There are lots of fun winners stories for the heat of summer at the Maryland Lottery. But only one Mr. Positive…

Nestor Aparicio and Seth Elkin from the Maryland Lottery discussed various promotions and winners. Seth highlighted the Home Run Riches contest, where Angela won $7,500, and the Big Spin wheel, where a Charles County veteran won $110,000. The Powerball jackpot is $375 million, and Mega Millions is $542 million. The Maryland Lottery’s State Fair promotion starts July 6, offering 10 participants a chance to win up to $20,000. The Ravens scratch-off tickets with $20,000 and $200,000 top prizes launch July 17. Seth also mentioned the World Cup and the excitement around Team USA’s progress.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Create promotional content featuring the “Mr. Positive” Powerball winner from Sykesville, highlighting his $50,000 win and the experience of redeeming at the historic Montgomery headquarters, and use it as a potential lead feature.
• [ ] Publish details about the latest Big Spin wheel winner (the Charles County military veteran who won $110,000) on the Maryland Lottery website before the holiday weekend so fans can see the updated results.
• [ ] Launch and run the Maryland Lottery State Fair promotion starting July 6, including staffing the exhibit hall lobby booth throughout the fair with a lottery retailer and monitor, enabling entries via MyLottery Rewards, and hosting the September 5 stage event with 10 selected winners.
• [ ] Provide a Maryland Lottery State Fair T-shirt to Nestor once the shirts are printed so he can wear them during upcoming appearances.
• [ ] Roll out the two new Ravens scratch-off tickets on July 17, ensuring they are available at retailers and launching the associated Ravens promotion with the advertised prizes and entry mechanics on the same date.

Maryland Lottery Sponsorship and Upcoming Events

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning the Baltimore Positive theme and the Fourth of July holiday.
• Nestor talks about the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and upcoming appearances at Fade Lee’s and Fishmonger’s Daughter.
• Nestor promotes the Maryland Lottery and mentions having Maryland Treasures scratch-offs.
• Nestor also promotes GBMC, Farnin and Dermer, and 410-367-7777 for HVAC services.

Discussion on Orioles and Maryland Lottery Promotions

• Nestor and Seth Elkin discuss the challenges of being an Orioles fan and the history of the team.
• Seth mentions the Home Run Riches contest and the excitement around it.
• Nestor talks about the VIP winners and the experience of attending games.
• Seth highlights the excitement of the Home Run Riches contest and the recent winners.

Details of Home Run Riches and Other Lottery Promotions

• Seth explains the Home Run Riches promotion, including the VIP winners and the excitement of the contest.
• Nestor and Seth discuss the progressive jackpot and the potential winnings.
• Seth mentions the Big Spin promotion and the recent winner from Charles County.
• Nestor and Seth talk about the excitement of winning big and the experiential aspect of the Maryland Lottery promotions.

State Fair Promotion and Other Lottery Games

• Seth introduces the State Fair promotion, where 10 winners will play games and win cash prizes.
• Nestor and Seth discuss the details of the State Fair promotion and the excitement of participating.
• Seth mentions the Maryland Lottery’s presence at the State Fair and the opportunity to win prizes.
• Nestor and Seth talk about the various scratch-off games available and the excitement of winning.

Powerball and Mega Millions Jackpots

• Nestor and Seth discuss the rising jackpots of Powerball and Mega Millions.
• Seth explains the different prize levels in Powerball and Mega Millions.
• Nestor shares his wife’s strategy for playing the lottery and the excitement of winning.
• Seth highlights the importance of knowing the rules and the various ways to win in Powerball and Mega Millions.

Ravens Scratch-Off Tickets and Upcoming Promotions

• Nestor and Seth discuss the upcoming Ravens scratch-off tickets and the excitement around them.
• Seth mentions the release date of the Ravens tickets and the prizes available.
• Nestor and Seth talk about the Ravens promotion and the unique prizes available.
• Seth provides a hint about the travel destination for the Ravens promotion.

