Concerts ain’t cheap and bigger experiences cost even more. In his never-ending quest to educate Nestor about money and living his best American Dream life, Leonard Raskin returns and discusses whether this Rush reunion is worth all of the fuss.
Nestor and Leonard discussed balancing discretionary spending with long-term savings, using AI tools to improve work productivity, and shaping a music-focused content strategy around Nestor’s upcoming radio anniversaries.
Money Choices
- Leonard emphasized a consistent savings philosophy: set aside part of income for the future, avoid overspending on immediate wants, and use technology to automatically save a larger share of raises, bonuses, commissions, and other future income increases.
- Nestor framed this through concert spending, comparing lower-cost options like a $34.50 Brian Adams ticket and a $37 Barry Manilow ticket with premium resale prices such as $240 to $340 for a Rush show at Madison Square Garden.
- Decision: Nestor chose not to buy the higher-priced New York Rush ticket and instead viewed that money as better used for a future Brazil trip tied to later shows.
AI Impact
- Nestor and Leonard discussed using Claude and ChatGPT for practical work support, including file compression, checking outputs, and pushing the tools to verify answers and cite sources.
- Leonard said AI will increase productivity, eliminate some job categories, and create new opportunities not yet fully visible, similar to earlier shifts driven by the internet and Google.
- Question: How should professionals adapt workflows now that AI can handle more research, validation, and routine knowledge tasks?
Content Direction
- Nestor described plans for a music-centered content series tied to his 28th anniversary and a larger 35th anniversary on radio coming on December 13, 2027.
- He is considering a 14-week rollout now and a broader 35-week or year-long rock-and-roll series next year, built around ticket stubs, backstage passes, concert reviews, artist stories, and audience nostalgia.
- Question: Which music-storytelling formats will resonate most with the audience compared with legacy sports storytelling?
Action Items
- Obtain the Brazilian visa and adjust the existing passport photo to meet the size requirements (under one megabyte) before traveling to Brazil.
- After returning from Brazil, report back to Nestor on safety and recommend specific accommodations so he can plan his own Brazil trip.
- Around his October birthday, review airline prices and build a detailed cost ledger for attending the Rush concert in Brazil, including flights and lodging. (@Nestor Aparicio)
- Launch the 28th-anniversary, twice-weekly, music- and concert-focused radio segment on the 28th, running through approximately 14 weeks of the football season. (@Nestor Aparicio)
- Continue engaging potential sponsors for 2027 support and a year-long or roughly 35-week “rock and roll” campaign tied to the December 13, 2027, 35th-anniversary milestone. (@Nestor Aparicio)
Financial Philosophy
- Leonard reviewed core principles of personal finance: save from earnings, plan for future cash-flow needs, and avoid moving from spending everything to saving everything all at once.
- He recommended structuring finances so a higher percentage of future income growth is saved automatically.
- Nestor connected this to value-based spending on concerts, travel, and experiences.
Concert Spending
- Nestor compared budget-conscious concert decisions with premium ticket temptation, especially around Rush shows in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and a possible Brazil trip.
- He described declining a $240 to $340 Madison Square Garden ticket after weighing cost, health, schedule, and the fact that similar shows remained available elsewhere.
- Leonard agreed that not every event is worth the premium and that choices should reflect personal priorities.
AI and Work
- Nestor shared examples of his wife using Claude in her Verizon engineering work and described prompting AI tools more aggressively when initial answers are incomplete.
- Leonard said he uses ChatGPT more often than Claude and sees AI as a major productivity shift with labor-market consequences.
Media Strategy
- Nestor outlined a future content strategy centered on music memories, concert archives, and storytelling authenticity.
