We all love to have a little fun when we wager but as the madness of March enters and Problem Gambling Awareness Month is here, we also want to educate you. John Martin of The Maryland Lottery gives Nestor the realities about never borrowing money to play or chasing losses, and always setting time and money limits when you gamble.
Nestor Aparicio and John Martin discussed the Maryland Lottery’s initiatives for Problem Gambling Awareness Month, emphasizing education, responsible play, and resources like 1-800-GAMBLER. They highlighted the Home Run Riches promotion, offering $500 for each Orioles home run and a VIP experience for a lucky winner. John shared a story about a $83,201 winning ticket sold in Frederick and a $1 million win from a $25 scratch-off. They also mentioned the Maryland 250 fast play ticket celebrating the state’s 250th anniversary and the Maryland Art Treasures contest, with winners to be revealed at the Home and Garden Show on March 7.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Write down four guesses about what the Maryland Art Treasures scratch-off ticket designs will depict, place them in a sealed container (e.g., a mayonnaise jar), and keep them ready so they can be read on air during a future segment with John Martin.
- [ ] Coordinate Maryland Lottery’s presence at the Home and Garden Show at Timonium Fairgrounds on Saturday, March 7, including having the four Maryland Art Treasures contest winners present to reveal the winning artwork and planning media and social media posts between March 7 and March 20 that showcase both winning and non-winning entries before the Maryland Art Treasures scratch-off tickets go on sale on Friday, March 20.
Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Upcoming Events
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning stops at Gertrude at the PMA, Costas in Dundalk, and Missonis in Perry Hall.
- John Martin joins the conversation to discuss the Maryland lottery and Problem Gambling Awareness Month.
- Nestor highlights the significance of March as Problem Gambling Awareness Month, emphasizing the new aspects of sports wagering.
- John Martin explains the history of Problem Gambling Awareness Month, its industry-wide focus, and the resources available at MD lottery.com.
Responsible Gambling Practices
- John Martin outlines the tenets of responsible play, including education about games and understanding odds.
- He advises against borrowing money to play, chasing losses, and setting time and money limits.
- Nestor shares his personal experience of playing blackjack for fun and not as a means to solve financial problems.
- John Martin compares gambling to other addictive behaviors and stresses the importance of seeking help through resources like 1-800-GAMBLER.
Home Run Riches Promotion
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the Home Run Riches promotion, where participants can win money based on Orioles home runs.
- John Martin explains the VIP experience for one lucky winner, including $2,000 and a premium dining experience.
- Nestor shares a personal story about attending the World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium and the VIP experience there.
- John Martin details the contest rules, including the $500 automatic win for being assigned to a game and the $5,000 prize for a Grand Slam.
Breaking News and Lottery Winnings
- John Martin announces breaking news about a $83,201 winning ticket sold in Frederick, Maryland.
- He provides details about the winning ticket, the specific store where it was sold, and the process for claiming the prize.
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the significance of the winning amount and its potential impact on the winner’s life.
- John Martin shares another story about a young man who won $1 million by playing lottery tickets he received as compensation for letting someone cut in line at Walmart.
Maryland 250 Fast Play Ticket
- John Martin introduces the Maryland 250 fast play ticket, which celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States.
- He explains the semi-quincentennial theme and the availability of the ticket at lottery retailers across Maryland.
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the significance of the 250th anniversary and the upcoming promotions related to it.
- John Martin mentions the Maryland 250 ticket as a fun way to celebrate the milestone and engage with the community.
Maryland Art Treasures Contest
- John Martin announces the Maryland Art Treasures contest, where artists depict their view of Maryland.
- He reveals that four lucky winners will be featured at the Home and Garden Show in Timonium, with tickets going on sale on March 20.
- Nestor expresses interest in seeing the non-winning art submissions and the winning entries.
- John Martin hints at the themes of the winning art, including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a horse, a Maryland flag, and farmland.
Final Remarks and Contact Information
- Nestor and John Martin wrap up the conversation, emphasizing the importance of responsible gambling and the resources available.
