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Nevada California Border Casino Closes, Magician Mat Franco Interview, More Las Vegas Deals, Mexican Independence Day | Ep. 287 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's episode 287 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: Magician Matt Franco celebrates a decade on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 0:09
  Dayna Roselli: The weekend of September 19th is really busy, and Mexican Independence Day weekend has a lot on the books.
• 0:15
  Sean McAllister: Virgin Hotels has some$5 deals happening, including$5 live blackjack.
• 0:23
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, options of stopping at hotel casinos at the Nevada, California state line are getting less and less.
• 0:30
  Sean McAllister: Then, how you can join Dana and the famous pasta queen at Win.
• 0:35
  Dayna Roselli: All that more coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:38
  Sean McAllister: Vegas Revealed, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 0:43
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 287.
• 0:47
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dana Roselli here, as Vegas really gets fired up with a lot of fall events.
• 0:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, last week you were talking about how football season is bringing a lot into town, obviously, during the fall months and winter too.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: And um then we started looking at the calendar, going, well, there's also a lot going on even outside of football.
• 1:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um, just this upcoming weekend, Mexican Independence Day weekend, there's events all over the place at the Grand Canal shops, the fashion show, resorts world, up and down the strip that there are too many to mention.
• 1:22
  Dayna Roselli: So we just want you to know you'll you need to search around and figure out.
• 1:27
  Dayna Roselli: But there's lots of little pop-ups, different events, mariachi, all sorts of different things happening in our hotel resorts, and that's awesome.
• 1:36
  Dayna Roselli: Also, Ricky Martin's gonna be at the Coliseum, Pitbull's back at Fountain Blue.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, lots of uh music events, festivals, restaurants uh always offer uh a bunch of fun uh promotional deals uh for Mexican Independence Day weekend, too.
• 1:53
  Sean McAllister: Nightclubs always have big events.
• 1:55
  Sean McAllister: Um, so it is it is jam-packed, and then the craziness.
• 2:01
  Sean McAllister: You know what else is Mexican independent?
• 2:02
  Dayna Roselli: You know what else is Mexican Independence Day weekend?
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: My 50th birthday.
• 2:06
  Sean McAllister: Happy birthday!
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: Every year it falls on that weekend, so yeah.
• 2:12
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I just thought it was kind of funny.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, oh, um, that's interesting.
• 2:15
  Dayna Roselli: Um, there's always a lot going on.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: Like Ricky Martin's coming into town for my birthday, pit bull, all my favorites.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: All for you.
• 2:23
  Sean McAllister: It's all for your birthday, right?
• 2:25
  Dayna Roselli: So we're actually recording this a little early because I've got my mom coming into town and things going on and out-of-town work trip.
• 2:32
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, FYI, um, feel free to send me a text.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's in the show notes.
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: I am not a birthday person, but I'm trying to be more open about it because everyone yells me.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: It yells at me.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: They're like, why don't you ever want to celebrate your birthday?
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: Why don't you ever want to make it a big deal?
• 2:46
  Dayna Roselli: You're turning 50.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, I don't care.
• 2:48
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, it's been a rough year.
• 2:49
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not really in the celebratory mood this year, but then again, I feel like I say that every year.
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, if you want to send me a text, feel free.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: We have the link in our show notes.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: I would love a happy birthday text.
• 3:01
  Sean McAllister: We'll welcome the birthday wishes.
• 3:03
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, go ahead.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: You were going on to the next weekend, September 19th.
• 3:07
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was gonna say there's a lot coming up uh next weekend also, but before we get into that, there's a big change coming, a casino that is closed, which is a familiar site to a lot of people who drive into Las Vegas from Southern California.
• 3:24
  Sean McAllister: And we're talking about the casinos that you drive past when you go through Prim.
• 3:30
  Sean McAllister: And that's right at the California-Nevada state line.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: And yeah, we're talking about, well, because and the reason that we were thinking about this is we had recently, you know, saw an alert that Clark County, that's the county that we live in in Las Vegas, is in, um, approved the hotel casino's temporary closure.
• 3:46
  Dayna Roselli: We're talking about Buffalo Bills.
• 3:48
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of people stop there.
• 3:50
  Dayna Roselli: They have a lot of events there, they even have that famous roller coaster there.
