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FHBM #467: Let Us Never Speak of it Again

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Las Vegas podcast #467 includes:


Five Hundy By Midnight 8/24/14 (80:49 min, 76.7 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight #377: A Highly Curated Denim Bar

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Las Vegas podcast #377 includes:

  • Piers Morgan On Las Vegas opener
  • Steve Wynn’s Funhouse can’t be worse than his sweater
  • SLS loves Fred Segal a lot
  • Imperial Palace is now The Quad
  • Recycled Percussion is moving to The Quad; bye bye Human Nature
  • Total Rewards tier requirements are rising on Jan. 1
  • Carmine’s is coming to Caesars
  • Excalibur expands its food court
  • Country Superstars closes, Purple Reign heads back to Hooters
  • Palms announces Scarlet, a tiny, expensive bar
  • Enter the Viator and Five Hundy holiday contest and win stuff
  • Dear Tim and Michele
  • Our sponsor, Vegas Mate
  • Listener calls about Aria, American Fish, Canter’s Deli, Sirens of TI, Vince Neil, Peepshow, Circo, Javier’s, Du-Pars, Cafe Cortez, Eat, MyPoints, Gordon Ramsay Steak and other stuff
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 11/25/12 69:03 min, 65.9 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight #369: Quadcasting Again

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Las Vegas podcast #369 includes:

  • Storage Wars opener
  • Vegas Internet Mafia Family Picnic updates
  • Imperial Palace will become The Quad
  • Coco replaces Holly
  • Taylor Hicks gets extended
  • Gordon Ramsay burger joint name is revealed
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd BBQ and American Burger Works close abruptly
  • Tom Colicchio takes over Kokomo’s space at Mirage
  • The D refunds football bets
  • KISS is getting a slot machine
  • Our sponsor, Viator
  • Our new sponsor, Crunchdaddy
  • Listener calls about Spirit airlines, Monte Carlo, pancakes, Flamingo, The D, Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill, Palms, Cosmopolitan, Center Cut, Rhumbar, Circus Circus and other stuff
  • Call us at (702) 866-9494


Five Hundy By Midnight 9/30/12 55:37 min, 53.6 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight #349: No Sustainability Lectures Here

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Las Vegas podcast #349 includes:


Five Hundy By Midnight 4/22/12 72:41 min, 66.7 MB)

Zip and Learn?

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The RJ has an update to the Excalibur/Luxor zip line plans we broke in February. The FAA approved the plan on April 6, and Clark County signed off last night. The FAA approval becomes final on May 16, opening the door for MGM Resorts to start stringing the cables.

According to today’s update, three of the lines will serve as a multi-leg zip line course. The fourth line (starting at the Excalibur entrance) will function separately.

Here’s the weird part… the company that will run the thing, Ziptrek, plans to have guides (zip line sherpas?) lead zippers through the course, delivering educational lectures about “sustainability and four conditions which must exist in a sustainable society” during the two hours it will take to complete the course. People will be clamoring to get on the zip lines just to escape from the hippie buzzkill. How long before they drop the unnecessary lectures?