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Las Vegas Visitor Spending Record, MSG Sphere Immersive Production Announced, Dine in the Dark Restaurant, Magic Mike Live Matinee, Katy Perry Final Shows | Ep. 164 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to episode 164 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:04
  Sean McAllister: A matinee Magic Mike live show is coming your way.
• 0:07
  Sean McAllister: We've got the all-new details.
• 0:09
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, I like that.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: And the MSG Sphere opens this fall, and the company announces its first immersive experience.
• 0:16
  Dayna Roselli: In fact, tickets are already on sale.
• 0:19
  Dayna Roselli: We explain what it's all about.
• 0:21
  Sean McAllister: Southern Nevada's visitor spending reaches a record-breaking number in 2022.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: We reveal what's behind this cash influx.
• 0:31
  Dayna Roselli: And Katy Perry announces more shows, but final shows when you still have the chance to see her at Resorts World.
• 0:44
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean dines in the dark.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: All that coming up this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:51
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• 0:57
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• 0:58
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• 1:02
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• 1:11
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• 1:15
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• 1:18
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• 1:22
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• 1:24
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• 1:28
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• 1:34
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• 1:39
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• 1:45
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• 1:57
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• 2:00
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• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get to it now and spin that wheel.
• 2:15
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 164, Sean McAllister here, along with Dana Roselli.
• 2:22
  Sean McAllister: And uh, you know, we keep talking about the money that people are spending here in Las Vegas, and it's reached a record high.
• 2:32
  Sean McAllister: We're gonna get into all those uh facts and figures coming up, but uh it's just insane, isn't it?
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: It is, and I people always tell us after we do podcasts with a little kind of some statistics thrown in there that they find it really interesting.
• 2:46
  Dayna Roselli: We try and really condense it, just give you the nuggets, but so we wanna tell people about this one because we both looked and went, really?
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we knew Vegas was doing well, but so we're gonna dive into all that in just a little bit.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, like you said, I don't want to say it's surprising, but kind of surprising.
• 3:04
  Sean McAllister: Well, and you know, we keep seeing uh new resorts adding parking fees, and I saw a conversation online about that, and someone chimed in and said, you know what?
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: Yes, these places are imposing parking fees, but people are still coming to Vegas.
• 3:21
  Sean McAllister: People are still paying not only the parking fees, but higher prices for hotels and meals and experiences.
• 3:30
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, the strat is charging for parking now, and I'm not trying to another one bites the dust.
• 3:37
  Dayna Roselli: Dig on the strat or anything, but it is a little bit north of, you know, it's the northern northern end of the strip.
• 3:43
  Dayna Roselli: And to get people there, you'd think that you would just keep the parking free.
• 3:47
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:47
  Dayna Roselli: To get them in and out.
• 3:49
  Dayna Roselli: I know they're opening that entertainment golf complex, and I wonder if the parking has to do with that, if they need to use that garage and they really just want to keep it to people who are going to visit the hotel or visit the golf attraction.
• 4:02
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, the strat is charging.
• 4:05
  Dayna Roselli: And then we're hearing that possibly the Palazzo Venetian.
• 4:09
  Dayna Roselli: And that might be due to, but you're right, people are gonna do it.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: And that might be due to the sphere that is being built next door and uh is going to open in the fall.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: So we got a little bit of time yet, but the fall will be here before we know it.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 4:22
  Sean McAllister: And for people who are unfamiliar where the sphere sits, it's kind of tucked back behind the Venetian and palazzo.
• 4:29
  Sean McAllister: So the Venetian and Palazzo is going to be your entry point to get over to the sphere for any concerts or shows that uh might be displayed there.
• 4:40
  Sean McAllister: And actually, that's one of the things we have brand new information on this week, Dana.
• 4:44
  Dayna Roselli: We do.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna talk about that.
• 4:46
  Dayna Roselli: I was gonna tell you real quick, though, uh, a listener and an acquaintance of mine said, Hey, look at this picture that someone sent me, and it was the sphere lit up because they've been doing testing.
• 4:56
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: And they said, This is fake, right?
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: And then I took a little clip from when I was on the morning blend and we showed a live picture.
• 5:04
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, nope, this is it.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: So it's interesting that people still outside of Las Vegas don't believe it's happening, don't know that much about it.
• 5:14
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:15
  Dayna Roselli: And feel like there's no way there's this huge, enormous globe that has screens around the whole thing and is gonna change colors and have images on it.
