I remember the situation like it was yesterday.
It reminds me of the time I asked Barry Holthaus about his criticisms of the Stardust Race and Sports Book on a Stardust-sponsored radio show.
Barry was always in my ear (off the air) about improvements the Stardust should make in its business operations.
Little did he know (nor did I) that the topic would arise in a free-wheeling, on-the-air conversation.
After all, an hour or two is a lot of time to fill with quality content.
So Barry fires off four or five of his pet peeves about the Stardust Race and Sports Book from a lack of golf and soccer odds to transmission problems with the score ticker display to future-book prices designed to "rip off" tourists.
After the radio program, Joe Lupo, then the Director of Race and Sports Book Operations at the Stardust, called me into his office and said, "Who the f*ck is Barry Holthaus?"
Hahaha.