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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, one of the things that I have current dreams
about happened to somebody else in Las Vegas. Las Vegas
tourist was there and a twenty five dollars bet on
a slot machine yielded.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Where is it? Where did it go? Dad? Gone it?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
One point one five two So one one million, one
hundred and fifty two thousand, twenty five dollars bet. That
was at the Fountain Blue And this exact room and
exact machine I've played before.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
So I'm just like, what, why couldn't that have happened?
When I was playing it.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I was actually thinking about you last night watching The
Twilight Zone because it was an episode about a couple
from a small town that won all expense paid weekend
in Vegas. And he was very We're just coming here
because it's free. You just wanted to come here. We're
not going to do anything. But he's walking through and
Nicky Franklin, he keeps hearing the slot machine calling his
(01:02):
name m hm, and he developed the fever, and I'm like, oh,
Man Blazer should be watching this.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, these people they placed a twenty five dollar bet
on this. It's a dragon link is the is the machine?
And it was on Thanksgiving Day when it happened.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
So I wonder if the probabilities on those machines are
a little little more favorable since it's a twenty five
dollars spin.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So it's RNG, it's random number generator. Is how the
slot machines work, and from what I understand, you're going
to be on a more consistent basis. The smaller hits
on those machines, and by smaller, I mean less than
the jackpot, the grand prize, jackpot, those are elevated.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
When you do bet a little bit more per spin.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So somebody playing three bucks on that machine or two bucks,
I don't even I've never heard of anybody wagering that
low of an amount and then hitting the grand or.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
The jackpot or the super if you will.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So I again, the twenty five dollars bet is a
little higher than the average person.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That's per spin, right.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Twenty five fifty seventy five hundred four spins one hundred
bucks and they go on. I don't know what they
put in it. I don't know how much they were
in at that point. But when you win one point one,
you've got to be more than Please tell me you're
not even at that point when you hit a million dollars,
you know what I mean, I hope that you're up.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
That's a lot of corners coming out of that machine. Yeah, yeah,
And I know it's regulated and I know, oh yeah,
but it's just you know, my thing. I still would
not be a slot guy. I if the old fashioned
slots where the wheels are in there and you're turning
and getting the apples and the cherries and so forth,
I would trust those more than I trust the digital stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
I just if I'm going to gamble and much they
sit down and play back blackshack or poker or yep,
something where at least some of my skill is indulved, right.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
And with those like as far as the table games
and so on, those you know, each kind of table
game that has its own sets of rules. For instance, blackjack,
some of them pay six to five, which is one
point two for one unit, as opposed to three to two,
which is time and a half or one point five.
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So you bet two hundred dollars, you get blackjack, you
win three hundred dollars. On a three to two six
point five, you bet one hundred and you win one
hundred and twenty you don't win one fifty, so you're losing.
So and on the ones that pay six to five,
those are usually lower limits, like a five dollars blackjack table,
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and those that's terrible if you can avoid that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Avoid that.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And also dealer hitting on soft seventeen or standing on
soft sepnose, those are kinds of but those are the
only variables, mostly with card game or table games if
you will. But you're right, that's the low like a
low percentage for the house. And by low, I mean
they still have the advantage clearly.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah. Always Anyway, I could keep going on and on
a big wigs.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Go in there and just do like a head to
head thing, even money against the house. Like I'm coming
in there and I've got millions of dollars, I spend
money all the time. I want to go head to
head with your best dealer and just do straight money,
even odds blackjack. Be against him. I'll put ten thousand
on the table, he puts ten thousand on the table.
We'll play till one of us beats the crap out
of the other and walk away.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
So when you say dealer, when you're going headhead against
the dealer, like.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The casino puts up their dealer against you. You're just
your millionaire and you just want to sit down and
play one on one blackjack with this dealer.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Is the dealer?
