Our resident financial consultant Leonard Raskin knows that April 15th stresses out Americans and is here to help. Of course, he has no control over the Capitals’ playoff path to another another Stanley Cup or the Orioles’ pitching woes and lows.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed various topics, including the Maryland crab cake tour, tax season, and sports. They emphasized the importance of filing tax extensions by April 15 to avoid penalties and stressed the need to pay taxes even if the return is not ready. They also discussed the Orioles’ struggles, particularly the bullpen’s inability to hold leads, and the Capitals’ chances in the Stanley Cup. Raskin highlighted the importance of financial planning and managing money effectively. They also touched on the impact of technology on concert experiences and the challenges of covering sports.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Tax Day, Maryland crab cake tour, tax extensions, IRS, Orioles struggles, bullpen issues, Ovechkin, Capitals, Stanley Cup, Masters, Rory McIlroy, financial advice, concert experiences, sports frustration, ticket prices.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
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Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, and we are hoping to get you out to the Maryland crab cake tour sometime soon, for all of our people here, it’s it’s been a delicious month, and we have a delicious month ahead. We’re going to be at Beaumont on Thursday. I have something really cool baked up for that. So not as good as that, as the lobster tail is, but it’s pretty good, and not as good as the lamb chops. But I’ll be dining on all of that this week at the Beaumont. Well, we’ll be out at the Beaumont on Thursday in Catonsville. The following Wednesday, we moved to Coopers north in Timonium and Mays chapel, and I got some legend joining me there as well. Then on the 30th of the month, we’ll be back at Cocos all they brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I’ll have some scratch offs, including from our friends at the the Back to the Future, the DeLorean specials. I hope they’re lucky. Leonard Raskin is going to be joining me at some point for a crab cake. He’s been running around. And I don’t know if you know, but the market’s kind of like not so good right now. Tax season is here, and based on whether you’re hearing this on the radio on Wednesday or Monday or Tuesday, we all have, like, the April 15 pbgbs. And we gotta get this done, and we gotta sign that. I know I had that in my own business. I’m a small business owner now, 34 years into that, and still figuring things out when things change as well as, you know, just April 14, 1516, could be pretty stressful. Leonard, it can be Right, absolutely. Why is it so stressful for me? Every Why do people
Leonard Raskin 01:32
It freaks me? People out, you’re my dude. And, you know, it freaks me to FX, I know. Here’s the bottom line. We have a voluntary tax system, quote, unquote. The problem is it’s voluntary at the point of a gun and the threat of jail and threat of Big fines and penalties if you don’t file your taxes. And so we’ve got this system where everybody files on april 15, and you get all freaked out, and if you’ve never filed an extension, then if you haven’t filed early, normal March, April, beginning
Nestor Aparicio 02:04
the day you’re thinking about it. Get an extension right now, right
Leonard Raskin 02:08
8exactly, exactly. And you’ve got Tuesday midnight. It buys you six months to October the 15th or the Monday thereof. By
Nestor Aparicio 02:17
the way, I did this two years ago to freak me out. It’s nothing, do it, and everybody like you is like, Dude, relax that April 15. That is not just media hype, but it’s government, because they do want you to get this done. Well, here’s the rules, and this is their one chance to clap at you, that’s right, on April 15 and say, Dude, get this done. So we don’t, we don’t want to come put you in
Leonard Raskin 02:38
hand. The goal is you square up. You square up on april 15, and if you’re not ready, you file an extension with the federal and with the state, depending upon the state you’re living in, and all you do is you pay the tax. Here’s the thing, April 15 gives you six months to wait to file your return. It does not give you six months to pay. So you file an extension. You must pay the tax you think you’re going to owe, or get as close to it as you can. You write the check, or you go online, you file the extension, you pay the money, and now you’re done. That’s it. Wash your hands, and now you got six months. Don’t wait till October the 13th to pick it back up so you can pick it up in the next two weeks, 30 days, whatever, get your return done, square up and make sure everything’s cool and send it in. There’s, there’s no penalty for that. There’s no they don’t look at you differently as for that. It’s, it’s an opportunity, it’s