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Speaker A: Hello, ralph z. Just get off work. This is kk7 dpr in connecticut.
Speaker B: Hey, good evening, Ken.
Speaker A: Yeah, just.
Speaker B: Just leaving the office.
Speaker A: The best time of the day for you, isn't it?
Speaker B: Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Got a, got a dentist appointment tomorrow. I got a. I cracked one of my teeth. I think I could do a crown. So I gotta head there at 10 o' clock tomorrow. That'll take about two hours. They do all that stuff in lab in the office now. They don't have to send anything out anymore. They do all the 3D mapping of the area. Then they actually 3D print the crown right there in the office. Takes about half hour.
Speaker A: Well, they got that down to a science. I went in yesterday and had. They were. They want to burn the ends of my fuses in my neck. In my. Not fuses, but burn the nerves in my neck. You got to have this trial and they put three shots on each side of your neck. And I'm telling you, and I wish they had just used a gun, shot me in the head about that thing was so painful. But then they tell me do it twice before. They'll burn to see if it's going to work. I got to go through that twice. Can you believe that?
Speaker B: Oh man. They can't numb it first before they do that, huh?
Speaker A: I don't know. Apparently they didn't. But he told me when, when I got through there. I said that. I says I've had three broken ribs and they're there. And I says I think pretty comparable to that broken rib. And he said, well, if we get to do the ends of the nerve, you get the option of being put out
Speaker B: and give me that option. I'll volunteer. I'm a wish for stuff like that. My dad is pretty good what he does. He'll put some of that numbing agent like on a cotton swab and I'll go ahead and numb the, you know, the gums at the out part outside of it at least whatever the right term is with a cotton swab. He'll let that sit there for about 30 seconds. Then he actually puts the needle in and then he does it to where you can't even feel it. I mean, even when he puts the
Speaker A: needle in to put the rest of
Speaker B: the novocaine or whatever the heck it is, a numbing agent in there, you can't feel a doggone thing. So he's really good at it.
Speaker A: Yeah, Dennis, I go to down there in Vegas is pretty much the same way. They kind of numb it with something first And I don't even hardly feel when they go around there and give me the shots. I just. Sometimes they go a little too far because they numb everything in your mouth. It seems like.
Speaker B: Yeah. He does it look like little stages and to where you really can't feel it. So he's a seasoned guy.
Speaker A: He's really.
Speaker B: Matter of fact, he is the dentist for the Golden Knights hockey team here. He's kind of like their official dentist. So he's got his stuff together.
Speaker A: I think them hockey players need a good dentist because they usually get their teething off.
Speaker B: Now. I am sure he does good business
Speaker A: with them
Speaker B: roads down the one lane. Great.
Speaker A: They have a place there in Vegas where they play hockey all the time, I guess now call a gym or something where they do it quite often.
Speaker B: Yeah, they got the Golden Knights playing something called T Mobile Arena. They built it just for the Golden Knights right by the Manalay Bay on the strip. And then they have a practice hockey thing they do up towards Summerlin. It's another facility they use when they practice. So yeah, they got that. Of course, you got the Raiders stadium. And I think they practice someplace down in Hooterville. And now they're building another. Another. Another stadium for the Oakland A's. I guess that's baseball. I guess. Yeah. Their baseball team. They're supposed to be moving up here. And they've already started construction of that.
Speaker A: So.
Speaker B: Yeah, there's going to be three major. Major venues within probably a couple miles of each other. Because the new stadium for the Raider or the A's is going to. To be where the Tropicana Hotel used to be. Which is pretty much right around that same area where the Golden Knights are and where the Raiders are.
Speaker A: Well, that'll be nice. They'll have a baseball team there and a football team there. And Hoffield known just about. And then they get the ropes. The national finals every year. Somebody ought to find something to go see. Yeah.
Speaker B: I guess the only thing they're really missing is a professional basketball team.
Speaker A: Right.
Speaker B: They got the Rebels through their spiritual college.
Speaker A: I think. I think they may have some kind
Speaker B: of a woman's basketball team here. Woman NBA or whatever the heck they call it. Yeah, I think. I think they might.
Speaker A: I don't.
