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Super Bowl 2024 Interviews, Fantasy Football, September Las Vegas Entertainment, New Restaurants, Imagine Dragons on TV, Show Stopping Dessert, Peter Luger Steak House | Ep. 183 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: This week on episode 183 of Vegas Revealed the NFL shares new details about the upcoming Super Bowl in Las Vegas.
• 0:08
  Sean McAllister: We were there and have some updates on what you will be able to experience.
• 0:13
  Dayna Roselli: And I take part in the Women of Fantasy Football League at Circa Las Vegas.
• 0:18
  Dayna Roselli: We're on location at the High Steaks Draft.
• 0:21
  Sean McAllister: We looked to September to see what's on the entertainment lineup.
• 0:25
  Dayna Roselli: The Imagine Dragons concert that took place here at Allegiant Stadium is now available to watch on television.
• 0:32
  Sean McAllister: And I just had a dessert that will deceive your eyes.
• 0:35
  Sean McAllister: Find out what makes this treat worth a trip to the strip.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: And a New York restaurant is moving into the former Reo spot at Caesars Palace.
• 0:44
  Dayna Roselli: We have some new details.
• 0:46
  Sean McAllister: All that and more this week on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:49
  Dayna Roselli: Let's spin that wheel.
• 0:58
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 183.
• 1:01
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister here along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: And the last week on Vegas Revealed.
• 1:07
  Sean McAllister: We were talking about the threat of this West Coast hurricane, Hurricane Hillary, that was coming ashore in Southern California.
• 1:16
  Sean McAllister: The remnants were supposed to batter Las Vegas.
• 1:19
  Sean McAllister: Well, it was kind of a bust.
• 1:24
  Sean McAllister: It reached on the Las Vegas Valley floor.
• 1:27
  Sean McAllister: The mountains got pounded, they did.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean it was fine all weekend, a normal kind of misty, rainy weekend, a little humid, here in Las Vegas.
• 1:39
  Dayna Roselli: Not much happened, so everyone's kind of given the weather service a lot of flak, the local meteorologists a lot of flak, and we made up for it.
• 1:49
  Dayna Roselli: This week, though, yeah.
• 1:51
  Dayna Roselli: Just in like five minutes, because it is monsoon right now and there are a couple months over the summer where it's just known we can have a storm pop up out of nowhere.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: Last night I was on the phone, I was in my condo and all of a sudden I heard lightning.
• 2:04
  Dayna Roselli: Or saw lightning, heard thunder, and I was like wait a minute.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: And all of a sudden all the clouds got low and this mist and it started pouring.
• 2:12
  Dayna Roselli: Now it's rare actually to pour rain.
• 2:16
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like in the center of the valley where I live.
• 2:18
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like it's always in Henderson, it's always out west in Summerlin.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: So I was shocked that we were getting dumped on, but it all happened in like five minutes and then it was gone.
• 2:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but all that water coming down did I mean there were parts of the Las Vegas Strip, las Vegas Boulevard, where cars had to drive through standing water, just a block off of the Strip on Paradise Road.
• 2:41
  Sean McAllister: I mean cars were almost up to their headlights in standing water on that road driving through there.
• 2:48
  Sean McAllister: So we also saw some casino damage as well, with roofs caving in and water just pouring in from the ceilings.
• 2:57
  Dayna Roselli: And people always say, like, don't you know this is going to happen.
• 3:00
  Dayna Roselli: How could that happen?
• 3:01
  Dayna Roselli: I don't really know the answer to that.
• 3:04
  Sean McAllister: I think the answer to that is you don't really know if your roof has holes in it until it rains.
• 3:11
  Sean McAllister: That's a good point.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: And it rains so little here that it's like well, what are you going to do?
• 3:16
  Sean McAllister: Take a fire hose up there and flood the ceiling and see where it leaks.
• 3:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah you got a weak spot right.
• 3:21
  Dayna Roselli: I know it is always amazing to see the aftermath and the pictures, but you know it is scary if anyone were standing under that.
• 3:28
  Dayna Roselli: That is obviously a safety concern.
• 3:30
  Dayna Roselli: Luckily we have never had anyone hurt.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: Usually when it rains, people kind of either well, I wouldn't say go indoors or are indoors already, but we've even had some roofs collapse indoors.
• 3:42
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, luckily nobody's been hurt, let's put it that way.
• 3:46
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but we did get that little dose of rain that we were expecting.
• 3:51
  Dayna Roselli: It just didn't come from that tropical storm that moved through no and, interestingly enough, I was gonna drive over to hot works last night.
• 4:00
  Dayna Roselli: I thought, okay, stay in tonight.
