Lorraine Ziff - Goddess of Slots - Fascination Street

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome back, Street Walkers. This episode is with Lorraine ben
Zevingo Ziff, better known as the Goddess of Slots. In
this episode, we get to know Lorraine and how she
grew up in New York, spent some time in La
did some acting, started a business, went back to New York,

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started that business up again, did some more acting, more acting,
more acting, and then now she has become the Goddess
of Slots. She is a world renowned slot machine, hostess, gambler, influencer,
all of the words. And not only does she have
two TV shows that are about to come out which

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we talk about, she is also hosting the first ever
Goddess of Slot's exclusive casino cruise aboard Virgin Voyage's Valiant Lady.
We talk a lot about that particular cruise and what
people can expect, how you can get free tickets to
that cruise, and some of the events that are going

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to happen on the boat. It is a virgin voyage
cruise on the Valiant Lady is dubbed the Dominican Days Voyage.
And it leaves Miami on September twelfth, comes back September seventeenth,
and it sounds like a lot of fun. There's going
to be parties and dancing, and there's gonna be dinners

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and tournaments and all of the things. And there's no
kids allowed, so it should be even more fine. Most
of all, you get to meet and hang out with
Lorraine herself again. The Goddess of slots, Lorrain Benzevingo Zif
is everywhere. Check her out in all of the social
media things at Goddess of Slots. And this is my

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conversation with Lorrain Benzevingo Zif, the Goddess of Slots. Forgreda,
be fascinating Forgretta, be fascinating Forgretta, be faffinating. Welcome to
Fascination Street Podcast. Lorraine ben Savango Zif. How you doing today?

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I'm well, thank you, how are you?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
I cannot complain. Wherever you are it looks nice and sunny,
but over here it's raining. Like cats and dogs. Where
are you?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
I am at the moment in New Jersey?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Where in New Jersey?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'm at the beach. Where are you?

Speaker 2 (02:55):
I'm in San Antonio, Texas.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I love San Antonio, Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Me too.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, I'm at the beach, which is LBI. It's what
people refer to it as. And that's Long Beach Island.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's in Jersey.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
It is. It's about an hour from Atlantic City.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
How far from Red Bank?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Is it around the same but in a different direction.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh okay, Yeah, I've been to Red Bank probably a
handful of times, and I love it. There's this place
called the Molly Pitcher in which is like this really
old hotel or whatever that's right on the water.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I know it. I know it's a cool place.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
And we stayed there, I don't know, a bunch of
years ago. It was in the winter, and I woke
up early in the morning and I just went to go,
I don't know, get breakfast or something. And I'm glad
I had my phone with me because I went and
I was just looking out on the docks or whatever,
and it was like the most beautiful. There was just
ice everywhere and snow and there was Christmas lights and

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it was the sun was just coming. It was so pretty.
Oh my gosh, it was going too. I love New Jersey.
And also I've said this probably one hundred times on
my show, but the best pizza I've ever had in
New York is in New Jersey. I can believe that,
and I will never stop saying it because it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
I think New Jersey is a bad rap. I think
people think of it just as like Elizabeth which is
very industrial, and that's the problem. And there are some
really exquisite eras, so.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
That's not the only problem. We've got a couple of problems.
Hear me out. Okay, we got the sopranos. They didn't
make New Jersey look awesome. And then also we got
what's that one guy's name? This is gonna go great
if I can't remember words. Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton. Everything's legal

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in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, now, nothing's legal in New Jersey. But that's why
I split my time between Jersey and Florida.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I love that. Okay. So what I like to do,
Lorraine is I like to get to know the guests
from the beginning. It helps us understand how the guests
got from where they were to where they are. So
where were you born and raised? Where'd you grow up?

Speaker 1 (05:11):
I was born in the Bronx and I spent quite
a lot of time there, and then I went to
school and lived my life in Yonkers, New York. From there,
ended up going to college in Terrytown, New York. So
it was very white plains Westchester, very much like that.
And then I got accepted to law school and I
always wanted to go to California. So I was like, hey,

(05:33):
this seems like the thing to do.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Why did you want to be a lawyer?

Speaker 1 (05:38):
So I always wanted to do acting my whole life.
I went to school for it, I studied for it.
But when I got to my senior year in school,
my parents were like, that's school. What's your real job
going to be?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Were your senior year in college?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
In high school?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Okay? High school?

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah? My parents, you know, And I was like, well,
I want to do the acting thing. Back in the day,
you know, I was going on auditions in New York
City and it was it was tough. You had to
do everything in person. Back then, I said, well, I'm
not sure what I'm going to do with my life.
So I guess I'll take the LSATs, which is the
entry into law school. And I did well, and I

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got accepted into a couple of schools in New York
law and in California as well. I said, well, I
always want to go to California, so here I go.
When I got there, and I hated every second of it.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
You hated every second of California, or.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
I hated every second in law school. So I did
a year of that and I was like, no, the
same for me.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
What about it? Did you hate?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
You mean the schooling?

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
So I'd never been anywhere. I grew up with not
a lot of money, and I'd never traveled anywhere. I'd
never done anything. So I got to California and I
lost my mind and I lived a full California life.
I really really enjoyed California and every second of it.

