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Adele Announces Caesars Palace Shows, Carrie Underwood Kicks Off Residency at Resorts World, Another HUGE Win for Las Vegas Gaming | Ep. 97 · Vegas Revealed

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Sean McAllister: It's episode 97 of Vegas Revealed.
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Dayna Roselli: Rumor has it, well, no more.
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Dayna Roselli: Adele makes her Las Vegas residency official.
1:38
Dayna Roselli: Wait until you hear what she's doing to make sure ticket brokers don't buy up all her tickets.
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Sean McAllister: And Carrie Underwood opens the Resorts World Theater.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello everybody, and welcome to behind the scenes of my Las Vegas residency reflection.
1:53
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
1:56
Sean McAllister: Water was flowing, a jeep was smashed, and the sound system rattled some bones.
2:02
Dayna Roselli: That's a show.
2:03
Dayna Roselli: And Las Vegas is also full of cowboys and cowgirls for the National Finals rodeo, and there's a ton of entertainment for the country crowd.
2:12
Sean McAllister: Let's spin that wheel and get to it.
2:32
Sean McAllister: And uh Dana, it looks like December has brought a crap ton of visitors.
2:38
Sean McAllister: And that kind of stays in line with all of the visitors that we've had over the past few months.
2:44
Dayna Roselli: That's right.
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Dayna Roselli: We got the numbers in from October, and Nevada Casinos matched a record streak of get this, eight straight months of one billion or more in-house winnings for October.
2:56
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
2:58
Dayna Roselli: Um also McCarran International Airport saying uh last Tuesday that nearly 4.2 million passengers arrived and departed in October.
3:07
Dayna Roselli: Now that makes it the busiest month since the coronavirus pandemic hit back in March of 2020.
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Dayna Roselli: So um travel is back, gaming is back, and I think Sean, what's interesting about this is we're talking about October numbers because it's always like one month, you know, behind when the number so and that's not even when like that overseas travel started again.
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Dayna Roselli: That was what, November 8th.
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Sean McAllister: That that was, that was the beginning of November.
3:34
Dayna Roselli: Can you imagine what November is gonna look like?
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Sean McAllister: Well, I I don't know because remember in November we talked about that whole string of jackpots that were being hit.
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Sean McAllister: So that could put a hit on the on the house winnings since the players were walking out with some cash, but who knows?
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Sean McAllister: Yeah, maybe they're the kind of players that stick around and put it right back into the casino.
3:54
Sean McAllister: No, you can't do that.
3:54
Sean McAllister: Don't put it back in.
3:55
Sean McAllister: Don't put it back back.
3:56
Sean McAllister: But I do.
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Sean McAllister: That's that's why I that's why I'm not a millionaire right now.
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Dayna Roselli: Boy, lots of announcements, lots of kickoffs this week.
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Dayna Roselli: Um, exciting stuff going on over at Resorts World, exciting stuff coming to Caesars.
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Dayna Roselli: So we will get right to that.
4:12
Dayna Roselli: Let's do it.
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Sean McAllister: All right.
4:14
Sean McAllister: Hello.
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Sean McAllister: Adele is coming to Las Vegas.
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Sean McAllister: Finally, there have been years and years of rumors that Adele was going to have a residency here on the Las Vegas strip.
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Sean McAllister: And finally, she, Adele herself, announced this week that that is indeed going to happen.
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Dayna Roselli: It's so funny because just last week alone, I had one, two, three friends that started to really hear a buzz about it, and I got texts.
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Dayna Roselli: Is Adele getting residency here?
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Dayna Roselli: And I would always write back, rumor has it, resorts world or Caesars.
4:46
Dayna Roselli: And that's what I said to everyone's response.
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Dayna Roselli: And then all of a sudden, rumor has it, is uh no longer what we have to respond.
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Dayna Roselli: So yeah, she's gonna do weekends with Adele at the Coliseum.
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Dayna Roselli: And I think that's kinda I like the weekends with Adele thing.
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Dayna Roselli: I think that's a cool name.
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Sean McAllister: It is, and the the Coliseum is a perfect fit for Adele.
5:04
Sean McAllister: She is just like classy and a classic entertainer, and that's what that venue I think is best suited for.
5:13
Sean McAllister: Yes, it can have the technology, and you can put on a spectacular production, but it it's she fits right in with I think what the the Coliseum at Caesars Palace was intended for.
5:26
Sean McAllister: What it was built for, and what it was built for was Celine Dion.
5:31
Sean McAllister: And I know Celine absolutely loves Adele.
5:34
Sean McAllister: Celine has covered Adele songs in her own stage shows here in Las Vegas.
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Sean McAllister: So I think Adele, a great fit for Caesar's Palace, weekends with Adele, launches in January, and then it'll continue on uh weekends through mid-April.
5:51
Dayna Roselli: And you know, and with her album just coming out, obviously now is the time.
5:55
Dayna Roselli: She's hotter than ever, you know, and she just did that whole thing with Oprah, and and listen, I'm just gonna say I love Adele, um, but everyone keeps like going crazy, and I totally get it.
