About a half a billion reasons to play

As the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots increase, Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery talks big money history in Maryland and more ways to enjoy Orioles season with the Home Run Riches big flys at Camden Yards.

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SPEAKERS

Seth Elkin, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

What about wn st Towson, Baltimore. And Baltimore positive or positively into the crabcakes season it is Fourth of July. I’ll be sharing my little video that I made a few years ago that had millions of views from fade. Lee’s were Deniz hands were showing me the lollipop method. I call that the West Side method. On the east side, we want Columbus boom, boom, boom. We got a big month here. It is all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. The instant lottery scratch offs, we’re still giving away. We didn’t have as lucky a batch of spirits West last week. We had a lot of winners in the weeks before. We’re going to be fadeless on Thursday morning doing this for the Fourth of July weekend. That is on the 29th If you missed it, don’t worry, we’ll be back at it again. We’re going to be accosted celebrating our 25th anniversary. On August 3 I’ll be wearing the fun floppy hat from our friends at window nation. 866 90 nation you buy two you get two free 0% financing for two years and it’s beautiful outside just open the windows around here. So I’m digging it. This guy is gonna join me now talk a little bit of lottery and more than a day. Happy holidays to you. Seth Elkins joins us now. Give me your title, direct something communications managing something something

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Seth Elkin  01:08

Managing Director of Communications. It’s too early. It’s too much of a mouthful. Yeah, I don’t know. My,

Nestor Aparicio  01:14

my title what? You know, I mean, depends on what they asked me.

Seth Elkin  01:18

King of the crack kick tour.

Nestor Aparicio  01:20

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I think I get called all sorts of names as you walk in on the lawn and Merriweather to cure cancer. But then a couple of weeks since I got together you asked what John? You know, before we get to homerun riches and all the stuff that’s going on with the ads that are playing in NST this week in regards to baseball and baseball being hot, your pirates guy and I’m an Orioles guy. But when these jackpots happen, I always know in my own household because my wife’s in on this my wife is sort of famously a jackpot player. She referenced it to me as we went into wise markets in the thunderstorm the other night. Hey, for under 300. And then I turned the corner to go to wise markets on Bel Air road. And they have a gas station right and for like a little it’s a one of the only ones with a gas station. And they have the big numbers 343 456 in the numbers jumped out at you and red neon. When the jackpots happened, it becomes much more fun for you as an employee, they’re all on the communication side. But at some point, we’re gonna hit one of these eight 900 million ones here in Maryland again, it’s probably going to be someplace out on the shore or something. But but this is fun for lottery agencies. This is when it gets to be when it’s fun for my wife is when it’s fun for you.

Seth Elkin  02:29

I was gonna say, you know, I know you’ve got Orioles fever with the way they’re playing right now. But have you got jackpot fever because we’re rolling along with both megamillions and Powerball they’re both the way up there. Powerball is going to be pushed in half a billion dollars pretty soon.

Nestor Aparicio  02:43

Hey, that again. That’s a lot of money too.

Seth Elkin  02:45

It’s it’s, it’s it’s past the $450 million mark now. So it’s going to be up if we don’t get a winner here. The rest of this week, we’re going to be looking at $500 million next week. And I spent

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Nestor Aparicio  02:55

the 818 months talking about Lamar has money and you know what magic number he’s gonna get. And in the end that turned out to be, you know, 200 million measly 200 million and guaranteed money. I mean, you’ve already doubled that. We’re we’re wailing? We’re going more toward I don’t know who messy money I don’t know. I mean,

