Sin City Spin - from Vegas to The Void

About 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.

Publisher

Jason "Slider" LeDuc, Drew Masur, Christian "Mental" Ward

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Jan 2025

Latest episode

20 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

77 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Lake Mead Dropped So Far You Can Now Dive A 1948 Bomber (with sound!)

   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 climbed into life rafts and the Park Service picked them up.For most of the 78 years since, visiting that wreck meant technical diving — staged tanks, planned stops, equalizing on the way down and again on the way up. Not something you did on a vacation certification.The lake has fallen so far that it isn't a technical dive anymore. Lake Mead officials say the site is now open to all divers. Rangers are asking people to observe only and leave no trace.That's the whole story of this valley in one object: the thing that used to be too deep to reach is now a tourist attraction, and the reason is that we're running out of water.Also this week: Palantir's CTO says some AI researchers have taken up smoking, on the theory that AI will cure cancer before it matters — which gets us into whether faith in the future makes people reckless, and why this feels like the 1950s promising atomic-powered cars. Aaron Ford debated an empty podium in Carson City, which both gubernatorial candidates have now done. Nevada stopped enforcing red-dyed diesel rules. Tropical Storm Rachel's remnants turned the roads by the LINQ back into the flood channel they always were. And there's a company that wants to fire payloads into orbit out of a six-mile cannon in the desert near Tonopah.Drew, Slider and Mental. Three guys who actually live here.⏱ IN THIS EPISODE00:00 Cold open 00:46 The intro read 01:10 Aaron Ford debated an empty podium 01:43 Both candidates have now done this 02:50 Nevada stopped enforcing red-dye diesel 04:27 Tropical Storm Rachel flooded the Strip 04:34 In defense of the LINQ flood channel 05:03 Mental's pool is a construction site 06:58 AI researchers are taking up smoking on purpose 07:28 The Pope has lung cancer 09:11 Does faith in the future make you reckless? 11:02 Cancer is a mutation, not a cold 12:21 "Smoke for the cancer you want" 14:22 When faith starts looking like arrogance 14:48 The 1950s thought atomic energy would fix everything 15:33 This is the prequel to Wall-E 15:52 Somebody is building a rocket cannon 16:33 A mass driver, and the plan to put one near Tonopah 18:05 Ten kilometers of tube and a very large bang 20:16 Space isn't about up. Space is about velocity. 23:14 A B-29 crashed into Lake Mead in 1948 24:02 Why seeing it used to require technical diving 24:49 Now you can dive it on an open-water card 26:18 Where the lake goes from here 27:18 "You don't have water, but you have a new attraction" 27:31 The verdicts🎰 ABOUT SIN CITY SPINThree longtime Las Vegas friends — Drew Masur, Jason "Slider" LeDuc and Christian "Mental" Ward — with an irreverent, sharp, real-world take on the week's headlines.The Weekly Absurdity Rundown, from Vegas to the void. We live here. We're not reading you a brochure.💬 TELL US WE'RE WRONGDisagree, correct our math, or find out where the good tacos are. 📧 sincityspin.podcast@gmail.com 📱 Text us: (702) 721-7328 Facebook · Instagram · Reddit · the thing formerly known as Twitter🔗 WHAT WE READSunken B-29 now open to divers — FOX5 Vegas Historic Lake Mead B-29 — National Park Service Palantir CTO on AI researchers and smoking — TechSpot Nevada suspends red-dyed diesel enforcement — KOLO Ford debates an empty podium — KOLO Rachel's remnants flood roads near the Strip — FOX5 Vegas Longshot's space cannon — New AtlasSubscribe if you live here. Subscribe if you're visiting. Bring a tank.#LasVegas #Vegas #LakeMead #B29 #Superfortress #Scuba #ColoradoRiver #AI #Palantir #LongshotSpace #Tonopah #AaronFord #VegasPodcast #SinCitySpin

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Lake Mead Dropped So Far You Can Now Dive A 1948 Bomber

