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Elvis Themed Weddings are All Shook Up, New Topless Show Opens in Las Vegas, Mixtape Tour Brings Nostalgia, World Series of Poker Begins | Ep. 121 · Vegas Revealed

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  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed, episode 121.
• 0:59
  Dayna Roselli: Is Elvis about to leave the chapel?
• 1:02
  Sean McAllister: As a major movie about the king of rock and roll is about to hit theaters, Elvis themed weddings in Vegas could be shut down.
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  Sean McAllister: We'll explain what's happening.
• 1:12
  Dayna Roselli: And the World Series of Poker is back at a new home on the Las Vegas Strip.
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  Sean McAllister: A sexy news show caters to both men and women.
• 1:21
  Dayna Roselli: And Las Vegas is showing its pride as Pride Month begins.
• 1:26
  Sean McAllister: Let's get to it and spin that wheel.
• 1:37
  Dayna Roselli: Welcome to Vegas Revealed episode 121.
• 1:40
  Dayna Roselli: Dana Roselli and Sean McAllister here.
• 1:44
  Dayna Roselli: As we just uh finished up a Memorial Day weekend which was packed in Vegas.
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  Sean McAllister: It really was.
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  Sean McAllister: And I know one of those nights, Dana, you had an evening that was full of all the right stuff.
• 1:54
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah.
• 1:55
  Sean McAllister: And we're gonna get to that coming up in just a minute.
• 1:58
  Sean McAllister: Because it was, you said one of the best nights ever.
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  Dayna Roselli: One of the best nights ever, yes.
• 2:03
  Dayna Roselli: And another, it's weird because it was full of nostalgia, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: And then you know, obviously, you and I went to Top Gun, and I've been waiting for that, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: So good.
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  Dayna Roselli: So it was like a full week full of nostalgia.
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  Sean McAllister: And a record-setting opening over the holiday weekend.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, huge biggest Memorial Day weekend movie ever belongs to Tom Cruise and Top Gun, which is really cool.
• 2:23
  Dayna Roselli: So congratulations.
• 2:24
  Dayna Roselli: I haven't heard one negative thing about the movie.
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  Dayna Roselli: Everyone's loving it.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, I mean it it just hits all the right notes.
• 2:31
  Sean McAllister: It is it's perfection.
• 2:33
  Sean McAllister: It is.
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  Sean McAllister: It's so great.
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  Sean McAllister: It's the sequel that everyone needed.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: I know.
• 2:37
  Dayna Roselli: I wonder if it'll be award-winning.
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  Dayna Roselli: I'm curious to see, you know, because I know sometimes it's like I feel like the movies that everyone really likes sometimes don't get nominated for awards or at least win.
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  Sean McAllister: It's always like the artsier movies and yeah, I feel like it could get um I don't know if it's gonna be up for best picture.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
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  Sean McAllister: I I feel like Tom Cruise could be in the acting category.
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  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: I mean but it should be best picture.
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  Sean McAllister: I I think probably cinematography it'll be up for because that was all you know done with live planes and live flying and all that.
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  Sean McAllister: And that's difficult to to accomplish.
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  Sean McAllister: It is.
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  Sean McAllister: So it'd be interesting.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 3:17
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Sean McAllister: We'll see.
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  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I kind of brought up Top Gun because we uh have a big topic we're gonna talk about today that is centered around Elvis and a Top Gun, obviously big movie for Memorial Day weekend, but another big movie coming out that centers around Elvis Presley, and this is huge too because I feel like in Vegas everyone has such an interest in Elvis.
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  Dayna Roselli: They do around the world, but you know, especially here, Elvis has been such a big part of our culture.
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  Dayna Roselli: This is a huge movie coming out.
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  Dayna Roselli: Tom Hanks is in it.
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  Dayna Roselli: We've also had shows, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: Like Baz that were the is it the same director as well.
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  Sean McAllister: Baz Lerman is the director of uh the movie called Elvis.
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  Sean McAllister: It you know, chronicles his entire adult life, including uh bits here in Las Vegas.
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  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Sean McAllister: I know even in the trailer there were it showed the International Hotel where Elvis had his record-setting run of shows.
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  Sean McAllister: Um so that movie is coming out the end of June.
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  Sean McAllister: Um, but there's a little bit of Elvis controversy happening here in Las Vegas right now.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and it has to do with our wedding chapels that are very popular.
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  Dayna Roselli: Wedding capital of the world, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: We're a lot of things of the world, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: But one of those, you know, people like to get married here.
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  Dayna Roselli: Quick weddings, fast weddings, uh middle of the night weddings, all that kind of thing.
