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Longtime Headliner Matt Goss Shares Las Vegas Stories | Ep. 50 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed and Happy New Year.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 50.
• 0:05
  Dayna Roselli: Happy New Year, everyone! We've got a lot coming up on today's show.
• 0:09
  Dayna Roselli: We sit down with singer, songwriter, and longtime Vegas headliner Matt Goss.
• 0:14
  Dayna Roselli: We are talking about new music he has coming out.
• 0:16
  Dayna Roselli: He's telling a bunch of stories about Las Vegas through the years.
• 0:20
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta hear some of these, and he's also started a new venture.
• 0:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is outside of what we would expect from Matt, but he's got some good stories to tell.
• 0:30
  Sean McAllister: It's all coming up right now on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:45
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, everyone.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: It is officially 2021, and we are at episode 50.
• 0:52
  Dayna Roselli: I'm Dana Roselli.
• 0:53
  Sean McAllister: And I'm Sean McAllister.
• 0:55
  Sean McAllister: I don't know about you, Dana, but uh 2021 feels uh almost exactly the same to me as 2020.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: Um exactly the same.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: Nothing has changed whatsoever.
• 1:08
  Dayna Roselli: So uh but here's to positive thoughts and and getting in a groove in 2021.
• 1:13
  Dayna Roselli: And hopefully, hopefully, I don't know, what do you think?
• 1:16
  Dayna Roselli: In like six months, we're back to normal.
• 1:19
  Sean McAllister: Well, I I think fingers crossed at at six months.
• 1:22
  Sean McAllister: That's what I'm hoping for.
• 1:23
  Sean McAllister: But I guess this is just a a time for all of us to update our vision boards, right?
• 1:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, exactly, exactly.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: And I know people are missing gatherings and they're missing concerts and shows, and I don't think any of us expected it to last this long.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: So it's been a difficult, a difficult time for so many people.
• 1:41
  Dayna Roselli: I'm noticing people getting a little bit more anxious and agitated and just ready to get back to normal.
• 1:47
  Sean McAllister: Well, and you mentioned, Dana, people missing uh gatherings, but if you looked at the Las Vegas strip on New Year's Eve, you'd never know that those people were missing a gathering because it looked exactly like any other New Year's Eve that we've ever had here in Las Vegas.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: People were packed on Las Vegas Boulevard right there in front of the Bellagio Fountains.
• 2:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's so true.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: The images that we have seen, I'm like, wow, what's going on there?
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, it was like freezing cold out.
• 2:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm shocked.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, do people want to get out that bad?
• 2:19
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, what do you think it was?
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: I'm assuming it's people that drove in from Utah, Arizona, California to do something during their New Year's Eve weekend.
• 2:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I would imagine that it was uh a lot of uh drive-in traffic.
• 2:32
  Sean McAllister: And what surprised me is that they actually shut down the Las Vegas strip to vehicle traffic, like they usually do.
• 2:40
  Sean McAllister: But uh when at a time when they're supposed to be discouraging people from gathering, I was just surprised that they actually went ahead and shut down the strip uh and allowed only pedestrian foot traffic on there because I feel like that encourages people to go out.
• 3:01
  Sean McAllister: Now, usually New Year's Eve in Las Vegas draws in, I don't know, 350,000 people just for uh the New Year's Eve festivities.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: We're not going to see any numbers like that, but there were still a good amount of people, and not only on the Las Vegas Strip, but also downtown.
• 3:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:22
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you know, there were it seemed like it was a, I guess, a good time had by all people looked like they were having fun, but yeah, you look at it, you know, and if you're a little more careful, you look at it from a distance and go, oh, I don't know about that.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: But um, there were fireworks that were in the air.
• 3:36
  Dayna Roselli: Those are COVID-free, right?
• 3:38
  Dayna Roselli: Fireworks that you look at in the sky.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: So um that was great.
• 3:46
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 3:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, yeah, I went to my parking garage.
• 3:50
  Dayna Roselli: I live south of downtown.
• 3:51
  Dayna Roselli: So I was in my parking garage and I I watched the fireworks the second half of the show from there, and it was it was really well done.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so you know, kudos to the plaza for still creating some type of celebration, I guess, for New Year's Eve.
• 4:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and as we've mentioned on past episodes of Vegas Revealed, the plaza was the only uh large firework display, official firework display that was going off uh in Las Vegas.
• 4:17
  Sean McAllister: The the normal firework display on the strip was canceled this year.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: So even that made it even all the more perplexing to me why so many people would go down there on Las Vegas Boulevard when there weren't even fireworks.
• 4:30
  Sean McAllister: It's like they just went there to gather and you know, whatever.
• 4:34
  Dayna Roselli: I guess it just shows like people really love Las Vegas and they like to get their Vegas on and they don't care.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's cold out, there's you know, this pandemic going on.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: Pandemic be damned.
• 4:46
  Sean McAllister: But um, you mentioned that that people were downtown also, and there were a couple celebrity sightings.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I saw at Circa that Jeremy Piven, the actor, he was there along with Mike Tyson.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: They were celebrating their New Year's Eve at Circa.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: Saw a picture um of them over there.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I know Circa opened now to rooms.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: So a lot of people were able to actually stay at the hotel for the first time as well.
• 5:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I saw a lot of people um down there at Barrie's downtown prime.
• 5:16
  Sean McAllister: That's the steakhouse over there at Circa.
• 5:19
  Sean McAllister: And they also have just opened up uh the Legacy Club, which is essentially like the rooftop lounge over there at Circa.
• 5:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it looks really, really nice, doesn't it?
• 5:28
  Dayna Roselli: I've seen some pictures.
• 5:29
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, wow, that's gorgeous.
