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Remembering Olivia Newton-John, Matt Goss Signs Up for BBC's Strictly Come Dancing in UK, Criss Angel Starts Taping New TV Show in Las Vegas, Travel Numbers Up | Ep. 130 · Vegas Revealed

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Sean McAllister: It's Vegas Revealed episode 130, and the world is remembering a beautiful and talented icon.
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Sean McAllister: How we got to know Olivia Newton John throughout the years as she headlined here in Las Vegas, and the impact that she has left behind.
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Dayna Roselli: Then new travel numbers are in, and Vegas seems more popular than ever.
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Dayna Roselli: And I checked out Chris Angel's Mind Freak show at Planet Hollywood for the first time in a while.
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Dayna Roselli: Details on how you can be part of the studio audience as he now begins filming his new show for the CW.
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Sean McAllister: Plus, we hit up a new pop-up speakeasy at Resorts World and have tips on how you can get an incredible lunch or dinner at the upscale Milo's restaurant at the Venetian for a really great price.
2:12
Dayna Roselli: Let's get to it and spin that wheel.
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Sean McAllister: Kids are back in school here in Las Vegas.
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Dayna Roselli: Isn't that strange?
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Dayna Roselli: They started really early this year, and I feel like everyone's kind of feeling that.
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Dayna Roselli: And we've talked to so many people who say, like, this summer, I don't even know if I've had a summer.
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Dayna Roselli: Like it's been really busy, the weather's been different.
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Dayna Roselli: And I just like I haven't even gotten to the pool very often.
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Sean McAllister: No.
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unknown: You know?
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Sean McAllister: It's been it has been a really kind of strange vibe this summer.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, but I mean still fun.
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Dayna Roselli: We've done lots of great things, and we're gonna have some details on some of the things we've done recently coming up in our tips segment.
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Sean McAllister: But it seems like what everybody else is doing is coming here to Las Vegas.
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Dayna Roselli: I know.
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Dayna Roselli: We continue to have record-breaking months when it comes to travel here in Las Vegas.
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Dayna Roselli: And I saw an article recently, Sean.
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Dayna Roselli: Actually, it's really short.
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Dayna Roselli: I'm just gonna read you this little blurb.
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Dayna Roselli: It says during the pandemic, many of the world's busiest airports resembled ghost towns, but now many are back, as we know.
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Dayna Roselli: Travel's back.
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Dayna Roselli: In some cases, apparently they're busier than they were even in 2019.
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Dayna Roselli: Well, apparently, Las Vegas is a big surprise because we made this list.
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Dayna Roselli: Now it says one surprise is the top seven busiest airports in the world in the US.
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Dayna Roselli: Back at number one, Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport, up 76% from 2021.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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Dayna Roselli: Followed by Dallas, Fort Worth, Denver, Chicago, O'Hare, Los Angeles, Charlotte, and Orlando.
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Dayna Roselli: But the biggest surprise is in Las Vegas.
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Dayna Roselli: It says in 2020, we were at number 22, and now we are the 10th busiest airport in America.
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Sean McAllister: That's crazy.
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Dayna Roselli: I know.
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Dayna Roselli: Interesting, right?
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Dayna Roselli: Because I feel like even in 2020, we did have a lot of I felt like I don't want to say a lot of visitors, but we still had hotel casinos that were open.
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Sean McAllister: Right.
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Dayna Roselli: And people were able to fly in for business and stuff like that, more so than they were in other cities.
4:29
Sean McAllister: True.
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Dayna Roselli: So anyway, but yeah, we're we're in at number 10, 10th busiest airport in the country.
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Sean McAllister: Well, I mean, I guess it makes sense when you look at the the number of people who moved here over the past year and a half, too.
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Sean McAllister: You know, you gotta take into account that the people who have moved here are gonna be flying in and out, in addition to people who are connected with them who are coming in to visit.
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Sean McAllister: Plus, obviously, just uh the tourist traffic on top of that, and overseas travel has you know been opening up.
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Sean McAllister: So it I mean that's uh it's great to hear and see.
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Dayna Roselli: It is.
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Dayna Roselli: I mean, I love it, you know, and I love that we're staying busy.
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Dayna Roselli: I mean, we've been even opening like so many new things here and and new experiences.
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Dayna Roselli: So I love that like Vegas is going with the flow and having you know new things for people to experience when they do return to Las Vegas.
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Sean McAllister: Right.
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Sean McAllister: And we were down on the strip uh yesterday talking with a a colleague who works in the casino industry uh who said that at that specific property it has been just I think she used record breaking.
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Dayna Roselli: Record breaking record breaking.
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Sean McAllister: Like the numbers have just been insane.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's great to hear.
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Dayna Roselli: I love it.
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Dayna Roselli: So we're back, things are moving along, and and we love that everyone's coming to town to visit us.
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Dayna Roselli: Um some of the things that I've been doing lately is even like revisiting some things that I haven't done in a while.
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Dayna Roselli: One of them, Chris Angel's show, Mind Freak at Planet Hollywood.
6:04
Dayna Roselli: I went to the very opening of that show years ago.
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Dayna Roselli: It's been open for a while now, but I hadn't been back to see it.
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Dayna Roselli: And I know that Chris always makes changes, but we've talked about this before.
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Dayna Roselli: Chris Angel, incredible illusionist.
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Dayna Roselli: Uh, we've covered him here on the podcast many, many times.
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Dayna Roselli: But and I always tell you, like, I love his really big illusions.
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Dayna Roselli: Like for me, I prefer that kind of magic more than like the up close card trick kind of hand magic.
6:31
Dayna Roselli: That's just my personal preference.
