Las Vegas podcast #136 includes:
- Oceans 13 opening clip
- The bacon song
- Rio is unsafe
- What’s next at Wynn Las Vegas? Let it be Cats!
- Gay Vegas
- Beneath the Neon
- Resident Evil Extinction
- Las Vegas season five premier
- Build it Bigger, Imagine The Beatles in Love and Viva Laughlin
- Listener calls
Five Hundy By Midnight 10/7/07 (57:38 min, 52.9 MB)
Nothing much to say .. just waiting for the show to download and its my turn to be first.
Oh yep except
aint Vegas great!
there is a better book on people living in tunnele the focuses on the people living there.
It is called ( The Mole People; Life in the tunnels beneath New York ) by Jennifer Toth
And the new frontrunner for the award for worst cell phone call quality is now Ron from Sacramento. “Voicebox Dave” will now have to settle for second place.
Tim & Michele
My Sunday is complete now that your show is back. Thank you.
Regarding the Rio deal-remember this is a union vs big company fight. The whistle blower is a fired embezzler. The company is a cost cutting monolith. But if the building codes in Clark county are really the most stringent in the country, as we have been told, then we have no idea if the reported misdeeds are SOP in Minneapolis and OKC or if they are really serious. Time, and someone smarter than me will tell.
On the brilliant Las Vegas TV series. I recall reading last month that Larry Manetti and Roger Moseley (Rick and TC on Magnum PI), have already filmed one guest spot on the show, with possibly more to come. Hopefully they play service buddies from “Nam”.
As have many millions of listeners worldwide, I have become addicted to your show. Please remember your awesome power to make us suicidal without our “fix”, the next time your voice goes out or any other problems arise. We might be satisfied with the sound of the dog panting, so long as it has your jazzy closing theme
Tim and Michelle
Your show is great ..I listen weekly
I am 48 Hetero Male and will be making my first trip “alone” to vegas in a few weeks.I plan on a little slots and blackjack and will be staying at Luxor because of a great deal. 2 Free weekday nights and weekned nights for $89. I am not into the HIP HOP Ultra Lounge scene or the old fogey stuff likr Celine,Neil Diamond or Frankie Valle … Does anyone have any ideas on how I can have a memorable “Vegas” weekend.??
David,
I have visited Las Vegas alone and I recommend trying to walk in the footsteps of Tim and Michele to make it a “Five Hundy” weekend.
So far I’ve:
1) Watched Big Elvis perform at the Barbary Coast (now Bill’s).
2) Consumed a bacon martini at the Double Down Saloon.
3) Gone “Hooker Hunting” near the Carnival Courtyard at about 4 in the morning.
4) Eaten a deep-fried Twinkie at Mermaids downtown. (Bonus points if you file your finger nail against the surface of a rough table there).
5) Played “Gems Wild Tiles” video slots.
6) Drunk dialed (and drunk e-mailed) the Five Hundy phone line / email account from various points around town.
Someday I hope to be denied access to a hot night club on the basis of my footwear choice.
Tim & Michele
Thanks for another show! Pleased you’re feeling better now too !
Also I appreciate your review of the book ‘Gay Vegas’ 🙂 I often wondered why a book hadn’t been written yet as the gay scene is very much up and coming over there. I’m going to buy the book online, it sounds very entertaining and at the same time very informative!
I need to mention as well how much I enjoy your opening clips to the show. They get me buzzing and make me wanna fly out there right away!
So when are you guys next going out to Vegas??
Simon
Viva Viva Laughlin is based on a a british show called Blackpool. Blackpool is a cross between Coney Island and Atlantic City on the coast of England. The main charater’s name is the same and it is a musical. The orginal was very popular in England.
Check it out.
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/4242
M
Didn’t see the show Blackpool but heard good reviews.
I actually live about 25 miles from Blackpool and it’s the location of my local casino – but it’s not a patch on Las Vegas
Blackpool was a very good short lived show. Interesting series about a man trying to run an amusement arcade with visions of Las Vegas ( in fact I believe the final xmas special episode was set in Las Vegas ). Main story line was based around a murder with the who done it given away at end of season. Was also the usual infidelity ( the investigater having an affair with the amusement arcade owner’s wife ), drugs ( the son ), embezlement etc. Was usually 2-3 musical numbers each episode all done tongue in cheek. Very broad mix of music ( one minute country and western, the next Queen etc ).
