What's the one thing you have to do in Las Vegas?

0:00So Scott, eight days ago on this radio program, we made the point, hey, here's a thought. Hey, here's a thought. Do it all the time. We were speaking to the Big 10 about showing all replay deliberations live on the air. The Big 10 has announced they're going to do exactly what we were suggesting. replay deliberations will be broadcast during games moving forward, not just for Friday night games, which is when we said they should probably do this all the time. It took a day and well, seven days. I mean, they made the announcement yesterday, but I guess that doesn't come as a huge shock. Opening week of football, 97.1 is presented by hands-free sketchers, slip-ins, just step in and go. All right, so we got a tweet here from a member of our audience and I want to help this guy out. No, I've lost it.

1:01Hold on for a sec. From Mike Hamill. Doug and Gator, my wife and I are going to Vegas to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. What's one thing I shouldn't miss while I'm there? Going to Vegas for their anniversary. What's one thing he writes, I shouldn't miss while I'm there. I'm wondering if he's going to ditch the wife at some point or is this a, is this a, there's something that they should do together? Can you're Mr. Vegas? What's he? He is Mr. So this is very simple and it's free and accessible to everybody. Personally, I think you should always, if you've never done it before, see the Bellagio Fountain Show. It's iconic, it's free, it's really cool. I remember the first time I saw it. It still hits when I go back the 19th time. It's just, it's Vegas.

2:01And like I said, anyone can go do it. Now, there's crowds of course, but if you go maybe during the week and during off season or whatever, but I think the Bellagio Fountain is something that if he's never gone to Vegas before, you should do that. Okay. I think it's a solid call, man. At night when the whole strip is lit up and the Fountain's are lit up, it's the music and everything. It's gorgeous. I've stayed at the Bellagio for the last five years and for those five years I made sure I had a Fountain View room. It's fantastic. And this guy, baller. I'm first class. First class. Fountain View. That's how you got to do it, guys. I had no, not that much more expensive than normal in there, but it's beautiful. But it's beautiful, right? It's beautiful. I got it's a great call. I think just, if you're going to go there, be ready to walk, but do walk. Enjoy it. The Venetian is beautiful with the canals and all that. Going into each of the different hotels is cool. You go to look at Paris is different and all the themed stuff, but it's cool.

3:06But to me, the number one thing is just plan ahead for restaurants. The food is fantastic in Las Vegas. It's like make reservations. Make reservations. Find out what you want. Do some research and what the best places are and they're plentiful. They're awesome. And enjoy. What about the sphere? I haven't been inside the sphere. I would say make it a point to go look at the sphere, at least from the exterior. Yeah, I'm kidding. But go inside. I know Keng's going to say go inside. Yeah, I mean, I was there for the NHL draft. That was really cool. So I got to see how everything works. I haven't seen a show there. The inside is, it's like you're at a casino, but there's a show going. It's so weird, like the carpet, you know, everything, the beautiful like chandeliers, everything is super nice and clean in there. I don't think you have to go. That's something like there's other shows too. That's just part of Vegas. They have a lot of different things you can entertain you besides the gambling. They have shows and the spheres. One of them. It's expensive to go in there because you go see something there, even if it's just like the tour or whatever.

4:06Yeah, you could see like space or near National Geographic. That's still going to cost like a hundred bucks or something just to go check that out. It's expensive. That's why I say at the very least, check out the exterior of it and spend some time looking at it. I throw it back a Paris where you can get a good view of it and just kind of sit on I want to stand on one of the bridges out there and look at it. It's awesome. Well, the one thing I would say is that I, and this is so simple, but the people watching is amazing. I mean, it is amazing in Vegas and casinos. It's wild. You can just sit there and just watch the range. So I was just in Vegas last summer, right? And you would trip and my wife had to stop and use the restroom. So I just sat on a slot machine and just waited outside the bathroom. The range of people you see walking through the casino floor at any given time is insane. Like you could see a girl in a bikini in flip flops. And then the next person walk by him is a guy in a full tuxedo. Right.

5:06You know what I mean? And then dude behind him is in basketball shorts. And the next person is in like a costume. Like it's insane. Like this is all within like a 20 minute span. And then get somebody walking their dog. Yeah, it's crazy. And so you know, a bridal party and my wife comes out and I'm like, you won't believe the different amount of people. I just so why are you in the bathroom? It's insane. Watching's nuts. It can be crazy. It can be absolutely crazy. All right. So we had breaking news. We opened the show with talking about the accusations about hazing in the Michigan hockey program from the mid 80s to the early 2000s. For almost every legal case, these are not places for hot takes. You can read the story. The allegations are disturbing. But we let these things play out in court. But Red Barrenson gave some quotes to M live today. Did it. And he says the following, we knew there was a certain element of initiation on our team and it was usually orchestrated by the seniors. We didn't promote it. We didn't question it.

6:07We didn't encourage it. But as time went on, when you think about it, like we spend all our energies as coaches recruiting the incoming freshmen. So the last thing we want to do is see these kids get abused by their teammates. It's disappointing when it comes out now because I've never had a player come in and complain to me as far as I know. Never came in and complain to the assistant coaches about how terrible it was. It was usually how they felt welcomed. We were where there's some mishaps, where there's some bad experiences possibly, but it wasn't a matter of direction or a matter of direction or encouragement from the coaching staff or the administration. Oh, that sounds like somebody's trying to wipe his hands. And not me or it's true. It could be. Yeah. I mean, that's why I say let these things play out. Yeah, but I mean, it's it's it's playing defense right there. This situation is just it's gross all around. It's it's really disturbing. It is. I mean, it's going to come out in court. So there have been accusations made in the past of in hazing cases that have been found

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