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Interview with Sammy Hagar at Palms, Mirage Closing Details, Popular Mexican Restaurant Opens at Palace Station, Vince Vaughn & Al Pacino Film Movie in Las Vegas | Ep. 222 · Vegas Revealed

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• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, the Mirage is officially closing for a transformation into the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
• 1:08
  Dayna Roselli: Your frequently asked questions coming up.
• 1:11
  Sean McAllister: A local Mexican restaurant opens at Palace Station, and we have more details on those free weekly fireworks that are planned at the Plaza Hotel and Casino.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, Sammy Hagar reveals his new pool oasis.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to wear a tie.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_01: I want to go casual, so I build an environment and serve the food where you can have it in flip-flops, tank tops, round the clock non-stop.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 1:35
  Dayna Roselli: We're one-on-one with the Red Rocker at Sammy's Island.
• 1:39
  Dayna Roselli: All this and more coming up on Vegas Reveal.
• 1:43
  Sean McAllister: Vegas Revealed, presented by Level Up Law, starts now.
• 1:48
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 222.
• 1:51
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister here along with Dana Roselli in sunny Las Vegas over a long Memorial Day weekend.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: And we're in podcast episode Triple Twos.
• 2:02
  Sean McAllister: Triple Twos.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: So one day it will be triple sevens and it will be very Vegas.
• 2:06
  Sean McAllister: Oh God, that's gonna be a while from now.
• 2:10
  Sean McAllister: I'm gonna have aching joints, sagging skin.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: We'll be on uh ARP.
• 2:16
  Sean McAllister: I already get a whole bunch of AARP.
• 2:19
  Sean McAllister: You do?
• 2:19
  Sean McAllister: Yes, I've gotten it for years.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 2:23
  Sean McAllister: Since I mean, I'm not like enrolled, I don't get any benefits, but I've gotten things since my 30s.
• 2:30
  Sean McAllister: I've gotten AARP things in the mail.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: Like to prepare myself, I guess.
• 2:35
  Sean McAllister: They want me to ease into my ARP years.
• 2:39
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, that is so funny.
• 2:43
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, welcome everyone.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, like Sean said, sunny Las Vegas.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: We've been up and down in the tents.
• 2:48
  Dayna Roselli: It's been nice.
• 2:49
  Dayna Roselli: Today it's in like the like low 80s and it's beautiful.
• 2:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, this is the perfect, perfect time of year.
• 2:55
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 2:56
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, we got a text message, so we like to read those.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: You can text us in our show notes.
• 3:00
  Dayna Roselli: There's a link to text us now, and so you can respond to any of our comments, give us ideas, all that kind of thing.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we got another note from Kevin who's responding to a comment or actually a discussion that we had last week about, you know, what constitutes a residency.
• 3:16
  Dayna Roselli: Is it two shows, five shows, one show in 2024, and two shows in 2025?
• 3:24
  Dayna Roselli: And Kevin kind of uh pretty much agreed with us, saying, you know, there needs to be multiple shows in a sequence continued.
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: Kevin is from Greenville, South Carolina, and he says a residency to me has to be at least one or two shows a week for a period of time, maybe over four weeks or so.
• 3:43
  Dayna Roselli: So that's what Kevin had to say about that.
• 3:45
  Dayna Roselli: We always appreciate people chiming in.
• 3:47
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 3:48
  Sean McAllister: And again, uh, we want, we love your feedback.
• 3:52
  Sean McAllister: So click that link down in the show notes and it'll uh open up all the deal to send a text message to us, and we love getting them and reading them.
• 4:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's always fun.
• 4:02
  Dayna Roselli: We're like, oh, we got a text message.
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: We can't text you back, but we'll talk about it on the podcast, that's for sure.
• 4:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, listen, we got to talk about the Mirage because we did talk about it on our television show, but I don't think we've talked about it on the uh audio podcast yet because the date came out that the Mirage is closing, July 17th, 2024.
• 4:20
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, it's coming.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, just a couple months.
• 4:23
  Dayna Roselli: And it's gonna be closed for three years for a transformation into the hard rock hotel and casino.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: And I think that was the surprising part.
• 4:30
  Dayna Roselli: We didn't think it would be completely closed for that long of a period, right?
