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David Blaine Blows Our Mind, F1's New Approach, Las Vegas Restaurant Scene Trends, Duran Duran, Sammy Hagar's Island at Palms, Tropicana Officially Closed | Ep. 215 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 215 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: David Blaine blows our mind.
• 0:05
  Dayna Roselli: We went to see his latest show at Win Las Vegas.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I actually held my breath for 20 minutes and two seconds.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I weighed 50 pounds last or so.
• 0:17
  Sean McAllister: And we ran into food critic John Curtis on the streets of downtown Las Vegas, and we had to ask him about the latest on the Vegas foods team.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: One of the reasons I'm not retiring is because every week there seems to be another exciting restaurant to open up, so I gotta go all over town now.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: Formula One is back in November.
• 0:36
  Dayna Roselli: We talked to the chief operating officer about the changes in place to make the race a better experience for everyone.
• 0:43
  Sean McAllister: Plus, Sammy Hagar has a new island at the palm.
• 0:47
  Sean McAllister: We explain in test.
• 0:49
  Dayna Roselli: All that and more coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:54
  Sean McAllister: Vegas Revealed, presented by Level Up Law, starts now.
• 1:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 215 of Vegas Revealed.
• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome everyone.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here, joining you to talk about, oh my gosh, a very long list of topics this week.
• 1:12
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 1:12
  Sean McAllister: I mean, and it runs the gamut from casino closures to uh entertainment to making a splash at the pool.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: We've got it all covered.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: All of it.
• 1:22
  Dayna Roselli: Formula One.
• 1:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but listen, we wanted to talk about the Tropicana closing briefly.
• 1:26
  Dayna Roselli: I know we've been kind of pumping up, you know, that it has been closing.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: We said we were gonna go.
• 1:31
  Dayna Roselli: We did go, but um, some interesting tidbits that we learned, saw when we were there.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: Uh we went April 1st and the casino floor was closing at 3 a.m.
• 1:42
  Dayna Roselli: The doors locked the following day at noon on April 2nd.
• 1:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and when we were there, we walked through and it was it was a very eerie kind of feeling because half the slot machines had already been turned off.
• 1:54
  Sean McAllister: Like the internal workings of them were taken out, the doors were kind of just like left hanging open.
• 2:00
  Sean McAllister: So it was just like the shell of a slot machine.
• 2:03
  Sean McAllister: And then when we got over to the table games, uh people have been going in there to get their souvenir chips, their$1 and$5 chips.
• 2:11
  Sean McAllister: And there were like computer printouts that were posted up at each of the table games that said that they ran out, they're no longer selling one and five dollar chips.
• 2:21
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 2:21
  Sean McAllister: That's how much demand there was.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, people love taking a piece of history, right?
• 2:26
  Dayna Roselli: Especially in Vegas.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: And this opened in 1957, just in case you didn't know and you haven't listened to a previous podcast of ours.
• 2:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and you know, closed it actually opened in April of 1957, closed in April of 2024.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: So it's been a long time, tons of history, but also, you know, a lot of ties to the mob.
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: And I guess that's what kind of makes it even more interesting, I think, to a lot of people, because it was such a big deal when it opened, and it was such a big deal when it was open in the earlier days.
• 2:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, and it was the most expensive uh Las Vegas resort ever built at the time that it opened, 15 million bucks it cost, which was like absurd back in the day.
• 3:09
  Sean McAllister: Um But yeah, there are those mob ties, which a lot of our early casinos had, but the Tropicana is kind of one of the last standing uh remnants of that period of time in Las Vegas.
• 3:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and so we met one of the workers there who was showing us some pictures on her phone, and I was kind of talking to someone else and glancing, and I was really interested, but you took a closer look.
• 3:32
  Dayna Roselli: So, what was she showing?
• 3:33
  Sean McAllister: So sh she and some of her fellow employees, she was like, Yeah, we went on a scavenger hunt in this building.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: We went down in the basement, like in the bowels of the building, up into the ceiling, up above the that Tiffany glass ceiling that covers the the uh table games.
• 3:52
  Sean McAllister: There's walkways up there where um like the eyes in the sky used to look down and make sure that no one was cheating at the table games.
• 4:02
  Sean McAllister: So I mean, those perches are still up there in the ceiling.
• 4:05
  Sean McAllister: There's also these carousels that were used in Folly's Bergere, these big carousel props.