World Cup and Soccer Discussion

• Nestor and Seth discuss the World Cup and the excitement around the US team.
• Seth shares his background in soccer and his interest in the World Cup.
• Nestor talks about the World Cup promotion he did in 2002 and the excitement of hosting games.
• Seth and Nestor discuss the impact of the World Cup on soccer fans and the excitement of the tournament.

Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

• Nestor and Seth wrap up the discussion, mentioning the upcoming events and promotions.
• Nestor promotes the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and the upcoming appearances at Fade Lee’s.
• Seth provides final details about the Maryland Lottery promotions and the excitement of winning.
• Nestor thanks Seth for joining the show and wishes everyone a happy Fourth of July.

Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson Baltimore. We call this thing Baltimore Positive. Happy Fourth of July to everybody out there celebrating, and Orioles heading out of town, and Luke is getting a little downtime. I’m headed to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game next week in Philadelphia, and hope everybody weighs the flag this weekend, has a good time, watch the soccer, chill out out there. We’re doing the Maryland Crab Kate tour later in the month. We’re at Fade Lee’s next Friday, so I’m just gonna preview that. It’ll be our final Fade Lees appearance for the summer, because we’re gonna start going to Fishmonger’s Daughter over Catonsville. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland Lottery. I swear, I have scratch-offs around here, I know I do. I have some Maryland treasures. I’m surprised I still have the horses, because the horses were very popular. I got the boardwalk scene. We’ll be at Fadely’s next week. It’s all brought to you by our friends at GBMC. I got my GBMC gear on today, as well as Farnin and Dermer, and if you’re a little hot, you might need them. 410-367-7777 they do HVAC, and that doesn’t sound sexy or appealing until it’s 101 degrees and your AC blows up. So make sure you call them, they are the comfort guys. And as you can tell on my short sleeve shirt, I’m comfortable. I’m even comfortable with Steelers and Pirates fans and all representatives of the Maryland lottery. Seth Elkin joins us. He’s our defending champion of communication, returning here in the summer, and you coming to kick dirt on the Orioles. I mean, are you coming to do that as a Buco’s fan? You know, because we talk about 43 years since 1983 I’m still.. when I see folks like you and Bly Levin, I’m still consuming 47 years ago. But this is.. it’s tough times around here, Seth. Being an Orioles fan, it really is. I just want to say that, and I’m saying this to a Pirates fan. Well, yeah,

Seth Elkin 1:45
you’re preaching to the choir. I was about to say they’ve had 18 winning seasons in my lifetime, and seven of those were in the 1970s So I’m not, I’m not accustomed to them being relevant at this stage, you know. They normally, by July 4, you’re counting down the days until the Steelers start training camp, but we’re certainly rooting for the Orioles around here because of the home run riches contestant of the game, which continues all the way through the rest of the season, and you had one of our, one of our VIP winners on. Yeah, you got 86 last

Nestor Aparicio 2:14
week for Doug and for Angela, the big winner. You could check that out in the vault out of Baltimore positive as well. One thing to win, you get the call from Doug, and, like, I, you won home run riches, you’re a contestant. Oh, that’s great. And you get your name on the website, okay? That makes it, yeah, you want a couple of, that’s great. And then, oh, you’re the big winner, or you get to come to the ballpark, we got to figure it out. All right, we’re gonna go to the truest club. All right, we’re gonna eat, we’re gonna drink, it’s great, you’ve already won a bunch of money, we’re having a good time, but every at bat you can win 500 bucks, and then the Orioles load the bases, which they don’t do enough of, and when they did this, so you had the second sweet person out, and I don’t know, it’s like the big spin, you know, some of them are want, want, want, and some of them are big winner grand slam, oh my god, so it doesn’t always work that way, but we did have a big winner out of the tour suite. It’s

Seth Elkin 3:03
been exciting, you know. We had Angela had this, got to celebrate that grand slam that you got to see in person. We had Tanya Howell from Randallstown, who was there for the first night of the series against the White Sox, which the White Sox are vastly improved from from last year. Let’s just say that, and gave us