• 3:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the future of that roller coaster is kind of up in the air.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:58
  Sean McAllister: Literally, literally up in the air.
• 4:02
  Dayna Roselli: What's it called?
• 4:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's called something.
• 4:03
  Sean McAllister: The uh it's like the Diablo Desperado.
• 4:06
  Sean McAllister: The Desperado.
• 4:08
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 4:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's the tallest roller coaster in the world with a 209-foot hill.
• 4:14
  Sean McAllister: Which for roller coaster aficionados who travel around the world and around the country looking for like thrilling roller coaster rides, this ranked up there for years and years.
• 4:28
  Dayna Roselli: It reaches uh 80 miles per hour.
• 4:30
  Sean McAllister: Jeez.
• 4:31
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know they had an adventure canyon log flume ride in there, too.
• 4:36
  Sean McAllister: I did not know that either.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: But my brother uh is a roller coaster aficionado, and he was in Vegas once visiting me, and he said I'm driving down to Prim to go on the Desperado.
• 4:47
  Dayna Roselli: And so he went alone.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, you're right.
• 4:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's a big deal.
• 4:51
  Sean McAllister: It is a big deal.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, Buffalo Bills is temporarily closing for two years, but it's gonna have some times when it's open, right?
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: Because they're still doing shows at the arena there every now and then.
• 5:03
  Sean McAllister: The Star of the Desert Arena is going to stay open and operational.
• 5:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, and as part of this temporary closure thing, they'll reopen portions of the property when they do big events.
• 5:18
  Sean McAllister: And I think for gaming control board uh regulatory reasons, they have to stay open for a certain amount of time throughout the year in order to keep the gaming license and all that kind of stuff.
• 5:31
  Sean McAllister: So uh this is they're shutting down the regular operations because especially during midweek, the operators say that the traffic coming um in and out of Nevada uh in California has just really slowed down midweek, and it's mainly weekend traffic coming in and out now.
• 5:53
  Sean McAllister: So that's the reason that they've seen the dip in that regular, every single day traffic, and they just don't have the demand to stay open 24-7 like they have in the past.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: That makes sense.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: And I think what across from it is Whiskey Pete's.
• 6:10
  Sean McAllister: And that's been closed.
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a bummer.
• 6:13
  Sean McAllister: So I remember going to uh a show at Whiskey Pete's.
• 6:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh one of my friends was a performer in the show that they did in the lounge.
• 6:24
  Dayna Roselli: What kind of show was it?
• 6:25
  Sean McAllister: Well, it was like a um I I would say it was like kind of a burlesque kind of show.
• 6:32
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:32
  Sean McAllister: Like not it's not like uh strippers.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: You know, like a sexy lounge kind of show.
• 6:39
  Sean McAllister: But um he was dressed in a a big cat costume.
• 6:43
  Sean McAllister: He was like the Tom Cat.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, how funny! I love that.
• 6:49
  Sean McAllister: So I mean I drove out to Whiskey Pete's a few times.
• 6:52
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god, that was fun.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so I guess Whiskey Pete's closed in December.
• 6:58
  Sean McAllister: But and then just this past summer is when uh they decided that uh Buffalo Bills was not going to stay open 24-7 like it has.
• 7:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 7:10
  Sean McAllister: Scale back the operations there.
• 7:12
  Sean McAllister: But like you said, special events, concerts still happening out there.
• 7:17
  Sean McAllister: Um and you know, they got a deal, they got this approval to do the temporary closure for two years.
• 7:25
  Sean McAllister: They may extend for six months after that, but that's that's where it is now.
• 7:30
  Dayna Roselli: They need the traffic to pick up and then they'll reopen.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: They need they need people to drive out there for more than Powerball tickets.
• 7:37
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: And then by by that time, we might have that high-speed train.
• 7:41
  Sean McAllister: It very well may, which, you know.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: Which could hurt them.
• 7:45
  Sean McAllister: Which will bypass Buffalo Bills and Whiskey Pete.
• 7:49
  Sean McAllister: Unless there's a stop.
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: Bill and Pete need to find a new job.
• 7:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they do.
• 7:54
  Sean McAllister: Oh, poor Bill and Pete.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: Oh man.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: Well, moving on to the weekend of the 19th.
