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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim.

Speaker 1 So all of his followers that are willing victims, when they see me possibly casting some negativity towards the grand narcissist who is this kid who plays online for, listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not.

Speaker 1 I don't care whether it's fake or not. I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance.

Speaker 1 So all of his willing victims became mobilized because they're under his spell, and they all came after me.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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 as a lead up to this, ask anything you want.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I just decided to lead with, you know,

Speaker 1 open, 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?

Speaker 1 What happened exactly? So I got the information that he had been playing at Resorts World and a couple of other places.

Speaker 1 And, you know, the God's honest truth is that I live right down from Resorts World and I I have beef with them. I got thrown out of there twice.
I'll tell that story in a second.

Speaker 1 And they have source of funds law in Nevada that is very strict about where did the money come from. So the money comes from a online website called RuBet.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like I got a couple of, you know, pretty serious things that I thought were serious. But it's like I always tell them, let's go, show up.
He's a one guy says, I know where you live.

Speaker 1 I said, come on, come over.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I got a lot of threats from 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.

Speaker 1 And I'm sorry, but I consider there's lower IQ people when they say this.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.
Out Resorts World? No.

Speaker 1 Just casino executives. I told them this story and I said, would you allow someone with this money trail to play in your casino?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like you can't come in with big money if it comes from a strange place. How much did Expose come in with?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 another casino and then the second million, 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 Expose or his followers.

Speaker 1 It's a news story.

Speaker 1 You know, they were like, you're defaming him, or that's my boy, or whatever, which goes into a whole nother conversation that you only know if you were a gambler or you really, really knew the psychology of gamblers.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I came into this with a knowledge base in that already because my father was toxic and my mother was a willing victim.

Speaker 1 So all of his followers that are willing victims, when they see me possibly casting some negativity towards the grand narcissist who is this kid who plays online for, listen, I don't even know whether that playing is fake or not.

Speaker 1 I don't care whether it's fake or not. I only care whether Nevada would pass that money through compliance.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I shouldn't have known this because

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I said, you're going to lose $100,000 an hour the way that you're playing. That's the bottom line.
So he wasn't following the book. So

Speaker 1 he was not following the book. He's playing.
They don't even let you vary your bet that much over there when you play that. So I said to him, you really want to learn how to play blackjack?

Speaker 1 And of course, he just blows me off. So this went up back and forth.
I blocked him. He immediately put up on a story that I blocked him.
And now I look like the big, you know, P-word.

Speaker 1 And I look like the B and whatever. And it's like I'm 60 years old.

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Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So they certainly don't want to see some international website, crypto, with some kid. They just don't want it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Look, if someone has to come see me because they're watching some 27-year-old kid 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.

Speaker 1 But no,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I don't need to tell anyone other than you. I know you're living it.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. What do do you think of that business model where these online casinos pay these influencers and then well, it's very interesting.

Speaker 1 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, really?

Speaker 1 They actually put them in jail. Wow.
Yeah. Because they see it as like...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like anything I tell you, Brazil and Turkey recently arrested the influencers.

Speaker 1 and I thought it was funny like I was gonna 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.

Speaker 1 What do I think about the model?

Speaker 1 Well, I know that Nevada gaming regulators agree with this because we were having discussions amongst my group

Speaker 1 Stage stuff is not really permissible. Like you can't go into a casino and this was a problem in 2005.
They did a television show called Casino

Speaker 1 and it was Tom and Tim. They took over the golden nugget.

Speaker 1 And there were some discussions amongst the producers. And I only know because somebody who was on set told me, can we stage a hand? Can we put down $10,000?

Speaker 1 And can we turn it into a double down for the drama? Can we, no, they won't allow it. They don't want it on television.
So when you ask me that question,

Speaker 1 you know, how much of a 27-year-old kid betting $100,000 on roulette or whatever he's doing, like how much of that could possibly be real?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 From the casino, right? They're allegedly getting. It's still a circle any way you look at it.
Well, I'll pay you $10 million a month to promote my online casino. But you have to play.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 it just becomes too conflicting.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm never going to get a gaming license because I'm a compulsive gambler.

Speaker 1 So where I can get a job and I can do something that entertains people

Speaker 1 and then I'm able to make a living and survive because, you know, I still don't get paid. I did get $5,000 a video from Calchie.
Shout out to Calchie. They sponsored the podcast as well.
Oh, cool.

Speaker 1 Okay. You know who does well with this, man? Who? Vegas Matt.
Yeah, but he is.

Speaker 1 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 really did not. That's it.

Speaker 1 He's a slot player, which captivated every, you know, the audience. I'm not a slot player.

Speaker 1 He's just got more balls and more money than me. I mean,

Speaker 1 I would never put that money into slots like he did. Yeah, well, he admittedly, he's open about how much he loses on slots, which I like too, because you've got to be honest with people.

