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Opinions on Hard Rock’s Guitar Tower, Smoke-Free Gaming at Palms, Las Vegas Mocktail Culture, Fontainebleau’s MICHELIN Honor, Carrot Top Support | Ep. 340 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It is episode 340 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: What do you think of the hard rock guitar tower that's going up here in Vegas?
• 0:08
  Sean McAllister: We hit the strip and talk to some visitors.
• 0:10
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, we answer fan mail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 0:14
  Sean McAllister: Jason Aldeans kicks off a weekend football brunch.
• 0:18
  Dayna Roselli: Tom's unveils a non-smoking area on the casino floor.
• 0:22
  Sean McAllister: And there's so much more.
• 0:23
  Sean McAllister: Let's get to it.
• 0:25
  Dayna Roselli: Vegas Revealed starts now.
• 0:28
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 340.
• 0:32
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dayna Roselli here from the entertainment capital of the world.
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: And we just wrapped up um last week a satellite media tour.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: We told you we were going to do this and that we did it and all that kind of thing, but I was laughing because we call it satellite, because back in the day we were satellite.
• 0:48
  Dayna Roselli: And then I noticed someone called it a broadcast media tour, and I was like, oh well, we're still old school.
• 0:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, times change.
• 0:53
  Sean McAllister: We we don't use satellites anymore.
• 0:55
  Sean McAllister: It used to be like the whole thing you had to bring out a satellite truck and get the uplink and all that stuff.
• 1:01
  Sean McAllister: The coordinates to tune in for the stations that are working with you.
• 1:05
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:06
  Sean McAllister: Now it's Zoom.
• 1:07
  Dayna Roselli: It was a whole thing.
• 1:07
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:08
  Dayna Roselli: Zoom, nice and easy, right?
• 1:09
  Dayna Roselli: It's crazy.
• 1:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we had fun.
• 1:11
  Dayna Roselli: Last week we did talk about it and we we told you that we did this.
• 1:14
  Dayna Roselli: But um we just were laughing because we actually were interviewed by uh one of the anchors in Salt Lake City who said, Hey, are you guys uh do you know if there's any show deals for my Uncle Donnie's show?
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, What?
• 1:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but apparently Donnie Osmond's nephew is an anchor in Salt Lake City.
• 1:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, David Osmond.
• 1:31
  Sean McAllister: And uh so once he said, Hey, my Uncle Donnie, I was like, Oh, because I know that you know there are some uh Osmond family members who who work in TV in in Salt Lake, and David is one of them, so it was good to connect with him when we said, Yeah, actually, David, uh you get 30% off with during this five-day sale of Las Vegas that's now over.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:55
  Sean McAllister: Um, and then it was funny enough, we went to interview Donny Osmond later that afternoon.
• 1:59
  Sean McAllister: But they have a big family, they have a very big family, yes.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we had a blast with Donny.
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have that interview another time.
• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: We look forward to sharing it.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: Always so good to see him.
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: But something we noticed when we were walking through Harrah's on a Tuesday afternoon, we walked in like 2 45 p.m.
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: and it was packed.
• 2:19
  Sean McAllister: It was so busy.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm talking like people on the casino floor gambling.
• 2:23
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: You know, roulette, the whole nine.
• 2:25
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, huh, this is a good sign.
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: Because you always see, you know, on Twitter and threads, everyone going back and forth with Vegas is doing so bad.
• 2:33
  Dayna Roselli: People are like, I don't know what you're talking about because I couldn't even find a parking spot last night.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: Or I the event I went to was slammed.
• 2:39
  Dayna Roselli: And we've always said it's kind of situational based, but this was just 245 in the afternoon.
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: So again, it was like, wow.
• 2:47
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 2:48
  Sean McAllister: And hopefully, uh, that five-day sale that once again has wrapped up by now.
• 2:54
  Sean McAllister: Um, hopefully people did take advantage of the deals that were being offered because uh hotel rooms were up to 60% off, lots of deals on entertainment attractions.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um lots of breakfasts included and hundred dollar food credits, and that's always good because Vegas, you know, because I think people like that.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: It's not really the full all-inclusive.
• 3:12
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: But it's nice to get to wake up and know you're gonna go down to Bobby Flay's restaurant and have free breakfast.
• 3:18
  Sean McAllister: Well, and to know that you're not gonna have to spend uh 50 bucks for a breakfast for two.
• 3:23
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:23
  Sean McAllister: Eggs and bacon.
• 3:24
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:25
  Dayna Roselli: But you're still sitting in a nice place and having an experience.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: And a reminder if you do go to visit losvegas.com slash deals, they keep that page updated with uh all of the offers that are constantly coming in from various properties.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: So as you're planning your Vegas trip or if you live in Vegas and you have family members coming in, it's always a good idea to check out that page, visit losvegas.com slash deals, um, to see uh what's being offered at any given point in time.
