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Cyber Attack on MGM Resorts, Interview with Aloe Blacc, Lady Gaga Jazz & Piano, Brian Newman After Dark, David Blaine, George Strait, Ed Sheeran Postpones Concert, Two Brunches on the Las Vegas Strip | Ep. 186 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's.
• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Episode 186 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: A cyber attack shuts down most IT operations for a major casino group.
• 0:08
  Sean McAllister: What we know and if your information could be at risk, then he's the man.
• 0:18
  Aloe Blacc: I'm the man, I'm the man, I'm the man.
• 0:21
  Dayna Roselli: Singer Aloe Blacc is our guest, why he's coming to town and why you should go see him, plus his take on Las Vegas and what he does when he visits.
• 0:30
  Aloe Blacc: I tell you, it's the shows.
• 0:31
  Aloe Blacc: You know, I'm not much of a gambler.
• 0:34
  Sean McAllister: And we attend Lady Gaga's Jazz and Piano Show at Park MGM.
• 0:38
  Sean McAllister: We also chat with her talented band leader, Brian Newman.
• 0:42
  Brian Newman: It's been amazing, you know, to be able to go from the stage with Gaga, the big stage, with a 30-piece orchestra with arrangements that me and my boys have written, you know, hear a band of that caliber play that kind of music right into our late night show with special guests and for less.
• 0:57
  Dayna Roselli: Plus some entertainment updates from George Strait to David Blaine.
• 1:02
  Sean McAllister: All that and a lot more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 1:05
  Dayna Roselli: Let's spin that wheel.
• 1:15
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas.
• 1:15
  Sean McAllister: Revealed episode 186.
• 1:17
  Sean McAllister: I'm Sean McAllister here, along with Dayna Roselli and Dana.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: It has been quite the week here in Las Vegas.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: Things just keep happening.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: Every time we're all peaceful and settled.
• 1:27
  Dayna Roselli: You know, like we had that whole monsoon thing the weekend before.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's like boom, busy weekend and busy week.
• 1:32
  Dayna Roselli: The week did not start off well for Las Vegas, well, really for MGM as a whole, because MGM obviously owns properties all across the country and this cybersecurity issue that happened has affected all the properties.
• 1:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, mgm Resorts International was impacted, is still being impacted, by what they're calling a cybersecurity issue, and it's something where almost immediately, as a preventative measure, they shut down most of the systems that are attached to online processes, which is pretty much everything we're talking.
• 2:11
  Sean McAllister: Credit cards, slot machines, reservations, even room keys are electronic now and connected to this network of information.
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: I just I feel for the staff.
• 2:26
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel for the people that want to gamble and can't get in their room.
• 2:29
  Dayna Roselli: I feel bad for everyone.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: It's a big issue and it affects everything, and it was so weird to go to their websites and look and like every single property in just MGM Resorts International as a whole.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: Their main website was just you know, nope, call us.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: We are not functioning at the moment and it lasted so long.
• 2:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean reservations being taken by phone, the old way of doing things.
• 2:53
  Sean McAllister: You know.
• 2:54
  Sean McAllister: People were being referred to external websites to buy tickets for things like Golden Knights games, that kind of thing.
• 3:03
  Sean McAllister: Slowly, it seems as though, as of our record time, MGM Resorts have been able to start getting things back online, but at the moment, the FBI and the Nevada Gaming Control Board are investigating this issue.
• 3:22
  Sean McAllister: As of this moment, we've not heard who is responsible for this and we have not heard how widespread the issue is.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: Right, and you know we are recording this actually very early in the week because we have some company coming in, so there are going to be changes.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: This is not up to the minute information, but pay attention to our socials MGM socials to make sure that you have the very latest on what's happening.
• 3:49
  Dayna Roselli: My email was part of a breach recently I want to say like a year and a half, two years ago and it said it was from an MGM website.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: So they gave me free identity protection for a year, which was great.
• 4:01
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't had any issues, but I'm sad to see something like this happen again.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: And we are seeing online that people are noticing on their statements like different kinds of charges from their bet MGM, but like, are you at risk?
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: We don't know.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: And of course again we're just seeing things like that on Twitter.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: It doesn't mean that it's confirmed.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: It could be someone just saying that I don't know.
• 4:21
  Sean McAllister: Well, their screenshots Right, and it's better to be safe than sorry at this point.
• 4:26
  Sean McAllister: If you are an MGM player, if you have stayed at an MGM property, if you are part of bet MGM, it's a good idea to go to your accounts, make sure everything looks okay, but also sign up for that monitoring service the identity theft monitoring and make sure that there are people out there looking out for you.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, I hope that this is cleared up by the time our podcast drops, because it's a headache for everyone wanting to either enjoy their vacation, book their vacation and then, of course, for all the staff and employees at MGM.
• 5:04
  Dayna Roselli: What a mess.
• 5:06
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, although it seems like it is a very broad issue impacting all of MGM resorts properties across the country, not just here in Las Vegas.
• 5:15
  Sean McAllister: So, yeah, we hope that the damage is minimized.
• 5:19
  Sean McAllister: The impact is small, that is the hope.
• 5:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, All right.
• 5:24
  Dayna Roselli: Well, before we continue on, we got a lot more to talk about.
• 5:26
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• 6:03
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• 6:06
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• 6:11
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• 6:13
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• 6:14
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• 6:18
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• 6:21
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• 6:24
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• 6:26
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• 6:32
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• 6:35
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• 6:39
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's get to Ed Sheeran.
• 6:42
  Dayna Roselli: He just caused quite a ruckus on the weekend in Vegas.
• 6:46
  Dayna Roselli: Right, he was performing over at Allegiant Stadium.
• 6:48
  Dayna Roselli: I was excited.
• 6:49
  Dayna Roselli: I was actually thinking like, should I go see Ed?
• 6:51
  Dayna Roselli: I think he's really good.
• 6:53
  Sean McAllister: You were even looking up tickets.
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: I was and I was like should I, shouldn't, I, shouldn't I?
