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Resorts World Celebrates One Year, Britney Spears Visits Las Vegas Again, Elvis Movie Review, Staycation at The Mirage, 4th of July | Ep. 124 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
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• 0:56
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 124.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's a star-spangled holiday weekend on the strip.
• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: But how do the patriotic festivities in Vegas compare with other cities?
• 1:07
  Dayna Roselli: We reveal our city's strengths and where we could improve some.
• 1:11
  Sean McAllister: Then, what does Britney Spears do during a fun Vegas visit?
• 1:16
  Sean McAllister: You'll find out today.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm all shook up over the new Elvis movie.
• 1:20
  Dayna Roselli: Hear my personal review and the role Las Vegas plays in the film.
• 1:25
  Sean McAllister: Plus, Resorts World turns one, and they now have a stop on the Vegas loop.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: That's exciting.
• 1:31
  Dayna Roselli: And some technology upgrades at Strip Resorts 2, also celebrating a classic casino game.
• 1:50
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 124.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: It is a 4th of July long weekend, and you know what that means, John.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: They're all coming into town.
• 2:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, they're all coming into town if their flights aren't canceled.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: Because that's been a big problem for this holiday weekend, and really is something that people are going to be experiencing all summer long as they try and have a little bit of a getaway is how do I get there and how do I get back without any issues?
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's like you have to build in a buffer now, right?
• 2:21
  Sean McAllister: You do.
• 2:22
  Dayna Roselli: Because you don't want to miss a day of work, or you need to get back for something, or you wanna, you know, you're supposed to leave on a certain day and then you can't leave for a day or two later, so you gotta build in that buffer.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, just plan on your original flight not making it.
• 2:36
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, how frustrating.
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know it is terrible.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: But that is the world we're living in, and at least more people are traveling in order for there to be cancellations.
• 2:46
  Sean McAllister: That is very true.
• 2:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 2:47
  Sean McAllister: Travel is in demand, and so is Las Vegas.
• 2:50
  Sean McAllister: I've been uh hearing from uh my sister is in town right now from the East Coast, and she said on all the news stations there they just kept talking about Fourth of July travel, and Las Vegas was like one of the top destinations where people were going.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, why not?
• 3:08
  Dayna Roselli: We have it all, right?
• 3:09
  Dayna Roselli: We have great firework displays too.
• 3:11
  Dayna Roselli: Caesars Entertainment is doing fireworks on the strip.
• 3:14
  Dayna Roselli: Then we have the plaza downtown doing a show at 9 p.m.
• 3:18
  Dayna Roselli: in the downtown area, and then all our station casinos, which are really planted all over the valley around Las Vegas.
• 3:24
  Dayna Roselli: They're they always do a great show.
• 3:26
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing fireworks at nine o'clock too.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: And these are all on Monday, July 4th.
• 3:32
  Sean McAllister: Obviously, 4th of July is when you would have 4th of July fireworks.
• 3:35
  Sean McAllister: But you know, I always wondered if I I've been wondering if there were going to be fireworks spread all throughout the weekend.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: Of course, there's gonna be illegal fireworks being set off, which isn't a very good idea here in Las Vegas right now because it is so hot and dry, and that could really spark some nasty fires.
• 3:55
  Dayna Roselli: We've had like a a couple days where there was like monsoon activity for like two hours and a little sprinkle here and there, but that's been about it, right?
• 4:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it kind of evaporates almost immediately.
• 4:09
  Dayna Roselli: So many of you may be listening to this after the Fourth of July, but we wanted to touch on Fourth of July a little bit, and I found this survey really interesting.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: Pass it on to Sean, and we thought the list of reasons that we are officially 2022's fifth best city to celebrate the Fourth of July.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting list.
• 4:28
  Dayna Roselli: No, Sean, apparently 84% of Americans plan to celebrate the fourth this year, and collective food and spending for the holiday is projected to reach, get the$7.7 billion.
• 4:41
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: Wallet Hub always does great surveys, so they put us in fifth place, and um apparently they they kind of take a look at like the the 100 largest US cities based on how well they balance holiday cost and fun.
• 4:56
  Dayna Roselli: So we ranked in a number of categories.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: And so you have the list in front of you now, and uh let's go through some of these.
• 5:04
  Dayna Roselli: So we ranked number one in legality of fireworks, which I thought was interesting because we do have firework booths.
• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: And remember, you and I grew up in Rochester, New York.
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: We never had that.
• 5:13
  Sean McAllister: That is true.
• 5:14
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: I thought that was weird when I moved to them like you can buy fireworks in the parking lot.
• 5:19
  Sean McAllister: We always had like those little snaps, yeah.
• 5:21
  Sean McAllister: Those little snap things that you throw on the ground and they pop, the little popper things.
• 5:25
  Sean McAllister: Right, right.
• 5:26
  Sean McAllister: We always had those, but yeah, I guess we never really I had I did have family members though who had a cottage at the lake, and somehow there would be a shed full of fireworks that would miraculously appear for the Fourth of July.
• 5:40
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 5:41
  Sean McAllister: I don't know where they came from, I don't know who brought them, but the fireworks mysteriously appeared.
• 5:47
  Dayna Roselli: Well, those kind of fireworks are still illegal here, like you mentioned.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's too dry, it's dangerous, but I think they almost hope that if we sell these safe and sound fireworks, that people will buy those, get their fix, you know, and they sell them in booths all across the valley, and usually it's the money goes to charity for different organizations.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: You'll see the Boy Scouts out there and Boys and Girls Club and all that kind of thing.
• 6:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but all of these fireworks, they're very low to the ground.
• 6:14
  Sean McAllister: They don't shoot off into the air like the the stuff that you see from the casino displays or for other major displays.
