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Preview of AI Enhanced "The Wizard of Oz" at Sphere, Remembering Las Vegas Icon Elaine Wynn, Patio Bar Restaurant Recommendation | Ep. 266 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 266 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Details about the Wizard of Oz coming to Spear.
• 0:06
  Sean McAllister: This is a good one.
• 0:07
  Sean McAllister: How the AI technology was created specifically for this project and the challenges in adapting the 1939 film to the Sphere's massive screen.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: Plus, check out a new patio bar and restaurant over at M Resort.
• 0:31
  Sean McAllister: We need to spread the word on this.
• 0:33
  Dayna Roselli: We do, so good.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: And the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit gets a newer version where you can see it.
• 0:38
  Sean McAllister: All of this and more coming up right now on Vegas Reveal.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Vegas Revealed, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 0:48
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed.
• 0:50
  Dayna Roselli: I'm Dana Roselli along with Sean McAllister, and we are really excited to dive in and tell you all about the Wizard of Oz coming to sphere in August.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: But we did want to start with our heartfelt condolences.
• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we found out this morning that we're recording that Elaine Wynne passed away, and both of us, Sean, were shocked.
• 1:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, it was, gosh, I mean, it was less than a year ago that we saw her uh over at the big ceremony when the Mirage was closing and changing hands to become uh the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
• 1:22
  Sean McAllister: And Mrs.
• 1:23
  Sean McAllister: Wynne got up and and spoke because she and her husband were, they can't kind of created that resort as a team.
• 1:31
  Sean McAllister: She had so much to do not only with the Mirage, but the Bellagio and of course win resorts as well.
• 1:39
  Sean McAllister: Um, just such a visionary and an incredible businesswoman, but also a philanthropist.
• 1:46
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, Elaine Wynne was married to Steve Wynne, actually twice.
• 1:51
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 1:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and you know, she was telling stories at the Mirage closing about when they opened it and how the idea came about, and you know, talked about where they had started and was telling stories of how Steve had the crazy idea or somebody had the crazy idea of wanting dolphins in the back.
• 2:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, I think that they started about, I think maybe the dolphin idea was the original idea was to have them in their backyard.
• 2:17
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 2:18
  Sean McAllister: She was like, no, put them at the Mirage.
• 2:19
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and in that clip uh that we posted on social media too, she was talking about how, you know, when people came up to see the mirage, they were like gasping.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: Like this is they started clapping when they walked into the atrium.
• 2:30
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, they've had so many iconic moments through the years.
• 2:33
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like they really shaped Vegas into a unique place, uh and also a luxury town.
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: And they made their mark in so many ways.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm talking about Steve Wynne and Elaine Wynne.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: Elaine just passed away, she was 82 years old on April 15th, and yeah, like Sean said, we didn't see her not too long ago.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: We saw her, I should say.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: She looked fabulous.
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we don't at the time of this recording have a cause of death yet.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: We do know in some way or fashion it had to be sudden.
• 3:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, there was a a a brief illness, is um what's being reported right now.
• 3:08
  Sean McAllister: But uh yeah, and in addition, like I said, to uh uh everything that she did business-wise, Elaine Wynn also was uh a huge uh donor to uh education and the arts and really um has done so much for the Las Vegas community for decades now.
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I love that the Wynn put out a statement about this early this morning uh with condolences.
• 3:38
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it's a big loss for Las Vegas because she was still making appearances and running around, like I said, you know, we just saw her at the Mirage and she talked for a long time and told so many stories, and her stories and her work currently that she was doing, you know, really helps Las Vegas.
• 3:54
  Dayna Roselli: So she for sure will be be missed.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: An iconic woman, a classy lady, and um sad to hear about the news.
• 4:02
  Dayna Roselli: We'll keep you posted if we hear anything more, if there's any type of um uh celebration of life, memorial that the public will be invited to.
• 4:10
  Dayna Roselli: We'll let you know.
• 4:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and certainly uh her work is going to live on through uh the Elaine Wynn Foundation as well.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: Well, this weekend we had mentioned last week we had a job with the Olympia companies.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: We do it every year with the charitable foundation.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: They have the governor's black tie weekend.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: It was a success again.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: They raised so much money, over a million dollars for eight charities locally, but always a fun time.
• 4:34
  Dayna Roselli: And we ran into a lot of people.
