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Friends Experience: The One in Vegas, Steve Wynn's Instagram, Summer Las Vegas Deals, Lady Gaga Concert, Must-Have French Dip | Ep. 280 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's Vegas Revealed, episode 280.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: The mayhem ball brings out the little monsters.
• 0:06
  Dayna Roselli: Lady Gaga stops in Las Vegas for three shows at T-Mobile Arena, and we were at night one.
• 0:12
  Sean McAllister: How you doing?
• 0:13
  Sean McAllister: The Friends Experience is now open at MGM Grand.
• 0:17
  Sean McAllister: We stopped in to relive some iconic moments.
• 0:21
  Dayna Roselli: And Crazy Horse 3 is pushing back on rising prices with deals for locals and visitors.
• 0:27
  Sean McAllister: Plus, Tehara has a summer deal.
• 0:29
  Sean McAllister: And is Steve Wynne really insta famous?
• 0:33
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 0:34
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not buying this.
• 0:35
  Dayna Roselli: We discussed all this and more coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_06: Vegas Reveal, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 0:46
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 280.
• 0:49
  Sean McAllister: I'm Sean McAllister along with Dana Roselli, and we are fresh off uh exploring the all-new friends exhibit over at MGM Grand.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: That was fun, right?
• 1:00
  Dayna Roselli: Too much fun.
• 1:01
  Dayna Roselli: Like it's really hard to move fast through it.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: You wanted to look at every little thing.
• 1:05
  Sean McAllister: It was.
• 1:05
  Sean McAllister: And uh there was so our interview got crashed by two uh very iconic uh people who are related to the Friends series.
• 1:16
  Sean McAllister: We're gonna get into all of this and our feelings, our experiences, the visuals, all of it in just a few minutes.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: But first, first of all, apologizing, I'm a little stuffy.
• 1:27
  Dayna Roselli: I've had a summerish cold over Summer Sniffles.
• 1:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I think I got it at Gaga.
• 1:32
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, which we're gonna talk about.
• 1:35
  Sean McAllister: That's what happens when you're down in the pit.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: I was on flo floor seats.
• 1:39
  Dayna Roselli: My friend got floor seats, so and he's sick too.
• 1:41
  Dayna Roselli: So I because I texted him, he's on vacation.
• 1:44
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and I was like, hey, you're not sick, are you?
• 1:46
  Dayna Roselli: He's like, Oh, yeah, I'm sick too.
• 1:47
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, okay, well, we definitely got it at Lady Gaga, but we didn't get it because of Lady Gaga.
• 1:53
  Dayna Roselli: We went to a concert with a lot of people, and let me tell you, it was freaking amazing.
• 1:57
  Sean McAllister: Those little monsters.
• 1:58
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, it was such a great show.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so we've seen her obviously at Park MGM.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: I've seen both her shows there.
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: I actually did see her at MGM Grand Garden Arena like way back.
• 2:09
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I don't remember much because it was a long time ago.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, I've never seen her actually do a tour stop recently, and I was blown away because it was so different than her residency.
• 2:21
  Dayna Roselli: Um, because it was just she doesn't break character.
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: Well, and that was one of the things that that you'd mentioned when we spoke after you went to see it.
• 2:30
  Sean McAllister: You were like, it was so theatrical.
• 2:32
  Dayna Roselli: It was so like the costumes, the sets.
• 2:35
  Dayna Roselli: And I was sitting next to actually Josh Strickland, longtime performer here in Las Vegas.
• 2:40
  Dayna Roselli: He does stuff all over the world now.
• 2:41
  Dayna Roselli: I think he's doing stuff with Disney.
• 2:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but I was like, what are the odds?
• 2:45
  Dayna Roselli: I'm I have a floor seat that my friend bought, and I'm sitting next to somebody I know.
• 2:50
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, we were discussing it.
• 2:52
  Dayna Roselli: He was like, Can you imagine getting all these props?
• 2:55
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there's like a skull head for one of the well, it's up there for a long time.
• 3:00
  Dayna Roselli: Um and it's huge, it's like huge.
• 3:03
  Dayna Roselli: And he's like, you know, transporting this from city to city.
• 3:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's just one of the many pieces of the set.
• 3:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and plus she has a ton of dancers.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: There's, I mean, the musicians, her band, like there's a lot of people who are involved in that show just on stage, not to mention all the crew that it takes to set up, tear down, move everything from city to city.
• 3:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's so true.
• 3:27
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, she did Team Mobile Arena and three nights.
• 3:29
  Dayna Roselli: That's a a bunch of nights.
• 3:31
  Dayna Roselli: And now she's on her way to LA um soon.
• 3:34
  Dayna Roselli: I think let's see, this podcast drops on a Thursday.
• 3:37
  Dayna Roselli: She starts there, I think, on Monday, the 28th, 29th.
• 3:41
  Dayna Roselli: Then she's doing following weekend, first, second.
• 3:44
  Dayna Roselli: So she'll she'll be there for four nights, but I wonder, you know, if that's part of it.
• 3:49
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it's a huge undertaking to set this up and break it down.
• 3:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so you want to take advantage of the the tour stops when you have them.
• 3:58
  Sean McAllister: Squeeze in as many shows as possible and take advantage of the set that is that has been constructed.
• 4:04
  Dayna Roselli: But she did uh so she does a medley of her hit, like so many, like the first album is very present, which I love.
• 4:11
  Dayna Roselli: Uh poker face, all of that.
• 4:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but then she also sits at the piano and sings Die with a smile, which everyone absolutely loved.
• 4:20
  Dayna Roselli: People are going crazy for it.
• 4:22
  Dayna Roselli: And that's kind of where she did break character.
• 4:24
  Dayna Roselli: That was like her one moment where she thanked the crowd for being with her along this ride through the journey of her music and so many years.
• 4:32
  Dayna Roselli: So that was the one moment.
• 4:35
  Dayna Roselli: But what I'm saying is you're not gonna get a lot of, you know, chit-chat in between songs because there is a story that you're following along with the music.
• 4:45
  Sean McAllister: Which is what we got at her jazz and piano show over at Park MGM.
• 4:49
  Sean McAllister: There was a lot of back and forth with the audience, storytelling, going into songs.
• 4:55
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, uh, they do still have that Lady Gaga essentially a museum over at Park MGM where you can go in and look at all of her most iconic gowns and costumes.
