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Usher Super Bowl Halftime Show Details, California Needs to Widen I-15, Family Friendly Attractions, Discount Show Tickets | Ep. 191 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's episode 191 of Vegas Revealed what is taking so long.
• 0:06
  Sean McAllister: The mayor of Las Vegas continues to call on California to widen a portion of I-15 near Nevada State Line.
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: You'll hear from her this week.
• 0:16
  Dayna Roselli: Magic Mike at the Sahara a great option for a good night out.
• 0:19
  Dayna Roselli: Plus.
• 0:20
  Dayna Roselli: Usher is honored for his efforts in the Las Vegas community and his upcoming Super Bowl performance.
• 0:26
  Sean McAllister: Cirque du Soleil's O celebrates a quarter century on the Las Vegas Strip and a place to get some work done.
• 0:33
  Sean McAllister: Once you're done, having fun here in Las Vegas.
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: And what can you do with the kids if you visit?
• 0:39
  Dayna Roselli: We have some options.
• 0:41
  Sean McAllister: That and a bunch more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:44
  Dayna Roselli: Let's spin that wheel.
• 0:53
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas.
• 0:54
  Sean McAllister: Revealed Sean McAllister here, along with Dayna Roselli, and you know the holidays are approaching, but still we're having some pomp and circumstance surrounding Super Bowl 58, which is coming up February 11th in the new year over at Allegiant Stadium.
• 1:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and by the way, go Raiders Two recent wins.
• 1:15
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 1:16
  Dayna Roselli: We're in the heart of football season but you're right, we're ramping up for the Super Bowl and I know a lot of people are excited that Usher was announced as the half time performance.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited because Usher actually has a show here in Las Vegas, so it's very fitting.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: You and I have both been to the show and you know he's great.
• 1:33
  Dayna Roselli: People love him and I think a lot of people are really looking forward to this.
• 1:36
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought it was kind of cool because this week Las Vegas honored Usher right here at the City Council Chambers.
• 1:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the City of Las Vegas and Mayor Carolyn Goodman honored and celebrated Usher for not only what he's done with having a residency here in Las Vegas and performing at the upcoming Super Bowl, but also for the foundation work that he's done to help the youth here in Las Vegas.
• 2:03
  Sean McAllister: He has a foundation called the New Look Foundation that really encourages high school students to tap into their passions and then use that passion to go on to higher education.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I'm not sure if a lot of people know that you know, and I love when I think everyone always in our local community loves when a lot of these headliners do things for our community, bring you know their influence into the community and help, whether it's, you know, any type of social issue.
• 2:30
  Dayna Roselli: Of course, obviously when it has to do with kids, that's always wonderful too.
• 2:33
  Dayna Roselli: So it was great that they did celebrate and honor Usher.
• 2:37
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: We were there when it all went down this is a bejeweled key to the City of Las Vegas given to this beautiful man.
• 2:49
  Dayna Roselli: You have a very unique situation here.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you have a headlining show and then you're going to go headline that the halftime performance for the Super Bowl down the road.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: I can only imagine that you recognize how unique and how special that is and this is something you've been dreaming up your whole life.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's another first that's got to be pretty exciting.
• 3:11
  Usher: Yeah, I mean it's a bucket list for every artist.
• 3:14
  Usher: You know it probably should be up there with the E Got you know what I'm saying To play the Super Bowl, the Speegot, I don't know if you call it, but I'm saying I do think that every artist has a dream to play that stage, and so fortunate again to have been able to place his belief in this place and then be gratified with the opportunity to play the stage that I always wanted to play in the place that I believed would get me there.
• 3:47
  Usher: There's such history here so I'm very mindful of where I'm playing and as I've now been able to contribute to the, to the rich history of the city you know whether it was O Blue Eyes or was Elvis or Michael or any of them, or you know Celine Dion ushers up there with them.
• 4:06
  Usher: So I definitely will be representing Vegas just as much Elton John I don't want to leave him out or or Mariah Carey she's going to be mad at me if I do, but I definitely am going to put on the show for Vegas with Vegas in mind.
• 4:20
  Usher: I've been a man of collaboration, which is part of the reason that I could say I'm as successful as I have been both in creating music that the world sings and also two moments that the world remembers.
• 4:32
  Usher: I'm hoping that I can relight the fire that all of it has come from and maybe invite some of those people to join me in that incredible moment.
• 4:42
  Usher: Can't give you too much because I don't want to blow it, but I will say that that moment will not only represent me, but it will represent my legacy and the things that I've been a part of in collaboration, reminding the world that when you do collaborate, something amazing does happen.
• 5:01
  Dayna Roselli: Congratulations to usher.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: That was a lot of fun.
• 5:03
  Dayna Roselli: Usually don't get close to usher, you know he's, he's, he's an A-lister.
• 5:08
  Sean McAllister: I mean he's a big deal.
• 5:08
  Sean McAllister: He is a big deal he is.
• 5:10
  Sean McAllister: So it was a different kind of usher experience than you would get over it at Park MGM with the usher Bucks.
• 5:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, fallen from the sky, you know.
• 5:17
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly Looking forward to his halftime performance here in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.