- John Martin reiterates the availability of information and support at MD lottery.com.
- Nestor thanks John Martin for joining the show and highlights the upcoming events and promotions.
- The segment concludes with a reminder of the Maryland crab cake tour stops and the Maryland lottery’s commitment to community engagement.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland Lottery, Problem Gambling Awareness Month, sports wagering, responsible play, education, behavioral tips, Home Run Riches, VIP experience, Maryland 250, fast play ticket, Maryland Art Treasures, World Baseball Classic, Maryland crab cake tour, community engagement, gambling resources.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, John Martin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 to Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively taking the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. And yes, I have them, and they’re fresh, even though the Globetrotters are coming to town this month. It’s always cool to have these. And I’ll be giving them away on Wednesday we begin our Maryland crab cake tour stop at Gertrude at the PMA, that’s my cousin’s joint. That’s John shields. Be over there with Dan Rodricks, talking about 1966 in baseball in Baltimore. On Friday, we’re going to be at Costas and Dundalk talking about 2026 and baseball and Baltimore. And then on Tuesday, we’ll be at missonis up in Perry Hall and and that’ll be fun. And John Martin is going to join us right now to not only talk about these things, but other things, and the Maryland lottery. And before we get going, it’s a big month, right? Like, for folks out there and gambling, and this is all kind of new from the sports wagering side of things. This is a month that you’ve taken a spotlight to say, all right, baseball’s coming down the pike. Big pub. He’s going to have a hose. We got the World Baseball Classic, March Madness. It is a month that’s been identified to, like, talk about this a little bit, because it is new, and there is help, and there are people that are having problems with this, right?
John Martin 01:15
John, for the last several years, I’m sure I could go find out when it started. But March is typically Problem Gambling Awareness Month, and it’s very focused. It is industry wide. It’s not only lottery people, but people in the all aspects of gaming, sports wagering, casino gaming, I gaming, where it’s pre
Nestor Aparicio 01:37
8date sports wagering, yeah, yeah. This goes way
John Martin 01:41
back, and it’s actually something that started with our friends at the National Center for problem gambling, and then others of that kind who who provide resources, provide a support system, and you can go to the MD lottery.com web pages and hear more about it. And we kind of set aside some of our advertising and outreach. Our social media posts focus on resource management, what’s available to you. And of course, it’s not only for the individual who may have a problem, but their families, co workers, people who maybe can see it before they do and and provide resources. And there are a number of what I’ll call tenants or commandments, if you will when you’re looking at responsible play. And again, we detail these things in our in our website, but first and foremost is education. Know what games you’re playing and how they are played. There’s plenty of information out there, and that goes if you walk into a casino, you’re looking at a table, gee, that looks interesting. What’s going on there? My experience has been dealers are more than happy to explain the nuances of the game so that you have an enjoyable experience. Understand the odds of winning. What it means when it tells you that the odds of winning on a scratch off ticket or are one in 4.17 what does that mean? It doesn’t mean that in every fifth ticket you have a winner. So again, there’s a lot of education that has to happen. And I think then there you get into kind of behavioral things. You know, we preach these things, but it’s amazing how many times they get repeated. Unfortunately, never borrow money to play. Don’t chase your losses if you’re having a little bad luck or a streak, set a time limit and $1 minute limit. Back when I did a little more of Free Wheeling when I wasn’t in the industry, you know, I put X amount of money in my pocket, and that was it. And when it was gone, it was gone, and I enjoyed it, and I had some fun. But yeah, don’t go to visit the ATM while you’re in process. Don’t wager when you’re feeling stressed, there’s plenty of opportunities for you to take a break, come back another day, and it should first and foremost be for fun, not for profit. It can’t be that you’ve got impending mortgage payments to make, so you’re going to go play lottery or go to a casino. So those things are never good, good, good happens to get into but all of this and a lot more at MD lottery.com, and we hope that everyone within the sound of my voice plays responsibly.