Seth Elkin  03:15

it’s, it’s, it’s amounts of money that I think it captures everybody’s attention, you know, because that’s where everybody starts to decide, hey, let me spend a couple of bucks and buy a ticket and just be part of this. And change your life. Right? I mean, it is, it’s an incredible, it’s half of the fun is is the daydreaming of what you would do if you won. And you’d like to say it is fun for us around here because it really does inject a sense of energy into what we do, in a way that it’s not always there with every game. But you know, we do have a lot of energy when the winners come in here, we get energy for $50,000 winners and $100,000 winners. So the idea of thinking about giving away 300 or 400 or $500 million is is something really incredible and it’s fun for us to think about and and we get we get pulled into this in in a number of ways. You know, every time we have these big jackpot rolls, my mind goes back to several years ago, in 2018. The Mega Millions jackpot got to more than a billion and a half, which at the time was the second largest jackpot in history. There was a Powerball jackpot that had been a little bit larger than that but that that Mega Millions jackpot we were really right in the middle of in a in a kind of an extra special way because at the time in 2018 John Martin’s predecessor as our director, Gordon mecanica was serving as the lead director of the megamillions group. There’s a group of lotteries that runs the Mega Millions game and Gordon was the head of it and in support of that our communication staff was serving as the national point of contact for Mega Millions. So when we had this big, a billion and a half jackpot roll, every question from every reporter everywhere, not only in the country, but we were getting quite Just from all over the world, we got reporters from Japan and Finland and Canada and everywhere, calling us with questions about how this how this jackpot roll was going. And and also,

Nestor Aparicio  05:11

is it the biggest jackpot in the history of the world? I mean, dare I say, I’m sure in China, Macau, I’ve been to places where they’ve really gambled it. You know what I mean? Like, for real? And I would think, you know, a billion and a half dollars being given away, that’s a new story somewhere, right? I mean, I don’t know that they do that every day in Australia, or every day in the UK or every day in Europe. I mean, it’s kind of an on thought of things, certainly, in 90% of the poverty in this world, right in places where they don’t have running water. They don’t think about things like this, but the rest of the world when you get a billion and a half dollars away. That’s that’s a new story.

Seth Elkin  05:47

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The three biggest jackpots in the world single single prize, jackpots were here in the US and $2 billion Powerball last fall. And then that that one and a half billion megamillions, and I was just talking about, and then

Nestor Aparicio  06:00

a bunch of people went out or one person when that back in 18, when you were running,

Seth Elkin  06:03

that was one person on a ticket in South Carolina. And it we were, we were a little bit relieved when it finally hit because the, probably the last week to 10 days that once it got over a billion dollars, it truly had taken on a life of its own. And we did almost nothing but answer megamillions questions. And one, one of my favorites that I remember from that period of time is I got a call actually, from one of those reporters who was a reporter with the CTV Television Network in Canada, who called and said, I saw this story that said that the Mega Millions numbers are running out that there aren’t any numbers left, which I had no idea what this person was talking about. I said, I said, I’m not familiar with that story. Can you send me a link. And sure enough, they sent me a link to a news article from a very well respected news outlet that I’m not going to name but it was a very clickbait headline that said that the numbers were running out. And what they were trying to say was that a large percentage of the of the all the possible combinations of numbers for that upcoming drawing had been sold. And it was, then there has to be a winner. Any right. And it’s certainly, if every combination is taken, somebody has to win. The funny thing about it was that it was only about 70% of the numbers that had been purchased, which is a lot that sounds like a lot. But in Mega Millions, there are more than three out of 10 that it’s not going to pop this 302 million possible combinations of the numbers at 30% that haven’t been purchased. That’s about 90 million combinations that someone hasn’t bought yet. So that’s one for roughly every third person in the country. So the idea that the numbers are running out is is kind of ridiculous. I don’t know where that headline came from, or who thought that was a good idea to put that headline on a story. But those were the kinds of things that we were trying to clear up at that time in the middle of that jackpot roll. So again,

Nestor Aparicio  07:53

I had a hard time with algebra one algebra. So like, you know, and Luke and I get into this with the analytics. He’s analyzing pizza in Wildwood this week, by the way, so happy fourth Luke, but there is a point that there there’s the math is a little bit mind numbing, right? Like the tax math on what happens if I win $500 million this week? You know, I’m sure let it Raskin would get involved in that with me. But the possibilities of the money what you do with the money, like that’s where all of our minds are, my mind isn’t in like they’re gonna run out of numbers or whatever, or how the system even works. It’s just spit out the lucky numbers. Let me pick number 36. Because that’s my lucky number. But, you know, go for it, you know, it’s somebody’s gonna win. And I, you know, John told me about you guys, is that you get competitive as agency state, the state that you said, well, South Carolina, one, whatever. You know, if it’s the royal farms in Essex, that wins and the place gets descended upon by news trucks and you because there’s a $750 million winner two weeks from now or whatever. It’s exhausting for you. It’s kind of like when the Ravens go to the Superbowl. It makes everybody’s job a little bit more difficult and the season goes on. But it’s something all of you you know, as an agency like to brag we sold the billion dollar ticket if it gets there,