a right that all of us have. And if your return is not ready, or you’re not ready. Just write the check, send in the extension, move on, then get the return done. You got plenty times six months. You should be able to get all your records together, get things handled, but it is a scary day. Look. Here’s the thing, blue and red. Blue and red, two beautiful colors together. They make a beautiful purple behind you in the car, they scare the hell out of you when those lights are flashing behind you. Mail. People love getting mail. Remember, as a kid, used to run to the mailbox to get the mail, and you would pray that something would have your nothing comes in that mailbox. It’s any good for me, right? So now, now you get mail? It’s like, oh, this is terrible. And then you get the mail, the envelope that says Internal Revenue Service, official government business penalty for misuse, like a billion dollars, something like that. And your heart goes into a rapid beat, and you get that fight or flight mechanism, and you freak out, and you don’t want to open it, but you know you have to. And you open it, and it says our official computer records did not recognize your address properly, and we’ve changed it in our system, and they basically put the four digit on the nine digit ZIP code, and you freaked out for. A minute because you didn’t know it was going to be in there. But heaven forbid that letter says we would like to audit your return again, sends everyone into freak mode when all they’re doing is asking questions about something you reported on your tax return. You get your CPA, or if you did your own return, you got your records, you know what you did. You say, Okay, let’s move on. Let’s get this resolved, and maybe, maybe you’ll have to pay a little bit of penalty and interest because you did something you shouldn’t, or they didn’t like something you did and think you should have done it differently. And you write a check and you move on. They don’t put you in jail. Now, they do put you in jail if you don’t ignore everything you just said over the last five minutes. That’s right, you ignore it. You don’t file. You got a 1099, or a w2, or a k1, and you ignore it. You don’t file. You don’t report your income. Those are the people that go to jail. So short of doing something crazy like that, you may owe some money. Okay? You ready? Check you move on, but it freaks people out. Three letters IRS freaks people out like nothing else.
Nestor Aparicio 06:08
You know, I that my favorite IRS pieces of mail came to me back in the late 1980s I was a music critic at the at the Baltimore Evening Sun, and if they sent the music to the to to Calvert Street, it would get stolen somewhere between the mail room, yeah, and the fifth floor. So all the music critics would send me the stuff to my home at 428 Kane Street, yep. And so it would always come Atlantic Records, CBS Records and lots in the old days. Now I would get albums, so 8687 but then they went to CDs, and sometimes they would come in the crush, but very a lot of times they would just be punched through. You had that had that hole on it that was emotional. They’d have little gold thing, not for resale, and like all of that. And but IRS, man, when I got those albums back in the day, IRS was a great record label back so that was the only record label, yeah, good indie record label there. Leonard Raskin is here. He is LR, and by the way, your Fauci fiduci, who book, I usually have that on my desk, or your crab mallet and all that stuff you have been sported up here this week because Orioles Have you glued to the couch, even after March Madness masters happened over the weekend, capital sort of stumbling to the finish line. Here is games that matter. Start here. Turn this back on again. Yeah. After the Ovechkin thing, it is, it’s and with the liar luncheons this week too, we get a draft all next weekend, right? The only thing that really matters here Lamar and the Ravens come back to life. It is, spring is sprung. And I don’t have any talk about lacrosse or anything, but the Orioles struggles are very, very real, and I felt that being a Costas on Friday for seven hours, yeah, they
8Leonard Raskin 08:01
you don’t know whether they’re going to hit or not, and they’re starting to hit so, so it looks like the bats are going to be okay. They’re hitting the ball, they’re they’re running situationally, they’re doing okay on the bases. The fielding is starting to come around. The problem is six three leads aren’t safe. With a bullpen that, for some reason, isn’t pitching. You got starters that aren’t going long. I don’t know why that is. I guess it’s early in the season, but you’re taking starters out at 76 pitches, putting it might
Nestor Aparicio 08:32
be all you got when you’re 35 or 41 might be seven. It might be what they’re going to see. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 08:39
