Committed Technically
You know that one friend you’re so close with that people start asking questions? Yeah, we turned that into a brand.
Introducing Committed Technically: A podcast by two people who are "married" to the hustle (and each other’s drama). It’s for the confused friends, the curious bystanders, and anyone who loves a good platonic power couple.
Let’s Chat & Yap.. It’s going to be a long, weird honeymoon.
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Committed Technically
What Happens in Vegas...
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Oh, Committed Gang...WE ARE SO BACK!
As the "Entertainment Capital of the World", does Vegas still have what it takes to attract the crowds? From the high-stakes energy of the casinos to the hidden gems only the locals and seasoned travelers can find. We're committed to Vegas Baby, well - Technically.
Today we're recapping Brandon's most recent trip, our favorite memories, and if it's time to stop saying "Let's go to Vegas" for a cheaper getaway.
Come on gang, it's time to chat and yap about it!
Distribution: Buzzsprout
Editing and Production: Riverside.FM Studios
Music: "Good Things Take Time" by Otto.mp3 and Upbeat
That was that I don't know. That's not what was supposed to come out of my mouth.
SPEAKER_01I I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_00Welcome back, brother man. So what the fuck has been up? We haven't like okay. I don't think people realize that we had to record so many episodes ahead of time. This is the first time we've actually got to sit down.
SPEAKER_01It's been a while.
SPEAKER_00And like actually talk and be in like the recording session in the booth and like do what we need to do. So what the fuck you been up to?
SPEAKER_01Honestly, not shit. I went to Vegas.
SPEAKER_00Which we're gonna talk about today. That'd be kind of fun. Yeah. Um so just Vegas. There's like nothing else you've been doing.
SPEAKER_01Literally just Vegas, Beb. I love that for you. Yeah. I love that for you. Guess what I've been doing. And fuck ass work.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, fuck work.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. What you been doing, girl?
SPEAKER_00Girl, so the reason why we had to record so many episodes ahead of time is because I had my fuck ass wisdom teeth pulled. That sucked ass. Um, and then really I've just been watching movies. I went and saw, well, we watched Terrifier before you went to Vegas. Um I think it's so funny. I don't know why I was like all hyped up that I was gonna be like some scary.
SPEAKER_01It's not scary. He's so funny. He's so fucking funny.
SPEAKER_00My favorite, my favorite is probably the first one, and it's only because I like the nostalgia of the movie.
SPEAKER_01I like that he It's giving like it's giving very much like 2000s vibes a little bit.
SPEAKER_00It is, and honestly, I love when he like put the wig on and the the the bitch's titties, yeah, and like ran around. I was like, ooh, yeah, girl. Stiffware. Stiffware. Bouncing tit. Bouncing titties, stiff wear wig. I was like, he's so fierce. Um, so watched Terrifier, had my wisdom teeth pulled. Um, went and saw the mummy in theaters. Uh that was pretty gory. That's something that's right up your alley. It's like body horror.
SPEAKER_01Um I ought to smack you in the forehead. Not not uh not inviting me to go.
SPEAKER_00So we're pretty sure you were in Vegas. No, you wanna know what? You weren't in Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Um I did see another movie called God, it has been a while since I've seen you.
SPEAKER_00I know, that's what I'm saying. It's been so long.
SPEAKER_01Three weeks?
SPEAKER_00Two weeks? Two, two, three weeks, something like that. No, two weeks.
SPEAKER_01Two weeks?
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01Huh.
SPEAKER_00Insane.
SPEAKER_01Anyways.
SPEAKER_00Um, gosh, I forget what the movie's called. We just saw it. Jim and I did. Um The Face of Death with Barbie Pereira?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I love her. Yes.
SPEAKER_01Um, wait, no, yeah, yeah. I have seen the trailer for that.
SPEAKER_00It's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00That's pretty good too.
SPEAKER_01It didn't like ringing bells for me, but yeah. Wow.
SPEAKER_00It was something that Jimmy wanted to see. And so he was like, hey, I want to go see this movie. I got us some tickets. I said, Bet. And um, I was like, we can go if we get tacos TJ's beforehand. He goes, Bet. Oh my god, that sounds so good.
SPEAKER_01I'll need to stop talking about food. I'm so hungry.
SPEAKER_00I'm literally eating a salad from McCalysters right now. I'm like, oh, skinny, summer around the corner. And the joke's on me because the salad's probably like a thousand plus calories. And I'm telling you what, the dressing itself, 420 calories.
unknownDamn.
SPEAKER_00It's Chipotle ranch. Because I'm a fat bitch.
SPEAKER_01A thousand calories for that.
SPEAKER_00You know what? And that's what them bitches that don't be doing the research when they're trying to get skinny. That's where they keep gaining the weight.
SPEAKER_01It just is chicken avocado and greens.
SPEAKER_00And greens. There's black beans, some corn, tomato. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01It's good, it's a good thousand calories.
SPEAKER_00Right. We're gonna we're just gonna tell the body that in case she gains some weight. No, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02It's good. It's good.
SPEAKER_00What's eating my ass right now is the fucking sauce, but the sauce is so good. You sure can. Maybe not after the sauce. You're not gonna want to do that.
SPEAKER_01But Mr.
SPEAKER_00Pole.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh my. So basically, you're just going through it.
SPEAKER_00I'm just going through it. But I'm so happy to be back. I missed you. Missed the committed gang. Um, shout out to the real ones who actually listened to last week's episode of me just like ripping that shit right out the fucking wall. Um, we have also beef with our production company, I feel like, because I don't know what it is when I try to edit episodes when you're not here where I know that you physically are unavailable. I run into so many issues. So for the ones who listened, I appreciate what you're doing.