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Seth Elkin  09:14

that we we swing into action that happens in the middle of the night. It’s usually maybe an hour and a half or two hours after the drawing takes place that we find out whether there’s a jackpot winner or not. And if it happened in a night,

Nestor Aparicio  09:25

like literally one of these is 500 million, that’s nothing. Somebody lands down wins $500 million at the wise markets. Oh my god, like you have it. When’s the last time you had a big big? It was like that

Seth Elkin  09:36

January of 21. It was that $731 million Powerball jackpot that was purchased in one of coning. I remember Alana Kony, and it was huge growth. You and I have not been out there

Nestor Aparicio  09:49

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but your baseball town it was Friday. Yes. And yeah, when you drive through town, I did this on the crabcake tour. I went back twice because it was kind of cool. It’s a neat little, you know, tiny mill town at the foot of a mountain at the top of West Virginia where there’s streams and trout fishing and like all that I met Dan Rodricks. Not far from there. But when you go through that town and everybody should do it, there’s a beautiful baseball field. It’s not a real field. It’s like a wiffle ball field. It’s kind of small. And there’s a beautiful statue of lefty Grove. And I always knew a lefty grow from collecting baseball cards and like baseball history, I drove by cinema wife, stop. There’s a baseball field back here. Let’s go back here. And I went back and I wound up it’s a neat little place. So when you say learned coding, it’s known for this seminar $31 million jackpot but it’s a real place and it’s kind of cool. It’s gonna neato

Seth Elkin  10:40

Yep. And we we it actually is fun to swing into action there in the middle of the night and get the word out. We got to make sure that that the the, as you say the retailer knows, in case the today’s show and Good Morning America and whoever else wants to show up and do a live shot from there. We got to get our communication staff out there our sales staff out there we got a banner ready to go that says we sold a jackpot winner. So we can put that up in front of the store and everybody that drives by there can no it is, again an injection of energy is

Nestor Aparicio  11:11

one second your load accounting. I need to spell I wish I was pronouncing it wrong. ello N a C O N I N G right? Um, in 2010 census, there were 12 114 people and 463 households and just 303 families living in the town. And someone there won 730 $1 million.

Seth Elkin  11:35

And, and, and the retailer got a bonus of $100,000 for selling that ticket too. Which is which is no small chunk of change to any business owner I’m sure but you know to have $100,000 to help you bolster your business and pay your employees it’s a it’s something we’re proud of to that that support for the retailer community as well. Robert

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Nestor Aparicio  11:55

Moses, Lefty Grove born 1900 Eat he lived on 1975 We inhabited the planet same time professional pitcher and member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame with my cousin by the way is I got a little baseball thing going on here. Also Ruth bear Levy, painter and writer who published a memoir and use the oil paintings as illustrations. And she also authored a recollections of lefty grow baseball’s greatest left handed pitcher. Not that kid Abbott from the reds of the other night for the Maryland Maryland Historical magazine. We’re doing the Maryland lottery segment that we do here each and every week. LOVE having Seth Alcon on the program he drops in from time to time, you know, John Martin, the executive director of all things gaming and and sports wagering, but knots working is a way for the Fourth of July this week. And I’m giving these things away. We’re doing the Maryland crab cakes, we’re all summer long, we’re celebrating 25 years here. And we’ve had some we’ve had $100 Winner Seth, but not not the billion dollar winner. So this week, we encourage everybody to play responsibly as always, but obviously the jackpots are up and it’s going to be something to monitor and keep an eye on through the holiday weekend. And if nobody hits this week, I’ll be back at it with Doug next week, we’ll be talking about these things accelerate Quick Write up 600 becomes 700. Very, very quickly, once it starts going right.

