Adding up the greatness of The Great Eight

As all eyes in Baltimore are focused on the last No. 8 we’ll probably ever have in the Charm City (after Cal Ripken and once Lamar Jackson is through), Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the “other” Number Eight in a Washington Capitals sweater, who continues to defy the odds and Father Time on the ice as his chases NHL immortality.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed various topics, including the Ravens’ struggles in Pittsburgh, particularly the recent game against the Chargers, where penalties and turnovers were significant issues. They reminisced about past Ravens experiences in Pittsburgh, including a memorable playoff game. Leonard shared a story about attending a Steelers game without tickets, highlighting the challenges of being a Ravens fan in Pittsburgh. They also praised Alex Ovechkin’s current performance and discussed the importance of integrity in sports, referencing Jim Harbaugh’s past issues at Ohio State. Leonard promoted an upcoming event on protecting wealth, emphasizing the importance of insurance and financial planning.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens woes, Pittsburgh game, crab cake tour, Leonard Raskin, Alex Ovechkin, NHL goals, Jim Harbaugh, integrity issues, wealth protection, Thanksgiving music, Ravens penalties, Super Bowl hopes, Derek Henry, NFL scandals, American dream

SPEAKERS

Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. We are positively into a fresh week here and a fresh holiday. If you hear music or music stories or musicians, it’s a little bit of a theme. Friday is International Music Day with the Ravens playing on Monday night against the charges. We’re taking a little chance here to put some music out in advance of thanksgiving and getting folks together and let folks know we do more than just sports around here. We do some politics, some business, some crab cakes. We’re doing the Maryland crab cake Tour presented by the Maryland lottery. On Thursday in Amster, will be a green mount station, one of my favorite crab cakes, go on up. Come on up. Say hello. They got the whole sports betting casino action thing going on there. They also have a beautiful bowling alley. Jason as well. David Richardson is going to come out. We’re going to talk some horse racing, amongst other things. All that powered up by our friends at Jiffy Lube, multi care as well. Luke was in Pittsburgh this week. We’re doing music around here, a whole bunch of things leading up into the holidays and crab cake tours out and about. I think this guy will be joining me somewhere along life’s journey, whether it’s and by the way, Leonard, I gotta let you know I’m, I’m inspired by the crab cake tour. We’re like, five years into the crab cake tour. Now that I’ve never really had the crab cake tour at a place that doesn’t have a crab cake, and I’m going to do that for the very, very first time, because this place is family, you know this what is that we’re going to you’ll understand, why a me cheese. So we’re going to honor the Pawnee Rotondo as sort of not a crab cake, but if you’re you know, like, it’s still delicious. And we’re gonna do the show at amicis for free, because I like amicis, and it’s Christmas time, and I gotta go down, and I want to talk about things. They had a big story in the fish bowl, and I got jelly. I’m like, so other media companies get to tell the amici story, and I don’t get to tell the amici story on that right? IV, so we’re good, exactly. And I have a hard time believing that a man like you would balk at coming down to a meat just good as it gets. Crab cake tour to meet you. Are you coming?

Leonard Raskin  02:15

I’m coming. Sure that’s all you need. Fitz, I’m in. I don’t need a crab cake there. I They’re as good as it gets.

Nestor Aparicio  02:21

How are you holding up? And Luke and I, you know, we get at this honest, right? I wrote my column this, yeah, banned from the locker room. So there’s a whole part where the whole Pittsburgh thing happens. It really kind of pisses me off all over again. Dreadful, um, Luke has to drive up alone, drive back alone, yeah, the whole deal, right? Like, it’s a long day. I’m

Leonard Raskin  02:40

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talking about the game, dreadful. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  02:42

I thought you stopped by Luke, having to drive to Pittsburgh. That’s pretty bad, too. It’s dreadful, too. You’ve been on 70 west into the pot. Yes, it’s, they have families in those potholes.

Leonard Raskin  02:51

They have, they have two, two seasons in Pennsylvania, you know, construction and winter, correct? Then those are the two we’re, we’re winter right now, winter and construction, that’s their two seasons in in Pennsylvania. And you’ve been to a Ravens game in Pittsburgh? Yes, many, many, many, many playoffs, playoffs. This

Nestor Aparicio  03:10

is good about this. I’ve had a

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Leonard Raskin  03:13

full, full can of beer thrown at me in the parking lot.

Nestor Aparicio  03:16

Oh, okay, well, I mean, we had, you know, many trips I’ve made to Pittsburgh. Oh, right, sure, right. I mean, all Christmas Eve, all of them, right, like I’ve Christmas Day, all I’ve been I’ve woken on Pittsburgh Christmas morning. Okay, so that’s how, that’s how, when Chad Steele looks across, said that I’m not committed to covering the ravens, that I have to laugh in his face and to say he’s not a man of integrity. So I would say this, we took our bus trip up there 20 times, right? Yeah, sure. So we would always pull and we had a driver named Dennis, who was one of the great guys ever. He got thrown out of Canada. It’s a long story. So Dennis would always wear a dentist kid, a jersey, right? He always had, you know, the 88 yep, yep. And he’d be dry. He would drive in it. He would drive, he would pick us up in White Marsh gun through motor coach. He would drive us in it, yep. And we had, we had a whole series of drivers, because when we would do Pittsburgh, we take three, four busses. So I knew all the drivers. I would drive one bus to breeze would I would get off and get on the other bus with my son, my wife, my someone, run bosses. We’re family business, you know, so, like, a real small business, like Clear Channel and, and I like those, right? Just like that, yeah, yeah. Um, Odyssey. So we would pull into Pittsburgh, and you know how it’s, it’s on an island, like, for real, it’s an island. Yeah, we play football. We would pull in, and we had our parking pass thing that we were supposed to have for the bus that you get ahead of time or whatever. And when they would see Dennis with the Ravens Jersey driver, they wouldn’t let him in lot.

