Drifting on Arroyo
Drifting on Arroyo
Episode 138 - Vegas Traditions Broken: Betting, Food, And Changing Vibes
The annual wild card pilgrimage to Vegas used to run on rails: a packed sportsbook, easy drink tickets, horse racing between games, and a steak dinner to cap the night. This time, the city made us work for every moment. We battled a cough, a supposed “cooler” at a Pai Gow table who never bought in, and a craps crew so sloppy the dice kept leaving the felt. The Strip looked thinner, table minimums grew fatter, and comps turned into math problems—Resorts World asked for $300 in wagers for a single drink ticket and cut horse racing from the book entirely.
So we pivoted. The games delivered a thriller, and we leaned on the Kalshi live-betting market, buying underdogs when percentages dipped and arguing in real time about when to cash out. That tension—hedge or hold—became the pulse of the weekend. We skipped a steakhouse reservation to ride the final minutes, then settled for tacos that didn’t match the hype or the price. When the Strip stumbles, old reliables save the day: Blueberry Hill reminded us how service and comfort can reset a trip, even when a rude customer tries to hijack the mood.
Food redemption arrived back home at Tsuke Artisan Noodles. We break down tatamen’s peanut-rich punch, why broth amplifies spice, and how a marinated egg transforms after a slow soak. Deluxe tonkotsu and tsukemen added texture and depth, with a thick dipping broth that clings to every strand. It’s the opposite of Vegas’s new high-minimum posture: honest value, long-simmered craft, and flavor that earns your attention without a velvet rope.
If you’ve felt the Strip shift toward whales and away from regulars, you’re not crazy. We compare Strip vs. Fremont energy, talk rising table limits, and map a smarter path: targeted betting, better food choices, and a willingness to ditch hype for places that deliver. Hit play for the laughs, the near-misses, the wins we did bank, and the ramen that stole the show. If you’re into sports betting strategy, Vegas culture, or legit noodle talk, this one’s for you. Subscribe, share with a friend who bets the playoffs, and tell us where you’re finding real value now.
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Welcome back to the Drifting on Ar royo Podcast. This is Mig, Lano, RK67. Happy New Year, right? Yeah. Oh, we already said Happy New Year. We missed last week though.
Lano:Oh no. Let me see. Okay, no, yeah. Alright, I messed up. Oh yeah, the last show came out January 8th.
Mig:Yeah. No, we covered that already. Sorry. It's already covered, dude. My bad. That's um had uh head cold messing me up.
Lano:Oh yeah, every I like I was sick last week. My wife was sick, we didn't record last week, and then I was kind of sick over the weekend, so it's it's coming around.
Mig:Yeah, I had a pretty nasty uh sinus thing going on where I was all congested and had the whole sinus headache and everything, so throat all scratchy. So if you hear me cough in the background, I'm gonna try to cover it up, but I had body aches. Almost always.
Speaker 2:We went to Vegas last weekend?
Mig:Last weekend. Last weekend. Not this weekend that just passed. Yeah, the one we made. The weekend before. Yeah. So we made some well, I made some money. I don't know what happened with you. You were gonna toss on what happened on Sunday. Yeah, dude. I I should have came home with you guys. So what did you guys played at the palms? Yeah, we we went to the palms and uh we jumped on a pike out table. Uh-huh. And dude, if you would have been there, I swear you would have murdered this guy that showed up. He was an asshole. Oh, uh a player. Yeah. He wanted to go outside down. He didn't know how to play? No, no, he he knew how to play. He was just the bitterest asshole. I honestly think I honestly think he was the casino's cooler.
Speaker 3:Oh, because you guys were winning?
Mig:We weren't even winning, dude. We were just like we were hanging in there. We were doing a cool. What's a cooler? Explain. We were having fun. Okay, for you people out there don't know what a cooler is. Um back, I guess, in the day, what casinos would do when someone was on a hot streak, like either at a crap's table or blackjack or whatever, and like just killing it, like winning a ton, they have someone that was called the cooler. And he would come in and kind of like put like a bad mojo on the table or to all the players, and everybody would start losing. So he he essentially a hot table or whatever was going on, he'd cool it down.
Lano:Intentionally come fuck up legally. Well, or like is he doing tricks and stuff, or is he like no no no?
Mig:He just comes in with the bad energy and for example, like if uh if uh crap, I mean uh blackjack table is doing good or whatever, yeah, a guy would come and then do like take cards when he's not supposed to, or hit when he's not supposed to, and then just mess up the whole the whole um flow of the game.
Lano:Oh keep going. I see Mickey's camera went out again. Hold on.
Mig:Oh yeah, you guys might have another animated uh bear on the YouTube again. I gotta go back and watch that episode. See see what you put in there for me. We need a better degenerate AI bear. Yeah. We need something. You know what it was? Just a little bear that was just like was it shaking, Lono? It was just there, huh?
unknown:No, just there.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:It looked like it was just like bam. Oh. I mean, I haven't watched it, so I gotta go back and watch it. Yeah. Alright, so, anyways, we we sit we sit down at Pike out tail. We're having fun, dude. Yeah, we're having a good time. The dealer, she's a shit. You know, I'm in love with her. You know, we're having a good time. You know, we're not losing a lot, you know, we're pushing and everything, getting bonuses and stuff. We're having a good time.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:You know, we changed dealers a couple times. And but but we're there, you know, we're we're hanging, we're hanging. And then um If you guys ain't winning, he wasn't a cooler. Well, it seemed like he was, dude. But that's what I'm saying. You know, we it's not like we were winning thousands and thousands. That's why I doubt that it was a cooler. So we're we're this is at the palms. At the palms. So where they're playing, and then uh we get this this one this one dealer, you know, she she came into relieve, and uh at this point we're already kind of like starting to lose. Uh-huh. You know, and the thing is if if you know Pai Gal, you know, the the dealer was getting a lot of like free pairs, and you know that's tough to beat. You know, so she was getting a lot of really good hands. So we're sitting there, but me and Rob, we don't care, you know, because we're having a good time. But then this just bitter asshole just sat down, dude. And I mean, like typical, you know, industry looking failed writer, director, douchebag, freaking independent filmmaker, dude sat down, you know? Yeah, and he he sits down and right away just starts talking shit.
Speaker 5:About what?
Mig:He sees the hand, he's like, Oh, is that what I'm gonna sit down to? You know, it's like is this has she been getting those hands all night long? You know, and everything. We're like, you know, so he goes in and starts reaching. He goes in and starts reaching to pull out his money. So I'm expecting to pull out a lot of hundreds. What does he pull out? Like 40 bucks. He puts down 40 bucks and she says you want to change. He's like, No, I'm I'm gonna see how everything happens first. Oh, and so he pulled out the 40 and just leaves it there by his side. So we start playing and we just start. Wait, did he cash in? Did he buy in at all?
Speaker 2:No, so how was he able to see a hand?
Mig:Or he's started, yeah. Because you know, it's uh it's face up pie goals so he can see everything. And so So he's not even in the game. He's not even in the game, dude. That's what I'm saying. Oh my god, you would have freaking murdered this guy, dude. It took everything I had to restrain myself, you know. So so this stupid asshole, you know, he's sitting there bitter as shit, talking shit about every hand that comes out, yeah. And he's like, Oh, you know, oh, I'm glad you I didn't put my money in there. He's like, I'm I'm gonna make a documentary. He's like, You can't tell me that those machines aren't doing that on purpose.
Speaker 5:Oh my god.
Mig:I'm like, dude, I'm like, could you just get the hell out of here if you're not gonna play and let us enjoy what we were enjoying? Yeah, you know, and then after that, dude, it's like he just brought just killed it, dude, full salado. Every hand after that, we just started losing, losing, losing where we were pushing. Did he get up and leave before you guys did, or you guys left and nah? And you left him there? No, he left at the same time. Oh and he didn't play one dollar. Not one dollar, dude. A plant, probably, yeah. He just talked shit. Why didn't Why didn't they the table was empty? There was there was there was nobody but even like to sit down. You have to play like well he had his money he acted like if he was gonna play.