• 6:22
  Sean McAllister: It's uh, you know, there it's like uh a tube that you light and sparks fly out the top, they make noises, they pop, but uh it's not gonna be anything that like flies up in the air and sets your tree on fire.
• 6:36
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: But I guess the fact that we sell them put us first on the list.
• 6:41
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 6:41
  Dayna Roselli: And then we're also first on the list for prevalence of affordable 4.5 plus star restaurants.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: That makes sense.
• 6:48
  Sean McAllister: Oh, okay.
• 6:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so I mean, if people want to go out and eat on 4th of July, we've got the top restaurants, and um, a lot of them are really good, apparently.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: Then we landed in fifth place, and the number of Fourth of July festivals and performances that we have going on, some probably they're probably taking into account that we have, you know, great firework displays, but we also have shows all over the the town, you know.
• 7:10
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 7:10
  Sean McAllister: Normal shows.
• 7:12
  Sean McAllister: And if you go off the strip a little bit, one of the best parades all year is the Summerlin Patriotic Parade.
• 7:20
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 7:20
  Sean McAllister: And that is I mean, they have like Macy's style balloons and floats.
• 7:25
  Sean McAllister: It's really, really well done.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: If you get up in the morning, head out and and catch that, because it really is a great parade.
• 7:34
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, I think that starts at 9 a.m.
• 7:35
  Dayna Roselli: on the Monday of 4th of July.
• 7:37
  Dayna Roselli: So um we didn't do well, we came like middle of the road on duration of fireworks show, which I thought was interesting.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: And I recently did a Vegas on show where we talked about the length, and it was I think we said that they were 13 minutes.
• 7:50
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 7:52
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently that's other cities do it longer.
• 7:55
  Dayna Roselli: Huh.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: 13 minutes, I thought I think is pretty good.
• 7:58
  Dayna Roselli: It's a pretty solid display.
• 8:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:01
  Dayna Roselli: And then 55th, we came in for walkability, which makes sense.
• 8:04
  Dayna Roselli: We aren't a very walkable town unless you walk up and down the strip.
• 8:07
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 8:07
  Dayna Roselli: 46th for the average beer and wine prices.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: We're up there.
• 8:12
  Sean McAllister: Not that's a unless you come to my backyard and grab some Costco beer out of the cooler.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 8:20
  Dayna Roselli: And then we came in 13th for lowest price of three-star hotel rooms.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: That's kind of toward the top.
• 8:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 8:27
  Dayna Roselli: But I guess, like, you know, our really fancier hotels or highly rated hotels are really expensive, but the other ones are somewhat affordable.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: So that's good to do.
• 8:37
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's good.
• 8:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:38
  Sean McAllister: It's good to see though, we we rank in the the top 50% in almost all categories, and a lot of them, oh, a handful of those are up in the top 20, which is great.
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:51
  Dayna Roselli: So welcome everyone for 4th of July.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um, if you're here, enjoy our fun stuff that we always have going on, and then of course, all our great fireworks displays and the Summerlin Parade that'll be going on to celebrate.
• 9:02
  Sean McAllister: So, of course, we're gonna have visitors for Fourth of July, but we just had a very famous visitor who decided to do something fun while here on the strip.
• 9:12
  Sean McAllister: Brittany Spears returned to Las Vegas.
• 9:16
  Sean McAllister: She's been seen around town quite a bit lately, Dana.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: You and I keep mentioning that, and you even brought up in a in a podcast previously that Britney Spears has been spending a lot of time at Resorts World, and you think maybe she's gonna ink a deal there at some point.
• 9:32
  Sean McAllister: I would not be surprised if Britney Spears pops on the list of uh entertainers at Resorts World, which already includes Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, David Blaine now, um, eventually Celine Dion when she gets back and ready to perform.
• 9:52
  Sean McAllister: So Britney would be in good company.
• 9:54
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 9:54
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing a journey show there too.
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: They had Michael Boblet.
• 9:57
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the list is getting longer.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: It is some of them are return, and then others are doing kind of spurts so or one-offs even.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: I think Journeys is is a few days.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, yeah, we'll see what happens with Britney.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: That could be really interesting.
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: But she was in town recently and she put on her Instagram something that I actually noticed right away.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I've been there, but she was over at the Omega Mart, which is at Area 15, and she was having some fun.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: You know that secret door they have in the in the mart there that you can open up.
• 10:27
  Dayna Roselli: It looks like a freezer drinker.
• 10:30
  Dayna Roselli: And then you can go back through these tunnels and all sorts of other stuff.
• 10:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so she did a little Instagram story on that.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: So, and she had r actually written playing in Vegas as she twirled right into the little secret tunnel there.
• 10:43
  Sean McAllister: And it's funny, I was trying to explain to my sister the other day what exactly Omega Mart is, and I did a terrible job explaining it.
• 10:51
  Sean McAllister: Well, we She was horribly confused after I got done, and I was like, you know what?
• 10:56
  Sean McAllister: It's just one of those things you need to go see and experience.
• 10:59
  Sean McAllister: It's beyond explanation.
• 11:01
  Dayna Roselli: It is, it is.
• 11:02
  Dayna Roselli: You and I would had a chat with the public relations person there once before, and she was like, I even have a hard time explaining it.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: So, and that's my job.
• 11:09
  Dayna Roselli: But speaking of Resorts World, they just celebrated their one-year anniversary.
• 11:13
  Dayna Roselli: I can't believe it's been a year already since that grand opening party, which is fabulous.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: Can you believe it?
• 11:19
  Dayna Roselli: Unreal.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: They have been, you know, just plugging away and adding new things.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: They've opened a lot of restaurants over there.
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: For people that don't know a lot about Resorts World, it combines three Hilton brands, the Hilton, the Conrad, and Crockford's.
• 11:32
  Dayna Roselli: And it's all under one roof.
• 11:34
  Dayna Roselli: So it kind of makes it a little bit different than other strip casinos.
