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Free F1 Las Vegas Experiences, Shoey Bar Returns, Free Music Festival, Calvin Harris Returning to Wynn, Leona Lewis Holiday Show, Thanksgiving Restaurant | Ep. 296 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's episode 296 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Signs of the Las Vegas Grand Prix are everywhere right now.
• 0:07
  Dayna Roselli: We hit the strip to reveal details of free F1 attractions.
• 0:11
  Sean McAllister: And Dana drinks from a shoe.
• 0:15
  Dayna Roselli: I'll be drunk by five, so I'm a lightweight.
• 0:19
  Dayna Roselli: Then our take on Leona Lewis's holiday show at Voltaire.
• 0:23
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't what we expected.
• 0:24
  Sean McAllister: A free music and food festival and an option if you don't want to cook on Thanksgiving.
• 0:30
  Dayna Roselli: All that coming up now on Vegas Reveal.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_01: Vegas Revealed, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 0:37
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 296.
• 0:41
  Dayna Roselli: We are rolling right along mid-November already.
• 0:46
  Sean McAllister: And that means uh F1 is coming up here really quick.
• 0:50
  Sean McAllister: And we're gonna get into some of the free attractions and some other fun things surrounding F1.
• 0:55
  Sean McAllister: But Dana, as we were driving down the strip to go uh and get these interviews and see these attractions, we drove by the guitar tower that's being built at uh the former Mirage, now Hard Rock, and we were shocked at how far along that was.
• 1:13
  Dayna Roselli: I know, it's coming right along.
• 1:14
  Dayna Roselli: You can it's actually looking like the bottom of a guitar.
• 1:17
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 1:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I mean, kind of, because we know what it's gonna be.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: Well, and even the bottom of the guitar is really tall.
• 1:23
  Sean McAllister: It is so when they like do the top and the handle and all of it, it's gonna be big.
• 1:29
  Dayna Roselli: And your friend Melissa sent me a little text uh in Instagram when she looked at my story and said, Look at that great, that wonderful glass.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I'm assuming that her husband's doing the glasswork.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: That's what it sounds like.
• 1:43
  Dayna Roselli: So a little tip.
• 1:44
  Sean McAllister: That is what it sounds like.
• 1:45
  Sean McAllister: Well, there's gonna be a lot of glass on that tower.
• 1:47
  Sean McAllister: So we had a good job to have.
• 1:50
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 1:51
  Dayna Roselli: We had someone comment on under that, you know, I want my volcano back.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, uh, when was the last time you went to the volcano?
• 1:57
  Dayna Roselli: Let's be honest.
• 1:58
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, in 20 years, uh we talked about this.
• 2:01
  Sean McAllister: I think I went three times.
• 2:02
  Sean McAllister: Once with my nephews when I first moved here, once when they redid the drum soundtrack.
• 2:08
  Sean McAllister: They had some famous drummers involved in that, and once when it closed down.
• 2:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I would think I went when it closed.
• 2:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 2:16
  Sean McAllister: That was about it.
• 2:17
  Sean McAllister: One and done.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: The one and done at the mirage closing ceremony.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I did get a little message from someone who said, you know what, I'm kind of bummed because I work at Treasure Island and that's my view of the strip.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: Oh.
• 2:29
  Dayna Roselli: And I now can't see it.
• 2:30
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, okay, I get that.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: I would be definitely very bummed.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, if you look out and all you see is the guitar tower.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 2:38
  Sean McAllister: So when you know the rest of Las Vegas is just on the other side.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: What you're gonna do?
• 2:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I live in a tower that the Fountain Blue has always been there, but I always think if the Fountain Blue wasn't there, I'd have like a straight shot of the whole strip.
• 2:50
  Dayna Roselli: That would be a good view.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: It would be, but I love that the Fountain Blue is decorated so nice.
• 2:55
  Dayna Roselli: Like they have all these lights and twinkly lights going on in the trees, and so that's kind of my view now.
• 3:00
  Dayna Roselli: So I feel like it's a great view.
• 3:02
  Sean McAllister: And whenever they do fireworks, you've got like a front row seat.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: True, very true.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I'm excited about the hard rock um guitar tower.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: I warmed up to it and I'm like, bring it on.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it sounds like they're gonna connect the casino space from the guitar tower all the way back to the existing, you know, tower.
• 3:19
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 3:20
  Sean McAllister: So that's a big uh plot of real estate that was not developed before because it was, you know, the volcano and the valet and all that stuff.
• 3:29
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:30
  Sean McAllister: So it'll yeah, that's a lot of land to you know play with.
