Digital Social Hour - Exposing Gambling Scandals & Casino Secrets | Vegas Pauly C DSH #1247

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

🔥 Vegas Pauly C on Casino Secrets, Gambling Scandals & The Truth About Las Vegas 🎰🔥 In this wild and unfiltered episode, we sit down with Vegas Pauly C, a social media personality and insider in the Las Vegas casino world. He breaks down casino secrets, gambling scandals, and the truth about the high-stakes world of Vegas gaming. From exposing sketchy influencers to calling out casino compliance issues, Pauly C isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. We dive into: ✅ The dark side of online gambling influencers ✅ How Vegas casinos handle big money players & compliance laws ✅ The real truth about gambling addiction & casino marketing tricks ✅ Pauly C’s beef with influencers & industry scams ✅ Why Resorts World banned him & what really goes on behind the scenes This episode is packed with controversial takes, insider stories, and real talk about the gaming industry! 📲 Follow Vegas Pauly C & Learn More: 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casinocompwallet/  🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Vegaspaulyc CHAPTERS 📌 00:00 – Vegas Pauly C on Gambling Scandals & Online Casino Drama 📌 05:10 – The Truth About Gambling Addiction & How Casinos Profit 📌 11:25 – Why Resorts World Banned Pauly C & The Backstory 📌 17:40 – Online Gambling Influencers: Fake or Real? 📌 23:55 – The Dark Side of Casino Compliance & Money Laundering 📌 30:10 – How Big Casino Players Get Special Treatment 📌 36:25 – Vegas Pauly C’s Advice for Gamblers & High Rollers 📌 42:40 – How Social Media Changed the Casino Industry 📌 49:00 – Casino Myths & What Really Happens Behind the Scenes 📌 55:30 – How Casinos Keep You Hooked Without You Knowing 📌 01:02:00 – Final Thoughts & What’s Next for Vegas Pauly C 🔥 Apply to Be on the Podcast & Business Inquiries: 🎙 APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application 📩 BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] SPONSORS: SPECIALIZED RECRUITING GROUP: https://www.srgpros.com/ #VegasPaulyC #LasVegas #Gambling #Casinos #HighRoller #VegasLife #CasinoSecrets #DigitalSocialHour #Podcast #ResortsWorld #GamblingAddiction #VegasScams

You have gamblers like him and everybody's watching him and everybody's telling him how great he is and he's basically the narcissist See social media is extremely narcissistic I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim So all of his followers that are willing victims when they see me possibly casting some Negativity towards the grand narcissist who was this kid who plays online for, listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not. I don't care whether it's fake or not.

I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance. So all of his willing victims became mobilized because they're under his spell and they all came after me. All right guys, one of the show's favorite guests is back on Vegas Polysee, let's go. Well hello, hello, hello.

I love him man. Yeah, we get some interesting comments whenever you come on. Oh really? Yeah. Wow. You know, it's interesting because like I was telling you just as a lead up to this, ask anything you want, you know, everything is an honest answer. Like if you're an addict, I think you learn

that you're either gonna be an open book or you're just gonna be the biggest phony in the world. So I just decided to lead with, you know, open book. Yeah, that being said, we'll get straight into it. Okay, get into it. You got some recent beef with this one guy named Exposed. Yeah, can you believe that happened? What happened exactly?

So I got the information that he had been playing at Resorts World and a couple of other places and you know The God's honest truth is that I live right down from resorts world and I have beef with them I got thrown out of there twice I'll tell that story in a second. Yeah, and they have source of funds law in Nevada That is very strict about where did the money come from? So the money comes from a online website called Rubet. And listen, I don't know enough about Rubet to comment on it,

but I know that they can't get licensed in the United States. I know that it's considered an illegal website. And I know that that's where his money comes from. So I addressed it in the video without going into too many specifics. And he contacted me. And a lot of people threatened me pretty bad really like I got a couple of you know pretty serious things that I thought

were serious but I it's like I always tell them let's go show up he's a one guy says I know where you live I said come on come over and the reason for that is not because I'm brave or tough it's just because I want to get it over with I don't want to live with it all over my head 12 hours 24 hours so I got a lot of threats from his people and then I spoke to him and it was just one of these things that you hear out of people's mouths sometimes. And I'm sorry but I consider those lower IQ people when they say this, I don't want your name in my mouth. I don't want my name in your mouth. I don't want my name in your mouth. And so I got a lot of that from him. Why are

you implicating me in this? And the bottom line is that they have to be very careful with source of funds in Nevada, like where did the money come from? So before I made this video, I went to two of the highest ranking casino executives in Las Vegas that I know. Okay, one is number two, one is number four, let's just say. Our Resorts World? No, just casino executives. I told them this story and I said, would you allow someone with this money trail to play in your casino? And they both said that it would have to go to compliance and that it was a very bad look and they're not sure whether or not compliance would pass it

for their places. Like you can't come in with big money if it comes from a strange place. How much did Exposed come in with? I heard he lost a million, a million, and a million. So I guess he lost three million. But the first million, I made a mistake in the video too, the first million was at another casino

and then the second million was at Resorts World. And then the third million was at Red Rock. But listen, I don't want problems with exposed, his followers, it's a news story. You know, they were like, you're defaming him or that's my boy or whatever. Which goes into a whole nother conversation that you only know if you were a gambler

or you really, really knew the psychology of gamblers. You have gamblers like him and everybody's watching him and everybody's telling him how great he is and he's basically the narcissist. See, social media is extremely narcissistic. I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim. So all of his followers that are willing victims, when they see me possibly casting some negativity

towards the grand narcissist who is this kid who plays online for... listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not. I don't care whether it's fake or not. I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance. So all of his willing victims became mobilized because they're under his spell and they all came after me. So he DM'd me and I spoke to him for a while

and I was not getting through to him. And I should have known this because I know exactly the patterns of everyone's behavior in different spaces. I blocked him, immediately put it up on his, I blocked him. I just couldn't listen to his crying anymore. It's like, I'm not gonna feel bad for you, dude. You're over there standing on a 13 against a nine

with $25,000 in the circle. Like, you know, you're gonna lose, I told the kid straight out, I said, you're gonna lose $100,000 an hour the way that you're playing. That's the bottom line. So he wasn't following the book. So he was not following the book, he's playing, they don't even let you vary your bet that much over there when you play that. So I wasn't following the book. So he he was not he was not following the book He's playing hot

They don't even let you vary your bet that much over there when you play that So I said to him you really want to learn how to play blackjack. And of course, he just blows me off So this went up back and forth back. I blocked him He immediately put up on his story that I blocked him and now I look like the big you know P-word and I look like the B and what and it's like I'm 60 years old Searching for the perfect job can be overwhelming. You know it's out there, you just don't know how to find it. The good news, you don't have to do it alone.

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Just call a local office to learn more. Take the next step in your career today at srgpros.com. You know, I didn't even want to do this when I was in my twenties, so I unblocked them. And I said, do you want to talk this out as men? I said, it's a news story. The place has compliance issues. You get your money from a strange place.

It's associated with online gaming, which Nevada regulators cannot stand. Obviously, they won't even allow it in this state. So they certainly don't want to see some international website crypto with some kid. They just don't want it. So in fact, there's another executive I'm going to ask this question to. But that's the bottom line. So I stirred up a hornet's nest. Look, if someone has to come see me because they're watching some 27-year-old kid play online blackjack, come see me.

Wow. I didn't know he sent his army after you. No he didn't. Oh he didn't? No he didn't he's innocent I'm sure. He's an addict I'm sure he's all caught up in the innocence of his addictions. I heard he makes five million dollars a month. I don't know all the money's coming in he's he's innocent but he has followers who love him and they see me possibly casting aspersions at him and so they become mobilized. I mean, look at politics in America. I don't need to tell anyone other than you. I know you live in it.

