Plenty of winners and a fun horse racing Racetrax promotion for the month of May and big Home Run Riches winners as the Orioles grand slam so cash for locals. John Martin of Maryland Lottery brings the spring magic down the stretch with Nestor for Triple Crown season.
Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland crab cake tour, highlighting various crab cake locations and upcoming events. He mentions the Maryland Lottery’s new scratch-off games, Maryland Treasures, which feature popular themes like Boardwalk and Assateague. John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland Lottery, talks about the Home Run Riches promotion, offering $500 for each Orioles home run and $5,000 for each Grand Slam. Martin also introduces a VIP experience for monthly winners, offering a $2,000 bonus. They discuss recent big winners in Hagerstown, including a $500,000 win on the $20 Gifts of Green scratch-off. The conversation also touches on the governor’s proclamation banning state employees from participating in prediction markets.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Find out details about the current big winner at the Truest Club and promote the Truest Club and that winner on Katie Griggs’ show.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Ask Ethan Giffin about the Truest Club food during the Pizza John’s segment of the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Give away Maryland Treasure scratch-off tickets at the upcoming Maryland Crab Cake Tour stops on Friday at Pizza John’s, next week at Planet Fitness and Timonium on the 7th, 13th at Fay Lee’s, and the 21st at Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville.
- [ ] Check out the Jamie Moyer interview that Nestor mentioned.
- [ ] Obtain the Wes Moore proclamation about banning state employees from prediction markets and incorporate it into future discussions.
Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Lottery Promotions
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning various locations like Koco’s, Fay Lee’s, and Pizza John’s.
- Nestor talks about the new Maryland lottery scratch-offs, specifically the Maryland treasures, highlighting the popularity of the Boardwalk and Assateague tickets.
- John Martin mentions the Home Run Riches promotion, where contestants can win $500 for each Orioles home run and $5,000 for each Grand Slam.
- John introduces a new VIP experience promotion for one lucky winner each month, offering a special experience at the True Blue Club.
Experiences at Orioles Games and True Blue Club
- Nestor shares his experience attending an Orioles game, describing the heat and the steps he took to stay cool.
- John Martin humorously asks Nestor if he had SPF 50, and Nestor confirms he had sunscreen but needed to move out of the sun.
- Nestor mentions Ethan Giffin, a guest on the Maryland crab cake tour, who will share his experience at the True Blue Club.
- John Martin explains the VIP experience at the True Blue Club, including watching the game and receiving $2,000 just for being selected.
New Promotions and Jackpots at Maryland Lottery
- John Martin talks about the excitement around jackpots, mentioning the rollover of Mega Millions and Powerball into triple digits.
- Nestor and John discuss the fun of the big spin promotion, where players can win up to $250,000 by spinning a real-life prize wheel.
- John explains the process of winning the big spin, including the visit to the Maryland lottery headquarters to spin the wheel.
- Nestor shares his experience visiting the Maryland lottery headquarters, expressing his desire to see the wheel.
Racetrack Promotions and Maryland Treasures
- Nestor and John discuss the racetrack promotions, particularly the Triple Crown $6 for $5 promotion running through June 21.
- John highlights the popularity of the racetrack promotions, especially during the Triple Crown season.
- Nestor praises the Maryland treasures scratch-offs, mentioning the fun of picking different tickets and the quality of the art.
- John provides details about the artists behind the Maryland treasures and the inspiration behind their designs.
Winners and Stories from Around the State
- John Martin shares stories of recent winners in Hagerstown, including a man who won $500,000 on the $20 Gifts of Green scratch-off.
- John describes a couple from Washington who won $50,000 by playing Powerball at a lottery vending machine.
- John mentions a retired postal worker who won a top prize on the ZIP Code Pick 5 game and a semi-retired writer who won $100,000 on the $10.50 Times the Cash scratch-off.
- Nestor and John discuss the excitement of winning and the impact it has on people’s lives, including plans to pay off debts and share winnings with family.
Prediction Markets and Public Trust
- John Martin discusses the governor’s proclamation banning state employees from participating in prediction markets.