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Sean McAllister: I like that too.
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I feel a little bit more wowed.
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Dayna Roselli: I don't know why.
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Sean McAllister: And I'll tell I speaking of wow moments, Chris definitely has mastered the art of creating a wow moment where you're just sitting there in your seat and you're like, how the hell did he just do that?
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Dayna Roselli: I mean, seriously, that's what I was gonna say.
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Dayna Roselli: Like, I still so I went with uh Perez Hilton.
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Dayna Roselli: He is a famous celebrity blogger.
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Dayna Roselli: He's been in town for the summer.
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Dayna Roselli: We've become uh friends and done some things together.
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Dayna Roselli: He wanted to go see Mind Freak because way back he had a little confrontation with uh Chris.
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Dayna Roselli: You can Google that and look that up and check out Perez's blog for more information on that.
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Dayna Roselli: But they kind of wanted to see each other many years later and make good on that and kind of shake hands and say the past is the past, right?
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Dayna Roselli: So we go to the show and I was like, great.
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Dayna Roselli: But both of us, like when Chris does this allusion where he lifts, you know, like almost like a curtain, or I guess you'd call it what he a sheet or you know, yeah, like a sheet piece of cloth or whatever.
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Sean McAllister: A magic curtain.
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Dayna Roselli: When he he he does it, and then he appears sitting in the studio audience, like rose back with a spotlight on him, just chilling.
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Dayna Roselli: In like, I'm not even kidding, Sean.
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Dayna Roselli: Like, I felt like it was like five seconds.
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Dayna Roselli: So both Perez and I were like gassed.
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Dayna Roselli: We were like, like, how did he get there?
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Dayna Roselli: And the thing is, is you and I were saying, like, you know, you try and figure out the illusions, like, was there a body double?
8:02
Dayna Roselli: But Chris was talking to the audience for a while, telling us all about how, you know, about his son and his journey with cancer, and how he, you know, does a lot of things to to help for it, and how we should all help too.
8:14
Dayna Roselli: And it was a great story about um the organizations that he works with.
8:18
Dayna Roselli: And then he literally like stepped back, lifted the thing, and then he was sitting in my row hanging out with his legs crossed.
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Sean McAllister: That's crazy.
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Dayna Roselli: So it wasn't even like an aisle seat, it was like the middle of the row, middle of the row, like a little bit closer to the right side, but still not right at the edge in my row, sitting there.
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Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, it's things like that that I'm like, wow, he is good.
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Dayna Roselli: He does some incredible levitation illusions.
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Dayna Roselli: Um, I don't want to give it all away because it really is, but let me tell you, the the place was jam-packed.
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Dayna Roselli: It was a Sunday night, and the crowd was I mean, he has some real fans, some diehard.
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Dayna Roselli: They were standing up, cheering him on.
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Dayna Roselli: Half the show, okay, it's a magic show.
9:05
Dayna Roselli: I'd say half the show people were standing up.
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Dayna Roselli: Like it was a concert.
9:08
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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Sean McAllister: It was really Chris has some diehard fans.
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Dayna Roselli: Yes, he does.
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Dayna Roselli: And he has a new show after that called A Mystica, and we've already talked about that.
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Dayna Roselli: You saw that.
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Sean McAllister: Yep.
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Dayna Roselli: But regardless, he's taking a little bit of a break, and here's why.
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Dayna Roselli: He's doing another TV show.
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Sean McAllister: Oh, good.
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Sean McAllister: So this is exciting.
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Dayna Roselli: I know.
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Dayna Roselli: It's called Magic with the Stars, and he's starting to shoot that.
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Dayna Roselli: And here's the deal you can become a part of the studio audience.
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Dayna Roselli: And I know people love that stuff, right?
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Dayna Roselli: So apparently, this is how it's gonna work.
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Dayna Roselli: In each episode, two celebrities train with professional magicians and they compete to create a show-stopping series of magic performances.
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Dayna Roselli: The celebrity competitors are tasked with mastering three major categories of magic, which they perform in front of a team of judges led by Chris Angel.
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Dayna Roselli: Well, only the highest scoring celebrities will be invited back to the finale where they then compete for the golden wand.
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Dayna Roselli: So I love this.
10:03
Dayna Roselli: Apparently, Chris was telling me Eddie Griffin's gonna host.
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Dayna Roselli: So here's the deal: filming dates August 17th, 18th, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31, September 2nd and 3rd.
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Dayna Roselli: House opens at 6:30.
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Dayna Roselli: It's first come, first serve.
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Dayna Roselli: You can attend any and all tapings if you want.
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Dayna Roselli: It's right there at the showroom that Chris Angel does Mind Freak and a Mystica in at Planet Hollywood.
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Dayna Roselli: So if that's your thing, uh go.
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Dayna Roselli: The premiere date's October 22nd for the actual show, and it'll be Saturdays at 8 7 Central.
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Sean McAllister: Very good.
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Sean McAllister: That's a really cool concept.
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Sean McAllister: I love that they're competing for a golden wand.
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Dayna Roselli: I know, I love it.
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Dayna Roselli: And it's funny because it's magic with the stars.
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Dayna Roselli: Not dancing.
10:43
Sean McAllister: Not dancing.
10:44
Sean McAllister: No, no, no.
10:45
Sean McAllister: But speaking of dancing, uh Dana, one of our friends, uh, Matt Goss, who we've talked about here on the podcast, we've mentioned before that we produced a podcast for Matt.
10:58
Sean McAllister: Um, he has moved back to the UK, back to London.
11:04
Dayna Roselli: For the dancing with the stars in the UK.
11:07
Dayna Roselli: It's called Strictly Come Dancing, right?