Absolutely. What do you think of that business model where these online casinos pay these influencers and then? Well, it's very interesting. So I've never addressed this in a video because I'm tired of talking about this stuff over and over again, but you can Google it. Brazil and Turkey arrested the influencers doing that.

Oh, really? They actually put them in jail. Wow. Yeah, because they see it as like, it's sort of shady to start with, and then you're promoting and you're fake playing or you're lying to your following, so that you can Google it.

Like anything I tell you, Brazil and Turkey recently arrested the influencers. And I thought it was funny, like I was gonna do a video on it about it being getting arrested and being an influencer, because I'm in that space, but I just never got around to it. What do I think about the model? Well, I know that Nevada gaming regulators agree with this, because we are having discussions amongst my group.

Stage stuff is not really permissible. Like, you can't go into a casino, and this was a problem in 2005. They did a television show called Casino. And it was Tom and Tim, they took over the Golden Nugget. And there were some discussions amongst the producers. And I only know because somebody who was on set told me, can we stage a hand? Can we put down $10,000 and we turn it into a double down

for the drama? Can we? No, they won't allow it They don't want it on television. So when you ask me that question you know how much of a 27 year old kid betting $100,000 on roulette or whatever he's doing like how much of that could possibly be real it has to be you know, and again, I don't even want to go down this road because I don't want the hate but It's in casino parlance, it's called JDLR,

just doesn't look right. Let's just leave it at that. Yeah, if they're faking the gambling, I'm not a fan of that. But if they're genuinely using their own money gambling. But where did their own money come from? From the casino, right? They're allegedly getting percent cost.

It's still a circle anyway, you look at it. Well, I'll pay you $10 million a month to promote my online casino. But you have to play. And on and on and on. I mean, it's the same, you look at it. Well, I'll pay you $10 million a month to promote my online casino. But you have to play. And on and on and on. I mean, it's the same, you know. If one of the Vegas casinos offered you money, would you feel right taking that?

So if I get offered money by a casino, I just fully disclose it. So I had a situation where I played online and they had given me a few dollars, and I gave the whole thing away to the audience. Because it just becomes too conflicting. So I've been now, spent three years, maybe a year and a half serious,

that I'm trying to find what I would call the fertile void. Where I can get a job, I'm never gonna get a gaming license because I'm a compulsive gambler. So where I can get a job and I can do something that entertains people and then I'm able to make a living and survive because I still don't get paid.

I did get 5,000 a video from Kelshe but. Shout out to Kelshe, they sponsor the podcast as well. Oh cool, okay. You know who does well with this man? Who? Vegas Matt. Yeah but he is, you don't like his model, I like it.

No, he's just better than me. Yeah but he uses his own money. Yeah, he came into it wealthy, I really did not. He's a slot player, which captivated the audience. I'm not a slot player. He's just got more balls and more money than me. I would never put that money into slots like he did. Yeah, well he admittedly is open about how much he loses on slots, which I like too, because you've got to be honest with people.

Listen, when somebody's better than you, what am I gonna say? Shout out to Vegas Mat though, he's been on the show and he's been crushing it, man. Well, he got a million dollar contract from, was it FanDuel or the other one, or DraftKings? He had to get a million dollars. Well, he just hit a million on YouTube.

He gave me a million dollars the other day. Speaking of people I gave a million dollars. Well, I spoke to another, you know, it's funny cause I spoke to someone else in the Vegas, Matt Space, no names. He had contacted me and he actually gave me all his numbers and he told me that his revenue, top line revenue was a million nine. Holy crap.

I don't know whether that was just YouTube or everything. So he told me his top line revenue was a million nine, but that he gambles so much money and loses so much money and is building a staff. And he's the kind of guy who has that mentality. I mean, you know, Jeff Bezos did make a profit from Amazon for like 20 years, right? That mentality.

So he's building his brand and he's building his, but he has a top line of two million and he spends the whole thing. A lot of it gambling. Shout out to him. I know Steve will do it, does that too. Well, but that's again, the internet money, right? Right.

Goes back to that conversation. And that's big money. Yeah, huge money. But I'm in a deal right now with a regulated partner. And my gratitude is off the charts. And I can't talk about it now, but it'll be out in a couple of months. I wouldn't be able to do this if I was in that space like that.

I'm coming into it clean, it's perfect. I love it, man. I just saw you gambling with my boy John Sarasani the other day. Yeah, so Schuyler Dice, shout out to Schuyler Dice. Schuyler Dice is the general manager of the Strat and he contacted me about a year ago. And I always use this term, Steve Winn used to call them gorgeous personalities. So it's someone who just has it. It's someone, he smiles through his face,

he's very authentic. He's really about taking care of the gambler. In fact, the other night at dinner, I heard this the first time out of his mouth. He said that, I've been doing this since I'm 19. I love it, I love this industry. I heard him say that and I kind of knew that. The other guy that just loves this industry is Jonathan Jostle down at the Plaza

And I don't say that because I'm down there all the time or I'm trying to do business with him He said to me when I first met him he goes I've worked 17 years in this industry I've never worked a day in my life. Isn't this incredible? But Skyler dies cut from the same mold. So I said Skyler I said, can I play crapless craps live in your casino? He said absolutely this was about six or eight months ago. And to play Crapless Craps, you come in with five or $10,000 and you can definitely lose it.

When I played six or eight months ago, I played with 5,000, I ended up with three. I took the hit at two, I still had some liquidity at the time. But honestly, I'll just be straight out honest with you, I'm broke off my ass doing this. Like I'm not able to monetize. I just borrowed money from a very close friend,

a lot of money to make it through to what is theoretically my first paycheck. So I can't really afford to gamble live like that. So John Sarasani said, can you set me up? Absolutely. I knew him. I liked the big energy. I liked that he's a gambler. I met him, he. I like that. He's a gambler. You know, I met him

He's six foot five. He's in really great shape You know, here's a point I want to make about him. That's important I see a lot of the comments like on my chat are like, you know Oh, he's so full of himself or or he's got an ego or whatever But I'd like to ask the audience and I'm serious if you were six five Right and had his face were in the kind of shape that he's in, and had whatever he's got, I don't care whether it's a million dollars

or 20 million dollars, but I know he's living more like he's got 20 million dollars, and you were that guy, like, he tries to be humble. He tries to be a sweet guy. But think about it, wake up tomorrow as him, and take a look in the mirror, and be humble. He does try, you know, people should know that he's not like

this bad guy. Yeah, he's big on camera. Yeah. The guy's got it. You know, it reminds me, it reminds me of these girls that are just so attractive. And then you'll hear guys talking in the corner. Oh, she's a bitch.

Oh, she's a, maybe she has to be just to make it through the day. Can you understand that? No, I do. I think on the internet, there'll always be those jealousy type people. I know, but in real life, in real life, this is really old man advice.

In real life, if you're a guy 25, 30, 35 years old, and you're just a guy, you're an average guy, these beautiful women are bothered all day long. I have empathy for that, that they have to, by the way, I'm not virtue signaling. I always thought about how annoying it must be to have all these guys coming up to you all the time. Yeah. Well now it's even worse. They get hundreds of DMS. Oh, I know. You know what's funny? And of course some of them are cashing in on it. Good for them.

Yeah. I mean, if you were a girl, you know, it'd be tempting. I don't think it was your podcast. It was another podcast and they had two girls sitting there and they were attractive and the conversation was, why would you ever go to college if you're an attractive girl? That was actual conversation that came up on my TikTok and I'm just like, as an old man, it's almost painful to watch.