- He said audience interest currently appears stronger for concert stories than for older sports memories, which may influence sponsor conversations and programming direction.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are WNST. Hey, I’m 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We call this Mirage Baltimore positive. It is summertime here in the big city. Lots of concerts around, a lot of fun around, and crab cakes as well. After I am in Ocean City, Maryland this week, I’ll be there for Mako on Thursday and Friday, having some politicals on Republican, Democrat, Eastern Shore, Western Shore, Black, White, Young, Old, Male, Female, some even human. I will say I’ll be looking for Andy Harris down there for the 10th year in a row. But it’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery. I have the Ravens scratch-offs to give away. Our friends at GBMC and our partners at Farnham and Dermer sending me out on the road. Fishmonger’s daughter first stop on the 19th next week in Catonsville, which means I get the Feedley’s crab cake. But I’m going to decline the crab cake there because they have so many other things on the menu that I got to check out and I got to to to participate in the 26th. I will be having the crab cake. I’ll be at Koco’s Pub. Although I usually get the coconut shrimp over there and the cream of crab soup, we’ll see how it goes. That is the 26. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery. This guy sponsors us. He manages money. He helps me manage my money so I can afford a $34.50 ticket to see Brian Adams in the front row. $37 ticket to see Barry Manilow on Friday night. I won best to Baltimore, and Max and Ron gave us tickets. We had a beautiful night down at the stadium, and then we saw Lake Street Dive. Don’t tell anybody. You can watch the shows for free on the pier. So we did that last week with a little cooler, old school, and some. So I have been in my beautiful city, Leonard Raskin, long enough, and you have been a sponsor long enough to get me to what was it? Here, here it is, 2028, years. Other
Leonard Raskin 1:52
side. There we go.
Nestor Aparicio 1:53
This side, 28 years. I don’t know. I’m all turned around. It’s a Zoom.
Leonard Raskin 1:57
It’s okay.
Nestor Aparicio 1:58
How are you, man? What’s going on? How’s your great?
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Leonard Raskin 2:00
I’m great. Good. Got home from St. Louis after moving the boy into after missing
Nestor Aparicio 2:06
Russia in New York. Go ahead, missing Russia in New York to move the boy into the new
Leonard Raskin 2:10
place. That’s right. Priorities of family took over, and then then threw myself back into a busy. You know, you’re away for a week, and it feels like you’ve been away for a month, and and then I was out three days for conference, which is always fun when you get to come back from five out and then take three out. It makes the team very happy. They get to get caught up on life when I’m not throwing new stuff on them. But but now this week will be slammerama with all the catch up for me of being out effectively two weeks, but the good news is we had some great time. We had some great family time. We had some. I had a great conference. Some some very important information to impart to the people we advise. All things as we talked about cash flow before I went away, making sure that everybody is using their cash the way they should, that they are controlling cash flow. Because as we, what is
Nestor Aparicio 3:09
it about me that wants to save money when I buy concert tickets, but not save money on? You know what I mean? Like I’m always ever people that look for deals, and I would be me. And look, my kid is a thrifter. The thrifting thing is all here now. There’s a whole different thing with being frugal and finding the blueberries that are on sale or using the coupon for the milk. That is a different thing than what you do. Yes,
Leonard Raskin 3:34
correct. Well, but you are
Nestor Aparicio 3:36
proud of me when I do that because it leaves you on money to do other things.
Leonard Raskin 3:38
Absolutely, the idea is, and and our philosophy remains the same. You you have to take from what you earn, and you’ve got to set aside an amount for the future that you hope to live into. What we know is the financial future will always call your bluff. If you don’t save enough, you’ll end up in a bad place. If you save enough, you’ll have great times now, great times later. What happens is, as Americans, we’re bombarded with opportunity. We’re bombarded with we need things now, now, now, and as a result, we spend now, now, now, and and we spend way too much. So here’s the thing: you can’t just go from spending it all to saving it all. It doesn’t work that way. But what you can do is systematically and with the help of technology today structure your finances so that you save a greater percentage of every future dollar you earn. So if you get raises, bonuses, commissions, however you earn your income, if you end up controlling the fact that you save more of the future increases in the future, you’ll have a brighter future, and it doesn’t mean you can’t do all the things you want to do. And then if you go into the whole thrifting thing and. Saving thing for things that you need, then certainly you just be able to save more. And there are people that are just about saving more or spending more on luxury once they’ve saved enough. And I got this where I get crazy with you, Doug. Any of that?