Nestor Aparicio 04:06
Just want to tackle one little piece of that, because I play the ads here at W NSD as well. And just the part about feeling stressed and feeling like I’ve had a really lousy week, I’m going to go to the wherever, casino, lottery, wager my app and get rich this weekend, and that’s going to make me feel good, because I’m in the doldrums. That is something that I hadn’t thought much about. Of the mind frame of people I know who had problems gambling, not just the actual addiction of it, but the thought that it is something for fun. My wife and I on a Friday night go see show. We’ve been to all the casinos in the state several times, lots of them, and I like them, and we like to play blackjack. We have a good time. But it is a it’s a release. It’s not a I’ve had a bad week. Now I’m going to go somewhere and gamble money and maybe lose it. And make it worse, that’s the. That’s just something I had not thought much about, as far as really solid advice for people,
John Martin 05:06
you know, when you look at and as we do, you know the vertical of gambling and gaming, but then you look at it horizontally across addictive behaviors, and you could have the same conversation for people who, unfortunately may have an alcohol addiction or drug addiction, it’s that feeling of, boy, I’m going to I’m going to lean on this vice if I can use the word to get me out of the doldrums. And that is a dangerously slippery slope. And people in the in the behavioral sciences and people in the industries that serve and try to help people through this will tell you, first and foremost, that that’s, that’s, that’s a warning signal, and you should where you can talk to someone one 800 gambler resources are free for Marylanders. You may also speak with someone who’s a peer to peer counselor, someone who’s walked those steps, who understands it from that side. By the way,
8Nestor Aparicio 06:00
I’ve had them on the show, and they’re fabulous. They really are fabulous.
John Martin 06:04
Yeah, yep, yep. So you know, those tools are there, and we hope not only in March, but all 11 months of the year that you hold to these commandments, if you will.
Nestor Aparicio 06:12
All right, John Martin is here. He is the executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming, keeping us aware of one 800 gambler as well as March Madness coming out of pipe. But most importantly, what used to be a sports station around here, John, even though we’ve expanded a little bit, haven’t I even Rick Emmett from triumph coming on this week, some rock and roll, but I digress, home run riches. Here we go. Pete Alonso, World Baseball Classic gunner is going to now you’re not paying off on gunners bombs this week against like Puerto Rico, or the Dominican or my Venezuelan brothers, right? Like, this doesn’t kick off to the 26th but I don’t know how long this has been going on. It’s been going on as long as I’ve been associated with the lottery. I go back to Gary renicky hitting a million dollar home run in 1979 I believe, or 80 Wow, somewhere there were, like, there really was, if it was a Grand Slam, it was a million dollars. It was only one inning, you know, this 40 years ago, 50 years ago. My God, since season it’s, it’s getting up there, you know, the 70s and the 80s. But this year you’ve got a little twist on it, and kind of a really cool VIP experience. Everybody always wanted to go into the press box. Nothing go in the press box. The press box is now a VIP lounge, kind of like what they have in Fenway Park up top that I’ve been at before, but this is going to be someone’s going to win big with home run riches, I think,
John Martin 07:29
8not to diminish it, but you’re right. There are other ballparks around this great land that have similar experiences, and all I’ve seen are renderings. I’ve not set foot in it yet. I hope to sometime this season,
Nestor Aparicio 07:42
orange and black, what do you think I would go with that? I’m just a guess. I you know. Okay, good, yes, yes.
John Martin 07:51
So again, MD, lottery.com for all the details on our annual home run riches, walk off winnings Second Chance contest. And many people who are familiar know, for example, that if they submit their entry and they are one of the lucky people to have their name selected, they win $500 automatically for being assigned to one of the 162 games that the OS play this year, and they get $500 for every Orioles home run. Should that home run be with the bags loaded a Grand Slam that’s $5,000 and new experience this year is that one lucky winner in the month will be selected for the new Orioles premium VIP experience. And that is sweet. First off, you get $2,000
Nestor Aparicio 08:38
he said, sweet. It’s a sweet, right?
