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Mark Wahlberg Talks About Why He Moved to Las Vegas, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell Musical Opens, VegasNearMe App Debuts, G2E Brings in the Crowds | Ep. 139 · Vegas Revealed

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Dayna Roselli: Welcome to episode 139 of Vegas Revealed.
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Dayna Roselli: Las Vegas has a new A-list resident who has plans to transform the city into Hollywood 2.0.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to be able to work from home.
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SPEAKER_00: Moved to California many years ago to pursue acting, and I've only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there.
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Sean McAllister: More from Mark Wahlberg on his recent relocation.
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Sean McAllister: And famed chef Wolfgang Puck hung out poolside on the strip sipping some wine, and we were there to chat him up.
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Dayna Roselli: And the newest Las Vegas musical just launched like a bat out of hell.
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Dayna Roselli: Hear about my experience at the show.
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Sean McAllister: Plus, a new steakhouse is about to open off the strip and a new exhibit that is very fitting for the Luxor.
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Dayna Roselli: It sure is.
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Dayna Roselli: All that more coming up this week on Vegas Reveal.
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Sean McAllister: Let's spin that wheel.
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Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to episode 139 of Vegas Revealed.
2:07
Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here in October, sitting in the best weather ever.
2:14
Dayna Roselli: Everyone always says this is the best month for weather in Las Vegas because it's warm but not too warm.
2:21
Sean McAllister: Yeah, it I mean, and this is prime wedding season, too, because people can finally have their outdoor weddings without all of their guests just like sweating and melting out in the sun.
2:34
Sean McAllister: It's still nice and warm and toasty.
2:36
Sean McAllister: It is, but not like summer warmth.
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Dayna Roselli: No, I think I saw um one of our weather people, was it Ted Pretty over at Fox Five, posted a tweet yesterday and actually said yesterday's temperature high was 90, but this time last year on that day it was only 65.
2:54
Dayna Roselli: Wow.
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Dayna Roselli: So I think we're a little low average that we should be.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's been a warm week, but still feels it's so weird.
3:02
Dayna Roselli: It's cooler because it's 90.
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Sean McAllister: It's 30 degrees cooler than summertime.
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Dayna Roselli: And the nights are beautiful, yeah.
3:08
Dayna Roselli: At like what, seven?
3:09
Sean McAllister: And the nights are great.
3:11
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
3:11
Dayna Roselli: And now, but I get apparently it's a little warmer than it was this time last year.
3:14
Dayna Roselli: Let's put it that way.
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Sean McAllister: Okay, but it is still great pool weather here in Las Vegas, and uh a lot of people, a lot of casinos are starting to have their outdoor events and pool parties.
3:29
Sean McAllister: I mean, not pool parties, but events at their pool.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, exactly.
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Dayna Roselli: We went to one recently at the Venetian, and gosh, that couldn't have been more perfect.
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Dayna Roselli: It was last Saturday we went to the taste makers event.
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Dayna Roselli: It was all the restaurants at the Venetian had like areas set up.
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Dayna Roselli: And I would I wouldn't even say I was gonna say booths.
3:49
Dayna Roselli: No, these were not booths.
3:50
Dayna Roselli: I mean, because there were flowers trees and kitchens, and yeah, they had their own kind of setup, right?
3:56
Dayna Roselli: And all the restaurants were there and they featured like some of their favorite things that they wanted to share with people.
4:02
Dayna Roselli: There was a bar that was open.
4:04
Dayna Roselli: Uh, we saw Wolfgang Puck, he was there.
4:07
Dayna Roselli: We I lined up to take a picture with him.
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Sean McAllister: Wolfgang is always great.
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Sean McAllister: You're not the only one who lined up to take a picture with him.
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Sean McAllister: There was a line that stretched around the pool from where he was sitting.
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Sean McAllister: He was his station was kind of at the corner of the pool, and that line, there were a lot of people in it.
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Dayna Roselli: There were, yeah, and he's great.
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Dayna Roselli: He kind of reminds me of Jack Nicholson.
4:29
Dayna Roselli: He does a little bit about it.
4:30
Dayna Roselli: There's something about him, you know, because they're I don't know, stunning men for their age.
4:36
Dayna Roselli: They have this cool kind of look to them.
4:38
Dayna Roselli: Maybe it's the glasses.
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Dayna Roselli: It might be, you know, because Jack Nicholson always had the glasses too.
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Sean McAllister: Wolfgang has like a vibe, a very cool, like suave kind of vibe about him, too, doesn't he?
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Dayna Roselli: It's so suave.
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Dayna Roselli: And you're like, yeah, you just want to hang out with Wolfgang.
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Dayna Roselli: And he was so fun because we said, Can we take a picture?
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Dayna Roselli: You know, and he was like, Absolutely.
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Dayna Roselli: And I don't know how to imitate his accent.
5:01
Dayna Roselli: But anyway, so after that, I looked over after we took the picture and I was like, What is this?
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Dayna Roselli: There was a dessert there, and then he's like, Oh, it's blah, blah, blah, la.
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Dayna Roselli: And I was like, okay, I didn't want to eat the dessert because I already eaten so much, but I felt like sucked into it because Wolfgang just told me what it is and that I should try it.
5:17
Dayna Roselli: So then I ended up eating it anyway, and it was delicious.
5:20
Dayna Roselli: It was like ice cream and this cookie thing.
5:21
Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
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Sean McAllister: Oh, so good.
5:23
Dayna Roselli: Fantastic.
5:23
Dayna Roselli: And what I was just gonna say, what a night.
5:26
Dayna Roselli: And it was by the pool.
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Dayna Roselli: They had a gorgeous, like beautiful colored balls like in the pool, and it just the whole outside property was stunning.
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Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Wolfgang Puck wasn't the only celebrity chef there.
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Sean McAllister: Uh, the cake boss, Buddy Velastro, was there.
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Sean McAllister: Uh, chef Lorena Garcia, who uh owns the Chica restaurant over at the Venetian, she was there.
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Sean McAllister: I had a great chat with her.
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Sean McAllister: She kind of took us through when we stopped and said hi to her, she was like, Oh, have you had any of my food yet?
5:54
Sean McAllister: And we were like, No, we were just about to go get in line.
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Sean McAllister: She was like, Oh, don't get in line.
5:58
Sean McAllister: I'll feed you.