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And that conflicted with the fact that you had to have,
you know, nine million hours in law school and you
had to really buckle down, you really had to focus.
And I sort of coasted because I was lucky enough
to have the smarts. But by the end of that year,
I was like, this is I don't know what I'm
doing I don't want to be here. You know. I
was homesick. Like for the girl who wanted to sort

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of run away a little bit. I was unbelievably homesick,
had no money at all to live, and I was
living in this disgusting, roach infested place. It was gross.
It was so bad, like a couple of blocks from
law school, and I would go to school and then
come home and be like, I'm in over my head.
Everybody here is serious. I just kind of want to

(07:50):
play and go to the beach and I've got, you know,
roaches in my apartment and it was really, really bad.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
So the thing that you didn't like about law school
was it got in the way of having fun in California.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
I guess. I mean I was in over my head.
I wasn't mentally prepared to be a serious student, and
I think that that hurt me.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, do it. So what did your parents say when
you were like, Hey, remember when I was going to
be a lawyer and then I don't like it? Can
I come home.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
I was the first person in my family to graduate college,
so they were thrilled for the fact that I had
done that. They were thrilled for the fact that I
got accepted into law school. This was just like, oh
my god, this is amazing. And I decided not to
go back home because I've always had a very entrepreneurial spirit.
So I ended up getting a job as paralegal in

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one of the biggest law firms in California at the time.
It was Adam's Dookie in Hazel Time. I think it's
still around. I worked in corporate, I worked in litigation.
I did a lot of stuff, and I got to
the point where some paralegals do more secretarial work and
some paralegals take it all the way up to the
next level. So I was doing everything except signing off

(09:10):
on the documents as a lawyer. So I was doing
everything everything. While I was doing this, was like, you
know what, why don't I go into business for myself?
And ultimately I did end up doing that. I ended
up keeping them as a client, but then also getting
other law firms to allow me to do things like,

(09:33):
you know, summarizing interrogatories and working through depositions and all
of that. So I had a sweet little business going
while I was there. And then so I lived there
for three years and I was doing that. It's funny
because I did that all day, like my serious job,
and then I would work, you know, as a waitress

(09:55):
at night. So I was hustling. I was just trying
to stay alive.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Did you have a night waitress job just for the
extra money? Or or California is so expensive that owning
your own paralegal company wasn't enough.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Oh, actually, so it was. It was a lot of work,
and I was young and strong and energetic, and I
was like, let's see what we can do. And after
three years, I left and I went back home. So
I'd worked myself up with working the job and doing
the business that I was able to buy a funny stor.
It was actually a little buy a condo right off

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the Sunset Boulevard. I look back on it now and
I'm like, oh my god, for not a lot of money.
And it was prime location. It was right around the
block from a place called chinchinz which is kind of
a famous Chinese place. It was unbelievable, like right off
the Sunset stripch It was a gorgeous area, gorgeous condo.
So I've worked myself up to that point.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
That's pretty impressive. You were only there three years and
you were able to do that.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
I hustled, man, I worked so sounds like it. But
then when I turned around to sell it. Yeah, I
look back on it now and I thought I was
getting a fortune for it, and it's like that condo
building is like millions now, and I was thrilled to
get a couple of hundred thousand. But I was able
to go home and seeing my family, Look, this is

(11:20):
what I achieved. So my family was, you know, still
proud of me. And then I brought yeah, right, and
then my I brought my paralegal business back to New
Jersey and did the same thing there, got it going.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
But I was also still doing my auditions. I was
still going into the city. Like that piece of it
never died.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Got you. So you always wanted to be an actress?
Were you doing auditions and stuff? And when you were in.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
La No, I was just trying to stay alive. No,
I was. I was in how am I going to
get food to eat? Mode?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Okay, So then when you got back to New York
and the pressure kind of I guess it was a
little easier because you know, you had that little bit
of money from selling your stuff, and then you started
your business and that was cool. Did you have a
second job in New York as well?

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Or no?

Speaker 1 (12:12):
No, I have my family, good job. I had a husband,
so there was that too.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Oh when did that happen? When did he come around?
Was that in LA thing?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
He was from Jersey? But while I lived in La,
I did not get married in LA. We got engaged
and I arranged an entire wedding from LA in New York.
I know, I'm a little you know, it's funny because
people are like, you're type A, and I'm like, I'm
not like because they joke and I'm very laid back
and very easy. So they're like, you're stealth type A.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
Like, yeah, you present laid back. You're laid back presenting.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
So yeah. So by the time I got back, it
was it was all good. And uh, you know, I
don't get too much into my person, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah, no, that makes sense. So you're in now, you're
in New York, you're married, you you have started your
your paralegal business up again, but you still want to
be on Law and Order.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
And I was okay, So it was on law and Order.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Tell me, how how long did it take you to
get on Law and Order because that's the brass ring
in New York. You're right for up and comers. Yeah,
so how long did it take you to do it?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
It's funny, you know what. It kind of became a joke.
Everybody was like, have you been on a LNG order? Yet?
It was just I was not like a main part.
It was like an extra let me tell you. It
wasn't anything thing. But I was able to say that
I was on it. So how long did it take?
I don't know. I just I just kept knocking at
the doors and getting the headshots out there. I didn't

