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Las Vegas Holiday Pop-Ups & Attractions, Carrot Top Interview, New Restaurants, NFR Week | Ep. 298 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Sean McAllister: It's episode 298 of Vegas Revealed.
• 0:03
  Sean McAllister: We head to Miracle on Spring Mountain at the Stand Dollar Lounge.
• 0:07
  Sean McAllister: This is a holiday tradition we could not pass up.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_03: We don't charge a cover ever.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: It is 21 and up.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_03: So great food, great cocktails, good vibes, and bands every night.
• 0:18
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, more holiday pop-up bars and restaurants you may want to check out.
• 0:22
  Dayna Roselli: And we head to the Oasis Ice Rink at Fountain Blue.
• 0:25
  Sean McAllister: A popular locals restaurant opens on Fremont Street, and they're staying open late.
• 0:30
  Dayna Roselli: Plus, a new spot for Ty that's a good location for locals and visitors.
• 0:36
  Sean McAllister: We also chat with the funny and iconic Carrot Top.
• 0:40
  Dayna Roselli: All this coming up on Vegas Revealed.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_06: Vegas Revealed, presented by Galindo Law, starts now.
• 0:48
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 298.
• 0:50
  Sean McAllister: Sean McAllister and Dana Roselli here with you.
• 0:53
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, we're into December and we've got a priority list of uh things in Vegas that you gotta do now.
• 1:01
  Dayna Roselli: Right, because they're gonna go away eventually.
• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: And so we're like, all right, we really need to focus on this list this week.
• 1:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, we're we're back from Thanksgiving and we've got a full list of Christmassy things you need to do, starting with Miracle on Spring Mountain.
• 1:16
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I went to check this out like the second day that it opened, and we did a story for our TV show.
• 1:22
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to see some visuals, you can go to our YouTube page.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: All our shows are there.
• 1:25
  Dayna Roselli: But what a fun place.
• 1:26
  Dayna Roselli: You almost forget every time you revisit year after year.
• 1:30
  Sean McAllister: You really do, and it's so imagine like you have a giant bag of Christmas, and you just uh take it inside and you shake the bag, and Christmas goes everywhere.
• 1:46
  Dayna Roselli: Right, and it's all sorts of different things, nostalgic things, new things.
• 1:50
  Sean McAllister: And there's a Hanukkah a Hanukkah lounge in there, too, by the way.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 1:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great spot.
• 1:56
  Dayna Roselli: There's stuff on the ceiling, things on the wall.
• 2:00
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, we showed up, and and the owner and the general manager were festive.
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: Uh one was dressed as a snowman, the other as an elf.
• 2:08
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they are ready for the holiday.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: And it's been open a little bit now, but it's staying open until December 31st.
• 2:16
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking festive cocktails, decor, nightly entertainment.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: Should we just play the story that we did with them so we can hear from the folks over there first?
• 2:25
  Sean McAllister: Straight from the snowman's mouth.
• 2:29
  Sean McAllister: So the miracle on Spring Mountain is back here at the Sandollar.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: I thought I was showing up in festive attire with my green jacket, but Nathan, you showed me up.
• 2:38
  Sean McAllister: It does look good though.
• 2:39
  Sean McAllister: You went over the top, just like you go over the top here every year.
• 2:43
  Sean McAllister: I mean, what goes into turning Sandollar into the miracle on Spring Mountain?
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_03: Well, it takes it takes a lot of hands and um a lot of good attitudes to put this up.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_03: It's like all day long, we get a big crew together.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_03: It's tons of fun.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_03: We try to get every inch, and year over year we try to one up ourselves.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_03: And what did you one up yourselves with this year?
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_03: Well, this costume to start.
• 3:04
  Sean McAllister: Um, I didn't have this last year.
• 3:07
  Sean McAllister: And uh, your top hat, you're not gonna knock anything down here, are you?
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: I am.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I'm trying to stand as still as possible.
• 3:14
  Sean McAllister: Thanks, Sean.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for not running around.