6:08
Dayna Roselli: I totally get it, but I I kind of feel like I like her new album, but I feel like a lot of the songs sound like the last album.
6:15
Dayna Roselli: A lot of them, to me, there's not much it's an Adele song.
6:18
Dayna Roselli: Um, I'd like to see her branch out a little more.
6:20
Dayna Roselli: That's my that's my Roselli two cents.
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Dayna Roselli: I am no expert at music, but for me, I don't know.
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Dayna Roselli: I'm not going crazy over Adele after this album, but that's that's I love it.
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Dayna Roselli: She's a got a great voice.
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Dayna Roselli: I don't mind listening to it, but and she's gonna be amazing at the Coliseum.
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Sean McAllister: But see, I think that but I think it's the whole it's her lyrics and the stories that she tells in her songs that so many people can relate to.
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Sean McAllister: She's been through so much in her her personal life, especially these last few years, that a lot of people can relate to the to the ups and downs and trials and tribulations that that she has on this new album.
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Sean McAllister: And we haven't had anything new from her in a really long time.
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Sean McAllister: So people have been just itching to get new uh material, new songs from Adele.
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Sean McAllister: Really, the last thing she put out was the um Goldfinger, the James Bond theme song.
7:20
Dayna Roselli: Right, yeah.
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Sean McAllister: She hasn't had her own original music since then.
7:22
Sean McAllister: So no, no.
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Dayna Roselli: Um She had that that last I remember sitting where it was when the last album came out, and we were like dying over it, and I loved it.
7:30
Dayna Roselli: You know what it is?
7:30
Dayna Roselli: I think maybe the single she released, Easy On Me, is that what it's called?
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Dayna Roselli: Sounds a little like her songs from the other album.
7:37
Dayna Roselli: But I do think when I go through the actual current album, there are some that, you know, don't like, you know, she kicked up a notch a little bit, which I liked.
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Dayna Roselli: So, um, so you know, that's cool.
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Dayna Roselli: I mean it should listen, just uh her show's gonna be great.
7:50
Dayna Roselli: People the tickets are gonna go so fast.
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Dayna Roselli: And you were chatting um a little bit about the fan registration that's gonna be required for tickets.
7:58
Dayna Roselli: I didn't read about this, so what is it?
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Sean McAllister: So, what Adele is doing for this concert is she's trying to avoid having all of the tickets be snatched up by ticket brokers and those bots that go on and clog up Ticketmaster and other ticketing websites as soon as tickets go on sale, and that pretty much leaves all of the actual fans out of the loop when tickets go on sale.
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Dayna Roselli: This isn't a huge, huge venue.
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Dayna Roselli: That's the best part about it.
8:27
Dayna Roselli: But it's an intimate experience, so they're gonna go quick.
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Sean McAllister: They will go quick, and so what they're doing is they're having if you go on Ticketmaster and look up Adele's concerts at the Coliseum, you will have to register as a verified fan.
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Sean McAllister: You have to go log in, you have to prove that you're not a bot, and then you'll get emails back to let you know that indeed you have been verified as a real fan, a real person, and then you will be put in line to uh be able to buy tickets for so it's a first come, first served kind of thing.
9:06
Sean McAllister: Um, so you want to verify and register yourself as soon as possible.
9:11
Sean McAllister: Tickets I'm guessing that they're not gonna be cheap.
9:14
Sean McAllister: Officially, uh the ticket prices have not come out yet.
9:18
Sean McAllister: It will be less than if uh a broker were to buy them up and put them on a third market site.
9:24
Sean McAllister: So I think kudos to Adele for looking out for the fans who've been wanting her to come here.
9:31
Sean McAllister: Although I did see online people were like, what the hell?
9:34
Sean McAllister: What about us over here in Europe?
9:36
Sean McAllister: You're you're high selling it out of here.
9:38
Dayna Roselli: I know.
9:39
Dayna Roselli: Sometimes that happens though.
9:40
Dayna Roselli: It happens to us too.
9:40
Dayna Roselli: We have some of our, you know, people that we're like, what?
9:43
Dayna Roselli: You're starting over in London?
9:45
Dayna Roselli: You know, what about us?
9:45
Dayna Roselli: Aren't you gonna tour here first?
9:47
Dayna Roselli: And it's just kind of what happens, you know?
9:49
Sean McAllister: They go worldwide and the nature of the business.
9:52
Dayna Roselli: But it was interesting, uh, something I just put up on our TikTok from Journey, you know, Journey's been around forever.
9:57
Dayna Roselli: They have a residency over at the theater at Virgin Hotels, and they were talking about how you know what we really feared doing this because you know, Vegas has in the past always been a place where you end up, where you end your career.
10:10
Dayna Roselli: But then we started doing it and there was demand and we loved it and we had fun and we realized, you know what, we look around and everyone's doing shows now in the peak of their career.
10:19
Dayna Roselli: And I think, like, you know, someone like Adele, um, Carrie Underwood that we're gonna talk about in a minute, uh, Katy Perry, you know, all these people, uh Gwen Stefani that we just went to, um, are doing shows while they're in the middle of their career.
