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Durango Casino Groundbreaking, Fontainebleau Details, March Madness Begins, Michael Jackson Estate for Sale, Britney Spears Visits Las Vegas | Ep. 109 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
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• 1:13
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 109, a new From the Ground Up Casino just broke ground.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: We take you on location for a first look at what this property will deliver.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: Now, this is a breath of fresh air.
• 1:28
  Dayna Roselli: Find out which resorts on the strip have the best air quality.
• 1:32
  Sean McAllister: And live like the king of pop.
• 1:36
  Sean McAllister: We reveal how much it'll cost you to buy Michael Jackson's former Las Vegas estate.
• 1:42
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get right to it and spin that wheel.
• 1:53
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed.
• 1:55
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for being here.
• 1:56
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister, along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:59
  Sean McAllister: And uh you may have noticed, maybe not, but some of you may have noticed that the the podcast is posting a little later on this uh Saturday posting date.
• 2:11
  Sean McAllister: It's because Roselli over here had to run off to see the Chippendales.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: It was their 20th anniversary.
• 2:19
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, we celebrate everything Las Vegas, right, at all times.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I know.
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: Usually, you know, we schedule it for well, there's a couple factors, Sean.
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: Let's not put it all on me in Chippendales.
• 2:29
  Dayna Roselli: We did go to the groundbreaking of a new hotel casino that's going up.
• 2:34
  Dayna Roselli: And that was on Friday, and then I had to run off to Chippendales.
• 2:38
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, we are a couple, well, a few hours later than normal.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: But, you know, that's a nice thing about a podcast, right?
• 2:44
  Sean McAllister: That's true.
• 2:45
  Sean McAllister: And you still get the alert when you subscribe that uh a new episode is posted.
• 2:51
  Sean McAllister: So here we are.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:52
  Sean McAllister: 109.
• 2:53
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so we're gonna talk more in depth about the Chippendales and their 20th anniversary next week.
• 2:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but Vinny from Jersey Shore is again in the show and hosting the show.
• 3:04
  Dayna Roselli: He's the celebrity host.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: He's I think this is his third time doing it.
• 3:08
  Dayna Roselli: He's crazy.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_04: I think so.
• 3:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the crowds come in for Vinny.
• 3:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they love him.
• 3:12
  Dayna Roselli: Jersey Shore is such a obviously popular, popular reality show from many, many, many years.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: And so the crowd, I had my cousin in from Jersey.
• 3:20
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, it's gonna be a whole Jersey connection.
• 3:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's a whole Jersey connection.
• 3:24
  Sean McAllister: Oh, this will be good.
• 3:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 3:25
  Sean McAllister: I can't wait for that.
• 3:26
  Sean McAllister: Also, uh coming up just in a little bit here on this episode, we'll be taking you to that groundbreaking of the Durango Casino and Resort, which is in uh the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: And you're gonna hear about everything that's planned over there, and that's coming up in just a few minutes.
• 3:47
  Sean McAllister: But first, we have had the first Britney Spears sighting in Las Vegas.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 3:54
  Sean McAllister: Since she like canned all of her shows here.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that and uh she wasn't allowed to go a lot of places, right?
• 4:01
  Sean McAllister: Now that the conservatorship is over, she's free.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: So her and her fiance came and stayed at Resorts World because I think they were attending one of those UFC fights.
• 4:09
  Sean McAllister: And it was his birthday, Sam Asgari.
• 4:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, yeah, yeah.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: I'm so glad they're still together.
• 4:13
  Dayna Roselli: They've been together a few years now and seem really happy.
• 4:16
  Dayna Roselli: He seems like he really cares about her.
• 4:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I love that.
• 4:19
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 4:20
  Dayna Roselli: And apparently they, you know, they did a bunch of things in Las Vegas, but um in in Resorts World, but a lot of them were kind of closed off.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: So it was, you know, them and their friends.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: She still has to be pretty private.
• 4:30
  Dayna Roselli: I can only imagine she gets kind of mobbed.
• 4:32
  Dayna Roselli: So, but they had a great dinner apparently at Wally's, and they did a little dancing, which she showed on her Instagram with some friends.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: She looked like she had a nice time.
• 4:41
  Sean McAllister: She's always dancing on Instagram.
• 4:42
  Dayna Roselli: Well, yeah.
• 4:44
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean her and her fiance Sam were dancing together, like out after dinner or whatever.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, she loves a good dance and yeah, stuff.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: She got a lot of stuff on her Instagram.
• 4:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, there is.
• 4:55
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but it was good to see Brittany back here in Vegas and perhaps a sign that maybe Resorts World could be wooing her for a residency over at their theater.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: Could be.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: Of course, that is the home to Carrie Underwood, Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, eventually Celine Dion will be hitting the stage there.
• 5:17
  Sean McAllister: So Brittany could fit in pretty well in the lineup.
• 5:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 5:21
  Dayna Roselli: I almost feel like she definitely needs to kind of chill for a little bit, though, but that's just my thought.
• 5:27
  Dayna Roselli: But she keeps pointing out how she loves feeling like a normal person, even though she'll never be normal.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: But, you know, maybe she needs some time with that.
• 5:34
  Dayna Roselli: But yes, who knows?
• 5:35
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, like you're saying with Resorts World, I mean, they have to do the woo well in advance.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: So it could be down the road, could be two years, could be a year, who knows?
• 5:44
  Sean McAllister: But cultivating that relationship is the first step, and they seem to have a great time at Resorts World.
• 5:49
  Sean McAllister: That's for sure.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: And that theater, I mentioned last week I was going to Katy Perry.
• 5:53
  Dayna Roselli: Sean's already kind of talked about the show because you went before I did, but just wanted to quick recap from me.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: Loved it again, loved the theater.
• 6:01
  Dayna Roselli: The crowd was I loved seeing all the Katy Perry fan club outfits.
• 6:07
  Sean McAllister: I was gonna say, were people dressed up?
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, dressed up in all sorts of different things.
• 6:11
  Dayna Roselli: We had it was great people watching, and they were true fans.
