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Las Vegas Raiders Schedule Released, How is Las Vegas Doing, A's Stadium Could Demolish The Trop, Donny Osmond Show Deal, Healthy Tourism, Bottomless Bacon Breakfast | Ep. 168 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:01
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to episode 168 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:05
  Dayna Roselli: Is healthy living tourism now a part of the Vegas experience?
• 0:09
  Dayna Roselli: Wait until you find out who's doing this and what it even means.
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: A new twist in the tale of the Oakland A's possible relocation to Las Vegas.
• 0:18
  Sean McAllister: The team now has a new location in mind for a stadium, and a historic hotel casino could be demolished to make it happen.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: So what this does, it allows them to not worry about so much about the Tropicana.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: They get a baseball stadium on the site, and then in a few years, whenever or whenever, they'll be able to go ahead and build a new hotel casino.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: It won't be attached to the baseball stadium, but it'll be part of the site where, you know, to replace the Tropicana.
• 0:45
  Dayna Roselli: And game day in Las Vegas, the NFL releases its schedule for the upcoming season.
• 0:51
  Dayna Roselli: See who's playing the Raiders here in Las Vegas.
• 0:54
  Sean McAllister: Plus a bottomless bacon brunch, brown butter bourbon from a culinary heavy hitter, and EDC returns.
• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's all coming up this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 1:06
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• 2:09
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go to Vegas.
• 2:10
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to episode 168 of Vegas Reveal.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean, we have another breaking news situation to start the podcast.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: We have another subscriber.
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: This is great news.
• 2:26
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's not quite the breaking news that everyone at home was looking for, but you know, it's big for us.
• 2:32
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: It's important to us and to our subscribers.
• 2:36
  Dayna Roselli: Absolutely.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate the support so much.
• 2:39
  Dayna Roselli: Rob Lewis from Atlanta has been listening to Vegas Revealed for a very long time.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: He is so supportive.
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: And then we get this alert that says Rob has now become a$10 a month subscriber to the podcast.
• 2:53
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• 2:55
  Sean McAllister: Thank you, Rob.
• 2:57
  Sean McAllister: We appreciate it.
• 2:58
  Sean McAllister: And again, you can find a link down in our show notes if you'd like to subscribe and support us.
• 3:03
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• 3:05
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• 3:08
  Dayna Roselli: And his emoji was a heart last week.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: Last week we told you our other subscriber had a rocket ship.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: We've got a heart now from Rob.
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: Oh, and we heart you, Rob.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we're hoping for a good season from the Las Vegas Raiders over at Allegiant Stadium.
• 3:22
  Dayna Roselli: And we have a new quarterback.
• 3:24
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even think we've talked about that.
• 3:25
  Dayna Roselli: We can get more into that at another time.
• 3:27
  Dayna Roselli: But Jimmy G um starting with the Raiders this year.
• 3:31
  Dayna Roselli: And it's like a fresh new year.
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: So we were excited to see who the Raiders were going to be playing here in Las Vegas because we get a lot of people that come here kind of to watch the other team as well.
• 3:42
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, let's go do Vegas and watch our, you know, Broncos play the Raiders.
• 3:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I I know I've got family, friends who are always like, oh, when can I get there and see my team playing the Raiders?
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, and now we have that information.
• 3:57
  Sean McAllister: The NFL has been releasing information about the 2023-2024 uh football season.
• 4:04
  Sean McAllister: And we know now that facing off here in Las Vegas at Allegiance Stadium against the Las Vegas Raiders, we'll be seeing the Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, the LA Chargers, the Packers, the Vikings, the Patriots, the Giants, the Jets, and the Steelers.
• 4:25
  Sean McAllister: And all of those clubs have big fan bases.
• 4:29
  Sean McAllister: So that I think those are going to be some good matchups here on Home Turf.
• 4:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:33
  Dayna Roselli: And it's obviously a little bit of everywhere.
• 4:36
  Dayna Roselli: So that'll be good.
• 4:36
  Dayna Roselli: Brings everyone here.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: We were hoping to see the Buffalo Bills on there.
• 4:39
  Sean McAllister: We were, I know.
• 4:40
  Sean McAllister: Not this year.
• 4:41
  Dayna Roselli: I don't think we have they ever come here.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: No, because I believe last season it was away in Buffalo also.
• 4:48
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah, you know when they were supposed to come here?
• 4:50
  Dayna Roselli: Because I remember, oh gosh, back in 2020 when like everything shut down.
