Every year, our partner Leonard Raskin throws a party and crab feast for family, clients and friends. Nestor asks him why it makes him so happy. And, sure, we discuss the Ravens putting it all together against the Lions, too.
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home we are W N S T A and 5070, Towson Baltimore we are Baltimore positive. Taking it back out on the road World Series going on this week. Luke is going to be out in Owings Mills preparing for a trip to the desert. The Ravens have three West Coast trips still left on the schedule after London and after playing the entire AFC north on the road. Arizona is the game this week. The Maryland crab cake Tour is presented by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have Raven scratch offs. Theyโve been a lucky batch. We had some winners of Cocoโs two weeks ago, as well as some winners up in Hollywood casino in Perry Ville sports book up there are friends whether they should 866 90 day should you buy two to get your free five years 0% financing, as well as our newest sponsor, Jiffy Lube, and the multi care fixing my oil last week when my light went on, so I had to go over to Jiffy Lube and had that taken care of. Iโm such great sponsors. It is a great time of year we talked about our wise conversations and Dennis has been away last week heโs coming back. Later Raskin of Raskin glow when Iโm wearing the blue shirt here and Iโm wondering when heโs going to come up with an orange shirt for me or something and like a mango color that would look like like oh Oriole season, but he gives these crab mallets out once a year. And if youโre a friend to recline of Leonard, he throws a rip very nice party every year. This year. Entertainment magicians a great band father daughter singing great songs for us. But more than anything, the special crab mallet. We won the basket because we got there late and we left late and people left early and Leonard I donโt think speaks to when youโre up 38 to nothing or 38 to six yeah believe people left your party early. And they got steak the big prize my wife comes and we had four of these in there for rescue go mallets and Berger cookies and potato chips just in time from my motherโs own arrive eat little
Leonard Raskin 01:54
Baltimore basket at cheer baby. Thatโs what itโs all about. You gotta stay you gotta stay. I donโt. I donโt know where people have to get to. Iโm gonna get it. I get it in the evening. You know, some people have a bit of a drive. They gotta get out. They got to do it or they got to do but itโs not that late Saturday night. Party from five to nine. Five to nine. You canโt stay till nine. Hey, I get it. i Okay, so
Nestor Aparicio 02:22
I arrived around seven thinking right? Oh, you know, I didnโt want to be fashionably late. But I wound up being very late. So I have to apologize. Me. Itโs okay. later than I thought it was like stop. Oh, I have a crab. I didnโt realize it was like you did a thing. So weโll get to the Ravens in a minute. I want to talk about your party because Iโm sure together a soiree for friends and sponsors around Dan Roderick show. And I told Dan last January when I had him out of families. I said the show is the greatest thing Iโve ever seen. All of my friends need to see it. And I guess thatโs the thatโs the Maven in me that wants to show you things I love and youโre very much the same way. And weโre not going to show each other our mutual love of Depeche Mode this week, but at least we got Billy Joe last week. But But you love your clients, you love people. But more than that, and Iโve seen like I have you on the air all the time. Weโve had Billy Joel, weโve had crabs. Weโre friends in the real world, we socialized and even before like, I knew you or I was nasty. Nestor, you were whiskey Joeโs I mean, all these years later, but this is your Super Bowl. And itโs almost like because you canโt get married again and you donโt want to make any more babies and the kid doesnโt have a graduation party. And even if he did, itโd be his friends and not yours. This is your once a year whether itโs Christmas or Valentineโs Day or whatever your big holiday is or your Fourth of July cookout or Preakness party or your Super Bowl party or your holiday Punchbowl. This is yours. I donโt know why you do it in October. I told my wife I think itโs because the crabs are cheap. Am I right or
Leonard Raskin 03:52
wrong? Itโs not because theyโre cheap. Itโs because theyโre huge. We want huge we love big crabs. And weโre not gonna lie. Yeah, thereโs, thereโs no better time of the year. Well, we crabs all year, but thereโs no better time to invite 200 of your best friends, clients, friends, family, all the above. out to enjoy an evening of fun and frivolity and we tried to do something a little different each time we have it. Weโve done it at the baseball stadium we were at at Ripken. Years ago we rented out the pavilion at Ripken and watched a baseball game and cracked crabs. And then weโve done it other places this year we settled for the home field and beautiful place up in Jacksonville Maryland.
