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Crowds Visit Las Vegas for Holiday Weekend | Ep. 70 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's episode 70, and this is the first big holiday weekend in Las Vegas, and we are expecting massive crowds.
• 0:08
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, we really are.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: And we also have an update on the US and UK travel restrictions.
• 0:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's not looking good for things to kick up anytime soon.
• 0:18
  Sean McAllister: Plus, we have more show announcements rolling in and some shows moving out.
• 0:23
  Dayna Roselli: The list goes on.
• 0:24
  Dayna Roselli: Why don't we just spin the wheel and get started?
• 0:26
  Sean McAllister: Let's do it.
• 0:31
  Sean McAllister: Let's go to Vegas, baby.
• 0:33
  Sean McAllister: Let's go and get it.
• 0:35
  Sean McAllister: Let's go to Vegas.
• 0:37
  Sean McAllister: Let's stay to finite.
• 0:39
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 70.
• 0:42
  Dayna Roselli: We have finally, I don't know, we're in retirement, Sean?
• 0:46
  Dayna Roselli: 70?
• 0:47
  Sean McAllister: 70, yeah.
• 0:49
  Sean McAllister: Well into retirement.
• 0:50
  Dayna Roselli: Well into retirement.
• 0:51
  Dayna Roselli: I'm Dana Roselli, along with Sean McAllister.
• 0:54
  Dayna Roselli: And boy, we're feeling a little loopy because we were just going over the number of things we need to talk about that are going on in Las Vegas, and it's insane.
• 1:01
  Sean McAllister: I mean, so here's the deal.
• 1:03
  Sean McAllister: For the past 14 months, almost 15 months at this point, we have been waiting for a ton of stuff to talk about in Las Vegas because obviously over the past year everything was shut down.
• 1:17
  Sean McAllister: Well, now there is just too much to talk about.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: Too much to talk about.
• 1:22
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:23
  Dayna Roselli: But we've got, you know, a lot of information.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're you're tuning in and you're curious about what's going on in Las Vegas at the moment, get ready, buckle up, and here we go.
• 1:35
  Sean McAllister: I think this is going to be kind of a rapid fire episode.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:38
  Dayna Roselli: Because we're like, yeah, we need to hit that, we need to hit that, we need to hit this.
• 1:41
  Dayna Roselli: But something that we did mention is obviously it is Memorial Day weekend here in the United States, and obviously that for some reason is always kind of the kickoff to summer, and people take the long weekend and they go away.
• 1:55
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people um especially do like driving trips.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: And Las Vegas right now is very much a driving destination for a lot of people on the West Coast, and already traffic has started on our kind of section there in between Los Angeles and Las Vegas earlier in the week.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: We're recording this on a Friday.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: You are listening to it Saturday and after, but this current weekend, even the traffic buildup the week before has been massive.
• 2:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's been absolutely nuts.
• 2:23
  Sean McAllister: I've seen uh throughout the week the traffic just starting to pick up coming in from Southern California and even from Arizona, too.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: So we know that there are going to be big crowds here in Las Vegas for Memorial Day weekend, which is really the first big holiday that we've had since uh things have started to open up a little bit.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, our numbers have already been up, which is great.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: And then a lot of people that are locals are going, uh man, I'm you know, I'm gonna like stay away from the strip a little bit this weekend because they expect us to have so many visitors, and everyone feels like everyone just wants to let loose, so it could be a little, you know, a little crazier than normal, maybe.
• 3:09
  Sean McAllister: Well, Las Vegas is uh one of the top driving destinations for Memorial Day weekend, so they are expecting things to be absolutely nuts.
• 3:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh Triple A uh came out with its holiday weekend report saying that they've seen a 60% increase in travel over Memorial Day weekend.
• 3:30
  Sean McAllister: So there is going to be heavy traffic coming in and out.
• 3:35
  Sean McAllister: And um, I think if you are one of those drivers and you are stuck on the 15 right now and you're listening to Vegas Revealed, well, thanks.
• 3:46
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks.
• 3:47
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's list off the things that we have going on, right?
• 3:50
  Sean McAllister: Let's do it.