• 6:14
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, the show was great.
• 6:15
  Dayna Roselli: I loved the variety.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: The the props on set were just larger than life.
• 6:20
  Dayna Roselli: I really have never ever seen a stage like that in Las Vegas.
• 6:24
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, at one point toward the end, when the curtain closed and came back open, and I was like, where are these things even like getting pushed in from?
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: They are so large.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: I can't remember which one it was, but it was a really one of the toys or something.
• 6:37
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, this is huge.
• 6:38
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I I understand I was talking with one of the executives who oversees the the shows over at Resorts World, and apparently some of Katy Perry's sets are so large, they just live up in the rafters of the theater.
• 6:54
  unknown: Wow.
• 6:55
  Sean McAllister: Because they they can't be like taken down and you know, stored somewhere, they just have to live up there.
• 7:01
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, so what's the one?
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: Even when other performers comes in, he's probably like, get Katie's stage pieces off my back.
• 7:11
  Dayna Roselli: And apparently he just revealed recently, I think um, yeah, he went to her show and enjoyed it.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: He said he had never seen a show like that, but now she owes him a visit to his show.
• 7:22
  Sean McAllister: And I think she's gonna love it because it's a completely different show.
• 7:25
  Sean McAllister: It is, but still equally as entertaining.
• 7:29
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 7:30
  Dayna Roselli: And then along those lines, you mentioned Carrie Underwood.
• 7:33
  Dayna Roselli: She like stole the red carpet at the ACM Awards that were here in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium.
• 7:38
  Sean McAllister: She looked gorgeous, right?
• 7:39
  Sean McAllister: She did in that silver mini dress, and then she had on another outfit that was another like sparkly, rainbowy, silvery thing.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_03: Right, rainbowy.
• 7:53
  Sean McAllister: She had three outfits, I think, at the ACM Awards, which were over at Allegiant Stadium here in Las Vegas, and a great venue that I think they did a great job showcasing Las Vegas.
• 8:05
  Sean McAllister: Uh, even though they, you know, kept the award show confined to Allegiant Stadium with that big window that looks out over the Las Vegas Strip.
• 8:13
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 8:14
  Sean McAllister: You know, there were so many moments where you're like, yep, this is a Vegas show.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: It's not just like it was stuck in some arena somewhere.
• 8:21
  Sean McAllister: It looked like it was in the middle of Vegas.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: Great place for award shows.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: It is, right?
• 8:26
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 8:26
  Dayna Roselli: Because I was recently asking someone, and this isn't I'm not trying to knock Allegiant Stadium, but someone recently went to Metallica that I know, and I said, How was the show?
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: How was the sound?
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: And they went, Not great.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: And so, like, a you know, we've talked about the sound issue before.
• 8:38
  Sean McAllister: So, I think even for Billy Joel's show, he mentioned it during the show.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: Did he?
• 8:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 8:43
  Dayna Roselli: What uh well, what do they solve that problem or they just say, Hey, it's a stadium show, deal with it?
• 8:48
  Sean McAllister: I mean I think over time there might be solutions uh for it, but um it is a stadium.
• 8:58
  Sean McAllister: And I think when you're in a stadium, uh you're not going to find uh acoustics that are uh perfect.
• 9:05
  Sean McAllister: I think to some degree there is going to be that bounce back, is what they call it.
• 9:10
  Sean McAllister: You know, the the noise just bouncing off of different surfaces.
• 9:15
  Sean McAllister: Because let's face it, it was built for football.
• 9:18
  Sean McAllister: It wasn't specifically built as a music venue with perfect acoustics.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 9:24
  Sean McAllister: So y you just kind of have to deal with the situation you're given in some of those venues.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I know like some people say if you're on this side, it's better, so I'm sure people I guess that's kind of a tip.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: Like if you're gonna go to a show at Allegiant Stadium, maybe do a little research and see where people have said in this section the sound was great, you know, or like in this section it wasn't, and maybe it just depends on where you sit.
• 9:46
  Sean McAllister: And I think the further back, if you sit uh l straight on to the stage, like if you're looking at the stage, but your seats are like pretty far back at the far wall of the arena, that's where you're going to experience a lot of the bounce back.
• 10:02
  Sean McAllister: Okay, okay.
• 10:03
  Dayna Roselli: But you know what?
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: The stadium's so cool.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's and it's just a good time to be in there that I mean, Billy Joel, you know, a cocktail in your hand, the scenes from Allegiance Stadium.
• 10:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 10:14
  Dayna Roselli: So it's worth it.
• 10:15
  Sean McAllister: Amazing.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: Let's talk iHeart, because I know you got uh some information this morning sent right to your inbox about the iHeart Music Festival coming up.
• 10:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, iHeart Radio Music Festival coming back to Las Vegas, uh coming up in September, so still some time to plan for it.
• 10:31
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they're doing the uh, you know, the nighttime festival uh with the main stage, but they're also going to bring back the daytime stage, which is going to be held over at Area 15, that big entertainment complex we've mentioned a few times here on Vegas Revealed, is just off of uh the I-15 highway, across from a little bit west of the strip.
• 10:56
  Sean McAllister: Um, but at any rate, they have announced uh some of the performers who are set to uh uh be there for the daytime festival, among them Avril Levine, who has a new single out right now, by the way.
• 11:10
  Sean McAllister: And did you know that this is the 20th anniversary of her song Skaterboy?
• 11:15
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 11:16
  Sean McAllister: Twenty freaking years since that came out.
• 11:19
  Sean McAllister: Also, Five Seconds of Summer, Chloe, Willow, Chase Rice, Lotto, Carly Pierce, Gail, and Lauren Spencer Smith also on the lineup.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: I know Avril Levine and uh Five Seconds of Summer.
• 11:37
  Sean McAllister: I know Carly Pierce.
• 11:38
  Sean McAllister: And I'm sure.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, and I probably know like the music, but it's it's attaching the name to the music.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_04: I really can't.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: And I said I said Lotto, but it could be Latto.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: Sounds like a great lineup.
• 11:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it does.