Best description of Blackpool ( the place ) … well you know Circus Circus has the Adventuredome.
Well thats Blackpool ( + seaside & donkeys ).
Blackpool has a donkey poker dome?
You’ve given new definitions to the term “Manholes”. Trying to get these thoughts out of my head, I keep hearing some woman screaming “Stop The Insanity” (that is from an infomercial back in the early 90’s).
Speaking of Manholes,
We all realized that Carlos in Resident Evil Extinction was a male gigolo until the virus turned the world into zombies… right?
I think a reading of the terrible prose from “Beneath the Neon” should be come a regular segment on the show.
Viva Laughlin is a pretty funny concept. Laughlin is a good place to gamble, because the odds are better there than in LV. What Laughlin is not good for, mostly, is night life other than gambling. All too often the denizens of the casinos are middle aged people (like my wife and I, who are aging boomers) or Social Security recipients gambling away their checks. Not a lot of drama, unless someone runs low on money or oxygen.
Beneath the Neon has been done before, but with more class as the old TV show Beauty and the Beast. Lots of people I knew were hooked on that show, which took place mostly in old passages and sewers below some major city (New York?).
Viva Laughlin
What it’s about: Based on a BBC series called Blackpool, Viva Laughlin is about a guy who opens a brand new casino in a smaller city in Nevada. Did I mention that this is a musical?
What’s good: Oh sweet Lord, how I love this show. If you’d told me that CBS was going to put on an Americanized remake of an interesting but not great Brit-drama and that the characters would spontaneously start singing, I wouldn’ve told you that sounded like certain disaster. To have it turn out to be the best network show of the season (or at least my personal favorite – by a very wide margin – is damn near miraculous.
It’s important to note for the skeptical (though this might not allay any reservations) that the songs are not original compositions, but pop tunes spanning the last 40 or 50 years. “Viva Las Vegas” and Blondie’s “One Way or Another” are some notable ones. The characters don’t lip synch or merely sing…they sing along with the original track, so you can hear both at once…an interesting and confident stylistic choice.
Cast is also great. Lloyd Owen, a british actor with a long career behind him plays the lead, and he’s got just the right amount of smarmy confidence and, when the story calls for it, abject fear. And, somehow, they got Hugh Jackman (Wolverine from Oklahoma!) to play the bad guy! Melanie Griffith makes an appearance as well as a sort of washed-up femme fatale.
Viva Laughlin is totally ridiculous and extremely fun to watch. It reminded me a lot of the early seasons of Nip/Tuck, only without the mean-streak and pretentious aspirations. Oh, and with singing.
What’s not so good: Hell, I don’t know. I just really, really love this show.
Will it be a hit? FOR SURE !!!!!!
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Viva Laughlin Preview – New Series From CBS
I know what I like, and I like this Show !!!
You decide if you like Viva Laughlin:
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New Clip on Viva Laughlin:
http://cosmopost.com/SizzleRecap.html
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FDVpwO4fWb0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dr1Gw3emoKk&mode=related&search
http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/3325824/
http://www.upn.com/primetime/viva_laughlin/
VIVA LAUGHLIN, the new mystery drama with music, will have a special preview on Thursday, Oct. 18 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) following CSI before moving to its regular Sunday (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) time period on Oct. 21 to take advantage of a two week window in the schedule without football overruns.
Thursday, Oct. 18
10:00-11:00 PM VIVA LAUGHLIN (Special Preview)
Sunday, Oct. 21
8:00-9:00 PM VIVA LAUGHLIN (Time Period Premiere)
Manholes almost lead to Ditches. I was on my way from Vegas to Lauglin today catching up on the podcast and I thought the review of Steve Freiss’ book was great. I’m gay and recently moved to Vegas so I’ll definitely pick up a copy. However when Michelle read the ‘manholes are like heaven’ line from the book I just knew Tim was gonna say it and he did! I laughed so hard I almost ran off route 95 into a ditch. Luckily I regained composure but I kept giggling about it all day. The whole show was great. Thanks for giving me the best laugh I’ve had in a while. You guys should be on NPR you’re like the Click and Clack of Vegas!