Five Hundy by Midnight 100: It’s a Celebration!

Las Vegas podcast #100 includes:

  • Anthony Bourdain opening clip
  • Harrah’s post-sale speculation
  • Exclusive audio from Harrah’s HQ
  • The smoking ban is on
  • Tropicana plan details
  • Palace Station plans
  • Another reason you might want to leave the kids at home
  • Web site recommendation: FrontDeskTip.com
  • Book recommendation: The Smart Money by Michael Konik
  • Listener voicemail bonanza
  • Digg the podcast
  • The two-year anniversary thank-you list


Five Hundy By Midnight 12/31/06 (57:46 min, 53 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 98: Hard Rock Hotel Visit

To celebrate the new year, we recorded three shows last night. Episodes 99 and 100 will be posted on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

  • Benson opening clip
  • Hard Rock room tour
  • Interesting mini-bar selections
  • Hofbrauhaus visit
  • Pronunciation controversy
  • Drinking ass juice and bacon martinis at the Double Down Saloon (the happiest place on Earth)
  • Rainbow Bar and Grill
  • Photos from our Hard Rock stay and area bar crawl


Five Hundy By Midnight 12/31/06 (38:32 min, 35.4 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 97: A Short, Germy, Festive Las Vegas Podcast

I’ve been doing some work on the Web site, including an update of the blog software, which resulted in subscribers to the RSS feed receiving a bunch of past shows. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

  • “What Not to Wear” opening clip
  • Riviera purchase is off
  • No official word on the Harrah’s purchase yet
  • W Hotel project appears stalled
  • New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas with the “six greatest bands of all time”
  • Tim appoints Oscar Goodman as the mayor of New York
  • McCarran airport correction
  • Listener Mark’s Las Vegas Hanukkah song
  • Blog upgrade
  • “Christmas in Las Vegas” by Richard Cheese


Five Hundy By Midnight 12/17/06 (25:39 min, 23.6 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 96: Yet Another Las Vegas Hotel That Will Never Be Built

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

  • “We Live Here” opening clip
  • Proposal for a really tall Las Vegas Strip hotel that will never by built
  • Eschelon Place plans move ahead
  • Hard Rock buyout—Las Vegas hotel and casino not included
  • Hard Rock Hotel and Casino expansion plans
  • Station Casinos buyout
  • Durango Station approval
  • Monorail extension plans
  • No more McCarran airport smoking lounges
  • Smoking ban delay
  • Drive somewhere else
  • Las Vegas Sands online casino
  • Cavalia commercials
  • More Luxor rumors
  • Gas outage hits the Strip
  • Keno is not bad
  • “Christmas in Las Vegas” by Clint Holmes and Leslie Gore


Five Hundy By Midnight 12/10/06 (44:06 min, 40.5 MB)