8John Martin 08:41
Yeah, I didn’t. I didn’t mean it like that, but thanks for picking
Nestor Aparicio 08:46
up like sweet Judy blue eye. That’s a song that’s all right, that’s all right, all right. Honeymoon suite that’s good they get. They get $2,000
John Martin 08:52
$1,500 boost from being selected, and then they’ll have the opportunity to have an incredible dining and beverage experience, all kind of Chef, this is not hot dogs and popcorn.
Nestor Aparicio 09:06
8I bet there’s going to be sweets in the suite too. Probably absolutely, absolutely will be.
John Martin 09:12
And if you choose to, you can, after you wind and dine, you can sit out in the VIP section there, right below the press box. So in between, kind of, you know, third and first there, but very tightly fit area there, and enjoy the game. Or if you choose to, if it’s one of those nights, you know, sometimes it can be 99 degrees in the shade and it’s a little sticky out there. You want to stay in the VIP club. You can do
Nestor Aparicio 09:38
that too. EC, baby, turn it on me. You Ben McDonald and sweets in the street. How about that? Hey, can I digress and tell a little fun baseball story here? Because it’s World Bank. Can I stop you? Well, probably could. But why would you want to? No go ahead. This sounds good. So the World Baseball Classic is going on, and this is in 2000 and maybe nine was the year that it had. Happened. We were at the NFL owners meetings in Dana Point, California, the only time it was ever there. And we went down to Dodger Stadium. My friend Dennis Manning was running the Dodgers at the time, who ran the Ravens for a period of time, and amongst other teams, the pistons. And I said to Dennis, I’m like, Hey, World Baseball classics at Dodger Stadium, we’d like to come down Major League Baseball. Gave me credentials for me and my wife and Davey Johnson managed the team. The Orioles in the team are like Brian Roberts, Jeremy Guthrie. It was that era, and I did, I have, you can go to YouTube and see me on the field with Davey Johnson, the late, great Davey Johnson, him kidding around with me, which he didn’t do a whole lot of when he was the manager, but he did come on and we had, it was really the last time I saw Davey. But we got VIP that day because we knew someone. They played Japan. Dice K pitched for the for Team Japan. Ichiro played. There were 50,000 baseball fans there. They had the bangers, the plastic bangers. And they were all yelling each, you know, each of they had the red dot and, like, the whole thing going on. And we were the Americans in Dodger Stadium watching the World Baseball Classic. But here’s the point where I want to get to with the VIP experience for you. We got, like, really VIP. And behind Dodger Stadium, they had built the club Now Janet Marie has turned it into, like, fantasy land. It’s amazing what they’ve done out there. Of Baltimore, Janet Maria, actually, of Mississippi, Baltimore and I went into the lounge back there. And when you’re like, this isn’t just hot dogs and barbecue and nachos. First off, Larry King, who I knew a little bit when he was alive, he was there. Tommy Lasorda was there. Frasier Crane, which is real name. Give me his name. Come on now. The guy called cheers, right? Him, he was there. LL, cool. J was all these cool celebrity, Alyssa Milano, you know? So, you know, all I remember was going up to the buffet, and we actually ate with Larry King, and I grabbed all this food, and I’m like, we got to get one of these in Baltimore. That’s what else this is, 17 years ago. So I’m like, so whatever you’re talking about with this buffet, at some point, maybe I’ll get invited. Who knows, but I’m sure the food’s going to be really good, because I could talk about the celebrities in the baseball and all that, but I will tell you, it was a it was a spread fit for Tommy lesorto. You know what I’m saying? I mean, it was Tommy. So I’m just thinking that this would be like, let’s say Boog pal approved. Okay, is that fair enough? Yeah, other pub would just go with barbecue. He wouldn’t be all bougie like me. I want some sushi. I want some, you know, I want.
John Martin 12:31
Oh, absolutely. So I got to ask Larry King. First off, was he wearing suspenders?
