* Jim Wise, Vice President of Marketing FireKeepers Casino

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We went from CBS Sports golf theme to football's music.
And that's I think the NBC Sunday Night theme, isn't
it Tony Kuppert This weekend, that's the best production, I
think of all the TV production of football. I think
it's the water tight one. And that's Mike Tarico, isn't.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
It it is? You can skip all the pregame nonsense,
just wait for the game and enjoy because everything from
that on is good.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
No, no, no. I like the pregame because that theme
song they play for Sunday night, waiting all day for
Sunday night, I think that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
It's also that's fine pick it up there, but everything
before that, find something else to do. See the studio.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's a little bit sad because it signals the end
of the weekend, you know, and if you've got the
Sunday scaries and you've got to go back to work
on Monday, so you get one more keep your eyes
open until you can't keep them open anymore. Sunday Night
game and you know what, you can always go to
fire keepers though, because they're open twenty four to seven. So,
but there have been times when I woke up at
four thirty five in the morning, and Lansing will say,

(01:09):
you know, I think going in I come and wait.
I might as well go to FireKeepers because they're waiting
for me. And we will be live at six am
in mid December on that Friday before Christmas from the
money Keeper's main stage in FireKeepers Casino, and I hope
you'll plan to see us there, And of course the
day before we'll be all over that place at the
gaming tables and whatnot. And Lewis Black is coming on

(01:33):
February twenty seventh, and George Thoroughgood and the Destroyers on
March twenty seventh. If you had a Red Hot rewards card,
you would know that by now and you'd be able
to get your tickets early. Jim Wise is here, the
vice president of marketing at fire Keepers Casino, and I
he says, let's not skip over Sunday Night because it's
the team that he loves, the Philadelphia Eagles versus the

(01:55):
Detroit Lions. And earlier Jim Tony Kuthbert gave us a
dad about the Honolulu Blue and Silver and the Eagles.
Tony that was quite revealing.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, the only NFC team that Dan Campbell as the
head coach of the Detroit Lions is not beaten is
the Eagles? They are zero and two?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So do we bet against a streak or with a streak?
What do we do with that?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I'm going to let's see try to find a nice
diplomatic way out of this, because I like the Silver
and Blue as well. I'm going to say two isn't
necessarily a streak yet. How about that you get the four,
that's a streak, but I'm not sure that two is
a streak. Two and a half is the spread on that.
So basically they're saying the two teams are even and

(02:41):
the Eagles are getting some Lincoln Financial Field Standard love
for a couple of points there. So usually it's in
that two and a half to three range. So the
experts are kind of saying that one's a toss up.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
You can bet that game, whether you're at fire keepers
or on the fire keepers, right up until kick and
there are some bets. We were told earlier this week
that you can bet even after kickoff.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
You certainly can, so there is kind of live in
game wagering. So people need to be prepared because it's
in game. Game is in progress even during a commercial break,
you might get ninety seconds, so you've got to be
ready to go. And it's a process that I would
say people should kind of monitor before you just trying

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to jump into in game wagering because it does move fast.
The odds are constantly changing during that timeframe as well,
so there's a lot of things to pay attention to,
so go at it slow and kind of learn the
process before just diving headlong in. But sure, even once
the game has started. That's the same for an NBA

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game at NHL game, So there is in game wagering,
but again everybody needs to kind of do it at
their own pace and make sure they understand what they're
doing and not get drawn in by kind of the
deadline of time. Oh there's only a few more seconds left,
and then that will go away, and then potentially new
options will come up.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Have you ever been around Lewis Black backstage?

Speaker 1 (04:15):
A little bit, not a lot, but a little bit,
super nice guy. He is always you know, the comedians
kind of are that way. They want to interact with
people and be around people, So certainly not one of those,
even though he has kind of an outward persona of
being kind of curmudgeonly and something like that. No, it's
completely the opposite, and we're thrilled that even though he

(04:38):
has said, listen, I'm not going to go out and
do full time touring anymore, that he has said, you
know what, I'm going to do some one off dates
and one of them turned out to be ours, So
we're real excited for that.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Wow, you wooed him and he chose you, and that's
pretty cool. That says something about his experience maybe with
you in the past, and what he can expect when
he comes to fire Keepers.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I think it says a lot about our room, our technology,
our tech crew, our people, the whole experience. You're right,
because he's got a number of different options and ways
that he could go. So I think it does come
down to you know what. I've been there before, had
a really good experience there. I've mentioned to you before.
Our sound system for bands is just state of the art.
It's similar to what is at the Grand Old Opry,

(05:21):
and that gets us a lot of our country stars
because when they hear about the equipment, they say, hmm,
that really meets or exceeds my standards. So that's a
great thing. I'm interested in that Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know what, Having given a limited number of talks,
I always ask what kind of microphone have you got there,
because even when you're just going up there and giving
a little speech, if the audio is bad, it's a
terrible experience. So congratulations the Grand ol Opry and the
fire Keepers showroom fantastic. And not only that, Now we're

(05:53):
getting into the hunting season and the Beaujolais Nouveau next
week and Thanksgiving, and that means it's time for food
for friends. A fire Keepers tradition it is.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
We run it two or three times a year, and
it's never been more important than it is this month
with getting food to our friends who really could use
a hand right now between some of the government challenges
and just food prices rising. So you bring five non
perishable items to the Firekeeper's Red Hot Rewards desk and

(06:25):
we're going to give you ten dollars in free slot
play for that, and now it'll get you started. Maybe
you can save a few dollars on your budget by
using that ten in addition to whatever else you may
wish to use. But you're going to feel good because
that food will go directly to the food bank. Of
South Michigan and get distributed out to all over the region.
So it's throughout the month of November. So you have

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time still, You've got a couple of weeks to do it.
But you bring your five non perishables. So you're coming
to FireKeepers. You're driving past the local supermarket, run in
and grab a handful of things that you think people
could really appreciate it this time of year, and know
that we're going to get it right into their hands
thanks to the food Bank.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I have to believe that ten dollars in slat play
you get for bringing those non perishable items is loaded
with karma, if you know what I mean. If you're
like me and you love FireKeepers and you love gaming,
you believe in streaks, you believe in karma, you believe
in luck and superstition too. Jim Wise, thank you at

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