• 11:38
  Dayna Roselli: And they've also apparently hired um around 5,000 workers, which is great, creating jobs over the last year.
• 11:45
  Dayna Roselli: Like you mentioned, they we have a you know a lot of headliners there now, a lot of different shows.
• 11:50
  Dayna Roselli: The theater is open.
• 11:51
  Dayna Roselli: Zoop Nightclub seems to be doing well, so all that stuff, really great.
• 11:55
  Dayna Roselli: And they really have a lot of like interactive things that they do there, a lot of pop-ups and little festivals, and uh just they seem to be doing things a little bit different.
• 12:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they had a big Mezcal festival over there.
• 12:06
  Sean McAllister: I know that uh it's turning into a hot spot for uh weddings as well.
• 12:12
  Sean McAllister: There have been several high-profile uh athletes, NHL athletes mostly that I've seen who have gotten married over there.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, those private events, they're doing a lot of those, which is great.
• 12:25
  Sean McAllister: And, you know, the restaurants are opening.
• 12:27
  Sean McAllister: Uh Carver Steak has opened up.
• 12:30
  Sean McAllister: I know Brezza, the Italian restaurant over at Resorts World, is celebrating its anniversary as well.
• 12:37
  Sean McAllister: Um, so it it's exciting for all who have been involved in opening the new property because it is not often, we mentioned this in previous episodes.
• 12:48
  Sean McAllister: It is not often that you get to open a Las Vegas resort from the ground up.
• 12:53
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 12:54
  Sean McAllister: This isn't just you know revitalizing an existing resort.
• 12:57
  Sean McAllister: This is new construction from the ground up, and you know, it does take some time to get things the way that you want it when you have a new property.
• 13:07
  Sean McAllister: The with the way you open maybe isn't necessarily the way that you're going to continue operating.
• 13:12
  Sean McAllister: So it's an evolution.
• 13:14
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 13:14
  Sean McAllister: So congratulations to everyone involved because that is a a big undertaking.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: Beautiful property, though.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: I do love it.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: But you were just down the road over at the Mirage recently.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: You mentioned your sister's in town, and you guys went and stayed at the Mirage for a couple days just to have a little staycation, have some fun, give her the Vegas experience.
• 13:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you know what I thought was really cool?
• 13:33
  Sean McAllister: This is the first time I've stayed at an MGM resorts hotel casino since the pandemic.
• 13:41
  Sean McAllister: And I know that we did an episode where we spoke with um somebody from MGM Resorts, and they talked about all of the touchless technology that's going into all of their resorts on the strip.
• 13:55
  Sean McAllister: And so this was my first time experiencing that.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: Basically, there's an app that you download that links to your hotel reservation.
• 14:04
  Sean McAllister: Um you no longer have to go to the front desk to check in.
• 14:08
  Sean McAllister: You check in on the app and it sends you an alert when your room is ready, it tells you where your room is.
• 14:14
  Sean McAllister: You hit a little button on the app and it turns your phone into your room key.
• 14:19
  Sean McAllister: So you hold the back of your phone up to the sensor on the door and it unlocks your door for you.
• 14:25
  Sean McAllister: So gone are the days when you have to fumble around looking for the room key, doing all that.
• 14:31
  Sean McAllister: It's all on your phone.
• 14:32
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 14:33
  Sean McAllister: And it's great.
• 14:34
  Sean McAllister: What I did want to do though is uh get an actual hard copy room key for my sister.
• 14:40
  Sean McAllister: She was staying on a different floor, and the way they have the elevators, you can only go, you have to hold your room key up to hit a button to make the elevator move.
• 14:51
  Sean McAllister: But you can only go to the floor where your room is, which is I imagine a security uh feature.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: Um yeah.
• 14:59
  Sean McAllister: So I wanted to get a key for my sister so she could come up and down.
• 15:02
  Sean McAllister: Um they had a little iPad thing set up in the lobby where you just go, you hold your phone up against this iPad so it registers links to your account.
• 15:12
  Sean McAllister: Uh-huh.
• 15:13
  Sean McAllister: They have a box of blank uh room keys sitting next to it.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: You slide it in this little slot, it makes you a key right there, and you don't have to deal with uh like the registration process.
• 15:28
  Sean McAllister: It w it was great.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: I major kudos to MGM for uh coming up with this technology and really doing a great job implementing it because it was so easy to use.
• 15:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, usually you walk in the lobby of any of these hotels and you see this big long line, right?
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: So it you can hop that, which is nice.
• 15:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you skip all the lines, check in, check out, all right from the app.
• 15:50
  Sean McAllister: So that was great.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: And MG uh excuse me, MGM has sold off the Mirage, so it had that hasn't gone into play yet, but that will be in hard a Hard Rock International at some point.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: But for now it's still MGM.
• 16:02
  Sean McAllister: For now, yeah, it's still operating as an MGM property.
• 16:05
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we also went to see The Beatles Love over that's at the Mirage.
• 16:10
  Sean McAllister: Um it's been a long time since I've seen that show.
• 16:12
  Sean McAllister: One of my favorites.
• 16:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's so good.
• 16:14
  Sean McAllister: Um, but I was surprised to see that they have made a lot of changes to the show.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: A lot of the acts are are different.
• 16:20
  Sean McAllister: It seemed, based on what I remember, it seemed like some of the songs, some of the music selections have been moved around a little bit.
• 16:31
  Sean McAllister: Um, so it almost felt like going to see an all-new show, which was fun.
• 16:36
  Dayna Roselli: That is fun.
• 16:37
  Dayna Roselli: I love when they change it up, and I think it's important because there are people who love shows, but they're like, should we go again if they return to Las Vegas because we loved it so much, or should we try something new?
