LIVING VEGAS! I Married A Drill Sergeant! Vegas Buffets!

 We are Kris & Ginger Vegas and we welcome you to our channel and to our 2nd podcast!

Our Podcasts Will Have TWO Segments 

Personal life
Vegas life

In our personal segment, well Kris selected this topic, MY WIFE'S A DRILL SERGEANT!
Fun topic! Let's dive in!

Our Vegas segment is based on the changes in the Las VegasBUFFETS!
The BUFFETS in Vegas have always been a draw. Something unique to Vegas. Post pandemic or possibly just a change of the times? This is a fun segment!

We hope you enjoy our Podcasts!

Sincerely, Kris & Ginger Vegas 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right, everyone. Welcome to Living Vegas with Chris and Ginger. What are we doing?

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Living Vegas. Like you mean we live here?

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Yeah, it's a living.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Yeah, we are Las Vegas locals and we live here in Las Vegas. So we want to we want to share in our podcasts, as we have been doing, uh two segments. A personal segment and a Vegas segment. And on the personal segment, today's segment has been selected by my husband, Chris Vegas.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

We call this one my wife's a drill sergeant. Um yeah, I just said that.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Okay, we're gonna go straight through. We are not gonna stop anything. So if you guys are concerned about maybe a little, um, we don't want to call it an argument, maybe a disagreement. Um, yeah, you might be in the right place. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Uh, all right, so where to start? So um I think it helps to start with my personality and how I go about my work and how um, and then we'll get to how Ginger does her work and how those two kind of intersect, if you will.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Well, I would like to say it's Ginger's perspective because, babe, I always say perspective is almost everything. Everything in life.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Oh my god. All right, so um since the time I was just a high school kid, just working um as an athlete, preparing and training and trying to get better. Um I don't know why you're I'm loving my husband.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

I'm I'm just giving him some. It's okay, babe. Say whatever you need to say.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Okay, well that's what I'm trying to do, but you interrupted me by touching me. By touching you. She's touching me again. All right, so anyway, so back in high school, I was training to be a discus thrower, shot putter, and trying to be a state champion, blah, blah, blah. Worked my butt off, got a scholarship to UCLA, and at that point in my life, I realized I had great capacity to put in tremendous effort, but that effort always had to be accompanied by some recovery. And whatever that means for me at UCLA, I would work out so hard in the weight room that I would throw up, literally throw up after a workout. Happened multiple times. You know, you would expect a runner at UCLA, a distance runner, or a sprinter, or somebody who's gone massive exertion that maybe they would throw up, but not a weight lifter guy in the weight room, but that's what I did. So my reward was on Fridays I would treat myself to Arby's. That was it. I just needed to go to Arby's and have my three favorite sandwiches. Three. Because I was, you know, I was 250 pounds. I was trying to put on weight, and yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Can you give some perspective to that, babe? How tall are you?

SPEAKER_01 2:54

6'2. Um, so 6'2, 250. But I I was trained when I was at my peak, I had 7.2% body fat. That's where they immerse you in the water and they weigh you and all that at UCLA's medical center. So it was really cool. Anyway, the point being that I developed this pattern of maximum effort followed by recovery or reward. And that carried on through my work life, and it's carried all the way up to you know the 40 years of my work life, and then retirement hit. So, what happens? You you work your tail off for 40 years, and comes retirement, you're thinking it's time to recover, it's time to reward yourself, it's time to have fun. And then my lovely wife says, Hey, um, I've been doing this YouTube thing, and I really think you should join. And I was like, remember, I told you I would oh sorry, I bumped the table. I um I immediately said no, because that sounds like work, but I've since come around and I realized that um we just we just look at life differently. So right now we're we're in a vibe, we're in a good situation with YouTube, and we've got podcasts, we've got um, we've got you name it, live streams, shorts, long form, you you name it. And Ginger, um, I think just has I I have an ones. Can I answer it? Let me just finish this one.

SPEAKER_00 4:16

But I just want to say I guess I it wasn't his wife for for for his whole life, going through everything he's explained to you. Um we were newlyweds. So it's like then I came into the picture. So I just want to give that into the the mix.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Okay, um, so uh the I think the point I was trying to make is that I have an off switch and I have a perception that you don't. So I'll you know, obviously Ginger will talk about how she worked and how as a dance coach and as a performer herself, and all the great success she had, how that work ethic was developed and and how she's able to turn it off. But sometimes um I have a need to turn it off, and and you're just keeping going, and that's why I call you a drill sergeant.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah, I was gonna say I don't really see any of that though that you've discussed here, why that would make me a drill sergeant.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Oh, you'd have to be here.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

I am here.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

You'd have to you'd have to witness it. When I'm when I'm in a point where I want to recover, and you're like, let's do a podcast, let's do a live stream, let's do a couple shorts. Have you got those members updated? Have we done that? And then and I'm like, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

I update the members.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

I knew you were gonna cut me on that. I'm just throwing out the things that YouTube demands of our time, and you want to go do those things when I want to recover. Guys, are you making any sense?