• 5:22
  Dayna Roselli: Can't wait.
• 5:23
  Sean McAllister: Well, speaking of, you know, Bucks falling from the sky and maybe being stuffed into some waistlines.
• 5:30
  Sean McAllister: You, Dana.
• 5:31
  Sean McAllister: We're just over at Magic Mike Live at Sahara, and this is a show that's been here in Las Vegas for for a bit now, for a few years, but Sahara is a new venue for the show.
• 5:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's newer.
• 5:45
  Dayna Roselli: It's been there for a little bit but I haven't had the chance to get over there and see the kind of new theater, the newer show and all that.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: So I was excited to get over there.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: And when you say about the bucks and stuff, you do get your Magic Mike bucks too.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: I love it, and so you get it.
• 5:58
  Dayna Roselli: They're on your table when you sit.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: A few things.
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, I wanted to mention that I went to the Noodle Den for dinner before Magic Mike Live at Sahara, loved it.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: I hadn't been there either.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: The noodles were out of this world, the dumplings were amazing.
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: So went there to eat before I went up to Magic Mike Live, which is on the second floor of this Sahara.
• 6:17
  Dayna Roselli: I've also never been upstairs up the escalator to this area.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: They actually made it just for this show.
• 6:24
  Sean McAllister: I don't think I've ever been up there either.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: No, and I forget I was talking to someone.
• 6:29
  Dayna Roselli: I think it used to be maybe convention space or a ballroom or something like that.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not sure, but it was great.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: You go up the escalator and it's great.
• 6:37
  Dayna Roselli: Once you enter the theater, they actually have a lobby that has a bar where you can grab a drink ahead of time.
• 6:42
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of where the experience starts.
• 6:44
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: The theater was full Tons of groups of ladies, some men there too.
• 6:49
  Dayna Roselli: It was a great vibe and this was a Thursday night, so I was happy to see the turnout.
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: The show was great.
• 6:55
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, the guys in Magic Mike Live are excellent dancers.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: They recruit people from all over the world for this show.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's a big deal and a lot of people say, well.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes you'll say, well, I don't want to go see that, oh, it's not my thing, and it's like you know what?
• 7:09
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the deal.
• 7:09
  Dayna Roselli: It's actually a really good show.
• 7:11
  Dayna Roselli: There is actually a host, a woman, and she's a lot of fun, and there's a story to be told, the whole story of Magic Mike.
• 7:18
  Dayna Roselli: There's a character who's Magic Mike, who never really has been a really good dancer.
• 7:24
  Dayna Roselli: And then they have the whole cast of other men with them and they come out and I'm gonna show some video now.
• 7:30
  Dayna Roselli: If you're watching the YouTube podcast and you can see they're in full suits and all this, and then the clothes eventually comes off and there's a lot of great numbers.
• 7:40
  Dayna Roselli: I loved, sean, seeing everyone have such a good time.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: They really let loose and it always is such a reminder of like.
• 7:46
  Dayna Roselli: This is just part of what Vegas is about.
• 7:49
  Dayna Roselli: It's a perfect fit for Las Vegas.
• 7:53
  Dayna Roselli: I love that we have Thunder from Down Under, chip and Dows, magic Mike Live, I mean all these different kinds of variations of male review shows, and ladies have options and men have options to go and let loose and just have a great Vegas night out.
• 8:07
  Sean McAllister: Well, in each one of these male review shows has a different vibe, a different feel from any of the other ones.
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: So if you go see Magic Mike Live, it's gonna be a different experience.
• 8:19
  Sean McAllister: And if you go see Chip and Dows or Thunder.
• 8:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's so true, so true.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's a theater, kind of in the round which is cool and it looks like it's cool.
• 8:29
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it looks.
• 8:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's just.
• 8:31
  Dayna Roselli: The theater is wonderful.
• 8:32
  Dayna Roselli: You'll see it in some of the videos and I'm gonna put some on our social too.
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's hard to describe, but it's much more than just like seats and a stage, so it's cool.
• 8:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's a different kind of experience.
• 8:41
  Dayna Roselli: I think you and I always talk about those theaters in the round are great because everyone has a good seat and that's what's wonderful.
• 8:48
  Dayna Roselli: They have a great cocktail list there, a lot of fun, and they have servers while the show's going on.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: I enjoyed that too, because some shows don't have that.
• 8:56
  Sean McAllister: That's the truth.
• 8:57
  Sean McAllister: It's nice to have a server.
• 8:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you can keep getting your drink on if you want.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: So that was my experience at Magic Mic Live.
• 9:03
  Dayna Roselli: Go see them over at the Sahara.
• 9:05
  Dayna Roselli: A great show.
• 9:06
  Dayna Roselli: I really do recommend it.
• 9:07
  Dayna Roselli: It was a lot of fun.
• 9:08
  Sean McAllister: So that's an experience a stripped experience but there was also recently an un-stripped experience in downtown Las Vegas, and this had nothing to do with a mail review or anything like that.
• 9:23
  Sean McAllister: This is all about celebrating the culinary scene off the Las Vegas strip.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so un-stripped, so it's called Vegas Un-stripped and it's basically a celebration and a gathering of all of our local restaurants and the wonderful chefs that we have here in Las Vegas off the strip.
