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Raymundo
Morgan Part one Behind the scenes with a member of the show.
Morgan
What's up, everybody? Happy weekend. Raymundo is joining me. Hello, Ray.
Raymundo
Yeah, there's the.
Morgan
Yeah, I haven't heard that one. A hot second.
Raymundo
Bringing it back.
Morgan
Are you or is this Just the one moment I am.
Raymundo
It goes with anything. It really just starts the party.
Morgan
It does start the party. You and your yeet. What's the other one? Yeet?
Raymundo
Yep. That's actually just an inside joke with other people in the building. The other one is when Bones. When we're being productive and it's to move on to the next thing we.
Morgan
Do, I go, yep, that's your notifying sign.
Raymundo
Yeah. So I developed, like, words that aren't words, shorter versions of words. So instead of saying, yeah, I'll just go, yep, which is shorter than yeah. And then instead of saying, let. Let's move on to the next, I'm like, yep. It goes for everything. It really does.
Morgan
The brain inside Raymondo. This is where all of it comes from.
Raymundo
And so then Bones will want to know when can. When is he good to record? And I'll just be like, you. It's like, good, or it's always just like, the shorter version of an already short word.
Morgan
And are you. Are you making, like, an imitation of somebody else, or is this just something you came up with?
Raymundo
Something I came up with because you never want to be talking while he's trying to record. So I try to do it in, like, one tenth of a second, where he goes, all right, am I good? And he'll start talking. And so in between that one second, I go. And it never overlaps his audio.
Morgan
Got it. It's the audio brain in Raymond. Oh, look at him being a professional. Well, we did have some best bits this week. And go check out part two if you want to get caught up on the Bobby Bone Show. But what we're going to talk about here is Las Vegas, AKA Sin City, AKA the coolest city in Nevada, Lotusins. Yeah. I want to hear about your trip. You went there the week before I went there. You were on vacation there for Thanksgiving with Bay.
Raymundo
Yeah, we get away with that. So many people have said to me, how do you guys pull that off? Well, it's also a baser's birthday, so that's kind of how it works out. And there used to be a huge gathering, Baser's from here in Nashville, and, you know, a couple deaths here. And then they don't have the big gathering they used to. And her mom and dad are so chill, and we see them all the time, and they're just like, yeah, we're not going to do anything. So they're not big. Oh, tradition. Come over to the house. So. And my parents live in Michigan, 2,000 miles away, and they were Here a month ago, two months ago. It just works out. So, yes, we went to Vegas because.
Morgan
You guys have been doing this for the last couple of years, where you go on a trip.
Raymundo
Correct. We did Charleston one year. Dope as well.
Morgan
Yeah. You had so much fun there because of all your reality TV people.
Raymundo
That. And the food is great, drinks are even better, and it was the perfect weather.
Morgan
Which one is your favorite now? Because you did used to love Vegas all the time, but I feel like Charleston may be creeping in.
Raymundo
Yeah, Charleston's it. We met a connector there. Katie. She's awesome. Introduced us to so many people. And we know the bar scenes. All the reality shows we watch are filmed there. Southern Charm. And what is it, like some other summer house? Summer house is, like, in the Hamptons.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
There's another one that kind of just started that we know the people from, but we actually don't even really watch the show that much anymore. Southern hospitality, I think it's called.
Morgan
Oh, got it. Okay.
Raymundo
But we know Joe Bradley. And then, you know, we know Craig. He's retweeted me. Amy's had him on her podcast before.
Morgan
When you say know you like, you guys know each other. Do, like your friends. You have each other's phone numbers and you talk to each other. Are you mean, like, you follow each other on Instagram or like, they retweeted you?
Raymundo
So Craig was on Amy's podcast, and then at one point, he has over a million followers. He followed us. His name's, like, Craig Conover. He owns, on the Way, a new bar that just opened last night. Maybe this is a week ago. Don't know when this airs. And then he's also on Southern Charm. He's huge on that. And he invented the Sewing down south, which just opened in Nashville, and there's one also in Charleston.
Morgan
Okay, you're still not giving me any.
Raymundo
Like, he followed me on Instagram.
Morgan
Okay, but why?
Raymundo
We're friends. He knows I'm dope. I'm, like, a dope.
Morgan
Did you guys meet each other in person?
Raymundo
Never met. Right, but it's just like, Internet friends retweets. Amy has him on the pod. She says he's cool. My wife gets comments back. One time, she got retweeted.
Morgan
Okay, but this doesn't mean you guys are friends.
Raymundo
Yeah, it does.
Morgan
No, it doesn't. Right. This means, like, you. You have an Internet buddy, maybe, but, like, friends are. You hang out with each other. You know each other in person. You've had, like, multiple interactions. You purposefully hang out okay, that's your definition.
Raymundo
Hey, we all got our own definitions.
Morgan
Okay? So your Internet buddy Craig can over conover.
Raymundo
And then. And then there's the. What is the energy drink? Not the energy drink. It's an seltzer that they have. Lover boy. And so he's retweeted Baser before. So a lot in its. It's. Yeah, lover boy. They just came out with, like a sweet tea version of it. It's a really good seltzer. And so, yeah, all that's happened. We love Charleston. And all that to say we love.
Morgan
Charleston, but do you love it more than Vegas, or is Vegas still number one?
Raymundo
I gotta say, man, we got a little condo. What? No, it wasn't even condo. It was a house, Airbnb, right around the corner from King Street. And it was Ali, Colleen, me, Baser, our best friend bj. We lived in that house for like a week during this summer, during our vacation.
Morgan
You had your own summer.
Raymundo
And we had a blast. Yeah. And it was just walking distance. Weather was perfect. I could have squeezed in runs every morning. I didn't.
Morgan
People.
Raymundo
People are nice there, and they dress better. American were known for dressing sloppy. I talked to so many people when I was in Cancun. I sound like a world traveler. Guys, I swear, I go like two places a year. But in Cancun, I go, how do you know Americans? Because they just knew it. And they go, you guys, not you specifically. They said, you guys just dress terrible. You guys are known for just being sloppy. And I go, that's so bad. You go to Charleston. Takes them 20 minutes to make your drinks because they make them the right way. They're cutting the ice. There's conversation, there's pleasantries, and everybody wears their nicest clothes. You're not going to wear T shirts and sweatpants, which is what I'm wearing right now.
Morgan
You're the definition of the American that's sloppy right now.
Raymundo
Go to the airport. That's America.
Morgan
Oh, man, that is crazy. I mean, like, I even think about, like, Europe and you. They dress so much differently than us. Like, everything is very tailored in slacks and very nice. Like, almost clothes that you'd want to wear to the office, but you don't. You know what I mean?
Raymundo
You don't have to look like rich kid, like somebody felt fed with a silver spoon. But just don't wear this pajama pants to the airport. Baser tells me. She goes, just step it up one notch.
Morgan
Okay? One notch. Baser, with the advice. I think you are going Charleston Yeah, I'm going Charleston.
Raymundo
But Vegas. Vegas. Are we talking Vegas?
Morgan
Yeah. Tell me about your trip.
Raymundo
What? I'm trying to think. I'm going to give you the sum up some down.
Morgan
I totally broke summed up. Give me. Give me the real version.
Raymundo
Well, this is the real one. But I gave a full like minute by minute on Sore Losers podcast. So I'm definitely not going to do that. But it was, it. It was just me and Baser heading out. We took some cash because it was her birthday. So we knew we were. We were totally fine with losing it. And we had had some plans. We were going to go to Shania. We were going to go. We went to like four awesome restaurants. We did Cat. No, not Nobu. We rocked Nobu. We rocked.