• 16:47
  Dayna Roselli: But at least they know if they're gonna go back in a few years that things might be ch might be changed, like you said, and it's you know, there's pieces of it that are still the old show, but a little bit of the new.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: But you know what, on the opposite end of the spectrum, I'm digressing here.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: I recently went to do a video shoot over at Oh at Bellagio, another Cirque du Soleil show.
• 17:07
  Sean McAllister: It's been around for almost 25 years, and it has not changed once.
• 17:13
  Sean McAllister: Wow, they haven't changed any of the numbers.
• 17:16
  Sean McAllister: The cast changes out, but they said, you know what, this is a formula, it's a show that works.
• 17:21
  Sean McAllister: People keep coming back, and to this day, it is still one of the most popular shows on the Las Vegas strip.
• 17:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that sure that show is beautiful to to witness.
• 17:31
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe they're just figure, yeah, like you said, people are coming back.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: We're not noticing a dip in crowds.
• 17:36
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: You know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
• 17:40
  Sean McAllister: So the Beatles love, that was great.
• 17:42
  Sean McAllister: Another note, just a tip here.
• 17:44
  Sean McAllister: If you are staying at the Mirage and you're planning to get out to the pool, make your plans early.
• 17:51
  Sean McAllister: When uh we were out getting coffee in the morning, there was a line waiting to get out to the pool before it opened up.
• 17:58
  Sean McAllister: I think it opens at 8 a.m.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: There was a line wrapped around over by the mirage theater to get out to the pool and and snag some lounge chairs.
• 18:07
  Sean McAllister: So keep that in mind.
• 18:09
  Sean McAllister: People, the early birds will wake up and get those chairs.
• 18:12
  Dayna Roselli: It's funny you say that my brother and his wife used to stay there all the time because I think they honeymooned there.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: And so they would always go to the mirage whenever they would come into Las Vegas, and they said the same thing.
• 18:20
  Dayna Roselli: They like, you it's really hard to get a chair, and the chairs are lined up like literally right next to each other all in a row, so it's hard to even get in and out, and but they try and fit as many people as they possibly can to make everyone comfortable.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, that's definitely a pool that fills up quick, and you gotta grab your chair.
• 18:36
  Sean McAllister: You do, you do, but it was a a great stay.
• 18:38
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, good.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: I'm so glad to hear that.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's been a while since I've actually stayed over at the Mirage, so I'm glad you had a good experience there.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: It sounds like it was fun.
• 18:46
  Sean McAllister: It was, it was really nice.
• 18:47
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, you have uh ventured out a little bit on the strip as well.
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I did, and and we've talked about all these things that I did before, but I'm just gonna run through a couple notes that I noticed.
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: The aft cocktail deck, that is the old Parasol Down at Wynn Las Vegas.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: We talked about how they revamped the deck, they added some boots and umbrellas.
• 19:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's absolutely gorgeous.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: Went out there to meet some friends for drinks.
• 19:09
  Dayna Roselli: We weren't sure because we were meeting at 6, and I was like, it's gonna be really hot.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: It was like, you know, lately it's been like what, 104, 105.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's still warm.
• 19:16
  Dayna Roselli: So at 6 p.m., that's warm.
• 19:18
  Dayna Roselli: It's hot.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Dayna Roselli: So we were like, well, let's try the patio and see what it's like, expecting it to be, you know, with the sun blaring and just super hot.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, that area by 6 p.m.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: is all shaded.
• 19:30
  Dayna Roselli: A.
• 19:30
  Dayna Roselli: B, I don't know if they were blowing in cold air, but it was not hot at all.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: It was just it was so comfortable.
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: We were like, wow, this is amazing.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: And then with the waterfall and the water feature, there's like a humidity, almost like a rainforesty smell and feel.
• 19:44
  Dayna Roselli: So it was absolutely comfortable.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my friend showed up with a sports jacket on, he was fine.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it was great to sit out there and have cocktails.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: So do not let the 100-degree heat deter you from going to the aft cocktail deck at the win.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's perfect.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: Do you know what I wonder?
• 20:01
  Sean McAllister: You know how uh they've built up almost like uh stadium seating.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: We've talked about this.
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: They it's almost like stadium seating out there at Aft, where they have uh booths, like bankettes that are built up on different levels.
• 20:16
  Sean McAllister: I wonder if they have like air conditioning piped in through those platforms that they built up.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think they do, for sure.
• 20:24
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't think it was like too much, like it wasn't like freezing or coal, but it was like just enough to keep it cool in there.
• 20:30
  Sean McAllister: That's great.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, that could definitely be what they did.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: But we were like, wow, this is so comfortable.
• 20:34
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't expect it.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um also traveled to Circa and went to Barry's again for dinner.
• 20:40
  Dayna Roselli: It was amazing.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: Love to see Chef Barry.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: I love how he stops at the tables, it's so great.
• 20:44
  Dayna Roselli: But when I went in there, um, it was a Saturday and nine o'clock we had a reservation.
• 20:49
  Dayna Roselli: We were doing like a late, just we didn't even like eat like a full dinner.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: We were just gonna have some drinks and eat like a bunch of stuff and share it.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it was packed in there, and I love to see that.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: The vibe in there is so good.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're looking for a fun restaurant, but also good food, but still old school, the best service, it just really is a great place at Circa.
• 21:09
  Sean McAllister: And their cocktail cart is great.
• 21:11
  Sean McAllister: Primo.
• 21:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Then we went up to the legacy club, and I had never been up there at night.
• 21:16
  Dayna Roselli: We went for the Derby party.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: The Kentucky Derby, yeah.
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: But it wasn't dark out.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: So went up there at night.
• 21:21
  Dayna Roselli: The patio was great.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: We sat outside, great view of all of Las Vegas, and and that was really fun too.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: So nice time over at Circa.