• 5:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and there was a big uh there was a gathering up there, and of course, uh, I mean, you're not gonna find a better spot to watch fireworks at the plaza than, you know, being up at the the legacy club and looking down on the plaza and having the fireworks shoot up to your level.
• 5:47
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 5:48
  Sean McAllister: You know, something that I did tune into was uh the Las Vegas, the official Las Vegas countdown to 2021 with DJ Vice.
• 5:58
  Sean McAllister: It's uh something that we we talked about last time that they were blowing up 2020 and officially welcoming 2021.
• 6:07
  Sean McAllister: And it was uh it was cool to see that.
• 6:10
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it was a pretty big production that they put on, and it looked to me like it was on the far east side of the Las Vegas Valley, just out in a big empty plot of land, it looked like and uh you know they had the fireworks going off, they had a fuse that that lit and traveled over to 2020 to make the big, you know, the big boom and make the the big 2020 sign fall over and burn.
• 6:39
  Sean McAllister: So uh there was definitely a a good way to end 2020.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, definitely.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: The but in the best way that we can, right?
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: Or we could.
• 6:48
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:49
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we look forward to uh getting Las Vegas back in business.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: As I said on another podcast, we gotta get the Viva back in Las Vegas, and it's gonna happen this year.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: I feel it.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: When that will be, you know, nobody knows.
• 7:01
  Dayna Roselli: But we're glad everyone and we hope everyone had a safe New Year's Eve.
• 7:05
  Dayna Roselli: And um, we've got a great interview coming up, don't we?
• 7:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we do.
• 7:10
  Sean McAllister: A longtime Las Vegas headliner Matt Goss is sitting down with us here on Vegas Revealed to talk about new music and a new project aside from the music industry that has a lot of people listening.
• 7:24
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
• 7:24
  Dayna Roselli: And he's got some great Las Vegas stories to tell because he's been a headliner for more than 10 years.
• 7:29
  Dayna Roselli: So we catch up with him coming up next on Vegas Revealed.
• 7:32
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• 7:42
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• 7:44
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• 8:24
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• 8:27
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• 8:30
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• 8:39
  Sean McAllister: We are back on Vegas Revealed with a global pop star, musician, author, and humanitarian who has made Las Vegas his home for more than a decade now.
• 8:49
  Sean McAllister: Matt Goss rose to fame as one half of the pop duo Bros, which Goss started with his twin brother Luke.
• 8:56
  Sean McAllister: Goss has gone on to sell millions of albums all over the world, all while trying to keep his personal life as private as possible.
• 9:04
  Sean McAllister: But that's all changing now that Matt Goss is giving us a glimpse at his life through his first ever podcast called Conversations.
• 9:12
  Sean McAllister: And Matt is joining us on Vegas Revealed.
• 9:15
  Sean McAllister: Hey Matt.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's nice to see you guys.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: And uh and first of all, thank you for that introduction.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: And secondly, why are you so awake?
• 9:21
  Dayna Roselli: Because we wake up early now.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's like a pandemic.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: You're just so awake, guys.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Just relax, relax.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: We're chipper, we're chipper.
• 9:30
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, um, there's a million things to talk to you about, but you know, one thing obviously we love on Vegas Revealed is Las Vegas.
• 9:37
  Dayna Roselli: And you're still here, you're still doing what you do, but in a different way because you're not able to be on stage, and you've been performing in Las Vegas more than 10 years.
• 9:48
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you started at the Palms, you went to Caesars Palace for eight eight years, you've been at the Mirage for a few years, and now everything's kind of at a stop.
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: I'm just curious, because we ask everyone this, how it makes you feel.
• 10:00
  Dayna Roselli: Because I have a feeling that at first you kind of like the break.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean, uh I definitely in the beginning I loved the break because it was like it to be really to be really honest, it was starting to feel like work.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: I remember I was I was on my way and I said, I've got to go work.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, oh my god, I said that the W word.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: And that's really not a good word for musicians.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it I was grateful for the break in the beginning.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: But then um you know, halfway through I guess the COVID period, I I really started to get a real connection towards the human condition.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: I started connecting on my live Instagrams and not just talking to my fans but people that were not fans of mine and just just a general conversation about mental health and just really the general state of affairs in regards to psychologically and just the way the government was dealing with it, and it was very, very broad and enjoyable, but I didn't um but now I really am.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like I said to my brother Luke actually just yesterday, I was like, I really miss getting ready for my show.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'll go out in the street and I'll go into like a mall or and people will come up to me and say, Hey, Matt, we really, really miss your show.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: And it just I've really started to understand what was fun about my show, you know, is that the the connection and things that I can't do at the O2 Arena or Wembley or when you're playing or Broad Albert Hall, you can't I just simply can't do the same show as I do in Vegas.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's a connective, inclusive, I guess is the main word show, and I I really, really miss it.
• 11:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 11:29
  Sean McAllister: Well, and and what specifically are you able to do here in Las Vegas that you can't do at Wembley or O2?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, right now I I'm I'm I'm I'm really good at finger aerobics.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's my COVID workout.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: I tap along to many a song and I call that finger aerobics, that's my cardio for the day.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: But it's um I think Vegas teaches you more than any other city and venue in the world.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_00: Because the the the truth is is you'll go out and two-thirds of that room will be your room, which is great.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So as Frank would say, none of my people here, and you'll be like, you'd be like, there's some of my familiar faces, and they know my music, and then but then one third of that room is just read a review.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: So that is where you really have to truly check your ego at the door and be like, Alright, I'm here to entertain you.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: And then in a strange way, that's where the love of what you do comes back because you're like, I'm gonna make sure that you are gonna love this show.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's the strange dichotomy of Vegas.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: It it's it's one of the hardest cities in the world to play, but it is also the city that reminds you of why you're doing it, and that is to entertain and hopefully elevate and transport your audience.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_00: And audience that audience members that come to see you based solely on a a review are there to to be entertained, and you know, you get a little bit pissed off at them at first, you know, like, Do you have any idea who I think I am?
