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Las Vegas New Year's Eve Blowing Up | Ep. 47 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's episode 47 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Coming up, we finally have a plan for New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, and it is going to allow you, everyone around the world, to be able to take part.
• 0:13
  Dayna Roselli: And they're going to be blowing up some stuff, so we'll have all the details on that.
• 0:17
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, the big push to get convention visitors back in Las Vegas, which is really the heartbeat of this city.
• 0:24
  Sean McAllister: And our interview months ago that revealed some major details of a downtown project that was just officially announced.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: All of it coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:49
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 47.
• 0:52
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister here.
• 0:54
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm Dana Roselli.
• 0:55
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone.
• 0:57
  Dayna Roselli: We love that we have lots of new listeners lately, so we figured we would just remind you about who we are, what we do.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I have lived in Las Vegas for about 15 years, both worked in local TV.
• 1:08
  Dayna Roselli: We've covered entertainment and news, and you know, now we have our own media company and we just decided we have so much Vegas knowledge and so much we want to talk about.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: We decided to join together and do a podcast.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we've made some uh good Las Vegas friends along the way that uh we have some little nuggets, good little nuggets of information about the city that get past our way every now and then.
• 1:30
  Sean McAllister: Um, you know, one of the guys who we've gotten to know over the years is Lance Burton, who a lot of people know as a longtime Las Vegas headliner.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: He had uh he performed magic on the strip for years, one of the best known entertainers in Las Vegas.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Incredible.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: And I know a lot of magicians that perform here since then always say that, you know, Lance is who they look up to, who they learned from, and what an uh icon he is.
• 1:58
  Dayna Roselli: And recently we saw a post from him on his Facebook page talking about how, you know, he's kind of retired and he's moved to where he's from, and that is Kentucky.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: And so we wanted to wish Lance well, an incredible guy.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: You and I have interviewed him so many times over the years.
• 2:14
  Dayna Roselli: Uh since he kind of left the stage, he always did charity events and would still do appearances, but not having a specific show.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: He would do a lot of charity work for the Nevada SPCA, a lot of animal groups, and then also Variety Children's Charities.
• 2:32
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 2:32
  Sean McAllister: He would uh it Cinemacon every year.
• 2:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh variety children's charities was always involved in that and a lot of entertainment ties, but he did a lot of work um even with some of the schools for special needs kids here in Las Vegas.
• 2:49
  Sean McAllister: Every year at Christmas time, he would go around and do a holiday Christmas uh magic show for the students at the at these special needs schools.
• 2:59
  Sean McAllister: So very involved.
• 3:00
  Sean McAllister: Um Lance man, I think he did more than 15,000 shows throughout his run here in Las Vegas.
• 3:09
  Sean McAllister: So Lance, you've certainly left your mark, and we're gonna miss you, buddy.
• 3:12
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he said in his post that he stepped on the stage at the Tiffany Showroom at the Tropicana Hotel when he was 22 years old.
• 3:20
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 3:21
  Dayna Roselli: And so just a great post.
• 3:23
  Dayna Roselli: If you get a chance, go to Lance Burton's Facebook page and you can read.
• 3:27
  Dayna Roselli: But he basically says at the end, you know what?
• 3:29
  Dayna Roselli: He is forever grateful for the mythical city called Las Vegas.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: I will miss you all.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: I love you all.
• 3:35
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe I will return one day as a visitor.
• 3:37
  Dayna Roselli: We sure hope so.
• 3:39
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, says he never likes goodbyes, but by the time that we all read this, he'll be back on the farm in Kentucky living the life of a gentleman farmer.
• 3:47
  Sean McAllister: Well, Lance, you have certainly added to the myth of Las Vegas in a in a very positive way.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: Um and we know that you listened to Vegas Revealed.
• 3:55
  Sean McAllister: So we wish you well and we hope to talk to you soon.
• 3:59
  Dayna Roselli: That's for sure.
• 4:00
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, should we get into uh New Year's Eve?
