Exposing Las Vegas' Top Casinos & Influencers with Vegas Pauly C | Still Friends Show Ep.96

Well, hello, hello, hello. We got our all time fan favorite guest the the Las Vegas legend. Well, I don't I wouldn't say that everyone knows him at this point. It's the one only Vegas Paulie C Well, hello, hello, hello. How are you? You know, you're such a friendly, happy guy. It's nice just to come in here and look at you. Really. I appreciate it. I love it. It's like seeing a friend that I I see everyday on Instagram. Thank you, thank you. It's it's amazing.

It's a it's a soothing voice for me at this point. OK, yeah, you've got the personality though. I love the way you come through. We talked about it even like till this day I randomly hear my head feed me, see me. Oh yeah, yeah. You know I love it ever since our pod. When I walk around in Vegas, you know, a lot of people come up to me because, you know, I'm sort of an unusual looking guy, but I'm also all over their feeds.

Yeah. And, you know, they're so kind to me. And I'm like, yeah, Seymour loves this, you know, I'll text my girlfriend. Like, Seymour had such a great morning. Nine people came up to him, you know. So some changes recently, the past couple of months since we've been together and we talked the newest thing I'd say the peppermint hippo. Yeah. Can you believe that? They are the nicest people?

I couldn't believe they contacted me and I went down there and they said, hey, you know, we really would like to have you around here. I said, what do you mean? They said we'll just, you know, hang out whenever you can. I said that's great because I'm moving around the corner to the Allure anyway and I'll come over here. I said, you know, I mean you, you want to pay me too, just to

kind of sit here. And they were like, yeah, like, you know, we don't want to insult you, but you know, we'll give you $1000 a month. And I said, wow, you know, my rent is 2700, you're going to give me 1000 to make like 2 videos a month and to sit here, no problem, I'll take it. You know, So they're giving me $1000 a month. It's my first job in Las Vegas. And it's not so much that I'm ecstatic about being in that bar all the time because, you know, I'm in a menog and I have a girlfriend.

I don't really want those distractions, but the fact that they even want me is just such an honor. You know, anybody wants me. You know what I did? And the reason I took it is because it's not subjective. It's objective. In other words, I'm not saying this is a great meal or, you know, use this product or they're not asking me to do any of that. They just want me to hang around.

People come down and see me. You know, I get DMS, you know, coming down with 10 guys and I give the 10 guys to the owner and, you know, maybe they go there instead of to another place, but you know, these places, it's all pretty much the same. I mean, if you're a guy, you know what you're getting into. So I don't really feel there's any anything subjective going on there. So that's why I enjoy it. When you got that friendly and familiar face like you do, it's really inviting, though.

It kind of puts you over the top. I mean, people come down there to see me and I'm like, wow, you know, And, you know, it's nice about it. They let people in free if they're coming to see me. And I'm down there. And, you know, the bottom line is that management is so incredibly kind. And now they just contacted me and they're talking about doing more stuff with me. And I'm like, wow, I can't believe it. You know, I did a video for them and I went out with seven waitresses one night.

We went to Omnia and I did the video. I stood outside the club. You know what, my phone, you know, and I'm kind of the nerd standing in the corner with the phone and out come the girls and it's got 1.1 million views on Instagram. So management is like, why you, you can't even, you can't really put a price on that. But there was one girl that walked out and she was, she had a very beautifully tattooed leg, her whole leg. And I went up to her later in the evening.

You know, these girls don't really talk to me, to be honest with you. But I went up to her and I said, you know, your leg is going to sell that video. I knew it was and it got 1.1 million views. So I was really happy about that. Jeez, that's crazy. But I mean, like you said, in a business like that where it's such an easy conversion into revenue for them. Yeah. You know what? You know, I don't even know really their business model, I don't really understand.

But I will tell you something funny that I told on my subscription channel the other day. So I'm with the same girl for seven years, and she was very young when I met her. And she knew about my background, you know, when I was young, from the age of 21, which was the Dollhouse in Florida, that was the name of the bar up until 47. I'll tell you how my career in those bars ended. I spent a lot of time in those bars because, you know, I'm a nerdy guy.

I'm an awkward guy. And when I was 2627, I made a lot of money. So you're an awkward guy. You're a nerdy guy. No girls are talking to you, but you're making a lot of money. You know, where do you end up? So I went around the corner. I and I stood there and that's How I Met my fiance. I actually asked her to marry me at the time. There's a lot of stories about this on other podcasts. And she was up on the stage and she was so beautiful to me. 5 foot 7.

And, you know, I didn't really ever see too many girls. I certainly didn't see girls that look like this. And I remember it like it was yesterday. I had $50, a $50.00 bill. This is 1992. So $50.00 back then is more like 200 today. You know, that's like triple or quadruple. And I, you know, I went, hi, will you pay attention to me, please? You know, and she leaned down. She had her Garter on and I gave her the $50.00. And she was, you know, not repulsed by me.

You know, I could see that. Like, you know, it was, it wasn't just a $50. She wasn't like, you know, like, Oh my God, who's this idiot bothering me? And she ended up going out with me and she ended up moving in with me. And she ended up being my

girlfriend for a long time. So my present girlfriend knew this about me. She knew that I don't go to these places anymore, but my present girlfriend would say to me all the time, you are free to go to these establishments, but you are not allowed to spend a penny. If I heard her say it once, I heard her say it 20 times, right? And I thought it was funny. But in my head I would say, well, like, I'm never going to go anyway because I'm too old, right?

I'm never going to go anyway because I love you within an inch of my life. I'm never going to go anyway because I don't want to dishonor you or have any sort of temptation. It's ridiculous. I'm so happy, but even if I wanted to go, how can I possibly go to a bar like this and not spend a penny? Now I asked the universe 1015 times because when she would say it, I would say, how can I possibly go to a bar like this and not spend money? And wouldn't you know it that

it's 60 years old. The universe delivered a situation for me where I can go to this place and not spend a penny, right? And and when it happened, I said, oh, I asked the universe this question like so many times, and you're going to give me the answer. Wow. And stuff like that that goes, comes full circle in my life. And so much of my life does come full circle because it's so strange what I'm doing. That. Accidental manifestation.

Yeah. Yeah, the accent, that's exactly what I would call it. I love it. I love the fact that, you know, you get stuff like that right away. It's so funny. I mean, it's you've told me some of the stories of your past, right? The amount of bankroll that you've put up in those places. Well, I've blown over $1,000,000 in those places. So I was thinking to myself, well, if I'm here 1000 months because 1000 * 1000 is a million. If I work here, 1000 months, right? Which is what, 80 years?

If I work here 80 years, I'll have my money back. I imagine it'll very quickly get bumped up because I mean the business that you bring down. There, you know what? I'm not really about pushing for money, you know, I'm just, I'm so happy to be there. And it's right, you know, if it was, it was half an hour away, I'd be like, it's a, it's a, well, my girlfriend looked it up. She said it's a 15 minute walk from the apartment. So I walk over there and I said the music is good.

Yesterday, no, two days ago I was in there and they were playing all these cool Latin songs that I didn't even know existed. And I'm on my phone with Shazam and I'm like building up my music database, you know, I'm like Shazam, Shazam, Shazam, Shazam. So I get a lot of great music when I'm in there and everybody's super nice. So it's very easy for me. And it's dark and it's cool. And in the middle of the day, where are you going to go anyway?

You know what I mean? So that's interesting. It's like the the recognition and the respect that they've given. You. Oh my God, it's I'm so undeserving. It's bigger than the money could ever be. It's, it's so much bigger. You know, they're very good at feeding Seymour. They're so good at it. You know, some places, some people, it's funny, I have a place that I go to to have growths removed because I get a lot of skin cancer. You know, this is skin cancer

over here now. And they are, they do plastic surgery there. And it's in New York and it's on the North Shore of Long Island. So it's a very wealthy area. And I go in there and I'm always amazed at the way that they handle you. They handle you in a way that if you are a raging narcissist or if you do want to talk about yourself, like you go in there and they're like, they're inducing you to talk about you. They're inducing you to like make you feel good. They're they know how to

massage. They know how to feed Seymour. But it's the same thing at the Peppermint Hippo. I mean, they're amazing with me that and I don't I, you know, I don't even know what to say. I go in there and I smile because everybody's just so nice, you know? So how long have you been down there now? A month. One month. Wow. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, nothing negative you could say about. No, no, I just sit in the corner.