• 3:21
  Sean McAllister: For people who've never been here during the holiday season, I mean, tell me what they're gonna expect.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, well, great music.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: Obviously, the holiday vibe.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: We put together some amazing cocktails.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_03: Beginning on the 1st of December outside, we put together we put up like a 50-foot Santa Igloo, and we put DJs out there and some of my fans throughout the month.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: And uh you have chef pop-ups.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_03: Chef pop-ups.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_03: So every Monday and Wednesday uh in December, we're gonna be inviting in local chefs.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_03: Um and and they're gonna cook specialty pizzas that are off our menu, and we're gonna don't we donate all the pizzas that are sold that they bring in and and create for us.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_03: We donate them all this year.
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_03: We're donating to the Nevada uh Childhood Cancer Foundation.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_03: So it's it's it's for good cause and it's the right season to do it.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_00: We just love Christmas pop-ups, so we just keep coming, and we always come back here several times a year.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: This is the candy cane lane.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: It tastes like a liquid boozy candy cane.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_01: This season just goes insane.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: We have 13 cocktails, three mocktails, uh, two shots that we infused.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: The Christmopolitan and the Snowball old fashioned are always our two best sellers.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: Two of my personal favorites this year, brand new this year, and one of our main staples.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: The new one is a strawberry grapefruit syrup, uh, with whiskey, a little bit of sweet vermouth.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's fantastic.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's great.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: We sell all these cocktail glass glasses, and there's people that specifically come because they'll see online that we have a new glass, and they're like, Oh, I don't have that one for my collection yet.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: There's nothing else you could ask for in this industry than to just have people coming in to enjoy a thing that you're doing, and we get that.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 5:12
  Dayna Roselli: That's like Christmas in a cup.
• 5:16
  Dayna Roselli: It really did taste like Christmas in a cup.
• 5:18
  Dayna Roselli: I was not lying.
• 5:19
  Dayna Roselli: So that's how it is.
• 5:20
  Dayna Roselli: And then, you know, we interviewed a couple people and they were like, this is like candy cane in a cup.
• 5:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the cocktails are great, it's a fun, fun place.
• 5:27
  Dayna Roselli: And as we mentioned in the intro, it runs through December 31st.
• 5:32
  Dayna Roselli: It's at the Sand Dollar Lounge, which is right off Spring Mountain, and P it's on the corner of Polaris and Spring Mountain.
• 5:39
  Sean McAllister: And it's really close to the strip.
• 5:40
  Sean McAllister: So if you're staying on the strip, it's a really quick uh Uber ride or whatever to uh get over to uh Miracle on Spring Mountain, get there before the end of the year.
• 5:51
  Dayna Roselli: That's fun.
• 5:52
  Sean McAllister: Otherwise, you have to wait 365 days for it to come back.
• 5:56
  Dayna Roselli: And we had went we went on a day that was actually rainy and it had just opened.
• 6:00
  Dayna Roselli: And so, you know, it wasn't like super packed yet, and it also you know just lit had just had literally opened before Thanksgiving.
• 6:07
  Dayna Roselli: Because we hadn't even gotten to like post Thanksgiving.
• 6:10
  Dayna Roselli: And there were two women there that you heard them in the story.
• 6:12
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, uh one of them said, Um, I said, Boy, I said this is a good time to come because it's not that busy in here because every time I come regularly just to go, it's busy.
• 6:21
  Dayna Roselli: And she said, I never met an empty bar I didn't like.
• 6:25
  Dayna Roselli: Basically saying she's like, I'm there when it opens, so that it's me, a few people, I get my drinks, I enjoy myself, and then I move on.
• 6:33
  Dayna Roselli: That's so funny.
• 6:34
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and then it gets more and more crowded around you because you can get your seat.
• 6:38
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 6:38
  Sean McAllister: And as we get closer to Christmas itself, people really start packing in there.
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: They do.
• 6:45
  Dayna Roselli: So yes.
• 6:46
  Dayna Roselli: So that's why she was kind of like she said she hits all the miracle bar pop-up bars.
• 6:50
  Sean McAllister: So Sandler Lounge is off the Las Vegas Strip.
• 6:53
  Sean McAllister: Let's go on to the Las Vegas Strip, the north end to Fountain Blue, Las Vegas, where they are turning their oasis pool into an Oasis ice skating rink.
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: It seems like it's something that they're gonna keep doing.
• 7:07
  Dayna Roselli: It's back this year.
• 7:08
  Dayna Roselli: We actually went over on opening night.