SPEAKER_01Like all the other episodes we've done, you've edited them.
SPEAKER_00I know, but maybe it's just you because they haven't been that bad. It's me by myself.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm all like tonight, girl. We gonna we're gonna see.
SPEAKER_00We gonna we're gonna let Big Papa B figure it out because he's our tech guy when I can't figure shit out.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna we're gonna figure it out. We're gonna see.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna finger it out. So what'd you what'd you say? Finger it out.
SPEAKER_01Oh, period.
SPEAKER_00You wanna who used to say that? My mother.
SPEAKER_01I know you're lying. No, I know you damn lying.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead and ask her.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna ask her that.
SPEAKER_00You should ask her.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna ask her that.
SPEAKER_00I would ask your mom that. And you know what she would say?
SPEAKER_01Shh, I don't think she'd say that.
SPEAKER_00I don't know. But I would ask your mom some fucked up shit. And she'd be kind of happy that I asked her some fucked up shit.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, let's take a break.
SPEAKER_00Actually, no, let's jump right into it. So, like Brandon said, he went to Vegas. We're gonna chat and yap about some some Vegas stuff.
SPEAKER_01Hell yeah, brother.
SPEAKER_00Logo. Everyone has heard the phrase, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Well, not today, bitches. Brandon and I are cracking open his most recent trip, our favorite memories from Sin City, and if going to Vegas is still as fun as it was in our early 20s. So sit back, relax, and get ready to chat and yap. Alright. Big Papa B. Why did you go to Vegas? I feel like you always go to Vegas for like the most random shit.
SPEAKER_01Um, so it was one of my uh one of my best friends. Um I can't say his name, but I know you listen, so you know who you are.
SPEAKER_00I was gonna ask, do they listen to the book?
SPEAKER_01I know it was his 30th birthday.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01So he went to Vegas for that.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. Yeah. I love it. So you were there you flew a Legion, didn't you?
SPEAKER_01I guess Thursday, Thursday night, and then I came back Saturday night.
SPEAKER_00So the perfect way to do Vegas in my opinion.
SPEAKER_01Four days, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. My dad always said that. He was always like, you can't do more than four days in Vegas. Four days is a pretty nasty, yeah. Um, okay, so 38 birthdays, that sounds lit. Where do you stay at in Vegas? I don't want to say that sounds so sketchy.
SPEAKER_01Okay. It was previously the Hooters Hotel, which also before that it was a Hooters Hotel. But then OIO bought it out, and it's the OIO, it's right across the street from the MGM.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Um not a bad hotel. Not a great one though either.
SPEAKER_00So like on a scale of one to ten, where would you put it? Because you've been to Vegas enough to know that you've been to Vegas enough to know Excuse me how to rate a hotel.
SPEAKER_01Um, I'd give it like a solid six. Six and a half. So it was it wasn't terrible. And I didn't pay that much money for it, so that's a win. Yeah, it wasn't bad. That would probably bother me. For four days I spent I think with everything it was like 350?
SPEAKER_00Oh fuck, yeah. So that's like a seven in my book.
SPEAKER_01But I wanted to stay at the link because that's where I normally stay.
SPEAKER_00I've never been there. Give me the vibes of the link.
SPEAKER_01Um, very upscale, um, gaming bougie, gaming cunt. Yeah. Love that. Yeah. Um the rooms were for four nights or three days or no, that's right.
SPEAKER_00Four days, three nights.
SPEAKER_01Yes, that's what I was trying to say. Thank you. Um, over a thousand dollars. But only because uh fuck ass WWE WrestleMania and also Six New World was in town too.
SPEAKER_00I heard Six New World was gonna be there too. It's gonna be a really pop in we like couple weeks for for Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So that's why everything was expensive. Otherwise, I would have stayed at the MGM with said friend. Uh huh. So but that's okay.
SPEAKER_00Because said friend and said friend's fiance were there with said friend's uh Papa and girlfriend.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Um and her parents as well.
SPEAKER_00Oh, really?
SPEAKER_01And uh girlfriend's nephews too.
SPEAKER_00Oh damn, it's like it was like a whole thing then. I thought it was literally just gonna be papa, girlfriend.
SPEAKER_01I think that's originally what the plan was, and then it came last minute. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Interesting. No, cool. Um, so got in Thursday. What time did you got in fucking late Thursday?
SPEAKER_01It was midnight Vegas time, so I can't remember. No, I can't remember if it's two hours ahead or if it's two hours behind. I think it's behind.
SPEAKER_00It's behind.
SPEAKER_01So it would have been two here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Golly. But knowing you, you're like ready to rock and roll.
SPEAKER_01I didn't even do anything. Really? I tried to get in. I tried to get fucking in and out. I got a I got a little tram ticket, and I took my happy ass over to the MGM after I checked into my hotel. Thursdays in and out closes at one o'clock in the morning. I left my hotel room at 1240.
SPEAKER_00Oh no.
SPEAKER_01So I took the tram and I went over there. Long ass fucking line. And I was like, are you shitting my fucking dick right now, bro? Come on.
SPEAKER_00So you didn't get in and out.
SPEAKER_01I didn't get in and out.
SPEAKER_00What did you get instead?
SPEAKER_01Uh I got steak and shake.
SPEAKER_00I like steak and shake. Crickets. Really? It was okay. To me, steak and shake is almost like Freddy's.