• 5:06
  Dayna Roselli: I didn't know that.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's cool.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: And there's a lot of talk that she'll be coming back to do that, probably 2026.
• 5:11
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it's so popular, you know.
• 5:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, everyone around me seemed to be talking about how great Lady Gaga looked.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone was commenting on how fabulous she.
• 5:20
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, she did, she looked strong, she was moving, and she just she sounded wonderful.
• 5:25
  Dayna Roselli: She sounds perfect live, really.
• 5:28
  Dayna Roselli: And the dancing, the costume, like everything, it was so much fun.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: I really enjoyed visually watching this show and watching her do her thing.
• 5:36
  Dayna Roselli: And I must say, like, I'm always one that's like, I don't need to be on the floor.
• 5:40
  Dayna Roselli: I'm good back here, my feet up, beer in my hand, diet coke, popcorn.
• 5:45
  Dayna Roselli: But then there is something about being on the floor and that close.
• 5:49
  Sean McAllister: It's a completely different experience.
• 5:52
  Sean McAllister: Yes, seeing like and like making eye contact, being so close that you can make eye contact.
• 5:58
  Sean McAllister: It's it is, it's crazy.
• 5:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we had a lot of fun, but I did get a little cold from there.
• 6:02
  Dayna Roselli: So, anyway, I apologize for my my nasalness this whole show.
• 6:06
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, real quick, Sean, I wanted to mention that before Lady Gaga, we went to Bivettes.
• 6:11
  Dayna Roselli: Now we went to night one and it was a Wednesday, so we figured we'll just walk into Bivettes and get a seat.
• 6:16
  Dayna Roselli: No, okay, like that place is always packed and well deserved because first of all, we walked in, they're like, well, you can find a seat at the bar probably in the back.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: Nope, full.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: And what this was Wednesday, uh, let's see, the show was at eight, but we were like, yeah, she probably won't start till 8:45.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: We'll go 8:30.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: So um I think we went at seven.
• 6:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so like seven, and then um they're like, no, we don't have an open reservation until 8:45.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Jeez.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: So we did find two seats at the bar.
• 6:47
  Dayna Roselli: You can order food there, uh, which is wonderful.
• 6:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I just have to rave.
• 6:52
  Dayna Roselli: Me and my friend, he visits Vegas a lot.
• 6:55
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we're longtime friends in the news business.
• 6:57
  Dayna Roselli: We started out now, Myra, New York together.
• 6:59
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and he and I always split the French dip, and I forget how much I freaking love it.
• 7:05
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, I have to talk about this on the podcast.
• 7:07
  Dayna Roselli: The French dip Epavettes is a delicious sandwich.
• 7:12
  Dayna Roselli: You can share it.
• 7:13
  Dayna Roselli: It's pretty big.
• 7:14
  Dayna Roselli: And like you eat, like, I can't, there's no grease.
• 7:19
  Dayna Roselli: And and somebody might be like, Well, that's not a good French dip.
• 7:21
  Dayna Roselli: I want a little grease rolling down my no, it's amazing.
• 7:24
  Dayna Roselli: The taste is amazing, and your hands aren't full of grease.
• 7:30
  Dayna Roselli: You actually are like getting what you paid for, a well-done French dip.
• 7:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it's delicious.
• 7:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we each got like a salad and a martini, I think, and just really enjoyed it.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: I always love bevettes, it's got a vibe, it's always busy, it's dark in there, it's great.
• 7:47
  Sean McAllister: That's one of my favorite steakhouses in Las Vegas.
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, a lot of it.
• 7:52
  Sean McAllister: We go for special occasions.
• 7:54
  Sean McAllister: There, if we're at home at Christmas time, that's where we'll usually go for a Christmas dinner.
• 8:00
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 8:01
  Sean McAllister: So we love bevettes.
• 8:02
  Sean McAllister: That's a great spot.
• 8:03
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 8:03
  Sean McAllister: I'm gonna need to do this uh French dip though.
• 8:07
  Dayna Roselli: Do it soon.
• 8:07
  Sean McAllister: Hop into the bar, split the French dip.
• 8:11
  Dayna Roselli: And even the the bartender slash waiter, because he was the one who brought out our food, he was like, good choice.
• 8:16
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, definitely like he loved that we were splitting the French dip, and then I got a salad, and Anthony got, I think he got the stuffed like crab avocado, which was a salad-ish, you know what I mean?
• 8:27
  Dayna Roselli: Like, and I um got a salad, so he was like perfect.
• 8:31
  Dayna Roselli: He he I liked that too.
• 8:33
  Dayna Roselli: He wasn't like, no, you should order more.
• 8:35
  Dayna Roselli: He was like, nope, perfect.
• 8:36
  Sean McAllister: The see the bartenders there are always so good at giving tips and advice on the on the menu, and uh from the minute you walk into the door until the you're out of there, it's always been a great experience from what I've had at Bivett's.
• 8:54
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 8:54
  Sean McAllister: And I think a lot of other people share the same thoughts.
• 8:58
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, one more thing, and then enough about me, and we'll move on.
• 9:01
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, my things.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Brian from the podcast Concierge Confidential.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um, met him at Delilah.
• 9:10
  Dayna Roselli: He was at the bar, and I just popped in there literally, literally, my friend and I went over there for an hour on Saturday night um just because we're like, oh, we should go out and do something.
• 9:20
  Dayna Roselli: We want to do something close.
• 9:21
  Dayna Roselli: And I do love that lounge at night.
• 9:24
  Dayna Roselli: The music is great.
• 9:25
  Dayna Roselli: You know, you don't have to eat there.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: You can go to the lounge.
• 9:27
  Dayna Roselli: And they do serve a limited menu in the lounge.
• 9:30
  Dayna Roselli: We did get chicken fingers to split after a little while because we were hungry.
• 9:33
  Dayna Roselli: And by the way, the chicken fingers, plump, juicy.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so boy.
• 9:40
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 9:42
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, we went there for an hour.
• 9:44
  Dayna Roselli: I want to say that Brian was kind enough to come over to us and he noticed that there were some seats available, like a couch area, and he said, Hey, you know, aren't you Dana?
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: Or he knew he, I don't know if he knew my name, but he recognized that we have a TV show and a podcast and stuff like that.
• 10:00
  Dayna Roselli: And I said, Yeah.
• 10:01
  Dayna Roselli: And he said, Hey, there's two seats over there if you guys want to sit down.
