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Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Gifts Employees $5,000 each, Vegas Chinatown Facts, Mob Mystery | Ep. 118 · Vegas Revealed

• 0:00
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• 1:03
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 118.
• 1:06
  Sean McAllister: Eight things you may not know about Las Vegas' Chinatown.
• 1:10
  Sean McAllister: In fact, maybe you didn't even know we had one.
• 1:13
  Dayna Roselli: The Cosmopolitan gets ready to hand things over to MGM Resorts International, but not without a major surprise for workers at the Resort Casino.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: We're paying out$5,000 to each of them.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: That's more than$27 million.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: Let's get to it and kick things off.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: Spin that wheel.
• 1:40
  Sean McAllister: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 118, Sean McAllister here along with Dana Roselli.
• 1:46
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, have you ever wondered what it would feel like to like hit a jackpot or win the lottery or something, even if it was a smaller amount.
• 1:56
  Sean McAllister: Not it doesn't have to be a million dollars.
• 1:58
  Dayna Roselli: But anything's good for me, a hundred bucks.
• 2:00
  Sean McAllister: Exactly.
• 2:01
  Sean McAllister: I've always wondered what that would feel like.
• 2:03
  Sean McAllister: And now a lot of people here in Las Vegas do know.
• 2:06
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:07
  Dayna Roselli: We're so excited for the employees of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas.
• 2:11
  Dayna Roselli: Amazing resort casino on the strip.
• 2:13
  Dayna Roselli: You know, when it opened, it immediately was cool and hip and fun and different, and they they do things different.
• 2:20
  Dayna Roselli: It changed hands once and has been run and owned by Blackstone.
• 2:26
  Dayna Roselli: And last week, because this runs on a Saturday, this week that just passed, they gave away$5,000 to each and every employee, which they call co-stars.
• 2:39
  Sean McAllister: That is absolutely incredible.
• 2:42
  Sean McAllister: I have never heard of any casino in Las Vegas doing something like that.
• 2:47
  Sean McAllister: The companies are few and far between that do this kind of thing.
• 2:52
  Sean McAllister: That payout, the bonus payout, equals more than$27 million in bonuses that they're just giving to employees for being rock star co-stars.
• 3:05
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, I love it.
• 3:06
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, listen, they were just having an employee appreciation event.
• 3:08
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone was excited to be there, and then they made the big announcement.
• 3:12
  Dayna Roselli: And then you can just hear the crowd roaring.
• 3:15
  Dayna Roselli: I think everyone was really in shock.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: Let's listen to what a couple of the employees had to say.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, what?
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: How amazing was this?
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: We just had the biggest coastal event, and thanks to Blackstone, thanks to the Cosmopolitan.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: I have no words, honestly.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm still in shock.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: But the gratitude that I feel from a coastal perspective and just being here to represent everyone is amazing.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: I I the sentiment that if you go and talk to everyone is OMG.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Like what just happened?
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: I can't believe this is what happened.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: Normally I'm known for just talking all day and speech I'm speechless, right?
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: I've been here since pre-opening, but since day one, they've always stressed that the company culture is number one.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_01: They've always stressed that we are a people-focused institution, and that has not changed in the last 11 and a half years.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: So exciting for them.
• 4:13
  Sean McAllister: But let's hear from John Gray, the president and COO of Blackstone, about why they did this in the first place.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_02: We're just hugely appreciative of their efforts.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_02: We've owned this hotel since 2014.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's been an incredible run, an incredible partnership.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_02: The employees here, the co-stars they're called, have worked so hard, and we wanted to give them a sense of how much we appreciated their efforts.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_02: It's really a moment of joy and celebration for what's been accomplished.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_02: So we bought the Cosmopolitan back in 2014.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_02: And at the time it had opened just a few years earlier.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_02: It had been in financial distress, and we came in with new management, lots of fresh capital, fresh ideas, and really transformed the place.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_02: But what brings the place alive is the co-stars, the energy, the caring they bring.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_02: That's what's so special.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: I couldn't feel better about what's been accomplished here.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, particularly when you think about the last couple of years coming through a pandemic.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_02: It was just a little over two years ago when this hotel casino was shut down, and today the place is thriving.
• 5:21
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, this is such an incredible uh show of appreciation that Blackstone uh gave to their employees for such dedicated service, for making the experience at the Cosmopolitan what it is.