Nestor Aparicio 04:49
They said that was the first event theyโd had. We were the first event with it. I thought you were lying to me. Iโm like, What is this barn sweet? Iโve been up a sweet air road a million times and I said to my wife I had Answer that had a little shack many years ago. Yeah, he did ribs and they were the best rib they were.
Leonard Raskin 05:07
And they went away. And he went away. He was
Nestor Aparicio 05:09
a great guy. And if youโre out there listening or you know the guy, give him my love and he told me you bake the ribs, then you put them on the grill, they get soft inside crispy. So he gave me all this before ever saw guy faces 25 years ago. Itโs like 9899. Yeah. And I said to my wife that we went into the Plaza, where the were like the shopping center. Yeah. And I had 30 years ago. And Iโm like, Where is this place? And Conradโs crabs whoโs been a sponsor of ours. I love Tony. Great, great people, great crabs as well. Thereโs a little thing and itโs attached to Inverness beer and so yes,
Leonard Raskin 05:45
yes, the voters so Conradโs crabs had to stay in there forever. And as you said the ribs went away. And it used to be a greenhouse place. He used to sell flowers and plants and you know all your spring and summer gardening needs
Nestor Aparicio 06:07
not what theyโre doing a Curie of different plants. Yes, I got correct.
Leonard Raskin 06:11
This is your this is your outside of your house. Beautiful plants. Azaleas magnolia. Yes, yes. All the things. Yes. They went away. I believe sadly the woman that read that passed away and the place was left vacant. And Hans who ran the Conradโs Jacksonville Express got together with the with a couple of you know that own Inverness brewing and they set up shop and now Conradโs expresses their great crabs, crab cakes, seafood, great food.
Nestor Aparicio 06:44
I donโt know who made the fried chicken. It was not ROFO but it was
Leonard Raskin 06:48
it was it was Conradโs right there. They did it. All right. Resistance
Nestor Aparicio 06:52
short style is no corner like Iโm pulling the corn out. Thereโs no horns cold because I showed up late because it my fault. So Iโm eating cold corn off the cob. Like Fred Flintstone
Leonard Raskin 07:06
and jumbo crabs, jumbo crabs with with the best spice in the town. I just theyโre the best crabs around. And so we invited a couple of 100 of our friends and and what they did was they turned the greenhouse into an event hall or event venue I guess. Easy holds 100 change and they have a second venue that theyโre putting together finishing on and then thereโll be able to hold 200 at two different spots right there beautiful
Nestor Aparicio 07:39
facility itโs an itโs a bar was and it was
Leonard Raskin 07:42
was truck once we got the ice cream truck what can we better in Baltimore than eating crabs. And then doing some ms twisty soft ice cream. Vanilla. Get your little
Nestor Aparicio 07:58
the most important Anglet split two things. You have to have butterscotch, which is a must. And the other thing and this makes my wife laugh and wet nuts. Nuts on your truck. Oh son data legitimate truck.
Leonard Raskin 08:14
Absolutely. I had mine. I had my I had my pineapple strawberry pineapple. Cherry wet nut sundae was magnificent. Gosh, that sounds good. Iโm gonna go back. Whatโs better? Whatโs better after some spicy steamed crabs that vanilla ice cream with some fixins it was beautiful. We had a great night. Your magician? Magician. Tim was out there. Amazing. Right? Amazing. Shocking. Magic. Just blows my mind. Not only that, the man. The man was there for two, two and a half hours. I guess two hours met. Everybody that was there did some magic for everybody that was there at their table. And then did a nice 15 minute stage show. And my god
Nestor Aparicio 09:05
we put $1 Bill inside of a lemon somehow.
Leonard Raskin 09:09
I donโt know how it was it was it was it was sealed up. It was nice
Nestor Aparicio 09:13
to see it really well. I mean, it was like sort of like good. This dude should be like,
Leonard Raskin 09:17
itโs pretty good. He is heโs good. Heโs really good.
