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$20 Million Restaurant Coming to Las Vegas, Tour Siegfried & Roy's Estate, Bruno Mars Puts on Surprise Show, Free Lunch Parking in Downtown | Ep. 131 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's Vegas Revealed episode 131.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Concert fans on the strip got quite the surprise when Bruno Mars hopped on stage, find out where it happened, and the reaction of the band that was originally performing.
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: Plus, the music of Meatloaf will soon be taking over Vegas like a bat out of hell.
• 0:18
  Sean McAllister: And a popular strip resort has a major upgrade in the works.
• 0:29
  Sean McAllister: And how you can tour Siegfried and Roy's Jungle Palace.
• 0:34
  Sean McAllister: All that and more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:38
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• 0:42
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• 1:01
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• 1:19
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• 1:24
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• 1:28
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's get to Vegas Revealed now and spin that wheel.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to Vegas.
• 1:40
  Dayna Roselli: Hey everyone and welcome to episode 131 of Vegas Revealed.
• 1:45
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here, ready to tackle another podcast.
• 1:50
  Dayna Roselli: We've got a lot to talk about, but we wanted to touch quickly again on all the rain we've been having.
• 1:56
  Dayna Roselli: And I say all the rain, more than usual this summer, because so many people are messaging us and texting us saying, Hey, you guys all right?
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: They are.
• 2:04
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, I'm looking out the window over your shoulder right now, and it is bone dry.
• 2:11
  Sean McAllister: We have blue skies and sunshine right now, and no wetness on the ground.
• 2:17
  Dayna Roselli: And I feel like we have that like an hour after it rains, too.
• 2:21
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's like um, it's hard to explain to people unless you live in the desert, but monsoon is like it pours and then it clears up.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: And it's not even all of Las Vegas, it's like little neighborhoods for the most part.
• 2:34
  Sean McAllister: Sometimes there have been a couple times when we've had a big storm push through where everybody gets the rain.
• 2:40
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 2:40
  Sean McAllister: But most of the time it's like spotty little downpours.
• 2:43
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: It's funny because I I went actually south toward the Silverton yesterday on Blue Diamond to meet my friend at a Starbucks.
• 2:51
  Dayna Roselli: And when I checked something, I don't know if I looked at Twitter or I saw one of our local meteorologists say there's a downpour right now in Southern Highlands, which is even more south than that.
• 3:02
  Dayna Roselli: But my point being the the sun was out near me.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: I went to the to the to the Starbucks and not a drop on the ground.
• 3:10
  Dayna Roselli: So it like just rained in Southern Highlands.
• 3:13
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:13
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah.
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: And I the reason that a lot of people are still sending these messages saying, Oh my gosh, is Vegas underwater right now?
• 3:21
  Sean McAllister: It's because a lot of national news outlets have been running one specific piece of video that I have noticed of uh flooding on Charleston.
• 3:31
  Sean McAllister: Charleston Boulevard, right.
• 3:33
  Sean McAllister: One of our big roads, like kind of in the downtown area.
• 3:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 3:36
  Sean McAllister: Central Las Vegas.
• 3:37
  Sean McAllister: Um, and some big national TV personalities have said, look at this video coming out of Las Vegas, the flooding down on the strip.
• 3:48
  Sean McAllister: Well, it wasn't on the strip, it was on Charleston.
• 3:50
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 3:51
  Dayna Roselli: And which is downtown area, which is not considered the strip.
• 3:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's in the city of Las Vegas.
• 3:56
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 3:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's not even, yeah.
• 3:58
  Sean McAllister: But then that video is paired with another video that's been going around of Planet Hollywood.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: And that that is something that was unusual this year.
• 4:07
  Dayna Roselli: And that is, you know, like rain pouring through right onto like some of the gaming tables there, like blackjack and and poker tables and roulette and stuff like that.
• 4:17
  Dayna Roselli: That definitely was concerned for so many people because I'd never seen anything like that.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: So I'll give them that.
• 4:23
  Dayna Roselli: But they're also also another piece of video, which is also going around, is the Link parking garage.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 4:30
  Dayna Roselli: And every year this happens, excuse the frog in my throat.
• 4:34
  Dayna Roselli: Every year this happens.
• 4:35
  Dayna Roselli: It used to be the Imperial Palace, but what people don't realize, because I even saw it on like ABC News' Instagram, and yeah, it looks like, oh my gosh, this water is flooded, but it's supposed to do that.
• 4:46
  Sean McAllister: It's a flood channel.
• 4:47
  Sean McAllister: It's a literage is part of the flood channel.