10:34
Dayna Roselli: Right.
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Dayna Roselli: So, you know, they're established, but they're not ready to end their career anytime soon.
10:39
Dayna Roselli: So I think it was interesting to hear Journey talking about that, going, we had fear, but now we realize we can do this.
10:44
Dayna Roselli: Doesn't mean we're done.
10:46
Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of cool.
10:47
Dayna Roselli: So Carrie Underwood, you're at you're a huge fan.
10:49
Sean McAllister: I am.
10:50
Dayna Roselli: And I know that we are looking forward to seeing her show eventually.
10:54
Dayna Roselli: We haven't gotten there yet.
10:55
Dayna Roselli: But the big news with Carrie Underwood opening at Resorts World is the fact that this is the first show at the new theater.
11:03
Dayna Roselli: Nobody's been inside.
11:04
Dayna Roselli: This is the first show utilizing that theater.
11:06
Dayna Roselli: It was supposed to be Celine, but she had a medical issue, so that's been postponed.
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Sean McAllister: Right.
11:10
Sean McAllister: So Carrie Underwood, uh, just within this last week, launched her residency, Carrie Underwood Reflection, inside the theater over at Resorts World.
11:21
Sean McAllister: And we just got uh in our inbox the first pictures and video and reaction from the grand opening night, and man, let me tell you, it looks like it is a kick-ass show.
11:39
Dayna Roselli: It does.
11:40
Dayna Roselli: It looks great, it looks very Vegasy, you know?
11:42
Dayna Roselli: Very vegan.
11:43
Dayna Roselli: You gotta do it up.
11:44
Sean McAllister: But I don't think that it's in your face, Vegas.
11:48
Sean McAllister: You know, I think Carrie it looks like she's doing a great job with her costumes.
11:53
Sean McAllister: There's a it looks like there's a couple points where she's wearing an Elvis-inspired jumpsuit, and another point where she's wearing a Liberace-inspired cape.
12:04
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I saw that.
12:05
Sean McAllister: And there's some uh some other elements in the show that that definitely give a nod to the city where she's now playing.
12:14
Sean McAllister: And she's even said in interviews before opening the show that you know what?
12:18
Sean McAllister: Country girls, they like their bling, they like their glitz and glamour, and they've been doing Vegas style shows out in Nashville for generations, so it's only fitting to bring that here to Las Vegas now.
12:31
Sean McAllister: They don't call it Nash Vegas for nothing.
12:33
Dayna Roselli: Right, it's true.
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Dayna Roselli: And Carrie Underwood's never had a residency here, which I like.
12:36
Dayna Roselli: It's not like the return of Carrie in Vegas.
12:38
Dayna Roselli: Right.
12:38
Dayna Roselli: She's actually never had, you know, when we say residency, it means more than a few shows, you know, on the on the books.
12:44
Dayna Roselli: So uh great stuff.
12:46
Dayna Roselli: Let's hear from Carrie though, because she kind of goes through and describes the show and the theater.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: Hello everybody, and welcome to behind the scenes of my Las Vegas residency reflection.
12:57
SPEAKER_01: Come on.
13:02
SPEAKER_01: It's new, it's shiny, there's so much technology.
13:08
SPEAKER_01: It is very exciting being the first person to play in this theater.
13:13
SPEAKER_01: We're just excited to get to break it in.
13:15
SPEAKER_01: I love it because it doesn't feel like anybody's too far away.
13:18
SPEAKER_01: It really doesn't feel like anybody in this entire place would have a bad seat.
13:22
SPEAKER_01: I feel like I can I can see the faces of the people that are all the way up top in the very top row.
13:29
SPEAKER_01: They just did a great job, I feel like, for audience enjoyment.
13:32
SPEAKER_01: There's something glitzy and glamoury about women in country music.
13:38
SPEAKER_01: We love our rhinestones, we we love our wardrobe changes.
13:43
SPEAKER_01: We've been doing our own version of Vegas in Nashville for um generations.
13:50
SPEAKER_01: The next stop on our behind the scenes tour is to our wardrobe department.
13:54
SPEAKER_01: They have been working um fast and furiously to get everything ready for our first show.
14:01
SPEAKER_01: I feel like there were a lot of different reasons that reflection seemed to just fit what we were doing from a career standpoint and a life standpoint.
14:10
SPEAKER_01: Obviously, we we've been doing this for a few years.
14:13
SPEAKER_01: We have a lot to reflect upon, and we wanted this to be a high-energy, high-impact hit show.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: Um so we we do, you know, go through every album and um kind of play the hits from every album.
14:26
SPEAKER_01: So we are in that way reflecting, but then also just from a visual standpoint, it kind of gave us a lot of room to play.
14:33
SPEAKER_01: We do have dancers that are multi-talented, and we also have a few of them do some work in the air as aerialists.
14:42
SPEAKER_01: Extremely talented people setting vibes, making things look very beautiful.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: We do play around obviously with reflective surfaces and lighting and stuff like that.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot that you can do from a visual standpoint with something like reflection.
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Sean McAllister: So, Dana, I know we'll be going to see Carrie Underwood when she's back here in Las Vegas in March.