Leonard Raskin  04:52

Oh, great. So, so

Nestor Aparicio  04:58

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25 people, it’s nine o’clock. In the morning. We’ve been on the bus since 6am and right, we can’t even get in. I mean, I don’t want to say it was hostile, because I never encountered any sort of physical and lot of this, and I went a lot of places in jerseys. Yeah, I would, I would tell Roger Goodell, when I saw him, you’re going to have someone die in your upper deck. And you really should make this a little more friendly than than, like, Crips and Bloods, right, sure, but I, but I would say Pittsburgh was never hostile in my Yeah, it wasn’t

Leonard Raskin  05:32

terrible. Have I ever told you my Pittsburgh story about getting into the stadium? Go ahead. Okay, so this is a classic, and I think the statute of limitations is long gone, so they can’t do much. Oh, this is, this is the playoffs. Playoffs, easily. 20 years ago, if a storeback game they lost, uh, probably, yeah. So, so

Nestor Aparicio  05:53

let me play a lot of playoffs.

Leonard Raskin  05:55

Let me give you this. Let me give you a deal. I have a friend who lives in Frederick, who’s from Pittsburgh, native, like deep, deep Ewing’s native Pittsburgher, Yin’s right and so. So he invited myself and my past business partner up for the game, and said, great. So we take a US Air flight. That’s how long ago. Take a little US Air Sure. No, it was US Air little US Air jumper. There was an Eastern Air Right? Exactly. TWA anyway, we landed Pittsburgh. We get a we get a taxi, because there’s no Ubers then well,

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Nestor Aparicio  06:29

and when you land in Pittsburgh, you’re in West Virginia. I mean, you’re way to hell, right? But go ahead and

Leonard Raskin  06:33

so we get, we get a car, and we meet him at this bar. Now it’s the winter. I’m wearing my purple ravens coat, my Lewis jersey. You know, we’re all decked out. We get to this bar.

Nestor Aparicio  06:45

We just won the Super Bowl. I want to clarify that we

Leonard Raskin  06:48

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get to this. Clarify, yes, yes, yes, yes. And needless to say, we’re walking into a Pittsburgh Steeler bar where they’re all tailgating and drinking. And we walk in, the two of us and and it was just harassment.

Nestor Aparicio  06:59

It’s like a scene in animal house when they were Yes, Otis was there. Yes,

Leonard Raskin  07:04

we dance with your dates. So, so we go, and he tells these people, Look, these are friends of mine. Be cool. Be cool. Then we take a school bus to the to the lot from the bar. Okay. So we take a school bus. We get there, and we have to get out the only one on the bus in purple, two myself and my business partner, okay? The only two in purple. And when we get to those

Nestor Aparicio  07:28

fans didn’t go up there then travel. We do not have a traveling

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Leonard Raskin  07:31

fan. They make us jump out of the back of the bus like a school bus, like a fire drill. Alright? So that’s cool. So now we’re walking and and we’re walking and I say to the guy, and I’m not going to mention his name, because I don’t want to get him in any problem trouble. Where’s the tickets? You know, back then you still had tickets, right? Paper tickets? He says, I don’t have tickets. Dude, I flew here from Baltimore. I’m coming to watch playoff game. You don’t have any tickets. What do you mean? We don’t have tickets? He says, just, just come with me. Don’t worry about it. So we walk along the row of get patted down. We get patted down, and now we get up to the turnstiles and we walk like a quarter of the way around the stadium. And he walks up and he says, hey Joe. Joe says, Hey, good morning. Um, how many? He says, Five. He says, Come on in. And we walk right into the stadium with no tickets. So then, like, okay, great, we’re in. Where am I sitting? He goes, Don’t worry about it, just come with me. We go up the escalator to the club level. We get to the club level door, and they have two entrances to the club level. By

Nestor Aparicio  08:50

the way, Mister Rooney listens to this show. He’s not, I’m with you. Happy about I’m with you.

Leonard Raskin  08:53

Hey, listen, I’m not naming any names of anybody that knows anybody. So, so there’s two lines of people going into the club level nest, and I swear to God, this guy says, Follow me, and we crouch down and walk between the two lines right into the club level. I never done anything like this in my life. I said, You gotta be kidding me. So now we’re in the club level. Okay? Now what? Well, follow me.

