Vegas Bright Podcast Episode 16: Your “Vegas Musts”
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New Author for a day Challenge: “Your Vegas Musts”
It’s the Vegas Bright Podcast Episode 16!
Thanks for all your emails and concerns, it’s great to be back, rambling in front of the microphone, doing what I do!
On this episode:
Let’s discuss our “Vegas Musts” — that thing or things you absolutely HAVE to do when you’re in Las Vegas! You know you got one, or several, am I right? So let’s make this an Author for a Day challenge! Email us here and share your Vegas Musts. Feel free to send pics if you have them. This one is designed for you to write about the things you love to do in Vegas, so let’s do at least three or more (as many as you want) paragraphs. Remember, share WHAT you must do and WHY you must do them :)
Also on this episode: I discuss my Vegas Musts, why I wasn’t doing podcasts, why I love the Olympics, and it all starts off with Vegas News Around the web, followed by the Vegas Bright Weekly Review.
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Michael Movestro founded Vegas Bright to continue the tradition when Vegas Chatter cashed out. Michael pays the bills, maintains the site, writes articles, hosts VBN – Vegas Bright Newscast.
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I was starting to get a little worried that you had abandoned the podcast! Nice to hear you again. I’ll have to think about my Vegas “musts”. They have certainly changed through the years.
Thanks, Corgimom! If I don’t do the podcast its usually a timing thing as all. Looking forward to your Vegas Musts :)
Alright, my Vegas musts:
1. A nice, recently updated room. I hear so often that the room doesn’t matter at all, and that it’s just a place where you take a quick nap and set your stuff down, but I couldn’t disagree more. Even if I don’t spend a ton of time there, I’d still rather not come “home” to some dump at the end of the night. Plus, I like seeing the latest and greatest rooms Vegas has to offer, partially to see if there’s any ideas I want to steal for my own house.
2. Some kind of interesting view. Before this month, I would’ve said a strip view, but I recently had a room on the backside of Aria facing Vdara, some of Cosmo, Rio, a couple of unknown high-rises, and the mountains in the distance. Loved it! Especially compared to the strip view I’ve had at Aria before, which I didn’t think was all that great.
3. This one’s probably just me, but something Penn Jillette related. I’ve seen the Penn & Teller show a few times, saw Penn and Johnny Thompson do The Gambler’s Ballad at The Bucket Show a few weeks ago, and actually got to go to his former house The Slammer for The United Church of Bacon’s fundraiser, and his yard sale this past weekend. He’s such a genuinely nice guy, and I’m a huge fan of his podcast, Bullshit, and all he’s done for the Atheist, Skeptic, and Libertarian communities, so I’ll show him some support whenever I can.
4. A great buffet. For me it used to be Bachannal, and only Bachannal, but ever since I tried Wicked Spoon for the first time it’s been a pretty close race.
And finally,
5. After this past weekend, hiking at Red Rock Canyon. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything that beautiful in person before in my entire life. And since I was incredibly unprepared (only had 2 bottles of water, regular walking shoes, no sunblock, etc) and, as a result, didn’t get very far on any of the trails, I know I haven’t even scratched the surface yet. I kind of hate that the cheap admission price is offset by the necessity of renting a car, but I suppose the cost of renting a car is probably more than made up by the fact that it’ll be keeping me out of a casino for the better part of a day, so I think it’s still a great bargain if you’re into the outdoors.
Nicely done! I like your take on “some kind of interesting view.” How it doesn’t have to be a strip view but partial to include other scenery. Bachannal and Wicked Spoon come down to a coin toss.
writing it right now!!!
Awesome!