• 4:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 4:51
  Sean McAllister: So as long as that is flooding and water is running through it, the flood channel is doing its job and making that runoff go in the direction it's supposed to go.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 5:03
  Dayna Roselli: So, right.
• 5:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's cool to look at when you look at the piece of video, and it does look like, you know, but so yeah, the Planet Hollywood thing, okay, yeah, that was really strange.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: And that's happened twice.
• 5:15
  Dayna Roselli: So it's very strange.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: Also, there's word out there that um, you know, a couple people were found in flood channels and had passed away and they were pulling bodies up and and all that.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: But uh sadly, a lot of our homeless that live in Las Vegas in the tunnels or in the flood channels, they kind of set up camp, hang out there, maybe take a nap.
• 5:36
  Dayna Roselli: The problem is these these rains come so quick that all of a sudden the flood channels full and those people are getting washed away in a sense.
• 5:45
  Dayna Roselli: Uh so sadly, that actually isn't anything out of the ordinary when we have major rains, but still newsworthy and important to talk about.
• 5:58
  Dayna Roselli: That you know, we want to do our best to get the homeless out of those flood channels.
• 6:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 6:03
  Sean McAllister: And the the thing with that is is like we're just mentioning, it can rain in one part of the Las Vegas Valley and be bone dry in another part.
• 6:13
  Sean McAllister: But if it's raining on the west side, guess what?
• 6:18
  Sean McAllister: All that water is gonna go through the flood channels in the middle of the by down by the strip, and you don't anticipate that wall of water coming down those underground tunnels until it's right there.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's it's a sad situation all around when that happens.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we've had a very, I don't even want to say strange summer, but we talked about this.
• 6:43
  Dayna Roselli: Like, we just haven't had this type of monsoon weather in at least a few years.
• 6:49
  Sean McAllister: So I think I think this is the wettest monsoon season.
• 6:52
  Sean McAllister: I could be wrong on this, but I feel like I read that it's the wettest monsoon season in like 10 years.
• 6:59
  Sean McAllister: And I believe it.
• 7:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I believe it too.
• 7:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's it's been a while.
• 7:03
  Dayna Roselli: It's convenient, it's consistent.
• 7:05
  Sean McAllister: Whether it's been whether 10 years is the number or not, it's around 10 years, and it's been a while.
• 7:11
  Dayna Roselli: And it's been humid, which is consistently humid, which has been such a pain in the ass for my hair.
• 7:17
  Dayna Roselli: Very meat too.
• 7:19
  Dayna Roselli: My skin feels good, but anyway.
• 7:22
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 7:23
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we've got a long list of uh fun Vegas topics to talk about today, too.
• 7:27
  Dayna Roselli: And one of them uh has to do with the late Meatloaf, and we're talking the singer Meatloaf, a new show coming to the Paris, Las Vegas.
• 7:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's called Bat Outta Hell.
• 7:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's new to Las Vegas, but apparently, I think it was um it's been running in London's West End, or at least in the UK, for quite a while.
• 7:48
  Dayna Roselli: It's got a lot of accolades, and a lot of people have said it's incredible.
• 7:53
  Dayna Roselli: It starts September 27th, so Bat Outta Hell coming to Paris, Las Vegas.
• 7:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I actually saw one of our friends, Travis Clover, who was in Jersey Boys for many, many years, post about this.
• 8:07
  Dayna Roselli: He's going to be in the show.
• 8:08
  Dayna Roselli: Congratulations to Travis.
• 8:10
  Dayna Roselli: That's what alerted me.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: And then I started looking into it and I'm going, wait a minute, this is opening September 27th, and it's on the calendar all the way through 2023.
• 8:19
  Dayna Roselli: And they've even got some nights, what is it, Fridays and Saturdays?
• 8:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think it is.
• 8:23
  Dayna Roselli: They have two shows a night.
• 8:25
  Sean McAllister: And it's so this is a musical that's based on Meatloaf's 1977 album, Bat Out of Hell.
• 8:33
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Jim Steinman is the one who uh put the musical together.
• 8:38
  Sean McAllister: And the storyline, which I think is interesting, is loosely based on the storyline of Peter Pan.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: Oh, set in kind of a post-apocalyptic New York City environment.
• 8:51
  Sean McAllister: This musical premiered uh back in 2017, and then there was an international tour in 2020, and now um, you know, we're getting word that the musical is setting up shop uh, I guess semi-permanently at least uh here in Las Vegas.
• 9:09
  Dayna Roselli: I know I'm excited about it.
• 9:11
  Dayna Roselli: You know, Jersey Boys was in that room for so long, yeah, and it was a musical and it did well.
• 9:16
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, they've tried a couple other things in there and it didn't really work, but I think that theater is a great theater and stage and setup for shows like that.