Nestor Aparicio  09:20

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I’ve never snuck into a way that I could tell you about, like my life. I’m just I shouldn’t have been in, dude, this was the craziest thing. I’m thinking the Super Bowl VIP lounge in Dallas, 15 years ago, in an area I had no business being hung for five hours into the building without a ticket. I’m

Leonard Raskin  09:41

thinking, I’m going to be in jail in Pittsburgh and ravens purple with my purple camo pants and a Ray Lewis jersey. This is not very good. We get to the 50 yard line. I kid you not. The guy opens the door says, Come on in. We walk in. The 50 yard line, and about six rows up in the club level is Mike Tom Zach’s wife, wearing her teen jersey, no doubt, oh no, wearing a full mink fur coat, and a couple other players, and we are sitting in the players family section because it’s not full on the 50 yard line, club level to watch this game. It was the craziest, yes, you know, it was the craziest football day of my life. And then we lost, and then we go back to the bar, and we hung out on the school bus, yeah, and then we hung out and had dinner with him and his family and the restaurant. The radio announcer for the Steelers does the post game from this restaurant, and we’re hanging out there listening to the Evening Post game. It was dreadful. And then flew home. It was an adventure I will never forget. Anyway, I

Nestor Aparicio  10:57

think I did a bus trip for that. Maybe I did. I mean, I’m like, Yeah, of course I did. I was the last game he ever played in, and I remember being in his locker and where his locker was in, that terrible I even the second time today I brought this up letter, Raskin is our guest here Baltimore, positive, because Luke was in the locker room. And I, you know, I very familiar with that locker room. Yeah. And looks like there are guys here who have haven’t won here. And I remember Rob Burnett in the old stadium at Three Rivers saying to me, I’ve never won here, when he got here in 1996 1997 1998 because it’s getting

Leonard Raskin  11:35

terrible. Be a little

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Nestor Aparicio  11:36

bit like that with Pittsburgh. And I’ll give you my since we had there in the playoff game, and then we lost the championship game, the palomalu game, right there was a game where we had the big lead at halftime, Flacco era, and read era, yep, at 1011 Luke would remember this. It was after the championship game, but, but they eliminated us that day. And it was, guess, it was still 10 season, I guess. And I ran into Jerome Bettis, who I know pretty well on in the club level, but in the press, I had a pass, Bob, yeah, sure. Um, and my wife was in the upper deck with fans. My wife was sitting in that in the only upper deck in the end zone where there are seats, the one that shakes. I mean, the upper deck moves in that Pittsburgh stadium, right? And my wife was up there, and I was meeting her under her seat. So at halftime, instead of eating Mr. Rooney’s cookies, I went through the club level, and I ran into Jerome Bettis, and he conceded the game to me at halftime, yeah, right. He’s like, you, you got us today. Man, nice. Probably gonna get us. He gave me a hug. We took a picture, we laughed, we lost. Yeah? So, I mean, you know, I don’t want to say that place has been a House of Horrors, pretty bad, yeah, but it’s been pretty bad. I remember Anquan dropping one everybody. I remember walking across the bridge with, with Luke and other former employees of mine, shooting videos because we won videos because we lost. Yeah. I remember meeting over at Point State Park a billion times, and we always staged our busses across the room. You know, it’s easier to get out right once we learn we they wouldn’t let us park on the island because our driver had a Dennis Pitta jersey on, or Todd. He was actually wearing a Todd heap Jersey bag. He was at 86 right then he went to a Pitta. But he was a tight end guy. So, um, I would just say to you, this one is uniquely stanchy In a lot, and it’s where they’re the first place team, and it’s been a long time since the Pittsburgh Steelers have been our daddy in that way. Yeah,

Leonard Raskin  13:33

it was terrible look. We have lost four games this season, and no team has beaten us. We have beaten ourselves four times, and this is just more evidence of I saw a graphic the other couple days ago. I couldn’t believe it. It was the number of penalties. Teams had ranked from top to bottom, and we were far and away the worst penalized team in the league. I mean, by a dozen or more. And here we are a dozen penalties. How the heck do you have an illegal man downfield three times in a game and twice

Nestor Aparicio  14:08

the RPO?

Leonard Raskin  14:10

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I get it, I get it. But it’s dreadful. And and not line it up right, and holdings and roughing the quarterback, and you name it, they did it, and it’s terrible. It’s just terrible. And then three turnovers and two missed field goals, you might as well have five turnovers. I mean, that’s what that is. It’s like going forward on fourth down and missing so I don’t know what’s up with Tucker. My wife thinks there’s something wrong with him, and nobody’s talking about it. I don’t think so. I don’t, I don’t know, I’m not his doctor, but I think Father Time takes no prisoners, and he’s a prisoner of Father Time. Actually, here’s

Nestor Aparicio  14:49

where I bring the comedy into the show, because I’m on the internet, dreadful, and I’ve dealt with all sorts of people, you know, Republicans, Democrats, far left, far right, political this, all that. So here’s my little piece. Comedy off of the Justin Tucker thing. Because, yeah, you know, I’m Royal farm sponsored, yeah, yeah, literally, was eating leftovers on Sunday, because I get ROFO once or twice a week. I mean, honestly, my wife makes a lot of salads, and I’ll grab some fried it’s the most delicious chicken on Earth, right? Absolutely So and Tucker. So someone puts off. I mean, everybody wants to fire and bench him. I don’t know what you do, whatever all that the holders bet, whatever your vibe. I don’t know what it is. Nothing to do with this. This was one status from one person, and I don’t even know who it was, but I want to credit them. Yeah, it said less chicken, more kicking,

Leonard Raskin  15:42

man in time. Fantastic. Not mine. I

Nestor Aparicio  15:44

didn’t I can’t own it. That’s fantastic. I cannot own that. Alright, no, that’s

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Leonard Raskin  15:48

a good one. That’s a good one. I don’t know what it is, but something’s greasy in there. Something’s greasy in there and and that’s the game, dude. I

