by the new. that's how it works. whether it's san francisco invaded by a new generation of people with different priorities or a 59-year-old man grappling with a bunch of younger, fresher, tougher, and hungrier bastards. but i don't know. i like to think there's hope. at least hope that, every once in a while, the old guys will have a good day.

>> one of our roles here 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. in the old days, the mechanism for doing that was you would throw it on a table. put that into the context of throwing away a bottle of 7-up in a club, that's only just -- we're slightly more honest about it. >> if 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? >> what is the rest of the country? i don't know. but it's that place where 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 what ♪ >> 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, a half a mile, it doesn't matter if you're half a mile out or you're 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 you ain't coming to see me and i ain't coming to see you. 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 going to make a million bucks. it was i'm going to come out here and i'm going to survive and you all ain't going to bug me anymore back home .

>> in vegas, there's winners and losers. and 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, also the respected author of such food related classics as "the french lottery 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 wasteland. back in the '40s, the '50s, it was a small town. 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 and the desert rats on the horizon. but there are comfortable dark places, too, where a man can have a drink, meet like-minded sophisticatos of the open west, places like this .

>> it's the good stuff. that's jameson black. >> i'll give you 30 of those. huntridge 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? >> yes, because people here are really cynical. >> really. >> they have a dim world view. even more dim than me. that's hard. you know what this whole show's 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 old business model was 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, even in my basement. >> is this an easy town to make a living or a hard town to make a living? >> depends on what you do. 25 years behind the bar, you see some [ bleep ]. >> if you were born and bred here -- >> i am. >> she's third generation. >> third generation. >> third generation. so, are you an optimist or a pessimist? do you think that basically the human race are good people? >> i would say roughly half of them. >> half are going. >> half are going. >> hey. >> there are probably more knuckleheads per square foot in the vegas strip than anywhere in america.

>> yeah, but i'm not hanging with those people, man. from will be a few high-end meals during our adventure here. we will be sampling the other side. but there's a price. >> there is always a price with you. >> there are places in vegas where the available rooms are not listed on any websites, 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. >> yes. it could have been dark, couldn't it? it gets really dark here. i honestly never thought it would have come to this. >> well, it was duncan frey's 14 years ago, so -- >> you have made some steps up. >> you make me feel better about all of this luxury looking back at that. >> yes. you deserve this. >> you're right. you're right. >> you deserve this. >> entering my golden years era. they don't show this in the viagra commercials. they're always running down a beach with a tennis racket but they're never sitting here. you know, go out and kill some young people. you'd be like throw another poor person in there. it's getting cold. to victory, ruhlman. victory in our time.

you always try to comfort yourself in situations like this thinking, oh, i'm sure there are people who are really, really wealthy. they're probably really miserable. they don't know the sort of ups and downs, the happiness, the contrasts, the passion that i have. but we don't know, do we? right. like maybe every day is like wonderful. >> just to welcome, it's a toast for -- >> lovely. >> yes, sir. >> perfect. thank you. >> mmm. delicious. >> perfect. perfect. >> the hadrian villa at caesar's palace. a 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 and they sent up guy

savoy. 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 fallout later. but for now, we live. >> so gentlemen, this dish is called a collage of caviar, everything is in layers. in the bottom of the glass you're going to find caviar vinaigrette, topped with a cream of caviar, then topped with a puree of french green beans with caviar. then a grenaille of golden szechuan caviar and which are sh sabayon. >> ahh, beautiful. look at that. >> it's rare that i say it's too beautiful to eat. >> i was just thinking that. oh, speaking of fantastically luxurious -- >> so, messieurs, this is a specialty of mr. savoy, the

artichoke soup with fresh black truffles and shavings of aged parmesan cheese. >> oh, man. that's truffle. >> mmm. >> so messieurs, this is a combination of pheasant, white rabbit, duck, seared foie gras, cabbage and wild mushrooms. please enjoy. >> wow, look at this. that is beautiful. you feel guilty eating this well? >> i do. >> you do? >> i do. >> i'm feeling guilty now but it will pass. >> i will follow you then. >> wow. you ever even seen anything like this? >> i don't think i've seen anything like this anywhere. >> yeah, me either. >> and the thing is, you can see the main pool in front of the window here. you can see the hoi polloi. >> i was thinking of inviting them all up to our crib. >> don't you do dare that. >> for a party. >> no. >> don't they deserve a good time? i don't know. maybe not.