I go on the live, you know, if the girls come up to me, I say, you know, I work here, would you like to do a promo? I have a page I had that had 11,000 followers on TikTok. So I put them on the page and the, you know, the girls, you know, some girls don't want, you know, to be, you know, people to know that they're there. But a lot of them wanted, you know, do a little promo and I do a promo when I put it up. And you know, I mean, I think that guys know what they're

getting into when they go there. You know, I've been to them in Vegas years and years and years ago when I was young, and it was all the same thing. You know, I once I remember going there in O 5, I went with Anne Marie and her sister and my her brother-in-law and I was up like $100,000. I was gambling and I remember just handing out $100 bills like they were, I mean, I was up 100. I was at the Mandalay Bay, I was

up $100,000. Gosh. And I did spend $4000 that night because I was handing out hundreds like an idiot. I wish I could have that 4 grand back. Now that's gone. That's pre O 8 too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 05/05 Gosh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. So and you see the long term thing down there as well. Yeah, because they want to do like other business stuff with me, like we're talking about maybe some kind of food thing. I don't, you know, I mean, my

mind is open. I mean, if they're going to, you know, it's like I said, it's right next near my apartment and they're so nice. And so. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's unless, you

know, who knows, you never know. You know, Vegas is a fire at will kind of state and you see it unfortunately with casino people, you know, people that work in casinos know this like if they don't like you, if they don't like the way you well, this won't be a problem for me. I was going to say if they don't like the way you part your hair, you know, I'm not going to have

that problem. But if they decide that maybe, you know, while this guy's 62 now we got to get him out of you know, whatever, right, That's the way life is, right. Every day is a different day, and there's. Guys that'll just come for you and try to squash you. Out. Yeah, right. Oh, you're talking about Mr. Irrelevant. Wow. So this guy, you know, I don't understand this guy. So he would, this is a good story. I hope I'm not retelling it from last time. Please go for it.

So this guy would come into my he would DM me on Instagram every time I would post a post and I made a video about this. I have it on my it's back a couple of months, maybe six months. He started attacking me. So I have an Instagram post where I show my communication with Mr. Irrelevant, who for people who don't know at home, it's Perez Hilton, but I call him Mr. Irrelevant.

So I would post a Las Vegas story or a Las Vegas, something interesting in Las Vegas, and he would write me and he would repost it and I would write, He would write good job. And I would write thank you and the hands, you know that because I was like, wow, this guy even notices me because like, who the hell am I? I mean, this guy invented, you know, social media in 2007. Let's be honest. I mean, this is a successful guy. So I would, he would say good job and I would say thank you

and he would say good job. And this happened about 25 times. Well after the 25th time it was I'll never forget it. You know, stuff that happens to you that's semi traumatic gets burned into your memory because you get a shot of adrenaline when you have the pain. That's the way my mind works. And they did a study on 60 minutes with mice and when they gave mice the maze and they gave them a shot of adrenaline, they remembered how to go around the

maze. When they didn't get the shot of adrenaline, they didn't remember how to go around the maze. So every memory you have that you know, hurts or has, you get that shot of it done. You remember? I remember this like it was, you know, it was over a year ago, but I remember it like it was yesterday. I said to my little girlfriend Mahi, I said, look, honey, Perez Hilton is talking to me. And she looked at me and she said, why would he be talking to you? It's a fake account. Who are you?

And I said to myself, yeah, I'm really nobody, so it probably isn't press health. And you're right, it's probably a fake account. And I went to bed feeling like I was, you know, like 2 inches tall, which is OK because, you know, she cuts me down to size. When Seymour gets out of control, you know, she cuts me down to size. She's very logical. So I went to bed, and I forgot about it. But the DMS kept coming. Great job. Great job. And I say thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Thank you. So I got into it with the dinosaur. You know about my wall with the dinosaur. She's a big influencer out here. And one day I flip on my phone and there's a video from Mr. Irrelevant Perez Health, and there's a video that says Vegas Pauly C has a secret. He's really a criminal. He is really a casino host from Connecticut who got busted giving away player points, stealing player points from one account and selling them to other people.

And he's this and he's that. Now, I knew this story immediately because the guy has the same name as me. And I had read the story 12 years ago because when you read every bit of casino news, your Yahoo or your feeds at the time would give you every bit of casino news. So when this guy got busted in Connecticut, I laughed to myself and I said, Oh my God, there's another Paul Cantino. He's in Connecticut. He's a casino host. I bet people are going to think this is me.

I stored it in my memory. 12 years went by the minute I saw that Mister Irrelevant was trying to discredit me. My first two thoughts are why is this guy going after me after being so nice to me for like 6 months saying good job, good job, good job, but also like, what an idiot. So I throw my phone down on the counter. I make a video of him doing this 'cause I know it's not going to stay up there that long 'cause it's the wrong Paul Cantino, you idiot. So I make a video of it and I

put it up online. Look at this idiot attacking me for somebody that I'm not even. This is Paul El Cantino. I'm Paul D Cantino. I'm 60 years old. This guy's 50 years old now. He was born in 1974. Within an hour he had it down. But that started the war. So I'll do 20 minutes on a live. I'll do half an hour on a live, I'll do an hour. He will try and find the 30 seconds 'cause there are times that I drink. The other night I was at the Brew Dog. I put a cross on my head made out.

I put a cross sauce on. I was with baby Khaled, who endlessly roams Las Vegas. He's he's a good guy. He's trying to make something out of himself. He's, you know, I mean, when I see that level of grind, like I've never seen a human being on the grind like baby Khalid, I call him the hardest working man in Las Vegas. So he's on the grind. So people will say to me, oh, baby Khalid did this. I don't like that. Oh, babe, I'd say, but you got to respect the grind.

So I'm at dinner with baby Khalid, like, oh, and I had a couple of drinks. I put a cross saw. You know, if he sees that, if Mr. Irrelevant sees me with food on my forehead, you know, I have this massive forehead, he'll take that 30 seconds and I'll post it. I'll say, look at this a hole, right? The other day I complained about being in financial trouble because I'm being honest with you, I'm in financial trouble. I'm all, I make $1000 a month. I make another four, $5000 a

month from social media. I refinanced my house in New York and took all the equity out and I have a ridiculous mortgage. You know, because I want to do social media in Las Vegas. Because I'm doing social media in Las Vegas the same way that an addict will smoke crack, the same way that a gambler will gamble, the same way that an alcoholic will drink. I'm doing it with, no, there's no return, really. Like, I'm enjoying the hell out of it. I'm getting high off of it.

Seymour's getting fed. But I'm not really making any money out of it because I don't know how to do it and make money because what am I going to do? Go to a restaurant, say this, These are the best. This is the best chicken I've ever had in my entire life. Like, I lose all my gusto unless I'm doing it for fun. So I'm doing social media like an addict and I'm running through all my money. So I said I was in financial trouble. He makes this video and he's dripping with sarcasm.

Like I you'll never go watch the video. You'll never see a human being dripping with more hate. And Vegas Pauly C says that he's in financial trouble, this guy. And he starts to go and I say to him, I say, dude, you're young. You're obviously you must be rich and successful. You've been doing this since O seven. You're a nice looking guy. He's got a full head of hair. He's got a big beautiful smile. Like why are you attacking the hell out of me? Like, you know, it just doesn't.

So I want him to tell Vegas Paulie, see why he is just absolutely desperate to destroy me. Like I've never done a video saying a word about him because I know the minute I say a word about him, he's going to be triggered and inflamed and he's going to, I just don't need it. And he's really irrelevant to me. Like he doesn't for whatever reason. I don't know. Maybe it's because, you know, I

secretly like him. I, you know, on some level because, you know, he's got that smile and he's got that full head of hair. I don't know. I just, he doesn't trigger me. So because he doesn't trigger me, he's sort of irrelevant. So that's why I called him Mr. Irrelevant. But it's like, why is he just so much energy, so much energy, so much bad energy towards me? Is it maybe because you are authentic and he's a little jealous of that because he can't be I?

Don't know someone needs to ask him what what's with again? You're young, you're rich, you're good looking guy. What why, why is why is old man Vegas policy triggering you? You know what I mean? It's like to I don't know if you remember being young, but I certainly do. So when I was young and there were people who were much older, you know, they were sort of like a non issue like I would expect to be kind of a non issue in his life.

The only thing I can figure is I'm in Vegas doing social media and he's in Vegas doing social media, but he's doing social media in Vegas, but on a very small level. Like he has a huge national following where if he says, and I'm just going to guess if he goes, he gets $5000. You know, if he said he gets 10, I'm working at the Peppermint Hippo for $1000 a month, You know what I mean?

Like, OK, here's it goes back to this, you know, in comedy and in life, especially in comedy now, it's a big thing. Now in our new PC culture, you know, you don't punch down like you don't, you just don't punch down like he's punching. Like, why is he, you know what I mean? Like you try and punch up, right, right. Have you ever heard that in comedy? Of course. So why is he doing that? I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. I mean, you know, my feed, my, I

didn't mean to interrupt you. My feed feeds it. And I'm like, oh God, here he goes again. Really so and he's kind of stuck in your algorithm at this point. Yeah. And it's, it's a lot of painful negativity. And you know, you know, that I gamble for medical reasons. So the pain that I get from gambling and losing, if I really need that rush, if I really need that adrenaline, I will watch him, you know, to get off. You know, it's like, oh, it hurts so bad.

Oh, you hurt me so much, Daddy. And it'll hurt me. And then I'll feel so awful about myself for about 10 minutes and then that adrenaline and that pain of the way he just attacks the hell out of me, it'll convert into dopamine. And then, you know, then I'll kind of have a good day. I'm. Sick. I love it. Because I've I've, I've diagnosed what I'm doing right. You know what I mean?

