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Swingers Crazy Golf Opens, Pinky's by Vanderpump Opening, How to Eat Buddy V's Vending Machine Cake Slice, Spa Tips, New Restaurants & Jazz Club | Ep. 247 · Vegas Revealed

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  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 247 of Vegas Revealed, calling all swingers.
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  Dayna Roselli: A new venue is now open on the strip just for you.
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  Dayna Roselli: By the way, we're talking about mini golf.
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  Sean McAllister: Then we go to downtown Las Vegas, where an entertainment complex is having a resurgence of new business.
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  Dayna Roselli: We have news for Lisa Vanderpump fans.
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  Dayna Roselli: The reality TV star has another Las Vegas destination set to open soon.
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  Sean McAllister: Plus a new jazz club and a tip if a spa day is on your Vegas itinerary.
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  Dayna Roselli: All that and more coming up on Vegas Revealed.
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  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone to Vegas Revealed.
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  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here.
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  Dayna Roselli: Talking Vegas as usual, and we've got a lot to get to.
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  Sean McAllister: That was a very melodic hello.
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  Sean McAllister: Dana and Sean here.
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  Dayna Roselli: Here.
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  Dayna Roselli: Getting ready for the holidays.
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  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that what we do?
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you fall la la laing, warming up the pipes for all those Christmas carols.
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  Dayna Roselli: Oh boy.
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  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if I'm ready for the holiday season.
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  Dayna Roselli: But the good thing is we had that long summer, so it feels like the holiday season's going to be a little shorter.
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  Dayna Roselli: Because it's like we're just kind of now getting chilly where we're enjoying it.
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  Dayna Roselli: That is true.
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  Dayna Roselli: Okay, we're mid-November.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: We've got a month and a half of holiday stuff.
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  Dayna Roselli: That's not bad.
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  Dayna Roselli: I felt like last year, holiday stuff just, I don't even know.
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  Dayna Roselli: It just felt like it went on for months and months and months or started super early.
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  Sean McAllister: Well, it started in September.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
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  Sean McAllister: It started before Halloween.
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  Dayna Roselli: And I wonder if people were more focused on the election this year that just kind of pushed things off.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, probably.
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  Dayna Roselli: I bet that.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: So maybe we need an election year every year.
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  Sean McAllister: No, God, please no.
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  Dayna Roselli: Well, we guess we have elections every year, but you know, big ones, big, big, big main ones.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, please no.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, listen, I want to get right to um the show, but I wanted to bring something up that we were just chatting about, and it was a comment on our YouTube.
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  Dayna Roselli: We revisited our interview with Buddy Velastro in our latest TV episode, and someone commented about the cake slice vending machines, saying that they get a bad rap and that they're not good and that they're cold.
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  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, well, interestingly enough, we have actually talked to Buddy about this before when we took a cake class with him.
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  Dayna Roselli: We didn't put that part of the story in the story that we just ran, but we're like, no, we did a whole thing on this.
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  Dayna Roselli: So he told us, Sean, you go ahead because I know you talked a little bit more one-on-one with him.
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  Sean McAllister: Well, so basically the whole deal with these uh Carlos Bakery cake ATMs is Buddy not only, you know, bakes the cakes that go inside of them, but he developed all the technology for these uh vending machines.
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  Sean McAllister: They're the machines themselves are uh refrigerated to keep the slices cold.
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  Sean McAllister: But the slices, when they come out of the factory, they're like laser cut.
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  Sean McAllister: The cakes are laser cut.
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  Sean McAllister: So the uh the each uh slice is a precision, right?
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  Sean McAllister: They're all the same size.
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  Sean McAllister: And then they're flash frozen using this like nitrogen uh process that just instantly freezes them so that they can then be you know packaged and put into these vending machines.
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  Sean McAllister: The the controversy comes in with people across social media platforms saying that when you get the slice out of the cake ATM, it just it doesn't taste right.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's not good, this and that.
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  Dayna Roselli: And we have a lot of these ATMs in Oh, they're all over ATM.
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  Dayna Roselli: Is that what it calls?