• 9:26
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, the music on the Bad Out of Hell album, you really can't beat it.
• 9:32
  Sean McAllister: There are some incredible songs, of course, you like uh I know we just want to sing them, right?
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: I would do it.
• 9:39
  Dayna Roselli: We'll just sing the we don't know the name of it.
• 9:41
  Sean McAllister: But I won't do that.
• 9:43
  Dayna Roselli: And then there's so many.
• 9:45
  Dayna Roselli: I I mean there's so many, right?
• 9:47
  Dayna Roselli: I can't even I can't even think of the names either, but you guys know what we're talking about.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone knows meatloaf, right?
• 9:53
  Dayna Roselli: But and you can oh uh something on the dashboard.
• 9:57
  Sean McAllister: What's the dashboard lights?
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: Dashboard.
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: We're not gonna we're not gonna pause the podcast.
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: We're just gonna keep going.
• 10:06
  Dayna Roselli: I told you.
• 10:06
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, Paradise by the dashboard light.
• 10:09
  Sean McAllister: See, I knew there was something about the dashboard light.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: Two out of three ain't bad.
• 10:14
  Dayna Roselli: There you go.
• 10:15
  Dayna Roselli: Dead ringer for love and bat out of hell.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: The award-winning Wild Child musical thunders through powerhouse hits, including I Do Anything for Love, but I won't do that.
• 10:27
  Dayna Roselli: And then the three that I just mentioned.
• 10:28
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: All those very famous popular songs.
• 10:32
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited for it.
• 10:33
  Dayna Roselli: I'm glad they've got something going in that space.
• 10:35
  Dayna Roselli: It keeps like sitting empty for too long.
• 10:38
  Dayna Roselli: And with all those new restaurants opening at the Paris, they need some entertainment, they need some shows in the building.
• 10:42
  Sean McAllister: They do.
• 10:43
  Sean McAllister: I think that'll do really well.
• 10:45
  Sean McAllister: The music, as we were just saying, is great.
• 10:48
  Sean McAllister: And uh the cast that we've seen so far is uh in top notch.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: Top notch, yeah.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, across the street, right, and down the road.
• 10:59
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that part of a nursery rhyme?
• 11:01
  Sean McAllister: Across down through the river, over the river and through the woods.
• 11:08
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, across the street and down Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: Ocean Prime is gonna be opening in the spring of 2023.
• 11:17
  Dayna Roselli: And this is a new, get this, Sean,$20 million restaurant.
• 11:23
  Dayna Roselli: And it's the first Ocean Prime in Las Vegas, but it's the 18th location nationwide.
• 11:30
  Sean McAllister: It's Cameron Mitchell restaurants that's opening this location.
• 11:34
  Sean McAllister: It's going to be the flagship location of all of their ocean prime locations.
• 11:40
  Sean McAllister: Um, but this uh restaurant space is over 14,000 square feet.
• 11:47
  Sean McAllister: That's huge.
• 11:48
  Sean McAllister: There's a ton of private dining rooms, there's a main dining room, there's a patio overlooking the strip.
• 11:56
  Sean McAllister: Gorgeous.
• 11:56
  Sean McAllister: The renderings that uh we just received uh they look phenomenal.
• 12:02
  Sean McAllister: And it is a prime location.
• 12:05
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 12:05
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, and I love when we get a good flagship, you know?
• 12:08
  Dayna Roselli: I know because it means we're better than all the rest.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: It does.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: All the other 18.
• 12:11
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, this is gonna be the 18th, all the other 17 restaurants.
• 12:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's right at Las Vegas Boulevard and Harmon and right in front of Crystals, the shops at Crystals, right?
• 12:22
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, it's a great spot, lots of luxury shopping over there, and I think it'll fit in perfectly.
• 12:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and then right next door to the cosmopolitan, uh, across the street from uh Planet Hollywood, Kitty Corner to Planet Hollywood, really.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I guess the whole area is called 63 Las Vegas.
• 12:41
  Dayna Roselli: So they'll continue to fill in with other kinds of, I don't know if it's gonna be shops, restaurants, any kind of type businesses around that area.
• 12:49
  Dayna Roselli: And they say there's a lot of food traffic in that area, so it's a great place to be.
• 12:54
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is uh the corner of Harmon and Las Vegas Boulevard.
• 12:59
  Sean McAllister: Um, that kind of corner of the building has been under construction for a while.
• 13:05
  Sean McAllister: And we've been wondering like, what is what's going in there?
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: And so now we're starting to have some of the the dining retail uh establishments be revealed for that space that we've seen going up over the gosh, over the past year plus, really.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, a$20 million restaurant, you know, it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty, right?