I love it, man. We gotta talk about your other drama with Mr. Perez Hilton who just came on the show. What happened there? You know, the thing about Mr. Perez Hilton who just came on the show. What happened there? You know, the thing about Mr. Irrelevant is this. You know, and I always tell people on the podcast, he just doesn't get me angry. Like, I did do one video where I put him crying

in the middle of the video, full disclosure, but I don't wake up in the morning and think to myself, I'm going to the gym today, I'm gonna work so hard, I'm gonna show Perez Hilton that I'm a winner, I'm not a loser, I'm gonna show Perez Hilton that people really talk to me. He just doesn't inspire me that way, and I think it's because I really know in my heart

from his behaviors that he's really hurting. And then, you know, he hasn't had it easy, I'm sure. He has an alternative lifestyle. I mean, I think everybody's aware of that. How hard was that in the 80s? Really hard. So think about the pain that he has. So I am, and he's about 50, you know, and he,

you know, my relationship with him started funny because he DM'd me. I would put up a video about Las Vegas and he had 5 or 6,000 followers on Instagram and he had his millions of followers on his other platforms but he sort of was like trying to get traction in Vegas and I didn't know any of this at the time and so he started a Vegas TikTok or a Vegas Instagram and I would do a video and he would say, he would either repost it or he would say, good job. And at first maybe I thought it was a fake account, but he, 20 times, I made a video of him doing this,

20 times he posted video and I wrote, good job and thank you and heart and the hands. Because I was thankful, I was thankful that Mr. Irrelevant actually noticed me and was posting. I go to bed one night and finally I said to my girlfriend after about the 20th time you reposted one of our videos, I said, look honey, Mr. Irrelevant knows who I am. And this is a little earlier in my social media career.

She says, what are you talking about? She goes, that's a fake account. He doesn't know who you are. And I went to bed like, I was kinda feeling good and I went to bed like this big and I thought to myself, he doesn't know who I am. He's, you know, he's, he's Mr. irrelevant. I almost slipped up there. He's Mr. irrelevant. He doesn't know who I am. And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with taking that pain. Side story, because as an addict, when you get that shot of pain from somebody,

about 15 minutes later in my body, adrenaline hit turns into dopamine it's a precursor to dopamine so maybe I was hurt for like 15 minutes but after that I'm like oh you know I slept good that night I felt good when I woke up the next day because I got that shot of dopamine before I went to sleep so time goes by and he keeps giving me the hands give me this and one day the internet is so smart of course it sends me the algorithm. And it's Mr. Irrelevant talking about Paul El Cantino, who's a casino host in Connecticut, who stole points from players and got caught and got fired, may have gotten probation

or something like that. And of course, Mr. Irrelevant's video immediately is VegasPaulyC has a secret. He's really from Connecticut. He's really a casino secret. He's really from Connecticut. He's really a casino host. He's really a thief or whatever. And I just lose it, not angry, just laughing, because I know the story, because I've read every story

on gaming for the last 40 years. And you know that if I see a story about a casino host with the same name as me, that's gonna be seared into my memory, of course. And I also was laughing, because I was a customer at Foxwoods. So he was a host and I was a customer. I didn't know him but so I immediately you know I'm so low tech. I immediately take my phone and make a video of my phone and you know put it up on the internet. Look at this idiot. What a jerk. I'm first of all I'm 10 years older

than this guy. I'm Paul D. Contino, I'm not Paul L. Contino. I'm from Long Island, not Rhode Island. And I just excoriate him because, you know, and that was when the whole thing started. And then from then on we've been like, you know, but I'm not angry with him. I don't know why he can't stop, I can stop. Like I don't wake up in the morning and think,

oh, I wonder what he's doing. So I go, no, he just doesn't. He doesn't seem like the type of guy that lets stuff like this go, to be honest. I'm okay with it. He's in the business of that. You know, he's got to report on it. He's never gonna get me because I work so clean.

I'm in a monogamous relationship for seven years. So even though I have that little job at the Peppermint Hippo, one night, I mean. I saw a post about that actually. I hide in the other room. Like I my age and believe me and I was in there hardcore until I was about 47. I was in there one night when I was 47 and four guys across the across the bar from me they see me talking to a young girl she probably was 23 right 22 23 and she's really doing her job which is basically

to get my money so she's flirting with me and I'm standing over there. Now I'm 47, not only am I 47, but I'm bald and I was obese at the time. It was right before I lost a lot of weight. So I'm 230, I'm standing over there and I look like an idiot. And they start denigrating me from across the bar and they're telling her, get away from that old man.

What's wrong with that old man? And I swear to you, this is what's funny about it. It's at 47, it was the first time I was ever called an old man. What's wrong with that old man? And I swear to you, this is what's funny about it. It's a at 47. It was the first time I was ever called an old man. So I'm looking around like this. Who's the old man? I'm not the old man. I was the old man. And I was like, you know what, maybe I got to take a little step back from this whole adult bar thing. You know, and I did. And by time I was 50, I had already wasted maybe a million dollars at the strip club at least Because I was making I was well my very first girlfriend No, I thought my very my dad I am gonna tell you a story my very first love Her name was Evie and I was 27 years old and I was making a hundred fifty thousand dollars a year

But you have to remember this is 1991 So that was a lot of money. Take home. Like my taxes got paid at the end of the year by my partner. My partner was an accountant. So I got $3,000 a week take home. So first thing I did was I went over to the Cafe Royale, which is still there. It's in Farmingdale. And I think the guy that used to be the manager is now the owner. His name is John. You know, he'll never see this. And I went over there and he actually knew her and she's up on stage. You know, I mean, I'm just going to tell the story like it is.

I'm 27, I'm awkward, I'm unattractive, I got nothing going on. I never saw a girl with a nice body. Like I never saw that, not like in person, you know. So I look up at her and I'm like, will you please, and it was $50, I'll never forget it. I said, will you please take my $50 and maybe pay attention to me? No, I didn't say that to her, but this is what my brain is saying.

I remember it, exactly. And she took the $50 and she put it in her garter. I was not a veteran of that particular business at the time. I did do 20 hardcore years after that. But at that time, I didn't know. So she comes down and what they do back in the day, I don't know what they do now, they go around to the biggest tippers and sit with them

and pretend to be interested in them, right? So she came down and she sat with me and she pretended to be interested in me. And you know, I'm extremely aggressive in matters of business. And that to me was like a matter of business. Like I had to have her. Like I'd never seen anything like it.

She had brown skin. She had the same color skin as my girlfriend now, although my girlfriend now, her skin is unbelievably beautiful. And I took her down, and you know when you have skin like mine, you definitely want some more. You definitely want some more brown skin.

And I talked my stuff, and she was, you know, she knew that I had money. And so she was you know she knew that I had money and so she you know she was an opportunist and I remember I paid her a thousand dollars a week to be my girl. Holy crap yeah that's a lot. Well because she was dancing and this is a deal that a lot of nerds make when they get together with strippers but I'm going to be the one who's going to tell you about it so it's 1990 it was 90 I met her in 91 but this all took place in yeah 92. I met her in 91. But this all took place in yeah, 92. So I met her in 92. It all took

place in the fall of 92. So she was dancing, but she's who wants to be objectified? Does anybody really? Are strippers really happy doing that? 20% are let's just say maybe 80% are she was 80% who wasn't really thrilled with doing it. So I said to her I said, Look, I'll give you $1,000 a week. So you don't have to do it anymore. You won't feel bad about missing out. She was making between two and three. She settled for the thousand, which I could afford

because I wasn't going there anymore. And we had this agreement. She didn't move in with me immediately, but she moved into right next to me. And away we went. And this is a story because the Mirage interviewed me. I'm sorry, not the Mirage. German television interviewed me in front of the mirage and

I'm standing out there and they're asking me to have my memories of this goes into who what Evie did was doing Whatever my memories of the mirage and I'm like, oh, yeah I came here with my fiancee and she was sleeping with the bartender right in the front when you walk like another this is this Is the innocence of when I'm doing interviews you You would walk in, you would go through the atrium, there was a bar over there to the right. Good looking guy was working there and I caught him sleeping with my fiance at the time. And I'm like telling this to German television, the guy from German television is just rolling his eyes.

