Sin City Spin - from Vegas to The Void
3 longtime Las Vegas buddies, Drew Masur, “Slider” LeDuc, & W Christian “ Mental” Ward fumble through some of the weeks news with an irreverent, sharp, & real-world take of the headlines...from a Las Vegas point of view.
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Space Force Uniforms Inspired from a Movie Mocking Them (opens the original)
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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 said so for thirty years. So if you look at them and think we should dress our service members like that , you a
Your Vegas Airbnb Might Not Exist When You Land (opens the original)
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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, high jumps, obstacle courses and, we are not making this up, tai chi. Meanwhile the complete list of things a normal
A Country Inside Nevada Will Stamp Your Passport (opens the original)
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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 water down to Mead, and Mead can't push water any further down the river, and there is still a very large am
Uh Oh, Your Fitness Tracker is Snitching. (opens the original)
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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 morning…is the base still secret? From deployed troops broadcasting GPS tracks to smart watches, phones
Lost Kids, Giant Faces & Poop in a Box (opens the original)
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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 proper farewell etiquette for poop.Yeah. We finally made that episode.First up: Yucca Mountain. Nevada has
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