- John explains the ethical concerns and potential issues with using insider information for personal gain in prediction markets.
- Nestor and John talk about the evolution of prediction markets and their impact on society.
- John mentions ongoing litigation with a prediction market entity and the importance of maintaining public trust.
Final Thoughts and Upcoming Events
- Nestor and John wrap up the conversation, discussing the importance of responsible gambling and the fun of the Maryland crab cake tour.
- Nestor mentions upcoming events, including the Maryland crab cake tour stops at Pizza John’s, Planet Fitness, and the Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville.
- Nestor thanks John for his participation and encourages listeners to check out the Maryland lottery website for more information.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland Lottery, Maryland Treasures, Home Run Riches, Orioles, VIP Experience, True Blue Club, Maryland Crab Cake Tour, Prediction Markets, Hagerstown, Powerball, Mega Millions, Triple Crown, Scratch Offs, Artists, Promotions.
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SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive, positively, taking the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. I am man. I was at Koco’s last week. I brought one of those giant softballs home, and I made six different crab melts with it. I’m wearing my Costas gear. We’re going to be there for the derby on Saturday night. We’re going to bring the show back there, but we were there too. That was so two weeks ago. Fay Lee’s was so three weeks ago, but we’re going back again. We’re gonna be pizza John’s on Friday, probably with some proper french fries and gravy. And they have a great crab cake at peach John’s, believe it or not, in Essex, even though you may have not had it, because cheese steaks and peach are so delicious. Next week, we’re gonna be a planet fitness and Timonium talking about a very special crab cake in the Timonium area, and a family that had a tragedy earlier. Captain Tracy will be doing that at Planet Fitness on the seventh. Faith is on the 13th, and then the fishmonger’s daughter in Catonsville. We will have the new scratch offs from the Maryland lottery. These are the Maryland treasures. I would say the board Walkman has been very popular because it’s orange. But people that love horses and Assateague, they dig that. Me, I like going across the Bay Bridge because it brings me back to summertime and a good time on the eastern shore. And of course, the crustaceans that I like to eat, I call this sort of the black water thing, because it’s got mollusks, it’s got birds, it’s got Herons, and things I like to eat, including the crabs at Costas. And I’m wearing the shirt right now, John Martin has been running for me because he’s been having to pay out all these grand Salamis that the Orioles are hitting and trying to become a 500 team, and I pray for them at Yankee Stadium this weekend, but I did think of you when they hit like five or six last week, John, I’m like, You’re not talking me, because we’re playing the Guardians. And you sent Seth Elkin after me after the pirates beat up on the Orioles, but you know there’s gonna come a come up. It’s at some point you knew I would get these Maryland treasure scratch offs and have them, but at some point you knew there would be grand slams, and you know I’d be bothering you on text the minute they happen.
John Martin 01:54
Yes, and thank you for those gentle, not so subtle reminders. You know what that’s that’s our job. That’s what we do here. You know, the home run riches walk off winnings promotion that features contestant of the game and a chance for anyone who is lucky enough to be that contestant of the game to win $500 for every Orioles home run, plus $5,000 for every Grand Slam. And yeah, they’ve been putting on their hitting shoes the last few weeks. Like to see a little more consistency. We don’t mind paying off big wins at all.
Nestor Aparicio 02:23
8You don’t mind. I have you on record as saying that,
John Martin 02:25
yes, yes, it’s part of it’s baked in the cake.
Nestor Aparicio 02:29
It’s as the executive director of all things Maryland lottery game. You You cheer when people win five I’d love to hear that. You know, absolutely
John Martin 02:36
we do. Matter of fact, we’ve got a special promotion this year that’s unique to the program. It’s called our VIP experience for one lucky winner each and every month who happens to be selected as contest of the game. We elevate that we upsell them to the truest club where they will be our guests and with three of their friends so table for four. Thank you. They can wine and dine themselves in the truest club. They can get seats right outside there and watch the game, and for every home run hit $500.05 1000 every Grand Slam, but they also get $2,000 just for being selected our VIP, truest club winners of the day. So that’s a new wrinkle. You can get all the details at MD lottery.com and see how you too can be a potential candidate to be our VIP Experience winner.
