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Carrot Top’s Emotional Return, Now You See Me Live Red Carpet, Category 10 Las Vegas Hot Takes | Ep. 343 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:01
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 343.
• 0:04
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dayna Roselli here, and man have we had a packed week.
• 0:10
  Sean McAllister: Uh we stopped at the new honky tonk on the strip, category 10.
• 0:14
  Sean McAllister: We were at the opening of the new magic show.
• 0:17
  Sean McAllister: Now you see me live over at MGM Grand as well.
• 0:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and we also went to the Bills Raiders game, but not at the stadium, right next door, and we're gonna tell you about the bar that we visited and our experience.
• 0:30
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, Keith Urban attends Metallica.
• 0:33
  Dayna Roselli: We have some insider details there.
• 0:35
  Dayna Roselli: And Donnie Wahlberg's plane?
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that caused quite a commotion at the Las Vegas airport.
• 0:42
  Dayna Roselli: All that coming up.
• 0:43
  Sean McAllister: But first, we also went over to Carrot Top's first show back at his theater over at the Luxor.
• 0:52
  Sean McAllister: He had been uh away from his show for a month after uh dealing with some uh personal issues, and he came back on stage, and man, that theater was packed.
• 1:05
  Dayna Roselli: Packed, completely sold out, and you and I bought tickets as soon as we heard he was coming back for October 19th.
• 1:11
  Dayna Roselli: And then I think I checked a few days later and noticed all the seats were taken, so it sold out quick.
• 1:15
  Dayna Roselli: The support, the standing ovations.
• 1:18
  Dayna Roselli: It was a great night at the Luxor, and Carrot Top is back in action and his show and is back in Las Vegas.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, Sean, what I learned last night, I've seen Carrot Top so many times, one of my favorite comedians.
• 1:31
  Dayna Roselli: I think he is so good.
• 1:32
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even think I realized he was 10 years at the MGM Grand.
• 1:36
  Dayna Roselli: So, really, like being 20 years at the Luxor, 10 at MGM Grand, and I know he popped in for shows before that.
• 1:42
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he has been in Las Vegas performing successfully for 30 years, and so he has just proven that his act as a prop comedian is a Vegas show and it's successful.
• 1:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and uh there are not many people who can tout a 30-year headlining career in Las Vegas, and I think the support in that uh auditorium in that theater was evidence of his success in Las Vegas over the years.
• 2:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, agree.
• 2:16
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, it's such a story.
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: We didn't talk much about it when it first came out about you know that Caratop was suicidal, but I think it's good to point out seeing him on stage, his mother there in the audience, these people behind him, he addressed it in a funny way, but also in a thankful way.
• 2:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it does prove that, you know, you can get through something.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I hope that that gives other people hope if they're feeling that way.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, that it took him coming out of it, uh hospital stay, family members, fans, friends, fellow comedians surrounding him with love to get him back on that stage pretty quickly, about a little less than two months, right?
• 3:01
  Dayna Roselli: A monthish away.
• 3:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um and it was so it was very inspiring.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: And I think this, I think he's on, he's on a good path.
• 3:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think so and hope so.
• 3:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, we do have more uh of our reflections on his first show back.
• 3:16
  Sean McAllister: But first, uh why don't you hear from Carrot Top himself on his return to the stage?
• 3:25
  Carrot Top: I feel that I'm very emotional.
• 3:28
  Carrot Top: So um it's been a rough month trying to figure out what is appropriate for a night like tonight.
• 3:33
  Carrot Top: I love that the people in the front row were the first ones to get tickets.
• 3:36
  Carrot Top: They're the ones that carried the most right here.
• 3:39
  Carrot Top: We got time.
• 3:50
  Carrot Top: We got tickets, we got time.
• 3:52
  Carrot Top: People in the back of the row are like, what happened?
• 3:57
  Carrot Top: Some people don't know.
• 3:59
  Carrot Top: People in Nebraska have no idea what I got.
• 4:01
  Carrot Top: But it's weird, people are like, what's the joke?
• 4:04
  Carrot Top: What do you pull out of your trunk?
• 4:05
  Carrot Top: What is appropriate?
• 4:06
  Carrot Top: What's not appropriate?
• 4:07
  Carrot Top: Yeah, so he came out in the audience, did some, you know, shaking hands, this and that, made his way up, and then did that bit, you know, some of the clips that we recorded.
