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Villa Azur Opens, Liberace Avenue has Arrived, Mirage Changing to Hard Rock Details, New Casino Opening in 2023, Fremont Street Plans NYE Party with Iconic Bands, Bally's Changes Over to Horseshoe | Ep. 148 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:01
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to episode 148 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:04
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you've heard of a supper club, but how about a dinner party?
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like you don't dress up to go out anymore.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I think this is a place.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: We wanted to achieve something elegant when you dress up, when you wear, when you wear a nice dress.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see inside it's the service, the way the service are dressed.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: Everything is to impress.
• 0:24
  Dayna Roselli: We were there as the latest dining destination opened on the strip.
• 0:38
  Dayna Roselli: A Vegas strip mainstay has a new look and a new name, plus the New Year's Eve party with eight iconic bands.
• 0:45
  Sean McAllister: All that and more coming up right now on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:50
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• 2:07
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to episode 148 of Vegas Revealed.
• 2:10
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli here along with Sean McAllister.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: And just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone for listening to us all year long.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, we're like rolling right toward the end of the year.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: We've got this podcast and one more that will drop on New Year's Eve.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: Then that's a wrap.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: Yes, season four is knocking right on the door, coming up in 2023.
• 2:35
  Sean McAllister: Uh, this is the last episode until New Year's Eve.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: So we're dropping one on New Year's Eve, but then, you know, it'll run all week, and so it'll kind of be into the new year.
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, we're doing all our kind of end of year stuff here in this podcast.
• 2:50
  Dayna Roselli: We are gonna take a one-week break.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: I'm heading to New York to see my family.
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: We want everyone to enjoy their Christmas, and uh, we've got a lot of projects to wrap up, but uh, we have a lot to talk about today, which is great.
• 3:02
  Dayna Roselli: So this is episode 148.
• 3:03
  Dayna Roselli: Our next one on New Year's Eve will be 149, which is perfect because 150 will come out in the first one of 2023.
• 3:10
  Sean McAllister: I think we talked about uh having a party for episode 150.
• 3:14
  Dayna Roselli: I think we've talked about having a party for every single milestone we've hit and we've never done it.
• 3:19
  Sean McAllister: One of these days.
• 3:20
  Sean McAllister: One of these days.
• 3:22
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we wanted to chat about the Mirage and the Hard Rock.
• 3:25
  Dayna Roselli: We've mentioned it here and there about what's going on over there, but you know, recently they released some more renderings of the new guitar that will go right in front of the Mirage, which will soon be the Hard Rock International.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: So we have like some more details that we wanted to share.
• 3:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so uh already some of the attractions at the Mirage uh have been shut down.
• 3:49
  Sean McAllister: The Siegfried and Roy's Secret Garden and the Dolphin Habitat, which have been hugely popular attractions for years, years and years.
• 3:58
  Sean McAllister: People who have come to Las Vegas with their families growing up have, you know, that's been a part of their Vegas experience.
• 4:06
  Sean McAllister: That's already shut down.
• 4:08
  Sean McAllister: Um and the next thing to go is the iconic Mirage Volcano.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and people seem upset about it that they're getting rid of the volcano.
• 4:18
  Dayna Roselli: The addition is the guitar kind of wing, I should say, uh, with all hotel rooms, which will be placed where the volcano currently is right now.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um people seem upset the volcano's going away.
• 4:31
  Dayna Roselli: And here's what I have to say about that.
• 4:32
  Dayna Roselli: When's the last time you went to the volcano?
• 4:35
  Sean McAllister: Well, I've driven by the volcano several times.
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: Have you like went there and like stood and waited for eruption time?
• 4:43
  Sean McAllister: I think the last time I did that, uh, my nephew was four years old and he's 21 now.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: There you go.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: I think I visited once before I moved here as well.
• 4:56
  Dayna Roselli: That's my point.
• 4:57
  Dayna Roselli: No big deal.
• 4:58
  Dayna Roselli: Love the volcano, and if the tourists love it, uh sad to see it go.
• 5:01
  Dayna Roselli: But I keep seeing all these locals on Twitter like, no, not the volcano.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: Why?
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, when's the last time you've been to the volcano?
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: Like, come on.
• 5:10
  Sean McAllister: Here's the thing that is another attraction that does kind of have sentimental value, though, because the Mirage was the first mega resort that was built on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 5:22
  Sean McAllister: It was built by Steve Wynne before we had the Win and Encore, before we had Bellagio with the fountains.
• 5:30
  Sean McAllister: And the Mirage Volcano was kind of the first big free attraction that was built on the strip.
• 5:38
  Sean McAllister: So it does, I don't know.
• 5:40
  Sean McAllister: I I wish that we could kind of like pick it up and move it to the Neon Museum to be kind of a permanent fixture over.
• 5:48
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 5:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it would be nice if some part of it were able to be saved for future generations and to kind of uh celebrate the history of you know what it means to the city of Las Vegas.
• 6:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I know, you know, Siegfried and Royce Secret Garden and the dolphin habitat.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the dolphin habitat was a great facility, and I know a lot of people will miss that too.
• 6:13
  Dayna Roselli: However, I have seen a lot of people also say about that, like good, because there were a lot of you know animal activists that didn't love that being there.
• 6:19
  Dayna Roselli: So I it's like, you know, there's pluses and negatives of everything, and I think, you know, we're just gonna have to move on from the volcano.
