Today is Sunday, April 27, 2025, and this.

From the Tropicana Hotel, the most exciting game in town.

Las Vegas Gambit, and here's your host, Wick Martindale.

Is 500 by Midnight, the original Las Vegas podcast, show number 960.

Los Angeles, I'm just thinking of all the amazing times that we've had here in Las Vegas.

I hope that you're having an enjoyable stay here in Las Vegas and also hope that you have been fortunate. I do wish that for you. You're going to give Daddy the Rain Man Sweet. Do you think that? We're going to Vegas, Mike. Vegas! Do you think we get there by midnight? Money, we're going to be up $500 by midnight. Yeah! Vegas! Vegas, baby! Vegas. Las Vegas is waiting.

Out on the streets below.

Hello, everybody.

This is Tim.

And this is Michelle.

Welcome to Fivehundred by midnight.

How are you doing?

I'm all right. How are you? Pretty good. We are back after a week off. We had a family emergency.

Had to deal with. We had to recover from brunch.

Family emergency is the excuse you use when you just don't want to do something, but you don't want anybody to question it.

That was from an episode of Portlandia a long time ago.

So I learned that lesson.

But you're probably not supposed to tell people that that's what you're doing.

So good to be back.

We have a lot to talk about exciting times.

I want to thank our friend Kevin for that opening clip.

Yes.

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