gambling outside of like a resort town,
Speaker 1: the veil comes down pretty quickly and you see it
Speaker 1: for what it is, and you know, but you see
Speaker 1: it for what it is if you're not addicted to gambling,
Speaker 1: you know, like if you're outside of that bubble, then
Speaker 1: the depressing factor becomes apparent pretty quickly. Like if you're
Speaker 1: on a reservation casino in Washington State or something like that's,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a different scene. It's not going to
Speaker 1: Vegas with your girlfriends and having fun and playing slots
Speaker 1: and getting free drinks. It's like a very different vibe. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of that, we actually have a night call about
Speaker 1: a pretty bummer of a trip that someone took to
Speaker 1: the Silver Legacy Casino. Should we take that? Yes, my
Speaker 1: name's Utah. I've never listened to your podcasts. I just
Speaker 1: kind of stumbled into Twitter drunk in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night a couple of months ago and somehow came
Speaker 1: across this. But my story is basically that a friend
Speaker 1: of mine who lives in Oakland, UM, came down to
Speaker 1: l A. And we drove from l A to Wyoming
Speaker 1: and on the way spent the night and we know
Speaker 1: and stay at the Silver Legacy Casino, in which I've
Speaker 1: gone back too since then. And it's just the most
Speaker 1: horrible casino you've ever seen in your life. The middle
Speaker 1: of it is a gigantic like Neon electrified oil rig
Speaker 1: that is the most terrifying thing you've ever seen. On
Speaker 1: top of it was just completely dead the way you
Speaker 1: want a horrible casino to be. Uh. And we spent
Speaker 1: all night gambling getting wasted, uh, and then woke up
Speaker 1: the next day, um, and we're walking out of the
Speaker 1: hotel with our bags that are you know, of course
Speaker 1: filled the drugs because we're on our way to go
Speaker 1: see a once in a lifetime it clicks in Wyoming, Um,
Speaker 1: and it happens to be the day that Trump is
Speaker 1: having a rally or something in Reno, and there's two
Speaker 1: cops just posted up by the elevators. When you come
Speaker 1: out of your room with drug dogs, I guess you're
Speaker 1: looking for bombs, probably not really looking for drugs. But
Speaker 1: we were so hungover and paranoid that we both walked
Speaker 1: out of there like we were two by fours or something,
Speaker 1: just so stiff. Uh. And then we got out and
Speaker 1: I just remember like completely having one of those hangover
Speaker 1: panic attacks, trying to drive the car out of Reno
Speaker 1: and just like feeling the weight of Reno creeping up
Speaker 1: on me. Uh. Needs to say it was It was
Speaker 1: a good time. I don't have any any more details
Speaker 1: about the Silver Legacy because it was kind of a
Speaker 1: blur and it was only that one night. Um. But
Speaker 1: the eclipse was amazing. It was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: trips I've taken. And I guess I'm gonna listen to
Speaker 1: your podcast tonight. All right, thanks a lot by what
Speaker 1: a ride? D you tah? You listen to our podcast?
Speaker 1: We love you clearly. That was one of the best
Speaker 1: calls we've ever gotten. Yeah. I I heard that call
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm going to force them to
Speaker 1: listen to this call, whether they because he there were
Speaker 1: a couple versions. One of them had more details, but
Speaker 1: the they you know you talk kept getting cut off,
Speaker 1: So this was the one that he he suggested. I used, Uh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: isn't that like pretty much gambling in a nutshell? Like
Speaker 1: all of that is a feeling that's so easily identifiable
Speaker 1: with Yeah, I mean, like I think that there's this
Speaker 1: thing that's like like because of fear and loathing and
Speaker 1: stuff and Hunter as Thompson, where it's just like, oh,
Speaker 1: if you go and you like are having a weird
Speaker 1: paranoid feeling where you feel like you're the outsider, weirdo
Speaker 1: and in the gambling town and the cops are all
Speaker 1: after you and they're going to find your drugs or
Speaker 1: whatever that you're like doing some sort of all version
Speaker 1: of it. But like, no, it's like the universal feeling
Speaker 1: of PS and Yeah, it's like everybody knows that I'm
Speaker 1: a bad person and I'm going to get arrested for
Speaker 1: something I don't even know what it is. I found
Speaker 1: out at some point that the reason Hunter S. Thompson
Speaker 1: was in Las Vegas other than just because it's like
Speaker 1: the one place you can get a magazine to pay
Speaker 1: to send you because casinos will calm things for them,
Speaker 1: is that they were paranoid because he was going with
Speaker 1: Oscar Zeta Acosta who was covering the Chicano Moratorium in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and thought he was being wire tapped by
Speaker 1: the l A p D. Because he probably was, and uh,
Speaker 1: Hunters Thompson was writing something about it for Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: but was like, let's go to Las Vegas. I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to cover this car race. We can go to Vegas
Speaker 1: and then they won't be tapping us in our hotel room.
