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U2 Announced as First MSG Sphere Headliner, Storms Damage some Las Vegas Casinos, Bellagio Offers New Dining Experience, Calvin Harris Will Be Back at XS Nightclub | Ep. 129 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 129.
• 0:04
  Sean McAllister: It's a beautiful day as a headliner is revealed for the new Sphere Arena in Las Vegas.
• 0:10
  Sean McAllister: Details on the rock legends will take the stage with or without you.
• 0:15
  Dayna Roselli: Plus a high-end dining experience that will definitely have you stopping to smell the roses at Bellagio.
• 0:22
  Sean McAllister: And a new restaurant that could be a new celebrity hotspot.
• 0:26
  Dayna Roselli: Kelvin Harris sets his return to the Vegas strip at a venue where he hasn't been seen in over a decade.
• 0:31
  Sean McAllister: And in tips, we reveal a great place for some vintage vibes.
• 0:36
  Dayna Roselli: Let's get to it and spin that wheel.
• 0:44
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 129, and summer is just it is absolutely flying by.
• 0:52
  Sean McAllister: We're already in August, and July seems like it was just like a blip on the radar, doesn't it?
• 0:57
  Dayna Roselli: It really does.
• 0:58
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli here, John McAllister.
• 1:00
  Dayna Roselli: I am like, it's so humid here.
• 1:02
  Dayna Roselli: It feels like New York.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: What's going on?
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: Everyone's having hair issues because we're not used to having this kind of humidity in the air.
• 1:10
  Sean McAllister: It's rained just about every other day, if not every day.
• 1:15
  Sean McAllister: Like little bits.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, five minutes.
• 1:17
  Dayna Roselli: Today we got a five-minute rain shower.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 1:20
  Sean McAllister: But there's been flash flood warnings, there's been thunderstorms, which I love a good thunderstorm.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think.
• 1:26
  Sean McAllister: I really do, and I missed them the last few years.
• 1:28
  Sean McAllister: We hadn't gotten a lot of rain.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: No, and you know, I don't think we've had a podcast since we had that big downpour and storm.
• 1:35
  Sean McAllister: No, we haven't.
• 1:36
  Dayna Roselli: The rest of the world thinks that we're all like over here underwater.
• 1:40
  Dayna Roselli: Underwater, and you know, the the roof at Plant Hollywood.
• 1:44
  Dayna Roselli: There was video of it like kind of coming down right on some of the gaming tables.
• 1:48
  Dayna Roselli: Circa resort up in downtown Las Vegas.
• 1:50
  Dayna Roselli: The entire sports book flooded.
• 1:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I saw Derek Stevens post a video after that.
• 1:55
  Dayna Roselli: He was a great sport and said, you know what, we're open today.
• 1:58
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for everyone's support.
• 1:59
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, everyone handled it really quick, but there were all sorts of casinos that were flooded, and everyone's like, How did this happen?
• 2:06
  Sean McAllister: I don't know, but and by the way, we're about uh a week uh out from when that flooding happened.
• 2:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 2:14
  Sean McAllister: It was we're recording this on Thursday.
• 2:17
  Sean McAllister: It was Thursday of last week, right, when all that crazy rainstorm, like back-to-back storm cells came through, lots of rain, torrential downpours.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: Um, and I just saw that the circus sportsbook is back fully open again.
• 2:35
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, good.
• 2:35
  Sean McAllister: So that's good that they got things you know back to where they needed to be.
• 2:40
  Sean McAllister: It was a mess for a lot of casinos.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: It really was.
• 2:42
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and it was a bit unexpected.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: Like I've been here a long time, you have too.
• 2:46
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know that I've ever seen damage like that inside hotel casinos.
• 2:49
  Dayna Roselli: We have our normal spots that always flood.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: And really, behind the link is kind of a spot that floods all the time, but it's more of a flood channel, actually.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's almost supposed to move the water through.
• 3:00
  Dayna Roselli: And I know our friend uh Kip Kelly on Twitter was saying everyone was texting him asking if he was okay, thinking we're completely underwater, and then he was sending people a picture of sunny skies and you know, a hundred degrees the next day, because that's how we roll.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: It looks like, you know, absolute hell, and then we're just you know back to normal.
