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Everyone Must Mask Up Indoors in Las Vegas, Derek Hough Ready to Dance | Ep. 80 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 80.
• 0:03
  Dayna Roselli: Here in Las Vegas, Masks indoors are back for all, whether you're vaccinated or not.
• 0:09
  Sean McAllister: Plus, we talk with Emmy winner Derek Huff, who can't wait to be back with people again.
• 0:14
  Sean McAllister: In our new Vegas Revealed interview, he talks about his new show at the Venetian.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_02: I have so much pent-up energy and excitement for this that I'm just ready to hit that stage.
• 0:25
  Dayna Roselli: It was great to catch up with Derek.
• 0:26
  Dayna Roselli: Well, also, new restaurants are coming, new shows announced, and Team USA gets the Gold Cup in soccer.
• 0:33
  Sean McAllister: Plus, our NHL team trades some really beloved players, and Vegas is pretty sad about it.
• 0:45
  Dayna Roselli: Spin the wheel.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go to Vegas, baby.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go tonight.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_03: Let's go to Vegas.
• 0:56
  unknown: Let's stay up all night.
• 0:57
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 80, Sean McAllister here, along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:04
  Sean McAllister: And you know, Dana, it feels like we're living in a time warp.
• 1:07
  Sean McAllister: We're and kind of going back in time and not in a positive way.
• 1:11
  Dayna Roselli: No, I know.
• 1:12
  Dayna Roselli: So many people are interested in knowing about this, and that's that masks are required for everyone indoors here in Las Vegas now.
• 1:19
  Dayna Roselli: And we're talking about public indoor places, which of course includes our resorts and casinos.
• 1:24
  Dayna Roselli: So masks required whether you're vaccinated or not.
• 1:28
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and this is something that a lot of people weren't happy to hear because Las Vegas was just kind of moving full steam ahead, um, but ended up being one of the the hot spots for COVID transmission, unfortunately.
• 1:45
  Sean McAllister: And so, you know, when the CDC came out and said, you know, let's start to bring back masks for high transmission areas, Vegas was on the list.
• 1:56
  Dayna Roselli: Right, and we're seeing a lot of I told you so, you know, they expected with visitors coming in from all over the country and in some parts of the world that this might happen.
• 2:05
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, so whether you're vaccinated or not, you have to put the mask back on, and it's you know causing a lot of, you know, back and forth, and obviously people who are vaccinated are a little disappointed that they have to put the mask back on, but we don't have social distancing or capacity limitations yet, I should say.
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: Uh so it's just the mask.
• 2:26
  Dayna Roselli: People are still coming, they're still having fun.
• 2:28
  Dayna Roselli: I saw the traffic coming in last weekend on the highway.
• 2:31
  Dayna Roselli: It was still bumper to bumper.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: It sure was.
• 2:34
  Dayna Roselli: So it doesn't seem like it's affecting too much, and most people, you know, just abiding by the rules.
• 2:39
  Dayna Roselli: Been to a couple different casinos in the last week and didn't seem to be a problem.
• 2:44
  Dayna Roselli: People had their masks on, and and that's that.
• 2:47
  Dayna Roselli: That's that's the rule now.
• 2:48
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and one of our listeners, John Durandy, who has been in Las Vegas for the past week, we've been messaging back and forth with him, and he said, you know, it seems like from from what he's seen, people have been following the mask rules for the most part, and things seem to be fine.
• 3:04
  Sean McAllister: He said he was cool with it and still got to go and see everything he wanted to see, you know, eat where he wanted to eat, do what he wanted to do.
• 3:12
  Sean McAllister: So it's not really hindering people, right?
• 3:16
  Sean McAllister: But it it's just what you gotta do right now.
• 3:18
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 3:19
  Dayna Roselli: It and listen, I'll be the first to say it is annoying.
• 3:21
  Dayna Roselli: It's hot outside, and the mask and walking indoors, and you know, for me, I just find I don't want to be out for long periods of time.
• 3:30
  Dayna Roselli: No, like with the mask on, it becomes a lot.
• 3:33
  Dayna Roselli: So it can be frustrating, and especially obviously if you're vaccinated like we are.
• 3:38
  Dayna Roselli: You're right, it feels like a step back.
• 3:40
  Dayna Roselli: We had freedom.
• 3:41
  Dayna Roselli: I had to dig out my sparkly mask last night when I went out for an evening engagement.
• 3:46
  Sean McAllister: I had the same thing happen.
• 3:47
  Sean McAllister: I was driving somewhere yesterday, going out to dinner, actually.
• 3:52
  Sean McAllister: And as we were, you know, leaving, we left the neighborhood, driving down the road, and Shane, my husband, and I looked at each other, we're like, oh crap, do we have any masks in the car?
• 4:03
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 4:03
  Sean McAllister: And we didn't.
• 4:04
  Sean McAllister: We just got so used to not having them, we had to go back and dig into the bag and pull some out.
• 4:09
  Dayna Roselli: I know it's something that we have to get used to again.
• 4:12
  Dayna Roselli: We don't have to wear them outdoors.
• 4:14
  Dayna Roselli: Um, that's good because you know, obviously we've got the pools and everything like that at the resorts that um but it's some something that it is affecting, and and not everyone, because people have been asking us, what about shows?
• 4:28
  Dayna Roselli: Are they canceling?
• 4:29
  Dayna Roselli: And there haven't been a whole lot of shows that have canceled.
• 4:31
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 4:32
  Dayna Roselli: But we do have a hypnotist in town, uh, Mark Savard, great guy, he's been on the strip performing over at uh the Miracle Mile shops there inside Planet Hollywood for years and years and years and years.
• 4:45
  Dayna Roselli: So he was happy to get back on stage, but now he sent out a tweet that you saw last week.
• 4:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it caught your eye anyway, saying that you know what?
• 4:54
  Dayna Roselli: I just it's really hard to do a comedy hypnosis show during mandatory mask mandates.
• 4:59
  Dayna Roselli: He says people's facial reactions are everything in this type of show.
• 5:02
  Dayna Roselli: I'm gonna go on pause again, I'll reopen the show when indoor mask mandates are lifted.
• 5:07
  Dayna Roselli: Safety is always our first priority.
• 5:09
  Dayna Roselli: So felt bad for Mark that he had to shut down again.
• 5:11
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 5:12
  Sean McAllister: It's a shame to, you know, for our entertainers here in Las Vegas to just be on this roller coaster.
• 5:18
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 5:18
  Sean McAllister: And when it looks like things are headed in in one direction, then it gets jerked back a little bit.
• 5:26
  Sean McAllister: Hopefully everyone can just wear a mask, do what we need to do to stamp this out.
• 5:32
  Sean McAllister: Uh but just on a totally unrelated note, Dana, you mentioned the Miracle Mile shops over at Planet Hollywood and something that just came out within the past few days.
• 5:42
  Sean McAllister: They are now charging to park.
• 5:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's a big deal because they never have.
• 5:47
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 5:47
  Dayna Roselli: Ever.
• 5:48
  Sean McAllister: And that's a big garage, too.