• 4:16
  Carrot Top: You know, we put our phones down because we really wanted to be in the moment, but we wanted to cover it as well.
• 4:21
  Carrot Top: And so um, getting lots of response from the clips we posted on social media, and people seem so elated that he's back.
• 4:28
  Carrot Top: Um and we just really were too.
• 4:32
  Carrot Top: I mean, I don't know, that was that was an amazing show to be at.
• 4:35
  Sean McAllister: It it really was.
• 4:36
  Sean McAllister: And uh, you know, uh Carrot Top, he made several references to his situation throughout the show.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: And even at one point talked about how um how his faith has been kind of reignited in the in the aftermath, right?
• 4:54
  Sean McAllister: And and how he views things moving forward.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: Because I mean he always would go to church on Sunday anyway.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: He started posting about that a lot on his social media, but I think now, you know, it's even stronger.
• 5:05
  Dayna Roselli: And he said, you know, however you feel, everyone has their own thing, but whether you're religious, you're not religious.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: This is what this is what has worked for me.
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: And um, it just yeah, it was it was such a great combination of a little bit of everything, but he stayed funny.
• 5:19
  Dayna Roselli: I think we kind of thought he would a little bit that he would kind of make fun of it.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: It not fun of it, it was like humili, like he fun of himself.
• 5:28
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:29
  Dayna Roselli: Do you know what I mean?
• 5:30
  Dayna Roselli: Like, not the situation, but um, he addressed there was a big elephant in the room, and a big projection came up, and it was an elephant with uh with red hair, with a his signature orange wig, yeah.
• 5:42
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he is great, and you can see from the comments for people who have seen him, like I went once and then I ended up going nine times.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he is just worth the visit.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: Can't recommend him enough.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: Great guy.
• 5:54
  Dayna Roselli: We are so happy.
• 5:55
  Dayna Roselli: Scott Thompson, aka Carrot Top, is back performing in Las Vegas.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: Go support him, go to a show.
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: We guarantee you will laugh the entire time and leave happy.
• 6:05
  Sean McAllister: Without a doubt.
• 6:06
  Sean McAllister: We've been fortunate to know Scott for years here in Las Vegas and and really do wish him absolutely the very best.
• 6:15
  Dayna Roselli: That's for sure.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we did go over to category 10 on the strip, and this is a new honky talk.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: We told you about it.
• 6:22
  Dayna Roselli: Uh three floors, actually, and it's um well, has Luke Combs' name behind it.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 6:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, yeah.
• 6:28
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, Sean, I'm a Luke Combs fan now because I didn't listen to I don't listen to much country music.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Not that I don't like it.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: I just it's not in my regular rotation.
• 6:37
  Dayna Roselli: And so I'm like, all right, let me see what the deal is with Luke Combs.
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: And now I'm obsessed.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: I know it's such good music.
• 6:44
  Sean McAllister: I was kind of the same way.
• 6:46
  Sean McAllister: I didn't have Luke in my regular rotation.
• 6:50
  Sean McAllister: And on the way over to uh category 10, I was like, you know what?
• 6:55
  Sean McAllister: I'm gonna put this on.
• 6:56
  Sean McAllister: I'm gonna dial up my Spotify, get Luke Combs playing, just to get in the mood.
• 7:01
  Sean McAllister: Be like, all right, we're going to category 10.
• 7:03
  Sean McAllister: I need to uh feel this vibe.
• 7:05
  Sean McAllister: And it is Luke Combs has great music, it's good, and I know in you can sing the words.
• 7:13
  Dayna Roselli: I like that.
• 7:14
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like going right along with it.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: You know what?
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: I can understand what he's saying.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: I like it.
• 7:18
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, that was a sidebar.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: But the the honky talk's great.
• 7:22
  Dayna Roselli: And so we wondered, you know, because here's the deal.
• 7:24
  Dayna Roselli: You know, sometimes when things keep opening, we've got a Jason Al Dean's and venue, restaurant bar.
• 7:29
  Dayna Roselli: I guess kind of a honky tongue-ish.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 7:32
  Dayna Roselli: Live music.
• 7:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then we've got Old Red with Blake Shelton.
• 7:35
  Dayna Roselli: And so some people would say, Oh, do we need a third one on the strip?
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: You know, but I do think that this one, um, compared to the others, uh, was different.