• 9:44
  Dayna Roselli: I had never been before.
• 9:45
  Dayna Roselli: I was excited to go.
• 9:46
  Dayna Roselli: I went and it was great.
• 9:48
  Dayna Roselli: You know what you pay one fee and you go in and you can eat and drink as much as you want, because they have all these different booths that all the restaurants are set up and they offer one or two things that they choose, and so you're stopping and you're having tacos at one spot and pizza from another, and maybe you're trying someone's bread, the focaccia that they bake fresh at the restaurant.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: So it was really great.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: Different kinds of wines.
• 10:13
  Dayna Roselli: What they do there is they make sure that the chef of the restaurant is there at the booth, so you can't even set up unless the chef is gonna be there.
• 10:24
  Dayna Roselli: So you're meeting the James trees and you're seeing the chefs in person, which is wonderful.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a great experience to talk to them and basically get to know some of these local restaurants that are off the strip.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: I had a blast.
• 10:35
  Sean McAllister: Well, and for people who are out of town, you might not realize, you know, obviously on the Las Vegas strip you have restaurants by Gordon Ramsay, jada De Laurenti's, wolfgang Puck, but once you go off the strip, downtown and even, you know, in Chinatown, really all over Las, in Green Valley and Summerlin, there are some really incredible chefs and really incredible restaurants once you step just outside of the resort corridor as well, and I love that this event celebrates that.
• 11:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I was talking with someone there and they were saying you know what, like, a lot of times, you know, the strip restaurants get all the publicity and that's true.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: You know we're the entertainment capital of the world.
• 11:21
  Dayna Roselli: We are known for the Las Vegas strip and our hotels and casinos and our wonderful restaurants.
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: But it is true, sometimes, you know, the off strip restaurants don't get as much publicity out there in magazines and podcasts and on blogs and on television, local news.
• 11:38
  Dayna Roselli: So it was a chance for people to get to know some of those restaurants.
• 11:41
  Dayna Roselli: I discovered a new place that I feel like I will travel to and it's in Green Valley, which is, you know, not super close to me and I don't think of to go eat there.
• 11:51
  Dayna Roselli: But we were talking to the chef and he was saying I think they got and don't quote me on this like voted like best taco or something like that by Yelp or one of made the list of the top whatever 100.
• 12:00
  Dayna Roselli: I think they were in like the top 25.
• 12:03
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like it was delicious, and the person next to us was saying the same thing and I was like this is really good.
• 12:09
  Dayna Roselli: I would travel down there for that.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: So it lets people know what else is out there, outside of your bubble.
• 12:15
  Sean McAllister: And that's good, because how often have if you're going to dinner with someone and they're like, oh, where should we go?
• 12:22
  Sean McAllister: And you're like I don't know?
• 12:24
  Sean McAllister: And that's such a ridiculous answer to think in your head in a city like Las Vegas, because there are so many places you could go, but in the moment you're like I don't know at least I always do I have a brain freeze and I'm like, ugh, I don't know, there's nowhere to go, which could not be the furthest thing from the truth.
• 12:44
  Dayna Roselli: Right, you're right.
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe we transition from that into thanks to our sponsors, including Vegas Near Me a wonderful app where you can look up restaurants and specifics about restaurants.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: You can download it.
• 12:58
  Dayna Roselli: We have a link in our show notes.
• 12:59
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• 13:02
  Dayna Roselli: When you're looking we've talked about this before you can actually put in there like patio dining, and restaurants will come up that have a patio, live music and things like that.
• 13:10
  Dayna Roselli: So if you are looking for specifics, it's always very helpful.
• 13:13
  Sean McAllister: Also Hot Works, infrared 24-hour Fitness Studios with locations all over the Las Vegas Valley.
• 13:21
  Sean McAllister: We have more information down in our show notes.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, lots of locations that you can go to in the Henderson and Las Vegas area.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: Remember mentioned Vegas revealed that they're gonna waive the $99 enrollment fee.
• 13:31
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, I had someone that I was talking to recently in an event and she was telling me because I was telling her about Hot Works, because she was saying she wanted to know more about it, and she said I pay close to what you're saying that you, it's $59 a month, by the way, unlimited.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: I pay just to go for one session to just sit in an infrared sauna.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, yeah, don't do that.
• 13:51
  Dayna Roselli: Sign up for Hot Works, go do workouts when you want to, and sometimes you can just book it and go lay there and take it in, Relax a little bit.
• 13:59
  Dayna Roselli: So it's definitely a great deal and I think that people should take advantage of it.
• 14:03
  Dayna Roselli: I just had another friend sign up and she's loving it so far.
• 14:06
  Sean McAllister: I mean that is that's a great deal.
• 14:07
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• 14:13
  Sean McAllister: They are Nevada grown and award-winning whiskies and bourbons.
• 14:19
  Sean McAllister: We're gonna have more on Frey Ranch and our experience up there still to come in this episode.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and we've got a tip for you for the upcoming holidays.