• 13:31
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: And the good thing about places like that is even if you can't afford to go eat there, you can go, you can probably afford to go in and have one drink at the bar.
• 13:38
  Sean McAllister: You can go in, you can get an appetizer, some drinks at the bar, say you've been there, snap your Instagram pictures.
• 13:45
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 13:45
  Sean McAllister: You know.
• 13:46
  Sean McAllister: Uh speaking of Instagram pictures, some place that you might want to snap some pictures of new rooms is over at New York, New York.
• 13:55
  Sean McAllister: They just announced a pretty major renovation.
• 13:57
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah,$63 million room remodel project.
• 14:02
  Dayna Roselli: And I guess they are gonna be redoing 1,830 rooms and 155 of its suites, and expected to kind of be complete around the summer of 2023.
• 14:15
  Dayna Roselli: So they're just kind of kicking things off there, and they've got to go room by room.
• 14:18
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently, the accommodations are gonna feature some vibrant new designs and upgraded in-room amenities that will appeal to travelers from around the world.
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: So that's exciting.
• 14:27
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's time for New York, New York to do a little upgrade, right?
• 14:30
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and in addition to uh the rooms, the the spa, and the marquees at New York, New York are also getting a bit of a facelift, which is you know part of this big renovation too.
• 14:44
  Sean McAllister: And it kind of goes along with uh uh Mad Apple, the new Cirque show going in, and that uh theater at New York, New York has already received uh some renovations to to accommodate and host that show.
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: Um, so that's exciting for New York, New York.
• 15:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, lots of upgrades going in and and kind of you know uh an indicator that uh long live New York New York.
• 15:10
  Dayna Roselli: Because we always say when we see a hotel that doesn't get upgrades after a while, we're kind of like, what's the fate of that hotel?
• 15:15
  Dayna Roselli: So good to know that MGM and New York, New York are bustling forward and and gonna do some renovations and keep things moving over there.
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: I know a lot of people that have gone to see Mad Apple more and more lately, and they're all really loving the show.
• 15:27
  Dayna Roselli: So congratulations to Circ on that one, too.
• 15:30
  Sean McAllister: It's so much fun.
• 15:30
  Sean McAllister: It really is a great show.
• 15:32
  Dayna Roselli: All right, you may have seen this clip on our social media.
• 15:35
  Dayna Roselli: If you go to our Instagram, our Vegas Revealed Instagram, you'll see Bruno Mars and Anderson Pac up on stage performing, but they are not at Park MGM, where their show is.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: And they have a great show over there, and they are together, Silksonic.
• 15:51
  Dayna Roselli: In case you didn't know that, you can hear about them in previous podcasts.
• 15:54
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, they won many Grammys, so I think you know who they are now.
• 15:57
  Dayna Roselli: But they popped up over at the Barbershop Cuts and Cocktails, and this is inside the Cosmopolitan, which is interesting because it's now owned by MGM, by the way, the Cosmopolitan, because it's near Park MGM, which is owned by MGM.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: That's where their show is.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: And now that the Cosmopolitan's owned by MGM, makes sense that they were over there.
• 16:17
  Dayna Roselli: But they stopped by Barbershop Cuts and Cocktails, hopped up on stage, and just started like jamming to some music.
• 16:24
  Dayna Roselli: The crowd was going crazy.
• 16:26
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently, they they kind of did a bunch of like covers.
• 16:29
  Dayna Roselli: They did like Roxanne by the police, Your Love by The Outfield, Last Resort by Papa Roach, and the crowd was just loving it.
• 16:38
  Dayna Roselli: Like, wait a minute, is that like Bruno Mars and Anderson Pac?
• 16:42
  Dayna Roselli: Like, we're here for a different band and some live music.
• 16:45
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 16:46
  Sean McAllister: And the musicians who are already performing are, you know, some guys that we've known for a while.
• 16:52
  Sean McAllister: Uh Justin Carter, Ben Carey, Sean Eiferman were up there on stage.
• 16:56
  Sean McAllister: They're regular performers over at the barber shop.
• 17:00
  Sean McAllister: And then I guess when Bruno and Anderson Pac just pop on over and say, Hey, you know what?
• 17:05
  Sean McAllister: We want to hop up on stage, you say, Okay.
• 17:08
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 17:09
  Sean McAllister: Um, so that really is cool.
• 17:11
  Sean McAllister: I was just looking at uh Justin Carter's Instagram, and uh he has a picture of him and and Bruno up on stage, and he says, Well, I guess this is the face you make when Bruno Mars joins you for a jam session.