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Is the dealer dealing to you? And then the dealer
represents the house.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, he's the house.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well, sure you can do that. I can do I've
done that. You can do that all day. You can
just sit You don't have to have a million dollars
or whatever. I mean, can you can just sit down
and if it's you heads up, you can reserve a
table if you have enough money where it's just you
and the and the dealer.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Absolutely, that's I see. I think I'd like that.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, the house advantage is still there.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You're just you don't have the other people sitting at
the table, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
At a table who can screw up the.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Take a card when they shouldn't and all that.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, oh you're hitting on twenty are you? How are
things in Idaho? Right?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Right? So?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Anyway, that that just I was like looking through I
was on Fox, the the app Fox News, and I
saw that story and I was like, man, I when
you see the the you know the property and then
you see the exact machine.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
You're like, are you kidding?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
You know, but you know what, it's a little bit
of hope. But the in Ohio chuck kind of for
your thing. We'll put a bow on this. The as
far as slots go, it's the o c c C,
the Ohio Casino Control Commission. They are in charge of
and they do random checks at Sciota and Hollywood, Hollywood
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and Dayton. I mean, it's for the entire everybody in Cleve,
everybody in Cincinnati. You know, if you have a casino
that has you know, the the VLTs as they call them,
that's the slot machines, then you are that is all regulated.
If you go in and you try to do something,
you alter one of your machines or multiple machines, and
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they catch you, they pull your gambling license, it's totally
not worth it to mess with it.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Those things are regulated.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I do know that working in the gaming industry once
upon a time it's very regulated.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I see that growing in the next decade. Quite frankly,
I think, you know, if we're going to have the casinos,
casino gambling, legalized marijuana and all this kind of stuff,
I can see Ohio allowing like they do liquor licenses
to gas stations for beer, and why I can see
going into the gas station and pull on a slot machine. Yeah,
it'll happen.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yeah, I think at some point. I don't know if
it will be while we are alive. It certainly won't
be while this current governor is in Oh, no is
in charge.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But uh, maybe it's You're.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Right, because why not if the state is benefiting at
all for anything with regarding any of that, why wouldn't
you expand that put him everywhere?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
You're getting your cut with kicking nut.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Right right, exactly exactly, No, that's it. You just nailed it.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Show up at the state House with a Manila envelope
once a week and give the governor his due.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
That's that's his h here's your cut, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
How about Brian Hartline. I was floored when I saw.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Here's the thing that got me the most is I
started reading this and he's been hired as the head
coach of South Florida. In case you've been under a
rock all morning and you haven't seen or heard, he's
been the wide receivers coach throughout coach Ryan Day's tenure
and called the offense this season in his second stint
as the primary coordinator. Um, he's thirty nine years old
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this year.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You looked it up. How much did he make this?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Two mill? That was his twenty twenty five contract. I'm
sure with bonuses for Bowl appearances and so forth, but
two mill is his base salary.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
And they will they'll pick up a bunch of chunks
of change for everybody if we win on Saturday and
then we run through and repeat the Natty. Yeah, everybody's
going to get big bonuses and so on. That's all
built into their contracts. Then you say to yourself, what
exactly did South Florida.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Give him ask to be huge?
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let's say they gave him they said, we'll match plus
twenty percent what you're making, and then you're also going
to get the head coach title, so you get to
run the program. And that's very possible that that happened.
I did not see his deal at South Florida. Did
you look or I haven't.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I have not seen it yet either. I just and
that deal if it was coming from Auburn or Georgia
or Miami or that would be South Florida smaller school.
I don't know that it's not just about the money.
It's about the prominence of being the offensive coordinator of
the Ohio State Buckeyes, who will most likely be national champions.
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That that's there's value to that.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, I'll tell you, in our business, it'd be like
you were the night guy, right, So you're the night
guy doing seven to midnight or eight to midnight or
six to ten pm.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Whatever it would be, whatever that slot is.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So you're the night guy, and then it's a chance
to make more money and then be afternoon drive or
maybe even mornings and then obviously you're going to get
more money, but then also you're getting a better quote
unquote time slot. Is that I feel like kind of
a similar scenario here for Brian.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
If it gets to be he gets to be head coached.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
If I got offered a job as a program director
afternoon drive at ten times the money to go to
te Hot Indiana, I would not take that. The money.
It's tearhoat Indiana versus being here. It's I mean, the
value is in location as well. You know, it's his call.