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah we reported on this a few weeks back talking about how we weren't gonna have a fireworks display, but you know, we wouldn't just let it, you know, sit at that, right?
• 4:11
  Dayna Roselli: So uh the LVCVA has come up with a different kind of idea, and I love it.
• 4:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so we all know that uh as things go in Las Vegas, you know, especially with casinos, there are implosions when things get old, when they need to just be uh taken care of, bulldozed down, and that's the approach that the Las Vegas Visitors and Convention Authority is taking this year with the New Year's Eve show, they're planning to implode 2020 and just erase it off the board.
• 4:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I love it.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and what's cool about this is you know, people that live all over the world are gonna be able to see this because it's gonna be a live stream countdown to midnight.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, if you're one of our listeners and you're in a different country or another side of the country, uh, this is gonna be cool because you'll be able to watch it.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: There's gonna be epic sites, a live DJ, a countdown to midnight, as I said, and then get this.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: The 2020 sign is gonna be blown up at the end, which we love.
• 5:20
  Sean McAllister: This is such a good idea.
• 5:22
  Sean McAllister: I'm gonna be sitting in my living room watching this.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: So it's such a great thing to have on while you're, you know, home, maybe sipping or chugging some some alcohol.
• 5:31
  Sean McAllister: Well, and and what a great way for uh the for the entire city of Las Vegas to start the new year because you know that every news organization around the world is going to be carrying the footage of 2020 literally being blown up on New Year's Eve.
• 5:53
  Sean McAllister: And it's kind of a a message to the entire world that says, hey, you know what?
• 5:59
  Sean McAllister: 2020 has been crappy for all of us.
• 6:02
  Sean McAllister: It's been crappy for Las Vegas, especially because we depend on people coming here, and people haven't been able to come here.
• 6:09
  Sean McAllister: But now that 2020 is blown up, it no longer is is in front of us, it's totally in the rear view.
• 6:16
  Sean McAllister: We can look forward to 2021 and look forward to welcoming people back.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's exciting.
• 6:22
  Dayna Roselli: A massive 2021 LED sign is going to be revealed, along with fireworks and confetti and a 12 to 15 minute long pyrotechnic spectacular.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: So it sounds like it'll be really fun, and you can, you know, have it up and watch it on your computer, on your TV.
• 6:39
  Dayna Roselli: And I believe the website that you want to go to for that is the Visit Las Vegas website, and social media pages will have it up too.
• 6:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we'll be uh sending that out uh as as New Year's Eve approaches on our Vegas Revealed pages as well.
• 6:55
  Sean McAllister: So that's something to look forward to as we count down to the rest of uh 2020 and look forward to 2021.
• 7:03
  Sean McAllister: Something else that's exciting, also coming from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has to do with the way that our Las Vegas visitors and locals for that matter, too, get around the Las Vegas Strip.
• 7:16
  Sean McAllister: The monorail has been a fixture here for years.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I think that they are planning, you know, things may be at a pause right now, but I think the best part is seeing all these developments to plan for conventions to come back, people to come back to our city, and a huge part of that is transportation.
• 7:34
  Dayna Roselli: And so the LVCVA has acquired the assets of the Las Vegas Monorail Company.
• 7:41
  Dayna Roselli: And so now they'll be able to, you know, have that in addition to this new loop that they're opening up at the end of January, the Elon Musk loop.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so the Elon Musk loop is essentially a tunnel that's being bored underground to connect the convention center with a new convention center wing that's being built right up to the strip.
• 8:02
  Sean McAllister: And that's going to have some of the Elon Musk autonomous vehicles that drive people around underground, and it'll make it really zippy and quick for people to get around.
• 8:14
  Sean McAllister: Um, I think I've seen plans online that this tunnel system could eventually connect all of the casinos up and down the Las Vegas Strip, which would be great.
• 8:28
  Sean McAllister: Obviously, it'll take some time to to bore some tunnels and make that reality, but in the meantime, the LVCVA now owns the Las Vegas monorail.