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's a cake ATM.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, vending machine ATM.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um yeah, they're saying we have them all over, so people are going, you know, well, when I've grabbed one at night, or when I've grabbed one because I felt like I wanted a piece of cake, it wasn't good.
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  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's because you probably aren't following the instructions on the machine.
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  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: The machine, or I think it might also be on the cake.
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  Dayna Roselli: We're looking for a picture of the packaging to see if it was on there um on the back.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's not right on the front.
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  Dayna Roselli: But we have noticed, so we went around and we looked, and because we didn't take note of this when we were actually standing in front of the vending machine, but um it does look like either they're starting to or most of them already had uh something right across the front that says best at room temperature.
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  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: So, Buddy, when we were talking with him, he was telling us, hey, you can't just get it and then dive in.
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  Dayna Roselli: It tastes come how it's supposed to taste when you let it sit for about a half hour.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so and take a listen.
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  Sean McAllister: We had a conversation with Buddy in his bakery over at the Venetian, and he explained why you need to let the cake sit out for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_03: When you come up with these processes, you have to remember are they gonna eat it cold?
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  SPEAKER_03: Are they gonna eat it warm?
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  SPEAKER_03: Certain cakes got meant to be eaten warm.
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  SPEAKER_03: Certain cakes got meant to be eaten cold.
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  SPEAKER_03: So it's about educating the consumer, right?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's about letting them know.
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  SPEAKER_03: So again, you would think this is a whole totally different cake.
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  SPEAKER_03: Same exact cake.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: If people if people decide to though, I get it, but it's a better eating experience.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great.
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  Dayna Roselli: So before you start trashing the cake and all that, you gotta read the instructions, follow the instructions.
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  Dayna Roselli: We think you'll have a better experience, and we hope that helps.
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  Dayna Roselli: For anyone that sees the the cake slices and thinks, oh, I could really go for that right now.
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  Dayna Roselli: You might just need to hold off a little bit.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
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  Sean McAllister: Or take it out into the Las Vegas sun.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, let it warm up and you're good to go.
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  Sean McAllister: But moral of the story, don't eat the cake cold.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, let it warm up.
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  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh, we have a new entertainment complex.
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  Sean McAllister: We've talked about it here on the podcast before.
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  Sean McAllister: It's called Swingers over at Mandalay Bay.
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  Sean McAllister: And I know a lot of people hear the word swingers and think of something else, but we're talking mini golf.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: This is actually called like the long title is Swingers Crazy Golf.
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  Sean McAllister: Yes.
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  Dayna Roselli: So uh get it, swingers, you swing the club.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they're play on words there.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, but listen, it is open now.
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  Dayna Roselli: We went to an occasion where they did the first putt on property.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's a 40,000 square foot space.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, our initial thoughts when we walked in was wow, this is incredible.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's incredible looking, it's different, it looks like it's a blast, and we just loved it.
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  Sean McAllister: Well, and as soon as we stepped inside, I just wanted to go explore.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, because your eyes just go in every direction from you know the golf courses to the you know, the private seating areas, the bars, the restaurant area, the arcade.
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  Sean McAllister: Like there's a lot in there.
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  Sean McAllister: A lot.
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  Dayna Roselli: And it's just it visually is so appealing.
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  Sean McAllister: It is.
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  Dayna Roselli: But okay, before we get into a little bit more, why don't we uh play our story that we put together?
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  Dayna Roselli: Now we actually talked to the co-CEO and co-founder, his name's Matt.
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  Dayna Roselli: We interviewed him about the latest swingers location because they do have a couple in London, one in DC.
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  Sean McAllister: And I think another on the way, but this is the flagship location.
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  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: All right, so here's our interview with Matt.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a really fun day or night, night out.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's super accessible, it's for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whatever you want to eat, drink, you can find it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, the golf, even if you've never played, you'll probably get a hole in one on your first go.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you walk into this 40,000 square feet of the Mandalay Bay, and you'll see a big country house surrounded by four mini golf courses, each made up of nine holes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're covered in all sorts of tricks and jumps and obstacles and installations, which you'll look around and you'll see they're pretty wild.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got a carnival, which is our old school games arcade.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've got two massive bars because we think, you know, if you drink up to the mini golf game.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and we've got street food, street food from Emmy Squared.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's kind of everything you need to create an adult playground and a very fun day or nighttime.
