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F1 Race Preparations, Sphere Food Intel, Las Vegas Then & Now with the Neon Museum, Free Concerts | Ep. 187 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 187 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: The pics you snapped at dinner may have helped some Las Vegas spots land on a new list of the most photographed restaurants.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: Find out which ones they are.
• 0:12
  Sean McAllister: Even more signs that the F1 race is getting closer.
• 0:15
  Sean McAllister: Trees are leveled and grandstands are rising.
• 0:20
  Dayna Roselli: And some details about the food inside the sphere as it gets ready to open.
• 0:24
  Sean McAllister: Plus get a front row seat to Las Vegas History.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: We chat with the executive director of the Neon Museum this week.
• 0:32
  Dayna Roselli: Free Las Vegas concerts and how to make the most of your birthday.
• 0:36
  Sean McAllister: All that and more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:39
  Dayna Roselli: Let's spin that wheel.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to episode 187 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:51
  Dayna Roselli: Dayna Roselli and Sean McAllister here ready to talk about a number of things, but, shawn, I first want to talk about the sphere, because anytime we get any inside juicy information we like to share, because everyone loves to hear about this.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: It's opening September 29th.
• 1:08
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's coming up soon, and everybody has just been enamored with the outside of the sphere and now we're getting an idea of what the inside experience is going to be like.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean we've been seeing like a little bit of you know video and we don't have like the full scope, but we're seeing tidbits enough to know kind of what it's going to look like.
• 1:29
  Sean McAllister: And we also are getting an idea of what it's going to, what the culinary experience will be like too.
• 1:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, well, I was just curious because I ran into my source, you know, and I was like hey, I was seeing on social media that people were saying there's not a lot of food options at the sphere.
• 1:44
  Dayna Roselli: He's like what are you talking about?
• 1:45
  Dayna Roselli: There's tons.
• 1:45
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought that was interesting.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: He was saying it's all.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Most of it is provided actually by MSG.
• 1:51
  Dayna Roselli: So you know Madison Square Garden entertainment and that they actually have their own chefs and own staff.
• 1:57
  Dayna Roselli: And he's like we've been food taste testing.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: And he was saying even the popcorn is delicious.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: So I, apparently it's going to be great.
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: And he's like there's tons of options.
• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: And then the I think he was saying the sweets or the box sweets or whatever will have like their own special stuff.
• 2:12
  Dayna Roselli: So he said no lack of food at all.
• 2:15
  Sean McAllister: Oh well, that's good to hear, yeah.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: That's what I thought, because.
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: I saw job openings for chefs.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: I was curious when I saw a couple things saying oh, there was only like a couple options inside the sphere a pizza and something else and he's like no, there's a lot more than that.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: Well, that's good to hear and I know even at other arenas T-Mobile Allegiant like the gourmet food that they serve is really good and I'm not talking.
• 2:40
  Sean McAllister: I mean, well, there are concession partners who also have good food, but talking about like the in suite experience and like the high level club access, that's good stuff.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, cause I was like well, what is it?
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: Like I said, is it like like a T-Mobile or a Allegiant where you like go to the?
• 2:58
  Dayna Roselli: He's like, yeah, there'll be like different kinds of things and you'll go you know, in order and it was.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: You know, some of the things might be a step up from from what you'd normally have.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: You know, maybe it's not just a stadium type dog, it's an elevated hot dog with some special stuff or special bun, who knows?
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't get all involved, I was in a rush.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: My friend was like I need you to resell, sell my Adele tickets that I bought in your account, and it was a whole thing.
• 3:23
  Dayna Roselli: So I had that going on.
• 3:26
  Dayna Roselli: I think you were text me.
• 3:27
  Dayna Roselli: I was trying to listen about the food.
• 3:28
  Dayna Roselli: I was going up my elevator.
• 3:29
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot going on at once, but that's.
• 3:31
  Dayna Roselli: That's my tidbit.
• 3:33
  Sean McAllister: I like it.
• 3:33
  Sean McAllister: That's a good tidbit.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 3:35
  Sean McAllister: And then it, it appetizer.
• 3:36
  Sean McAllister: What's my palette for more Exactly?
• 3:41
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, man, yeah, and those Adele tickets.
• 3:43
  Dayna Roselli: You know it's interesting, it's the whole process.
• 3:45
  Dayna Roselli: I've learned my friend.
• 3:46
  Dayna Roselli: I got a place in line and he wanted to go, so he bought the tickets through me and then he bought four and then he needed to sell the two because some of his family couldn't come and it was a whole thing.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: And then you have to transfer them.