• 4:55
  Dayna Roselli: We interviewed my friend John Kilb, who covered sports, and he was coming to the Buffalo Bills game.
• 5:01
  Dayna Roselli: But that was when they didn't allow fans in the stadium.
• 5:06
  Sean McAllister: Because there was a whole season played with an empty stadium.
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think that was the one year that they actually did come here.
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: So bummer.
• 5:14
  Sean McAllister: Oh well, we'll look look forward to the 2024-25 season.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: How has it been like I have no idea so many years even since we took it back in 2020?
• 5:23
  Dayna Roselli: But you found out some uh cool factoids by reading um one of the articles from from ESPN, right?
• 5:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, uh Adam Schefter, who is one of the NFL insiders over at ESPN, um put out some information which I thought was interesting.
• 5:38
  Sean McAllister: Uh, for the first time ever, we're going to see an NFL game on Black Friday.
• 5:43
  Sean McAllister: You know, always we see Thanksgiving Day games.
• 5:47
  Sean McAllister: You know, they always wheel the turkey out, people, you know, grab a leg off of it at the end of the game.
• 5:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, but Black Friday, we're gonna see a game this year.
• 5:57
  Sean McAllister: Um also in terms of networks that carry the games, uh, they don't really have ownership over a bundle of games anymore.
• 6:07
  Sean McAllister: It's kind of a free agent situation for each game of the season.
• 6:12
  Sean McAllister: Where before we would have, you know, Monday night football on ABC, Thursday night football on NBC or Amazon, or you know, they're kind of changing up that that system to have each game be bid on independently.
• 6:28
  Sean McAllister: Teams can now participate in Thursday night football twice, which was not the case before.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: Interesting.
• 6:36
  Sean McAllister: And not all teams are guaranteed to have a primetime spot.
• 6:41
  Sean McAllister: So those are some of the new uh changes that we've seen as the NFL rolls out its lineup.
• 6:48
  Dayna Roselli: So how do you get like that's not fair?
• 6:50
  Dayna Roselli: Like somebody can have two Thursday night games and be in the prime time and like all this stuff, but some another team can't.
• 6:55
  Dayna Roselli: Like, how do you get on?
• 6:56
  Dayna Roselli: Like, what do you have to do?
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: What do they do?
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: Bribe?
• 6:58
  Sean McAllister: You have to be good.
• 6:59
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, you have to be good.
• 7:00
  Sean McAllister: You have to be worthy of prime time coverage.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know if like you take the owner out for like uh really expensive lobster dinner or something.
• 7:07
  Sean McAllister: I'm sure there's a little of that too.
• 7:08
  Sean McAllister: Let's not be naive.
• 7:10
  Dayna Roselli: Now, the other day we posted special coverage of the Oakland A's possible move to Las Vegas.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: You can go back and take a listen to that if you haven't already.
• 7:19
  Dayna Roselli: We're not gonna get into all the little details, but we did a great interview with a senior reporter of gaming and tourism over at the Nevada Independent, Howard Stutz.
• 7:27
  Dayna Roselli: But um, it would mean the demolition of the Tropicana Hotel and casino.
• 7:32
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, Sean, you and I were saying it's a it's a pretty good location.
• 7:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it's a historic casino, but you know what?
• 7:40
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know that I'm gonna miss it.
• 7:43
  Sean McAllister: I mean, listen, it's been a fixture on the strip since uh the 50s when it was originally built.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: Um I I think people were really waiting to see what was going to happen with the Tropicana because uh about a year ago, um the Bally's gaming company bought the property, and even then there were talks about renovating it from top to bottom or possibly even knocking it down and coming up with something completely new.
• 8:14
  Sean McAllister: Now it seems like that's actually what's going to happen, but it's not going to be replaced initially with a new hotel casino, but rather a baseball stadium.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:27
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I loved that I used to hang at the Tropicana back in 2012 uh when Sky D.
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: Miles was performing in the lounge there, and everyone used to show up.
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: It was uh it was great.
• 8:41
  Sean McAllister: It was the Havana room, right?
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think it was Havana.
• 8:44
  Sean McAllister: Or was it before it was before the Havana room?
• 8:47
  Sean McAllister: Was it Nikki Beach?
• 8:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Nikki Beach was there at the time, but this was like in the lounge that's right outside the theater.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: And it's not now like kind of enclosed, it wasn't like that.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was open, there was a stage, and I know what you're talking about.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: It was yeah, it was the year that I actually left channel eight and I had a year non-compete, which meant I couldn't work in television.