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  Dayna Roselli: And you can actually drink while you're putting, right?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's encouraged.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we have caddies on the courses, and they will give you tips and tricks as you play.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll show you how to get a hole in one, like where you should be aiming for.
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  SPEAKER_00: They'll also take your drink disorder and they'll bring you drinks while you play.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we think it just makes you a little bit more fluid, helps your swing a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, so yeah, it's encouraged on the course for sure.
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  Dayna Roselli: You can come in and not play if you want.
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  Dayna Roselli: Have a drink at the bar, eat.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's encouraged.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you can come in, you don't need to pay a cover charge, you can walk right in, uh, enjoy Emmy Square, our bars, our carnival.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and then yeah, you if you want to play, you can grab uh a golf ticket at the front door, or you can buy them online on our website.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Vegas in Las Vegas easy now.
• 10:24
  Dayna Roselli: What took you so long to get to Vegas?
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's well, it's a difficult city to crack, but now we're in, we're really excited.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it took a while to find the right 40,000 square foot location, but we found our home here in Mandalay Bay and couldn't be happier.
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  Dayna Roselli: And what's the price point for golf?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I'm sure ranges like if you get around and yeah, so uh$35 for a round of golf, and that'll take you 30 to 40 minutes, and then yeah, obviously you can eat and drink before and after, spend as long as you like in the venue, uh, and then the carnival games are kind of pay as you play.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: Kind of feels like a career highlight.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: We're opening in Las Vegas on the script.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just try and take it all in and member it because I don't think there'll be another day quite like this.
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  Dayna Roselli: Why did you choose Madeleine Bay in this space?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, they kind of chose us actually, so they reached out to us.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been looking in Vegas for a while and we've been kind of zeroing in on a few spaces, and then the pandemic hit, and then right afterwards, um, Malay Bay got in touch and they said, Look, we've got this space, we think it could be perfect for you.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Tell us what you might do with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that was where our partnership was born, and they've been super supportive, and they're very excited to have us here.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: And that's but this is where we find ourselves today.
• 11:34
  Dayna Roselli: As a local, I must say I like that it's near the door.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: Right, you're right by the uh parking garage, right by the Uber drop-off, so it's perfect.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: You can get in and out.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh super easy.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, there's no excuses not to come and visit Swingers.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: Explain what happens on hole nine if you get a hole in one.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so on hole nine, you get to, if you get a hole in one, you get to spin the prize wheel, and that's got lots of items of free food and drink, um, cool prizes like that.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if you so if you get the hole in one, you spin the wheel, and then you get the prize.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's just a little bit of extra jeopardy on hole nine uh to try and sink that final hole in one.
• 12:09
  Sean McAllister: How cool is that?
• 12:10
  Sean McAllister: So at other mini golf places, you know, you like sink your ball in the hole on hole nine, and then it just like it's the never-ending hole where it returns the ball to the to the front desk.
• 12:21
  Sean McAllister: I know.
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  Sean McAllister: But here, if you make it in, you get to spin the wheel, get a prize, and there's a caddy at every hole to help you out or even order drinks for you.
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and it sounds like the caddy job's a fun job.
• 12:32
  Sean McAllister: That does sound fun.
• 12:33
  Dayna Roselli: I bet they have a blast.
• 12:34
  Dayna Roselli: The bars are beautiful there too.
• 12:36
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you heard them.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: He said they encourage drinking, it helps you have fun on the course, and you know, you can just walk in and just enjoy, or or you can play around.
• 12:46
  Dayna Roselli: But it's for 21 and over.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: Keep that in mind.
• 12:49
  Dayna Roselli: No kids.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you have to be 21.
• 12:51
  Dayna Roselli: It's right near the doors at uh as soon as you come in from the parking garage at Mandalay Bay, nice and close, and they are officially open.
• 13:00
  Sean McAllister: And we have some uh food spots around town that are also uh either officially open or uh cutting ribbons and making uh announcements that they'll be opening.
