love it or hate it, this is it. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ ♪ >> one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it, or who can't think of a better idea how to spend their money. in the old days of doing that, we just throw it on a table. put that into a context of throwing away a bottle of 7-up in a club, that's slightly more honest about it. >> you're talking crass commercialism? >> in the very best sense of the word, this is it. >> is this the cultural center

of the country? >> i don't know. b whatever that place is, they all leave and come here. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ shah la la la la la la #

. >> i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that's part of the whole experience of the desert. it ain't friendly, it ain't nice, it ain't good, you know. you're out here, you know, a half a mile, doesn't matter if you're a half a mile out or 20 miles out, there's no reason to walk a mile further. you're already in infinite desolation. sin city was true, it was real. part of moving out here, you were never going to see the family again. i'm moving to vegas and i ain't coming to see you and you ain't coming to see me. that's the character of the city. it really was the pit of america. it wasn't somebody came out here and make a million bucks, it was i'm going to come out here and survive and you all ain't going

to bug me at all back home. in vegas, there's winners and losers. god knows i've been both. in a place like this, where you can lose your shirt on the unlucky turn of a card, you need a friend. and for my sins, i got ruhlman. currently evading prosecution in just about every jurisdiction from his hometown cleveland to grand forks, wanted for bail-jumping, usery, miss use of

live stock, assault, grand theft auto, and the author of the french cookbook and soul of a chef. he washed up in vegas at just the right time. vegas was always the most unlikely of dreams. the longest of long shots, in the middle of the desert. a real, but imaginary space that keeps expanding, creeping ever larger across the waste land. 100,000 became 300,000, became 500,000, then a million, then two. but it doesn't matter if it was five years ago or 50, the town has always ended like this. an abrupt cut from the desert wrapped on the horizon. but there are comfortable, dark places too. where a man can have a drivg, meet like-minded sfift cados of

the open west. places like this. ♪ ♪ >> it's the good stuff. it's jameis & black. >> on to each tavern, where those who have to live it, see it, the things that men do day after day, night after night, in a town where people are encouraged to do their worst. where they can drink the stain away. >> this is the side of vegas i like. >> yeah, because people here are

like, really cynical. >> really? >> they have a dim world view, even more dim than me. >> that's hard. >> you know what this whole show is about? you know there's a theme. >> no. >> this is about people who live here. you know, when all the meatheads come and go, they're still here. these people have seen every variety of horrifying human behavior. the whole business model is come to vegas and behave really, really badly. >> i think it's encouraged people. they're expected to do that. kind of makes my skin crawl. >> really? >> not here, i'm comfortable here. >> is this an easy town to make a living? >> depends what you do. 25 years tending a bar here, you see some shit. >> she's third generation. >> are you an op mist or

pessimist? >> i'd say roughly half of them. >> half are going? >> half are going. >> there are probably more knuckleheads in the vegas strip than anywhere in america. >> i'm not hanging with those people. we will be sampling the other side. >> but there's a price. >> there's always a price with you. ♪ ♪ >> there are places in vegas where the available rooms are not listed on any website.

places reserved for the whales, the high rollers, the 10 million a night gamblers who arrive by private plane. >> can you imagine who lives like this all the time? >> it could go dark. it could get very dark here. i honestly never would have thought it would come to this. >> well, i was dunking fries 14 years ago. >> you've made some steps up. >> you make me feel better about all of this luxury looking back at all that? >> yeah, you deserve this. >> you're right. entering my golden years era. they don't show this in the viagra commercials. always running down the beach

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>> i was just thinking that. speaking of fantastically luxurious -- >> this is a specialty, the artichoke soup with fresh black truffle and shavings of parmesan cheese. >> oh, man. that's truffle. >> a combination of peasant, duck, deer, foie gras, cabbage, and white mushrooms. >> wow, look at this. that is beautiful. do you feel guilty eating this well? >> i do. >> i'm feeling gmty now, but it will pass. >> i'll follow you then. >> ever seen anything like this? >> i don't think i've ever seen anything like this anywhere. >> yeah, me either. >> and the thing is, you can see

