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Dreamland
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From state lotteries to Mississippi paddleboats to Indian casinos, America's obsession with the false promise of gambling can be seen everywhere. Americans spend over $50 billion a year on legal gambling alone, a phenomenal growth for this once maligned business. DREAMLAND takes a sharp but disarming approach in examining the romance of gambling, and reveals the decidedly unromantic reality.
Following several full-time residents of Las Vegas over a two-year period, DREAMLAND shows the cityscape beyond the grandiose casino-hotels on the strip. It is a world of smaller, dingy gambling halls and countless gambling arcades that survive throughout Las Vegas. Among the locals that patronize these casinos, many struggle daily with compulsion and self-impoverishment while walking the tenuous line between dreams and denial.
We meet middle-class retirees for whom gambling brings back childhood; working people who 'look for the streaks' and sometimes crash as hard as drug addicts; casino dealers, born and raised in Vegas, who find that they too are vulnerable to the addiction; and professional gamblers who wouldn't wish their life on anyone. And we meet Lou Gerard, a retired tailor from Los Angeles.
Gerard moved to Las Vegas, with its cheap rent and complementary meals, to do a little harmless gambling. His approach to gambling appears reasonable, and his exuberance is obvious whenever he enters his favorite place, Benny Binion's Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas. But soon Gerard finds himself contending with his compulsion, having to work more and more on the side to make up his losses, and it becomes clear that he is battling loneliness and mortality as much as the odds.
A penetrating look at compulsive gambling, DREAMLAND draws parallels between it and other addictions, showing how gambling is used to avoid pain, loneliness and distress by giving the gambler a fleeting sense of control and happiness. Without judgment and condemnation, the film uses frank interviews compassionately; creating a lingering image that evokes the contradictory reality behind America's high stakes pastime.
Also available in a 57 minute version
"DREAMLAND offers perhaps the most personal assessment to date of the elements of problem gambling. It should be recommended to students of the subject but also to therapists and to the victims of problem gambling who are struggling to find the answers to guide them toward recovery. The film yields great insights into motivations for gambling, coping mechanisms for inevitable losses, and the quest for finding "solutions" for gambling problems [and] puts flesh and bone, muscle and blood on the academic treatments given to this important topic. This film is a vitally needed vehicle that can bring a needed dose of reality about problem gambling to wide audiences. I recommend it for all."- Journal of Gambling Issues
"Recommended!"- The Institute for Problem Gambling
"Intriguing... a realistic look into the daily surroundings and struggles of the Vegas population. If you are looking for a good tool to highlight problem gambling... this is a great film choice."- Massachusetts Council on Problem Gambling News
"A penetrating look at how compulsive gambling acts like other addictions. Filmmaker Lisanne Skyler takes a sharp but disarming approach to examining the romance of gambling and the reality behind it..."- San Francisco Monthly
"DREAMLAND lifts the gaudy rug of Las Vegas and looks at the creepie-crawlers."- San Francisco Chronicle
"A candid, uncompromising look at compulsive gambling and the effect of neighborhood casinos on Las Vegas. Not since Martin Scorsese's CASINO has the naked truth about Las Vegas been captured so perfectly on screen."- Las Vegas CityLife
Citation
Main credits
Gerard, Lou (on-screen participant)
Skyler, Lisanne (film producer)
Skyler, Lisanne (film director)
Little, Greg (film producer)
Other credits
Editor, Julie Janata; director of photography, Robert P. Bennett.
Distributor subjects
Addiction; Aging; American Studies; Business; Economic Sociology; Economics; Gambling; Health Issues; North America; Psychology; SociologyKeywords
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You get a rush when you\'re starting a
win and you think there\'s no end to
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it you could be winning and all
of a sudden you start losing.
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That\'s when you get off the table
that\'s when you cash in your chips.
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Take a coffee break.
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Then go back to
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another table I think
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I\'m at a ripe age for retirement.
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Take life easy I\'m going to work part-time
and just socialize and gamma little bit.
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Besides my tailoring I\'d
make him bags for ladies.
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It\'s a shoulder bag denim
denim bag with a zipper.
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And fully lined with the inside pocket.
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It\'s good for shoplifting.
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This is my lucky charm.
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I used to take it end pawn it when I run out
of money sometimes that when sometimes I
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lose But it\'s not going
to go in a pawn shop
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anymore it\'s gonna go right
in my pocket and stay there.
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Here I\'m wearing a shirt and
hat that matches asks for
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the man that wears a shirt and
a hat that matches they all
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know me over there I\'ll be at either of the
$2.3 $1.5 dollar table playing blackjack.
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You\'ll have to come visit
me We will you sleep in
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a closet loop one more time and
I\'m telling you I\'m going to miss
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you potty lucky sweet sorrow I know I
could make the most enjoy myself and live
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almost free food is cheap
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their rent is cheap there and if you
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just know what you\'re doing
gambling you could make a few bucks
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Because I
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welcome you to the venue.
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They loved me out here called
a I should say they loved
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my money belly biniones harsh
you casino Downtown Las Vegas.
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Would she be $50 thousand yes there
are fred Vegas casino and tap.
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All they treat you have wonderful
out yet they rolled out the carpet.
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They copy of free meals
free cigarettes free
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drinks they can\'t do enough for
you but I feel very comfortable
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here or multi yet and you went a lot of money
a lot of money I handicap human beings.
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Had been under sporting
events and I specialize in
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football pro football college football
basketball college approach baseball
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and occasional fight with
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championship fight where I can
No other participants and
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I make my homage against the
house judge and I\'ve been
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successful for my whole life December the 24
Adam have no money I paid the Luby is that I
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had to pay out living in public housing
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and matured he wasn\'t going to
get any Christmas and I refuse.
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I have always been one of those
people figured there\'s a
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weird there\'s way and there
was a way I want to send
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it out via the manet and I
went to one that again than
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house and I sit down and
I play tag I went in it
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three I came at it 330 Christmas Day And I hit
1 $520 so I remember I went in there with
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$20 and I end up with Fab Lab it\'s
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1 thousand which gives Missy and I
was walking down a street team have
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transportation and didn\'t know
where to go finished doing
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the Christmas shopping and this gentleman
was so very nice Ye Gei Mou right.
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And to me if you would about
much hugeness Christmas
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and I went home is suited up and
what matured enough Christmas.
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This is my new apartment I moved out a
couple of months ago is my work area.
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My sewing machine by press table cutting
table is a vest I\'m making For customer.
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He wants desanas vests and I\'ll
have it for him next week.
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Come in this way and see this beautiful
mess I\'ve got here this is my bedroom.
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It was my bedroom.
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Now it\'s the stock room and bedroom boxes
boxes all over the place is why sleep.
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Oh there\'s a girl in here someplace.
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Oh she left junk junk junk.
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As a machine here And it\'s
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beautiful jacuzzi swimming pool and a
couple of hours dancing girls will be out
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here when I was getting ready
to leave while centers.
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I couldn\'t believe that I was packing
up after all these years and
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business living like a hobo and
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a back of the shop and never got out too much
towards the end I haven\'t been socializing.
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It was waken up in the morning the same
routine for five years like a hermit
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I\'m a cod Kali and I feel like 29 when
I\'m going along and I\'m going to be
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75 minutes I feel
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young young young sugary
stuff showing off what
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you\'re showing on your weight your
weight your weight your weight.
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Like a C a beat that and when you
start winning you get that rush rush.
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Something to write home about
and you hope that you stay
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lucky We both like to gamble. That\'s right.
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Well it it\'s reminiscent of my childhood do
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when as a youngster I lived on
Long Island and they used to have
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what they call the penny arcades there
and you would go in and play or a
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penny unfortunately it was also
during the depression and my dad.
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Certainly didn\'t have much
dough and occasionally
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he\'d give us two or three pennies on a
Sunday when we\'d be at the beach and we\'d go
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play there when the two
sensor the $0.03 was used up
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finally we were standing around
with long faces and we were kind
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of unhappy so when I go to the casino it brings
back my childhood and I feel I feel very
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happy there because I feel that
I\'m fulfilling something that I
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couldn\'t do as a youngster I\'m
playing as long as I want.
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Until midnight 12 in the
morning or whatever and
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that for pennies now but for a little
bit more money than in the past.
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I like to play violin.
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I\'ve got a two or three team
violin and gambling is streaks.
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Perhaps Whatever you
know you\'re looking for
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streaks and it\'s just like people
I\'ve picked up here on the GitHub.
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I take him to the airport
and they\'ve lost everything
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or had a bad visit and they
said I\'ll be damned if I\'m
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ever going to come back to this down again
he says That\'s what I said the last
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time I was here And my son
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works at the Tropicana
hotels Vehler previously
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it works with the Sams and the
aloud and both were imploded.
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And went to high school here
graduated out locally and in
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1974 and then eventually like
all a lot of my friends we all
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got into the gambling
industry and my break-in job
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was in 1978 at the four queens
which is completely different than
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what you\'d see today but that\'s
where I learned how to deal
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21 and relat Had a break in somewhere
and that was pretty good brake
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and house I had my choice of either
being a cocktail waitress or
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a dealer and I decided I would be more
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comfortable with a table
between me and the patron.
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So I chose being a dealer and I went
to Tahoe for one summer and left
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27 years later I wanted to
live in a warmer climate
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and Las Vegas became the
logical choice I rob banks.
