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One Year After COVID Closed Las Vegas | Ep. 60 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 60.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: It was one year ago this week that Las Vegas and the world closed for business.
• 0:09
  Dayna Roselli: It was March 18th at midnight for us.
• 0:12
  Dayna Roselli: We've been listening to some of our old podcasts around that time period.
• 0:16
  Dayna Roselli: We're going to share some highlights with you.
• 0:18
  Dayna Roselli: Boy, we didn't think it was going to be a year of this.
• 0:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we reflect on what was and how far we've come.
• 0:25
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, we asked you on Twitter, are you ready to go back to concerts and festivals?
• 0:30
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of them are scheduled out for portions of 2021.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: We have your results coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:50
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed.
• 0:52
  Dayna Roselli: It is March 2021.
• 0:55
  Dayna Roselli: I'm Dana Roselli.
• 0:56
  Sean McAllister: And I'm Sean McAllister.
• 0:58
  Sean McAllister: And boy, what a difference March 2021 is from March 2020.
• 1:05
  Sean McAllister: At that point, we had no idea what we were getting into and what was going to lie ahead for us, Dana.
• 1:14
  Dayna Roselli: No, and we've been listening to some old podcasts and right around that period.
• 1:18
  Dayna Roselli: And the one that really struck us the most was the podcast that ran about this time last year.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: And it was kind of like things were starting to happen, and things were starting to, you know, eliminate fans and and and scale back.
• 1:35
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't think from the way that we sound that we thought it was gonna last this long.
• 1:39
  Sean McAllister: No, not at all.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: Because uh Tom Hanks had just come down with coronavirus.
• 1:45
  Sean McAllister: Sports leagues were starting to, as you mentioned, eliminate fans and then stop playing games.
• 1:52
  Sean McAllister: And uh well, just take a listen to how we were reacting to all that stuff at the time.
• 2:00
  Sean McAllister: Again, March 2020.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: Hello everyone.
• 2:04
  Dayna Roselli: It's time for Vegas Reveal.
• 2:05
  Sean McAllister: I'm Dana Roselli.
• 2:06
  Sean McAllister: And I'm Sean McAllister.
• 2:08
  Sean McAllister: I have leathered up with soap suds and hand sanitizer.
• 2:12
  Sean McAllister: So, Dana, I'm good to go.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: I'm so glad to hear that.
• 2:15
  Dayna Roselli: We're here at the Palazzo Broadcast Studio at Legossi Stadium, and yeah, we've got uh little sanitizer right outside the door, so it's great.
• 2:22
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what, Sean?
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: We parked here for free.
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: That's the that's the best part, isn't it?
• 2:27
  Sean McAllister: We've got all our bases covered, free parking and hand sanitizer within reach.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: I know, it's amazing.
• 2:32
  Dayna Roselli: And the great stuff here at Legossi, too.
• 2:34
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, we're trying to keep our spirits up.
• 2:36
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, there's been so much talk, and obviously, everyone's focused on the coronavirus.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: And here in Las Vegas, um, you know, we have as a part of our common economy, Taurus, and that's pretty much you know what we live on and what we thrive on.
• 2:50
  Dayna Roselli: And we have a lot of conferences too, and thousands and thousands of people come in for conferences literally every week, and a lot of them have been canceled, and it's getting a little nerve-wracking.
• 3:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I know that it was big news when Tom Hanks and his wife came down and tested positive for coronavirus, and that uh showed that this it's reaching Hollywood too, and a big Hollywood event.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: CinemaCon is a convention that's held here in Las Vegas every year.
• 3:16
  Sean McAllister: It's actually a convention for movie theater owners, right?
• 3:20
  Sean McAllister: But movie studios bring out stars, they bring out a lot of footage for upcoming blockbusters, and that whole thing has been canceled because they have vendors from around the world that come in for it and they just can't travel here.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and the same with the National Association of Broadcasters conference that was gonna be held in mid-April as well.
• 3:39
  Dayna Roselli: Now we're hearing that they're gonna scale back on the NFL draft that's expected to be here too.
• 3:44
  Dayna Roselli: Uh the NBA has suspended the season, the NHL just announced um they're gonna take a halt, right?
• 3:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and our Golden Knights are in uh different city right now, but they won't our Golden Knights are doing so good.
• 3:57
  Sean McAllister: I know, they've been on a roll.
• 3:59
  Sean McAllister: We've been wanting them, they're in playoff contention, and this is um it's obviously not a good time for for anybody to be dealing with this, but um it is the everything from sports to uh food and beverage to the hotel industry and conventions is being affected here in Las Vegas.
• 4:18
  Dayna Roselli: And we were at the Palazzo Broadcast Studio at Legacy Stadium back then, and just to clarify, that is now shut down for good.
