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Popular Fast Food Chain Coming to Las Vegas, New Poker Room on The Strip, Barry Manilow Announcement, Live Music | Ep. 232 · Vegas Revealed

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  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 232 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: A restaurant chain that's popular across the South is coming to Las Vegas for the first time.
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  Dayna Roselli: We reveal the details.
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  Sean McAllister: Barry Manilo continues his record-setting run of shows at the Westgate, and there are even more chances to see the iconic entertainer.
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  Dayna Roselli: We answer listener text messages, a bottle service deal that could be the best in the city, and live music off the strip where your favorite fans will be celebrated.
• 1:00
  Sean McAllister: All that and more right now on Vegas Reveal.
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• 1:11
  Sean McAllister: Welcome everyone to episode 232 of Vegas Revealed.
• 1:15
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister here along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:19
  Sean McAllister: And you know, it's funny, Dana, one of the most popular things that uh people respond and ask questions about is when a new fast food chain comes to town.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: It's like, you know, I'd like to think I have an impact in the world, but it's always like the one tweet that I never thought would go viral goes like crazy.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: Well, you are making an impact.
• 1:41
  Sean McAllister: Clearly, people want to know about this stuff.
• 1:44
  Sean McAllister: You put the information out and they're craving it, just like the food that they're hearing about.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 1:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you know, Twitter, X, whatever always has kind of like a different kind of audience.
• 1:53
  Dayna Roselli: Like things go into a world of response and retweets and all that kind of thing.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: Like something that you mentioned there just goes crazy.
• 2:04
  Dayna Roselli: But like if you were to do it anywhere else, it wouldn't.
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  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, yes, I tweeted that we are getting a Bojangles.
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: And apparently it's a big deal.
• 2:12
  Sean McAllister: I remember Bojangles when when we used to drive from Western New York as a kid, we would drive down to Florida to see my parents.
• 2:22
  Sean McAllister: We'd stay down there, or my grandparents.
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: Um, did I say parents or grandparents?
• 2:27
  Dayna Roselli: Grandparents.
• 2:28
  Sean McAllister: Grandparents.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: Um, and we would pass all these bojangles, but I've we never stopped and ate at one.
• 2:35
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
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  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know anything about it, but I agree.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: I think on my some of my trips down to Myrtle Beach and stuff, we passed Bojangles.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's a thing, and people are very excited that Bojangles is coming to Las Vegas, and they were like, where's it gonna be located?
• 2:48
  Dayna Roselli: And they just had a groundbreaking, and it's gonna be on the southeast corner of Blue Diamond and Rainbow in Las Vegas.
• 2:54
  Dayna Roselli: That's the very first one.
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  Dayna Roselli: And then there's another one planned.
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  Dayna Roselli: But get this there's actually 20 new Bojangle restaurants planned to come to Las Vegas.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's part of this big plan.
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  Dayna Roselli: And they're also gonna be putting them within travel centers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  Dayna Roselli: So it's like a whole thing.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it said the groundbreaking that they just had marked the first and a multi-unit development agreement to bring 20 new Bojangles restaurants to Las Vegas, as well as a development of restaurants within 10 travel centers of America franchise locations across Western markets.
• 3:30
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
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  Sean McAllister: And this is the first location that's west of Texas.
• 3:34
  Sean McAllister: So it's a big deal to have Bojangles expanding out here.
• 3:38
  Sean McAllister: And man, they are really going all in on Las Vegas, uh yeah, they really are.
• 3:44
  Dayna Roselli: It's expected to open the first one December of this year, so that's cool.
• 3:48
  Dayna Roselli: And then where did I say it was uh it was Charlotte where they originated?
• 3:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Charlotte, North Carolina.
• 3:54
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 3:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so you and I just went to the Instagram page to look around because I was like, well, people keep responding to this Bo Jangles post.
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  Sean McAllister: And it's entertaining.
• 4:03
  Sean McAllister: I've gotta say, they're their videos that they put up on Instagram, like the audio has nothing to do with the video.