• 7:10
  Sean McAllister: So, what does it take to transform the Oasis pool deck into a winter wonderland?
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_04: It's it's quite an undertaking.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_04: It's well over 250 people that work on this project.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_04: Vendors from outside Vegas, we bring in people from LA.
• 7:24
  SPEAKER_04: Same company that does the Super Bowl like uh staging actually does the decking for underneath.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_04: We have to crane in chillers, two uh 20,000 pound chillers that we put on the roof.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's it's it's about a four-week process, uh, but it's but I mean it's worth it because in the end you got you end up with this.
• 7:40
  Sean McAllister: Well, and those chillers are important because this is real ice, right?
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_04: This is real ice, it's an interesting shape, we can flow around, and you know, we hope everyone comes out and takes advantage of it while it's here.
• 7:50
  Sean McAllister: So obviously there's ice skating here.
• 7:52
  Sean McAllister: What else are people going to experience?
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_04: Well, obviously ice is here, right?
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_04: Real ice, but when we design this, we actually design it for the people that weren't gonna skate.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_04: So it's free to come and enjoy the atmosphere.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_04: We've got plenty of seating for everyone.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_04: There's a full food and beverage options to come and hang out.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_04: So when the kids go and skate, the parents have something to do as well.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_04: There's a lot of boozy holiday cocktails to enjoy.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_04: We have movies you can watch, we have uh carolers that are gonna come out and sing on various nights.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_04: We obviously have Santa over by Santa's workshop.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_04: There's a whole bunch of things you can do.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_04: You can actually enjoy this ice rink experience even if you don't skate.
• 8:28
  Sean McAllister: Well, you had me at Boozy Holiday Cocktails.
• 8:33
  Sean McAllister: It is a great setting out there.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: Fountain Blue does a great job with uh the Oasis Ice Skating Rink and all of their uh the holiday activations on property.
• 8:43
  Sean McAllister: And by the way, through the end of the year, uh this is your last chance to take advantage of some of the locals deals that Fountain Blue Las Vegas has going on as well.
• 8:56
  Sean McAllister: So keep that in mind.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 8:57
  Dayna Roselli: Definitely keep that in mind.
• 8:58
  Dayna Roselli: By the way, that was a senior vice president of entertainment that we chatted with.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: Uh so just I didn't I don't think we even mentioned that, but he's busy over there.
• 9:07
  Sean McAllister: And you know who else is busy, Dana?
• 9:09
  Dayna Roselli: Who?
• 9:09
  Sean McAllister: The bad elves.
• 9:11
  Sean McAllister: The bad elves have been let loose on the shady grove lounge over at the Silverton hotel and casino.
• 9:21
  Sean McAllister: This is south.
• 9:22
  Sean McAllister: Uh on the yeah, like Blue Diamond, the I-15.
• 9:27
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 9:27
  Sean McAllister: Um, you passed the Silverton right there on the on the highway, but they turned this Shady Grove Lounge into the bad elf pop-up bar, and there are elves everywhere.
• 9:40
  Dayna Roselli: You I actually have never been, maybe years ago, but you went recently, I think last year or the year before, and you love it.
• 9:46
  Sean McAllister: I've been several times.
• 9:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 9:48
  Sean McAllister: Their their cocktails are also very Christmassy.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: It's a fun thing.
• 9:53
  Dayna Roselli: And they have that um, and it's back, the what do you call it?
• 9:56
  Dayna Roselli: The camper Winnebago.
• 9:57
  Dayna Roselli: What is it?
• 9:58
  Sean McAllister: Oh, they have they have um what do you call that?
• 10:01
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's like a a camper in the Shady Grove lounge that has bowling inside.
• 10:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, is that that's fun.
• 10:07
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they have all sorts of stuff.
• 10:08
  Dayna Roselli: Elves hanging from the ceiling.
• 10:10
  Dayna Roselli: Great place for photos.
• 10:12
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: So um, it's open Thursdays through Sundays at 5 p.m.
• 10:16
  Dayna Roselli: And this goes through December 28th.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: This year, Palms is doing a pop-up too.
• 10:21
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, let's keep it rolling here.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: They have a Santa saloon.
• 10:25
  Dayna Roselli: It just opened December 3rd, and this runs through December 28th.