>> not going to happen. >> we're getting back to guilt. do you feel enlightened and inspired by this meal? >> what are you asking? what are you getting at here? you're trying to get at something. >> trying to make myself feel better. i'm trying to prove that i'm down with the people, man. i'm still cool. >> this guilt keeps coming back. you keep bringing up the guilt. >> you're right. i feel guilty. >> then don't do these shows! what are you doing here if you feel so guilty about it? >> i don't. i don't. i feel guilty about not feeling guilty. >> that's more to the point. now you're starting to be honest with yourself. >> right. and its customizable scans with social sentiment help you find and unlock opportunities in the market with powerful, easy-to-use tools power e*trade makes complex trading easier react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity

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it's the good old wreck your life scenario. that's always pretty popular. you can change your mind about wrecking your life. now what do i do? there's a lot less self-reflection about why people are here than there is about most other places. what a lost opportunity that is. >> sinatra and the mob are gone, but there remains still a certain sentimental attachment to the way things used to be. there were rules then, a way that things were done, and when they weren't done, there was always the desert and a hole in the ground. also, there were lounges and rub joints and places where a man could get a proper plate of italian american meatballs and spaghets. 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 fettuccini alfredo, your steaks and shrimps. don't forget the iceberg wedge with the bleu cheese, which believe me, you want. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the bootlegger. [ applause ] thank you very much. this is charlie schafer, my esteemed father. my name is laura schafer and we are your entertainment for the evening. ♪ i've got the blues ♪ ♪ i feel so lonely ♪ ♪ i'd give the world if i could only make him understand ♪ ♪ oh, that surely would be grand ♪ >> the bootlegger has the 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 exactly miss frank sinatra, definitely miss dino and louis prima and keely smith. >> 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. but 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. >> i'm going with dino. >> i like dino as a person better because i've never heard anybody say anything bad about him. >> whereas sinatra, you would have a hard time hearing something good. there does seem to be a soundtrack to old vegas. >> a soundtrack upon check-in? >> right. yes. yes. yes. does that help? >> who, me? or any other entertainers? >> well, an affection for the classics. an expectation that while i'm here, i should hear some standards. >> i don't know if there's a certain place that people stay who are sentimental about las vegas because there are very few hotels left that were there in the old days. they've all been imploded. >> they recreated ancient rome sort of and the amalfi coast and paris. you would think somebody would want to recreate vegas. i'd go there. >> i'd work there. ♪ every hour, every day ♪ ♪ you will hear me say ♪

♪ oh, baby, won't you please come on home ♪ ♪ baby, won't you please come home ♪ [ applause ] >> thank you very much . >> you used to be able to go see louis prima, 3:00 a.m., have breakfast, and then go out and watch an atomic bomb explode in the distance.

>> that sounds like a good time. >> that's the time i would like to live in. >> was it better before? is it better now? is it 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. the japanese modern izakaya, known as one of the best places to eat in vegas, casual but pricey, pricey because the ingredients, many from around the world. there is sea urchin from santa barbara. okay, that's not too far, but good. the 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. hasaki sashimi, hasaki belly, juicy deep-fried chicken, hamachi belly and one of my favorites, fish collar, where all the best, tastiest, moistest, meatiest bits hide their favors. 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. >> right. >> you can never, ever see a magician any way but live. >> these days for better or

worse, live acts, live performers, are being squeezed out in favor of edm, electronic dance music. it's a deejay's world and 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 simply don't understand it. and i'm embarrassed that i don't understand it. >> are we just old? >> i think that might be it. >> or are we non-douchey? >> i don't know. you want to spin it the latter, i'm afraid it might be the former. >> used to be a whole spectrum of entertainers who existed almost entirely in vegas. danny ganz 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. maketh the sign of the devil

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the steakhouse that bears his name and boasts beef, booze and broads. you've got some colorful clients. who was nice and who was less fun to have a -- >> well, the truth of the matter is all my clients were nice to me because i kept them out of prison. >> did alleged mob guys know how to eat? >> my mother used to say two things, she said. she was the greatest lady. she said 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. >> they knew where to go, yes. and always treated right. they were 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 a consigliere. as a matter of fact, in order to murder somebody, they had to get my permission. that's how stupid these people were. >> anthony "the ant" spilatro, meyer lansky, these were gentlemen not unknown to mayor goodman. >> a lot of people will tell you that it was a better place when the mob was running it. in many ways, that's true. >> there were rules then that

mattered. you know the old saying, what happens in vegas stays in vegas. back when the mob ran things, there was a certain urgency to that suggestion. >> we saw that with prince harry. that's a perfect example. here's a guy who was here having a good time. in the old vegas, that would never have happened. 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. he's an unabashed booster, entrepreneur, drinker of hard liquor, and gambler, and he was never shy about admitting it. it's unique. it's its own hothouse environment. >> that's what vegas is. vegas is unique. but i'll tell you one thing, you go to the airport here, everybody is smiling. when they come in, they're smiling. they can't wait to lose their money and then when they leave, they're smiling after they've lost their money. so i think it's very, very

special, a special kind of place that people can take their basest 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 their own ent entrances. but it's these people who have seen it all, seen everything night after night. benny has been working here