Seth Elkin  13:08

Once you get to this point, it starts to take on a really takes on a life of its own and more people start playing, you start getting office pools or pools of relatives or friends that might pull their money together and buy a whole bunch of tickets together, which is something that makes it fun. It’s a shared experience that way. And you know, the other thing that’s a great opportunity for us when we have a big jackpot roll like this is, is because a lot of people start playing that may not ordinarily buy tickets, it’s a great player education opportunity for us. And one of the things we always remind people of is, with both Powerball and megamillions. The jackpot is not the only prize, there are nine different price levels. My wife

Nestor Aparicio  13:43

didn’t know anything about second chance or any of that and the app and like she wasn’t that kind of player, she was a Hey, it’s 500 million, there’s 20 bucks. She was that player that last couple of years since you know, living with me, and you and John and Doug, and Rob and everybody else and all the things I do to give these things away. You know, I tried to educate people about barcodes and, and scanning and the web and the app. I mean, it’s not a one and done game. You don’t sell any tickets that are one and done, do you everything as a second year, pretty much

Seth Elkin  14:12

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everything is is eligible for entry into my lottery rewards, which is our player loyalty program, which is free to join. The only cost to you is whatever you’ve already paid for your ticket.

Nestor Aparicio  14:21

You do it when you got points with the airline with the hotel, you know, like why wouldn’t you if you’re gonna play, and you’re serious about winning, because you’re not trying to give Seth our money? We’re trying to win money, right. I mean, I would say that what percentage of people don’t participate? I mean, I thought it was a it’s a smaller percentage and you think that do participate? Right?

Seth Elkin  14:43

It’s it’s hard to know the percentage we have a couple 100,000 People that are part of the rewards program. And it might might be even more than that. But active users is certainly a six digit number of people. So there’s plenty of people that are participating in entering their tickets and that’s how you end Your second chance contest we might have specific might freak out when

Nestor Aparicio  15:03

you call it tell them they won right Second Chance winnings are like especially jackpots are like a, you know it’s waking up with money on your match if you don’t think about it right? Yeah, it’s it’s

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Seth Elkin  15:15

an exciting thing for us to have a chance to. And Doug, when you talk to him next week, he can tell you all about that Doug Lloyd is our second chance drawings manager. And he’s the one in charge know this. He told me this if you win a second chance drawing dog or it might be somebody else on the staff too, because we have a lot of Second Chance winners. So some, the informing of the winners is something that gets spread out among

Nestor Aparicio  15:35

like them all because they listen to my show, because I’ve visited the office and I know this so I every one of the second chance people are my people.

Seth Elkin  15:41

But Doug is probably who you’re going to hear from if you win a big Second Chance prize and he’s the one that coordinates that so he’ll have a lot of fun talking to you about the people who

Nestor Aparicio  15:50

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hung up on him right? Oh, not me, you got the wrong guy. He was a fake. It’s like that, that that thing from Ghana that they asked you for a billion dollars, you know what I mean? Some sheep need your money. And we do our best

Seth Elkin  16:03

to avoid anything like that. And one of the ways we really do it is that the second chance winners, the names are published on our website so you can go and verify it for yourself that your name is up there as a second chance winner so you enter a second chance contest and you win. You can you can see your name online there even the official and MD lottery.com and MD lottery.com and on our rewards website, too so so we definitely hope people have fun doing that and certainly play responsibly even though there’s this huge jackpot roll going on and and make sure you check your tickets like you say with the app, it’s never been easier. You can download the app for free and use it to scan your tickets and find out whether you won and we actually had in the most recent Mega Millions drawing and they’re my lights just went out this unit clapper. I don’t know whether that’s going to work or not. There we go. I guess it did work.

Nestor Aparicio  16:53

You look good. Nanny light.

Seth Elkin  16:56

I don’t know the subdued lighting is not exactly my style. So now my phone’s ringing to everybody.

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Nestor Aparicio  17:02

We’re having fun today. You know, I’ve had a lot of dogs barking on the show the last couple of weeks people apologize for that. And I’m like I did a show in a bar last week things happen. You know, it’s fun. I don’t want to show it fatal. These mean people come by and start talking and you want to have an ad. It’s crazy. So for your you’re on to something keep going.