Speaker B: I'm not. You can tell. I'm not really a sports guy. But I think they might have a women's team.
Speaker A: Yeah.
Speaker B: It used to be back in the day, Las Vegas didn't have any professional teams at all. Because there was something to where if you couldn't bet on the games if you know they were, if they were playing or something. I don't know. I thought they must have changed the rules.
Speaker A: Yeah, I think they got it. So you can bet on anything now. You can even bet on if that guy throws a pass or runs the ball. I don't know. They get so much going on that and I guess there's guys that good at it that do it. So I don't know. I didn't even watch the football game. I was off goofing around doing football. Something else.
Speaker B: I watched most of it. It was okay. A lot of, lot of field goats. But the, the Raider or the Raiders, the Patriots didn't even show up until the last part of the fourth quarter. Didn't add anything on any scores at all. But anyways, it was, it was decent. Commercials were funny. That was about the end of it. But yeah, as far as gambling, I never really got into that. Man. When I first moved to Vegas, I played blackjack in like dollar blackjack down at a hotel called with showboat not too far from where I lived. And I played that. It was fun, you know. I remember one time I won, I won, you know, four or 500 bucks, which was a lot for a two striper in the air Force right back then. And I probably put that money in my pocket and I said this is exactly the amount of money I need to buy myself a floppy disk drive and a monitor for my computer. I had old Commodore 64 back then and I played with what was left. I lost that and I walked out. And the next, next Monday I called a mail order shop and I ordered my computer stuff.
Speaker A: That was about it.
Speaker B: And I don't really like, I really don't like to gamble. Wife and I go out every now and again. She like, she likes to play the video pork machines every now and again. But I just, I just don't find it to be very fun.
Speaker A: Well, that was me when I got out of high school, went to Vegas and got into an apprenticeship there. I wasn't pretty much money, wasn't even up to $4. But I would like to go out dancing, chasing the women. So I would go down to the Golden Nugget there and say, penny Annie roulette. As long as I played roulette there, they would give me free drinks so I could get my glow on there playing roulette. And then I'd go down to the dance floor and didn't have to pay all that money for drinks to get. Get the nerve up to go Ask them girls out of dance, if I could for a dance.
Speaker B: That's funny. At 17D Vegas.
Speaker A: Yeah. They.
Speaker B: Again, not. Again, not a gambler, right. But I know that a couple times, if you play. They're not. They're not as free with the drinks as they used to be. Especially the ones that, you know, if you're at a machine, they're kind of walking around little wakes just walking around. They're not that. They're not that Johnny, Emma, spot like they used to. And even now, if you're at a bar playing, you know, they watch you. You got. You got to load up the machine. You got to, like. If it's a quarter machine, you got to put them five quarters. You know, if you do, like, onesie twosies, they're not gonna. If they're gonna stick by the rules, they won't give you any drinks. And that's usually the weld drinks. Bunch of cheap stuff. I like my scotch and I like single malt, right? So I end up having to pay like $10 a glass for scotch even when I'm playing. But typical price is like 20 or 25. So I guess they still give you a discount.
Speaker A: Yep. I thought I was a scotch drinker, but I didn't know much about scotch. Just being a fun kid. I drank Cuddy's Ark. I didn't know any better, but I was drinking Cuddy's Ark at them when I was at that table, and they seemed to be pretty good. They'd come by, you know, every once in a while and take your order and give you a drink. They weren't very stingy, but it's pretty regular to be good at there. But it was. It was kind of interesting for a kid that come from a small town in Utah that didn't know nothing, and I learned how to get around there a little bit, but I still didn't know what I was doing.
Speaker B: Yeah, hold on a minute. We were back in 17, All right. Sorry about that. Got a phone call from the office I had to take. I just freaking left, and he called me right away. What the hell?
Speaker A: Report.
Speaker B: Yeah, I had a. This is a while ago. I forgot what the heck it was. I was gone. I had to go out of town on a business trip someplace. Forgot where it was. Better part of a week. And I leave, you know, and I'm. You know, I get these calls all the time from my directors, and I finally. And I was like, God damn. You know, I'm just. Whatever. I answered the questions, blah, blah, blah. And I Came back and my first staff meeting I ripped. I ripped them all a new one. I said I pay you guys well into the six figures a year. You guys can't keep this blippy, blippy, blippity place running without me, you know, here to answer all your questions. I feel like I got the wrong directors working here. They're a little more careful now.
