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They Admitted The Fraud Then Got A $394 Million No BidIn 2024, Raytheon admitted on paper that it inflated an Air Force radar maintenance deal by $11.1 million across 2017 and 2018, and separately admitted to $100.1 million in Patriot missile fraud on an Army contract covering 2011 and 2012. The Justice Department said the schemes caused the Defense Department to pay over $111 million more than it...

The Strip Takes Bitcoin Now. The Cut Is 5%. Las Vegas is now the first casino on the Strip where you can walk up to the main cage, hand over Bitcoin, Ethereum or Litecoin, and walk away with US dollar chips or slot tickets. You are not wagering crypto. You cannot plug a wallet into a slot machine, which would be insane. The processor, BurraPay, pulls from your wallet, converts it, and hands you do...

0.07% Of Nevada Airbnbs Had A Party Here's The Crackdown Airbnb says 0.07% of its Nevada reservations last year resulted in a party report. Seven hundredths of one percent. And in response, the company has switched its anti-party technology back on nationwide for Halloween weekend, Las Vegas very much included. If the system decides your booking looks like a party, it won't let you take th...

A Showgirl Hit A Tourist With A Boot Now There Are SignsClark County is now putting messages on Strip marquees that read: "Tipping is not required. Watching a performance or taking a photo does not obligate you to tip. Tips are voluntary. If you feel harassed, look for a nearby officer or call 911."That is a real thing a county government decided it had to say out loud, on a billboard, i...

Lake Mead Dropped So Far You Can Now Dive A 1948 BomberIn 1948 a B-29 Superfortress was running high-altitude research over what is now Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Coming down, the pilot believed he was about 400 feet above the water. His altimeter was set wrong. Around 12:30 in the afternoon, doing roughly 230 miles an hour, the aircraft hit the lake and sank. Everybody got out. They clim...

Lake Mead Dropped So Far You Can Now Dive A 1948 BomberIn 1948 a B-29 Superfortress was running high-altitude research over what is now Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Coming down, the pilot believed he was about 400 feet above the water. His altimeter was set wrong. Around 12:30 in the afternoon, doing roughly 230 miles an hour, the aircraft hit the lake and sank. Everybody got out. They clim...

A Woman Is Suing A Vegas Bar Over Its Mechanical Penis On November 22nd of last year, an Illinois woman named Amber Zabran walked into the Nerd — a bar at Neonopolis on Fremont Street with old arcade cabinets, cosmic bowling, and, in place of a mechanical bull, a mechanical penis — and asked to ride it near closing time. She says she paid, climbed on, and was never asked to sign a waiver. She says...

Meta's AI Sold His Keyboard & Sent A Stranger To His House On September 22 the last A-10 departed Nellis, ending 49 years of Warthogs at the base. Drew spent 300 hours calling in close air support over Afghanistan and never once asked for one. That's the argument this week, and it isn't the one you usually hear: the A-10's time and place was real, and its time and place was 198...

Binion's Pays $8 Million A Year For Land It Doesn't Own The dirt underneath it belongs to seven separate entities — a gaming company, a realty outfit, a family limited partnership and a stack of trusts. That is the actual reason the place is frozen in time. A $48 million renovation got floated in 2019 and quietly died, because no investor on earth wants to negotiate with seven landlords at...

Space Force Uniforms Inspired from a Movie Mocking Them The proposed new Space Force dress uniforms were an AI-generated image, posted to social media, crediting their "divine inspiration" to Starship Troopers. Starship Troopers was directed by Paul Verhoeven, who grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. The uniforms in that film are a deliberate parody of fascist iconography, and he has sa...

Your Vegas Airbnb Might Not Exist When You LandA robot named Lightning ran the 100 meters in 9.32 seconds in Beijing last week. Usain Bolt's world record is 9.58. The robot is now faster than the fastest human being who has ever lived. It cannot fold a fitted sheet. That's our entire objection to the World Humanoid Robot Games, and we get into it this week. They're testing sprints, hig...

A Country Inside Nevada Will Stamp Your PassportTen years ago, Las Vegas quietly built a straw at the very bottom of Lake Mead. Everybody else is fighting over paper — allocations, lawsuits, who owes whom how many acre-feet. Nevada just sued the federal government over the new Colorado River cuts, and the guys figure Arizona is next. But there is a point coming where Lake Powell can't push wat...