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: When it comes to whiskey and the holidays.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of celebrating things, it's not a holiday but it kind of felt like one over at the Bellagio celebrating 25 years.
• 14:39
  Dayna Roselli: Can you believe it?
• 14:39
  Dayna Roselli: The Bellagio opened on October 15th 1998.
• 14:43
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what that means.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: That means Cirque du Soleil's oh is also celebrating 25 years, because they have been there since the very beginning.
• 14:51
  Sean McAllister: I mean which is astounding to me, that it's been 25 years, a quarter century, on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: And oh by Cirque du Soleil has by far been one of the most consistently sold out production shows on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 15:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean it's fabulous and people love that they utilize the water on stage.
• 15:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's just such a cool thing.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: I mean some of though we saw the show.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: We were at the anniversary show.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: It was spectacular.
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: But when you watch people drop from the ceiling into this water and then later they're kind of walking along it and it's only covering their feet, what that stage can do with the water, how deep it is and then how it's not deep and everything that happens on.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's a big stage but it's not that big.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: But they utilize that space.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: It's remarkable.
• 15:42
  Sean McAllister: And the show is just absolutely beautiful.
• 15:45
  Sean McAllister: But you're right, I think there are moments it took my breath away, I guess.
• 15:50
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 15:51
  Sean McAllister: Like audibly.
• 15:51
  Sean McAllister: I was worried that the people next to me were thinking I was being super dramatic, but it's like.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I know it's Cirque du Soleil.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: They do some amazing, incredible things in all of their shows.
• 16:06
  Dayna Roselli: I mean the talent in those shows, always unbelievable.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: Here's some factoids that we looked up to.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: Can you believe?
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: Over 19 million tickets have been sold to O Geez Since the 25 years They've had 11,345 performances.
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: They have 1,200 costumes and headpieces in every performance across 77 performers, and then the underwater communication system.
• 16:33
  Dayna Roselli: That's there 26 speakers and 14 technicians.
• 16:37
  Sean McAllister: Man.
• 16:37
  Sean McAllister: That's incredible.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't it?
• 16:39
  Sean McAllister: And you know, last year Wendt did a behind the scenes story to go down underneath the theater at the bottom of the pool and then up into the rafters.
• 16:49
  Sean McAllister: So I'll be sure to repost that on my social media accounts.
• 16:53
  Sean McAllister: I think you'll really love to see that.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: But even the lighting inside this theater at Bellagio uses over 220,000 feet of cable.
• 17:04
  Sean McAllister: That's more than 42 miles of cable that's used for the lighting just inside that theater.
• 17:12
  Dayna Roselli: Incredible.
• 17:13
  Dayna Roselli: What a show.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: Standing ovation at the end.
• 17:15
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 17:17
  Dayna Roselli: We went to a party to celebrate beforehand.
• 17:19
  Dayna Roselli: That was wonderful.
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: Over at Jasmine inside the Bellagio, the food was delicious.
• 17:23
  Dayna Roselli: They have beautiful patio.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: We were able to watch the fountain show Great crowd.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: All the heads of Cirque du Soleil were in town for it too.
• 17:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they were, and there was a special plaque that was unveiled in honor of Franco Dragone, who was one of the Cirque du Soleil partners at the time, who helped create O by Cirque du Soleil.
• 17:43
  Sean McAllister: He passed away recently so there is now a plaque over there at the O Theater honoring Franco Dragone just a really visionary entertainment producer.
• 17:53
  Sean McAllister: So all around it was just a spectacular event.
• 17:58
  Sean McAllister: Congratulations to everyone at Cirque du Soleil, past and present, who has had a hand in that show, and also congratulations to everybody who has had a hand in making sure that Bellagio stays one of the top properties in Las Vegas over the past 25 years as well.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I can't believe it.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's been 25 years.
• 18:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's such an iconic property, right?
• 18:20
  Dayna Roselli: And it's like right in the center of Strip and it was really like the first luxurious, luxury hotel that we had on the Las Vegas Strip back then.
• 18:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and look how much luxury plays a role in Las Vegas now.
• 18:32
  Sean McAllister: So that really is thanks to Bellagio setting that trend.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we have a lot of people that visit us from California, don't they?
• 18:41
  Dayna Roselli: And they go to the Bellagio.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: They certainly do.
• 18:45
  Dayna Roselli: But we have so many events that we always talk about all the time and attractions and people just come in for long weekends from California and for as long as I can remember, our mayor, Carolyn Goodman, has tweeted away and I don't want to say yelled at, but I'm going to say kind of yelled at California and their Department of Transportation to get widening those lanes on the I-15 after you pass the Nevada border.
• 19:13
  Sean McAllister: Well, and here's why, at the end of every weekend, on Sunday afternoon, or if it's a long holiday weekend, on Monday or even Tuesday morning, when everybody is driving back to California, the Nevada side of the I-15 highway is several lanes wide, at least four lanes and then you get to the border and it shrinks down to many fewer lanes and it just causes this massive backup and in the heat of the summer that can cause a lot of problems.
• 19:46
  Sean McAllister: People run out of gas, they run out of water and there's not a ton of facilities or really access, especially when you're in gridlock traffic, to help people out like that.