• 21:31
  Dayna Roselli: And then I also wanted to get to this.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: Something else I did involved just sitting in a movie theater again.
• 21:37
  Dayna Roselli: We already talked about Top Gun, but now I finally saw the Elvis movie.
• 21:40
  Sean McAllister: Oh, El oh, so if you don't know, Dana Roselli is a massive Elvis Presley fan.
• 21:50
  Sean McAllister: So when we saw that this new Elvis movie by Baz Luhrmann was coming out, it was like right up there.
• 21:57
  Sean McAllister: This is the summer of Roselli show.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: We had uh Tom Cruise and Top Gun coming out in theaters and Elvis, her two top favorites having movies in the same summer.
• 22:11
  Dayna Roselli: So But I'm a little skeptical whenever I see there's gonna be an Elvis movie because, like we've talked about before, I have not found, first of all, an incredible Elvis documentary that I absolutely love, or and I haven't seen like a biopic that I absolutely love either.
• 22:25
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm always like a little like, I don't know, am I gonna like it or am I gonna be disappointed?
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: So I wasn't sure.
• 22:30
  Dayna Roselli: This started getting really great reviews.
• 22:33
  Sean McAllister: It did.
• 22:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm gonna tell you what I thought in just one second.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: Wanted to mention I went to Brendan Theaters at the Palms and I hadn't been there yet.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: The recliner seats are amazing.
• 22:43
  Dayna Roselli: And the first section in the front is in front of the screen, but the second part, it kind of lifts up.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: So you're the view is like you're literally in front of the screen.
• 22:54
  Dayna Roselli: It was I loved the theater layout.
• 22:56
  Dayna Roselli: I love what they've done over there.
• 22:57
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, okay.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yep, get on, like you know, and order uh, you know, reserve your seat ahead of time.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: It was perfect.
• 23:03
  Dayna Roselli: There they have these like electric reclining chairs, they're red, like a red leatherish feel.
• 23:07
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: Good to know.
• 23:09
  Dayna Roselli: Love the new theater.
• 23:10
  Sean McAllister: Can you order food directly to your seat?
• 23:12
  Sean McAllister: Any concessions?
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know because I got popcorn on the way in.
• 23:17
  Dayna Roselli: That could be something that they do.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: I think they do have alcohol there now.
• 23:20
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't know if they did before.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: I don't think they did.
• 23:23
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I think they they have a bar.
• 23:24
  Dayna Roselli: So there's that.
• 23:25
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know about the ordering to the seats thing.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: I'll have to look into that.
• 23:28
  Sean McAllister: I'll make a return.
• 23:29
  Sean McAllister: I'll I'll make a trip over there and test that out.
• 23:32
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 23:33
  Dayna Roselli: Well, anyway, Elvis didn't love it.
• 23:35
  Dayna Roselli: But I feel bad because everyone's loving it.
• 23:38
  Sean McAllister: So what was it about the Elvis movie that just didn't sit right with you?
• 23:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I and I went with a friend, my friend Matt Matt Goss, our friend Matt, who's a performer on the strip, um singer, you know, all that kind of thing.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it was interesting to hear his take, my take, but we both felt exactly the same.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: A, it was too slow at the beginning.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: And the way that they unveiled Elvis, it was like they kept showing him from the back, and you thought there was gonna be this big, I don't know, it just didn't.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: And then they just kind of slowly incorporated him in.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: I did not love Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: Like I we were saying we wish it would have been an unknown actor, because you kept looking at him going, well, wait, is this Tom Hanks?
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: Or is it and he had an oh kind of a strange accent?
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: And it just didn't feel right.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 24:21
  Dayna Roselli: And then he kind of narrates the so it's basically almost told through his story.
• 24:26
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: Because he basically starts off by saying, a lot of people think I'm the one that killed Elvis, as in the people who drove him to his death.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 24:34
  Dayna Roselli: And and I contributed to that.
• 24:36
  Dayna Roselli: And then he says, but that's not true, and then he tells his story.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: But you can make your own conclusion to that by all the facts that are uh in the movie, you know.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um still you wonder facts or or fiction, we don't necessarily know, but or fiction eyes, you know, you know, some of the some of the facts.
• 24:52
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, so it's told through him.
• 24:53
  Dayna Roselli: Didn't love Tom Hanks in that role.
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I thought the main actor that played Elvis, I'm blanking on his name, uh, Brandon.
• 25:01
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, he's adorable, by the way.
• 25:03
  Dayna Roselli: I keep seeing him everywhere in entertainment tonight and all sorts of different places.
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone keeps saying he's definitely gonna get an Oscar.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: His acting was fabulous.
• 25:11
  Sean McAllister: Austin Butler.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: Austin Butler.
• 25:13
  Dayna Roselli: I knew there was a B in there, okay, in the last name.
• 25:15
  Dayna Roselli: Austin Butler.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: He did a great job.
• 25:18
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um like I wasn't didn't walk out going, wow, that was an award-winning performance.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: Like, he was good.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: Didn't love him at the beginning of the movie, but then the second half.
• 25:30
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, the second half gets way, way, way better.
• 25:33
  Dayna Roselli: The first half is very it's just very overdramatized.
• 25:36
  Dayna Roselli: And to a point where you're like, alright.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I don't know.
• 25:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't want to give away too much, but like his performance, like a couple of them where they like tried to like basically emulate like how the girls reacted to him.
• 25:49
  Dayna Roselli: It was like, I mean, he was like on the floor, sweat pouring everywhere, the women were like convulsing.
• 25:57
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, okay, this is just it just was like a bit overdramatized.
• 26:02
  Sean McAllister: But is that really what happened?
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: Like, did women start convulsing and like I I think maybe wedding themselves and I think I don't I don't know.
• 26:10
  Dayna Roselli: Like it literally, maybe, but it but it was like nobody knew who he was, and then like after the fur second line, that was what was happening, and I'm like, I mean, they don't even So there wasn't a progression, yeah.