8Nestor Aparicio 12:37
I’m not sure because, yeah, probably because it was that time of the year, he was getting a little older then, you know, you know, at that time, my wife, you know, and did he lean and say, Dundalk, are you there? No, here’s what he did to me. And he’s done the show many times. He actually wrote about my book in USA Today. I was one of King’s things, one of the proudest things ever when Larry King promotes your book in the USA Today. I mean, like, literally, it was a big thing in Oh, one for me, but he remembered me. Aparicio, your cousin was a hell of a shortstop, a hell of a shortstop. So anyway, John Martin is here a little storytelling. Are you watching the WBC? I did a little baseball thing. Sure, baseball guy, no,
John Martin 13:15
I am. I am, you know, and you’ve mentioned the 66 O’s, um, there are people around here that have just kind of, you know, tempered the slow the roll a little bit, who are aligning the Pete Alonso move to the Frank Robinson move of 66 I said, whoa, whoa. Let’s, let’s play a game that counts first, and
Nestor Aparicio 13:33
that’s going to cost you a lot of money, because I think Frank at 51 that year. So, hey, look out, right. Like, right you’re going to give, well, home run riches. Let’s talk about that a little bit more. Because, like, you’re giving a lot of money away. How many, like, many home runs you budget for? You get the 23 Orioles or the 25 I mean, it is an amazing thing that you know you guys are going to give a lot of money away here, aren’t you? And the Grand Slams are, like, even more so a thing, yeah, the
John Martin 13:57
8great thing about budgeting, as we do with all our promotions, is we do? Yes, we do have a budget for things. And should we exceed that budget? It just, you know, affects, maybe things we might do afterwards, and if we fall short of the budget again, it affects things we do afterwards, where you’ve got a little more now, in the in the till, the
Nestor Aparicio 14:17
making up the two from last year. That’s all I’m going to say. Yeah, I want them to I want them to break you. John Martin. John Martin’s here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland lottery game. We have fun. You had a story this much, but you don’t like, you don’t Green Room me much before we do this at all. And I’m like, you know, what do you got this week? You’re like, oh, I don’t even talk about, I’m gonna tell you on the air. Because you’re like, This is a great story, from what you’re telling
John Martin 14:43
me, it is actually two great stories. One, we have breaking news. And I love when we can do breaking news. We got to get that breaking news sounder, you know that kind of thing have your have your production people work on. Well, that would be like
Nestor Aparicio 14:54
the sounds of Baba O’Reilly in the beginning of the WHO song. You know what? I mean. That sounded like we witness news.
8John Martin 14:59
Okay? Go ahead so you can, you can go to MD lottery.com. We have a fast play progressive winning ticket that was sold in Frederick. So does our signal get to Frederick?
Nestor Aparicio 15:12
Listen, I love for now, not that far me. It goes out past the golf course on seven. But I love Frederick. And I do. I love Frederick.
John Martin 15:20
If someone happened to be in Frederick and played the fast play World Championship poker game at the sheets store on Monday, we’re very specific Monday, March 2, and that sheet store in
Nestor Aparicio 15:36
8fresh this is like, this happened this? Oh yeah, okay, all right, yeah,
John Martin 15:40
they won $83,201 and and hopefully they know that first off, because they have 182 days to claim that winning ticket, they will need to come here and see my smiling face where I can provide them the big, oversized check for $83,201 but please sign it the back, endorse it, put it in safe keeping, and then when it’s convenient for you, after you’ve got your affairs in order and how you want to then invest that $83,000 plus, come on visit with us. We’ll hear we’re here and and we’ll, we’ll have some fun with that.
Nestor Aparicio 16:15
So I like that it’s 83 because that’s like a little bit of an omen for the Orioles, right? I’m thinking, wow, three we’ve talked baseball. It’s baseball season. Maybe this is the year.
16:27
Wow, wow, wow. Three years. How long
8Nestor Aparicio 16:29
has it been? Let’s not talk about, let’s, let’s move on.