• 4:36
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, Darius Rucker was performing at the Governor's Bash.
• 4:40
  Dayna Roselli: I had never seen him perform live.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: I thought he was great.
• 4:43
  Sean McAllister: Oh, he was terrific, and the crowd was so into it.
• 4:47
  Sean McAllister: Um, and he'll be back in Las Vegas this fall.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, September, I think he's at the Palm.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: So if you want to see him live, I really enjoyed it.
• 4:54
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we were busy, you know, working and videoing and stuff like that, but that was great.
• 4:58
  Dayna Roselli: We also ran into Mark Bedain again, the new A's president, and it was great to see him because we had recently seen him what was two weeks before at the Nevada Ballet Gala.
• 5:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, exactly.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: So I love seeing that Mark is, you know, out at all these charitable events and and out there, you know, in I mean, he never went away.
• 5:17
  Dayna Roselli: He said he always lived here when he left the Raiders, he was the president of the Raiders, but uh nice to see him out and about again, you know, representing, you know, the A's because he's the new president and it's a it's a you know major league baseball team that's coming to Las Vegas eventually.
• 5:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it uh this was the 25th anniversary of the governor's black tie uh event where, like you said, they do they've raised$30 million over the past 25 years.
• 5:43
  Sean McAllister: Um, but it really was.
• 5:45
  Sean McAllister: It was a great four-day event, a golf tournament, concerts, uh a luncheon, yeah, uh black tie dinner, fireworks, the whole nine.
• 5:54
  Dayna Roselli: The whole nine.
• 5:55
  Dayna Roselli: The governor was there, the first lady of Nevada was there.
• 5:58
  Dayna Roselli: I really do like Donna Lombardo.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: We always have great conversations with her.
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: A nice woman.
• 6:02
  Sean McAllister: So nice, yes.
• 6:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and that she's always at the ladies' lunch.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: So uh a good time had by all and lots of money raised.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we also ran into a side note, I think this is why I even thought about the talk to the a lot of listeners and viewers out there on the golf course and at these events.
• 6:18
  Dayna Roselli: And we just want to say thanks, thanks for listening, thanks for watching.
• 6:22
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes you don't do the show and you don't know who listens or her, but like people are coming up, like, hey, love the show.
• 6:28
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, Do you watch or listen?
• 6:30
  Dayna Roselli: And and a lot of people said they D VR it um, the television show.
• 6:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the TV show, which is great.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so if you don't live in Las Vegas, a reminder, you can always uh watch our most recent shows, actually, all of our shows, by going to the Vegas Revealed YouTube channel.
• 6:45
  Sean McAllister: They're all loaded up there.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: So great place.
• 6:48
  Dayna Roselli: And and if you do live here, the DVR, like I somebody said to me, like, do people DVR things?
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, yes, we ran into a lot of people that actually DVR it.
• 6:57
  Sean McAllister: Well, and we tell people to DVR it during the show, right?
• 7:00
  Dayna Roselli: Because the time fluctuates a little bit.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: We're a lot of times around sports programming and stuff like that.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: So mostly we're like 7:30 on Sundays, but sometimes it's 4:30, or sometimes it's on a Saturday, or you know, sometimes 9 30 p.m.
• 7:12
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, set the DVR, it will always be there.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: Or if you have YouTube TV like I do, that just goes right into the the menu.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 7:20
  Sean McAllister: If you do watch and listen, and if we're ever out and about, come over and say hi because we love to meet you in person when we're able to.
• 7:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's for sure.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we got a deep dive into this event we went to.
• 7:35
  Dayna Roselli: It was the Google Cloud Next Conference, their kickoff.
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: Folks over at uh MSG, Madison Square Garden that run the sphere said, Hey, you want to go to this event?
• 7:46
  Dayna Roselli: They're gonna do a little press thing and show some clips of the Wizard of Oz.
• 7:52
  Dayna Roselli: And we were like, Yes, because we've had so many people tell us they are looking forward to this.
• 7:57
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I mean, the second that it was announced, it was just with a picture, and uh that flew it went wild on social media, but we wondered, we were like, okay, so Sphere is having this event, but what role does Google play in this Wizard of Oz movie?