SPEAKER_01That's why I didn't like it, because I don't like Freddy's really much.
SPEAKER_00You don't like Freddy's shit. You don't like Freddy's for real? Anyways, now it's time to take a break. I love Freddy's.
SPEAKER_01I said what I said.
SPEAKER_00Wow. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I mean there's better out there. I think in my Freddy's here in town.
SPEAKER_00Because you can't say in and out because we don't have an in-and out here in Wichita.
SPEAKER_01You said in and out period. Something similar or like Yeah, like a steak burger.
SPEAKER_00That's why I said steak and shake is like.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's not really like a it's not like Freddy's though. It's like a sit-down place. Have you ever been to um oh my god, what's it called? It's on it's on Douglas.
SPEAKER_00Um Dempsey's? Yeah. Yes, yes. Jimmy and I love Dempsey's. Yes. What I wanted to feel like real like hunty, we'll go to Dempsey's. He always gets a burger, obviously, because it's Jim. Um, so we he'll get a burger. I'll get the salad. Because they have like really nice leafy greens and they're always really fresh and delicious. Their ranch dressing is to die for, it's made in-house. Um I'll get like their salad, and then Jim and I will get the basket of truffle fries because it comes with like the boats of sauces. We need to stop talking about food. Oh I'm hungry. I know, I'm so sorry. You can have some of my salad.
SPEAKER_01No, he's okay. Okay. I don't like those greens.
SPEAKER_00They're good for you. You sound like Jim.
SPEAKER_01I only like I'm very pick like picky about my salad, to be honest. I only chopped salad, and I have to chop it up more.
SPEAKER_00So you like like shredded lettuce?
SPEAKER_01Kinda, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Do you wanna know who that does that? Gambinos, if you get their salad bar.
SPEAKER_01Oh, for real?
SPEAKER_00Out in the original one out in Colwich.
SPEAKER_01I've I've only been to Gambinos like once in my life.
SPEAKER_00Okay, we're way off topic. I have none of these in Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_01So I came out, I got steak and shake, and then I went to the liquor store. And then I drank a little bit, I ate my food, and then I took my ass to bed. That was it.
SPEAKER_00Like, did you jerk it or what? That was like a long pause, like a like a steak and shake, a liquor, a little and then a and then you wake up.
SPEAKER_01Perhaps, yes.
SPEAKER_00I love that for you. Perhaps I did. Perhaps you did. Yeah. I'm saying you probably did.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, mom, sorry, dad. Sorry. I know dad, you don't not listening, but mom.
SPEAKER_00I didn't know. She's like, ah, Brandon.
SPEAKER_01Shh. I don't even know what she'd say.
SPEAKER_00I know I love it so much. Um, okay, so Thursday, nothing too much crazy. Got in Lee. That's fine. Yeah. Friday, because they came in Friday. I'm friends with said friend, said friend's fiance. Well, said friend's fiance on Snapchat.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I was obviously. Oh, you are?
SPEAKER_01I didn't know that. Mm-hmm. Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00Me and said friend fiance been friends on Snapchat. For like a girl, I don't know, since like 2021.
unknownDamn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I did not know that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Me and your friend are not. Yeah. But um, me and her are.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_00And so like I was like, that's how I knew kind of like what you guys were doing. Yeah. Because like she would post and post and post. And I was like, oh, that looks like fun. That bitch just wanted some money.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Girl. She went almost$500.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. Pop your pussy. Where was your money at? In the machines.
SPEAKER_01In the fucking machines, girl. I lost$300, I think. Give or take.
SPEAKER_00Ugh.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I shouldn't have gambled.
SPEAKER_00You shouldn't have went.
SPEAKER_01Said friend and friend's fiance, they're bad influences. They're like, Brendan, you should gamble. And I'm like, no, I never win. And I lost$300.
SPEAKER_00It's like when we went to the Ameristar and Jim goes, here's$100. And you're like, bet. And then you disappear for like 15 minutes and you came back. You're like, It's gone. It's gone. Jim goes, God damn.
unknownYeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's because I'm expert and yeah.
SPEAKER_00Just balls to the wall, you just go for it.
SPEAKER_01Well, it's not where you can get anything.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_00So you gambled, you drank, that's apparent. Did you guys go see any shows? Did you like what's what is the thing in Vegas right now? I know like the dome is the big thing. But did you guys go to like what's that one that you liked when you lived out there? Area. I always want to say area 15.
SPEAKER_01Area 15.
SPEAKER_00See, I always wanted to say area 15.
SPEAKER_01I wanted to go there.
SPEAKER_00Did you not go there?
SPEAKER_01I did not go there.
SPEAKER_00Yikes.
SPEAKER_01All we did was we ate and we drank and we walked a strip and we gambled.
SPEAKER_00No tea, no shade.
SPEAKER_01No tea, no shade.
SPEAKER_00That's boring as fuck.
SPEAKER_01That's all we did. It was still a good time. Like it was.
SPEAKER_00Sure, because you're with people you haven't seen in a while. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I just I think they got in Friday afternoon. Yeah. And we immediately like went to go do stuff, but we just like kind of ran out of time. So technically we I only had two days with them. Yeah. Because they left. They got there Friday afternoon and left Sunday morning.
SPEAKER_00So what time did you leave Sunday?
SPEAKER_01Six o'clock. Six thirty, actually.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy. Yeah. So you basically got like almost a full day in Vegas just by yourself. Just hanging out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Huh. Interesting. Do you have like a favorite part that you from this trip that you that you liked? Was it just the alcohol?
SPEAKER_02Was it the food?
