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Hawaiians Could Pay Extra to Visit Vegas, Las Vegas Gets Ready for Super Bowl 58, U2 Lands at The MSG Sphere, Culinary Residency Coming to Mandalay Bay, Cool Downtown Bookstore | Ep. 156 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:01
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to episode 156 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:04
  Dayna Roselli: The countdown is on to Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas.
• 0:08
  Dayna Roselli: But before the big game, there's a Super Ball headed our way.
• 0:12
  Dayna Roselli: We'll explain.
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: Tourists from Hawaii may have to pay more for their Vegas fix.
• 0:17
  Sean McAllister: Find out why.
• 0:19
  Sean McAllister: Plus, we've talked about it before, but now it's official.
• 0:23
  Sean McAllister: U2 is set for a residency at the new MSG Sphere.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: We've got the new details.
• 0:29
  Dayna Roselli: We visit one of the most unique bookstores in all of Las Vegas, and wine angels are flying out of Mandalay Bay.
• 0:36
  Dayna Roselli: But don't worry, there's a new culinary residency coming in.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: Huh?
• 0:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we're gonna discuss this.
• 0:44
  Sean McAllister: So much to get to this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:49
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• 0:53
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• 0:55
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• 1:00
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• 1:05
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• 1:09
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• 1:12
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• 1:16
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• 1:19
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• 1:22
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• 1:29
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• 1:36
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• 1:38
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• 1:39
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• 1:46
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• 1:58
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• 2:02
  Sean McAllister: If it's fun to do or see, it's on Vegas Near Me.
• 2:07
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get to it now and spin that wheel.
• 2:36
  Sean McAllister: But uh for a certain population of visitors from Hawaii, it's about to be more expensive, possibly for a whole other reason.
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's an interesting topic because I don't know, I feel like this kind of came out of nowhere.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: Do you feel that way?
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking about this new bill that was introduced.
• 2:55
  Dayna Roselli: Now, let's just go back here.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: A bill was introduced and then it changed.
• 3:02
  Dayna Roselli: So the first bill that was introduced, it was introduced by state senator Stanley Chang.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: And we're saying introduce in Hawaii, okay?
• 3:09
  Dayna Roselli: It would have originally banned all advertising of gambling-related tours to Las Vegas.
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: That's what they wanted to do.
• 3:16
  Dayna Roselli: Then apparently that got turned down, and now they have imposed a 30, they're pitching to impose a 30% excise tax on gambling travel from Hawaii.
• 3:32
  Sean McAllister: And this is a big thing.
• 3:34
  Sean McAllister: There are a lot of Hawaiians who have who come to Las Vegas for vacations.
• 3:40
  Sean McAllister: Even I mean, the the California Hotel downtown is one of the hotspots where our Hawaiian tourists stay.
• 3:50
  Sean McAllister: And in large part, it's because they have these kind of junkets, these travel packages that you can buy to come here to Las Vegas.
• 4:01
  Sean McAllister: And gambling is a big part of that package.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: And we yeah, you're right.
• 4:06
  Dayna Roselli: I think you and I did the numbers one time, and I remember we were astonished at how many people visit Las Vegas from Hawaii every year.
• 4:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's a ton.
• 4:13
  Dayna Roselli: A ton.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: So apparently, Hawaii is a non-gambling state, but this senator is saying doesn't mean that we don't have a problem with gambling addiction.
• 4:26
  Dayna Roselli: That's his quote.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: He says Hawaii is a non-gambling state, but that doesn't mean that we don't have a problem with gambling addiction.
• 4:34
  Dayna Roselli: So what he's saying is we need to stop promoting trips to Las Vegas to gamble.
• 4:40
  Sean McAllister: And he's saying that a lot of people who come here to Las Vegas have a gambling problem.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 4:45
  Sean McAllister: But there's no resources in place to help them out.
• 4:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: So I didn't, I, you know, I thought we kind of had this like shared love back and forth.
• 4:54
  Dayna Roselli: So I guess this was a surprise to me.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, I guess when he's pointing out the gambling side of things, I guess in his world, he's making a point that we shouldn't be promoting gambling in Hawaii and saying go travel Vegas and have advertisements all over.
• 5:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I guess that's what he's saying.
• 5:13
  Dayna Roselli: But the packages will be taxed.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: So you and I were saying, well, like if you go book your own trip to Vegas on Expedia or whatever, that's different.
• 5:23
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:23
  Sean McAllister: Like you're free to do whatever you want, but it's these companies that are based in Hawaii that are going to really take the hit.
• 5:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 5:33
  Dayna Roselli: Almost like travel agency type.
• 5:35
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 5:36
  Dayna Roselli: Which, yeah, that's gonna be hard because how do you say come with us?
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I guess it's like really if you it's someone you've used over and over and you're happy with, or I don't know, they have to cut some things or really find you a deal to make up for the 30% tax.
• 5:51
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it hasn't gone through yet, but yeah, this is still all uh proposed.
• 5:55
  Sean McAllister: Nothing has been voted on.
• 5:58
  Sean McAllister: But I I certainly hope that there's uh not anything that that essentially penalizes uh our Hawaiian tourists from coming here and enjoying themselves.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel like everyone finds a way around something, right?
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we like like even Las Vegas doesn't obviously approve of gambling addiction.
• 6:19
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot of signs up.
• 6:21
  Sean McAllister: There's pamphlets on the side of every ATM on the casino floor that you know it's that slogan, when the fun stops, and then they list all the resources that are available.