• 6:28
  Dayna Roselli: And the guitar is going up.
• 6:30
  Dayna Roselli: We've seen the renderings.
• 6:31
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, I feel like it keeps getting bigger and bigger in each rendering.
• 6:35
  Dayna Roselli: And it looks big.
• 6:36
  Dayna Roselli: I'm a little tossed about that.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: My mother said to me, What do you think of the guitar?
• 6:40
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's too much.
• 6:41
  Dayna Roselli: I saw the renderings, and I said, Well, here's the thing: I am one of those people who don't love a cheesy theme, okay?
• 6:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, but I also know that that's part of Vegas.
• 6:56
  Dayna Roselli: Like, I do like a lot of the hotels that don't have themes.
• 6:59
  Dayna Roselli: Win, Resorts World, you know, I feel like Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, but I also know that people do love the themes, and that is part of Las Vegas, you know, the Excalibur, the Luxor, Venetian with the Grand, you know, the canal and the the Italy theme and the Paris.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean that we this will add to the that the thematic part of the strip.
• 7:22
  Sean McAllister: It will.
• 7:23
  Sean McAllister: I'm not sure that aesthetically a big glass guitar hotel tower necessarily fits in with the surroundings, especially because so if you're familiar with the kind of architecture of the Las Vegas strip, uh right where the Mirage sits is where there's a bend in Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 7:49
  Sean McAllister: It's straight all the way from Mandalay Bay to the Mirage, and then it kind of like bends to the right as you go up toward the stratosphere.
• 7:58
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 7:58
  Sean McAllister: And that guitar is going to be sitting right at the bend.
• 8:02
  Sean McAllister: So as you're driving north up Las Vegas Boulevard, that giant guitar hotel tower is going to be your view.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 8:11
  Sean McAllister: I don't know how I feel about it.
• 8:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think it's a little large.
• 8:14
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like you're right.
• 8:16
  Dayna Roselli: I wouldn't mind if it was a little smaller.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: Like doesn't the Mirage Tower already have enough hotel rooms?
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I don't know.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: They're going big.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I guess we'll see at the end.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like things change as time goes on when there's like approvals and things, you know, there's been so many.
• 8:30
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, a resorts world member was supposed to be so much bigger, and then they kept scaling back.
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll see what really happens.
• 8:36
  Sean McAllister: Well, and what I didn't mind was at the old Hard Rock Hotel, the one that sat off of the strip at Paradise and Harmon.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: Um, I did like having the giant neon guitar that was there was one out front in front of the Hard Rock Cafe, and then above the valet area, there was another guitar that was just a big guitar sign.
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: Right, does it?
• 9:02
  Sean McAllister: And I thought that was cool, and that's an iconic part of the Hard Rock brand.
• 9:06
  Sean McAllister: So maybe we do that and not a hotel tower.
• 9:10
  Dayna Roselli: But I think that's part of it.
• 9:11
  Dayna Roselli: People want to go stay in the guitar.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna bring in the room sales.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: And it's similar because there are people that are going to love this.
• 9:18
  Dayna Roselli: There are keep in mind.
• 9:19
  Sean McAllister: And it is similar to the uh guitar hotel tower that Hard Rock built down in Florida.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and that's popular, right?
• 9:28
  Sean McAllister: It is popular, very popular.
• 9:29
  Dayna Roselli: I do always see a lot of pictures of that and people visiting.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I think that's a casino too down there, isn't it?
• 9:33
  Sean McAllister: It is, yeah.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:35
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll see.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: We'll keep you posted, but you know, let us know what you think.
• 9:40
  Dayna Roselli: I I feel like until it really happens, size could change.
• 9:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 9:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 9:46
  Sean McAllister: And size matters.
• 9:47
  Sean McAllister: We all know that.
• 9:48
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but uh the headline you still have time to go and enjoy the Mirage Volcano, uh, at least for the next few months.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: I want to see all those locals down there perched up waiting for the volcano.
• 10:02
  Sean McAllister: Tag, do a hashtag VegasRevealed when you post your volcano pictures and videos.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: Please, please tag us.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, we went to a new supper club that opened over at the Venetian, right in the Grand Canal shops the other night.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: We had a blast.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we have some thoughts on this new restaurant location and vibe and all that that we're excited to share.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: It's called Villa Azure, and it's like an upscale European lifestyle with a vibrant Miami touch, is how they're describing it.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: The space of the restaurant.
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: It is, and it's uh almost like mixing a nightclub with uh a high-end trendy restaurant.
• 10:44
  Sean McAllister: It's the marriage of those two worlds, which we haven't really seen anything quite like this here in Las Vegas yet.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:56
  Dayna Roselli: And this includes, which we're gonna get into in just a second, entertainment while you dine.
• 11:02
  Dayna Roselli: So that makes it really cool.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: So we were able to go to the opening and we said, you know what?
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: Can we talk to the CEO?
• 11:09
  Dayna Roselli: So we pulled him aside, Jacobo Jafif.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: He is the CEO of Danko Hospitality, and we had a lot of questions for him.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: And we feel like it's best for him to describe, and then Sean and I will tell you about our experience.
• 11:22
  Sean McAllister: It's exciting.
• 11:22
  Sean McAllister: We're excited to get our first taste of Villa Azure Azure.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: Jacob, how's it going, man?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm good.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Fantastic, man.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for coming.
• 11:31
  Sean McAllister: Of course.