• 19:58
  Sean McAllister: So yeah, carolyn Goodman has been just rattling that cowbell saying hey, california, get on your game, widen your side of the highway.
• 20:09
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 20:09
  Dayna Roselli: So.
• 20:09
  Dayna Roselli: We caught up with her at the Sphere Premier and we've been saving this little clip for you, but we did ask her about it and she was very happy to discuss it.
• 20:19
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: And I'm on it all the time If California doesn't step to the plate and open up, because it's their produce trying to go east to the belly of the country.
• 20:28
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: It's not only about those from California or those from here that wanna get there.
• 20:33
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: This is the most ridiculous stretch of roadway.
• 20:37
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: It's 113 miles.
• 20:40
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: We'll get it on.
• 20:41
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: Look what we've got here.
• 20:43
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: I mean, look what we've got.
• 20:44
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: I can't wait to see.
• 20:45
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: Oh, I got a new place with a great idea.
• 20:48
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: I'm gonna talk to whoever's running the show here.
• 20:51
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: Say I-15, widen I-15.
• 20:55
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: Well, they'll see it up in the sky everywhere.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: So she was looking up at the Sphere, thinking, all right, I got that exosphere, I gotta put my tweets up there.
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: She's so funny.
• 21:04
  Dayna Roselli: She thanked us for even asking the question, which she just loves to talk about, and I know we wanted to point something out before we get a whole bunch of emails and tweets.
• 21:14
  Sean McAllister: But well, clearly, the mayor of Las Vegas does not have jurisdiction over that portion of highway, or the California side for that matter.
• 21:27
  Sean McAllister: However, carolyn Goodman is always a cheerleader for all of Southern Nevada and she likes to point out things that need to get done, and she will use her voice as mayor to make sure that people know her thoughts.
• 21:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean you know cause she doesn't have any authority, but you know people, anything that's going to affect the city of Las Vegas affects her.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: So you know she's in charge of making sure that the city of Las Vegas runs smoothly.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: So she wants people to come in, she wants them to leave and she wants them to be happy and not grumpy and stuck in traffic.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't actually done that drive in a long time.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: I stopped driving it because of what she's saying.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: I thought you know what.
• 22:11
  Dayna Roselli: I'm taking a quick jet suite flight for an hour or a Southwest flight.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not doing it anymore Cause it is, you can get stuck in some major traffic and it's frustrating cause there's no alternate route.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think we drove to San Diego relatively recently, but we made sure to plan the drive around those periods of time when things do get really backed up.
• 22:33
  Dayna Roselli: So so, anyway, that was our thoughts from Mayor Carolyn Goodman.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: She's always a good, good chat and we love her passion for everything Las Vegas.
• 22:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the mayor is definitely always very passionate and we know exactly where she stands on things.
• 22:47
  Sean McAllister: Hey, still the calm Last week here on Vegas Revealed.
• 22:51
  Sean McAllister: We asked you to send us ideas on things that you would like to have covered, and we did receive an email from a listener about family friendly activities.
• 23:01
  Sean McAllister: So we have some ideas and options for you still to come here on Vegas Revealed.
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: So we wanna make sure you stick around for that.
• 23:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, all right.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: Well, this one's not for the kids, but it is for the adults.
• 23:13
  Dayna Roselli: And we've been telling you about Frey Ranch Whiskey up there in Fallon Nevada.
• 23:17
  Dayna Roselli: That is where the farm is, where they actually produce the whiskey, do the tastings.
• 23:21
  Dayna Roselli: They've been having a great harvest festival this fall.
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and they have this ground to glass concept where everything there on the ranch is grown and distilled into the award-winning whiskey and bourbon that they sell not only here in Nevada but across the country.
• 23:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and you know what People love their whiskey, which I'm learning more and more.
• 23:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's ever since we've gone there, the amount of messages that we've had and people that stopped me somebody at my pool the other day stopped me like, hey, I love that Frey Ranch Whiskey.
• 23:51
  Dayna Roselli: Did they give you a bottle?
• 23:52
  Dayna Roselli: I want some.
• 23:53
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like no, but you can go online.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: Well, they did give me a bottle, but I'm not giving it to you is what I said to him, but you can go online and order some.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: But when we were there on the farm, we did actually take a tour with founder Colby Frey and it was so interesting because he was really telling us the process, like you said, of how they farm there, what they do to actually grow the crops.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: And then we took another stop and we actually watched them go through the process of creating it and making it and learning all this different stuff.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: And we've talked about it over the last few weeks, but I thought this was interesting something that he talked about.
• 24:27
  Dayna Roselli: When we were out there on the golf carts touring the farm, somebody had asked him like well, how much whiskey actually comes from the crop?
• 24:35
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: Next year I think we're gonna grow about 700 acres.
• 24:37
  Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman: That should be enough to produce over 100,000 cases of whiskey.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was really interesting to learn about even the climate and how the Northern Nevada climate is just perfect for growing these crops and he was saying there's a magic day that they actually plant the corn.
