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Hi, my name is Alan and I was calling.

I'm going to thank you Bob for inviting me to be meeting your Las Vegas for any excuse

I'll have to come to Las Vegas, I'll take, I, you picked me up around, it was about four

o'clock and then I'm standing at the, I'm standing at the Mandalay Hotel and it's really

nice.

It's a lot different than when I got so, when I was like, my rent Friday night is like $183

for tomorrow night at the Mandalay Hotel.

When I was a social drinker, my rent, and I lived in Hawaii at the time, I was living on

the beach, on the, really that beach on the swamp, on Pearl Harbor, in a concert, you

know, they had quants at Hudson, they quants at Hudson, they, the huts were there from when

they were building on Pearl Harbor and then this lady took them over there and she was

renting rooms out and my room there was like $36 a month, you know, and it, it came

a point to where I, you know, I couldn't make the rent, yeah.

And so what I did is I, I sublished part of my room to another guy and I, you know,

and I forgot to, the name of the place was called Samoan Village and the reason they call

it Samoan Village is because Samoans lived there.

And I, like I said, the guy forgot to check if he had a job and Pete didn't have a job

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