{"id":20979,"date":"2018-12-03T01:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T09:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=20979"},"modified":"2020-05-12T01:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T08:23:27","slug":"vital-vegas-podcast-ep-89-reckless-speculation-and-winner-takes-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/vital-vegas-podcast-ep-89-reckless-speculation-and-winner-takes-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital Vegas Podcast, Ep. 89: Reckless Speculation and “Winner Takes All”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s time for the podcast your mother would’ve warned you about were she not so busy trying to delete your browser history.<\/p>\n

In this installment, we chat with someone who’s actually interesting: Christina Binkley, author of “Winner Takes All.”<\/p>\n

“Winner Takes All” is a must-read, and Binkley indulges our inane questions about three titans of Las Vegas: Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman and Steve Wynn. But mostly that last guy.<\/p>\n

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A book so good, we read it twice, and we haven’t read a book since 1992.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christina Binkley is an award-winning journalist who’s been at The Wall Street Journal for more than two decades. A hefty portion of that was spent covering Las Vegas and its larger-than-life personalities.<\/p>\n

We chat about the current state of Las Vegas, some of the people who made it what it is and what may be next for disgraced visionary Steve Wynn.<\/p>\n

Naturally, we balance our our fascinating interview with an award-winning journalist by rambling incoherently about Wynn Plaza<\/a>, being kicked out of SLS Las Vegas<\/a> and how some Vegas resorts are bailing on resort fees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wynn Plaza, being all “Grammable” and whatnot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mix in some rumors, speculation and hastily-slapped-together news updates, and you’ve got a solid way to kill an hour you might otherwise foolishly spend feeding the poor or helping elderly people across busy streets.<\/p>\n

Take a listen and prove you don’t always do the smart thing, as if your brood of illegitimate children wasn’t already proof enough.<\/p>\n

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