• 24:53
  Dayna Roselli: And he was saying it's May 10th, right, and it's just like it's something that came up from generations.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, he said that date is a date that Colby's grandfather came up with after years and years of trial and error, trying to find out just the right time when the frost isn't gonna hit and before it gets too warm, and that May 10th is the magic day when those crops get in the ground.
• 25:18
  Sean McAllister: And they do create some really incredible crops up there on Frey Ranch.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: And what I love is that the holiday season is coming up and let me tell you for any whiskey lover, if you're a whiskey lover, then treat yourself to a holiday gift of Frey Ranch whiskey.
• 25:36
  Sean McAllister: If you have a whiskey lover in your family or maybe a friend, this is an incredible gift to give.
• 25:43
  Sean McAllister: I would love it if I had Frey Ranch whiskey in my stocking and maybe pair it with one of those home smoker kits so you can make those handcrafted old fashions right there in the comfort of your own home.
• 25:57
  Sean McAllister: That would be an incredible gift.
• 25:59
  Sean McAllister: So think of Frey Ranchcom when you're checking people off your list.
• 26:04
  Dayna Roselli: Well, because I was gonna say I feel like the old fashioned, like that drink has really come back over the last, or a lot of a few years, I mean, and like I don't know, maybe it's always been out there and I wasn't.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I know it's always been out there, but I do feel like more and more people are enjoying like people our age are enjoying old fashions more than ever am I.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if I'm right or wrong on that no, I think you're a hundred percent.
• 26:28
  Sean McAllister: Okay, bullseye especially, a lot of restaurants have really been promoting like their old fashioned presentation, you know, bringing it in the dome and smoking it in the glass heart that rolls out next to your table absolutely the old fashioned cart yeah so, yes, old fashions are having a moment right now, and fray ranch bourbon is the perfect thing to make a more and I feel like it's great around the holidays to order.
• 26:56
  Dayna Roselli: we've got a link in our show notes if you'd like to learn more about fray ranch Whiskey, bourbon and if you'd like to order a bottle to sell.
• 27:04
  Dayna Roselli: We want to thank fray ranch for sponsoring the podcast over the last few weeks and we have just enjoyed Talking about them, learning about the process, and we really enjoyed our visit up to the farm and good friends to yeah, by the way, real quick, as we didn't mention 12 to 4.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: On Saturdays you go up there and do tastings as well.
• 27:22
  Sean McAllister: And it's a really pretty.
• 27:24
  Sean McAllister: The ranch is absolutely beautiful, so if you're up in northern Nevada, make a point to stop in and say hi to Ashley and Colby.
• 27:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:34
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, moving along to family friendly activities, we told you we did get a letter from Clinton and we appreciate it, and he wrote us at ideas at Vegas dash revealed dot com and he really wanted us to let people know more about things to do with children and youth and family friendly activities.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: He said a lot of times when he has talked to people they said they've come into town and there's.
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: They felt like you know, wasn't a lot to do with the kids, kids were a little bored and it just wasn't a pleasant experience for them and so he thought it would be good if we focused on that.
• 28:06
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna touch on it, but we probably can't make it.
• 28:10
  Sean McAllister: you know a specific podcast just about that, because we do know our listeners and most of our visitors are Adults that come to Las Vegas and also just a point we do like to and we've talked about it here before we like to talk about our own experiences with things here in Las Vegas, neither of us being a parent yeah we do Go and partake in a lot of the adult activities, so that's why we talk about the more adult things.
• 28:39
  Sean McAllister: But that is a very good point in Clinton.
• 28:41
  Dayna Roselli: thank you for bringing it to our attention in your email that it is good to bring up these family friendly activities as well yeah, and he mentioned like there's a bunch of people coming in from for F1, the formula one race, and apparently they're bringing their families and kids and and he was wondering if anything's you know out there for them to do.
• 28:58
  Dayna Roselli: We compiled a quick list of what we know and we thought, you know, as we started compiling it first of all.
• 29:05
  Dayna Roselli: We could go on and on and on.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: There are actually a lot of things with the kids and it's definitely gonna take a little bit of planning.
• 29:11
  Dayna Roselli: So before you come to Las Vegas, you know, I definitely think you need to kind of plan ahead of where you want to hit.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, there's a, there's a pretty good list, something that's new.
• 29:19
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, that I thought was interesting and I walked by at the other day after I went to ocean prime, right there in front of area and crystals.
• 29:26
  Dayna Roselli: The museum of illusions is open now and this is family friendly and they have discounts for children 5 to 12.
• 29:33
  Dayna Roselli: They have discounts for Nevada residents, military.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: The tickets are like a little bit under 40 bucks and it's kind of cool.
• 29:41
  Dayna Roselli: It you go through and there's all these different kinds of experiences and illusions and you can do different things, you can take pictures and it looked like a lot of fun.
• 29:48
  Dayna Roselli: But that's one of the newer attractions that we have there on the strip.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: That's family friendly.
• 29:52
  Sean McAllister: And speaking of museums, we also have the children's discovery museum, we have the Nevada State Museum, the natural history museum, so those are all great options for the family as well yeah, and springs preserve Some of the things on the strip.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: That would be great for kids.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: The high roller.
• 30:06
  Dayna Roselli: I did look and browse, I didn't get into specifics, but there are some family packages on there, so that could be something.
