The Worst Idea Of All Time - Good Times: 15

Episode Date: November 30, 2024

Tim and Guy wake up where the good times never end: sunny Sin City, Nevada! The purpose of their mysterious voyage this past month is finally brought to light, as they look out of their hotel room on the notorious Wynn Casino. Strangers in a strange land, the boys have been reaching for familiar comforts, like posting up at a cozy dive bar and getting super strung out on psychedelics and dancing on stage at The Blue Man Group. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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CBC News. The Good morning, Guy. Hello and welcome to sunny Las Vegas, Nevada. We are, for those who can't see us, currently both in pretty comfortable queen beds, would you say? Hell yeah, these are real nice. Um, there's probably a meter between us, but I can see you. Yeah. Obscured by this... Big gorgeous lamp.

...large table lamp. We've been here for all of 22 hours and we've both just woken from one of the deepest slumbers I think I've had all year. Yes I am. Like over an eight hour sleep uninterrupted. A lot of people wondering how do you how do you relocate time zones after 15 hours of air travel and earn yourself such a good night's sleep Well, we've figured out the formula and it's surprisingly straightforward First What you've got to do is

Check into the hotel. Mm-hmm. Okay Without issue really and be very impressed by it yeah that's a core ingredient walk into your room and go holy shit we're in Las Vegas we haven't even mentioned what hotel we're at no should we we're at a hotel. Yeah, I think the jig is up if you know we're in Vegas. But anyway, the ingredients to the great sleep guy. So what do we do? What's our timeline? The plane comes in at about, when did we land? Like seven-ish? In San Francisco. Yeah.

And then here at about 9am. 10am. 10am like I said. Then you get in an Uber and you get to your hotel and guys are already sorted ahead of time the early check-in component so you've got to make sure guys are with you. Or you can just sort out your own early check-in. Oh yeah, another crucial crucial part guys are genius two days ago three days ago probably guy was like do you think you could travel without any checked bags and I said that didn't

even occur to me as a legal possibility when going international. That's what blew me away you think that you're not allowed to travel on an international flight without having a bag in this in whatever it's called? Never crossed my mind, no because you know this is a country still reeling from the attacks of 2021. Are they what? 2001. You head down the security line you can see the impact of 2001 You know zigzagging tears in and out of all of the bollards and the tape. Absolutely. So so That's employed a lot of people at the airport. Yeah, it's a jobs program and I'm not against that

So here's what's happened. We've got no checked bags and thank God because we have We we arrived to San Francisco early and somehow still almost missed our connecting flight Yeah, I guess yeah, but we didn't miss it crucially. We got it and then we got to Vegas We got in an Uber from the airport 11 a.m. We storm in to the Wynn hotel and casino we stand in the Encore so we have full view of the Wynn the famous Wynn. That's right we're looking upon the Wynn of course one of the iconic landmarks and one of our one of our annual film projects. Yeah this will come out after the after blood even though we're recording it before we've done. We're recording this first thing first morning

first thing. It's important. So then it's time to get established with our surroundings isn't it guy? At that point we drop our bags we both have a shower and we hit the dusty trail Mmm, the dusty trail that is the strip Yeah, Las Vegas Boulevard You want to walk around? Get a sense of things. Yeah, and one of the great things about Las Vegas is it's really hard to find anything which isn't a casino or a food chain. Or it's really hard to find anything which resembles a place where people would ordinarily

live. And it's just different mutations of the same thing everywhere you look. And if you, for example, haven't really slept for 15 hours and have just arrived with your friend Tim, under the premise that you're celebrating a 10 year anniversary of an annual podcast, it can be a pretty disorienting place to be because you're like, no one has made us come here.

We have chosen to come here and you're like no one has made us come here. Yeah. We have chosen to come here and you're walking around and you're thinking this is an interesting and funny place to come. And interesting and funny are both euphemisms in that sentence. Yes, we were both for several hours just quite taken aback by what a strange land

we'd found ourselves in. Strangers in a strange land, absolutely. This... What is it a bit... so I think, you know, obviously we're in a desert and this is something that people just made in a desert so I think there is something that is a bit tricky for a New Zealander to come into an environment and there's just like no trees anywhere, anywhere. It's like, oh man, there is no trees, no green space.