• 10:29
  Dayna Roselli: It's located right there in the casino floor near Scotch 80 Prime.
• 10:34
  Dayna Roselli: So think of a Western saloon, adult holiday party, and theatrical spectacle all in one.
• 10:39
  Dayna Roselli: You like that?
• 10:40
  Sean McAllister: I'm thinking of it.
• 10:42
  Dayna Roselli: Well, as we speak, they got that going on over there.
• 10:46
  Dayna Roselli: So that should be fun.
• 10:47
  Dayna Roselli: The palms taking part in some of that stuff.
• 10:49
  Sean McAllister: And over on the west side of the Las Vegas Valley, that's where you'll find Tivoli Village.
• 10:55
  Sean McAllister: This is on Rampart near Summerlin Parkway.
• 10:58
  Sean McAllister: Uh, they've got great restaurants over there, so it's a good time for a night out.
• 11:02
  Sean McAllister: But they're also doing uh horse-drawn carriage rides for the holiday season, which you don't see really.
• 11:11
  Sean McAllister: I mean, I can't off the top of my head think of anywhere else that does that.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 11:16
  Dayna Roselli: That's what we saw, and we're like, oh, that's kind of fun.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: So something different.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: Tivoli Village is so pretty anyway.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: It's just a place you want to go and kind of walk around, have a coffee, go to dinner.
• 11:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, they get the have their lights, the string lights are out there.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 11:27
  Sean McAllister: So those horse-drawn carriage rides are going now through December 20th.
• 11:33
  Sean McAllister: Uh, it is a first come, first serve kind of deal.
• 11:36
  Sean McAllister: So, and the lines can grow pretty quickly.
• 11:39
  Sean McAllister: So if you want to get there, uh do it.
• 11:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, do it and arrive early, right?
• 11:45
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: And don't forget, our strip hotels have all sorts of holiday attractions, pop-ups, so much going on.
• 11:51
  Dayna Roselli: In fact, the Cosmopolitan Chandelier Bar has a uh 'tis the season theme this year.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: We mentioned the Oasis Ice Rink already at the Fountain Blue, the Bellagio Conservatory.
• 12:01
  Dayna Roselli: It's always beautiful and decked out for the holidays, but I feel like this year it's really, really nice.
• 12:06
  Dayna Roselli: They they put it up early and it just kind of feels a little extra.
• 12:10
  Sean McAllister: Well, in Dana, we were recently over on property at Bellagio, uh, and they have a store right next to the Bellagio Conservatory that is like everything Christmas, any decoration you want.
• 12:24
  Sean McAllister: They have Santa driving a Mercedes convertible.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: They've got I didn't look at the price tag, but I brought my friends in there when we went recently after we had gone, and somebody was looking at an ornament and they were like, um, this is$110.
• 12:38
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, well, hey, you pay for, you know, luxury, right?
• 12:43
  Sean McAllister: If you got$110 burning a hole in your pocket and Christmas is on your mind, that's the place to go.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 12:49
  Dayna Roselli: No, it is a great story.
• 12:50
  Dayna Roselli: And if you do want something special, it's a great place to go.
• 12:53
  Dayna Roselli: And if you got the money, splurge.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: Hey.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, Santa and the convertible, I can only imagine what that one cost.
• 12:58
  Sean McAllister: It was a big, I mean, that was a it was probably like a remote control kind of deal.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: Probably.
• 13:02
  Sean McAllister: They have Santa tooling around.
• 13:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um, this is not uh holiday related, our next thing.
• 13:09
  Sean McAllister: No, this is not.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: Um, it's over at Caesars Palace, Stanton Social.
• 13:13
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we've talked about it before.
• 13:16
  Sean McAllister: It's been a little bit.
• 13:16
  Sean McAllister: It's a pretty restaurant.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: It really is.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: It's a great restaurant over there at Caesars Palace.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right next to Omni and Nightclub, right?
• 13:24
  Dayna Roselli: Right next to the nightclub.
• 13:25
  Dayna Roselli: Good spot.
• 13:26
  Sean McAllister: And they're kind of changing up their menu a little bit.
• 13:29
  Sean McAllister: They're focusing on Italian cuisine now.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 13:33
  Dayna Roselli: And sharing.
• 13:33
  Dayna Roselli: So I guess they're going back to their like what their kind of standard is, and that's communal kind of dining.
