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Journalist's Murder Grips Las Vegas, Remembering The Queen, July Gaming and Visitor Numbers, New Art Exhibit at Area 15, Military Weddings for Free | Ep. 134 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's Vegas Revealed episode 134, a real life murder mystery has played out in Las Vegas this week.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_02: This has been an unusual case from the beginning.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_02: The murder of an investigative journalist and the main suspect, an elected official here in Clark County.
• 0:15
  Dayna Roselli: There are new details to the story now gripping the country.
• 0:19
  Sean McAllister: We also have news on the growing number of people still flocking to Las Vegas for vacations and conventions.
• 0:26
  Dayna Roselli: And Las Vegas is ready to marry the military.
• 0:30
  Sean McAllister: All that and more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:34
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• 1:24
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• 1:32
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• 1:34
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• 1:38
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas Revealed, episode 134.
• 1:41
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli here along with Sean McAllister as we sit in September.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: We are recording this on September 8th.
• 1:50
  Dayna Roselli: A very sad day for the world.
• 1:52
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 1:54
  Sean McAllister: We received word that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away at 96 years old.
• 2:01
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 2:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's incredible because we were just saying, like everyone in our family history that is here today has never known another queen.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not trying to bring up the crown, which is a fictional kind of show, obviously a fictional show on Netflix, but I think about that today because I think that the crown was so um watched across America.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it was all during, remember, it was like everyone was watching it right at the beginning of the pandemic.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I feel like we did, if we didn't, if Americans didn't know specific things or a lot of little details about the history of even how the queen became the queen.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: We learned a lot as Americans, and I really feel like people more than ever have spoken about the Queen and admired the Queen and her journey and everything that she's done really for the world and obviously her country.
• 2:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I I think that series has done a lot to really grow a new bond with a new generation of people all over the world.
• 3:06
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 3:06
  Sean McAllister: Uh so you know, people have have become very familiar with the Queen's story over the last few years, and of course, she just had her big jubilee, and her life has been, you know, chronicled across uh TV specials, in news segments, uh magazines have had the Queen all over their covers.
• 3:30
  Sean McAllister: So it really has been in in recent years a time when people have gotten more of a glimpse into Queen Elizabeth's life, and and she really has meant a lot to a lot of people.
• 3:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 3:44
  Dayna Roselli: And we know we have lots of listeners from the UK, and we do have a lot of uh friends and and family that live over in the UK, and we know what a big deal this is.
• 3:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's you know, it's going to be a time of mourning for a very long time, and we're going to continue to see a lot of different ceremonial things take place as the Queen is laid to rest.
• 4:05
  Dayna Roselli: And so I'm sure we'll all be glued to the television, glued to our computers.
• 4:10
  Dayna Roselli: For some reason, the royal family just is captivating to the entire world.
• 4:15
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think first, obviously, like you said, we'll we'll see, you know, the people paying their respects and the in the funeral arrangements that will be precisely planned out and executed.
• 4:30
  Sean McAllister: But then following that, we'll see uh a coronation, something that we haven't seen in this for several generations.
• 4:40
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 4:40
  Dayna Roselli: I was lucky enough to visit Buckingham Palace twice on two trips to London.
• 4:44
  Dayna Roselli: I've been to London six times, but in two trips, and one of them, I think we talked about this before, the Queen was not there.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: And that's when you can actually go inside.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: You can only go inside for the tour when the Queen is not there, and boy, it's incredible.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's literally exactly what you see in pictures, um, and in the rooms that they had set up are uh actually recognizable to all the pictures and we've seen and in video through the history.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: So it was quite a quite an honor to go see Buckingham Palace and be able to walk through it.
• 5:19
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm sure we're gonna see a lot of Buckingham Palace over the next month or so.
• 5:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the tributes will will certainly uh continue to pour in for Queen Elizabeth II, who has passed away at 96 years old.
