Podcast: The Ride - Vegas Survival with Jon Gabrus

Episode Date: July 28, 2023

Jon Gabrus (High and Mighty, Action Boyz) returns to the show and give us lots of tips and tricks for Vegas! Wizard of Oz Walkthrough at MGM Grand episode up at Club 3: Patreon.com/PodcastTheRide Listen to Podcast: The Ride Ad-Free on Forever Dog Plus: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus FOLLOW PODCAST: THE RIDE: https://twitter.com/PodcastTheRide https://www.instagram.com/podcasttheride BUY PODCAST: THE RIDE MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/podcast-the-ride PODCAST THE RIDE IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/podcast-the-ride Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forever. Dog. Warning. The following podcast will irritate ATV instructors, offer a detailed explanation of how to play craps, contain spa

locker hacks, and will mess you up more than two liters of a gross slushy alcohol drink. Vegas aficionado John Gabrus joins the good boys to offer Vegas survival tips on today's podcast, The Ride, Sin City Nights. A scintillating all-male review, which is hosted by, as far as the listeners know, three absolute beefcakes.

I'm Beefcake One, Scott Gairdner. You're watching Beefcake Two by Garza. Hey, hi, how are you? It's like Harrison Ford voice, by the way. Of course you have to have rippling abs. How could you not? Where else would that voice come from? Not an 80-year-old man.

Hey, hi. Yeah, that sounds like Harrison Ford currently. Jason Sheridan. Hopefully we give you a listening experience that you'll never forget. Is that a sexy phrase? I feel like those shows, I feel like those review shows are like,

and you're never going to forget the time you have at Magic Mike or at the Luxor Topless Review. That was meant to be sexy yeah wow just uh about body we say uh body around here we don't even we don't even say the word sexy yeah since city nights we do well other show look you gotta build up to it you gotta build up to it look one day we'll get to an episode where we all acknowledge each other as sexual creatures you know but i don't think we're there no no we are not getting up to that episode i'm out on that episode oh shit guys i gotta run i'm sorry okay we're gonna have to drop it from the episode okay let's do this shift tax

really fast we're asexual okay okay? That sounds more like it. Yeah, okay. I'm not hearing a lot of yes and from my collaborators today. Only yes and if it's something I want to do. Not acknowledging you as a sexual dude. Let's bring it. Give me something I want a yes and and I'll yes and. All right.

Before he leaves, let's throw him in. We cannot do a Las Vegas month. We knew we had to have the presence of a Vegas fan and one of the funniest people around from High and Mighty and Action Boys. It's John Gabrus. Hello. Oh, what's up? Jason, you're a sexual being.

Thanks, John. You're a sexual being too. I mean. You're a sexual being, too. I mean, that's how we always greet each other. It's just funny to do it on the pod. Yeah. Yeah, look, you're at the Grove as well, you sexual being. Ken Barnes and Noble, my sexual being friends. A couple of magazines, Mr. Sexual Being.

Yeah. Buying Settlers of Catan and all the many board games that they have at the bookstore that is practically a toy and board game store nowadays. Practically a kid, like a teen tween hangout spot. Oh, yeah. You go in there and it's just like a bunch of kids looking at comics and manga and shit like that. You're like, oh, this is actually kind of cool.

Anytime my wife has something to do at the Grove, I shoot to Barnes & Noble. It's a fun little gimmick there. Oh, sure. That's like me with my parents anywhere. just let me loosen that bookstore for a while never changes or if i'm near the apple store i'll go in and subscribe to high and mighty on every ios i like to go to each of the podcasts go five subscribe subscribe subscribe i don't know if it stays or they wipe those every night. Or if it converts somebody who works, like an Apple Store employee.

Maybe they see that and like, oh, interesting. Does that just come with it? If this is an Apple recommend, I got to check it out. Maybe I'll start drinking Athletic Greens. My one sponsor. It's better than most, I think, at this point. Okay, so. So it's Sin City Nights over here.

It's Sin City. Yeah, yeah. You didn't know. This is the, you know, the ultra sultry. This isn't the lame old daytime podcast, The Ride You Thought You Knew. Things are getting wild over here. And so we had to pull you in on it um and that's part of i think maybe a good a good reason to have you here and a good thing to talk

to you about is like we're um as we record this we are going to vegas all three of us soon it will have happened in the past for the listener but but for for us it's in our future we've all been separately but we've never all been together. Ooh, fun, yeah. And we've got a couple of slots. We're not there for a long time. But we're like, we don't really know how to fill those other days. And we're trying to think, is there a way that we can get out of our Vegas comfort zone

to push it to the max a little more, hit it a little harder? If there was three guys whose comfort zones I couldn't understand less, it's you guys. Yeah. I do. I want to be clear. I've been uncomfortable for 37 years now. So when I find my comfort zone, I wallow around like a pig in slop. It's why you're being in little spaces.

That's why he's in the Matrix pink pod goo. Finally. Oh. You could not have been closer could not miss my energy please i love the matrix going back going back in the womb is exactly where he wants to be oh yeah yeah i've slowly been yeah i like i sleep often in the fetal position i um yeah it's just a shame that our mothers don't grow with us, that our mothers don't become, what, you'd have to be like nine feet tall for us to be able to fit back in there? Why don't moms grow to be nine feet tall so we can crawl back in?

It would be nice. It would be nice. Come on, moms. Up to it. I got to go back east and rest up. Swan dive into my mom's crotch. Just my sneakers are sticking out. She pulls them off for me and I slide

my bare feet in. Like Superman recharging in the sun. This is the ideal Mitch three month vacation. That's my go to text to him. I'm like like are you currently breastfeeding in quincy right now hey i'm gonna you're my only friend that i'm gonna ask to do an improv show and i don't know where you live right now i don't even own a home you own a home and are never in it it's brutal yeah that's rightpty most of the time. The cats take care of the boys.

But, yeah, we're hoping that you could, like, by telling us some tales of your Vegas lore, maybe you could inspire us to push it harder, to go past our, again, unintelligible Vegas confines. What are you guys going to do there? Is it wrestling-based, or are you guys going to do the big shows? We're doing a show. Oh, you're doing a live show. Awesome. Yeah, we're doing the Podcast Red Big Vegas Groove Blender. You could take some stock.

You could ask us some questions to just try to gauge where we're at, what we've done. Or we could share some anecdotes. Jason and I have been to a strip club for a bachelor party at one point. So there's that. Now i want to say this right now right right at the top i forbid you from telling the story of jason falling asleep at the bachelor party again this is a 15 timer i was not gonna tell that story mighty it was just been told on this show it's at least twice a month once every two months there we've had a handful of group conversations and I know that story. The relatively limited

window. I just wanted to get the rules out in case you got tempted. I'm not a strip club guy. That's just one facet of this city that I'm not really into. Previously, I was always just a gambler. I came from the East Coast, so I was going to

Atlantic City as soon as I was 21 just a gambler because I came from the East Coast so I was going to Atlantic City as soon as I was 21 which is like if you think Vegas is gross hit Atlantic City for a weekend and you'll be like let's take the whole family to Las Vegas but over the course of like the last 10 years living out here and I went to

Vegas several times from living in New York but after moving out here I've gone way more frequently. And I found that I'm super pumped about the city, and I do think anyone who doesn't like Vegas, I can make them an eye tin that they will like. Oh, yeah. I just think Vegas literally has,

and you guys are theme park guys, but this is a theme park for like grownups. And if you're like a foodie, you can get... It's going to be the Vegas version of, you know what I mean? So it's like, if you love restaurants, well, all of your favorite chefs have their second or third best restaurant in Las Vegas. Yeah. A restaurant that's like good opening weekend and then it kind of decays a little

bit but still it's close it's pretty good enough like it's fun to eat at morimoto and you know or you know you can eat at the momofuku and cosmo and all these places that in new york and la have insane lines and waits you can make like a 10 p.m dinner reservation you know you can make a yeah you can eat at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant. Any celebrity chef, every hotel now has four kind of name-recognized restaurants, so you can have that.

If you're just a drinker but not a gambler, or just a partyer but not a gambler, that obviously is there. If you're a gambler, that's obviously there. If you're show people, like you like to see shows, you can see a ton of great second tier shows like everything is second tier but in a way that it's all also there you know what i mean and if you like anything that's a chain or anything that's

like you know what like bachelor party or bachelorette party activities like they have all of those and i'm including the ones like the top golfs or the dune buggy racing or atvs or dirt like or anything of that like group activity like i feel like you can have a conference in vegas and i know a lot of people do because there's just like a lot of activities you could do that are non-casino related as well yeah yeah so you can literally build something for anyone and and truly you could be like uh like a leftist or like an absolute like q anon gun-toting freak and still find some overlap and stuff but also find a bunch of shit that you would be into and dispensaries are there now too and like so it's got weed it's got booze it's got everything else too but uh you can get most of that stuff

without having to text somebody named johnny vegas in your phone that's a name i have saved in my phone i bought drugs off him like 10 years ago and i'm always like if i ever want but now like i only really need weed when i yeah only if he's growing something special yeah also he's a cpa now so he's kind of out of the game he probably owns five dispensaries and makes more money than i can ever dream of do you um do you have a dispenser of choice in vegas no see that's funny i have only tried like three now i'm kind of braver and just bring LA weed with me on my carry-on yeah I got a little cocky but I usually what I do is uh you know find one uh that I haven't been to yet have my uber driver from the airport drop me off there uh like or wait for me if I can give them like I'll be like

I'll give you ten dollars cash if you just leave the thing running while I run in there and shop and then you go in there buy all your weed because for me i don't necessarily want to if i'm there for two nights or three nights leave like the strip yeah yeah sometimes i'll add an activity that's off strip or a restaurant that's off strip to try some shit uh but like for me i want to like be supplied up i like the idea of like you put all your weed or your whatever you buy, your drugs, your booze, whatever in it.