15:05
Sean McAllister: And a big thank you to Carrie and Resorts World for sending over uh an incredible welcome package.
15:14
Dayna Roselli: And Jesus, take the wheel.
15:15
Dayna Roselli: I was like, this is a great package.
15:19
Dayna Roselli: T-shirts and books and her Christmas album on vinyl.
15:23
Sean McAllister: I'm gonna be working out to Carrie's new fitness app for two months.
15:27
Dayna Roselli: I know we even got that microphone, too, that we might have to record a little fun podcast on.
15:32
Dayna Roselli: Apparently, you can add music and you can do a little karaoke.
15:35
Dayna Roselli: You can record right into your phone.
15:37
Sean McAllister: She puts the carry in karaoke.
15:39
Sean McAllister: Oh.
15:40
Dayna Roselli: That's right.
15:40
Dayna Roselli: And it's a blinged-out microphone, too, so she was right.
15:43
Sean McAllister: It is.
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Sean McAllister: So thank you, Carrie Underwood and Resorts World, for sending over some goodies to us.
15:48
Sean McAllister: Uh, next up at Resorts World is Katie Perry.
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Sean McAllister: She has shows coming up uh later in December, I think even uh New Year's Eve performances, and then into the new year, uh Luke Bryan, and then uh Carrie Underwood is back.
16:03
Dayna Roselli: And let's get to celebrations.
16:05
Dayna Roselli: It's the Flamingo's 75th anniversary, and we're talking about the Flamingo Hotel Casino right on the strip.
16:12
Dayna Roselli: We know it has a lot of history.
16:13
Dayna Roselli: I didn't realize it had been 75 years, but they're doing all sorts of stuff this month, and you know, it's really an iconic hotel, the flamingo.
16:22
Sean McAllister: And they still have uh, I mean, a handful of employees who were there on day one.
16:27
Sean McAllister: There are our chefs in the back of the house who've been there and met their significant others working at the flamingo and grown families that are under the flamingo umbrella now.
16:40
Sean McAllister: And um my favorite is uh take a listen to this dealer who's been at the flamingo for a long time and has actually had a lot of celebrities pull up to his table.
16:52
SPEAKER_00: On my table, I had I had James Brown, Tom Jones, and I had Joe Fraser, just to name a few that played on my table in the years that I've been here.
17:06
SPEAKER_00: My favorite was Tom Jones.
17:09
SPEAKER_00: I love Tom Jones.
17:10
SPEAKER_00: I love I love the saying, all of his songs.
17:13
Sean McAllister: That laugh is infectious, isn't it, Dana?
17:16
Dayna Roselli: Yes, I love it.
17:17
Dayna Roselli: He was so excited, but I love to see the longtime employees there.
17:20
Dayna Roselli: It's so great.
17:21
Dayna Roselli: And yeah, I love even that the flamingo sent us some of those interviews and that they thought to do that.
17:26
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
17:26
Dayna Roselli: You know, sometimes it's always put on obviously the entertainers who are used to being on camera.
17:31
Dayna Roselli: And, you know, uh Wayne Newton on there too, talking about how, you know, the Flamingo was his first spot where he performed on the strip.
17:40
Sean McAllister: It kind of made him Mr.
17:42
Sean McAllister: Las Vegas.
17:43
Sean McAllister: That's the first place that he really had a show and succeeded and and kept performing and becoming the entertainer he is today.
17:51
Sean McAllister: And it kind of going off of what you were saying, Dana, about recognizing employees, the Flamingo has been doing a whole bunch of things behind the scenes to reward employees for their loyalty, and they've been doing giveaways and contests.
18:07
Sean McAllister: But the giveaways and the giving spirit is continuing on for visitors here to Las Vegas.
18:14
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, check out their website.
18:15
Dayna Roselli: They have hotel and spa deals all through the end of the year.
18:18
Dayna Roselli: So if you want to get here, come now.
18:21
Dayna Roselli: Maybe you want to come right before New Year's Eve, hang out at the Flamingo.
18:24
Dayna Roselli: You know, it was open by Bugsy Seagull.
18:26
Dayna Roselli: It has so much history there.
18:28
Sean McAllister: Oh, incredible history and an iconic property.
18:32
Sean McAllister: The showroom, if you're ever over at the Flamingo to see a show, um, the longtime home of Donnie and Marie, Olivia Newton John performed there.
18:41
Sean McAllister: My gosh.
18:43
Sean McAllister: Um Tony Braxton had a show there for a while.
18:46
Sean McAllister: They're great entertainers through the years, a classic showroom.
18:51
Sean McAllister: Congratulations, Flamingo.
18:53
Sean McAllister: Cheers to 75 more.
18:55
Dayna Roselli: All right, and some other happenings in Las Vegas.
18:57
Dayna Roselli: I should say two weeks of happenings, is the National Finals rodeo is finally here.
19:02
Dayna Roselli: You've heard us talk about it, that it was coming.
19:04
Dayna Roselli: We're excited that it's back here in Las Vegas.
19:07
Dayna Roselli: I mean, there are so many uh country ex performing on and off the strip.