• 4:35
  Sean McAllister: So they're doing a top-to-bottom remodel over there at the Mirage to turn it into the hard rock.
• 4:42
  Sean McAllister: Uh, part of that renovation is a 700-foot guitar tower that is going to be built right along the strip in the place where the Mirage Volcano is right now.
• 4:53
  Sean McAllister: So that attraction is going away, replaced by a big glass guitar that you'll be able to stay in.
• 5:02
  Sean McAllister: But I believe they're also um kind of building the property forward.
• 5:08
  Sean McAllister: So the way that the Mirage is right now, you have to walk up a long sidewalk from the Las Vegas strip if you're you know out walking around, um, to get up to the front doors to go into the property and then get into the casino.
• 5:24
  Sean McAllister: And it looks like from the plans that um, you know, that there's going to be an entrance right off of the sidewalk to get you into the property a little quicker.
• 5:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that'll be that'll be good, I think, you know, for foot traffic, like you were saying.
• 5:38
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:39
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it it's okay that you have to walk a little bit to get into the front door now, and that there's some pretty stuff by the edge of the road, but I don't know.
• 5:46
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be interesting to see what it looks like.
• 5:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, yeah, not opening back up until 2027.
• 5:51
  Dayna Roselli: So that's why Love is closing by Cirque de Soleil.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: We told you about that.
• 5:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, their final show is coming up early July, so they're not running all the way until July 17th.
• 6:02
  Dayna Roselli: Shin Lim's gonna close.
• 6:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, all the other entertainment at the property uh is gonna be closed um by July 14th.
• 6:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, but there are a lot of questions that people may have about the Mirage closing down, and there are a lot of answers posted on the Mirage website, and we just want to go through some of those for you.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you can go to the website and read through them all if you're, you know, a fan of the Mirage, you have reservations at the Mirage, uh, you want to get into the Mirage before it closes, but just a few of the, I guess the ones that stuck out to me that people might have questions about.
• 6:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um, what happens if my reservation extends through the final day of operation?
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: Well, they say reservations will be modified to ensure all hotel guests are departed on or before July 15th.
• 6:51
  Dayna Roselli: So they're not taking room reservations past July 14th.
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: The property will stay open till July 17th, but everyone needs to be departed by July 15th, if that makes sense.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: They'll be in contact with you.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: The thing I thought was interesting about the chips, because some people have, I guess, mirage chips, like can they turn them in?
• 7:12
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and they said that you have to turn them in by the 17th of July, but that you also can redeem your tri chips at Treasure Island up to 120 days after July 17th.
• 7:30
  Dayna Roselli: So they're partnering with Treasure Island there to help out, which is nice.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: That's very nice.
• 7:35
  Sean McAllister: Also, um, if you made any sports wagers over at the Mirage, they have a BetMGM sports book, and obviously you may have bet on a match or uh an event that's happening way down the road.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: Um, you can redeem any of those wagers at any other BetMGM sports book on the Las Vegas strip.
• 7:58
  Sean McAllister: So that's good to keep in mind as well.
• 8:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, really good.
• 8:01
  Dayna Roselli: Um, lots of information on here, all about like the unity points that they have going with the hard rock, um, all sorts of different gaming answers.
• 8:09
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, go to this site.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: You can it it it's casino.hardrock.com and then backslash, backslash, backslash, but you can get there by just going to the Mirage's website.
• 8:19
  Sean McAllister: And uh if you have anything that you think may have ended up at the lost and found, uh-huh uh following the closure on the 17th, guests will have 21 days to claim any items found on the property.
• 8:33
  Sean McAllister: Um, as of August 7th of this year, any uh remaining items may be donated or chucked.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 8:43
  Sean McAllister: So just keep that in mind.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: If you if anything you lost over at the Mirage, just claim it ASAP.
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, claim it ASAP, that's for sure.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of uh, well, things from a hotel casino that's closing, uh donations, getting rid of things.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know how to transition into this, but um, your husband went over to the Tropicana sale.
• 9:06
  Dayna Roselli: They did a big sale inside, you know, it closed, obviously.
• 9:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um, what, like selling items from the restaurant and stuff?
• 9:14
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god, it was a huge liquidation sale.
• 9:16
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it was everything from pillows, mattresses, um, all the glassware from the property.