Like I like having it like in my room. It feels very Vegas as to be like, which one of these? And I, I like the Cosmo life hack for people because they have balconies on their rooms and they're not on their suites only or what, you know, it's not the cheapest of the hotels but having a

balcony where you can comfortably smoke weed I mean if you guys are going in August the balcony will be a full nightmare sunscreen on the plane but the phrase 113 degrees was uttered in the forecast

this week and I think 99 down weekend I think 99 down. The current weekend, I think, is 118 or higher. Yeah, it's bonkers. These are the last few years we can go to Las Vegas, I think, so we better hit it up for them. I bet you Vegas will be the first place to drop a full-blown air-conditioned biodome on top.

Well, the sphere is testing. It's beta testing. Yeah, they're fucking Stephen Baldwin and Pauly Shore are currently living in it. Yeah, yeah. We's in the eyeball. He moved to Vegas. Oh,

yeah, Pauly. Shit. Yeah. Wow. Well, that's hey, you weren't into the city before. Now they got Pauly. Yeah. Pauly Shore Oh, shit. Yeah. Wow. Well, that's, hey, you weren't into the city before. Now they got Pauly. Yeah. You got to catch up with him. Pauly Shore, Carrot Top, Danny Gans. Yeah.

Rich Little. He's there. That's, by the way, the number one thing maybe I want to do is go see Rich Little. I think that's a good call. Because that's the other thing, too, about Vegas that not a lot of people understand. You can set your irony meter wherever you want and enjoy yourself you could slide it all the way to authentic like like and you can enjoy yourself that way and you could slide it all the way to like anthropological

study of the disgusting human and like you could enjoy vegas on a whole nother level and like you guys if you want to talk about a sliding scale of irony, you guys sent me to go see the David Copperfield magic show, which was hands down one of the best recommended. I'm leaving my house today. I dragged my wife, Tiffany, to that as well. And leaving the house today, she's like, where are you going? I'm like, I'm going to Burbank to talk about Vegas. Oh, okay. bank to talk about vegas uh okay but i was like remember that i told you about the guys who recommend and she goes i still don't know how tongue-in-cheek that show was and i'm like i got

bad news for you babe i it's not like yeah i think it itself i think is is heartbreakingly sincere yeah or at least was in its inception but is now like devolved due to his own lack of interest and care in every step of his performance because he does 20 shows a week right because he wants to keep the like the numbers up yeah he had like his delivery throughout you guys like even undersold how how like wrote he is like and then we go over here and he literally would do shit like like doing magician i guess i shouldn't do a silent magician hand gesture on the podcast a very like limp little to dog yeah but he does just like fast and like there's parts where like the lights go out and you hear people like moving around and then like everything is it's like a jurassic park the ride like everything is kind of ride-based. A thing drops from the ceiling.

A UFO drops from the ceiling. An uncaged dinosaur comes out. An alien that farts root beer bubbles comes out. You met him. You met Blue 32. Blue 32. I'm so thrilled that you did it. I mean, it's a life change.

Now that you can be in Vegas in the future and see the little bronze statue in the lobby of the little alien, I'm in the club. I know what that is now. I know who Blue 32 is. And they can fog the room with root beer scent when he farts, which is crazy. I still don't understand. Yeah, because there's this gag in it about where it cuts to a lady with a bottle of root beer. And then she like, was that in it when you were there?

Things just slide in and out of the show. Dude, all of the tricks he does, all are contingent on you trusting that there's no... A good magician will do something where you're like, I see what you think might have, how I did it. And then I prove you like you're right actually yeah actually these rings aren't you know don't have a gap in them but all of his stuff is like huge props and stuff and you're like that's got to be custom made like yeah like yeah i'm not gonna you're not gonna surprise me by like and all these letters fall off and it's a message from my dad from the future. Yeah. It's all contingent on the letter being like,

I'm proud of you too, which is like a real heartbreaking moment for all of us performers who are maybe not from a family of performers. It felt super real when he was like, and it said, I'm, I'm proud with your dumb magic choices, David.

Well, and some of them also, it's like, you've done this on multiple TV specials, and then you had to explain how it worked in court, and you're still doing it. Oh, yes. Yeah, a big trial. Yeah, like diagrams were the like, which the one that got revealed was essentially like,

okay, so I take eight people from the audience, and then a bunch of people run, run, run, run, run through a secret hallway under the theater. We like push and prod them. We shock them with tasers until they get to the other side in time. Ta-da. There's the trick. Yeah. I saw an amazing Jonathan off Broadway special RIP back in the day. And he was like, all right.

And now everyone just act like I teleported up here. And he's like, I'm in in post. It'll look real. And I was like, you can't get us. And then I'm like,

if there's a person who will let you do hack shit like this, should be a comedy magician. But if you're David Copperfield, your shit shouldn't be contingent on like, and you keep your fucking mouth shut

about what you saw down here. Tell friends don't tell your family i will take other people that i go to i will sit through it again to take other people to it because i and i don't think people trust me when i'm like no because i didn't trust you guys either i'm like oh great i'll sit i know it sounds yes every reason to skeptical. And he puts so much effort in, but then doesn't match it with his gusto. It's so funny how deep and serious it is, but he doesn't match it with his energy at all. He's not acting it. No.

Because it's supposed to be meeting the moment of like, oh, my God, this character's dying. The few times I've done sketch shows where I've had to memorize a bunch of lines, his delivery is like me backstage of like, okay, tonic. All right. You know,

like practicing my fucking line. Like it's that exact pace and energy speed. You're not blowing your energy. Yeah. Okay. And remember like, he's just like that and he seems old and he's got like a weird posture. Now he's got like something that happened to his neck or his traps where he kind of like doesn't like fully move the right way and you're like this

dude should be able to retire like let him retire yeah but it's like it's spite or something it's like he's got something to prove and it's about crushing all the other magicians and performers and i think it's about like angel i think you guys mentioned it like it's some sort of like guinness record for tech tickets or shows like whatever. And he's going to just try to hold on to that, like run that number up, I guess. But when the alien is revealed and it's all like a time travel story that is also aliens. And then there's a dinosaur and a motorcycle. Like all this shit keeps happening where you're like, and it's always just like a big physical thing that he's like how did i get this out here and it's like i my dad was an iotsy stagehand like i think

i know where some of this stuff comes from like also and and i at one point my wife goes we were like pretty stoned but she's like look at everybody else's faces and we just looked around and it was a 50 50 split from people going like what the fuck is this kind of like looking at each other and the other 50 were just like oh my god a ufo it was like this is fucking crazy if you get it like that's a great split for a fuck but that's the power of vegas there's so many mouth-breathing freaks there that the city delivers for them. But then there's also real money there and the city delivers for them on that too. So you get to have like all of these worlds, which is fun.

And you, and like, you can put your, you're right. We can set our irony dial within, within something like that. There's things that we're enjoying on a kitschy level, but then the UFO shows up and you just like, Oh, you're like, you're, it's like orgasmic. You can't. And like, you know, I can do any amount of like, I'm going to see this weird like wing of this hotel that failed. This is a weird failed endeavor. And I'm going to go see the decay and kind of be, you know, be snarky about it.

But then you pass by just the Bellagio fountains and like, oh, it's one of man's great achievements. You can't have irony about the Bellagio fountains and a lot it's one of man's great achievements you can't have irony about the bellagio fountains and a lot of stuff like that yeah you you specifically did not spoil anything when i went to see copperfield a few years ago uh-huh and um i when the ufo appeared i nearly fell out of my seat because I was right under it. Yes. How does something show up that close to you without you knowing? You don't hear it.

You don't see it. It's just deep in the rafters, right? And then slowly lowered. I guess so. Because it is kept weirdly dark in there, too, where you're clearly... Because everything is written is hidden behind some huge fake wall or something like that it feels like yeah but even if you know it's just a just like when you get on like the transformers ride at universal studios

you know you're just watching a screen and getting bounced around but if you let yourself have fun with it like you'll have fun with it just like a haunted house you gotta like yeah you gotta kind of bring that energy to las vegas a you gotta like you gotta kind of bring that energy to Las Vegas a little bit like you gotta kind of let yourself like a when in Vegas

like a when in Rome you kinda gotta bring that energy of like and also where else can you go to like a five star restaurant

in like flip flops and a tank top oh yeah you can just be whoever you want there which is kind of fucked up for you know the

average viewer but like it's fun to be there and just see like people there's like you know fucking billionaire speaking mandarin at one craft stable and at the other craft stable is like nine ufc wannabe guys oh yeah with the biggest fat tuesday like plastic things you've ever seen um scott you also um took a photo so there's these billboards for copperfield kind of everywhere in la there's also one in the burbank airport and i have seen this a million times but you zoomed in on the photo and again i almost fell out of my chair because there was a very tiny blue 32 i was like oh my god it's been there for a decade probably and longer notice longer yeah yeah so fucking rad that's awesome it's just it's this special thing that you have to there's only one

room in the world where you can go meet this friend and i'm so glad you met him and only 10 people talk about it like a world like one of 10 people that have ever like mentioned it after seeing it is only due to the passion of jason waller he specifically has spread this if he if not for his proselytizing i don't think because i think most of the people who go see it forget. They don't remember his name. They remember like the UFO and the dinosaur more than that. There was this original alien character with a voice of an animaniac. It's doing comedy and sex jokes. Clearly trying to ride off like Grogu popularity.

Like, you know, it feels like it feels like it was before. It's before. It's great. This is like 10 years in the making. It's going for so long it had a different name it was attila the hug before it was blue 32 blue 32 is so funny too because it's like a football you know right 32 is like all you could think about yeah he might be all i could think about you know his company might be excluded yeah yeah it's true you know we don't think about football much i understood that in context but i don't know other than that what it means or wouldn't know what to do with the phrase football yeah yeah i know there are huddles yes

very weird theatrical experience too of seeing like a theater show there's a tiny alien statue outside there's slot machines 20 feet away and then emerald's fish house emerald legazzi's fish house is steps away which is good that looks good it's at the mtm right it's kind of like not one of the fancier hotels now right like it's like yeah the win and uh the uh cosmo and and are kind of the fancier hotels now. I guess so, yeah. It's very, so it does need to like try to step it up in terms of elegance

and five star. Yeah. And MGM is a little more populist. Yeah, when you start looking at the fucking like the M Life casinos and whoever like these parent company casinos are

or like whatever brand that they're all part of for like points or whatever, you see like the built-in tiers of like, someone owns the Cosmo and the Excalibur and two hotels in between. You know what I mean? Oh, you got her to cover the spread.