• 3:19
  Sean McAllister: Well, in the flooding, even in uh parts of downtown Las Vegas on just the roadways, there was up to a foot and a half of water in some places.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:28
  Sean McAllister: But that's kind of like I had uh, you know, working in TV, we've had meteorologists around us for years, and one meteorologist I used to work with said that Las Vegas is kind of like a bathtub.
• 3:41
  Sean McAllister: The mountains around us are like the edges of the bathtub, the the and picture it with a drain in the center, and that's how Las Vegas is shaped.
• 3:51
  Sean McAllister: So it's like the low spots in the center of this valley, and so when when it rains, all the water just comes down to one spot.
• 3:59
  Sean McAllister: And we have had some great flood control, you know, channels that have been built, and so when you see flooding happen in Las Vegas, I my point is it drains pretty quickly after the rains come, but for a period of time, there is a bunch of water around.
• 4:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and and and there was a lot of cleanup, you know, like branches and stuff that gets washed along with it, and you know, garbage and all sorts of stuff that like gets picked up and moved.
• 4:25
  Dayna Roselli: So definitely uh a big cleanup after that, that's for sure.
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's funny because you and I were hosting a pilot game show that night, and we were there for about 10 hours, so we missed the entire thing.
• 4:37
  Dayna Roselli: We were looking on our phone, but the funny part was is we were in the Luxor, and I was saying to you, like, we're in the best hotel casino for a storm because when the rain hits the Luxor, it just goes right down the side.
• 4:49
  Dayna Roselli: Right down the side because we're in like a big trying to do that.
• 4:53
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it's funny because the next day when I had to be back down on the strip for something, I forget what, but I was looking at the uh casinos on the strip that flooded, and they do a lot of them have flat roofs, like the at Caesar's Palace.
• 5:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:10
  Sean McAllister: The roof over their casino portion is a flat roof, they don't have hotel rooms built over top of the casino.
• 5:19
  Sean McAllister: It's just like kind of a one-story structure.
• 5:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you know, Planet Hollywood, same thing.
• 5:24
  Sean McAllister: It's like they have the flat roof over the casino area.
• 5:28
  Sean McAllister: So that does make it more prone to flooding when you don't have those structures built over the big common areas.
• 5:37
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and speaking of odd-shaped buildings, I guess that moves us right into what we wanted to talk about first today, and that's the MSG Sphere, which is being constructed right now and really coming along.
• 5:49
  Dayna Roselli: If you've driven by that area near the Venetian, um, it's a huge, huge sphere that they're building.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: It's a$1.8 billion arena, and it's gonna have this incredible LCD screen around the whole thing.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: We've been talking about it for a while, but set to open in 2023.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: But we had a big announcement recently, and we thought, you know what?
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: We haven't told everyone about this yet.
• 6:14
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 6:14
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Rock Legends, U2 are reportedly, this is according to Billboard, going to be uh the first headliners announced at the sphere, which is an incredibly huge get for Las Vegas.
• 6:30
  Sean McAllister: Huge.
• 6:31
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even because U2's never had a you know, quote unquote residency here.
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 6:36
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, it's cool because it's like a brand new feel and vibe and you know, show for Las Vegas.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and they're legends, like you said.
• 6:46
  Dayna Roselli: So I think it's cool, and I think I think it's gonna be cool to see what they do over there and how they make the experience different.
• 6:53
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it's supposed to be immersive and uh and a whole new experience in in ex in in live concerts.
• 6:59
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, I I don't know what they're gonna do, but I can only imagine it's gonna be really cool.
• 7:04
  Sean McAllister: I mean, and with the visuals that uh you're able to uh really immerse everybody into, you know, with I think inside that sphere, um the audience will be surrounded with 270 degrees of uh screens, and that goes above them, behind them, to the side.
• 7:27
  Sean McAllister: So it really is going to be a very cool place for artists to perform because there's just so much creativity that goes into it.
• 7:38
  Sean McAllister: The last uh several years ago, it's several years ago now, like five years ago maybe.
• 7:43
  Sean McAllister: I saw you two, I believe, at MGM's Grand Garden Arena.
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: They were here on tour, and you know, they had all these stages with these, you know, LED light panel boxes that were coming up and down, and so they're used to dealing with visuals, so it'll be cool to see what they do in this new space.
• 8:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it really will.
• 8:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um and they're gonna be doing, I guess, um, a several months that they've committed to, and they will perform on non-consecutive days.
• 8:13
  Dayna Roselli: So that's some of the information coming in.