SPEAKER_00Because you got. Did you end up getting your in and out? Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. That's my favorite part.
SPEAKER_01The in and out. But I love me some in and out. Yeah. Just shove it right at my my pussy. My pussy.
SPEAKER_00My pussy. Your blue pussy. I know you hate that.
SPEAKER_01Let's take a break.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so your least favorite part. Go for it.
SPEAKER_01Uh, I really wanted to go to um, so they have a year-round event for Universal at Area 15, and it's an it-themed escape room.
SPEAKER_00Oh my god, that's dope.
SPEAKER_01And it looks scary as fuck. It's$80 a person, it's four hours. And you go through two rooms.
SPEAKER_00Four hours?
SPEAKER_01And you go through two rooms of it. And there's live actors too that can grab you.
SPEAKER_00Eat my ass.
SPEAKER_01That's what I wanted to do the most.
SPEAKER_00And you didn't get to do it. No. So. Ugh, so sad. Okay. So I ask all this, and I'm so curious about Vegas because, girl, the last time I was in Vegas, I've never been as an adult. Ever.
SPEAKER_01Which is insane.
SPEAKER_00I know. I know. That's what I'm told. Um, but last time I was in Las Vegas, I had to text my mom, and of course, you know how my mom is, and she's like, I don't know. Your brother was young. I don't know. So I'm projecting that it was like 2007, 2008. My parents got married in Vegas. So it was around their anniversary time, and they got married to Excalibur.
SPEAKER_02Fun.
SPEAKER_00So the background to their story is kind of cute. Is they were gonna have like the bells and the whistles and the get married here in Wichita, and you know, blah blah blah. Well, they went to meet with the pastor, and the pastor like no-showed them. So they sat in the church. And my mom's, you know how my mother is, she's not religious. And so she goes, Michael, fuck this.
SPEAKER_01And they no-showed? That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Girl, tell me about it. No-showed. So she goes, Michael, this is fucking stupid. Let's just go to Vegas. Because they both love to drink, they both loved to gamble.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So sure shit, they threw flew out to Vegas, and it was just um my sister was actually stayed here in Wichita, so it was just my dad and my mom. Um, I was there. No one knew I was there. This was a shotgun wedding, little did they know. Um my grandma, both my grandmas, so both their moms, and that was it.
SPEAKER_02Damn.
SPEAKER_00Fooled out, X caliber, stayed at Xcaliber. Um, dad almost missed the wedding because he was gambling, and then he had to run up to the room because he forgot the rings.
SPEAKER_01Fucking Mike.
SPEAKER_00With his rat tail. He had a rat tail at the time.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, Mike. What did you what you what you do?
SPEAKER_00I'll have to show you those pictures if you haven't seen them.
SPEAKER_01I have not. I'll have to show you. That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, rat tail and everything. He was still balding up top, but he kept the rat tail.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_00Isn't that kind of cunty? R.I.P. Daddy.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if it's cunty per se, but you pop off. You pop off, Mike. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, so yeah, that was the last time we were in Vegas, it was around that time they were celebrating their anniversary or whatever. And um, so I don't have much memories of Vegas. I remember a couple of things. One, walking the strip and seeing all of like the escort cards that are on the ground when you walk the strip. And my dad having to yell at my brother and be like, Stop looking at the ground.
SPEAKER_01Um side note, we made a little game out of that, by the way.
SPEAKER_00What did you do?
SPEAKER_01For the escort cards. Yeah. Because those people pass them out.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01I had a stack like this big. Because I was like, give me them.
SPEAKER_02Give me the give me the titties.
SPEAKER_01And they were like, no, sir, move along. And I'm like, give me the fucking cards right now.
SPEAKER_00They're like, oh my god, he's horny. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Uh yeah, that was really fun. It was really fun trying getting shooed off by these people that are just like willingly handing out these fucking cards. Yeah, and I was like, I just want more. I'm trying to plunge, trying to play a game, trying to win.
SPEAKER_00Right. Do you think they catch on to that after a while?
SPEAKER_01I actually don't know what I did with my cards.
SPEAKER_00I was gonna ask you, did you bring back your cards?
SPEAKER_01I don't know.
SPEAKER_001-800, have a good time.
SPEAKER_01I might have left them in the hotel room. I think so. Oh, that's trashy. Because I don't well, it's fitting for my hotel, sop womp. Anyways, continue.
SPEAKER_00So I remember that. And then, of course, like when you're walking the strip, you have like the drag queens that are out, you have characters like Star Wars or whatever. Okay, my brother was so smitten with these ladies, and he actually has a picture. I don't know where it's at. To me, it's probably on his Facebook somewhere deep in the archives because it wasn't until he was like way older. Where we were like, Jerry, those are drag queens. He goes, What the fuck is a drag queen? It's a chick with a dick. Um, and he goes, No.
SPEAKER_01He didn't know that.
SPEAKER_00No, he didn't. He was so young.
SPEAKER_01Um no, like after like he realized though.
SPEAKER_00No. Because I think when we told him he was God, he was in high school, but he still didn't know what the fuck a drag queen was.
SPEAKER_01That's crazy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But different worlds.
SPEAKER_00Different worlds. Um, anyways, so that was a memory. Um okay, I again 2007, 2008, obviously not old enough to drink. Girl, I was that bitch. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if it's gonna be wet. Ew. Keep going. Okay. I lost it anyway.
SPEAKER_00I thought I was that bitch. Was my Mai Thai, my virgin might in the cabana at Xcaliber. Girl, I had my I got braided on the strip. So I got my hair braided. I got my my little tankini on.
