Beating The Book: The 8th Annual Vegas Lifestyle Show: A Man's Guide to Sin City

A man's Guide to send City. It's the same crew from every year. We talk about all kinds of things in Vegas for your trip that you're planning to since city, sports books, reviews, restaurants, steakhouses specifically, and then of course at all crescendos into Aces moment where he talks about the underbelly of Las Vegas, but not just talk about gives you act sittable underbelly information, So we look forward

to that as always. Marco to Edgelo from Wage of Talk is here Aces here out of the sports betting diaspora, and our guest every year on this show. He writes the Edge Vegas blog. You can find him on a variety of Vegas websites Meltzer like Seltzer, Mark Meltzer. Good morning, Mark, Good morning, How are you man? Thanks for doing this again. I am very very well. I have a another large cup of coffee next to me. I'm ready to roll where they'll learn some things from Ace. Yes, we all are, Marco.

You ready to do this. People want to know the opinion of a former butcher. I'm ready. I'm ready. Alright, Ace, you're the man that obviously this all false to at the end. Yeah, thats just all all this uh anticipation. I don't want anyone disappointed. I mean, they could need to go back and listen to the last couple of years. There's a lot of actionable knowledge, and I know, you know, as far as tricking, it's unevolving sport of changes with the times. But still there's the all the folks still

actionable today. And what I'm going to discuss today is more of what a culture shift that I'm seeing that I'm not very happy about. And I just want to want to take care of the fellas so they don't fall into some traps. So okay, well, that's very kind of you. It's a public service in past years just to let people know, please don't forward through the rest of this podcast against this. But in past years, Ace has told us about sort of the value plays with

your adult entertainment. He's told us how to get over on cabbies, which is always nice. And then last year, what was that depraved ship you were talking about last year? I don't I don't even want to about how you could take advantage of it being a buyer's market now with all the freelances out there. I mean, dude, you could get such great deals. There's I mean, there's so many young ladies that are just looking for school books or stuff like that. The respect at all, it's mutually beneficial,

well for both parties. I mean, I believe that you have a lot of selection out there. I'm sorry I brought it up. Yeah, last year we learned not to fall for the GF is what my takeaway was. Oh, No, that that this year is is a deep dive into that. That's exactly what we're gonna talk about. The GFE. Of course, for everybody, everybody knows obviously g f E s the answer for the girlfriend experience. Yeah, and and honestly, there's gonna be a small discussion about that. Because of what

I'm seeing, I'm not very happy and angry. Ace brings them to a segment today. All right, let's start though with sports books. Actually, even before we get to that mark, we always start with you people who want to come into town for either the super Bowl or March Madness. Obviously, this is the first year where we've done this show where legalization has happened, So there are other options in other jurisdictions, right Mississippi, New Jersey on down the line,

there's still nothing like Vegas. And if they're coming to Vegas a bunch of buddies, let's say, from around the country, what do they have to know about planning for those events? Where is it too late already It's definitely not too late. And just to address sort of the national picture, it seems like people are still excited to come to Las Vegas for like their annual trip during the super Bowl

and during March Budness. Sure, there's gonna be people staying in New Jersey and Mississippi and other places where you can gamble, but people are still taking at a large majority of people are still taking that annual trip because it's a broch trip. You know, it's a good time for a lot of people. Like you said, large groups where you're gonna go. So some of the some of the better free that are not getting the free parties that are not guaranteed entry are off the strip. You

have the South Point Um. They throw my favorite you know, Kentucky Derby party, the same massive ballroom. They have banquet tables, betting stations, cheap drinks, cheap beats um. In downtown Las Vegas you have the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center. It's sort of an indoor outdoor thing depending on how they have a configured for the super Bowl, but it's also free general emission. You could also pay to reserve tables and quote unquote man caves with couches and such. And

then you of course off the strip. One of my favorite places to play a little bingo in Vegas is the Gold Coast. They also set up a free party so um. And of course the Westgate with the Super Book is great place to watch the game. But they also have the International Theater. They have a party from a great Italian restaurant Cosa. I can't remember the last name of it. It's a very Italian place. Me you and Marco right there Cosa. I can't remember the last

name of it. Glad you did your research for this. Yeah, I always forget the name of Casada More for some reason. But it's a great party. It's almost two hundred dollars now, but you get a guaranteed seat and fantastic Italian food. UM for some paid parties. Basically every restaurant has a Super Bowl party, so you're gonna end up spending anywhere from seventy five dollars a hundred of fifty dollars if you're on a Vega strip. Uh that I think stand out.

Carmines and Virgils have all you can eat food for eighty five dollars for five hours. If you need booze on top of that, you can get it for a hundred of fifty UM. Carmines Italian food family style. Virgils is a sort of an East Coast chain of a of a barbecue restaurant, not a specific type of barbecue, just sort of a little mismatch of every kind of

barbecue they can get around the country. One of the more unique Super Bowl parties I've seen is over a broken bowl, where you can obviously bowl um and watch the Super Bowl, So that's kind of fun to me. That's gonna cost a lot of money, and you know, sports books are my favorite place to watch huge events like this. However, because Vegas is so crowded, some of the books are charging to reserve seats. Like Caesar's Palace, for example, you could sit in the hallway behind the

bar for a hundred and nine dollars. It's an awful you but you know, if you're there after the game and had the seats, you could watch people line up to go into omnia, which is a whole other issue. But expensive seats to v I P seats at the book there are close to a thousand dollars um. God, the normal seats that you get that you could just our first come, first served are being held for a

few hundred dollars down. So you know, if you want to get into the sports books, you've got to get there a few hours early and make sure that you're

playing staying at a place. We're going to a sports book that doesn't actually sell all their seats, and they're still plenty of those around West Gate we mentioned obviously, Demage has plenty of first come, first served seating and other places are often on the Strip, South Point Book you could get into and everywhere that I mentioned with the free parties, Gold Coast and uh Golden Nugget, the d you know, pretty much anywhere you go you can

still get a free thing. And it seems like people are also looking forward to March Madness to sort of touch on that, but we're still a little ways away. I think the PR people want to get as many people into seats at the super Bowl and then they'll start promoting heavily the March Madness, the March Madness parties all right, which usually ends up being a spill over venue, dedicated venue for March Madness. But as you say, uh,

super Bowl first, first things. First way to sell those standing room across the hallway behind the restaurant, terrible Viewpoint all for a hundred dollars. That's awesome. And hey, listen, you get too free drinks. You get drink tickets to pick up eight dollar beers. I just want to add one to uh, what Mark was talking about super Bowl parties. Don't forget the strip clubs, um Sapphires having a big