• 8:40
  Sean McAllister: And okay, so the thing that I took from this is that previously the monorail was owned by a private company.
• 8:48
  Sean McAllister: And in in its dealings with the casinos and building the monorail, they had a non-compete in place, which means that the monorail was the prime source of uh the sole source really of transportation on the east side of the Las Vegas Strip.
• 9:08
  Sean McAllister: So that's MGM, that's Bally's, Paris, Planet Hollywood, that entire side of the strip, Flamingo, um, all up to Sahara.
• 9:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's you know, it's really great for that side of the strip, and people have always complained through the years that, you know, there needs to be more of a connection to the airport and the other side of the strip and this and that.
• 9:29
  Dayna Roselli: But like you were mentioning, you know, now it allows multiple different kinds of transportation, which is what we need, so people have options, right?
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: Options are everything.
• 9:37
  Sean McAllister: Well, and you can't fit everybody on an autonomous vehicle, even if the loop is built, you can't fit everybody in those vehicles.
• 9:47
  Sean McAllister: They it will certainly help, but I think that it that running in conjunction with the monorail will be a really positive way to um get people around.
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: I think you know the monorail has been people always say, Well, who uses the monorail?
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: And kind of like, oh, it's a way, but like people that go to the convention center and are staying at these hotels, they don't always want to like Uber or wait for a cab or it can be pricey.
• 10:11
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, the monorail is a dollar fifty.
• 10:13
  Dayna Roselli: And I must say, I don't think people realize it's like an easy way.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: You have to walk a little because it's in the back of the hotels, and you and I were saying it takes a little bit of a walk.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: But if you're staying at that hotel or you're staying to the one next to it, a little walk to the monorail could be worth it, and then it takes you right to the convention center, or if you want to get to the north end of the strip, maybe the Sahara station, and then do a walk down.
• 10:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's definitely an option.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: I used to take it out every New Year's Eve only because I live near one of the stations, but it was great because everyone would be like, Well, how am I gonna get there?
• 10:42
  Dayna Roselli: Where am I gonna park?
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna have to wait, the Uber prices surge and all that.
• 10:46
  Dayna Roselli: And I would pop on for a dollar fifty at the Sahara Station, or anybody could come and park nearby in one of the parking lots, and then take it down to the closest point where I needed to get to Planet Hollywood.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: So I think I would take it to Bally's.
• 10:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it was great.
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so there are definitely benefits, and and it has, you know, it's a 3.9 mile monorail.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: Over the summer, our pool in uh in my tower where I live, the monorail used to go back and forth on the track, but it's kind of just sat there.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited to see it moving again.
• 11:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think with the ever since March, I think that it's kind of been shut down.
• 11:23
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 11:24
  Sean McAllister: Having having tons of people on and off is not a good idea right now.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: The other today, this morning, when I was thinking we were gonna talk about this, I was sitting on my patio and I heard a bunch of clinking below, and I looked down and they were like changing out the rocks and planting some plants underneath the Sahara Mana monorail station.
• 11:41
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought, ooh, they're they're getting it ready to, you know, be used again, maybe and look pretty.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I like that.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: I like that.
• 11:48
  Dayna Roselli: So um, okay, so we talked monorail, we talked conventions, but the big thing that I have noticed too, I drove by this the other day.
• 11:54
  Dayna Roselli: I remember I got to your house and I was like, you have to see the convention center because the new convention center has been under construction, but not a lot of us are like constantly driving by things these days.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: So you don't notice the progress.
• 12:07
  Dayna Roselli: But and we'll put a picture up on our social media, but the new convention center has come a long way and it is absolutely gorgeous.
• 12:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's stunning.
• 12:16
  Sean McAllister: First of all, that roof line is just so breathtaking.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: It's this giant wavy rooftop, a white, wavy rooftop that's it just really is beautiful.
• 12:30
  Sean McAllister: But then as you look at the the front, it's this giant glass wall of windows, and you can see inside the escalators going up everywhere.
• 12:39
  Sean McAllister: I mean, they've done a great job with it.
