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>> anthony: is that worse than before, or -- >> bondi: that -- well, the wrong is that there are people with that kind of income who could put it to so many thrilling uses and can think of nothing so crass and boring than to wave the money in the air and throw it away. how loathsome. and within us, within those of us who live here, is that challenge. this has always been who we are. >> jet: you are sitting at lotus of siam, best thai restaurant in vegas, by far. one of the best thai restaurants in america. >> anthony: jet tile has been here before. an la guy, he came out here to do 4 years as executive chef at encore, a wynn casino on the strip. he's a reigning authority on thai food, but really, everybody
♪ >> bondi: it's so easy to say i come out here because it's the land of opportunity, well, that's really great, you know? but if you're not here for -- why else are you here? there's the good old wreck your life, you know, scenario. that's always pretty popular. but if you change your mind about wrecking your life, now what do i do? there's a lot less self-reflection about why people are here than there is about most other places. what a lost opportunity that is. >> anthony: sinatra and the mob are gone, but there remains, still, a certain sentimental attachment to the way things used to be. there were rules then. a way that things were done. and when they weren't done, there was always the desert and
but is it? >> bondi: what is the rest of the country? i don't know, but it's that place where they all leave and come here. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪
but how do we live with it? it's not what, why, and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here. it's how do we live here, complicit at it. and that's the big issue is to be able to be self-reflective about the place. or you got to just go and stay high all the time because of the shame. i mean, you know, which is another popular way of dealing with living here. >> anthony: is vegas a friendly town? >> bondi: yeah, always friendly, because that's our job. >> anthony: but i mean, to itself. you know, you're a local. >> bondi: uh -- no, hah. >> anthony: no! >> bondi: not a bit! ha, this town's never had any respect whatsoever for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, you know, we were co-conspirators in those days. we weren't citizens. the new authority is the new power, it is exactly as anonymous as the old power. no phone number, no access, not
but queens is home now. ♪ >> bondi: one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it, who can't think of a better idea about how to spend their money. in the old days, the mechanism for doing that was you'd throw it on a table. put that into the context of throwing away a bottle of 7-up at a club, that's only just slightly more honest about it. >> anthony: if you're talking crass commercialism, in the very best sense of the word -- this is it. is it the cultural center of the country? we may not want to think it is,
>> bondi: i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that's part of the whole experience of the desert is that you know, it ain't friendly, it ain't nice, it ain't good, you know? you're, you're out here, you know, a half a mile. it doesn't matter if you're a half a mile out or you're 20 miles out. you know, there's no reason to walk a mile further, because you're already in infinite desolation. sin city was true, it was real. part of moving out here was you were never going to see the family again. i mean, that was it. i'm moving to vegas and you ain't coming to see me and i ain't coming to see you, and i mean, that's the character of the city. but it was really was the, you know the pit of the -- of america. it wasn't that somebody came out here because, "i want to make a million bucks." it was, "i'm going to come out
a chance. >> anthony: there has been for some years an art community in vegas. you know, like art, that makes your life, all our lives, better and makes us think. granted, vegas is a town designed to make you not think. to separate you from your money in as pleasurable a way as possible. so pleasurable that even after you limp out of town, leaking from your ass with nothing in your pockets, you want to come back and do it again. reflection, not so good. as a resident, what are the general rules of survival? >> bondi: don't cry about being broke. i mean, if i'm broke, more than likely it's because i threw away my money, and too bad for me because i didn't get lucky. >> anthony: don't cry about being broke, okay. what's another one? >> bondi: i'd give that one. well, it's a smile. that is, that is absolutely local characteristic. >> anthony: this is a service industry town. >> bondi: this is it. one of our roles here has always been to take away excess money from people who don't know what to do with it or can't think of a better idea about how to spend their money. we'll always take it.
>> bondi: for the first 34 years of the development of a town, you just couldn't conceive of what was ahead. what we had, whatever was, you know, the newest thing that was happening was so spectacular and wonderful and, oh my gosh, we've reached a new eastern edge or western, northern edge. the odds are slim to zero that we're going to extend to yet a further horizon. it was inconceivable. so there's the thing. so what does the desert do? it exceeds our ambition. >> anthony: in vegas, nothing is permanent. it constantly eats itself, tears down, builds up, expands according to no known or easily understood plan. an organic thing, responding to the dark dreams of the american subconscious.
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ocean lover, simon nellist was a regular swimmer who reportedly went to little bay beach in sydney's east almost every day, but wednesday was his last. he's believed to have been swimming just offshore here in choppy waters before he was attacked by a white shark, reportedly between four to five metres. rescuers found human remains and pieces of a wetsuit, and the search continues for what is left of his body, and for the shark, as well. it is very tricky to identify the animal, so to give your viewers some idea, we do have sharks in australian waters, but it's not every day that we do see a white shark over three metres long — and i'm talking a great white shark. most of sydney's beaches have been closed, including here in bondi. many swimmers have said that while they want to go back into the water, they were quite shaken by what happened. this is the city's first fatal shark attack in nearly six decades,