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  Dayna Roselli: And many times they like to be married by Elvis.
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  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: Elvis is a huge part of our wedding community.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, and one of the actually chapel owners in this article we were just reading said, we keep Elvis alive, right?
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  Dayna Roselli: But now there's a controversy over his likeliness and whether these chapels will be able to use him to officiate these weddings.
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  Sean McAllister: Yeah, our buddy Johnny Katz over the Review Journal just did a big article talking about what's going on here.
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  Sean McAllister: Basically, there's what there's this company that manages the licensing of Elvis Elvis Presley.
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  Sean McAllister: So anything that says Elvis, Elvis Presley, or the king of rock and roll, uh, it has to go through this licensing company.
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  Sean McAllister: And they are really starting to crack down, specifically on Vegas wedding chapels.
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  Sean McAllister: And within the past couple weeks, they've sent out cease and desist orders to a lot of Las Vegas wedding chapels ordering calling them off.
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  Sean McAllister: They're saying don't touch the Elvis stuff anymore.
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  Sean McAllister: Um, or there are going to be legal ramifications, which would be a big hit to the wedding industry here in Las Vegas, which it I believe is like a two billion dollar industry annually for Las Vegas.
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  Dayna Roselli: I mean, we have, you know, people that come in and get married all the time, like I mentioned, but also like recently we just had, you know, like Courtney Kardashian and Travis Barker come into town.
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  Dayna Roselli: And was it after the Grammys?
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  Dayna Roselli: They went downtown and said, Hey, we want to get married by an Elvis.
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  Dayna Roselli: They specifically requested the Elvis be woken up and come into work and marry them.
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  Dayna Roselli: But um, they didn't officially get married at that time.
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  Dayna Roselli: But that just shows kind of the fun of it and how people the popularity of being married by an Elvis.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's fun, it's part of the experience of getting married in Las Vegas at one of these chapels.
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  Sean McAllister: Well, and if you listen to it, it was one of our episodes uh of Vegas Revealed in 2020.
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  Sean McAllister: We went to a a wedding chapel here in Las Vegas and we talked with the Elvis.
• 6:37
  Sean McAllister: Right.
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  Sean McAllister: The Elvis officiant sang for us.
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  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, we had interviewed that Elvis uh Brendan.
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  Dayna Roselli: He's been there for a very long time at the Graceland Wedding Chapel.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, obviously, Graceland, Elvis, right?
• 6:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
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  Dayna Roselli: So many people have gotten married there through the years, including Bon Jovi and uh, you know, a lot of different people um uh of note, noteworthy people there, but it's it's part of it.
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  Dayna Roselli: And and our Elvis impersonators are good.
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  Sean McAllister: They are, and there's nothing, I I don't believe there's anything that can be done about Elvis impersonators.
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  Sean McAllister: I think it's the marketing, the the naming.
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  Sean McAllister: I think there is an Elvis wedding chapel in town also uh with Elvis in the name.
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  Sean McAllister: Um so there are ways around this.
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  Sean McAllister: Um there's also a financial resolution that I'm sure could come to pass if these wedding chapels agree to fork over money to this licensing company.
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  Sean McAllister: Um but I don't know, it's a tough spot.
• 7:38
  Sean McAllister: It's a tough spot for the wedding chapels that are still trying to recover from the loss of business from the the pandemic era.
• 7:46
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, and I have some friends that own one of the chapels, and I just sent them a text and said, you know, what's going on?
• 7:51
  Dayna Roselli: And they just said, you know, um they were out of town at the moment, but they're like, it's really stressful, you know, because I bet it could be like you were saying, I mean, if you have to overhaul a lot of stuff like marketing papers and marketing things you already have planned and redo websites, websites, yeah, all that.
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  Dayna Roselli: It's a lot, and you and it's a quick, quick thing.
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  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: You know, you gotta do it fast because it's going on.
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  Dayna Roselli: So we'll keep everyone updated on that.
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  Dayna Roselli: But Elvis has you know, it's always been talk probably over the last like I'd say like five years about how you know Elvis the brand and everything used to be such a huge part of Las Vegas, but how it slowly started to kind of go away and how we needed to bring that back and keep that alive.
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  Dayna Roselli: And so, you know, this again would be another hit to that whole thing.
• 8:36
  Sean McAllister: It would.
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  Sean McAllister: So as Dana mentioned, we'll let you know any updates, what happens as this, you know, league as these legal wranglings continue.
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  Sean McAllister: But one thing we do know is that when people went to Elvis's shows, not only here in Las Vegas, around the world, people lost their minds.