Seth Elkin  17:18

Yeah, the the the most recent megamillions drawing we had, we actually had 210 $1,000 winners. That’s the third tier prize in megamillions. So one of them was in Prince George’s County, the other one was out in Garrett County. So check your tickets. Because if you match enough of those numbers, you’re going to win something and we love being able to give those prizes away. And I love being able to talk about how there are lower tier winners. When these drawings happen when that when the jackpots are here are big like this, you get more people playing and as we talked about before, the percentage of of the possible combinations of numbers starts to go up, and more and more people start winning at that point. So it’s a lot of fun to keep track of that. And congratulations to the two winners in Prince George’s County in Garrett County that are each $10,000 richer after the last mega billions are on here. Alright, well, I’m

Nestor Aparicio  18:05

gonna make a little announcement about the crabcake tour because we’ve added a couple of dates here this month. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I’m going to be giving these away at Coco’s I just talked to Marcelo, we’re gonna be over Coco’s on the 13th of July. I just confirmed also the Beaumont on the 20th of July. And then of course, our 25th anniversary, we’re going to kick off I’m going to have the Rascon Global Setup. I know you’re from Pittsburgh, and Yen’s didn’t grow up eating crabs, not but this is a crab mallet and let her ask you gave me this and he manages our dough around your Rascon global but this is a special crab. I’ve never used it because it has his logo on it. I don’t want to kind of screw it up for on air. But August 3, we’re going to commemorate we’re going to commence I should say like the gavel dropping of our 25th year at wn St. Costas, on the anniversary. And this is the most important thing here is it can open the beer. So this is a dual purpose. I mean, this is ingenuity. This is this is the kind of ingenuity we need around here. So on August 3 will be 25 years old, brought to you by the Maryland lottery in conjunction with our friends at window nation. You get a big summer ahead and July is big. We didn’t talk enough baseball. I mean, since the Orioles beat up on the pirates couple months ago, I’ve been nice to you and you brought that really startled jersey on you. I’m gonna give you a Brooksie to hold up at some point before the years over the homerun riches thing. We gave all that money to Barb a couple of weeks ago and mountcastle Hit the homerun then he got hurt. We’re winning games and Mullins was out and now he’s back and Jordan Westberg is up and he’s the latest sensation flash and leather the whole deal. But the homerun riches thing you guys have fun with this every month because the names we see when they say the contestant of the game is Barbara, whoever it’s gonna be that you pick those every month. And that’s also like, you get your name on TV. If they hit three bombs that night you get a lot of money. But that is that’s been a primary contest for everybody and I think more eyes on it. More people are watching Orioles games. We all know that right?

Seth Elkin  19:57

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Yeah, it makes it a lot of fun for us and we just actually posted all of the contestants of the game for the month of July. So you can go to our website and check that out, see if your name is on there, if you’ve entered through my lottery rewards, you might be on there and we’re gonna give away $500 for each contestant and 500 for each homerun, that gets hit. And of course, there’s another $50,000 prize coming at the end of the season that last drawing, you know, at the end of August, when we select the winners for September, we’re gonna give away another $50,000 prize, so plenty of time to still get in on that. And boy, it’s it’s, I’m not having too much fun watching the pirates over the last month and a half or so. But I am having fun watching the Orioles. It’s great to see the resurgence that is taking place here and one day soon. Knock on wood it will happen to the pirates too. So

Nestor Aparicio  20:44

I think I know some of these people from July Sharon Norwood of Baltimore. It has the Yankees game on the fourth Carrie golden of Middle River on the fifth. I swear I know. I know a John Potter. I’m not sure if it’s the John Potter of Chesapeake beach down and Rondo County. Let’s see your show rice of Bel Air. I must know Cheryl, Vernon Carr fine of Baltimore, Sally Baker of Edgewood, Arthur Middleton here in Baltimore. Let’s see I’m just giving you the Baltimore people. And when do we pick August. So if you play this month, you can be selected for August, right?