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Nestor Aparicio 3:20
all hope and inspiration that it can happen to us, that it can

Seth Elkin 3:22
happen, right? It could happen to anybody if the White Sox can pick themselves up from the last couple of years, anybody can do it. But yeah, didn’t get any home runs in that game. But she is a big Orioles fan, and she had a great time. She was all decked out in Orange and Black, and she had a real good time. And we will have another one coming up, the drawing for the games in July has already taken place, and we’ve got our VIP winner there. It’s going to be Marianna Billingsley from Timonium, and three of her friends take the light

Nestor Aparicio 3:50
rail down there. You go, no problem. She gets to

Seth Elkin 3:53
go see the Orioles play the Atlanta Braves on July 24 and gets four seats in the Truist Club, and we’ll be rooting for another home run, maybe another grand slam, and you never know, the Brave, the Braves are a tough opponent, but you know, jump

Nestor Aparicio 4:09
around about the team, and like, whatever, and the fence going in, and the fence going back, and all that, but the weather is heating up, and even, like, you’re a big baseball guy, by the way, Seth Elkin here from the Maryland Lottery, they got a lot of guys that hit home runs, you know what I mean, like it’s not like they can’t hit four or five home runs in a game because they have that kind of line, it’s not Mark Belando or my cousin, you know what I mean, like they have home run hitters. So I do think, and I hope that against the Braves, against the Reds, against anybody, start hitting the ball, start winning some money for these people, it’s home run riches, right. Yep,

Seth Elkin 4:41
we got our list of winners for July is up there now. That drawing just took place, and you can get in on this. We’ve still got two more drawings to go. On july 20 is the deadline for the next drawing, so if you want to be one of the contestants of the game or that VIP winner for August, you’ve got your chance up through july 20. Have to enter, and then we’ll do the drawing, and then one more drawing in August for all of the winners in September, and chance to get in on that still there for the next couple of months, and easy to play.

Nestor Aparicio 5:09
It’s fast play. Tell them about there’s no schmutz in fast play.

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Seth Elkin 5:13
$5 home run riches walk off winnings fast play ticket that you can get at any lottery retailer from the vending machines or from the register, the terminals of the register, and you get your ticket, and find out instantly if you’ve won. There’s a progressive jackpot on the ticket itself that starts at $40,000 And I gotta look now off the top of my head, I should know what that progressive jackpot is. I want to see what the, what the, the home run riches progressive. Forget about

Nestor Aparicio 5:38
that. I never even promote that, because it’s sort of like the thing is promoting, like, you can win, and you know it’s sexy as it is, but it’s like if somebody hits a big banana,

Seth Elkin 5:47
it starts at $40,000 and we are now at more than $180,000 as you and I are speaking, dude. Listen to me,

Nestor Aparicio 5:54
listen to me, home run, nice for Angela. How much does she win? She won, like, a nice, like, 810, grand, like, was about

Seth Elkin 6:00
$7,500 I think, is what she ended up with. How much is the

Nestor Aparicio 6:03
Progressive jackpot?

Seth Elkin 6:04
180,000 right? I don’t need to, I don’t need to be on TV,

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Nestor Aparicio 6:08
I don’t need Kevin, I don’t need to go to the job. I could buy the true is sweet if I get so that I mean, there really is a big banana here. As much as we talk about as much fun as it is to win 500 bucks, we contested the game, there’s a real serious cash product.