• 5:37
  Sean McAllister: And these really are the waning days of Blackstone's ownership of the Cosmopolitan.
• 5:43
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, the Nevada Gaming Control Board just recently approved MGM Resort International's acquisition for the operating rights of the Cosmo.
• 5:52
  Dayna Roselli: So this paves the way pretty much uh for the deal to close like next month.
• 5:57
  Dayna Roselli: So they'll change hands pretty quick, and everyone's going, oh man, but you know, and and I feel like maybe that's why they did this too.
• 6:05
  Dayna Roselli: Just, you know, it's been a great run.
• 6:07
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciated you.
• 6:08
  Sean McAllister: Well, and it makes me also wonder the a thought that popped into my head, I'm like, hmm, I wonder if Blackstone's gonna be buying another Las Vegas property, and could like the the loyalty that they earn from their employees with a move like this, could that, you know, shift some people's decision to to follow Blackstone if they buy another Las Vegas property.
• 6:34
  Sean McAllister: Who knows?
• 6:35
  Sean McAllister: That's not on the that's not in the plans, nothing's been announced, but it just made me curious.
• 6:40
  Sean McAllister: Like, would that would this move make people loyal to them?
• 6:44
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I know a lot of people on Twitter that love the Cosmopolitans loyalty program, their points program, are a little worried that, you know, when it changes hands, you know, will the points and the way that they're treated and all that, will it all move over and and will it be, you know, comparable to what they've enjoyed so far?
• 7:04
  Dayna Roselli: So everyone's kind of on edge about that.
• 7:06
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, MGM's gonna take over the operation, and you know, we have an amazing slew of casinos on the Las Vegas strip that are run by MGM.
• 7:16
  Dayna Roselli: They're just unloading the Mirage now over to Hard Rock, so that also, you know, switches that over.
• 7:22
  Dayna Roselli: So it's gonna be there's a lot of changes going on on the strip.
• 7:25
  Sean McAllister: There are, and San Manuel Gaming, taking over control of the palms, just having the grand opening there.
• 7:31
  Sean McAllister: So it does.
• 7:32
  Sean McAllister: It feels like a a new era.
• 7:34
  Sean McAllister: Every, every so often there's a shift that we see happening on the strip with with management, things changing hands.
• 7:43
  Sean McAllister: So this is one of those times, and you know, we'll see how everything pans out.
• 7:48
  Sean McAllister: But man, Blackstone certainly making a mark with employees and doling out five thousand dollar bonuses to each and every one of them.
• 7:58
  Sean McAllister: Well done, Blackstone.
• 7:59
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, that's great.
• 8:00
  Dayna Roselli: And if you're a sports book person, also to note BetMGM is gonna be taking over the cosmopolitan sports book as well.
• 8:08
  Dayna Roselli: So if that's something you were worried about, that's what's going on over there.
• 8:13
  Sean McAllister: You know, Dana, uh a a section of Las Vegas that especially out-of-town visitors, people new who move here to Las Vegas, which is a lot of people at this point, um, may not realize that there is a section of town just west of the Las Vegas Strip that is Chinatown.
• 8:34
  Sean McAllister: And it's a really unique neighborhood.
• 8:36
  Dayna Roselli: It is.
• 8:37
  Dayna Roselli: And like I've always kind of been a central person where I've lived.
• 8:42
  Dayna Roselli: I used to live in the southwest of Las Vegas, but I should say live and work, because a lot of the companies I worked for, uh, one was Channel 8, KLAS, another was channel 13, KTNV.
• 8:53
  Dayna Roselli: Both were kind of around that area.
• 8:56
  Dayna Roselli: And so I've driven by Chinatown and up and down Spring Mountain so many times.
• 9:00
  Dayna Roselli: Um, I was aware it was there, but I always still wondered like when does it, like, where does it start?
• 9:06
  Dayna Roselli: Where does it end?
• 9:07
  Dayna Roselli: You know, and I haven't tried every single thing in Chinatown.
• 9:12
  Dayna Roselli: I drive by and go, I should.
• 9:14
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, I'd like to go there.
• 9:15
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, what's that?
• 9:16
  Dayna Roselli: But anyway, we found a great article from uh I actually saw the article because there's a new Twitter handle that kind of focuses on Chinatown.