• 17:25
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 17:26
  Dayna Roselli: And I was gonna say, when they say, you know, hey, we want to hop up on stage, then they probably say back, like, well, we'll leave the door open.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: Ah, good one.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: That was my joke.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: But Justin Carter, hey, FYI side note, performed at one of your birthday parties.
• 17:39
  Dayna Roselli: He did in your backyard, remember?
• 17:41
  Sean McAllister: That was in uh 2021.
• 17:45
  Dayna Roselli: I think it was 2021, yeah.
• 17:47
  Sean McAllister: It was yeah, because we we had that, and then like a couple days later, we decided to sell the house.
• 17:52
  Sean McAllister: Oh, yes on a whim.
• 17:54
  Dayna Roselli: That's right, that's right.
• 17:55
  Dayna Roselli: Um, yeah, so Justin put on a great show in your backyard.
• 18:00
  Dayna Roselli: He's always really entertaining.
• 18:01
  Dayna Roselli: So he was over there at barbershop, and then that's how both of us saw that Bruno had hopped up on stage because we followed Justin, and then we got the press release saying, Hey, yeah, here's what went down, and the crowd went wild.
• 18:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this was after the Silksonic show over at uh the Dolby Theater at Park MGM, which is an incredibly high-energy show.
• 18:22
  Sean McAllister: You know, Bruno and Anderson Pac put on one hell of a performance, and then to still have the energy to go and do a whole nother show after that.
• 18:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's pretty impressive.
• 18:33
  Dayna Roselli: That's what Vegas is about and always has been about.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm glad to see some of this happening.
• 18:38
  Dayna Roselli: I like it a lot because I feel like that was the whole reason people visited Las Vegas for so long, you know, is because you never knew where you were gonna be and someone was gonna pop up or what was gonna happen.
• 18:49
  Dayna Roselli: And so I love it.
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's great.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, check out the video.
• 18:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's pretty quick video, but it's kind of fun to watch on our Instagram.
• 18:56
  Dayna Roselli: We've got it up there at our Vegas Revealed.
• 18:58
  Sean McAllister: And so that happened at the barber shop, the speakeasy over at the Cosmopolitan.
• 19:02
  Sean McAllister: We've also seen things like this happen at Brian Newman's show, his late night show inside the library over at the Nomad.
• 19:11
  Sean McAllister: Yes, that's it.
• 19:12
  Sean McAllister: So it is.
• 19:12
  Sean McAllister: It's really cool.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: Well, if you love comedy, and uh I know I sure do, and I really like Brad Garrett too.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: He's one of the funniest comedians I've ever seen live.
• 19:21
  Dayna Roselli: I love him.
• 19:22
  Dayna Roselli: But he's got a comedy club over at MGM Grand.
• 19:24
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, we haven't even talked about that.
• 19:26
  Dayna Roselli: You know, he moved locations, and I've walked by his new comedy club twice recently, and I thought we need to get in there because it's a cool space.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's got this like outer area with like like at a bar and kind of a cocktail tables and lounge area before you go into the comedy club.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, um, at that comedy club at MGM Grand, which is now on the way to like when you head toward the Grand Garden Arena, is that called the district?
• 19:52
  Sean McAllister: The district.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: The district, right?
• 19:54
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I walked by when I was going to Nellie's Southern Kitchen that's owned by the Jonas family.
• 19:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but anyway, they are having uh an event there, and it's the main event of the World Series of Comedy, which I didn't even know there was a World Series of Comedy, did you?
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: I didn't.
• 20:08
  Sean McAllister: I knew there was a World Series of Poker.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's the competition semifinal and final rounds, and it's scheduled for Saturday, September 17th at 6 p.m.
• 20:19
  Dayna Roselli: and 8 p.m.
• 20:20
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a stand-up comedy festival.
• 20:23
  Dayna Roselli: And so with the final and the semifinal, you can only imagine the the the guys and gals that are gonna be up on stage are gonna be hilarious because they've made it really far.
• 20:31
  Sean McAllister: And it's a a massive field of comedians that that started out in this world series of comedy.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: 500 comedians started out, and in the end, only one of them is going to be crowned the champion.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a big deal, right?
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna be a lot of fun to watch.
• 20:49
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, if you want to get your tickets, I would get them now and hold your place.
• 20:52
  Dayna Roselli: If you love comedy, this is gonna be the place to be.
• 20:55
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's Saturday, September 17th at Brad Garrett's Comedy Club at MGM Grand, the main event of the World Series of Comedy.
• 21:03
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, I know you wanted to talk about something that you saw just before we were about to record the podcast.