• 6:56
  Dayna Roselli: And then we were kind of busy, but anyway, he had a line of people waiting out side of a legion stadium and ended up canceling the show very last minute.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: They couldn't let the crowds in because they were still kind of setting up the floor like the concert.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: What do you call it?
• 7:14
  Aloe Blacc: The stage.
• 7:15
  Brian Newman: The stage and then the rigging and all that.
• 7:18
  Dayna Roselli: And the different.
• 7:18
  Dayna Roselli: He has these like towers, that kind of lean, I don't know.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: They kind of look like almost like a guitar pick or something, but anyway.
• 7:23
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, they were still setting that up and they needed to, you know, make sure that it was done right.
• 7:28
  Dayna Roselli: So people were waiting outside for a very long time.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: It was a very hot day in here in Las Vegas, so that's where it all started.
• 7:34
  Dayna Roselli: People started sounding off like let us in.
• 7:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, and what ended up happening is it was a big safety issue and they could not let people in because, as that stage set up was going on, the staging was slipping on the floor inside Allegiant stadium, so it was a safety risk and they had to end up calling off the concert less than an hour before Ed Sheeran was set to take the stage and, of course, an entire arena full of people were waiting outside to get in.
• 8:08
  Sean McAllister: It was 100 degrees outside.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 8:11
  Sean McAllister: And there wasn't really a ton of shade for people to shelter in.
• 8:15
  Dayna Roselli: No, and you know you have to the bag requirements.
• 8:18
  Dayna Roselli: You have to only bring like a little bag or wallet, so people don't bring bottles of water with them really, and you also don't think you're going to be waiting in line that long.
• 8:26
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: So it really caused a lot of issues with you know people saying you know there's people feigning out here or people passing out, and I don't know to what extreme that that was.
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: Again, these are things that we hear on Twitter.
• 8:37
  Dayna Roselli: We talk about them, we report them, but we do not have complete confirmation.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: I don't want to be like there's dozens of people that fainted.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: Exactly, if they didn't is my point.
• 8:46
  Dayna Roselli: You know we were.
• 8:47
  Dayna Roselli: It's hearsay, it's what people are saying, that we're in line.
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: I probably believe them, but anyway, yeah.
• 8:54
  Dayna Roselli: So we were just saying, you know, it might be a good idea to have maybe some more vendors out front, just in case some Gatorade, some water People said there was water, but then at one point it got it was little cups at warm, and then they were selling water.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: I guess big bottles were like 10 bucks, but there was only like one area.
• 9:12
  Dayna Roselli: So you don't want to hop out of line, walk away.
• 9:14
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, it was a big, it was a big mess.
• 9:17
  Dayna Roselli: Ed Sheeran moved to show to October 28th, though, so you can still go see him.
• 9:20
  Sean McAllister: Yes, so that is the update for Ed Sheeran.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: Unfortunately, I know and you know, ed is just like people are sounding off on Ed.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: I think people understand that, but it's safety, it has nothing to do.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: He's the face of the show, right, it's his show.
• 9:33
  Sean McAllister: Well, he was there, he was ready to go on, he was ready.
• 9:35
  Sean McAllister: He was taking pictures with fans who were inside early for meet and greets.
• 9:39
  Sean McAllister: He even popped over and did a surprise for a couple who was getting married at one of the wedding chapels here in Las Vegas.
• 9:47
  Sean McAllister: So Ed was ready to go.
• 9:49
  Sean McAllister: But it was a safety issue with the staging that caused it, and when it's that kind of thing it's a no-go, it's a no-go and I was reading that he signed as a witness on that couple's.
• 9:58
  Aloe Blacc: Yeah, he did, and I love that.
• 10:00
  Aloe Blacc: Can you imagine that's great.
• 10:03
  Dayna Roselli: I hope they're fans of Ed Sheeran or like his music, you know.
• 10:05
  Sean McAllister: Well, they looked shocked the entire time that he was in there.
• 10:08
  Sean McAllister: The groom, the bride looked ecstatic and the groom looked like he had no idea what the hell was happening.
• 10:15
  Sean McAllister: It was kind of funny.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Ed took advantage, and apparently he's singing a new song that's coming out soon, so he took a little moment to also promote that.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, good, yeah, good for Ed.
• 10:26
  Sean McAllister: Hey, we have news on David Blaine.
• 10:28
  Sean McAllister: You may recall he had his residency over at Resorts World.
• 10:33
  Sean McAllister: That came to a close, but David Blaine is coming back to Vegas.
• 10:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he's going to be over at the Encore Theater at the Win Las Vegas, a little bit smaller than the Resorts World Theater, so it's going to be more of an intimate show and it's called David Blaine Impossible.
• 10:48
  Dayna Roselli: We wondered what happened with the Resorts World show and then now we were talking we're like, but it was really good and I feel like he has a place here in Las Vegas for continued shows.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: So we're glad to see he's going to be over at Encore.
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: I think the theater will obviously provide a very intimate experience like we mentioned and he's going to, you know, maybe change some things up, and I think it'll be great.
• 11:11
  Dayna Roselli: He's going to kick it off New Year's weekend, okay, so keep that in mind.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: A bunch of shows that weekend, and then he has 12 dates announced through May 11th, so you have plenty of chances to see David Blaine over at Win Las Vegas.
• 11:26
  Sean McAllister: Old habits are hard to break, aren't they?
• 11:28
  Sean McAllister: Another entertainer who we become very familiar with here in Las Vegas is country icon George Strait.
• 11:37
  Sean McAllister: He had his Straight to Vegas residency for a long time over at T-Mobile Arena.
• 11:44
  Sean McAllister: That came to a close, but we just got word that he's coming back with a super-sized show.
• 11:50
  Sean McAllister: This one is a touring show, though.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and he's going to be with Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town, so it sounds like it's going to be incredible.
• 11:58
  Dayna Roselli: George Strait's tickets go on sale September 22nd for the Allegiant Stadium show.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: This show is not till December 7th of 2024, though, so keep that in mind, plan ahead.
• 12:09
  Sean McAllister: But he sells quick.
• 12:10
  Sean McAllister: Oh, he sold out every single show at T-Mobile Arena.