19:13
Dayna Roselli: We couldn't even begin to mention them all, so we put them all on our website.
19:16
Dayna Roselli: We have a long list of entertainment events, uh, country performances at vegas-revealed.com.
19:25
Dayna Roselli: We've got the whole list.
19:26
Dayna Roselli: Some of the shows that are in town, uh Reba, Brooks, and Dunn, which Sean and I are going to next week.
19:31
Dayna Roselli: Also, Shania Twain is back at Planet Hollywood.
19:34
Dayna Roselli: Uh gosh, who are is Jason Al Dean's in town too?
19:37
Dayna Roselli: And all sorts of.
19:38
Dayna Roselli: I mean, just the list goes on.
19:39
Sean McAllister: Yeah, Rodney Carrington, uh, Josh Turner, um, the King King of Country, George Strait at T-Mobile Arena.
19:47
Sean McAllister: By the time you listen to this, some of those shows may have already happened.
19:51
Sean McAllister: That's why we were mentioning the um residency shows, because they have, you know, a longer run.
19:57
Sean McAllister: But I mean, we're talking about Little Big Town playing at Virgin Hotels, Dirk's Bentley, um, it's it's just the downtown Hoedown down on Fremont Street.
20:08
Sean McAllister: Uh it just goes on and on.
20:10
Sean McAllister: There is so much entertainment happening from north to south, east to west, all over the Las Vegas Valley.
20:18
Sean McAllister: And I've got to tell you, Dana, I stopped into the South Point Hotel and Casino, which is south on Las Vegas Boulevard.
20:25
Sean McAllister: Not really considered the strip once you get that down far south, but there were a ton of cowboy hats in there.
20:32
Sean McAllister: I I thought to myself, I was like, oh, I know if Dana was with me, she would say, Go get video of all those cowboy hats because it's great.
20:41
Dayna Roselli: Yes.
20:42
Dayna Roselli: We love when the cowboys are in town.
20:44
Dayna Roselli: And you know what?
20:45
Dayna Roselli: People love their country music.
20:47
Dayna Roselli: And we've talked about this before.
20:48
Dayna Roselli: We have like a huge, I feel like country fan base here.
20:52
Dayna Roselli: People come in from all over to see country music shows and concerts, but also people that live here.
20:59
Dayna Roselli: I mean, such a huge following, and I get it.
21:01
Dayna Roselli: I get it.
21:02
Dayna Roselli: Because whenever I hear a good country song, I'm like, I get it.
21:04
Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's just, you know, the words and they're kind of, you know, the real life situations.
21:10
Dayna Roselli: They they're cut and dry, you know, they don't beat around the bush, so I love it.
21:14
Dayna Roselli: Like that song Fancy Like.
21:16
Dayna Roselli: It's how long has that gone like it's been at like number one for I don't know how long.
21:20
Sean McAllister: It's such a good song, such a good song.
21:22
Sean McAllister: But you know, this is like the Super Bowl of rodeos, the Wrangler National Finals rodeo.
21:27
Sean McAllister: 300,000 people roughly come into Vegas over these 10 days of roping and riding action.
21:37
Sean McAllister: So welcome to everyone who's here.
21:39
Sean McAllister: If you're a rodeo fan and you're going out to see all the action, enjoy because it is quite a spectacle and it is it's a lot of fun.
21:47
Dayna Roselli: Okay, and before we get to our tips, I wanted to mention, because we've talked in the past about how we were uh going to go to enchant the new Christmas uh village, I should say.
21:57
Dayna Roselli: Christmas attraction, holiday attraction.
22:00
Dayna Roselli: Over at the Las Vegas ballpark, which is next to Red Rock Casino on the west side.
22:06
Dayna Roselli: So we went and I wanted to just quickly touch on that because I did get a lot of questions in my inbox when we posted some videos from there.
22:15
Sean McAllister: Yeah, me too.
22:15
Dayna Roselli: So yeah, you know, a lot of um people asking if the ice skating was included and things like that.
22:21
Dayna Roselli: So I I sent a text out to the publicist and I said, you know, people are asking questions, they want to know.
22:26
Dayna Roselli: So to get in, it's like 20 bucks, right?
22:29
Dayna Roselli: And I think there might be a different price for children under a certain age.
22:32
Dayna Roselli: I'm not positive on that.
22:33
Dayna Roselli: But people wanted to know if the ice skating was included, and it is not.
22:37
Dayna Roselli: It's eight dollars to ice skate, and they do recommend making a reservation, but there's no time limit, so you can go as long as you want.
22:44
Dayna Roselli: So not bad.
22:45
Sean McAllister: It's a dollar edition.
22:47
Dayna Roselli: So it because the ice skating was really cool.
22:49
Dayna Roselli: When we went in, we noticed kind of like in a circle.
22:51
Dayna Roselli: It's not just like that little square.
22:53
Dayna Roselli: It's just different, it's right in the middle of all the lit-up trees.
22:56
Dayna Roselli: So check it out.
22:56
Dayna Roselli: If you're into ice skating, I think it's worth the extra eight bucks.