• 3:33
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be exciting to see what they do.
• 3:35
  Dayna Roselli: And it's interesting because um I I don't I like a good hotel without a theme.
• 3:39
  Dayna Roselli: I just like nice hotels.
• 3:41
  Dayna Roselli: Uh so but it is interesting, the ones that have opened recently, if you think about it, Circa, Resorts World, Fountain Blue, they don't really have a theme like a lot of our earlier hotels had the Excalibur, the Luxor, the Flamingo, you know, Venetian.
• 3:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm looking forward to bringing back a theme, you know, having a guitar on the strip.
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: I think that's that's good.
• 4:05
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I mean back in the day, the hard rock that was off the strip over on Paradise, where Virgin hotels is now, like that was a just a cool vibe.
• 4:14
  Sean McAllister: I mean, remember going in there, it was like memorabilia all over the place, and you knew you were in a hard rock.
• 4:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: Very true.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, speaking of that, um, Virgin is the old hard rock, Virgin Las Vegas.
• 4:28
  Dayna Roselli: And you and I are going over to to interview the president on some of the changes that they've made over there and get an update on the property and the casino and what they're you know, what they're offering because they uh they've been turning around and filling up that hotel.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: We're seeing more and more people through the doors.
• 4:47
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited to talk to uh Cliff Atkinson about that.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: We'll have that in a future episode, but we're doing that interview this month.
• 4:54
  Sean McAllister: And they've got a lot of music programming, great restaurants.
• 4:57
  Sean McAllister: It is a really nice property.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 5:00
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's talk F1 because we know that it's mixed reviews from locals, but uh, you know, some people get frustrated with the setup and the traffic, and there is a lot of that right now, that's for sure.
• 5:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but leading up to it, but there's some really cool things coming, and I think they've worked really hard to um bring things for locals and tourists, folks that are coming in for F1 and also have some things for people who live here, and that includes some free attractions.
• 5:29
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and free is the best price you can get, especially, you know, a lot of people criticize ticket prices for F1 uh when it when they first rolled out, which they brought the prices down for um various ticket packages as well.
• 5:43
  Sean McAllister: But yeah, free is the best, and MGM resorts uh have obviously a lot of properties on the Las Vegas Strip, and pretty much every single one, not every single one, but a big handful right there in the heart of the strip are uh hosting these free activations, and a lot of them have actual F1 vehicles.
• 6:06
  Sean McAllister: The cars are right there as part of it.
• 6:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: We went over to ARIA because it was set up early and we got to see one of the cars and the Mer Mercedes activation, which is free.
• 6:15
  Sean McAllister: So cool.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: And you can actually drive one of the like cars when this like simulator.
• 6:21
  Sean McAllister: Which is not easy at all.
• 6:24
  Sean McAllister: No, I couldn't even get around.
• 6:26
  Sean McAllister: I there was one turn that I could not get around.
• 6:28
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:29
  Sean McAllister: It crashed into the wall every single time.
• 6:31
  Dayna Roselli: You would yeah, you kept going and going.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Finally, he was like, Oh, you should do this.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: And you're like, you know what?
• 6:35
  Dayna Roselli: I just kind of give up.
• 6:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I'm I'm not meant for this.
• 6:38
  Sean McAllister: I'm not meant to be an F1 driver, so I'll stick to the mean surface streets of Las Vegas.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we were over there, and you actually chatted with the executive director of citywide event strategy over at MGM Resorts International about some of the things that they're doing and why they've really gotten behind Formula One.
• 6:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it was a good conversation.
• 6:58
  Sean McAllister: This is Alyssa Hink.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: Well, actually, we are standing in the middle of one of our first free things that uh our guests are able to come join us with.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so here we have uh Mercedes has completely taken over our lobby here at ARIA.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh behind me is uh George Russell's car.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um and uh just over off camera, you can uh participate in uh race simulators.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: We have really amazing merchandise and retail opportunities uh for the people who maybe came for the free and get inspired while they're here.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_00: This is just a sampling of what's to come.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um beyond this, um over at Cosmopolitan, uh Team Hops will have their display of the show car as well as um some artifacts and paraphernalia from the drivers and the team principals throughout the years.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um over at New York, New York on the Brooklyn Bridge, Team Williams will actually be taking that area over.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that'll include appearances by uh some of the Williams team uh members as well as some ambassadors potentially.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um so lots to do.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: And most importantly, just coming down, especially as the race moves closer and stoking up the energy.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: Vibes are always free.