I I love it. You're kind of talking about, you mentioned something I actually texted you about all that the some of these like food influencers and these experienced influencers here in town, they do all these reviews that they're very corny that you could tell they're being paid. They're paid for play. I know. Why do those people always blow up, become successful and kind of like. Well, people love food, people

love eating. So someone like the Dinosaur is incredibly talented at videography. You know, if she goes into a restaurant and she shows the food this way and she shows the food that way, and she's got a great voice, like I don't have a problem complimenting her on her strengths. The problem is that she's 1000% full of shit. So somebody contacted me, someone DM me yesterday. Now I don't know this for a fact so I'm not interested in libel or defaming or anything like

that. But someone contacted me and said, you know, she gets $5000 to show up. Like, I don't know that for a fact at all, but you know how I would do a nice, you know, if I was in that space and you know, 5 grand, you know, but I don't know that I don't know that for a fact. So please do not send me a cease and desist letter, Missus Dinosaur. Well, she's got nearly 1,000,000 followers. On no no, she's got millions of. Followers well across all. Platforms. Yeah, she has over 2 million.

Across all platforms. So I mean, guys like her. I mean, even Keith Lee, I didn't even call her a guy. That was an accident, but. Yeah, but Keith Lee is doing something where he found the fertile void and he found something that is 100% authentic. In fact, people will say about Keith Lee, he's 100% authentic. He's so humble and so real, and he's in his car and he eats the

food and he's honest. Like Keith Lee and I, Keith Lee's a hero of mine because he found a way to be 100% authentic, 100% honest and blow up. Like, if I can find a way to be 100% honest and authentic and maned and be myself, like, you know, that Keith Lee is just totally being himself. He's not. You can tell from the cadence of a person's voice as to whether or not they're being authentic. And there's a thing called

haughty tones. Like when you watch the dinosaur, she's doing this haughty tone. The haughty tone is, and you can Google this, this is really good old man advice. The haughty tone is the hallmark of the narcissist. When you go into the haughty tones, you're sort of condescending your audience. You know, I don't want to condescend my audience. I'm out here living my life. I got all kinds of problems. I'm in a horrible business situation right now with my Taco

shop. You know, I got my life got threatened. I'm not trying to be a victim. You know, I'll go and I'll read my stuff and be like, oh, you're playing the victim again. Listen, I I'm not trying to be the victim. I mean, Vegas is chewing me up and spitting me out. I'm, I'm being honest with you. Am I having a great time? Yeah. I'm like everybody else who comes to Vegas. I came to Vegas. I'm having a great time. I'm having the time of my life. It's unbelievable.

But generally the town is chewing me up and spitting me out, you know, at the same time, like I'm just like every other person who gets off that plane. Wow. I had the best time in Vegas, you know? And then you go and you check your credit cards, and then you go and you check your bank statement. And it's like, yeah, but it kind of gave me the business, you know, kind of chewed me up, you know, you paid. For it, yeah, I ruined financially now.

Right. I'm, I'm having a great time, but I'm, you know, I'm paying for it as of now. I keep hoping that someone will know. I mean, it's great, the peppermint hippo, it's $1000 a month. But I'm hoping that someone finds me and says, you know, this guy's worth more than that, you know, hopefully. It's it's like hard though, right? To be the genuine, the authentic you. It's not hard.

Well, not hard to, but I guess I never have to think like I like, I'm sitting here throwing my truth at you. Like I remember my story when I gave Evie the $50. You know, like I remember my girlfriend when I went to bed and she said that's not Mr. Irrelevant. Why would he talk to you? It's extremely easy to be honest because all I'm doing is referencing my memory. I, I don't have to ever. And that's the reason I can go so fast. Have you ever seen liars?

Not me. I just referenced my memory. My memory's pretty quick. I referenced the story and I spit it at you. So if you ask me if it's hard, it's the If you are willing to admit that you were on eHarmony for 10 years and not a single woman contacted you. If you were willing to admit that, wow. I'm on social media now and I can't believe how many people are telling me that I'm the ugliest person they've ever seen in their life. If you're willing to admit that

stuff. If you're willing to admit that people are telling you that they want to kill you, you know, if you're willing to admit that you're going broke, if you're willing to admit that you're a compulsive gambler, if you're willing to admit that, you know you're here, there and everywhere getting abused, you know, it's easy. It's easy to just admit this. Does it? Does it hurt? You're damn right it hurts. You know the reason I'm in the gym. I'm in the gym. Like I'll read comments like,

wow, how did you get so ugly? You know, like now I'll go to the gym and I'll bench £200 because I'm like, well, maybe if I get it to get, you know, right now I'm a little heavy, but there's a picture of me on Facebook, you know, when I'm when I'm 158. I mean, yeah, maybe I don't have a good face, but for six, the body that I have at 60 years old, I challenge NEM effort to come after me with that. The pictures on Facebook, check it out.

You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, I can't do anything about the fact that I have no pigment or that I have strange Neanderthal features. But you know, what are you going to? Do genetics are genetics right? Genetics are genetics, you know, I was Born This Way. I find it fascinating that people are able to come after only my skin color is now permissible to attack in America. That's pretty. You know, it's the same thing. Only 60 year old men who are not

good looking. Are you allowed to talk about their looks? You know, getting back to the dinosaur, she calls me Voldemort. Voldemort. She's posted. I've seen her call me Voldemort. He is the character from Harry Potter. Harry Potter. She's PC and she's so liberal and such a wonderful human being, but she's allowed to attack my looks because society has determined that unattractive 60 year old men are. It's permissible. Like any hypocrisy there anybody

in America? Is there any hypocrisy that the only people you're allowed to attack are to attack are unattractive white 60 year old males? Right, You know what I mean. I would say it goes from middle agent up. On middle agent up OK, all right from 45 old. Caucasian middle agent up. There's a free game right now. Free. Game so we have one section of people that were allowed to. Attack, no tags needed, as many as you can hunt, go get them. I'm deal I'm converting it into gym energy.

It's working but I see the veins and popping the RIP the shredded. You brought up the Taco shop a little bit. So here's the Taco shop story. So Jose the Taco guy, I meet him on the strip, you know, he contacts me, he says hi, Vegas policy and I go out, I see he has 165,000 followers. Now he has over 200,000. And I say, hey, you know, mommy, go meet this guy for half an hour. He's right on this. You know where he was when he met me.

And so life is so funny. He meets me at the Taco shop right next to the peppermint hippo. That's where we met. Like at the time I didn't even look up and look at the peppermint hippo because it's off my radar screen. If you would have told me that a year, it's a year since I met Jose the Taco. If you would have told me a year later that I'd be working at the place next door, I would have said how the F am I working at the place next or whatever. I would have thought I was maybe

the janitor, honest. Wow, things got so bad for me that I have to like clean up after they close up at the park. I'm in Hippo. That's what I would have immediately thought that my job was. So I meet him outside and I meet him at the Taco shop. So we originally bought a car together. I thought I was going to go into the transportation business. In other words, he has 165 now over 200 followers.

I had 600 at the time. Now, I was, I said to him at the time, this is a year ago, I said, dude, if we keep walking around Vegas living our lives, I said we're going to have together, we're going to have over a million followers, which we do now, you know, I could see the future. I said, let's do some kind of business together. So we bought a truck. It was a complete fail. You need all kinds of regulations. He's not about the regulations and the paperwork.

And I'm not about the regulations and the paperwork. We're kind of two very simple guys. He's even more, he's even more like simple than I am. And in a lot of ways he's a way better human being than I am. He's the most humble guy I've ever dealt with in my life. So we do about 3 months in November comes and we're, we're wandering around at night. We're driving around in the truck that I'm making the payments on that we can't do anything with. And we're like 219 year olds.

We're like, what are we going to do with our life? You know, we got nothing going on and we're dreaming. You know, he's dreaming, I'm dreaming, we're dreaming together. And he says to me, you know, Paul, I got this place and they have a Taco shop in their backyard. I swear to you, they're the best tacos I've ever had in my entire life. I said, well, why are they in their backyard? He said because they just, they're in their backyard. They're they're they're economically challenged.

They can't get out of the backyard. The guy used to work at El Gordo Tacos. It's fantastic food. I said, you know what, I'm going to give you the money for this. I said, what's it going to cost for us to get out of the backyard and into a restaurant? He goes, I don't know. I found this guy. You give him first month's rent, last month's rent. The kitchen needs about 10 or $15,000 in alterations. We're going to need to buy about 5 or 6 or $8000 in food.

We're going to need to make a deposit with sales tax authority. We're going to need all in. It was about 40 grand. I start to give him the money. I hadn't even tasted the food. And I was at the airport one night and I start, I'm talking my life soon. I get off at the plane. Soon as I get off the plane, I go live. So I have about 300 people and I'm like, I'm opening this Taco shop and I want to open a business because I want to go vertical.

Like I want to take Jose's following and my following and I want to say here's a great product. The problem with that is we don't have a great product, but this guy has a great product. I ain't going to lie to you. He's got a great product. So as I'm doing that, I'm like, wow, I haven't even tasted the food. So that night I went to the backyard with Mahi, my little girlfriend. She was, she was in Vegas. And I go there and I, you, have you ever seen them?