• 10:04
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought that was so nice of him.
• 10:06
  Sean McAllister: That's great.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: So big shout out to Brian.
• 10:09
  Sean McAllister: He seemed like he wanted to stand because he was like, you know, checking out the sits, surveying the room and seeing what the deal was.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 10:17
  Dayna Roselli: So that was so nice of him.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: And now I've uh subscribed to his podcast, and I'm gonna start listening when I can because he's got some good, some good tips, you know, as well.
• 10:27
  Dayna Roselli: And it's always good to hear different, you know, different people's take on things, you know.
• 10:30
  Dayna Roselli: So um anyway, if you get a chance, check out Brian's podcast, Concierge Confidential.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: So thanks so much.
• 10:38
  Sean McAllister: And as a reminder, uh, you can leave your comments, uh, ask us questions, give us topic ideas that you want to hear on the podcast by clicking the link down in our show notes, it automatically sends a text message to us, and we get your feedback well immediately.
• 10:56
  Sean McAllister: It's a text message, you know how those work.
• 10:59
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but all you have to do is click that link, send us whatever you want to send us, and then we'll talk about it in our uh next episode.
• 11:07
  Sean McAllister: So we love to hear from you.
• 11:08
  Sean McAllister: And while you're at it, if you could give us uh a good rating, a five-star rating and a nice review.
• 11:15
  Sean McAllister: A nice, nice review.
• 11:17
  Sean McAllister: We always love that.
• 11:18
  Sean McAllister: Christmas in July, we'll consider it, right?
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, for sure.
• 11:22
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, uh, let's talk about Steve Wynn's Instagram.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: I'm not buying it.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: What do you think?
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: Sean, you take this one away.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: Okay, so uh Dana and I have noticed recently that these posts from Steve Wynn keep coming up in our Instagram feed.
• 11:37
  Sean McAllister: And we went to the account, he has like almost 11,000 followers.
• 11:43
  Sean McAllister: Uh just started posting.
• 11:46
  Sean McAllister: Let's see, I think it was well, it was April of 2020, was the first post.
• 11:51
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 11:52
  Sean McAllister: And then there was a little bit of a lag, and now there have been more posts on a regular basis.
• 11:59
  Sean McAllister: A lot of activity, a lot of activity, and the account says that it is curated by his family, uh, which is all well and good, but it's kind of it's fun to read the captions of the photos and videos, though, because they are written like in from Steve's perspective in first person.
• 12:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 12:21
  Sean McAllister: And so we were just wondering, we're like, is this really Steve?
• 12:26
  Sean McAllister: Is this really the photo?
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and that's what I don't like about all these social media sites going to paid the check marks now.
• 12:33
  Sean McAllister: Right, you can just buy the check mark rather than actually being verified.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, like, I guess maybe they would know that Steve Wynn, like, I don't know if anybody can just buy Steve Wynn.
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know because like you need to have proof, right, to be verified.
• 12:49
  Dayna Roselli: And I I don't really know how it works anymore because people can buy them, so it's confusing.
• 12:53
  Dayna Roselli: And that's what I dislike.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: But it's Steve uh Wynn on Instagram, and I guess it's been there for a while, so maybe it is him.
• 13:03
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 13:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's written in and maybe the family member says, Hey Steve, what do you want me to write here?
• 13:08
  Dayna Roselli: Or what would you say, you know, or that kind of thing.
• 13:11
  Dayna Roselli: But um, anyway, I know there's a lot of interest in what Steve built here in Las Vegas, created here in Las Vegas, so much history.
• 13:20
  Dayna Roselli: Obviously, things didn't end the way you know, I don't think he would have chosen to move out of Las Vegas and and stop obviously running and building casinos, but um he had to.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: And now he has moved to upstate New York, where Sean and I are from, actually, built a hospital there, Wynn Hospital.
• 13:39
  Dayna Roselli: And um, you know, all of a sudden he's just, I don't know, starting to install.
• 13:44
  Sean McAllister: Starting to got the got the itch.
• 13:46
  Sean McAllister: He's on the gram.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 13:48
  Sean McAllister: Letting us know about the the projects he's worked on, the organizations that he's supported through the years, uh, his perspective on uh life in and business in Las Vegas.
• 14:01
  Sean McAllister: It's I don't know, it's interesting.
• 14:03
  Sean McAllister: I like it.
• 14:04
  Sean McAllister: I love I've I click on the posts and I like them and I read them.
• 14:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I start following.
• 14:08
  Dayna Roselli: I'm like, okay.
• 14:09
  Dayna Roselli: What yeah.
• 14:10
  Sean McAllister: As a clip of that commercial from when Wynn first opened.
• 14:14
  Sean McAllister: Remember, Steve Wynn was sitting on the very tip of the top of the uh wind tower with a com uh helicopter flying around with a camera on him.
• 14:26
  Sean McAllister: That was a big deal.
• 14:27
  Sean McAllister: It was short.
• 14:28
  Sean McAllister: I remember when that commercial first came out.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: It was shot right.
• 14:31
  Dayna Roselli: I worked at Channel 8 at the time, and the wind is right there in front of us.
• 14:35
  Dayna Roselli: And I was a helicopter reporter, and I remember we had to clear the airspace and all that.
• 14:40
  Dayna Roselli: It was a big deal.
• 14:41
  Sean McAllister: Wasn't that uh there was a a famous Hollywood director who did that commercial, and it's escaping me now uh who it was.
• 14:52
  Sean McAllister: But there was a really famous uh how's your drink?
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: Good.
• 14:56
  Dayna Roselli: Sorry, I wanted the end.
• 14:57
  Dayna Roselli: Hold on.
• 14:59
  Dayna Roselli: And trying not to be loud.
• 15:01
  Sean McAllister: A little ASMR break.
• 15:02
  Sean McAllister: Ah, there we go.
• 15:03
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 15:04
  Dayna Roselli: Go ahead.
• 15:05
  Sean McAllister: But yeah, so I mean, uh obviously iconic moments in Steve Wynn's life and career, and now we're getting glimpses of those once again, revisiting them on his on the Instagram account.
• 15:19
  Dayna Roselli: The Instagram account.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know, let us know what you think.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: Is it Steve Wynn?
• 15:22
  Dayna Roselli: Is it not Steve Wynn?
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: Who's running the account?
• 15:24
  Dayna Roselli: If you run the account, text us.
