Speaker 1: Check it down Man Now Down Now, Tuesday morning, January
Speaker 1: twenty two, twenty nineteen. It is the Beating the Book podcast,
Speaker 1: but not just any Beating the Book podcast. It is
Speaker 1: the one that you've all been waiting for. And I
Speaker 1: say that kind of bitter sweetly, because you know, bust
Speaker 1: my ass preparing for all the sports ones throughout the
Speaker 1: calendar year. But this is the one that everybody talks about.
Speaker 1: It's the eighth annual, the eighth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast,
Speaker 1: A man's Guide to send City. It's the same crew
Speaker 1: from every year. We talk about all kinds of things
Speaker 1: in Vegas for your trip that you're planning to since city,
Speaker 1: sports books, reviews, restaurants, steakhouses specifically, and then of course
Speaker 1: at all crescendos into Aces moment where he talks about
Speaker 1: the underbelly of Las Vegas, but not just talk about
Speaker 1: gives you act sittable underbelly information, So we look forward
Speaker 1: to that as always. Marco to Edgelo from Wage of
Speaker 1: Talk is here Aces here out of the sports betting diaspora,
Speaker 1: and our guest every year on this show. He writes
Speaker 1: the Edge Vegas blog. You can find him on a
Speaker 1: variety of Vegas websites Meltzer like Seltzer, Mark Meltzer. Good morning, Mark,
Speaker 1: Good morning, How are you man? Thanks for doing this again.
Speaker 1: I am very very well. I have a another large
Speaker 1: cup of coffee next to me. I'm ready to roll
Speaker 1: where they'll learn some things from Ace. Yes, we all are, Marco.
Speaker 1: You ready to do this. People want to know the
Speaker 1: opinion of a former butcher. I'm ready. I'm ready. Alright, Ace,
Speaker 1: you're the man that obviously this all false to at
Speaker 1: the end. Yeah, thats just all all this uh anticipation.
Speaker 1: I don't want anyone disappointed. I mean, they could need
Speaker 1: to go back and listen to the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of actionable knowledge, and I know, you know,
Speaker 1: as far as tricking, it's unevolving sport of changes with
Speaker 1: the times. But still there's the all the folks still
Speaker 1: actionable today. And what I'm going to discuss today is
Speaker 1: more of what a culture shift that I'm seeing that
Speaker 1: I'm not very happy about. And I just want to
Speaker 1: want to take care of the fellas so they don't
Speaker 1: fall into some traps. So okay, well, that's very kind
Speaker 1: of you. It's a public service in past years just
Speaker 1: to let people know, please don't forward through the rest
Speaker 1: of this podcast against this. But in past years, Ace
Speaker 1: has told us about sort of the value plays with
Speaker 1: your adult entertainment. He's told us how to get over
Speaker 1: on cabbies, which is always nice. And then last year,
Speaker 1: what was that depraved ship you were talking about last year?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't even want to about how you
Speaker 1: could take advantage of it being a buyer's market now
Speaker 1: with all the freelances out there. I mean, dude, you
Speaker 1: could get such great deals. There's I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: many young ladies that are just looking for school books
Speaker 1: or stuff like that. The respect at all, it's mutually beneficial,
Speaker 1: well for both parties. I mean, I believe that you
Speaker 1: have a lot of selection out there. I'm sorry I
Speaker 1: brought it up. Yeah, last year we learned not to
Speaker 1: fall for the GF is what my takeaway was. Oh, No,
Speaker 1: that that this year is is a deep dive into that.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what we're gonna talk about. The GFE. Of course,
Speaker 1: for everybody, everybody knows obviously g f E s the
Speaker 1: answer for the girlfriend experience. Yeah, and and honestly, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a small discussion about that. Because of what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, I'm not very happy and angry. Ace brings
Speaker 1: them to a segment today. All right, let's start though
Speaker 1: with sports books. Actually, even before we get to that mark,
Speaker 1: we always start with you people who want to come
Speaker 1: into town for either the super Bowl or March Madness. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is the first year where we've done this show
Speaker 1: where legalization has happened, So there are other options in
Speaker 1: other jurisdictions, right Mississippi, New Jersey on down the line,
Speaker 1: there's still nothing like Vegas. And if they're coming to
Speaker 1: Vegas a bunch of buddies, let's say, from around the country,
Speaker 1: what do they have to know about planning for those events?
Speaker 1: Where is it too late already It's definitely not too late.
Speaker 1: And just to address sort of the national picture, it
Speaker 1: seems like people are still excited to come to Las
Speaker 1: Vegas for like their annual trip during the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and during March Budness. Sure, there's gonna be people staying
Speaker 1: in New Jersey and Mississippi and other places where you
Speaker 1: can gamble, but people are still taking at a large
Speaker 1: majority of people are still taking that annual trip because
Speaker 1: it's a broch trip. You know, it's a good time
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. Like you said, large groups
Speaker 1: where you're gonna go. So some of the some of
Speaker 1: the better free that are not getting the free parties
Speaker 1: that are not guaranteed entry are off the strip. You
Speaker 1: have the South Point Um. They throw my favorite you know,
Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby party, the same massive ballroom. They have banquet tables,
Speaker 1: betting stations, cheap drinks, cheap beats um. In downtown Las
Speaker 1: Vegas you have the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center. It's
Speaker 1: sort of an indoor outdoor thing depending on how they
Speaker 1: have a configured for the super Bowl, but it's also
Speaker 1: free general emission. You could also pay to reserve tables
Speaker 1: and quote unquote man caves with couches and such. And
Speaker 1: then you of course off the strip. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite places to play a little bingo in Vegas is
Speaker 1: the Gold Coast. They also set up a free party
Speaker 1: so um. And of course the Westgate with the Super
Speaker 1: Book is great place to watch the game. But they
Speaker 1: also have the International Theater. They have a party from
Speaker 1: a great Italian restaurant Cosa. I can't remember the last
Speaker 1: name of it. It's a very Italian place. Me you
Speaker 1: and Marco right there Cosa. I can't remember the last
Speaker 1: name of it. Glad you did your research for this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I always forget the name of Casada More for some reason.
Speaker 1: But it's a great party. It's almost two hundred dollars now,
Speaker 1: but you get a guaranteed seat and fantastic Italian food.
Speaker 1: UM for some paid parties. Basically every restaurant has a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl party, so you're gonna end up spending anywhere
Speaker 1: from seventy five dollars a hundred of fifty dollars if
Speaker 1: you're on a Vega strip. Uh that I think stand out.
Speaker 1: Carmines and Virgils have all you can eat food for
Speaker 1: eighty five dollars for five hours. If you need booze
Speaker 1: on top of that, you can get it for a
Speaker 1: hundred of fifty UM. Carmines Italian food family style. Virgils
Speaker 1: is a sort of an East Coast chain of a
Speaker 1: of a barbecue restaurant, not a specific type of barbecue,
Speaker 1: just sort of a little mismatch of every kind of
Speaker 1: barbecue they can get around the country. One of the
Speaker 1: more unique Super Bowl parties I've seen is over a
Speaker 1: broken bowl, where you can obviously bowl um and watch
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, So that's kind of fun to me.
Speaker 1: That's gonna cost a lot of money, and you know,
Speaker 1: sports books are my favorite place to watch huge events
Speaker 1: like this. However, because Vegas is so crowded, some of
Speaker 1: the books are charging to reserve seats. Like Caesar's Palace,
Speaker 1: for example, you could sit in the hallway behind the
Speaker 1: bar for a hundred and nine dollars. It's an awful
Speaker 1: you but you know, if you're there after the game
Speaker 1: and had the seats, you could watch people line up
Speaker 1: to go into omnia, which is a whole other issue.
Speaker 1: But expensive seats to v I P seats at the
Speaker 1: book there are close to a thousand dollars um. God,
Speaker 1: the normal seats that you get that you could just
Speaker 1: our first come, first served are being held for a
Speaker 1: few hundred dollars down. So you know, if you want
Speaker 1: to get into the sports books, you've got to get
Speaker 1: there a few hours early and make sure that you're
Speaker 1: playing staying at a place. We're going to a sports
Speaker 1: book that doesn't actually sell all their seats, and they're
Speaker 1: still plenty of those around West Gate we mentioned obviously,
Speaker 1: Demage has plenty of first come, first served seating and
Speaker 1: other places are often on the Strip, South Point Book
Speaker 1: you could get into and everywhere that I mentioned with
Speaker 1: the free parties, Gold Coast and uh Golden Nugget, the
Speaker 1: d you know, pretty much anywhere you go you can
Speaker 1: still get a free thing. And it seems like people
Speaker 1: are also looking forward to March Madness to sort of
Speaker 1: touch on that, but we're still a little ways away.
Speaker 1: I think the PR people want to get as many
Speaker 1: people into seats at the super Bowl and then they'll
Speaker 1: start promoting heavily the March Madness, the March Madness parties
Speaker 1: all right, which usually ends up being a spill over venue,
Speaker 1: dedicated venue for March Madness. But as you say, uh,
Speaker 1: super Bowl first, first things. First way to sell those
Speaker 1: standing room across the hallway behind the restaurant, terrible Viewpoint
Speaker 1: all for a hundred dollars. That's awesome. And hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you get too free drinks. You get drink tickets to
Speaker 1: pick up eight dollar beers. I just want to add
Speaker 1: one to uh, what Mark was talking about super Bowl parties.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the strip clubs, um Sapphires having a big
Speaker 1: Super Bowl party. And if you're on social media, you
Speaker 1: may have run across UH the sports UH, Darling cleats
Speaker 1: and cleavage. She is gonna be hosting the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: party at Sapphires. You can get a table, UH for
Speaker 1: the basic just get your general admission UH floor table
Speaker 1: in the main room for seventy five dollars. But if
Speaker 1: you want a v I P package, they started a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty dollars where you get v I P seating. UH.
Speaker 1: All of them come with the UH as they call
Speaker 1: their lavish Telgate buffet UH, and then drinks are on
Speaker 1: top of that, and of course you'll have some girls
Speaker 1: for distractions in case the game's not going the way
Speaker 1: you like it to go. How the hell do you
Speaker 1: know what we'll see? You know? I actually got a
Speaker 1: media press release from my writing of things that I
Speaker 1: write for Taking Today and stuff. So I'm on several
Speaker 1: companies pr list, and that was a press release about Sapphires. Are.