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: Well, the CEO of Google was there to tell us.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Google has developed these huge AI systems, and that's why Google, Sphere, and Warner Brothers have all teamed up to create this version of the Wizard of Oz that's going to blow your mind.
• 8:37
  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't know when we walked in what we were gonna see, what we were gonna learn, and here's how it went down.
• 8:43
  Dayna Roselli: They showed us certain clips of the movie, they had different speakers from all sides explaining how they've been working on this since 2023 to put this together.
• 8:52
  Dayna Roselli: How, you know, James Dolan spoke, um, the CEO of the sphere, and said we had to find the right partner to make this work.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: And we had a list of like, I think he said like six and narrowed it down to four, and then you know, Google was it.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then we got to see the process of what they've been doing and how they do it, and everyone spoke.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: It was just so mind-blowing.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: And and we got to see like three uh three big moments of The Wizard of Oz.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: They're not done with it yet.
• 9:21
  Sean McAllister: They've said they've got the editing process, yeah.
• 9:23
  Dayna Roselli: They've got a lot of work to do.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: It comes out August 28th, and they said they're gonna hit that.
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but that's what went on.
• 9:29
  Dayna Roselli: So they we got to see explain or you know, hear ex explanations, see clips, and it moved along with almost like we watched this kind of documentary-ish type film right in the sphere.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: So uh just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here, uh, the original 1939 Wizard of Oz was, you know, in four by three aspect ratio.
• 9:51
  Sean McAllister: You were basically watching a square.
• 9:53
  Sean McAllister: Well, if you blow that up and show it inside of sphere, which is like 280-degree screen, and uh it's wild, and the resolution 16k, like it just wouldn't look good if you were just showing uh the original movie, right?
• 10:09
  Sean McAllister: So they ran the Wizard of Oz through uh multiple AI and uh also some uh you know current computer uh generated graphic kind of technology.
• 10:23
  Sean McAllister: Um but but they had to create the world beyond the frame that we have seen for the past uh however many decades.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:33
  Dayna Roselli: That that was cool.
• 10:34
  Sean McAllister: It was just wild, and they had to build the AI computers and models specifically for this project, so you can only imagine the undertaking.
• 10:47
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and that was the thing.
• 10:48
  Dayna Roselli: I never thought of that, that if you show it in the sphere, you know, the the film is only stretched out so far.
• 10:56
  Dayna Roselli: So they were talking about so they're basically using the AI to kind of reimagine what would be happening outside of the frame of the movie.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: But they also stressed that they want to keep true to the film, they're not gonna do anything weird or crazy that they think you know wouldn't actually be happening.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: And they're using some type of well, AI and intelligence to and a brain almost to say what would be happening if Dorothy walks in with the scarecrow and then the scarecrow walks out of frame.
• 11:31
  Dayna Roselli: What would the scarecrow be doing off to the right at that moment?
• 11:36
  Dayna Roselli: Because in the sphere, we're still seeing that far.
• 11:39
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 11:40
  Sean McAllister: So anyway, we're seeing a world that stretches beyond what has been known uh on screen before.
• 11:48
  Sean McAllister: And so they did.
• 11:49
  Sean McAllister: They uh there were actual producers who had gone through the original uh scripts of the Wizard of Oz, read the director's notes, really wanted to make sure uh that it was an authentic representation of what was originally intended for the film.
• 12:05
  Sean McAllister: And now, of course, we have technology to do things that were not possible in 1939.
• 12:11
  Sean McAllister: So producers sat with uh the technology people who were telling the AI computers what to do and making this wild stuff happen.
• 12:23
  Sean McAllister: Now we're we have a couple interviews that you're gonna hear um in just a minute that explain more about this whole process, but um it really is I mean, it's astounding what they've done.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: Well, the clips that they showed us, everyone was kind of like ooing and eyeing, like you can tell like there was applause.
• 12:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was amazing.
• 12:47
  Dayna Roselli: We got to see, you know, when Dorothy sings somewhere over the rainbow, and it was incredible to see that in black and white and the screen expanded, um, and see her so clearly.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: That was so cool.
• 12:58
  Dayna Roselli: We got to see a scene with the wicked witch.
• 13:00
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, that was neat.
• 13:03
  Dayna Roselli: Um, because the wicked witch was woo, right up there.
• 13:05
  Sean McAllister: And she is green.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, she is very green.