• 5:24
  Dayna Roselli: But yes, it is.
• 5:26
  Dayna Roselli: So I sent him that and and now he believes me.
• 5:28
  Dayna Roselli: So, but yes, the MSG Sphere, they announced um some information.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: Now we had talked a while back, telling you that it was going to be used year-round.
• 5:38
  Dayna Roselli: One of our sources that is over there told us this is gonna be used year round.
• 5:42
  Dayna Roselli: We were like, how?
• 5:43
  Dayna Roselli: Because we figured there'd be shows in there, conventions, people would come and go.
• 5:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but how would it be used year round?
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: And now we kind of understand why.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: They announced this new immersive experience.
• 5:55
  Dayna Roselli: And it sounds like this is the first one and it's gonna keep changing.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: But there are tickets on sale, and that the tickets are on sale already, and it's called Sphere Experiences.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: They're launching this first of its kind immersive production, the first one called Postcard from Earth.
• 6:12
  Sean McAllister: And this is the first piece of content that we're hearing about that's coming out of the Sphere Studios, which are based in Burbank, California, with all the other major movie studios.
• 6:24
  Sean McAllister: And there are even reports uh that this first production is uh has at least some sort of attachment with filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, who is well known in the you know Hollywood filmmaking world.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: Um so to have that level of uh experience and that caliber of filmmaker to be producing this really first of its kind and unique content because there is no other sphere like this anywhere on Earth.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that interesting?
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it says it's gonna utilize the full breadth of the venue's 22nd century technologies.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: So it looks like everything's gonna be jam-packed into postcard from Earth, which is gonna be probably incredible to see.
• 7:11
  Dayna Roselli: Uh tickets actually, we're recording this on a Wednesday.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets just went on sale this morning.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, when we were talking about it being used year-round, um, the source we were chatting with was like, you know, the sphere is going to be a destination spot.
• 7:28
  Dayna Roselli: And we were like, well, I don't get it, but now it all makes sense.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: It's something that people would actually travel here because they want to go see one of these immersive experiences.
• 7:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, production productions, I should say.
• 7:41
  Dayna Roselli: They're calling it immersive production.
• 7:43
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 7:44
  Sean McAllister: And I feel like it's back when movie theaters first came out, like the silent film era.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: I I feel like it's similar to that, where the only people or the only place people could go to see these silent films was to, you know, a nearby theater.
• 8:01
  Sean McAllister: Well, there isn't going to be a nearby theater showing what they're producing for the sphere.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: The only way to see it is to come to the sphere here in Las Vegas.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be so cool.
• 8:12
  Dayna Roselli: I can't wait.
• 8:13
  Dayna Roselli: I love that they're unveiling a little bit more each time.
• 8:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's it's just really exciting.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: Ran into one of the leaders over there at an event recently, and he said there's so much more to come.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: So we look forward to that.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: If you do want to check it out or you do want to get tickets, it's thespherevegus.com is the website, thespherevegas.com.
• 8:35
  Sean McAllister: All right, let's get into the numbers that we talked about at the beginning of the episode, Dana.
• 8:40
  Sean McAllister: The economic impact of Southern Nevada's uh tourism industry.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: We just got some new facts and figures out.
• 8:49
  Sean McAllister: And uh I mean the the dollar amounts are staggering.
• 8:54
  Sean McAllister: And uh they not only broke previous records, they like obliterated them.
• 8:59
  Dayna Roselli: I know such a big percentage, right?
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the first nugget the total economic output related to visitor spending reached a record 79.3 billion in 2022.
• 9:12
  Dayna Roselli: This is a 24.7 percent increase from the previous record that was set in 2019, so before the pandemic.
• 9:22
  Dayna Roselli: So that you're right, 24.7 percent of an increase over that, you know, and it's it's hard because it's kind of like you hop from 2019 to 2022, because in between it was where we were, you know, struggling, the whole world was struggling with tourism and everything.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: And the rebound they say was driven by pent-up travel demand and the addition of our new resorts, our professional sporting events and venues such as Allegiant Stadium.
• 9:53
  Sean McAllister: Listen, I'll I'll take that.
• 9:55
  Sean McAllister: And and we knew as these obviously when resorts are being built, the goal is to bring people in from everywhere to stay at them.