8Nestor Aparicio 5:15
Like you have no problem buying $500 rush ticket. I would never do that, and I love rush 100 times, maybe more than you do, and we travel around to see them because I walked. You’ll be proud of me, or you’ll walk in the night of the show and find somebody whipping off a second row ticket for 40 bucks. So I’ll be honest with you. Can I give you like a little rush experience here? Because I do want to tell you, like saving money, going to shows cheap, having nights out that are more inexpensive. I’m a Dundalk guy at heart, right? Fantastic. And and I was rich at one point, and then I was poor at one point, and then I was broke at one point, and now I’m just like I prefer a $34 Brian Adams ticket to a $74 Brian Adams ticket, and I certainly wouldn’t buy $180 Brian Adams ticket as much as I love Brian Adams. You know, people see me see see me these concerts, and they’re like, “Oh, you must be like Raskin blowing a grand on two rush tickets in the 18th row. And I’m like, and then selling them, probably making money on the other side. You might have done that in New York, but I I went to New York to see the first Rush show by accident. I told you I I got I went at 2o’clock. I was always going to go to the fourth Rush show, but I didn’t buy a ticket. I got up there in New York. I saw Schmigadoon on Sunday, and then on Monday night the Rush thing happened, and I didn’t go to the show because the tickets went to $340. Right, right. And I didn’t love the set. Listen to be really honest, I had an upset stomach most of the day in New York, so I didn’t feel good. And I literally, and that was the Orioles traded the whole world off. Yeah, I took that. I was in front of Madison Square Garden on my phone, watching Rush fans go in, and the tickets were 340 bucks. And I looked at it, and this is how I looked at it. It’s going to be the same show as the the second show in DC, which is currently 120. Same exact show. Yeah, I’m going to go to that show and I’m gonna enjoy that show. My stomach won’t be upset. I’m gonna have to pay to park and do all that. But from a financial standpoint, sometimes you have to ask yourself, like, it. You know, it’s raining outside. Do I really need to go for a walk, or can I wait? Right. Or is this the best day to go to the beach? Or and I am always a maximizer of that. Like so, for me, if it’s something you have to pay a premium for at the end,
Leonard Raskin 7:27
yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 7:28
I said to Luke, “You want to go to Minnesota next week to see this practice? It’s going to cost me $800 to fly to Minnesota now. Where if I had booked it a month and a half ago, it might have been 99 bucks. So those are the things where you’re like, “Okay, that’s an opportunity cost. But with concerts, ball games, tickets for stuff, hotel rooms. Is the weather nice in Ocean City this weekend? Is this the weekend I want to do the $300 hotel room? I want it to be 89 and sunny when I’m there. I am, I’m very very active in that way in thinking about Rush. Like I swear to you, I’m standing in Madison Square Garden. Having sat in the first row the other night, knowing if I spend 350 bucks right now, I’m going to be on the roof, and am I going to enjoy that? And then I thought, this is 350 bucks, and and you’re on my shoulder as Raskin Global. You don’t know this. You remember the Belushi thing where there’s the good angel and the bad angel. The bad angel is f it, spend the money, f those draft picks, go. You you might die tomorrow. This is your last chance to see Getty. Even though they’re playing in Philly in a week and a half, literally, right? Right. So they have two shows in Philly. They’re a little more pricey. And I thought to myself, I want to take this 300 bucks. I’ve already paid for the hotel room. I’ve already eaten the pizza. I’ve already had the upset stomach from the cappuccino. Like like literally, I’m sitting there with my 300 bucks, and I’m thinking, do I want this experience? Right, $300 a lot. That’s a lot of money, like to me for a concert. Like, yeah. So the only reason I wouldn’t spend it. I just the only
Leonard Raskin 8:52
reason I would is I absolutely positively want to get to that show, and at that moment, that it means the
Nestor Aparicio 9:01
world to you, and I’m gonna do
Leonard Raskin 9:02
it right. But because I had seen the show five days earlier in the second row,
Nestor Aparicio 9:07
and and the other thing is, I had work to do. I had an early train. I had an upset stomach, and it was 300 bucks. So here’s what I did: I put the money back in my pocket, and I lived another day.
8Leonard Raskin 9:18
Yep.