• 4:03
  Dayna Roselli: I'm feeling really tired and I was glad because I would got stuck in that storm and I do not like dry I don't like driving when it's nice so I do not like driving in these storms, but I do want to give a big shout out to hot works, our sponsor.
• 4:17
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• 4:24
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• 4:29
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• 4:36
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• 4:50
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• 5:04
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• 5:10
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, want to thank marla nca that's what I'm gonna call her, because that's her username on twitter acts, whatever you call it, and she left us a great review on apple, so thank you so much.
• 5:21
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• 5:23
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• 5:23
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• 5:32
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• 5:37
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• 5:47
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• 6:00
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• 6:02
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• 6:04
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• 6:06
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• 6:07
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• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: Alright, let's get to the super bowl big, big press conference this week.
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: I love that we're calling impress conferences again.
• 6:14
  Dayna Roselli: They used to not Press conferences anymore, so I love it.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: We had a big super bowl press conference and the nfl was there.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: We had the super bowl committee there.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: Our governor of the state of nevada was there.
• 6:30
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone who's anyone was at this huge conference at view studios yeah, it was really impressive.
• 6:37
  Sean McAllister: They had a lot of activations.
• 6:39
  Sean McAllister: It looked like you were stepping into the middle of a super bowl ad it really was there to.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: That was cool and vincelin barney trophy was.
• 6:47
  Sean McAllister: there was roped off, protected from From all of us people, but we got some pictures with it and we sure did have to write.
• 6:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was great.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: We learned a lot.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: So we didn't learn who the super bowl Half time headliner is.
• 7:02
  Dayna Roselli: That's kind of the one thing we didn't really learn, but we tried we tried, that's for sure.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: You're gonna hear that coming up in just a little bit, but we did find out a bunch of things.
• 7:10
  Dayna Roselli: If you're coming into town for the super bowl or you're thinking about it, here's what you need to know.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: The nfl headquarters is gonna be at caesar's palace okay, suit, caesar's palace is the hotel for that.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: The nfl experience is gonna be at the mandalay bay convention center, which makes sense because it's close to allegiance stadium, right.
• 7:27
  Dayna Roselli: And then the big kickoff night the monday, february fifth Party kickoff usually does not take place inside the stadium where the super bowl is gonna take place, but this event in 2024, as I said, this year it's not this year because we're in 2023, february of 2024 the kickoff is going to take place inside Allegiant Stadium and the NFL tells us that they love our stadium so much.
• 7:53
  Dayna Roselli: It's way too nice to not have this event in there.
• 7:57
  Dayna Roselli: So we are proud here in Las Vegas that we will have two events, the kickoff night and the Super Bowl inside Allegiant.
• 8:03
  Sean McAllister: Stadium and that kickoff night.
• 8:05
  Sean McAllister: It's open to the public.
• 8:06
  Sean McAllister: They are going to sell tickets for it and I think they start at $30.
• 8:10
  Sean McAllister: Good, so I'm super reasonable price to get in and it's kind of like the kickoff pep rally.
• 8:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, you know, you have both teams coming in.
• 8:18
  Sean McAllister: They're really just builds all the excitement for Super Bowl week yeah, that should be a good one if you can get.
• 8:24
  Dayna Roselli: I wonder when you know when those go on, go on sale, they'll go quick they will.
• 8:28
  Dayna Roselli: I know I'll be sitting there trying to get sure.
• 8:30
  Dayna Roselli: So it's been less.
• 8:31
  Dayna Roselli: We're there covering it possibly, okay.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we also were able to talk with a couple people to get some information, get some thoughts.
• 8:38
  Dayna Roselli: We got some one-on-one interviews.
• 8:40
  Dayna Roselli: One person we talked to was Peter O'Reilly and he works for the NFL.
• 8:44
  Dayna Roselli: He was there at the press conference representing the NFL yeah, we also spoke with Sandra Douglas Morgan.
• 8:51
  Sean McAllister: She is the president of the Las Vegas Raiders, also vice president of the Las Vegas Super Bowl host committee, so we spoke with both of them, pulled them aside and got some good new details and I know you can't talk about the halftime performance, but can you tell us some of the entertainment they'll be surrounding some of the events that week leading up to Super Bowl?
• 9:10
  Peter O'Reilly: not a lot that I can go into detail on right now.
• 9:13
  Peter O'Reilly: On that, more to come.
• 9:14
  Peter O'Reilly: Obviously, as I mentioned, we will be announcing this fall Apple Music Super Bowl halftime performer will also, as we get closer to the game, announce pregame talent.
• 9:23
  Peter O'Reilly: National anthem America the beautiful, lift every voice and sing and then we will be our partners at on location we creating a Super Bowl music fest with a great talent lineup around that, which is always really special on the nights leading up to the game.
• 9:35
  Peter O'Reilly: So maybe an unfulfilling answer with a lack of detail on talent, but that will come in spades as we get into the fall.