• 11:54
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 11:55
  Sean McAllister: The kids are gonna be super excited about it.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_03: All names I've seen before, so they must be hot, right?
• 12:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 12:01
  Sean McAllister: But the iHeartRadio Music Festival, always a big weekend here in Las Vegas.
• 12:06
  Sean McAllister: There's usually that's usually the same weekend as the Life is Beautiful Festival downtown.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: It is usually.
• 12:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I can't believe September.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: We're talking about September already.
• 12:16
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 12:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and Life is Beautiful tickets went on sale too.
• 12:18
  Dayna Roselli: They the early birds, but they usually sell out right away.
• 12:20
  Dayna Roselli: I think we mentioned that.
• 12:21
  Dayna Roselli: So keep checking the Life is Beautiful uh website because they release tickets and spurts.
• 12:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 12:27
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's talk air quality because this is a big one.
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: I think everyone's gonna be really interested to hear this one, this conversation we are about to have.
• 12:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm all hyped up because Sean, what did you put in this coffee?
• 12:38
  Dayna Roselli: You poured me coffee.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, I usually like a splash of cream, but you doused something in here and white.
• 12:46
  Dayna Roselli: It is sweet.
• 12:46
  Sean McAllister: You were pouring the coffee, I was pouring the creamer, and you said, give me a little splash.
• 12:52
  Sean McAllister: And I gave you what a little splash according to my standards.
• 12:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Sean likes like four sugars, creamer, all that.
• 13:00
  Dayna Roselli: I know how to make his coffee.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: I like my coffee to taste like candy.
• 13:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is uh That's the hazelnut creamer coffee mate.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: This long splash is I feel like my hands are shaking.
• 13:11
  Sean McAllister: Now you know what it's like to be me all day long.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_03: All right, well, let's talk air quality.
• 13:17
  Sean McAllister: Air quality.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: Now that we've got our uh coffee preferences out of the way.
• 13:21
  Sean McAllister: So there is this uh startup company out of the Bay Area.
• 13:25
  Sean McAllister: It's called Wind.
• 13:26
  Sean McAllister: They do WYND.
• 13:28
  Sean McAllister: Um, it's like an air purifier company.
• 13:31
  Sean McAllister: Um, and their air purifiers also like take in some analytics uh to study what's in the air and how good the air quality is in your home or in your office wherever you have these machines.
• 13:46
  Sean McAllister: Well, they ended up doing a study of twenty eight hotel casinos on the Las Vegas Strip to compare air quality standards.
• 13:56
  Sean McAllister: And the results were uh uh pretty astounding.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 14:01
  Sean McAllister: Obviously, there are some uh resorts that did much better than others.
• 14:08
  Sean McAllister: Uh they released the top three resorts with the best air quality, those are Win Las Vegas, Aria, and Park MGM.
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: Which Park MGM is the only non-smoking resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: So that's obviously really helped the air quality inside out.
• 14:30
  Sean McAllister: Tremendously.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's made the list.
• 14:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's a big deal.
• 14:32
  Sean McAllister: But also, you gotta think about the fact that Aria and Wynn both have really high ceilings in their casino areas.
• 14:39
  Sean McAllister: So that's gotta help with ventilation, I would imagine, too.
• 14:43
  Sean McAllister: Um, so those are the three best.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: And then I know Aria, because I used to live right next door uh in the high rise.
• 14:49
  Dayna Roselli: Two hot, there's two high-rise buildings, and it was like a very uh it was like an all-green building, and I believe City Center itself.
• 14:56
  Sean McAllister: They have a lot of technology that was added um to have them be like uh green certified or like leaf certified.
• 15:05
  Sean McAllister: There was some certification that they got that that really proved that they had a lot of that, you know, good green technology built in.
• 15:15
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 15:16
  Dayna Roselli: So so I'm glad almost to see Aria make the list.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: And maybe that helps, you know, and and and adds to it.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: Because I mean, I think when you put all that effort in and make sure that you're using certain equipment and and having specific designs, that it in the end it's worth it and you do it for a reason.
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: So it's nice to see that Aria has some good air quality.
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and so as I mentioned, the the top three resorts were named in this list.
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: Are we naming the bottom three or no?
• 15:46
  Sean McAllister: Well, no.
• 15:47
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 15:47
  Sean McAllister: The bottom three were not named.
• 15:49
  Sean McAllister: Not named, that's right.
• 15:50
  Sean McAllister: However, the d the discrepancy between best and worst is drastic.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I might we might need to pause and just put in a little dramatic music right here.
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, give it to us, Sean, because I know you got the report right in front of you.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: The worst casinos are eighty times, their air quality is eighty times worse than what you would find at Wynn Park MGM or at Aria.
• 16:20
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: And just to give you an idea of how bad that air quality is, it is worse than the concentration of dust and pollution that you would find on a bad air quality day in Beijing or New Delhi.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my goodness.
• 16:39
  Sean McAllister: And we've all seen those pictures where they're skyline, you can't even see it, because it's all dust and smog and gross pollutedness.
• 16:48
  Sean McAllister: The worst casinos on the strip are worse than that.
• 16:52
  Sean McAllister: Oh my goodness.
• 16:53
  Sean McAllister: And it's enclosed, and there's probably low ceilings, and you're just in there, like breathing all that crap directly into your lungs.
• 17:01
  Dayna Roselli: But it's Vegas, baby.
• 17:02
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, come on.
• 17:06
  Sean McAllister: Is there such a thing as Vegas lung?
• 17:08
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 17:09
  Sean McAllister: I think there should be.
• 17:10
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I'm hoping, even though it does not reveal the names, that that the the casinos themselves were made aware and that they will now make some improvements, realizing that they are at the bottom of the list 80 times worse than the top three.
• 17:23
  Sean McAllister: I hope so.
• 17:24
  Sean McAllister: Man, that is pretty disgusting.
• 17:25
  Sean McAllister: And it does make a good case for uh keeping that mask in your back pocket.
• 17:29
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, well, that's that.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: Now you know, um, when it comes to air quality, be aware.