SPEAKER_02Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Girl, Virgin Mai Thai. And also my Shirley Temple at Planet Hollywood. Girl, you could not tell me shit. I was like 10 years old, 10, 11. I was that girl. I came back. It was like those kids that go on cruises and they come back summer to shit.
SPEAKER_01With like the like was that you?
SPEAKER_00That was me as fuck. I was like, I went to Vegas. Fuck you know about it. I was in the city. You ever seen CSI? That's where I was at. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Um she said, I'm that bitch.
SPEAKER_00Literally.
SPEAKER_01And I want you to know.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you want to know what else made me that bitch? Okay. My parents, very lenient parenting, right? My dad worked too much. My mom didn't give a shit, right? So late.
SPEAKER_02Yep.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. He said, checks out. Okay. Um, so late at night on E the E Network, the E Entertainment, they had The Girls Next Door, which was a Playboy show.
unknownOh.
SPEAKER_00And it followed Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends at the time. Right? Yeah. So, of course, what am I obsessed with? Playboy. So when we were walking in Caesar's Palace, we go to the Playboy store, and I get my little Miss January necklace. Yeah, girl.
SPEAKER_01I love that. Slay. Slay?
SPEAKER_00Isn't that cunty? Yeah, that's cunty. A 10.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's maybe a little cunty for 10-year-old, but you know what? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That's leaving it parenting. So I got my little uh Miss January necklace and my little like Playboy purse with the bunny on it, the pink bunny.
SPEAKER_01I can only imagine. Oh yeah. You're just walking around.
SPEAKER_00Oh, it was so fierce.
unknownGirl.
SPEAKER_01At 10 years old.
SPEAKER_00That made me who I am today. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Cunty, yes.
SPEAKER_00Cunty sleigh.
SPEAKER_01Slay.
SPEAKER_00Um. And then so have you seen the trend of girls going to like to the jousting to like look at the jousters for funsies?
SPEAKER_01Like uh medieval.
SPEAKER_00Like the medieval?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So obviously when we stayed at Excalibur, we did that one night.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So I made a note in here in my notes. I said falling in love with the jousters before it was cool. Because sure as did sit next to my dad when my whole ass full rotisserie chicken falling in love with these men on these damn horses, hitting each other with sticks.
SPEAKER_01I wish I could have experienced that.
SPEAKER_00It's the whole thing. You should have done it when you were in Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Or Dallas.
SPEAKER_00Or D Oh. I forgot they have it in Dallas.
SPEAKER_01And I tried to get these fucks to go with me. And it was$80. And I was like, let's go.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because they're all hot as fuck.
SPEAKER_00It's a dinner show.
SPEAKER_01And you get a whole ass rotisserie ch rotisserie chicken.
SPEAKER_00You do. You get rotisserie chicken, baked potato, a little soup, a little bread, a little drink. Girl, come on.
SPEAKER_01We're gonna go. Yeah. We're gonna go.
SPEAKER_00I'm always down for that shit.
SPEAKER_01I need to experience it.
SPEAKER_00The jousting and I always say uh Dixie Stampede, the one in Branson or the one in Gattinsburg. Um, it's the same shit. You get a whole rotisserie chicken, like a ham.
SPEAKER_01Is it an actual rotisserie chicken? Or is it like a turkey leg?
SPEAKER_00No. The the fucking It's an actual rotisserie chicken. Yeah. No, of course it's not like steroided. But so it's like a little, it's like a hen.
SPEAKER_01I look like a rotisserie chicken.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you do, bam.
SPEAKER_01So it's juicy. Juicy.
unknownMy pussy is juicy.
SPEAKER_00Wait, say that it one more time, other people.
SPEAKER_01My pussy is juicy.
SPEAKER_00Him and his boy pussy. He just rolled his eyes at me.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna hate you.
SPEAKER_00We're having too much fun. We didn't get back on track. But, anyways, that was kind of the gist of my Vegas trip. Last time, first and only, still pretty solid in my book. But Vegas has changed so much since obviously. Yeah, it's not the same as it was. Coming up, so next year it would be to bless. It would be like 10 years since I've been to Vegas. Oh damn. 20 years since I've been to Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, 2007. Almost 20 years.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy. Anyways, um, so you've been to Vegas so many times. What?
SPEAKER_01So many fucking times.
SPEAKER_00Give me some of yours. I gave you like what? One, two, three, four, four-ish. Um fun memories. Do you have any like memories or fun things that you can say on air? Or you know, you just like pleading the fifth the entire time.
SPEAKER_01No, no, I have a couple. Okay, go for it. Um, so I'd say this was probably like my second, third time maybe going out there. I went with um said friend. Ted friend. And uh do you remember um oh we're gonna show a picture? I'll just take it out.
SPEAKER_00Oh, perfect. So when was this?
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, oh uh I think it was like right after COVID. 2021. Maybe no, maybe before that. No.
SPEAKER_00Like 2019?
SPEAKER_01Maybe it was in college. No, no, no, I was still in college.
SPEAKER_00So like 2017?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, 2017 to like 2019, give or take.
SPEAKER_00Gotcha.
SPEAKER_01Um, I'm not gonna spell this right, but Oh!
SPEAKER_00We loved him. Yeah. You know what? I always thought he was I still think so. Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one because out of the three of you, the only reason I expect is because I've known you since like the fetus. But um, out of the three of you, if I was to look from a distance, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01I don't know if he is.
SPEAKER_00Neither do I. I don't know. I have I literally haven't talked to him since high school. So I don't know. I don't even know what you talked to.