• 9:41
  Peter O'Reilly: Would encourage people to come in early and you know we talked about Super Bowl experience on the Wednesday or opening night.
• 9:47
  Peter O'Reilly: If you could make a week of it, then you're here before it is the full on Thursday, friday and Saturday nights and creating that for information would encourage people to go to Super Bowl comm.
• 9:57
  Peter O'Reilly: That'll be updated regularly.
• 9:58
  Peter O'Reilly: Where they could, you'll find out the best ways to get tickets or passes to anything going on.
• 10:04
  Peter O'Reilly: That's just your hub for everything Super Bowl dot com you excited.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: How excited are you about this?
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's a lot of work.
• 10:09
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: It is a lot of work, and I really want to give kudos to my team at the Raiders.
• 10:12
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: We have someone on every single subcommittee.
• 10:14
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: It's for the Super Bowl host committee to make sure that we're in lockstep with, you know, the NFL and the host committee, and so I really want to thank them, because it's they're doing it on top of their day jobs and so it is a large, herculean effort.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: We're going to make sure we're doing it the right way so that people continue to come back to Las Vegas do you know if we can expect anything special when it comes to entertainment, like the whole week, all the events we're having?
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: I'm assuming Vegas is going to do it bigger and better.
• 10:37
  Dayna Roselli: Are we gonna have a lot of live?
• 10:38
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: music Vegas themed kind of think there's gonna be amazing things as the host committee is going to have with live music.
• 10:45
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: You know, ticketed events, non-ticketed events, things that are family-friendly there's gonna be definitely something for everyone.
• 10:50
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: They should book now if they haven't already.
• 10:52
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: They should also look for Raider games to.
• 10:54
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: You know, I'm gonna say that every time, dana well, listen.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: I went to the preseason game and I noticed how many 49ers fans there were in the stands, because they were able to get here from California.
• 11:05
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: Yeah you know what, like we know, we knew at the time that the stadium was being built that because Las Vegas is such an amazing destination city that there were going to be people coming from all over to enjoy our games, and so we want to make sure obviously we're having a great quality football product on the field.
• 11:18
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: Obviously we're gonna support the football team however we can, but we also want to make sure that it's a great experience for anyone who comes to lead at stadium, regardless if it's for a Raider game or for an event or a concert.
• 11:27
  Dayna Roselli: So so there you have it.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's as much information as we could get, but I think we got some good stuff we did, and they at this press conference.
• 11:35
  Sean McAllister: They also talked about a lot of community initiatives, some charity involvement that will see play out during Super Bowl week as well.
• 11:43
  Sean McAllister: So very well-rounded program.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: The NFL knows exactly what it's doing, yeah, when it puts on these events right, right, and you know it was interesting to hear that Caesars Palace is kind of the NFL headquarters, because we've noticed lately that they've been really kind of well upping their game and what I mean is, you know, announcing more and more kind of reduce and also restaurants that are coming in, because you and I were talking recently saying, you know, caesars Palace really hasn't added any new restaurants.
• 12:12
  Dayna Roselli: They did add Stanton social, which we're gonna talk about in our tips.
• 12:15
  Dayna Roselli: But also there are a couple spots that have been shut down that were like what it?
• 12:20
  Dayna Roselli: What are they gonna be?
• 12:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right, the old rayo spot, what's gonna happen there?
• 12:23
  Dayna Roselli: It can't just be shut down for a long period of time.
• 12:26
  Dayna Roselli: Something's got to be coming in, and we did finally learn that the Peter Luger steakhouse is gonna be opening in the rayo spot and it's gonna be just in time for the Super Bowl yeah, that's coming up.
• 12:36
  Sean McAllister: This fall, peter Luger steakhouse is opening over at Caesars Palace and of course, that venue has an incredible patio that overlooks the pool area.
• 12:46
  Sean McAllister: The inside is, I mean, it's a really big footprint it is that restaurant takes up a great bar area too, so we're excited for that.
• 12:54
  Sean McAllister: Also, where old homestead steakhouse used to be over at Caesars Palace, that by the end of 2023, is going to turn into Brasserie B.
• 13:05
  Sean McAllister: This is, you may recall, we've talked about it here before Bobby Flays French restaurant.
• 13:11
  Sean McAllister: It's a Brasserie that's inspired by like the kind of places that you would have seen in Paris around the 30s and 40s, like very art deco-y right.
• 13:21
  Sean McAllister: So we're excited for that too.
• 13:24
  Sean McAllister: That'll be open in time for Super Bowl.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: I know so two new restaurants in some iconic spots, so that'll be perfect.
• 13:30
  Dayna Roselli: Caesars Palace it sounds like they are ready to go to be the NFL headquarters.