• 6:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but I guess this lawmaker in Hawaii is saying that there aren't resources available in Hawaii for people, and he's proposing this tax in order to raise funds to make that available to people who feel as though they need it.
• 6:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 6:51
  Dayna Roselli: And wasn't there a time where they talked about um building a casino there on a certain piece of land that was sacred or something?
• 7:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I feel like there was talk about uh a casino there.
• 7:04
  Sean McAllister: Got turned down, yeah.
• 7:05
  Dayna Roselli: So all right, well, um, that's what's going on in Hawaii.
• 7:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, aloha, and then moving now back to Las Vegas.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: We got a lot going on here.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: We just finished up.
• 7:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we didn't just finish up, you know, the country finished up, America finished up its Super Bowl that happened in Arizona close by.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 7:26
  Dayna Roselli: But you and I were at a Super Bowl party and we looked at each other and went, it's so crazy that like we're getting the Super Bowl next already.
• 7:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 7:32
  Dayna Roselli: It's already like a year away.
• 7:35
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it's gonna be nuts.
• 7:36
  Sean McAllister: The countdown is on, you know, to Super Bowl 58 here in Las Vegas at Allegiance Stadium.
• 7:44
  Sean McAllister: And aside from the game, I mean, there's always, you know, concerts and fan events that surround uh the Super Bowl.
• 7:53
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, Las Vegas is just gonna go crazy.
• 7:58
  Sean McAllister: It is going to be insane here for Super Bowl weekend.
• 8:02
  Dayna Roselli: It really is.
• 8:03
  Dayna Roselli: And you and I were chatting with our friend, I think it was Craig, that was telling us, you know, and he puts on a lot of different big uh music festivals around town and covers a lot of events, um, works with a lot of events all across the country, and was saying he was in Arizona for a brief time and like it just the city was like he'd never seen it.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah um with the Super Bowl there.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: And he was saying it's gonna be, and I was like, Oh, well, we're used to big events, it'll be and he was like, No, this is gonna be like times 10.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, really?
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: Because I just figured, you know, we put on big events all the time.
• 8:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's gonna be huge, but we'll just do it right.
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, No, I think it's gonna be something that we have never seen.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, well, it'll be after F1, so we'll have good experience, true, you know, with a huge event like that.
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, obviously, you know, the world kind of keeps eyes on the Super Bowl, but mostly the country.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: F1's gonna be the world.
• 8:59
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 8:59
  Sean McAllister: So what's a global event?
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: Get through that first.
• 9:03
  Sean McAllister: And our uh Las Vegas Super Bowl host committee was down there in Phoenix, kind of surveying all of the all of the events and uh logistically how everything uh was put on.
• 9:17
  Sean McAllister: There were representatives of Las Vegas law enforcement down there to, you know, work and kind of shadow um the police there in Phoenix and the FBI who come in to to help out um with such a large-scale event.
• 9:34
  Sean McAllister: So uh Vegas is gonna be ready.
• 9:36
  Sean McAllister: And then the day after Super Bowl, there was kind of a transition news conference that was held to officially pass the torch to our Las Vegas Super Bowl host committee.
• 9:49
  Sean McAllister: And um, there's a kind of a big monument that's gonna be showing up around town.
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the Super Ball, it's called.
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: And guess what?
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: They sent us a fact sheet.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: So I just opened it, took me a minute.
• 10:03
  Dayna Roselli: The super ball, yeah, it's gonna be making its way right from Arizona to Las Vegas on this truck.
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: It's got the Vegas, you know, logo on it and everything like that.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of fun.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: All right, here's some facts, Sean.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: You haven't seen this.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 10:19
  Dayna Roselli: The super ball that is gonna be there.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, it has its own hashtag.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: Hashtag Vegas Superball.
• 10:25
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 10:26
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, the superball is 13 feet long and by eight feet in diameter.
• 10:31
  Dayna Roselli: Once it's on the base, the total height is nine feet.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 10:35
  Dayna Roselli: Its inner is made from carved blocks of beadboard foam.
• 10:41
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: The foam blocks were sculpted using five-axis router machines, and the additional details were sculpted by hand, apparently.
• 10:52
  Sean McAllister: Exactly how I would have assumed it it would be made.
• 10:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: Then it goes into the ball itself weighs close to 1200 pounds, and the base stand is an additional 400 pounds.
• 11:03
  Sean McAllister: So essentially, this is a giant football that's mounted on the back of a really fancy flatbed truck.
• 11:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: And once the hard coat was dry, the texture of the pig skin was painted by hand.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: Oh.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: And um it took approximately 30 crew members to fabricate the ball.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: So there's your fact sheet.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: This ball is one of a kind.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: So now the this super ball is being driven from Phoenix, as Dana mentioned, to Las Vegas.
• 11:34
  Sean McAllister: And over the course of the next year, it's going to be making appearances at different events to promote the fact that we've got Super Bowl next year.
• 11:44
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited.
• 11:45
  Dayna Roselli: I want a picture with the Super Bowl.
• 11:47
  Dayna Roselli: Coming up on our tips, you'll want to stick around because we have a way that you can participate as a volunteer.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: There is a way, and you'll want to get signed up soon.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: So stick around for our tips.
• 11:58
  Sean McAllister: And kind of something that happened in conjunction with uh this year's Super Bowl is that U2 made it official.