• 8:53
  Sean McAllister: And Dana, you lost your mind at this big concert that you just went to over the weekend.
• 8:59
  Dayna Roselli: Listen, yes, I was born in 1975.
• 9:02
  Dayna Roselli: So right around middle school, new kids on the block were exploding.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
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  Dayna Roselli: And I was a huge new kids on the block fan.
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  Dayna Roselli: They were my they were my people.
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  Dayna Roselli: I had the new kids on the block pillowcase, the whole nine.
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  Dayna Roselli: Um, couldn't go to a concert of theirs when they actually were in the Rochester Buffalo area where I was grew up when they had finally made their way in that area.
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  Dayna Roselli: And I was so bummed.
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  Dayna Roselli: I remember I met my one girlfriend at the mall, and we were the two people who either didn't buy a ticket or couldn't get a ticket or whatever.
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  Dayna Roselli: So I was always bummed.
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  Dayna Roselli: Years later, down the road, um, living in Las Vegas, I've been able to interview Joey McIntyre, Jordan Knight, I've done satellite interviews with Donnie Wahlberg.
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  Dayna Roselli: So it's all been a dream come true and still kind of unreal.
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  Dayna Roselli: But no matter what, even just interviewing them was amazing and and and great, but I can't explain it.
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  Dayna Roselli: When you see them all together performing, that's just like another level of excitement and nostalgia and uh wait.
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  Sean McAllister: So I didn't realize that you were actually living out a teenage dream.
• 10:12
  Dayna Roselli: I texted my friend Mara and said, remember when and we always remember, and that's how we became close friends, actually.
• 10:18
  Dayna Roselli: Because we were the sorrow of missing outside.
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  Dayna Roselli: Sorrow of missing new kids on the block.
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  Dayna Roselli: And she had gone to a Catholic school at the time and I had gone to public, so we knew of each other because of like CYO cheerleading, but we weren't like super close friends yet.
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  Dayna Roselli: That is what hooked our friendship.
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  Dayna Roselli: We are still friends to this day.
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  Dayna Roselli: She lives in New York City.
• 10:36
  Dayna Roselli: I live here.
• 10:37
  Sean McAllister: So you bonded over the FOMO.
• 10:39
  Dayna Roselli: Over the FOMO of new kids.
• 10:43
  Dayna Roselli: And then look at that, look at me now, right?
• 10:45
  Dayna Roselli: So I went to the mixtape tour.
• 10:47
  Dayna Roselli: Well, first of all, I went to like one, two, like two other concerts before that with new kids.
• 10:51
  Dayna Roselli: I've seen Jordan Knight um do solo.
• 10:53
  Dayna Roselli: I've seen Joey McIntyre do solo shows.
• 10:55
  Dayna Roselli: He just did the one with Debbie Gibson.
• 10:57
  Dayna Roselli: We went to that.
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  Dayna Roselli: We actually met Joey, uh, saw Joe Joey and revisited with him.
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  Dayna Roselli: But um, my point is the mixtape tour is one of the it's just it's a really fun tour that they do because they bring on other acts from that kind of generation.
• 11:12
  Dayna Roselli: Right.
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  Dayna Roselli: So this show had Salt and Peppa and Vogue and Rick Astley with on the tour.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: Amazing.
• 11:18
  Dayna Roselli: It was amazing.
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  Dayna Roselli: But when new kids, I mean, we were all like, I was with two friends and some other friends that were in the audience who were texting.
• 11:25
  Dayna Roselli: We're like, this is the best show ever.
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  Dayna Roselli: You know, every song, the outfit changes, the nostalgia.
• 11:32
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, Jordan even did this thing where he he always did this one song where he stands in front of the microphone and a fan goes, and his white shirt is unbuttoned and it flows in the wind.
• 11:44
  Dayna Roselli: And he did that.
• 11:46
  Dayna Roselli: Like he knows that we want it.
• 11:49
  Sean McAllister: That's what people want, right?
• 11:50
  Dayna Roselli: Yes.
• 11:51
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, they came out with step by step, you know, and you know, hanging tough and the bright stuff.
• 11:56
  Dayna Roselli: They worked the audience.
• 11:58
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, the streamers were going, the uh dressing room change cam was up in the corner when they would go change their outfits.
• 12:04
  Dayna Roselli: You could get a little sneak peek into the dressing room.
• 12:07
  Sean McAllister: So you saw them changing?
• 12:08
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I mean, with shirts off, yes.
• 12:10
  Dayna Roselli: Oh, okay.