I don't blame any man for being ambitious. If he
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saw some maybe he's getting paid in Sunshine. Well, maybe
he wants to be warm and doesn't have to up
what does with snow and so forth?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And I know you know this, But what this will
do is this will develop his head coaching chops. We'll
see what he can do with their program. They're nine
to two this year. I think I read South Florida was,
and they're the current coach there. I think went to Auburn.
He got offered the Auburn gig, so he left and
went there. So all this this is a stepping stuck.
So if he's making about the same, what if you
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found out he's making less money to get a head
coaching job and then he gets those chops. He's there
a couple of years and then all of a sudden, boom,
he lands at a big school, a big, big ten school.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I just hope it's not too quick, too fast. I mean,
that's honestly, that's what happened with Fickle going from Cincinnati
to Wisconsin. Wisconsin was already in dire streets and now
people are calling for Luke fickles head every game. I
think he jumped from Cincinnati a little too quickly and
not into the best possible situation. So if he's going
to go to South Florida. God bless him in good luck.
(11:06):
But you know, stay there until you know you've got
something really good to go to next.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
It is based in Tampa where he's going to be.
You gotta figure that in of course. Then you go, okay, well, great,
he's in Florida.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Which is of course in North Florida. In Tampa's at
North Florida. It's South Florida.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
It's a weird way to Oh, I see what you're saying.
And it's west it's west coast too.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
If you will there it's golf blah blah blah. The
uh the thing that I I mean, that's going to
factor in. So he's not going to have to deal
with the harsh winters here, right, So that's kind of
a neat thing. But then you got, you know, all
of the catastrophe that can happen there, as we know
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in Florida they get hit with hurricanes and so on.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
There's that.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I don't know his poetics, but maybe maybe he feels
like Florida is a better place to be in Ohio
when it comes to his political beliefs. And you know
that's that comes into play too.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
The other thing that I thought was kind of shocking
about this is that it was announced a and I'm
not sure exactly as far as the timing why that.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But he's going to stay through.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Our postseason, which you you know as as Ryan Day. Now, look,
he's still working for bonuses and all of that. Because
at this point you start saying, that's like if me
and you said, hey, we're gonna we're gonna call it
quits in six months, you know, but we're gonna stay
these last six months he might start having beaten. Now
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six months is longer time frame than postseason whatever, But
you just start thinking, is this guy making that? Is
his head somewhere else? Is he really in this game?
But he does have something to lose in that the
bonuses and so on. You hope the guy's still pouring
everything he's got into it. That's the thing that's a
question mark for me with him, and I hope he's
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professional enough.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
He's still being paid, of course.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
By the Ohio State University, and then he's also going
to get the bonuses based on how well whatever he's
connected to perform. So I suppose if coach Day saw
some sort of sagging or a man what in the hell,
did you call that play for or whatever? If that
kind of crap starts, I could see him going you're dismissed.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Well, and Julian say, he is a once in a decade,
once in a generation quarterback. And you know that's legitimate too.
I'm not going to have this kid to work with
in a couple of years. He's going to the NFL.
He's going to be hugely successful. While I'm shining brightly
as the guy being the offensive coordinator. This is probably
a good time for me to start making my moves.
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That's that's a legitimate thought too.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, well, congratulations, Brian hartstly will miss you, and you
did a great job for us here and in figure
service on the field, as was on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
But you know we're going to miss him. We're going
to miss him.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
The beautiful thing is, you know we have the defensive coordinator,
he bails, he ends up in Penned State.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We get a better one. Now, I don't know that
we get a better one.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I mean Hartline played here, you know all that his history,
so he's so connected and so part of this fabric
that is OSU.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's just weird to.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Think he's not going to be part of it anymore.
But I also understand he's got aspiration.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Dude's thirty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Maybe we'll play it to the NFL for our offensive coordinator,
but that's what we did with the defense. And you
never know, right, And yeah, there's plenty of NFL jobs,
most likely coming available here in the next couple of months.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Right straight ahead, the Heisman betting odds for Julian Saying
have been readjusted. This is incredible, like really really cool.
And when does the college football bracket come out? Because
a lot of people are starting to ask about that.
And look, I'm not trying to look past the Big
Ten Championship.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
I'm just saying there are people who are starting to,
excuse me, look at these kinds of things.