• 4:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, little did we know that that was going to be our very last time inside of that broadcast studio.
• 4:37
  Sean McAllister: And uh who would have even thought that the restaurant would no longer be over there at the Palazzo.
• 4:44
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: I remember after we recorded the podcast, we were staring at the screens and watching some basketball games and coverage of news and the ESPN was up, some of the wait staff was there, and they just looked so sad.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: And they were like, Well, that's March Madness, because you know, usually it's packed in here and we're gonna have such a slow season.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: But little did they know they were gonna shut down and never reopen.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: Man, and you know, that was uh obviously a sign of uh really terrible things to come for for the country, for the world, the restaurant industry incredibly hard hit over the last year.
• 5:25
  Sean McAllister: And you know, Legacy Stadium is indicative of so many hundreds of thousands of restaurants here in the US alone that had to shut down and aren't able to reopen.
• 5:37
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 5:38
  Dayna Roselli: And in when that podcast opened that we had just played, you know, we were thought it was such a luxury to have san you know hand sanitizer right close by.
• 5:46
  Dayna Roselli: Now it's everywhere, you know, every corner that we turn, everything that we do.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it was so interesting to hear us act like it was this big luxury.
• 5:54
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it and at that point, we didn't know that hand sanitizer was going to become like liquid gold.
• 6:01
  Sean McAllister: You know, this was also the point when all that panic buying was was starting.
• 6:05
  Sean McAllister: You couldn't order hand sanitizer.
• 6:08
  Sean McAllister: You well, you couldn't find it at the store.
• 6:10
  Sean McAllister: No, and you couldn't order it online because it was all out of stock.
• 6:14
  Sean McAllister: And I know we would get so excited when we would find the little bot uh bottles of sanitizer from Bath and Body Works.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and we would actually, and this was the period where toilet paper was out, right?
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: You know, nobody could find it.
• 6:26
  Dayna Roselli: They were, you know, hoarding the Costco and all that kind of thing.
• 6:31
  Dayna Roselli: So um, two guests that we had on that show, uh, one was John Kilb, a friend of mine from college who was in to take part and watch all the March Madness, sit in the sports book, go to the games and watch them.
• 6:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so we talked to him.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: We also talked to a financial advisor, Steve Buden, about the economy and how he thought things were gonna go.
• 6:51
  Dayna Roselli: So we wanted to share those interviews with you as well.
• 6:54
  Sean McAllister: Let's start with Steve Buden, the financial expert.
• 6:57
  Sean McAllister: The question was posed to him: what impact do you think Las Vegas is going to face from coronavirus?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in fact, uh just doing some homework last night uh for another interview I had given, this foreign travel ban from Europe is pretty serious.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, for the last 10 years, Vegas has been promoting itself to try to increase its foreign business.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: And on a dollar per dollar basis, the foreign visitor tends to spend more money than the domestic visitor.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: So if we lose access to those foreign visitors, it could really have a devastating effect on the Vegas economy.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I think the time to sugarcoat it has passed.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like we really need to come together and figure out a way to mitigate and minimize the damage it's going to have here.
• 7:41
  Sean McAllister: So obviously, we're we're not done with the ups and downs that we're going to see with this.
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: What is your advice to people on how to weather this?
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's two things.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, you should have an account balanced effectively before crises hit.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_00: We had the financial crisis, we've had SARS, we've had Ebola, we've had many things over the years that have or should have given us warning to not get too greedy or excess uh in terms of your risk level.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just another reminder.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: So, number one, you should have an account, and I I know I'm biased, but you should have some professional assistance helping you design accounts that could help you sleep at night.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_00: And number two, realize you're in it for the long haul.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh dealing with Vegas locally, you know, we're the entertainment capital of the world.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Humans can only be quarantined for so long.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: There will come a point, I don't know if it's next week, next month, six months from now, where people will want to go back out.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where I think as a city we need to get that message out that we still are open for business.
• 8:48
  Dayna Roselli: Aaron Powell But what about these conferences canceling?
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's thousands and thousands of people that come to our city.
• 8:52
  Dayna Roselli: Like, how do you recover from that?
• 8:54
  Dayna Roselli: Because they're not it doesn't sound like you can really just change the date, you know.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: People had plans.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, and th therein lies the issue.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to take a financial hit.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, these conferences, in economic terms, they're called fungible items.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: So if you miss a conference today, Thursday through Sunday, you're not going to reschedule that conference.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_00: The probability is that, right?
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: You may come back next year.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: But those four days are lost.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, airline seats, when that plane takes off, those seats are lost.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: The meals in this restaurant, those are lost.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: You can't come back and eat twice, right?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: So those losses are going to be realized and very difficult to make up for.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: So you could tell Steve Buden was definitely concerned about the economic situation and uh you know what was going to happen or what could happen at that time.