• 13:12
  Sean McAllister: The first one, uh the first ones, I should say, are over at Green Valley Ranch.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: This is uh the district that's over in Henderson.
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, right near the hotel casino.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: Um, there's a parking lot behind the district, and in that lot, they have made uh area that now uh has two new restaurants, North Italia and Flowerchild.
• 13:35
  Dayna Roselli: They sit right there.
• 13:37
  Dayna Roselli: Uh great spots.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: There's a North Italia and Flowerchild right near each other in an area called Book Park area out west.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: And we've both gone to North Italia a a couple times.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: It's been a while.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: Flowerchild, I used to be a regular, I was there all the time.
• 13:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I don't get there as often anymore.
• 13:54
  Dayna Roselli: Both fantastic places, great food, and I think they know that, so they're like, hey, we need to build one near Green Valley Ranch.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, build it over on the east side of the valley too.
• 14:03
  Sean McAllister: So uh North Italia and Flowerchild now open.
• 14:06
  Sean McAllister: By the way, North Italia has a big patio uh in addition to their indoor restaurant space, which is also pretty big, but just such a nice, light, airy feeling.
• 14:18
  Sean McAllister: And everything we had in there was delicious.
• 14:21
  Dayna Roselli: We we were able to go to the preview.
• 14:22
  Dayna Roselli: When I walk by Flowerchild, that has a patio too, FYI, right next door.
• 14:26
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 14:26
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, I just had my uh leftover um mushroom pizza slice from when we went over there, and it was so good.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: Just such a good, earthy flavor, yeah, which I loved.
• 14:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 14:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um the pasta that we ordered, a lot of us ordered pasta was so fresh.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: You could just tell that this was not, you know, poured out of the bottle.
• 14:52
  Dayna Roselli: It was really good.
• 14:53
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we had so many fantastic.
• 14:54
  Dayna Roselli: What was that bread at the beginning?
• 14:55
  Sean McAllister: Because I know Oh my gosh, that was the garlic bread.
• 14:58
  Dayna Roselli: Garlic bread with truffle?
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: It was truffle garlic bread with uh, I think it was a was it like a ricotta cheese or a I don't know what the cheese is.
• 15:10
  Dayna Roselli: Like a barata cheese.
• 15:11
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: It was whipped and it was it was good.
• 15:13
  Sean McAllister: So good.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 15:15
  Sean McAllister: I would have had five bowls of that.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: We always say we're not foodies.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: We go to a lot of restaurants, but we don't know all the lingo.
• 15:22
  Sean McAllister: No, but we know what it tastes good.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: We just know when it tastes good, right?
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 15:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, quickly speaking of restaurants, we you know, we we did that interview at Pop's Philly Steaks, right?
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: And already I've put it on TikTok and and different things, and it's in our show, and people are chiming in.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: That is a a popular place here in Las Vegas, and everyone has something to say and chime in, whether they like it or they don't, or they love it, or it's better in Philly, or it's better here.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: And so um we had a you know, we had a good time going over there to try Pop's Philly steak.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: So we liked it.
• 15:55
  Dayna Roselli: It was good for us.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: Again, we aren't foodies, we thought it was super tasty.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: People are very particular, can be very particular about their cheesesteaks.
• 16:05
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: I thought the ones we had were very good.
• 16:08
  Sean McAllister: They were freaking good.
• 16:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Sean McAllister: I would have those any day of the week.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, the Hush Puppy is opening in downtown Las Vegas, and this is right in that Neanapolis complex.
• 16:18
  Dayna Roselli: They've been opening a lot of things over there.
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: They opened fat sales, they opened a nightclub.
• 16:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so now the Hush Puppy is coming in 2025, in early 2025.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: I have never had the Hush Puppy because there is one on East Charleston, but you have.
• 16:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, on West Charleston.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: Or oh, is it West Charleston?
• 16:37
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I thought it was East Charleston.
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: Um, and so no, I used to go over there with a group of friends, I think on it was Monday nights.
• 16:45
  Sean McAllister: I don't even know if they're still doing this anymore.
• 16:47
  Sean McAllister: They may not be, but they used to have uh all you can eat crab legs on Monday nights, and so a bunch of us would get together, and it wasn't every Monday, but probably once a month we would go and do this.