They know to diversify their audiences. Sure, sure. So here are a list of things I always try to do when I go to Vegas, but they fit. This is good. They are slottable wherever and like um so i always want to go to one baller meal like whether that means fun steakhouse you know

something that is like dumb vegas meal i want to do one buffet trip and this you know all contingent on like if you're there for two nights you don't really want to do too much food stuff but like one buffet trip the wicked spoon at the cosmo or the caesar's buffet which i think is called bacchanalia which is a really fun one too and you're like you know you're paying like 65 for lunch or whatever so just be ready to go in there and like you know aim to get like be hung over or be high or you know get your money's worth um a spa day now always a spa day usually i do is the spot every single day but not like with a treatment i just get a day pass and do a little sauna steam room hot tub cold plunge depending on what the hotel has cosmo doesn't have a cold plunge unfortunately unfortunately. But, so for me,

that is like one part recovery, one part when I look back at the 72 hours and I was in Vegas, I'm like, I did like three

health adjacent things for myself. And then, this is where you're going to learn a lot about my internal logic. I could pay $55 for a day pass

to the spa, go down, also, life hack, if you get there well before check-in or you have a flight well after check-in the lockers in the spa can fit your suitcase so for 55 you throw all your shit down there you can go to the casino for the day and then go take a shower and a spa and everything before you go home or before you even check in that's good. So that's like a fun way to extend it without having to get another night at the hotel. Also, every hotel has like for $50 extra

like a way later checkout. Like especially if you're not checking out on like a Friday or Saturday, you can get like a 2 p.m. checkout for 50 bucks if you need like, you know, to shit in your hotel room. It's usually mine. I'm like, I don't want to do this at the airport give any amount of money um we we had a great experience last year where we we kept seeing the same guy at the check-in desk every time we would need like

oh hey this key's not working or like oh can we get this or that and then um the day before we were like hey could we get a late check out We have like our flights not until the late afternoon. And he kind of he waved the like the feet and he was like, sure. How about a 2 p.m.? We're like, oh, my God, I didn't know you could check out that late. And then he's like, I'll just make sure I know you had that sink issue. Like he's like winking at us. And it was solely because we were like,

talk to him and we're friendly with him. Yeah, and off what Jason's saying here, I think Vegas is maybe the last bastion of corporate wiggle room. Yeah. Every other business is like, everyone runs it so fucking tight. Or they are a bot that you're

dealing with online or whatever but they go by the rules so hard it used to be back in the day someone who like had job security would be like look i'm supposed to charge you but look if you pay parts you're not supposed to like you're a loyal customer vegas is like the last remaining bastion of that even outside of like the official like, you gambled enough to have a comped meal or a free. They have Daniel Van Kirk, another podcaster. He, on my podcast, on High Mighty, said, I take out $20 when I check in. I go, if there's any upgrades available, I'd love.

And he said it has worked for him a hundred percent of the time he said one time the person was like i'm sorry we just have nothing and he like didn't take the 20 and daniel was like no you can you looked you can have the 20 like i put it out there and he said otherwise he's gotten upgraded to a suite every single time the 20 trick yeah the the this is uh documented online you hand them your id and a credit card and you sandwich a 20 between them and you ask like if there's any upgrades available that'd be great and i still find it hard to believe you're giving away 20 bucks um i tried this for the first time last year and this very nice guy who is checking us in was having issues with his computer so never looked up oh so he never like missed the bill he missed the bill like he missed the bill wait for

the barista to look back before you drop the dollar in she's like yeah you're messing with the machine you're like i am tipping you wait wait wait look up look up see okay i'm not a piece of shit yeah fly or a bird in the room? Up here, up here. And she's like really stressed, like banging on it. Like something is going horribly wrong. Like this is the worst part of the day. And it's like, please, I just want you to know I'm a good person.

Did he take the money though? No. Okay, so you put him. He didn't take the money. I put it up there. But it was sandwiched. How did he not take it? Yeah, because wasn't he going to have to look at your ID and stuff anyway?

He just grabbed the card and ran the card. He just never took it. I think he was pretending he didn't see it. I mean, he could have been. He was also training a guy who's like, it's my first day. Oh, there's no way he's going to take the 20 and run the guy. Yeah, so that's the other thing. He didn't see it.

He pretended not to see it. So he probably didn't see it. But it's like the last place where if you call down and like yeah they they are hospitable there especially at the nicer casinos and i should talk i only mostly stay at the uh cosmo for the balcony thing or the venetian which i like because it also it has like the weird mall attached to it that has a bunch of restaurants but also has only suites which is kind of cool you know they all have like the little living room attached and it's not like much more than another room it's like because it's that's their standard is

like a king-size bed and like a little living room are those rooms kind of like i thought about staying there and i'm not but the are those rooms kind of like silly fake italy there is it like yes little flourishes a little bit it's a little gaudy at times and then the uh mall has the gondola that runs through it like a river that runs through and you can take a gondola that goes all the way outside and then the ceiling is painted with like blue and with clouds in the mall which is also really funny we were saying another episode indoor skies i like all of those in vegas yeah caesar's shops i love is it uh planet hollywood as that whatever that mall is i think has indoor

sky miracle mile yeah okay this is only tangential no is the sports store where pete rose is always signing is that in caesar's do you know what i'm talking about i do not know but this sounds awesome there's a sport store every time I'm in Vegas, and I feel like it's by Caesars, that it's always, there's a thing outside, and it says Pete Rose signing, and I go,

this is five, like the fifth time. That's so rad. I don't know about it, but I gotta go. Mike has pulled out recently some of the most fascinating, Pete Rose today,

Rich Little, Residency. I wouldn't argue any of these are obscure. No, they're not obscure. It's just an interesting... We're missing the Morris Day and the Time show by a few days. It's just such an interesting... That's the big thing about Vegas.

It's an interesting cast of characters. Yeah, I saw Purple Rain. R-E-I-G-N there. I've also seen this show. And it was fine but he the guy who is playing prince up there got angry that no one was like enjoying it as much yeah yeah how could he tell there was just little not enough applause there was just not enough people in there either it was like not you know and it was just like a weird vibe the person i went with just

happened to have like a like prince a like Prince for their birthday. And we're like, all right, we'll go to this. And that's always fun, too, is just agreeing to someone else's itinerary for a couple of things. You're like, I would never do this at a Vegas thing. So Spa Day, some sort of show of some sort, whether it is like a Copperfield or even like one of the Cirques or something. Oh yeah, do you like a Cirque? I haven't done a Cirque in many years.

They're like fine. It's really like just watching a screensaver with your friends in like a weird way. And being impressed by just like, wow, this theater is very impressive. The sound, wow, the production must wow the production oh that's a bouncy part of the floor you know like yeah stupid like just a bit hard to build oh if only kelsey grammar had fallen on that that one day it'd still be okay pop right back up yeah the uh

just a joke p rose's site autograph schedule it's he's in mandalay bay and mgm grand at a place called art of music in both places i don't know why it's called art of music's in mandalay bay and mgm grand at a place called art of music in both places i don't know why it's called art of music wait mandalay bay and what and mgm grand they might be mgm grand mandalay bay and luxor might all be connected by the tram so it might be like an in-between situation oh yeah there's a straight line it's mandalay bay luxor excalibur excalibur and then further up it's park mgm aria uh bellagio our aria is another one of the like fan like nicer uh hotels too yeah the the theme of aria is glass and metal yeah that is i've been there a few times and I have tried to like, what is that? Like, what is the, and like some large installation art. Yeah.

The wind is very colorful, which is kind of rad to be in because Steve Wynn, wonderful guy, great. Always on the lookout for humanity. He's like losing his eyesight. So everything has to be like in super, he makes them make everything intense color.

So it does have a fun byproduct of being in there. It's like all neon and like bright colors and shit. That's kind of a fun one to be in. Wow. Mike and I walked through that once and they have a lot of the, what's the guy that's the balloon, the metal balloon?

Jeff Koons. Jeff Koons. There's so much Jeff Koons in the wind. Wait, did they, was Koons making an appearance in the cross the spider verse right like yeah or am i oh i don't i haven't seen it whoa none of us have not been to the movies much this summer i just lost a huge bet oh yeah you're fine you bet mitch wouldn't have a would be would not be the first one to have a house and that we had already seen spider verse man that parlay did not come in absolutely not no if you're if i'm there for an extended period of time i like to hit old vegas especially if i'm

there with people who never go i'm like let's go to the old strip and because it's got a half domed air like it's got like a domed ceiling area too with yes but it's got a half-domed area. It's got a domed ceiling area, too. Yes. But it's like an LED screen, so there's stuff going on on top. And also, that's the place to play $5 craps in a place where you think they're ripping you off. Or a great spot for those giant Jungle Juice necklace drinks and shit like that. I always try to have one you know mardi gras adjacent consumption like moment where i'm like all right guys i'm buying and especially if it's a bachelor party

i'm like i'm putting my card down and i'm buying 10 huge froses i'm gonna force this upon people and yeah that's a funny duality too that you can like drink the finest drinks you can like drink at such a high level or just like a bucket of linkle at a place or you can have like this is paint thinner and ice do you like do you like that drunk as opposed to is there something from the the trash drunk or is it just a ticket to uh to vomit it's gross and i and i even drink way less than i ever did before especially in las vegas and especially with like the proliferation of cannabis in in vegas but there's something about like i'm like i have camp counselor energy a little bit and it's like wouldn't it be fun if all four of us had giant

stupid drinks and then you regret that instantly. It just sits. Usually what happens is you drink like a quarter of it, go up to the room to barf shit or change the vibe in some way, put it down on your dresser, go about your day, come back at night

and it's just like condensation sweat and all the ingredients have like separated in a weird way and you're like, I can't believe I almost drank and then you're like barfing while you pour it down your sink drain. My girlfriend and I have been to Vegas every year since 2020.