• 9:10
  Dayna Roselli: So because I had gotten up so many years in the morning, I was like became this light, late night wild child.
• 9:20
  Sean McAllister: Wild child.
• 9:22
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, I used to hang out at the trop.
• 9:25
  Sean McAllister: You know, one of the things that I really do like about the trop, and it's an architectural fixture there.
• 9:33
  Sean McAllister: Over the main gaming floor where they have the table games, there is a beautiful domed stained glass ceiling.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: And I feel like that if the rest of the building is going to be knocked down, they at least need to preserve that domed glass ceiling.
• 9:52
  Sean McAllister: And who knows, maybe put it into storage and incorporate it into a new baseball stadium if that is what ends up happening there.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you're right.
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that would be great, right?
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: And so many little things.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: And I think even us trying to remember, I think that I think the point what we're trying to make is we don't dislike the drop or want anything historic to be, you know, demolished and all.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: But it has been kind of re-renovated and redone, and it just hasn't quite hit the right.
• 10:20
  Dayna Roselli: You know, there's like there aren't enough restaurants in there, there's no destination point there.
• 10:26
  Dayna Roselli: There, like there's one or two, and like I don't think Nikki Beach was like there for a hot minute, that Bagatelle was there for a hot minute.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: There's a Starbucks in there.
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: There is.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: And the Laugh Factory, which has some great comedians, and it'd be sad to see all that stuff go, but I don't know.
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: I think let's put it this way it doesn't, it's not a necessity.
• 10:50
  Sean McAllister: Having a stadium there would be putting that land to really good use.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and maybe you put a laugh factory in the stadium.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: Why not?
• 10:58
  Sean McAllister: When there's no there's no reason not to, right?
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: Make use.
• 11:01
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 11:02
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, we could go on and on about that.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, it's um in the works, possibly.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so we'll see what happens.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: But when we were speaking with Howard Stutz, who has been covering gaming and tourism for years in Las Vegas, I always used to hit him up when I had a radio show for his knowledge.
• 11:17
  Dayna Roselli: He's so knowledgeable.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, yesterday when we were scrolling through Twitter, we actually saw his article in the Nevada Independent come up and we thought, what?
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: What's going on?
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: This is gonna go on the site of the Tropicana.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: And so we said, we got to get Howard on the line.
• 11:30
  Dayna Roselli: So again, listen to that episode uh before this one.
• 11:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's the bonus to episode 167 if you want to hear more about what he had to say about the stadium possibly going on that Tropicana site.
• 11:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but given his experience reporting on gaming, travel tourism, we wanted his thoughts on the state of Las Vegas right now.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Howard, I know you're busy working on a lot of stuff.
• 11:55
  Dayna Roselli: One question before you go, just you know, we cover a lot of entertainment and obviously tourism and things like that, but we we don't dive into the the extreme details of gaming and things.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: Just let us know how how's Las Vegas looking right now.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, look at gaming numbers are up what something like 12% from last year already.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: And last year was a record$14.8 billion in gaming revenue.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: So gaming revenues continue to go up.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: The big the big thing that happened in what we saw in the March numbers were that that um tourism boosted back up.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_00: Visitation was almost back to 2019 levels, you know, pre-pandemic levels.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a big that was a big jump for for the for the state.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's really the the big events that we're seeing coming here.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, we do with the Legion Stadium, you know, we have two nights of Taylor Swift, bringing a ton of fans here, a ton of folks from out of town.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, sports, you know, then we continue to talk about the Raiders.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: NC2A tournament, you get a big in March, you get a big visitation bump in the first week of the NC2A tournament for March.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_00: In March from visitation or the first week of games, weekend of games, but the fact that we had the West Regional here uh the following week, the finals, that at the e-mobile arena, that brought in fans of those four teams.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_00: So we had another bump in visitation there.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_00: So it seems we're seeing a lot of bumps in visitation.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're seeing convention business is is almost back to where it was.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um our international airlines.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's our record every month, it seems, at Reed International Airport, and we're seeing also uh international travel come back.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that's where the sign seems to be in the health.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: It seems to be moving forward.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: And and I mean tell you, when Formula One hits, this is gonna be a huge month in November for gaming, for tourism, for everybody with the visitations gonna come in for that event.
• 13:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I was gonna say uh F-1 is definitely gonna be a big boost, especially for the those international numbers as well.