• 12:08
  Sean McAllister: Their Vegas residency is happening.
• 12:11
  Sean McAllister: We've talked about this that U2 was that they were going to be performing at the MSG sphere.
• 12:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's like rumored but never denied.
• 12:19
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 12:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 12:21
  Dayna Roselli: So they uh put on a Super Bowl commercial, and you could tell by the end and when the words came up that they are going to be performing at the MSG sphere.
• 12:32
  Dayna Roselli: So uh the sphere's opening this fall before F1.
• 12:35
  Dayna Roselli: I think this show even I don't know if it's gonna be in November.
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: I thought somebody mentioned in October.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's supposed to open in October, but U2's doing what, three shows at least locked in.
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't think they've been actually on tour uh for four years, according to the press release.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a big thing for U2 to get out there and be out there and do this.
• 12:56
  Dayna Roselli: But they said the sphere is the perfect place for them to be able to show and tell this story of music.
• 13:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and uh it's funny.
• 13:05
  Sean McAllister: The the ad that they put out, the the video to announce these shows, it was I was laughing to myself because it was very reminiscent of uh that big Chinese spy balloon that was shot down.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: And you almost wonder, was it meant to be or was the timing like were we?
• 13:24
  Sean McAllister: I was thinking that.
• 13:24
  Sean McAllister: I was like, man, did they do that after these floating objects were you know spotted and shot down over North America?
• 13:34
  Sean McAllister: I think it was probably planned ahead of time because it is the it looks like the sphere, it looks like the MSG sphere is floating all over the world.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: It does, it does.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: So so maybe we shot down the wrong thing.
• 13:47
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe it was just a YouTube promotion the whole time.
• 13:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's an interesting ad for sure, and it looks like when you know, when you think about the MSG sphere and what it's going to be able to do and show and how it's gonna be done, you and I were both saying it's very like, I don't even want to compare it to Epcot Center because I'm sure it's like times 1000 with the technology and stuff, but very reminiscent of back in the day, the glimpse of technology that we that was a big deal to us was going to something like Epcot Center and sitting in that globe and watching that whole was it, the Michael Jackson experience and forgot what it was called.
• 14:30
  Sean McAllister: Uh spaceship.
• 14:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh well, Michael the ball is Spaceship Earth.
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 14:34
  Sean McAllister: But what was inside Captain EO.
• 14:36
  Sean McAllister: Oh, Captain EOS Michael Jackson movie.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's like way, way far, but I'm just saying, like back when we were young, that was like a big deal, right?
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: So we knew it was gonna be something absolutely spectacular.
• 14:47
  Dayna Roselli: This looks great.
• 14:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it's gonna probably blow our mind.
• 14:50
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I love that you two said, you know what, this is the perfect spot.
• 14:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we're ready, and nobody can tell the story, no venue.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: And actually, I'm gonna quote them the sphere is more than just a venue, it's a gallery, and you two's music is going to be all over the walls.
• 15:07
  Dayna Roselli: And that comes from a statement that came from Bono, The Edge, and Adam.
• 15:14
  Dayna Roselli: Who's Adam?
• 15:15
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know why I'd have to go back.
• 15:16
  Dayna Roselli: They put out a statement saying this is the perfect spot.
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: So we're excited to see what they do with it.
• 15:20
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Adam Clayton, he's one of the band members.
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, perfect.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 15:23
  Sean McAllister: Um, so U2 is going to be performing their 1991 album, Etch Tongue Baby, um, which has a lot of their hits on it.
• 15:32
  Sean McAllister: Um, and that is the music that we're going to be hearing during these Las Vegas shows.
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: And according to one of the renderings that was put out, it looks like that baby's face is going to be kind of projected on the outside of the sphere because you know, the sphere is made up of a whole bunch of video panels.
• 15:54
  Sean McAllister: And I don't I don't know about having a giant baby's face up there.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's like uh Ellie McBeal, the dancing baby.
• 16:03
  Sean McAllister: Yes, it's kind of like that.
• 16:04
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god, I forgot about that.
• 16:07
  Dayna Roselli: I keep going in the past, everyone's like this Roselli.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: She's old.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: She's talking Epcot Center, Captain Eo, and Ellie McBeal.
• 16:16
  Dayna Roselli: Get a life.
• 16:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's 2023, lady.
• 16:22
  Sean McAllister: That dancing baby was popular for a while, though.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 16:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, anyway, so yeah, it looks like it's gonna be very interesting.
• 16:30
  Dayna Roselli: We'll see.
• 16:31
  Dayna Roselli: We might have to drive by and see the baby's face for a while, but um, that's life and it's Vegas, and nothing is ever very normal, is it?
• 16:40
  Sean McAllister: But no, it's unexpected, larger than life.
• 16:44
  Sean McAllister: And what else would you expect from Las Vegas?
• 16:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, here's something else that you and I questioned or went, huh, about.
• 16:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um, well, first of all, let's just tell you what's going on over at Mandalay Bay.
• 16:58
  Dayna Roselli: A very popular restaurant is gonna be closing.
• 17:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's been there for a long time.
• 17:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, from as long as I can remember, it's called Oriole by uh Chef Charlie Palmer, a longtime uh staple here in Las Vegas.
• 17:14
  Sean McAllister: And the centerpiece of Oriole is this massive glass wine tower that requires the use of what are called wine angels to go and retrieve bottles.
