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Las Vegas Raiders Hire New President, Curfew Discussed for Fremont Street Experience, New Hotel Casino Coming to Las Vegas Blvd. | Ep. 125 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 125.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: The Las Vegas Raiders make history with the team's new president, and Vegas Revealed is there on her first day with the NFL team.
• 0:12
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, we bar hop on Brewery Row and a new hotel on the strip that promises to be a dream.
• 0:18
  Sean McAllister: Then we have Liftoff, the sky high attraction with an intoxicating twist.
• 0:25
  Sean McAllister: We have a lot to get to today.
• 0:26
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get to it and spin that wheel.
• 0:35
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 125.
• 0:39
  Sean McAllister: So we're doing this episode a little bit different today, Dana.
• 0:43
  Dayna Roselli: We are, because I'm like, we don't have a lot of time to record this.
• 0:46
  Dayna Roselli: We don't have a lot of time to edit it.
• 0:47
  Dayna Roselli: We have meetings tomorrow and big stuff going on.
• 0:50
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like, let's just record it and not even think about editing it.
• 0:54
  Dayna Roselli: Let's just do it raw.
• 0:55
  Dayna Roselli: Now we don't usually do tons of editing.
• 0:57
  Sean McAllister: It's minimal.
• 0:58
  Sean McAllister: It's minimal.
• 0:58
  Sean McAllister: But just taking out some ums when we need to stop for a uh drink of water to wet our palates.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: Or mistakes.
• 1:07
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, ah, I don't think that was right.
• 1:08
  Dayna Roselli: Let me research that again and make sure, you know, things like that.
• 1:11
  Dayna Roselli: So, but we're not doing that today.
• 1:13
  Dayna Roselli: We're going for it.
• 1:14
  Sean McAllister: We're blasting straight through.
• 1:15
  Dayna Roselli: We've had a busy, busy day.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: We just left the uh press conference at Allegiant Stadium that announced the Raiders' new president, and it was exciting because it's the first female African-American president of a team in the NFL, apparently ever.
• 1:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, it's a big deal, not only for the Las Vegas Raiders, but the entire National Football League and pro sports for that matter.
• 1:42
  Sean McAllister: Um, but Sandra Douglas Morgan, she is a lifelong Las Vegan.
• 1:48
  Sean McAllister: She went to preschool here.
• 1:50
  Sean McAllister: She's uh an attorney.
• 1:53
  Sean McAllister: She has uh served on several boards, the uh Nevada Athletic Commission.
• 1:59
  Sean McAllister: She has served on the gaming control board.
• 2:02
  Sean McAllister: Uh she's been a uh an appointee by our governor.
• 2:07
  Sean McAllister: So she, I mean, she's got some pretty legit credentials.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 2:12
  Dayna Roselli: And a longtime attorney, and also she was apparently on the, she was like the vice president chair, or maybe it was vice chair of the I'm not gonna edit that, Sean.
• 2:22
  Dayna Roselli: Normally I'd go back and Google that, but she was one of the chairs on the 2024 uh Super Bowl committee for Las Vegas, you know, when they were researching of how we could bring the Super Bowl here.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the host committee.
• 2:34
  Sean McAllister: So she was instrumental in making sure that the Super Bowl was coming to Las Vegas in 2024.
• 2:42
  Sean McAllister: So I mean, to have her as the team president for the Las Vegas Raiders when the Super Bowl does come here in 2024, that's kind of a full circle moment for her.
• 2:54
  Sean McAllister: What a I imagine it's one of many, you know, momentous full circle moments that that she'll be experiencing.
• 3:01
  Sean McAllister: But congratulations.
• 3:03
  Dayna Roselli: And she said her husband played in the NFL for a long time.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: She wouldn't say the teams.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's in the press release, but I she was uh I just thought it was a cute moment.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: She said, let's not talk about the other teams.
• 3:11
  Dayna Roselli: We're here to talk about the Raiders.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: So I thought that was nice.
• 3:14
  Dayna Roselli: Uh they did take some questions from the media while we were there at the press conference at Allegiance Stadium, and you had a question that you threw out.