22:59
Sean McAllister: Yeah, and they do have VIP packages available too if you want to spring for the higher dollar amount with you know private entrance and sweet access and all that stuff too.
23:08
Sean McAllister: But it was.
23:10
Sean McAllister: It was a great time and really put us in the festive atmosphere.
23:13
Sean McAllister: There was even there were even some uh snow flurries fluttering down over us.
23:18
Dayna Roselli: Snow flurries.
23:19
Dayna Roselli: There were elves doing uh gymnastics, and uh, I think I saw Mrs.
23:23
Dayna Roselli: Claus.
23:24
Dayna Roselli: The treats were great.
23:26
Sean McAllister: And Mr.
23:26
Sean McAllister: Claus was there too.
23:29
Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, that's right.
23:29
Dayna Roselli: I didn't miss Santa.
23:30
Dayna Roselli: But then then there's this big beautiful tree in the middle, and there's all sorts of different themes and tunnels.
23:36
Dayna Roselli: Then there's the uh there's the floor where you can hop on each square and it changes colors.
23:42
Dayna Roselli: If you want to see more about that, go to my Instagram at Dana Roselli.
23:45
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
23:46
Dayna Roselli: That was fun.
23:47
Dayna Roselli: And also, there was something we walked by and didn't get to try, and it had to do with cheese.
23:53
Dayna Roselli: What was that?
23:53
Dayna Roselli: That was looked good.
23:55
Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna post that eventually too.
23:56
Sean McAllister: Reclett.
23:58
Sean McAllister: Dana, it's the the French and Swiss Alps delicacy where the cheese is melted and scraped onto charcuterie or potatoes or bread.
24:08
Dayna Roselli: Next time, next time.
24:10
Dayna Roselli: We had already eaten too much, so we were trying to be good.
24:13
Sean McAllister: Oh, I wanted it so bad though.
24:14
Sean McAllister: That cheese looked great.
24:17
Dayna Roselli: So enchant over there on the west side.
24:19
Dayna Roselli: Even if you're visiting Las Vegas and maybe you're on the strip looking for something different to do, really cool, worth the drive if you want to get into the holiday spirit.
24:27
Dayna Roselli: Spend a couple hours there.
24:28
Sean McAllister: Alright, let's get to some tips.
24:33
Sean McAllister: And this week we have something for foodies and we have something for sports fans.
24:39
Sean McAllister: What should we do first, Dana?
24:40
Dayna Roselli: Well, why don't we do the foodies?
24:41
Dayna Roselli: Well, let's go downtown because we haven't talked about downtown yet.
24:44
Dayna Roselli: And this is at circa.
24:46
Dayna Roselli: And you and I have not eaten yet at 8 East.
24:49
Dayna Roselli: I know people think we've been everywhere, which we kind of have, but there are places that we have not been to.
24:54
Dayna Roselli: Because we do have, like, you know, work and errands to do.
24:57
Sean McAllister: Well, and you have to put a cap on how many times you eat out in a week.
25:01
Dayna Roselli: It's true, it's true.
25:02
Sean McAllister: Sometimes it's a lot.
25:03
Dayna Roselli: I hear great things about 8 East.
25:05
Dayna Roselli: So I wanted to talk about it because they're doing this one night pop-up dinner, and it's December 11th.
25:12
Dayna Roselli: Tickets are$150 with first come, first served seating from five to seven and then nine o'clock.
25:19
Dayna Roselli: Um so there's here's the deal.
25:21
Dayna Roselli: It's like they're joining with Ann Arbor's Miss Kim Korean restaurant for this pan-Asian pop-up dinner.
25:28
Dayna Roselli: So it's a whole special thing.
25:30
Dayna Roselli: So if you love this kind of food, maybe you're a foodie, you love to experience this kind of stuff.
25:35
Dayna Roselli: December 11th is your night.
25:37
Dayna Roselli: And I figured I would do it in this podcast because it gives you enough time to get there still.
25:42
Sean McAllister: Right.
25:43
Sean McAllister: And those crossover events are always really cool.
25:45
Sean McAllister: I've been at some other restaurants when they've had other chefs coming in and combining with the chef teams at their own establishments.
25:54
Sean McAllister: And there there is a lot of really cool collaboration that happens and uh a unique experience that you will not get again.
26:02
Dayna Roselli: True.
26:02
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you it, you know, because people go out to dinner, but like, and it also I feel like brings people together too.
26:08
Dayna Roselli: Because you're kind of like all experiencing this whole it's kind of like an occasion, you know?
26:12
Dayna Roselli: It is.
26:12
Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
26:12
Sean McAllister: Very cool.
26:13
Sean McAllister: Um, and then there's more news about the cake boss.
26:17
Dayna Roselli: That's right.
26:18
Dayna Roselli: Buddy V, Buddy Velastro, uh opening another spot in Las Vegas.
26:23
Dayna Roselli: This one called The Boss Cafe by Buddy V at the Link Hotel and Experience.
26:29
Dayna Roselli: So it's gonna be over near the Link and the promenade and all that area, which is very popular for.
26:35
Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel like it gets a lot of foot traffic there.