Seth Elkin 6:23
Jackpot is rising with the purchase of every ticket until a jackpot winner gets sold, so you have your chance at that. And whether your home run riches ticket is a winner or not doesn’t matter. You can enter it into the contestant of the game promotion and get all the details on that at MD watery.com

Nestor Aparicio 6:38
All right, I’m tired of talking about people that only one little one, a little. Let’s talk about some big winners here. I know we’ve had some big spins, you know, Lars. We got new scratch up again, a lot of things going, including these Maryland treasures that I love so much. I never even touched the Miss Pac-Mans because I’ve been so into the horses and the bridges in the Maryland motif, and I haven’t crossed the Bay Bridge yet. So I got to get over there when I see you and August down to Mako. But give me a load, because we’ve had some big winners since I got together with you. We actually

Seth Elkin 7:05
just had our fifth winner on the Big Spin, the fifth person who got a chance to spin the Big Spin wheel, and we don’t have that up on the website as you and I are talking, but by the time people hear this during the holiday weekend, we should have the information out there. He was a resident of Charles County, a military veteran. He won himself $110,000 on the wheel. That’s

Nestor Aparicio 7:28
a big spin on the big spin wheel, right? Yeah,

Seth Elkin 7:30
that’s the big

Nestor Aparicio 7:32
spins, like 25 like the

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Seth Elkin 7:33
wheel. Well, the prizes on the wheel start at 50,000 Oh,

Nestor Aparicio 7:37
okay. Walk

Seth Elkin 7:38
in, you walk in. If you won one of those wheel spins, you walk in knowing you’ve won at least 50,000 and the top prize that you can win is 250,000 So he came in kind of in the middle there, 110,000 and, and a really nice prize. He was, he was excited, and had his wife with him, and he could buy seats in

Nestor Aparicio 7:55
the Truist Club too, right? Under tech,

Seth Elkin 7:58
they had a, they had a real good time doing that, and it’s a fun time for us to get a chance to see people have fun with that, and spin the wheel, and still three of those remaining. That ticket launched back in March, $5 scratch off ticket, and instant prizes that you can win, of course, on the ticket. And if you get a wheel spin logo, you got to scan the ticket to see if you’ve won a wheel spin, or whether you’ve won an instant cash prize, so that’s the fun of that ticket, and still three more of those big spin wheel spin prizes remaining to be claimed as we speak. So excited about that, and hoping maybe one of those three will nail that $250,000 We haven’t seen one of those either this time or last time, a couple years ago when we did big spin the first time, we never got a $250,000 we came close a couple of times, we had somebody come painfully close, it almost landed on that 250,000 and skipped over into the next spot before the wheel stopped. So hopefully we’ll get one of those big wins at some point here on the Big Spin Ticket.

Nestor Aparicio 8:57
Seth Elkin is here, he communicates in the Communications Department for all things Maryland Lottery. John Martin will be back at some. Let’s pretend John’s not listening and is not involved at all in any of this on Fourth of July weekend, but I just want to say this about these experiential things where people come down to the building. When I first started doing business with y’all, I would come down to Montgomery Park, which is the old Montgomery Ward’s building, Southway. There’s a great Chick-fil-A, it’s right by Carol Park, right by my sponsor, Classy Five, right on Southwest Side Pig Town, right around there, right. And it’s a little like to get dented, you know, you go into the big building, you know, you take the elevator up, I got a show ID, there’s a gate that, so it’s like a big kind of like a production thing to come into your building, but every time I come there, I follow the same pathway that all the winners do. I have to come in, I have to give ID. Ross has to let me in. You have to, somebody had to let me in. I hit the elevator up, prizes here, winners here, winners here, winners here. There’s a winner area, and then there’s a grand prize winner area that I come and I get my tickets, and I think to myself, man, this is like if you were coming. On a spin and driving in from Charles County, and you have been the big winner, and you might win 50 grand a day, you might want 250 How like exciting that is every day. And I know, look, state job, it’s a building, there’s a subway in the lobby, it’s an atrium, it’s lovely, it’s all that, but every day you get these people in, and there’s a level of excitement, it’s kind of like being at the airport when you see people hug each other and love each other and cry, and there’s a level of emotion in your, your building that a lot of places don’t have people that come in, knock on the door, spin a wheel, and walk out with a quarter million bucks. I mean, there really is. It’s kind of a neat thing you guys do, and I think me coming in and getting my tickets every month to give winners away. I know how excited people get at Coco’s or Pizza John’s when they win 20 bucks with a ticket, or sometimes win $100 on tickets when I’m in there, even $2 They get excited about it, but like your building gets a buzz when this happens, I think, because it’s kind of neat when I come in and kind of see it come to life.