• 30:13
  Dayna Roselli: The link promenade is great.
• 30:15
  Dayna Roselli: Their family friendly restaurants there, there's tons of dessert shops like sugar stores, and they've got the zip line as well, depending on how old your kids are, which goes right over, you know, down the link and over toward the strip.
• 30:28
  Dayna Roselli: The shark reef aquarium at Mandalay Bay is always popular to and the roller coaster at New York, new York.
• 30:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and if if you are into the aquarium thing, off the strip at the Boulevard mall there's also sea quest, which is another aquatic sea life Activity, and inside the mall they've actually taken out a lot of stores and put in a big go cart track and there's mini golf in there, so that's a great option to yeah.
• 30:56
  Dayna Roselli: Battle bots.
• 30:57
  Dayna Roselli: Destruct a fun experience is the world's apparently first daily robot combat show and destruct a fun and this is over at the Caesar's entertainment studios.
• 31:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's kind of behind horseshoes, but I know actually a lot of adults that watch this on TV and you can go over there and bring the kids yeah, it's really popular.
• 31:16
  Sean McAllister: and who doesn't love a destruct?
• 31:18
  Sean McAllister: I know right.
• 31:21
  Dayna Roselli: Bilageo conservatory is always great for the kids to.
• 31:24
  Dayna Roselli: They like love to walk around and see all the different kind of you know flower displays that they have.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: They make them, you know, great displays.
• 31:30
  Dayna Roselli: In a lot of times, like during Christmas, you'll see the polar bears and stuff like that always some good pictures over there.
• 31:36
  Dayna Roselli: Excalibur's tournament of Kings is a great show because he was asking about shows to over there at the Excalibur and it's fun.
• 31:44
  Dayna Roselli: There's horses and live jousting and all that kind of thing.
• 31:47
  Sean McAllister: Excalibur also has a massive arcade, so you know before, after you go see the show, you can stop in and win some tickets and trade them in for a big stuffed animal, lucky.
• 31:59
  Dayna Roselli: And the kids like eating with their hands at the Kings to.
• 32:02
  Dayna Roselli: You get to eat like a big chicken leg and stuff.
• 32:04
  Dayna Roselli: Jabber walkies over at MGM grand.
• 32:06
  Dayna Roselli: You know they were voted best family show and best all ages show many times, so can't go wrong with that.
• 32:12
  Dayna Roselli: David Copperfield is family friendly, matt Franco, the magician, also family, family friendly.
• 32:18
  Dayna Roselli: And Matt King has been on the strip for a long time and he has a 3pm show at the Excalibur as well and I know families like that one.
• 32:26
  Sean McAllister: And if you have kids who are Marvel movie lovers, then they're absolutely going to love the Marvel Avengers station that's up there at Spring Mountain in Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: Kind of by fashion show mall.
• 32:40
  Sean McAllister: Also, we have a Hunger Games attraction.
• 32:42
  Sean McAllister: We have fly over Las Vegas, which, if you've been to the Disney parks and you've done soren, they're soren over California or they have a different soren experience.
• 32:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah they're in Florida.
• 32:54
  Sean McAllister: This is a very similar attraction, but very much updated right.
• 32:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, really cool.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: I know if you're looking for restaurants is a sugar factory at the corner of harman in las vegas boulevard, but really shine if you get the biggest near me up and I know this kind of ties in with our sponsor.
• 33:10
  Dayna Roselli: But seriously, we knew that they had things on there for kids but we actually went on and look through and look I put in like kids shows and all these shows are coming up.
• 33:21
  Dayna Roselli: You type in kids and all list of different kinds of categories come up kids, free, free attractions for kids.
• 33:29
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and it always has on there the ages that are allowed.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: You can put in their times and things close.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: So type in kids.
• 33:36
  Dayna Roselli: After you download the free vegas near me app, you don't gotta sign up, use your email, anything, and I'm telling you there's some great lists on there of attractions, restaurants, everything.
• 33:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you can.
• 33:46
  Sean McAllister: Also, there are filters that you can adjust within the vegas near me app, so so that attractions outside of kid activities won't even show up when you have that filter on, so it makes it.
• 34:00
  Sean McAllister: It's a really great resource To see that everything that's at your fingertips for your family when you're here to visit yeah, so hopefully I'm.
• 34:09
  Dayna Roselli: That gives you a little bit idea of adventure dome at circus.
• 34:12
  Dayna Roselli: Circus is a staple.
• 34:13
  Dayna Roselli: People say, oh, circus, circus, I don't know, you know, it's all it's like.
• 34:17
  Dayna Roselli: You know what, if you're a kid, you're gonna love the adventure dome.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: I was taken there when I was a kid.
• 34:20
  Dayna Roselli: I loved it well, there's the new sponge bob ride going in over there that's true, and listen, we are kids and we went over there and played the stuffed animal crane For like an hour.
• 34:29
  Dayna Roselli: Remember that we did.
• 34:31
  Dayna Roselli: It was great, alright, so that like it was a whole list of tips for family friendly activities, but now let's really do some tips.