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  Dayna Roselli: But they look great, first of all.
• 12:13
  Dayna Roselli: They sounded great.
• 12:14
  Dayna Roselli: It was a blast.
• 12:16
  Dayna Roselli: And Vogue really blew my mind.
• 12:18
  Dayna Roselli: They were incredible.
• 12:19
  Dayna Roselli: They sounded good, they looked great.
• 12:21
  Dayna Roselli: And again, forgot how many songs and hits that they had.
• 12:25
  Dayna Roselli: We knew everything, and you know every word.
• 12:27
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 12:28
  Dayna Roselli: And then salt and pepper, you know, push it and shoop and all of it, you know.
• 12:32
  Dayna Roselli: It was just great.
• 12:33
  Dayna Roselli: Rick Astley did his famous song, Never Gonna Get You.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_03: Never gonna get you.
• 12:38
  Dayna Roselli: Actually, you know what?
• 12:39
  Dayna Roselli: I think I have a clip of that.
• 12:40
  Dayna Roselli: Hold on.
• 13:11
  Dayna Roselli: So that was fun to have Rick there too as part of the tour, but it was a blast, Sean.
• 13:16
  Dayna Roselli: I just could go on and on and I'll leave it there because um they're doing a huge tour all around the country.
• 13:21
  Dayna Roselli: I actually woke up the next day and went, okay, like, is there anywhere else like close enough where I could like go back?
• 13:28
  Sean McAllister: That's so funny.
• 13:30
  Dayna Roselli: They're in Buffalo, New York in July.
• 13:32
  Dayna Roselli: So maybe I'll go visit the parents and swing by the mixtape.
• 13:36
  Dayna Roselli: No, it's great.
• 13:37
  Dayna Roselli: It's great.
• 13:38
  Dayna Roselli: My two friends um that I went with, Melissa and Christine, we both said that was like the best night ever.
• 13:44
  Dayna Roselli: It was so much fun.
• 13:45
  Dayna Roselli: Good for them, though, for just you know what, letting it ride, giving the people what they want.
• 13:50
  Dayna Roselli: Absolutely.
• 13:51
  Dayna Roselli: And they'll be in their hometown of Boston for like three nights, I think, uh, this summer, too, which will be wild.
• 13:56
  Sean McAllister: That that will be.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 13:57
  Sean McAllister: So well, good.
• 13:58
  Sean McAllister: I'm glad that you got to go, live your your teenage fantasy and have such a great night.
• 14:04
  Dayna Roselli: This month, this May was my month, right?
• 14:06
  Dayna Roselli: Between Top Gun and New Kings.
• 14:09
  Sean McAllister: I know.
• 14:10
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know what else there is to look forward to in life.
• 14:13
  Sean McAllister: I mean, actually, my husband Shane and I were just talking about that, and he was like, What what could possibly be next on uh Dana's like entertainment bucket list?
• 14:22
  Sean McAllister: He was like, What if they made a movie about dots pretzels?
• 14:26
  Dayna Roselli: Oh my gosh, I do love me some dots pretzels.
• 14:30
  Dayna Roselli: The other day I was at the store and I avoided it because I can't do it.
• 14:33
  Dayna Roselli: I finished the whole bag in two days.
• 14:36
  Sean McAllister: I know, I know.
• 14:37
  Sean McAllister: I do the same thing.
• 14:38
  Sean McAllister: So hard.
• 14:39
  Sean McAllister: Oh, if they're so good.
• 14:39
  Dayna Roselli: But if there was a dots pretzels like factory um documentary, I might watch it.
• 14:48
  Dayna Roselli: Anyway, all right.
• 14:49
  Dayna Roselli: Well, moving on.
• 14:50
  Dayna Roselli: Uh, we talked all about Cirque's new show, Mad Apple, last week, and just from what we've heard, the reviews seem to be coming in, and people feel like most people feel like we did.
• 14:59
  Dayna Roselli: It's a great show.
• 15:00
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, people say, you know, this is a great departure for Cirque du Soleil.
• 15:05
  Sean McAllister: Everybody has been enjoying the show so much, just a great vibe, high energy.
• 15:11
  Sean McAllister: So again, if you get the chance, go see Mad Apple by Cirque du Soleil.
• 15:15
  Sean McAllister: It's over at New York, New York Hotel and Casino right there on the strip.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 15:20
  Dayna Roselli: And we interviewed a lot of performers that were brought in just for this show, like from New York City and Ireland.
• 15:25
  Dayna Roselli: But I wanted to mention there are a lot of local, uh a lot of our local entertainers are in the show as well.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 15:31
  Dayna Roselli: Um, my friend Isaac is in there, he does uh trumpet.
