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Speaker 1: Phill Gold Farmer is here. Now you get close to

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Speaker 1: that microphone. Let me tell you how important Phil is

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Speaker 1: to us. Over the years. You've always welcomed us here

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Speaker 1: at the Fountain Blue with open arms. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for making that mistake every time.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: It's Elvis, No Phil, your are there's the chief operating officers?

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Speaker 1: Is he?

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Speaker 2: Oo? Yes, that's correct.

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Speaker 1: Okay. That means you run this place.

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Speaker 2: Well, not only this place, but many other hotels we

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Speaker 2: have around the nation. But this is my favorite. Not

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Speaker 2: supposed to have a favorite child, but this is my favorite, okay.

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Speaker 2: And we've got so many stories to remind you guys of,

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Speaker 2: like slip sliding on the grass outside.

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Speaker 1: That was the k y slipping slide. That's exactly astro

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Speaker 1: class slip and slide. Sorry about that. The grass still

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Speaker 1: doesn't growing there.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: We've got videos of everything, yes, you know of the

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Speaker 1: One of the many things you love about Phil is

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Speaker 1: you can walk around this is significant place and he

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Speaker 1: can tell you over here is where Frank Sinatra did this,

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Speaker 1: over here is where Marilyn Monroe did that. The history

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Speaker 1: behind this place is just so rich that must turn

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Speaker 1: you on every time you want to your own front doors.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's great.

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Speaker 2: We've got the Sinatra Hallway there with all these photographs

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Speaker 2: from movies and shows that he did. Here. We had

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Speaker 2: the Omega TIMEX Show live in our ballroom here with

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Speaker 2: Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, etc. So the history is

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Speaker 2: really valuable to us, but also the future. So this

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Speaker 2: year we opened up a brand new Just last week

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Speaker 2: we cut the ribbon on one hundred million dollar Coastal

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Speaker 2: Convention Center right out. So it's amazing. We've had our

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Speaker 2: first parties there during these holidays, so you guys have

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Speaker 2: to come and see that as well.

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Speaker 1: Well. Thank you so much for allowing us in here,

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Speaker 1: and we can't wait to come back. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is our home here, and you know, just like artists

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Speaker 1: love playing the Garden in York City, artists love playing

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Speaker 1: New Year's Eve at the Fountain Blue and it has

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Speaker 1: been doing they've been doing that going back all of

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Speaker 1: us were born right and this year with Calvin Harris, hello,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big, big, big night.

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Speaker 2: We decided to go really big. So Calvin's here help

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Speaker 2: be doing the countdown at New Year's We'll have thousands

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Speaker 2: of people out on this pool scape. We've got all

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Speaker 2: kinds of extra special surprises this year. As matter of fact,

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Speaker 2: one of the things I brought you all is some

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Speaker 2: champagne with perieue and you could pop that this morning

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Speaker 2: in and let loose a little million.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't tell us we only drink on festive ocations.

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Speaker 1: This is a beautiful champagne. Wow. You know what Imperry

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Speaker 1: Joey is is all in the lobby. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: guys decorated like that for.

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Speaker 2: For Art Basel that just concluded still and they've been

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Speaker 2: great partners, decorated the place that amazing dinner and all

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Speaker 2: kind of shows. It was just a great basle. This

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Speaker 2: is literally the best year we've ever had, and we're

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Speaker 2: entering it with Calvin Harris and our brand new convention center.

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Speaker 2: And I'd be remiss if I didn't say it's also

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Speaker 2: the first full year of Las Vegas. So we opened

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Speaker 2: up this fabulous, fabulous hotel different than anything else in Vegas.

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Speaker 2: It's modern, it's hip, it's cool, it's got lived nightclub,

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Speaker 2: it's got the best restaurant, thirty four food and beverage outlets.

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Speaker 2: You have to go out and see Las Vegas by

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Speaker 2: Fountain Blue.

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Speaker 1: Nate was there. I took you for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: twelve dollars of your money there film Wow, what they

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Speaker 1: call a whale.

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Speaker 2: I might need to take that champagne.

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Speaker 1: So Gondhi, Danielle, how much do you love being here?