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Sean McAllister: And she would was running over and grabbing the the plates and bringing them over to us.
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Sean McAllister: Each of the the courses that they had out there.
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Sean McAllister: She's terrific.
6:09
Sean McAllister: She is.
6:09
Dayna Roselli: I love her.
6:10
Dayna Roselli: I was lucky enough one time to go into brunch and she was there.
6:13
Dayna Roselli: She pops up, you know, every now and then.
6:15
Dayna Roselli: And that's cool about her too.
6:16
Dayna Roselli: That's what I love, you know.
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Dayna Roselli: I like seeing the chefs at their restaurant.
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Dayna Roselli: And I that's why I love that Wolfgang was there, you know.
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Dayna Roselli: He's got cut inside Palazzo, and hey, he's there at the Tastemaker event.
6:27
Dayna Roselli: And Buddy Velastro was there, like we said, and we didn't know that until we saw him in one of my friends' pictures in the background.
6:33
Dayna Roselli: We said, wait, is that Buddy?
6:34
Dayna Roselli: I didn't see Buddy there, but we know he was there because we saw him.
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Sean McAllister: She got photo bummed by the cake boss.
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Dayna Roselli: She did.
6:40
Sean McAllister: I love that.
6:41
Dayna Roselli: I love the burger I had at Black Tap, by the way.
6:44
Dayna Roselli: I know you had a different one.
6:45
Sean McAllister: Yes, and that was amazing too.
6:47
Dayna Roselli: Yours was like what bacon and onions.
6:51
Sean McAllister: Yeah, bacon, like caramelized onions.
6:54
Sean McAllister: That looked good.
6:54
Sean McAllister: Oh, it was delicious.
6:55
Dayna Roselli: Well, I waited for the arugula and blue cheeseburger.
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Dayna Roselli: And let me tell you, it was fantastic.
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Sean McAllister: I love a blue burger.
7:03
Dayna Roselli: Oh, it was so good.
7:05
Dayna Roselli: I was starving when I went there.
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Dayna Roselli: So that was the first booth that I hit, and I was like, give me half that burger.
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Sean McAllister: Well, a lot of times when you go to these events, they serve little sliders, like you two bite kind of thing.
7:16
Sean McAllister: No, black tap, they were full on like half a burger, half a full-size patty.
7:21
Sean McAllister: That was so good.
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Sean McAllister: And they were they were really good.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was delicious.
7:26
Sean McAllister: We need to go in there on a cheat day.
7:28
Sean McAllister: I we do, for sure.
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Sean McAllister: And get the shake and the the whole shebang.
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Dayna Roselli: They have great restaurants at the Venetian and Palazzo.
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Dayna Roselli: They really do.
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Dayna Roselli: Bringing them all together for this tastemaker event and having the chefs there was a fantastic idea.
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Sean McAllister: And of course, uh, food and you know, poolside events are one form of entertainment here in Las Vegas.
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Sean McAllister: But another more traditional form, a new musical just opened over at Paris, Las Vegas.
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Sean McAllister: And Dana, you were there for the the big premiere.
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Dayna Roselli: I was.
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Dayna Roselli: It's called Bat Out of Hell.
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Dayna Roselli: We've talked about it on the podcast before that it was coming up and it was opening, and we were excited to see another show inside that theater at the Paris.
8:05
Dayna Roselli: Jersey Boys was there for so long.
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Dayna Roselli: They've tried a couple different things in between that didn't seem to stick.
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Dayna Roselli: So didn't know how it would be.
8:13
Dayna Roselli: It was the media night, and so uh we were invited.
8:17
Dayna Roselli: You couldn't make it, but I went and we just loved it.
8:20
Dayna Roselli: I tell you, I am very picky when it comes to musicals.
8:24
Dayna Roselli: I'm not a huge musical person.
8:26
Dayna Roselli: I do enjoy Broadway and I enjoy, but it's not like it would be my first thing to pick and go do.
8:32
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
8:32
Dayna Roselli: You know what I mean?
8:33
Dayna Roselli: Like, but I really enjoyed this show.
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Dayna Roselli: Now, two things that might have added to it is Travis Clover's in it, and he was in Jersey Boys, uh, known Travis for a long time.
8:43
Dayna Roselli: So it was good to see him out there in a Vegas production again.
8:46
Dayna Roselli: But Travis's part in this show was fantastic.
8:50
Dayna Roselli: It was like I didn't even think back because he played Frankie Valley in Jersey Boys.
8:53
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I didn't have any Frankie Valley vibes when I watched, which really yeah, which is how I know like he like was so good at acting in this musical because it didn't remind me at all of that.
9:06
Sean McAllister: Oh, that's so great to hear.
9:07
Dayna Roselli: And he was funny, so funny, and uh great singer, and you know, he great at acting out his part that he played and just fantastic.
9:19
Dayna Roselli: And then Ann Martinez, she's in it too.
9:22
Dayna Roselli: She's also a performer here around Las Vegas, and she was excellent as well, also very funny.
9:29
Dayna Roselli: They are like husband and wife in the show, and so them together, we were even saying, gosh, Anne and Travis need to get their own show because they were great.
9:36
Dayna Roselli: Their chemistry together was great on stage, but the whole cast was amazing, and they basically tell this story through Meatloaf's songs.
9:46
Dayna Roselli: So Meatloaf has so many songs, which you don't even realize until you're at the musical, right?
9:51
Dayna Roselli: Because you're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.
9:54
Sean McAllister: Right.
9:54
Sean McAllister: And this is all the music from Meatloaf's Bad Out of Hell album.
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Dayna Roselli: Right.
9:58
Dayna Roselli: And so it's like all played out in throughout the story.
10:02
Dayna Roselli: And some scenes are funny, some are emotional, some are intense.
10:08
Dayna Roselli: So there's a lot going on.
10:10
Dayna Roselli: I don't know if I want to give away the storyline because I do feel like that's part of going to this.
10:15
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
10:16
Dayna Roselli: So even when I'm talking about Travis and Anne and what it's about, and all I feel like I don't want to like give all that away.
10:21
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
10:22
Dayna Roselli: But um, because if you go see it, it's kind of fun to follow along at the story story and to follow along with the story.