Like we squeezed in a trip in end of February 2020 and that first trip I was like well i'm just gonna try the slushy drinks because it's so hot and it's so like even in february it's hot um and you know i i want to cool down and stuff and i just spent most of the trip very bloated like that much ice and slush and corn syrup i was just like yeah for days i was like hydration of the air your like hands are like got like mickey oh my hands are destroyed my hands are like totally dry out wedding ring explodes off at the fucking what do you think of this because this this seems this is kind of your alcohol taste is uh colorful slush yeah it's

fun i like the i like. Yeah, it's fun. I like doing it, but there's no way you're drinking all of it. So they have a smaller one at the Taco Bell Cantina, I feel like. That's one I have not hit yet. Yeah. And I want to. I've never been to any Taco Bell Cantina. Oh, because it's on Hollywood Boulevard now. I know.

I know. I've got to check that out. That seems like a place we all want to be actively. On Hollywood Boulevard? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. What nights don't we spend on wandering Hollywood Boulevard? Jane went to the one in Times Square when we were there for the New York show and immediately

saw a fight within a minute. Yeah, there was a fight going on when I was there, too. It was a little scary yeah well it's nice to know there's a establishment out there where there is always a fight to watch yeah guaranteed yeah no you don't want to be in vegas on a big ufc weekend it changes the tone a little bit you know what i mean like it's just a little more masculine than you want it to be there and it's kind of peak masculinity there to begin with but like it used to be like feel like old school masculinity like brandy cigars like wealthy

fat guy wealthy fat tan guy masculinity then like everyone now it gets like it's like oh shit there's so many like ed hardy shirt guys now and there's like and still even like trends that you thought died in 2005 or thriving today i know dude it's crazy tucked in tank tops to jean shorts and shit and the guy's making like 2500 bets and you're like i do not know your life man where are you from how do i classify you douchebag from the past um in okay in terms of like uh masculine energy in vegas something else you mentioned you've done is the gun range i did that crazy automatic gun range you can fire almost anything i shot an m a belt fed m60 into a target like like the rambo gun oh my god and i'm a i am uh very anti-guns i think only movies should have them yeah but i am a fan of action movies so and this is crazy the weekend i was there was a friend's bachelor party he's like i want to go

shoot guns at that crazy range and like we were like 10 guys four guys were like no thank you 10 la guys and six of us were like yeah i'll go and i went had a blast i shot an m16 i shot a 12 gauge i shot uh a big giant like uh magnum revolver which like i'm 300 pounds and that hurt my elbow i'm like and in movies like women like 80 pound women are shooting two of them or whatever i'm leaping and i'm like almost blow my fucking head off just like trying to hold it um it was crazy it wasn't until i was there a very specific weekend for this bachelor party we're flying home on sunday and we all landed to a bunch of texts and calls from our loved ones because it was the night of that crazy uh guy in the hotel bay yeah the guy who shot like the country right country festival

shot it up and we had all posted instagrams of us tagging like las vegas holding machine guns and shit like that and we were like the bachelor party text was like everyone take down your shit take down your shit right now people are dying because everyone was texting us to be like are you okay is that where you guys were and we're like no we were not we were the la bachelor party we were not there for that we were there for we did shoot guns though and it was just crazy and then you know if the proliferation of uh shootings public shootings and mass shootings and stuff i had the moment i'm like what would have stopped someone from just like turning to the right in this gun range and spraying this is my problem with doing this i never thought about

that previously and now it's in my head and ours. I guess we'll cross that off the list. That is anyone can turn. That's true. It's kind of a scary situation. I've done a lot of weird off-strip stuff there because I've gone to so many bachelor parties. I like to joke. You know, women, there's like the expression,

always the bridesmaid, never the bride. But I'm always at the bachelor party, never in a tux. I never get groomsman level. No one wants me in photos like with their wife but everyone wants me in vegas with them for four nights so i'm fine with that um but like i i did atvs there which was kind of rad like riding around but the dude who took us on the tour

was super angry that all of us kept like our bikes kept stalling because we just didn't know what we were doing and be like can you start mine again he's like you mother fuck fuck god damn mother starting our shit up and we're all kind of like looking at each other and one of the guy the bachelor party was i didn't even go to this guy's wedding but he invited me to his bachelor party they want you there for the sin but not the matrimony yeah and i'm here for that like i don't need to fucking write a 200 check and like dance with your fucking cousin or whatever so so this guy is like the groom is a lawyer and on the drive home he's like hey didn't i hear one of you guys is a lawyer and he's like oh yeah i am he's like i got a quick law question for you i walked in on my wife fucking another guy went and got my gun

from the car and when i came back to shoot him he shot me in the back can i sue him and we were like and that's just a small business owner in las vegas has a story like that like wow did anyone have the answer what was the answer no the, the answer was, uh, yeah, well, uh, well, this is our hotel right here. Get out, get out, get out, get out. But tip them, tip them, tip them. I was going to say, I did not think that was some New York improvisers asking that question. No, because you would ask like 200 follow-ups.

Yeah. Another cool thing I did there was recently i did the meow wolf omega mart let's talk about this yeah because we're deciding if that's something we should uh make time for or not yeah it's not a huge it's not super far off strip it's like a 10 minute ride from most of the strip and um it was really fun and and i think me and Tiff were in and out in like three hours on like a weekday. And we had a blast. It's really fucking weird. And I think like comedy heads would like it even more, especially like if you like world building at all.

Because it's like the entire mart is like everything you can buy stuff there. And everything is like a funny tongue- cheek, like item in some way, or like the ad is weird or it's like, you know, something that we were like, and then you're like, this is kind of cool. And then you like go through the butcher shop and you're in like a,

you know, 10,000 square foot fucking, uh, huge loft space. And it's like multi-floored, all kinds of, everything is fully interactive. Any screen is playing something

that is like like like like a video game where you're like can click on every single thing and read every single thing and it all kind of has connectivity it's all that and then you're in there you know like if you're like me you eat some edibles and you just wander around looking at shit but there are like kids having a blast they're like every it's like for everyone in a weird way because it is just spectacle or you can like dive down and be like i think we're supposed to go to this room next to determine what happened with the laboratory experiment like or if there's a story to it there is a plot you can follow but you can do it a little more just wander around yeah and i don't know how much like like there's a strict narrative direction but it is sort of like this room maybe think made us think we should keep our eye out

for this room when we find it and stuff like that okay and it was and it was way cooler than i even thought it was gonna be i thought i was like oh this will be like because i was always intrigued by it i guess the originals in new mexico and george rr mart. Martin helped finance these guys for a while because he's a New Mexico guy. And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do it. And then I was truly impressed. Like, it is also like, because there's no like human interaction,

you know what I mean? So it's like, and I know you guys are theme park guys. I'm not personally with like the person who's like, alas, welcome. You know, like there's none of that. It's sort of that it's sort of like you're on your own pace yeah yeah like psychos wandering around there like obviously

just like people going like like i'm tripping balls and you you have to engage with me now but otherwise it was i thought that was really rad and and it's in like a the meow wolf's in like a kind of it's called like area 55 or some kind of weird complex. Yeah, Area 15. There's a couple of bars. There's axe throwing. There's drinks. There's some like other shit to do there too.

Is that where that Heart Attack Grill is? No, that's on the old strip. That's the other one. That's Fremont Street. Oh, yes. Yes, yes. Sorry, sorry. And I think you can eat there for free.

I think they've raised the weight. It used to be like over 300 and now I think it's like 325. 300 not good enough. Because like too many people in America are now over 300 or something. Especially Vegas. Yeah. Most of them are in Las Vegas. Yeah.

Vegas is where I feel like a fucking like you talk about the joke like I'm in LA six, but I'm a Vegas fucking bodybuilder. I'm a Vegas Olympic fucking swimmer. There was the talk of we were we were figuring out venues for our live show and mike you checked one out and i think did not really look at it very hard and no sent it to me it was in neonopolis which i went to once and just past neonopolis it was it was like night of the living dead just like i, you can just see silhouettes and it's just bodies like staggering

through the dead and it felt like there was mist and like, I'm just, I don't want to know whatever is happening there and why they are this way.

And that is where the Heart of Trek grill is. Yes, yeah. It's probably, you know. And then, but then I looked at where you sent

and it was a, it was a venue that had a, a giant rideable penis. Yeah. That was part of this facility. Yes. That's funny. I mean, that's funny. We did not decide to do.

We could have done the whole show while taking turns riding a big penis. I feel comfortable getting on that. It's a mechanical bull, but it's a big penis. Yes. I wasn't arguing otherwise. Yeah. I'm just saying I would do it.

Oh, that's what it is? I'm in. That wasn't arguing otherwise. Yeah. I'm just saying I would do it. Oh, that's what it is? I'm in. That sounds like the confidence. It actually comes. Sounds like the confidence of a sexual being. A man in touch with the spirit of Eros. Jason, thank you for seeing me as a sexual being.

I just see a couple of sexual beings recognizing each other here, and it's kind of beautiful, man. Nice, nice, nice. Alright, I guess I'm on the outside of it. Come on in, brother. I was gonna say the water's warm, but I don't wanna... I don't know. Yeah, it kind of makes it worse.

Makes 10 times worse. Let's get that back to a single entendre, please. Speaking of worse that's for me let's get that back to a single entendre please uh i speaking of vegas shootings i was there one time with friends just going out just having dinner at this fancy like uh steakhouse in the mgm i think it was uh if the name comes to me i'll throw it out there because it was the food was fucking bomb uh but i first time it's ever happened to me, waiter came over. It was like, please get up and leave the restaurant right now.

And we look around, and someone flicks the lights, and it's like everyone up and out of here. And we were like, what's going on? And you hear whispers like, there was a shooting on the strip. And it's all over the place. We have to evacuate a restaurant. We're all like women in high heels and men all dressed up douchey running through like the back tunnels behind a casino in a restaurant where all like women in high heels and uh men and all dressed up douchey running through like the back tunnels behind the casino in a restaurant out into a parking lot

and we're like running to the street and then when we like run to the street we see people running the other way no one knows what's going on it's all and this may be like you know a psyop deep fake cover story but apparently what happened is someone broke a glass door with like a hammer or slamming or throwing something at it and that went over security as a shooting at a fucking different hotel but so me and me and some friends uh dan gregor and some uh jack dolgen and and our partners all had to leave. And then we didn't want to go back on the strip or take an Uber or anything. So we went into the MGM and just like went up in an elevator to the first floor.