• 4:13
  Sean McAllister: Those are still up in the ceiling hidden.
• 4:15
  Sean McAllister: Down in the basement, there were she said they ran across all these hidden bars and she was showing pictures, and they were just like these tiny little hard wood oak rooms that were like essentially little speakeasies.
• 4:31
  Sean McAllister: Interesting.
• 4:32
  Sean McAllister: I was thinking, what in the world could those have been used for?
• 4:34
  Sean McAllister: But tying it back to the mob, I mean, those guys needed some secret spaces to chat and do business.
• 4:41
  Sean McAllister: Interrogate people.
• 4:42
  Sean McAllister: I suppose, and interrogate people.
• 4:43
  Sean McAllister: Oh man.
• 4:44
  Sean McAllister: And she said there were a few rooms that seemed like they would have been used for that down there.
• 4:49
  Sean McAllister: Right, right.
• 4:50
  Sean McAllister: But what was really cool, I thought, if you look at some old pictures of the Tropicana, right there at the corner of Trop and Las Vegas Boulevard, there used to be this big fountain, the big Tropicana fountain, and the foundation of that is still down underneath the floor of the current building.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: Like all this the rock foundation of it, and you could tell that that's where the fountain sat.
• 5:14
  Sean McAllister: So it just really is interesting.
• 5:17
  Sean McAllister: And you know, as the the demolition begins, um, major demolition is set for October, but there are just layers and layers of history that are gonna be peeled back.
• 5:28
  Dayna Roselli: And yeah, no, and hopefully imploded, because we love a good implosion here in Las Vegas.
• 5:32
  Sean McAllister: We do, it's a rite of passage, I think.
• 5:35
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, I mean, in more recent years, it's funny because you you find or you see, I guess when everyone's talking about the trap closing, like both ends where people are like, oh my god, I'm gonna miss it.
• 5:44
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of those people really spent a lot of time there in the olden days.
• 5:48
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like people that have been there more recently are kind of like, yeah, well, it needed to go.
• 5:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 5:55
  Sean McAllister: Well, it's funny.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: Or you never stepped foot in it.
• 5:57
  Dayna Roselli: Why are you so sad it's closing?
• 5:59
  Sean McAllister: And then that's the kind of comment that I've seen a lot of.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 6:02
  Sean McAllister: And like I think you can still be sentimental about a property like that without ever having been like a regular customer.
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 6:13
  Sean McAllister: You know, the property did introduce uh a sense of luxury to Las Vegas when it opened that hadn't been seen before.
• 6:23
  Sean McAllister: And you know, that luxury trend has continued on since.
• 6:27
  Sean McAllister: So we do have the trap to thank for that.
• 6:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's very true.
• 6:31
  Sean McAllister: And just a lavish kind of ambiance.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: I love that Elvis Presley walked through there.
• 6:36
  Sean McAllister: So did you try retrace his footsteps?
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't, because I don't I don't know the you know, I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't that sentimental over the trap closing.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: I'm just gonna put it out there.
• 6:46
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know why.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: I just kind of feel like um yeah, we even when we were in there, it just it has not been updated the way that it should have been.
• 6:54
  Dayna Roselli: I was looking at the cracking seats and but like I said, like it yes, in in the back in the day, but I feel like it needed to close.
• 7:04
  Sean McAllister: It's it it it was its time.
• 7:06
  Sean McAllister: That's why I think an implosion is the right way to go.
• 7:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 7:09
  Sean McAllister: Because implosions always go down in in Vegas history.
• 7:13
  Sean McAllister: That's for sure.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we also went to David Blaine over at the Win Las Vegas.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: Um, listen, we absolutely love the show.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: My mind was blown.
• 7:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think yours was too, and half the the things that he did there on stage.
• 7:25
  Dayna Roselli: We've gone to see his show at Resorts World.
• 7:27
  Dayna Roselli: It was good there too.
• 7:28
  Dayna Roselli: But I don't know, this one was uh I maybe a little more intimate, and he stuck to more uh not card trick, card tricks, what else?
• 7:37
  Sean McAllister: I would say it's more like up close for the most part, like up close uh magic tricks, you know, a lot of audience participation involved, right?
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: Uh a lot of interaction with the audience, and it really did.
• 7:51
  Sean McAllister: It felt way more intimate than it did over at Resorts World.
• 7:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I loved it.
