that s what vegas is. vegas is unique. but i ll tell you one thing. you go to the airport here, everybody s smiling. when they come in they re smiling and they can t wait to lose their money. and then when they leave they re smiling after they lost their money. so, i think it s very, very special. it s a special kind of place where peoplean take their basest instincts, and just l it, let it fly. i think that s good! i have no problem with that at all. anthony: when you come to vegas, you see this. the lights and smoke and mirrors, the casino floors. but who manages the machine? where do they come from? beneath the floors, behind the walls, above the winking surveillance camera lenses a whole other world. manned by thousands and thousands of waiters, maintenance people, repairmen, chefs, engineers, plumbers, and croupiers. three shifts a day they slip in and out of the casinos almost unseen through their own entrances.
was a consigliere as a matter of fact. in order to murder somebody, they had to get my permission. i mean that s how stupid these people were. anthony: anthony the ant spilotro, meyer lansky, these were gentlemen not unknown to mayor goodman. oscar: well, a lot of people will tell you that this was a better place when the mob was running it. and in many ways, that s true. anthony: there, there were rules then that mattered. you know the old saying what happens in vegas stays in vegas. and when the mob ran things, there was a certain urgency to that suggestion. oscar: well we saw that with prince harry. i mean that s a perfect example. i mean, here s a guy who was here to have a good time in the old vegas, and that would have never happened. there would never have been a disclosure. in today s modern age, it was all over the world in moments. anthony: moments. oscar: yes. anthony: it says something about the town, that his honor served 3 terms as mayor. he s an una
it s its own sort of hothouse environment. oscar: but that s what vegas, that s what vegas is. vegas is unique. but i ll tell you one thing. you go to the airport here, everybody s smiling. when they come in they re smiling and they can t wait to lose their money. and then when they leave they re smiling after they lost their money. so, i think it s very, very special. it s a special kind of place where people can take their basest instincts, and just let it, let it fly. i think that s good! i have no problem with that at all. anthony: when you come to vegas, you see this. the lights and smoke and mirrors, the casino floors. but who manages the machine? where do they come from? beneath the floors, behind the walls, above the winking surveillance camera lenses a whole other world. manned by thousands and thousands of waiters, maintenance people, repairmen, chefs, engineers, plumbers, and
the old vegas, and that would have never happened. there would never have been a disclosure. in today s modern age, it was all over the world in moments. anthony: moments. oscar: yes. anthony: it says something about the town, that his honor served 3 terms as mayor. he s an unabashed booster, entrepreneur, drinker of hard liquor, and gambler. and he was never shy about admitting it. i mean, it s unique. it s its own sort of hothouse environment. oscar: but that s what vegas, that s what vegas is. vegas is unique. but i ll tell you one thing. you go to the airport here, everybody s smiling. when they come in they re smiling and they can t wait to lose their money. and then when they leave they re smiling after they lost their money. so, i think it s very, very special. it s a special kind of place where people can take their basest instincts, and just let it, let it fly. i think that s good! i have no problem with that at all. anthony: when you come to