S8 Ep181: Las Vegas Venues, California Rail, and Disney's AI Investment: Colleague Jeff Bliss reports that Las Vegas's Allegiant Stadium is now a top-grossing venue while many resorts are dropping unpopular fees, discussing California's new rail line to Anaheim, mi
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.5 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:13.6 | This is CBS I on the world. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:17.1 | Jeff Bliss is Pacific Watch. |
| 0:19.3 | We go immediately to our favorite city that we're refashioning, |
| 0:23.3 | because it left the path of virtue for moments. |
| 0:26.9 | Las Vegas. |
| 0:28.1 | Used to be called Sin City. |
| 0:29.7 | Now it's fun city. |
| 0:31.6 | Jeff, a very good evening to Allegiance Stadium. |
| 0:35.0 | Comes in at number two. |
| 0:36.3 | In what? |
| 0:36.9 | What did it do well? Good evening, Jeff. Good evening, John. Las Vegas is Allegiance Stadium comes in at number two in what? What did it do well? Good evening, Jeff. |
| 0:39.4 | Good evening, John. Las Vegas is Allegiance Stadium, which is home to the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders |
| 0:46.0 | and a site for all types of concerts and other big events. I've been to it several times. |
| 0:50.7 | Great a stadium. I mean, it's fantastic. It's the number one highest grossing stadium in the U.S. |
| 0:56.1 | for the second consecutive year. Shows that they really thought it out when they built it. |
| 1:00.8 | People are happy to keep going back to it, even though the Raiders are terrible as a team. |
| 1:05.5 | This year, it brought in $281 million from live music and entertainment events. I probably contributed some of that. |
| 1:13.3 | And according to new rankings from Billboard magazine, |
| 1:16.2 | it ranks number two, only behind Wembley Stadium in London, |
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