Seth Elkin  21:21

If you will, actually the Edit entries are cumulative. So if you’ve entered at any time during the baseball season, you’re still in there in the okay. But yeah, you can enter any time before I think it’s towards the end of July. I forget the date to exactly I don’t

Nestor Aparicio  21:37

buy 100 tickets, I get 100 entries and maybe my name pops up kind of right. Yep,

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Seth Elkin  21:43

it’s homerun riches fast play tickets, that’s the mechanism to enter. So those are available at any Lottery retailer to $5 ticket, you may win a progressive jackpot prize on that ticket. There’s the jackpot that climbs with the purchase of each ticket until we get a jackpot winner. So that’s your two ways to win, you can win instantly. And certainly you can enter that ticket whether it’s a winner or not, you can enter it into my lottery rewards and just by entering it automatically, you’ll be entered in the contestant of The Game promotion.

Nestor Aparicio  22:11

You know I like having you on because you know the answers to this stuff. So this is good. You explain it to people. Seth Elkins here. I like it despite the fact that he routes for the Steelers in the pirates. We all both run for the Pittsburgh Pisces though, in the mythical basketball league there with Julius Erving so we can least get along with that anything. Am I missing anything? I mean, it’s Fourth of July opiates and crabs. Even though you’re not around here, you probably put hotdogs and sausages you probably haven’t pre Manny’s and stuff like that. Because at Pittsburgh, people do that. I’ll meet you halfway I’ll have some kill Boston sauerkraut, and my wife loves the pierogi so that’s always gonna

Seth Elkin  22:45

say you’re doing a crabcakes where you’re gonna have to go to Pittsburgh someday and do a pierogi tour. That’s the next best thing I said

Nestor Aparicio  22:50

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I got 98 Rock to win Italian cold cuts now all over town. I’ve got this Godfather sandwich that I had last week over at spirits West it’s only a Wednesday. Thanks. I’m gonna give a shout out to Rikkyo and our friends right around the corner you stack let me look can I give you a plug Do you like Italian Cocottes

Seth Elkin  23:08

I haven’t seen too many cool coats I don’t like quarterly so

Nestor Aparicio  23:11

you know I hold on a second because if I can pull the picture up from last week because I haven’t shared it yet. But I’m going to share it I want to show you picture this sandwich that I got last week at and this was experience West I want to I want to put this up and see if I can because I want to make it really big so people can really see it that if I share this that it’s going to go really well on the interwebs so here it is. This is the picture of the cold cut from last week experience where they call this The Godfather. Now I did not eat this I made a fool of myself. I got a wings and I got a Greek sounds delicious and a half an apple soup is delicious. And crab cake delicious. But I did not get this I promised him I would come back on a Wednesday and get this god font. This is specialty meats here. There’s a specialty roll. These are important. He won’t even tell me what’s on it. All he would share with me is that it does have gabagool on it. So it has gabagool on it has to be good. So the only toasted sandwich on Wednesday because he runs out it’s fresh. It’s one day a week and it’s right around the corner from your office. You couldn’t be any closer to spirits Western Wilkins Avenue just go out make a left hand turn boom it’s right go to the ROFO make a left you get chicken there the other day it’s fine. Make a left on Wilkins Avenue boom you’re right there all right.

Seth Elkin  24:21

I might end up asleep for the rest of the afternoon after that after put try to put that away so

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Nestor Aparicio  24:25

with Roger sir share with somebody in the office over there. We’re gonna be giving these away fade these just like we did at spirits West last week. You know what I think I gave a lot of tickets away. There was a group of ladies that came in and I didn’t have to card them. They were obviously they were of the day they were of legal age. You know, I could tell and they were flirting with me a little bit in there sitting in the back and spirits West and I took them up with lottery tickets. They were all happy. I’m convinced one of those ladies won 100 bucks just didn’t tell me I’m cadaver these seem like cyber ladies. If they hit the jackpot. They were gonna be no I’m gonna tell him this because I said if anybody wins, let me know I want to take a picture. And I think if anybody wins they’re afraid to take a picture with me. So that I think that happened last week. So I just want to say these have been lucky tickets, these, I know, they have the wishbone on him.