• 17:31
  Sean McAllister: So basically, it's these servers who are strapped into a harness and they're they're on like this pulley system to take them up to the level of whichever bottle of wine they're going to serve.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: And it it really is a spectacle.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I remember when I first moved here how everyone talked about that.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: It was like everyone wanted to go there and they're like, well, saving up their money for their big night out dinner, you know, because they knew it was like, you know, expensive, but nice, but the meal was good, but they wanted the wine angel experience.
• 18:04
  Dayna Roselli: It was huge.
• 18:05
  Sean McAllister: I used to go over and just watch the wine angels going up and down.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's been around for a while.
• 18:12
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know exactly how many years, but I think since you and I got here.
• 18:15
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I I don't remember it not being here, so yeah, it's got to be close to 20 years.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because you got here what, 2005, six five.
• 18:24
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, me four, so 2004.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah.
• 18:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, oh, and see, now I stare at the article and it's right in my face.
• 18:30
  Dayna Roselli: 20 years.
• 18:33
  Sean McAllister: So it has been close to 20 years.
• 18:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: Uh okay, so we were right.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: See, it was like bum ba-da.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Results revealed.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I like when we quiz ourselves and then we're right.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, well, anyway, it is closing.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: And so sad to see that go.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: But two brothers are coming in to take over, and they're calling it a culinary residency for a year.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: And you and I went, wait, we have culinary residencies?
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: What is this?
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: Is this a new thing?
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 18:59
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm not sure.
• 19:00
  Dayna Roselli: And the brothers, I I'm not a big food channel watcher, a top chef watcher, but um, I know you were familiar with who they are, and I know that they're very famous in that world.
• 19:10
  Dayna Roselli: So excuse me for not knowing who they are.
• 19:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the Voltagio Brothers, they're um, you know, uh people got to know them on early seasons of Top Chef on when it used to be on the maybe it still is on the Bravo Network.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: I haven't watched recent seasons.
• 19:27
  Sean McAllister: Um, but the Voltagio Brothers, they rose to fame on that show and then have had really astronomical culinary careers ever since then, and they have done a lot of kind of pop-up uh restaurant experiences here in Las Vegas over the years as well.
• 19:49
  Sean McAllister: So they're no stranger to the strip.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, yeah.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: And it looks like, yeah, it's like Charlie Palmer's just like passing the torch.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so yeah, it looks like they've spent many years with the Charlie Palmer Collective, like you just said.
• 20:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:04
  Dayna Roselli: And they are debuting this spot.
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: It's called Retro by Voltagio.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: I like that.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: Like I mentioned, they're calling it a one-year culinary residency.
• 20:16
  Dayna Roselli: And it's gonna happen this spring over at Mandalay Bay, and it's gonna occupy that space, which is gonna close, and we'll have to see what they turn it into, if they put their own twist on it, if it's just gonna be their kind of menu, what changes, or if they're just gonna kind of move into that spot and keep it the same.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 20:37
  Sean McAllister: I think it's a really interesting concept, this culinary residency idea, though, because it does keep uh it keeps the restaurant fresh and evolving, and it's a new reason for people to go back there.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: No, I agree.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: And you wonder like, do they try it out and then if it works, they just stay on?
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: Is it more like a, you know, hey, let's see how this goes?
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's a good idea instead of like, you know, gutting the whole place and doing all that.
• 21:05
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I went into the article a little further and I noticed it's got the name retro.
• 21:10
  Dayna Roselli: So apparently, according to the review journal, um, also revealed is the inspiration for retro.
• 21:17
  Dayna Roselli: And it's it's gonna take you back to the 80s and 90s.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: And they say the 80s and 90s saw unforgettable moments in music, fashion, movies, TV shows, food, and countless trends that like the dancing baby.
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, like the dancing baby.
• 21:31
  Dayna Roselli: See, everyone else wants to go back to the 80s and 90s.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, it obviously swept the nation, and Retro's gonna celebrate that nostalgia in every element of the experience while putting their own spin on the beloved dishes from that era.
• 21:47
  Dayna Roselli: So this sounds interesting.
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: I'm liking this a lot.
• 21:50
  Dayna Roselli: I like it too.
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, like to go back.
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: It's just like we were saying in our last podcast everyone's coming back.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: Duran Duran's coming and Depeche mode and you know, people from Boy George is right now at the win.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: And it's like it people are visiting the past.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: Everything old is new again.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes when the new again stuff is kind of not really taking off as much as maybe it should, or people aren't loving it as much, we just bring back the past.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: And we're like, you know what?
• 22:21
  Dayna Roselli: If it worked and people are willing to do it and participate and come back, then why not?
• 22:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:26
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be interesting to see a retro by Voltagio uh culinary residency.
• 22:34
  unknown: Yep.
• 22:35
  Dayna Roselli: So I can't wait for that.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, uh, wonder if we'll see more culinary residencies too.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: So I hope we'll have to keep our eye out for that.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, um, you and I wanted to talk movies for a minute.
• 22:46
  Dayna Roselli: We've been wanting to talk about this actually for several months, but we never have time.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a perfect time to talk about it because not only did we go to Magic Mike and see Magic Mike um the screening, which was an event very different than just a regular walk up and buy your ticket experience.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: You also went to see Titanic when they released it over the weekend.
• 23:06
  Dayna Roselli: Because it's the what 28th?
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: 25th anniversary.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: 25th anniversary.