• 15:26
  Sean McAllister: And I did just notice it's Steve A Wynn.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 15:31
  Sean McAllister: Alan, I believe is his middle name.
• 15:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:33
  Dayna Roselli: But I think if you type in Steve Wynn, it'll come up with a check mark.
• 15:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it does.
• 15:37
  Dayna Roselli: So all right.
• 15:38
  Dayna Roselli: Do we want to mention um Zach Brown?
• 15:40
  Dayna Roselli: We mentioned him last week.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: What tickets now on sale at the sphere, and then more dates added, as usual.
• 15:45
  Dayna Roselli: It's so hard to that's why it's so hard to say dates here.
• 15:48
  Dayna Roselli: Always know if we say the dates of a show within the next week, more shows could go on sale.
• 15:54
  Sean McAllister: It's always those are the dates as of the time that we are recording.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 16:00
  Sean McAllister: But dates are always flying around left and right here in Las Vegas.
• 16:04
  Dayna Roselli: So we yeah, we thought he'd just be here for NFR, Zach Brown band.
• 16:08
  Dayna Roselli: Um previous dates were December 6th, 5th, 5th, 12th, 13th.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: 5th, 6th, 12th, 13th.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: And then now added 9th and 10th.
• 16:17
  Dayna Roselli: So 5th.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: Oh, January, yeah.
• 16:19
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, January.
• 16:20
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, January, sorry.
• 16:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so he'll be back.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so he'll be back afterwards.
• 16:22
  Dayna Roselli: They'll be back, right?
• 16:23
  Dayna Roselli: Him and the whole band.
• 16:24
  Dayna Roselli: The whole band.
• 16:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: The whole band.
• 16:26
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and they're doing their new album, and then I wanted to note that, and I don't know if I did last week, um, because it's I think heavily promoted that it's, you know, has to do with this new album.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: Some of them will be songs will be performed live for the first time, but um, it did say in the release and the in the kind of synopsis that he will also be doing a lot of his famous hits.
• 16:45
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, which are already out there, which is important for people to know, I think.
• 16:49
  Sean McAllister: It's very important for people to know.
• 16:51
  Sean McAllister: And it's important for an artist to do, I think, when you're in a venue like that, too.
• 16:55
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's one of our we talk about that a lot.
• 16:58
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 16:59
  Sean McAllister: You gotta do the hits always.
• 17:01
  Sean McAllister: Um, we stopped over to MGM Grand for uh what feels like years.
• 17:08
  Sean McAllister: We have been waiting for the Friends Experience to open over at MGM Grand because I mean this TV show just has it's kind of taken on a life of its own.
• 17:20
  Sean McAllister: It's now got a new generation of people watching, plus the original generation of people who watched it back in when it was originally on.
• 17:29
  Sean McAllister: And this experience delivers on every single level.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 17:37
  Dayna Roselli: And it's a little emotional if you really loved the show and watch it often, watched it often, watch it currently often.
• 17:43
  Dayna Roselli: Um you know, and I think especially um with the loss of one of the cast members, I feel like it makes it even more soft.
• 17:52
  Sean McAllister: It does.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: You know, don't you didn't you feel that?
• 17:54
  Sean McAllister: Well, the chemistry that they had, the humor, the tender moment, like that show had it all, and it made you feel so connected to every single one of those characters.
• 18:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: Matthew Perry was a big loss.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: He played Chandler, in case you didn't know, which everyone does.
• 18:13
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, it just yeah, that was hard.
• 18:15
  Dayna Roselli: So seeing these iconic moments play out and getting to be a part of the sets, um, and there's some fun moments.
• 18:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's like I wanna let everyone know what's in there, but I kind of don't, too.
• 18:25
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 18:26
  Dayna Roselli: So let's leave some surprises.
• 18:28
  Sean McAllister: We will leave some surprises, but what we will tell you, you will get uh you'll get the apartments.
• 18:36
  Sean McAllister: That's kind of a you expect that, right?
• 18:39
  Sean McAllister: Demonica's apartment, Joey and Chandler's apartment.
• 18:43
  Sean McAllister: You get those.
• 18:44
  Sean McAllister: But then there are some surprise moments.
• 18:46
  Sean McAllister: This uh the title of this experience is The One in Vegas, which is obviously a nod to the way that the shows were titled.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 18:55
  Sean McAllister: Uh and there definitely were many Vegas moments throughout the 10 seasons of Friends, and you are going to get Vegas moments throughout this experience here in Vegas, which is appropriate.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 19:09
  Sean McAllister: By the way, the West Coast flagship location for the Friends experience.
• 19:14
  Dayna Roselli: But it's a big deal, right?
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and and we asked all about like why Vega.
• 19:19
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, we're why don't we play a little bit of the interview?
• 19:22
  Dayna Roselli: We did talk with Kathleen Wallace, the vice president of Warner Brothers Discovery Global themed entertainment and uh Stacey Muscatelli.
• 19:30
  Dayna Roselli: Hopefully I'm saying that right.
• 19:32
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, she's the CEO of Original X Productions.
• 19:35
  Dayna Roselli: And they were just, you could just tell, they were so happy that they were finally at opening day.
• 19:41
  Dayna Roselli: They've put their heart and soul into this.
• 19:42
  Dayna Roselli: Well, first of all, how excited are you that this is finally open?
• 19:45
  Dayna Roselli: There's been so much anticipation.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: You have no idea.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_00: It has been years in the making.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: We, since really 2020, we've been talking about coming to Vegas and looking for the right location and wanting to make sure, you know, location is everything.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_00: So wanted to make sure we found it found the right place at the right time.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_00: And we were lucky enough a couple years ago to get a call from MGM and started the conversation from there.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_00: So this has been a labor of love and a long time coming.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: We're really excited.
• 20:10
  Dayna Roselli: Why Vegas?
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: What was the thought behind that?
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: Were you like, this is the perfect fit?
• 20:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's Vegas.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you know, this is an incredible city, and we can reach so many people because of the tourism.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have a flagship on the West Coast.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: We're in New York City, but this it serves our fans on the on the West Coast.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: And then Vegas is very meaningful to the series because we have those Vegas episodes, which are highly memorable and fan favorites.
• 20:35
  Dayna Roselli: Go through the episodes for me, the highlights of Vegas that we'll see in this attraction.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: There are a number of them.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think, you know, if if you remember, the reason that they all came out was that Joey had left New York because he took a job in Las Vegas.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so we've got the gladiator costume uh that that Joey wears, which is an amazing one.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um we've got the wedding chapel, which, you know, to Kathleen's point, that is one of the most iconic moments because Ross and Rachel get married, but it's an accident, right?
