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important thing in the world. Wake up your little sleepy heads. Time to
get your stupid ass out of bed about the most important thing in the most
important thing. It's cold in here. Yes, I'm freezing my nipples off.
Just wait till eight. We need some blanks in here. I have
some morning blankets. Yeah, good, Kevin. Can you bring us a
few shawls from nana's house. From my nana's house, huh, yeah,
I'm figured you just have some extra shawls. I am tired. Do you
want some that'st Nana His fingers hurt because she's making shawls all day. Kevin's
yelling at her make more. Jesus is so tired. I thought I could
get some Trump shawls up here. Yeah, my blanket and my blankets.
I need a red and white Maga afghan for my lamp. I might have
my pillow pillow at my house. I do because my mom definitely, like
ten years ago before I'd ever heard of Mike Lindell, was like, I'm
going to send you the greatest pillow. I'm like, awesome, And then
like five years later, I'm like, oh, okay, five years later,
you start voting differently. Yeah. Back when I worked at the Fan,
they basically said invida, same voice. One of the older sales executives
came up and said, I want you to endorse the Greatest pillow, And
I said, okay, I just did the read. Yeah, so I
did reads nothing. They hadn't even sent it to me at the time either,
And I reads for my pillow, yes, to make you know,
just a little bit extra cash on the side. And they finally sent it
to me. Let me tell you it's better than the pillow that I had.
Really yeah, great, But I also had an upgrade in my pillow,
and I will tell you just to this day, I do lay my
head to rest every night on my pillow to this day. I'm sure it
was a vast improvement over the I don't know, the chicken pot pie cardboard
box you were sleeping on. The pillow I had in my dorm in college.
Yeah, discarded hungry man box. The way it's described. I just
imagine Kevin's house looking like the underpass at Spring Valley in the tollway, with
walls and most of the roof and ever far off. Mikey saw a little
bit of my house last night, but I was careful not to show him
too much. I didn't see any because you couldn't figure out FaceTime. No,
I could see you perfectly. Hey, well, I could not see
you at all. I don't know if we think about our pillows enough,
because I just kind of have the one I have, you know, and
you're like, I like it, and then your I always think I want
to get a good pillow like a bed, and you know that we have
these modern pillows with next support and all this stuff. I don't know what
all that means. But how do you try out a pillow? Right?
Do you go to a store and lay down in the damn aisle? They'll
let you do that at sleep number they do, But do you really know?
You don't know until a few days I guess of sleeping all you couldn't
You couldn't be who could tell? Yeah that like you get you got to.
Yeah, you have to experience something. You can't just put your head
down for a minute and go that was nice. I have one that's got
some memory foam mix and it does have these like cooling gel little dabs on
it, you know, like one side is like that's two hundred of these
little gel things. I don't know, and it's nice. It's like mildly
cool for one second when you switch to that side. I don't know if
it's worth it or not. But anyway, that's pillow talk. This one
of that's most important thing. Well, what's coming up next? Kevin?
What's on Kevin at seven? So much sports? My god, we'll be
back. So the Super Bowls in Vegas, which is weird we having spending
time on it because like Vegas is probably the most dangerous town to have a
Super Bowl. The city was like blackballed from hosting sports for most of our
lives. Yeah, because it was known as to being full of floozies,
Like what's the why because the gambling hookers? Like what was the first I
don't guess, not first stuff, but what was it? When did we
break through this wall that led to now the f and Super Bowl is there?
In three days? Hockey the hockey team got there before the Raiders did.
Yeah, I was trying to get there. The seven NBA All Star
Game was there, and I think that may have been That's a long time
ago now, yeah, And I think what arena did they have in place
for that because they probably played at uh yeah, they played the lobby of
the Flamingo. I'm sure they played it. Thomas and Mack I think I
don't know that's where. That's where you and LB played forever. But the
seven All Star Game was the one that I think greenlit sports in Vegas,
and that didn't go off without a hitch. There was over four hundred arrests
hell yeah that week, including Adam Pacman. Jones was arrested for his alleged
involvement in shooting and a shooting that left the Strip club security guard paralyzed.
He could. He's proven that you can get arrested anywhere though. Okay,
yeah, but it's weird that that may have ticked the door open slightly.
And now we have NHL, there's WNBA, we have an NFL team.
MLB is either head of their trying to get there, probably hadn't there.