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then you're like, actually, you have no idea who I who I am, and I'm here to entertain you and sing you, and then I always crush it and they go and you know, yeah.
• 13:03
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I always think that whenever I leave the country and I say I'm from Las Vegas, like automatic conversation piece, right?
• 13:09
  Dayna Roselli: Every taxicab driver, every person is fascinated with Las Vegas.
• 13:13
  Dayna Roselli: And I think living here, performing here, I know working here, I don't want to say we take it for granted, but we're like, oh, we live in Las Vegas.
• 13:19
  Dayna Roselli: But to other people, it's such a wow factor.
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: And I know that your book ended by the palms and the mirage, but when you were at Caesars, it was a good run of eight years, which is really difficult for any performer in Las Vegas because they switch around so much.
• 13:34
  Dayna Roselli: But I remember you telling a story that the president took you into this hallway and it's where the the Cleopatra's barge sits, and it's an iconic kind of little room, looks like a barge, sits on water, and said, I need you to make something out of this.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: And I know that you said you felt that was a really like that was a challenge you were up for, and you did.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he actually that what he said to me is I hope you have a good imagination.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's what he said, because the person no name is mentioned also at the time was head of a department of actually head of 11 casinos, and and they said they'd never actually even been in there.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: And apart from like the four regular hookers and the two the two locals in that bar, I mean that's the truth.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, Well, I've got a I've got a very vivid and you know, very vivid imagination, and uh that was an incredible experience with when Gary over a a bowl of noodles in Beijing Noodle number nine.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um we sat there and he says, You want a beer?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: I said, Absolutely, I do, and we shook hands.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Welcome to Caesars, and we just got to it and we you know got the paint out, polished the brass, stabilized the ship, no pun intended, but we literally did.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I'm very proud to say, you know, I I created a venue and Gary, you know, Gary gave me credit for that.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um the president of Caesars said you have forever changed the shape of this casino, and and it still to this day is a venue.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: And I had some of the best times of my life at Caesars, they're my family.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: They're absolutely my family.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: When I walk into Caesars Palace, um the hugs, the the we reminisce.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um I I still feel like it.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: I I feel like Caesars wherever I am will always be m one of my homes on this planet.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: I really love that venue.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: Well, and and Caesars is an iconic venue with iconic history.
• 15:24
  Sean McAllister: Is it kind of a bit surreal to be a part of such an iconic piece of not only Las Vegas history, but pop culture history.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_00: It is incredible because you know, like you, you know, you start you I started my career off, you know, in the pop world and really like, you know, neck deep in the pop world, all over the world, selling millions of records.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: And my granddad always used to say to me, you know, you got to play in Vegas one day, son.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: He used to call me son.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_00: He was a gunner in the Second World War, and he's the most truly one of the most influential men in my life.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_00: And and he used to love Mel Tor May, um Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, all those great singers, and he would say, You have to go to Vegas.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: I never forget the day when we had the press conference to announce that I was gonna be at Caesars.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: It was something out of a movie.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: There was tons of TV cameras and press and everything, and I turned up in a Ferrari and got out and walked out, and Gary Celestin again being a visionary and not really you know, he d he cares, but not but only about the things that matter.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't care about you know being politically correct.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: And he said we stole Matt Goss from the palms, and uh I can say that because I'm good friends with George Maloof, who I have a lot of respect for, and these are these are gentlemen in this town that have have uh you know, George Maloof, Gary Celestna, Jason Gatsworth, Chris Baldesan, these are gentlemen in this town that have have really, you know, and continue to change the shape of this town, you know.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: And when you've got those kind of guys in your corner and you can have a glass of scotch with them and just put the you know talk about life and not just only talk about entertainment.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I always wanted this town to be is to have a sense of camaraderie.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I think it would be nice if there was more of a sense of camaraderie um in Las Vegas.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's it's becoming very corporate driven and and that cheeky kind of get in trouble but not too much trouble, kind of side of Vegas needs to come back a little bit more.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um and we need to really take care of our artists here.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I know when you when you say cheeky, you've had a lot of fun at Caesars.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel like before you come to Las Vegas, you had this imaginary, you know, thing in your head where you say this is what it's gonna be like, but when you started performing here, you had a show here, you started spending more time here.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: Do you think the Las Vegas you imagined was different, or do you feel like it's exactly how you pictured it was gonna be as an entertainer?
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: The there's two answers to that.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: I think the everything I've learned about the music industry, you should really just burn it, burn it again, bury it underground, blow it up, burn it again, and then send it off into a rocket into outer space.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: It has nothing to do with the music industry.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Vegas is like a big cruise ship.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody knows everyone, and and if they don't, they'll eventually know somebody that knows somebody who knows.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: Just there's there really is a one degree of separation in this town within the in within the industry.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think on many levels, my time at Caesars when I would sit on the roof where they filmed hangover, and I would hang out there with many, many people that I will not mention.
• 18:33
  Sean McAllister: Now, was that allowed?
• 18:34
  Sean McAllister: Is that that I was gonna say that's legit.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: You actually went up and hung out on the roof?