SPEAKER_00 5:40

I feel like you've left a little bit out, babe. I think that um there have been times that you have told me, oh my gosh, I married my dad. Do you want to give any perspective to that statement?

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Well, my dad was six foot five, he was a drill sergeant in the Marine Corps. He was uh two time, two tours in Korea, and he trained me on discipline. He he's very hard-nosed, very to the task, and that's one of the reasons I was successful both in athletics and in the business world. Um tall guy. Yeah, but even he knew when to recover and to reward himself. I remember him rewarding himself quite well a few times, and maybe too well, but you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Yeah, and in my book, rewards are kind of overrated because the most successful because the most successful people in this world don't sit around and rest on their laurels. It's like when you and I no offense, babe, you have been extremely successful in life, and I love you for who you are and where you are, and I thank you for uh marrying me and going on this journey with me. And now we're sharing it with everybody, so everybody knows everything. But um, when I um my entire life, I've kind of been, and it could be because of my parents or whatever, maybe we have to go talk to my therapist about that. I'm just kidding. Um, but but the bottom line is is um I just operate the way I operate, and it's like um there's something to get done, and I don't care what it is, how small or large the task is, my goal is to do it to the utmost best of my ability. And then, and I don't want it, I don't need to do it that way so that somebody says, good girl, at a girl, um, we're gonna give you an award, we're gonna give you a pay raise. Because I kind of feel like when you have that, and I actually think this is kind of missing from a lot of the youth of today, but I think that when you have that, whatever it is that I'm gonna do, whether I'm starting a new job as a 16-year-old and I'm working in the pizza place, I am gonna do the very best that I can do at every little thing that I am doing. Not because I'm gonna get paid more or somebody's watching or whatever, it's just because that's how I am. And then when you're done with that thing, then you there's always something more, something n to do next. So wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

So you did that as a pizza girl at 16 years old. And I imagine you didn't take any money for that at all. You didn't get any pay or anything. No, I got paid. You just did it because you you really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Yeah, but there were some people that were hanging out in the um the big uh refrigerator room getting high, and they were still getting the same pay I was getting, and I was doing everything right.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

I you're missing my point. I get that you want to do the very best job at whatever you do. I'm wired that way too. We're both the same in that regard. But ultimately, it's for a paycheck. And for me, ultimately, it was for whether it be a gold medal or whether it be retirement or whatever, there's a finish line and then a reward.

SPEAKER_00 8:46

Okay. Well, okay, let me pick something that doesn't have a paycheck with it. Um, um uh working on the tortoise habitat or something like that. If it's that way that I want it to work, it's like work on it and then no, it's not quite right, maybe change it this way. And and so I can keep working at it as long as it takes to get it right. Right. Now that so, and that has no paycheck with it.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

The paychecks to me are just the reward is seeing the happy tortoises wander about the uh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:14

And um, and if you like tortoises, guys, there's a plug, watch tortoise time or watch some of our tortoise stuff. We have six beautiful Mojave Desert tortoises. Anyway, when I was eight, I I've danced my entire life, um, everything, uh ballet, uh contemporary jazz, tap, everything. Uh, did a lot of musical theater, I did a lot of danced in a professional jazz company, and then I went on to teach. And um, some of you are familiar with United Spirit Association, so I taught uh for them for a few years. Then I went on to teach high school for 25 years, where I coached and taught dance. And I have a lot of things that I would say to my students on a regular basis, like make it work, just make it work. If it can't work, I'll fix it in the choreography.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

For the record, she hasn't told me that yet. But I think it's coming.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Um but but my point is um uh we okay, we would work on uh I would do the choreography, I would put the on them, I would clean the choreography. Some of you don't know dance, so this doesn't make a lot of sense. But let's say that we did this whole dance, uh 40 dance pieces to put in a concert, and we ran the concert for a few nights, you know, made a few thousand dollars, had a few thousand people come and it was a success. It was a success. It was really important to me that it was a success. Now there's not a measuring stick on that. You just know what succeeded and what didn't based on it.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

Please tell me you at least heard the applause at the end of it.

