Mandalay Bay

talk about all your guys' summers because I think it's cool that we've probably had some intersecting experiences, but we've also had some very unique ones.

And actually, I want to start with you, Wax, because you started playing at the Vinyl Bar at Mandalay Bay, right? What's it called? Vinyl Room.

Vinyl Room.

Vinyl Room at the Mandalay Bay.

It's basically the old foundation room.

Okay, yeah.

as a result of that celebration.

And then 40, we did the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

This was...

So it was...

This was 26 years ago.

So Vegas was starting to like become cool and hip.

And the Mandalay Bay had the house of blues on the top floor.

And we were going to do the gospel brunch and, and we, and we, Oh no, that was on the ground floor.

So I became really interested in people creating these fantasy bubbles for themselves.

And Dan Bilzerian, one, one way that Dan Bil- Bilzerian responded to accusations that he was living a fake life is he's at a music festival in Las Vegas when a shooter opened fire at the Mandalay Bay.

60 people are, are shot all around him.

He's suddenly in a very real life situation, and he's clearly seeing it as a way to prove to the world that he's real.

I think it's worthwhile calling out to you what you said.

I think the events that I hosted for the book launch that I had was all either in Venetian, cosmopolitan, definitely not in the Mandalay Hotel, which is just a venue technically, but everyone was traveling between hotels as to what you said, because everything was booked out for whatever event.

So you almost were running out of places to have hallway conversations and everyone just talking, or at least there's like a mob of people walking in together.

I was going to say something that I thought was interesting and in terms of conversations that I had was from a RSA perspective, I noticed that if I were to step like a 10,000 feet view of RSA, the conversations that were there, there was a lot of focus on visibility, shadow AI.

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... fire at the Mandalay Bay.

60 people are, are shot all around him.

He's suddenly in a very real life situation, and he's clearly seeing it as a way to prove to the world that he's real, he's a, he's a man in full, he's not fake.

I remember being in Las Vegas.

I remember being at the top of the Mandalay Bay.

And this man comes and taps me on the shoulders.

Name's Ray.

And it's in Vegas.

And if you stay like at the Mandalay Bay, the whole like pool area, it's just delightful.

You know, I even brought my Cavalier Blossom Bow with me last year.

And so I pushed her around dog mom in a stroller outside of there.