• 5:37
  Sean McAllister: But here in Las Vegas, Dana, the entire community has just been gripped this week by a really shocking murder following the violent stabbing death of an acclaimed investigative journalist named Jeff Geerman, who worked at the Las Vegas Review Journal newspaper here in Las Vegas.
• 5:59
  Sean McAllister: And just to give you some background, Geerman has been a respected journalist for decades.
• 6:05
  Sean McAllister: He's covered organized crime and uncovered government corruption through his reporting, and it seems to be that exact, detailed reporting that has led to his death.
• 6:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's unbelievable, and an elected official is now in custody charged with murder.
• 6:23
  Dayna Roselli: Robert Tellis is the Clark County Public Administrator.
• 6:26
  Dayna Roselli: And Clark County, just so you know, covers southern Nevada.
• 6:29
  Dayna Roselli: That's where Las Vegas is.
• 6:30
  Dayna Roselli: Jeff German has reported a number of stories that included Robert Tellis' mismanagement of his office and alleged relationship with a staff member.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: This is the kind of story that you would expect to see on a show like Dateline.
• 6:47
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:48
  Sean McAllister: You know, these mystery shows, and you never really think that those circumstances could actually play out, but they have.
• 6:57
  Sean McAllister: So let's catch you up on where this began, how it's played out over the past week.
• 7:03
  Dayna Roselli: The sheriff, Joe Lombardo, had a press conference, and first we're going to hear from him.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm here to brief you on the latest details in the homicide of review journalist, investigator reporter Jeff German.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: This has been an unusual case from the beginning.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_02: The murder of an investigative journalist and the main suspect, an elected official here in Clark County.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_02: Because of the relentless follow-up of our detectives, and with your help, I'm here to announce the arrest of five 45-year-old Robert Tellis.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_02: He was booked in the Clark County Detention Center last night on a charge of open murder.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_02: This is a terrible and jarring homicide.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: One that has deeply impacted Las Vegas.
• 7:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Jeff Garman was stabbed to death in broad daylight.
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: He was found on the side of his home.
• 7:54
  Dayna Roselli: So immediately when you hear that, you think, what?
• 7:58
  Dayna Roselli: And then police acted very quick in getting this surveillance video out.
• 8:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they used pretty much all the resources that were available to the Las Vegas Metro Police Department.
• 8:11
  Sean McAllister: Um, they put out almost immediately surveillance video of a suspect wearing a reflective vest and uh a big straw hat, big brimmed straw hat, very distinctive walk as well.
• 8:26
  Sean McAllister: Uh we also saw an image of a suspect's vehicle that was linked to this crime.
• 8:33
  Sean McAllister: Here is uh the captain of the homicide bureau for Las Vegas Metro Police, Dory Corin.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: We began our homicide investigation about five days ago on Saturday, September 3rd.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_01: This was after we received a 911 call of an unresponsive male that was found on the side of his home.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_01: Our preliminary investigation revealed that the unresponsive male was deceased as a result of stabbings.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: We also determined pretty quickly that the victim was Jeff Gerriman, as the sheriff said.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Jeff Gerriman is a well-known investigative reporter, and that was taken into account immediately.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_01: Some of the other things that were developed pretty quickly by our homicide investigation was that the suspect was wearing an orange shirt with reflective stripes, a straw hat, and was carrying a duffel bag.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: And what was likely an attempt to either disguise his identity or conceal his identity.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: We also know that the suspect was walking westbound approaching uh Garriman's home on Friday, September 2nd, the day prior to us being notified.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: On that morning, he approached Mr.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_01: Garriman's home and went to the side of the house.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: Shortly after, Garriman came outside of the garage door and then went to the side of the house.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: And ultimately an altercation took place between the suspect and the victim.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: We believe this happened around 11 or 18 a.m.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_01: And at that time, our victim was stabbed multiple times.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_01: And on day two of our major case protocol, we detailed we developed a very critical lead, which was a vehicle that we identified.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was a maroon-colored GMC Denali that was suspiciously driving around in the neighborhood on the morning of the murder or prior to the murder, and then certainly was there at the time when the murder happened.