• 3:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, well, first of all, we have a lot of things coming up, and so when we say say announcements sometimes, it's things that are announced but actually aren't happening yet because they're, you know, they do this well, well in advance now.
• 4:01
  Dayna Roselli: We're talking about, you know, a bunch of shows that are coming back here in Las Vegas.
• 4:05
  Dayna Roselli: So we've got Gwen Stefani returning to Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, which is a big deal.
• 4:09
  Dayna Roselli: She's gonna do her um just a girl residency from October 22nd to November 6th.
• 4:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I wasn't sure if she was gonna be coming back, but she is.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:20
  Dayna Roselli: Her show's great.
• 4:21
  Sean McAllister: And also over at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood, Shania Twain has announced her return to the stage over there.
• 4:29
  Sean McAllister: And it was actually last March when Shania was doing her run of shows that uh the emails started going out that the next day Las Vegas was effectively going to be shut down.
• 4:43
  Sean McAllister: That shows were going to stop, restaurants were closing, everything was pretty much stopping.
• 4:49
  Sean McAllister: So Shania was one of the last entertainers on stage uh before Las Vegas went dark, and now we're getting the news that she will be back.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: Of course, she's a a global icon, country superstar, and it's a great show.
• 5:04
  Dayna Roselli: And I never saw her at Zappo, so I saw her at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: You saw her at Zappo's Theater, right?
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: I remember us chatting about this.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yes and you enjoyed that show.
• 5:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I thought it was great.
• 5:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 5:13
  Sean McAllister: It was a fun show.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: And then we've talked about the resorts world shows that have been announced in the theater that isn't opening when the resort opens on June 24th.
• 5:21
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be later, what did we say, August-ish in the fall, maybe November.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: November.
• 5:26
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, right.
• 5:26
  Dayna Roselli: The nightclubs in August or the fall and then the theater, November.
• 5:30
  Dayna Roselli: But we talked about Celine Dion and Carrie Underwood adding shows already because tickets went on sale and the sales were so fantastic.
• 5:38
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Luke Bryan has now announced he's adding shows too.
• 5:42
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, obviously everyone's selling really well over there at Resorts World, which hasn't even opened yet.
• 5:46
  Sean McAllister: And I think Katy Perry has added additional shows as well.
• 5:50
  Sean McAllister: Her performances start uh in December.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: Right, Chris around Christmas, right?
• 5:55
  Dayna Roselli: Right into New Year's.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um Dre's Beach Club opening and nightclub.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: They announced uh the grand reopening, and this will be June 4th, okay?
• 6:04
  Dayna Roselli: So not just yet, but coming up next week.
• 6:07
  Dayna Roselli: And they have a whole weekend plan, you know.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: We everyone's having these grand reopenings because it's exciting that, you know, they've been closed for so long and they're able to kind of get back to what they did before.
• 6:18
  Sean McAllister: And Dre's is just one of the beach clubs and pool venues that are going to be absolutely I mean, pecked to the gills this Memorial Day weekend.
• 6:30
  Sean McAllister: Uh people are gonna be out there because it's gonna be hot.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Right, it is gonna be hot.
• 6:34
  Sean McAllister: We're like hovering right around the hundred degree mark already.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: Already, yeah.
• 6:39
  Sean McAllister: You know, heading into June.
• 6:40
  Sean McAllister: So it is going to literally and figuratively be one hell of a hot summer here in Las Vegas.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, next weekend we're looking at Thursday, hitting around 107 in certain parts of the valley.
• 6:52
  Dayna Roselli: Woo, I know.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: And just so people know, Dre's Beach Club sits on top of the Cromwell.
• 6:57
  Sean McAllister: Right, right at the corner there of uh Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 7:01
  Sean McAllister: So it's a fun spot and a beautiful view at night.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: It really, really is.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, and then comedian Daniel Tosh is doing some stand-up at the CA Theater at the MGM Grand, and that's gonna take place on August 14th.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: That show's scheduled for 7:30.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: I know a lot of people like Daniel Tosh.
• 7:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so the the shows are coming back, and one of the shows that has been back for a little bit now is uh magician Matt Franco.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: His show, Reinvented Nightly, has uh once again started to reinvent itself nightly over at the link.
