Welcome back. It's the big blue ban to New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Join as always my co-ist Nick Falado and I tried my best to get out a big old welcome back as I'm dealing with.

What is turning into Nick the longest stomach virus slash food poisoning of my life. I'm not entirely sure what's going down with my stomach area these

days, but I'm going to not go too much further information in this because I've already provided

way too much information for the audience. Let me just say this. I got back from Vegas, and I haven't

dealt with the worst situation down there ever. I don't know if it's food poisoning yet or a stomach

virus. I'm going to

the doctor finally today. I have to at this point. But my God, what a wild way to end my Vegas trip.

And let me say something to you about the Vegas trip. Okay. Vegas, I go every year for some

of my friends and we gamble. We go out to awesome meals, awesome dinners. I had some incredible meals.

I got a list of restaurants now for people to go to for both lunch and dinner we go off strip for every meal

we plan out every meal and we hit some of the best spots did you go to bazaar meats no i never even

heard of that one maybe that's the next year thing um we did go to esther's kitchen which i've been waiting

to go to and was amazing for one of the dinners. Went to a new place, Guyu Plus for Japanese Sando sandwiches. I don't know if you've ever had those, Nick. They're on the milk bread with like steak, chicken katsu, eggs. So freaking good for lunch. We went there. Obviously, we hit up tacos, El Gordo. We hit that every year. That's some of the best tacos in Vegas. But I'll say

this about Vegas. They've really turned it into, Nick, for a gambler like me. And shout out to,

you know, Vegas. I stayed at Aria. It was great. They caught my whole experience because I gamble

a lot there. And I play your whole experience. Yeah, because I play, I play enough. Wow.

I lose enough to them. They've really found a way on the strip, and I'm sure listeners who listen and we'll just leave it at this. I won't go too much more into the experience. They found a way on the strip to really make it as player unfriendly as possible in those casinos. As player unfriendly, super high men's, blackjack six to five payouts everywhere now. I mean, like, you can't even play a $50 game and get a three to two payout on blackjack. You have to go to the high roller room is what they told me to play to get a three to two payout. I mean, come on, just be fair about this. Craps tables, they're taking little edges here. They're giving worse odds on stupid little things. The roulette has a triple zero now. It's just every little thing they can do to grind you down. And it's so unnecessary. And it's no surprise to me, Nick. And yet it was a hot weekend. So maybe that was the reason. But I've been there for that same weekend every year and we ended on this. It's no surprise to me that when I was walking the strip, that was the least crowded I've ever seen the strip in Vegas. You can look it up online. Tourism in Vegas is way down. And it's because these casinos have turned over. And my theory, Nick, is the moment, if you look at the trends, the moment these casinos went to m gm properties and you know

caesar whatever the caesar properties is i don't know what the cesar you know seizures and all those

are the minute they went away from the mob it all went downhill this was better run by the mob

Vegas legitimately better because the mob no it's not a joke the mob would give you experiences

if you lost a you know a lot a big chunk of change in Vegas at their casino at the

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