I was never able to get a copy of that interview even though I tried to because it was really funny. And Jose the taco guy was taping it but it wasn't good sound but I did put it up on social media because it was the funniest thing ever but the bottom line with her was she got her narcissistic adoration you have to look at where people get their power from and their energy and I will tell you that narcissistic adoration is the most powerful drug in the world and she got her narcissistic adoration from her body and from using her body and from showing it off so yeah she was cheating on me with everybody.

Damn. But the narcissist... The whole timer was a... Yeah, the whole three years. And the last time, the last time I got in the car and I drove to Atlantic City and I knock on the door and I knew she was in there with a guy, but I'm like so dumb.

And they went connecting rooms and he had run into the other room. The next day she admitted it to me. And I went in there and I knew that she was like, you know, obviously, and then I caught them in the middle of the act, it was just ridiculous. But getting back to the narcissistic adoration, because this is important,

social media is so narcissistic. So what happens with me is I finally started putting, and that's another thing Prez didn't have to do. I used his name, see, I got upset for a second. Like a year ago when they were talking about a reality show for me or whatever, he was like, oh, he's too ugly to be on television. So when my producer first came to me,

like six months ago, I was like, ah. Because his girlfriend had asked me if I wanted to be on television. I said, ah, you don't really want me on television. But he put that doubt in my, he put that pain in my mind, because again, he's in pain. So I stayed off of the camera until about eight months ago ten months ago. Now it's like and the reason that narcissistic adoration conversation

became about like what I look like is because now the people know who I am and what I look like. I mean I can tell you on Saturday night I probably took between 20 and 30 pictures and everybody wants me to say Vegas Vegas, Pauly C. That by the end of the night, I was just like, wow, I can't even say it. And then I was hanging out with Dustin Lynch's posse. Wow. So do you know Dustin Lynch's?

The country artist? Yeah, the country artist. So he has a residency at XS. So either his tour manager or his good friend, and this blows my mind. Like they contact me, like, will you hang out with us? You know, we're gonna be at the win. And I'm like, absolutely, I'll come over there.

You got the residency. I know I'm gonna go to XS. You know, I never went to a nightclub for 20 years and no one else has invited. Yeah, I'll tell you that in a second. I'm not humble faking, by the way. These are true stories. So I never went to the XS because I'm a big gambler.

What am I gonna do? Hi, I just spent $12,000 on this table. You know, to a girl. Will you pay attention to me? It's so not cost effective. Like I gotta fake it and I can't fake it and I don't really have $12,000. So to me, the XS was always like, wow.

Now I'm not angry, you know? I'm not angry about this. I wonder what it's like in there. And then they invited me for New Year's. In fact, I saw Randy, shout out to Randy Tomas, wherever you are, great guy, he's a stage manager there. I ran into him again when I went with Dustin Lynch's group. So they brought me in and we had dinner together

and I met some really cool people that are like in his group. He's got a pretty cool group. But the whole night I was getting like a tremendous amount of narcissistic adoration. But what I was gonna tell you is why the Vegas Poli-C was even more unbearable by the end of the night. There were two guys in his group that kept saying it on it.

Like every spin of the dice, I'm sorry, every spin of the wheel, every roll, every turn of the card. And I was just like, I love it, but I love it. Like a couple times a day, I love it. I feel that, man. That's funny. Yeah, XS is a good club. I've been there.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm sure you get in no problem. But for me, it was, you know, I had to wait until I got a little traction. Getting into the easy part, the table part, like you said, you're dropping 5K at least. Well, you know, I'll tell you a funny story. Dustin Dre invited me to Dre's, and he put me

in the second table right by the stage. And I bought, wow, I just stuttered, I never did that before, and he put me in the second table by the stage and Atrey songs was there. Nice. And it was awesome, I had the best time, in fact there's a video on my YouTube because this great kid that I know, Justin, he's a great videographer, he thinks that I'm funnier than I am and he made like a video on me. So I said to Dustin to Dustin Dre I said hey, I said I can't even afford the tip Cuz I can't I can't you know, what's the tip on the table like that? It's got to be a thousand two thousand dollars, right? Yeah, it's gotta be at least yeah, DOS. It was like no I take care of my people

I thought that was super cool. Like I had to be honest with him and You know, he was you know, he was honest with me. He was nice. And he's a great guy. And that's a great place. That's a great place. In terms of nightclubs, I hear it's one of the best. It's just, if you get the pounding music all night, then to go and get the great R&B,

they play the great hip hop stuff there. Yeah, it's really cool. They get a lot of talent coming through there. Oh, yeah. I see their billboard every day on the street. Trey Songz was great. He was great. I mean just watching him and just... he's got a great club there. Do you think you and Starfish will ever make up? No, because when I was at my lowest points, which and a lot of this is the reason why I did that stupid taco shop,

and only took 25 percent. Because she had me so on the ropes last December. Like she was putting posts up and I have copies of them. No one will ever work with you in Las Vegas. He is barred from all of the following casinos. In fact, she said I was barred from the Circa and she made it public that I'm barred from the Circa. And the Circa texted me and said, Paul, I mean, I love the Circa.

I really do. I have so much respect for Derek Stevens because it's so effing creative. And they were like, Paul, you're not bar from here. Come here whenever you want. And I'm a big fan and I do all of my sports book videos. I do a lot of them in the Circa. But I mean, look at the Circa.

The Circa is that incredible sports book. It just throws the energy off of the sports book into the casino and you feel it. Have you ever been there on an NFL game? Yeah, it doesn't feel like you're downtown when you're at Circo. Oh my God, well that's the point with the Circo. If the Circo was just on the corner where those idiots at Resorts World are,

if he just had that corner, I know he would be doing it. You wouldn't even be able to get a room in there, ever. And he would have three times the rooms. But he's a guy, and I don't know him, and I've never met him, and I've never talked to him. But this is the way I feel, which I guess I shouldn't be saying. I just feel like he's a guy who's so into Vegas history,

and so into what Vegas was, that in his mind he just had to revitalize downtown. And he's done it. I mean, you could stay at the D, it's like 70 bucks a night, it's you could stay at the D, it's like 70 bucks a night, it's clean, the casino is cool, it's got the long bar, it's got good games, it's got a good blackjack game, it's got great energy and that's like probably the best cheap hotel to stay at. It might even be the best cheap hotel to

stay at in Las Vegas although I'm a big fan of the Tuscany. Then if you want to really live some history because the Golden Gate is the oldest hotel. I am telling you straight out, I don't think there's another operator in the gaming space in America who would have done what he did with the Golden Gate. He brought it back. They would have it as a slot house. It would just be slot machines. You would walk in there. They'd have three employees and go after yourself. He's got girls in there doing the Wattusi up on the stage. He's got great games in there. He's got girls in there doing the Watusi up on the stage. He's got great games in there. He's got great energy. He's got a full casino. He's got an area over there around the corner. He's got the 1909 fountain, which is super cool to see it. He has a museum

in there. And he renovated two suites upstairs. They're incredible suites. I got to stay in one of them once. And then he's not done yet. He says, let me pay. And he paid top dollar for that real estate. I did a video. He paid $13 million for a 12th of an acre. What? He bought it from Haim Goubaix in 2016.

It's in the Las Vegas Review Journal. I did the research on this. Then Haim Goubaix took the money and bought the world's largest gift shop, which is on the corner of Sahara and the Las Vegas Boulevard. But anyway, he paid top dollar, but he's not public and I don't know his numbers,

but he spent plenty of money building that place. You can see it and nobody else would have done that. So it's like one, two, three. He saved the Fitzgeralds, I think it was before it was the D. He saved the D, he saved all the history at the Golden Gate, and then he built a super amazingly creative hotel casino with I don't I don't know that there's a hotel casino that has better energy in it. I don't know.

