Giving the new guy a fair chance

It turns out that John Harbaugh really wasn’t the Baltimore Ravens head coach for life. And, now, we’ll all have to get used to the freshly minted face of the franchise as Leonard Raskin and Nestor assess the Jesse Minter hire. And the famously anti-Michigan, pro-Buckeye financial guy has to accept the former foe as savior.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Ravens’ recent hire of Jesse Minter, a 29-year-old offensive coordinator with a background under Jim Harbaugh at Michigan. They debated Minter’s involvement in the Michigan football cheating scandal, noting his role as acting head coach during suspensions. Raskin emphasized the importance of local charity support over national organizations, highlighting the direct impact on the community. They also touched on the Super Bowl, predicting a win for the Seahawks under Mike McDaniel, and shared their experiences and opinions on various sports events and personalities.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the show’s ‘cup of soup’ event at El Guapo in Catonsville on Tuesday and represent the program and sponsors at the venue
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the show’s ‘cup of soup’ event at Koco’s in Laurelville on Wednesday and represent the program and sponsors at the venue
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the show’s ‘cup of soup’ event at Pizza John’s in Essex on Thursday and represent the program and sponsors at the venue
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the show’s ‘cup of soup’ event at Costas in Timonium on Friday, including giveaways and sponsor promotion

Ravens’ Super Bowl Week Schedule and Sponsors

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning their schedule for the week, including locations like El Guapo, Koco’s, Pizza John’s, and Costas.
• Nestor thanks GBMC for saving his life and introduces a new sponsor, Farden and Dermer, a local HVAC company.
• Nestor reminisces about a 20th anniversary piece for Super Bowl 35, involving Brandon Stokely and Flacco, and mentions the importance of February 1st for Joe.
• Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, discussing his experiences with the Pro Bowl and Hawaii, and his dreams of going to Hawaii.

Pro Bowl and Super Bowl Discussions

• Leonard Raskin shares his experiences of missing the Pro Bowl due to the Ravens’ Super Bowl win and the subsequent parade in Baltimore.
• The conversation shifts to the Pro Bowl’s current format and its placement, with both speakers expressing dissatisfaction with its timing and structure.
• They discuss other sports events like the NBA and hockey All-Star games, comparing them to the Pro Bowl and expressing a desire for more enjoyable and fan-friendly events.
• The discussion touches on the Olympics and the political nature of sports, with a focus on the upcoming Olympics and the competitive spirit among athletes.

Introduction of Jesse Minter and Harbaugh Background

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the topic of the Ravens’ recent hire, Jesse Minter, and his background with Jim Harbaugh.
• Leonard Raskin expresses curiosity about Minter’s past with Harbaugh and the Michigan football scandal, questioning whether Minter was involved.
• They discuss the implications of cheating in sports and the industry, with Leonard explaining the consequences of cheating in his field.
• The conversation delves into the specifics of the Michigan football scandal, involving names like Jim Harbaugh, Sharon Moore, and Connor Stallions.

Debate on Jesse Minter’s Involvement and Character

• Leonard Raskin and Nestor Aparicio debate whether Jesse Minter was directly involved in the Michigan football scandal, with Leonard assuming Minter was clean.
• They discuss the due diligence the Ravens might have done before hiring Minter and the potential impact of his past association with Harbaugh.
• Leonard mentions Minter’s role as a defensive coordinator and his plans to call his own defensive plays, expressing interest in how this will play out.
• The conversation touches on the broader implications of hiring coaches with controversial pasts and the importance of due diligence in hiring practices.

Local Charity and Community Involvement

• Leonard Raskin discusses the importance of supporting local charities and the benefits of giving to local causes over national ones.
• Nestor Aparicio highlights various local charities and organizations they will be supporting during their Super Bowl week events.
• Leonard explains the tax benefits of donating to charity and the importance of seeing the direct impact of one’s donations in the local community.
• They discuss the role of local charities in providing essential services and the personal satisfaction of supporting local causes.

Super Bowl Predictions and Personal Preferences

The conversation concludes with a focus on the positive impact of local charity work and the importance of supporting local communities.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss their predictions for the Super Bowl, with Leonard expressing support for the Seahawks and Mike McDonald.

They talk about the impact of the Super Bowl on the local community and the importance of supporting local businesses and charities during the event.

Leonard shares his personal experiences with the Super Bowl and his preference for supporting local causes over national ones.