might be so then you bring in the bullpen, and then they blow leads and losing the 10th, whatever it may be as a famous last words, right? There’s never a good time to panic. This certainly isn’t a good time to panic. We’re in what three weeks are we in? Three weeks yet, three weeks in. So unlike football, where if you’re oh and three, it’s time to panic, in baseball, you’re under 500 The good news is the division’s not running away right now. Nobody’s fabulous. Hey, look. Did I see? I think I saw over the weekend, Nestor Dodgers lost 16 to nothing, and they have the most expensive, golden payroll anybody could have, and so a 16 zero loss didn’t look good on their record, and they brought in, I don’t know there’s a new rule. Well, they say they don’t get the same though, right? There’s a new rule in Major League Baseball, I think you can only bring in a position player to pitch if you’re down, like a million or something. Is that
Nestor Aparicio 09:46
8I Okay? I hope that not find out if the orals have to find out,
Leonard Raskin 09:51
no, but I think, I think I saw that it’s a new rule. You got to be down like 10 or more or something, because they used to do it whenever they felt like it based on, like, what was. Going on, but now you have to be down
Nestor Aparicio 10:02
two in the ninth inning, and you’re conceding. You bring somebody in, right, right? But
Leonard Raskin 10:05
now I think you have to be down a lot, and so the Dodgers did, and they gave up a couple more home runs, and they ended up 16 nothing. I don’t think they’re panicking, but, but pitching, I think, is an issue. You can’t win. Certainly can’t win in the long run without great pitching? Yeah. I mean,
8Nestor Aparicio 10:22
that’s such an obvious thing to people that have silver hair like you and silver beards like me, right? Is to say I’ve watched a lot of baseball teams with bad pitching. Don’t win, don’t don’t you. You can. You think you can slug. I mean, looks like they can score five and a half runs average, whatever they want. You know what you’re going to average. You’re going to average. You’re going to be mediocre at
Leonard Raskin 10:43
best. Give up seven. Give up seven. You can’t win with five, five minutes. Can’t be excellent with bad pitching. No way to do no so. So the hope is right that we get these injured guys back and right as we’re thinking like we might be okay with effluent leading the charge. He Evelyn goes on the disabled list, or he goes on the Evelyn disabled list, whatever you want to say, but that’s not good. He was our now prime number one. And so I look at this the starters, and you say, Who’s, who’s your number one starter right now, I don’t know Dean Kramer. I don’t know he hasn’t he hasn’t pitched well at all.
Nestor Aparicio 11:24
Well. I mean, that’s where, when the what top fell out of this. And Luke and I have spent a long period of time discussing this, then even going back to, you know, into March, and back when I sat with John Eisenberg and Dave shining and Mark Messina last week, we sat at long form, just talking about pitching, talking about what we know about baseball, and what we know about 3537 and 41 year old starters is that, even if they’re excellent. Charlie Morton last year, fine, you know, give me five any give me give me five to six innings of give me a chance to win, give me a chance to win, right? And I don’t know that they have any Sure thing. And you know, watching Hoffman go out there and pitch late and do two innings for the the Blue Jays and extra wins and get the win, the Orioles identified him the money didn’t make sense. They The Braves didn’t like his arm either, right? But, and I’m okay with all that. All, yeah, sure, falling off, sure, sure. You need that kind of performance. You need that kind of we have, what petite
Leonard Raskin 12:28
8we had it years ago. We had it. That’s it. We had it two years ago. We had it last year. It just doesn’t look like it’s warmed up, but it’s like sand
Nestor Aparicio 12:35
on a beach. The next wave comes in, and it’s it. Things move around, and you just all, I think,
Leonard Raskin 12:41
I think also you lost your number one. And if I, if I read correctly, he got a pretty nice offer. They made him a really nice offer. He clearly wanted to pitch
Nestor Aparicio 12:54
deal was this four years at a significant,
8Leonard Raskin 12:57
not an insignificant number for the it was a
Nestor Aparicio 13:00
decision for him, and the decision was, I want to be in Arizona. I want to pitch in my family. I want my family’s out here. This is where it’s I pitched in Milwaukee. I did my time. That’s right, my time involved. I’ve heard my
Leonard Raskin 13:11
I’ve earned my check, and now I’m going home. Yeah, and so I can’t blame them for for that, because they offered them. So that looks good. Now you just got to find a guy. I hope that somebody comes off the disabled list, or we find a guy. And I think it’s too early to worry about the guy, but it won’t. It won’t stay early long.
