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🗓️ 10 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Your host has created for himself a little working vay-cay out in the wilds of the Nevada desert for a debauched week of poker-playing and podcast recording. Most of the episode is devoted to Bert's whinging about this, that, and the other. Is it boring? It is.
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1:16.3 | Maybe you can hear the blasting AC in the background. |
1:19.7 | It's probably creating a kind of ambient hum that I regret, and I apologize if it's annoying. |
1:25.2 | But that's the way it is here in the desert. You got to keep the place |
1:30.0 | frosty. And I have been vacillating between hot and colds on the plane, in the airport, |
1:38.1 | walking to the taxi, and adding and removing layers. Why am I in Las Vegas? I will tell you, |
1:45.0 | I got it into my head. |
1:47.0 | I don't know when or why. |
1:49.0 | It was like a week or so ago. |
1:51.0 | I got it into my head that I'm going to be in Los Angeles for my daughter's graduation. |
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