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Cindy Lauper Residency, Dolly Parton Postpones, Paul McCartney & Benson Boone Highlights, Celebrity & Music Journalist Mark Gray Joins Us | Ep. 292 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It is episode 292 of Vegas Revealed, and this week we take it back to the early 2000s with longtime entertainment journalist Mark Gray.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: He joins us in studio to talk about how covering celebrities in Vegas has changed through the years.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_01: There are fewer clubs, at least super clubs, than there used to be too.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, back in the day, you gotta remember, like, you know, Blush and Ellen.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, Kristen Otaj! Oh my god, Kristen Otaje!
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I met my video 54.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: I met my wife at Taboo.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_05: You did love Taboo!
• 0:35
  Sean McAllister: Taboo is the best spot ever, ever.
• 0:38
  Sean McAllister: This is an off-the-cuff conversation you do not want to miss.
• 0:42
  Sean McAllister: Oh good.
• 0:43
  Sean McAllister: Also, as the new AISE stadium takes shape, we get an idea of what the fan zones surrounding the stadium will look like.
• 0:51
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, a long list of hot topics and things we've been up to, and of course, a couple new residencies to announce.
• 0:58
  Sean McAllister: All this coming up right now on Vegas Revealed.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_01: Vegas Revealed, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 1:06
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to episode 292 of Vegas Revealed.
• 1:10
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dana Roselli here with you.
• 1:14
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, it's good to see ya.
• 1:16
  Dayna Roselli: It's good to see you.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot to talk about.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: You just got back from a vacation in Hawaii.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna save that probably For another time.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: For another time, because that's a whole thing.
• 1:27
  Dayna Roselli: But we have so much to go over.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: Want to start with, let's start with our fan mail.
• 1:32
  Dayna Roselli: Hey Jennifer from San Antonio, Texas.
• 1:34
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for your note.
• 1:36
  Dayna Roselli: She says, love your show and look forward to it each week.
• 1:40
  Dayna Roselli: Have to say that this episode 290 had me rolling this morning.
• 1:45
  Dayna Roselli: Let me see that jelly roll.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: And J-Row will be stuck in my head all week with the laughing-crying emoji.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you, Jennifer, for finding value and appreciation in our humor.
• 1:59
  Sean McAllister: Well, yeah.
• 2:00
  Sean McAllister: And I think sometimes we always wonder.
• 2:02
  Sean McAllister: We're like, do people just think that we're crazy or is it entertaining to listen to our conversations?
• 2:08
  Sean McAllister: Hopefully it's entertaining.
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: I hopefully.
• 2:10
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's a thing.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: Like, it's a time saver for us to not have to edit.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a perk for us.
• 2:16
  Dayna Roselli: And then hopefully, because we don't really edit it much, people get amusement out of it.
• 2:21
  Sean McAllister: You get the raw, unfiltered conversation.
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we have a laundry list of things to go over.
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: One of them, I'm just gonna talk about a couple of the things I said that I would.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: When you were gone, I went to a do a lot of things.
• 2:34
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was gonna say, but just before we get to that, we do always love getting fan mail.
• 2:39
  Sean McAllister: And there's a link down in our show notes where if you click it, it's gonna open up uh the text message right on your phone.
• 2:46
  Sean McAllister: You send us a text with your thoughts, let us know your name, and we'll mention it here on uh the podcast because we really do love hearing what you have to say.
• 2:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, we love the text.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: We get excited when we see boop, you have fan mail.
• 3:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, so I did a lot.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: One of the things I was supposed to do was go to the Global Champions Arabian tour.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: That was at the win.
• 3:11
  Dayna Roselli: I said I was gonna do that.
• 3:12
  Dayna Roselli: It did take place.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: However, it was a very tricky weather weekend.
• 3:16
  Dayna Roselli: The time periods I was supposed to go, the wind and kind of quick monsoon ruined it.
• 3:24
  Dayna Roselli: So I never made it over there.
• 3:26
  Dayna Roselli: But I have friends that went and said it was a gorgeous, beautiful event.
• 3:30
  Dayna Roselli: They were bummed the weather ruined some of the time periods of the event.
• 3:35
  Dayna Roselli: But um, Meg and Trainer did perform.
• 3:38
  Dayna Roselli: They had a beautiful luxury tent there.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, the horses were gorgeous.
• 3:42
  Dayna Roselli: And so we hopefully, I don't know, I was bummed for the organizers and everyone because I feel like we have such good weather here.
• 3:51
  Dayna Roselli: It was like the one weekend where an outdoor event was kind of, you know, cut short.
• 3:56
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it was an odd time where uh in the evening on each of the days, all of a sudden a a thunderstorm cloud just popped up and the wind picked up, and it was really weird how the timing of everything just like kind of happened as the event was really kicking into high gear.
• 4:19
  Sean McAllister: So that that was unfortunate timing for the weather.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, right.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they did have parts of it, but um that one night that big gust came in, and that really, you know, when you have outdoor tents and stuff like that and beautiful things, it was tough.
• 4:33
  Dayna Roselli: And of course they wanted to keep the horses safe, and they were all safe, which was wonderful.
• 4:37
  Sean McAllister: It did look beautiful though, and we are expecting them to come back here to Las Vegas next year.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: So uh hopefully Mother Nature cooperates next time.
• 4:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: Hopefully.
• 4:50
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, I went to Paul McCartney at Allegiant Stadium.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: That was a wonderful show.
• 4:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my friend asked me to come along.
• 4:56
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, okay, this is gonna be an iconic moment.
• 4:59
  Sean McAllister: So envious.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: We were like 18th row.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it was pretty incredible.
• 5:04
  Dayna Roselli: Let me tell you.
• 5:05
  Dayna Roselli: Paul played for like, I want to say like three hours, close to three hours.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: It was incredible.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I always hate to say for his age, that's amazing.
• 5:13
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, let Paul's not hiding it.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: He's a certain age, and that's it.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: He talked a lot about, you know, the old days and the current times and you know, all that kind of thing.
• 5:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, the stories he told were wonderful.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: He really like intertwined.
• 5:28
  Dayna Roselli: It was great because when he sang Beatles songs, he talked about this was the first song we recorded together.
• 5:35
  Dayna Roselli: This was a big moment when this this was we were at our peak.
• 5:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it was wonderful.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: Mixed in some of his solo stuff.
• 5:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um he played piano, he was in great spirit spirits, guitar.
• 5:49
  Dayna Roselli: He had a great style.
• 5:51
  Dayna Roselli: He took off his jacket, he had like this cool, like, you know, the inside of the suit jacket.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: It was all like clouds.
• 5:57
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah, like the lining in the stuff.
• 5:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he had a great lined jacket.
• 6:00
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: He was just stylish.
• 6:02
  Dayna Roselli: You know what?
• 6:03
  Dayna Roselli: I am just so so happy.
• 6:04
  Dayna Roselli: You could just see the joy he loved uh that he has in performing, and the crowd was so into it.
• 6:10
  Dayna Roselli: There were some parts that were emotional and they would show on the big screen.
• 6:13
  Dayna Roselli: People had tears streaming, you know, down their eyes.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: He talked about a song he wrote for John Lennon.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_06: Wow.
• 6:19
  Dayna Roselli: And that, you know, guys don't often say back in the day, especially, I love you.