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have an agent. I was trying to represent myself. You know,
it's a hard life. Acting in general is a hard life,
and I think it's easier now. And that's gonna sound
so kind of snobby and whatever, but you know, like
I walked up and up the hill both ways in
the snow, kind of you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Sure, these whipper snappers got it easy.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Yeah. We have social media now and you can do
your own stuff. You can put your stuff out there,
and man, I encourage that. That's how I got to
be the Goddess of slots. So when I was in
New York, and I was still doing the paralegal business
running it and decided that I also wasn't sort of
law wasn't the thing for me. I actually decided at

(14:34):
that point, this is gonna sound insane, that maybe it
was because I still wanted to help, so maybe it
was time to go back to school. So I went
back to school and I got my master's degree as
a social worker. So I was able to take the
legal stuff and combine my knowledge of that with the
social worker stuff. And then I decided to get a job,

(14:55):
let the pair of legal stuff go and get a
job in a school district as a school social worker,
because at that point I had some children, and I
was like, how do I work so that I can
be home for them? So again I don't want to
get too far into the personal life, but that's sort
of how I I'm always like, how do I do

(15:16):
this so that it benefits me in some way? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Okay, So then when did you decide to And maybe
it wasn't a decision, but maybe how did your acting
career progress while you were spinning all these other plates?
I know you weren't just on law and order. You
were on a bunch of stuff, but how did it progress?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
So it's actually funny. David Letterman, I'm gonna date myself
here was doing skits and they needed something with babies
and you just walk the baby out and then you
walked off stage and that was it. That was the
extent of it. They called up because my sons at
the time were amazing, Like people would stop me in
the street and be like, they should be modeling, they're

(15:58):
that beautiful. An agent called me and said, you know,
David Letterman would like very much to have babies on
this thing. It's a two second skit, and here's what
it's paying you literally will we will have somebody walk
your baby on because he's like, how are we gonna
make our episode better? More babies and you literally walk
the kid on and walk the kid off. That was

(16:20):
the whole thing and they were willing to pay decent
money for that. So they asked me if I wanted
to do it, and I said all right. So that
day I guess they did auditions or not auditions. They
had like a preparation to get to do it. And
whoever the girl was it was supposed to carry my baby.
I don't know what her problem was. But they also
saw me and they were like, hey, can you carry

(16:42):
your own kid on? And I'm like, obviously, I carrid
him here. That was the entire skit. He says, more babies.
You literally move walk in with the kid, you show
the kids to the camera, and you walk off, and
they said, we love you, we love your look. We'd
like to hire you. I was like, cool it kind

(17:04):
of no, no, just it just went from there. I
sort of met an agent through that, and it sort
of took off a little bit more with that, and
then I get these little a little bit better than
extra roles and a little bit more and a little
bit more, and now I have an agent who's now
submitting me, so that's taking, you know, the burden off

(17:25):
of me. You know, in the summertimes, I could go
an audition and stuff like that, and it just it
ended up working out. And it's really crazy the way
there was sort of this synergy that the universe was like, Okay,
we know you've been trying this for your whole life,
so yeah, we'll give it to you. And then I
found myself back out in California for a bit and

(17:45):
it's just it's just nuts. I've had a crazy life.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
That sounds awesome. A few episodes ago, like I don't know,
six eight episodes ago, I had a juggler from New
York named Marcus Munny.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
I saw that. I saw that interview.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Oh did you Yeah? I did well out of nowhere.
One day he got a call from the David Letterman
people and they said, hey, we need a juggler for
whatever thirty seconds or whatever it was. And just like you,
he was like, okay, cool, and then they paid him a
decent amount. But then he from that appearance, he just
got a ton of cruise gigs. So he was a

(18:22):
juggler on cruises just from that thing. So that's a
sweet little tangential line from your story. That's kind of cool.

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Speaker 6 (19:13):
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Speaker 2 (19:18):
You're acting, you're a mom, you're a wife, you're doing
all of the things. Yeah, and then somewhere along the
way you discover swop machines. I need you to help
me out with this.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Living in New York, my entertainment from Yonkers with my
then boyfriend was like, hey, let's go to Atlantic City.
And a lot of people do that, you know, to
come to Atlantic City, and so I did it. You
have to understand, I grew up in Yonkers, New York,
literally down the block from the racetrack.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
So there's a racetrack in the ankers or down the street.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Oh my goodness, at the time like one of the biggest.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
And I had which one.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
It's called Yonker's Racetrack. Okay, yeah, yeah, And at the
time I had family members who were super duper into
the horses. So I kind of grew up knowing about
not gambling so much because they were like not huge gamblers,
but knowing about things like horse racing and all of

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the names of the horses, and like, we met the jockeys,
and my sister actually at the time became super close
with one of the jockeys, and so because of that,
the jockeys would invite us to like come and see
what was going on from behind the scenes. And as
a young kid, that's super cool, and you know you're yogers,

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but yeah, you're getting to see horses, right, So there's
so there's a whole time in like that. So Atlantic
City was a big thing, and then as I got
older again, a lot of people that's where they would
go entertainment. So I was familiar with gambling and I
was familiar with stuff, but it was super cheap. I mean,
I didn't have a lot of money disposed balle income
or anything like that. But it's fun because you know,

(21:11):
nice restaurants, music, dancing clubs, and it was really easy
to get to. So that's sort of how that came about.
So I've not been completely ignorant to the fact of
that world.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Sure, but that's horse rating. Well, how did you get
into slots?