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SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens retool, Jesse Minter, Jim Harbaugh, Michigan football scandal, Super Bowl, offensive coordinator, defensive plays, local charity, Baltimore community, Leonard Raskin, financial management, Pro Bowl, NFL coaching, Seahawks, Patriots.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

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Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 to Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. I usually reach for the logo, but the logo is here. We are not at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for radio row this week, but we are doing a cup of soup or bowl all week long. Faintly, is on Monday, Tuesday. We moved to El Guapo in Catonsville, because I need some pasola and a little Latin flair. Wednesday, we’re going to be at Koco’s in laurelville. Thursday, at Pizza John’s in Essex, and then Friday, we wrap things up at Costas in Timonium, where I have dined with this guy. We will have candy cane cash and Marilyn Lotter to give away. I want to shout out GBMC and thanking them, not just for saving my life last year with the colonoscopy thing and making sure that I’m healthy, but a new sponsor, farden and Dermer on with us, local heating, air conditioning, indoor air quality, plumbing, HVAC. There the comfort guys. Farnand, dermer.com make sure you’re checking them out, because we do appreciate our sponsors. This guy’s been a sponsor for a long time. He was a listener last week we we misconnected. There was a foot of snow. You were in Nashville, but I ran all week and up on Baltimore, positive you and I, five years ago, did a 20th anniversary piece for the Super Bowl 35 where you make Kathy upset. You had to buy her furniture. You went down, spent too much money. And five years later, it’s still like the greatest story ever. But I called Brandon Stokely last week to come on. He’s like, Oh, I didn’t realize it was this week. And I called Flaco. I had Flacco on this week. Flacco always remembers when February 1 is, you know, Joe knows it’s been 13 years, so it’s been a great week around here. I know you all wait last week pro bowler, right along with shadora Sanders. That’s young and old, right?

Leonard Raskin  01:42

And what did I hear they just put burrow, our man, burgeo burrow?

Nestor Aparicio  01:47

Well, somebody’s got to throw the football in these right exhibition

Leonard Raskin  01:51

on this, this flag football. Did you ever have a mojo

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Nestor Aparicio  01:56

like you manage money in the American dream? Did you ever dream of going to Honolulu, to a pro bowl and just just to be a

Leonard Raskin  02:01

part of it? No, no. Was never a thing. I turned it down, silly. I dreamed, okay, so, so, when I was young, younger, I dreamed of going to Hawaii. It was never, let’s go to the pro

Nestor Aparicio  02:16

you and I have talked about Maui, which we both love you. Vacation there, honeymoon, there all that. I’ve been there twice since 2019 but I didn’t get to Hawaii until I was in my 50s. Okay, so I, but I, it’s just a long flight. I’ve been, I’ve been over the world. It’s just Hawaii. Was like, I’ll just go to Jamaica. I’ll just go to Florida.

Leonard Raskin  02:36

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It’s magnificent. What is magnificent? Honeymoon? Yeah, so I was 29 I’m now 61 so it at 2930

Nestor Aparicio  02:46

you know what cost me a chance to go to Hawaii in the Pro Bowl. Yeah, the Raven Super Bowl. When the Ravens won. And oh, one, I was all set up, keeping in mind, Hawaii’s in the afternoon, and I was the afternoon show at Sporting News. Yeah, right. So, like, here were, everybody went to the Super Bowl at Sporting News Radio 25 years ago. But the key assignments were the guys who ran the place. They were more on your side of the political fence. They were much more about great and like all that. So they love the masters. And like, okay, so they, they were going to send me to the masters. And I’m like, Why, dude, still send me, send the morning show. They love that. I mean, you know, like, and they did, but they said, Well, you’re the afternoon show. We’re gonna send you to the Pro Bowl. And why? And I’m like, No. I was like, that’s a long flight. And I knew it was gonna be work, not sunning myself as much, and I was looking forward to, I mean, look, I was 30 years old and very spry and like into it. But what happened was the Ravens went to the Super Bowl, and they won the Super Bowl, and it was the week after the Super Bowl. Remember the Pro Bowl used to be February. It used to be Valentine’s Day, right? Absolutely. So the week after my people at sporting you said Matt and Hage might, who took this picture, by the way, at the Moscone Center, who’s now in San Francisco, Matt said to me, Hey, dude, you’re gonna want to be in Baltimore for the parade, right? Like, absolutely, absolutely. So I couldn’t be in both by the way, Rod Woodson wasn’t at the parade because he went to the Pro Bowl. Well, I’m just telling you, Baltimore parade happened in the middle of the Pro Bowl, right? Like so I never, ever made it to Hawaii. I never got to see the Koco and nuts and all of that, in the flowers,

Leonard Raskin  04:41

they’re doing some silly Tuesday night flag.

Nestor Aparicio  04:44

I thought it was sucked when it was in a y. This is terrible. I don’t even know what

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Leonard Raskin  04:48

is the worst. It’s terrible. I mean, if they if they were going to be they had half a brain, why not do it on the weekend between the playoff and the Super Bowl? You. If you had a weekend with no football, Oh, my Lord, no football. But they didn’t. So it’s

Nestor Aparicio  05:07

weird not having Football Sunday, right? Like we didn’t.

Leonard Raskin  05:12

The Super Bowl’s not done yet. So you should have had something. They should have had the Pro Bowl, the fake flag, silly nonsense. I mean, it’s, it’s pathetic that

Nestor Aparicio  05:24

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played on the Sunday before. They should make it fun, right?