Morgan
No, also is like the celebrity one in LA that everybody eats at, right?
Raymundo
Yeah, but this one way more low key. You can get into easily. Got it on open table. And then we went to Vanderpump Rules. They've got multiple spots we went to. We've been there before and we did Alexa's right. On the Strip. It's in Paris. And there was definitely another one. Gordon Ramsey. So we did some good meals in three days. We're actually only there two days.
Morgan
What. What is your favorite food?
Raymundo
Let's be real. I was drinking. I hate drinking and eating, but I was.
Morgan
Because you don't remember the food.
Raymundo
No, no. It's just I don't like the mix. I like either getting the meal done and then we start the drinking or skip the meal. Let's just drink.
Morgan
Okay. Right over here. Going rogue.
Raymundo
So if you notice me at brunch. We always go out to brunch.
Morgan
Yeah. You don't ever eat.
Raymundo
I'm sitting over there in the corner. Like cutting French fry in half. Eating half of it. Right. Just not a big eater and drinker.
Morgan
I feel like you haven't found your combination of the drinks that you should be having while you're eating.
Raymundo
No, I know it can be done. You do the wine, you got the spaghetti like you're in France, crap like that. But I, I, you know, I just don't do them together. You know what I mean?
Morgan
Okay. Interesting character.
Raymundo
I like hanging out with guys. I like hanging out with girls. I don't include them all in the bedroom. You know what I'm saying?
Morgan
That's not all the same thing, but sure, we can roll with that. Okay. You guys hate a bunch, so we did that. Did you gamble?
Raymundo
We gambled quite significantly. We did some sports betting. It was Also NFL because we had Thanksgiving. So there are all those NFL games. Sports wasn't. There was a bet I was going to place and we were stuck in traffic for two hours because of F1. And I call it one bleep button.
Morgan
One because one was happening there at.
Raymundo
The same time they're taken down.
Morgan
Oh, I was going to say you guys should have totally gone and checked all of that out. If it was happening.
Raymundo
We would have. We got to see the aftermath where all the escalators were closed down and you had to walk up them because they were not working. Operating.
Morgan
Where were you? In an Uber.
Raymundo
No, like we stuck in traffic. Correct. In an Uber. Which now thinking about it, I bet we could have gotten out on Vegas Boulevard and walked into. Been faster but stuck for two hours. The bet I was going to place would have hit out of $1,000. So that was the start of the trip. B is doing the slots. Sometimes she finds her hot ones. This trip she had this thing where she goes, I'm gonna go for the ones that are. Have dust on them that nobody plays. They need a little loving. And I bet they're just about ready to explode. They didn't. So you know, either the, either the slot, she's winning thousands or it's ice cold. And that's what it was. There was one time that she did win 300 and crazy enough she hit the button and she usually was hitting the eight dollar amount again was her birthday. We took money there. Fine with losing it. It's not a great attitude. But we enjoy playing in the camaraderie and the drinks coming around and people laugh and making friends. You're in Vegas. The, the, the prospect of winning millions and so she did this machine. She accidentally hit the 8. 80 cents instead of $8. It would have been like $1,500. Instead she won. She won 70 free spins and won $80. But it would have been like. Yeah, it would have been 20 times that.
Morgan
But maybe she wouldn't have won anything if she hit that button. Cuz that's how those systems work. Right?
Raymundo
I don't know. I, I invent slot machines. I just know I don't play them. I didn't do one slot machine. I didn't do one blackjack. But I did a ton of bubble craps. One a lot Spubble craps. It's where you just touch the bubble in the dice spin. You'll see them. They're in little sections in a casino.
Morgan
Is that where you put like something on black and something on Red or is that black jack?
Raymundo
That's roulette.
Morgan
That's roulette, yeah.
Raymundo
Black jacks. You're trying to get 21.
Morgan
Okay. The card game. Okay, I've played that one. Roulette is the wheel, and that's black or red. And I've never seen the bubble craps. Is that where they, like, throw the dice?
Raymundo
They. They can throw it. Or you can do the automated ones where you just hit the bubble and they'll pop up. It's a lot quicker.
Morgan
Is there a person involved in that one?
Raymundo
Yeah, you.
Morgan
Oh, okay. So it's like kind of a version of a slot machine, but craps.
Raymundo
Exactly.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
But there is, like, some sort of strategy, I like to tell myself. But yeah, we did that. I put on my Instagram. We played that for, like, 72 straight hours. Our best one, though, was Aria. We won. And then I went over to roulette. I. Over a thousand there, trying to win some back. But it's not like we ended up. We were definitely down on the trip, but we won so much. At Aria, the girl came around every 10 minutes with a High Noon. I took a picture at one point. It was a graveyard of High Noon cans.
Morgan
You were just rolling.
Raymundo
Yes. And then went over to roulette. And I never bet numbers. It's a $25 minimum. I would pick five numbers and put $5 on a number, which is. If it hits, it's over $100. Yeah, I almost hit that every time. That's how we. I mean, we cleared, like, 1.4 that day.
Morgan
1.4 what?
Raymundo
Thousand.
Morgan
Okay. Every time you say the numbers, I think you, like, when you say 1.4, I'm like, 1.4 million, and you're like, no, no, no. Thousand.
Raymundo
And then.
Morgan
Wait, so how much did you lose? Like, how much did you take?
Raymundo
We took.
Morgan
And how much did you lose?
Raymundo
Took a couple grand. Came back with 1.1.
Morgan
Stop saying it like.
Raymundo
So we were definitely down.
Morgan
Definitely, definitely down. But didn't lose all of it?
Raymundo
No, no. I always come. I come back. I was just kind of done with it. I had won what I needed to prove that I could. I proved to the casino that there might be.
Morgan
Oh, you. You did?
Raymundo
Yeah. It's just, I feel like you only.
Morgan
Prove that if you, like, come out on top.
Raymundo
Not, I did come out on top. It's just the slots were ice cold. So you're starting at a deficit. I did well. I mean, I had control of the craps machines. I knew exactly when to press, when not to I. You try to take the edge away from the casino. And I did that in every facet of gambling, in sports and everything. I absolutely crush them.
Morgan
And how many casinos did you guys go to? Different ones.
Raymundo
Oh, we went to all of them because we did do the Monal when you're out there because you can ride the train and it connects you to all the casinos. We did. There's a new one called the Shoe Horseshoe. We did that. We did Cosmo, Paris, Aria. We were at Link. We did Hera's little rundown. You know what? Not a lot of people playing there. Pretty lucky. Won a couple hundred airplane craps.
Morgan
Have you been to Circus Circus?
Raymundo
No, I can't say that we've done that one. Luxor.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
Didn't do Fountain Blue. I told you that was off the beaten path.
Morgan
Dang, you so should have gone there. I think you would have loved it. I think you would end up spending most of your time there.
Raymundo
I think we need story time with you, though. That was pretty much it. I summed it all up. Shania rocked that.
Morgan
How was Shania the one?
Raymundo
My only complaint went up to the bartender. I was kind of done with drinking. We'd been doing it all day. I go, hey, I'm going to do a Red Bull. And a High Noon hands me. The High noon was like 72 ounces. Like, good God, I don't need four high noons in a can. And the Red Bull was the size of one of those Stanley Cups.
Morgan
Seriously good.
Raymundo
And it was $60, guys. I don't need that much alcohol. So the entire. Shania, I'm holding two gas cans of.
Morgan
Booze and like, Red Bull, which is already not great for your heart. And that big one along with the High Noon. Yeah.
Raymundo
And that's probably why I barely slept that night.
