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Speaker 1:
[00:07] Hey guys, this week it's time for another social media roundup, a What Would You Do? and more. So stick around.

Speaker 2:
[00:19] Welcome to the Crap Vegas Podcast. Vegas, here we come. Vegas! Here are your hosts, Chris and Josh.

Speaker 1:
[00:29] Hello everyone, and welcome. It's episode number 104 of the Crap Vegas Podcast. I am Chris, he is Josh. And I think some people are just a tad confused now, Josh, because...

Speaker 3:
[00:41] How did we get to 104?

Speaker 1:
[00:42] They're thinking on our podcast feed, I swear to God, the last thing I listened to was 100. How are they on 104 now?

Speaker 3:
[00:48] The magic of podcasting.

Speaker 1:
[00:50] Yes. Yeah, we did a time paradox, Star Trek, leap forward, and we somehow jumped four numbers. But if you follow us on Patreon, you're not that confused.

Speaker 3:
[01:00] No. And what it actually is, is if you've listened to episode 100, we know not everybody's caught up, but after episode 100, we switched to almost exclusively Patreon to release our show. But we did want to occasionally put out a show on the main feed, because we know not everybody wants to join us over on Patreon. But it's also a good way for us to find new listeners and things like that.

Speaker 1:
[01:20] Yeah, absolutely. Everything going good out there, Josh?

Speaker 3:
[01:22] Yeah, things are going well. We've had some funky weather, though, but we're back to weather talk. But we've had some funky weather. We actually had kind of, we had very Kentucky weather. We had almost snow yesterday, kind of the slushy, rainy mix. And today it's like bright and sunny out, and I feel like Kentucky.

Speaker 1:
[01:38] Yeah, I was laughing at Josh a couple weeks ago. He was like, oh, it's 65 and sunny here. And I was like, well, yesterday it snowed in the morning, and today it's 83 degrees. And we are at that kind of time of year where it just jumps around like crazy.

Speaker 3:
[01:50] Yeah, you have bonded with it.

Speaker 1:
[01:51] But other than that, though, Josh, I did just get back from going to Florida.

Speaker 3:
[01:54] How was the weather there?

Speaker 1:
[01:55] Surprisingly terrible. Oh, I mean, it was like 66, which fine, temperature wise, I don't really care. But you know how like in Central Florida every day from like two to four, it rains. I mean, that's just that's how it is.

Speaker 3:
[02:08] You get used to it. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[02:09] Well, that wasn't what it was for us. It literally rained from 4 a.m. until 9 p.m. almost every day that we were there. I mean, we must have caught, you know, the torrential downpour of the year in Florida.

Speaker 3:
[02:20] Right.

Speaker 1:
[02:20] Continually happened. Kind of put a damper on our trip a little bit. We were at the theme parks trying to enjoy that. We had a lot of ponchos and wet clothing, but it was good to get away for a couple of days and enjoy the break.

Speaker 3:
[02:30] Now, do they have any of the rides that shoot water on you?

Speaker 1:
[02:34] Oh, yeah, of course.

Speaker 3:
[02:34] Grizzly River Run is at Disneyland, California Adventure and things like that. So, you know, you can eat ponchos for that stuff.

Speaker 1:
[02:40] There are wet rides, but like I said, Josh, if the temperature is only like 60, 62, that's short of weather here. That's not ideal by any means.

Speaker 3:
[02:51] I get you. We just got back, kind of the opposite. We just got back from the ocean. We went to the Oregon Coast, our favorite spot to go.

Speaker 1:
[02:57] Oh, I thought you were going to say the Oregon Trail.

Speaker 3:
[02:59] No, that would have been much more exciting. Yeah. Well, no, we went to the Oregon Coast, but I was going to ask you, Chris, so somebody had recommended a restaurant to us. We went to the restaurant, and it's a breakfast brunchy kind of place. It ended up being amazing, but it's a first-come, first-serve restaurant.

Speaker 1:
[03:15] Like they put all the food in the middle of the store, and you just go grab what you want?

Speaker 3:
[03:19] It's first-come, first-serve, yes.

Speaker 1:
[03:21] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[03:21] First-come, first-serve for a table, not for the food.

Speaker 1:
[03:25] That would have been much more exciting.

Speaker 3:
[03:28] So they got there and they said it'd be an hour wait.

Speaker 1:
[03:31] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[03:31] And my wife is not, that's what I was going to ask you. My wife is not, I don't think she's ever agreed willingly to wait more than like 10 minutes at a restaurant. So, I was outside with the kid when my wife went in to see how long the wait would be. And so we see her talking to the hostess, and she's having this fairly animated discussion, and we're like, is she throwing a fit? What is what's going on? Because we had a feeling there was a wait. There were people outside and things.

Speaker 1:
[03:58] Do you know who I am? The name Duffy ring a bell.

Speaker 3:
[04:02] She was asking the woman, you know, we're in this little town, and she said, you know, the woman said it'll be an hour. And my wife's like, well, what are we supposed to do for an hour?

Speaker 1:
[04:12] What is it that you want me to do?

Speaker 3:
[04:15] The woman's like, well, go walk around town, go shopping. So that's what we did. And we waited the hour and the restaurant was fantastic. So and I was going to ask you how long would you wait?

Speaker 1:
[04:26] 15 minutes. That's about the cap for me. I'm very big when I'm on vacations to try to make reservations in advance and pick only restaurants because I do take reservations. Right. Because I'm not big on waiting in lines on rides, at restaurants, cars, traffic, like any lines. I don't do well.

Speaker 3:
[04:44] No, some people just don't have the patience for that. You know, I get that. Anyway, should we get started with the show?

Speaker 1:
[04:49] We probably should. Let's tell people how to get a hold of us. You can send us an email. That's podcast at crapvegas.com. You can join us over on our Facebook page. It's crapvegas.com/facebook. You can find us on Twitter. X. Ease at Vegas Duffy. I'm at Small Whale 13, or the show page is at Crap Vegas. Or as we mentioned earlier, we would love to have you join us over on Patreon. That is patreon.com/crapvegas. I think there's still a free trial. If you haven't listened to us since episode 100 came out, you probably got like seven or eight episodes over there of things that you can hear us on, that you can get caught up on. We actually try to post pretty frequently.

Speaker 3:
[05:28] Yeah, you've actually missed a lot. If you haven't followed us over to Patreon, we've talked about my trip. In fact, we talked two shows about my last trip to Vegas. So there's all sorts of fun stuff over there. I think we did a casino earnings call. We've had some of our CVTV shows. We've had all sorts of fun stuff over there.

Speaker 1:
[05:43] Absolutely. It's been a bunch of fun. So hopefully we'll see you over there soon. Okay, Josh, I feel like you have the music queued up already, but it's time for another social media round up. So, every once in a while, we like to do a quick social media roundup of just some of the biggest questions we see floating around on the internet. And Josh, I see the first one that you have comes from the CV Facebook group, but I think we've actually already addressed it. He said, has there been a podcast since February, or is my platform not refreshing?