• 3:58
  Dayna Roselli: So I learned a lot about how to transfer from ticket master and resell your tickets not put them up for resale on ticket master, but sell them on stub hub, then transfer to someone else.
• 4:10
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like typing in this email making sure it was sending the $1,200 Adele tickets to the right person.
• 4:18
  Sean McAllister: Well, listen, you get one shot at that.
• 4:19
  Sean McAllister: You can't pull back the email that you send to transfer those tickets.
• 4:24
  Sean McAllister: It goes to whoever's email is in there.
• 4:26
  Dayna Roselli: I know I was like, okay, let me down some water, make sure I'm like visually seeing I'm typing it in, right, anyway?
• 4:32
  Sean McAllister: Well, I'm glad that everything went smoothly.
• 4:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it did, and you know, adele was was apparently worth it.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: They bought some higher seats and really enjoyed it.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, let's talk F1, because this is all the talk all the time and we kind of like we took a break from it for a few episodes just because there was so much going on and so much planning and construction.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: That was getting frustrating and everyone was kind of and I was like all right, let's take a moment.
• 4:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and but we're back with more.
• 4:59
  Sean McAllister: We're back with more the moment's over F1.
• 5:02
  Sean McAllister: So we are seeing signs all over the place that the race is getting closer and closer.
• 5:07
  Sean McAllister: It's happening mid-November and here we are, you know, end of September, right, and we're really seeing the progress.
• 5:17
  Sean McAllister: Grandstands have been going up all along the the racetrack.
• 5:22
  Sean McAllister: We've seen fencing and barricades going up in front of properties up and down the Las Vegas Strip that are on that race race course, and one thing that has gotten a lot of attention is the fact that big, mature, 30-year-old trees were chopped down in front of the Bellagio Fountains in order to make way for the grandstands that will be built there.
• 5:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, mixed feelings about that.
• 5:49
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people are sounding off.
• 5:51
  Dayna Roselli: I mean gosh, you know it's like F1 can't do anything that people aren't sounding off about.
• 5:57
  Sean McAllister: That is the truth.
• 5:58
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I mean the trees.
• 6:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's upsetting.
• 6:00
  Dayna Roselli: Now, apparently, some of them are going back, so I don't know they're being stored and there's a whole thing.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it is tough.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: They're making way to put in these grandstands and like, if you see some of the images of what this, what do you call it?
• 6:14
  Dayna Roselli: Renderings of what this?
• 6:15
  Dayna Roselli: Is going to look like and we're starting to see grandstands going in, like you said on other streets.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: I mean you need to make room.
• 6:23
  Dayna Roselli: We don't have tons of room.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: We have a big wide open desert, but our strip is compact, and so the trees came down.
• 6:32
  Sean McAllister: The trees came down, the grandstands will go up.
• 6:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and maybe the trees will go back.
• 6:37
  Dayna Roselli: Some trees will, some won't.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: I'm sure we'll have something replanted there there's always something going on there is but paving is going to continue along the race course as well, so it's interesting to see how this is all coming together.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think I looked at the paving schedule and it looks like they're gonna be paving behind the sphere.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: This like the next leg, I think right around when this podcast drops, like so you know, they did like sands in front of that, but not that.
• 7:05
  Dayna Roselli: There's gonna be like a loop around the back end of the sphere and then I think like kind of over in that area again because it went south for a little bit.
• 7:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, paving.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: And then it.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: Now it's moved back up, so go to F1's website and look up the traffic map.
• 7:21
  Aaron Berger: There's a lot of Q and A on there that we're gonna go over like frequently asked questions.
• 7:24
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe, next podcast.
• 7:26
  Sean McAllister: Yes, there's a lot to go over in there, yeah.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: I wondered that too click and I was like reading all the answers, but anyway.
• 7:35
  Dayna Roselli: So that's that I mean obviously F1 is getting closer and closer.
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: In fact it was so weird because I was like gosh, we are in September.
• 7:41
  Dayna Roselli: Oh word, I mean October, november.
• 7:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I know, october is like knocking on the door at this point.
• 7:47
  Sean McAllister: So we've got a lot coming up the end of the year here in Las Vegas.
• 7:51
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• 8:04
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• 8:13
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• 8:15
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• 8:22
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• 8:31
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• 8:37
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• 8:40
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• 8:42
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• 8:46
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• 8:58
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• 8:59
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• 9:09
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• 9:13
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• 9:23
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• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: I just looked at it the other night to find restaurants were open after 10 pm on the strip.