I think it's about f one race blew up last year. I think it's
about evolving attitudes about gambling. You know, culturally, it's not as frowned
on as it used to be. I mean, for sure, dude,
that was such a kind of a blacklisted thing. It was like the forbidden
thing that you never discussed when it came to professional sports. You just never
crossed over. You never discussed those things. And the NFL realized that there
is so much profit to be made by teaming up with those entities. Well,
it's also the location, right, I mean, Southern locations have blown
up, as with franchises. I mean I reference it all the time,
but Florida when I grew up, had one team and now there's four in
every sport everywhere, and Vegas along with Phoenix and Florida and here, I
mean people are migrating south. They moved to warmer areas, and Vegas they
worked hard to turn themselves into a legitimate booming. You know, residence and
north Las Vegas is nothing like the Strip, and that is one of the
faster growing I think. You know communities or cities in America, you think
Vegas, you think the Strip, and that is not how Vegas residents at
least view themselves. It's wild. You think of Las Vegas as having this
rich, long tenured history, but that's a younger city than Dallas, right
yeah. I always the associated yeah, like Phoenix and Las Vegas as the
youngest cities. I don't know, okay, yeah, that's an interesting question
that I never think about the age of these cities, right probably, yeah,
yeah, officially incorporated in nineteen eleven. So Dallas was what eighteen eighteen,
eighteen seventy eight, eighteen eighty one something around there. I think cabin,
it's hard trying to look for it, but yeah, it's tough,
that little log cabin that's downtown and that was the only teen fifty six,
Oh wow, that early yeah, and Phoenix was eighteen eighty one, and
I'm just throwing on those out just because I think of them as new and
just moving way fast growing. Yeah, westward expansion, Yeah, but yeah,
Vegas is just an interesting place. And man, they were no dice,
no fly zone for sports not too long ago. And now the Super
Bowls at Allegiance Stadium, which is kind of on the strip. Have you
been to it. I've never been to it. It's state of the art,
badass. Yeah, no, apparently, it's it's really cool. I
know, it looks cool and it's modern and it's not you know, it's
all black and they have a torch in there. They're an eternal flame.
But I know they have like a club type thing, and you know,
you can like the sweets kind of our field level. My buddy got a
sweet Tool game once, and you know, they have all the pomp and
circumstance of a Vegas club, but you're kind of right there watching the game
and those are pretty penny, no doubt. And then we were reading about
this too. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. And I'm pretty
sure you can walk there from them, and that's how it's designed. You
know. I think it's right behind where like Luxwor and Man are sort of
on the south end of the Strip, I believe, but you can definitely
migrate via foot to a Raiders game or to the super Bowl itself. So
that's the type of place like it's been avoided for whatever reason. Finally the
NFL embraces it. And they're also embracing gambling. Like I saw Tony Romo
made some comments and he's like gambling, he's kind of taken away like the
beautiful I'm paraphrasing sound of his quote in front of me, the beautiful part
of the game. It makes it feel less authentic because of gambling. I
don't know that I agree with that personally. I think if you want to
gamble, you can. I think there's plenty of people out there who don't
gamble and enjoy football the same way they always have. But you got it,
like both teams, neither of one of these teams are staying on the
strip. They're staying far out and they're not allowed to go there to any
place. I look this up. The Chiefs are staying at the Weston Lake
Las Vegas Resort and SPA. The forty nine Ers are at the Hilton Lake
Las Vegas Resort and Spot. Those are both about twenty five miles east of
the strip technically in Henderson, I guess, but just north of Henderson,
but yeah, they're half an hour, well more than that with traffic east
of town. And there's also a mandate from the NFL that no NFL employee.
NFL employees are barred from visiting casinos or gambling in any form during Super
Bowl week because I was wondering about that. You know, like, man,
it's hard to stay in I mean, especially with these guys to be
young, have all that money, stay essentially in a casino and not creep
on down for an hour? Sure? And is that okay? Well,
I mean it's not okay, But you know, who cares if you go
knock out an hour of blackjack or something like that? To me, it
seems like a harmless activity, but I guess it can lead to It's the
chain reaction. It's a harmless activity, is it not? No? I
think it is. Who's gonna go down and play an hour of blackjack?
If you have the means to sit at the table longer than an hour,
That's what I do. Are they allowed to drink? I mean they have
probably team orders that they're not allowed to. But does that what does that
really mean, I mean they're not allowed to leave. I bet they're not
allowed to leave, like the hotel, and one of the two I think
does have a casino. I don't know. These are mostly like like I
told earlier, North Vegas is different. Wait, one of the two team
hotels has a casino and got to be operatives and team employees that are kind
of like assigned to be basically Rasch hall monitors. Sure that there aren't dudes
wandering around at two in the morning trying to sneak in a slot. It
says there are casinos in Lake Las Vegas, just like everywhere else in the
state, but the area is largely meant for wholesome activities golf courses, spas,
aqua park lakeside dining, shopping, boating, kayaking, So it's sort
of designed as a respite from the strip. And if you have a family,
maybe it's a better option there. So it's smart to have them stay
out there. Hmmm. And we have we heard anything about anybody. I've
got a player that's not for any of the two teams playing, but Jennarius
Robinson, who's a defensive end for the Raiders, was arrested good early yesterday
morning for a DUI at the area l V Vallet Area Area r A R
I A that's right there on the strippy. Yeah, so there's your first
one. There's are like a huge article. There are many articles on this
because its football week. But it's like, don't be shocked if more NFL
players are suspended during Super Bowl Week in Las Vegas, because I guess if
you're in the NFL, so you like Calvin Ridley missed a whole year because
he was playing on DraftKings, are they allowed to go to the casino and
throw cards? Well you mean at all? Like people aren't. Yeah,
NFL player right now could oh but not in the Super Bowl off duty?
You mean yeah, could Let's just say Trevor Lawrence. I don't know why
that's the guy. Could he go to the casino and play at any time?