• 3:23
  Sean McAllister: Hi, Sandra.
• 3:23
  Sean McAllister: It's Sean McAllister with uh Vegas Revealed.
• 3:26
  Sean McAllister: First of all, congratulations.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh secondly, what is your playbook for strengthening the ties with the Las Vegas community?
• 3:36
  Sean McAllister: Do you have specific plans right now?
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I am really walking into an organization that has international brand recognition and it's been respected in sports and outside of sports.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: And so it's not like I'm coming in with a difficult, uh difficult position.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: I get I'm honored that I was given this opportunity.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_02: So anything I can do to continue to keep and raise the bar, that's what I'm going to do.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: So I do I don't have a necessary playlist, but if I did, I probably wouldn't share it with you right now.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um but definitely just strengthening those relationships and making sure that we continue to grow the fan base of Raider Nation.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's my um number one priority.
• 4:09
  Sean McAllister: So yeah, leading up to uh you know the moment when I asked that question, uh Sandra Douglas Morgan was talking about how one of her priorities was going to be strengthening bonds with the Las Vegas community.
• 4:26
  Sean McAllister: And so, you know, uh obviously she has roots that run deep here.
• 4:31
  Sean McAllister: I have no doubt in my mind that she'll be successful in all of her endeavors with the team.
• 4:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and she kept saying, I have big plans, but it it is hard when somebody says, Well, what's your plan?
• 4:41
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's like, well, uh, there's a lot of work to do, and I have a plan, but if you have like three hours, we could run down the list, but I'm sure she has like a long agenda of things she wants to do.
• 4:52
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I thought it was funny too when she said to me, she was like, even if I did have a whole plan for you today, I wouldn't tell you.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 4:58
  Sean McAllister: I was like, all right, fair enough, fair enough.
• 5:01
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the Raiders have gone through a lot of changes uh in the organization over the last, you know, two, three years.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: First moving here, uh, we've had some players that have, you know, been moved around, some that got in a little bit of trouble outside of playing on their own personal time.
• 5:17
  Dayna Roselli: And so um obviously the the president that we interviewed before she was president uh stepped down.
• 5:24
  Dayna Roselli: There's just been a lot of movement.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: The coach was let go.
• 5:27
  Dayna Roselli: So we have a lot of new team members coming.
• 5:30
  Dayna Roselli: So I think it's gonna be great to have some new leadership.
• 5:33
  Sean McAllister: There is, and uh I think that this'll be, you know, Sandra Douglas Morgan.
• 5:38
  Sean McAllister: Um, that's a name that you're going to be hearing a lot, and I'm sure that she's going to be very visible, not only with the Raiders, but on the national level, uh, because the NFL has had some, you know, challenges with the internal workings of other teams in the league.
• 5:56
  Sean McAllister: And I I think that the the league is working through those things, and I have a feeling that our Las Vegas team president is going to be instrumental in a lot of things that that help shape what the NFL is going to be moving forward.
• 6:12
  Sean McAllister: So it was cool to be there inside Allegiance Stadium as the Las Vegas Raiders' new team president was uh unveiled.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and summer practice kips kicks up uh soon, so it's gonna be football season before we know it.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: Well, another woman leader in Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, our mayor, had something to say about Fremont Street.
• 6:36
  Dayna Roselli: Uh she kind of, I guess, organized a somewhat of an emergency meeting and uh gathered everyone together because there have been a few incidents on uh Fremont Street at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas, two recent shootings there, and I think she just wanted to get everyone together to nip this in the bud and talk about safety.
• 6:56
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently, she held this with a lot of different uh organizations and she had Metro there, that's our police department, and they needed to meet about what they can do to change things there.
• 7:10
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's one of those things where it's a super fun place to be, it is a little chaotic, and you see a lot of interesting and sometimes crazy things going on.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: Is that part of the experience?
• 7:21
  Dayna Roselli: But when it comes to now, you know, like we're uh safety, there needs to be a change.
• 7:27
  Sean McAllister: There does.
• 7:28
  Sean McAllister: And so uh Mayor Goodman met with a lot of the business owners down there, heads of the casinos, people who are really instrumental in making Fremont Street tick.