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_01: That vehicle had stopped multiple times throughout the neighborhood and was behaving suspiciously or was suspicious.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_01: The second key piece on day two was we determined that the suspect wearing the orange shirt had fled in that vehicle, which connected the vehicle to the suspect.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_01: There were two main areas that we were focused on early on.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_01: One was ensuring that this was not connected to a burglary series or anything of the sort.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: And then two, looking at any work-related grievances or conflicts related to Mr.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: Garriman's work.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: We knew that as an investigative reporter, he had written several articles, and there were different allegations and statements about potential people that would be upset about it.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: One in particular that we identified early on was Robert Tellus as a person of interest because Tellus had Tellus was upset about articles that were written being written by German as an investigative journalist that exposed potential wrongdoing, and Tellus had publicly expressed his uh his issues with that reporting.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then ultimately uh Tellis was also upset from what we found out later that there was additional reporting that was pending.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the other thing that uh was discovered by our detectives was there was a vehicle that matched a suspect's vehicle description that maroon James Denali that was parked in front of Tellus's home.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: It was registered to his wife, and then we ultimately developed video evidence that showed that that vehicle that James Denali parked in front of Talis' home had departed around 9 a.m.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: in the morning on the day of the murder, and it returned around 12 p.m.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: just after the murder, which matched our timeline.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: We immediately began working on search warrants and then we began searching.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: We asked through the search warrants early yesterday morning, and that involved searching TES's home, his vehicles, and then also searching his body to collect the DNA sample to compare it to DNA recovered during the crime.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Shortly after we developed information that indicated TELUS was driving DNC to knowledge the morning of the murder.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_01: We also, through the search warrant effort, we recovered a pair of shoes, as you'll see here on my screen here to the left, that matched the suspect's description.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um also, as you can see, there's a pair of blood on the shoes or and the shoes were cut likely in a manner to try to destroy evidence.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: In addition to the shoes, we recovered a straw hat that was also cut in uh in a manner that was likely to destroy the evidence.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_01: And that straw hat, as we can see, matches the one for in the photo for and then ultimately uh one of the most important aspects of this investigation was waiting on the DNA results or and we received positive DNA results that code or Robert Tellis' DNA at the crime scene at that time.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: We immediately initiated our arrest operation and planning.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: The goal was to take Tellus into custody as safely as possible.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: And thanks to the men and women of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the leadership here, we were able to successfully execute that operation yesterday, and Tellus was taken into custody safely and uh arrested as the sheriff talked about.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I know that's a lot of information, but from listening to that you can tell it's mind-blowing.
• 13:23
  Dayna Roselli: There's so many things about this that are shocking.
• 13:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they're well, and one of the shocking elements of this is that the suspect, uh Robert Tellis, actually put out public statements about his dislike for uh Jeff German's reporting on social media.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: He did.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: If you go to his Twitter page, there's many tweets where he tags Jeff in the tweets, even put a screenshot up of a text message that Jeff had sent him saying he was covering a story, uh, you know, it involved him in his office, and wanted to get a state from statement from him, uh, wanted a response from him, and he needed it by deadline, and he was doing his job to get tell us his side of the story.
• 14:11
  Dayna Roselli: Didn't really understand even why he would put that text message up, but regardless, it shows you that it's very erratic and he's very obviously upset about it.
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: And there's a history of speaking out publicly against the reports um that were published in the newspaper.
• 14:27
  Sean McAllister: Um in kind of an eerie twist in this case, also, uh people, there's armchair detectives when people uh are trying to piece the story together.
• 14:41
  Sean McAllister: Um sometimes the internet does come through.