Speaker 3:
[06:22] And yes, as we said, there has not been a podcast on our main feed since February. So, if you stopped at 100 and you're like, what the heck happened? As we said, that's where we went over to Patreon. But I did want to take this opportunity to mention, for those of you that have followed us over to Patreon, there is a way, and we get our patrons ask, and we have a lot of new patrons now, there is a way to not have to go through the Patreon app to listen to the show. You can have an RSS feed or whatever they call it, feed into your main podcasting app that you listen to, whether it's Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever it is. You can have the Patreon feed feed into that. You have to go to the show on Patreon and then click on the three dots and you pick your podcast app that you want. There's a way to do that.

Speaker 1:
[07:03] You absolutely can. I think you can do it through the app or even through the website if you want to. It will give you the RSS link that you need for your program. But that is the easiest way to get it loaded. And I've even recently tried to start loading anything that we do on video, Josh, have the audio feed into our podcasting feed so you can just listen straight through there if you just want to listen.

Speaker 3:
[07:21] Which is great because I know in some of our CVTV shows, people don't always want to watch or aren't in a place where they can see the video. So it's good to have the audio too.

Speaker 1:
[07:29] Absolutely. Common question floating out there right now, Josh, about Cosmo, it says, when checking in and making a request, i.e. a certain tower or floor or connecting room, etc., how much would you tip if you were requesting something specific like that?

Speaker 3:
[07:44] Have you ever done anything like that, Chris? Have you requested and tipped specifically to get it? I mean, I've never done the $20 trick or the sandwich thing.

Speaker 1:
[07:51] Oh, I've done the $20 trip 20 times.

Speaker 3:
[07:53] Yeah. Really? That often.

Speaker 1:
[07:55] I used to do it all the time. It's how I got my first suite in Vegas at Luxor, was a little sandwich of a credit card ID and a $20 bill in the middle that upgraded me to a very nice suite.

Speaker 3:
[08:05] I knew you had done it. Is that the one where the TV came up out of the floor?

Speaker 1:
[08:07] Yeah, it came out of the footboard of the bed. It just rose up when I hit a button slowly but surely.

Speaker 3:
[08:12] I don't know. You're younger than I am, but my grandparents used to have a TV. Yeah, just a little bit. My grandparents, though, had a TV and a cabinet. And they had one of those really old school remote controls, Chris, that had two buttons on it. And anyway, as a kid, I thought a TV and a cabinet was super cool. But back to the question. So you've done the $20 trick. You've done all sorts of that kind of thing. I'm bad at tipping front desk people. I don't know why. I just never kind of got myself in the mindset to do that.

Speaker 1:
[08:41] You know, ironically, there's only one place that I tip front desk people, and I'm sure you can guess where it is.

Speaker 3:
[08:46] At when?

Speaker 1:
[08:47] Yes, absolutely. Every time I'm there, I almost always tip $10. That feels fair whether I asked for anything, I didn't ask for anything. If you are making some sort of request, I think the $20 sandwich trick is pretty darn common. I would never say give $50 or $100. That's too much, way too much. And at some point, you might actually pay more than if you just inquired how much it would cost to get that ring that you're looking for. But if you're just talking like a connecting room or like a certain tower, there's probably no additional cost at all. It's just being polite.

Speaker 3:
[09:18] And that's the thing with me, and I believe this in most aspects of life, that if I'm just nice, I'm probably going to get, not always, but I'm probably going to get most of what I would have got if I tipped you $10. You know what I mean? If I'm just nice and say, is there any chance you have a blank room available? I'm just as likely to get it, I feel, as if I am with a $10 bill. And if I do something like that, then I'll likely tip after the fact if they gave me something.

Speaker 1:
[09:46] Yeah, no, I agree with you there, and I agree with what you're saying in general. I don't think the tip is necessary to do that sort of thing. I would also, though, encourage people, don't tell like made up stories about why you want something. The whole like, oh, this is our first time to Vegas, my wife's been complaining that we've never had a sweet before. No, I mean, I think it's best just to honestly, just tell the truth and be like, look, I've really wanted to stay in one of these rooms. Is there anything you can do to help? And I think they're more likely to help you when they can tell you're being sincere and genuine than when they know you're making up a BS story.

Speaker 3:
[10:19] Yeah, and I feel the same way about restaurants and birthdays. I'm not a big believer in saying you're there for a celebration, birthday, anniversary, whatever, if you're really not.

Speaker 1:
[10:27] If they catch on because they saw a card on the table or they overheard somebody saying something about your birthday, different thing. But yes, don't put on every reservation, it's your 50th birthday, so that they bring you free dessert and sing a song and all that BS.

Speaker 3:
[10:41] Aside from the fact most restaurant birthday desserts I have found are not nearly as, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[10:46] No, they're tiny, they're usually not very good. Nothing you would ever want.

Speaker 3:
[10:51] Right, they're not the dessert I would get if I were ordering a dessert off the dessert menu.

Speaker 1:
[10:54] But I will tell you, I have learned recently thanks to my children. If you go to Olive Garden to celebrate a birthday and you tell them there is a birthday, they let you pick which dessert you want.

Speaker 3:
[11:04] And now see that, that is awesome, I like that, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[11:07] And then they even wrote happy birthday on the plate and fancy cursive in chocolate sauce.

Speaker 3:
[11:11] Wow, that's a skill. Cake decorating that I could never ever ever do. We've digressed.

Speaker 1:
[11:19] Yeah, I think we have, maybe they have a robot back there that does it, Josh.

Speaker 3:
[11:22] What's next on the roundup?

Speaker 1:
[11:23] Okay, next up, Josh, you found a question from It's Vegas y'all that was posed, I guess to some of their listeners.

Speaker 3:
[11:30] Yeah, they just put this out on their Facebook group and I thought it was kind of a fun question.

Speaker 1:
[11:33] Okay, it says, what is your tip philosophy? Good tips lead to good service or good service leads to good tips? Is it the chicken before the egg, Josh? What is it?

Speaker 3:
[11:43] Well, I hope it's good service leading to good tips. I don't tip. I'm not one of those people that tips. I don't tip in advance of cocktail service. You know, when a cocktail server first comes by.

Speaker 1:
[11:53] Oh yeah, I've seen that before. That's weird.

Speaker 3:
[11:55] Yeah, some people do that because they think it encourages them to come back or come back more often. And maybe it does, but that's not... I'm not doing it to encourage that behavior.

Speaker 1:
[12:05] No, because that's the behavior they should be taking in the first place.

Speaker 3:
[12:07] Right. Like my whole philosophy is I'm not tipping to encourage a particular behavior. I'm tipping because I appreciate whatever it is I'm getting. Or I appreciate the employee or I appreciate the job they do or whatever the situation is. But I'm tipping in appreciation. I'm not tipping to get something.

Speaker 1:
[12:22] Yeah, I tend to agree. You do your job well, I'm going to reward you for doing your job well. That being said, like when it comes to like playing craps and stuff like that, I have a tendency to tip everybody even if they're shitty. So maybe in that case, it doesn't really apply. But overall, Josh, any other tipping things? Since that's two questions in a row, is there anything else that we should mention about tipping?