• 12:42
  Dayna Roselli: They have, and you know, it's funny because the current convention center, there's it's not glass, there's not it's not a glass facade.
• 12:48
  Sean McAllister: You know it's like a concrete box.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so we never know what's going on inside, but it'll be good to see people, you know, going up and down the escalators and like the action going on inside, at least people trying to get to the different rooms.
• 12:58
  Dayna Roselli: Then they built this bridge from the new convention center over to the old convention center, and that's really pretty.
• 13:04
  Dayna Roselli: It goes right over Paradise, which is a road uh that the current convention center sits on.
• 13:10
  Dayna Roselli: And so I just love the whole thing.
• 13:12
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited about it, and it made me think I can't wait for you know those people to return and to be able to use this new facility.
• 13:19
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's not even the only convention space that's brand new.
• 13:23
  Sean McAllister: Even behind the the link right there where the high roller is, uh Caesars Entertainment has its new Caesars Forum, which is also brand new convention space that really has it was built with the intentions of being open and welcoming visitors right now and and businesses and conventions, but it never really got to welcome anybody.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: So the so we're ready for you out there.
• 13:47
  Dayna Roselli: Anyone listening, enlist your convention in Las Vegas.
• 13:52
  Dayna Roselli: In addition to that, Resorts World has been, you know, projecting, I guess you'd call it, all sorts of really cool messages and videos on their the side of their building, which is like this big, I guess you'd call it like a LD LED screen.
• 14:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and as it is the entire side of the building.
• 14:07
  Sean McAllister: And you know, I'm where my house is, I'm kind of in the southeast part of the Las Vegas Valley, and kind of close to the mountains on the southeast side.
• 14:18
  Sean McAllister: And when I drive up on uh like Horizon Ridge, which is a road that's you know uh almost as far up to the it butts up to the bottom of the mountains on the southeast, you know, corner, and I can see clearly the images that are I can see that's probably not allowed.
• 14:41
  Sean McAllister: Those music rights, we don't have the music rights for that.
• 14:44
  Sean McAllister: Um but I can clearly see the images that are up on the side of Resorts World when I drive even 15 miles away.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 14:54
  Sean McAllister: So it is, I mean, it is crystal clear, it is massive, and it's eye-catching for sure.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: It is, and I must say, the other day I was leaving the fashion show mall, driving back toward my place, and I was at a light, and it kept, you know, I was watching it, and I so wanted to whip out my phone and take a video or picture, and I was thinking, oh, this is gonna happen a lot.
• 15:12
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone be careful because I know we're not supposed to, but you can't help but want to take a picture of it.
• 15:17
  Sean McAllister: I know, it is really cool.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: And I wonder what kind of programming they're going to to have on that, if it's gonna be promotional programming or if they're or if it'll be, you know, similar to the uh LED screens out in front of Planet Hollywood.
• 15:30
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 15:31
  Sean McAllister: Where, you know, on New Year's Eve, sometimes they they put live broadcasting up there.
• 15:38
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be interesting to see what they do.
• 15:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right now they're advertising their 2021 auditions, which I believe is, you know, job opportunities.
• 15:45
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 15:45
  Dayna Roselli: And I keep getting the little alerts.
• 15:47
  Dayna Roselli: I know they're looking for a lot of um pool staff already.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: Oh for, you know, like a manager for the whole pool area and that kind of thing, cabana stuff and all that.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: So lots of jobs coming down on LinkedIn if you want to check out Resorts World.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: Uh so we've talked about the development that's happening on the Las Vegas Strip, but there's also some really cool development happening downtown Las Vegas, specifically over at the Plaza Hotel.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: Now we interviewed the CEO, Jonathan Jocel, a few episodes back, and we chatted with him about this new development.
• 16:23
  Dayna Roselli: And we were saying there's so much going on even around the plaza that you know it's gonna help the plaza itself, right?
• 16:32
  Dayna Roselli: Because they're coming up on their what 50th anniversary?