• 12:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's going to be great, and so if you want to get George tickets with Chris Stapleton with Little Big Town Straight to Vegas they're calling it like Times 10 at Allegiant Stadium Make sure you do that.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets go on sale September 22nd.
• 12:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's going to be a great show, and aside from the stars that we see performing up and down the Las Vegas Strip in residency and touring shows, there are some other celebrity performances that kind of fly under the radar because these stars are performing at nonprofit and charity galas across Southern Nevada.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: So there's one coming up on October 13th and it's the University Medical Center Foundation's Evening of Hope Gala.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: This is the second year they're doing this and it's going to be anchored by the talents of Tony winner Adina Menzel and also Grammy nominated artist Aloe Blacc, who we just absolutely love.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: So we said we got to get Alo on the phone.
• 13:09
  Dayna Roselli: Can we make it happen?
• 13:10
  Dayna Roselli: And we did.
• 13:11
  Sean McAllister: And we did so.
• 13:12
  Sean McAllister: We talked to Aloe Blacc about why he signed on to perform at this benefit show and his love for all things Vegas.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: Hey Aloe, thanks for joining us.
• 13:22
  Aloe Blacc: Thank you, have a good day here.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: Listen.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: We were just listening to a few of your songs and thinking this guy needs a Vegas residency Bad.
• 13:31
  Aloe Blacc: We need a bad.
• 13:32
  Aloe Blacc: I would so love to do that.
• 13:35
  Aloe Blacc: The Vegas shows are my favorite, favorite part of going to Vegas.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, listen, you have just the charisma and the voice and the feel of what Vegas needs.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: So we hope.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: We hope to see you doing a permanent residency eventually, but for now, you're going to be in town for a very important cause.
• 13:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's the UMC Evening of Hope benefiting the UMC Children's Hospital.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: What do you have planned for this performance?
• 14:03
  Sean McAllister: And obviously it's such a big, important night for the Children's Hospital here too.
• 14:09
  Aloe Blacc: Absolutely Well.
• 14:09
  Aloe Blacc: For me, performing and entertaining is what I love and I want to make sure that the audience feels motivated, inspired, and they feel joy and they feel like their hearts can give a little bit more to this.
• 14:23
  Aloe Blacc: You know the critical, life saving care provided by UMC.
• 14:25
  Aloe Blacc: That's really what I want to make them dance, sing, clap their hands and empty their pockets, basically.
• 14:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah Well, listen, we do have so many, you know, headliners in Las Vegas, but it's nice to have talent hit the stage that you can't see currently every weekend on the strip.
• 14:41
  Dayna Roselli: So why did you take part in this?
• 14:43
  Dayna Roselli: Why did you decide to take part in this?
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: Is it something that's near and dear to your heart?
• 14:47
  Aloe Blacc: So, yeah, when I signed a deal, I knew that I wanted to use music for positive social transformation, any opportunity that I can get to sing, you know, in honor of the people who are doing great work for children, for communities, I'm going to be there.
• 15:03
  Sean McAllister: And, obviously, as an artist, being up on stage sharing your work, seeing the feedback from the audience while you're up there that's always a great thing, but is it even more special when there is a cause behind what you're doing?
• 15:19
  Aloe Blacc: Absolutely.
• 15:20
  Aloe Blacc: It makes it so much more special.
• 15:22
  Aloe Blacc: I think about artists like Bono, for instance, who uses his voice in that way.
• 15:28
  Aloe Blacc: Lady Gaga does this really, really spectacularly.
• 15:31
  Aloe Blacc: Throughout her career, she's always been championing causes, and so when you know that you're entertaining an audience, that's one thing, but when you know you're doing it and the money that is being raised is going to help the lives of the most vulnerable, it adds the cherry on top.
• 15:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, yeah, it's a good thing to be doing.
• 15:50
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, I love the theme too.
• 15:52
  Dayna Roselli: It's the big apple to Las Vegas.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: And have you worked with Edina Menzel before?
• 15:56
  Aloe Blacc: You know what?
• 15:56
  Aloe Blacc: I've never worked with Edina Menzel before.
• 15:59
  Aloe Blacc: I feel like, though, we are probably kindred spirits, because my kids have been singing her songs for years, and now I pretty much have every lyric memorized.
• 16:11
  Brian Newman: You're going to have to whip out your phone.
• 16:14
  Aloe Blacc: Absolutely.
• 16:15
  Aloe Blacc: It's going to make me a cool dad.
• 16:17
  Sean McAllister: You know that, or is there going to be any payback for constantly having those lyrics running through your head?
• 16:24
  Aloe Blacc: No, not at all.
• 16:25
  Aloe Blacc: I mean, she's a brilliant singer, performer, artist, writer.
• 16:30
  Aloe Blacc: I think that it's going to be a great show.
• 16:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, listen, and you have so many hits and you were just saying you do love Vegas shows.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: So what do you like about Las Vegas, anything you do when you visit here?
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: Have you seen any shows here recently that you enjoy you want to share with our listeners?
• 16:46
  Aloe Blacc: Yeah, just last month, my wife and I played hooky from parenting and gave the kids this my mom is the sitter.
• 16:54
  Aloe Blacc: We went to go see Adele at Cedars Palace.
• 16:56
  Aloe Blacc: A few months I think it was late last year, I can't remember exactly I went to go see Imagine Dragons at the Dolby Live.
• 17:02
  Aloe Blacc: Oh yeah, Got some tickets and planning to go see the O at the Bellagio.
• 17:09
  Aloe Blacc: It's been on text messaging and emailing back and forth with Formula One, trying to figure out when I can go check out one of their shows, maybe even perform while they're there.
• 17:21
  Aloe Blacc: What I want to see is it's usher, but my wife says no, she needs to go with her friends.
• 17:26
  Aloe Blacc: So there's that.
• 17:29
  Aloe Blacc: I tell you, it's the shows.
• 17:31
  Aloe Blacc: I'm not much of a gambler.
• 17:33
  Aloe Blacc: I have friends out there who are also musicians Steve Aoki and people who perform and do night clubs.