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's not allowed, but they they they they officially turned a blind eye, but we we would we would go up there and I I remember one time I was climbing up this ladder because you'd have to climb up this ladder to get to the top of the roof, and I ripped my tuxedo pants, and and then everybody took their shirts off, and we were just all sitting up watching all the strip and the nightclub at the time.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: We could see everybody having a good time, but we were in our own kind of bubble.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: Seriously, it was it was out, it was out of like the hangover movie, but it was there was an element of it was just the right side of civilized.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was mad because you know, you know, people, men and women had their tops off, and then but we were sitting there drinking scotch and and looking at the strip, and I'd just done a show in the iconic Caesars Palace.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: So these are things that you uh if I didn't have those memories, I don't think that I would look back as fondly as I do because there were all those little cheeky moments that you know you'd get a little nod from the security guard, and they know that that was something that we did.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was a it was an after show at iosyncrasy that that just felt good.
• 19:43
  Sean McAllister: So a a word to the wise when uh visitors can come back to Las Vegas.
• 19:48
  Sean McAllister: When you're walking the strip, don't ignore the rooftops of the casinos because you might get a little peep show up there, huh?
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's just wishful thinking showing.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I mean, listen, some good times through the years, and I mean when it comes to you know performing in a smaller venue, you still continue to perform uh all over the world.
• 20:09
  Dayna Roselli: You were recently in Ireland and London.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, so you're still doing bigger shows.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: You did shows with your brother, and then you've done your own solo shows too.
• 20:17
  Dayna Roselli: So you have such like a variation of anything.
• 20:19
  Dayna Roselli: Is there is there a favorite or does each one kind of you enjoy it all?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be lying if I said that playing 25,000 people at the O2 isn't a thrill.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we played a couple of nights there, we sold it out in seven seconds.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_00: So, like, um it's the fastest sell out in history.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: So when you have those moments, those big, fantastic, larger than life moments, it would I'd be lying if I didn't say that they they they are kind of what you live for in some ways because they are so exciting.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: But then you'd find yourself playing all these venues much, much bigger, obviously.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: And then you come back and you go, Oh, I know you come back to your room at Caesars, for example, and you just know the sound.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_00: My my sound guy, Kenny, well a big shout out to Kenny.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: Kenny's been with me for many years, and it's just a sound like you it's like coming and sitting in your favourite armchair.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a sound you understand.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_00: The geography of the room is something that you truly understand.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: And there's uh there's a sense of accomplishment in a w in in a beautiful way, and the fact that you've come home and you indeed have a place to come home to, which is called the gossip room.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: Which even to this day I still still have to pinch myself.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_00: The fact that I've had my uh a few of my own rooms in this town, and it's been over a decade.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's one fifth of my life, you know, and one third of my life professionally.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: I've been in Vegas, which is uh an incredible thing, and I'm I'm not done yet.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um I still am looking forward to conclude some of the conversations I'm having with some some casinos here at Caesars Palace.
• 21:51
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we need we need shows back.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: How are you feeling about that?
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: Do you feel it's gonna come?
• 21:57
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, obviously it has to come back.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: Do you think it's gonna be different?
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: Of different Vegas?
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: How are you?
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: I know Vegas Revealed is very, very upbeat and everything, but the the the truth about it, then the not so good side of Las Vegas is that musicians and entertainers in this town we're not robots.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: We can't just suddenly be expected to turn it back on.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_00: We've we've had loss in our lives too.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: We've we've been financially crucified.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Many many people that don't have a global audience like myself have have have really felt it.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_00: And we we're not robots, we are emotional people just like everybody else.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, in some ways, we're probably more emotional because we draw an emotion to write songs and lyrics and then perform them from a place that comes from a very deep, rooted, emotional place.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think that the entertainment community could have been more informed, more taken care of, and more nurtured in a way because we are always the first to be called upon to lift people's spirits.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I do believe that this town has a duty to take care of the entertainers because it's called the entertainment capital of the world, and I think there's never been a more vivid understanding of what that actually means.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the restaurant capital of the world, it's not the uh the dog park capital of the world, and but I do love my dog park here.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_00: But um, it's the entertainment capital of the world, and that is what brings in the big numbers, you know.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: After my show, I'd say, hey guys, I'm going to Sushi Roku.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's a great place to if you fancy a late night bite, and after my show, the restaurant would be full.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I was there recently, and they were like, We, you know, we need more my gosh shows because you know you would always bring an audience.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, entertainers support local businesses here, not just the big, fabulous places, but you know, a couple of places, you know, Naked Fish on Durango.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: I love Vitna Grill, I love places off the strip and on the strip.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_00: But we are, as a community of entertainers, whether you're a singer, a magician, or absinthe, uh, big circuit show, we are the people that bring in the numbers.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: And I think I hope I mean don't get me wrong, I don't think it's gonna happen, but it would be lovely to think that some of the heads of casinos would you know reach out to some of the entertainers that are destination points.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know, my show is a destination point for over ten years, and um I had a very, very big manager ask me, do you know what's going on?
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, absolutely no, I don't.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that would be a misconception externally out of Las Vegas that the entertainers are being informed.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we're not.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: And I really hope they don't just expect us.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: It would be very arrogant just to expect us to turn on a dime and go, okay, when do you need us?
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: Give everyone listening that's an executive out there.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I can say it because I'm not afraid of this conversation.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_00: Because and I should I don't want entertainers to feel afraid of this conversation.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's true.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: We are human beings, reach out, give them enough time to acclimate to what they have to do, you know, warm up the voices, warm up the limbs, and really be prepared to quote unquote entertain this city and the world because the world comes here, it's not just locals, and I would love it more than anything, actually, when locals would come to my show, but the world comes here, and we we owe that respect to the entertainers to you know get the ignition switched on before you rev the engine.