Speaker 3:
[12:41] Well, has your tipping changed? We should talk, well, we talked a little bit about the changing of the slot jackpots on my last trip, which is again, just on Patreon. But we talked about the fact that I had a slot machine that was not reset to the $2,000 threshold. And so I was getting hand pay, not W2G hand pay, but hand pays that had to be paid in person on a $1,200 jackpot and whether or not I should tip that person. And Chris, I forgot to mention that I was talking to one of the slot attendants and they said in fact, their, whatever you call it, their frequency with which they pay hand pays has decreased by about a third. This was at Venetian Palazzo.

Speaker 1:
[13:18] Oh, that doesn't surprise me at all.

Speaker 3:
[13:19] Yeah, with the new limits. And I was trying to think about whether or not, I'm not letting that change in threshold dictate my tipping for slot jackpots. I'm still tipping what I tipped before. I mean, obviously, if I'm hitting higher jackpots to get a hand pay, I might be tipping a little more based on the amount of the jackpot. But I haven't let the actual law change change the way I'm tipping.

Speaker 1:
[13:42] Yeah, I don't think I would either. I'm comfortable with what I tip when it comes to those sort of things. And I'm still a firm believer. I don't love being forced to tip in those situations when, like, there's no other alternative for me sometimes. And that's why I always do take fast pay if there's the capability for it, because then it removes that requirement. And look, at the end, if I want to go to the cage or find a slot attendant and give them, you know, $100 or $200 for the weekend just as a thank you for them to share with their crew, then I'll do that. But yeah, I just don't like this. I got a hand pay. I literally can't do anything until you come, but I'm expected to tip you for doing something you have to do, and I have no way around.

Speaker 3:
[14:21] Right. Like on the last trip where I got a royal, I got a 4,000 royal, I tipped the bartender $100 right after the fact. And again, that was just in appreciation of the bartender, not expecting something. Going back to this question itself, that was just a, I'm not expecting anything at this point. In fact, I think I left five minutes after that. It was just like, I had a nice win. And this is something that Boring Jack of the Handy at the Shandy Podcast brings up. I'm more likely to want to tip a bartender well in that situation where I've had a nice hit and I'm appreciative of the banter that I've had with them or the drinks that they've made rather than the slot attendant who's just a transactional bringing me the money that I'm legally required to get. I'm going to tip them, but as far as really going out of my way to have a nice tip, I gave it to the bartender as opposed to the slot attendant.

Speaker 1:
[15:07] I can't argue with that at all. We saw a common question about Rio, Josh. I know they've had a lot of shakeups there recently. New Rio ownership and Patrick Miller has been let go as their president and CEO. Chris, what are your thoughts about that whole situation?

Speaker 3:
[15:23] Well, is this the same Patrick? We never told this story on the show because it didn't come to fruition, but Chris got an email, or we got an email, but Chris saw it, an email that came to the show. This is several months ago, six months ago, something like that, an email that came to the show.

Speaker 1:
[15:36] It was right after Patrick Miller was hired.

Speaker 3:
[15:39] Maybe it's even older than that, but from their press person or media person or whatever, asking if we would like to have their president and CEO on our show. And Chris pinged me about it, we said, let's do it. We haven't done anything like that before. It'd be fun as long as we set some ground rules and things like that. We could talk smack about railroad.

Speaker 1:
[16:00] And they promptly chose not to move forward.

Speaker 3:
[16:03] Yes, they ghosted us, I think.

Speaker 1:
[16:05] I mean, we were pretty, I mean, we were very clear, Josh, if we just told them, look, if we're gonna do this, we would allocate somewhere between a 15 to 30 minute segment on the show. If you're familiar with our show, here's kind of the tone that we take when we're doing these things, et cetera. And then it just kind of disappeared. So I don't know if they decided shortly after sending in the request that he was already on his way out, they're like, well, this will be a waste of time, or what happened. I don't listen to a ton of Vegas podcast in my free time, other than you can bet on that really. And I didn't hear Patrick Miller on any other show.

Speaker 3:
[16:37] I didn't either. I wasn't really kind of like you. I mean, I listened to a few more than you do, I think, but I didn't hear him on any other shows. He could have been on the Plaza Show, the corner of First and Main or whatever it's called. But I don't know if he was on there or not at one point. But anyway, he's not there anymore.

Speaker 1:
[16:52] So I guess I scratched that idea. But yeah.

Speaker 3:
[16:54] What do you think about Rio? Is there anything that can be done to save Rio from?

Speaker 1:
[16:58] I don't know. It's the location is what really hurts it, because it wants to be a strip property, but it's not. It's got Penn and Teller.

Speaker 3:
[17:05] Yeah, that's the Star Trek Convention. I'll be there in August.

Speaker 1:
[17:08] It's got your Star Trek Convention. That's the two things. I mean, I think now it's leaning into the locals property vibe, cheaper table limits and getting locals to come over. I think that's great, but it just doesn't have anything that's like a huge draw for me. I almost wish when they did the remodel and redid all the rooms and everything, that they would have really leaned into the nostalgia of Rio and had like the carnival in the sky. Like bring all that stuff. Bring what the place is called Rio. Let's make it feel like Rio de Janeiro. And I don't think they did that at all.

Speaker 3:
[17:42] And I don't know what they're going to... I mean, Penn and Teller are getting, you know, I love Penn and Teller, but they're getting a little longer the tooth. Like at some point, Rio is not even going to have that. My problem is, I like when I talked about this when I went to the Star Trek Convention last year. I love the food corps. They've done a lot of things to kind of spruce it up and make the restaurants pretty decent from what I thought. And you know, they've made some changes to the casino floor. But part of the problem is on that far end, the end of the, I think it's the Masquerade Tower is, it's just empty.

Speaker 1:
[18:09] Oh, like Chippendales or whatever used to be...

Speaker 3:
[18:11] Yes, and the Kiss Mini Golf is there. Yeah, Smash Burger or whatever it's called, right. It's just empty.

Speaker 1:
[18:17] It's spooky down there. Like, we went there together once recently.

Speaker 3:
[18:21] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[18:22] And I think we felt like there was a decent chance when we walked around some of the dark corners, we might get shanked.

Speaker 3:
[18:27] Right. It's, and I don't know if there's anything you can do to fix that. Like, it's got all this retail space on the second floor that's boarded up effectively. And it just makes it look, you know, I can't imagine a strip property other than like Circus Circus or something, kind of having that feel to it. And you don't want to go there. Like, if I'm there for fun, it just doesn't have a fun feel. And the problem is it's too big to me. It's too big to be a great locals place.

Speaker 1:
[18:53] Yeah, no, I'm with you there.

Speaker 3:
[18:54] It's just too massive.

Speaker 1:
[18:55] Yeah, it is quite large.

Speaker 3:
[18:56] I want it to succeed. I want all these places to succeed. It does have a really nice convention space. Like having been there multiple times for the Star Trek convention, it's a really nice space.