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Speaker 1: And in Phil? Come on, Phil, give us You always

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Speaker 1: give us like a tidbit of history. Like you talk

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Speaker 1: about the bow tie logo. They see the bow tie

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Speaker 1: logo on his lapel. Yeah, I mean that's you see that.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like the Mickey Mouse here is at Disney.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's iconic. We see it every all over

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Speaker 1: the hotel. Talk about that little bow tie and how

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Speaker 1: much it means to you.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's about the people here. Really. We have

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Speaker 2: over two thousand team members and I always say, you know,

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Speaker 2: if you can't drink the kool aid, work for somebody else.

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Speaker 2: We take such great care of our people. You talked

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Speaker 2: about the lobby early in the morning. We need this

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Speaker 2: place to be pristine. It's iconic. There's only one Felt Blue.

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Speaker 2: It's like the Plaza New York or the World Off.

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Speaker 2: This is the place to be the place to work.

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Speaker 2: And we went it in their heart. We want our

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Speaker 2: team members to take the best care of guests, and

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Speaker 2: that's what we do every day. And that's why we're

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Speaker 2: locking you all up. You're staying here for good.

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Speaker 1: I'm sharing a room with the ghost of Frank Sinatra.

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Speaker 1: I think that was him in bed.

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Speaker 2: By the way. Alas is one story you haven't told yet.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I tell it every time you need to. Oh Lord,

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Speaker 1: talk about which gloom we were conceived?

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Speaker 2: Then?

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Speaker 1: Well, this is the original crescent shaped hotel over here.

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Speaker 1: That's the presidential suite back in the nineteen sixties, was

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Speaker 1: up there on the left, and it still is in

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Speaker 1: that room I was conceived. Oh boy, everybody knows. And

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Speaker 1: now now the people who checked us in also no,

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Speaker 1: so does anyone he has encountered on our way down

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Speaker 1: the waiter last night, who served us dinner? They know.

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Speaker 1: Nobody knows. Everyone knows. How proud am I to come

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Speaker 1: home to where I was conceived? Could I walk you

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Speaker 1: step by step through how that?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: No, no, yes, I'd love to hear it kind of No. No, no,

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Speaker 1: there's there's more to the story. It started at the

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Speaker 1: bar where my husband Alex. No no, no, My husband,

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Speaker 1: Alex's grandfather was the manager of the bars at the

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Speaker 1: Fountain Blue at the time, so Alex's grandfather got them drunk.

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Speaker 1: They went upstairs and here we are. This is straight Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell that story again next year when we come out.

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Speaker 2: It's always great to have you guys here. It's a

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Speaker 2: you're the best, this is your second home, and please

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Speaker 2: come more off it, and well, of course visit at

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, we'll just go back and forth between the

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Speaker 1: two on the Fountain Blue jet. There are so many

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Speaker 1: people like Yvette and Javier and Tanya and Victor and

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Speaker 1: Robert and the general manager of the restaurant. Oh but yes,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Mirabella just a second. We had dinner

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Speaker 1: at the restaurant, Michael White's place right here. Amazing, another

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Speaker 1: another home run in the Fountain Blow.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. We brought in chef Michael White, Michelin star

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Speaker 2: rated chef. The food is the best, you know. Right

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Speaker 2: now this morning they're cooking and preparing the pasta, homemade

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Speaker 2: fresh pasta every single day. It's the greatest food, the

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Speaker 2: greatest Italian food, at least in South Florida's faris.

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Speaker 1: I agree. We've loved Michael freeers and now he's a

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Speaker 1: superstar here. Phil. Thank you so much, it's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Have you whatever you need, we're here for you.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day and we will now keep in

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Speaker 1: mind Thout Blue is always here for you, especially if

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Speaker 1: you live up north like us and you need to

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Speaker 1: get away from the shivering cold. This is where you

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Speaker 1: will warm up and you'll feel at home. You will

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Speaker 1: never leave the property and there's no need to because

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Speaker 1: it's fabulous. Feel Gold Gold Farm. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being on with us. We love you. Live the

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Speaker 1: fount Blue