Speaker 2:Yeah, on the table, yeah.
Mig:And since it wasn't a full table, you know, then it was just me and Rob. But this dude, I was like, drop 300 bucks right there, dude. Yeah, 300 bucks, gone, boom. You know, and up to that point, I was I was I was still up. You know, I was gonna come home with money. Yeah. So I'm like, dude, like this freaking. Yeah, you know what? It was like a weekend like that too, because when we went, I was telling you about those guys on the craps table. Yeah. Those, it was like, what is it, two, it was probably like four or five guys. Oh, at the plaza, that one drunk idiot, right? That you were you were talking about? Those they were like friends, yeah, they were pretty young dudes, and they were I don't even know how they did not get kicked out of that damn craps table. Like the dealers, as we walked up, the dealers were already frustrated and and the pit boss was already pissed off and yelling at them to roll the dice. And this one kid that was next to the guy with the stick, I'm telling you, he was throwing the dice all stupid. He was just like, he was like chucking them down all like almost every roll was the dice were flying off the table. Yeah, there was one time this this this fucking kid, he he he threw it, and I saw like the roll of the dice. I saw like the six, four coming right in my head, and I barely dodged it, and it flew off the damn table. You're like Neo and the Matrix. I was like Neo, dude. And and they just by the time they like the guy was too drunk to keep rolling, they they they they cut him, and they let the other guy start rolling the next to him because the guy, and then the the the waitresses they kept bringing him for damn drinks. They kept serving these guys were wasted, and they kept serving them drinks, and and it went all the way around. The guys, you know, the guys were like touching the dice with two hands, and I'm telling you, all the pit all the the um the damn um dealers were pissed, dude. They were already frustrated. Oh I was like, oh shit, dude. And then they're the one guy that before we walked up, the one guy that was there already like betting. I could see it on his face. He wanted to keep betting, and it was just like, and he was happy that we came up, that we came up because then we started having like decent roles. But then once it went to those guys again, I was like, nah, fuck that, I'm out of here. Luckily, luckily, I I went down, I went back up. I would probably I could have probably walked away with like winning 100 bucks. Yeah, but I ended up walking walking away with what I cashed in was um 200 bucks, so I want my money back after being down, and then I just ended up I think winning like 28 bucks on that table. So I was like, fuck, at least that, man. Yeah, at least you want something. Yeah, that was craps. And then um were you there when when that dude was talking shit to Raj? In line to the at the cashier, at the cashier box? No, no one else. Did you tell you about it? No, it was funny because Rob was in line. There was the there's no one in the line to go cash out your chips. And Rob was in line, and then me and Rod, me and Raj went under like the rope to stand next to to Rob. And it was kind of like at the same time this this this dude, this white dude walked up, right? All in a blazer and all this, like dorky white dude with glasses, like kind of like kind of dude that would just say stupid, cheesy dad jokes, you know. Okay, he's funny. And then like he sees us like go under the rope to stand next to Rob, and then he comes and he kind of like stands next to Raj, like kind of like bumping up, like, hey, like I'm I'm after Rob, like because he he followed the line and we went under the rope. And I saw the guy, and I thought the guy was just joking, you know, like you kind of know, kind of like you know, it's Vegas, everyone's like cool, you know, and then like Raj is like, all right, he was whatever, right? Raj was cool at first, but then the guy kind of like started like boxing Raj out. Dude, after that, like Raj started saying that, you know, he's like, hey dude, he's like relax, we're we're with with with our buddy here, whatever. And the guy, I forgot what he said initially, but then they started like you know pissing each other off. Shit, where was it? Where was this at? Uh it was at uh Mendalay Bay, I think. At the Mendeley Bay, uh-huh. Rod Raj was Raj ended up, it was to the point where Raj told him, Well, let's go outside. He was like, What's going on right now? And the dudes all like calling him an asshole and this and that, and then and then Raj is like, you know, suck my this, and then the guy's like, you don't have one. It was funny. I can't believe he didn't tell you. It was funny, dude. Was he a lot older? It was like an older dude. It was probably Saturday. I think it was Saturday night. Yeah, I think it was Saturday night. I think it was Saturday night. It was funny, dude. I don't know, I don't know where the hell I was at. And the the like Raj was already all heated and he's like, I think he says, like, you know, suck by this, and he's all like you don't have one. He's like, you want to see, you want to see it. I think he's it was funny, dude. He told Roger, Roger. Yeah, right. It was him and him, Rog. And I was just like, I was laughing on the side. I was like, uh, I'm gonna go catch my chips.
Lano:So tell everybody uh like every year you guys go to Vegas for the first round of the playoffs.
Mig:First round for Wild Carter, Wild Carter, round of the football playoffs. Yeah, first round of the playoffs. Um and it was it was kind of a messed up weekend because all our usual plans we we just gotta change it up now because our usual routine, we can't do it no more. It's do you mean like Vegas has changed? Vegas changed, or like your food spots are not there, or whatever the spots, yeah, pretty much everything. Yeah. Cause for what, like I would say a good ten years.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:A good ten years, the routine was we stay at Planet Hollywood, the sports book has a bar connected to it, which is called uh ringers, yeah. And they would serve food like bar food. You know, they had really good wings, you know, they had good burgers and sandwiches and stuff, and finger food. And just outside of the sports book, and then just outside they had that pin of pizza, pin of pizza, yeah. Really good. And they had like a sandwich spot right there, right nearby, and a lot of food spots around. You know, but the important the the the big thing was that we could sit there and order food and watch the games and everything, then we can make bets because the sports book is right there, like twenty feet away.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:You know, and that was ideal. And so what we would do is uh sit there, you know, and get a bunch of drink tickets and everything from making our bets. Well, to start off, we would get there, Roger would go tell the manager the night before whenever we would get there. Well, yeah, we got a big group, we want to reserve our spot so they would have these tables and chairs already reserved for us for the whole thing. And then sports, but no, uh at the bar. Well, that's it. But and then it wasn't was it um did they charge us? They never charged us. No, they never charged us, right? Oh or it was like a two-drink minimum or something, no? Something something like that. There was some minimum that were like there's no problem. Yeah, yeah. We're like, that's not a problem. So they would always have that already ready for us. Like one of the these tables, or this is the something else. Yeah, exactly, exactly like that. But we would have like maybe like four of those put together. And it was we had the table, and for the if there was two, three games, playoff games, we were there the whole time. The whole day. Yeah. We would be there for like two or three waitress shifts. Yeah. You know, and we would tip them extremely well. I mean, they to the point to where they remembered us every year and we would come back.
Lano:Oh, really?
Mig:Yeah, they would remember us and they would treat us super good, and we would treat them really well. And it was awesome. Being that the sports book was just steps away, so we were constantly you know putting a lot of money on the on the game, not only the Nana FL games, but we bet a lot on horse racing. Horse racing. I was gonna ask you, they still show a lot of horse racing? Well, that one still alive. Yeah, that that that'll come later in the story. Okay. So that one has that one had sports racing because you know, sometimes the games, it's only one game going on. So, you know, timeout break or whatever. We we're right there, we got money on a race in San Anito. Quick horse, yeah. You know, yeah. So so we're constantly betting. We're constantly there, so we're constantly going to sportsbook, and you know, we're spending money on the a lot of money on the bets, and we're getting drink tickets.
Lano:And how big is the group this year?
Mig:It was seven of us. Nine? Nine nine.
Lano:Eight of us.
Mig:Eight or nine.
Lano:With Cuckoo and everybody, huh? Oh, yeah.