• 25:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I think uh communication is definitely going to be one of the major issues uh for for entertainers and uh for casino workers across the board, uh, once the town gets gets back up and running and we are able to you know have shows back on stage and audiences back in those seats.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: There is a an emotional fatigue for for everybody, also for an audience.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not expecting the audiences are suddenly gonna be like, uh, entertain me.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: But also for artists there is an emotional fatigue, there is a sense of loss.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, artists in this town have a massive sense of loss and routine.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's an incredible feeling when you enliven an audience and transport an audience into a place uh of euph euphoric kind of joy, and I'm in Las Vegas, but remember after a show you go home and you have to you know you have to find the strength and the emotional drive and intelligence to get back on stage again.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a year and I feel it, I know a lot of my colleagues and peers feel it.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think there is such a thing as COVID fatigue and and there's also a performance fatigue.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know, um ironically, the more you sing and the more you perform, the more you can sing and perform.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like you just it just turns up.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: But when you don't sing in full voice, for example, and you don't use your full voice for my show's what you know at almost an hour and forty-five minutes, you know, you you lose the muscle memory.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: So I just really, really want to put out there there is it's a real thing, and I really want people to understand just because you know, they might be on a billboard or you might see somebody on a billboard, it doesn't mean that there isn't an emotional and performance fatigue that's set in, and we need to be conscious of that, I think.
• 27:26
  Sean McAllister: I want to talk about um the potential of new music coming out and the new podcast called Conversations, but but first quickly, looking back at uh your history here in Las Vegas, you've racked up several awards.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_00: I have, I have, and I've been very, very honored to receive.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: We made him go get them, by the way.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they did they because I'm he has them on demand, but that's because we told him to get them.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't like I don't sit here and hold my awards like some sad bastard that's like like I've got no company, I'm gonna hold on to the company.
• 28:00
  Sean McAllister: But it is cozy, isn't it?
• 28:01
  Dayna Roselli: It looks so nice on the little table next to you.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: It looks very established.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um yeah, I've I've received many awards over the years, and there's something about receiving awards in this town because it it's so competitive, and there are so many options.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: There are hundreds of shows at every given moment in this town.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_00: So to win an award is is an incredible thing.
• 28:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very proud of this award.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's the icon award from Caesars Palace.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_00: I won this on the same night as Marie and Donny Osmond and Wayne Newton.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: We all won it on stage at the same time.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: We performed a song together, which is also an honour because I love those guys.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_00: But also the same day as Tony Bennett.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_00: So as you can see, it's you know, there's I'm I'm getting into this because this is all carved, it's all it's crystal, it's beautiful, it's got my name on it.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very proud of this.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's an icon award.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_00: So and then I've got the key to the city.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, sorry, the key to the strip, I should say.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'll get corrected that on every time.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've got the key to the strip, it doesn't open any doors, and you don't get free anything.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's nice though, but it's nice, it's it's carved.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: Again, it's all engraved, and it says key to the Las Vegas strip.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: So that was nice.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: They gave me Matt Gostey as well, proclamation of Matt Gostei.
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_00: I've got a beautiful plaque downstairs that's on my wall um thing.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then there was an award recently, and I'm a sadistic kind of I have a very sadistic sense of humor, so that's why I'm gonna talk about this.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: I think that the people that gave me this award will understand the intention of this, it's just a bit of fun, but it's a very, very special award.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: I actually won it was the best lounge act of all time.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: Amazing, wow, big yeah big, big award, massive, you know.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_00: And and I was like, wow, and then I got a message saying, This has to be hand delivered to you.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: It can't be anyone, and I live in a gated community, so I let you know, I'd made room in my little where my my awards go, and and anyway, so the next I missed it, and they're like, Look, we we have to deliver this to you, and it has to be personally signed for.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, this is a big deal.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, you know, I'm getting excited, so I cancelled my whole day the next day.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_00: So this this award is actually from Las Vegas Weekly, and it's a big deal, you know.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: Las Vegas Weekly, I've I think I've been on the cover.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: I've I've I've I really was excited about and honored, honored by this award.
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: Well, from the sounds of it, it sounded like you were getting the crowbar out of the garage to pry the crate open and pull this award out and place it on a pedestal.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was, and I and I'm gonna be really honest with you because I am horrible.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: And this is what turned up.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: And if you can see at the back here, this is the this is the award.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: And I would be right this on our YouTube and so everyone can see it.
• 30:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the award, and it's photocopied.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you can see, I've never done this.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's the first time.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's an award exclusive of my award.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: So it's I'm not being ungrateful, just please bear with me.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: But if you look, this is my award.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no.
• 30:56
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, that's that's the blank.
• 30:57
  Dayna Roselli: That's what it comes in.
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: That's how the frame came.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that comes a folder piece.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: But then, but you can see anyway, the the it was done on a photocopier and the ink's running out, so it's actually this is the this is the award.
• 31:14
  Sean McAllister: It's a high glass paper.
• 31:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's that's a pricey, and there's three colours in the Las Vegas Weekly.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: You know I love you, and I wouldn't be me, because I always give my earrings shit as well.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: The reality is, after this COVID thing's over, there's a lot of entertainers.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: We want of all time, of all time?
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: This is 11 years I worked for this.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: What are you doing to me?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just saying, but listen, I'm very, very proud of this award, but you your your award game needs to be a little bit your award game is a bit But what an honor.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Don't even believe it's a Dana is a Vegas revealed is a one it is an honor.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's my point.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: But there's a lot of and I'm I'm I'm pretty sure some of my sadistic fellow entertainers that won awards feel the same way as me.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: I stayed in all day for that.
• 32:03
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, my senior picture from high school might be in a better frame than that.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: But the guy, the guy, the guy that came to deliver it for me, it was it was uh it was a it was an event.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: I opened it and anyway.
• 32:16
  Sean McAllister: All right, so we've talked awards.