There are exclusively buildings. To be fair, we've not adventured out into the sort of suburban enclaves of Las Vegas. I'm sure there's a beautiful town. I'm sure there's a beautiful sense of community and city somewhere inside of this. But basically, if you're on the tourist trail such as us, you get funneled into this main area and it challenges, I think, your metal. M-E-T-T-L-E. I think it challenges, unless you're here for the traditional reasons of like, you know, wanting to get lit up and gamble and you know and do all sorts of crazy stuff, which it's not that we're against that it's just I think our interpretation of doing that

cuts against the traditional reason for coming to Las Vegas to do that and it's like the intersection of those things is where it feels a bit funny and weird. Yeah It's like the intersection of those things is where it feels a bit funny and weird. Yeah But by the same token that's impressive what they've done here odd there's no denying it's impressive It's the scale of everything's pretty crazy There's just a lot of like beautiful interesting buildings if you take away the activity going on Therein you're just kind of looking at a lot of fascinating different cracks at architectural styles really.

Well the... What was the big pyramid we were in yesterday and we looked up and it had this massive high ceiling and no central column and it was just like... The MGM Grand. Yeah that one. It's hard not to notice that a lot of the incredible architecture that they've constructed is just knocking up a miniature version of no no no no no I'm talking about like the Venetian for example The Venetian yeah like original Las Vegas architecture with you

Sealed into something and I think the Venetian is Italian into something and I think the Venetian is Italian oh the MGM Graham to be fair no one else is doing it like that pyramids yeah that's them I have a funny feeling they might be referencing somewhere okay culture in a place I'll give you that one Bob okay what about the Parisian or the Paris style hotel? Yeah fucking yeah exactly It's an original Some of them style they have figured out for themselves. There's this huge metal tower that Surges up from the outside from the middle of the hotel and there's a restaurant you can go to with like a viewing deck

It's an unbelievable piece of engineering and thinking. Not where we ate, we went to In-N-Out. Yeah, we went to In-N-Out. In-N-Out is everything McDonald's was in the 70s. Yeah, for better and worse. Like the food is so close to modern day McDonald's, but the packaging is so delightful. And you just see all of these people, quite seemingly efficiently running around out back

in the kitchen, putting it all together. The service industry in Las Vegas fascinates me because these are people who live in Las Vegas and are constantly exposed to the worst of humanity. Yeah. It's like, they've got stories to tell. They absolutely do. I'll tell you who else they have stories to tell. The pigeons outside the In-N-Out.

They are confident, they are frisky, they've been there for longer than any of us. It's their area, we're just sitting in it. They were like rubbing up on our ankles like fucking cats man. Yeah, why have... No, thank you. Because usually you know all birds, pigeons included, pigeons are very tamed birds obviously they'll come right up to you and almost eat the food out of your hand but crucially won't, they just almost will. But what happened to the one yesterday that freaked you out? Like did it actually brush up against you? Yeah it came up under my legs. That's yuck. Oh dude. Pigeons aren't supposed to do that. Well at the same in the same breath you were

giving a somewhat inspired defense of pigeons, or the modern circumstance yesterday. Oh yeah. It's so sad because we made pigeons what they are. We like, selectively breed them in the cities to do little jobs for us, taking our messages hither and thither. And then we invented the telegraph, and we fucking fired them and now we're like you stinking pigeons get out of my face I'm like