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Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we've talked about Matt.
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Dayna Roselli: Matt and I are like family.
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Dayna Roselli: We have been close friends for, I don't even know, 13 years.
11:14
Dayna Roselli: So it's actually been a hard thing for me because he's moved away.
11:17
Dayna Roselli: And this is a person that um, and I don't talk about it too much, is is a close friend.
11:21
Dayna Roselli: I always say that, but literally, Matt and I talk on the phone every single day.
11:25
Dayna Roselli: We uh see each other, we we shop, we run errands, we, you know, all hang at his house.
11:32
Dayna Roselli: I mean, he's a very close friend of mine, so it's a major adjustment.
11:35
Dayna Roselli: But I couldn't be more supportive of this move because he has been planning and wanting to move back to the UK for a while.
11:41
Dayna Roselli: So when this came up, I was like, you've gotta do it.
11:44
Dayna Roselli: And it's been the biggest secret because you, I mean, it's you know, you cannot re reveal to anyone besides like a like like literally, like, you know, your management and and like a person that you're gonna be doing this.
11:58
Dayna Roselli: So it was just announced this week that he's gonna be a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing.
12:03
Dayna Roselli: And that's like the UK version of Dancing with the Stars, which I think you and I were chatting and you said it's even more popular than Dancing with the Stars in the USA.
12:10
Sean McAllister: It's way more popular than uh the dancing shows that we have here.
12:14
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
12:14
Sean McAllister: I mean, like there's 10, like 14 million people who watch every single episode of that show.
12:23
Dayna Roselli: It's incredible.
12:24
Sean McAllister: And it's like that's a big number for TV these days.
12:27
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's also like the tw I think it's the 20th anniversary season.
12:31
Sean McAllister: So it's gonna be big.
12:33
Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be big.
12:33
Dayna Roselli: I think they're bringing the live studio audience back.
12:36
Dayna Roselli: I think they had like a maybe a smaller studio audience last season or something like that.
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Dayna Roselli: So this is a big season.
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Dayna Roselli: And Matt is, you know, he's like, this is out of my comfort zone.
12:45
Dayna Roselli: I don't know what I'm doing, but you know, he's excited to do it, and I think he's gonna be amazing.
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Dayna Roselli: I mean, my mom's like, he's gonna take the whole thing, you watch.
12:55
Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, I know he's a good, he's a good, you know, dancer, but he's not a professional dancer.
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Dayna Roselli: And everyone says, well, he danced on stage.
13:02
Dayna Roselli: It's like, well, he moved like and danced around, but these are, you know, it's competitive dancing.
13:08
Dayna Roselli: You're learning, I I assume, I actually haven't watched a lot of dancing with the stars in the past, but I'm assuming you do like the the Latin dance.
13:16
Sean McAllister: Well, you have to do different styles of dance, yeah, ballrooms, and it's a different a different style of dance every week, and so you are just like uh thrust into this environment where you have to adapt and you have to just go with the flow and learn an entire routine every single week and the costume.
13:42
Sean McAllister: So there's like costume fittings involved.
13:44
Sean McAllister: And when you think about professional dancers, a lot of them spend pretty much their entire life just focusing on one specific genre of dance, whether it's jazz or tap or ballet or ballroom or hip hop, like people devote their life to that specific style.
14:05
Sean McAllister: So to be versatile enough to pull off something like that, it really is hard work.
14:10
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it is hard work.
14:12
Dayna Roselli: And um, he knows that going in.
14:15
Dayna Roselli: He's been preparing with getting ready for for what he's got.
14:19
Dayna Roselli: He had to, he just told me the other day he had to go through a physical.
14:21
Dayna Roselli: So they have to like check you out before you can even start, you know, head to toe, the whole nine.
14:25
Dayna Roselli: And but you know, I look forward to it.
14:28
Dayna Roselli: We're trying to figure out the best way.
14:30
Dayna Roselli: If anyone knows, write us how to watch Strictly Come Dancing live in America.
14:36
Dayna Roselli: Because I want to watch it.
14:37
Dayna Roselli: You were saying it should be about um I was telling you the time, but like noon our time on Saturday.
14:41
Dayna Roselli: I need to watch my best friend compete live.
14:44
Dayna Roselli: I don't know if I can wait until after.
14:46
Sean McAllister: So basically, we're gonna be having brunches every Saturday.
14:49
Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
14:50
Dayna Roselli: Cocktails, yeah, it'll be like it's Saturday evening.
14:53
Dayna Roselli: And then we can just it's great because we can just stay in on Saturday night and call it a night.
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Sean McAllister: Yeah.
14:57
Sean McAllister: I did uh ask Matt before he left.
15:00
Sean McAllister: There was a little going-away get together that we were at, and I I said to him, I was like, So, do you have your your dancing shoes ready?
15:08
Sean McAllister: Are you confident?
15:09
Sean McAllister: He was like, You know what?
15:11
Sean McAllister: I am.
15:12
Sean McAllister: He was like, I'm confident.
15:13
Sean McAllister: I think I can do it.
15:14
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
15:14
Dayna Roselli: Oh, I'm so excited for him.
15:16
Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be so nerve-wracking.
15:18
Dayna Roselli: I'm glad he said that.
15:19
Dayna Roselli: And I know we were over the house and helping to clean out the house and this and that, and um both of us picked up a bunch of Matt Goss clothing.
15:26
Dayna Roselli: So if you spot us going, hey, didn't Matt Goss used to wear that?
15:29
Dayna Roselli: Yes, he did.
15:30
Sean McAllister: Or in my case, hey, you're dressing a little better than you normally do.
15:35
Sean McAllister: That's why.