• 13:52
  Sean McAllister: And with this A's stadium, sports tourism is going to be bigger than it ever has been here in Las Vegas.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you know you guys hit it right on, and then think about it, you know, you got the sphere opening, uh it looks like in in September with you know 17, what is it, 17 nights of U2.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm curious to see what the what kind of attendance and and what kind of you know what kind of crowd that draws.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh there's so there's a lot of things happening that you know are continuing to evolve and change in this in this community.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we're gonna see the Fountain Blue is gonna open at the end of February.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, excuse me, the end of December, around that time is when Fountain Blue is gonna open after all these years.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a boost on the north end of the strip.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so yeah, well, you know, there's a lot going on that you know could you know though continue to push things forward.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and odds are those people at some point in their trip and their visit here, they're gonna be gambling.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: They always do.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: They always do.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: Howard, thank you so much for your time.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Anytime, guys.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Appreciate you having me on, and I appreciate it.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Howard.
• 14:52
  Dayna Roselli: Take care.
• 14:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, we have a lot going on in Las Vegas.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: I think I looked at you yesterday and I'm like, I don't know how it's gonna happen.
• 14:58
  Sean McAllister: It was starting to stress me out, but I'm like Well, we were talking about all these uh boring tunnels that are supposed to be going under the strip and you know, stadiums being built and the sphere, the sphere, everything like can the desert support all this?
• 15:14
  Dayna Roselli: Hotels going up, hotels coming down.
• 15:16
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 15:16
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, how?
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Where?
• 15:18
  unknown: When?
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, there must be a plan in place.
• 15:21
  Sean McAllister: So I'll there's higher level conversations than what we're aware of that take all that into account, I'm sure.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: I'm sure.
• 15:29
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, listen, uh, we talked about the Lovers and Friends Festival coming to Las Vegas, and uh they had a successful weekend.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: It was actually a one-day festival this year.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: I think the year before it was two or three days.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: So it went off without a hitch, no issues.
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: Happy to hear.
• 15:45
  Dayna Roselli: But um, my friend and I, we actually got offered some some bracelets, some general admission bracelets at the last minute.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: And I live kind of across from there.
• 15:53
  Dayna Roselli: So I said, let's walk over and check this out.
• 15:55
  Dayna Roselli: I've never been.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: I've actually never been to well, no, I did go to the Rock and Rio when they first opened the Las Vegas Festival Grounds.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: That was a long time ago.
• 16:03
  Dayna Roselli: But I haven't been to a festival since then where they really make use of that space because they continue to use it for festivals like this.
• 16:11
  Sean McAllister: Sure.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: And we walked over.
• 16:13
  Sean McAllister: And it was quite the lineup.
• 16:15
  Sean McAllister: I know as we were looking at the you know, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, uh Usher, Chris Brown.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: I mean, the lineup of artists performing on all the stages over there, it was stacked.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: It was.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it was the place to be.
• 16:30
  Dayna Roselli: So when we walked over there and entered, we thought this place is gonna be moped.
• 16:34
  Dayna Roselli: We didn't know what to expect.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: But I must say, it was a chill crowd during the day.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: We went at four o'clock.
• 16:39
  Dayna Roselli: We tried to catch the end of Pitbull.
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: Pitbull was performing at like four, or actually, we went to at 4:30.
• 16:45
  Dayna Roselli: He first started performing at 4'10.
• 16:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but you know what?
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: We walked in and it was just like it was so spread out and spacious.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: They had two stages on one side and two stages on the other that it I almost want to say, like when you walked from one stage to the next, it was like quiet in between.
• 17:02
  Dayna Roselli: It was, it, it was, I don't know.
• 17:03
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know what I expected.
• 17:05
  Dayna Roselli: I expected this roaring crowd the entire minute that I entered and sardines.
• 17:09
  Dayna Roselli: Getting crazy.
• 17:10
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't like that.
• 17:11
  Dayna Roselli: Lots of space.
• 17:12
  Dayna Roselli: They had misters, they had um, you know, a lot of food offerings and drink offerings.
• 17:18
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they had like restrooms um that people were lined up for, but then there was like GA, which you could go into this like grassy area where they had like more restrooms lined up.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: So there were enough choices.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: And then they had the two-stage and the and they on one side and then two on another, and they staggered the time.
• 17:35
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, it was organized very well.
• 17:38
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone was well behaved.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't know.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the thing for me though, I I didn't love the the switching around of stages for me, the like go over here and catch Jojo and go over here and see Chris Brown, and then oh, backstreets over there, like and then Grandmaster Flash, and oh, I want to see 50 Cent.