Nestor Aparicio 09:20
And your band was good too. I gotta like fully out this that Iโve been to Inverness for beer. Yeah, my wife really liked the beer. She had an ale that she loved. Yep. And she took Two for the Road. So thatโs what itโs all about. Itโs okay. Itโs good. When you when you put good food out. You expect people to take it home so
Leonard Raskin 09:37
absolutely. Take take a couple of crabs take a couple beer a little they had seltzers we had everything out there had everything you need for a good old Baltimore crab feast and burger cookies for the road. Whatโs better than burger cookies for the road? Except we couldnโt put the milk in the thing because it would have gone bad you had to get
Nestor Aparicio 09:58
your crab chips. up to scratch. Scratch ships letter asking a series Raskin and fishers popcorn, fishers popcorn. You know when your wife and I were debating whether if I heated it a little bit whether come back to life GUI the way it
Leonard Raskin 10:12
does, I donโt know. I donโt need it. I donโt know. Itโs good though. Itโs good. Itโs good. Whatever you eat it. Itโs right out of the barrel. Absolutely.
Nestor Aparicio 10:23
Like this. And I want to get to the Ravens in the blowout. Yeah. And Iโm doing a little getaway this week as well. So Iโll be out on social media. Iโm honoring my mother this week in our hometown, and her life. Excellent and spend a little bit of time doing that. So youโll see me Laughing Crying out online decks in the south. So I would just say for this party, and maybe my mom on my shoulders a little bit, um, birthday parties, anniversary parties, celebrations family and I donโt have a lot of family you know, that like, Iโm sort of famously adopted and half Venezuelan and half Dundalk redneck and like, I have a mess going on in my family tree looks like a you know, itโs a mess. So but I would just say this when you have friends at your point in your life. Yep. And you have my favorite word that Tony Robbins would use would be abundance, whatever. Abundance could mean you have $5 too much and you buy coffee for somebody when theyโre youโre checking out a royal farms, you try to do a nice deed. Yay, the toll for the person, like all of the nice things that people can and should do for each other. Right? I mean, opening doors, just chivalry like all of that. But then there comes the point where we live through a plague. Weโve all had death weโve all had your wife has been ill My wife has been ill. Yeah, you know, youโve had a plague weโve weโve your business is done. Well, your business is right. Everybodyโs got a thing, right? Absolutely. When when you can get together, breathe in the air and say, All right, weโre live on a Saturday night. Iโve got a couple of grand laying around. Itโs a business expense. Itโs a party. Itโs for friends, how can I itโs hard to get 100 people to stop what theyโre doing on a Friday. Because Iโm trying to do that with a bunch of you. Right? Iโm gonna like, Iโm not gonna get everybody, but I want to you but other than a wedding, or dare I say a funeral. Right? Yeah, we donโt get together enough. Thatโs right. And I think celebrate, celebrate, I see your game face. Youโre serious face your legal face insurance face, protect your client face investment face, your golf face, Iโve seen your, you know, hand shaking out at a golf course in a charity event. But to see the joy you had just priming, Iโm not even kissing your ass. Just, you were the happiest guy in the room. It was great on Saturday, it makes you happy seeing people you love around you and really
Leonard Raskin 12:43
salutely Absolutely, look, there is no sense in waiting. None of us have a ticket that gets us out of here. Free pass to 65, free pass to 85, whatever. And if you looked around that room, we have in that room first, second, and third generation clients that show up at an event we throw for friends and clients and we consider our clients, our friends. And we have first generation we have second generation and you know this event, we had third generation in a stroller, two year old, almost two year old, that was wielded by his parents is her parents and spent the evening a couple of good hours before she had to go to bed. I donโt think she had any crabs. But you know, two generations