• 9:23
  Sean McAllister: It was anything that you could think of pictures, uh furniture, lamps, yeah, whatever.
• 9:30
  Sean McAllister: Um, apparently, people were even like ripping signs off the wall.
• 9:34
  Sean McAllister: Why?
• 9:35
  Sean McAllister: Like you had to go to a checkout line, and by the way, there's no air conditioning inside the building, no running water, so there were no bathrooms.
• 9:45
  Sean McAllister: Um, people were being let in in groups of like 25.
• 9:48
  Sean McAllister: Um and it was getting getting kind of crazy.
• 9:52
  Sean McAllister: People wanted a piece of the Tropicana, literally.
• 9:56
  Sean McAllister: So they were ripping things off walls.
• 9:58
  Sean McAllister: There apparently a security guard said that there was one guy who came in and cut a chunk out of the stage over at the Tropicana because that's where he proposed to his wife.
• 10:11
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's cool.
• 10:12
  Sean McAllister: And he wanted that section, and they were like, listen, you can't just leave a hole in the stage.
• 10:16
  Sean McAllister: Why?
• 10:17
  Sean McAllister: And the guy was like, No worries.
• 10:19
  Sean McAllister: I brought a piece of wood to cover it up with so no one falls down there.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, wait, why can't you leave a hole in the stage?
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't it coming down anyway?
• 10:27
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 10:27
  Sean McAllister: I mean, there's a wrecking ball coming in, uh, implosion.
• 10:31
  Sean McAllister: So the hole in the stage isn't gonna matter much, but I guess in the meantime, yeah, you can't just have a big hole there.
• 10:38
  Sean McAllister: But people are getting creative with taking pieces of the Tropicana.
• 10:42
  Sean McAllister: Interesting.
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: That I like the idea that that guy proposed to his wife, and now he has a piece of the stage.
• 10:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 10:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I love my glasses that I got.
• 10:51
  Dayna Roselli: I got two Tropicana Las Vegas uh glasses.
• 10:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so thank you, Shane, for getting those for me.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: I think he said they were a buck each, right?
• 10:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, a dollar each.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: That's great.
• 11:01
  Sean McAllister: We got some plates, a uh teapot, like a ceramic teapot.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 11:06
  Sean McAllister: Because we don't have a teapot.
• 11:07
  Sean McAllister: Okay, good.
• 11:08
  Sean McAllister: So now we can brew some tea.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I think um he said that all the glass and stuff was out of there, that glass ceiling, right?
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: That was all torn out.
• 11:15
  Sean McAllister: The uh Tiffany glass ceiling that was over the uh table games uh right there as you walk in.
• 11:21
  Sean McAllister: That was taken out.
• 11:22
  Sean McAllister: It's in storage right now.
• 11:24
  Sean McAllister: Uh they've not revealed plans where it's going to be displayed, but that is one of the um iconic elements of the Tropicana that is going to be preserved and um that'll pop up somewhere around Las Vegas at some point in the future.
• 11:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and hopefully they weren't were they giving away those slot machine chairs that were all craft and nasty?
• 11:48
  Sean McAllister: Yes, like everything.
• 11:50
  Dayna Roselli: But why?
• 11:51
  Sean McAllister: Well, I don't know.
• 11:52
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 11:54
  Sean McAllister: People might re-upholster them.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: People sitting on those chairs.
• 11:58
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, even mattresses from the hotel.
• 12:00
  Dayna Roselli: People were getting those.
• 12:01
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 12:02
  Sean McAllister: I mean, but going back to the glass ceiling, uh, since it was removed, you could see up to what was above it, and there were all of these uh almost doorways.
• 12:15
  Sean McAllister: It looks like doorways to nothing because they looked out into this empty space, but that's where people used to stand over the table games and look down to try and catch any cheaters.
• 12:27
  Sean McAllister: So it was like that portion was revealed, and you obviously couldn't see it when the glass ceiling was there, but I thought that was pretty cool.
• 12:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's cool.
• 12:35
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 12:36
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 12:36
  Sean McAllister: And wrecking crews have been busy getting a lot of the exterior portions of the Tropicana torn down.
• 12:44
  Sean McAllister: The big bulk of the building is set to be demolished, likely by implosion, um, later this year.