Nestor Aparicio 13:32
8So well, and then the bats have to wake up as well. Leonard Raskin is here. He manages money before, during and after tax day. Yeah. He is at Raskin global with, always with good financial advice for things that going on. And, you know, the Masters, and then we’ll get the hockey in a minute. Because, yeah, I had hockey players tell me it’s the same game golf and hockey. They hit the ball, you know, whatever. I’ve never met a hockey player that wasn’t a good golfer. They tried. That’s true.
Leonard Raskin 14:00
Ovechkins, what first or second? I think, first time on playing golf, hit a hole in one? Well, the
Nestor Aparicio 14:06
ball doesn’t move, so the puck’s always moving. So Right? It’s like baseball. I would always say to go like I played baseball and tennis my whole life, running around to hit a ball that was moving and drop it into a spot. I have good eye and the golf should be the thing that, if I enjoyed it, if I loved me, should be, I would probably be, be someone who could get better at it. But for dough being said, there is nothing like coming down the back nine at Augusta. There is something about the azaleas that start
Leonard Raskin 14:36
majestic. The pollen eats you up, eats you up, eats you up,
8Nestor Aparicio 14:40
and then you start to choke a little bit. Even Jim Nance was left and you
Leonard Raskin 14:45
hit a ball that you’ve hit a million times on 13 into the water, and you double bogey 13, and it looks like you threw away your tournament, your grand slam. Then you go into the sand trap, right, right, and, and it’s utterly unbelievable. And that’s what they were saying. The announcers were saying that this was shocking, unthinkable, right, right, unfathomable. And I’m watching because I don’t watch a lot of golf, and I’m like, Norman, right? Or who was the guy, who was the British guy at the British Open was up like six and stuck it in the long grass and blew a six shot lead coming in the last two holes, or something. I can see him. I can’t think of him, but that was years back. But here’s Rory coming in and and he just made a mess of the back nine. And somehow, someway, got to 18 with the chance standing over, what a four foot putt. Now I know I read a study years ago, and you’ll appreciate this for sure, and you’ll understand it in a second. I read a study years ago, they took all these amateur, good golfers, decent players, not on that amateur tour even, but good players, and they let them play around the golf. And they they all, you know, good golfers. They played good golf, and then they came back the next day, and they had people around the green, and they sucked. Yeah, got people watching you, and suddenly you can’t perform. It’s a different game. Well, I wouldn’t say that for the pros, but my goodness, if you watched Rory on 18 four foot putt that, he sunk a million times and he blew it. Blew it. I mean, it
Nestor Aparicio 16:43
had all the drama that you would want, absolutely none of it. When the Orioles bullpen blew the game, it was five o’clock, getting in that range, post game, whatever. And I went and made some dinner, and I came up and it was, he was, it was at 14 and 10. You had a four shot lead on, like, 11 or wherever it was, yeah. And it was that period of time where I’m like, Well, this kind of sucks. I mean, there’s not even, like, any drama. And I literally went down to, like, make a salad. By the time I came back up, I back and forth with a friend, and I’m like, he’s making this interesting. What like? And then there’s him not having the Grand Slam, right? And everything. How many tribes and everybody that’s grown up in golf remembers him as this. It’s like looking at Jackson holiday now when he doesn’t shave, yeah, and then seeing him when he looks like you and looks like a veteran at the end of his career, right? Right? Like this guy’s been that guy from the very beginning, because he won so early. Yeah, you know, he gets back to the tiger, beat tiger in his prime. You know what I mean? This was
Leonard Raskin 17:52
8the his 18th masters, his 11th try at the Career Grand Slam. That not what five see elusive. I was shocked. Literally, I tell you, I was shocked when I saw that there were only five players that it had
Nestor Aparicio 18:08
everything, including Jim Nantz on Yeah, hello,
Leonard Raskin 18:12