Ben Serga? Yeah. Wow. I love Serga. Shout out to Barry's. Yeah I know. And then Chip Barry. Have you ever met? I know you. He's gone two days ago. Oh he's amazing. He's great. He's the nicest guy guy So they had contacted me

It was one of my first gigs whatever you want to call it to come down or whatever and I sat with chef Barry For any Barry and he said you want to come in the kitchen or whatever? Listen I was in the restaurant business for a little while. I don't want to say anything, but I've never seen did you go in the kitchen? I have it. I've never seen anything like that. Wow. It's like an operating room. It's like you would totally get a kidney transplanted in his kitchen. That's how clean it is. I love that. Some kitchens are not the cleanest. I couldn't believe it. That's what blew me away and I did a kitchen tour like on my, this video is like a year and a half old but I was blown away. It's one of my favorite steak houses in Vegas man.

It's got it, you know, but there's so many but wow But you know just the fact that he can compete on such a high level and it's mobbed He's got it and he's got a great personality. I saw him the other day in the street. He came right up to me It was hi. How you doing? I love it. Yeah Guys like that really make Vegas agreed agreed I see you go to Seagull's bagel mania every morning is that the best breakfast spot in Vegas in your opinion? For me it is. And it's funny because it's mainly about the coffee.

Like I can make coffee at home and it's maybe an eight and a half if I get it just the way I want it. I go in there and they put that coffee in that white cup and I'm just like I cannot believe that they've gotten all the acid out of the coffee and made it that flavorful. I tell them all the time. I don't work for them. I've never gotten paid to do a video. It just hits me every six months and I'm like, wow.

And this morning, and I gotta stop going there because I'm just gaining weight and gaining weight. This morning I had the sesame bagel toasted and a cup of coffee and like an ounce of whitefish. And I almost went there for lunch. Wow. I went there for breakfast and I almost went there for lunch.

I've never had their call. And Steve Siegel, you know, people don't realize it. He's probably, wow, so this Kirk Kevorkian or whatever his last name is, I can never say it properly. Of course you've got Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson. You know, oh, definitely in the top 10 entrepreneurs to ever come to Las Vegas. Absolutely he's in the top 10.

Is he in the top five? Maybe. I see Siegel a lot around. And this I can tell you, because they told me I can talk about this. They have 10 acres right on the strip, and they're going to do something there. I don't know what. I don't deal with Steve, because Steve's busy,

and he's running an empire. But I talked to his executive, Alex, who's super nice. And Alex will tell me, well, we're opening a new store down in Summerlin. And then he also told me, yeah, we're gonna do something amazing with the 10 acres. So he bought the 10 acres for 75 million, which was a steal really. Nobody else had the cash.

It says it right in the article. Like I'm not telling his business. It says the person who sold it said, no one else could write the check, but Steve wrote the check. Shout out to him. Yeah. If you could ask Steve Lynn anything,

what would you ask him? Vegas legend. Oh wow, that's a great question. Why wasn't it enough? Why wasn't what you had enough? Why did you have to, you know, do what you did? Yeah, you had it all right? Yeah.

Had the best casino. You know again, you know, it what you did. Yeah, you had it all, right? Yeah. Had the best casino. You know, again, you know, it all goes back to, it all goes back to how you're born. I really believe, and I always used to come up with this stupid analogy in college, you know, or not analogy, but comparison. It seemed to me in college, there were two types of guys, guys that would drink and get violent,

and guys that would drink and get placid. And I was always the guy who drank and just got placid. But maybe like 20 or 30% were smashing things, and I'd be like, God, you guys are gonna destroy the pool table in the rec room? Why would you do that? Someone's gotta clean it up. And I think it comes down to the same thing with employees.

Like, I've probably had 40 to 50 female employees and Wow, I just can't see it like I don't know whether that comes from me knowing that I'm not cool Yeah, and knowing that it would be a burden on the poor girl or it comes from just fear or I mean, I'm not saying that I didn't have attractive employees, I certainly did. But wow, no, because I mean, and I had companies in the 80s and 90s at the same time, that Steve, you can't really.

You gotta be able to separate, you know, personal. It's not even separate, it's just like, no, like I don't, you know, I don't want it that way. No, it's not even that, I just don't. You know, part of the great thing about being nerdy and being awkward and not being able to get girls, if you are an introvert, is you have your whole world of just reading and doing your math

and watching your sports and you know watching your sports and betting on your horses and gambling like an idiot. I can remember coming to Vegas in the 90s and I had, well I had half a million dollars in credit around town. I had $100,000 at five places. How do I know that? When I left here I owed $100,000 at five places and 50 at MGM which I paid immediately. I used to be here in the 90s with all the money in the world and I was in my late 20s

and I was skinny and I had a full head of blonde hair, whatever. You were blonde? Yeah, full head of blonde hair. Send me a photo, we'll add it to the video. Oh, okay. And I wasn't even looking and thinking about girls. I was thinking about gambling. So it was always second for me.

But, you know, again, that's the question I would ask him. I'd say, wasn't it enough? And then even if, look, I know the way the world works. You know, I live on Long Island. Sometimes I think that, like, every guy on Long Island has a goomar, you know, has like a girlfriend or whatever, because it just comes up so often. And I totally am not judging him.

But why couldn't he just have a girlfriend? You know what I mean? Well, he had a wife, didn't he? No, but I mean, if he had to be Tony Soprano, you know, do it the Tony Soprano way. Have a couple of Goomars, whatever. Oh, yeah. Like, there were episodes on the Sopranos.

Wow, I don't even wanna go into this, it's so stupid. But Ralphie's girlfriend was trying to be Tony's girlfriend and Tony was like, no, I can't. Like even Tony kept it, have a couple of girlfriends, respect them, it's separate from work. What I'm trying to say is, if you have that much money, you don't need to put that pressure on anybody. Yeah.

That's what I don't understand. I guess it's hard for us to put ourselves in that position because we never had that much. It's easy to say these things. Not judging. I just can't understand it. Not judging. It sounds like getting girlfriends wasn't on your priority list when you were younger.

Well, so when I was 17, 18, 19, I tried, but it was just like, it was no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I always look at that situation in Columbine, you know, the shooting in Columbine, and Dylan was a weirdo, the guy that did that. And again, it goes back to the guys who drink and get violent and the guys who drink and get violent and the guys who drink and get placid. When I was rejected in 17, 18, I know now chemically

what was going on. And that's why I'm like, okay, and that's why I can explain it to you. So it would hurt like hell because, you know, I remember I tried to go to prom with this one girl, she went with somebody else. I mean, I never even had a chance, and she was not the most popular, but you would get hurt, and then I would get that shot of adrenaline from being hurt, just like gambling. This is why gambling is so insidious, because you get better chemicals from losing

than you do from winning. Wow. I'll explain that to you in a second, in just one second. So I would get that shot of adrenaline, get that rejection, hurt for like half an hour, and then I'd be tranquil. Then I'd be like, yeah, and it hurt. But I think, and I really believe this in life,

I think the marketplace tells you who you are and where you belong. So I've been doing Instagram now since June 23rd of 2023. I got about a year and a half doing it. The dinosaur got me 42,000 followers, abandoned the account, I took it over a year later. I had 42,000 followers. So for a long time I was getting like 1,000 a day,

now I get about three to 500, so 1,000, 1,000. And I saw it growing and I did my videos. So I said to myself, wow, the marketplace likes what I'm doing, you know, and then I get all the shout outs and all the people that condiment. So the marketplace, so I'll stick with this for a while. But I can tell you conclusively, this is my last year of diluting myself. Really? Yeah, because if I don't, if I don't manifest something this year that I can actually do, like I'm incapable of taking, even if someone called me five minutes from now

and said, Paul, come down to, this is the world's greatest gambling gift shop. I'm just making something up. And we'll slide you five grand under the table. I'm not capable of doing it because the fear will be in my voice when I do the video. The video will be very inauthentic. There's videos

that I've done where I say something that's a little questionable right in the video and I can hear the pitch in my voice change. Wow. That, all of that, all of that excitement, all of that, I'm genuinely, like I won't, there's times of the day that I just can't do videos You know it was funny last night and they reached out to me by the way last night Mark Wahlberg's tequila company Was doing a promo at on the record at a park MGM So I got invited to come to a Super Bowl party there So at the Super Bowl party so one of the promoters there says to me Paul you need to do a video

for Mark Wahlberg's tequila Do a promo video for that. I mean, now you know my page a little bit. Like, do I do promo videos? No. I've never seen one. But I feel bad because I got the table for nothing. You see, this is why I don't want anything free.