• 26:21
  Dayna Roselli: It just didn't seem realistic.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: Gotcha.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: Do you know what I'm saying?
• 26:24
  Sean McAllister: I I'm I'm getting what you're laying down.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: So I was like, all right, we were like looking at each other, like, what is happening?
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, second half, I'm not gonna go on and on because I feel like it can get all all over the place, but I'm not a film reviewer, obviously.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: Second half was really emotional.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I think Austin did an amazing job portraying Elvis as he got a little bit older.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: Elvis was not old in anyway, because he passed away at age 42.
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm talking when he got more into the like the Elvis in his 30s, you know, that kind of thing.
• 26:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um the Las Vegas part of his career is huge in the second half.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: For a very long, pretty much the second half of the movie, which was amazing.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Uh the International Hotel, his performance there, the stage, the workings of how the show came about.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: You learned so much and how it was a little, you know, sneaky.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: The Colonel, you know, was like, I'm gonna, you know, have Elvis on stage, we're gonna do this stage show and whatever, and it was great, but they were like, Well, now you need to keep him here, and we need to keep him coming back because of the reaction he's getting and how he's filling these seats.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: But Elvis really wanted to travel internationally.
• 27:33
  Dayna Roselli: But the colonel apparently didn't want him traveling internationally because he wanted to get him up on that stage and make money, and also apparently because the colonel had a a lot of gambling debt from throwing a bunch of money into that casino, and they said, Well, if we we'll excuse your gambling debt if you get Elvis up on that stage.
• 27:54
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, that's as much as I'm gonna go into that because I don't want to give anything away if you don't know that part of the story, but that comes into play.
• 28:00
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 28:01
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: Elvis was overworked, tired, yeah, wasn't doing what he loved.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: He wanted to travel, all sorts of things that just didn't, so that's why apparently a lot of people say the colonel pushed him to his pushed him over the edge.
• 28:15
  Dayna Roselli: Then he felt really um, you know, uh wronged by his manager, the colonel, which was like a family member to him for so many years.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: So, and that's where he kind of went downhill.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: So it's interesting.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: I learned a lot, even more.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it was emotional.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: Him and Priscilla splitting up was emotional, and uh in Las Vegas plays a huge part.
• 28:34
  Dayna Roselli: So very interesting.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: I think people will enjoy it.
• 28:38
  Dayna Roselli: I just think it's it wasn't the best movie that I've seen.
• 28:43
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of people say, even in my Facebook post where I commented about it, like it's really hard to put someone who had such an incredible life for a very short amount of time.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: So much happened.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: It's hard to fit it all in a movie.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it just is, and it it's hard to do it right, and maybe no one will ever get it right.
• 29:01
  Dayna Roselli: The only person that can get it right is Elvis himself, and he's not here anymore.
• 29:05
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 29:05
  Sean McAllister: So very true.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: That's my two cents.
• 29:07
  Sean McAllister: Well, I'm sorry that it didn't live up to every every expectation and wild fantasy that you had, because I know you were so looking forward to the movie.
• 29:17
  Dayna Roselli: But I did like some of some of the outfits were great toward the end.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: The leather, the oh yeah, it was great.
• 29:23
  Dayna Roselli: He looked great.
• 29:24
  Dayna Roselli: That was fun.
• 29:25
  Dayna Roselli: I left happy with that.
• 29:26
  Dayna Roselli: So that's uh go see the Elvis movie if you're interested in in knowing more about Elvis' life.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 29:31
  Sean McAllister: Well, obviously, Elvis is a classic, and we have another classic that is still sticking around here in Las Vegas, talking about the Sigma Derby horse casino game.
• 29:45
  Sean McAllister: There is only one left in the entire United States.
• 29:50
  Sean McAllister: It is right here in Las Vegas, and uh people are celebrating this game, and this has become it it's almost like people make a special trip.
• 30:03
  Sean McAllister: A special trip to go and play the Sigma Derby game.
• 30:07
  Sean McAllister: And if you don't know what it is, it is set up like it's like little mechanical horses running around a racetrack.
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 30:14
  Sean McAllister: You don't know which one's gonna win, you have your horse that you hope wins, and you know, you get paid out if your horse wins.
• 30:22
  Sean McAllister: Um classic, classic game, and uh I didn't realize it was originally created in 1985.
• 30:31
  Sean McAllister: Which I which to me in my mind doesn't signal to me that it's a classic game because I don't want 1985 to be considered classic.
• 30:42
  Dayna Roselli: I know, but you know, the way slots are and all the casino games are now, they're so advanced, and some people just still like to pull the lever.
• 30:49
  Dayna Roselli: But this is kind of like that.
• 30:50
  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't mention it's at the D, and they're celebrating uh the 10th anniversary of the property Sigma Derby horse racing game.
• 30:56
  Dayna Roselli: Derek Stevens, the CEO, uh, was on hand to celebrate this.
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: Now, apparently, he actually brought this over from the Fitzgerald Hotel and Casino uh when he moved it to the D in 2012, and so it's been there ever since.
• 31:11
  Dayna Roselli: It's the country's only remaining Sigma Derby machine, and it's only 25 cents to play, which I think is cool too.
• 31:16
  Dayna Roselli: And it's also coin operated, which is very rare for Las Vegas.
• 31:19
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 31:20
  Dayna Roselli: So all those things combined, they'd figured, you know what, it's the 10th anniversary, let's celebrate this.
• 31:25
  Dayna Roselli: And so Derek and the D did that.
• 31:27
  Dayna Roselli: So I didn't even know that they had that there.
• 31:29
  Dayna Roselli: So now I mean I definitely feel like if I'm down on Fremont Street, I'm gonna go to the D and play this game because now I want to do it.