hello, friends, and he was he was choked up. He was choked up and he wasn’t the only one cabin kitchen. And then, oh man, and you could see Rory was it was practically in tears. And then they come back for the playoff, and you got Justin Rose right? He’s the Scotsman, and Rory the Northern Ireland, uh, going out to play 18. And it looked to me like he had almost the exact same putt to win it in over, in overtime, in the playoff hole, and rose could have put the pressure on, but missed, and so it gave him an easier, easier, less stressful shot. And there it was. Now I also saw something interesting over the weekend. I don’t know if this is good, bad other and I don’t know if this the first year, or if it’s policy no cell phones in the gallery at the Masters. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 19:14
you still have every time he hits a shot on 1817, but no cell phones, all of that nonsense that’s been brought out in Arizona at the trash open. Yeah, you know, it’s come to the course, and I don’t, I don’t know what to say about any of it, because I’ve attended a handful of golf tournaments. Could you
8Leonard Raskin 19:35
imagine going to a baseball game or football game? They said, put your cell phone, leave your cell phone in your car. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 19:41
hold on a second. Now, concerts have been doing that. Bruno Mars locked up my phone really, right? No, my God, when I checked into the MGM down in DC with my wife at two years ago, several things we were masked up. It was sure, 120 sure they have little bags that they lock your phone up. You keep your phone. If you want to unlock your phone, my wife keeps her sugar, her blood sugar, on her watch, on her iPhone, on her I watch, or whatever the hell it is. And so my wife has a medical issue in regard to her phone working, let alone, if you’re a doctor, you got kids at home, sitters. What do they say? Well, if you want to come in the concert, you lock your phone up, your money and you cannot go home. Comedians also have been doing that. Have Been doing something because and, and you can Google this anytime you want. Are you a pretenders fan? Yeah, sure. Why do you love the pretenders?
Leonard Raskin 20:35
What do you love? Just back in the day, great tunes. Great tunes. One of those Republicans that
Nestor Aparicio 20:41
8deep down, wants to be a long haired anarchist like me. That’s right. The thing about Chrissy Hine, Chrissy Hines, she’s a anarchist, right? Absolutely, so famously. And her temper on stage, her temperament on stage, is legendary. I have seen her half the time, reported half the time. I’ve seen her in the 40 and I still go back for more all that. I was all to warn theater last year. I’ll go, go get in the night, if you got tickets. Um, incidentally, I met my wife on a night where I was supposed to go see the pretenders play at the Orpheum in Boston. And a friend of mine said, No, I got a girl. You have to meet this girl. You have to meet this girl. And I went and getting married, but I was supposed to go see the pretenders that night. That’s how much I love, the potential. Just Chrissy Hind, I seen her Sass the crowd at the 930 club one night about like somebody in the crowd doing what you’re talking about, play the hits. I want to hear this song. Message your love. Mr. G, shut the f up. I’ll play what I want, right, like and and political messaging, very political, very every Shut up to the fans. Mellencamp has been that way, very grouchy as he’s gotten older. But Chrissy Hind is nutty about being videotaped and like having to look at cameras the whole night. Yep, she hates it. She will stop songs. Say, put the phones down, enjoy the music. I came all this way to play for you. I don’t want to be looking at phones. And it’s not anything about being on the internet with my hair. It’s just sort of like it’s taken away from my mojo. Absolutely,
Leonard Raskin 22:15
I get it. I get it. I didn’t know that was policy at the at the Masters, but apparently it is. There you go. So we’re getting to the point
Nestor Aparicio 22:24