Speaker 1: Just to interrupt you, I had one of the greatest
Speaker 1: Monday night football experiences at sapp Fire, So don't knock
Speaker 1: until you try. UH. They do at halftime these one
Speaker 1: dollar like ten second lap dances that are just amazing
Speaker 1: because there's nobody knows what's going on Wow. Ten minutes
Speaker 1: into the podcast and you guys have the depraved one
Speaker 1: so far, well we got we got to try to
Speaker 1: bring our game to stay up with, you know, the
Speaker 1: leader of the pack there. So let's start with sports
Speaker 1: books then, So any new favorite sports books in town
Speaker 1: or do you still have the old staples? Marco um Oh,
Speaker 1: I had to new when you know, you know there's
Speaker 1: strip in off Strip. I mean we we have to
Speaker 1: look at everything, you know, proportionally guys coming to town,
Speaker 1: you know, they're all gonna migrate to the Strip. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you there's a lot of great places that
Speaker 1: if you want to jump in a cab or an uber,
Speaker 1: it's you know, less traffic and really nice properties. Uh.
Speaker 1: We always talk about Red Rock in Green Valley Ranch, Uh,
Speaker 1: sister properties for stations. Those are two of the best
Speaker 1: off Strip. But I'm gonna throw a new one in there,
Speaker 1: and that's in Mark in my neighborhood. And actually aces
Speaker 1: as well a rampart Um. They did a total redo
Speaker 1: about a year ago on their sports book and I
Speaker 1: put them right in there with Red Rock, which is
Speaker 1: one of my you know, absolute favorite off Strip. It's
Speaker 1: not as big as Red Rock it's it's a smaller book,
Speaker 1: but they have it set up where they've got you know,
Speaker 1: ground level if you could picture at the normal sports
Speaker 1: book set up with you know, stations for the horse
Speaker 1: people and you know, comfortable leather chairs for the audience.
Speaker 1: But then they have a second level that's a landing
Speaker 1: of tables and I like that you're looking right into
Speaker 1: the sports book. You can go get food and bring
Speaker 1: it back there. They've got one of the best delis
Speaker 1: in the city. And then they have a third level
Speaker 1: that is actually a bar elevated more so, no matter
Speaker 1: what level you're sitting at, you've got a you know,
Speaker 1: unobstructed view through all of the screens there. So I
Speaker 1: put that one in there, and I'm gonna add one
Speaker 1: to this category this year. It's not actually a sports book,
Speaker 1: but you know, a tip for guys coming to town
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl or any weekend that you come here.
Speaker 1: With all of the books having mobile apps, the biggest
Speaker 1: myth is you have to live in Nevada. You don't.
Speaker 1: You just have to be stationary in Nevada while you're wagering.
Speaker 1: And what you can do when you come to town
Speaker 1: is deposit into wherever you want, I suggest a couple
Speaker 1: of places so you have multiple apps. It takes as
Speaker 1: much time, you know, to set up an account five
Speaker 1: you know, five to ten minutes max. You have your
Speaker 1: account set up, and then when you go to withdrawal,
Speaker 1: it's like just cashing the ticket out. You can pull
Speaker 1: the money back out at the end of your trip
Speaker 1: before you leave. But what this does saves you headaches
Speaker 1: in the sports book because the lines are long, especially
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Sunday. But if you want to venture away
Speaker 1: from the Strip and go someplace that doesn't have a
Speaker 1: sports book but you want to have the sports book
Speaker 1: in your hand, I've got the place for you. And
Speaker 1: Mark's been there. I finally drugged him there a couple
Speaker 1: of times. Uh. There a chain around town. I believe
Speaker 1: their own by the Dotties Corporation. But they're called Bourbon
Speaker 1: Streets and they are the absolute coolest places to go
Speaker 1: sit down and watch games. I think it's the best
Speaker 1: set up next to a sports book. It is incredible.
Speaker 1: If you get there early enough, you can get a
Speaker 1: big leather couch, but you gotta be there early. Uh
Speaker 1: that they have plenty of stools, bar lead tables all around.
Speaker 1: But the video wall of games is unprecedented for a
Speaker 1: non sports book, and Mark and chime in and say,
Speaker 1: if I'm full of shi it or not, uh, you
Speaker 1: know what, you might be full of ship, but not
Speaker 1: for this one. It's it's the sports book. Well it
Speaker 1: looks like a sports book the the way the TV
Speaker 1: is set up. I don't know how great it will
Speaker 1: be for the Super Bowl, but it for NFL games
Speaker 1: on a Sunday or any you know, baseball on a
Speaker 1: Saturday or whatever. It's definitely a great viewing experience. And
Speaker 1: it's definitely the best sports bar experience, I would say
Speaker 1: in reasonable drinks. Reasonable drinks as well. That's the other thing,
Speaker 1: because they are a video poker bar as well, so
Speaker 1: they're making some of their money there if you venture
Speaker 1: into that. I've seen him around town. I have never
Speaker 1: ventured inside. That's good to know. I remember you talking
Speaker 1: about that once when we were driving around Marco Ace.
Speaker 1: Any thoughts from you know as far as the coming
Speaker 1: out here, like for the Super Bowl and all the
Speaker 1: parties and and the Vegas books, you just can't go wrong.
Speaker 1: I mean the bottom line I get all the time
Speaker 1: asked like on Twitter, and I appreciate it because I've
Speaker 1: been here twenty plus years and and people reach out
Speaker 1: and they've never been here before, and they want to ask,
Speaker 1: like where should they go, what should they do, and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. But at the end of the day, man,
Speaker 1: it's two thousand nineteen. Everything is that your fingertips and
Speaker 1: this is Las Vegas. Like, you can't go wrong. There
Speaker 1: are certain times of the year all you have to
Speaker 1: do is show up, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: Fourth or July weekend, just show up, Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 1: just show up. Super Bowl, just show up, March Madness,
Speaker 1: just show up. Everything's happened and everything's going on. Like
Speaker 1: no matter where you go, you pretty much can't go wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, like for us locals personally, you know, after
Speaker 1: you've seen twenty plus Super Bowls. I did all the
Speaker 1: going the parties, and because I played blackjack for those
Speaker 1: few years and you get a lot of comps for
Speaker 1: doing that, and I went to the nice Super Bowl
Speaker 1: parties and they're great. I would never pay board, and
Speaker 1: I urge everyone to never pay some of those, you know,
Speaker 1: crazy amounts to to go see a game. You could
Speaker 1: bet it. I mean, I'm gonna go pay a dime
Speaker 1: when I could bet to dime. That to me, I
Speaker 1: just don't make sense, you know. But to me again,
Speaker 1: some people they don't mind that. But most of those
Speaker 1: high end parties are I'd say nine out of ten
Speaker 1: people in them are are invited guests and v I
Speaker 1: P guests and nobody there's paying. And if you get invited,
Speaker 1: the one that owes absolutely go. They are so worth it.
Speaker 1: My favorite sports books in town pretty much remain the same.
Speaker 1: I I talked about Arias Sports Book as being the
Speaker 1: most living room like sports book. I happen to live
Speaker 1: next door, so for me it's just sort of an
Speaker 1: expansion of my apartment. South Point only seven book in town.
Speaker 1: You have not lived until you are betting something like
Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic or the Australian Open at three
Speaker 1: in the morning as the vacuum goes by you at
Speaker 1: the south Point Sports Book, that's always a great experience.
Speaker 1: They have tons of seats available for Super Bowl Sunday
Speaker 1: and beyond. I still think the cause Bo has the
Speaker 1: best screens in town, at least on the strip. Anyway.
Speaker 1: For those coming in from out of town, uh, non
Speaker 1: Vegas shout out. I know this is the Vegas lifestyle show,
Speaker 1: but non Vegas, shout out to bo Ravage and Biloxi,
Speaker 1: which has this great aria like living room setting to
Speaker 1: their sports book. I know they're planning on some renovations
Speaker 1: down there. I wish they wouldn't. It's perfect as it is.
Speaker 1: It's such a great, comfortable sports book with couches and
Speaker 1: a bar that surrounds it. So it's just a wonderful
Speaker 1: setting down there. And then in New Jersey and Atlantic City,
Speaker 1: shout out to Ocean Ocean Casino. It's a really strange
Speaker 1: casino because it's as if it's in an office building.
Speaker 1: You take this long escalator up to the casino floor.
Speaker 1: But the sports book itself is built where a nightclub
Speaker 1: used to be. So it is this spectacularly glitzy sports
Speaker 1: book with suits that hover above it where I guess
Speaker 1: you could have your own table at a club back
Speaker 1: in the day. You can actually watch sports and suites
Speaker 1: overlook the main floor of the sports book. I know
Speaker 1: that casino just got sold. Hope they don't do anything
Speaker 1: with that. Sports book is very cool, and here in
Speaker 1: Vegas we're about a year and a half, two years
Speaker 1: away from it. But Derrick Stevens, who owns the d downtown.
Speaker 1: He's got a new hotel that's being built downtown called Circa,
Speaker 1: and the rendering of that sports book, which Meltzer was
Speaker 1: the first to show me, is sick. So sports books
Speaker 1: are definitely evolving in a way that we won't possibly
Speaker 1: believe until we see him with our own eyes in
Speaker 1: years to come. But you're already seeing some of that
Speaker 1: at Ocean in New Jersey and in the future at
Speaker 1: Circa here downtown Las Vegas. So Aria for me still
Speaker 1: is my favorite one in town. But if you want
Speaker 1: the big two pillars on each side of the strip,
Speaker 1: the Westgate on one side, the Super Book, and of
Speaker 1: course the South Point on the other, that's what I
Speaker 1: would recommend. Usually at this time of the show, we
Speaker 1: talk about day clubs and nightclubs and gentlemen. There were
Speaker 1: years in the past where lord knows, I could give
Speaker 1: a dissertation on both subjects, specifically the day clubs. The
Speaker 1: days of rehab, though for me are long gone. It
Speaker 1: seems like I've gotten old boys. I'm an old man,
Speaker 1: so I can't really provide any insight that I haven't
Speaker 1: in the past on day clubs and nightclubs because my
Speaker 1: stupid DC friends come into town once a year and
Speaker 1: they're like, let's go to the nightclub. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you fucking getting me? Your fifty years old? For
Speaker 1: God's sakes? Um, But we can shift it. This is
Speaker 1: your suggestion. Off Air Meltzer and Ace. Let's talk about weed.
Speaker 1: That's what we can talk about. We're super educated about
Speaker 1: the subject of weed, each of us in our own way.