Super Bowl party. And if you're on social media, you may have run across UH the sports UH, Darling cleats and cleavage. She is gonna be hosting the Super Bowl party at Sapphires. You can get a table, UH for the basic just get your general admission UH floor table in the main room for seventy five dollars. But if you want a v I P package, they started a

hundred and fifty dollars where you get v I P seating. UH. All of them come with the UH as they call their lavish Telgate buffet UH, and then drinks are on top of that, and of course you'll have some girls for distractions in case the game's not going the way you like it to go. How the hell do you know what we'll see? You know? I actually got a media press release from my writing of things that I write for Taking Today and stuff. So I'm on several

companies pr list, and that was a press release about Sapphires. Are. Just to interrupt you, I had one of the greatest Monday night football experiences at sapp Fire, So don't knock until you try. UH. They do at halftime these one dollar like ten second lap dances that are just amazing because there's nobody knows what's going on Wow. Ten minutes into the podcast and you guys have the depraved one so far, well we got we got to try to bring our game to stay up with, you know, the

leader of the pack there. So let's start with sports books then, So any new favorite sports books in town or do you still have the old staples? Marco um Oh, I had to new when you know, you know there's strip in off Strip. I mean we we have to look at everything, you know, proportionally guys coming to town, you know, they're all gonna migrate to the Strip. But I'll tell you there's a lot of great places that if you want to jump in a cab or an uber,

it's you know, less traffic and really nice properties. Uh. We always talk about Red Rock in Green Valley Ranch, Uh, sister properties for stations. Those are two of the best off Strip. But I'm gonna throw a new one in there, and that's in Mark in my neighborhood. And actually aces as well a rampart Um. They did a total redo about a year ago on their sports book and I put them right in there with Red Rock, which is

one of my you know, absolute favorite off Strip. It's not as big as Red Rock it's it's a smaller book, but they have it set up where they've got you know, ground level if you could picture at the normal sports book set up with you know, stations for the horse people and you know, comfortable leather chairs for the audience. But then they have a second level that's a landing of tables and I like that you're looking right into the sports book. You can go get food and bring

it back there. They've got one of the best delis in the city. And then they have a third level that is actually a bar elevated more so, no matter what level you're sitting at, you've got a you know, unobstructed view through all of the screens there. So I put that one in there, and I'm gonna add one to this category this year. It's not actually a sports book, but you know, a tip for guys coming to town for the Super Bowl or any weekend that you come here.

With all of the books having mobile apps, the biggest myth is you have to live in Nevada. You don't. You just have to be stationary in Nevada while you're wagering. And what you can do when you come to town is deposit into wherever you want, I suggest a couple of places so you have multiple apps. It takes as much time, you know, to set up an account five you know, five to ten minutes max. You have your account set up, and then when you go to withdrawal,

it's like just cashing the ticket out. You can pull the money back out at the end of your trip before you leave. But what this does saves you headaches in the sports book because the lines are long, especially Super Bowl Sunday. But if you want to venture away from the Strip and go someplace that doesn't have a sports book but you want to have the sports book in your hand, I've got the place for you. And Mark's been there. I finally drugged him there a couple

of times. Uh. There a chain around town. I believe their own by the Dotties Corporation. But they're called Bourbon Streets and they are the absolute coolest places to go sit down and watch games. I think it's the best set up next to a sports book. It is incredible. If you get there early enough, you can get a big leather couch, but you gotta be there early. Uh that they have plenty of stools, bar lead tables all around.

But the video wall of games is unprecedented for a non sports book, and Mark and chime in and say, if I'm full of shi it or not, uh, you know what, you might be full of ship, but not for this one. It's it's the sports book. Well it looks like a sports book the the way the TV is set up. I don't know how great it will be for the Super Bowl, but it for NFL games on a Sunday or any you know, baseball on a

Saturday or whatever. It's definitely a great viewing experience. And it's definitely the best sports bar experience, I would say in reasonable drinks. Reasonable drinks as well. That's the other thing, because they are a video poker bar as well, so they're making some of their money there if you venture into that. I've seen him around town. I have never ventured inside. That's good to know. I remember you talking about that once when we were driving around Marco Ace.

Any thoughts from you know as far as the coming out here, like for the Super Bowl and all the parties and and the Vegas books, you just can't go wrong. I mean the bottom line I get all the time asked like on Twitter, and I appreciate it because I've been here twenty plus years and and people reach out and they've never been here before, and they want to ask, like where should they go, what should they do, and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, man,

it's two thousand nineteen. Everything is that your fingertips and this is Las Vegas. Like, you can't go wrong. There are certain times of the year all you have to do is show up, you know what I mean, Like Fourth or July weekend, just show up, Memorial Day weekend, just show up. Super Bowl, just show up, March Madness,

just show up. Everything's happened and everything's going on. Like no matter where you go, you pretty much can't go wrong, you know, like for us locals personally, you know, after you've seen twenty plus Super Bowls. I did all the going the parties, and because I played blackjack for those few years and you get a lot of comps for doing that, and I went to the nice Super Bowl parties and they're great. I would never pay board, and I urge everyone to never pay some of those, you know,

crazy amounts to to go see a game. You could bet it. I mean, I'm gonna go pay a dime when I could bet to dime. That to me, I just don't make sense, you know. But to me again, some people they don't mind that. But most of those high end parties are I'd say nine out of ten people in them are are invited guests and v I P guests and nobody there's paying. And if you get invited, the one that owes absolutely go. They are so worth it. My favorite sports books in town pretty much remain the same.

I I talked about Arias Sports Book as being the most living room like sports book. I happen to live next door, so for me it's just sort of an expansion of my apartment. South Point only seven book in town. You have not lived until you are betting something like the World Baseball Classic or the Australian Open at three in the morning as the vacuum goes by you at the south Point Sports Book, that's always a great experience. They have tons of seats available for Super Bowl Sunday

and beyond. I still think the cause Bo has the best screens in town, at least on the strip. Anyway. For those coming in from out of town, uh, non Vegas shout out. I know this is the Vegas lifestyle show, but non Vegas, shout out to bo Ravage and Biloxi, which has this great aria like living room setting to their sports book. I know they're planning on some renovations down there. I wish they wouldn't. It's perfect as it is. It's such a great, comfortable sports book with couches and

a bar that surrounds it. So it's just a wonderful setting down there. And then in New Jersey and Atlantic City, shout out to Ocean Ocean Casino. It's a really strange casino because it's as if it's in an office building. You take this long escalator up to the casino floor. But the sports book itself is built where a nightclub used to be. So it is this spectacularly glitzy sports book with suits that hover above it where I guess you could have your own table at a club back

in the day. You can actually watch sports and suites overlook the main floor of the sports book. I know that casino just got sold. Hope they don't do anything with that. Sports book is very cool, and here in Vegas we're about a year and a half, two years away from it. But Derrick Stevens, who owns the d downtown. He's got a new hotel that's being built downtown called Circa, and the rendering of that sports book, which Meltzer was

the first to show me, is sick. So sports books are definitely evolving in a way that we won't possibly believe until we see him with our own eyes in years to come. But you're already seeing some of that at Ocean in New Jersey and in the future at Circa here downtown Las Vegas. So Aria for me still is my favorite one in town. But if you want the big two pillars on each side of the strip, the Westgate on one side, the Super Book, and of course the South Point on the other, that's what I

would recommend. Usually at this time of the show, we talk about day clubs and nightclubs and gentlemen. There were years in the past where lord knows, I could give a dissertation on both subjects, specifically the day clubs. The days of rehab, though for me are long gone. It seems like I've gotten old boys. I'm an old man, so I can't really provide any insight that I haven't in the past on day clubs and nightclubs because my stupid DC friends come into town once a year and

they're like, let's go to the nightclub. And I'm like, are you fucking getting me? Your fifty years old? For God's sakes? Um, But we can shift it. This is your suggestion. Off Air Meltzer and Ace. Let's talk about weed. That's what we can talk about. We're super educated about the subject of weed, each of us in our own way. Mark actually, let me let me talk to Ace first, because A said this. He said, some of us knew about this before it was legalized. H Ace, what is

your experience? What would you recommend for those who are looking to indulge in some weed here in a legalized state of Nevada? Slow your role number one? Like I understand it's like if if you don't have the legalization in your state, or you know, the access to walk into with the spencery and choose what you want. Um that it is like a kid at Christmas. You know, you have all these choices and you just want to

try everything. But the first thing I want to say, slow your role because this is a different level of the game. I mean, where they're taking weed these days is different than anything I grew up with, and anything pretty much anyone I know grew up with. UM. Bottom line is what you may be used to smoking, you're not used to what is available here. And what I mean by that is when I was growing up, we were smoking Mexican dirt, which was like you know, speeds, stems,

you know, and a couple of buds. And if you were lucky, there was like eight percent phc. And that was if someone cut it with some poison. You know, you got lucky and the poison sucked you up. Um. But otherwise that's what you were dealing with. Then if you got older and you made some money and you and you started betting across the country, you met some connects in Arizona or in California that that had access to some chronic or some guys at the East that

they were sending chronic to the next thing. You know, you're getting good blood. Um, but still you're talking THC level. If you're willing to pay top dollar back then right now, brother, you're talking you can walk into dispensary and get like, uh those disposable again. UM. Vapor you know vapor now, even vape and I don't even know what it's called. You know those vapor devices and ship and um, you could walk in today eighteen years old, however old it is,

and and walk out having never smoked before them. They will sell you THHC. You know bud that got tested at that high, mixed in with all kind of turpins that the weed we grew up with did not have. And again that's why emergency visits have increased, That's why cast to police have increased, because and let me throw this out there real quickly, no one has ever over those for marijuana. So you are not dying. You are is tripping and have are weak minded. So just chill out.