• 8:09
  Sean McAllister: Well, I was gonna say, what does what do these types of activations do for the fans who come into town for the race and also for people who just happen to be in Vegas and are able to see these cars up close, see the merchandise, get in those simulator chairs.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, uh it it's such a unique unique experience here in Las Vegas because we become a more diverse destination.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And now that sports is just in our DNA, uh in order to, you know, create experiences for our guests, and they really feed off of each other.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So when you have a mass of people here, even if you know nothing about Formula One, there is no denying that is an incredibly cool car.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_00: And when lots of people are sitting here and enjoying how cool it is and how great everything feels and here to root for their favorite team or root for their favorite drivers, uh, you can't help but really just soak all that in and get excited yourself.
• 9:08
  Sean McAllister: And how important is it for MGM Resorts to offer these free activations for fans?
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's important for us not only as a business, but also as members of the community.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we are, you know, a part of Las Vegas, and we not only want our guests coming in to visit from out of town, but also our neighbors to come down and be able to celebrate this great thing for our city with us.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: And um, being able to sort of provide a gateway into that via these activations and these uh complimentary experiences is really such a privilege and uh so exciting for us.
• 9:50
  Dayna Roselli: They have a lot of things going on.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: Something else going on over at the Bellagio is the shoey bar, and that is back.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: This is iconic when it comes to Formula One races.
• 10:00
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 10:01
  Sean McAllister: There is a specific driver who made it popular to, when you win, to actually take a drink of champagne out of the shoe that he was wearing while driving around the racetrack.
• 10:13
  Sean McAllister: I mean, at least it's his own shoe.
• 10:14
  Sean McAllister: It is his own shoe.
• 10:15
  Sean McAllister: There's a much more uh sanitary version, though, that's happening in Vegas.
• 10:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it is it's a tradition, it's really cool.
• 10:22
  Dayna Roselli: And MGM has unveiled um their shoey bar and what the shoe is gonna look like this year.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: Really cool.
• 10:30
  Dayna Roselli: Um, they change it every year, and so uh we got to see that.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: If you look on our YouTube, you'll be able to see what it actually looks like or our social media, but it's beautiful, and they have a couple different things this year, too, that they're highlighting.
• 10:44
  Dayna Roselli: So we talked to the executive director of brand marketing over at MGM Resorts International.
• 10:49
  Dayna Roselli: His name is Cole Nicodemus, and he walks us through what it's all about.
• 10:54
  Dayna Roselli: Let's talk about the tradition of the shoey bar.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: It is a Formula One must.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: So the origination of the concept came from uh drivers celebrating when they win, they take off their shoe and actually drink out of it.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: Now we made a clean sanitary version of that and are selling drinks in actual F1 racing shoes.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: These are our classic shoeies, and um these ones are made with Fletch Azul, uh, margarita, and Red Bull, powered by Red Bull.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I think it's time that we do a shoey.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think I'm ready.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_01: Hold it by the heel and tilt it back.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's been extremely popular the last two years.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we've had a lot of celebrities come through, Mark Wahlberg, Jeremy Renner, a bunch of different ones, um, but it is definitely a fan favorite.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_01: The line starts very early for the shoey bar.
• 11:39
  Dayna Roselli: And when you show up to the shoey bar, do you get a shoe right away?
• 11:42
  Dayna Roselli: How does it work?
• 11:43
  Dayna Roselli: What's the process?
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: So when you get to shoey bar, there's a line, but we have a live band and a DJ that actually perform to entertain the group.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh you wait in line and eventually you get up there and you get to order a shoe.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: And the great thing is you get to take that shoe home and wear it around your neck as kind of your prize for the rest of the weekend.
• 11:58
  Dayna Roselli: Tell me about the special helmet deal this year.
• 12:01
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, there's only a limited amount.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, so we only have 30 of these, and they are actual F1 racing helmets that we have inverted upside down, made a custom insert that actually makes a punch bowl that is drinkable by four to five people.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: Last year we introduced a couple new um things to the shoey bar that are kind of playing off of the tradition of drinking from a shoe.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_01: So we took a standard shot ski, put shoes on it, and created the shoe ski, and it's for a group of three to four to um take a shot together.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: We have tons of activations across.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_01: Shoey's just one of them.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, shoey bar is also the main starting point to going down to the Bellagio Fountain Club, which is our premium product for the F1 race.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_01: There are only 1,500 shoes this year.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, they are all numbered, so your shoe is individual to you.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: And is Shuey Bar only open on the day of the race?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta get there quick.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: We open up um 11 to noon is actually for our Gold Plus MGM rewards members, and then from noon on is for the general public.