Speaker 1 Listen, when somebody's better than you, what am I going to say? Shout out to Vegas Matt, though. He's been on the show, and he's been crushing it, man.
Well, he got a million-dollar contract from,

Speaker 1 was it FanDuel or the other one of 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 gambled.

Speaker 1 Well, I spoke to another. You know, it's funny because I spoke to someone else in the Vegas Matt space.
No names.

Speaker 1 He had contacted me, and he actually gave me all his numbers, and he told me that his revenue, top-line revenue, is a million nine. Holy crap.

Speaker 1 I don't know whether that was just YouTube or everything. So he told me his top-line revenue is a million nine, but that he gambles so much money and loses so much money.
and is building a staff and

Speaker 1 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, right? That mentality.

Speaker 1 So he's building his brand and he's building his, but he has a top line of 2 million and he spends the whole thing. Yeah.
A lot of it gambling. Shout out to him.
I know Steve will do it does that too.

Speaker 1 Well, but that's again the internet money, right? Right.

Speaker 1 It goes back to that conversation. And that's, and that's big money.
Yeah, huge money. But, you know, I'm in a deal right now with a regulated partner.
And

Speaker 1 my gratitude is off the charts.

Speaker 1 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'm coming into it you know clean it's perfect i love him man i just saw you gambling with uh 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.

Speaker 1 Steve Wynne 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I love this industry. You know, I heard him say that.
And I kind of knew that. The other guy that just loves this industry is Jonathan Jossel down at the plaza.

Speaker 1 And I don't say that because I'm down there all the time or I'm trying to do business with him.

Speaker 1 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 dies cut from the same mold.

Speaker 1 So I said, Skylar, I said, can I play Crapless Craps Live? And you're casing. He said, absolutely.
This was about six or eight months ago.

Speaker 1 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 $3,000.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 like that he's a gambler.

Speaker 1 You know, I met him. He's 6'5 ⁇ .
He's in really great shape. You know, here's a point I want to make about him that's important.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But I'd like to ask the audience, and I'm serious, if you were 6'5, right, and had his face and were 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You know, people should know that he's not like this bad guy. Yeah, he's big on camera.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, she's a, maybe she has to be just to make it through the day. Can you understand that? No, I do.
I mean, I think on the internet, there'll always be those jealousy type people.

Speaker 1 I know, but in real life, like if you, in real life, like this is really old man advice. Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, I have empathy for that, that they have to, I'm not, I'm not, by the way, I'm not virtue signaling.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 it'd be tempting for you to be able to. I don't think it was your podcast.
It was another podcast. And they had two girls sitting there and they were attractive.

Speaker 1 And the conversation was, why would you ever go to college if you're an attractive girl that was the actual conversation that came up on my tick tock and i'm just like

Speaker 1 as an old man it's almost painful to watch i love it man we got to talk about your other drama with uh mr perez hilton who just came on the show what happened there you know the thing about mr irrelevant is this you know and i tell i always tell people on the podcast he just doesn't get me angry.

Speaker 1 Like I don't, 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.

Speaker 1 I'm going to work so hard. I'm going to show Perez Hilton that

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I think it's because I really know in my heart from his behaviors that he's really hurting.

Speaker 1 And then...

Speaker 1 You know, you know, he hasn't had it easy, I'm sure. You know, he has an alternative lifestyle.
I mean, I think everybody's aware of that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 How hard was that in the 80s? Really hard. So think about the pain that he has.

Speaker 1 So I am, and he's about 50, you know, and he,

Speaker 1 you know, my relationship with him started funny because

Speaker 1 he DM'd me. I would put up a video about Las Vegas.
And he had 5,000 or 6,000 followers on Instagram. And he had his millions of followers on his other platforms.

Speaker 1 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 TikTok or a Vegas Instagram.

Speaker 1 And I would do a video and he would say, he would either repost it or he would say, good job.

Speaker 1 And at first, maybe I thought it was a fake account. But he, 20 times, I made a video of him doing this.

Speaker 1 20 times he posted, you know, he posted a video and I wrote, good job and thank you and heart and, you know, the hands. Because I was thankful.
I was thankful that Mr.

Speaker 1 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 my videos, I said, look, honey, Mr.

Speaker 1 Irrelevant knows who I am. And this is, you know, a little earlier in my social media career.

Speaker 1 She says, What are you talking about? She goes, That's a fake account. He doesn't know who you are.

Speaker 1 And, you know, I went to bed like, I was kind of like feeling good.