• 9:26
  Dayna Roselli: So I clicked on it and I found eight things you didn't know about the Las Vegas Chinatown.
• 9:32
  Dayna Roselli: And I thought, let's go over this on the podcast.
• 9:34
  Dayna Roselli: There's a few restaurants that I've gone to that are always delicious.
• 9:38
  Dayna Roselli: And sometimes at lunchtime, it's a little packed too.
• 9:41
  Dayna Roselli: You gotta like get there early because everyone kind of wants to go to the same places.
• 9:45
  Dayna Roselli: But they have a lot of great things.
• 9:47
  Dayna Roselli: I've also done some fun karaoke rooms over there on Spring Mountain.
• 9:51
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 9:52
  Dayna Roselli: They have a good little and I've gone into the main kind of uh I don't know what you'd call it, the main area of Chinatown, kind of the staple, big, big plaza.
• 10:02
  Dayna Roselli: There's cool stores in there.
• 10:03
  Dayna Roselli: If you love knick-knacks and cool things, they have little kind of pharmacy type stores as well.
• 10:09
  Dayna Roselli: They have uh different spots for food and restaurant, and it's actually really cool to just like walk around and browse.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: And then a couple of the things um that they have on the list for the eight things.
• 10:23
  Dayna Roselli: Should we go through them?
• 10:24
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, let's go through them.
• 10:25
  Sean McAllister: I guess we should start with the architecture, right?
• 10:28
  Sean McAllister: You'll know that you are in Chinatown because the architecture changes.
• 10:34
  Sean McAllister: There's a lot of examples that are like the Sang Dynasty architectural temples and the building designs, and yeah, I think you can also recognize the uh names of the restaurants that'll that'll make you realize you're in Chinatown too.
• 10:52
  Dayna Roselli: For sure.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: Another thing is, which I didn't even realize, it's so big, apparently it spans three zip codes 89102, 89103, and 89146.
• 11:04
  Dayna Roselli: That's how large Chinatown is.
• 11:07
  Dayna Roselli: And it's home to more than 150 restaurants.
• 11:11
  Dayna Roselli: Jeez.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: I know, many with fusion or Asian themes, obviously.
• 11:15
  Dayna Roselli: So, I mean, even if you're visiting here, you know, if you're vacationing here, people are saying Chinatown should be on your list of places.
• 11:23
  Dayna Roselli: And I always get visitors that say, we can go to the strip, but we want to know some of the local places, some of the things that are cool.
• 11:31
  Dayna Roselli: And I think so.
• 11:32
  Dayna Roselli: We're trying to give you some ideas here that maybe you would want to visit Chinatown.
• 11:36
  Dayna Roselli: They have Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, other Asian street food, desserts, tea shops, all sorts of stuff.
• 11:44
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I know people who go over there for boba tea, and I there's great noodle restaurants over there.
• 11:50
  Sean McAllister: I know a lot of uh strip entertainers who get out of their shows, you know, pretty late at night, and the restaurants over in Chinatown are still open.
• 12:01
  Sean McAllister: So a lot of strip entertainers will go to Chinatown for meals because things are open late.
• 12:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, definitely.
• 12:09
  Dayna Roselli: No, you're right.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, because especially these days, since COVID, some things are closing earlier.
• 12:14
  Sean McAllister: Like at nine o'clock.
• 12:15
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and you're like, wait a minute, what happened to yeah?
• 12:17
  Sean McAllister: So like what happens if I have a late afternoon thing?
• 12:21
  Sean McAllister: Uh, in addition to restaurants, there's over a dozen churches to serve the population over there in in Chinatown.
• 12:28
  Sean McAllister: So I mean that's obviously another uh, you know, instrumental part of community is having places of worship.
• 12:37
  Sean McAllister: Um, as we're seeing popping up all over Las Vegas, there are also a couple marijuana dispensaries in the area, too.
• 12:44
  Dayna Roselli: That's right.
• 12:44
  Dayna Roselli: And they also have the Las Vegas Little Theater, and apparently it's older than Chinatown itself, so it's one of the big attractions there.
• 12:53
  Dayna Roselli: And I must say, Sean, I did not know that they actually, when I've driven by here, that it was actually like a theater still, okay?
• 13:02
  Dayna Roselli: But it is apparently.