SPEAKER_01And that was like that was a while ago. Three years? Where's your guy moving?
SPEAKER_00Wow. So you don't even know what he's up to.
SPEAKER_01He's he's in Dallas, I know that. Damn. I don't know. He kind of just fell off the face of the fucking earth, so maybe he got in his bag, I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Get it, girl. Get it, get it, girl.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, so it was him and uh said friend friend, yes. Um uh we all got drunk as fuck, and we went to the stratosphere because we were staying at the strat.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_01Um and you know how like on the top of the strat they have like the roller coaster and the slingshot. Yeah, yeah. Um so basically, if you don't know what I'm talking about, there's this giant mechanical arm. It's strapped, it's you're strapped down, but you're facing towards the ground. It goes out over the strip at 900 feet, and you're just strapped fucked down looking down.
SPEAKER_00I'd pee my pants.
SPEAKER_01I was drunk.
SPEAKER_00Did you pee your pants?
SPEAKER_01Um, I got a little nauseous and I was like, maybe this wasn't a good idea. But it was still fun though. It was a good time. We did that, and then we did the little power tower thing when we were at the roller coaster. Um that was a good time. That was fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Tell me about Area 15 so that trip was with my mom. Because we were driving. I remember because we were driving to California because she was about to start her contract.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_01So we went, and it was pretty cool. We went to like a Mega Mart, and my mom was like, What the fuck is this, Brandon? I'm like, your guess is as good as mine. I don't know. It just looked cool. But a megamart was really cool. Um very unusual. Yeah, just unusual.
SPEAKER_00Something to be doing when you're high, probably.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. Or like the full maybe like a psychedelic or something like that.
SPEAKER_00A little MDMA or ketamine. Oh, ketamine. I thought you were about to say, yeah, you know, a little black tar hero hero heroin or what was that? That was really hard to say. I I really want to execute that and it didn't work out for me.
SPEAKER_01Mexican black tar heroin. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I thought you were gonna say. I don't think we should actually do that.
SPEAKER_00I was going through some of our text messages from like years ago, uh-huh, and that came up where you were like, yeah, we should throw a party, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little Mexican black tar heroin. And I was like, Right.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, just casual.
SPEAKER_00Just casual. Just have it out. Yeah. Just in case people want to.
SPEAKER_01It's fun.
SPEAKER_00Party papers.
SPEAKER_01Party papers. Exactly.
SPEAKER_00Have you been watching Euphoria?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Never mind. Okay, anyways.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm really on the fence about it.
SPEAKER_00I really enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01Do you?
SPEAKER_00I do. I feel like they lobotomize Nate.
SPEAKER_01What the fuck? What?
SPEAKER_00Girl, he's the most sane person in the show right now. I know. That's all I'm saying. Nate Jacobs. Nate Jacobs. Jacob Elori. Sure shit.
SPEAKER_01Narcissistic.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. He's he's like on his like big boy shit. And he's like whoever his like whatever psychedelics he takes, or whatever, whoever his therapist is, whoever put the ice pick through his fucking eyeball, I don't know. Um I need it because he's a whole different person.
SPEAKER_01Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still on the fence. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00We'll we'll talk about this later.
SPEAKER_01No, for sure.
SPEAKER_00Um any other like funnies that you want to like talk about?
SPEAKER_01Oh, Omega Mart. Omega Mart, yeah. Area 15. Like I was saying earlier, I really wanted to do that at Escape Room. That looks so much fun. That looked like so much fun. But um Omega Mart, definitely check it out if you're in Vegas. Such a good time. Um, a lot of tribute shit. Uh, I think another favorite memory was I was with my my two bitches.
SPEAKER_00What's our two bitches?
SPEAKER_01My two bitches. You know who you are.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, bitches.
SPEAKER_01Uh, we were all drunk as fuck.
SPEAKER_00Uh just New Year's Eve.
SPEAKER_01It was it was right before. It was right before. Uh so me and King Neptune.
SPEAKER_02Couples!
SPEAKER_01Uh, him and I were drunk. King Neptune. Per usual. Yeah. Um and uh Miss Ma'am was flying fucking high as a high as a kite.
SPEAKER_02Hell yeah, we love that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So we uh decided to get on the uh the giant Ferris wheel.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01What's it called?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. For a second when you were talking, I thought you were gonna say New York, New York.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah, we did get on. Did you go on New York, New York? Yeah, we did. Okay. Yeah. That was fun. But I I always get on the roller coaster though when I go out there. Do you? Yeah, it's so much fun. I flashed the camera.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you do.
SPEAKER_01My titties were out.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. His titties are never out.
SPEAKER_01Anyways, we got on the Oh my god, what is it called? Hold on.
SPEAKER_00He's gonna talk to Dr. Google for a second.
SPEAKER_01I can see it in my head, I just can't think of the name.
SPEAKER_00I said, girl's been a minute. It's been a minute, it's been a minute.
SPEAKER_01The high roller. The high roller, which is conveniently by the link. It's connected to the link.
SPEAKER_00Oh, is it really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Okay. So yeah. So yeah, we got on that. Um, all of us were fucked up. Gouples. We were all in the same car. And then there was this other couple that was with us. Uh we don't we didn't know who they were, but they were making out. Um she was walking around, very fucked up, trying to get out. Which was terrifying because we were at the fucking top. She said, we yeah, no, literally, literally. That was a good time. Um, yeah, she just uh she just kept trying to get out of the out of the car. And I'm like, I need you to stop doing that. Thank you. No! She's like, I want to jump.