• 31:36
  Dayna Roselli: There's five horses, you pick one, and then it goes from there and you can win.
• 31:40
  Dayna Roselli: Sounds fun.
• 31:41
  Sean McAllister: I believe it's on the second level.
• 31:42
  Sean McAllister: There's there's two there's the the main gaming floor that's you walk in right off of Fremont Street, then you go up the escalator, and there's another gaming floor up there, and they have a lot of other uh coin operated casino games up there, some more classic games kind of surrounding the the Sigma Derby game.
• 32:03
  Sean McAllister: So that's pretty cool if you want to actually you know hear the clinking of real coins in the casino.
• 32:10
  Dayna Roselli: And then I'm sure just like at the regular horse races, like everyone picks their horse, right?
• 32:13
  Dayna Roselli: And then everyone's probably cheering on their horse, so it's probably fun to watch.
• 32:17
  Sean McAllister: It is, it's very fun to watch, and people are definitely invested in the outcome of the game.
• 32:25
  Dayna Roselli: Love that.
• 32:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we've been busy doing a lot of other things as well, so we'll get to that maybe next podcast.
• 32:31
  Dayna Roselli: We've been on a lot of shoots for Vegas on, and we'll talk more about some of those and some of the behind-the-scenes stuff we've been doing.
• 32:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but Vegas is still kicking.
• 32:38
  Dayna Roselli: It is July officially.
• 32:40
  Dayna Roselli: It is hot here, it is over a hundred, so keep that in mind.
• 32:43
  Dayna Roselli: But why don't we get to some tips?
• 32:45
  Dayna Roselli: Because it has to do with pool season, Sean.
• 32:50
  Sean McAllister: And you know, everybody, when it's a hundred plus degrees, you need a place to cool off.
• 32:56
  Sean McAllister: And there's no better place to cool off than a great resort pool.
• 33:02
  Sean McAllister: And for Las Vegas locals, the Palms is now making it even easier, and they're really enticing Las Vegas locals to come out to their pool.
• 33:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's called Soak, okay?
• 33:14
  Dayna Roselli: So, and it's like a multi-level pool area they have at the at the Palms.
• 33:17
  Dayna Roselli: They just redid it before, you know, when it closed and now it's reopened under new owners, but now they're ready to go.
• 33:24
  Dayna Roselli: The pool is open, and they have food and beverage, and apparently they have music and DJs and all sorts of stuff that you would expect at any resort pool.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so what they're doing is every week, Monday through Thursday, locals get free entry into Soak.
• 33:40
  Dayna Roselli: So that's kind of fun.
• 33:40
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go hit a pool, people always ask, it's one of the top questions we get, I think, is summer approaches is like what pools are free for locals?
• 33:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 33:48
  Dayna Roselli: And some you can get into, some you cannot, which, you know, understandable that the guests come first.
• 33:55
  Sean McAllister: And if you recall, a few episodes ago, uh, just as the Palms was reopening, we spoke with uh Cynthia Kaiser Murphy, who is the general manager over at the Palms.
• 34:04
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, you specifically asked, are there going to be any deals for locals out at the pool?
• 34:10
  Sean McAllister: And she was like, stay tuned, we're working on something, and guess what?
• 34:14
  Sean McAllister: That something is here.
• 34:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it is.
• 34:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I love it.
• 34:17
  Dayna Roselli: And also 25% off um day bets based on availability, too.
• 34:22
  Dayna Roselli: So you get in free, and again, that's Monday through Thursday, and then Friday through Sunday, and Sean, I feel like this is a good deal too.
• 34:29
  Dayna Roselli: Entry for locals to the soap pool is 15 bucks.
• 34:32
  Dayna Roselli: So that's doable.
• 34:33
  Sean McAllister: That is, it's a nominal fee to get in, be able to spend the day at a great pool, and have 25% off, you know, day beds as well.
• 34:44
  Sean McAllister: That's that's a nice, a nice perk as well.
• 34:47
  Dayna Roselli: They're also doing dip Fridays, some themed kind of events at the pool.
• 34:52
  Dayna Roselli: So uh keep your eyes open for that.
• 34:55
  Dayna Roselli: They've got this like rubber ducky celebration happening this weekend that they're doing from 1 p.m.
• 35:00
  Dayna Roselli: to 7 p.m., where the East Pool is gonna be pil filled with all these rubber duckies and marked for prizes.
• 35:06
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that fun?
• 35:07
  Dayna Roselli: Like you get one and then you see what you get.
• 35:09
  Dayna Roselli: They have uh food and drink items as well, um, special entertainment, DJs, the normal food and drink, and apparently entries free for everyone to that, to the the themed kind of dip Fridays.
• 35:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um other themed parties they have coming up: Super Soaked, Tiki Paradise, Cowboy Boots and Bathing Suits, and Pirates and Mermaids.
• 35:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that'll be an interesting one.
• 35:33
  Dayna Roselli: So lots of fun if you want to go to Dip Fridays.
• 35:35
  Sean McAllister: Very cool.
• 35:36
  Sean McAllister: And as we mentioned, a great way to cool off in the uh Vegas summer heat.
• 35:43
  Sean McAllister: Um, and Dana, this is kind of a uh throwback.
• 35:46
  Sean McAllister: The next tip uh that you have is kind of a classic Vegas dining spot in a new location.
• 35:55
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 35:55
  Dayna Roselli: So I just I didn't know about this, and I can't believe I didn't know about this, but um so you and I are gonna have to go check it out.
• 36:02
  Dayna Roselli: FYI, we have not checked it out yet, but we plan to because it's actually kind of close to our side of town.
• 36:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and we hear that it's delicious.
• 36:10
  Dayna Roselli: Delicious.
• 36:10
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm talking about Vicky's Diner.