• 21:08
  Dayna Roselli: You're like, oh yeah, I want to I wanna pop this in because you uh you were telling me about it and it sounds really cool.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's uh something in conjunction with the Neon Museum, right?
• 21:17
  Dayna Roselli: They're doing a new kind of tour.
• 21:19
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so this is called, it's a whole series.
• 21:22
  Sean McAllister: It's called Duck Duck Shed.
• 21:25
  Sean McAllister: And it's a series of events celebrating architecture, design, and culture in Las Vegas.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: And there are a bunch of different ticketed events and tours that uh you can take part in.
• 21:38
  Sean McAllister: This is all happening uh uh Thursday, October 27th through Sunday, October 30th.
• 21:47
  Sean McAllister: So giving you a little heads up here.
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: I like that.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: But one of the events that I thought was super cool, which is happening uh that Saturday, is a tour, a walking tour of Saturday.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: Siegfried and Roy's home, which is called The Jungle Palace.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: So it's a walk through the home.
• 22:08
  Sean McAllister: Um, and you're going to hear stories from people who worked closely with Siegfried and Roy over the years.
• 22:17
  Sean McAllister: Um, you get to see the grounds where you know some of the jungle cats lived.
• 22:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:23
  Sean McAllister: And really, Siegfried and Roy had an opulent lifestyle.
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: They did.
• 22:30
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, the highest paid entertainers in Las Vegas at one point.
• 22:35
  Sean McAllister: And so that comes with a certain level of living.
• 22:40
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Sean McAllister: And so you get to see that firsthand.
• 22:42
  Sean McAllister: Uh, tickets for that are$95.
• 22:46
  Sean McAllister: Um, which I think is a it's a pretty good price, yeah.
• 22:49
  Sean McAllister: It's it's a pretty good price to see history.
• 22:52
  Sean McAllister: I mean, who knows how long the house is going to be the estate, really, I should say.
• 22:58
  Sean McAllister: Who knows how long it's going to be kept intact?
• 23:01
  Sean McAllister: This could be like a moment in time to get that glimpse of history and into the lives of Las Vegas legends, really entertainment legends around the world.
• 23:13
  Sean McAllister: Um, so again,$95 for the ticket to uh tour the jungle palace.
• 23:19
  Dayna Roselli: I yeah, I thought it was interesting when you mentioned that because I didn't realize that they were going to be opening up their home.
• 23:24
  Dayna Roselli: And if anyone doesn't know, which I assume most people do, Siegfried and Roy both passed away, I would say somewhat recently, over the last five years, right?
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: Because I know um Siegfried passed away kind of during that COVID period.
• 23:38
  Sean McAllister: He did, and uh Roy uh prior to that.
• 23:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, prior to that, but in close pretty close proximity.
• 23:46
  Dayna Roselli: Close proximity.
• 23:47
  Dayna Roselli: So uh it was a sad loss for the world and Las Vegas.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: You know, they were incredible magicians, and obviously everyone knows their story and what happened on stage.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: It was it was tragic.
• 23:57
  Dayna Roselli: Roy was was hurt, um, but they still always made visits around Las Vegas, went to shows, stayed involved in the community, and so it was a big loss for us.
• 24:06
  Dayna Roselli: But I didn't realize they were opening up their home to this kind of tour.
• 24:10
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited to hear that a lot of people who really, really have an interest in them, their lifestyle, where they lived will be able to go in and, like you said, witness history.
• 24:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and it looks like uh the Neon Museum is going to hold its 10th anniversary celebration uh at their home as well.
• 24:30
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 24:30
  Sean McAllister: Um, that's a pricier ticket at$1,000.
• 24:34
  Sean McAllister: Um, but still, I mean, there's gonna be some good people at that event too.
• 24:39
  Sean McAllister: For more on the duck duck shed uh series, you can go to neonmuseum.org, and that's where you can also uh find more about the regular events that the Neon Museum hosts too, as well as their regular tours.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 24:57
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we've got a couple good tips coming up, so why don't we do it and get to it?
• 25:05
  Dayna Roselli: All right, Sean, the tip that I have is free lunch parking in the arts district, and hallelujah is what I have to say.
• 25:12
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 25:13
  Dayna Roselli: This started on August 15th, and then apparently the city has decided the metered on-street parking, and they call it the 18B Las Vegas Arts District, will be free Monday through Friday from 11 a.m.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: to 1 p.m.
• 25:26
  Dayna Roselli: And I gotta tell you why I love this.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: Literally, yesterday I went to lunch with a friend of mine, Sherry Swince.
• 25:31
  Dayna Roselli: She's a local meteorologist on the morning show.
• 25:33
  Dayna Roselli: We worked at Channel 8 together for eight years.