• 7:56
  Dayna Roselli: I I mean, everything that he did, I mean, you just don't even try and analyze or try and figure it out.
• 8:01
  Dayna Roselli: I just feel like I mean that was incredible.
• 8:04
  Dayna Roselli: How the heck that's impossible.
• 8:06
  Dayna Roselli: You just kind of believe that had to be magic.
• 8:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you do.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: You do.
• 8:11
  Sean McAllister: So David Blaine's show is over at the Encore Theater at Win Las Vegas, and um one of his big tricks, stunts, whatever you want to call it, is holding his breath underwater.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: And, you know, I mean, I feel like, first of all, that is huge.
• 8:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's it's very big, but I must say the things that he did before that, for me, I was e I was even more blown away at.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: But and maybe because I've seen him do the holding breath thing before.
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 8:39
  Dayna Roselli: Very lucky we've been back twice, you know.
• 8:41
  Dayna Roselli: But it that's incredible.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: He held his breath for nine minutes underwater, which is like how, whatever.
• 8:47
  Dayna Roselli: But I mean, obviously he's been training for it.
• 8:50
  Dayna Roselli: And so people did have questions after.
• 8:52
  Dayna Roselli: He kind of, you know, got up, got out at nine minutes, you know, wrapped a blanket around himself, and then talked to the audience.
• 8:58
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people had questions.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: So, so listen to some of the things that he said, how he kind of prepares for this and and more details about exactly what he did.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_02: What happens is we don't black out underwater from lack of oxygen, which is counterintuitive because you think, oh, you're running out of air.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_02: No, what happens is our body is so brilliant, it has all these mechanisms to save us.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: So basically, when you're underwater trying to hold your breath, you're getting alerts, and the CO2 buildup is what causes the pain, and that's what makes you need to breathe.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: So we have a very long reserve to be able to actually survive in extreme situations.
• 9:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it really was interesting hearing David just sit down and take questions and explain like what your body goes through under those circumstances.
• 9:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I find him so interesting.
• 9:46
  Dayna Roselli: He's like mysterious and he's very I don't know.
• 9:50
  Dayna Roselli: I go see David Blaine.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: He's back in May um for a bunch of shows over at the Encore Theater at Wynn.
• 9:57
  Dayna Roselli: I absolutely loved it.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: And I felt like if you're gonna go into a show and leave talking about it, that is definitely one to go see.
• 10:03
  Sean McAllister: That's the one.
• 10:04
  Sean McAllister: And he doesn't tour with his show either.
• 10:06
  Sean McAllister: So you have to come to Vegas to see it.
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, you know who else is coming?
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: Duran Duran.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they are coming to the Win Las Vegas actually, uh, May 3rd and 4th.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, that was just announced.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: Um, both shows at 8 p.m.
• 10:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know a bunch of people that saw them last time and thought it was fantastic.
• 10:24
  Dayna Roselli: So we're glad that Duran Duran will be back in Las Vegas.
• 10:27
  Dayna Roselli: They have some classics.
• 10:29
  Sean McAllister: They do.
• 10:29
  Sean McAllister: And also over at Win, uh, it's gonna be a homecoming for RB star Neo.
• 10:35
  Sean McAllister: He grew up here in Las Vegas, of course, made it big.
• 10:38
  Sean McAllister: I believe he lives in Atlanta now.
• 10:40
  Sean McAllister: Um, but he's coming home performing at the Encore Theater this summer in August with back-to-back shows.
• 10:47
  Sean McAllister: He's bringing his Neo Human Love Rebellion tour here.
• 10:52
  Sean McAllister: So I have a feeling Neo is gonna bring the energy and really put on an extra special show for the hometown crowd.
• 11:01
  Sean McAllister: I think so too.
• 11:02
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, and Adele announced those postponed uh dates.
• 11:05
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, she had to cancel because she wasn't feeling well for a for a while, like the whole month.
• 11:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and she promised that she would make those up, and those dates have been moved to like October and November.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: So if you had tickets before, I'm sure you've had the alert, but glad to see that um Adele is gonna give that chance to all the folks who had planned to see her.
• 11:23
  Sean McAllister: All right, let's talk Formula One.
• 11:26
  Sean McAllister: We know that there were a lot of people who had a lot to say about the race at the end of last year.
• 11:33
  Sean McAllister: Well, the race is coming back again, uh, November 21st through 23rd.