• 7:59
  Dayna Roselli: As we said, a lot's going on.
• 8:01
  Dayna Roselli: Just a big heads up for your calendar.
• 8:02
  Dayna Roselli: The iHeart Radio Music Festival is back in town at T-Mobile.
• 8:06
  Dayna Roselli: That will take place for two days, the 19th and 20th.
• 8:09
  Dayna Roselli: Revel Wees Food Fest is coming back to the win.
• 8:12
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited to go to that on the 20th.
• 8:15
  Dayna Roselli: They have that huge um outdoor Grand Feast.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: Grand Feast.
• 8:20
  Dayna Roselli: It's so much fun.
• 8:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, Frank Marino doing his final shows over at Virgin and celebrating 40 years here in Las Vegas.
• 8:28
  Dayna Roselli: We're actually heading over to talk to him about a lot of old Vegas stories and which that's a big deal.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: It is a big deal.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: Frank's final Vegas shows.
• 8:37
  Dayna Roselli: I listen, if Frank's listening, Frank, I just I can never see Frank doing a final show in Vegas.
• 8:46
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like he's gonna be the the Cher that's gonna come back in a couple years or a year because he can't stand sitting still.
• 8:53
  Sean McAllister: But by the way, I just saw uh a headline that Cher is hinting at another tour.
• 8:58
  Dayna Roselli: Another farewell tour?
• 9:00
  Sean McAllister: Another farewell tour.
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, but no, Frank, I think, is looking to um, you know, stop performing fully, and especially like, you know, for the shows that, you know, or the ones that he runs and stuff.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: But I think he would be a part of like he he casts his own shows and stuff.
• 9:17
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, Frank has fem uh impersonators um in drag, and it's really fun.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: All the hits you can't help but love his cast of characters that he has, and then uh obviously Frank has dressed as and performed as Joan Rivers for years and years and years, and so he's a staple here, and and people know him all around the country and world.
• 9:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, he was I mean, he was in uh Lakage over at the Riviera for years, yeah.
• 9:47
  Sean McAllister: And you know, then went and launched his own shows after that.
• 9:52
  Sean McAllister: He's been, like you said, a staple.
• 9:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and has what two stars on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars, I think.
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: So, which he'd likes to tell you about every time.
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, uh, we'll savor more about Frank when we interview him.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: He is a great interview and so much history and so much fun.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll ask him about his two stars.
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: Actually, we'll plan it now.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone listening, we're gonna ask Frank about his two stars in the interview coming up, and then we'll we'll have his reaction.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: He really likes to talk about his two stars.
• 10:20
  Sean McAllister: Hey, that's a big deal.
• 10:21
  Sean McAllister: It is a big two stars.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: He's the best.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: Love him.
• 10:24
  Sean McAllister: Uh, in addition to Frank's Final Vegas shows, maybe uh A-Fan's black and white ball is happening over at uh the Palms.
• 10:34
  Sean McAllister: Um, this is a big event every single year.
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh A-Fan is Aid for AIDS of Nevada.
• 10:39
  Sean McAllister: It's a huge fundraiser.
• 10:41
  Sean McAllister: As the the name implies, the dress theme is black and white.
• 10:45
  Sean McAllister: This year it's a uh Western cowboy theme.
• 10:49
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:50
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be fun to see the outfits that people put together.
• 10:54
  Sean McAllister: They rank the I mean the outfits that people wear to this uh event are crazy over the top, inventive.
• 11:02
  Sean McAllister: Some are risque and barely there.
• 11:06
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I'm looking at the website right now.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: There's a sample of an outfit.
• 11:13
  Sean McAllister: A sample of an outfit.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: Here it is.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: Look.
• 11:17
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah, those are samples of outfits, yeah.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: Nice chaps, but it's a cowboy theme.
• 11:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, anyway, uh it's September 20th at the Palms over at Chaos, which is great.
• 11:27
  Dayna Roselli: You know, the Chaos at the Palms used to be a nightclub, but they use that space for events, and it's great.
• 11:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, indoor-outdoor kind of space.
• 11:34
  Dayna Roselli: So that should be fun.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: Get tickets if you've never been, like Sean said, the outfits are over the top, it's a good old time.
• 11:40
  Sean McAllister: So if you are uh in town the weekend of September 19th, there is not going to be a shortage of things to do and keep you occupied.