Nestor Aparicio 9:19
And I said at the moment, I’m like, I really, and this would speak to what I’m talking to you about because this speaks to my soul when I do these segments with you about my bucket list and things like that. Sure, I’m like, I really want to see Rush in Brazil in January when it’s summer. I want to go to these cities. I don’t even know how to pronounce them: Curitiba, Brasilia, towns I’ve never been to, and I’m like, I think I’m gonna take the $300 this minute and just put it towards that. Not that I didn’t have 300 bucks. Not that I don’t value 300 bucks. Not that my wife said, “Dude, you got a hotel room in New York. You want up and go to the show? And I’m like, “No, I saved the 300 bucks, and I’m gonna I’m gonna go to Philly in a couple.” Weeks with Raskin, or I’m gonna, you know, my buddy Brian Poole wants to go to Philly, so I’m just gonna go to a different show,
Leonard Raskin 10:06
and and do it live another
Nestor Aparicio 10:08
day, live another day.
Leonard Raskin 10:09
Absolutely, absolutely, I agree 100. It’s it’s just a matter of is this an event that I want to get to that the schedule fits? You can’t do everything, right? That’s exactly right. So you pick the things that matter the most, and you find them on your world, and you do it. Like you’re going to
Nestor Aparicio 10:29
Brazil already, right?
Leonard Raskin 10:30
I am, and I got to get my darn visa. I got to get the Brazilian visa. Do
8Nestor Aparicio 10:35
not procrastinate on that. I know.
Leonard Raskin 10:38
I I got to get
Nestor Aparicio 10:39
after. I got to have a picture. I gotta have a
Leonard Raskin 10:42
passport picture. I got the passport. Gotta have some picture, and and the one I have is too too big. It’s too megabyte. They need less than a mega. I don’t know what the hell. I gotta get the computer guy to figure out the size of the picture file. No, just
Nestor Aparicio 10:56
go to your AI and tell it to compress it for you. It’ll take care of. There you go.
Leonard Raskin 10:59
There you go. Have you met Claude
Nestor Aparicio 11:01
yet? By the way, or not? I have
8Leonard Raskin 11:02
met Claude. I’ve met Chatty G. I’ve met Chatty G and Claude. I use Chatty G more than Claude, but I do use them both. And yeah, that’s a great a great piece of wisdom right there because those things can do tons of things for you. I swear, my my
Nestor Aparicio 11:19
wife is learning Claude and her gig, and she’s a 35-year project engineer with Verizon. I’m very proud of her, and you know her intellect and how she processes information as she learns. She’s learned. She stayed in the phone company 35. I mean, it’s a completely different every part of it. Talk about radio being different, or the web, or what I am, or how you manage money, or how money’s managed in real time in different ways and different opportunities. the The Claude thing. She came in with a problem the other day, and she was so frustrated. Yeah, she’s like, “My God, my God, this this isn’t working. I’m like, my AI guy Dennis O’Donovan says, “Challenge the Claude. Just say, ‘Are you sure?
Leonard Raskin 11:55
That’s right. Do you
Nestor Aparicio 11:56
know what you’re doing? Can you double treat it like a human that won’t get mad at you. Treat it like an employee that really wants to make you happy, really wants to get your result. But sometimes that employee has to run a little harder, do a little more, go down an alley. Doesn’t want to go down. Cite your sources.
Leonard Raskin 12:11
Cite your sources. I need to make sure this is right. I’ve told it that if it didn’t get it right, I was going to get fired. But this is changing the
Nestor Aparicio 12:19
business world dramatically. You know that, and it’s changing the market, right? Am
Leonard Raskin 12:23
I right? Yes, yes. It’s it’s bringing product. It will bring productivity to another new level. You know, we had the internet. People said, “Oh, the world’s going to end. People are going to lose their jobs. True. Then we had Google. Oh, the world’s going to end. People are going to lose their jobs. True. Now we got AI. Oh my God, the world is sending people to lose their jobs. True, but but its utilization will create another whole set of opportunities that we don’t even know what they are at the moment. I mean, it it it puts certain occupational classes out of business. It will create amazing new opportunities for all kinds of things. As I said, we we can’t even imagine at the moment. I know we can. That’s fantastic.