SPEAKER_02You're like, please fuck it now.
SPEAKER_01Me too. But yeah, those are some of my some of my favorite memories.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. Yeah. Because that kind of leads into obviously when I went to Vegas, it was pretty old school Vegas. How you go to Vegas now is all the new attractions and all the new fun things. And so I've always, when people are like, oh yeah, go to Vegas, go to Vegas. I always ask people, well, do you think Vegas is dying? Or is Vegas just shifting? So the death of like the classic experience is what I'm used to. So like when everyone says go to Vegas, I'm like, but is it really fun? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, which is like how cheap it was. Like you always talked about when people go to Vegas, flights are cheap, hotels are cheap, food is cheap, everything's cheap in Vegas. The thing that they get you with is the fucking, you know, gambling. No, back in the day.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, no, for sure. Now absolutely not.
SPEAKER_00Well, that's what I you know kind of getting to. It's like those days of like the cheap steak dinners and like the free parking, like it was a cheap, easy getaway, it was fun, whatever. Versus now we're like it's all about your deep pocket spending.
SPEAKER_01You gotta you gotta drop a bag.
SPEAKER_00You gotta drop a bag. And casinos are now focused on your high rollers, which they'll get you with. Um, obviously they got you with your$300. We ain't gonna talk about it again.
SPEAKER_01I shouldn't, I shouldn't have even gambled. I just don't have luck, unless I'm with my mom. And then it's her luck because she I'll just give her$20 and be like, Can you play this? I'll give you some money if you want a jackpot. Man, hello. Because she always wins, I swear to God. She does always win.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00So the casinos are now focusing on the high rollers. They're weighing in a 10% decrease in tourism because of how high rollers are. I kind of did that research of okay, so where are the numbers falling nowadays? Now, of course, this could have to do with like the economy and the blah blah blah. But there's been a 10% decrease in tourism, but they don't care about that as long as the people who are coming have the money.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Then they're fine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um now shifting into like a new age, where like when I think of Vegas, I think of like the the cheap way, whatever. Why would I go if it's no longer that type of Vegas? Well, it's the reason why you go. The birth of like event city, where you have like sports, the Raiders, the Knights, permanent fixtures of like Formula One Formula One are in Las Vegas.
SPEAKER_01Formula One. They tear up that goddamn city and it disrupts everything.
SPEAKER_00Does it really? Yes.
SPEAKER_01Because me, me and my two bitches, right? We went during Formula One. Uh everything was like double the price. You had to take roundabouts to get through the strip because some of the like some of the streets are actually like used for the uh the Formula One works.
SPEAKER_00Crazy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So that's like added into like when I'm doing this research. I'm like, okay, so like the Las Vegas Raiders, Las Vegas Knights, the permanent fixtures of Formula One. Formula One is there all the time. You have the sphere era where it's like New Age residency. I know that um The Wizard of Oz was there, and that's that new age shit. Is it still there?
SPEAKER_01I wanted to go to that too, actually. Um because it's it's in like 4D, I guess, or something like that. It is.
SPEAKER_00You got the wind blowing, and you get all that, you get the whole experience.
SPEAKER_01It's really cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I feel like that's something that draws people in because I know that the Dolby and like things like that, that's becoming very popular where you can sit and actually submerge yourself in the experience of the cinema. Well, fuck, that's what that offers. And it's all around you. Literally, you know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, Science the Sphere, the the hyper residencies. Again, I know uh Mary J. Blige is there, Blake Shelton is there right now. Um, so like all these people that either you missed it because it was out of your time, you didn't have the money when they were big, or maybe they're still some of your favorite artists, they just don't tour anymore. Quick quick flight. Um, thinking. Thinking, brain's work, brain's not working.
SPEAKER_01Um I just saw that Whiz Khalipa was there on the 26th.
SPEAKER_00Really?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Wiz Khalipa was just here too.
SPEAKER_01I know.
SPEAKER_00Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Damn.
SPEAKER_01I mean, he kind of like fell off, but anyways.
SPEAKER_00He really did. He really did. So I guess it's really weighing like when I ask you the question, is Vegas dying? What is your take on Vegas in the current? Because you were just there.
SPEAKER_01I think I don't know if it's dying per se. I mean, there's a lot of like new things coming up, but I think it's like kind of what you were saying, it's like shifting towards more of like a luxury experience, an audience that has more money.
SPEAKER_00Sure.
SPEAKER_01So I don't think it's for the average consumer anymore. That kind of sucks. Because everything is just like everything's so expensive there.
SPEAKER_00You know, and love it, hate it. Um because when I ask you, like, if I want to go stay like where my parents got married again, would that even be there in five years? That part of the strip. But would it be so outdated to where people would even want to give it the money to keep the upkeep on it? Excalibur. Um what's the pyramid? The one that shapes like a pyramid.
SPEAKER_01The Luxor.
SPEAKER_00The Luxor. Always loved that place when I went. I remember that vividly.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that place is uh run down now, right? It's not good. We stayed there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. New York, New York is one of those places. That was a coyote ugly. That was the first time I ever saw Coyote Ugly was at New York, New York.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, loved the movie growing up. Was like, oh my god, that's actually a real place. That's crazy. Yeah. Um, but like, will these places still be around? Or will they get ran out because you have all these new places?
SPEAKER_01Like well, did you see that they um one casino shut down, I think, and it was a big one. I think it was um was it the Flamingo?
SPEAKER_00The Flamingo shut down?
SPEAKER_01No, it was another one. Hold on.