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  Dayna Roselli: I know.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they're really creative, right?
• 4:12
  Sean McAllister: It's like some random audio clip of somebody talking.
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  Sean McAllister: I know.
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  Sean McAllister: And you have like frost icing getting drizzled over a biscuit.
• 4:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's very like it's weird, but it like it makes you laugh.
• 4:25
  Dayna Roselli: It does.
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  Dayna Roselli: And you can't stop watching.
• 4:27
  Dayna Roselli: But what was the one thing that I brought up that everyone keeps messaging me about?
• 4:31
  Sean McAllister: Oh bow biscuit or the bow berry biscuit.
• 4:34
  Sean McAllister: Bow berry biscuit.
• 4:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: So it looks like a blueberry or berry biscuit.
• 4:39
  Dayna Roselli: And it looks like they use that for like everything, even on like a sausage biscuit.
• 4:43
  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: Like they roll out different kinds of things.
• 4:46
  Dayna Roselli: They have like a mac and cheese, and then they say, like, oh, we're unveiling the buffalo mac and cheese this month or whatever.
• 4:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they have um these like it's almost like a chicken, I don't know, finger.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
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  Dayna Roselli: But in like a hot dog bun with pickles and their sauce over it, Bojangle sauce.
• 5:05
  Sean McAllister: The bird dog.
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  Dayna Roselli: The bird dog, that was it.
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
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  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited to try it.
• 5:11
  Dayna Roselli: People love their fast food restaurants and they love when they grew up on something.
• 5:15
  Dayna Roselli: We have so many people in Las Vegas that moved here from all over the country.
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  Dayna Roselli: So it makes sense that you know that's their their go-to.
• 5:22
  Dayna Roselli: So Bojangles coming to Las Vegas and then uh lots of other ones rolling out soon.
• 5:28
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it's funny, there was similar response when it was announced that Whataburger was going to be opening up a spot right there on Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 5:38
  Sean McAllister: And that place has been, I mean, that's been busy ever since they opened.
• 5:42
  Sean McAllister: But it is interesting how these chain restaurants have such a following and people go crazy for them.
• 5:50
  Sean McAllister: They do, they have favorites and I guess it would be the same thing if a friendlies opened up out here.
• 5:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's not necessarily fast food, but it's something that we know and love.
• 6:02
  Sean McAllister: And the ice cream, the friendlies ice cream is just great.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, or if like they open, I don't know.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: What did we have?
• 6:07
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I mean, we had like that's the thing.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if we had any anything that we had in the East Coast of upstate New York, I feel like is out here.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: It may be limited.
• 6:17
  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: Like there, like Wendy's was popular where we were.
• 6:20
  Sean McAllister: Wendy's, Taco Bell, yeah, McDonald's.
• 6:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, just kind of the regular stuff.
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  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't kind of have our thing.
• 6:26
  Sean McAllister: We didn't have a specialty thing.
• 6:28
  Sean McAllister: We had the garbage plate, but that wasn't like fast food.
• 6:32
  Dayna Roselli: No, that's just like unique to Rochester, New York.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: So hey, if you're into, I know people love uh places to go for breakfast.
• 6:39
  Dayna Roselli: And the Broken Yoke Cafe Cafe is opening another location.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: And let's see, when does this podcast roll out?
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: It should be opening, okay, Monday, August 12th.
• 6:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it'll be opening soon in downtown Las Vegas.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: And this location is at 201 South Las Vegas Boulevard, right there at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard in Carson.
• 6:58
  Dayna Roselli: But if you love a good breakfast spot, check out the Broken Yoke Cafe.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: And if you're in the downtown area, that's a good spot, especially if you're staying downtown in the Fremont area.
• 7:09
  Sean McAllister: And let me tell you, if you are a Vegas visitor, um, people who live here will know this, but if you're a Vegas visitor and you go off the strip just a little bit even to one of the to a breakfast place like Broken Yoke, I mean that you find them in strip malls, plazas, that kind of thing.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: And there is always a line of people waiting outside to get in.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: It almost doesn't matter what breakfast place it is, but I've never seen anything like that until I moved out here to Las Vegas.