• 17:42
  Aloe Blacc: Other than that, though, it's mainly going to the concerts.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I love that.
• 17:47
  Sean McAllister: So are you looking forward to F1 then?
• 17:49
  Sean McAllister: I mean, obviously that's going to take over Las Vegas.
• 17:53
  Sean McAllister: You want to be here for that?
• 17:55
  Aloe Blacc: Absolutely.
• 17:56
  Aloe Blacc: I'm trying to, honestly, looking at my schedule, which ones are going to be the most convenient for me to be at, and so I want to check it out.
• 18:05
  Aloe Blacc: I'm fascinated about process.
• 18:07
  Aloe Blacc: So how did you shut down a city like Vegas to make this happen?
• 18:12
  Sean McAllister: We're curious about that too.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: We know there's a lot of construction right now, but we're getting through it.
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: We're getting through it.
• 18:20
  Dayna Roselli: It's looking amazing.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's going to be really cool, awesome.
• 18:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, hey, what are you working on right now?
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: What do you got going?
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: We were just listening to some of your music.
• 18:29
  Aloe Blacc: Look, I'm always making songs and in the next few days actually seven days I'm releasing a song called Never Let you Down.
• 18:36
  Aloe Blacc: It's a song that I wrote, inspired by the great work of Big Brothers, big Sisters of America.
• 18:42
  Aloe Blacc: This is the kind of project that I'm doing.
• 18:45
  Aloe Blacc: Next, every song is inspired by a nonprofit organization that is doing massively positive work for the community, for youth and just to uplift Americans and people around the world.
• 18:57
  Aloe Blacc: So I've got a long list of nonprofit organizations and if you guys know of more, please send them my way.
• 19:04
  Aloe Blacc: I'm adding everything into consideration and I want to keep doing this for those of my career.
• 19:09
  Aloe Blacc: I love that.
• 19:10
  Aloe Blacc: That's amazing.
• 19:10
  Aloe Blacc: Yeah, that is great.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: What a great idea and how inspiring.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: I want more music to be inspired and more emotion.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I'm not saying music right now isn't good, but when you hear a good song and you feel it, it really I don't know it sticks out more than ever to me.
• 19:29
  Dayna Roselli: It just feels like there's a big pool of music out there that I don't know.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's not hit and write.
• 19:37
  Aloe Blacc: I got you, I got you.
• 19:38
  Aloe Blacc: I think a lot of what works is kind of the sex, drugs, rock and roll, violence and that kind of thing.
• 19:45
  Aloe Blacc: But I think to balance the darkness there needs to be light, and so artists like myself, I look at Bill Withers and Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.
• 19:53
  Aloe Blacc: Those are my heroes from the past and I want to keep that light shining.
• 19:57
  Aloe Blacc: So here I am trying to do the best I can and at the same time glean the stories from organizations that could use the visibility, the amplification and magnify those stories, the more people will donate and get involved.
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah Well, that's such an amazing thing.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: Thank you for doing that with your career and also for helping out Southern Nevada UMC Children's Hospital at the Evening of Hope.
• 20:20
  Sean McAllister: Expected to raise a million dollars at the Gala coming up here.
• 20:25
  Sean McAllister: So only a million.
• 20:27
  Aloe Blacc: I mean that's the baseline.
• 20:29
  Aloe Blacc: We're going to go to the back.
• 20:30
  Aloe Blacc: Come on, that's a starting point A starting point.
• 20:35
  Dayna Roselli: We've got Ella Black there.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, we're going over a million.
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: That's the goal.
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: That's the goal.
• 20:39
  Sean McAllister: Let's see five 10.
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: What do you want it to be?
• 20:41
  Sean McAllister: What's the goal?
• 20:43
  Aloe Blacc: I want to have to sing.
• 20:44
  Aloe Blacc: I need a dollar, dollar, dollar.
• 20:46
  Aloe Blacc: This what I need.
• 20:47
  Aloe Blacc: I'm going to have to make push it up to 10 million dollars.
• 20:51
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 20:51
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 20:52
  Sean McAllister: Keep raising the bar.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: Well, everyone can get their tickets to see Ella Black at the fundraiser that's coming up here and I know it's going to be a great time.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: Where can we get this new song that's coming out?
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: No-transcript.
• 21:07
  Aloe Blacc: Yes, I'm absolutely going to, just, you know, push it in every direction.
• 21:12
  Aloe Blacc: It'll be available on all the platforms and I'm trying to get to as many people as possible because the work of these, this particular Organization, big brothers, big sisters is amazing.
• 21:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, definitely listen L.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks so much for joining us.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: We hope to see you in Vegas outside of this fundraiser hanging out, and maybe we'll see you live on the strip sometime soon.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we can't wait to announce your residency.
• 21:35
  Aloe Blacc: Yes, thank you.
• 21:36
  Aloe Blacc: I'm looking forward to that too.
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: We broke her that deal.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: Do we get like a little commission or what Not?
• 21:42
  Aloe Blacc: a little commission.
• 21:43
  Aloe Blacc: We're gonna, we're gonna work on a handsome gift.
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: We're at work right now.
• 21:50
  Sean McAllister: We're sending text messages as we speak.
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, have a beautiful day.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for joining us and taking the time appreciate it, man.
• 21:58
  Aloe Blacc: Thank you, thank you.
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: Great conversation with alo black.
• 22:02
  Dayna Roselli: Love him, such a fun guy to talk to.
• 22:05
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are available.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go to this gala, it's UMCSN, so think southern Nevada comm, umcsn, comm.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: If you'd like to go again, it is on October 13th.
• 22:17
  Sean McAllister: I'd love to see him become a headliner.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that would be great.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: Another headliner who we just had the pleasure of seeing is Lady Gaga.
• 22:27
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: She heard jazz and piano show I have heard about for a very long time.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: I never was able to make it over there, so it was my first time seeing it and let me tell you she blew me away.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: I expected it to be good.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: I saw her other show.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: What was it?
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: A nigma a nigma.
• 22:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was great too and I loved it, but you know she blew me away.