• 8:15
  Dayna Roselli: And the sphere will be connected to the Venetian via this like 1,000 foot-long pedestrian bridge, too.
• 8:21
  Dayna Roselli: So you'll be able to get over from there.
• 8:22
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, love a new update on the sphere because we're all watching it and just uh in Marvel going, you know, what is this thing gonna look like in the end and what's it what's it going to be like?
• 8:31
  Dayna Roselli: So excited to have you two coming as the first headliner.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and speaking of uh musicians, we didn't have this on our uh list of things to talk about, Dana, but I did want to mention um it was just announced that Bruno Mars, who is a headliner at Park MGM, is going to be opening his own lounge on the Las Vegas strip.
• 8:52
  Sean McAllister: It's called Pinky Ring by Bruno Mars, and it's going to occupy the space that is now known as Lily Bar and Lounge inside of Balagic.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay, right.
• 9:03
  Dayna Roselli: I like the Lily Lounge.
• 9:05
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 9:06
  Sean McAllister: I know, but that'll be cool.
• 9:07
  Sean McAllister: You know, Bruno, I bet it's going to be a super cool vibe, especially, you know, considering the vibe that Silksonic brings.
• 9:16
  Sean McAllister: I wonder if it'll have like that kind of funkadelic.
• 9:18
  Dayna Roselli: Right, I'm sure it will.
• 9:19
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and that's a good shag room kind of spot.
• 9:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think Bellagio needs more lounges like that, too, you know?
• 9:25
  Sean McAllister: It used to.
• 9:26
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it used to be.
• 9:26
  Sean McAllister: And it was great.
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: So I agree.
• 9:28
  Dayna Roselli: So that's cool.
• 9:29
  Dayna Roselli: Bruno Marr is opening a lounge.
• 9:31
  Dayna Roselli: I love that.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: Well, also in the Bellagio, they announced that they're doing this new dinner there.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: And we thought we'd chat about this just for a second because I'm just gonna say it right off the bat.
• 9:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's pretty expensive, which makes you know right off the bat that this is something that I mean, if you want to come splurge in Vegas and have an experience like no other, you might want to do this.
• 9:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it's the iconic Bellagio Conservatory and Botanical Gardens right there next to the front lobby.
• 9:57
  Dayna Roselli: You know, beautiful space.
• 9:58
  Dayna Roselli: They change it up all the time depending on the season, lovely gardens.
• 10:03
  Dayna Roselli: Well, they're doing this uh thing called the garden table.
• 10:06
  Dayna Roselli: It's available for brunch or dinner, and it invites guests basically to enjoy this Epicurean adventure at a table set within this the beauty of the Bellagio like floral masterpiece there.
• 10:19
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a special prefix menu, and there's a whole lineup, and and I don't know, maybe we'll post this at some point on Twitter or whatever, what it actually includes.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: But you sit, and I think it's right next to the restaurants there in that there's kind of like a gazebo-ish looking thing.
• 10:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 10:38
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's right in there is where they put the table.
• 10:40
  Dayna Roselli: So uh, but it's$250 per person exclusive of tax gratuity and beverages.
• 10:48
  Dayna Roselli: It's available Wednesday through Sunday from 5 p.m.
• 10:51
  Dayna Roselli: to 10 p.m.
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: And that's the dinner part.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: And that's by chef Michael Mina.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: And then they're, like I said, they're doing like a breakfast too.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: But it's a whole big experience.
• 11:02
  Dayna Roselli: There's tons of details to it, but if you want to splurge and do something like this, I mean 250 a person is is worth it for the experience.
• 11:12
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that's what it is.
• 11:13
  Sean McAllister: It's a very exclusive experience.
• 11:15
  Sean McAllister: It's not like you're going into a small restaurant with a handful of tables.
• 11:20
  Sean McAllister: No, no, no.
• 11:21
  Sean McAllister: Like you are the only person doing this experience as it's going on.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: So it's not like you have other people around, except for the people who are there to visit the Bellagio Conservatory.
• 11:35
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 11:35
  Sean McAllister: But I mean, this is like a very one-on-one personal, upscale, high-end dining experience that I mean, you're not gonna get anywhere else.
• 11:46
  Sean McAllister: No, it really is cool.
• 11:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's a cool idea, so I love it.
