Well, hello there and welcome to the 40th episode of Curiosityness. I am Travis DeRose, the host,

and this episode, I am joined by Christina Binkley. She is super fun to talk to you. She's been a journalist,

worked for the Wall Street Journal, and has a bunch of

really cool stories about, like, driving a Ferrari and meeting the Olson twins and all this stuff.

But, ooh, and interviewing Elon Musk's mom, which we talk about, which is cool. But she's also the

author of Winner Takes All, which is the story of Steve Wynn in Las Vegas and all that stuff.

And she covered all of that starting, you know, in the mid to late 90s and just has a wealth of

information on, you know, the whole Vegas industry and the Steve Wynn story. So it's pretty

interesting. And we just kind of get into all that and then just talk about some other cool stuff that she's done. And so it's just a fun conversation. I think you'll enjoy it. So without further ado, here is Christina Binkley.

And boom. Hello. How's it going, Christina?

That's going great. How about you? I'm doing good, yeah. Thank you for being on.

I'm glad to.

So I found, I kind of discovered you through your book. It popped up on Amazon.

The winner takes all, which is the story of Steve Wynn and in Las Vegas and all that kind of stuff, right?

Right.

But then I did some more research on you and you've done, you've seemed to have like all this

other crazy fun stuff you do.

You seem to live a very fun, exciting life.

Yeah, I guess I, yeah, I, um, pinch myself sometimes.

I don't know how it happens. I always tell people that people say, how do you create your career? And I'm like, one foot in front of the other. Mm-hmm. Just keep saying yes to opportunity. I don't know, you know, but yeah, I have, I do have a pretty good time. Cool. And they all come back together. Like, you know, like Steve Wynn and Las Vegas is still a part of my life, but I have all these other things going on too. Yeah, it's funny how things just kind of almost accumulate like that where it's just kind of, you're just going through life and things are happening and it's good and bad, but then you look back and it's like, man, I've really done a lot of stuff or, you know, it's just kind of you're just going through life and things are happening and it's it's good and bad but then you look back and it's like man i've really done a lot of stuff or you know

it's fun to look back at that stuff i think yeah it is very much so yeah i mean like how if someone you know

you're at a party or something and someone ask you what you do how do you kind of respond to that what do you

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