• 13:39
  Dayna Roselli: And so um they wanted to just let everyone know that they are making some changes.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: I loved this um a couple of the things on the menu.
• 13:49
  Dayna Roselli: So they're gonna focus, uh, as Sean said, on the Italian cuisine with um the curated selection of dishes designed for sharing.
• 13:57
  Dayna Roselli: Now, they have an extra crispy chicken parmigiana, parmigiana with San Marzano tomato sauce and mozzarella fondue.
• 14:09
  Dayna Roselli: What?
• 14:09
  Sean McAllister: That mozzarella fondue sounds great.
• 14:13
  Sean McAllister: So good.
• 14:14
  Sean McAllister: I feel like I could just order a bowl of that.
• 14:16
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 14:16
  Dayna Roselli: That sounds delicious.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: They also have like a showstopping super tomahawk.
• 14:20
  Dayna Roselli: There was a lot of things on the menu.
• 14:22
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, just FYI.
• 14:23
  Dayna Roselli: If you go to Stanton Social, beautiful restaurant, Italian cuisine now, a focus on communal dining, some table side options as well.
• 14:31
  Dayna Roselli: And so there you have it.
• 14:32
  Dayna Roselli: Just want to let you know about that change.
• 14:34
  Dayna Roselli: People just Italian's just good.
• 14:37
  Dayna Roselli: You just really can't go wrong.
• 14:38
  Sean McAllister: No, and there's it there's a good variety.
• 14:40
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you can go wrong if it's horrible.
• 14:43
  Sean McAllister: Well you have to talk to Roselli first, and she will tell you what to steer clear from.
• 14:49
  Dayna Roselli: There's some b yeah.
• 14:51
  Dayna Roselli: Sometimes the sauce, I just can't.
• 14:55
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway.
• 14:56
  Sean McAllister: Hey, you know, we were uh recently uh at an event for New Kids on the Block.
• 15:03
  Sean McAllister: We talked about this.
• 15:04
  Sean McAllister: They did a residency extension, they married Las Vegas.
• 15:07
  Sean McAllister: There were a whole bunch of Las Vegas entertainers there as part of this uh renewal ceremony that new kids were doing.
• 15:16
  Sean McAllister: Among the entertainers there was Carrot Top.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: And we said Caratop, we got a chat.
• 15:21
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, Yeah, sure.
• 15:23
  Dayna Roselli: And I I didn't realize, I know Caratops, but I feel like I've never lived, I haven't been in Las Vegas when there hasn't been a Caratop.
• 15:29
  Sean McAllister: Same.
• 15:30
  Dayna Roselli: And we were right, that's right on the money because we've been here.
• 15:33
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I'm not gonna give away the years.
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: Let's roll that interview with the Carrot Top.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_06: This will be my at the Luxor 20 years, 20 years at Luxor on Thanksgiving Day.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_06: Isn't that crazy?
• 15:42
  Dayna Roselli: That's crazy.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, how does that feel?
• 15:44
  Dayna Roselli: Because so many people come and go.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_06: Oh no, it's unbelievable.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_06: I every day we think about how the longevity has been just from we've been very lucky and blessed to kill still do.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_06: In fact, the guys were just asking me, the new kids were just asking me, like, how many years?
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_06: I said 20, like, 20?
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_06: We're doing like eight shows.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_06: I'm like, I know.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_06: I'll be doing eight shows this week.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_06: Um, so yeah, but uh no, it's it's it's amazing fun.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_06: The cities have been so good to me, and uh, it was fun being part of this today, looking around at all the Vegas people here, so it's awesome.
• 16:09
  Dayna Roselli: Caratop has a lot of content this year.
• 16:12
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, first of all, every year I feel like there's content, jokes, props.
• 16:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, this year, this year's brought a lot on.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, you know, every year seems to do that, you know, everything, oh, you're gonna run out of jokes.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_06: No, there's always something to make fun of uh fun with, and uh that's what keeps my job fun.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_06: It's it's always something new in the in the news or socially or something that that's fun.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_06: Uh and it's always evolving, and that's what makes it makes it fun for for me as well.
• 16:35
  Dayna Roselli: Do you have like one moment in the show recently over the last six months that just hits every time that people are just loving and screaming and laughing?