• 7:44
  Dayna Roselli: I like how they're they are all very different.
• 7:46
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, cause it wasn't didn't feel like going into the same thing.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: They each have their own personality.
• 7:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they do.
• 7:53
  Dayna Roselli: And setup kind of.
• 7:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, in category 10, by far the biggest of the three.
• 7:59
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 8:00
  Sean McAllister: And when you if you have gone to uh Margaritaville throughout the decades here in Las Vegas, you know that was a pretty big venue.
• 8:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 8:10
  Sean McAllister: But they also had a massive bar down on that main level that had a volcano that a girl shot out of, and then got uh slid down into a big blender and got whipped around.
• 8:21
  Sean McAllister: So that took up a huge footprint.
• 8:23
  Sean McAllister: And then on the dining room floor downstairs, there was a big pontoon boat that had a bunch of tables on it.
• 8:30
  Sean McAllister: And so they cleared all that stuff out of there.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: And when you walk in there now, you're like, holy moly, this place is massive, and that's just the first level.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's crazy, and it's uh like because O Red is like what do you call it when it's stacked?
• 8:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, I like the stage is in the middle, there's a ground floor of tables, and then it's straight up.
• 8:55
  Dayna Roselli: So everyone can sit on the edge and look down, right?
• 8:58
  Dayna Roselli: And then you can look out, then it's got the patio.
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: This is more like the you know, the band and the line dancing and all that is on one side.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: There's a level above it that you can sit at the edge and look down, but there's also a couple different bars on the bottom.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: Then you can go up another level, uh, where the roof is, I guess, right?
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: The bar.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:21
  Dayna Roselli: Because a one, two, three, right.
• 9:23
  Dayna Roselli: And then um, and then to the side, they also had like another more loungy with couchy area area that like the whiskey bar.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was cool.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: I was trying to look up the name because I know I have it in my phone somewhere.
• 9:35
  Dayna Roselli: Was it the still still room or something?
• 9:37
  Sean McAllister: I think it was.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:39
  Sean McAllister: But they have seven different bars across this three-level venue right there at uh Las Vegas Boulevard and uh the Link promenade, and tons of foot traffic going through there.
• 9:55
  Sean McAllister: On opening day, there was a line that wrapped around the building.
• 9:59
  Sean McAllister: They had line dancers up on the steps as they were welcoming in the first guests, and it's been a vibe ever since.
• 10:08
  Sean McAllister: One of the uh big first events that they had was for a Buffalo Bills fan group because it was leading up to the Raiders Buffalo game.
• 10:17
  Sean McAllister: And man, it was packed over there.
• 10:20
  Sean McAllister: They did a live podcast recording in there, so they have opened with uh excitement and vigor.
• 10:28
  Dayna Roselli: They did, right, and the line dancing was fun to watch.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: I had a vodka lemonade for the first time, it was delicious.
• 10:35
  Sean McAllister: That was a good drink.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the drinks were good.
• 10:37
  Dayna Roselli: The food we only sampled food, so we didn't order like sit down because it was a media preview event, right?
• 10:42
  Dayna Roselli: So it was especially for that, but we got to try little different things.
• 10:45
  Dayna Roselli: I finally on the way out, I saw some fried pickles, they were delicious.
• 10:49
  Sean McAllister: Oh I love my fried pickles, and there uh they had housemade uh just regular pickles, and those were delicious too.
• 10:57
  Sean McAllister: They were so fresh and crisp and crunchy.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: That's so good.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: Uh yeah, they had some good stuff there.
• 11:03
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, what was that thing that we had, the dessert?
• 11:05
  Dayna Roselli: It was warm.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: Oh, it was the peach cobbler.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, that was good.
• 11:09
  Sean McAllister: The peach cobbler.
• 11:10
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 11:10
  Sean McAllister: Don't miss out on that.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: That was good.
• 11:13
  Dayna Roselli: So um I think it's gonna do great.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's in a great spot.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: They do have that bar on the outside where you can just get a drink and then keep walking.
• 11:20
  Sean McAllister: The hurricane bar.
• 11:21
  Dayna Roselli: Hurricane bar, yeah.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: That we didn't, um it wasn't open yet when we went, but we got some video of it.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: But um, that's a great spot too.
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: And see, when you're describing Margaritaville, I've been by there many times, but I never actually went in.