• 11:50
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Bellagio unveiling that just recently, and I believe it's it's up and running, so go check it out.
• 11:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, hey, Calvin Harris returning to the strip this time at XS Nightclub, where apparently he hasn't been or appeared in over a decade.
• 12:06
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't realize that.
• 12:07
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
• 12:08
  Sean McAllister: I guess he's been more over at like Omnia and Hakasan uh for his Vegas appearances.
• 12:15
  Sean McAllister: Um I r I remember talking about Calvin Harris all the time because he was here performing, like during his when he was with Taylor Swift.
• 12:25
  Dayna Roselli: Remember that?
• 12:26
  Sean McAllister: And then like, didn't he get into a car accident at leaving a parking garage or something?
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I don't know.
• 12:31
  Sean McAllister: There was something that happened.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 12:33
  Sean McAllister: I think that was in the Taylor era too.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Right, right.
• 12:35
  Sean McAllister: But anyway, that's a that's a sidebar.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 12:38
  Sean McAllister: Calvin Harris is back uh XS Nightclub.
• 12:42
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, one night only, but you know, probably not the only time that um you'll be seeing him here in Las Vegas, but at XS anyway.
• 12:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it's September 17th.
• 12:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, if you're interested in going over there, I'm sure it'll be packed, right?
• 12:58
  Sean McAllister: Absolutely.
• 12:58
  Sean McAllister: And speaking of, you know, celebrity appearances, um, there is a new restaurant that has just opened here on the Las Vegas Strip.
• 13:08
  Sean McAllister: It's called Tokamadera, and it promises to be the new celebrity hotspot.
• 13:16
  Sean McAllister: Um, they have a restaurant already in West Hollywood.
• 13:20
  Sean McAllister: They have one, I believe, in Orange County.
• 13:23
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they have another one in Scottsdale down in Arizona.
• 13:29
  Sean McAllister: Um, but this is uh by the nightlife and dining group Noble 33.
• 13:37
  Sean McAllister: Um they spent something like 10 million bucks on this restaurant.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 13:41
  Sean McAllister: I went in there uh for a little preview dinner last night, and I mean it is uh a whole vibe.
• 13:48
  Sean McAllister: It's like a Mexican restaurant with a Japanese interesting twist.
• 13:54
  Sean McAllister: Okay, which is kind of cool, and you wouldn't think that that goes together, but it does.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: And they do it the way that they have the menu, um the decor is beautiful, the food is phenomenal.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:11
  Sean McAllister: I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but it was it really everything we had was delicious.
• 14:18
  Dayna Roselli: Oh good.
• 14:19
  Dayna Roselli: And and it's right, just in case you're curious, uh, it's in the old spot where Todd English pub used to be.
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: Then it was called, I think, the pub, and now it's this.
• 14:27
  Dayna Roselli: And somebody had said, I remember I even like tweeting, like, oh, a Mexican restaurant's going in there, and everyone's like, oh, we don't need another Mexican restaurant, but I didn't realize it was gonna be like at this level, you know, like it being, you know, yeah.
• 14:38
  Dayna Roselli: I just thought it was just gonna be some Mexican restaurant joint.
• 14:41
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 14:42
  Dayna Roselli: You know what I mean?
• 14:42
  Dayna Roselli: But like I didn't think it was gonna be like a high-level restaurant, and like, you know, Mexican with a Japanese inspired.
• 14:47
  Dayna Roselli: Like that's cool.
• 14:48
  Dayna Roselli: I like that idea for there.
• 14:49
  Sean McAllister: Their cocktail menu, incredible.
• 14:52
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 14:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, so there's a lounge when you walk in with a bar, and then there's a dining room behind that.
• 14:59
  Sean McAllister: There's a private dining room, and also um a VIP dining room, which is also super cool.
• 15:06
  Sean McAllister: Um, live entertainment happening as well.
• 15:09
  Sean McAllister: We're gonna get into all of it.
• 15:10
  Sean McAllister: We're gonna go back and really have the experience again, and then give you our whole experience.
• 15:18
  Sean McAllister: But just wanted to let you know, Toca Madeira open over at the shops at Crystals.
• 15:23
  Sean McAllister: And who knows, you might see a celebrity there.
• 15:25
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 15:25
  Dayna Roselli: And the reason we say that, real quick, is I talked to one of the managers over there.