• 10:03
  Sean McAllister: But uh, you know, the same effect was anticipated for professional sports, and to see that uh paying off and actually happening is uh a great thing.
• 10:14
  Sean McAllister: And you mentioned the total uh economic uh uh impact of tourism, and that takes everything into account from you know people stopping to get gas, all the related things that a a tourist might come in contact with that generates money.
• 10:30
  Sean McAllister: But talking about individual visitors and how much they are spending, the per visitor spend on a trip to Vegas has increased to$1,156.
• 10:45
  Sean McAllister: That is per person who comes here.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, yeah, that's a lot.
• 10:50
  Sean McAllister: Like overall, that amounts to uh just under$45 billion collectively.
• 10:58
  Sean McAllister: And again, that's you know, almost a 25% increase from uh 2019, the last kind of normal year that we had.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and another nugget is that our tourism industry obviously remained the largest regional employer in 2022, um, employing an estimated 229,440 workers.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: That really was interesting to me because we've been talking a lot about Mark Wahlberg, who moved here, but in one of his recent interviews, he said, you know, Nevada is based on tourism, gaming, uh, you know, resorts and hotels.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: And when he talks about, you know, building a huge Hollywood type studio here, he's saying, he was saying that he uh um hopes that you know Las Vegas and southern Nevada and Nevada as a whole can add more industries to our list of things that we have because tourism is our main thing and it just proves it right there.
• 11:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and in addition to the movie studio, he wants to build that uh factory to make shoes for his municipal lifestyle brand, which you know, so he's he may diversify our economy.
• 12:12
  Sean McAllister: He may be the single guy who does it.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I know.
• 12:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, some really interesting numbers, and when we talk about the sporting events and venues, uh such as Allegiant Stadium, because Allegiant Stadium has concerts too.
• 12:24
  Dayna Roselli: I think back to that weekend when Taylor Swift was here for two nights and we had March Madness basketball, right?
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: At T-Mobile, and how packed it was that weekend in Las Vegas.
• 12:36
  Dayna Roselli: And I have a friend uh who does some waitressing at a popular place um in Las Vegas, and she was saying the next weekend was just dead.
• 12:46
  Sean McAllister: Really?
• 12:47
  Dayna Roselli: Like the difference between the one weekend and the other weekend.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: So when we don't have these big, big events happening at these places like T-Mobile and Allegiant Stadium, or there's not a big convention in town, right?
• 13:01
  Dayna Roselli: It slows down right away.
• 13:03
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we're usually busy all the time, it's pretty rare to be kind of slow, but every now and then we get that little slow weekend or slow week.
• 13:10
  Dayna Roselli: And it was just like, you know, comparing just one way, you know, a complete difference basically from one weekend to the next.
• 13:17
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought that was interesting.
• 13:19
  Sean McAllister: That's true.
• 13:19
  Sean McAllister: And you know, I uh come to think of it, now that um when I look at our, you know, social media feeds and and friends who work for, you know, all the the places down on the strip, it's you you can usually tell it's a slow weekend when they are off vacationing somewhere else.
• 13:37
  Dayna Roselli: True.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: They probably plan around, you know.
• 13:40
  Sean McAllister: Because otherwise they have to work all these big events that are happening.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: Take advantage.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: Um, some interesting numbers out there.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we love that everyone's coming here and spending money.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: We'll take it.
• 13:51
  Dayna Roselli: We live here, it's great for our economy.
• 13:53
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm so glad that Las Vegas really bounced back.
• 13:56
  Dayna Roselli: We say that all the time, but thank you.
• 13:59
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think something to also keep in mind when we're uh talking about these numbers is something that we reported on um when the visitor profile came out, the types of people that are coming here, the satisfaction uh of people's visit is extremely high.
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: So people are spending the money, but they're happy with what they're getting.
• 14:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: That's everything, right?
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: Because then it means they return.
• 14:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: And so the return business is, you know, word of mouth and all that is you can't ask for anything better.
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's like gold.
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: So hey, if you return sometime before November, you can see Katy Perry's show at Resorts World.
• 14:41
  Dayna Roselli: But after November 4th, we're not gonna be able to see it anymore.
• 14:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, Katie just announced her final run of shows over at the Resorts World Theater, obviously at Resorts World.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, Katy Perry Play.
• 14:55
  Sean McAllister: Such a fun show.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: It is, such a great production.
• 14:59
  Sean McAllister: Um, but yeah, she just announced the uh final date.
