Exposing Gambling Scandals & Casino Secrets | Vegas Pauly C DSH #1247

You have gamblers like him and everybody's watching him and everybody's telling him how great he is and he's basically the narcissist. See, social media is extremely narcissistic.
I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim. So all of his followers that are willing victims, when they see me possibly casting some negativity towards the grand narcissist, sister was this kid who plays online for, listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not.
I don't care whether it's fake or not. I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance.
So all of his willing victims became mobilized because they're under his spell and they all came after me. All right, guys, one of the show's favorite guests is back on Vegas Poly C.
Let's go. Well, hello, hello, hello.
I love him, man. Yeah, we get some interesting comments whenever you come on.
Oh, really? Yeah. Wow.
You know, it's interesting because like I was telling you just to lead up to this, ask anything you want. You know, everything is an honest answer.
Like if you're an addict, I think you learn that you're either going to be an open book or you're just going to be the biggest phony in the world. So I just decided to lead with, you know, open book.
Yeah, that being said, we'll get straight into it. Okay, get into it.
You got some recent beef with this one guy named Exposed. Yeah, can you believe that happened? What happened exactly? So I got the information that he had been playing at Resorts World and a couple of other places.
And the God's honest truth is that I live right down from Resorts World and I have beef with them. I got thrown out of there twice.
I'll tell that story in a second. And they have a source of funds law in Nevada that is very strict about where did the money come from.
So the money comes from an online website called Rubet. And listen, I don't know enough about Rubet to comment on it, but I know that they can't get licensed in the United States.
I know that it's considered an illegal website. And I know that that's where his money comes from.
So I addressed it in the video without going into too many specifics. And he contacted me and a lot of people threatened me pretty bad, really.
got a couple of you know pretty serious things that I thought were serious uh but I it's like I always tell them let's go show up he's a one guy says I know where you live I said come on come over and the reason for that is not because I'm brave or tough it's just because I want to get it over with I don't want to live with it over my head 12 hours 24 hours so I got a lot of his people. And then I spoke to him.
And it was just one of these things that you hear out of people's mouths sometimes. And I'm sorry, but I consider this lower IQ people when they say this, I don't want your name in my mouth.
I don't want my name in your mouth. I don't want my name in your mouth.
And so I got a lot of that from him. Why are you implicating me in this? And the bottom line is that they have to be very careful with source of funds in Nevada.
Like where did the money come from? So before I made this video, I went to two of the highest ranking casino executives in Las Vegas that I know. Okay.
One is number two. One is number four.
Let's just say. Our resorts world? No, just casino executives.
I told them this story and I said, would you allow someone with this money trail to play in your casino? And they both said that it would have to go to compliance and that it was a very bad look. And they're not sure whether or not compliance would pass it for their places.
Like you can't come in with big money if it comes from a strange place. How much did Exposed come in with? I heard he lost a million, a million, and a million.
So I guess he lost three million. But the first million, I made a mistake in the video too.

The first million was at another casino

and then the second million was at Resorts World.

Got it.

And then the third million was at Red Rock.

But listen, I don't want problems with Exposed and his followers.

It's a news story.

They were like, you're defaming him or that's my boy or whatever,

which goes into a whole other conversation

that you only know if you were a gambler or you really, really knew the psychology of gamblers. You have gamblers like him and everybody's watching him and everybody's telling him how great he is.
And he's basically the narcissist. See, social media is extremely narcissistic.
I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim. So all of his followers that are willing victims, when they see me possibly casting some negativity towards the grand narcissist, it was this kid who plays online for, listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not.
I don't care whether it's fake or not. I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance.
So all of his willing victims became mobilized because they're under his spell and they all came after me. So he DM'd me and I spoke to him for a while and I was not getting through to him.
And I should have known this because I know exactly the patterns of everyone's behavior in different spaces. I blocked him, immediately put it up on his, I blocked him.
I just couldn't listen to his crying anymore. It's like, I'm not going to feel bad for you, dude.
You're over there standing on a 13 against a nine with $25,000 in the circle. Like, you know, you're going to lose.
I told the kid straight out. I said, you're going to lose a hundred thousand dollars an hour the way that you're playing.
That's the bottom line. So he wasn't following the book.
So he, he was not, he was not following the book. He's playing hot.
They don't even let you vary your bet that much over there when you play that. So I said to him, you really wanna learn how to play blackjack? And of course he just blows me off.
So this went up back and forth, but I blocked him. He immediately put up on his story that I blocked him.
And now I look like the big, you know, P word. And I look like the B and what, and it's like I'm 60 years old.
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You know, I didn't even want to do this when I was in my 20s. So I unblocked them.
And I said, do you want to talk this out as men? I said, it's a news story. The place has compliance issues.
You get your money from a strange place. It's associated with online gaming, which Nevada regulators cannot stand.
Obviously, they won't even allow it in this state. So they certainly don't want to see some international website, crypto, with some kid.
They just don't want it. So, in fact, there's another executive I'm going to ask this question to.
But that's the bottom line. So I stirred up a hornet's nest.
Look, if someone has to come see me because they're watching some 27-year-old kid play online blackjack, come see me. Wow.
I didn't know he sent his army after you.

No, he didn't.

Oh, he didn't?

No, he's innocent, I'm sure.

He's an addict, I'm sure.

He's all caught up in the innocence of his addictions.

I heard he makes $5 million a month.

I don't know.

All the money's coming in.

He's innocent.

But he has followers who love him, and they see me possibly casting aspersions at him,

and so they become mobilized.

I mean, look at politics in America.

I don't need to tell anyone other than you.

I know you're living it.

Absolutely.

What do you think of that business model where these online casinos pay these influencers? Well, it's very interesting. So I've never addressed this in a video because I'm tired of talking about this stuff over and over again.
But you can Google it. Brazil and Turkey arrested the influencers doing that.
Oh, actually put them in jail wow yeah because they see it as like it's sort of shady to start with and then you're promoting and you're fake playing or you're lying to your following so that you can google that like anything i tell you brazil and turkey recently arrested the influencers and i thought it was funny like i was going to do a video on it about it being getting arrested and being an influencer because I'm in that space. But I just never got around to it.
What do I think about the model? Well, I know that Nevada gaming regulators agree with this because we are having discussions amongst my group. Stage stuff is not really permissible.
Like you can't go into a casino. And this was a problem in 2005.
a television show called casino uh and it was tom and tim they took over the golden nugget and they and there were some discussions among amongst the producers and i only know because somebody who was on set told me can we stage a hand can we put down ten thousand dollars and can we turn it into a double down for the drama can we no they won't they won't allow it they don't want it on television so when you ask me that question you know how much of a 27 year old kid betting a hundred thousand dollars on roulette or whatever he's doing like how much of that could possibly be real it has to be you know and again i don't even want to go down this road because i don't want the hate but it's in casino parlance. It's called JDLR just doesn't look right.
Let's just leave it at that. Yeah.
If they're faking the gambling, I'm not a fan of that, but if they're genuinely using their own money and gambling, but where did their own money come from? From the casino, right? They're allegedly getting, it's still a circle. Anyway, you look at it, well, I'll pay you $10 million a month to promote my online casino, but you have to play.
And on and on and on. I mean, it's the same, you know.
If one of the Vegas casinos offered you money, would you feel right taking that? So if I get offered money by a casino, I just fully disclose it. So I had a situation where I played online and they had given me a few dollars and I gave the whole thing away to the audience.
Because I just, it just becomes too conflicting. So I've been now, it's been three years, maybe a year and a half serious, that I'm trying to find what I would call the fertile void.
Where I can get a job, I'm never going to get a gaming license because I'm a compulsive gambler, right? So where I can get a job, and I can do something that entertains people, and then I'm able to make a living and survive, you know, I still don't get paid. I did get 5,000 a video from Kalshi, but shout out to Kalshi.
They sponsored the podcast as well. Oh, cool.
Okay. You know who does well with this man? Who? Vegas Matt.
Yeah, but he is, you don't like his model. I like it.
No, he's just better than me. Yeah.
But he uses his own money. Yeah.
He came into it wealthy. I did, really did not.
Um, he's a slot player, which captivated every wealthy i i did really did not um he's a slot player which captivated every you know the audience i'm not a slot player um you know he's he's just got more balls and more money than me i mean i would never i would never put that money into slots like he did yeah well he he admittedly he's open about how much he loses on slots which i like too because you got to be honest with people. Listen, when somebody's better than you,

what am I going to say?

