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John Mayer Sphere, Donny Osmond Interview, NBA Arena, The Golden Tiki's Haunted Stories, Off-Strip Italian, Las Vegas Dive Bar | Ep. 342 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas Revealed episode 342.
• 0:04
  Dayna Roselli: Dayna Roselli and Sean McAllister here, and we have a long list of stuff to discuss today.
• 0:09
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, do we ever?
• 0:11
  Sean McAllister: We have a great conversation with Donny Osmond.
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: Some really candid moments in there.
• 0:16
  Sean McAllister: Uh, plus John Mayer.
• 0:18
  Sean McAllister: His residency at Sphere has been exciting so many people, and we have new information about that show, plus a great off-strip Italian spot you might want to try, and who doesn't love a block party?
• 0:31
  Dayna Roselli: With one of the oldest dive bars in Las Vegas.
• 0:33
  Dayna Roselli: So we got a lot to get to, and we have tons of stories to tell, different things that Sean and I have been doing.
• 0:38
  Dayna Roselli: We had a busy weekend.
• 0:39
  Dayna Roselli: I had uh some 21-year-olds in town.
• 0:42
  Dayna Roselli: My friend's daughter and her friend, they were in for this big college weekend.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: So apparently they were saying there were like 50 colleges and universities in town.
• 0:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so it they were all over doing different things, hitting the clubs, and uh, they're from the University of Kentucky.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean, I just want to say they literally had the best time of their life.
• 1:04
  Dayna Roselli: And it just keeps reminding me we get so used to living here.
• 1:08
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was just thinking, so I know what my uh itinerary would be for generally for a Vegas night out, but for uh 21-year-old college students who probably don't come to Vegas regularly.
• 1:23
  Sean McAllister: What's on the itinerary for?
• 1:26
  Dayna Roselli: Uh clubs.
• 1:26
  Dayna Roselli: They love the clubs and they love DJs.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: It made me realize how I mean, we already knew DJs are so popular, but they just love it.
• 1:34
  Dayna Roselli: That is their that those are the stars for them.
• 1:37
  Sean McAllister: That's it.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: The DJs, yes.
• 1:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they did come a day early.
• 1:40
  Dayna Roselli: We went out to dinner.
• 1:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I got them a room at Virgin, Las Vegas.
• 1:44
  Dayna Roselli: That was great.
• 1:45
  Dayna Roselli: And uh they went to Absinthe on their own.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: So they did see a show, loved it.
• 1:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but no, their itinerary for like the college weekend part of it was Encore Beach Club, Live Nightclub, and Omnia Nightclub.
• 1:59
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: So Omnia, they had DJ Poly D.
• 2:02
  Dayna Roselli: I worked some magic to help them get in a little bit to uh live on Friday night for Dom Dalla.
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um and then the night before they were at Encore Beach Club.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: I forget who was DJing.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: They got in the DJ booth, they were treated wonderfully and dressed to the nines.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: They brought sparkly dresses.
• 2:22
  Dayna Roselli: The whole thing, I mean, this was like an orchestrated oiled machine.
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: They just until I brought them to the airport on Sunday, they were Vegasing.
• 2:34
  Sean McAllister: They took advantage of every single minute of their time here?
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: Every minute, yes.
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they were at Alexis for brunch, they were at Lemongrass for dinner at Aria.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they were like all over.
• 2:44
  Sean McAllister: And so what did they think?
• 2:45
  Sean McAllister: I'm curious, what did they think of Las Vegas?
• 2:49
  Sean McAllister: We keep hearing all these things.
• 2:50
  Sean McAllister: Oh, feelings toward Vegas, perceptions toward Vegas are changing.
• 2:54
  Sean McAllister: What did these 21-year-olds, these newly minted adults well?
• 2:58
  Dayna Roselli: One of them said, you know, I never would think that I would do a bachelorette party here, but now that I've been here, I have such a different take on it.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: And now I would definitely do it like for sure.
• 3:11
  Dayna Roselli: Like, seems like the most fun place to do a bachelorette party.
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: Great.
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: So um, and they just thought it was amazing.
• 3:19
  Dayna Roselli: They just, they loved it, they loved everything about it.
• 3:22
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, it does add to the fun when there's a lot of people your age in town doing different things.
• 3:28
  Dayna Roselli: Like they ran into people that they saw at their hotel and that were from other schools and from their own college and university.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, like that adds to the vibe, almost like that spring break feel.
• 3:38
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:39
  Dayna Roselli: Because it was like college fall break.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: So, yeah.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: Well, and now just thinking about it, like Vegas really does offer something for like all generations of visitors.
• 3:51
  Sean McAllister: I was just thinking, like the the party club kind of itinerary is not something that would be for me.
• 3:59
  Sean McAllister: But if you wanted to come in and have just a complete spa retreat for your entire stay, you could do that too.
• 4:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 4:09
  Sean McAllister: Go spa hopping, go, you know, pop around to restaurants that have really great, fresh, healthy menus.
• 4:17
  Sean McAllister: It's great.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: It is great.
• 4:21
  Sean McAllister: If that's what you choose.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: Sure.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: You could party or you could be super chill and just relax.
• 4:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:26
  Dayna Roselli: And when they um got here, they said, Oh, there's a lot of older people.
• 4:28
  Dayna Roselli: We were down at the par, and I said, Well, you know, Metallica's sold out.
• 4:31
  Dayna Roselli: That's an older generation, period.
• 4:33
  Dayna Roselli: And then I had uh five friends in town for Metallica both nights, too, the same weekend.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: So you do think about the variety.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you've got people my age, uh, generation in town for Metallica.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: You've got the 21-year-olds and the 22-year-olds from um college, senior year in college or university in town.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, so it's it's a mix, you know, a little bit of something for everyone.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: And that's what we're built on, and that's awesome.
• 4:59
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 4:59
  Sean McAllister: And my aunt and cousin uh have been in town for the past few days too.
• 5:03
  Sean McAllister: My cousin, a big Metallica fan, she's the one who listened to Metallica back in the day when we were kids and really introduced me to Metallica music.
• 5:13
  Sean McAllister: And she was even saying, she was like, you know, I looked at the um tickets.