• 22:46
  Dayna Roselli: It was better than I even expected.
• 22:48
  Dayna Roselli: I loved even the videos.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: In between her outfit changes I learned something.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: I thought they were so cool, well done.
• 22:56
  Dayna Roselli: It was such a throwback Vegas show with a little bit of edge, a little bit of emotion.
• 23:00
  Dayna Roselli: It was funny and I just thought it was fabulous and the band and the orchestra was amazing and people dressed up for it.
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: Oh yeah it was an occasion to go and see Lady Gaga's jazz and piano her outfits were spectacular as well incredible.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and the covers that she did.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: She made them her own but they were still like they didn't bother you.
• 23:21
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes when people do covers of certain songs Old Vegas songs You're like didn't quite hit right right.
• 23:26
  Dayna Roselli: Lady Gaga does it right.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: It was fabulous.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, she's phenomenal.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: So was her entire Band that she has up there live performers backing her up there on that stage.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: So it's just that big band orchestra kind of vibe and it's fantastic.
• 23:42
  Dayna Roselli: That band, by the way, is led by her Long-time friend and incredible musician, a Brian Newman and if you're watching our video podcast, you can see him up there on stage with Lady Gaga.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: He was incredible.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: He's got his own show called Brian Newman after dark, that he does after Lady Gaga's show at the Nomad Library.
• 24:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is a late night show.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: It doesn't start until at least 1130 at night, so you need to plan on that.
• 24:11
  Sean McAllister: But we're like you know what?
• 24:12
  Sean McAllister: We need to get Brian on the line, have a good chat with him about his experience bringing this old Entertainment vibe back to the strip.
• 24:22
  Sean McAllister: Well, brian, welcome back to Vegas.
• 24:24
  Sean McAllister: It's good to see you, man.
• 24:26
  Brian Newman: Thank you so much, john.
• 24:27
  Brian Newman: I'm so happy to be back in Vegas.
• 24:29
  Brian Newman: We love, we love it here.
• 24:30
  Brian Newman: It's such a dream come true.
• 24:31
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's so much fun and I know you just got done doing a bunch of shows, so tell me how have they gone so far?
• 24:38
  Brian Newman: It's been amazing you know me to be able to go from the stage with Gaga, the big stage, with a 30-piece orchestra, with arrangements that that me and my Boys have written, in a hero band of that caliber, play that kind of music Right into our late night show with special guests and burlesque and Angie Pontani and all these beautiful things.
• 24:56
  Brian Newman: It's really been a dream come true.
• 24:57
  Brian Newman: I know I don't, I don't say that likely, you know it's it's.
• 25:00
  Brian Newman: I've been wanting to be here my whole life.
• 25:01
  Brian Newman: It's, it's.
• 25:02
  Brian Newman: It's really an amazing thing to do this kind of music in this kind of setting in this beautiful city.
• 25:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, and not only are you here, but you've been here for the last few years doing your after dark show and I mean it's such a great vibe.
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: It's that late night vibe like you mentioned.
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: You have special guests who show up and it definitely is a nod to like what Vegas used to be that late night show where you never knew who was gonna pop up on stage together.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: That was a deliberate thing to do, right, to keep the history alive there.
• 25:38
  Brian Newman: Yeah, for sure, I mean.
• 25:39
  Brian Newman: I mean, I like I love this town.
• 25:40
  Brian Newman: There is so many people musician, singers, dancers that are that are always coming through Vegas, and to be able to pull from a whole city of Greatness like that, it's just, it's amazing, it's really, it's really amazing, it's.
• 25:53
  Brian Newman: It is like that you know Frank Sinatra's playing the main room at the sands and then you got Louis Prima and Keely Smith in the lounge and and that's good.
• 26:00
  Brian Newman: That was kind of the model, you know, I think, kind of the model that after dark has been since.
• 26:03
  Brian Newman: Since I started after dark in 2005 in New York.
• 26:06
  Brian Newman: You know, you know, so we've been doing this show a long time, but to be in Vegas, to have the budget to have the show girls, to have everything, it's really awesome.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's really awesome things you know, I was sitting there when I was watching your show.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: I was thinking, god, he must be exhausted.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: He just did a full show on stage At the park MGM that took a quick break and came over to the Nomad and puts on this fabulous high energy show.
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's got to be tiring.
• 26:30
  Brian Newman: It is a little tiring but at the same time, like I don't my wife calls it like like Vegas, super natural chops, you know, like I don't know, I'm here, I get in the zone and I'm just like I'm ready to go.
• 26:40
  Brian Newman: Like right after we get off Stage with Gaga, I go upstairs, I crack open a Budweiser, put my suit on, change out of my tuxedo into my suit and then I warm my voice up and then we go right down and do the show of midnight around 11, 30 or 12 at the Nomad.
• 26:53
  Brian Newman: So it's like I don't know I'm ready to go.
• 26:54
  Brian Newman: You know I'm ready to go.
• 26:57
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's got to be one of those things, too, where you need to just like keep going power through, otherwise it's like your energy.
• 27:04
  Sean McAllister: It's like if I have a super long day, I can't take a nap, otherwise that like drains me and I can't keep going.
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: But if I just like push through, it's like come on, come on, the energy just keeps flowing.
• 27:17
  Brian Newman: Exactly exactly.
• 27:18
  Brian Newman: Coffee, beer, champagne, whatever, whatever gets you through.
• 27:20
  Brian Newman: You know whatever gets you through.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's fun too.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: But listen, you play so many shows in New York City regularly.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's a regular thing for you there.
• 27:28
  Dayna Roselli: I'm just curious what's the difference between, like New York City Well shows and also the crowd there compared to Las Vegas?
• 27:35
  Dayna Roselli: There's got to be some some clear differences.
• 27:38
  Brian Newman: Yeah, definitely, me and the boys talk about it all the time.
• 27:41
  Brian Newman: I've been with the same band for a lot of the guys over 20 years and we played all over the world and I feel like New York is like I don't know.
• 27:49
  Brian Newman: It's like you're in the batter's box, like swinging with the rings on the bat.