• 15:04
  Sean McAllister: Uh, she's gonna have some shows in May and August, then again coming up in the fall, October, and early November.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: But November 4, that's it.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Last show, Katie's saying bye-bye, at least with this production.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so we'll see.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: But it I like that she announced it this early so people know.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: Like I need to get there.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 15:25
  Dayna Roselli: Because sometimes people will announce it and they'll be like, oh, I have one more week.
• 15:27
  Dayna Roselli: You know what I mean?
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, oh, wait, you know, so now we know.
• 15:31
  Dayna Roselli: And if for those folks who have been wanting to see it and haven't had the chance, it's literally larger than life, the show.
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 15:38
  Dayna Roselli: And yeah, I mean, you go and it's a it's just like we said it with Maroon Five.
• 15:42
  Dayna Roselli: It's hit after hit after hit.
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: You don't even realize how many hits Katy Perry has.
• 15:47
  Dayna Roselli: You're gonna know the words to every song.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: Uh there the radio hits, and when the radio hits, they're hits that you know and are familiar with, and you just can't help but have a good time.
• 15:56
  Sean McAllister: Well, and they're the kinds of songs that like subconsciously run through your head.
• 16:01
  Sean McAllister: Like you may not even think that you know the words, but when it's playing, you're like, I know every single lyric to this.
• 16:07
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 16:08
  Dayna Roselli: And talk about a show.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: This is a show.
• 16:10
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the like toys come to everything.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's it's it's a show.
• 16:16
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see some, this is not a Katy Perry concert.
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: No, this is a Katy Perry show.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: It reminds me, now that you say that, um, it reminds me of Elton John's first show over at uh the Coliseum at Caesars Palace when there were like those giant inflatable things that would fill up and like take over the stage.
• 16:37
  Sean McAllister: It's like, what's going on here?
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: And it's the same kind of thing with Katy Perry.
• 16:40
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, if you haven't had the chance, go see it.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I keep saying we need to get back one more time, too, before it closes.
• 16:47
  Dayna Roselli: That's for sure.
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: And we'll see what Katy Perry uh has in store for Vegas again.
• 16:51
  Dayna Roselli: I have a feeling she'll be back.
• 16:52
  Sean McAllister: I have a feeling, yeah, that relationship will uh stick around.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: Hopefully it will.
• 16:57
  Sean McAllister: Uh, some other music notes to bring you up to speed on.
• 17:01
  Sean McAllister: Uh, rock star and activist Melissa Etheridge has announced that she's gonna be hitting the road once again for her 44-date North American tour, stopping here in Las Vegas at the Pearl Concert Theater over at the Palms.
• 17:16
  Sean McAllister: That show is set for Friday, July 7th.
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: Great.
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: And then Gladys Knight is gonna perform her many hits spanning, you know, she's got so many.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: You name it pop, RB, gospel, adult contemporary.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: She's gonna be over at the Smith Center here in town, which is awesome.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: She's gonna do a show on August 18th.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets on sale now for that.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's thesmither.com.
• 17:38
  Dayna Roselli: Gladys is amazing.
• 17:39
  Dayna Roselli: You and I have talked about this before.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, I've interviewed her once, and it was one of my favorite interviews I've ever done.
• 17:45
  Dayna Roselli: Such an interesting, successful career she had.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: She's still bringing it, and she's gonna do this show over at the Smith Center.
• 17:51
  Sean McAllister: I might need to grab myself tickets for this one.
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:54
  Sean McAllister: I I need to go and see Gladys perform.
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: I've never seen her.
• 17:57
  Sean McAllister: I like you said, I've sat down, interviewed her, but I've never gone to see one of her performances.
• 18:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:05
  Sean McAllister: And that's this is one that I want to make sure to get to.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: She's good.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: You know, she was at something.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: I went to see Matt Goss in England.
• 18:12
  Dayna Roselli: He did this thing called, it's called Proms in the Park.
• 18:14
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's put on by BBC.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: And it's at, oh gosh, I'm blind.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: How could I forget the name of this park?
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: It's where the stones are, it's a very Hyde Park.
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: It was Hyde Park.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone in the UK is cringing right now.
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: Like Roselli, how could you not know Hyde Park?
• 18:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's a good, but anyway, uh, we all went to support Matt.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: He was doing, uh he was one of the acts for this.