It will pass. Do not call nine one. You're not dying. You're not having a heart attack. You're not gonna remain like this for the rest of your life walking around like a moron. It will pass. Just give it time. Um, so again, slow your role, take a couple of heads, see how you feel. Enjoy the high. Don't be an asshole, you know what I mean? And got walk around smoking it and letting everyone know and and making my city smell like marijuana everywhere I go. Fucking have some class.

I don't do it, the yours, don't do it. The mind. Um, it's just getting old, dude, I you know what I'm saying. But with that said, but you know, also know your limitations, Like if you've never had an edible, if you've never dabt, if you've never done stuff that that, it's gonna hit you in a way you've never been hit before, because especially when you eat edibles, edibles go through your liver.

Their process differently, the highs different, everything about it is different, um because it's process sting your liver on like smoking if flour is um and even vapin or anything. So if you eat it again, it's like, wait, you know what I mean, take a little bit, start with ten milligrams and wait, don't go eat a five hundred milligram fucking medical bar. You know that that's not what you want to do. It's gonna ruin your trip. So start small,

Wait an hour, take another little piece. Like just like I said last year, like every year. It's actionable info, but kind of repeating in simple terms. Just smoke like a fucking gentleman, dude, Like a gentleman, that's all. That's all. Whatever it is. If it's cocaine, snort it, don't smoke it. Like I'm just saying it's this generation, dude. And I mean, I'm fifty years I'm always fifty years old, dude. So I don't do that kind of you know what I mean.

Forget that people think that. But I'll take care of my body, is what I mean. I work out, I eat well, I you know what I mean, because I'm old. Can you can you point them to a dispensary of your choice perhaps, Oh yeah, my favorite honestly, And and Marco knows apathecarry up on the West side. Um, but it's a little far from the thread, you know. But that's the high end stuff, good stuff. Um, you know, class your people. So and I'm not knocking the you know,

people are people. But what I mean is because they cater to a more upscale crowd and neighborhood. Um, the stuff maybe a little more expensive, but the qualities kennets better. You know what I'm saying. Um, So I I highly recommend the apothecary. They know me well, they're good friends. They tell may sense you they you know. But otherwise pretty much they all have most of the same products because they all buy from the same distributors, you know.

And if your first time buyer, they give you free ships. So if you're really cheap, just go place to place to place to place. You're gonna end up with like ten joints by the end of the afternoon. You're done. You're done, all right, stopping. Okay, thank you, thank you. Ay, that was very thorough. Uh Now the gentleman like it myself. I go to a dispensary because my father, who's an old man, he's eighty five years old. My father needs medical marijuana to make himself feel better, help himself go

to sleep. So he asks me to buy him chocolate, which I do. Now imagine me coming from the Visa studios. I got by laptop at hand, I've got my work or clothes on. I enter the New Leaf dispensary, which is right off strip for those who are wondering if they're coming to the strip, right next to the wind a New Leaf. And I go in there and they're like, who is this, dork? And um, They're like is this They're like, this is this for you, buddy? I'm like,

not for my dad and my only complaint. And I'm not sure if you find this to be the case that your neighborhood dispensary is that they never have the same products in stock every subsequent time that I come. So I'm like, hey, you got that chocolate that I like for my dad, And they're like, no, man, we're out of that, but we got this new chocolate. And I'm like, all right, I'll take it. I guess they're like, I said, what happened to the old jonga? They're like,

I don't know. So I'm like, okay. Uh So they're real helpful, as you can tell over a new leaf. But it gets the job done. And then uh, I creatively get it to my father. Let's just put it that way. Aston you say, you creatively get stuff to your family in Greece, to my mom my mom, My mom's my mom seventy one in Greece, And I was there this summer for a month and I brought um CBD with me because CBD is awesome. I mean, I take it every morning. UM it's just great anti inflammatory.

You know, we all have a canabinoid system in our bodies. It replenishes. It's I'm I'm really high on on CBD. I think there's a lot of health benefits. Um. But but what that said, it's scientifically proven to work better if if there's it's there's a touch of th HCNN. And what CBD simply does is it's it's it's it's like the weed, but without the psychoactive um ingredients to it. Is. You know, that's an idiot telling it's trying to explain it to you, so you know, you know, so give

me a pass. But what I'm saying is what you could do, is you could if you do a ratio of CBD to th HC of greater than ten to one, meaning ten ten x CBD one x um th HC, you're you should feel it very slightly. And for my mom, my daughterr twenty x, you know, like twenty CBD and and one x THHC, so even less than ten x and she that I mean, all that did was relieved fucking pain man and make her feel better. Since then, I sent it out to her every month, you know

what I mean. That's I'm trying to do that. For my dad, it's like, oh, that's against the law of helping our older parents. The best thing I was, what I love is when you go outside of dispensary and you see the mixed population there, you see young people, old people, middle aged people, rich people, poor people like So that just goes to show you, man, you can't like paining everyone with one brush. I mean, that's no better example than take a picture in front of a

dispensary of why you can't do that. So what Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned exactly that to uh we had a dream they had with with asas saying that twenty two one ratio CBD, I would highly recommend that for you to send a bottle to your dad. And the reasons for I can attest, I can attest to it to as well it I avoided a surgery thanks to CBD um in. The twenty to one ratio is the perfect because it's not gonna twenty two one won't give you a blood test of actually having marijuana in your

system because of the minute amount of it. But for somebody that has pain and inflammation, it does take it out away and it will help your dad sleep. And the benefit of that versus the chocolate bar is the chocolate bar takes whatever time it takes to get into your system is inedible with the CBD drops. You're actually putting the drops under your tongue and gets into your bloodstream,

um almost immediately. And just to add real quickly that if you're ever really messed up, like seriously, if you ever get too high, um, that's what you need. Like shoot, Like that's why if you have th HC, I mean just three CBD laying around, UM, you should always have it laying around. Like let's say you just smoked and all of a sudden you get a phone call and you've got to go to work or something. You take you take that syringe e thing of of CBD and

drop it under your tongue. By the time you get to work, you're straight all right now, seriously, that's what it does. It counteracts the psychoactivity of th HC, is exactly what it does. I don't dispute anything you guys are saying, and I appreciate the advice. Marco. I'm not gonna be able to sell my dad off the chocolate into drops, believe me, He's just not built that way. But but uh, I if you guys had been a one third is passionate about nightclubs and day clubs in