26:37
Sean McAllister: It gets a ton of foot traffic, and if you're ever having a hard time finding it, just go toward that big colored observation wheel.
26:44
Sean McAllister: It's right at the base.
26:45
Dayna Roselli: So this restaurant opening in early 2022, and I was reading through some of the highlights, and I know you picked out the mozzarella bar.
26:54
Sean McAllister: Oh.
26:54
Sean McAllister: See, do you are you catching like a theme?
26:57
Sean McAllister: Like I went crazy about the reclette and now the mozzarella bar.
27:01
Sean McAllister: Cheese is it.
27:02
Dayna Roselli: Oh, I love cheese.
27:02
Dayna Roselli: It's so good.
27:03
Dayna Roselli: And listen, Buddy V's restaurant at uh the Venetian Palazzo is delicious.
27:08
Dayna Roselli: The Carlos Bakery, there's always a line.
27:11
Dayna Roselli: If you can get, you know, in line and get something, you're lucky.
27:16
Dayna Roselli: Um then now he's adding the boss cafe to the list.
27:19
Dayna Roselli: That mozzarella bar does sound good.
27:21
Sean McAllister: And he's such a nice guy, too.
27:23
Sean McAllister: Last time I was uh out for dinner at uh his restaurant at the Venetian, he was there and stopped by and we chatted and and then he went over to a table and had such a a great little interaction with a young fan of his.
27:37
Sean McAllister: So he's he's a great guy all around.
27:39
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and then I've looked up a little bit more about the Mott's bar.
27:42
Dayna Roselli: That's what it's called.
27:44
Sean McAllister: Mozzarella.
27:45
Dayna Roselli: Mozzarel.
27:46
Sean McAllister: Mo Mozzarella, no L.
27:48
Sean McAllister: Mozzarel.
27:48
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, mozzarella.
27:50
Sean McAllister: You drop the uh at the end.
27:51
Dayna Roselli: My mom always says, Do you want some mozzarella on that?
27:53
Dayna Roselli: I'm like, wait, yeah, oh yeah, but like, you know.
27:55
Dayna Roselli: I grew up in like Rochester, New York, so we call it mozzarella.
28:00
Dayna Roselli: But we moved from Jersey, so we've got like half and half going on over there.
28:04
Dayna Roselli: Anyway, um, but listen to this.
28:06
Dayna Roselli: It comes served with warm rustic bread.
28:09
Dayna Roselli: Oh.
28:09
Dayna Roselli: And your choice of basil, pesto, roasted peppers, tomato olive relish, or tomato, fresh basil, and aged balsamic.
28:19
Dayna Roselli: So there's all sorts of it, just sounds delicious.
28:21
Sean McAllister: I have to choose.
28:22
Sean McAllister: Yeah, you have to choose.
28:23
Sean McAllister: I can't have both.
28:24
Dayna Roselli: No.
28:25
Sean McAllister: I'll just order two.
28:26
Dayna Roselli: You better save up.
28:28
Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, that's gonna be great.
28:29
Sean McAllister: Uh so Dana, the game day experience has become a big thing here in Las Vegas.
28:35
Sean McAllister: We have the Raiders here in town now.
28:38
Sean McAllister: We've got the Golden Knights.
28:40
Sean McAllister: There's talk about a baseball team, potentially a pro-basketball team.
28:45
Sean McAllister: Well, we've got the Las Vegas Aces too.
28:47
Sean McAllister: So we're a pro sports town.
28:49
Sean McAllister: Part of that experience is getting to and from the venue on game day.
28:55
Sean McAllister: Recently, uh, we had friends who offered us tickets to the Raiders game at Allegiance Stadium.
29:02
Sean McAllister: We've talked about how parking prices are really high if you're driving down to the stadium and parking in that area.
29:10
Sean McAllister: We've also talked about getting in and out, how it can be a little sketchy.
29:16
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
29:16
Sean McAllister: Things have started to be figured out, and I don't think it's as bad as when everybody first started going.
29:22
Sean McAllister: Uh but uh for this game, uh, my husband and I decided that we were going to take the Game Day Express.
29:31
Sean McAllister: Oh.
29:31
Sean McAllister: Now, this it's a series of buses that leave from different uh hotel casinos all over the Las Vegas Valley.
29:40
Sean McAllister: It's run by the RTC here in the Las Vegas Valley, and it's you know those big uh the buses that have like the accordion in the middle.
29:48
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
29:49
Sean McAllister: So it's like a big bus.
29:50
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
29:51
Sean McAllister: At uh five locations around Las Vegas, they pick you up on game day, they take you to the stadium, they have their own designated express lanes, so you bypass all the other vehicle traffic, they drop you right off at the stadium, after the game, you go to a designated spot right outside of the stadium, and they zip you right back to the stadium.
30:14
Sean McAllister: I mean, who wouldn't do this?
30:15
Dayna Roselli: Like, I don't get it.
30:16
Sean McAllister: But wait, it gets but wait, there's How much is it?
30:20
Sean McAllister: For a one-way trip, it's two dollars.
30:22
Sean McAllister: What?