• 7:42
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting.
• 7:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: People love their breakfast.
• 7:45
  Dayna Roselli: And I think like in Vegas, like you get up and then people are all in different coming from different time zones.
• 7:49
  Dayna Roselli: So sometimes they're like up early and ready to go.
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: Ready to like walk the strip and hit the casinos.
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  Dayna Roselli: And so they get their breakfast in early and they figure, oh, we can eat maybe a little cheaper in the morning, save our, you know, big dinner for later.
• 8:04
  Sean McAllister: Eat big.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: Skip lunch and then have a nice dinner.
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  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: And day drink.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: Day drink.
• 8:12
  Sean McAllister: Day drink.
• 8:12
  Sean McAllister: Let the pancakes sop up all your booze.
• 8:15
  Dayna Roselli: Oh man.
• 8:16
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I know people love their poker rooms too.
• 8:18
  Dayna Roselli: I always see a lot of chatter on social media about poker rooms.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: Does this place have a poker room?
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: This and that.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: And the Venetian is going to celebrate the opening of its expanded poker room in an all-new location.
• 8:32
  Dayna Roselli: It's on level two of the Grand Canal shops.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, why are poker rooms such a thing?
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: People love poker rooms.
• 8:40
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, is it because when you go to a casino that doesn't have just a poker room, then you're just playing amongst people and you want to play in a sp I I don't get it.
• 8:51
  Sean McAllister: Well, I I think what it is, I I mean, I don't fully uh understand it either, but I mean poker tables are uh popular.
• 8:59
  Sean McAllister: And on a traditional gaming floor, you have limited space for table games.
• 9:04
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, and so there's more than a game.
• 9:05
  Sean McAllister: And it's a it's a more it's a variety of different types of table games on the casino floor.
• 9:11
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
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  Sean McAllister: When you open up a poker room, I mean, uh that's where you can do you know, I assume they're probably gonna start doing some big poker tournaments over there too, if they have all of the space for these uh poker tables.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um yeah, because it is saying the poker room's gonna now feature 50 table games spread across 14,000 square feet of space, and this will make it the largest room on the strip.
• 9:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so I wouldn't be surprised if they start doing some big tournaments over there at the Venetian.
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: That's cool.
• 9:42
  Dayna Roselli: That's cool.
• 9:42
  Dayna Roselli: Well, good for the Venetian.
• 9:43
  Dayna Roselli: We just our last podcast talked about how we said it's their 25th anniversary, and they are going to continue to invest in that property, reinvest and expand and do new things.
• 9:54
  Dayna Roselli: And she mentioned the poker room.
• 9:55
  Dayna Roselli: So there you have it.
• 9:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, enjoy if you come to Las Vegas, go check out the Venetian poker room.
• 10:01
  Sean McAllister: And right next to the Venetian, attached to it, as a matter of fact, is the Sphere.
• 10:06
  Sean McAllister: And the New Year's Eve show that was announced over at Sphere uh is Anima.
• 10:13
  Sean McAllister: And this is a big EDM show, the first EDM artist to perform inside of the sphere, and they have just been adding more and more shows for that New Year's Eve weekend.
• 10:26
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 10:27
  Dayna Roselli: You and I mentioned last week, like, hey, there's uh like three shows now.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: There were like they announced one to begin with, and then we said if there are more, that's possible, and they just keep announcing more and more.
• 10:40
  Dayna Roselli: So now we've got December 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, New Year's Eve, and then New Year's Day, January 1.
• 10:48
  Sean McAllister: I mean, good for them.
• 10:50
  Sean McAllister: I really do think this is going to be uh a popular show that I mean could end up coming back periodically throughout the year.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 11:01
  Sean McAllister: It would be a huge success.