• 15:34
  Dayna Roselli: Um so there's lots of people also used in the show that that lived here and have worked in other shows, so I I'm glad to see that.
• 15:41
  Dayna Roselli: But another show we went to.
• 15:43
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, it's called Rouge, and this is a very sexy show over at the Strat.
• 15:48
  Sean McAllister: It's by the same producers as Wow.
• 15:52
  Sean McAllister: That's a show over at the Rio, and Extravaganza, which is on stage over at Bally's in the old Jubilee showroom.
• 15:59
  Dayna Roselli: Which we have not seen yet.
• 16:00
  Dayna Roselli: I don't know how that's possible.
• 16:01
  Dayna Roselli: We need to get to that.
• 16:03
  Sean McAllister: But I mean it looks stunning.
• 16:05
  Sean McAllister: It looks great.
• 16:06
  Sean McAllister: Uh, but Rouge is kind of a late night cabaret style show.
• 16:10
  Sean McAllister: And as soon as we went over there, Dana, I it just started giving me like Moulin Rouge vibes.
• 16:18
  Sean McAllister: And I said that to one of the show's producers.
• 16:21
  Sean McAllister: I was like, you know, I'm really getting Moulin Rouge vibes because the actors go out and they mingle with the crowd.
• 16:27
  Sean McAllister: The red color.
• 16:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they were red outfits.
• 16:30
  Sean McAllister: And he looked at me, he was like, Are you kidding me, Sean?
• 16:34
  Sean McAllister: Where do you think we got Rouge from?
• 16:36
  Sean McAllister: And I was like, Oh, well, duh.
• 16:38
  Sean McAllister: I'm not always so quick on the uptake.
• 16:41
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I love that.
• 16:44
  Dayna Roselli: Makes sense though, right?
• 16:45
  Dayna Roselli: Uh it was a great show.
• 16:47
  Dayna Roselli: You and I uh went on the grand opening night.
• 16:50
  Dayna Roselli: The show had been open for a little while, but then they always see how it goes, make some tweaks, and then they do like a big grand opening.
• 16:56
  Dayna Roselli: So it was really fun, the whole pomp and circumstance.
• 16:59
  Dayna Roselli: And uh when it started, it gave me a little absinthe vibe.
• 17:04
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, they're funny.
• 17:07
  Sean McAllister: So it's a sexy, you know, there are very it's a topless show.
• 17:11
  Sean McAllister: The men and women are topless.
• 17:13
  Sean McAllister: The guys they don't go bottomless, but you know, they get down into their skivvies a little bit too.
• 17:20
  Sean McAllister: Um but the hosts of the show are really funny.
• 17:24
  Sean McAllister: They are and it's a good mix of it's a good mix of different entertainment stylings.
• 17:30
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 17:31
  Sean McAllister: That is an adult cabaret type of show.
• 17:34
  Dayna Roselli: It's sexy, it's funny, and it's also full of talent because some of the acts that they did were incredible.
• 17:40
  Dayna Roselli: So it's kind of that well, like we're saying it's kind of not like Absinthe, but you know, Absinthe, the same thing.
• 17:46
  Dayna Roselli: Funny, little risque, and then really talented acts.
• 17:50
  Dayna Roselli: So similar, but not the same.
• 17:53
  Dayna Roselli: But you know, the creator said that he really wanted to do something that featured men and women.
• 17:59
  Dayna Roselli: There's a lot of shows that are catered toward women, a lot of shows catered to men in town, but what about something that kind of brings it all together?
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: Nowadays you can see either a male review or a female review.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to put something together, male and female together, uh, because I think that that that we should have something like that.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: There was the beautiful show uh Zumanity, unfortunately it closed, and I think there is a space now for a show like that, and I wanted to go to go uh you know to the edge, you know, everything very artistically, but still to be very, very sexy.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um and I'm trying to to to have the show stand up uh for being the sexiest show in Vegas.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I really wanted to uh to have people go see the show and get inspired for it, you know, run to their room, happy I wanted to have um you know, artists from all over the world to bring each and every one that has his own flavor and all of them are top-notch in their profession.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: Acrobats from from the best shows in the world, you know, they they they do their artistic uh uh thing and and uh and or they do it in a very sexy way, I would say.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: And this time they take it uh even more.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: And um, you know, all of them are are topless, doesn't matter if it's men or women.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: And since it's done it's a in a very artistic way, uh they all feel very comfortable.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted them all to be uh in that situation, not to say only only a few dancers are topless and the artists are the acts are not.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: We wanted everybody to feel together, it's like a party, it's like a it's like a celebration.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's a celebration of the body.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um we just think about it as a wonderful thing.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we uh we forget to think about it as uh one of the beautiful things in the world.