That's so mean we made you it is it is and then we and then we made you all redundant And then we were like get a fucking job We did that that's awful I think this I think voicemail is analogous where it's like voicemail was this groundbreaking technology we came up with which is like hey I can see you've tried to call me it's me the person you're trying to call but I'm not here right now but I've managed to capture my voice to give you this information to say you can leave a message using your voice and then I'll

get back to you and now the only use of voicemail technology is like hey fuck this technology write me a text it is if you're me now one crucial bit that I forgot to mention in the secrets of events is that when we got to the hotel room I was taking cards out of my wallet to have the lightest possible version of myself to travel with because I'm a good tourist and I found a bit of acid that I had accidentally trafficked across international borders. Yeah. So we took that. Yeah. Before we set out. And it would be sort of dishonest, disingenuous rather. I don't want to be unfair to Las Vegas. Yeah, to not acknowledge that between the sleep-deprived sort of jet lag, the culture shock,

and the LSD, it's somewhere amongst all of this stuff mixing and mingling around in our bodies that was giving us the sort of, I suppose, alien feeling that it would be possible to achieve with sobriety in Las Vegas, but that was really hammering home that we are fish out of water here. Big time. And yeah. They were like, you know, it's... We had a few beers too throughout the day.

It's straightforward stuff. But there's people in, you know, like a Transformers costume or whatever, you know, like you might see it at a pier or at Times Square, and there was a guy in a bluey costume, and they come up to you, and that's fair enough, you know, everyone's on the hustle. But the costume's dirty, and the bluey costume's got a big gap between the blue arm and the very dirty sort of synthetic blue glove they're wearing. And if you look in the eyes of the bluey costume, you can see the eyes of the man, and the very dirty sort of synthetic blue glove they're wearing. And if you look in the eyes of the blue costume, you can see the eyes of the man and he's looking at you going, Hey, that's pretty stressful, man.

It was pretty stressful. I didn't like it. Yeah. And then I had to keep walking. And then there are those, those girls who wear the big feather. Well, like they like peak, they're dressed like peacocks and underpants. Yeah And they come to hey do you want a picture and at that point I was just shutting it down I had my arms and her legs. I was saying no, thank you. And yet you caught up to me afterwards

You say hey ma'am we can take our time And that's that's true, but in that instance I couldn't You had to get out of that particular situation. That's right. So we had a day of tourism, we went to the Bellagio. Sadly the fountain area is under heavy construction so you can't walk along by it. But sort of instead of doing that, I suppose to a set visit for Ocean's Eleven, we stole millions of dollars from a

vault. We plotted an incredibly careful plan with nine of our cohorts and successfully executed the greatest casino heist in history. Yeah. All because the fountains were under construction. That's right. And then what do we do after that? We sit up in a bit of a dive bar actually and just proceeded to pound beers there for a while there Honestly, which was awesome. That's what brought me back to earth Sitting with my friend Tim and a foreign in a recognizable environment in a foreign environment And just shooting the shit really landed me back in my feet and back in the day

That was a nice time there was a lot of screens there are screens everywhere here It's very difficult to connect with your own brain You know you see that's a place that gives you the feeling of being inside your own phone. That is what it feels like. You know when you're on your phone too much and you put it down you look away and you go Oh, that's what it feels like. In Las Vegas, you can't really put yourself or you it's just you're trapped on the phone. That's the feeling it gives. But we had our beers, we had our fun, then we realized we had a booking, we had a reservation. We're going to go and see the iconic Blue Man Group. So we're home, we're refreshing, we're toasting to the view, we can see the sphere from our hotel room.

Fascinating place. Yeah, very interesting, very fascinating. Very interesting very fascinating I'm looking at a Trump Tower right? Yeah, it's sort of it's isolated itself here in Las Vegas. It's got its own little area It's a big Golden phallus with a T at the top. I actually kind of don't mind the look of it per se as a building It's so stark. I wonder that was like it's so simple I want what the vibe there is like You were telling me that he lost money on casinos yeah, he tried to get casinos going in this town and it didn't work, which is an

Insane thing to fail at it's very funny Enough about him we were really angry. Yeah So we come back to the hotel with but moments to get dressed and toast our success with a bit of tequila. Oh yeah, the Wynn Hotel has a signature small bottle of tequila that is inside of their mini bar the mini bar system Everything is on a timer and if you lift it up and look at it to see what it is And it goes for longer than 30 seconds congratulations. You just bought that

This this entire place is engineered to fucking Remu out of any money you might have in your pocket and I don't want to talk about the casinos everywhere you turn is an opportunity to just it's not just like a phone it's like a giant airport they're like well guess what fuck you you're here this is how much this is how much this costs yeah I bought an $8.50 US coffee yesterday how good is that? And Blue Man Group okay we've reset our phases are set to what are they set to? Entertain me. Yes and there's still a few different things sloshing around in our bodies. I think we took more acid when we got there. I wouldn't say we're coming down. No, certainly not.