We can get off without a key. Got off on like the eighth floor and just went down by the stairwell and like hung out there for like an hour and a half. And like it was a really intense moment. And I don't want to tell other people's stories. But Dan was in New York City on 9-11 as a freshman in college or a sophomore in college. And he had just had his kid and was without his wife. And he was like... That was like...

It was impossible to laugh about it. And we eventually, as we reconnected with society and like went back to our hotel, we went down. First time I've ever seen a casino closed. We went downstairs and it was just not. Sorry, the casino is not open right now. And people were telling us stories. They were in the restaurant, the Cosmo and someone. People were flipping over the dining room tables and hiding behind them for cover and shit.

And this was happening at like eight hotels simultaneously, but only one of them was where the door was broken and allegedly no shooter whatsoever. Yeah. And that's all anyone was talking about for the whole weekend. You would just be at the craft table and someone's like, were you here last night? And you're like, yeah.

And they were like, what'd you do? We hit out on the eighth table. And someone's like, were you here last night? And you're like, yeah. And they were like, da, da, da. And it's like, what'd you do? We're like, we hit out on the eighth floor. Blah, blah, blah. We were at this restaurant. They told us to leave. It was an enormous, delicious steak dinner that we walked out on the bill. Like, hey, OK.

Well, there's a bright side to everything. When we went back for a friend's birthday, we went back to that steakhouse the weekend of Purple Rain. And we found our waiter and tipped him cash. We were like, we're not going to pay for our steak. You found the guy? Oh, wow. That's nice.

Because he was in the Vegas hospitality way. Jack had him as a waiter before, and we requested his section, and he was so good to us. We were about to drop $1,000 because we were just ordering oysters and bourbon and all this shit we were like totally over the top and then didn't pay for it so we're like we got to give this guy a couple hundred bucks at least oh great yeah a lot of weird news stories out of vegas uh lately multiple uh cashier robberies some uh various casinos some on the strip of like you know somewhere put the money in the bag others were like hi i'm the brother of the owner and if you could just give me uh like fifty thousand dollars he's asking for and like got away with it um some you gotta try that caesars

uh someone sandwich it between two room keys please a. A note that says, I'm the brother of the guy who owns this place. Someone barricaded. Mr. Maraj. Jason Caesar. So I don't know the conclusion of the story, but someone barricaded themselves in a hotel room in Caesars, and they evacuated their massive pool deck and stuff. Oh, yeah, I saw that.

I saw that. He was throwing furniture out the window yeah 30 something floor or some shit yeah so this one wow wow always something in that city can i say something positive that's happening when we're there and i didn't tell you guys this yet but i'm going to reveal it now oh boy there are some uh very important sporting event tapings happening when we're going to be there next weekend and of course i'm talking about the return of slam ball slam ball my god the trampoline basketball league what sponsored by acl surgeons it's not good for your ankles there's no way it is the only league sponsored by orthopedic surgeons i'm like we're gonna print money off this fucking job slam ball is returning and

is taping in las vegas the weekend we're going to be there i think three days what do you think is the degree of hassle of attending the slam ball tape what is the time commitment i mean i i've never seen slam ball in person i've been accidentally at universal studios to see slam ball uh and i did last about 15 minutes okay yeah kind of same standing outside that weird like bush area. When you know the guy who created Slam Ball, maybe you could send an email. Ooh.

What? What are you talking about? I know the man who created Slam Ball. What? Redrick Slam. I'm his brother. Michael Slam. That's my middle name.

Slam Carlson would be a good fucking heel yeah that'd be great oh yeah that's evil maybe two m's you're right yeah yeah shit you already have you're already mr mike fisto which is a reference to bono's evil character from concerts where he's a little devil but there's no reason you can't expand your lineup of heel personas. Yeah, you've got full Cactus Jack, Mankind, Mick Foley. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They could all show up in one episode, just like Mick Foley. All of his guys showed up in one Royal Rumble.

He came out three times. Yeah, that's so fun. That's like the appeal. That's like the definition of why wrestling rules. Yes. This guy's back out, but now he's a hippie he changed his t-shirt he's clearly more tired than everybody else triple h selling when when cactus jack came back mick foley's cutting a promo and he goes i'm not gonna face you basically there's a different guy that's gonna face you and he goes, I'm not going to face you, basically. There's a different guy that's going to face you and he opens up his shirt to show Cactus Jack's shirt

and Triple H sells it as if he's seen a ghost. It's the same man. It's so awesome. It's just a tie-dye t-shirt. I was in the audience and lost my mind. Oh, because Cactus Jack is more violent. He's scary. He's a very violent one, yes.

Even though all of his matches were violent. Yeah, even though the other guy wears a BDSM mask and puts a sock down your throat. Yeah, yes. Even though all of his matches were violent. Yeah, even though the other guy wears a BDSM mask and puts a sock down your throat, he's the less violent one than the guy in the tie-dye t-shirt. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of sporting events, I've now gone to two different professional sporting events in Vegas and enjoyed myself at both.

I saw Summer League. I'm not a basketball fan, but I went for a friend's bachelor party that was to see Summer League. I'm not a basketball fan, but I went for a friend's bachelor party that was to see Summer League, which I guess is like NBA potential people playing and that was kind of fun, kind of come and go as you please, sort of two days of tickets kind of situation.

And another time, I went to go see the Vegas Golden Knights play the New York Islanders, my old favorite hockey team. And I don't really follow hockey anymore, but I happen to be going with some Long Island guys who were there, and they were like, we're going to get tickets to the Islander game. And then I was like, oh, that'll be fun.

I've never done something like that. And then it's really cool. You can walk to, like, there's that area called, like, the park. The park, yeah. Yeah, which is kind of like an open air bar strip area. A place to smoke weed, yeah. Yeah, go fucking get in the bar, baby. Yeah, that's the Washington Square Park of Vegas.

It's like you said that quiet. You don't want anybody listening. Maybe Weird Man offers you a hit off a blunt, and they start selling you. It's like, yeah, we're growing the original strains, the ones that we're kind of growing out. Do you want some of this? And it's like 2021, and you're like,

no, I don't want to share that. But thank you so much. Keep the lighter, keep the lighter friend. But that was really fun to just be like, walk to a sporting event. This fall, I intend to go see the Giants. The team I do actually follow and support the New York Giants.

They're playing at Vegas. So I'm going to go to a golden night or whatever they are. The Raiders. The Raiders. Yeah. Right. Isn't there some insane, didn't the Vegas Golden Knights open with some ceremony

that, I know we were alerted to this because we did an episode where we talked about how the Mighty Ducks started their entire existence. They had like a really bizarre irritating opening ceremony where like a big duck with a mask flew in uh while like

and then there was a guy named ice man who uh pumped up it was just like just a guy in a silver suit and silver makeup pumped up the did you do you have any memory of that i feel like the vegas golden knights started in a big dumb way well no it was i know about the nicer way because the golden knights were an original, like they didn't come from anywhere. They started in Vegas. Their first game was pretty soon after the Mandalay Bay shooting. And the captain of the team was a Las Vegas local.

And they put together like a very tasteful tribute and everything. So like immediately got the town on board for the team so uh the locals are really big fans of the hockey team and they just like went wild when they won the stanley cup this year oh that's so fucking rad yeah it's fun to go because hockey is one of the fun live sports too you know like it's just like very manageable to watch and like kind of like uh a little smaller of a rink you know what i mean so it's like the volume and it feels more intense in there uh so i want to go for a giants game and another thing i never did because i had this scheduled for march 13th 2020 was the ncaa tournament oh yeah and it's not played in vegas but it lets you bet you know

you can bet on 64 games on one day you know like you can really have fun there's always some sports bets you can get some crazy parlays going and there's always games on tv to like because that's a big part of i should say part of my vegas uh strategy too is i lay sports bets right when i arrive too and that's sort of like my fake savings account, where it's like, so when I lose all my money, it's like, well, I still have $400 up in the air on games this weekend.

And then that gives you something to be like, oh, I'm losing at the craps table. It's like, oh, well, the Chargers game is on. Let me go sit down and have a beer and breathe and hope that the Chargers hit the over the over or whatever you know um so that adds like a layer to my entire trip too and and i go with a recurring group of guys a lot of people mutual friends of ours we go we're all married men in our 40s so like the our vega but who are all gambling guys so our vegas trips are very specific and it's like the texts are like who's landing first I won't land in time to make the 4 p.m. bets can you so

there's just like Venmo shooting around like crazy and shit like that um yeah I so I have some gambling questions um uh remind me what your game of choice is is Is it roulette or craps? It's craps. And how do I play that? Craps. And now give us. And now explain craps. Something you could Google. Is this something I should do on strip or I should go to like Ellis Island or like Fremont or something? Ellis Island.