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Atlantic City is slots and tables, And that's when Trump
owned everything in Atlantic City and it was glamorous and
fun and you can get all dressed up and not
gamble a lot of money and still walk into these
fancy casinos and that was fun. So that's kind of
how that happened. So it's never been a full on focus,

(21:55):
but it was fun throughout my life. The way I
got into this particular thing, the goddess of slots thing,
is that I was in between acting gigs, through some
money into a machine by sort of just going to
a casino throwing some money in as a goof with
some friends. I hit a jackpot and it wasn't a
huge jackpot. It was a handpay.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
What does that mean?

Speaker 1 (22:18):
So a hand pay means anything over a certain amount
where they're going to actually tax you. Okay, so I
think it's a twelve hundred and fifty dollars something like that.
Don't quote me on it. I'm not a numbers person.
Once you hit that, all the bells and whistles go
off on the machine. People tend to come over to
see what you've hit, and that means you sort of

(22:40):
have to stand there and wait for them to pay
you by hand and that's called a hand pay.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
Oh, so you don't go to a you don't take
a ticket and go to a cage or anything like that.
They come and bring money to you.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
If it's over a certain amount, they have to come
to you.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Got you.

Speaker 1 (22:55):
And of course that's all done by device because as
I said, the bells those people are coming over. It's exciting,
I mean, because he knows you're very smart, and so
you're getting this handpay. So I'd gotten a handpay and
that was the big deal. So my friends filmed me
as just as a goof because like, oh my god,
I can't believe because it was very exciting.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Were they filming before you push the button on the
slot or they once you hit the jackpot then they
rolled the cameras.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Yeah. So the game I was playing was called Dragon Link.
I believe. If you know that game, once you hit
the button you get into sort of this bonus round thing,
so you know something's going to happen. You don't know
how much is going to happen, but you know something's
going to happen. So He's like, oh my god, you
know we're in the bonus round. Let's film it, okay,

(23:44):
And so that's what happened. So it was a short thing.
It started on TikTok and another friend just said, hey,
let's post this. Well before that, he said, hey, let's
post this up. So I posted up on my TikTok account,
which was nothing. It was not the Goddess's slots. It
was nothing, and it went viral and I had over
a million views on it, which is like insane. Really yeah,

(24:07):
it was crazy. We were like what, I can't I
don't understand this. My friend said, you know, there's a
whole genre of this. There are actual people out there
who do this. They posted on social media and that
then becomes like a thing and they have followers and
you can make money on social media by posting these things,

(24:28):
and it's a whole thing. So we I did research
and I was like, okay, well I'm in between acting
jobs right now anyway, so let's see where we can
take this. They were like, well, you need a name.
It's like, I don't know what they're calling myself. I mean,
this is so silly. The one guy that I actually
had like an import export business with he does all

(24:49):
of the clothing on every single reel that I wear.
The clothing this included this for sale through this website. Anyway.
He jokes jokingly calls me goddess all the time anyway,
and he's like, so, let's call you the Goddess of slots.
And I was like, oh, okay, you know, we had
other names that were more ridiculous, but you know, because

(25:10):
you're dominating the slots, and I'm calling you goddess because
you know, and I believe every woman has goddess in them.
Like I'm very like pro woman in that regard. I
really feel that you can be any size and shape
and color, and we all have something super special inside
of us. That's my social workers side, I guess coming out.

(25:30):
But that's cool. So I was like, you know what,
that checks a lot of marks for me. So I'm
good with that.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, street workers, if you will.
I hid it at the beginning, But not only is
this Lorraine ben Saving goes sif. But that's right, world
renowned social media star, the goddess of slots. Oh, my goodness,

(25:56):
Goddess of slots. I don't think I've had a Goddess
of anything on the show before. I am humbled in
your presence.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
You're welcome to be here. So so this takes off
a little bit and you do a little research and
you say, hey, there might be something here. So there
we were the next steps, Like, I know you had
to secure Goddess of slots and things like that, but
did you have like a roadmap, did you do an outline?
How did you figure this was going to go? You know,
you said you were going to give it a shot,
but what did that mean.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Well, I was like, let's let's see what we can
do with it. So we kept it on TikTok, but
then I posted it on other social media and it
started taking off on those things as well, and it
was like, wow, I didn't go right to YouTube and
I didn't go right to Facebook. So I went from
TikTok to U Instagram. That was my thing. Now that's

(26:51):
still I think my most loyal fan base is both
of those. Yeah, I think Instagram, you know, now I'm
a couple of hundred thousand followers, and I think it's
because I, you know, I really pumped that taking and
I didn't know at all what I was doing. I
was like putting quick little things up. I didn't realize
that when you film for YouTube, it's got to be

(27:14):
horizontal filming as opposed to vertical filming. It's like there
were rules and regulations I had no idea about. But
my friend who I referred to as my agent, my CONSIGLIERI,
I mean, I've got the nag every day. I'm like,
I think i'll call you this, and he's like, okay, whatever.
He knew this stuff, and he was like, okay, let

(27:35):
me help you. Let's work through this. Let's get to
posting it and putting the stuff up and exploring the
other social medias. And you know, my business sense was,
I think we should trademark this. I think we should
you know, do this and do that and so so
combination of the two of us working together all the
way through has gotten to where we're at now. And