• 11:32
  Sean McAllister: So for people who are uh coming into town and they may come by here, what can they expect?
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: A whole not a lot of entertainment, a lot of amazing food, um entertainment at night, dancers, singers, um, then a fantastic party at night.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like that is kind of coming back in Vegas.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: For a while we had a lot of that, it went kind of went away, and I love that you guys are doing dinner and entertainment.
• 12:02
  Dayna Roselli: Is that part of what you guys have always been known for?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's more like dinner party.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: And we throw a little bit of entertainment.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like people want to watch something incredible while they have while they'll dine, and that's why we show.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: We did a show, we do magicians, singers, um, we have some circuito sole girls, uh, we have a lot of.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not gonna say, like, you need to experience it.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be so incredible.
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: People are gonna enjoy themselves so much.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_01: And the first aspect of the culinary experience, like you're gonna have amazing dinner, amazing dinner, amazing presentation, table side presentation.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we have uh truffle pasta with caviar, we have truffle raviol, we have I know you're seeing I see you, I see you already mouth watering.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm hungry.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: I came ready for dinner.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: You can have a feast, man.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: But you're gonna enjoy it.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna enjoy it.
• 12:55
  Sean McAllister: And so, what is the inspiration behind the menu?
• 12:58
  Sean McAllister: Where do these flavors come from?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's mainly Mediterranean, but it's mainly with a chef.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_01: We we came by to some of the dishes that we love all around the world.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_01: Like you're gonna you're gonna encounter sushi crispy tuna cri, uh crispy tuna rice in a different presentation.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna um you're gonna see truffle raviol, you're gonna see salt crusted fish, you're gonna see meat, you're gonna see Yu steaks, you're gonna see table side preparation of seizure salad from one of my best chefs that is Thomas Keller.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: So I've learned a lot from him, and we try to bring a little bit of his knowledge to this kitchen.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I love that this is kind of like, you know, come to dress to impress and and late night.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: I miss all that stuff.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like maybe it's because of COVID.
• 13:47
  Dayna Roselli: People are going to bed earlier, going out.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: But I'm ready.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: I think everyone's ready, don't you?
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know what's it's fun that you mentioned because I've always said the same thing.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: Like, it's missing something when you dress up to go out.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: Like you don't dress up to go out anymore.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_01: And and I think this is a place we wanted to achieve something elegant when you dress up, when you wear, when you wear a nice dress, you're gonna see inside it's the the service, the the way the servers are dressed.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_01: Everything is to impress.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm pretty sure they're gonna be impressed.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: We've done uh a fantastic job and can't wait for you for every Vegas citizen and every tourist and every people in the world to experience this venue.
• 14:26
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think for me personally, one of the the things that I miss about like the early 2000s in Las Vegas was the ultra lounge experience.
• 14:37
  Sean McAllister: And it seems like you're kind of bringing back the ultra uh the ultra lounge, but mixing some really elevated dining in with that.
• 14:46
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 14:46
  Sean McAllister: That's it.
• 14:47
  Sean McAllister: You mentioned it.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: It is what done! End of interview.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: End of interview, that's it.
• 14:53
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, real quick, describe the inside, the look of it for us.
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna have videos on our social media, but for anyone that's listening, what's the vibe inside?
• 15:01
  Dayna Roselli: What's the look?
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_01: So we inspired, I love trees.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Trees is a fruit of life, it's it's life, it's it's air.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: So in every restaurant we own, we put a trees, we put plants on the ceiling, and the light setting is so fantastic.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna white as soon as you walk in, you're gonna see a beautiful tree, white tree on the center, illuminated with different colors.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see all the ceiling changing colors at certain point of night.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see a decor of floral on the ceiling that changes color.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, the light goes down, and this is something nice.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: You will never see a chandelier in Vegas or in the world like this.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: We customated in um in Egypt, it's 3,000 crystals, handmade, the chandelier, and it covers almost all the bar.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_01: So it's massive, massive.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: It changes color, and it's fantastic.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's beautiful the place.
• 15:59
  Sean McAllister: I'm glad I asked.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: I'm glad I asked.
• 16:02
  Sean McAllister: And yeah, you have showgirls at the entrance right now.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: You have feathers, you have flowers, you have the trees inside.
• 16:09
  Sean McAllister: We're excited to experience everything that you've brought here, and we're here too.
• 16:15
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for having us.
• 16:16
  Sean McAllister: We appreciate it.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's incredible.
• 16:17
  Sean McAllister: Thank you for having me.
• 16:18
  Dayna Roselli: So then we did head inside.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: So now let's talk about our experience.
• 16:22
  Sean McAllister: It was like no other dinner I have ever had in my life.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: When when we heard, like, you know, it was gonna be another kind of you know, supperish club, you know, Villa Azore is different.
• 16:36
  Dayna Roselli: And just like Jacobo said, it is a dinner party.
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: We experienced a night that started one way and ended another, and that was actually the really cool part of it.
• 16:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you know what?
• 16:48
  Sean McAllister: I don't even think I would call it a dinner party, I would call it a party dinner.
• 16:53
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 16:54
  Sean McAllister: I would flip those around.
• 16:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: Because man, there is live entertainment.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: Uh like early in the evening, there's a singer that goes around the room, a saxophonist moved around, there's a DJ up in there, up in the DJ booth.
• 17:10
  Sean McAllister: But as the night went on, like it turned into a club.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: It did.