10:28
Dayna Roselli: Um, it does have a little bit of a completely different musical, West Side story vibe when it comes to a certain side and another side and a love story and all that kind of thing.
10:39
Sean McAllister: So like a star-cross lover kind of theme to the show.
10:42
Dayna Roselli: Right.
10:43
Sean McAllister: Okay.
10:43
Dayna Roselli: So anyway, it was really good, entertaining.
10:46
Dayna Roselli: One thing they could get rid of is is the streamer guns that keep going off.
10:50
Dayna Roselli: That's my only negative because they scare you.
10:53
Dayna Roselli: You'll hear this like pop, right?
10:55
Dayna Roselli: And you're like, ah.
10:57
Dayna Roselli: But the streamer effect is great, but it's just, it starts off with that, and every now and then in the middle of the show, it it goes off again.
11:04
Sean McAllister: Well, and I think it's so funny because whenever we go to a show and there's a ton of confetti that shoots out into the audience, you always keep finding confetti in your purse or in pockets or wherever, like for months to follow.
11:19
Dayna Roselli: It's funny you say that because I cleared out my purse.
11:21
Dayna Roselli: Because as women, Sean, we switch purses when we go out to match.
11:25
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's a new season.
11:26
Dayna Roselli: I took everything out when I got home and put it back into my like work bag and all that.
11:30
Dayna Roselli: And then I noticed there were streamers in there, and I left them in there purposely just to like get them another day, you know?
11:37
Sean McAllister: And a reminder.
11:38
Sean McAllister: Oh, bad out of hell.
11:40
Dayna Roselli: Yes, bad out of hell.
11:41
Dayna Roselli: So great uh show, lots of talented people in there that cast really strong voices, great singers.
11:47
Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of funny moments, a lot of funny cast members as well.
11:51
Dayna Roselli: Um, they had an after party after on the pool deck of the Paris, uh, they had live music out there.
11:57
Dayna Roselli: The cast came out, and you can tell they're just excited to be here, excited to be performing and doing this show.
12:02
Dayna Roselli: And uh congratulations.
12:04
Dayna Roselli: I really hope that it lasts.
12:06
Dayna Roselli: And I also want to say if you're in Vegas and you want to go see, you know, a musical or something different.
12:12
Dayna Roselli: Maybe you've got like three nights here and you're gonna do a circle and then you're gonna do one of the headlining shows at Zappos Theater.
12:18
Dayna Roselli: I mean, mix in Bad Out of Hell.
12:19
Dayna Roselli: I think you'll really enjoy it.
12:20
Sean McAllister: And is there, uh, I know for a lot of musicals, at least on Broadway, there's an intermission.
12:26
Sean McAllister: And that usually gets eliminated when a show comes here to Vegas.
12:30
Sean McAllister: Is it the same way?
12:31
Sean McAllister: Same way.
12:32
Sean McAllister: Okay.
12:32
Sean McAllister: No intermission.
12:33
Sean McAllister: No intermission.
12:33
Dayna Roselli: Nope.
12:34
Dayna Roselli: And I don't think it was more than an hour.
12:35
Dayna Roselli: I don't think it was more than an hour and a half.
12:37
Sean McAllister: Okay.
12:38
Dayna Roselli: So, you know, they kept it within that Vegas window of time.
12:42
Dayna Roselli: But yeah, no intermission.
12:43
Dayna Roselli: So really interesting.
12:45
Dayna Roselli: Uh, the music was great, and I loved it because you don't even realize how much you actually know the words to these meatloaf songs.
12:51
Dayna Roselli: You might not even think you do, and then when they play, you're like, oh, you're singing along.
12:55
Sean McAllister: And didn't you say that some of the songs are like really funny as far as how they fit into the storyline?
13:01
Dayna Roselli: Well, what's the one with the dashboard uh dashboard lights by the dashboard lights?
13:05
Sean McAllister: We did this before, we couldn't remember the full name of it.
13:08
Dayna Roselli: Whatever by the dashboard.
13:09
Dayna Roselli: Everyone knows what I'm talking about talking about, right?
13:11
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
13:12
Sean McAllister: The dashboard confessional lights.
13:16
Dayna Roselli: Hilarious scene, one of the best scenes in the whole show.
13:18
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
13:19
Dayna Roselli: It's funny.
13:20
Dayna Roselli: Yes.
13:20
Dayna Roselli: It's so you're just it's just it's a good show.
13:23
Dayna Roselli: I think you'll have some laughs.
13:25
Dayna Roselli: Uh, you'll cheer for the cast.
13:27
Dayna Roselli: Uh, the costumes are great.
13:29
Dayna Roselli: There's there's a lot going on in this show, the way that they do it.
13:31
Dayna Roselli: It's really cool.
13:32
Sean McAllister: Good.
13:32
Sean McAllister: I'm excited to get over to see it when when I'm able to.
13:36
Sean McAllister: And again, big congratulations to the cast of Bat Out of Hell over at Paris, Las Vegas.
13:43
Dayna Roselli: All right, let's talk about Mark Wahlberg.
13:45
Dayna Roselli: We have known that he was moving here and moved here for a while.
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SPEAKER_02: Yep.
13:49
Dayna Roselli: But he was recently on a TV show called The Talk.
13:52
Dayna Roselli: I don't know if you've watched that on TV, but you know, always a good show.
13:56
Dayna Roselli: It's been around for a long time.
13:57
Sean McAllister: That's the CBS uh daytime show, is where you can find it.
14:01
Dayna Roselli: Anyway, he was on The Talk, and we learned a little bit more about his take on moving to Las Vegas and Nevada.
14:08
Sean McAllister: And it was really exciting because I've been uh talking with people who see Mark Wahlberg at their kids' sporting events or at school events, and they're like, Yeah, I mean, he's here.
14:20
Sean McAllister: He's just here doing the dad thing, and he's great with the other parents when when he's at these events for his kids.
14:31
Sean McAllister: And they say he just blends in like everyone else, except the for the fact that he's Mark Wahlberg.
14:36
Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, it's Mark Wahlberg.
14:38
Dayna Roselli: I just saw him in a movie too on Netflix called Father Stew.
14:41
Dayna Roselli: He was excellent.
14:42
Dayna Roselli: I feel like he might be up for an award this year for that one.
14:44
Dayna Roselli: Oh, interesting.
