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Speaker 1 (00:08):
The cabin was glowing from the red Christmas lights. The
snow was falling. On my way home tonight, I knocked
on the door maybe once, maybe twice, and Missus Claws answered,
(00:32):
Oh did she look nice?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Song by James Judson. It's Christmas Eve tonight and you
can get it wherever you get music, Spotify, it could
be a good place or YouTube. It's Michael Patrick Shields.
He is our dedicated holiday performer this year heading into Christmas. Okay,
Jim Wise at Dacy Sports Book and Tony Cuthbert, we're
going to talk a little bit of sports here. And
(00:56):
this is something that you might not know about yet,
but Thursday, Resident Trump talked about a new creation. It's
going to be called the Patriot Games, and it's an
athletic contest that's going to be part of the twenty
twenty sixth celebration we're having in the US, four days
of athletic events featuring the greatest high school athletes, one
(01:17):
man and one woman from every state and territory. It
sounds suspiciously like the Hunger Games. You think about it.
I think they're all going to live, though, let's hope
so yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I think that would be a much more positive outcome
could be.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I wonder if we'll be able to bet on something
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, I can tell you that if it's below college age,
we will not.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
No, We're not allowing any wagering on anything below college.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
There was some talk recently about I think I don't
forget if it was Major League Baseball or football doing
away with bets, because those were the most susceptible to trickery, especially.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Some of the fringe ones. So, for example, Emmanuel Classe
of the Guardians was apparently throwing his first pitch as
a ball because you could bet strike or ball on
any pitch, and I'm sure in his mind he was thinking, hey,
I'm still trying to get this batter out, so I
(02:24):
go ball one, Like what's the big deal? But he
was doing it consistently and taking money for it, which
ruins the integrity of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He admitted that, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well I shouldn't say that, No, I mean, because there's
still they're still in the punishment phase. But MLB has
suspended him and another Guardians pitcher, and we don't know
when they're gonna be or if they'll ever be allowed
back into Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Tony Cuthbert. I don't know if this is true or not,
but Oscar Piastre yep, McLaren driver. The word is he's
moving over to Ferrari. That's not gonna ask that. Fake news,
fake news, fake news. Okay, we'll forget that then, but
we won't forget that. You have a car race here
coming up the fire Keeper's Casino four hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm glad he knows that because I'm not an F
one expert, so I'm glad you turned to somebody who was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's it. He's beer and F one. I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
June June, fire Keepers Casino four hundred. Let's go get
those tickets. And every year they've done a great job
there because they are growing. I know, we used to
have two races and we only have one, so you
would say, hey, the one should do better, and it is.
So every year we're seeing more popularity. And last year
we find some wood to knock on. Well, we didn't
(03:41):
have any rain for the first time in a while,
and we had a great race there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, and he also played in the fire Keeper's Casino
Golf Classic program like I did once, but he played
and he played with the president of the PGA of America,
John Lindard. Only guy Tony was nerve to play in
a pro am and he said, oh, by the way,
here's the president of the PGA to play with. Sure,
no problem, memories.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It was fun, It was very fun.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Indeed, this is a this is all about the fun
here and Gary FAGONI do you say that name like that? Yeah,
that's correct, Thank you very much, the director of slot
performance at fire Keepers Casino. I think you warmed up
yesterday with slats, Tony, and then you went and tried
your first ever blackjack and we're still using that as
a cliffhanger to find out how it went. But do
you remember what slots you played? And my mother is
(04:30):
watching over your shoulder. Oh my goodness, she's trying to
make a comeback this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
The one that I remember vividly was like a wheel
of Fortune type game and that was super cool. And
uh oh, somewhere right over the right there, right behind us,
somewhere right in.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Here, Gary, we had these late night questions. We saw
a machine that had a claw and it had like
little canisters of dollar bills all rolled out.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Technology, so there's a coin pusher game. Next to it,
it's a Class two slot machine. If you play the
Bass game and you're trying to win that claw token
on the coin pusher to come out. If it does,
you get a ticket you can go over and play
the Claw machine and win prizes.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh so you have to win on one machine to
go to the next or the.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Claw Yes, but we are working on a cash claw
version of that that we've already got on order, so
you can actually go in and play the Claw machine
as a slot machine and win bonuses and play the
Claw within itself.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So you play the game where the coins get pushed
coract and if you get enough, you go there. If
you knock off the token, yeah, exactly when you're a kid.
And what's in those little cash canisters.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
RFAD tags, So it's fake money in there, but it
gives an RFAD tag that tells you what prize you
want and then prints out a ticket that you redeem
with the slot staff.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What's the lowest and highest prize in the little canisters?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
So right now we're running a promotion where it's Stanley prizes,
So your lowest prize is probably gonna be your standard
Stanley tumbler cup.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All the way up to large coolers. Oh it's not cash,
it's act. Yeah, I see. And when those coins fall
over the side when you play that.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Are going into a little treasure chests that add up
for the rapid fire feature. You want to try to
get the rapid fire feature because that just starts spitting
out tokens like crazy out of that shooter arm, and
you're trying to get as many tokens to fall off
that edge as possible.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So am I wrong? Then this is not a cash game.