• 17:02
  Sean McAllister: And you get the salad bar, you get your buckets, they would just keep bringing those metal beer buckets full of crab legs, plopping them down on the table.
• 17:11
  Sean McAllister: You have your drawn butter, you have the basket of hush puppies in the middle of the table.
• 17:17
  Sean McAllister: Uh, usually somebody would order some uh some of the fried catfish, too.
• 17:23
  Sean McAllister: So you would have that to pick at, and it was just so good.
• 17:29
  Dayna Roselli: We yeah, okay, so it's on West Charleston your rainbow.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: I see now.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, I thought it was on East Charleston.
• 17:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I like this.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I pass it all the time then.
• 17:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, huh?
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know why I've never seen it.
• 17:38
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 17:38
  Dayna Roselli: It's so popular, it's been here.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: Did she say 53 years or something?
• 17:43
  Sean McAllister: I think so.
• 17:43
  Sean McAllister: Something like that.
• 17:44
  Sean McAllister: It's been here a long time.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: So a lot of people know it uh from that uh West Charleston location, but now uh that new location, they just cut the ribbon over there at Neanapolis, which is literally, I mean, their front door is just it's right on the Fremont Street experience, really.
• 18:04
  Sean McAllister: You don't even have to go back into the Neanapolis complex.
• 18:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, so I think they're gonna have some great foot traffic, they're bringing all the favorites, uh the their menu favorites they're bringing right there to downtown Las Vegas.
• 18:17
  Sean McAllister: So um sometime early in 2025, they're gonna open.
• 18:22
  Sean McAllister: I think they're shooting for around March.
• 18:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:24
  Sean McAllister: So um we'll keep you updated on that.
• 18:27
  Sean McAllister: But it's exciting the hush puppy coming to downtown Las Vegas.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: Great foot traffic.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it'll do so well.
• 18:33
  Dayna Roselli: I tried a little of the fried fish, it was great.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: It is they had out like at the preview, they had some and and I tried the hush puppy.
• 18:40
  Sean McAllister: Well, and there are a lot of people who have relocated to Las Vegas from the south.
• 18:45
  Sean McAllister: So this is just you know, this is the cuisine they grew up on.
• 18:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 18:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna do well.
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: It was a great celebration there, too.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: The mayor was there, you know.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: She's she's winding down her term as mayor.
• 18:56
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, she's been mayor here such a long time.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: And then before that it was Oscar Goodman, her husband.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: So um, it was great to see her at what we think will probably be the last event that we see here her at uh as mayor of Las Vegas, unless something pops up that she's gonna be at.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: So it was wonderful to hear her cheer them on.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: And when I talked to her, I said, you know, you're at everything big or small.
• 19:17
  Dayna Roselli: And she said, it's all important.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: This is how we make Las Vegas work.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone, everything big, small.
• 19:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's it's how we function.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: And as as we wind down the year and she winds down her term, uh, we'll probably be uh playing some of her final comments for you here on the podcast as well.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: She's still trying to get that I-15 widened.
• 19:40
  Sean McAllister: Man, is she ever?
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: All right, even though it's not her jurisdiction, she still wants it widened because she just wants people to be able to get to downtown Las Vegas.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, let's talk Lisa Vanderpump.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, so popular.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: She just keeps expanding and expanding and expanding.
• 19:54
  Dayna Roselli: And now she has a new place opening called Pinkies by Lisa Vanderpump.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: And this is going to be at the Flamingo.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, right off of Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 20:02
  Sean McAllister: Uh and Pinky, by the way, did you know that Pinky is Lisa Vanderpump's nickname?
• 20:07
  Dayna Roselli: No, I didn't.
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: That's why they named this restaurant after her.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: So it's going to have some uh really great art deco designs inside.
• 20:17
  Sean McAllister: Uh, you know, and if you've been to any of uh Lisa Vanderpump's other establishments here in Las Vegas, one at Caesars Palace, the other at Paris, Las Vegas, it's a very whimsical design.
• 20:30
  Sean McAllister: The cocktails and food menus are very inventive.