• 17:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's not something sometimes we all think about, so.
• 17:38
  Sean McAllister: Alright, completely switching gears from air pollution to the late King of Pop, I think a lot of people know that for a time period in the early 2000s, Michael Jackson lived here in Las Vegas with his kids.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: And and for a portion of that, he stayed with that, well, not with, but he stayed at the compound that the Sultan of Brunei owned over there near Spanish Trail.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 18:01
  Dayna Roselli: I remember I when I was in the helicopter reporting, we used to fly over.
• 18:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, we used to fly over.
• 18:06
  Sean McAllister: Did you ever see anything fun?
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: No, I didn't.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: But it we would look around and and did you like buzz the tower over there?
• 18:13
  Dayna Roselli: Just go really low?
• 18:14
  Dayna Roselli: We look uh being in the helicopter, well, we'll have to have a conversation about that another time because it was uh I got a lot of stories.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I bet the things we used to see and do and and maybe break some rules.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but anyway, yeah, so he lived over there, but then he he kind of went on his own and rented a home right near uh like Sahara and Buffalo.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: That's on the in the north direction west of the strip.
• 18:38
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: And that's up for sale.
• 18:41
  Sean McAllister: It is up for sale.
• 18:42
  Sean McAllister: Uh big time.
• 18:45
  Sean McAllister: So you could live own the estate where Michael Jackson lived for a period of time in 2006, if you have 9.5 million dollars just laying around.
• 19:01
  Dayna Roselli: Now, let's discuss this because I was looking around at the house.
• 19:04
  Dayna Roselli: Like, definitely with the way prices are now, I get it.
• 19:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's in the do you think that's a$9.5 million estate?
• 19:11
  Dayna Roselli: When I look at it, I'm like, it's nice, but it's not it's near the lakes, but there's a lot of like homes around it, and it's like the best area in the world.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of things that I feel like doesn't make that$9.5 million.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: I mean, it is a big place.
• 19:28
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 19:29
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I would first of all, I don't have nine nine and a half million to drop on a house.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, listen, it is what it is.
• 19:36
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so it's up for$9.5 million, and somebody will get it for that, I'm sure.
• 19:41
  Dayna Roselli: And it looks gorgeous.
• 19:43
  Sean McAllister: It is a 17,000 square foot house.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: Very big.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: But it's it's always so weird though, because it's like it's Vegas.
• 19:49
  Sean McAllister: But you know what?
• 19:50
  Sean McAllister: The current owners bought the house in 2010 for$3.1 million.
• 19:55
  Sean McAllister: See?
• 19:56
  Sean McAllister: So it's three times more than than what they paid for it.
• 20:00
  Sean McAllister: So they're making a pretty penny.
• 20:01
  unknown: Wow.
• 20:02
  Sean McAllister: They did put uh they did change a lot of things.
• 20:05
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 20:05
  Sean McAllister: I guess Michael Jackson had put in amusement park rides and had a little zoo out back.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: They removed a a lot of that stuff, yeah, updated it, did their own upgrades, right?
• 20:19
  Sean McAllister: St nine nine and a half mil.
• 20:21
  Dayna Roselli: I remember when he passed in two thousand nine, a lot of people left flowers and candles and pictures and stuff outside that gate.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: Because they knew that he had lived there at one point.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: It was kind of a way for Las Vegas to and then in Janet Jackson's recent documentary that just released on uh Lifetime, she drives by that area and kind of talks about how she tried to visit Michael many times when he lived in Las Vegas.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, um, it's up for sale, and our friend Czar is the realtor on it, or his his agency anyway.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: Czar is, you know, real estate agent of the stars.
• 20:53
  Dayna Roselli: He's uh the best when it comes to that, and uh uh he just always has amazing properties for sale.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: You always know Zar is gonna be the one that's that's in charge.
• 21:03
  Sean McAllister: By the way, uh that nine and a half million asking price is about uh five hundred sixty dollars per square foot.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: I was just thinking as you were saying that.
• 21:16
  Dayna Roselli: We need to have Zar on the show.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: He's a great interview.
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: He used to come on Channel 13 where he used to work all the time.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: And we have to do that.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Let's do that so.
• 21:27
  Dayna Roselli: I know he has stories.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: Some stories he can talk about, some he can't.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh, we'll have to do anonymous stories.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yeah.
• 21:33
  Sean McAllister: He can give the story, and then we can try and guess who's involved.
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: I have a story, but I can't say unless I ask him.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: About a certain diva.
• 21:46
  Dayna Roselli: Oh.
• 21:46
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, we'll see.
• 21:47
  Dayna Roselli: We'll talk to Zar, see if we can reveal some stuff.
• 21:50
  Dayna Roselli: All right, what else are we talking about?
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: We've got a Britney, Michael, what else?
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we are gonna talk.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's talk money, because I know that our listeners are always interested in how much Las Vegas.
• 22:02
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you know, every time we talk about this, Dana, it seems like the numbers just keep going up and up and up.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: And there are some new numbers out that show that that revenues are up like seven and a half percent over what they were in 2019 before the pandemic.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: I know, because I mean we expect numbers to be higher than 2020, right?
• 22:24
  Sean McAllister: Because they're that's just not a good comparison here.
• 22:27
  Dayna Roselli: No, but then when you look at 2019, we were like, wait, what how?
• 22:31
  Dayna Roselli: But it's incredible the the gaming numbers.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I saw some people chatting about it um online, and they were saying, well, like a lot of the shows weren't open, so people gambled more.
• 22:42
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, you know, there were reasons that you know, maybe the gaming was up.
• 22:45
  Dayna Roselli: But when we were looking at this article in Forbes, I was looking at some of the actual games that brought in a lot of money, and apparently roulette did really well in 2021.
• 22:56
  Sean McAllister: I actually did play a lot of roulette.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Did you?
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: Well, because I think I wonder if people are like, well, things happen to them.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: And so they're like picking numbers, like this is my lucky number.
• 23:05
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna put, you know, this amount on it, or or whatever.