John Martin 16:34
Hey, the story, the story, though, that is also at MD, lottery.com, and I tell you what look we’re going to do this down the middle. We’re going to we’re going to talk the story as it has been told to us, and as we ever and
Nestor Aparicio 16:48
I don’t even know the story, so like, I’m going to judge this based on the fact that before the segment began, you told me I’d have a story that would be hard to believe. I mean, really, you know, a true story, but like one that.
John Martin 17:03
8Okay, so go ahead, we have our hero. We’ll call him that. We have our hero standing, standing in line at the Walmart and the woman behind him, whether she asked to cut in front of him or he offered whatever, but there’s a cutting a line. Cutting thing is about to happen. She’s going to come from behind him to in front of him. And for that, almost like like draft days. We’ll leave it back in the NFL, almost like a draft day. She provides him compensation for that moving ahead, and she provides him not one, but two, $10 scratch offs. Now that’s where I start to raise an eyebrow. I’ve been to Walmart. You’ve been to Walmart a lot of times. You know, if I see someone’s got go ahead and me. I’m not expecting anything, let alone $20 worth of scratch off tickets. But that’s not the point of the story. The point of the story is the young man lets her go ahead, scratches those tickets and wins $50 but the story does not end there. Nestor, story ended there. Why would I even
Nestor Aparicio 18:10
go already lucky? If you scratch you won 50 bucks, right? Exactly, just, just for standing in line at one that’s a good day of Walmart for me. I’ve never won 50 bucks at Walmart. He takes the $50
John Martin 18:19
and says to himself, self, he says, this is, this is new found money. I’m going to go to the lottery vending machine and I’m going to buy two of those new $25 crossword tickets where the top prize is. Are you sitting down? Yeah, I can see you’re sitting down. $1 million he buys two of them, bada boom, Bada bing. He wins $1 million
Nestor Aparicio 18:47
stand in the Walmart, standing in the Walmart. Didn’t even think about playing the lottery 10 minutes before. Probably, right?
8John Martin 18:54
Well, I don’t know about that. He’s probably, he’s probably played the lottery once or twice. I’m going to say that. But again, he is now going to use a lot of that for his upcoming nuptials,
Nestor Aparicio 19:10
not all of it. I hope you know, it’s the marriage, not the wedding.
John Martin 19:14
Grown up advice, I’ve been married, yep, yep. And of course, Walmart receives a bonus for selling that winning ticket. But you know, you put it in its totality, it is a nice story, is it not?
Nestor Aparicio 19:22
8I think anytime anybody wins a million bucks and they’re they’re just playing to have a good time, as we talk about, listen, I’ve seen people win 50 bucks and 100 bucks. When I give tickets out, people love to win. It’s a fun human thing, and that’s why we play, right? I mean, we have a good time with this. It’s why I love sports, because it’s fun.
John Martin 19:41
Something else is fun, and we haven’t talked about it much, is that, you know, you may have heard something about this. 2026 is the 250th anniversary of this great nation.
Nestor Aparicio 19:52
I’ve talked about that a bunch this week. Actually, it’s coming on, right? Yeah. Okay, so we
John Martin 19:56
have worked in concert with the MD 252 Uh, campaign, if you will. And we have a fast play ticket that is now available in stores all four to 300 lottery retailers across this great state called Maryland, 250 it’s a $2 fast play ticket, and it celebrates the semi quincentennial. I just worked a way to say that I love that.
8Nestor Aparicio 20:20
I’m not going to say that again. I don’t even know how to say that.
John Martin 20:23
It’s you let your brain work at it. Semi when I
Nestor Aparicio 20:27
was like a kid, it was eight years old, so we had the it was a Susquehanna.
John Martin 20:31
8Oh, see, those are tough. There’s math involved there.
Nestor Aparicio 20:35
Philadelphia is always involved in this, like the all star game this summer. Yeah, it’s that year. Again. I remember collecting the quarters? Do you remember that? Oh, yeah, 76 quarters. Everybody remembers that. So, yeah, here we are again. 250, it’s a long time for country.