• 20:35
  Sean McAllister: Uh, so this is going to, you know, follow suit with what we expect from a Lisa Vanderpump restaurant.
• 20:43
  Sean McAllister: Um and this is opening pretty soon, the first week of December.
• 20:47
  Dayna Roselli: And we'll be at the big VIP party.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: We were invited, you know.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so last time we went to the opening party for the one at Paris, a lot of the cast members of the Vanderpump show were there.
• 21:01
  Sean McAllister: Oh, with that, yeah, there were uh Lance Bass was there.
• 21:05
  Sean McAllister: Oh yeah.
• 21:05
  Sean McAllister: Um not on the show, but no, he's not on the show.
• 21:09
  Dayna Roselli: But the whole cast, all their names.
• 21:11
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 21:11
  Dayna Roselli: I brought a friend who was like obsessed with Vanderpump rules and knew everyone and was like in heaven.
• 21:16
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're uh a Vanderpump fan, if you were around the flamingo that week, I have a feeling you might there might be some sightings.
• 21:23
  Sean McAllister: There may be, yes, I have no doubt.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: She does it right.
• 21:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um her places are like stunning to look at when you walk in, you know.
• 21:30
  Sean McAllister: Well, she's so smart.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah using her her the platform that she has, and I mean she was a restaurateur before she even was a reality star.
• 21:39
  Sean McAllister: So this is kind of like what she knows, what she's done for for decades.
• 21:44
  Sean McAllister: The reality thing just kind of boosted the profile.
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: Well, remember we said to her when we interviewed her last time, we're like, You're getting good at that, or you're you're good at this opening and expanding in Vegas.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: She's like, Well, I better be.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: This is what I do for a living.
• 21:58
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, Oh, all right.
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: We also saw her at Keep Memory Alive when we were there recently.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: She popped by that event.
• 22:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's talk a couple holiday things.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: Just be on the lookout for a lot of pop-up things in Las Vegas during the holidays.
• 22:13
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of our bars and restaurants do special, kind of themed, holiday-themed experiences.
• 22:20
  Sean McAllister: Experiences.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: That's it.
• 22:22
  Sean McAllister: Everyone wants a holiday experience.
• 22:25
  Sean McAllister: And so one of the newer experiences that we're expecting this year is over at uh Flankers Bar at Mandalay Bay.
• 22:35
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:35
  Sean McAllister: They're doing uh what they're calling their Christmas parlor.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently, you'll be immersed into a vintage charm of a festive wonderland.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: We've been invited to that opening party as well.
• 22:46
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll let you know what it, you know, looks like, but it sounds like it's going to be really cute, adorned with nostalgic holiday decor, Christmas trees, twinkling lights.
• 22:57
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it sounds fun.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so and then lots of different, you know, libations and and different dishes and all that kind of thing.
• 23:03
  Sean McAllister: And even in the uh the invitation that we received, it had like the leg lamp from a Christmas story that was on their part of their decor.
• 23:12
  Sean McAllister: So if that gives you an idea of what to expect, that's it.
• 23:18
  Sean McAllister: Um also bad elf is making a return to the Shady Grove Lounge.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: This is over at the Silverton.
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: Uh, every year they remake this into the Bad Elf lounge uh with Christmas cocktails, little bites to eat.
• 23:34
  Sean McAllister: Um, throughout the year, they do uh some other seasonal things as well.
• 23:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh but Bad Elf is always so fun.
• 23:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and this it's open uh Thursdays through Sundays at five o'clock, and it kicks off November 21st and goes through December 29th.
• 23:49
  Dayna Roselli: So uh I've seen pictures, I've actually never been, and I know you've been many times.
• 23:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's so funny that you go to the things that have surrounded drinks, and I haven't.
• 23:59
  Dayna Roselli: And I go to all the other stuff.
• 24:03
  Sean McAllister: Well, you know, someone's got to.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: Someone's gotta do it.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: You've gotta taste test all the drinks.
• 24:08
  Sean McAllister: We divide and conquer.
• 24:09
  Sean McAllister: That's how I like to think about it.
• 24:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, but you always say it's fun and really, really cool.