15:36
Dayna Roselli: He gossified you in shame over at the house.
15:38
Dayna Roselli: I did.
15:39
Dayna Roselli: That was fun.
15:40
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he will be missed.
15:41
Dayna Roselli: Um, he's all settled over there.
15:42
Dayna Roselli: He's been on TV all week long uh talking about it, and and the whole cast and lineup is now announced.
15:49
Dayna Roselli: Um, I know Gordon Ramsay's daughter was in it last season, right?
15:52
Dayna Roselli: Was it last season?
15:53
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
15:53
Dayna Roselli: So Tilly was in it.
15:55
Dayna Roselli: Um, this season there's a couple people that I know, but we don't know them that well because obviously they're they're more stars in the UK.
16:01
Dayna Roselli: But um, someone from the cast of Ted Lasso's in it, and uh I think one of the hosts from Loose Women, which is a popular show over there that's kind of like the view here.
16:10
Dayna Roselli: So it should be a good season, and um good luck, Matt.
16:13
Dayna Roselli: We'll be cheering you on.
16:14
Sean McAllister: Yes, and if you're if you live in the UK, be sure to vote for Matt.
16:18
Sean McAllister: Get all your friends to to vote for Matt, watch every every weekend, and and pull for our buddy Matt Goss.
16:25
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, like if there's a phone number or something, we we might have to end the podcast or start the podcast with the phone number vote line.
16:30
Dayna Roselli: Yes.
16:31
Dayna Roselli: Every week, just to make sure that everyone votes for Matt in the UK.
16:35
Dayna Roselli: I don't know if Australia can vote or how that works over there, but anyway, we know we have a lot of listeners in the UK.
16:41
Dayna Roselli: We do.
16:42
Sean McAllister: And this week we did get some really sad news also.
16:46
Sean McAllister: Not only uh has the world lost a beloved singer, actress, humanitarian, um, but we lost somebody who we've gotten to know over the years too, talking about Olivia Newton John.
17:03
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's such a sad moment when we found out uh what had happened.
17:07
Dayna Roselli: And you know, you and I even sat here and discussed.
17:09
Dayna Roselli: We're like, you know, should we post something?
17:11
Dayna Roselli: Like, do you pull out the pictures of you and Olivia through the years?
17:15
Dayna Roselli: When is the appropriate time to post?
17:16
Dayna Roselli: Then is it make it about you?
17:18
Dayna Roselli: So um, you had an incredible picture that I said, you know what, wait a little bit, post it that night.
17:22
Dayna Roselli: I absolutely loved it.
17:24
Dayna Roselli: But we have a lot of things that we want to share, but we just thought, let's wait to the podcast and and and take some time and talk about Olivia and what she meant to us and some of the impact she's had here in Las Vegas.
17:37
Dayna Roselli: And so keep an eye out for some of our social media because we'll share more of that stuff um that we have gathered through the years in an upcoming post that we'll do.
17:46
Dayna Roselli: But let's get right to it.
17:47
Dayna Roselli: And Sean, I know I I have met Olivia a bunch of times through the years, but I know I feel like you knew her a little bit better than I did because you really had some special experiences with her.
17:59
Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think I mean, dating back to probably 2000, around 2008.
18:05
Sean McAllister: Um, that's when, and actually even probably before then, but I know for sure 2008, that's when uh Olivia married her husband, John Easterling.
18:18
Sean McAllister: Um and I remember this vividly because I was invited out to uh Los Angeles for a 4th of July weekend, and it turned out we were going to Olivia's house in Malibu for a 4th of July barbecue.
18:37
Sean McAllister: I was like, oh wow, this is a a fun weekend.
18:40
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
18:40
Dayna Roselli: Well, and we should mention we we are good friends with her publicist for a very, very long time, Mike Caprio, incredible guy, and so close with Olivia.
18:49
Dayna Roselli: They are like family.
18:50
Dayna Roselli: So I'm assuming that's kind of how that came about.
18:52
Dayna Roselli: Yes, probably okay.
18:57
Sean McAllister: And um, so we went out there, we were having a a great time at you know, the 4th of July barbecue at Olivia Newton John's house.
19:07
Sean McAllister: And uh then she and and her n husband John uh nobody they were dating at the time.
19:15
Dayna Roselli: Right.
19:16
Dayna Roselli: Um were they engaged or they just no one missed that whole part?
19:19
Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
19:20
Dayna Roselli: I think they were engaged, yeah.
19:21
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
19:22
Sean McAllister: Um they got up to thank everyone for being there, and they let everybody know that it in fact was not a Fourth of July barbecue, that it was their wedding reception.
19:32
Dayna Roselli: Oh my goodness.
19:33
Sean McAllister: They had they had uh gone off, had a very private wedding ceremony together.
19:40
Sean McAllister: Wow.
19:40
Sean McAllister: And then had uh some people over for 4th of July, and their barbecue turned into a a wedding reception.
19:47
Dayna Roselli: And you were there for that.
19:48
Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was it was a really cool moment.
19:50
Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
19:51
Dayna Roselli: And did Mike know that it was for that, Michael or publicist, or was he surprised too?
19:55
Dayna Roselli: Did they just surprise everyone?
19:57
Dayna Roselli: Do you remember?
19:57
Dayna Roselli: I'm just curious.
19:58
Sean McAllister: I don't recall him uh catching wind of it.
20:03
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, uh huh.
20:03
Sean McAllister: So it was like it was a real surprise to everyone there.
20:08
Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
20:08
Sean McAllister: And then of course, people were just like, oh my gosh, that's amazing, that's incredible.
20:13
Sean McAllister: You know, people were really, really happy and and over the moon for Olivia and John.