Shout out to Vegas Matto.

He's been on the show, and he's been crushing it, man.

Well, he got a million-dollar contract from,

was it FanDuel or the other one at DraftKings?

Yeah, they gave him a million dollars. Well, he just hit a million on YouTube.

He gave me a million dollars the other day.

Speaking of people, I gave him a lot.

Well, I spoke to another.

You know, it's funny, because I spoke to someone else

in the Vegas Matts space, no names. He had contacted me.
And he actually gave me all his numbers. And he told me that his revenue, top-line revenue, was $1.9 million.
Holy crap. I don't know whether that was just YouTube or everything.
So he told me his top-line revenue was $1.9 million. But that he gambles so much money and loses so much money and is building a staff.
And he's the kind of guy who has that mentality. I mean, you know, Jeff Bezos did make a profit from Amazon for like 20 years.
That mentality. So he's building his brand and he's building his.
But he has a top line of two million and he spends the whole thing. A lot of it gambling.
Shout out to him. I know Steve will do it.
Does that too. Well, but that's, again, the internet money, right money right Right It goes back to that conversation And that's big money Yeah Huge money But you know I'm in a deal right now With a regulated partner And I And I'm My gratitude is off the charts And I'll You know I can't talk about it now But it'll be out in a couple of months I wouldn't be able to do this If I was in that In that you know Space like that Yeah I that.
Yeah. I'm coming into it, you know, clean.
It's perfect. I love him, man.
I just saw you gambling with my boy, John Sarasani the other day. Yeah.
So Skylar Dice, shout out to Skylar Dice. Skylar Dice is the general manager of the Strat.
And he contacted me about a year ago. And, you know, I always use this term.
Steve Wynn used to call them gorgeous personalities. So it's someone who just has it, you know, it's someone he smiles through his face.
He's very authentic. He's really about taking care of the gambler.
In fact, the other night at dinner, I heard this the first time out of his mouth. He said that, you know, I've been doing this since I'm 19.
I love it. I love this industry.
And I heard him say that. And I kind of knew that the other guy that just loves this industry is Jonathan Jostle down at the plaza.
And I don't say that because I'm down there all the time or I'm trying to do business with him. He said to me when I first met him, he goes, I've worked 17 years in this industry.
I've never worked a day in my life. Isn't this incredible? But Skylar Dice cut from the same mold.
So I said, Skylar, I said, can I play Crapless Craps live in your casino? He said, absolutely. This was about six or eight months ago.

And to play Crapless Craps,

you come in with $5,000 or $10,000,

and you can definitely lose it.

When I played six or eight months ago,

I played with $5,000.

I ended up with three.

I took the hit at two.

I still had some liquidity at the time.

But honestly, I'll just be straight out honest with you,

I'm broke off my ass doing this.

I'm not able to monetize. I just borrowed money from a very close friend, a lot of money to make it through to what is theoretically my first paycheck.
So I can't really afford to gamble live like that. So John Sarazzani said, can you set me up? I'm absolutely.
You know, I knew him. I liked the big energy.
I liked that he's a gambler. You know, I met him.
He's six foot five. He's in really great shape.
You know, here's a point I want to make about him that's important. I see a lot of the comments like on my chat are like, you know, oh, he's so full of himself or he's got an ego or whatever.
But I'd like to ask the audience, and I'm serious. If you were six five, right, and had his face and in the kind of shape that he's in and had whatever he's got, I don't care whether it's a million dollars or $20 million, but I know he's living more like he's got $20 million and you were that guy.
Like, he tries to be humble. He tries to be a sweet guy.
But think about it. Wake up tomorrow as him and take a look in the mirror and be humble.
He does try. You know, people should know that he's not like this bad guy.
Yeah, he's big on camera. Yeah.
The guy's got it. You know, it reminds me, it reminds me of these girls that are just so attractive.
And then you'll hear guys talking in the corner. Oh, she's a bitch.
Oh, she, maybe she has to be just to make it through the day. Can you understand that? No, I do.
I think on the internet, there'll always be those jealousy type people. I know, but in real life, like if you, in real life, like this is really old man advice.
Yeah. In real life, if you're a guy 25, 30, 35 years old, and you're just a guy, you're not, you know, you're an average guy.
These beautiful women are bothered all day long. Like I have empathy for that, that they have to, I'm not, I'm not, by the way, I'm not virtue signaling.
I always thought about how annoying it must be to have all these guys coming up to you all the time. Yeah.
Well, now it's even worse. They get hundreds of DMs.
Oh, I know. You know what's funny? And of course, some of them are cashing in on it.
Good for them. Yeah.
I mean, if you were a girl, you know, it'd be tempting. I don't think it was your podcast.
It was another podcast. And they had two girls sitting there and they were attractive.
And the conversation was, why would you ever go to college if you're an attractive girl? That was an actual conversation that came up on my TikTok. And I'm just like, as an old man, it's almost painful to watch.
I love it, man. We got to talk about your other drama with Mr.
Perez Hilton, who just came on the show. What happened there? You know, the thing about Mr.
Irrelevant is this. I always tell people on the podcast, he just doesn't get me angry.
I did do one video where I put him crying in the middle of the video, full disclosure. But I don't wake up in the morning and think to myself, I'm going to the gym today.
I'm going to work so hard.

I'm going to show Perez Hilton that I'm a winner.

I'm not a loser.

I'm going to show Perez Hilton that people really talk to me.

He just doesn't inspire me that way. And I think it's because I really know in my heart from his behaviors that he's really hurting.