• 13:04
  Sean McAllister: So all of that F1 racing action is going to take place from November 20th through the 22nd.
• 13:12
  Sean McAllister: So if you want to get in on uh some of the deals, whatever, uh that's the time to do it.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: Or if you're out of town, you can watch on TV and it'll bring you right to the heart of Las Vegas.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's always exciting, right?
• 13:25
  Sean McAllister: The best looking F1 race there is, I think.
• 13:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's so true.
• 13:29
  Dayna Roselli: When even when you were driving that simulator, I was like watching because they use the Las Vegas track.
• 13:34
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 13:34
  Sean McAllister: And it's kind of cool to see all the things you drive by and well, and when I went to the viewing party uh at that F1 arcade for the race in Austin, they run that during the day.
• 13:44
  Sean McAllister: And it's on a track that is built specifically for that race.
• 13:48
  Sean McAllister: So you're not driving through the streets of Austin.
• 13:52
  Sean McAllister: And here you're driving through Las Vegas down the Las Vegas strip at night with the lights on.
• 13:58
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's I wonder if it's distracting for the drivers.
• 14:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's just probably a different kind.
• 14:03
  Sean McAllister: At least they're all distracted.
• 14:04
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 14:05
  Sean McAllister: True and true.
• 14:06
  Dayna Roselli: There's no advantage.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's not like they shut the strip lights off for when certain drivers.
• 14:10
  Sean McAllister: No, that's not allowed.
• 14:13
  Dayna Roselli: Well, listen, let's go back to free.
• 14:14
  Dayna Roselli: The Neon City Festival is back too.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: And this is November 21st to the 23rd.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: So it's over that kind of stretch of F1 days.
• 14:23
  Dayna Roselli: They started this last year and it's back.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: It's a free music festival, a culinary festival, too, uh, arts, culture.
• 14:32
  Dayna Roselli: And the city puts this on in order to make sure that, again, people that live here have something to do if they're not into actually going to the race or they want to do something in the day and then go at night.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's another option.
• 14:45
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 14:46
  Sean McAllister: And so this takes over a big chunk of downtown Las Vegas and turns it into a giant festival ground, essentially, uh, including stages for some of the headlining bands that are coming to town for this.
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: We're talking about a good Charlotte, Dead Mouse, the famous DJ.
• 15:05
  Sean McAllister: He's the one with like the Mickey Mouse looking head.
• 15:08
  Dayna Roselli: He's good.
• 15:08
  Sean McAllister: Breaking Benjamin will be here along with two friends, Fits in the Tantrums, and Bowling for Soup.
• 15:15
  Dayna Roselli: I've heard of them.
• 15:16
  Dayna Roselli: I've never seen them are they good?
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: Yes, they're great.
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: I'm just reading their songs.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, I know them.
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: And then De LaSole.
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: Now that's my jam from high school.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, and that's just like literally the tip of the iceberg.
• 15:32
  Dayna Roselli: Those are the big headlining apps.
• 15:33
  Sean McAllister: So much more.
• 15:34
  Sean McAllister: And lots of different music genres, too.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: And this is all ages.
• 15:38
  Dayna Roselli: So don't worry.
• 15:38
  Dayna Roselli: You can bring the family.
• 15:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so it just they have a lot of really cool stuff going on.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um activations.
• 15:46
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 15:46
  Dayna Roselli: We may need to check this out this year.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: We couldn't make it last year.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: I forgot what we had going on, but um, it sounds like a lot of fun.
• 15:52
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 15:52
  Sean McAllister: And anytime that there's a festival downtown, like it's just a cool vibe too.
• 15:58
  Sean McAllister: And it's different than being on the strip.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: It's much more chill.
• 16:02
  Sean McAllister: Like the life is beautiful when that takes over.
• 16:04
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 16:04
  Sean McAllister: You know, you're just walking around the streets with fun activations that are just pop up when you turn around the corner.
• 16:11
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 16:12
  Sean McAllister: It's it's a good vibe.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: And we've had great weather this fall.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: I hope it sticks for F1 and it's warm in the day, like, you know, 60s and sunny, 70s and sunny.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it should be.
• 16:22
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, also, um, paired with that, the um after parties uh are taking place over at Excess.
• 16:30
  Dayna Roselli: And they're doing Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
• 16:33
  Dayna Roselli: And they have the Chain Smokers on Friday at Excess at the Wyn.
• 16:37
  Dayna Roselli: They have Odessa and Saturday, and on Sunday they have Diplo and Marshmallow.
• 16:45
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's a good lineup.
