Thank you again for
visiting beautiful
Downtown Las Vegas.
Your missed it.
Oh it's the wrong arm.
Thank you for
visiting beautiful
Downtown Las Vegas.
Everybody knows Vegas for
it's popular hotels and
casinos.
There we go,
see, come on.
Corrupter.
It's more than just
slot machines and
crappy buffets.
The city of Las Vegas is
the land of extremes,
where the best and worst
humans come to play.
This is where
fantasies come true.
Or you can gamble
it all away.
No.
An ace came out first,
too.
And these people make Las
Vegas the best city in
the whole fucking world.
We are heading
right now to
David Copperfield's
house.
It just sounds funny
when I say it cuz,
we're headed to David
Copperfield's house.
I'm just hyped cuz
you know what I mean
everybody's grown up
on David Copperfield.
If you're out here,
that's one of the main
shows that you wanna
either go to or
you've been to as a kid.
How are you doing man?
How's it going?
Braden
Hey how are you doing.
Welcome, welcome.
Good to meet you.
> Wow, this is beautiful.
Thank you, thank you.
We got a bunch of really
cool stuff here that
I think you
might find cool.
Wow.
This is really awesome.
It's full of awesomeness.
Oh yes,
this is definitely
my kind of stuff.
It's a vampire
killing kit.
It comes with
everything you could
possibly think of.
Take some stuff out.
There's of course a gun,
silver bullets that
are over there.
But look if you take
this out, right there,
we have, of course...
Wow!
We have the crucifix.
The steak!
The steak.
Yes!
And, the hammer.
And, the hammer.
And, of course, you have
to have some holy water.
This looks like it's.
Been sitting there for
quite a while?
Been sitting there for
a while, yes.
It's full of lots
of holiness.
So if you know
any vampires.
What kind of stuff do you
have around your house?
What kind of, what's the
weirdest thing you have?
Taxidermy.
I got this one out from
London that it's a bat
and it has
a bat's head but
they somehow sewed it
onto a rabbit's body.
See that's cool.
I have lots of
that stuff.
Yeah.
See that
comes really from the
land of the side show.
PT Barnum, you've heard
of Barnum and Bailey, and
PT Barnum,
he found a mermaid,
a dried carcass
of a mermaid.
It was amazing, and
people would line up and
pay a dime, which was
a lot of money back at
the turn of the century,
to see what they
believed was real.
And it was totally fake.
But I love it.
I mean, I really love it.
What's your
favorite food?
That's a good question.
You're gonna
change your mind.
I would say, pastries.
Pastries, that's
interesting.
This is a Hawaiian
shave ice.
So when I was in Hawaii,
I tried this.
And I kinda fell
in love with it.
Have you ever
done this before?
Never.
I've eaten,
maybe not in Hawaii,
not on this level.
The thing is you have
to really prepare
this carefully to get
a very smooth surface,
and you have to make
the ice kind of sweat.
And, as it comes out,
you're gonna
kinda pack it in.
That's nice.
All right.
I'll show you a little
technique.
Yours looks so
much happier than mine.
So, get it up like that.
All right.
Now let's get you first.
You've got this
down to a science.
Yeah.
The amount of sugar
that's in that
one bottle is.
Thanks for
the diabetes, mommy.
Here you go.
Excellent.
Now my turn.
I'm doing vanilla and the
cinnamon, so it's kind of
hot and cold, ying and
the yang of it all.
Yeah, well thank you,
and cheers.
I thank you, too.
Well done.
Unbelievable.
Mmm hmm.
So, how long have you had
a residency in Vegas?
You know, back when I
started coming here it
was right after
it was cool.
It was cooler in Sinatra
times, Dean Martin times,
Sammie Davis times.
And I came right
after that.
I came and opened for
Bill Cosby and
opening for the
Righteous Brothers and
opening for Neil Sedaka.
And when I started here
there was six shows.
Now there's 300 shows.
So, imagine that.
It's a craze,
the companies are crazy.