And then, you know, he hasn't had it easy, I'm sure. You has an alternative lifestyle i mean i think everybody's aware of that yeah how hard was that in the 80s really hard so think about the pain that he has so i am and he's about 50 you know and he you know my relationship with him started funny because he dm'd me i would put up a video about las vegas he had five or 6,000 followers on Instagram and he had his millions of followers on his other platforms, but he sort of was like trying to get traction in Vegas.
And I didn't know any of this at the time. And so he started a Vegas, um, tech talk or a Vegas Instagram.
And I would do a video and he would say he would either repost it or he would say good job. And at first, maybe I thought it was a fake account, but he 20 times, I made a video of him doing this 20 times.
He, uh, post, you know, he posted a video and I wrote good job and thank you and heart and you know, the hands. Cause I was thankful.
I was thankful that Mr. Irrelevant actually noticed me and was posting.
I go to bed one night and finally I said to my girlfriend, after about the 20th time he reposted one of our videos, I said, look, honey, Mr. Irrelevant knows who I am.
And this is, you know, a little earlier in my social media career. She says, what are you talking about? She goes, that's a fake account.
He doesn't know who you are. And, you know, I went to bed, like I was kind of like feeling good about myself.
I went to bed, like, you know, this big. And I thought to myself, he doesn't know who I am.
He's, you know, he's Mr. Irrelevant.
I almost slipped up there. He's Mr.
Irrelevant. He doesn't know who I am.
And I'm okay with that. I'm okay with taking that pain.
Side story, because as an addict, when you get that shot of pain from somebody, about 15 minutes later in my body, that adrenaline hit turns into dopamine. It's a precursor to dopamine.
So maybe I was hurt for like 15 minutes, but after that, I'm like, oh, you know, I slept good that night. I felt good when I woke up the next day because I got that shot of dopamine before I went to sleep.
So time goes by and he keeps giving me the hands, giving me the hands. And one day, the internet is so smart, of course, it sends me the algorithm, and it's Mr.
Irrelevant talking about Paul El Contino, who's a casino host in Connecticut who stole points from players and got caught and got fired, may have gotten probation or something like that. And of course, Mr.
Irrelevant's video immediately is, Vegas policy has a secret. He's really from Connecticut.
He's really a casino host. He's really a thief or whatever.
And I just lose it, not angry, just laughing because I know the story because I've read every story on gaming for the last 40 years. And you know that if I see a story about a casino host with the same name as me, that's going to be seared into my memory, of course.
And I also was laughing because I was a customer at Foxwoods. So he was a host and I was a customer.
I didn't know him, but so I immediately, you know, I'm so low tech. I immediately take my phone and make a video of my phone and, you know, put it up on the internet.
Look at this idiot. What a jerk.
I'm first of all, I'm 10 years older than this guy. I'm Paul D.
Contino. I'm not Paul L.
Contino. I'm from Long Island, not Rhode Island.

And I just excoriate him because, you know, and that was when the whole thing started.

And then from then on, we've been like, you know, but I'm not angry with him.

I don't know why he can't stop.

I can stop.

Like, I don't wake up in the morning and think, oh, I wonder what he's doing. So I know he just doesn't.
He doesn't seem like the type of guy that lets stuff like this go, to be honest. I'm okay with it.
He's in the business of that. You know, he's got a report on it.
He's never, he's never going to get me because I work so clean. I'm in a monogamous relationship for seven years.
So even though I have that little job at the Peppermint Hippo one night, I mean. I saw him post about that actually.
I hide in the other in the other room like i at my age and believe me and i was in there hardcore until i was about 47 i was in there one night when i was 47 and four guys across the across the bar from me they see me talking to a young girl she probably was 23 right 22 23 and she's really doing her job which is basically to get my money so she's with me and I'm standing over there. Now I'm 47.
Not only am I 47, but I'm bald and I was obese at the time. It was right before I lost a lot of weight.
So I'm 230. I'm standing over there and I look like an idiot.
And they start denigrating me from across the bar and they're telling her, get away from that old man. What's wrong with that old man? And I swear to you, this is what's funny about it.
a at 47 it was the first time i was ever called an old man so i'm looking around like this like who's the old man i'm not the old man i was the old man and i was like you know what maybe i got to take a little step back from this whole adult bar thing you know and i did and by time i was 50 i had already wasted maybe a million dollars. At the strip club? At least.
Holy crap. Because I was making, well, my very first girlfriend, no.
I thought you were not as much as a stripper. I am.
I'm going to tell you a story. My very first love, her name was Evie, and I was 27 years old, and I was making $150,000 a year.
But you have to remember, this is 1991. So that was a lot of money.

Take home.

Like my taxes got paid at the end of the year by my partner.

My partner was an accountant.

So I got $3,000 a week take home.

So first thing I did was I went over to the Cafe Royale,

which is still there.

It's in Farmingdale.

And I think the guy that used to be the manager

is now the owner.

His name is John.

You know, he'll never see this.

And I went over there and he actually knew her and she's up on stage. You know, I mean, I'm just going to tell this story like it is.
I'm 27. I'm awkward.
I'm unattractive. I got nothing going on.
I never saw a girl with a nice body. Yeah.
Like I never saw that. Not like in person, you know.
So I look up at her and I'm like, will you please? And it was $50. I'll never forget it.
it I said will you please take my $50 and maybe pay attention to me now I didn't say that to her but this is what my brain is saying I remember it exactly and she took the $50 and she put it in her garter I was not a veteran of that particular business at the time I did do 20 hardcore years after that but at that time I didn't know so she comes down and what they do back in the day, I don't know what they do now. They go around to the biggest tippers and sit with them and pretend to be interested in them, right? So she came down and she sat on me and she pretended to be interested in me.
And, you know, I'm extremely aggressive in matters of business. And that to me was like a matter of business.
Like I had to have her. Like I'd never seen anything like it.
You know, she had brown skin. She had the same color skin as my girlfriend now, although my girlfriend now, her skin is unbelievably beautiful.
And I took her down. And you know, when you have skin like mine, you definitely want something.
You definitely want something with brown skin. And I talked my stuff.
And she was, you know, she knew that I had money. And so she, you know, she she was an opportunist and i remember i paid her a thousand dollars a week to be my girl holy crap yeah that's a lot well because she was dancing and this is a deal that a lot of nerds make when they get together with strippers uh but i'm going to be the one who's going to tell you about it so it's 1990 it was 90 i met her in 91 but this all took place in yeah 92 so i met her in 92 it all took place in the fall of 92.
So it's 1990. I met her in 91, but this all took place in, yeah, 92.
So I met her in 92.

It all took place in the fall of 92. So she was dancing, but she's, who wants to be objectified?

Does anybody really, are strippers really happy doing that job? 20% are, let's just say, and maybe 80% are. She was 80% who wasn't really thrilled with doing it.
So I said to her, I said, look,

I'll give you a thousand dollars a week so you don't have to do it anymore. You won't feel bad

about missing out. She was making between two and three.
She settled for the thousand, which I could afford because I wasn't going there anymore. And we had this agreement.
She didn't move in with me immediately, but she moved into, you know, right next to me. And away we went.
But, and this is a story because the Mirage interviewed me. I'm sorry, not the Mirage.
German television interviewed me in front of the Mirage.

And I'm standing out there,

and they're asking me to have my memories of,

this goes into what Evie was doing, whatever,

my memories of the Mirage.

And I'm like, oh, yeah, I came here with my fiance,

and she was sleeping with the bartender

right in the front when you walk, like another,

this is the innocence of when I'm doing interviews.

You would walk in, you would go through the atrium,

there was a bar over there to the right.

Good-looking guy was working there,

and I'll see at the time. And I'm, like, telling this to German television.
The guy from German television is just rolling his eyes. I was never able to get a copy of that interview, even though I tried to because it was really funny.
And Jose the taco guy was taping it, but it wasn't good sound. But I did put it up on social media because it was the funniest thing ever but the bottom line with her was she got her narcissistic adoration you have to look at where people get their power from and their energy and i will tell you that narcissistic adoration is the most powerful drug in the world and she got her narcissistic adoration from her body and from using her body and from showing it off so yeah she was cheating on me with everybody damn uh but the narcissist yeah the whole three years and the last time the last time i got in the car and i drove to atlantic city and i knock on the door and i knew she was in there with a guy but i'm like so dumb and uh they were in connecting rooms and he had run into the other room the next day she admitted it to me and i went in there and i knew that she was like you know obviously in the i caught them in the middle of the act.
It was just ridiculous. But getting back to the narcissistic adoration, because this is important, social media is so narcissistic.
So what happens with me is I finally started putting, and that's another thing Perez didn't have to do. I used his name.
See, I got upset for a second. Like a year ago when they were talking about a reality show for me or whatever he's like oh he's too ugly to be on television so when my producer first came to me like six months ago I was like because his girlfriend had asked me if I wanted to be on television I said ah you don't really want me on television but he put that doubt in my he put that pain in my mind because again he's in pain right so I stayed off of the camera until about eight months ago 10 months ago now it's like and the reason the narcissistic adoration conversation became about like what i look like is because now that people know who i am and what i look like i mean i can tell you on saturday night i probably took between 20 and 30 pictures that doesn't surprise and everybody wants me to say ve C.
That by the end of the night, I was just like, wow, I can't even say it. And then I was hanging out with, I was hanging out with Dustin Lynch's posse.
Wow. So do you know Dustin Lynch's? The country artist? Yeah, the country artist.
So he has a residency at XS. So one, either his tour manager or his good friend.
And it blows, this blows my mind. Like they contact me.
Like, will you hang out with us?