• 13:34
  Dayna Roselli: I usually come in from the back and I know the other day you said you actually went in toward the front and saw the front lobby and it did look really good.
• 13:41
  Sean McAllister: Some of the upgrades yeah, like if you come in from the valet area or if you're walking on the strip and you come in if you know where, like the absinthe tent is kind of by the registration desk.
• 13:51
  Sean McAllister: Caesars has redone that entire front area of the hotel and casino and it looks beautiful good, good it does.
• 14:02
  Dayna Roselli: It really looks great.
• 14:03
  Dayna Roselli: Oh good, okay.
• 14:04
  Dayna Roselli: Well, they are ready, then.
• 14:05
  Dayna Roselli: Nfl headquarters at Caesars Palace.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to spot some people, or if you want to be at the hotel during the Super Bowl, you know where to book and you should do it soon yes, we have more football to talk about actually, but this is kind of like the virtual kind of football right, listen, I know nothing I'm just gonna put it out there about fantasy football, but I was asked to be part of this women's fantasy football league and I said sure, because I love a good game.
• 14:32
  Dayna Roselli: I do like to watch football, but I did not know how involved this is show oh, involved is in understatement it really is.
• 14:44
  Dayna Roselli: Listen.
• 14:45
  Dayna Roselli: We went to Circa Las Vegas.
• 14:47
  Dayna Roselli: I had a blast in the while.
• 14:49
  Dayna Roselli: We started out at the owner's suite, we had a little mingle session, some food, some drink, and then we we started the draft inside the hospitality suite there at Circa.
• 14:59
  Dayna Roselli: They have been doing this for a long time.
• 15:01
  Dayna Roselli: We pulled aside the full-time fantasy sports owner though to kind of talk to us a little bit about fantasy football.
• 15:10
  Dayna Roselli: You know what it entails, how they partner with Circa here in Las Vegas, and also just kind of like the rise in popularity.
• 15:17
  Dayna Roselli: So we chat with Ian Richie.
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: Let's run that interview.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, ian.
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: First let's talk about the popularity and the rise of fantasy football leagues.
• 15:26
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it just seems like everyone's a part of one lately, every season.
• 15:29
  Ian Ritchie: It keeps getting bigger and bigger every year and as soon as we think it's kind of slowing down, it just grows the following year.
• 15:34
  Ian Ritchie: And just the excitement people have of interacting with their friends and each other and the camaraderie it creates, it's just going to keep growing over the next handful of years for sure.
• 15:42
  Sean McAllister: And this is Dana's very first fantasy football draft ever.
• 15:46
  Sean McAllister: So what is your advice to her?
• 15:49
  Ian Ritchie: Oh my gosh, enjoy it and have fun.
• 15:52
  Ian Ritchie: Don't be stressed about your picks.
• 15:53
  Ian Ritchie: There's enough tools that can help you draft a good team, but just enjoy the experience of it and don't stress.
• 15:59
  Ian Ritchie: A lot of people get very stressed out in their drafts because they don't know what they're doing, but the draft tools make it a lot easier.
• 16:03
  Ian Ritchie: So just enjoy it and take as many receivers in our format as you can.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I was going to say I mean, you guys have been doing this in town and you're now partnering with Circa.
• 16:13
  Dayna Roselli: This is your first year partnering with Circa.
• 16:16
  Ian Ritchie: It is.
• 16:16
  Ian Ritchie: It's our first year with Circa and this is the launch year.
• 16:18
  Ian Ritchie: It's kind of the let's test and learn year Before next year.
• 16:22
  Ian Ritchie: We start marking this contest together over the future because we plan to be here for a long time.
• 16:26
  Dayna Roselli: I was going to say good, because it's my first draft and then your first partnership with Circa, and so we're ready to start something fresh, aren't we?
• 16:32
  Ian Ritchie: We absolutely are starting something fresh.
• 16:34
  Ian Ritchie: I love it.
• 16:35
  Sean McAllister: And this league is different from some of the other leagues that people might know.
• 16:40
  Sean McAllister: Explain why.
• 16:43
  Ian Ritchie: The World Championships have the best players from around the country.
• 16:45
  Ian Ritchie: Actually, there's some from Mexico that come in, a few from Europe, some from Canada, but the best players from around the whole country fly in here to compete against each other every single year.
• 16:53
  Ian Ritchie: So on a player basis, it's the top players in the world competing against each other.
• 16:56
  Ian Ritchie: All the top players and all the fantasy rankings are here.
• 16:58
  Ian Ritchie: That's one.
• 16:59
  Ian Ritchie: And the second thing that makes our contest very difficult is we have an 11 person starting lineup instead of 10.
• 17:04
  Ian Ritchie: It really increases the amount of skill that it takes on buy weeks and injuries to fill your team with really good players on a week-to-week basis.