I don't if you ever seen the movie Mash or the television show Mash, but it looks like the television show Mash. It's like a tent. It's outside, it's in a backyard. It's very humble, it's very organic. It's very authentic. And I taste the food and I go, Oh my God, I've never had food like this before. Because you got to remember I grew up on Long Island and you know, my girlfriend has totally turned me on to a lot of authentic Asian food and I love it. But I've never had authentic

Mexican food. So I have authentic Mexican food for the first time and I go, this is probably one of the best things I've ever had in my life. I mean, the flavors in my mouth and I'm blown away. So now I'm now I'm all in. So we get the guy out of the backyard and we put down first month last month, friends, I shove the $40,000 across the table. We open up, I take 25%. This is important to the story. I put up the money, I put up my

social media and I take 25%. I give Jose the Taco guy 25% and I give them 50%. Why? Because I want to take a humble piece so that they behave themselves. I want to take a humble piece so that I'm not the exploiter. I want to take the humble piece so that people are not looking at Vegas Pauly and see see and saying, oh, you have a few dollars.

So you're manipulating these people and you're exploiting them and they're doing so much work and you're making all the money and you're a colonizer and you're this and you're that. And I don't want to do that. I want to take a fair piece and I ask, you know, I ask all of your audience, I ask you whatever is, you know, how much less than 25% am I going to take putting up the money? I'm putting up my social media and Jose is going to work there all the time.

So I felt it was enough to keep me interested. But I don't want to take like $0.10 on the dollar because then I'm not even going to watch the damn thing. And what am I going to make anyway? Even if it makes $10,000 a month, I'm going to make $1000. You know, I can owe that distraction to risk $40,000 to make $1000. But 25%, I feel it's going to, it's going to be OK. They open up and the guy's cold. You know, he has no personality, but that's cool.

You know, I say to myself, he's been oppressed for 26 years. He's been working in Taco shops, but he's off. You know, the guy's off a little bit. But OK. So we open up. We do $4200 the first night. By the third month, Jose the Taco guy has got us the award for the best Taco in Las Vegas. A lot of the social media driven, there were 32 Taco shops that it started at Jose. The Taco guy's wildly popular. He's a wonderful guy. He had that on social media.

The tacos are incredible. But I I'm not a liar and I'm not unrealistic and I'm not a phony. I know a large part of why we won Taco shop in Las Vegas is simply because we have a huge social media following. We have a million people on now on social media. So the third month we do $203,000 in total sales. So I'm not really watching the money because it's it's annoying to have to go and check the Clover and then make sure every dollar went in the bank.

But I think Jose the Taco guy's watching the money and Jose the Taco guy's not watching the money because he's just so humble and so non confrontational that Jose, Jose the Taco guy's the kind of guy that you went up to him and you took his wallet. He'd be like, OK, you probably need the wallet more than I do. Like you have to understand how passive he is. I hope I'm not offending him. He's super passive. So one week comes up and they're supposed to give us $16,000 in cash.

And I noticed the money is not what it's supposed to be. It's like just not moving forward. It's it's kind of dwindling. But we're doing all these sales and I already know the payroll is super high and I'm already fighting with them over the payroll. He's got his brother at 75,000. He's got his son at 75,000. He's got his wife who makes the sauces at 60,000. He's got his kid at 45,000 who's just a cashier or 50,000 at one time. 70,000, like the payrolls all over the place.

And the payroll is like, I think it was in the 20s, twenty something thousand a week. So that was killing us. But the money still isn't right. So I say to Jose, I say, can you please add up the amount of cash that was supposed to come in from Clover before you go collect the money from these people to put in the bank? He adds it up at $16,000, goes and gets the money from him. They hand him 9. Now I got a problem. Where did the $7000 go?

They're like, oh, you know, the payroll shifted this week. We had to lend money to all the employees and this and and I so for about four weeks we hammered them 4, four to six weeks like you still haven't given us back that money that disappeared. And it was 3000 the following week. So they got us for seven, one week and three the following week was missed, was missing $10,000 was missing after like six weeks of this fighting and this this discord now and it's

uncomfortable. The kid says to us, he Jose has the text, he has the you know, he has the evidence. Kid says, yeah, man, I really messed up. I'm really sorry I stole your money. And he admits that he stole. So now the whole relationship is unraveling. In addition to that, we opened up as a Taco shop in the South that is not doing well. It's break even at best the way that Albero is running. And it's losing money because he pays for a crew to come in at

night to clean. We have the employees clean there. Now. We, I'll get to that in a second. So it's just a disaster. So things go bad between us. Now the problem is the main problem is, is Jose. Jose, the Taco guy is so turned off by you stealing and shitting on our heads, he doesn't want to do social media anymore over there. So now with no social media, the top line is going like this. So this top line is shrinking. The money is disappearing. The payroll is still onerous.

So we mentally check out. So the end of May, the end of June, we mentally check out, you know, like the well, the beginning of June, we mentally check out. By the end of June, things are really bad. So one night he just closes the South Taco Shop, which I understand why he did that because the South Taco Shop is not successful. He just shuts it down. We go in there the next day and I'm like, I don't want to shut it. It only opened on May 11th.

It's now August 1st. I want to give the shop a little bit of a time to maybe grow or at least break even. We'll do some social media. We'll try and get it going. This, that. The other thing we go in there, he shut it down unilaterally without checking what he does. The thing about Albero is and effort that he is, he does every single thing, whatever he wants unilaterally.

Look unilaterally, he just dictates if I want to pay my kids 75,000, I'm going to do when I caught him, the kids stealing the son I caught the kids. We, we caught the, the kid admits it. It's not even about we caught him. He admits it. He gives his son a $10,000 a year raise. I say your son is stealing and you're giving him a $10,000 raise. I said you're going to run out of money. You're going to bankrupt this Taco shop.

You know what he says to me? He says I guess the investors, that's me. We'll have to put in more money. I'm like disconnect the upstairs a little bit. But not only that, we're not going to do social media for you. Like you can steal our Taco shop, you can steal the vehicles.

They have three vehicles there now. 2 are in my name, one I cosign you can take every dollar we have, but you cannot especially me. And you know Jose, you can't make us do your social media like why would we ever do your social media when you've done this to us? So we go to reopen the South's Taco shop. They took every bit of equipment out. They took, they took the delivery unit for Uber Eats, like they took the computer that sits next to the they took every

scrap of food. They, I, the other. The last night I was in the shop and somebody was joking on the live because the people in the live are very funny. I always have 400 people in my life. They said, did they take the toilet paper? I turned around to say I'm Jose. Did they take the toilet paper? Jose's like, yeah, they took the toilet paper. So they took everything. So now I have to make a decision. Now I got it. Now I got to decide. Do I reopen the shop?

And I'm Stu Nod. I don't know if you know Italian, but Stu nod is like when you're so hard headed, you just won't give in. You just won't stop. And I'm student, right? So I took $20,000 out of my bank account and I'm running out of liquidity. Like you're going to see me in Arizona in the next week. I have to go to Arizona. I have, I have 8 lots in Arizona. They're in a very nice community that the houses in the area are $1,000,000.

I have 8 lots in Arizona. I'm going to sell three of them. Like I'm going to go on the live and I'm going to say, look, I have to sell this to finance my social media addiction in Las Vegas. Does anybody want to buy that? I feel it's the best way to sell it. And they're valuable lots. I mean, they're worth between 40 and 60 each. So I'm going to try and sell them, try and raise $100,000 to keep going with my social media. But I digress. Where was I?

OK, so I jammed the $20,000 into the shop and we're reopened. We reopened on Saturday. No, we reopened on Friday. The sales are not great. They're kind of the same sales that they were before. But I have hopes and dreams, like, I don't know. I just couldn't. I couldn't take being punched in the face and just quitting, you know? So how does that work? I mean with all the with equipment. Being it's gone, they stole it all.

They have it hot. So they said to me, you come up north the the North shop is at 444 OE Washington and you sign off. They actually sent me a text that says you sign off like I'm not going to sign off. I'm not going to All right, You stole, you close the South shop unilaterally. You took all the equipment. You've got my cars, but I'm not going to sign off on the north shop. They, I heard they got a lawyer. I haven't gotten a lawyer because I don't believe in

legal. People are like, why don't you call the police? I'm not going to call the police on impoverished people. Like I don't. I honestly do not wish the police on anybody.

Like, you don't know me, but I'll see a kid, especially young kids, 17/18/19, even up to 25, I'll see young kids make a mistake, you know, do something really stupid, like, you know, whatever it is. I don't want to get into too much politics here, but they'll do something stupid and they'll get like 20 years in jail or they'll get life or whatever. And I'll be like, wow, you know, I have empathy for that. I mean, you do something stupid like when I was 19/20/22.

I'm not going to lie to you. I drove drunk all the time. I don't know if you ever have. I don't expect you to admit it. You have. You have OK. You drunk and how? So I drove drunk and I made stupid mistakes. Let's just say I, you know, hit somebody when I was 19 and I hurt them, you know, and I and I got 18 years because Nevada's a no fooling around state. So let's just say I was 19 and I was driving a car and God forbid, God forbid I killed somebody, I'm going to get, I

don't know. I don't know, I don't want to quote the Nevada laws. I'm going to get 19 years in jail. If I saw that happen to a young person, especially if they're from a disadvantaged background and I'm not virtue signalling, OK, I'm just not. But especially if they grew up with no opportunities because I grew up with every, I was born on third base girlfriend. I had every opportunity as a kid and I screwed up my life and I see them get 19 years, I'm going to feel bad.