14:45
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and Mel Gibson's in it too, which I haven't seen him act in a while, but and he plays his father.
14:50
Dayna Roselli: It's really good.
14:51
Dayna Roselli: Um, but it's not the most uplifting.
14:55
Dayna Roselli: Well, it's up there's parts that are uplifting at the end, but it's not the most uplifting movie throughout.
15:00
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
15:00
Dayna Roselli: It's you know, so yeah.
15:02
Sean McAllister: So have some tissues ready.
15:04
Dayna Roselli: Have some tissues ready.
15:05
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
15:05
Dayna Roselli: But he does a really good job.
15:06
Dayna Roselli: Anyway, I was watching that thinking, oh, it's so weird.
15:08
Dayna Roselli: Mark Wahlberg like lives down the street now.
15:10
Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, as a matter of fact, it partly is because of his acting career, why he wanted to relocate here to Las Vegas and kind of turn this into the next Hollywood and really get a movie studio up and running along with some other business propositions.
15:29
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so let's listen to that piece where he talks about this on the talk on CBS.
15:34
SPEAKER_00: Well, that is the biggest challenge right there, Cheryl.
15:37
SPEAKER_00: As you know, uh, you know, every free moment that I have, I'm at home.
15:40
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm literally, I moved to Nevada.
15:42
SPEAKER_00: We're we're after this gubernatorial election, hopefully go to legislation and get a bill passed so we can get tax credits for the state, build a state-of-the-art studio here, um, and make this Hollywood 2.0.
15:52
SPEAKER_00: I want to be able to work from home.
15:54
SPEAKER_00: I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting, and I've only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there.
16:00
SPEAKER_00: So to be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams, whether it be my daughter as an equestrian, my son is a basketball player, my youngest son is a golfer, you know, this made a lot more sense for us to go and hopefully build a studio as well as a shoe factory and uh a factory for municipal.
16:16
SPEAKER_00: So we came here to uh, you know, just kind of give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids.
16:22
SPEAKER_00: And there's lots of opportunity here.
16:24
SPEAKER_00: So I'm excited, I'm really excited about the future.
16:29
Sean McAllister: First off, Mark, it's Nevada, not Nevada.
16:34
Sean McAllister: That is a pet peeve of longtime residents.
16:38
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he'll learn.
16:39
Dayna Roselli: That's okay, though.
16:40
Dayna Roselli: I totally get that people say it wrong when they first move here or start using it more in their language.
16:46
Dayna Roselli: Correct.
16:47
Dayna Roselli: So we'll give him a pass on that.
16:49
Dayna Roselli: Uh, but yeah, exciting to hear that he's proud to have moved here and live and live here and what he wants to bring to the economy.
16:56
Dayna Roselli: I'm excited about that.
16:57
Sean McAllister: Well, and and yeah, to have a major move movie studio here and then have uh a couple different factories that he wants to open up and create jobs, contribute to the economy.
17:10
Sean McAllister: He uh is a very business-minded person.
17:13
Sean McAllister: And of course, the family has uh the Wahlbergers chain of restaurants as well.
17:19
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and they have one at Bailey's too, right?
17:21
Sean McAllister: Yep.
17:21
Dayna Roselli: I think so.
17:22
Dayna Roselli: Or is it not Bailey's anymore?
17:23
Sean McAllister: Oh, now it's the horseshoe.
17:24
Sean McAllister: Well, it's transitioning into the horseshoe.
17:26
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
17:27
Dayna Roselli: Over there they have one.
17:28
Sean McAllister: Over at the corner of uh Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard.
17:32
Sean McAllister: There you go.
17:34
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I love that he said um, I was reading a little bit more in the article, you know, saying he wanted to come here too, like to want his kids to like not say raise because they're older or older in their teens.
17:46
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
17:47
Dayna Roselli: Not raise his kids here, but have a life here, which I thought was really cool because I don't know what it is.
17:51
Dayna Roselli: I totally get it when people say I don't want to raise my kids here.
17:54
Dayna Roselli: Like I understand there are things that we have that most cities don't have, like, you know, billboards that drive up and down the street with, you know, strippers direct to your room and stuff like that.
18:05
Dayna Roselli: I understand all that.
18:08
Dayna Roselli: But sometimes I get a little offended when people are like, I don't want to raise my kids here.
18:12
Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, why?
18:12
Dayna Roselli: What's wrong with it?
18:14
Dayna Roselli: But I love that he said, I want to raise my kids in Las Vegas.
18:17
Dayna Roselli: I'm like, great.
18:18
Dayna Roselli: Um, but I think what he means is we have a lot of things going for us that his kids are involved in basketball, and like he said, the equestrian stuff.
18:26
Sean McAllister: Because South Point has a great equestrian and there's a lot of great horse ranches around Las Vegas, too.
18:34
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, really.
18:35
Dayna Roselli: So kind of cool to hear him talk about all that.
18:37
Dayna Roselli: And hey, I'm all about Hollywood 2.0.
18:39
Dayna Roselli: Why we have so much space here.
18:41
Dayna Roselli: And we just recently actually went to a studio that is starting to do more of that stuff inside there, but using technology inside, and they were saying they plan to get maybe a a bunch of movies in there.
18:57
Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it would only benefit if Mark Wahlberg gets a studio up and running, it's only going to benefit all of the uh existing uh infrastructure and studios that are uh already here.
19:13
Sean McAllister: So I say bring it on, yeah, uh create a a brand new uh portion sector of the economy, diversify you know, away from the entertainment and hospitality because as the pandemic approved, it's not good to have all your eggs in one basket, or at least most of your eggs in one basket, and to have more a more diversified economy is a good thing.
19:40
Dayna Roselli: And when we were touring that View Studios, we were chatting with the general manager, and all of us agreed like it's such a great place to shoot movies because people can come in and do other things.
19:52
Dayna Roselli: It's not like you're in this flown into this town where there's not really much else to do, right?
19:58
Dayna Roselli: Um, or doesn't have a lot going on.
20:00
Dayna Roselli: It's like you can come in, shoot your movie, and then go have some fun, or you can come in and do a couple different things.
20:08
Sean McAllister: Right.
20:08
Dayna Roselli: Like we were saying there was uh a football player or something that was, you know, they they came in for a game, but they also came in to shoot like this commercial they needed to do.