• 11:53
  Sean McAllister: Uh and then as we head into October, Dana, you are um kind of moderating a special event over at Wynn with the pasta queen.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 12:05
  Dayna Roselli: I'm really excited about this.
• 12:07
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, when they said, Will you interview the pasta queen?
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, I mean, come on.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, what I'm Italian, of course.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I was like, there's another pasta queen other than my my mother and her cooking.
• 12:18
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, uh Nadia Muno, she is amazing.
• 12:21
  Dayna Roselli: Follow her on social media if you don't know who she is.
• 12:25
  Dayna Roselli: Nadia Katerina Muno.
• 12:27
  Dayna Roselli: She's known as the pasta queen.
• 12:29
  Dayna Roselli: Her videos go viral all the time.
• 12:32
  Dayna Roselli: Her recipes are amazing, and the way she does it is really fun and engaging.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um, she has an Amazon Prime cooking and travel series too, and she has like best-selling cookbooks.
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: And so she's gonna be in town at the win.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: She's doing uh actually a cooking demonstration, but then we're doing an event inside the theater at uh Wynn at 3 p.m.
• 12:56
  Dayna Roselli: on October 2nd.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: You can get tickets online where she's just yeah, we're gonna talk, we're gonna engage, we're gonna talk about her cooking style, we're gonna talk about her, her life, her recipes, and the all the audience is getting a cookbook, her latest cookbook as part of their ticket.
• 13:13
  Sean McAllister: I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of talking with hands going on.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: Tons of talking with hands.
• 13:18
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's gonna be really fun.
• 13:19
  Dayna Roselli: I cannot wait.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: She is a riot.
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: I have my mom following her now, and she's like, I love Nadia, she's so funny.
• 13:26
  Dayna Roselli: She always likes tastes her recipe, then she like throws her spoon and fork, then she flips her hair and she's like, ingredients, and then she's the ghost through and tells you how to make it.
• 13:36
  Sean McAllister: She's amazing, and she's always dressed to the nines in all of her videos, too.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: Of course, I love it.
• 13:41
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that'll be fun.
• 13:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, a celebrated uh Italian chef, and I think it's gonna be fun to have her here in Las Vegas for this.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's gonna be good, and then I think tickets will go pretty fast.
• 13:52
  Dayna Roselli: But again, ticket holders do receive a copy of her latest cookbook, so um you know, if you want that, that's kind of a cool thing.
• 14:00
  Dayna Roselli: And I think tickets are a hundred bucks.
• 14:02
  Dayna Roselli: I think if they're all a hundred, I don't think that they vary, but um, you can get tickets uh right through the wins website, you'll see.
• 14:09
  Dayna Roselli: So there you have it.
• 14:10
  Sean McAllister: That'll be a great event.
• 14:11
  Sean McAllister: Looking forward to that.
• 14:13
  Sean McAllister: Uh hey, recently we stopped down to the Link Hotel and Casino where uh Magician Matt Franco is celebrating ten years of performances on the Las Vegas strip.
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's a long time, right?
• 14:29
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you know, we say this all the time when we talk about people who celebrate five years, ten years.
• 14:36
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it it it we don't talk about it often because it is rare to be in one spot for that long, and it's quite an achievement.
• 14:43
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, Matt Franco won America's Got Talent, and part of that deal, right, is you get a show in Las Vegas.
• 14:50
  Dayna Roselli: But I and I don't know if this is right, but now I'm not gonna go into it.
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: I was gonna say, I thought originally, because I want to say when Terry Fader won, wasn't it like you get a guaranteed year?
• 15:01
  Sean McAllister: I think more of uh you get a a show on the Las Vegas strip, and I think that it's changed okay, it changed over the years.
• 15:12
  Sean McAllister: I think maybe you get to headline on the Las Vegas strip, like as in like one performance.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay, got it.
• 15:20
  Sean McAllister: And then they had America's Got Talent live on stage here for a while, where a lot of uh winners over the years passed through.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: Um, but Matt and Terry Franco, Matt uh Matt Franco and Terry Fader are two of the biggest success stories that came out of America's Got Talent because they have had consistently uh long-running shows based off of their their win on that show.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: I mean Matt won in 2014, season nine.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: So, and Terry won before that.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: He was one of the first winners of the show.