• 25:35
  Dayna Roselli: We were meeting up for lunch, and it was downtown.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm telling you, Sean, and we talked about this before.
• 25:41
  Dayna Roselli: It took me like five minutes to pay for my parking, plug in my license plate, do this, put the card in, wait, read it, get the receipt.
• 25:50
  Dayna Roselli: I was like, oh my gosh, I'm like tak, you know, like wasting half my lunchtime here paying for this parking.
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I'm excited about this free parking in the arts district from 11 to 1.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: I think it's a great idea.
• 26:02
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: And, you know, I think that is one of the challenges that downtown Las Vegas has is the parking situation.
• 26:11
  Sean McAllister: And I know that they're doing some things to try and address that.
• 26:16
  Sean McAllister: There are apps that you can use to pay for parking, all that.
• 26:19
  Sean McAllister: Um, but people need to know about that in order to make it easier.
• 26:24
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 26:25
  Sean McAllister: You know?
• 26:25
  Sean McAllister: So that is part of the evolution of the downtown area.
• 26:30
  Sean McAllister: But this is a great step in the direction to get people down there.
• 26:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it really is.
• 26:35
  Dayna Roselli: And I think there's a lot of construction too, which is adding to it, you know, and that always is frustrating because they're like sometimes it makes makes it so there's like less spots on the side of the road because there's some construction.
• 26:45
  Dayna Roselli: So it's really limited.
• 26:47
  Dayna Roselli: But just so everyone knows, all on-street meters in the Arts District will be free.
• 26:51
  Dayna Roselli: And this area is bounded by, write this down, Charleston Boulevard to the north, Commerce Street to the west, third street on the east, and Oakie Boulevard to the south.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: So check it out.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to hop in for lunch, you won't have to pay for parking.
• 27:05
  Dayna Roselli: I put in, let's see, I think a two hours yesterday.
• 27:09
  Dayna Roselli: It said, How long do you think you're gonna be?
• 27:10
  Dayna Roselli: And it costs four dollars.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: So it's not very expensive to begin with, but you know, it'll save you four bucks.
• 27:16
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 27:17
  Sean McAllister: All right.
• 27:18
  Sean McAllister: Love free parking.
• 27:19
  Sean McAllister: Uh, so obviously we know football season is coming up, and football season always a big deal here in Las Vegas.
• 27:28
  Sean McAllister: And someone who's making an even bigger deal of football season is the owner of the circa resort, Derek Stevens.
• 27:36
  Sean McAllister: Uh, and circa sports is the sports betting venture that's you know put on by Circa.
• 27:43
  Sean McAllister: And it's in more places, you can bet at Circa Sports venues in more places than just Circa Sports.
• 27:49
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 27:50
  Sean McAllister: Um but what's cool is that uh Derek Stevens and Circa Sports is hosting this Circa Sports panel.
• 27:59
  Sean McAllister: This is the uh third year that they've uh done this to kick off football season.
• 28:04
  Sean McAllister: They have uh former pro players Brian Erlocher and Sean King coming in to be a part of this.
• 28:13
  Sean McAllister: It's going to be a QA session, also with some uh leading experts in the sports betting field, also some sports analysts taking part.
• 28:24
  Sean McAllister: They're gonna give their insights on the new uh professional football season so you can really prepare your bets as you move through uh the fall, which is pretty cool.
• 28:36
  Sean McAllister: And this is also taking place in uh it's gonna be one of the first events in Circa's new meeting and convention area, which is uh just going to be kicking off.
• 28:49
  Sean McAllister: So this panel is taking place on August 27th over there at Circa.
• 28:56
  Sean McAllister: You can go to their website and get all the details on that.
• 28:59
  Sean McAllister: But I know that you know, as football season kicks off, as uh fantasy football kicks off, people are ready for the season.
• 29:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, there's such an interest in sports betting, you know.
• 29:12
  Dayna Roselli: It's been such a obviously what we're really a lot of times known for is being the place to I know other places you can bet sports now, but we were the originals, all right?
• 29:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but anyway, and let's let uh I love this idea of the panel, and I think it's gonna be great for everyone to learn, engage, and have a good time over at Circa.
• 29:30
  Dayna Roselli: But can we also talk about um preseason football?
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: Like the Raiders have won both games.
• 29:34
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 29:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's exciting, right?
• 29:36
  Sean McAllister: It is exciting.
• 29:37
  Sean McAllister: And the the last game we just had here at Allegian Stadium, and uh the reaction from people who were there inside for the game, they said they have never experienced the energy like that for a preseason game.
• 29:53
  Sean McAllister: I love it.
• 29:54
  Sean McAllister: They said it felt like regular season.