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italian american meatballs and spaghetti. thankfully, there still are such places. places like this, the bootlegger. it's a family operation. mama maria's family has been running it for 41 years. you got your veal parm, your fettucine alfredo, steaks and shrimps, the iceberg wedge with the blue cheese, which believe me, you want. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the bootlegger. >> thank you very much. this is charl schafer my esteemed father. my name and lauren schafer and we're your entertainment for the evening. ♪ i've got the blues ♪ i feel so lonely ♪ i get the world ♪ if only to make him

understand ♪ ♪ oh that surely would be grand ♪ >> the bootlegger has a reputation for being a locals joint, and it is. but there's a lot of out-of-towners too, sentimental fools like me, who if they don't miss frank sinatra, miss louie primo and. >> when i was 19, i got my first show on the strip, and it was a small casino, which is not there anymore now, it's been imploded for something newer, bigger, and better. ♪ ♪ baby won't you please come home ♪ >> what i do, anyway, it's part jazz, part nostalgia. obviously i do it with a heavy dose of nostalgia, because i'm creating the whole look, not just singing the old songs, which is what makes it fun for

me. ♪ ♪ when you left you broke my heart ♪ ♪ >> pick one, dean martin or frank sinatra, you get to see one of them live in a small room like this. >> frank sinatra. >> going with dino. >> i like dino as a person better because i've never heard anybody say anything bad about him. >> whereas sinatra you'd have a hard time hearing something good. there does seem to be a soundtrack to old vegas. >> a soundtrack. >> does that help? >> knowing me or the other entertainers? >> a section for the class. >> the expectation that while i'm here, i should hear some standards. >> i don't know if there's a certain place that people say we're sentimental about las vegas, because there are very few hotels now that were there in the old days.

they've all been imploded. >> they recreated ancient rome on the amalfi coast. you'd think someone would want to recreate that. i'd go there. >> i'd work there. ♪ ♪ oh baby won't you please come on home ♪ ♪ baby won't you please come home ♪ >> thank you very much. ♪ ♪

>> you used to be able to go see louie prima, 3:00 a.m., have broadca breakfast and go out and watch a bomb explode in the distance. >> that sounds like a good time. >> i would like to live here. >> was it better before, is it better now? different? >> it's better to talk about before. people loved having their mob stories and there's that weird romance of bad people. >> yeah. >> i don't think it actually was better. i think it was really good if you were sinatra. >> penn jillette, another cog in the entertainment machine, though at a somewhat more elevated level. of the live acts left in vegas, his might be the biggest draw. i suggested this place because raku, off the strip is where every chef i know, who knows this town said i should go. it's known as one of the best

places to eat in vegas, casual, but pricey. pricey because the ingredients, many from around the world. sea urchin from santa barbara, not too far, but good, tuna from spain, the fresh river crab from japan. >> that was good, right? >> yeah, delicious. >> i didn't know oysters came that big. >> the saki sashimi, saki belly, juicy deep fried chicken and fish collar where all the best, tastiest, moistest, meatiest bits hide their favorites. penn has been living here and performing here for over 20 years. he knows. >> the thing about magic is, you cannot see it electronically. many people come to vegas are people that see one or two live shows a year, and if you see one or two live shows, you might as

well see something that you can only see live, that you can never, ever see a magician but live. >> these days, live performers are being squeezed out in favor of edm, electronic dance music. it's a deejay's world. where once they used to say cocaine was god's way of telling you you had too much money, now maybe edm is. >> we get invited to all the openings of the new clubs, but i don't understand it. and i'm embarrassed i don't understand it. >> are we just old? >> i think that might be it. >> or are we non-douchey? >> if you want it to spin the latter, i'm afraid it might be the former. >> danny gans was huge here, wayne newton. they were gods. but what's the big money draw now? this. ♪

come ye lords and prince doms of douche dom, hear my clarion call. anointeth thiz with gel and henchly body gel, let there be high-fiving from the hugging of many bros, for this is the kingdom and power, now frolic and maketh this to rain. >> power. >> it's crazy. >> just touch a button and people respond. >> they do, man. >> wednesday night at the marquee. deejay jason lima works for the house. tonight at marquee and other clubs like it around vegas, somewhere between 8 and 10,000 people are going to stop by and drop a whole boat load of cash. >> i mean, it's not just coming in here and getting bottles, it's a fuel-on experience.