So people are like, why don't you call the police on them about the equipment? Why don't you? It's like, I just can't. I don't want to go down that road. I don't want to deal. I did go. I did get a very violent death threat that was very graphic about what they want to do to my body. And I did report that to the police because I don't really want to be killed. You know I'm not stupid. Was it the text message coming from that family or? I don't know that it was from

them at all. They say they in Full disclosure, they say it was not from them. So I don't know who it was from. But I'm assuming it was some type of a cartel type dealings. Well, don't even say that word, right? Right. No, I don't. Look, I don't wish them any harm. So now let me tell you what's going. Let me give you an update. So Jose and I left the shop and the sales going like this and they're not paying the sales tax.

So they're using the sales tax to support the ridiculous payroll and whatever other shenanigans are going on over there. So now last week, I'm in the car with Jose the Taco guy, and the sales tax authority calls us and they're like, guys, you know, you got to pay the sales tax. I'm like, well, I'm not in control of the company anymore at all. I said, how does this work when someone is not in control of any of the money? I'm not in control of any of the sales.

I'm not, but I'm still on the sales tax form and they're like, well, we'll get back to you next week. So I mean, I'm going to, but I don't want to walk away from it. But you know, as of next week, they're going to owe $40,000 in sales tax. They're never going to write a check for 40 grand. Like I know how much money they're making and I how much money is in the bank because I still have, you know, records to I still have access to

everything. I'm a partner in the company and it's blowing up and so I'm not on the car. I'm not in the car that's crashing, but they have a car crash happening up there at at, you know, beautiful product, delicious food, hard workers. This should be this should be old man advice to anybody young in the world. They've got everything. It's like, you know what it's like reminds me of the movie casino. Remember his wife in casino Ginger? Remember how beautiful she was, right?

Remember she had that personality. Remember, she charmed everybody in the room, but she was a drug addict. So how did she end up? She ended up dead in a motel in Los Angeles. Great food, super hard workers, fantastic product, good price, but they spend every penny. You don't pay your sales tax. The sales tax authority is going to come in there and shut them down. It's not going to be my doing. And the sales tax authority is going to come in and shut them

down. I know exactly how it's going to go. And the landlord is going to say where is the rent? And the landlord is going to call me up on the phone and I'm going to go, what am I going to do? I can see it. I can see the future and there's five pay weeks in the September with that ridiculous payroll and I can't, you know, I say I've said God help them for they know not what they do.

I sat with them six times. 7th time was when he told me to put more money into the company so that his son can make more money. I sat with them six times as an old man trying to give them advice to say don't do this, don't do that and I just I can't stop them they're so hard headed. I had a Latin girlfriend for many years. She didn't like me but she was my girlfriend and she used to call it her or gujo. So I think or gujo means some sort of pride or some sort of

hard headed. I think it's, and you know, the people who are watching this who know a little more about culture, I think it's something like stunard in Italian. So they have their gujo and they ain't, they're not listening to Vegas police. They never did. I beg them. I said please don't do this with the payroll. You know, I didn't know about the stealing, but the payroll was an issue from day one. So here we are. How it's a bad situation. You have any advice for me? You're a smart guy.

I don't at this point. I was going to ask you, how do you see it ending? Well, I told you the sales tax authority is going to go in there and shut them down. I mean, on your end, do you feel like you any liability ends up falling on you? Yeah. I'm going to get stuck with, there's going to be a sales tax

debt probably of 80 or $100,000. And the tax authority is going to say to me, we're going to come after you for the 20 grand, the 25 grand, whatever it is. And then I'm going to have to find a way to really shake my ass somewhere to make that money, you know, to get that. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to have really bad situation, so I'll be able to say to me, oh, you're playing the victim. I told you all the facts. I'll tell the whole universe all the facts.

What am I supposed to do? I can't shut them down because it's half their store. I can't stop them from selling tacos because they're producing the tacos. I can't make them pay the sales tax because I don't have any control of the money. What would you do? All I can do is tell my story to the world and hope something good happens. I'm It gets worse and worse every week I'm out here. That's not true. I'm having a great time. I. Love it. Yeah.

I mean, at the end of the day, if you're having fun and it's the time of your life. I'm having fun. I'm going to be like everybody else that came to Las Vegas. I can't, you know, I came to Las Vegas. You know, I'm not going to retell the story. You know, I lost $1,000,000 here in 1995. I don't really want a repeat of that. I'm in about 600,000 but we'll see. With all the life experience though, and I mean, like you said, you're already you were born on third base, I born on

third base. You own properties, right? Do you feel like you're one of those guys that ends up having that late life blow up where you are in your 60s and then you become a multi multi? Well, you know, I've been there. I've been rich twice. You know, rich. When I say rich, I mean a couple $1,000,000.

I, I never had $10 million, but a couple $1,000,000 and a good income is rich to me. You know, if you have, if you have $1,000,000 in the bank and you're still making $10,000, that's rich to me. Do I think that it, I will blow up this other thing. I see my social media going in a great direction. I'm having so much fun doing it. It's still growing. I love the people that do that I do business with that want me around. You know, it's like, wow, you want me around?

You know, there's a couple of casinos that do talk to me. They're fantastic. Like I could call up the Strat like, you know, an hour from now I say, and I, there's a guy that named by the name of Skyler Dice. He they just made him general manager. I'm so happy for him because he's the nicest guy. And like I say, I want to come down there and I want to play live crafts. OK, come on down. They'll block off the table. I'm allowed to put my camera up there. I can do my live craps.

They have a great game there. They have crapless craps 10 times odds. And I did this a couple of months ago. But first I got to make the money to go down there to play the crapless craps. Last time I was there, I lost $3000. But the point is, is that I'm getting support from key people. I'm getting support from good people. I mean, you know, Jonathan Jostle, he, I, you know, all of a sudden I was on one of his. I was on his on the On the

Corner of Main Street podcast. He's very sweet of me. He's very supportive. I said to Jonathan, I said can you please, nobody in Las Vegas has 345 pop craps. Pop craps is a craps game that if you have two acts, it's not that good, but if you have 345, it's way better. It's 56% better for the player. He's putting it in. He's putting it in on August 28th. I'm going to go down because I asked him. I said, Jonathan, can you please put this in? He goes show up. He has an English accent.

Show up, Holly, you know, I'll do that. And he's putting it in on August 28th. I'm so happy that he's doing this. I'll be down. And I love the game. And it doesn't exist anywhere in Las Vegas that I know of. And I've looked. So when you have stuff like that going on, you know, I can see it going in a really great direction. The Taco shop's a big problem. But other people are reaching out to me and saying, I'll go partners with you in a Taco shop.

I'll put up the money. And I had somebody 2 days ago, I was like, I'll give you the money for a new shop over by the strip. You've got, he said to me and I quote, he goes, did you ever watch Seinfeld? I go, yeah, I watched Seinfeld. He goes, you know, George Costanza. I go, yeah, he goes, you remind me, you, you're like, you remind me of George Costanza's life.

Like the way you're, and I said, all right, I can kind of see that, you know, he's like, you've got something, he's like, remember Costanza or something like he's like, he's like Vegas Pauly C. He sees it the same way, you know what I mean? So we'll see what? Happens. I like the comparison. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just interesting because it's like you do have all this. I see again that potential for that late life explosion to where you do blow up into this.

The fact that anybody even follows me at 60, right? You know what I mean? Like I've already got 300 and change on Instagram. I just started my Instagram June 23rd of last year. That's insane to me. And I got 3 and change on there you. Almost 400,000. Followers well 350, but I'm like, you know, it's like wow, you know, and a lot of love, you know, I get the hate, but a lot of love.

But a very like a figure that everyone, you're very capitalizing, everyone either hates you or they love you, right? Well, I did AI did an interview, so Discovery networks contacted me. They're doing something in Vegas with influencers and they got me on that. And I didn't really know like when when the first time that I did a podcast you I didn't look you up. Like I came in here and I was like, what is this place? What do you got?

Whatever, when I go to do a podcast, I don't look the person up because I've done, I've done podcasts where the person has 100 followers and I just did Sean Kelly, he dropped it like four days ago. I've done podcasts where the guys a million followers. I don't care. I, you can see that I just love doing this. I love telling my story. It gives me an opportunity to tell my story, to tell my my truth and to and to put it out

there. But that being said, like you and I, we have a great relationship because you're smiling, you're laughing, you have a great personality, you're intelligent. I could see that you really want me here and I can see that you're having a good time. So Discovery Networks interviewed me last week and I'm doing my shtick, you know? You know my stick, you know, I was on eHarmony for 10 years. No woman contacted me. I lost $1,000,000 in 1995. They stole my Taco show.

You know, it's basically, I'm living like a slow motion disaster out here. But I'm having fun, you know? And the guy's like sitting there. This is the guy from Discovery Network. So I was like, you know, I could just see that all of my funny stories and they're so self effacing. All of my interactions with casinos, all of the funny coincidences, like I told you, one of them here tonight, like nothing is registering with this guy, right?