• 3:56
  Dayna Roselli: Because there are things on there every single time you look.
• 3:58
  Dayna Roselli: I don't you like we remind people all the time about it, but definitely like you're saying, go there because sometimes I'm like, oh wow, that's a good deal.
• 4:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 4:06
  Dayna Roselli: And especially for like attractions and stuff, you know, if you're gonna go somewhere, check and see if they have, you know, something going on.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: So um, yeah, it's great.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: So we went over and we we chatted with Donny um at Harrah's.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: We noticed it was busy.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: We had to go all the way to the top of the parking garage to park.
• 4:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I also quickly, you know, was thinking about the uh broadcast media tour we did.
• 4:26
  Dayna Roselli: I also wanted to mention we did that at the Boulevard pool deck at the Cosmopolitan.
• 4:30
  Dayna Roselli: And we were just chatting, we were there, like, you know, Cosmopolitan is such a nice hotel.
• 4:34
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 4:34
  Dayna Roselli: And just to kind of talk about it for a minute, I mean, it was fun to be on the pool deck with looking up and seeing, you know, all these rooms have balconies.
• 4:41
  Dayna Roselli: I don't think every single room does, but if obviously if you're on the outside, but I mean, it was fun to smell the breakfast cooking and people you could see standing on their balcony as the morning, you know, as the sun came up, getting ready for their day.
• 4:53
  Dayna Roselli: And um, balconies are rare in Las Vegas.
• 4:55
  Sean McAllister: They are, yeah.
• 4:56
  Sean McAllister: Well, and we were wondering too, like, as people were waking up and looking out their window that overlooked the pool deck, and they saw us down there with the the lights and the cameras and the whole setup.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: They had to be thinking, what the heck is going on down there?
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: I know, Viva Las Vegas.
• 5:13
  Dayna Roselli: We're like, there's probably these random social media videos of us, like out there, people up from their balcony.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, but even going up, I was like, you know, the parking's pretty smooth.
• 5:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's it's you know, you gotta go down and all that.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, when we went, it was early in the morning, so it was pretty easy to find parking, but um easy to navigate.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: And then, you know, I love that they have kind of like, I don't want to say food court, um, but they have choices.
• 5:37
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you can go up and get some food, then they have the high-end restaurants, then they kind of have some really fun restaurants.
• 5:42
  Dayna Roselli: It's just a really good mix in there.
• 5:44
  Sean McAllister: There is, it's a good selection, a good vibe.
• 5:46
  Sean McAllister: It always has been.
• 5:47
  Sean McAllister: It's been a fun property, always.
• 5:49
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't know if people realize this, but they, you know, when they had opened the Cosmopolitan way back in the day, it wasn't run by MGM, but they always said we're gonna do the casino floor, and then the levels above are gonna be where our restaurants are, where most hotel casinos have a casino floor and you're walking by like different restaurants all the time.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: So they kind of stack it up.
• 6:11
  Sean McAllister: Well, and even with the uh chandelier bar that's right in the center of the entire property, that's a multi-level bar inside of a massive multi-level chandelier.
• 6:22
  Sean McAllister: And so, I mean, that kind of is the fun of going over to uh Cosmopolitan too, is going and exploring each of the different levels.
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: It's so true.
• 6:33
  Sean McAllister: Because there's shops up there that that you wouldn't know if you didn't go up there.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and you can get to a bridge that kind of crosses over to Crystals to Aria.
• 6:41
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of connections.
• 6:43
  Dayna Roselli: It's an easy, it's an easy good spot.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: One of the crew members that we did one of those uh tours with before for television, he said, Hey, I took uh advantage of that all-inclusive that you guys were um working on the last time we were together or the time before that.
• 7:05
  Dayna Roselli: We've done a lot of these and we're thankful that people hire us to do these as Vegas insiders.
• 7:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but um he said I took full advantage of that and it was awesome.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: He's like, I don't remember much, which made us laugh.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: But um he did love the the three meals a day.
• 7:21
  Dayna Roselli: He went to see Carrot Top.
• 7:23
  Dayna Roselli: He said it was hilarious, like he had really good, memorable moments.
• 7:26
  Dayna Roselli: And um, you know, we'll talk about what's going on with Carrot Top a little bit later, but um, but he had a blast.
• 7:31
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that he took advantage of that.
• 7:33
  Dayna Roselli: He said, You can't beat it.
• 7:34
  Dayna Roselli: Like we logged on and we kept going, this is literally coming out to $329 for two nights, two people, three meals a day, show tickets.