Speaker 1 I went to bed like, you know, this big. And I thought to myself,

Speaker 1 he doesn't know who I am. He's, you know, he's Mr.
Irrelevant. I almost slept 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So maybe I was hurt for like 15 minutes, but after that, I'm like, oh, you know, I slept good that night.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 the internet is so smart, of course, it sends me the algorithm, and it's Mr. Irrelevant talking about Paul L.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Irrelevant's video immediately is,

Speaker 1 Vegas Paul E.C. 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.

Speaker 1 not angry, just laughing because I know the story because I've read every story on gaming for the last 40 years.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So he was a host and I was a customer. I didn't know him, but

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I'm, first of all, I'm 10 years older than this guy. I'm Paul D.
Cantino. I'm not Paul L.
Cantino. I'm from Long Island, not Rhode Island.
And I just excoriate him because, you know,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He doesn't seem like the type of guy that lets stuff like this go, to be honest. I'm okay with him.
He's in the business of that. You know, he's got to report on it.

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 1 I saw him post about that actually. I hide in the other room.
Like I, at my age, and believe me, and I was in there hardcore until I was about 47.

Speaker 1 I was in there one night when I was 47 and four guys

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So she's flirting 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.

Speaker 1 So I'm 230 and 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?

Speaker 1 And I swear to you, this is what's funny about it.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Maybe I got to take a little step back from this whole adult bar thing.

Speaker 1 You know, and I did and by the time I was 50 I had already wasted maybe a million dollars at the strip club at least because I was making I was well my very first girlfriend no

Speaker 1 my very

Speaker 1 I am gonna tell you a story my very first love

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 so that was a lot of money back take home like my taxes got paid at the end of the year by my partner my partner was an accountant so i got a hundred i got three thousand dollars 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like, I never saw that. Not like in person, you know.

Speaker 1 So I look up at her and I'm like, will you please, and it was $50. I'll never forget it.
I said, will you please take my $50 and maybe pay attention to me?

Speaker 1 No, 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 So she came down and she sat with 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.

Speaker 1 Like I had to have her. Like I'd never seen anything like it.
You know, she had brown skin.

Speaker 1 She had the same color skin as my girlfriend now, although my girlfriend now, her skin is unbelievably beautiful.

Speaker 1 And I took her down. And, you know, when you have skin like mine, you definitely want someone.
You definitely want someone with brown skin. And I talked my stuff to her.

Speaker 1 And she was, you know, she knew that I had money. And so she, you know, she was an opportunist.
And I remember I paid her $1,000 a week to be my girl. Holy crap.
Yeah. That's a lot.

Speaker 1 Well, because she was dancing. And this is a deal that a lot of nerds make when they get together with strippers.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to be the one who's going to tell you about it. So it's 1990.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Does anybody really, are strippers really happy doing that job? 20% are, let's just say, and maybe 80% aren't. Yeah, I agree.
She was the 80% who wasn't really thrilled with doing it.

Speaker 1 So I said to her, I said, look, I'll give you $1,000 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.

Speaker 1 She settled for the thousand, which I could afford because I wasn't going there anymore. And we had this agreement.

Speaker 1 She didn't move in with me immediately, but she moved into, you know, right next to me. And away we went.
But,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, oh yeah, I came here with my fiancé and she was sleeping with the bartender right in the front.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I caught him sleeping with my fiancé at the time. And I'm like telling this to German television.
The guy from German television is just rolling his eyes.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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. But the narcissist.

Speaker 1 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 knocked on the door.
And I knew she was in there with a guy, but I'm like so dumb.

Speaker 1 And they were in connecting rooms and he had run into the other room. The next day she admitted it to me.

Speaker 1 And I went in there and I knew that she was like, you know, obviously, I caught them in the middle of the act. It was just ridiculous.
Jeez.

Speaker 1 But getting back to the narcissistic adoration, because this is important. important, social media is so narcissistic.

Speaker 1 So what happens with me is I finally started putting, you know, that's another thing Frez didn't have to do. I used his name.
See, I got upset for a second.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So when my producer first came to me like six months ago, I was like, ah.

Speaker 1 Because his girlfriend had asked me if I wanted to be on television. I said, ah, you don't really want me on television.

Speaker 1 But he put that doubt in my he put that pain in in my mind because, again, he's in pain.

Speaker 1 So I stayed off of the camera until about eight months ago, 10 months ago.

Speaker 1 Now it's like, and the reason that the narcissistic adoration conversation became about what I look like is because now that people know who I am and what I look like.

Speaker 1 I mean, I can tell you on Saturday night, I probably took between 20 and 30 pictures. That doesn't surprise me.
And everybody wants me to say,

Speaker 1 Vegas Poly C.

Speaker 1 That by the end of the night, I was just like, wow, I can't even say it.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 I was hanging out with Dustin Lynch's posse. Wow.
So, do you know Dustin Lynch's? The country auditor? Yeah, the country auditor. So he has a residency at XS.
So

Speaker 1 either his tour manager or his good friend, and this blows my mind. Like, they contact me, like, will you hang out with us? You know, we're going to be at the win.
And I'm like, absolutely,

Speaker 1 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.
No one excess invited. Yeah, I'll tell you that in a second.