the past as you all are about weed. Good lord man, you guys know your weed. And I offer you some y stuff. Please, So you have to be one to purchase weed legally in the Vada. Thank you for Thank god there's an adult in the room. Yes, go ahead. It's illegal to purchase but not legal to use in public. Correct that is? That is a key point. So you can you could buy legal marijuana, but you can't use

it inside of a casino legally. So there might be some kind of smoking lounges popping up in Las Vegas later this year, but technically you're not supposed to use it, even if it's inedible that people can't detect legally in quotes of course, Um, you're not allowed to use it. However, Allegedly people by mint and just pop them while they're

playing blackjack. Uh you know co but but but to your point, you're not allowed to smoke a blunt at the blackjack table, so don't so don't tell us we told you to do like a gentleman man, keep its simple. You're also not allowed legally to send medical marijuana to your grandmother in Greece or your father in d C. I just want to point that out as well. Of

those one one last stip for visitors. Uh, you know how we always talk about the apps you know, as far as sports betting and being able you know, to shop for the best line and everything. There is an app you can download for your smartphone. I've been told this um for. It's called weed Maps and it has all of it has all of the local uh distilleries dispensaries I should say not distilleries dispensaries, and you can

actually shop online. You can look and see what you what you want because prices do very around town for the same product, and you will find the closer you are to the actual strip, the more you're gonna pay because of that convenience factor of being right there on the strip. There are a lot of places just off strip that are very good. UM a new one it opened up here that is it's the one of the largest in the world. It's it's almost like a nightclub

walking into it. But it's called Planet thirteen and it's as we like to refer to Gil, it's in the g String district. You are just a left hand turn away from going to the Rhino when you leave the U. Why do you point me out when you talk about the g String District Like I'm like, I'm in the know. You know it Gil the g String district. Well, we used to go to uh Mark myself and Joe forton Ball. We went to a barbecue joint that we said, Hey, it's in the g String district and everybody knows where

that's at. Throws um, All right, can we get off weed? God damn it, you guys know a lot about weed. Jesus, there's uh there's actually one more thing let me touch on for you for the legal weed. Look for anybody that's on the strip and wants to get the closest to the strip is actually on the strip. There's a place across from Essence or a place across the street from SLS and uh are called called Essence. And and

that's just the only one on the strip. And like Marco said, and like you said, you know, you could go a block or two off the strip and get plenty and a planet thirteen places out of control. It's amazing. And apothecary Um has the best stuff that I've been a little of find. So it's amazing to me that I knew about the one across the stratosphere and mine new Leaf, and I knew about weed maps. I've used

all these things to hook up my dad. So yeah, it's like it's like I'm sitting here nodding to all of this, like, yeah, I know this good information, solid information. I have some hot breaking news for you if you want. I just got an email about the Casopolitan March Madness parties. It is open Bar. They have a single day pass for Saturday only for a hundred and fifty dollars with

open Bar. They have Thursday and Friday single day passes for two hundred and twenty five dollars for open Bar and a three day pass for Thursday through Saturday for four There you go, hot off the press. I'll be in the front, front and center with Felika. Come by say hi. Don't come by and say hi when there's a buzzer beater about to happen, though, if you could just do that much, we'd appreciate it. Can you come by and say hi? If you're high, that's allowed as

that is allowed as well. I will say this about March Madness, and you guys will corroborate this from a weather standpoint. Whenever I didn't used to live in Vegas and me and my buddies would meet here in Vegas from March Madness. We always took it for granted that we'd be able to go to the pool every day. The last two years the weather has been such where it is not pool weather for March Madness anymore week

one or two in Vegas, So the weather patterns are shifting. Absolutely, check the weather, because if you think you're hanging out at the pool all day long during March Madness might not be the case come mid March or whenever. Those first two weekends are this year for the big dance, best show in town. I still say absinthe. Anybody want to dispute that not out still up there is mine.

That's definitely unless you want to see like uh Seline Dion before it's over, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga like those are. That's different obviously, but yeah, music is different production broadway type thing. I agree, Yeah, music. This My favorite single thing about living in Vegas is what you just touched on Ace, which is I will go see everything because yeah, like I have no shame whatsoever. Barry Manilow's at the Westgate.

I'm in Man not long ago, so I'm all over it. Yeah, and I'm the dude singing like a dork because that is the beauty of Las Vegas, and whatever trip you take here, definitely checked to see what residency is in play. Gwen Stefani is excellent at Planet Hollywood. I never thought I'd say that about Gwen Stefani. Her show is great, probably better than all the other shows that have been there, better than Brittany, better than j Low, better than Lionel

the Lionel Richie's phenomenal. Don't get me wrong. Who am I forgetting Backstreet Boys? I've seen them all. I've serious, I've seen them all. Haven't seen interested Lady Gaga because you know, I mean, I'm not I don't really know her music all that well. You know, I'm quite not well at all. But I love the production of it, like the show, the experience. Personally, I went slum like three or four times here. I'm not a huge Gaga fan, but she has two different types of shows. People should know.

She's got her standard big concert with all the bells and whistles, and then she does this sort of jazz acoustic show. So make sure if you're going to Gaga that you get the right one, depending on the date that you have selected. But Vegas is all about music. This weekend. I just look up uh in comedy, like this weekend, I'm going to Tiffany Hattish one night and I'm going to Anderson Pack the next R and B. People will know who Anderson Pack is. Like, It's just

I can't wait. Phenomenal weekend. So that's the beauty of living in Vegas. The wind has all these residencies. To Kenny Logan's Diana Ross Anita Baker, I am all about all of them, Meltzer, I'm in you all that ship. I love it um so that that's definitely the best part about Vegas to me. Support for today's Beating the Book podcast comes, as always from our friends at Bookmaker dot eu. I have been saying it all season long.

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don't miss out. As far as restaurants, let me start. My favorite restaurant in all Las Vegas is still Carbone at Aria. I think it's the best experience. The atmosphere is great, great food, Italian food. It is top notch ville parm spicy rigatoni, pasta pro shudo, mozzarella and melon to die for. If price is no object and you're looking for the best sushi in town, there's an off striped spot called Kabuto, but it is not for everybody. It will run you at least two d fifty per

person um. There is that if price is no object, there's lots of lots of great, great food if you want it in Vegas and the return meltzer of Blue Ribbon ousted from the Cosmopolitan Blue Ribbon coming to Red Rock. I will be making trips. I'll look forward to it. I actually love Blue Ribbon without the sushi, but you know that's just me. I have good tasting food. H The restaurant this year that actually brought me to my

knees was recommended by you. Um. I had dinner at John George's at Aria and I am still weak in the knees on the short rib that I had there, like I can't even handle myself. I will be returning there very soon and hopefully having steaked this time, because it's you know, as I had. As I told you, it's hard for me to go to a steakhouse and not a steak or difficult for me to do that. And uh, based on your recommendation, I had the the week in the knees inducing beautiful short rip and it

was fantastic. It is really special if you go to Jean George and the steak is good, but the short rib is spectacular. My friend Hatty had the filet would you also recommended, and it was divine. It was absolutely fantastic and if my short rib wasn't as great as

it was, I would have been upset. But we had a fantastic meal and another amazing Vegas night where we maybe spent two hundred dollars of person and had drinks at Mandarin Oriental which is now Waldorf Astoria, the beautiful bar up there with a great view, had a great dinner there, and drank all night at the Cosmopolitan Chandelier Bar for basically twenty bucks, you know, put into a video poker machine and just drank for hours and hours,

and they had a magical Vegas night. You are a large part of one of my most memorable and fun nights of the year. So that that's what delicious dining has to do with everything, Well, you are welcome any other dining recommendations. Earlier this year, Marco and I actually ventured over to Palms, who were undergoing a ton of renovations and had some delicious brisket at their new barbecue restaurant.