• 17:11
  Ian Ritchie: So we tried to maximize the skill and take as much luck out as we could so the top players could really compete head-to-head against each other.
• 17:19
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and do you think Vegas is a draw, just in general, just doing, I mean, because we're the entertainment capital of the world, I mean we're known for sports betting, so I mean, do you think there's more of a draw to bring people here, because I know people come from out of town, like you said?
• 17:33
  Ian Ritchie: Everybody loves coming to Vegas.
• 17:34
  Ian Ritchie: There's such a crossover with fantasy and gambling folks that it's just a natural for fantasy fans to come here, and what Circa has done for us and what Derek Stevens has created for us is a longer runway.
• 17:43
  Ian Ritchie: Our contest used to just be the opening weekend of NFL, but what we've created with Circa is now we have a Circa draft series where we have a runway that starts in the middle of August.
• 17:50
  Ian Ritchie: So we've extended the draft season for a lot of players to be able to come to Las Vegas and enjoy it if they can't come opening weekend, because this is the natural place for fantasy people to come and watch football.
• 17:59
  Sean McAllister: And, speaking of draft season, people are still going to be drafting after they hear this interview with you, and so what is your best advice for people who are going in to this fantasy season?
• 18:14
  Sean McAllister: Are there any players that you have your eye on?
• 18:18
  Ian Ritchie: Definitely there's people we have our eye on, there's people I have my eye on not to take.
• 18:22
  Ian Ritchie: So I'll start with all those.
• 18:23
  Ian Ritchie: I really do like players in the middle rounds at Running Backs this year.
• 18:26
  Ian Ritchie: I think there's a lot of good value there with the Travis Etn, with the Damian Pierce.
• 18:30
  Ian Ritchie: I think we actually like the Raiders tight end Michael Mayer, who's going in our drafts quite a bit earlier than any normal draft we have in, projected for 55 to 60 catches this year, which is far and away more than most.
• 18:40
  Ian Ritchie: But I like a lot of the sleeper guys.
• 18:42
  Ian Ritchie: The early picks are a lot easier for people, so I kind of go a little bit deeper into the drafts.
• 18:46
  Ian Ritchie: I like Robert Woods from Houston as you get longer and further out, the sleepers get deeper.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: Gosh.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: So much pressure for these players.
• 18:54
  Dayna Roselli: Now you know why they get paid a lot.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: Right, they got fantasy leagues watching them.
• 18:57
  Dayna Roselli: We've got just people who are just into football in general and the team and I and the Super Bowl Listen, ian, we've got to get going because I need to go do my draft.
• 19:05
  Dayna Roselli: I'm excited.
• 19:06
  Dayna Roselli: Thanks for having me a part of this.
• 19:08
  Ian Ritchie: Thank you so much.
• 19:08
  Ian Ritchie: We're really excited to have the first annual Women of Fantasy draft here, and we make it an annual thing for us.
• 19:14
  Sean McAllister: So, dana, you know that me and, more specifically, my husband, shane, are going to be here to help make decisions and change your roster throughout the season.
• 19:25
  Sean McAllister: Help do some maintenance on the team as the need arises.
• 19:30
  Sean McAllister: So hopefully you'll be in the running for that $50,000 grand prize.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: Let's hope.
• 19:37
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, I'm counting on you guys, but I'm also hoping to learn a little bit more and this will be something that I'll pick up and then just want to do again next year.
• 19:44
  Dayna Roselli: But it was great In the league we had Mercedes.
• 19:47
  Dayna Roselli: Mercedes is popular morning show here in town and you can check her out on Channel 8.
• 19:52
  Dayna Roselli: Jj, who hosted the Morning Blend for many years at Channel 13 and I've worked with her for many years she was part of the league or is part of the league.
• 20:00
  Dayna Roselli: So there's Team JJ, Team Roselli and Team Mercedes as far as on-air personalities go, and so we're all kind of hoping that.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like it's really, you know, it's competitive.
• 20:14
  Sean McAllister: It's very competitive and you have the Women's Fantasy Football World Champion.
• 20:20
  Sean McAllister: We do that is also in this league, so I mean it's stiff competition.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like sometimes the underdog just comes out of nowhere.
• 20:28
  Sean McAllister: Well, let's hope.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's me.
• 20:29
  Dayna Roselli: Let's hope, let's hope.
• 20:30
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: Well, let's move on and talk about some things happening in Las Vegas in September.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Actually, there are tons and tons and we keep getting press releases, so we can't get through it all.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: But something that I did want to mention because it is a he is a classic Las Vegas staple is Mr Las Vegas himself, wayne Newton, coming back to the Flamingo.