   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 climbed into life rafts and the Park Service picked them up.For most of the 78 years since, visiting that wreck meant technical diving — staged tanks, planned stops, equalizing on the way down and again on the way up. Not something you did on a vacation certification.The lake has fallen so far that it isn't a technical dive anymore. Lake Mead officials say the site is now open to all divers. Rangers are asking people to observe only and leave no trace.That's the whole story of this valley in one object: the thing that used to be too deep to reach is now a tourist attraction, and the reason is that we're running out of water.Also this week: Palantir's CTO says some AI researchers have taken up smoking, on the theory that AI will cure cancer before it matters — which gets us into whether faith in the future makes people reckless, and why this feels like the 1950s promising atomic-powered cars. Aaron Ford debated an empty podium in Carson City, which both gubernatorial candidates have now done. Nevada stopped enforcing red-dyed diesel rules. Tropical Storm Rachel's remnants turned the roads by the LINQ back into the flood channel they always were. And there's a company that wants to fire payloads into orbit out of a six-mile cannon in the desert near Tonopah.Drew, Slider and Mental. Three guys who actually live here.⏱ IN THIS EPISODE00:00 Cold open 00:46 The intro read 01:10 Aaron Ford debated an empty podium 01:43 Both candidates have now done this 02:50 Nevada stopped enforcing red-dye diesel 04:27 Tropical Storm Rachel flooded the Strip 04:34 In defense of the LINQ flood channel 05:03 Mental's pool is a construction site 06:58 AI researchers are taking up smoking on purpose 07:28 The Pope has lung cancer 09:11 Does faith in the future make you reckless? 11:02 Cancer is a mutation, not a cold 12:21 "Smoke for the cancer you want" 14:22 When faith starts looking like arrogance 14:48 The 1950s thought atomic energy would fix everything 15:33 This is the prequel to Wall-E 15:52 Somebody is building a rocket cannon 16:33 A mass driver, and the plan to put one near Tonopah 18:05 Ten kilometers of tube and a very large bang 20:16 Space isn't about up. Space is about velocity. 23:14 A B-29 crashed into Lake Mead in 1948 24:02 Why seeing it used to require technical diving 24:49 Now you can dive it on an open-water card 26:18 Where the lake goes from here 27:18 "You don't have water, but you have a new attraction" 27:31 The verdicts🎰 ABOUT SIN CITY SPINThree longtime Las Vegas friends — Drew Masur, Jason "Slider" LeDuc and Christian "Mental" Ward — with an irreverent, sharp, real-world take on the week's headlines.The Weekly Absurdity Rundown, from Vegas to the void. We live here. We're not reading you a brochure.💬 TELL US WE'RE WRONGDisagree, correct our math, or find out where the good tacos are. 📧 sincityspin.podcast@gmail.com 📱 Text us: (702) 721-7328 Facebook · Instagram · Reddit · the thing formerly known as Twitter🔗 WHAT WE READSunken B-29 now open to divers — FOX5 Vegas Historic Lake Mead B-29 — National Park Service Palantir CTO on AI researchers and smoking — TechSpot Nevada suspends red-dyed diesel enforcement — KOLO Ford debates an empty podium — KOLO Rachel's remnants flood roads near the Strip — FOX5 Vegas Longshot's space cannon — New AtlasSubscribe if you live here. Subscribe if you're visiting. Bring a tank.#LasVegas #Vegas #LakeMead #B29 #Superfortress #Scuba #ColoradoRiver #AI #Palantir #LongshotSpace #Tonopah #AaronFord #VegasPodcast #SinCitySpin

3. 

   10 Oct 2026

   A Woman Is Suing A Vegas Bar Over Its Mechanical Penis

   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 the ride started slow and sped up. She says her ankle caught underneath the main portion of the attraction, and she was thrown off and hurt. She's suing for negligence, vicarious liability, and negligent hiring, retention and supervision, seeking medical expenses and lost wages. She has requested a jury trial. The part that gets us isn't that the ride exists, it's Vegas, of course it exists or even that somebody got hurt on it. It's that a device whose entire design brief is go fast, throw people off was running on Fremont Street without a waiver. Also this week: we defend Formula 1 shutting down the Strip, which the local news won't do, and explain why two kilometres of flat-out throttle beats whatever Miami thinks it has. A ghost hunter bought the underground Cold War mansion, listed at $18 million, sold at $4.55 million, and is turning it into a museum. The Pentagon stood up a four-star command for autonomous weapons and handed the 120-day study to Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich. And the ACLU lost its challenge to the Strip selfie ban, so we propose a fix requiring no new laws at all. Drew, Slider and Mental. Three guys who actually live here. ⏱ IN THIS EPISODE 00:00 Cold open00:49 The intro read01:18 In defense of F1 shutting down the Strip01:40 Monaco, Baku, and why Miami is an autocross01:58 The deal runs through 203703:24 A ghost hunter bought the underground doomsday mansion05:32 The Nerd has something else instead06:26 The lawsuit: no waiver, and an ankle in the wrong place08:09 What's funnier? that it exists, or that nobody wrote a waiver10:28 Secretary Hegseth has announced some things11:08 Project Meridian and the Autonomous Warfare Command11:32 Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich walk into a Pentagon13:35 "I'd rather the killer robots be American"14:56 Walled cities met the catapult. Armies met the Gatling gun.15:58 The red line on the flight line, and the dog that never sleeps16:17 Nobody has ever fat-fingered a badge number into a database19:40 How long until a company fields its own robot army20:39 Remember the Strip selfie ban?21:24 The ACLU lost. The judge said it isn't too broad.22:50 Our solution requires no new laws: cattle prods23:07 Or just put sunscreens over the bridges25:44 The bridges exist so you stop getting run over26:20 The house always gets a cut27:33 Pro F1, and getting better at it every single year28:21 With a ten-year deal, the Flamingo bridge goes permanent29:11 The verdicts 🎰 ABOUT SIN CITY SPIN Three longtime Las Vegas friends: Drew Masur, Jason "Slider" LeDuc and Christian "Mental" Ward, with an irreverent, sharp, real-world take on the week's headlines. The Weekly Absurdity Rundown, from Vegas to the void. We live here. We're not reading you a brochure. 💬 TELL US WE'RE WRONG Disagree, correct our math, or find out where the good tacos are.📧 sincityspin.podcast@gmail.com (mailto:sincityspin.podcast@gmail.com)📱 Text us: (702) 721-7328Facebook · Instagram · Reddit · the thing formerly known as Twitter 🔗 WHAT WE READ Woman injured on mechanical ride at Fremont bar — Review-JournalNerd Bar at Neonopolis sued — Vital VegasBagans buys the Underground House for $4.55M — KTNVF1 and LVCVA extend through 2037 — Review-JournalAutonomous Warfare Command and Project Meridian — Defense DailyACLU loses the bridge selfie ban challenge — Nevada Independent Subscribe if you live here. Subscribe if you're visiting. Ride at your own risk. #LasVegas #Vegas #FremontStreet #F1 #LasVegasGrandPrix #ZakBagans #UndergroundHouse #ProjectMeridian #AutonomousWeapons #StripSelfieBan #VegasPodcast #SinCitySpin

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