Speaker 1: Mark actually, let me let me talk to Ace first,
Speaker 1: because A said this. He said, some of us knew
Speaker 1: about this before it was legalized. H Ace, what is
Speaker 1: your experience? What would you recommend for those who are
Speaker 1: looking to indulge in some weed here in a legalized
Speaker 1: state of Nevada? Slow your role number one? Like I
Speaker 1: understand it's like if if you don't have the legalization
Speaker 1: in your state, or you know, the access to walk
Speaker 1: into with the spencery and choose what you want. Um
Speaker 1: that it is like a kid at Christmas. You know,
Speaker 1: you have all these choices and you just want to
Speaker 1: try everything. But the first thing I want to say,
Speaker 1: slow your role because this is a different level of
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, where they're taking weed these days
Speaker 1: is different than anything I grew up with, and anything
Speaker 1: pretty much anyone I know grew up with. UM. Bottom
Speaker 1: line is what you may be used to smoking, you're
Speaker 1: not used to what is available here. And what I
Speaker 1: mean by that is when I was growing up, we
Speaker 1: were smoking Mexican dirt, which was like you know, speeds, stems,
Speaker 1: you know, and a couple of buds. And if you
Speaker 1: were lucky, there was like eight percent phc. And that
Speaker 1: was if someone cut it with some poison. You know,
Speaker 1: you got lucky and the poison sucked you up. Um.
Speaker 1: But otherwise that's what you were dealing with. Then if
Speaker 1: you got older and you made some money and you
Speaker 1: and you started betting across the country, you met some
Speaker 1: connects in Arizona or in California that that had access
Speaker 1: to some chronic or some guys at the East that
Speaker 1: they were sending chronic to the next thing. You know,
Speaker 1: you're getting good blood. Um, but still you're talking THC level.
Speaker 1: If you're willing to pay top dollar back then right now, brother,
Speaker 1: you're talking you can walk into dispensary and get like,
Speaker 1: uh those disposable again. UM. Vapor you know vapor now,
Speaker 1: even vape and I don't even know what it's called.
Speaker 1: You know those vapor devices and ship and um, you
Speaker 1: could walk in today eighteen years old, however old it is,
Speaker 1: and and walk out having never smoked before them. They
Speaker 1: will sell you THHC. You know bud that got tested
Speaker 1: at that high, mixed in with all kind of turpins
Speaker 1: that the weed we grew up with did not have.
Speaker 1: And again that's why emergency visits have increased, That's why
Speaker 1: cast to police have increased, because and let me throw
Speaker 1: this out there real quickly, no one has ever over
Speaker 1: those for marijuana. So you are not dying. You are
Speaker 1: is tripping and have are weak minded. So just chill out.
Speaker 1: It will pass. Do not call nine one. You're not dying.
Speaker 1: You're not having a heart attack. You're not gonna remain
Speaker 1: like this for the rest of your life walking around
Speaker 1: like a moron. It will pass. Just give it time. Um,
Speaker 1: so again, slow your role, take a couple of heads,
Speaker 1: see how you feel. Enjoy the high. Don't be an asshole,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And got walk around smoking
Speaker 1: it and letting everyone know and and making my city
Speaker 1: smell like marijuana everywhere I go. Fucking have some class.
Speaker 1: I don't do it, the yours, don't do it. The mind. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just getting old, dude, I you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But with that said, but you know, also know your limitations,
Speaker 1: Like if you've never had an edible, if you've never dabt,
Speaker 1: if you've never done stuff that that, it's gonna hit
Speaker 1: you in a way you've never been hit before, because
Speaker 1: especially when you eat edibles, edibles go through your liver.
Speaker 1: Their process differently, the highs different, everything about it is different,
Speaker 1: um because it's process sting your liver on like smoking
Speaker 1: if flour is um and even vapin or anything. So
Speaker 1: if you eat it again, it's like, wait, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, take a little bit, start with ten
Speaker 1: milligrams and wait, don't go eat a five hundred milligram
Speaker 1: fucking medical bar. You know that that's not what you
Speaker 1: want to do. It's gonna ruin your trip. So start small,
Speaker 1: Wait an hour, take another little piece. Like just like
Speaker 1: I said last year, like every year. It's actionable info,
Speaker 1: but kind of repeating in simple terms. Just smoke like
Speaker 1: a fucking gentleman, dude, Like a gentleman, that's all. That's all.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is. If it's cocaine, snort it, don't smoke it.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just saying it's this generation, dude. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm fifty years I'm always fifty years old, dude. So
Speaker 1: I don't do that kind of you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Forget that people think that. But I'll take care of
Speaker 1: my body, is what I mean. I work out, I
Speaker 1: eat well, I you know what I mean, because I'm old.
Speaker 1: Can you can you point them to a dispensary of
Speaker 1: your choice perhaps, Oh yeah, my favorite honestly, And and
Speaker 1: Marco knows apathecarry up on the West side. Um, but
Speaker 1: it's a little far from the thread, you know. But
Speaker 1: that's the high end stuff, good stuff. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: class your people. So and I'm not knocking the you know,
Speaker 1: people are people. But what I mean is because they
Speaker 1: cater to a more upscale crowd and neighborhood. Um, the
Speaker 1: stuff maybe a little more expensive, but the qualities kennets better.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Um, So I I highly
Speaker 1: recommend the apothecary. They know me well, they're good friends.
Speaker 1: They tell may sense you they you know. But otherwise
Speaker 1: pretty much they all have most of the same products
Speaker 1: because they all buy from the same distributors, you know.
Speaker 1: And if your first time buyer, they give you free ships.
Speaker 1: So if you're really cheap, just go place to place
Speaker 1: to place to place. You're gonna end up with like
Speaker 1: ten joints by the end of the afternoon. You're done.
Speaker 1: You're done, all right, stopping. Okay, thank you, thank you. Ay,
Speaker 1: that was very thorough. Uh Now the gentleman like it myself.
Speaker 1: I go to a dispensary because my father, who's an
Speaker 1: old man, he's eighty five years old. My father needs
Speaker 1: medical marijuana to make himself feel better, help himself go
Speaker 1: to sleep. So he asks me to buy him chocolate,
Speaker 1: which I do. Now imagine me coming from the Visa studios.
Speaker 1: I got by laptop at hand, I've got my work
Speaker 1: or clothes on. I enter the New Leaf dispensary, which
Speaker 1: is right off strip for those who are wondering if
Speaker 1: they're coming to the strip, right next to the wind
Speaker 1: a New Leaf. And I go in there and they're like,
Speaker 1: who is this, dork? And um, They're like is this
Speaker 1: They're like, this is this for you, buddy? I'm like,
Speaker 1: not for my dad and my only complaint. And I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if you find this to be the case
Speaker 1: that your neighborhood dispensary is that they never have the
Speaker 1: same products in stock every subsequent time that I come.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, hey, you got that chocolate that I
Speaker 1: like for my dad, And they're like, no, man, we're
Speaker 1: out of that, but we got this new chocolate. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, I'll take it. I guess they're like,
Speaker 1: I said, what happened to the old jonga? They're like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. So I'm like, okay. Uh So they're
Speaker 1: real helpful, as you can tell over a new leaf.
Speaker 1: But it gets the job done. And then uh, I
Speaker 1: creatively get it to my father. Let's just put it
Speaker 1: that way. Aston you say, you creatively get stuff to
Speaker 1: your family in Greece, to my mom my mom, My
Speaker 1: mom's my mom seventy one in Greece, And I was
Speaker 1: there this summer for a month and I brought um
Speaker 1: CBD with me because CBD is awesome. I mean, I
Speaker 1: take it every morning. UM it's just great anti inflammatory.
Speaker 1: You know, we all have a canabinoid system in our bodies.
Speaker 1: It replenishes. It's I'm I'm really high on on CBD.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of health benefits. Um. But
Speaker 1: but what that said, it's scientifically proven to work better
Speaker 1: if if there's it's there's a touch of th HCNN.
Speaker 1: And what CBD simply does is it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: like the weed, but without the psychoactive um ingredients to it. Is.
Speaker 1: You know, that's an idiot telling it's trying to explain
Speaker 1: it to you, so you know, you know, so give
Speaker 1: me a pass. But what I'm saying is what you
Speaker 1: could do, is you could if you do a ratio
Speaker 1: of CBD to th HC of greater than ten to one,
Speaker 1: meaning ten ten x CBD one x um th HC,
Speaker 1: you're you should feel it very slightly. And for my mom,
Speaker 1: my daughterr twenty x, you know, like twenty CBD and
Speaker 1: and one x THHC, so even less than ten x
Speaker 1: and she that I mean, all that did was relieved
Speaker 1: fucking pain man and make her feel better. Since then,
Speaker 1: I sent it out to her every month, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. That's I'm trying to do that. For
Speaker 1: my dad, it's like, oh, that's against the law of
Speaker 1: helping our older parents. The best thing I was, what
Speaker 1: I love is when you go outside of dispensary and
Speaker 1: you see the mixed population there, you see young people,
Speaker 1: old people, middle aged people, rich people, poor people like
Speaker 1: So that just goes to show you, man, you can't
Speaker 1: like paining everyone with one brush. I mean, that's no
Speaker 1: better example than take a picture in front of a
Speaker 1: dispensary of why you can't do that. So what Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King Jr. Envisioned exactly that to uh we had
Speaker 1: a dream they had with with asas saying that twenty
Speaker 1: two one ratio CBD, I would highly recommend that for
Speaker 1: you to send a bottle to your dad. And the
Speaker 1: reasons for I can attest, I can attest to it
Speaker 1: to as well it I avoided a surgery thanks to
Speaker 1: CBD um in. The twenty to one ratio is the
Speaker 1: perfect because it's not gonna twenty two one won't give
Speaker 1: you a blood test of actually having marijuana in your
Speaker 1: system because of the minute amount of it. But for
Speaker 1: somebody that has pain and inflammation, it does take it
Speaker 1: out away and it will help your dad sleep. And
Speaker 1: the benefit of that versus the chocolate bar is the
Speaker 1: chocolate bar takes whatever time it takes to get into
Speaker 1: your system is inedible with the CBD drops. You're actually
Speaker 1: putting the drops under your tongue and gets into your bloodstream,
Speaker 1: um almost immediately. And just to add real quickly that
Speaker 1: if you're ever really messed up, like seriously, if you
Speaker 1: ever get too high, um, that's what you need. Like shoot,
Speaker 1: Like that's why if you have th HC, I mean
Speaker 1: just three CBD laying around, UM, you should always have
Speaker 1: it laying around. Like let's say you just smoked and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get a phone call and
Speaker 1: you've got to go to work or something. You take
Speaker 1: you take that syringe e thing of of CBD and
Speaker 1: drop it under your tongue. By the time you get
Speaker 1: to work, you're straight all right now, seriously, that's what
Speaker 1: it does. It counteracts the psychoactivity of th HC, is
Speaker 1: exactly what it does. I don't dispute anything you guys
Speaker 1: are saying, and I appreciate the advice. Marco. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to sell my dad off the chocolate
Speaker 1: into drops, believe me, He's just not built that way.
