So the road show rolls into a nutty little town we like to call Las Vegas this weekend, eh?
When you’ve been around as long as yer ol pals in CH3, you develop a certain history with the cities you visit on a periodic basis.
Yeh, we’ve seen this burg grow from a classless little hick hole to the classless monument to excess that it is today!
And don’t give me that crap about the Wynn art collection or Tommy Keller’s slop houses raising the cultural bar!
Listen, if I’m gonna drop three hundred goddamn dollars at Bouchon or Nobu, it’s not gonna be in a place where I have to look at a faded cougar on an oxygen tank play penny slots, Brother!
Besides, you wanna talk about fine dining when any sane man is gonna stroll down the strip for a 99 cent half pound dog at Slots of Fun??!
Over the years, we’ve done Vegas a hundred different times and a hundred different ways. From the Bellagio waterfront suites to sleeping it off in the downtown parking garage, this town has always welcomed us with open arms and then kicked our asses back down Interstate 15.
But there’s always been one constant: Yeah, you got it–Gambling!
What is it about gambling that sets the blood to boil, hmm?
Is it the thrill of risking what you really can’t afford to lose?
The chance—ever so slight!–of winning?
Actually winning— now there’s a concept!
To receive unearned monies, dropped down upon your grateful open palm like a feather. A reluctant gift from the last sad bird of an exotic and now extinct species?
Nah. We simply gamble for the free booze and this simple fact: They let ya get away with murder if yer gambling!!
I mean really, where else can you stumble through a ritzy lobby (or ride a wheelchair *ahem*), a smelly cigar on your lip and all your junk hanging out of your vomit-crusted trousers without getting kicked out on your ass? Just drop a coin in the video poker and they’ll bring you a bloody mary and a Keno card!!!
either they're counting cards or they're too drunk to count to 21!
It’s the spirit of Las Vegas that we love, that sleazy independence that has survived through shitty lounge acts and white tigers!
Come join your buddies out in the desert, won’t ya?-and give Kimm a kiss for luck.
(Need more push? Click the goddamn arrow below and listen to the coins clatter into the tray—it’s the sound of a million lucky angels with prosthetic wings, baby!!!)
Gamblin’ Time
Didn’t I learn a goddamn thing
Is it only half way through Lent?
This hundred bucks is getting awfully warm
And it ain’t going to the rent
I want a chance at something more
Or something different at least
Gimme a shot, a shot at hope
To get me through one more week
Is it wrong to use that cash
Well, her teeth are really pretty straight
Over under’s at fifty four
That one dude’s groin is strained
All I know about myself is nothing’s never enough
Screw the payment on the truck and the rest of that boring stuff
It’s gamblin’ time
In Sam’s Town I double down
The bitch held back my King
The frickin’ horse dropped down in class
She didn’t learn a goddamn thing
I dream of jet black roulette wheels on a velvet ocean of green
I hold the dice like wounded birds and then I set them free
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