Seth Elkin 10:56
Now we, we have to sometimes you have to remind yourself we make games for a living, and we sell, make, and sell games, and, and things that people have fun with, and enjoy, and you do get reminded of that, that you’re often meeting people on one of the best days of their life, when they come in here, and, yeah, right,

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Nestor Aparicio 11:14
that’s awesome, you know, given I’ve met funeral directors, it’s the different gig, you know what I mean, like literally, you guys got a good gig, you know. In that way, it’s kind of neat when I’m there.

Seth Elkin 11:24
One of the cool things we’ll get to do, you talked about experiential prizes. It’s one of the experiences that people will get to have every year. We do this at the state fair. We have a state fair promotion that we do, where we select 10 winners who get to come on stage with us and play a series of games, and we give away some cash, and that state fair promotion is getting ready to kick off on july 6. You’ll be able to start entering, and throughout July, you’ll be able to enter through my lottery rewards for a chance to be one of those 10 participants.

Nestor Aparicio 11:58
Hold on, I don’t have to milk cows or anything, if I’m right.

Seth Elkin 12:02
No, nothing like that. Just some simple games, a game of

Nestor Aparicio 12:05
chance, not a game of skins, right?

Seth Elkin 12:07
Games of chance, all right. Just making

Nestor Aparicio 12:09
sure we don’t do games of skill, games of

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Seth Elkin 12:11
chance, but you’ll have the chance. The state fair, summer cast, they fair,

Nestor Aparicio 12:15
you could do games of skill, you can pin the tail on it. There’s all throw all sorts of things at the state fair, right? Not

Seth Elkin 12:20
run by the lottery, though. Right, exactly. But if

Nestor Aparicio 12:22
you want to, right, if you want a game of skill with the darts to get the rock and roll mirrors, or whatever, they don’t do that anymore. But that was fun when he did it.

Seth Elkin 12:30
I think there’s got to be a skill to putting away one of those turkey legs. I will get those every year when I did. If I

Nestor Aparicio 12:35
pull my rush mirrors out, then I bought on the internet, that you’ll think that I was really skilled at that at the carnival back in the 80s, but I wasn’t. But this is different. So, 10 people on stage, what are we doing today? They’ll get a

Seth Elkin 12:47
chance to play a series of games, and they’ll have a chance to – everybody who participates will win at least $1,000 and there they’ll have a chance to win up to $20,000 in our state fair promotion, so you can get all the details about that, starting july 6, when that launches. So that’s coming, and we don’t, and you can go to Costa’s

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Nestor Aparicio 13:08
while you’re there too, because it’s right in the middle of the race tracks giving me a Costa’s Timonium shirt yet. They think, because I have the Dundalk shirt, they’re like, he ain’t never gonna wear anything, he says Timonium, we do a Dundalk, but, but the Timonium location is there. I want to give some love to our.. we’re going to be doing the show with them a couple weeks too.

Seth Elkin 13:24
We’ll hook you up with a Maryland Lottery State Fair T-shirt once those are printed up. So, hey,

Nestor Aparicio 13:28
you know, I need one of those. And

Seth Elkin 13:30
we are always there the entire duration of the fair, all day, every day that the fair is open. You can find us in the lobby of the exhibition hall, and we’ll have one of our retailers there selling tickets, and you can come and hang out with us. We’ll have the keynote and race tracks monitor set up. You can, you can stay and play if you want. You can spin our wheel and win a lottery item, and, and on september 5, toward the end of the fair, is when we’ll have that event with our 10 winners. But your chance to enter that is coming up in July, so keep an eye out for that, and have your chance at that,