(27:58):
I had a lot of input from a lot of people.
I did a lot of research. I had people telling me,
you know, hey, you're filming it wrong. You have to
do it this way as post to that, and it's
still now with me now. I call him the camera
man on top of everything else. So when people are like,
what is he to you, I'm like everything. I don't
even know what other words you use.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
So I think that continular area is a good word
because that is more encompassing than just an advisor. I
think that's kind of, you know, sort of inn everything
that's the thing that needs to get done. I like that. Okay,
so you're doing this thing, and then how did you
figure that you were going to make money? Because you
still had bills and whatnot. It's not like you could
just stop everything and just post videos. How did you

(28:43):
figure it was going to turn into money. I know that,
you know, a lot of people make money on social media,
and the rest of America and the world doesn't really
understand how that happens. So how does that happen?

Speaker 1 (28:56):
It's interesting because I never gave up the acting stuff,
and I was still getting acting jobs, and so I
was still able to keep myself alive that way and family.
But the social media started getting out there, and from
that and from how viral things were taking off, and

(29:18):
from the followers and from the demographics, I started being
reached out to buy casinos saying, hey, you're having a
good time, You're doing this, Would you come and make
an appearance and we'll pay you to make an appearance.
Just bring your excitement, bring your fun, because people are like, oh,
you know, when you gamble, you're being paid by a casino,

(29:40):
and so it's it's and that's how you're able to
gamble whatever. No, it's my own money that's going into
those machines, So I want to clarify that. But casinos
will pay you if you're doing an appearance. I've also
unveiled high limit rooms, slot machines, slot companies have had
me for new games that are being unveiled, and so

(30:03):
that's how you get paid in that world.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, So kind of like how Paris Hilton used to
get paid to DJ at an opening of a club,
kind of that sort of a thing. It's more of
an appearance.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Thing exactly, okay, And then they would do meet and greets.
They would do almost like a comic con convention in
a way, if I want to try to explain it
that way. But you know, you get paid to come
and show, you get paid to do slot tournaments, you
get paid to do that sort of stuff. That's one
avenue and everything sort of again, the synergy everything worked

(30:39):
hand in hand. So as my numbers are getting bigger,
social media takes notice and says, hey, we can run
ads on your stuff, so they're going to make money.
I don't get to say what ad is being run.
They do it. That's another avenue and Facebook and YouTube
are the best for that. But unfortunately my numbers I've

(31:02):
qualified to do everything. I'm still working on getting the
numbers up, so I'm always like.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Please go like and subscribe on YouTube and Facebook those
you know, But there's a lot of different things on
social media that the social media companies themselves.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Allow you to make money on. I will also say
that no social influencer in the casino world doesn't have
some other stuff going on as well. So if you're
wanting to get into this world, know that it's going
to like any business, it's going to take time, effort, energy,
and you better have you know, some money in your

(31:38):
pocket because you're not making money immediately, absolutely not. But
again that's like any business. Ironically, from this Goddess of
Slots thing, I had several people in the acting industry
take notice, and as a result, again one thing sort
to just you know, fed into the other, and as

(32:00):
a result, I was invited to be on two different
television shows, one that I just was filming, neither out yet.
The other is actually a gambling comedy and they're having
me come in and play the goddess of slots character
and it's such a clever comedy. It is so funny.

(32:21):
I can't speak more to it than that, because, as
I said, we're still filming, and they had me sin
all kinds of NDAs and such.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Both of those series you can't talk about either one,
you can't name them.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I can tell you that one of them is about
the largest art heist that truly occurred in real life
out of Boston and is still unsolved to this day.
And I play the wife of the mobster who was
thought to have orchestrated the hest.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
So you're playing a real person.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, that's the drama, and then this other thing is
a comedy. But I love the acting world. And that's
how I set out, right from a little kid like
how do I make it happen? This is my this
is me, this is my colleague. I just didn't know
how to get there, and it's funny that it's sort
of finally getting me there. And so people when I
filmed for this stuff. They're like, you're so comfortable in

(33:15):
front of caramel. I'm like, yeah, I've been doing it
like my whole life. So and I love people. I
love talk. I know you love people. I know that
you love meeting people and getting into their lives.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
It's my favorite thing.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, and I love that myself, So getting to meet
people and casinos and stuff and people come up to
you and then they shared their hits or what's going
on in their lives. I met a couple last night.
I was in the casino and these beautiful women came
over and they didn't want to interrupt me because I
was filming. And I was like, come on in, I
don't you know, come let's talk. And then they were

(33:50):
it was neat. It was really neat.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So I love that.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I like that you encourage people to tell you their
casinos stories. I'm going to tell you right now. Hell
me so my wife and I God bless her. She
married me sucker.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
So see I like that you said God bless her
and not bless her soul.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I bless her. Yeah, and it's funny. She she was
raised in Mississippi, so bless your heart is a thing
that gets set around here a lot.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I know exactly what that means.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
So we got married, and we got married in Vegas,
and we only had a few attendees, like three, you know,
because it was kind of a destination thing. And this
was a couple of decades ago and times were tough.
So her son was there, my mom was there, and
then at the time, my best friend was there. My

