Event that does that and so much more. Its helping a Great Organization in the valley. Oh, its a fun events. Were going to talk about it later on in the show. Plus the sexiest show on the strip, welcomes a brandnew hostess, handle of 53 x. The university of fee next opening a first of its kind center in downtown las vegas. Redflint provides visitors with a hands on environment aiming to innovate companies and ignite here to tell us about the new tech savvy Learning Center is dennis bonilla, executive dean of university of Phoenix College of Information Systems and technology, and tamar lucien, ceo of mental happy. Welcome. Welcome. How are you . A little mike issue, like trump, huh . Wow. What a way to start. Redflint, what we were talking about before the show, this is a vegas. Tell us all about redflint, the Learning Center and whats going to be going on. University of phoenix has all been a leader in innovation, education and we know that in the 21st century, business and technology are accelerating at a pace thats hard to keep up. Were experimenting with a new model of driving education, incubation, startup, businesses and doing it in a matter that we can integrate business and technology at a pace changing in the work force. We want to make sure that the community of las vegas, which our first redflint location, will have the opportunity to prepare its Community Members into the technologies and business skills that they need to thrive in this community. Downtown las vegas, kind of becoming the Tech Innovation center and its a. Place to get redflint start. How does this work . There is three components. There is an education component which weve always had as part of the university of phoenix. But the education is bayed on short learning bursts, getting opposed to waiting three or four years. We want you to get the competency ask skills quickly and in a manner youre constantly experiencing and doing hands on training. Youre not just learning theory. Youre actually learning how to do the work and do the technologies and apply it to business situations. We also want to incubate new business ideas. 10 of our students go on to start their own businesses. Wow. So we want to make sure we have those Business IncubationServices Available to the community of las vegas so people can come in. They will help them formulate it from idea to concept to an actual business. The third part is the accelerator, which is tamaras end. You have a company that has a product and you want to accelerate it to market quickly. We take you through an spendssive 13week program and this particular case, were focusing on hospitality, and entertainment. This is the mecca of that vertical. So i hear. [ laughter ] the rest of this interview brought to you by lets talk about cheer boxes. So you started being part of the Accelerator Program on september 12. Yes. And tell us all about your company. Absolutely. So im the founder and ceo of mental happy. We make people happy one cheer box at a time. We ease and help people through anxiety, worry, depression. So if an individual in your family, could be a neighbor, mom, sister, just someone you know who is having ordinary life trauma that we all are not an exception to, whether they were diagnosed with cancer or going through a horrible divorce and you want to give them something a little bit more fulfilling than a card or flowers, something to really help them cope with what theyre going through, a cheer box is a perfect gift for that occasion. That really is a brilliant idea. How did you end up connecting with them . My experience with redflint and university of phoenix has come full circle. University of phoenix. No kidding. Yep. I was an enrollment counselor. So i would sign students up, talk to them about the different programs and really be a manipulator throughout their experience with university of phoenix. I also received my mba from there as well. So its funny how connecting the dots back to life and when you look backwards and how experiences get you from one point to another. So its really full circle for me with university of phoenix and this program, redflint. Lets talk Acceleration Program has been working for your business. Its been phenomenal. Weve just been selling out cheer box left and right. No kidding. Yes. The accelerator has been great. With the resources that they provide, it can be really hectic and overwhelming with being a new business owner. Everyones first question is, how do i get started . How do i get customers . The accelerator really helps you kind of organize those steps systematically and really keep absolutely. Take it from an idea to a full fledged business. Exactly. This is just so exciting for las vegas. We have a lot of Small Businesses here on the show that i think could really benefit from this. Dennis, why did you choose las vegas . Well, las vegas is the epicenter of transformation. Every 20 years, las vegas goes through a whole transformation and right now we feel that this is the Perfect Place for a transformation around innovation. Downtown las vegas is looking at the next five years, ten years, becoming a smart city, becoming a cyber city, having the autonomous cars. Having electric cars in north las vegas, tesla is up in reno. Hyper loop that we have, tony shay with his embryonic phase. So we felt it was a great place to sort of coalesce all those things together and i had the eco system was ready for it. Awesome. Its great to see it here and congratulations on your business. Thank you. Big. You saw it here first. Thats right. Absolutely. Redflint experience center is opening this week in downtown las vegas on 4th street. To learn more, visit the web site on the screen. You can also find them on facebook and twitter. . Loving you is easy cause youre beautiful . . Coming up on the morning blend, shes the host with the mostest, heating up the