• 5:17
  Sean McAllister: She didn't end up going to a show this time, but um, she was like, you know, when I was back home looking into this, I saw all these things that tickets are like $1,700 and blah, blah, blah.
• 5:29
  Sean McAllister: She's like, but I just looked earlier and there's tickets for like $399, $4.99.
• 5:36
  Sean McAllister: Now that's obviously still a splurge, but she was like, I would totally do that.
• 5:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 5:41
  Dayna Roselli: For Metallica One Night, you mean?
• 5:43
  Sean McAllister: For one night of Metallica, probably resale.
• 5:45
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 5:46
  Sean McAllister: It was resale, yeah.
• 5:46
  Sean McAllister: On the day of or uh it was day of, yeah.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's good to know because I had someone write me.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um John, he's been on the podcast, you know, John Killed.
• 5:55
  Dayna Roselli: And he said, I want to go to Metallica, but I don't want to spend he said, Do you think day of like StubHub and other ticket sites, it'll go down?
• 6:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, I've heard that it does, but I can't guarantee it.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: So he was gonna try that route.
• 6:07
  Dayna Roselli: So good to know.
• 6:08
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people sometimes if their tickets aren't selling, they'll just dump them for lower than they expected to get, right?
• 6:15
  Sean McAllister: It's better to get something than nothing.
• 6:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because they are sold out, so you know people are selling them.
• 6:20
  Sean McAllister: Well, and a lot of people are trying to sell them for probably double face value.
• 6:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:24
  Sean McAllister: So if they can just make their money back on it, right when it comes close to showtime, they will.
• 6:29
  Dayna Roselli: I did talk to my friends about the conversation we had last weekend.
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: Like, what's this whole, like, you know, Metallica at the sphere, like, you know, it's so expensive, it's not for the real fans.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: They're like, no, if you're a fan, like they're trying something different, and they're like, and like we don't really go, yeah, it's expensive, but like we don't really think about it.
• 6:45
  Sean McAllister: Like, if you're a Metallica fan, you spend the money for it and you for the experience, and you go both nights.
• 6:50
  Dayna Roselli: Like, that's what they felt.
• 6:52
  Dayna Roselli: They're like, it is what it is, we're all here, you know, like, and it's incredible.
• 6:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, um, and they took advantage of the free pop-up, and then I was telling them there was something um on display at Hard Rock Cafe, they were gonna go to that too.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of different things going on, so so yeah, they loved it, um, which confirmed what we said last week.
• 7:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they also went to Wizard of Oz, and he did, and my friend Steve did say to me, you know what?
• 7:12
  Dayna Roselli: You should be so thankful the sphere is in your backyard.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought, you're right.
• 7:18
  Sean McAllister: It's true.
• 7:19
  Dayna Roselli: He's like, This is the place is incredible.
• 7:21
  Dayna Roselli: That he thought it was so cool.
• 7:23
  Sean McAllister: We we took my aunt and cousin.
• 7:25
  Sean McAllister: I think we drove around the sphere, drove around the block about five times because they were like, Oh, can we see it one more time?
• 7:33
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: We're like, Yeah, why not?
• 7:36
  Sean McAllister: We're here.
• 7:36
  Sean McAllister: Why not?
• 7:37
  Sean McAllister: Do another spin around the block.
• 7:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's so cool.
• 7:40
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 7:40
  Dayna Roselli: But those are the things, again, we say it all the time.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: We're spoiled.
• 7:44
  Sean McAllister: We are.
• 7:46
  Dayna Roselli: Even my friend the other day said, Oh, what did you do today?
• 7:48
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, Well, I went to my friend's daughter's volleyball game, and then we went and watched the Texas game on the patio of a bar restaurant.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: It was beautiful.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was cloudy and warm on Saturday.
• 7:59
  Dayna Roselli: And it was, and I'm like, and like, gosh, there's so much so much to do there.
• 8:02
  Dayna Roselli: And like, and then I'm going, I went to the Italian restaurant last night, and then took my friend's daughters out to Cassie Beach Club.
• 8:08
  Dayna Roselli: Like, if we do have such a variety, you can do the normal stuff, and then and then you can do the elevated stuff.
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: It's true.
• 8:15
  Dayna Roselli: So, what else did you do with the fam?
• 8:17
  Sean McAllister: So we uh went to the Smith Center and saw a show.
• 8:20
  Sean McAllister: Uh Oh Mary.
• 8:22
  Dayna Roselli: I've heard a lot about it.
• 8:23
  Sean McAllister: Was there absolutely hilarious?
• 8:26
  Sean McAllister: You need to um be prepared for some um uh blue comedy, I'll call it.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: But it is absolutely hilarious, so good.
• 8:37
  Sean McAllister: Um, I think next coming up, the next big touring show that they have coming through is Phantom of the Opera.
• 8:43
  Sean McAllister: And this is the 40th anniversary year of Phantom, so good time to go and see that.
• 8:47
  Sean McAllister: We went and ate at Peppermill.
• 8:49
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, fun.
• 8:50
  Sean McAllister: Uh, which I have not been to Pepper Mill in so long, but I was reminded uh, first of all, it was packed.
• 8:56
  Sean McAllister: It's always packed.
• 8:57
  Sean McAllister: It was so busy, and the portions there are huge.
• 9:01
  Sean McAllister: So even though you're getting like a $24 entree, it's like it's liter you could make it two or even three meals.
• 9:10
  Sean McAllister: It's a lot if you take some to go.
• 9:12
  Dayna Roselli: Salads are crazy.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: They are the desserts.
• 9:14
  Dayna Roselli: And the desserts are huge.
• 9:16
  Dayna Roselli: They're huge.
• 9:20
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we went to the golden tiki.
• 9:21
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 9:22
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we stopped in there to have a have a drink.
• 9:24
  Sean McAllister: They're all decked out for Halloween.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: You know what?
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe okay.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: I was just thinking, you know what?
• 9:29
  Dayna Roselli: We didn't plan on having that in today, but maybe we should put that in just on the fly.
• 9:33
  Sean McAllister: We could.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: Patronia just did a story over there, and they're doing a lot of Halloween things.