• 6:24
  Dayna Roselli: And he said, you know, like I didn't say it enough to him.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: And like then I wrote this song after, and like luckily, people say things like that more and more as the years have gone on.
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: So it was just a great concert, um, very emotional, very moving, and saw a lot of familiar faces there at Allegiant.
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: It was it was great.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I mean, it's just incredible.
• 6:43
  Sean McAllister: More than 60 years of performing for Paul McCartney and still selling out uh arenas like Allegiant Stadium.
• 6:53
  Sean McAllister: And we were over there recently uh for a separate uh interview and we're talking with uh one of the workers at Allegiant, and he was saying that uh he has heard uh through the grapevine that Paul McCartney really loves going to play new venues that he hasn't played before, and especially venues that have a lot of new technology, uh new technology abilities, right?
• 7:20
  Sean McAllister: Like Allegiant Stadium does, because that kind of keeps him like upping his game as the years go on.
• 7:26
  Dayna Roselli: And I think he said it didn't matter what size, like Allegiant Stadium happens to be very large, right?
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: But if he found a more quaint place in a different city and it was brand new and had cool technology, he was gonna play there.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_06: Exactly.
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that.
• 7:38
  Dayna Roselli: And let me tell you, Sean, he used it like there was this one song.
• 7:41
  Dayna Roselli: I have video of it.
• 7:42
  Dayna Roselli: I need to put it up still on TikTok where it was fireballs galore.
• 7:47
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 7:47
  Dayna Roselli: Like you could feel the heat, and it was just it was popping in there.
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: I it wasn't just one little fire moment.
• 7:55
  Dayna Roselli: The fire kept going, and I kept thinking, this is Paul saying, Hey, let's use fire.
• 8:00
  Sean McAllister: Let's use fire.
• 8:01
  Sean McAllister: I don't think that I would expect that.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_03: This is on my phone.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 8:07
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's all over the place.
• 8:08
  Sean McAllister: The whole back of the stage, the side of the stage.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_03: It kept going and going.
• 8:12
  Sean McAllister: Lasers and smoke.
• 8:14
  Sean McAllister: But good on you, Paul.
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Paul was into it.
• 8:17
  Sean McAllister: Well done.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: I like it.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, before that, um, I went over to Virgin Hotels for um dinner.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: I was with Johnny Katz uh from the Review Journal and entertainment columnist.
• 8:27
  Dayna Roselli: He loves to go over there and eat at the um the steakhouse bar, one steakhouse.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: And then, of course, the iconic Johnny behind the bar.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um it's a great spot.
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, anyway, we went there.
• 8:41
  Dayna Roselli: There was live music in the lounge, which was wonderful.
• 8:43
  Dayna Roselli: They were playing the UNLV game on the screens.
• 8:46
  Dayna Roselli: It was very vibrant, and and we had so much fun there.
• 8:49
  Dayna Roselli: The food is always good at one steakhouse, and you can eat at the bar.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: It was wonderful.
• 8:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but when we were there, we saw Cliff Atkinson, the um president of Virgin Hotels.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: That's where one steakhouse is, um, on a Saturday.
• 9:03
  Dayna Roselli: And I hey, hey Cliff, you know what you do?
• 9:05
  Dayna Roselli: He's like, Oh man, he's like, We're sold out all weekend, every room.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 9:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 9:10
  Dayna Roselli: He was, I was so proud of him because he has taken over this property and really done a lot.
• 9:16
  Dayna Roselli: We all saw the potential.
• 9:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's beautiful.
• 9:18
  Dayna Roselli: Fresh carpet, brand new enhancements, uh, great restaurants, wonderful pool.
• 9:25
  Dayna Roselli: And for a while there, the casino floor was very quiet, but not on this Saturday.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_06: Good.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: It was packed.
• 9:33
  Dayna Roselli: He said they were completely sold out the entire weekend.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: There were people like friends of his, like, hey, can I get a room?
• 9:39
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, I got no room for nobody.
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: But uh Megan Moroni was also playing there at the theater.
• 9:44
  Sean McAllister: And she's a a wildly popular, like rising country star.
• 9:50
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 9:50
  Dayna Roselli: He's out of Nashville.
• 9:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:51
  Dayna Roselli: He said the line was wrapped around to get in.
• 9:53
  Sean McAllister: She's got fans.
• 9:54
  Sean McAllister: I mean, you know her young fans.
• 9:56
  Sean McAllister: You're I know you have uh friends, kids who absolutely love her.
• 10:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: And he was saying that.
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: There are some, you know, younger, you know, guests here for that.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, still, the whole place was vibrant.
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it has been consistently growing, and that that's the type of weekend they've been having lately.
• 10:14
  Dayna Roselli: So um, I'm thrilled for him.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: And you know what?
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: That's a dedicated present.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: Just a big shout-out to Cliff for being there on a Saturday, going, hey, we're sold out.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, we've got this big concert.
• 10:24
  Dayna Roselli: I'm going in.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: You know, great.
• 10:26
  Sean McAllister: Which is great to see, you know, the decision makers actually down on the ground with the people.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 10:35
  Dayna Roselli: I loved that.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: So um, that was great and free parking.
• 10:38
  Sean McAllister: And free parking.
• 10:39
  Sean McAllister: And by the go ahead.
• 10:41
  Dayna Roselli: No, I was just gonna say, and here's the deal.
• 10:42
  Dayna Roselli: I got another story.
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: Do you want to go first?
• 10:44
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was just gonna say it just made me think when you were talking about one steakhouse, how um in their lounge area they have like a live music series.
• 10:52
  Sean McAllister: Yes, I do.
• 10:53
  Sean McAllister: We get updates in our email all the time about the updated list of performers who are there performing.
• 11:00
  Sean McAllister: Um, and I've every time I see it, I'm like, man, I need to make a point to go over there because I know Johnny behind the bar.
• 11:07
  Sean McAllister: I know that they have great food over there, and I need to make a point to go and enjoy it.
• 11:13
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it was so much fun.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the singer they had that Saturday was great, playing piano.
• 11:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, did a lot of covers, but they were great.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so yeah, it was a good time.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, parking though.
• 11:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, here's the deal.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not gonna say the property because we already know there's a lot of properties on the Las Vegas strip that now charge for parking.
• 11:30
  Dayna Roselli: But I was with a group of 15 people.
• 11:32
  Dayna Roselli: We went to see a show.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 11:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, a friend said, Hey, I'd love you guys to come see this show if you haven't seen it yet.
• 11:40
  Dayna Roselli: My my friend is handling some of the uh promo for it.
• 11:45
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you gotta see it.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: So we went over and we were all supposed to go out for like just some snacks and drinks after, you know, hang out as a big group.
• 11:54
  Dayna Roselli: But we got there early and then um the show was a little longer than we thought.
• 12:00
  Dayna Roselli: By the time we got out, Sean 12 of the 15 people left because their parking was about to expire as a local.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: The three-hour parking.
• 12:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: And so three of us hung back.
• 12:16
  Dayna Roselli: I actually had um a a free parking pass that I used uh in Valet because we cover a lot of stuff, and um the two others were a couple together in one car.