• 11:38
  Sean McAllister: Um, but this year, organizers are kind of taking a different approach and making uh really strong efforts to make the race more accessible to Las Vegas locals.
• 11:49
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Betsy Fretwell is the new chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
• 11:54
  Dayna Roselli: We recently spoke with her on the F1 track about the criticism that the race has received and what they are doing about that and how they're changing it.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is gonna be a completely different year.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Last year there was repaving for months all around this area.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: People felt the impacts of those traffic, detours, delays, etc.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Not gonna happen like that this year.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: Much different experience.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: We're also gonna be building the circuit in phases, so you're gonna see us coming.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: That way you can plan your routes around that.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's gonna be critically important.
• 12:28
  Sean McAllister: There were a lot of opinions uh around last year's race, but it seemed like a lot of the I'll say negative opinions came from people who didn't experience the race firsthand.
• 12:39
  Sean McAllister: Is that why there's uh outreach to Nevada locals now?
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: I've been on a listening tour for 60 days now, and boy, I've heard a lot, uh, which is great.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's exactly what I wanted to find out.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_00: Where people are, what they're thinking about, what worked, what didn't work, what we can improve on.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_00: And we've done some great stuff in our ticketing platform this year that will create opportunities for our locals first to be able to take advantage of our on-sale tickets and at a very affordable price point at$150.
• 13:09
  SPEAKER_00: So you can come and experience the race, be able to take full advantage of the experience, hear it and see it firsthand here on our streets in Vegas.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's a very exciting program.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: After the race last year, I felt like people around the world, because they had never seen it here, you know, they were skeptical going in, like, you know, big racing fans, but then they were like, wow, that was pretty cool.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's gotta feel good too.
• 13:33
  Dayna Roselli: The more people see it, the more people experience it, you know that it's gonna get better and better.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, it's interesting, having had the experience that I've had here.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: You've seen major events come to this town.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: And the first year or so, it's like a learning curve moment.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: And then boom, you just hit it on all cylinders, and then everybody's like, oh my God, that was great.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, hey, we have some things that we worked on last year.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna continue to work to improve this year, and uh yeah, it's gonna be fantastic.
• 14:05
  Sean McAllister: Was there any inspiration gleaned from the way the NFL operates in the lead up?
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Super Bowl did some really incredible things around small business activation, um, engaging the public in a variety of lead-in events.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: We're working on all of that.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, one of my high one of my big priorities this year is to really focus in on that small business activation.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're gonna be including local small businesses in our hospitality and beverage production this year.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we'll have some local events that will drive additional participation.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: We're working with a whole host of partners around town, and we're excited about the opportunity.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_00: I it's gonna be different, and I think people are gonna really love it.
• 14:42
  Sean McAllister: It was great to be over there and talk to Betsy.
• 14:44
  Sean McAllister: Uh, tickets for the Las Vegas Grand Prix are on sale now.
• 14:51
  Sean McAllister: Uh, there are 7,000 general admission tickets that were added this year.
• 14:55
  Sean McAllister: Also, some new general admission zones.
• 14:58
  Sean McAllister: Ticket prices start at$150, which is pretty darn reasonable.
• 15:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:04
  Dayna Roselli: And yeah, I love how transparent she was.
• 15:06
  Dayna Roselli: That was great to talk to her.
• 15:07
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• 15:12
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• 15:16
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• 15:25
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• 15:31
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• 15:32
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• 15:36
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• 15:38
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• 15:46
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• 15:53
  Sean McAllister: Well, you know, Dana, in doing research for the podcast and the TV show, we go and eat at a lot of restaurants, but I wouldn't necessarily consider us foodies, right?
• 16:04
  Sean McAllister: We kind of leave that to the experts.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: And we ran into one recently.
• 16:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, a food critic John Curtis.
• 16:10
  Dayna Roselli: He's been in town for a long time.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: We ran into him on the streets of downtown Las Vegas.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and you know, I we wanted to know some of the trends and hotspots right now.
• 16:18
  Dayna Roselli: So we said, hey, John, do you mind if we like talk to you and interview you real quick?
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, no, why not?
• 16:23
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so anyway, we were able to talk with John.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: It was a great conversation, and we talked to him a little bit about what we've noticed lately, and that is that more off-strip restaurants are being talked about over the last couple years.