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I worked for tuck shop.
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Do an alteration.
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Maybe 34 hours a day five days a week It\'s
a part-time job and it keeps me busy.
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Otherwise I\'ll be at a casino everyday.
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So this way it breaks it up and
that\'s a very nice bottle of rest
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it that\'s very good I could
go out make a $100 a
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day very easy but the trouble
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is I just don\'t wanna do that every
day I\'d rather work a little bit.
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Whatever you wish. You\'re gonna
take in this they can all
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go away please happening chart okay so
when you finish will precedented police.
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Because customers coming in half
an hour alright well here please
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yes okay look okay I see
you outside Alright
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thank you One they call me
and he said I am Taylor.
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I\'m looking to work.
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So following day cave we Joe Gallico
and they start talking couple of words
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Arab aid so authored and
I said okay you got
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the job and I said Lu Ru marriage
said no I\'m not married.
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I\'m single man I\'m 75-year-old fellow.
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So what you doing in Las Vegas
she said I love gambling.
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All my life I love gambling.
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Since 40 years I\'m in and out in Las Vegas.
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So I said you lost lots
of money so tell me who
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doesn\'t show me who doesn\'t
lose what gambling when.
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Since it\'s such a big bag
land banker going with is
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expert handicap or here\'s one banker I
internalized warfare has lambada here
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with this two-way shanty Capra chubby
in checkers and when they get to
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college games and three programs and
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the colleges let\'s go with
Syracuse over Virginia Tech.
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And Fresno State are all
polymer state the pros
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boys like these three games here the Oakland
Raiders launched applause slash week against
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the regulars over the Atlanta Falcons
Washington Redskins against her cardinals in
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the late game I think it\'s a
good bet the judge didn\'t
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get about ten points against
annoying one patch.
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I\'ll see you all next week.
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That\'s great so do you mind if we do one more
just for safety goals is a bit on the tape.
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Thank you and Debbie.
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Get me gave me one of these
goodies for him And get went it
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I generalized more French Land
Bank idea with two-way Shannon and
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catalyst jumping and check is we\'re gonna
give you two college games and free
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throws every guy has shushed
him I think they\'re
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great gamblers or a great lover and
every girl things share Changsha
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wished and maybe the greatest
spaghetti shaw Thank
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you Okay good here\'s
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a college game I think we\'re gonna go with
this week there\'s game tomorrow Saturday.
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I\'ve seen Felt wished come here on a
penchant hanging around a horse rule.
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Each channel and much better program.
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Nobody\'s ever who really broke the bank and
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Monte Carlo and there\'ll be
you know break the hotels.
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You\'d just have to grind it out like
the story of the Turkish in the hair.
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I\'m like Turkish. Slow and gradual
grinding it out I came to town broke.
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I\'ve learned from my mistakes and
it\'s been a struggle I wouldn\'t
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recommend anybody to Try
to make a profession
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out of issue this is my wonderful wife of how
many years due to long 30 38th when I first
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got into the gambling industry
I got into it because
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it was a career with something
that you can make some money at
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you spent your time and
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your smaller hotels and then eventually
you got one of the better strip jobs I am
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a 21 dealer at the Mirage it\'s one of the high
class of her and properties in Las Vegas.
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The surroundings are totally
beautiful across your table.
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Lot of movie stars a lot of
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very famous people And
come to the Mirage and
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stay there do we have a
conflict the coffee shop
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downstairs Yes I drink
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a lot of coffee that keep me awake and
stimulated me so I\'ll know what I\'m doing.
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I will say that.
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Though I\'m okay.
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When you\'re playing blackjack in a
section you\'re entitled little pack of
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cigarettes So you get one tank
then go to another section.
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Get mother back to do another
section can want to pack.
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Keep doing that you could walk out with
seven or eight packs in your pocket.
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Then when you get a ticket to eat
you get one every eight hours.
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So you save one for the next day and
you go back and have something to eat.
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Save money that way.
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Use that money to gamble with.
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OK I was lucky.
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Thank you of John I\'ll say
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yeah Years ago with gambling business was
pretty much for out of town or if you had a
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come along way to get hairy they\'re
driving her flying here and so we
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had little local places but
we never didn\'t like cater to
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the locals and then we did
have the show but Hotel which
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was off the strip but pretty
much a local local place than
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the palace station casinos that have all
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opened up that started off as a
little place called the bingo
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palace and over time just
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they did just caught on and he started
marketing and it\'s kinda of a certain.
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Local cannibalism here\'s a people
going out making an income
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and now here they are preying on
their own people and my dad would
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tour for hank Green\'s been who was one of
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the early beckon lit Benny Binyan
Howard Hughes hank Green\'s
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been there\'s this this you
know Handful of folks who
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were larger than life and
symbolize the Old Las Vegas.
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But his welcome to Las Vegas
president wasn\'t money clip with
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a $100 chip in it quite quite
an elegant kip this was
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early 60s and Mr. Greenspan
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several days or weeks later than stop
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my father and he said Bob I think I was
gonna get a Coke I hadn\'t needed dollar.
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My dad reach status money Clifton
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Mr. Greenspan\'s at all I forgot let
me look at the I forgot I gave you
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that later The again as the legend goes Mr.
Greenspan gave all of
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his key employees a money clip
with a $100 chip in it and always
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had an excuse a week or two later to look
at it again and if the chip had been
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removed or been replaced with
a lower denomination chip
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they got a little lecture
on the fact that you don\'t
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live in Las Vegas and gamble that was
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the mindset In the old days that mindset
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has changed dramatically now there
is a whole separate market for
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local gamblers but again my my childhood
memories are my parents getting kinda grumbling
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wouldn\'t they had out-of-town company
and had to go gamble because
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the perception was you don\'t
do that when you live here
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nowadays it\'s perceived as a socially
appropriate cash paycheck you
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use childcare you can file your income tax
returns this sending locals all kinds of
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little fruit promotions everywhere you have
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just night and day really of way of
marketing you have something more
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casinos today you\'ve got 4
thousand room hotels and so you\'ve
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gotta fill him with people and how many
people can actually come to a casino
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and gamble all day and all night
to fill those places up You
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see 7-Elevens and bonds is
that how slot machines but now
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they cater to that so there like you have
your big casinos you medium-size casinos in
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a little minute casinos
inside the stores you can now
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when the big jackpot just like in
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the big casinos and
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now you have a roller coaster around a
hotel you\'ve got our volcano in front
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of a big old another hotel
and pirates fighting
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every night they wanted this to be a family
town that was another thing that we\'re
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marketing towards was the
come on bring the kids and
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Circus Circus had a niche
because you could drop off
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the kids and be relatively safe well then
00:18:16.745 --> 00:18:20.028
all the other places picked up on it so they
tried to go after this family attitude.
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Well the thing is that let\'s face
this We have 24-hour gambling 24-hour
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drinking and legalized prostitution 50
miles from here we\'re not a family town.
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Including Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy and much more.
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I\'m probably one of the one of the
few people in Las Vegas who can
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honestly say I\'ve never
played a table game I started
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gambling on machines I began gambling on
video Kino machines which is very much like
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a life Kino game it\'s simply selecting
numbers and it\'s a random lottery kind of
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process I played that very briefly
because I didn\'t find there to be.
00:19:01.280 --> 00:19:04.639
It wasn\'t stimulating enough I
found it to be somewhat boring And
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so as an experiment I
moved to video poker I
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particularly thought video
poker was a good place to go
00:19:10.250 --> 00:19:12.438
because I didn\'t know a lot
about gambling I actually
00:19:12.439 --> 00:19:17.059
was fairly ignorant of most
games but video poker.
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Has this wonderful built-in instruction
screened so you know you can
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sit down in a video poker
machine and you can
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look like you know what you\'re
doing even if you don\'t.
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And I didn\'t want to look
like a tourist I want
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it to look like I knew what
I was doing and frankly
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once I found video poker I
never left literally I never
00:19:37.099 --> 00:19:42.018
left out was gambling AV bad
is that I add a new ball
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I\'ve free right so they
see monad and won\'t know
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bad novels gamma because abba
Massive sneak in and doing
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something so they\'ve seemingly so dark that
you went out last night gear you must get
00:19:52.250 --> 00:19:57.648
eunomia we ever saying yes yes your gear
you just don\'t know how enables via good.
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They\'ll know I was at their gambling.
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The whole damn basically as
owls don\'t they wouldn\'t
00:20:03.230 --> 00:20:06.618
see me for days on end and
wonder wearable zeta it is say
00:20:06.619 --> 00:20:10.998
we came by your house and you went
guerrilla was that by gosh you
00:20:10.999 --> 00:20:17.058
know what he looked like but that\'s do you
care before and issue things got CDs.
00:20:17.059 --> 00:20:20.909
This mayor which was really mad machines.
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There\'s a certain dealer swing ship And
every time I go in the casino it\'s
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opinions I look for her and
I\'ll go over the tables they
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how\'s my favorite blog I follow her
hoping that I\'d be lucky at what tables.
00:20:45.770 --> 00:20:51.994
Sometimes I\'m lucky sometimes and
sometimes she\'s running hot.
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That means get off the table.
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She tells me out loud in front
I have body a morning hot Lu.