• 7:35
  Sean McAllister: And we popped over there and saw the show the other night, Dana.
• 7:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, some incredible magic.
• 7:40
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, really, sometimes you just which is the point, you know, of going to a magic show when you're wowed and you're like, how did you do that?
• 7:47
  Dayna Roselli: But that was what we kept saying through the whole show.
• 7:49
  Dayna Roselli: But uh the one thing I really wanted to point out was the showroom setup.
• 7:53
  Dayna Roselli: I loved it.
• 7:54
  Dayna Roselli: It was like the seats.
• 7:55
  Dayna Roselli: If you were just it was two people, they had you in two seats next to each other, comfortable seating, and then tons of space until the next two, and then the next two, and then other people that were in threes or fours, they were grouped together.
• 8:09
  Dayna Roselli: So I loved the spread out of that showroom.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: They did a great job.
• 8:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they did.
• 8:13
  Sean McAllister: And even the people down in the the first tier of the the theater closest to the stage, they had like lounge, like club lounge chairs that they were in.
• 8:25
  Sean McAllister: That looked super comfy.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 8:27
  Sean McAllister: The chairs that we were in, you know, that was nice seating too, and it was all staggered.
• 8:32
  Sean McAllister: Um, they did, they did a really great job.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: And I I think the trick that you, Matt's trick that you liked the most was when he kept making wine bottles appear.
• 8:42
  Sean McAllister: That's true though.
• 8:43
  Dayna Roselli: I did.
• 8:44
  Dayna Roselli: Well, because they're heavy bottles.
• 8:45
  Dayna Roselli: Like, how did those appear?
• 8:47
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, that was incredible.
• 8:49
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, there's so many other things I could talk about, but I also know as a magician having a show, you want people to have the element of surprise.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: So we could go down a rundown of different things he did, but we want to leave that, you know, for people to go and and be wild themselves.
• 9:03
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, that wine bottle one was that was killer.
• 9:06
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 9:07
  Sean McAllister: That was that was great.
• 9:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, so Matt Franco is back.
• 9:11
  Sean McAllister: Uh something that's not entertainment related, but can help you get around the city a little bit more, especially the the strip corridor, the Las Vegas monorail has resumed its normal daily functions.
• 9:25
  Dayna Roselli: It's so exciting.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: I live right near one of the monorail stations, and I always used to see the monorail go back and forth, and it's colorful.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: There's different ones, they have different kinds of wraps.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I just saw it parked there for a year, collecting dust, and it was sad.
• 9:39
  Dayna Roselli: It was like, wow, things aren't even moving, you know.
• 9:42
  Dayna Roselli: But now the monorail is back.
• 9:44
  Dayna Roselli: So, yes, it's really exciting for those folks that are gonna be going to conventions that are, you know, coming back in small doses, but the world of concrete kicks off on June 8th to the 10th.
• 9:54
  Dayna Roselli: So this will help because the monorail starts at the Sahara, yep, and then you know, goes south through a bunch of different stops along the way, but it also gets people back and forth to the convention center.
• 10:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it really is convenient, even for uh major events that happen uh on the strip.
• 10:14
  Sean McAllister: A lot of times I'll park over at the convention center, get on the monorail, and then uh take it to one of the stops in the middle of the strip, usually like balleys or something, and uh get off the monorail and make it super easy so that driving in and out, traffic can be obviously, you know, if you've been here, you know that traffic on the Las Vegas strip uh it's a bit of a nightmare sometimes.
• 10:40
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 10:40
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, for those of us who live here and want to get on and off the strip pretty easily, the monorail really does afford some great options.
• 10:50
  Dayna Roselli: And it's really cheap.
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: So cheap.
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: I think like a dollar fifty it's for some stops.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, it's a really, really great option.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: And especially when people come visit, they they enjoy that too.
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, the monorail's back and we love it.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: And speaking of conventions, something I wanted to mention the nightclub and bar show is going to be returning to Las Vegas June 28th to the 30th.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: So we welcome them back.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean and I are actually gonna be on one of the panels.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: So we're excited to be a part of that.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: We're still waiting on what day and time slot we're gonna, but uh, we were invited to speak and we hope to answer everyone's burning questions.