Morgan
I was gonna say, did you guys get much, like, when you go to Vegas, are you staying up all the time? Are you like, gambling to a point? And then you're like, let's get some sleep. And we're going to be back at it again early. What's the strategy?
Raymundo
We started at a deficit, so we got there so late, it ended up staying the first night till 1am but then every other night in bed by 9.
Morgan
And then you get up super early.
Raymundo
I'm up at five.
Morgan
Are you. Are you down? Like, if Bay's not awake, were you like, down gambling?
Raymundo
No. I would go do a sports bet, which I guess technically is gamble, but I'm not going to the tables. I'm not playing slots. And stuff, while. But I would go get coffee and I'd place a sports bet, but it was usually us together.
Morgan
Yeah.
Raymundo
Yeah. Rocking it.
Morgan
Did you spend a lot of time in any of, like the sportsbook places?
Raymundo
No, no, the ones that the link doesn't really have one where you sit down and it's all fun. It's just one. You place your bet and get out. But the one at Cosmo, I did. I sat there a little bit and I was on the Instagram on Sore Losers. I was making fun of people. Not. Not like maliciously. I was like, in a humorous way.
Morgan
Because it was.
Raymundo
It was Thanksgiving. So I'm like, oh, this dude rather hang out with a gambling bunch of gambling dudes instead of his family. I'm like, oh, this guy, look at him, he's losing his ass on Thanksgiving.
Morgan
So you're roasting everybody while also roasting yourself in a way.
Raymundo
Yeah. This one guy was eating a banana and I'm like, dude hates turkey. He said, give me the banana on Thanksgiving Day.
Morgan
That's funny. Have you. Have you ever spent 24 hours gambling? Like, stayed up all night, pulled an all nighter to gamble?
Raymundo
No, no, because I always. We always have. For the day we'll say, okay, 300 for today, 300 for tomorrow. We have envelopes. So you never do that and ruin your whole trip? Because I've done that before and it's the worst feeling ever.
Morgan
Okay, so you have done it before.
Raymundo
Not stayed up all night, but lost my money toward the next three days. You're like, okay, you want to go see the fountains at Bellagio? Because I have no money. What about the flamingos at Flamingo?
Morgan
Is there flamingos at the moment?
Raymundo
There is.
Morgan
I didn't know they were still there.
Raymundo
Girl, we got to show you Vegas.
Morgan
I have. I remember I've seen them now. I've stayed at Cosmopolitan, Aria, MGM grand, and now Fountain Blue. So I've been around.
Raymundo
We were in Vegas with Abby one time and we showed her Vegas and she said that was the best time in Vegas I've ever had.
Morgan
Cuz you guys are the pros.
Raymundo
Yeah. Some of the stuff that went down there we can never talk about. You know, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Morgan
Oh, that is true.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
And honestly, when you watch, I. I think the coolest thing about Vegas is all the people watching. You know what I mean? Like, the experience of watching everyone.
Raymundo
Yes.
Morgan
In this different environment and every. All bets are off and you just don't know what is going to exist. Okay, we'll get into it, but we're going to take a little break here. Is that okay?
Raymundo
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Raymundo
Okay. Fountain Blue. Was it a long Uber ride from the airport?
Morgan
I want to say it was 15, 20 minutes.
Raymundo
Okay.
Morgan
So not terrible.
Raymundo
And then what about how people were dressed? Was it because some of these casinos. It's a brand new, right?
Morgan
Yeah.
Raymundo
Okay.
Morgan
It opened in December 2023.
Raymundo
Okay. So if I'm wearing what I'm wearing right now, which is a golf long sleeve shirt and for a lack of a better word, wind pants. What are these things?
Morgan
Yeah. Joggers.
Raymundo
Joggers, yeah. Would I fit in at Fountain Blue?
Morgan
You would be fine.
Raymundo
Okay. See, because my worry is that people are too dressy. They're more dressed up because it's brand new and nice.
Morgan
I think you had some of that. Like, you had a mixture of people that were dressed up. You had a mixture of people that were there for nfr. So I saw so many cowboy boots and cowboy hats. I mean, it was like Nashville was planted in Vegas. I've seen, I saw people like dressed to the nines, genuinely in ball gowns and tuxes. And then.
Raymundo
That's too much.
Morgan
I even saw like at the end of the night, like, you know, the. The ladies that walk around.
Raymundo
That's what I'm talking about. See, at length. They didn't do that. Classy place.
Morgan
I don't think. I think that was when we had gotten back. That was 3:00am so I'm not normally awake at 3:00am in Vegas time. So I think I saw things that I shouldn't normally see. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, it was. I mean, you had every type of character there.
Raymundo
Did you ask him for prices?
Morgan
No. And in all fairness, right, they could have also not been those kind of ladies. And that's just how they were dressed. So all bets are also off. There probably were. Who knows?
Raymundo
If they were wearing super high heels and a super high skirt, they were Those kind of people.
Morgan
I didn't know any of that still existed.
Raymundo
I feel like it's full force. I know I would go down for coffee and I'd be like, hey, yo.
Morgan
Really?
Raymundo
Yeah. Ladies. I just woke up and I got my ring on.
Morgan
It is wild.
Raymundo
It is crazy though. If you actually do. When I was with my buddies, you'll ask them what is your price? And so I think they can. If you can get in trouble if you actually say the prices. So they'll take you to a slot machine and they'll point at numbers on the slot machine to tell you the prices. Weird. That's how they get away with it. In case you're, if you're a cop. If they don't say anything, they can't get busted.
Morgan
Wild.
Raymundo
Yeah. So.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
Yeah, I, that's why I was like, you know, that's why I asked you. It, it's, it's not like you're asking a woman that. You were. I'm not saying you were trying to take a woman up to your fountain blue apartment house. But, but that interaction, because there's some negotiation that goes on. It's crazy. It's crazy.
Morgan
Interesting.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
Not that I know, I found from a buddy. Buddy, mine.
Morgan
All right. Okay. All right. What else you got? What other question?
Raymundo
Okay, so the gaming guy. Yeah, gambling. You. You told me a little bit and it was like such a weak story, but you can tell it again.
Morgan
It is. I honestly, Ray, like, we spent. We did 15 one night and I think maybe 15 another night. It was all slots because I, I get intimidated walking up to any of the tables where people are sitting.
Raymundo
That's what it is.
Morgan
Yeah, it gives me, it gives me anxiety. Not because I, like, I grew up playing blackjack like on Christmas. I know that sounds crazy, but on Christmas every year and Thanksgiving, we'd go to my grandparents house and the guys would all play poker together and I would sit on my dad's lap and I would play with them. So like I knew how to play blackjack and Texas hold'em and stuff. Super young. And then like kept playing over the years. Like, it started as me playing with my dad's money and then I'd get. And then I had my own money. So it evolved.
Raymundo
Guys. She started playing blackjacket underground poker dens.
Morgan
Growing up at my grandma and grandpa's house. And it was fun. I mean, I was playing with like quarters. Right. Not a lot of money. So I know how to play, but when I see those tables, so intimidating.
Raymundo
I agree. And they try to make it like that as well, especially if there's people around it. It's just like a posse and you're trying to get in. And if you don't have a friend rolling with you, I totally am with you on that. And they have table minimums.
Morgan
Yeah. And I'm like, I don't.
Raymundo
Right.
Morgan
I went up to the cashier and I was like, how does. How does this work? Do I, like, just put cash in? Do you Give me a card.
Raymundo
So tell us what you did gambling wise.
Morgan
So. Well, it was probably 30 bucks. I probably wasted 30 bucks on the slots. I did the Buffalo Run on one because of you.
