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Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

Beating The Book: The 15th Annual Vegas Lifestyle Show: A Man's Guide to Sin City

Beating The Book with Gill Alexander

VSiN

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.7535 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

It is the 15th Annual Beating the Book Vegas Lifestyle show! Host Gill Alexander is joined by Marc Meltzer (Casinos.com, TravelZork, etc) and Tim Lawson (Host of The Bettor Life: Bettor Than Ever). They discuss the Vegas lifestyle scene, from sportsbooks to steakhouses, and everything in between!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Check it out, now.

0:05.8

Live from the Sirius XM Studios at the beautiful Wynn studios here on the strip.

0:11.5

That's the hotel the win, where the Sirius XM studios are.

0:14.5

Swankiest studio not only on the strip, but pretty much anywhere I've ever seen.

0:18.0

Gil Alexander, this is the fun one.

0:20.9

The week between the championship games of the NFL and the Super Bowl itself,

0:25.5

next week, Rufus Peabody, for the Super Bowl Megapod edition on Wednesday.

0:30.2

But the week in between has been a tradition on this podcast for 15 years,

0:34.8

the whole 15 year history of this podcast.

0:37.7

It is the Vegas Lifestyle Show, the 15th annual Vegas Lifestyle Show,

0:42.3

a man's Guide to Sin City, which we titled decade and a half ago, a decade and a half ago,

0:47.2

I should say.

0:48.2

And the staple of that show every single year of this installment, Mark Meltzer, Meltzer like Seltzer. You can see him on Twitter at Meltz Vegas. Mark, what's happening at, man? In studio. Man, it's exciting to be here. I've never been in this studio. I've been meals across the hall, down the hall. Gambled here a little bit, but never been in the studio, and I've always been looking forward to it.

1:29.2

Dude, great to have you. And our other guest here on the show is remote, but he's about to pay tribute to you, by the way, because he also, not only is he the host of the Better Life podcast, not only is he the Megapod historian, but he comes as the Megapod historian today, not only as guest on the show, but with some Mark Meltter facts, I believe,

1:28.0

Tim Lawson, guest on the show, but with some Mark Meltter facts, I believe, Tim Lawson everybody on the show for not the first time. You've

1:33.6

been on the Megapod before, right, Tim? It's true, Gil, look, I made my debut in week 14 of

1:43.3

2018, so like just after legalization, but not enough to where everything was quite as far and wide as it is now. You know, Gil, I don't know if you know this, but my, my appearance on the megapod has been lauded as one of the worst guest appearances in Megapod history.

2:05.4

I don't think that's a lauding. But yes, I get it.

2:08.5

But, you know, I got a little too cute on trying to do like player prop angles and such.

2:13.9

And it's hard to, it's almost hard to believe, you know, even in 2018 after legalization,

2:20.3

midweek player props weren't available everywhere like they are now. Right. And I tried,

2:25.1

I tried to play the player prop angle. It didn't work. I admit that it was a poor showing.

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