• 9:37
  Sean McAllister: That is true.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: So you finish your story, and then maybe we'll insert that.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: All right, perfect.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: We'll put a pin in Golden Tiki.
• 9:43
  Sean McAllister: Uh Bellaggio Fountain and Conservatory, obviously a uh a must.
• 9:48
  Sean McAllister: So that's kind of the the gist of our running around.
• 9:53
  Sean McAllister: And then they went out to Boulder City.
• 9:55
  Sean McAllister: They drove out to Red Rock, they went out to Lake Las Vegas, and this trip was so good that my aunt, before they were leaving town, she said, I'm sold, I'm moving here.
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: Confirmed, I heard her say it.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, Wow, but it's and this is from the East Coast, from upstate New York.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, why not?
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's an amazing place to live.
• 10:20
  Sean McAllister: And they they saw it, they felt it.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: They tell you, I feel like because you took them some places and that also they stayed off the strip, like you get more of a vibe of the feel.
• 10:30
  Dayna Roselli: It's hard when you're on the strip in the middle of it all, you don't understand Las Vegas off the strip.
• 10:35
  Sean McAllister: Very true.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so I think that probably gave them a good uh idea and and a feel.
• 10:40
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta get that feel.
• 10:41
  Dayna Roselli: And they went down to you said Boulder City, even right?
• 10:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they went to Boulder City, they even went out to uh Arizona.
• 10:47
  Sean McAllister: They went down to Arizona to visit some friends who are uh building a house down there.
• 10:53
  Sean McAllister: So they saw some stuff.
• 10:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, good, I love that.
• 10:58
  Speaker 5: That's great.
• 10:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, good.
• 11:00
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a good trip.
• 11:00
  Sean McAllister: So it was exciting, yeah.
• 11:02
  Sean McAllister: But yeah, Golden Tiki, all decked out for Halloween, the place to go for all of your tiki Polynesian, tropical uh everything.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's incredible.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: We walked in recently when we did the shoot, and we always say, Oh my gosh, I forget how cool.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: It is one of the coolest places.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: So Patrana went there for a beyond the strip segment.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: Let's play that story so you can get the vibe.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: She talked with the general manager.
• 11:35
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: This has really become kind of an institution here in Chinatown.
• 11:38
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: And I'm here with the general manager.
• 11:40
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: His name is Nick Brink.
• 11:41
  Nick Brink: You know, we're really lucky in a town where so many bars after five years are looking to rebrand.
• 11:45
  Nick Brink: You know, we're just looking to add more wild stuff to the walls.
• 11:48
  Nick Brink: And Tiki is such a fun uh palette to paint from.
• 11:53
  Nick Brink: You know, the whole idea of escapism, if you can't get to paradise, we'll bring it to you.
• 11:57
  Nick Brink: And we're certainly trying to bring it to you here.
• 11:59
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: And okay, so tell about some of the stuff because people come for the cocktails, and you're known for all your snacks, right?
• 12:04
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: The poo-poos, the appetizers.
• 12:06
  Nick Brink: Yeah, we definitely have some really great offerings.
• 12:08
  Nick Brink: We have jersey rippers like fried hot dogs if you're looking for something more substantive.
• 12:12
  Nick Brink: We also have a lot of lighter bites.
• 12:13
  Nick Brink: You know, we have meatballs, this is a crab rangoon dip.
• 12:16
  Nick Brink: We do uh go chujang marinated cucumbers, just like if you're getting a bonchan.
• 12:20
  Nick Brink: We have curried cashews, just trying to have a lot of different items, so you don't necessarily need to feel like you have a full meal if you you can if you want, but you can also snack heavily.
• 12:30
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: And you know, any good business, they lean into a good story, right?
• 12:33
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: Well, this spooky reputation.
• 12:34
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: Tell us about how that all started.
• 12:36
  Nick Brink: It really got into kind of people knowing about it when we got on Zak Bagans ghost adventures, and that primarily happened because the booth right next to us, the safe right there, okay, the safety glass on it uh basically exploded while a group of guests was sitting there.
• 12:51
  Nick Brink: We couldn't find an impetus, no one smashed anything down, it just blew up.
• 12:55
  Nick Brink: Uh we have videos of bottles flying off shelves, glasses breaking, you know.
• 12:59
  Nick Brink: Some guests have caught some spooky photos on their phones.
• 13:02
  Nick Brink: So uh yeah, we've definitely earned our reputation as being one of the more uh haunted venues in Las Vegas.
• 13:07
  Nick Brink: And you have a lot of fun, especially during Halloween.
• 13:10
  Nick Brink: You know, Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, of course.
• 13:13
  Nick Brink: The entire month of October, we deck the entire place out with spooky decor.
• 13:17
  Nick Brink: We actually do a ticketed event on Wednesday nights.
• 13:20
  Nick Brink: We have the amazing core vet singing some spooky songs, alongside legendary demonologist John Shaw, putting him on a haunted magic show.
• 13:28
  Nick Brink: Uh, and we just bring in some different performers, really try and theme out the month so you can have some spooky fun here in Chinatown.
• 13:34
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: All right, so Nick, you have to tell me about the shrunken head?
• 13:37
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: What is that?
• 13:38
  Nick Brink: Shrunken heads, we've got one uh right behind us here.
• 13:40
  Nick Brink: Vinny Paul was actually one of our first celebrity guests here, and it's such a unique thing to us.
• 13:46
  Nick Brink: We have such neat friends that we've made throughout the years, and our unique way of honoring them is we throw them a shrunken head ceremony.
• 13:52
  Nick Brink: We have this amazing sculptor that used to work for the Smithsonian.
• 13:56
  Nick Brink: We send him basically mugshots of the talent, and uh he sends back a lovely piece of art that represents them as a shrunken head.
• 14:03
  Nick Brink: It's a super fun thing that gets love here, and it's a great unique way for us to honor our friends and all the different people that have helped made this bar so cool over the years.
• 14:11
  Nick Brink: There's probably around 200 heads at this point.
• 14:13
  Nick Brink: You never know.
• 14:14
  Nick Brink: We had the Backstreet boys hit us up when they were gonna play the sphere, so we did an event with them.
• 14:18
  Nick Brink: We'd like to blow people's minds.