• 7:39
  Sean McAllister: They all got together.
• 7:40
  Sean McAllister: Um, and uh apparently out of this meeting came a proposal uh to raise the age of who will be allowed on Fremont Street to 21.
• 7:54
  Sean McAllister: And I believe that this is after a certain time.
• 7:57
  Sean McAllister: I think that there's a curfew for people who are under 21.
• 8:01
  Sean McAllister: So after a certain time of uh at night, it would be 21 and over.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 8:07
  Sean McAllister: Which is something that has worked in years past when they've had New Year's Eve uh festivities.
• 8:14
  Sean McAllister: You have to be 21 to get in.
• 8:16
  Sean McAllister: There have been other events held down on Fremont Street that have been 21 and over.
• 8:21
  Sean McAllister: So it it's definitely possible.
• 8:24
  Sean McAllister: They know how to make it work.
• 8:27
  Sean McAllister: They, you know, shut off the the side entrances, the main entrance, and you know, create you know, kind of channels for people to filter through where IDs are checked, and sometimes even, you know, metal detectors and and safety screenings to make sure that everybody getting in is you know weapon-free and all that.
• 8:48
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there's just so much going on, I think, around the world that too it's it's cause for consideration because we need to be proactive, right?
• 8:56
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, obviously there are has already been two shootings, but now we need to do something about it.
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: So um, you know, and I think sometimes, listen, I it's hard to you don't ever wanna say negative things about downtown Las Vegas when it comes to the experience that you can get.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: Like we said, it is fun, it is part of it.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: It's you know, it is there's crowds, you know, it's there's street performers that you know I'm just gonna say it are a little shady where you look at them and you go, I don't know, like but that's part of it.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: But it but there are a lot of things that still need to be improved, is my point.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: I do hear it over and over.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes people feel like, you know, some of the parking areas, even parking, like I don't mind paying at all, but that whole like type in your license plate, and you're standing at this parking meter, sometimes on like a road that isn't very busy, and I feel like you're looking around, it's kind of dimly lit.
• 9:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it's like you're punching in this, you're getting out your card, you're all this for like, you know, an hour, you know, meeting of drinks with with a friend, and and you're paying a dollar twenty-five or dollar, you know, which the price hasn't even had anything to do with it.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's just the experience of it.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: But that whole situation needs to be improved.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I'm glad that the mayor's on it and uh realize this, you know, everyone needs to come together and figure this out.
• 10:16
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, downtown uh on and off of Fremont Street, there are a couple resorts that have uh gone to be 21 and over.
• 10:26
  Sean McAllister: Circa Resort opened with a policy of being 21 and older.
• 10:31
  Sean McAllister: Uh and now I recently read that the El Cortez is 21 and older.
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, it could be something where people are trying to change their business model to encourage an older crowd because it I'm just gonna be honest, it is not really a place where you need to be pushing a toddler around in a stroller.
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 10:52
  Sean McAllister: No, it really is not.
• 10:54
  Dayna Roselli: And listen, Circa's hardcore on letting you in.
• 10:56
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta have that license.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: I was with my friend that is 50, and they would not let him in without he had lost his license the pre-prior week and ordered the new one.
• 11:06
  Dayna Roselli: But finally, like finally, we went into the email, got the letter that was the interim and the photo.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, but they were hardcore.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: It was like you have to have that license to get into that 21 and over casino.
• 11:17
  Dayna Roselli: Friend of mine in town with his kids didn't know it was 21 and over, tried to go check out Circa, they wouldn't let him in.
• 11:23
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean they're they're strict.
• 11:25
  Sean McAllister: Total side note, a tangent.
• 11:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh just speaking of that, I took my sister when she was in town uh down to the link, and we had lunch at Gordon Ramsay Fish and Chips.
• 11:35
  Sean McAllister: We got to the counter, I ordered a beer, and the kid looked at me, he was like, Are you old enough to drink?
• 11:43
  Sean McAllister: I was like, Yes, I'm definitely over 21.
