Five Hundy by Midnight 68: Subtle Segues

This week’s Las Vegas podcast includes:

  • The Flamingo penguins are gone
  • Tim rants about “exclusives” and Robin Leach’s lame Las Vegas column
  • Maxim magazine announces Las Vegas Strip casino
  • Hooters feedback
  • Tic-tac-toe chicken at Fitzgeralds
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Las Vegas
  • Caesars Palace and GQ seek Modern Day Caesar
  • Voice mail messages
  • Good Las Vegas meet-up location?
  • Send us Las Vegas book recommendations
  • Callin’ in Rich by Phantom Freeway


Five Hundy By Midnight 6/9/06 (35:44 min, 32.9 MB)

Five Hundy by Midnight 67: Morbid Fun at Tropicana

In this edition of the original Las Vegas podcast:

  • Montreux sketches and details
  • A few of Harrah’s plans emerge
  • Stratosphere plans for new nightclub way up high
  • Desert Passage becomes Miracle Mile
  • Oprah visits Las Vegas
  • Tropicana will soon be filled with corpses, and we’re not talking about the patrons
  • Steve Wynn bitch slaps Franco Dragone
  • Monkeypokerdome update
  • Send us Las Vegas book recommendations


Five Hundy By Midnight 6/4/06 (30:27 min, 27.9 MB)

Prince Does Vegas

Those overpriced Prince shows at Empire Ballroom this weekend that we talked about on the past two podcasts may be just the beginning of a purple summer on the Strip. Word has it His Royal Badness may be taking up residency at Empire Ballroom (renamed Club 3121 for his performances) all summer. The shows would likely include big-name guest appearances.

Being huge Prince fans living in his hometown, we’ve seen Prince something like 35 times—mostly intimate, late-night shows at Paisley Park Studios. These Club 3121 shows in Vegas sound a lot like the shows he performed just about every weekend in July, August and September 1995. Those of us who went never knew what he would play or what time in the morning we’d be rolling home. Simply amazing shows. Good times. Very good times.

We’ll be saving our pennies because if this rumor comes to pass and Prince is performing during our July trip, there’s no way we’ll miss it.