• 15:57
  Sean McAllister: Season two, I think.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: You're right, though.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: They that's two huge success stories.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's pretty incredible.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: We went over and talked to Matt Franco.
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if you've ever seen his show, and if you haven't, you probably want to go see it.
• 16:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um Matt Franco, Magic Reinvented Nightly is at the link.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: We stopped in and talked to Matt about his success and, you know, celebrating 10 years.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's amazing.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: Life itself is like a whole pinch me moment because I grew up watching Magic on TV and all those specials were filmed here in Vegas.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: Did you think I'm gonna go in and do a couple years, or I'm gonna go here and build my life?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: I I really had no idea.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: So many opportunities come after a moment like that.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: So for me, it was kind of just like, let me ride the wave and see where it takes me.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I just ended up loving this so much.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Just being able to go out on stage nightly and to have every show be different because I do so much crowd work and improvisation with the audience.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: So to have like a set place to be able to do that, and for a magician, the alternative is touring constantly.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: So to be able to set up in one place, especially now starting a family, have two little ones at home, so a two-year-old and a newborn, uh, it makes it really amazing to be able to just tame one spot.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Magic is an interesting niche, although it's always been kind of a magic capital here in Vegas.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I love that.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's like if you just feel lucky to be part of the club, because this is where all the best magic comes and lands ultimately.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not like you see in the movies, like in The Prestige, when you have Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman battling each other.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: We're actually all really pretty great friends.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_01: So it's cool to have that camaraderie.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: And I I like that about the magic community.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_01: It's so small, you can really meet your heroes, which is cool.
• 17:40
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and you do a lot of storytelling, I was gonna say.
• 17:42
  Dayna Roselli: It really is a show because you're not just gonna come and get bang bang bam.
• 17:45
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there's a story behind things.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: You talk about also your career.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and my family.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a true family show, so it's great for a date night.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_01: Apparently, it's great for bachelor parties and bachelorette parties because we get them all the time.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: Apparently.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, maybe they think of magic mic.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: Magic mat.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I clarify magic mat and make sure they're in the right place.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but it's also it really is truly fun for the whole family.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's there's nothing in the show that's you have to worry about your kids being there for.
• 18:12
  Dayna Roselli: How has your show evolved over the years?
• 18:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, did you start it one way and you feel like this works better, or the audience really likes this?
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: Are you always changing it?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's had many lives over the past 10 years.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: I always just want to keep it modern and fresh.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: So a great idea that I had in 2018.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: I I look back at it maybe two years later and go, oh, I should change this or that.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: So it's always evolving.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: I'm always trying to make our crew laugh, always trying to keep our audience guessing what's next because we have so many people that come back all the time.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_01: So thankful to have locals that like we're the show that whenever they have guests in town, they bring them.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: And we're so thankful for that.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: And also want it to be good for them, but also for people who still haven't gotten to the show.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: I still meet people that go, Oh my god, it's 10 years.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: I still need to come see your show.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, lucky for you, we're not going anywhere.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: Come see us.
• 19:02
  Sean McAllister: That was a great conversation with Matt.
• 19:04
  Sean McAllister: Congratulations to Matt and everyone involved with his show on 10 years.
• 19:09
  Sean McAllister: And one thing I will say is that Matt does a really good job of making his illusions and tricks feel new and fresh, incorporating new technology that we all use now, phones and tablets and all that kind of stuff.
• 19:27
  Sean McAllister: Um, it it just he gives magic a really fresh feel.
• 19:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he really does.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: And he always has a great ending.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: He does, right?
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's always like that hue.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: Like if you didn't wow enough, you're like, wow, at the end.
• 19:42
  Sean McAllister: So I was wowed when he kept making wine appear.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: I remember you saying that.
• 19:48
  Sean McAllister: Man, wine wine bottle after wine bottle after wine bottle.
• 19:51
  Sean McAllister: I loved it.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: I know, that was cool.
• 19:53
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't even know if he's still because he does change it up all the time.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: He does.
• 19:56
  Sean McAllister: I don't know if that's still on the show, but he can come to a dinner party at my house and do that trick.
• 20:02
  unknown: Right.
• 20:03
  Dayna Roselli: That's funny.