John Martin 20:47
It is, it is. So Maryland will be involved in all that excitement. We’ll have some promotions coming up as we get further into it. But I just think it’s a fun thing. You know, how many
Nestor Aparicio 20:57
important state? You know, we’re so important that you’ve made a scratch off about our state that’s coming down the pike too, right? I mean, coming
8John Martin 21:05
up this weekend, nice. That’s a nice segue. We really don’t need to rehearse, although
Nestor Aparicio 21:09
hurricanes of radio here in Baltimore, but that’s my radio voice.
John Martin 21:14
Sorry. Coming up this weekend, actually, depending on how people consume this media, we will be at the Home and Garden Show with four lucky winners of our Maryland art treasures contest for artists who have depicted their view of the great state of Maryland.
Nestor Aparicio 21:33
8From there, are you gonna tell me what any of these are? Or is it review?
John Martin 21:36
Oh, no, no. This is, this is a big deal.
Nestor Aparicio 21:39
I’m wondering why I haven’t seen the art. Because I was saying, Can I ask you officially before going on this on the record? Because I might not talk to you for a couple weeks either, but um, the I don’t say the non winners, I don’t see losers. Yep, I know better, the non winners. There’s probably a lot of really amazing art that didn’t win. Is any of that going to be displayed in any way? I’m just asking, and I’m wondering, because I’m thinking like there were two or 300 of these that were good enough to to be on a ticket. And I’d like to see the art. I’d like to see the non winners,
John Martin 22:15
as well as the winners. We’ve talked about that. I don’t think we’ve come to final resolution, but the four lucky winners will be there live and in person at the Home and Garden Show at the Timonium fairgrounds, Saturday March 7, as we reveal the art and the tickets will be on sale beginning Friday March 20. So we will then between the seventh and the 20th in media, social media posts start to to make those, make that art available from the winners. And no one
8Nestor Aparicio 22:43
has seen these outside of your building, right? Like, I’m sure. I just want to do this on the up and up, because you want to open up guy. I don’t know what they are. And there were four winners. You said four, four, all right, so I’m going one is going to be key bridge for the win. I’m going one of them will have a horse in it. One of them, at least, will have a Maryland flag motif in some way, and one of them will have farmland in it. I don’t know if you know this, but I’ve been all over the state of Maryland, so I heard imagery, and I’m thinking there’s going to be a farm motif. So those are my four guesses, Cambridge horse, Maryland flag farm motif. I wouldn’t say that if I were one of the judges and I was not, although I wanted to be, you were not, I wanted to be that, I would be looking for those things. Now let’s see what really happens, because watch me be way off and be like, Oh, that’s so Maryland. How could I not think of that, right? I would
John Martin 23:44
suggest to you, because I have insider information, put those, those four guests wrote him guesses of yours, yep. Put them in a mayonnaise jar, seal the lid and put it aside, and we will reveal that on a radio
Nestor Aparicio 24:01
station that some some people listen to it and add on on the web, so it’s public. My my predictions are, I don’t gamble on anything, but I’m gambling. I’m predicting I’m going to come through the home stretch. By the way some people call the home and garden show the cost is parking lot these days out in Timonium. So these are my sponsors. They do. John Martin is here. He’s executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming, Walmart stories, sheets winners in Frederick. And of course, he not really him, but Roz gave me these tickets. We have Harlan Globetrotter scratch offs. Top price, $10,000 we’ll be giving these away at Gertrude on Wednesday, Costas in Dundalk, swearing halved crabs on Friday, and then Tuesday, we’re going to be at missoney’s up in Perry Hall. John, did I leave anything after we get it all in here? I think we did. Think we did.
John Martin 24:43
8Did we we covered it, and if we have, for some reason, missed something? MD lottery.com, for all of this and more.
Nestor Aparicio 24:49
All right, we had fun last week with the Ravens winners and tickets for life. This week we’re looking for millionaires. He is executive director of all things Maryland, lottery and gaming. John Martin, they sponsor us three. Sat on the road on the Maryland crab cake tour, as well as a cup of Super Bowl with 32 great stories of community. And we’re still adding to them as we get through this thing here this week as well. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore positive. You.