(34:46):
best friend Ted, this son of a gun. So we're
at the casino, right, So, I mean, because you're staying
in a casino, so the first thing you do is,
of course you get there and then you go to
the casino.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
We were at Hey, I ask what casino?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, it was the Onion Plaza. And the reason that
it was the Union Plaza is because of old school Vegas,
you know, like a huge rat pack fan all that stuff.
Oh good. The address, ladies and gentlemen for the Union
Plaza is one Main Street, Las Vegas, and I was like, hell, yeah,

(35:19):
I love it. We didn't have anything to do with this,
but our room number was like twenty one, twenty one.
We're like hell wow, yeah, and now we've been married
forever and it is amazing. But my friend Ted, he
gets off the plane. He takes the taxi to the casino.
He still has his luggage with him, and he rolls

(35:42):
right up to a wheel of Fortune slot machine. Okay,
he puts twenty five dollars in and he won ten
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Whoa, Now that's a hand punch.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Yeah. So immediately he hands me one thousand dollars and says, hey,
happy wedding. I got you this.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
Oh that's that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
It was super cute. It was super fun. And then
the very next day he said, hey, man, I borrow
some money. No, oh no, the very next day he
asked for showing that money bag, which I gave it
to him. But it was huh hilarious. So the wheel
of Forces and slot machine has always carried a special

(36:31):
place in my heart.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
I love the fortune.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Oh my gosh, it was. It was a blast. And
so we've been to Vegas I think only one time
after that because my wife was attending a conference. I
had already started my show, so I was interviewing a
bunch of fools while I was there, which was kind
of cool. And I got to meet Pete Rose, and
you know, it was cool.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Oh that's cool.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
But then there was a different conference that she was
attending in Oh, no, I guess this was all so
in Vegas. It was just outside of Vegas, and so
it was like this Indian casino. I can't remember the
name of it. But one of the things that I
think is fun for me to do, like if I'm
in Vegas or wherever is I'll go to every single

(37:14):
casino that I can. I'll walk in and I'll put
I'll play like the penny slots or the Nickels slots
or whatever, and I'll just stand there until I win.
I don't care if I win a quarter, I get
to go, Ah, I won in that casino, and then off.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
I love that though. That's funny. No, it's not. That's
fun because you have a story about it.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
And I'm sure people tell you this all the time.
But I have like one pocket for the money I'm
gonna spend and then the other pocket for the money
I won.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
So did you have you achieved that goal of playing
in every winning I should say winning in every casino.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Well every casino that I went to. I mean I
haven't been to all of them, but yeah, you know,
just walking up and down the strip or whatever and
just walk in and even in New Orleans, you know,
just walk in and put put a nickel in the slot,
just keep putting until I win. And then you know,
if I went a quarter, then I'm like cool, I
want him out. I don't have to be in the
in the plus column. I just need to for it

(38:12):
to be like you're a winner. And then I go, whoa,
I'm a winner, and then I leave.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
I love your I love your logic. Some might call
that girl logic, but no, I love it.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
A few years after that, like maybe ten years after that,
we were in New Orleans and my wife was at
a different kind of conference and I went to I
want to say it was like the Golden Nugget or something.
I don't even remember which one it is, but and
out of nowhere, like that same friend from the wedding
and from the Wheel of Fortune, he called me and
he was like, hey, man, what are you up to?
And I was like, oh, nothing, just hanging out. He's like, hey,

(38:45):
I was thinking, maybe, you know, next week or something,
we could grab launch or whatever. And I go, well,
that'd be cool, or maybe he said tomorrow and I
was like, well that'd be cool, and I'll except I'm
in New Orleans right now. And he was like, no shit,
I'm in New Orleans right now. And I go, really,
I go, where are you? He goes, I'm at the
Golden Nugget or whatever. I go, shut the fuck, I'm
at the Golden dis So like, we just met up

(39:06):
and had a couple of drinks, played a couple of slots.
It was so weird.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Did Ted ask you for any money? Oh?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I love that you went there. I love that so much. No,
but I'm sure he will once he hears this.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
He still has you a thousand bucks for your wedding.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Yeah, son of a gun.

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Speaker 2 (40:27):
Let's get back into it, back to your story, because
it's ain't about me, Goddess of Slots. You do things,
and you host things, and well, you're a celebrity in
the slots world, and I've heard a couple of interviews,
and boy, when people are interviewing you who are familiar
with the slot world and your place in it, oh

(40:50):
my gosh, they fumble all over themselves trying to talk
to you. And I love hearing it. It cracks me up.
You're doing a thing, which I think you've done things
like it before, but you're doing a thing where you
are going to I guess host an exclusive casino cruise thing.
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
You know what? This is? Actually my first Oh it
is the Virgin Cruise of Virgin Voyages for the Goddess
of Slots. So the cruise has been out there, so.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
This is like the Goddess of Slots is in the
name of the cruise.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
It's well, no, it's Virgin Voyages.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
Sure, yeah, yeah, but I mean this is like so like,
I guess new Kids on the Block will do like
a New Kids on the Block cruise, or the impractical
jokers will do an impractical joker scruse. So this is
a Goddess of slatscreos.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, exactly, this is the Goddess of slots cruise. Yeah.
I was invited to go on a different version Voyages
cruise with some friends and some influencers and I went
with Raja big Jackpot is very well known within the industry, sure,
and a couple of other people and we had just
so much fun. And that cruise on through Virgin Voyages,