• 7:43
  Sean McAllister: So And they drew drove in from Southern California, so easy trip in, yeah, easy trip back, and then to have a couple days where you can leave the kids with the babysitter and have come out, have some adult time, unwind, relax, have fun.
• 8:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and then go back home at a really at a really great price.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: So again, just keep on top of the deals that are always happening.
• 8:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, and I have a feeling we're going to see even more deals coming in the uh near future.
• 8:16
  Sean McAllister: I don't think we've seen the end of the deals.
• 8:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's good.
• 8:18
  Dayna Roselli: That's great.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we did a a talk back with um a crew in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and it made me think we got some fan mail this week from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 8:30
  Dayna Roselli: We did.
• 8:31
  Dayna Roselli: So we must be big there.
• 8:32
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but anyway, we got a really nice note from one of our listeners here on the audio podcast.
• 8:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and he said, you know, you tell us to write you an ask question, so I I am, and I love that.
• 8:45
  Dayna Roselli: And he said, My question to ask you is how about the people who don't drink booze?
• 8:51
  Dayna Roselli: What would be the best places to go and get a non-alcoholic drink or cocktail?
• 8:56
  Dayna Roselli: Do some places frown on you if you ask for a soda to drink?
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: If you go to one of the bars, uh, where are a couple he was saying that there are a couple of diabetics and they don't really drink booze?
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: So he just was curious if it's frowned upon.
• 9:11
  Dayna Roselli: And we thought, you know what, let's talk about this because immediately I thought, absolutely not, it's not frowned upon at all.
• 9:17
  Dayna Roselli: People don't drink like no and yeah, all the time.
• 9:22
  Sean McAllister: More and more for various reasons, people, uh Vegas visitors are drinking less.
• 9:28
  Sean McAllister: And so there have been a lot more non-alcoholic uh options added to uh the menus at restaurants, at lounges, at bars.
• 9:39
  Sean McAllister: And all you have to do is ask.
• 9:40
  Sean McAllister: And they'll if you have a great bartender, they will be more than happy to make you a non-alcoholic cocktail.
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 9:49
  Sean McAllister: You know, if you want a pina colada, but you don't want the rum in it, just let them know.
• 9:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's easy enough.
• 9:55
  Dayna Roselli: We drank a Gatorade the other day that was coconut, and I was like, this tastes like a pina colada.
• 9:59
  Sean McAllister: That did taste good, that tasted really good.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, you know what?
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: This would be good with a drink, a little hydration.
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but you know, you could just do uh, you know, uh maybe like a rum, non-alcoholic rum with it.
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: And they have all that stuff.
• 10:11
  Dayna Roselli: Like we did a whole segment at Fountain Blue once in one of the lounges, and there are a lot of spirits out there now that are non-alcoholic, and they made us one of the cocktails, and you can't tell the difference.
• 10:21
  Sean McAllister: You couldn't tell at all.
• 10:22
  Sean McAllister: It was so good, yeah, and that is being adopted widely across Las Vegas, um, and I feel like even beyond.
• 10:32
  Sean McAllister: So, absolutely not.
• 10:33
  Sean McAllister: If you are not a drinker, do not feel like um uh there's any reason not to ask for a non-alcoholic drink, even if you do just want a soda from the bar, they're happy to pour one for you.
• 10:46
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we go out a lot for stuff.
• 10:48
  Dayna Roselli: I get sodas all the time, diet coke or whatever.
• 10:50
  Dayna Roselli: No one even flinches, you know?
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: Like, I mean, so totally normal.
• 10:54
  Sean McAllister: There's a lot of times I'll even just get a soda water with lime.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 10:58
  Dayna Roselli: They'll do anything.
• 10:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 10:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 10:59
  Dayna Roselli: And if you want a water, they'll give you a bottle.
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: If you want ice water, usually they'll just, you know, pour you in ice water.
• 11:04
  Sean McAllister: So I mean it's not free, but they'll give it to you.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: No, the ice waters are usually free, but not the bottles.
• 11:09
  Dayna Roselli: But if you're gambling, it is free.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 11:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 11:13
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 11:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so yeah, not frowned upon at all.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: Enjoy your trip.
• 11:17
  Dayna Roselli: You don't have to drink alcohol.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: And the trend is for younger people, they're not drinking.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: So um this could be even more of a thing as the years go on.
• 11:25
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 11:26
  Sean McAllister: And P and the bartenders are going to keep being more creative with the things that they offer, too.
• 11:31
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 11:32
  Dayna Roselli: We did get a nice email too from Pete.
• 11:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you know, I don't know.
• 11:36
  Dayna Roselli: He included his phone number and I looked up it's like Chicago area, but it can't be guaranteeing that he lives there now.