Speaker A: Don't call him. Let's just make it up. Whatever we do wrong, then we can ask for forgiveness. How does he do that?
Speaker B: Ask for forgiveness instead of permission?
Speaker A: Actually, that's the best way. Just ask for forgiveness. Don't ask for permission. Yeah.
Speaker B: So you guys supposed to get some of that storm that's coming through? We're gonna get some rain. A little bit of rain here. I think more like Sunday into Monday. Monday's supposed to be quite a bit of rain, which figures. I was gonna go to one of our mountaintops on Monday and try to get some work done since it's a holiday, but looks like that's gonna be postponed. But I was looking at the weather more than northern part of the state. Like around where you're at. Looks like pretty good chance of snow.
Speaker A: Yeah, weather bug and it'll tell you that they're going to be 50% but when I. When it gets around there, rolls around there, it's 40 and 30%. I kept hoping for some moisture because we need some out there. We haven't had a lot of snow or rain I keep hoping for, but it keeps putting it off and says maybe at 9 o' clock tonight we've 40% chance but that'll change in the next hour.
Speaker B: Yeah, our mountains are pretty shocked in right now. Just look at the weather rate. Hourly it looks like. Matter of fact, the repeater site I'm talking into is getting snow right now, so that's good. It's up there about 9,000ft. But yeah, they're talking about a little bit today or tomorrow and Then I think 70% chance on Monday for fairly heavy, well, fairly steady rain, I should use that term. So that'll probably mean it's going to be a little on the cold side. So I'm probably going to be. We're going to get some snow on the hilltops.
Speaker A: We'll see.
Speaker B: Yeah, we talked before. We're just stupid dry this year.
Speaker A: It's crazy. Yeah, we haven't had hardly any thinking of us. I have a little place up in what they call Hamlin Valley and boy, we haven't had hardly any snow up there or any Moisture, little bit of rain. Not like we usually do. A lot of times they'll get a foot to two foot of snow up there and it stays for quite a while through the winter. But we ain't had nothing this year. I don't. I don't know what's happening.
Speaker B: I was back in our comm lab at work. We have at work a couple hours ago talking to one of the guys and they had Highland Peak up on one of the TVs. And there's like pretty much no snow up there on that hilltop or whatever. Little, little bit of patches here and there around the towers, but nothing to speak of whatsoever.
Speaker A: I don't think they've had a lot up there. Even the ocean, that's pretty high. And they usually get a lot of snow, but they haven't had a lot. They did have some rain, but we ain't even had that much rain down here.
Speaker B: We.
Speaker A: We usually get quite a bit in the winter. The most snow I've seen here in Pinaka is an inch to 2 inches. But they say it can snow more. I've been here five years and I haven't seen any more than an inch or two inches. Yeah,
Speaker B: we've been in a truck station here in Vegas for. Had a part of 25 years. I remember I moved to the part of town I'm in now in 2001. And back then the drought was just starting. Lake Mead was starting to go down in level, so.
Speaker A: All right, man.
Speaker B: Well, you drove me home so I can get out of here. Go change and I'm going to go out to get some meat. And I said, not looking forward to that dentist appointment tomorrow. Two hours in the chair, but whatever.
Speaker A: And get.
Speaker B: Get everything taken care of.
Speaker A: So have a.
Speaker B: A good evening out there. I don't know if you're gonna. We got. Yes, sir, we got the net tonight, don't we? I'm not sure if I'm going to be home by then, but.
Speaker A: So I'll. I'll might hear you on the nether. I'm glad you reminded me. Down here I usually wait for it. Try to. Try to be there when they call. Sometimes I can't make it. Yeah, you're gonna have fun at the dentist tomorrow. But it'll be worth it if you need a big juicy steak after. There you go. There you go. All right.
Speaker B: Take care, Ken. 73 and 7.
Speaker A: You too, ralph. Kk7 ddr72.
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