• 32:18
  Sean McAllister: Should we uh turn and talk music a little bit?
• 32:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because you've been working on a new album.
• 32:23
  Dayna Roselli: I've heard a bunch of the songs, it's incredible, it's fun, it's a beat, uh, and there are other songs on there too that are slowed down a little bit and beautiful.
• 32:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's a little bit of everything.
• 32:33
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, you seem really excited and proud of this one, and I know you're itching to get it out.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_00: I am.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I completely disconnected from music in the beginning of COVID.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I say the beginning of COVID, we might still be here in three years.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: So if at the moment, my perception of the beginning of COVID, I switched off from music, and I really felt a connection to the human condition, and I was loving my lives and actually getting a glimpse into the world of my fans and people that were not fans, and it was very, very enlightening to me, and I was really I really could feel myself learning, and I loved that feeling, and it was you know, I'm so proud of it, and just to go live, and I remember when I went live the first time on my Instagram, it was just kind of a scary moment, and I like that feeling of getting butterflies when you're and you're not in your element, you know.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: But then I started to sit on my piano and go up into my studio and just start to play around with some things, and I just started to write song after song after song, and um I'm I think I'm one song away from completing the album, and it's it's it's it's definitely turning into something that I purposefully have wanted to create hit records, not just an album.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: And that that isn't selling out, that isn't just trying to write commercial music, it's me as an artist remembering that feeling when I would have those big number one records in the past and just and go, I want to find a path back to that place because I love pop music and I love commercial music, but I wanted to write commercial music that was also emotionally intelligent.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I've really been lucky enough to work with people like Jacob Bunton, um Jay Rustin, Dave Auday, some really, really great people and um Babyface.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm very, very blessed to be able to work with some incredible people, but I'm also blessed to feel very prolific as a writer right now.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's I can't wait to get this out, and I'm not letting anyone hear it because I want it to come out as a complete body of work with videos and everything.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's really, really special.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm very proud of it.
• 34:44
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was gonna say, over the past decade plus, people who have come to see you here in Las Vegas have gotten to know you kind of as a crooner, and it sounds like this is really bringing you back to your pop roots.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a strange one for me when I get asked about the crooner thing.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's definitely a part of my life that I absolutely adore that will stay with me without without question, it's gonna stay with me in.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but my core is rock and roll and pop music and and larger-than-life performances, and that's definitely a part of me.
• 35:15
  SPEAKER_00: So I think people from Las Vegas probably know me as that, but my life is is much bigger than that and broader than that.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's multifaceted, and quite honestly, I'm so grateful that I'm able to do shows in Las Vegas and also do shows abroad.
• 35:31
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I think when people would come to the shows, I mean you had those moments where you would whip out the guitar, you know, or you play on the piano, and everyone was just like, Wow, that's a thing.
• 35:39
  Dayna Roselli: Like, he's a crooner, but there's a lot he can do, you know, the variety and styles that you bring.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, for me, I'm not a crooner.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: For me, I'm a soul, I'm a soul singer and I'm a soul boy.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: So for me, Frank Sinarch is a s is a soul singer, and so is Mel Tormay, and so is Stevie Wonder and and Donnie Hathaway.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: These are the singers that have truly changed the shape of me in in in the best way, and also meaning that you're able to undress your soul to an audience because you can't expect an audience to come along with you if you're not being quote unquote truthful about what you're singing and you don't remember why you're singing that lyric.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: There is a a place that you have to go to, often quite painful, to sing in a certain way to move an audience, because if you're not being authentic, the audience won't come back, and that's not the reason you do it.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: But I literally physically love the way singing feels.
• 36:33
  Sean McAllister: And is there a target date for the album to be out?
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_00: Without question, the first single will be out in March.
• 36:39
  Sean McAllister: Oh, qu soon.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: The album will not come out unless it's released in the right way.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_00: So we're putting all that stuff, all the behind-the-scenes stuff in place right now, but um it's going to come out in a beautiful way, and every song on this record right now could you you could it would be could be played on the radio.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Great.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: You could throw a dar at any one of these songs and you could say that's the next record.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's that strong.
• 37:01
  Dayna Roselli: True.
• 37:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's exciting.
• 37:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's really, really good.
• 37:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's hard to decide.
• 37:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 37:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 37:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, of course.
• 37:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I wanted to talk quickly about um After the Screaming Stops, a documentary that you were in, what was it, two gosh, how long two years ago now, yeah.
• 37:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, with your brother.
• 37:17
  Dayna Roselli: And it's incredible because I've seen other documentaries on Netflix and other places.
• 37:23
  Dayna Roselli: I've watched Taylor Swift's, I've watched, I don't know, things like Paris Hilton's and and other other just documentaries recently about celebrities or even about music, and it never kind of holds.
• 37:35
  Dayna Roselli: I even watched Garth Brooks, who I love, and it was a little slow for me.
• 37:38
  Dayna Roselli: But your movie, and I say this, we are very close friends met and then, but I want to point out that it really is one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen.
• 37:46
  Dayna Roselli: The way that it was done, um, you know, it's about music, but it's also more about heart and your relationship and what fame did to you starting so young and how you've turned that into a life for yourself.
• 38:01
  Dayna Roselli: Now I was a grown man and it's won a benaphthema.
• 38:04
  Dayna Roselli: It was nominated for two banaphemas, it's won a national film award, it's won film festival awards in the United States.
• 38:11
  Dayna Roselli: GQ said it was the best music documentary of all time.
• 38:14
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the list goes on.
• 38:15
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, this is a documentary that people need to see.
• 38:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I know it was life-changing for you as well, right?
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's true at all.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's a terrible film.