• 14:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 14:45
  Sean McAllister: And people on Twitter almost immediately um pulled video from one of Jeff German's stories of Robert Tellis showing him walking down the hall in uh what looked like his county office and the walk was nearly identical to the walk that was seen by the suspect in the surveillance video.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: And people early on were like, This has gotta be the guy.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Look at the walk, it's very distinctive.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Very when I looked at that, my mouth dropped.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: I went, Wow, that is because the the surveillance video, it was difficult.
• 15:26
  Sean McAllister: The walk was the the distinct it was there were no facial features of the five.
• 15:30
  Dayna Roselli: There was no facial features, you couldn't tell a height, yeah.
• 15:33
  Dayna Roselli: It was it was hard to tell even if it was a man or a woman.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right?
• 15:37
  Dayna Roselli: So so many people were talking about that.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: Another um shocking, I guess, part of it is that that surveillance video was put out there, the description of the vehicle was put out there for everyone to see, and a plea from police saying share it with everyone.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: And if anyone knows anyone with this vehicle, we want to investigate.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: And Robert Tellis had this vehicle in his driveway.
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: So he didn't even hide it.
• 16:07
  Sean McAllister: No, a few days, as a matter of fact, before uh police kind of zeroed in on him, there's was a photo uh from the Las Vegas Review Journal of Robert Tellis out in front of his house washing that truck.
• 16:24
  Dayna Roselli: It was yeah, it is just they took him in for questioning.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: He came home home in like a white kind of jumpsuit.
• 16:32
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone was wondering why, and this and that, and it's because you know they they take your clothes, I guess, for testing.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: He came home, people were saying, Well, why was he let home, you know, so so quickly?
• 16:42
  Dayna Roselli: Why didn't they keep him?
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, well, you have to have all the the the clear evidence in and the testing done.
• 16:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, in the news conference, uh Sheriff Lombardo addressed that.
• 16:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, and he said, Hey, look, it's like his constitutional right.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: If we don't have something to charge him on, we can't hold him.
• 17:04
  Sean McAllister: And at that point, they did not have the DNA evidence in order to link him directly to the crime.
• 17:11
  Sean McAllister: Once that DNA evidence came in, that's when they acted.
• 17:14
  Sean McAllister: That's when they moved in to arrest him.
• 17:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:16
  Dayna Roselli: And then that whole thing was, you know, police were at the door, he wasn't answering right away.
• 17:21
  Dayna Roselli: For a moment there, they decided to move everyone away from that area in the neighborhood, uh, reporters, the public.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: It it was, and then he was taken away.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: They finally they did get a hold of him, and he was taken away in an ambulance.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the whole thing has just been one thing after the other.
• 17:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, what is going on here?
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: This is unbelievable.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and obviously, we're also mourning the death of a very important journalist to our community.
• 17:50
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it seems like uh the work that Jeff German was doing uh will continue on at the review journal.
• 17:58
  Sean McAllister: It it sounds from uh what police have to say that there were several colleagues who were very well uh in the loop on the reporting that was happening.
• 18:10
  Sean McAllister: It sounds like uh from police indications that there were future stories that were set to come out, future reporting about uh what was going on with Robert Tellis.
• 18:26
  Sean McAllister: So it it there will be more details coming out from police and uh from the media from the Las Vegas Review Journal and the reporting that continues there.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I just want to point out I have been following more and more journalists from the Review Journal.
• 18:45
  Dayna Roselli: I thought I was following all of them, but they've done an excellent job, and it they have a large staff of breaking news reporters, investigative journalists, and I just want to commend them for gosh, it's always hard to report on your own.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: Let's put it that way.
• 19:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I can only imagine that they want to get to the bottom of this, they want to see justice, so I know I'm sure they're very passionate about it, and maybe haven't even gotten a chance to have their full emotional moment over losing a colleague.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: So I feel for them the other reporters in town have also done an excellent job in covering the story online, and um, you know, everyone's been following along on Twitter.