SPEAKER_00I gotta Google it. He's gotta Doctor Google it. He's gotta Doctor Google it. But yeah, that's kind of where I was weighing at when I was like, well, we should talk about Vegas. We should talk about your Vegas trip. And then I got to thinking about said topic, and I just kind of wanted to ask that opinion. And like, for someone who was recently just there, do you think that it's on the downhill, or do you think it's just kinda like entirely switched over to a whole new demographic of the big bala shot collis 20-inch rim on the Impala?
SPEAKER_01Um, so they got rid of uh the Tropicana, which was just recently Oh, I heard that. Yeah, which was recently just demolished. And they also closed the Mirage too.
SPEAKER_00That's what it was that was the Mirage.
SPEAKER_01Cause didn't they film fucking Cause it because now they're building hard rock, which is like literally a giant fucking guitar.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I love hard rock. Yeah. I love the hard rock.
SPEAKER_01We're not done with it yet, but it's it's pretty massive from what we saw.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I like going to the hard rock. I used to love the hard rock. We used to go down to Tulsa again. My parents love to gamble. So every time we went on vacation, it was always try to find a casino wherever we went.
SPEAKER_02Right.
SPEAKER_00Um, we go to the hard rock, and uh, we used to eat at Toby Keith's. Toby Keith had a really mean fucking uh chicken fried steak. It's like the size of your head.
SPEAKER_01I think we've eaten there once because they have one out there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So it was like a country bar.
SPEAKER_00It is a country bar. Country bar. You know, oh me and my country bar. Like my like me at die bar.
SPEAKER_01Um, did I answer your question?
SPEAKER_00I think you kinda did. You said that it's just not for the average consumer anymore.
SPEAKER_01It is, but like you you gotta save up for it. Just because it's it's so expensive out there now, and everything is very overpriced. But also our economy's in the shitter, so everything's kind of expensive right now. Give and pull. Yeah, and because of the fucking Cheeto.
SPEAKER_00I was laughing so hard at that. You know, I you know, I don't really don't think we have Republicans that listen to this. So I'm really just gonna say it because I want to say it. Um I was laughing so hard at that fake shooting at the and the when they were trying to get the funding for the fucking multi girl. I need you to get on the news. I need you to look it up. There was this shooting and the it was a like formal dinner, and it was so funny to me because they pulled out JD. Vance before they even touched Donald Trump. Donald Trump, they finally got to his big old flubber ass. And he ends up falling because he's so fucking fat. He can't stand. I also laughed at Kennedy because they covered Kennedy with Secret Service and he left his wife behind. He goes, fuck you, bitch. And like left his wife.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you know what? I did see something about this because I saw um Erica Kirk walking out crying.
SPEAKER_00She's like, it's my fault. Girl, I don't want to care about you.
SPEAKER_01She has been running around doing everything but grieving her dead husband.
SPEAKER_00Hello. Hello. She goes, I just want to go home. Girl, you haven't been home. You haven't been home. Who are you? Please, for the love of Christ. And then I like seeing like the videos of like whoever was there. Oh, we're gonna go on it.
SPEAKER_01Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You know who Drewski is, right?
SPEAKER_00I do.
SPEAKER_01I do know that he uh I'm just gonna show you a picture.
SPEAKER_00Um and then there's like videos of like these old ass fucking men who are giving to this fucking Cheeto president. And yes, because that was like a whole thing. She goes, I don't look like that. Bitch, yes, you do.
SPEAKER_01You kind of do that.
SPEAKER_00You wanna know who else she looks like? The bitch from Scooby-Doo from Spooky Island.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Or she like contorts her face and snaps it back. Girl.
SPEAKER_01I love Drewski. He's so fucking funny about it.
SPEAKER_00Um golly. Oh no, and then there's like some old man eating his mashed potatoes that's like there's a quote unquote active shooter going on. I'm like, this is so stupid.
SPEAKER_01It's probably to distract the public from the fucking files.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's because Congress said you need a security reason to keep to continue to build this ballroom of yours. So there he's like, okay. And then he ends up being like, we need ever protection. And so that's what I it was all set up. I just know it was, and it just makes me laugh. Anyways, that's completely off topic.
SPEAKER_01This whole this whole episode's been off topic.
SPEAKER_00It's been forever since we gotta sit down and chat, and yeah. True. Sorry, sorry, committed gang. But yeah, we're not sorry. I mean we'll kind of close it out. Okay. We'll wrap it. We're sorry. Um we're not sorry. Do you have a song that you've been listening to that you want to let the our committee gang know about? Anything new you want to put them on to?
SPEAKER_01Um, I've been listening to a lot of Somber recently, just because I've keep I've keep seeing uh clips of him uh from Coachella.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, yeah, I forget he was at Coachella.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so right on. Um right now I'd say Oh, now you gotta look at it. Uh oh, homewrecker. Homewrecker.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That is a good one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I like that one. I've been listening to that pretty heavily.
SPEAKER_00Hell yeah. So I like um Saving My Love by Friday and Kaylani. Like when she goes, is it wrong that I wanna kiss a baby? Good night. Is it? No, it's not wrong. I love that song. I love how she melanizes it. I think it's so great. Um but yeah. So again, thank you guys so much for listening to us chat and yap about this week's episode. I know it was a lot, but again, we haven't been in the booth in a minute, so can you blame us? Not really. Um next week, we are going to chat and yap about multiple soulmates and very bad things happening. But until then, I'm Ashley.
SPEAKER_01And I'm Brandon, and this is Committed Technically.
SPEAKER_00Okay, bye.