• 38:25
  Dayna Roselli: It has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, because a lot of people, you know, they Google first and they look and say, do I want to see this as good?
• 38:32
  Dayna Roselli: It's like 100% is incredible.
• 38:34
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, like The Godfather, I think, has like 98%.
• 38:36
  Dayna Roselli: So this is a big deal.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: No, I think thank you.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_00: First of all, it's amazing actually hearing you describe the movie and knowing all of that's true in the fact that like it was the accolades and and it became something that was a a cultural phenomenon, really.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was I remember just when the movie came out, and just social.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: I thought my immediate was like, oh no, what's happened?
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: What's wrong?
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: And it just the swirl globally just started to just fall in love with this film, and you were right, it's it is about music, but it's really more about sibling rivalry, um, the dysfunction of family.
• 39:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's also it's just there's so much uh that that that this film addresses, and for me, it was like having therapy in front of the world, you know.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_00: That that movie will forever be there, and yes, there are sound bites in there that that don't have context either side, but it's funny, it's um quirky, it's extremely emotional.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: We dive deep into the the issues of me and my brother that we we frankly hadn't addressed about the when my sister was killed and also the death of my mother more in more recent history, but we we simply hadn't addressed it with each other, and the cameras caught that emotion and the anger.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of anger in that film, um, and there's also a lot of pain.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I think we didn't want to make a movie that was oh look how great we are and sugarcoat the music industry or the entertainment business because that one industry should not be sugar coated.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um you are swimming with sharks in the music industry.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_00: You are literally swimming with sharks.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been me and my brother have been in the industry for three decades and we have sharp teeth.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: And um we s both speak in analogies because we're we're artists and it enlivens the English language, and I think that's really how it's felt at times.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: We it's bite or be bitten, it's like we've m you know we've fallen.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and you can see that in the film too.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: We have fallen our ass and and we've dusted ourselves off, and that's testament to being our mother's sons.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we were raised in a in a way that we would would have to just dust yourself off and and put your left foot in front of it, the right foot, but we were also taught that you must remember to dance along the way and enjoy enjoy those moments.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: And I think in some ways as an artist I feel more relaxed because of the hardship that I feel less guilty about the good times because I really feel like as they say, I paid my dues.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I really have.
• 41:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 41:21
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of the movie, I always said to Sean, a lot of people are saying Matt needs his own podcast, right?
• 41:26
  Sean McAllister: It's true, and people there were actually recently the documentary re-aired, I think it was in Australia, and one of the comments from somebody in Australia, they wrote to you and said, Matt, you need your own podcast.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: And lo and behold, that is one of the most profound segues I've ever heard.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: You just thought of it.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: You just thought of it.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, I in fact I do have my own podcast now called Conversations.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: And it's, you know what?
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: The the it's given me such joy.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's new in my life to be working with you guys.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you guys are are producing this podcast with me.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um is it, Bobbies?
• 42:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um Matt has a French bulldog called Reggie.
• 42:09
  Dayna Roselli: You might have heard him drinking earlier.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: So now that little that little moaning was is that you want some emotion.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: So if you hear any noises, that's my French bulldog, Reggie.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Hello, darling.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, listen.
• 42:20
  Sean McAllister: Oh, listen to those puppy kisses.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Where were we?
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: The podcast.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: So you're enjoying doing the podcast.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's new to me, but it it gives me such joy, and it allows me to talk about my inner philosophy, my outer philosophies that I've read and the human condition, and just talk about things that aren't really spoken about.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like I I think some some of these podcasts for me uh they overcommunicate.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, some issues just have to be addressed directly.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: They don't have to be draped in psychology and it's just basic human emotions, and and it's an amazing thing to be able to have uh a platform now that I can I can't see it going away.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: I just I love the idea of having a podcast that that that grows.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not obsessed about chart position, but we are doing well.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: We've we've gone into the top five all over the world.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's amazing, you know.
• 43:15
  Dayna Roselli: I was looking and it was like Switzerland, uh Great Britain, Hong Kong, Italy, Nigeria, Nigeria, everywhere, Hungary.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's just really, really incredible.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I think it's just a place where I've found uh that I can communicate in the way that I like to, and also involve my listeners, where they just put hashtag MG Conversations uh on my social, and then if you have a question or a subject that you would like um to talk about that's personal to you or to do with social climate or politics or religion, whatever it may be, uh mental health, I'm up for it.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_00: So I also find myself that I'm learning during the process.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: But I also am opinionated and I think it's important that you have strong opinions if you want to have a podcast because you don't want to be a warflower and not be able to state your case and actually have to be able to stand behind how you feel.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a nice it's uh I'm really enjoying the process and and the experience is something that's become as dear to me as my music.
• 44:20
  Sean McAllister: And and so this is a forum where uh listeners can not only be invited into conversations that you're having with guests on the podcast, but they can actually spark conversations themselves with you.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_00: As I said, if you put hashtag mgconversations on my Instagram uh under the the the last post, we will go through the questions and absolutely 100% address those those issues.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's an interactive experience.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_00: It also allows us to um be involved in the now.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_00: So people have have come up with some great questions and comments.
• 45:00
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so it's conversations with Matt Goss available, Spotify, iHeart, Apple, all that.
• 45:04
  Dayna Roselli: So for all our folks that listen to us, and and please listen.
• 45:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we uh have a link to conversations with Matt Goss in our episode notes, so you can find it directly there and go over to uh conversations and don't just listen, leave a review and rate it too.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, don't press, do not press the one star because it's very important.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: You have to press the five star at the very end.
• 45:28
  SPEAKER_00: And and I always say this and I with all sincerity if you want to leave a bad review about my podcast, please leave it on somebody else's podcast, not mine.