• 11:41
  Dayna Roselli: But um, he said, listen in a long time, love the podcast.
• 11:44
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for everything you do.
• 11:45
  Dayna Roselli: So we appreciate it.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: Even just a simple note from Pete.
• 11:48
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate you letting us know that you listen and that you appreciate what we do because we do put in a lot of time and you know, recapping our lives here and trying to give you as many insider tips as we can.
• 11:59
  Sean McAllister: And a reminder there is a link down in our show notes where all you have to do is click it and you can send us a text message.
• 12:06
  Sean McAllister: And now we are able to answer you back on text as well.
• 12:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 12:10
  Sean McAllister: We don't get any of your uh information, only what you provide.
• 12:13
  Sean McAllister: Um, but it's a great way to connect and we appreciate it.
• 12:17
  Sean McAllister: A lot of people have been reaching out asking about the trips that they have coming up for special occasions.
• 12:23
  Sean McAllister: Is this I'm coming in for a work event?
• 12:26
  Sean McAllister: I have a group of people who I'm trying to coordinate dinners for.
• 12:30
  Sean McAllister: Do these places work?
• 12:31
  Sean McAllister: We're happy to give advice and um share what we know.
• 12:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because we're in our seventh season.
• 12:38
  Dayna Roselli: We've talked about a lot of things, and sometimes it may seem repetitive to us, but there are new people, new listeners on board, people curious about things.
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: Like I think, you know, last week we talked about someone asked about the rooftop bars.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: Happy to rehash and things are opening all the time that are brand new and closing, then no longer there.
• 12:54
  Dayna Roselli: So um, in fact, the the question about the alcohol came from text, and we have actually already answered that person because we're we can respond now um uh you know our our take on that, but wanted to do it on the audio podcast here so you could all hear it as well.
• 13:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: And uh as you mentioned, Dana, we did go over to Fountain Blue and look at their uh collection of non-alcoholic spirits, but Fountain Blue is getting uh some really big recognition.
• 13:21
  Sean McAllister: They just received a Michelin key for 2026 in the Michelin guide.
• 13:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's great.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: They got it again.
• 13:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I think they got it last year, too.
• 13:30
  Dayna Roselli: So Fountain Blue Las Vegas is the only resort and casino in the country to hold the honor, a title the property has now carried, yeah, for a second exec consecutive year.
• 13:39
  Dayna Roselli: I knew they got it one year.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: So two years in a row.
• 13:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um it says the repeat honor reflects the resort's striking architecture and interiors paired with a consistently elevated guest experience across its amenities and accommodation.
• 13:52
  Dayna Roselli: So you need like a good combination of everything.
• 13:54
  Dayna Roselli: And I think that's great.
• 13:55
  Dayna Roselli: I think Fountain Blue does have it.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: They do.
• 13:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they do, it's a great property.
• 14:00
  Dayna Roselli: So what an honor.
• 14:01
  Dayna Roselli: Um, excited to hear about that for sure.
• 14:03
  Dayna Roselli: Congratulations to everyone over at the Fountain Blue that works hard to keep it new, fresh, pristine.
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I know they're trying to build up their gaming roster, and they've they've they've been doing a good job, I think.
• 14:14
  Dayna Roselli: I I've walked in there recently and it was it was busy when I was there.
• 14:18
  Dayna Roselli: There's gonna be slow and busy days all the time.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone says different things, but depends on the time of the day.
• 14:22
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people come in, stay there for conventions.
• 14:25
  Dayna Roselli: Has a Vegas loop stop now, can take you right to the convention halls.
• 14:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, super convenient for anyone staying there uh for a convention, but also um follow the Fountain Blue on uh Instagram also.
• 14:37
  Sean McAllister: They've been putting out a series of videos on their account that uh really go into the different angles of hospitality that they offer and the level of hospitality that they offer um across the property.
• 14:52
  Sean McAllister: And it's it's worth it.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: They do a good job with those.
• 14:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, really good.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I did see um, which I don't have the specifics in front of me, I saw Mark Anthony extended into 2027.
• 15:00
  Dayna Roselli: Excited to hear about that.
• 15:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, yeah.
• 15:02
  Dayna Roselli: So he's got a couple, I think it was like two more, like two runs he put on the books there.
• 15:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we did go see the Wizard of Oz and the new 4D effects.
• 15:10
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna talk about that uh next week.
• 15:12
  Dayna Roselli: We'll let you know more about that because um there are a lot of changes, and I know people have seen the Wizard of Oz at Sphere and loved it.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna let you know, is it worth it to come back and see it again?
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: You might want to, you know, because people like a little change and then they wanna they love something.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that they change things up over there all the time.