• 5:50
  Dayna Roselli: And I think it's pretty pricey, like 12 bucks for four hours, up to four hours.
• 5:54
  Sean McAllister: I think you the first hour is free, but then the first, I think, four hours is twelve dollars, and I think twenty-four hours is fifteen dollars.
• 6:03
  Sean McAllister: So if you're gonna go and park there, you may as well just park there for twenty-four hours because it's not that much more.
• 6:09
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's not my favorite parking garage.
• 6:11
  Dayna Roselli: I must say it's a it's a bit of a cluster over there.
• 6:13
  Dayna Roselli: So I don't know.
• 6:14
  Dayna Roselli: Maybe actually charging for parking might help a little.
• 6:17
  Dayna Roselli: True.
• 6:18
  Dayna Roselli: Calm it down, because yeah, whenever I go there, I'm always like, uh boy, here we go.
• 6:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so masks are back, parking is new at Miracle Mile shops.
• 6:27
  Dayna Roselli: All right, let's run right through the new shows, the new restaurants, all the big announcements this week because people like to keep up to date on those.
• 6:34
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, a big uh country announcement.
• 6:37
  Sean McAllister: Reba McIntyre, along with her buddies Brooks and Dunn, they've had a long-running show over at the Coliseum at Caesars Palace.
• 6:44
  Sean McAllister: They opened back in 2015, but they've just announced their final dates of their Together in Vegas residency.
• 6:52
  Sean McAllister: That is December 1st through the 15th.
• 6:55
  Sean McAllister: And I believe that coincides with the National Finals rodeo that brings a big country crowd into town.
• 7:01
  Sean McAllister: Uh so Reba, Brooks, and Dunn, their final shows coming up in December.
• 7:05
  Sean McAllister: Those tickets are on sale now.
• 7:07
  Dayna Roselli: And a big festival announced for the Las Vegas Festival grounds, and that, if you're not familiar, is right at Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara.
• 7:15
  Dayna Roselli: So it's north of the win and resorts world, but south of the stratosphere.
• 7:20
  Dayna Roselli: Uh great area for festivals.
• 7:21
  Dayna Roselli: They announced this Lovers and Friends Festival there being put on by Live Nation, and the lineup, Sean, is insane.
• 7:29
  Dayna Roselli: And everyone picked up on that because literally they had one day scheduled and it sold out in an hour.
• 7:35
  Dayna Roselli: They've now had to add a second day, and we're talking about uh Saturday, May 14th, which is sold out, and now they've added Sunday, May 15th.
• 7:43
  Dayna Roselli: But let's get to this rundown.
• 7:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean, it seems like everybody is on this list.
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: We have Lauren Hill, TLC, Sierra, Nellie, Brandy, Neo, who is from Las Vegas, Traysongs, Ja Rule, Timberland, Ashanti, Akon, T-Pain, Lil Kim, Eve.
• 8:03
  Sean McAllister: I feel like not mentioning some of these people is is gonna seem like they're lower on the billing, but these are all superstars.
• 8:13
  Sean McAllister: All good.
• 8:13
  Sean McAllister: Usher is also on the list, and of course, we know that he has the residency over at Caesar's Coliseum now, which I know that you're gonna be talking about a little in a little bit, Dana.
• 8:24
  Sean McAllister: You were able to just go.
• 8:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I I finally went, you had gone, and I actually got um to go to the Ush backstory pre-show party as well.
• 8:34
  Dayna Roselli: So I'll fill you in on that in just a little bit.
• 8:36
  Sean McAllister: But Lovers and Friends is this festival uh that was supposed to only be one day.
• 8:41
  Sean McAllister: It's in May of uh next year, 2022.
• 8:45
  Sean McAllister: Um, but they sold out the ticket so quick that they've added a second day to this festival.
• 8:51
  Dayna Roselli: They sure have.
• 8:52
  Dayna Roselli: And tickets go on sale August 9th, and they expect them to go really quick.
• 8:56
  Dayna Roselli: So I guess the folks that were on some list before get pushed over onto this pre-public sale.
• 9:03
  Dayna Roselli: And then if there's still tickets left after that, they'll open them up to the public.
• 9:07
  Dayna Roselli: So they'll probably go quick.
• 9:08
  Dayna Roselli: If you're interested, I would definitely um hop on there.
• 9:11
  Dayna Roselli: Depends when you're listening to the podcast.
• 9:13
  Dayna Roselli: If it's over the weekend, then you still have a chance.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: But if it's after August 9th, I have a feeling the tickets might be gone already.
• 9:19
  Dayna Roselli: If not, you know, hop over to their website and check it out.
• 9:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, Lovers and Friends, the world's largest RB and hip-hop festival.
• 9:27
  Sean McAllister: So it it it's no wonder that it has such a great lineup.
• 9:31
  Sean McAllister: But Dana, there's also boy band news.
• 9:33
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: We there's been a lot of boy band news lately.
• 9:35
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 9:36
  Dayna Roselli: And now 98 Degrees is hopping on board.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: They are gonna be performing over at Mandalay Bay Beach.
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: That was just announced last week.
• 9:43
  Dayna Roselli: So, you know, Nick Lachey, Drew Lachey, and then Las Vegas' own Jeff Timmins, and also Justin Jeffrey are all coming back and hitting the stage, was watching some TikToks of them doing some dance rehearsal, so it's funny to see them back at it.
• 9:59
  Dayna Roselli: But uh, they're great, you know, have some major hit songs, and and we know Jeff Timmins personally from interviewing him many, many times through the years.
• 10:06
  Dayna Roselli: Great guy, yeah.
• 10:07
  Sean McAllister: Uh, Illuminate is a new show that's also coming to Las Vegas.
• 10:12
  Sean McAllister: Um, you may know this group from America's Got Talent.
• 10:16
  Sean McAllister: It's a dance troupe, dance and performance troupe, um, but they kind of perform in the dark, and they have these suits that light them up and they kind of look like uh neon characters.
• 10:28
  Sean McAllister: It looks like they're outlined in neon and they're up on this dark stage doing these crazy performance things.
• 10:36
  Sean McAllister: It looks like they're flying through the air, but it's an illusion with the way that they use their their costumes, and it's really an innovative and cool show.
• 10:45
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and they were supposed to be over, I think, at Planet Hollywood, but then COVID hit, and so now they have signed a deal with the Strat, and they'll be over there.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: Congratulations to ILuminate.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: Can't wait to see that show.
• 10:56
  Dayna Roselli: Also, a big congratulations to the Australian Bee Gees.
• 11:00
  Dayna Roselli: They celebrated their 3000th performance on the Las Vegas strip.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: Great show.
• 11:05
  Dayna Roselli: It's a tribute show to the Bee Gees.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, they sound just like them.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: Literally.
• 11:10
  Dayna Roselli: I remember them being in the studio a few times when I worked over at the TV station.
• 11:14
  Dayna Roselli: And if you heard it in the other room, you're like, who's playing the Bee Geees album?
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: And you're like, wait, no, it's the Australian Bee Gees.
• 11:20
  Dayna Roselli: Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha.
• 11:23
  Dayna Roselli: Stay in a la.