• 17:57
  Dayna Roselli: I like the idea of having that many acts offered, but it did get a bit like, well, what if you want to be close for this one, but you also want to be close for this one, and then then got to kind of get in there.
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: It just was a I don't know.
• 18:09
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not a big festival person.
• 18:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I mean that is the big difference between having like some of these outdoor festivals uh compared to let's say the iHeart Radio Music Festival, you know, when that's held at MGM Grand or T-Mobile Arena, and there's one stage with a revolving roster of talent performing on just that one stage.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 18:33
  Dayna Roselli: You sit there and you wait, you know, you can just exactly it is totally different.
• 18:38
  Dayna Roselli: And I guess I haven't been to enough, like or you know, that many f I mean, because you see everyone going to Coachella and life is beautiful and things like that.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: Burning man, yeah.
• 18:47
  Dayna Roselli: I've never been, I've never been to EDC even.
• 18:50
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, it was interesting to see how it worked, and I could see that people really did like that environment.
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was like they spent a whole day, went at their own pace, decided who they wanted to see, mosied over here, was like, I want to be front for here, let's get something to eat.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, you know, it just depends what you like, but yeah, it was a different kind of experience.
• 19:10
  Sean McAllister: And it was a gorgeous day for it, too.
• 19:12
  Sean McAllister: It was like low 70s, overcast.
• 19:16
  Sean McAllister: It was like almost ideal.
• 19:18
  Dayna Roselli: Better than like sweating and everyone, you know, being thirsty and all that kind of thing.
• 19:22
  Dayna Roselli: So it was it was good.
• 19:23
  Dayna Roselli: So that went off, and then they're having another festival this weekend.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, more rock bands like corn and all sorts of like heavy, I don't know what'd you call it?
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: Heavy metal.
• 19:32
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know what you'd call it.
• 19:33
  Sean McAllister: Uh probably ish.
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, ish.
• 19:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: When I posted the the rundown of Axe, everyone was like, Oh, I'm I get this is like totally bringing me back.
• 19:43
  Dayna Roselli: So, and uh you know, I want to go or I am going or whatever.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so they're making use of that ground.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: This one is the Sick New World Festival and also sold out in like corn, the Deftones, Incubus, System of a Down.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: So it's it's a good lineup.
• 19:57
  Sean McAllister: Oh, Incubus was like my jam in college.
• 20:01
  Sean McAllister: Really?
• 20:01
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yes.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: Loved Incubus, Sisters of Mercy, all sorts of skinny puppy.
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: Never heard of I don't know Skinny Puppy.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: Placebo?
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: A placebo I have heard of, yes.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: Well, anyway.
• 20:15
  Sean McAllister: Uh so people will be coming in town for that.
• 20:17
  Sean McAllister: People also uh getting ready to come in town for EDC, the electric daisy carnival, once again being held up at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
• 20:27
  Sean McAllister: And there's like a hundred thousand people a night that go into those festival grounds.
• 20:34
  Sean McAllister: Uh you know, many of the people return night after night.
• 20:37
  Sean McAllister: Three nights.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: Uh the festivities don't really even kick off until after dark.
• 20:42
  Sean McAllister: No, they wrap up at dawn.
• 20:45
  Sean McAllister: There's firework shows, there's music, there's art installations.
• 20:50
  Sean McAllister: It is quite the scene.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: So it's May 19th, 20th, and 21st.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they're doing a little partnership with the resorts world.
• 20:59
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing hotel EDC over there.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're coming in, you will see lots of fun outfits up and down the strip.
• 21:08
  Sean McAllister: Sure will.
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and we'll see, you know, people heading out late and coming home in the morning with furry boots and neon.
• 21:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be a great time.
• 21:16
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 21:17
  Sean McAllister: So people obviously come in town for for that type of festival environment.
• 21:21
  Sean McAllister: Um, something else that people come in town for that you might not expect is for uh to experience the the healthy lifestyle that Las Vegas can offer, Dana.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you were telling me about this new travel trend.
• 21:37
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, I don't know if I'm buying it.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's healthy living tourism.
• 21:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and so here's the deal this was brought to our attention.
• 21:45
  Sean McAllister: There's an online news outlet called The Street, and they recently posted an article about the rise of healthy tourism.
• 21:53
  Sean McAllister: And this is all based on the idea that visitors will choose their destination based on the Number of health and wellness offerings that they can get there.
• 22:04
  Sean McAllister: And believe it or not, Las Vegas actually has been catering to these health-minded tourists.