• 11:31
  Dayna Roselli: I would do the the outside bar, you know, or whatever, and then you know, meet people or whatever.
• 11:37
  Dayna Roselli: So I didn't really go that deep in when you're talking about a lady shooting out of a volcano.
• 11:41
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, what?
• 11:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so my my buddy Eric from high school lives out here and he was a a bartender at Margaritaville for a while.
• 11:49
  Sean McAllister: So I would always I would go in there and hang at the bar and chat with Eric and Right.
• 11:55
  Sean McAllister: So that's why I saw the whole spectacle of the girl shooting out of the volcano.
• 12:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 12:01
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 12:02
  Dayna Roselli: Too funny.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: Well, go enjoy.
• 12:05
  Dayna Roselli: Category 10 is now open on the Las Vegas strip.
• 12:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, one of three honky tonks we have now.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of country fans come in to visit us.
• 12:12
  Dayna Roselli: NFR's coming up.
• 12:13
  Dayna Roselli: We're a year-round country fan, country music mecca now.
• 12:18
  Dayna Roselli: And people who just want to go have a good time can go there too.
• 12:22
  Sean McAllister: And from what I understand, the music at Category 10 um isn't necessarily going to be all country either.
• 12:28
  Sean McAllister: I think that they're uh going to bring in artists of all genres to uh perform there.
• 12:34
  Sean McAllister: So that'll be fun to see uh who they bring in as time goes by.
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: Somebody did comment on one of our posts that they want more rock and roll venues.
• 12:43
  Dayna Roselli: So we're getting too many country.
• 12:44
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought, well, I think when the Hard Rock opens, that's what they're all about for that.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: And he said he was looking forward to that too.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: And um, I said, you know, and keep in mind the Hard Rock Cafe does have great live music and bands and shows too, and a lot of people forget about it, but it's right there across from Park MGM.
• 13:01
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind.
• 13:02
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta go in, and they have lots of different kinds of specials and stuff like that.
• 13:05
  Dayna Roselli: So it's there is a Hard Rock Cafe on the strip, and that's a big venue, too.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: It is big, yeah.
• 13:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, we also went to Now You See Me Live at MGM Grand, and this was at the MGM Grand Theater.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, this is the old David Copperfield Theater.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it was fun.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: We did the a little party in the red carpet.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: You interviewed uh a lot of the cast members.
• 13:26
  Dayna Roselli: So I haven't seen the movie series you have, so explain it.
• 13:30
  Sean McAllister: So the the whole premise of uh Now You See Me is there's these group of magicians.
• 13:36
  Sean McAllister: They're called the Four Horsemen, and they pull off these uh big grand illusions.
• 13:43
  Sean McAllister: So they like rob a bank uh as part of one of the illusions during a live show, and then the money from the bank vault, they make it rain over the audience, so it's like stealing from the rich and giving to everybody.
• 14:00
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: So they do good with their illusions, but they also like pull off heists and stuff.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, because yeah, when you were doing the interviews, they were talking about oh, it was because in the movies they said that MGM Grand was one of the places in from the movie series, in one of the movies that they did a heist.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: So I was like, oh, I didn't know that.
• 14:19
  Dayna Roselli: So I love the connection.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: The show was great.
• 14:21
  Dayna Roselli: First, let's do um your interviews on the red carpet so people can hear from the different cast members, and then we'll talk about the show.
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: The more you think you see, the easier it'll be to fool you.
• 14:35
  Sean McAllister: From the big screen to the Vegas stage, the four horsemen from the Now You See Me Film franchise bring their grand illusions to the heart of the Las Vegas trip.
• 14:44
  Sean McAllister: And the cast is ready to defy all logic with what you see on stage in the MGM Grand.
• 14:50
  Now You See Me Live: If you ask 20 different people what their favorite part was, they got 20 different answers.
• 14:54
  Now You See Me Live: I mean, my favorite thing is the audience.
• 14:56
  Now You See Me Live: You've got so many different moments in the audience that they get to experience one trick in particular.
• 15:00
  Now You See Me Live: They do the magic with us, and it happens right in your hands.
• 15:05
  Now You See Me Live: Like DB uh performed back in the days, but in a completely different way.
• 15:10
  Now You See Me Live: That's the best.
• 15:16
  Sean McAllister: And what do you think fans of the franchise are going to love most about the show?