You know, we're going to be at the Wynn.

And I'm like, absolutely.

I'll come over there.

You got the residency.

I know I'm going to go to XS.

You know, I never went to a nightclub for 20 years.

Wow.

Yeah, I'll tell you that in a second.

I'm not humble faking, by the way.

These are true stories.

So I never went to the XS because I'm a big gambler.

What am I going to do? Hi, I just spent $12,000 on this table. You know, to a girl.
Will you pay attention to me? It's so not cost effective. Like I got to fake it and I can't fake it and I don't really have $12,000.
So to me, the excess was always like, wow. Now, I'm not angry.
You know, I'm not angry about this.

I wonder what it's like in there.

And then they invited me for New Year's.

In fact, I saw Randy.

Shout out to Randy Tomas, wherever you are.

Great guy.

He's a stage manager there.

I ran into him again when I went with Dustin Lynch's group.

So they brought me in and we had dinner together.

And I met some really cool people that are like in his group.

You know, he's got a pretty cool group.

But the whole night I was getting like a tremendous amount of, you know, narcissistic adoration.

But I would like to thank you for your time. And we had dinner together, and I met some really cool people that are, like, in his group.
You know, he's got a pretty cool group.

But the whole night, I was getting, like, a tremendous amount of, you know, narcissistic adoration.

But what I was going to tell you is why the Vegas Pauly Sea was even more unbearable by the end of the night.

There were two guys in his group that kept saying it on it, like, every spin of the dice.

I'm sorry, every spin of the wheel, every roll, every turn of the card.

And I was just like, you know, I love it, but I love it, like, a couple times a day i love it i feel that man that's funny yeah xs is a good club i've been

there yeah yeah well i'm sure you get in no problem but for me it was you know getting it's easy but the table part like you said you're dropping 5k at least well you know i'll tell you a funny story dustin dre invited me to dre's and he put me in the second table right by this stage and i bought wow i just stuttered i never did that before and he put me in the second table right by the stage, and I thought, wow, I just stuttered. I never did that before.
And he put me in the second table by the stage, and Atre Songz was there. Nice.
And it was awesome. I had the best time.
In fact, there's a video on my YouTube because this great kid that I know, Justin, he's a great videographer. He thinks that I'm funnier than I am, and he made a video of him.
So Dustin Dre, I said, I said, I can't even afford the tip. Because I can't.
I can't. You know, what's the tip on the table like that? It's got to be $1,000, $2,000, right? Yeah.
It's got to be. At least, yeah.
Dustin was like, no, I take care of my people. I thought that was super cool.
Like I had to be honest with him. And, you know, he was honest with me.
He was nice.

And he's a great guy.

And that's a great place.

That's a great place.

In terms of nightclubs, I hear it's one of the best.

It's just, you know, if you get the pounding music all night,

then to go and get the great R&B.

You know, they play the great hip-hop stuff there.

Yeah, it's really cool.

They get a lot of talent coming through there.

Oh, yeah.

I see their billboard every day on the show. Trey Songz was great.
He was great. I mean, just watching him and just, he's got a great club there.
Do you think you and Starfish will ever make up? No, because when I was at my lowest points, and a lot of this is the reason why I did that stupid taco shop and only took 25%, because she had me so on the ropes last December. Like she was putting posts up and I have copies of them.
No one will ever work with you in Las Vegas. He is barred from all of the following casinos.
In fact, she said I was barred from the Circa and she made it public that I'm barred from the Circa and the Circa texted me and said, Paul, I mean, I love the Circa. I really do.
I have so much respect for Derek Stevens because it's so effing creative, you know? And they were like, Paul, you're not bored from here. Come here whenever you want, you know? And I'm a big fan and I do all of my sportsbook videos.
I do a lot of them in the Circa. But I mean, look at the Circa.
The Circa is that incredible sportsbook. It just throws the energy off of the sportsbook into the casino and you feel it.
Have you ever been there on an NFL game? Yeah, it doesn't feel like you're downtown when you're at Circa. Oh my God.
Well, that's the point with the Circa. If the Circa was just on the corner where those idiots at Resorts World are, if he just had that corner, I know he would be doing it.
You wouldn't even be able to get a room in there ever and he would have three times the rooms in. But he's a guy, and I don't know him, and I've never met him, and I've never talked to him.
But this is the way I feel, which I guess I shouldn't be saying. I just feel like he's a guy who's so into Vegas history and so into what Vegas was that in his mind, he just had to revitalize downtown.
And he's done it. I mean, you could stay at the D.
It's like 70 bucks a it's clean the casino is cool it's got the long bar it's got good games it's got a good blackjack game it's got great energy and that's like probably the best cheap hotel to stay it might even be the best cheap hotel to stay at in las vegas although i'm a big fan of the tuscany then if you want to really live some history because the golden gate Gate is the oldest hotel, I am telling you straight out, I don't think there's another operator in the gaming space in America who would have done what he did with the Golden Gate. He brought it back.
They would have it as a slot house. It would just be slot machines.
You would walk in there. They'd have three employees and go after yourself.
He's got girls in there doing the Watusi up on the stage. He's got great games in there.
He's got great energy. He's got a full casino.
He's got an area over there around the corner. He's got the 1909 fountain, which is super cool to see it.
He has a museum in there. And he renovated two suites upstairs.
They're incredible suites. I got to stay in one of them once.
And then he's not done yet. He says, let me pay.
And he paid top dollar for that real estate. I did a video.
He paid $13 million for a 12th of an acre. He bought it from Haim Goubet in 2016.
It's in the Las Vegas Review Journal. I did the research on this.
Then Haim Goubet took the money and bought the world's largest gift shop, which is on the corner of Sahara and the Las Vegas Boulevard. But anyway, he paid top dollar.
He's not public and I don't know his numbers, but he spent plenty of money building that place. You can see it and nobody else would have done that.
So it's like one, two, three. He saved the Fitzgerald's.
I think it was before it was the D. He saved the D.
He saved all the history at the Golden Golden Gate and then he built a super amazingly creative hotel casino with I don't I don't know that there's a hotel casino that has better energy in it I don't know that Circa yeah wow I love Circa shout out to Barry's uh yeah I know and then Chip Barry have you ever met I know you gone two days ago oh he's amazing he's great he's the nicest guy so they

had contacted me it was one of my first gigs whatever you want to call it to come down or whatever and i sat with chef barry from any barry and he said you want to come in the kitchen or whatever listen i was in the restaurant business for a little while i don't want to say anything but i've never seen did you go in the kitchen i haven't i've never seen anything like that well It's like an operating room.