Speaker 1 I'm not humble faking, by the way. These are true stories.
So I never went to the excess because I'm a big gambler. What am I going to do? Hi.
I just spent $12,000 on this table

Speaker 1 to a girl. Will you pay attention to me? It's so not cost-effective.

Speaker 1 Like, I got to fake it, and I got, and I can't fake it, and I don't really have $12,000.

Speaker 1 So to me, the XS 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 I saw Randy.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Randy Tomas, wherever you are. Great guy.
He's a stage manager there.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But what I was going to tell you is why the Vegas policy 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.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry, every spin of the wheel, every roll, every turn of the card. Yeah.
And I was just like, it's, you know, I love it, but I love it. Like a couple times a day, I love it.
I feel that, man.

Speaker 1 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, had way too much.

Speaker 1 It was easy, but the table part, like you said, you're dropping 5K at least. Well, you know, I'll tell you a funny story.

Speaker 1 Dustin Dre invited me to Dre's, and he put me in the second table right by the stage. And I brought, wow, I just stuttered.
I never did that before. And he put me in the second table by the stage.

Speaker 1 and Trey Songs was there. Nice.
And it was awesome. I had the best time.
In fact, there's a video on my YouTube

Speaker 1 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 like a video of me.

Speaker 1 So I said to Dustin Dre, I said,

Speaker 1 I said, I can't even afford the tip

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I thought that was super cool. Like, I had to be honest with him, and you know, he was, you know, he was honest with me, he was nice and he's and he's a great guy, and that's a great place.

Speaker 1 That's a great place in terms of nightclubs. I hear it's one of the best.

Speaker 1 It's just you know, the you know, if you get the pounding music all night, then to go and get the great RB, you know, they play the great hip-hop stuff there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's it's it's really get a lot of talent coming through there, too. Oh, yeah.
I see their billboard every day on the show. Trey Songs was great.
He was great.

Speaker 1 I mean, just watching him and just he's got a great club there. Do you think you and Starfish will ever make up?

Speaker 1 No, because

Speaker 1 when I was at my lowest points, which, and a lot of this is the reason why I did that stupid taco shop and only took 25%.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 and the circa texted me and said, Paul, I mean, I love the circa. I really do.

Speaker 1 I have so much respect for Derek Stevens because it's so effing creative, you know, and they were like, Paul, you're not barred from here. Come here whenever you want, you know.

Speaker 1 And I'm a big fan and I do all of my sports book videos. I do a lot of them in the circa.
But I mean, look at the circa. The circa is that incredible sports book.

Speaker 1 It just throws the energy off of the sports book 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 circus.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 Well, that's the point with the circa.

Speaker 1 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, you wouldn't even be able to get a room in there ever.

Speaker 1 And he would have three times the rooms.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, you know, revitalize downtown. And he's done it.
I mean, you could stay at the D.

Speaker 1 It's like 70 bucks a night. 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.

Speaker 1 And that's like probably the best cheap hotel to stay at. It might even be the best cheap hotel to stay at in Las Vegas, although I'm a big fan of the Tuscany.

Speaker 1 Then if you want to really live some history, because the Golden Gate is the oldest hotel, I am telling you straight out, I don't think there's another operator operator in the gaming space in America who would have done what he did with the Golden Gate.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 for a 12th of an acre. What? He bought it from Haim Gobe in 2016.
It's in the Las Vegas Review Journal. I did the research on this.

Speaker 1 Then Haim Gobey took the money and bought the world's largest gift shop, which is on the corner of Sahara. and the Las Vegas Boulevard.

Speaker 1 But anyway, he paid top dollar to be, 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.

Speaker 1 So it's like one, two, three. He saved the Fitzgeralds.
I think it was before it was the D. He saved the D.

Speaker 1 He saved all the history at the Golden Gate. And then he built a super amazingly creative hotel casino.

Speaker 1 I don't know that there's a hotel casino that has better energy in it. I don't know.
And Circa? Yeah. Wow.
I love Circo. Shout out to Barry's.
Yeah, I know. And then Chef Barry.
Have you ever met?

Speaker 1 I know you. I was 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.

Speaker 1 And I sat with Chef Barry, Barry, and he said, you want to come in the kitchen or whatever.