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: But roulette helped bolster apparently the numbers with a total win of$428 million.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 23:15
  Dayna Roselli: Which is an all-time record.
• 23:17
  Sean McAllister: You know what I also wonder about roulette?
• 23:19
  Sean McAllister: That's one of the games on the casino floor that uh a lot of casinos are starting to do like that stadium seating with one roulette wheel.
• 23:32
  Sean McAllister: There's a dealer down there, but it allows more people to play at one roulette wheel rather than like the standard table format that we've seen before.
• 23:42
  Sean McAllister: So I wonder if that's contributed to that.
• 23:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, it could be, it could be.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: And and people feel less intimidated, you know?
• 23:49
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 23:49
  Dayna Roselli: Because sometimes when you're you're standing around, you're worried you're gonna do something wrong or whatever, but yeah, that could definitely be it.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting that it's an all-time record.
• 23:56
  Dayna Roselli: Sportsbooks collected 8.1 billion in wagers and won 445.1 million, both all-time records.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: Gosh.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that crazy?
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: And then slot machines remained apparently the cash cow in 2021.
• 24:13
  Dayna Roselli: State collected 9.2 billion last year from slots, another all-time record for Nevada, and a 16.4% increase over 2019.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that crazy?
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Well, so hey, people have their preference, and and apparently they want to come to Vegas or they wanted to come to Vegas and gamble in 2021.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: We'll take it.
• 24:38
  Sean McAllister: And we love to say it.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: Thanks for making our state tax free.
• 24:42
  Sean McAllister: Making our state tax-free and letting us live here in a happy way.
• 24:49
  Dayna Roselli: And uh speaking of gaming, we have another mega resort going up on the strip.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it's gonna be done in 2023.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: So I want to talk about that, then we'll get over to the groundbreaking in the southwest part of the valley.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: So I love to hear like new things, you know, in the works and opening.
• 25:06
  Dayna Roselli: So they're going ahead with construction on the Fountain Blue Resort, and it's gonna be beautiful.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: They released some rendering, Sean.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: You and I were looking at it, and we were going, ooh, ah, ooh, ah, it looks really nice, right?
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: Gorgeous.
• 25:18
  Dayna Roselli: Multiple pools, contemporary design, uh, you know, they have gaming and you know, restaurants, but they're really pushing also how much space they're gonna have for conventions, and it's right next to the brand new convention center.
• 25:32
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 25:32
  Dayna Roselli: So it'll be a great spot for that.
• 25:34
  Sean McAllister: The proximity is terrific.
• 25:37
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, it really does just look stunning.
• 25:42
  Sean McAllister: The uh ballroom is one of the pillarless uh ballrooms, so it's just this giant open space, one of the largest ballrooms in all of Las Vegas.
• 25:54
  Sean McAllister: That's in addition to all of the convention space.
• 25:57
  Sean McAllister: There's a 90,000 square foot theater that's going to be a part of this property too.
• 26:04
  Dayna Roselli: Who's so who's gonna perform there?
• 26:06
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 26:07
  Sean McAllister: I guess they they might need to compete with their neighbor across the street to steal Britney's affection.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Sean and I are available for hosting gigs on the loop.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, it does look gorgeous.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh and yeah, the coloring, I love the coloring.
• 26:22
  Sean McAllister: It's like the blues and blues, grays, silvers, yeah, some gold in there.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: And even we were even looking at like the the loop where you valet looks nice.
• 26:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it does.
• 26:35
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 26:36
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I'm just happy it's gonna be done.
• 26:38
  Dayna Roselli: I think that that people have been looking at that, waiting for it to, you know, finish, and finally it's like moving ahead.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: I see lights on.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: I live across the street, I see the lights on and the work being done, and and I'm looking forward to 2023.
• 26:51
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be here before we know it.
• 26:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and uh you'll notice if you come to Vegas soon, it's that big blue building at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.
• 27:01
  Sean McAllister: It's got the big logo FB up on the the side of the building now.
• 27:06
  Sean McAllister: So it's very identifiable, very classy.
• 27:09
  Sean McAllister: Can't wait for that to to open up and get inside.
• 27:12
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and just really fill that whole area out really nice, too, right?
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I think I think that's gonna be a great addition.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: So we look forward to the Fountain Blue.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: I I was telling you a story that I when I was younger, my our parent my parents took us to the uh Fountain Blue in Miami.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, and we went there specifically to go to the pool that we saw so many pictures of because it was amazing, and they were like, okay, well, we went on this little cruise, and they were like, well, we'll stay at the hotel and the kids can play in the pool.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: And then when they got there, the pool was closed for renovation.
• 27:42
  Dayna Roselli: Oh no, but they never they didn't know that when they made the reservation, and my parents were furious.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: So we went out there, had our towel, and they're like, Oh, sorry.
• 27:52
  Dayna Roselli: It was like such a bummer, such a bummer.
• 27:55
  Sean McAllister: Maybe you can bring the Roselli family back out to Vegas and have like a redemption pool day.
• 28:01
  Sean McAllister: I hope so.
• 28:02
  Sean McAllister: Fountain blue, Las Vegas.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: Oh man, but I love the name.
• 28:05
  Dayna Roselli: I love the Fountain Blue.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's iconic, iconic.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: So look forward to adding that to the Las Vegas strip.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: All right, switching gears, Dana, it's hard to believe there's actually more news about new resorts in Las Vegas.
• 28:18
  Sean McAllister: This one uh is a new resort casino that's being built from the ground up in the southwest part of Las Vegas.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we got an invite about a week ago and it said you need to dress desert chic, and I was all excited.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: I said, We gotta go to this, Sean, and we showed up, and this is pretty cool.
• 28:35
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 28:35
  Sean McAllister: I've never seen uh an active construction site with the mock-up of a hotel room, with drinks, with photo ops, a bell cart that's branded with the Durango Resort and Casino logo, a big logo out in the desert.
• 28:51
  Sean McAllister: There's a classic T bird out here.
• 28:53
  Sean McAllister: Also, out here is Station Casino President Scott Krieger, who's with us now.
• 28:58
  Sean McAllister: And man, Scott, you've got a lot going on out here.