And at the end of it, he says to me, how does it feel to be the most hated man in Las Vegas? Now, look, I read every single comment on every single one of my posts and I'm running 90 to 96 or 97. You can go and read them. Anybody can go and read them. I'm getting so much love and so much positivity. Well over 90% in the positive. So he took his life, he took who he is, he took his pain. He works for Discovery Networks. They're never going to put me on

the influencer show. Like I give 2FS, you know what I mean? So they already told me they spoke to the dinosaur. I'm sure she's going to be the centerpiece of their influencer. You know their. Influencer so. It's going to be another bullshit television program where nothing is real. And then they wonder why streaming is dying. And then Discovery networks wonder why, why it's in trouble. But I could see throughout the whole interview the guy was full

of hate. So when he hit me with that at the very end, it hurt like a motherfucker. I'm not going to lie. Am I allowed to curse on you? It hurt like an A motherfucker. And then I said to myself, well, of course. And then I went and looked up the guy and then I went and looked up his boss. And I understood. I understood who they are. And I understood that they're not people who have fun. They're not people who love. They're not people who have that

schwa de vive. They're not people that are getting drunk and putting food up their nose. They're not people. My goal and I think you know this, my goal out here in Las Vegas is to make people laugh. If I could do something funny, I have to tell you something funny. So they threatened to take me. I'm put me on the sidewalk and turn me into like a bloody pulpy mess, whatever it was like very graphic attack. So I had this is a good I like this.

I had in the back of my mind that the clearance rate because I do a lot of reading, I had in the back of my mind that the clearance rate for homicide in Las Vegas was 92%. And I have tremendous respect for the Las Vegas Police Department. Not because, well, now I need them to protect my ass, but I had respect for them before. This is not a newly contrived thing. Hey, can you guys keep an eye on me, please? Seymour doesn't want to die, but that's not why I respect them.

I respect them because in my life, I see them working hard and I see them trying to do the right thing. And I just have. It's just who I am, you know, I really respect. I believe in the thin blue line. Whatever. Whoever wants to unfollow me, unfollow me. So I go down to the Police Department and I make my report of like, you know, this death threat. But of course, because I'm constantly doing content, I'm constantly looking for something

funny. I'm like, here's the opportunity to do my video about the 92% clearance rate for murder in Las Vegas. So I go in there and I'm at the Police Department, right at the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. So I go outside and I'm like the clearance rate, murder in Las Vegas, The clearance rate for murder in Las Vegas. In other words, the number of cases that they solve is 92%. And I read from some stuff that some detective said or whatever, whatever.

And it's the very next video after the death threat video. You see the humor in that. Very much so. People are like, oh, this is classic. The guy goes to report a death threat but he also gives props to the Police Department for clearing 92% of murders. Like the fact that that tied together. So now I go and I read the comments on the 92% clearance video, which would have been it would have been a droll, boring. Why is this guy kissing the took us of the Police Department

video. It would have been that. But the fact that I could tie that together and these are my greatest moments as as a social media guy, if I can make people laugh, like look at you laughing, like just even you laughing across from me right now, I'm salivating a little. Oh, Seymour, you know, Seymour's so happy he's making somebody laugh. You know, it's just those are the great moments in what I do like.

That life comedy, it's just. If you can get that life comedy, and it only happens if I'm being totally honest, it happens about once a month. So in the year that I'm in, you know, or the year and it has happened, maybe 1218, if I can get that life comedy, wow, it's the best. It's the best because it's it's not. It's not. It's real. Is it real? Is it gets? It's real. I don't have to write it as when I was and I went there and did that, I was so happy.

It's the best. It's like living a sitcom. Right, right. It's like let well, that's what I'm now you, you know, I like you a lot. Every time you come in here, I like you more. You're a really good podcast interviewer because you add so much to the thought process, and that's exactly what I'm doing. Like you'll sum up exactly what I'm doing. That's what I'm doing. I appreciate it. I love having you in here is the best. Did you would you ever do the another segment with that TV guy

ever again? I mean, I would never try and entertain him again, but if, if they contacted me and said we'd like to do your life day in the life or we'd like to have you on the show, whatever. Yeah, because I'm I, I would like to get my story out there, but he said something at the end, like we'll never contact you again. Or he said he no, he joked. He said something like, well, you know, we probably won't if we never contact you again,

whatever. But I could see from like again, I'm reading if you, if you are, if you have any empathy whatsoever at all, if you're any kind of a human being, you see the other person's body language. Like when I come in here and I do a podcast with you, your body language is fantastic, you smile, you let you know we're we're having a good back and forth. You know, it's fun. I could see the guy was just like, when am I going to be done with this asshole?

I don't really care that no women want him. I don't really care that he lost $1,000,000. I don't really care that he fell over and broke his arm act. And I'm like, I'm trying to make the girl. I don't I got it. You know, you could see it. So you know, me and the discovery networks, they're going to be good with the dinosaur. They're going to be good with the bullshit story. They're going to be good with the phony nonsense.

They're going to be good with the influencer who's just bullshitting the hell out of you. I am living my life. It will be funny if a week from now or two weeks from now, it will be funny if after all of this peppermint hippo stuff, some, and I'm not saying this is going to happen, but some weird thing happens with a girl at the peppermint hippo and she says this and that, but it didn't really happen. But you know, I watch my ass

when I'm not. I'm very respectful of women because my mother was the madrina. My mother ran the show and my mother gave me life. I think I told you this on the last podcast and I got a girlfriend who I effing love who's 10 and I'm I'm a one. She runs the show. So I have no problem respecting women. But let's just say something crazy happens three weeks from now in the peppermint, something funny and crazy and I get fired. That's going to be more in the life sitcom, right? You know what?

I. Mean exactly. It'll be even funnier if like I get this crazy business deal going with them because they want to do some business stuff and then I'm making like 5 grand a week and people and then all of a sudden something nutty happens and you know, and back in because that's like Costanza, right? Isn't that? Wasn't that like pretty much the character? You know, but, but I have to survive, you know, but I've been, I've been very humble.

You know, I, I was in Mr. Irrelevant attacked me on this. I was in a $4600 a month rental with like $1300 in you. I just moved to the allure, which is 2700 a month. So I caught my monthly expenses in Vegas in half, getting 1000 from that. So I'm 1700 a month out of pocket. And you know, you know, I'm, you know, keeping it, keeping it easy with, you know, keeping it easy with the gambling. I'm tone down the gambling and I still need to do it for medical reasons, but you know.

It's just I feel like you need some sponsors and some brands that fall in line with people who speak in their mind and having their honest opinion out who I don't that's it's so hard. It's like all the company. Well, it's funny. I like the way you said that. It's so hard. So back in November when I moved here, I knew that we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way.

So the easy way would have been to no for anybody else, it would have been easy to just be full of shit like my, my love was 100% before I moved here. October, November, the wind invited me to go to the concourse auto show. You know, they were talking to me. Whole bunch of casinos were talking to me about show this, go to this restaurant, do that, do the other thing. I'm not capable. If you suck Caesar's, Caesar's sucks. Tom Riga is an A hole.

I just did a video. I just did a podcast with Sean Kelly where I talked about what an A hole he is. There are 63 casinos in Las Vegas. But let's just say there are 15 or 20 major properties out of the let's work with 15 out of the 15 major corporations slash properties in Las Vegas. 11 of them are outstanding, outstanding people, outstanding employees. We walked by an employee at the Win in the hallway the other day. I was doing somebody's room.

She was like you. She had your personality. She was smiling through her face. She was good. The Win obviously is one of the greatest corporations, Red Rock, incredible corporation. Jonathan Jostle at the Plaza. I mean, you know, he's the CEO. He's a sweetheart. I watched Jonathan Jossel. I'm, I'm with Jonathan Jossel now and I'm trying to get his ear. You know, I'm talking to him and he is, he's giving me his ear. He's managing me.

He's walking around the casino. A woman my age, an older woman comes up to him and says, hey, do you know where the Buffalo storm is or the Buffalo link or whatever? He spent 10 minutes finding the slot machine for this woman. He's the CEO. He's not doing that to put on a show for me. You know, I watched this. I watched him do this. He's a, you know, he's a way better man than I. I wouldn't have taken 10 minutes to find her the slot machine. I'm a little quicker.

I'm a little, I'm trying to get things done. I'm a little more selfish than Jonathan Jossel. So Red Rock, I was talking about this on my show on Kelly Pocket. I can't even what did it say hold a candle to like, I'm not, I shouldn't even be allowed in the same room as the people making the planning decisions for Red Rock. Like their architecture is unbelievable. Their food choices are incredible.

Their casinos are beautiful. Like they're way better men than me. But when I see people who are total assholes, like what Caesar's is doing right now, cutting every they laid off their whole entertainment department. Now somebody contacted me and told me some really bad shit that I'm not going to repeat because I don't have confirmation on it. The stuff that they're doing over there. And then the players old DM me, they took away this, they took

away that they took away. You know, what do you want? You don't want me to not address it. You know what I mean? But now right next door is MGM and Bill Hornbuckle. Bill Hornbuckle was a busboy. He's 18 year old busboy at the Jockey Club now. He's 50 or 60 years old and he's the CEO of MGM Grand. Guy's a star. I can't shine his shoes. I cannot shine Bill Hornbuckle's shoes. I cannot shine Jonathan Jostle's shoes. I cannot shine the executives at Red Rock Shoes. I I don't. I just can't.

I'm not that. Can I make? Can I give them a little advice? Yeah. I told Jonathan Jossel, please put in 345 crafts. I'll have everybody down there will be playing pop crafts like lunatics. I'm an addict for pop crafts. I want to play pop crafts. He, you know, he took my advice, you know, So that's great that he listens to me. So when something is great, I'll tell you when it's great and when something is terrible and you're running into the ground.