Speaker 1 Listen, I was in the restaurant business for a little while. I don't want to say anything, but

Speaker 1 I've never seen. Did you go in the kitchen? I haven't.
I've never seen anything like that. Wow, is that? It's like an operating room.
It's like you would totally get a kidney

Speaker 1 transplanted in his kitchen. That's how clean it is.
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,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But, you know, just the fact that he can compete on such a high level and it's mobbed,

Speaker 1 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, holly, how you doing? I love it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Guys like that really make Vegas. Agreed.
Agreed. I see you go to Seagulls Bagel Mania every morning.
Is that the best breakfast spot in Vegas, in your opinion? For me, it is.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I go in there, and they put that coffee in that white cup,

Speaker 1 and I'm just like, I cannot believe that they've gotten all the acid out of the coffee and made it that flavorable. I tell them all the time.
I don't work for them.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This morning I had the sesame bagel toasted and the cup of coffee and like an ounce of white fish.

Speaker 1 And I call, I almost went there for lunch. Wow.
I went there for breakfast and I almost went there for lunch. I've never had their coffee.

Speaker 1 And Steve Siegel, you know, people don't realize that he's probably,

Speaker 1 wow. So this Kirk Kvorkian or whatever his last name is, I can never say it properly.
Of course, you've got Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And this I can tell you because they told me I can talk about this.

Speaker 1 They have 10 acres right on the strip, and they're going to do something there. I don't know what.
I actually, I don't deal with Steve because Steve's busy, you know, and he's running an empire.

Speaker 1 But I talk to his executive, Alex, who's super nice.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It says the person who sold it said no one else had the, 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?

Speaker 1 Vegas legend.

Speaker 1 Wow. That's a great question.

Speaker 1 Why wasn't it enough?

Speaker 1 Why wasn't what you had enough? Why did you have to,

Speaker 1 you know, do what you did? Yeah, you had it all, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. At that nice casino.
You know, again, you know, it all goes back to,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I was always the guy who drank and just got placid, you know?

Speaker 1 But maybe like 20 or 30% 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?

Speaker 1 And I think it comes down to the same thing with employees.

Speaker 1 Like, I've probably had 40 to 50 female employees.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 wow, I just can't see it. Like, I don't know whether that comes from me knowing that I'm not cool and knowing that it would be a burden on the poor girl or it comes from just fear

Speaker 1 or I mean I'm not saying that I didn't have attractive employees I certainly did

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 you got to be able to separate you know person it's not even separate it's just like no like I don't I don't you know

Speaker 1 I don't want it that way no it's not even it's not even that I just don't

Speaker 1 you know part of the great thing about being nerdy um 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 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 you know i had well i had half a million dollars in credit around town i had a hundred thousand dollars at five places how do i know that when i left here i owed a $100,000 hundred at five places and 50 at MGM, which I paid immediately.

Speaker 1 I used to be here in the 90s with all the money in the world, and I was in my late 20s, and I was skinny, and, you know, I had a full head of blonde hair, whatever. You were blonde?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was a girl. I got a full head of blonde hair.
Send me a photo. We'll add it to the video.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 And I wasn't even looking and thinking about girls. I was thinking about gambling.

Speaker 1 So it was always second for me.

Speaker 1 But, you know, again, that's the question I would ask him. I'd say, wasn't it enough? And then even if, look,

Speaker 1 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 goumar, you know, has like a girlfriend or whatever.

Speaker 1 Because it's just, it just comes up so often. And I totally am 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?

Speaker 1 No, but I mean, if he had to be Tony Soprano, you know, do it the Tony Soprano way. Have a couple of gumars, whatever.
Oh, yeah. Like if there were episodes on the Sopranos,

Speaker 1 wow, I don't even want to go into this. It's so stupid.
But Ralphie's girlfriend was trying to be Tony's girlfriend and Tony was like, no, I can't.

Speaker 1 Like even Tony kept it. Have a couple of girlfriends, you know, respect them.
It's separate from work. Like

Speaker 1 what I'm trying to say is if you have that much money, you don't need to put that pressure on anybody. Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 so when I was 17, 18, 19, I tried, you know, but it was just like

Speaker 1 it was no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I always look at that situation.
in Columbine, you know, the shooting of Columbine.

Speaker 1 And, you know, Dylan was a weirdo, 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.

Speaker 1 When I was rejected at 17, 8, 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.

Speaker 1 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 mean, I never even had a chance and she was not, you know,

Speaker 1 the most popular, but you would get hurt. and then I would get that shot of adrenaline from being hurt, just like gambling.

Speaker 1 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 a second, in just one second.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I got about a year and a half doing it. The dinosaur got me 42,000 followers, abandoned the account, I took it over a year later.
I had 42,000 followers.

Speaker 1 So for a long time, I was getting like a thousand a day. Now I get about three to five hundred.
So a thousand, a thousand.

Speaker 1 And I saw it growing and I did my videos. So I said to myself, wow, the marketplace likes what I'm doing.
You know, and then I get all the shout-outs and all the people that condemn it.