• 13:04
  Dayna Roselli: They showcase plays by well-known authors, there's theater performances, and apparently acting classes are available there.
• 13:12
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's it turns out it's Southern Nevada's oldest community theater.
• 13:18
  Sean McAllister: It was founded by Jack Bell and Jack Nicholson back in 1978, which is super cool.
• 13:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I love it.
• 13:27
  Dayna Roselli: See, we're learning all this stuff.
• 13:28
  Dayna Roselli: The neighborhood also features Chinese culture and traditions and you know the foot spas, very popular.
• 13:35
  Sean McAllister: They are very popular, yeah.
• 13:37
  Dayna Roselli: They also have a Chinese bookstore, and it's the only Chinese bookstore in Nevada.
• 13:46
  Dayna Roselli: It's called the Great Wall Bookstore.
• 13:48
  Dayna Roselli: Isn't that cool?
• 13:49
  Sean McAllister: Wow.
• 13:50
  Sean McAllister: Six Asian supermarkets are over there too.
• 13:53
  Sean McAllister: And if you have not been into an Asian supermarket, it is such a cool experience.
• 14:00
  Sean McAllister: There's obviously products that you'll find there that you're not gonna find if you go to whatever your neighborhood grocery store is, whether it's Smith's, Albertson's, Raleigh's, whatever your store is.
• 14:14
  Sean McAllister: These are super cool.
• 14:16
  Sean McAllister: There's so many different kinds of candies.
• 14:20
  Sean McAllister: There's dried foods, there's uh the fish markets where the fish is like out on ice.
• 14:27
  Sean McAllister: They have live fish in there that you can uh have turned into uh you know prepared food for yourself, or you can take it home and prepare it however you want.
• 14:39
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that's a thing, all this is uh just cool experiences, right?
• 14:43
  Sean McAllister: It is people love that stuff, and it's uh uh and it's exposure to another culture, which people think of Las Vegas, and you know, unfortunately, they don't necessarily think of a lot of culture, but we do have it here.
• 14:59
  Sean McAllister: You just have to look for it and find it.
• 15:02
  Dayna Roselli: So that's our well, I think we hit eight.
• 15:04
  Dayna Roselli: That's our eight our eight things.
• 15:06
  Dayna Roselli: We might have gone gone over eight because we started chit-chatting about different stuff, but um really cool to check out.
• 15:13
  Dayna Roselli: Again, it's mostly Spring Mountain Road is the main drag, but there's other roads around that.
• 15:18
  Dayna Roselli: Like we said, it spans three zip codes.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: Check out Chinatown, and again, that is to the west of the Las Vegas Strip.
• 15:24
  Sean McAllister: And I know, Dana, that I did just say that Las Vegas people don't think of it as having a lot of culture, but what's part of Las Vegas culture is the mob history that we have here, and that has recently started to pop up again.
• 15:40
  Dayna Roselli: Literally, resurface.
• 15:41
  Sean McAllister: Uh resurface, yeah.
• 15:43
  Sean McAllister: As water in Lake Mead is continuing to recede because of the drought conditions here in the western United States, um, there have been some uh rather gruesome discoveries made.
• 15:56
  Sean McAllister: There have been bodies in barrels and and remains of people that have surfaced as these lake waters dry up, and a lot of people are connecting it back to Las Vegas's mob history.
• 16:14
  Dayna Roselli: They sure are.
• 16:15
  Dayna Roselli: Everyone's going, you know, once they do a little more investigating, like, is this gonna be someone that might be a uh known name that has been missing for a long time and we never knew how yeah, I don't know.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: Or, you know, but then again, I think about if someone has been missing a loved one for many, many years and it's gone unsolved, this could in some ways, not in a positive way, bring some peace to a family who's been searching for someone for years, you know, they have all those unsolved cases.
• 16:49
  Sean McAllister: And wondering, is this person still out there?
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
• 16:52
  Dayna Roselli: I had a friend write me, um, my friend Daryl wrote me on Instagram when he saw I was talking about it in one of my stories and said he paddleboards out there at least like two or three times, I think he said a month.
• 17:03
  Dayna Roselli: And he said just recently over the last two to three months, he's really noticed the lake level come down like feet.
• 17:10
  Dayna Roselli: He said, There are little islands popping up that were never there before.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh.