• 15:28
  Dayna Roselli: I was doing a Vegas onshoot, and he said, We've got this restaurant coming in that is going to be a celebrity hotspot.
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: So that was from his mouth.
• 15:35
  Dayna Roselli: He said that uh they expect a lot of celebrities to visit over there.
• 15:38
  Dayna Roselli: So that's cool.
• 15:39
  Sean McAllister: And a place we've already seen celebrities at the grand opening was at Lisa Vanderpump's new restaurant over at Paris, Las Vegas.
• 15:47
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, you were saying you were just over there, and it looked like there were a bunch of celebrities by the way people were acting.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, it was like a Tuesday at like 6 p.m.
• 15:58
  Dayna Roselli: I'm walking by to meet my friend at Paris who was in town visiting, and I'm like, what's going on?
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: Like, where are all these, like what something's going on outside, you know, Vanderpomp.
• 16:08
  Dayna Roselli: But it was people waiting to like get in or trying to get in.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: Before I went, I was looking for a restaurant in Paris Hotel that I could meet my friend.
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: Like, oh, what's open, you know, what's not booked and stuff.
• 16:22
  Dayna Roselli: And Vanderpomp Apuree was completely booked.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: And so I walked by, and it's like, yeah, it was like people were on their phones trying to like and trying to, you could tell schmooz the hostesses to get in.
• 16:33
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like, that Lisa Vanderpomp.
• 16:36
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, we mentioned that the one at Caesars is always the same.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 16:39
  Dayna Roselli: And I wondered if this would be that way, but that whole pathway leading up there was not busy.
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: So it's not like the Paris was busy, and you know, it was like basically everyone was gathered around Lisa Vanderpomp's new cocktail lounge.
• 16:53
  Dayna Roselli: So it's an attraction.
• 16:54
  Dayna Roselli: It's an attraction.
• 16:55
  Dayna Roselli: She, I swear, whatever she touches just turns to cold.
• 16:59
  Sean McAllister: I mean, she has the she has the secret sauce.
• 17:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 17:03
  Sean McAllister: Whatever it is.
• 17:04
  Sean McAllister: She knows exactly what she's doing, and people do just flock to her restaurants and and night spots.
• 17:12
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 17:12
  Dayna Roselli: It's it was insane.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: So um that uh safe to say that that restaurant is doing well.
• 17:17
  Sean McAllister: So you didn't eat there.
• 17:19
  Sean McAllister: Where did you eat?
• 17:20
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we ate at Gordon Ramsay's uh Hell's Kitchen, oh not Hell's Kitchen.
• 17:23
  Dayna Roselli: Why am I gonna say Gordon Ramsay Steak?
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: Gordon Ramsay Steak, which I had never been.
• 17:27
  Dayna Roselli: You recommended, and I said I was meeting my friend there, but it was booked on open table.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: And so I thought, well, let's just try and like walk in and see what happens.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: And they let us in, they had a space for us, which was really nice.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um, side note, gonna backtrack, I walked by Martha Stewart's restaurant and it wasn't open yet.
• 17:41
  Dayna Roselli: It said coming soon.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: We recently just looked it up and it looks like it's possibly open now.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: So now oh, the Bedford.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: The Bedford.
• 17:48
  Dayna Roselli: So that's next to Vanderpump Apuri.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: Then we bend around.
• 17:53
  Dayna Roselli: So we go to yeah, Gordon Ramsay's steak.
• 17:55
  Dayna Roselli: I've never been, I've never even been inside.
• 17:57
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know why, but I guess I haven't.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, we went there, we got in.
• 18:01
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, the staff that greets you there is so nice.
• 18:04
  Dayna Roselli: Like they are they really are like, is this your first time?
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: So I love that.
• 18:09
  Dayna Roselli: They did offer a little prefix thing if you wanted.
• 18:11
  Dayna Roselli: The waiter comes, tells you what you can get for the prefix, and it's like, you know, appetizers and your main dishes and a dessert and a wine.
• 18:18
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we passed on that because we both kind of wanted to get something that was off the beaten path of that.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: I had a great steak though, some great sides.
• 18:26
  Dayna Roselli: Uh the Caesar salad was delicious.
• 18:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's definitely pricey there.
• 18:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's expensive.
• 18:30
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 18:31
  Sean McAllister: So it's like a strip steakhouse.
• 18:33
  Sean McAllister: It is, yeah.