You pay to play, but you don't win cash. You
can win cash.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So the coin pusher machine is a class two machine
that you win credits on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh okay. And when I was playing into carnivals, those
quarters would fall down in the thing and you would
scoop up all the quarters. In this case, it comes
out on a piece of correct yea.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
As those coins fall down, they go on to a belt,
back into a hopper and recirculate back up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oy oh boy. Every time you think you've seen it all,
the one armed bandits are a lot different, aren't they, exactly?
That's pretty creative. And how is the new lounge back there?
The new slot lounge doing doing well?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
So we had a lot of success with the with
the Aristocrat area, so because of that, we kind of
carried that into the back of the building and partnered
with Konami Ags and Light Wonder to do a themed
area and are continuing that success with another one of
our partners, Light and Wonder that I mentioned, and doing
a Light and Wonder lane out here in the middle
of the floor, just right over here, where they're going
(07:09):
to feature seventy six of their slot machines with titles
everybody knows from Frankenstein to Dracula to Puff and morpof.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Frankenstein's Big Again because it was just a movie a
couple months ago, and it's probably going to be nominated
for Best Picture, I think.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
And there's a pretty impressive new cabinet and sign package
over here called the LightWave that, if you get a
chance to check out, is worth looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But what if we're only
seeing part of the picture. The truth is our health
insurance costs reside downstream at the end of the cost equation.
But to really understand what's driving up costs, we need
to look upstream to the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there
are costs like the price is charged by hospitals and doctors,
(07:53):
and the cost of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology.
These costs flow downstream directly into your health insurance premium.
That's why Blue Cross, Blue Shield the Michigan is advocating
for a system wide solution to address the rising cost
of healthcare. Blue Cross knows that healthcare is personal, needs
(08:13):
to work for everyone, and affordability matters, and that starts
with shedding light on the entire cost equation from upstream
costs to downstream premiums. Want to learn more, visitmibluedaily dot
com slash affordability
The cabin was glowing from the red Christmas lights. The
snow was falling. On my way home tonight, I knocked
on the door maybe once, maybe twice, and Missus Claws answered,
(00:32):
Oh did she look nice?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Song by James Judson. It's Christmas Eve tonight and you
can get it wherever you get music, Spotify, it could
be a good place or YouTube. It's Michael Patrick Shields.
He is our dedicated holiday performer this year heading into Christmas. Okay,
Jim Wise at Dacy Sports Book and Tony Cuthbert, we're
going to talk a little bit of sports here. And
(00:56):
this is something that you might not know about yet,
but Thursday, Resident Trump talked about a new creation. It's
going to be called the Patriot Games, and it's an
athletic contest that's going to be part of the twenty
twenty sixth celebration we're having in the US, four days
of athletic events featuring the greatest high school athletes, one
(01:17):
man and one woman from every state and territory. It
sounds suspiciously like the Hunger Games. You think about it.
I think they're all going to live, though, let's hope
so yes.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I think that would be a much more positive outcome
could be.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I wonder if we'll be able to bet on something
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well, I can tell you that if it's below college age,
we will not.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
No, We're not allowing any wagering on anything below college.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
There was some talk recently about I think I don't
forget if it was Major League Baseball or football doing
away with bets, because those were the most susceptible to trickery, especially.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Some of the fringe ones. So, for example, Emmanuel Classe
of the Guardians was apparently throwing his first pitch as
a ball because you could bet strike or ball on
any pitch, and I'm sure in his mind he was thinking, hey,
I'm still trying to get this batter out, so I
(02:24):
go ball one, Like what's the big deal? But he
was doing it consistently and taking money for it, which
ruins the integrity of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
He admitted that, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Well I shouldn't say that, No, I mean, because there's
still they're still in the punishment phase. But MLB has
suspended him and another Guardians pitcher, and we don't know
when they're gonna be or if they'll ever be allowed
back into Major League Baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Tony Cuthbert. I don't know if this is true or not,
but Oscar Piastre yep, McLaren driver. The word is he's
moving over to Ferrari. That's not gonna ask that. Fake news,
fake news, fake news. Okay, we'll forget that then, but
we won't forget that. You have a car race here
coming up the fire Keeper's Casino four hundred.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'm glad he knows that because I'm not an F
one expert, so I'm glad you turned to somebody who was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That's it. He's beer and F one. I like it.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
June June, fire Keepers Casino four hundred. Let's go get
those tickets. And every year they've done a great job
there because they are growing. I know, we used to
have two races and we only have one, so you
would say, hey, the one should do better, and it is.