• 19:49
  Sean McAllister: And the costumes throughout the show, like the they kind of live out um some traditional fantasies that that people might have.
• 19:59
  Sean McAllister: You know, the locker room scene, the you know, the husband and wife in bed, and uh, you know, the whips and chains.
• 20:07
  Sean McAllister: But there was also like kind of a Bridgerton themed section of the show, which I thought was really creative because if there's something on Netflix right now that gets people all hot and bothered, it's that Bridgerton family.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: True, true.
• 20:22
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, I felt like the show was pretty um, even when you're saying all that, someone might be think thinking like, ah, I don't know if that's but like it was tastefully done to it really was.
• 20:32
  Dayna Roselli: It wasn't like raunchy, it was sexy, but not raunchy.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 20:36
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Dayna Roselli: And like we said, it was entertaining in the fact that too, there were very talented acts.
• 20:42
  Dayna Roselli: There were some things that they were flipping and doing all, and I was like, how are they doing this?
• 20:46
  Dayna Roselli: I mean, really, really talented.
• 20:48
  Sean McAllister: So again, you can see Rouge now playing over at the Strat.
• 20:53
  Sean McAllister: Uh, we've had some uh restaurant openings here in town too, Dana.
• 20:58
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah, Crossroads Kitchen opened over at Resorts World and now officially open.
• 21:02
  Dayna Roselli: You and I had gone to lunch in the same spot when Resorts World opened.
• 21:07
  Dayna Roselli: Well, I guess it didn't work out, and they revamped it and remodeled and reopened it, and it's now Crossroads Kitchen.
• 21:16
  Dayna Roselli: And then there's also Crossroad Burgers, both open now officially, and apparently it's uh plant-based, right?
• 21:24
  Dayna Roselli: Which is very popular right now.
• 21:25
  Sean McAllister: It is.
• 21:26
  Sean McAllister: And I did see somebody who went uh and tried out some of the food say that they could not get enough of the plant-based Italian sausage sandwich.
• 21:39
  Dayna Roselli: Interesting, okay.
• 21:40
  Sean McAllister: And that you could not tell any difference, it was delicious, and uh I mean Italian sausage is kind of hard to recreate.
• 21:50
  Sean McAllister: Yeah, that's if you're not having Italian sausage.
• 21:53
  Sean McAllister: So the fact that they accomplished that, and I heard other people saying the same things about other you know.
• 22:00
  Sean McAllister: of their plant-based products products.
• 22:02
  Sean McAllister: Good, really.
• 22:03
  Sean McAllister: It tastes amazing.
• 22:04
  Sean McAllister: The meat, in quotes.
• 22:06
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 22:06
  Sean McAllister: Is delicious.
• 22:07
  Dayna Roselli: Well, and I don't know if I'm saying the chef's name, but it's Tall Ronin.
• 22:11
  Dayna Roselli: Um apparently so there the two locations, just to explain Crossroads Kitchen is basically mirroring his original location in Los Angeles, which is this plant-based institution that people love.
• 22:26
  Dayna Roselli: And then CB Crossroads Burgers is a like a fast casual plant-based restaurant.
• 22:32
  Dayna Roselli: So just to kind of explain what that is, bringing them both together and apparently, you know, this is just another addition to Resorts World and they're already great restaurants that they keep adding, they keep opening stuff over there and I'm glad to see that.
• 22:44
  Dayna Roselli: Because I know when it first opened there were a lot of people concerned that there like wasn't a lot of choice over there.
• 22:50
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 22:50
  Dayna Roselli: But it's been great.
• 22:52
  Dayna Roselli: They've, you know, they had Wally's now they have Carver Steak which you went to you know they have the pizza place which is amazing.
• 22:59
  Dayna Roselli: They already have many Asian fusion restaurants in there.
• 23:02
  Dayna Roselli: Um they have an Italian restaurant a um Chinese restaurant that I went to now Crossroads and they have the whole Asian market.
• 23:11
  Dayna Roselli: And so I mean there's a lot of choice there now.
• 23:13
  Sean McAllister: Yeah and I think Crossroads really has is on the forefront of kind of elevating the plant-based uh dining concept.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Sean McAllister: So yeah I'm glad I'm glad it's over there at uh Resorts World and really offering an option that we haven't seen at other uh resort properties on the strip.