• 15:31
  Dayna Roselli: But you went to Jason Al Dean's brunch, football brunch, and this is a new thing on the weekends, right?
• 15:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they're doing this on Saturdays and Sundays.
• 15:38
  Sean McAllister: They have a specific menu of brunch items that they uh are offering.
• 15:44
  Sean McAllister: There's shrimp and grits, there's uh tacos, there's uh flatbread that's delicious.
• 15:50
  Sean McAllister: Um, they have a waffle sundae, uh, which is uh an extravagant brunch offering.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: JJ did an insider dish there, which you'll be able to see on our YouTube soon, but it did look good.
• 16:03
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, wow, I love a good waffle cone.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: And it's the kind of thing that you don't even need to put anything on because there's berries, there's cream, there's ice cream, there's a waffle cone.
• 16:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Sean McAllister: So yeah, it's a great vibe.
• 16:16
  Sean McAllister: Uh the venue is great.
• 16:17
  Sean McAllister: They have TVs, a big screen, live music.
• 16:20
  Sean McAllister: Um, so if you're looking for a place to watch the game and get some breakfast and brunch along the way, um keep Jason Aldeans in mind.
• 16:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, because uh the only time I've been there was the opening, and um, you know, all the screens and stuff weren't on, you know, like it wasn't sports season and all that, but when you showed the video, um, you we we were looking at the the edited version of JJ's segment and you were showing some video of the inside.
• 16:46
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, wow, that is definitely a good spot for football.
• 16:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it is.
• 16:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 16:50
  Sean McAllister: The couch areas, the screens, the bar, and the stage and the the second level of the um venue.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: It's a two-level venue.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: The second floor has a patio that overlooks the strip over there at 63 City Center.
• 17:05
  Sean McAllister: Um, but the the they have these uh kind of LED panels built into the performance stage, and they had that uh looking like a football field.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: So it got you in the vibe.
• 17:17
  Sean McAllister: You know, the game day, the game day spirit was alive and well in there.
• 17:22
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I um when they when they announced it, I was looking at the specials.
• 17:26
  Dayna Roselli: They definitely have some college and professional football specials that are really, really good for an on-strip location.
• 17:33
  Dayna Roselli: So you can go to Jason Aldean's BarLV.com to get more information if you're interested in you know doing an outing and going to watch some of the games there at Jason's.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: And then um Category 10 is still uh under construction but opening soon.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited about that.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and that's across the street and up a little in the old Margaritaville.
• 17:54
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 17:54
  Sean McAllister: Uh right across the street from Caesars Palace, actually, attached to Flamingo.
• 17:59
  Sean McAllister: Um, I know that they're going to be doing some uh friends and family uh previews uh starting up here really soon.
• 18:07
  Sean McAllister: And then I think early October is when they're planning to uh open to the public.
• 18:13
  Sean McAllister: Gosh, so it's coming out.
• 18:14
  Sean McAllister: And that's gonna be a massive venue.
• 18:16
  Sean McAllister: It's right now we're here, yeah.
• 18:18
  Sean McAllister: It's happening.
• 18:19
  Sean McAllister: It's happening.
• 18:20
  Dayna Roselli: Luke Combs is so popular.
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: He he had the largest crowd at Allegiant Stadium for a concert when he was here about four months ago, six months, six months ago, maybe probably.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, so he brings he drew it draws a crowd, and I think people will enjoy going there.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, we're getting more and more of those honky tonk style venues here on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: There must be demand.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: Well, and one cool thing, I know that we're gonna learn more about it as you know we get inside and start exploring the the venue, but um, they have a hat wall inside where you can donate a hat to the hat wall and leave the story uh that you want to be attached to your hat.
• 19:00
  Sean McAllister: And so then you can kind of forever be a part of they were taking hat donations and accepting stories to go along with it.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: So that like it gives people some buy-in, a reason to go back and be like, hey, there's my hat on the wall.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: No, that's cool.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it makes it unique, right?
• 19:17
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um great.
• 19:18
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, well, uh, let's talk off the strip now.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I know a lot of people do like their non-smoking areas, non-smoking hotels.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so uh Palms debuted a new option recently.
• 19:32
  Dayna Roselli: They opened a fully enclosed non-smoking gaming space, has more than 200 slot games, its own bar, and a permanent uh street taco food truck there.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: So FYI, if you are looking for a place that you want to play slots and game, you don't want to be in a smoky filled casino, um, you could head over to the Palms and then, you know, I'm assuming most people know Park MGM on the strip is a fully non-smoking hotel.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I appreciate that.
• 20:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 20:01
  Sean McAllister: Because when I sit down to play slots, usually the first thing I do is like pick up the dirty ashtray and move it somewhere.