So every year we're seeing more popularity. And last year
we find some wood to knock on. Well, we didn't
(03:41):
have any rain for the first time in a while,
and we had a great race there.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, and he also played in the fire Keeper's Casino
Golf Classic program like I did once, but he played
and he played with the president of the PGA of America,
John Lindard. Only guy Tony was nerve to play in
a pro am and he said, oh, by the way,
here's the president of the PGA to play with. Sure,
no problem, memories.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It was fun, It was very fun.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Indeed, this is a this is all about the fun
here and Gary FAGONI do you say that name like that? Yeah,
that's correct, Thank you very much, the director of slot
performance at fire Keepers Casino. I think you warmed up
yesterday with slats, Tony, and then you went and tried
your first ever blackjack and we're still using that as
a cliffhanger to find out how it went. But do
you remember what slots you played? And my mother is
(04:30):
watching over your shoulder. Oh my goodness, she's trying to
make a comeback this morning.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
The one that I remember vividly was like a wheel
of Fortune type game and that was super cool. And
uh oh, somewhere right over the right there, right behind us,
somewhere right in.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Here, Gary, we had these late night questions. We saw
a machine that had a claw and it had like
little canisters of dollar bills all rolled out.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
Technology, so there's a coin pusher game. Next to it,
it's a Class two slot machine. If you play the
Bass game and you're trying to win that claw token
on the coin pusher to come out. If it does,
you get a ticket you can go over and play
the Claw machine and win prizes.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Oh so you have to win on one machine to
go to the next or the.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Claw Yes, but we are working on a cash claw
version of that that we've already got on order, so
you can actually go in and play the Claw machine
as a slot machine and win bonuses and play the
Claw within itself.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
So you play the game where the coins get pushed
coract and if you get enough, you go there. If
you knock off the token, yeah, exactly when you're a kid.
And what's in those little cash canisters.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
RFAD tags, So it's fake money in there, but it
gives an RFAD tag that tells you what prize you
want and then prints out a ticket that you redeem
with the slot staff.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
What's the lowest and highest prize in the little canisters?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
So right now we're running a promotion where it's Stanley prizes,
So your lowest prize is probably gonna be your standard
Stanley tumbler cup.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
All the way up to large coolers. Oh it's not cash,
it's act. Yeah, I see. And when those coins fall
over the side when you play that.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Are going into a little treasure chests that add up
for the rapid fire feature. You want to try to
get the rapid fire feature because that just starts spitting
out tokens like crazy out of that shooter arm, and
you're trying to get as many tokens to fall off
that edge as possible.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
So am I wrong? Then this is not a cash game.
You pay to play, but you don't win cash. You
can win cash.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
So the coin pusher machine is a class two machine
that you win credits on.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh okay. And when I was playing into carnivals, those
quarters would fall down in the thing and you would
scoop up all the quarters. In this case, it comes
out on a piece of correct yea.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
As those coins fall down, they go on to a belt,
back into a hopper and recirculate back up.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oy oh boy. Every time you think you've seen it all,
the one armed bandits are a lot different, aren't they, exactly?
That's pretty creative. And how is the new lounge back there?
The new slot lounge doing doing well?
Speaker 5 (06:48):
So we had a lot of success with the with
the Aristocrat area, so because of that, we kind of
carried that into the back of the building and partnered
with Konami Ags and Light Wonder to do a themed
area and are continuing that success with another one of
our partners, Light and Wonder that I mentioned, and doing
a Light and Wonder lane out here in the middle
of the floor, just right over here, where they're going
(07:09):
to feature seventy six of their slot machines with titles
everybody knows from Frankenstein to Dracula to Puff and morpof.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Frankenstein's Big Again because it was just a movie a
couple months ago, and it's probably going to be nominated
for Best Picture, I think.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
And there's a pretty impressive new cabinet and sign package
over here called the LightWave that, if you get a
chance to check out, is worth looking at.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
When it comes to healthcare costs, we often focus on
one thing, our insurance premiums. But what if we're only
seeing part of the picture. The truth is our health
insurance costs reside downstream at the end of the cost equation.
But to really understand what's driving up costs, we need
to look upstream to the healthcare system itself. Upstream, there
are costs like the price is charged by hospitals and doctors,
(07:53):
and the cost of prescription drugs, healthcare administration, and technology.
These costs flow downstream directly into your health insurance premium.
That's why Blue Cross, Blue Shield the Michigan is advocating
for a system wide solution to address the rising cost
of healthcare. Blue Cross knows that healthcare is personal, needs
(08:13):
to work for everyone, and affordability matters, and that starts
with shedding light on the entire cost equation from upstream
costs to downstream premiums. Want to learn more, visitmibluedaily dot
com slash affordability
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