• 11:03
  Dayna Roselli: And I don't know if they'll announce more.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that seems like a lot because it's really around the whole New Year's Eve.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 11:09
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't know.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, if if they sell out again, maybe they'll go January too.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: Because I don't even know.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: Let's see, and I always feel like it depends on if um New Year's Eve, like what day it lands on, you know?
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: Like this year.
• 11:21
  Dayna Roselli: So we've got New Year's Eve is on a Tuesday.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: Oh okay.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: So then we've got, let's see, 27th is a Friday, 28th, Saturday, perfect, 29th, Sunday, 30th, Monday, 31st is New Year's Eve, January 1.
• 11:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it might be weird to have a Tuesday night show on the second, but maybe not.
• 11:39
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 11:39
  Dayna Roselli: It depends if everyone's like back to work or taking the week or whatever.
• 11:42
  Sean McAllister: I mean, you may as well just do Friday to Friday in Vegas.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: So they could add more.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 11:48
  Dayna Roselli: But hey, if you want to go check it out, um, it sounds like it's gonna be really fun.
• 11:51
  Dayna Roselli: Tickets are on sale now.
• 11:53
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know how fast they're gonna sell out, but anima, the end of Genesis, uh presented by Afterlife coming to Sphere.
• 12:01
  Sean McAllister: And uh speaking of the Sphere, uh during the Olympic opening ceremonies, uh, they put highlights of the opening ceremony up on the exosphere.
• 12:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 12:12
  Sean McAllister: Which uh it's just so it's been so interesting to see how people are using the sphere.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 12:21
  Sean McAllister: And programming the space on the outside.
• 12:24
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's like, you know, it's it's interesting because it's like no one's gonna sit there and watch it, pull out a lawn chair, and I mean you could.
• 12:32
  Sean McAllister: I mean, you could if you wanted to.
• 12:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, but it's a great, I think, reminder.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: Like you're flying in, you're driving by, and you're like, oh, the Olympic opening ceremonies, I missed it, or oh, look, there's so-and-so performing, or oh wow, look at Team USA.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I mean, I feel like it's great advertising.
• 12:52
  Sean McAllister: It absolutely is.
• 12:53
  Dayna Roselli: Really what, you know, but it's also entertaining, and it's like, oh, how cool.
• 12:58
  Dayna Roselli: And remember, they do have a live stream now on the sphere website, so you can watch it at any time if you want to check it out and just watch from home.
• 13:06
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I think something as globally visible as the Olympics, that's like a perfect thing to put up on the sphere since so many eyes from around the world are constantly checking in to see what's happening there.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: Or visiting Las Vegas, right?
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: You know, people from all over, too.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, it's just so cool how they're using the sphere.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: And I love all these new things they're announcing.
• 13:28
  Dayna Roselli: The Eagles keep extending shows too.
• 13:31
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, you know, um, so they're they're the next kind of like uh, I guess residency-ish show that'll be be here.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: So um let's give an update on the drop.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: Now we mentioned this update already in the episode we did about the Mirage closing.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: We kind of tied it in with that, but we did get a text message, fan mail.
• 13:51
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, you can always text us.
• 13:53
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, um it's super easy.
• 13:56
  Sean McAllister: One click.
• 13:57
  Dayna Roselli: One click.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: Just go down to our show notes, click the link.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: It's right up there at the top of the show notes.
• 14:02
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 14:02
  Sean McAllister: And it'll open up the text, and you can just shoot us whatever's on your mind.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, whatever's on your mind.
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: We're there for you.
• 14:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we do get these little messages, uh fan messages, and one's from Arlington, Virginia, and they say, Hi there, have you heard the date for the implosion of the Tropicana?
• 14:18
  Dayna Roselli: I definitely want to be there.
• 14:19
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: And remember, we can't text you back, and it only gives the last four digits of your phone number.
• 14:25
  Dayna Roselli: So um, if you do have a name and you want to put your name in or whatever.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, um, we did mention that.
• 14:32
  Dayna Roselli: We don't have the exact date though.