Speaker 1: But but uh, I if you guys had been a
Speaker 1: one third is passionate about nightclubs and day clubs in
Speaker 1: the past as you all are about weed. Good lord man,
Speaker 1: you guys know your weed. And I offer you some
Speaker 1: y stuff. Please, So you have to be one to
Speaker 1: purchase weed legally in the Vada. Thank you for Thank
Speaker 1: god there's an adult in the room. Yes, go ahead.
Speaker 1: It's illegal to purchase but not legal to use in public.
Speaker 1: Correct that is? That is a key point. So you
Speaker 1: can you could buy legal marijuana, but you can't use
Speaker 1: it inside of a casino legally. So there might be
Speaker 1: some kind of smoking lounges popping up in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: later this year, but technically you're not supposed to use it,
Speaker 1: even if it's inedible that people can't detect legally in
Speaker 1: quotes of course, Um, you're not allowed to use it. However,
Speaker 1: Allegedly people by mint and just pop them while they're
Speaker 1: playing blackjack. Uh you know co but but but to
Speaker 1: your point, you're not allowed to smoke a blunt at
Speaker 1: the blackjack table, so don't so don't tell us we
Speaker 1: told you to do like a gentleman man, keep its simple.
Speaker 1: You're also not allowed legally to send medical marijuana to
Speaker 1: your grandmother in Greece or your father in d C.
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out as well. Of
Speaker 1: those one one last stip for visitors. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: how we always talk about the apps you know, as
Speaker 1: far as sports betting and being able you know, to
Speaker 1: shop for the best line and everything. There is an
Speaker 1: app you can download for your smartphone. I've been told
Speaker 1: this um for. It's called weed Maps and it has
Speaker 1: all of it has all of the local uh distilleries
Speaker 1: dispensaries I should say not distilleries dispensaries, and you can
Speaker 1: actually shop online. You can look and see what you
Speaker 1: what you want because prices do very around town for
Speaker 1: the same product, and you will find the closer you
Speaker 1: are to the actual strip, the more you're gonna pay
Speaker 1: because of that convenience factor of being right there on
Speaker 1: the strip. There are a lot of places just off
Speaker 1: strip that are very good. UM a new one it
Speaker 1: opened up here that is it's the one of the
Speaker 1: largest in the world. It's it's almost like a nightclub
Speaker 1: walking into it. But it's called Planet thirteen and it's
Speaker 1: as we like to refer to Gil, it's in the
Speaker 1: g String district. You are just a left hand turn
Speaker 1: away from going to the Rhino when you leave the U.
Speaker 1: Why do you point me out when you talk about
Speaker 1: the g String District Like I'm like, I'm in the know.
Speaker 1: You know it Gil the g String district. Well, we
Speaker 1: used to go to uh Mark myself and Joe forton Ball.
Speaker 1: We went to a barbecue joint that we said, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's in the g String district and everybody knows where
Speaker 1: that's at. Throws um, All right, can we get off weed?
Speaker 1: God damn it, you guys know a lot about weed. Jesus,
Speaker 1: there's uh there's actually one more thing let me touch
Speaker 1: on for you for the legal weed. Look for anybody
Speaker 1: that's on the strip and wants to get the closest
Speaker 1: to the strip is actually on the strip. There's a
Speaker 1: place across from Essence or a place across the street
Speaker 1: from SLS and uh are called called Essence. And and
Speaker 1: that's just the only one on the strip. And like
Speaker 1: Marco said, and like you said, you know, you could
Speaker 1: go a block or two off the strip and get
Speaker 1: plenty and a planet thirteen places out of control. It's amazing.
Speaker 1: And apothecary Um has the best stuff that I've been
Speaker 1: a little of find. So it's amazing to me that
Speaker 1: I knew about the one across the stratosphere and mine
Speaker 1: new Leaf, and I knew about weed maps. I've used
Speaker 1: all these things to hook up my dad. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like I'm sitting here nodding to all
Speaker 1: of this, like, yeah, I know this good information, solid information.
Speaker 1: I have some hot breaking news for you if you want.
Speaker 1: I just got an email about the Casopolitan March Madness parties.
Speaker 1: It is open Bar. They have a single day pass
Speaker 1: for Saturday only for a hundred and fifty dollars with
Speaker 1: open Bar. They have Thursday and Friday single day passes
Speaker 1: for two hundred and twenty five dollars for open Bar
Speaker 1: and a three day pass for Thursday through Saturday for
Speaker 1: four There you go, hot off the press. I'll be
Speaker 1: in the front, front and center with Felika. Come by
Speaker 1: say hi. Don't come by and say hi when there's
Speaker 1: a buzzer beater about to happen, though, if you could
Speaker 1: just do that much, we'd appreciate it. Can you come
Speaker 1: by and say hi? If you're high, that's allowed as
Speaker 1: that is allowed as well. I will say this about
Speaker 1: March Madness, and you guys will corroborate this from a
Speaker 1: weather standpoint. Whenever I didn't used to live in Vegas
Speaker 1: and me and my buddies would meet here in Vegas
Speaker 1: from March Madness. We always took it for granted that
Speaker 1: we'd be able to go to the pool every day.
Speaker 1: The last two years the weather has been such where
Speaker 1: it is not pool weather for March Madness anymore week
Speaker 1: one or two in Vegas, So the weather patterns are shifting. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: check the weather, because if you think you're hanging out
Speaker 1: at the pool all day long during March Madness might
Speaker 1: not be the case come mid March or whenever. Those
Speaker 1: first two weekends are this year for the big dance,
Speaker 1: best show in town. I still say absinthe. Anybody want
Speaker 1: to dispute that not out still up there is mine.
Speaker 1: That's definitely unless you want to see like uh Seline
Speaker 1: Dion before it's over, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga like those are.
Speaker 1: That's different obviously, but yeah, music is different production broadway
Speaker 1: type thing. I agree, Yeah, music. This My favorite single
Speaker 1: thing about living in Vegas is what you just touched
Speaker 1: on Ace, which is I will go see everything because yeah,
Speaker 1: like I have no shame whatsoever. Barry Manilow's at the Westgate.
Speaker 1: I'm in Man not long ago, so I'm all over it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm the dude singing like a dork because that
Speaker 1: is the beauty of Las Vegas, and whatever trip you
Speaker 1: take here, definitely checked to see what residency is in play.
Speaker 1: Gwen Stefani is excellent at Planet Hollywood. I never thought
Speaker 1: I'd say that about Gwen Stefani. Her show is great,
Speaker 1: probably better than all the other shows that have been there,
Speaker 1: better than Brittany, better than j Low, better than Lionel
Speaker 1: the Lionel Richie's phenomenal. Don't get me wrong. Who am
Speaker 1: I forgetting Backstreet Boys? I've seen them all. I've serious,
Speaker 1: I've seen them all. Haven't seen interested Lady Gaga because
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I'm not I don't really know
Speaker 1: her music all that well. You know, I'm quite not
Speaker 1: well at all. But I love the production of it,
Speaker 1: like the show, the experience. Personally, I went slum like
Speaker 1: three or four times here. I'm not a huge Gaga fan,
Speaker 1: but she has two different types of shows. People should know.
Speaker 1: She's got her standard big concert with all the bells
Speaker 1: and whistles, and then she does this sort of jazz
Speaker 1: acoustic show. So make sure if you're going to Gaga
Speaker 1: that you get the right one, depending on the date
Speaker 1: that you have selected. But Vegas is all about music.
Speaker 1: This weekend. I just look up uh in comedy, like
Speaker 1: this weekend, I'm going to Tiffany Hattish one night and
Speaker 1: I'm going to Anderson Pack the next R and B.
Speaker 1: People will know who Anderson Pack is. Like, It's just
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Phenomenal weekend. So that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: living in Vegas. The wind has all these residencies. To
Speaker 1: Kenny Logan's Diana Ross Anita Baker, I am all about
Speaker 1: all of them, Meltzer, I'm in you all that ship.
Speaker 1: I love it um so that that's definitely the best
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Speaker 1: don't miss out. As far as restaurants, let me start.
Speaker 1: My favorite restaurant in all Las Vegas is still Carbone
Speaker 1: at Aria. I think it's the best experience. The atmosphere
Speaker 1: is great, great food, Italian food. It is top notch
Speaker 1: ville parm spicy rigatoni, pasta pro shudo, mozzarella and melon
Speaker 1: to die for. If price is no object and you're
Speaker 1: looking for the best sushi in town, there's an off
Speaker 1: striped spot called Kabuto, but it is not for everybody.
Speaker 1: It will run you at least two d fifty per
Speaker 1: person um. There is that if price is no object,
Speaker 1: there's lots of lots of great, great food if you
Speaker 1: want it in Vegas and the return meltzer of Blue
Speaker 1: Ribbon ousted from the Cosmopolitan Blue Ribbon coming to Red Rock.
Speaker 1: I will be making trips. I'll look forward to it.
Speaker 1: I actually love Blue Ribbon without the sushi, but you
Speaker 1: know that's just me. I have good tasting food. H
Speaker 1: The restaurant this year that actually brought me to my
Speaker 1: knees was recommended by you. Um. I had dinner at
Speaker 1: John George's at Aria and I am still weak in
Speaker 1: the knees on the short rib that I had there,
Speaker 1: like I can't even handle myself. I will be returning
Speaker 1: there very soon and hopefully having steaked this time, because
Speaker 1: it's you know, as I had. As I told you,
Speaker 1: it's hard for me to go to a steakhouse and
Speaker 1: not a steak or difficult for me to do that.
Speaker 1: And uh, based on your recommendation, I had the the
Speaker 1: week in the knees inducing beautiful short rip and it
Speaker 1: was fantastic. It is really special if you go to
Speaker 1: Jean George and the steak is good, but the short
Speaker 1: rib is spectacular. My friend Hatty had the filet would
Speaker 1: you also recommended, and it was divine. It was absolutely
Speaker 1: fantastic and if my short rib wasn't as great as
Speaker 1: it was, I would have been upset. But we had
Speaker 1: a fantastic meal and another amazing Vegas night where we
Speaker 1: maybe spent two hundred dollars of person and had drinks
Speaker 1: at Mandarin Oriental which is now Waldorf Astoria, the beautiful
Speaker 1: bar up there with a great view, had a great
Speaker 1: dinner there, and drank all night at the Cosmopolitan Chandelier
Speaker 1: Bar for basically twenty bucks, you know, put into a
Speaker 1: video poker machine and just drank for hours and hours,
Speaker 1: and they had a magical Vegas night. You are a
Speaker 1: large part of one of my most memorable and fun
Speaker 1: nights of the year. So that that's what delicious dining
Speaker 1: has to do with everything, Well, you are welcome any
Speaker 1: other dining recommendations. Earlier this year, Marco and I actually
Speaker 1: ventured over to Palms, who were undergoing a ton of
Speaker 1: renovations and had some delicious brisket at their new barbecue restaurant.
Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. Another place that I really enjoyed that
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'll return to because of a
Speaker 1: price points bother me. But the Burger joint at Palestation
Speaker 1: is a brand new burger place called b b DS
Speaker 1: Beer Barbecued or Beer Burgers and Desserts. And the burger
Speaker 1: was phenomenal, however, cheeseburgers twenty one and I don't go
Speaker 1: to Palestation to spend twenty one bucks just on a burger,
Speaker 1: but it was delicious. Um. And then Hatty Bees opened
Speaker 1: over at the Cosmo in their new food court area,
Speaker 1: which has a ton of small, quick, quick serve restaurants,
Speaker 1: but Hatty Bees you can get a hot chicken sandwich
Speaker 1: and a side for I think it was ten or
Speaker 1: twelve dollars, maybe fifteen dollars, and it was phenomenal, and
Speaker 1: it might be the best deal at the cause of
Speaker 1: Politan because everything there, you know, tends to skew to
Speaker 1: the more expensive enough scale side. This quick serve, little
Speaker 1: area of restaurants, say a Lurido for great pork sandwiches,
Speaker 1: pop poc for uh for fried chicken wings. Um. And
Speaker 1: the Hattie Bees was phenomenal. So just one word of
Speaker 1: caution if you go there. It's five dollars for a
Speaker 1: canna soda that I don't really get freaked out by
Speaker 1: by prices. I'm I understand, I'm going to the Vegas
Speaker 1: Strip and prices are more expensive there. But five dollars
Speaker 1: for a goddamn Canna soda. They could go shove that
Speaker 1: right where it won't fit. But here's the thing. You
Speaker 1: need that Canda soda because Hattie's fried chicken is spicy
Speaker 1: enough if you get to the proper spice that you
Speaker 1: need to wash it down. I'm glad you brought that
Speaker 1: up exactly, you know. I mean, it's still only twenty
Speaker 1: for a meal. You can't really complain too much. However,
Speaker 1: I would rather just go downstairs, put twenty bucks in
Speaker 1: a video poker machine and bring my cocktails upstairs. So
Speaker 1: where the old sports book used to be at the Cosmopolitan,
Speaker 1: I'm glad Melts have brought it up. What we would
Speaker 1: typically call a food court in a mall. They call
Speaker 1: it an urban food experience something like that. Uh, And
Speaker 1: it's the best little shops from different towns. So Lardo's,
Speaker 1: I want to say, is from I don't know what, Portland. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from Portland, there's a there's a dessert place there that
Speaker 1: is popular. District from New Orleans. From New Orleans, the
Speaker 1: district right, there's a there's a hand Roll place right
Speaker 1: as well. And then there's the Chicken Wings. But yes,
Speaker 1: Hattie's Hattie Bees? Is it Hattie's or Hatty Bees? Had
Speaker 1: he be? Hat he be? You're forgetting the best place
Speaker 1: of of all of this. So oh, I thought Hattie
Speaker 1: Bees was the best that's from Nashville. Yeah, but you don't.
Speaker 1: The best part is Ghost Donkey, the hidden bar that
Speaker 1: you will not enjoy because you don't enjoy the mescal
Speaker 1: and tequila drinks. But it's a phenomenal place that reminded
Speaker 1: me so much of a little dumpy New York City bar,
Speaker 1: but obviously classy and fancy because we're in Vegas. Wait,
Speaker 1: where's Ghost Donkey that's hidden in the back there? It's
Speaker 1: hidden in the back behind a there's a donkey on
Speaker 1: the door, but it looks like it's a fire emergency,
Speaker 1: like don't press this door otherwise you're going to set
Speaker 1: off alarms and stuff. And uh, it's amazing it it
Speaker 1: opened after all the restaurants did. It is a phenomenal place,
Speaker 1: even if you're just looking at I want to go
Speaker 1: there to look at something different. It's very very downtown
Speaker 1: New York City, very like low Village. Well they have
Speaker 1: a little something like that upstairs to it. Cosmopolitan, what's
Speaker 1: the sort of speakeasy place? And beauty and Essex which
Speaker 1: looks like a pawn shop up front, but you open
Speaker 1: the door to a whole world behind there. My one
Speaker 1: recommendation about Hattie Bees, don't funk around with the sides.
Speaker 1: Just go chicken. You'll thank me later. Totally agree. I
Speaker 1: throw my side away. It was really sad and disappointing.
Speaker 1: That chicken sandwich just delicious. Yeah, plus you fill your
Speaker 1: stomach up with stuff you don't want to really fill
Speaker 1: your stomach up with. Just go chicken. It's phenomenal. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up. Mama Fuco Across is still good,
Speaker 1: great food. The Dory Chicken is my go to, but
Speaker 1: they only have for dinner now, but it's spectacular. That
Speaker 1: is great as well, So definite shout out on that.
Speaker 1: What was the one we said beforehand? Oh, we still
Speaker 1: love to go to yard Birds we mentioned for fried chicken.
Speaker 1: What did you say before Hattie Bees? Mark bbd over
Speaker 1: a Palestation and Mabel's Barbecue over at Palm's. Oh, Mabel's
Speaker 1: that's the one. So I went opening night with President
Speaker 1: Slam deal. Uh, it was awesome. That place is great.
Speaker 1: That barbecue place at the Palms a reason to go
Speaker 1: back to the Palms. I'm with you on that as well,
Speaker 1: that that place is great. Marco, you tried that you'd
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I was with Mark. We we went together.
Speaker 1: The brisket, you got it. What Mark didn't say is
Speaker 1: they have two kinds of brisket. They have the normal
Speaker 1: brisket and they have what they call the fatty brisket.
Speaker 1: Go fatty brisket that is war flavorful, uh, juicy because
Speaker 1: brisket pan run. You know. The lean brisket can be
Speaker 1: a little dry if it's not cooked right. Uh. The
Speaker 1: fatty briskets the way to go. All right. Um. As
Speaker 1: my mother said to me many times, Gilly, you love
Speaker 1: the brisket. And I'm like, I don't. I don't really
Speaker 1: like the brisket. She's like, you tell me you love
Speaker 1: it every time. I'm like, no, I've never said that
Speaker 1: to you once in my life. She insists, I love
Speaker 1: the brisket. The brisket is great at Maples, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Not that my mom's brisket isn't good. I just wasn't
Speaker 1: into it when I was a kid, if you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. All right, Marco your floor, sir, Well,
Speaker 1: we've got some big news, one of our biggest hits
Speaker 1: that we have ever announced here on the Lifestyle Pod.
Speaker 1: How many times, Gil do you get somebody tweets you, Hey,
Speaker 1: I just got the Vegas. We just had dinner at
Speaker 1: Herbs and Rye. Thanks for the you know, the heads up.
Speaker 1: That was fantastic, blah blah blah. Well, Herbs and Rye
Speaker 1: has a sister property that opened uh this past I
Speaker 1: believe this summer, and it is called Clever. It is
Speaker 1: on the east side of the Strip, uh, down by
Speaker 1: where they refer to restaurant Row on Paradise and uh
Speaker 1: it is a nicer location than Herbs and Rye. They
Speaker 1: have the same deal as far as the happy hour steak.
Speaker 1: The difference is I guess they gotta pay a little
Speaker 1: more rent there, so uh at Urbs and Rye. One
Speaker 1: of the other big parts that made that such a
Speaker 1: great value is it's you know, not enough that it
Speaker 1: was off a steak, which was amazing. But as most
Speaker 1: steakhouses do, they have you pay ala carte for the
Speaker 1: side dishes. Well, Herbs and Rye always included a side
Speaker 1: the new place Cleaver does not, so that's where they
Speaker 1: get you for a couple of extra bucks, but still
Speaker 1: you're getting top notch steaks at half price. The place
Speaker 1: is kind of cool. The bar, um, if you remember
Speaker 1: uh Herbs and Rice, you know, really dark in there.
Speaker 1: This is a better scene, bigger. Uh. They looks like
Speaker 1: they at the time that I was there with Mark. Uh.
Speaker 1: They have a stage in the bar where they could
Speaker 1: have live music as well, and then in the dining
Speaker 1: room itself there are some very unique paintings of some
Speaker 1: famous people in there, but just to see them. Can't
Speaker 1: even describe it. You got to check it out. But
Speaker 1: the steaks were excellent, as they were at Herbs and Rice.
Speaker 1: So that's the new uh secret location of to tell
Speaker 1: people about for this year. And the other steakhouse I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring up. I was about a year late getting
Speaker 1: to the party. Uh this was open and it's the
Speaker 1: only reason I've not gone there. Is my pet peeve
Speaker 1: of paying for parking in Vegas if you're a local. Um,
Speaker 1: I just the casino is a charge for parking just
Speaker 1: has a bad taste in my mouth. Trust me, I'm
Speaker 1: not cheap when it comes to eating or anything else,
Speaker 1: but to go in and spend money in your casino,
Speaker 1: gamble and everything else. And then to tell them you
Speaker 1: gotta pay twenty dollars to park without at some kind
Speaker 1: of event being there. That just bothers me. But check
Speaker 1: out at park MGM b vets. I only got I
Speaker 1: finally got to go there about a month ago before
Speaker 1: a Golden Nights or no, before a concert at Park Theater. Actually,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was tremendous. And I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: steaks were great. The wife didn't get steak. She got
Speaker 1: this dish which was braised short ribs over noodles, and
Speaker 1: it was let me tell you, I would go back
Speaker 1: just for that. Uh it was that good. I mean,
Speaker 1: the steaks were excellent, but her dish, it just was
Speaker 1: so different. Uh add that to your mix. And then
Speaker 1: if you are a fan of carrot cake, the best
Speaker 1: brick and carrot cake I have ever eaten anywhere, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you seriously, Um it was. It was out of
Speaker 1: this world. The waiter sold us on it. I was stuffed.
Speaker 1: LORI likes carrot cake, but she was stuffed too. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you there wasn't anything left, Okay, it was.