Speaker 1: So that's why they went in the first place. So
Speaker 1: it's like they were paranoid for a super legitimate reason
Speaker 1: and also free trip out of town. It's funny to
Speaker 1: think that there was a time you could like stop
Speaker 1: being tracked if you just stopped answering your phone at
Speaker 1: home on your landline. Oh my god, um, now I
Speaker 1: I love I love this call. Also because it speaks
Speaker 1: to the weird. Um, there's some sort of suspension of
Speaker 1: politics that happens in a casino, and then when it does,
Speaker 1: weird's head. It feels like getting splashed in the face
Speaker 1: with cold water and like you could be, you know,
Speaker 1: just getting wasted and gambling some shitty casino and rino
Speaker 1: and then realize, like everybody y're around is like a
Speaker 1: Trump supporter. You're like, oh god, it's very body snatchers. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've had that happen a couple of
Speaker 1: times in Florida, where I was like having an amazing
Speaker 1: time in Florida and then I just like looked around
Speaker 1: at some bumper stickers and got totally freaked out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see that, you put on the glasses. But as
Speaker 1: you said, like you see that in Los Angeles too. Everywhere.
Speaker 1: Also when you when you start to go to like
Speaker 1: San Diego, which you're like, my neighbor is San Diego
Speaker 1: the neighbor of l A. And then you're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like surrounded by people whose views I found disgusting
Speaker 1: and horror. No, Southern California has a bad energy, yeah,
Speaker 1: but so does America. So America. I've never been to
Speaker 1: Atlantic City, but I've always super wanted to go, and
Speaker 1: everyone's like why would you want to go? It's so depressing,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, that's why I want to go.
Speaker 1: It just seems really interesting. Yeah, it's like the first
Speaker 1: Las Vegas that was then abandoned when they invented second
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Yeah, it's uh. I didn't even really see
Speaker 1: Atlantic City when I went there because we were staying
Speaker 1: at the Borgata, which is like the nice place in
Speaker 1: Atlantic City. But it's like the nice place because it's
Speaker 1: really far from the boardwalk, Like you have to get
Speaker 1: in a car to go to the boardwalk, which is
Speaker 1: like what I would want to see if I went there. Um,
Speaker 1: And everybody in our in our group was just like,
Speaker 1: it's not really worth it. Let's just not go. And
Speaker 1: I was like, I'd like to see it though, but
Speaker 1: I think that I think it's just not fun. From
Speaker 1: from what I understand, you're like as part of my
Speaker 1: Boardwalk Empire completionist sightseeing toy. I'm like a super fan. Definitely.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember at the Emmys when they saying
Speaker 1: get Nucky when they get Lucky parody that was about
Speaker 1: Nuckie from My God Nuckie Thompson just flashing back to
Speaker 1: the before world just to get Nu Nucky did it
Speaker 1: all for the neck. One of those times my soul
Speaker 1: left my body and I was like, this is what
Speaker 1: prestige television is. This is a little bit like the Casino.
Speaker 1: It's like at its heart, it's still a little bit
Speaker 1: of like Michigan Jay Frog. All TV as Michigan Jay Frog.