• 11:29
  Sean McAllister: And we're we're gonna be talking uh specifically with some smaller uh bar and nightclub owners from across the country and around the world, and offering some insights on how they can effectively market their their business without having to go through the big expense of hiring PR companies and big marketing companies.
• 11:53
  Sean McAllister: And you know, we have that's what Dana and I do on a day-to-day basis is help small businesses out and help them create content to get the word out about what they do.
• 12:04
  Sean McAllister: So we're going to uh be imparting some of our knowledge.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: We'll see how we do, right?
• 12:12
  Dayna Roselli: But I I think we're gonna get a lot of good questions.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: And I think sometimes when you and I talk about these types of things, even having our journalism background and the ones who receive press releases to newsrooms and go, is this worth coverage?
• 12:24
  Dayna Roselli: Even that background, it's all gonna be helpful.
• 12:26
  Dayna Roselli: But you and I talk about things like this all the time, and it seems so normal, but to other people, it they find it really interesting of how they can get, you know, free and essentially we all want ways to have free coverage, right?
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: Absolutely.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: So so yeah, we look forward to to definitely uh doing that one.
• 12:43
  Dayna Roselli: Something else we wanted to chat about was the US and UK travel restrictions.
• 12:50
  Sean McAllister: Oh man.
• 12:51
  Dayna Roselli: A bunch of articles this week came out, one of them in Forbes.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: It says the US has no plans to change the travel policy at the moment, because there was a lot of talk about the UK and US lifting some of these restrictions kind of like mid-May.
• 13:09
  Dayna Roselli: That never happened, and now we aren't really sure if it's gonna happen in June, but there's more talk of it being pushed toward mid-July, so it's a ways off yet.
• 13:20
  Sean McAllister: It is, and I think the uh visitor numbers that we're getting from McCarran Airport, that's our international airport here in Las Vegas, uh, they are very indicative of the state of affairs with uh foreign travel just in the month of April, it is down ninety percent compared to April of 2019.
• 13:43
  Sean McAllister: So April 2019, we were still that was pre-pandemic, and uh we had uh 90% fewer travelers coming in just this past April, just a month ago.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, that shows how how slow uh international travel has been to uh pick back up, and of course, across Europe and into Asia, uh there's uh been such a slow rollout of uh the vaccine.
• 14:15
  Sean McAllister: And so people are just having such trouble getting vaccinated, and there's new waves of sickness that are happening.
• 14:22
  Sean McAllister: So really hoping that that gets uh under control for all of our friends overseas uh to obviously, first of all, stay healthy, but you know, as a result of that to be able to travel again.
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: And and it listen, I think, you know, putting a lot of thought into whether to lift this makes sense.
• 14:41
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you know, if if a lot of people from other countries are coming here, they're not vaccinated, we don't want to go loosey goosey again, basically, you know.
• 14:52
  Dayna Roselli: So, and then vice versa for the you know, us, the people from the United States going to England.
• 14:57
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe they want to visit London or things like that.
• 14:59
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, we need to be careful, and I know they're looking over, I guess the you know, the pressure's on for timelines, is what the article says, is they're asking, you know, uh the United States, the EU, the UK, everyone to kind of give a timeline so that people can plan.
• 15:12
  Dayna Roselli: Because we all like a plan.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I mean it but that's the tough thing.
• 15:17
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, is that when there's a a situation like we're in now, you can't really put a timeline on a pandemic.
• 15:24
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 15:25
  Sean McAllister: That kind of runs its course.
• 15:27
  Sean McAllister: And obviously there's you know, medical intervention to try and you know, squash it and make the pandemic be over with as quickly as possible.
• 15:36
  Sean McAllister: But you know, when there are hiccups in the vaccine rollout and when doses aren't available, and you know, that that muddies up the waters and makes it really hard to put a definitive timeline on when things like travel can open up again.
• 15:53
  Sean McAllister: We can just cross our fingers and hope that it's sooner than later.
• 15:57
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and it's so true.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, most people recently who have gone to the airport say, Man, it's packed.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: And so if those numbers confuse you, our terminal three is where a lot of our international tra oh, all of our international travel pretty much happens.
