- Hello tangerines from Las Vegas.
It has been a hot second since I've been here,
but I'm so excited because I think this is
going to be my most fun trip ever.
These ladies and our whole group.
So our first first order of business is getting coffee,
'cause it's going to be a long day.
Otherwise I think we're going to be up until 5:00 AM.
6:00 AM.
- If we're lucky, we'll get back to the hotel by 8:00 AM
- and it's what 9:30 AM the previous day
and now we have to head to the Palazzo to pick up a parking
pass if I'm not mistaken so that our limo driver has access
to EDC.
Getting so excited.
- Thank you
- Not a problem, you'll enjoy tonight
So every hotel in the Las Vegas trip has something special
about it and that usually it's seasonally changed.
So in this case it's like autumn, fall pumpkins.
I love it. It's super pretty.
I just realized that these are real pumpkins.
This is freaking huge, like what?
(music plays)
So Jordan and I did video on Las Vegas scams that you should
avoid and one of them that I jokingly put in there was that
sometimes the escalators are out of commission.
So it was like, oh, it's 110 degrees outside.
What a scam. And somebody took us seriously.
Like that's not a scam.
There's hundreds of thousands of people that walk on those
every day and they have to close them down for me too
sometimes, but it is, feels like a scam.
When you have to use your leg muscles to walk up and down
the stairs.
So many stairs and so much walking in Vegas.
But we do talk about actual scams and tourist traps that
you're going to want to avoid in Vegas to have a better
time, so I'll link that video right up here
so you can watch it and be better prepared.
We decided to come to Mona Mika beef for breakfast
and the great thing is if you sit out here on the patio and
you time it, right,
you get a view of the Bellagio fountain show right across
the street.
So we're getting ready for EDC now,
as you can see, I got part of my outfit going,
this is not the complete product and what else we have
Crystal over here, tutu central,
in all color and sparkliness, this is amazing.
I cannot wait to see what this looks like
and pretty much everybody is in full on getting ready for
EDC mode.
So everybody out here doing makeup
we've got tons of hair over here.
Its getting close.
So the time is winding down to EDC.
As you can see, I have done some color,
some rainbow color here and lots of glitter
and some sparkles.
The moment has almost arrived.
We're just about ready to leave.
We're all looking fabulous.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah
- Looking so fly
- Literally fly with the wings and everything.
(music plays)
Aww you guys, we're almost there.
Our chariot awaits.
Ooh la la
All right. Are you excited?
- Yeah
EDC 2021,
its like 25th anniversary.
So I hear that during EDC time trying to get an Uber to the,
what is it? The fairground motor Speedway feed.
The Las Vegas Speedway can be a nightmare and really
expensive. So that's why we're all here in this
fabulous limo and it'll be picking us up
in the very wee hours of the morning, hopefully.
- 5am
- 5am,
- After all the lights in club come back on
- And the sun will be coming up at that point.
- Beforehand we learned that if anybody throws up
in this limo, it's a $500 fee but I think it's,
it's a conspiracy because look at the way this
guy is driving. We're like...
As I was saying, kind of like carnival ride pre electric,
daisy carnival, pre drinking too,
sober, we are sober.
- For now.
- Ha ha ha
Goodbye, carnival limo.
I hope we never see that driver again, to be honest.
This is where things get interesting.
Okay, so we were just trying to go to the
entrance of the marquee.
What is it called, the sky deck, for the table that we got,
but they're saying that it doesn't open until 8:00 PM.
We're supposed to get in at 5 that's when or we're
supposed to get into like 4 and 5 is opening ceremony.
So we may have to walk around the entire Speedway to the
other side and hope that the will-call box it or their call,
whatever might have some way for us to get in.
Now we're a bunch of weary travelers. The sun is intense.
So after walking all the way around the Speedway,
because we were told that we could maybe get our wristbands
that came with this table.
We went to information desk at booth after booth
after booth all the way around.
30 minute walk and we were told the only place
that have has them is here the marquee sky deck,
but they don't have them for us
and they won't have them until 7:00 PM,
which means we're here in this sad little
sitting circle on the purple carpet until then,
just trying to pass the time.
So this kind of sucks.
So after waiting here for many,
many hours, we were all starving
and somehow, somehow by a miracle,
we were able to have the breeds delivered
to the motor speed way.
Even though he almost didn't make it past, right?
- He almost didn't, no we had to walk all the way
back to the road, talk to the cops and beg the cops to
let the guy give us our food.
And so now we're sitting here in line eating fries.
- Del taco.
- Del taco fries
You gotta do what you gotta do sometimes.
All right, we got through security, we got our wristbands.
- Wait, wait, wait
- Whoo almost thought it wasn't going to happen,
but here it is, its happening.
Now we're on the party bus, should I sit here?