• 14:20
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: So this place is definitely unique and such a fun spot.
• 14:23
  Patranya Bhoolsuwan: And Sean and Dayna, I don't know about you, but I think I'm gonna come back as at least for the food and the drinks, and maybe I'm gonna see something next time.
• 14:32
  Nick Brink: You never know what's gonna happen at the all-hours spectacle that is the world famous golden tea.
• 14:39
  Sean McAllister: So we did have a good time.
• 14:40
  Sean McAllister: We went around uh uh 1.30, 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, what it was busy.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Day drinking.
• 14:50
  Sean McAllister: Day drinking, and it was busy.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, like the whole place was full.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 14:56
  Sean McAllister: So it's fun.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: We we did not see any ghosts.
• 14:59
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, no ghosts, no ghosts this time.
• 15:01
  Dayna Roselli: But they might have followed you home.
• 15:03
  Sean McAllister: They could have.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I went to an off-strip restaurant that again I was reminded of like, gosh, I haven't been here in forever.
• 15:11
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm talking about uh Nora's.
• 15:14
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah, because you know, I haven't been to the like I say new location, but it moved years and years ago, I think.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm talking about Nora's Italian cuisine, longtime Las Vegas restaurant.
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's I think kind of even near where it was before, but it's on West Flamingo, near Decatur, I guess you'd say.
• 15:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um anyway, my friends that were in town for Metallica, that's where they booked their Friday night dinner.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: So they must have heard good things.
• 15:41
  Sean McAllister: It's such a great spot.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: Because they were staying at the palazzo, so they decided to get an Uber.
• 15:47
  Dayna Roselli: So they were like, hey, meet us for dinner.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: We already have a table, blah, blah, blah.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, this parking lot was full to the brim.
• 15:55
  Dayna Roselli: They had to have extended parking across the thing.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: I walk in this, and it's a big restaurant.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, it's awesome.
• 16:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's such a cool look.
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: And you want the whole thing, every person, even at this like bar where they were cooking, was like next to each other.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: It was entirely full.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: And this was 8:30 on a Friday night for dinner.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, that was a spot.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: So this is it's a thing.
• 16:23
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, I had, I want to tell you, a bottle of red for the table was like 50 bucks, which is great, you know, decent wine.
• 16:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um and I had the chicken picata, which was incredible.
• 16:40
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, they're their menu, the dinner, dinner menu is very lengthy.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: They've got everything pastas, desserts, appetizers, grilled appetizers, you know, soups, salads.
• 16:50
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, endless pasta choices.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: But uh seafood pasta, they got the classic.
• 16:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I had the bacata chicken, 26 bucks.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: You I got a pile of amazing chicken in this lemon caper sauce.
• 17:05
  Dayna Roselli: It was so flavorful.
• 17:06
  Dayna Roselli: Sitting on sauteed spinach, that was all that I needed.
• 17:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I was thinking, I really want to get protein.
• 17:12
  Dayna Roselli: Well, done.
• 17:13
  Sean McAllister: You got it.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, it was amazing.
• 17:15
  Dayna Roselli: $26.
• 17:16
  Dayna Roselli: Jeez.
• 17:17
  Dayna Roselli: So everyone enjoyed their meals.
• 17:19
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone loved the oh, the lasagna was a hit.
• 17:22
  Dayna Roselli: Two people got the lasagna.
• 17:23
  Dayna Roselli: And anyway, we sit there and enjoy it.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: Our waiter was great.
• 17:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I was like, I have been missing out on Nora's.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: So FYI, if you come into town, Nora'sQisine.com is where you'll find the menus and the website.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: Check it out.
• 17:38
  Sean McAllister: Man, I it's been a long time since I've been over there.
• 17:41
  Sean McAllister: I need to make a note to get back.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: It was so good.
• 17:45
  Dayna Roselli: I really enjoyed it.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: It felt like a family atmosphere, but also, I don't know, running into people you didn't know.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: And it was and it was like an occasion.
• 17:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:55
  Dayna Roselli: It was fun.
• 17:56
  Dayna Roselli: I loved it.
• 17:57
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's one of those spots too that has regulars.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: Like people go there on their uh that's their weekly dinner, their weekly night out.
• 18:06
  Sean McAllister: And so you do get that vibe of people who know each other.
• 18:11
  Sean McAllister: And then when you walk in, it's like you're part of the family too.
• 18:13
  Sean McAllister: Yay!
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: And then the you know, the weight, and like it's like I mean, it's like you have to have your reservation or else.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's it's great.
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: There's definitely people that have that standing reservation over there.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I hadn't been, it's huge, it's awesome.
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: So I really enjoyed that.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: That was fun.
• 18:29
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but that's you know, and I think that's kinda it.
• 18:33
  Dayna Roselli: I think we went over everything.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: That was a packed weekend for both of us.
• 18:36
  Sean McAllister: That was the out and about stuff that we've been doing.
• 18:38
  Sean McAllister: Man.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, something that just came down the wire today was uh another site proposal for an NBA franchise to move to Las Vegas.
• 18:48
  Dayna Roselli: That hasn't been completely confirmed yet, right?
• 18:51
  Sean McAllister: It has kinda it's like I know T.
• 18:55
  Sean McAllister: Pretty much happening.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: So apparently um a New York-based real estate firm, Fisher Brothers, uh, has pitched a 50-acre site right next to Area 15's entertainment complex.
• 19:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so and you were saying, well, this is like the third spot, and I was like, Yeah, I keep hearing things, but until somebody tells me it's a done deal, I'm not invested, but I'm trying to be.
• 19:17
  Sean McAllister: Well, there's a bunch of different uh uh players who have thrown their their hats into the ring to try and land uh the deal, the arena deal for a proposed uh Vegas NBA team.
• 19:32
  Sean McAllister: Um we've seen plans for an arena that would be south on Las Vegas Boulevard, and I'm talking south of Mandalay Bay, like down past the Welcome to Las Vegas sign.
• 19:42
  Sean McAllister: So not immediately in the Las Vegas resort corridor.