• 16:10
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a separate terminal.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: So when people are going to terminal one, it's a lot of the domestic travel.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, terminal one is busy, but I have a feeling terminal three, you could hear pin drop.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: Oh, absolutely, and that's a big terminal too.
• 16:24
  Sean McAllister: But speaking of domestic travel, you know, in that same time period, April of uh this this year, April 2021, Las Vegas uh the airport saw 2.9 million visitors coming through.
• 16:41
  Sean McAllister: And that's a good rebound number.
• 16:44
  Sean McAllister: The number in uh April of 2019 was 4.2 million visitors, so we are still down about you know 30 percent from where we were pre-pandemic, but having nearly three million visitors coming back just in April, that's a good sign.
• 17:04
  Sean McAllister: And I know that Memorial Day weekend is gonna pump the numbers up for May and the beginning of June, also, right?
• 17:10
  Dayna Roselli: So and and this is without international travel, so pretty good.
• 17:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's essentially taking international travel out of the mix.
• 17:18
  Sean McAllister: But uh Southwest Airlines seems to be the uh carrier that's bringing in the most people.
• 17:24
  Sean McAllister: In April, they had over a million visitors that were just traveling on Southwest, and the other carriers were around the 300,000 mark.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and and you know, Southwest is one of our, I think it is our biggest carrier within the United States at McCarron.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: When are we changing the name of McCarran, by the way?
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: Are we still calling it McCarron?
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: Because it's changed into the isn't it changing to the Harry Reid airport or something?
• 17:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: We'll get into that another time.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: All right, I wasn't sure.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: I went there the other day and I saw the signage still McCarran and I thought, when was the switch?
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: Because I thought there was a vote on that.
• 17:56
  Dayna Roselli: I'm I'm happy to just call it what I know it as.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: The Las Vegas International Airport.
• 18:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that.
• 18:03
  Sean McAllister: Well, the these new figures that we just uh had arrive in our uh inbox still say McCarran.
• 18:09
  Sean McAllister: So we're still going with McCarran.
• 18:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, something we like to talk about, as you can tell in this podcast, um, especially this one, is the firsts, because we have a lot of firsts, first big holiday weekend, and something that happened just recently was the first big event in downtown Las Vegas.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:29
  Dayna Roselli: This was incredible.
• 18:30
  Dayna Roselli: 10,000 people packed the Las Vegas Events Center for the Dead Mouse concert.
• 18:38
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, this was a huge event, and it it seems like it almost kind of popped up out of nowhere.
• 18:44
  Sean McAllister: I feel like there was a really quick turnaround from the time that this concert was announced to the time that it happened just this past week.
• 18:52
  Sean McAllister: But it was wild seeing the downtown Las Vegas event center absolutely packed shoulder to shoulder with 10,000 fans of EDM music.
• 19:04
  Sean McAllister: And it it seemed to have gone off without a hitch.
• 19:07
  Sean McAllister: I know that there were long lines getting in because they were uh checking for vaccination cards and all that type of thing.
• 19:15
  Sean McAllister: So it I saw people posting on social media that it was a slow process to get people in, but once they were in there, it seemed like everything went smooth and people had a great time.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and I'm looking at some of the videos and I'm going, wow, I mean, they were close.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know if we'd ever see something like this again.
• 19:34
  Sean McAllister: I know, and it's a promising sign to see that an event of that scale could be pulled off in such a successful way.
• 19:42
  Sean McAllister: And kudos to Derek Stevens, who runs the D, the Golden Gate, Circa Las Vegas, and the downtown Las Vegas Event Center for putting this together.
• 19:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he always finds ways to he likes to be first.
• 19:54
  Sean McAllister: He does.
• 19:55
  Dayna Roselli: First is like his middle name.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: Derek First Stevens.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: He likes to be the first uh when it comes to trying things out, and always finds a way to pull it off.
• 20:06
  Dayna Roselli: And it seemed like everyone had a good time, didn't hear about any really negative things happening.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: So we love that.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: We love it, you know.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: Let's have more of that.
• 20:14
  Sean McAllister: And and sticking uh in downtown Las Vegas, uh, the Fremont Street Experience has announced that it is, you know, bringing back the live concerts, live entertainment down on Fremont Street, which is super exciting, especially for all of our local entertainers.