Nestor Aparicio  15:56

was all ready to rename Western fries, winter fries. Or,

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you know what? I

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mean, he

Leonard Raskin  16:05

missed two. They fumbled twice. That interception. I don’t know how you call that interception. I think that’s a fumble, reception, fumble, takeaway. I don’t think that’s an interception on Lamar at all. I mean, my goodness, that was a Justice Hill. He’s going backwards, and as he’s falling down. He can’t hold the ball, and the guy steals it out of his arms. That’s, by no means, I think, I

Nestor Aparicio  16:26

don’t think. I mean great defense. Look like he’s been waiting

Leonard Raskin  16:30

and likely for five I don’t know. I thought likely His arm was down before that ball came out. But I’m not the officials that review the plays. My wife, my wife, here’s Kathy’s take on this whole thing. You ready? What’s the

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Nestor Aparicio  16:42

most important take? She’s already made the most I know both of you. I trust her.

Leonard Raskin  16:45

Here’s her take on the whole thing. The NFL wants Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl, and therefore the Ravens cannot win, because the conglomerate that is the NFL, she’s already lost. No, no, but, but that’s, that’s one game. That’s all that matters. That’s okay, that’s fair, but, but they don’t want the ravens to win, because they know the Ravens can beat the chiefs. I said, Well, Buffalo just beat the chiefs.

Nestor Aparicio  17:08

It’s funny. Your wife’s already got them playing in January. Oh, she’s got the conspiracy of the chief. This is where Luke and across the league spent a lot of time today in look justice. This was an ugly game. Ugly game. You talk about the game, but in the big picture of things are, where the bills now are, and I know we beat them, and blah, blah, blah, but where, where January is going to be is on the road. And you

Leonard Raskin  17:36

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got names now. You got enough games to change that you need some help. Now you need some help. You got Pittsburgh. Here they have the browns, the Bengals and the browns. The next three games. You need some help. Somebody’s gotta beat them, you know, one of those teams, two of those teams, they gotta go one and

Nestor Aparicio  17:56

two in that help yourself. You better grab course, Monday night, right? Oh, that’s right.

Leonard Raskin  18:00

To horrible ball. It’s the hardball bowl, or whatever you call it, the hardball bowl. Yes, and, and they look they played two interesting halves of football on Sunday night. They they played a great first half, terrible second half, and they wanted the last two minutes. So but here, here’s the other piece that I will still, no matter what happens, I have a friend of mine who’s a a Nashville guy, Tennessee guy, big Tennessee guy, sends me a text after the game. 13 carries not going to happen. It’s all that Derek touched the ball 13 times, two point conversion at the

Nestor Aparicio  18:40

end up positive about Derrick Henry thinking, oh

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Leonard Raskin  18:43

yeah, loves you’re winning the Super Bowl because of him, and thinks you’re losing because they’re not you’re not using them. Okay? Yeah, he says to me, two point conversion, run left. No receivers, no Henry on the field. Who’s your coach?

Nestor Aparicio  19:00

Well, I wrote Todd monk in question mark in italic, and

Leonard Raskin  19:02

it was, it’s crazy. It’s crazy. How do you not have Derek Henry on the field and give him the chance the two, he and Lamar to run where there’s not six defenders and no blocking and no receiver and Lamar running left? I don’t get that at all. There was nobody. There nobody, no blockers, no receivers. There were like five linemen in Lamar against eight Steelers. It was the craziest two point call I think I’ve seen, and and they blocked it terribly, and he ran to nothing, and it was over. But that’s not the issue of this game. Three turnovers, 12 penalties, two missed field goals. A lot of bad play defense. My goodness, you hold the Steelers to five field goals you expect to win that game.

Nestor Aparicio  19:50

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That’s it’s that simple because of the 18. Six. Sorry, six, 618,

Leonard Raskin  19:55

I mean, you held them out of the end zone every darn time that was. Defense was stellar. It was old ravens defense, and then they didn’t win. So anyway, let me go to the three. Let’s go here 333, while we’re talking about the number three, I want to just bring up one other thing that’s been amazing. Do you know who the leading goal scorer is as of this morning in the NHL?

Nestor Aparicio  20:17

That would be Alex of the The Great Eight. That would be, that would be the 39

Leonard Raskin  20:21

year old Alex Ovechkin with 13 goals a hat trick against the vaunted Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday night. This guy is playing like He’s 29 he is blocking shots, he is banging people into the boards, and he is scoring at a pace that people thought he would break Gretzky’s record next season. He’s on pace to do it in February.