• 18:35
  Dayna Roselli: And and Gladys was one of the acts.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: And she put on such a show.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone loved it.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: And again, you know all her songs.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: So um I was honored to be able to see her there at Hyde Park, and she was great.
• 18:46
  Sean McAllister: Oh, looking forward to that.
• 18:47
  Sean McAllister: Well, uh, August 18th, I am occupied in the evening going to see Gladys Knight.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, House of Cheer is coming to the theater at Virgin Hotels.
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: I put this on our list because I thought so many people, more and more, I'm hearing it's like competitive cheer is so huge.
• 19:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's massive.
• 19:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it is, right?
• 19:05
  Dayna Roselli: All my friends' kids are in competitive cheer.
• 19:09
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, one of my best friends in from New York, his mother owns a competitive cheer gym in New Jersey.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's huge.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: So the team USA uh cheerleading, you know, you know the show Cheer.
• 19:20
  Dayna Roselli: It was very popular the first time it came out on Netflix, I think it was.
• 19:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, that was like a pandemic binge for people.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: And there's been other ones since.
• 19:29
  Dayna Roselli: I tried to watch the second series and I didn't.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, top athletes from this award-winning docuseries, Cheer, um, are going to be putting on a one night only showcase at the theater at Virgin.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: I think a lot of people are gonna want to see this.
• 19:44
  Dayna Roselli: So it sounds really good.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, tickets are on sale now.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: They went on sale Friday at AXS.com if you want to go check them out at the Virgin Hotel.
• 19:56
  Sean McAllister: And we have some uh news from Chippendales.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: We have a uh guest host returning to the stage there, straight from the Jersey Shore.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel like Vinny, I how many times have we said this?
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: Vinny's returning again.
• 20:09
  Sean McAllister: He's back.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: He loves it.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: He loves hosting Chippendales.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I wonder if it helps him keep up, like he has something that he has to look good for, so it keeps him energized to know, like, I gotta get ready, keeps me motivated, keeps my body intact, you know?
• 20:25
  Sean McAllister: Just the the fear of stepping on stage and being all soft and mushy.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he is the keto guido.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: Vinny, how do you say he's a guagadino?
• 20:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh got guadino.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: Guadino.
• 20:39
  Sean McAllister: Godino.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: Vinny G is coming back to Chippendales, and you know, everyone loves the Jersey Shore.
• 20:47
  Dayna Roselli: It is on all the time.
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: Vinny's a huge, huge part of that show, and he's fantastic as the host of Chippendales.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: He joins a lot of the numbers.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to check out Vinny, shirtless, and I think I have a shot of when he's just in like a little towel on our social media, go to Vegas Revealed.
• 21:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's one of our highest numbered TikToks.
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, he's coming back though, August 31st through October 8th.
• 21:12
  Dayna Roselli: You have time.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: But ladies, men, whoever, groups, um, plan your trip out during that time period.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see Vinny in Chippendales over at the Rio.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: And if you have uh been listening to Vegas Revealed for the past several episodes, you know uh that at one point Dana broke news about something happening over at the Westgate.
• 21:36
  Sean McAllister: She saw all this stuff happening in the parking lot, all these like mushroom kinds of things, just weird stuff you wouldn't expect to sit be sitting outside of a casino.
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: And everyone was like messaging, what is that?
• 21:51
  Dayna Roselli: And I have people texting me, like, because they know I live near there, like, what's that?
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: Do you know?
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: And I have the answer all the time, and everyone's always like, I knew you'd know.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's called Imaginarium.
• 21:59
  Dayna Roselli: We didn't know The dates that it was going to kick off, but now we have the official dates for that.
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's an all-ages outdoor immersive 3D light festival.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's gonna be here for a limited period.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: It starts on April 28th and it's gonna run through May 7th, and it's over in that north parking lot of the Westgate.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: So it's spread out.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: I've been watching them put this together, and it looks like it'll be really cool and it's very family friendly as well.
• 22:26
  Dayna Roselli: There'll be a lot of, again, you know, the immersive thing is huge, like different 3D displays, uh, five million colorful lights across five acres, uh, all these different experiences.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: So if you want to check that out, um, do it.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: I believe the tickets aren't too expensive.
• 22:42
  Dayna Roselli: I want to say they were like$21, something like that.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: Don't quote me on that, but it looks like it could be fun.
• 22:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, there's eight different fantasy attraction zones that they're building, and they say that you know, everything, well, clearly everything is gonna be larger than life over there.