SPEAKER_00 10:36

Oh, I always yeah, I love the applause and I love the bow, have your guys all bow. Yeah, I made sure I always did a choreograph bow and everything was set. So that's a reward kind of. Everything was set. Well, then this is what my point was is as we would get back, the concert would be over with something we worked on for months and months. But at the same token, we were working on some for my dance team, like two competitive dance teams, an all-male and an all-female, so their separate dance teams, there would be a competition that was coming up. Uh, and so we would have to work on uh the competition piece and or there was an assembly piece or whatever, and that was coming up very soon. So there was no time to take a day off to just so celebrate. I mean, we needed every minute that we had in order to beat those tough teams in Texas, in Kentucky, you know, and uh all of those states back east, because those, those in the dance drill world, those really um those are the best teams. So, so we had to get on it. And the kids would always say, How come, coach, how come we can't have one day to celebrate? And um, sometimes I feel that that's what my husband is saying. But he's like, babe, can't we just do some celebration? I'm like, no, we have more to do. We have stuff on our plates. So maybe that's really not the best thing in the world that I'm the way I am. But he thinks I let me just say, babe, you think I don't have an off switch?

SPEAKER_01 11:57

And I actually might hard for you to flip it. It's stuck, it might need some WD 40 or something. You think so? Yeah. And eventually you can turn it off.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

No, um, I my perspective is I have an off switch, it just doesn't stay off for long. And that's it's actually a quick flip.

SPEAKER_01 12:17

Um, for the record, I love your work ethic. I love your appreciation of what it takes to be the greatest at something. That is one of the things that attracted to you to me, me to you. By both ways, but anyway, but um so no, no, I don't want to belittle that in any way because I think it's an incredibly awesome quality that separates you and has separated you from the rest of the folks who do your job or try to do it as well as you do. In the athletic world, though, so much of your success is based on recovery. In the weight room, when I would work out that hard, you had to shut it down the next day and do just light movements and stretching, or your muscles would not be explosive enough to perform at their best. So maximum effort, maximum recovery, and then maximum effort again, and so on. The pattern for an athlete, at least in the explosive events of the shop put on discus, you had to recover.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

And babe, I totally respect that. And and so that y'all know this has kind of been an ongoing uh topic of discussion with us, and that's why it kind of it ranked in being a topic for our podcast. And I just again to give everybody a little bit more perspective. Um uh when I would take my students to national dance competitions, we have many national titles of winning first place. And um uh sometimes the football coaches would say, Um, if you want it done right, go ask the dance coach because she'll make sure it gets done right. If she runs a tight chip.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Drill sergeant.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

And and and and also um in the dance drill world. When I was in high school, dance drill teams were a big thing then. They still are in some some worlds right now, but um, I would teach the all the militaries things, so I think it's kind of funny when he says um a drill sergeant, because I would call the drill downs and I taught even my dancers when we didn't do dance drill, we only did dance, they had a lot of fun because it's like a mind game, you know. Uh right face, love face, about face, you know, all of those things. And that was just a little fun, little after a hard practice. We would shut down and no nothing physical, just mental. And if you make a mistake, you have to fall out and sit down on the side, and the last uh person standing would win the first place ribbon.

SPEAKER_01 14:43

I feel like uh if I was in your dance troupe or whatever, your team or company or whatever you call it, and and all you said was five, six, seven, eight, and I would just I would probably wet my pants and just run away. Because I I it's just so intimidating that you have to do all those intricate movements precisely to the music the way that you have choreographed it. And that kind of pressure under no war, it's like that movie whiplash we just saw the drummer. I don't think you're anything like that teacher. And no, but uh, because that you're all your students loved you. No, I'm kind they loved you and they performed for you.

SPEAKER_00 15:19

I guess the the sum total of all this is Oh, but I wanted to, I'm sorry, I don't want to interrupt you, Babe, but I want you to let them know about your your success. Your successes.

SPEAKER_01 15:28

Why?

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Because was why so I told him I was uh I was a all-American athlete?