• 17:16
  Sean McAllister: And the table right next to us, I don't think the people were sitting down for more than two minutes.
• 17:24
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I know.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and he did mention the the colors change on the floor and the ceiling, and that's what started happening as the night went on.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: But first of all, let's hit on the singer.
• 17:33
  Sean McAllister: She was great, she was phenomenal.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: She worked each table.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: She actually worked around the room, and the songs that she sang, she went from like Amy Winehouse to like a fun song from Bruno Mars.
• 17:45
  Sean McAllister: The 80s.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, then Bruno Mars.
• 17:47
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, she was fabulous and so much fun, really enjoyable.
• 17:51
  Sean McAllister: And there were so many times I was thinking, I was like, is this like a song that the DJ is playing?
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 17:57
  Sean McAllister: And then I looked around, I was like, oh my God, no, this is the singer.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: She was fantastic.
• 18:02
  Sean McAllister: She was fantastic.
• 18:03
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of how the night started.
• 18:06
  Dayna Roselli: And then we had cocktails and appetizers and dinner, and then the DJ kind of, you know, started kicking up the table.
• 18:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: And people were standing up, you know, their napkins were in the air.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Whipping them around.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: And it was fun.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: We've seen uh some other people that went on opening nights saying, well, you know, it's a little difficult to hear each other.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that's not what you're there for later in the night.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: So here's what I loved about it.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: We have supper clubs like Mayfair Supper Club at the Bellagio.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: You go, you watch a show, there's a band, there's entertainment, you eat, they take breaks.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: Then we have Delilah at Wynn, and that's fabulous.
• 18:45
  Dayna Roselli: Old Hollywood, and you know, beautiful uh uh singers and and and band members and everything like that, the entertainment kind of changes.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um and it's great, but this is just it really is a party.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: So I feel like I would take my girlfriends if they were like visiting or whatever, and I if I didn't want to do a club where I had to stand all night, and I'd say, let's have dinner, let's have drinks.
• 19:10
  Dayna Roselli: This place is gonna turn into a really fun vibe.
• 19:13
  Dayna Roselli: And then you're there at your table, you're enjoying the music and the entertainment, and you have kind of a little bit of a club vibe, but it's fun, but it's fun.
• 19:20
  Sean McAllister: And the food was delicious too.
• 19:22
  Sean McAllister: It was.
• 19:22
  Sean McAllister: And we were there uh for a media night opening.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: So we did know a lot of other people in the room.
• 19:29
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 19:29
  Sean McAllister: So there was a lot of mingling going on.
• 19:32
  Sean McAllister: People table hopping, going around to say hi, and then you come back and you know, have some food that's been brought to the table, and then get up and go mingle again, be see how everyone else was doing.
• 19:45
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 19:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and the housewives were there.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: They were a bunch of them, I should say.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: And I would say the housewives, not the what the with the Bravo housewives.
• 19:53
  Dayna Roselli: Bravo housewives, yeah.
• 19:54
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we had an Orange County housewife, a New Jersey housewife, uh, and I believe a couple a couple Beverly Hills housewives.
• 20:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 20:03
  Sean McAllister: I'm only up to date on the Salt Lake City housewives right now.
• 20:07
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, that's your that's your jam.
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but I know uh Tamra Barney was the OC housewife, uh Melissa Gorga from New Jersey, um I think I saw Brandy Glanville.
• 20:18
  Sean McAllister: Her husband uh was there too, I think.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: Was he Gorga?
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Sean McAllister: Joe.
• 20:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think so.
• 20:23
  Dayna Roselli: Because my friend was, hey Joe.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, oh who's Joe's?
• 20:27
  Sean McAllister: I didn't see Joe.
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he was there too, I think.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: So it was a good time.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: I enjoyed it.
• 20:31
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's special.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: The decor was beautiful, just like Jacobo described.
• 20:35
  Dayna Roselli: Beautiful floral, the tree, the chandelier with the 3,000 crystals was gorgeous.
• 20:40
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, I think this supper club serves a purpose.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: And I say, Welcome, Bill Azure, to the strip.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be great.
• 20:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it like you said, it is a great alternative to going out to a nightclub.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 20:54
  Sean McAllister: And you don't have to like wait until two in the morning for the party to really kick up.
• 20:58
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 20:59
  Sean McAllister: You know?
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: And listen, I'm not even a huge dessert fan, but their desserts were great and big and delicious.
• 21:05
  Dayna Roselli: Go to our Instagram and look at some of the desserts we had that night.
• 21:08
  Sean McAllister: And that's the thing, a lot of their plates are a great size.
• 21:12
  Sean McAllister: They don't have small portions.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 21:14
  Sean McAllister: The portions are big enough where you could share.
• 21:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 21:16
  Sean McAllister: And and do, like, you know, have kind of a family style uh serving at your table.
• 21:23
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that was great.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, something we are going to also at the Venetian this week, but we're recording before we go, so we're gonna save it for another podcast.
• 21:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I think we mentioned this before too.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: We've actually interviewed the CEO of this too.
• 21:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's a new social darts space that's opening at the Venetian.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it is called Flight Club.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna go play, experience it, and see what it's about.
• 21:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it's kind of right across the way from Villa Azure.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: So um, we'll be able to, you know, pop back by there and and see how Villa Azure is doing after a week of uh having the doors open.
• 21:59
  Dayna Roselli: Grand Canadian.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: Shops changing things up and adding a lot over there.
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: So I love it.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: They are.