• 23:11
  Sean McAllister: And so it's been remastered and re-released in 3D.
• 23:15
  Dayna Roselli: How was it?
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: It was, I mean, listen, I have always loved Titanic.
• 23:20
  Sean McAllister: I think I've seen it probably a hundred times.
• 23:23
  Sean McAllister: And any chance that I I get to sit down and watch it, I still do.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: And it was great.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: I thought it was really it was cool, especially the underwater scenes where it actually takes you to the wreckage.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: That was really cool to see in 3D.
• 23:40
  Sean McAllister: And like you know, there's a few times when like eels are swimming around in the wreckage, and it it felt like you were down there.
• 23:49
  Sean McAllister: That's cool.
• 23:50
  Sean McAllister: It really was.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: So is it in and out like it's gone now?
• 23:53
  Sean McAllister: Uh no, I think it's doing a uh it's gonna be in theaters for you know an actual extended release period.
• 24:01
  Sean McAllister: Um and it was good.
• 24:04
  Sean McAllister: I highly recommend it.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 24:06
  Sean McAllister: But uh it's not necessarily movies that uh we've been wanting to talk about, it's the whole movie going experience.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: And I don't know, judging uh based off of the uh past experiences that I've had recently, it has just deteriorated.
• 24:29
  Sean McAllister: People have gotten so rude, like coming in late, disrupting the people in the in the row.
• 24:37
  Sean McAllister: I've on two separate occasions, people have come in late, sat down next to us, and proceeded to ask us what they missed.
• 24:47
  Sean McAllister: And I'm like, you know what?
• 24:49
  Sean McAllister: Screw off.
• 24:51
  Sean McAllister: Like, you're the one who was late.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: It's not my responsibility to catch you up on what's been going on.
• 24:57
  Sean McAllister: Show up on time and uh take this in for yourself.
• 25:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:01
  Dayna Roselli: I I remember we've been talking about this for months and months and months, and there was another time that you went to another movie, and I think you said it was a little messy too, wasn't it?
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of trash on the ground or something like that.
• 25:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I remember you talking about that.
• 25:16
  Sean McAllister: And not a lot of theater staff, right?
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: Which I know, you know, there is a worker shortage in just about every industry that you look at.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and that's the thing.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: So we wait to talk about things when it starts to add up.
• 25:29
  Dayna Roselli: So basically, you had that experience once, twice, and then I went um a couple times to the movies and I had a similar experience.
• 25:37
  Dayna Roselli: Then I had another one.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: We're like, okay, so it's not just a one-off.
• 25:41
  Dayna Roselli: There is definitely an issue.
• 25:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's a trend.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: There's an issue with the movie theater experience now.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I went to one recently in Summerlin, and the line for popcorn and a drink was six deep.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we had to wait a half hour.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 26:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's like you really you go in and it and we went a half hour, like, well, I'd say about 20 minutes before the movie starts, which is some enough time you'd think to get your drink and soda.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we started talking, got in line, and then we were there for, I think in line for 30, had to wait five minutes for everything.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: We were so frustrated, and I thought, gosh, I mean, this is just ruining my experience.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: But I love my soda and my popcorn during the movie.
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought I left enough time.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: What was frustrating to us is that there was one worker behind the counter, and I kind of felt like when we got up there, uh, my friend was like, what is the issue?
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: And she's like, um, everyone called in sick today, and I'm the only one here.
• 26:42
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was a holiday too.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: I want to say it was a Monday holiday, maybe maybe it was like MLK day or something.
• 26:50
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, um, and we thought, I feel like you need to kind of announce that.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: Like, hey, everyone, it's just me today.
• 26:56
  Dayna Roselli: Be patient.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: If you want your food and drink, um, it's gonna take a little bit.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: If not, like go sit down and come back during the movie, something.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, it just felt like what is the situation?
• 27:10
  Dayna Roselli: It was frustrating.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: Another time I went to a different movie theater, more in the central uh part of town, and it just was dirty.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: It just trash everywhere, the bathrooms were dirty, it was hard to find like where you get this or where you pay for that.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: It just was complicated.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and I know you and I actually went to the Top Gun Maverick Preview, too.
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and that day was too.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: That was a there were a lot of people there, and it just was not clean.
• 27:38
  Sean McAllister: No, and you know what?
• 27:39
  Sean McAllister: I mean, there it is, uh a big uh customer service experience.
• 27:46
  Sean McAllister: When you go to the movies, you want to have a good movie theater experience, and especially now in a time when when movies are going straight to streaming services.
• 27:59
  Sean McAllister: You know, I I've been so off put by a lot of my recent experience that I would rather just wait for movies to come out and watch it at home.
• 28:07
  Sean McAllister: I know I'm not interrupted, I'm you know, in a in the comfort of you know, our reclining sofa.
• 28:15
  Dayna Roselli: And no, I know, and I think that's the thing.
• 28:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's like this is a time for movie theaters to kind of up their game, step it up, yeah.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, instead, you know, I worry this is going to ruin the movies for everyone.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: And it's people aren't gonna continue to go.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: You and I have both said when we've gone to these movies, besides probably Top Gun, because it was a preview and people bought tickets for a long time.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: Ahead that was pretty busy.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: There's been about, I don't know, 10 people in the movie theater when I've been there.
• 28:43
  unknown: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Sean McAllister: How about you?
• 28:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's I mean, definitely not packed for sure.