Certainly not. So the Blue Man Group. They've got their own building I think it's important for everyone to know I didn't realize this Blue Man Group... They've got their own building. I think it's important for everyone to know. I didn't realize this. Blue Man Group, if you're uninitiated, were quite a cultural phenomenon in the late 90s I think. It was a set of mainly three guys who were painted in body paint, head to toe, in blue. They're all blue. They they wear black sort of stage blacks they wear long sleeve black top and black pants. They are mime performers and what they are performing is a combination of sort of mime comedy and percussion. Percussion sort of stage performance so they really took off I

remember there being like ads in New Zealand with Blue Man Group I think for some telecoms or something. It doesn't surprise me. They've got a very signature look They've got what at the time I'm assuming the nuns must have been like revolutionary and quite groundbreaking comedy styling like they've got it's a very Professional classic show piece sort of set up a very professional classic show piece sort of set up. They've since would have influenced so many people that the power of them might have diluted because there's so many, you know, the, the, the chart of, yeah, I think like Stomp is a direct, you know, descendant of the Blue Man Group 6. It feels like it doesn't it?

But it's three blue guys with four backing percussionists to it and like fluoro kind of, you know, you can can't see them you just see the outlines of their bodies playing the drums oh yeah and they're in a purpose-built theatre at the MGM Grand this is a show that runs we were to a five o'clock matinee on a Wednesday so this is not the big time for them it is the big time for them, it is the big time for us. We sit down and it's quite exciting. I don't know really anything about the Blue Man Group except for Tobias' small storyline and Arrested Development.

And the less I know, the better I feel. I have an instinct of what this is going to be like, but I really don't know what to expect. They're alien really. They come out and they look at each other They look around and they're constantly assessing the circumstances They're assessing what's happening and they get a lot of comedy out of playing that beat And there's a lot of fun to be had they're getting genuine laughs out of me some said pieces are stronger than others Oh one thing that guy said you go again. we took our seats before the show started was, he said, I'd heard somewhere online

that they like come into the crowd. And I said, oh, you mean like cats? And you said, no, like they come and mess with the audience. I was like, you mean like cats, the musical? And I didn't realize, but you didn't know that about Andrew Lloyd Webber's cats. No.

The cats go and fuck with you. Yeah, that's crazy There's like a core bit of the the actual musical like experience. You know what Tom Huber should have done Every theater they should have hired two cats hard out Yeah, dude, they'd maybe make heaps of money if they did that. Well, I don't know about money I think it would have made more sense if they're like, we're gonna fucking bend your head every which way. Yeah, yeah definitely. So sorry, back to the Blue Men group. I also just want to give a shout out to them. They made so much comedy out of, you know, those dot matrix displays that you see at like a

old movie cinema above the exit door. That'll give you little information yeah or they used to actually say what movie movie times yeah lobby and stuff that it's all read it's like basic text it looks like it's on a VCR so that started normal and then it started like just pumping jokes through on there as everyone was getting seated and it was like I won't spoil the actual things of what they did but it was very funny they got a lot of play out of it they basically used that little display as an MC instead of hiring someone to come and warm up the crowd they ran great gags on this thing it was... and they would pull names from the ticket lists to give it a customized touch so there would genuinely