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: But we know that it's it's coming.
• 21:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so, you know, I think there are a number of scenes there, so we play that out.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and we've got a chapel, so you know, I'm hoping that we've got some proposals and some weddings coming our way.
• 21:13
  Dayna Roselli: Um now when people go through these and from other exhibits and stuff, I mean they obviously just love taking pictures.
• 21:19
  Dayna Roselli: People are allowed to take pictures and videos encouraged.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely, absolutely.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it's really all about.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I think for Friends fans, it is about feeling like you're you're in on it, right?
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: That you're you know, stepping inside that world, that you're on the set, that you're one of the gang.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_00: And so we try to, you know, give every opportunity for you to sit on the couch, sit in the recliner, sit at Monica's table and get those pictures.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we have multiple premium photo ops, but when you see the super fans come through, they they take pictures of everything.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Everything, every prop, Monica's trifle.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's it's interesting.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and I you know, the friends are so iconic.
• 21:55
  Dayna Roselli: I think there's a generation that you just you there's people who have seen every single Episode.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: But also the younger people are now watching it on streaming apps.
• 22:04
  Dayna Roselli: I noticed I have, you know, friends that have kids that are 18 that are like, we love friends.
• 22:08
  Dayna Roselli: We're watching it from the beginning.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: Are you noticing that?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yes, definitely.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is a show that is multi-generational.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_01: And uh kids today are relating to it just like their parents did.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same themes of, you know, navigating your 20s and dating in apartments and roommates and jobs.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and also there's this appeal, this nostalgic appeal for a simpler time before social media.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I feel like that's why.
• 22:34
  Dayna Roselli: And I hopefully when younger people watch it, they go, see, it could have been so good.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, I always say it's that time in your life for your friends or your family, and I think that's like one of the most special sort of coming-of-age moments in your lifetime.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I think that, you know, people love um aspiring to that or coming back to that.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was a great time in my life at least.
• 22:56
  Dayna Roselli: So tell me a little bit about the experience.
• 22:58
  Dayna Roselli: So just so folks know, like you come, you do this, you do that, you grab a ticket, how are kind of you can buy tickets online, of course, um, or you know, walk up and buy tickets.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um we have sort of an intro moment that brings you, sort of reorients you um to the show and to the series and to the moment in time.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um you start with the fountain and the couch and the light, which you know, every episode starts there.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so we start with that to kick off your experience.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_00: And then we have some behind the scenes, some really great uh interviews and sort of uh costume moments and some really interesting info there.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then you come to Vegas, right?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: So you we have this portal into Vegas, you go to the chapel.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have a moment where you leave Vegas.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you remember, but uh Joey and Phoebe took the cab all the way home.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you will do that too.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then you know, we go into the iconic sets, the apartments and the hallway and Central Park, um, and lots of little behind-the-scenes facts along the way.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I think it's for you know super fans, it's for casual fans.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: You know, what I've learned is everybody's a fan of friends, even if they're not, if even if they don't think they are, by the time they're walking out, they're citing quotes, they're a fan.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, the coffee shop is you know ended almost every episode, and it's a place to celebrate the day, recap the day with your friends, and this has always been one of the highlights of all of the exhibits, I would say.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: Uh everyone loves Central Park.
• 24:20
  Sean McAllister: What are some of the details that have been added to this experience that only super fans are gonna really hone in on?
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: We were just talking about one earlier.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you go into the boys' apartment, they have the foosball table and you can hear chicken duck.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, right.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Uh if you there was an episode where they got stuck in the in the table.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so that's a nice little Easter egg moment.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um we have ugly naked guys.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: You can actually poke him.
• 24:46
  Sean McAllister: So, Dana, as we were talking with Kathleen and Stacy, there were some surprise guests that kind of crashed the interview.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: And I felt starstruck.
• 24:54
  Sean McAllister: I mean, starstruck, it gives me goosebumps right now, even to think about it again.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: David Crane and Kevin Bright, who are two of the show creators.
• 25:04
  Dayna Roselli: And very well known because when the how many because because at the end credits, the names come up right away.
• 25:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Marta Kaufman was the other show creator.
• 25:13
  Sean McAllister: She was not there.
• 25:14
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, but Kevin Bright, David Crane, I mean, those names are just huge.
• 25:18
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: And they popped into the interview.
• 25:22
  Sean McAllister: We didn't even we didn't expect it at all.
• 25:24
  Sean McAllister: I didn't even know where they came from.
• 25:25
  Dayna Roselli: No, they just like busted in.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: It was great.
• 25:27
  Dayna Roselli: Listen to this moment.
• 25:28
  Dayna Roselli: Here you go.
• 25:29
  Sean McAllister: For people who have done the Warner Brothers studio tour and have seen the central perk set and the elements from friends on the tour.
• 25:38
  Sean McAllister: What additional elements are they going to see here that you don't get on the tour?
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_07: They're just gonna have to get on the plane Burbank.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_07: We don't give them a David Crane.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_06: David Crane.
• 25:56
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, you guys are.
• 25:58
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my god, this is exciting.
• 26:00
  Dayna Roselli: What do you think?
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_06: Oh my god, we're blown away.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_06: This is absolutely surreal.
• 26:05
  Dayna Roselli: How meaningful is it to for you guys to just see this go on and on and on?
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_06: It's beyond anything, well, certainly beyond anything we could have imagined.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_06: And just the fact that we're here 30 something years later, it's it's it's mind-blowing.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_06: It's absolutely thrilling.
• 26:22
  Dayna Roselli: Do you get emotional?
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_06: Uh not watching the show, but walking in here, yeah, a little bit.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_06: It's like seeing them.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, no, it's it is very much like uh kind of coming back into your childhood home and just like stuff comes rushing back.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_06: It's amazing.
• 26:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it really is.
• 26:41
  Dayna Roselli: Well, what you guys have created.
• 26:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, this is all you guys.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_07: What they've created out of what we started.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_07: It's really that's the thing, because we never imagined any of this.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_07: This is just really an enhancement of uh bringing the show to life and uh out of the TV screen and allowing the fans to participate and create their own stories in the sets.