• 18:33
  Sean McAllister: Price-wise.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: And they said one of the chefs from Hell's Kitchen, one of the winners, was in the kitchen that night.
• 18:40
  Dayna Roselli: So that was kind of fun.
• 18:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:41
  Dayna Roselli: And then um, we decided to go somewhere else different for uh dessert.
• 18:46
  Dayna Roselli: And so that's gonna be in my tip segment.
• 18:49
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 18:49
  Dayna Roselli: So you want to just head over to tips?
• 18:51
  Sean McAllister: Let's get right into it.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 18:59
  Sean McAllister: So, Dana, uh, these past three seconds, I've been on pins and needles to know about your dessert experience.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: Well, uh, my friend that I was with, Jeremy, he likes to, you know, because he was only in Vegas for literally like 48 hours to do a business deal.
• 19:12
  Dayna Roselli: So he was like, wanted to pop around to different places.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm like, okay, well, let's go somewhere different for dessert.
• 19:16
  Dayna Roselli: So we went over to Mona Mega B, which was also slammed as usual.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: Patio was full, but we're like, can we just sit down and have dessert?
• 19:23
  Dayna Roselli: And there was a line of people waiting to get in, and they're like, sure, you can sit at the bar.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, we can get dessert at the bar.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: And they were like, Of course.
• 19:29
  Sean McAllister: I love the bar over there.
• 19:30
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 19:31
  Dayna Roselli: So there's the indoor bar bar and the outdoor bar, but and and you know, as long as there's seats and they were so nice, they're like, sure, like, what do you want?
• 19:38
  Dayna Roselli: And then we're like, Well, we already kind of drank a little, so do you care if we just get coffee?
• 19:43
  Dayna Roselli: And and they were like, sure.
• 19:44
  Dayna Roselli: And like, you know, they were just so nice there, and we both ordered desserts, they were great at recommending, and then we had a little vibe around us, and it was a beautiful night.
• 19:53
  Dayna Roselli: So I loved it.
• 19:54
  Sean McAllister: And that is uh that's a small bar area, right?
• 19:57
  Sean McAllister: When you walk into to Mona Me.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: But I I've had the same experience there.
• 20:02
  Sean McAllister: Every time we've gone in, whether we're, you know, waiting for our table to be prepared, or whether we're just going in for a couple drinks, um, it the staff really is so nice.
• 20:13
  Sean McAllister: They have great bartenders there.
• 20:15
  Dayna Roselli: And and you know, it's always busy, so you think like these people get sick of you know, tourists, and they've got but now they handle it really well.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: They're so nice.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Even the guy that had his like iPad out, I was like, can we sit out on the patio and have just dessert?
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: He was like, Listen, you can't just get dessert because I've got people waiting in line that are gonna get dinner.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: So, like, and I totally understood he, but he was the one who was like, But go to the bar, and I was like, Okay, great.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: They were so nice.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: You know what?
• 20:40
  Sean McAllister: Maybe this can be an ancillary tip of the week because chances are if you do a walk-in, a lot of restaurants, especially popular ones, are going to be fully booked.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: However, um, many of many of the restaurants you can walk in, and if you have a seat at a bar, they will offer a full restaurant menu.
• 21:04
  Sean McAllister: And you get like direct face-to-face service with the bartender.
• 21:09
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 21:09
  Sean McAllister: So you don't have to wait, you don't have to like put in the order for the cocktail and then wait for the server to bring it back.
• 21:15
  Sean McAllister: Like it's all done right there.
• 21:17
  Sean McAllister: And you do get great service at the bar.
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 21:20
  Sean McAllister: I love sitting at bars for dinner.
• 21:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I know.
• 21:22
  Dayna Roselli: It's fine.
• 21:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think when there's two people, it's fine.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: When there's a bunch, I'm like, I can't see you.
• 21:27
  Dayna Roselli: It's not curved and all that.
• 21:28
  Dayna Roselli: But two people, you're right.
• 21:29
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, why not?
• 21:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: So, all right, that's my tip.
• 21:32
  Dayna Roselli: And you've got something completely different you wanted to talk about.
• 21:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, you walked into a store off the strip recently and you said it was really fun and you want to let people know about it.
• 21:41
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's over in Henderson.
• 21:43
  Sean McAllister: It's called Zia Records.