Mig:Yeah, it was like nine of us. So typically it would be at least twelve. Oh, you know, but uh James would go, Danny would go, you know, and eight of us. Oh, Danny and James didn't make it out this year? No, they didn't make it. Eight of us, you know, and and the good thing the good thing about this place is that what me and James would do is that we would find that one guy at the counter at the sports book. You know, because if you're betting on the horses, you can go into like the exclusive like seven diamond platinum line or whatever, you know, the the the line for the high rollers. Yeah because the horses, you know, they're they're on post times, you know. It's like you gotta get your bet in. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, you can't sit there and wait in line if you want to make a horse bet. So they'll they'll allow you to stand in that line and make a horse bet. So what I would do is I go in there, make my bet, and I tip the guy like five bucks, and he would give me like four or five drink tickets. Yeah, that's why we would always have like a pile of drink tickets, and we were always pounding, dude, the whole time. Yeah, we and uh when you had the um I mean we start making like pyramid of the damn drink tickets. Yeah. So at the end of the shift, all the drinks that we've ordered, the the waitress counts the drink tickets, and then you know, but they're toward that and yeah, whatever.
Lano:So how many um had to get a ticket, drink ticket? What how much you have to bet or back then normally back then at 20?
Mig:20 bucks? Like 20, then it went up to 50. Yeah. Oh, really?
Lano:Yeah, every 50 bucks they give you like a ticket.
Mig:Yeah, and then it just.
Speaker 3:And then you know what I noticed. I mean, every time that we go back, less and less the waitresses um come around.
Mig:Come around, yeah. Yeah, at the plaza, the waitress was good. She kept coming around the craps table. But I've noticed everywhere else we got, we sat down, whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nothing. No waitresses are barely coming around.
Mig:That's why a lot of times if I like I really want to drink, I'll just sit at the bar and play video poker. Yeah. And that way I get my drinks there. Yeah. You know, but so so we had, you know, we we had that tradition that we were always doing. So two years ago was it?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'd say two years ago.
Mig:Yeah. Well, pretty much after COVID, dude, everything got ruined.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Mig:You know, so everything changed after COVID. But up uh up until two years ago, two or three years ago, everybody I guess caught on and they started charging for reservations for tables. So they started charging you for each game. And for each game. So we couldn't just sit go there and sit there for like the two games, three games, whatever. Yeah, the whole day, you know, because there were times where we would get there at 10 in the morning.
Lano:Oh, so you're getting charged like three times at the table. Yeah, yeah. Oh, wow. And that's but did it seem like people were like waiting for your spots, like hanging out, like groups or no?
Mig:No, it's not even like people would be coming up to see Yeah, there they would be waves of people depending on who was playing and because people are coming up to see if there are spots to to sit down and watch the game. But so, anyways, like two years ago, we find out that they stopped serving food.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:You know, and they started charging for the tables. So we're like, what kind of shit is that?
Lano:What, this place ringers?
Mig:They said so no more, they don't serve food there anymore. You know, there's they started charging per game for you to watch and they put like uh a minimum of how much you have to drink or like spend on drink or whatever.
Speaker 2:So then and then even I think the um the prices were going up to get drink tickets and so we just you know we didn't go there no more.
Mig:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So last year we went to Alice.
Mig:Alice Island, which was kind of cool, you know. But then they're there too, they charge you to be there for both games. So then this year we're trying to still figure out what we're gonna be doing. And so we end up at Resorts World because it kind of looked like it was a cool from what I remember, the sportsbook area, they had like a bar where they served good food and it looked like a cool spot. Before you go on that, that Alice Island, uh Lano, where we ate in the restaurant, it's cool because you go out in that restaurant and they have like that roof that retracts, no, that opens up. The roof, the the deck, the rooftop, yeah. Yeah, it's not on the rooftop, but I think it is. The one we were at. Remember last year they were still doing the construction and all that? Oh, but we haven't been there though. We haven't been to the top, no. Well, downstairs, they had like like the roof was opening, like down on where the restaurant sat on the first floor. Uh-huh. And it's a cool spot because they had huge TVs there. Yeah. You have your breakfast there, but um, a really small sports book though, so it's like uh they have some kiosk, like they're starting to have more kiosk. Um actually, no, they're starting to have that app which you got. Yeah. Where you could just bet on the on the phone, you know, you use the casinos.
Lano:This is a like a small place, right? This is a place. It's really small.
Mig:You know, so every every place has its like its pros and cons, you know? And so this year, you know, we decided to go to a resorts world because we Rick had seen it and I had seen it, and we figured it would be cool. So we go and we make the reservations and they didn't charge us anything, right? For yeah. They did to be there? But they they put a minimum of what we had to spend on food and drink. Oh, yeah. Per person. 100 bucks. It was like um Yeah, but I'm saying they didn't charge us like a sitting fee or anything. Just sit there. No, it was a spend a minimum fee. It was a spend a minimum of like a hundred bucks per person. And you had to spend if you're gonna be there for the second game, you had to spend again a minimum of a hundred bucks, yeah. So we went there for the first game. And we figured we would go there, and we didn't we usually would go get some breakfast and then go. Yeah. But we said, let's go there. We'll have our breakfast there, that'll count towards our hundred bucks that we spend, and then whatever drinks and that we get. But I mean, resorts world, I mean it was cool. They had big huge damn screens and everything. The sports book is there. But no FN horse racing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't do no horse racing.
Mig:I was like, how the hell are you gonna have a sports book in Vegas and you're not gonna have horse racing? Yeah. Oh, I'm like, that's and then uh well, jumping ahead of that, that sports book doesn't open till like nine. Yeah. It's like game, you're trying to get your bets in, game starts at 10. Oh. Let me uh make an amendment to that. What? Because when I went to go cash in those tickets the next morning, Monday morning, uh-huh, I went down and uh I went to the cashier to cash them. And she told me, Oh, you gotta cash those at the sports book. I thought, yeah, but it's closed. And she's like, No, they're open. I'm like, no, it's like, look, the doors are all down and it's all roped off. And she's like, Oh, you can just walk in there. There, there's someone there at the counter. I'm like, well, what's it? So that's the idiot waiter didn't know. So the valet, yeah. So so I tell them was it the waiter or valet? The valet told me at nine. Well that's that goes against them too, because none of the damn employees know what the hell's going on. So that's a big um like a couple of things. Remember, remember where we were sitting off to the left, there was like an opening where you could walk in, like stairs? Yeah, okay. Well, that part is open, and I couldn't see that part from like the angles where I was at. So that's why I thought it was closed. It was whack. You know, but whatever. It was no horse racing, just too too many, too many strikeouts at the resorts world. It's they just I mean, the waitress that we had was cool, she was awesome. We had a good time sitting there watching the games and everything. No, yeah, she was cool, but you know, but but they only had one one, they only had her attending that whole area. Yeah, that that's the other bad thing. So it's like we're waiting forever to get you know our our shit or to order something else, and she's all around, you know, attending to everybody. They have one person in that area. Oh, and then the biggest ultimate strike is that I I go and I place my bets and I ask, but you know, it's like, can I get it? I I made like $350 of bets. And like, can I get, you know, do you guys offer drink tickets? And she's like, Yeah. So I'll give you one. And I'm like, just one? You know, so she just gave me one. I'm like, well, what's the what's the minimum? What do you gotta spend to get a drink ticket? She tells me 300 bucks, dude. I'm like, Oh my god. Are you effing kidding me, man? And you still had to ask for it, and I still had to ask for it. That's what pisses me off, dude.
Lano:So the resort world sportsbook, this is the doghouse?
Mig:Yeah.
Lano:Okay. That's bullshit, dude.
Mig:And if you go there, I recommend you get the Raw Weiler.
Speaker 3:What is that, a burger?
Mig:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Just go there to eat.
Speaker 2:You just eat there.
Mig:So yeah, dude, it was I mean, it it's disappointing. Yeah, that was the just the morning eating. It's like because Vegas, dude, used to be so much fun. It seems like easier, yeah. And now they're like taking it all away, dude.
Speaker 2:I'm constantly seeing videos of the tourists not going to Vegas anymore.