You are Jason Scher. Your name shortened at Ellis Island. Ellis Island is a casino with a microbrewery just behind the strip. Just off the strip. Oh, I've never seen that. That's fucking rad. I'll take a look at that. It's fun to go to a place that's cheap because if you're there on the weekend,

no table at any hotel is going to be below 15, no less. Potentially not even below 25. And you want a little bit more. Craps is sort of like seems complicated at but you can play it in like the least complicated way you just bet that pass line and on the first roll which is called the come out roll if the roller rolls a 7 or 11 you automatically win whatever you bet on the pass line so the minimum usually so it's 10 bucks whatever uh if they roll a 2 3 or 12 that's called crapping out you lose whatever you bet on the pass line

and all of the other numbers 4 5 6 8 9 10 are called uh then that point moves to that which means now the roller is rolling their dice until they hit that number again and you win your pass line bet now this is where seven becomes the bad number seven is and so there's some like lore around seven you don't say the number out loud at the table that's like one of the things you don't say seven like they'll say like that only the croupier or whatever stick man will go like seven craps but you never say like no seven or like oh i hope he rolls a set like just don't say it out loud because craps is one of the few games where if everyone's betting the pass line you're all actually in it

together and rooting for the same outcome oh sure so like that's the appeal of the game that got me the first time is that oh yeah when someone rolls an 11 on the come out bet, which is called a yo, everybody wins. And that's exciting to be at a table where everybody wins. Even in blackjack, if the dealer busts, you may have also busted or someone may have hit at the wrong time and fucked your cards up. Crafts just has that positive vibe. And so the only basic skill I'll give you is once you're betting on the pass line and once the point is set, so the point is at four, they call it the button. The button is on four, and you're waiting for the – the roller can roll anything but four or seven, and it does not affect your life. Obviously, there are people placing other bets, like maybe a heart, and you can just forget about that for your first time playing. The best odds in the casino are your backup bet, which is the bet you put behind your

pass line bet once the button is set. So the pass line pays one to one. You put $10 out there. They roll a seven or 11 on the come out bet. You get $10. You put $10 out there. The button's on the four. They roll a four again. Yay, everyone wins. They hit the button. You get $10. You put $10 out there, the button's on the four, they roll a four again,

yay, everyone wins, they hit the button, you get $10 on that. But if you can put $10 after the point is set behind your pass line bet, that's called backing up your bet, that gets better than one-to-one odds.

And the odds vary between the four, five, six, eight, nine, and 10. So that's where you juice the odds vary between the 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. So that's where you juice the odds. And you could put up to 3, 4, or 5x that bet that you have. So you can have a $10 pass line bet. The button lands on a 6. You could put $50 in the backup. And if they hit the 6, you win your $10.

And then you win like 78 on the 50 or something, rather than 50. So that's like the bet you want to get to. But that'll get you hanging out at the table, and then that's how you really learn craps. Okay. It's just being at the table, being present, slowly losing pass line bets,

and slowly and hopefully hitting some stuff. And then you start to see on the hop bets, which are one-time and then you start to see uh on the hop bets which are one-time bets like i bet a yo on the hop they're gonna roll 11 on the hop uh hard ways which are doubles like 55 33 44 are eight the hard way 10 the hard way six the hard way come bets which is like a secondary pass line once the button has been established the field bets which are so that's an easy bet to make too because it just lists like these are the numbers if they come up you win if two comes up you win double if 12 comes up you win triple but the famous craps expression is only farmers

make money in the field like you don't bet on the field yeah so there's so much shit going on and everyone plays differently usually there's like a six foot eight person of color who's betting on the don't pass line and is in a leather jacket no matter how and is just like straight up challenging the table to be like the don't pass line is i'm betting you all lose and they're like and they're usually just a person who's so intimidating in a way that no one says anything you're just like okay whenever you say tall man yeah yeah like it's always just a giant person and it like with like like style that doesn't match the climate or something like that where you're like it's too hot to be dressed like that but that makes you scarier or something like they're in like a leather duster or something and it's 110 degrees and you're like fuck so don't be that person but that's the way you get at the

craft table and jason if you don't get to do it on this trip the next time i go i will line my trip up with you to wow because i've taught people craps before it's like i learned from a college roommate's oh my god danian father who like was like a crazy like all cash business guy and like one of those dudes who i now recognize the type of like gotta lose some cash at the casino in order to not have the irs at my house or whatever so like it's fun like i learned from a dude like that who was like here gabrus i'm not gonna do his voice whoops uh here gabrus here's like here's a hundred dollars cash and you're like a 21 year old college kid you have

a hundred dollars in ac and you're like oh my god he's like bet this bet this bet this and i like learned the game from him and i brought i brought that energy that that was 20 years ago that i learned that and i'm uh this was passed down this was an oral history and now i have my own like uh combat strategy that i do that uh any one of my friends would say never works like man we were rolling good for a while how'd you do gabriel i lost a lot why i bet way too much like are you idiot but you maintain you stick with it anyway yeah i gotta oh you gotta win it back okay that's what i i see this happen so bad i i wanna well i want to go to the sports book too because the Phillies are doing pretty good this season. Hell yeah.

And so the other thing I learned this tip because the ATMs in Vegas are insane. But if you go to the sports book and you put a few hundred dollars on your account, you can slowly withdraw that money with no fees. So it's essentially a free ATM. Right, but you have to put your money in it so yeah and you have to make sure you don't forget that you put like 300 dollars you're in barstow shit that's always

the case too and you get home and you have like 150 in chips by accident or like and you're like i can't use these until i go back to one specific casino. Well, the chips work, but the tickets, the paper tickets, you only have a few days. So you got to make sure to cash those out. Oh, is that right? Yeah, there's insane numbers of like casinos make X amount of money every year just for unclaimed winning. Because I always think about that with like the 40 cents tickets

that people like who are losing $200 might just toss. I usually just walk by a lady like an old lady who's playing the penny slots and put my like $1.63 in for her it's like my go-to with that move because I don't want to go to the fucking cashier and be like

and here okay $1.48 and that's all you have left from your trip to me it's as sad as like pulling the empty pockets out in a little fly along other Vegas strategies I have

to prevent myself from hitting that ATM I do it once a night I do it for a high amount if I have to but my real plan is when I have a vegas trip booked about two months out i stop using my credit card on groceries and start using my debit card on groceries and get cash back every time every time and i get like 60 bucks out of cash back

and then eventually by the time i'm ready to go to vegas i have like 480 cash right that i don't fully miss because it just was from like according to my uh brain a lot of expensive trips to gelsons or whatever you know but i and it's in the past in another city so you're not thinking about that you don't pay fees on those withdrawals as well and rather than take like one when you look at your thing you don't just see like minus 800 you just see like minus 220 minus 220 minus 220 like 10 times or whatever because you can't do this on the strip there's a million cvs and walgreens and they all have cash back like 20 30 limits for cash back right because they know people will just go out there buy a soda and be like i have 700 yeah yeah it's a wgreens and a bank vault in order to do what we want.

Now, do you just bet for teams? Do you just bet them winning or you bet like, I'll bet the win and Kyle Schwarber hits on whom we're on? Yes. I'll do stupid parlays like that. Normally when it's sports, I don't really know about if other people, I'll be like, let me know what you're doing. And with my friend group, it's not like tacky. I'll be like, let me know what you're doing. with my friend group it's not like tacky i'll be like let me know what you're doing and i'll just match whatever you're

betting you're putting 50 on this because the fun thing to do especially if you're there with a group is take and you happen to be there if it's football season you don't want to fly home till sunday night because it is fun to be there the games start at 10 a.m the games are over at 8 p.m and you get to just bet on three different sets of games and what we'll always do is some like 10 team parlay that's like everyone puts in five dollars if we win we all take 1400 or whatever you know but it never happens but that's like a fucking jackpot sizzler yeah if you got to leave with that that's cool yeah the other another game me and my friends

play for bachelor parties was taught to us by greg tukalescu uh it's called denny walensky and the way denny walensky works and i i recommend you guys play this maybe even is if it's you know whoever's bachelor party it is or birthday party whatever we everyone wears suits everyone gives denny walensky whoever or like for some time if it's no occasion put your names in the hat whoever pulls like the denny walensky card is denny walensky and that means everyone gives him a hundred dollars they go up to the craps table and bet on the pass line whatever that amount is so the last time we went with greg tukaleska was like eighteen hundred dollars eighteen people gave him a hundred dollars and the plan is where the name

denny walensky comes if you crap out and lose everyone goes to denny's and suits if you win you double that money and that goes towards the bill at smith and walensky's so like cool so it's like you either and you adjust those two restaurants as taste is needed for for us it's now in and out and like whatever the steakhouse is at our hotel so we'll have like a standing res for like 18 people at jean george and then like it's actually really funny on to the one i did recently with tukalescu was an eighteen hundred a fourteen hundred dollar roll he walked up crapped out on the first roll and we were like all right every we like we're all partying in the room we all went downstairs he rolled it we lost we all just turned around and went to in and out together like everyone's all

dressed up and we just and then that way you eat in and out and then it's like 130 for your meal that night where you know and then if you end up going to jean george everyone you get 2800 knocked off the bill so like yes your hundred dollars is gone but you got like a free hundred also it points you in a direction are Are you doing Trash Vegas or are you down in the middle of Stratford? And it's kind of fun to just let Chance pick that for you. Yeah, yeah. So we have to give Jason $100? Is that what we're saying? Yeah, but he has to chip it in, too, so it ain't happening.

Is this how I put this on my sportsbook card? You're like, I just got a scam on us. Can we call ours IHOP's Subways? An IHOP's? A classy Yeah, an IHOP's. A classy one? Yeah. It's international. I'm assuring you I'm going to bet on the MLB All-Star game,

and it's going to be great. Don't let them know the All-Star game happened last night. I like to, if I go there in the offseason, I bet on the Giants to win the Super Bowl, which is like a varying sliding, you know, you put $10 and it's like, this ain't happening.

This ain't happening. You can have $1,800. If this happens, you're like, great. I'll take that. Yeah. I'm definitely,

I wonder if you're thinking the same thing, Mike, I think now we're trying to find like a Vegas activity we haven't done. And that's a group activity. I, what I'd like to do now is watch Jason lose several thousand dollars and then see what happens to him. You can replace thousands. Does he melt You can replace thousands with $30.

He goes full Alex Mack when he loses $100. I watched the Apple employee tell him he needed to pay for a new iPhone, and he almost fell over. It's funny that you say that because I was at the Apple store last night, and I learned the current cost for replacing glass on an iPad is $ is 249 so you may as well just buy a new ipad and then i was looking at apple watches and they're like the one you were looking at the the that configuration is out of stock so i busted it i busted at the apple store two for two You put like 12 more of the iPads onto Podcast The Ride,

which is more important. Subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That'll start paying for itself in the long run. The podcaster's life hack, yes. You joke,

but I really like gambling and I could see developing a very serious gambling problem. What are we doing? Don't play. What game are we even playing? What do I play? I play the Little Shop of Horror's

Penny Slots. I don't think you're on your way to having a problem. What's the name of the plant? Audrey 2. Two Audrey's, not three. You need to make her bigger and bigger. Audrey ate my nickel.