It was phenomenal. Another place that I really enjoyed that I don't know that I'll return to because of a price points bother me. But the Burger joint at Palestation is a brand new burger place called b b DS Beer Barbecued or Beer Burgers and Desserts. And the burger was phenomenal, however, cheeseburgers twenty one and I don't go to Palestation to spend twenty one bucks just on a burger,

but it was delicious. Um. And then Hatty Bees opened over at the Cosmo in their new food court area, which has a ton of small, quick, quick serve restaurants, but Hatty Bees you can get a hot chicken sandwich and a side for I think it was ten or twelve dollars, maybe fifteen dollars, and it was phenomenal, and it might be the best deal at the cause of Politan because everything there, you know, tends to skew to

the more expensive enough scale side. This quick serve, little area of restaurants, say a Lurido for great pork sandwiches, pop poc for uh for fried chicken wings. Um. And the Hattie Bees was phenomenal. So just one word of caution if you go there. It's five dollars for a canna soda that I don't really get freaked out by by prices. I'm I understand, I'm going to the Vegas Strip and prices are more expensive there. But five dollars for a goddamn Canna soda. They could go shove that

right where it won't fit. But here's the thing. You need that Canda soda because Hattie's fried chicken is spicy enough if you get to the proper spice that you need to wash it down. I'm glad you brought that up exactly, you know. I mean, it's still only twenty for a meal. You can't really complain too much. However, I would rather just go downstairs, put twenty bucks in a video poker machine and bring my cocktails upstairs. So where the old sports book used to be at the Cosmopolitan,

I'm glad Melts have brought it up. What we would typically call a food court in a mall. They call it an urban food experience something like that. Uh, And it's the best little shops from different towns. So Lardo's, I want to say, is from I don't know what, Portland. Yeah, from Portland, there's a there's a dessert place there that is popular. District from New Orleans. From New Orleans, the district right, there's a there's a hand Roll place right

as well. And then there's the Chicken Wings. But yes, Hattie's Hattie Bees? Is it Hattie's or Hatty Bees? Had he be? Hat he be? You're forgetting the best place of of all of this. So oh, I thought Hattie Bees was the best that's from Nashville. Yeah, but you don't. The best part is Ghost Donkey, the hidden bar that you will not enjoy because you don't enjoy the mescal and tequila drinks. But it's a phenomenal place that reminded me so much of a little dumpy New York City bar,

but obviously classy and fancy because we're in Vegas. Wait, where's Ghost Donkey that's hidden in the back there? It's hidden in the back behind a there's a donkey on the door, but it looks like it's a fire emergency, like don't press this door otherwise you're going to set off alarms and stuff. And uh, it's amazing it it opened after all the restaurants did. It is a phenomenal place, even if you're just looking at I want to go there to look at something different. It's very very downtown

New York City, very like low Village. Well they have a little something like that upstairs to it. Cosmopolitan, what's the sort of speakeasy place? And beauty and Essex which looks like a pawn shop up front, but you open the door to a whole world behind there. My one recommendation about Hattie Bees, don't funk around with the sides. Just go chicken. You'll thank me later. Totally agree. I throw my side away. It was really sad and disappointing.

That chicken sandwich just delicious. Yeah, plus you fill your stomach up with stuff you don't want to really fill your stomach up with. Just go chicken. It's phenomenal. I'm glad you brought that up. Mama Fuco Across is still good, great food. The Dory Chicken is my go to, but they only have for dinner now, but it's spectacular. That is great as well, So definite shout out on that. What was the one we said beforehand? Oh, we still love to go to yard Birds we mentioned for fried chicken.

What did you say before Hattie Bees? Mark bbd over a Palestation and Mabel's Barbecue over at Palm's. Oh, Mabel's that's the one. So I went opening night with President Slam deal. Uh, it was awesome. That place is great. That barbecue place at the Palms a reason to go back to the Palms. I'm with you on that as well, that that place is great. Marco, you tried that you'd love it. Yeah, I was with Mark. We we went together. The brisket, you got it. What Mark didn't say is

they have two kinds of brisket. They have the normal brisket and they have what they call the fatty brisket. Go fatty brisket that is war flavorful, uh, juicy because brisket pan run. You know. The lean brisket can be a little dry if it's not cooked right. Uh. The fatty briskets the way to go. All right. Um. As my mother said to me many times, Gilly, you love the brisket. And I'm like, I don't. I don't really like the brisket. She's like, you tell me you love

it every time. I'm like, no, I've never said that to you once in my life. She insists, I love the brisket. The brisket is great at Maples, that's for sure. Not that my mom's brisket isn't good. I just wasn't into it when I was a kid, if you know what I mean. All right, Marco your floor, sir, Well, we've got some big news, one of our biggest hits that we have ever announced here on the Lifestyle Pod. How many times, Gil do you get somebody tweets you, Hey,

I just got the Vegas. We just had dinner at Herbs and Rye. Thanks for the you know, the heads up. That was fantastic, blah blah blah. Well, Herbs and Rye has a sister property that opened uh this past I believe this summer, and it is called Clever. It is on the east side of the Strip, uh, down by where they refer to restaurant Row on Paradise and uh it is a nicer location than Herbs and Rye. They have the same deal as far as the happy hour steak. The difference is I guess they gotta pay a little

more rent there, so uh at Urbs and Rye. One of the other big parts that made that such a great value is it's you know, not enough that it was off a steak, which was amazing. But as most steakhouses do, they have you pay ala carte for the side dishes. Well, Herbs and Rye always included a side the new place Cleaver does not, so that's where they get you for a couple of extra bucks, but still you're getting top notch steaks at half price. The place

is kind of cool. The bar, um, if you remember uh Herbs and Rice, you know, really dark in there. This is a better scene, bigger. Uh. They looks like they at the time that I was there with Mark. Uh. They have a stage in the bar where they could have live music as well, and then in the dining room itself there are some very unique paintings of some famous people in there, but just to see them. Can't

even describe it. You got to check it out. But the steaks were excellent, as they were at Herbs and Rice. So that's the new uh secret location of to tell people about for this year. And the other steakhouse I'm gonna bring up. I was about a year late getting to the party. Uh this was open and it's the only reason I've not gone there. Is my pet peeve of paying for parking in Vegas if you're a local. Um, I just the casino is a charge for parking just

has a bad taste in my mouth. Trust me, I'm not cheap when it comes to eating or anything else, but to go in and spend money in your casino, gamble and everything else. And then to tell them you gotta pay twenty dollars to park without at some kind of event being there. That just bothers me. But check out at park MGM b vets. I only got I finally got to go there about a month ago before a Golden Nights or no, before a concert at Park Theater. Actually,

and uh, it was tremendous. And I'll tell you that steaks were great. The wife didn't get steak. She got this dish which was braised short ribs over noodles, and it was let me tell you, I would go back just for that. Uh it was that good. I mean, the steaks were excellent, but her dish, it just was so different. Uh add that to your mix. And then if you are a fan of carrot cake, the best brick and carrot cake I have ever eaten anywhere, I'll tell you seriously, Um it was. It was out of

this world. The waiter sold us on it. I was stuffed. LORI likes carrot cake, but she was stuffed too. Let me tell you there wasn't anything left, Okay, it was. Was that good? Check that out. But that's my new my new one for the steakhouses. Um. That, of course a tribute to Meltzer's finest tweet ever, where he started one of his tweets by saying, if you're a fan of diarrhea, and then proceeded acrush some restaurant. What restaurant