• 20:31
  Sean McAllister: And I know that we talk a lot about the local entertainers, but they really are the backbone of the entertainment uh scene here in our city.
• 20:41
  Sean McAllister: We have these big headliners that are, you know, national and international superstars, but uh the entertainers who live here in Las Vegas who that's their day-to-day job is to entertain.
• 20:54
  Sean McAllister: You know, Fremont Street is opening up venues and making it possible for them to get back on the stage and do what they do.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: And we mentioned at the top of the show that some shows are moving out.
• 21:06
  Dayna Roselli: We mentioned it last week that some of the smaller shows that have been part of the Caesars Entertainment family for a long time, are not going to be, you know, doing shows anymore because they're closing those smaller showrooms for now.
• 21:21
  Dayna Roselli: So we mentioned Anthony Cools was moving out.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: We saw some Instagram posts there.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: His show, the uncensored hypnotist show at Paris ended.
• 21:31
  Dayna Roselli: He's looking for hopefully a new home so that he can continue.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: We don't know if that will happen or or what his plans are.
• 21:37
  Dayna Roselli: But just this week I saw the Bronx Wanderers moving out of Harris, too, and they were showing like their elevator that, you know, they said, I don't know when we'll see our name, you know, our faces on an elevator again anytime soon.
• 21:47
  Dayna Roselli: But, you know, they were moving all the equipment out, and so it's sad to see a lot of these shows move out.
• 21:54
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: And there's been a lot of conversation on Twitter, people going back and forth, you know, especially the people that that live here and work here saying, you know, these guys kind of feel like they're getting just like, you know, pushed out the back door.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, I know there's a business plan and there's a model, but I think we're what's gonna happen is we are going to miss these smaller shows, and they will be back.
• 22:17
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think it's part of the wave that we've seen in Las Vegas, you know, over the decades.
• 22:23
  Sean McAllister: We've seen waves where there is an emphasis on these type of shows, and then back to the celebrity shows.
• 22:30
  Sean McAllister: Uh it I think it'll all even out eventually, but right now the emphasis seems to be on the bigger headliner names.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, that brings us right to our tips because uh two podcasts ago we interviewed Debbie Gibson, and that podcast is flying off the charts.
• 22:47
  Dayna Roselli: So I wanted to mention that I got an email from Venetian about some of their suite deals and their hotel room deals, and I noticed on the announcement for Debbie Gibson and Joey McIntyre's show at the Venetian that it said more dates coming soon.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: So heads up, everyone, that more dates, it seems like will be announced for that show that is selling really well.
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: I can't wait to see them together on stage.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: And side note, Debbie Gibson is in the latest episode of Lucifer on Netflix.
• 23:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's now live, so check her out in that show as well.
• 23:19
  Dayna Roselli: She does kind of like a musical episode there.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, something else I wanted to mention is keep an eye out for my deluxe version article on the nightlife and daylife at Resorts World.
• 23:31
  Dayna Roselli: I interviewed the vice president of Lifestyle Marketing for Resorts World.
• 23:35
  Dayna Roselli: He gives me the whole rundown of incredible DJs that they have lined up for the summer and the fall.
• 23:42
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 23:43
  Sean McAllister: And uh my tip of the week is about the Hard Rock Cafe on the strip.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: It sits right there across the street from New York, New York.
• 23:51
  Sean McAllister: They're about to celebrate their 50th anniversary of Hard Rock Cafes all around the world.
• 23:57
  Sean McAllister: Dana and I are going to be part of the celebration here in Las Vegas that is coming up in the middle of June, and we'll have more details on the date, time, all that for you coming up next week here on the podcast.
• 24:09
  Dayna Roselli: Can't wait to host that.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: It should be great.
• 24:11
  Dayna Roselli: All right, everyone, we are out.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: I've got to go catch up on the Friends Reunion.
• 24:15
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone's watched it besides me.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: It's so good.
• 24:19
  Sean McAllister: Get the tissues ready.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: The tissues are ready.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
• 24:23
  Sean McAllister: Bye.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: Let's go.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Let's go.