• 27:05
  Sean McAllister: I mean, how cool and iconic to have the creator, two of the creators of friends pop into this interview.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: And it's funny because it's like we felt that way.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: And these are not people who are known for, you know, their face, like being the star of a television show.
• 27:25
  Dayna Roselli: But that just it like that that makes their star star power even more, their influence, their, you know, what the impact they basically had on pop TV culture.
• 27:39
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 27:41
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, these are the minds that are thought of the show.
• 27:44
  Sean McAllister: Uh huh.
• 27:44
  Sean McAllister: I mean, what how a life.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: I just I would put my collar up, my sunglasses on, and strut down the street every day, knowing that I created friends.
• 27:56
  Dayna Roselli: And I would feel proud.
• 27:58
  Dayna Roselli: I mean I would eat a donut and have a whole pizza for dinner.
• 28:01
  Sean McAllister: And I don't know, I think we felt really honored to have the chance to talk to them.
• 28:06
  Dayna Roselli: We really did.
• 28:07
  Dayna Roselli: It was an incredible moment and good to pick their brain for the short time that we had them.
• 28:12
  Dayna Roselli: Um, and like you we said, it and you can hear, they just kind of in like bombarded the interview.
• 28:18
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 28:18
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean we weren't prepared, but um, but we're always off the cuff anyway.
• 28:22
  Dayna Roselli: So that was a lot of fun.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: That really was an honor to be able to speak with them.
• 28:26
  Dayna Roselli: Incredible.
• 28:27
  Sean McAllister: So the Friends Experience, it's now open over at MGM Grand.
• 28:32
  Sean McAllister: Uh, you can book online.
• 28:34
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they do have specific times uh for your tickets.
• 28:39
  Sean McAllister: So because they do want to let you, you know, take your time inside the experience to get a bunch of photos.
• 28:46
  Sean McAllister: Uh I believe it's like uh the tickets are 40 bucks.
• 28:49
  Dayna Roselli: They start at 40, which is really reasonable.
• 28:53
  Sean McAllister: There's add-ons that you can do on top of that as well.
• 28:56
  Dayna Roselli: This is not a short tour.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: No, it's not.
• 28:57
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, and that's it.
• 28:58
  Dayna Roselli: Well, there's not like tons and tons of rooms, but there's a lot to look at, take pictures of, and read.
• 29:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, fashion is a part of it.
• 29:08
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they have original scripts, timelines, quotes, yeah.
• 29:13
  Dayna Roselli: Sections of the show on you know, playing on TVs.
• 29:16
  Sean McAllister: It's it's so good.
• 29:18
  Sean McAllister: I am 100% going back, probably at least five times.
• 29:25
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, and then this was a big deal.
• 29:27
  Dayna Roselli: All of a sudden, Sean asks if he can buy something in the gift shop, and they're like, sure.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: And then they say you're the first ever sale in the friends experience.
• 29:36
  Dayna Roselli: And all of a sudden, uh these people started clapping.
• 29:39
  Dayna Roselli: Were they all the staff getting ready for the day?
• 29:41
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think it was staff members who were, you know, getting briefed on everything that was going on and what to expect and whatever.
• 29:50
  Sean McAllister: This applause just started breaking out because I bought the very first piece of merchandise at the Friends Experience in Vegas.
• 29:59
  Dayna Roselli: Uh isn't that that that was an amazing moment.
• 30:02
  Dayna Roselli: I think you were really excited.
• 30:03
  Dayna Roselli: I was excited.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: I whipped out my camera, I was like, oh my gosh, we have to film this.
• 30:07
  Sean McAllister: I was super excited.
• 30:08
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, it was I got Hugsy the penguin.
• 30:11
  Dayna Roselli: Now, what's the story behind that?
• 30:13
  Sean McAllister: So, Hugsy is Joey's stuffed animal that he has had like forever.
• 30:19
  Sean McAllister: It's kind of like his emotional support.
• 30:21
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, like a baby blanket.
• 30:23
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 30:23
  Sean McAllister: Instead of a baby blanket, he has Hugsy.
• 30:26
  Sean McAllister: And when Rachel had Emma, uh Emma really got attached to Hugsy.
• 30:33
  Sean McAllister: He he loaned Hugsy to Emma to get her to stop crying.
• 30:38
  Sean McAllister: Well, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 30:40
  Sean McAllister: Well, Joey did not like that Emma wanted Hugsy.
• 30:45
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 30:46
  Sean McAllister: So he went out and bought Emma another Hugsy, and she didn't like the new one.
• 30:50
  Sean McAllister: She wanted the Joey Hugsy, but he ended up stealing it back.
• 30:54
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 30:56
  Dayna Roselli: But it's those little things.
• 30:58
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so you bought one.
• 31:00
  Sean McAllister: Bought a hugsy, and that was the first sale.
• 31:03
  Dayna Roselli: The first sale, first purchase ever at the MGM Grand Friends Experience.
• 31:08
  Dayna Roselli: Let's hear it for Sean.
• 31:13
  Sean McAllister: All right, let's get to our tips.
• 31:17
  Sean McAllister: You know, Crazy Horse 3.
• 31:18
  Sean McAllister: This is an uh adult club here in Las Vegas.
• 31:22
  Sean McAllister: They are always coming up with such great promotions.
• 31:26
  Dayna Roselli: Great creative ideas.
• 31:27
  Sean McAllister: To get people in the door, to keep people there.
• 31:30
  Sean McAllister: Well, they have uh Local Love Thursdays that they have just launched.
• 31:36
  Sean McAllister: It features an open bar, free appetizers every Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m.
• 31:44
  Sean McAllister: And this is for Nevada residents.
• 31:46
  Sean McAllister: Wow, that's a deal.
• 31:48
  Sean McAllister: That's a great deal.
• 31:49
  Sean McAllister: Right?
• 31:50
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, okay, and this is right near Allegiance Stadium, too, by the way, everyone.
• 31:55
  Dayna Roselli: So um you know, they have convenient parking there.
• 31:59
  Dayna Roselli: Uh they always talk about that around game time too.
• 32:01
  Dayna Roselli: Like if you want to pop in, have a drink, then walk over or go to a game, come back, and you know, maybe hit Crazy Horse 3 after or something like that.
• 32:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um but they also did want to let us know that um the$2 tacos,$1 wings, and daily$7 happy hour offers are for all guests, not just locals.
• 32:25
  Dayna Roselli: So they wanted to us to keep that in mind.