• 24:13
  Sean McAllister: It is, it's so much fun, and you have to put on.
• 24:16
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I always put on, you know, one of my ugly Christmas sweaters to go over there and just get in the spirit.
• 24:23
  Sean McAllister: My sister is coming to town to stay with us the week of Christmas, so I think we're gonna have to hit a few of these places up.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, she'd love this.
• 24:30
  Sean McAllister: Uh it's right up her alley.
• 24:31
  Sean McAllister: And speaking of alleys, there's actually a little bowling alley at uh the Shady Grove Lounge.
• 24:37
  Sean McAllister: They have like an airstream trailer, and when you step inside, there's a a small little bowling alley with like the wooden it'll it's almost like a bocce ball that you roll down the alley, knock down the pins.
• 24:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's so much fun.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, that's it's really cute.
• 24:52
  Sean McAllister: It's really cute.
• 24:52
  Sean McAllister: And of course, they have uh the mermaids over there at the Silverton as well.
• 24:57
  Sean McAllister: And I believe uh in the past that they have even had a scuba diving Santa in that tank.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 25:05
  Sean McAllister: I like the Silverton, it's unique, it's a good spot, and they have put so much into the renovations over there, too.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they really have.
• 25:13
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• 25:58
  Sean McAllister: Let's do some tips.
• 26:02
  Sean McAllister: We are starting tips this week, Dana, with a place that I have been wanting to go.
• 26:07
  Sean McAllister: And I actually tried to go a few weeks ago, but uh there was a private party happening.
• 26:12
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, sometimes they do that.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I'm talking about the uh fat cat jazz booze and blues bar in Las Vegas.
• 26:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it is cool.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's over at the downtown grand, and I went to a birthday party there, so that's why I went and loved the live music, loved the bar, the ambiance.
• 26:34
  Dayna Roselli: Think of a jazz club, but like super hip.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: It was cool.
• 26:38
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, really enjoyed it, and I think more people should know about it because, first of all, the downtown grand, even walking through there, I'm like, this is such a great little hotel.
• 26:46
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great spot, isn't it?
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: It really is.
• 26:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so yeah, so went there and it was great.
• 26:52
  Dayna Roselli: They had a band up there.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it was busy at first for the party, and then as things started to wind down, you could tell people just enjoyed sitting at their table, chit-chatting, listening to the music, and I I loved it.
• 27:04
  Dayna Roselli: It did feel very like New Orleans.
• 27:06
  Sean McAllister: Ooh, okay.
• 27:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 27:07
  Sean McAllister: All right, I love that.
• 27:08
  Sean McAllister: And the reason I've been wanting to go back there is because that's the room where uh we had our wedding.
• 27:14
  Dayna Roselli: I remember.
• 27:15
  Sean McAllister: Shane and I had our wedding in there.
• 27:17
  Sean McAllister: And you know, it's been obviously turned into a jazz club since it was an event space at the time, but um, you know, so it holds special meaning, and so I'm excited to get back in there and listen to some jazz.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it it's great.
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: It looks like um you have to pay five dollars just to get in at the door because, you know, the live music.
• 27:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but on most nights, I'm just looking at the calendar now, and it looks like they have different uh different performers and um throughout the month.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: So so yeah, check it out.
• 27:46
  Dayna Roselli: Go online.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: It is actually let me see what the website is.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it looks like they've got a Google site.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um just Google it.
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: You'll find it Fat Cat Jazz Club in the downtown grand.
• 28:00
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the site is sites.google.com backslash blah blah blah.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: I could go on and on and on.
• 28:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's a very long thing.
• 28:06
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you can probably go to the downtown grand website too, and they'll they have the information there for you as well.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 28:12
  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh as a second tip this week, um, I wanted to bring this up because uh we recently did uh a spa day down on the strip.
• 28:23
  Sean McAllister: We went to Canyon Ranch Spa over at the Venetian.
• 28:27
  Sean McAllister: Um and thank goodness they had uh availability because, and this is the tip if you are planning on having a spa day, uh whether you're living in Vegas or you're coming into town, plan ahead because we you know had we tried to book with a couple days' notice, and people uh the all the spas that we uh were considering going to, um, they were booked, completely booked.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: So we're like, man, what are we gonna do?
