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, mechanism for doing that is you 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? we may not want to think it is, but is it? >> i don't know. 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 la ♪ sha la la la la ♪ sha 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 is that 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 was you were never going to see the family again. that was it. 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 that somebody came out here because i'm gonna 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, usury, misuse of livestock, 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 drink, meet like-minded sophisticados of the open west. places like this. ♪

>> it's the good stuff. it's jameis & black. >> you can do 30 of those. >> 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. >> this side. >> 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 to be their worst. they're expected to do that. kind of makes my skin crawl. >> really? >> not here. here, i like it. 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. >> you were born and bred here? >> i am. third generation. >> she's third generation. >> are you an optimist or pessimist? do you think basically the human race are good people? >> i'd say roughly half of them. >> half are going? >> half are going. >> there are probably more

knuckleheads per square foot in the vegas strip than anywhere in america. >> i'm not hanging with those people. there will be a few high end meals in oured ed adventure her. 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.

>> bobby flay probably lives like this all the time. >> it would have been dark, couldn't it? it gets 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. s you're right. >> you deserve this. >> entering my golden years era. entering my golden years era. they don't show this in the viagra commercials. always running down the beach with a tennis racket, never sitting here. go out and kill some young people. [ laughter ] throw another poor person in there, it's getting cold.

to victory, victory in our time. you always try to comfort yourself in situations like this, thinking, i'm sure people who are really wealthy, they're probably really miserable. they don't know the ups and downs of happiness, the contrast, the passion that i have. we don't know, do we? like they think every day is wonderful. >> lovely. >> foie gras. >> perfect, thank you. >> delicious. >> perfect, perfect. ♪ >> the habian villa at caesars palace, the little pad they give you if your credit line runs into the eight figures. how did i get it? i told the casino that wolf blitzer was coming, that he was

expected any minute. i suggested that wolf might be hungry. fortunately he doesn't watch a lot of television, and i plan to live large until they figure out that wolf ain't coming. i'll deal with the fall-out later. but for now, we live. >> gentleman, this dish is caviar. everything is in layers. bottom of the glass, a vinaigrette and cream of caviar, then a puree of caviar, and we shall finish the dish with more caviar. >> ah, beautiful. look at that. >> it's rare that i say it's too beautiful to eat. >> i was just thinking that. speaking of fantastically luxurious --

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mama maria's family has been running it for 41 years. you got your veal parm, your fettucine alfredo, your 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 charlie schafer, my esteemed father. my name is lauren schafer, and we're your entertainment for the evening. ♪ i've got the blues ♪ i feel so lonely ♪ i get the world ♪ if i could 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 definitely miss louie primo. >> 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 recreating the whole look, not just singing the old songs, which is what makes it fun for me. ♪

>> 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? >> who, 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 sort of on the amalfi coast in paris. you'd think someone would want to recreate that in vegas. 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 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 is from spain where it's best, the fresh river crab from japan. >> that was good, right? >> yeah, delicious. >> i didn't know oysters came that big. >> oh, yeah. the saki sashimi, saki belly, juicy deep fried chicken and one of my favorites, 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 any way 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 princelings of douchedom, hear my clarion call. anointeth thyself with gel and heavenly body spray, let there

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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 her 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 ways, that's true. >> there were rules then that mattered. the old says what happens in vegas stays in vegas. when the mob ran things, there was a certain urgency to that suggestion. >> well, with prince harry. a perfect example. here having a good time. in the old vegas, that would never have happened. sb there would never have been a disclosure. in today's modern age, it was all over the world in moments. >> moments. yes. >> 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

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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 i'll always have that, no doubt about it. >> they're professional gamblers, poker players to be precise. it's routine for them to sit down to a game with a bankroll of half million dollars. tonight, slightly smaller stakes. >> benny, how do you like my chances? >> good.

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there is not an acre of preserved mojave desert in the city limits of las vegas. why would you preserve this? this desolation is not nurturing. we can't be here unless there's a lot of technology supporting our presence. and so there's a sense of the city versus nature. this is not our friend. >> you'd think looking at the vast lakes, the canals, the fountains of vegas in the middle of the desert, the flush of 100,000 toilets that the casinos and what they bring would constitute an obscene waste of water, and indeed, water is an ever more desperate premium as the water levels at lake mead decrease at an alarming rate. but it ain't the casinos that are the culprit.

23469 in fact, 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 finally some 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 looking for something like that, give them an education. >> so you don't wrestle them to the ground, cuff them, and bring them in? >> no. but we can go to a fee. >> how much? >> $80. >> and then it doubles. >> 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

the midwest or east coast, it was lush and green. >> it was lush and green. >> sure. >> the city assigns watering days to control usage and also encouraging a verilandscaping style focused on drought resistant plants and efficient irrigation. if you don't get with the program, there's a hole 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 into the colorado dumping into lake meade. so unless something drastic changes, there's no relief in the near future, but got to stay positive. ♪

>> for the first 30-40 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's inconceivable. so there's the thing. what does the desert do? 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 subconscience. come frolic, live like caesar, or make money off those who do. drop a few moist bills in a gas station slot, see the full spectrum of human folly and

commit some follies of your own. how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it's not a bar. imagine the bronx. a corner bodega, maybe a luncheonette, a diner. three men strictly by coincidence find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter and across the room. door opens and who walks in? the deejay. three men who created the musical style which has become the sound track to, well, the whole wide world. do they nod at each other, la meant how all of them got