• 22:04
  Sean McAllister: And Venetian and Palazzo are always great.
• 22:06
  Sean McAllister: And as we have said from episode one, the parking is free and it's easy to get in and out.
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: Love it.
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: It is great.
• 22:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I think they opened a new food area too that we did get invited to and couldn't make.
• 22:22
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have to go back and look at that, maybe mention it when we talk about the social darts.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: It's like a new kind of food area where they have options.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: And so they're adding a lot over there.
• 22:30
  Dayna Roselli: And like you said, free parking, you can't beat it.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, a place that uh is changing and has changed, but not really, but kind of is Bailey's.
• 22:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, Bailey's, of course, uh a fixture on the Las Vegas strip, right there at Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo.
• 22:47
  Sean McAllister: Um, and we had mentioned this before.
• 22:50
  Sean McAllister: It's transitioning into the horseshoe Las Vegas.
• 22:54
  Sean McAllister: And if you've been inside recently, uh you'll see that the changes have already started.
• 23:00
  Sean McAllister: The casino floor has been redone, they have new carpet in there, the you know, the decor inside the casino area has been zhuzhed up and horseshoe eyes, if that's a uh actual term.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: Um, but we're now starting to see some of the exterior uh changes happening as well.
• 23:21
  Sean McAllister: They've taken apart the big video screen marquee out in front of Bally's.
• 23:27
  Sean McAllister: And you know, I imagine horseshoe is going to have its own big video billboard up there because it's prime real estate for people to see what you got going on at the property.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but I was talking to a friend who uh works for one of the shows at Bally's, and he said, you know what?
• 23:45
  Sean McAllister: The casino is looking beautiful.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: And all the years that I've worked there, uh it they really have done a great job and it looks gorgeous.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: They have a new steakhouse, they have a lot of new things there too.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: I look forward to getting in there and and seeing it soon.
• 24:01
  Dayna Roselli: And if people don't know, Bailey's is also kind of connected to Paris.
• 24:04
  Dayna Roselli: So Paris has opened a lot too, especially in that walkway, all new restaurants, and so uh Baileys is the horseshoe.
• 24:11
  Dayna Roselli: It's kind of like a slow transition.
• 24:12
  Dayna Roselli: Like if you go to their website, it's like Caesars.com backslash horseshoe.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: But then if you go on, you see the horseshoe logo, but also Bailey's.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: So I think they're just kind of taking a little time to kind of merge the two and then completely go horseshoe.
• 24:26
  Sean McAllister: Yes, it's not like Hard Rock where they're gonna close down, gut the place, and then reopen.
• 24:32
  Sean McAllister: They're they're doing a slow transition and you know, keep the property open while they're doing all these renovations.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, as as we see more and more of these uh renovations happening, we say, Welcome, horseshoe.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, welcome, welcome to the strip.
• 24:49
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, something off the strip that I thought, you know, we we didn't mention this before because um, well, we just didn't.
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: And then I saw that they were hiring and I thought, okay.
• 24:58
  Sean McAllister: We just didn't.
• 24:58
  Dayna Roselli: We just didn't.
• 25:00
  Dayna Roselli: There's a wildfire casino coming to Fremont in the downtown Vegas area.
• 25:06
  Dayna Roselli: But it's it's it's we looked it up and it's really east of like the canopy of Fremont.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: So um it's an area that's kind of like right where Fremont bends and crosses Charleston.
• 25:17
  Dayna Roselli: But wildfire casinos are spread out throughout the valley.
• 25:21
  Dayna Roselli: They're great if you love to get your slot game on and your gambling, but this is gonna be a station casino.
• 25:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and there are like several other wildfire casinos throughout the valley.
• 25:32
  Sean McAllister: Um, this one is gonna be 21,000 square feet.
• 25:36
  Sean McAllister: You know, a brand new casino over in that area of town is gonna be a nice addition.
• 25:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Sean McAllister: And uh certainly will draw people in because these wildfire casinos are definitely popular with Las Vegas locals.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: They are, yeah.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a great spot for them, right?
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: They're gonna have 200 of the latest and most popular slot machines, uh, bar top gaming, uh table games, and then they're gonna have an iHop, which is kind of cool, right?
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 26:04
  Dayna Roselli: And a local Mexican eatery is gonna open up in there too.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: Tacos El Pastor.
• 26:08
  Dayna Roselli: They're so good.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: They are good.
• 26:10
  Dayna Roselli: That's a great spot.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and if you're looking to get a new job, maybe you want to move to Vegas and you thought, hey, I want to work at a casino, this could be a great start.
• 26:19
  Dayna Roselli: Or if you have a lot of experience, stationcasinosjobs.com is where you go.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: They're having several different job fairs.
• 26:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this wildfire at 2700 Fremont is set to open in early February uh 2023.
• 26:34
  Sean McAllister: So that's gonna be here before we know it.
• 26:36
  Dayna Roselli: Before we know it.
• 26:38
  Sean McAllister: You know, we've seen a lot of country in town recently, Dana, because the National Finals rodeo has been, you know, they set up shop for what is it, 11 days, 12 days of all rodeo action.
• 26:53
  Sean McAllister: And we've had a lot of country artists uh playing in town while the rodeo is here as well.
• 26:59
  Sean McAllister: But we just got word of another country artist coming to southern Nevada.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: And I said to you, hey, is Dirk Spentley big?