8Nestor Aparicio 03:23
I have been to one game this year. I went in the afternoon. I was a guest at curio wellness, and Wendy called me day before to get seats. 90 degrees. They were playing the Diamondbacks. It’s really hot in the sun. Took for SIG out, took my buddy, Brian pool out, John Allen, my rock star buddy, and we sweated it out, and we’re having a good time. And I had to get out of the sun, like, third inning. I’m like, I gotta boys, I’m up. I just got to move. And I wasn’t, like, drinking beer or any of that, because I had to come home and work. I had things to do.
John Martin 03:48
Did you have the SPF 50? All Layers?
Nestor Aparicio 03:50
I had, you know, I still have the bottle. It’s right here. Hold on, it was only 30. But I this is the bottle, like, right here. So, yeah, I did have it. And I lathered up and did my thing, but I got out of the sun and I walked up, and this is where I’m going to do this for Katie Griggs, for the auras, promote the truest club, and you have your big winner there this week, so I’ll find out. But I snaked a friend of mine in the truest club, Ethan Giffin, who’s coming on the Maryland crab cake tour this week, just wrote a book, and he’s coming on on Friday at Pizza John’s. So I’m going to ask him about the because I’ve seen lots of pictures. Anybody that goes to the truest club, and my buddies from accelerant that have been there, they always put the pictures all the food up. And I’m thinking to myself, our big winner here this week. I hope they get a lot of home runs when they win. But I know it’s a special experience. And Ethan’s going to tell me all about the food. I know he is.
John Martin 04:41
8Yeah, we look forward to that, lots of fun. Also, we look forward to new promotions at the Maryland lottery, Jack pots rolling along Mega Millions and Powerball into triple digits. We like that when that happens, because people get excited about Jack Potts. And my wife
Nestor Aparicio 04:55
does, for sure. I know she does.
John Martin 04:56
She’s a big fan, and we one day, she’s
Nestor Aparicio 04:59
gonna hit the big one. You know, and when people do, they don’t know what to do with it. And you so I want to talk to you about the wheel thing, because that’s that’s fun. And I’ve talked to Seth about this. When people show up and they get to spin the big wheel, and this is the big spin, and this is the second time you’ve done it, that, to me, is one of the more fun things. Let’s make a deal and flying people off, and winners and all of that. And I even truest. And if you win a Ravens competition, people are throwing and you’re winning money. But there is something about like showing up on the game show style and spinning, winning hundreds of 1000s of dollars, potentially, absolutely,
8John Martin 05:39
if you’re lucky enough to play the big spin too, and get a spin icon on your ticket. You can go to the CA a video from our man Mike at the lottery, who explains all the options with the big spin, but one option is including the visit here to the intergalactic headquarters at the Maryland and you can come here and actually spin a real life prize wheel, just like you see on on television. And people love that and because it engages them. Yeah, it’s one thing to scratch a ticket and see I won, or to have a ticket and see the numbers come up, but I won. But to actually get, you know that tactile experience. You’re touching the wheel. You’re spinning it. Your heart is racing as it goes round and round and round around. And just for showing up here, you’ve automatically won $50,000 and you can win up to 250,000
Nestor Aparicio 06:27
they’re happy when they walk in,
John Martin 06:29
John right when they walk in, they’re happier when they walk out.
Nestor Aparicio 06:32
8I come down, and I come down every couple months, and I pick up the fresh like I have the Maryland treasure. And when I come in, I take the same pathway that the winners take, and I check in, and then security and all Montgomery, and I I see the atrium. I saw the flowers, beautiful flowers in bloom in that building. And I go up, and I think to myself, the winners come in. When I came in for these I’m yelling, I want to see the wheel. I want and they wouldn’t let me see it. They’re like, No,
John Martin 07:00
can’t see wheels hallowed ground.
