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It is time you believe your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Maley along with
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Trey Trendholm. Sorry, I'm just laughing at this headline. It's
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gotten me for two days. A man with dementia hit
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a one point two million dollar jackpot after mistaking a
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slot machine for a vending machine while trying to get
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a doctor Pepper. I can't tell if this is a
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great story or a terrible story, because on one hand, he
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won one point two million dollars. On the other, he
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may not remember it. He may not know it after
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ten minutes. He might be really angry that he didn't
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get the doctor Pepper. Tear up this pet.
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He might pay someone one point two million to go
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get him a doctor pepper.
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Yeah. Yeah, Also one point two million dollars will buy
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you lots of doctor peppers. Oh man. It's a man
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in his seventies accidentally won a one point two million
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dollar slot machine jackpot after mistaking the casino game for
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a vending machine. Believing that casino offered snacks and drinks,
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He unknowingly placed a bet, verified the win, contacted authorities
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and his caretaker, and the casino honored the payout, sparking
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viral debate over luck, ethics, and confused fortune worldwide online.
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I don't really understand the viral debate on this as
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far as luck and ethics. Are people thinking that as
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a casino they shouldn't have honored the poll because he
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thought it was a vending machine and instead of a
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doctor pepper he won one point two million dollars. I
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think ethically he hit the machine, buttoned and won. You
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got to pay the man, right, There's no ethical question there.
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I mean the ethical question I would have is why,
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as a man with dementia at a casino.
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Well, I mean, what's your security, Like? Did he just
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wander in off the street. It's possible because I've gone
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to a lot of these smaller reservation tribal casinos, and
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it's not like they give you a whole lot of
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scrutiny when you in.
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I mean, no, they're not getting unless you're under age,
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they're not gonna say a thing to you. But it
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does sound odd that, you know, he's wandering around a
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casino thinking a slot machine is a Doctor Pepper or
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a soda machine.
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I mean, that's good and to be fair, I mean,
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was it a Doctor Pepper slot machine? I mean, there's
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so many brands that have slot machines, and if you
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haven't been to a casino, you may not even know it.
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One of the ones we're very well aware of is
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from back in the day, from our radio days. Jethrow
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from the Beverly Hillbillies was the guy that ran all
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the slot machine stuff for the Beverly Hillbillies, right, Trey.
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Yeah, he had gotten a license for it, so, and
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that was a big line of slot machines at one point.
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Yeah, I mean a lot of those pinball machines. I've
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also seen some really random pinball machines. There's there's so
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where I live on the Island of Saint Thomas in
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the US, Virgin Islands. There's a sports bar here called
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Whiskey Business and it has a It has a metallica
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pinball machine. No idea how it got here. I don't
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know if they ordered it specifically and it was here,
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or they found it on the side of the road
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somewhere and dusted it off and plugged it in and
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by god it works. But there are some random pinball
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slash slot machines out there. My wife Tara loves slot machines,
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and I think one of her all time favorites was
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the Sex and the City slot machine. Love that one.
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Just like Samantha, its wide open. I want to say.
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I read a story that BUCkies is going to open
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a hotel casino somewhere.
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That actually makes a lot of sense. Not just the
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hotel casino thing, you know, right next to slash behind
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a BUCkies outpost, but just putting a BUCkies gaming center
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in some of those gas stations is a phenomenal idea.
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I mean, they already have everything else, They already got
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wonderful treats and snacks and barbecue and drinks and bathrooms.
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But I mean, why not throw three or four hundred
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dollars in a slot machine? While you wait on Granny
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to finish in the clean bathroom before you re hit
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the road.
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I don't understand the obsession with BUCkies. I don't get it.
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Have you been yes. Have you had the beaver nuggets?
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No?
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I can't. I can't say it without laughing.
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Have you had the jerky?
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No?
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Have you had a barbecue sanwich? Yeah?
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I have the sliced sausage sandwich wants and it was
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mediocre at best.
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I can't speak to the quality of the sliced sausage,
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but I can speak to the quality of the beaver nuggets,
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the jerky, the little country store in the corner where
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you can find some really random things while the rest
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of the family goes te tea or poo poo. Clean bathrooms,
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the clean bathroom, and lots of them is a massive
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deal because BUCkies started coming on strong when the running
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joke was you don't want to use the rest stops
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on interstates because they're already full with people not going
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to the bathroom. They're doing other things, so you don't
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want to use that. So instead you go the extra
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twenty miles and you hit a BUCkies where it's good
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and clean and safe and it's bright and you don't
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have to worry about toe tapping weirdos next to you
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wanting more than just a you know, a shred of
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toilet paper. But because of I don't know if you
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guys have noticed this, Because of BUCkies and it's expansion
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and how popular it is, the roadside rest areas are
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actually pretty nice these days. They're not bad. Yeah.
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Yeah, oh, and everyone's trying to copy BUCkies and what
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they're building now.
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Yeah, you can't have a logo these days with buck
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teeth without BUCkies suing you for it.
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Well, and it's amazing that, you know, BUCkies was the
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lone one outside of Houston for twenty plus years and
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they didn't want to expand or anything else, and then
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damn now they're all over all over the South.