Raymundo
What casino?
Morgan
We were at Fountain Blue Company girl. We didn't go to any others.
Raymundo
And you did Buffalo Run.
Morgan
Buffalo Run for one, and then we did Wheel of Fortune for another one. It just. Those are all we had. And that was it.
Raymundo
And there was never a high. Like, you never want a big amount.
Morgan
No, I never. It never went anywhere. It just kept going down. And I was like, this is depressing.
Raymundo
Okay, so then what that's called is you got rinsed.
Morgan
Okay, I got rinsed hard. It was not good. So after that experience, and I'm out.
Raymundo
Well. And so the gambling usually gives you that urge then to win it back. You never had that?
Morgan
Oh, no. I was like, that's gone. Just leave that there. Forget that happened.
Raymundo
As you're going to the airport right before that morning that you're leaving, did you think, try and get it back and then get on the flight? No.
Morgan
I did see people gambling, though, at like, 5:00am I was like, what is happening?
Raymundo
They do 24 hours a day.
Morgan
I know. That's wild.
Raymundo
And even wilder. You can drink. They'll sell you drinks at any hour of the day.
Morgan
That's crazy. But it's like. There's some. It's funny because you see the difference in the people who are staying up all night, and they've been up all night, and then the people who are getting ready to go to the airport, and they're just, like, on their last one before they leave.
Raymundo
Let's be real. Those people staying up all night probably had a Salmon Bomber. Y'all know what I'm talking about.
Morgan
What's a Salmon Bomber? Adderall. Oh. Why is it called the Salmon Bomber nickname?
Raymundo
So, hey, tell me this with your 30, because I know you're playing all day at the casino with $30.
Morgan
Yeah, I was.
Raymundo
It's expensive there, guys. That's real. Did they come up to you for drinks? Because I always am curious. Are the host. Are the secret. Damn it. The waitresses.
Morgan
Okay, different job.
Raymundo
Are the waitresses coming up to you offering you free drinks? Because that's a huge cool thing about Vegas.
Morgan
Well, because we only played for, like, three minutes. No.
Raymundo
Did you see waitresses walking around?
Morgan
Yeah, we did, but we literally. I'm not getting Ray. I was on those slots for three minutes apiece. Like, I lasted zero time for anything to happen. But while I was sitting at one of them, and we were actually waiting for our reservation at Mother Wolf, which is the Italian restaurant in there, this guy comes up to us and he's like, hey. Like, I'm not trying to be creepy. My. My wife's on her way. We actually have front row tickets to this UFC Slap Night. And I didn't really hear him because I was playing the things, like, going, like. Like, whatever. And I'm paying attention to that. And my sister's standing there, and she's like, yeah. And I turn around, I was like, what did you just say yes to? I, like, didn't hear anything. And she's, like, ready to go, right? And I'm like. And this dude's just standing here, and he looks at us, and she's. And he's like, okay, well, come on, as a girlfriend, we got reservations going to go. And she was like. She's like, yeah, but. And I was like, also, that's creepy. I don't know who that man is. And I don't know that he actually has those tickets. She's like, no, no, no. He pulled them out and showed me. I was like, okay. But so he, like, kept walking, and he's like, going up the escalator, and this machine is, like, just perfectly aligned. So, like, I look up to look at him, and he's looking back with some of his friends, and I'm. So I turned to my sister. I'm like, what just happened? Who is this person? She's like, you know, the slapping stuff? And I'm like, what? I'm like, can't figure out. I'm like, no, no, no. That was for sure. A dude that was about to show us is private parts in a private room somewhere. Like, that's what I thought was happening. She's like, no, I promise. So she looks it up.
Raymundo
Sure enough, Slap off.
Morgan
UFC Slap night.
Raymundo
Was it fountain blue that night? See? So my boys must go there because, yeah, Bob Menary and all them, Dana White, they're all involved with Slap Off.
Morgan
And they were there. And this dude that had offered the tickets. We saw him later. Sure enough, he was in front.
Raymundo
Oh, my gosh.
Morgan
We missed out.
Raymundo
You lose again.
Morgan
I lost out on that because I. It was just as stupid. I was literally like. And I was like, can't hear crap. And all I hear is my sister saying yes to a random stranger.
Raymundo
She. Dude, she vetted it perfect. She did a great job. She had you front row.
Morgan
She did. It would have been great.
Raymundo
So are we taking a break or. We talked about your steak place.
Morgan
Oh, we can talk about that.
Raymundo
Okay. So you went to. What is it?
Morgan
It's called Poppy Steak. It was just a name that you would just freaking love.
Raymundo
And so one of my boys was there at the exact time that you were there.
Morgan
You were freaking out.
Raymundo
And so these reservations, you get them on open table or you have the hook up through.
Morgan
I had the hook up. I met the. I believe he's the manager overseeing.
Raymundo
You met Poppy?
Morgan
Not Poppy. I met the manager that oversees. Poppy is the one who, like created the restaurant, I think is the chef behind it. And this is like the manager who was super awesome. He's like, yeah, I got you down. Like, cool. Come in after the concert because we went to Thomas Rhett and then we had our steak reservation at like 10:00pm late. Yeah. Well, I heard this manager, when we had met him the night prior, he was like, this place turns into a club. It does party.
Raymundo
I saw in the video you posted there were girls dancing on top of the table.
Morgan
There was. There was girls dancing on the bar. It was like a kind of speakeasy Moulin Rouge vibe. It is like dark lighting, cool chandeliers everywhere. And a dj. There was a DJ in a steakhouse. And there was even like feather girls. And they had all the bottle service type vibes. Yes. Because people were ordering thousand dollar steaks.
Raymundo
Okay. So to get those people, they come out and they play music and they're dancing and they have like a briefcase and fire and smoke and mirrors and all that crap.
Morgan
Yes.
Raymundo
How much do you have to buy? Can I get a filet mignon? And they do that too.
Morgan
I don't think so. I think the only way they do it is if you buy the specific thousand dollar steak or there was $1,000 item on the dessert menu and a $4,000. And I trace. I don't think it was that. It was like Louis Vuitton dessert. They have no idea what that means or looks like. But I saw this happen in the. In the course of time that we were there. 11 different people ordered this. And I Believe every single one was the steak.
Raymundo
And they. And it's like, is it already made when it's in the briefcase? Were you able to see that? Or is that all for show? And then they go and cook it and come out with it.
Morgan
So I believe it's for show. I do think they show them something, but I don't think it's the steak.
Raymundo
Okay.
Morgan
Because they also brand the steak in front of them, and then I don't know if it's raw when that's happening. And then they go and cook it, you know? And I didn't order the thousand dollar steak I was seeing from all these from afar.
Raymundo
So my boy, who I also know from Instagram, I've never met him in person, but John Sarasani, Instagram buddy, he's known as a 2000% raise. He's all about W2. Screw W2s. Make your own company. So he's adjacent to you, and you do a video, and I was like, oh, my gosh. My boy, John Sarasani is in your video. So did you remember, like, I know you were probably busy talking with your sister and you're, like, drinking. Do you ever remember him ordering expensive stuff? Because he says he's, like, super rich.
Morgan
Yes. When you showed me him, I had no idea who he was. Right. But when you showed me him and you showed me, like, his photo with his cake, I was like, oh, yeah, they were right in front of us. I watched them get that cake delivered. Yeah. And I don't know if that cake was the dessert. That's that cup. But they got, like, the bottle service with the cake, and there was a sign it was the whole thing. So he was celebrating hard.