where things that are, can I give you a bone to pick about, since I don’t do Raven shows anymore and I’m not a real media member, I have a letter coming to Katie Griggs for you this week too, for everybody out there that needs some responsible journalism being done. You know the notion that things are back in the day and having, like a media pass and where you are. I remember when phone started to record in locker rooms, and Kevin Byrne was kind of freaked out that I was making cameras move. And I’m like, channel 11, does it with this big thing, right? All the time, right? Like the technology change in all of this, and where it jumps the shark in different things crazy. This happened for me in the 90s where I was really stupid doing my radio show. And you remember this as a young man, I would go out to the barn and do the show. I really thought people, like, cared about the show. All they really wanted to do is get autographs and, like, jump the stage and get their Wheaties boxes signed so they could go on the interweb and sell it like that became like such a thing, yeah? That weighted what I was trying to do, yeah, which was, do this show for the people and shake a hand, get an autograph. You know, something that was saying that turned into, who do you have tonight? And who does 1300 have tonight? And what show who? Who’s Ray Lewis going to the tonight? Or is it more valuable running around and coming in the front door and getting a water and going out the back door and with 515 baseballs and footballs getting autographs and all that? And it just became like not, it wasn’t even in the spirit of what I was trying to do, right? Anyway, I’ll give
Leonard Raskin 24:06
you a concert. This is, I don’t know however many years ago. Can’t even remember before, before COVID. It’s like before COVID Or since COVID, before COVID, I was down in Houston for a business conference. I had fifth row center Depeche Mode. Seats at the amphitheater down there. I can’t think of the name, whatever. And for those who don’t know, Leonard loves the Peshmerga Depeche Mode the best. Do you like the fix? I’m seeing the fix this week. Absolutely, absolutely. Elaine, so I go to the go to the show, and I’m a watch the show guy. You know when like, one song or two songs come up. I’ll take my phone out and I’ll hold it like here, well, you took me to
8Nestor Aparicio 24:46
Billy Joel, very kindly. Your last word once a show like, come up to me. A fan listener like, and I apologize, I wrote to him Sunday said, I. I apologize, but, like, I just don’t BS during shows
Leonard Raskin 25:04
like Pesh mode, like I said, fifth row, and I’m watching, I’m singing, dancing, having a ball, and there’s a dude standing two seats away, three seats away from me, Nestor. He’s got a GoPro on his head. Oh, nice. Mounted on his head the whole show. You know he’s recording the whole concert. I’m thinking, wow, I remember the dead back in the day you could record anything. You would
Nestor Aparicio 25:27
not want any recording off of my head because I moved too much. I’m telling this
Leonard Raskin 25:31
8guy was standing there, and he’s he’s recording the whole show. I’m like, Dude, what are you doing? Just didn’t make sense to me.
Nestor Aparicio 25:39
On Saturday, I had to decide if I was going to go to Planet Fitness. Get a yoga work at in get a hot thing. Get, you know, get whatever my cardio needed to be, or when that was going to go see Tommy Conwell and the young Rumblers with Mark Messina at the legendary village and chameleon club of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, my God, and I made it to Lancaster, Pennsylvania on Saturday night like an old guy, even when Tommy’s rocking. I looked out of my my my phone, 1108, 1108, he’s doing space cowboy. You know, do still I’m not your man. So, so he’s rocking, and I’m like, Damn, I’m in Lancaster. I’m acting like a man half my age. And then I see my hair out and I’m tired. I’m just getting ready for m3 I’m getting ready for that. As John Steadman would say, that hard metal that so much Leon Raskin is here. He is a Raskin global he’s getting ready. Don’t bother Leonard. It’s tax season. Don’t bother him during game one of the caps this week. Um, give me a hockey primer for you. And your expectation level do you? Do you expect the caps to win a Stanley Cup again in your lifetime. I
Leonard Raskin 26:41