I try. I almost got all Seymour's. I was playing at Atlantic City once, and I cashed out when I was like $20 up and walked away and then passed it like 20 minutes later, and someone had won $1,200 on it, and I was like, oh, fuck me. That's the shit that gets you not to leave.

Mom, mom, did you see my race? Of course I did, darling. Look, you did your best. You tried. The thing is, it's not about winning. It's about taking part. Next year, you might do better. But I did win, mom.

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Other things I always do in Vegas is on my Sunday morning or my last morning. Usually, I just build it around a weekend. Church. But sometimes, I'm there Tuesday through the night. I go to church. I go to Bieber's church church it's fucking great uh no i do uh like uh smoke a fat something on my balcony go buy a smoothie or a big iced coffee something that's non-party drink yeah and then sit at a video poker machine and play it like video games like just super super stoned, zoned out, nice and slow,

sip my whole coffee or green juice or smoothie. The Cosmo has like a fun little smoothie store that makes a coffee smoothie that has like espresso and peanut butter. Oh, wow. So you can feel kind of like healthy and coming back to life a little bit. So I'll hit the spa in the morning

and then sit down super high and do that for like, and that's like the time where i'm trying to even get away from tiff my wife i'll be like i'm gonna go do because like i don't want someone sitting over my shoulder while i slowly play video poker high like perhaps like tiff likes to be around craps because there's free drinks and yeah people and weirdos and stuff but like when you're in the video poker section it's just like cigarette smoke and fucking uh rascal scooters i'm terrible at video poker i want to learn how to play the video keno on those machines oh i never played video keno but that's it's kind of like bingo yeah yeah i play a lot of quick draw at new york bars you know any new york bar that has like the lotto machine i'm always fucking with uh another meta game i play which i think you guys will enjoy is

slot machine ips like finding the wildest ips is really like the like existing ips in the world or they're weird generic like golden lion yes my favorite one is there's one that's just like stoic buffalo or something and it's like just a big buffalo and i'm like who's like my game is that you know yeah i find that really funny and then the actual ips are really like real shit where you're like there's a monopoly of star wars and then it just like there's some weird vestigial ones where it's like there's a petticoat junction slot machine what yeah i have my las vegas geo tag on my my apple photos open and i was like i must have taken a photo of a weird one and i just found judge judy yes exactly yeah and it's like

the funny you just imagine who like how the ip licensing works for stuff like that how much money is judge judy making off the slot machine how much is that part of judge judy's vast stamp i know judge judy's like it must have like three billion dollars right how much of the three billion is from slots right and then you also are like you're also curious about like when uh an ip is on like a penny slot like versus like a dollar you're like and here's another uh gabriel's family tradition that my fam my parents and me and my brothers always do and i pass that on to the people i go on vacay to vegas with everyone puts 20 together and puts 20 each into a wheel of fortune machine because we really like the wheel of fortune slot because you get to spin that wheel right yeah that is only for 20

dollars whatever anything that has like a mini game inside of it where it takes you up to the top yeah we got a new game up here exactly change the scenery uh i'm looking at a wheel over there as well oh yes so for our show oh spoiler i'm looking at a giant spaceship covered in a tarp that you guys keep saying he's gonna maybe don't worry about it it's gonna put us on the map map. The slot machine IPs have gotten so fast. Like when the first part of the Dune movie came out. Yes. In theaters and on HBO Max at the time,

I was in a casino and there were already Dune slot machines like simultaneously released with the movie. Well, it's just part of the release stretch. Because the screens now can be changed so you don't have to actually have a like a practical physical yeah you're just like oh that's true upload the new ip like here's your ip usb stick you can have the full new nbc fall lineup just represented immediately when they premiere i've always heard the odds are worse on the ip machine like you want to find the shittiest looking slot machine. I think that's what they say.

They don't need to pay out as well because people will play it for the IP. Yeah, yeah. So when we play, when we pool our money for a slot, we come up with an arbitrary system of like, we're going in height order, age order, weight order. And it's always like a gimmick in the family.

And if you hit for any amount, even if it's like, it's a 75 cent spin, but you won 50 cent, you get to spin again. And whoever gets the, you know, and then the game becomes, if you're winning, you start to negotiate what the cutoff number is on the way down. Where you're like, oh, we each put $20 in, so we have $80 in this machine. Shit, now we're winning. We have $120. When do we cash out? It's like, well, well not at $120 because then we're only going to take

home $30 each it's like but then if you like don't hit and all you lose all your money you really only lose $20 and adding four people taking their time and figuring out like different ways to spin the reels or three people or whoever else might be there like you're sharing in this moment

but it also slows the casino down to one-fourth speed of money losing in a way that is not all split up you're not all split up you're all together losing at one-fourth the pace you could potentially lose by yourself yeah you'll hear i guess maybe listeners can put this together at this point. So much, I consider any moment I'm not gambling to be money I'm earning. Like if I'm out to dinner, I'm like, yes, this dinner costs $300, but I could lose $1,000 in two hours. Sure.

I mean, $700 on this dinner. And once you're in that headspace, you're fucking yourself. This is what we need to shift into. That's interesting. And if you're doing a group poll, you know, everyone's chipping in,

you know, worst case scenario, oh, you got to watch all those fun little snippets from Jurassic Park. Exactly. Yeah,

it cost me $20 and I got to watch like five of their little playouts, their little cut scenes and shit. Yeah. I'm looking at it. I'm also, in 2015,

early vestige of the Avatar fascination, that there was an Avatar machine. The way of winning. The way of winning. The top thing in this papyrus-laden machine, the top win is Mighty Win. Wow. Mike thinks he invented a phrase in Avatar.

No, you're right. You're right. I started calling the Akron the Mighty Akron years ago. It's not in the movie. That's not a phrase any of the Avatar people say. If you Google Mighty Akron, I come up. They're like the podcast the ride is and then I come up.

I've heard you scream this in someone's face at a bar before. Yes. If you Google Mighty Akron, my name comes up. Yeah, that's what my when I'm in a retirement home and I've lost my mind. face at a bar before. Yes. You Google Mighty Acron, my name comes up. Yeah. That's what my, when I'm in a retirement home and I've lost my mind, the nurses will be hearing you all know the phrase

Mighty Acron. Hey, look at me. Look at me. Where are you going? Look at me. Look at this. Eye contact, pal. I have like a laminated sheet

of the Google results that I just like put on a table. Like, look at this. Remember when there was Google? Remember SEO before everything was abolished? Yeah. Avatar 5 is about to come out.

Oh, then, yes. Yeah, yeah. It's too delayed. Sir, is this a tip or do you want this back? He's got a backpack full of them. No, keep it. Anyone need an autograph? There's something about, sorry, real quick.

Going to Vegas, there is something about sorry one real quick going to vegas there is something i do that i recommend other people do is just kind of shift your perspective on a lot of things up to and including the value of currency it's almost like and that's it's difficult and arguably not financially smart but arguably but i'm talking about enjoyment i'm not talking about like a retirement yeah you got you everything costs a little more than you think it does you guys are i keep saying you guys are theme park guys you guys are on your podcast the ride hey that's all i want to be recognized as is a theme park guy the sexual being thing i don't want any recognition that i'm glad you're right you recognize me for what we should be celebrating.

Well, when you accept it yourself. The Venn diagram of theme park guy and sexual being is just Jason. Hey, well, we are the ones who made kids. That's true. That's true. We must have done it at some point. Statistically.

So you made kids and must have done it just precludes you from being a sexual yeah i don't know that you have when you say it like that congratulations i swear it wasn't in vitro to the young ptr the next ptr generation next generation of dorks yeah ptr tng okay question here i like going to one big douchey pool party how do you feel about this they're not for me okay but i i've done them yeah and i enjoyed myself there yeah it is one of those like if you can get yourself a cabana it feels like a little bit better uh and every one of them now kind of has like yes pool party like official pool parties or pool party energy just at the pool which is kind of fun so like you don't have

to go fully to go to rehab at hard rock there's levels of douche right you just go to this adults only pool and you know what that means and it's like yeah there's gonna be some wild people getting fucked up there but there also might be like five people reading laying out you know what that means. And it's like, there's going to be some wild people getting fucked up there, but there also might be like five people reading, laying out, you know? I forget which hotel I went to recently,

but I had a wave pool with a giant TV in the back. And then it was at someone else's bachelor party and they had outdoor craps table. And when I went to the Hard Rock, I played Blackjack in the pool, which was awesome. Oh, that sounds good. And uh blackjack in the pool which was awesome oh that

sounds good and then you're in the pool for like 12 hours and everyone no one's getting out to go to the bathroom but you've had like a hundred hey what's happening at this table here we're just all pissing in the circle all right there's the encore beach club that has the giant sports screens that's what i'm thinking yes and circa downtown yeah that's the newer one that's like the nice hotel next to fremont street and it's like well what's the point there's a night and you guys can talk among yourselves i found an app where i put myself with five other you have so many pages of apps i have never seen what's this one discotheque is the app and you can put yourself on the list for a many many different

vegas like parties or nightclubs or pool parties uh-huh and i have signed up for many already for this weekend where are you going what's on well i don't know what i'm doing this is all together yeah it's like see you guys i gotta go to the pool party i only put myself on the list i'm assuming i've never made it seem like i want to go to one of these pool parties you have to go i'm just saying i definitely put myself plus five guests with me so if we want to go we can't if we want to go to a zillow this might be the thing is to join you at one of your pool saturday a zillow ultra pool sunday nico x sway at wet republic uh dj dynamic at the dr's Beach Club.

Any of these are possible. The thing I'm kind of excited about is Sunday night, DJ Spider drenched after dark, starting at 10.30, a nighttime douchey pool party. Ooh, interesting. This is what I'm interested in. Where's that one? This is at Marquee Nightclub.