• 9:28
  Sean McAllister: And it's great.
• 9:29
  Sean McAllister: So I just did hours in the day and there's fewer and fewer restaurants open at that time.
• 9:35
  Dayna Roselli: I was like wait a minute.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't realize a lot of restaurants close around 10, 9.30, 9.00.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: Are we in Vegas, yeah, so I don't know what's going on.
• 9:44
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe it was the MGM cybersecurity breach or whatever that is yeah.
• 9:47
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• 9:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know, all right, we are gonna talk speaking of restaurants and things like that.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: This was interesting a list.
• 9:53
  Dayna Roselli: We saw that.
• 9:55
  Dayna Roselli: I mean I guess I'm not surprised by some of the Vegas restaurants that are on the list, but I thought, wow, good for Caesar's Palace, this is good publicity.
• 10:04
  Sean McAllister: Oh, it's a coup, absolutely.
• 10:06
  Sean McAllister: I mean, the top two spots on this most photographed restaurants list that was put out by Yelp are both at Caesar's Palace.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: I know I was like, wow, good for them.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: The Bacchanal Buffet Listen, it's one of the most popular.
• 10:21
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like most well-known popular talked about buffets.
• 10:25
  Sean McAllister: Well, it is pretty.
• 10:26
  Dayna Roselli: In the country and the world, I don't know.
• 10:28
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe that's why, yeah, I mean there's a lot to shoot, and then you shoot, like how much and how many times.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: You know, in the world of TikTok these days, people shoot how many times they go up to the buffet, what you can get, blah, blah, blah.
• 10:38
  Dayna Roselli: So that made the list.
• 10:40
  Sean McAllister: Show the mouthwatering, a mile high pile of crab legs.
• 10:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, all that good stuff, so good.
• 10:46
  Dayna Roselli: And then Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen, which makes sense.
• 10:51
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 10:51
  Sean McAllister: That topped the list, as a matter of fact, number one most photographed restaurant and you know, with the popularity of Hell's Kitchen and the loyal fan base that Gordon Ramsay has, you know you go in there you have the red and the blue kitchen.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: So it is very reminiscent of the TV show and it is a very good photographic moment yeah, as I told you, my I think I mentioned this before my friend has triplets and they turn twenty one and that's where they wanted to go.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: They came in from upstate new york and they're like we want to get.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: I was like you do, like that's the place to get a pic, but they just wanted photos in there and everything, so they watch the show yeah, and that food is delicious on top of it, so that's a bonus right.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: I think it said the beef wellington was the number one Photographed.
• 11:40
  Sean McAllister: The famous beef wellington in the sticky toffee pudding.
• 11:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, even the cocktails there are Photo worthy as well.
• 11:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah and then also on the list from los vegas eight eight eight japanese barbecue.
• 11:52
  Dayna Roselli: So we looked that up.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: Where is this?
• 11:54
  Dayna Roselli: And it's off the strip, so good to know.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: We're kind of like maybe we need to check it out looks that look delicious too yeah, and then the van van derpump restaurant over at Paris, not the one at caesars palace.
• 12:06
  Dayna Roselli: So Paris again.
• 12:08
  Dayna Roselli: Caesars entertainment all in the family, yeah.
• 12:12
  Sean McAllister: So there are twenty five restaurants that made the list.
• 12:14
  Sean McAllister: Those are the standouts from los vegas.
• 12:17
  Sean McAllister: You can go to yelp and look up the the full restaurant list If you have any interest, or you can just listen to the the vegas ones the most important ones.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: Well, los vegas has launched its very own design and culture festival, and it's curated by the neon museum and it has a cool lineup of events.
• 12:38
  Sean McAllister: Yes, taking place October fourth through the seventh.
• 12:41
  Sean McAllister: It's called Duck Duck Shed.
• 12:43
  Sean McAllister: We spoke with the executive director of the neon museum, Aaron Berger, to hear all about the lineup of events that they have planned.
• 12:54
  Aaron Berger: Hey Aaron, thanks for joining us thank you so much for having me.
• 12:58
  Aaron Berger: I love the opportunity to chat with you too.
• 13:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, we're excited about this because one of the first things I want to ask you about, erin, is this Kind of notion that los vegas doesn't have any culture or history and I know, I know it, where you're coming from on this.
• 13:17
  Sean McAllister: So can you just speak to that idea that people outside of the city have?
• 13:24
  Aaron Berger: Yeah, so it's a.
• 13:25
  Aaron Berger: It's a real thing, and so I have Per, just speaking from a very, very personal perspective.