Mig:I mean, there's they're the it's empty and all that, and I I I I get what you're saying, is they're they're filming when it's the time of day that no one's out or whatever. Yeah, but still at night, the way the strip used to be packed. That's what I'm talking about. It's not it's like I tell everybody that, you know, and they're like, no, well, it's because they're it's like you say, you know, they're filming that time. I'm like, no. It's like I've been out there, I've been on the strip driving at 8 o'clock on a Saturday night. Before it used to be like herding cattle on the sidewalks. It's like now it's like you can do whatever you want. And then, and then everyone that that I talked to that that you know they they've gone, oh, they were going to Vegas or whatever, like guys at work or whatever. Like, I tell them that, like, yeah, I heard that Vegas is is not packed anymore, whatever.
Speaker 3:And then they'll say, like, no, no, yeah, there was a lot of people out there, whatever, whatever. Like, when we went, I didn't see it.
Mig:I mean I don't see a lot of people.
Lano:There's gonna be other people, but not like the Vegas crowdednesses before, right? It's like the only thing.
Mig:But like the tourists, they're not going over there. Like they don't think they're Vegas is not a big thing. Every weekend, regardless of there being an event or not, Vegas used to be packed every weekend. I don't see casinos like like this, like remember we walking into the hard the old hard rock cafe, yeah, dude, like this, and you couldn't get on the damn table, dude. That's what that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm talking about, dude. And I guess they're saying that now Vegas is just being catered to whales, like the ultra wealthy, yeah, which I don't get because they say that Vegas was built on milking the little guy and taking his money. Wow. So they can. But then that that's why they say that all the casinos on the strip are in the red, and the only one that's in the black is the Circus Circus. Yeah, Circus Circus doesn't because they haven't changed anything. That's the one you always want like, no Lono? Yeah, you always like Circus Circus? No, but even going when we used to make those runs, yeah, you were always about going on that uh dollar slot slot carousel. Yeah, this dude always wanted to go there. But that's the only casino that's in the green, dude. Yeah, Circus Circus. Because they're they're keeping everything the same. It's it's like the decor is outdated, but everything's cheap. I think you can still get like dollar beers and dollar hot dogs, and they're not switching it up. Yeah, and people still go there. But I mean, a lot of people don't go there because they think it oh, circus circus is family, whatever, whatever, but people that know, you know, they're going for there for the for the deals, and they're they're keeping it, you know, they'll they'll they'll fix up the rooms. Not that they don't want the rooms looking raunchy, but they're not making them all glamorous like these other fucking places.
Lano:Yeah. Yeah, because every every new like casino I see, they got like gold sinks in the bathroom and all that crazy stuff.
Mig:But then you say like they say that Vegas, oh no, no, Vegas is it was a lot of people, whatever, whatever. You walk in, you walk into a casino, there's a bunch of tables that are closed. Yeah. Rollette tables that are closed. Like they don't have them all open. I mean, that that's what's gonna happen when you when the minimums are $25. Yeah. Oh, are are is that the minimum? The majority, yeah. Yeah, it's like you're you're lucky if you find a $15 table.
Speaker 2:Yeah, $15 is the is the new $5 table. You know what I'm saying?
Mig:Actually, but there is a $5 at the plaza. Well, you're talking about downtown Vegas, so it's way different over there.
Lano:Is that where we need to go now? Downtown Vegas, no? Old town Vegas? I mean the call's even better.
Mig:It's better. Like the whole that whole Fremont experiencer, yeah. It's just more live there. That feels like like Vegas.
Lano:And see, and that's the thing where people you might be like that life. Someone might have gone to the Fremont experience, and then you're like, How's Vegas? They're like, Oh no, it's Jan. I mean, that place is always like busy, but yeah, yeah. Always a lot of people there.
Mig:There's got they got bands playing there, they got that light show, so that's that place is live there. But the strip, nah. I mean, the strip's so bad, they don't even got the people flicking the little escort cards. You know, I think I did see one. I think I saw one little lady out there doing that.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:Well, but then you then you if there's one lady the whole strip, you would see them thrown on the floor. Yeah, right, yeah. All along, you know. So it's not the same.
Lano:You go to um a lot of the I mean, I guess the proper term is Indian casinos here, right? Or is there a better term? That's racist, dude. No, no, I'm just saying for lack of a better word, the the casinos, um, the Native American casinos here, what would you say? Why'd you just say California casinos? Well, California casinos.
Speaker 3:Why are you gonna say Indian reservations?
Lano:So you take your dad there a lot. Would you take your dad to Vegas no more, or it's not for him? We're gonna plan a trip to take him.
Mig:No, we're gonna we're gonna take him.
Lano:We took Coco for the first time. The minimum's gone up and all that stuff. Yeah.
Mig:We took our nephew for the first time. Well, not the first time, but first time since he's uh legal. He's legal to drink that more stuff. He was he was taking advantage of all the hotel amenities, man. Yeah. He kept he was doing like two, three workouts a day.
Lano:Oh, really?
Mig:Every time he's like, I'm gonna go do a workout over here, like in the morning he'd get up and he'd go do a workout. Yeah, he he really took advantage of that room. And then he comes up, he he said he went to go take a you know, go work out, whatever, and then he leaves the room, he comes back, and then he's he's eating this damn big old damn seven-layer chocolate cake with the coffee. I'm like, dude, it just worked out. I had him just bring me back like a blueberry muffin. Oh man. But then he'd be like, like midday, like, I'm I'm gonna go do another workout. He'll go do another workout. But but yeah, this dude, then he he he would he would go hang out with us, then kind of like go check stuff out and then come back. But did you show him out of bed and stuff? You show him the ropes or no? Yeah, he was just betting on teams to win. And um, I mean he he really wanted to hang out with me to like show him some tricks on the slots, but every time I told him to let's go, he was like, I'm just gonna go to the room, I'm tired. Yeah, I'm like, dude, are you kidding me? Yeah, he was calling it early, man. I'm like, it's early night. It's eight o'clock, dude. I'm just gonna go up. I'm tired.
Lano:Yeah, and slots, um, that's that's Mig's game.
Speaker 3:That's that's where you win money on that.
Mig:I mean, it's funny because when I took um when I took Raja and Eric Ali to drop off their stuff.
Rick:Oh yeah.
Mig:Who was up in the room just chilling and he was just he was chilling with just his uh like uh the puffy pants America with the American flag on them. He had like these big old picture pants, like picture Napoleon dynamite uh what's his name? Um that used to come out on a Drew Carey show. Yeah. He was he would go in and I told him, hey, don't don't roundhouse kick these guys. He's like, yeah, he goes, You think you want to get roundhouse kicked with these bad boys? Forget about it. Because he was in the room shirtless, he went shirtless just with those fucking pads on or those PJs. Oh man, oh yeah, it was funny, man. But yeah, he was he was chilling out. He he he took advantage of the yeah, but I maybe he was just tired because you know what? Yeah, I mean he he had been his start time all week at that job was 4 a.m. so yeah, yeah, so he wasn't gonna buy it. That's almost like jet legs adjusting all that. I thought I told him we'd we'd go back again at time. We'd take my dad and that way I could sit him down and show him the games that I like to play. I told him, yeah, we said we'll plan a trip just us because it's hard with these guys. These guys always want to do something, then they're like indecisive. Because I'll tell you this, dude, all the money I lost, I lost either betting on the games or at the tables. I recouped a lot on the machines. Slot machines. I mean, that's your specialty, that's what you know. Hey, um we tried uh you've heard uh tacos el gordo? Uh-uh. Oh dude.
Lano:In Vegas?
Mig:Yeah, this is a big tacos delegator. It's supposed to be a famous TJ spot. Man, it's that's just all hot. See, then let's let's set it up. Because uh Saturday night, it's usually our nice dinner night. Yeah, we go have like a we usually have like a like a good steak dinner or something, but yeah, since this year everything was all messed up and nobody pretty late. Nobody planned anything, no one was really hungry.