SPEAKER_01 15:34

All American discus thrower at UCLA. I was um Olympic trials athlete in the discus as well. I was 21 years old when I competed in uh uh I won't say what year.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

I was gonna say what I go on.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

And um, and I I I was among among the best in my profession. So um the the hard work definitely paid off, but the way I am wired, I you know, all that recovery was essential for me getting there. And I guess my point was gonna be two different styles here that produced I mean, I was also a state champion, a conference champion. I set records left and right. Great success on both ends with two different ways of doing it. So the the point is, you know, success is success. It doesn't matter how you get there. She can uh she can she's just tougher than I am. She can stand up under all that exertion and all that effort without any reward. I can't.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

Oh, I'm gonna take that as a compliment.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

I think it is a compliment. I I wouldn't I wouldn't recommend it for a person who has my personality because I'll never get where you're where you got because I can't do it that I'm not wired that way. I can I can go major bursts for a period of time and then I gotta recover.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Yeah, so so just to kind of put that in a nutshell, what that kind of means is that um uh the way that I operate pretty much through everything is I don't care what anybody thinks, I don't need validation. If I think it was good, it's good. And um uh maybe we didn't place the way I wanted us to place at the competition, then I might I don't really care because as long as we did the absolute best that we could do, that I don't expect anything else, and I consider that a success. And I think in your world, the success lies in the measurement and then the the rewards, and um, and sometimes we have a little bit of an issue there because he wants a reward and I don't care about the reward.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

Or I or I just want to recover. I just won't don't want to do anything more, I don't want to have to do another thing. And and as soon as I get you know that half hour or a half a day or whatever it takes to re um recharge, then I'm ready to go as hard as you want me to go on whatever you're thinking. But if you hit me when I'm in recovery mode and you want to work, yes, boom, there's friction.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

And I'll have to tell you guys, recovery mode quite often consists of a hot bubble bath, a man bath.

SPEAKER_01 18:03

Not necessarily a why is it a bubble bath? Why'd you have to be a big jacuzzi tub?

SPEAKER_00 18:07

I'm sorry, a hot jacuzzi tub that's better with maybe some candlelight and music.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Music, yes, but I haven't done candlelight in quite a while. Where um I just aromatherapy going on. I'm just you know doing my thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

Maybe we need some aromatherapy where I just like my uh steam shower.

SPEAKER_01 18:27

Yeah, because you're a drill sergeant.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Okay, so do you like meeting married? Do you like being married to a drill sergeant, babe?

SPEAKER_01 18:33

I do. It feels right at home. It's like dad's dad's still with me.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

I never met your father, and I wish I I could meet that. Who was he six five?

SPEAKER_01 18:43

Six five, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

And yeah, marine drill sergeant put uh nails in the tips of his shoes so you could hear him when he was walking.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

He had wingtips with the walking in the taps at the end. Yeah, he was a great businessman and uh great drill sergeant.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Well, I will say just one thing before we leave that that I that I want to say and recognize is uh as a dance teacher for over 25 years, um, when I wanted everybody's attention, I would say five, six, seven, eight, and they would just because they would just And I'll go, I have to run to the bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

I'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Um yeah, so I ran a tight ship. Um Yeah. So one of the I just have to say this story too, because I just think it's super funny, is uh one day uh at lunch, uh the football coach came in and he said, Hey, coach to me. He says, I just passed a couple of your dance kids eating lunch outside the dance room, and I heard him saying, Oh, that Rosseter. Uh she's a bee, but she's a nice bee.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

That's a thing.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

So to have the coach, the football coach, he says, I just had to share that with you because they said she is a bee. But you know, she's a really nice bee.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Anyway, I got that. I got a kick out of that. And the football coach also got a kick out of it. That's why he wanted to share it with me.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

That's funny. Well, I don't think you're a B.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Thank you, baby.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

You're my B B, baby. All right. Okay. Um, does that cover that topic?

SPEAKER_00 20:12

I think so. It covers it for me. Um uh one other thing though, I have to say, I I I say it covers it, and then I add something. Um I want to say um uh I loved my all-male dance team, and they weren't as technically trained as the females. So when I uh would put the two teams together and we would do a drill down drill down, it was a even grounds. It was an even playing grounds, and they really enjoyed competing with and against each other. And then one of my one of my dancers, I'll even name him, Wojo. Wojo went on to um military um uh military college, and he was accepted by a few, and so he went to this really elite military um college, and he he reached out to me shortly after he started there and he said, Oh, God, Jesus, man, it really helped me. All the drill downs that we did, I was all ready for for these, all the military drill downs that they give us here. They do the drill downs too, and I was just like, oh, that may give me warm fuzzies, and uh I felt loved and appreciated.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Oh, that sounds like a reward.

