Vegas Baby

From Diamond's first experience in Las Vegas, to all the stories we couldn't talk about during the show!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast show? Okay,
back from Vegas, tell us tell us all the dirty details.
Which dirty details do you want? I want to tell

(00:23):
you other stuff that didn't make it to the air,
the very beginning. Yeah, a very good place to start. Okay,
it was Diamond's first time. Diamond, thank you for you
got your camera there? Okay, I'm here, Yes we can
so it was your first time there? It was tell
us some dirt. Let's get some dish. Um. Let me
think what can I what can I dish on? Gandhi?

(00:46):
What do you think I'm gonna throw you under the
bus about anything. It's up to you to disclose what
you did or didn't see. Keep in mind there are
people that we work with will be careful. What did
you expect versus what did you experience over the weekend? Okay,
this I guess I can say I expected the artists

(01:07):
to be do she right? Because I mean, we've all
experienced at least one artist in our life. Um, but
I have to say that the talent in this case
takes the cake. Okay, talking about the on air talents,
like all of us, you all are included. But you know, yeah,

(01:33):
I was shocked. What um uh, Let's just say that
a lot of the talent thought that they were um
the artists like, I'm surprised that the talent wasn't pulling
up like their writers that they signed. Serious, Yeah, non stop,

(01:55):
you're one of them. No, don't stop that it is that,
you know what? It is true to a degree. And
and plus here's the thing, because Diamond and I were
talking about this a little bit ago. A lot of
people in our company have been doing this for what
twelve years now? How many hired festivals? And for us,

(02:18):
it's it's The first ones were great. It was like, oh,
let's go to Vegas. We'll have fun. Now it's work.
And you know what, if I'm going to work and
I've gotta, you know, miss my kids soccer game or something,
I'm gonna be like, you know what, make it worth
my time, make it worth my while. I did miss
my kids soccer game, and it was not worth my while.
I took the red I took the red Eye home

(02:39):
so that I would be there yesterday. I couldn't, dude,
I wanted to continue to stay. I wanted to be
there wake up in Vegas this morning to I feel
like I didn't have enough time to go gamble and
do other Vegas things. But because because if you think
about it, once you go into that, once the show
starts on Friday night, it's just like twenty four hours
of music, four hours plus because you got the after

(03:02):
you know, the next morning, you got that entire day stage,
and then you got another five hours after that on Saturday.
So I don't know, I, for one, I'm a big fan.
I was watching all the acts. I I was off
the clock at night, and I was doing all my
work and sweating in the heat in the afternoon on Saturday.
But you know, from my vantage point, and again I

(03:22):
left everybody alone backstage, I didn't have any you know.
I was just excited to be a part of all
of that. And then they had this fan pit on
both sides, which they never have. They put a fan
pit on both sides of the stage in the front,
which just it's just people there and it's standing remotely
the general admission. That to me was a major upgrade
concert diamond. You should diss on what scary was trying

(03:44):
to make everyone in the fan pit do. I thought
we were going to just go ahead, come on, come,
on this and not talk about it. What we Andrew
and I run into Scary while Ja Cole is performing,
and he's like, you guys, you know, let's go down
to the pit. You guys need to come down to
the pit. So we agree because at this point we

(04:05):
don't have a choice. He who doesn't want to see
the artists from like twelve ft away? All right, everybody great,
But we get into the pit for Nelly and as
soon as we get in there, I don't know how
many people were there, but I can't count. Scary goes
you don't have to wear a mask in here. She

(04:25):
pulls out her camera to videotape me, and I'm like,
I want video. I'm not gonna have video with my
mask on. I want video with my mask off. If
I'm gonna wrap to the middle of Nellie's song ride
with me, it's not going to be with a mask on.
And so I had, you know, the middle every protocol
that we were getting shoved up our ass Scary out there,

(04:46):
like fuck it, you guys get second. There's the thing
you I know you weren't back like where we were.
But they were so hardcore about all of COVID protocols
because they're trying to keep everybody safe and the artist,
you know, one person pops positive back there and it
gets shut down. So they have people coming back literally

(05:09):
seeing if we're eating food, if we're drinking water, like
the COVID compliance officer. Oh yeah, there was we got
we got tested multiple times to make sure that we
were always negative. And there was these big signs that
said to k and nine masks must be required, you
know at this point to say unless you're wrapping to
nelly clothes right there. There was also zone like zone

(05:36):
and zone. So wait, if you were in the one zone,
it was because you got the PCR test. If you
were in the other zone, you only got the rapid test.
And apparently the rapid people in the PCR people weren't
supposed to be in the same room together because the
rapid room was the dirty room. They were literally calling
these people dirty. You can't always dirty. That's the dirty hallway.