Now, this is my opinion. And you know, opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one. I do not believe that the Nevada Gaming Commission should have allowed seventeen properties to combine into two corporations. MGM is doing a great job, thank God. Thank God they're not assholes at MGM. Can you imagine if MGM acted like Caesar's? Then we'd really be in. Trouble. Right, but we have 17 properties South of The Mirage that are all

controlled by two corporations. I do believe that the Nevada Gaming Commission allowing 17 properties to sit in two corporations was a critical mistake. I also believe, again, opinions are like assholes that them allowing the REIT structure and allowing someone else to own all of that real estate. VICI own 600 acres on the strip, whatever, allowing them to mortgage themselves up to their eyeballs to the point where Bellagio has to pay rent on $5.1

billion property. That's what they that's what they owe over there. Something like that. It's a mistake because now they're not free. They're not loose. Who's loose, who's free who can give you 5 times pop crafts? Jonathan can because Jonathan and I don't know his financials at all, but I have a sneaky suspicion that the Plaza has little or no debt because they bought it in O 5. Right. I would love to know Jonathan. I wish you would tell me.

He's not going to tell me. I have a sneaky suspicion that he's not. I'm not under any financial duress. He put a beautiful bar in the front, the carousel bar. He's doing great business with seagulls Bagel mania. They they own the the incredible donut shop there like they're winners. And so now they don't have to worry about every penny on the bottom line. And I know he doesn't have to reach structure over there that I do know. I know he I know that he didn't borrow from the land to

whatever. So he can take a chance and be more magnanimous with his game. Caesars can't, you know what I mean? So that's that's why I go down these roads. It says, and I changed my profile a couple of months ago. It used to say I gamble for medical reasons. But now the first part of my profile says Advocate for better Oz in the casino. Why? Because I don't want people coming to Las Vegas and playing for one hour and being out of

money. Why don't I want people coming to Las Vegas and playing for one hour and being out of money? Because I've come to Las Vegas and I've played for one hour and I have three more days on my trip and I've been out of money. And I can tell you conclusively it is the most painful event in your life. And I don't want other people to have that pain. You want them to come back? Yeah, I want, but I mainly want them to have a good time.

Yeah, I want them to come back. I want them to have a good time. I win all the time in casinos. Why? Because I play games that you can win at. I played right before I came here in New York. I won $4000 playing. The money's still in my pocket. I I played pop crafts at next to the airport in lot in New York. I played 345 pop crafts. I put in $1400. I cashed out for $5400. I put the money in my pocket. I said I'm going to take this money to Las Vegas.

I'll lose it there, but at least I had a chance to win because it's a great game. It's only 1/3 of 1% for the house. If you play pass line and come line on pop craps, you're just tossing. You're tossing a coin. You're going to win. Like, I'm not going to say you're going to win half the time. I know you're not going to win half the time, but you're going to win damn close to half the time. Wow. Yeah, it's a great game. I mean it's nothing really close

to other than like what, black? Blackjack played perfectly OK, which I also play so. Anyway, where is what casino out here is going to let you play a blackjack? Perfectly. They all let me play. They will perfectly, Yeah, because I'm not, I'm not exploiting them. I'm not like, I'm not sitting there, you know, waiting to like, Oh my God, there might. There's a lot of aces left, Moo, here's all my money. Oh my God. Like I'm not looking to exploit

anybody. I'm looking to play a fair game at a fair price, hopefully break even. I've actually had the best three years of my life gambling since I've become Vegas policy. Am I up all kinds of money? No, but I'm not losing, which is an epic miracle. Like I keep track. I am getting killed this year, Full disclosure, which is part of the reason I'm in financial trouble. But I actually won money last year and I haven't won money since 1993.

I had 30 years of losing, so from 1993 to 2023 I had three. That's not true. I won in 2008, but I lost double that on horses and Internet poker. But so but the only year that I've actually had a net win in gambling were 1993 and 2023. Those it's the only two years I've been keeping track since 1982. I have a book that keeps track of every dollar back to 1982. You're going to ask me how much? I don't have the stock market in there and I've lost most of my money gambling on the stock

market. But it's I'm down probably gambling alone between 2 and 3,000,000 stock market. Maybe I owe. People always say how much you down gambling? I throw the stock by and I'm down like 4 million gambling. But casinos and poker and horses. I think horses is most of it, but it's crazy, yeah. What's the most overrated hotel and casino in Vegas? The most over at Caesar's Palace. Really. Yeah, it's. Because they've ruined it.

Hearing that they can't the whole entertainment department, like they just like Caesar's entertainment, that was huge. Well, iconic. When I say the entertainment department, I mean the people handling the shows this that the other thing, like they've just cut back to either one person or they outsourced it or again, I'm not going to tell you, but I got Adm the other day. It's what they're doing over there. And I'm like, really, But I

don't want to be sued. So I'm not going to put it out there because I don't have confirmation of it. You get these DMS like I work there and they did, and you don't know whether they work there or not, or I'm a vendor and they did and I don't, you know, you don't know.

But a lot of times, like I was told for a long time, everything that was wrong with the Fontainebleau before they opened up and they opened up and it was exactly, 100%, exactly what everybody told me. So I predicted it beforehand. I put it out there. I knew the numbers. Look, I mean, I you know it's going to be and I told you so. This is Seymour talking. Seymour told you that they needed to do $4 million a day to break even. I get the font of blue financials from a disgruntled

investor. Yes, that's exactly what they need to do to break even though that they're only they were only doing 2.1 million gross a day. You know, food, casino, hotel rooms, they're grossing 2.1 million a day. I did not get the second quarter. Please send me the second quarter, whoever sending me this stuff, but they're doing 2.1, they need to do 4 million. So how long do you think they'll be around? Do you think they'll shift things around and? I don't know what they're going to do.

So they announced, they didn't announce May. I got May sent to me. So in May they were losing 150,000 a day in cash. I'm not talking about paying interest. I'm not talking about depreciation. I'm not talking about replacing the towels. In May they were losing 150 a day. They call it EBT EBITDA M. I had to go find out because I don't know everything. So I went to my casino people, I went to financial people. I said OK, now tell me what the hell EBITDA M is.

It's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and management and management. So their EBA EBITDA M was 3,000,000 minus. So then I have to go and I have to look and see what is their management cost. Their management's not bad. So anyway it came to like 150,000 a day all in. I thought it would have been worse than that. I did too. It was 400 first quarter and I haven't gotten anything. I hope that guy's not going to cut me off. He I think he maybe cut me off.

I never exposed him but. How does that work? Because I mean, a lot of people, I imagine, want to feed things through you, elite things through you, but don't want to be identified. You know, I mean, when I got the earnings of the foundable, you could see it was authentic. I mean, there was no way that it was made-up. I mean, it was stamped. It was, you know, it's extensive. I mean, it's a page that looks

like this. I mean, I had try, I had to spend an hour really looking at it to see what the hell was going on there because you got to remember they're putting it out to their investors. I also found out, and I did not know this. I didn't know that they took personal money. Like I knew that VC was in there for a lot of money. I knew that BlackRock was in there for a lot of money, but I didn't know that they went to like families, wealthy families, home offices of wealthy

families. I mean, I found this out afterwards and they got 5 million from this family or they got and I don't know the numbers. I just know that that I knew they took money that wasn't institutional money. They took more of like personal slut, you know, like I don't know if you know what a family offices, but so they've taken money from different people. But I hold back 90%. I don't want the lawsuits. I don't want the cease and desist.

You know, somebody sent me, somebody sent me proof that the dinosaur was taking money from the the magician that wears the hat. The magician's study, like they showed me proof, like I put up the video, I get a he cease and desist letter from the magician's study. I took it down. I don't need, I don't want to go down this leap. You know, the show's not on

anymore. So I feel more comfortable talking about it. They don't do this show anymore, but it was a show that she was promoting and they showed me proof that she was getting paid to promote it. And I looked at it, it looked like credible. I don't know. I do not know if this was credible proof or contrived proof. I don't know. But they did an incredible video. I put the video up. They sent me a cease and desist. I took it down.

I don't want all these problems. What is slapping a couple of

allegedlies on that do? I have no idea, but the the but the point I'm trying to make to you is is that anything that I tell you I don't know to be factual, but how am I going to report news does does does a just another words like I don't know if you saw the movie All the President's men when Woodward and Bernstein met in the parking garage with Deep Throat, who gave them the information about the Watergate break in while I'm really dating myself. This is 1974, ladies and gentlemen.

Did he really know that Deep Throat was credible? No. But if you're a reporter, you know you have sources and you hope that your sources are credible. The vast majority of my sources probably are credible. But I can't go out there and say that this person at this hotel casino committed these acts against these people because I don't have proof of it. I got some bad shit I've been told, and I don't put it out there. I don't put it up.