out for the evening and bringing the baby and havenโt crabs. We had multiple clients with their kids their second generation. And thatโs what weโre about man. Weโre about cradle to grave, helping people do the right thing with their money, enjoy it, pass it on. Thereโs nothing better than seeing our clients. And the other thing I think you notice, and somebody sent us a note, somebody sent me an email on Sunday and said, you know, it was a great event. And itโs the first time Iโve come to anything youโve had. And Iโm glad I came in sorry I missed the prior ones. And what he said what was really neat was I saw people there that looked like they were 20 and I saw people that are that looked like they were at and I was he said surprised and thrilled. I was inspired
Nestor Aparicio 14:28
by it because thatโs the guy. I showed a lot of those events right whether itโs road trips and radio parties whiskey Joeโs Iโm counting down with our friends security, the top 25 things weโve done as a state right, none of them are about me. Theyโre about people theyโre about Thatโs right, itโs about me going in and being the butterfly flapping my wings and saying meet me down at the river at 252 in New Orleans and having 1000 people show up and creating something that people will talk to me about the rest of my life and remember forever thatโs say Saturday night we we We had a yoga class that we had to make, because we stay in shape. Itโs good for our backs. And yep, yep. And we ran out. Weโre soaking. I mean, we were wrong out. Like, I didnโt even talk to my wife off the mat. Like, Iโm like, I need a moment I need. So I got in the shower, I cooled off. We came out, we got there super late. We sat down. I felt bad because I was just munching moving through grants and
Leonard Raskin 15:23
all that good. And hereโs we sat
Nestor Aparicio 15:24
at a table with the same people unwittingly that we sat with last year. Oh, thatโs funny. Then Rachel came over and said, Oh, we met you late. So now all of a sudden, we have Raskin friends, theyโre gonna go next year. Itโs like Alan Alda. I say, I only see you once a year. But I see you at this event. Itโs nice to see you again. And they had their daughter with him this year. Yeah. So. So I think thereโs a part of that, too, where we talk about networking, and LinkedIn, and my friends and your friends. And how do we do about real peep? How do we sell widgets? Itโs more like, Oh, theyโre their friends are friends. And theyโre acquaintances, and itโs word of mouth. And more than that, itโs getting together on a night when thereโs music and food, and
Leonard Raskin 16:09
can real people, community and real people community. Thatโs what weโre about, you know, itโs, itโs, itโs nice that we do well, and we have a great business and all of that, but we want to share that, you know, part of our mission is to share that with the people that we care about. And having them out and having people meet other people. And and who knows you you meet people meet employers, people meet employees, people meet business contacts, weโre not about networking, weโre about
Nestor Aparicio 16:35
how funny your mother and your sister are trying like having a relationship with them. Right. And you know,
Leonard Raskin 16:40
the fact is, you will attest to this. I mean, we donโt do any business at this thing. Weโre not Weโre not out there talking about there ainโt no investment talk, insurance, talk, tax talk. We had a magician we had a band. We had great food, great drink, and weโre hanging out weโre having fun on a Saturday night. Thatโs what lifeโs about. And including butterscotch and wet nuts. See you talk business some other time. Who cares really business we were there to have fun with our with our community and everybody that came I think had a great time. And if you didnโt, itโs your fault. I would feel really
Nestor Aparicio 17:13
your something about check, steal taking my press pass. You throw that party on a Saturday night next year. If you throw it on the night before the road game somewhere. I would miss that party right of course party and I missed your party next year. Iโll be there. And itโs not for the crowd filled with the crowd. mallets you got other people I got enough of them now. Iโm going to keep this one clean.