don’t expect them to. I would hope they would. This is, in my opinion, ovechkins, last great chance this year. I will say this, watching a lot of hockey, the East is for the picking they can take the east. There isn’t a team that they have played or that they will play in the playoffs that they can’t beat if they’re playing their game over the weekend. Every let’s face it, every time. So you know this. Everybody should know this. Every time Ovechkin scores, a new record is set. So over the weekend, he scored 896, against a new goaltender for the Columbus Blue Jackets, and they lost two back to back over the weekend, of the blue jackets, a bunch of guys not playing, and the game didn’t really matter. But they say that, but at the same time you’re still playing, and I think they could have played better. They didn’t. My
Nestor Aparicio 27:43
concern for Winnipeg just openly, yeah, sure,
8Leonard Raskin 27:47
the greatest, the greatest white out in the history of hockey, Winnipeg just they were doing white outs when Harvey Myers put my satellite dish up on my but it wasn’t anything at all when it was 1987 88 and then they lost the team, then they got the team back, and they’re the President’s Trophy winner this year for our listeners, that means the best record in the league, having said that the President’s Trophy winner has not won the Stanley Cup in like forever, so they got a Stanley March. Man, this were the ones held up lately? No, no, but here’s the deal. I don’t think there’s anybody in the east, the caps can’t beat but when you go west, it’s wide open. In the West, you got Vancouver, not Vancouver, I’m sorry, Vegas. You got Edmonton, you got Winnipeg. We got five or six. Minnesota. You got some. The West is where the fight is going to be fought. And whoever comes out of that, if, if the caps get through the east and get to the finals, they will hope that whoever comes out of the West has been beaten to a pulp in seven game series all the way through to get there, and are so tired that I know vetch getting a Wilson hit knocked them out and they win the cup. Can Can Dale Hunter come back and cheap shot somebody for old time sake. That’s not gonna happen. It’s not gonna happen. Ovechkin threw around his body the last week since he since he got the goal record, he’s decided now to start hitting people again, and he knocked some people into next week.
Nestor Aparicio 29:18
So much about sports that, like, it’s a mate, because I was going to do like, an April Fool’s joke about, like, giving sports up because I am getting a little pissed off with all of it. I’m going to be writing to Katie Griggs this week about, you know, being disassociated with the baseball team when they’re the stadiums half empty and they have and Peter’s dead, which is insane. It’s insane to you. It’s insane to me. It’s insane to everybody at Costas over the weekend as well. But like, I like, there is a point for me with the capitals thing that if I make public my words with Zach Leone is after supporting the team for 40 years, but just dropping Dale Hunter, cheap shot references and stuff like that. Like, I loved hockey. I loved the cap so much when i Cold Turkey did seven years ago. So when I was sassed by the owner’s kid after being a part of it for 40 years, and after what they did to my buddy, who’s going to the Hall of Fame, going to the effing Hall of Fame is Earl Weaver, would say. So, yeah, I, you know, I, I don’t one of these days I
Leonard Raskin 30:18
might not be one of these days you just might not be a sports guy anymore.
Nestor Aparicio 30:22
8Well, they’re trying to make that happen, right? Trying to, will I get
Leonard Raskin 30:27
it? I get it so you got to choose to fight, fight, fight, or succumb to a new world.
Nestor Aparicio 30:36
That easy to fight, yeah, as long as sponsors keep support. What we do like you with you do, other than try to talk people off the tree on april 15.
Leonard Raskin 30:49
We’re all about money all the time, not just on April the 13th, 14th, 15th, all the time. We are about everything you do with your capital. See what I did there, all that you handle with your money, from how you cash flow and control it, to how you protect it, how you save it, how you invest it, how you enjoy it, how you transfer it and pass it on. We want to make sure that all of those aspects of your life are in order that no one can take your wealth from you, that you give it to those you desire, and that you enjoy the hell out of it along the way. And if that means going to a baseball game or the Stanley Cup final or just watching a little golf on a big screen TV, that’s all good. We want you to enjoy what you do and enjoy the money that comes from it. And that’s what we’re about, showing people how to make sure they have all those opportunities.