• 15:20
  Now You See Me Live: I mean it has the same vibe as the movies, you know, it's not based on them, but it definitely is inspired by them.
• 15:25
  Now You See Me Live: So if you love the movies, I highly recommend re-watching them before you come to the show, and I think it's one of those rare experiences where you can jump inside of a movie you love and be a part of the audience.
• 15:34
  Now You See Me Live: It's very interactive, it's it's it's fun, it's family friendly, and uh I think that's kind of what we what we got from the film with the Horseman.
• 15:40
  Now You See Me Live: How big is this for you?
• 15:42
  Now You See Me Live: Well, it's been a dream since I was eight years old.
• 15:44
  Now You See Me Live: I keep looking up at the screen and the posters look in my face like, is this real, you know?
• 15:50
  Now You See Me Live: And tomorrow morning I'll check again.
• 15:52
  Now You See Me Live: And this is where we've all dreamed of having a show one day.
• 15:54
  Now You See Me Live: I think the coolest thing is we're all backstage sharing stories of being little kids dreaming of being in Vegas.
• 15:59
  Now You See Me Live: This is just such a special place, and it's such a special Vegas.
• 16:02
  Now You See Me Live: Of all the places we've been, I am above over the moon so excited to be here.
• 16:07
  Now You See Me Live: Here in Vegas are the best shows in the world.
• 16:09
  Now You See Me Live: So we are really thrilled to amaze the biggest audience.
• 16:12
  Sean McAllister: Does um MGM Grand have to worry about a grand heist being pulled off here?
• 16:20
  Now You See Me Live: You know, I don't know if I need to worry too much, but we'll see what we can do.
• 16:25
  Now You See Me Live: I don't know.
• 16:26
  Now You See Me Live: I'll keep you posted on that.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, when they were talking about that card trick, I think that was the most, for me, the most mind-blowing thing.
• 16:36
  Dayna Roselli: We had these cards, everyone, handed to us.
• 16:40
  Dayna Roselli: Look around the table, look who you're sitting at.
• 16:42
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone had different cards.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: We were shifting them, moving them, ripping them of our own choice.
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: Rowing them.
• 16:49
  Dayna Roselli: Throwing them, all these things.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: We put one in our pocket that we ripped, and by the end, we were at a table of one, two, three, four, five, six people.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: Every single card person's card matched the one that they had in their pocket.
• 17:04
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know how.
• 17:06
  Sean McAllister: So we had half of a card that was ripped in half that we had put in our pocket, and then we went through the rest of the deck of these ripped cards.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: And we chose a card.
• 17:16
  Sean McAllister: We chose we were crumpling them up, throwing them, flipping them in the air, flipping them at people.
• 17:21
  Sean McAllister: And so that the last half of a card that we had left in our hands, they said, All right, now reach into your pocket and pull out the other half of a ripped card.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: That was crazy.
• 17:32
  Sean McAllister: And flip them over.
• 17:33
  Sean McAllister: That was crazy.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: And they freaking match.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 17:35
  Dayna Roselli: That was amazing.
• 17:36
  Sean McAllister: And I think everybody's you could hear everybody in the auditorium in the theater, they were like, What?
• 17:43
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 17:44
  Sean McAllister: It was insane.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: That was great.
• 17:47
  Dayna Roselli: It really was great.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: Uh yeah, I mean, they do a variety of different things, and I think that um people will like it.
• 17:56
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's l great that it's family friendly.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, there were kids in the audience, a kid called up on stage.
• 18:03
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind.
• 18:04
  Dayna Roselli: People always want to know where are the family friendly shows.
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um and you know, it's a large cast, and I I thought it was great.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: The sleight of hand guy, he was amazing.
• 18:12
  Dayna Roselli: The special featured guy.
• 18:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:14
  Dayna Roselli: So there were it's it's a fun, it's a good show.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: I think that people will enjoy it, and I think it'll do well there.
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: They're here until January 9th.
• 18:21
  Sean McAllister: And uh it's uh it's a great magic show.
• 18:24
  Sean McAllister: We do not have a magic illusion show like this one uh in Las Vegas right now.
• 18:33
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we we have Penn and Teller, we have Matt Franco, we have Mac King, um, Marie Sawchuk is another longtime magician illusionist.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: Chris Angel.