• 45:37
  Dayna Roselli: And not Vegas Revealed.
• 45:38
  Dayna Roselli: And not Vegas Revealed.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_00: I appreciate that.
• 45:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um listen, before we go, should we ask him to uh a tip?
• 45:43
  Dayna Roselli: Because we always we Sean and I always do our tips for Vegas, and it's kind of like something we might love or something we know about that other people might not know about, something you love to do.
• 45:53
  Dayna Roselli: So sometimes we like to put it on the guest.
• 45:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so we will uh hear two tips from Matt Goss coming up next on Vegas Reveal.
• 46:03
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate all our listeners from around the world, and you know what else we really appreciate is when you leave us a review, right, John?
• 46:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it really helps people find the Vegas Revealed podcast, and that's what we want.
• 46:16
  Sean McAllister: We want to spread the word of Las Vegas to as many ears as possible.
• 46:20
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 46:21
  Dayna Roselli: So please, if you can and you listen, go leave us five stars, leave us a review, we would really appreciate it.
• 46:27
  Dayna Roselli: And if you're looking for everything Vegas related, you can go to our website, Vegas Revealed.com.
• 46:33
  Dayna Roselli: There we have videos, we have the apps listed of where you can listen to our podcast, plus news articles too, and information about me and Sean.
• 46:42
  Sean McAllister: Vegas Revealed.com.
• 46:47
  Sean McAllister: All right, welcome back.
• 46:48
  Sean McAllister: It's time for our two tips, and this time uh Matt Goss is giving us his Las Vegas tip.
• 46:54
  Sean McAllister: So, Matt, let him rip.
• 46:56
  Sean McAllister: Can I do three?
• 46:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, you can do three.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: So the through-through, you know, glamorous, get ready, go out for the good night out, and just still feel like you're involved in some kind of Vegas experience during these times, would be SW Steakhouse at the Wynn.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just an amazing the food is beautiful, the service is wonderful, and I will say that there's a beautiful lake and there are shows every half an hour which were produced, I believe, by Kenny Ortega, who also directed This Is It, the Michael film about Michael Jackson.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_00: He's also a dear friend of mine, but they've done such an amazing job and I would highly recommend a nice night out at SW Steakhouse.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, now locally, every morning probably I order from a place called Toast Society, and I order the other everything.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I personally order.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's the avocado toast, but they put a layer of cream cheese on the toast, and then they do sliced avocado.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm salivating, actually thinking a bit.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_00: Then they do sesame seed with olive oil and a tiny bit of kind of seasoning, I don't know what it is, but it is absolutely perfect.
• 48:02
  SPEAKER_00: And then I also order something which is interesting.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: They do serve regular coffee, but I cannot drink caffeine because it gives me the jitters, and during these times it makes me very anxious.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I actually order the turmeric latte, which is turmeric, and I replace milk with oat milk.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_00: So they give you all these wonderful options that you can replace the milk with oat milk, hot or cold preparation.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: So the turmeric latte and also the um the Avo Everything.
• 48:31
  Dayna Roselli: Avo everything.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and then I would say if you just really want a good, you want to chow down and it's just it's another local business, it is Mother Falafel.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: They obviously have falafel and they they but if you just want to chow down and just have a nice pizza with k kebab chicken and they can make it spicy with peppers and onions and tomatoes, it's just delicious.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's called Mother Falafel, and I just order Grubhub and uh so yeah, that's it.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: They're my three tips, I would say.
• 49:03
  Dayna Roselli: Well, well, you're supporting two local businesses, Grubhub and the restaurant.
• 49:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's right.
• 49:07
  Dayna Roselli: Those are good.
• 49:08
  Sean McAllister: Those are those are two spots locally that I don't hear a lot about, so I'm glad that you brought those up.
• 49:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, always good to let people know, you know.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: And so again, it's Toast Society and Mother for Loughful.
• 49:19
  Dayna Roselli: Love it.
• 49:19
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, Matt, thanks.
• 49:20
  Dayna Roselli: We've enjoyed talking to you so much.
• 49:22
  Dayna Roselli: We could go on forever and ever, so we'll just have you on again.
• 49:24
  Dayna Roselli: Make sure everyone that you listen to conversations with Matt Goss, now available, his brand new podcast.
• 49:29
  Dayna Roselli: He's about three or four episodes in.
• 49:31
  Sean McAllister: And new music coming out this spring.
• 49:33
  Sean McAllister: Look for it, hopefully sooner than later, right?
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll also say thank you to your listeners.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a big fan of your show as well.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: And please, everybody listening, do me a favor, just one thing.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_00: Call your strongest friend.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_00: The people right now that are strong that you don't hear from probably need it most.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: So just after you listen to this podcast, just call your strongest friend, send them a message.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: If you've got beef with anyone, start the new year and just go, hey, let's start again.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: So nothing but love to you guys.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_00: Happy New Year.
• 50:02
  Dayna Roselli: Happy New Year, everyone.
• 50:03
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, it's officially 2020, hey.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: It is.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_00: Ring it in.
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: Celebrate.
• 50:08
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it's officially 2021.
• 50:10
  Sean McAllister: What the hell?
• 50:10
  Sean McAllister: No, we're not, we're not going backwards, Rosetta.
• 50:15
  Dayna Roselli: We leave it in.
• 50:15
  Dayna Roselli: We leave everything in.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's what Pub has done to us.
• 50:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, happy New Year's 2019.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's how my brain feels.
• 50:22
  Sean McAllister: In a nutshell, my god.
• 50:24
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 50:24
  Sean McAllister: So we're blasting through the new year.
• 50:26
  Sean McAllister: We'll see you back next week on Vegas Reveal.
• 50:28
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.