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: But uh, I don't think he he thought we would see the results of where we are today.
• 9:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I I mean with so man with all the resorts shutting down for months, I mean, nobody could have predicted that that was going to happen.
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: And then I got a message from my friend John Kilb from college who wrote me just last week saying, I'm coming in for March Madness, even though it's kind of a scaled-down version this year.
• 10:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um I usually do it every year, and I'm coming anyway, and I thought, oh my gosh, he was who we interviewed right before the shutdown.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: He was in town watching March Madness.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: He goes to all the games, he loves basketball, and we interviewed him.
• 10:21
  Dayna Roselli: And it's interesting our take on on what was going on at that time, too, because that was just when they announced that was it, the basketball games wouldn't have fans, or they were gonna end the tournament.
• 10:34
  Sean McAllister: Well, it was uh there was one day during the tournament, it was the day before we interviewed John, when uh fans at halftime were made to leave the arena because the World Health Organization uh declared coronavirus as a pandemic.
• 10:53
  Sean McAllister: The games were going to continue, but then as we spoke with John Kilb, we got the news the games were off too.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's a pleasure to join you because now I have nothing to do for three days.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm here till Sunday with no games to watch.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um they refunded my ticket prices.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, it's it's disappointing.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: Like I was um I enjoyed the first uh I got here last Sunday.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um was here Monday and Tuesday, I saw Gonzaga play, um, and they at least got to the conclusion of their tournament, and then Wednesday the Pac-12 started, and I went all day yesterday and saw the games, but you know, word started getting out in the afternoon they were gonna close the rest of the tournament to the fans at first, just play in an empty T-Mobile arena, and then by the end of the day, they they decided early this morning they decided just to cancel the rest of the games.
• 11:44
  Sean McAllister: So you've obviously been to Las Vegas many times.
• 11:48
  Sean McAllister: How for people who are listening from out of town and even for people who live here, how has this trip differed from the other trips that you've been on?
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's definitely less busy.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's been the middle of the week, so I you know, usually things ramp up towards the weekend, but with the cancellation of these games all over the country, the sports books are empty.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was just talking.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: I I I had a bunch of bets made today.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: I had to take them back to the sports book because everything was canceled, and they refunded my money, you know, they refunded my money too.
• 12:23
  Dayna Roselli: Never thought of that.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_01: But the guy, you know, they're canceling everything, and the guys are like, we're gonna have no work for the next month.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like they're gonna the the sportsbook staffs are gonna, you know, the odds makers are not gonna have much to do there.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_01: So far, they're gonna continue some things like the the PGA tour is gonna play without fans, NASCAR's gonna race without fans.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: So you can still bet that stuff if if that's your thing, but I gotta imagine.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I had friends that are scheduled to come next weekend.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'd have to think that that first weekend of March Madness, aside from the Super Bowl, has to be annually the second biggest sports betting weekend that Las Vegas has.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: And so um, you know, it's a shame to see that that that's gonna dissipate and and not exist at the level it did in the past.
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: Oh, how naive to think that things were gonna be tough for just a month.
• 13:14
  Dayna Roselli: I know, right?
• 13:15
  Dayna Roselli: We were like, oh my gosh, it could be a whole month of this, but wow, life changing for literally, I think, everyone across the globe.
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: So unbelievable uh what has happened in the last year.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: And now we sit here in March of 2021, hopeful that things are gonna start to get back to somewhat of a normal situation here in Las Vegas.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: But we're still waiting really for all the conventions to come back.
• 13:41
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and uh to all of you who uh found Vegas Revealed during the the pandemic, during the shutdown, and were turning to us for uh insights on uh what was happening on the ground here in Las Vegas and hearing different perspectives from uh people throughout uh the Las Vegas community.
• 14:01
  Sean McAllister: We thank you for for listening.
• 14:04
  Sean McAllister: And the good news is that it looks like now we'll be able to get back to entertainment and back to some semblance of what we know as Las Vegas.
• 14:15
  Dayna Roselli: And we apologize for all those podcasts with the horrible no-microphone audio that we recorded over.
• 14:21
  Dayna Roselli: We were listening to some of those all embarrassed, and we go, wait, what happened?
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: When was there a switch?
• 14:25
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, that was when we decided to buy microphones for our house.
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: Our houses, your place and my place, because we knew we weren't gonna be able to be together and then we should probably, you know, have some good audio quality.
• 14:36
  Dayna Roselli: We were used to going into a studio, right?
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: We went to that Best Buy and we picked, we popped our trunk and and did the whole uh you know.
• 14:43
  Sean McAllister: That was the first experience with contactless buying.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 14:47
  Dayna Roselli: Weird, right?