• 34:42
  Dayna Roselli: Gosh, our podcast seems like we wanted to keep it shorter today, but looks like it's getting longer and longer so let's run through these tips, we got a great idea For folks that come into Las Vegas and might need a space to actually get some work done.
• 34:55
  Dayna Roselli: You know, sometimes you want to take a break, you want to go for a long weekend and that turns into you want to throw out A couple extra days in there.
• 35:02
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe you need to get some work done.
• 35:03
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we had someone write us with a tip and I love that again, more people are writing us to ideas at Vegas dash reveal dot com and we appreciate it.
• 35:11
  Dayna Roselli: This place is called the coop and it's a co working space and I asked can visitors go there?
• 35:18
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I know locals can use it and stuff.
• 35:20
  Sean McAllister: And they were like, yes, anybody can come and buy a day pass for twenty five bucks which is a great deal, and if you need a space outside of a hotel room or you know the hotel, the office facility that they have, sometimes you want to just sit down in a comfortable space, maybe grab some coffee, something like that, and this is a great place to do that yeah, and sometimes if you do go to a shop coffee shop that can be a little noisy to a lot of things going on.
• 35:45
  Dayna Roselli: So this is a great space if you need some quiet.
• 35:47
  Dayna Roselli: They said it includes strong internet, local coffee printing and community, so I love that right, it's called the coop, it's locally owned, it's a female business, which we love, and they have a location in summerland and south los vegas.
• 36:03
  Dayna Roselli: I let me give you the website.
• 36:05
  Dayna Roselli: The website is the coop, c o o p, co work dot com if you want to look more into it.
• 36:11
  Dayna Roselli: But great idea for those folks that need to get some work done and you don't want to be in the in the noisy lobby, you don't want to be in the noisy coffee shop and you just need to concentrate for for a while, or maybe even a full, like eight hour day.
• 36:22
  Dayna Roselli: You can do the day pass for twenty five bucks yeah, I like that.
• 36:25
  Sean McAllister: That's a good one, dana.
• 36:27
  Sean McAllister: Our next tip is about the Las Vegas monorail, and we always sing its praises.
• 36:31
  Sean McAllister: As a matter of fact, I was riding the monorail just last night yeah, you were to.
• 36:36
  Dayna Roselli: You met me over at the belogio.
• 36:37
  Dayna Roselli: You said I'm taking the monorail.
• 36:38
  Dayna Roselli: Would you take it to flamingo?
• 36:40
  Sean McAllister: I took it to flamingo station and walked across the street to belogio.
• 36:43
  Dayna Roselli: I love it okay well, now they're doing something that can actually save you even more money.
• 36:48
  Dayna Roselli: It's already cheap to buy your pass to ride the monorail.
• 36:51
  Dayna Roselli: What two bucks round trip For a local.
• 36:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, yeah, one dollar is a matter of fact, yeah, but now there is a show your ticket and save promotion going on.
• 37:00
  Sean McAllister: If you ride the monorail and show your ticket, there is a list of Las Vegas attractions that are gonna give you a break on the price of admission.
• 37:10
  Sean McAllister: Go down in our show notes.
• 37:11
  Sean McAllister: We have a link so you can check out all of the participating shows and attractions.
• 37:17
  Sean McAllister: It really is a good deal.
• 37:18
  Sean McAllister: The monorail is a great way to get around and this is even more incentive to ride the rail one, I think with you know all the construction happening out there.
• 37:27
  Dayna Roselli: Now they're really trying to push the monorail yeah you know, and this is such a great way to do that it gets people you know to need a reason To try something new.
• 37:38
  Sean McAllister: By the way, when I was talking with the girls at the monorail box office last night I I asked them.
• 37:43
  Sean McAllister: I said is there a longer term locals pass that you can get on the monorail?
• 37:49
  Sean McAllister: Because we always go and just get our, you know, one dollar each way Tickets?
• 37:54
  Sean McAllister: And she said yes, there's a twenty dollar ticket.
• 37:57
  Sean McAllister: You can buy to get twenty.
• 37:59
  Sean McAllister: Right, you can.
• 38:00
  Sean McAllister: If you use the monorail a lot, you can come back every ten days to get a new twenty ride Pass so there's there's two monorail tips for you yeah, that's really good.
• 38:12
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 38:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, this is really cool that they're doing.
• 38:14
  Dayna Roselli: It is called show your ticket and save again will have a link in our show notes, but you know, things like the high roller fly over.
• 38:20
  Dayna Roselli: Some of the things we've just mentioned on the family friendly list Are.
• 38:23
  Dayna Roselli: Those are some of the attractions that are offering some discounts on, so it's definitely worth it.
• 38:27
  Dayna Roselli: All right, that is it for episode one ninety one will be back with episode one ninety two that we're gonna shoot a little bit ahead of time cuz john and I are going out of town Hawaii for work for a few days, but we have a good one plan for you that we think you're gonna like and again, a big thank you to all of our sponsors.
• 38:45
  Sean McAllister: The vagus near me app it is free to download an apple and android devices, hotworks, infrared fitness studios and fray ranch whiskey.
• 38:54
  Dayna Roselli: That's right have a great week everyone.