• 27:53
  Brian Newman: You know like you're warming up and you're warming up, and then when you get to Vegas or anywhere else, it's like taking the weight off the bats and just swinging for the fences and it really makes a big difference to be somewhere else.
• 28:08
  Brian Newman: New York is amazing and it is like practice for the big time.
• 28:13
  Brian Newman: The crowds are a little bit tougher.
• 28:15
  Brian Newman: They've seen it all.
• 28:16
  Brian Newman: You know what I mean, but then when we come out to Vegas, it's like something new for them.
• 28:20
  Brian Newman: It's something new, it's something like fresh, it's something different.
• 28:23
  Brian Newman: But yeah, they're both beautiful places to play and we love playing everywhere.
• 28:30
  Sean McAllister: And being here in Las Vegas and talking about crowds, there has been kind of an ongoing conversation about what is the proper etiquette for people in the audience.
• 28:41
  Sean McAllister: So I'm curious from a performer's point of view, like do you like to see people standing on their feet, you know, really having the energy go through them?
• 28:52
  Sean McAllister: Or you know there's been talk of people like oh, when you go to a Vegas show you need to stay in your seat and have it be more of a show.
• 29:01
  Sean McAllister: The difference between a show and a concert.
• 29:04
  Brian Newman: Yeah, no, yeah, yeah, sean.
• 29:06
  Brian Newman: I mean like I want everybody to get up.
• 29:08
  Brian Newman: You know what I mean.
• 29:08
  Brian Newman: Like concerts good, but at the end of the day, I'm an entertainer and I want the people to feel good.
• 29:13
  Brian Newman: I want them to leaving that concert feeling like they saw something different that took them out of their lives for their problems not problems, but you know, everybody's got their things.
• 29:23
  Brian Newman: I want people to forget about that and just be in the moment and, yes, I want them on their feet, I want them standing up, dancing whatever they want to do.
• 29:31
  Brian Newman: It's cool with me.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: You know, concert schmonzer you know, yeah, yeah, well, we can imagine.
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: We were at a show recently where everyone was seated and they were enjoying the show, but it just didn't feel.
• 29:42
  Dayna Roselli: You know, every now and then you need everyone to just stand up and immerse themselves in it.
• 29:47
  Dayna Roselli: That's what I feel like I would want, but I'm not on stage.
• 29:50
  Dayna Roselli: So we were curious and I know each show is probably different.
• 29:53
  Dayna Roselli: It depends, maybe what kind of show you're doing.
• 29:56
  Brian Newman: Yeah, and it depends on, like, what's going on.
• 29:58
  Brian Newman: Like last night we had I don't know if you guys know Sky D Miles, the wonderful singing singing Sean Toos oh, me too.
• 30:04
  Brian Newman: She's one of my favorite singers, man and she came and sang with us last night and she had the whole crowd up.
• 30:10
  Brian Newman: You know it was like that.
• 30:11
  Brian Newman: And then she had a five minute standing ovation after she sang Girl Crush, which is one of my favorite songs that she does.
• 30:17
  Brian Newman: But you know, she has that tech, she has that capability to just get everybody up and get them into the moment.
• 30:23
  Brian Newman: And that's what this music is about.
• 30:26
  Brian Newman: It's the Great American Songbook, whether it's a 100 year old song or a song that's by Nirvana, that's only 30 years old.
• 30:32
  Brian Newman: Like it's like these songs can get people up, can get people out and get people interested.
• 30:39
  Brian Newman: You know we don't have to change the content to make it accessible for everybody.
• 30:42
  Sean McAllister: You know, I just had a shock to my system when you said that a Nirvana song was 30 years old.
• 30:48
  Brian Newman: I know, I know what the hell is up with that.
• 30:50
  Brian Newman: I think like maybe some of them are 35, some of them are early ones.
• 30:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, man, that is crazy I love it.
• 30:58
  Brian Newman: But like you said, sean, that's part of the American lexicon of American music.
• 31:01
  Brian Newman: You know, to me that's just as much of an American song as called Porter or George Gershwin.
• 31:08
  Brian Newman: You know these are songs that are great.
• 31:11
  Brian Newman: Anyway, dana, I'm sorry to interrupt.
• 31:14
  Dayna Roselli: No, no, it's OK.
• 31:15
  Dayna Roselli: No, and I was just thinking you're right.
• 31:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and that's the great thing, it's the different arrangements you do of all this, everyone, you know, it's just so great to hear people actually taking older songs and making new arrangements and making it new again.
• 31:26
  Dayna Roselli: And I feel like you know you do that a lot.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: What about working with Lady Gaga?
• 31:30
  Dayna Roselli: How is that?
• 31:31
  Dayna Roselli: I'm sure a lot of listeners want to know.
• 31:33
  Brian Newman: Oh man, it's really the best.
• 31:35
  Brian Newman: I mean, like I said earlier, to be able to play this kind of music on stage with her and this beautiful 30-piece orchestra.
• 31:43
  Brian Newman: It's just incredible and she's amazing to work with.
• 31:46
  Brian Newman: And I'm not just saying that, you know, she just really cares about the music, she cares about the people that are involved, she cares about her team.
• 31:53
  Brian Newman: You know, it's not just the 30 musicians on stage that makes this happen.
• 31:56
  Brian Newman: It's the 50 or 100 other stage hands and producers and I mean sorry production managers and all that kind of stuff that really make this thing work.
• 32:06
  Brian Newman: And her level of commitment to all of us is unheard of in this industry.
• 32:11
  Brian Newman: I think you know what I mean.
• 32:12
  Brian Newman: She really cares and in turn, that makes us really care about what we're doing, you know.
• 32:18
  Brian Newman: So my goal as band leader and arranger and orchestrator for this show is to give her a better rose, is to lie in so that she can sing whatever she wants to sing and feel comfortable and feel happy, and the same thing for the audience.
• 32:32
  Brian Newman: You know, it's really a tremendous thing to be able to work with her over these past.
• 32:37
  Brian Newman: Tammy and I she said on stage last night we met when we were 19,.