Speaker 1:
[19:05] But I do remember hearing recently though, down in that kind of corridor you're talking about, that they had started removing all the video poker machines and all the slot machines. So it was just empty, completely empty.

Speaker 3:
[19:15] Just empty. Yeah, empty floor.

Speaker 1:
[19:17] Yeah, you can't do that.

Speaker 3:
[19:18] No, I don't know what you do. I don't know if you board up half the property or something, but you've got the masquerade tower there, so you really can't do that. I don't know what the solution is.

Speaker 1:
[19:27] Yeah, I don't know what the solution is, Josh, but it's not promising for the future.

Speaker 3:
[19:30] Build a baseball stadium.

Speaker 1:
[19:32] Why not? Okay, a fun Vegas-related question that you came across. It says, do you think Vegas visits would drop or increase the ban smoking in all casinos?

Speaker 3:
[19:41] I think it would drop. And I'll tell you why, but what do you think?

Speaker 1:
[19:44] I think it would drop, but the people that you would lose, I would be perfectly fine with losing.

Speaker 3:
[19:50] I kind of knew you were gonna, I knew Chris was gonna go there. And the funny thing is, I'm a non-smoker. I don't really care for being around a lot of smoke and that kind of thing. At the same time, I recognize that Vegas is the place that people go to have fun and exercise their vices or whatever the right turn of phrase is. And if you want to go to Vegas and party and smoke, and that's how you enjoy the Vegas gambling experience, I tend to think that there's a place for that. And you don't want to, the more you start to cut off those things, the more you lose people's ability to come to Vegas and, you know, not that smoking is the same thing, but let your free flag fly. You know, you want to be able to come to Vegas and do the things you want to do. And if part of that is smoking, like I love Park MGM, and I like that that's a non-smoking venue, but I wouldn't want every place to be that.

Speaker 1:
[20:42] Yeah, I agree with you. And I'm thinking about it, Josh. I've read plenty of articles about this topic. And last time I checked, the smoking rate among adults in the United States now is under 10% for the first time in history.

Speaker 3:
[20:54] Wow.

Speaker 1:
[20:55] I think it was 20% or so 20 years ago, maybe 25%. I mean, it's declined pretty darn rapidly now.

Speaker 3:
[21:02] Right.

Speaker 1:
[21:03] I mean, you got people that smoke cigars and stuff like that. But if you ask me what the one thing I hate most about casinos is, it's smoke. I can't stand it. I have bad allergies. I don't want my clothing to just feel disgusting, smell disgusting when I'm around it. Like, you know me, I don't love Park MGM, but it's the only thing in my eyes they do really, really well is not allowing smoking. Now, I don't know what their numbers have been like for visitation. But I feel like if you just took it out completely and said no smoking in Vegas, yes, you would lose some people. I think it would actually be far more detrimental for like your Asian gamblers, where I think that part of the culture is still alive and vibrant. And maybe they have special smoking, you know, areas that are specific for like high limit players and stuff to keep those people engaged and coming. But at the same time, I would be all for them doing that. And I do think you would get a lot of people to start visiting that wouldn't go before because they have those health issues.

Speaker 3:
[22:02] Yeah, you might be right. I mean, yeah, I wonder.

Speaker 1:
[22:05] Have you been to a non-smoking casino other than Park MGM?

Speaker 3:
[22:08] Yes, well, I'm not sure if I've been to.

Speaker 1:
[22:10] Are they smoking in Washington?

Speaker 3:
[22:11] They are, but they have increasingly places that are not, you know, like half the casino is non-smoking.

Speaker 1:
[22:17] I always love when they do that. Yeah, this table is not, this one is. How does that work?

Speaker 3:
[22:21] And the problem with that is then you go, let's say you go and you're looking for a dice table and the only dice table that's open is the one in the smoking section. Or, you know, it's like, well, that doesn't do what I want it to do. I don't know, for me, it's not the smoking itself. I think as much, you know, they've done a better job with the filtration systems and stuff than they used to. So I don't feel like I get back to the room and my clothes are just saturated in smoke like I did when I was younger. But I don't like it when somebody is sitting next to me and blowing smoke at me.

Speaker 1:
[22:50] Oh, I know.

Speaker 3:
[22:51] Or if I'm at a place where just, you know, who knows there's a fan or event and it's just pushing it almost directly at me. It's kind of the same thing. I don't want that. I don't mind if somebody's smoking nearby. I mean, I have friends that smoke nearby when I'm in Vegas. I don't mind that. I just don't want it really kind of blowing at me. And I feel bad for the dealers or bartenders or whoever that are forced to have that too.

Speaker 1:
[23:11] I kind of wish there would just be a little bit of a shift because when you think about gambling and casinos and stuff, you always think dark, dingy, smoky. Like that's what comes to my mind when I think of that sort of activity. I wish we could transform that like some properties have done over time, some better than others. I would love to see a casino that's built that is extremely light, airy, tall ceilings, bright lights, tons of windows, no smoking. I mean, when you go to some of these other properties like in Ohio, they don't allow smoking in their casinos. It is so much nicer and more refreshing when you walk in the front door than when I go into my properties over in Indiana that do allow smoking. And it's a completely different experience. I'd like to get away from the dark, dingy casino to the bright, like, this is a fun place to go for all types of people sort of experience. And maybe it will take some of the stigma off of gambling.

Speaker 3:
[24:12] Maybe, but I still, I mean, I agree with you. I like the lighter properties. That's part of the reason I like Venetian, or I like Resorts World is they're lighter to me than like an Aria. And, but at the same time, there is kind of an, I mean, when I think about Vegas, there's an appeal, there still is that kind of seediness appeal that comes with dark smoky.

Speaker 1:
[24:31] We can still have the hookers and the blow and everything. Let's just get rid of the smoke.

Speaker 3:
[24:36] Fair enough.

Speaker 1:
[24:37] That's all I'm asking for.

Speaker 3:
[24:38] Fair enough.

Speaker 1:
[24:39] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[24:39] I sound like a smoker. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

Speaker 1:
[24:43] Michael Trager on the other side of this conversation today. Okay, final topic to discuss today, Josh, and this is actually something that you asked as a question, you posed the question, what's your Vegas death row meal? So I guess since this is your question, I'll let you start it off.

Speaker 3:
[24:58] No, no, you have to answer. I'm asking you the question first.

Speaker 1:
[25:00] Okay. I saw this earlier. I didn't notice that you're the one that posed the question, but I did see this earlier. So I did think about it a little bit and I didn't get into too big detail, but I did say if we're combining from like multiple restaurants and stuff like that.

Speaker 3:
[25:13] I didn't think of that. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[25:14] I want the steak nachos as my appetizer for when?

Speaker 3:
[25:19] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[25:19] Your appetizer. Sure. Appetizer. Big appetizer. I can't eat for like a week before I come because that's a lot of food. Maybe we're sharing it as a two-day meal.

Speaker 3:
[25:28] They are usually on the menu as an appetizer.