• 16:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, next year, 2021 will be the 50th anniversary of the plaza.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Wow, incredible.
• 16:40
  Dayna Roselli: That whole area is, you know, under development, and in order to kind of make it more a more, I guess, walkable place, they're gonna build this bridge to Symphony Park, which is if people don't know what Symphony Park is, it's right outside our Smith Center, which is the performing arts center, which right now hasn't been able to reopen.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it's uh kind of in a secluded area of downtown.
• 17:05
  Sean McAllister: You have to kind of take some roundabout streets to get to the Smith Center, and it's not really readily accessible from the Fremont Street district.
• 17:17
  Sean McAllister: You have to, you know, get in a car, drive, drive, you can't really walk there right now.
• 17:22
  Sean McAllister: But the plan is the city of Las Vegas, in conjunction with the plaza, have just officially announced their plans for a pedestrian walkway along Main Street that will connect to a bridge that connects all the development over at Symphony Park and the Smith Center.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because those new apartments are going up.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: So if you live there, this is gonna be, you know, it's gonna entice you to maybe live there and live in a in a walkable area where you can then connect right over to downtown, hit some of the shops, you know, if you want to go get something to eat, go out for nightlife.
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: And so Sean asked Jonathan Jostel about this when we interviewed him back in September.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: One thing that you can count on, two things really you have a neighbor straight out your front door with uh the new circa tower that Derek Stevens is building down here.
• 18:11
  Sean McAllister: You have a uh a huge new apartment complex out your back door.
• 18:14
  Sean McAllister: So you're being sandwiched by by new development.
• 18:17
  Sean McAllister: What what possibilities does that open up for you guys?
• 18:20
  Sean McAllister: It's you're you're a very observant guy.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: The the uh we've always said that Main Street is gonna be the best area of downtown Las Vegas.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: We've always believed that we just maybe we're a little um ahead of the time.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: But now with what Derek's doing with soccer, and and uh you know, we used to own that.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: We it used to be the Las Vegas Club, we sold it to him, which was a crazy story.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: But in the time everyone said that was crazy, why would you do that?
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now you see this and you think, well, this is only gonna be really good for us for all of downtown.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: And then you have 800 apartments across the street, plus you have the Smith Center, you have the Frank Erie Laruvo Center, you have the children's museum, you have um uh what was the other one called?
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the My Museum is that direction, but yeah.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um you you have a lot going on.
• 19:03
  SPEAKER_00: But anyway, the 800 apartments is something that I've always said is really important because a lot of the local places, especially now when there's not as much international travel, you need locals and you need people to support your food and beverage, your gaming, your bingo, uh, your other events.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're working on a bridge with the city to connect those 800 units to across our side.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: We own uh the plaza sits on 17 acres going north to south.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: So that's a big chunk of land in between in the mid sandwich in between everything you just described happening here.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we think it's uh it's just it's just getting started for Main Street, and obviously with Greyhound leaving, I think it might be the most important thing to happen to downtown in in the last 15 years.
• 19:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Jonathan's really, you know, been such a champion for that whole area downtown.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um he's got ideas, he's been open for a long time, making sure that all their safety uh rules are followed there with the COVID-19 pandemic, and just been, you know, always looking forward, which is great.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, and what I love about uh what Jonathan uh was telling us about, I think it was uh uh after we recorded the podcast conversation, is that really all the uh heads of the casinos downtown and the heads of uh of different properties, n not necessarily gaming, but whether it's restaurant or food and beverage, that they really do have uh a collaborative team mentality when thinking about downtown.
• 20:29
  Sean McAllister: They all meet together regularly, look at the plans, see, come up with ideas on how they can all make that area better.
• 20:37
  Sean McAllister: And it's not uh a one man's, you know, victory kind of attitude.
• 20:43
  Sean McAllister: It's a collaborative effort to make the entire downtown area a really great place for visitors, which I love.
• 20:50
  Sean McAllister: And this new development over at the plaza is certainly going to be a massive leap uh forward.