Yeah? I mean I've never heard any ban on NFL players from playing,
you know games. Here, let me just read this. I don't
think they can bet on any on football. The league has a strong,
strong policy that bars players, team personnel, and NFL employees from betting on
NFL games. All right, Okay, we know that members of the forty
nine ers Chiefs are prohibited for betting any kind in the lead up to the
Super Bowl, which also means not a lot of visit casinos, even for
non sports gambling purposes. So they're players for the Chiefs and forty nine ers
are not allowed to go even visit casinos. I don't I'm trying to just
read as we do this. The rules are no different for the participating teams,
players, and other personnels they would be for any other game. Went
on business. There is no gambling, whether it be sports or otherwise.
Okay, so went on business. Okay, what if Nick Bosa wanted to
take advantage of the buffet at the casino? The players aren't allowed to eat
this week, Keavin, they're allowed to eat, They're not. I had
to be in the casino, I think, but their team hotel is.
It's also like kids aren't allowed in the casino, right, but you can
walk through casinos. Sure, problem, you just can't loiter, okay,
like little kids jeans. It's okay to walk through, but you gotta don't
twist your head left or right and look at the ding ding. I'm just
glad that just stay moving. I'm just glad that these teams are going to
be eating this week during Super Bowl Week. I'm reading that. I'm reading
that right now, Covi. They are going to be eating. Nick Bosa
is going to have a couple of meals. That's good. Uh. I
predict if any player gets in trouble because usually this We've seen the Eugene Robinson
solicitation of a hooker classic and then what was it the Atlanta Falcons Denver Bronco
Super Bowl thirty two I believe then we saw Barrett Robbins go nuts and leave
the team down. He went missing and he was the starting center for the
Raiders, right yeah, and he just went missing on like Wednesday of Super
Bowl week and just never came back the starting center. That's oh crazy.
The day before ever came back, he just left. It's like when dad
goes out for cigarettes and never comes home. One of his teammates said,
when he resurfaced that night, okay, he was so incoherent that he didn't
even know where he was. He didn't even recognized the coach Bill Callahan.
And despite that, Al Davis still wanted him to play in the game.
Yes, because he was rememb missing. The day before the Super Bowl was
the day before that night, he didn't take his depression medication. That night
they found him, and now there was like, we can getting ready to
play tomorrow. Yeah, when in a bottle of water. Development coach Willie
Brown had Robins running sprints in the parking lot in the morning of the game
to see if he could still play. Get your head right? What a
Josh Hamilton's story? That is man? And then it was Rodman that famously
disappeared kind of his lost weekend in Vegas and then the team have to go
drag him out of a casino. Yeah. Regular season though, Yeah,
I was during the season where he's still just left. Well, he had
kind of an understanding between him and Phil that I need temporary breaks yep,
you know, to keep my head right, Like if I have to go
wrestle someone at bash at the Beach, Yeah, I'll see you in a
week. Yeah. But he was gone for much longer than they anticipated and
had to go drag him out of there. It does say right here the
league has informed players of teams other than the Super Bowl participants that they are
allowed to gamble, but not on NFL games. Well, it's only one
NFL game. Trevor Lawrence is allowed to go throw dice or do whatever you
need pay a fortune. That's true, that's like the best slot, by
the way, not anymore. It's not the last time I was at a
casino. It was thirty years ago and they added a wheel to your one
arm bandit and every old person is looking for the Wheel of Fortune slot because
I want to make it spin to the casino. What's wrong with that?
I won six dollars? What is wrong with that? We all want to
trigger the bonus game. Danny. Don't you like playing Wheel of Fortune?
No, you used to. I used to when it was a novelty.
I like. Now every slot is the wheel, I know. But I
do love the gambling snob that looks down on the people that play like video
poker slots like Moon. You need to get in a real room with Doyle
Brunson, play real cards, young King, Doyle Brunson gambling in heaven now.
Yeah, but there is a cutoff of the confidence of playing slots,
which I love slots too, and then getting down on the craps table,
which is intimidating. How do you roll on slots? What do you mean?
Do you go five dollars ten? It depends, but all I do
is max bet always. You have to that increases your odds. Nickel slots
are fun just if you want to kill time. I'm not there to like
I'm not. I know I'm not gonna win a bunch of money, so
I just don't want to lose a bunch of money. I want to play
the game and have some free water down drinks. And yeah, I agree
with you that, But nickel slots aren't even nickel slots because it could say
one cent on it and you put one hundred bucks in there and you hit
max bet and you just bet thirty six dollars right on one spin. I
know, I don't know. Penny slots almost scare me more if you do,
like a five dollars slot and it says three three bet max, that's
fifteen bucks. Okay, that I know what I'm getting. It's terrifying going
to a penny slot hitting max bet because you have no idea what the hell
is going to be. You just bet seven hundred ways. I want nothing
black Jack, then Roulette, because Roulette, I still feel like I can
hedge it enough that I'm doing. Okay. Lette's fun, It's very simple
and it's interactive and it takes a few minutes. Live roulettes at least get
your chips out there. And there's that kind of a thing happening. Yes,
but black Jack's if you play black jack with me tomorrow night, Mikey,
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