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, we stayed back and had some drinks and appetizers and stuff, and then the other 12 left.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought this just can't like I don't get like the paid parking, like I it just can't like it's just again, like those people would have bought drinks and appetizers, and then who knows what it would the what the night would have led on to.
• 12:50
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we have talked about this many times in the past about how we have gotten out of a a show or an event and have thought about staying to go grab a bite or to get a cocktail, but because of the parking, like that's a thing that hangs over you.
• 13:11
  Sean McAllister: And I mean it's like well, I can't.
• 13:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's 20 bucks, yeah.
• 13:15
  Sean McAllister: But guess what?
• 13:16
  Sean McAllister: That it's not 20.
• 13:18
  Dayna Roselli: I think I think it's closer to 35 at some places on the weekend, even.
• 13:22
  Sean McAllister: But that$35 is enough to make people leave your property instead of spending another$150 at one of your restaurants.
• 13:35
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 13:36
  Dayna Roselli: Or$100 and leaving your workers a tip and uh all that.
• 13:40
  Sean McAllister: And it just makes me wonder like, are the people who are making these paid parking decisions are they like do they just not care that that I don't know$35 is driving people away?
• 13:53
  Sean McAllister: Literally.
• 13:54
  Sean McAllister: Is that thirty yeah, is that thirty-five dollars that important?
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: I mean, because people are they're trying to get out of a property before the free parking expires.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's like I can leave it zero and go eat somewhere else.
• 14:11
  Dayna Roselli: Right?
• 14:12
  Dayna Roselli: I can not pay anything.
• 14:13
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 14:14
  Sean McAllister: Go to another place.
• 14:15
  Dayna Roselli: Go to another place or go home.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: Either or or for that 30 or 35 or 40 or whatever,$25.
• 14:23
  Dayna Roselli: Then I'm gonna eat and drink here.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: So now the bill is like even larger than like if I was gonna spend a hundred bucks, now it's a hundred and thirty-five, then I've got a tip, right?
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: All that.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: So it like, yeah.
• 14:36
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't I don't know.
• 14:37
  Dayna Roselli: Uh by the way, Fountain Blue just announced they're doing free parking for all locals through December 31st.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: Also, all uh anyone who has a rewards member card, which is really easy to sign up for.
• 14:49
  Dayna Roselli: So we're hoping that might spur some more trends like that.
• 14:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, I don't know.
• 14:54
  Dayna Roselli: It was just, I just thought, you know, because usually when it's a couple of us, we've talked about it before, but I thought this is a group of 15 people.
• 15:01
  Sean McAllister: That's a lot.
• 15:01
  Sean McAllister: That's a lot.
• 15:02
  Sean McAllister: 12 just left.
• 15:03
  Sean McAllister: It's a lot of money to leave on the table.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't get it.
• 15:07
  Dayna Roselli: Anywho, how was Benson Boone?
• 15:10
  Sean McAllister: Oh, Benson Boone was great.
• 15:12
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 15:13
  Sean McAllister: So he performed over at T-Mobile Arena.
• 15:16
  Sean McAllister: Um, there were fans of varying ages who were at the show because he has a lot of younger fans, but a lot of fans like our age too, just because he's great.
• 15:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: And, you know, has the people say he has the Freddie Mercury kind of vibes with his style of singing, with the showmanship that he puts into his performances.
• 15:39
  Sean McAllister: And man, he must have done, you know, he's famous for his back flips during his concert.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: And front flips.
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: And front flips, all the all the flips, all the flips, all directions.
• 15:48
  Sean McAllister: There must have been at least six flips throughout the entire show.
• 15:54
  Sean McAllister: I was thinking there would be one, maybe two, right?
• 15:56
  Sean McAllister: But he kept going.
• 15:57
  Sean McAllister: You were on the flip alert.
• 15:59
  Sean McAllister: You were on flip alert.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: I was because I missed the first couple because I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting that.
• 16:05
  Sean McAllister: And then it was too late.
• 16:07
  Sean McAllister: And then I just happened to get video of the next few.
• 16:12
  Sean McAllister: Um, but he is just, I can't say enough about him as a performer.
• 16:17
  Sean McAllister: He is just so good.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_03: Entertaining.
• 16:19
  Sean McAllister: The fans were loving it.
• 16:23
  Sean McAllister: He kind of flew around on a big chandelier at one point.
• 16:28
  Sean McAllister: Um, it was a great show.
• 16:30
  Sean McAllister: There was a couple from uh New Zealand who were standing next to us.
• 16:33
  Sean McAllister: They flew in from New Zealand for four days just for the Benson Boone concert.
• 16:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that's the thing about when there are even just concert stops in Vegas, because you can come for that concert.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: If you're gonna pick out of the whole United States, right, where am I gonna go see Benson Boone on his tour?
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: You're gonna go Vegas because then there's a lot to do on the other days.
• 16:51
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: So it makes sense.
• 16:53
  Sean McAllister: And they packed it in.
• 16:54
  Dayna Roselli: Good.
• 16:55
  Sean McAllister: They were doing all the things.
• 16:57
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 16:58
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, listen, he is great.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: The concert looked great.
• 17:00
  Dayna Roselli: We have some highlights on our social media, on our TikTok, on our YouTube Shorts.
• 17:04
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see Benson in Las Vegas, could be because maybe you're gonna go to a show.
• 17:08
  Sean McAllister: And I I know that Benson is still like uh a rising star, however, I uh could easily see him do like uh an engagement of performances in Vegas.
• 17:22
  Sean McAllister: His performance style is like 100% geared toward oh yeah, the residency style production.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I definitely think he could get people, but the yeah, he might just be too young for it at this point.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 17:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but I just think he has potential to be one of those performers down the road who would uh put on uh a heck of a residency show.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he's got energy and he's he is a good performer.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: You're right, he is very Freddie Mercury-esque.
• 17:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and just such a good, like such a good uh person, too.
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, he has so many songs about family and all that.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: He's a good kid.
• 18:01
  Sean McAllister: Like like I like Benson Boom.
• 18:03
  Sean McAllister: He's only like in his early 20s.
• 18:05
  Sean McAllister: I looked it up afterwards and I was like, holy crap.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: I always feel like that's the one thing people do at shows.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: I do it every single show.
• 18:11
  Dayna Roselli: I google people's age.
• 18:13
  Dayna Roselli: Every single show.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: Literally, it's the one thing.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I think about like how many people Google age at shows, right?
• 18:22
  Sean McAllister: Well, a lot.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: Because I looked up Sir Paul McCartney, he's 83.
• 18:27
  Sean McAllister: Jeez.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: 83.
• 18:29
  Sean McAllister: 83 83.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: And he did almost three hours, or if not three hours.
• 18:35
  Dayna Roselli: We went to 8:30, I think.
• 18:37
  unknown: 10:30.
• 18:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I want to see we left after 11.
• 18:40
  Sean McAllister: Jeez at the other end of the spectrum, Benson Boone, 23.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_03: Well, there you go.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe they need a duet.
• 18:47
  Sean McAllister: They they would that would be an awesome duet.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_03: That would be an awesome duet.
• 18:50
  Sean McAllister: Get the fire going, get Benson flipping.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 18:54
  Sean McAllister: Sir Paul playing.
• 18:55
  Sean McAllister: Love it.