SPEAKER_00 21:14

That's I was gonna say that's probably what I like when I when when my when my kids are successful in life and I can give them something that helps them in their lives. That that's that's my reward. And then, okay, move on to the next one. Come on, baby, let's go.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Love it. Okay. That ends the personal segment. How about the next segment, which is Vegas? Babe, Vegas is changing.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

Um, yeah, what's the biggest thing about Vegas that you think is changing?

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Well, one of the things I loved uh coming here as a younger person in my college years was the buffets. I ate like a horse, like I said. So I ate lots of food. Maybe you were a horse. Well, whatever, but the the Buffets were part of the Vegas experience, and they have been for years. And um, you know, the kids love to go to all the buffets and eat whatever the heck they want, right? They all all love them. And and we just got word that one of the um oldest buffets on the strip is going to close permanently as of May 31st of this year, and that is the MGM buffet.

SPEAKER_00 22:25

And that really doesn't mean a whole lot to me because I've never eaten there, but I do understand what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

I've eaten there so many times. It's got I've got so many memories.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

Well, I you're seeing and uh yes, and that suits your personality, and you're gonna miss it. I think that the during the pandemic, when everything closed down, and then everything had to reopen, and we had to be concerned about all the germs and all the things, then the buffets slowly started opening, and we have a lot of wonderful buffets here still, but a lot of them never reopened. They just didn't reopen and they changed the space to reopen as something different.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yeah, I think the aria was probably the first one to to go. We I used to love the aria buffet, but they changed that whole space to proper eats. Oh, not proper eats food court type of arrangement. So they got multiple trendy restaurants that you can order right off the screens and get everything. I mean, it's really cool. And um that trend has carried on into other um casinos, and so they're starting to see although the MGM has not designated what that space that the closed buffet will provide for that, what they're gonna do with it, it's not designated in any way. So um it'll be interesting. I I'm guessing they're gonna do something like proper eats, but who knows? Their sports book is on the other side, and that sports book's a little small, so maybe they'll knock the wall down and make it a bigger sports book. But um the point being is the trend of the buffets is that they are going away and yielding to the proper eats type of format.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Right, right. Okay, now I see what you're saying, but I'm gonna say they're just like either ascending or descending. So you're either they're either leaving or they are really awesome. Like my I'm not a real big buffet person because I just can't eat that much.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Neither anymore.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

But Wicked Spoon at the Cosmo, I don't see that one going anywhere. If anything, the price keeps going up and the food gets gets a little bit more gourmet. And I just love it. That the my uh let me just throw it out there. My favorite buffets are Wicked Spoon and at the Palms, they have a lobster buffet on it.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

A Y-C-E, all you can eat buffet. Yeah. That that those is those your two favorite?

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Those are my two favorite buffets. Um, and again, I'm just not that much of a buffet eater. So I think that I mean, we've eaten at a couple of others, like what is it, Bacchanol or Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

The the widely recognized best uh buffets on the strip are the Wynn Buffet and the um the Bacchanol at Caesars. Um the Bellagio still has a buffet. South Point has a buffet at the city.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

Oh yeah, some locals' places have uh South Point, no, they're not the only one.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Uh who else has a the Rampart has a which is now the resort at Summerlin.

SPEAKER_00 25:23

The Resort at Summerpoint.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Which I was calling it the Inn at Summerlin, but it's not the Reservoir. Red Rock. Red Rock doesn't have a buffet at the end.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

They had one, they had one for a long time. I don't know if it ever reopened. I think it changed into something else.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Um the Luxor had one. I think they closed that one, and the Excalibur may also be closed. I don't believe um Mandalay Bay has one. So anyway, they're they're definitely going to to your point, the best of the best remain.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

And the prices are going up.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Yes, and the marginal ones are closing and recreating that space. Um so there'll still be buffets for those who love that, and it'll be a really good, high-class buffet, great experience, but at you, you know, at a high price is what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

And for the record, this is not a commercial. We're just talking about the buffets and the the life of the buffets. And one thing I want to say about the the the way I look at it is I'm like I Vegas is growing, it makes adjustments as the city grows, and we are the entertainment capital of the world. Yep. And um, we have a couple other things that are growing, which is our sports teams. Now we're getting more sports teams. Everything's growing and growing, and we're adjusting for that. People said when I first moved here, like uh, I don't know, 38 years ago, 30 years ago, even, and um, even 25 years ago, people were saying no, you will never have a football team, never have a basketball team, hockey team, etc. etc. And now we're gonna have all the teams, I believe, soon.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

We have the baseball team already, and uh they're talking about putting the NBA stadium next to the baseball stadium on that end of the strip. So um, we haven't officially got a NBA team, but we are definitely in contention. They are evaluating.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Oh, I thought they approved the two teams for 2027. Oh, oh, okay. I know we ought to prove it.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