• 13:09
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we got to see them walking into frame, you know, heading up to uh Emerald City and to see the wizard.
• 13:15
  Dayna Roselli: To see the wizard, yeah.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: You got to see the wizard for a brief moment.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: It's a mild thing.
• 13:19
  Sean McAllister: Both in the witch's castle and going to see the wizard.
• 13:22
  Sean McAllister: You look up and you see the ceiling of the room.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 13:26
  Sean McAllister: Like you are it it feels like you are right there walking the yellow brick road right alongside the characters.
• 13:33
  Dayna Roselli: So we posted this on our TikTok, and the fighting back and forth about AI is still going to this day.
• 13:42
  Dayna Roselli: It's been a week.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, and I thought that was interesting because I never really thought of it.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: I thought, wow, what an amazing creative way to bring this film to life.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: And yeah, I don't, you know, I think we all worry AI is gonna take over the world and people aren't gonna have jobs and stuff like that.
• 13:57
  Dayna Roselli: We need to be caught for certain if it's used for certain things.
• 14:01
  Dayna Roselli: For this, though, it only makes sense if we have this technology.
• 14:05
  Dayna Roselli: How do we bring a film, an existing film?
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: How do we keep it the same, but allow it to be shown in the sphere or make it, you know, formatted to even be an experience inside the sphere?
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: AI, we have it, right?
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: Well, Judy and the Munchkins aren't coming back to reshoot scenes.
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: And that's what people are saying in the TikTok.
• 14:27
  Dayna Roselli: Like, that's not happening.
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: So what else?
• 14:28
  Dayna Roselli: And then, well, they should have used actors.
• 14:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, well, then you're not really, you know, then the wizard doesn't look like the wizard.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: And so, like, it's very interesting.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: So, in one of the interviews with Ben Grossman, the co-founder and CEO of Mechnopis, you you'll find it very interesting.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: I think the way he lays it out explains when you think about how this film was shot before, um, how this had to happen.
• 14:53
  Dayna Roselli: And this is one way that you just it needed to be done.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: And this conversation you're about to hear happened immediately after we saw these first images of the Wizard of Oz.
• 15:04
  Sean McAllister: We were the only uh really podcast or video outlet there.
• 15:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was all print or, you know, uh people asking questions, but not, you know, we had the microphone and we had we videoed it for our television show and were able to use some of the audio too.
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: We were, it was uh kind of a panel, so I was trying to get the mic as close as I could to hear some of the answers, but I think it'll play out just fine in audio.
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I mean, in many ways, this is a little bit of a Vegas revealed exclusive.
• 15:30
  Dayna Roselli: So thanks to the folks over at Sphere for inviting us.
• 15:33
  Sean McAllister: So who you are going to be hearing from?
• 15:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh Ben Grossman, who is the co-founder and CEO of Magnopis, like Dana mentioned.
• 15:42
  Sean McAllister: But first you'll hear from Jennifer Kessner, who is president and chief operating officer at Sphere.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know you still have a lot to do, but is there a scene of the movie that you are just like, or maybe my mind is blown, or you got the chills, or I can't believe we nailed this, that's gonna blow people away because we're gonna have a lot of people watching that are hyped about to come to see the film.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: I I would say personally, the forest for me.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_02: You feel as though you are literally with Dorothy, with Toto, there's monkeys, like and you look up and it's it's cavernous.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how else they're explaining it except it's cavernous.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: You have to remember that the original movie was all shot inside buildings.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: So when you watch the original movie, it's all shot in sound stages in Culver City.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so anytime there was a far distant hillside, it was a painting.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: And anytime you saw a big wide vista, it was a painting on glass that was photographed through in a small stage.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: So nothing was ever shot outside in the Wizard of Oz movie.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: So forests, those were all trees brought indoors, planted, and the camera kept moving past the same trees over and over and over.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: So the whole movie was basically just made in a room the size of a basketball court, but a bunch of adjacent rooms that they could move between.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: The tricky part about what we're doing with this is we're saying, take all this material and now extend it logically into a wider field of view so you can see up above you and behind you.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_00: So any scene in the movie that you've ever seen where you think, Oh, I saw a little glimpse of something really cool over there.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, now our goal is for you to feel like you're actually there, not looking at it through a screen at all.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Because when you sit inside the sphere, you feel like you're going someplace.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: So the idea was for us to remove in a sense the camera of the original movie and put the audience back on the set, except the set to become real.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: So anything that felt like it was painted, it becomes real by nature of experience, I guess, firsthand.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: So I could just put it back to you.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite part of The Wizard of Oz and where would you want to see?