(42:01):
we together opened up the high Limit room.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
That was what I was confusing with you having done
this before. It was that opening the high Limit room, right.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
So we had a blast and the people that were
there had a good time and everybody was you know,
making money and hitting them whatever. Anyway, I got to
meet a lot of the people through meet and greets
and what have you, and Virgin Voyage is set afterwards.
While this was a huge success, how about we do
a Goddess of Slots cruise. And I said, you know what,

(42:33):
I love this. I'm going to have some requirements of
what I'm looking for because if you're coming in under me,
I'm a girl. I wanted to be fun and it
was fun.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Well not just that you're a girl, but you're a brand. Yeah,
so things need to be at a standard that comports
with your brand exactly.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
And two you know, yeah, I want to bring sort
of the female touch of sort of going the extra mile.
I'm not you know, you know what I mean. So anyway,
we uh, I said, here's what I want to do.
I want to have handouts. I want to have a
slot tournament where you can actually win money, not put
money in. Because you're coming almost as my guest, if

(43:11):
you will, like that's my mindset. You're making the effort
to come onto this cruise. I want you to have
the best time humanly possible.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
I mean, you've already paid to get on the cruise.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Here's the thing. If you can show that you have
a land based offer from any casino anywhere for three nights,
you mean, like a comp offer exactly. If you have
a comp offer from any casino anywhere in the country
for three nights, what you do is you go to
www dot god iss tho slots dot com and on there,

(43:44):
I have the cruise information, you fill out the form,
you upload a picture of your comp and the cruise
is free. It's comped. All you have to do is
pay port and taxes. I think it's like under three
hundred dollars and you will get five nights of free
cruise and that will include specialty restaurants. I'm doing a

(44:08):
cocktail party. I'm doing a slot tournament, where as I said,
you're not having to put money in, you could win
free play out. I'm doing special dinners for the people
that are coming. All of that's included. You can have
this five night thing out of Miami. It's September twelfth
to the seventeenth, and we can have a really good time.

(44:29):
I love to dance. I'll be definitely dancing at night.
I'll definitely be in the High Limit room. I've gotten
them to give me the okay to film in the
High Limit room, which is off of the main floor,
so other people who are maybe wanting to start a
channel or who want to just film themselves, because so
many times in casinos you cannot do that. So that's

(44:52):
something that There's a lot of stuff that I've gotten
sort of for my people. That's how I think about
it as if you're coming on through my website. You're
my person, and I'm going to make sure that you're
gonna have the best damn time. That's what it is.
And they're calling it the you know, Goddess of slots
Cruis And if you look on the website, you'll see it.
It'll link right to it.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
I love that you take such care of your people.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
A lot of celebrities in any field, they don't really
I have seen celebrities recoil when somebody asks them for
an autograph or somebody just wants to talk to them.
I mean recoil in horror.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
Yes, a lot of people do that. And again being
in the acting world. In addition, so I've been around
with some really greats, and some of the greatest greats
are incredibly humble. It's those people whose ego are bigger
than they are.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
You know, I'm talking to you, Tommy Lee Jones. Really,
I call that guy out every chance I get. I've
met him a couple of times. He's such a dick.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
Ah. That's because up with boobs.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
He lives in San Antonio and he sucks.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
I'm gonna come to San Antonio we're gonna hunt him,
aunt together or find.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
This man and just we have to hunt him. I
know I know where he is. Okay. So some of
the things that you have done is that you have
partnered with casinos. What does that mean exactly? Like, I
know you've partnered with like hard Rock and uh, the
Ol Cortez, But like, what does it mean when you
partner with the casino?

Speaker 1 (46:28):
So I don't know that I worded exactly as partnered with.
What I would say is that I've been invited to
come and again open a room or open El Cortez.
By the way, I have to do a shout out
to Adam at El Cortez, one of my favorite places.
He treats me very well. He treats everybody very well.

(46:49):
You want to talk about somebody who he's the ultimate gentleman.
And also you know he loves what he does. The
El Cortez is a family owned run place this day.
It's a very old school. It's off of Fremont Street.
Oh okay, sorry, yeah, it's not on the strip. So
when I say that, I mean that these people have

(47:10):
me come in, they'll have me. They just recently did
a huge renovation at the El Cortez and I was
invited to come there and sort of cut the ribbon
and be a part of that. And again the meet
and greets and the pictures and the unveiling of new
slot machines, all of that kind of stuff is what
happens when I'm in the different casinos. So the hard

(47:31):
Rock is another one. The hard Rock actually not only
did have me come in the hard Rock in Tampa,
and I've also been to the hard Rock in Atlantic City.
George Goldoff is the president of the hard Rock in
Atlantic City. In fact, I'm headed there tonight for another event,
but I was there for a ribbon cutting. We had

(47:51):
so much fun. I've been there in Tampa more than once.
You're there and you say hello, and you meet the people,
and you cut the ribbon, and they do the publicity
and they'll do the interview. But then they the hard
Rocks also used me in their social media and they've
used me and their ads, and it just sort of
snowballs in that regard, and everybody benefits because the people

(48:13):
following me get to watch the content, get to be
invested in that regard. The casinos get to use my
likeness and image for that particular event, and so I'm
also bringing my followers to the table. I'm also on
their stuff, so they're sort of bringing people that maybe
hadn't heard about me before. It's a synergy. The word

(48:34):
just keeps coming up today, It.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Does keep coming up. It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:38):
I'm sorry to be so redundant.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Oh that's okay again, ladies and gentlemen, this is Lorraine
ben sevingos If, the Goddess of synergy. Oh wait a minute, okay,
so again this cruise. Yes, it leaves out of Miami
on September twelfth, Yes, twenty five. And everybody, did you
say it was Goddess of slots dot Com that they

(49:02):
could go to?