• 13:31
  Aaron Berger: So I have twenty five years of working, yeah, either with or for museums and and really consider myself to be a museum professional.
• 13:41
  Aaron Berger: and so when I told my colleagues that I was Heading to los vegas to go lead a museum, they all said that career suicide you just, you just shot yourself in the foot and you are going to this kind of cultural waste land, and and so you know there was some trepidation on my part and what I've come to realize now that I've celebrate my second anniversary of the los vegas the reality is this city is so actually rich in its history, in its historic preservation, in its art and its culture, and a culture that's unique to the city.
• 14:24
  Aaron Berger: I think the challenge with us, as opposed to a city like la or chicago or new york, is that ours is a ever evolving right.
• 14:35
  Aaron Berger: We are a city that has a reputation of building up and and then blowing up, and then building up again and then be.
• 14:43
  Aaron Berger: We are a city of of glitz and glam and buzzing and beeping and lights and attraction, and is this constant fight for the new thing that is going to excite you, and so it's easy to Overlook something that is so unbelievably special or something that is historic or something that is, again, unique to the city, unlike any other city in the world.
• 15:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, you know, sometimes we have open things in town, like the smith center, where people said that's never gonna work, you know.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: And then there it was, you know season tickets were sold out and everyone was going and so we know it works here.
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: Tell us about duck duck shed.
• 15:29
  Dayna Roselli: First I have to ask you where did the name come from?
• 15:34
  Aaron Berger: So there's a incredible book that was written now fifty one years ago.
• 15:40
  Aaron Berger: That's called learning from las vegas, and three Yale professors brought together a study team and came to Las Vegas and when you were doing architectural studies, you know, five decades ago.
• 15:54
  Aaron Berger: You're really looking at buildings, individual buildings, and and and rating them, critiquing them for their work.
• 16:01
  Aaron Berger: Learning from Las Vegas is really focused on.
• 16:04
  Aaron Berger: Las Vegas is a city and an urban city, and looking at sort of a holistic approach, and in the book they they discuss the fact that there are two types of buildings in Las Vegas.
• 16:18
  Aaron Berger: There are ducks and decorated shed.
• 16:22
  Aaron Berger: A duck a contemporary version of a duck, would be actually our newest duck in town is the sphere right?
• 16:30
  Aaron Berger: It is exactly what it says it is.
• 16:32
  Aaron Berger: It title is a giant, and so it is.
• 16:37
  Aaron Berger: It is a duck.
• 16:38
  Aaron Berger: It doesn't need a sign out front to tell you what it is.
• 16:41
  Aaron Berger: New york, new york, is another great duck.
• 16:45
  Aaron Berger: You can argue that the belogio, as it was fashioned after a small village in on Lake Como, that that's a duck.
• 16:54
  Aaron Berger: Then there's decorated shed and decorated sheds would be.
• 16:58
  Aaron Berger: If you're standing at the corner of main street and Fremont downtown and you're looking down Fremont Street, you're gonna need signs that tell you this is the golden gate, this is the the golden nugget, this is the four queens, this is the D, so you know where you're going to which property.
• 17:17
  Aaron Berger: And so we took this concept of duck versus decorated sheds and we, we got a little cookie, went duck, duck, shed.
• 17:24
  Aaron Berger: And this book is not Just just as a side note.
• 17:29
  Aaron Berger: This is a book that is still taught fifty one years later, and every intro to art class out there.
• 17:37
  Aaron Berger: So it's got relevance, it has important, and so it.
• 17:40
  Aaron Berger: Any architect immediately knows sort of what we're talking about when we say duck, duck, shed.
• 17:47
  Sean McAllister: So, going back fifty years, people knew that we had culture that was worthy of studying and looking into and passing on to the next generations.
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 17:58
  Aaron Berger: I love that too and I often think about these Yale professors, robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown and Scott Eisenhower, these three folks going back to their dean at Yale and saying we want to take a research team to study Las Vegas, and imagine the response that that Yale leadership has right.
• 18:20
  Aaron Berger: I mean you can kind of picture again that culture, that lack of voucher idea.
• 18:25
  Aaron Berger: And so here are these three Yale leaders saying yes, we're going to do this, and so it really did create a turning point for the city.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, this is a design and culture festival.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: You're calling it Duck Duck Shed.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: What can people expect and how can they take part in all these different kinds of events and things you have planned?
• 18:51
  Aaron Berger: So it is.
• 18:52
  Aaron Berger: The whole idea is to really celebrate the uniqueness of this city.