• 29:01
  Sean McAllister: It's been a busy week.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so first of all, you guys can't play with the tractors while you're here.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, and secondly, yeah, it's been uh it's been a great week.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh culminated by bringing uh uh our team members out to the site and our ownership and celebrating the groundbreaking of Durango Station, uh, which is on 215 and Durango, and it will be our next evolution of Station Casino.
• 29:25
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, well, tell us a little bit about that because uh we know that this has been the plan for a long time.
• 29:30
  Dayna Roselli: Excited to finally hear that it is happening, but uh will this uh casino and resort be like the other ones or will it have differences?
• 29:38
  Dayna Roselli: Can you give anyone maybe any tidbits or insight?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think it'll be both.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we never stray far from our traditional station casinos, uh amenities, service, and product because our customers love that.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, but what we try to do with each of these is raise the bar a bit and make sure that we're relevant to the day and age.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: And so we spend a lot of time understanding what our customers like.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: We spend a lot of time thinking about what we did in our last project, and we try to really bring all of that together into something that's contemporary, fresh, and fun.
• 30:14
  Sean McAllister: So uh when we talk about obviously this is gonna be a a new casino here in the southwest part of the valley.
• 30:20
  Sean McAllister: Um when we talk about the rest of what the resort is uh going to offer, can you dive into some of those details?
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I can.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: So, first and foremost, we're in the gambling business.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll have a wonderful casino with all the best games uh that has a great atmosphere and is fun to be in.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Secondly, we'll surround that with uh four signature restaurant boxes because food and beverage is really important to us.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: And we want to make sure that we uh provide something that's very unique and something that's new to market.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: So we're not gonna announce yet who those tenant partners are, but in due time I think you'll be really excited about that.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: One other feature that we have that's exciting is a nine-unit food hall.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so what we did was we mixed some of the great local chefs and restaurant tours and some uh regional and national uh restaurant tours to create a really unique food court uh food hall experience.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then lastly, as you know, sports wagering has become more and more popular uh with the advent of sports mobile and you know our product that we have uh for cellular sports mobile in Nevada.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_00: So what we want to do is look at the next evolution of a race and sports book experience that integrates dining and entertainment, indoor, outdoor vibe, and really have something special as it relates to the sports uh race and sports market.
• 31:46
  Dayna Roselli: And I always wonder, I mean, uh so many people love Red Rock Red Rock on this side of town and go to Red Rock.
• 31:52
  Dayna Roselli: Do you ever worry it's gonna pull customers from there, or you just feel like you have enough for everyone?
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Look, well, I think any business would look at that, and we have.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we really like the Southwest.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: And the amount of dynamic growth that's going on out here uh and the product that we're going to offer, we think it can stand on its own.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and we think that it's going to be complementary to the overall market.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: So we really don't have much concern that it will be cannibalistic, if you will.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_00: We think they're two different unique experiences, and we think that it's potentially two different customer bases.
• 32:27
  Sean McAllister: And I've been uh Green Valley Ranch guy for the better part of 20 years here in Las Vegas.
• 32:34
  Sean McAllister: That's where I go to get my bingo on.
• 32:37
  Sean McAllister: Are you gonna have a bingo parlor here at Durango?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry to say that in our first phase we do not have a bingo parlor, but I will tell you that I appreciate that you go to a Green Valley Ranch to do that.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_00: I actually was a general manager of Green Valley Ranch at one time, and it's a property near and dear to my heart.
• 32:55
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean I feel like um all your properties people seem to gravitate to and love.
• 33:00
  Dayna Roselli: What do you think makes it uh so appealing for locals?
• 33:04
  Dayna Roselli: And I I know tourists leave the strip to go to some of your properties too.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's our team members.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think first and foremost, it starts and ends there with our friendly team members.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then I think what we you know add to that is products that are aligned with what our customers want.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we try not to overthink our customers, we try to stay in line with what they're interested in and what the products and offerings they want to see.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: So we stay very close to our customer in delivering those products.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: And at the same time, we like to stretch the envelope a little bit.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: You'll see when we opened up uh Red Rock, we broke some casino rules.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: We had a lot of natural light, we had a lot of indoor-outdoor, we integrated the pool with the restaurants, we did a lot of unique things at Red Rock, and so we've taken that theme and integrated it into Durango as well.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: So you'll see a lot more social and open environments where the energy and vibe is much more dynamic, uh, and you'll see a lot of that uh that more uh contemporary trend in design that's more promenade-like, and and we always like to bring a different product to the market that grows the overall market.
• 34:13
  Sean McAllister: And uh speaking of the design, uh the the dress code out here today was desert chic.
• 34:19
  Sean McAllister: Is desert chic kind of the overall theme of the design at Durango?
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: Very intuitive, it is.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: So uh what we're trying to do here is is embrace and kind of riff off of the environment that we live in, thus the logo uh being an agave.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um and we found it Red Rock, which has a bit of a little bit more palm desert type of a feel.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: We felt that that's a very comfortable and welcoming kind of architectural design.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So we really wanted to take that to the next level here, localize it a little bit that you'll see in the color palettes and the designs, uh real nod to our environment that we live in.
• 34:58
  Dayna Roselli: And my big question, is it Durango Casino and Resort or Durango Station?
• 35:03
  Dayna Roselli: Are they interchangeable?
• 35:05
  Dayna Roselli: Do both work?
• 35:05
  Dayna Roselli: Is there a preferred?
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: You can call us whatever you want, but technically, technically is Durango a station casino's resort.
• 35:14
  unknown: Got it.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much.
• 35:18
  Sean McAllister: We're looking forward to the new property Dana.
• 35:20
  Sean McAllister: I think I'm gonna need to get a lookbook all set up so that I know what to wear for the desert chic atmosphere.
• 35:26
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_04: And the grand opening.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_04: We need to start thinking.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_04: There you go.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_04: All right, thank you guys.
• 35:31
  Dayna Roselli: Good times.
• 35:32
  Dayna Roselli: It was a beautiful afternoon.