• 19:47
  Sean McAllister: Um we've seen Bill Foley, who's the owner of the Vegas Golden Knights, throw his proposal into the ring where the NBA team would be playing at T Mobile Arena, so they wouldn't even have to build another arena, which could be I kind of like that.
• 20:02
  Sean McAllister: I mean let's bring more to the arena that's already here, right?
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: Um I don't mind uh the idea of having an arena over by Area 15.
• 20:12
  Sean McAllister: There's a whole complex to you know uh entertain people as they're coming and going.
• 20:19
  Sean McAllister: The entertainment complex is built in.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: Um and then I think there's another uh site north on the strip that's been proposed.
• 20:27
  Sean McAllister: So we'll see what happens.
• 20:29
  Sean McAllister: I kind of have a feeling that T-Mobile is probably the front runner because they could just flip the switch and be ready to go tomorrow.
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, sometimes maybe they'll start there and then build.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: It could be kind of like I don't know.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it brings up the topic of, and maybe I shouldn't get into this, and maybe we can talk about it next week.
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, I was seeing that the the attendance for the Vegas Golden Knights is down for the first time in a long time.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: Nobody knows what you can pinpoint that to.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: It could be just things are expensive right now or whatever it might be.
• 20:59
  Dayna Roselli: But I did see someone say, like, are we getting too many professional teams now?
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: And it's like hard to you wanna be a part of all of it.
• 21:06
  Dayna Roselli: You want to cheer them on, you want to go to the live games, you want to be at a golden Raiders game, you want to be at a golden knights.
• 21:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, Golden Knights, I feel like, are the really like for the the hardcore locals and that's a lot of games.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: It's like a 42 game 42 uh home games.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: That's a lot.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: But it's done well and filled the T-Mobile for a long time.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: This is the first time they're really noticing that it wasn't full.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't, I don't know.
• 21:35
  Dayna Roselli: Is it too much?
• 21:36
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean big cities have multiple teams.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe we aren't as big.
• 21:42
  Sean McAllister: Maybe we aren't huge.
• 21:44
  Dayna Roselli: We aren't a huge, huge city.
• 21:46
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot of visitors, so you pile that on, and that probably doubles our or triple, I don't even know, our you know, percentage of people, amount of people that go to things.
• 21:55
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 21:55
  Sean McAllister: Well, and we've talked about this with uh the Raiders games is that you know the Majority of fans who are inside of Allegiant Stadium on game day are for the opposing team.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: You know, it's a lot of people who travel to Las Vegas to watch their team play.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, ticket sales aside, having all of these uh major uh sports teams in Las Vegas is a giant commercial for Las Vegas anytime a game is being played.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:25
  Sean McAllister: You know, there's shots of Las Vegas.
• 22:27
  Sean McAllister: They'll do little stories off the strip sometimes.
• 22:31
  Sean McAllister: You profile different things about the city.
• 22:34
  Sean McAllister: And I think that's really what having these teams boils down to is built-in advertising for Las Vegas as a destination.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, very true.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: We just gotta make sure that those yeah, we can fill those arenas.
• 22:48
  Dayna Roselli: We haven't had a problem.
• 22:49
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, like, you know, we're also talking about like an attendance that was down for one day at the Vegas Golden Heights.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: You know what I mean?
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: Like it was fifty around fifteen thousand instead of the normal seventeen.
• 22:59
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 23:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, exactly.
• 23:00
  Sean McAllister: So pretty good.
• 23:01
  Sean McAllister: Although I have heard people, uh where was I the other day?
• 23:04
  Sean McAllister: People were talking about their uh season tickets and how they kind of joined forces with some friends to split the season.
• 23:15
  Sean McAllister: They got rid of their own season tickets, went in with their friends on their friend's batch of season tickets to split those.
• 23:21
  Sean McAllister: So that they're still going to games because there's so many.
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: Because there's so many.
• 23:25
  Sean McAllister: And they were like, I just can't physically go to all of the games.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: I don't want to like have tickets that potentially go unsold if I put them on the up on the resale market.
• 23:38
  Sean McAllister: So yeah, I think it'll be, and it could just be the um economic situation and some uncertainty right now.
• 23:47
  Sean McAllister: You know, the A's, their stadium that they're building there at the corner of Trop and Las Vegas Boulevard, it's not going to be the uh highest capacity baseball stadium in the MLB by a long shot.
• 24:00
  Sean McAllister: It's actually on the smaller side, uh which I think is fine.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: Build it smaller and fill it.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think so too.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: You know, make it in demand.
• 24:11
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 24:12
  Dayna Roselli: It works, right?
• 24:12
  Sean McAllister: It sure does.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's just like trying to get into the club.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: And um uh couple other things going on, we just wanted to quickly mention.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Earth, Wind, and Fire is back in town.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: I know a lot of people love them.
• 24:25
  Dayna Roselli: I saw them last year over at the Venetian.
• 24:27
  Dayna Roselli: They are uh doing performances October 16th to the 31st.
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: And uh shows begin at 8:30.
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: If you're looking for an all-out good time, good show, great live music, they're awesome.
• 24:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then John Mayer extended.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: We mentioned in the uh beginning of the show, and I think it was even last week, we said April, but he's gonna extend.
• 24:49
  Dayna Roselli: We already knew it.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: And then now he's got shows he announced, I think, May and June.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, into the summer.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and then who knows what else?
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: I'll probably add again.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: But we thought, okay, a lot of people seem excited about this.
• 24:59
  Dayna Roselli: We have our producer friend in uh in Los Angeles that we work with on uh KCal.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: He's been trying to get tickets and he got opening night.
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: He's so thrilled.
• 25:08
  Sean McAllister: He did.
• 25:08
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 25:09
  Sean McAllister: I know, and he's been a John Mayer fan for years.
• 25:13
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 25:13
  Sean McAllister: Seen John all over the place.
• 25:15
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of cool.
• 25:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, there's a dive bar that we wanted to mention.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: We haven't talked about it, it's called the Hard Hat Lounge, and depends on when you're listening to the podcast because it drops on a Thursday, and this event, specific event, is uh on Friday, October 16th.
• 25:31
  Dayna Roselli: But they're doing a big uh block party from 8 p.m.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: until late.
• 25:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's basically a celebration of new life for one of the oldest bars in town.
