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It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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Trey Trenholm. Trey, you are on the road today joining
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us remotely. Where in the world is Trey Trenholme today?
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I am in Las Vegas.
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Ooh, Vegas? How is Las Vegas?
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It's fine, you know, when you don't drink and you're
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not rich. Vegas is very me.
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It's just a it's just a bunch of bright lights
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in the middle of the desert. Uh huh. Just glad
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to have running water in a bed, right, Yeah, that's
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Vegas has been getting hammered lately, and I'm saying that
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is someone that just went through a little bit of
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a Category five hurricane over the weekend. I saw a
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story recently that tourism is basically in the toilet in
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Las Vegas. And it's not just because the economy is
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in question in general, but Vegas is kind of in
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question and in turmoil because I think the tourists have
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finally caught on that they're basically getting ram rotted when
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it comes to what things cost, or more specifically, what
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they're being charged for things versus what they actually cost,
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and it's not brand new, Like everyone knows that if
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you go to a pool in Las Vegas, you were
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going to be charged out the ass for a cores
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or a vodka soda, whatever it is you're buying. I
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think I saw a thing, a basket of chicken tenders
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was like forty nine dollars, and this is These are
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astonishing numbers. But again this I don't think this is
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brand new. But because of it, tourists are finally clapping
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back and they're not going. They're not showing up to
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Vegas like they used to, and when they when when
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they do show up, they're apparently not tipping like they
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used to because they're fed up with being price gouged.
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I mean, it's.
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Like I got up this morning and there's a Starbucks
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staying at the Aria, and there's a Starbucks here.
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Well, my.
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Iced cinnamon dulce latte that I normally get, that's normally
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I think six seventy five at any other Starbucks is
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eleven seventy five here, And yeah.
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You know why, it's probably because they think you're a
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showgirl without order and they think you can afford it
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with all the tips you made last night, not some
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blue collar man.
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Yeah. Again, I've never claimed to be a manly man.
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When it comes to my.
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Coffee drinks, I at least say, hey, I don't get
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the whip cream.
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Okay.
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Also that's your line. Yeah, unless unless that whipped cream
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is coming on Ali Larder herself with the coffee drink.
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You're a you're a no whip bro yep.
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But yeah, no, everything, Yeah, everything is ridiculously expensive. They've
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got a food court here that's somewhat reasonable for for Vegas.
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Uh you know, A slice of pizza at one place
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was ten bucks and it's a big slice.
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I could uh.
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You know, I wasn't mad about that. I guess it's
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kind of within reason. But now everything here is just ridiculous,
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So it doesn't it doesn't shock me that tourism is
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down and.
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You can kind of tell. Although yo, it's during the week.
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I've never really this will be my first time I
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think ever really spending any time.
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In Vegas on a weekday. I've always been you know,
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Friday through Sunday.
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Yeah, I think that's how most people are. I found
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one of the stories that I did see the once
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generous tipping culture of Las Vegas is experiencing a downturn
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as visitors push back against soaring prices and declining service
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quality across the Strip. According to The New York Post,
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servers report that tips have plummeted by as much as
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fifty percent compared to previous years. This drop has created
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a financial strain for thousands of hospitality workers who depend
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on gratuities for their livelihood. One cocktail waitress revealed in
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a Reddit forum the subreddit is Vegas Locals that her
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average tip per drink has crashed from eighty cents to
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just ten cents, while others lament working triple what we
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used to do and making a quarter of what we did.
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The crisis coincides with an eleven point three percent drop
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an overall visitation to Sin City in June compared to
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the same month last year. That's according to the Las
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Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. International travel to Vegas has
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similarly declined by approximately ten percent year over year. Show
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it's getting ugly in Vegas.
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Well, and I think there's something else going on, which
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is I think there is a.
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Tipping fatigue because.
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And I say this as someone who worked in the
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service industry for a very long time. But the fact
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that you get asked to tip everywhere is I think
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wearing people out, and it's screwing the people that really
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do survive on tips. I mean, you're getting asked to
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tip people, and most people don't realize it, but a
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lot of you know, whether you go to Starbucks or whatever,
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they're making a good hourly wage, whereas most like servers
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and bartenders are making you know, two thirteen an hour.
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Right So, and especially in a place like Vegas that
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is so tourism heavy. So I've always loved the way
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my wife put it as far as whether or not
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you should tip somebody in the service industry, it's basically,
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if they touched your food, you should probably tip them.
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It's like, Okay, I can wrap my brain around that.
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That's good in the broader tourism industry. Though in a
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place like Vegas it gets real, you know, heavy, because
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you got you've got door people, you've got bell hops
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doing luggage, You've like you said, trade, there's so many
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people everywhere you turn in Vegas that live on tips.
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So it's kind of hard to know, Like, well, who
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do you say no to.
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Hookers?
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Well, I wouldn't expect to be on their favorites list
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if you ever decide to go back to that particular ranch.