• 16:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so they um kind of partnered with Neon City Festival, and after party tickets can be purchased at winnightlife.com.
• 16:54
  Dayna Roselli: So that part's not free.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: So man, I mean, and uh uh Dana, I think you mentioned this a little earlier.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: This is just the tip of the iceberg in what's going on for F1, connected to F1, everywhere you go pretty much is going to have some sort of F1 thing happening.
• 17:12
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:13
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, and let's keep with XS for a second.
• 17:15
  Dayna Roselli: They just announced Calvin Harris as a headliner there.
• 17:18
  Dayna Roselli: He's gonna be doing a few dates.
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: He's returning.
• 17:21
  Dayna Roselli: Calvin Harris is great.
• 17:23
  Dayna Roselli: He's so good.
• 17:24
  Dayna Roselli: He is.
• 17:24
  Dayna Roselli: So he's doing January 16th, February 13th, and February 21st at XS Nightclub.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see Calvin Harris, good to have him back.
• 17:33
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it is.
• 17:34
  Sean McAllister: I feel like this is a big return for Calvin Harris.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it's hard to keep up because I don't hit the clubs too much, but I love me a good DJ.
• 17:42
  Dayna Roselli: And I know Calvin Harris is amazing.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: I think I used to go to Omnia a couple times, and I was like, impressive.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: Wasn't he dating Taylor Swift for like a hot minute?
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: He was at him?
• 17:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: That was scandalous.
• 17:55
  Sean McAllister: That was.
• 17:56
  Sean McAllister: That was a it was a little bit of a blip.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: It was a blip.
• 18:01
  Dayna Roselli: Um, let's talk about Leona Lewis's new show, Ed Voltaire, because this is a holiday show.
• 18:05
  Dayna Roselli: I think we told you about it here on the podcast.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: And Sean and I went to a preview night.
• 18:11
  Dayna Roselli: So gosh, this is let's see, when this podcast comes out, it's November 13th.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: I think we went October 30th?
• 18:17
  Sean McAllister: October, yeah.
• 18:20
  Sean McAllister: October 30th, yeah.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: Before she kicked off on November 1st.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: And she's got so many shows for the next couple months, uh, November and December.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: So I think she even has like one or two in January.
• 18:31
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, let's talk about this show.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: So uh first of all, Leona sounded incredible.
• 18:36
  Sean McAllister: She has such an incredible voice, she really does.
• 18:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, she really does.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: And she looked beautiful and just excited to be in Las Vegas with her own show.
• 18:45
  Dayna Roselli: Voltaire, as we always say, is stunning.
• 18:48
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we thought that it because it was a holiday show, that it would be a little more holiday.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: I just thought a little more holiday, and then Sean, you said no, I thought like Christmas was gonna throw up on me.
• 18:59
  Sean McAllister: Well, that's what I expect.
• 19:00
  Sean McAllister: Like when I go to uh Las Vegas production, a residency show that's like a holiday show.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: I, you know, in my mind, I'm going like full roquettes.
• 19:13
  Sean McAllister: Yep.
• 19:14
  Sean McAllister: Santa coming out to wave to everybody, people in, you know, dancers in tight velour brown reindeer suits with the antlers on the head.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: This was not that.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: No, this was a much more um I'll call it like a refined and jazzy kind of Christmas.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: Jazzy.
• 19:35
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good jazzy description.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: It was a jazzy holiday show.
• 19:41
  Dayna Roselli: Um there were some pretty trees decorated in the back, and the stage was very pretty, beautiful with the band and the whole nine, but it was more jazzy than super holiday.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: She does uh does sing some holiday songs um wonderfully, by the way.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: I think she was half yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
• 20:00
  Dayna Roselli: That brought a little tear to my eye, actually.
• 20:02
  Dayna Roselli: She was really beautiful, yeah.
• 20:03
  Dayna Roselli: And the piano player.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, so there's some amazing highlights.
• 20:07
  Dayna Roselli: She sings her biggest hit that hit the radio in the US.
• 20:11
  Sean McAllister: Bleeding love.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone was waiting for it, and she did it.
• 20:14
  Sean McAllister: She did.
• 20:15
  Dayna Roselli: And she slowly walked down the catwalk, and everyone got, you know, it was a whole thing.
• 20:19
  Dayna Roselli: That was great.
• 20:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but it just, I don't know.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: I it yeah, it I I just we didn't want to steer people to like this is like a big old holiday show and it's gonna put it does snow at one point.
• 20:32
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 20:33
  Dayna Roselli: But that was about it.
• 20:36
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, and you know, it's still a it's a she's a great singer, like we said.