• 17:14
  Dayna Roselli: There are boat holes that are coming and peeking out from uh the water.
• 17:18
  Dayna Roselli: And he was like, it's just gotten really, really bad, and I've noticed it so much lately.
• 17:24
  Dayna Roselli: So it is a concern, and I think a lot of us think, oh, the lake level was going down a little bit.
• 17:30
  Dayna Roselli: We'll take, you know, it'll go back up.
• 17:32
  Dayna Roselli: But we've had such a span of what, it's been like four years since I feel like since we've had like a major, major rainstorm that lasted a full day and just poured.
• 17:44
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know, it's been a long time.
• 17:46
  Sean McAllister: Well, and I know that you mentioned this um a couple weeks ago.
• 17:49
  Sean McAllister: I don't know if it was on social media or if we were having a conversation, um, but just about the flooding that Las Vegas used to have.
• 17:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 17:57
  Sean McAllister: And I remember when I moved here, and in the year or so before moving here, there would be crazy images of people stranded in cars because of the flood waters that just inundated neighborhoods.
• 18:13
  Sean McAllister: Um, obviously there's been a lot of flood control infrastructure that's been built to help alleviate some of that, but also we're not getting the rainwater to make that happen.
• 18:23
  Sean McAllister: No.
• 18:24
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it was me.
• 18:25
  Dayna Roselli: I was on Twitter and I was I was saying I used to report the helicopter from like 2004 to a little over two and a half years, and I would get called in all the time.
• 18:34
  Dayna Roselli: All the time, especially through the winter and then the monsoon season, you know, like which starts uh what is July, August.
• 18:41
  Dayna Roselli: Not only would I get called in in the morning, but then like it would last like all day, or there would be patchy, you know, moments.
• 18:47
  Dayna Roselli: It would clear up, then it would come back, and then it would clear up, and there would be a lot of flooding.
• 18:52
  Dayna Roselli: And we covered it all the time.
• 18:55
  Dayna Roselli: So yeah, I'm like, whatever happened to those days, you know, of that?
• 19:00
  Dayna Roselli: But you're right, obviously there were more issues on the road because you know, they've made so many improvements since then with the roadways and the flood channels and all that thing, all that kind of stuff.
• 19:10
  Dayna Roselli: But even just a normal rainy day like that hasn't happened in a long time.
• 19:16
  Sean McAllister: No, it hasn't.
• 19:17
  Sean McAllister: No, and obviously, rain is only uh uh a portion of the water that we need to to fill up Lake Mead.
• 19:23
  Sean McAllister: A lot of the water, well, it does.
• 19:26
  Sean McAllister: A lot of that water comes from the Colorado River, which is fed by the snow melt and the Rocky Mountains, the runoff, they haven't been getting the snow pack that you know they've been used to, that we've all been used to.
• 19:40
  Sean McAllister: So the drought continues, and as it does, more mysteries of the depths from Lake Mead will resurface.
• 19:48
  Dayna Roselli: I know, and you were saying, so the whole reason we even started talking about that is we're talking about the mob and the history and stuff like that, and you were saying Oscar Goodman is starting to speak out now.
• 19:55
  Dayna Roselli: What did he say?
• 19:56
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, he spoke with a local news channel here in Las Vegas, uh, and they reached out to him for his comment because of the presumed connection with a body found in a barrel.
• 20:09
  Sean McAllister: And police had said that because of the shoes that that person was wearing, they dated the murder to the late 70s, early 80s, which would have been in that mob era.
• 20:24
  Sean McAllister: Oscar Goodman, our longtime former Las Vegas mayor, you may or may not know, uh, was a lawyer for the alleged mob.
• 20:34
  Sean McAllister: He always likes to point out that the mob is alleged.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 20:38
  Sean McAllister: And he defended a lot of the the gangsters that were brought up on a a slew of different kinds of charges, some including murder.
• 20:48
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but he pointed out that the murder weapon of choice, the shooting weapon of choice, was a 22, a 22 caliber pistol.
• 20:56
  Sean McAllister: He said, so if it comes back that these investigations reveal that that is the cause of death for some of these bodies that resurface, um, then it could be linked back to that era and potentially some of the guys who he defended, but he says, Hey, you know what?
• 21:20
  Sean McAllister: I didn't order the hits, so I have no idea what was going on.