• 23:34
  Dayna Roselli: No, when we went to Mott 32 they unveiled a plant-based menu section.
• 23:39
  Dayna Roselli: Yep.
• 23:39
  Dayna Roselli: Right, but this sounds like it centers all around that.
• 23:42
  Dayna Roselli: So hey the Jonas brothers are uh coming to MGM Grand and what I mean by that the Jonas family really I should say there's the brothers but this is a new restaurant concept um called Nelly's Southern Kitchen and it's set to open at MGM Grand this month and this is completely different because we're not talking plant based no this is not fried chicken based this is straight up Southern comfort food.
• 24:08
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah so whole totally different but you know the Jonas brothers are coming in for a few shows uh residency shows over at Park MGM so the grand opening of this restaurant taking place this weekend and I have a feeling the Jonas brothers and Jonas family will be there.
• 24:23
  Sean McAllister: So we're excited Nelly's Kitchen now part of the Las Vegas culinary landscape as well.
• 24:30
  Dayna Roselli: And this is located just in case you're interested in the district which is opposite the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
• 24:36
  Dayna Roselli: So that'll be a good spot for that.
• 24:37
  Sean McAllister: Well switching gears uh the World Series of poker is getting underway here in Las Vegas a new home for the World Series of Poker this time around.
• 24:48
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah I mean it's the richest most prestigious and longest running poker series.
• 24:53
  Dayna Roselli: And this time it's moving to the Las Vegas Strip.
• 24:55
  Dayna Roselli: It's been at the Rio for many many years which is just off the strip but for the first time the World Series of poker is going to be at Baileys in Paris, Las Vegas and kicked off May 31st goes through July 20th.
• 25:09
  Dayna Roselli: Lots of exciting activities going on there.
• 25:11
  Dayna Roselli: They say it's going to, you know I think they're going to kind of really do it up because it's the first time it's been on the strip in a very long time.
• 25:18
  Dayna Roselli: If it ever was before I'm not even sure if it ever was or but so we didn't research that folks.
• 25:24
  Dayna Roselli: But it's been at the Rio for a very very long time.
• 25:26
  Sean McAllister: Yes it has the the Rio is a long time home of the World Series of poker.
• 25:31
  Sean McAllister: But yeah it's going to be going on through July 20th so there's going to be lots of updates as play you know begins, continues day in, day out and as people progress through the the ranks of that uh poker tournament.
• 25:44
  Sean McAllister: So good luck to everybody playing we know there can only be one winner.
• 25:49
  Sean McAllister: Yes.
• 25:49
  Sean McAllister: But good luck to all.
• 25:51
  Sean McAllister: Yeah.
• 25:51
  Dayna Roselli: And before we get to tips speaking of winning we have hit 100,000 downloads here at Vegas Revealed and we want to thank all the listeners for the what two years of dedicated listening.
• 26:02
  Dayna Roselli: We appreciate you.
• 26:03
  Sean McAllister: We really do and we know that taking you know 30 minutes out of your day and dedicating that to listening to Dana and me babble about what's going on in Vegas is a commitment.
• 26:19
  Sean McAllister: And we know that you know everybody has busy lives and we sincerely appreciate the time that um each one of you has has given to Vegas Reveal that does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
• 26:34
  Dayna Roselli: No, not at all.
• 26:35
  Dayna Roselli: And we we've stayed committed doing this weekly you know we knew once we kicked off a podcast we didn't want to be one of those people who's like let's start it off and then we'll just like sprinkle one in whenever we feel like it.
• 26:44
  Dayna Roselli: I mean we have really been committed to doing this weekly.
• 26:47
  Dayna Roselli: So the fact that people are listening and enjoying it and writing us with what they love about it is uh means the world to us.
• 26:54
  Dayna Roselli: And of course we thank our sponsor Targeted Tax Relief as well for supporting us and and here's to a hundred thousand more downloads.
• 27:04
  Sean McAllister: Woohoo all right let's get to some tips.
• 27:11
  Sean McAllister: So starting off uh June is national pride month uh when pride is celebrated all over the place including here in Las Vegas uh and we got a a note from the Venetian and palazzo about everything that they have going on property wide uh everything from cocktails to cakes and apparel is going to be available all across the Venetian and palazzo.
• 27:40
  Sean McAllister: Also their uh marquee signs on the side of their buildings are going to be turned from the normally they twinkle and like the white lights.
• 27:49
  Sean McAllister: Right.
• 27:49
  Sean McAllister: When they're lit up um they're gonna go rainbow.
• 27:51
  Dayna Roselli: Oh that's cool.