20:16
Dayna Roselli: And so it's like you can get a bunch of stuff done um by being here and then, you know, pour a little money into Las Vegas in other ways, too.
20:25
Dayna Roselli: So that's a huge win for us.
20:26
Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, I mean, uh obviously there's gambling, there's restaurants, there's golf, there's you know, extreme driving activities, uh really anything that you want to do on the recreational side, Vegas has it.
20:40
Sean McAllister: So it does perfectly complement uh, you know, the the staff and the talent that are coming in for productions.
20:49
Sean McAllister: It gives them something to do in their off time.
20:51
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
20:51
Dayna Roselli: I mean, drive an hour, you can ride a camel.
20:54
Dayna Roselli: True, very true.
20:55
Sean McAllister: And it sounds like a lot of people are, thanks to the tip a couple weeks back.
20:58
Dayna Roselli: Everyone's coming up to us and talking about the camel riding.
21:01
Dayna Roselli: Oh, the camel rides.
21:02
Dayna Roselli: I'm going out for camel rides.
21:04
Dayna Roselli: Well, listen, welcome, Mark Wahlberg, to Viva Las Vegas.
21:08
Dayna Roselli: Um, we hope everything that you just said there on the talk comes true because we're here for it.
21:13
Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
21:13
Sean McAllister: Welcome, Mark.
21:14
Sean McAllister: Um, and also, I mean, welcome pretty soon to the new Durango Resort, which is being built uh in the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley.
21:27
Sean McAllister: If you are a regular listener, you heard us talk about the Durango Resort when we were there for the groundbreaking and kind of a preview of what to expect from this new resort.
21:39
Dayna Roselli: And that didn't feel like it was too long ago.
21:41
Dayna Roselli: No.
21:41
Dayna Roselli: And then all of a sudden, the other day, they're like topping off the building.
21:45
Dayna Roselli: We're like, wait, whoa, what happened?
21:47
Dayna Roselli: But you and I don't drive by there a lot.
21:49
Dayna Roselli: So we haven't seen the actual process of it going up.
21:52
Sean McAllister: True.
21:53
Dayna Roselli: So maybe we just but it doesn't it feel like you blinked and then like Yes.
21:56
Sean McAllister: I was like, how in the world are they already topping off?
22:00
Sean McAllister: The structure of this new resort.
22:04
Sean McAllister: They work quick here.
22:05
Sean McAllister: They sure do.
22:05
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
22:06
Dayna Roselli: And we met a lot of people in the construction industry industry last night, which we'll talk about in a minute.
22:10
Dayna Roselli: But uh, okay, so the Durango did top off, which is great.
22:14
Dayna Roselli: So they put up a post and uh showed this happening and they put in some little factoids.
22:20
Dayna Roselli: So here's an update on what's going on there.
22:22
Dayna Roselli: It's slated to open in 2023.
22:25
Dayna Roselli: Um, it's gonna have 15 floors, over 200 hotel rooms, convention and meeting space, a resort, pool, and cabanas, outdoor social area, and free parking.
22:35
Dayna Roselli: Yes.
22:35
Dayna Roselli: So we look forward to that arriving in 2023 along with a lot of other things.
22:40
Dayna Roselli: 2023 is a big year.
22:42
Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be packed.
22:43
Dayna Roselli: Packed with the amount of things happening.
22:46
Dayna Roselli: Insane.
22:47
Dayna Roselli: Um, and speaking of that, you know, conventions seem to really be back.
22:51
Dayna Roselli: You and I hosted a happy hour event for the whole like construction and architecture community um that were in town for the global gaming convention.
23:02
Dayna Roselli: Global gaming, a huge, huge event that happens every year.
23:06
Dayna Roselli: Last year was scaled down a little, right?
23:08
Sean McAllister: It was.
23:08
Sean McAllister: It was the first one back in person, so it wasn't really back full strength, but this year, man.
23:16
Dayna Roselli: We went to the Venetian for this event and it was at Tau, and we were the MCs, and getting in and getting out, wow, you and I kept saying, I mean, we talk about conventions all the time.
23:28
Dayna Roselli: We've been to a few conventions, but we were like, this is why convention business is so crucial to our economy.
23:35
Sean McAllister: It was when we were walking through the Venetian, uh it was right around seven o'clock, so prime dinner time, and there were lines out the doors of every single restaurant at the Venetian, and people just like waiting for waiting for their reservation time.
23:57
Sean McAllister: And I could not believe the number of people that were out, but that is exactly what convention business does for our resorts.
24:05
Dayna Roselli: It's true.
24:06
Dayna Roselli: And you and I always park at the palazzo because it's pretty easy in and out.
24:10
Dayna Roselli: And this was like the first time ever we were like calling each other, like, I can't find a spot.
24:15
Dayna Roselli: I can't either.
24:16
Sean McAllister: Dude, what level are you on?
24:17
Sean McAllister: Do you see anything?
24:18
Dayna Roselli: I found one on level two, you found one on level four.
24:22
Dayna Roselli: I know, and we usually park on level three, it's our go-to.
24:24
Sean McAllister: It is, but three, no, fully occupied.
24:27
Sean McAllister: No room at the inn.
24:29
Sean McAllister: None.
24:29
Dayna Roselli: I was circled around forever.
24:31
Dayna Roselli: I was like, all right, I'm done.
24:32
Dayna Roselli: I've got to get to another floor.
24:33
Dayna Roselli: I just felt like it's like some point the karma would come, you know, the parking karma.
24:37
Dayna Roselli: Right.
24:38
Dayna Roselli: It didn't.
24:39
Dayna Roselli: So yeah, it was jam-packed.
24:40
Dayna Roselli: Glad to see everyone out here for the Global Gaming Expo.
24:43
Dayna Roselli: Love it.
24:44
Dayna Roselli: Uh, tons of new technology featured.
24:46
Dayna Roselli: I've been seeing so many different videos of some of those really cool slot machines and games and all that kind of thing.
24:52
Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's always a great, it's always a a fun time too, because you do see the new technology before it actually hits the casino floor.
25:02
Sean McAllister: And then, you know, as soon as the new slot machines are out there, you're like, yeah, I saw that at G2E last year.
25:08
Sean McAllister: Right.
25:08
Sean McAllister: I've been waiting for this.
25:10
Sean McAllister: So yeah, convention business back in a big way.