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Because I know country and I know the name Dirk Spentley, but I just wanted to make sure, like, this is a big deal, right?
• 27:10
  Dayna Roselli: Because I felt like it was.
• 27:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:12
  Dayna Roselli: And you were like, heck yeah, they're huge.
• 27:14
  Dayna Roselli: And I love this.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: They're coming to the Laughlin Event Center.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: And when I say there, is it a guy?
• 27:19
  Sean McAllister: It's it's him.
• 27:20
  Sean McAllister: It's him.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: He's coming to he has a band, but it's like Luke Bryant.
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, got it.
• 27:26
  Dayna Roselli: Dirk's Bentley's coming, and I know the name.
• 27:29
  Dayna Roselli: So he's coming to the Laughlin Event Center.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, he's gonna be right there at um the outdoor concert venue, right?
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: The 11,600-seat outdoor concert venue.
• 27:43
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 27:44
  Dayna Roselli: So that's cool.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: And that's gonna be Saturday, April 15th.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: So that also is gonna come up quick.
• 27:48
  Dayna Roselli: So you might want to get your tickets now if you want to see Dirk's, because Sean says he's popular.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: And so a lot of people will buy tickets.
• 27:55
  Sean McAllister: Well, hey, he's one of those country artists who has his own honky tonk on Broadway there in Nashville.
• 28:00
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, Miranda Lambert has one, Luke Bryan has one, uh, Justin Timberlake even has one now.
• 28:07
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 28:07
  Sean McAllister: Um, that's like the big thing for country stars now to have their own honky tonk.
• 28:12
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 28:13
  Dayna Roselli: And what is a honky tonk exactly?
• 28:15
  Sean McAllister: It's like a big fun bar where there's live music and dancing.
• 28:19
  Sean McAllister: So you go there.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: I still I'm not good on my country.
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god, Dana.
• 28:23
  Sean McAllister: We need to take Vegas Revealed on a Nashville trip.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: I know I've only been once for a wedding and we did go out a couple nights, but I did not experience a honky tonk.
• 28:33
  Sean McAllister: Oh, it Nashville is a blast to all of our Nashville listeners.
• 28:39
  Sean McAllister: What up?
• 28:40
  Sean McAllister: We'll be out there sometime.
• 28:42
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe we can get like a sponsor trip.
• 28:43
  Dayna Roselli: Someone in Nashville sponsored to fly us out and give us the Nashville experience.
• 28:47
  Dayna Roselli: How about that?
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, well, maybe we can talk to Dirks when he's in town in April.
• 28:50
  Dayna Roselli: You're right.
• 28:51
  Dayna Roselli: And it says multi-platinum singer, songwriter, and entertainer.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: So he's definitely done a lot.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: Um, the lineup's also gonna include a set from the Cadillac 3, which I've heard of.
• 29:00
  Dayna Roselli: So it's gonna be good.
• 29:01
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, get your tickets for that if you want to see Dirks and crew.
• 29:04
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, before we get to tips, there was uh a news item that we really wanted to talk about and that we're excited to see.
• 29:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, there's gonna be a new street in Las Vegas.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: It's actually gonna be a street that exists, but they're renaming it after Liberacci.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't it funny?
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: We just talked about Liberacci and how he doesn't get enough credit, and then literally this comes out.
• 29:25
  Dayna Roselli: Do you think they listen to Vegas Revealed?
• 29:27
  Sean McAllister: I mean, possibly.
• 29:29
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe.
• 29:30
  Sean McAllister: And who is it?
• 29:31
  Sean McAllister: The county commission, the city council who decides on renaming streets.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: I think it and I think this one would be in the county, because I live in the county, not the city, and it's right near me.
• 29:43
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not positive though.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: I'm pretty sure though.
• 29:45
  Dayna Roselli: But we have different sections.
• 29:47
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, they're naming a certain part of Karen Avenue after Liberacci.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: Is it Liberacci Avenue or Liberacci Way?
• 29:53
  Sean McAllister: I think we said Liberacci Avenue.
• 29:54
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 29:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I got all excited because you were like, Dana, it's on your street.
• 29:59
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, am I gonna be living on Liberacci Avenue?
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: I was thinking, like, already imagining like changing my address to everything, writing people letters with my address on Liberacci Avenue.
• 30:10
  Dayna Roselli: And then you're like, oh no, it stops right at the intersection before you.
• 30:15
  Sean McAllister: You're going to literally be living in the shadow of Liberacci Avenue, living in the shadow of greatness.
• 30:21
  Dayna Roselli: My goodness.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: I can't believe it.
• 30:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so Karen Avenue, it's gonna start right at the Joe Brown intersection and go all the way past Maryland Parkway, I think it said, right to the east side.
• 30:30
  Sean McAllister: I think to Maryland Parkway.
• 30:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh, okay.
• 30:32
  Sean McAllister: Between Joe Brown and Maryland Parkway.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: There's some good, there's a my favorite, one of my favorite Mexican restaurants is on that road.
• 30:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they've got the little square there.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: They've got a great gym on the corner, CVS, and then also the entrance to the Las Vegas Country Club.
• 30:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 30:49
  Sean McAllister: And uh, Jonathan Warren, who I've known for years, and he heads up the Liberacci Foundation here in Las Vegas, has been working tirelessly to keep Liberacci's name and legacy out there.
• 31:03
  Sean McAllister: And I know that this is one of the projects that he's been working on for years.