00:21:01.320 --> 00:21:09.320
Yeah I have to do it just when you
thought you had a winning hand
00:21:13.510 --> 00:21:16.069
Obvious son of a gun Linda
00:21:16.070 --> 00:21:24.070
that just can\'t be
00:21:25.639 --> 00:21:33.209
stubborn and chase f the money you
get up and move to another table.
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Good luck everybody the horseshoe has 55
Blackjack tables you can\'t lose at every table.
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So you gotta try to depict a lucky C
and you jump around like a rabbit.
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Move around they call me
the rabbit I invested
00:21:55.460 --> 00:22:03.460
$200 and the game and I was
down to two lousy $5 chips.
00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:07.728
I told the people around
me and I\'m gonna get back
00:22:07.729 --> 00:22:13.639
my investment and make a $100 and quit
and I did exactly what I predicted.
00:22:13.640 --> 00:22:21.640
There from the nucleus to the dams and quarters
and the 50 things move in the dollar and
00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:26.958
the Van Allen machine it was it was like
00:22:26.959 --> 00:22:31.368
a relaxation because I have a lot
of streets at me moving here
00:22:31.369 --> 00:22:34.309
was not the streets it
was just streets massive
00:22:34.310 --> 00:22:39.969
because It was different you
know I come from Chattanooga
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Tennessee which is a very
small city and come into
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this big city was just
overwhelming you though and I
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didn\'t know no bad and I feel all
alone even though I am above
00:23:10.770 --> 00:23:13.314
all show at Mozilla.
00:23:13.315 --> 00:23:21.315
But I\'ll get used to this no I don\'t want
to go back I\'m not as happy as I want to be
00:23:23.560 --> 00:23:27.804
is because I don\'t know anybody
yet and it takes awhile
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to meet people and get friendly
and you just can\'t rush
00:23:32.169 --> 00:23:39.579
it you can\'t push it yes whom
I speak into yes Benny I\'m
00:23:39.580 --> 00:23:43.449
a senior citizen and I moved here
from Los you\'ve gotta be able to pick
00:23:43.450 --> 00:23:48.143
your friends you don\'t get friendly with
everybody program for senior citizens.
00:23:48.144 --> 00:23:54.399
He just socialize acquaintances or
friends you don\'t have too many friends.
00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.113
Oh ice. So I\'ll choose.
00:23:57.114 --> 00:23:58.989
Who I\'m going to call my friend.
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Especially in a gambling town Alright
thank you with what you hours.
00:24:04.069 --> 00:24:08.010
Four o\'clock. Thank you ready.
00:24:10.630 --> 00:24:16.714
Anything that I didn\'t want to feel
I could stop feeling when a gamble.
00:24:16.715 --> 00:24:23.389
And that\'s pretty much how I
discovered the fun of gambling.
00:24:23.390 --> 00:24:27.858
Somewhere along the line it
stopped being a choice for me it
00:24:27.859 --> 00:24:30.168
just became the only thing I knew how to do
00:24:30.169 --> 00:24:33.664
I didn\'t have normal
responses to life anymore.
00:24:33.665 --> 00:24:38.329
You know if I was having a bad
day at work or I was upset about
00:24:38.330 --> 00:24:42.198
something at home or I just
was unsure of something in
00:24:42.199 --> 00:24:46.264
my life My first response
was to go gamble because
00:24:46.265 --> 00:24:50.688
somehow my brain associated
gambling as the solution to
00:24:50.689 --> 00:24:54.408
everything and once I reach that
point it wasn\'t really a choice
00:24:54.409 --> 00:24:58.309
anymore it just became an
instinct it was who I was
00:24:58.310 --> 00:25:03.498
and it was what I did but
00:25:03.499 --> 00:25:04.759
lately I\'ve been playing as
00:25:04.760 --> 00:25:09.588
a twenty-five dollar table because
that\'s the only way to make money.
00:25:09.589 --> 00:25:12.469
Big money but you\'ve got to take
00:25:12.470 --> 00:25:19.339
that chance as soon as you get some of
the casino\'s money you just increase
00:25:19.340 --> 00:25:22.218
your bet You stop Benton
00:25:22.219 --> 00:25:25.788
twenty-five dollars at a twenty-five
dollar game and if you get to a
00:25:25.789 --> 00:25:33.359
$300 of their money you up at the
$50 I\'m applying my 12 punch.
00:25:34.630 --> 00:25:37.998
I get to work or well we\'ve
gotta get a going you
00:25:37.999 --> 00:25:44.373
know there\'s times when I\'ve got a
100 and then I\'d bet too hungry.
00:25:44.374 --> 00:25:49.109
When I gamble I get more excited
when I\'m bitten heavier.
00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:54.799
Unlike the buy-in 800
thousand and make sure I have
00:25:54.800 --> 00:26:00.018
ammunition in front of me some
people come to the table with a $100
00:26:00.019 --> 00:26:03.139
they get four chips What
are you gonna do it for
00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:07.068
chips you can lose four heads
in a row that I get up and
00:26:07.069 --> 00:26:09.859
leave the table I stay there
00:26:09.860 --> 00:26:12.419
a weighted out
00:26:21.310 --> 00:26:22.729
edges
00:26:22.730 --> 00:26:25.473
forget about the Beatles
and the responsibilities.
00:26:25.474 --> 00:26:28.129
Because I will so in depth in sticking
00:26:28.130 --> 00:26:33.408
the money I\'m try to win money birthday
and I\'m trying to get their satisfaction
00:26:33.409 --> 00:26:37.459
that you\'d be trying to get
from that machine if it\'s
00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:41.748
just nothing from the loneliness of not
knowing a lot of people on that being
00:26:41.749 --> 00:26:44.493
around people like you
would normally like to be
00:26:44.494 --> 00:26:47.629
You end up getting very lonely
especially when you\'ve been
00:26:47.630 --> 00:26:51.408
used to being involved with people in I
was the type of person used to be an
00:26:51.409 --> 00:26:56.628
evolved and hear that in nano battery
in it wasn\'t a lot of people.
00:26:56.629 --> 00:26:59.749
My age you know preferably
00:26:59.750 --> 00:27:05.989
my age the anew here most Eva battle
was my brother\'s age which he 65.
00:27:05.990 --> 00:27:09.769
And nobody I didn\'t know nobody\'s
older free they didn\'t do
00:27:09.770 --> 00:27:14.509
the things that dealing atmosphere
like our soda like left out
00:27:14.510 --> 00:27:17.269
and I will go to the
machines the machines were
00:27:17.270 --> 00:27:21.588
my happiness you know they were des
Wow it was take money and they
00:27:21.589 --> 00:27:27.528
because they will happen is ama lived our
feel good to wean And our feel good to
00:27:27.529 --> 00:27:35.089
lose that essay is like you in a daydream
with a haze of it why you gambling.
00:27:35.090 --> 00:27:37.309
Because you know you
couldn\'t move if you had
00:27:37.310 --> 00:27:40.579
some money but if you didn\'t
have no money you can
00:27:40.580 --> 00:27:44.688
move after you get out the door and you
00:27:44.689 --> 00:27:49.473
say well I didn\'t pay this and that
and pay there though I could go get.
00:27:49.474 --> 00:27:54.289
Oh African and Arab
spinach and again but I\'m
00:27:54.290 --> 00:27:58.998
a money away didn\'t you go into a
panic and when you see daylight
00:27:58.999 --> 00:28:02.673
you say God woke
00:28:02.674 --> 00:28:07.739
what amount do ness of units when you
go to try to fan somebody you can refer
00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:13.208
I was in a pawn shop a
couple of months ago I upon
00:28:13.209 --> 00:28:16.449
the item and there was
a woman there pointing
00:28:16.450 --> 00:28:21.098
her wedding rings I couldn\'t
believe what I was in and
00:28:21.099 --> 00:28:26.589
all all the man gave oil was $20
on a wedding ring wanting ban.
00:28:26.590 --> 00:28:30.428
Yeah I guess that. Upon upon
00:28:30.429 --> 00:28:36.803
their eye tooth if they could it\'s
amazing what people do for a dollar.
00:28:36.804 --> 00:28:43.730
What were you doing. While you were
there I ponder 50 peso gold coin.
00:28:44.070 --> 00:28:49.223
Yep it\'s in the pawn shop
but I want to get it out
00:28:49.224 --> 00:28:54.858
tomorrow probably You put on
a lever on a slot machine
00:28:54.859 --> 00:29:02.859
it controls you it controls everything about
you so I gave it the name the Arab pimp you
00:29:03.770 --> 00:29:08.178
stick in my DNA but you get
enough embed you can walk in
00:29:08.179 --> 00:29:12.933
a casino any cows in a
pneumonia just one more quote.
00:29:12.934 --> 00:29:14.419
While more quota daughter.
00:29:14.420 --> 00:29:17.508
Now astride a dollar today we
00:29:17.509 --> 00:29:21.258
machine a lightbulb and it is clear
little sound and the sound is talking to
00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:28.414
you it talks to you this machine allows
to use ETA you how much money it won\'t.
00:29:28.415 --> 00:29:30.069
Much money required.