• 14:48
  Dayna Roselli: And now these microphones are a part of our life.
• 14:51
  Sean McAllister: Man.
• 14:51
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, some quick, maybe some rapid fire things going on.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: Something you just mentioned, and this is a good follow-up to last week was the Golden Knights have now upped the amount of fans in T-Mobile Arena, right?
• 15:03
  Dayna Roselli: That was 15%?
• 15:04
  Sean McAllister: It was fifteen percent uh last episode this week.
• 15:08
  Sean McAllister: We just got the news that starting on Monday, March 15th, the Golden Knights are allowed to have 20% fan capacity inside T-Mobile Arena.
• 15:20
  Sean McAllister: So uh we originally uh they were originally allowed to start having fans at 15% capacity, which was about 2,500 fans.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: Now that number is upped to, I believe, just over 3,500 fans.
• 15:35
  Sean McAllister: So new blocks of tickets have gone on sale for the rest of the games in March.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's really good news.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: And then you know, March 15th is when everything will go to 50% capacity across the board.
• 15:46
  Dayna Roselli: Our restaurants, our resorts, our casinos.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: Most all the casinos are open now 24-7.
• 15:52
  Dayna Roselli: I know the Palazzo was opening its rooms, I believe, this week, uh March 11th, possibly.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: So last week, because this podcast is out after we're recording this.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so that's good news.
• 16:03
  Dayna Roselli: Also, resorts roll announcing a lounge, uh new lounge.
• 16:07
  Dayna Roselli: Also, their nightclub name, which is exciting.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: We got news that the Jabberwalkies are gonna return to the stage at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: They started on March 11th, so they're doing that big space instead of a small theater.
• 16:19
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so you can go and see the Jabbawockies now over at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
• 16:24
  Sean McAllister: Those shows are Monday through Thursday at 7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays at 7 and 9.30.
• 16:32
  Sean McAllister: So more entertainment is back.
• 16:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and March Madness will kick off, and that's the basketball we've just been talking about.
• 16:37
  Dayna Roselli: So the sports books will be a little busier than normal as well, because they'll be able to be at 50%.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: So all in all, it seems like things are going really well.
• 16:46
  Dayna Roselli: You and I have a shoot uh this Saturday at 1923, which is a cool kind of uh retroish vibe, speakeasy right at Mandalay Bay, and so we're gonna check that out.
• 16:58
  Dayna Roselli: We're shooting some sizzle reels for them.
• 17:00
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited about that.
• 17:01
  Sean McAllister: And they have uh entertainment coming back to that venue.
• 17:05
  Sean McAllister: The venue's been open as like kind of a lounge, but uh the entertainment is coming back there, and really across the board, uh entertainment is coming back, Las Vegas is coming back, the resorts are operating at uh 24-7, as we'd mentioned a couple weeks ago, that that was going to start.
• 17:24
  Sean McAllister: That's now happening.
• 17:26
  Sean McAllister: Um so now we just need vaccinated visitors to come and join us here in Las Vegas.
• 17:33
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and you and I scheduled our second dose.
• 17:35
  Dayna Roselli: We're all set to go um in a couple weeks, so uh we'll let you know how that goes, everyone.
• 17:41
  Sean McAllister: And and hopefully the rest of the country can start to ramp up and and go at the speed that that uh Las Vegas and Nevada is proceeding at with with vaccinations because it really has rolled out pretty quickly here.
• 17:55
  Dayna Roselli: It has, and I see we're getting a bunch of that at uh Johnson and Johnson vaccine available.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: I think I saw one of our newscasters get one of the Johnson and Johnson doses as well.
• 18:04
  Dayna Roselli: And it's just a it's a that's a one-dose, right?
• 18:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, single dose.
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um hey, listen, we put a question out on Twitter and we love to do this now because we love how you all chime in, and so we want to read some of the responses.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: Our question this week was how do you feel about returning to festivals this year?
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: Is this something that you are comfortable doing?
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: Let us know because there have been a lot of concert and festival announcements.
• 18:26
  Dayna Roselli: Not all of them are happening tomorrow, but they're end of summer, fall, that kind of time period, right?
• 18:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so residency shows are d as it stands, supposed to start up again here in Las Vegas uh in summertime, June, July, and then it's more toward fall when the festivals are going to be taking place.
• 18:50
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, tickets have gone on sale, music lineups have gone out, but now the big question and apparently based on early ticket sales, the question is will fans uh feel comfortable going?
• 19:03
  Sean McAllister: And I mean I I know a lot of the early tickets have sold out.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 19:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:07
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it's I don't want to say surprising, 'cause I know people are like, well, might as well get them because we don't know where things are gonna stand then.
• 19:13
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe we'll be in a completely comfortable place and we have our tickets.