So yeah, it's to your point, Vegas is always morphing, changing, evolving, and uh for the better, I think.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Because if you don't change, and that's a topic for a whole nother thing, but if you don't morph and change and reinvent yourself as need be, then you become dated. And that happens with people sometimes, and that's always for a whole nother podcast. Stuck in a rut. Uh stuck in a rut, yeah. Like the people walking around with the 80s haircuts. All right, I don't want to go into that too much right now.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

Wait, I had this haircut in the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

No, I didn't. But I wanted to say it's also similar not only to the sports stuff, but also to the poker rooms, because the poker rooms here in Las Vegas, um, a lot, you know, uh post-pandemic, some of them did not reopen. Some of them are opening slower, some of them are closing down. Resorts world poker room just closed down. But we have some that are really big, like the Wynn and Venetian and the Bellagio and um South Point. Caesars was just opening. South Point's one of the biggest uh locals uh uh uh poker rooms. We also have Orleans for a locals poker room. Um Green Valley poker room just reopened, Red Rock has a good poker room, but the ones on the strip are uh Aria's poker room. Aria has a really bougie poker room, love it. Um so yeah, I'm just my point being I may have missed some poker rooms in that, but my point is that um uh I think that Vegas does a really great job at adjusting. Um oh wait, we've got a podcast coming up of uh shopping, and then we can't wait to talk about that because that that also applies to that.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

Yeah, we'd love that. Yeah, that'll be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

So anything else to add to that? You want to go to a buffet, babe?

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Yeah, I'm kind of hungry now.

SPEAKER_00 29:01

I don't know. Do y'all like buffets? What are the buffets you like?

SPEAKER_01 29:06

I really think it depends on the station of life you're in. I mean, at this point in our life, we don't eat that much. We're we're sharing meals all the time, so it's not really attractive. It's it's like when you pave that kind of money for a buffet, you feel like you got to eat everything from every station, and it's just it's not practical, and you end up leaving miserable because you're so stuffed.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

But this this girl kind of just takes a spoon of of everything. I'm not I don't have a problem with just taking a little taste, and and that's yeah, I'm a little different.

SPEAKER_01 29:31

I had 10 lobsters on lobster night, and that was a lot.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

Um but but when you go with a family, when we had our whole family, well, not our whole family, we had eight people. Most of them, yeah. Um, we had eight of us and we did a buffet, and it was really nice. The kids really like the fact that they don't have they get to pick what they want to eat.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Right, especially the desserts. They had some fun with that.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Yeah, and everyone was like, Okay, no, I don't think we're gonna do the desserts. And as people are coming back with more better desserts and yummy looking desserts, they were like, Oh, let me let me go see what they have.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

Yeah, I'm gonna try that. Yeah, let's go do that.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

It was fun. We had fun, it was a good family experience.

SPEAKER_01 30:07

The bottom line is Vegas buffets have always been part of the Vegas experience, and I'd hate to see them totally go away. I hope they keep a few around for the long haul.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

And uh Hey, babe, before you close the door on this, what's your take on downtown buffets? I don't even know. Are there any downtown buffets? I don't know that they exist.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

That's a great question. I've never had a buffet downtown. Um there might be. Uh where did you go? Do you remember?

SPEAKER_00 30:33

I think I was at, I don't know, the nugget or somewhere, because everything's always really super inexpensive. Maybe one of our our guests, uh, Ken and Julie, when maybe we have them on a podcast uh as a guest, maybe they will shed some light on that. But um we don't do downtown very much or very often, I should say, and I don't we cannot I can't think of anything off the top of my.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

So I'm sure there's got to be one down there, but we'll talk to Ken and Julie.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

All right.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

All right, guys.

SPEAKER_00 31:04

So thank you all for joining Chris and Ginger Vegas Live. Actually, we're called Living Vegas, but we are Chris and Ginger. Our YouTube channel is Chris and Ginger Vegas Live, and our podcast series is Living Vegas with Chris and Ginger.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

And we're living Vegas every day.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

All right, baby. All right, love you. Oh, and welcome to our home. This is our home, that's our backyard. And the pool fountains are off now because the pool's getting drained to be clean tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

It's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 31:30

Okay, yes, real sergeant.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Yes, ma'am.

SPEAKER_00 31:34

Over now. Okay, babe, you're you're dismissed.

SPEAKER_01 31:37

Thank you.