Speaker 1: All the celebrities are Michigan Jay Frog. Now they're all
Speaker 1: just like, look at me, love me, because they're all
Speaker 1: trapped in their homes and they're like starved for attention.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to do anything. Like the Inner
Speaker 1: Theater kid comes out. Um oy, Yeah, we're all doing
Speaker 1: our own Vegas residencies from home. Now. Um well, we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a break real quick, and when we come back,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about California Split. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Night Call. We are kicking off Rambling Gambling June with
Speaker 1: what I apparently, according to Wikipedia, is considered one of
Speaker 1: the greatest gambling movies of all time. I had. I
Speaker 1: just thought it was like a good movie. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that it was so revered in that way. In fact,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even available to watch for so long, so
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a Little Hidden But anyway, rambling gambling,
Speaker 1: California Split, then I need somebody for Robert Almond movie.
Speaker 1: We all watched it this week. It's below of I
Speaker 1: feel like it's having kind of a resurgence recently. I
Speaker 1: think because it's on maybe because it's on Amazon. Now
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know about such things. Um, I watched a
Speaker 1: bootleg because it felt in the spirit. Have you guys
Speaker 1: seen it before? Yeah, yeah, I've actually seen this one
Speaker 1: a lot of times. Um. They showed at the New
Speaker 1: Beverley a lot. So yeah, there's a print that's that
Speaker 1: floats around l A. I saw it. Um. I saw
Speaker 1: it at Sinnaspia actually like a long time ago, like
Speaker 1: thirteen years ago or something like it was like two
Speaker 1: thousand seven or something. And I think that was the
Speaker 1: time when they you couldn't really get it. It didn't
Speaker 1: exists on DVD or what you know. I guess it
Speaker 1: was still DVD era, so it was kind of hard
Speaker 1: to see. And you know, I've been like I've all
Speaker 1: been fans since high school basically, so I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen this one, and this was like one
Speaker 1: of the rare opportunities to see it and Um. I
Speaker 1: loved it, and it kind of kicked off my obsession
Speaker 1: with Elliott Gould. Um And I warned, I warned tests
Speaker 1: in Molly, I'm gonna be like extremely horny on me
Speaker 1: and talking about cold. Molly is a Gould fan as well. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought that was just the basic normal human response
Speaker 1: to Elliott Gold was sorry, guys, but then we found
Speaker 1: out that tests we do not have a quorum, but
Speaker 1: that makes it more fun to talk about. I was
Speaker 1: more confused because I was like, oh, you're a George
Speaker 1: Siegel lady, and you were like both of them. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: my main issue with Elliot Gold is that his his
Speaker 1: reputation precedes him, and his reputation is that he's a dick,
Speaker 1: and so it it. I had that in my head
Speaker 1: from like before I had ever seen a movie he
Speaker 1: was in and had to have great prejudice against him. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's you know, he just has that energy where
Speaker 1: you're like, he's just gonna talk over you, which is
Speaker 1: probably accentuated by the A track. Uh yeah, where I'm
Speaker 1: just like I don't think i'd get a word in edgewise,
Speaker 1: and he does a lot of tangents, Like right before
Speaker 1: we recorded. I read all of these interviews with him,
Speaker 1: and almost every interviewer is like, so well, yott cool,
Speaker 1: like pretty difficult to interview because he just like likes
Speaker 1: to do a lot of like non sequiturs and long
Speaker 1: kind of okay again, like a dream interview. Though. I
Speaker 1: feel like if somebody who keeps talking and I'm like yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, tests I am your friend, but you're not.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe I'm like a little bit of misinterest
Speaker 1: about this. I love the talkie talkiness. It's so it's
Speaker 1: so endearing to me. I find it like so charming.
Speaker 1: There's a Debritannin book that that she's a linguist that
Speaker 1: came out where she talked about how the over talking
Speaker 1: in the New York Jewish culture, uh, but also like
Speaker 1: a lot of ethnic cultures. It's like it's not rude,
Speaker 1: it's signals comfort. It signals that you're comfortable enough around
Speaker 1: each other to just sort of talk over each other
Speaker 1: and know that everyone's listening. Yeah, yeah, how I justify
Speaker 1: it to myself anyway, when I'm talking over all of
Speaker 1: you all of the time, I would I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: if I were myself an over talker. I I feel
Speaker 1: like bound by the rules of waiting my turn polite.