• 19:23
  Dayna Roselli: I know groups of us have been text messaging, people have been direct messaging us, like this is crazy.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's really affecting a lot of people, and I know it's now a national story, and it probably will be a worldwide story if it isn't already.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you know, and you know, like uh what Sheriff Lombardo said earlier is that there is still a lot more of their investigation that is going to be continuing.
• 19:50
  Sean McAllister: Um, you know, the the details and information that they uncover is is far from right, it's far from a closed case.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: And and Robert Tellis also has a wife and three children.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: So there's that as well.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: Heartbreaking all around.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: So those are the details on the big story that has really captivated Las Vegas and Dana, as you mentioned, um, that has now made headlines across the country and around the world.
• 20:18
  Dayna Roselli: So let's switch gears back to Las Vegas and tourism and how we're doing here.
• 20:24
  Dayna Roselli: We know a lot of our listeners are always curious how the economy's doing, how our tourism's coming along, what's new, what's opened, are people still gambling?
• 20:34
  Dayna Roselli: And yes, yes, yes.
• 20:36
  Sean McAllister: Yes, check everything in the column.
• 20:39
  Dayna Roselli: Everything in the comment column.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: Las Vegas welcomed nearly 3.5 million visitors in July, the highest monthly visitation since the start of the pandemic.
• 20:49
  Dayna Roselli: This is all according to data released by the research center at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: They bring in a lot of numbers for us monthly.
• 20:59
  Dayna Roselli: We usually get them the next month.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: So we get them at, you know, at the end of August.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: This is for July.
• 21:03
  Sean McAllister: And it seems like in addition to people who are coming here for leisure, uh, convention business is really starting to pick up big time as well.
• 21:14
  Sean McAllister: Uh, 307,000 convention attendees came into Las Vegas, roughly double what we saw in July of last year.
• 21:28
  Sean McAllister: So, I mean, that is great, those are some strong numbers and uh represents$11 billion in economic impact.
• 21:38
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we had wondered, you know, are we gonna bounce back?
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: We were so worried for so long if the conventions would come back, if they were gonna go elsewhere, if we were gonna see as many in person conventions, or were people gonna go completely virtual now or do half and half?
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: And it seems like things have come back.
• 21:57
  Dayna Roselli: I'm glad to see it.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, when we talk gaming, Uh Nevada casinos still red hot in that area as well.
• 22:05
  Dayna Roselli: So uh let me just read through this.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: Non-restricted gaming licenses in the state reported nearly$1.32 billion in total win revenue for July.
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 22:16
  Dayna Roselli: And it's the 17th consecutive month that the gaming win in Nevada has exceeded one billion dollars.
• 22:23
  Sean McAllister: So that means a lot of people are coming with money in their pockets, donating it to the casinos, and then heading home.
• 22:31
  unknown: Exactly.
• 22:33
  Dayna Roselli: Boy, people continue to enjoy Las Vegas.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: We keep opening new things, and um, we're glad that you're still coming to see us.
• 22:41
  Sean McAllister: All right, shall we get to our tips?
• 22:43
  Dayna Roselli: Let's do it.
• 22:48
  Sean McAllister: Uh, my tip this week, Dana, is for uh artists and art lovers.
• 22:55
  Sean McAllister: So this is actually a really cool thing.
• 22:57
  Sean McAllister: Uh we've heard of, we've talked about Meow Wolf's Omega Mart that's over inside Area 15.
• 23:04
  Sean McAllister: It's that grocery store that's full of weird stuff.
• 23:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Sean McAllister: And you walk through the cooler and it takes you to another world.
• 23:11
  Sean McAllister: You have to experience it to get it.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 23:14
  Sean McAllister: But in the first major expansion uh since Omega Mart opened, they have uh created this mega art complex next door to the main entrance to uh Omega Mart.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: And what it is, is it's an exhibit space where the work of local artists is going to be shown.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: But not only that, they are taking the artwork and translating it onto retail items in some really cool ways.
• 23:47
  Sean McAllister: There's graffiti all over the walls, they have like broken vending machines, which aren't really broken.
