Today is Sunday, August 17, 2025, and this.

My friends and I went to Vegas.

I got hammered, ate a bunch of food, passed out, woke up the next morning, went to the pool,

and when I looked down, there was, like, white powdery stuff in my belly button.

And I was like, oh, God, did I do Coke for the first time last night?

Is 500 by midnight, the original Las Vegas podcast, show number 973?

Las Vegas, no!

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 take 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, Mike. Vegas. Do you think we get there by midnight? Money, we're going to be up $500 by mid-night.

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 500 by midnight. What's going on today? We're about to record a fucking podcast. Fuck yeah, we are. Now I feel like I've got you too loud. Uh-oh. Let me turn that down just a tad. Not that I don't like hearing your voice loudly in my head, but I don't want to, you know. Yeah, I know. Okay. No offense. None. None taken. All right. This podcast, the one you're listening to right now, the one that you and I are participating in and recording right now, is listener supported. Did you know that? Mm-hmm. Oh, okay. Well, good. Well, I'll tell you a little bit more about it. We've got these things called patrons who support the podcast week in, week out. They're wonderful folks. And we have a new and a returning patron this week. Our new one, and I'm fairly certain that this is an alias, James Nadgob. Nadgob is fun to say, however. Welcome, James. Returning, Erazenznamian, which I may or may not have mispronounced. Thank you to both of you for being our patrons. We do appreciate your support. If you would like to join James and Eric, Erez, I said Eric the first time. It's a res. See, I fucked up. I was so, concentrating on the last name. Fucked up the first name. I feel like now I got both of them wrong. Anyway, if you'd like to join them, visit patreon.com slash 500. You can have your name mispronounced by me on this show and you get other bonused up as our way of saying thank you. And we appreciate all of our patrons very, very much. All right, we've got some news.

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