Speaker 1: Others would disagree, but I feel like it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a like macho, like yammering energy that I'm so
Speaker 1: not into, but not much. It's the seventies like neuroses macho,
Speaker 1: if it's any kind of macho, which is just like
Speaker 1: I am a jangling bunch of nerves and I have
Speaker 1: to keep talking or else I'm going to implode, which
Speaker 1: I feel like is like both charming to me and
Speaker 1: also very I feel very sympathetic to it, so I'm
Speaker 1: just like, oh, you're kind of like me. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: this is the fight club thing again. I'm just like,
Speaker 1: I only relate to these characters. I don't in any
Speaker 1: way I think of them as like, like dudes. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, it's us, it's it's you. Well, I wish
Speaker 1: I could identify with George Siegel. Having Elliott Gould does
Speaker 1: not not an option for myself, but he's too depressing,
Speaker 1: and I find his He makes insincere expressions with his face,
Speaker 1: otherwise known as acting. I guess, but like I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't have anyone to cling to,
Speaker 1: so I decided to attach myself to Ann Prentice is
Speaker 1: character Barbara, which, as I think Elliott Gould points out,
Speaker 1: or maybe it's George's eagle. There are so many Barbaras
Speaker 1: in this movie. She's one Barbara. Everyone's named Barbara. Um.
Speaker 1: She's so great too, She's awesome. The sister of Paul
Speaker 1: Paul Apprentice. I was like, wait, we're in where the
Speaker 1: boys are, and then I was like, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: Paula Prentiss younger sister. But they have the same face.
Speaker 1: I love that whole subplot with the girls, um, who
Speaker 1: are sex workers of some kind, um, seemingly going on
Speaker 1: dinner dates with dudes, um, because again it's like it's
Speaker 1: treated very respectfully in a way that you wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: expect from this movie. It's like, don't know, everyone's so
Speaker 1: so interesting, everyone's multidimensional wells. I haven't seen Nashville. Um,
Speaker 1: Nashville is going to be next up in my Altmand
Speaker 1: Journey of Its Worth it. Do you like any Altman movies?
Speaker 1: You know? I really didn't like mccab and Mrs Miller,
Speaker 1: and I kind of clocked out after that. Really you
Speaker 1: don't like McCabe and Mrs Miller, I know, and I
Speaker 1: don't really talk about it because that's what everyone says,
Speaker 1: but I don't. There was also it was very trendy
Speaker 1: to like all the seventies, all movies in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and in the two thousands, which is also I think
Speaker 1: why they were showing California Split all the time, because
Speaker 1: because there was a big vogue for The Long Goodbye,
Speaker 1: which is a great movie. I first watched that with
Speaker 1: Possible overrated that movie. Yeah, but I also think Altman.
Speaker 1: Altman is one of my favorite directors for sure, because yeah,
Speaker 1: he can do any genre in a way that's interesting.
Speaker 1: And yeah, if you don't like the over talking in
Speaker 1: the eight track, it might not be that. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: hrack thing is so it's so funny to have because
Speaker 1: this is the first movie to use it that wasn't
Speaker 1: a cinema scope movie. Because they created that technology that
Speaker 1: surround sound technology for cinema scope and then they're like, well,
Speaker 1: we could also just do it for like a non spectacle.
Speaker 1: I wrote a paper about it in college. Mavie sound
Speaker 1: design of this movie, because I think it is like
Speaker 1: the best sound design movie. I brought up Uncut Gems
Speaker 1: because I think Uncut Gems is another gambling movie that
Speaker 1: used the sound design really well to sort of convey
Speaker 1: that just like never never a moment of downtime in
Speaker 1: that in your brain. I listened to it on headphones
Speaker 1: this time, and it was a great experience. I listened
Speaker 1: to it on these headphones that I weared right now
Speaker 1: because I also had to like kind of do some chores,
Speaker 1: so I had it up on the kitchen counter while
Speaker 1: I have my headphones on, and it was like I
Speaker 1: could just feel that I could feel myself in a
Speaker 1: smoky bar even as I was washing dishes, like um, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the extras are all really interesting looking people, real
Speaker 1: looking people. So I think it's funny that most Vegas
Speaker 1: movies are glamorous. Most gambling movies tend to be glamorous.