since caesar's opened in august of 1966. he's dealt cards to everybody. >> i've dealt to diana ross, harry belafonte, sinatra, sammy davis. >> sinatra was not supposed to be particularly amiable at the table. >> sinatra was class. >> really? >> he was class. he was a gentleman. but those were the good days. but it's nice now, too. >> would you describe yourself as a degenerate gambler? >> yeah, i definitely have been. i'm trying to move past that. we have a 2-year-old at home. so i'm working in that phase, but i'll always have that gambling gear, there's no doubt about it. >> eric and erica lindgren are professional gamblers, poker players to be precise. it's routine for them to sit down to a game with a bankroll of half a million dollars. tonight, slightly smaller stakes. >> hey, benny, what are-- how do you like my chances? >> good. good. >> that's a trained answer. >> instead of actual poker, we

are set up with a dumbed down for the camera version of texas hold 'em. you play against the house. the odds, to say the least, 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. >> all right. let's put out a hundo, let's see what happens. >> all right. now we have a pair of 7s. >> i want to bet. >> okay, i have trips. that's going to be pretty hard to beat. >> you're a dead man, benny. >> i'm a dead man. >> i'll bet again. >> okay. two pair. pair of deuces. two pair. pair of 10s. >> oh, no. >> pair of kings. >> benny! >> full house. >> goodness, benny. >> huh? >> you got a full house.

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it's called untangling. where's our metaphor here? easy to tangle, but untangle this. this is going to be so much fun. >> anthony bondi 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. >> 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 the city, and that money rolls all around us. but how do we live with it? it's not what, 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 is be able to be self-reflective about the place or you have to go and stay high all the time because of the

shame. i mean, which is another popular way to deal with living here. >> is vegas a friendly town? >> yeah, always friendly because that's our job. >> but i mean to itself. you know, you're a local. >> no. >> no. >> not a bit. this town has never had any respect whatsoever for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators in those days. we weren't citizens. the new authorities, the new power, is exactly as anonymous as the old power. no phone number, no access. >> though there's been for some years an art community in vegas, like art that makes your life, all our lives, better and makes us think. granted, vegas is a town designed to make you not think, just 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 [bleep] with nothing in your pockets, you want to come back and do it again. reflection, 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 and too bad for me because i didn't get lucky. >> don't cry about being broke. okay. what's another one? >> well, it's a smile. that is absolutely a local characteristic. >> this is a service industry town. >> one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it and 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 wrong is there are people with that kind of income who could put it to so many thrilling uses and can think of nothing so crass and boring than to wave the money in the air and throw it away.

how loathsome, but within us, within those of us who live here is that challenge. this has always been. here we are. >> you are sitting in lotus siam, the best thai restaurant in vegas by far. and one of the best thai restaurants in america. >> jet tila 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. he's a reigning authority on thai food but really, everybody who loves thai food knows about this place. >> what you should order here should only be northern. you go to the back of the menu, it's northern specialties. if you come here and eat chicken with cashew nuts and drunken noodles, i'm going to punch you in the face. >> right. >> it's one of those restaurants. >> sipend shutuma is the owner and chef. now get this.

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>> bondi: 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, you know, there's a sense of the city versus nature. this is not our friend. >> anthony: you'd think looking at the vast lakes, the canals, the fountains of vegas, in the middle of a desert, the flush of a hundred thousand toilets at 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 in the colorado river reservoir at lake mead decrease at an alarming rate.

but it ain't the casinos that are the culprits. in fact, vegas casinos are a model of water-efficiency and conservation. 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. >> robert: there's finally some water in the gutter, actually on both sides. this is not their day. we're in an area where there shouldn't be any watering. yet there's water here. so that's what we do, we drive around looking for something like that to give them a little educational visit. "hey, you're not supposed to water today." >> anthony: so you don't wrestle them to the ground, cuff them and drag them in. >> robert: no, no we do not. although we can go to a, a fee. >> anthony: around how much? >> robert: $80. >> anthony: $80. what about the -- >> robert: then it doubles. $160, $320 -- >> anthony: and it just keeps going. >> robert: yeah. >> anthony: it seems to me, a losing battle to try to keep your grass green. do you really need a lawn in the first place?

>> robert: well, every -- most everyone that lives here came from the midwest or the east coast and it was all lush and green and that's what vegas was 20 years ago. >> anthony: it was lush and green. >> robert: sure, sure. >> anthony: the city assigns watering days to control usage and also encourages xeriscaping, a landscaping style focused on drought resistant plants and efficient irrigation. and if you don't get with the program, there's a hole out there in the desert for you, then. okay, not really. you get like a notice pinned to your door or something. but some people, they want the lawn. they got to have it. >> robert: yep. and they can have it, just don't water on the wrong days. >> anthony: how critical is it? >> robert: very. i mean there's no snow on the western sierra, so we don't get any continued flow into colorado dumping into lake mead. so, unless something drastically changes, which there is no foreseeable relief in the near future, but we got to stay positive. >> bondi: for the first 34 years of the development of a town, you just couldn't conceive of what was ahead. what we had, whatever was, you know, 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 to yet a further horizon. it was inconceivable. so there's the thing. so what does the desert do? it exceeds our ambition. >> anthony: 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 subconscious. come frolic, live like caesar, or make money off those who do. drop a few moist bills at a gas station slot. see the full spectrum of human folly, and commit some follies of your own.