Copperfield's been in
the Vegas game forever.
This town's full of OGs.
Dudes that have paved
the way for decades.
No one knows
the city better
than Anthony Curtis,
the Las Vegas advisor.
He knows how to roll
Vegas on the cheap.
So Anthony, I’ve heard
that you are or you used
to be a professional
poker player?
Not poker, blackjack.
Blackjack.
Blackjack
was my main thing.
Did you ever see
the movie 21?
Yeah.
All right,
that’s what I did.
I did that for years,
until they wouldn’t
let me do it anymore.
Cuz after a while
you kinda get known.
Yeah.
It's sort of a cat
and mouse game.
It's us against them.
Yeah.
And we can get away with
it for a long long time
until it gets to a point
that you're just
too well known.
And when that happens
you start publishing
books like I do.
It's, all right.
Well fuck.
You got a book, let's.
I need something to read.
Basic strategy
in Vegas is
everything that's free,
do it.
In fact when you talk
about free right here.
This is free.
An absolute free
spin right.
Free for us?
It's free.
You could win $2,500.
It's gotta be all B's.
You almost got free play.
Oh.
That's good.
Oh really?
Yes. Oh. See what
I'm talking about.
This wasn't crappy man,
this is good.
You're the blackjack man,
so
you point out what tables
are the right ones.
I'm following
your lead today.
This one looks,
looks friendly, I think.
I don't know.
You have to ask.
How's it going, ladies?
Yes.
Do you guys take these
coupons here?
Do you mind if we play?
It's a free Ace.
Yeah we take it.
It's okay?
It's good?
All right.
Here's what we do.
You got the ace.
So your first card's
gonna be an ace.
We're gonna play
separately.
Okay.
That's a better way to do
it.
You're gonna
get a free ace, so you've
already got an ace.
Alright, perfect.
Most powerful
card in the deck,
that's what you want.
So, we just want
a face card.
Okay, you got an ace and
you have a 18.
You have a soft 18.
Yeah but she's gonna
have something small see.
Now, what you want
to do is here,
we're gonna get
a little bold but
you've got an ace and
a seven for a soft 18.
All right.
And the proper play,
what's called basic
strategy is to
double the bet.
You're going to
get one card.
Do I do it face down?
I do wanna see, but
I wanna see after.
Now we're in danger.
Now we're in danger.
Now we're in danger.
So let's hope she busts
before we even have to
look at our cards.
Come on.
Thirteen.
Boom.
There we go, see.
Woo-hoo!
That's what I'm
talking about.
Okay, I'm doing
the same thing.
First card ace.
Let's see it.
Oh, no.
We have three
or thirteen.
Dealer has a deuce.
Deuce.
All right we're just
going to take
a hit on this one.
Now we have 21.
There we go.
See, come on.
We're up $30..
Good job ladies.
We're up $30
Yeah that's how we do.
Now we play
regular blackjack,
where we get paid
two instead of one.
Okay.
14, not so good.
Okay, now we're in
a little trouble.
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it didn't like that.
It didn't like
that at all.
The dealer's strong and
we're weak.
When we're weak and
the dealer's strong we
gotta take a chance.
Of course.
We gotta hit.
Okay.
We're all right.
That works.
That works.
We're not great.
Small one.
Oh.
All right.
That's okay.
We're up, what are we up?
We lost ten there and
we won 20, 30,
we're up 20 bucks.
Cool.
Have a nice day y'all.
Thank you very much.
Thank you,
have a good one.
Thank you.
After the first stop,
we up 20 bucks.
I'm gonna show you
one of my best shots,
right here.
This is my favorite snack
bar in all of Vegas.
It's called
Lanai Express.
They've got
the best old fashioned
deals in all of Vegas.
We're gonna get a hotdog,
but
only one cuz we
gotta split it.
You're a meat eater,
right?
I am a meat eater.
All right-
I'm a homo-
We're gonna split that.
But a meat eater, yes.
And we're gonna get two
shrimp cocktail, okay?