00:29:30.070 --> 00:29:38.070
So is pimping you out at the same time
One night this guy has come up again and
00:29:40.159 --> 00:29:43.279
he was really nervous and you
just tell he was out there with
00:29:43.280 --> 00:29:46.458
sand about the gambling
ethane and so I already be at
00:29:46.459 --> 00:29:49.339
amount of whatever chips you had
in front of them and whipped out
00:29:49.340 --> 00:29:52.459
a $150 and said I gotta
I says hey buddy has
00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:54.918
his luck you know you\'ve
had enough I go You
00:29:54.919 --> 00:29:57.829
can\'t win just enough enough
and so he goes no no go
00:29:57.830 --> 00:30:01.579
play again I go and telling
you as enough and so finally
00:30:01.580 --> 00:30:05.958
I threw him back a 100 bucks I said if you
lose the 50 that\'s it we\'re all done.
00:30:05.959 --> 00:30:07.969
She wanted me to take a break and whether
00:30:07.970 --> 00:30:10.339
the goal I should no no let
me pull it up a little
00:30:10.340 --> 00:30:15.889
bit The boss came
00:30:15.890 --> 00:30:19.143
up behind me and he says do you just
throw that go back a $100 and I go.
00:30:19.144 --> 00:30:21.978
Well yeah I did and he goes I thought so I
00:30:21.979 --> 00:30:24.858
says why do you do that and it
says or whether we\'re going to
00:30:24.859 --> 00:30:26.899
be the compassionate because
Sina where the casino that
00:30:26.900 --> 00:30:29.569
cares you now and he goes Don\'t
let me ever see you do that
00:30:29.570 --> 00:30:36.619
again by one this will be pretty good for
00:30:36.620 --> 00:30:44.620
me back to $40 oh
00:30:45.574 --> 00:30:52.170
I can\'t simulate rumble
00:30:57.310 --> 00:31:01.398
I\'d lose five or $600 I\'d
hit my head up against
00:31:01.399 --> 00:31:06.469
the wall and have to make up that
money and tailoring and it\'s not
00:31:06.470 --> 00:31:10.458
easy for a lot of work to
put out to make five of
00:31:10.459 --> 00:31:18.459
$600 gets the bittersweet thing we want
to get tip we\'re going to make a living.
00:31:19.610 --> 00:31:22.038
I\'m not as judge to tell him
what to do or what not to
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:24.529
do but we did care about
some of these people because
00:31:24.530 --> 00:31:26.508
they were just got late into
the night they may have
00:31:26.509 --> 00:31:29.179
been drinking all night whatever
and they just didn\'t care
00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:33.648
ATM machine is very handy ego and
00:31:33.649 --> 00:31:38.298
slanted down the loose lad the
overlay and you use Galatea hog you
00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:43.249
continue When I\'m down with
27th about t and a toil
00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:48.648
withdraws from Arizona challenge
one day I\'m just cosine all day.
00:31:48.649 --> 00:31:53.658
Basically I was one of those just get
20 now cheapen the figure may mean you
00:31:53.659 --> 00:31:58.893
stick it in any say Insufficient
phones insufficient phones
00:31:58.894 --> 00:32:02.329
sit down and cry because
you get no money to pay
00:32:02.330 --> 00:32:06.019
these bills and you owe and
even provided that you Oh I was
00:32:06.020 --> 00:32:09.228
yam and up my money and when
my chase come in Abby Don
00:32:09.229 --> 00:32:13.919
wrote I will get now sufficient fans
farm because I am a man and a bank.
00:32:16.900 --> 00:32:20.974
Well one night I got really mad at
my girlfriend for no good reason
00:32:20.975 --> 00:32:24.768
and I just happen to have a
few drinks and I went out and
00:32:24.769 --> 00:32:29.508
I went out to the maximum hotel
and in my fit of rage I grab
00:32:29.509 --> 00:32:34.519
the cash and I don\'t know why whatever reason
but the point is that through in the trunk.
00:32:34.520 --> 00:32:37.668
So grabs money has gone out
and I had a good time and to
00:32:37.669 --> 00:32:40.698
the point where I was I wanted
$2 thousand and I was really up
00:32:40.699 --> 00:32:44.779
and the ego was flown and people were
behind me going oh hey go they\'ll
00:32:44.780 --> 00:32:49.009
go well then turned and
of course by that time
00:32:49.010 --> 00:32:53.208
I was plastered and I didn\'t
care I just went through
00:32:53.209 --> 00:32:57.438
the two grant at one I went through
a couple grand a had I rant I
00:32:57.439 --> 00:33:00.978
went back to my trunk of
my car and I got more of
00:33:00.979 --> 00:33:05.539
it I went through the whole I
went through $7 thousand I just I
00:33:05.540 --> 00:33:07.999
couldn\'t believe it it was the
chasing feeling just start
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.668
going and going and going I\'ve I\'ve
heard about it or read about it
00:33:10.669 --> 00:33:13.698
I\'ve seen it but now I
personally experienced it and it
00:33:13.699 --> 00:33:17.419
just blew me away that I
did that and so so it\'s
00:33:17.420 --> 00:33:20.149
long enough of the story that it\'s
not gonna come back to bite me now
00:33:20.150 --> 00:33:23.178
but the fact is that it
happened to me and in
00:33:23.179 --> 00:33:24.919
fact I even got a cotton
that is that the weird
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:26.958
thing I finally got to combine
them so they gave me a room
00:33:26.959 --> 00:33:29.614
and come to their agormate room so it cost
00:33:29.615 --> 00:33:33.829
$7 thousand for a room and comfort
for their fine dining room it\'s
00:33:33.830 --> 00:33:36.859
my understanding that video
poker is the game of
00:33:36.860 --> 00:33:41.973
choice with dealers these
days I don\'t gamble.
00:33:41.974 --> 00:33:46.219
I have my own addictions
that I\'ve dealt with but
00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:51.708
I just don\'t happen to gamble
on but I do see telltale signs
00:33:51.709 --> 00:33:56.268
of of my co-workers they did
when they first they stop
00:33:56.269 --> 00:34:01.774
paying their taxes and their
living conditions go down
00:34:01.775 --> 00:34:05.160
it seems I have to lose before I went
00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:13.203
two weeks ago I play 22 hours and
made 20 to $100 that biniones.
00:34:13.204 --> 00:34:21.204
Last week I worked at it at blackjack
at biniones 30 hours and I lost.
00:34:22.414 --> 00:34:30.414
So it seems the pattern is I have
to lose before I win Sometime I
00:34:33.019 --> 00:34:36.784
gambled on the days not
knowing when to stop
00:34:36.785 --> 00:34:42.679
tired sleepy I start
feeling sorry for myself
00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:49.654
that I could have done this with the money
I could do that with the money I just
00:34:49.655 --> 00:34:57.300
feel sorry for myself I get over it
because there\'s always a next time
00:35:16.900 --> 00:35:24.900
Thirty seven percent of
00:35:27.379 --> 00:35:33.424
high school I was a single mom
00:35:33.425 --> 00:35:41.029
and I really just ceased to be there my
children suffered a great deal of neglect.
00:35:41.030 --> 00:35:43.728
Due to the time and the energy
that was going into gambling
00:35:43.729 --> 00:35:46.848
and again I didn\'t
actually have to be gone I
00:35:46.849 --> 00:35:50.073
withdrew emotionally
without even realizing it
00:35:50.074 --> 00:35:54.108
because I just didn\'t have that much
energy to give any more My children were
00:35:54.109 --> 00:36:01.864
not grown at that time they found themselves
literally having to fend for themselves.
00:36:01.865 --> 00:36:06.079
I would leave at night
when my children were in
00:36:06.080 --> 00:36:11.179
bed and not tell them I was leaving and be
gone all night long and then in the morning.
00:36:11.180 --> 00:36:15.289
Where before I would race home to try and
get home before the kids had to get up and
00:36:15.290 --> 00:36:19.593
go to school in the morning I\'d be calling
my children from the casino or from the bar.
00:36:19.594 --> 00:36:22.279
Giving them instructions
on how to get ready for
00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:25.129
school and what to have for
breakfast and they basically became
00:36:25.130 --> 00:36:33.130
latchkey kids 24 hours a day and that blow
they bought a home For us in Washington heels.
00:36:33.164 --> 00:36:41.058
My daily gamble the house away how exactly
I don\'t know but I lose to gambling.
00:36:41.059 --> 00:36:46.399
Years came on when it is
no house anymore it was
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:52.323
a lot of tears my day with him but he
will sit there Delhi Laos did our bay.
00:36:52.324 --> 00:36:56.959
As seen as merchants valve
$6 thousand sometimes
00:36:56.960 --> 00:37:01.879
more on the table you notice right there
in front of him when he was broke.
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.179
He would give it made him feel like he was
00:37:05.180 --> 00:37:10.949
more at ease with himself after he
didn\'t have that money in front of him
00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:35.539
Twelve forty years ago the Hunt brothers
tried to coin the silver market.
00:37:35.540 --> 00:37:40.578
I could have made $20 thousand
the first week and the following
00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:45.619
week it started cutting down
down down from 40 to 50 down
00:37:45.620 --> 00:37:50.208
to $10.80 I could\'ve lost everything at
00:37:50.209 --> 00:37:55.433
that time that I bought some more
silver to average out I bought it
00:37:55.434 --> 00:37:59.949
on module and every time it
goes down you have to get
00:37:59.950 --> 00:38:04.629
up more money I kept getting
module calls with silver would
00:38:04.630 --> 00:38:11.378
go down a $100.2 thousand dollars I
just kept sending in money sending and
00:38:11.379 --> 00:38:19.379
money that i sub L with it 85
thousand I found gambling exciting.