Nestor Aparicio 14:01
all right. Look, just to prove that Seth Elkin, who is the official chief of all things communication at the Maryland Lottery, that we don’t have a script here. I’m going completely off script. I’m begging for mercy during a holiday week, and saying I went to MD lottery.com I was going to talk to you about these new scratch-off games. I want you to tease the Ravens, even though we’re not talking about them until the Orioles season’s over with, and I’m going to the All-Star game next week. Dude, I just went on your website, and there’s like a mr. Positive – we’re Baltimore Positive, right? So, mr. Positive won 50 grand, Sykesville dad speechless, then all smiles like this is the picture I want to put on the front of Baltimore. I want to put mr. Positive, so I need to hear a mr. Positive. I hope you have one, that’s all.

Seth Elkin 14:47
Yeah, we, we’ve.. that’s a Powerball prize, and that the Powerball jackpot is rising. The Mega Millions jackpot is rising right in time for the holiday. People really

Nestor Aparicio 14:57
do win this. My wife is.. this is the one she plays. She doesn’t want $50 she wouldn’t eat 25 grand, and make her happy. She wouldn’t buy a boat or anything, but like she wants sort of like Dr. Evil, billions, millions, you know what I mean. But it’s getting there now, like we’re at a half a billion, kind of, sort of, right?

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Seth Elkin 15:15
Yeah, Mega Millions has topped that half a billion mark, is $542 million for the drawing going into the sounds better

Nestor Aparicio 15:22
to say half a billion, I don’t know, maybe 442 500 that sounds million sounds better than half a bill, I don’t know, they both sound pretty good.

Seth Elkin 15:31
It’s getting there, it’s getting there. Powerball is is a 375 so we’re getting some, some big jackpots, the multi match jack, but if you want to keep your money in state, because Powerball and Mega Millions are sold all over the country. Mega multi match is only sold here in Maryland, and the multi match jackpot is now at $1.6 million So that one’s getting up there, that’s big multi match. The jackpot starts at 500,000 so that one’s been rolling for a little while. And you got your chance at all of those, get to a retailer and get a ticket here for your holiday weekend,

Nestor Aparicio 16:02
all right. So, mr. Posit is playing Powerball, like my wife, trying to win two, three, $400 million and he doesn’t match them all, but he’s holding a $50,000 check here at the Maryland Lottery HQ, and lovely Montgomery. I have to come up with some verbiage that makes the place you work like historic Montgomery I work on it, but when John gets here, you and I be, you’re to communicate, you’re the marketing, we’ll come up with something that makes the Montgomery part, but this guy came down to the legendary place and held up, mr. Positive, I love this, you know, I got to feature this guy,

Seth Elkin 16:35
we love to have people give a nickname, because you do not have to reveal your identity when you win. When you redeem a winning ticket, you can be anonymous, but we encourage people to embrace the moment. And Lottery

Nestor Aparicio 16:49
headquarters, your smiles are commonplace. All right, I’m gonna.. I’m working right off the website here. I’m trying to come up with a theme for what people experience when they come in. This guy’s a car wash attendant, and he won 50 grand playing power. That you know, my wife would feel really good about that if she finally won 50 grand playing Powerball. She’d be like, ‘I’m good, that you know, like, because I don’t think a lot of people even know that there are a lot of tiered prizes when they.. my wife knows this, because she’s related to me. But, like, second chance prizes, and entering, this is what this is all about, right? Yeah,

Seth Elkin 17:25
in Powerball and Mega Millions, both. That’s actually a good point. We always try to bring up when, when the jackpots are rolling and they get into high jackpot territory, the jackpot’s not the only prize. There are nine different levels of prizes in both Powerball and Mega Millions. That second-tier prize in Powerball’s a million dollars, and then that $50,000 prize is the third level down, so and that still

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Nestor Aparicio 17:46
gets you down the Montgomery headquarters, right? 50 G,