• 20:50
  Dayna Roselli: He'll be doing a show at Bugsy's Cabaret and I think that everyone should go see Wayne.
• 20:56
  Dayna Roselli: We were even saying we'd like to see this show.
• 20:59
  Dayna Roselli: We haven't seen this specific one, but he tells stories, he sings some of his hits and really has conversations with the audience.
• 21:06
  Dayna Roselli: So I think it's going to be a really intimate personal experience.
• 21:10
  Sean McAllister: And getting to know Wayne over the years.
• 21:12
  Sean McAllister: He has endless stories.
• 21:16
  Sean McAllister: I mean there are presidents who he's performed for and become friends with.
• 21:21
  Sean McAllister: He has things I mean he was around during the Rat Pack era of Las Vegas and has great stories with all those guys.
• 21:28
  Sean McAllister: He has things that Sinatra has given him and I mean there are some really great nuggets and stories that Wayne will share up on stage over at Flamingo.
• 21:40
  Sean McAllister: So that is definitely something that you should put on your list.
• 21:44
  Dayna Roselli: And he's been in so many movies, when there's like, like, he's like the face of lot, like you know Vegas vacation.
• 21:49
  Dayna Roselli: It's like Wayne Newton's in it wasn't Wayne.
• 21:51
  Dayna Roselli: Was Wayne in hangover?
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: I can't remember.
• 21:53
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like he was, but maybe he probably should be I know, I feel like maybe he was, but maybe I'm thinking of Vegas vacation.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, so many Vegas movies where, if you need to like, show Las Vegas in a certain way, it's like it's like that saying that's popular on social media Show me you're from Las Vegas without.
• 22:12
  Sean McAllister: Yes, exactly, you're from Las Vegas.
• 22:14
  Dayna Roselli: I would put Wayne Newton's face up.
• 22:15
  Sean McAllister: Wayne Newton and a show girl.
• 22:17
  Sean McAllister: Right there we go, so Wayne's show is coming back this fall Also.
• 22:21
  Sean McAllister: Mexican Independence Day weekend is always huge here in Las Vegas, and this year is no different.
• 22:28
  Sean McAllister: There are concerts all over the place and tons of events happening as well.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I mean, it's endless, so we can't mention them all.
• 22:35
  Dayna Roselli: But also, like we noticed, a lot of the different restaurants and mall areas, like the Grand Canal shops are having special activations all weekend live music, drink specials, food specials so go and figure out where you want to go celebrate Mexican Independence Day.
• 22:53
  Dayna Roselli: I know our mall fashion shows doing something as well.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: We know Luis Miguel's coming in Is it Gabriel?
• 22:59
  Dayna Roselli: Like so many artists will be here.
• 23:01
  Dayna Roselli: There's a big festival in the downtown Las Vegas event center the Rombaza Festival.
• 23:06
  Sean McAllister: You know what?
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: I'll put a rundown of all the Mexican Independence Day stuff, a lot of the stuff that we've gotten into our inbox.
• 23:13
  Sean McAllister: I'll compile that into a blog post and put it at Vegas-revealedcom.
• 23:19
  Sean McAllister: So go there and check out the list.
• 23:20
  Sean McAllister: There's going to be a lot for you to choose from.
• 23:23
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, hey, listen, I went to the grand opening of the Juliet Cocktail Room over at Venetian, just wanted to mention it was a great night Live music.
• 23:31
  Dayna Roselli: Mark Wahlberg was there too.
• 23:33
  Dayna Roselli: Mark always shows up at a lot of the local hot spots now and he was behind the bar pouring shots of his tequila his Fletcha tequila Always a good guy.
• 23:43
  Dayna Roselli: He's so respectful, so kind and just really mixes in well with the locals.
• 23:48
  Dayna Roselli: So it was nice to see Mark Wahlberg there.
• 23:49
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, it's a cool spot.
• 23:51
  Dayna Roselli: They've got couches, a great bar area, like I mentioned.
• 23:55
  Dayna Roselli: There's a little area right when you walk in where there was a singer and so there'll be some live music there.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great lounge, just like if you want to pop in for a drink or if you want to spend a couple hours there with friends.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: Lots of space there and lots of couch space right in front of the bar.
• 24:10
  Sean McAllister: And it looked very.
• 24:11
  Sean McAllister: I wasn't able to go, but it looked very moody too.
• 24:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 24:15
  Sean McAllister: Like a good place just to sit down and chill Dark, have some cocktails conversation, that kind of a deal, yeah.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: It was really cool.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: You listen.
• 24:23
  Dayna Roselli: A good casino lounge like off the casino is needed, Because sometimes you just want to gamble.
• 24:29
  Dayna Roselli: You need a break yes, you need a break.
• 24:31
  Dayna Roselli: Or you want to hit a spot with either a date, a group of friends, before or after dinner.
