believe they'd buried me early. so my friend michael callahan -- >> who was a mentor of yours. your history teacher, you're boxing coach. >> he was the only mentor i really ever had. and he appointed me state gaming commission, and i was chairman of that. and that was a time of very, very difficult time in the history of the state of nevada. organized crime came out of the wood work. we always thought it was here and it was here big time. and i survived through that. >> yeah, you survived through it. you're being modest. your friend the governor appointed you head of the gambling commission and you almost got killed doing it. >> oh, yeah, they put a bomb on our car. >> and as you point out it was your wife who saw some suspicious wires -- >> the car wasn't running very well and she's not much of a mechanic and that's an understatement. and she lifted up the hood and she could see these wires down there. so she stopped and the fire