Uh Oh, Your Fitness Tracker is Snitching. Your favorite three retired Air Force officers walk into a podcast…and immediately discover your fitness tracker may be giving away more than your pace. Welcome back to Sin City Spin , where this week we’re asking an important national-security question: if everyone at the secret military base uploads the exact same four-mile run to a fitness app every mor...

Lost Kids, Giant Faces & Poop in a Box The world may have officially lost it, and your 3 favorite retired Air Force officers are here to conduct the after-action report nobody asked for. This week on Sin City Spin, Slider, Drew and Mental take on another collection of Las Vegas news stories that somehow begins with nuclear waste and lost schoolchildren…and ends with grown men discussing the pr...

Your Car Is A Spy, American Teenage Hunger Games, Disney Gave TikTokers Star Wars Your car knows where you go, how hard you brake, and whether your insurance company should charge you more. Apparently, freedom now means finding a vehicle that doesn’t report your driving habits to corporate headquarters. This week, three retired Air Force officers examine the proposed return of the analog car—and d...

Vegas Is Melting, People Got Dumber Las Vegas is so hot that airplanes are struggling to leave—and somehow that is only the fourth-stupidest thing we discuss this week. Your favorite 3 retired Air Force officers return to examine the latest evidence that humanity may have peaked sometime before social media convinced people to hit themselves in the face with hammers. First, extreme Las Vegas heat...

Vegas Concerts, AI Teachers & Lettuce That Wants You Dead The world is getting is getting weirder, and your favorite three retired Air Force officers; Slider, Drew & Mental, are here to determine whether the greatest threat is artificial intelligence, surveillance cameras, contaminated lettuce or aging rock stars who would simply like to finish the encore before bedtime. This week on Sin C...

Testosterone Tests, Gov Priv & The Biggest In N Out EverThe military may soon know your testosterone level—but will it end up on your performance report? Your favorite three retired Air Force officers tackle mandatory testosterone testing, government-issued “man juice,” Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo’s instantly infamous traffic stop, and the world’s largest In-N-Out Burger opening on the Las Ve...

Episode 69, Moister. We Regret Nothing**Episode 69. Nice.**Then Drew insisted on naming it **"Moister."**We tried to stop him. We failed. In this episode of **Sin City Spin**, your favorite three retired Air Force officers dive headfirst into another collection of stories that somehow connects military leadership, internet beauty trends, Las Vegas startups, and the English language's...

Happy Birthday Murica! Happy Birthday, America. Please keep all fingers, thumbs, eyebrows, and questionable decisions inside the ride at all times. In this episode of Sin City Spin, your favorite three middle-aged retired Air Force officers celebrate America the only way they know how: with military-grade sarcasm, dark humor, questionable maturity, and a holiday safety briefing that absolutely sho...

This Why Vegas Wins Vegas found a way to get weirder… and honestly, we respect the commitment. This week on Sin City Spin, your favorite three retired Air Force officers, with their questionable maturity, veteran sarcasm, and just enough adult supervision take on the stories that make Las Vegas feel like someone hit “shuffle” on American culture. First up: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is coming t...

Dads Deserve BetterFather’s Day is supposed to be a celebration. So why does it always feel like dads get a grill brush, a tool they didn’t ask for, and a polite request to go fix something? In this episode of Sin City Spin, Slider, Drew & Mental bring their usual sarcasm, bad decisions, and Vegas-grown cynicism to a Father’s Day episode that starts with Drew being officially declared “too ski...

This Is Why Vegas Has Rules Three retired Air Force officers walk into a Vegas podcast and somehow end up discussing Nevada State Parks, stargazing, GLP-1 weight loss drugs, robot legs, kidney priorities, Vanilla Ice references, and the kind of Flamingo Hotel story that makes casino security review every camera angle in the building. Welcome back to Sin City Spin , the comedy podcast where militar...

Vegas Earthquakes, Cancelled Concerts & a $250 BillVegas shook, the concert collapsed, the clowns showed up, and somehow a $250 bill became the most practical bad idea of the week. In this episode of **Sin City Spin**, Slider, Drew & Mental, your favorite 3 retired Air Force officers with questionable judgment, sharp sarcasm, and just enough life experience to be dangerous take on the stra...

Robots, Hockey & Bad DecisionsVegas is weird, but it's awesome again—and somehow the robots, hockey fans, and heart-stopping burgers are all fighting for first place. In this episode, your favorite three middle-aged, retired Air Force officers; Slider Drew and Mental, bring the sarcasm, veteran humor, and slightly dark comedy to another round of Las Vegas headlines that sound fake until yo...