30:23
Sean McAllister: For a round trip, it's four dollars.
30:26
Sean McAllister: So for under ten dollars, we got a round trip ticket to and from Allegiance Stadium, and we were dropped off right at the doorstep.
30:36
Sean McAllister: And you just could not have been easier.
30:38
Sean McAllister: We had friends who were tailgating there, so we got dropped off, went to the tailgate, went to the game, caught the bus afterwards, and dropped off at the casino.
30:47
Dayna Roselli: And so you just park at the casino parking lot where you go.
30:50
Dayna Roselli: So where'd you go, South Point?
30:51
Dayna Roselli: Where'd you go?
30:52
Sean McAllister: No, we went to the M resort.
30:53
Dayna Roselli: Okay, so you went to the M, parked there, and then it that's it.
30:56
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
30:57
Sean McAllister: Oh, and it was not packed.
30:59
Sean McAllister: It I feel like it's the best kept secret for anyone going to games at Allegiant Stadium.
31:06
Dayna Roselli: It truly is, and I don't know why it's a secret.
31:08
Dayna Roselli: Why isn't there more advertising on this?
31:10
Sean McAllister: I have no idea.
31:11
Dayna Roselli: Who's who's the PR over at the RTC?
31:13
Sean McAllister: I don't know.
31:14
Sean McAllister: But I mean, it was the easiest thing.
31:18
Sean McAllister: I won't say in the world, because I'm sure there's things that are easier, but it was really easy.
31:23
Sean McAllister: There's an app that you download, you buy the tickets right on the app.
31:28
Sean McAllister: Once you get the ticket, it gives you one of those QR codes that you scan as you get on the bus, and that's it.
31:35
Dayna Roselli: I love it.
31:36
Dayna Roselli: What a great tip.
31:37
Dayna Roselli: Boy.
31:38
Sean McAllister: And I need to add, Dana, they have these uh passes for T-Mobile Arena too, so they drop you off uh for Golden Knights games.
31:46
Dayna Roselli: Was the bus full of like Raiders?
31:49
Dayna Roselli: It ended up being full.
31:50
Dayna Roselli: Okay.
31:50
Sean McAllister: Yeah, but it's not like you had to wait in a line to get on the bus.
31:53
Sean McAllister: People trickled in.
31:55
Sean McAllister: The bus leaves every half hour.
31:58
Sean McAllister: The last bus leaves an hour before game time.
32:00
Dayna Roselli: I wish there was a shuttle to your house where the home office is from mine.
32:05
Dayna Roselli: Because you know, I hate driving the highway.
32:08
Dayna Roselli: I always tell you, like, and you we do live far apart from each other.
32:12
Dayna Roselli: And I'm always like, oh, it'd be just so nice to just like sit here and have someone drive me.
32:17
Sean McAllister: I'm sure there's a uh I'm sure there's a bus route I could find for you.
32:22
Dayna Roselli: All right, well, we'll do that after the podcast.
32:24
Dayna Roselli: We'll look it up.
32:25
Dayna Roselli: Maybe I'll have to start.
32:26
Dayna Roselli: I should try it one day and just, you know, record it.
32:29
Dayna Roselli: And also just a little bit related, when you mentioned that we have all these sports teams and maybe eventually, you know, professional baseball team here, lots of rumors going around that the Tropicana's gonna get knocked down, and that's where the baseball field will be built.
32:42
Dayna Roselli: Um, so it's it's kind of interesting, you know, and then people were showing renderings and joking around and stuff like that.
32:48
Dayna Roselli: But but you and I were just saying, like, I don't know if we need another like thing on the strip.
32:52
Dayna Roselli: It seems like build the infrastructure first and then build the stadium.
32:56
Dayna Roselli: So it's getting it's getting really crowded.
32:59
Dayna Roselli: Uh and I hate to say that because we just got over COVID and we're happy to have people here in cars and vehicles, but it's just getting, I don't know, it's just we need more like roads or routes or something over there.
33:09
Sean McAllister: Yeah, but to have T-Mobile Arena, Allegiant Stadium, and a professional baseball stadium all within one mile of each other is berserk.
33:20
Sean McAllister: Like what happens when there's a concert at one venue, uh sporting events at the other two, and or sporting events at all three.
33:29
Sean McAllister: Can that happen?
33:30
Sean McAllister: I don't know if every I don't know.
33:33
Sean McAllister: I'm not good with my sport seasons.
33:35
Dayna Roselli: Probably.
33:35
Dayna Roselli: Maybe football, hockey, baseball.
33:41
Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that could happen.
33:43
Dayna Roselli: You know what needs to happen is that that loop needs to go underground and get going.
33:48
Dayna Roselli: Because I know it's been approved, but like we need to get all that.
33:51
Dayna Roselli: I mean, I think that will really help too.
33:53
Sean McAllister: Start drilling those tunnels.
33:54
Sean McAllister: Let's go.
33:55
Sean McAllister: Yeah.
33:55
Sean McAllister: We need to get that.
33:56
Dayna Roselli: That's a wrap on episode 97.
33:59
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34:36
Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
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