• 20:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's it's gonna be great.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: And you can only, you know, lift each other up, and then and then you know that everyone will give each other business and we'll promote each other, and and really that's what we need to be doing now, right?
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: Is just kind of encouraging all our partners, our peers, our competitors in many ways to do well as well.
• 21:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, uh that's a a good attitude to have.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: Hey, stick around on Vegas Revealed.
• 21:20
  Sean McAllister: Our two tips are next with some great money-saving ideas.
• 21:27
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for listening to Vegas Revealed, and remember, you can follow us on all sorts of social media platforms.
• 21:33
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• 21:40
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• 21:43
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• 21:47
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• 21:50
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• 21:57
  Sean McAllister: It is time for our two tips, and Dana, I I think our tips all around uh this week are having to do with saving money.
• 22:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and isn't that what we're all about these days?
• 22:08
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, we want to spend money to help local businesses and businesses, you know, really around the country, but we also want to save some money because not a lot of us have what we used to have.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: Obviously, it's been tough times.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: And one of the things that I was looking at the other day, because I go on Groupon every now and then to order these toothbrush heads that are compatible with Sonic toothbrushes, but they're not as expensive.
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: But it's great.
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: You get like a pack of eight and it's like, I don't know, 20 bucks, right?
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: When normally it would be probably a hundred.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so I go on Groupon and I was noticing all the incredible deals for Las Vegas.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: And then you were browsing too, and we were going, wow, look at this, wow, look at this.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there are a lot of deals on there.
• 22:47
  Dayna Roselli: Has anyone ever downloaded the Groupon app and looked through it?
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: If you haven't, you gotta do this.
• 22:52
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it's everything from I mean, there are spa treatments for money saving on spa treatments, attractions all around Las Vegas, on the strip, off the strip.
• 23:03
  Sean McAllister: Uh, there's even uh I mean there's oil changes, there's there's new brake pads, there's anything that you can think of, even things for your pets.
• 23:13
  Sean McAllister: And uh if you are thinking about tying the knot, there's even deals for that.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: There is.
• 23:19
  Dayna Roselli: I saw one for the uh Tropicana wedding chapel, and I I was love it's Tropicana LV weddings.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: Get this, Sean.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: You can get mm-Hitched, married, for 29 bucks instead of 95.
• 23:33
  Dayna Roselli: It is 69% off.
• 23:35
  Dayna Roselli: And I love the reviews.
• 23:36
  Dayna Roselli: The first review on here said something like, it was quick, professional, in and out.
• 23:41
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, another one says we were able to do a same-day reservation.
• 23:45
  Sean McAllister: The entire process from beginning to end went smoothly.
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: Our efficient was amazing, and so was the rest of the staff.
• 23:51
  Sean McAllister: So that's good to hear.
• 23:52
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I love it.
• 23:53
  Dayna Roselli: There's tons of restaurants on here too, where like there's examples of like, say you were gonna, you know, you buy a$30 gift card, but it's only you only, or excuse me, you're getting$30 to spend at the restaurant, but you're only buying it for like$15.50.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: So it's really cool.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: I know you noticed one at Casa Don Juan in Henderson, right?
• 24:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and that was$18 for a$30 gift certificate for a dinner for two.
• 24:19
  Sean McAllister: So I mean, that's great food and a great deal.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and the one I noticed was at the Miracle Mile Shops, which is in Planet Hollywood.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: Now that shopping area has all sorts of stores, everything you could imagine.
• 24:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's got high-end stores, it's got, you know, middle of the road stores as well.
• 24:33
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's got your, I think, Victoria's Secret, it's got your Mac, it's got your sneaker stores, all sorts of stuff.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: But you can get$20 for$13.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: So even if it's something to just buy a bunch to hold on to, you can go spend it all around the shop.
• 24:47
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a great deal.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: Because, you know, say you get you get three of those, what you're doing$13 times three, it's$39.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: If you were gonna do, you know, and you're getting$60 to spend.
• 24:58
  Dayna Roselli: So great money saver.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: And I'll tell you what, I've also looked on Groupon for vacation deals as well.