• 18:58
  Aaron Berger: Like I said, las Vegas is a city like any other in the world.
• 19:03
  Aaron Berger: We are an incredible destination for tens of millions every year that are coming through, and we really are, in my perspective.
• 19:14
  Aaron Berger: We are the leaders in hospitality design, we are the leaders in entertainment, we are the leaders in cuisine.
• 19:22
  Aaron Berger: So all of these things have sort of evolved in Las Vegas, and so we built on that idea and wanted to show people how we've gotten to where we are now, where we're headed, but also our roots and our history.
• 19:39
  Aaron Berger: So in this four days we have just sort of this crazy bevy of offerings.
• 19:46
  Aaron Berger: You can have dinner with Oscar Goodman, who is known for two things he's known for being certainly our mayor, our former mayor here in Las Vegas, but also as being his nickname, was the mouthpiece of the mob, and so he represented dozens of people accused of organized crime.
• 20:12
  Aaron Berger: And he'll have.
• 20:14
  Aaron Berger: We're having a dinner with him in which he's going to talk about his first client and how he went to go meet with that first client, who was accused of racketeering, accused of some pretty specific acts, and how did his wife and children, who were young at the time.
• 20:35
  Aaron Berger: What were the thoughts, what were the things going through his mind?
• 20:38
  Aaron Berger: Did he want security with him, those kinds of things?
• 20:41
  Aaron Berger: And then what led him to take on these clients and continue to take on these clients and really make a reputation for himself as the again the defender of the mob?
• 20:56
  Aaron Berger: And also, how did he wrestle with that from a moral standpoint?
• 21:01
  Aaron Berger: Where did morals end and the law begins, which is really just sort of a fascinating kind of look at this incredible individual.
• 21:10
  Aaron Berger: So that's just like one offering.
• 21:13
  Aaron Berger: We have another one, which is food through the ages.
• 21:17
  Aaron Berger: So Las Vegas was known for its 99 cent Trump cocktail.
• 21:22
  Aaron Berger: Right, you can't find that anymore.
• 21:26
  Dayna Roselli: And if you can.
• 21:27
  Aaron Berger: You probably don't want to eat that, but now we have Michelin star restaurants and food that is just unbelievably delicious and my waistline will prove that ours too.
• 21:44
  Aaron Berger: Oh, yes and so.
• 21:46
  Aaron Berger: But how did we get there right?
• 21:47
  Aaron Berger: How did we go from food being the loss leader, these ideas of these massive buffets that were, you know, the dollar prime rib and that kind of thing?
• 21:57
  Aaron Berger: How did we go from that to being again these star chefs that are opening restaurants and working nightly on the strip?
• 22:09
  Aaron Berger: So what we're doing that night is we're going to have a Tripped down memory lane.
• 22:17
  Aaron Berger: So if you, I've went to the Aku Aku at stardust and you had their Hawaiian style Short ribs platter, we're gonna recreate those.
• 22:30
  Aaron Berger: Wow and then chef Patrick from Main Street provisions is going to do a Contemporary version, compare, so.
• 22:38
  Aaron Berger: So there'll be a compare and contrast, so it's a chance to walk back in time and then also so take a 2023 version of what that dish would be today.
• 22:49
  Aaron Berger: So it's gonna be really, really fun.
• 22:53
  Aaron Berger: So that's.
• 22:53
  Aaron Berger: That's another one.
• 22:54
  Aaron Berger: I mentioned.
• 22:55
  Aaron Berger: The spear we're gonna have Will be a part of the debut Performance or the debut screening of postcard from the edge.
• 23:05
  Aaron Berger: Sorry, postcard from earth.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's a hard one.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: We always want to say that too.
• 23:12
  Aaron Berger: That was a good movie, though, right, it wasn't a great movie, and that Leads me to the Debbie Reynolds show that we did, and we'll talk about that too but, yeah, but yeah, so it's the postcard from earth screening, which this will be, you know, the debut of that, and and created by Darren Aronofsky, and and in this 4k experience.
• 23:34
  Aaron Berger: So it having a chance to be in this space and not just experience the film itself and and the, the haptics in your chair and and the you know the Spherical space that you're in, but then look at this as an architectural element.
• 23:53
  Aaron Berger: Is this the future of performing art spaces?
• 23:56
  Aaron Berger: Is this where we're headed?
• 23:57
  Aaron Berger: You mentioned the Smith Center.
• 23:59
  Aaron Berger: Smith Center is this Outstanding location and the acoustics are incredible.