stage. Handle, when i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. Austin steakhouse has bonein rib eye and porterhouse with sauteed mushrooms. Menu items that will have you saying thats amore. Thats huge. Here to show us whats being served up is executive chef, amy bearden, along with raul moreno. He is the austin steakhouse room chef. Great having both of you. Its a pleasure to be here. A pleasure to have you. Amy, lets talk about austin steakhouse for those who havent walked in the doors before. A gorgeous dining room, all neutral colors. We have great items to offer you, great service. We open daily at 5 00 oclock. We think of you as a steakhouse. You have a beautiful steak here. Tell us about your steaks. Lets start off with what people typically order. Okay. The bonein rib eye is huge with us. It is one of our prime choices. So its got that wow factor. Anything on the bone is flavor. You think better flavor . Absolutely. For sure. Absolutely. Okay. Thats the marblization. Absolutely. What other favorite menu items do you have . Im a fan of the new york. The new york. Its always good. Twice baked potato, mac and cheese is always a good choice. Tell us the secret to the mac and cheese at your restaurants. Lots of cheese and love. [ laughter ] you cant go wrong with more cheese and i never gotten a tattoo before and i dont think there is anything i love or want to have on my body. Mac and cheese. Now that i think about it. There we go. The old mac and cheese. I heart you. I heart mac and cheese. Absolutely. There is excitement not only at austin, but next door as well. Absolutely. As far as next door for fiesta the a bar menu stuff, open on friday and saturday nights from 11 to 1. We have gourmet bites for to you enjoy that are typically not found at bars. We have some fried asparagus we have here today. Bacon wrapped sirloin that we serve with our signature cilantro sauce. Bacon wrapped sirloin. A steak bite. Absolutely. Oh, sean is going in. We also have cal sliders, things like that. We offer a huge array of our seafood, crab legs, of course. 20ounce lobster stale. Caprese salad. Italian specialties. Three on our menu. Chicken piccata. Shrimp scampy. And im going to make this for you guys. By the way everything is better with bacon on one arm, mac and cheese on the other. Absolutely. You added some garlic . Yeah. Garlic, olive oil. Sauteed nice red and gold bell peppers. Hit it with some marinara. All right. So raul, while you get that cooking, i want to point out the beautiful cheesecake. This is in honor of Breast Cancer awareness mon. Its a pink swirl. Were super excited to be part of this. Its the first time that the steakhouses have been included in that. So its wonderful for susan g. Komen. Is it strawberry . A strawberry cheesecake. Its got a strawberry sauce with fresh berries as well. I love they just blow out more and more and more. You start to see the pink. You just started with the dessert in one spot and now its wow all right. This is good. So weve added the pasta. And then we add the ten ounce sirloin that we pan sear before. Then we plate it up. Here it is. The plating, everybody. You chefs amaze me. How many dishes do you think you make in one night . Oh, wow. Were probably making 100, 125 covers. So depending on what day of the week it is. W. Parsley. A little basil. Youre done. Beautiful. I got a question for you. I got an answer for you [ laughter ] whats your favorite thing on the menu right now . My favorite thing right now is the italian specialty that weve been running. Okay. The chicken piccata is out of this world. The shrimp scampi. Everybody loves shrimp and pasta sauce. Prime sirloin sauce. Pasta. Were going to demolish this. We are. Enjoy. Thank you. Its been a pleasure. Thank you. Amore. Enjoy italian classics now at austinssteak house. Generally when you say well go to a steakhouse, you cant get fish. Im sorry, that lobster is meant to be demolished. For more information, call the number or log on to the web site on your screen. You can like or follow us. You can find us at vegasmorningblend. Com, this weekend, grab your pups Chrysler Jeep third annual pampering your pet day. There will be a lot of activities for your Furry Friends and you can enjoy food and a bake sell benefitting the henderson animal shelter. Its this saturday. Here to tell us all about it is sam ratcliffe, the host, along with alicia halloran, and odie the dog is here. Owe dee. Odie is famous. First, lets talk to you. Youre an influence. You have a radio show, very popular. Its really exciting. This is my kind of event. This is my kind of event. What it means to me, the pet lovers, is that they value the fact that pets are our family members and so supporting Animal Rescue and the shelter and Small Business like myself, this is just a great event for the commune. I agree. Any event that i can bring my thats so true. Youll be hosting so many businesses and people are part of the event. Tell us about some of the people that will be there. A lot of vendors are gonna be there. Poop 911. What . Poop 911. What does poop 911 do . They scoop the poop. I need poop 911. They do children. I s anything from pet services to custom pet tags, groomers are going to be there. Of course, other great elements which is costume contest for halloween. Thats for pets. You can dress up as well. The smooch your pooch booth. Photo booth . Yes. Im going to be there. For as many kisses as i can get. Its wrapped up in live music, food, give aways, great prizes its going to be amazing and a raffle. Its my kind of event. So cool. So much going on. Youre doing readings . Yes. Tell us about that. Im an animal communicator. So im going to be doing many readings at the event for i think about an hour. And just giving people a taste of what it is to talk to their animals. People always have questions about their animals, you