• 11:24
  Dayna Roselli: Stay in a la.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, so good.
• 11:26
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, congratulations to them.
• 11:28
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, go see them at the Xcaliber.
• 11:31
  Dayna Roselli: They are there and doing doing their best to keep things going even during this whole mask situation.
• 11:37
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 11:38
  Sean McAllister: And you know, we talk a lot here on the podcast, at least over the past several episodes, about station casinos.
• 11:44
  Sean McAllister: And this is the group of casinos that's you know locally owned, a local family here in Las Vegas, started it up.
• 11:50
  Sean McAllister: They have several off-strip uh casino properties.
• 11:54
  Sean McAllister: One of them is Sunset Station over in Henderson, and that has a great amphitheater that just opened up for shows again.
• 12:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I went to see Country Star Justin Moore perform there.
• 12:06
  Dayna Roselli: First of all, I love the outdoor, grassy, you know, it's got it's got seats, but then it halls also has areas where people just had a blanket out, and then they have lots of different yeah, like food trucks and and you could grab a beer.
• 12:17
  Dayna Roselli: It was a really, really nice night, and Justin Moore was super excited to be on stage in Las Vegas.
• 12:26
  Dayna Roselli: It's, you know, as he says, it's been a while.
• 12:28
  Sean McAllister: Good to see you guys.
• 12:30
  Sean McAllister: It's been too long.
• 12:31
  Sean McAllister: What y'all been doing the last couple of years, man?
• 12:34
  Dayna Roselli: Great show, and they have more booked at the amphitheater coming up.
• 12:37
  Dayna Roselli: They have Trace Atkins on August 14th.
• 12:40
  Sean McAllister: Trace is great on stage.
• 12:41
  Sean McAllister: He's a great performer.
• 12:42
  Sean McAllister: Isn't he hunky tunk bedonka donk?
• 12:45
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 12:45
  Sean McAllister: I think he is.
• 12:48
  Dayna Roselli: But I like that song.
• 12:49
  Sean McAllister: Lots of badonka donks going on at the amphitheater.
• 12:52
  Dayna Roselli: All right, and a Chris Angel update.
• 12:55
  Dayna Roselli: Just want to mention, we've been talking a lot about his restaurant because Sean and I went up there and then we said it was going to open, and then we said that it was delayed a little bit.
• 13:02
  Dayna Roselli: He did have a huge opening.
• 13:04
  Dayna Roselli: He was there, great turnout.
• 13:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we're talking about the restaurant that he opened up in Overton, Nevada.
• 13:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's called Kablip, Chris Angel Breakfast Lunch Pizza.
• 13:15
  Sean McAllister: And um Chris has had to kind of scale operations down uh pretty much to a close uh because there has just been so much demand.
• 13:26
  Sean McAllister: He has said that uh they've been running out of food, and because of the demand, it's been so busy that he needs to get his staff better prepared to deal with all the crowds that have been coming out there.
• 13:38
  Sean McAllister: So at least for the next couple weeks, it's gonna be closed for business while all sorts of training and stocking happens.
• 13:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, he said it'll reopen again at some point in August.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: So, um, but listen, congratulations on the overwhelming response because you know, part of that is in raising funds for childhood cancer.
• 14:01
  Dayna Roselli: So we support that, and obviously the people of Overton are excited to have a cool new spot where they can eat, they can get some Italian ice, they can get some coffee, they can see some magic in the back room.
• 14:12
  Dayna Roselli: So congratulations to Chris Angel.
• 14:14
  Dayna Roselli: And again, be patient, everyone.
• 14:17
  Dayna Roselli: It will reopen.
• 14:18
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of restaurants, this is somewhat similar.
• 14:21
  Dayna Roselli: We're talking a new lounge by Lisa Vanderpump.
• 14:24
  Dayna Roselli: She has a successful lounge over at Caesars Palace, and now she has announced that she's opening a new one at the Paris Las Vegas.
• 14:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so a lot of people know Lisa Vanderpump because she was one of the Beverly Hills Housewives on the hit Bravo series, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
• 14:43
  Sean McAllister: On that show, you see that Lisa opens up bars and restaurants.
• 14:48
  Sean McAllister: She and her husband have opened up a ton of them in uh West Hollywood and around Los Angeles.
• 14:54
  Sean McAllister: Then a few years ago, they opened up Vanderpump Cocktail Garden at Caesars Palace.
• 15:01
  Sean McAllister: And let me tell you, people go crazy for that place.
• 15:05
  Dayna Roselli: Always packed.
• 15:06
  Dayna Roselli: There's a line outside every time I walk by.
• 15:08
  Dayna Roselli: I just walked by to go see Usher last night, and there it was packed.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: I was over there uh uh a couple weeks ago, and it was before the doors opened to the restaurant lounge, and and the line was uh already full of people just waiting to get in.
• 15:23
  Sean McAllister: It wasn't even like the doors were open for a while and you know they were waiting for tables to clear out.
• 15:28
  Sean McAllister: This was just a a line of people waiting for the doors to open.
• 15:32
  Sean McAllister: So there's obviously huge demand for Lisa Vanderpump in Las Vegas.
• 15:37
  Dayna Roselli: And she's not dumb, she's gonna open another one now over at the Paris, and it's called Vanderpump.
• 15:42
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know my French very well.
• 15:43
  Dayna Roselli: Ah Paris A Paris.
• 15:46
  Sean McAllister: Oh, see, I would just say Vanderpump a Paris.
• 15:49
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know.
• 15:49
  Sean McAllister: The ah I think it means Vanderpump at Paris, probably.
• 15:53
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:53
  Sean McAllister: I took Spanish.
• 15:55
  Dayna Roselli: Me too.
• 15:56
  Dayna Roselli: Three years of it.
• 15:57
  Dayna Roselli: Uh but yeah, she's gonna she's gonna open that.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's gonna open sometime this winter.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: People were asking where it is going to be located, and it's kind of next to the check-in lobby desk.
• 16:07
  Dayna Roselli: So um if you're interested, you'll see it right when you walk through the main doors, you'll bend to the right, and it'll be down there.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: I think right at the beginning of the kind of walkway of shops and restaurants.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and Lisa Vanderpump used to live in Paris, so she's committed to making this a truly authentic uh Parisian experience.
• 16:28
  Sean McAllister: As soon as you walk in the doors, they've partnered with a furniture maker to have their own custom furniture and light fixtures, all that stuff, and of course great cocktails and ambiance as well.
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: So uh Vanderpump A Paris opening at Paris, Las Vegas this winter.
• 16:45
  Dayna Roselli: And a couple restaurant mentions too, Venetian wrote us and said, Hey, we've got this amazing announcement, uh, Japanese dining concept called Wakuda.
• 16:55
  Dayna Roselli: Hopefully, I'm saying that right as well.
• 16:57
  Dayna Roselli: It's by Chef Tetsuya Wakuda.
• 17:00
  Dayna Roselli: Apparently, this is opening in the spring of 2022, and I guess it's a game changer uh when it comes to Japanese restaurants.
• 17:09
  Dayna Roselli: It's the first high-end purely Japanese restaurant that'll be located at the Venetian.