Lano:I got the right thing on the screen?
Mig:Yeah. It was um You know, no um nobody really planned anything. I mean, we had dinner reservations. Oh yeah, capals. Yeah, we had dinner reservations, but no, but because we ate late and everyone was still full. Yeah.
Speaker:So oh no, oh yeah, yeah.
Mig:That's what I'm saying. I'm setting it up, and you know, watching the games, we were watching uh Packers Bears. Yeah, well, that was a thing, Lano. So when we we were watching, we we were picking a spot, we said let's go back to the Mandalay Bay, watch the game, and we ended up watching it at a lounge, those lounges that are in the middle of the casinos. So they had cool little couches, and we're hanging out there, and and that's where we were watching the game, and it was more comfortable. We the waitress coming around, we were ordering. But then they don't let you smoke cigars in that lounge. Yeah, because that's in the middle. Stupid. So so me, Raj, and Rob ended up at a bar where they usually have like performances, and we were watching the game there smoking cigars. And rhythm, rhythm, riffs, rhythm and riffs. And so if you guys watch the game, Packers and Bears, you know that shit was a nail biter. Yeah, you know, and all of us, you know, it's like none of us wanted to leave because we all have money on one way or another. Yeah, you know, it's like either way, you know, we wanted to see what's gonna happen, and we're like, dude, this is like we're we got our dinner reservations. It's like, should we just skip it? You know, and so we ended up me and he were back and forth with the emotions because he he introduced me to that app, that Cal She app. Oh, yeah. So and then I had gone in gone in with him on the Bears. We bought in some more, and so and that Calci app, like you can you can cash out before the game's even over. Oh, really? Because it's kind of like a stock style betting, like like day trading thing.
Lano:Yeah, yeah.
Mig:So the Bears were we bought in that when the Bears were really low, when they were behind, and then they started making a comeback, so our payout was looking good, right? So they and then if the Bears like if they're making their move, you can cash out, you can cash out before the game's over. Because if you think that they're gonna choke at the end, you can cash out before the game's over and get whatever percentage they're at. The payout. What's the name of that app? Uh Calci. K A L S I. S H I H I. K H I see the commercial on TV. And that that app you can bet on anything, dude.
Lano:Politics, you can bet on Oh, I I think I heard I heard of that part. Yeah, yeah, you can bet on everything.
Mig:I was seeing these guys bet on that thing. I'm like, man, that shit is so dangerous, dude. Yeah. I'm like, I can't, I can't download that, dude. So me and me and me and he were back and forth. No, I was telling him, cash out. And we're like, no, we're gonna write it out. Like, no, cash out, and then and then um we're just we're just back and forth, right? And then and then that that app was ahead of the of the game that they're playing. Uh-huh. So he was getting he was getting he'll see what was happening before it showed on the TV screen, and I had to keep telling him like stop looking at it. Like we're like something happens, and then we're waiting for it to see on the TV, right? See, scroll, scroll up to the the top, Lano. Go to sports. Okay, no, right now, the the Lakers nugget game. You see how the Lakers are at 26% to win? Yeah. So you would probably want to buy in right there if you think that they're gonna pull it off. They're gonna pull it off. But you know, so if in the fourth period they take a lead and the things flip, and you can catch the Lakers end up being like at 70% to win or whatever, you can see what your cash out's gonna be at that point and you can say, damn it, you know what I mean? I'm gonna pull out right there.
Lano:This green number over here, like if I bet 100, I went to 224 at this rate. Yeah, this one. Yep. Okay.
Speaker 3:So that that's 26 cents?
Mig:Uh-huh. So that's all like live betting. Right. But you see how it looks like it's day trading. Yeah, yeah. That's how people are betting in. So the the way they can get away with this because you're not betting against the house. It's everybody. It's just you're betting against other people. So you it's exactly like the stock market. You know, it's like you got people that want to short, and you got people that want the value to go up.
Lano:So I got um right here it shows the next president election, JD Vance, 28%, lose some 19.
Mig:Yeah, you can bet that right now.
Lano:What will Trump say during a CNBC interview? Affordable, invested. There's all so you could bet on everything. Everything. They say you could bet on everything. What will Will Smith say during the tonight show?
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Lano:I know he has a show on National Geographic, so probably mentioned that. Oh, yeah, you could do everything. That's crazy.
Mig:Yeah. And you can narrow it down up there, it's more broad, like politics or your or sports or whatever. Categories on the top. So we're so we're all there watching the games and we're all invested. It's all emotional. It's going nusted. It's bananas. We're going crazy. I'm the one that made the call early. And I I I text Raj, cancel the reservations.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:Because we're like, oh, everyone's like, we gotta be here. We gotta hit the road, whatever. And I know that I've I I told you I'm not leaving. I'm not I'm not going. And I text Raj, I said, I said, F it. I go, cancel the reservations. I go, we're all still feeling full, whatever. So I just said cancel it. Like we're not going. Like so. Yeah, and I had the Bears on some tickets, dude, where there were because there were underdogs. So I had them on a couple of really good tickets um to win moneyline. Uh-huh. And I would have just needed the next day, I think the Jaguars to win or something like that. And I would have gotten paid, man. But stupid asses blew it. But that Bears game, dude. Wow.
Speaker 3:That Bears game was crazy.
Mig:That shit was emotional, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Oh, there you go. Those are the those are the pro football. Right there. So Seattle, see Seattle's 50, what? 59 and 59 and 41.
Lano:And then you got New England 60 and Denver.
Speaker 3:Because Bo Nick. So you were you're a gambling person. I'd put five bucks. I'd put five bucks on Denver to win the Super Bowl. Let me see where where did the payout would be. What payout they're giving me?
Mig:On this? On the couchy?
Speaker:Yeah. I'm gonna put money. I'm gonna put money on uh I'm gonna put money on New England.
Mig:That's my that's my last ticket to I have alive in Vegas. $100 on Seattle to win the Super Bowl. Look at so Oh, I bet 20 bucks. Pays three and a quarter to one. So look at right now. Right now, I bet twenty bucks for Denver to win the the championship, the the the Super Bowl, right?
Speaker 3:If they if twenty out of twenty bucks, if they if they win, then I win 208 bucks.
Mig:Hit uh hit futures. I bought it, I bought it at a nine nine percent.
Speaker 3:I bought it at nine percent.
Speaker 5:I can cash out right now. If I cash out right now, it's thirteen dollars.
Lano:So if you wanted um Seattle for the Super Bowl, you'd have to pick um like AFC? Yeah, I mean or nationally, or yeah. Oh, I think it just where it says champion to just pick Seattle.
Speaker 2:Oh well you could do that.
Mig:No, no, but if you want to bet just a conference, who's gonna win? Uh-huh.
Speaker:Oh.
Mig:Because it's still Seattle and and the Rams, so you don't know. You're gonna bet Seattle to win the Super Bowl, but what if the bear the Rams beat him? Then your ticket's done. At least that that American and national still go it goes all the way up to the Super Bowl.
Lano:You guys know who Ruben Bain is? Nah. This is the draft.
Mig:He was a running back, wasn't he?
Lano:I don't know. We got Fernando Mendoza, 92%. Is that number one? What is that? Who gets drafted first?
Speaker 3:Yeah, number one. Oh, but what if that guy down below doesn't get number one?
Mig:It's a gamble.
Lano:No, but what if neither of them get why would um so this is like if the Raiders trade? Like um because it shows New York drafted first.