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Of course he doesn't.
• 21:25
  Dayna Roselli: We've had Oscar on our show before, as you mentioned, and yeah, he's always a good conversation, right?
• 21:30
  Dayna Roselli: And he doesn't hold back.
• 21:31
  Dayna Roselli: That's what we love about it.
• 21:32
  Sean McAllister: No, he doesn't.
• 21:33
  Dayna Roselli: He was in casino, too, for anyone that didn't know that's listening.
• 21:36
  Dayna Roselli: He's also in the movie casino.
• 21:38
  Sean McAllister: Kind of playing himself.
• 21:39
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, basically.
• 21:40
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, mob attorney.
• 21:42
  Dayna Roselli: All right, well, so that's what we got going on here.
• 21:44
  Dayna Roselli: A little fun and a little bit of mystery.
• 21:47
  Dayna Roselli: A couple shows added to the list just this week.
• 21:51
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, Silksonic, they've been performing over at Park MGM, but they've added more shows in August.
• 21:57
  Dayna Roselli: So if you didn't get a chance to see Silksonic, They do have shows through May, and then they've added like August 3rd, 5th, 6th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 18, 19.
• 22:06
  Dayna Roselli: You can get tickets by Googling them and going to Park MGM and buying them.
• 22:12
  Sean McAllister: And go see it.
• 22:13
  Sean McAllister: If you have the chance, it is so worth it.
• 22:17
  Sean McAllister: Such a great show.
• 22:19
  Sean McAllister: Also adding shows.
• 22:20
  Sean McAllister: Shin Lim, he is uh the resident illusionist over at the Mirage.
• 22:26
  Sean McAllister: Uh you may know him from America's Got Talent.
• 22:30
  Sean McAllister: I know I watched during his season and he is so uh incredible.
• 22:36
  Sean McAllister: He's got great hair first.
• 22:38
  Sean McAllister: Okay, well, but his illusions are just they are spectacular.
• 22:43
  Sean McAllister: And you can now see more of them in person as Shin Lim expands his uh dates of shows at the Mirage, November 24th through 26th, December 22nd through 26th.
• 22:58
  Sean McAllister: Um and he's gonna have an additional show at 7:30 on Tuesday, December 27th.
• 23:05
  Sean McAllister: So great to see that Shin Lim is expanding his footprint here in Vegas as well.
• 23:10
  Sean McAllister: Love having him and really uh phenomenal illusionist.
• 23:15
  Sean McAllister: A different a different variety of illusion than you see from from other magicians in Vegas too.
• 23:23
  Dayna Roselli: We like variety, right?
• 23:24
  Sean McAllister: We do.
• 23:24
  Dayna Roselli: Hey, and a big congratulations to Carlos Santana.
• 23:27
  Dayna Roselli: He extended over at the House of Blues.
• 23:29
  Dayna Roselli: We'll talk more about that next week.
• 23:30
  Dayna Roselli: This week he's having a big uh kind of a 10-year anniversary press conference, and we'll be able to at least uh hear what Carlos has to say.
• 23:39
  Dayna Roselli: Um he's been playing the House of Blues for 10 years, but he's been in Las Vegas even longer than that.
• 23:45
  Dayna Roselli: But curious to see, you know, like he must love the intimate experience that he gets here in Vegas.
• 23:50
  Dayna Roselli: We've interviewed him many, many times before, and he's extending, so they'll have Carlos over at Mandalay Bay for a little bit longer.
• 23:58
  Dayna Roselli: At least I think he's got shows.
• 24:00
  Dayna Roselli: What did we just say?
• 24:01
  Sean McAllister: We just did the end of the year for sure.
• 24:03
  Sean McAllister: Through the end of the year, yeah.
• 24:05
  Sean McAllister: All right, should we get to our tips?
• 24:07
  Sean McAllister: Let's do it.
• 24:10
  Sean McAllister: Dana, our first tip comes to us courtesy of the Kentucky Derby.
• 24:16
  Sean McAllister: What a you had on a hat.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: I did.
• 24:18
  Dayna Roselli: What a bummer the end of that.
• 24:20
  Dayna Roselli: Well, it was like a good news for people who picked the underdog, right?
• 24:23
  Sean McAllister: People do like the underdog, the dark horse.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 24:26
  Dayna Roselli: The Kentucky Derby.