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You're in the Treehouse online a treehouse on air dot com.
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Let's get Daniel Cook from Cook DFW Roofing and Restoration
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into the Treehouse eight three three Cook DFW is the
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phone number for your free roof and property inspection the
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website cookdfw dot com. It's been a very busy summer
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for people. Kids are now starting to get back to school.
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Parents are trying to get back into a new routine
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with the kids going back to school. That actually makes
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now a great time to get that roof inspection.
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Doesn't it?
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Absolutely?
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Dan, We see this every single year.
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You know.
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We come out of our heavy storm season, which is
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in the spring, you know, and which usually people you
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know associate lasting up until June. Then we get to
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summertime and it's kids are out of school, vacations are
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going on, relatives and in laws are coming in town.
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I got all these other things I'm gonna do, and
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then all you know, you forget that crap.
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I had a big storm at my house this year,
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and I never had anybody come out and look at it.
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But I don't have any leaks, so maybe I got lucky.
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Well, then you get.
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Through fall, we start having a little bit of cooler weather,
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we start getting back in the rainy season, and guess what, poof, you.
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Got a leak coming into your roof.
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So this is why it's very critical. It's the perfect
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time of the year. Have us come out. We can
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check what we haven't looked at yet. Because all those
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storms that came through in March, April, May, and then
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we had some ones.
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Late as June. At the end of June, this.
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Is a perfect time for us to check out and
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see how much damage your house actually sustained. Do you
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need to worry about it? Is your house okay for
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another you know year, until the next springtime. You know,
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those are things that you don't want to be surprised about.
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Have us come out. It's a perfect time. It's a
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free inspection.
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We come out, walk around, take pictures, show you if
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you have any concerns.
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Yeah, and now really is a perfect time to do that.
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As the kids go back to school. It's not quite
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time for the holidays yet and that's going to be
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extremely busy and stressful. So take care of your house
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now during this window while it's open, so called Daniel
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is the tree House Show. I'm Daniel Malling along with
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Trey Trenholm Raj Sharma popping in the tree House now
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as well. Raj, you're a somewhat of a Vegas expert.
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You spend a lot of time in Reno as well.
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Who are the people that you don't tip.
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Who you do not tip meth heads, okay, but everybody else,
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I mean, there's really not a door guy anymore. That's
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kind of like a few valet you'll have a door guy,
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but if you don't like, you don't have to really
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worry about that.
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But I'm really angry when it comes to having to
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pay for valet at every damn hotel now. And I
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don't mean in Vegas. I just mean everywhere, because I'll
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still admit this, I've never I've still never been to
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Las Vegas. But I can't stand now how every hotel
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on the planet now basically says, Okay, the room is
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X amount of dollars. Oh, and you have to pay
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the park too, whether it's self park or valet, so
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good luck with that. It's like what the hell man?
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And sometimes the self park is more expensive than the valet.
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And sometimes they don't even give you the option. They
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just say, if you want to park with the hotel,
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it's valet. There are no other options, or you can
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take your you can take your chances with the meth
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heads across the street.
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You'll always take the guy that I mean, if you
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have a lot of luggage and there's somebody that brings
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your bags, you tip them. If there is a door guy,
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like in India, like there's door guys, so you tip them.
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But in Valet you tip. But outside of that, I
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think that's where and wait, staff, I think that's where
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it would end.
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Yeah, well, Vegas isn't sharp. Decline Trey has witnessing it
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for us as our Vegas correspondent this week inside the Treehouse.
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I don't know if you guys saw this news last month,
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but I'm going to share it with you now just
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in case you didn't catch it. Scientists are on high
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alert as an unidentified object has been detected speeding towards Earth.
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The nature of this object remains a mystery, but there's
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one expert who is suggesting, yeah, it could be extraterrestrial,
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Avi Lobe. It is the professor from Harvard A. VI Lobe.
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Professor Lobe has been outspoken about the potential existence of
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spaceships in the cosmos and now speculates that this object
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could be a mothership.
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Now.
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Despite skepticism from other scientists who argue that the object
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is probably just a comet, Professor Lobe cautions that its
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appearance might indicate technological design.
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Well, there's one big problem with his theory, and that is,
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if it is an extraterrestrial mothership, why is it technically
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doing a flyby of Mars? Because its path is it's
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close to Mars and it's going to go behind the Sun,
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so it's not really supposed to get Now, if it
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all of a sudden, you know, makes a left turn
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and it comes towards Earth, then yeah, there's a problem.
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But otherwise, yeah, if it's hanging a Louis in the
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middle of the Solar System, then yeah, I think that's
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gonna be a bit of a red flag.
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Yeah, if it flips a bit, we got a problem.
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Now, that's an interesting point that you brought up to
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the path that it's on, where at one point it
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will go behind the Sun, and that's where the mystery
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gets well even more mysterious because it was first spotted
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on July first. Now, if the object turns out to