Leonard Raskin 17:35
Something will have something else to keep you interested, thatโs for sure. Well, and
Nestor Aparicio 17:38
to open the beer as well. A beer bottle open then serve cans. I donโt pay saying Iโm just saying you know, thatโs what we served in Venice brought cans. We did cans. It was delicious. So I got this for the future. And then Sunday we did the Ravens game. You invited my wife to the game on Sunday. Yes, went down and had about 18 lamb chops with Jimmy the Greek and beautiful game. She came back home. She didnโt want to go to the game. And she came in stunning was already seven nothing. And then itโs like 28 to nothing. And Iโm thinking to myself, it was it was the day that we all say right. Itโs just Yeah, I just made whiskey Joeโs day or potential. This is the potential of how great you can be one day one time like that country music song right. Perfect. It was perfect. Eight months. They talk about how good it can be. Yeah, we saw it come to life on Sunday. And thatโs a nice thing. I mean, when you said Mom, Iโm gonna grow up and own this company and manage money and have a room full of great people one night make you proud. Well, you did on Saturday night. Here we go. The Ravens on Sunday. They first showed
Leonard Raskin 18:43
up. They showed up showed out I was was blown away. I gotta tell you. First Drive, touchdown, second drive, touchdown, third drive, touchdown. And what did the vaunted Detroit, baby lions do three and out. Three and out. Three and a half. It was you couldnโt ask for a start to a game. But you know, Iโve been to a bunch of games and the only other one that comes to mind thatโs been this dominant. This ridiculous and this beautiful, was a flight a few years ago to Tampa. Joe Flacco scored three touchdowns in the first quarter. I mean, we we got there five minutes late. We missed the first touchdown before you know it. It was 21 at halftime, Iโll never forget, because because I had some angry people around me Go figure. halftime. I donโt remember the score. It was obscene. But right before the half. They threw out Tucker, to kick a field goal. When we were killing him. I mean, we were destroying them. And at the half. John throughout Tucker, he kicked a field goal and people sitting behind me were so angry that the Ravens were piling on the score, and that they couldnโt believe it. And I turned around to the guy. These were people in there. I want to say 70. So these were some old dudes. And I turned around and I said, Are you telling me right now? That when you guys come out and after half, youโre done. Youโre leaving. Youโre not even coming back. Youโre not going to try to score your if we scored 31 In the first half, why canโt you score 31 in the second half? Are you telling me youโre not going to try to score it was 38 by
Nestor Aparicio 20:31
the way, itโs 38 to nothing. I have it up. I was at that game. Hereโs the thing I remember by thinking first thing Oh, wife Graceling. My wife was battling back from cancer at that time. Yes. October 12 2014. And Thursday, beautiful. The Orioles were in the playoffs. Right. 14 right. It was at Detroit week and like magnificent. And we flew down there all I remember that that game was there was nobody there.
Leonard Raskin 20:57
We were. I remember two things. It was crushed him and nobody. We crushed him in the first half. And it was hot as hell. I remember that was because we were sitting somewhere degrees. That was hot. Yeah, but the sun was blaring raisins were only
Nestor Aparicio 21:14
a three point favorite that right?
Leonard Raskin 21:16
Like there were three yesterday or Sunday.
Nestor Aparicio 21:20
Torrey Smith Torrey Smith Kumar ache and Michael campanero Steve Smith sr 56 yard. Youโre right. Tucker comes out to make it 38 The nothing on a 48 yard field.
Leonard Raskin 21:30
At no time left in the half. And I said to these guys, are you going to quit? Are you not going to play the second half? And they said thatโs ridiculous. You and they got all frustrated and my wife. My wife is saying just stop youโre gonna give these guys a heart attack. Just stop. She thought the old guys were gonna die. And then and then of course the boy. So this is you said 2004 This would be not 14. I mean, 14 Nine years ago, the boy would have been 12 the boys turn it around with his shirt one too much purple for you. Too much purple for you. It was so funny. I said Dude, shut up. Youโre gonna make me fight these old men.
Nestor Aparicio 22:07
Well, you know when itโs 38 to nothing or 28 to nothing and youโre like, me, for me. I didnโt go read zoning. I was just concerned about injuries concerned about you know, not losing the game, but just sort of like right, donโt do anything.
Leonard Raskin 22:21
I couldnโt figure out I couldnโt figure out why they I think they left Lamar in on Sunday so that he could get his 6000 yards for the season or something. And he was throwing that ball and moving around the pocket like a master and and the two plays. My goodness, the little fake RPO when I call it an RC throw is what I call right. The RPO took us for 80 yards. Everybody thought he was running. He turned around threw that ball five yards to
Nestor Aparicio 22:56
defend that like he committed to running right once he gets out. He stops looking for receivers. Thatโs right.