• 23:54
  Sean McAllister: You just have to it's part of the part of the thing.
• 23:57
  Sean McAllister: The shtick.
• 23:58
  Sean McAllister: Um, a big money funnel.
• 24:00
  Sean McAllister: So it's a really cool idea, a really great way for local artists to uh get some exposure and have some, you know, retail items with their images sold.
• 24:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, listen, whenever I bring up Omega Mart at Area 15, people say, I've been there, I love it.
• 24:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's it's an attraction.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: It's it is hard to explain, like you said.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: So sometimes we just don't really even try and bother, but you gotta go to experience it.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: If that's your kind of thing of we kind of, you kind of explained it.
• 24:30
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and you think you'd enjoy something like that, I think it's worth heading over there for sure.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, absolutely.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: It's a good time.
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and this is a good time.
• 24:36
  Dayna Roselli: A new cool thing.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my tip this week is for our members of the armed forces.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: I love this.
• 24:44
  Dayna Roselli: Las Vegas again doing this.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: It's called Las Vegas Marries the Military.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: It's on November 10th.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: And what it is is the Office of the Clark County Clerk and Las Vegas wedding industry is doing like free weddings and vow renewals all across the valley.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that cool?
• 25:03
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: But there are some that are gonna actually win a little bit of a bigger package, okay?
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: And the winning couples will be able to receive at minimum a free wedding or vow renewal package, group reception, a$250 allegiant airlines travel voucher, all sorts of stuff like that.
• 25:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's really cool, but here's the deal the couples that want to submit, they need a 30 to 60 second video on what a Las Vegas wedding or vow renewal would mean to them by Monday, September 26th.
• 25:37
  Sean McAllister: Oh, so that's coming up.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: It's coming up.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: So get your submissions in, win a free wedding, win some extras, have a blast.
• 25:45
  Dayna Roselli: It's lvmarysthemilitary.com.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: Okay?
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: LV Marysthemilitary.com.
• 25:55
  Dayna Roselli: You can go there, submit your video, get all the details, but I love it.
• 25:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's basically, you know, a kickoff to Veterans Day weekend, and it's a way to honor our military members and bringing back this occasion that we've had before, Las Vegas Marries the Military.
• 26:09
  Sean McAllister: And if you are uh submitting your 30 to 60 second video, make sure that you or your spouse are a member of the military.
• 26:17
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 26:18
  Sean McAllister: Active duty or retired.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, please, please.
• 26:21
  Sean McAllister: And thank you all for your service.
• 26:22
  Sean McAllister: This is a very small way that that Las Vegas and the county clerk can give back for all the sacrifices that are made on a daily basis.
• 26:33
  Dayna Roselli: And Las Vegas is a fun place to get married.
• 26:35
  Dayna Roselli: That's true.
• 26:36
  Sean McAllister: It certainly is.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: All right, I think that's a podcast.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um we had a little bit of everything, obviously, uh going on this week, and we tried to sprinkle it all in there.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: Um we know a lot of people were talking about the the sad murder that we had here in town that was affecting so many people.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we talked about the queen passing away, and then some good news about our numbers doing really well, and a couple cool new things that you can do from our tips segment.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: So um it's all in our show notes.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: And we want to thank Vegas Near Me as well for being our sponsor.
• 27:10
  Sean McAllister: And be sure to click uh the Vegas Near Me link in our show notes.
• 27:14
  Sean McAllister: It'll take you directly to a download for the beta version of the app so that you can be among the first people in the entire world to try it out.
• 27:23
  Sean McAllister: It is like a directory of all things fun to do and see here in Las Vegas.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: It's a great addition to the screen on your phone.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: We couldn't even get uh speaking of things to do and see, we couldn't even get in a full list of other things we had to talk about.
• 27:38
  Dayna Roselli: So we have got lots to talk about next week as well.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: So thanks for sticking with us here on Vegas Revealed, and we'll talk to you then.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go, baby, baby.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go in baby.