Speaker 1: Was that good? Check that out. But that's my new
Speaker 1: my new one for the steakhouses. Um. That, of course
Speaker 1: a tribute to Meltzer's finest tweet ever, where he started
Speaker 1: one of his tweets by saying, if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of diarrhea, and then proceeded acrush some restaurant. What restaurant
Speaker 1: was that? It was not a restaurant. It was El
Speaker 1: Cortest because you know that delivers white castle to the
Speaker 1: gambling tables while you're playing. I believe they do that. Um,
Speaker 1: Labor Day or Memorial Day, got it? They just yesterday
Speaker 1: they delivered pie to anybody gambling for the holiday. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure the purpose of that whatever. Alright, So here's
Speaker 1: the deal with Park MGM, because I'm glad you brought
Speaker 1: it up. Marco Park MGM, which used to be the
Speaker 1: Monte Carlo, is the spot for great food on the
Speaker 1: strip right at this moment. Not only is there Bavetts Bivetts,
Speaker 1: which by the way, has great steaks. Though, tell them
Speaker 1: to probably ease up on the char That's my only recommendation,
Speaker 1: because they was special charring. I don't prefer it. The
Speaker 1: bread is out of control. The wedge salad is out
Speaker 1: of control because I think they throw some ranch up
Speaker 1: in there. So be Vets is great. Only problem with Vetts,
Speaker 1: much like Urban right back in the day, is that
Speaker 1: you need a fucking flashlight in there because you can't
Speaker 1: see the damn food in front of you. And the
Speaker 1: first time I went there, I went there with my
Speaker 1: girl and we couldn't stop laughing. It was so dark
Speaker 1: in there, like we just could not stop laughing. It's like, really, like,
Speaker 1: how dark is it in here? So that's the only
Speaker 1: thing I would say about Vets. But the food, that's
Speaker 1: what I was getting too, So that's where you're getting.
Speaker 1: I went to Chicago, not here. I haven't gone yet.
Speaker 1: My and my girls like, we gotta go to this
Speaker 1: one because he loved it in Chicago. So Italy, which
Speaker 1: was the rage in New York City and still is
Speaker 1: right Italy. They opened up in Italy right there at
Speaker 1: Park MGM. I pretty much go there for lunch every
Speaker 1: single day. And if I don't go there for lunch,
Speaker 1: I might double up on dinner too. So Italy is
Speaker 1: this amazing market with all kinds of foods. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little pricey, but it is spectacularly good healthy foods. Uh,
Speaker 1: fish meats, pasta's. It's just awesome. Have you had to
Speaker 1: cook to order steak yet? There? Go to the meat market. No,
Speaker 1: I have not had that yet, but I've had pretty
Speaker 1: much everything else. It's ridiculous. The stake, the steaks in
Speaker 1: the case are absolutely amazing. The marbling on those steaks.
Speaker 1: You actually go to the you know, to set it
Speaker 1: up for is what Gil saying. You go to the counter,
Speaker 1: pick your actual steak and they will cook it for
Speaker 1: you right there, and uh for a fifteen dollars. You
Speaker 1: buy the you buy the steak, and then there's a
Speaker 1: fifteen dollar plate charge and then you can sit. They
Speaker 1: have tables everywhere all around and uh, they cook it
Speaker 1: right there. It's it's amazing. I don't I've only been
Speaker 1: there three times, Gil, so far. Obviously you've been there
Speaker 1: more the three times I was there. It's hit or
Speaker 1: miss on the service. They're not getting the system down there.
Speaker 1: It's you know, almost been a cluster fuck a couple
Speaker 1: of times. But one time was the day after New
Speaker 1: Year's which was just absolutely nuts. And one time that
Speaker 1: went late in the evening. So I'll give them a pass. Uh,
Speaker 1: It's been nothing but great for me. I if you
Speaker 1: ever want to run into me, I'll be there every day,
Speaker 1: all day, every day. I can't get enough of Italy. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's other great spots at Park mg M two Primrose
Speaker 1: for breakfast uh and my new favorite best Friend you're
Speaker 1: familiar with this best Friend by roy Choi popular restaurants
Speaker 1: Korean inspired Korean restaurants in l A. But they got
Speaker 1: a best Friend by roy CHOI right next to Italy inside.
Speaker 1: So that's a super cool place. The front part of
Speaker 1: that has a lot of nineties R and B pop culture,
Speaker 1: which is right down my alley, and they play the
Speaker 1: jams in their mark and then in the back there's
Speaker 1: a full restaurant which I don't even bother getting too
Speaker 1: because I like the jams upfront so much and I
Speaker 1: just eat at the bar. So those are some solid
Speaker 1: recommendations and Park MGM. You would not go wrong just
Speaker 1: hanging out there for those people on the strip. Park MGM,
Speaker 1: which used to be Monte Carlo's bar there too. Have
Speaker 1: you gone to the money Line? We do shows. J
Speaker 1: Rude and I do shows from there. I have actually
Speaker 1: not spent any time watching an actual game there but yes,
Speaker 1: a cool news sports bar, a sports bar and book,
Speaker 1: I should say right there at Park MGM. As well
Speaker 1: as far as steakhouses are concerned, Marco, I'm disappointed in
Speaker 1: you because you already tipped me off. It's our eighth
Speaker 1: annual Vegas lifestyle show and you still have not gone
Speaker 1: to the most consistently good steakhouse in town s w
Speaker 1: at Win. What is your probable waiting for my buddies
Speaker 1: to say, hey, Marco, let's go. I don't want to
Speaker 1: go eat by myself. I'll go any time you want.
Speaker 1: As so when my buddies coming from March Madness from
Speaker 1: d C, and they still do. They come in twice
Speaker 1: a year, once from March Madness, one week in October
Speaker 1: for football season. But every year we have the same
Speaker 1: two restaurant reservations. Now car Bone is one night, s
Speaker 1: W the other in no particular order. S W is
Speaker 1: so consistent with steak and I value consistency right and
Speaker 1: when it comes to steakhouses, don't make it hit or
Speaker 1: miss from one night to the other. They are super consistent.
Speaker 1: What are your other favorites? I'm gonna go one off
Speaker 1: of a steakhouse. Uh, you want to give to you
Speaker 1: because you you talked about car bones and you like
Speaker 1: their Italian food. I want to tell if you want
Speaker 1: to have an old school experience. And I've gone there twice,
Speaker 1: like in the last six weeks, and I've had the
Speaker 1: same dish both times, and it is the best ever
Speaker 1: bone in Bill Parmesan. Oh Pierro's. Oh Piero's. People should
Speaker 1: know about Pierros. Yeah, this is this is You know
Speaker 1: how long has Piero has been in Vegas. It's been
Speaker 1: there since I know when I made my first trip
Speaker 1: to Vegas, uh back in eighty four. This is a landmark.
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you that you talk about history of places,
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line, somebody was having dinner in this
Speaker 1: place and they were discussing a hit on somebody. No,
Speaker 1: I guarantee it, no doubt, no doubt. But this you
Speaker 1: can't go wrong with. I tell you food, and if
Speaker 1: you go there, I'm telling you you get the bone
Speaker 1: in um Bill Parmesan, And I've had carbones and and
Speaker 1: it was good. I don't think it holds a candle
Speaker 1: to Piero's. Bill parm Well, here's the thing, it's a
Speaker 1: different experience entirely right. So if you're looking for the
Speaker 1: old time, authentic Vegas experience, and as Marco says, where
Speaker 1: hits have clearly been planned. Part of the movie Casino
Speaker 1: starring Robert de Niro was shot inside Piero's the Booth.
Speaker 1: If you're a fan of that movie, you will recognize
Speaker 1: the booth at Piero's where a scene was shot. It
Speaker 1: holds a special place in my heart because it was
Speaker 1: the first night that I met Bill Krackenburger. We had
Speaker 1: dinner at Piero's. I've had dinner at Piero's with Roxy
Speaker 1: Roxburrow and Chris Andrews. So for me, it has a
Speaker 1: special place in my heart because I really cherished that
Speaker 1: place because of some memories and to this day, to
Speaker 1: this day, you can see Pia Zadorra perform at Piero's.
Speaker 1: And for those who are wondering who the fuck is
Speaker 1: Pia Zadorra, I would have agreed with you with that sentiment.
Speaker 1: But I happen to know Pia Zadora from when I
Speaker 1: was a kid and she was in Jermaine Jackson's Dynamite video.
Speaker 1: Clearly I was already behind the Piazadora curve then, but
Speaker 1: she still performs there every weekend at Piero's. And it
Speaker 1: is it is located adjacent to the West Gate right
Speaker 1: d Yeah, Convention Center Drive. So that's a good call, Marco.
Speaker 1: Good call on Piero's as well. Um. I've actually been
Speaker 1: upstairs with the owners at Piero's and they have thousands
Speaker 1: of pictures of people who have been through the restaurant
Speaker 1: over the years. Right, it's like every celebrity you can
Speaker 1: imagine from the seventies and eighties. And the only thing
Speaker 1: I remember from it is they have the names of
Speaker 1: everybody on all these pictures, like they named it for
Speaker 1: some reason. And they were showing a picture of uh,
Speaker 1: it was mean Joe Green. Was there was a picture
Speaker 1: of me and Joe Green, but it was labeled Frank
Speaker 1: O'Hara us. And I told the owner. I got and
Speaker 1: I told the owner, I go, hey, by the way,
Speaker 1: and you know who is met a little pitcher to
Speaker 1: point out this This picture has been on the wall
Speaker 1: for decades. I go, hey, that that's not Franco Harris,
Speaker 1: that's actually mean Joe Green. He looks at the picture,
Speaker 1: he looks at me, he looks back at the picture.
Speaker 1: He looks at me, and he goes, who the hell cares?
Speaker 1: And he keeps walking. I'll never get that horrible. If
Speaker 1: you could have done that twenty years ago, you might
Speaker 1: have been sleeping with the fish. Might have been sleeping
Speaker 1: with the fish. Hell cares? All right, um, which brings
Speaker 1: us to and by the way, let me just say
Speaker 1: this about the restaurant recommendations on this podcast. Through the years,
Speaker 1: as Marco points out urban Rye, the Oyster Bar at
Speaker 1: Palace Station, we've also recommended the likes of Yardbird for
Speaker 1: fried chicken over a Venetian. You name the restaurant that
Speaker 1: we have named on this podcast, and through the years,
Speaker 1: still to this day, we get people tweeting us about
Speaker 1: those specific restaurants, and we can't tell you how happy
Speaker 1: we are to get those because it shows that, well
Speaker 1: beyond our football podcast, well beyond our horse racing or
Speaker 1: golf or whatever other podcasts I do throughout the year baseball,
Speaker 1: that this particular episode has legs like none other, like
Speaker 1: the fact that people are still tweeting us about urban
Speaker 1: Rye and Yardbird and Oyster Bar. Oyster Bar was so
Speaker 1: big when we recommended it. After we recommended it, that
Speaker 1: I had people like Jason Weingarten, who's been on this
Speaker 1: podcast and who has been on my Vicent show. We
Speaker 1: were we were in a car. He's like recommending Oyster
Speaker 1: Bar back to me and I'm like, Jason, you heard
Speaker 1: that on my podcast. And Preston, who was driving, is
Speaker 1: like because Jason was like, uh no, I didn't. And
Speaker 1: Preston who's driving, is like, you told me you heard
Speaker 1: it on his podcast, right, right, So people even forget
Speaker 1: where they heard it. So we're we're happy to have
Speaker 1: had that impact, at least as far as the restaurants. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other thing we've obviously had an impact on is
Speaker 1: the underbelly of Las Vegas. And without further ado, I
Speaker 1: think if we've covered all the rest, it's time for
Speaker 1: aces ath annual Underbelly Update in Las Vegas. The floor
Speaker 1: real quickly. I just wanted to add me you didn't
Speaker 1: ask me about the restaurant. I'm sorry for the hookers
Speaker 1: and drugs. I'm skidding, I'm kiding, but I just want
Speaker 1: to say, because I've been on a kick lately, I've
Speaker 1: been going to Geoda's on on the strip. Really just perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just become my spot lately, Like we've been going there,
Speaker 1: like ready to go somewhere else, and then we'll be
Speaker 1: on the strip and I'll see geoday, were like, let's
Speaker 1: just go there, um, just because like a different experience.