• 19:17
  Dayna Roselli: Cause I know a lot of these places have refund policies.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: I think you might lose a little bit, but you know, you don't lose your whole tick ticket costs and all that.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, we have Richard uh that chimed in.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: I believe Richard is in Ireland, I want to say.
• 19:33
  Dayna Roselli: Oh no, I'm gonna click on it because I don't know, I want to make sure.
• 19:35
  Dayna Roselli: Nope, he's in Australia.
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: Richard in Australia, one of our listeners, he says, if I was in Vegas or in America, I wouldn't be comfortable with going unless there was zero community infections for 14 days.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting, Richard.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: Joseph Salvatore wrote us and said, No problem at all.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: If better hygiene and cleanliness are two of the long-term positive results of this pandemic, well, makes me feel a lot more comfortable.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: I would agree with that.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: And I think overall, Las Vegas has done a really good job of implementing some things to make sure that cleanliness is top of mind.
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: Uh going back to the responses, Kevin says, yes, I'm in.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: Open back up.
• 20:12
  Sean McAllister: Uh Christy says that I'm going to the Life is Beautiful festival, which is happening here in Las Vegas in September.
• 20:19
  Sean McAllister: I am comfortable.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: I will be watching the Electric Daisy Carnival closely to see how they pull off their first major festival in Vegas, as well as uh what happens in the days after the festival to see if there are any issues with that.
• 20:36
  Sean McAllister: Um they say Life is Beautiful is non-refundable.
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: Oh and it comes with a COVID disclaimer.
• 20:44
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: Non-refundable?
• 20:46
  Sean McAllister: That's interesting.
• 20:47
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know about that.
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, John Nichols says, but I rather Oh, he starts off.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: Sorry, I got he I got a two-parter for this is a double.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: He says he's super excited and ready to get back out there, but I'd rather doubt I'd go to a concert or other event if a mask was mandated.
• 21:04
  Dayna Roselli: It would seriously distract me from the event.
• 21:06
  Dayna Roselli: So he's gonna wait until masks are off.
• 21:09
  Sean McAllister: And then there's Velvet Rebel Music who says maybe in the fall, but I'd kind of prefer to wait until 2022 for larger venues to have the proper air filtration, the non-smoking, all that stuff put into effect.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and then they they keep coming up.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: Someone else wrote, Great, and yes, let's do it.
• 21:27
  Dayna Roselli: That's from Don't Call Me Mr.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: P.
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, we won't call you that.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: And then don't call him Mr.
• 21:32
  Dayna Roselli: P.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: And then we just got a bunch of other responses on other Twitters.
• 21:37
  Dayna Roselli: We'll just run through these.
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: This year, no, even once I'm vaccinated, next year, definitely, from Laura.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: And then also Larry saying I don't see myself being ready for festivals or large crowds in general this year.
• 21:47
  Dayna Roselli: A couple of our listeners from England say they're ready to get out there.
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: Can't wait to go to any gig of any kind.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: And then Julie says, I want to get out back out in the audience ASAP.
• 21:57
  Sean McAllister: But then there is Kimmy who has a really interesting.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: Take she says, No, not ready yet.
• 22:02
  Sean McAllister: A year of isolation makes a large crowd very distressing to think about.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: And I've had that same thought myself.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: Like after a year of essentially, I mean being home almost all day every day, it it really is kind of weird to think about going back out and doing things.
• 22:25
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I'm excited to get to the point where we're able to do that, but that's like excitement in my mind.
• 22:32
  Sean McAllister: I think physically doing it might be a little different.
• 22:36
  Sean McAllister: Although I did go to the hockey game and that was fine.
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: But it wasn't.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: No, that was spread out.
• 22:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I'm all for sitting in a theater, uh, me and you know, whoever's next to me and a diet coke and relaxing and watching a great show.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't know about like, you know, crowd riding at a concert or what do you call it?
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: Crowd surfing.
• 22:56
  Sean McAllister: Crowd surfing, the mosh pit.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I'm not quite there yet, which I don't think is gonna happen anytime soon anyway, but I'm just saying, yes, no, it's true.
• 23:04
  Dayna Roselli: And you and I talk all the time about when we do go out, it's like that feeling of like, okay, we're out, okay, now time to go home.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: Like it's not like we want to keep hopping from place to place all night.
• 23:14
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 23:15
  Sean McAllister: Uh-uh.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: It's a weird security to, you know, like we feel like home is where we need to be more often.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: But you know what I was just thinking about, and it's it's such a God, it's so weird to think about like the ups and downs that we've all been through over the past year.
• 23:34
  Sean McAllister: It was uh back in April, you and I were doing some work out in the community.
• 23:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh big company was delivering meals to to hospitals, all to all of the hospitals across the Las Vegas Valley.