• 32:28
  Dayna Roselli: They have the$99 bottle specials, they have a lot of things going on over there.
• 32:32
  Dayna Roselli: So um kudos to them.
• 32:34
  Dayna Roselli: They say, you know, the prices are inflating everywhere, and we're trying to help.
• 32:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and you know, you can get free rides over there.
• 32:42
  Sean McAllister: They have, as you mentioned, Dana, convenient parking next to a Legion.
• 32:47
  Sean McAllister: That was not supposed to be an innuendo, but you know, it is what it is.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my gosh, that's transportation.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_02: I should say.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_02: Transportation.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, they wrote free rides in the press release.
• 33:03
  Sean McAllister: So it can be interpreted many ways, clearly.
• 33:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 33:08
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, exactly.
• 33:09
  Dayna Roselli: They got a lot of different things, you know.
• 33:11
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta look, uh, go to the website and you'll find more information.
• 33:14
  Dayna Roselli: But we just wanted to give you the roundabout to let you know Crazy Horse 3 is doing this local love Thursdays, and that's a great deal.
• 33:21
  Dayna Roselli: And then they do have specials for out-of-town visitors as well all the time.
• 33:27
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, who can beat a$1 wing and a$7 happy hour?
• 33:31
  Sean McAllister: And they say that these are indefinite uh uh specials.
• 33:35
  Sean McAllister: So there's, you know, you you don't have to watch the clock or calendar to know that they're running out because these are ongoing.
• 33:43
  Sean McAllister: Uh we have other deals to share with you.
• 33:45
  Sean McAllister: This one is Sahara.
• 33:46
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 33:47
  Dayna Roselli: You why don't you start um talking about this?
• 33:49
  Dayna Roselli: Because I need to look up the exact details.
• 33:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so Sahara has a new summer value offer that just came out, I believe it was just this week.
• 34:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they sent us the information.
• 34:02
  Sean McAllister: It's an all-in-rate experience that includes really good rates on their hotel rooms.
• 34:11
  Sean McAllister: They are wiping out, getting rid of resort fees, they're getting rid of parking fees, they're giving free room upgrades, they're giving late checkout, and a complimentary resort credit.
• 34:28
  Dayna Roselli: That's a lot.
• 34:29
  Sean McAllister: That's a ton.
• 34:30
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 34:31
  Dayna Roselli: They're saying hotel rates start at 69 bucks in the newly renovated property.
• 34:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um so what were they talking about?
• 34:40
  Dayna Roselli: $54.95 daily value.
• 34:43
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, because there's no resort fee.
• 34:45
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 34:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 34:46
  Sean McAllister: No resort fee.
• 34:47
  Dayna Roselli: $25 daily resort credit.
• 34:50
  Dayna Roselli: Three room upgrade.
• 34:51
  Dayna Roselli: They always have free parking valet, like you mentioned, and it's easy to get to, to be honest.
• 34:56
  Dayna Roselli: It's like in and out.
• 34:58
  Dayna Roselli: I like that.
• 34:58
  Sean McAllister: And I know that some of their restaurants uh have deals as well.
• 35:02
  Sean McAllister: I believe uh Bala over there had uh has deals on specific days with um bottles of wine, and I think they have special menu specials as well.
• 35:16
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 35:16
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I guess you can also get free on property perks via the digital savings pass, which includes Magic Mike Live and Spa discounts.
• 35:27
  Dayna Roselli: Buy one, get one drinks at Zillow Ultra Lounge and more, which is like$150 value.
• 35:34
  Dayna Roselli: So check it out.
• 35:35
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we know there's a lot of this going uh right now.
• 35:38
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of deals to sift through, but now's the time, man.
• 35:42
  Dayna Roselli: And like you mentioned, um, Sean, it looks like 50% off premium steaks every Sunday at Bala Italian.
• 35:48
  Sean McAllister: Yes, that's what I saw.
• 35:50
  Dayna Roselli: That's for locals and industry professionals with valid ID.
• 35:53
  Dayna Roselli: That's great.
• 35:54
  Dayna Roselli: And 50% off bottles of wine every Wednesday at Bala.
• 35:58
  Sean McAllister: Does it surprise you that their steak and wine deal is what kind of got stuck in my head?
• 36:04
  Dayna Roselli: No, it doesn't.
• 36:05
  Dayna Roselli: Not at all.
• 36:07
  Sean McAllister: Two of my favorite things.
• 36:09
  Sean McAllister: Add some cheese in there, and I'm I'll stay forever.
• 36:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, well, anyway, that's what's going on at the Sahara.
• 36:16
  Dayna Roselli: Again, we do have a lot of um summer deals on a blog that we posted on our website.
• 36:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's vegas-revealed.com.
• 36:24
  Dayna Roselli: Scroll down to the bottom where you'll see our blog, and I think it's like one scroll over.
• 36:31
  Dayna Roselli: We've got the full list of all these different Vegas deals for uh locals.
• 36:37
  Dayna Roselli: There are like a couple sprinkled in that apply to everyone, but you know, Nevada residents really should be taking advantage of these staycations and stuff.
• 36:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, absolutely.
• 36:45
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, um, this all-in rate experience over at Sahara, you have to book by August 10th, and you have to stay at the resort by October 31st.
• 36:58
  Sean McAllister: So book now, stay through October 31st.
• 37:02
  Dayna Roselli: Perfect time of year.
• 37:03
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 37:04
  Dayna Roselli: Right?
• 37:05
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, September and October weather are key.
• 37:08
  Sean McAllister: I mean, we didn't start out with our weather report.
• 37:10
  Sean McAllister: I know we didn't have an episode.
• 37:11
  Dayna Roselli: We went into my well, we went into my summer cold.
• 37:14
  Sean McAllister: Well, that's true.
• 37:16
  Sean McAllister: It's oxymoronic right there, summer cold.
• 37:20
  Sean McAllister: Um, but uh temperatures are starting to like become a little more mild.
• 37:26
  Sean McAllister: And I know that's all relative because we were so hot this summer, but it's been, you know, high nineties, low hundreds, which is actually very comfortable here because we don't have humidity.
• 37:39
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 37:39
  Dayna Roselli: That's true.
• 37:40
  Dayna Roselli: Um we haven't had like a we had like a day or two of like monsoon weather.
• 37:46
  Dayna Roselli: It was pretty bad, and it really has not it hasn't fired back up again.