be people in the audience being acknowledged and funny in silly ways that was impressive and then they come out and to be fair to them they are also impressive. It does feel both like a classical bit of show business and a show that show business has passed by at the same time and that is part of the magic and it's a 90 minute show. They go in the building some of it's really funny some of it is sort of slightly fillerish and then probably in about 45-50 minutes in they start their first genuine adventure out into the audience. Yes the thing I mentioned about Guy mentioning about Katz that is something we in the storytelling business call foreshadowing. Yeah and it's probably it's not all the way full it's probably a 250 seat theatre I'd say there's probably a hundred and fifty

people in there. Yep sounds right. They're looking around and they do you know there's no talking from these guys and they've got cameras trained on the audience so that the audience can you know like you're watching them out in the crowd and then you can look at a screen on the stage and you can see who they're going towards and what they're looking like at them. And you can see yourself come up, which is a thrill, a thrill. And also, at least my feeling as they were adventuring out of the audience, a little bit intimidating because I'm thinking, you know what? I'm happy to sit this one. Yeah, not me not me I'm here to

watch and they're walking and they're walking and they come all the way up the aisle and they get to exactly where we're seated near the edge of the aisle and there's no one between us in the aisle and it's all three of them together and Tim's on the outside seat I I'm on the inside seat, and they're staring down the aisle, and I think, gee whiz, these blue boys better be looking at Tim. And I look across at the back of Tim's head, and I look at the eye line of the blue men,

and they are all staring at Tim. They are staring at Tim with remarkable intensity. Yeah. What does it feel like when that's happening? Felt like being tracked by by UFOs gravity beam. So we've got 148 of Las Vegas best and brightest tourists, we've got three blue men, the original blue men mind you. I don't think they're the original blue men. The magic of the blue man group is anyone can be a blue man. The people who came up with that I hope are sitting back and counting their millions

But three current representatives of the blue man group in the middle of this stage show They've taken the time out off from the stage to get down on the fucking seats and look at Tim and They're looking and they're looking and I'm in my head. I'm like, I'm so glad they're not looking at me And I'm also think like I wonder how Tim's handling this and you're you're just like looking back at them like yep I'm here we're cool. It's slightly nerve-racking but mainly fun. Is your heart beating fast? Yeah it is. My heart is going like a fucking jackhammer. Yeah it's quite you know they're intimidating it's an intimidating situation. Hmm. It's Yeah, it's quite, you know, they're intimidating. It's an intimidating situation.

It's three guys. It's the whole show has briefly put a spotlight upon you. Yeah, the show is pointing at you and it lasts for probably 10 seconds and then they all sort of turn away and they go back and they keep- Which is a relief. Surveilling the audience.

They're looking for someone to bring up on stage. They're sort of, they're scanning the crowd for someone that they're gonna have a bit of mischief and impish fun with. And they're going around and they go around for another 30, 45 seconds and say to him, wow, that's almost exactly how you want that to happen. Yeah. In my head I'm like, you get the jolt of adrenaline. Yeah.

You get the thrill of kind of being involved with any of the responsibility or nerves of having to get up there and as I say this they turn around from wherever they are and start marching back towards where we're sitting. Yeah, now you want to talk about a scary moment in the show? That bit was terrifying. They made an absolute fucking beeline for me and took my hand in his and got me, and and I so at every state I was like okay there's a handshake it's nice so so she could stand he was like no stand up I was like okay he said no stand no no no he's just like anything he's a mime that's right powerful my you know cuz you don't know it's the intensity they could what they could talk quietly to you while you there They genuinely not say a word nothing. Yeah, nothing the professionals man and

so Gets me stand up gets me to start walking At this point my heart is beating out of my chest because I don't I don't know what's going on now I don't know what's going on now. I'm at the blooming group I don't know what's going on now. I'm at the Blue Man Group, sleep deprived, in a different time zone, in a strange land, coursing with LSD, expensive coffee, quite a lot of alcohol, and one of the Blue Men

has taken me and is walking me down the stairs of the auditorium, which is named after them. And- Can I say one thing? The woman who's clearly either a big fan of the Blue Man Group or show business who was sitting next to me, he was sort of quite a rambunctious on his head throughout, goes, is your friend gonna be okay? She has right to ask.