• 27:52
  Sean McAllister: On June 1st really cool look.
• 27:54
  Dayna Roselli: I bet the Sahara will do that too.
• 27:55
  Dayna Roselli: I live next door to them they're always changing up the signs.
• 27:57
  Sean McAllister: Yes and the high roller will probably be all rainbow too um but some uh a a notable thing over at the Venetian over at Black Tap um they have some over the top they do food creations.
• 28:14
  Dayna Roselli: If you want to go get some really cool Instagram videos and pictures go order some stuff from Black Tap craft burgers and beer they've got some really cool presentation over there.
• 28:24
  Dayna Roselli: I mean incredible and go to our Instagram uh the Vegas Revealed Instagram to check this out it's the Vanilla Rainbow Crazy Shake so this looks good man it's a vanilla shake that features a a frosted rim covered in rainbow colored nerds okay oh nerds I like that uh it's topped with a rainbow donut from the famous Las Vegas donut bar garnished with a rainbow unicorn pop sour rainbow gummy rope and whipped cream yum I mean that sounds delicious that's a lot of pride in one cup it sure is and it's beautiful it is check it out it's really cool and a lot of fun we love that they're doing special things they've got like you said all sorts of the uh different bars across the property Electra Cocktail Club the Dorsey cocktail bar Rosina they're all doing different things uh have different specialty cocktails for Pride Month so take advantage and whip out your phone camera and get ready for some cool Instagramable pictures.
• 29:31
  Sean McAllister: Yeah and tag us too tag Vegas Revealed in any of the uh pictures that you take down on the strip of any pride related items yeah and Carlos Carlos Bakery he always has uh the rainbow cake over there so he does and there's a lot of side note there have been a lot of Carlos bakery vending machines popping up not only at the Venetian I mean all over Las Vegas we were just at the um the South outlet mall on Las Vegas Boulevard and there was a Carlos Bakery vending machine in there with giant slices of the rainbow cake.
• 30:09
  Sean McAllister: Oh that's so cool.
• 30:10
  Sean McAllister: So you can get fresh slices of the cake boss's cakes in a bunch of places around town.
• 30:16
  Dayna Roselli: I mean that's a great idea because there's always a line at Carlos Bakery.
• 30:19
  Dayna Roselli: There is to skip the line go to the vending machine.
• 30:22
  Dayna Roselli: Exactly I like that that's another tip.
• 30:25
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah there you go that's true like a two in one well speaking of Pride Month the little Vegas chapel is unveiling their new ceremony venue so we love when our wedding chapels make additions, do new things and kind of kicking it off with a special commitment ceremony honoring Frank Marino and his partner Alex Scheckner who we know very well Frank Marino is in the show Legends has uh been the longest running really headliner in Las Vegas for many many years impersonating um Joan Rivers and running the show and and doing the the comedy in divas um show producer also comedian I mean you name it.
• 31:09
  Dayna Roselli: So Frank is fabulous.
• 31:10
  Dayna Roselli: We've talked about him many many times but yeah this commitment ceremony is taking place but what's going to make it really cool is it's going to be officiated by our mayor Carolyn Goodman.
• 31:19
  Dayna Roselli: Oh yeah so that's gonna be a really cool thing they're doing and again it's the Little Vegas chapel that is unveiling its new ceremony venue.
• 31:28
  Sean McAllister: I love that.
• 31:28
  Dayna Roselli: Yeah that'll be fun.
• 31:29
  Dayna Roselli: And Frank and Alex great friends of us and I will be there I'm going to excited yes put some things on our Instagram too for that from that ceremony I'm sure it will be fabulous.
• 31:40
  Dayna Roselli: You know we like when it's a month full of rainbows because we don't get a lot of rain here which means we don't get a lot of rainbows.
• 31:46
  Dayna Roselli: So now we have a full month of rainbows but maybe if you know the heavens above could bring some real rain we could really use it.
• 31:53
  Sean McAllister: That would be so nice it's getting so dry here.
• 31:57
  Dayna Roselli: It really is I'm like holy cow I mean I need to like own stock in lotion.
• 32:02
  Sean McAllister: I know well it's been dry and windy so it's been when the wind kicks up it just gets the dust gets in the air and yeah.
• 32:12
  Dayna Roselli: All that stuff.
• 32:13
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• 32:17
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• 32:23
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• 32:34
  Sean McAllister: We will be back next week filling you in on everything related to UFC International Fight Week.
• 32:41
  Sean McAllister: So that's coming up next week on episode one twenty two of Vegas Revealed.
• 32:46
  Dayna Roselli: Alright see everyone then