• 36:12
  Dayna Roselli: So Vicky's Diner used to be on uh Las Vegas Boulevard, kind of like n around the stratosphere, there's that White Cross drugstore that's a very famous drugstore that has kind of a cool sign on the outside.
• 36:25
  Dayna Roselli: It's very, I don't know, what should call it 50s looking.
• 36:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's been in a lot of different movies and music videos.
• 36:31
  Dayna Roselli: That closed, and Vicki's diner used to be in that building on the corner.
• 36:35
  Dayna Roselli: So Vicky had to move.
• 36:36
  Dayna Roselli: And a year ago, she moved the diner, which I didn't even realize, to commercial center on East Sahara.
• 36:42
  Dayna Roselli: And the diner's been there for a year now, and it's a 50s themed diner, which I think is cool.
• 36:47
  Dayna Roselli: I was looking at some pictures.
• 36:48
  Dayna Roselli: They got like pink booths and pinked counter chairs, and you can watch all the cooks doing their thing.
• 36:54
  Dayna Roselli: And the reason I learned about it is uh a new resident in my building was telling me about it, and he was like, Oh, you've never been to Vicki's?
• 36:59
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, No, what are you talking about?
• 37:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's right down the road.
• 37:02
  Dayna Roselli: So he was saying, like, the bacon is delicious.
• 37:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, you know, it's not like repurposed bacon, like they they make it and fresh, and they're great at like adding whatever you want to your breakfast.
• 37:15
  Dayna Roselli: He said, like, if you want some extra onions, you tell them you want some extra onions, they put it in there for you.
• 37:20
  Dayna Roselli: He loves the service, said the breakfast is delicious.
• 37:23
  Dayna Roselli: I think I looked it up.
• 37:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's only open till I think 2 30 every day because it's a breakfast-ish, lunch, brunch place.
• 37:29
  Dayna Roselli: But we have to go, and apparently it's great.
• 37:32
  Dayna Roselli: And it's right there east of the strip, not too far from the strip, really.
• 37:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's East Sahara and Commercial Center where there's a lot of famous things over there.
• 37:42
  Dayna Roselli: A theater Lotus of Siam and some other Thai restaurants and um jewelers and all sorts of stuff.
• 37:49
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so anyway, Vicky's Diner.
• 37:51
  Dayna Roselli: If you're interested in checking out, and I feel like a lot of our even tourists that come to Las Vegas, they love a good breakfast.
• 37:59
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 37:59
  Dayna Roselli: But they don't want to sometimes go like super, super fancy.
• 38:03
  Dayna Roselli: They just want to go get a real breakfast with a little bit of fun.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: Pepper Mill is always a popular place, and now Vicky's Diner, I just learned about.
• 38:10
  Sean McAllister: I think we're gonna have to go and and m venture over there pretty soon, though.
• 38:14
  Sean McAllister: I think we've got to be able to do that.
• 38:15
  Sean McAllister: Because once people hear this tip, I have a feeling Vicky's is going to be a very, very popular place.
• 38:22
  Dayna Roselli: Where was I recently where I texted you and I said, Oh, I went to the uh the Indian restaurant?
• 38:28
  Sean McAllister: Yes, that's right.
• 38:29
  Dayna Roselli: Clover Clover, I'm blanking on the name.
• 38:31
  Dayna Roselli: Recently.
• 38:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, yeah.
• 38:32
  Dayna Roselli: And it was packed.
• 38:33
  Dayna Roselli: And I said when we mentioned this as a tip the last time I went, it was not packed.
• 38:38
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, Did our tip bring the people in?
• 38:40
  Dayna Roselli: Should we start getting back?
• 38:42
  Sean McAllister: Is there a Vegas revealed effect at play here?
• 38:45
  Dayna Roselli: The Vegas Revealed Effect.
• 38:48
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 38:49
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of that, it's down on South Rainbow.
• 38:51
  Dayna Roselli: Had another great meal there.
• 38:52
  Dayna Roselli: It it is a great Indian restaurant.
• 38:54
  Dayna Roselli: So if you want to check that out too.
• 38:56
  Dayna Roselli: Little reminder there, but that's a podcast.
• 38:59
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot coming up this week, though.
• 39:01
  Dayna Roselli: Uh well, Fourth of July is here.
• 39:02
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have all that kind of thing.
• 39:04
  Dayna Roselli: Or there's a lot coming up in the next couple weeks.
• 39:06
  Dayna Roselli: I think things have kind of been on pause because of Fourth of July, but we have a lot of different events.
• 39:10
  Dayna Roselli: I know Thunder from Down Under is celebrating its 20th anniversary over there at the Excalibur.
• 39:15
  Dayna Roselli: So congratulations to them.
• 39:17
  Dayna Roselli: Believe they're getting a key to the strip or key to the city as well over at the Las Vegas sign.
• 39:23
  Dayna Roselli: There's some new uh there's a Mexican restaurant opening at Palace Station that we'll talk about.
• 39:29
  Dayna Roselli: So love to see Palace Station getting new things.
• 39:33
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't know, can't think of anything else, but we have a full inbox.
• 39:36
  Sean McAllister: There is.
• 39:37
  Sean McAllister: I was just I was trying to mentally go through the inbox, but I saw you concentrating.
• 39:45
  Sean McAllister: It's funny that I have a look when I'm concentrating.
• 39:50
  Dayna Roselli: Well, um, you enjoy the rest of your weekend with your sister who's in town, and we'll see everyone.
• 39:56
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we won't really see you, but we'll be back with you.
• 39:59
  Dayna Roselli: We'll be back with you, and you'll hear us in a week.
• 40:01
  Dayna Roselli: How about that for episode 125?
• 40:04
  Sean McAllister: Look at that.
• 40:04
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 40:05
  Sean McAllister: Getting up there.
• 40:06
  Sean McAllister: Have a safe holiday.