• 12:52
  Sean McAllister: Fall, probably late fall at some time.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be a big occasion, that's for sure.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's always fun to see a hotel casino imploded.
• 13:01
  Sean McAllister: And but it's it's part of Vegas history, and it is uh a part that it's fun to be a part of.
• 13:06
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, we went over to the Palms and talked to the red rocker, Sammy Hagar.
• 13:12
  Dayna Roselli: People love Sammy, you know.
• 13:13
  Dayna Roselli: I love him too.
• 13:14
  Dayna Roselli: He is so much fun to chat with.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: You did a great interview with him.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: He is so much fun, and he's got such great stories, and yeah, really a very uh business-minded guy as well.
• 13:27
  Sean McAllister: But he has taken over part of the Palms Pool very cabo vibe out there, vibrant, colorful.
• 13:35
  Sean McAllister: So it was a great place to sit down and and talk with the Red Rocker about everything you can experience there now.
• 13:43
  Sean McAllister: So when people come out here to Sammy's Island at Palms, what are they going to experience?
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna experience what Sammy likes.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, all you have in life is your personal taste.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: And that's what makes what you create different than some other guy creating, whether it's be my beer, this is my favorite lager.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: I made it because I I compared it to my favorite lager, and I said, no, it's got to be better than that.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_01: And that's my personal taste.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say, Oh man, I like my lagers different.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: This is the way I like my pools.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: This is the way I like my pool party.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_01: The food we have.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: I designed the menu with the chefs here.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_01: We worked on it for six months, and we, you know, it's just saying, this is the kind of food I would like to eat in this environment.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: These are the kind of drinks I want to drink in this environment.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to wear a tie.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: I want to go casual.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: So I build an environment and serve the food where you can have it in flip-flops, tank tops, round the clock non-stop.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_01: And that's my that's Sammy's Island.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: Does does rhyming like that just roll off your tongue?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: It did just it did.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_01: So if it does tonight when I sing with that band, I'm gonna jump on stage tonight and jump with the band.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's the most exciting thing a musician could do is play for their fans unexpected.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: You know, that's always like, oh my God.
• 14:58
  Sean McAllister: Well, and so you opened Cabo Wabo down in Mexico 35 years ago.
• 15:04
  Sean McAllister: So, what was the conversation that led to you opening that and becoming known for this island vibe?
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_01: I went there and I loved the environment, the place there.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: I looked when I walked down the street and I ate, you know, tacos in some little taco stand.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_01: I was drinking tequila and here comes a mariachi band.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going, this, I love this feeling.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: And look, I got goosebumps.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: Just talking about it.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: I got goosebumps.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: And uh and I said, I just love this feeling.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: I want to build a bar down here, and I want to serve my tequila.
• 15:35
  SPEAKER_01: I want to go find the best tequila in the world, and I want my friends and people, I want the whole world to experience this.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the way I feel about here in Las Vegas.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, have the cobwebo here in Las Vegas, but it's it's mostly a restaurant, it's a great Mexican restaurant.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the food is fantastic.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_01: But I wanted the experience with the big music, the big stage.
• 15:51
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna give me a budget where I can hire bands.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, real bands, you know, like Rick Springfield and Collective Soul, my friends, that that'll come and I'll play with them.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's the whole idea of this island, it's like it's an alternative pool party.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the best way I can put it.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: What is Sammy Simon?
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's an alternative pool party.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Alternative to what?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Alternative to that loud boom, boom, boom, boom, boom for 40 45 days in a row until you're walking out of like you know.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_01: This is a real music, you know.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_01: We play raggae, we play country, we play life show, we play rock, we play classic rock, we play new rock.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's really about that.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: Everything that goes on here is is a little bit alternative.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: So you can go over to the strip, which I love the strip.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: I have a restaurant on the damn strip, you know.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh go over there, party yourself to death, but you're gonna want to come back here the next morning, and you're gonna want to ease into that water about 10 o'clock after having a breakfast burrito, and then you're gonna want to ease into having a cocktail, maybe afternoon, and and start over again and heal.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: This is this is a healing place.
• 16:54
  Sean McAllister: I like that.
• 16:55
  Sean McAllister: I think this is gonna be have to be my new healing place.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: This is great.