• 22:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, are you ready to hear some of the amenities that people get here, Dana?
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: Definitely.
• 22:15
  Sean McAllister: So at MGM Resorts, they have what are called stay well rooms.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: Um, Deepak Chopra, you know, Deepak, he has uh partnered with a technology firm to offer a variety of um well technologies that are incorporated into the rooms that are designated as stay well.
• 22:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh there are also a bunch of initiatives uh like meditation and yoga that people can partake in while they're here.
• 22:48
  Sean McAllister: Uh the Canyon Ranch Spa, which is a really, really nice spa, uh also invites visitors to come in and get away from you know the things that you would expect from the Las Vegas strip and enter a sanctuary of wellness where spa, fitness, and food experiences replenish you on your path to lifelong well-being.
• 23:14
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 23:14
  Sean McAllister: I feel like we should be saying this in a very relaxing, monotone voice.
• 23:20
  Sean McAllister: Um, and I mean, get this the global wellness tourism industry is predicted to be worth around one trillion dollars in just six years from now.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: 2030.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: That's coming up.
• 23:36
  Sean McAllister: It's it is one trillion bucks.
• 23:40
  Dayna Roselli: Wow, and that's up from in this article, it says 476 billion.
• 23:44
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a big difference.
• 23:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, just last year.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, in 2022.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: So as you can imagine, uh, you know, compiling all that money, you you might say, Well, who is spending on this?
• 23:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's rich people, yeah.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: This is a luxury market, it sure is, and I guess it gets those, you know, people here who say, Well, I'm not going to Vegas because you know, they're just about a different kind of lifestyle.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: They they attach Vegas to go party, stay up late, gamble, drink.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: But maybe there's a group of people who want to do that, but there are some or a partner who's like, What am I gonna do while you're doing that?
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 24:24
  Sean McAllister: It gives you that option, right?
• 24:25
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, I know that uh the Cosmopolitan offers super high-intensity workouts for their guests, and they also have offered in the past yoga up on the pool deck in the morning.
• 24:40
  Sean McAllister: The High Roller has offered yoga rides.
• 24:43
  Sean McAllister: You get into a pod and do yoga as you take that half-hour spin around the observation wheel and have you know the Las Vegas Valley as your backdrop.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: So there are things out there, right?
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: There are.
• 24:58
  Sean McAllister: Not for you?
• 24:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, no, not for me.
• 24:59
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not, I mean, if I was gonna come to Vegas, I'm not going to do yoga and meditate.
• 25:05
  Sean McAllister: Just pop a few goalie gummies, right?
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: All right, but see, as we switch gears, let's talk bourbon.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: That's the next topic on our list.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: Let's.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: So, John Taffer, who a lot of people know from the really popular show Bar Rescue, where he goes into struggling restaurants, reconfigures things, and makes them successful again.
• 25:27
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 25:27
  Sean McAllister: Uh, he lives here in Las Vegas, does a lot in the community.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: He has restaurants all over the country, a lot on the East Coast that just opened.
• 25:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but he also has just come out with John Taffer's browned butter bourbon.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: I must say it sounds good.
• 25:46
  Dayna Roselli: And they sent a bottle to the office.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: We opened up the box, it's a nice bottle, and it came with all these different recipes.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: Because for me, I'm I'm like, what do I make?
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: You know, what kind of drinks do I make with bourbon?
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: So, so what do we make?
• 25:59
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 26:00
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we have a Manhattan, we have an old-fashioned on here.
• 26:04
  Sean McAllister: Something that I was surprised to see there's a recipe for an espresso martini made with brown buttered bourbon.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, we might need to make that.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: That sounds delicious.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: I've never heard of that.
• 26:16
  Sean McAllister: I I never knew.
• 26:18
  Sean McAllister: I always just use like vodka and rum taste things.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, why don't we read it off real quick then?
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: Because I'm curious.
• 26:25
  Sean McAllister: Well, I need to scan the QR code first.
• 26:27
  Sean McAllister: Oh, okay.
• 26:28
  Sean McAllister: I have pictures that I'm gonna do.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay, you've got pictures.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: Well, maybe we'll all right.
• 26:31
  Dayna Roselli: He's gonna scan the QR code.
• 26:33
  Sean McAllister: Here's the espresso martini.
• 26:35
  Sean McAllister: They say it is the perfect pick-me-up um to take your espresso martini to the next level.
• 26:43
  Sean McAllister: And it is bourbon, espresso, and coffee liqueur.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, and that's it.