00:38:20.169 --> 00:38:23.889
After I lost all the money
I had saved my life
00:38:23.890 --> 00:38:29.919
it\'s it\'s silly for me
to say now a few bucks
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:33.170
ahead you go out and try your luck
00:38:39.990 --> 00:38:43.479
Lot of people they get to Proust
they all sudden say gee if
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.058
I win the jackpot I\'ll solve all
my problems I can pay my rent I
00:38:46.059 --> 00:38:50.109
can do this I can do that and it\'s just a
lie it\'s just one more lie that people
00:38:50.110 --> 00:38:54.338
don\'t realize that they\'re
being trapped into do you
00:38:54.339 --> 00:38:56.679
think people that don\'t live in Las Vegas
I have an idea what it is they don\'t
00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:59.199
know they don\'t know they think it\'s
00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:05.618
cheerful place and that\'s all there is to it
drink and gambling and music entertainment.
00:39:05.619 --> 00:39:07.913
There he had to have a good time.
00:39:07.914 --> 00:39:12.429
They\'d do their thing and they go
home they don\'t know how the people
00:39:12.430 --> 00:39:18.384
living that lost their money and what they\'re
doing to survive they don\'t see them.
00:39:18.385 --> 00:39:23.738
Pick and fluid out of the garbage
Some gamba was lose everything they
00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:28.208
have but they managed to gamble
one way or the other they
00:39:28.209 --> 00:39:33.503
managed to raise money to gamble with
even if they have to go without eating.
00:39:33.504 --> 00:39:41.504
Just so they take another shot myself I\'ve
not been in the drug thing but I\'ve had
00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:47.499
children that were drug
addicts and I\'ve been through
00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:53.439
all their programs and goblin is just like
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:56.978
crack cocaine to me there\'s
00:39:56.979 --> 00:40:01.674
my own personal opinion because
I\'ve seen what it did to my girls
00:40:01.675 --> 00:40:07.339
and It did the same thing to me
gambling did the same thing to
00:40:07.340 --> 00:40:13.114
me I was addicted I couldn\'t sleep or
eat without going somewhere to gamble.
00:40:13.115 --> 00:40:16.159
I knew at some point that
I had a problem simply
00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:19.534
because at some point I
didn\'t want to do it anymore
00:40:19.535 --> 00:40:22.849
and no amount of my effort seem to
00:40:22.850 --> 00:40:27.633
change what happened and I would tell
myself I\'m not going to gamble tonight.
00:40:27.634 --> 00:40:30.889
And at five minutes to midnight
and I\'d be getting in the car.
00:40:30.890 --> 00:40:35.778
Breaking my my own boundary again
map-based fantasy was to go and play
00:40:35.779 --> 00:40:40.699
bingo bingo bingo I always
00:40:40.700 --> 00:40:46.174
say Oh I\'ve just gone ammo imitate
me a crossword puzzle Today.
00:40:46.175 --> 00:40:50.059
So I won\'t go downstairs and play the
machine that hour they give me didn\'t
00:40:50.060 --> 00:40:54.738
that\'s in between the
names bingo session but
00:40:54.739 --> 00:40:59.209
it never worked I know for me I
could have gotten more money I
00:40:59.210 --> 00:41:03.739
know I had another creative story
I could\'ve told there were
00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:07.218
certainly other things I
hadn\'t done yet illegal things
00:41:07.219 --> 00:41:10.818
that I had actually thought about
doing so money wasn\'t what
00:41:10.819 --> 00:41:17.058
made me decide it was over what really
pushed me to the end was having won
00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:23.523
the money and in the span of less than
four hours Losing all that money back.
00:41:23.524 --> 00:41:26.403
Knowing I hadn\'t eviction
notice on my door.
00:41:26.404 --> 00:41:31.039
Knowing I was unemployed for
the third time that year.
00:41:31.040 --> 00:41:35.089
Knowing I didn\'t have really
any options left I didn\'t
00:41:35.090 --> 00:41:38.628
know where else to turn to solve
the problems in my life and
00:41:38.629 --> 00:41:43.549
yet I couldn\'t go home with the
money and by the time I got
00:41:43.550 --> 00:41:48.619
home and I was broke again the reality hit
00:41:48.620 --> 00:41:52.218
me that I had lost more than money I really
00:41:52.219 --> 00:41:56.568
believed I had lost my mind I
had become everything that
00:41:56.569 --> 00:42:00.198
I despised and other people
I was lying I was stealing
00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:04.713
money I was I was being
irresponsible is apparent I
00:42:04.714 --> 00:42:09.154
was not being true to my own
moral and religious beliefs
00:42:09.155 --> 00:42:11.839
and yet I couldn\'t stop it and when I reach
00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:15.288
that point that I said
Something\'s gotta give.
00:42:15.289 --> 00:42:18.468
I just decided I couldn\'t be in
saying the rest of my life I wasn\'t
00:42:18.469 --> 00:42:21.408
willing to live that way and frankly at
00:42:21.409 --> 00:42:24.798
that point I was just too tired
I was exhausted mentally I was
00:42:24.799 --> 00:42:29.343
exhausted physically I I had
been not eating not sleeping.
00:42:29.344 --> 00:42:32.898
I\'d been unemployed for I can\'t
even remember how long I
00:42:32.899 --> 00:42:36.094
had lost so much to gambling that
didn\'t have anything to lose.
00:42:36.095 --> 00:42:40.103
Except my mind and I really
believe that head loss that too.
00:42:40.104 --> 00:42:43.188
And so I decided if I didn\'t
want to wake up crazy
00:42:43.189 --> 00:42:45.678
every morning for the rest of
my life I just wasn\'t going to
00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:51.024
wake up And I picked up the phone
and I called a friend of mine.
00:42:51.025 --> 00:42:53.603
Who I hoped.
00:42:53.604 --> 00:42:57.068
Having heard a really
heart-rending story from me.
00:42:57.069 --> 00:43:00.009
Would somehow acquire a
bottle of tranquilizers for
00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:03.818
me and I fully intended to take them all as
00:43:03.819 --> 00:43:07.088
one dose and fortunately for
00:43:07.089 --> 00:43:12.098
me the gentlemen that I called was aware
of my gambling had seen they gamble.
00:43:12.099 --> 00:43:14.768
And his response to me was well
you know I think you really
00:43:14.769 --> 00:43:17.558
need to quit gambling and I said but you
00:43:17.559 --> 00:43:20.228
don\'t understand you don\'t
understand and he cut
00:43:20.229 --> 00:43:24.079
me off and he said Of course I
understand I\'m a compulsive gambler.
00:43:24.270 --> 00:43:27.713
And from that I was able
to get another option.
00:43:27.714 --> 00:43:30.288
He told me where I could call Find
00:43:30.289 --> 00:43:34.218
a support group how I could make
a decision other than to kill
00:43:34.219 --> 00:43:37.998
myself and when I look back at all of
00:43:37.999 --> 00:43:42.588
the things that I did the things that
were horrible throughout my gambling.
00:43:42.589 --> 00:43:45.199
I can honestly say the only
thing that still scares me
00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:49.649
today is to wonder what would have
happened if I call it a different friend
00:43:58.870 --> 00:44:03.558
interested in exploring some other options
that you\'re getting some I\'m not ready
00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:09.004
yet I\'m not ready to meet strange people
00:44:09.005 --> 00:44:15.429
sometimes want to be left alone Demonstrate
00:44:15.430 --> 00:44:19.959
runs allowed me to miss your friends
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:25.789
back and only certain I miss my
family my sisters my brothers.
00:44:33.390 --> 00:44:41.349
We do have a new member
this his guest Jennifer and
00:44:41.350 --> 00:44:44.559
I are there any members your rates
00:44:44.560 --> 00:44:48.684
306090 days of abstinence for
the first time six months.
00:44:48.685 --> 00:44:50.450
Nine months
00:44:57.160 --> 00:44:58.998
Hi my name
00:44:58.999 --> 00:45:03.888
is Dawn dam a compulsive
gambler congratulation thank
00:45:03.889 --> 00:45:10.458
you well ab is manlous is allowed to
when I first came to gamma synonymous.
00:45:10.459 --> 00:45:16.449
Was destroyed. I didn\'t know which way
I was gone what I was going to and at
00:45:16.450 --> 00:45:19.848
the same time when I went
to the first mean I will
00:45:19.849 --> 00:45:23.688
sit now is good and you
will say no that may say.
00:45:23.689 --> 00:45:25.829
Open like dizzy.
00:45:26.970 --> 00:45:34.970
But it too much for me to realize
that I am a compulsive need
00:45:35.990 --> 00:45:43.990
heal I require here every day of my life and
I get up every morning nasa Serenity Prayer.
00:45:44.689 --> 00:45:47.448
And if Bayes Gibbs roof
around me that I don\'t see
00:45:47.449 --> 00:45:50.748
another way that I can get out
of it and given me a look
00:45:50.749 --> 00:45:52.729
corn Emma Emma House and I say
00:45:52.730 --> 00:45:57.828
the Serenity Prayer law agency and
say the same thing like athe Norma.