• 35:34
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see more, go to our social media sites.
• 35:38
  Dayna Roselli: We've post some renderings and some pictures, we've got some reels up there, and you can see what Durango Station is all about.
• 35:45
  Dayna Roselli: I'm allowed to say that, Sean, because he said I could call it whatever I want.
• 35:49
  Sean McAllister: Let's get to our tips.
• 35:57
  Dayna Roselli: Tip number one.
• 35:59
  Dayna Roselli: Don't let Sean put creamer in your coffee.
• 36:02
  Sean McAllister: Oh, come on.
• 36:03
  Sean McAllister: There's a certain portion of the population that would enjoy it.
• 36:06
  Dayna Roselli: I think my hands are sweating.
• 36:10
  Dayna Roselli: Um anyway, yes, tip number one.
• 36:13
  Sean McAllister: You sure you didn't eat too many goalie energies?
• 36:15
  Dayna Roselli: Uh no, I actually haven't had any of those today because I knew Sean always has the coffee pot going.
• 36:21
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, but yes, tip number one for real.
• 36:23
  Dayna Roselli: I wanted to talk about my recent visit to Treasure Island.
• 36:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I had a job there for the show Vegas that we do and pulled up and needed to valet because I was doing a shoot out on the strip and I didn't, I had heels on, I didn't want to walk really far.
• 36:38
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, how much is valet?
• 36:40
  Dayna Roselli: And they're like, it's free.
• 36:41
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, and they're like, yeah, you know, just uh we are one of the very few that still have free valet.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 36:48
  Dayna Roselli: So it was great.
• 36:49
  Dayna Roselli: I had to work there and I was there all day.
• 36:51
  Dayna Roselli: It was just such a pleasure, you know, and I'm and I'm buying Starbucks and I'm, you know, doing a piece on something that is happening inside Treasure Island, and I it felt so good to not be charged 30 bucks to leave and basically be there to promote, spend money inside a property.
• 37:11
  Sean McAllister: That is amazing.
• 37:12
  Sean McAllister: There are so few places.
• 37:14
  Sean McAllister: Is there really anywhere else that has free valet?
• 37:17
  Dayna Roselli: Well, a lot of the shopping centers do, if there's a shopping component, like crystals at Aria, and I think um I don't know if Forum Shops has free anymore.
• 37:28
  Sean McAllister: Last weekend uh we were on a separate shoot, and I dropped a colleague off at a a property on the strip.
• 37:37
  Sean McAllister: I won't say which one.
• 37:38
  Sean McAllister: Okay, but I pulled into the the through lane up in front, and they were charging$50 for valet.
• 37:46
  Dayna Roselli: That is ridiculous.
• 37:47
  Sean McAllister: And that's exactly what I said when we were pulling in.
• 37:51
  Sean McAllister: But with a couple other choice words.
• 37:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure.
• 37:54
  Dayna Roselli: The road rage came out, Sean and his road rage.
• 37:57
  Sean McAllister: I love that we got messages from people saying that my darker side came through.
• 38:01
  Sean McAllister: I know the last episode.
• 38:03
  Dayna Roselli: We're starting to slowly reveal the darker side.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, Treasure Island has free valet.
• 38:09
  Dayna Roselli: Keep that in mind.
• 38:09
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, I haven't been in Treasure Island, to be honest, in a little while.
• 38:12
  Dayna Roselli: Since before the pandemic started.
• 38:14
  Dayna Roselli: So you know, they have the show Mystere in there by Cirque de Soleil, the original Cirque Show.
• 38:20
  Dayna Roselli: You know, as I said, they've got a Starbucks, they've got a few restaurants, they have the Gillies in there still, and the Senior Frogs.
• 38:27
  Dayna Roselli: Great casino floor with lots of slot machines.
• 38:30
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're looking for a place to go and chill and and hang out, um, and you haven't visited Treasure Island in a while, might be a good option.
• 38:38
  Dayna Roselli: I was in there going, you know, I really like this hotel.
• 38:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's really cute.
• 38:41
  Dayna Roselli: And I stayed there, Sean, for my bachelorette party.
• 38:45
  Sean McAllister: You did?
• 38:45
  Sean McAllister: In 2000.
• 38:47
  Sean McAllister: I did not know this.
• 38:48
  Dayna Roselli: I just thought of it as we were talking.
• 38:50
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 38:52
  Sean McAllister: Did you wear the sash and the crown and do the whole thing?
• 38:55
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, I'm now not I'm not married anymore, but everything's fine.
• 38:59
  Dayna Roselli: We're still friends, all that.
• 39:00
  Dayna Roselli: We know that's a whole nother story.
• 39:01
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, that has nothing to do with this.
• 39:03
  Dayna Roselli: But I did have a bachelorette at one point in my life, and it and my all my girlfriends came into town, and we stayed at Treasure Island so that we could, you know, have some fun and um not have to, you know, drive home or all that kind of thing.
• 39:19
  Dayna Roselli: It was before Ubers because it was a long time ago.
• 39:21
  Sean McAllister: God, was that back in the days when there was like that social house sushi restaurant in the Christian Audeg.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_03: Tangerine.
• 39:28
  Sean McAllister: Yes, Tangerine Ultra Lounge.
• 39:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 39:32
  Sean McAllister: I'm like, I'm like having flashbacks now.
• 39:34
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god.
• 39:35
  Sean McAllister: I used to be at Treasure Island all the time.
• 39:38
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I have a funny, I gotta share this story.
• 39:41
  Dayna Roselli: Hold on, really quick.
• 39:42
  Dayna Roselli: That night, you're because I know you'll think this is fun.
• 39:45
  Dayna Roselli: This is literally happening live.
• 39:47
  Dayna Roselli: I'm thinking of these stories, and I'm actually thinking I have to tell Sean this story, but I might as well just say them.
• 39:52
  Dayna Roselli: At my bachelorette.
• 39:55
  Sean McAllister: I can't wait.
• 39:56
  Dayna Roselli: Somebody took out their contacts and put them in little um cups, like Dixie cups that were in the bathroom.