• 37:50
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 37:51
  Dayna Roselli: Uh so I wonder if we'll get that heavy in August.
• 37:54
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes August August can be thick.
• 37:56
  Dayna Roselli: It can be like the air, I'm talking like very humid.
• 38:00
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll see about that.
• 38:02
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we'll keep our eye on those monsoonal flows.
• 38:05
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 38:05
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, download the Vegas Near Me app if you're coming here.
• 38:08
  Dayna Roselli: Lots of things to do in there, basically everything you can imagine.
• 38:11
  Dayna Roselli: Hours, tickets, maps, the whole nine.
• 38:15
  Dayna Roselli: You know, I always love to say you don't have to put in a username, you don't have to put in an email.
• 38:19
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like that's the best part.
• 38:20
  Dayna Roselli: I am so tired of signing up for things.
• 38:23
  Dayna Roselli: Aren't you?
• 38:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 38:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, like putting your email, and then they're like, oh, you've already used this email.
• 38:28
  Dayna Roselli: You've got to create a new one if you want another.
• 38:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm like, this is just too much.
• 38:33
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 38:33
  Sean McAllister: It really has started to just So that is the great thing about V the Vegas Near Me app, you don't need that.
• 38:39
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 38:40
  Sean McAllister: Um total tangent, but my phone like almost stopped working the other day.
• 38:44
  Sean McAllister: I had this notice that came up that said iPhone unavailable.
• 38:49
  Sean McAllister: Try back in 15 minutes.
• 38:50
  Sean McAllister: I'd never seen anything like that before.
• 38:53
  Sean McAllister: Um, but the reason I bring that up is because all of my passwords are on my phone.
• 38:58
  Sean McAllister: I don't have, I mean, I guess I have them backed up in the cloud and I could like log in on a desktop and find stuff, but it made me like really nervous.
• 39:07
  Sean McAllister: I was like, how do I?
• 39:08
  Sean McAllister: I don't think I even know my Apple password off the top of my head.
• 39:12
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 39:12
  Dayna Roselli: You don't?
• 39:13
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, mine is in my head.
• 39:15
  Sean McAllister: I've had to change it like eight million times, and now it's like 72 characters long with eight special characters and upper lowercase and can't be anything like a password you've had before.
• 39:28
  Dayna Roselli: And I have never had to change my Apple.
• 39:31
  Dayna Roselli: My Apple password is the same password as when I opened iTunes back in.
• 39:38
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even know.
• 39:38
  Dayna Roselli: I think I was living in my house when I lived at Owned a Home like 2020.
• 39:43
  Sean McAllister: Oh my god.
• 39:44
  Sean McAllister: Back in the days when you would update your iPod shuffle.
• 39:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it's the same password.
• 39:49
  Dayna Roselli: That is my like why have you changed yours so many times?
• 39:52
  Dayna Roselli: It makes me.
• 39:53
  Dayna Roselli: It does?
• 39:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 39:54
  Dayna Roselli: I never get asked to change my app.
• 39:56
  Dayna Roselli: Really?
• 39:56
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 39:57
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I feel like they have just raked me over the coals.
• 40:02
  Sean McAllister: Jeez.
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my goodness.
• 40:04
  Sean McAllister: Uh so anyway, Vegas near me, great app to have on your phone if it doesn't lock you out.
• 40:11
  Sean McAllister: Um, the app won't lock you out.
• 40:13
  Sean McAllister: Your phone might.
• 40:13
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 40:14
  Sean McAllister: Great app.
• 40:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and they have a lot of deals on there too.
• 40:16
  Dayna Roselli: So I know everyone's looking for discounts, deals, deals, deals, save money, take advantage.
• 40:20
  Dayna Roselli: Go to Vegas Near Me.
• 40:21
  Dayna Roselli: They have a deals page, and you'll see what's going on.
• 40:24
  Dayna Roselli: Comedy club tickets that are all, you know, all sorts of stuff.
• 40:27
  Dayna Roselli: Um, big shout out to Galindo Law, our title sponsor here for the audio podcast and our television show.
• 40:34
  Dayna Roselli: 800-251-1533 is the number.
• 40:39
  Dayna Roselli: You never know if you have a Texas home that was damaged by hell or hurricane in the past two years.
• 40:44
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe you feel you weren't compensated by your insurance like you should be if you are involved in a Nevada monsoon and there's damage to your home and you feel you were owed more compensation.
• 40:55
  Dayna Roselli: Also, if you were involved in those California wildfires uh recently, give them a call, 800-251-1533.
• 41:03
  Dayna Roselli: They will do a free claim review and let you know where you stand and if they can help you.
• 41:08
  Sean McAllister: And you can also visit them at galindolaw.com.
• 41:12
  Sean McAllister: That is it for episode 280 of Vegas Revealed.
• 41:16
  Sean McAllister: We will be back next week with the cast of the Brotherly Love podcast.
• 41:22
  Dayna Roselli: My new favorite.
• 41:23
  Dayna Roselli: It's I started watching for research and now I'm hooked.
• 41:26
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh, it's so it's great.
• 41:28
  Sean McAllister: Uh it's the Lawrence Brothers, Joey, Matt, and Andy.
• 41:32
  Sean McAllister: They have a podcast now.
• 41:33
  Sean McAllister: Of course, they're, you know, star TV stars from the 80s and 90s.
• 41:39
  Dayna Roselli: Well, Blossom was my jam.
• 41:41
  Dayna Roselli: I loved the show Blossom.
• 41:43
  Dayna Roselli: Whoa! Yeah, Joey Lawrence was just the great show.
• 41:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he looks fantastic.
• 41:48
  Dayna Roselli: And he's just, you know, him and I were chatting.
• 41:49
  Dayna Roselli: We're both 49, so we're talking pop culture.
• 41:52
  Dayna Roselli: Well, anyway, we'll talk more about that last week.
• 41:54
  Dayna Roselli: But uh, you know, all the brothers, great guys.
• 41:57
  Dayna Roselli: And I know this show they're doing at the Stratosphere on August 15th and 16th is gonna be great.
• 42:02
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll have more details on that next week.
• 42:04
  Sean McAllister: And a great conversation that I don't know, it made it made me laugh several times as I was listening back to it.
• 42:13
  Sean McAllister: So hopefully it'll make you laugh too.
• 42:14
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 42:15
  Dayna Roselli: All right, we'll see you next week, everyone.