Do you understand why I don't want anything free? So they hand me the bottle and the three girls. Nice young ladies. These, they're all nice young ladies. That's the way I feel. I'm like grandpa They put the three that I said put the three ladies in the bus They put the three ladies in the bus they put the thing so this video is gonna. Just be an absolute disaster

But I know you know two years ago when I was 158. I was really ripped and I know Mark Wahlberg works out I know he's an older guy seven years younger than me, but he's got the body So I took a picture of me with my shirt off and a picture of Mark Wahlberg with his shirt off. It's the videos. I posted it yesterday. Now I know that I have a video that everybody's going to say, wow, that weirdo Vegas Pauly C is actually like ripped.

Like actually someone said to me in the chat, you are ripped. Why? And I said, because my girlfriend wants me that way which she really does she wants me you know with the abs and everything she's actually angry right now cuz I'm about ten pounds overweight but anyway so but I knew that I had a constructive video that would be comical and that would grab people's eyes and at the last second it came up with that comedy part of it and that's why I did it that way and yeah it has like a quarter of a million views from

yesterday but if it's not funny or it's not interesting or you know there's times that I'll do a video and I think it's the greatest video in the world and then it just falls flat and you're just like oh god and then there's stuff that you say to yourself why me I got to tell you one that happened about a month or two ago and I was with my little girlfriend Mahi I love her so much her skin was alive and asked if she can re-enter the atmosphere without burning up Mahi streets are all natural. I don't know why I need to do that, but I just did it.

So I said to her, let's go down to the overpass. I heard they canceled this overpass in downtown Las Vegas. They were gonna spend $5 billion on it, and they don't even have the money. I go down, I go under the overpass. Being under an overpass is not the most visually stimulating place in the world. I'm under the overpass, and I do the the video and I had done three videos that day already

and they were doing okay. And I said to little Mahi, I said, I'm not going to put this up. This is just not even like. And then I said, but if I don't put it up, I'm going to forget about it. And I guess I'm ever going to put it up. I put it up. It's over 3 million views on Instagram. But I don't know what happened people just wanted to fight about the fact this is what happened I do know what happened it became a

political thing why are we sending money to Ukraine and not building a five billion dollar interchange in Las Vegas you know and it be once it once once you post and it's not even intentional although sometimes I know it's gonna become this so sometimes when I'm doing it I do know ahead of time it's not even intentional, although sometimes I know it's going to become this. So sometimes when I'm doing it, I do know ahead of time it's going to become political. But leading up to the election, when you would do a video like that, you know, that was political, like, why is the money going here? Why is the money? And it's very interesting because now I noticed the first thing that they're doing is a why, where's the money going thing. So it always was a big factor to the, you know, the exchange in your chat.

I'm sure you're loving that, seeing where all the money's going. I know you're a data nerd, so. It's mind blowing. I mean, some of the stuff they spent it on is mind blowing. Hey, you know what? That girl, the girl, woman, girl, woman, I mean, she's 27 years old.

That woman that they put in the White House press room, what is her name? I know who you're talking about, though. Wow, is she talented or is she talented? Is she amazing? Is that Leavitt something? Yes, Carolyn Leavitt, is that her name? Carolyn Leavitt, yeah, she's a beast.

How talented is that woman? Super talented. And such a young, where'd they find her? I know, right? I feel like they have access to like, like I just love watching her because she's just so good at what she does. She had to deal with the Biden administration in the past four years.

Oh, she did? Did she work for them? Yeah, so shout out to her for kicking through it, right? She's amazing. Yeah, she's a beast. When I see talent like that, I go, wow. Some people are just born with it, you know? I just applied for White House credentials. We'll see if I get it. They're allowing people like us to start doing media.

Oh, I'm sure you will. Yeah. I'm sure you will. I mean, you know, you've had some amazing guests on you. Absolutely. Do you ever get involved with politics? No, I don't, because I know something that, like, nobody wants to talk about. Ha ha ha. Would you like to know what it is?

Yeah. You can Google all of this. I can't just say that. Didn't we do this? Didn't we do this already? Yeah. It's all genetic. So you can Google brain chemistry

and political affiliation. They can put anybody in a brain scan. So there are five categories in the brain scan. Extremely left, extremely right, somewhat left, somewhat right, and middle of the road. So they can hit the five categories with 72% accuracy based on a brain scan. But I knew this. So the fascinating parts of it to me are that the brains are completely different. So the really far left has a tiny amygdala, amygdala, amygdala, I don't know how to say

that word, amygdala, amygdala. I don't know, I say it the wrong way but it's that, I could spell it because I've spelt it a million times. And the far right has a much larger amygdala, and it has so many interesting outcomes. And I think that people get all caught up in it, and they don't realize that the person that they're fighting with has absolutely no choice in the matter a lot of the time.

So you can't even change their opinion. So why even bother? And I have to respect everybody because if you really look at history, everybody's had a hand in making us who we are today. I remember about 25 years ago, I'll never forget this, because I had no idea. Because the internet wasn't around,

there wasn't a lot of reading. And the movie Milk came out, which was about Harvey Milk. milk and by the way I'm not in any way virtue signaling but it's just an example of how you just don't know things and my sister is gay and I said and I watched the movie and I said I said to my sister I said I had no idea that they were beating the hell out of gay people in the 60s like I never read it anywhere I had no idea that it was this that and the and the other thing. But the point is that the political establishment at the time, that's reversed now. One side was doing one thing, and one side

was doing the other thing. But the bottom line is, if people weren't activists, I always use that when people try and attack the activists. If people weren't activists, we'd still be beating people up in the streets. That's so weird. That's true, yeah. And then the other thing is,

I don't know if you've ever watched Mad Men. I haven't. Same thing, in the 60s and the 70s, there's a couple of scenes where she just rolls down the window and takes a whole tray of used fast food and just throws it out the window. So that's another thing that, you know, so you just, you really get, what I love about social media,

I love this about social media. And I really fault pretty much every company for not doing this, although I'm sure some do. When I do a post on XYZ Hotel, I don't care whether it's the Wynn, the Fontainebleau, Resorts World, the Plaza, Circa, whoever it is. If I do a post that's good, a post that's engaging, where I get 500, 600, 700 comments,

why is that hotel not addressing what's in those comments? Sometimes it's all love. Like I know, and I have no relationship with the Hard Rock, and I was shocked to find this out. The Hard Rock Corporation, they're in Florida, they're run by the Sevinul Tribe. I did a post, I did a walk through an Atlantic City, I did walk through the Hard Rock Atlantic City

for nine minutes. I've never seen so much love. And then I did another post somewhere and I found out that in my opinion, because of the amount of love that I saw, that the Hard Rock gaming company, I don't know what they call themselves, but they're controlled by the Seminole Tribe in Florida,

is probably the most loved gaming company in America. And number two, again, just based on the comments, is the Golden Nugget, the Golden Nugget brand. Interesting. And I would say number, and then it gets, then of course you have the win and station casinos. I love station casinos.

I love the architect there. But what I'm trying to tell you is that chat will tell you everything about your product. So if you're honest and you are willing to accept. So I very rarely, the most annoying thing that I see is who cares. Like if I see who cares and it's a non follower, I will block them.