25:14
Sean McAllister: And uh Mandalay Bay is doubling down on its commitment to convention business with a massive remodel of all of its convention and meeting space.
25:27
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they announced that they're gonna spend a hundred million dollars on this remodel of its 2.1 million square foot convention center.
25:37
Dayna Roselli: Is that possible?
25:39
Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean 2.1 million?
25:41
Sean McAllister: Yeah, they they have a lot of space over there.
25:43
Sean McAllister: Big because they just added on to their convention space within the past few years.
25:50
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
25:51
Dayna Roselli: It's unreal.
25:52
Dayna Roselli: Well, listen, add on because if we can bring all these people in and keep bringing them in, it's great.
25:57
Dayna Roselli: So, yeah, congratulations to Mandalay Bay, who's doing a big refurbish over there to their convention area.
26:03
Dayna Roselli: And I'm sure they'll be kicking up more conventions over there in the near future.
26:07
Sean McAllister: And when uh conventions are in town, there are a lot of concerts that happen uh here as well for the attendees.
26:15
Sean McAllister: And one that uh people can start to put on their calendar, not for this year or the beginning of next year or even the middle of next year.
26:26
Sean McAllister: For fall of 2023, you can mark it down now.
26:30
Sean McAllister: The When We Were Young Festival is coming back, and we just got the lineup for uh what to expect from that.
26:38
Dayna Roselli: I know, and the funny thing is, the current one hasn't even happened yet.
26:41
Sean McAllister: No, it hasn't.
26:42
Dayna Roselli: But it's uh coming out next weekend, coming in, I should say, next weekend.
26:46
Dayna Roselli: Um We Were Young Festival will be for two days over the weekend of the 22nd, and then one more day because they added it the following weekend on the 29th.
26:54
Dayna Roselli: So this festival sold out like hotcakes.
26:58
Dayna Roselli: And uh where did that phrase come from?
27:00
Dayna Roselli: Sold like hotcakes.
27:02
Sean McAllister: I don't know.
27:02
Sean McAllister: I guess uh there probably was a time when like pancakes were a big deal and people were just buying them left and right.
27:10
Dayna Roselli: Anyway, you wanted to make sure that was right.
27:13
Dayna Roselli: Sold like hotcakes.
27:16
Dayna Roselli: Um and who knew?
27:18
Dayna Roselli: I think everyone, I don't want to say they were shocked, but everyone was like, wow, like everyone's really wanting to go to a festival with this kind of music.
27:28
Dayna Roselli: And when we say this kind, it's like kind of our what would you say, 90s?
27:32
Sean McAllister: Yeah, I would say 90s or highs.
27:35
Sean McAllister: They call it like emop kind of music.
27:38
Dayna Roselli: Um, we're talking like Blink 182, Green Day, uh Sublime, um and they're in the lineup for 2023.
27:49
Dayna Roselli: Um, some of the people in the lineup for this one coming up here, uh Avril Levine Dashboard Confessional, yeah, and lots of other ones.
27:57
Dayna Roselli: So anyway, uh people are loving this festival, but you're right.
28:00
Dayna Roselli: They did just announce that already for the next year, and already, I mean, you the Twitter's going crazy, the the Instagram's going crazy, and people are like, I want it, I want to tick it.
28:09
Sean McAllister: Hey, everybody, uh mark your calendars.
28:11
Sean McAllister: We're going as a group, and it's October of next year, so there's no excuse not to go.
28:17
Sean McAllister: True.
28:18
Sean McAllister: Exactly.
28:19
Sean McAllister: It is, it's great music, and it kind of brings you back to to a good time.
28:23
Sean McAllister: I feel like the 90s, like late 90s, early 2000s was a good time in in music.
28:30
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
28:31
Dayna Roselli: It was it was a good time.
28:33
Sean McAllister: It still holds up, it doesn't feel like it's old dated.
28:37
Sean McAllister: Although that's coming from like an old dated guy, too.
28:41
Dayna Roselli: Well, you know, everyone now is redoing old songs because there's no good music out there currently.
28:46
Dayna Roselli: That's how I feel.
28:47
Dayna Roselli: But then again, that might be coming from an old lady.
28:50
Dayna Roselli: So anyway, explains the gray hair I found when I pulled into your house today.
28:55
Dayna Roselli: Had to get the tweezers out.
28:57
Dayna Roselli: Oh no.
28:58
Dayna Roselli: One long strand.
29:00
Dayna Roselli: All right, moving on.
29:01
Dayna Roselli: Hey, quick thing I wanted to mention.
29:04
Dayna Roselli: Your tip last week on the free show over at Sam's Town is getting lots of feedback.
29:09
Dayna Roselli: People are going, what?
29:10
Dayna Roselli: I gotta take my kids to this.
29:11
Dayna Roselli: I didn't know.
29:12
Dayna Roselli: But then there's a group also that are writing to us and saying, Hey, I grew up with this show.
29:17
Dayna Roselli: That's like a piece of my childhood, and wow, it's still there.
29:21
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
29:22
Dayna Roselli: And it is, it's still there.
29:24
Dayna Roselli: Go back and listen to our tips from episode 138.
29:27
Dayna Roselli: You'll hear all about it.
29:28
Dayna Roselli: Someone also wrote and said, apparently at Christmas time they have snow.
29:32
Sean McAllister: Oh, I love that in the show.
29:33
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
29:34
Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, get over there and see this show at Samstown.
29:37
Dayna Roselli: Sean went and you said it was fabulous.
29:39
Sean McAllister: I loved it.
29:40
Sean McAllister: I loved it.
29:40
Dayna Roselli: It's water and features and animals.
29:44
Sean McAllister: Animals, it's it's great.
29:45
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
29:46
Dayna Roselli: Like not really animatronic, yeah.
29:48
Dayna Roselli: Animatronics.
29:49
Dayna Roselli: That's yeah.
29:49
Sean McAllister: Like they don't let the bear run wild in the atrium.
29:53
Dayna Roselli: No, but it looks really, really cool.
29:56
Dayna Roselli: So um, we're gonna talk about the new app, Vegas Near Me, at the end of the show.
30:00
Dayna Roselli: So stick with that.
30:01
Dayna Roselli: We want to tell you some features.
30:03
Dayna Roselli: It's now launched, and click the link in our bio to download it.