8Nestor Aparicio 13:07
We did Ravens last week. We did Orioles last week. And if you have anything on the Rutschman sell off, if you want to give me that, you can give me it. But I I’ve got a little thing up my sleeve here this week with our 28th. It’s on this side, not this side. Let’s go 28th anniversary. So I, you know, it kind of came and it kind of went, and you know, I’ve done 25 crab cakes, 26 oysters, 27 my favorite foods. I was trying to come up with something, and a friend of mine challenged me about how many concerts I’ve been to now that I’m in the concert mode.
Leonard Raskin 13:36
Yeah, how many? So,
Nestor Aparicio 13:38
friend of mine went to a concert recently and said that’s the best concert I’ve ever seen, and I’m like really okay. I mean that’s high praise, right?
Leonard Raskin 13:46
Yeah, who was that, dude? My buddy
Nestor Aparicio 13:48
Ed still texted me this morning and called Brian Adams a 10 of 10. So any show that you’d say is a 10 of 10, right? Like I enjoyed that Billy Joel show I went to with you, but I’ve seen Billy Joel 60 or 70 times. I can’t say it was the best show or the most memorable show. So when I told my friend, that’s a really loaded question because I’ve been to 1000s of concerts.
Leonard Raskin 14:12
Yes, I’m sure. And
Nestor Aparicio 14:13
my friend said 1000s, and I’m like,
8Leonard Raskin 14:17
yes,
Nestor Aparicio 14:18
yeah. So during this period of time, this bleeds into my AI. I I fed this to my clone, okay? About this. There’s three parts to this: ticket stubs, of which you and I have done long segments on ticket stubs.
Leonard Raskin 14:35
You have. I brought them
Nestor Aparicio 14:36
all out to the. You’re one of the very. You might be the only human, other than my wife, who’s seen all my ticket stubs.
Leonard Raskin 14:42
The the because I brought the box. Boxes. I literally
Nestor Aparicio 14:45
brought the box to Costas. Incredible. The day we did the Capitol Center thing, and anybody. By the way, Leonard Raskin is here from Raskin Global. I’m treating him like a non-sponsor right now, and like my concert buddy that skipped out on Rush. But still, we’ll see. You’re gonna see Rush, right? Absolutely. All right, yeah, I’m just making sure. Absolutely,
Leonard Raskin 15:02
no question.
8Nestor Aparicio 15:03
So the concert thing,
Leonard Raskin 15:04
yes.
Nestor Aparicio 15:04
Here’s where I am, and I’m I’m trying this out on you. Let’s pretend we’re just having a regular meeting. We’re having lunch at Cooper’s or something, right? Or up Acosta’s. So my 20th anniversary. I’m thinking on the 28th of this month, I’m about to release a 28 thing that’s going to last the football season, like 14 weeks. You know, I’m going to twice a week. I’m going to have a 28th, and it’s going to be music oriented. It’s going to be concert oriented. But what I’m trying to get at is that my 35th personal anniversary on the radios coming up in December, and that’s more of a bigger deal. And I’m about to blow that up. So, like talking a few new sponsors about some 2027 sponsorship and about my 35th anniversary of being on the radio every day of my life for 35 years. I should celebrate that, right? You want me to celebrate that, right? Absolutely. I think what I’m going to do next year because it’s going to be December 13th. It’s my 35th. Kenny Albert’s coming on this week too. Who did the game the other night with John Smoltz? Yeah, yeah. So you know, Kenny began my show. For those of you who don’t know, Kenny was the reason I’m on the radio 35 years ago. He did this with me, and so I’m going to celebrate. And I think I’m going to turn 2027. You know that once the Christmas comes, December 13th is the I’m going to do an annual, a year long, or maybe just 35 weeks of rock and roll stuff, and I and I’m trying to figure out what it is. And this I’m giving this to you. I talked to John Allen about this, my buddy at the game the other day, Alan McCallum, who’s known me forever, and they’re both musicians. You know, like literally, I I said, “What would you want to hear? And I may turn this into like a contest where I give away some crab cakes because I am really trying to fish for what people are interested in in regard to whenever I share ticket stub, a concert story, a video, the time I met Paul Rogers from Bad Company or whatever. People always want to hear those stories now because their people are dying and whatever, and they’re not as interested in like