Speaker 1:
[25:31] They are. They are on the appetizer list. So clearly, they're an appetizer, even though they're like $42. So that would be my appetizer. I'd want to go over to Yardbird and get their chicken and waffles as my entree.

Speaker 3:
[25:44] It's a good thing you're dying on this after this.

Speaker 1:
[25:46] Like I said, this is it. Death row, man.

Speaker 3:
[25:48] The needle's going in.

Speaker 1:
[25:48] And of course, there is no perfect Vegas meal without finishing with a banana cream pie from Delmonico.

Speaker 3:
[25:55] Okay. All right. I like it.

Speaker 1:
[25:57] So there you go. There is my three course meal.

Speaker 3:
[25:59] Mine would be, and I was torn between, and I'm thinking about not fancy food. Like what is my apps? If I'm on death row and I get a last meal before they take me out and it's Vegas food, is it going to be the pizza from Moneyline or is it going to be steak nachos? Those would be the two.

Speaker 1:
[26:18] Oh, steak nachos is far better.

Speaker 3:
[26:20] Yes, well, I agree. And that's what, but I would do a bowl of French onion soup, I think from Win Room Service over Delmonico, over Bavette's. I think the French onion soup at Win Room Service, still my absolute favorite, followed by the steak nachos. And I was trying to think about dessert and it would probably be-

Speaker 1:
[26:38] I know where you're going. I know where you're going with this.

Speaker 3:
[26:41] Love it frozen custard.

Speaker 1:
[26:42] Love it frozen custard. There was no doubt in my mind, quite frankly, Josh, if it's a death row meal, no better fitting place to go for your final dessert, considering you may die while you're there.

Speaker 3:
[26:54] They don't even need to have the needle.

Speaker 1:
[26:56] I was going to say the needle is not required. All you got to do is stand there long enough, it will happen.

Speaker 3:
[27:00] Especially if you go at like twilight maybe.

Speaker 1:
[27:02] Yeah, exactly. Good question though, Josh.

Speaker 3:
[27:05] I thought that was fun. It's just like not thinking about, you know, we talk about nice restaurants and all that kind of stuff. But if I was truly my last meal in Vegas, what would it be? That's what it would be. It would be. And it's a lot of win room service, which says a lot about win room service. Right.

Speaker 1:
[27:18] OK, Josh, after the break, we'll have another great listener blind ranking. We'll spin the wheel and we'll see. Stick around.

Speaker 3:
[27:27] We haven't talked recently because we haven't had a main show recently, Chris, about videopoker.com.

Speaker 1:
[27:32] No, we haven't. It is a great place to go practice. There's a reason Josh has been hitting so many amazing hands recently, getting all the kickers, all these royal flushes.

Speaker 3:
[27:41] It's true. I pay monthly to videopoker.com for my membership.

Speaker 1:
[27:46] Even though I don't even play it.

Speaker 3:
[27:47] I know, Chris doesn't even practice, but I practice pretty, I practice almost daily. So I've been trying to, with Boring Jack, he and I are trying to see how low we can get our expected value loss percentage, or error cost, I guess is the better way to say it, over 500 hands or 400 hands.

Speaker 1:
[28:06] Nerd alert.

Speaker 3:
[28:07] I know, it's, yeah, exactly. But anyway, of 500 hands, I had four incorrect, over 500 incorrect plays, with an error cost over 500 hands, and this is my usual dollar, $30 a pole play, 24 cents. I cost over 500 hands.

Speaker 1:
[28:23] Wow, nice work Josh. See, there is a reason you're doing so well nowadays.

Speaker 3:
[28:27] Yeah, except then I did another one, and I was at like 98 hands, and I had made one, I didn't even know I'd made an error. I looked down at the thing, and I had made one $98 error.

Speaker 1:
[28:37] Oh.

Speaker 3:
[28:37] I don't even know what I missed.

Speaker 1:
[28:39] You actually had a royal flush, and you threw it away.

Speaker 3:
[28:42] No, that would have been much more. But I was like, what did I miss that cost me $98? So as much as I practice, I'm still not perfect. But when you play a game, when you play any game, but when you play a game where there are different strategies, especially multipliers and things, practice is really important if you want to get close to playing perfect strategy and you can do it. How Chris?

Speaker 1:
[29:02] If you want to get signed up, head on over to crapvegas.com/pokertoday, and that will link you right on over. Listener question time. We got an email from Roger. Roger said, Hey guys, I'm going to list a handful of Vegas properties, and I want you to tell me one thing you would change about each of them.

Speaker 3:
[29:20] Is this a blind? This isn't a blind ranking.

Speaker 1:
[29:22] No, it's not a blind ranking, Josh. I'm just going to give you a property and you tell me the one thing you would change about it.

Speaker 3:
[29:26] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[29:27] Okay. So let's start it off.

Speaker 3:
[29:28] First property list is when what would you change about when I'd add, yeah, I think I'd add another casual dining burger shake place.

Speaker 1:
[29:38] That was exactly my thought. I said even maybe of upscale food court of some sort, but they need more casual dining.

Speaker 3:
[29:45] Yeah. I was thinking about there's nothing on the casino floor I'd change even though table limits can be expensive.

Speaker 1:
[29:50] I'm okay with that.

Speaker 3:
[29:52] Oh, actually, I think I'm revising and extending. I'd like to revise and extend my remarks, Your Honor.

Speaker 1:
[29:58] Well, we'll allow it, but watch yourself, Counselor. Thank you.

Speaker 3:
[30:01] A good video poker bar.

Speaker 1:
[30:03] Okay. I got you.

Speaker 3:
[30:04] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[30:04] That is more important to you than it would ever be to me.

Speaker 3:
[30:06] Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[30:06] But I'm definitely sticking with the casual dining side. I think it's the one thing that Wynn really needs to improve on. I hate it when I get done with a session. I'm hungry. I can go to my room and order room service, or I can go to a real restaurant. I guess I could go to Charlie's, but that's not casual in my eyes. I just want some place I can walk up to a window and grab a burger or a chicken tender or something.

Speaker 3:
[30:27] Right. You want a full-courty type experience. Right.

Speaker 1:
[30:30] Next property, Josh, how about Venetian?

Speaker 3:
[30:32] Venetian, we talked about it again on Patreon. Not that I'm trying to push people to Patreon, but we talked about on Patreon that the one thing I would change is something that may or may not be coming to Venetian, which is a nice video poker bar on the Venetian side that rivals the high-limit video poker bar on the Palazzo side.

Speaker 1:
[30:48] Is this your answer for every freaking property that we talk about?

Speaker 3:
[30:51] Well, the first two, I haven't seen the rest of Roger's questions or Roger's properties, but what else would you change? I mean, you know, I could go with the low-hanging fruit and say, update the, renovate the rooms on the Palazzo side.

Speaker 1:
[31:04] Are you saying I'm lazy because my answer was more room updates?

Speaker 3:
[31:08] I haven't looked at Chris' answers, I promise.