• 17:15
  Sean McAllister: Because a lot of the uh there's been a lot of Asian fusion in the restaurants that we've seen popping up.
• 17:20
  Sean McAllister: So um I'm excited.
• 17:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I'm excited to see you know how authentic the experience is going to be.
• 17:27
  Sean McAllister: Like, do you take your shoes off and sit at the the like a Tepanyaki table and hopefully, because we're always up for something new, right?
• 17:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I love that.
• 17:37
  Sean McAllister: I love Japanese cuisine anyway.
• 17:39
  Dayna Roselli: Me too.
• 17:40
  Dayna Roselli: It's so good, really.
• 17:42
  Dayna Roselli: Um another restaurant that's gonna be opening at Caesars at the forum shops is RPM Italian.
• 17:49
  Dayna Roselli: And this is by Juliana and Bill Rancig.
• 17:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, Juliana uh was a host on the e News network for years, and of course, you know, always a fixture on the red carpet at the Oscars.
• 18:02
  Sean McAllister: Her husband, Bill Ranc, a businessman who was on uh The Apprentice uh back in the day, I believe he actually won.
• 18:10
  Dayna Roselli: I think so.
• 18:11
  Sean McAllister: And they've developed uh restaurants in Chicago, and now that is coming here to Las Vegas.
• 18:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and when I did send out a tweet about it, everyone was responding super excited about this one because they're like the one in Chicago is amazing.
• 18:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, people love it, they go crazy for it.
• 18:26
  Dayna Roselli: So, and apparently it's the the partners of it's called Let Us Entertain You Restaurant, and it's uh RJ, Jared, and Molly Melman, and then the celebrity couple Juliana and Bill Rancic.
• 18:36
  Dayna Roselli: So it's a big team.
• 18:37
  Dayna Roselli: They have a bunch of different restaurants uh in Washington, DC, a seafood restaurant, and and Let Us Entertain You also has a bunch of restaurants in uh Las Vegas as well, including Mona Miga B.
• 18:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I think this restaurant is gonna hit it out of the park over there at the forum shops.
• 18:53
  Sean McAllister: And switching from food to sports, we've had a lot going on here, Dana, including a world-class soccer match.
• 19:02
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, this was huge.
• 19:03
  Dayna Roselli: Kind of for me, popped up out of nowhere.
• 19:05
  Dayna Roselli: I just started seeing stuff about it like two days before the big match, which was uh going to be held at Allegiant Stadium, which was held at Allegiant Stadium, uh Mexico versus USA.
• 19:15
  Dayna Roselli: Uh that day I went shopping on the strip, and it was like every light there were people waving Mexico flags in my face and beeping their horns.
• 19:24
  Dayna Roselli: They were there, I saw people at Aria dressed in the lobby in full gear.
• 19:28
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, people came out and droves for this match for the gold cup.
• 19:32
  Sean McAllister: For the gold cup, yeah.
• 19:33
  Sean McAllister: And I think there ended up being over 61,000 people inside Allegiant Stadium for this matchup.
• 19:42
  Sean McAllister: The United States won one to nothing over Mexico.
• 19:46
  Sean McAllister: Um, and of course, they had to party down on the strip to celebrate.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 19:50
  Dayna Roselli: They went over to Dre's nightclub, and some great pictures were sent over by the team there, and you can see they're holding their trophy, and everyone was excited for them.
• 19:58
  Dayna Roselli: So we love it when folks win and then they celebrate in Las Vegas.
• 20:01
  Dayna Roselli: They happen to be in Las Vegas already.
• 20:03
  Dayna Roselli: A lot of times, though, teams will win someplace in the country and then they'll fly to Vegas and go out.
• 20:08
  Dayna Roselli: So this one they just had to roll on down the road.
• 20:11
  Dayna Roselli: But congratulations.
• 20:12
  Dayna Roselli: I did see a lot of chatter about the parking for the soccer game, and it was a lot of back and forth and frustration.
• 20:20
  Dayna Roselli: I think Allegiant Stadium is still working that out.
• 20:23
  Dayna Roselli: I did see someone comment though and say, you know, yes, it's mayhem, but I also tried to go to a game or something at a stadium in Florida, and it was the same thing.
• 20:34
  Dayna Roselli: Like maybe this is just what getting to a stadium is like, and we didn't have one before.
• 20:41
  Dayna Roselli: So we think it's a hot mess, but maybe this is just what you do.
• 20:45
  Dayna Roselli: You have to wait in line to park, you have to sit in traffic for a while.
• 20:48
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I don't know.
• 20:49
  Sean McAllister: Well, I'm I think that is that is part of it.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: Because w at T-Mobile Arena, you know, that's what a lot of people are comparing the experience to.
• 20:59
  Sean McAllister: But it's three times more people over at Allegiance Stadium than what T-Mobile Arena can handle.
• 21:06
  Sean McAllister: True.
• 21:07
  Sean McAllister: And when you look at the crowds that are going to T-Mobile Arena, not everybody is driving there to attend a game or event.
• 21:15
  Sean McAllister: A lot of people are staying on the strip already and using other modes, whether they're walking or taking trams or whatever to get over there.
• 21:22
  Sean McAllister: Allegiant Stadium is largely commuter traffic getting into a kind of industrial area with a bunch of side streets, not a lot of parking.
• 21:35
  Dayna Roselli: So not easily walkable from the strip.
• 21:38
  Dayna Roselli: No.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: So you can walk over that bridge, but it's not like in the heat, you know, the summer heat, it's a lot.
• 21:44
  Dayna Roselli: So it's something to I mean, this might be easier in the fall, maybe.
• 21:47
  Sean McAllister: In the fall, it'll be way easier.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 21:49
  Sean McAllister: When it when the temperatures are cooler, that walk won't be nearly as daunting.
• 21:53
  Sean McAllister: But when it's a hundred plus degrees and up to one seventeen, uh walking a mile Is a lot, and I think it's more than a mile to even get from the rideshare parking lot to the stadium.
• 22:05
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, just to let our listeners know how far of a walk we're talking about from some of these remote parking lots.
• 22:14
  Sean McAllister: That by the way, you still have to pay between fifty and a hundred bucks to park at those lots.
• 22:19
  Sean McAllister: So understandably, there's frustration, still some kinks to work out.
• 22:24
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 22:24
  Dayna Roselli: Um, frustration as well when it comes to a couple trades for our NHL hockey team here in Las Vegas, the Golden Knights, the Vegas Golden Knights.
• 22:33
  Dayna Roselli: It's been a rough one for fans.
• 22:35
  Dayna Roselli: You had to bring it up, Rosen.
• 22:36
  Dayna Roselli: I know, I know.
• 22:37
  Dayna Roselli: And we won't get into huge, huge detail.
• 22:39
  Dayna Roselli: We really just need to say two of our favorite players were traded.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: Mark Andre Fleury, our goalie since the beginning and creation of the team.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we call him Flower, and he was traded to Chicago, and it was kind of, I guess, unexpected, or something that no one wanted to ever really believe would happen.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: So shocking, I guess.