• 16:34
  Dayna Roselli: So we asked him all about this.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: I think the real foodies, the real in-the-no people are coming off-strip.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to Chinatown, they're coming downtown, they're going to downtown Summerland, they're going to the southwest end of town.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there's we have all these great local options now that nobody thought would ever happen like five years ago.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: But the five last five years have just been fantastic.
• 16:55
  Sean McAllister: What do you think it is that that lured chefs who trained on the strip under these huge culinary names?
• 17:03
  Sean McAllister: What is it that lured them out into the neighborhoods of Las Vegas?
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's a great question.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_01: What lured them here?
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I think what it was almost like the strip was their trial by fire.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they became combat veterans after working for, you know, two, three, ten years on the strip.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: And then they looked around and realized that the market was really underserved in the neighborhoods.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_01: And the rents were relatively cheap compared to California.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_01: They're way cheaper.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: You know, to open a restaurant here, square footage, construction costs, utilities, labor, a lot cheaper.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: So they they had the talent, they had the experience, and they realized that there was a there was a market here that needed to be catered to.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_01: James Trees at Esther's Kitchen is just the most recent and best example of the whole thing.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_01: But there's dozens of great restaurants now that I makes it just one of the reasons I'm not retiring is because every week there seems to be another exciting restaurant to open up, so I gotta go all over town now.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know?
• 18:03
  Dayna Roselli: Well, here we sit in 2024.
• 18:04
  Dayna Roselli: Uh we're Vegas Revealed.
• 18:06
  Dayna Roselli: So reveal what you're looking forward to.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: Is there anything opening, anything coming soon that you're just you're waiting for?
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_01: There's a Mexican place coming to Fountain Blue, which is a Mexican seafood place, which is really something you don't see much of in Las Vegas.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it is fantastic.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_01: I've been to the one in Mexico City.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_01: So, and and I think Fountain Blue has a real murderer's row of great restaurants in it.
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: People haven't, it's been slow to get traction, but you go there, the the facility is gorgeous.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Mother Wolf, Don's Prime, Q.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: They've got a place called China.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: They've got this really weird called Washing Potato dim someplace.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, the restaurants there are really strong, and they've got more on their way.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I say, you know, more great restaurants from Mexico City, less Gordon Ramsay, okay?
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: More Gordon.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_01: No, I mean, Gordo's a good guy, but I mean, we don't we don't need a ninth Gordon Ramsay restaurant or Guy Fieri's seventh, you know, bar and grill on the strip.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, we need more James Trees, we need more great chefs coming out to the neighborhoods, and that's what we're getting these days.
• 19:13
  Dayna Roselli: Well, John always speaks his mind, right?
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_04: He does.
• 19:16
  Dayna Roselli: But I love that he said, oh, Gordo.
• 19:17
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I think I think he likes, you know, Guy Fieti and Gordon Ramsay and knows how good they are, but he was just saying, you know, we have a lot of those restaurants.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: Well, I think that, yeah, the point he was uh making is that like being super saturated doesn't free up room for other people to slide in.
• 19:36
  Sean McAllister: But that is what's happening off the strip.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, listen, if you if you like what John had to say, you want to hear more about, you know, some of his uh food endeavors.
• 19:46
  Dayna Roselli: Endeavors, I know experiences.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: Experiences.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: I was gonna say critics, criticism.
• 19:51
  Dayna Roselli: He doesn't always have criticism, but sometimes he's very honest on Twitter.
• 19:55
  Dayna Roselli: I love watching uh his feed.
• 19:56
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, he has a website called eatinglv.com.
• 20:00
  Dayna Roselli: He also hosts the Eat Talk Repeat podcast as well, if you're interested in listening to John.
• 20:06
  Sean McAllister: All right, let's get to tips.
• 20:12
  Sean McAllister: We are making a splash with our tips this week.
• 20:15
  Sean McAllister: They are totally pool related, and they're centered both of our tips over at the Palms Pool.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Sammy's Island is coming to the Palms Pool, and you're like, who's Sammy?
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: Sammy Hagar.
• 20:26
  Dayna Roselli: People love Sammy Hangar.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: He's great.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: The Red Rocker.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, he is wonderful.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: We've interviewed him many times, and he's such a good guy.
• 20:33
  Dayna Roselli: I love how much time he spends in Las Vegas, and I love that he's doing this.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: And I know he has a huge following.