• 24:28
  Dayna Roselli: Um, if you don't know and you're listening, um, the under underdog, a late edition into the race, won the whole thing.
• 24:37
  Dayna Roselli: So uh horse number 21, we were in a room full of people up at the legacy club at Circa, and I don't think one single person in the entire room won anything.
• 24:49
  Sean McAllister: No, it was, I mean, it was kind of comical.
• 24:52
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 24:52
  Sean McAllister: Everybody, you know, the the bell rings, the horses come shooting out of the gates, everybody's cheering, they're pulling for their horse, they're shouting numbers, they're, you know, watching the jockeys go around that racetrack there at Kentucky Downs.
• 25:09
  Sean McAllister: And then as the horses started to approach the finish line, it got quieter and quieter.
• 25:17
  Sean McAllister: And when the race ended, everyone was like, huh?
• 25:22
  Sean McAllister: What just happened?
• 25:23
  Dayna Roselli: What just happened?
• 25:24
  Dayna Roselli: Who I the I didn't even see this horse on the list, I feel like, and I placed my bet, what, like two hours before, uh, maybe three hours before the race.
• 25:32
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, so it was a late edition.
• 25:34
  Sean McAllister: It was a late entry.
• 25:35
  Sean McAllister: One horse had to drop out.
• 25:36
  Sean McAllister: He came in, uh last minute edition for the the night before had happened, so there wasn't a lot of opportunity to bet on this horse.
• 25:45
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, that's not our tip.
• 25:47
  Sean McAllister: No, it's not.
• 25:48
  Sean McAllister: That was just some color.
• 25:49
  Sean McAllister: That's what was happening.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: That was color commentary.
• 25:52
  Dayna Roselli: Our tip is if you've never been to the like our tip is if you've never been to the legacy club at Circa Las Vegas in downtown, you gotta go if you love a good view.
• 26:05
  Sean McAllister: You do.
• 26:06
  Sean McAllister: It's up on top of Circa.
• 26:09
  Sean McAllister: What is it?
• 26:10
  Sean McAllister: 60, is it 60 floors?
• 26:12
  Sean McAllister: Whatever the top button is that you can push at Circa, that's where the Legacy Club is.
• 26:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, it's a classy place, uh, really beautiful view.
• 26:20
  Dayna Roselli: They have an indoor, outdoor area, beautiful bar.
• 26:23
  Dayna Roselli: I loved the decor, windows all around.
• 26:27
  Dayna Roselli: Let me tell you, go get a cocktail up there.
• 26:29
  Dayna Roselli: I think you'll love it.
• 26:30
  Dayna Roselli: There's tons of history about Las Vegas on the wall.
• 26:32
  Dayna Roselli: Speaking of mayor, former Mayor Goodman, a pick old picture of him and Carolyn, our current uh mayor, on the wall, and then tons of pictures of people who've really made an impact on Las Vegas through the years.
• 26:45
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, and so that's where the Legacy Club gets its name because all the people who have really contributed to the legacy of Las Vegas are uh named and their likenesses, some of them are up there as well.
• 27:00
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, really cool place.
• 27:01
  Dayna Roselli: So check that out.
• 27:02
  Dayna Roselli: Remember, Cerca is a 21 and over property.
• 27:06
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 27:07
  Dayna Roselli: Or is it 18?
• 27:08
  Sean McAllister: Uh adult.
• 27:10
  Sean McAllister: Uh 21.
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: Is it 21?
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: Drink yeah, I think it's 21.
• 27:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, to drink and gamble.
• 27:14
  Sean McAllister: Okay.
• 27:15
  Sean McAllister: What we're made of.
• 27:16
  Dayna Roselli: What we're made of here in Las Vegas.
• 27:18
  Dayna Roselli: All right.
• 27:19
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I want to talk about Mad Apple quick because you went and did a behind the scenes story that has not aired yet on Vegason.
• 27:24
  Dayna Roselli: So we can't get into tons of detail about that.
• 27:27
  Dayna Roselli: But that's a show uh that runs at visitlosvegas.com.
• 27:30
  Dayna Roselli: But you went behind the scenes and did a whole thing, and that show's getting ready to open with preview performances May 12th, and then the grand opening May 26th.