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Nestor Aparicio  20:51

Well, here’s an interesting thing for him, and I covered him a little bit. I don’t know him at all, but I’ve been around him in a locker room since, yeah, in a I was at the team celebration for hours. I mean, I’ve been in the room with Alex a million times. I’ve taken pictures whatever. I’ve asked questions at the locker or whatever. But I don’t know Alex at all. Yeah, yeah, um, and from the outside looking in, there is a point when you have this level of greatness and a level of health that you know the difference he’s been injured. Yeah, he’s had issues. Yeah, he’s always powered through Russian machine. Never breaks Right, right, right. Um, but I at the end of his career, versus pick any great athlete, Venus Serena, yeah, Brady Gretzky, any his body’s allowing him to do it at this point. And I think he’s closer to Lee. I don’t think he’s gonna play till he’s 44 No, he’s

Leonard Raskin  21:42

gonna play till he gets the record and then he breaks it this year. The season will be his last. It was my guess. He breaks it this year. It’s over. He doesn’t break it this year, next year, is it so, knowing

Nestor Aparicio  21:53

that and getting to the end, and this will give you a chance to talk about money and your event on Wednesday night, which I want to promote. And I want to come back to come back to Jim Harbaugh. I’ll do all of that, but I want to promote the event and give you an entree to that, because it really is about planning being well, all of these things that Ovechkin has done to say the record is the goal. At this point I want absolutely cop. I’m Stanley

Leonard Raskin  22:15

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Cups. The goal. They come hand in hand. This season, the team’s got to be better. The team is better, which gives him the chance to play better, which gives him the chance to break the record, which gives him the chance to win one more time. That’s the goal.

Nestor Aparicio  22:28

There is a thought that if you’re doing it, and it’s the last time you’re doing it, and I think this for bands that have, yeah, sure, sure, I think about rush. We’re mutual rush fans. They went out not on everybody’s terms as Getty wrote about in his book, but in Neil’s terms of, like, this is it, I’m going to do it the best way I can do it, because I can’t do it anymore the way I used to be able to do it. And we’ve seen bands go too far, right, right? Literally, lip syncing this, that whatever is where of it. Well, they started at it now. And, you know, Mariah Carey and sing, right? There is a point for Ovechkin, yes, say he still can do this in the way Brady could, at a level that is, I mean, broke up Brady’s marriage, right? Like, yeah, he went to Tampa because he was so obsessed, absolutely having to do it. He wasn’t even chasing anybody but himself. He was only chasing himself. This guy’s chasing a thing absolutely good enough to do it. Yeah, there’s nothing like witnessing true greatness, motivated and well enough and good enough and sharp enough to be able to pull this off. And that’s where Springsteen goes out and does it at 77 or I even saw Mick Jagger do it at 81 and it wasn’t mailing it in. Mail it in. It’s because it’s where they want to be. Yeah, it means that much to them. Yeah, when they have $100 million in the bank and they get Putin’s going to give them the country exactly the Hall of all of that. What’s important to you today, what’s important to Alex Ovechkin today is what was important to him when he was 16 years old, absolutely

Leonard Raskin  24:06

being the best he could that ever existed today in the world, the best goal scorer go down in history is the best goal scorer in the history of the game, the and he is by by all accounts, Yes, by all accounts of the sport, people that follow the sport he already is, but by those that think that needs to be done via a record he will be, unless his body doesn’t let him start to

Nestor Aparicio  24:32

lead the league in goals when you’re 2426 28/3 it was hard for him. That’s right, he wasn’t the leading scorer for years. I mean, there were times he

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Leonard Raskin  24:41

was for years and he wasn’t for years. But right now, the fact that he is playing at this level, at 39 years old, like you said, the dedication to single mindedness, to focus, to a goal, to carry that out, is unbelievable. And when I listened to you know, you go back to Derek Henry with 13 carries, when I heard an interview with him, says he spent. $250,000 a year on his body and wellness and mental fitness and health, and what it takes to compete at his age, at that level, and be as strong and tough as he is. I don’t know what Ovechkin spends, but it’s gotta be a four, still fumbled

Nestor Aparicio  25:13

in the first you know what? I mean? Yeah, it’s still hard knock that out. Yeah. I mean, no. I mean, like, Derek, he’s my guy, right? Absolutely, but like, and yet, still, you missed the net. The goalie makes a save. That’s right. Turn your ankle, you get That’s right.

Leonard Raskin  25:27

That’s it. That’s it, yeah, but it’s amazing. It’s amazing the talent level and the dedication to to your craft. You know people that say you can’t get there, people that say I can’t do it, people that say I can’t get ahead, the man’s got it out for me, or whatever it is, if you have a focus to do something in your life, man, there is no no stopping you. The opportunities are endless. And look, I’m not going to be a goal scorer, a pitcher or a quarterback, but I can get out there and do what I do better than anybody else, and be single mindedly focused about it and achieve amazing results. And that’s that’s what we’re about in our lives. But watching these guys in in these sports where the physical takes its toll is unbelievable, that the producing at the level they’re producing. It’s just that’s why we love sports

Nestor Aparicio  26:14

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Absolutely. Funny thing on Wednesday, real quick, let everybody know. Yes, everybody knows you do the American dream, but yeah, a little seminar thing on Wednesday. It’s important Wednesday

