Yo-11 Minutes: Episode 14 "Sacrificing The Pink Elephant"

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Yo-11 Minutes: Episode 14 "Sacrificing The Pink Elephant"
On this episode:
-Trager is Live in Las Vegas
-Diamond Inn and The Pink Elephant
-Trager’s Travel Vibe

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Speaker 1 0:04

Welcome to Yo 11 Minutes . Yo 11 Minutes mostly Vegas , no BS , casino Experience and more . Michael Traeger is a casino and travel loyalty expert who also helps people turn their travel dreams into reality . And now , michael Traeger , how's it going , michael ?

Speaker 2 0:23

It's going awesome , man . I'm at Win , Las Vegas . I'm at Montecrisco Club 20 enjoying my amazing Tower Suites view of the sphere . So I mean it couldn't be going any better and it's great to be back in Vegas .

Speaker 1 0:40

That is a cool view behind you , like having the sphere keep you company . Is it everything you imagined it would be ? Have you actually gone up to the sphere yet and just seen the massive size of that thing ?

Speaker 2 0:56

I haven't . But I get a little bit of that perspective looking at it now and I have to say it's so entertaining Like I forget for a moment it's there and then , when I remember , I'm like holy shit , and you can sit in one of the chairs and just do work or read a book and have the sphere behind you and there's all kinds . I mean it's like endless things that it's always doing . So it's super cool . It's also really cool Like early in the morning they've got different kind of like sleepy vibe kind of things going on . But I think it's awesome , like it's definitely something I didn't realize would ever be as cool as it is .

Speaker 1 1:32

Yeah , I saw a video on someone social media of a guy who was playing golf down there and the ball was the sphere , was had the face on and was watching him play golf and like when the guy hit the ball , the face actually like like it was following the ball in the air . It was pretty cool .

Speaker 2 1:52

Oh , it's awesome . I mean , if you think about it , there's like an endless number of things they can do right that are so cool . I it's , it's great . I don't know . I mean , maybe maybe it'll become usual after a while , but it's just another one of those examples of how Vegas manages to wow you all the time . Like this is definitely like a definite wow factor . And now I mean , getting the golf course and sphere view is almost as cool as getting a strip view , so that's sort of that sort of neat too .

Speaker 1 2:23

That is pretty neat , I wonder . I wonder if they have like they're gonna start calling them spear view rooms soon instead of like city view or whatever the phrase was that they were using . But before we get to that , let's get on with the news and views . The Diamond Inn Motel has closed . The Diamond Inn Motel , which has been around for the longest of times , has called a quits and is currently surrounded by a fence . But what most people seem to be worried about isn't so much the Diamond Inn Motel but the Pink Elephant , which has become a staple over the years .

Speaker 1 2:56

Many visitors and walkers by have stopped by and taken pictures of the Pink Elephant during road trips and things of that matter . And now where the elephant will end up appears to be sort of up in the air . The owners haven't exactly said what's going to happen to the motel and with that they haven't said what's going to happen to the fate of the Pink Elephant either . It does appear that more people will miss the Pink Elephant than the Diamond Inn Motel . But look at that thing , the elephant's just freaking adorable . Anyway , the history of that elephant is that it was made for Disney World . However , disney World did not want it , so then it was purchased by the Desert Inn Motel . That's gonna do it for the news and now for the views . Michael , where do you think the Pink Elephant is gonna end up ? We'll see you guys next time .

Speaker 2 3:45

Well , maybe the pink elephant will end up . We're at the same place the mirage volcano is going to end up .

Speaker 1 3:54

I was having . I had that thought earlier today , but a lot of people aren't going to like it . I was thinking the person who buys a mirage volcano , you know , should buy the pink elephant but like , do some sort of a Mayan themed kind of a thing , or back in the day when people used to like worship volcanoes , and just take the pink elephant and put it like on a rotating spit right above the volcano ?

Speaker 2 4:20

An elephant on a rotating spit . Okay , you know , actually I don't know a lot about that play , can you like I didn't ? I never . It's a cool news story , it's just it's . That's also another thing that amazes me . There are every time I learn about something new in Vegas , like I think I know everything about Vegas or know a lot about Vegas . And then there were a lot of times I hear about something else and I'm like I don't know . I think I've heard of that , but I'm not even sure . But that's really cool .

Speaker 1 4:45

Yeah , it's just another you know example , like things that have been around for a long time end up , you know , going away , but so far there's no word on what's going to happen to the Mosel , what's going to happen to the elephant , so it's anyone's guess . Really , the owners are being very tight-lipped about it and they're just answering no comment to , to , to , to everyone .

Speaker 2 5:08

That's interesting , you know that's , I guess . I guess we'll find out . I guess we'll find out soon enough .

Speaker 1 5:15

Soon enough indeed . That being said , it is time for the tease .

Speaker 2 5:33

This tease is really about how you need to find your travel vibe , and what I mean by that is that everybody has a different way they like to travel , a different way that travel brings them happiness and there is no right or wrong . But I think it's so important for people to find that that vibe and obviously I focus a lot on that with , like your Vegas trip , like how to have like the perfect Vegas trip , the perfect vibe-y I'm using that word a lot the perfect vibe-y Vegas trip , and for some people that might be going hard from the moment they land , and for other people that might be like a little bit more balanced and chill . So I think it's . I think it's sort of interesting and I know people have strong opinions about this kind of thing and and you probably had your , your type of vibe right and you before you lived in the land of enchantment- yeah , yeah , yeah .