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I know that the BUCkies damn broke. It's kind of
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like how the original McDonald's situation unfurled. The guys that
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had the original McDonald's didn't want to necessarily do anything
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big or they had, and then eventually they were talked
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into it and it expanded like crazy. Not granted, that
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story ended very sad because they got screwed out of it.
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I don't know what the BUCkies corporate story is, but
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they have maintained their model throughout its entirety of expansion,
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which is they're not putting a BUCkies, you know, in
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a downtown area. They're keeping it on the outskirts of
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metropolitan areas and on interstates to be that beacon that
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people like, who I need to go there and not
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just use the bathroom. But then they started throwing up
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all the other stuff inside, like the treats and food
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and clothing.
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I mean like there's you know, t shirts and blankets
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and the little stuffed beaver or whatever it is. And
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my ex had a friend it what state he's in,
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but he's like, if you go to a Buckets, can
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you get me all this year?
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Yeah?
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And I'm gonna come to Texas and or they're doing
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a convention or whatever. She's like, when you get here,
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can you just give that to me? Fascinated by all
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of it, Like he wanted the shirt, he wanted the blanket,
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he wanted the slippers, And I'm like, I don't understand
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the fascination with this.
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That part of it is kind of weird to me
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as well. I will say from like a marketing or
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a branding, stamp point. It's it's a hell of a
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thing to accomplish to have your mascot be damn near
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on par with Mickey Mouse and Disney. And like you're saying, Raj,
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you got people that want the trinkets, they want the stickers,
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they want the they want the BUCkies beaver stuff, they
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want the sticker on their yetty tumblers and things. It
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really is amazing and it all it is is a
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clean place to take a dump. That's how it started.
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There's a clean place to take a dump, and it's
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blown up, sorry for the punt into what it is today.
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Yeah, it's amazing. I mean, it's amazing, what you know.
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And I I first found it out about it from
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an old girlfriend who that's where she would stop every
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single time when she was on her way up from
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Austin to come visit me.
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She would always stop at BUCkies.
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And I didn't know it was a thing, Like I
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didn't know because she was the one that said, like,
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there's this The bathrooms are the cleanest in you know,
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out of any of the.
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Gas stations like or truck stops or whatever.
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It is, like that's where she would stop on purpose
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every single time she was coming up and that was amazing.
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And Charles like yeah, yeah, and Trey and you said
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that you think that you've read that BUCkies has said
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they want to do this or is it more rumor
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based that BUCkies wants to expand into hotel casinos.
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No, I'm pretty sure it's it's a twenty five million
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dollar casino. I want to say it was somewhere and
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it was either oak like Oklahoma or Mississippi.
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Yeah. I mean, it doesn't really have the gambling thing yet,
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but if anyone can push it through, it might be BUCkies.
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But I mean, at the it's a brilliant idea. It
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just I don't even know about the hotel, but I
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have a casino attached to it because people come in
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there and they're like, yeah, spend some splots, spin some slots.
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Again, go ahead.
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I was gonna say, if they do have a hotel,
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do they come into your room every few hours and
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clean your bathroom as they do at the truck stop? Maybe?
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Or they don't even give you a bathroom in the room.
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You have to go down into the actual space to
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use it. Then you go back to your room. Smart. Yeah,
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but it's hard to believe that this whole conversation started
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with a seventy something dementia man going into a casino
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thinking he was pulling a vending machine to get doctor
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pepper and instead walked away with one point two million dollars.
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And I'm still stuck over the viral debate over luck
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ethics and confused fortune. I you contact the caretaker. I
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think what part of the story that I saw was
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that here it is he believed the casino offered snacks
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and drinks any unknowingly place to bet. So I don't
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know if he was just wandering into the casino because
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he wanted something to eat or drink, or if he
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was already in the casino gambling and was looking for
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the vending machine and just found a slot machine instead
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that looked like one. Either way, he pulls and wins
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a million dollars, which is great because hopefully that money
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can go for his care or his care taker. Yeah,
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that's fascinating.
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I've seen it, you know, because I you know, performing
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casinos a lot, and I've seen it, like they'll you know,
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people come in all the time for various reasons. You
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have like people that are like on math that come
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in and and try to, you know, put in a
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couple of bucks to see if they can get some.
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Money to go get more meth. Yeah.
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So it's I don't know if it's the same kind
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of situation, but they win, and you know, the casino
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still gives them money even though they're visibly on drugs.
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Yeah. So, And to be fair, you could have dementia
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and be sat at a slot machine and right in
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with everyone else, just mindlessly slapping on the re bet
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button on those machines because after a while you really
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just kind of tune out, right, You just hit the button,
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hit the button, hit the button, hit the button. That's
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why the slot machine thing has never been that appealing
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when I go to a casino because it just seems
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like I'm just hitting a button. It doesn't seem any
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actual skill for it.
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You know.
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Yeah, it's not like you have to understand like the
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you know, the logic or the science behind like you know,
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blackjack or Texas hold them stuff.
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Like that, you know. Yeah, because at anytime I look at
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the lines on the slot machine, when you can be
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like okay, if I bet five lines or ten lines
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or seventy two lines, none of the lines ever make
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sense because sometimes when I when I'm playing a slot