• 40:03
  Dayna Roselli: And then my friend couldn't find her contacts.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_03: And she was like, Who drank my contacts?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_03: Because everyone was kind of tipsy.
• 40:13
  Dayna Roselli: And my poor friend lied had no contacts for the rest of the weekend because some drunk of the pack drank the contacts that were on the bathroom counter.
• 40:27
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 40:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 40:29
  Sean McAllister: It reminds me of when I was a kid.
• 40:31
  Sean McAllister: I went to grab a cup of like Sprite or Seven Up off the counter, and I took a big swig of it, and it was my bubbles for playing outside.
• 40:40
  Sean McAllister: It wasn't seven up or sprite at all.
• 40:42
  Sean McAllister: It was awful.
• 40:43
  Sean McAllister: Oh, jeez.
• 40:44
  Sean McAllister: But I've never I've never downed a pair of contacts.
• 40:48
  Dayna Roselli: We don't know who.
• 40:49
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, I don't know.
• 40:50
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, this is totally sidetracked off the fact that Treasure Island is a fun hotel and they have free valet and parking in the parking garage.
• 40:57
  Sean McAllister: I've been going on an awful lot of tangents lately.
• 41:00
  Dayna Roselli: All right, what's your tip?
• 41:01
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, we just got an email back from the Westgate because you wrote our friend Gordy over there.
• 41:05
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 41:06
  Sean McAllister: Uh so the Westgate is like Hoops Central for the NCAA uh college basketball tournament.
• 41:15
  Sean McAllister: The Westgate is like the place to go.
• 41:18
  Sean McAllister: Not only do they have the sport the race and sport super book over at the Westgate, but they also turn their theater over at the Westgate into another uh huge viewing area for fans.
• 41:39
  Sean McAllister: And they can fit 1,500 people into that theater to watch the games that are going on.
• 41:46
  Sean McAllister: And I think they they, you know, have the big screen up there.
• 41:50
  Sean McAllister: They have they split it into sections so there's multiple games going on at the same time.
• 41:55
  Sean McAllister: There's lots of food and drink specials going on over there.
• 41:58
  Sean McAllister: Not to mention St.
• 41:59
  Sean McAllister: Patrick's Day on March 17th is on the first day of the basketball tournament, too.
• 42:06
  Sean McAllister: So you're gonna have all these teams playing on Thursday, and it's gonna be St.
• 42:10
  Sean McAllister: Patrick's Day.
• 42:11
  Sean McAllister: Wow, it is going to be nuts here in Las Vegas.
• 42:16
  Sean McAllister: The first day of the tournament, the first few days are always crazy.
• 42:19
  Sean McAllister: But add St.
• 42:20
  Sean McAllister: Patrick's Day into the mix, it's an event.
• 42:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, and I hope there's lots of Ubers ready to take people around.
• 42:28
  Dayna Roselli: And if not, people need to take advantage of walking or using the monorail.
• 42:33
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone play it safe that day.
• 42:34
  Dayna Roselli: I think there's gonna be a lot of drinking going on.
• 42:37
  Sean McAllister: And and save gas by not driving.
• 42:40
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 42:40
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 42:41
  Sean McAllister: But again, uh the Westgate is the place to be.
• 42:45
  Sean McAllister: They have uh Hoops Central.
• 42:47
  Sean McAllister: There's a page on the website of Westgate Las Vegas that's dedicated to Hoops Central that'll give you all the information.
• 42:54
  Sean McAllister: You can buy tickets to different days of the tournament.
• 42:57
  Sean McAllister: Um, it's gonna be a great time.
• 42:59
  Sean McAllister: If you're looking for a place to go, the Westgate has it down.
• 43:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that sports book is really great.
• 43:06
  Dayna Roselli: I was just recently uh there.
• 43:08
  Dayna Roselli: I had a little bite to eat with uh my friend Frank Marino and Alex, and we ate right there where you and I have gone before.
• 43:16
  Dayna Roselli: And it's just it's just a great, it's a great spot.
• 43:19
  Dayna Roselli: It's uh really unreal how large that sports book is.
• 43:22
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 43:23
  Sean McAllister: And again, you can go to WestgateResorts.com and you can find the page for Hoop Central and everything they've got going on over there.
• 43:31
  Sean McAllister: So that is the second tip of the week.
• 43:33
  Sean McAllister: We got Free Valet, we have Hoop Central.
• 43:37
  Sean McAllister: We got you covered.
• 43:38
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 43:39
  Dayna Roselli: That's a lot.
• 43:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's been an interesting podcast, I think.
• 43:42
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of information this week.
• 43:43
  Dayna Roselli: So we appreciate everyone that keeps stopping us and saying they listen to the podcast.
• 43:48
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like we're getting that more and more.
• 43:49
  Dayna Roselli: We love it.
• 43:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 43:50
  Dayna Roselli: I was shopping at Banana Republic, and and the cashier was like, Oh, I've listened to your podcast today.
• 43:55
  Dayna Roselli: I was leaving my building, and the people at the front desk were like, Hey, heard you talking about the Jonas brothers on the podcast.
• 44:01
  Dayna Roselli: And we've gotten a couple messages recently, you know, saying that they appreciate Sean's road rage.
• 44:07
  Dayna Roselli: Uh all sorts of stuff.
• 44:10
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you to all the listeners.
• 44:12
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• 44:14
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• 44:15
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• 44:19
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• 44:21
  Sean McAllister: And always feel free to send us an email or uh contact us on social media to let us know what you want to hear on Vegas Revealed too.
• 44:30
  Sean McAllister: If there's a a topic about Vegas that we haven't talked about that you want to know, let us know.
• 44:37
  Sean McAllister: We'll figure it out.
• 44:38
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 44:39
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna go down a glass of water and bring, you know, the consistency of the creamer, break it down a little bit and watch it.
• 44:45
  Dayna Roselli: Watch for contacts.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, watch your contacts.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my goodness.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_03: I see what you mean.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh have a great week, everyone.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_03: Let's do it.
• 45:04
  unknown: Let's go.