It's like you would totally get a kidney transplanted uh transplanted in his kitchen that's how clean i love that some kitchens are not the cleanest i couldn't believe it that's what blew me away and i did a kitchen tour like on my this is this video is like a year and a half old but i was blown away it's one of my favorite steakhouses in vegas man it's got it you know but there's so many but wow but you know just the fact that he can compete on such a high level and it's mobbed he's got it and he's got a great personality i saw him the other day in the street he came right up to me he was hi how you doing i love it yeah um guys like that really make vegas agreed agreed i see you go to seagull's bagel mania every morning is that the best breakfast spot in vegas in your? For me, it is. And it's funny because it's mainly about the coffee.
Like I can make coffee at home and it's maybe an eight and a half if I get it just the way I want it. I go in there and they put that coffee in that white cup.
And I'm just like, I cannot believe that they've gotten all the acid out of the coffee and made it that flavorful. I tell them all the time.
I don't work for them. I've never gotten paid to do a video.
It just hits me every six months and I'm like, wow. And this morning, and I got to stop going there because I'm just gaining weight and gaining weight.
This morning I had the sesame bagel toasted and a cup of coffee and like an ounce of whitefish. And I almost went there for lunch.
I went there for breakfast and I almost went there for lunch. I've never had their call.
And Steve Siegel, you know, people don't realize it. He's probably, wow.
So this Kirk Kevorkian or whatever his last name is, I can never say it properly. Of course, you've got Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.
You know, oh, definitely in the top 10 entrepreneurs to ever come to Las Vegas. Absolutely, he's in the top 10.
Is he in the top five? Maybe. I see Siegel a lot around.
And this, I can tell you because they told me I can talk about this. They have, they have 10 acres right on the strip and they're going to do something there with, I don't know what I, I actually, I don't deal with Steve because Steve's busy, you know, and he's running an empire, but I talked to his executive, Alex, who's super nice.
Uh, and Alex will tell me, you know, well, we're opening a new store down in Summerlin.

And then he also told me, yeah, we're going to do something amazing with the 10 acres.

So he bought the 10 acres for $75 million, which was a steal, really.

Nobody else had the cash.

It says it right in the article.

Like, I'm not telling his business.

It says the person who sold it said no one else could write the check.

But Steve wrote the check.

Shout out to him.

Yeah.

If you could ask Steve Wynn anything, what would you ask him Vegas legend wow that's a great question why wasn't it enough why wasn't what you had enough why did you have to you know do what you did yeah you had it all right yeah that's casino you know again you know it all what you did. Yeah.
He had it all, right? Yeah. Had the best casino.
You know, again, you know, it all goes back to, it all goes back to how you're born. I really believe, and I always used to come up with this stupid analogy in college, you know, or not analogy, but comparison.
It seemed to me in college there were two types of guys, guys that would drink and get violent and guys that would drink and get placid. And I always the guy who drank and just got placid you know but maybe like 20 or 30 percent was smashing things and i'd be like god you guys are going to destroy the pool table in the rec room why would you do that does someone's got to clean it up and i think it comes down to the same thing with employees like i've probably had 40 to 50 female employees and wow i just can't say it like i don't know whether that comes from me knowing that i'm not cool yeah and knowing that it would be a burden on the poor girl or it comes from just fear or i mean i'm not saying that i didn't have attractive employees i certainly did yeah but wow no because i mean and i and i had you know companies in the 80s and 90s the same time that steve you know you can't really you got to be able to separate you know personal it's not even separate it's just like no like i don't i don't you know i don that way.
No, it's not even, it's not even that. I just don't, you know, part of the great thing about being nerdy and being awkward and not being able to get girls, if you are an introvert is you have your whole world of just reading and doing your math and, you know, watching your sports and betting on your horses and gambling like an idiot.
I can remember coming to Vegas in the 90s and I had half a million dollars in credit around town. I had $100,000 at five places.
How do I know that? When I left here, I owed $100,000 at five places and 50 at MGM, which I paid immediately. I used to be here in the nineties

with all the money in the world. And I was in my late twenties and I was skinny and, you know,

I had a full head of blonde hair, whatever. You were blonde.
Yeah, I was got a full head

of blonde hair. Send me a photo.
We'll add it to the video. Oh, okay.
And, um, I wasn't even

looking and thinking about girls. I was thinking about gambling.
So it was always second for me.

Um, but you know, again, that's the question I would ask him. I'd say, wasn't it enough? And then even if, look, I know the way the world works.
You know, I live on Long Island. Sometimes I think that, like, every guy on Long Island has a gumar, you know, has, like, a girlfriend or whatever.
Because it just comes up so often. And I totally am not judging him.
but why couldn't he just have a girlfriend or whatever uh because it's just it just comes up so often and i totally i'm not judging him but why couldn't he just have a girlfriend you know what i mean well he had a wife didn't he no but i mean if he if he had to be tony soprano you know do it the tony soprano way have a couple of gumars whatever oh yeah like there were episodes on the sopranos wow i don't even want to go into this this. It's so stupid.
But Ralphie's girlfriend was trying to like be Tony's girlfriend.

And Tony was like, no, I can't, you know.

Like even Tony kept it.

Have a couple of girlfriends, you know, respect them.

It's separate from work.

Like what I'm trying to say is if you have that much money,

you don't need to put that pressure on anybody.

Yeah. That's what I don't understand.
I guess it's hard for us to put ourselves in that position because we've never had that much you know it's easy to say these things not judging i just can't understand it yeah not judging it sounds like getting girlfriends wasn't on your priority list when you were younger well so when i was 17 18 19 i tried you know but it was just like it was no no no no no no no i always look at that um situation in columbine you know the shooting in columbine and you know dylan was a weirdo the guy that did that and again it goes back to the guys who drink and get violent and the guys

who drink and get placid when i was rejected 17 i know now chemically what was going on yeah and that's why i'm like okay and that's why i can explain it to you so it would hurt like hell because you know i remember i tried to go to prom with this one girl she went with somebody else i I mean, I never even had a chance. And she was not, you know, the most popular.
But you would get hurt. And then I would get that shot of adrenaline from being hurt, just like gambling.
This is why gambling is so insidious. Because you get better chemicals from losing than you do from winning.
Wow. I'll explain that to you in just one second.
So I would get that shot of adrenaline, get that rejection hurt for like half an hour and then i'd be tranquil then i'd be like yeah you know and it hurt but i think you know and i really believe this in life i think the marketplace tells you who you are and where you belong so you know i've been doing instagram now since june 23rd of 2023 i got about a year and a half doing it. The dinosaur got me 42,000 followers, abandoned the account.
It took it over a year later. I had 42,000 followers.
So for a long time, I was getting like 1,000 a day. Now I get about three to 500.
So 1,000, 8,000. And I saw it growing and I did my videos.
So I said to myself, wow, the marketplace likes what I'm doing. And then i get all the shout outs and all the people that condiment so the marketplace so i'll stick with this for a while um but i can tell you conclusively this is my last year of deluding myself really yeah because if i don't if i don't manifest something this year that i can actually do like i'm incapable of take even if someone called me five minutes from now and said, Paul, come down to, this is the world's greatest gambling gift shop.
I'm just making something up and we'll slide you five grand under the table. I'm not capable of doing it because the fear will be in my voice.
When I do the video, the voice, the video will be very inauthentic. There's videos that I've done where I say something that's a little questionable right in the video and I can hear the pitch in my voice change.
Wow. That, all of that, all of that excitement, all of that, I'm genuinely, like I won't, there's times of the day that I just can't do videos.
You know, it was funny last night and they reached out to me, by the way.

Last night, Mark Wahlberg's tequila company was doing a promo at, on the record at Park

MGM.

So I got invited to come to a Super Bowl party there.

So I'm at the Super Bowl party.

So one of the promoters there says to me, Paul, you need to do a video for Mark Wahlberg's

tequila.