00:45:57.829 --> 00:46:05.829
I\'m thankful to the half power because it
has brought me to many of the freedom.
00:46:07.249 --> 00:46:11.419
I feel good about myself
because I didn\'t feel
00:46:11.420 --> 00:46:15.649
good about myself when I
was scammed you seen so on
00:46:15.650 --> 00:46:18.229
and he\'s gone beyond every
day is not going to be taken
00:46:18.230 --> 00:46:21.919
eyes green And it\'s not
going to be a beta roles
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:29.854
but just don\'t give a just don\'t give up because
it\'s a birthday around corner vol loves.
00:46:29.855 --> 00:46:36.198
Thank you I call my girls.
00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.669
When I get NGA economists you know what as
00:46:39.670 --> 00:46:44.089
an immaterial something I say you know
I\'m pretty simply some preacher by jowl
00:46:44.090 --> 00:46:49.159
on Quick Ok I say I\'m just as
bad as I now wish to apologize
00:46:49.160 --> 00:46:54.768
yeah as all the years I was Geb and I
wasn\'t sitting around thinking about you.
00:46:54.769 --> 00:46:59.463
And what the dramatic AS
becomes Gong Duo Yao ISA and
00:46:59.464 --> 00:47:04.204
do you know I\'m a gambles anonymous
And they said Fourier mama\'s yeah.
00:47:04.205 --> 00:47:07.248
So one twist over and
call the other one and
00:47:07.249 --> 00:47:09.529
the other one pushed over and cow
00:47:09.530 --> 00:47:12.903
the other one and then I head out three.
Girls on the left.
00:47:12.904 --> 00:47:16.159
So I tell my Samsung Galaxy
analysis and you know and I say
00:47:16.160 --> 00:47:20.779
the serenity prayer every day I say
You know they say mom say would you
00:47:20.780 --> 00:47:24.454
call make no problem so you
know you\'re strong lady you\'ve
00:47:24.455 --> 00:47:28.833
always been able to do things that you
wanna do map you can make it through.
00:47:28.834 --> 00:47:34.488
Remember what you always told us If you
have as much faith as a mustard see you can
00:47:34.489 --> 00:47:41.299
make really basic questions if
00:47:41.300 --> 00:47:44.719
you\'re borrowing money to gamble you\'ve
got a problem Social gamblers don\'t do
00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:48.379
that period they don\'t change money from
accounts they don\'t take money on credit cards.
00:47:48.380 --> 00:47:51.769
They don\'t shuffle money
from one system to another
00:47:51.770 --> 00:47:55.798
if you miss activities if you\'re
late for activities because
00:47:55.799 --> 00:47:58.398
again you\'ve got a problem
social gamers don\'t do
00:47:58.399 --> 00:48:05.598
that social gamers consistently get
excited about gambling or have
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:08.299
fun or divert themselves
but they know where they
00:48:08.300 --> 00:48:11.089
are and what time it is and
where the kids are and if
00:48:11.090 --> 00:48:13.069
they\'re in the middle of a hot
crap game but they\'ve got
00:48:13.070 --> 00:48:18.093
eight o\'clock show reservations they\'re going
to be at the show My patients don\'t do that
00:48:18.094 --> 00:48:20.839
my patients sound a lot
like Alcoholics kind of in
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.689
a blackout state they really don\'t
know what time it is and they
00:48:23.690 --> 00:48:25.998
really don\'t remember where the
kids aren\'t it\'s not that they
00:48:25.999 --> 00:48:28.518
don\'t love the kids and it\'s
not that they don\'t want
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.399
to be at the show something very different
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.359
happens or we\'ll call it 5% in Las
Vegas and number\'s a little over
00:48:35.360 --> 00:48:37.369
6% actually but for
00:48:37.370 --> 00:48:40.789
roughly 5% of the people that gamble
it\'s a whole different phenomenon and
00:48:40.790 --> 00:48:43.039
it doesn\'t have much to
do with fun or money
00:48:43.040 --> 00:48:47.369
or socialization it really
does have to do with escape
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.663
The hardest part of living in Las Vegas.
00:49:03.664 --> 00:49:08.879
Is the gambling machines because
they\'re gambling machines everywhere.
00:49:10.690 --> 00:49:14.688
Hello okay how long it\'s been
reduced down again a good BV
00:49:14.689 --> 00:49:17.838
years there you can get so stressed out
00:49:17.839 --> 00:49:23.358
about a Beall or Southern is going wrong
in your life and you tend to want to
00:49:23.359 --> 00:49:29.929
gamble that death data come through
your man you rab bag senior Wallace.
00:49:30.460 --> 00:49:37.219
I a lot of friends when I was
gambler buses along gamma you sorta
00:49:37.220 --> 00:49:44.089
lose those free because
the way you like Oh tag.
00:49:44.090 --> 00:49:47.658
Though to the sad. So they don\'t want to
00:49:47.659 --> 00:49:51.198
have anything diligent Lucas they\'re
fine is gambling and you don\'t
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:52.579
do it so they don\'t want to hand that
00:49:52.580 --> 00:49:54.090
the medulla
00:50:12.430 --> 00:50:14.119
gambling
00:50:14.120 --> 00:50:14.359
is
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:18.753
Very much a part of life here
nobody really notices it anymore.
00:50:18.754 --> 00:50:22.218
So being the person in the group
on Friday night who doesn\'t
00:50:22.219 --> 00:50:27.709
gamble Sometimes requires some explanation
sometimes it can be very awkward.
00:50:27.710 --> 00:50:30.019
Much like I\'m sure it\'s
awkward for an alcoholic to
00:50:30.020 --> 00:50:33.739
explain why he\'s not
drinking the wine at dinner.
00:50:33.740 --> 00:50:36.858
It\'s a question of making a
decision to do what I have to
00:50:36.859 --> 00:50:44.329
do at a made
00:50:44.330 --> 00:50:49.110
it a year and I got to go to and
ask tell me the hardest tasks.
00:50:52.930 --> 00:51:00.930
Just call you unbelievable they take something
is a car founded GO what L and you get the
00:51:03.395 --> 00:51:08.438
Yan\'an quitting Bill collectors
go and negotiate with
00:51:08.439 --> 00:51:15.214
the base decane and tell them what I can do
when I came I seen to be thankful with USA.
00:51:15.215 --> 00:51:20.298
I used to I was gambling and as I come this
bill is like saying I can\'t afford to pay
00:51:20.299 --> 00:51:23.718
for right now I\'m trying
to pay every barrier if we
00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:27.409
are just basically give me some
time to do this I will pay
00:51:27.410 --> 00:51:31.848
you assay but it\'s gonna take me some time
it took me time to gamble it takes me
00:51:31.849 --> 00:51:37.890
time to bake ok we have an a additions there
are seizes balance for wind at ten o\'clock.
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:44.808
Okay there\'s ten for
control or 21 or 321 or
00:51:44.809 --> 00:51:49.638
three Thank
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:55.264
you I\'m a recovering alcoholic.
00:51:55.265 --> 00:51:58.564
I\'ve been. As we say clean and sober.
00:51:58.565 --> 00:52:03.079
For almost 14 years they
00:52:03.080 --> 00:52:07.864
tried to start a GA meeting at the Mirage
but you just can\'t hold it in a casino.
00:52:07.865 --> 00:52:12.199
But my name is fairly freely given out to
00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:17.148
hotel employees that express a concern
or a problem and it\'s my way of
00:52:17.149 --> 00:52:21.108
being able to be in service I\'m
00:52:21.109 --> 00:52:23.179
the Executive Director
of the Nevada Council on
00:52:23.180 --> 00:52:26.869
problem gambling and we are
a non-profit agency who
00:52:26.870 --> 00:52:33.069
promote education and awareness about Problem
Gambling A few years ago we finally got
00:52:33.070 --> 00:52:36.548
the attention of the gaming
industry they finally had
00:52:36.549 --> 00:52:40.509
taken an interest for their own reasons and
really learning something about this problem.
00:52:40.510 --> 00:52:44.109
So we were able to completely reorganize in
00:52:44.110 --> 00:52:49.899
November of 1998 the Nevada Gaming Commission
adopted a regulation that requires
00:52:49.900 --> 00:52:54.369
the casinos to train their gaming employees
as a result of that regulation of
00:52:54.370 --> 00:52:59.258
course we now have a great
demand for training programs on
00:52:59.259 --> 00:53:02.288
the individual the family and
00:53:02.289 --> 00:53:06.128
the coworkers isn\'t it there because if the
casinos didn\'t do this we wouldn\'t have
00:53:06.129 --> 00:53:10.089
the province kinda their fault that they what
about the cocktail waitress was at the Rio
00:53:10.090 --> 00:53:16.039
and my patients would gamble If the casinos
move the machines out into the parking lot.
00:53:16.040 --> 00:53:19.608
Only turned them on during windstorms
and the cochlea waitresses
00:53:19.609 --> 00:53:22.999
spit in the coffee my guys would
still be out in the book they are
00:53:23.000 --> 00:53:25.699
not there because of the cochlea
waitresses uniforms or how
00:53:25.700 --> 00:53:28.699
friendly to staff is or
what color the the carpet
00:53:28.700 --> 00:53:31.698
is that\'s not what driving it might
patients are gambling because they want
00:53:31.699 --> 00:53:35.239
to get out of themselves and when
they gamble they\'re somewhere else.