• 25:04
  Sean McAllister: And you can find hotels, uh, the Hilton Grand Vacations at the Flamingo is on here.
• 25:11
  Sean McAllister: Um, Hilton Grand Vacations on Paradise, but also to resorts around the world.
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: I've seen some incredible travel deals to Costa Rica and other uh destinations in South America, even the Caribbean.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: Um, so it's a yeah, I mean, this is certainly not even a commercial for CON.
• 25:29
  Sean McAllister: There's just really good stuff on there.
• 25:31
  Dayna Roselli: I literally just stumbled upon it going, Holy cow, there's a lot on here.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: So by the way, I had to use a calculator to do that$20,$13 thing.
• 25:40
  Sean McAllister: I'm impressed, Roselli.
• 25:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but another thing we wanted to talk about, uh, there was an article in, I believe it was the Nevada Independent.
• 25:46
  Dayna Roselli: It was like kind of an opinion, an opinion piece, I guess, that somebody was talking about why people take the lockdown so hard.
• 25:52
  Dayna Roselli: And one of the points in the article was about how not everyone can use Amazon and and apps like Uber Eats, because it's expensive.
• 26:01
  Dayna Roselli: Now, people think Amazon is is amazing, and it is, but if you don't have a prime membership, you're not getting free shipping.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: And there's a lot of people who don't have a prime membership.
• 26:10
  Dayna Roselli: So ordering something on Amazon, you're paying for shipping.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: And then when it comes to food apps, there are tons of fees.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: There's like a delivery fee, a service fee, and when you order, like maybe you order to even two salads, it really adds up.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: Then you've got to tip the driver, which is expected, but uh it's it's not cheap.
• 26:29
  Sean McAllister: No, it it's definitely started to add up, especially over you know, the the past year when everybody has started uh using it as their primary source of meal delivery if you're not you know making meals at home.
• 26:43
  Sean McAllister: And uh there have been fees that have been just piling one on top of another, making it making it a really heavy investment for one meal.
• 26:54
  Sean McAllister: If you're able to do that, great.
• 26:57
  Sean McAllister: But also keep in mind that you can contact uh the restaurant directly and pick up your order.
• 27:05
  Dayna Roselli: You can.
• 27:05
  Dayna Roselli: And some places do deliver on their own too.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: But I was telling you, like, you and I were working, uh, we're we actually produce uh starting to produce a podcast for someone else, which has been great.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: We were doing some work there, it was at a home, and um that person said, order some some food on Grubhub or whatever.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: I was joking with Sean and I said, Well, you know, these apps, like you look at all the fees, and we were ordering, and I was like, and then watch, they'll forget something because they always seem to forget the drinks.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: And I love a good diet coke, okay, with my my lunch.
• 27:36
  Dayna Roselli: So I said, watch, they'll forget the drinks, or or and then also it comes, it's not as warm.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: So so anyway, um they call the gate and they're like, Well, the guy will be back because he forgot the drinks.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean starts laughing and he's like, You were right.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: So then he comes back again and he says, Oh, they said you didn't order drinks, and I go, No, I definitely did.
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: So then he went back again.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: The guy, the poor grubhub driver went back and forth three times.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: Kudos to him to get it right.
• 28:01
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 28:01
  Dayna Roselli: But by the time the Diet Coke came, I had shoved down that wrap that we ordered, and I didn't even get to sip on the Diet Coke while I was eating it.
• 28:09
  Dayna Roselli: And it wasn't so warm anymore because he had driven back three times.
• 28:12
  Dayna Roselli: So my point is, you're paying all that, and what's the quality that you're actually getting?
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: But like you had mentioned, Sean, yes, pick it up.
• 28:20
  Dayna Roselli: People were writing back on Twitter saying, you know what, I go, it gets me out of the house.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: I get to to drive to the place.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like I see them face to face.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: I can check my order and I'm avoiding all those fees, and you feel like you're supporting local business.