Mig:Okay. Okay, so anyways, getting back to the story. Uh sorry, yeah. So we stayed there to watch the whole game. Hell of a game. And we missed our reservation. So we're like, where should we go eat? You know, so we're trying to figure out where else to go eat. Yeah. They're calling around, trying to make reservations, and you know, can't get they weren't calling around. I think Eric just said let's go get tacos. No, I think he called out at Bavett's place. Oh. And uh they said not until like 10:30, and we're like, nah, it's too late. So then they said let's go get tacos.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:I was like, all right, cool, let's go get tacos. And then they said let's go get tacos at Gordo. I'm like, You had been there already? Yeah, dude. Oh, you said something? I was not impressed, dude. I've never been impressed with that place. I've I've always it's a stupid setup, man. I went there Marcos is telling me today that you we went to that one, but there's one that's off the strip that's not as packed, and you can get your food quick. Yeah, it's just that one because that one's on the strip. But I mean, I mean, regardless, it's it's gonna be the same quality.
Speaker 2:So I mean, who knows? I mean you got different cooks.
Mig:I don't know. For me, I mean, because I went there years ago, you know, with my ex when we were there. We went one time, and for me, the place is just overrated, yeah, way overpriced. I'm talking way overpriced, dude. Like, how much is the taco? Dude, four like over $4.50 a taco. And you're talking about the regular street tacos, the regular small street tacos. They're not they're not too small, they're not small. Well, there's a small tortilla, yeah. But it's not a small look small. They they give you it's not like the street taco that we used to get. Look at this onion and then look at the taco right here. They they give you a good amount of meat in each one, yeah, but I mean the flavor's not all it's not there. No, yeah, it's not there. Yeah. And the time, the first time that I had gone, it really like pissed me off because I'm waiting in line, and the dudes like doing that pastor or just doing everything. You know, they're more worried about putting on a show and making tips than just putting the damn food together. You know, because they wouldn't get the meat, they'd have the tortilla in one hand, they'd like kind of try to like fling the meat over into the tortilla, and then they're like flipping the pineapple, and then they get the salsa, they get a spoon of salsa, they chuck it over, try to catch it and everything. I'm like, dude, it's like I don't need all that showing bullshit. So you're paying for the show. Just give me my damn food, dude. You know, so I mean, we we sat down and the ordering system is it's just it's stupid. No, no, so say so. Say you want you want a taco, you want to try a taco asada, you want to try a taco de pastor, you want to try a taco tripas? Uh-huh. Three different lines. You gotta get in three different lines. Three different lines.
Lano:Oh, so each um another counter for each type of meat or something like that.
Mig:If you go with Laura, then you can kind of you she can send her to one line and you get one line, but then if you want that last taco, you gotta get in that line again before you pay. While your tacos are getting cold in line. So the Al Pastor is one line. Or I think if you want a torta, that's another line, I think. Because I saw I saw torta line. No, they wouldn't do the same spot, right? I don't think they make tortas.
Lano:Uh I think they do.
Mig:No, I thought I said I heard someone asking for and they said no, they don't make them. I know they don't make burritos.
Lano:Yeah, it's not on the menu.
Speaker 2:It's not on the menu here. So it's all tacos.
Lano:Quesadillas? Quesadillas? Quesadillas and fries and sopes, that's it. These are the So Quesadillas is another line too, no? Handmade um corn tortillas topped with cheese.
Mig:Well, after after going to Rick's spot, dude, for his alpastor.
Lano:Yeah.
Mig:And having this one, I was like, nah. I'm like Yeah, dude. I was like, this is crap. I'm like, this is such garbage.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:Sorry. Sorry, Raj. I mean, I know you guys love that spot, but Oh, they like it? They didn't. Well, E, I mean, I think he likes it. Even after trying it, or they've been there? It's just because it was a taco spot. Oh. I don't think he's all oh, I don't know. I don't think he's crazy about that. That spot. Well, seriously, thank you. Because he killed it on that Bears game and he treated. So yeah.
Lano:Well, sometimes like people like are like afraid to go against the hype. Like that's the only thing. Like if I went and I didn't like it, I'll be I don't like it. But some people were be afraid to say they don't like it because everybody hyped it the hype. They don't want to go against the hype. Yeah. Yeah.
Mig:I don't know if if Eric's like that, but I've been a lot of places like, oh no, they're just paying for the show. He's paying for all the tacos is what made those tacos average. Yeah. If I had to pay, it would have been crap. But yeah. So that was that was pretty much. What was really good was the orange uh jaritos that I had. That was really good.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I had to save my damn uh what'd I get? A sprite or a seven up or something.
Lano:So um, why not um caples and like blueberry hill? That's a different trip to the biggest bigger. Blueberry Hill we had. Yeah, you had Blueberry Hill.
Mig:Yeah, that we had, and that I had to tell Rick because we got there Friday night and it was late, and we knew the only opportunity we were gonna have to eat at Blueberry Hill was gonna be Saturday morning. I knew nobody else was gonna want to get up. Yeah. Right, right, yeah. But I know Rick and Cucko are early birds.
Lano:Because they work early, yeah.
Mig:So I told Rick, I told him, hey dude, I thought I don't know if you want to sleep in or not at Tom, but I really would like Cuckoo to try Blueberry Hill.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:You know, so you could see.
Lano:Are you an early bird, Rick, or just or just because you have to wake up early, you're sleep early. Yeah, just because I have to wake up early. Yeah, me too. Well, my wife thinks I'm an early bird.
Speaker 2:We could sleep in, dude. We would sleep in. Yeah. But Cuckoo had been chilling all fucking. You say you'll take your time and relaxing, going to bed.
Mig:Yeah, he had no problem getting up. Yeah, so we um I was all for it when I told him about it. He was all for it. Yeah, so we had Blueberry Hill that morning. I because oh, another thing is I had rented, I had uh reserved two rooms, different hotels. So I let Rick and Cucko stay in the Mandalay Bay where everybody else stayed, and I stayed at resorts world by myself.
Lano:You don't gotta worry about washing sheets or nothing. Yeah. Like Ricky.
Mig:I don't gotta worry about uh keeping anybody awake from my snoring, and I could keep the room ice cold the way I liked it.
Lano:So how was uh the blueberry hill like it still hits? Because I haven't got there, yeah. I haven't got there, but I'm gonna take my wife there. That's why I want to make sure it hasn't like dropped off from the you will not be.
Mig:I had a uh chorizo benedict, yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh eggs benedict chorizo, yeah. Oh wow, that sounds good.
Mig:It was good, it was good, but I think Ace Benedict, you just gotta have a classic, yeah, classic style. Like, don't mess with it. I that I wouldn't, I mean, it was good. Love chorizo and everything, love Ace Benedict, but I'm a tradition. I'm a traditional mana classic. If if anything, my goal like the Florentine style where they put spinach in it. Oh yeah, you know, but that's about it. It's like, but you you gotta have it kind of classic, yeah. But um, yeah, we went, dude, and and there was this jerk at the counter. Oh yeah, dude, we popped off, dude. Yeah, dude, we thought this guy was gonna come back and like shoot everybody, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was yelling at the at the an idiot, dude.
Mig:At one of the waitresses.
Speaker 3:Or at one of the waitresses, but then you start yelling at everybody and mean racist eight-hole, dude. Just the jerk that's being mean, or what? Yeah.
Mig:It's like we have no idea what happened. It's like every dude, for years we've been going to these to these restaurants, and every waitress we have gotten has been nothing but awesome. You know, they're all friendly, you know, they they always, you know, they rarely ever mess up your order, and they're always like attentive, you know, and they're on they're on it, you know, they're on the ball.
Lano:Well, they I mean they have a guarantee on the website, so you know, never never had a problem, dude.
Mig:And this guy everyone's been always nice. This guy, he's sitting at the counter, and you know, this waitress had had her back to him, and I don't even think she was serving him because she was serving tables, not the counter. Yeah, and this angel just pops off. He's like, you know, you're an effing bitch. He goes, You're such an effing bitch. You don't talk to or you should you don't talk to customers. Yeah, I don't know. And he just kept going off like he's like, you gotta treat your customers better. And he starts like just going on and on, and and then it's like you could tell he was racist after because he's because he he says something about her black ass or some shit like that. Yeah, and I'm like, dude, I'm like, get the hell out of here, man. I'm like, just get the hell out of here. You told him, you know, no, I I yelled at him. Rick did.