20:20
Dayna Roselli: What went on at the barbecue?
20:22
Sean McAllister: I mean, I there were I'm dying to know now.
20:25
Sean McAllister: Well, first of all, so at the house where Olivia was living at the time, um, it was on a cul-de-sac in Malibu.
20:36
Sean McAllister: Okay.
20:36
Sean McAllister: Um, across the street was uh James Cameron's house.
20:40
Sean McAllister: Oh and right next door was uh the house that Brittany Spears had lived in for a long time.
20:47
Sean McAllister: So it was like AAA list part of Malibu there.
20:54
Dayna Roselli: That that's interesting.
20:55
Sean McAllister: Um but there ended up being a dance floor, there were lights strung up.
20:59
Sean McAllister: It was really, really pretty and a great time.
21:02
Dayna Roselli: I love that.
21:03
Dayna Roselli: And her and John, I mean, what a couple.
21:06
Dayna Roselli: I remember vividly after one of her shows here in Las Vegas at the Flamingo, there was a little after party by the pool.
21:14
Dayna Roselli: And I remember I just couldn't take my eyes off them because I kept thinking, gosh, they just like it's like couple goals.
21:21
Dayna Roselli: I mean, they just loved each other so much, they treated each other with such respect, and I thought, that's what I want someday.
21:28
Dayna Roselli: Like they just really seemed like best friends.
21:32
Dayna Roselli: I love that.
21:33
Sean McAllister: Yep, they absolutely did.
21:35
Sean McAllister: And I think there was just such a a level of mutual respect between them, of uh not even at the like professional level, but just as people you know, just great respect for one another.
21:49
Sean McAllister: Um, they both, you know, have a had a great uh respect and love for all things nature, for animals, plants, you know, everything.
22:00
Sean McAllister: Um, so it really was they were uh a great match, I think meant for one another.
22:05
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, definitely.
22:06
Dayna Roselli: He wrote a beautiful message on her uh Instagram this week, too.
22:10
Dayna Roselli: And you know, uh obviously her and John Travolta, very close because of Greece, you know, iconic movie.
22:16
Dayna Roselli: Everyone knows Sandy, the the pictures this week that have been put out there, her beautiful smile.
22:21
Dayna Roselli: I mean, every woman wanted to be Sandy.
22:24
Dayna Roselli: I mean, I know every word.
22:25
Dayna Roselli: I if you said, Dana, recite the bonfire scene in Greece right now, I could do it.
22:31
Dayna Roselli: I'm not gonna bore everyone with it, but I know every single word and even animation of it, like of how of what the whole scene looked like.
22:39
Dayna Roselli: Like, I mean, it was just things that we wanted to, you know, in the final scene.
22:43
Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, uh her and John Travolcha, such close friends.
22:47
Dayna Roselli: They just did the the Greece reunion tour, right?
22:50
Dayna Roselli: And I say just it was about what, five years ago, maybe.
22:53
Dayna Roselli: I think so.
22:53
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
22:54
Dayna Roselli: And I love how close they remain, people, and I, you know, and I feel for John because he said so much loss, and I know losing Olivia is huge for him, too.
23:02
Dayna Roselli: And he posted a beautiful message as well.
23:05
Dayna Roselli: Um, but let's talk about her show.
23:06
Dayna Roselli: She had a show at the Flamingo for about two and a half, three years, and it was great, went through her entire career.
23:11
Dayna Roselli: So you could not not love this show.
23:13
Dayna Roselli: It was like physical.
23:15
Dayna Roselli: She sang, you know, and grease songs, and and as she showed the footage, I mean, she had quite a collection of music.
23:23
Dayna Roselli: I remember watching her videos on regular TV, her music videos.
23:27
Sean McAllister: Well, and I think what her show here in Las Vegas launched in the spring of 2014 over at the Flamingo.
23:37
Sean McAllister: Um, uh, I think what it reminded people is just how long and incredible of a career Olivia Newton-John had.
23:47
Sean McAllister: They went through, there was a video montage that was like, you know, eight million billboard awards, you know, all these chart-topping hits, you know, and dating back to really some some early times.
24:02
Sean McAllister: I mean, even before Greece, she was a successful recording artist, both in the pop world, but also in country music in Nashville.
24:12
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
24:12
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I'm definitely.
24:14
Dayna Roselli: I mean, she's her career is just and I always felt like when I saw her show, because I think I saw it once or sorry, twice.
24:20
Dayna Roselli: I mean, uh, when I went both times, I always felt like she's not trying too hard.
24:25
Dayna Roselli: Do you know what I mean?
24:25
Dayna Roselli: That's what I felt.
24:26
Dayna Roselli: I like it was just like simple, flawless.
24:30
Dayna Roselli: She was there to please the audience, sing her songs, have some fun.
24:35
Dayna Roselli: And I felt like sometimes you go to these shows and it's like they work so hard to have a Vegas show and make it, you know, different than anything they've ever done.
24:43
Dayna Roselli: But Olivia was there to please her fans, please people who loved her career and were with her during her career, and just have enjoy herself.
24:52
Dayna Roselli: That's what I loved about it.
24:54
Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I think that's one thing, whether she was on stage in front of a camera, or just one-on-one with you as a person, like effortless is just classy and effortless.
25:09
Sean McAllister: Totally.
25:10
Sean McAllister: Just uh yeah, I mean, those are two words that begin to sum up the person that she is.
25:17
Sean McAllister: I mean, it doesn't even hold a flame to everything.
25:22
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, just a beautiful person.
25:24
Dayna Roselli: Um, I you know, I'm a diehard Xanadu fan, Sean.