• 20:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 20:09
  Sean McAllister: Um, but it is so it's nice.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: It's different, you know, it depends depends on your preference.
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: So um it's good to have options.
• 20:17
  Sean McAllister: It's very good to have options, indeed.
• 20:20
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we were driving down the strip the other day and we were looking at the new Hard Rock Hotel guitar tower, and we thought we gotta do more on this.
• 20:26
  Dayna Roselli: But um, you know, it's they're not really releasing tons of of detail.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: We got the basics, but but we thought, you know, uh when it was first announced, people were like, I don't like it.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be too big and it's gonna be an eyesore.
• 20:39
  Dayna Roselli: And like we wanted to see if people's opinions changed.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: So we actually went out on the strip and interviewed some people, which we're gonna share in a minute.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: But just to catch you up to date, the guitar hotel tower is rising right from the ground there in front of the Mirage, the old Mirage.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's all going to be the hard rock now.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: And the old Mirage Hotel Towers being refurbished.
• 21:01
  Dayna Roselli: And this is an addition to that.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be, you know, guitar-shaped pool, uh, entertainment, all sorts of stuff coming in there.
• 21:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it's really going up quick.
• 21:10
  Dayna Roselli: And so when we were driving down um Las Vegas Boulevard, I said, let's get some video and then let's let's get out and get some shots for everyone.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: You can see that on our YouTube.
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: But we talked to folks, and I mean, people weren't hating on it as much as they did.
• 21:26
  Sean McAllister: No, and I think once now that we are seeing the actual uh real building and how it's impacting the skyline, I think people are uh warming up to it a bit.
• 21:38
  Sean McAllister: I know I am, yeah, because I was one of the skeptics early on.
• 21:41
  Sean McAllister: I was like, oh, is this guitar really gonna really gonna be the thing that we want right there?
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: And now that I see it, I say, yeah.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, because I can't and let me tell you this guitar tower dwarfs the hotel tower that.
• 21:59
  Sean McAllister: Originally was there for the Mirage.
• 22:01
  Sean McAllister: And that's not a small building.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and someone wrote on our um, I don't know if it was YouTube or where it was, but maybe Instagram saying, you know, it dwarfs my treasure island.
• 22:11
  Dayna Roselli: I love Treasure Island and they aren't happy about it.
• 22:14
  Sean McAllister: It's true.
• 22:14
  Sean McAllister: It dwarfs everything.
• 22:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it is huge.
• 22:17
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it's cool looking.
• 22:18
  Dayna Roselli: I really, really love it.
• 22:19
  Dayna Roselli: But first, let's just uh replay this interview.
• 22:22
  Dayna Roselli: We you may have heard before, but if you haven't been listening to us for a long time, um, we did have a chance when the Mirage closed.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: We were there for the closing of Mirage.
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: Um, Jim Allen was there from the Hard Rock, and uh, we asked him about the large guitar and if he thought it was a, you know, why he thought it was a great fit for Vegas.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: And Jim is the chairman of Hard Rock International and CEO of Seminole Gaming, because they have one down in Florida too.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: You know, people have said, Jim, we we don't think that's the right thing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Um and and we frankly have always yielded towards the local population or the governing you know, country that we're in.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But in the case of Las Vegas, if there's ever a building or city, I should say, about WOWs, um, certainly Las Vegas would be that city.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: So when you talk about a structure, if anyone has gone online or seen the guitar in South Florida that's about 450 some feet, you know, this building will be approaching 700 feet, you know, it will become a true icon, and that's something we think that creates international tourism, um, not just for hard rock, but frankly for Las Vegas.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: So I feel like he made a good point.
• 23:23
  Dayna Roselli: He said, you know, if anywhere you could put a hard, you know, a guitar hotel tower, it's Las Vegas.
• 23:30
  Sean McAllister: And that is the truth.
• 23:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 23:31
  Sean McAllister: And that's why uh Jim is the guy in charge because he had the foresight to say, you know what, this is gonna work.
• 23:37
  Sean McAllister: And now I think people are, as we mentioned, warming up to the fact that this is a new addition to the Las Vegas strip.
• 23:45
  Sean McAllister: And while we were down there getting this video, we did uh talk to some visitors about their thoughts on this giant guitar tower.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: The guitar is gonna be light up at nighttime, like I was the one in Florida.
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: Looks great.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: So far, we got the what, Fountain Blue, we got a resort world, we got a new hotel coming up.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Looks good for Vegas.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: I'm open to it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm welcome, you know, I welcome it.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I don't see anything wrong with it.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, they're constantly building new things, they're constantly bringing in new uh hotels and stuff like that.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: So I mean, I just I mean I I take it as the norm.