• 23:03
  Dayna Roselli: And then apparently he found out on Twitter and didn't get the phone call before it was announced because people start talking and they hop online before anyone gets to make that phone call.
• 23:13
  Dayna Roselli: So a lot of people didn't like the way that it was handled.
• 23:16
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, some people saying, hey, you know what, this is sports, get over it.
• 23:20
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but yeah, he just won best best goalie in the NHL, and we're like, we don't want to give it up.
• 23:26
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 23:27
  Sean McAllister: He really was a fixture, the the face of the team here in Las Vegas, and was always out in the community and such a great guy.
• 23:36
  Sean McAllister: Always stopped to chat with fans, and we are going to miss Marc-Andre Fleury.
• 23:42
  Sean McAllister: Chicago, our loss is definitely your game.
• 23:46
  Sean McAllister: Treat him well.
• 23:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yes, and they play the Golden Knights on January 8th.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_05: So I gotta hop on and get those tickets because that's gonna be a good one, right?
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_05: Yes.
• 23:55
  Sean McAllister: Also traded uh Ryan Reeves, who is, you know, the bad boy of the team, the enforcer.
• 24:01
  Sean McAllister: But uh he also really planted roots here in Las Vegas and uh worked with a brewing company to come up with his own line of beer here and craft beer.
• 24:12
  Sean McAllister: So Ryan Reeves, he was traded to the New York Rangers, but says he's not going to be a stranger, he's gonna be back.
• 24:19
  Dayna Roselli: I think he said he got a house to retire in here, so he'll be back.
• 24:22
  Dayna Roselli: He's gonna retire here whenever that may be.
• 24:24
  Dayna Roselli: He said the brewery's sticking, yep.
• 24:25
  Dayna Roselli: The beer's sticking.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: And then, you know, uh Ryan Reeves is also the face of our uh Southern Nevada water district commercials that encourage people not to use a lot of water.
• 24:35
  Dayna Roselli: And what happens is like if you turn your sprinklers on for a long period of time in the commercial, Ryan Reeves will like show up and like get on you.
• 24:42
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, body check you and stuff.
• 24:43
  Dayna Roselli: So it was so funny when he got traded.
• 24:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um people were tweeting me back going, Well, I'm gonna go turn on my sprinklers, you know, and and and let it loose now.
• 24:53
  Sean McAllister: The enforcer's not here anymore.
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, yeah.
• 24:56
  Dayna Roselli: But he's he's going to New York and he seems excited about it in the end and and good for you.
• 25:00
  Dayna Roselli: We will miss you.
• 25:01
  Sean McAllister: Yes, we will.
• 25:02
  Sean McAllister: And you know, big changes for the team, but you know, again, it's one of those things that people from outside of Las Vegas are saying, listen, you guys are new to pro sports, and this is what happens.
• 25:15
  Sean McAllister: There's players you love, and ultimately they'll end up getting traded.
• 25:19
  Sean McAllister: Sports is sports.
• 25:21
  Dayna Roselli: And you know, for our next show that we do when we tell stories and funny Vegas related stories and nights that have wowed us, one would be when we were together and we partied with the Golden Knights.
• 25:33
  Sean McAllister: Oh my gosh.
• 25:34
  Sean McAllister: Remember that?
• 25:35
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we'll have to save that.
• 25:36
  Sean McAllister: That's a good that's a good story.
• 25:37
  Dayna Roselli: It is a good story.
• 25:38
  Sean McAllister: That was a good night.
• 25:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and big shout out to everyone who loved last week's podcast.
• 25:43
  Dayna Roselli: We did a top 10 Vegas moments through the years, Sean and I.
• 25:46
  Dayna Roselli: And if you haven't listened, go back to episode 79.
• 25:49
  Dayna Roselli: People were loving the podcast saying they just enjoyed listening to our celebrity encounters and our random nights, and it was a good one.
• 25:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I'm uh actually surprised that the the night with the golden nights didn't make the list.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: But I guess that just means that we have to do another one of our top ten moments.
• 26:08
  Dayna Roselli: We sure do.
• 26:09
  Dayna Roselli: And somebody wrote us about one of the nights I had it with um Sophia Vergara and her family.
• 26:14
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, right.
• 26:15
  Dayna Roselli: And I was like thinking, you know, I actually have some videos on my phone from that night, and she was like, post it, and I'm like, ah, we'll see.
• 26:21
  Dayna Roselli: So I'll go back and but maybe we'll have video complimented stories next time.
• 26:25
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, there we go.
• 26:26
  Dayna Roselli: Go back and try and find.
• 26:28
  Sean McAllister: I still have video of that golden nights night, too.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, good, good.
• 26:31
  Dayna Roselli: Well we'll we'll do that for sure.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: I have a selfie that I posted when I was sad when Mark Audrey Fleury got traded.
• 26:37
  Dayna Roselli: But um, okay, let's talk to Eric Huff.
• 26:40
  Dayna Roselli: What a talent this guy is, right?
• 26:42
  Dayna Roselli: He is a dancer, a choreographer, he's Emmy nominated, Emmy winner.
• 26:47
  Dayna Roselli: I think he's been nominated for 11 Emmys total.
• 26:51
  Sean McAllister: Man, that's incredible.
• 26:52
  Sean McAllister: And he is just such an incredible talent.
• 26:55
  Sean McAllister: And I mean, you're listening up until this point on Vegas Revealed episode 80, and you're like, my gosh, they've already talked about so much.
• 27:03
  Sean McAllister: But no, wait, we still have Derek Huff to talk to.
• 27:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I know.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: We have Derek Huff and the folks from Potted Potter.
• 27:09
  Dayna Roselli: We've got a lot more coming up on the podcast.
• 27:11
  Dayna Roselli: So listen, I was able to actually get a quick Zoom interview with Derek.
• 27:15
  Dayna Roselli: Great conversation.
• 27:17
  Dayna Roselli: I also wrote a story that will be in Deluxe Version magazine, which we focus on his career, also his love life.
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: He's got some great tips on how to keep a relationship together.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: What he likes to do on his off time.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: Um, but we talked to him mostly about his Vegas show because he is really excited to be back on stage.
• 27:36
  Dayna Roselli: He's kicking off a show in September at the Venetian.
• 27:39
  Dayna Roselli: And what's cool, Sean, is that he was supposed to do the show before COVID hit.
• 27:43
  Dayna Roselli: And so, you know, just like everyone else, very frustrated that they had to cancel.
• 27:47
  Dayna Roselli: But he's back.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_05: Derek, first of all, we're excited that you're coming back to Vegas because you were supposed to do a show that obviously got put on hold, but now it's it's coming back, and you seem really excited about it too.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_05: I can tell.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I I cannot wait.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I just I have so much pent-up energy and and excitement for this um that I I'm just ready to hit that stage.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I've been working on the music, I'm getting it all together.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: I have you know, my costume designers coming over tonight.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_02: We're we're designing the costumes.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's I'm so excited.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just so excited for this uh to be with people and the energy and just that shared experience.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_02: So it's gonna be uh it's gonna be an amazing show, and I I I'm really proud of it, and I just I can't wait for people to see it.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and tell us a little bit about the show because I mean, you know, what people can expect.