25:27
Dayna Roselli: I have the entire soundtrack on the phone.
25:28
Sean McAllister: You have your roller skates too.
25:29
Dayna Roselli: Oh, I used to roller skate, like no tomorrow.
25:32
Dayna Roselli: I wanted to be that.
25:34
Dayna Roselli: Like that whole, oh, that final scene in Xanadu, the whole thing.
25:37
Dayna Roselli: That's another one of my favorites.
25:39
Dayna Roselli: And I have the whole soundtrack in my phone, like I mentioned, and sometimes I listen to it while I drive, I'm not gonna lie.
25:43
Dayna Roselli: I mean, she's in some iconic, iconic movies.
25:47
Dayna Roselli: Um, one thing I wanted to mention uh as far as my personal experience with her, you and I were both at this, and this was when Michael Caprio, who we were just talking about her publicist, renewed his vows with his husband.
25:59
Dayna Roselli: And we got invited for that.
26:01
Dayna Roselli: We didn't know what to expect.
26:02
Dayna Roselli: We knew it was on the high roller at the link, right?
26:04
Dayna Roselli: So we get on the little, I don't know what you call it, pod.
26:07
Dayna Roselli: Thank you.
26:08
Dayna Roselli: I was gonna say cubicle.
26:09
Dayna Roselli: It's not a cubicle, it's a round pod.
26:10
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's us and uh a few close friends of his, um, and the Chippendales and human nature and a photographer and Olivia Newton John because they are so close.
26:22
Dayna Roselli: And and she performed this, you know, vow renewal.
26:25
Dayna Roselli: It was such a special moment.
26:26
Dayna Roselli: She sang kind of a cappella and she hadn't sang for a long time.
26:30
Dayna Roselli: Um, she said some beautiful words.
26:32
Dayna Roselli: And I remember when we got off, I remember just thinking, like, did that just happen?
26:36
Dayna Roselli: Like, it was an amazing experience.
26:38
Dayna Roselli: But my personal, real quick experience with her was that at the I called the reception, the post, you know, after celebration.
26:45
Dayna Roselli: She came over to my table.
26:46
Dayna Roselli: We were standing over on the patio, and she came over to me and our friend Rachel Smith, and she said, you know, I she kind of said to her husband, I need some girl time.
26:54
Dayna Roselli: And she came over and she just we were talking about, I don't even know what we're talking about, like exercise and things that we do, and we just had a fun conversation about nothing to do with shows, music, career, anything.
27:07
Dayna Roselli: And she was just full of life, and I don't know anybody that could say a bad thing about Olivia Newton John, so she will be missed.
27:15
Sean McAllister: There has been nobody who has been able to say a bad thing.
27:19
Sean McAllister: She just exuded, I think her, you know, kind of her mantra and kind of catchphrase was love and light.
27:28
Sean McAllister: I know.
27:29
Sean McAllister: And and that's really what she exuded.
27:32
Sean McAllister: And she is going to be, you know, dearly, dearly missed because she did have such a profound impact on the people she knew personally, on people who maybe she met just in passing, uh but even people who never had the chance to meet her in person, who know know her through her music, through film, through the stage.
27:59
Sean McAllister: Like there is uh and has been an just such a strong connection, and I think people are are really feeling that.
28:08
Sean McAllister: And it was uh the news that you know Olivia had passed away really just you know kind of took the wind out of people.
28:16
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it really did.
28:17
Dayna Roselli: And I'm sure we're gonna see um continued coverage of her life and and the people she's impacted through the years, um, you know, all the magazines and and obviously news programs, and I'm sure we'll see extended coverage of that.
28:33
Dayna Roselli: And people have enjoyed watching that, and I know you mentioned the other day, I mean her music right now is like some of the top ten downloaded music because everyone's revisiting those iconic songs.
28:43
Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think 13 of the top 25 songs when I looked on Apple Music the other day were Olivia Newton John songs, nine of the top 25 albums on Apple Music were Olivia Newton John albums.
28:58
Sean McAllister: So, I mean that just shows you how much, you know, music has a connection and brings back those memories.
29:05
Sean McAllister: And, you know, there is a lot of love that can be shared through through the art that's created.
29:10
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, definitely.
29:11
Dayna Roselli: Well, let's leave the podcast at that.
29:13
Dayna Roselli: We're gonna move on now to do some tips, but again, we will miss Olivia Newton-John, one of the most, you know, incredible ladies and a wonderful Vegas headliner that Sean and I have both had the chance to meet and get to know Oh, that's some appropriate uh music to get us into our tips.
29:39
Sean McAllister: I absolutely love that.
29:40
Dayna Roselli: Changing it up a little bit this week.
29:42
Sean McAllister: Uh kicking off our tips, we um there have been a lot of speakeasies that have popped up uh on the Las Vegas Strip, around Las Vegas over the past few years, and we visited one of the newest speakeasies this week.
29:59
Sean McAllister: It's called uh Here Kitty Kitty Vice Den.
30:04
Sean McAllister: And for a limited time right now, the name gets me, I don't know why.
30:08
Sean McAllister: Kind of transitioned to Tokyo Vice Den.
30:11
Dayna Roselli: Right.
30:12
Dayna Roselli: So Here Kitty Kitty Vice Den is located at the famous food street eats, and that's in Resorts World, and it's kind of like this discreet location where the wall kind of opens up and you don't quite know that it's a speakeasy unless you know it's there.
30:30
Sean McAllister: Yeah, it I mean it looks as you're walking by, it looks like it's just this little nook of tables where you can, you know, order your food, sit down, pull up a seat, um, and there's these bookshelves all around you.