• 24:21
  Speaker: I think yeah, it fits the um how do you call the street again?
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Uh uh the strip.
• 24:27
  Speaker: The strip, yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker: It fits perfectly.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: I think it looks uh fine.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I think it'll be better once it's done.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and we were standing just down the road, so they could see it.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: So we were pointing.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: Some were like, well, there's always stuff going up here, you know.
• 24:45
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't realize this was such a big deal.
• 24:47
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, no, people were it was a little controversial at first.
• 24:49
  Dayna Roselli: So um, you know, they made some good points.
• 24:52
  Dayna Roselli: Gonna be a great place for a picture with the hard rock hotel guitar tower behind you and stuff like that.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be good.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's expected to open uh late 2027, by the way.
• 25:00
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's on schedule.
• 25:02
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it should be, because there are uh online some group bookings available for early 2028, so that kind of leads us to believe that the construction schedule is is on track.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: I know we were coming uh we were coming uh into the strip uh from the west the other day, and we could actually see because the the Mirage uh hotel tower they completely gutted that building.
• 25:30
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it was down to a skeleton frame.
• 25:33
  Sean McAllister: So they're completely redoing that, but the blue glass is going up uh pretty quickly on that hotel portion, as well as uh that guitar tower that's uh looks to be pretty near uh complete from the outside, at least.
• 25:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:49
  Dayna Roselli: When we've talked about hotel openings in the past, I always just think it's amazing to think they have to lug all that furniture up every floor and load it into the rooms and decorate.
• 25:59
  Dayna Roselli: What a massive, massive project.
• 26:01
  Dayna Roselli: I listen, kudos to everyone.
• 26:04
  Sean McAllister: That's like a jigsaw puzzle.
• 26:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my goodness.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: What they do is unbelievable.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we're gonna talk celebrity news with a Vegas twist, but I expect that hard rock hotel opening, hard rock hotel and casino opening in Las Vegas is gonna be full of celebrities.
• 26:19
  Sean McAllister: Oh, without a doubt.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: I hope they do it right, man.
• 26:21
  Dayna Roselli: They need to just make the opening a big old bash.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: It should be fun.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: Stay tuned for that.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: But now let's get to our celebrity news with a Vegas twist.
• 26:32
  Sean McAllister: Dana, I know this is something that uh you noticed on social media the other day.
• 26:36
  Sean McAllister: Flavor Flav, who lives here in Las Vegas, he's been a you know prominent local Las Vegan for years.
• 26:44
  Sean McAllister: And of course, he had his uh music career and has his music career uh going on well before that.
• 26:51
  Sean McAllister: Um but Flav just had an encounter with uh Bill Clinton.
• 26:55
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it was it was funny.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was funny.
• 26:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so like let's we're not getting into the political side of anything.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: This was just a funny encounter.
• 27:03
  Dayna Roselli: Um and I thought it was hilarious because he called him Prez, you know, and just Flav is just funny.
• 27:09
  Dayna Roselli: And so when he it's funny because he pairs himself or meets, he does so many, well, he does, you know, uh different, you know, he goes to concerts, he goes to events, he goes to charity things, and he comes across a lot of interesting people, and you wouldn't normally pair them with Flav.
• 27:27
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's just like the uh over the summer, he organized that entire Las Vegas party for uh the female Olympians.
• 27:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I know, and like brought them all in.
• 27:38
  Sean McAllister: I mean, he just you know He's a great supporter of uh a wide variety of people.
• 27:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 27:43
  Dayna Roselli: He I saw him in the Vancouver airport on the final weekend of the Eras tour for Taylor Swift, and we yeah, he was taking selfies with everyone, he was on my flight.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's just he's a character.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, seeing him with Bill Clinton was funny, and Bill Clinton gave him a new clock, and it was like this wooden clock, like like old school, you know, like it was so funny.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, um, that was a fun little moment to see.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: He just he spreads joy no matter who he meets, people, and everyone knows who he is, and he's just got that voice.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, you know, so that was uh funny.
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: Saw that on Instagram and just thought we would share.
• 28:19
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see it, you can go to Flaves account.
• 28:21
  Dayna Roselli: A very funny moment there.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we wanted to touch on uh a little bit about what's going on with Carrot Top.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, his name is Scott Thompson, and a lot of people don't know that or do know that, depending, but um Caratop, we're not gonna get into the the the all the details of what's going on.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: I personally feel that it's still a bit of a private moment.
• 28:42
  Dayna Roselli: I know you're a celebrity and people want to know what's going on, but Caratop is recovering from what has reportedly been a possible suicide attempt.
• 28:51
  Dayna Roselli: We don't know the details.