• 24:04
  Aaron Berger: You sit in a chair and you watch a performance.
• 24:07
  Aaron Berger: This is now the new.
• 24:09
  Aaron Berger: Is this where we're headed in performing art spaces?
• 24:12
  Aaron Berger: Are we gonna have to spend 2.3 billion dollars to keep both interests For stage performance?
• 24:20
  Aaron Berger: Is that?
• 24:20
  Aaron Berger: What is that?
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: what this is, and so that's what we're gonna kind of explore with that, and I know you're gonna celebrate Cirque de Soleil's 25th anniversary.
• 24:29
  Dayna Roselli: You're gonna do some historic walking tours of downtown Las Vegas, we're gonna hear from architects about the iconic hotels and casinos, and all this is October 4th to 7th.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: But do you do you say, do you sign up to what you want to go to or do you just go to all of it?
• 24:49
  Aaron Berger: That was of course.
• 24:50
  Aaron Berger: You go to all of it, I mean of course no, it is.
• 24:53
  Aaron Berger: It is designed for everyone to be able to.
• 24:56
  Aaron Berger: It's not a conference.
• 24:57
  Aaron Berger: So you, you don't pay a registration fee and then and then go to you know all the things that are there it is.
• 25:04
  Aaron Berger: It is.
• 25:04
  Aaron Berger: You pick what you like.
• 25:05
  Aaron Berger: It's all a la carte.
• 25:07
  Aaron Berger: So Just to use a reference, restaurant reference again but it is an opportunity that if, if Architecture is your interest, we have some outstanding authorities on architecture.
• 25:21
  Aaron Berger: Christopher Hawthorne is second to none in in his ability to critique architecture and was the LA Times critic for for quite a while, and so to have him talk to you about the importance of architecture in Las Vegas.
• 25:40
  Aaron Berger: If that's your interest, go to that.
• 25:42
  Aaron Berger: If food your interest, go to the food event.
• 25:45
  Aaron Berger: If you are the walking tour you know what's really fun about the walking tour.
• 25:51
  Aaron Berger: You'll get a chance to walk into a one of the original ten hotel rooms in Las Vegas dating back to 1906 B.
• 26:02
  Aaron Berger: You're gonna then go into the green room, the Frank Sinatra used when he performed at the Golden Nugget right, I mean, these are things that are not accessible to the public.
• 26:13
  Aaron Berger: People don't get a chance to see this and so this is that's the whole idea to give you a chance to to see things that Again, as I talked about, there's so much glitz and glamour out in the city.
• 26:25
  Aaron Berger: We're gonna pull the curtain back with duck, duck, shed and let you take a deeper dive, yeah and I love that the neon museum is spearheading this and is curating this entire experience.
• 26:37
  Sean McAllister: A duck, duck shed.
• 26:38
  Sean McAllister: Dot-com is where you can go to read about all of these individual Experiences, get your tickets, find out more information.
• 26:46
  Sean McAllister: But, aaron, before we let you go, I do want to talk to you about this Debbie Reynolds exhibit.
• 26:51
  Sean McAllister: Obviously, debbie Reynolds had a long, decades long career in Hollywood, but also had a decades-long relationship with Las Vegas.
• 27:04
  Aaron Berger: You're absolutely right, and that is the point of this exhibition is to showcase the fact that this is a person who had a seven decades career and spent so much of it in Las Vegas, and the story is really about.
• 27:24
  Aaron Berger: The title of the exhibition is the persona, so the stage presence and the impact that Debbie had on the Riviera stage, on the Desert Inn stage, of course, her own casino and then also we talk about the person and how Las Vegas really provided for someone who had a very, very public divorce.
• 27:49
  Aaron Berger: She was sort of the Brad and Angelina of her time, and so she has this very public divorce from Eddie Fisher and she has two small children.
• 28:01
  Aaron Berger: Las Vegas provided her an opportunity to continue her career of performing, but also provides stability for her family, and so it really is two pathways for you to walk through and explore.
• 28:15
  Aaron Berger: We have gowns that she wore on stage.
• 28:19
  Aaron Berger: We have Carrie Fisher's first outfit that she wore, designed by Bob Mackie, when she was on the Desert Inn stage and she performed at 15.
• 28:29
  Aaron Berger: We have the two costumes from the Unthinkable Molly Brown that are a part of the show, and in addition to that, yeah, we have her Oscar.
• 28:42
  Aaron Berger: So it is an amazing show and it's free.
• 28:45
  Aaron Berger: So it is an amazing free exhibition.