• 11:45
  Sean McAllister: He was like, Well, I'm gonna need to see your ID.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: Good.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: I was like, uh, all right.
• 11:49
  Sean McAllister: All right, good on you for keeping things by the book.
• 11:53
  Sean McAllister: Love it, love it, love it.
• 11:55
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, um, speaking of downtown Las Vegas, just I mean, I always say Main Street, it's considered downtown, but it's not in the heart near Fremont Street.
• 12:03
  Dayna Roselli: Main Street is kind of our area that's south of what Charleston Boulevard.
• 12:07
  Dayna Roselli: If you're familiar with Las Vegas, if you're living outside of Las Vegas, you might not know where that is, but it kind of separates it's kind of the area between the stratosphere and let's say the plaza hotel.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: Right, yeah.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: There's a a chunk in there, kind of right in the middle, that is the arts district.
• 12:26
  Sean McAllister: Arts district, yeah.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: They have brewery row.
• 12:29
  Dayna Roselli: We've talked about it before.
• 12:30
  Dayna Roselli: Sean's sister was in town, and we thought of okay, what could we do like to where we could catch up and also do something that would be kind of fun that we haven't done.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: So we did like a brewery hop, and that was fun.
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 12:41
  Dayna Roselli: I loved it.
• 12:41
  Dayna Roselli: And I didn't, you know, even trying the food, like we ordered pizza at what was it, Nevada Brewery?
• 12:47
  Sean McAllister: Nevada, yeah.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: Nevada brewing.
• 12:49
  Dayna Roselli: See, this is where we go, folks.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not gonna edit this.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna take a moment and go back to the post that I made to make sure that I get because I also like to get the names of the places absolutely correct.
• 13:00
  Sean McAllister: And while you're looking that up, we started at uh the uh atomic duck.
• 13:07
  Dayna Roselli: Mm-hmm.
• 13:08
  Dayna Roselli: I did that behind the scenes for Vegas On once.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 13:11
  Dayna Roselli: And that that one that was where you guys started.
• 13:13
  Sean McAllister: And that was so I mean, there were a lot of people in there.
• 13:15
  Sean McAllister: This was on a weeknight, and you know, it was after happy hour time, but there was a good crowd in there.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, there was.
• 13:22
  Dayna Roselli: And that's why even I suggested way back, like, we gotta go do that.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: Because I was like, this looks like a fun crowd, you know.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: And and also kind of casual and whatever.
• 13:29
  Dayna Roselli: So we we went there first, and you guys had the flight of beer, which was cool.
• 13:33
  Dayna Roselli: We after that we went to Nevada Brew Works.
• 13:36
  Dayna Roselli: I looked it up.
• 13:37
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, they had fabulous pizza that we ordered.
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: That was good, right?
• 13:40
  Dayna Roselli: It was really thin.
• 13:42
  Sean McAllister: It really was.
• 13:42
  Dayna Roselli: I like the one with the pepperoni and sausage one, it was delicious.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: And the pepperonis were the ones that curled up.
• 13:48
  Sean McAllister: They were, I know, and they get crispy around the edges.
• 13:51
  Sean McAllister: I love those little crispy pepperonis.
• 13:54
  Sean McAllister: They're so good.
• 13:55
  Sean McAllister: By the way, uh, it's not atomic duck brewery, it's Abel Baker Brewing.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, there's ducks around there.
• 14:02
  Sean McAllister: But Atomic Duck is one of their beers.
• 14:05
  Dayna Roselli: We are such a for like a over 40 podcast.
• 14:09
  Dayna Roselli: We're kind of like when you have that conversation, you know, what's her name?
• 14:13
  Dayna Roselli: Like, we know because we were there.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: Or, you know, the the guy in the in the movie, you know, the one, the the guy, the guy who always dances, you know, what's his name?
• 14:24
  Sean McAllister: Well, this is what you get raw and uncut with Dana and Sean.
• 14:29
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so where were you?
• 14:32
  Sean McAllister: Uh at Abel Baker Brewing.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: Got it.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: And then we went to Nevada Brewworks.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: And then after that, we went to another one.
• 14:40
  Dayna Roselli: I can't think of the name.