• 24:38
  Dayna Roselli: You're not kind of ready to move on just yet, so I think it's a good spot for that.
• 24:42
  Sean McAllister: So Juliette Cocktail Lounge over at the Venetian.
• 24:45
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips now.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's do some tips.
• 24:51
  Dayna Roselli: We've been meaning to mention this.
• 24:53
  Dayna Roselli: The Imagine Dragons have a concert available now on Hulu that you can watch, and it was recorded here in Las Vegas.
• 25:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, this was their Allegiant Stadium show, that of course this is their hometown.
• 25:05
  Sean McAllister: There were so many bands who were at that show who have just watched the band grow from playing little casinos, from playing at O'Shea's back in the day I mean, o'shea's isn't even there anymore.
• 25:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, imagine Dragons played there as they were coming up and really becoming the band that they are today and before their national recognition.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: So it was a really kind of a sentimental performance, not only for the band but for the fans who were there to see them.
• 25:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and this is cool.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: It's available on Hulu and so I love watching.
• 25:42
  Dayna Roselli: You forget when you can watch.
• 25:44
  Dayna Roselli: There's so many times that we can't get to concerts right Like, think about it Right now if you could sit down even though a lot of it is already online and watch the Taylor Swift era's tour on a big screen it's recorded professionally and just have a night where you feel like you're there.
• 25:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great idea.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: And so I love that this Imagine Dragons concert is available and, like you said, that it has roots and it's from Las Vegas, so that there's a little bit of a motion attached to it, yeah, so be sure to check that out.
• 26:13
  Sean McAllister: And on top of it, imagine Dragons just have great music too, so you can't go wrong.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: And you know I never talked about this, sean, and this is kind of a little something that is interesting, a little factory.
• 26:24
  Dayna Roselli: I actually was part of the Imagine Dragons Sharks video.
• 26:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: So I didn't make it in.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: Here's the deal.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: There was a.
• 26:31
  Dayna Roselli: It was all storyboarded out and a lot of times when you shoot music videos you have certain ideas but you don't know if they're going to work in the end when you get in the chopping room.
• 26:39
  Dayna Roselli: So there was a certain scenario involved in this where I played a news anchor, ok, and then there were also some moving parts where they were trying to get a certain part of that scenario and the person couldn't make it.
• 26:55
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyways, I ended up getting cut from the video.
• 26:57
  Dayna Roselli: They didn't go with the scenario of the news clip, ok, but I had a blast.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: I was there all day and shot with the crew and Dan Reynolds was there and it was so fun to work with Dan.
• 27:09
  Dayna Roselli: He was doing the one part.
• 27:10
  Dayna Roselli: If you go to the Sharks video and you see him kind of jumping over the lasers and going down the hallway, and kind of dancing and stuff.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: So he was right outside doing that.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: I was in another room doing my news anchor spot.
• 27:21
  Dayna Roselli: So it was great to work with Dan.
• 27:22
  Dayna Roselli: It was funny.
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: He took a couple breaks.
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: He had things he had to go do and they're like Dan has something he has to run to, like Dan has to run to a wedding reception.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone break for two hours and I love, oh my gosh, he is just fitting in so much into his day.
• 27:35
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god, just be like.
• 27:36
  Sean McAllister: Hey guys, you know I have to get to a wedding really quick.
• 27:39
  Sean McAllister: I'll be right back and we can get the next scene in.
• 27:41
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 27:42
  Dayna Roselli: So you know they do that shot out on the Fountains.
• 27:45
  Dayna Roselli: You know where he's surfing on the Bellagio Fountains and you know what.
• 27:48
  Dayna Roselli: They actually did that pretty quick.
• 27:49
  Dayna Roselli: I mean it took hours but I thought you know that's going to take two days to do something like that, but they had it down.
• 27:57
  Dayna Roselli: It was planned.
• 27:58
  Dayna Roselli: It was a pleasure to work with the crew.
• 27:59
  Dayna Roselli: I had a great experience and I just feel like everyone should know I was supposed to be in the video but I wasn't.
• 28:05
  Dayna Roselli: But it was fun.
• 28:07
  Sean McAllister: And, just so you know, the entire band, dan, and all of them, wayne.
• 28:11
  Sean McAllister: They are incredible guys, super nice.
• 28:15
  Sean McAllister: Their management is super cool.
• 28:17
  Sean McAllister: So if you think that they're just like big rock stars and not down to earth, wrong, they're super cool yeah, hey, before you want to the next step real quick, I wanted to mention the killers.
• 28:27
  Dayna Roselli: keep teasing that they are coming out with new music.