• 20:42
  Sean McAllister: And it's a it's a great show.
• 20:46
  Sean McAllister: And I think going into it thinking it's like a a jazzy, a jazzy holiday um I'm trying to think of how to describe like a a classy hang.
• 21:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah like you're gonna go sip a mart sip a martini in a beautiful environment, hear some good jazz music with some holiday m songs mixed in, that's what you're gonna get in there.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the very true.
• 21:14
  Dayna Roselli: And so, and I think that's why they have the previews and we're the media, and now we can tell people that.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 21:18
  Dayna Roselli: They know what to expect.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 21:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, not saying don't go, it just might not be what what you know.
• 21:24
  Sean McAllister: It's not a very berry Christmas.
• 21:26
  Dayna Roselli: It's not a very berry.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, he comes out in the full sleigh with Santa.
• 21:30
  Sean McAllister: I mean, that is all out.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: And you know, he's like the sequin Santa smoking jacket and berry.
• 21:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's yeah, Christmas.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: That's Christmas.
• 21:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there is something you know about putting on a Vegas show.
• 21:45
  Dayna Roselli: You've got to be able to storytell, get the audience involved, and all that.
• 21:49
  Dayna Roselli: And I think also I think Leona's great at taking feedback, and that's why she had some preview shows.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: So I think she's gonna make some tweaks, probably, yeah, as well.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: So what we're saying right now might be a little different if.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: You go see Leona.
• 22:01
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:02
  Sean McAllister: But yeah, so she's going to be there over at Voltaire.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: I think, is it 30 shows that she's doing?
• 22:08
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know the number, but a lot.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, she's doing a lot of shows.
• 22:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um, Mariah Carey's coming to Park MGM.
• 22:13
  Dayna Roselli: I know I think we mentioned it on the audio podcast.
• 22:16
  Dayna Roselli: So another holiday show.
• 22:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I know a lot of people are excited about this.
• 22:20
  Dayna Roselli: And also uh we are gonna go see that, but also wanted to mention that there's a pop-up like cocktail bar experience happening at On the Record at Park MGM too.
• 22:30
  Dayna Roselli: We don't have all the details yet, but she's doing it in a few cities.
• 22:33
  Dayna Roselli: I think there was one in New York, but now it's like New York.
• 22:37
  Sean McAllister: New York, LA, Miami, and Vegas.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: So we were we're on the list.
• 22:42
  Sean McAllister: We're on the list.
• 22:43
  Dayna Roselli: It'll be perfect to see her and then go right down to On the Record.
• 22:46
  Sean McAllister: Yes, on the record, just across the casino floor from uh the Dolby Live Theater uh over there at Park MGM, and there's supposed to be uh a bunch of different photo ops, holiday photo ops in there, some special cocktails.
• 23:01
  Sean McAllister: Of course, you're gonna have you know music going on in there.
• 23:05
  Sean McAllister: And on the record is like a speakeasy club that's um up there over at Park MGM.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: They even have a karaoke room in there.
• 23:13
  Dayna Roselli: They have a lot of different little yeah, that's a cool little room.
• 23:15
  Sean McAllister: And a entire space.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, like with a bus outside and we're recording this before I go to see New Kids on the Block.
• 23:22
  Dayna Roselli: We're actually recording early because I have six girlfriends coming in.
• 23:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and so we're like, we need to get a little bit ahead.
• 23:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but FYI, New Kids doing the same thing with the Papa, but I was looking on the record for after the show and I forgot.
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: I hadn't been there in so long, and I was thinking, oh, they do have a patio and they do have the floor and they have the karaoke room and they have the you know lots of little nooks and crannies.
• 23:43
  Sean McAllister: It's a fun, it's a fun space up there.
• 23:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it really is.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um speaking of new kids, uh an announcement came out.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: Well, this is dropping on the 13th, on the 12th.
• 23:53
  Dayna Roselli: So we are shooting this ahead so we don't have the answer to what that is, but we're gonna have more on that because we will be at the announcement.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: We'll talk to the new kids, we'll have more details.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: And they're coming back in February, and they got shows this weekend too.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: So they're back in February, so they're doing uh an announcement that might coincide with that.
• 24:14
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe it's Valentine's Day related.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 24:16
  Sean McAllister: But it'll be good to see the guys.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it'll be good.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited to see the show.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I haven't seen them in a little while, and I always just it's always like the best night of my life when I go see the new kids because you forget how joyous they are and how their music just brings you back.
• 24:32
  Dayna Roselli: I saw them at Mandalay Bay last, I think, in the event center there.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they were doing a show.