• 14:41
  Dayna Roselli: It was across from Esther's kitchen, though.
• 14:43
  Dayna Roselli: And it was kind of a little different.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: It was a little bit more modern in there.
• 14:46
  Dayna Roselli: They had like a tasting room.
• 14:47
  Sean McAllister: Craft House, I believe, is what it was.
• 14:50
  Sean McAllister: And it's a tasting room for a brewery that's over in Henderson.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: There's a little district of brewing over there.
• 14:57
  Sean McAllister: And the only reason that I made that connection is because they had uh like brown uh jugs that you can you know load up, growlers that you can buy and take beer home.
• 15:09
  Sean McAllister: Um, and we had bought those during the pandemic.
• 15:14
  Sean McAllister: You could pull up to the brewery over in Henderson and take those away.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: So anyway, they have a tasting room downtown.
• 15:20
  Sean McAllister: We stopped there too.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: I am hysterical over this whole thing because during this, my phone's blowing up with text for work stuff, and I'm like trying to ignore it.
• 15:32
  Dayna Roselli: Where normally I'd be like, hold on, I need to answer this, but we're not, so I'm laughing.
• 15:37
  Sean McAllister: And and I have a feeling Dana's getting a little anxiety over it because it responds to emails and text messages immediately.
• 15:45
  Dayna Roselli: So not only that, I'm reading what it says, and it's like this shoot has been moved to 1.30 instead of 1230.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: When I want the shoot at 1230, and now I'm frustrated and I'm thinking about it while we're recording the podcast.
• 15:57
  Sean McAllister: Oh boy, what a day to do a live episode.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: Cheapers, creepers.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: What else?
• 16:02
  Dayna Roselli: We got a new hotel coming in, folks.
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, by the way, check out Brewery Row.
• 16:05
  Dayna Roselli: There were m a lot of other breweries we didn't even have.
• 16:08
  Sean McAllister: There's 12, a dozen breweries down there.
• 16:10
  Sean McAllister: There's a map that gets you around.
• 16:11
  Sean McAllister: I believe there's even a shuttle that takes you around to the different places too.
• 16:15
  Sean McAllister: Brewery Row, downtown Las Vegas.
• 16:17
  Dayna Roselli: I liked walking it off.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: I know, it was good to walk around.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh the Dream Hotel groundbreaking was this week, actually, on Friday morning, and you're like, what's Dream Hotel?
• 16:26
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's actually Dream Las Vegas, is what it's going to be called.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a brand new, kind of um, well, I say boutique because it's smaller than your normal hotel, but it's not necessarily a boutique hotel because it's got 531 guest rooms and suites.
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: It's 20 stories, dining, nightlife, uh, pool, bar, lounge concept, uh, gaming floor, all of it.
• 16:48
  Dayna Roselli: And this is going up just to the south of Mandalay Bay, kind of across from the near the Harley Davidson store and the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, but a little bit north of that.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 17:01
  Sean McAllister: Down down by the Welcome to Las Vegas sign, if you're familiar.
• 17:04
  Sean McAllister: Um, and it's going to be between the Pinball Hall of Fame and the Harley Davidson store that's down there.
• 17:12
  Sean McAllister: Just to give you some bearings.
• 17:14
  Sean McAllister: Got it.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: So if you Google map it, look up the Harley Davidson store, it'll be to the left, right next door.
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: It's near the airport runways.
• 17:21
  Dayna Roselli: We we were just drove by and we saw they were getting ready for the groundbreaking.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: Um we were invited to that.
• 17:26
  Dayna Roselli: We couldn't make it, but it is interesting the placement of it, because it's near the airport runways.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, and then all those helicopter airports and private airports uh right there too.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 17:38
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it could be a little noisy, but I guess anywhere you live around or sorry, uh build around the strip because it's gonna be noisy, right?
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: And because of the proximity to the airport, um, the developers had to do uh a lot of redesign for the property too.
• 17:55
  Sean McAllister: After there was analysis from the FAA and lots of security firms, um, they had to reconfigure a lot of things to make sure that it would be safe to have a a hotel uh that proximity to the airport that close.