Speaker 1:
[31:10] No, that's what I was going to say, Josh. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the property, I love the food options there. But if we're talking about actually changing something, it's just these rooms, even they've updated some of them, get it, that place in general, the rooms really, really need to be brought into the 21st century because they're back in the 19th century right now.

Speaker 3:
[31:28] Yeah, I mean, when I had the karaoke room, holy cow, was that thing dated.

Speaker 1:
[31:34] It was like going back in time 25 years, 30 years.

Speaker 3:
[31:36] Yeah, it really was. And again, I love Venetian Palazzo, but that's one thing. Now, I was going to, as we're going to talk this true, Chris, the whole fake building is what I would change.

Speaker 1:
[31:46] Yes, starting a project, not finish it.

Speaker 3:
[31:49] Well, and have that talk about something that needs to be updated, the cloth, the fake building.

Speaker 1:
[31:54] Yeah, come on, what are we doing here?

Speaker 3:
[31:56] They haven't even updated the cloth.

Speaker 1:
[31:58] It hangs over the building in 40 years or whatever.

Speaker 3:
[32:00] 30 years.

Speaker 1:
[32:01] Okay, what about Caesar's Palace?

Speaker 3:
[32:03] I don't know how you could do it, but I would want to make it less meandering. But you can't really do that. It's just a byproduct of having been built over time like a hospital wing. I don't know what else I would change. What would you change, Chris?

Speaker 1:
[32:17] Well, Josh, you hit exactly what I was going to say. I said improve the flow of the casino. Because it's just so go down this hall to this corner, to this sharp turn down here. Oh, there's 12 tables here, then go a quarter of a mile and you'll find another 13 tables over here. And it's just so broken up. They need to take down all the walls on the first floor and just completely redesign and then put them back up. I know you can't do that, but it really needs to be redesigned. It's like they just thought about it one part at a time. They kept adding on and that doesn't work.

Speaker 3:
[32:48] Yeah. I mean, you can't say it needs more casual dining. It's got plenty of that. It's got fancy restaurant. It's got some of the towers have been recently renovated. I don't know which ones, but some are recently renovated.

Speaker 1:
[33:00] There's only 23 of them.

Speaker 3:
[33:01] I know, exactly. It's just a massive property. But I think you and I are kind of aligned on that.

Speaker 1:
[33:06] How about Aria?

Speaker 3:
[33:08] Somehow lighten it up, but that's probably not possible. They, again, not to go back to points one and two, but they don't have a great high-limit video poker space either. But you're right, that's my-

Speaker 1:
[33:18] Very unique comment that you have there.

Speaker 3:
[33:20] I know, exactly. What about you?

Speaker 1:
[33:23] I don't know why this popped in my mind, but I really don't like the cage situation at Aria. It feels like it's always 50 people, and they only have one, it's right in the middle, so it can take a while to get to. I said I would love if they added a second cage. Even if it's a small cage somewhere, with only a couple of windows, I really feel like they need something else. Because even in their high-limit spaces, they don't have a true high-limit cage. They have an attendant there that will help you with things, and they can, but it's not really, in my mind, it's not a cage.

Speaker 3:
[33:55] Yeah, it's not a cage. I think it probably... Can you take chips in there from the floor? Probably.

Speaker 1:
[33:59] I think they'll exchange them for a ticket, but you can't just walk in there and do your normal transactions.

Speaker 3:
[34:05] You might be able to, I don't know, but...

Speaker 1:
[34:06] Like over and over, it's not really conducive to that.

Speaker 3:
[34:09] No, and sometimes that one gets a long time.

Speaker 1:
[34:11] It's just one person. Yeah. I would just like to see a second cage.

Speaker 3:
[34:14] Yeah, I getcha.

Speaker 1:
[34:15] The last one he included was Resorts World.

Speaker 3:
[34:18] I don't know if I have enough familiarity. I'm not going to say High Limit Video Poker Bar because they have one. The thing that I've never really liked about Resorts World, and I haven't spent a ton of time there, is I haven't been crazy about their casual dining scene.

Speaker 1:
[34:33] Okay. You don't like the food court on the main floor situation?

Speaker 3:
[34:38] Because it's a weird field to me, and the restaurants were a little more kind of out there than if I were looking for that kind of thing. Again, it could be off base on that. Well, and then of course you got the three towers and the three different properties. Maybe that's the thing, is you're checking in. Am I checking in at Hilton? Am I checking in at Conrad? Am I checking in at Crockford's? Where am I?

Speaker 1:
[35:01] Yeah, my driver used to always drop me at the wrong tower there, even though they knew where I was going because it was in their system.

Speaker 3:
[35:07] Right. So I think it would be something like, I think it would probably be the tower situation. Give me a room and have one front disk and send me to tower one, two or three.

Speaker 1:
[35:16] Yeah, no, that would be, or make all three towers. You can check in at any of them and they can easily get to where you need to be. It's not, oh, you're supposed to check in over here and we'll walk you through this back alley that you didn't know existed to get there. Yeah, I didn't even think about their food situation. You are right. There's this growing trend among Vegas properties where they want everything to be ordered either through an app or on a kiosk where you never have to interact with anybody. And I hate that because I'm usually somebody that likes to customize when I order. I don't want to add something or take something off or get a sauce that doesn't normally come with something. And on those kiosks, you never have a way to do that. It's really, I felt like it resorts world when I was there. It was even worse where they literally each stall like dining stall only had like four items and you couldn't do anything to them. So you just wanted like two column A's and a column B. And if you wanted anything changed, there wasn't even a human there to talk to to get it fixed. I hated that. But all of that is not what I chose, Josh. I've always felt like, and maybe it's because I haven't been there in a while and they've really improved it. They probably have. I never liked their rewards program. I didn't understand it. I couldn't understand how to move between the tiers. I didn't understand what benefits they were really even providing. Granted, I went there when they first opened about six or seven times and I'm sure they changed it since then. But that rewards program was a mess.

Speaker 3:
[36:38] I don't have anything, I didn't have that experience. I do remember that the first time, I think they only had one color card at the beginning. And that was annoying. You want to feel special.

Speaker 1:
[36:47] So you never knew how you were doing. Yeah.

Speaker 3:
[36:48] Right. So I think they've changed some of that. So hopefully it's better. Good questions, Roger. Good question.

Speaker 1:
[36:54] We also got an email from Thomas. Thomas said, Guys, absolutely love the show and glad to confirm I'm now officially a patron so I can continue listening every week. I really appreciated you guys continuing to show in some form even when you're struggling to find time to record. I know too many other podcasts I listen to, not just in the Vegas space, that just threw in the towel. So thank you for that. You guys have had some really good blind rankings recently, so I thought I would throw another one in for Josh. You ready, Josh?

Speaker 3:
[37:18] I knew you said blind rankings somewhere.

Speaker 1:
[37:20] I did. He says, I have an affinity for Vegas shows that are no longer around or on their way out. So I thought it would be fun to hear you rank these five shows. Are you ready?

Speaker 3:
[37:30] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[37:31] Okay. So these are shows that are either no longer in Vegas or about to end.

Speaker 3:
[37:35] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[37:35] Here we go. First one, Siegfried and Roy.