• 28:32
  Dayna Roselli: So they go to the show, or you know, obviously we're gonna see you dancing, and what else are we gonna see?
• 28:37
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, I know you're planning on doing a few things.
• 28:39
  Dayna Roselli: You said it's gonna have other elements.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, I it the what makes it so great is that the all the different genres, right?
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I cover the gamut from like rock and roll, it's a big band music.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I I have like a Michael Booblay song in there, and he actually was kind enough to send me, you know, his stems for his band.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_02: So um, you know, it's gonna have so many different uh styles and so many different songs that I sing, um, primarily dancing.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's non-stop.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of energy and takes you on a journey.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_02: Um and there's something for everybody, you know, from like the passionate like tangos and the rumbas and to the pasta dobles into like Motown medleys into rock and roll into just there's everything.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: The one-liner is it's a rock concert for dance, you know.
• 29:24
  SPEAKER_02: It really is.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's like it's that feeling where you want to get up and dance, you want to get up and move.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but uh yeah, again, just and it just the music itself, like I can't wait for that.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: I can't wait to feel and hear the music on stage because it just it's just it's just so big.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: But all all all the dancers have been, you know, like hand-picked and have are all extraordinary.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and what they do is so talented, so athletic.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and uh it's gonna be it's just gonna be an epic show.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm I I'm trying to figure out ways to get some pyro in there and some like fire or something.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm oh my guys, I'm in Vegas.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_02: I gotta I gotta I gotta have some pyro in there somewhere, you know.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_05: Definitely, you gotta do that.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_05: And I think people are ready to feel good.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_05: I feel like the audience is, you know, they're gonna be the same, but they're gonna be different.
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_05: And people are looking for a good time and they want to leave happy.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, especially after the year we've had.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: You know, and my my goal, my sort of my mission, if you will, um, for for so many years now is whenever I do these live shows, is I really genuinely want people to walk out there feeling just positive and feeling great and feeling good.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: So not and not just because of the music or the dancing, but just you know, some of the things I I might incorporate in there and inject in there just to sort of uh to I want everybody to feel sort of light and lifted um and uh and inspired, you know, when they when they walk out of that room.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_02: And and I think that uh, you know, for me more than ever, I have more of a mission to do that and more of a calling uh to put on a great show, I have a great time, but also to make people feel good.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_05: And you have a little bit of history in Las Vegas, right?
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: I do.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: My mom my mom lived in Vegas for 20 years.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I would as a kid, I would always go to visit her and and and you know walk the strip and look at all the hotels and see the shows and and you know, here I am.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: I having my own show in Vegas is it's incredible, it's amazing, and uh it's cool to be sort of uh to kind of almost like be like a local there.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_02: Um after after my mom living there for 20 years, it's it's pretty wild.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 31:22
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and do you have any favorite spots or any favorite things to do in Las Vegas?
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I love the shop.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_02: I mean that's good.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_02: But uh but I I I also love the outdoors, you know, and I love I love all the things that are outside the strip, you know, and how how really normal it is and how beautiful and and not far away you can be in Lake Mead, you know, wake surfing, or you could be, you know, hiking in the or mountain biking up in the mountains, you know.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_02: So um I love I love anything outdoor.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_05: And it's good here.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, obviously, once it gets a little cooler, it's a great outdoor spot.
• 31:52
  Dayna Roselli: So thank you so much for your time.
• 31:54
  Dayna Roselli: We are so looking forward to you and your show coming to Las Vegas.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_05: I I and I love that you have many, many shows on the schedule, you know, not just one or two.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, people can come and and they and if they love it, they can go back again, right?
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: September 22nd.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_02: Tickets are already on sale right now, and and yeah, it's gonna be a great time.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: I can't wait.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_05: Listen, Derek, thank you so much for your time.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_05: I really appreciate it.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_02: My pleasure.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 32:20
  Sean McAllister: It's always great to hear from Derek and you know, with his Vegas connections.
• 32:24
  Sean McAllister: It'll be great to have him here with his show for about three months this fall.
• 32:29
  Dayna Roselli: I know, it should be good.
• 32:30
  Dayna Roselli: You know, they've been putting a lot of shows in that theater at the Venetian.
• 32:33
  Dayna Roselli: It's where human nature used to perform.
• 32:35
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 32:36
  Dayna Roselli: And quick note speaking of human nature, I saw, did you see they did an update recently?
• 32:40
  Dayna Roselli: They had to cancel part of their tour in Australia because of COVID.
• 32:43
  Dayna Roselli: I felt terrible for them.
• 32:44
  Dayna Roselli: They were just getting pumped up to to do a lot over there, but they said due to current COVID delta strain situation that's happening in Australia and it's affecting the venue restrictions and the travel that the remaining tour dates for their 2021 shows have now moved to 2022.
• 33:02
  Dayna Roselli: So I know we have a lot of listeners that love human nature and have followed them through the years.
• 33:05
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and I know that those guys are are disappointed too because they love to get up on stage, do what they do, and they do it so well, and their fans have been looking forward to it too.
• 33:15
  Sean McAllister: So uh that's a disappointment that all around that they have to push those dates to next year down in Australia.
• 33:22
  Dayna Roselli: All right, and we hope to see everyone at Derek Huff's show at the Venetian.
• 33:25
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, another show that's back is Potted Potter, and this is I mean, Harry Potter fans love this show.
• 33:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, the Potter Heads go crazy for it because essentially Potted Potter crams every single one of the Harry Potter books into a show that lasts 70 minutes.
• 33:44
  Sean McAllister: So you go through everything in just a short amount of time, and it really is funny.
• 33:50
  Dayna Roselli: It really is.
• 33:51
  Dayna Roselli: And it there's only two cast members, okay?
• 33:53
  Dayna Roselli: So as you can imagine, for 70 minutes, two guys, it's a whirlwind.
• 33:57
  Sean McAllister: It's a lot of action.
• 33:58
  Dayna Roselli: I was at the opening night over at the Bally's Magic Attic Showroom, and I talked to Nicholas Charles and James Edwards.
• 34:07
  Dayna Roselli: They are really excited to be back on stage.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_05: You guys, I'm excited to be here.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_05: I saw the show about two years ago, loved it, and I must say, you know what I liked is I have never read one single Harry Potter book.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_05: But I did see some of the movies.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_05: But isn't that the point?
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, it's for fans and then people who also don't really, you know, follow Harry Potter to a T.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's exactly it.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, luckily for us, you know, we've seen all the films as well, like over and over and over again.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_03: And that's the good thing about the show.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you could be obsessed with Harry Potter and find all the little nuances that are hilarious, or you can be not a fan and also find it hilarious, just because it's funny.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_03: Because it it's it's uh it's it's just two of us.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's two it's two actors up s uh on stage doing all 70 books in 70 minutes.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_03: Excuse me, all seven books in 70 minutes.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's just two of us.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_03: So I play Harry and Nick plays every other character.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_03: And that's part of the fun.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_05: Well it is, and I must say, it's a lot with two people when you'd think like, how is this gonna work?