• 18:14
  Sean McAllister: So you know, there's that.
• 18:16
  Dayna Roselli: Mm-hmm.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: I I didn't think it was gonna have gaming that when we were reading the description, I was like, oh okay, because I thought, you know, just a cute little hotel going over there, but you know, they've got the whole thing.
• 18:26
  Sean McAllister: Although who knows if it's gonna be a full-on like casino floor, it could be like bar top gaming in the in the bars.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Dayna Roselli: Um and it says uh they're gonna have a cafe on the street level, private meeting space, event space, a state-of-the-art fit uh fitness facility, on-site parking.
• 18:42
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, this'll be interesting to see go up.
• 18:44
  Dayna Roselli: It's also close to in in many ways, close to the stadium.
• 18:49
  Dayna Roselli: So if folks wanna come, say they come in.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: We have a lot of people that, and we've talked about this before, come in on Southwest flights and private flights for Raiders games.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: Very true.
• 18:58
  Dayna Roselli: And so you land, you go right to Dream Las Vegas, drop your bags off, you kind of have a little bit of a resort experience and gaming experience, but then you hop right over to Allegiant Stadium.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: I mean, that's just pretty much a straight shot down the road.
• 19:11
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 19:11
  Sean McAllister: So one right turn and you're at the stadium.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: And it's opening in late 2024.
• 19:17
  Sean McAllister: Always exciting to have a new uh hotel resort opening on the Las Vegas strip.
• 19:24
  Sean McAllister: Hey, should we get to some tips?
• 19:25
  Dayna Roselli: Let's do it.
• 19:29
  Sean McAllister: All right, our first tip is for theater lovers, Dana.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Hamilton's a huge show, right?
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: Hamilton is massive.
• 19:38
  Sean McAllister: There were lines around the block in on Broadway.
• 19:42
  Sean McAllister: You could hardly get tickets.
• 19:44
  Sean McAllister: Then the show went on tour, and you could hardly get tickets when it did its first tour.
• 19:50
  Sean McAllister: It's now out on, gosh, it might even be its like second or third, you know, touring run.
• 19:57
  Sean McAllister: Um, maybe more than that.
• 19:58
  Sean McAllister: But anyway, Hamilton is coming back here to Las Vegas at the Smith Center for Performing Arts, which is in downtown Las Vegas.
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: Beautiful venue.
• 20:09
  Sean McAllister: If you are from out of town and have not uh heard of it or been there, highly recommend that you find something at the Smith Center and attend.
• 20:19
  Sean McAllister: It is a gorgeous facility.
• 20:21
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but single tickets for Hamilton's tour stop in Las Vegas go on sale Thursday, July 14th.
• 20:30
  Sean McAllister: Uh the performances are happening between October 18th and November 6th.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's a good show.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: I actually saw it at the Smith Center.
• 20:39
  Dayna Roselli: My friend had, and I think even when we say single tickets, it's because a lot of people have the season season tickets.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: Right?
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: And my friend had that, and she said, Do you want to go to Hamilton?
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, because her husband couldn't go at the time.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, Sure.
• 20:51
  Dayna Roselli: So I got to see the Smith Center, and it was great.
• 20:54
  Dayna Roselli: Really great.
• 20:54
  Sean McAllister: I have not seen it live yet.
• 20:56
  Sean McAllister: I've only seen it on uh Disney Plus.
• 20:59
  Sean McAllister: You know, they have the where they filmed it live in the in the theater, and that is so good.
• 21:05
  Sean McAllister: I'm I can't wait to see the the whole the show in person live.
• 21:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it it's it's a good one for sure.
• 21:12
  Dayna Roselli: And people obviously acclaimed you know all over the world.
• 21:15
  Dayna Roselli: So uh if you get a chance to go see Hamilton, and I know a lot of people have been waiting to see it, um, go check it out.
• 21:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's thesmithcenter.com.
• 21:23
  Dayna Roselli: You can go for information and tickets.
• 21:26
  Dayna Roselli: Something I did, I haven't been to Area 15 since we went to the Omega Mart Meowwolf opening now.