• 16:43
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, there's so many.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I laughed through the whole show.
• 16:45
  Dayna Roselli: My cheeks hurt when I leave your show.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I mean, the the the the show changes so much.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_06: I I have stuff that I was just doing a month ago, and I'm not doing it, I already forgot that they just pushed it out and brought in new.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_06: Um, yeah, we're doing some stuff about, you know, like we're trying to stay out of politics.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_06: No one wants to hear that stuff.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_06: So we we talked about music, you know, we talked like the new kids are like that, you know.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_06: You talk about Jimmy Buffett, you know.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_06: There was a song that he sings called Finns.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_06: It's called Finns to the Left, Fins to the Right, right?
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_06: And all the I for 47 years I just realized this two nights ago, I'm doing that song on the show, and I'm saying Dance to the Left, Dance to the Right.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_06: And someone in the audience says, you know, it's not dance, it's it's Finns.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_06: And I'm like, So we've been putting in the show now where I'm revealing that for 47 years I'm singing Dance to the Left, Dance to the Right, like it's Finns.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_06: So that's a new bit that everybody's been singing, and they all know it, so they all sing along to it.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_06: So it's a fun thing.
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good one because there's so many songs out there that you sing the wrong things.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_06: Exactly.
• 17:39
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I love Jimmy.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, no, me too.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_06: What a what a what a true uh what a true uh icon.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so Thanksgiving Day, 20 years for the Big Topper.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: I love him.
• 17:51
  Dayna Roselli: He's great.
• 17:51
  Dayna Roselli: He goes back and forth.
• 17:52
  Dayna Roselli: He's got his relaxation time down in Florida, he's got his home here in Las Vegas.
• 17:57
  Dayna Roselli: He's always around town, having brunch at events, he's fun.
• 18:00
  Sean McAllister: Well, it was great when we uh walked up to him and said, Hey, Carrot Top, can we chat for a minute?
• 18:04
  Sean McAllister: He was like, Yeah, of course.
• 18:06
  Sean McAllister: I haven't seen you guys in a minute.
• 18:08
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 18:08
  Sean McAllister: It's been a little bit.
• 18:09
  Dayna Roselli: And there was a funny little situation that went on with Blue Man Group, but because it was more of a visual thing, we we couldn't obviously run it here because you can't hear it because the blue men don't talk.
• 18:19
  Dayna Roselli: But they kind of interrupted the interview, it was really funny.
• 18:22
  Sean McAllister: They did, yeah.
• 18:23
  Dayna Roselli: They were kind of peeping over his shoulder, they start touching the microphone, and he was like, You should eat it.
• 18:28
  Dayna Roselli: It's chocolate.
• 18:30
  Dayna Roselli: I love Carrot Top.
• 18:32
  Dayna Roselli: I laugh every single time I've been to his show, I don't even know, like eight times or something like that.
• 18:38
  Dayna Roselli: It's so funny every time.
• 18:39
  Sean McAllister: Well, there's a reason that he's been here for 20 years, and it's because he keeps bringing people in, keeps people laughing, keeps refreshing his show, like he talked about.
• 18:49
  Dayna Roselli: And I know we just did a lot of tips, but guess what?
• 18:51
  Dayna Roselli: More tips coming up now.
• 18:59
  Sean McAllister: Okay, so in tips this week, we have a couple food tips for you.
• 19:03
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we're very food heavy and very holiday bar pop-up heavy in this episode.
• 19:07
  Dayna Roselli: But that's what you guys like.
• 19:08
  Sean McAllister: That kind of goes with the holiday season, doesn't it?
• 19:10
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, it does.
• 19:11
  Sean McAllister: There's lots of food and drink and cheer during the holidays.
• 19:15
  Sean McAllister: Sometimes.
• 19:16
  Sean McAllister: Sometimes, yeah.
• 19:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh, so the first uh tip that we have for you is about a new restaurant that's opening on uh well it's open now, uh uh on the Fremont Street Experience inside Neanapolis.
• 19:31
  Sean McAllister: Uh there is the Hush Puppy, which is a longtime Las Vegas restaurant.
• 19:37
  Sean McAllister: The original is on West Charleston.