(05:59):
Its downway, that dirty dirty. Yeah. No, I mean they
had people escorting us, like blocking doors from hallways. Don't
open that door. I was like, all right, here we go.
This is fascinating. But I mean they were just doing
their best to keep everybody as safe as possible. And

(06:19):
I was like, what, I felt pretty damn safe. If
you didn't feel safe there, forget it, I will say this. Uh.
So I did. I did lose a twenty dollar bed.
So um. I was talking to some of our radio
friends in one of the rooms, uh and there was
like a cocktail lounge and they were just sitting there chatting,

(06:42):
having drinks and somebody goes, dude, that that that's Phineas
over there. Now keep mind Billie Eilish performed that night
and Phineas was was there on stage with her, you know,
her brother, and he was rocking out and he, you know,
said I have footage of him. So now fast forward
maybe twin eight minutes later, and now this guy is
in there just in a T shirt and jeans, nondescript,

(07:06):
you know, he doesn't look like you know. And I'm like,
it looked like him, but it wasn't really him or not.
So I bet one of our coworkers in radio twenty
dollars that it wasn't Phineas. I'm like, that's faux Phineas,
that's fake Phineas. That's not him. It looks like him,
but it's not and then there I'm looking at my
video footage and then I'm looking at him having a
casual conversation in a T shirt, just talking to one

(07:28):
person knowing around him, and I'm like, this is not him.
That's just somebody that looks like him, it says, and
that's a Phineas double. Well I lost my twenty dollars
because it was actually him, so I think, but how
great crazy is it that he has this these wild,
frenetic stage moments where he's rocking out on a guitar
and then like fifteen minutes later, just casually having a conversation,

(07:49):
you know, in a T shirt and didn't even you know,
whatever it was. I couldn't believe it was him. But
I lost. I lost my money that night and it
wasn't on it wasn't on the table. You lost. Yeah,
I didn't really gamble, all right. Well, speaking of gambling
and losing money, what are those stereo Because Diamond her
first time as an adult in Vegas, and I felt like,
you gotta do some stereotypically Vegas things in Vegas, like gambling, Like,

(08:14):
what are some of those stereotypical things that you would
normally do if you go to Vegas as an adult. Well,
if you're a woman, you got to be scantily clad. Yes,
okay you got to Diamond. Were you scantily clad at
any point? Not at all? Okay, you got to go
to a day party, one of those pool parties. Party, Diamonds,
you go to a pool party past one? That doesn't
count so many? Great. You have to see an E.

(08:36):
D M artist do some kind of crazy set at
a club. Okay, Diamond, did you do that? Okay? That
was in town? No? Did you? Did you go to
a strip club? No? But we know I love strip
club so I wish I did. Why do you hire
a hooker? Did you hire hooker? I'm guessing this and no? Absolutely? Okay?

(08:57):
Do you wi by one? Though? Why do you love
strip clubs so much? Because I just think that it
is insane how much money strippers make per night, um
or per hour like while they're there and it's just like, Wow,
I'm watching you become essentially almost a millionaire. I'm having
to build an empire. Hey girl, thank you? True? How

(09:20):
about everyone that has to go to in and out Burger?
Oh my god, it's the best, It's so overrated. Diamond,
did you go. Did you planned on it? But I
didn't go. It's overrated. It's only because we don't have
them here. Everybody, Oh my god, it's so good. It's
not Burger bs in and out. Burger is pretty damn good.

(09:40):
Did you go? Did you go to a point store
because you know they wanted the point? What wn pown? No,
I didn't see one. They're all over. Everyone goes there, Diamond, Diamond,
Did you find a body in the desert like they
do on the TV show? No? But like I barely

(10:02):
left the hotel. I think you guys are like thinking that.
I like, I didn't go anywhere, and they were working.
I mean from the like we all got kind of
Thursday night to ourselves and Friday they didn't get it.
We were working. I think we need to take Diamond
to Vegas for real at some point. Come on, ye, yes,
you know that. You also, I think this is something

(10:23):
that you need to do. You need to see the
sun come up, Like you need to be hours hours
to Vegas all night and then see the sunrise. Keen
and Teller do I magine? Oh, Carrot Top fucking hilarious,
You guys make fun. Carrot Top is hilarious. You went
to a show on Thursday? Yes, I went and I saw.

(10:45):
I saw Shin Limb from America's Got Talent his magic.
He was amazing. You have time show? I mean we
went to we went to restaurant a Mafi. We didn't
I did on Thursday? So how was that? Sorry? I
blew you off. You are not going to blow us off?

(11:08):
Want you? You want to go out into your hotel
and eat and have a great dinner. Literally, I didn't
blow you off. I literally as soon as I got there,
was told to put my things in my room and
go to someone else's room to start working. I no,
I believe you, I said Scotty. I knew Scotty was
going to blow us off. Such a headache. For real.

(11:29):
I'm not e been kitning. I went up getting some
spinach fed a cheney from California Pizza Kitchen and going
to sleep. That's what I did that night. Okay, well
we need to do over for Diamond. Yeah, Scotty needs.
One thing that was really disappointing for me is I've
gone to the show for every year for twelve years
except last year, and on the Friday morning of the show,
I always go to Denny's at seven o'clock in the

(11:50):
morning and have breakfast by myself and the same host
as Laura has has sat me for seven for eleven years,
and she was not there this year, and I was
very use. I'm surprised it was even open. Everything was closed.
What do you get everything? I get moons over my hammy.
I gotta say the artists as far as the performance
as go, I know we got a role, but you

(12:11):
know I took Dulia was awesome, Billie Eilish incredible wheezer
on night one, Oh my god. We lived my my
college years there. And then of course Coldplay was amazing,
and I thought Olivia Rodrigo should have been on the
main stage because she was. She crushed the day stage.
She was out, she was amazing my guests. They probably
booked that while she only had drivers license. Yeah, that's

(12:33):
what always happens. It's like how we got Lizzo that
one year at Jenks. Yeah, that was an accident. That
was and then we were like, enjoy it now because
she's never come back. Minutes later she was at Radio
City Music Hall. No more than a month later. We
got that booking in earlier. Okay, Are we done? We're done.
I think thank you Everyboday Morning show