• 23:47
  Sean McAllister: We were documenting uh that and getting some video footage.
• 23:51
  Sean McAllister: And I remember thinking to myself as we were waiting for one of these uh meal drops to happen, I didn't want to sit on any benches.
• 24:00
  Sean McAllister: I didn't want to touch any railings.
• 24:02
  Sean McAllister: Like I was mortified and petrified to touch anything that was in a common area.
• 24:09
  Dayna Roselli: No, it's true.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: We were so I think even sometimes we wore gloves.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we were just so worried, but yet we needed money, we needed to survive, and we wanted to also be a part of you know these good projects that were going on in the community.
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: So we were super careful.
• 24:25
  Dayna Roselli: We made it through, and you know, we were cautious, and it was just such a weird time.
• 24:29
  Dayna Roselli: Everything about it it's weird.
• 24:32
  Sean McAllister: I mean, and it's still weird to think that we're not quite through it just yet.
• 24:36
  Sean McAllister: We see the light at the end of the tunnel, but there's still a little ways to go before we we fully get there.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, not directly related to Las Vegas, but let's just have a quick little button-up on the Harry and Megan interview.
• 24:49
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking about Prince Harry, and the only reason we feel like he's a little bit of an attachment to Las Vegas, because remember when Harry came to Las Vegas, um, partied in Las Vegas.
• 25:01
  Dayna Roselli: What was he doing, like strip poker or strip pool in one of the suites?
• 25:05
  Sean McAllister: Yes, and everybody's everybody was supposed to surrender their phone before they went into the suite, but somebody didn't.
• 25:12
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 25:12
  Sean McAllister: And there were some pictures that ended up coming out of that suite, and Harry was a little naked.
• 25:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:23
  Dayna Roselli: So at first everyone was kind of mortified.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: We're like, oh my god, what did the prince do?
• 25:28
  Dayna Roselli: And we were embarrassed, but then we embraced it and we were like, hey, you know, come to Vegas, party on, party where Harry parties, and you know, let loose.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: This is where you can come and and be your true self.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: And so it turned into this marketing tool for Las Vegas.
• 25:42
  Dayna Roselli: And now obviously there's so much drama surrounding his his marriage and his family, and he's moved to America with Megan and the whole Oprah interview.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even think we need to clue you in.
• 25:52
  Dayna Roselli: I'm sure you've seen enough clips.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, if you Google Harry in Vegas, there were plenty of um well fun pictures to look at.
• 25:58
  Sean McAllister: Well, and he had a blast at the the pool parties too while he was here.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: He was living it up, living his best life.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, Harry served in Afghanistan, I think it was.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was two year for two years.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: So listen, he deserved to have some fun and I think he's blow off some steam.
• 26:16
  Dayna Roselli: Blow off some steam now.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: He's well, according to some, trapped in this marriage where his wife tells him everything to he has to do.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: Or for others, they feel you know he's in a wonderful marriage and uh he's taking control of his life.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone has different opinions on that.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: We won't go there, we won't we don't want to get Pierce Morganed where we have to walk offset and everyone hates us.
• 26:37
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 26:37
  Sean McAllister: We we just wanted to hearken back to to simpler times.
• 26:41
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 26:42
  Sean McAllister: When when the big news was that Prince Harry came to Las Vegas and had a great time.
• 26:47
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, listen, we also uh appreciate everyone's feedback on our rumors revealed segment idea.
• 26:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 26:54
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we're not quite there yet, but we're getting a lot of yeses.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: So we're trying to figure out what we could do with that and if we will at all.
• 27:00
  Dayna Roselli: But we love all the ideas and messages that we got about that.
• 27:03
  Sean McAllister: Well, and we're because the the whole idea of this is you know, Dana and I have been journalists for 20 plus years each.
• 27:12
  Sean McAllister: So we are very good at protecting our sources.
• 27:16
  Sean McAllister: So that is one thing.
• 27:17
  Sean McAllister: If you are uh supplying a rumor to Vegas revealed, your identity will never become known.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: True.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: Never.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's hard though.
• 27:28
  Sean McAllister: We're like lockboxes, we have secrets left and right.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, listen, I was driving over here and I was thinking there's five things I could say right now, but I won't.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: I'll I'll leave that for when the, you know, to really, really open up the segment with a with a doozy.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 27:46
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, we'll see how that goes.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: We're trying to think about that a little bit more.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: And maybe once Vegas opens a little bit more and people are out, you know, gallivanting around.
• 27:54
  Dayna Roselli: Is that the right word?
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: They'll be more virgin.
• 27:58
  Sean McAllister: Whatever you want to say, yeah.
• 28:00
  Dayna Roselli: Um okay, we're gonna take a quick break and we've got some secret tips coming up next.