• 21:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and that's been a minute.
• 21:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's been a minute, and I mean to go there all the time, and I just don't get there often.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: So uh a friend of mine, well known uh actually uh celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, he was going, taking the kids, and he said, You want to come?
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: He's in town for um the summer here in Las Vegas, and I said yes, because I need to go, and I've been meaning to.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: So we did two things we went to Illuminarium, which is a space.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: Theme right now.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: That changes kind of themes every now and then.
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: And that was cool.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: You go into a room, um, you sit down, they show a little video, the rocket takes off.
• 22:08
  Dayna Roselli: I don't want to say a lot because I feel like people need to experience it, but then you go into this other room where all sorts of beautiful pictures from space, uh, first you're seeing, you know, you're on you so you're on the rocket, so you see Earth from a distance, you see all the different planets, all these beautiful things happen around you.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: And so that and it's kind of like a whole experience, and the show kind of goes on around you, and then it loops if you want to watch again, but or you can leave or whatever.
• 22:37
  Sean McAllister: So it's like projections that are going on the walls all around you.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 22:41
  Dayna Roselli: So it's kind of and you can, you know, it's it's hard to take pictures because there's so many lights, but I see a lot of people get some cool pictures though, still when the lighting's just right with some background and stuff like that.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, it's also insta-worthy for sure.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: If you just find the right light.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so that was a cool experience.
• 22:57
  Dayna Roselli: And I think they had something that was more like Safari-like before that, the the West.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I think they have another one coming here shortly.
• 23:05
  Dayna Roselli: I think this one has a couple more months, and then they change it out in the fall.
• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: So if you get a chance, that is in a building that because there's several buildings on the property.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:14
  Dayna Roselli: So you go right in, you'll see the sign for Illuminarium.
• 23:17
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 23:17
  Dayna Roselli: But but something that I loved even more, which was uh I you and I have talked about it a long time ago that they were opening it, and I didn't even realize it was still there.
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: But it's when we drive by all the time.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's called liftoff.
• 23:29
  Dayna Roselli: And what it is is a uh, as they describe it, a panoramic skyline experience and outdoor lounge.
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, what's that?
• 23:35
  Dayna Roselli: So you basically they have a bar on the uh outside on the ground.
• 23:39
  Dayna Roselli: You could order some drinks or whatever.
• 23:42
  Dayna Roselli: Then you can take that with you, and you can also get non-alcoholic stuff.
• 23:45
  Dayna Roselli: I actually got a Perrier, and uh the kids got slushies and all that kind of thing.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but um, you bring it with you, and you're kind of sitting on, it's like you get on, you're all in the round, like you're at a table.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: There's a drink holder for your drink if you need it.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: You buckle in, you put your like if you have a purse or something, put it in a locker.
• 24:04
  Dayna Roselli: You can take your phone for camera or camera, whatever.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: You get all in that there's a guy standing in the middle or a gal, and they basically hit the lever and you raise up into the sky slowly, it's not fast, and you get to see everything like Las Vegas in 360 degrees.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's the coolest thing ever.
• 24:26
  Sean McAllister: You're pretty high up there, too.
• 24:28
  Sean McAllister: You are when I've driven by and I've seen people up there, like that's that is that's a good vantage point.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: Uh remind me again, how do they explain this attraction?
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: What is the description that they're a panoramic skyline experience and outdoor lounge?
• 24:43
  Sean McAllister: See, I call it a balloon with a bar on the bottom.
• 24:46
  unknown: Yeah.
• 24:47
  Dayna Roselli: It kind of looks like that.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: It kind of looks like a little tent, right?
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 24:50
  Dayna Roselli: That's their exper kids fly free, by the way.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: Oh, okay.
• 24:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and and we had a little one with us and she loved it.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um and they, yeah, get a complimentary admission.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: So it's uh can when I say kids, I wanted to look up.
• 25:05
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, 12 and under.
• 25:06
  Dayna Roselli: So 12 and under.
• 25:07
  Dayna Roselli: Fly free.
• 25:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um and I say fly free.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: So it's about And you liked it?
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: I liked it.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: It was 130 feet high.