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_05: But I was thoroughly entertained and uh laughing a lot too, right?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's hey, we try and make it the most fun possible.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: We say bring your kids, it's family friendly.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's a little bit of something for everyone, and as James said, you really don't have to read a book like yourself to get any of it because we just basically mess around and do our own thing for the most part.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: And if you've seen the show before, I will say as well, we've changed a lot of stuff since the pandemic.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, we've tried to be a little more covid conscious with uh how comfortable our audiences are.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: So if you've seen it, come back and see Potter Putter 2.0.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_05: Well, you are very COVID friendly with just two people in the show, right?
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_03: Luckily we didn't have to do any uh intense restricting for rehearsals and everything like that.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: We were we're we're fine.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_05: Well, and for people that don't know, I mean this show is here in Las Vegas, but it's it's been all over, right?
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, this is a continuous uh is it touring?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_01: Uh this is actually the 15th anniversary of the show.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: So this show started in London with Dan and Jeff as a street theatre show when there are only six books even released.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: It grew and grew and grew.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: They did the West End, they took it off Broadway, and it's been touring around the US, not at the moment because of some restrictions in certain states.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um but I know as soon as they lift those restrictions, they're gonna be in every corner of the world.
• 36:10
  Dayna Roselli: And how does it feel to be back on stage?
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, it feels incredible.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm sure the audience can relate.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_03: It feels good to be back in the theater, good to be back, you know, going out and and seeing people just happy again.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's uh it it's immeasurable, honestly.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_03: It really, really is.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_03: I think everyone is just really excited to be out and really excited to just live again in a different way.
• 36:31
  Dayna Roselli: So listen, do you guys have any uh favorite things that you love to do in Las Vegas?
• 36:34
  Dayna Roselli: Because we always do a little tips seg segment where we like to ask people like do you have a favorite restaurant, a favorite thing to do, a little hidden gem you want to let our no listeners know about?
• 36:44
  Dayna Roselli: Because they're sick of listening to our tips.
• 36:46
  Dayna Roselli: So I like to get other people's anything that you get a place you frequent.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to Ellis Island, our home, our friendly casino with the cheapest blackjack tables on the strip.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_05: I love that.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_05: See, we've never had that one before.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_05: Ellis Island.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_05: It's great there.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_05: They even have a karaoke room.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: And also they brew their own beer.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: So I mean, how uh what more can you ask for, really?
• 37:08
  Dayna Roselli: Thank you guys so much.
• 37:12
  Dayna Roselli: Okay, so now we know Ellis Island is their place.
• 37:15
  Dayna Roselli: That's a good spot.
• 37:16
  Dayna Roselli: I know it is a good spot.
• 37:17
  Dayna Roselli: So uh thanks for sharing that tip with us, Nicholas and James.
• 37:20
  Dayna Roselli: Also, just a note, you know, the show is family friendly, like they they mentioned, and they do have 2 p.m.
• 37:26
  Dayna Roselli: show times on select days.
• 37:27
  Dayna Roselli: So they have 8 p.m.
• 37:29
  Dayna Roselli: show times and 2 p.m.
• 37:30
  Dayna Roselli: show times.
• 37:30
  Dayna Roselli: So check out the calendar.
• 37:32
  Dayna Roselli: But if you want to bring the kids, that would be a really good time to go.
• 37:36
  Dayna Roselli: Also, while I was there, uh Delius Kennedy from All For One was there as well talking to the guys, and then I sat next to him at the show.
• 37:43
  Dayna Roselli: All for one's a great band.
• 37:45
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 37:46
  Dayna Roselli: Is it a band or a group?
• 37:48
  Dayna Roselli: A group.
• 37:48
  Dayna Roselli: Group, probably.
• 37:50
  Dayna Roselli: But yeah, they've got some good songs, and yeah, he was there at the show, so nice to see him support Potted Potter, and he was laughing through the whole thing.
• 37:56
  Sean McAllister: See, you never know who you're gonna sit next to when you uh go to a Vegas show.
• 38:01
  Sean McAllister: Even at Usher, when you were there the other night, Ashley Simpson was there with her husband.
• 38:06
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we saw them when we were out at the pre-party, so that was kind of fun to see her like just hanging out, and I hadn't seen her in a long time, but yeah, they were there.
• 38:15
  Dayna Roselli: You just never know.
• 38:16
  Dayna Roselli: You're right, and sometimes, you know, they just blend in.
• 38:18
  Sean McAllister: And speaking of Usher, Dana, I know that his show over at Caesar's Coliseum is your tip of the week.
• 38:26
  Sean McAllister: So let's get to the tips.
• 38:29
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, this is a show that you have already seen, so I was able to go see it.
• 38:33
  Dayna Roselli: I wanted to talk about an extra, and this is the Ush backstory.
• 38:37
  Dayna Roselli: That's what it's called.
• 38:38
  Dayna Roselli: It is a kind of a VIP experience that you take part in before the show, an hour before the show starts.
• 38:46
  Dayna Roselli: Okay.
• 38:46
  Dayna Roselli: So you sign up, um, we went and you go like kind of underground.
• 38:51
  Dayna Roselli: So like under the Coliseum, like you're let out this back door, you stand and wait by the gift shop.
• 38:57
  Dayna Roselli: They lead you into this area that has like three different themed rooms.
• 39:01
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm talking like uh, well, there were strippers, there were uh also like tap dancers and lounge singers, and then there was like um kind of sexed up dancers behind a glass, all sorts of stuff.
• 39:19
  Sean McAllister: That sounds like quite the experience.
• 39:22
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even know if I'm describing it the right way.
• 39:24
  Dayna Roselli: I don't even think you can describe it, but you go into these rooms, you can you can buy merchandise, there's little bars, and it's this whole experience, basically, and Usher stuff all over the wall.
• 39:36
  Dayna Roselli: I I don't even know how to describe it.
• 39:37
  Dayna Roselli: I think you need to go.
• 39:39
  Dayna Roselli: But it ended with we went out the back to this like back lot party where there was like break dancing and stuff, and then like Usher was there just hanging out.
• 39:47
  Dayna Roselli: We were all circled around.
• 39:49
  Dayna Roselli: I got video, I put it on our uh Vegas Revealed TikTok and also our Instagram.
• 39:54
  Dayna Roselli: But Usher was there kind of like cheering on the dance crew and dancing, and it was so much fun.
• 40:00
  Dayna Roselli: And so during this experience, you'll see Usher will pop in at some point.
• 40:05
  Sean McAllister: Huh.
• 40:05
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's kind of cool.
• 40:07
  Sean McAllister: Very cool.
• 40:08
  Sean McAllister: And so this is all leading up to him going on stage.
• 40:12
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 40:12
  Dayna Roselli: So it's all before.
• 40:13
  Dayna Roselli: Then you're let up these stairs right into the coliseum, you show your ticket, and you're brought to your seat.
• 40:18
  Dayna Roselli: So and then you get these little Usher coins before you go downstairs into the backstory, and you can use them to get a drink.
• 40:24
  Dayna Roselli: It's a whole thing, but you know, it really creative the way that they they did it.