• 28:07
  Sean McAllister: Remember, even when you're not listening to Vegas Revealed, you can go to Vegas-Revealed.com and get all of our podcast episodes, our video, even stories about what's happening in Las Vegas.
• 28:19
  Dayna Roselli: That's right, and we commit to doing these weekly polls, so we want you to chime in.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: We usually put that right on our Twitter page.
• 28:26
  Sean McAllister: And it takes a lot of time and effort to do all of the things that we do here at Vegas Revealed, and support from sponsors is always welcome and appreciated.
• 28:36
  Sean McAllister: And if you're listening at home, you can also go in our show notes and click on the link to support Vegas Revealed yourself.
• 28:44
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, we're back with Dana and Sean's secret tips, and this week it was easy because Sean and I went out together to eat at True Food Kitchen at the form shops at Caesars, and as we were walking, we were like, you know what?
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: There are so many amazing places in the shopping areas of our resorts.
• 29:02
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, as we were uh going out to to lunch, it got my wheels turning and and we started talking, and it's like, you know what?
• 29:10
  Sean McAllister: You don't normally think of going to a retail destination when you start thinking about making reservations for lunch or dinner.
• 29:20
  Sean McAllister: But there are some great dining options like True Food Kitchen.
• 29:24
  Dayna Roselli: And the forum shops are plenty of them.
• 29:26
  Dayna Roselli: Carmines is in there, Sushi Roku is amazing, and it has a great view with windows and also Joe's Stone Crab.
• 29:34
  Sean McAllister: And that is so good.
• 29:36
  Sean McAllister: I've been there for some special occasions, and oh, the food is just delicious.
• 29:42
  Dayna Roselli: It really is.
• 29:43
  Dayna Roselli: And that's just the forum shops.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they have plenty of other restaurants in the forum shops as well.
• 29:48
  Dayna Roselli: And then there's Miracle Mile shops, Grand Canal shops.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: So these are all shopping areas of resorts.
• 29:54
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Miracle Mile is in Planet Hollywood, Grand Canal is in Venetian, and there's restaurants in there too.
• 30:00
  Sean McAllister: And not to mention uh Fashion Show Mall, where you have Magianos, Little Italy, which is delicious.
• 30:06
  Sean McAllister: Also, Capitol Grill is in there too.
• 30:08
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 30:08
  Dayna Roselli: And they have an amazing uh Mexican restaurant in there.
• 30:11
  Dayna Roselli: I think the sugar factory is over there as well.
• 30:13
  Dayna Roselli: So there are like, you know, options for you.
• 30:15
  Dayna Roselli: So dig deep when you come to visit Las Vegas.
• 30:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's not just the, you know, the body of the casino and the resort that has the restaurants.
• 30:23
  Dayna Roselli: Venture out to some of these shopping areas.
• 30:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you'll get some good eats, and who knows?
• 30:27
  Sean McAllister: Maybe if you, you know, have a a few cocktails, it'll get you in the mood to go shopping too.
• 30:33
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: You and I had something different for us.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: Vegan chocolate chip cookies and ice cream at True Food Kitchen.
• 30:40
  Dayna Roselli: That was really good.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: Different.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: It tasted different, but it was good.
• 30:44
  Dayna Roselli: There was like a little, like a, I don't know, kind of a different flavor to it.
• 30:47
  Dayna Roselli: What were we described it as like a sharp flavor?
• 30:50
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was almost like it it had a a little bit of a tang to it, like if it was made with sour cream or something.
• 30:56
  Sean McAllister: I doubt that it was made with sour cream.
• 30:57
  Sean McAllister: Maybe it was.
• 30:58
  Sean McAllister: Who knows?
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: Who knows?
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
• 31:00
  Dayna Roselli: It was good though.
• 31:01
  Sean McAllister: So good.
• 31:02
  Dayna Roselli: The whole menu at Truefa, if you've never been, the food is fresh.
• 31:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's really, really good.
• 31:07
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean and I were there to support and get the word out about dine with a purpose.
• 31:13
  Dayna Roselli: And that starts on the 15th of March and goes through April 30th.
• 31:17
  Dayna Roselli: And you can eat at a bunch of places at the forum shops, and then a portion of your bill will go to Three Square, which is our main food bank here.
• 31:25
  Sean McAllister: And for every dollar that Three Square Food Bank receives, that's three meals for people who need it.
• 31:32
  Sean McAllister: So I mean you can imagine that, you know, obviously every dollar helps, and every dollar is doing incredible things for the Las Vegas Valley.
• 31:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we we love it.
• 31:42
  Dayna Roselli: And the Palm is another restaurant in there that's taking part in this.
• 31:46
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, Water Grill, which I actually eat at all the time.