Speaker 1: You could sit like where the window is great fine
Speaker 1: dining overlooking the strip, or you could sit like where
Speaker 1: the bar area is, and it's like you're in a
Speaker 1: totally different restaurant. But it's like hip, good looking people.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a great vibe. I've really like,
Speaker 1: really like that place. And and if you have if
Speaker 1: money is not an object, or you come out here
Speaker 1: and you make a score, or you have something special
Speaker 1: to celebrate with with your loved on, honestly, it is
Speaker 1: so worth it because I you know, I've gone the
Speaker 1: restaurant where to so many high hand one especially when
Speaker 1: I was gambling at table games. They give you, you know,
Speaker 1: so many comps um, but so many times I paid
Speaker 1: for it, and you just there's nothing worse than than
Speaker 1: leaving disappointed, you know what I mean, Like paying a
Speaker 1: couple hundred dollars for a meal, going in with the expectation,
Speaker 1: I have no problem doing it, but I expect to
Speaker 1: be you know, fulfilled completely and then leaving and being
Speaker 1: like we gotta stop it in and out because I'm
Speaker 1: still hungry. And that's experience. Yes, there's nothing worse than that.
Speaker 1: But Joel robu shan at if I hope I'm pronouncing it,
Speaker 1: you know, correctly because I'm close to alliterate, probably um
Speaker 1: at MGM grant. It's our only like three Michelin Star
Speaker 1: two or three Michelin Star restaurants here in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And I went once. It was you know, special uh occasion,
Speaker 1: and it was like satisfied every expectation, the elegance, the ambiance,
Speaker 1: the class, just the way they serve, the way they
Speaker 1: take care of you, the food, the presentation, everything. You're
Speaker 1: gonna pay top dollar, but at least they're gonna leave
Speaker 1: there and say, okay, this is if I'm gonna pay,
Speaker 1: you know, a thousand dollars for two people without drinks,
Speaker 1: like this is what it should be like. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm saying people that pay that kind of money, this
Speaker 1: is why they do it for this experience. It kind
Speaker 1: of makes sense if you know, to celebrate it that
Speaker 1: way and nothing worse, Like I said, to spend that
Speaker 1: money and be like that was terrible. Giada is a
Speaker 1: great cause. I went to Giada's it's opening week. I
Speaker 1: have not been back since, but it was great then.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I haven't been back, but it
Speaker 1: was awesome. Joe tell it's the spot, yeah, Joe Rubishan.
Speaker 1: I went to once. I remember it being stupid expensive
Speaker 1: and I made the mistake of letting somebody tell me
Speaker 1: what's a order. So that was a mistake, but I
Speaker 1: should give it another try. You should. Yeah. By the way, steakhouses,
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of us have ever gone.
Speaker 1: I haven't ever gone. And I worked there. Michael's at
Speaker 1: South Point Mark Cool. Have you ever been there? I have.
Speaker 1: I went once for my birthday and uh, funny story
Speaker 1: for that. I you know how you get comps playing
Speaker 1: poker or whatever? I went, uh, and I had had
Speaker 1: a few hours and I went to the deskt to
Speaker 1: get my cop voucher, you know, to go to and
Speaker 1: because the guy goes, where are you going? And he says,
Speaker 1: you've got thirty five dollars and comps from poker playing?
Speaker 1: And said, okay, yeah, I just put that and I
Speaker 1: said I'm going to Michael's because well that will get
Speaker 1: you a big potato. That's right, it was. It was
Speaker 1: fabulous when you get there, at least when I went there,
Speaker 1: like Lorie's going, what though, there was a bowl of
Speaker 1: fruit on the table. I mean a big bowl of
Speaker 1: fruit for like a family. Uh, just sitting there is
Speaker 1: the centerpiece of the table. When you sat down, and
Speaker 1: you've got about four people working in your table, the
Speaker 1: you know, the waiter, a couple of bus boys. Um,
Speaker 1: your glass. You take a simple water in your glass,
Speaker 1: gets you know, a quarter of the way down somebody's
Speaker 1: they're filling it up. It was an incredible experience. It
Speaker 1: is expensive, not as expensive as the place that h
Speaker 1: Ace just talked about, but it is a phenomenal meal
Speaker 1: and it's been a staple here in Vegas for a
Speaker 1: very very long time. Um, Michaels I believe carried over
Speaker 1: from its days. Uh, it's wasn't it it? Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: what you're what you're saying is correct, and never worry
Speaker 1: the old Barbary Coast well Michael, Yeah, Michael gone. When
Speaker 1: he made the trade to get the South Point Hotel,
Speaker 1: which at the time was called the South Coast, the
Speaker 1: stipulation was you have to leave Michaels in there when
Speaker 1: I take over the property. Yeah, so, uh, that's how
Speaker 1: much it meant to him. But as Chris Andrews told me, goes,
Speaker 1: if you're going there, bring two wallets, you know, bring
Speaker 1: two wallets if you're going to uh to Michael's. Alright, Ace,
Speaker 1: you're ready to do this. I'm all over on that.
Speaker 1: All right? What's new in actionable information for late night
Speaker 1: activities in last fas? Yes, well listen, so we're not
Speaker 1: repeating the same stuff over and over and people look
Speaker 1: forward to the next year. Uh, I'd rather than go
Speaker 1: over the strip clubs. Uh, don't waste your money if
Speaker 1: what you're really trying to do is get laid tight.
Speaker 1: We we covered all that. We covered how to do
Speaker 1: it cheaply, how to go upscale and all that. We
Speaker 1: we covered different sites to find escorts, porn stars, whatever
Speaker 1: you want. We've done all that over the last three
Speaker 1: or four years. So I highly recommend going back and
Speaker 1: listening because none of that's changed. If you're coming out here,
Speaker 1: you know, for for a little fun that way. Um.
Speaker 1: But but what I want to discuss is something I'm
Speaker 1: seeing starting to evolve in that industry and taking over,
Speaker 1: and I don't understand how this generation is allowing that
Speaker 1: to happen. And it's kind of like I'm seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like an old person that's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: the world's going to ship and it is. And when
Speaker 1: you see it like that, I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: on social media now the and please, I hope any
Speaker 1: woman that's in that industry doesn't take it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: I have the utmost respect for them. Um, what they
Speaker 1: do is awesome. They provide a service. It's it's an
Speaker 1: agreement between adults. Um, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: a it's a mutual, beneficial arrangement. So I have no
Speaker 1: problem with it. What I do have a problem with
Speaker 1: and it's not even their fault. It's the fault of
Speaker 1: the jerk offs that are allowing this to happen. I
Speaker 1: do it too if I was them. But all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I'm starting to see luxury companion, luxury provider
Speaker 1: it girlfriend experience. That you don't go to a hooker
Speaker 1: for a girlfriend experience Number one, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I mean that it's like you go to like your
Speaker 1: girlfriend for a hooker experience. You don't go to the
Speaker 1: hooker for the girlfriend experience. That makes no sense number one.
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, dude, if you need your ego stroke
Speaker 1: to have to pay someone a couple of thous and
Speaker 1: dollars to sit across from you and act like they
Speaker 1: give a funk about what you're saying or or stroking
Speaker 1: about how great you are, so then they could get
Speaker 1: their money, finish their job, go off and tell the
Speaker 1: next student, next student, next dude, and you and your
Speaker 1: mind have created this great love story that that doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: It just don't make sense to me. And and you
Speaker 1: see it's it's they're charging like ten thou dollars to
Speaker 1: stay like a night, like that's a big deal. She'll
Speaker 1: stay the night, but you gotta give her like six
Speaker 1: hours of sleep and uh meal's and you gotta pay
Speaker 1: for all this and all that. And to me, honestly, dude,
Speaker 1: all bullshit a sign. It's not even the money because unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I've been betting since I was a child, and I
Speaker 1: lost respect for money when I was real young. And
Speaker 1: if I didn't have someone that held onto my money,
Speaker 1: I'd be broke every other week. I mean, I have
Speaker 1: no value for it. I admit that my I know
Speaker 1: where I'm flawed, and I found people that are strong
Speaker 1: to stop that I'm happening. But to make a long
Speaker 1: story short, so it has nothing to do with with
Speaker 1: cheapness or anything, but it's what are you searching for? Dude?
Speaker 1: What do you look? What need do you need fulfilled
Speaker 1: that you're willing to pay a prostitute? Not it's not
Speaker 1: a normal chick, it is that's this is what she does,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna pay her thousands of dollars to come
Speaker 1: there and act like she's your girlfriends. You know what
Speaker 1: didn't we didn't didn't you talk about this last year
Speaker 1: on the show the Girlfriend Experienced, Yes, but you don't understand.
Speaker 1: Now it's got me to the luxury companions Like girlfriend
Speaker 1: Experience got you opened the door. Now it's fly me
Speaker 1: around the world to have you seen it. They have
Speaker 1: little lists of the gifts they want, the Gucci bags,
Speaker 1: the lu Baton shoes, all this ship and dudes are
Speaker 1: eating this up and actually paying for it because I
Speaker 1: know these girls ain't hiring, you know, private jets so
Speaker 1: they could take a picture by themselves. I know they're
Speaker 1: not buying six pairs of Gucci shoes on their own,
Speaker 1: and but they're taking pictures that and putting them out
Speaker 1: there like it's just honestly, like I just I need this,
Speaker 1: Like this is like a public service announcement to the
Speaker 1: young people that are listening. The funk is wrong with you, dude,
Speaker 1: change your course. Girl experience, that's why. It's what opened
Speaker 1: the door for this back in the day. Bro, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Like a sex worker was a sex worker. That's what
Speaker 1: she provided. That's what that's it, that's it. She wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to be your psychologist, she wasn't supposed to be
Speaker 1: your girlfriend. She was none of those things. Friend, has
Speaker 1: shifted in our society that all of a sudden, all
Speaker 1: over social media and have these chicks are ugly. That's
Speaker 1: the fucking crazy part. Like I could see if it
Speaker 1: was like total dimes, but half of them are just
Speaker 1: sell and and to me, it's we've allowed like that
Speaker 1: that we've allowed this to happen. And it's gonna get
Speaker 1: to a point how to know how they're even gonna
Speaker 1: how you could even come back from this. Now you're
Speaker 1: saying the girlfriend experience was a gateway drug to this
Speaker 1: luxury thing, and you don't forget it opened the door
Speaker 1: and so and so these girls, you know how big
Speaker 1: it is, gil No, I don't have to do it.