Speaker 1 So the marketplace, so I'll stick with this for a while.

Speaker 1 But I can tell you conclusively, this is my last year of deluding myself. Really?

Speaker 1 Yeah, because if I don't, if I don't manifest something this year that I can actually do, like, I'm incapable of taking, even if someone called me five minutes from now and said, Paul, come down to this is the world's greatest gambling gift shop.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 All of that

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.
So, but I feel bad because I got the table for nothing.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Now I know that I have a video that everybody's going to say, wow, that weirdo Vegas policee is actually like ripped. Like actually someone said to me in the chat, you are ripped.
Why?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, I came up with that comedy part of it.

Speaker 1 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 if it's not interesting,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And then there's stuff that you say to yourself, why I got to tell you one that happened about a month or two ago. And I was with my little girlfriend, Mahi.
I love her so much.

Speaker 1 Her skin was designed by NASA. She can re-enter the atmosphere without burning up.
Mahi streets are all natural. I don't know why I need to do that, but I just did it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I go down, I go under the overpass. You know, being under an overpass is not the most visually placed, most visually stimulating place in the world.

Speaker 1 I'm under the overpass, and I do the video, and I had done three videos that day already, and they were doing okay.

Speaker 1 And I said to little Mahi, I said, I'm not going to put this up. This is just not even.

Speaker 1 And then I said, but if I don't put it up, I'm going to forget about it. And I guess if I'm ever gonna put it up i'll put i put it up

Speaker 1 it's over three million views on instagram

Speaker 1 i don'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

Speaker 1 why are we sending money to ukraine and not building a five billion dollar interchange in las vegas you know and it be once it once 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.

Speaker 1 But leading up to the election, when you would would do a video like that, you know, that was political, like why is the money going here? Why is the money?

Speaker 1 And it's very interesting because now I notice the first thing that they're doing is a where is the money going thing.

Speaker 1 So it always was a big factor to the,

Speaker 1 you know, 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, some of the stuff they spent it on is mind-blowing. Hey, you know what? That girl, the girl, woman, girl, woman, I mean, she's 27 years old.

Speaker 1 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 talent?

Speaker 1 Is she amazing? Is that Levitt something? Yes, Carolyn Levitt. Is that her name? Carolyn Levitt.
Yeah, she's a beast. How talented is that woman? Super talented.
And such a young...

Speaker 1 Where'd they find her? I know. I feel like they have access to like...

Speaker 1 Like, I just love watching her because she's just so good at what she does. It's amazing.
She had to, like, deal with the Biden administration the past four years. Oh, she did?

Speaker 1 Did she work for them? Yeah, so shout out to her for like

Speaker 1 amazing, 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, you know? I just applied for White House credentials.

Speaker 1 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 you. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Do you ever get involved with politics? No, I don't because I know something that like nobody wants to talk about.

Speaker 1 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? Didn't we do this already? Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Extremely left, extremely right, somewhat left, somewhat right, and middle of the road.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I say it the wrong way, but it's that. I can spell it because I've spelt it a million times.
And the far right has a much larger amygdala. And

Speaker 1 it has so many interesting outcomes.

Speaker 1 And I think that people get all caught up in it and they don't all caught up in it.

Speaker 1 And they don't realize that the person that 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?

Speaker 1 And I have to respect everybody because if you really look at history, everybody's had a hand in making us who we are today.

Speaker 1 I remember

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 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 never read it anywhere.

Speaker 1 I had no idea that it was this, that, and the other thing. But the point is that the political establishment at the time, you know, that's reversed now.

Speaker 1 Like, one side was doing one thing and one side was doing the other thing. But the bottom line is, if people were an activist, I always use that when people try and attack the activists.

Speaker 1 If people were an activist,

Speaker 1 we'd still be beating people up, you know, in the streets. Like, that's so ridiculous.

Speaker 1 And then the other thing is, I don't know if you've ever watched

Speaker 1 Mad Men. I haven't.
Same thing.

Speaker 1 You know, in the 60s and the 70s, there's a couple of scenes there where she just rolls down the window and takes a whole tray of used fast food and just throws it out the window.

Speaker 1 So that's another thing that, you know, so you just...

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 When I do a post on XYZ Hotel, I don't care whether it's the Wind, 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,

Speaker 1 Why is that hotel not addressing what's in those comments? Sometimes it's all love.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I did a post. I did a walkthrough in Atlantic City.
I did walk through the

Speaker 1 hard rock Atlantic City for nine minutes. I've never seen so much love.

Speaker 1 And then I did another post somewhere 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 Seven Old Tribe in Florida, is probably the most loved gaming company in America.

Speaker 1 Wow. And number two, again,

Speaker 1 just based on the comments, is the Golden Nugget, the Golden Nugget brand. Interesting.
And I would say number, and then it gets, you know, then, of course, you have the win and station casinos.