• 14:34
  Sean McAllister: We don't have the exact date.
• 14:36
  Sean McAllister: According to the permits that have been uh put in for demolition for an implosion, uh, it could happen anywhere from I believe it's September 29th through uh like the first week of October through October 8th.
• 14:52
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: So uh that's the window that we're kind of looking at.
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: That could change.
• 14:58
  Sean McAllister: We have not gotten an exact date within that window yet.
• 15:02
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 15:02
  Sean McAllister: Um, but uh it is very likely it's going to happen in the first week of October.
• 15:09
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 15:09
  Dayna Roselli: So if you're coming in from Arlington, plan that week right now.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: Yes, absolutely right now.
• 15:17
  Sean McAllister: Um, but after we got that text message, we were like, oh, we should probably head over there and just do a drive-by, see what the situation is.
• 15:25
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 15:26
  Sean McAllister: Um, and we did get some uh new video that we'll uh throw up on our social media.
• 15:32
  Sean McAllister: Um, the construction walls are all up around the entire property.
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: The ground level buildings are pretty much they've already met the wrecking ball.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 15:42
  Sean McAllister: And I mean the the hotel towers are just skeletons at this point.
• 15:49
  Sean McAllister: They don't even have any walls.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: It's just a frame.
• 15:53
  Sean McAllister: Just the frame of frame of a building.
• 15:55
  Dayna Roselli: And that's definitely what they do, is they prepare for an implosion.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: So you know, it's what it usually looks like.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: They kind of gut it like that.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: So so yeah, um, we'll put that up for you to see.
• 16:05
  Dayna Roselli: We put it in one of our TV shows recently, and and you know, it's interesting to see it kind of come down and start to get ready, get gutted, is if that's a phrase and ready for implosion in the fall.
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, Barry Manilo added shows over at the Westgate.
• 16:23
  Dayna Roselli: Man, he just keeps rolling them out.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: I love this.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: Barry Manilo has signed on for 2025 and he is committed, Sean.
• 16:31
  Dayna Roselli: He's back this September, has shows like all the way through December.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: Then he's back in 2025 for a slew of months.
• 16:39
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he has tons of shows on sale right now.
• 16:42
  Dayna Roselli: We love it.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: Barry has one of the longest running Las Vegas residencies.
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: He's popped around to different places, but um, you know, the longest kind of run as a solo, you know, as an artist, a singer, performer.
• 16:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so he'll be over at the Westgate, continuing on his shows there.
• 17:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great theater, it's a great spot for him.
• 17:03
  Dayna Roselli: And uh look forward to having Barry continue on.
• 17:06
  Sean McAllister: And you know what I absolutely what's great about Barry Manilo, he has been, as you mentioned, a headliner here in Las Vegas for so long.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: Uh, he's donated musical instruments, like truckloads of musical instruments to different uh school music programs around Las Vegas over the years.
• 17:26
  Sean McAllister: So he's done great at giving back.
• 17:28
  Sean McAllister: But I think what a lot of people don't realize about Barry Manilo, obviously he has his hit songs like Copa Cabana, uh Mandy.
• 17:37
  Sean McAllister: And but he's responsible for some of the best known commercial jingles as well, right?
• 17:44
  Sean McAllister: Like the State Farm commercial, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: That's Barry Manila.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and the band-aid one, right?
• 17:52
  Sean McAllister: Yes, I'm stuck on Band-Aid, because Band-Aid's stuck on me.
• 17:56
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of times, if um when I've interviewed him in the past, he always kind of does that for you.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: He does a little jingle on the piano, and you know, he he's proud of that.
• 18:04
  Sean McAllister: And is as he should be.
• 18:06
  Sean McAllister: That's part of like as people are listening to this, I'm sure that like it's gonna get stuck in your head.
• 18:12
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 18:12
  Sean McAllister: He also did uh finger licking good day for KFC, right?
• 18:17
  Sean McAllister: So he's done, he did a Stridex commercial, Give Your Face Something to Smile About.