Nestor Aparicio 07:02
So I did not get to see the wheel. But I’m just thinking with some pub for people that show up in your offices. They’re happy people. You know, there’s a whole, like winter section where people cash tickets all day long. So I just think that that’s, this is even more fun than that, because you’re putting them on camera there. And I’ve watched it that guy a couple weeks ago where it was one hair away, a quarter million. Did you see that? Yes. How about that, huh? Well, people really were. John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming. All right, I want to give you some oxygen here, because we do have the Maryland treasures. We’re horse racing state, John. We have the Preakness being run in Laurel. Two weeks from now, we have the Kentucky have the Kentucky Derby this week. I want to talk about race tracks, but also the acid tea courses. And I saw the lady who, I think, made the boardwalk one from Frederick. You had real artists. And this happened, and we talked about it at length, but these have been the most fun scratch offs that I’ve had personally, even more, I’m not going to scent it. I’ll get the right word for the holiday oriented. Those are my favorite scratch offs, the scented but these have been my favorite because people get to pick and they really do look at them, and the art really is kind of cool and fun. So kudos to everybody on this promotion. From last year to this year, this one’s been one of the fun ones for me to talk about.
John Martin 08:21
It has been fun on this site as well, and results have been outstanding again. You can go to MD lottery.com and see profiles of all four of the artists and why and how they chose their inspiration to create what is a great family of games our Maryland treasures, family of four different tickets at the $2 price point. And you can find, find those tickets at any of our 40, nearly 4300 retailers from Oakland, Ocean City, as I’m fond of saying. Well, I like
8Nestor Aparicio 08:50
going to all of those places, including swallows. So when I saw this ticket in the beginning, I saw the horses, and I thought, Oh, nice. They’re doing Thor. And then I saw the sand, and I’m like, No, that’s that. So we got different kind of horses, so I will give you, and I’m not gonna blow my kazoo the way I used to. Oh, and my grandfather blew a bugle at the racetrack in the 50s at the at the Preakness. So I do have a little history with that on the Italian side of my family, which they appreciate it deepest qualities. But you have the racetracks promotion going on. This is a time of the year where, when I go into the OTB at Costas, I look up, and sometimes you fool me. Sometimes I see Kino and Keno has fun backgrounds when the little balls come out and do all of that too. But the racetrack thing, when I’m seeing aqueduct here, and you know, Churchill, they like all this, I look up and the racetrack looks so realistic that sometimes you fool me. We have
John Martin 09:44
expectations have been set now for several years, and the players love this. And during the Triple Crown season, we have our race tracks triple crown $6 for $5 promotion, you receive a $1 off for each $6 purchase now through June 21 so you can. Been playing it all through the Triple Crown events as they kick off this weekend and continue on for several weeks. It’s a lot of fun. You know people who are not only core race tracks players look forward to the promotion, but those people who have a casual interest in horse racing and are focused on the Triple Crown see this as a nice alternative to get in and and have a, hopefully a winning experience playing the Maryland lottery.