tell me about the time you talked to Cal Ripken or if I put Cal like they or even Brooks Robinson or even Art Donovan or whatever. I’ve been doing all of that. Now it’s more like if next year I soup up the music. Now I’m still going to do Ravens or all that, but I want to lean into the music thing because I do think there’s an authenticity involved in my music storytelling that comes with the pictures of the ticket stubs, the pictures of the artist, the backstage passes, the reviews that I wrote of bands, and just this summer, I shared those Chicago pictures when Walt Parazader died. That I had pictures in the front row in 1985, and that I had a review that I wrote in the paper. And people just, at I’m telling you, the concerts I’ve been going to last, people are coming up to me and asking me music stories way more than oh the Super Bowl or Ray Ray Lewis or any of that you know there’s
Leonard Raskin 18:07
so many there’s so many things that music ties much more to to your life it it takes me back to where I was hanging out what I was doing who my friends were, family, family times, friend times. We talked about waiting in line at the Heck Company for tickets. How about record theater? Remember going to record? Did you ever go to record theater other side of
Nestor Aparicio 18:38
town, dude? That was you’re you’re you’re on Liberty Road. I know, dude. Rector Theater was a thing. Oh, we went there for
Leonard Raskin 18:46
went there for some different tickets for different shows, and who hung out? I mean, we we had we had different guys go to different heck companies to see who could get the best tickets, and we each got the limit of eight or 10, and that’s the ones we used, and we sold the rest. It was just a question of who got the better seats, and so I’m talking Judas Priest, I’m talking the Who, I’m talking foreigner, you know, and and those are times in in life that that just are are records of records, no pun intended, of our past, and here we are. Leonard, look at this picture of me.
Nestor Aparicio 19:27
Look at this picture of me with Getty in the first row at the Garden. I mean, could that be anyone else other than Getty? It looks like it’s on the cover of Exit Stage Left, doesn’t it? But right, doesn’t it? Look at Alex, and you know, and they’re doing La Via Strangiato, or they’re doing Xanadu. You know, at that moment, it’s
8Leonard Raskin 19:46
as good as it gets,
Nestor Aparicio 19:47
dude. Passage to Bangkok. We got to come on.
Leonard Raskin 19:50
That’s it. So, so those times, those concerts, those shows mark a time in life, and and who you were with, and what you were. Doing totally, I mean, a baseball game here or there does that, but not very often. I so
Nestor Aparicio 20:07
I’m trying to think of the joy it brings me as I research this, right? And so many concerts have you been to? If I ask you how many have you been to, 500
Leonard Raskin 20:16
1000s? No, no, no, no, no. I I would 100 ish,
Nestor Aparicio 20:22
okay,
Leonard Raskin 20:22
maybe, maybe. I mean, I’d have two a year,
8Nestor Aparicio 20:26
two a year. What’s that? Two a year.
Leonard Raskin 20:28
Ah, couple more than that back in the day. Now almost none. You know. Okay,
Nestor Aparicio 20:34
so you haven’t added any late
Leonard Raskin 20:36
shoes. No, got to pick. Now I
Nestor Aparicio 20:37
don’t add sporting events. How many people say how many Oreo games you’ve been to two or four this four? Curio sent me what curio sent me last week. We went out there and sweated out, and I I told Luke I blew up at Brandon Young. You could hear it on the Masson broadcast. I found out I lost my mind when he made an error. I mean, I lost my. I stood up and I lost my effing mind on behalf of everyone. I started screaming to Brandon Young. Mike Trout turned around and looked at me. The catcher looked at me.
Leonard Raskin 21:04
That’s where it goes. You know, I was looking at the schedule actually that you’ll find this humorous. The rush
Nestor Aparicio 21:10
schedule or the Oriole schedule?
8Leonard Raskin 21:11
The Orioles schedule. Okay,
Nestor Aparicio 21:12
because you and I have much more likelihood to go to Rush Contra for 300 bucks in Philly in two weeks than we do to go to an Oriole game for 10 bucks tomorrow morning.
Leonard Raskin 21:19
There is a possibility because I now have a connection in St. Louis.
Nestor Aparicio 21:24
Ah, the O’s are
Leonard Raskin 21:25
playing the Cardinals the end of August.