30:47
Sean McAllister: But if you lean against one of those bookshelves, the door opens.
30:51
Sean McAllister: The door opens into a different world.
30:53
Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
30:53
Dayna Roselli: So Tokyo Vice Den is kind of a pop-up, and we say pop-up, because it's not going to be there, you know, forever.
30:59
Dayna Roselli: But uh what's making it special is they have like Japanese-inspired decor, expertly crafted cocktails with the kind of that theme.
31:09
Dayna Roselli: We had I had two cocktails, you had like three.
31:11
Dayna Roselli: We tasted different ones, and the ones that I chose off the menu were delicious, and they were great at helping me pick because I was like, I don't want super sweet, but I like this, and and so I tried two, and one was really spicy, which I loved.
31:24
Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's nice when there's a a kick in the cocktails, isn't it?
31:28
Sean McAllister: Uh, House of Sun Troy is um the award-winning Japanese spirits brand that uh has helped curate this uh list of limited edition cocktails that you can get now at uh Tokyo Vice Den.
31:43
Sean McAllister: And there are a lot of Japanese whiskies and sake and uh tons of really good spirits that are on the menu.
31:53
Sean McAllister: And the the atmosphere in there is really cool too.
31:57
Sean McAllister: It really does make you feel like you're in Japan, that you are in this little like backroom hidden getaway, escape.
32:10
Dayna Roselli: I felt like I could have sat there for hours and hours and hours.
32:12
Dayna Roselli: It was really comfortable too.
32:14
Dayna Roselli: It was like the lighting's low, you know what I mean?
32:16
Dayna Roselli: Like we had a nice little conversation.
32:18
Dayna Roselli: It was it was good.
32:19
Dayna Roselli: Um, I loved it.
32:21
Dayna Roselli: You know, I thought it was a really cool thing, and and like you said, the decor was was great.
32:25
Dayna Roselli: And again, you have to try and find it.
32:27
Dayna Roselli: So now we've given you the tip, you're on your own to follow our directions and find Hear Kitty Kitty Weisen slash Tokyo Weissen for now.
32:38
Dayna Roselli: When does this go, Dale Sean?
32:40
Dayna Roselli: I forget.
32:40
Dayna Roselli: November?
32:40
Sean McAllister: Uh it goes through fall, yeah.
32:42
Sean McAllister: Fall, okay.
32:43
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
32:44
Sean McAllister: And if you go, um take some pictures and tag us.
32:47
Sean McAllister: I we want to see what your experience is like.
32:50
Dayna Roselli: And we'll have uh reels on our Instagram Reels video um that we'll put up sometime this weekend.
32:57
Dayna Roselli: Another tip that we have has to do with food.
33:00
Dayna Roselli: We had a delicious lunch this week at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas at Estiatorio Milos.
33:10
Dayna Roselli: And we're just gonna call it Milos, though, okay, because it's easier.
33:13
Sean McAllister: It is.
33:14
Dayna Roselli: Because we even like We had to phonetically spelletically spell estiatorio.
33:19
Sean McAllister: Estiatorio.
33:21
Sean McAllister: Yes, I have a post-it note right in front of me.
33:24
Dayna Roselli: So do I, or I'm almost on my computer.
33:26
Dayna Roselli: But anyway, Milos is a great restaurant.
33:28
Dayna Roselli: Um, we've talked about it before.
33:30
Dayna Roselli: I've gone to dinner there, but we had lunch there, and Sean, we were like, here this is like a great tip because of the prefix specials they have.
33:39
Sean McAllister: Yeah, I had no idea that there was going to be a prefix option on the menu.
33:45
Sean McAllister: I was looking at all the options, and they have a lot of the same uh dishes that are available for dinner, available for lunch as well, just different portion sizes.
33:56
Sean McAllister: Um, but when the server came over and asked if we wanted the prefix, I was like, whoa, wait a second.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
34:03
Sean McAllister: That's a game changer.
34:04
Sean McAllister: That's like perfect for lunch.
34:06
Sean McAllister: It's a three-course prefix meal.
34:11
Sean McAllister: You have a salad appetizer choice, an entree, and a dessert.
34:16
Dayna Roselli: Right.
34:16
Dayna Roselli: And for 38 bucks, which is incredible.
34:19
Dayna Roselli: And Milos is a nice restaurant.
34:21
Dayna Roselli: So when we say 38 bucks, that is a steal.
34:24
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
34:24
Dayna Roselli: I mean, the fish is fresh, the ingredients.
34:27
Dayna Roselli: I mean, the tomato salad they brought out was like I literally felt like it I was eating it out of the garden, and the oils and the salt.
34:34
Dayna Roselli: It was delicious.
34:35
Sean McAllister: I could eat cheese every day.
34:37
Dayna Roselli: Every day.
34:38
Dayna Roselli: That was so good.
34:40
Dayna Roselli: Um, and then I had uh you had a salmon and I had a fish.
34:45
Dayna Roselli: I think a sea.
34:46
Dayna Roselli: You had sea bass.
34:48
Dayna Roselli: With capers on top.
34:50
Dayna Roselli: We had a delicious dessert.
34:52
Dayna Roselli: I had a Greek yogurt topped with uh some sort of fruit.
34:56
Dayna Roselli: It was the most delicious thing I've ever had, I feel like.
34:58
Dayna Roselli: I mean it was so good.
35:00
Sean McAllister: And I had the baklava for dessert, and it was it it was amazing.
35:05
Sean McAllister: Everything we had was just phenomenal.
35:09
Sean McAllister: And what I love about Milos too is that it's so bright and airy, but also colorful.