Seth Elkin  25:08

Of course, they gotta be lucky and they’re tied to our history. You know, that’s, that’s, that’s the throwback to our original scratch off ticket. So favorite

Nestor Aparicio  25:14

go out in the hallway and take a picture for John Martin, of that wall of all of the old school Backpage ads that you guys have at the elevator, when you get off on the fifth floor or whatever, third floor, whatever it is. And that’s going to be his new background, he said, so I’m putting you in charge of communication for John. So he doesn’t have to sit in his office anymore. He can just have all those groovy old school logos, I was on Pennsylvania Avenue. And there’s a place over there that’s, you know, not currently functioning or in business, but they have an old school, the old numbers game logo up on the side of the building. And when I went to spirits West, I drove by, and I saw it. And I’m like, Man, the lottery 50 years, they’re just these little beautiful remnants. And it’s, it’s not just people scrapbooking, the first ever ticket. There’s just all of this history with the lottery over 50 years, that are encompassed in these tickets. And in these games, and in this summer, as you guys are giving away a whole bunch of money, including at the State Fair right later in the summer.

Seth Elkin  26:11

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Yep, we’re always looking forward to that it’s a big event for us, you will find us in the lobby of the exhibition hall of the State Fair, all day, every day that the fair is open. We’ll have a retailer there selling tickets. And that’s a very big event for us and that we look forward to because we get to interact with so many people over the course of those. I’m not sure how many days it used to be 11 days and then they went and changed the schedule. I’m not sure how many total days it is I think it’s 1112 or 14 or something like

Nestor Aparicio  26:36

that. I’m sure time like last year to see six yes, they changed it to

Seth Elkin  26:40

weekends only or Thursday through Sunday or I’m not sure exactly what they did to the schedule but but it’s it’s a very big deal for us and something we’re very proud to be there for and, and really great opportunity, like I say to interact with so many people over the course of those days, you really get a sense of of how much people like to interact with the lottery, people will stay in play. We’ve got tables set up there we’ve got our Keno and racetracks monitors set up there in the lobby of the exhibition hall and people will hang out and play lottery for a little while and hang out with us and we look forward to that. It’s a it’s a fun experience for us.

Nestor Aparicio  27:14

I’m staring at the sandwich on my screen and I swear I want to come over there right now. Just get it with you. Seth Alcon is here. He is there over at the Maryland lottery captaining all things just in case you win 500 mil this week at MD lottery.com. Play responsibly. Everybody enjoy the Fourth of July out there get some crabs and crab cakes come on out and Enjoy picnicking and doing all that stuff. I’m going to be at the Heritage fair this weekend. Our friends wise markets are big sponsors. I had Bill voles on from the hollow bird store which was my local store as a kid growing up was that a march supermarket now wise market so we’re going to be the heritage barrel weekend again a McCartney tribute on Friday Sunday. I’m not talking about Saturday because it’s country music and I’ve already done that routine. But Sunday night crack the sky and the the local legends MC kicks is going away in a couple of weeks. We got to summer full of rock and roll around here. We got lottery we got baseball got homerun riches. We’re having some fun the crab cake tour. Seth, always good to visit with you, man. Take care yourself. I will check in with you the next time John’s on vacation. I’ll see you next month. All right, good. Luck. No, it’s gonna be your next week. Tell us about some winners as well. All of our wn S T programming can be found at a Baltimore positive.com including our conversations as we had Craig Craig crabcake tour over experienced was not just because I didn’t eat that sandwich and I’m salivating thinking about it right now. But chap recently came out. We talked about NFL agent jobs. We talked about Josh Jacobs, who’s his client with the Raiders. We talked about JK Dobbins talked with the Ravens talked about Lamar representing himself. Chris pica joined us. He’s the one that ate that sandwich. And when asked pike one the 10 he called it an 11 and pica likes to eat I mean pica Pike is an eater so now I gotta go back to spirits west to get that sandwich made a great conversation. Ricky hos going into the softball Hall of Fame who was the proprietor over there and Wilkins Avenue making that delicious sandwich as well as breakfast and all sorts of things from for police officers as well from nine to nine first responders. So big thanks to the Maryland lottery and our friends window nation for underwriting our crabcakes work because we have great shows like we’re going to have a fake news this week with Bill Cole. And we have some other great guests coming down to fade these this week. We really dig it. appreciate y’all Happy Fourth, I’m Nestor we are wn st am 1570, Towson Baltimore. And we never stop talking Baltimore positive