Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening

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hater. We have wrapped up our list of the top 25 athletes of the last 25 years. We've given

episodes around them to offer a bit of context for things that have gone on in the last 25 years.

And of course, joining us now, the man who needs no introduction, New Orleans

E's own Michael Smith was going on. Not much, man. What's happening with you? Hey, man. I was in

Vegas a couple weeks ago. Way, man, wasn't the same without you. I lost a lot of money, too. Not

like a lot, lot, lot, lot, you know what I'm saying? But I was not victorious. That's why I forgot to send you the text messages with the updates. But did you enjoy it, though? Had a ball. Had a ball. You know, that's, that's all it could be. So my first, yeah, I won't take up too much time with this, but I'll just remind you that my first real visit to Vegas was with you. And when we sat on at that blackjack

table, you reminded me. It's like, look, man, you earned it. This is about enjoying yourself. If you here,

if you here to make money, you got a bigger problem. No, that is what I tell people all the time.

Like, I give people like, I just don't like giving away my money.

And that's only kind of true because people give away their money in all kinds of ways.

You spend money on all kinds of things where you don't get anything back.

The problem is if you approach it with the plan of I'm going to walk out of here with more money than I came with.

That strategy is, what's the word I'm looking for here?

Fraught. Right, right, right. As an exercise of futility more often than not. Right, and you know what? It is keeping the place going, but I tell you this. I don't know if you've seen this, but they've been reporting about, like, Vegas being down, and I'll be honest, it felt a little slower, but it's also worth noting it's so goddamn hot.

That like summer Vegas is now like a whole different animal. You better gamble.

I can only imagine. I could only imagine. Like you better gamble otherwise you go fry. You know what I'm

saying? Could before you move on, I'm going to just make a request. Like can you, could we do a

podcast one day where we just give the inside story of our last trip to

Vegas I think we can pull that off okay I just I just I just I just remember some of our

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