30:06
Dayna Roselli: But first, let's do some tips.
30:10
Sean McAllister: Dana, for the first 15 years that I lived here in Las Vegas, um, there's a neighborhood, an area of town called Green Valley.
30:19
Sean McAllister: It's in Henderson.
30:21
Sean McAllister: Um, but that was my neighborhood.
30:23
Sean McAllister: That was my bubble that I loved, and I still love it.
30:27
Sean McAllister: And I love seeing that we have a new restaurant, a steakhouse opening in Green Valley.
30:33
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's by a chef Matthew Meyer.
30:36
Dayna Roselli: It sounds really good.
30:38
Dayna Roselli: It's called Craft Chop House 138.
30:42
Dayna Roselli: And Sean, the 138 comes from something new that I learned.
30:46
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
30:46
Dayna Roselli: That's the perfect temperature for finishing steaks.
30:49
Dayna Roselli: Oh, really?
30:50
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, had no idea.
30:52
Dayna Roselli: So he's opening this new restaurant, and dinner service is gonna open on the 15th of October.
30:57
Dayna Roselli: Then brunch is gonna follow with opening on October 22nd.
31:01
Dayna Roselli: And then in coming weeks, they'll be serving lunch as well.
31:06
Dayna Roselli: Did I just hit the microphone?
31:08
Sean McAllister: Yeah, but you were just so excited about everything.
31:09
Sean McAllister: The arms were going.
31:10
Dayna Roselli: The arms were going.
31:11
Dayna Roselli: I was using the hands.
31:12
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so um, so eventually, so it's all opening, you know, October, November, and it'll be a fully operational restaurant, which includes the Kraft Chop House, um, and they call it Creative Neighborhood Dining.
31:26
Dayna Roselli: It's gonna have a full cocktail lounge, it's gonna have killer burgers, apparently, and a boundary breaking brunch.
31:34
Sean McAllister: Ooh.
31:35
Dayna Roselli: Sounds good, right?
31:36
Sean McAllister: This kind of ticks all the boxes for me.
31:38
Sean McAllister: It's certainly.
31:38
Sean McAllister: I love a steakhouse, I love a brunch, I love great burgers, and I love a cocktail lounge.
31:44
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I love when new like restaurants like this are announced in you know different parts of town that you know, it's not like on the long restaurant row of because this is at what Horizon Ridge and Stephanie?
31:56
Sean McAllister: Horizon Ridge and Stephanie, yeah.
31:58
Sean McAllister: So you would need to if you're getting there from the strip, you would take uh the I-15 highway to the 215 and go east and get off at Stephanie and it's right there.
32:11
Sean McAllister: Oh, okay, perfect.
32:11
Sean McAllister: Yeah, so really easy if you're coming from the strip, it's it could not be an easier route.
32:18
Dayna Roselli: Love that.
32:18
Dayna Roselli: All right, so that's gonna be opening again uh here soon.
32:21
Dayna Roselli: Go check it out, check it out.
32:23
Dayna Roselli: It's called 138, and it's by Chef Matthew Meyer.
32:26
Dayna Roselli: It's in the same space as a restaurant that he actually had previously called Served Global Dining.
32:31
Dayna Roselli: So if you've ever been there, it's the same location.
32:35
Sean McAllister: Uh moving on to our next tip.
32:37
Sean McAllister: Um, Dana, when's the last time that King Tut made headlines?
32:42
Dayna Roselli: It's been a while.
32:43
Sean McAllister: It has, hasn't it?
32:45
Sean McAllister: I was just doing a little uh news search.
32:48
Dayna Roselli: Oh my goodness.
32:49
Dayna Roselli: Well, he's coming to the luxord in in a certain way.
32:55
Sean McAllister: His artifacts are anyhow.
32:57
Dayna Roselli: Um it's now open, actually.
32:59
Dayna Roselli: It's a new immersive exhibit.
33:01
Dayna Roselli: Um, we love immersive exhibits.
33:03
Dayna Roselli: Uh, get ready, they say, to be transported to a flourishing ancient Egypt and discover one of the greatest archaeological achievements that took place 100 years ago this year.
33:16
Dayna Roselli: And it's over at the Luxor.
33:18
Dayna Roselli: This is gonna be pretty cool.
33:20
Dayna Roselli: Um, apparently, it's an exhibition that takes you on a journey of the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
33:27
Sean McAllister: Very cool.
33:28
Sean McAllister: And you know what's kind of interesting?
33:30
Sean McAllister: One of the guys who originally found uh King Tut's tomb and you know pulled out artifacts and stuff, um, is the guy who lives in the real life, uh who lived in the real life estate that's seen in Downton Abbey.
33:48
Dayna Roselli: Oh, really?
33:49
Dayna Roselli: Okay, interesting.
33:50
Sean McAllister: So there's like a Downton Abbey connection.
33:51
Dayna Roselli: Right.
33:52
Sean McAllister: I I don't know if they're gonna go in depth at this exhibit about that.
33:56
Dayna Roselli: But what a perfect exhibit for the Luxor, right?
33:58
Sean McAllister: It really is.
33:59
Dayna Roselli: So I love that.
34:00
Dayna Roselli: And you know, I feel like they have a lot of long-standing things at the Luxor.
34:05
Dayna Roselli: You know, Caratops been there, Blue Man Group, Fantasy.
34:10
Dayna Roselli: Um, they had the bodies exhibit there for a while before that moved, and now we've got this exhibit that will be located there, and it's all about King Tut's tomb, so you can come, you can learn.
34:22
Dayna Roselli: I love that we have educational things on the strip as well.
34:25
Sean McAllister: Yeah, you'll find out about you know the younger King Tut when he was still, you know, tutting around.
34:32
Sean McAllister: And also, uh guess are also the witness, the mummification process.
34:38
Dayna Roselli: Oh, that's interesting, I think.
34:39
Sean McAllister: So I I don't know exactly.
34:41
Sean McAllister: I'm I'm guessing that there probably aren't like real volunteers who step up for that.
34:47
Sean McAllister: Uh, but that'll be cool to see.
34:49
Dayna Roselli: Wasn't there a song called King Tut?
34:52
Sean McAllister: Yes, there was.
34:53
Sean McAllister: And I don't know.
34:54
Dayna Roselli: Or was or is didn't go away.