• 21:45
  Sean McAllister: So, Shane, my husband and I, we're we have a record player in the living room and a bunch of we have new music um on vinyl, but also like some old vintage music.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: It so it all started.
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: Are you creating those Carrie and Mr.
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: Big moments when they cook dinner in the kitchen and they play the record player?
• 22:07
  Sean McAllister: We we actually do do that.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: When we're making dinner, sometimes we will put on a record.
• 22:11
  Sean McAllister: We'll put on, you know, Frank Sinatra live at The Sands or live at Sahara, wherever he was.
• 22:18
  Sean McAllister: Love it.
• 22:18
  Sean McAllister: Um just like for a vibe, yeah.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: Um But it all started because at a few years ago now, uh Debbie Reynolds' estate, Debbie Reynolds, a Hollywood actress, um, they had an auction to get rid of a lot of the stuff that she had just had in warehouses, a lot of her personal things.
• 22:41
  Sean McAllister: And we bought some things at the Debbie Reynolds auction.
• 22:44
  Sean McAllister: Among them uh was her record collection.
• 22:48
  Sean McAllister: Oh, neat.
• 22:49
  Sean McAllister: And it's like her personal Judy Garland records from back in the day.
• 22:54
  Sean McAllister: Um like the Oklahoma original Oklahoma Broadway soundtrack that was like personally there's a personal inscription to her on the inside that she got for her 16th birthday.
• 23:08
  Sean McAllister: A lot of the records have like her handwritten notes on the inside about which tracks she liked.
• 23:16
  Sean McAllister: So really cool.
• 23:17
  Sean McAllister: So that's why we ended up going to get a record player back on track now.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: We went to Zia Records to see what we could add to the record collection, and it's great.
• 23:28
  Sean McAllister: They buy people's you know, records that they're getting rid of and add it to their collection.
• 23:34
  Sean McAllister: And we got a Joan Rivers uh stand-up album from I think 1983.
• 23:43
  Sean McAllister: She did this stand-up act, and so we came home, we listened to that.
• 23:47
  Sean McAllister: It was like$2.99.
• 23:49
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, and so like you just bought that.
• 23:51
  Dayna Roselli: Just bought.
• 23:52
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, well, you're gonna have to share that with Frank Marino.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 23:54
  Dayna Roselli: Our friend Frank.
• 23:55
  Sean McAllister: It's great, and that's what I we listened to it, and Shane actually said he was like, Oh my gosh, this sounds exactly like Frank Marino.
• 24:03
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah, and and Frank, if anyone doesn't know, has been impersonating Joan Rivers uh in drag for many, many years on the strip.
• 24:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so so that was great.
• 24:13
  Sean McAllister: Um, so Zia Records has all sorts of vintage vinyl, and it ranges in price, you know, depending on the collectibility of it.
• 24:24
  Sean McAllister: But there's some really affordable stuff.
• 24:26
  Sean McAllister: There's also new vinyl artists are releasing their music again.
• 24:31
  Sean McAllister: Harry Styles, his new stuff was out and displayed prominently there.
• 24:36
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 24:36
  Sean McAllister: Um, so it was it's just a really cool spot.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: They also have DVDs and CDs and old stereo systems from back in the day that are still operational and really have great sound quality.
• 24:51
  Sean McAllister: But it's just kind of like, you know, it's not the newest thing out there.
• 24:55
  Sean McAllister: So people, you know, go for the new shiny thing.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: But the classic stuff is great.
• 25:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, but like you said, records are back, and I think Zia Records is probably gonna see a lot of people more than they're used to over the next couple of years.
• 25:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:10
  Dayna Roselli: Because you're right, artists are releasing uh my friend Matt Goss, our friend Matt Goss, uh, released his new album in the UK on vinyl, and people came to the record store for signings and bought the physical vinyl.
• 25:21
  Dayna Roselli: They wanted that more than they were even buying cassette tapes.
• 25:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's like there's something about it.
• 25:26
  Sean McAllister: It's funny.
• 25:27
  Sean McAllister: There was just a story on the Today show about how cassette tapes are coming back.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: It's like Like for the first time in in 15 years, sales of cassette tapes have gone up.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, isn't that weird?
• 25:40
  Dayna Roselli: Well, speaking of that, this is gonna kind of a personal uh Matt and Dana moment.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: We were just getting ready to move him, and you know, he was in a band called Bros.