• 18:22
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my goodness.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: I love it.
• 18:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's so good.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: He also did the the American bandstand theme song.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: Bandstand, bandstand, that one.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: We're going uh hopping, we're going hopping.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: That one.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: Uh hopping to nut.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he did that too.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: I have it in my phone, actually, because I needed it for something.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: And I every now and then it comes up if I'm on shuffle.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: I I just think that that speaks though to his talent that he's able to come up with that kind of music that really does stick with you because that's the point of these commercial jingles is to get stuck in your head.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: So that when you think, oh, I have a cut, I need a bandage.
• 19:02
  Sean McAllister: Well, I'm having band-aid.
• 19:03
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 19:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and then like parents can sing it to their kids and it's not so bad.
• 19:07
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 19:08
  Dayna Roselli: But how does it go at the beginning of the band-aid song?
• 19:11
  Dayna Roselli: But stuck on band aid and band-aid stuck on me.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: Me.
• 19:16
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, on me.
• 19:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's cute.
• 19:18
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 19:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we are definitely not the vocalists for the band-aid song.
• 19:22
  Sean McAllister: We are not, but we are fan-alos.
• 19:24
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Barry's here in 2025.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: We love it.
• 19:27
  Dayna Roselli: His show's great.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: I saw it over at Paris.
• 19:29
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't seen it at Westgate, and you and I said we got to get over and see him this run when he comes back in September.
• 19:34
  Sean McAllister: And just another side note on Westgate, um, they have some good restaurants over there.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, they do.
• 19:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 19:39
  Sean McAllister: Benny Hanna is terrific.
• 19:41
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 19:41
  Sean McAllister: Their steakhouse over there is great.
• 19:44
  Sean McAllister: It's a classic property.
• 19:46
  Sean McAllister: Um which, if you're not staying, if you're staying on the strip, you don't, it's not in eyesight per se.
• 19:54
  Sean McAllister: So you might not think about it, but it's worth going over there.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, as football season starts, it's got one of the best sports books, largest sports books, really cool to go over there and spend uh Sunday or whatever you want in get that experience.
• 20:07
  Dayna Roselli: Because it's like an old school sports book, but modern too.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: It's a little bit everything.
• 20:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: And they got a little uh, what do you call it?
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: You know, food spot in there with different foods.
• 20:16
  Dayna Roselli: Like a diner kind of sports bar.
• 20:21
  Dayna Roselli: A couple different places.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we're not really good at describing that.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: Basically, there's like three counters and you can choose different things.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: Don't they have like a salads and tacos and another thing?
• 20:30
  Sean McAllister: There are different options, yes.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, you'd think that I'd be a better platinum card holder over there.
• 20:35
  Dayna Roselli: I live near there, so I'm a platinum card holder.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: So Sean and I, I signed you up and added you on.
• 20:40
  Dayna Roselli: And what do we get?
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: 25% off of the restaurants?
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:43
  Sean McAllister: So it's worth it to get that tier level.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: We just don't look at the name when we get it of the place or what they have.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: We just go order what we want.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, play playground.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we covered this in our television show, and we thought, you know, we haven't talked about it much here on the audio podcast.
• 21:00
  Dayna Roselli: And this is a cool new attraction in Las Vegas.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: I say new, it's newer.
• 21:04
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 21:04
  Sean McAllister: It opened recently over inside uh Luxor.
• 21:08
  Sean McAllister: It's up on the second atrium level.
• 21:12
  Sean McAllister: Um, that's where the food court is.
• 21:14
  Sean McAllister: That's where uh some of the other showrooms, Particle Inc.
• 21:18
  Sean McAllister: is up there.
• 21:19
  Sean McAllister: Um and Play Playground is literally for adults only.
• 21:26
  Sean McAllister: It's a place designed to make you feel like a kid again.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: And they have a couple bars in there, but it's all these interactive games and like life size activities operation game, like the game we used to play when we were kids, or what you jump up and in the Velcro wall and you attach, right?