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: You saw a glimpse of the wizard, that's pretty intense.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I know the tornado scene was always, you know, creep me out when I was younger, and I can't I think about seeing in here and like how you know how it's gonna be pretty incredible.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: That's why it's experiential, right?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: So from when you're sitting there, everything is in you as you look around as though you're actually there.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: The tornado is gonna be super intense.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: I'm excited for the tornado.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: And flying monkeys are also another popular well, unpopular if you're a child.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: We are definitely gonna have some new generations of nightmares.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: So you can tell some of those scenes, the way they're describing it, even looking at Jennifer's face, you're like, you can tell she's blown away.
• 18:24
  Sean McAllister: Oh, without a doubt.
• 18:25
  Sean McAllister: And also something we could tell is that they are coming up with something really wild for the tornado scene.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and we just heard him say, uh, there's gonna be a lot of new nightmares.
• 18:38
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, exactly.
• 18:39
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I mean, that was because I even told you that movie used to creep me out.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: It creeps a lot of people out, but not everyone.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: Some people are like, what do you mean?
• 18:47
  Dayna Roselli: I love and it and it has that effect on you, but it's a it's not like a it creeps you out like you don't want to watch it kind of way.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: It's just it brings this whole alternate world and it when you're a kid, it's I don't know, you're fascinated by it.
• 19:02
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think we haven't mentioned yet that during the movie there are going to be effects and 4D things happening.
• 19:11
  Sean McAllister: So when we were there, we felt the breeze.
• 19:14
  Sean McAllister: There was a breeze happening.
• 19:16
  Sean McAllister: There's different scents that happen inside of sphere.
• 19:19
  Sean McAllister: Your seat rumbles with with the bass of, you know, when the fire goes off, when they go in to see the wizard.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, it is just I can't wait.
• 19:31
  Sean McAllister: I am so excited for it.
• 19:33
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, everyone's asking, when are tickets on sale?
• 19:35
  Dayna Roselli: How much are tickets?
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and we don't know yet.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are not on sale at the time of recording today.
• 19:40
  Dayna Roselli: So um we will wait and see.
• 19:43
  Dayna Roselli: Again, they said end of August, it will be done.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: Uh fingers crossed.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: They said we shouldn't even be here.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: Should we should be working?
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: They kept saying that, you know, over and over.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: But um, it's it's pretty cool what they're doing, and we look forward to it.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: That's for sure.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's something different.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, and there's people commenting on the TikTok, well, it didn't need to be done, and this and that.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, you know what, then don't go.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: You know, because plenty of other people that's gonna sell out, I think, every single screening, without a doubt.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: Well, I think just the technological advancement uh that it's taken to pull this project together, and they're still pulling it together and coming up with new things to finish the film.
• 20:24
  Sean McAllister: So um it's I think that it is just going to be spectacular.
• 20:30
  Sean McAllister: It's not going to be the same experience of watching the original film.
• 20:35
  Sean McAllister: It'll be and you have to think of it that way.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: Like two totally different experiences.
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: But they are staying true, they they're keeping the film, like people are like, or is this like an adaptation?
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: Well, no.
• 20:47
  Dayna Roselli: No, that's the film enhanced and brought to life, right?
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, more of it.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good way to put it.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, uh, speaking of television, film, all that good stuff.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: If you love hacks, we do.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great show on Max.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: And um, you know, it started off in season one in Las Vegas.
• 21:06
  Dayna Roselli: Most of the show has taken place in Las Vegas.
• 21:08
  Dayna Roselli: They've been traveling around.
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: Now they're in Los Angeles this season, but they are uh coming back to Vegas.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: And I know they did a lot of filming at the Fountain Blue.
• 21:17
  Dayna Roselli: That episode drops uh tonight because the well, if you're listening to the podcast on April 17th, which is the day that we post them on a Thursday, uh that show debuts tonight, and then obviously it sits on there on Macs, but I'm excited to see what they do.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: And Hacks, uh Lunel, the comedian down at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club.