But I tell everybody, I'm like, don't come in here and post who cares. If you don't care, just scroll. You know what I mean? No need for hate if it's not productive. Well, I don't really think it's hate. I think it's worse than that. I think it's taking a person

and not giving them their existence. Like who cares, like who are you to have an existence here? This is my life. Like who cares, this is my life in Vegas. I'm out doing this and I enjoy doing it and people enjoy watching it, so don't take away my existence. You raise a good point though, if you're getting 500 comments about your hotel,

if you're working PR in that hotel, you can make a lot of money. Okay, so I'm not gonna name the hotel because I just don't feel like being a jerk right now. Maybe later. But I know that I am a compulsive gambler, and this was a huge part of my life in my early 20s. Of course, for all the chemical problems that I have

and that I was born with. But also because I wasn't dating, you know, whatever, and I was just working. So if I was 23, the internet didn't exist and social media didn't exist. But if I was 23, and let's just take in 1983, let's just take the Hacienda because that's the first hotel that I ever went to. In 1987 actually was when I went to the Hacienda. When I was 23 years old in 1987 when I went to the

Hacienda, if I had made a comment on their social media post and they had said to me, wow you're excited about coming here, here's $20 in match play. Or we'd really like to welcome you while you're here, here's $10 off breakfast. How are they not, I mean I don't want to get too dramatic and too emotional on your show. But how are they not utilizing that tool?

They could have a staff that put up a link and they could just recruit gamblers and give them a little something and Generate I know that if you worked the chat of this hotel on this particular video that I did that had over a thousand comments I know that one employee and I'll use a thousand dollars a day because get a get two great employees I'm gonna assume they cost you five hundred500 a day each. Let's be fair Let's be generous with our social media team. I know that if you spent one week just on that one post that I did Back and forth with the people in the DMs, whatever you would invest $5,000 right thousand dollars a day and I know your ROI would be up there like 10

20 dollars a day and I know your ROI would be up there like 10 20 maybe even a hundred you might even generate five hundred thousand dollars in business how do I know this for a fact so I met a guy named Big Daddy Joe Lino you mentioned him yeah big daddy so I met him and he's a character and I love working with him because he's funny and he's fun and he's a nice guy and I think he's great at his job. And I don't get paid by him. I probably could have if when I met him I shook him down but I didn't. And he gets so much action from the social media that I do with him. And you know yesterday he texted me you know thank you so much Paul whatever.

I said big daddy I want you to be as big as you can be so that I get more content, so that you become bigger, so that I get more content. So he's a great guy and he actually contacted a tribal property in California and said, you know, Vegas policy will come out for the weekend and he'll show all your rooms. All you have to do is give him $5,000 in free play. I'm going to take the $5,000 in free play and give it away. Like I already told someone, we're gonna do a contest, we'll give it away, we'll give somebody a thousand. Because I'm trying to build my following,

and I don't really wanna gamble with free play and not disclose it anyway, so if I'm getting paid. So you can get a tremendous return from just giving it away. No, they said no. I said, well, they're idiots. I mean, they're really idiots. I would have gotten them. The first time I did Circa, I was one third the size I am now. And I generated 2 million views for them. Wow. Like in, in four days, because I love the place. And I knew that

I love this tribal property in California, no names, but like, you know, there's, there's a disconnect, you know, there's rich teams and there's poor teams and then there's 50 feet of shit and then there's Vegas policy. And I just don't feel like there should be 50 feet of shit between me and poor teams. So in that way, and I don't really think it's ego, in that way I feel like there's a miscommunication

in the market or something and maybe it's because I'm an asshole sometimes, Maybe, you know, or maybe because I'm real. But if you see something so egregious, like how are you not gonna address it? You know, and maybe I come across as whatever. I mean, you think it didn't hurt me. I was telling some executive the other day, do you think it didn't hurt me to meet with the top level

of the Fond du Blue before it opened and tell them you are going to fail and this is why. Do you think it didn't hurt me? Like do you think I got off on it? I didn't get off on it. You know, these guys look like they got hit by a car. You know, but I already knew. The Cosmo opened in 2010 with no database, right?

How are you gonna open a casino hotel of that size with no database? Let's just do the math. If 1,000 of the best gamblers in the world come through your front door on opening night, and you have 30 incredible VIP hosts working there, and each one handles 10, that's all they're going to handle. Because gamblers want to be talked to.

They want to talk about their credit line. They want to talk about what kind of hotel room, they need the love. So we're gonna say that every VIP host could handle 10 and you have 30. 70% of what you were trying to do just went out the door. And this is why you don't open with no database. You find a way to build, they have something called

central credit, you have reps who can build your database that come in with a mailing list or a list of people that they're gonna call how can you not open and the and the executive itself will never forget it no names but trust me top of the top we were busy this is like the most critical thing so I don't know this because I'm a genius I don't know this because I've worked in gaming so many people will say me, who the hell are you? How do you know? I know this because I talked to guys who were at the Cosmo

in opening night in 2010. And what did they tell me? Exactly what I told the people opening at the Fontainebleau. But they don't they didn't care. They were like, look, this tick tock are abusing us. So the whole thing fell apart. Is Fountainbleau, but they don't, they didn't care, they were like, look at this Tik Toker abusing us. So the whole thing fell apart. Is Fontainebleau still struggling? Yeah, yeah, it's still struggling

and it's a beautiful hotel. It's a beautiful hotel, it's got wide hallways upstairs. They've really put the money into the place, the finishes on the inside. I mean, you know, it's, I'm not saying it's the Waldorf Astoria, but let's just use this as it It's the Waldorf Astoria and resorts world is like motel six I mean, you know, I learned so much by reading my chat, but I also pick up funny things and

One woman on my chat. We were talking about resorts. Well, she said let's just face it. It's a self-service hotel Another I mean they opened with no room service. I remember I stayed there in me. I was like and I mean they opened with no room service. I remember I stayed there and I was like, and an executive said this too in my chat, they said they thought that they were going to replace people with technology and it just didn't work out. Like I'm learning so much, I don't come to this with all the knowledge in the world,

I'm learning so much from my own social media and I always beat industry. So like I'll get a guy who's general counsel over here and I'll run down or I'll get a guy who's vice president of marketing and I'll run down. Occasionally I get a president and I'll run down and I let them talk and I ask them questions. I'm never going to be able to handle the minutiae of the back room but they're not going to tell me that anyway. Because that's all proprietary information that I can only try and figure out from the financials

but you get the feel you know for every property what their priority is it really flows and this is why the win was so successful Steve had the personality Steve gave the love Steve was interesting Steve had a great voice Steve was incredibly creative. But Steve said this and you can go and you can watch it. The drapes, the carpets, the rooms, and they have the best of everything there and they still do the finishings. None of that matters without the people. Somebody called me and they said that they were the people who were going to be responsible for North Strip development.

It doesn't matter the specifics. Whether they're BS, I get BSed so much in Las Vegas that maybe he's BSed, but I went and I met him. And I took a piece of paper and I drew three circles and I said, here's your six billion dollars. I'm not going to put what's here. And I said, here is your hotel casino. I said you have your six billion dollars, unbelievable. He tells me he does, I don't believe him but whatever. You have your site, you have the, even the plans are drawn up for this particular property.

I said what are you missing? What are you never going to be able to get? What are you never going to find ever? Because they're basically all taken to be honest with you. I said you are never going to find the employees that are going to do the job that's going to get you a return on $6 billion. You're just not. You're just not because the industry is not

an industry that is heavy on training. It's not an industry that's heavy on love. It's an industry, it goes back to the movie Casino. The eye in the sky is watching the floor man, the floor man is watching the box man, the box man is watching the dealer, the dealer is watching the player. It's a tough, rough, hardcore industry.

And if you wanna have employees that give the love, you're gonna have to give a lot of love to those employees, you're gonna have to nurture them, you're gonna have to give them that give the love, you're going to have to give a lot of love to those employees, you're going to have to nurture them, you're going to have to give them that culture and you just can't do it with a new property anymore. And you know I read all the comments about the employees at places like Resorts World you know with the overbearing security. You know an interesting juxtaposition is the security at Resorts World and the security at the Wynn.