• 22:59
  Sean McAllister: Hands-on games.
• 23:01
  Sean McAllister: There's gonna be creatures that are like straight out of a storybook that you'll encounter.
• 23:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I see them over there.
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: Oh, you already know what these creatures are.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: I already know what the creatures are.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, but I haven't seen them lit up.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, but I'm excited for it to be lit up that would that at night.
• 23:18
  Sean McAllister: It's gonna be fun.
• 23:19
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna add to my ambiance around my balcony.
• 23:23
  Sean McAllister: You'll have music from the festival grounds.
• 23:25
  Sean McAllister: Yes, you'll have the lights from Imaginarium.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's true.
• 23:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's like like the Lovers and Friends Festival.
• 23:31
  Dayna Roselli: Am I gonna hear Mariah Carey and then the lights from the Imaginarium?
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be a vibe on my patio.
• 23:36
  Sean McAllister: You're gonna need to sell tickets to your balcony.
• 23:38
  Dayna Roselli: We need to have a party for sure.
• 23:40
  Dayna Roselli: Like, definitely a champagne patio night or something.
• 23:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um, what do we call it?
• 23:44
  Dayna Roselli: The Vegas Revealed Sky Deck.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: Sky Deck.
• 23:49
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 23:51
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 23:51
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I just wanted to quickly mention that I went over to Red Rock, Naxos Taverna, a new restaurant there, invited uh me for dinner.
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, me and my friend Melissa went over there, had a fabulous dinner.
• 24:01
  Dayna Roselli: I love, you know what I loved?
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, I just wanted to comment that the restaurant was packed on a weekday.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: And I was happy to see that.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: I had a feeling, I think I told you I went to the media night and it was it just the staff was great and the food was really good that they had out.
• 24:15
  Dayna Roselli: They had like more samples.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: So we actually went for a dinner.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: But here's my a couple of my takeaways.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: And it's funny because the woman, I think she was a manager, came out and asked me.
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm gonna be honest, there was a pasta with crab, absolutely delicious.
• 24:27
  Dayna Roselli: But the pasta, the it was like a spaghetti-ish, it was black.
• 24:33
  Dayna Roselli: Oh.
• 24:33
  Dayna Roselli: And I told her, as an Italian, it's really hard for me to eat black spaghetti.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: It just didn't feel and she was like, she took the note and she's like, but it's so good.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, no, listen, it's delicious.
• 24:45
  Dayna Roselli: That was my only negative of the entire dinner.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: And it wasn't even a negative overall, it was me personally.
• 24:51
  Sean McAllister: Did it look unappealing in the presentation?
• 24:55
  Sean McAllister: Like it was that part of the thing?
• 24:58
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 24:59
  Dayna Roselli: It was like a thing in my head.
• 25:00
  Sean McAllister: It just looked, you know, or was the black pasta like a part of the presentation?
• 25:05
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it was the main no, it was part it was the black pasta and then the crab mixed in and on top.
• 25:12
  Sean McAllister: Okay, so there's like a white lump of crab on top that a red sauce sets it off.
• 25:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Dayna Roselli: The crab was delicious.
• 25:19
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and the pasta was fine, tasted great.
• 25:22
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, it was just one of my little things, but I talked to her about it, so I wanted to be honest, and I said, this is just my one little negative takeaway.
• 25:29
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so we had a good conversation about that, and she thought she laughed.
• 25:33
  Dayna Roselli: She was like, I see what you mean, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but listen here, here's another amazing takeaway in a positive light.
• 25:40
  Dayna Roselli: The chicken, and she was even saying, people don't usually order chicken when you go to a restaurant because you feel like I have a lot of chicken at home, right?
• 25:47
  Dayna Roselli: This chicken was the juiciest chicken I've ever had, best tasting chicken I've ever had.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 25:54
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 25:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: So, and I know they're known for a lot of their fish.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: So we had an amazing um, like it was like a shrimp.
• 26:02
  Dayna Roselli: I don't I'm terrible at describing food.
• 26:04
  Dayna Roselli: I am not like a foodie in that way.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: But it we had this amazing shrimp.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, gosh, the the starter, the pita, and the hummus was absolutely delicious.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: I had this tomato and beet salad that was great.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: Everything was great.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: The presentation was great.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: And again, I will note the staff is just friendly and nice and helpful.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a great restaurant.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: I really, really enjoyed it.