You might survive a night pool party. A day pool party you will be. Yes, that's true too. It'll be a nice 95 degrees at night. It'll be a balmy. The pool day parties have changed the vibe of Vegas in a really fun way. If you go to the casinos at 3 or 4 p.m.,

there are tons of women cross-eyed in bikinis. Staggering in from out like and like and guys absolutely piss wasted with no shirts on and it's like they are you know 1 a.m drunk right before you've had dinner yes and they're dressed for the pool so it's like if you are a standard horny american it's it's quite if you are sexual which jason and i are a standard horny american it's it's quite if you are sexual which jason and i are a standard horny american that's god welcome to the sha boys oh man i guess i'm getting fomo now but i think i think you guys are stumbling upon which is also another fun thing about vegas um because it does have something for everyone. Yeah. It sounds like you guys need to go to a pool party for Mike. You guys need to gamble or go in on a sports bet with Jason.

And then Scriz, you need your own. I got to pick one. Yeah, yeah. An off-strip activity is always fun. Yes. I know the Bangarang people did this. I never did it, but it was a lot of fun. There's the huge sandbox where you get to play with excavators and bulldozers and stuff

in a giant construction pit. Oh, I've heard about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, what do I... Oh, my God. And I believe they're building a Formula One racetrack. Oh, yeah. That's happening in the fall.

Yeah. Makes total sense. Like, it's the fifth city to get one or whatever. They're building a headquarters, and then there is a race on the strip. Like they're building bleachers in front of the Bellagio fountain. Which they used to have. I think Caesars had a race track. So this is going back to decades ago.

I did the Vegas half marathon where you run the street. Wow. Oh, wow. With friend of the show, weiger ah we and it was amazing like the one way to get me to run 13 miles is like they close the strip down and you run down the street at night and i was like fuck it was brutal and it got really cold by the end and there's one leg where you go off strip just because like you can't do 13 miles just on the strip and when you go off the strip the entire tone of the city changes and you're like you're like this is creepy let's get

back on the strip let's get back on the strip but i like ate edibles at mile 10 and like the last the last three miles i'm just like running under neon lights like super slow it was such a fucking rad experience oh my god wow incredible yeah well i don't know what mine is i i mean i was wondering if it'd be fun to go to palace station and walk in the footsteps of oj and his uh okay band of uh memorabilia robbers uh sure we could take the we could take the uh the the oj robbery there's an aquarium at mandalay bay i believe yeah uh like i mean the orb or or the big Ferris wheel, those are potential. The link thing.

High roller. Yeah, yeah. Station casinos are interesting. Run by Tillman Fertitta's cousins. Wow, wow. From the Texas gang. You're one of Tillman Fertitta's cousins. And if you tell them you're...

There's a paddle coming for their ass. I say I'm Scott Fertitta. I'm Scott Fertitta. I'm Scott Fertitta. This is the owner of the Rainforest Cafe and Landry's Restaurant. I recognize the name. You read Tillman Fertitta's book. What is this book called again?

It's like, shut the fuck up and do it. It's something really severe and not friendly. His uncles were all Texas gangsters, so when he bought the Raptors, everyone was like, the NBA's letting this guy buy a team? Mine could be Peppermill, too. I like that Peppermill.

Oh, yeah. You've done it before, right? What's the Peppermill? Peppermill is this diner that has a bar also. Oh, I have done it. Yeah, it is like early 80s neon pink and purple aesthetic. I did do that on a travel show for Esquire with Adam Pally. Not the recent one we did.

One we did way back in the day. Me, him, Gemberling, and Doug Mand and a few other people ate at it. Oh, sure. Remember the getaway when they were doing celebrity one-off travel show episodes? It was on the Esquire network. Jack McBrayer went to Hawaii and like Eve went to Jamaica and stuff like that. And Pally took five of his dumb friends to Vegas.

Oh, that's cool. Wow. What was the highlight of that? What was the highlight of that? We had, oh, we stayed at the Rain Man suite in Caesars with the two stairs wow wait i don't know about this in the movie rain man they come down the suite stairs uh in like suits it's got

it's this huge two floor suite where the like the living like the living room is like 18 feet of windows and like and we stayed in that and had and this is the dumbest highlight we had like a top shelf brunch room service like lobster tail cocktail bloody mary bar like and they filmed it at all but for us it was just like we got super baked and just ate like this insane morning feast and i was like this is the best part of vegas it's like the moment we didn't leave the hotel it's like my favorite part oh we we tried to to do that indoor skydiving thing where you're like, and they were like, how much do you weigh?

And I was like, this much. And I was like 40 pounds lighter than I am now. And they were like, you can try, but you probably just be laying on the ground with the fan blowing on you really hard. I was like, I'll pass. You want to know what it's like to have a lot of wind in your face?

Great. Well, this is a good idea. A little like curated experiences. I mean, I'll think harder on mine. I ate at an awesome Chinese food restaurant that Weiger recommended that was off strip, like in a strip mall. And the food was bananas good. And it was bring your own beer, which was kind of fun too.

Oh, that's funny. Yeah, yeah. Oh, really? But yeah, Peppermill's a good time too. Yeah. I do like it there that's a drink like a fucking kitchen sink full of like alcohol and sherbert there like some huge yeah that's what i want exactly yeah because the thing they're known for is the cocktail menu is like the bartender's handbook like they have every cocktail right yes

that's what it was you can get almost any and we got some big dumb like you know lobster thermidor the cocktail yeah yeah to brandy alexander's for the table you know yeah yeah well i think we got you know yeah that might be the way to do it everybody we all we pool our interests and then pool and also pool our money in a little shop of horrors slot machine we put we each put a hundred dollars i got a hundred dollars in free play so i'm starting off like winning so thanks to vegas games we play on our phones all you had to do was constantly be playing a game at all times obsessively and it is the worst pop-ups like it tries to get you to spend money on it so much. Man, I wish Diablo 4 or Dave the Diver gave me fucking Cosmo points

because I just spent the last 80 hours of my life between those two games. You need to use a lot of points. This is the app he's talking about, My Vegas Slots. You need to use a lot of points to get $100 of free play. Yeah, I got like two... Hundreds of thousands of points. Well, I have like two million points.

Oh my God. This guy's beaten me by like a million and a half. We all whiled away the hours during lockdown in our own ways, okay? Sure. Some of us mastered slots. Yeah, some of us... I want to learn craps, so I spent 10,000 hours playing the slots. Some of us figured out how to X through fastest,

like spend money, spend money. No, no, I'm doing it for free. In the pandemic, I downloaded a craps app that I was not that much fun to play, but the highlight was when you wanted to roll the dice,

you shook the whole phone like this. Oh, that is fun. And then you like did that and stopped it and the dice would roll. That is, that mechanic was fun. I like the, the thing that stuck around since early iphones where like

you shake to undo yeah like that still works yeah yeah well maybe we all got to get on this app master jason's ability to x pop-up ads and build up enough capital there's like five of them okay okay black there's a few slots there's blackjack there's bingo uh yeah but the true game is getting rid of the pop-ups you can keep oh the pop-ups and you gotta be again another one another one and the the dangers you have to be very careful because it will try to use apple pay to buy chips oh fuck yeah so i can get into this right i can uh jump into your apple pay just like that freemium shit like Like, I hope you're enjoying yourself. Oops, you accidentally paid $8, but don't worry.

Now your slot machine glows or whatever. And yeah, we don't like that freemium stuff. Anyway, please support our Patreon. Please support Action Boys Patreon. And on that note, I guess, let's head to the plugging point. John Gabrus, you survived Podcast, the right sin city nights. Oh man. Thanks so much for joining and for the guidance and for a big pile of ideas.

Thank you so much for having me. Any chance I can to talk about Vegas when it's sanctioned, especially like I'll just ruin parties with this conversation. So it's nice to just come here and ruin a podcast, you know, simulated party with thousands of disparate people out there. I appreciate you, uh, Kevin McAllistering All these dancing cardboard cutouts the whole time To make it feel like I'm at a party And everyone's so

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these guys have been on so if if you're a diehard PTR fan maybe start there or listen to Action Boys we are a

Patreon only podcast but we do have some free episodes that you can find in the iOS app but otherwise it's actionboys.biz with Z's and 101

places to party before you die eight episodes on hbo max max rather and maybe who knows by the time this comes out maybe the app doesn't exist shows they burn for tax refunds or whatever yeah yeah this is like every every day now is awaiting the death sentence so if you're of the show you may i think you survived by putting it out what that was like that's a 2022 that came out and has zero residuals because it's all non-union unscripted so you're not complaining about loss of residuals because there weren't any to begin with yeah i'm not i'm complaining by the uh i did lose health insurance during my most successful career year of my life.

Getting a TV show is surefire way to lose health insurance. Because I had to spend so much time traveling, making money, I was unable to make SAG money. Oh, my God. It's so complicated and annoying. That's the most interesting part of the SAG, health insurance. When it starts, you're immediately watching the clock of like, okay, so this is out in one year.

I'm at it now. Time to start seeing doctors. I'm back on after spending two Gs a month on Cobra, and now I'm back on SAG Health Insurance. Oh my God. But for a year, and I'm hoping maybe with this strike that's currently happening,

we get a little grace period. Oh, they have to do something, right? Oh my God. So everyone in all the industries don't work for many many months did you make your minimums i hope you made them in a couple weeks before they took away the cheap entry level plan so i have to make more and also there's no residuals anymore either like that used to be a way to like yeah if you got two good jobs and enough residuals from last year's two good jobs yeah you can maybe make health insurance again but now that's gone this is you'll hear us if the strike is still going in three months and we went to vegas and like let's

have some fun let's do some craps and stuff oh shit we all lost twelve thousand dollars hey we are starting a uh we're starting a twelve thousand dollar000 tier. There's a $20 tier. We show up at your house, do one episode in your living room with you. At you. You're not allowed to talk. Inch away from your face. You'll have an unplugged microphone to pretend you're playing like a cousin playing video games with the boys. Don't make eye contact with Mike.

He really gets wild if you do that. He really starts to act out. You'll turn into Slam Carlson and you do not want that. You do not want Mike. He really gets wild if you do that. He really starts to act out. You all turn into Slam Carlson, and you do not want that. You do not want that. He's more violent than the regular Mike. He's more dangerous. It's because of the shirt he's wearing. He's more likely to start playing slam ball in your living room.

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