Speaker 1: Uh maybe also because they get free, you know, the
Speaker 1: ability to shoot in casinos if they make the casinos
Speaker 1: look cool and fun. But most yeah, most casino movies
Speaker 1: are like propaganda for casinos and for trips to places
Speaker 1: where you can gamble, and they aren't. Aren't all the
Speaker 1: extras I'm sorry to interp but aren't all the extras
Speaker 1: in this movie or or a large portion of them
Speaker 1: from a gambling addiction support groups synanon or signing on
Speaker 1: s Y and Yeah, I thought, I mean that was great,
Speaker 1: like in terms of like the texture of just like
Speaker 1: you know, having these like faces being featured like there.
Speaker 1: I really did like enjoy this movie more than I
Speaker 1: thought I would. It's just that I didn't want to
Speaker 1: hook up with either protagonists. Let's just make clear, because
Speaker 1: I do. I mean it's visually it's like so beautiful.
Speaker 1: The over talking is more just like you're also not
Speaker 1: as spontaneous, like like gambling trip kind of person. I
Speaker 1: feel like that's like your worst nightmare, spontaneous anything to
Speaker 1: be honest with. Once we're done, once we have a vaccine,
Speaker 1: Please anybody to invite me on a spontaneous gambling trip.
Speaker 1: I'm almost always down. Emily and I had a really
Speaker 1: good time in Las Vegas that wasn't even spontaneous. That
Speaker 1: was that was planned, like above the board trip to
Speaker 1: Vegas I've ever taken in my life. Like, but I
Speaker 1: think I do think about it often about like when
Speaker 1: the party bus pulled up and your friend had got
Speaker 1: it in this party bus that you loved now the
Speaker 1: joy of a child, Yeah, I had I had fun.
Speaker 1: When I went to Vegas. I view it through the
Speaker 1: lens of like maybe it was darker than I was
Speaker 1: aware of while I was there. Really hated it the
Speaker 1: first time I went, because I was a kid. We
Speaker 1: went for a Grateful Dead concert, um, and it was
Speaker 1: an outdoor concert and it was just like absurdly hot.
Speaker 1: It was like a hundred and fifteen degrees the whole time,
Speaker 1: you know, So I was like, why would anyone come here?
Speaker 1: And I couldn't go in any of the casinos or anything.
Speaker 1: We stayed at like a kind of regular, non themed one,
Speaker 1: and I think my parents attitude just kind of rubbed
Speaker 1: off on me of like Vegas is not cool, you know. Um.
Speaker 1: But then I went back for the Avian Awards and
Speaker 1: fell in love, I guess. I. I also, I really
Speaker 1: don't like the drugs that you take to enjoy Vegas.
Speaker 1: I like, I don't think we should talk about learning
Speaker 1: from Las Vegas at some point, which is the book
Speaker 1: written by an architect couple that was like the first
Speaker 1: scholarly book about Las Vegas and sort of like putting
Speaker 1: it up front that every building is just a big advertisement. Sure.