And I don't, I just laugh hysterically like running Russell Crowe in a beautiful mind style numbers in my head. Think of how I could answer the question. So every step that we take where he's got me by the hand, he's walking me down the stairs of the theatre, I'm like well this is a funny extension of the gag but I I'm like, at some point very soon, he's just going to pop me back and let me go so I can go back to my seat. And he keeps just walking me forward and forward and forward. And then I'm on stage and then I'm in a chair and I'm like, all right, I'm going to be here for a minute.

It's showtime. So I crack my knuckles, I rolled up my sleeves and I meet my co-star another gentleman from the from the audience Rusty I later found out his name was in the in the back room. Mm-hmm and so they set us down and they put a kutraman on us and we were part of the show for like Ten minutes. Yeah, you were up there for a while. I gotta say they They're silent at some point. They're sort of having fun with you and then a phone rings while. I've got to say they You there was silent at some point they're sort of having fun with you and then a phone rings and they put a phone to your ear and you say

Hello and the excitement in that audience when your accent came. Yes, I could feel that came coursing through the the New Zealand accent in America is a Powerful thing with a lot of cut through. Yeah. And I would describe it as polarizing in some ways as well. People are generally excited, like it is a long way to go. I think in Las Vegas it has, in that stage environment, it still has value. I think like day to day, because it's such a transient place that everyone comes to yeah it's got the least value it has rather than if you're

in say it's true people don't blink in Las Vegas really many places in America we've been if they hear an accent but still we're still in America in a room filled with Americans mmm I know I'm about to say something in New Zealand ish yeah and I do and it is hello Tim the vowels E and O is only We say them. That's right. And you you acquitted yourself beautifully. You were a star up there I had no reason to be and I wasn't worried about you were you just you You know how to roll with the punches man. It was a beautiful thing. You and rusty had great rapport You got the audience laughing

Rusty was a hell of a fella. You guys were going great. He was a genuine cowboy. Really? Well I don't know. He was from Tennessee and he had a cool accent and he was the age that I imagine all cowboys should be which is about 55. You do have cowboy energy. But yeah I mean you were up there for 10 or so minutes you had to do some phone stuff you had to do a little bit of dancing, or they were dancing around you. We did, the dancing was later in communal.

They were doing a bunch of the shit behind me that I didn't, I couldn't see them doing. Yeah. I was wearing a pretty frilly apron. There was a- And a headband with the pink flamingo on it. Yeah. And look, it was a lot of fun. with the pink flamingo on it. Yeah. And look it was a lot of fun. It was clap in the end. But you know it took a bit of adjusting for the

body mind and soul to go hey man for a while you're part of the show now you're on stage. Yeah and you kind of have to know that going in but it's never meant to be you and it was just so perfect it was so perfect it was you and you kind of have to know that going in but it's never meant to be you and it was just so perfect It was you and you played it so perfectly and you know not many people get to say that they were part of the Blue Man Group. I was part of the Blue Man Group The real one in Vegas. Yeah at their theatre. Yeah So that's going on the resume That was genuine that was cool, there was a really cool

thing that happened. I'm glad we went to the Blue Man Group, I'm glad I joined the group. Fucking A man. I was happy to meet Rusty, the whole thing was sublime. The show was pretty good, I give it a solid 8 out of 10. I think 7 I reckon. Yeah 7 is probably fair. It was 90 minutes long and I think it would have been close to a 10 star, 50 minute show. Well, the thing is, I don't think there's anyone in the audience who are more primed to enjoy the Blue Man Group's unique blend of percussion,

comedy, and audience interaction than us. I think the chemical reaction that our body was transmitting or creating while the show was on, so we were primed to be impressed and sort of entertained by virtually any decision they made. And we were by a lot of it. Yeah and they still came in at seven. I can see how that's a legacy show. I can also see how it's not currently a groundbreaking show.