• 26:29
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 26:29
  Sean McAllister: So Nexos Taverna over at Red Rock Resort.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 26:33
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips.
• 26:38
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Dana, we already talked about uh Chippendale, so why not throw some magic mic news in too?
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: They put out a little release and I my eyes popped open because I went anything at 5 p.m., I'm game as I get older.
• 26:52
  Sean McAllister: That means you can still be in bed by 9:30.
• 26:55
  Dayna Roselli: Magic Mike Live at the Sahara is expanding its performance schedule with an added 5 p.m.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: show.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: Who doesn't love a good male review matinee?
• 27:05
  Sean McAllister: The early bird special.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: And the performances are gonna be on select Saturdays now through June, so you have time.
• 27:13
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of fun.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: The show's also gonna debut this wild weeknights on April 19th.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so from then every Wednesday and Thursday night, they're gonna serve up these special surprises before the show.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: So it's chances to receive a complimentary meet and greet, some resort giveaways.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: So they're doing kind of a whole experience before the actual show.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that.
• 27:34
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are available for Magic Mike Live at Magic Mike Live Los Vegas.com.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, a 5 p.m.
• 27:43
  Sean McAllister: I mean, you can't beat that.
• 27:45
  Sean McAllister: You can even do dinner after the show.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: Can I bring my iced coffee in there and sip on it?
• 27:50
  Sean McAllister: You should.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: My afternoon coffee.
• 27:52
  Sean McAllister: Maybe they can open a coffee bar, especially for the early evening show.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: But listen, sometimes people want to go to a show at 5 p.m.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: and they want to do a big dinner after.
• 28:01
  Dayna Roselli: True.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I think this is gonna do well.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: I'm really curious to see how it goes.
• 28:06
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, me too.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: But good for you.
• 28:08
  Sean McAllister: Listen, they have the demand where they need to open up more showtime.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: So it's true.
• 28:11
  Dayna Roselli: When I was looking, I was looking at the full schedule.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: Again, don't quote me on this, but I think I'm right.
• 28:16
  Dayna Roselli: Uh some nights they have a 5 p.m., 7:30, and a 10 show.
• 28:20
  Dayna Roselli: So that there must be demand.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: You don't do that if there's not a demand.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: No way.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: Three nights, uh, three, sorry, three show times in one night.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: Pretty incredible.
• 28:29
  Sean McAllister: Wow, well done, Magic Mike.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh, I had a very interesting dining experience recently that I wanted to share.
• 28:38
  Sean McAllister: It's called Blackout Dining in the Dark.
• 28:41
  Sean McAllister: And this is a concept that's been here in Las Vegas for several years now, but I've just never gone over to try it out.
• 28:50
  Dayna Roselli: I drive by all the time.
• 28:51
  Dayna Roselli: I've always wondered.
• 28:52
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and I'm thinking, eh.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: But I I loved what you described to me.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, describe it for the listeners because this was really interesting.
• 29:00
  Sean McAllister: So dining in the dark is uh located kind of just uh behind the Rio on Valley View.
• 29:08
  Sean McAllister: And this is exactly what you would expect it to be.
• 29:11
  Sean McAllister: You are dining in a pitch black restaurant.
• 29:17
  Dayna Roselli: So I was asking you, like, what's the point?
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: And then you explained, I'm like, okay, this makes sense.
• 29:23
  Sean McAllister: So the point of this whole thing is to open up your uh other senses.
• 29:30
  Sean McAllister: Like, no phones are allowed.
• 29:31
  Sean McAllister: There's lockers before you even go in where you lock up your phone so no light can get in there.
• 29:37
  Sean McAllister: The servers, by the way, are all wearing night vision goggles so that they can make their way around and and serve you.
• 29:44
  Sean McAllister: Um but that's the whole idea is if your your uh visual if your vision is taken away from you, then uh the theory while you're eating the meal is that it livens the other senses.
• 29:59
  Sean McAllister: Your hearing, which I I think my hearing was on high alert.
• 30:04
  Sean McAllister: Um you know, obviously taste, smell, touch.
• 30:09
  Sean McAllister: You have to use touch quite a bit because that's what you're relying on to know where your silverware is, where your drink is, how to eat out of a bowl.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: And you said you didn't know what you were eating.
• 30:21
  Dayna Roselli: So they don't tell you like we're bringing out this is the next course.
