He came back home and spent 1.5 billion dollars building the Venetian and then imploded the Sands Hotel and built more Venetian hotel rooms on top of it. There’s where he got the inspiration to bring Italy to Las Vegas, so he did. Three years later he got married to his second wife and took a honeymoon to Venice, Italy. In 1988 Sheldon Adelson bought the Sands Hotel and Casino in Vegas. On top of it being a hotel, they have a 120,000 square foot casino, a monster of a gaming hall which is where they make a ton of their money. In fact, it was the largest hotel in the world up until 2015. It’s a luxury resort, a massive resort with over 4,000 rooms. This is the scene from within the Venetian, a hotel casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s nice and slow, relaxing, something you do as a tourist and it can be romantic except, you’re not in Italy. This is one of those boats where you hire someone to stand up on it and paddle for you.

JACK: Imagine you’re taking a nice gondola ride through a canal. JACK (INTRO): These are true stories from the dark side of the internet. Yeah, that did happen and I want to tell you about it. You’re forced to sever your connection to the internet altogether. The virus is so bad and it’s spreading so fast that you frantically start unplugging Ethernet cables in an attempt to stop the attack. JACK: Imagine being at work in the office and all of a sudden the server you’re working on goes down, the phones stop working, the screens go blank, and as you investigate you realize the company has been hacked.

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