• 25:12
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the thing though.
• 25:14
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't think, because I've done it all.
• 25:16
  Dayna Roselli: I've been in a F-15, which was an experience.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, went through some training at Nellis Air Force Base and did a did a story there.
• 25:24
  Dayna Roselli: I've been in the San Yo Blimp.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: I've been on a biplane.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: I was a helicopter reporter.
• 25:29
  Sean McAllister: I didn't think a hot air balloon.
• 25:31
  Dayna Roselli: Hot air balloon.
• 25:33
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not gonna edit out my cough.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna I was thinking, you know, it's fine, but when I looked down, I'm not gonna lie, I was like, ooh, did you get some butterflies in the top?
• 25:43
  Dayna Roselli: I had a little butterfly.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: And then uh yeah, I was like, we were like, just look straight ahead.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: So here's my tip.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: It's fun.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: You get great pictures from up there, and the person running it in the middle will go around to each group and take your phone and take a picture of you so you can have the skyline behind you.
• 26:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it also rotates, so you can wait to you maybe have the strip behind you or if you want the mountains.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but like look straight ahead.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: Look straight ahead and look around.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Do not look down if you're that type.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: Other than that, it was fine.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: We were all like, oh boy.
• 26:17
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's kind of fun.
• 26:18
  Sean McAllister: I've always wondered what it was like what it would be like to ride that.
• 26:21
  Sean McAllister: I've seen it, you know, as I mentioned all the time.
• 26:24
  Sean McAllister: So that's cool that you went up there.
• 26:26
  Sean McAllister: I I might need to wait till fall.
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, or night, because I did it in the day, which was fine.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: But um, I think they have it at night too.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: So if you want that would be good with the lights and everything like that, that could be a thing.
• 26:36
  Dayna Roselli: And and all in all, I'd say I think it was like 25 minutes.
• 26:42
  Dayna Roselli: So it's not very long.
• 26:43
  Dayna Roselli: Because they take turns, because then there's other people waiting to board.
• 26:46
  Dayna Roselli: So it's not a very long experience, but it's enough to hang out up there a little bit, get as many pictures as you want, look around, point things out, um, you know, enjoy your drink, and then come back down and finish the drink.
• 26:59
  Dayna Roselli: Or perfect.
• 27:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 27:01
  Sean McAllister: Hey, uh coming up next week on Vegas Revealed, we are taking you to the ballpark talking America's favorite pastime, the boys of summer.
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: They are out on the field right now, and we're uh talking some baseball here in Las Vegas, plus uh some shopping tips.
• 27:20
  Sean McAllister: Everyone loves shopping, right?
• 27:21
  Dayna Roselli: Mm-hmm.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I went to the outlets recently, so I wanted to kind of expand on that because I have a lot of tips and some some cool things that I noticed while there.
• 27:31
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll talk about that as well.
• 27:33
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 27:33
  Sean McAllister: Well, that'll do it for this uh episode that we just blasted right on through.
• 27:38
  Sean McAllister: No stops.
• 27:39
  Sean McAllister: Excuse the uh little tickle in the throat and the googling as we as we spoke.
• 27:46
  Sean McAllister: That was episode 125, too.
• 27:48
  Sean McAllister: I feel like that's a big moment, right?
• 27:50
  Sean McAllister: That is 125 is like one more than 124.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: No, it's like, well, I feel like it's like, you know, four quarters make a dollar.
• 28:02
  Dayna Roselli: And so we've got another quarter.
• 28:05
  Sean McAllister: See, and this is me.
• 28:06
  Sean McAllister: You said four quarters makes, and I was thinking a dollar twenty-five.
• 28:09
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god.
• 28:10
  Sean McAllister: That's not true.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: That's the way I don't do that.
• 28:13
  Dayna Roselli: Enough of us.
• 28:13
  Dayna Roselli: I might edit this part out.
• 28:15
  Dayna Roselli: We'll see if it makes it in.
• 28:18
  Sean McAllister: Have a great week, everyone.
• 28:20
  Sean McAllister: We'll be back next week.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_00: Stop running your credit card.