Speaker 1: Back to the movie Real Cook, I kind wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about it, and uh, and like the gambling Buddy
Speaker 1: Buddy movie in general, because like Fight Club and other
Speaker 1: films we discussed, it's like such a it's such a
Speaker 1: male romance in such an almost explicit way, and like
Speaker 1: even in the beginning of this film, it's they're they're
Speaker 1: even like joking about it, like they're just like when
Speaker 1: they're rubbing shaving, they can create on each other's chest,
Speaker 1: and it's like it's like very sweet. It's not it's
Speaker 1: not like no homo at all, just like so we
Speaker 1: have to take care of each other. And seventies and
Speaker 1: eighties buddy comedies, even when they do have gay panic stuff,
Speaker 1: it's just like such a far cry from the Hangover,
Speaker 1: you know, like every two thousand's movie was just male
Speaker 1: gay panic I feel like, and none of it aged
Speaker 1: well at all at this age so well because it's
Speaker 1: so tender, and it reminded me of like in planes, trains,
Speaker 1: and automobiles when they wake up cuddling each other and
Speaker 1: it's like they don't play it immediately for disgust. It's
Speaker 1: like they they commit to cuddling each other, which is
Speaker 1: what makes it funny and good. There's just this tension
Speaker 1: I think. I also recently watched Mississippi Grind, the the
Speaker 1: Boden inflect film with its uh another one of my crushes,
Speaker 1: Ben Mendelssohn and Ryan Reynolds. The best cast Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 1: performance ever. Not a Ryan Reynolds fan, but Ryan Reynolds
Speaker 1: basically plays the Elliott Gold character in it, and he's
Speaker 1: like kind of the slimy con man guy who's just
Speaker 1: like playing the most depressing casinos in the Midwest. Umld
Speaker 1: is good at playing villains. Yeah, he's actually like he's
Speaker 1: amazing and adventure land when we played. When he lets
Speaker 1: himself play sleazy and not be the good guy, I
Speaker 1: feel like he can be very good, very good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would recommend watching it. It's also got
Speaker 1: that energy and and that kind of that first act
Speaker 1: thing in a Buddy gambling movie where because of the world,
Speaker 1: because of the milieu and the kind of scuzziness of it,
Speaker 1: there's this like kind of huge suspense over like can
Speaker 1: I trust this person? This person is being nice to
Speaker 1: me and like wants to spend time with me and
Speaker 1: seems excited to be around me, And is this just
Speaker 1: because they like me or like are they going to
Speaker 1: stab me in the parking lot? And and then when
Speaker 1: it ends up being like, no, we really have this
Speaker 1: connection in this bond, then it's just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like it's the most important thing in the world. And
Speaker 1: that's as much of a high I think in a
Speaker 1: good kind of gambling movie, like the relationships are just
Speaker 1: as much of the high as the gambling, and buddy
Speaker 1: comedies are probably like the best romance as we get,
Speaker 1: you know, in American movies, right, because romances are weird.
Speaker 1: I think it's also a great because, like like I
Speaker 1: was saying earlier, you know, I do think that gambling
Speaker 1: is the kind of thing where like any kind of
Speaker 1: connection you have with someone is going to be transitory,
Speaker 1: Like it's not you can't really like be in the
Speaker 1: same emotional state as someone else in a game of chance.
Speaker 1: So so having when you buddy up with somebody it's
Speaker 1: kind of inevitably going to fall apart, which is something
Speaker 1: that happens in this movie. And you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of thrilling because it's like a law of affair
Speaker 1: that you know is going to end. I like shared madness. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I was talking about this on summer. My
Speaker 1: other summer house Quarantine, because I'm watching melrose Place, which
Speaker 1: deals a lot in like two crazy people getting together
Speaker 1: and then just like planning something. And I'm always like, oh,
Speaker 1: what could be more romantic? Natural born killers? You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why lose your mind on your own? You can lose
Speaker 1: it with somebody who loves and it's just like us
Speaker 1: against the world. Um, you're reinforcing each other's craziness. That's
Speaker 1: the most romantic thing is reinforcing each other's craziness, being
Speaker 1: like they don't understand but I do. Yeah. And then
Speaker 1: there's and and then because you're like you're playing with
Speaker 1: such a kind of unpredictable set of psyches and uh psychology,
Speaker 1: psychological realities, it's like then you have that beat like
Speaker 1: when um, when Elliot Gould leaves and disappears and then
Speaker 1: comes back from from Mexico and George Chagall is like
Speaker 1: so mad because it's like the fight club thing. It's like,
Speaker 1: why did you do something without me? Like we are friends?