• 20:04
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips.
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, Sean, I wanted to do this as a tip, but I'm always worried that tickets are sold out already by the time that this runs.
• 20:15
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm gonna tell you about this deal, but there could be a possibility that tickets are gone for Ashley Simpson.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: What I'm talking about is a locals deal.
• 20:26
  Dayna Roselli: So Las Vegas locals, listen up.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: You can get 20% off tickets for her performance on Wednesday, September 24th only.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing a little special there, and it's her I am me residency over at Voltaire.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: She sold out Labor Day weekend and added more shows in September, but they wanted to do this um Nevada residence with a valid Nevada ID deal for a lot of the locals here.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: And so I think it's a great idea.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: It gives everyone a chance to go see her.
• 20:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, 20% off tickets.
• 21:00
  Sean McAllister: You can get them at voltairelv.com, but you have to use the code SIM2025 local offers.
• 21:11
  Dayna Roselli: All one word.
• 21:12
  Sean McAllister: All one word.
• 21:13
  Sean McAllister: That's a code.
• 21:13
  Sean McAllister: SIM SIM 2025 Local Offers.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: If you want 20% off tickets to that performance on Wednesday, September 24th.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: And as Dana mentioned, the tickets are in limited supply.
• 21:28
  Sean McAllister: They may or may not still be available by at your own discretion.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: Is that our disclaimer?
• 21:34
  Sean McAllister: That is our disclaimer.
• 21:35
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah.
• 21:36
  Dayna Roselli: She hasn't done a full-length live show since 2008, so I know it's a big deal for her.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: And I did see some reviews online of different people saying it was everything that they had hoped for and imagined.
• 21:45
  Sean McAllister: She sang all her hits and well, listen, there are a ton of people who are Ashley Simpson fans who were big fans when you know her songs first came out off of this album.
• 21:56
  Sean McAllister: And they're going back, you know, it's that whole nostalgia thing that we've been talking about.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: About for just about everything that's happening in Las Vegas right now.
• 22:03
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 22:03
  Sean McAllister: And the videos from the show, like her fans are just absolutely loving it.
• 22:09
  Sean McAllister: And Jessica came in.
• 22:10
  Sean McAllister: And Jessica was there.
• 22:12
  Dayna Roselli: She was seen flying on a plane with her husband.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: Is her ex-husband?
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, there's whole sorts of celebrity.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: Whatever.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes I'm like, oh, we can't talk about that.
• 22:22
  Dayna Roselli: We're not a celebrity gossip show.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: You know.
• 22:26
  Dayna Roselli: We could.
• 22:27
  Sean McAllister: We could have we could have uh special editions of Vegas revealed.
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: Like celebrity gossip with a Vegas twist.
• 22:33
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: That's kind of like a that's kind of cool, that name, because it's like a cocktail.
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: Oh, with a twist.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Instead of tips, we could do it's time for celebrity gossip with a Vegas twist.
• 22:45
  Sean McAllister: Oh.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: And then a little sound effect.
• 22:47
  Sean McAllister: Copy my copyright trademark.
• 22:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, copyright.
• 22:50
  Sean McAllister: Stamp it right now.
• 22:52
  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh, we wanted to let you know about another uh deal that's happening right now through the end of September, through September 30th.
• 23:00
  Sean McAllister: This is happening over at Virgin Hotels.
• 23:03
  Sean McAllister: This is their 555 deal.
• 23:06
  Sean McAllister: So what does 555 mean?
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: What?
• 23:09
  Sean McAllister: Well, let me tell you, Dana.
• 23:10
  Sean McAllister: It's five dollar tacos at uh Lucia Mexican Grill, five dollar Jose Cuervo tequila shots, also over there, and the casino bars too.
• 23:23
  Sean McAllister: And the casino bars, and five dollar live blackjack tables.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's fun.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: Five, five, five.
• 23:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I like that.
• 23:32
  Dayna Roselli: And that's really good for people who just want to play blackjack, learn to maybe you're not super confident and you're not ready to lay down 50 bucks.
• 23:39
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 23:40
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, that's that's a lot of fun.
• 23:42
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 23:43
  Dayna Roselli: I like five five five.
• 23:44
  Dayna Roselli: Can we have five five five everywhere?
• 23:46
  Sean McAllister: We should have five.