So you gotta tell me,
man,
what brought you
out to Vegas?
When I got started,
Vegas was the only
game in town.
I thought I was
the greatest gambler in
the world and I was gonna
take the city by storm.
Well they
slapped me down.
Slap me, slap me,
slap me.
I had to figure out how
I was gonna survive.
And I started looking for
deals.
How old were you?
21.
21.
21, man.
The minute I turned 21,
I dropped out of college
and I moved out here.
With like 2,800 bucks.
And in three days I
had about 28 dollars.
So I had to kinda
figure it out, and
that's how I got
into the deals.
And that was
a long time ago.
And they never stopped.
And I never stopped
looking for them.
By the way, that's
a good ass hot dog.
I know.
I know.
For two bucks.
Oh my God.
When I was doing this
stuff and figuring out
the absolute best.
Where's the best
shrimp cocktail?
Where's the best hot dog?
So this is the best
shrimp cocktail?
This is the last.
It's the best or
the cheapest?
The cheapest best.
The cheapest best.
For $0.99 you ain't
gonna better than
this one here.
All right.
On to the next?
On to the next.
I'll follow you.
Moving on, up $15.03,
belly full of
shrimp cocktail and
long hot dogs.
Hi, can I help you?
How are you?
I'm good.
I need to get
a player's card.
You're at the right
place. And
I've been here a lot.
What would you like
your four digit
pin number to be?
Oh you just want
me to say it?
I wont remember I swear.
All right Let's
go with 8226.
Is this the normal thing?
Or is this just for
me right now?
For you right now.
Yes!
Have a good night!
Have a good night,
thank you?
Where did you go,
what did you get?
They gave me a turkey!
Go ahead and swipe this.
Swipe it?
Okay, put in your PIN.
I don't even
remember my pin.
That's what she gets for
just telling me to
throw out some PIN.
Hey lady,
Do you want me
to set it to 1 2 3 4?
Yeah, please, that
would be very helpful.
I'm having fun here,
I'm not supposed to
remember numbers.
Thank you.
All right,
lets try this again.
One, two, three, four.
All right so now what
are we doing here?
Alright see, here's your
free play and here's the
one we want, right there,
that gets us both, well
it gets us three bucks
off the steak dinner.
Oh, we need that
one too then.
That one we gotta have.
Okay we're set,
we got twenty bucks and
free play to play.
All right.
Come on, Goggles.
Sweet.
So this is what $7.99
looks like, huh?
So perfect.
Oh wow.
$7.99.
Yeah.
Cannot be beaten.
It's even good for
$11.95.
Especially with a beer.
If you know what
to do everything
can be made better.
How was everything
over here guys?
Oh my gosh.
Thank you.
Really good.
Nailed it.
Now that we're full
of our tasty steaks,
we're going to go spend
our $20 free plays,
get a few more drinks and
win a bunch of
God damn money.
Nothing's going
good over here.
Nothing's going good
over here either.
I mean-
It's not exactly
free money.
No, not at all.
But it's not exactly
money I had to
pull out of my pocket
either, though.
And if I get four 7's.
Oh, come on babies.
I have 5 bucks left, so-
I have $3.75.
I'm down half.
And, we're about to
turn it into something,
right here.
You're through.
You can quit.
Yeah.
I got what I got.
$3.75 a piece.
We don't even have
to split it up.
Perfect.
Oh well.
What the hell?
$27.50 at the end
of the night.
That's where we're
at right now?
That's where we're at.
We're $27.50 for
the night.
Either way, Cheers!
We could've done better,
but-
Oh, it doesn't matter.
The fact that you've
taken me to a hot dog, to
fucking shrimp, to steak
dinner, to everything.
And we're still
up $27.50.
Oh, and, I've come up on
Gobble, so- By the end of
the night, Anthony and
I were up $27.50.
Plus we gambled
all night.
And I drank all night for
free.
And I ate all night for
free.
And I even got
a turkey sculpture.
Man, I love this city.
I consider today
fucking fantastic.
