Need To Know for August 24th, 2022
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00:00you need to know today bally's we we've known this is coming they're renaming the whole property to
00:06the horseshoe which is uh homage to the uh binion's horseshoe which is down at the downtown about 70
00:11years ago that's the place that kicked off the world series of poker which is now at bally's
00:15which is going to be the horseshoe lots going on here yeah they took down the sign uh i think
00:21monday night tuesday morning took down the sun on the west side of the uh strip the whole sign
00:26at the corner of uh the strip and flamingo getting changed as well yeah a fun fact i went to you know
00:32that grocery store bar across from bally's oh my gosh it's it's it's so i'm literally the worst i'm
00:40pretty sure it's like the one that says the lease we signed it for 67 years yeah i went there one
00:46time thinking it was a grocery store and it was a bar and i was like oh how cool is this right next
00:52to batista's right i think so i think so god it is a a hole in the wall it's scary around those parts
01:03you don't want to walk too far to lee's that's about as good as you can get yeah you're right
01:07you know you're right gotta get some cheap booze so here's the history of valleys if you didn't know so
01:12bally's opens up 1973 as what what was it no idea mgm grand oh my god original mgm grand then they
01:20had that terrible fire back in 1980 i've heard about that yeah 85 people died they rebuild the
01:29whole property get it ready for summer 2020 uh 2021 summer 1981 but it's now got sprinklers and then
01:36they build a new tower but okay mgm grand sells it to bally bally changes it bally gets bought by hilton
01:46who names it to park place who got bought by harris which bought which is became caesar's
01:54which got bought by el dorado so pretty much this thing has been handed over so many times like the
01:59palms it really is it's like the palms everyone has touched this yeah yeah sloppy nights yeah getting
02:06serious uh but yeah that's gonna be the uh the the horseshoe so r.i.p bally or bally's uh the gold
02:12knights are favored to make the playoffs at the sports books in town okay circa william hill uh
02:17make the playoffs usually in this town they're going to win the stanley cup did you see speaking
02:23of championships did you see carrot top um went to the first back and put money at the cosmopolitan
02:28the raiders to win the super bowl and everybody was saying that was the best joke he's had in years
02:34how sad is that okay the internet attacked him for making that bet and that made me sad because
02:41he loves las vegas he lives here and he's rooting for the home team so leave him alone can i just say
02:48i know it's cool to bash carrot top but is it like leave that's what that's like that's the thing
02:54you bash carrot top which is what you do but like he's great i like such a nice guy such a good guy
03:00oh my gosh somebody i mean he's been on the strip performing for years somebody who lost their job
03:06before uh it really even got started was a new capital records rapper named fn mecca you heard of
03:13fn mecca i have and i know he's being canceled already but this is the future that is literally
03:20the future and it freaks me out okay this fn mecca is not a real person it is a virtual rapper
03:28a.i uh-huh that capital records the capital records signed okay this is becoming our world
03:38i hate this about i'm glad this guy got canceled and all these people should be canceled non-people
03:42people yeah control all delete all these people so the artist wasn't real it was a simple it was a
03:47computer simulation uh the a.i was starting to rap about among other things police brutality and
03:54imprisonment which ai's never really experienced and it's one of those things he's a fake person
03:59he's a fake person now i will say this fake person has way more tick tock followers than we do uh-huh
04:0510 million god knows how many of those they bought very awkward it's so odd now this is how far it's come
04:13two years ago travis scott or yeah i think it was two years ago travis scott did a virtual
04:18um concert inside like uh oh gosh i forget what game fortnight fortnight yeah jaden was at a travis
04:27scott concert losing his mind he saw all his friends were there i mean i gotta be honest i like that
04:32though i like that ariana grande did a fortnight as well everybody rock was in everybody's doing it
04:37and they're making a ton of money it was so fun that you're there you're experiencing this you're seeing
04:41a whole bunch of other players around you and you're there that's cool but like this is not that's but
04:47like hey i'm gonna do this in lieu of any touring is not this is it's not even a real person like
04:53imagine back in the day like michael jackson showed up in super mario i mean yeah that would be awesome