Raymundo
Yeah, I was gonna. I knew you were busy, so I didn't want to DM and be like, hey, you got to go say hi to it. Because also, you'd be like, hey, my friend and you. And he doesn't know me, but we're friends. Me and him are friends.
Morgan
Listen, I would have gone up for you and just been like, listen, my buddy is obsessed with you. Let me FaceTime him real quick.
Raymundo
No, that wouldn't. No, because that would have just been weird. No, no, that would have been awesome if you'd have done that. The second best thing, if you would have taken a picture with him, that would have been dope.
Morgan
I would have. I would have done both of those. I have, again, have zero clue who this man is.
Raymundo
I know. I just didn't want to bother you.
Morgan
I would have done that. Like, I Genuinely would have one.
Raymundo
I didn't know if you're checking your DMS or whatever. I'm not going to text you that. Hey, Morgan, this isn't about business or anything. Need you to really do this. Very important. I know.
Morgan
I was at a state clubhouse. You literally could have texted me. I was paying attention to my.
Raymundo
Usually our texts are work related, so I didn't. I know, but you're there to kind of chill and have fun.
Morgan
Okay. Yeah, but like, you're one of my friends, right? You could have texted me.
Raymundo
Damn it. But then also, I didn't know if you knew who I was going to talk about, so I was gonna, I was gonna screenshot it and circle him and be like, okay, that's the guy you're zeroing in on? That's the John Sarasani guy. Because he had like a table of 10 people.
Morgan
Yeah. Birthday, right?
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
Yeah. No, you totally, you totally should have text me. Lesson learned for next time.
Raymundo
Are we breaking or we still talking?
Morgan
We got like a few minutes.
Raymundo
Okay. Because clubs.
Morgan
Okay.
Raymundo
Did you go to any?
Morgan
No. So they're. Well, hold on.
Raymundo
Tell me.
Morgan
The club was under construction. The live nightclub. They all weren't. No, I know, but that was the only one that I, like, wanted to go to. And it was under construction because they were working on it. It'll be open for New Year's. They have like the craziest people coming. They're gonna have these wild, like, residencies down there and stuff. So I do want to go back to go experience the club for New Year's. No. Right. I'll be in Barcelona for New Year's.
Raymundo
That's in two weeks. Oh, at here? No, Barcelona. The country. You're going overseas. Dang. I thought you talking about the restaurant down the street.
Morgan
Same, same, but different. You know, a little bit different. I, I, okay, listen, I have been, I've done the club thing. When I was, is like my last year of college. My whole sorority, my pledge class, there was 55 of us girls.
Raymundo
Delta, Delta, Delta.
Morgan
Yeah, we went to Vegas. That was our pledge class trip. So we, we spent 48 hours at every like, pool club, day, club, club that existed. So I have been over that nightlife in like, Vegas, and I have seen and experienced all of it.
Raymundo
The pool life is lit, but it was shut down when I went and when you went.
Morgan
Yeah, because wintertime, it's colder. But I can't ever experience that again because. Ray, we got everything for free. There was 55 girls.
Raymundo
Oh, it's not for free. I went, got a bucket. A booze is. One time I went, it was for five Bud Lights. When people used to drink, Bud light was over $100.
Morgan
No, but what I'm saying is, because they saw so many young girls, they gave us everything. We'd get bottle service and all this stuff because they wanted us there.
Raymundo
Right? You get it for free. Guys have to pay. Yeah, right, Right. We're on the back end paying.
Morgan
I know, but this is what I'm saying. I can't ever experience that again. Because, like, that was the only way to ever experience those clubs.
Raymundo
Right?
Morgan
Was that experience.
Raymundo
Right. You're just saying if you're not in your prime as a co ed, you're not getting free stuff or what? No free slap off tickets or whack off. What was it called?
Morgan
Slap Night.
Raymundo
Slap Night ufc.
Morgan
Slap Night. I probably could have finessed my way in some.
Raymundo
That's what I was going for.
Morgan
But I just was not in that vibe again. I was there to work. I was saying something.
Raymundo
Sis. Finaster. Wait, a front row Slap Night.
Morgan
Dude, she did. That was wild. That was so wild. It's so. It was so funny because it's so out of character for her. She's so much more, like, chill and laid back than I am. So when I saw that happening, I was like, what is going on? Like, at the same time, you said.
Raymundo
The machine was kind of blowing up. You're watching it or whatever.
Morgan
Yeah, not blowing up. That is going off. You know, like, making all the noises. It was bad. I. Okay. But, Ray, I did. Have you been to Fremont Street? I imagine you have.
Raymundo
We did it for the sore losers convention after, I'd say about a whole rack of Mickey. So to say that I remembered every detail, I would be lying. And Baszler doesn't like it.
Morgan
Really? Yeah, I loved it.
Raymundo
She thinks it's dangerous.
Morgan
Oh. I mean, it could be. It's. It's definitely like, you're. I mean, we did see a dude get arrested as we were walking in. Like, by, like, he was escorted by like 10 cops.
Raymundo
Did he look like me? Well, maybe a little bit backwards hat, joggers, golf shirt.
Morgan
Might have been you, Ray. Right. Might need to go look for that bug shot. But so I literally walk up my sister's like, we have to go here. You have to see this. Experience it. So we walk up and that's the first thing I see. I was like, where the heck are we? I don't want to be here.
Raymundo
It is cool, the sky, right? It has a bunch of Advertisements, and it's like, nuts. Looking well.
Morgan
And there was a live cover band because NFR was there. So everyone for NFR was down there, like, listening to this live cover band, and it was nuts.
Raymundo
Was it Thomas Rhett?
Morgan
No, no, I. Thomas R. Show was awesome. But the. This live cover band, like, okay, so I walk in, I see this guy getting arrested, escorted by 10 cops. The next thing I see is, like, this live band. I'm like, what? Where am I?
Raymundo
The third thing is a naked flamingo dancer.
Morgan
I did see a lot of naked people. There was naked women, there was naked men.
Raymundo
Right. Because they're the only. I think they can legally get away with it. They just wear the tassels.
Morgan
Yes, that's what they had on. And I was like, what is that?
Raymundo
Maybe that's why baser doesn't let me go.
Morgan
Probably. Then I go to get a drink. It's like this bar that's out there, right? And I'm like, can I just have like, a Tito's Inspired? I'm thinking. I'm. And he's like, a double. I'm like, cool. I'm used to a double, right?
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
He pours it just like you said. The size of your face. It was. I literally was like, I don't. I.
Raymundo
Sir.
Morgan
I don't need that, guys.
Raymundo
I don't need to carry around a 74 ounce can of high Noon. I just want a can. Like, my hand. Like every gas station thing. Convenient. Not to steal from your story or take it away. Every convenience store there. Yeah, hi. I'll take a 48 ounce high noon. I don't want that. I want a can. The national that we just carry. And sometimes you can shotgun it, and it's, like, really easy to drink. I don't want to carry a gasoline can around for the next two hours. Like, what?
Morgan
No, I think I literally panicked. He pulls. And it was so fast, right? He pulls. The company starts pouring. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't need that. Big up one. And he goes, you guys want to share? And I was like, yeah, we want to share.
Raymundo
He hands me a Slurpee, cup of a Red Bull vodka. Buddy, I am not drinking this or I am not going to bed. Like, you seriously hand this out to people? This can't be. I go back and like, is that a water? And I was like, it's a water with Red Bull and vodka in it. Yeah, it's way too much.
Morgan
Oh, I swear, they, like, they know what they're doing, right? And then you're Just stuck in it. And they're already doing it. So they hand it to. And you're like, well, okay, I guess.
Raymundo
We'Re here and we're too. Nice.