• 30:26
  Sean McAllister: No, they have a set menu which changes uh uh twice a year, and I believe it's about to change again in July coming up this summer.
• 30:37
  Sean McAllister: But no, you don't know what you're eating, so that's part of the fun too, is trying to figure out with every bite like uh what is that crunch coming from?
• 30:46
  Sean McAllister: Did you get that like saltiness?
• 30:49
  Sean McAllister: What I it really is uh interesting.
• 30:53
  Sean McAllister: We guessed uh about nothing correctly.
• 30:57
  Sean McAllister: Really?
• 30:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you do at the very end of your experience, you they do let you look at the menu to see what you were eating, and no clue on a lot of it.
• 31:08
  Sean McAllister: It was really good though.
• 31:09
  Dayna Roselli: See, that would have worked well for the black pasta.
• 31:12
  Dayna Roselli: If I was eating it in the dark, I would have never known, and it would have been delicious.
• 31:15
  Dayna Roselli: It may have changed your whole experience, and it was delicious, but yeah, like I was saying, it was just looking at it.
• 31:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's so interesting.
• 31:23
  Dayna Roselli: And so is it pre-paid, you said?
• 31:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's prepaid.
• 31:27
  Sean McAllister: It's uh$85 per person, which may sound steep, but it is uh an entire experience, and you get a seven-course meal.
• 31:38
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we did not leave hungry at all.
• 31:41
  Sean McAllister: I was very pleased with the size of the portions and all of that.
• 31:45
  Dayna Roselli: You know what I was just thinking?
• 31:47
  Dayna Roselli: This is this could be a great, you know the show Love is Blind.
• 31:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 31:52
  Dayna Roselli: Where you can't see each other, but you talk and you get to know each other.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: So what if you were going on a first date and you said, I will meet you in there, and you had dinner at Blackout Dining and had a meal together and talked, but you don't see each other until you leave.
• 32:09
  Sean McAllister: Listen, I think that's a great idea.
• 32:12
  Sean McAllister: Uh you would both need to be very uh open and adventurous and willing to be able to pull something like that off successfully.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: Right.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, that could be one of our um maybe we need to do like a Vegas TV show on that.
• 32:25
  Sean McAllister: I'd have friends staked out in the parking lot to sending me pictures of everybody that walked in.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_03: Could be that one, could be that.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_03: Ooh, you better hope it's that one.
• 32:35
  Sean McAllister: No, that's a great idea though.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: And you know, it I didn't realize how much of a conversation piece like visual cues are for me.
• 32:47
  Sean McAllister: Like just how much conversation I make based off of things that I'm seeing.
• 32:52
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 32:53
  Sean McAllister: And it was just a total yeah, it was I didn't get uh totally acclimated in there.
• 32:59
  Sean McAllister: I was on I was looking around trying to see if I could get my bearings because I could hear this room full of people.
• 33:06
  Sean McAllister: And it sounded like people were right behind me, which they probably were, but you do pick up on other people's conversation a lot more, too.
• 33:15
  Sean McAllister: Interesting.
• 33:16
  Sean McAllister: When you when that's what you're focusing on.
• 33:19
  Dayna Roselli: So don't gossip about other people.
• 33:20
  Sean McAllister: Don't gossip.
• 33:21
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 33:22
  Sean McAllister: You never know who's sitting behind you.
• 33:24
  Dayna Roselli: This whole thing is amazing to me.
• 33:26
  Dayna Roselli: I think this is an incredible tip.
• 33:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's 3871 South Valley View Boulevard, dineblackout.com.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
• 33:38
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, I love this.
• 33:39
  Dayna Roselli: What a great tip!
• 33:40
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was really fun.
• 33:41
  Sean McAllister: I I recommend the experience.
• 33:43
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 33:44
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, listen, that's it for us this week.
• 33:46
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we've got a lot to do, so we're gonna head out quickly.
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: Don't mean to talk and run, but gotta go.
• 33:53
  Dayna Roselli: And we'll see you next week for episode, what are we on?
• 33:57
  Dayna Roselli: 165.
• 33:58
  Sean McAllister: 165 coming up next week.
• 33:59
  Sean McAllister: And thank you to Vegas near me.
• 34:01
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• 34:06
  Sean McAllister: It is the perfect companion for your Vegas visit.
• 34:10
  Sean McAllister: We'll see you next week.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Stop it at the forum.