The security at Resorts World, they're at The Win. The security at Resorts World, they're dressed like mall cops that are absolutely gonna harass you and absolutely have a bad attitude. The security at The Win, they're dressed like safari guides. They have that great personality. I think The Win on purpose hires all good-looking guys for that job so everybody looks like

they're about to take you on safari and then you have the resource wealth and I'll just I met with a an investor in the project that I'm working on the other day and I mean I don't think he's trying to blow smoke up my ass he says yeah I was over there with so and so I'm not going to tell you who and you know friend to his and I was in the corner and they came up to me and wanted to know what I was doing. Now this particular guy is extremely wealthy I saw him piss away $40,000 like it was nothing one day I was like wow and they chased him out of there or they made him feel bad you know what I mean you can't go around making people feel bad. Now I had an incident there you know I am definitely a provocateur in a lot of this and the other day somebody contacted me and they said we really would love an hour of your time. We just my friend is

the biggest fan and you know no ego but this is what I was told. We're staying in the super suite at Resorts World. If you come over here, I said, oh, I said, I don't know how to price out an hour with me. You want to give me a thousand dollars? I said, I'll tell you what I'm going to do because I feel stupid. I said, I'm going to take the thousand dollars and I'm going to give it to the taco shop and I'm going to let them buy tacos for everybody for the afternoon because we have no business in our taco shop. It's doing terrible. So I killed two birds with one stone. I get it that and the guy he's on CNBC. I'm not gonna give you his name but

he's on CNBC. I'll double it. He says I'll give you $2,000. I'm like wow. I'm in nine o'clock I'm in a meeting with somebody and I say to myself immediately I go into submissive pose because if a super famous person is gonna ask to give you $2,000, I know I'm gonna get content. I thought I was gonna get the room. You don't want me doing the room because he's afraid of Resorts World. You run down there and I said I can run in.

I'll run in the VIP. I'll run in the back. I'll get the money. I'll get added in. They'll never even see me. Because you're banned there, right? I'm banned there. But also you have to remember I'm projecting. I know who I am. I know I'm gonna out of there and they'll never even see me. Because you're banned there, right? I'm banned there. But also you have to remember I'm projecting.

I know who I am. I know I'm going to run in there. I know I'm not going to cause any trouble. I know I'm going to be a church mouse. I know I'm going to run out of there. So I'm projecting my own innocence on the situation. I go running in there. The VIP room was open.

I go running past the VIP. I would say in 45 seconds to a minute, security was 26 feet behind me. Wow. So we went into the central area, and I see security coming around the corner, and the guy who's famous says, come on, Paulie, let's just go to the room.

So I go to the room, and it's the super suite, which is, you see, I can make the separation. The super suite, and I think they have three of them at Resorts World, people call it Vegas Matt's bedroom, I think. The SuperSweet at Resorts World, it's fan-f-tastic. It's absolutely, splendidly, amazingly gorgeous. If they didn't have the most boring casino in the world,

and I had millions of dollars, I would stay at the SuperSweet. You can get a similar product at the Wynn, they call it the Fairway Villas, it has the pool and everything, very similar. But the SuperSweet and you know you can get a similar product at the Wynn they call it the Fairway Villas it has the pool and everything very similar but the SuperSweet is gorgeous and I can understand why this super high roller is staying there and who's he with who are the people who want to see me basically Miami royalty not gonna go any deeper than that I'm sure they don't

want their names out there in fact the guy was saying to me Google them Google them they're Miami royalty this is what he's telling. So of course I Googled them when I left and I was like, oh my God, they are Miami royalty. Miami royalty. So I did my shtick for like an hour and a half because when I'm talking, you can imagine, it's 1.30, I have a two o'clock appointment, corporate appointment, and I gotta get out of there.

Open the door and there's security, right? They take me down, they're in the elevator with me. They're very cool. They're very cool I can't say they weren't cool when we were in the hotel the minute I got to the curb They read me the riot act. We are telling you now that if you come in here again We're going to arrest you we are telling you and I have a copy of the guy talking to me now You don't know me and your audience doesn't know me, but trust me my body floods with adrenaline with whatever

other fear hormones there are like that shit gets me really for shimmy because I don't get off on that when I get pulled over by the police I'm like yes sir no sir here's my license I'm sorry I did that I'm an idiot I can't believe my lights weren't on I didn't even think to signal. I understand you got to give me because I don't want those problems. Why don't I want them? Because conflict is extremely dopamine sucking. So if you're coming into all your situations with limited dopamine, you can't really do conflict. That's why great debate people, great lawyers who thrive on that conflict, they're super high dopamine people.

Athletes, entertainers, comedians, they tend to be way lower dopamine. They need to get off so they end up entertaining you. So I met the other night, there was a big event downtown Las Vegas. Who was there? Steve Wynn's right hand man from the 80s and 90s, super famous guy, super well known in the gaming community. Couple of other executives and the president of that hotel. So of course, I say to them what would you do? I tell them the exact same story.

I say, and again this is my empathy kick, when did you pump the brakes? When did you pump the brakes for just maybe that day or two days, or maybe contact him another way? Like, would you do it in front of your, would you follow him to the super suite where there's billionaire players who are playing to minimum multi-million dollar credit lines?

Do the hallway thing. Read him the riot act right in front of your super wealthy guests, right? You're running this. And every executive said they would have not done that, that that's a really bad look, that it's high limit players, that it's a super sweet whatever.

They just don't have a brain in their head, in my opinion. And that's the way I tell the story. Was I testing them? I'll tell story you know was I testing them I'll tell you this if I could have written that scenario to show what assholes they are it would have been absolutely perfect think about it I'm sneaking in there quick I'm going to billionaire clients I'm picking up the money for charity and I'm getting the f out of there and causing no trouble and they still had to be dickweeds so ask them did you get arrested or what happened

they read me the riot act and they said, if I come on again, I'm gonna get arrested. If I come on the property at all again, I'm gonna get arrested. Damn, they must have facial recognition or something. They got you quick. You're also pretty recognizable though. Yeah, I know, I know that, but even so,

I'm very recognizable, but even so, why would you handle it like that? Like why wouldn't you just have a little class? Like, you know, I didn't murder anybody in there. Yeah, well they probably didn't know what you were up to, to be fair, from their perspective. I went to the super suite.

They know who's in the super suite. How about a little communication? This is one of the problems in these hotels. They're so big that the layers are not talking to one another. Yeah. You know? And then Alex Dixon, who's the new CEO,

tells people that I know, I inherited this problem. Dude, you're on property, you know what I mean? And I'm gonna be straight out with you, like Alex Dixon, like you're set up for failure over there. They're never gonna give Alex Dixon, and I feel bad for this guy because one of his friends contacted me and told me to pump the brakes.

And I said, I'm gonna tell you something. This poor kid, because he's young, he's only 41, they made this kid president, they're never gonna give him the tools to fix the problem over there. And they don't even know what the problem is over there. So he's, this is going to be a black, just the same way I predicted the Fontainebleau, he's going to fail over there. And then three years from now they're going to pin it on him. This is what we talk about, you know, when we're meeting with executives. Yeah, time will tell, man. Well, dude, it's been cool. Anything you want to close off with here? It's been fun. How long did I go? We went an hour and 10 minutes.

OK, not bad. Right. No, just that, you know, it's all about in the gaming industry, it's all about personality and it's all about who the CEO is. That's all. I love it, man. Well, we'll link your stuff below. Hopefully you can figure out some money stuff soon, man. OK, no problem. OK, thank you. All right. Check them out, man. Well, we'll link your stuff below. Hopefully you can figure out some money stuff soon, man. Okay, no problem. Okay, thanks. All right, check them out guys.

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