Morgan
Yeah. Don't take that back.
Raymundo
I should have so shut down the Red Bull Vodka. I wasn't paying attention watching him do it. His shaker is like two buckets. He taking together two, like, literal 40 ounce buckets and dumps it in my cup. I'm like, what do you think I'm gonna do with this thing, dude? But they do that with a straight face and hand it to everybody. And the guy behind. I'm sitting there dancing to Shania. Guy behind me, he's got a gasoline can. Guy in front of me. Oh, he's got two 48 ounces of high noons, buddy.
Morgan
Hey, yo.
Raymundo
Does anybody have a normal can?
Morgan
I don't feel like they do. I don't think they make normal cans in Vegas.
Raymundo
Every picture, I'm looking like a clown with a can the size of my head.
Morgan
Oh, yeah, Usually, right? I had a Tito Sprite. Literally, like, you go to the gas station and get the 64 ounce. That's what it was.
Raymundo
The super sized Slurpee from 7 11, baby.
Morgan
I was like, what is this? So I had a great time on Fremont street after I got that drink. We sucked it down and we were jamming to the COVID band, like, having. We were people watching like crazy. We went everything. We went into the Golden Nugget, which is down there.
Raymundo
It's older, right?
Morgan
So super older. It was crazy, like, vastly different experience. Like. Like Fountain blue is so elegant and beautiful and this amazing modern experience. And then you go to Fremont. It's like drastically different.
Raymundo
What you didn't experience was a pool scene. I'm curious what it would have been like there.
Morgan
Well, so Fountain Blue actually turned their entire pool thing into like a winter wonderland. Oh, that was the ice skating rink.
Raymundo
Wait, they turned their pool into the ice?
Morgan
I don't think that it was where the pool was. So I don't know if they could.
Raymundo
Okay, so what vibes did you get? Would it be an adult pool spot or what?
Morgan
Oh, it was so cool. Okay, yeah, like, it was. It was so cool how they turned the thing in the winter wonderland. I was like, oh, yeah, this is like a. This is a party when it's actually like the day thing.
Raymundo
I know you didn't pay for. What was the cost of that thing?
Morgan
The ice skating rink? I think it was like 50 bucks doable and it was real. Like, so you Know when they do the ice skating rink on roofs and you're like, oh, this is horrible. Like this? Yeah. You go to some and you're like, this is real. This is fake. Like, you know, they made a skating rink and you're like, okay, this is really bad ice. No, I was gliding around like, I would have never known that. They just like planted this ice rink on a. Like a rooftop area.
Raymundo
Correct.
Morgan
And it was so cool. They put all the palm trees on Christmas lights. They had a hot chocolate that you could order all over. And they had little like fire station pits for s'mores.
Raymundo
I'm not going to name the spa, but there's one they do downtown and it's like, guys, they close the street for it and it just looks so hokey. Not naming any places.
Morgan
Here in Nashville.
Raymundo
Yeah, no, here in Nashville, the ice skating rink downtown. Yeah. It's like, oh, so bad. Yeah, I'm not going to go skate in that thing.
Morgan
Yeah, I know.
Raymundo
You're talking about it's particle board and a bunch of ice that's all chipped and there's like a homeless guy sitting on it.
Morgan
Okay, well, that was a vastly different experience than Mountain Blue. I mean, they went like above and beyond and there was even like literal, like ice chips. Like it was spitting out like snow. So it was real ice, not like fake ice.
Raymundo
Right. Did they shoot or. So you're saying that they did fake snow?
Morgan
No, it was like shooting out from the side. That's how you could tell what was like that it was this real ice that was being made.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
Versus. I don't know how that other stuff gets made. Where it's.
Raymundo
I don't either.
Morgan
The particle board that you're talking about, it was not like that.
Raymundo
No. The one down the downtown, they make real ice. No, because sometimes it melts. If it's like 80 out, guys, you're screwed because it's going to be a pond.
Morgan
Well, this place, I mean, they were rocking and rolling and it was great. I had like literal figure skating, ice skating rings on and I was just gliding. They had even like little reindeer that you could sit on. So my sister and I were pushing each other on it.
Raymundo
That's impressive, though. That's it. Because see, in Vegas you really have to find the stuff that isn't gambling. You have to. And you barely gamble, but you have to find other stuff that's entertaining. You can't go there for gamble for 72 straight hours.
Morgan
I went there to eat ice skate and watch Thomas Rhett did it. I didn't even gamble. I mean, I gambled for six minutes of the entire time that I was there.
Raymundo
I think we covered it all. Is there anything else of Vegas?
Morgan
Yeah, I don't think so.
Raymundo
I feel like I gave you my sum up pretty good. I saw on Thanksgiving morning a couple fighting. That was. That's just not a good story, though. It's kind of sad.
Morgan
Well, let's take a break and we let's think on it real quick.
Raymundo
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Raymundo
I mean, I told you. I told. I was explaining to Bazer. I go, oh, yeah, Thanksgiving, girl. This is gonna be just as warm as it would have been in Nashville. You know, warmth, like in your heart. And the second we go down the link escalator, there's a couple of domestic violence thing going down, and there's two security separating them on Thanksgiving morning. I was like, yeah, maybe we should maybe do Thanksgiving in Nashville next time. This isn't as heartwarming as I thought it was gonna be. Oh, like, screaming at each other. One security dude on the dude, one on the woman. They're explaining their stories, yelling, crying. It was 6am I hadn't even got my Dunkin coffee yet.
Morgan
Yeah, that's brutal.
Raymundo
So maybe that's why you don't do Thanksgiving in Vegas.
Morgan
Yeah, well, Ray, unfortunately, I think it happens everywhere.
Raymundo
Okay.
Morgan
You know, I just think you're a little bit more prone to it because there's a lot of alcohol flowing.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
Especially in the casino. Free alcohol.
Raymundo
It was a bender. You could tell they'd been up all night. Yeah, that's why you got to cut it off. What'd you say, 3:00am I don't.
Morgan
I don't. I don't even know what time we ended up rolling into the.
Raymundo
Neither one of us did a club, though. That's weak.
Morgan
I know, but, like, if. If Liv would, I would have been there 100.
Raymundo
I mean, my freaking dude that I follow. I follow this. Like he used to be on Big Brother and now he works at MGM Grand. I've never met him. So his name's James Shrine, and he literally just posted a video. I'm talking hour ago. Because he think about it. He goes till 4am It's 6 our time. I Mean, this is him last. This is him six hours ago. Another one. Another one.
Morgan
Oh, yeah, he's. He's thriving.
Raymundo
You know, he's like a manager or.
Morgan
Whatever, you know, it sucks too. I was so mad. One of my friends, and she's Kate, she works with Kane Brown. Can Kane Brown perform there with Marshmallow? The Saturday night that we were there.
Raymundo
The one with s'mores and s'mores. You said Marshmallow.
Morgan
Marshmallow, yeah.
Raymundo
The rapper.
Morgan
Oh, you were making a pun. I saw her at the airport the next morning and I was like, dang. She was like, I wish I knew you were here. You could have for sure been there. It would have been awesome.
Raymundo
For what?
Morgan
Kane Brown performed with Marshmallow at a club.
Raymundo
So you had that slap off and you totally missed.
Morgan
I didn't know.
Raymundo
You're like, hey, I lost my 30 guys playing one slot machine. I don't know if we had enough money to go. Sorry.
Morgan
No, she was like, Kane went on at like 1:30 in the morning and went for like an hour and a half.
Raymundo
Remember what club and hotel it was at one.