- Yeah sure
( indistinct chatter)
- Yessss
Does this have a name?
Is it the rainbow tunnel?
And I don't know what all of this is ,
that looks like a stage, light up tower.
This is wild.
We just got off the shuttle and
Oh, I'm speechless.
Crystal I am in absolute disbelief right now.
I had no idea it was this, like, elaborate and insane.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh, I'm like jumping out of my skin with excitement.
Look at these pinata people on stilts.
Wow that is intense.
So there's various stages set up here.
This is one called kinetic fuel and it has
like a giant owl and tons of lights
and aahh its just huge.
I'm actually surprised there's not that many people here,
maybe yet, I don't know, I think they have
been actually opened up at 4 or 5 and
it's now seven, but it goes until 5am so plenty of time
for lots to happen.
Here's the VIP area, which I think we have access to.
- We're about to find out.
- We will find out, fingers crossed.
So we do in fact have access to VIP and
I know its not cute but its very important.
This, I think is the VIP bar area,
which is kind of like jungle themed.
Oh my gosh. Like it keeps going and going.
There's so much.
Now we're here at the rave named tree where
people are giving rave names based on what you like or what
you're about. So what's yours?
- Future mermaid.
- Mushroom mistress
- Onyx angel
- Neil?
- Danger owl
- What'd you get? What'd you get?
- Space dragon
- And from a long time ago I already have a rave name
and its Brixie, like pixie but with a B.
I don't know exactly what all this is but barn
tarot card reader, slippery tattoes, arts and crafts,
Chakra corner.
So at this station called arts and crafts and we get to pick
a rock, paint it and then put it
underneath this tree over here.
This is not my best artwork in the world,
but it's something and I'm going to contribute
it to this tree.
Okay. What'd you got here?
Little hearts .
- Spread love
- Oh my gosh, adorable.
Now its glow stick time.
I was just over there doing a tarot card reading.
That's my first time ever doing that
kind of like a bucket list item, so I can check that off.
It was interesting because she kind of made me pick the
cards that I don't feel like it was entirely applicable to
me but still a cool experience.
We waited a super long time in the line for these
temporary tattoes and Crystal and I are getting
matching butterflies like this
Final product, matching.
Now we've been here for about an hour and
there's suddenly a lot of people.
Lots of music going on and lots of activities and so
we're going to explore.
Actually we're going to see Diplo.
As with most of the sets of EDC,
I unfortunately can't include the original audio because of
copyrights, but Diplo was totally epic.
It was a packed crowd,
which is why we sat up in the bleachers and the stage had
some crazy lighting and fire effects.
(Live music playing)
A lot of people at EDC bring these things called totems
and I think that's what these are that are like,
what the heck are they?
- Jellyfish
Well, it's an EDC veteran
so she kept reminding us all to hold onto each other because
it's unbelievably easy to lose your friends in the crowd,
even when you're being careful.
There's just that many people and it's so chaotic.
I think that's actually a big reason
people carry around those totems too.
And here's another stage that we passed by,
which had some really intense smoke and lighting effects.
I don't even think this video does it justice.
Each stage typically has its own theme and different
lighting and different cool stuff that's going on with it
and they each play a different genre of electronic music.
Holy shiz biscuits Batman.
We are finally getting into the sky deck.
Trying to get access to our VIP table was a nightmare from
start to finish.
It's way too long of a story to explain it
all but suffice it to say this marquee sky deck experience
was the primary reason Saturday night
fell apart for our group.
It was cool to be above the crowd with a view to Connecticut
field and we did try to make the best of things by dancing
around and enjoying some drinks.
But the VIP area got uncomfortably crowded.
The staff really had bad attitudes and we have strong
suspicions that some unsavory characters
messed with our drinks.
Based on our experiences, I do not recommend wasting
your money on marquee Sky deck
If you're going to splurge, just go for the VIP wristbands.
So this stage is like completely changing now.
This stage is by far the coolest, biggest,
most elaborate and extravagant stage I've ever seen in my
life and all throughout the night,
I was constantly surprised by what it could do,
fireworks that would come out of it, the water,
it was like, is there any limit?
It was amazing, completely amazing.
So when we first came in I was like wow there's
not very many people here and I was thinking maybe
there's not going to be a lot this year for EDC.
I was wrong.
There is so many people, I don't know how this compares
to other years because this is my first time but wowza.
This is like the best people watching ever and
I'm just having the time of my life.
I think I'm going to have to come to EDC like
every year now.
I'm I'm hooked.
Now we found our way to another stage.
We were at kinetic field which was over there,
but I think this one's called Daisy lane.
So there's like daisies, flowers everywhere.
I love it,
but we're trying to find something bloom
and I thought bloom meant flowers,
but that's gotta be somewhere else.