• 16:59
  Sean McAllister: And so are we gonna be seeing you out here more often, right, now that you have your own island.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_01: All the bands I've already hit to play.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: George Surgood, uh uh Rick Springfield, Collector's Soul, Roger Klein and the Hart, uh, and uh the Roger Klein and the and the Peacemakers.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: I always want to call them the pacemakers.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, Roger.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Just you got you picked a bad name.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: And these are the people I've already hit on, you know, to come and and and play.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: And and uh I'm and they all say, Well, are you gonna be there?
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: I'll say, of course I'll be there.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: So the idea is to really have my friends come and play and just come and jump on stage with them.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's what I do at the Cobble Wobble.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: I've been doing that for 35 years.
• 17:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, nice.
• 17:37
  Sean McAllister: Well, congratulations on Sammy's Island out here at Palms.
• 17:41
  Sean McAllister: Can't wait to party with you, man.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Wait a minute.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: We've already started.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I can't wait.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: I need to catch up.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: And the cool thing about Sammy's Island is that it is open to the public.
• 17:53
  Dayna Roselli: So you don't have to be staying at the hotel in order to pop over and visit there.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: So keep that in mind.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: If you're in Las Vegas and you want to stop by, like he said, uh it just sounds like it'll be a blast.
• 18:06
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, he's gonna jump up on stage, he's gonna have his friends performing.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: So look forward to a really tropical summer over at Palms.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: And you can watch the interview if you're interested in actually seeing Sammy Hagar and Sean sitting in his cabana on our YouTube page.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: We'll post it over the weekend.
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: Our podcast initially drops on Thursdays.
• 18:29
  Dayna Roselli: That'll be posted over the weekend once it airs on Fox Five, where our TV show airs.
• 18:35
  Dayna Roselli: And you can always find all our episodes on the Vegas Revealed YouTube.
• 18:40
  Sean McAllister: By the way, we went over to the El Cortez Hotel and Casino.
• 18:44
  Sean McAllister: This is one of the vintage properties in downtown Las Vegas, right there on Fremont Street.
• 18:50
  Sean McAllister: Um, it's been around since the 1940s, really, one of the original uh hotel casinos in Las Vegas.
• 18:59
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we're gonna have an entire chunk of a future episode dedicated to that because we did a great interview, went around, uh, toured the property, but they are opening a brand new Starbucks.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and it opens at the end of May.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: And this is a great spot because you'll be able to access it from the street or the hotel casino, and it's a popular corner right there in downtown Las Vegas.
• 19:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and there's a good-sized uh dining room inside of there too, so plenty of space to you know, bring your laptop, do some work if you're in downtown Las Vegas, or just to pop in and grab a coffee.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: But I love that there's a Starbucks down there.
• 19:38
  Sean McAllister: I you don't see a ton of Starbucks downtown.
• 19:41
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and that can always be a little controversial, like, oh, Starbucks, you know, you're not going with the local coffee shop, but you know, it's good to have choice.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: Some people like their Starbucks, they like the consistency, they like knowing what the price is gonna be when they walk in.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: Others love that specialty-made local coffee shop.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: And if you're familiar with uh the El Cortez, you know, up to now, the Starbucks is taking over the space where the subway restaurant used to be.
• 20:10
  Sean McAllister: So that gives you an idea if you're familiar of where it is.
• 20:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, good point.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, there have been some sightings over there too.
• 20:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, Vince Vaughn and Al Pacino have been on property at the El Cortez.
• 20:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they've been all over.
• 20:23
  Dayna Roselli: And it's like finally I like Googled what's the deal here, what's the movie?
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: So they were over at the uh palot uh bridge near the palazzo, right on there on Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: I think they were over at Berry's Prime, from what I can tell from the uh stories on Instagram and they had to shut down the restaurant.
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: Did you do the carpet match again?
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I didn't do the carpet.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I know it's at Barry's.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: It was Barry's that was posted.
• 20:44
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: They didn't reveal what movie was being shot or anybody in it, but I was like, oh, they must be.
• 20:51
  Dayna Roselli: They must be shooting at berries.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: Because it sounds like it's gonna be a very old school Vegas kind of film, uh, incorporating some of that anyway, because I looked it up and it's Easy's Waltz, is what it's called.
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: Stars Vince Vaughn El Pacino.
• 21:05
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we even saw El Pacino go to David Blaine.