Morgan
It was one of the things for nfr. I'm telling Ray. You would love NFR week. You would love it.
Raymundo
I got a taste of it as we were flying out. They were flying in. I saw one belt buckle and one cowboy hat. And I said, I'm heading back to way more cowboy hats and way more belt buckles.
Morgan
No, I'm telling you, you would have. There's something different about the atmosphere there. And they bring in so many, like, concerts and people in town for it. Like, Kane was there on my flight home. Little Big Town. Thomas Rhett and Abby Anderson were all on my flight.
Raymundo
Dang. They ain't flying private.
Morgan
Everybody was on the southwest flight. It was like. I was like, oh, what's up, friends? Oh, how. Oh, wow. Everybody's here. This is weird. It's crazy.
Raymundo
That flight back. Oh, I don't wish that on my worst enemy.
Morgan
No. But everybody seemed fine. Like Thomas. He was ready to go home to his family. Karen and Jimmy were sitting next to each other. They're married. And then I never saw Philip, but I did see Kimberly. She said hi to me. She was with her kids.
Raymundo
Anybody sees Philip on Fremont Street? He never made the flight home.
Morgan
He may have not made that flight or he was on it. I just didn't see him. But it was crazy.
Raymundo
Or he's still at the skating rink at Fountain Blue.
Morgan
Oh, he could. Jimmy was up there too, room wise.
Raymundo
Did they Give you guys a. Was it a normal room or was it a suite or was it a cabana or a villa? They have all these different stages. That was the wrong name. Villa though.
Morgan
No, we were just in like a regular. But we were on the 26th floor.
Raymundo
Because we got a cabana. Oh, we got a room on the pool. But the pool was closed for the season, so.
Morgan
Why did you do that?
Raymundo
Well, we didn't. They said, would you like to upgrade for 30 a night? So we did it. The pool was closed down. There's nothing but a bunch of overturned sun chairs. Yeah, it was nothing. There was nothing going on. There was no reason to be next to the pool.
Morgan
Yeah.
Raymundo
But we had that outdoor space and it was like. Like 40 degrees.
Morgan
Poodle room. Poodle room.
Raymundo
Tell.
Morgan
Okay, so at the very top of fountain blue, this is a poodle room. The only way that you are in there is being a member pay for it or, you know, VIP style. Or you get invited by the hotel to be there. So like a Thomas Red or Little Big Town Fountain Blue.
Raymundo
The sore losers are looking for an invite. We would love to come gamble there. We can promise 400 for me. Lunch will probably gamble like 900.
Morgan
Okay, that's. That's what you guys got. But this room, right, it had a 360 view of Vegas. All like glass windows.
Raymundo
Love that.
Morgan
You could look out. It was the most insane thing I've seen of Vegas. Not only that, like, there was a cigar room that had these TVs on it. There was like multiple private rooms to like hang out in. You could hang out at this circular bar. There was poodles everywhere. And it was so fancy. You can't take photos or videos. Like it's that, you know, upper echelon.
Raymundo
They take your phones at the door.
Morgan
They don't take them.
Raymundo
Okay. I would have taken a video.
Morgan
You can't. You gotta respect the photo because it's like the Members Only, right?
Raymundo
My hand slapped off.
Morgan
You would. And even in the bathroom, right. She took us into. Because like girls love a women's restroom. So she took us in there. The view was in the bathroom too. You can see it was all glass windows.
Raymundo
Bourbon and steak. Nashville view in the bathroom, just like that.
Morgan
But. But imagine Vegas. You see everything. It was crazy.
Raymundo
But poodles, there were dogs or. What are you talking about? Poodles.
Morgan
So they had a real like make like you thought it was a real poodle that was sitting on one of the toilet seats. I was like, oh, sorry, occupied. And then they had These giant poodle statues everywhere.
Raymundo
Statues.
Morgan
Yeah. But apparently the reason is that is because there's a poodle that lives on premises. A real one.
Raymundo
Were there any guys at the poodle room, or was it all women?
Morgan
It was actually mostly a lot of dudes.
Raymundo
Were there any common guys or was it just all rich guys?
Morgan
No, they looked important. They looked important. Even my sister and I were like. And we. We had our cute outfits on because we were going out that night, but we were just in jeans and, like, cute tops. And my sister and I looked at each other. We were like, we're severely underdressed.
Raymundo
Really?
Morgan
Yeah.
Raymundo
Okay, so you had to even go one more dress up to go.
Morgan
Like, if I would have been wearing a dress or just anything but jeans, I would have been okay. But I was like, oh, I should have had something else on.
Raymundo
They're like, nfr girl. Get her out of here.
Morgan
I was. I did kind of look like that, even though I didn't even have my boots on at that moment.
Raymundo
So did you go to any NFR stuff?
Morgan
We didn't go to the actual NFR show.
Raymundo
Oh, my gosh. You're saying I would have loved it and you never.
Morgan
We went to Cowboy Christmas.
Raymundo
Okay.
Morgan
So we didn't go to, like, the nfr, like, the bull ride, that stuff, because they were tickets. And by the time we could have gone, it would have made sense.
Raymundo
Donkey kicking.
Morgan
But we did go to Cowboy Christmas, which is the massive expo at the convention center.
Raymundo
Donkey show.
Morgan
That's where I saw a mini horse show.
Raymundo
Is not that.
Morgan
No, not the donkey show, but somebody brought a mini horse in there.
Raymundo
That's called a shell and pony.
Morgan
It was a shallow pod.
Raymundo
You're right.
Morgan
I thought it was a donkey at first. My sister corrected.
Raymundo
Probably looked the same. Your sister would know. Wichita.
Morgan
Well.
Raymundo
A lot of donkeys walking around on the street.
Morgan
Okay, we don't have a lot of donkeys walking around. Yeah, so we did go do that. And Cowboy Christmas was wild. I've never seen an expo so large and so many things. I mean, you can buy everything you ever wanted in there.
Raymundo
You Instagrammed from there. It was a bunch of livestock in there too, right?
Morgan
No, there was no livestock in there.
Raymundo
I could have swore you showed something.
Morgan
It was. It was the mini pony. That was the only one that was there.
Raymundo
That's what I saw.
Morgan
Somebody was walking around with that. But no, there was no livestock in there.
Raymundo
I thought it was a 4H thing. No fair.
Morgan
No, it was like, all these clothing you could buy, you get all Kinds of hat makers. Like you drink alcohol and walk around cowboy slot machine.
Raymundo
Know what I'm saying?
Morgan
There probably was. I just. You can't even. Like, we were there for an hour and a half, and we barely touched the surface of it. It was wild, but that was like. It was just cool to be around all these people. It's like the bougie cowboys. That's who NFR is. It's like all the bougie cowboys from all across the world come to this one event.
Raymundo
It's all the people that have watched Yellowstone for the past two years and think they're cowboys.
Morgan
I mean, that, too.
Raymundo
Stop. Guys, I've been to. Why I lived in Wyoming for 15 years. Y'all don't know nothing about Wyoming. It's nothing but sagebrush. It's boring. If somebody does have a ranch, they're so tucked far back, you never even see the person. Most of the guys have no personality. They don't even talk. All they do is look at their boots. Guys, Wyoming ain't it. Just because you all watch this Yellowstone show and you go to NFR in Vegas, you ain't a cowboy. All right, I'll cowboy up.
Morgan
You're not a cowboy.
Raymundo
I lived there for 15 years. You need a cowgirl up.
Morgan
I. Okay. I was born and raised in Kansas.
Raymundo
I was born and raised in Wyoming.
Morgan
You cowgirl and you moved and for 15 years. And you don't even claim it. You say you're from Michigan.