• 25:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um, apparently it's been an annual tradition.
• 25:45
  Dayna Roselli: They love to kind of honor the community, keep everything alive.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's a free bash.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: You have to be 21 and over.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: They have live music, food, raffles, and of course, lots of beverages.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: But I actually have never been here.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's one of the oldest operating dive bars in Las Vegas, and they have all sorts of specials and things going on.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's open 24 hours.
• 26:09
  Sean McAllister: Well, and they call it the Hard Hat Lounge because they give special they give special deals to construction workers.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 26:16
  Sean McAllister: All day, every day, construction workers get a dollar off their drinks.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: Good.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: They deserve it.
• 26:21
  Sean McAllister: They do, they've built Las Vegas, they should keep building it.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: They've got to buy to two for the summertime.
• 26:25
  Sean McAllister: That's that's the truth.
• 26:27
  Sean McAllister: And I do hear that Hard Hat Lounge uh has one of the best burgers in Las Vegas.
• 26:35
  Sean McAllister: Well, I need to get over and try it because I am a burger lover.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and maybe it's happy hour is every single day from get this, two to five and then two to five a.m.
• 26:47
  Sean McAllister: Oh, so if you're a night owl or you're working the night shift.
• 26:50
  Dayna Roselli: That's why they cater to all the shifts.
• 26:52
  Dayna Roselli: That's what their big thing is.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: They have industry nights on Mondays with a live jazz band and 10% off bar tabs for all Vegas industry, karaoke Wednesdays from 10 p.m.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: to 2 a.m.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: And then, like you said, all day every day, dollar off drinks for construction workers.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's 24-hour gaming.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: It's located at 1675 South Industrial Road in Las Vegas.
• 27:12
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go check out the Hard Hat Lounge, sounds like they're uh having a great party on Friday, October 16th, but you can go anytime.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's a good spot.
• 27:23
  Sean McAllister: Another place we wanted to let you know about is in downtown Las Vegas at the El Cortez.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: This is a historic hotel casino dating back to 1941, and it's really undergone a property-wide refresh.
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, this restaurant is named after Bugsy Siegel, you know, the notorious mobster.
• 27:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it's interesting because El Cortez is celebrating 85 years on November 7th.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: So they've been trying to get this up and running, and it's now open.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: It actually is um open daily 7 a.m.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: to 2:30, and it's seagulls1941 LV.com for reservations, but they take walk-ins as well.
• 28:06
  Dayna Roselli: They have a breakfast and lunch menu.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, even that was funny, the press release said the martini lunch is back in downtown Las Vegas.
• 28:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, because that's kind of the, you know what I mean?
• 28:16
  Dayna Roselli: The vibe.
• 28:17
  Sean McAllister: Yes, because there's like all the all the political stuff, the laws of people who work downtown, like the power lunch.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, the power lunch, the vintage Vegas kind of glam breakfast lunch deal.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: Get a martini, why not?
• 28:31
  Dayna Roselli: It's 10 a.m.
• 28:32
  Dayna Roselli: Who cares?
• 28:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, excited to see that open.
• 28:35
  Dayna Roselli: They've been making a lot of changes.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: We've done many stories on all the things coming there.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: So um, if you haven't been over to the El Cortez recently, um, you might want to go check it out.
• 28:44
  Dayna Roselli: New things are opening, they've really refreshed it.
• 28:47
  Dayna Roselli: And uh they had said it was opening in the early fall, and now we know it is officially open.
• 28:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it is a good vibe over there.
• 28:54
  Sean McAllister: It was there not too long ago, and um, they've done a great job over there.
• 28:58
  Sean McAllister: Hey, let's get to some celebrity news with a Vegas twist.
• 29:05
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, I feel like the the video of the weekend was uh Donnie Osman showing up on stage with Donnie Wahlberg uh from New Kids on the Block at their residency.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, the two Donnies.
• 29:17
  Sean McAllister: The Donnies doing their thing.
• 29:19
  Dayna Roselli: That was cute.
• 29:20
  Sean McAllister: That was what a surprise.
• 29:21
  Sean McAllister: I know, what a surprise to have Donnie Osman with NKO TV.
• 29:27
  Dayna Roselli: Two of our faves.
• 29:28
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, we went over to interview Donnie.
• 29:29
  Dayna Roselli: We had told you about that at the Harris Showroom.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: He has extended his show, um, and we are excited that he is going is doing that because we love his show.
• 29:39
  Dayna Roselli: We've both been and had so much fun.
• 29:41
  Dayna Roselli: I know you have a long history interviewing Donnie uh in town.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: I I do too, but you guys have your little you know relationship through the years.
• 29:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it was fun to talk to him about kind of everything he's been up to.
• 29:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, not only how he keeps his show fresh, it's always, he's always adding new numbers, new visuals into the show.
• 30:02
  Sean McAllister: We talked about that.
• 30:03
  Sean McAllister: Also his decades, over 60 years in entertainment and all the icons he's uh performed with and been friends with over the years and how they have helped shape the entertainer he is today.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, it's something where you'll want to go to our YouTube and watch the interview.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: There's some really cool um collector's cases out in front in the lobby of the showroom, or go see them in person, um, with all memorabilia of Donnie's life, and it was really cool.
• 30:32
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean, you had the chance to kind of look over some of that and go through it with him.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: So um, let's play the interview and then we can talk a little more.
• 30:41
  Sean McAllister: What is it that it keeps you going, that keeps the interest there for not only this show, but Vegas?
• 30:46
  Donny Osmond: The energy that I get from all these people.
• 30:49
  Donny Osmond: You know, when you walk on stage and that that initial rush and that energy that comes from the crowd, that's that's hard to beat.
• 30:57
  Donny Osmond: That's the magic of show business.
• 30:59
  Donny Osmond: And then the lighting and the sound and the dancing and the costumes, that's that's show business.
• 31:05
  Donny Osmond: That's been my life since I was five years old.
• 31:07
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I know that you are the type of person who is always changing the show, evolving it, adding new things, working on new elements.
• 31:16
  Donny Osmond: Wait till you see the next edition.
• 31:18
  Donny Osmond: Okay.
• 31:18
  Donny Osmond: Okay.