Seth Elkin 17:48
absolutely. So, so lots of ways to win in those games that are not just the jackpot, good to remind people of, especially because when the jackpots get high, you often get people that will see that the jackpot is that big, it starts to make national news, and people who may not play lottery games all the time will decide to buy a ticket, and maybe they’re not as familiar with the rules or how the game works, but certainly we’ve got all that information at MD lottery.com But good to remind people that there are many more ways to win than just the jackpot in those games,

Nestor Aparicio 18:19
even though this guy has lovely hair, kind of similar to mine, mr. Positive. I am not eligible to win these, so I know some people may think maybe Nestor was.. no, I haven’t been to the Sykesville convenience store to win this prize, but you could check it all out at MD lottery.com Seth Falcons here. Alright, so I’m going to leave with this, because I don’t know if you’ve heard or not, but we’re leaving baseball season here soon, and I’m going to the All Star game, and it’s Fourth of July, and it’s football season. You guys really are going to be rolling out a Raven scratch off, and probably somehow I might not get the Miss Pac-Man scratch-offs, because I’ve been delinquent in giving so many of the Maryland treasures out, because I like them, and it’s still summertime around here. But wow, it’s like we’re going to blink, Luke’s going to be on vacation, all-star game, and boom, it’s going to be football season.

Seth Elkin 19:03
Yep, and coming

Nestor Aparicio 19:05
up, by the way, later this month,

Seth Elkin 19:06
july 17 is just to give it a little tease. That’s when our two Ravens scratch-off tickets get started. Are they

Nestor Aparicio 19:14
purple again this year?

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Seth Elkin 19:15
They are. They are purple, which is not my.. which is everybody around the lottery knows it’s not my favorite color, my colors are black and gold, as everyone knows, because I was born and raised in Pittsburgh, and football season around here is a rough time for me. By the way, Yin’s

Nestor Aparicio 19:28
yins in Pittsburgh dod have taken over Don Donna Don Ocean, so I saw Pittsburgh Dad is doing an Ocean City promotion, and I’m thinking to myself, could Baltimore dad go to to Washington, PA, or where’s Cherry? Where’s, where’s Marvin from? Mount, could I, could Baltimore dad me throw a promotion at a crab house? Well, the urban Pittsburgh,

Seth Elkin 19:56
I don’t think there are already crab houses there. I wouldn’t trust anything that came out of the rivers, that’s for. Sure,

Nestor Aparicio 20:02
spoken from a native, all right. I missed checking, but what’s Pittsburgh died doing down down the beach?

Seth Elkin 20:08
He’s getting a little, getting a little come down

Nestor Aparicio 20:11
there and taking over the last 25 girls there in the 80s. No one, there was no pirate steel, none of that. It was all, I mean, the worst we had to work out was the burgundy and gold, a little bit, you know, down there a little bit, but, like, you know, she said he’s great, and I’ll see you down there, and do

Seth Elkin 20:28
a show from Pittsburgh, I would show up for that, potentially. So, so, there you go. Let’s see, let’s see if we can make that. Began

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Nestor Aparicio 20:35
my year in Pittsburgh, and the loop looped right, and our ball, we, I do this professionally, Seth. You know what I mean, but I’ll let you get your cheap shots in now, because I think the Ravens are going to be better than the Steelers. Can we just go into that lane like I said to Luke? I’m not bullish on the Ravens because of age, center, offensive line, new coach, new everything. I mean, Luke and I talk about this every day, like we’re not over the top on the Ravens winning the Super Bowl, but we’re kind of convinced of the best team in the division. So, for that, I will, you know, it’s a good summer, because we have hope, and you do too. I don’t think the Steelers are going to stink this year.

Seth Elkin 21:11
Ah, well, they’ll be the same nine or 10 wins that they always are. Are you so

Nestor Aparicio 21:15
negative? That’s my prediction.