• 18:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, I did go to Mandalay Bay to see Bob Marley Hope Road in person.
• 19:00
  Dayna Roselli: That was great.
• 19:02
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, they have uh a fantastic crew of dancers and performers in this.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: I thought it was more of just kind of an immersive thing, but it's actually a show, an immersive show.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: You move through rooms, and so it was very different, um, experiential.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: There was a little, you know, audience involvement.
• 19:23
  Dayna Roselli: And if you like that type of thing and you like Bob Marley's music, reggae music in general, you really like um dancing.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: That I think a lot of the performers are straight from Jamaica, somebody was telling me, um, and came here to Las Vegas just to perform in this show.
• 19:39
  Dayna Roselli: So, um, and it's right there on the casino floor.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: I hope it sticks around.
• 19:44
  Dayna Roselli: I know these things are hard.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm I I know they're trying to get more people in to see it and some more eyes on it.
• 19:51
  Dayna Roselli: So if you feel like that's something you'd be interested in, I think that the tickets are$69.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: They started.
• 20:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's not bad.
• 20:01
  Dayna Roselli: And the show was about 75 minutes.
• 20:04
  Dayna Roselli: So, like uh about an hour and 15 minutes.
• 20:06
  Dayna Roselli: You get a lot out of it.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: And when you enter the room, there's a bar where you can grab a drink first.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: And um, so anyway, if that's your thing, you think you'd enjoy this if you love reggae music, and even if you don't, I mean it's a show, it's something different.
• 20:19
  Dayna Roselli: So go over and see Bob Marley Hope Road.
• 20:22
  Sean McAllister: But really well done, right?
• 20:23
  Dayna Roselli: Very well done, yes.
• 20:24
  Dayna Roselli: And just a lot of talent in those, I would say in that room, but in those rooms.
• 20:28
  Sean McAllister: In those rooms.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, in those rooms.
• 20:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I like it.
• 20:32
  Sean McAllister: I need to, I that's another thing that's on my on my list of to-dos.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: I'm glad that you got over there to see that.
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh, we have some other uh concert performance announcements to let you know about.
• 20:46
  Sean McAllister: Cindy Lopper has announced her first ever Las Vegas residency.
• 20:52
  Sean McAllister: This is super cool.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: It's Cindy Lopper live in Las Vegas.
• 20:55
  Sean McAllister: It's going to be over at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace April 24th through May 2nd.
• 21:02
  Sean McAllister: And uh I had the opportunity to uh talk with Cindy Lopper when Kinky Boots was at the Smith Center.
• 21:10
  Sean McAllister: This was years ago.
• 21:11
  Sean McAllister: Um, but you know, she was uh a part of the she kind of helped do the music for Kinky Boots.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: And uh she was fantastic, to talk to.
• 21:22
  Sean McAllister: She is uh uh obviously an icon.
• 21:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 21:27
  Sean McAllister: And I was kind of starstruck by her.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: I bet.
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I just so funny because recently sometimes I'll hear a song and then I add it to my favorites list, and it just kind of goes in the recycle.
• 21:36
  Dayna Roselli: But I've been listening a lot to her song all through the night, and it's so lately, just lately, and I was like, this is such a good song.
• 21:43
  Dayna Roselli: And then it was so weird because then in my inbox it was like Cindy Lopper gets her first ever Vegas residency.
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: So it was like, woo, that was weird, but yet she has great music.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: Uh huh.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: I think she's gonna be great.
• 21:54
  Sean McAllister: That's that is a performance that you will not want to miss.
• 21:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, for sure.
• 21:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be a The Coliseum at Caesars Palace from April 24th through May 2nd.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: Doesn't mean she won't add on, because you know how that happens.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: But she's gonna bring her girls just wanna have fun show for this special run to Las Vegas.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um and I guess it's for a lot of the fans they say who missed her farewell tour to celebrate one last time.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: They figure, well, we'll do this special engagement.
• 22:23
  Dayna Roselli: Now people can come from all over the world.
• 22:24
  Dayna Roselli: She'll be at the Coliseum.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are on sale now.
• 22:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um so we look forward to um uh watching this show and seeing this show.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: And and Sean, I noticed that Brian Burke Creative is behind this one.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: We've interviewed him before.
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: We did.
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: And if you listen, if you look back in our previous episodes, you'll be able to find that interview with Brian Burke.
• 22:44
  Sean McAllister: Um he's done uh I mean incredible uh he produces incredible live uh concerts, events, um, and has such great innovative ideas.
• 22:58
  Sean McAllister: Like uh the big uh stage that Luke Bryan would uh go on during his residency over at Resorts World.
• 23:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he did the the Las Vegas F1 opening ceremonies, which was incredible, where they used like what, like I don't even know, endless performers and different stages.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: He works with Lionel Ritchie a lot.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: So this'll be a good show.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: I'm looking forward to it.
• 23:19
  Sean McAllister: That will.
• 23:20
  Sean McAllister: I mean, the two of them together.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: An icon with someone as uh creative and innovative as Brian Burke.
• 23:28
  Sean McAllister: That's exciting.
• 23:30
  Dayna Roselli: And hey, on another note about the Coliseum, uh a surprise, Rod Stewart has announced he will return in 2026 with the Encore shows at the Coliseum.
• 23:40
  Dayna Roselli: He um we hear his listen, we hear his shows sell out consistently, so why not add more?
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's a long farewell, and that's okay.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: Well, I understand.
• 23:49
  Sean McAllister: A long encore because we announced the end of his Rod Stewart the Hits residency, and then like the next day, Rod Stewart, the Encore shows were announced, and now the extension of the Encore is announced.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: Well done, Rod.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: Well done, Rod.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: Keep it going.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: The new shows for 2026 will run May 27th through June 6th.
• 24:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's quickly talk Dolly.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: Dolly had to postpone her run of shows.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh she was coming to Las Vegas in December at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace to do uh like her first really big residency here in Las Vegas in 32 years.
• 24:31
  Dayna Roselli: Um it's during National Finals Rodeo, but she had to postpone.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, she was having some health issues, she's getting those taken care of uh back at home, and um for the meantime is uh laying low so that she can take care of whatever she needs to uh uh take care of to get healthy and back out again.
• 24:50
  Sean McAllister: Um but she did put a video out on social media saying, hey, you know, I'm not dying, I'm still here, I'm still working, but I need to stay close to home to get some things uh taken care of.
• 25:02
  Sean McAllister: She didn't go into specifics.
• 25:03
  Sean McAllister: Um her shows at the Coliseum were sold out for uh this upcoming December.
• 25:09
  Sean McAllister: Those have been postponed until September of 2026.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: Uh but in the meantime, there has been another performer announced to fill the dates that Dolly was going to do coming up in December.
• 25:22
  Sean McAllister: I know, and it's a good one.
• 25:23
  Sean McAllister: Tim McGraw.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 25:28
  Sean McAllister: A Coliseum?
• 25:29
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 25:30
  Dayna Roselli: I've definitely done shows in Vegas.
• 25:32
  Sean McAllister: But his show with uh Faith Hill, the two of them together over at the Venetian was fantastic.
• 25:38
  Sean McAllister: And it was so sexy, wasn't it?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_05: I loved that show.