• 31:19
  Donny Osmond: Back in the early 70s, I did a song with my brothers called Crazy Horses.
• 31:23
  Donny Osmond: Uh Ozzie Osborne told me it was one of his favorite rock and roll songs of all time.
• 31:26
  Donny Osmond: So I thought, why don't we close the show with that?
• 31:29
  Donny Osmond: So what I'm creating with AI, what you're going to see on that screen, on these three screens, will blow you away.
• 31:36
  Donny Osmond: Totally blow you away.
• 31:37
  Donny Osmond: I'm ready to be blown away.
• 31:38
  Donny Osmond: The horses are actually dancing.
• 31:42
  Donny Osmond: What?
• 31:43
  Donny Osmond: I actually bought a horse head from a mask from Amazon.
• 31:47
  Donny Osmond: And last night after dinner, I'm coming up with these dance steps in front of the camera.
• 31:52
  Donny Osmond: When you see it and you see these horses, they're going crazy.
• 31:55
  Donny Osmond: That's actually me.
• 31:57
  Donny Osmond: I'm an animal.
• 31:58
  Donny Osmond: You are an animal, Donnie.
• 32:01
  Sean McAllister: You are.
• 32:01
  Sean McAllister: You've been very fortunate to work with some of the great entertainers of all time.
• 32:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 32:15
  Sean McAllister: Are there like key moments from your interactions over the years that really have shaped who you are?
• 32:23
  Donny Osmond: How to treat an audience, how to handle yourself on stage, how to have that rapport.
• 32:29
  Donny Osmond: I learned that standing next to Andy Williams or you know, Sinatra and working on with all these legends here in Vegas, on these stages.
• 32:37
  Donny Osmond: This is where my training ground was in Vegas.
• 32:40
  Donny Osmond: And how you walk.
• 32:41
  Donny Osmond: Give me the microphone.
• 32:42
  Donny Osmond: Okay.
• 32:43
  Donny Osmond: Okay?
• 32:43
  Donny Osmond: And there's a way to walk on stage.
• 32:45
  Donny Osmond: You don't walk on stage like this, okay?
• 32:47
  Donny Osmond: You walk on stage with style.
• 32:50
  Donny Osmond: And you know, the body language on stage, how you hold your microphone.
• 32:54
  Donny Osmond: It it gets down to that.
• 32:55
  Donny Osmond: It's the little minutiae uh of of all how of how you act on stage, how you talk to people.
• 33:02
  Sean McAllister: Well, so now I've realized not only do I need to keep working on the dancing, but I need to work on an entrance walk.
• 33:08
  Donny Osmond: Well, you gotta hold your mic a little bit better than that, you know.
• 33:12
  Sean McAllister: With some swagger.
• 33:22
  Donny Osmond: And above all, have fun.
• 33:25
  Donny Osmond: When you get on stage, you know, you can't just do a show and say, I hope you enjoy.
• 33:30
  Donny Osmond: No, I hope you're enjoying this, you know.
• 33:32
  Donny Osmond: You better be enjoying yourself.
• 33:34
  Donny Osmond: And I do every night.
• 33:36
  Donny Osmond: It's a journey that I love going on every night.
• 33:39
  Donny Osmond: So good to see you again.
• 33:40
  Donny Osmond: Good to see you, bud.
• 33:41
  Donny Osmond: Yeah, work on that swagger.
• 33:42
  Donny Osmond: Okay.
• 33:43
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 33:43
  Dayna Roselli: So I really didn't get the horse thing at first, but now I get it.
• 33:46
  Dayna Roselli: So, in order to create the visual on this, because I haven't seen the current show, he had to buy a horse head from Amazon to kind of multiply it.
• 33:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so he used AI to create the visual that's up on the screens, but AI wouldn't allow his face to be used because he's a popular personality.
• 34:10
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 34:11
  Sean McAllister: So he had to put a horse head on, cover up his face, and then dance around.
• 34:14
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 34:15
  Sean McAllister: So now there's dancing horses up there on Donnie's show.
• 34:19
  Sean McAllister: What a great guy! So much energy, such personality, and his show really is one that you should not miss.
• 34:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 34:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's Vegas to a T.
• 34:30
  Dayna Roselli: It is, and he's got some energy, and he looks amazing, and he's just a great guy.
• 34:34
  Dayna Roselli: He knows what he's doing.
• 34:35
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, he was a lot of fun.
• 34:37
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we are going to see a new show at MGM Grand called Now You See Me Live.
• 34:42
  Dayna Roselli: We're going this weekend, and there's a red carpet and stuff, so we'll tell you more about that.
• 34:46
  Dayna Roselli: But that sounds like a really grand show.
• 34:50
  Dayna Roselli: Perfect spot, MGM Grand, um, with lots of illusions and stuff.
• 34:54
  Dayna Roselli: I I don't know the show that it's based off.
• 34:57
  Sean McAllister: It's based off it's based off the Now You See Me movie franchise.
• 35:01
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 35:01
  Sean McAllister: There's, gosh, I think at least three films in that franchise.
• 35:06
  Sean McAllister: I just saw uh well, number three, I just saw on my Netflix as I was scrolling the other day.
• 35:11
  Sean McAllister: Um, so Now You See Me has been turned into a grand illusion stage show.
• 35:19
  Sean McAllister: This is happening inside the old uh David Copperfield theater.
• 35:23
  Sean McAllister: They've refitted the entire place, uh, outfitted it for this brand new show, and it'll be exciting to see uh what the worlds of cinema and illusion can create when you put them on a Vegas stage.
• 35:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 35:38
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it sounds great.
• 35:41
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited.
• 35:41
  Dayna Roselli: I love big grand illusions.
• 35:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, that's kind of my thing.
• 35:44
  Dayna Roselli: I like that a lot.
• 35:45
  Dayna Roselli: I have uh trouble following I love, I think it's amazing the up-close card magic, but I have trouble following that in a showroom.
• 35:54
  Dayna Roselli: So I like the big grand.
• 35:55
  Dayna Roselli: I need to just spell it out for me.
• 35:57
  Dayna Roselli: It needs to happen right in front of my eyes.