was that? It was not a restaurant. It was El Cortest because you know that delivers white castle to the gambling tables while you're playing. I believe they do that. Um, Labor Day or Memorial Day, got it? They just yesterday they delivered pie to anybody gambling for the holiday. I'm not sure the purpose of that whatever. Alright, So here's the deal with Park MGM, because I'm glad you brought it up. Marco Park MGM, which used to be the Monte Carlo, is the spot for great food on the

strip right at this moment. Not only is there Bavetts Bivetts, which by the way, has great steaks. Though, tell them to probably ease up on the char That's my only recommendation, because they was special charring. I don't prefer it. The bread is out of control. The wedge salad is out of control because I think they throw some ranch up in there. So be Vets is great. Only problem with Vetts, much like Urban right back in the day, is that you need a fucking flashlight in there because you can't

see the damn food in front of you. And the first time I went there, I went there with my girl and we couldn't stop laughing. It was so dark in there, like we just could not stop laughing. It's like, really, like, how dark is it in here? So that's the only thing I would say about Vets. But the food, that's what I was getting too, So that's where you're getting. I went to Chicago, not here. I haven't gone yet. My and my girls like, we gotta go to this

one because he loved it in Chicago. So Italy, which was the rage in New York City and still is right Italy. They opened up in Italy right there at Park MGM. I pretty much go there for lunch every single day. And if I don't go there for lunch, I might double up on dinner too. So Italy is this amazing market with all kinds of foods. Yeah, it's a little pricey, but it is spectacularly good healthy foods. Uh, fish meats, pasta's. It's just awesome. Have you had to

cook to order steak yet? There? Go to the meat market. No, I have not had that yet, but I've had pretty much everything else. It's ridiculous. The stake, the steaks in the case are absolutely amazing. The marbling on those steaks. You actually go to the you know, to set it up for is what Gil saying. You go to the counter, pick your actual steak and they will cook it for you right there, and uh for a fifteen dollars. You buy the you buy the steak, and then there's a

fifteen dollar plate charge and then you can sit. They have tables everywhere all around and uh, they cook it right there. It's it's amazing. I don't I've only been there three times, Gil, so far. Obviously you've been there more the three times I was there. It's hit or miss on the service. They're not getting the system down there. It's you know, almost been a cluster fuck a couple of times. But one time was the day after New Year's which was just absolutely nuts. And one time that

went late in the evening. So I'll give them a pass. Uh, It's been nothing but great for me. I if you ever want to run into me, I'll be there every day, all day, every day. I can't get enough of Italy. Uh. There's other great spots at Park mg M two Primrose for breakfast uh and my new favorite best Friend you're familiar with this best Friend by roy Choi popular restaurants Korean inspired Korean restaurants in l A. But they got a best Friend by roy CHOI right next to Italy inside.

So that's a super cool place. The front part of that has a lot of nineties R and B pop culture, which is right down my alley, and they play the jams in their mark and then in the back there's a full restaurant which I don't even bother getting too because I like the jams upfront so much and I just eat at the bar. So those are some solid recommendations and Park MGM. You would not go wrong just hanging out there for those people on the strip. Park MGM,

which used to be Monte Carlo's bar there too. Have you gone to the money Line? We do shows. J Rude and I do shows from there. I have actually not spent any time watching an actual game there but yes, a cool news sports bar, a sports bar and book, I should say right there at Park MGM. As well as far as steakhouses are concerned, Marco, I'm disappointed in

you because you already tipped me off. It's our eighth annual Vegas lifestyle show and you still have not gone to the most consistently good steakhouse in town s w at Win. What is your probable waiting for my buddies to say, hey, Marco, let's go. I don't want to go eat by myself. I'll go any time you want. As so when my buddies coming from March Madness from d C, and they still do. They come in twice a year, once from March Madness, one week in October

for football season. But every year we have the same two restaurant reservations. Now car Bone is one night, s W the other in no particular order. S W is so consistent with steak and I value consistency right and when it comes to steakhouses, don't make it hit or miss from one night to the other. They are super consistent. What are your other favorites? I'm gonna go one off of a steakhouse. Uh, you want to give to you because you you talked about car bones and you like

their Italian food. I want to tell if you want to have an old school experience. And I've gone there twice, like in the last six weeks, and I've had the same dish both times, and it is the best ever bone in Bill Parmesan. Oh Pierro's. Oh Piero's. People should know about Pierros. Yeah, this is this is You know how long has Piero has been in Vegas. It's been there since I know when I made my first trip to Vegas, uh back in eighty four. This is a landmark.

And I guarantee you that you talk about history of places, Somewhere along the line, somebody was having dinner in this place and they were discussing a hit on somebody. No, I guarantee it, no doubt, no doubt. But this you can't go wrong with. I tell you food, and if you go there, I'm telling you you get the bone in um Bill Parmesan, And I've had carbones and and it was good. I don't think it holds a candle to Piero's. Bill parm Well, here's the thing, it's a

different experience entirely right. So if you're looking for the old time, authentic Vegas experience, and as Marco says, where hits have clearly been planned. Part of the movie Casino starring Robert de Niro was shot inside Piero's the Booth. If you're a fan of that movie, you will recognize the booth at Piero's where a scene was shot. It holds a special place in my heart because it was the first night that I met Bill Krackenburger. We had

dinner at Piero's. I've had dinner at Piero's with Roxy Roxburrow and Chris Andrews. So for me, it has a special place in my heart because I really cherished that place because of some memories and to this day, to this day, you can see Pia Zadorra perform at Piero's. And for those who are wondering who the fuck is Pia Zadorra, I would have agreed with you with that sentiment. But I happen to know Pia Zadora from when I was a kid and she was in Jermaine Jackson's Dynamite video.

Clearly I was already behind the Piazadora curve then, but she still performs there every weekend at Piero's. And it is it is located adjacent to the West Gate right d Yeah, Convention Center Drive. So that's a good call, Marco. Good call on Piero's as well. Um. I've actually been upstairs with the owners at Piero's and they have thousands of pictures of people who have been through the restaurant over the years. Right, it's like every celebrity you can

imagine from the seventies and eighties. And the only thing I remember from it is they have the names of everybody on all these pictures, like they named it for some reason. And they were showing a picture of uh, it was mean Joe Green. Was there was a picture of me and Joe Green, but it was labeled Frank O'Hara us. And I told the owner. I got and I told the owner, I go, hey, by the way, and you know who is met a little pitcher to point out this This picture has been on the wall

for decades. I go, hey, that that's not Franco Harris, that's actually mean Joe Green. He looks at the picture, he looks at me, he looks back at the picture. He looks at me, and he goes, who the hell cares? And he keeps walking. I'll never get that horrible. If you could have done that twenty years ago, you might have been sleeping with the fish. Might have been sleeping with the fish. Hell cares? All right, um, which brings us to and by the way, let me just say

this about the restaurant recommendations on this podcast. Through the years, as Marco points out urban Rye, the Oyster Bar at Palace Station, we've also recommended the likes of Yardbird for

fried chicken over a Venetian. You name the restaurant that we have named on this podcast, and through the years, still to this day, we get people tweeting us about those specific restaurants, and we can't tell you how happy we are to get those because it shows that, well beyond our football podcast, well beyond our horse racing or golf or whatever other podcasts I do throughout the year baseball, that this particular episode has legs like none other, like

the fact that people are still tweeting us about urban Rye and Yardbird and Oyster Bar. Oyster Bar was so big when we recommended it. After we recommended it, that I had people like Jason Weingarten, who's been on this podcast and who has been on my Vicent show. We were we were in a car. He's like recommending Oyster Bar back to me and I'm like, Jason, you heard that on my podcast. And Preston, who was driving, is

like because Jason was like, uh no, I didn't. And Preston who's driving, is like, you told me you heard it on his podcast, right, right, So people even forget where they heard it. So we're we're happy to have had that impact, at least as far as the restaurants. Uh. The other thing we've obviously had an impact on is the underbelly of Las Vegas. And without further ado, I think if we've covered all the rest, it's time for aces ath annual Underbelly Update in Las Vegas. The floor

real quickly. I just wanted to add me you didn't ask me about the restaurant. I'm sorry for the hookers and drugs. I'm skidding, I'm kiding, but I just want to say, because I've been on a kick lately, I've been going to Geoda's on on the strip. Really just perfect. Yeah, that's just become my spot lately, Like we've been going there, like ready to go somewhere else, and then we'll be on the strip and I'll see geoday, were like, let's just go there, um, just because like a different experience.