• 31:48
  Dayna Roselli: I go there just for the clam chowder and Caesar salad.
• 31:51
  Sean McAllister: I miss I haven't had clam chowder in years.
• 31:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's so good at Water Grill.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: Trust me, everyone.
• 31:56
  Sean McAllister: I forgot about clam chowder.
• 31:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it's delicious.
• 32:00
  Dayna Roselli: And there's like clams in there.
• 32:01
  Dayna Roselli: The presentation is beautiful.
• 32:03
  Dayna Roselli: There's like carrots and corn and big chunks of clam and potato.
• 32:08
  Dayna Roselli: It's delicious.
• 32:09
  Sean McAllister: I used to go to a bar called Casey's with my parents back in Brockport, New York.
• 32:14
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 32:14
  Sean McAllister: When I was growing up, and we'd get clam chowder there.
• 32:17
  Sean McAllister: It was always so good.
• 32:18
  Dayna Roselli: That does sound good.
• 32:19
  Dayna Roselli: And you just ordered something from Rochester that you missed recently, and you were sending me pictures of your semi-garbage plate.
• 32:26
  Sean McAllister: I was so excited.
• 32:27
  Sean McAllister: So Zweiggle's hot dogs are these hot dogs that I think are are really only found in Western New York, and they're so good.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: They're red hot and they're white hots.
• 32:40
  Sean McAllister: The red hots I think are are beef hot dogs, and the white hots are pork hot dogs.
• 32:45
  Sean McAllister: But when you cook them, like the casing bursts open when the hot dogs are done cooking.
• 32:51
  Sean McAllister: So it looks like they're kind of split open, but that's how you know they're done.
• 32:55
  Sean McAllister: And I have never had a better hot dog.
• 32:58
  Sean McAllister: Zwiggles all the way.
• 32:59
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: You were how many cases did you order do you order a case or what'd you order?
• 33:03
  Sean McAllister: Well, I ordered they come in six packs, and it's half red, uh, half white.
• 33:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 33:10
  Sean McAllister: And so I got six of those.
• 33:11
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 33:11
  Sean McAllister: And they come, they come overnight in you know, refrigerated styrofoam packaging.
• 33:17
  Sean McAllister: It's legit.
• 33:18
  Dayna Roselli: And it's funny that I said garbage plate because anyone listening that's not from Rochester might not know what I'm talking about.
• 33:23
  Dayna Roselli: But in Rochester, New York, they we have a place called Nick Tahoe's.
• 33:26
  Dayna Roselli: Their garbage plate is hots and meat and hot sauce and macaroni salad all mixed together in one plate.
• 33:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it starts with a bed of home fries or French fries.
• 33:39
  Sean McAllister: Then you get your choice of uh hot dog, hamburger, or cheeseburger.
• 33:45
  Sean McAllister: And then there's the meat hot sauce and the max salad that's mixed in there.
• 33:50
  Sean McAllister: I always put ketchup and mustard on top, cut everything up and mix it all together.
• 33:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's like the hot and cold too, is so good, right?
• 33:58
  Sean McAllister: It's so it's last time I went home, I tried to eat a full garbage plate because back when I was, you know, in my college years and early 20s, I could polish one off easy.
• 34:11
  Sean McAllister: I took five bites and it sat like a brick at the bottom of my stomach.
• 34:16
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like I could polish it easy.
• 34:19
  Sean McAllister: So good.
• 34:20
  Sean McAllister: I wanted to finish it, but I couldn't.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 34:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, speaking of that, we need to heat up our lunch because now I'm hungry.
• 34:26
  Dayna Roselli: We do.
• 34:27
  Dayna Roselli: And I brought over some Tupperware Roselli special.
• 34:30
  Dayna Roselli: But listen, also, our responses keep coming in on our question this week of are you ready to go to concerts and festivals?
• 34:36
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll share some of those on our social media pages.
• 34:38
  Dayna Roselli: We are at Vegas Revealed.
• 34:40
  Dayna Roselli: We're also at Dana Roselli and at Sean MC TV.
• 34:45
  Sean McAllister: There you go.
• 34:46
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week as we reflect back and remember, we are so fortunate to have everything that we have today.
• 34:53
  Sean McAllister: If you're in town, we'll see you around.
• 34:56
  Sean McAllister: If you're out of town, plan your Vegas trip.
• 34:58
  Sean McAllister: We'll talk with you next week.
• 35:03
  Sean McAllister: Let's go back.
• 35:05
  Sean McAllister: Let's baby.
• 35:06
  Sean McAllister: Let's go in there.
• 35:07
  Sean McAllister: Let's go to the bag.
• 35:08
  Sean McAllister: Let's go ahead.
• 35:09
  Sean McAllister: Let's stay away.
• 35:11
  unknown: Let's go.