Seth Elkin 21:17
You know, I think I think we were, we were hoping for a little bit more change than we got, so I don’t know, we’ll see, but what one thing we could, we can know for sure is that the Ravens tickets will be on sale here, the 17th,

Nestor Aparicio 21:31
17th,

Seth Elkin 21:31
17th of July, the Ravens times two with a $20,000 top prize, the Ravens times 10 with a $200,000 top prize, and then you can enter your non-winning tickets, as always, in the Ravens promotion, that’ll all get started on the 17th. You got the great Ravens theme prizes that you’re not going to find anywhere else, including, of course, the seats for 20 years. Once again, tell

Nestor Aparicio 21:54
me, where the trip is this year? It’s not Rio.

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Seth Elkin 21:56
Travel with the team, I’ll give you, yeah, give you a little hint, it’s South Rio United States. It’s okay,

Nestor Aparicio 22:02
that’s good. You don’t need a passport, okay, to win. Seth Falcon is, you need a visa to go to Brazil. Seth Falcon is here. Letter Raskin’s going to Brazil. We talked to him about the World Cup this week. Are you watching World Cup at all? Seth, you, I mean, you’re a sports fan, but I, I don’t sense that, like, traditional guys like you and I weren’t soccer people in the 70s and 80s and nine.

Seth Elkin 22:19
You know, I grew up playing soccer, I was, I was a Pittsburgh Spirit fan back in the day. In the old Dans are lucky, come on, the old MISL, that’s right, with the Baltimore Blast, they were one of our big rivals. But yeah, I certainly will be paying attention now that the team is in the, in the knockout stage, which is nice to see. There have been plenty of times in previous World Cups where we didn’t get there, so you know you had your three preliminary games, and that was it. But yeah, it’s nice to see, and certainly be cheering them on, and watching, watching it as someone who played soccer. It’s, it’s, it’s always, always interesting. Yeah, I know that sport from the inside, probably in a way that I don’t know other sports, because I didn’t play them as much. So, well, I hope

Nestor Aparicio 22:59
you’re up late with Team USA, and I hope they keep the momentum going here, and we waited a long time to get the cup here, and you know, I’ve been going through all my old stuff, man. Like, here’s my Pittsburgh thing for you. I found this is my old Allen Elaine Lemieux. See, that says the word Pittsburgh, 1987 There’s my, because you were an old sports writer too, but I have all this old stuff that I’ve been going through, trying to find my. we did a World Cup promotion in 2002 on my radio station when the US played Mexico. The games were 3am then they played Poland at 7am and Germany at 7am We couldn’t find bars that were places to host the game at 3am and we did the Kiss Cafe, which is now the Outback Steakhouse in Canton in the can company was a big old coffee house, and he didn’t have a liquor license, so he could open at three in the morning. So we had all the Mexican fans wearing flags that came down from Fells Point at the time, 22 years ago, and we were all, and we wore our pajamas, but like we’ve had so much fun with the World Cup, and I like that friends of minds, children, daughters playing the game, sons playing the game, they have whatever the infection is with the World Cup 3032 years later, that people are into it. I think it’s exciting, and I think it’s good, it’s good, it’s it’s it’s good that it’s here. I just hope we can keep winning, you know what I mean.

Seth Elkin 24:16
Yep, me too. Seth

Nestor Aparicio 24:18
Elkin is here, he has to go, he’s communicating for the Maryland Lottery. It’s a big week round here, Fourth of July. We have scratch-offs, Raven scratch-offs coming in a couple of weeks. Home run rich is still there, and Dub Jackpot’s at an MD lottery.com We’re doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour next Friday at Fade Lees. I will have Maryland Lottery scratch-offs. Hopefully, we’re still talking World Cup, and some good stuff’s going on, man. My wife and I, we’re gonna head to Philly to see Germany play on Saturday, like go outside, party hot. Germany’s home, sort of like when Pittsburgh Dad’s drinking his Raven’s tears. I’m Nestor, we’re WNSTA in 1570 Towson, Baltimore. Stay with us, we’re Baltimore positive.

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