• 21:07
  Dayna Roselli: We saw, remember, we posted that picture.
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: So they've been in town now.
• 21:10
  Dayna Roselli: Vince Vaughn, you can't miss him, he's so tall.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the the synopsis a down on his luck crooner is given a chance at a comeback by an old school Vegas personality, but his brother's schemes and his own penchant for self-sabotage threaten to ruin the deal.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: But it sounds good, right?
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: And listen, I love when movies are shot all over Las Vegas because it's fun to actually go and sit in the theater and see all of these spots that we, you know, pop in and out of all the time up there on the big screen.
• 21:47
  Sean McAllister: But I'm curious of uh how the continuity is going to go once they get everything done.
• 21:54
  Sean McAllister: Because uh other films that have been shot here in Las Vegas, it's like people are driving.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: Uh towards Mandalay Bay on Las Vegas Boulevard, and then all of a sudden they're downtown.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: They're at the golden nugget and they look up and they can see the Mirage or something.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: It's always silly.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: The movie editing isn't necessarily true to life, which, you know, that's Hollywood for you.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: But I love that they're hitting all these local spots.
• 22:21
  Dayna Roselli: So that's really cool, like you said, and it's always fun to see movies shot in Vegas.
• 22:24
  Dayna Roselli: And they're always really good anyway, because everyone loves to watch a good movie set in Vegas.
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: That's true.
• 22:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:30
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, that's kind of a little tip if you're around town and around Las Vegas anytime recently, you might spot them somewhere else.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking Vince Vaughn, Al Pacino, and more in the film.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: But hey, let's do our planned tips now.
• 22:47
  Sean McAllister: For more than three decades here in Las Vegas, there has been a local restaurant that people absolutely love.
• 22:56
  Sean McAllister: It's called Lindo Michoacan.
• 22:59
  Sean McAllister: And they just opened a new location at Palace Station right there on West Sahara.
• 23:07
  Dayna Roselli: Now, the East Desert Inn location is the original, and there are lines all the time.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: All the time.
• 23:12
  Sean McAllister: I drive by it all the time, and there's always people sitting out front waiting.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 23:17
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean the fact that they're gonna have one now over at Palace Station, I can only imagine it's gonna be so popular.
• 23:24
  Dayna Roselli: And I love that it's a local restaurant going into a hotel casino.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it's family-owned, which is great.
• 23:31
  Sean McAllister: This isn't a big corporate thing that's that's going on.
• 23:34
  Sean McAllister: It's a local family-run restaurant that's partnered with the local family-run Station Casinos um group that we talk about frequently here on the podcast.
• 23:49
  Sean McAllister: So it's a great partnership, and we stopped over to the restaurant to check it out.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we were able to talk with the owner and founder, Javier Barajas.
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: And I had a very important question for him.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: Now, Javier, I've been to the restaurant many times.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's a very big menu, very large.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm gonna I'm gonna stump you here and ask you if I had to pick one item on that menu, what should I pick?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm a beef eater.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_00: I I love my steaks.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_00: So any of your the steaks with uh Mexican sauce, that's that's gonna be for me.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know?
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: Sounds good to me too.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: How about you, Sean?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm all about it.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Sean likes a good steak too, that's for sure.
• 24:31
  Dayna Roselli: Will this be like the other ones?
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: Is there anything different?
• 24:34
  Dayna Roselli: What what's your thinking?
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it's a different location.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: No, we keep exactly the same.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Everything made from scratch, uh, everything is fresh, uh, you know, the best qualities.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's all all for the same.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: You said it was a dream of yours to be here.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: Why is that?
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, uh, Palace Station is is the most popular uh casino for locos and uh in uh locos love Lindo Michoacan too.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_00: So I I think it's a great uh combination.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Palace Station and Lindo Michoacan.
• 25:08
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 25:09
  Sean McAllister: Lindo is a great addition over there at Palace Station, um, which by the way, they have done a ton of upgrades over there at Palace Station, which is the original uh Palace uh station casino property here in Las Vegas, which is cool too.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it makes sense that the you know they have this restaurant in there.
• 25:29
  Dayna Roselli: And in Lindo, you can see right when you walk through the front doors from the front parking lot, it's right there on the right side.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: You'll see the sign.