Do a promo video for that. I mean, now you know my page a little bit.
Like, do I do promo videos? No. I've never seen one.
But I feel bad because I got the table for nothing. You see, this is why I don't want anything free.
Do you understand why I don't want anything free? So they hand me the bottle and the three girls. Nice young ladies.
They were nice young ladies. That's the way I feel.
It's like I'm like grandpa. They put the three, I said, put the three ladies in the bus.
They put the three ladies in the bus. They put the thing.
So this video is going to just be an absolute disaster. But I know, you know, two years ago when I was 158, I was really ripped.
And I know Mark Wahlberg works out. I know he's an older guy.
He's seven years younger than me, but he's got the body. So I took a picture of me with my shirt off and a picture of Mark Wahlberg with his shirt off.
It's the videos. I posted it yesterday.
Now I know that I have a video that everybody's going to say, wow, that weirdo Vegas Pauly C is actually like ripped. Like actually someone said to me in the chat, you are ripped.
Why? And I said, because my girlfriend wants me that way, which she really does. She wants me, you know, with the abs and everything.
She's actually angry right now because I'm about 10 pounds overweight. But anyway, so, but I knew that I had to construct a video that would be comical and that would grab people's eyes.
And at the last second, it came up with that comedy part of it. And that's why I did it that way.
And yeah, it has like a quarter of a million views from yesterday. But if it's not funny or it's not interesting not interesting or you know there's times that i'll do a video and i think it's the greatest video in the world and then it just falls flat and you're just like oh god that happens to everyone and then there's stuff that you say to yourself why i mean i gotta tell you one that happened about a month or two ago and i was with my little girlfriend mahi i love her so much her skin was on banasa she can re-enter the atmosphere without burning up ma streets are all natural.
I don't know why I need to do that, but I just did it. So I said to her, let's go down to the overpass.
I heard they canceled this overpass in downtown Las Vegas. They were going to spend $5 billion on it, and they don't even have the money.
I go down. I go under the overpass.
You know, being under an overpass is not the most visually stimulating place in the world. I'm under the overpass, overpass and i do the video and they had done three videos that day already and they were doing okay and i said to little mahi i said i'm not gonna put this up this is just not even like and then i said but if i don't put it up i'm gonna forget about it and i guess i'm ever gonna put it up i'll put i put it up it's over three million views on instagram yeah but i't know what happened.
People just wanted to fight about the fact. This is what happened.
I do know what happened. It became a political thing.
Why are we sending money to Ukraine and not building a $5 billion interchange in Las Vegas? Once you post and it's not even intentional, although sometimes I know it's going to become this. So sometimes when I'm doing it, I do know ahead of time it's going to become political.
But leading up to the election, when you would do a video like that, that was political, like why is the money going here? Why is the money... And it's very interesting because now I notice the first thing that they're doing is a where is the money going thing.
So it always was a big factor to the exchange in your chat. I'm sure you're loving that, seeing where all the money's going.
I know you're a data nerd, so. It's mind-blowing.
I mean, some of the stuff they spent it on is mind-blowing. Hey, you know what? That girl, girl, woman, girl, woman.
I mean, she's 27 years old. That woman that they put in the White House press room, what is her name? I forget.
I know who you're talking about, though. Wow.
Is she talented or is she amazing? Is that Levitt? Yes, Carolyn Levitt. Is that her name? Yeah, Carolyn Levitt.
Yeah, she's a beast. How talented is that woman? Super talented.
And such a young... Where'd they find her? I know, right? I feel like they have access to life.
I just love watching her because she's just so good at what she does. She had to deal with the Biden administration in the past four years.
Oh, she did? Did she work for them? Yeah. So shout out to her for sticking through it, right? She's amazing.
Yeah, she's a beast. When I see talent like that, I go, wow.
Yeah. Some people are just born with it.
I just applied for White House credentials. We'll see if I get it.
Oh, wow. They're allowing people like us to start doing meetings.
Oh, I'm sure you will. Yeah.
I'm sure you will. I mean, you've had some amazing guests on.
Absolutely. Do you ever get involved with politics? No, I don't because I know something that nobody wants to talk about.
Would you like to know what it is? Yeah. You can Google all of this.
You can't just say that. Didn't we do this already? Yeah.
It's all genetic. So you can Google brain chemistry and political affiliation.
They can put anybody in a brain scan.

So there are five categories in the brain scan,

extremely left, extremely right,

somewhat left, somewhat right, and middle of the road.

So they can hit the five categories with 72% accuracy based on a brain scan.

Wow.

But I knew this.

So the fascinating parts of it to me are that the brains are completely different.

So the really far left has a tiny amygdala.

Thank you. So the fascinating parts of it to me are that the brains are completely different.
So the really far left has a tiny amygdala, amygdala, amygdala. I don't know how to say that word, amygdala, amygdala.
I don't know. I say it the wrong way, but it's that.
I could spell it because I've spelt it a million times. And the far right has a much larger amygdala.
And it has so many interesting outcomes. And I think that people get all caught up in it and they don't realize that the person they're fighting with has absolutely no choice in the matter.
A lot of the time. So you can't even change their opinion.
So why even bother? And I have to respect everybody because if you really look at history everybody's had a hand in making us you know who we are today i remember about 25 years ago i'll never forget this because i had no idea because the internet wasn't around there wasn't a lot of reading and the movie milk came out which was about harvey milk uh and by the way i'm not in any way virtue signaling but it's just an example of how you just don't know things and my sister is gay and i said and i watched the movie and i said to my sister i said i had no idea that they were beating the hell out of gay people in the 60s like i i never read it anywhere i had no idea that it was this that the other thing. But the point is that the political establishment at the time, you know, that's reversed now.
Like one side was doing one thing and one side was doing the other thing. But the bottom line is if people are an activist, I always use that when people try and attack the activists.
If people are an activist, we'd still be beating people up, you know, in the streets. Like that's so true.
Like, and then the other thing is, I don't know if you've ever watched, uh, Mad Men. I haven't.
Same thing, you know, in the sixties and the seventies, there's a couple of scenes where she just rolls down the window and takes a whole tray of used fast food and just throws it out the window. So that's another thing that, you know, so you just, you really get what I love about social media.
I love this about social media. And I really fault pretty much every company for not doing this.
Although I'm sure some do. When I do a post on XYZ Hotel, I don't care whether it's the Wynn, the Fontainebleau, Resorts World, the Plaza, Circa, whoever it is.
If I do a post that's good, a post that's engaging, where I get 500, 600, 700 comments, why is that hotel not addressing what's in those comments? Sometimes it's all love. I know, and I have no relationship with the Hard Rock.
And I was shocked to find this out.

The Hard Rock Corporation, they're in Florida.

They're run by the Seven Old Tribe.

I did a post.

I did a walkthrough in Atlantic City.

I did walkthrough the Hard Rock Atlantic City for nine minutes.

I've never seen so much love.

And then I did another post somewhere else.

And I found out that, in my opinion,

because of the amount of love that I saw,

that the Hard Rock Gaming Company, I don't know what they call themselves, but they're controlled by the Seminole tribe in Florida, is probably the most loved gaming company in America. Wow.
And number two, again, just based on the comments, is the Golden Nugget. The Golden Nugget brand.
Interesting. And I would say number, and then it gets, then of course you have course you have the win and station casinos.
I love station casinos. I love the architect there.
But what I'm trying to tell you is that chat will tell you everything about your product. So if you, if you're honest and you are willing to accept.
So I very rarely, the most annoying thing that I see is who cares? Like if I see who cares and it's a non-follower, I will block them. But I tell everybody, I'm like, don't come in here and post who cares.
If you don't care, just scroll. You know what I mean? No need for hate if it's not productive.
Well, I don't really think it's hate. I think it's worse than that.
I think it's taking a person and not giving them their existence. Like who cares? Like who are you to have an existence? This is my life Like, who cares? This is my life in Vegas.
I'm out doing this and I enjoy doing it and people enjoy watching it. So, you know, don't take away my existence.
Yeah. You raise a good point though.
If you're getting 500 comments about your hotel, if you're working PR in that hotel, you can make a lot of money. Okay.
So I'm not going to name the hotel because I don't just don't feel like being a jerk right now. Maybe later.
But I know that I am a compulsive gambler.