• 25:41
  Sean McAllister: Oh, the way that they looked at each other and sang, and then they're both just gorgeous people.
• 25:47
  Sean McAllister: And oh, they are.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: And that was and we I I don't know, were you at that Vegas magazine party where they were both at?
• 25:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it was cool.
• 25:54
  Dayna Roselli: We got to meet them in person.
• 25:55
  Dayna Roselli: It was like country royalty.
• 25:57
  Sean McAllister: They really are.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: He was in that movie with Sandra Bullock, too, right?
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: He's a he's a good actor.
• 26:01
  Sean McAllister: In um That's Tim McGraw, right?
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: Yes, uh it was.
• 26:05
  Sean McAllister: With a football player.
• 26:06
  Sean McAllister: Yes, and he was in the Yellowstone uh spin-off, too.
• 26:10
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, was he?
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I haven't seen the Yellowstone stuff.
• 26:13
  Sean McAllister: The 1886 really good actor.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: All right, so he'll be at the Coliseum December 4th, 6th, 12th, and 13th.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: If you're coming in for National Finals rodeo, go see Tim.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are on sale.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um this will be good, I think.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: And so he will fill that week for Dolly.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: Dolly's coming, plans to come in September.
• 26:35
  Dayna Roselli: And in that video, she said, listen, you know, and I feel for her, man.
• 26:38
  Dayna Roselli: Her husband passed away, and she said, I should be should have been taking care of myself, and I wasn't.
• 26:43
  Dayna Roselli: And now I don't feel like I can rehearse to plan the show that I want to do for you in December.
• 26:50
  Dayna Roselli: So uh hopefully we'll see her here in Las Vegas in September.
• 26:54
  Sean McAllister: I hope so.
• 26:55
  Sean McAllister: Um, hey, we're getting a look at uh what the area, the fan zone surrounding the new A's stadium is going to look like.
• 27:04
  Sean McAllister: The the A's are moving to Las Vegas, they'll start playing ball here, uh baseball in 2028.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: Uh which everyone still isn't sold on.
• 27:13
  Dayna Roselli: Which everyone is like, whatever, I don't know.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: I'm seeing beams that go up at the stadium.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 27:19
  Sean McAllister: There's construction.
• 27:20
  Sean McAllister: There's more than dirt being moved.
• 27:22
  Sean McAllister: There's like uh foundations being poured, like the whole thing.
• 27:25
  Sean McAllister: So who knows?
• 27:27
  Sean McAllister: It's st it it it's moving forward.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 27:29
  Sean McAllister: And Bally's Corporation, uh, which owns that uh lot of land, the former Tropicana site, uh, they've released the renderings of what that entire fan zone at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana is going to look like.
• 27:46
  Sean McAllister: And man, they're gonna have everything in there.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: They really are.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be Bally's Las Vegas, and uh it's gonna feature two luxury hotel towers, a state-of-the-art entertainment venue with retail, dining, and entertainment offerings.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's also going to include a casino and a VIP experience with direct access to the ballpark.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: So that's all in the works.
• 28:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they had to get, they submitted something to Clark County and they were waiting for that.
• 28:15
  Dayna Roselli: And then I believe it said they were gonna start, hoping to start construction sometime in 2026.
• 28:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so we are going to uh keep our eyes on that site and let you know as that entire project progresses.
• 28:31
  Dayna Roselli: All right, Sean.
• 28:32
  Dayna Roselli: You know, we've been getting away from tips a little bit because we feel like we do so many tips within the podcast.
• 28:37
  Dayna Roselli: And today I'm kind of excited because uh I see our friend Mark Gray at the door, knocking on the door at the studio, and I feel like we need to talk to him.
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: Let's bring him in.
• 28:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's like Mr.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: Rogers neighborhood.
• 28:55
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: Mark, welcome to the Vegas Revealed Studio.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: This is what it looks like, huh?
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: This is where the magic happens.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is it.
• 29:02
  Dayna Roselli: Now, listen, Mark is a longtime journalist here in Las Vegas, uh, writes for People Magazine, a number of different publications, a new author, and we're gonna talk to Mark about his new book that just came out.
• 29:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's a very important book.
• 29:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we're gonna do that in one of our podcast extras so that we can really dig in.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: But we thought let's talk to Mark, introduce him about his history here in Vegas and being our longtime friend.
• 29:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Mark, how long have you lived in Las Vegas now?
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: About 20, a little over 20 years, 20 and a half.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: I I moved here the week the win hotel opened.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I remember watching the news.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, I was not invited to such a thing at that point in my life.
• 29:42
  Dayna Roselli: It was low clout until, you know, one year later.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: It really was.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: I still haven't been there.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 29:49
  Dayna Roselli: But wow, you've lived here for a while then.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: So you and I used to do some uh red carpets back in the day.
• 29:56
  Dayna Roselli: I was doing some freelance work for Life and Style, I don't know, TV guide, all sorts of stuff.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: But that's kind of how things kicked off because magazines did a lot of celeb sightings in Las Vegas back then.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's exact that's very, very true.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: And and you remember, I actually was working PR before I did that.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_01: I worked PR for about a cup of coffee in this city.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and about a year and a half or so.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: And at that point, I was doing public relations for Pure Nightclub.
• 30:25
  unknown: Oh my god.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in peace.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and a couple other things.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: Mama Mia was my client.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but really, Pure was such just a beast.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: It was such a mammoth beast of a client.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_01: So that was really where I spent so much focus.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: And Pure at that point was getting to celebrities every single night pop in, you know, A-lister after A-lister after A-lister.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_01: And I was trying to think of how can I get press out of these kind of things.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_01: And so I started asking, how do we do such things?
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: I was brand new to the PR world.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: And they said, Oh, well, we, you know, my boss at the time said we let the media know.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know what that meant.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_01: I said, So wait, you just write, you know, you sent an email that says, you know, at Pure Nightclub on Tuesday with a colon and George Clooney or something.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: I thought that was kind of dumb, somewhat lazy.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I was a journalist prior to working PR.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, you know, journalists, especially newspaper guys, which I was, we want everything handed to us on a silver platter.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so I said, What if I just went to the club?
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's open to the public.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Anyone who's there and pays their 20 bucks can get in and see whatever celebrity A, B, and C are doing.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I started doing that.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: Now I I knew in advance which celebrities were going to be there, certainly.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_01: But so I'd go, I'd just stand in public, and I'd basically jot down a story based on what they were doing in the club.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_01: And it was all just total promo for the club, obviously.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: And I started sending it out to the people magazines, the Axis Hollywoods of the world, these kind of places.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: And it just took off like a rocket ship.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: And after probably three or four months of this, People Magazine emailed me out of the blue and said, We stopped sending people to your venue because you're getting better stuff than our writers get.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: So why don't you just work for us and cover all of Vegas?
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: And so that's what I did.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: That was uh in 2006.
• 32:09
  Sean McAllister: So you created a job for yourself.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I did.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: And they they they created one for me, but yeah, it was based off of I guess what I had done on in a in another facet in the PR world.
• 32:21
  Dayna Roselli: That's really interesting.