Leonard Raskin  26:22

night, six o’clock, all about protecting your wealth. It’s one thing to know how to invest it. That’s important. Critical is the factor of knowing that no matter what happens, what you hope happens, happens. That is, you’re in a car accident, nobody takes all your money. You’re sick or disabled, your family doesn’t suffer the loss financially of that occurrence. You die too soon. Your family isn’t destitute. They’re not setting up a GoFundMe page to take care of your your cost, your needs. I see it too often. Ness. I see people so and so, celebrity, so and so, not celebrity. Nothing hurts my spirit more than when I see somebody who died, and the family sets up a GoFundMe page to help the spouse and kids continue on in their life when for a cup of coffee a day, they could have bought a life insurance policy that would have protected the family from that misery. And people don’t understand how important the protection is and sadly, the the insurance industry makes light of it. You know, you got Liberty Mutual you got the all state guy with the mayhem, and you got but this is real stuff. This is stuff that happens, and you gotta know what and how to protect yourself, your family, your your being, from these things that can take out your financial future, and that’s what we work with people to do. We’re doing a session. It’s about an hour long, six o’clock Wednesday night. If you want to see it, want to attend it, it’s open, it’s free. There’s an invitation on the front page. You’re asking global on our website, bottom right side, you can look at our schedule and click into the event, and look at our events page and show up. All you gotta do is show up. Ask any questions you want. We are happy to help people, especially our listeners that are out here. We get calls nest from your listeners, our listeners all the time asking us questions about investing, tax insurance. We’re happy to help people that are out there fighting this fight and want to have the American dream, and it gets destroyed when you get sick and you don’t have the right health insurance, or, you know, you’re disabled and you can’t work and your family suffers. I don’t have to talk to you about health insurance wife, and it’s That’s right,

Nestor Aparicio  28:36

the course of, you know, the things I’m willing to talk with, we’re doing a lot of football around here, but we can walk and chew gum, and we’re good later in the week, and we can talk about Jim Harbaugh and all that, but this is real life and absolutely and it’s, you know, your sponsorship that powers the things we do here, to be able to have a diversity of conversation around here in regard to really important things that if you live long enough, and I did, and my wife did it, and my mother and father live long like it will affect you. It comes to absolutely you can’t avoid it. You can’t avoid it. No, I

Leonard Raskin  29:07

have a colleague of mine who has that father and father in law, both in nursing homes.

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Nestor Aparicio  29:14

Almost everybody in my life right now is really dealing

Leonard Raskin  29:17

they plan for his father. They planned for his father, and insurance companies are paying that, that cost. There weren’t plans for the father in law, and they’re incurring the family. The family is directly incurring the cost. Yeah, one in three of us will suffer that need if we live long enough. And the the fact of the matter is, we are all living longer, and that’s a good thing, except when it’s not a good thing and it wipes out your wealth, and it wipes out generational wealth because you didn’t plan for it. It is something that people have to recognize, and the government’s not here to help you. You have to help yourself. And the American dream is about that. It’s about helping yourself. And one of the ways you help. Yourself is to make sure you’re protected from those things that would wipe out your wealth, for you, your family and for generations to come. And we want to make sure that’s maintained and kept and the money goes to where you want, not to where you don’t want. So Wednesday night, six o’clock, grab it on our website, look at our events calendar, and grab the app and just snack on and say, I want to be there.

Nestor Aparicio  30:21

You know what? Man, you inspired me last month when we did that capital center, the yeah thing we did over Costas during the crab cake tour, going through the ticket stubs and all of that kind of stuff, and jogging the memories, yeah, and bands, you know Duran. Duran is coming through, dude, I almost sent you a text. I was listening to Depeche Mode cleaning my place over the weekend, our Thor friendship, and I said I was sent you a text like, how did we F that up? Not going to see the Pesh mode last year, like they toured, and I missed it, and I was supposed to go the first night in Sacramento, and I didn’t calendar. I just really, really screwed it up. So I’m trying to be better about all that. But this music thing has come to me that I have all of these interviews in one place, and I’ve been a little inspired by it, by this International Music Day, and wanting to get it all out. When folks like you, I know pretty well, say you interviewed Lou Graham, you interviewed who you interviewed Depeche Mode, really, you have a tape of that, and you could put it up on and they’re in the Hall of Fame. Now, you

Leonard Raskin  31:21

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know absolutely I went. I was there. I wasn’t there when they were inducted, but I went shortly after, and it was magnificent to see all the stuff there, Judas Priest and Depeche Mode in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Two interviews