And this was a huge part of my life in my early 20s.

Of course, for all the chemical problems that I have and that I was born with.

But also because I wasn't dating, you know, whatever.

And I was just working.

So if I was 23, the internet didn't exist and social media didn't exist.

But if I was 23, and let's just take in 1983, let's just take the Hacienda because that's the first hotel that I ever went to. In 1987 actually was when I went to the Hacienda.
When I was 23 years old in 1987, when I went to the Hacienda, if I had made a comment on their social media post and they had said to me, wow, you're excited about coming here? Here's $20 in match play. Or we'd really like to welcome you while you're here.
Here's $10 off breakfast. How are they not? I mean, I don't want to get too dramatic and too emotional on your show, but how are they not utilizing that tool? They could have a staff that put up a link and they could just recruit gamblers and give them a little something and generate.
I know that if you worked the chat of this hotel on this particular video that I did that had over a thousand comments, I know that one employee, and I'll use a thousand dollars a day because get two great employees, I'm going to assume they cost you $500 a day each. Let's be fair.
Let's be generous with our social media team. I know that if you spent one week just on that one post that I did, back and forth with the people and the DMs, whatever, you would invest $5,000, $1,000 a day.
And I know your ROI would be up there like 10, 20, maybe even 100. You might even generate $500,000 in business.
How do I know this for a fact? So I met a guy named Big Daddy Jolino. You mentioned him.
Big Daddy. So I met him and he's a character and I love working with him because he's funny and he's fun and he's a nice guy and I think he's great at his job.
And I don't get paid by him. I probably could have if when I met him I shook him down but I didn't.
And he gets so much action from the social media that I do with him. And, you know, yesterday he texted me, you know, thank you so much, Paul, whatever.
I said, Big Daddy, I want you to be as big as you can be. So then I get more content so that you become bigger so that I get more content.
So he's a great guy. And he actually contacted a tribal property in California and said, you know, Vegas policy will come out for the weekend and he'll show all your rooms.
All you have to do is give him $5,000 in free play. I'm going to take the $5,000 in free play and give it away.
Like I already told someone, we're going to do a contest. We'll give it away.
We'll give somebody a thousand. Because I'm trying to build my following, and I don't really want to gamble with free play and not disclose it anyway.
So you can get a tremendous return from just giving it away. No.
They said no. I said, well, they're idiots.
idiots i mean they're really idiots i would have gotten

them the first time i did circa i was one third the size i am now and i generated two million views for them wow like in in four days because i love the place and i knew that i love this tribal property in california no names but like you know there's there's a disconnect you know there's rich teams and there's poor teams and then there's 50 feet of shit. And then there's Vegas policy.
And I just don't feel like there should be 50 feet of shit between me and poor teams. So in that way, and I don't really think it's ego in that way.
I feel like there's a miscommunication in the market or something. And maybe it's because I'm an asshole sometimes.
Maybe, you know, or maybe because I'm real.

But if you see something so egregious,

like how are you not going to address it?

You know, and maybe I come across as whatever.

I mean, you think it didn't hurt me?

I was telling some executive the other day.

Do you think it didn't hurt me

to meet with the top level of the Fonta Blue

before it opened and tell them you are going to fail

and this is why? Do you think it didn't hurt me? Like, do you think I got off on it? I didn't get off on it. You know, these guys look like they got hit by a car when I, you know, but I already knew the Cosmo opened in 2010 with no database, right? How are you going to open a casino hotel of that size with no database? Let's just do the math.
If a thousand of the best gamblers in the world come through your front door on opening night, right? And you have 30 incredible VIP hosts working there. And each one handles 10, right? That's all they're going to handle because gamblers want to be talked to.
They want to talk about their credit line. They want to talk about what kind of hotel room.
They need the love. So we're going to say that every VIP host could handle 10 and you have 30.
70% of what you were trying to do just went out the door. And this is why you don't open with no database.
You find a way to build. They have something called central credit.
You have reps who can build your database that come in with a mailing list or a list of people that they're going to call. How can you not open? And the executive at time, I'll never forget it.
No names, but trust me, top of the top. We were busy.
This is like the most critical thing. So I don't know this because I'm a genius.
I don't know this because I've worked in gaming. So many people will say to me, who the hell are you? How do you know? I know this because I talked to guys who were at the Cosmo in opening night in 2010.
And what did they tell me? Exactly what I told the people opening at the Fontainebleau. But they didn't care.
They were like, look at this TikToker abusing us. So the whole thing fell apart.
Is Fontainebleau still struggling? Yeah. Yeah, it's still struggling.
And it's a beautiful hotel. It's a beautiful hotel.
It's got wide hallways upstairs. They've really put the money into the place.
The finish is on the inside. I mean, you know, it's, I'm not saying it's the Waldorf Astoria, but let's just use this as a, it's the Waldorf Astoria and Resorts World is like Motel 6.
I mean, you know, I learned so much by reading my chat, but I also pick up funny things. And one woman on my chat, we were talking about Resorts World, she said, let's just face it.
It's a self-service hotel. Another, I mean, they opened with no room service.
I remember I stayed there and I was like, and an and an executive said this to in my chat they said they thought that they were going to replace people with technology and it just didn't work out like i'm learning so much i don't come to this with all the knowledge in the world i'm learning so much from my own social media and i always beat industry so like i'll get a guy who's general counsel over here and I'll run down or I'll get a guy who's vice president of marketing and I'll run down. Occasionally I get a president and I'll run down and I let them talk and I ask them questions.
I'm never going to be able to handle the minutia of the back room, but they're not going to tell me that anyway, you know, because that's all proprietary information that I can only try and figure out from the financials but you get the feel you know for every property what their priority is um it really flows and this is why the win was so successful steve had the personality steve gave the love steve was interesting steve had a great voice steve was was incredibly creative but Steve said this and you can go and you can watch it the drapes the carpets the rooms and he had the they have the best of everything there and they still do the finishings none of that matters without the people somebody called me and they said that they were the people

who are going to be responsible

for North Strip development.

It doesn't matter the specifics.

I get BS'd so much in Las Vegas

that maybe he's BS,

but I went and I met him.

And I took a piece of paper

and I drew three circles.

And I said, here's your $6 billion.

I'm not going to put what's here.

And I said, here is your hotel casino. I said, you have your $6 billion.
Unbelievable. You know, he tells me he does.
I don't believe him, but whatever. You have your site.
You have, even the plans are drawn up for this particular property. I said, what are you missing? What are you never going to be able to get? What are you never going to find ever? Because they're basically all taken, to be honest with you.
I said, you are never going to find the employees that are going to do the job that's going to get you a return on $6 billion. You're just not.
You're just not because the industry is not an industry that is heavy on training. It's not an industry that's heavy on love.
It's an industry, it goes back to the movie casino. The eye in the sky is watching the floor man.
The floor man is watching the box man. The box man is watching the dealer.
The dealer is watching the player. It's a tough, rough, hardcore industry.
And if you want to have employees that give the love, you're going to have to give a lot of love to those employees. You're going to have to nurture them.
You're going to have to give them that culture. And you just can't do it with a new property anymore.
And, you know, I read all the comments about the employees at places like Resorts World, you know, with the overbearing security. You know, an interesting juxtaposition is the security at Resorts World and the security at the wind.
The security at Resorts World, they're dressed like mall cops that are absolutely going to harass you and absolutely have a bad attitude. The security at the Wynn, they're dressed like safari guides.
They have that great personality. I think the Wynn, on purpose, hires all good-looking guys for that job so everybody looks like they're about to take you on safari.