Nestor Aparicio 21:28
Okay,
Leonard Raskin 21:29
in in St. Louis land, and so you know, go get yourself some
8Nestor Aparicio 21:34
Ted Drews and and get get some Pappy’s barbecue and go go go see the Arch. Go do it.
Leonard Raskin 21:38
Fly out, see the boy, and go to a game. It would be the first Oriole game I went to this year. Could be in St. Louis. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 21:45
when I was a boy, I dreamed of going to St. Louis. You know this, right? Like my childhood dream trip. Oh my God, the Gateway Arch. I was obsessed with that, and I was obsessed with the Philadelphia Phillies in the summer of 1983. And my parents came home. My dad came home very tired at the steel mill and said, “Where do you want to go? And I said, “I want to go to St. Louis and Kansas City. And my mom, I sold it to my mom because she loved the fountains in the ballpark. And George Brett, right? Right. So my dad put me and my mom. This is poor Dundalk folk. My brother Jeff dropped us off down at the Greyhound terminal, right? Oh my God! Literally downtown Baltimore, the Greyhound terminal ride. Right. They had the television sets in those plastic chairs there, and the little coffee room. Everybody’s smoking cigarettes, and that you’re like glass. It looked like right out of a set, and right out of North by Northwest. And we took the bus, the Greyhound bus, to St. Louis. I have all my pictures, all my childhood pictures from doing it. My parents, and I remembered being in the state. Pete Rose is playing for the Phillies. Mike Schmidt, the whole deal. Right. Danny Cox made his major league debut, Cox, for the St. Louis Cardinals the night I was there, and we went to the wrestling matches at the Keel Auditorium, and I saw Harley Race and Ric Flair wrestle. I saw Hulk Hogan that night too. So I have pictures of all of this from my child. I’ve shared it. Go up, just put St. Louis Nestor trip night TV. But in the ball, my mom wanted to go to the Budweiser Brewery.
Leonard Raskin 23:08
Ah,
Nestor Aparicio 23:09
she wanted to see the Clydesdales, big thing. There you go. But I remember this. You know how they had the organist in the in the stadium, the old Busch Stadium. Sure. They would play on the organ the Clydesdale song. Here comes the beard. Here comes the big number one. So I think they still play that in the Busch Stadium, and they have the Clydesdales, and it’s all bearded out. So you haven’t been to the new ballpark in St. Louis?
Leonard Raskin 23:33
No, nope.
Nestor Aparicio 23:34
All right, we’ll take this. This is
8Leonard Raskin 23:35
my it’s my chance to go see the O’s. The
Nestor Aparicio 23:37
Orioles will be in the wild card race because they are in the wild card race. They’ll at
Leonard Raskin 23:40
least be in the race doesn’t mean they’re going to be in the game, but they’ll be in the race.
Nestor Aparicio 23:45
Are you a marathon fan with rush marathon songs? Not how fast you go. It’s the force that goes into the flow.
Leonard Raskin 23:50
There we go. Got to
Nestor Aparicio 23:50
pick up the pace. You want to stay in the race?
Leonard Raskin 23:52
Amen. I’m
8Nestor Aparicio 23:53
quoting Neil Peart here, man. So, which rush show are you doing, or have you not figured this out? No, I’m doing.
Leonard Raskin 23:59
No, I’m definitely going. And it’s in October. I’ve seen the edge of the
Nestor Aparicio 24:02
iceberg, and I worry about you.
Leonard Raskin 24:04
No, man, it’s October. What are we going here?
Nestor Aparicio 24:07
Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 24:07
October sometime. Are you going to the
Nestor Aparicio 24:10
DC show?
8Leonard Raskin 24:11
DC, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not
Nestor Aparicio 24:13
going to Philly in a couple weeks. All right,
Leonard Raskin 24:14
not on the. No, you’re in St. Louis, I
Nestor Aparicio 24:16
think. Yeah, things can
Leonard Raskin 24:17
change. Things can change. 27th, 27th of October, late October. So I said, Getty’s got to make it. You know. So here’s what I
Nestor Aparicio 24:24
want you to do as my financial advisor. Two weeks from now. Two weeks. Sunday, Monday, Sunday. Philly’s. Philly soon. Philly’s the 23rd. Like that. It’s 23rd, 21st, 23rd, 2123, Friday, Sunday.