• 32:22
  Dayna Roselli: I don't think I knew that, that you actually came up with well, the idea of doing it, which then transpired into something else.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was doing these very deep sightings of you know what they what they were doing, what they were drinking, who they were interacting with, what the club was like, what song was playing during this moment.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if I knew they went to dinner prior to prior, I would, you know, they went to dinner after dinner at Mesa Grill or whatever kind of thing.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I would just do these very detailed stories that you could almost copy and paste and put into different you know media outlets.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that did happen sometimes where they just copy and paste it.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was gonna say, I know I appreciated getting the emails because I had just launched uh an entertainment lifestyle TV show here in Las Vegas right at that time, and we loved getting these emails of these celebrity sightings because we were like, great, we've got brand new content for this morning's show.
• 33:23
  Sean McAllister: And the work's all done for you.
• 33:24
  Sean McAllister: The work's what the work was done.
• 33:26
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean, the show that you um were working on really was the only entertainment TV show in town.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think.
• 33:33
  Sean McAllister: There were segments uh that you know some other entertainment reporters had at different TV stations, but there wasn't a show dedicated to right entertainment lifestyle stuff, like we see now all over the place.
• 33:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 33:47
  Dayna Roselli: And then you were shooting in the morning.
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: So the fact that Mark was out at night at the club did the work for you, and you didn't have to go.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_01: It was clutch.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: And that was and that was another thing that I I still pride myself on to this day is I won't go to bed until the work is done.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I would go to the nightclub when I was doing PR for them, or even when I transitioned to People Magazine, I was doing that uh as well.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: I would be up until two, three, or four in the morning writing these signings, sending them in because I knew how important it was for morning.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because for the morning TV shows, this is brand new information, you know, and they're trying to fill their docket day in and day out, and it's a grind.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: So if I can help and get my you know, my clients some publicity, yeah, why not?
• 34:27
  Sean McAllister: Well, I've never properly thanked you.
• 34:29
  Sean McAllister: Thank you for making my job so easy, Mark.
• 34:31
  Sean McAllister: You can pay me later.
• 34:32
  Dayna Roselli: And I feel like even for morning radio, right?
• 34:34
  Dayna Roselli: Because back then radio was still really big.
• 34:36
  Dayna Roselli: Morning, morning radio was huge, especially um especially back then, before the world of podcasts and where we could listen to things whatever we wanted at any time.
• 34:47
  Dayna Roselli: So and remember we used to have the little tape recorders that we'd press record on and I still use the data.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Do you really?
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: I still use the data, but you don't use your phone?
• 34:55
  Sean McAllister: No, I only use my phone if I forget my recorder.
• 34:58
  Sean McAllister: Do you still use the little cassette tapes?
• 35:00
  Sean McAllister: No, I've done you.
• 35:01
  Sean McAllister: Did you progress to digital?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I did.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: I progressed.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_01: I progressed.
• 35:04
  SPEAKER_01: I have a little USB and it hooks right into the computer, so I can listen to it through the through the computer speakers.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the the tape though, I still have my little tape recorder though.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: I do too.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: I still have it.
• 35:14
  Dayna Roselli: I found it, tried to like change the batteries, and there's a whole bunch of stuff on there from uh Paris Hilton and the I don't know, the cast of scrubs one time at the Palms, like all sorts of random interviews.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do you ever look back?
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: I I do this all the time.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: Do you ever look back and think, you wish you had some sort of documentation about all the people you spoke with, and then look back and say, Why did I speak to this person at all?
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_01: And who is this person at the same time?
• 35:41
  Sean McAllister: Well, more importantly, yeah, especially looking back now.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: There's there's many a time, I'm sure this that you had the same problem.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: You you both did, I'm sure, is that when you're especially at award shows, when someone gets thrown in front of you and you have no idea who this person is, right?
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: And you're just trying to wing it.
• 35:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 35:57
  Sean McAllister: My best example of that was probably around 2007, I think, uh, the Billboard Awards.
• 36:05
  Sean McAllister: It was the first year that the Billboard Awards were here in Vegas over at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
• 36:11
  Sean McAllister: We were doing a big uh red carpet show.
• 36:15
  Sean McAllister: It was live.
• 36:16
  Sean McAllister: I was in the control room back at the TV station, and a producer was on the phone with me telling me who was who was coming up next, so we could get the graphics already, all that.
• 36:27
  Sean McAllister: And the producer said, Hey, um, we have these kids from uh a Disney movie that's coming out.
• 36:37
  Sean McAllister: Um it's something about like high school, and we had no idea what this movie was or who was involved in it.
• 36:48
  Sean McAllister: It turned out to be Zach Efron and the high school musical cast.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's interesting.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: I I have an interesting one that's kind of funny too, is that also the Billboard Awards, this was the first one at T-Mobile, so it would have been in what 17 or so, I believe.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: Something like that.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_06: 17, yeah.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: I was there and I was had a I was on the red carpet and I had a terrible spot.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: It's towards the end, and I wasn't really getting a whole lot of interviews.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_03: They must not have known who you were.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they thought you did.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_03: I I think they did.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I was at the end.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: But I had a terrible spot, and a friend walks down and she sees me, and she starts talking about how we had these kids who were hanging out all morning at at this in the kind of the plaza, the the uh what what they call it?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: The Toshiba Plaza.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_06: Toshiba Plaza, yeah.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: They had some kids, you know, several hundred kids hanging out there all day.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, What for?
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: And she goes, There's some band.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know who they are.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_01: And she goes, and apparently there were hundreds more at the airport waiting for these guys.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, Who is this band?
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: She goes, I don't know, BTS or something.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh! And I had never heard of these people.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll be honest, I don't think many had either on the red carpet because that was one of the few interviews I did get was BTS.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: And everyone was saying, We don't know, we don't know these guys.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_01: They kept just pushing them along.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: They came to me.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_01: Now I only spoke to them because I had nothing else to do.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then fast forward to that night at the Billboard Awards, and these guys sweep the awards, and everyone's going nuts.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_01: Kelly Clarkson was hosting that year, and she put the earmuffs on because she knew the crowd the crowd was gonna be so crazy.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I went home that night and I was one of the only interviews with BTS, not because I was so smart, but because I was, I don't know, too lazy, I think.
• 38:25
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh sure enough, I got this great start with BTS and no one else did.
• 38:30
  Dayna Roselli: That's amazing.
• 38:31
  Dayna Roselli: But that's the fun, that's the cool stuff that happens, you know.
• 38:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um that's really great.
• 38:36
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 38:37
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, recently when we went to the American Music Awards, that Kai got thrown in front of me.
• 38:41
  Sean McAllister: He's a huge streamer.
• 38:44
  Dayna Roselli: I had no idea.
• 38:45
  Dayna Roselli: I felt so dumb after because now I've investigated and posted about him and you know, our interview, and I'm like, this guy is like through the roof.
• 38:53
  Dayna Roselli: But that it is hard when you're like, uh, what do I ask this person?
• 38:57
  Dayna Roselli: I always go right away away to the Vegas question.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 39:01
  Dayna Roselli: That's my immediate because it's like There's always something.
• 39:04
  Dayna Roselli: What do you think of Vegas?
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: What do you think of Vegas?
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: What do you like to do in Vegas?
• 39:07
  Dayna Roselli: What do you visit Vegas a lot?
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: Would you ever consider residency here if they're a music artist?