• 28:48
  Dayna Roselli: I went to see the Whitney Houston movie, and then before that, I went to see the Julia Roberts and George Clooney romantic comedy.
• 28:53
  Dayna Roselli: So you know, pretty popular movies.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: I will say though, this most recent time when we went to see uh Titanic, uh, we went to the Galaxy Luxury Theater, and I was pleasantly surprised by that experience.
• 29:11
  Sean McAllister: There, there was plenty of staff.
• 29:13
  Sean McAllister: There was a theater attendant that came in uh partway through the movie to just check on things.
• 29:19
  Sean McAllister: Um you know, it it was overall, it it renewed my my faith in the movie going process.
• 29:27
  Dayna Roselli: Jack and Rose did not disappoint.
• 29:29
  Sean McAllister: They did not.
• 29:30
  Sean McAllister: I would have been so sad if Titanic was ruined by some by a nasty experience.
• 29:36
  Sean McAllister: But I'm curious, you know, for any of you listening, if you're in other parts of the country or even other parts of Las Vegas, you know, send us messages on um on social media, on Twitter, Instagram.
• 29:49
  Sean McAllister: Uh let us know what what the you know movie theater experience has been like where you are.
• 29:56
  Dayna Roselli: And if you've had a good one, let us know, and then we can try and you know head that head that that way.
• 30:02
  Sean McAllister: Because good service, I I think it's important to call out good service as much as it is to call out poor service.
• 30:10
  Dayna Roselli: I agree.
• 30:11
  Dayna Roselli: Definitely, definitely.
• 30:12
  Dayna Roselli: And I try and do that on Twitter when something real goes really, really well to say, hey, shout out to so and so.
• 30:17
  Dayna Roselli: Because I think you're right, that is important.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: Um, side note, Titanic.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: I saw a segment that they did with Steven Spielberg where they tested if Jack would have also gotten on the little piece of raft or wood.
• 30:32
  Sean McAllister: It was a door.
• 30:33
  Sean McAllister: Door, yeah.
• 30:33
  Dayna Roselli: If Jack would have also got on the door, would he have survived?
• 30:38
  Dayna Roselli: They had they then like Steven Spielberg participated as they did like this whole recreation to see because apparently people for years and years and years have talked about this.
• 30:47
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 30:48
  Dayna Roselli: Like, why didn't Jack stay on the door?
• 30:51
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, he could have lived too.
• 30:53
  Sean McAllister: People have done their own their own tests to try and prove that Jack could have.
• 30:59
  Sean McAllister: I I believe this is all part of um a special on Discovery Plus.
• 31:05
  Sean McAllister: It could have been uh where James Cameron kind of goes back.
• 31:08
  Sean McAllister: I started watching it, um, and he recreated kind of and revisited the theories about the sinking of the ship and said, Yeah, we got this right.
• 31:21
  Sean McAllister: This part maybe wasn't so accurate.
• 31:25
  unknown: Right.
• 31:25
  Dayna Roselli: So it wasn't Steven Spielberg, it was James Cameron.
• 31:27
  Sean McAllister: James Cameron.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, well, so like I'm not even gonna go back and correct that.
• 31:30
  Dayna Roselli: Uh hopefully everyone, yeah.
• 31:32
  Dayna Roselli: They're both great.
• 31:33
  Dayna Roselli: They are they remind me of each other's some of the best movies out there.
• 31:37
  Dayna Roselli: So whoops, it wasn't Steven Spielberg, it was James Cameron.
• 31:39
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, James Cameron went through this process.
• 31:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and here's the deal I have the result.
• 31:44
  Dayna Roselli: You don't aren't you dying to know?
• 31:46
  Dayna Roselli: I am, or living to know.
• 31:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, the result was possibly.
• 31:53
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: They said there's a chance he could have.
• 31:57
  Dayna Roselli: There's a chance he could not have.
• 31:59
  Dayna Roselli: So it wasn't clear cut.
• 32:01
  Sean McAllister: There's a chance he could have taken Rose down with him.
• 32:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 32:04
  Sean McAllister: So thank goodness he didn't.
• 32:06
  Dayna Roselli: No result.
• 32:06
  Dayna Roselli: They were like, possibly.
• 32:09
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, okay, that's our soapbox on the movie theaters.
• 32:12
  Dayna Roselli: Um, let's do some tips.
• 32:14
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 32:19
  Dayna Roselli: All right, my tip this week has to do with a project that we were working on.
• 32:23
  Dayna Roselli: We were doing a shoot and we wanted to get warm, so we dipped inside a bookstore that has been on the corner of Sixth and Bonneville in that area for a long time, but I've actually never walked inside.
• 32:36
  Dayna Roselli: And you said I haven't either.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 32:38
  Dayna Roselli: So we're like, well, let's go check it out.
• 32:39
  Dayna Roselli: And oh my gosh, cutest bookstore ever.
• 32:42
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 32:43
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it's like walking into a literary wonderland.
• 32:47
  Dayna Roselli: It is, right?
• 32:48
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, oh my gosh, and I feel like, you know, we don't walk into stores like that anymore.
• 32:52
  Dayna Roselli: It's called the writer's block.
• 32:53
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, people know about it that love books and are, you know, even frequent downtown a lot.
• 32:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I had just never walked inside.
• 33:01
  Dayna Roselli: I had heard about it, but all different sections with different categories, everything from nonfiction to fiction to cooking to you name it.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um cute decor, things hanging from the ceiling.