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you put on the Velcro suit, jump on the trampoline, and stick to the wall, and then you go down the slide and all that.
• 21:54
  Dayna Roselli: But it is for 21 and over.
• 21:57
  Dayna Roselli: And like you said, there's a bar and in curated dress.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: So we went over and talked to Morgan Turkin to find out more and had him explain what a unique Las Vegas experience this is.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're definitely the most playful bar in Vegas, that's for sure.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Play Playground is a 15,000 square foot fully immersive hands-on experience with over 20 games and attractions.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: We are 21 and over.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: At the end of the day, it's definitely more fun for adults to be able to come here and act like children rather than have to watch children.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: You know, on our weekends, we even have DJs now, and we've kind of become a kind of nightlife alternative for people that are looking for more than like your typical nightclub experience.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: We are busier at night typically than during the day.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: So it gives you kind of a little bit of a nightlife feel, but a very casual feel.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: We try to get people to start with our slide, uh, just because it's one of those things that, especially as adults, it's probably been a while since we've been on a slide.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: So it just instantly puts a smile on your face and kind of gets you ready for the space.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, we have amazing drinks and cocktails at the bar that you can top with along the way.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: But you could really spend three or four hours here, you know, uh throughout the experience and really getting to enjoy everything.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: There's really no skill set that can't enjoy the space.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_00: Does not matter how tall you are, doesn't matter how strong you are, or even age.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_00: Grandma can even come, yeah, a whole couple generations can come.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: So we're the only venue that we don't have any VR arcade.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's not our focus.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_00: Our first focus is all hands-on interaction, which really sets us apart pretty much from anybody else.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: The last you know couple generations have been so computer focused that people miss that and long for it.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: And we've given them the ability to come come here and experience that again and feel like feel like a kid again.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: The reactions are amazing, and and listening to adults act like children again and just genuinely be happy has been incredible.
• 23:50
  Sean McAllister: It really is a cool place.
• 23:53
  Sean McAllister: Play playground over at Luxor.
• 23:56
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they open at noon every day.
• 23:58
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they're open noon to midnight, Sunday through Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
• 24:04
  Sean McAllister: They're open until 2 a.m.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: Wow, 2 a.m.
• 24:06
  Sean McAllister: That's cool.
• 24:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: Go in there and play and enjoy it.
• 24:10
  Sean McAllister: Late night.
• 24:11
  Sean McAllister: Love it.
• 24:11
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips.
• 24:15
  Dayna Roselli: In tips this week, we want to hit some live music off the strip.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: We have an Arizona Charlie's on Decatur Boulevard.
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: And then we also have an Arizona Charlie's Boulder, which is on Boulder Highway.
• 24:29
  Dayna Roselli: And both of them have lounges that have live music.
• 24:33
  Dayna Roselli: One, uh, the Boulder Highway one has the Palace Grand Lounge, and then Arizona Charlie's Decatur has the coverall lounge.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: And here's what's cool about the live music that they do over there, Sean.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: Because you know how sometimes you just want to go hear songs you know.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, stuff that you can kind of sing along to a little bit.
• 24:51
  Dayna Roselli: Cover songs, right?
• 24:52
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, new music's great, original stuff is great, but sometimes you're just kind of like, I want to go, you know, listen and dance to some of the songs that I know.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: Well, they have great cover bands that perform at these lounges, and it's continuous.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: They have a whole lineup through August and uh really good stuff.
• 25:14
  Dayna Roselli: Like there's a Lady Winehouse that's gonna be over at the uh Decatur location, and um then there is what was the other one?
• 25:28
  Sean McAllister: I like the Heart Benatar.
• 25:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, Heart Benetar, which is Heart's greatest hits and Pat Benatar's best shots.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: Bandaba, which is ABBA's biggest hits, bandaba.
• 25:41
  Dayna Roselli: Say that five times fast, even write in the press release.
• 25:45
  Sean McAllister: Um Sweet Home Alabama, yeah, Leonard Skinner cover band.