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be this guy. former mayor oscar goodman a man who knows allegely and to the best of my knowledge, where all the bodies are buried. some of them, equally alleged by some of his former clients. we meet over drinks at oscar's, the steakhouse that bears his name and boasts beef, booze, and broads. >> you had some colorful clients. who was nice, who was less fun? >> the truth about it is, all my clients were nice to me because i kept them out of prison. >> my mother used to say, oscar's clients don't hurt anybody. they just kill each other. and she also said, oscar's clients take us to the best restaurants. >> they knew where to go? >> yeah. and always treated right. always treated like kings and queens. >> did the feds hold it against you? you were just doing your job. >> they didn't see it that way.

they thought i was the consigliere. that's how stupid these people were. >> these were gentlemen not unknown to mayor goodman. >> many people say vegas was a better place when the mob was running it. in many places that's true. >> when the mob ran things, there was a certain urgency to that suggestion. >> well, saw that with prince harry. a perfect example. here having a good time. in the old vegas, that would never have happened. in today's modern age, it was all over the world in moments. >> moments. >> it says something about the town that his honor served three terms as mayor, drinker of hard liquor and gambler, and he was never shy about admitting it. >> i mean, it's unique.

>> vegas is unique. but you go to the airport here, everybody's smiling. when they come in, they can't wait to lose their money. when they leave, they're smiling after they lost their money. it's a place where people can take their basic instincts and just let it fly. i think that's good. i have no problem with that at all. ♪ ♪ >> when you come to vegas, you see this. the lights and smoke and mirrors, the casino floors, but who manages the machine? where do they come from? beneath the floors, behind the walls, above the winking surveillance camera lenses, a whole other world, manned by thousands and thousands of waiters, maintenance people, repairmen, chefs, engineers, plumbers, and croupiers. three shifts a day, they slip in

and out of the casinos almost unseen through o. own entrances. but it's these people who have seen it all. seen everything, night after night. benny's been working here since august of 1966. he's dealt cards to everybody. >> i dealt to diana ross, sinatra. >> sinatra was not supposed to be amiable at the table. >> sinatra was playing. but those were the good days. but it's nice now too. >> would you describe yourself as a degenerate gambler? >> i definitely have been. trying to move past that. we have a 2-year-old at home. but eils always have that, no doubt about it. >> they're professional gamblers, poker players to be

precise. they sit down with a half a million dollars. tonight, slightly smaller stakes. >> benny, how do you like my chances? >> good. >> that's a trained answer. >> instead of actual poker, we're sat down for the camera version of texas hold'em. you play against the house. the odds are stacked against you. >> oh, here's a winner. here's a winner. two pair. he's cutting up over there. see how easy it is? you got this game down. >> uh-oh, those are famous last words. >> let's put out a hundo, let's see what happens. >> we have a pair of sevens. >> i want to bet. >> okay. i have trips. that's going to be pretty hard to beat. >> you're a dead man, benny. i bet again.

>> two pairs. >> pair of deuces. >> pair of tens. oh, now. pair of kings. >> benny! >> a full house. >> goodness, benny. you got a full house. >> this is unbelievable. is there a cooler standing behind us? >> all right, well, that works for me. this is what we call a learning experience. >> we got away with our shirts. let's not do it again. >> yeah, let's never do it again. the network that monitors her health.

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♪ ♪ >> it's easy to find people that will help you untangle a mess, but somebody's got to be the one to create the mess in the first place. %-p? easy to tangle, but untangle. this has been so much fun. >> anthony is an artist and a born and bred las vegas native. after many adventures and i'm guessing some misadventures as well, he chose to live here. >> you know, to what degree am i complicit in the worst of our city by making art that glorifies the city? i don't profit directly from what those people do, but of course, i do, because i live in this city, and that money rolls all around us. >> but how do we live with it?

it's not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here, it's how do we live here, complicit in it? that's the big issue, to be able to be self-reflective about the place, or you just got to go and stay high all the time, because of the shame. i mean, which is another popular way of doing a living here. >> is vegas a friendly town? >> yeah, always friendly, because that's our job. >> but you mean, to itself? if you're a local? >> no. >> no? >> not a bit. this town doesn't have any respect for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators. we weren't citizens. the new authority is the new power, exactly as anonymous as the old power. no access, not a chance.