• 32:40
  Brian Newman: When she was 19.
• 32:41
  Brian Newman: I mean, that was a long time ago, you know.
• 32:45
  Brian Newman: So we've been playing and hanging out together for a really long time.
• 32:48
  Brian Newman: So it's crazy to me to be able to I gotta pinch myself sometimes.
• 32:53
  Brian Newman: It's not lost on the blue collar kid from Cleveland, you know what I mean Like this is something very special to be doing in New York and honestly, I don't think there's been an act that's done what she's done in this town since Frank Sinatra.
• 33:05
  Brian Newman: You know just with the orchestrations and the way the show's presented, it's heavy man, it's straight to the wall.
• 33:14
  Brian Newman: You know what I mean.
• 33:14
  Brian Newman: We're not pulling any punches.
• 33:18
  Sean McAllister: Well, we're glad that you are back with Lady Gaga and Jazz and Piano over at Park MGM and glad that After Dark is still going strong in the Nomad Library.
• 33:31
  Sean McAllister: It's a great time.
• 33:32
  Sean McAllister: Can't wait to be back over and see you, man.
• 33:35
  Brian Newman: Yeah, thank you so much, tina.
• 33:37
  Brian Newman: Sean, thank you so much for having me.
• 33:38
  Brian Newman: This has been amazing, always good to talk to you guys and I hope, I hope, we let you know if you guys want to come out.
• 33:43
  Brian Newman: Come out to the show.
• 33:44
  Dayna Roselli: We will, we will, we'll be there.
• 33:46
  Brian Newman: We'll take a nap first, but we'll be there.
• 33:48
  Brian Newman: Yeah, I'll put you on the list.
• 33:49
  Brian Newman: I'll put you on the list.
• 33:51
  Dayna Roselli: Love it, Brian.
• 33:52
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks so much.
• 33:53
  Brian Newman: Oh, thank you so much, guys.
• 33:54
  Brian Newman: Thanks Tina, thanks Sean, thanks Vegas LA.
• 33:57
  Brian Newman: Have a good time, guys.
• 33:58
  Brian Newman: Thank you.
• 33:59
  Dayna Roselli: So, yeah, we highly recommend both shows, lady Gaga and Brian Newman After Dark.
• 34:04
  Sean McAllister: Such a good time, let's do some tips.
• 34:07
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
• 34:11
  Dayna Roselli: All right, Sean, this is something you discovered recently and you went hey, did you know?
• 34:15
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought well, let's let everyone else know.
• 34:18
  Sean McAllister: So Lupo is a restaurant over at Mandalay Bay.
• 34:22
  Sean McAllister: If you've been to Las Vegas any time in the last 25 years, you've seen it at Mandalay Bay.
• 34:29
  Sean McAllister: It's a Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
• 34:31
  Sean McAllister: Well, Lupo is now closed and I was sad to hear that because I've been there so many times and it's always a great spot.
• 34:40
  Sean McAllister: But the good news is that it's making way for a new Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
• 34:46
  Sean McAllister: It's called Carama.
• 34:48
  Sean McAllister: It's expected to open in January of 2024.
• 34:52
  Sean McAllister: So just in time for Super Bowl to be held here.
• 34:54
  Sean McAllister: Good, and this is also an Italian restaurant, but it's inspired by Wolfgang Puck's mother, who was a pastry chef and who really inspired him to break into the culinary world.
• 35:06
  Dayna Roselli: Right, I love that and I'm so glad that, Wolf, this space is just going to be another Wolfgang Puck restaurant.
• 35:13
  Brian Newman: Yes, absolutely Because.
• 35:14
  Dayna Roselli: I love his restaurants and we have a few of them here in town, but I feel like we need more.
• 35:20
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm happy that there's gonna be another, you know, replaced Wolfgang puck Restaurant.
• 35:25
  Dayna Roselli: That's gonna go in there because, you're right, lupo has just been there forever.
• 35:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's just a staple.
• 35:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and so this Karama is supposed to have different stations inside.
• 35:34
  Sean McAllister: There's going to be a pastry bar In there as well.
• 35:37
  Sean McAllister: So a lot of Italian classics.
• 35:40
  Sean McAllister: He grew up kind of on the Austria Italy border so he was very close to Italy Growing up before he moved to France, so a lot of this is the inspiration from his childhood.
• 35:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, which will be neat to see.
• 35:55
  Dayna Roselli: He's so cool.
• 35:56
  Sean McAllister: He's the best.
• 35:57
  Dayna Roselli: I interviewed him this year on the red carpet for the Keep Memory alive Gala and we met him poolside at the.
• 36:04
  Dayna Roselli: Venetian for a dining.
• 36:06
  Dayna Roselli: It was like a nighttime dining event Remember.
• 36:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 36:09
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 36:09
  Dayna Roselli: There was a line of people to meet Wolfgang.
• 36:11
  Dayna Roselli: He was like just chillin there with like a glass of red wine.
• 36:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right, I'll take my picture.
• 36:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we, you know I remember to eat your vegetables.
• 36:19
  Dayna Roselli: He's great.
• 36:21
  Dayna Roselli: He is great, so I'm glad that that will be replaced with another Wolfgang restaurant.
• 36:25
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's talk more restaurants.
• 36:27
  Dayna Roselli: So you and I went to a brunch on Saturday and Sunday.
• 36:31
  Dayna Roselli: It was a brunch weekend.
• 36:32
  Dayna Roselli: It was a brunch weekend.
• 36:33
  Dayna Roselli: We want to tell you about the Casa Playa brunch over at Win-Loss Vegas.
• 36:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's actually in the encore side, but they are doing a new weekend brunch.
• 36:41
  Dayna Roselli: They normally open just for dinner at 5 30.
• 36:43
  Dayna Roselli: So they said you know what we're gonna do, a Saturday brunch, and this is 10 30 to 2 30 and it's gonna be priced at 84 99 per Guest.
• 36:52
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind.
• 36:53
  Dayna Roselli: But you get a menu in front of you and you can order whatever you want off of it.
• 36:58
  Sean McAllister: And it's all you can eat.