• 21:36
  Sean McAllister: Of course, she's all over the place too.
• 21:39
  Sean McAllister: Um, but she's had a recurring role and she's back this season.
• 21:43
  Sean McAllister: Um, we talked to her about that, and she just loves it and loves the success of the show.
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: Um, so we are.
• 21:50
  Sean McAllister: We're glad that Hacks is back in Vegas.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: Emmy award winning show.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: It just keeps winning so many awards, and what a cast.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: The writing is great.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: So um according to the Fountain Blue, we're gonna see, let's see, uh scenes throughout the resort, including the casino floor, oasis pool, blue bar, live Las Vegas, and many more.
• 22:12
  Dayna Roselli: So it should be good.
• 22:13
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited for that.
• 22:15
  Sean McAllister: And Hacks, of course, streams on Macs.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you can watch it there.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: And if you haven't, I sometimes I'll I'll say to people, like, you haven't watched Hacks, like, what are you crazy?
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I and I get it.
• 22:26
  Sean McAllister: At first, the first season, I stopped halfway because I was like, all right, it was getting a little, and everyone's like, no, no, no, and I kept going, and it just it's such a good show, and you have to well, and especially if you're a Las Vegas lover, like if you if you like Las Vegas, just stay with it because there are so many, like when Carrot Top makes an appearance, right?
• 22:45
  Sean McAllister: Like there's so many like funny Vegas moments throughout the the episode.
• 22:52
  Sean McAllister: So I think that if for no other reason, watch it for the the Vegas stuff.
• 22:57
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:57
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and Deborah Vance is a relatable character on that show when it comes to Vegas.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: She is a longtime headliner that now has to a little bit either go with the times, reinvent herself, or not stay true to what she believes in.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: So and then how that will go in her journey.
• 23:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 23:13
  Dayna Roselli: I love it so much.
• 23:15
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• 23:28
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• 23:46
  Sean McAllister: All right, let's get to our tips.
• 23:52
  Sean McAllister: All right, up first this week, uh the immersive Van Gogh.
• 23:55
  Sean McAllister: This is an exhibit over at the Lighthouse Art Space inside Crystals Shops over there on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 24:02
  Sean McAllister: This is one of those experiences where you go inside and the projections are all over the wall, and van the paintings of Van Gogh come to life all around you.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I remember shooting this and when when they announced they were opening, and I didn't realize it's actually been a while.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: I remember we had masks on back then.
• 24:20
  Sean McAllister: We did.
• 24:20
  Sean McAllister: Right?
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: When we went over and did that interview.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, it's been around a long time.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: People love it, so that's why they're doing this new edition, giving us something new.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's called uh the new immersive Van Gogh, the next chapter.
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: It opened April 7th, so it's good to go.
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's located over there on level three, right at the shops at Crystals, like Sean said.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: And you can go to vangogas.com for more information.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: But uh yeah, like Sean also said, the digital projections on the wall, uh, you're gonna see over 300 of Van Gogh's masterpieces, and it's all set to this captivating soundtrack.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: I remember when we went, people were sitting on the ground and just relaxing and taking it in, or you know, standing there and walking around and taking some pictures of themselves with the paintings behind them.
• 25:05
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and especially with the the summer months coming, you might be looking for a little bit of a break from the Las Vegas heat.
• 25:12
  Sean McAllister: And this is one of those options that's really enjoyable.
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: So again, it is the new immersive Van Gogh, the next chapter over there at the Crystals shops.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, you and I went to the M recently because we had a break uh during a project that we were shooting down in Southern Highland, and we said, where can we get something quick to eat or whatever?
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: So we said, Hey, what about the patio at M?
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about this.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: It is a new restaurant and bar open right next to the pool area.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: I believe it's just open in the evening.
• 25:45
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not don't quote me on that, but I remember last time we did it, I believe it's more of a or a midday to evening type thing.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, we walked in there and absolutely loved it on a Friday night.
• 25:56
  Sean McAllister: First of all, the pool at the M is just so pretty anyway.
• 26:01
  Sean McAllister: Just looking out over that pool deck at night with the lights on.
• 26:05
  Sean McAllister: Um, but the patio area has its own, you know, tables and bar and lights.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: Colored lights, the colored lights.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: I love the colored lights.
• 26:16
  Sean McAllister: TVs out there.