It was a lot of fun. It was a really cool thing to do and also being at a show in Las Vegas, I was like, oh, this is a big part of being in Vegas is going to shows. Yeah, yeah. This is a show watching place. Well, I tried to get us to go to the B-52s who were performing live last night as well, but the body was not quite willing enough out of both of us, I think, to sustain that on our sort of, you know, whatever 20th hour of being awake in a row I think after the big long flights and we and see we had a

lovely Caesar salad together and there was the best decision of the entire day yeah we had both of us had Caesar salads for dinner not the healthiest salad but we had some great fresh green food which I thought might have been an impossibility while we're here respectfully Americans your relationship to food is insane you have no idea how to sustain yourself no wonder everyone in this country is freaking out right now your blood sugar is dipping I don't cosign that you guys are doing awesome you've perfected getting fuel in your body and I appreciate it. Now our final bit of the evening before we arrested our weary head so at this

point it's like about nine or something. We got out of there we had dinner. I'm trying to convince you going to the B-52s would be a great idea. I do kind of regret not going. The thing about the B-52s I reckon those like they will come and perform in New Zealand they have and I also didn't see them there the blue man group will not they're on again tonight though I think they're playing literally the three nights we're here and that's it there you go well tonight we're actually gonna see a Cirque du Soleil show we fucking are we're gonna see oh we wentque du Soleil show. Yeah, we fucking are. We're gonna see, oh.

We went to a casino, because it's important to do a little gambling when you're in Las Vegas, I think. And we said it's some old school hand crank with an arm. Slot machines. Slot machines. And lost our money. Lost our money, but gained two beers.

That's right. We also, the funny thing I think I didn't think about this the this is quite a fancy hotel slash casino set up the win And of course the casino that is inside of the hotel correlates to their guess on who the clientele is So we're sitting at like, you know, if you go to want to play blackjack by night, it's like $50 minimum tables. Yeah. Um, which the people who are gambling there, I mean, God knows, I don't know any of their financial situation, but no one is balking at any of the numbers. They look like they're just fine. We sit down for a little deliance of gambling at a $25 roulette table and a $50 blackjack table and we leave

$125 up and we're like pretty good. Yeah, and the guy who ran the roulette table where Tim made his money and bet was not happy Yeah, do you wanna know why he wasn't happy because I did what you're supposed to do. I swooped in I made one bet It came off which is unbelievable because I know people that they're curious Split our chip. I think I would you give me like 50 bucks or something Yeah chips and I put half of that stack on first third of the board one to twelve and The other half of the stack on evens Roll to six. No, it was black for I Thought it was it doesn't matter either way

I thought it was it doesn't matter either way it came up it was four yeah which is both of those things it's between one and twelve and even so we got to pay out of like whatever probably 4x on a bit three no little under 3x maybe yeah that would be right and that was up in and I said sweet we'll cash out one roll. And he was like, just use the chips next time. I was like, dude, I asked you, when we arrived here, do I need to change the chips? And you changed them for me.

I didn't say that, I thought that. What I said was, thank you. And took my winnings and left. That's right. But you gotta quit. You gotta quit on your one successful role when you first do it or else that money's going to go to the house. Well all told it was a big and interesting day. We've slept well, we've got a you know we've got a day of work now. Yes. We've got a day to

spend with The Reason for the season, PBMC2. And, um... A song does come to mind, a song with a message. And that song goes, it's going to be the best day of my life. My life. That's right. Well, it's, you know what? It's a, it's been a pleasure to recount the day with you Tim, from our comfortable beds. It's so nice, it's so good to be here. And for all the strange feelings we have towards Las Vegas, it is so fun being here.

It is such an impressive city. It's a place that I've wanted to visit for years and years and years and years. And I've not been let down so far, I tell you what. It's a once-er for me. Actually, I've been here before. I stayed here for one night with my friend Ken at the end of it when I was moving home from New York. We drove from New York to LA. And the last road stop we had on the way

was a night in Las Vegas. And it's funny to remember because it stood very similar feelings to me then as I had yesterday. And I'm like, well, maybe I'm not totally compatible. Yeah. It's not to say it's not a pleasure to be here. It is to say I'm not Russian ban. And on that frank assessment

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