I thought at some point I get over the shock factor of
everything that there was to see and do at EDC,
but I never did.
Take this stage for example,
it was so loud with such intense space.
It may have permanently changed the rhythm of my heartbeat.
We had a ton of fun dancing and watching the fruit people
dance as well.
There were actually professional dancers all over the place.
At the end of the night,
there was an amazing drone show performance
and a firework show.
By 5:00 AM on this night,
it was a miracle that we could say, we made it out.
- Before piling into the limo and heading back to the hotel.
It is EDC night 2 and we are just heading in now.
- Whoo
- Yeah
I am shocked that I am alive for this
because I think I slept like 3, 4 hours last night
and we're doing it all again.
So this is already kind of crazy because
this is a whole part of EDC of the Speedway
that I didn't even see last night.
It's that big?
There's other stages.
There's different lighting,
different, I mean, what is even this? Look
(indistinct chatter)
Man, you could feel that like in your heart.
That's crazy.
My camera, all of a sudden feels very inferior
next to this.
(EDC music plays)
- You on me make me feel like you could never leave
do the same, we can't go back, this is all we need
follow me to make believe and make your dreams come true
this night means forever and so does me and you
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
we say we love
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
- I could be wrong but these could be real life Herbies
behind me. Hahaha
- We say we love
we say we love
na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
but we were just interesting
until something better came along
- It was getting alittle crazy down there so
my new friend Frank, has access to the passport lounge,
its where we are, its above everything else.
So we're getting a drink up here and the view is insane.
Oh I just got goosebumps.
Without a doubt, the highlight of my EDC weekend was
seeing Kygo perform live at kinetic field.
He opened up with stole the show with Parson James
performing live.
- EDC how we feeling?
This is my first time here so I need you
to make some noise all right.
When I say scream, I want you to scream.
One,
two,
scream
(audience screaming)
Parson was singing off to the audience to join in,
which was just so, so much fun, I cannot even describe.
- Who's ready to have the best night of your life?
- Another pleasant surprise was Sam from X ambassadors also
sang live to the song, Undeniable.
I'm definitely biased because Kygo is one of my
favorite dj's of all time, but to me,
this was the best set at EDC, hands down.
I danced my ass off and sang at the top of my lungs to every
song while getting full body goosebumps with each new one
that came on.
A little part of me is dying inside that I
can't actually share the music with you because again,
copyrights, rights, bla bla bla.
What I will say is that if you ever,
and I mean ever have the chance to see Kygo perform, do it.
Do it, do it, do it, do it seriously do it.
I also want to point out that during his set,
there were these guys holding a Mexico flag, Viva Mexico,
and also this guy with a flow up flowing crayon,
which cracked us up the entire time. But seriously,
you guys the stage lighting.
Look at this lighting.
There was fireworks. So many fireworks.
There were dancers up there blowing frigging Baba,
looking waterfalls,
then fog that was going out and then the lights going
through it just looked so insane.
This was one of the best moments of my entire life.
I literally could have died of happiness overload.
I wish I could redo the whole thing again and again and
again and again and again. Oh, Kygo such the best.
So as you can see here, they,
once again had a spectacular firework show and this really
cool drone performance where it looks like there's probably
hundreds up there choreographed to look like certain things.
People, EDC, words, not too long after this,
we decided to call it a night and make the very long walk
back to our car.
One huge recommendation I have don't go with the cute shoes,
go with the comfortable shoes or your feet will hate you.
My feet were screaming. They felt like they were broken,
they hurt so bad,
but absolutely one thousand percent worth it, oh,
EDC is the best.
So if I look a little bit rough around the edges this
morning, it's because I think I'm running on
approximately six hours of sleep across the entire weekend.
Absolutely totally worth it.
I think I'm going to go to EDC every single year now,
because that was a phenomenal experience.
What I will say is I do not recommend getting a table.
Do we agree getting a VIP table?
That was a big nightmare, a nightmare.
So don't recommend doing that.
I'm very, very thankful that I brought earplugs,
hand sanitizer.
I also brought a couple extra things that we didn't use like
deodorant and mouthwash because you are there for 12 hours
or more.
Another piece of advice I have after going to EDC this time
is that you will absolutely not have any cell service.
I remember sending a text to crystal and she didn't get it
for three or four hours after that.
So it's really easy to lose your friends,
really easy to basically be out of touch with everyone.
So what sometimes people will do is set up a wifi,
a free wifi so that they can actually get your information.
They can hack into your bank accounts and stuff because
you're desperate to get connected.
So a trick that I have is to get a VPN and what a VPN does
is encrypt your data and make sure you're completely safe
so if you do need to connect to some type of wifi or
whatever, you can do that.
Our preferred provider is found at TangerineVPN.com.
So if you had there that link will forward
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Again, that's TangerineVPN.com.
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