• 25:48
  Sean McAllister: Because he moved back to the UK, right.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: He moved back to the UK, and um maybe go into more detail about that next podcast because I am getting a lot of questions about that.
• 25:57
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, um, but anyway, we were going through some of his old stuff, you know, and you know when you find those blank tapes, yes, and you're like, I don't know what's on it.
• 26:05
  Dayna Roselli: Like, because back in the day, you may have like said something into the recorder really stupid, or you were a teenager, or who knows what it was, right?
• 26:11
  Dayna Roselli: Or old songs.
• 26:12
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, we found a few cassette tapes that weren't labeled, and we he's and you know what you have to do before you throw them out, what he did was he took the you know the tape of the cassette and pulled it and broke it.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: You have to like destroy it.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that weird?
• 26:28
  Dayna Roselli: Like, and I was like, oh my god, I remember doing this back in the day when I wanted to throw a cassette out, I would have to pull the tape and like break it to make sure that no one would like know what was on it.
• 26:37
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 26:38
  Dayna Roselli: So anyway, oh my gosh.
• 26:39
  Sean McAllister: I we had tons of those tapes.
• 26:41
  Sean McAllister: My sister, she's nine years older than me, so she tormented me as a child a little bit.
• 26:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and when I was little, I couldn't say my R's.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 26:51
  Sean McAllister: And so she would sit me down in front of a tape recorder and she would say, say railroad tracks.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: And what'd you say?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: L road.
• 27:00
  Sean McAllister: Well woe twax.
• 27:01
  Sean McAllister: Say, say shirt, say shut, say shorts, shut.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, those are the kind of tapes that you had.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_00: That's the thing that we did on those cassette tapes.
• 27:12
  Sean McAllister: And then she would make me read a book that had all these R words in it.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm glad you can say Roselli.
• 27:20
  Sean McAllister: I Roselli.
• 27:21
  Sean McAllister: I have my R's down now.
• 27:23
  Sean McAllister: Okay, good.
• 27:25
  Sean McAllister: So anyway, Zia Records, and I believe that they're doing a pop-up event um for the Psycho Las Vegas weekend, which is happening at uh Resorts World August 22nd.
• 27:37
  Sean McAllister: Uh it's a music festival, and Zia Records is going to be doing a pop-up there as well.
• 27:42
  Sean McAllister: So look for them.
• 27:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, sounds good.
• 27:44
  Dayna Roselli: And it looks like they got a couple locations.
• 27:46
  Dayna Roselli: One on South Rainbow, too, so FYI.
• 27:48
  Dayna Roselli: But you went to the one on Eastern, right?
• 27:50
  Dayna Roselli: Eastern.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 27:52
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 27:52
  Dayna Roselli: Well, that's our tips.
• 27:53
  Dayna Roselli: That's it.
• 27:54
  Dayna Roselli: We got a lot of things on the agenda for next week.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: We're already going to be talking about.
• 27:58
  Dayna Roselli: Um, Sean went to Frankie Marino's news show.
• 28:01
  Dayna Roselli: Frankie Marino, not Frank Marino's.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_00: Not Frank.
• 28:04
  Dayna Roselli: Uh he had a longtime residency at the Strat, and he's been doing stuff at the South Point and the Smith Center, and now he's got a weekend residency at the Palms.
• 28:12
  Dayna Roselli: We'll talk about that because we're also going to talk about Sean and I are going to go visit.
• 28:17
  Dayna Roselli: There was a grand opening of the Ghost Bar the other day, but we decided, you know what, we're going to go spend some time there and get the real feel of what's different and the live music atmosphere.
• 28:25
  Dayna Roselli: Probably have a night out.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, have a night out.
• 28:28
  Dayna Roselli: Probably this week.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll talk about that.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and then a couple different things that are open, some things with Nevada discounts if you're on the strip, if you have Nevada ID, a new liquidation center that opened with hotel furniture inside that you can get for cheap.
• 28:43
  Dayna Roselli: So all that coming up on episode 130.
• 28:46
  Sean McAllister: 130, we're already there.
• 28:47
  Dayna Roselli: Can't believe it.
• 28:48
  Sean McAllister: Man.
• 28:49
  Sean McAllister: Summer blazes on.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: So bring your credit card.
• 29:00
  Sean McAllister: Let's go and baby, baby.
• 29:02
  Sean McAllister: Let's go and make it