Speaker 1 I love station casinos. I love the architect there.

Speaker 1 But what I'm trying to tell you is that chat will tell you everything about your product.

Speaker 1 So if you if you're honest and you are willing to accept,

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 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? There's no need for hate if it's not productive.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Like who cares? Like, who are you to have an existence? This is my life. Like, who cares? This is my life in Vegas.
Yeah. I'm out doing this, and I enjoy doing it and people enjoy watching it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But also because I wasn't dating, you know, whatever, and I was just working. So if I was 23, and the internet didn't exist and social media didn't exist.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 Wow, you're excited about coming here. Here's $20 in match play.

Speaker 1 Or we'd really like to welcome you while you're here. Here's $10 off breakfast.

Speaker 1 How are they not you?

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't want to get too dramatic and too emotional on your show. But how are they not utilizing that tool?

Speaker 1 They could have a staff that put up a link and they could just recruit gamblers and give them a little something

Speaker 1 and generate...

Speaker 1 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 thousand dollars a day because get two great employees.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna 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,

Speaker 1 back and forth with the people and the DMs, whatever, you would invest $5,000, right? $1,000 a day. And I know your ROI would be up there like 10,

Speaker 1 20,

Speaker 1 maybe even 100.

Speaker 1 You might even generate $500,000 in business. How do I know this for a fact?

Speaker 1 So I met a guy named Big Daddy Joe Leno. You mentioned him.
Yep. Big Daddy.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And, you know, yesterday he texted me, you know, thank you so much, Paul, whatever.

Speaker 1 I said, Big Daddy, I want you to be as big as you can be so that I get more content so that you become bigger, so that I get more content. So he's a great guy.

Speaker 1 And he actually contacted a tribal property in California and said, you know, Vegas Polysee will come out for the weekend and he'll show all your rooms.

Speaker 1 All you have to do is give him $5,000 in free play.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So if I'm getting paid, so you can get a tremendous return from just giving it away. No, they said no.
I said, well, they're idiots. I mean, they're really idiots.
I would have gotten them.

Speaker 1 The first time I did circa, I was one-third the size I am now, and I generated 2 million views for them. Wow.
Like in four days. Because I love the place.

Speaker 1 And I knew that I love this tribal property in California. No names, but like, like

Speaker 1 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 polisy yeah 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?

Speaker 1 You know, and maybe I come across as whatever. I mean, you think it didn't hurt me?

Speaker 1 I was telling some executive the other day, do you think it didn't hurt me to meet with the top level of the Fanta Blue before it opened and tell them you are going to fail and this is why?

Speaker 1 Do you think it didn't hurt me? Like, do you think I got off on it? I didn't get off on it.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 How are you going to open a casino hotel of that size with no database?

Speaker 1 Let's just do the math. If 1,000 of the best gamblers in the world come through your front door an opening night, right?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 you have 30.
70%

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 itself, I'll never forget it.

Speaker 1 No names, but trust me. Top of the top.

Speaker 1 We were busy.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 I know this because I talked two guys who were at the Cosmo in opening night in 2010. And what did they tell me?

Speaker 1 Exactly what I told the people opening at the Fountain Blue. But they didn't care.
They were like, look at this TikTok are abusing us.

Speaker 1 So the whole thing fell apart. Is Fountain Blue 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.

Speaker 1 They've really put the money into the place. The finishes on the inside.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, you know, I learned so much by reading my chat, but I also pick up funny things.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I mean, they opened with no room service. I remember I stayed there with me.
I was like,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 meet industry.

Speaker 1 So like, I'll get a guy who's general counsel over here and I'll run down.

Speaker 1 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 minutiae 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

Speaker 1 It really flows, and this is why the win was so successful. Steve had the personality.

Speaker 1 Steve gave the love. Steve was interesting.
Steve had a great voice. Steve was incredibly creative.
But Steve said this, and you can go and you can watch it.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 B, 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 drove three circles and I said, here's your $6 billion.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to put what's here. And I said, here is

Speaker 1 your hotel casino. I said, you have your $6 billion.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. You know, he tells me he does.
I don't believe him, but whatever. You have your site.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 not...

Speaker 1 It's an industry, it goes back to the movie Casino.

Speaker 1 The eye in the sky is watching the floor man. The floor floor man is watching the boxman.
The boxman is watching the dealer. The dealer is watching the player.
It's a tough, rough, hardcore industry.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 You're going to have to give them that culture. And you just can't do it with a new property anymore.

Speaker 1 And you know, I read all the comments about the employees at places like Resorts World, you know, with the overbearing security.

Speaker 1 You know, an interesting juxtaposition is the security at Resorts World and the security at the wind.

Speaker 1 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 wind, they're dressed like safari gods.