• 26:48
  Sean McAllister: That's it.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder what that tastes like.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
• 26:51
  Sean McAllister: I think it's going to be absolutely delicious.
• 26:53
  Sean McAllister: I kind of want to go make one right now.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: We may have to do that right after this.
• 27:00
  Dayna Roselli: Right after this.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe we can get John Taffer and his bourbon to sponsor our podcast.
• 27:05
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: So that we can sip on espresso bourbon martinis.
• 27:09
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I'd be down.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: I'd be down too.
• 27:12
  Sean McAllister: Uh, right now, uh, John Taffer's browned buttered bourbon is available in Massachusetts and Nevada.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 27:19
  Sean McAllister: I'm sure he's going to be expanding the reach of this very, very soon.
• 27:24
  Sean McAllister: So stay tuned.
• 27:25
  Sean McAllister: You can go to Taffer's Brown Butterbourbon.com to stay on top of all things and get these cocktail recipes.
• 27:34
  Sean McAllister: I can't wait to go to the event and talk to John next week.
• 27:37
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 27:38
  Dayna Roselli: Sounds good.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, listen, quickly, if you've got kids, or well, maybe you want.
• 27:44
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if this is for kids only, actually.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but the mermaid school is back at the Silverton.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there might be some adults who want to be a mermaid school.
• 27:52
  Sean McAllister: Poor mermaids at heart.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: Well, the kids swim with the adult mermaid, I guess.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't know if you've ever dreamed about being a mermaid.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: This is a really cool opportunity that they have over there at the Silverton casino.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: It's this 90-minute experience.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: Oh no, fan ages seven to adult are transformed into the famed Silverton mermaid and swim in the casino's 117,000-gallon aquarium, along with thousands of tropical fish and rays.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: And you get a warm-up class, you get a swim session, a certificate that you've completed it, a celebratory scoop of gelato for the kids and a mimosa for the adults.
• 28:34
  Dayna Roselli: So at least it's after.
• 28:35
  Dayna Roselli: We nobody wants a drunk mermaid.
• 28:37
  Sean McAllister: No, nobody does.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: In the tank.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, mermaid school is going to be held on select days from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
• 28:45
  Dayna Roselli: And you can make reservations by going over to the Silverton website.
• 28:49
  Dayna Roselli: But I wanted to mention that because it is a really cool and different experience that they offer over there at the Silverton casino.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, for sure.
• 28:57
  Sean McAllister: Hey, let's do tips.
• 29:02
  Sean McAllister: Dana, this first tip is something I'm super excited about because bacon is like one of my all-time favorite things to eat.
• 29:10
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 29:10
  Dayna Roselli: How have we not been yet to Bacon Nation at the D?
• 29:13
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 29:13
  Sean McAllister: We need to, though, because now they are doing an endless brunch at Bacon Nation on Saturdays and Sundays.
• 29:22
  Sean McAllister: For$29.99, you get access to their entire food menu, their entire brunch food menu.
• 29:29
  Sean McAllister: Like bottomless?
• 29:30
  Sean McAllister: Bottomless, endless, which is great for$30.
• 29:34
  Sean McAllister: All the bait.
• 29:34
  Dayna Roselli: I was looking at the different kinds of bacon.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: They have everything there.
• 29:38
  Sean McAllister: They do.
• 29:38
  Dayna Roselli: Like honey, buffalo, barbecue, lemon pepper, everything.
• 29:43
  Sean McAllister: And they've got other things.
• 29:45
  Sean McAllister: They have egg dishes as well, and pancakes and French toast.
• 29:49
  Sean McAllister: They have such yummy stuff.
• 29:51
  Sean McAllister: Um, so for$29.99, you get the food menu.
• 29:54
  Sean McAllister: For an additional$29.99, you get to choose between bottomless mimosas or bottomless bloody Marys as well.
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 30:02
  Sean McAllister: And it's that's a pretty good deal.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's noon to five on Saturdays and Sundays.
• 30:07
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, you could sit there from noon to five.
• 30:10
  Sean McAllister: I mean, to take advantage of it, absolutely.
• 30:13
  Dayna Roselli: If you want a day drink, right?
• 30:15
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but the brunch sounds great, that's for sure.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, a lot of people down there that hang out in the downtown area um love to hit up some new places.
• 30:26
  Dayna Roselli: Derek Stevens, you know, he has circa and the D, and he is always open in really cool, unique spots.
• 30:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm sure you'll see Derek hanging out around there too.
• 30:36
  Sean McAllister: Bacon Nation, Endless Brunch.