34:56
Sean McAllister: I feel like it was a real song, but then it was used, I think, in like a dog food commercial or something.
35:03
Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
35:04
Dayna Roselli: Or was that, or didn't like Steve Martin do something with it, maybe?
35:08
Sean McAllister: On Saturday Night Live.
35:10
Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, that's right.
35:11
Dayna Roselli: That's was that where it was used?
35:13
Dayna Roselli: Okay, now I'm Googling.
35:14
Dayna Roselli: We're gonna do this live.
35:15
Dayna Roselli: King tut.
35:16
Sean McAllister: Well, yeah, I don't know if it was like a music group that did the song and then SNL used it for the skit.
35:24
Dayna Roselli: I do remember the Steve Martin hook there.
35:28
Dayna Roselli: King tut.
35:29
Dayna Roselli: King tut.
35:30
Sean McAllister: I can see him dancing in the headdress.
35:32
Sean McAllister: Yes, me too.
35:32
Sean McAllister: He wasn't wearing a shirt.
35:35
Sean McAllister: He had one of those Egyptian skirt things on.
35:38
Dayna Roselli: We really like to take a lot of things and just like twist them into a completely different topic.
35:44
Sean McAllister: Oh, I found it.
35:45
Sean McAllister: And thank you, by the way, for uh to our listeners for putting up with all of our tangents.
35:49
Sean McAllister: We go on a lot of tangents.
35:51
Dayna Roselli: We do go on a lot of tangents.
35:52
Dayna Roselli: We used to edit more, but we've decided just to pretend it's live.
35:55
Dayna Roselli: So now the tangents are in there.
35:57
Dayna Roselli: We're just too lazy to edit.
35:58
Dayna Roselli: We're busy, we're busier, we're busy, busy, busy.
36:01
Sean McAllister: Not lazy, just busy.
36:02
Sean McAllister: Right.
36:02
Sean McAllister: Oh, so what are you finding?
36:06
SPEAKER_03: One of the great art exhibits ever to tour the United States is the treasures of Tuton Common or King Tut.
36:13
SPEAKER_03: But I think it's a national disgrace the way we have commercialized it.
36:16
SPEAKER_03: So it's trinkets and toys and Steve Martin posters on SNL.
36:30
SPEAKER_03: Compare it with the token.
36:34
Dayna Roselli: It's catchy.
36:36
Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, that's great.
36:37
Sean McAllister: So it's a Saturday night live song.
36:38
Sean McAllister: I love it.
36:39
Sean McAllister: Okay.
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Dayna Roselli: Skid has 6.9 million views on YouTube.
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Dayna Roselli: Oh.
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Dayna Roselli: So other people apparently enjoy it too.
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Dayna Roselli: All right.
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Dayna Roselli: Steve Martin not appearing at the King Tut exhibit over at the Lux Store, but go check it out and enjoy it.
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Dayna Roselli: I think it sounds like it'll be pretty cool.
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Dayna Roselli: We'll try and get over there as well.
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Dayna Roselli: And when we do, we'll tell you what it's all about.
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Sean McAllister: And you can find King Tut and other Vegas attractions on the Vegas Near Me app.
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Sean McAllister: As we mentioned at the top of the podcast, the Vegas Near Me app is now live in the Apple App Store.
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Sean McAllister: You do need iOS 16, the iOS 16 operating system, which I guess the OS stands for, um on your phone, downloaded and installed in order to make the app work correctly.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, there's a lot of stuff on here, folks.
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Dayna Roselli: And you can find the perfect activity with tens of thousands of curated and time-stapped uh YouTube and podcast clips as well.
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Dayna Roselli: So, like if you go and look at something, you'll see any YouTube or podcast underneath it that was the most recent that talks about that activity.
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Dayna Roselli: So you can learn about them.
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Dayna Roselli: You can also apparently save a lot of money on hotels, shows, flights, rental cars, and more.
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Dayna Roselli: And then I love this, Sean.
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Dayna Roselli: It even has detailed parking information for every Las Vegas major resort.
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Dayna Roselli: So it's a lot of info.
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Sean McAllister: And that's huge.
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Sean McAllister: The parking stuff is huge because even though we go to the strip all the time, and I I think I know the deal with all the parking stuff, I get there and I'm like, oh, this isn't what I thought.
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Sean McAllister: And so now having the Vegas Near Me app right in the palm of my hand all the time, I can just look where I'm going, click on parking, and get everything that I need to know just seconds before I step out the door.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and what they've worked so hard on is getting all the information and making sure it's accurate.
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Dayna Roselli: So you can click on the parking and it'll tell you it costs this or it's free, you know, so you know ahead of time to plan your route.
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Dayna Roselli: Because we plan a lot on where the free parking is.
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Dayna Roselli: We like navigate around.
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Dayna Roselli: So, all right, Vegas Near Me, the app is now officially launched.
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Dayna Roselli: Click the link in our bio and use our exclusive link.
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Dayna Roselli: We've got a Vegas uh revealed link that we'd love you to click on before you download it and then and go enjoy.
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Sean McAllister: Yeah, it'll take you directly to the app store.
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Sean McAllister: Um, you're gonna love it.
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Sean McAllister: Download Vegas Near Me, play around with it, and look up if it's fun to do or see, it's on Vegas Near Me.
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Dayna Roselli: You and I are heading to the NASCAR race this weekend.
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Dayna Roselli: Look forward to that.
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Dayna Roselli: Uh, we are recording this on a Thursday right now, but the show drops on, you know, Saturday at midnight, and we're going on Sunday.
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Sean McAllister: And uh for one of our tips next week, it's a big mystery with a picnic involved.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I like this picnic idea.
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Dayna Roselli: I can't wait to hear all about your experience.
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Dayna Roselli: We're gonna share that in our tips.
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Dayna Roselli: This might be something that you guys want to do, folks.
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Dayna Roselli: So it's really cool.
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Dayna Roselli: Listen up.
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Dayna Roselli: Hey, we're going to 140 next week.
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Dayna Roselli: Episode 140.
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Dayna Roselli: It's crazy.
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Dayna Roselli: Isn't it?
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Dayna Roselli: We're heading toward 150.
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Dayna Roselli: Man.
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Dayna Roselli: I know, I can't believe it.
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Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
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Dayna Roselli: Bye.
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