Speaker 3:
[37:38] Is one best? Are we doing five?

Speaker 1:
[37:39] First of all, I think we always say one is best, five is worst.

Speaker 3:
[37:42] Okay. And we're doing five. It's not seven.

Speaker 1:
[37:45] No, it's not a crazy one. Only on Patreon do we add seven.

Speaker 3:
[37:47] Siegfried and Roy. I'm going to put it, I'm going to take the easy way out here and say three. I liked it.

Speaker 1:
[37:54] I don't think anybody has ever put the first choice in the blind ranking as one or five.

Speaker 3:
[37:59] Nope. Nope. You got to leave room. You don't know what's coming. I saw Siegfried and Roy. I liked it. I remember thinking it was fun. It was definitely better than Melissa, Queen of Magic or whatever.

Speaker 1:
[38:10] Joan Hart. Oh, okay, gotcha.

Speaker 3:
[38:12] Yeah. Melissa Joan Hart. Has she had a show in Vegas? She might have, I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[38:16] I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure she was in.

Speaker 3:
[38:17] Anyway, so is it the, what about you? Where would you, oh, you can tell me at the end, because you've seen the list.

Speaker 1:
[38:22] No, we'll look at the end. Okay, next one up for you, Josh. Wayne Newton.

Speaker 3:
[38:25] See, Wayne is one of those ones. I always feel like I should see Wayne Newton at some point before either he passes or I pass, one or the other.

Speaker 1:
[38:33] I don't know what's going to come first, but one of those two will happen.

Speaker 3:
[38:35] I know, and I think about when you and I have been Vegas together, I'm like, we should go see Wayne Newton. He's playing at whatever dive bar at, you know, Caesars now or wherever he is.

Speaker 1:
[38:42] He's at Donka Shering just one more time for us.

Speaker 3:
[38:45] But I really don't have a desire to see Wayne Newton. I know he's Mr. Las Vegas and all that stuff. I'm going to go for.

Speaker 1:
[38:51] I mean, I think I would have liked to see him like 30 years ago. Yeah, he's very talented.

Speaker 3:
[38:57] Musically, he's like a savant. He can play all sorts of things. I think he's a very gifted performer. I just have never really wanted to see him.

Speaker 1:
[39:06] In my eyes, it's like Barry Manilow now. I've seen Barry Manilow perform. It's not the same as it would have been 30, 40 years ago.

Speaker 3:
[39:15] His face looks the same.

Speaker 1:
[39:16] Yeah, well, so does Wayne Newton's kind of. I mean, some things never change. Okay, Josh, next up, we got Donnie and Marie Osmond.

Speaker 3:
[39:23] Oh boy, running out of low places to go here.

Speaker 1:
[39:26] I know.

Speaker 3:
[39:28] I don't really have any desire to see Donnie and Marie. I mean, they're not even a pair anymore, but if they were, I'm going to say five.

Speaker 1:
[39:36] Okay, we got two left, Josh, one and two. Next up is Follies Bergère.

Speaker 3:
[39:41] Oh, all right. And I saw that. A classic rated show. I saw Jubilee or whatever it was. I'm going to say two. I'm hoping that the last one is one that I really would like to see. Oh, it's like Rat Pack.

Speaker 1:
[39:51] Okay, coming in, the last one, your number one pick. I don't think you're going to be disappointed in it, honestly. It's Celine Dion.

Speaker 3:
[39:58] Oh, no, I would put her at one. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[40:01] Perfect.

Speaker 3:
[40:01] And I've seen Celine, so there we go.

Speaker 1:
[40:04] I didn't even know you had seen Celine before, so that's good to know.

Speaker 3:
[40:06] I've seen Celine. Yeah, this was obviously like probably 10, 12 years ago or something like that, maybe even longer than that.

Speaker 1:
[40:11] Does she sing O Canada at a show?

Speaker 3:
[40:13] I don't think so. She sang some song in French. I remember that. I wasn't a big Celine Dion fan. I remember seeing, I knew some of her stuff, but I didn't know, I knew the really number one big hits and stuff, but more obscure things or things that didn't really rise to the tip top of the charts, I probably didn't know. But she did a great job. She has and had an amazing voice.

Speaker 1:
[40:37] Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 3:
[40:38] I think I'm pretty happy with my blind rank.

Speaker 1:
[40:41] I think you did a great job.

Speaker 3:
[40:42] Where would you rank them?

Speaker 1:
[40:43] Honestly, I wouldn't stray too terribly far from what you did. I think I've never seen Folies Bergère. I think I'd like to see that a little bit more than Celine. So I'd flop those two. But I'm actually good with the rest of your list, Josh. Celine, number two, Folies Bergère, one. Siegfried and Roy, three. Wayne Newton, four. Donnie and Marie, five.

Speaker 3:
[40:59] Now, was Folies Bergère, was that one that had the two shows, that was there a topless and a not topless?

Speaker 1:
[41:05] I think so. Again, I didn't see it.

Speaker 3:
[41:07] Right. But would that affect your ranking?

Speaker 1:
[41:09] Oh, we have definitely one with a bullet. Right. Absolutely. Hey, if Wayne Newton starts throwing topless women up on the stage, he's up to number two.

Speaker 3:
[41:18] There you go.

Speaker 1:
[41:19] Okay. Let's keep it moving. Patreon. That's patreon.com/crapvegas. Huge thank you to everybody that signed up over the past few weeks. That's Adam S, Pamela M with a KCS membership.

Speaker 3:
[41:32] Thanks, Pamela.

Speaker 1:
[41:33] The aforementioned Thomas that we just talked about Josh, Thomas A.

Speaker 3:
[41:36] Thank you.

Speaker 1:
[41:37] Leslie R and Tim L with an annual KCS membership.

Speaker 3:
[41:41] Thank you, Tim. And I wanted to specifically call out really all of our patrons, but especially our patrons that have been with us since the very start of, well, I was going to say the start of the show. But when we first started producing some of our content over on Patreon and they've stuck with us, it means a lot to us.

Speaker 1:
[41:57] It does.

Speaker 3:
[41:58] You're the reason we want to keep doing this show. You're the reason on Patreon not to belabor the point that we want to keep putting out good, fun content. So thank you all.

Speaker 1:
[42:05] We really do appreciate it. Friendly reminder, you can visit our merch store. It's crapvegas.com/shop. And if you're a patron, Josh, there's even a code floating around for that extra 25% off everything you buy. Ooh, ooh. Okay, we made it to the end. So it feels like it's time to spin the wheel.

Speaker 2:
[42:23] It's time to spin the Crap Vegas big wheel. Are you ready? Are you ready?

Speaker 1:
[42:31] Oh, I'm so ready, Josh. Let's do it.

Speaker 2:
[42:33] Spin the wheel.

Speaker 3:
[42:34] I did. It's spinning. It's going. It's spinning. Oh, Chris, this will be a quick one. Did you hear Earth Day is coming up? Did you hear what Resorts World is doing for Earth Day? Apparently, they have done this before.