Speaker 3:I I yelled uh I yelled at him and said, get the fuck out of here.
Mig:And you know, at that point, I guess security came in and got him out. So but yeah, dude, weird. And it's like y'all was even like we were talking to our waitress. I was like, what the hell?
Lano:What time was this?
Mig:Early in the morning. Like families are there and stuff like that. Nine in the morning. Kids are there families.
Speaker 5:Yeah. Yeah.
Mig:Couldn't have been. And the the waitress, she looked like a sweetheart.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:It's like to everybody she was nice, dude. So I don't know what the thing is.
Speaker 3:All of them are awesome waitresses.
Mig:I don't know what the hell this guy's problem was, man.
Speaker 2:This is delicate. Kind of like that a-hole at the pike out table.
Mig:Yeah, exactly. That okay, exactly the way that dude looked.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:Well, picture my idiot at the pike out table, but with the beard, like a scruffy ass, yeah, wrangly ass, ratty ass beard. But yeah, blueberry hill never disappoints. Which is the location you guys go to? Which one is it? Um, it's on Flamingo on East of Flamingo.
Lano:Okay, yeah, there's two. That's the one you had.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no.
Lano:Yeah, yeah. There's two on Flamingo. I was just looking up the addresses.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because that's the old it's the old school one.
Mig:But when I've gone alone or when I've gone with someone else, and it's just two of us, I like going to the one on West Flamingo. It's a new one. I think I've been to that one. And then Manuel's favorite is on Decatur.
Lano:Yeah, I saw that that one on the address. Yeah.
Mig:So that's the one that Manual likes.
Lano:Um, they got uh let me see here. Four locations. The Decatur, two on Flamingo, or three on Flamingo. East Flamingo, East Flamingo, and then West Flamingo.
Mig:Okay, the one that says it has an on-site bakery, that's the one that I like to go to. Like if I'm if I'm by myself, I'll go to that one and I'll just go up to the counter. They have like a little bar.
Lano:The West West Flamingo location for going, but these are all spots that they've been.
Speaker 3:Oh, hot dang.
Lano:Yeah. We did do a food review. Should we save it for next week? Because it's already hitting. We could do a real remote. We could do it real quick. It'll be a quick review. Quick review. Um we went to um to Suki. Suke Suke?
Speaker 3:Suke Artisan Artisan Noodles. Let's see. Yes, San Gabriel.
Mig:Yeah, on Valley. In between New Avenue and Del Mar, but closer to Del Mar.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's why I messed up. I exited New Avenue and I made a left going west.
Mig:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh shit, it was the other way.
Lano:Because it was it's Del Mar that you exit and then you make a uh So you um you haven't been the one in Pasadena, right? No. Because there's two in Pasadena. Because you could probably go to that one, Ronald. That's what I was wondering. Yeah, you could, but you know. Well, this one, I mean, I it wasn't busy, so like I had to.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, it's good for that one because if you guys if you're going to your in-laws, you can stop by there.
Mig:So parking kind of sucked though. Yeah, that one that that's because in that busy three-story plaza where everything's at.
Lano:It's um I mean I don't know if the T's silent, but it's T-S-U-K-E. Suke. Suke Artisan Noodles.
Mig:It's either Suke or Tusuke.
Lano:Tsuke. We went in San Gabriel.
Speaker 3:Wow, that was my suggestion again, and I wanted them to try this this bowl, the the tatamen. Yeah, that one's tatamen. And they didn't have the soup. So you can have it dry or soup.
Lano:We ordered three of that tatamin that Ricky recommended, and um we're all good to go, level three spice, three numbness. Yeah. And then the guy came back saying they ran out of broth. Yeah, no soup. So we had to mix it up.
Speaker 3:We had to make an audible. Um, to start out with what did you guys think about the spicy gyozas and uh good.
Mig:The chicken's good too. Yeah, pretty much uh gillzas, little pot stickers, and uh chicken nuggets, basically. So I I had the same tatamen, but the dry, which it was still good, right? It was still so good.
Lano:I didn't understand what was dry about it. It was still like a little soup. Would you like it like less or more? I like the soup.
Mig:I was actually surprised when I tasted it because you didn't say nothing about it being like so peanut flavored. I'm surprised that I like it. That that it's you know, and so it's just when I get to the bottom of the bowl and I scrape all the peanut and the ground, whatever the meat is, and all that flavor in the bottom, like when I'm eating my soup and it's all the bottom, yeah. And then and then the egg that I that I get, I I I just push it down in the broth and let it just soak in there. Amazing. This is the way I had it without cinnamon without soup. Without soup. That's the way I had it. I know it was good. Once I mixed it up, I I liked it. It was good, but I prefer with soup.
Lano:But how like tell me, I mean, because you had it both, does it taste different with soup or is this more liquid? Yeah, it's a little bit a little bit different, yeah. Like watered down?
Mig:Yeah, it's a little bit different. It it was um the soup of course because it stays hotter, you get more of the spice. The spice lingers more. And and um it's just uh that broth is good. That that soup. And I just like the the well, because uh what did you have the deluxe? The um was it?
Lano:I had the deluxe um to sucamin, I think this one, right?
Speaker 3:How was it when you were?
Lano:Dipping the noodles like so um I mean this is the first time me eating it like this. Or I I mean I don't know if I I don't even know if this is ramen what I ordered or not, but um it was a bowl of noodles with all the ingredients on the side and then like a soup broth. A separate bowl, but the it was like a real like the broth was really thick. So it kinda like I the the waiter told me you dip in your noodles into the broth and then you eat it, but like the the broth was thick where it like it coated the whole noodle. Uh-huh. So it wasn't water, but it was good. Like the broth had like like very flavorful very almost like um almost kind of like a gravy type of like it was like real thick.
Speaker 2:You tasted it right? Because it went it it wasn't you didn't eat leave a lot behind, right?
Mig:No, no, yeah. A lot of it got on the noodle.
Lano:Yeah, like it coats the noodle and then stays on, and then you eat the noodle separate or whatever, or the egg or the the piece of um cashew. Yeah, but um no, it was good. It was it reminded me of something I'm trying to think. Like a chicken dish I had with that sauce or something. Kind of like um I had it in my head right now and I forgot. You ever have um I can't think of it what it's called, but it's like Tofu House? You ever been to Tofu House?
Speaker 5:No.
Lano:And there's a plate that I get where it's like white rice and then it's like they give you like the meat with like kind of like the gravy on top, but kinda had like that flavor. Oh I forgot what that's called. I'm just throwing everybody off, but yeah.
Mig:Oh I took I took pictures of everybody's plates, so I'll be posting them. And Maggie Maggie had I had the deluxe tankatsu. Very good.
Speaker 2:Mickey was saying that he liked the noodles.
Mig:Yeah, those noodles are really tasty, man.
Speaker 2:Tofu house. I'm trying to see if I can send that dish that I normally get. Yeah, but I think Meg I think if you have that tatamen with the soup, I think you'll like it because I I well I I guess I can confess now.
Mig:I I I ate there yesterday too. Oh that same month, same? Yeah, so because uh Vanessa had the day off yesterday. Yeah. Oh, and I went to Insanala this past weekend. Oh so we got back last night and I had I was I wanted to take Monday off, but and I had to go in on another job. So Vanessa was out, she after his chores, she said she texted me saying that she was craving the ramen. I'm like, all right, we'll go right now when I get home. So we went. We went yesterday. So I had it, and then I so I upped it up. I went four spice, four numb. And and yeah, that one like it's just perfect. Like it was it had cake on it, and it was making me sweat out of them different pores that I've I don't usually sweat out of. And and yeah, I went, but that four four was was was good, man.