• 28:30
  Dayna Roselli: I think they said they're coming out with a new single, e, p, I can't remember, but there's a show girl in it and so we have a feeling there's gonna be a little bit of a vagus twist to it.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: She's kind of in an open field and then the latest clip they revealed today and this is we're recording on a thursday is actually like a show girl walking down kind of one of a tunnel right following someone else, so we love the vagus.
• 28:53
  Dayna Roselli: You know, hook killers are from Las Vegas.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: Imagine dragons are from Las Vegas, and that's why I thought of that and the killer said that the release of this is is imminent.
• 29:02
  Sean McAllister: So by the time the podcast comes out, the music may come out to exactly, but as far as we know right now, they're still teasing it.
• 29:11
  Sean McAllister: All right, my tip of the week, dana, is from stanton social.
• 29:16
  Sean McAllister: I know we talked about the restaurant Before here on Vegas revealed it's over at caesars palace in the place where a seersucker used to be Right next to omnia right next to omnia and it's like kind of that you know late night Party, ish kind of a vibe.
• 29:33
  Sean McAllister: you go in for dinner and then go next door to omnia.
• 29:36
  Sean McAllister: Everything was great, had a great dinner, but it was dessert that I wanna talk about now, because this was a very deceiving dessert okay, well, because we talked in the past about the french onion soup dumplings, that that's their classic item that everyone orders.
• 29:53
  Dayna Roselli: You had that.
• 29:53
  Dayna Roselli: It was great right that they were Phenomenal okay, I also want to mention this is a.
• 29:58
  Dayna Roselli: It's run by tau group hospitality right, and they always just like the tau is in bistro.
• 30:03
  Dayna Roselli: At venetian they have a new restaurant over at I believe it's aria, so they put they have great kind of sexy Fun by the restaurant.
• 30:12
  Sean McAllister: So stand social is one of those yeah, and the interior of the restaurant is is terrific great food, great service, great cocktails.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, the tip sorry okay.
• 30:23
  Sean McAllister: So there's another show that streaming.
• 30:26
  Sean McAllister: It's called is it cake?
• 30:28
  Sean McAllister: Okay, there's a lot of people who like this show it.
• 30:31
  Sean McAllister: Basically, these bakers create these items to look exactly like.
• 30:38
  Sandra Douglass Morgan: They're not a great cakes to look like.
• 30:40
  Sean McAllister: Another item got it and you have to decide.
• 30:42
  Sean McAllister: Is it cake?
• 30:43
  Sean McAllister: Right, and that's exactly what this dessert is like.
• 30:47
  Sean McAllister: It is their strawberry milkshake.
• 30:49
  Sean McAllister: It comes to your table looking exactly like you would expect a strawberry milkshake to look like, but then you take the big knife, you cut down the middle and you find out this entire thing is edible.
• 31:04
  Sean McAllister: Okay, the glass, the everything.
• 31:07
  Sean McAllister: It's a chocolate cake glass, it's cake, it's cake.
• 31:11
  Sean McAllister: So this is actually strawberry mousse inside with vanilla sponge cake, chantilly cream.
• 31:17
  Sean McAllister: It served in an edible chocolate cup Topped with whipped cream, a cherry, the whole nine.
• 31:24
  Sean McAllister: But it looks like you're getting A milkshake from my, like a milkshake ice cream shop.
• 31:31
  Sean McAllister: Amazing, the whole thing is that it's girl and it was delicious and the thing is, is that takes so much time?
• 31:37
  Dayna Roselli: you know it's like you got a restaurant with a full menu, right, but you're taking enough time to create these Artisan deserts.
• 31:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, that's talent, that takes talent and it's something special and I feel like that.
• 31:52
  Sean McAllister: that's what makes it worth going to a restaurant like that and they do that actually with A lot of their menu items and their cocktails.
• 32:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, even the lobster mac and cheese like the.
• 32:04
  Sean McAllister: You have to take the Head of the lobster off the dish, right.
• 32:08
  Sean McAllister: And there's a lot of lobster in that mac and cheese.
• 32:11
  Sean McAllister: Tell you what yeah, all right.
• 32:13
  Dayna Roselli: So that's a good, good tip and just want to wrap up by saying again thanks to all of our sponsors.
• 32:19
  Dayna Roselli: We do have links in our show notes.
• 32:21
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• 32:24
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• 32:34
  Dayna Roselli: So if you can use that link, we appreciate it.
• 32:36
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• 32:40
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• 32:42
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• 32:45
  Dayna Roselli: And if you're wearing heels out, you can flatten them out and put on a cute pair of shoes so that you don't walk around barefoot and thank you to Vegas.
• 32:53
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• 32:55
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• 32:58
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• 33:04
  Dayna Roselli: We expect to see you back here for episode 184 next week and we hope you have a great week.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: Get come visit us soon, if you, if you don't live here yeah, drop us a line, let us know you'll be in town.