Speaker 1: We are are yeah, and the and the reason why
Speaker 1: is because Elliott Gould had a dream and George's character
Speaker 1: wasn't in it, so he thought he would jinx him
Speaker 1: which I mean, that's like one of the best little
Speaker 1: subtle turns in a relationship is just that moment where
Speaker 1: where he's like, I can't have you in the room,
Speaker 1: like when they're when they're in Reno and they're playing
Speaker 1: the Big Game and George Chagall is like, I can't
Speaker 1: have you in the room here, and just that little
Speaker 1: it's not a big emotional statement or anything. It's just like,
Speaker 1: I think you should leave. And then that's sort of
Speaker 1: this the schism, this like you know, that can't be
Speaker 1: mended because you can't have the high highs without the
Speaker 1: low lows. You get you get the high, the high,
Speaker 1: the super crazy like all of your dopamine flooding out
Speaker 1: at once um in exchange for something which is like
Speaker 1: feeling like a complete garbage person after that, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: everyone forgets there's that part in the like I feel
Speaker 1: like the sentiment that that reigns over the whole film
Speaker 1: is like I think I forget who's at the I
Speaker 1: think it's when jer skills at the bar and there's
Speaker 1: like the sex worker that's at the bar who's just
Speaker 1: like being a real pill and annoying everybody there. And
Speaker 1: then you know, eventually just starts talking to herself. It's
Speaker 1: just like, what am I doing here? That's just like
Speaker 1: how everybody in the movie feels. It's just like what
Speaker 1: what were do you in here? Like come on? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you feel like the movie could zoom in on any
Speaker 1: of these people and tell an interesting story about them,
Speaker 1: which is like that Sopranos quality where you're just like,
Speaker 1: this whole world is so interesting that anyone in this
Speaker 1: world would be an interesting movie to me. The one
Speaker 1: thing I still don't quite understand from it, and it
Speaker 1: feels like the the one like kind of capital P
Speaker 1: problematic part of this film is the whole thing with
Speaker 1: the women and their friend who's like the cross stresser. Yeah, Helen,
Speaker 1: what was that it was? It's a very confusing scene
Speaker 1: because there's not that much set up and you are
Speaker 1: kind of dropped into the middle of it. They are
Speaker 1: sex workers and he's paying them to pretend he's a woman.
Speaker 1: Oh is that? And that's yeah? Oh I did not.
Speaker 1: That's what kind of never gathered this. That's what's so
Speaker 1: sweet about it. And then when they break in as
Speaker 1: the cops, they pretend that they just think he's like
Speaker 1: an older woman and and he's so happy that he's
Speaker 1: passing right. It's actually like I just love that whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, what's up with you? You know
Speaker 1: you beautiful older lady, like so wonderful where Yeah you
Speaker 1: smell Shalimar? Is that Shalimar? Like? I love it? And
Speaker 1: she yeah? And the and the cross Chester doesn't realize
Speaker 1: that that is that they're not real cops. But it
Speaker 1: does like break up the party so they can hang
Speaker 1: out with them, so everybody wins. That is great. I
Speaker 1: I was very because it's my first time seeing it too.
Speaker 1: I was like, how am I supposed to feel about this?
Speaker 1: Like there's a number of possible like ways that this
Speaker 1: could be presented, And I like missed a line of
Speaker 1: dialogue and was like, what is it bad? It's accepting? Yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, I mean I didn't get like a hateful
Speaker 1: vibe from it, just like what's happening here? It just
Speaker 1: seems strange. Yeah. But I think also this movie has
Speaker 1: it's not a downer ending as much as you would expect.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like they do end up breaking up,
Speaker 1: that's like the downer, but they had to bring in
Speaker 1: a bunch of money before they break up, kind of
Speaker 1: like the eclipse story. You're like, oh, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: to see the eclipse at the end, and it was
Speaker 1: all you got, the hot streak you were dreaming of
Speaker 1: And you can't keep following this guy around. Take your
Speaker 1: thousand dollars and go home. And the memories, the sweet
Speaker 1: memories you always have Reno. My friend Jamie grew up
Speaker 1: in Reno, and it's definitely going to leave us a call.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll even have her on to talk about Reno.
Speaker 1: But never been to Reno. Oh, it's fascinating. She worked
Speaker 1: in a casino before she was old enough to drink
Speaker 1: because they employ all the local teens to work at
Speaker 1: the casines. This is this is the thing I was
Speaker 1: gonna the thing I was working on writing in college
Speaker 1: was like about what like, you know, teen teen waitressistant stuff.
Speaker 1: I like working at casino in high school and just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, we hope everybody checks out. Californy to Split
Speaker 1: Great Great Quarantine viewing. Highly recommend it. Go on an
Speaker 1: almond binge. I think it's good. I think it's good
Speaker 1: lockdown viewing. And it's ah nothing, nothing hits too hard
Speaker 1: with the Almond. It's kind of like a nice vibe
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