foreign Jr here with gaming America and I'm here with Derek Stevens CEO of Circa now I got a couple of questions for you how is g2e going for you so far well I can't wait to get on the floor I haven't gotten on the floor yet but uh but I'm pretty excited I mean uh you know compared to last year I think last year there were maybe 13 000 attendees this year I think uh the thought is there's gonna be a double I think there's gonna be 27 000. it's obviously far busier than what we've seen before um and and I'm pretty excited because I think the uh the amount of new innovation coming out now after after a couple years I think this is going to be a show that has more Innovation than what we've seen maybe in years past yeah so you've won two Global gaming Awards back to back best property how does that feel uh pretty cool I would say it was pretty cool I mean I I actually didn't know we were eligible this year so when uh when it came up I thought that was pretty uh pretty amazing so really um you know when things go well I get I get undue uh I get a little bit of undue uh accolades really our team did a hell of a job and uh really on behalf of the team and everything it's but it's been good so we're all we're all very proud of it what do you think it is that your property does that really entices its customers to continue showing up month after month year after year well I I would say you know I think every property has its own Niche um and I think you just gotta you gotta know what your Niche is I mean we really try to focus in on on personalities and characters and uh and people that can really develop um you know a personal connection with with customers and with groups and things like that and uh we spent a lot of time we spend a lot of time on property uh it's one of the things we I mean we designed it we we designed a place that you know you get to go to work at for 40 50 hours a week but then uh but we also designed a place that once we're done we we get to hang out there for a while so so we kind of enjoyed that like I said every every um every property has its own Niche and uh ours is obviously a bit of sports some you know destination elements with Legacy club and Stadium swim but really we just uh we used to have a ball be in there and that that's probably the key thing I would say what is Circa looking forward to for the rest of the year Well circus just opened up um you know our phase two our phase two was meeting space and Ballroom space so we just opened that a couple weeks ago so for us we're looking forward to how that's going to impact potentially some group business and weekday business and it's also going to give us an opportunity to have more watch parties more Live Events I'm excited about having uh having fights in our in our Ballroom um you know in in November so more opportunities for more entertainment and more fun to be had where do you guys see your sports betting going over the next few months well we um you know we're up in Circus boards is up in three states Nevada Iowa and Colorado we're looking forward to opening up in uh first quarter of uh of 23 in Illinois so that'll be our fourth state and we look forward to you know potentially uh growing into additional States the one thing I love about about what's happening on Sports and uh you know they had a lot of time this morning to talk to a handful of other big time CEOs um that that I really view this this industry right now as something that's really just in its infancy when you see the the how people are are changing schedules because they want to watch a particular game or things like that you know Sports is really now the only thing you watch live and and it's it's something now where you change your schedule whether you want to be at home to watch it or whether you want to go in a group setting I think that's the one thing I'm seeing coming out of um coming out of covid that group Sports watching or group Sports attending has is is really something that there's some um been a lot of put up demand people love going out being with their friends and you know watching a game or going to a game and I think that's something that bodes well for uh for sports but it bodes well for sports team owners it bodes well for leagues it bodes well for you know sports bars around the country and it builds well for sports books yeah absolutely well thank you so much for talking to us and taking a moment out of your day I appreciate it thank you thank you so much have a great one okay thanks foreign