Raymundo
Girl, I'm a cowboy.
Morgan
No, girl, no, no, no, no. You claim you're from Michigan.
Raymundo
I'm a cowboy.
Morgan
Which is vastly different from Wyoming.
Raymundo
See all y.
Morgan
Maybe seen you work, Alice, in the entire time I've known you.
Raymundo
Arian.
Morgan
Yeah. I also have those. I have a few pairs of those, but literally, maybe two times. And the entire time I've known you.
Raymundo
Show your face, cowboy.
Morgan
No.
Raymundo
That's why you said, I would have liked nfr, my cowboy.
Morgan
No, I think you would have liked the experience. Not right? Hey, all you're many things.
Raymundo
All you fake Yellowstone cowboys and nfr get out of here. You ain't no cowboy.
Morgan
You're many things. The cowboy is not one of them. But I do think you have some country roots. Is that better?
Raymundo
Yes. Next topic.
Morgan
He's offended.
Raymundo
No.
Morgan
He's like, dang, we just crushed Vegas, though.
Raymundo
And, guys, the stories we just told. I was there for two days. If I would have been there a month, I would. It would have been a dead body and a homeless person as my best friend.
Morgan
Guys, 48 hours I was there.
Raymundo
Yeah.
Morgan
That's wild.
Raymundo
That place can. They did Real world in Vegas for three months. How did anybody come out of there alive? I mean Max you can do is three days. You experience a month worth of life in three.
Morgan
It was also crazy too. Like walking around Found Blue. My sister and I looked at each other. We're like, you never have to leave. There's everything you ever want.
Raymundo
There's a Fountain Blue in Miami.
Morgan
I want to go to Miami. I've never been to Miami.
Raymundo
Found blue. Miami's were the guy that was a owner of Liberty University and they had that pool boy. Nevermind the scandal situation, guys. Look it up. Liberty University, scandal, pool boy. It all went down at Fountain Blue. Not your fountain Blue. Fountain Blue in Miami.
Morgan
I do want to go there though too. Especially now after I've witnessed the Las Vegas one. Yeah, I want to see the Miami one.
Raymundo
I loved it. Drinks were smaller. They weren't the size of a slurpee cup fair. Yeah, they weren't one of those. Wasaka. What are your the new things? The Stanley's. What is it called though? The new one that are popular? Watugas.
Morgan
I don't know.
Raymundo
Guys. There's no more. It's a normal drinking cocktail drink at Fountain Blue.
Morgan
Shout out. Okay. Right. We're gonna go jump out of here. You want to tell the people where they can find you and see more of your Vegas and Charleston adventures.
Raymundo
Yeah guys, I should actually make a little tab of Vegas. I will do that. Thank you. Noted. And check us out. Sore losers dot com. We have the convention coming up middle of January. It's going to be massive. It's huge. It's here in Nashville. It's going to be. It's a convention. So the NFR in Vegas. Guys. This is the Sore Losers. The Losers convention. Like so you met all the cowboys. You're going to meet all the losers.
Morgan
Oh yeah.
Raymundo
Interesting. So that's how it's going to go down. But Sore Losers Dot you can check me out. S and Ray Mundo. It's me lunch. It's going to be massive. It's going to be huge. It'll be bigger than nfr.
Morgan
I can attest that it's a great time. And if you love the guys, you should totally come to Nashville for it because it's a. It's a great time.
Raymundo
You came last year.
Morgan
I did and I had so much fun. So definitely go. That's my see. Thank you endorsing you guys. And you can follow me at web Girl Morgan. You can Follow the show at Bobby Bone show. Check out our YouTube page. You can watch, subscribe, all kinds of things over there, lots of performances and my podcast.
Raymundo
Take this personally.
Morgan
Thank you. Look at that. Endorsing each other. Okay, bye.
Raymundo
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The Bobby Bones Show: Best Bits – Raymundo & Morgan Detail Their Las Vegas Trips
Release Date: December 14, 2024
In this engaging episode of The Bobby Bones Show, hosts Raymundo and Morgan share their memorable experiences from recent trips to Las Vegas and Charleston. The conversation is filled with anecdotes, personal insights, and lively banter, offering listeners a behind-the-scenes look at their adventures and the dynamics that make their friendship unique.
The episode kicks off with Raymundo and Morgan reminiscing about their collaborative efforts on the show. They delve into the origins of their inside jokes and unique communication styles that keep their interactions both professional and entertaining.
Raymundo explains his penchant for creating shorthand phrases to streamline their conversations without disrupting the recording process, highlighting the seamless teamwork that underpins their on-air chemistry.
The hosts discuss their preferences between Las Vegas and Charleston, revealing a shift in their favorite getaway spot.
While Las Vegas has traditionally been a favorite due to its vibrant nightlife and endless entertainment options, Charleston is now emerging as a top choice for its unique charm and social connections.
Raymundo and Morgan provide a detailed account of their Las Vegas trip, highlighting the culinary delights and gambling experiences that defined their stay.
Their itinerary includes visits to renowned restaurants like Nobu and ventures into popular spots associated with reality TV personalities. The discussion transitions smoothly into their gambling escapades, with Raymundo sharing his strategies and outcomes.
The conversation delves deeper into their gambling tactics, particularly focusing on slot machines and roulette. Raymundo humorously describes his approach to sports betting and his interactions with the casino environment.
Morgan recounts her less successful attempts at gambling, specifically with slot machines, and the subsequent decision to withdraw from further betting after realizing she was losing more than winning.
The duo explores Las Vegas's nightlife, contrasting their experiences at upscale venues with more traditional clubs.
Morgan describes the eclectic atmosphere of venues like Poppy Steak, highlighting the fusion of fine dining and nightclub elements, while Raymundo expresses his desire to access exclusive areas like the Poodle Room.
Their visit to Fremont Street offers a glimpse into the eclectic and often chaotic side of Las Vegas. Raymundo and Morgan share observations about the diverse clientele and the intense energy that characterizes this iconic area.
They discuss the prevalence of oversized drinks and the cultural norms surrounding alcohol consumption in casinos, leading to humorous exchanges about their attempts to navigate these social intricacies.
The conversation takes a playful turn as Raymundo and Morgan debate the authenticity of certain personas and lifestyles portrayed in media, particularly focusing on the cowboy archetype associated with events like the National Finals Rodeo (NFR).
Their lighthearted ribbing underscores the tension between genuine lifestyle experiences and those shaped by television narratives, offering listeners both humor and a critique of popular culture.
Towards the end of the episode, Raymundo and Morgan tease future events and conventions, encouraging listeners to stay tuned and engage with their ongoing projects.
They promote their upcoming conventions, promising larger-than-life experiences that surpass even the excitement of major events like NFR.
As the episode wraps up, Raymundo and Morgan exchange final thoughts on their Las Vegas adventures, providing a humorous yet insightful conclusion to their detailed recounting.
Their banter encapsulates the essence of their friendship—filled with mutual teasing, shared experiences, and a genuine appreciation for each other's company.
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Conclusion: This episode of The Bobby Bones Show offers a lively and comprehensive look into Raymundo and Morgan's Las Vegas exploits. From strategic gambling and elite dining experiences to navigating the intense nightlife and reflecting on cultural authenticity, their stories provide both entertainment and insightful commentary. Listeners gain a vivid picture of what it's like to traverse the high-energy landscape of Las Vegas through the eyes of two charismatic hosts, making it a must-listen for fans and newcomers alike.
For more exciting stories and upcoming events, tune in to The Bobby Bones Show and follow Raymundo and Morgan on their various social platforms.