• 31:08
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 31:08
  Sean McAllister: So I'm so excited for the foundation and just for Liberacci's legacy in general, that that finally now we are going to have Liberacci Avenue as part of our Las Vegas infrastructure.
• 31:21
  Dayna Roselli: What's that ribbon cutting gonna be like?
• 31:23
  Dayna Roselli: That's gonna be fabulous.
• 31:24
  Sean McAllister: Fabulous with rhinestones and capes and wait.
• 31:29
  Sean McAllister: I mean, people popping out of Fabrogé eggs and pianos and candelabras.
• 31:34
  Sean McAllister: I it we need to go all out for this.
• 31:36
  Dayna Roselli: We do.
• 31:37
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have to get our friend Debbie Gibson, who lives in Las Vegas.
• 31:40
  Dayna Roselli: Debbie has one of Liberacci's pianos.
• 31:42
  Dayna Roselli: It's her proud possession that she loves.
• 31:44
  Dayna Roselli: She says she will never get up, give up, excuse me, sell anything.
• 31:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I've been over to the house, you've been over to the house and seen it.
• 31:51
  Dayna Roselli: Did you know that that's a liberacci piano?
• 31:52
  Sean McAllister: I don't think I knew that that was a liberacci piano.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: She bought it.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's a liberacci piano.
• 31:57
  Dayna Roselli: And it's incredible.
• 31:58
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe we'll get her to roll that on down the street to Liberacci Avenue for the opening.
• 32:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I didn't know we were in the presence of double greatness.
• 32:07
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 32:07
  Sean McAllister: Debbie Gibson and Liberacci's piano.
• 32:09
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 32:10
  Dayna Roselli: And Debbie's gonna be on Good Morning America, she just announced on December 22nd, if you want to see Debbie perform live.
• 32:15
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, Debbie has a new uh holiday album out called Winterlicious.
• 32:20
  Sean McAllister: I have it downloaded, and we've been cooking holiday meals to it.
• 32:24
  Sean McAllister: We decorated the Christmas tree.
• 32:27
  Sean McAllister: It is good to have that on.
• 32:28
  Sean McAllister: It there is some really great original new Christmas music on there that I think should become like new holiday staples.
• 32:39
  Dayna Roselli: I agree, I agree.
• 32:40
  Dayna Roselli: And some of them really stick in your head.
• 32:41
  Dayna Roselli: They do.
• 32:41
  Dayna Roselli: I find myself singing it or waking up in the middle of the night and having it stuck in my head.
• 32:45
  Dayna Roselli: So the jingle one.
• 32:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's one of my favorites.
• 32:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 32:48
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips.
• 32:54
  Sean McAllister: So, Dana, we have talked a lot about the holiday attractions that we find in Las Vegas this time of year.
• 33:02
  Sean McAllister: Most of them are centered around the Las Vegas Strip, where most of the tourists go.
• 33:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, but one attraction that people may not know about, especially if you're visiting town, is the Opportunity Village Magical Forest.
• 33:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, this is a great place because when you buy a ticket and you go to the magical forest, you're helping support one of our big organizations here in Las Vegas that helps so many people.
• 33:31
  Dayna Roselli: And so Opportunity Village, we just actually did a project on one of the campuses, and it's an amazing facility.
• 33:38
  Dayna Roselli: All the clients there um have disabilities, but they do great work and they work and they're working in the wood shop.
• 33:47
  Dayna Roselli: They are doing art, they are making things, they are actually sewing and and working on projects with resorts on the strip, and they are making commission and money.
• 33:59
  Dayna Roselli: And some of them even live on the this property right next door that they've just created, um, that they actually can walk to work.
• 34:06
  Dayna Roselli: It's an amazing facility, always expanding.
• 34:09
  Dayna Roselli: And Magical Forest is something that they put on year after year.
• 34:13
  Dayna Roselli: It celebrates the Christmas holidays, uh, all the holidays actually around Christmas time.
• 34:19
  Dayna Roselli: And it's fabulous because when you buy that ticket, you're actually giving back.
• 34:23
  Sean McAllister: You're making a huge difference in the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• 34:31
  Sean McAllister: And like you said, giving them the job training that they need to actually get out and be a part of the workforce.
• 34:38
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 34:39
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, that has a huge impact on uh their self-confidence and you know being able to contribute.
• 34:48
  Sean McAllister: And there are so many great programs at Opportunity Village that the Magical Forest supports.
• 34:54
  Sean McAllister: You can find out all about that at opportunityvillage.org.
• 34:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, great place.
• 35:01
  Dayna Roselli: So bring the family and go check out Magical Forest.
• 35:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we wanted to move to New Year's Eve for folks that are thinking, what should I do?
• 35:08
  Dayna Roselli: What should I do?
• 35:09
  Dayna Roselli: We know already, we've talked about there's free fireworks on the strip.
• 35:13
  Dayna Roselli: They shut down portions of the strip.
• 35:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's always a good time.
• 35:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we love it.
• 35:18
  Dayna Roselli: But Fremont Street this year is really kicking it up.
• 35:21
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking about the Fremont Street experience with the canopy and everything.
• 35:24
  Dayna Roselli: They always do a fabulous New Year's Eve event too.
• 35:27
  Dayna Roselli: And they have like a band or two, but this year they are doing like a large uh party with like three different stages, several bands that range in like all kinds of music genre.
• 35:41
  Sean McAllister: Oh yeah, and this one is called the New Year's Eve Time of Your Life Festival.