• 28:32
  Sean McAllister: Well, and a lot of places have curbside pickup now, too.
• 28:35
  Sean McAllister: So you just pull into the marked parking spot, you call the number, tell them that you're outside, and they bring your food right out to your car.
• 28:42
  Sean McAllister: They can put it in your trunk or your back seat so you don't even have to deal with the the handoff.
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: No, no handoff.
• 28:49
  Sean McAllister: Even on um DoorDash, I've used that, and there is a pickup option in within the app.
• 28:57
  Sean McAllister: Good.
• 28:57
  Sean McAllister: So I've done that before.
• 28:58
  Sean McAllister: Uh you know, to places that are only a a couple minutes away, there's no need for another driver to go pick it up.
• 29:03
  Sean McAllister: I can I have time.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 29:07
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 29:08
  Dayna Roselli: And I did go on uh once to Panera Bread.
• 29:10
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was their actual website.
• 29:12
  Dayna Roselli: You can place an order and they'll deliver actually someone from Panera Bread came.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 29:16
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, oh wow, that was so fast.
• 29:18
  Dayna Roselli: And I think I only paid it was like a simple fee of two bucks or something like that.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: And they were like, oh yeah, just contact us directly.
• 29:25
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, that's that's a great option too, to just go right to the the source.
• 29:29
  Dayna Roselli: And listen, we're not saying don't use the apps.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: If they're helpful, you love it.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: We we love that it's giving people work and drivers are making money.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: We're just saying that, you know, if you can't afford it, there are other options.
• 29:40
  Dayna Roselli: Just think about it, you know.
• 29:41
  Dayna Roselli: Hop back to it.
• 29:42
  Sean McAllister: Just something to keep in mind.
• 29:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and quickly, hopping back to Groupon, it's also a great place to find uh really affordable Christmas gifts, too.
• 29:49
  Sean McAllister: There's little trinkets and cute little crafty kind of things on there.
• 29:53
  Sean McAllister: So keep that in mind as you're looking for Christmas gifts.
• 29:56
  Dayna Roselli: And psychic readings, Sean.
• 29:58
  Sean McAllister: And psychic readings, if you want to know what 2021 holds for you.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: Think it's psychic Jessica on there.
• 30:03
  Dayna Roselli: She says she does crystal ball readings.
• 30:05
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, don't you want to see the future?
• 30:07
  Dayna Roselli: Come on.
• 30:08
  Sean McAllister: Come on, Jesse.
• 30:08
  Sean McAllister: Tell me what's up.
• 30:09
  Dayna Roselli: Her reviews are really good, by the way.
• 30:11
  Dayna Roselli: And again, this is not a promo in any way, but I was reading her reviews and people were like, she was right on.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, 30 minutes and the crystal ball, you could be all set.
• 30:20
  Dayna Roselli: And tarot, they do the tarot card readings and all that kind of thing.
• 30:24
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 30:25
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe we'll give uh psychic Jessica some business.
• 30:27
  Dayna Roselli: She's local.
• 30:27
  Sean McAllister: So we'll have to get in touch with her.
• 30:30
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, it's been a great podcast.
• 30:32
  Dayna Roselli: Again, follow us on all of our socials.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: We're on Twitter, we're on Facebook, we are on Instagram.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: We've got some great videos on our YouTube that we love to share, and we hope you'll subscribe to the YouTube.
• 30:42
  Sean McAllister: And we will see you back next week as we talk with Nick Carter from the Backstreet Boys.
• 30:48
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, I can't wait.
• 30:49
  Dayna Roselli: This is gonna be good.
• 30:50
  Dayna Roselli: Backstreet Boys, one of my favorite shows at the Zappos Theater that I saw.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: So I might fangirl a little bit over Nick Carter, okay?
• 30:58
  Sean McAllister: Well, he's gonna be a good conversation for sure.
• 31:01
  Sean McAllister: There's lots to talk to him about.
• 31:03
  Sean McAllister: Again, that's next week on Vegas Reveal.
• 31:05
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.