35:17
Sean McAllister: Like they have a fresh produce stand inside the restaurant where they're choosing their their fresh produce from, but everything is just so vibrantly colored.
35:29
Dayna Roselli: It is.
35:30
Dayna Roselli: You're right.
35:30
Dayna Roselli: And and it was busy at lunch on a what day did we go?
35:34
Dayna Roselli: Tuesday.
35:35
Sean McAllister: Tuesday.
35:35
Dayna Roselli: Tuesday, extremely busy, and now I know why.
35:38
Dayna Roselli: It's such a comfortable place to have lunch.
35:41
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and our waiter, he'd say, Well, the Greek yogurt comes from over there.
35:44
Dayna Roselli: We top it with the and like a level, everyone.
35:46
Dayna Roselli: Then the fish, yeah, over there, you see it, and they were showing us the lay down on the I mean like the like every like direction you're looking, it's like that's where your food is coming from.
35:55
Dayna Roselli: You know where you're getting your food.
35:56
Sean McAllister: It's that fresh.
35:58
Sean McAllister: It's not just gonna be like uh cut open from a vacuum-sealed bag from the freezer.
36:03
Sean McAllister: No, no, no, no, no.
36:04
Sean McAllister: It is like legit fresh.
36:07
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
36:08
Dayna Roselli: And our friend had a vegetarian pasta, it looked absolutely delicious.
36:11
Dayna Roselli: So it did.
36:12
Dayna Roselli: So here's the deal.
36:12
Dayna Roselli: So we talked to the staff and they said, you know what?
36:14
Dayna Roselli: We have a twilight pre-fix dinner, too.
36:18
Dayna Roselli: And we were like, tell us all about it.
36:19
Dayna Roselli: So here is our tip.
36:20
Dayna Roselli: Our tip three-course lunch, 38 bucks, a twilight dinner that they have, and we're saying uh twilight because that's what it's called, and it's from 5 to 7 p.m.
36:30
Dayna Roselli: Okay, you gotta get in that window.
36:32
Dayna Roselli: This is a four-course menu, dinner menu for$85.
36:40
Dayna Roselli: And top of the line stuff, I mean, you really can't beat that.
36:45
Dayna Roselli: Then we also found out they have wine dinners monthly, too.
36:50
Dayna Roselli: So go to Milo's VenetianLosvegas.com for the details.
36:56
Dayna Roselli: A plus.
36:57
Sean McAllister: And by the way, for the Twilight Dinner, there is uh a wine pairing option for I believe it was$40 on top of the prefix price to do a wine pairing with every course that you get, um, which is, I mean,$40 for four different wine pairing.
37:17
Sean McAllister: I mean, that's incredible.
37:19
Sean McAllister: And$85 for I that's a great price.
37:24
Sean McAllister: And you get pretty much your choice of like anything that's on the menu.
37:30
Sean McAllister: I don't think they have a lot of exclusions for that.
37:34
Sean McAllister: So great find.
37:36
Sean McAllister: And you know, thank you to uh to our friend for for bringing us over there for lunch.
37:42
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was great.
37:43
Dayna Roselli: And now we know we'll be back, that's for sure.
37:47
Dayna Roselli: Well, uh, want to remind everyone, real quick, Sean, before we head out, Vegas Near Me, a new app that has just launched, the beta version, is available for download.
37:58
Dayna Roselli: Go to our show notes.
38:00
Dayna Roselli: We have a link there.
38:01
Dayna Roselli: It's our special Vegas revealed link.
38:04
Dayna Roselli: You'll click it, you'll get an email with instructions on how you can be the first to test this app.
38:09
Dayna Roselli: We want to see what you think.
38:10
Dayna Roselli: This app is so cool.
38:12
Sean McAllister: We've been using it uh for a couple months now.
38:16
Sean McAllister: Right.
38:17
Sean McAllister: Um, as the app has gone through, you know, various phases of development, and it's been so useful.
38:25
Dayna Roselli: It has.
38:25
Sean McAllister: In in so many uh, you know, different ways.
38:28
Sean McAllister: When when I know I'm going to be in a part of town where I don't usually go, and I need to, you know, figure out what is available over there for either dinner food, dining, shopping, right, whatever, it's all on Vegas Near Me.
38:48
Sean McAllister: So it is a great resource to have right in your palm of your hand.
38:51
Dayna Roselli: And I think even you and I, as much as we know Las Vegas, we still sometimes need to think when like a situation comes up, right?
38:58
Dayna Roselli: Like even when we were going to like Thunder from Down Under at the Excalibur, I was meeting some friends for dinner, and we said, where should we go around there?
39:04
Dayna Roselli: I'm like, uh.
39:05
Dayna Roselli: So I went to the Vegas Near Me app and I clicked in Near Excalibur.
39:10
Dayna Roselli: Yep.
39:10
Dayna Roselli: And I clicked in the level of restaurant I wanted.
39:14
Dayna Roselli: I said I didn't want fast casual, but I didn't want fine dining, so I chose casual and all the restaurants around there and ended up um heading to Nelly's over at MGM Grand, which was the perfect.
39:27
Dayna Roselli: So anyway, it's just it's it's really helpful and because you can pinpoint where you want to look.
39:33
Dayna Roselli: I I love it.
39:34
Dayna Roselli: So download it.
39:35
Dayna Roselli: Let us know what you think.
39:36
Dayna Roselli: Again, the link is in our show notes, and we'll continue to talk about it.
39:39
Dayna Roselli: Look for our social media posts with different kinds of tips that have to do with how to operate the app over the next few months.
39:45
Sean McAllister: Uh, we'll be back with episode 131 next week.
39:50
Dayna Roselli: All right, see you then.