• 33:16
  Dayna Roselli: Just, I don't even know.
• 33:17
  Dayna Roselli: There were like cardinals hanging.
• 33:19
  Dayna Roselli: There was a real live bunny rabbit in a cage.
• 33:21
  Sean McAllister: There was, and it was so cute.
• 33:23
  Dayna Roselli: It was so cute, right?
• 33:24
  Dayna Roselli: And just really pretty.
• 33:26
  Dayna Roselli: Each section kind of had its own theme.
• 33:28
  Dayna Roselli: You could just get lost in there, sit in a corner, read a book, and go through the books for hours.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: They sell new books.
• 33:34
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we saw Spare.
• 33:37
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
• 33:38
  Sean McAllister: Harry's, yeah, we saw Harry's book, his memoir.
• 33:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we saw his memoir over there.
• 33:43
  Dayna Roselli: We what we kept walking.
• 33:45
  Dayna Roselli: Um we didn't buy it.
• 33:48
  Dayna Roselli: But you know what?
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, tons of so what I'm basically getting at is it's it's it's current books.
• 33:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and there's I was blown away at it kind of how big it was inside.
• 34:01
  Sean McAllister: Like it kept going.
• 34:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, we thought it was like a teeny little bookstore.
• 34:04
  Dayna Roselli: No, it kept winding and curving, and yeah, it was great.
• 34:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they also have a little coffee shop with some food items and smoothies, too.
• 34:12
  Dayna Roselli: I had a violet honey latte.
• 34:15
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 34:16
  Dayna Roselli: Or violet or was it lavender honey?
• 34:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh lavender.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: Sorry, lavender honey.
• 34:20
  Dayna Roselli: I can't get anything right today.
• 34:21
  Dayna Roselli: You guys, I woke up very early.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: I did a morning show today.
• 34:27
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, I had a Super Bowl party.
• 34:29
  Dayna Roselli: Then I had to wake up very early.
• 34:32
  Dayna Roselli: I had to do my hair and makeup and go shoot a show.
• 34:35
  Dayna Roselli: So that's my excuse.
• 34:37
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 34:37
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't a violent honey, it was a lavender honey latte.
• 34:43
  Dayna Roselli: Similar.
• 34:44
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 34:45
  Sean McAllister: It was and I had a uh just a vanilla latte and it was so good.
• 34:51
  Sean McAllister: Right?
• 34:51
  Sean McAllister: It was one of the best lattes I've ever had.
• 34:53
  Dayna Roselli: I feel the same.
• 34:54
  Dayna Roselli: We were both like, wow, this was like uh just like happiness in our mouth.
• 34:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 34:58
  Dayna Roselli: So I I want to try, you know, they had like um bagels and toasts and things like that there, very limited food, but the smoothies look good too.
• 35:05
  Dayna Roselli: But what a gem.
• 35:07
  Dayna Roselli: I just want to give a shout out and a tip that if you are in Vegas and you want to go visit a cool bookstore, have a coffee, check out the writer's block.
• 35:16
  Sean McAllister: It is a really neat vibe.
• 35:18
  Sean McAllister: And you mentioned the cardinal that was uh hanging from the ceiling.
• 35:22
  Sean McAllister: Um, the writer's block actually uh dubs itself partially as an artificial bird sanctuary.
• 35:29
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, that's why then.
• 35:30
  Sean McAllister: So that so it all makes sense.
• 35:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because I even saw a little owl in the corner.
• 35:34
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 35:35
  Dayna Roselli: Now it does make sense.
• 35:37
  Sean McAllister: See, it it is a literary wonderland.
• 35:41
  Dayna Roselli: The things you learn.
• 35:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's right next to the brand new Beverly Theater that'll officially be opening on March 3rd.
• 35:47
  Dayna Roselli: We were down there doing a project for them.
• 35:49
  Dayna Roselli: So that's when we we popped inside.
• 35:51
  Dayna Roselli: Um, check it out.
• 35:52
  Dayna Roselli: The writer's block, highly recommend it.
• 35:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, even just to visit if you're not interested.
• 35:56
  Dayna Roselli: They had cute journals too, like little gift ideas in there.
• 35:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Sean McAllister: Journals, pens and the socks, a package of socks that looked like pancakes.
• 36:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, that was cute.
• 36:06
  Sean McAllister: It was really cute.
• 36:07
  Dayna Roselli: Good gift ideas as well.
• 36:09
  Sean McAllister: So that's a uh good tip, Dana, the writer's block in downtown Las Vegas.
• 36:14
  Sean McAllister: Um, our other tip, which you mentioned uh earlier in the show, uh, is about how people can become involved in Super Bowl 58 right here in Las Vegas.
• 36:28
  Sean McAllister: They're because of the sheer volume of events that are going to be put on surrounding the game, uh, they're looking for volunteers to help uh staff everything.
• 36:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 36:41
  Dayna Roselli: We mentioned we got a press release on all the activities.
• 36:44
  Dayna Roselli: We did the the factoids about the Super Bowl earlier.
• 36:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, also on that release, it said for more information on Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas and opportunities to participate, click here.
• 36:55
  Dayna Roselli: So I did.
• 36:56
  Dayna Roselli: And what it is, like is like you mentioned, it looks like you you submit things about yourself and they are gonna send you opportunities.
• 37:07
  Dayna Roselli: We need volunteers for this, or maybe you know, you'd be a perfect fit for that.