Nestor Aparicio 10:23
All right, John Martin is here. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. We always tell you to do this responsibly, whether you’re betting on the ponies this weekend or you’re getting involved in Stanley Cup or NBA or Orioles magic or any of the things going on. We We have a lot of fun around here and all right. So I want to give me some winter stories. I this is, this is, I haven’t been on in a couple of weeks. The sets had all the fun talking about million dollars this and all that. And we’ve had people coming in on big spin. We’ve sent some people out to the Let’s Make a Deal thing and to the truest club. What do you got for me here? John, you know, it’s funny,
John Martin 10:56
8because from time to time, Nestor, there’s, there’s a feeling in the air. I don’t know how to describe it, but certain geographies, certain areas of the state, tend to bubble up as being the focal point. And now we set our stages on our sites on Hagerstown, where we had multiple winners recently in Hagerstown, one with a gentleman who won $500,000 on the $20 gifts of green scratch off. He’s the kind of guy that enjoys taking his time scratching the ticket. Very, very shocked when he saw the half million dollar prize come up, but he’s got some plans. He’s going to pay off the house, and then we wish him well in that effort, he bought his ticket at a C and T convenience in Hagerstown, $500,000 on the $20 gifts of green. And if that name sounds familiar to you, the gifts are green. We have a special promotion going on now. Again, the details at MD lottery.com on how you two can win a gift of go for the green. Gift of green. Scratch off. You know, it’s easier when I read this ahead of time. I’m not going
Nestor Aparicio 11:59
to make you say it three times faster, but Andrea cut
John Martin 12:02
promotion to hopefully win a book of the gifts of green tickets. But also in Hagerstown, that wasn’t enough. One winner is never enough. When you’re taking the trek around the state. We had a Washington couple, and maybe you and your lovely wife have done this. I know my my wife and I do the same thing. You go to the grocery store, one goes one way with a cart. The other goes the other way with whatever else they need to do. You’re describing
Nestor Aparicio 12:25
every single visit we’ve ever had to a grocery store. Yeah, you are. There is never a point where we are hip on hip. Yeah, we get lost, right? They always have the produce right at the front door, and we get lost right there. Yeah, she goes towards, let’s say, berries. And you know what I’m I get to scouting the ice cream a little bit. You know? I mean, I just have a scouting mission, see what looks good, what’s on sale, what’s still frozen. And that’s usually, so yes, I You’re speaking my language, John. It’s like I’ve been married 23 years or something.
8John Martin 13:01
So here’s their routine. She, with the cart, does the shopping. He goes to the lottery self service vending machine.
Nestor Aparicio 13:07
That’s all the way out, though.
John Martin 13:08
I got to go in, yeah. But you know what he’s he’s not concerned about
Nestor Aparicio 13:12
8all in through the outdoors. My favorite Zeppelin album, if anybody’s asking, so, yes, okay, I don’t think
John Martin 13:17
that came up, but I’ll continue. So, so he sets my lottery sheen. He’s interested in the jackpots, Powerball Mega Millions, clearly being his favorite. So he decides, you know, he’s going to buy a Powerball ticket, and he buys a Powerball ticket, does not win the big prize, but he wins a lower tier prize, which gets him a $50,000 win. So while she’s getting the milk and the eggs and the produce. He’s getting 50 G’s at the at the the vending machine, and they have great plans to share their winning with their family. They won the got their win ticket at Martin’s disclaimer, no relation, not heir to the Martin grocery chain thrown mi or the roll
Nestor Aparicio 14:00
company, exactly. They’re great potato rolls. I mean, no, exactly. Oh, not a promotion for your family. But no, I follow their
John Martin 14:09
truck hoping something up, you know, falls out the back door, but it’s never happened in in in Hagerstown. So again, two big winners in Hagerstown this week. A lot of fun. West Side Story Of A retired postal worker who won a pick five top prize playing a zip code that resonated with their family in an out of town venue. So ZIP Code pick five, five digits, it works. A lot of people do that, and this was lucky for that winner. And then we also had a semi retired worker in a semi retired writer, rather who works in Waldorf, lives and works in Waldorf, who won $100,000 top prize on the $10.50 times the cash scratch off. So lots of winners, those stories and much more at MD lottery.com John Martin is here. He’s the
8Nestor Aparicio 14:54
Executive Director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming, putting us on the road for the Maryland crab cake tour. And you know this Hagerstown talk, you remind me that, Have I ever told you you like donuts, right?