• 28:49
  Aaron Berger: That is our gift to the city, to visitors to the city.
• 28:53
  Aaron Berger: We want to just show the impact and the legacy that Debbie Reynolds had.
• 28:59
  Aaron Berger: This was a woman who signed the first million-dollar contract in Las Vegas and no entertainer had ever done that.
• 29:08
  Aaron Berger: And not only did she do it, but she was a woman who did it and broke that barrier.
• 29:13
  Aaron Berger: So this is really an opportunity to just kind of celebrate her as an individual and what she did for our city and what our city did for her.
• 29:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean all of it is just.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's so exciting that people will be able to relive all this and I love the excitement in your voice and giving people a chance to celebrate all the history here in Las Vegas.
• 29:35
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: We look forward to spreading the word about this and, like you said, the Debbie Reynolds exhibit that's free and people need to get there and check it out.
• 29:46
  Aaron Berger: And it runs through October 26th, so we'll have it for two months at City Hall.
• 29:51
  Aaron Berger: So it's a great show.
• 29:52
  Aaron Berger: It's in English and Spanish.
• 29:54
  Aaron Berger: It's a lot of fun.
• 29:56
  Aaron Berger: So, yeah, definitely see it.
• 29:58
  Sean McAllister: Well, Erin, we appreciate you taking the time to chat with us and thank you for keeping Las Vegas' history alive.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you, I appreciate the time today for more information you go to duck duck shedcom.
• 30:10
  Dayna Roselli: You can also get some tickets there.
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: Let's get to tips.
• 30:14
  Sean McAllister: Well, we always like when the cost of something is free, don't we?
• 30:27
  Dayna Roselli: yes, especially these days, everyone's looking To find ways to cut costs.
• 30:31
  Dayna Roselli: I can't tell you how many people in my life have downloaded those.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like coupon saving apps or yeah, you get your receipt.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, everyone's into it.
• 30:40
  Dayna Roselli: We're like send me your code set and I'm like this is like what's going on, but everyone's trying to save money.
• 30:45
  Sean McAllister: I know well.
• 30:45
  Sean McAllister: We have a good tip for you, then, because this fall the city of Las Vegas has been hosting a free outdoor Concert series.
• 30:54
  Sean McAllister: There are two concerts left in this series that we want to let you know about.
• 30:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the first one is October 14th at Bruce Trent Park.
• 31:04
  Sean McAllister: It's going to be free.
• 31:08
  Dayna Roselli: I believe it's French Kind of bistro jazzy music and I'm not even sure I may have seen this group actually before at the max jazz when I went to see my friend play.
• 31:18
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not sure if it's the same group, but they were really good if so.
• 31:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah well, the city is gonna bring in some good entertainment for sure.
• 31:25
  Sean McAllister: So it's Saturday, october 14th, at 7 pm At Bruce Trent Park, and then again on the 28th, there's a fun Halloween themed event.
• 31:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I love this like a Halloween block party put on by asteroid M, which is like a record label that I guess has you know different kind of music groups, so that'll be really fun and that one is free and open to the public, like you said, and that's why we're talking about it, and this is on the third street promenade and that's from Hoover to gas in downtown Las Vegas.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: The great part about these free concerts Outdoor concerts that they encourage you to bring blankets and, you know, lawn chairs and everything like that, and I love, I think that's cool.
• 32:04
  Sean McAllister: It is, and you can bring the entire family out there too, there's no age restrictions, right for these events, so it's good, affordable family fun.
• 32:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 32:14
  Dayna Roselli: Well, speaking of saving money, I told you like we're all looking at the apps for trying to save money and, sean, I said to you recently my birthday was in mid-September, september 13th and I kept getting these Things thrown to me that I didn't even know existed and they were like birthday deals and I was taking advantage of all of them and I'm like this is amazing, especially because we're in a time where everyone's trying to save money.
• 32:38
  Sean McAllister: So what kind of deals are we talking so?
• 32:40
  Dayna Roselli: I got 10% off my manicure because it was my birthday.
• 32:43
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 32:43
  Dayna Roselli: I got a text from my nail place saying happy birthday, 10% off your next visit.
• 32:48
  Dayna Roselli: That's great nails can be pricey.
• 32:50
  Dayna Roselli: Mine come out too because I get the pedicure in the nails and it's like 55.
• 32:54
  Dayna Roselli: So I saved $5 and 50 cents.
• 32:56
  Dayna Roselli: Nice, can't complain.