• 35:47
  Sean McAllister: And it really is.
• 35:48
  Sean McAllister: There's eight different bands, as you mentioned, Dana, all on different stages.
• 35:53
  Sean McAllister: Uh, should we run down the list?
• 35:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, run down the list.
• 35:55
  Dayna Roselli: You do it.
• 35:56
  Sean McAllister: So, starting with Bush, Gavin Rostell, and Bush.
• 36:00
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we also have the Struts, Sugar Ray, the Wailers featuring Julian Marley, Sugar Hill Gang.
• 36:08
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, Sugar Hill Gang, they're good.
• 36:09
  Sean McAllister: All for one.
• 36:10
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I love them.
• 36:11
  Sean McAllister: Tag team, tag team back again, and DJ Scribble.
• 36:17
  Dayna Roselli: Wow, that's a lineup.
• 36:19
  Sean McAllister: That is a fun lineup.
• 36:20
  Sean McAllister: I mean, if anybody knows how to get a party going and keep it going, it's these eight bands.
• 36:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's so true.
• 36:28
  Dayna Roselli: Now, usually Fremont, you can just walk free, but obviously, because this is an event and it's New Year's Eve and safety and all that, you do have to buy a ticket.
• 36:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 36:35
  Dayna Roselli: But get this, Sean.
• 36:36
  Dayna Roselli: Pre-sale tickets for this event,$50.
• 36:40
  Sean McAllister: That's a steal.
• 36:41
  Dayna Roselli: A steal for everything that you're gonna get.
• 36:44
  Dayna Roselli: So this will be for the first time in history of the Fremont Street experience that they're gonna host this multiple, you know, band experience with some really, really good ones on three different stages.
• 36:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and I love this.
• 36:57
  Dayna Roselli: Gavin Rossdale of Bush is going to join Mayor Carolyn Goodman on the Third Street stage to ring in 2023.
• 37:06
  Sean McAllister: That's kind of amazing.
• 37:07
  Dayna Roselli: Iconic, right?
• 37:09
  Dayna Roselli: Whenever that happens, I know there'll be video and pictures.
• 37:12
  Dayna Roselli: That's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 37:14
  Sean McAllister: So pre-sale tickets available now, starting at just 50 bucks.
• 37:19
  Sean McAllister: Gates open on New Year's Eve, uh, which is a Saturday this year, so no excuses not to go out.
• 37:25
  Sean McAllister: Gates open at 6 p.m.
• 37:27
  Sean McAllister: to access Fremont Street Experience for the New Year's Eve time of your life festival.
• 37:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun.
• 37:36
  Sean McAllister: And then the countdown happens on the uh Fremont Street Experience canopy.
• 37:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right.
• 37:41
  Dayna Roselli: And and they do like a show and all that.
• 37:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great place to be.
• 37:45
  Dayna Roselli: We may have to go.
• 37:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, you and I haven't decided on our New Year's Eve plans yet.
• 37:48
  Dayna Roselli: So I guess next podcast, we'll definitely know what we're doing.
• 37:52
  Dayna Roselli: And it could be a I'm gonna stay home.
• 37:54
  Sean McAllister: It could be.
• 37:55
  Dayna Roselli: It could be a chill dinner, or we could go all out.
• 37:57
  Dayna Roselli: We don't know what we I feel like New Year's Eve is very spur of the moment.
• 38:02
  Sean McAllister: Or it could be Villa Azure.
• 38:04
  Dayna Roselli: It could be Villa Azure.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: Who knows?
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: It could be the legacy club at Circa.
• 38:08
  Dayna Roselli: We thought about that because we're gonna, you know, we just hosted the ugly sweater contest there.
• 38:12
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll see.
• 38:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we have lots of choices.
• 38:15
  Dayna Roselli: We are in Las Vegas, it's a great place to be.
• 38:17
  Dayna Roselli: Again, thanks for listening.
• 38:19
  Dayna Roselli: Um, like we said, we've got one more podcast until the year is up.
• 38:23
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate everyone.
• 38:24
  Dayna Roselli: We have grown so much.
• 38:26
  Dayna Roselli: We're also getting ready to announce something exciting.
• 38:29
  Dayna Roselli: You may be able to actually see Sean and I in another market, in another city outside of Las Vegas, where we're going to possibly contribute what's happening in Las Vegas to a certain program.
• 38:40
  Dayna Roselli: So we're excited about that.
• 38:41
  Sean McAllister: We will have news on that uh starting in the new year.
• 38:45
  Sean McAllister: In the new year.
• 38:46
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 38:47
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• 38:51
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• 38:57
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• 39:02
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• 39:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they are always making updates.
• 39:05
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• 39:07
  Dayna Roselli: They're updating the map system.
• 39:09
  Dayna Roselli: They've got a lot coming.
• 39:10
  Dayna Roselli: It's a really, really helpful map.
• 39:12
  Dayna Roselli: If you're coming in for the holiday or even New Year's, it's something you definitely want to download.
• 39:16
  Dayna Roselli: So, all right, have a great holiday, everyone.
• 39:20
  Dayna Roselli: If you're celebrating, um if you're if you're doing Christmas, Hanukkah, we wish you the very best.
• 39:25
  Dayna Roselli: Happy holidays.
• 39:26
  Sean McAllister: And we'll chat again on New Year's Eve.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: Driving through the night because the sky is cold, but the neon has been running.