Leonard Raskin 23:03
They look where they are all over Sunday. He is
Nestor Aparicio 23:08
not looking to run it. Heโs looking to get everyone to bite on him running it that heโs gonna go over your head and youโre gonna chase Pat Ricard. 45 yards. Thatโs
Leonard Raskin 23:16
right. I call him Captain Picard. Thatโs my nickname for him. They call him something else. Big Pat. I donโt know what they call him. But I call him Captain Picard. Because thatโs what it hits me in the brain. But man watching him rumbled down the field and watch it Gus run away and and Mark Andrews run away and I donโt know you know the numbers. You have the data 10 receivers, nine different Okay, so I maybe get one extra nine. himself. Heโs not like Snoopy. Yeah, we could, if he got tipped. If it got tipped, he could throw it to himself. Nine different receivers. He was throwing that ball to everybody. And unlike the Pittsburgh game, everybody was catching everything. I mean, there was there was one drop ball, I think a flat Of course, right? And of course the obligatory fumble. We had to have the fumble, because thereโs always a fumble. The good news is you can fumble when youโre up 28 nothing and then you get them three and out. Whatever it is and they donโt score and itโs okay. But that one that one looked like Lamar is vault to me. It looked like Justice Hill thought he was gonna get it. Lamar tried at the last minute to pull it out. Donโt got slammed they got the ball.
Nestor Aparicio 24:30
I said from the beginning. And any my old school listeners have heard me harp on this. I thought that would be more of a problem with Lamar, in a general sense over the course of a body of work doesnโt happen often. Thatโs
Leonard Raskin 24:42
very rare. Very rare, and he was upset that it happened. Heโs angry. So thatโs good. Give him something to work on. And then then we get to go to the desert. Iโm not going are you going to the desert? I am not going to a desert. Not that desert. Yeah, Iโm not going to the desert but the Cardinals do not look very good. And the problem is to to Right, look like the second coming of the Eagles. And were shown to have a few flaws. And now weโve got the cardinals who are the second coming of the jets and and hopefully we donโt overlook the Cardinals but I donโt know what are they going out? They should go out on Tuesday get acclimated thatโs looked like it served him well in London. Maybe he should go out early and get ready for the
Nestor Aparicio 25:23
Sunday should go to Pittsburgh earlier. Nobody wants to Pittsburgh early. Let Rascon global you can find him out on the front of Baltimore positive. He specializes in taking care of people and their money and make sure their futures are secure. And the American dream we were out living the American dream the crabs, corn fresh corn without even any butter. It was delicious. And ice cream with with pineapple and butterscotch and hot fudge and and wet nuts or you can find a rascal thing.com Hey man, I hope you have a great week and I think the afterglow of your party and the Ravens success and weโre going to sit around and watch the World Series and some football this weekend. Next thing I know weโll be eating turkey and pumpkin pie.
Leonard Raskin 26:04
Oh crazy, isnโt it? Time just flies along which is why you have to sit back and smell the corn and eat the crabs and enjoy life because itโs just too fast. And what did Ferris Bueller say? If you donโt say I donโt know what he said something if you donโt take time to smell the roses itโll just pass you by or something like that. Whatever he said his famous quote were first place
Nestor Aparicio 26:28
again and the football straight and thatโs right. You know? I think even the Phillies fans will be happy before the weekโs over. He is lettered I am Nestor Lucas gonna be out no expose all week long all are brought to you by our friends at Royal farms real fresh real fast pouring it into my coal roofing mug here this week. Weโre doing lots and lots of stuff in the November the Maryland crabcake tours getting back out on the road with a full full roster. We have a commitment. Wes Moore is going to be joining us right after Thanksgiving down in the Annapolis area. Putting the show down to fade these we got West Morris folks or excuse me, Brandon Brandon Scott Mayer. Brandon Scottโs going to be joining us as well a Cocoโs before the holidays. We have a lot of things happening around here. Weโre gonna get back on the beat. Got some great musicians coming on next month as well. So Iโm excited. Iโm Nestor we are wn St. am 1570, Towson Baltimore, telling good stories and we never stop talking Baltimore positivehttps://youtu.be/cIahvkVWzN0