Speaker 1 (49:03):
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Speaker 2 (49:11):
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This is a kid free, no dress code atmosphere designed
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(49:32):
the kids free, no dress code aspect of it. That
is amazing. Absolutely, what's next? I know that you spent
some time in the paralegal and owning your own business
doing that thing. You're also still doing acting. You're you're
still doing the goddess of slots things. And like you said,

(49:54):
I think you said earlier that everything, all of your
clothing that you wear in all of your videos, like,
it's not the exact items, right.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
It's it's not the item I'm physically wearing. I have gotten.
I have gotten those you know offers too, and I'm like, no,
I'm gonna get my DNA to myself. But it is
the outfits. And so for a guy who may want
to get something for his girl or for I have

(50:21):
a nice amount of female followers who are like, I
love that out and I'm like, great, it's available. So
every single article of clothing and I wear in every
reel is for sale.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
That clothing line is a thing. What what are you
going to do now? I mean, you have these two
TV series that are coming out, You've got the maiden
voyage of your own cruise. Yeah, Like, if this goes well,
are you going to keep doing this cruise? Are you gonna?
Like if if it's a synergistic thing that works out
for everybody, is this something you're going to keep maybe annually.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Absolutely In fact, what I've I've already been spoken to
about that, like, wow, we're getting such positive response already.
You know, maybe we'll do a longer cruise, maybe we'll
go transcontinental, maybe we'll do you know, let's just see
how it goes and how But there, the response has
been incredible already. So I'm very very excited about that.

(51:17):
I do have additional casinos. Then I'm going to be
making appearances at all of that information is on my website.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Again, that's got us of slots dot com.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Yeah, thank you. We are now going into season two
of this TV show that I'm filming.

Speaker 2 (51:33):
The one that you can't tell us about, the one that.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
I can't tell you about. Season one hasn't aired yet,
but we've had incredible, incredible response from that, like Netflix
is is looking at it and so on and so
forth there and they're like, yeah, keep going. So we're
going into season two. So my piece of season one
was sort of at the tail end because there's a

(51:56):
reveal is this.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
The comedy one or the drama one?

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Comedy one? Okay, And now we're going to go into
season two where I'm a fairly main character. Oh, I
love it, not fairly and actual. I'm a character in
real life, a character in this series. It's very funny.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Well, it seems fitting that the name of this Virgin
Voices boat is the Valiant Lady.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
Oh, thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
You're welcome again. Everybody. Go to Goddess of Slots dot com.
Find out more information about the Dominican Days voyage through
Virgin Voyages on the Valiant Lady with your hosts with
the Mostess and the Goddess with all of this synergy. Lorraine. Now, Lorraine,

(52:44):
as we're heading out, tell everybody where they can find
you on social media.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
So I am at Goddess of Slots dot com and
also on social media at Goddess.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
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Speaker 2 (53:04):
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Speaker 1 (53:08):
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I'm like, come on, man, this makes my life easier
if I could just be consistent. But if you go
to the website, you can link all over the place,
and if you go to any of the social media
it also says, hey, by the way, go to any
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(53:31):
is the cruise information Like Instagram has click here to
get to the cruise. So okay, everything's interconnected to everything else.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
I love that, Lorraine. Is there anything I didn't ask
you about or we didn't talk about specifically that you
wanted to talk about today? Did we cover the big bits?

Speaker 1 (53:49):
I feel like we did. I feel like we hit everything.
I truly enjoyed our time here. I know that we're
talking about the cruise and we're talking about the slots
and the casine. He knows, but this what we're doing
right now. That was the big bit for me.

Speaker 8 (54:04):
Oh that is the sweetest thing. Oh my gosh, you
are healing it well, Lorraine Benzaving goes z If, goddess
of slots and also wielder of the Synergy Sword.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Thank you so much for taking the time out of
your busy day and you're hectic winning at life schedules
to hang out and let us get to know you
a little bit better on Fascination Street. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I appreciate your time. Thank you so much, and hey,
maybe I'll see you in a casino.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
It was one hundred percent my pleasure. The chances of
that are pretty slim, but if that does happen, I
will definitely interrupt one of your videos to.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Say Hi, perfect, perfect, thank you so much. I really
enjoyed this.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Thank you, Thank you, Loren. You have a great rest
of your weekend, have fun in Atlantic City.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Thank you, goodbye, good bye.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Opening music is the song fsp theme, written, performed, and
provided by Ambush Vin. Closing music is from the song
say My Name off the twenty twenty one album Underdog Anthems,
used with permission from Jack's Hollow. If you like the show,

(55:25):
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(55:46):
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