• 30:38
  Sean McAllister: Hit it up.
• 30:39
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, here's a really good tip for those of you who either love Donnie Osmond or have not seen Donnie's show yet at Hara's Las Vegas.
• 30:50
  Dayna Roselli: He's doing 50% off tickets, John.
• 30:53
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 30:54
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: And this is if you book uh, well, he's got shows all the way through.
• 30:58
  Dayna Roselli: I think he said mid-November.
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: And so he said, you know, Caesars is letting him do this 50% discount.
• 31:04
  Dayna Roselli: And you can book the tickets between now and May 27th.
• 31:09
  Sean McAllister: So it's a limited time.
• 31:11
  Dayna Roselli: Limited time to book it, but you don't have to go now.
• 31:14
  Dayna Roselli: So you can book for November, but you have to do it by May 27th.
• 31:18
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 31:18
  Sean McAllister: So if you know you're coming to Las Vegas at any time between now and almost the end of the year, yeah, uh, get your tickets to Donnie Osman now because you will not see another deal like this.
• 31:32
  Dayna Roselli: 50% off.
• 31:33
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the code.
• 31:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's Mother's Day because he announced this right around Mother's Day.
• 31:37
  Dayna Roselli: So it's all caps and it's Mother's Day.
• 31:39
  Dayna Roselli: Put that in when you go to buy your tickets and you will get 50% off as long as you do it before May 27th.
• 31:45
  Dayna Roselli: We loved the show.
• 31:47
  Sean McAllister: We did.
• 31:47
  Sean McAllister: And Donnie is just great.
• 31:49
  Dayna Roselli: He is great.
• 31:50
  Dayna Roselli: The his performance is great.
• 31:52
  Dayna Roselli: It's just a really good show.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: We've talked about it before.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: So that's why I said we've got to get this in.
• 31:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's a steal.
• 31:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 31:58
  Sean McAllister: 50% off.
• 31:59
  Sean McAllister: Use code Mother's Day when you're booking Donnie Osman tickets, but you got to do it before May 27th.
• 32:07
  Dayna Roselli: And thanks to our sponsor, Vegas Near Me, you could probably go into Vegas Near Me, look up Harris, look up Donnie Osmond's show in there, and it'll probably bring you right to Donnie's show.
• 32:16
  Dayna Roselli: So you can buy some tickets.
• 32:18
  Dayna Roselli: Um they have everything in there, including over 47,000 YouTube and podcast clips.
• 32:23
  Dayna Roselli: So they do that instead of reviews.
• 32:26
  Dayna Roselli: They compile thousands of these clips where people and podcasts and bloggers and YouTubers actually talk about the spots that you'll see listed in the site.
• 32:36
  Dayna Roselli: So if you want to hear about different people's experiences, it's a great way to do it.
• 32:40
  Sean McAllister: So Vegas Near Me app, it is available right now on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
• 32:47
  Sean McAllister: Download that to your phone uh before you come here to Las Vegas.
• 32:51
  Sean McAllister: We also want to remind you, we would appreciate it if you would be a subscriber and help support Vegas Revealed.
• 32:58
  Sean McAllister: We have that link down in our show notes as well.
• 33:00
  Sean McAllister: Subscriptions start at just$3.
• 33:03
  Sean McAllister: That's less than a cup of coffee.
• 33:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's a really good deal.
• 33:06
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot of links in our show notes lately.
• 33:07
  Dayna Roselli: So go through there.
• 33:08
  Sean McAllister: There's a lot of good stuff.
• 33:09
  Sean McAllister: There really is.
• 33:10
  Dayna Roselli: You know what?
• 33:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I write that up every Friday afternoon.
• 33:12
  Dayna Roselli: And I think, you know what?
• 33:13
  Dayna Roselli: I hope someone's looking at this.
• 33:15
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it's great information.
• 33:17
  Sean McAllister: And it's easy.
• 33:19
  Sean McAllister: The links are provided for just about everything we talk about.
• 33:22
  Sean McAllister: There's a link that takes you directly to what we're talking about.
• 33:26
  Sean McAllister: The show notes are there and they're useful.
• 33:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 33:29
  Dayna Roselli: And links y'all to our social and everything.
• 33:32
  Dayna Roselli: So hey, listen, thanks for joining us.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it was episode 168 we just did, right?
• 33:38
  Dayna Roselli: So we're coming back to episode 169.
• 33:42
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 33:42
  Sean McAllister: We'll see you then.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let's take a holiday.