You know, part of it is I don't want to destroy this person's career. Someone that, you know, it may be a company that I like, it may be a company that I don't like, but who the hell am I to destroy somebody's career by going? I heard that so and so, you know, when I talk about Tom Reeg, he made his comment, let them eat McDonald's on the way home. He told that in an open forum on a conference call last year when he said we're getting rid of the low end. In other words, he called his

customers low end. He said that on an open mic in a conference call. When I do the Resorts World financials, those are publicly held financials. When I report on Resorts World and the bookies that got caught, they're gambling illegally. That is directly from the 31 page court document from the Nevada Gaming Commission telling everybody what they did like. The vast people don't realize, but the vast majority of the stuff that I do is from publicly

released SEC documents. I read the documents and 90% of what I put out there is from either Vital Vegas, who's Fantastic Scott or the Nevada Game or the, I'm sorry, the Las Vegas Review Journal or the Nevada Current. You know, someone made fun of me and I read it. You know, it was one out of 10 million comments. Congratulations on standing in front of some of of the place and reading in the newspaper. Yes, I take the newspaper article, I condense 2 pages down to a paragraph.

I run out. This is what I do. I'm telling you my secret. I run over to the place and I read it. If I can put in some history that I know, like let's just say I was doing a story on the Flamingo, maybe I would reference the fact that this was Bugsy Siegel's casino, that he opened it on December 26th, 1947. I think I got that date right. The other day I did a walkthrough of the Sahara. Interesting fact, and I just found this out. I didn't know this until I did the research.

The architect on the Sahara is the same architect who did the Flamingo. His name is Del Webb. He built the Flamingo for Bugsy Siegel. And he built the Sahara for, I think his name is Prell. His last name is Pell or Prell. And Bugsy Siegel told the architect, I murdered like 12 people. This is what Bugsy Siegel told him. And Del Webb got very nervous and Bugsy said, don't worry, we only kill our own. We only kill other mobsters.

So when I did the walkthrough of the Sahara, I knew that funny quote, that funny statement, whatever. But I did the I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to get whacked by the mob from 1947 unless Bugsy Siegel comes back and he's a fat whatever. The point is I can put that in there because I read it, you know, it's like a well known thing that he told Del Webb that I think it's Del Webb.

So. But you don't want to like break news or OK. I'll tell you a dangerous one that people think I'm responsible for, but I'm not. You know, I'm not a major news organization. I think it's Newsmax. In fact, I know it's Newsmax who has 13 million subscribers, who has a national television show, who does whatever the hell they do. They're the ones that told the world that Bruno Mars had a problem with MGMI. Don't now, I think I told us on your last podcast. I don't want to repeat myself.

I had a casino executive and a High Roller telling me about Bruno before Newsmax broke the story. But once Newsmax broke the story and told 17 million people, I was like, OK, I went over to the pinkering and I did the video. Allegedly, Bruno Mars has this terrible allegedly. Do I know it for a fact? Well, I got told by a casino executive. I got told by a High Roller who was there theoretically, and now Newsmax broke the story. I mean, tie me to the cross. I don't know what to do.

But at that point it was like I didn't tell it until Newsmax told everybody. They told it two days before. The only thing that's interesting about that is like, that's about the level of journalism a lot of journalists are doing nowadays, right? OK, they're not really going insanely deep. And but you have to understand, you have to understand something.

I, I, first of all, I feel bad for Bruno because I'm a compulsive gambler, so I have that empathy with him, but also he seems like a super sweet, super nice guy. So I have to be like, you know, but then and OK, I'm manipulating you and I'm manipulating your audience and I'm manipulating myself right now when I say this, it feels like manipulation. So I'm going to put it out there that I guess I'm manipulating the whole room and myself. Maybe he'll get some help because it's out there.

I don't know, you know, that sounds like bullshit. I know. But I would like him to be OK. I don't I don't want anyone else to live the way I live. You know, there was a time where, I mean, I remember my darkest day. So my darkest days were say 2002. I remember my father called me up. My father has the same condition as me. So he's he died destitute and I had $6000 left to my name was 2002. And the guy that made me was not really in my life.

He came back in 2003. This guy made me as a kid. I threw a muffin at his head in a fight in 1998. He came back in 2002 and he made me again. His name's Bruce. I don't care. He doesn't really talk to me. I don't know why I'm very hurt about it, to be honest with you. He made me. He took a person who I have good ideas, but I'm I'm a broken toy, right? So he makes me as a kid I throw a muffin at his head in 1998 in a fight over some assets.

I was totally wrong by the way. I was 100% wrong which is why I picked up the muffin and threw it at his head. He comes back in 2003. He made me again but in 2000 and made me millions of dollars again which I pissed away. But in 2002 I had $6000 left in my name. My father called me up and he said I need $3000. I sent it to him. He called me a month later. He needed the other three that I had. The other three I had lost. I had paid my mortgage or what?

I said dad. Now I, my father probably didn't believe me, but I'm telling you the truth. I mean, I was down to 0. At least now I have assets like I have a whole bunch of land in Arizona. I'm going to get in my car, I'm going to wake up in the morning and I'm going to sell some of those lots on social media. One's worth 41's worth, 51's worth. I had an offer of 40 from a land wholesaler, but then he pulled

back the offer. So that's why I got got to run over that got a dump because I need liquidity. So when I wake up in the morning now and I'm in a beautiful apartment at the allure and I look out and they're the dummies. That's resorts world, the red building. And you know, I'm not going to say anything about Jeff. And there's the blue building. I'm going to hold back and there's the Las Vegas Strip, you know, and I have the most incredible, wonderful, amazing

girlfriend in the world. So like, not only is she my exact, I'm now I'm living the dream. She's my exact physical type. But not only that, she's smart, she's funny, she's supportive. She's just, it's mind blowing how much I love this girl. So I've got that going on. I, I got to get back to her. The fact that we have a deal. I'll be back. I'm going to go a week and I'm, I'm doing one more week here at work and then I run back to New York. And when I see her, it's just so

incredibly authentic. She's not like, you know, I've had girlfriends who are like this. They're holding their nose when they're on a date with me. I've seen it, you know, I've lit. I know when someone is turned off. Like I've had girlfriends when I had a lot of money and they were doing their time. They were doing their they were and I was young and I had a full head of hair. So I'm like 2930. I got a full head of hair. I got to, I had to have, I still have the same house.

I have a house in New York. I always, when I was poor, you know, even when I was after I had lost the $1,000,000 in Vegas, if I made 5 grand, I had the five grand in my pocket. I took them out, I hit them off with a couple of C notes. You know, whatever. I'm having a good time, but I'm

not stupid. Like I'm acutely aware that if I'm with a stripper and I'm paying her $300 to hang out with me that night or whatever, or she's I'm lending her money for her car payment or she's hitting me for the car. Like I'm not an idiot. Like I know she's there. I know it's pay for play. And I can see she's not engaging with me and I can see she's not into me. And I can see from her body language that like, you know, maybe it's going to go down, but she's not happy.

You know what I mean? Like I can see that. So I'm in this incredible authentic relationship. Nobody would believe it. Whatever, it doesn't matter. I, you know, nobody knows what goes on behind closed doors. So I'm in this incredible. So I'm really living the life. So I wake up in the morning and the glass is half full. So yeah, they stole my Taco shop. So yeah, a couple people want to murder me.

So yeah, Mr. Irrelevant, his entire mission in life is to discredit me and hurt me. And he'll, he'll take this part if he get, if he sees this podcast, he'll take the 35 seconds out of it, out of context where I look. My absolute worst and he'll he'll put it up on his page. Luckily he only has 25,000 followers on his Vegas page and I think a lot of people know that he's in some sort of pain. I don't know what it is. Again, you're young, you're

rich, your beautiful teeth. You have a nice full head of hair. You you look like you have a beautiful family. Why you're hating on me I do not know. Maybe he can address that. Maybe someone should ask him. So the glass is half full for me. So here I am and I'm. And you're a great guy too. You know, coming down here and being able to tell my story is a wonderful thing. I love doing it. I love having you down here.

Before we get out of here, Taco shop that you're still in ownership of, where can everybody check that out? So we're at, well, I still one that I still own is at 750 S Boulder Highway. Jose, the Taco guy who's my brother. I mean, me and this guy, I never met a guy like this. I, I just, you know, he's basically like, you know how I'm like a hurt and ham bone and I have all these issues. He has all the same issues as me. It's it's like we're two guys

like cut from the same mold. But in a lot of ways he's worse off than me because he's like, when you push me to a point, I'll stand up. This guy won't even stand up for himself. I, I love him so much. You know, it's sad. What's his reaction? Instead of standing up he just walks away from it kind of thing or. He's very content. You know, he walks with the Lord. You know, he's, he's, he's very close to God. So he's just OK with God. I guess if, if I had that, maybe

I'd be a better person. I don't know. You know, somebody the other day posted something about the Lord on my page and they said, you're right. I agree with you 100%. I said, but I have to sin for medical reasons. I love it. I love being able to say that it's. One of the best things I've ever heard. But it's the truth though. Yeah, I guess technically, sort of. You're not buying it 100%. Don't make hate. Don't let me whip. Don't make me whip out my genetics.

Biggest target on your back out there right Yeah, yeah, yeah. I appreciate you so much. Thank you for coming in. Thank you so fresh episode 96 the one the only the great and. Powerful Vegas policy, thank you. Let me do my outro. Yes, Sir, of course. Vegas policy. Appreciate you brother so much. Thank you. See you guys next. Time. OK, We're still friends. We're still friends. We're still friends. We're still friends.