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: I hear that one a lot.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's why I know people that they're they have nothing else to say when they ask that one.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: Like, this guy's got you know half a hit.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_01: A residency.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_03: Right, right.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_01: Do you ever you ever look back and think um how many stories you have that never saw the light of day because of vulgarity or something that just sort of I mean, stories you take to your grave.
• 39:32
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right.
• 39:32
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, I got a lot of those too.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of those.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of that.
• 39:36
  Dayna Roselli: Think about it all the time.
• 39:37
  Dayna Roselli: Why do you think they stopped doing the celebrity appearances at nightclubs?
• 39:41
  Dayna Roselli: Because I feel like it worked.
• 39:42
  Dayna Roselli: It brought people there.
• 39:43
  Dayna Roselli: They gathered around the carpet, then they were like, I want to go in.
• 39:46
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we still get sightings of you know, celebrities just randomly going, but I feel like there's not planned, planned.
• 39:54
  Dayna Roselli: There's not why I wonder.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why it is, but there's you're you're correct though.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: There's not as many as that.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because back in those days, the night was planned around celebrity A, B, and C.
• 40:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you had the Paris Tilton's birthday party or something like that.
• 40:06
  Dayna Roselli: Janet Jackson was at Tau once, like all sorts of yeah.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: But now, I don't know, the DJ game changed though, too.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think when the DJs became the celebrities themselves, because back in those days, it you know, was I'm sure these DJs are nice human beings, but you know, they were just kind of the the house DJ.
• 40:23
  SPEAKER_01: And the focus was the celebrity, the movie star, the reality star.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: Now the DJ is the celebrity, the Testos of the world, the Calvin Harris of the world, the chain smokers, and so on and so forth.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: So I think you go to see them.
• 40:35
  Dayna Roselli: You know, maybe or maybe they just don't need it because they're going to see them and the lines lying.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_01: One draw to get people in the door.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: But I think there are also there are fewer clubs, at least super clubs, than there used to be too.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, back in the day, you gotta remember, like, you know, blush and you know, and tangerine.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, it was my Christian Otaje.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, Christian Otage.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I I met my wife.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: I met my wife at Taboo.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_01: You did?
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_05: I love Taboo.
• 41:02
  Sean McAllister: Taboo is the best spot ever.
• 41:04
  Sean McAllister: Ever.
• 41:04
  Sean McAllister: Sean.
• 41:05
  Sean McAllister: Right in the middle of MGM Grand.
• 41:07
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 41:09
  Sean McAllister: And then after hours, you go to Teatro if you're really frisky.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
• 41:12
  Dayna Roselli: Those were the days, man.
• 41:14
  Sean McAllister: They were.
• 41:15
  Sean McAllister: That was a great era in Las Vegas.
• 41:20
  Sean McAllister: No, there were no rules.
• 41:20
  Sean McAllister: There were no rules then either.
• 41:22
  Sean McAllister: No, it was none.
• 41:23
  Sean McAllister: There were I remember seeing girls roller skating around inside of Taboo.
• 41:27
  Sean McAllister: That was me, actually.
• 41:28
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 41:29
  Sean McAllister: No, it was happening all the time.
• 41:32
  Sean McAllister: Just random people who would come in wearing roller skates.
• 41:35
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I think it was fun too, because we didn't have to pull out our phones.
• 41:38
  Dayna Roselli: Let's just be honest.
• 41:40
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 41:40
  Dayna Roselli: We enjoyed conversation.
• 41:42
  Dayna Roselli: We got tipsy.
• 41:43
  Dayna Roselli: We danced, we laughed, there were stories to be told, and we're going to be able to do that.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's why anything was allowed.
• 41:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_01: Because it wasn't documented.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_01: True.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_01: Final night of Teatro, a couple friends and myself, I think it closed, I want to say, at like five in the morning when they finally shut the doors down the last night.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: We actually stole one of the stools.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_01: We would actually walk out of MGM with furniture into the lobby and no one stopped us.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_04: I love it.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_04: That's great.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_04: You gotta do it.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: We took it, we had all everyone signed it autographed.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 42:16
  Dayna Roselli: No idea what it is now, but what is LAX nightclub now?
• 42:19
  Dayna Roselli: Is that anything?
• 42:20
  Dayna Roselli: Or is that the the sports arena?
• 42:21
  Dayna Roselli: The esports arena.
• 42:22
  Dayna Roselli: Is that what it is?
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: Esports arena.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think it is, yeah.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_01: Remember they had that speakeasy in there too?
• 42:27
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh the name leaves me right now.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: Savile Rowe.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_01: I can still tap into those memories.
• 42:35
  Dayna Roselli: I remember being there and they're like, Kevin Fetterline's here.
• 42:38
  Dayna Roselli: I remember Fetterline.
• 42:39
  Dayna Roselli: How do we make him a celebrity?
• 42:40
  Dayna Roselli: Because he was married.
• 42:42
  Dayna Roselli: Was he married to Britney or just dating Britney?
• 42:44
  Dayna Roselli: He's married to his father.
• 42:45
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 42:45
  Dayna Roselli: Married.
• 42:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_01: He filmed his music video inside Pure Nightclub.
• 42:48
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_01: I can't remember the song, but can anybody?
• 42:53
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, Kevin.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_01: Probably Kevin, but that's even up for debate.
• 42:56
  Dayna Roselli: Do you have any Britney stories?
• 42:57
  Dayna Roselli: People always love a good Britney story.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, my two Britney stories are they're not great, I don't think, but the one was when she allegedly passed out at the nightclub on New Year's Eve.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: I was there that night, mind you.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I didn't see anything of this nature.
• 43:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I I think she did fall asleep.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think passed out's right where this at Tao?
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: This was at Pure.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Pure, okay.
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: This is at Pure.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and it was New Year's Eve.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember I had to bounce back and forth between Pure and Jet nightclub that night.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: She has a two.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: Britney was at Britney was at Pure, and if I remember correctly, I think Fergie was at Jet.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_01: So I was going back and forth all night long.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: But I was there during the Britney moment, and it didn't seem like she passed out, but that's neither here nor there.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: The other Britney story, though, is I think you guys may have been there, wasn't she announced the residency in the middle of the desert?
• 43:48
  unknown: Oh.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: You remember this?
• 43:51
  Sean McAllister: I did not go out there.
• 43:52
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 43:53
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 43:53
  Sean McAllister: I was producing a the morning show, waiting for the footage to come in.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_01: So we had to meet.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't tell us.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_01: Where we were going.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: We had to meet at the Coliseum Steps at Caesars Palace at I think it was around two in the morning or three in the morning.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: It was really early.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: And so we went there, we boarded a bus with we did not know where we're going.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: You guys know Al Powers, the big photographer.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: I heard he talks about being brownbagged because they got on a bus with nowhere, we had no idea where we're going.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: And they take us out, you know, a good 30 minutes out of the city.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: And there's, I remember on the side of the road, there was a just a little lantern of some sort, you know, almost like a little small like a little luminary kind of deal.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the sign to turn left.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_01: So the bus turns left, and then you're going up this dirt road up the mountain still.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_01: And you finally start seeing some people, and we got out to this big pasture, and there were hundreds of people.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: And they all had these cards.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_01: And there was a guy almost like a director of an orchestra out there, and he's saying, Lift down, lift down.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_01: And it was creating a visual of Brittany because she was going to helicopter in.