• 20:39
  Dayna Roselli: And when you think about, you know, a little island kind of bar, you think sometimes Sammy Hagar debuts May 17th.
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and it's uh what do you call it?
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: Inspired by, you know, a lot of his music, his Baja vibe.
• 20:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Sammy's Island is gonna be a whole section over at the Palms Pool.
• 20:57
  Sean McAllister: It'll be open seven days a week, 10 a.m.
• 21:00
  Sean McAllister: to six p.m.
• 21:01
  Sean McAllister: Uh Sammy Hagar's uh signature cocktails are going to be available there, some island-inspired menu items as well.
• 21:10
  Sean McAllister: So definitely the cabo vibe Sammy's bringing here to the Palms Pool.
• 21:17
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: And who doesn't love Cabo?
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: So all right, and this one is tailored for Vegas Locals and Industry Insiders.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's called Swim Distry.
• 21:26
  Dayna Roselli: It starts April 22nd at the Palms Pool, and this is pretty cool.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: They've got uh Don Julio 1942 shots for$19.42, Heineken beer specials, free day beds for locals that are 21 and over.
• 21:40
  Dayna Roselli: They've got beer pong, giant jenga, cornhole, live DJs.
• 21:44
  Dayna Roselli: So it sounds really fun, and that's over there at the Palms Pool as well.
• 21:48
  Dayna Roselli: And again, Mondays, starting Monday, April 22nd.
• 21:52
  Sean McAllister: I'd say that's a sounds like a good way to kick off the week.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I know.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: A free day bed for locals.
• 21:59
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, who doesn't love a free day bed?
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: Because usually you have to pay for them.
• 22:02
  Sean McAllister: And if you're listening now and you're not a local, maybe this'll entice you to become one.
• 22:07
  Sean McAllister: Or become friends with a local, or become friends with one.
• 22:09
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: Do people like still sneak into places?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_04: Is that still things?
• 22:13
  Sean McAllister: I don't know.
• 22:14
  Sean McAllister: It's been so long since I've had to sneak into somewhere.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_04: Now I sneak out.
• 22:19
  unknown: Yeah, I know.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: It's funny how the tables turn, isn't it?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_04: I used to sneak in.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_04: Now I sneak out.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_04: I always look at you sometimes and I'm like, hey, I'm gonna go without saying goodbye, okay?
• 22:33
  Sean McAllister: Listen, sometimes you have to because you end up having so many conversations on your way out the door that you end up being like the last person at whatever event it is.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_04: Right.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_04: Anyway, I think we've all been there, right?
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_04: We have the older we get.
• 22:49
  Sean McAllister: That's what happens.
• 22:50
  Sean McAllister: It's inevitable.
• 22:52
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• 22:56
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• 23:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:09
  Dayna Roselli: Good people over there.
• 23:10
  Dayna Roselli: Also, um, if you are coming to Vegas or you live here, download the Vegas Near Me app.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's free.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: You don't have to put in your email.
• 23:18
  Dayna Roselli: They've got maps inside casinos, parking fees.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: That's always good to know before you go.
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: It is, and how much time you get for free to park.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's a big deal.
• 23:29
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna talk about that in an upcoming podcast, too.
• 23:31
  Sean McAllister: So got a lot to say.
• 23:32
  Dayna Roselli: Stay tuned for that.
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: But download the Vegas Near Me app.
• 23:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's always really, really helpful to have on your phone and nice and easy.
• 23:40
  Sean McAllister: We will see you back here on Vegas Revealed next week.
• 23:42
  Sean McAllister: And remember to follow us on social media, uh, Instagram, Twitter, X, whatever you want to call it, also TikTok, and our YouTube channel, where you can also see our Vegas Revealed on TV shows.
• 23:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and we were celebrating the show.
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we got some nice numbers in for March.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you everyone that's been watching.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited about it.
• 24:04
  Dayna Roselli: And we're gonna continue.
• 24:05
  Dayna Roselli: Um, in April, we are on Sundays at four o'clock.
• 24:09
  Dayna Roselli: There you go.
• 24:09
  Dayna Roselli: We got a time all month.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: So 4 p.m., you can catch us on Fox Five.
• 24:12
  Sean McAllister: Now you know what you're doing every Sunday.
• 24:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, or DVR it.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 24:17
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we will see you back next week.
• 24:19
  Sean McAllister: Thanks for listening.