• 40:28
  Dayna Roselli: And if you are a diehard Usher fan, I would say definitely go to the backstory splurge.
• 40:33
  Dayna Roselli: I went in the Coliseum, the whole room was full, it was packed.
• 40:37
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my thoughts about the show, kind of similar to yours.
• 40:41
  Dayna Roselli: Great opening, great end.
• 40:43
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't followed Usher too much.
• 40:46
  Dayna Roselli: Um, so I didn't know like all the words to every song, everything, but let me tell you, the audience did, and the Usher fans loved it.
• 40:52
  Dayna Roselli: Um he did some solo parts in the middle.
• 40:55
  Dayna Roselli: I wish he would have talked a little bit more, like kind of shouted out to the Vegas crowd and stuff like that.
• 41:00
  Dayna Roselli: That was the one thing that I thought was really lacking, just to kind of personalize it to Vegas a little bit.
• 41:04
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, listen, the crowd loved it.
• 41:06
  Dayna Roselli: Um, the music was great, and it it was really fun.
• 41:09
  Sean McAllister: Well, good.
• 41:10
  Sean McAllister: I'm glad you were able to go over there, experience Usher for yourself, and have the uh backstory experience.
• 41:18
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, yeah.
• 41:18
  Dayna Roselli: It was behind glass.
• 41:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I it's hard to explain.
• 41:22
  Dayna Roselli: Again, I feel bad because my description is just awful, but it's just very random and all over, and and that's what Vegas is about.
• 41:29
  Sean McAllister: Well, I guess the moral of the story is you need to go and experience the backstory for yourself to get a full appreciation of everything that it is.
• 41:37
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 41:38
  Sean McAllister: Another thing that you need to experience for yourself if you are a believer, which is a Justin Bieber fan, is uh the Justin Bieber and Friends Las Vegas weekender.
• 41:50
  Sean McAllister: This is just announced and it's happening over at Win Las Vegas.
• 41:54
  Sean McAllister: It's three days and nights of pool parties and nighttime events with an entire lineup of entertainment curated by Justin Bieber.
• 42:05
  Sean McAllister: It's also going to include some pop-up activations over those three days.
• 42:11
  Sean McAllister: And I this sounds like a really fun time.
• 42:14
  Sean McAllister: And this follows Justin's one night only performance at Win Las Vegas back in July.
• 42:21
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 42:21
  Dayna Roselli: And then he made an appearance at uh Delilah Supper Club opening too.
• 42:25
  Dayna Roselli: And everyone was kind of wondering like, is this gonna be part of something bigger?
• 42:28
  Dayna Roselli: You know, it just seems weird for like a one-off.
• 42:31
  Dayna Roselli: So I mean, this announcement um just came out, and another tip is he has a link on his Instagram in his bio where you can go pop your email in there so that you can get all the information about this upcoming event right to your inbox.
• 42:49
  Dayna Roselli: So do that if you're interested and you really want to follow what's going on.
• 42:52
  Dayna Roselli: He doesn't release too many other details.
• 42:54
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, we will stay tuned for sure.
• 42:57
  Dayna Roselli: Um, we are recording this podcast on a Thursday, and tonight Sean is going to check out uh RuPaul's Drag Race Las Vegas because that show now returned.
• 43:06
  Dayna Roselli: They opened and were only open for a short time before they had to close during COVID.
• 43:10
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and of course, RuPaul's Drag Race, you know, has just become a hit on VH1 and you know, winning Emmy after Emmy after Emmy, and people have loved the show.
• 43:22
  Sean McAllister: Now RuPaul has created RuPaul's Drag Race Live, which is over at Flamingo Las Vegas, with some of the stars of the more recent seasons of RuPaul's Drag Race.
• 43:34
  Sean McAllister: Such a fun show.
• 43:35
  Sean McAllister: There was a limited series uh kind of documenting the show's creation, and that series kind of ended when COVID started because the show stopped.
• 43:46
  Sean McAllister: Um, so hopefully they'll be able to pick that up again.
• 43:49
  Sean McAllister: Um, but we were there at the the opening in the red carpet, and the outfits are amazing, and the drag queens are so excited.
• 43:58
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be good to see them back on stage again over there at Flamingo, and we'll have everything about RuPaul's Drag Race Live returning to the stage next week here on Vegas Revealed.
• 44:09
  Dayna Roselli: I feel like once again we could go on and on.
• 44:11
  Dayna Roselli: There are just so many stories to tell and things that we witness and do here in Las Vegas, um, but we run out of time.
• 44:19
  Sean McAllister: And a lot of you listen while you're out for a run or doing chores around the house.
• 44:24
  Sean McAllister: So we know that that time is winding down for you, and we don't want to make you work out longer than you have to.
• 44:30
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 44:31
  Sean McAllister: Or do more chores.
• 44:32
  Dayna Roselli: Quick shout out for our Hall of What do we call it?
• 44:35
  Dayna Roselli: The Hall of Fame?
• 44:36
  Sean McAllister: Hall of Fame.
• 44:37
  Dayna Roselli: The Hall of Fame.
• 44:41
  Dayna Roselli: We got another donation from Rob, our friend in Atlanta.
• 44:45
  Dayna Roselli: I wanted to send a shout out to him.
• 44:47
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, he gave us a second donation uh about a month ago, and we have been busy with vacationing and pre-planned podcasts, so we didn't get to give a shout-out to Rob.
• 44:56
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate you so much.
• 44:57
  Dayna Roselli: We got a donation in from Brian from Las Vegas, who listens to the podcast all the time.
• 45:03
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate you so much, Brian.
• 45:05
  Dayna Roselli: Really, these donations make a difference for us.
• 45:08
  Dayna Roselli: We put a lot of time into the podcast.
• 45:10
  Dayna Roselli: Sean and I also run our own business, a media company, so we have to really make time for this stuff.
• 45:17
  Dayna Roselli: And a lot of the things that we do, we love doing it.
• 45:19
  Dayna Roselli: We have so much fun doing it.
• 45:21
  Dayna Roselli: But, you know, that is time consuming too.
• 45:24
  Dayna Roselli: And we always make sure that we're getting video and pictures for social media so that you guys can get, you know, that that first hand experience, even if you're not here.
• 45:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, so the donations really do help us to keep up all of the efforts to keep Vegas Revealed going.
• 45:38
  Sean McAllister: And you can find the link to our PayPal down in the show notes.
• 45:42
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• 45:47
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, we appreciate it so, so much.
• 45:49
  Sean McAllister: And as always, you can check us out online on our social media or at vegas-revealed.com.
• 45:56
  Sean McAllister: And now you can hear us on the radio here in southern Nevada and Southern California.
• 46:02
  Sean McAllister: Just go to highwayradio.com.
• 46:05
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
• 46:07
  Sean McAllister: Captain.
• 46:08
  Sean McAllister: On behalf of the flight crew, thank you for flying with us and have a pleasant day.
• 46:12
  Sean McAllister: Let's go to bed.
• 46:14
  Sean McAllister: Let's go back.
• 46:16
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• 46:18
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