You could sit like where the window is great fine dining overlooking the strip, or you could sit like where the bar area is, and it's like you're in a totally different restaurant. But it's like hip, good looking people. I mean, it's just a great vibe. I've really like,

really like that place. And and if you have if money is not an object, or you come out here and you make a score, or you have something special to celebrate with with your loved on, honestly, it is so worth it because I you know, I've gone the restaurant where to so many high hand one especially when

I was gambling at table games. They give you, you know, so many comps um, but so many times I paid for it, and you just there's nothing worse than than leaving disappointed, you know what I mean, Like paying a couple hundred dollars for a meal, going in with the expectation, I have no problem doing it, but I expect to be you know, fulfilled completely and then leaving and being like we gotta stop it in and out because I'm still hungry. And that's experience. Yes, there's nothing worse than that.

But Joel robu shan at if I hope I'm pronouncing it, you know, correctly because I'm close to alliterate, probably um at MGM grant. It's our only like three Michelin Star two or three Michelin Star restaurants here in Las Vegas. And I went once. It was you know, special uh occasion, and it was like satisfied every expectation, the elegance, the ambiance, the class, just the way they serve, the way they

take care of you, the food, the presentation, everything. You're gonna pay top dollar, but at least they're gonna leave there and say, okay, this is if I'm gonna pay, you know, a thousand dollars for two people without drinks, like this is what it should be like. You know, I'm saying people that pay that kind of money, this is why they do it for this experience. It kind of makes sense if you know, to celebrate it that way and nothing worse, Like I said, to spend that

money and be like that was terrible. Giada is a great cause. I went to Giada's it's opening week. I have not been back since, but it was great then. I don't know why I haven't been back, but it was awesome. Joe tell it's the spot, yeah, Joe Rubishan. I went to once. I remember it being stupid expensive and I made the mistake of letting somebody tell me what's a order. So that was a mistake, but I

should give it another try. You should. Yeah. By the way, steakhouses, I don't know if any of us have ever gone. I haven't ever gone. And I worked there. Michael's at South Point Mark Cool. Have you ever been there? I have. I went once for my birthday and uh, funny story for that. I you know how you get comps playing poker or whatever? I went, uh, and I had had a few hours and I went to the deskt to get my cop voucher, you know, to go to and

because the guy goes, where are you going? And he says, you've got thirty five dollars and comps from poker playing? And said, okay, yeah, I just put that and I said I'm going to Michael's because well that will get you a big potato. That's right, it was. It was fabulous when you get there, at least when I went there, like Lorie's going, what though, there was a bowl of fruit on the table. I mean a big bowl of fruit for like a family. Uh, just sitting there is

the centerpiece of the table. When you sat down, and you've got about four people working in your table, the you know, the waiter, a couple of bus boys. Um, your glass. You take a simple water in your glass, gets you know, a quarter of the way down somebody's they're filling it up. It was an incredible experience. It is expensive, not as expensive as the place that h Ace just talked about, but it is a phenomenal meal and it's been a staple here in Vegas for a

very very long time. Um, Michaels I believe carried over from its days. Uh, it's wasn't it it? Um? Yes, what you're what you're saying is correct, and never worry the old Barbary Coast well Michael, Yeah, Michael gone. When he made the trade to get the South Point Hotel, which at the time was called the South Coast, the stipulation was you have to leave Michaels in there when I take over the property. Yeah, so, uh, that's how

much it meant to him. But as Chris Andrews told me, goes, if you're going there, bring two wallets, you know, bring two wallets if you're going to uh to Michael's. Alright, Ace, you're ready to do this. I'm all over on that. All right? What's new in actionable information for late night activities in last fas? Yes, well listen, so we're not repeating the same stuff over and over and people look forward to the next year. Uh, I'd rather than go

over the strip clubs. Uh, don't waste your money if what you're really trying to do is get laid tight. We we covered all that. We covered how to do it cheaply, how to go upscale and all that. We we covered different sites to find escorts, porn stars, whatever you want. We've done all that over the last three or four years. So I highly recommend going back and listening because none of that's changed. If you're coming out here,

you know, for for a little fun that way. Um. But but what I want to discuss is something I'm seeing starting to evolve in that industry and taking over, and I don't understand how this generation is allowing that to happen. And it's kind of like I'm seeing, you know, I feel I feel like an old person that's like, Wow,

the world's going to ship and it is. And when you see it like that, I mean, if you look on social media now the and please, I hope any woman that's in that industry doesn't take it the wrong way. I have the utmost respect for them. Um, what they do is awesome. They provide a service. It's it's an agreement between adults. Um, you know what I mean. It's a it's a mutual, beneficial arrangement. So I have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with

and it's not even their fault. It's the fault of the jerk offs that are allowing this to happen. I do it too if I was them. But all of a sudden, I'm starting to see luxury companion, luxury provider it girlfriend experience. That you don't go to a hooker for a girlfriend experience Number one, that's not gonna happen. I mean that it's like you go to like your girlfriend for a hooker experience. You don't go to the hooker for the girlfriend experience. That makes no sense number one.

I mean, seriously, dude, if you need your ego stroke to have to pay someone a couple of thous and dollars to sit across from you and act like they give a funk about what you're saying or or stroking about how great you are, so then they could get their money, finish their job, go off and tell the next student, next student, next dude, and you and your mind have created this great love story that that doesn't exist.

It just don't make sense to me. And and you see it's it's they're charging like ten thou dollars to stay like a night, like that's a big deal. She'll stay the night, but you gotta give her like six hours of sleep and uh meal's and you gotta pay for all this and all that. And to me, honestly, dude, all bullshit a sign. It's not even the money because unfortunately, I've been betting since I was a child, and I

lost respect for money when I was real young. And if I didn't have someone that held onto my money, I'd be broke every other week. I mean, I have no value for it. I admit that my I know where I'm flawed, and I found people that are strong to stop that I'm happening. But to make a long story short, so it has nothing to do with with cheapness or anything, but it's what are you searching for? Dude? What do you look? What need do you need fulfilled

that you're willing to pay a prostitute? Not it's not a normal chick, it is that's this is what she does, and you're gonna pay her thousands of dollars to come there and act like she's your girlfriends. You know what didn't we didn't didn't you talk about this last year on the show the Girlfriend Experienced, Yes, but you don't understand. Now it's got me to the luxury companions Like girlfriend Experience got you opened the door. Now it's fly me

around the world to have you seen it. They have little lists of the gifts they want, the Gucci bags, the lu Baton shoes, all this ship and dudes are eating this up and actually paying for it because I know these girls ain't hiring, you know, private jets so

they could take a picture by themselves. I know they're not buying six pairs of Gucci shoes on their own, and but they're taking pictures that and putting them out there like it's just honestly, like I just I need this, Like this is like a public service announcement to the young people that are listening. The funk is wrong with you, dude, change your course. Girl experience, that's why. It's what opened the door for this back in the day. Bro, I'm sorry,

Like a sex worker was a sex worker. That's what she provided. That's what that's it, that's it. She wasn't supposed to be your psychologist, she wasn't supposed to be your girlfriend. She was none of those things. Friend, has shifted in our society that all of a sudden, all over social media and have these chicks are ugly. That's the fucking crazy part. Like I could see if it was like total dimes, but half of them are just sell and and to me, it's we've allowed like that

that we've allowed this to happen. And it's gonna get to a point how to know how they're even gonna how you could even come back from this. Now you're saying the girlfriend experience was a gateway drug to this luxury thing, and you don't forget it opened the door and so and so these girls, you know how big it is, gil No, I don't have to do it. Don't allow one of them follow one on Twitter? Just one, all right, give us one account where it takes you,

give us see where. Seriously, you will be so surprised. Dude, I was shocked and to me, you know, like that stuff never phases me. Okay, so you on your Twitter post an account that we can follow, because this is interesting. So wait a minute. So they list these girls list a series of expensive gifts, and guys get off on buying it for them. Absolutely. In fact, there is a whole subculture. I found this out while I told you, I've been sitting on this for ten months losing my mind.