Speaker 3:It was and but it's the hot the the temperature that intensifies the more because the very first time that we went to this place, like I told you guys I I had just three three, three spice, three numb. Yeah, I felt like that was pretty cool.
Mig:It had to have been higher peak because that thing was fire, man.
Speaker 3:That thing was kicking my ass.
Mig:No, I like that. I like that chili powder that he brought me. Yeah. Oh, what did you guys think about the few pinches of it in there? Fermented uh, that's it smells good. It's good, huh? It's good. That's money right there.
Lano:No, it was good. I mean, I had on the butt um I didn't you guys put it in your soup, I didn't put it. Yeah, you put it in my soup.
Mig:I didn't I forgot about it. So when when like say I order 3-3 and it's not spicy at all, I start putting that in there.
Speaker 3:Uh yeah. You put that in the damn in the soup, yeah. That's just money, man.
Lano:So I I like what I got. Like I want my wife to try that, but you you say I should try to get that other one too?
Mig:Yeah, totamen with soup.
Lano:Totamen with soup.
Mig:Because that that just has all kinds of flavor, dude.
Lano:I I I I would think that that's their best soup there. It's crazy. You said you went there yesterday because you're the one that brought it up. You're like, let's go do the ramen. I was like, oh yeah. I was like, I gotta have a second serving.
Mig:I didn't see that truffle tankatsu on the menu. Especially Roman? I might have gotten that.
Speaker 3:We're down lower and we're down, down, down. Right there. Oh, I saw it. Oh I saw it. Oh yeah, that was there.
Lano:You saw it? Yeah, really? And I'm wondering, cause um I was there a little before you make it, and like did you see all the mushrooms up on the in the kitchen? Above in the shower. Yeah. Yeah. I might know if those are truffles, but they had a bunch of like mushrooms like in the the decor.
Mig:Oh, but it was it was it was good. I'm telling you, and I'm glad the waiter told me that it was the broth was both uh pork and chicken.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:Because I'm telling you, to me it looked like it was a miso broth. And I mean, I can handle miso when it's that little cup that they serve to you, but yeah, but to have like a whole bowl of it, yeah. You you're over the taste of it, right? Yeah, yeah.
Lano:And then uh on mine, um, that was like a final step, but I already ate it all. Or like, I don't know, mine somehow becomes like a soup or something after what do you say? Oh, he says they the you drink it, no? Yeah, he says he takes it and they either make it and then you drink it. I don't know what he said. Yeah. But um, no, I'm gonna I'm gonna take the wife and kids.
Mig:Um what do you think the kids would like to eat?
Lano:Just noodles? Um no, they they actually like they like ramen, they're gonna like chow down on all this stuff.
Mig:Yeah, do they like the like the egg?
Lano:Yeah, they like the egg and all that stuff. They just start putting their hands in, they'll start eating everything. Those eggs, you gotta soak them, man.
Speaker 3:You gotta let them get married in that soup.
Mig:Yeah, but talking talking about kids when we were there, I wish I'd have recorded it, man. This little kid. Oh, dude, I just got such a kick out of watching him eat his ramen, dude. Just he made it look like so good, dude. Like so appetizing. It's like he just he he he gets his like little his chopsticks, you know, he brings it out of the broth and he's blowing on it to get it cold. And then, like, he puts that whole big mess of noodles in his mouth, and then he just puts his little face up to the bowl and just starts, you know, it just starts the the whole line of noodles just start going into his mouth, dude. And little kid looks like he's just having like the best meal ever, man.
Lano:We got there a little bit after six, and um, like we were the only ones in the restaurant, which was nice. Empty. And then um, I guess around 6:30, 640, then the crowd started showing up. Yeah. So if you have little kids and stuff, take them around six or before six. That's why did it just open? Um I was confused why they're out of like broth, like before dinner. Like, are they making it? Were they making it or they just ran out? I don't know.
Speaker 3:It's weird because yesterday, you know, yesterday they um they gave us plastic cups.
Mig:But today they give us like plastic dishes? Like no, the for the for the water, like solo cups, yeah, like like drink those plastic drinking cups. And then now they gave us the the hard plastic, the glass or the and then before they had like the chopsticks and like in wrappers, you gotta take them out. Yeah, they have them. I don't know, something's up right now, I guess.
Lano:Who knows?
Mig:But but yeah, I I mean it's good. I don't know.
Lano:I'm going back. I'm gonna go back. Yeah, I'll go back.
Mig:I mean, I that I definitely could have used some of that ramen over the weekend when I was dying. But you guys, but hey, when you go back now, you try that, try that one that I get.
Lano:Yeah, no, I'm gonna try it. Uh it might be this weekend because you can take the kids. Oh, yeah, I'll I'll get it. Um, what's your guys' I mean, before we we we leave today, um your lowest like letter grade like of a food establishment you'll get out, or you'll go to like an L County. Like you know how the lowest?
Mig:Oh, the grade, uh ABC. Cause C is bad, right? I think C is almost an admin. I mean, I've even got places with a D grade, man. Yeah, I think that kind of depends because if it's a place you've been going to for a long time, yeah, and you know it, and they just happen to get like a bad grade, I'll keep going. Okay. But if it's a place I've never been to and I see they got like a D or some shit, then I'm kind of like But you can kind of go in there and see how the kitchen is. What about what about you, Ricky?
Speaker 2:The same thing, like I mean, I'm talking, dude. I eat expired food.
Lano:I mean, that's true.
Mig:No, because I mean the place has gotta be really disgusting for me not to fucking eat there, dude.
Lano:I brought it up because we went to Rero's yesterday. Oh no, whatever. And I had a C. I had a C. We had already ordered our food because we're at the counter and then my wife's like, look it. They have a C. And I was like, oh, but like, I mean, Rero's Rero's one of our favorite spots. I mean, the food tasted good.
Mig:Food tasted key, but I'm just saying, like, I don't know if they have been like okay, then go back in a month and see what grade they have. Right, right. It could have just been like a one-time thing where where they kind of messed up and something slipped through the cracks, you know. That's what I'm saying. You know, if it's a place that you know I was gonna try to look it up to see what caused the I'm long overdue. I'm long overdue for some rerolls, man.
Lano:Well, yeah, we went yesterday.
Mig:I want to but I want to go for like a breakfast burrito, like a kind of breakfast burrito where they mix everything with beans and everything.
Lano:Yeah, it's like, yeah. It was crazy because um we ordered um, well, we met with I told you we met with the the priest yesterday. And then um, like we ordered our burritos, but then um my wife's mother-in-law said order some food for the priest. So um he ordered some tacos and stuff, which I have never tried them there. Uh-huh. But um, I was like, oh, I want to try these tacos. But um, no, I was just wondering. I just I've always had burritos there.
Mig:Um so it's uh I mean I mean I I love Tusaki.
Lano:No, it was good. I mean it um I I'll I'll I would recommend it. Feels good.
Mig:It feels good. I mean I'm definitely gonna be passing by that again. It's like I'll I'll probably order before I leave work. Yeah. So that way it's ready when I'm going home and I'll pick it up. I'll tell you, Mark, Mark had Mark the Shark had that that one that you had, Lano. Right. And then as soon as he tasted mine, he said no, mine is the is the one.
Lano:So um we went to San Gabriel, there's one in um Pasadena. Or maybe you go to Pasadena, Lono, and check it out, see how that one is. Check it out. Probably I I just feel like it was gonna be a little more busier, but I'll try it. I know, I know where this is at, the the one-way street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Like if you guys are going to your in-laws, it should be fine. That is all. That's it. So um, next week.
Mig:So thank you guys for listening. Sorry we missed the week. Thank you for listening to our dumbasses and our adventures.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Mig:And uh hopefully we'll be back next week with a fresh, brand new squeaky episode.
Lano:Maybe some TV show reviews of if Ricky catches up.
Mig:Oh, yeah, I gotta catch up on my shows. I just gotta get on the ball and keep drifting, yo. Peace steel changes.