• 25:50
  Sean McAllister: Uh I mean, there's some really good stuff.
• 25:52
  Dayna Roselli: And then they have like a band called like uh In In Effect, which is uh crowd faves from Yacht Rock all the way from Yacht Rock to Bruno Mars.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, so anyway, they have tons of great bands at these locations, and like they have a band called Front Page that performs at the Boulder Highway location, and it's just the biggest top 40 tunes from cover to cover.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: So you know you're gonna know the songs, and so I love this as an option.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, go check them out if you're looking for just a fun lounge feel, songs you know, live music, Arizona Char lace could be an option for you.
• 26:26
  Sean McAllister: Okay, at the top of the show, Dana, we mentioned what could possibly be the best bottle service deal in Las Vegas.
• 26:35
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 26:36
  Sean McAllister: And the reason we found it is because we were looking through the Vegas Near Me app and it was on their page of deals.
• 26:43
  Sean McAllister: This one is at Crazy Horse 3.
• 26:46
  Sean McAllister: So it is uh an adult club.
• 26:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 26:50
  Sean McAllister: Um which a lot of our listeners like, which is a lot of people like it.
• 26:54
  Sean McAllister: Um but the deal is incredible.
• 26:58
  Sean McAllister: It's$99 bottles, free entry to the club, and a free ride to the club.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Wow.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: To the club.
• 27:08
  Sean McAllister: To the club.
• 27:09
  Sean McAllister: To the club.
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: Transportation.
• 27:12
  Dayna Roselli: It's not a free ride.
• 27:14
  Sean McAllister: Transportation.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: Crazy Horse 3 is right near a Legion Stadium, actually.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's a gentleman's club.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: But, you know, it's a lot of fun if you're looking for a night out and you're visiting Vegas and uh Yesin City, you know, this is a deal.
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, we um obviously Vegas Near Me is a sponsor of the audio podcast.
• 27:35
  Dayna Roselli: So we always look to kind of update our um promos for them.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: And as we were doing that, we're like, God, they're really adding a lot of deals.
• 27:43
  Dayna Roselli: And that really stuck out to us as like, you know what?
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good deal if you're coming into town and you're looking for that Vegas only kind of night.
• 27:50
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 27:51
  Sean McAllister: And you're not gonna find a$99 bottle service really anywhere else.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: No, that's a great deal.
• 27:58
  Dayna Roselli: They have the go-car tours as well, um, sightseeing adventure tours, they have deals in there.
• 28:03
  Dayna Roselli: They have notoriety downtown, which is like a concert venue showroom.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: They have buy one, get one free beer and well drinks, 50% off any show except Lunel over at Jimmy Kimmel's Comedy Club.
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: They have uh buy one, get one free drinks at the composer's showroom.
• 28:21
  Sean McAllister: That's great.
• 28:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Dayna Roselli: 50% off stars of comedy shows.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: That is Harris Showroom, yeah.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: They've launched this new stars of comedy.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: And I want to say Carlos Mencia is gonna be doing a show over there with that.
• 28:34
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, um, but lots of deals.
• 28:36
  Dayna Roselli: What you do is log on to the Vegas Near Me app, and then at the bottom you will see a little button that says, what does it say?
• 28:44
  Sean McAllister: It says deals.
• 28:45
  Sean McAllister: Deals.
• 28:46
  Sean McAllister: It's right there on the front page.
• 28:47
  Sean McAllister: It's a little purple circle with a little fire.
• 28:50
  Sean McAllister: Fire emoji because they're hot deals.
• 28:52
  Dayna Roselli: Hot deals.
• 28:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so click on the deals.
• 28:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, check that out.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: Thanks so much for joining us this week.
• 28:58
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• 29:12
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• 29:15
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• 29:16
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• 29:18
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• 29:20
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• 29:28
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• 29:28
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• 29:32
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• 29:36
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• 29:41
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• 29:44
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• 29:48
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• 30:06
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• 30:07
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• 30:09
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• 30:11
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