• 27:40
  Dayna Roselli: What is Mad Apple about, Sean?
• 27:42
  Sean McAllister: So Mad Apple has taken over the theater at New York, New York, where uh the show Zumanity used to be, another Cirque du Soleil show.
• 27:51
  Sean McAllister: Um, but this is a new kind of Cirque du Soleil show.
• 27:56
  Sean McAllister: I don't know that they've had a a show under their umbrella um that has been a little bit more like a variety show than the what we've come to know as a cirque show, if that makes any sense.
• 28:12
  Sean McAllister: Because in Mad Apple, there is uh live music, there's singers, there are uh comedians, right?
• 28:22
  Sean McAllister: Comedians, there's magic, there's um d acrobatic basketball players.
• 28:29
  Dayna Roselli: Ooh, that's fun.
• 28:30
  Sean McAllister: So like they kind of and it's a nod to uh like uh Harlem Globetrotters.
• 28:36
  Sean McAllister: So, you know, the the guys that jump up off a trampoline, do flips, and then make a basket.
• 28:43
  Sean McAllister: So there's like really cool stuff.
• 28:45
  Sean McAllister: The soundtrack is going to be a lot of like New York music who have you know come from New York, songs that mention New York, there's a a big hip-hop element to it.
• 29:01
  Sean McAllister: Um you know, the early days of hip hop with breakdancing, all that really cool.
• 29:07
  Sean McAllister: Plus, there's going to be elements of Cirque du Soleil mixed in um that you've come to know a lot of the acrobatics and and aerial acts, that kind of thing.
• 29:18
  Dayna Roselli: Great costumes, all that stuff.
• 29:19
  Sean McAllister: And there are bars on stage.
• 29:21
  Sean McAllister: Oh, I love that.
• 29:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I I was reading when they sent out the original press release that the whole experience includes like what happens before the show, right?
• 29:30
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly.
• 29:31
  Dayna Roselli: There's like a whole There's a whole vibe.
• 29:32
  Dayna Roselli: Like you get vibed.
• 29:33
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Sean McAllister: And and the entertainers are actually out mingling with the audience before the show to add to the whole vibe.
• 29:44
  Sean McAllister: And you're gonna have to wait until uh the episode of Vegas on comes out at visitlasvegas.com to uh really appreciate how they're going to bring this vibe to life before the show.
• 29:57
  Sean McAllister: But you definitely want to plan to be in there in the theater to spend some time before showtime.
• 30:03
  Sean McAllister: Love it.
• 30:04
  Dayna Roselli: All right, and next week uh we've talked about this before, but we are going to a brand new restaurant at the forum shops this weekend for a big grand opening party, and then we will be talking with Bill Rancig and Juliana Rancig about the new restaurant because it's kind of emulating the restaurant that they already have in Chicago, right?
• 30:23
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 30:23
  Dayna Roselli: RPM.
• 30:24
  Sean McAllister: RPM.
• 30:25
  Sean McAllister: And I'm also interested in Juliana Rancig's take on uh Vegas as a host city for so many big red carpet events that we've seen recently.
• 30:37
  Sean McAllister: Of course, Juliana spent years as a a host at e Entertainment Television doing all the biggest red carpets.
• 30:45
  Sean McAllister: So it'll be interesting to hear what she has to say about that.
• 30:47
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:48
  Dayna Roselli: And then her husband, Bill, I mean, the the first apprentice winner ever, right?
• 30:52
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 30:52
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, that was way back in the day.
• 30:55
  Dayna Roselli: And I'm sure he's got stories for days about that.
• 30:57
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know if we'll we'll touch on that.
• 30:58
  Dayna Roselli: We'll leave that to uh maybe another podcast.
• 31:02
  Sean McAllister: Before Don was president.
• 31:03
  Sean McAllister: That's right.
• 31:04
  Dayna Roselli: Um, it'll be interesting to catch up with them.
• 31:06
  Dayna Roselli: They are now in the business of food and and drink and beverage and family.
• 31:10
  Dayna Roselli: In family.
• 31:11
  Dayna Roselli: So we'll chat with them, and that will be on next week's show.
• 31:15
  Dayna Roselli: Have a great week, everyone.
• 31:17
  Sean McAllister: You're fired.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go back.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go, let's go, let's go.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go, baby.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go.