• 19:39
  Sean McAllister: Uh, this is their second and new location right there at Neanapolis, and they specialize in like southern cuisine.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Dayna Roselli: They have a lot of things on the menu that I'm just like, I mean, sound delicious.
• 19:53
  Dayna Roselli: Seafood gumbo, jambalaya, fried green tomatoes.
• 19:57
  Dayna Roselli: They're homemade and hand-battered, world-famous Hush Puppies served with honey butter.
• 20:04
  Sean McAllister: They're so good.
• 20:05
  Dayna Roselli: Sounds great.
• 20:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, okay, so Hush Puppy, yes, like you said, is a locals' favorite, but uh they have this new downtown spot, and here are a couple things that are different than the spot on Charleston that's been there a very, very long time.
• 20:18
  Dayna Roselli: This one is gonna serve beer, wine, and cocktails, and it's gonna be open late.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: I think on the weekend, it's open to like 2 a.m.
• 20:25
  Dayna Roselli: and then the other day's 12.
• 20:26
  Dayna Roselli: That's perfect.
• 20:27
  Dayna Roselli: So that's great.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:28
  Dayna Roselli: I know they do uh show your military ID Mondays, and people get uh in the military get 20% off.
• 20:34
  Dayna Roselli: Love that too.
• 20:35
  Dayna Roselli: So they've got some some things going on there that are a little bit different, and I think it's gonna do really well there.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, listen, if you're out and about, gambling, having some drink, doing whatever, I mean, an after-hour snack is a must, and a hush puppy might be just what you need.
• 20:55
  Sean McAllister: Just get a little basket of hush puppies with that honey butter, maybe some seafood.
• 21:01
  Sean McAllister: There we go.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: There you go.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they've been working on this spot for a while, so we need to check out check it out and go see it.
• 21:07
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, the mayor was there for a big ribbon cutting, and the owners are longtime people in Las Vegas.
• 21:12
  Dayna Roselli: So congratulations.
• 21:13
  Sean McAllister: There was a chunk of time when I would regularly go to the original location there on Charleston.
• 21:20
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, because they used to do, I don't I don't know if they still do it or not, but they used to do at that original location, like uh I think it was Monday night uh like crab leg kind of deal.
• 21:31
  Sean McAllister: And so you go in, get it's a whole deal.
• 21:34
  Sean McAllister: They have the salad bar, you get your hush puppies, and it was unlimited crab legs, is what it was.
• 21:41
  Sean McAllister: I have a feeling that's probably like gone by the wayside these days.
• 21:45
  Dayna Roselli: Who knows?
• 21:46
  Sean McAllister: Well, this was early twenty years ago.
• 21:48
  Sean McAllister: Circa circa 2010.
• 21:51
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, all right.
• 21:51
  Sean McAllister: So it's been a minute.
• 21:52
  Dayna Roselli: They might have changed things up.
• 21:56
  Dayna Roselli: Well, we're a tie is a great Thai restaurant.
• 22:00
  Dayna Roselli: In town as well.
• 22:01
  Dayna Roselli: And they're celebrating uh what are they doing?
• 22:03
  Dayna Roselli: 15 years here in Las Vegas.
• 22:05
  Dayna Roselli: Um, now their original location opened back in 2010.
• 22:09
  Dayna Roselli: They've expanded to about five restaurants now all across the valley, but their newest one opened over the summer.
• 22:15
  Dayna Roselli: And we just thought we'd let you know because it's in the same plaza, a little plaza, where the famous Golden Steer restaurant is.
• 22:24
  Sean McAllister: So that's just off the Las Vegas Strip at Sahara.
• 22:28
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:29
  Dayna Roselli: And so this is a good spot for locals and tourists.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: So we thought, you know, if you're visiting and you're looking for some good Thai food, I've been to two of the locations.
• 22:38
  Dayna Roselli: Always very, very tasty.
• 22:40
  Dayna Roselli: Now this one um has a little bit of a different focus.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: It blends classic family recipes with the vibrant energy of Bangkok Street Markets.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: So it's kind of cool.
• 22:51
  Dayna Roselli: This is street food by We're a Thai.
• 22:55
  Dayna Roselli: And um again, it's located in the same uh plaza there as the Golden Steer, the famous Golden Steer.
• 23:01
  Dayna Roselli: And so I welcome them to the neighborhood.