• 35:58
  Sean McAllister: So now you see me is kind of based on this group of magicians who use illusion to pull off heists.
• 36:07
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 36:07
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, is this the is it Jesse Eisenberg?
• 36:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 36:10
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I've seen, yes.
• 36:11
  Dayna Roselli: I've always all right.
• 36:12
  Dayna Roselli: I might need to go watch this.
• 36:13
  Dayna Roselli: I gotta f figure out where it is.
• 36:14
  Sean McAllister: Rush up on the brush up on the Now You See Me.
• 36:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 36:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I'll be like, Now you see me.
• 36:19
  Dayna Roselli: I've seen all three.
• 36:20
  Dayna Roselli: All right, great.
• 36:21
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we got it's a busy time in Las Vegas.
• 36:24
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so we're going to Now You See Me.
• 36:26
  Dayna Roselli: Then we've got Bill's Raiders on Sunday.
• 36:28
  Dayna Roselli: Big game.
• 36:28
  Dayna Roselli: Man.
• 36:28
  Dayna Roselli: Hard for us.
• 36:29
  Dayna Roselli: We're both from the upstate uh western New York area.
• 36:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I'm Go Raiders, man.
• 36:36
  Dayna Roselli: Come on, Raiders.
• 36:37
  Dayna Roselli: Come on, beat those Bills.
• 36:39
  Sean McAllister: It's gonna be a great game, regardless.
• 36:41
  Sean McAllister: And uh uh the CBS uh NFL Today crew is going to be in Las Vegas.
• 36:47
  Sean McAllister: Uh that's where they're hosting the show from.
• 36:50
  Sean McAllister: It's a huge game.
• 36:50
  Sean McAllister: Ahead of this big matchup.
• 36:52
  Sean McAllister: So we're looking forward to that.
• 36:54
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and lots of different things happening all around town.
• 36:56
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about that recently.
• 36:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, then you and I are going to see Carrot Top at Luxor.
• 37:01
  Dayna Roselli: Um, that's what we're planned on doing.
• 37:04
  Dayna Roselli: He has planned to return to the stage at the Luxor Monday, October 19th.
• 37:09
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I got online real quick and bought tickets to show support.
• 37:12
  Dayna Roselli: So as long as that still goes on, next week we'll be able to talk a little bit about that.
• 37:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I think next week we'll be able to, or the week after, but um we look forward to to seeing Caratop out there again, one of the funniest comedians and longtime comedians here in Las Vegas.
• 37:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we're also going over to get a sneak preview inside of category 10.
• 37:34
  Sean McAllister: This is Luke Combs' new honky tonk over at Flamingo.
• 37:39
  Sean McAllister: This is in the space where Margaritaville used to be.
• 37:41
  Sean McAllister: It's huge.
• 37:43
  Sean McAllister: Huge three levels, rooftop.
• 37:46
  Sean McAllister: Uh so much hacked inside this place.
• 37:49
  Sean McAllister: It'll be cool to see um what Luke and his team have have done to turn this into the latest honky tonk on the strip.
• 37:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 37:57
  Dayna Roselli: And now this podcast drops Thursday.
• 37:58
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I are actually um recording this on a Monday.
• 38:01
  Dayna Roselli: So we've already gone to that.
• 38:03
  Dayna Roselli: But and just so you know, category 10 is open because it's open on the 15th.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: So that's official.
• 38:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but when we were reading about it, um, just because we I haven't seen it yet, there's a walk-up, what is it, hurricane bar?
• 38:14
  Sean McAllister: The walk-up hurricane bar.
• 38:16
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, and you can order and take it with you, or you can order and have it there.
• 38:20
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 38:20
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I like that.
• 38:21
  Dayna Roselli: That's smart.
• 38:22
  Sean McAllister: I mean, and especially right there, the foot traffic at the corner of well, it's directly across the street from Caesar's Palace.
• 38:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 38:30
  Sean McAllister: Right at the entrance to the Link Promenade, there is a ton of foot traffic coming in and out of there all day, every day.
• 38:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 38:39
  Sean McAllister: It's that place is gonna be bumping.
• 38:41
  Sean McAllister: When you get the live music flowing out of those doors and windows, you see when you're walking by and you look up and you see people having fun, you you want to go inside.
• 38:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you have the FOMO, right?
• 38:54
  Sean McAllister: You do.
• 38:55
  Dayna Roselli: Good stuff.
• 38:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, just another quick little reminder before we leave.
• 38:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, it is getting to Formula One race time, and there's a lot of construction happening.
• 39:05
  Dayna Roselli: I realized that last night as I dropped the girls off at the airport late.
• 39:08
  Dayna Roselli: They had an 11:30 flight.
• 39:10
  Dayna Roselli: So around 10, and I noticed that's when all that kind of stuff kicks in for the overnight work.
• 39:15
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of delays, a lot of backups.
• 39:17
  Dayna Roselli: Check your maps.
• 39:18
  Dayna Roselli: You'll see where it's red and closed, and and you'll see where it's you know, slower traffic, and you might need to go around uh because once you're in, man, you're in and you don't want to get stuck.
• 39:28
  Sean McAllister: No, you don't.
• 39:29
  Sean McAllister: So um there are alerts that you can sign up for if you're driving around there.
• 39:35
  Sean McAllister: If you're just uh planning a visit, you don't really need to do that.
• 39:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 39:39
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean you can look online at all times, but um, yeah, keep it in mind.
• 39:43
  Dayna Roselli: It was pretty busy at uh exiting the airport to Tropicana, and then I specifically didn't go to the cosmopolitan, or excuse me, Aria down the boulevard when I went to pick them up from Aria because they are starting that flamingo bridge work overnight.
• 40:00
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 40:00
  Dayna Roselli: So that'll be a big all right, whew.
• 40:03
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, download Vegas Near Me to the app.
• 40:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we love that they support us, that it's an amazing app.
• 40:09
  Dayna Roselli: Everything you need to know about Vegas, times, Ubers, maps, entertainment, live music, things for the kids, all the good stuff.
• 40:16
  Dayna Roselli: You can also go to Vegasnearme.com as well.
• 40:19
  Sean McAllister: And we will be back and have a lot more Vegas for you next week.