• 26:18
  Sean McAllister: So if you if there's a game on, especially now with the golden knights heading into the Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean again.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the deal, you guys.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: We were like one of like four people in there, and we thought, okay, not enough people know about this.
• 26:31
  Dayna Roselli: It needs to be busier.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: So we figured we would spread the word.
• 26:34
  Dayna Roselli: And we were talking to the bartender, and he said, Yeah, we're still new.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, Why?
• 26:38
  Dayna Roselli: And it was a beautiful night.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: Why isn't everyone sitting on this patio?
• 26:41
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 26:42
  Sean McAllister: It was so relaxing, so nice with a breeze coming through there.
• 26:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 26:48
  Sean McAllister: We were talking about, we were like, you know what?
• 26:50
  Sean McAllister: We need to let people know about this place because it's great.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: It really, it really is great.
• 26:54
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited that it's open and it's good to go.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: We want to let you know about it.
• 26:59
  Dayna Roselli: We're definitely gonna go back there.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: Actually, we should have gone.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: That's what we should have done for your birthday.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: Today's Sean's birthday, by the way.
• 27:05
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, when this drops, April 17th.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's not really because um it's Monday, but this podcast posts on April 17th.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: So it's like so it's like it's your birthday.
• 27:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but anyway, that it yeah, that would be a good spot for a celebration with friends.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: Very casual, but a little elevated.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, nice.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: It is, yeah.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: Right, you know, in the scenery with the pool there.
• 27:25
  Dayna Roselli: So loved it.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, M Resort though.
• 27:28
  Dayna Roselli: While we were also there, we noticed, you know what?
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: They get a lot of good acts over there to perform poolside.
• 27:35
  Dayna Roselli: So we thought we would mention that as a tip as well.
• 27:37
  Dayna Roselli: The wall, and and I this is more for our generation.
• 27:40
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I like all of these bands, all of these acts that you're about to reveal, yeah.
• 27:46
  Dayna Roselli: Solos, yeah.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: Train is coming May 3rd.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, always good.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: Great live.
• 27:52
  Dayna Roselli: The Wallflowers coming August 29th.
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: That's gonna be great.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: And then Ludacris, June 7th.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: Luda.
• 28:00
  Dayna Roselli: And we saw him at F1 perform right outside the sphere.
• 28:03
  Dayna Roselli: He was great.
• 28:03
  Dayna Roselli: And now you can go over and see him poolside at the M.
• 28:06
  Sean McAllister: Those are some great acts.
• 28:08
  Sean McAllister: Now, if you don't know where the M is, it is south, way south on Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 28:16
  Sean McAllister: So if you drive south on the strip and just keep going and going and going for a long time, for a long time, you'll see it on the left.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: Well, yeah, and it's near Southern Highlands.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's also right off the highway.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: So if you take the 15 south, you literally get off, turn left.
• 28:33
  Sean McAllister: Or if you're coming in from Southern California, it's like the first casino you see driving into town.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: The m resort.com.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, by the way, correction the wallflowers.
• 28:41
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if I said they were poolside.
• 28:43
  Dayna Roselli: They're actually at the M Pavilion Friday, August 29th.
• 28:46
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, okay I think train and ludicrous are doing the poolside.
• 28:49
  Dayna Roselli: So there you have it.
• 28:51
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, I mean, what a great spot.
• 28:53
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 28:53
  Sean McAllister: Love it.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: Well, thanks for joining us.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: I think that was a lot.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: We're still uh our mind is blown by the Wizard of Oz clips we saw.
• 29:00
  Dayna Roselli: So we really wanted to deep dive into that today.
• 29:02
  Dayna Roselli: And we hope that we answered some questions.
• 29:04
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's difficult for us to explain.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: We aren't techies.
• 29:08
  Sean McAllister: So here's the thing we have a link down in our show notes where you can text us uh any questions.
• 29:14
  Sean McAllister: So if you're listening to that conversation and you're like, but wait, I want to know more about that, or I need something, uh, can you clarify that?
• 29:22
  Sean McAllister: Let us know, and we'll look at all those uh responses, and we'll have that uh we'll have that for you next episode.
• 29:30
  Sean McAllister: Definitely, definitely.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we're off to see the wizard.
• 29:34
  Dayna Roselli: Bye.