00:53:35.240 --> 00:53:38.043
Yeah I love gambling.
00:53:38.044 --> 00:53:46.044
I admitted. It\'s in my blood can help it
how is it in your blind. I love to gamble.
00:53:46.390 --> 00:53:53.584
I\'ll never forget what my brother Tommy 25
years ago that I\'m a compulsive gambling.
00:53:53.585 --> 00:54:01.585
He\'s right Yeah I said that the somebody in
00:54:03.849 --> 00:54:11.849
backfired and got to me here\'s a picture
of Dolly taken at the studio and
00:54:13.090 --> 00:54:20.198
about 1945 and another picture of
Dolly and a Baden suit I made for
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:24.248
her lipid velvet is
00:54:24.249 --> 00:54:31.520
G beautiful Dolly was my one and only.
00:54:31.680 --> 00:54:37.388
I went with her about three
years and then moved out to
00:54:37.389 --> 00:54:44.164
California And she told me that I\'ll always
send you a birthday card or a Christmas card.
00:54:44.165 --> 00:54:52.158
Until you tell me to stop and
00:54:52.159 --> 00:54:57.168
after awhile I stopped writing to
her because I figured well she was
00:54:57.169 --> 00:55:02.580
3 thousand miles away no use
continuing that relationship.
00:55:02.710 --> 00:55:10.488
So one day see she surprised me
came out here to visit me and I
00:55:10.489 --> 00:55:17.869
took her over to meet my mother she has Dolly
outcome you and Lou never got married.
00:55:17.870 --> 00:55:24.409
She\'s a little wasn\'t persistent enough
And the reason why it wasn\'t persistent.
00:55:24.410 --> 00:55:28.339
Is because she told me you
come from a big family.
00:55:28.340 --> 00:55:31.579
Ten children and I don\'t think I\'ll be
00:55:31.580 --> 00:55:34.804
strong enough to give you children
if we haven\'t got married.
00:55:34.805 --> 00:55:38.284
So that\'s why I wasn\'t persistent.
00:55:38.285 --> 00:55:43.279
That\'s the end of that story then can
00:55:43.280 --> 00:55:46.429
you can you take charcoal
00:55:46.430 --> 00:55:51.933
from I think I\'m probably more
honest with my kids about gambling.
00:55:51.934 --> 00:55:54.259
If you\'re an adult and
it\'s legal for you to
00:55:54.260 --> 00:55:56.658
gamble I certainly am not
going to tell someone that
00:55:56.659 --> 00:55:59.928
can\'t be gambling in my
home I would like to think
00:55:59.929 --> 00:56:03.288
though that it would be a matter
of respect and that people
00:56:03.289 --> 00:56:07.098
would figure that this is not the most likely
place that we should be having a game of
00:56:07.099 --> 00:56:13.324
cards there\'s an attitude
that gambling is only
00:56:13.325 --> 00:56:15.738
going into the casino and
that is something that I
00:56:15.739 --> 00:56:18.289
should be concerned about
but gambling really for
00:56:18.290 --> 00:56:21.318
kids usually starts young
it starts maybe between
00:56:21.319 --> 00:56:25.998
1315 usually starts actually in the
home that\'s the kind of gambling kids
00:56:25.999 --> 00:56:28.428
learn about sitting
around playing cards with
00:56:28.429 --> 00:56:31.338
mom and dad on Friday night for
pennies or match sticks or
00:56:31.339 --> 00:56:33.678
something so I don\'t
think parents take that
00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:37.729
seriously because they don\'t see
that as being quote gambling.
00:56:37.730 --> 00:56:41.268
Beautiful girl share from Las Vegas And
00:56:41.269 --> 00:56:43.968
they\'re gonna handicapped tomorrow\'s
Bellman Who do you girls like in
00:56:43.969 --> 00:56:51.969
this big ration Schiller bullet de
outcome will question how come.
00:56:52.510 --> 00:56:58.309
Girls or bow kay well gang you heard
it right from the horse\'s mouth from.
00:56:58.310 --> 00:57:01.158
Beautiful girls while you\'re
hurt the girls handicap I\'ve
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:04.178
got did a guys from Las Vegas days goal.
00:57:04.179 --> 00:57:07.728
All smart fellowship good
athletes who do you guys like in
00:57:07.729 --> 00:57:14.104
a Belmont race relations game pays 20 to
one thing Beacon when I raise my arm.
00:57:14.105 --> 00:57:15.869
I heard a gang
00:57:35.830 --> 00:57:36.979
You
00:57:36.980 --> 00:57:44.868
have to have willpower and you
have to have a plan I don\'t like
00:57:44.869 --> 00:57:47.089
to socialize I don\'t like
00:57:47.090 --> 00:57:53.509
the carry compensate with anybody on
that and make some money It\'s a job.
00:57:53.510 --> 00:57:55.984
Going to gamble gamble.
00:57:55.985 --> 00:58:01.548
It\'s like any other job it\'s
hard work it\'s not easy it\'s not
00:58:01.549 --> 00:58:09.549
easy you have to put up with all
the other people at the table.
00:58:10.235 --> 00:58:16.350
Some of them a drug some of them clowning
throwing their money away right nobody would
00:58:20.380 --> 00:58:23.478
they just as well write out a check that
00:58:23.479 --> 00:58:25.728
Jack opinions that are gambling
because they don\'t know what
00:58:25.729 --> 00:58:31.279
they\'re doing but I blocked
everybody out it\'s just me and
00:58:31.280 --> 00:58:39.280
the dealer You go
00:58:39.909 --> 00:58:41.859
through some bad times you know.
00:58:41.860 --> 00:58:45.098
Usually you know when you
gamble the the worst thing you
00:58:45.099 --> 00:58:48.758
can do is change your losses.
That\'s what I did.
00:58:48.759 --> 00:58:53.768
Now I have certain amount of money I
gamble with let\'s dive learn to be more of
00:58:53.769 --> 00:58:59.483
a recreational gambler and
I enjoy sports betting.
00:58:59.484 --> 00:59:04.178
And probably moneyman friends is the
most important thing in gambling
00:59:04.179 --> 00:59:09.669
and I do it as a recreation and
saw someone therapy I love to
00:59:09.670 --> 00:59:13.958
shoot craps but diagonal do
too often because it\'s too
00:59:13.959 --> 00:59:18.378
tough and yeah that took it My son is
00:59:18.379 --> 00:59:20.298
almost ten my data she\'s going to be
00:59:20.299 --> 00:59:24.319
nine and also what can I say so
I got to future we\'re thinking
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:27.348
about the kids do and plus one you
are in the business you can that
00:59:27.349 --> 00:59:30.679
go gamble pseudo lady when I
heard your business and you
00:59:30.680 --> 00:59:32.779
go low even if the bankruptcy you\'re out of
00:59:32.780 --> 00:59:37.954
business it\'s very difficult to
gamble and took him next day to work.
00:59:37.955 --> 00:59:39.924
Number 38 years she would\'ve been
00:59:39.925 --> 00:59:43.519
12 the biggest mistake is tsunami
in Galilee but in life itself.
00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:46.458
Money management and discipline I played
00:59:46.459 --> 00:59:50.743
when I don\'t place geared in a bite
was like shopping I\'ll go work too
00:59:50.744 --> 00:59:52.728
but I\'m a good money manager
and I have a lot of
00:59:52.729 --> 01:00:00.698
discipline The only people
01:00:00.699 --> 01:00:03.503
who really do go with a gambling
or the big owners of the casinos.
01:00:03.504 --> 01:00:06.609
If somebody has assessment beat
them they\'re going to change
01:00:06.610 --> 01:00:13.688
the rules I think there\'s a good that
you know if this game was played.
01:00:13.689 --> 01:00:18.984
Last week I think we\'d be fine you get seven
points that I think tends to bargain.
01:00:18.985 --> 01:00:23.378
Let\'s have a good weekend and
I\'ll talk to you on the rebound
01:00:23.379 --> 01:00:28.928
but as far as I know if I
01:00:28.929 --> 01:00:34.553
count what I had played in the
last year or so I\'m a big loser.
01:00:34.554 --> 01:00:38.739
Sorry I can\'t give you any better
advice than that there are
01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:43.203
many stories about people winning
lots of money Don\'t believe them
01:00:43.204 --> 01:00:46.399
now the problem is there are people that
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:49.728
when they\'re awesome people here that
when the thousands of dollars at
01:00:49.729 --> 01:00:52.939
a shot but you never hear
the other half of it
01:00:52.940 --> 01:00:58.219
the other half is how much did they lose
before they won the big stake that they got.