Leonard Raskin 24:39
Friday, Sunday. Yeah, week and a half. 23.
8Nestor Aparicio 24:41
Yeah, 2123, You going
Leonard Raskin 24:42
up? You driving up? Where is
Nestor Aparicio 24:44
it? That’s at the hockey rink. The
Leonard Raskin 24:46
hockey rink. That’s the spectrum
Nestor Aparicio 24:48
doesn’t exist anymore, dude. The new
Leonard Raskin 24:49
spectrum, whatever it’s called. Come on, man, the
Nestor Aparicio 24:51
spectrum.
8Leonard Raskin 24:52
What’s it called? Hey, you went to the Civic Center this last week. That’s because I’m not promoting
Nestor Aparicio 24:57
their fricking bank because they’re not paying me.
Leonard Raskin 24:59
Right, so so isn’t it the spectrum? I’m getting
Nestor Aparicio 25:02
chippy.
Leonard Raskin 25:03
Where it’s that all right? Isn’t it? Isn’t it the spectrum? No, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 25:06
it. You know what? I will promote them because I write my mortgage to them. Wells Fargo Center. There you go. What exactly is the Wells Fargo Center is what it is. It used to be called in one word the Wachovia Center, but they went out of business. They bought them.
Leonard Raskin 25:22
They bought them up. All right, so 21st and 23rd. So here’s what I’m
8Nestor Aparicio 25:27
thinking with you. This I want to tell you. It’s very very important.
Leonard Raskin 25:30
Drive up
Nestor Aparicio 25:30
on my budget. It’s very important that I sign these new sponsors and that Santa brings me good toys for Christmas. Okay. So here’s what the here’s the deal. I want to go to Brazil. Brazil’s an inexpensive place to go. I want to go to Finland and Stockholm and Copenhagen. That’s a very expensive place to go, right? So I’m thinking to myself, I’m fine with Brazil, and I’ll have to. And you’ll be back, right? Yeah. And you’ll tell me how dodgy it is, and I already know. And you’re gonna have your passport and your visa and all that. Absolutely. So the $310 that I didn’t spend, and I had a $240 ticket on my screen, and I was trying to buy it inside the Madison Square Garden. I’ve already cleared security, and right by the box office, I didn’t go. I went into Springsteen in the same direction six weeks ago for 140 bucks. I did not go into Rush for 240 or for 310. There you go. So I put the money back in my pocket. You’ll appreciate this is my financial guy, and the day that I decide and make a decision, because once you’ve hold on, I will choose free will. You can choose ain’t ready. It’s some celestial. If you choose not to decide right now, I’m not deciding. I am making a choice. I made a choice to pull my $310 back, put it on my ledger, wager it on the Maryland lottery and horse racing, all the things you tell me not to do. I’m kidding. Take that $310 and put it toward Brazil. Brazil. I’m going to get back to you when you get back from Brazil, which is going to be right around my birthday, October. Which I’ll be in decision making mode. The airlines will be desperate to get money then into November. They’ll put stuff on sale, and I’ll figure out my pathway to Brazil. And I’m going to put a whole ledger together for what it’s going to cost me to see Russian Brazil, where when they play YYZ, they’re going to sing the lyrics to the song. Right?
Leonard Raskin 27:20
Cool, cool.
Nestor Aparicio 27:20
So I’m I’m looking for. I think that experience will supersede Rush on the Roof for me.
Leonard Raskin 27:30
There we go.
Nestor Aparicio 27:30
Is that good?
8Leonard Raskin 27:31
New York. I’m all for it. Brazil would be a better choice.
Nestor Aparicio 27:34
Well, I want you to go to Brazil first to make sure it’s safe.
Leonard Raskin 27:36
I will. I’ll let you know. Are you looking for? I’ll let you know where we’re staying. Yeah, I’m ready to go. Can’t wait. Be a beautiful trip.
Nestor Aparicio 27:42
Lederaski’s here. He manages honey. He manages me. He manages the heartache of me missing rush concerts and him looking forward to the next rush. 21st, 23rd. Philly gets close. I’m Nestor. We’re WNST. AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking. Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