• 37:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so it's a really cool sign-up sheet, and you know, it does ask you things like are you multilingual?
• 37:16
  Dayna Roselli: You know, which is important for something that they might be doing.
• 37:20
  Dayna Roselli: And so um, it talks about, you know, your name, your obviously how to how to contact you, um, if you're interested in the marketing emails that they want to send out, um, that kind of thing.
• 37:31
  Dayna Roselli: So um, and it says on one of the categories, how did you hear about the LVCVA volunteer program?
• 37:37
  Dayna Roselli: So you can say Vegas Revealed.
• 37:39
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 37:39
  Sean McAllister: We'd appreciate it.
• 37:40
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna put the link in our show notes.
• 37:42
  Dayna Roselli: The actual link, I was trying to see if it was like a website.
• 37:45
  Dayna Roselli: It though it's a little bit long and confusing.
• 37:46
  Dayna Roselli: So we figure, you know what, let's just link it right up in our show notes.
• 37:50
  Dayna Roselli: You can click it to find the sign-up for the volunteer opportunities.
• 37:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 37:54
  Sean McAllister: And listen, if you have never been a part of uh Super Bowl events, this is a really cool opportunity.
• 38:02
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, why not just sign up and get your name in the running?
• 38:06
  Sean McAllister: And and who knows, you could be part of Super Bowl 58, yeah, right here in Las Vegas.
• 38:12
  Sean McAllister: Again, go to the link down in our show notes to apply.
• 38:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it gets it also asks you for your event shirt size.
• 38:19
  Dayna Roselli: So it sounds like you'll get a shirt.
• 38:20
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I like it.
• 38:21
  Dayna Roselli: A volunteer shirt, yeah.
• 38:22
  Dayna Roselli: Because you and I have been saying, like, we aren't watching this thing at home.
• 38:25
  Dayna Roselli: I don't care if I'm not working it, I don't care if I'm not invited as press.
• 38:28
  Dayna Roselli: I don't we have to find a way to be there.
• 38:31
  Dayna Roselli: And so if I have to volunteer, I will volunteer because that would be really fun.
• 38:34
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 38:35
  Dayna Roselli: So I think a lot of people are gonna sign up for this.
• 38:38
  Dayna Roselli: So uh we all put our names in before we gave you the link.
• 38:41
  Sean McAllister: Dana, maybe we could apply to be super ball ambassadors since we know the stats now.
• 38:49
  Dayna Roselli: That's true.
• 38:50
  Sean McAllister: We could we could share the wealth of information with everyone who stops by for a picture with the super ball.
• 38:56
  Dayna Roselli: I think there are gonna be a lot of opportunities like that, right?
• 39:01
  Dayna Roselli: Guiding people in the right direction, telling people where to go, handing out things.
• 39:08
  Sean McAllister: And speaking of being a good guide and helping people navigate Las Vegas, remember the Vegas Near Me app is like a concierge in your pocket.
• 39:19
  Sean McAllister: You don't need to sign up to be a volunteer or anything.
• 39:23
  Sean McAllister: All you have to do is download the Vegas Near Me app from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
• 39:31
  Sean McAllister: And uh it really is a wealth of Vegas information.
• 39:35
  Sean McAllister: You can book shows, restaurants, travel, all from right within the app, along with listening to uh, you know, viewing blogs and vlogs and YouTube videos and listening to podcasts like Vegas Revealed, all within the app.
• 39:55
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 39:56
  Dayna Roselli: So when you look up Writer's Block next time, you'll probably see the Vegas Revealed podcast underneath talking about the writer's block.
• 40:03
  Dayna Roselli: That's how it works.
• 40:04
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 40:05
  Sean McAllister: It's great.
• 40:06
  Dayna Roselli: You and I looked up primarily Prime Rib, and we found a great review of a bunch of folks checking out the or was it prime?
• 40:13
  Dayna Roselli: No, it was um the one at the El Cortez.
• 40:15
  Dayna Roselli: We looked up that restaurant.
• 40:17
  Dayna Roselli: Siegels?
• 40:18
  Dayna Roselli: No, something like that.
• 40:19
  Dayna Roselli: It's not my day for names.
• 40:22
  Dayna Roselli: Whatever the restaurant inside the El Cortez is.
• 40:25
  Dayna Roselli: We looked it up and we found a bunch of reviews in a way, YouTubes where they actually tried the food.
• 40:31
  Dayna Roselli: And we're like, okay, it looks good.
• 40:33
  Sean McAllister: So that's the kind of experience you can expect on Vegas near me.
• 40:38
  Dayna Roselli: Now I feel guilty, like I gotta look up the right name.
• 40:43
  Sean McAllister: Don't feel guilty, David.
• 40:44
  Sean McAllister: It's been a long day.
• 40:45
  Dayna Roselli: It has been a long day.
• 40:47
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, all right.
• 40:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I can't find it.
• 40:50
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, Bugsy Seagulls!
• 40:51
  Sean McAllister: Bugsy Seagulls, you got it.
• 40:53
  Dayna Roselli: There you go.
• 40:53
  Sean McAllister: You got the name right.
• 40:54
  Dayna Roselli: Let's end on that note.
• 40:56
  Sean McAllister: See you next week, everyone.
• 40:57
  Sean McAllister: 157 coming at you in seven days.
• 41:00
  Dayna Roselli: I'll take a nap first.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: The desert sky is cold, but in the ones move on.