John Martin 15:07
I’ve never met a donut I didn’t like I
Nestor Aparicio 15:09
didn’t I did know this about you. You know, there’s special donuts in Hagerstown, where the place opens only at night. Do you know this? Have I told you the story? No, I learned I’ve told this story a couple times. I think I told it earlier this month. But when I think of Hagerstown, my friend Emily Keller, who sits on Wes Moore’s board, I’m gonna give you a little oxygen to talk about, because Wes Moore made a proclamation that you need to talk about. But Emily Keller was the mayor of Hagerstown. She and I befriended each other through the by and by and Mako and whatnot. She serves now as a special she had a special title, but she’s opioid response in regard to Wes Moore, but she’s in Hagerstown. She didn’t even tell me about this. I found this out on my own. I was doing the Maryland crab cake tour the first time, maybe about five years ago. Every County, Washington County, I had a crab cake out in Washington County, as well as Allegheny and all the rest of the counties out in that part of the world, beautiful Garrett County, all those places. And when I’m in Hagerstown, I woke up in a hotel out there because we were doing the crab cake tour. And I looked, I wanted a donut and coffee, and I looked, and this place is very highly rated, and all the Google whatever. It’s called crumpies, k, r, u, M, P, E, you can look it up. And when I looked it up, it said, opens at 7pm and I’m like, it’s got to be a typo. Like, no, no, it’s, it’s, it’s, I want a donut. No offense to the chains and the DD and all the rest of the places, but I got one of the local donut and was so highly rated, and I wanted, maybe want it, and had 1000s of reviews. And I’m like, I looked at it, and I looked it up, and sure enough, it’s a it’s an after dinner donut place that is literally an institution. There’s a whole alley named after it. And as the executive director of all things Maryland, lottery and gaming, and your important role in this state, including with these big winners in Hagerstown, that it’s very important that if you go to Hagerstown, you do it after dark so you can get grumpy’s Donut, because they’re not open during the day. And I think that you know, and you got to go down an alley to do and his family’s been doing it for 100 it is. There’s my little guy, fieri moment for you. John. All right. Is that how
John Martin 17:12
8I love it? Because in the Martin family sharing secrets, we have the SDS, the secret donut society, and when we get together, from time to time.
Nestor Aparicio 17:21
You got to go after dark. Don’t go there looking for donut. Look it up. I go every time. My rock star buddy John Allen, we went out to, like, see a meatloaf show at the at the at the Hagerstown at the theater. It’s beautiful, by the way. I’m a fan of Hagerstown and Frederick at being a Dundalk guy that had never been in that part of the world. So kudos to Hagerstown. I’m glad you guys are winning money. You got your baseball team going on. You got great donuts. And I love coming to Hagerstown. So there, so there’s my Hagerstown travelog for you. How about that?
John Martin 17:49
You suggest have a donut when you have
Nestor Aparicio 17:51
your meatloaf. Is that I am suggesting that if you go to Hagerstown, and I do, because I drive, look, I offered to take Luke to the draft last week in Pittsburgh. Somehow he didn’t want to go to Pittsburgh with me. We would have gone, I’d say, look, we got to make sure we arrive in Hagerstown sometime between seven and 9pm otherwise I can’t get my donuts. So nonetheless, by the way, last thing for you, because I know you’re important, you got to go and you do the lottery thing. You’re baseball guy. I had Jamie Moyer on this week, and I brought this up. I bring this up because, like, for people that love baseball, I forgot about, first off, my relationship with Him and His greatness and His relationship with digger Phelps and all that. But I want you to go listen, because I know how much you love baseball. And he told me about Harvey Dorfman. He read a book about mental part of pitching, and it changed his entire life right around the time he met me in 1994 and he went on to have this fabulous career. So I know how much you love baseball and you appreciate what we do here, because you told me on LinkedIn, but the Jamie Moyer thing came from out of the blue, so it’s great baseball conversation.