• 36:59
  Sean McAllister: All you can eat, and they're the stakin eggs.
• 37:02
  Sean McAllister: Even if you went in ordered all the stakin eggs that you could eat, I Mean that would be worth it.
• 37:11
  Dayna Roselli: And then the, the I'm gonna call it taco bar, but I know there's a fancier name for it was amazing.
• 37:17
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the woman there was like taking the corn, you know dough, and like flattening it and then putting it on at this this round Thing.
• 37:26
  Dayna Roselli: That heated it up and you were like watching your tortilla Made right in front of you.
• 37:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah that was really cool.
• 37:33
  Dayna Roselli: And then all the the meats that they had there as well.
• 37:36
  Sean McAllister: There was not a single thing on that menu that was not bursting with flavor.
• 37:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, including the bar of Agua frescas, that they had different flavored waters that come Included in the in the price of the meal.
• 37:53
  Sean McAllister: Again, unlimited refills.
• 37:55
  Sean McAllister: It was just delicious.
• 37:58
  Dayna Roselli: It really was delicious.
• 37:59
  Dayna Roselli: Our server was amazing and so knowledgeable.
• 38:01
  Dayna Roselli: She was wonderful as well.
• 38:03
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you have like a Bloody Mary.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, what was that?
• 38:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um espresso drink you had at the end, oh it was um oh, I don't remember the name of it, but it was there.
• 38:13
  Dayna Roselli: It was like a.
• 38:14
  Sean McAllister: Mexican version of an espresso martini.
• 38:17
  Sean McAllister: Okay and she was like if you want an espresso martini, I'm gonna bring you what we make here because it's delicious.
• 38:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and she was not wrong.
• 38:27
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 38:28
  Dayna Roselli: So the Casa playa brunch is Saturdays and Sundays.
• 38:31
  Dayna Roselli: Keep that in mind if you want to go check it out.
• 38:34
  Dayna Roselli: There was a big long line for encore Beach Club, next to us.
• 38:36
  Dayna Roselli: Oh boy so maybe you want to go there and then.
• 38:39
  Sean McAllister: Or if you stick around long enough, you can see people stumbling out of encore Beach.
• 38:43
  Sean McAllister: That's, that's the real people watching right there.
• 38:46
  Sean McAllister: On Sunday we had another brunch date over at flanker sports bar and kitchen.
• 38:52
  Sean McAllister: This is over at Mandalay Bay.
• 38:55
  Sean McAllister: They have rolled out their own game day brunch.
• 38:58
  Sean McAllister: And, of course, sunday is well, saturday and Sunday, both big game days college on Saturday, nfl on Sunday and now you can go in and get brunch over there at flanker and root on your favorite teams.
• 39:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I highly recommend the crab and spinach dip.
• 39:14
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious, that was really good.
• 39:16
  Dayna Roselli: But what a great spot you know it was.
• 39:18
  Dayna Roselli: It was a great vibe, you know, light, low lights, which I loved all the game screens just lit up, everyone be able to watch literally any Area or corner you wanted to look.
• 39:30
  Dayna Roselli: You could get whatever game that you wanted to watch or keep an eye on, or maybe you want to Keep an eye on all of them.
• 39:34
  Sean McAllister: Well, it was funny.
• 39:35
  Sean McAllister: As we were sitting there having our meal, you could hear like different groups of people around the restaurant be like oh yeah.
• 39:43
  Sean McAllister: And you have to look up and be like, oh wait, what just happened?
• 39:46
  Sean McAllister: What game is?
• 39:47
  Sean McAllister: What game is the action happening?
• 39:48
  Dayna Roselli: on Right, right, yeah, it's right near Allegiant Stadium in Mandalay Bay, so it's right there in that sports you know District or whatever, and so it's gonna be a great Spot for when we have home games to.
• 40:00
  Dayna Roselli: If you can't go to the game and you just kind of want to be around the energy, I think that'll be great, and then obviously just really any day for for sports.
• 40:09
  Dayna Roselli: And the sports book next door was was busy too.
• 40:11
  Sean McAllister: Oh, it was packed.
• 40:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we're pulling chairs from the the gaming tables out on the casino floor and setting them up.
• 40:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, to look into the sports book and watch the game right, so true, and you know I liked flankers menu.
• 40:24
  Dayna Roselli: Had a little bit of healthy and a little bit of greedy, you know, like the burger and that.
• 40:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that look.
• 40:29
  Dayna Roselli: And then they had a nice turkey wrap and and.
• 40:33
  Sean McAllister: I had a BLT.
• 40:34
  Sean McAllister: You had a BLT a BLT with eggs, so it's a BLT E.
• 40:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and there was so much bacon on the sandwich.
• 40:41
  Sean McAllister: If you are a bacon lover, the BLT at flanker is not to be missed.
• 40:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was good.
• 40:48
  Dayna Roselli: I had to take half home of my turkey wrap.
• 40:50
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious, though delicious we had bacon too, but that does it.
• 40:55
  Dayna Roselli: You know, those are our tips for you, and and I think that was kind of like three tips.
• 40:59
  Sean McAllister: That was kind of three.
• 40:59
  Sean McAllister: We've been like doing it up a couple of brunches and Lupo yeah next week.
• 41:03
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna tell you about a great thing that you can take part of in the well downtown Las Vegas area and it's it's called duck duck shed and we'll explain what that means.
• 41:13
  Dayna Roselli: But it has to do with the neon museum and a bunch of different Things that you can take part in if you're interested in kind of the history of Las Vegas and then also the now, like it's a little bit of both.
• 41:26
  Dayna Roselli: So it's something really cool that they're doing, and also there's a free attraction as well We'll tell you about.
• 41:31
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna have an interview with the executive director of the neon museum.
• 41:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we can't wait to share that Also.
• 41:36
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• 41:39
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• 41:48
  Dayna Roselli: We're always updating them.
• 41:49
  Dayna Roselli: We're out and about all over Las Vegas.
• 41:51
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks so much.
• 41:52
  Dayna Roselli: We'll see you for 187.