>> there's been for some years an art community in vegas, art, that makes us better and makes us think. granted, vegas is a town designed to make you not think, to separate you from your money in as pleasurable a way as possible. so pleasurable that even after you limp out of town, leaking from your ass with nothing in your pockets, you want to come back and do it again. not so good. >> as a resident, what are the general rules of survival? >> don't cry about being broke. if i'm broke, more than likely, it's because i threw away my money, then too bad for me, because i didn't get lucky. >> don't cry about being broke. what about another one? >> the smile. >> it's a service industry down. >> one of our roles has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it, who can't think of a better idea about how to spend their money.

we'll always take it. >> is that worse than before? >> the law is that there are people with that kind of income who could put it to so many other better uses and can think of nothing so crass and boring than to wave the money in the air and throw it away. for those of us who live here, is that challenge. ♪ ♪ >> best thai restaurant in vegas by far, one of the best in america. >> jet has been here before. an l.a. guy, he came out here to do four years as executive chef at encore, a wynn casino on the strip. a reigning authority on thai food. but everybody who loves thai food knows about this place.

>> you go to the back of the menu, northern specialties. you come here and eat dragon noodles, someone should punch you in the face. >> saipan is the owner and chef. now get this, and it's important, you don't do pad thai here. you do what they are uniquely superb at, which is specifically the food of northern thailand. >> yeah, yeah, love it. >> literal translation, chile dip. it's more of a composed, room temperature, salad. >> a tough crispy rice salad, with reserved sausage. >> that's good. >> jack fruit salad. this is pork, curry, brazed with

garlic and ginger. >> this pork is amazing. >> isn't that great? and that's northern la. very important dish. >> oh, that looks really pretty. >> this is cow soy. this is the food my gramma made. >> that's perfection, man. >> what i love about vegas, asian food, on one street, the best sichuan province food, cantonese food, and drive down the street and you get the best thai food. >> how did that happen? >> gambling. >> the high rollers? >> a dude with a $10 million credit line at wynn is going to eat a $10 chinese meal because it's the closest thing he has to home food. i'm going to go back and drop 5 million more bucks and then go home. nes

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>> tonight we feast. tucked away in the back of another of jose's restaurants, they make paella over an open flame. quiet, serene, a kind of magic. this is, granted, a far cry from the $1 shrimp cocktail and the all you can eat buffets groaning under the weight of a thousand carbs. the world's best. like from spain. nitro almond cup, a frozen shell made from a pure ray of alkona almonds, finished with anda lucian caviar. >> you know, this meal is working very well. my palette is open and intrigued. i'm growing more hungry, the desired effect is taking hold. >> if you were a famous chef and

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the water levels at lake meed decrease at an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprit. vegas casinos are a model of water efficiency. the main culprit, the all american lawn. a little square of green. robert kern is water police. he patrols the vegas streets looking for evidence of water violations. >> there's water in the gutter on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering, but there's water here. so that's what we do, we drive around here, look for something like that, give them an education. >> you don't cuff them and bring them in. >> no. but we can go to a fee? >> how much? >> $80.

and then it keeps going. >> it seems to me to be a losing battle to keep your grass green? do you need a lawn? >> everyone who came here from other areas, it was lush and green. >> the city assigns watering days to control usage and also encouraging a landscaping style focused on drought resistant plants and efficient irrigation. if you don't get with the program, there's a whole out there in the desert for you. okay, not really. you get a notice pinned to your door or something. >> but some people they want the lawn. >> and they can have it, just don't water on the wrong day. >> how critical is it? >> very. there's no snow on the western sierras, so we don't get any continued flow dumping into lake mead. so unless something drastic changes, there's no relief in the near future, but got to stay

positive. ♪ ♪ >> for the first 34 years, you just couldn't conceive of what was ahead. what we had, whatever was the newest thing that was happening, was so spectacular and wonderful and oh, my gosh, we've reached a new eastern edge, or western, northern edge. the odds are slim to zero that we're going to extend it to yet a further horizon. it'sn conceivable. so there's the thing. the desert exceeds our ambition. >> in vegas, nothing is permanent. it constantly eats itself. tears down, builds up, expands according to no known or easily understood plan. an organic thing, responding to the dark dreams of the american sub conscience.

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