• 28:58
  Sean McAllister: And then thankfully, uh Canyon Ranch, which is still a really great spa, um they had availability, so we went over there.
• 29:07
  Sean McAllister: But but the tip is plan ahead, book ahead.
• 29:13
  Sean McAllister: And that goes for anything, not just a spa.
• 29:16
  Sean McAllister: We've mentioned this before.
• 29:17
  Sean McAllister: If you have a a dinner reservation that you think you might want to go to, plan ahead.
• 29:23
  Sean McAllister: Get it on the books, and if you have a change of plans, then you change your plans.
• 29:28
  Sean McAllister: But at least it's good to have a reservation.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: It's funny because I'm going out of town at the beginning of December with a friend, and we're already we have like the vaguest state of mind going where we're planning already, like reservations are booked, we know where we're going Saturday afternoon, how to get there, all that.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: Good.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: You got to plan ahead.
• 29:45
  Dayna Roselli: You do, you know.
• 29:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then you know, leave room for go with the flow because that's always fun too.
• 29:50
  Dayna Roselli: But sometimes it's so disappointing when you like figure something out and you want to go there when you're in that city and it's like it's booked.
• 29:58
  Sean McAllister: Yes, I know, I know.
• 29:59
  Dayna Roselli: And for me, I'm like, I don't know anyone there.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right.
• 30:02
  Sean McAllister: So you do, you want to plan ahead and have something set in stone.
• 30:05
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 30:06
  Dayna Roselli: I don't have Joe that can call Marsha, that can call Jan and say, hey, Roselli's coming in.
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: Because Jan's always got the hookups.
• 30:16
  Sean McAllister: Hey, one thing I wanted to mention about uh Canyon Ranch Spa, they have one of the most relaxing spa rooms that I've ever been into.
• 30:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you were saying that.
• 30:26
  Sean McAllister: It's called the wave room, and this is in like the co-ed area of the spa, and they have like those cushioned, wavy spa chairs that just like contour your whole body when you lay down, and they have this pond in the middle of the room with a camera pointed down at it, and you know, there's ripples in the water and everything, but then there's a projector that that takes that image and puts it up on the ceiling.
• 30:53
  Sean McAllister: So you're laying in these uh cushy spa recliners lounges, looking up at the ceiling.
• 31:02
  Sean McAllister: It's nice and quiet in there.
• 31:04
  Sean McAllister: There might have been a little bit of ambient music going on to relax you even more.
• 31:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 31:10
  Sean McAllister: But I think I fell asleep about five different times in there.
• 31:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 31:14
  Sean McAllister: It was just so soothing, so relaxing.
• 31:18
  Sean McAllister: And now I want to do that.
• 31:22
  Sean McAllister: Find some way to do that in our house.
• 31:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 31:25
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you're running out of space because you're always doing something.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: We are running out of space.
• 31:29
  Dayna Roselli: We always have an idea, and I'm like, where are they gonna put this?
• 31:33
  Sean McAllister: We need to build an upstairs.
• 31:35
  Sean McAllister: Uh we're in a ranch house.
• 31:36
  Sean McAllister: We need a second level.
• 31:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you do.
• 31:38
  Dayna Roselli: Get to work.
• 31:39
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know about the HOA, they won't go for that.
• 31:41
  Sean McAllister: No, they won't.
• 31:43
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, thanks for joining us, everyone.
• 31:45
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we hope you have a great week.
• 31:47
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna try and focus on a little bit of Formula One stuff next week because we know people are coming in from all over the world, and we just kind of want to let you know what's going on still, what's staying open, what they've added this year, all that kind of thing next week on Vegas Revealed.
• 32:04
  Dayna Roselli: And uh we might drop that a little early too, by the way, because we know people are coming in for the end of the week.
• 32:09
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe we'll post it like Tuesday or something.
• 32:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, just so that you have enough time to digest the info and you know, plan early and get your plans set in stone.
• 32:18
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• 32:56
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• 33:13
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• 33:31
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• 33:53
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, listen, everyone, have a great week, and we'll talk to you next week.