• 23:47
  Dayna Roselli: You go to the bar, you do a shot, you you eat a taco, you do another shot, then you go play five dollar live blackjack, and you've only spent 20 bucks.
• 23:58
  Sean McAllister: See, I would do it the other way.
• 23:59
  Sean McAllister: I would do a five dollar taco.
• 24:01
  Sean McAllister: Okay, then do the shot.
• 24:02
  Sean McAllister: So I had something to soak up the shot a little bit.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 24:06
  Sean McAllister: And then do another taco and then play blackjack.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so you'd only do one shot, you're lying.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: It's such a lie.
• 24:11
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 24:13
  Sean McAllister: God's honest truth.
• 24:15
  Sean McAllister: Shots are not my friends.
• 24:17
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, yeah.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: You things go downhill really quick with shots.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: Good to know.
• 24:21
  Sean McAllister: I could have cocktails and beers all day and all night, but nope, shots do me in.
• 24:27
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: 555 at Virgin through September 30th.
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: Remember,$5 tacos,$5 tequila shots, and$5 live blackjack.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good tip.
• 24:38
  Sean McAllister: That is a good tip.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: And hey, if you're looking for more deals, you can find them in the Vegas Near Me app.
• 24:44
  Sean McAllister: We talk about it all the time.
• 24:46
  Sean McAllister: They've been a longtime supporter of the Vegas Revealed podcast.
• 24:49
  Sean McAllister: You can get the Vegas Near Me app in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.
• 24:54
  Sean McAllister: We say it all the time.
• 24:56
  Sean McAllister: It's like a concierge right in your pocket.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: If it's fun to do or see in Las Vegas, it's on Vegas Near Me.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: And they do have a deals page.
• 25:06
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind too.
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 25:08
  Dayna Roselli: Because, you know, everyone needs a good deal right now.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone does.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: And they have a lot of good ones, especially that they keep updating and stuff like that.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: Really easy.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: So, and hey, thanks to Glindo Law, of course.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they are our title sponsor of Vegas Revealed Television and also our audio podcast.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: And you can give them a call at 800-251-1533 for a free claim review.
• 25:33
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe you are from California, know someone in California, and you want to pass this on that were involved in those awful wildfires, or possibly you have had a Texas home damaged by hail or a hurricane, or even live in Nevada and actually had some damage from one of the monsoon storms.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: And you want to see if you can get some more insurance compensation, give them a call.
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: They will tell you, they'll call you back.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: And again, it's a free claim review.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: And if they can help, they'll help you.
• 26:02
  Dayna Roselli: 800-251-1533.
• 26:04
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for joining us this week.
• 26:08
  Sean McAllister: Dana, very happy birthday to you.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: The big 5-0.
• 26:12
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 26:13
  Sean McAllister: You know, I think this is the crazy.
• 26:17
  Sean McAllister: This is the start of the best time of your life.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: I think so too, right?
• 26:21
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, or like I remember when our parents turned 50.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: It was such a big deal.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: It was like, wow, you're 50.
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: I remember over the hill.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like it's changed over the years.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: It has.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: Right?
• 26:33
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 26:33
  Sean McAllister: I remember hanging up like the black crepe paper streamers.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: We had a birthday party for my dad.
• 26:40
  Dayna Roselli: It was surprise birthday party.
• 26:42
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the whole place, all his work friends and all these people in the neighborhood, that everyone got hammered.
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: Sue Crow was dancing on the bar from down the road.
• 26:54
  Sean McAllister: Classic Sue.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was quite a night there in downtown Rochester.
• 27:02
  Sean McAllister: Well, I knew you'd like that one.
• 27:04
  Dayna Roselli: I did that especially to set you up because I knew you'd laugh that I said just because whenever I say a random name and it has a funny story to do with it, Sean thinks it's funny.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, have we?
• 27:17
  Sean McAllister: Well, we'll see how your birthday measures up to dad's.
• 27:21
  Dayna Roselli: We will.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: We have plans, but we aren't telling anyone what it is because we don't want you showing up there.
• 27:27
  Sean McAllister: Top secret.
• 27:29
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, you just gave a clue.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: Oh.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: Top secret.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: Top secret.
• 27:34
  Dayna Roselli: See you next week, everyone.