Speaker 1 6:29

My vibe was basically just go hard . You know , when I got there I didn't really I mean , if it was a long fight , take a shower . You know , as soon as I get to the room , take a shower and then just go Vegas as a visitor had a way of making me way more awake for many , many more hours than normal , and even forgetting to eat sometimes . So it was , you know , when you visit you want to do so many things and very little time , you know . So that was always it . It was just hot from one place to the other and one place to the other , and one place to the other . I think if I had a longer trip I would have eased into it a bit more , but back when I used to visit here , not so much .

Speaker 2 7:18

Well , this trip is actually I mean , this is really truly a work trip , not in quotations , a kind of in quotations but what I like so much is that this is a Wednesday to Monday trip and even though the conference I'm at is jam packed and runs all weekend , I feel it's a nice length of a trip to really like , like to really get into , really get into it . And last night I went to an opening dinner . Actually , it was really cool because for this conference they bought out Tableau for cocktails and dinner and for people who don't know , tableau is like my favorite place to have breakfast and it's basically a breakfast , brunch , lunch place that closes at two . So not only is it one of my favorite restaurants , but it was so cool like having that whole restaurant for a private party last night and that was great . But I'll tell you , after some wine and lots of socializing , I got back . I think I fell asleep before 1030 . I was wiped between , you know , waking up early in the flight and everything and I feel like I feel like a rock star . This is like awesome .

Speaker 2 8:17

I'm about to go to like a big kickoff conference event and it's great . I've been wandering around the casino floor . I love the F one cars that are in the craps pit . I actually threw that onto Twitter yesterday . I love all the stuff that's going on , like for F one . I think it's . It's sort of cool Like . I think people like talk about all the negative stuff , but I think it's really cool and I'm just enjoying seeing it . Right after we get done with this , I'm planning to walk over to Paris , which is where this conference is , and I'm super excited to like do my first trip walk . So it's it's a great trip and my vibe , my vibe , my vibe for this trip is like chill and balance .

Speaker 1 9:01

Chill and balance . That's good to know . Some people would say that a travel vibe should be portable , easily hideable and have fresh batteries . But good to know .

Speaker 2 9:12

It could be , but we'll see . But you know . You know the vibe could change as soon as we get to circus , circus .

Speaker 1 9:20

Yeah , I feel something coming on .

Speaker 2 9:22

You know , you know you're going with me to circus , circus , so you're not getting out of that shit . Okay , so you better be ready , okay .

Speaker 1 9:30

I don't know . I feel something coming on . I'm not sure . I'm not sure I'm gonna . I'm not sure about circus circus . Yet I mean I'll be there because I said I would be not looking for be nice to see you , not so much circus circus , but yeah , it'll , it'll happen . When is that going to be that Saturday ?

Speaker 2 9:56

Hey , I'm sorry my video cut for a second . That's fine you're still here . Yeah , I'm still here . That's great . Well , anyway , I'm excited to see you too , but it's great to be back in Vegas . I'm just soaking it all up . I'm totally awake , enjoying myself , and it's great . But , like with all vibes that could change at any moment , like going down to the casino floor to play for an hour at 11 o'clock at night and winding up being there accidentally till 6am . So I guess we'll have to see where the vibe goes .

Speaker 1 10:28

Rumor has it , it wouldn't be the first time that you've done that . I've heard stories of you at the Plaza .

Speaker 2 10:35

Uh-oh , uh-oh , those are just stories . They're rumors . Probably not true .

Speaker 1 10:42

Rumors of your excessive gambling have been great Me Me Greatly .

Speaker 2 10:50

I don't know . I don't know , well , we'll see . I guess we'll see . Well I'm supposed to be . That would destroy the balance . So right now it's chill and balance . It could become like chaos and unbalanced very , very quickly . You can move from one . You see , that's the other thing we didn't deal with too . You could move from one vibe to another vibe in a flash .

Speaker 1 11:13

That's right . And while we're at the 11 minute mark , is there any closing remarks or anything on your mind that you'd like to share ?

Speaker 2 11:20

No , no , I'm just loving Vegas . I am very interested . I was talking to some people yesterday . It is really interesting what's going to happen . We touched on this with F1 , with employees getting to casinos , and I found out yesterday that the entire employee parking lot for Win Las Vegas will be not accessible because that's right in front of the course . So it's going to be a really interesting time , this F1 stuff . So we'll have to see it's going to be unique for sure , especially for the employees .

Speaker 1 11:55

They're closing the employee parking area .

Speaker 2 11:59

That you can't access the Win employee parking lot because the track runs right by the entrance . So they are going to . I've heard here's some good rumor that that space , that empty lot space , I guess where the frontier was that Win still owns that space there that's going to become a temporary employee parking lot . That's what I've heard . So that's going to be very interesting , though they better get on that right away because things are approaching rather quickly . So lots of interesting stuff happening .

Speaker 1 12:32

All right , well , that's going to do it for this week's episode . I'm missing something here . Hmm , ah , here it is Sorry . Folks Logs you travel , booking travels or travel . Visit us at travel or travel dot com to plan your next amazing vacation and please join the conversation on social media . You can find us easily . All social platforms are at Travel Zordy . We'll see you next time .