I found out about this like a year ago that there's actually dudes who just this is what they do. These chicks just take their money. The actually that you pay them to call you a piece of ship like the just like no lie, like it isn't like S and M. It's like S and M for your mind as in, like they'll call you and tell you what a scumbag piece of ship you are and you need

to empty your fucking wallet tonight. I want you to to send me western you me a hundred dollars and like he's getting off, he's jerking off here, and how he's got to send her this money. That's sucking crazy to me. Like there is honestly tons of them out there that they don't it's not even providing sex anymore. It's not they don't even have to now, they could just skype you. I mean, it's gone to way out of bounds to what I grew up in too. Like

I'm starting to see stuff. Honestly, I can't even understand, Like who green light at this? That yeah, that it's okay that you're just some dudes are that sick that they want to chick to just sit there and insult them and take their money without providing anything for them except humiliation. Like I guess that there's something wrong with you mentally. But what happened was then your normal trip hookers, you know what I mean, the ones that we're just

the ones we love, let's put it that way. Are are are they're they're picking some of these things up and all of a sudden, it's the whole it's all starting to change. Oh, I see your worried people are getting ideas, you know what I'm saying, And that's why you're you're starting to see dudes getting robbed, dudes getting hustled, Dudes fucking sending money over through the internet, sending money,

you know, to like deposits. They want deposits, they want air flights and rooms and all that upfront, Like this's a big scam on the internet, dude, our faith. I gotta tell you, most of these times with our annual Veggas lifestyle show, I react either uncomfortably to what you're saying, or I'm just ashamed, I'm embarrassed. Whatever it is. This is one I'm kind of just my face is contorted into like what the I'm telling you. That's why I

said this is gonna be there. I don't want to disappoint, but this is a great chance to talk about it because when you come here, that's what you're gonna find. Like I'm telling you, if you search online before here, that's what you're gonna find. Like the shore, you're gonna find the like I said, the freelancers, the young girls that just got off the bus that don't know what

they're doing yet, thousands of them around here. What I'm talking about is if you try to plan it, if you try to organize it now and and look ahead, you're in for all a very long ride, dude. It isn't as easy as it was before. And like I said, the g F E opened that door and now it's just noball gil. So many half accounts are fake with fake pictures, fake stories, selling this this fantasy either over the phone or over internet and then convincing dudes to

send them money so they could meet and all. And it happens over and over and over acount many people could really be doing this, like how many? How many dudes would really like enjoy this? So you have no to have to see that many online has got to be a lot. It's a whole industry all that you see now it's a PSC not a GFC. There's the porn star experience, dude. And the girls that are triple X. I hate calling them porn stars there, they're films sucking whatever. Yeah,

they do. It's it's funny you mentioned that, because they do. And I stayed at the hard Rock for years and practically lived there, so I was there during many a convention. They really do fashion themselves as big time celebrities, don't they. Yeah, that that makes me really do really and and you see that you know, and now that's that's the thing where though you saw are on film. So wow, before I just was able to jerk off store or now I could actually touch her. Okay, I'll pay whatever. Why

do I do this show every year? It's great if that's what you want to do, do more power to you, and it is what it is. But be very cautious.

What's online like that. That is the most important thing about this entire rant is don't get suckered before you come out here, because if you go looking for prior to come in to Las Vegas, the chances of you getting ripped off or worse, not getting ripped off, but getting being There's nothing worse than being disappointed than having such anticipation about something that's gonna happen that never does.

To me, it's even worse than getting ripped off. Uh. And so I mean, you're better off getting here and then seeing for your own eyes and hearing it from the person's mouth than setting it all up online. Because all that g f E experience, porn star experience, all those social media dude, they got tens of thousands of followers. Dude, as opposed to a pre planned trick role is what you're saying basically exactly exactly because those are set up as businesses, man. I mean a lot of them are

them that way? See how hipley I use that term trick roll it. I used it properly in a sentence. I'm very proud of. Uh yeah. And then honestly, dude, I just wanted it because I'll see it. I'll forward to you, so you see, I'm seeing it everywhere Gil, and it's you're starting to see it because I'm out at night. I used to do girls. I used to mess up, you know. I mean I'm always out at night a lot of times. Not not as much anymore,

and so I I know a lot. I was actually I was gonna maybe next year to bring a girl from the night on on the talk with us. I think that would be a great idea, that would be that would yeah, when we do this segment, I think that would be I mean, you to hear it from their mouth. I think that would be the best. And then there's a couple of girls I know that would definitely come on, uh and listen. This is a reputable podcast. I've actually had a true adult film star on this podcast.

I know that's what I'm saying, and I'll bring you a hooker, you know, a real order dude. You're not. But in all seriousness, that was girls because I do talk to them. And maybe when you're a gambler and you're in that life, you meet people that are in

that life. Um, and I'm telling you girls I used to joke around with that were like, you know, they charged the two hundred all blow job or the three four or five to go upstairs get laid type ship are saying like a thousand dollars to you know, hang out, talk, take me to dinner. That dudes are giving them that and then you could negotiate something further because the girlfriend

experience blossomed into thinking it's a girlfriend experience man. And because I I don't think I was adamant enough last year to shut that door. Look what happened. I almost feel responsible because you feel like you've spawned this industry as that happening. I didn't. I didn't push it. I didn't like get everyone out there activists to stop it. You know I should have pushed last year like sashtag anti GFC baby, you know what I mean. It wasn't pushed well for me. I'm fine, but I'm old. I'm

talking to you younger dudes. I mean, I feel bad. I feel bad. What a men you are? What a mitzva this was? You know? I I typically learned something, but this is not news to me. So oh really, thank you? Can you? Can you please elaborate? Mark? I might have texted Gil a length that he can look at just now. Yeah, thank you, sir. I wish could you too stop texting Mark? Are you appalled? No? I don't care. People that they're people have their own things

that make them happy. God bless, have a good time. Do whatever you want. It's not my money, not my life. Listen, both of you. Stop texting me stuff that people are gonna like oversee on my phone and be like, oh look what girls? Yeah? Please, Ace, you have provided us with a great editorial. We all take it into account. Don't fall for the porn star experience. Thanks for having me,

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and that is the Lines Podcast. He does a great job of like industry related things with sports betting legalization, So I definitely recommend that you follow his stuff as well. A real a real spot that like people in the industry to keep up, actually uses a resource to make sure they're on their p's and qys with that kind of stuff. All right, Meltzer, appreciate it. Enjoy Vegas still even despite sports betting legalization and other jurisdictions, the place

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