• 24:39
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, the mixtape tour.
• 24:40
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was a mixtape tour.
• 24:41
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, that's right.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: Oh no, we saw them at iHeart.
• 24:44
  Dayna Roselli: No, you saw them at iHeart.
• 24:45
  Dayna Roselli: I couldn't go that night.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: Right, right.
• 24:47
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be fun to hear about the residency because I'm I'm excited to get over there at some point to see it too.
• 24:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, and I've got some diehards coming in from my friend Jeff.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: He's an Uber driver.
• 24:58
  Sean McAllister: He always makes it fun too.
• 24:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he's an Uber driver in Nashville, and he talks about new kids all the time.
• 25:02
  Dayna Roselli: So now all the blockheads are following him, and he's got this whole following.
• 25:06
  Dayna Roselli: So, like when we go, all these people he met on TikTok are probably gonna be there.
• 25:10
  Dayna Roselli: He's gonna be famous.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's great, it is great.
• 25:14
  Dayna Roselli: So um, I'm excited.
• 25:15
  Dayna Roselli: I think he's got some sparkles going and the whole nine for his new kids shirt.
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: That's perfect.
• 25:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it'll be amazing.
• 25:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, well, let's talk Thanksgiving and tips right now.
• 25:30
  Sean McAllister: So uh Thanksgiving obviously coming right up on us here, and I am one of the people, Dana, who loves to get up early, like do the whole bird, all the prep, get all the side dishes.
• 25:43
  Dayna Roselli: So the smells through the house.
• 25:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I don't know.
• 25:45
  Sean McAllister: There's just something about that that I absolutely love to do.
• 25:49
  Sean McAllister: However, I realize that not everybody loves to do that.
• 25:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they don't.
• 25:54
  Sean McAllister: It's a lot easier sometimes to have somebody else take care of it for you.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: Or you're busy.
• 25:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: You just don't.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it used to be back in the day, let's be honest.
• 26:03
  Dayna Roselli: You were off for the week.
• 26:05
  Sean McAllister: That is true.
• 26:06
  Dayna Roselli: Thanksgiving.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: You were off for the week of, you know, Christmas and the week after.
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's so different now with people A owning their own business, B, doing hustle and sidework.
• 26:16
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of the things that they cover and do and have to be a part of are happening during the holiday.
• 26:22
  Dayna Roselli: You can't take off.
• 26:22
  Sean McAllister: And there's a lot of parents who have kids in sports, and there's so many like kids' sports tournaments over Thanksgiving.
• 26:33
  Sean McAllister: On Thanksgiving.
• 26:35
  Sean McAllister: It makes me mad.
• 26:36
  Sean McAllister: I never, I don't think I ever remember any of my friends growing up having like sports things.
• 26:43
  Dayna Roselli: No, like a tournament like that.
• 26:46
  Sean McAllister: Like everything was like shut down.
• 26:48
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 26:49
  Dayna Roselli: That's how it used to be, even for like even summertime.
• 26:52
  Dayna Roselli: Now the kids are practicing all summer long.
• 26:55
  Dayna Roselli: Not just like the few weeks leading up to school.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's like summer practice starts, like all summer, and parents are trying to, you know, do family vacations and they can't.
• 27:04
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway.
• 27:05
  Sean McAllister: Sidebar.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Sidebar.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of people don't like to cook.
• 27:08
  Dayna Roselli: So we've got two options for you.
• 27:13
  Dayna Roselli: We've got one that's more, we think, uh, middle of the road for folks that love a good old Brio Italian grill, which I do.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: That's a good spot.
• 27:22
  Sean McAllister: I go to the one at Town Square.
• 27:23
  Dayna Roselli: I go to that one at Town Square a lot.
• 27:25
  Dayna Roselli: I think there's another, or there are a couple in town or three.
• 27:28
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe one of them closed.
• 27:29
  Dayna Roselli: Regardless, Brio's doing a Thanksgiving meal, and I love this.
• 27:32
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing a Thanksgiving feast to dine in or to go.
• 27:36
  Dayna Roselli: So they are going to be open on Thanksgiving Day.
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: So that's great.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: And they have a menu that includes roasted, sliced white turkey meat, home style gravy, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, Italian sausage stuffing, pumpkin pie.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: That's all you need.
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: All the trimmings.
• 27:51
  Sean McAllister: That's great.
• 27:51
  Sean McAllister: And the fact that they're doing to go orders for that is a really good idea.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 27:57
  Sean McAllister: All you do is like take that stuff out, put it in your own bowls, and no one will ever know that you didn't cook.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 28:05
  Dayna Roselli: Nobody.