• 23:03
  Dayna Roselli: I live over in that area and happy to see more restaurants come in.
• 23:07
  Sean McAllister: And like you said, there are uh five locations around Las Vegas now from We're a Thai.
• 23:14
  Sean McAllister: And if you're here and you like Thai food, this is the spot to try.
• 23:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 23:21
  Dayna Roselli: There's so many restaurants, so many great holiday events going on.
• 23:24
  Dayna Roselli: Just, you know, just we could go on and on and on forever.
• 23:29
  Dayna Roselli: People always say, like, you do a weekly podcast, like, how do you have stuff to talk about?
• 23:32
  Sean McAllister: And we're not even scratching the listen, if you could see our our inboxes, like we're not even screening.
• 23:41
  Sean McAllister: And our notepads.
• 23:43
  Sean McAllister: Look at there's notepads, there's post-it notes, we're surrounded by it all.
• 23:47
  Sean McAllister: Oh, you know what I'm saying?
• 23:48
  Sean McAllister: We're barely scratching the surface here.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm looking at a pad and I'm realizing um we did something on NFR, and that's this we need to do that now, don't we?
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: Because it's December 4th.
• 24:00
  Sean McAllister: Uh, I believe the third through the 14th.
• 24:02
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so we could do next week, but NFR's in town.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: NFR is in town.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: That's huge.
• 24:07
  Dayna Roselli: Ten days of National Finals Rodeo.
• 24:09
  Dayna Roselli: Tim McGraw's over at the Coliseum, all sorts of country artists in town.
• 24:14
  Dayna Roselli: At the Sphere.
• 24:15
  Sean McAllister: Oh, all over the city.
• 24:16
  Dayna Roselli: Who's at the Zach Brown?
• 24:18
  Sean McAllister: Uh Zach Brown.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, so much going on.
• 24:20
  Sean McAllister: I know a lot of people who are coming into town for that Zack Brown show at Sphere.
• 24:24
  Sean McAllister: Uh just about every uh casino property is going country for NFR.
• 24:31
  Sean McAllister: So it's kind of like a mix of holidays and rodeo.
• 24:36
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: The National Finals Rodeo brings in people uh in the masses.
• 24:40
  Dayna Roselli: We have Cowboy Christmas over at the convention center.
• 24:44
  Dayna Roselli: We have Concerts Galore.
• 24:45
  Sean McAllister: Which the Cowboy Christmas, if you haven't heard of it and haven't been before, it is like a massive uh uh cow well, like the name says, a cowboy Christmas bazaar.
• 24:59
  Sean McAllister: It's like anything they have uh I mean you can get saddles, cowboy hats, uh Christmas uh ornaments, but you can get like regular uh uh jewel you can get jewelry, you can get clothing, you can get food, you know.
• 25:14
  Dayna Roselli: It's like a big indoor market for cowboy.
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: It's everything, right?
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: Yes, everything.
• 25:20
  Dayna Roselli: And people are always leaving there because I live nearby at that at convention center, that part of the convention, the leaving there with bags of stuff.
• 25:26
  Sean McAllister: Oh full.
• 25:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 25:28
  Sean McAllister: Bags full.
• 25:30
  Dayna Roselli: Um yeah, it just makes me laugh because when I used to be on TV at Channel 8, the uh my friend Sherry Swentz does the weather over there on the morning show, and she used to always show a live shot, and she'd be like, all the cowboys are in town, and so are the Wranglers.
• 25:46
  Dayna Roselli: She would make her little innuendos, and it was funny.
• 25:48
  Dayna Roselli: And it just made me think of that.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: There's lots of Wranglers walking up and down the strip.
• 25:55
  Dayna Roselli: Good people watching.
• 25:57
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, you do see a lot of folks in the hats and the wranglers and the boots, and they're going to Cowboy Christmas, and they're going to the National Finals rodeo, they're going to all the bars and the shows.
• 26:07
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to town, everyone that's here for NFR.
• 26:10
  Sean McAllister: And we're gonna have another show full of stuff for you next week.
• 26:13
  Dayna Roselli: We are.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: I think that's enough for now, right?
• 26:15
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, my brain's a little foggy today.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 26:18
  Dayna Roselli: Well, you know, it's that time of year.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.