• 18:45
  Sean McAllister: Chris Angel.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: Does his own thing, yeah.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: But big illusions.
• 18:48
  Sean McAllister: His and that is the his are big illusions.
• 18:51
  Sean McAllister: Um, but it's a different kind of vibe.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, different vibe for sure.
• 18:54
  Sean McAllister: Than what you get.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: A little more hardcore.
• 18:56
  Dayna Roselli: Hardcore adult, yes.
• 19:00
  Sean McAllister: And now you see me is it's a great family show, like you mentioned.
• 19:04
  Sean McAllister: And and good stuff.
• 19:06
  Sean McAllister: So if you're uh coming to town and magic is on your to-do list, then check it out.
• 19:13
  Sean McAllister: Great price point, too.
• 19:14
  Sean McAllister: I think it's around uh maybe $80, so under $100 to get in there, which is a good deal these days.
• 19:24
  Dayna Roselli: Then you can go over and see the Jabberwockies.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: They're also at MGM Grand.
• 19:27
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: And then you can go to Brad Garrett's Comedy Club.
• 19:29
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot going on there.
• 19:30
  Sean McAllister: There is.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: And then go to the Friends Experience.
• 19:32
  Dayna Roselli: MGM Grand has a lot.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, we went to the uh to watch the Bills Raiders game.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: The Raiders um played at home and the Buffalo Bills came into town.
• 19:43
  Dayna Roselli: If you listen to us for a while, you know Sean and I are from Rochester, New York.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: So uh have a lot of friends and family members that are huge Bills fans.
• 19:51
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, we went to whiskey.
• 19:53
  Dayna Roselli: We had never been before for a game, a full game, to watch.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: And it's right next to the stadium.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: So we wanted to see what it was like.
• 20:01
  Dayna Roselli: But first, let's start.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, you took the Game Day Express four dollar bus ride from Boulder Station?
• 20:10
  Sean McAllister: From Samstown.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: Samstown.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: Four bucks there and back.
• 20:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it was great on the way there, but how long did it take you to get back?
• 20:17
  Sean McAllister: I mean you Ubered back home.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: I took the Game Day Express back home, and by the time that I actually got back into my house and texted you, you were like, I have already been back home and in bed for a long time.
• 20:38
  Dayna Roselli: I had two phone calls.
• 20:40
  Dayna Roselli: One with my friend from home, one with my mom.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: Ate.
• 20:44
  Dayna Roselli: No, I didn't eat because we ate there.
• 20:47
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, like, you know, I needed some water because we had two beers, and that was a lot for me, by the way.
• 20:51
  Dayna Roselli: That's why I was in bed.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and um I yeah, was in like changed and in bed, and you're texting me that you're not even home yet.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, what?
• 21:02
  Sean McAllister: It was so I have suggestions on how the RTS buses could change their route out of the stadium.
• 21:13
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we all were like, okay, we gotta get out before the rush.
• 21:19
  Sean McAllister: We did.
• 21:20
  Sean McAllister: We got on the first bus, but they waited until the bus was completely full, until the doors of the stadium were open.
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: And so my $30 Uber ride was worth it.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: It was worth it.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 21:34
  Sean McAllister: Because I was not a super happy camper on the way home.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: Because we can only imagine.
• 21:40
  Sean McAllister: We did like this.
• 21:41
  Sean McAllister: I don't even get the way that they went, but because it should have been a straight shot out of there and like take a left and get us back home.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but they did like this big loop around the whole stadium area, and that's where everybody.
• 21:59
  Sean McAllister: Leaving the stadium is now walking and filtering out across the streets.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: So, like when it was our turn to take a right, well, it was full of pedestrians crossing the street.
• 22:12
  Sean McAllister: So we couldn't take a right.
• 22:13
  Sean McAllister: And then so it was just a whole thing.
• 22:15
  Carrot Top: Okay.
• 22:15
  Sean McAllister: I would say four dollars is a great price for a round trip uh for a round trip to and from the stadium on a game day.
• 22:26
  Dayna Roselli: But plan your day.
• 22:27
  Sean McAllister: Plan your day bring your and pack your patience on your way home.
• 22:31
  Sean McAllister: Just know what to expect.
• 22:32
  Sean McAllister: I did not know what to expect, and I was a little impatient.
• 22:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:36
  Sean McAllister: I did not pack my patience.