• 28:06
  Dayna Roselli: So there's a great idea.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Dayna Roselli: So don't share it with whoever's going to be at the dinner.
• 28:10
  Dayna Roselli: But um, and then eating in too.
• 28:12
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes it's easier to just go and eat there.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: Or there's people who are single or don't have big families or kids.
• 28:19
  Dayna Roselli: Vegas has a lot of that because we have a lot of industry workers.
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I like going out to a restaurant like on an actual holiday.
• 28:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 28:26
  Sean McAllister: We do that a lot on Christmas.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, you we're saying that you do that.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: I know um every year.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: And this year, uh, for Thanksgiving Day, Berry's is also open at circa.
• 28:35
  Dayna Roselli: So this is a little bit more on the higher priced side than Brio, but it's open from 4 to 9 p.m.
• 28:42
  Dayna Roselli: They're gonna have dinner specials.
• 28:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, their spread includes like a butternut squash soup, they have an organic turkey dinner, roast prime rib dinner, traditional stuffing, um, pumpkin cheesecake.
• 28:55
  Dayna Roselli: But the prices are pretty good, you know.
• 28:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um not, I mean, like you can get that well, the butternut nut squash soup 17 bucks, but you can get the organic turkey dinner, which is a classic dish featuring both white and dark meat, mashed potatoes, traditional stuffing, baby carrots, cranberry sauce, and turkey gravy for 79 bucks.
• 29:16
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 29:17
  Dayna Roselli: So um, anyway.
• 29:18
  Sean McAllister: And that'll be per serving.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 29:20
  Dayna Roselli: So lots lots of options if you want to go out to dinner and and maybe it's a you know, special evening for you on Thanksgiving.
• 29:27
  Dayna Roselli: They are doing to go stuff too.
• 29:30
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't include it in here because I know you gotta like order ahead and this and that.
• 29:33
  Sean McAllister: And so, like, and there's deadlines and all that, all that.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: But you can go to Berry's online and look at all the details.
• 29:39
  Sean McAllister: I like a good, you know what?
• 29:41
  Sean McAllister: I have not had a prime rib dinner, a proper prime rib dinner in a really long time.
• 29:47
  Sean McAllister: Maybe that's gonna be the Christmas dinner this year.
• 29:49
  Sean McAllister: Maybe go out for a nice prime rib.
• 29:51
  Sean McAllister: I like a good creamy horseradish.
• 29:52
  Sean McAllister: Me too.
• 29:54
  Sean McAllister: My grandpa used to make his own horseradish, uh-huh, and it was the kind of stuff that would clear your head out for a year and a half.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: So good though, right?
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: Whenever you have a congestion, people don't realize.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: Just have a little horseradish.
• 30:05
  Sean McAllister: Like good, strong stuff.
• 30:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:08
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes I get the kind in the bottle just to add on to things, and I'm like, why don't I do this more?
• 30:12
  Dayna Roselli: Like it's such a good ad to sandwiches and stuff.
• 30:14
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: Another side note there.
• 30:18
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so a couple of Thanksgiving options for you.
• 30:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh both Brio and Berry's gonna be open.
• 30:23
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of restaurants will be open because we are a tourist town.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Dayna Roselli: And we do have a strip that's still thriving in restaurants and hotel casinos.
• 30:30
  Dayna Roselli: So a lot of options out there, but there's two for you.
• 30:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Sean McAllister: Hey, thanks for joining us this week, next week.
• 30:38
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Dana, I can't wait to hear about the new kids experience and everything associated with that.
• 30:43
  Dayna Roselli: All sorts of stuff.
• 30:43
  Dayna Roselli: I got my friends going to Wizard of Oz.
• 30:45
  Dayna Roselli: We're gonna be doing a lot of different stuff, so I'll, you know, keep you posted.
• 30:48
  Sean McAllister: And I'm going to stay uh at Wynn for the weekend coming up.
• 30:53
  Sean McAllister: So I'm sure that I'll have uh some stories there.
• 30:56
  Sean McAllister: Just, you know, yeah, a little staycation.
• 30:59
  Dayna Roselli: Good, that'll be nice.
• 31:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Dayna Roselli: And I might see you there with my friends because we've got some plans to go to the uh Lake of Dreams.
• 31:05
  Sean McAllister: Oh, that's so and yes, let's plan on meeting up at the Lake of Dreams.
• 31:10
  Dayna Roselli: Lake of Dreams.
• 31:11
  Dayna Roselli: See you there.
• 31:12
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.