Speaker 1:
[42:46] No. Are they throwing away green money because that's what they do every day?

Speaker 3:
[42:51] On April 22nd, they are releasing 100,000 ladybugs.

Speaker 1:
[42:57] What?

Speaker 3:
[42:58] On Earth Day.

Speaker 1:
[42:59] Why?

Speaker 3:
[42:59] Well, I think they reduced their like pest control. Like they eat mosquito larvae or whatever. I don't know what ladybugs do, but...

Speaker 1:
[43:08] There is nothing that one of my kids hates more than ladybugs. Really? She is scared to death of them. Why? I have no idea, but she hates ladybugs. So if I told her this, there's a good chance she may never go to Vegas in her lifetime.

Speaker 3:
[43:22] I understand kids that are afraid of bugs. Like one of my kids' close friends is afraid of any insect.

Speaker 1:
[43:28] Oh yeah, my kids aren't afraid of any insect.

Speaker 3:
[43:29] But ladybugs?

Speaker 1:
[43:30] Yeah, ladybugs. Not scary at all, but for some reason, scares the heck out of her.

Speaker 3:
[43:34] Anyway, that's what Resorts World is doing for Earth Day. 100,000 ladybugs.

Speaker 1:
[43:37] Yeah, they're really saving the environment one day at a time.

Speaker 3:
[43:39] I hope they don't accidentally let them out inside.

Speaker 1:
[43:41] Oh, that would be bad.

Speaker 3:
[43:44] Can you imagine?

Speaker 1:
[43:45] Is this an annual thing that they do every year? Is this a first?

Speaker 3:
[43:48] No, this is an annual thing.

Speaker 1:
[43:49] Okay, well good for them.

Speaker 3:
[43:51] All right, let's spin the wheel one more time. Oh, Chris, this is your favorite game.

Speaker 1:
[43:59] Oh, name the convention.

Speaker 3:
[44:01] Name the convention. Okay, Chris, this is April 23rd through 25th, so the ladybugs will be out and about.

Speaker 1:
[44:08] Okay, gotcha. Yeah, they're ready to go.

Speaker 3:
[44:10] This is the TIA 2026 annual convention. TIA.

Speaker 1:
[44:16] The TIA. Well, I have a feeling you wouldn't pick something that's obvious, like trade or something like that. So I'm going to need some hints here, Josh.

Speaker 3:
[44:24] All right. Well, first of all, I'll tell you it's at Horseshoe.

Speaker 1:
[44:26] That does not help at all.

Speaker 3:
[44:28] Well, it tells you it's not at the Sands.

Speaker 1:
[44:33] It's not super big.

Speaker 3:
[44:34] Right. In fact, it's only got 500 people, TIA.

Speaker 1:
[44:37] Wow.

Speaker 3:
[44:38] And they have entertainment, though.

Speaker 1:
[44:41] Okay.

Speaker 3:
[44:41] A comedian named Monique Marvez. Does that help you?

Speaker 1:
[44:46] No, not any closer yet.

Speaker 3:
[44:48] How about Magic from Jessica Lane, who was on Fool Us?

Speaker 1:
[44:51] I mean, it sounds great, but I don't see how this is supposed to be pointing me in the right direction.

Speaker 3:
[44:54] That hasn't helped you?

Speaker 1:
[44:55] All right.

Speaker 3:
[44:55] How about one of the seminars that's going on, our topics, is all about chips and frying.

Speaker 1:
[45:02] All about chips and frying. Now see, this could be tricky because I'm thinking, is this like British chips and you're talking about French fries?

Speaker 3:
[45:11] Right.

Speaker 1:
[45:11] Or are you talking about like potato chips, tortilla chips? I don't know. You got to give me one more topic here, Josh.

Speaker 3:
[45:18] All right. How about a GLP-1 update? Meeting consumer demand while avoiding liability.

Speaker 1:
[45:25] So people take weight loss meds, but you need a separate... Okay, that did not help at all. I mean, that could apply to French fries, potato chips, tortilla chips. It could apply to any. Okay, so let's think about it. Is TIA the only thing I've mentioned so far that starts with a T is tortilla? Does it have anything to do with Mexican food?

Speaker 3:
[45:46] Well, here we go. I'm going to give it away. One of the seminars is practical uses for AI in tortilla manufacturing.

Speaker 1:
[45:53] Oh my God. There's a tortilla association?

Speaker 3:
[45:58] Tortilla industry association. Why? I don't know.

Speaker 1:
[46:04] That's so specific. I mean, Josh, that's like having a craps dice association. We don't do Yahtzee dice or anything like that, but craps dice. That's where we lock in.

Speaker 3:
[46:17] Yes. So Friday, Friday the 24th, Saturday the 25th, if you're at Horseshoe. In fact, if you're one of the 500 people going to the Tortilla Industry Association Annual Conference. I mean, if they have samples, that was probably really good.

Speaker 1:
[46:34] Oh, I didn't think about that. The chips and salsa side could be really good.

Speaker 3:
[46:38] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[46:38] Well, just like advancements and queso.

Speaker 3:
[46:40] Like, I mean, how about just a nice cheese quesadilla?

Speaker 1:
[46:44] Guacamole in 2027. I mean, some really exciting stuff.

Speaker 3:
[46:48] Anyway, there it is. That's the TIA.

Speaker 1:
[46:50] Perfect. Josh, anything else before we get out of here?

Speaker 3:
[46:52] No, that's good.

Speaker 1:
[46:53] Okay. Well, this has been a ton of fun, guys. We truly appreciate you listening and we will talk to you soon.

Speaker 3:
[46:59] Seven out, line away. Bye bye. They don't know what we're talking about if we say that.

Speaker 1:
[47:03] They don't?

Speaker 3:
[47:03] No. Thanks, everybody. Bye bye.

Speaker 1:
[47:06] Vegas, here we come.

Speaker 2:
[47:07] Thanks for listening to the Crap Vegas Podcast.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 3:
[47:18] See you in Vegas.

Speaker 1:
[47:25] Okay, moving on. We got a question about Cosmo. It said, when checking in and making a request there, like a certain tower or a floor.

Speaker 3:
[47:32] Hold on, stop that. We didn't get a question. This is the social media roundup.

Speaker 1:
[47:36] Oh, was that Cosmo? Sorry. I'm Ron Burgundy, if it's on the page, I'm gonna read it.

Speaker 3:
[47:44] That's right.

Speaker 1:
[47:45] Okay. Next up, a question from It'sVacous, y'all, the podcast. It says, what shorts...

Speaker 3:
[47:52] It's not a question from them.

Speaker 1:
[47:54] Fuck, I don't know. We haven't done this in a while. I'm trying to remember how we do this. Okay.

Speaker 3:
[48:02] There is a way, and Chris can explain it, to have the Patreon feed come in to your main...

Speaker 1:
[48:10] He said, no, Chris can't. The technology is there. I don't know how it works. Oh, my. I would suggest you go to patreon.com/help and see what you find.

Speaker 3:
[48:24] Let me start that over.