And then you have the resource world.

And I'll just, I met with an investor in the project that I'm working on the other day.

And I mean, I don't think he's trying to blow smoke up my ass.

He says, yeah, I was over there with so-and-so.

I'm not going to tell you who.

And, you know, friend of his.

And I was in the corner and they came up to me

and wanted to know what I was doing. Now, this particular guy is extremely wealthy.
I saw him piss away $40,000 like it was nothing one day. I was like, wow.
And they chased him out of there or they made him feel bad. You know what I mean? You can't go around making people feel bad.
Now, I had an incident there. You know, I am definitely a provocateur in a lot of this.
And the other day somebody contacted me and they said, we really would love an hour of your time. We just, my friend is the biggest fan and you know, no ego, but this is what I was told.
We're staying in the super suite at Resorts World. If you come over here, I said, oh, I said, I don't know how to price out an hour with me.
You want to give me a thousand dollars. I said, I'll tell you what I'm going to do because I feel stupid.
I said, I'm going to take the thousand dollars and I'm going to give it to the taco shop and I'm going to let them buy tacos for everybody for the afternoon because we have no business in our taco shop. It's doing terrible.
So I killed two birds with one stone. I get it.
And the guy, he's on CNBC. I'm not going to give you his name, but he's on CNBC.
I'll double it. He says, I'll give you $2,000.
I'm like, wow. I'm in nine o'clock.
I'm in a meeting with somebody. And I say to myself, immediately I go into submissive pose because if a super famous person is going to ask to give you $2,000, I know I'm going to get content.
I thought I was going to get the room. You don't want me doing the room because he's afraid of Resorts World.
You run down there and I said, I can run in. I'll run in the VIP.
I'll run in the back. I'll get the money.
I'll get out of there and they'll never even see me. Because you're banned there, right? I'm banned there.
to remember i'm projecting i know who i am i know i'm gonna run in there i know i'm not gonna cause any trouble i know i'm gonna be a church mouse i know i'm gonna run out of there so i'm projecting my own innocence on the situation i go running in there the vip room was open i go running past the v. I would say in 45 seconds to a minute,

security was, you know, 26 feet behind me.

Wow.

So we went into the central area

and I see security coming around the corner

and the guy who's famous says,

come on, Paulie, let's just go to the room.

So I go to the room and it's the super suite,

which is, you see, I can make the separation.

The super suite,

and I think they have three of them at Resorts World. People call it Vegas Matt's bedroom, I think.
The super suite at Resorts World, it's fan-effing-tastic. It's absolutely splendidly, amazingly gorgeous.
If they didn't have the most boring casino in the world and I had millions of dollars, I would stay at the super suite. You can get a similar product at the Wynn.
They call it the Fairway Villas. It has the pool and everything.
Very similar. But the super suite is gorgeous know you can get a similar product at the wind they call it the fairway villas it has the pool and everything very similar but the super suite is gorgeous and i can understand why this super high roller is staying there and who's he with who are the people who want to see me basically miami royalty i'm not going to go any deeper than that i'm sure they don't want their names out there in fact the guy was saying to me google them google them they're miami royalty this is what he's telling me.
So of course I Googled them when I left. I was like, oh my God, they are Miami royalty.
Miami royalty. So I did my shtick for like an hour and a half because when I'm talking, you can imagine.
It's 1.30. I have a two o'clock appointment, corporate appointment, and I got to get out of there, open the door, and there's security, right? They take me down.
They're in the elevator with me. They're very cool.
They're very cool. I can't say they weren't cool when we were in the hotel.
The minute I got to the curb, they read me the riot act. We are telling you now that if you come in here again, we're going to arrest you.
We are telling you. And I have a copy of the guy talking to me.
Now you don't know me and your audience doesn't know me, but trust me, my body floods with adrenaline, with whatever other fear hormones there are like that shit gets me really for shimmed because i don't get off on that when i get pulled over by the police i'm like yes sir no sir here's my license i'm sorry i did that i'm an idiot i can't believe my lights weren't on i didn't even think to. I understand you got to give me because I don't want those problems.
Why don't I want them? Because conflict is extremely dopamine sucking. So if you're coming into all your situations with limited dopamine, you can't really do conflict.
That's why great debate people, great lawyers who thrive on that conflict, they're super high dopamine people. Athletes, entertainers, comedians, they tend to be way lower dopamine.
They need to get off so they end up entertaining you. So I met the other night.
There was a big event downtown Las Vegas. Who was there? Steve Wynn's right-hand man from the 80s and 90s.
Super famous guy. Super well-known in the gaming community.
A couple of other executives. And the president of that hotel.
So, of course, I say to them, what would you do? And I tell them the exact same story. I say, and again, this is my empathy kick.
Wouldn't you pump the brakes? Wouldn't you pump the brakes for just maybe that day or two days or maybe contact him another way? Would you do it in front of your, would you follow him to the super suite where there's billionaire players who are playing to minimum multi-million dollar credit lines? Do the hallway thing, read them the riot act right in front of your super wealthy guests, right?

You're running this.

And every executive said they would have not done that,

that that's a really bad look, that it's high limit players,

that it's a super sweet whatever.

They just don't have a brain in their head, in my opinion.

And that's the way I tell the story.

You know, was I testing them?

I'll tell you this. If I could have written that scenario to show what assholes they

are it would have been absolutely perfect think about it I'm sneaking in

there quick I'm going to billionaire clients I'm picking up the money for

charity and I'm getting the F out of there and causing no trouble and they

still had to be dickweeds so F them did you get arrested or what happened they

read me the riot act and I said if I come on again I'm gonna get arrested if I

come on the property at all again I'm gonna get arrested damn they must have

Thank you. And they still had to be dickweeds.
F them. Did you get arrested or what happened? They read me the riot act and I said, if I come on again, I'm going to get arrested.
If I come on the property at all again, I'm going to get arrested. Damn, they must have facial recognition or something.
They got you quick. You're also pretty recognizable though.
Yeah, I know. I know that.
But even so, I'm very recognizable. But even so, why would you handle it like that? Like, why wouldn't you just have a little class? Like, you know, I didn't murder anybody in there.
Yeah. Well, they probably didn't know what you were up to, to be fair,

from their perspective.

I went to the super suite. They know who's in the super suite.

How about a little communication?

This is one of the problems in these hotels.

They're so big that the layers are not talking to one another.

And then Alex Dixon, who's the new CEO,

tells people that I know,

I inherited this problem.

Dude, you're on property. You know what I mean? And I, and I, I'm going to be straight out with you.
Like Alex Dixon, like you're set up for failure over there. They're never going to give Alex Dixon.
And I feel bad for this guy because one of his friends contacted me and told me to pump the brakes. And I said, I'm going to tell you something.
This poor kid, cause he's young, he's only 41. They made this kid president.
They're never going to give him the tools to fix the problem over there. And they don't even know what the problem is over there.
So he's, he's, this, this is going to be a blast. You are just the same way I predicted the font blue.
He's going to fail over there. And then three years from now, they're going to pin it on him.
This is what we talk about, you know, when we're meeting with executives. Time will tell, man.
Well, dude, it's been cool. Anything you want to close off with

here, it's been fun.

How long did I go? We went an hour

and ten minutes.

Not bad, right? No, just that

it's all about, in the

gaming industry, it's all about personality

and it's all about who the CEO is.

That's all. I love it, man.
Well, we'll link your stuff

below. Hopefully you can figure out some money stuff soon,

man. Okay, no problem.
Okay, thanks. Alright, check.
Well, we'll link your stuff below. Hopefully you can figure out some money stuff soon, man.
Okay, no problem.

Okay, thanks.

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