Nestor Aparicio  31:35

with Rob Halford, one from 1986 and one or 88 turbo tour, and one greater day, well, and then one I have, I Iron Maiden came through last week. I have, I sit down with Bruce Dickinson. Nobody’s ever heard it. I mean, literally, right. Real Story is this, in this music classic thing. And I do want to talk about Jim Harbaugh for a moment, yes before Yes, but you’re going to hear this music thing this week. And when my wife got sick, I had a lot of time on my hands at the hospital. All of these were on these little micro cassettes, little radio check cassettes, right? Little courtroom right, mini cassettes. And so I have them all. I digitized them all, 2014 I decided if I put it together, it would create radio so I could take my wife, maybe to New Zealand and Australia when she got better. Which I did? I did the 30 ballparks in 30 days. Which I did? So I did these things in 15, 1617, I had these tapes, and I put them all digitized, but I only brought out. My criteria was, you’re going to do Billy, Joel, Bon Jovi, David Bowie, Robert put you do those first Getty Lee, yeah, obvious ones. And then there was the secondary ones, and then the tertiary ones, which were the smithereens, good bands, good stuff, yeah, yeah, yeah, died. And now like so in the last 12 years, I have watched, every year, all of these bands go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who weren’t who I have interviews with from all of the era beginning with the Go Go’s. I found the Belinda, there you go. I’ll interview from 1989 right? A matter about you. So I, I found all of these interviews, and I have now I’m going to re Earth another 25 Hall of Fame. Awesome. Have gone into the Hall of Fame since they weren’t in the Hall of Fame before, but are in the Hall of Fame now, right? So I’m doing that this week, so you’re gonna hear a lot of music. But I am a little remiss, because this Jim Harbaugh thing, and I want to ask you this, yeah, moment, I have old interviews with Jim Harbaugh that I found when he took his first job in San Diego. Okay? He sat with me at the NFL combined in Indy. We sat down when he just became the 40 Niners coach. He was coming back into the NFL after he’d been at Stanford. Right when he was at Stanford, I would run into him and he’s in my phone. He’s never changed his phone number, sure, sure. Um, yeah, he did me a favor. Um, so this is a, this is a god. I didn’t even mean to tell the story. I’m gonna tell the story about Jim. Um, two and a half years ago was probably the I haven’t talked to John since this since I’ve been thrown out. Yeah, yeah. I got thrown out almost two and a half years ago now. So um, Jim was coaching Michigan, my dear friend Rob Santoni San Tony’s markets. Yeah, Santoni family had a cousin who is a Michigan alum, big fan, wife, the whole deal. And I think lives in Michigan, lived in Michigan and was suffering a terminal illness, and he reached to me and said, it would mean the world, if there’s any. So I reached the John. I’m like, Hey, man, got to get this thing to Jim. You know, he’s like, I said, this is the number I have on Jim. It’s Jim’s number. This text, and that’s. Number, but Jim texts me back. Boom, next thing I know, Jim’s face timing with this man, his family wife would soon to be widow. He died. Yeah, yeah. Three within weeks of Jim doing this for me, I saw Jim in March, down at the owners meetings when Bucha and Eric ran, literally ran for me like cowards. Jim meanwhile, gets out of the limo with Joe Ortiz and the Spanos family and offers me Uzo and stops and meets Luke and warmly and his wife and introduces me to his wife as the number one radio guy in Baltimore sports history. That’s how he he clearly had had it, maybe a drink, I’m not sure, maybe whatever, right, whatever. It’s fine. I’ll accept that. Right? Sure. So I have this long standing relationship with Jim. I need to ask you this as the Ohio State guy. So yeah, yeah, please pretend that I’m asking you this in a professional Yes, of course. What? How much cheating? What did he do there? How would you explain it to me without being biased as a Bucha, it’s easy, like cheating part of what he does and leaving the place on fire. Yes, it’s a good week to talk about that, because you never do

Leonard Raskin  36:12

it, right? So supposedly, and they got sanctioned, they didn’t lose their championship or anything like that. But here’s the rules as I know it, unlike the NFL, you are not allowed to scout other teams in college football, what you watch on TV or whatever. That’s fine. You know, you can see what you see to the public, but you can’t do any Covert scouting. They had a guy who had tickets to all of the upcoming teams games, and would go to watch the games and would scout signals. And was apparently a navy code dude. That was his life. He was like a Naval Academy, Navy code something guy, I don’t know the exact But long story short, they would crack the team’s Play series, he kind of knew algorithms, and they would crack the team’s Play series and predict very clearly what plays were coming up based on circumstance. And when you kind of know what the other team’s going to do in advance on a very high level that you’re not supposed to have any level of,

Nestor Aparicio  37:25

even if it’s banging trash cans. That’s right, that’s right, that’s right. There’s just an integrity issue. That’s right. To say this,

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here’s the deal,

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here’s the deal. Let’s

Leonard Raskin  37:35

make it easy. Wait, wait, wait, let’s make this kind of easy. You know, college, you don’t have a continuing roster. So obviously, there’s turnover, right? We know there’s turnover, but they’re five and five this year at Michigan. They were undefeated for three seasons, the last three while this guy was doing his thing, and then they got caught international championship season, and Jim couldn’t coach the first X number of games, and he couldn’t coach the last X number of games because of this scandal they’ve had. They have not had wins vacated, but the NCAA slapped him, I think, pretty hard with some money, money fines, and

Nestor Aparicio  38:19

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clouded around playing his brother on Monday night on a new $80 million contract,

Leonard Raskin  38:23

right at the at the super chargers. Yes, because he turns teams around and he wins, and now he can scout. Now it’s legal to scout. You’re you’re encouraged

Nestor Aparicio  38:32

to scout. I don’t know, Belichick had monkeys and trees, right? So whatever he had,

Leonard Raskin  38:36

they won all those Super Bowls. So he did it. I don’t know. You know, the bottom

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Nestor Aparicio  38:40

line is integrity and cheating and you’re lying to work, they put handcuffs on you. Oh, my God,

Leonard Raskin  38:45

made often through. That’s right, well, that’s, that’s fully illegal. That was flat out illegal. Yeah, Cheating is not a good thing. Integrity is, is critical. And my opinion, you know, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror. You gotta sleep in that bed by yourself at night with your thoughts. And

Nestor Aparicio  39:02

if you can sleep, the kind of person that can sleep with that you then

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you are who you are, yeah. Well, then yeah, you you live with that. And God bless if that you know that goal. We’re talking about Ovechkin. We’re talking about Brady. If that goal is paramount in your world, and you find any way possible to get it that brass ring, and that includes bending the rules, playing a different game. Then you go, do that. You be you. I don’t play that way. I can’t play that way. You know, they say you’ve heard this, I’m sure, a million times when you tell the truth. You don’t have to have a long memory. You just say, what you say.