know. The biggest question is, do they like me . Which is really funny because yeah. They do, of course. And so more about their animals, getting more insight. This is interesting. Youre saying its not just you who can read animals. Youre going to show people how to get more in tune . Yeah. Just by having a reading, you get more in tune. People who are curious are already in tune. They just dont know what to do with it. They dont know how quite to get there. What do you think pesky would say . Pesky would say, who is the next person i can lick . My dog is horrible. Here is the thing, there is three dogs next door. They bark all the time. Can i ask them why theyre barking . Right. Absolutely. We can have an intervention. Those are Great Questions and i can give you tips and techniques on how to get it to stop . I think you throw from the steak from our last segment over. Right . [ laughter ] odie is adorable. Yes. This is odie. Whats his story. Odie is an adopted dog. I adopted him fivee from the chicago pound. When i adopted him, he had glaucoma and about a year after i adopted him, he needed to have his eyes removed. So he was i think the best way to describe him is a hot mess when i adopted him. Understood. He had a bad attitude and he didnt have he was blind already and can i see him . I must touch him. First. And then you can pick him up from there. The amazing thing to me is that he cant see, but he completely is responding to me petting him. There is a way to communicate. Absolutely. Ive considered him my ph. D. In animal communication because hes been such a challenge. But once we moved to nevada, he, like, mellowed out. He became a totally different dog. Same with me. We all become a different dog when we move. Exactly. Right before we go, how followers . He has 36,000 instagram followers. Tell people where they can follow him. On odies eyes. Any kind of social media, at least. Hes a hugger. Kind of. Great having you. Looking forward to this events. Thank you. Goodbye, odie. I love you. Pamper your pet this saturday from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. At chapman Chrysler Jeep in henderson. For more information, follow instagram. Odies is on instagram. Thats going to be quite the party. Hes beat meg on instagram followers. By a factor of 36. Wow. Community event to tell you about before we head to break. The 6th annual nf hope concert is next sunday at 1 p. M its at the pellazzo. They will raise awareness for neuro fibromatosis. Information, check out www switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. E. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844560link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan and autopay. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. . . Your stuff and junk can turn into extra spending cash for the upcoming Holiday Season. Collecting dust can be worth a lot more than you think. Thats right. Here to tell us more is graduate gemologist Neil Sackmary of nevada coin mart. Hello, sir. How are you . Very well. I buy pretty much everything. The only thing i dont buy is dust. But i do buy Everything Else but guns and cars. There we go. Guns and cars and dust. No. Right. Everything else, yes. Yes. Bring it in. We just got a vacuum cleaner the other day, a tv. Really . Anything that you have that you have sitting there that you like, what do i do with this stuff . You look at me and go thats Neil Sackmary, i need to drive and go see that guy immediately and sell it. From nevada coin mart to nevada stuff mart. I agree with you. Let me tell you that its tremendous the amount of people that are coming in because they are bringing stuff and they walk in the door. They look at the Security Guard. The Security Guard walking out, they go, ive got stuff. You go, i need to go see Neil Sackmary right now who is open 365 days a year. Here is the thing, we all have extra stuff. Way too much. Our garage is full of stuff. Whether it be jewelry or whether it be that tv that maybe not in fashion. Like a flat screen or whatever. The important thing is this, that nevada coin mart, i have 4,000 square foot building and i want to so when you have stuff, jewelry, gold, silver, costume, coins, collectibles, when you have it, Neil Sackmary in nevada coin mart wants to buy it. I have silver eagles, mint sets, you know. Silver coins from canada. Im the largest sterling silver turquoise buyer in all of las vegas. So any type of jewelry, the most important thing is get in the immediately and it does work. People dont think so. But it does. There are people stopping their cars. There are people right now, i guarantee you, that are stopping what theyre eating and theyre finishing their bite and theyre gonna load up their car and gonna come see me because theyre gonna look at me and go, i want his money. [ laughter ] thats really what you do. Is you give people money. I agree with you. Youre like a game show host. There is a lot of truth to that. Except there are no gamessism just pay the cash. Speaking of purr turquoise, we have a lot of it. Do you see a lot of it . There is a lot of that stuff. So when you have that, a lot of people dont know the value or they go to you have a guy and he wants to put it on the scale and buy it for the silver value. I explain it all the time, over 500 times to be exact, but i will tell you this, when you have stuff, dont go to somebody deal. The real deal is Neil Sackmary. Thats you. When you come and see me, we are gonna look at anything that you have, especially the sterling silver turquoise, gold, silver and Costume Jewelry is tremendous. How is the market doing had it comes to Precious Metals and comes to the coins and bull on . Its tremendous. The market is volatile. Some days it goes up, some days down. But the important thing is this, for the end consumer to get the mo they have into cash because to wait for the mar