• 32:57
  Dayna Roselli: I went to terrible herpes for my normal like I do, like a $9, like run-through car wash every night Okay and then because, especially now, because of monsoon, so sometimes the windows just get like actually so dirty that I can't really see great out of them.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like nine bucks, Okay.
• 33:12
  Dayna Roselli: And they're like, oh, no, no, you get your birthday car wash oh what is it birthday?
• 33:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you get a free car wash because it's around your birthday, but you can only use it now.
• 33:23
  Dayna Roselli: So, like around your birthday, so use it and take advantage and save.
• 33:28
  Dayna Roselli: You know your $9 one for the next time.
• 33:29
  Dayna Roselli: So went through and I realized that I got the $20 like I don't know the name of it, but it was like the Mac daddy of all car washes at the premium.
• 33:39
  Dayna Roselli: And then the guy goes to me and I forget what.
• 33:42
  Dayna Roselli: Now see, this is terrible.
• 33:43
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not giving specifics, but and then he said it a few days you know you can come back, because you know, like if it.
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: They always say, like the guarantee, oh, right if it rains yeah so he was kind of like take advantage of your $20 nice car wash and come back in three days.
• 33:58
  Dayna Roselli: So I found my receipt and I was like, oh yeah, I need to go back to that because we're actually shooting this around my birthday.
• 34:04
  Sean McAllister: But yeah, park next to a sprinkler, I know that's it, I'm going through.
• 34:08
  Sean McAllister: You're good so that was great.
• 34:09
  Dayna Roselli: So okay, and then Buka de Pepe, set me 20 bucks off $40 if I go in really which is a really good deal right.
• 34:16
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 34:16
  Dayna Roselli: I got it said happy birthday, dana.
• 34:18
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even go there a lot.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: I think I went there once for a drink and ate there with a bunch of people once.
• 34:22
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even know how I think it's.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe I'm on the East side, maybe it's like kind of my neighborhood because it's on East.
• 34:28
  Sean McAllister: Flamingo, yeah, and.
• 34:29
  Dayna Roselli: I'm over, but anyway I got.
• 34:30
  Dayna Roselli: I get that 20 bucks off 40 and I get a free brownie Colossal Sunday or something, yeah, so you have happy hour and dessert.
• 34:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and then I'm trying to think.
• 34:41
  Dayna Roselli: I think there was one more thing and I can't think about.
• 34:43
  Dayna Roselli: But my point is you know what?
• 34:44
  Dayna Roselli: Keep in mind?
• 34:45
  Dayna Roselli: Places offer deals for your birthday, take advantage, use them all.
• 34:50
  Dayna Roselli: It saves you money, it's your birthday, feels special and you know what you give and support business for these places all year long.
• 34:57
  Sean McAllister: So might as well and ask, ask, ask if people have birthday specials too.
• 35:02
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 35:02
  Dayna Roselli: So if you ever wonder why they say like well, why do you want my birthday?
• 35:05
  Dayna Roselli: When you like, fill out.
• 35:06
  Dayna Roselli: Right like you're on, like you know, like a card or an app or whatever.
• 35:10
  Dayna Roselli: That's why you get birthday specials.
• 35:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I know I get a lot of emails with birthday specials too.
• 35:16
  Sean McAllister: Well good, I'm glad that you took advantage of all that advantage and around be belated birthday, thank you and I think around Vegas they have a lot of things too for birthdays.
• 35:25
  Dayna Roselli: I know that that some of the attractions do things.
• 35:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, like mention your birthday and you'll get you know blah, blah blah.
• 35:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so don't chalk your license like you did college.
• 35:33
  Dayna Roselli: Did anyone else chalk their license?
• 35:39
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I did, oh yeah.
• 35:41
  Dayna Roselli: Today people are probably like what do you mean, chalk?
• 35:43
  Sean McAllister: Well, you can't, because now, everything you like, you slide your id through a scanner.
• 35:48
  Sean McAllister: Before it was just like you know, the old guy behind the counter who had his bifocals on.
• 35:53
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and we had, like those matte licenses.
• 35:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you know, like you had to use colored pencils.
• 35:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:59
  Dayna Roselli: I was good at mine.
• 35:59
  Dayna Roselli: I got it everywhere.
• 36:01
  Dayna Roselli: Never was questioned that is a podcast.
• 36:04
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 36:05
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• 36:07
  Dayna Roselli: We will be back with 188.
• 36:11
  Dayna Roselli: We're going double digits 88.
• 36:13
  Sean McAllister: We are next week on Vegas Revealed.
• 36:15
  Sean McAllister: See you then.