• 29:56
  Sean McAllister: Vegas fans were there in full force, hyped up, ready to root on the Raiders.
• 30:01
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we're coming off a pretty decent season, and they've made some great, they brought some great players on this year.
• 30:07
  Dayna Roselli: I think the morale is up.
• 30:09
  Dayna Roselli: They have a new president of the team.
• 30:11
  Sean McAllister: So coach, yeah, coaching staff.
• 30:14
  Sean McAllister: It's all it's all new.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: It is, it is all new, everyone.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: So uh go Raiders.
• 30:21
  Dayna Roselli: We're excited about that.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: Um, some good tips today, and both of those tips in downtown Las Vegas area.
• 30:27
  Dayna Roselli: Reminder: if you want to sign up for the Vegas Near Me app beta version, go to the show notes.
• 30:35
  Dayna Roselli: It's uh uh written there with a link.
• 30:37
  Dayna Roselli: You click the link, put in your information, you'll get an email, and it's really easy to download the beta.
• 30:44
  Dayna Roselli: Uh Vegas Near Me sponsoring the podcast this week.
• 30:48
  Dayna Roselli: We're grateful to have them on board because we've played around with it and we have the app on our phone, and it's really useful.
• 30:54
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 30:55
  Sean McAllister: There have been so many times I've been looking for, you know, an attraction, a restaurant.
• 31:02
  Sean McAllister: Um, and the app really has helped out big time because it sees where you are and then you know shows you what is near you.
• 31:13
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 31:13
  Sean McAllister: Vegas near me.
• 31:14
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 31:14
  Sean McAllister: It's not just a clever name.
• 31:16
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it's funny because when I talked about earlier about how I went to the Starbucks near the Silverton, I was texting with my friend and I said, Hey, where are you?
• 31:23
  Dayna Roselli: He said, I'm at the gym.
• 31:24
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, Gym, what part of town?
• 31:26
  Dayna Roselli: He said, Blue Diamond near the Silverton.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, Okay, so I went to Vegas near me and plugged in coffee shops near the Silverton.
• 31:34
  Dayna Roselli: And the Starbucks came up that was right near there, and I said, Okay, this is where we're going.
• 31:39
  Dayna Roselli: So it's kind of a cool, it's it's a cool, quick, you know, if you need like just a quick thing of where I mean, because we even living here, we don't know where every single thing is all the time.
• 31:48
  Dayna Roselli: And if it's it's in a neighborhood that I don't travel too often, like I haven't been to Blue Diamond in a while, it's easy to find.
• 31:56
  Sean McAllister: And let me tell you something else about uh the listings on Vegas near me, they have put a ton of time and effort into making sure that uh the listings are all up to date so that when you you click on uh casino to see what restaurants are there, the latest, newest restaurants are listed with the correct times.
• 32:20
  Sean McAllister: And even uh they have a feature that shows you the last seating time.
• 32:26
  Dayna Roselli: I like that.
• 32:27
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good good one.
• 32:29
  Sean McAllister: Even because sometimes a restaurant might be open until 11 p.m., but the last time that they'll actually seat somebody is at 10:15.
• 32:38
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 32:39
  Sean McAllister: You know, so if you show up later than that, you're out of luck.
• 32:41
  Sean McAllister: So really great, useful uh information on the Vegas Near Me app.
• 32:46
  Sean McAllister: Again, it's all free.
• 32:48
  Sean McAllister: Click the link in our show notes to download.
• 32:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and another quick story we called the Paris Las Vegas asking if Martha Stewart's restaurant was open, and they said it was from 5 to 10, but it wasn't, by the way, because then she had an opening the following weekend.
• 33:01
  Dayna Roselli: But we then checked the Vegas Near Me app, and that was all up to date.
• 33:05
  Dayna Roselli: So um the app kind of knows more than some of the hotels themselves.
• 33:09
  Dayna Roselli: It does.
• 33:10
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 33:10
  Sean McAllister: It's good.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: Check it out, send us some feedback.
• 33:13
  Dayna Roselli: You can write reports right in there if you're like, oh, it would be really cool if you could do this or this needs to be improved, or hey, so we love it.
• 33:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, again, like Sean mentioned, go to the show notes.
• 33:23
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, that was episode 131, and we'll be back for 132.
• 33:27
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I going to Wakuda, a new restaurant at the Venetian tonight for cocktails.
• 33:32
  Dayna Roselli: We're meeting our friend there.
• 33:33
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll have some video of that.
• 33:35
  Dayna Roselli: We'll talk about that next week.
• 33:37
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go live, baby.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go in my baby.
• 33:50
  unknown: Let's go live.