• 45:08
  unknown: Okay.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_01: So they wanted her to see the visual of all these cards.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: You know, almost like a football game, you know, with the same thing.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: And uh Brittany did see it.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: She landed, she got sick on the helicopter.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_01: So she was supposed to do interviews.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think she might have talked to Mario Lopez, I think.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: But she popped off the popped off the helicopter, waved.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: I think these people were promised a quick concert also, which they did not get.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_01: But she waved real quick.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_01: I think she said hi to Mario, got in the helicopter, and left.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_01: And then we had to get driven back, of course, in the middle of the night.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's now still only you know 4 30 in the morning because they were live for Good Morning America.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna say, I think Good Morning America was live out there.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so they were so we had to get brown bagged and went back to Caesars Palace, which we arrived at five in the morning or so.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oof my gosh.
• 45:59
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that interesting what we do for a story?
• 46:02
  Sean McAllister: You know what?
• 46:03
  Sean McAllister: We don't have residency announcements like that anymore.
• 46:07
  Sean McAllister: Like shutting down the strip for Shania Twain's horse parade.
• 46:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 46:12
  Sean McAllister: Remember when uh CeeLo Green pulled up on a flatbed truck with a flaming piano?
• 46:19
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we used to have now we get a press release.
• 46:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 46:24
  Sean McAllister: I mean, Gwen Stefani had a big one when she pulled up with all the bananas.
• 46:28
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my gosh.
• 46:30
  Sean McAllister: Olivia Newton John drove down the link in a pink Cadillac flanked by Chippendales, dressed as Danny Zuko.
• 46:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 46:38
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 46:38
  Dayna Roselli: Why are what's going on?
• 46:40
  Dayna Roselli: Where's all the good stuff?
• 46:41
  Dayna Roselli: This was the good stuff.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_01: That was a good era.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_01: It was a good era.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_01: That was a good era.
• 46:46
  Dayna Roselli: You know, a lot of times we interview people and they talk about back in the day when, you know, Sinatra, they used to go to this and they'd go see somebody else's show and it would go.
• 46:54
  Dayna Roselli: Like, that's their chat of the good old days.
• 46:56
  Dayna Roselli: Our good old days are ultra lounges and residency show announcements.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_01: We had no social media and a lot of creativity.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: We did.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's the difference, I think.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_01: Now it's all social media and it's all what can I record?
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you're you're watching concerts through a six-inch screen these days, you know.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_01: When we watch concerts with these things called eyeballs, right?
• 47:15
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_01: That's vintage.
• 47:17
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like I feel like we could talk to Mark forever.
• 47:20
  Dayna Roselli: This should be like a regular, I think we needed like a regular segment with Mark.
• 47:23
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, we went to a wedding over the summer at Napa.
• 47:25
  Dayna Roselli: You heard us talk about it, and it was Mark's wedding.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: It was Mark's.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_01: Congratulations.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_01: We met at night at uh taboo, remember?
• 47:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yep, met at Taboo.
• 47:32
  Dayna Roselli: When did you two just meet through the entertainment world or do you have a specific because you guys are really good friends, Sean and and Mark?
• 47:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh we've just known of each other for for years.
• 47:42
  Sean McAllister: For years, yeah, but I think once uh I once I was married and became a University of Utah football fan by default.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_05: Got it.
• 47:54
  Sean McAllister: I think Mark saw that I was all of a sudden watching these Utah games and wondered why.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_03: Through social media, true, yeah.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_01: Because I I'm from Salt Lake City originally.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I did not go to Utah.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: My dad did.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I grew up Utah fan.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_01: We had season tickets to the football games, and I was a kid.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_01: So I am a Utah kid through and through.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I saw, you know, I saw his, I think it was Facebook.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_06: Yep.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, Why is this is this guy from Utah?
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: And turns out he's not remotely close to Utah from there, at least.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh I said, Why are you a Utah fan?
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: He said, Oh, well, my husband is a Utah fan.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I remember he asked, Where do you watch the games at?
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_01: And I said, Usually just at home.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_01: And from that day forward, we've we've done Rose Bowl parties, a couple of those in our house.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we've done road trips to games.
• 48:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:40
  Dayna Roselli: We said, Oh, that's great.
• 48:42
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 48:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, see?
• 48:43
  Sean McAllister: We have one scheduled coming up here and another month or so.
• 48:46
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 48:47
  Dayna Roselli: And what wasn't it like two weeks ago you were like having breakfast at Marks because watching a game?
• 48:51
  Sean McAllister: We did.
• 48:51
  Sean McAllister: We had a breakfast game.
• 48:53
  Sean McAllister: I don't think that game did not work in our way.
• 48:55
  Sean McAllister: It did not.
• 48:56
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 48:58
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 48:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I love that you and your wife are Taylor Swift fans.
• 49:02
  Dayna Roselli: That's our bond.
• 49:02
  Dayna Roselli: We I saw ran into you in Vancouver.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 49:05
  Dayna Roselli: And we were there for the final week.
• 49:07
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there's so many like connections.
• 49:08
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_01: Um that was our that was our fourth show of the errors tour.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: My sixth time seeing Taylor.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a Swifty diehard.
• 49:15
  Dayna Roselli: And you've met her in person and say she's very kind in person.
• 49:17
  SPEAKER_01: I met her several times in person.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_01: She's very, very sweet.
• 49:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, always good.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_01: She was a our first Christmas card.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_01: We always do we do an annual Christmas card, my wife and I.
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: It's always with the celebrity, and there's some kitschy tagline.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_01: And it did not, we did not start.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_01: The intention wasn't to start doing this every year, but for Taylor, we did it just randomly.
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: I think it was a one-off.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_01: And it was uh me and my wife and Taylor, and we had a uh the tagline was a tailored season greeting just for you.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_01: And on the back of the card was Mary Swiftmas.
• 49:47
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I love it.
• 49:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you deserve some sourdough bread, I think, from her.
• 49:50
  Dayna Roselli: I think so.
• 49:52
  Dayna Roselli: You need to get on her list.
• 49:53
  Sean McAllister: Your wife Casey is also a very accomplished sourdough baker.
• 49:58
  Sean McAllister: I had some this morning.
• 49:59
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 50:00
  Dayna Roselli: Boy, all the stuff, all the connections.
• 50:02
  Dayna Roselli: Well, listen, Mark, you were um at the Route 91 Festival um on October 1, and you have just put out a book that is very important, I think, for everyone to read.
• 50:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's very important to you, and we want to talk about that coming up.
• 50:17
  Dayna Roselli: It's called uh The Las Vegas Massacre Connections.
• 50:21
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna get into all of that in an extra that we recorded specifically with Mark.
• 50:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so uh stay tuned.
• 50:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh when this episode ends, the extra uh should pop right up for you.
• 50:34
  Sean McAllister: And if it doesn't, just go into our uh episode list and it's gonna be the next episode, and we're talking uh with Mark all about uh his new book out October 14th, and it's available now on all platforms.
• 50:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, go to the link in our show notes and we will have it there so that you can click on it and order it for yourself.
• 50:56
  Dayna Roselli: But stay tuned.
• 50:57
  Dayna Roselli: More coming up with Mark here in just a second.