• 28:53
  Dayna Roselli: That aside, we wanted to send our love to Caratop because we have worked uh with him through the years, our 20 plus years here in Las Vegas.
• 29:01
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, I've seen his show like eight times.
• 29:03
  Dayna Roselli: I bring everyone to his show, and I just am really cheering him on that he gets better.
• 29:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we've each uh interviewed him uh countless times uh throughout our time here in Las Vegas.
• 29:17
  Sean McAllister: He's always been uh uh just a good person.
• 29:21
  Sean McAllister: I've always found him to be a great person and really uh wishing him well and and uh hoping that things get get back on track.
• 29:30
  Dayna Roselli: He is one of the funniest people I've ever met.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: I have enjoyed his show, I have enjoyed brunches with him, I have enjoyed interviews with him, I have enjoyed him allowing me to bring some friends backstage to take pictures.
• 29:42
  Dayna Roselli: He's kind to everyone.
• 29:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I've brought a lot of friends to his show, said, Really?
• 29:47
  Dayna Roselli: You want to go see Keratop?
• 29:48
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, trust me.
• 29:50
  Dayna Roselli: And then they walk out.
• 29:51
  Dayna Roselli: And it's funny, those friends are now texting me, like, hey, what's going on with Keratop?
• 29:54
  Dayna Roselli: Is he okay?
• 29:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, because they're like, we just I know I'm like, you have a soft spot because he just brought you so much joy.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: He's one of the funniest people I know.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: He's all around Las Vegas, embraces and supports all the restaurants and sports teams, sports teams.
• 30:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he goes to Target often.
• 30:12
  Dayna Roselli: He always used to joke around about people stopping him in Target saying, You look like Carrot Top.
• 30:17
  Dayna Roselli: And he would always say, Um, in the interviews and stuff, when I've talked to him in the past, he'd say, like, uh, yeah, it's me.
• 30:23
  Dayna Roselli: Like, why would anyone want to look like me?
• 30:26
  Dayna Roselli: It's definitely me.
• 30:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and he loves people and he spreads joy on his Instagram.
• 30:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I'm wearing my carrot top t-shirt right now for the podcast.
• 30:36
  Dayna Roselli: I've had it for a long time.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's a beautiful bejeweled carrot.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 30:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we are wishing the best for Carrot Top.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: We first just want him to get better, and if that's all that happens, um, great.
• 30:46
  Dayna Roselli: But someday I hope that he can get out there on stage because you can see the support for him.
• 30:53
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's huge.
• 30:54
  Dayna Roselli: People are just saying, you know, fellow comedians and saying Carat Top, you know, when he was a prop comedian, like people gave him a hard time.
• 31:01
  Dayna Roselli: Like, what's this guy doing?
• 31:02
  Dayna Roselli: What's he doing to the comedy world?
• 31:03
  Dayna Roselli: And then and then look at him now, you know, 25 plus years in Las Vegas, 20 of them he just celebrated over at the Luxor.
• 31:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and he's living the life.
• 31:13
  Dayna Roselli: He's got, you know, he had a house in in Florida, and here he could go back and forth and he had the residency, and then he could do tours if he wanted.
• 31:19
  Dayna Roselli: He did late night shows, he did afternoon talk shows, and he proved to everyone that, you know, prop comedians are funny too.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: And I find his show just uh wonderful.
• 31:31
  Dayna Roselli: So we wish him the best.
• 31:32
  Dayna Roselli: I know a lot of people are um seeing a lot of stuff all over the place.
• 31:36
  Dayna Roselli: We'll let you know uh any major updates that we get.
• 31:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but wishing the best for Scott Thompson.
• 31:42
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for joining us this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 31:46
  Sean McAllister: As always, you can go to our Vegas Revealed YouTube channel and check out our uh TV episodes, uh, which are obviously much more visual than uh the audio podcast, and lots of great stuff packed into each of those episodes and individual stories broken out for you.
• 32:03
  Sean McAllister: So lots of Vegas content that you can catch up on uh whenever it's best for you.
• 32:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and if you go to our YouTube channel, uh we just posted uh seven free things to do in Las Vegas video.
• 32:14
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're interested in that, check it out.
• 32:16
  Dayna Roselli: Spread the word.
• 32:17
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate all of you, the listeners, the viewers.
• 32:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we're enjoying airing our television show in Las Vegas and on two channels in Hawaii now.
• 32:26
  Dayna Roselli: We love doing that broadcast media tour and talking with people from all over the country, spreading the love.
• 32:31
  Dayna Roselli: People love Las Vegas.
• 32:33
  Dayna Roselli: So uh thanks for listening and thanks for visiting us.
• 32:36
  Sean McAllister: We'll talk to you next week.