Speaker 1 They have that great personality. I think the wind on purpose hires all good-looking guys for that job so everybody looks like they're about to take you on safari.

Speaker 1 And then you have the resorts world. And I'll just, I met with an investor in the project that that I'm working on the other day.
And,

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't think he's trying to blow smoke up my ass.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And I was in the corner and they came up to me and wanted to know what I was doing.

Speaker 1 Now, this particular guy

Speaker 1 is extremely wealthy. I saw him piss away $40,000 like it was nothing one day.
I was like, wow.

Speaker 1 And they chased him out of there, or they made him feel bad. You know what I mean? You can't go go around making people feel bad.
Now, I had an incident there.

Speaker 1 You know, I am definitely a provocateur in a lot of this.

Speaker 1 And the other day, somebody contacted me

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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 $1,000?

Speaker 1 I said, I tell you what I'm going to do because I feel stupid.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It's doing terrible. So I killed two birds with one stone.
I get it that. And the guy, he's on CNBC.
I'm not going to give you his name, but he's on CNBC.

Speaker 1 I'll double it. He says, I'll give you $2,000.
I'm like, wow.

Speaker 1 I'm in nine o'clock. I'm in a meeting with somebody.
And I say to myself,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He don't want me doing the room because he's afraid of resorts world.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 I'm banned there. But also you have to remember I'm projecting.
I know who I am. I know I'm going to run in there.
I know I'm not going to cause any trouble. I know I'm going to be a church mouse.

Speaker 1 I know I'm going to run out of there. So I'm projecting my own innocence on the situation.

Speaker 1 I go running in there. The VIP room was open.
I go running past the VIP. 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So I go to the room and it's the super suite, which which is, you see, I can make the separation. The super suite, and I think they have three of them at Resorts World.

Speaker 1 People call it Vegas Matt's bedroom, I think.

Speaker 1 The super suite at Resorts World, it's fan-fantastic. It's absolutely, splendidly, amazingly gorgeous.

Speaker 1 If they didn't have like the most boring casino in the world and I had millions of dollars, I would stay at the super suite. And, you know, you can get a similar product at the wind.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Who are the people who want to see me?

Speaker 1 Basically, Miami royalty. I'm not going to go any deeper than that.
I'm sure they don't want the names out there. In fact, the guy was saying to me, Google them.
Google them. They're Miami Royalty.

Speaker 1 This is what he's telling me. So, of course, I Googled them when I left.
And I was like, oh, my God, they are Miami Royalty. Miami Royalty.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Open the door, and there's security, right?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 The minute I got to the curb, they read me the Riot Act. We're telling you now that if you come in here again, we're going to arrest you.

Speaker 1 We are telling you, and I have a copy of the guy talking to me.

Speaker 1 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 fashioned

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 I didn't even think to signal. I understand you got to give me.
Because I don't want those problems. Why don't I want them?

Speaker 1 Because conflict. is extremely dopamine sucking.
So if you're coming into all your situations with limited dopamine, you can't really do conflict.

Speaker 1 That's why great debate people, great lawyers who thrive on that conflict, they're super high dopamine people.

Speaker 1 Athletes, entertainers, comedians, they tend to be way lower dopamine. They need to get off so they end up entertaining you.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 A couple of other executives,

Speaker 1 and the president of that hotel.

Speaker 1 So of course, I say to them, what would you do? And I tell them the exact same story. I say,

Speaker 1 and again, this is my empathy kicker. Wouldn't you kick the, 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?

Speaker 1 Like, 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?

Speaker 1 Do the hallway thing, read them the riot act right in front of your super wealthy guests, right? You're running this.

Speaker 1 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 suite, whatever.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 If I could have written that scenario to show what assholes they are, are, it would have been absolutely perfect. Think about it.
I'm sneaking in there quick. I'm going to billionaire clients.

Speaker 1 I'm picking up the money for charity, and I'm getting the F out of there and causing no trouble.

Speaker 1 And they still had to be dickweeds.

Speaker 1 F them. Did you get arrested or what happened? They read me the riot act and they said, if I come on again, I'm going to get arrested.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, they probably didn't know what you were up to, to be fair, from their perspective.

Speaker 1 I went to the super suite. They know who's in the super suite.
How about a little communication?

Speaker 1 This is one of the problems in these hotels. They're so big that the layers are not talking to one another.
Yeah. You know?

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 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, because he's young, he's only 41.

Speaker 1 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...

Speaker 1 This is going to be a blast. 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 it on him.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 How long did I go? We went an hour and 10 minutes. Oh, okay.
Not bad, all right?

Speaker 1 No, just that

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 Hopefully, you can figure out some money stuff soon, man. Okay, no problem.
Okay, thanks. All right.
Check them out, guys. See you next time.