• 22:38
  Dayna Roselli: Oh boy, no.
• 22:38
  Dayna Roselli: I can only imagine what that was like.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Uh yeah.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: Plan to play solitaire on your phone and all that.
• 22:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we lost, but man, it was a good game.
• 22:46
  Dayna Roselli: When we had that touchdown right in the last what, 30 seconds, I thought, could we pull this off?
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: Darn it.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: But we've been playing great.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm just gonna stay hopeful and I'm glad the team's doing well.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: We there were tons of Bills fan at Whiskey.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Uh oh, little note, whiskey, we didn't get a table.
• 23:01
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, you went in before the game started, put in our names.
• 23:04
  Dayna Roselli: There's just too many people.
• 23:05
  Sean McAllister: There's just too many people.
• 23:07
  Dayna Roselli: We did order food at the bar, though.
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: So I ate a burger, stood at the bar, chicken sandwich, you had wings, and we were able to get food.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, they don't let you make changes to the menu.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're getting the burger, it's coming with what's on it, and that's up to you because they're too busy.
• 23:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it was fun and it was an experience.
• 23:25
  Dayna Roselli: They have a patio, indoor.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so it was good.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: And it was uh there were Raiders fans in there, there were Bills fans in there, there were chants going back and forth, taunts going back and forth across the bar.
• 23:38
  Dayna Roselli: You got a hat.
• 23:39
  Sean McAllister: I got a hat from Callie.
• 23:41
  Sean McAllister: I shout out to Callie.
• 23:43
  Sean McAllister: He is a Buffalo Bills fan who he grew up in Buffalo, now lives in Atlanta, um, and who hopefully now is a Vegas revealed listener and viewer.
• 23:54
  Sean McAllister: Callie, it was great to meet you.
• 23:57
  Sean McAllister: Thank you for the hat.
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: He actually tried to give me the hat and then I gave it to you.
• 24:01
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: Because I wasn't taking the Buffalo hat.
• 24:03
  Dayna Roselli: I'm a Raiders fan.
• 24:04
  Dayna Roselli: I love where I'm from, but I gotta I gotta support the town I live in.
• 24:09
  Sean McAllister: So he had these custom hats made and uh it's it looks like the welcome to Las Vegas sign, but it says welcome to fabulous Buffalo, New York.
• 24:19
  Sean McAllister: And I I thought that was clever.
• 24:21
  Sean McAllister: That is, it was a goodwill gesture from a Bills fan to a uh Vegas guy, and uh Callie was great.
• 24:29
  Sean McAllister: By the way, he came into town for an entire week.
• 24:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and he was telling me he was like, I went to a concert, I'm going to the Wizard of Oz, I am doing restaurants, I'm doing everything.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's it.
• 24:44
  Sean McAllister: And he was loving it.
• 24:44
  Sean McAllister: I said, What do you what how has your Vegas trip been?
• 24:48
  Sean McAllister: He said, It's been fantastic.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we know how to host.
• 24:51
  Dayna Roselli: I saw someone put up a fake billboard that said, Come to Vegas, it's right outside Allegiant.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: Come to Vegas and watch your team win.
• 25:00
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 25:01
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought, okay, snarky, but that was like a Photoshop image.
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: I thought it was like an AI image or something.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: He said, you know, he even admitted it's fake, but it's funny.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it was like, come enjoy our town and watch your team win.
• 25:16
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 25:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought, come on, go, Raiders.
• 25:19
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing good.
• 25:19
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's going well.
• 25:22
  Sean McAllister: But Whiskey Stadium over there next to Allegiant Stadium is a great spot if you want to go uh go early and get in on the tailgate vibe and then go watch the game over there.
• 25:33
  Sean McAllister: I would recommend uh popping in much earlier because they do uh well, they do a tailgate um kind of party leading up to game time inside whiskey stadium.
• 25:46
  Sean McAllister: It was because they give away that was like at 10 30 in the morning, I think it started.
• 25:50
  Sean McAllister: And this was a 1 30 uh kickoff.
• 25:52
  Sean McAllister: So um they do giveaways, they have a full-on thing.
• 25:57
  Sean McAllister: So if you want a table to sit down and have your own space, get over there early to put your name in.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: Um, otherwise, if you want that bar experience, it's a great spot.
• 26:08
  Sean McAllister: They have big garage doors that roll up, so it's open air.