8Nestor Aparicio 31:46
Hey, you know, I, my next guest this week is from the great state of Ohio. We played nothing but Ohio baseball teams all week. Play the Guardians. Don’t call them by the I word, right? And then you over the weekend the reds, which always makes me think of Sparky Anderson and Bernie Carbo and 1970 and all that. But Bernard McKinney just sent me a text and he he’s gonna be my next guest. We’re gonna talk about Cleveland and a little politics and this and that and the and what’s going on the football team and the stadium. They have all things going on there. And I said, I’ve been at this since 6am it’s a good thing. I enjoy this ish. He’s my long time executive producer at nasty nationwide, 25 years ago, so I still enjoy this. Like you just said, we just want to make sure you’re enjoying what’s right I literally was typing right right there. You can see it right there on the thing, I enjoy this ish is what it says right there. It says, I do enjoy it. If you
Leonard Raskin 32:39
don’t, it’s time to hang them up. That’s what I say. People ask me. People ask me, Are you going to retire? Say they’re going to carry me out. Do
Nestor Aparicio 32:47
I enjoy watching the Orioles lose no and have an empty stadium while banning me with their second ownership group under a bunch of Bucha reasons, treating me like a chump and then expecting me not to talk about it with you or anybody at the bar, never mentioned it while Luke’s credentialed all week, Luke is a family engagement on Tuesday night. We don’t have a we have an empty seat in the press box, and they will let me come sit in it. So I have all sorts of issues with sports, but then I think to myself, if I weren’t holding them accountable, who would right? I mean, I would at this right? So especially with this Justin Tucker thing going on, he’s still on the team Ben Cleveland, they have a liar’s lunch and so that, you know, I don’t want to go all Jack Nicholson in a few good men, but there we are. You know, I am the uncomfortable truth in what you know. You know, Amen, that’s right, that’s right. It’s gonna go mark and go to the White House last week and have dinner with Trump. That’s right, by God, Katie Griggs should be able to have a quiet off the great cup of coffee. No
Leonard Raskin 33:47
8question, no questions, no no reason not. Or come to cost us for a
Nestor Aparicio 33:52
real Oriole fans over at Zeke’s on Friday morning at the Costas. You know If Katie Griggs got in my car for eight hours and I just drove her around the city and introduced her the people I know that’s right, love the Orioles who are tepidly, maybe thinking of buying in, buying in with money and like, what they really want. You know, I I looked the other day on Sunday, like, last minute, it was a beautiful day. Yeah, absolutely say all the kids are there, and they’re running the bases former sponsors and wise like the whole deal. And I went online and thought, it’s, it’s kind of a nice day. It was going to be like 60. The sun was shining for the first time in three days. Absolutely wanted to go down right now. What would it cost? Not lot, not a lot. 32 bucks. That’s a lot. That’s still high. I think that’s a lot still high. I think 3030, bucks to get into the game on a nice Sunday, walking up when
Leonard Raskin 34:47
you have who was selling those was that was that I
Nestor Aparicio 34:50
just went, No, just went on, well, seek each their partner. Sometimes they could have gone somewhere else. And maybe, like, I’m just saying, there’s no 10 or two. 12 or $10 get in, and that’s, hey, look, there’s a movie coming out this week. It’s 18 bucks. I hear you on inflation and all that, but when you’re making a decision to go to the game and this, this is my advice for her on $5 beers. I bet a $4 beer at a bar in Lancaster on on Thursday night or Saturday night. And I thought $4 beers, wow, and Amish brood. Now this was actually delicious though, nonetheless, it was American brewed. The one I looked at, it wasn’t even the England. Um, I’m just saying price matters, and you’re in the business of saving people money, and one of the things that you save money on is just like being smart with your money and just saying, where’s the value in this? And I’m just from the baseball side of things, the $5 night, the $10 night, like all of that sort of thing that would lure me and lure people in. I don’t have it to sell for them, because they’re not selling it right, right? And I have questions about that as a consumer. That’s all, absolutely, they should do it all right? You got to go. He’s handling money letter. Raskin is here. Raskin global. Find him in front of Baltimore positive. You can find me complaining at Baltimore positive, too. Anytime you.