8John Martin 18:53
We’ll check that out. I will check out. Another thing we need to squeeze in again is that proclamation from Oh, I got to get that in. Sure. Yeah, some people may have heard about this. Other people don’t know what I’m talking about. But about, but the state of Maryland was one of the early adopters. I think New York, Illinois, Maryland were kind of neck and neck there in proclaiming for all state employees to ban them for participating in prediction markets. Lot of publicity, none of it good recently about insider information impacting how people who are temporarily winning lots of money on the prediction markets because of inside information. And so the governor is and I support this. Obviously we tell me about prediction
Nestor Aparicio 19:36
markets a little bit, because you and I talk so much about sports wagering, getting on the up and up and not being a bookmaker salad, you know, mess, right? And law enforcement and just and tax, all of the things that have made sin taxes or vice whatever you would call them. But this is a whole different level of something that my AI brain has to. Get around on of the things you could bet with, with Louis the bookmaker, or could bet with offshore, or could bet with in some way that you feel like I might get paid I might not or but this prediction thing is a whole different level of of even when we’re going to bomb a country like crazy stuff that’s
John Martin 20:18
happening, right? It is, and it really is its own content block. So we can’t do justice here in 30 seconds, but I would encourage people who have an interest or don’t somehow don’t know about it, and I don’t want to cross promote something we don’t have a stake in. But John Oliver on HBO does a great show on a variety of topics, and recently took on prediction markets. So you will get the John Oliver Twist. And again, if you’re not familiar with him, it is not suitable for a workplace environment. So be careful where you are when you’re but a lot of facts
Nestor Aparicio 20:50
8are presented in journalism that you’re not seeing in other places, and it’s one of the reasons I don’t know a lot about it, is because I’m not participating in it, but lots of people are, and there’s real questions about not just the ethics of it, but yeah, all just all of it being on the up and up, as we like to say in the up
John Martin 21:07
and up, right? Yeah. And specifically, I’ve got to toe the line, because we are in litigation with one of the prediction market entities. And again, that’s probably a story in a content sure for later.
Nestor Aparicio 21:19
What Wes Moore did this week was basically say, if you’re a state employee, you cannot be participating in this knowing things that that are, yeah,
John Martin 21:28
because, again, there’s a public trust. When we all assume the responsibility to be state employees, there is a public trust and implied a bond there, and if you take that information that you are privy to and use it for your personal gain or for an entity that you can direct gain from that then, then the governor is very clear, and other states will quickly follow suit if they haven’t already that that’s going to be tolerated, that will not be tolerated, that will be up to and including termination, if that be the the final resolve of that. So very proud of our governor again, to take a stand. And you know, on one hand, it’s probably that well, you know who would do something like that? Well, unfortunately, a lot of people do. And again, the thing that brought to the forefront was a service man who had inside information, placed a large bet on the overthrow of Maduro in Venezuela, and again, temporarily profited with over $400,000 of win on a prediction market. Well, I don’t think he’s ever going to see a dime of that. But again, those things are out there, just cautionary tales for everybody, but for state employees, not only Maryland, but in other jurisdictions, there’s a very hard line being drawn, and I applaud that
8Nestor Aparicio 22:40
effort, you know, during a week when we’re doing horse racing and Derby and Preakness and all the things that are going on here, that was the only thing you could bet on. I think, when I was born in 68 before or go to Vegas or, you know, the ways that modern society has evolved, this thing was something that prediction markets like three years ago. Well, what is that? And now it’s something that obviously the governor has to address. You can read more about it. And John, I always appreciate you coming on, talking about baseball with us and celebrating all of these winners. I know we’re going to have a truest, sweet winner. I hope, I hope, between now and next time we get together, there’s three more grand slams. You got to give some money away, and certainly that would be big in the Yankee Stadium this weekend, so that
John Martin 23:23
would be great. I got to get in the car and run up to a Hagerstown I think if I could get now.
Nestor Aparicio 23:26
I get there, I still see the sun shining. It’s too early for that. John Martin is here giving money away in Hagerstown and all over the state, all on the up and up. You can learn more at an empty lottery. We always encourage people please do this responsibly, as we always say, I’ll be responsibly giving away these Maryland treasures tickets, lots of places next couple weeks, including on Friday at Pete’s John’s next week at Planet Fitness and Timonium on the seventh, 13th at Fayette Lee’s 21st at fishmonger’s daughter in Catonsville. We’re so thrilled for the divine and Han family for getting that open in Catonsville. They give me my own seat in the front overlooking Frederick road. It’s going to be great. Have a perfect view of Bill’s music store. Music Store. I am Nestor. We are W NST AM, 1570 to Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive donuts in Music City, Maryland. You.