• 25:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so go check it out.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: If you love Mexican food, it's a great place.
• 25:41
  Dayna Roselli: And like I said, the menu is large, so you have plenty of choice.
• 25:44
  Sean McAllister: They've got great margaritas too.
• 25:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, great margaritas.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we recently told you about the free firework show starting in downtown Las Vegas.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: And lucky us, we ran into CEO Jonathan Jostle of the Plaza Hotel and Casino while we were at the Power of Love Gala, and so we had to ask him about it.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_05: And it's gonna be a big deal for downtown.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_05: Everyone downtown is getting behind it.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_05: The city, free months of your experience, some of our neighboring casinos are all supporting it, and it's gonna be cool.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_05: It's another attention, uh, for another driver for downtown to bring people down there, something else to do.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_05: And we always think of downtown.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_05: You can go zipline, listen to music, go to a bar, go to a casino, go to a pool party.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_05: Now you can watch fireworks, it just adds to the excitement of downtown.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: So what uh give me the details every week.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_05: Every Friday.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_05: I it started as an idea.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_05: Every Friday, it's gonna be 9:15 p.m.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_05: every Friday, uh for the whole summer till September.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_05: But if it's fun and people like it, we'll keep doing it.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_05: And I could see maybe it becomes a thing like Disney where we're doing it every night and it's a whole spectacle.
• 26:43
  Sean McAllister: Well, those nightly fireworks at Disneyland definitely uh have become an attraction and something that people wait around for.
• 26:50
  Sean McAllister: So hopefully uh that same is gonna happen in downtown Las Vegas, down on Fremont Street with the Plaza fireworks.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that'll be good.
• 26:58
  Dayna Roselli: I think people will enjoy that.
• 27:00
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, you know how they have a pink box over there, the big donut shop?
• 27:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: At uh the plaza, just a little FYI, the Perump Nugget Hotel and Casino in Perump, Nevada, just got a pink box donuts and thousands of people turned out for the grand opening.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a big deal for Perump to have a pink box.
• 27:19
  Sean McAllister: That is a big deal.
• 27:20
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're visiting Las Vegas and you want to go over the hump to Perump, you've only been there by helicopter, so much different than the drive.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: Much different.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, there's a lot more in Perump than just you know.
• 27:34
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's over in Nye County.
• 27:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, or brothel is a little bit.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're into that thing.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: Brothel and a donut.
• 27:42
  Dayna Roselli: Sounds great.
• 27:43
  Dayna Roselli: There we go.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: All right, that's a show.
• 27:46
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• 28:04
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• 28:05
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• 28:07
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• 28:16
  Sean McAllister: Um, it's uh your guide to help you navigate everything that there is to do and see here in Las Vegas.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we'll see you next week.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, this week, what are we doing?
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: We're going to interview Jason DeRullo.
• 28:30
  Sean McAllister: Oh, right.
• 28:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 28:31
  Dayna Roselli: For his new residency at Phoenician.
• 28:33
  Dayna Roselli: We're going to interview Terry Fader over at the Strat.
• 28:36
  Sean McAllister: He has a brand new show opening over there.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, what else have we done?
• 28:40
  Dayna Roselli: Gosh, I feel like we've done so much.
• 28:42
  Dayna Roselli: You guys, we're just getting so much content that it's sometimes like clouding our brain.
• 28:48
  Dayna Roselli: Like, wait, what do we have?
• 28:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but those are two of the immediate things that we're doing this week for next week.
• 28:54
  Sean McAllister: The El Cortez.
• 28:55
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
• 28:55
  Sean McAllister: Uh a big renovation planned over at uh that property.
• 29:01
  Sean McAllister: So we went over, um, toured around a whole bunch of those areas, got a great interview about that.
• 29:07
  Sean McAllister: Um so that's still to come in the next little bit too.
• 29:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you to all of our subscribers here on the audio podcast.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: You allow us to break all this stuff up and include it in the audio podcast.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate you always.
• 29:22
  Dayna Roselli: So thanks for listening.
• 29:24
  Dayna Roselli: And remember, you can text us.
• 29:25
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• 29:27
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• 29:29
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• 29:33
  Sean McAllister: And we will be back in our following week's podcast for episode 223 next week.
• 29:40
  Sean McAllister: Thanks for listening.