Nestor Aparicio  39:43

You know, John Rallo is a buddy of mine. Ran into him last week at a accelerant, or accelerant. It was the, actually, it was the, the Conex event, not the, yeah, and ran into John. John’s gonna be speaking about security and whatnot. He’s run around. You know, John’s been on the show. I’ve known John since we were eight years old. We played little league baseball, literally, foot. Ball, and we were altar boys together at our league of Fatima. So we had the big spring that the holy tree, baseball, football, and Our Lady of Fatima. And CCD, as a matter of fact, you know, John has said to me many times in his life, man, all we got, where we’re from is our word,

Leonard Raskin  40:18

amen. It’s all you are. That’s it, you know, and it takes, it takes a lifetime to create that, and one screw up to blow it and and in his case, there have been multiple screw ups,

Nestor Aparicio  40:30

but in an integrity case, as Luke Jones drove a loan to Pittsburgh and back after, I did it for 30 years, and now I’m not worthy because the length of my hair, the color of my skin, you don’t have to ask, you ask. Tell me why. I don’t know. But then John Harbaugh sends me text as though he has integrity. John Harbaugh has no integrity, I promise you, from the inside, I know this, I can show you the text. I can show you the words they you know, I don’t get it. Jim Harbaugh, you would say is an Ohio State fan is was doing stuff that was clearly against the rules as we Amen, absolutely, little hockey game, yeah, absolutely.

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Leonard Raskin  41:10

And, and won a national championship and beat Ohio State three years in a row which they had

Nestor Aparicio  41:18

up. You shouldn’t have to break rules if you’re That’s

Leonard Raskin  41:21

right, if you’re good, if you’re good, if you’re great, play it straight, win the game

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on the clear or on the on the cream.

Leonard Raskin  41:28

I don’t know. I don’t know. I know. I know he, I know he was rooting through the files at ESPN. Do you remember that commercial? Whatever

Nestor Aparicio  41:36

it is? Remember that color of his hair? He’s not using any creation for

Leonard Raskin  41:41

ESPN has the some of the greatest commercials ever. Do you remember the one where Ovid was through the files and Steve levy comes in? What you doing? Ovi he he’s, oh, just doing some research. He says, Oh, we thought you might be stealing Russian secrets. And then barlama is up in the roof, and they pull him up the pulley, up into the roof. It’s just the greatest, the greatest ever. I mean, they’re so funny. And now the mascot commercials were the best. Oh, there’s so many fantastic ones. We could spend hours on that, but they do. They do that themselves. So they’re, they’re just, they were some of the best ever. I don’t know if there’s good anymore, but some of them, by the

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Nestor Aparicio  42:18

way, Kennedy did the show last Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. He has a movie out on wiffle ball okay? And I got, I sent him my childhood pictures of my wiffle ball games. He got into it a little bit because we’re friends. And I bet he did a dozen of those commercials. Oh, there’s no doubt. He was class. I should have just bring him on. And he was classical. They were so fantastic. The best, one of the best. And again, we can talk about this for commercials

Leonard Raskin  42:44

are like an extension of the main event, almost. That’s right. Big, big Poppy wearing the Yankee hat and and the the Red Sox mascot looking in the window, just like freaking out. It’s just some of the best, some of

Nestor Aparicio  42:58

the he is Leonard Raskin. He has this big zoom thing about money and about responsibility and about taking responsibility and wealth management. You can find them at or asking global that’s on Wednesday night. If you miss it, no problem. Just send them an email. Um, we’re going to be here for the duration. For people like Leonard who love music, if you love music, if you like my conversations in the modern era, I’m going to unearth some very embarrassing old ones with David Cassidy and engelberg Humperdinck from the 1980s I found my Harry Connick Jr. I just I’ve unearthed a whole bunch of folks like who have passed away. And I have found these tapes, including Brad Delp and Dan Fogelberg, amongst many David Bowie, amongst many others. Sure all of them will be living at music classic, at Baltimore positive in the perpetuity, but they’ll be airing here at am 1570 this week, as we get into Turkey. It’s turkey week. Hey, Bucha, are you pumpkin? Mince meat? Apple, where? Where are you on the pie? Apple, your apple. Okay? Apple. Hardly to argue against pumpkin. I mean, I’m a pumpkin guy.

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I’ll do, I’ll do a piece because it’s the season, but it’s not my thing. Apple straight up. Big cinnamon sugar on the top. Nothing better. Hot ice cream, hot with a scoop of vanilla bean.

Nestor Aparicio  44:12

Absolutely not attended your event. If there’s not ice cream,

Leonard Raskin  44:14

absolutely it’s not an event without ice cream. That’s right, alright.

Nestor Aparicio  44:18

He’s Leonard Raskin un Nestor. There’ll be some sports here, I promise you, Luke and I got you ready for the San Diego Super they’re not San Diego anymore, though,

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I don’t know, do they play that anymore?

Nestor Aparicio  44:30

We’re not in Kansas anymore. I don’t, I don’t, you know, I’m in oiler mode. So when I hear the I hear you song, I’m breaking of these retired songs, and even the Baltimore Colts fight song that still zings and tugs at my heart strings every time I see Bert Jones on the internet. I am Nestor. He’s Leonard. It’s a football week. It’s Thanksgiving. It’s music appreciation around here, would you like to hear some music? Yes, I’d appreciate that positive.com. Stay with us. You.