Speaker 1: Don't allow one of them follow one on Twitter? Just one,
Speaker 1: all right, give us one account where it takes you,
Speaker 1: give us see where. Seriously, you will be so surprised. Dude,
Speaker 1: I was shocked and to me, you know, like that
Speaker 1: stuff never phases me. Okay, so you on your Twitter
Speaker 1: post an account that we can follow, because this is interesting.
Speaker 1: So wait a minute. So they list these girls list
Speaker 1: a series of expensive gifts, and guys get off on
Speaker 1: buying it for them. Absolutely. In fact, there is a
Speaker 1: whole subculture. I found this out while I told you,
Speaker 1: I've been sitting on this for ten months losing my mind.
Speaker 1: I found out about this like a year ago that
Speaker 1: there's actually dudes who just this is what they do.
Speaker 1: These chicks just take their money. The actually that you
Speaker 1: pay them to call you a piece of ship like
Speaker 1: the just like no lie, like it isn't like S
Speaker 1: and M. It's like S and M for your mind
Speaker 1: as in, like they'll call you and tell you what
Speaker 1: a scumbag piece of ship you are and you need
Speaker 1: to empty your fucking wallet tonight. I want you to
Speaker 1: to send me western you me a hundred dollars and
Speaker 1: like he's getting off, he's jerking off here, and how
Speaker 1: he's got to send her this money. That's sucking crazy
Speaker 1: to me. Like there is honestly tons of them out
Speaker 1: there that they don't it's not even providing sex anymore.
Speaker 1: It's not they don't even have to now, they could
Speaker 1: just skype you. I mean, it's gone to way out
Speaker 1: of bounds to what I grew up in too. Like
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see stuff. Honestly, I can't even understand,
Speaker 1: Like who green light at this? That yeah, that it's
Speaker 1: okay that you're just some dudes are that sick that
Speaker 1: they want to chick to just sit there and insult
Speaker 1: them and take their money without providing anything for them
Speaker 1: except humiliation. Like I guess that there's something wrong with
Speaker 1: you mentally. But what happened was then your normal trip hookers,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, the ones that we're just
Speaker 1: the ones we love, let's put it that way. Are
Speaker 1: are are they're they're picking some of these things up
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's the whole it's all
Speaker 1: starting to change. Oh, I see your worried people are
Speaker 1: getting ideas, you know what I'm saying, And that's why
Speaker 1: you're you're starting to see dudes getting robbed, dudes getting hustled,
Speaker 1: Dudes fucking sending money over through the internet, sending money,
Speaker 1: you know, to like deposits. They want deposits, they want
Speaker 1: air flights and rooms and all that upfront, Like this's
Speaker 1: a big scam on the internet, dude, our faith. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, most of these times with our annual
Speaker 1: Veggas lifestyle show, I react either uncomfortably to what you're saying,
Speaker 1: or I'm just ashamed, I'm embarrassed. Whatever it is. This
Speaker 1: is one I'm kind of just my face is contorted
Speaker 1: into like what the I'm telling you. That's why I
Speaker 1: said this is gonna be there. I don't want to disappoint,
Speaker 1: but this is a great chance to talk about it
Speaker 1: because when you come here, that's what you're gonna find.
Speaker 1: Like I'm telling you, if you search online before here,
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna find. Like the shore, you're gonna
Speaker 1: find the like I said, the freelancers, the young girls
Speaker 1: that just got off the bus that don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing yet, thousands of them around here. What I'm
Speaker 1: talking about is if you try to plan it, if
Speaker 1: you try to organize it now and and look ahead,
Speaker 1: you're in for all a very long ride, dude. It
Speaker 1: isn't as easy as it was before. And like I said,
Speaker 1: the g F E opened that door and now it's
Speaker 1: just noball gil. So many half accounts are fake with
Speaker 1: fake pictures, fake stories, selling this this fantasy either over
Speaker 1: the phone or over internet and then convincing dudes to
Speaker 1: send them money so they could meet and all. And
Speaker 1: it happens over and over and over acount many people
Speaker 1: could really be doing this, like how many? How many
Speaker 1: dudes would really like enjoy this? So you have no
Speaker 1: to have to see that many online has got to
Speaker 1: be a lot. It's a whole industry all that you
Speaker 1: see now it's a PSC not a GFC. There's the
Speaker 1: porn star experience, dude. And the girls that are triple X.
Speaker 1: I hate calling them porn stars there, they're films sucking whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. It's it's funny you mentioned that, because they do.
Speaker 1: And I stayed at the hard Rock for years and
Speaker 1: practically lived there, so I was there during many a convention.
Speaker 1: They really do fashion themselves as big time celebrities, don't they. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that makes me really do really and and you
Speaker 1: see that you know, and now that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: where though you saw are on film. So wow, before
Speaker 1: I just was able to jerk off store or now
Speaker 1: I could actually touch her. Okay, I'll pay whatever. Why
Speaker 1: do I do this show every year? It's great if
Speaker 1: that's what you want to do, do more power to you,
Speaker 1: and it is what it is. But be very cautious.
Speaker 1: What's online like that. That is the most important thing
Speaker 1: about this entire rant is don't get suckered before you
Speaker 1: come out here, because if you go looking for prior
Speaker 1: to come in to Las Vegas, the chances of you
Speaker 1: getting ripped off or worse, not getting ripped off, but
Speaker 1: getting being There's nothing worse than being disappointed than having
Speaker 1: such anticipation about something that's gonna happen that never does.
Speaker 1: To me, it's even worse than getting ripped off. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so I mean, you're better off getting here and
Speaker 1: then seeing for your own eyes and hearing it from
Speaker 1: the person's mouth than setting it all up online. Because
Speaker 1: all that g f E experience, porn star experience, all
Speaker 1: those social media dude, they got tens of thousands of followers. Dude,
Speaker 1: as opposed to a pre planned trick role is what
Speaker 1: you're saying basically exactly exactly because those are set up
Speaker 1: as businesses, man. I mean a lot of them are
Speaker 1: them that way? See how hipley I use that term
Speaker 1: trick roll it. I used it properly in a sentence.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of. Uh yeah. And then honestly, dude,
Speaker 1: I just wanted it because I'll see it. I'll forward
Speaker 1: to you, so you see, I'm seeing it everywhere Gil,
Speaker 1: and it's you're starting to see it because I'm out
Speaker 1: at night. I used to do girls. I used to
Speaker 1: mess up, you know. I mean I'm always out at
Speaker 1: night a lot of times. Not not as much anymore,
Speaker 1: and so I I know a lot. I was actually
Speaker 1: I was gonna maybe next year to bring a girl
Speaker 1: from the night on on the talk with us. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a great idea, that would be
Speaker 1: that would yeah, when we do this segment, I think
Speaker 1: that would be I mean, you to hear it from
Speaker 1: their mouth. I think that would be the best. And
Speaker 1: then there's a couple of girls I know that would
Speaker 1: definitely come on, uh and listen. This is a reputable podcast.
Speaker 1: I've actually had a true adult film star on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I know that's what I'm saying, and I'll bring you
Speaker 1: a hooker, you know, a real order dude. You're not.
Speaker 1: But in all seriousness, that was girls because I do
Speaker 1: talk to them. And maybe when you're a gambler and
Speaker 1: you're in that life, you meet people that are in
Speaker 1: that life. Um, and I'm telling you girls I used
Speaker 1: to joke around with that were like, you know, they
Speaker 1: charged the two hundred all blow job or the three
Speaker 1: four or five to go upstairs get laid type ship
Speaker 1: are saying like a thousand dollars to you know, hang out, talk,
Speaker 1: take me to dinner. That dudes are giving them that
Speaker 1: and then you could negotiate something further because the girlfriend
Speaker 1: experience blossomed into thinking it's a girlfriend experience man. And
Speaker 1: because I I don't think I was adamant enough last
Speaker 1: year to shut that door. Look what happened. I almost
Speaker 1: feel responsible because you feel like you've spawned this industry
Speaker 1: as that happening. I didn't. I didn't push it. I
Speaker 1: didn't like get everyone out there activists to stop it.
Speaker 1: You know I should have pushed last year like sashtag
Speaker 1: anti GFC baby, you know what I mean. It wasn't
Speaker 1: pushed well for me. I'm fine, but I'm old. I'm
Speaker 1: talking to you younger dudes. I mean, I feel bad.
Speaker 1: I feel bad. What a men you are? What a
Speaker 1: mitzva this was? You know? I I typically learned something,
Speaker 1: but this is not news to me. So oh really,
Speaker 1: thank you? Can you? Can you please elaborate? Mark? I
Speaker 1: might have texted Gil a length that he can look
Speaker 1: at just now. Yeah, thank you, sir. I wish could
Speaker 1: you too stop texting Mark? Are you appalled? No? I
Speaker 1: don't care. People that they're people have their own things
Speaker 1: that make them happy. God bless, have a good time.
Speaker 1: Do whatever you want. It's not my money, not my life. Listen,
Speaker 1: both of you. Stop texting me stuff that people are
Speaker 1: gonna like oversee on my phone and be like, oh
Speaker 1: look what girls? Yeah? Please, Ace, you have provided us
Speaker 1: with a great editorial. We all take it into account.
Speaker 1: Don't fall for the porn star experience. Thanks for having me,
Speaker 1: oh as always. Thanks something there for everybody. Vegas Lifestyle
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Speaker 1: other stuff. If you will, I hope that something in
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Speaker 1: come into town and you try it out, and if
Speaker 1: you enjoy it, we'd love to hear about it. For
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Speaker 1: I write about two or three things a day. You
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Speaker 1: Matt Brown has a podcast for for them, he does,
Speaker 1: and that is the Lines Podcast. He does a great
Speaker 1: job of like industry related things with sports betting legalization,
Speaker 1: So I definitely recommend that you follow his stuff as well.
Speaker 1: A real a real spot that like people in the
Speaker 1: industry to keep up, actually uses a resource to make
Speaker 1: sure they're on their p's and qys with that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. All right, Meltzer, appreciate it. Enjoy Vegas still
Speaker 1: even despite sports betting legalization and other jurisdictions, the place
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Speaker 1: the information with cautions,