I had a blast.
All right, man,
then success.
What can I say man, today
was good; I feel fat as
shit from great food,
I don't give a fuck,
I feel great.
All right so this is what
everybody should do when
they come to Vegas.
Agree?
Absolutely.
All right.
Absolutely.
I'm never gonna not
send anybody your way for
life.
Now, I'm headed to
the Peppermill for
a night cap
with my homies.
Jeremy and Buck Ass Lee.
The Peppermill is one of
the oldest restaurants
here in Vegas.
But before I meet
up with my homies,
I'm gonna go talk
with my girl Martha,
who's been here
since the beginning.
In the last 42 years
that you've worked here,
how do you see Las Vegas
as it's changed?
As it's It's become
what it is today.
You know, the times
then were so different.
You know, when a mob
ran everything.
Now it's all corporate,
and we haven't changed.
This is our breakfast
menu from the very first
day, where coffee
was $0.20, and
that was expensive then.
Oh I can imagine!
What year was this?
1972.
Wow.
This was our
original bar.
Really?
Yup.
See, now that just seems
like a comfortable
environment right there.
That's why you would
drive across town.
Yes.
Because that just seems
like somewhere you and
your friends or,
you can have a cup of
coffee, or drink and
just, forget about
everything that goes on.
We get a lot of people
that come in here, and
they say they come
back year after year,
because they feel
comfortable.
They feel like
they're family.
I mean, I love it here.
So, thank you.
I'm just gonna sit back-
I hope you
enjoy your meal.
I'll come and
check on you.
Please do,
thank you so much.
And thank you for
showing me everything.
Dude it's late.
I'm fucking
tired as shit.
I'm tired as shit.
I'm delirious and drunk.
I want to keep
eating junk food.
We just need a few
more drinks.
We'll be fine.
Oh my God.
Yes
Just put that right here.
All I taste is
just pure alcohol.
Are you ready for
the Hampton's?
Here, let me
try this one.
Which one's?
Both of these.
Wait, are you eating
the pineapple?
No.
Orange you glad I
didn't say banana?
All right, can I get the
shrimp cocktail, fresh
fruit salad, this chicken
and red pepper pasta?
I'm gonna do an omelette.
I'm also gonna do
one of your nachos,
nachos, nachos.
Nachos, nachos, nachos!
Ok, so I need like
that New York,
New York with the shrimp?
Can I get the
Peppermill Burger too?
Will that be all for
today?
Yep.
Oh, wow.
Here we go.
That's the nachos?
That's the nacho
cheese sauce.
Wow.
Let's do some organizing.
The mass quantity
of all this.
All right, bros.
I love you.
I'll see you at
the bottom.
This is a 10 egg omelet.
Yeah.
So,
are you gonna eat that?
10 egg omelet.
That's about
a quarter egg.
Yeah, you can
take it home.
You do a lot
more than that.
I just wanna try
a piece of every
single thing here.
Oh my God I forgot
about a burger.
I didn't.
I like how it comes
on a normal ass roll.
This is honestly
the best food ever.
Whether you're sober or
drunk.
I need to try that
banana nut bread.
For real.
He's just trying to
get a little nut.
What's that?
Oh, that's the...that's
good.
Oh my God that frosting
is amazing!
Yeah.
That's the bees knees?
Look at how awesome
is that icing?
That's the goods, huh?
Ain't got room for
that, only meat.
Only meat?
Hey, what's that,
a cock-meat sandwich?
Isn't it past
your bedtime Lee?
It's like what, five in
the morning, though?
We've been eating
here for two hours.
Fucking A.
Somebody, somebody
saw that.
All right guys.
Fuck you.
I'm going to throw
my towel in.
Not me.
There's so
many gorgeous places but
not many that actually
cater to our age.
There was a couple
casinos like
the Hard Rock and the
Palms where it was fun.
You got to meet girls,
you could be drunk, and
it was fucking okay.
How good is that?
This was absolutely
phenomenal.
Look at this view.