• 26:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's it's cool.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: You got an experience if you want the vibe of the stadium, but you can't get in or you don't want to.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: I I love watching games at the stadium, but I also like watching them on TV with a group of people.
• 26:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's fun.
• 26:23
  Carrot Top: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, whatever you feel like that day.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and I do love my YouTube TV because I can leave games.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: It happens a lot.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: I like to get out the door to beat the rush of someone.
• 26:33
  Dayna Roselli: But I do love that YouTube TV you can watch on your phone.
• 26:36
  Dayna Roselli: So I watch it on my whole Uber ride home to see where we're at.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um things like that.
• 26:41
  Dayna Roselli: So it's fun.
• 26:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um, all right, let's do some celebrity news with a Vegas twist.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: John, a little birdie, told me that Keith Urban went to Metallica at the sphere.
• 26:52
  Carrot Top: Ooh.
• 26:52
  Carrot Top: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: And that uh he was seen playing air guitar the entire show and just so immersed and loving it.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: He had a show here in town at Fountain Blue, and they said he was inspired from this Metallica show.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that because you wouldn't think, like you don't think Keith Urban Metallica.
• 27:12
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 27:12
  Dayna Roselli: But I love that he went and immersed himself in it, enjoyed it, and he's obviously a fan and was just noting those guitar skills because you know Keith loves his guitar too.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: He sure does.
• 27:22
  Sean McAllister: I bet Keith plays a lot of air guitar when he can't get his hands on an actual guitar.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: I wouldn't mind a party where Keith Urban played uh air guitar all night in the backyard.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: It'd be fun.
• 27:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um, the chain smokers were also seen at Metallica.
• 27:36
  Dayna Roselli: They posted about it actually and loved it.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but also um on my way to the Bills Raiders game, I saw on my phone on uh Instagram or something that the Las Vegas airport had a ground stop on on Sunday morning.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, oh, I wonder what that's all about.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: And they're like, oh, this plane kind of like hit the fence and da-da-da-da.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, later that night we find out because New Kids on the Block had their final show on Saturday night.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: On Saturday, Donnie Wahlberg was trying to get out of town later.
• 28:06
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it was that morning, that Sunday morning, and apparently it was the plane he was on.
• 28:09
  Dayna Roselli: He does a whole video where he recounts it so you can go watch Donnie's video.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: But um, luckily he was okay.
• 28:16
  Dayna Roselli: He thanked the pilot, but he said the runway kind of ran out and we kind of hit the fence and yikes.
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was almost they were almost out on uh Tropicana Avenue.
• 28:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and that's a a scary situation.
• 28:29
  Sean McAllister: I did see a video actually uh since then that showed the plane being towed away, and one of the tires was just absolutely shredded.
• 28:40
  Sean McAllister: So I I wonder, I haven't seen uh you know follow-up reports on exactly what caused that situation.
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: But um if one of the tires was shredded, that could prevent the plane from getting enough ground speed to get off the ground.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: So I did see, you know, they have some of those aviation watch uh pages that showed an animation of the the takeoff, and the plane went all the way down the runway and then did a big turn as it got down toward the end, but yeah, scraped along the the fence there.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: Glad everyone's okay.
• 29:17
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Donnie seemed really thankful and grateful.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: Sure did because what a morning it is.
• 29:22
  Sean McAllister: That had to be so scary.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: And he was already so emotional over ending the the residency because they've had such a successful residency.
• 29:28
  Dayna Roselli: They'll probably go out and tour now.
• 29:29
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but loved it.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: And Donnie was really behind that residency.
• 29:33
  Dayna Roselli: He really organized a lot of the choreography and did a lot of the speaking parts.
• 29:37
  Dayna Roselli: They all spoke and did their own things, but you know, so he was very involved.
• 29:41
  Dayna Roselli: And then to kind of end it out like that was sad.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: But he's okay, and uh things are back to normal at the airport.
• 29:49
  Sean McAllister: They are.
• 29:49
  Dayna Roselli: There you have it.
• 29:50
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that's a lot for a podcast.
• 29:52
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of great things and ever all the things we did this week.
• 29:55
  Dayna Roselli: So we hope you enjoyed it.
• 29:57
  Dayna Roselli: And um, next week we'll be back with much more to talk about.
• 30:01
  Sean McAllister: We'll talk to you then.