01:00:58.220 --> 01:01:01.578
I think social dealers
really think a lot of
01:01:01.579 --> 01:01:04.624
that money and I and I think they\'re
purchasing little bits of dreams
01:01:04.625 --> 01:01:07.879
renting dreams we called it
they buy a lottery ticket and
01:01:07.880 --> 01:01:11.298
they picture themselves on a Caribbean
island of my peace I thinks it\'s
01:01:11.299 --> 01:01:14.584
for care but they don\'t
think of it in terms of
01:01:14.585 --> 01:01:18.469
actual dollars it\'s not you
know this is a TV or this is
01:01:18.470 --> 01:01:22.999
a Chevrolet or this is my son\'s
college And it\'s just this
01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:27.529
is a unit that will allow X
amount of action when you see
01:01:27.530 --> 01:01:30.289
people come to Vegas you know
they\'re not coming here to
01:01:30.290 --> 01:01:33.138
be the accountant from
Omaha and they\'re coming
01:01:33.139 --> 01:01:37.398
here to be whoever they want to
be to have the fun that that
01:01:37.399 --> 01:01:42.018
this this whole environment attracts
them to the social gambit goes
01:01:42.019 --> 01:01:45.303
back home and goes back to
being that accountant and
01:01:45.304 --> 01:01:49.158
continues their life in a healthy
way the problem gamblers always
01:01:49.159 --> 01:01:52.069
moving away from that reality and
that\'s where the danger comes
01:01:52.070 --> 01:01:56.853
in the fifth stage only Hawaii and
Utah in the United States you have no.
01:01:56.854 --> 01:02:01.023
Type of him every other state has
a choice rationing and being old
01:02:01.024 --> 01:02:06.759
or lotteries or whatever
Vegas preimage built
01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:07.929
the infrastructure along with
01:02:07.930 --> 01:02:11.529
the gambling industry and these other areas
or just getting it now they never had
01:02:11.530 --> 01:02:13.703
experienced all the
things that are about to
01:02:13.704 --> 01:02:17.394
experience our bankruptcies
robbery prostitution.
01:02:17.395 --> 01:02:20.243
It\'s going to come with that
gambling is not quote quote
01:02:20.244 --> 01:02:22.749
a clean business you know when
you\'re going out and taking
01:02:22.750 --> 01:02:25.839
something from the ground and you put it
in a factory and you sell it on a shelf.
01:02:25.840 --> 01:02:28.689
Those basic production gone
there\'s an actual value in
01:02:28.690 --> 01:02:31.869
that product the gambling industry
produces nothing but Entertainment.
01:02:31.870 --> 01:02:34.839
When I look at little towns that are not
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:37.028
destination resorts and
I\'m not not going to
01:02:37.029 --> 01:02:39.968
have there\'s a lot of
pleasant little places but
01:02:39.969 --> 01:02:42.788
they\'re not places that people travel
to spend a week and then travel
01:02:42.789 --> 01:02:45.998
home in those towns when
I come initially and
01:02:45.999 --> 01:02:48.468
speak and then come back a year
or two later It doesn\'t look
01:02:48.469 --> 01:02:50.958
like gambling helps those towns it
looks like the dry cleaner goes
01:02:50.959 --> 01:02:53.688
out of business and the bowling
alley goes out of business because
01:02:53.689 --> 01:02:56.449
they are not bringing new
dollars to town it\'s not money
01:02:56.450 --> 01:02:59.088
from somewhere else initially
Yeah there\'s a big rush when
01:02:59.089 --> 01:03:01.729
a place first opens people drive
three hundred four hundred miles to
01:03:01.730 --> 01:03:07.488
see it but as soon as the novelties off to the
industry is dependent on the towns people.
01:03:07.489 --> 01:03:09.469
So it doesn\'t mean new
money comes in at means
01:03:09.470 --> 01:03:12.229
the existing money goes into somebody
else\'s pocket and there\'s there\'s not
01:03:12.230 --> 01:03:14.419
money left to do the things
that they used to do so
01:03:14.420 --> 01:03:17.658
that that part of it
doesn\'t make sense to me.
01:03:17.659 --> 01:03:20.419
People feel like him better
than themselves and take
01:03:20.420 --> 01:03:23.628
a chance It\'s a land of
opportunity but there\'s a lot of
01:03:23.629 --> 01:03:27.034
better gambles like Yay not the stock
market and other commodities but
01:03:27.035 --> 01:03:31.800
gamble to go into business and
make success out of yourself.
01:03:34.030 --> 01:03:37.654
My grandfather probably
was the best gambler.
01:03:37.655 --> 01:03:39.874
Of all he came here from Russia.
01:03:39.875 --> 01:03:41.899
During the turn of the century
and whenever purged into
01:03:41.900 --> 01:03:45.409
Jewish and he he must have had ten kids.
01:03:45.410 --> 01:03:50.448
No money nothing and he took a chance and
he was very successful and thank God for
01:03:50.449 --> 01:03:53.569
my my grandparents
otherwise I\'d be in Russia
01:03:53.570 --> 01:03:58.260
and we\'d never have them wonderful
leverage we have your God bless America
01:04:08.590 --> 01:04:11.029
I\'ll never go broke.
01:04:11.030 --> 01:04:17.820
Never allows managed to
make a buck stealing.
01:04:18.790 --> 01:04:22.800
Not joking just joking just joking.
01:04:23.410 --> 01:04:29.613
Yeah he\'s right here I\'m not
afraid to work I mean you know.
01:04:29.614 --> 01:04:34.379
Got my ten fingers. I got a trade.
01:04:34.630 --> 01:04:42.630
I go broke at work People come here to win
meant ends at a teeny spake to heat one of
01:04:45.590 --> 01:04:49.819
the mega books is that
instantly anything Eva baz
01:04:49.820 --> 01:04:53.029
legal first Silver Line and I seal a man
01:04:53.030 --> 01:04:56.523
is in Las Vegas do thumb the Las
Vegas they say you\'d even lousy.
01:04:56.524 --> 01:04:59.119
Oh do you eat into the mailbox.
01:04:59.120 --> 01:05:01.980
Isn\'t that bit simple.
01:05:02.560 --> 01:05:08.298
A young man that I worked with the
graduated from Harvard and he\'s spent
01:05:08.299 --> 01:05:10.878
his entire college career
explaining to his classmates that
01:05:10.879 --> 01:05:14.314
his mother was not a show girl
because he grew up in Las Vegas.
01:05:14.315 --> 01:05:18.708
We really don\'t have neon on
our houses we don\'t live in
01:05:18.709 --> 01:05:23.419
hotels Go to work I garden I go to church
01:05:23.420 --> 01:05:28.399
I do volunteer work I do
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:34.293
everything that you would do any
place cells it\'s just in Las Vegas.
01:05:34.294 --> 01:05:39.484
The wealthiest man in the world but
I\'m happy I\'m a lucky man because
01:05:39.485 --> 01:05:45.079
my families together they\'re all
happy and healthy. While Justin.
01:05:45.080 --> 01:05:49.309
They all loving well marketing
outscore we came out here
01:05:49.310 --> 01:05:54.409
together broke and she\'s had
a lot of competition and
01:05:54.410 --> 01:05:58.758
me I don\'t know why and we were
survivors living happily ever
01:05:58.759 --> 01:06:03.949
after and that was nice
They have done you know so
01:06:03.950 --> 01:06:07.069
it is cosmologist
self-control g out there with
01:06:07.070 --> 01:06:12.439
a UCF is has been about
2.5 years since I\'ve
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:16.759
gambled it feels good I got
a little Millennium Park in
01:06:16.760 --> 01:06:21.514
a little more than I used there I\'m
still recovering from the depth.
01:06:21.515 --> 01:06:29.515
Over $20 thousand worth of debt and it
doesn\'t mean they got wiped up or wave
01:06:31.339 --> 01:06:35.299
of AFM so I think I\'ve extra
Glass-Steagall and now
01:06:35.300 --> 01:06:39.138
they have gone to that I
get to faith and were
01:06:39.139 --> 01:06:47.139
given Nuka I really notice is examine
Alone and no man who has been.
01:06:47.194 --> 01:06:52.158
Coming to I think Las Vegas
01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:57.738
Gombei 13x you know at 1 in my
life when I was Gavin and I wanted
01:06:57.739 --> 01:07:01.729
to do was run by account Chattanooga
Tennessee and I think the way you
01:07:01.730 --> 01:07:05.898
know it\'s lonely went down
I created the problem in
01:07:05.899 --> 01:07:08.868
Las Vegas so stay here
in Las Vegas and destroy
01:07:08.869 --> 01:07:12.798
the problem because it\'s going
to be with me irregardless so
01:07:12.799 --> 01:07:16.218
I\'m as would suffer with the
with the problem while I\'m
01:07:16.219 --> 01:07:21.420
here and I\'m playing nostalgia areas
My Lai Bang runaway unlikely.
01:07:22.450 --> 01:07:28.174
I don\'t want to stop I don\'t want to start.
01:07:28.175 --> 01:07:30.004
Why should I stop.
01:07:30.005 --> 01:07:34.788
How many more years do I have I\'m going
to be 77 people a couple of months.
01:07:34.789 --> 01:07:42.789
Why should I stop I get pleasure out of
it I\'m not a compulsive gambler but I do
01:07:45.109 --> 01:07:49.140
like to sit down and have some action
01:07:54.940 --> 01:08:02.940
I want to win two out of three
games and be ahead of them drink
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:10.960
coffee play cards to smoke What a way to go
01:08:35.050 --> 01:08:37.890
my dad too
01:08:50.080 --> 01:08:52.479
If I
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.400
say that
01:09:25.270 --> 01:09:33.270
again Thank you
01:10:14.620 --> 01:10:18.819
It\'s true
01:10:57.100 --> 01:10:59.339
Right
Distributor: Icarus Films
Length: 71 minutes
Date: 2000
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 7-12, College, Adult
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Looks at the growing problem of gambling addiction among teenagers.