Leonard Raskin  05:27

Or they need to come up with some way to make it enjoyable. Make it a fan thing for all that they do to make fans energized about the sport. This is about as bad a thing as they’ve got. The baseball All Star game has gotten, you know, real and enjoyable. I think it’s better. It’s better than the garbage they could have put. They put their

Nestor Aparicio  05:49

uniforms back on this year, which was good. I like that the NBA All Star game has left me the hockey All Star game. I went to the hockey all star games

Leonard Raskin  05:56

with these No, no, no. Now they do three on three, league league to League, country to country, they’ve made it at least acceptable, although this year, no all star because we’ve got the Olympics coming up. Bum Bum players are going to be at the Olympics. We got the eight nations. It’s going to be awesome. It’s always interesting in the All Star game for hockey, of course, to see guys hit each other that play together the next day. We on the ice and actually hit each other. We’ll have that

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Nestor Aparicio  06:27

with baseball too, right? When Adam Jones is stealing home runs for Manny Machado, right? Yeah, yeah, to bring Olympic glory

Leonard Raskin  06:34

or us? Yeah, absolutely. The the Olympics, though, they’re playing for real. I mean, they’re not, they’re not messing around. They’re playing political metal. Yeah, that’s right. They’re gonna hit each other. It’s gonna be fun to watch, but, but football is just dreadful. There’s nonsense of flag football. What is it? Joe Montana, is that it? And Jerry Rice,

Nestor Aparicio  06:55

although the honorary captain, since you know the coaches, the coach raised on that ray with Dion, they’ve all done that. Yeah, involved. I saw it’s been Peyton and Eli for a while. Okay, well, they got to get off their TV gig, right? Listen, I want

Nestor Aparicio  07:10

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to, since the Ravens have made a hire. So we have talked about Jesse, I want to give you some oxygen. And by the way, Leonard Raskin is here. He manages the American dream. Raskin global, I’ve got the shirt on. You could find him out on the internet to manage money and all things and and, you know, we’ll get the taxes in April 50 we’ll do all of that. But like we got football to talk about, not just the Super Bowl, but what you’ve been witnessing. The Ravens they hire. 29 year old offensive corners have done a lot of things the last two weeks, a lot of very important things.

Leonard Raskin  07:37

So let’s talk about Jesse Minter. Right? Interesting. So I have two fields here. First, obviously, out of the HAR ball tree, right? First, then Jim, I’m always curious to see you. You, I don’t know if you’ve talked about this at all, or come to this, and I don’t know him, I have no reason to believe anything other than that. He’s a great hire. He’s going to be a great coach, and we’re going to go the Super Bowl, and he’s going to win it. I can’t wait. But he was with Jim Harbaugh at that team up north that cheated, that cheated, that’s been sanctioned, and Jim for 10 years, and that team had everything taken away from them, except for the national champion.

Nestor Aparicio  08:26

Can I ask you a question? And this is like, I don’t want to get into it with Trump and the pedophilia and any of that, but cheating in a general sense, in your industry, in your industry, criminally, when you cheat, what happens in your industry? What should happen in your industry?

Leonard Raskin  08:41

Well, that’s a great question, what should happen and what happens are two different things, correct? What? What generally happens is, you’re slapped on the wrist. You’re sanctioned

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Nestor Aparicio  08:53

and supervised by the State Athletic wrestling, I’m sorry, different.

Leonard Raskin  08:56

But beyond sanctioned, you can be fined significantly, and then you can be banned

Nestor Aparicio  09:02

by imprisonment, or both. There’s a REX Barney, right, right?

Leonard Raskin  09:05

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And then, when you’re banned, you can’t practice anymore. But in the industry, often negotiated settlements and money rule the day, and you buy it off,

Nestor Aparicio  09:16

and you’re known as a cheat. No one will ever trust you again. And he made off. Was not going to have clients anymore after he cheated people, right? No, his was different. You could do in your industry’s cheat because I wouldn’t give you

Leonard Raskin  09:29

my money. So hang on. He’s beyond there are. So we have disclosures, right? We have this thing called an ADV that the SEC and FINRA require us to disclose anything that’s occurred, any claims against us, any government action against us, any penalties against us. And every time I meet with a new person, and they choose whether or not they’re going to work with us, they get a copy of this document, and it discloses anything that’s occurred, where there’s been any settlement. Any complaints, any fines, any anything is on there so it’s public. People can see it. They can determine, then, based on that, whether or not they want to work with you or obviously ask you questions about what happened. If you were caught doing something nefarious, then it’s incumbent upon you to disclose it you must, or else you don’t practice. And that’s if you’re allowed to stay in the industry, if you’re not banned. And then it’s up to the people that are trying or deciding whether or not to hire you, to hire you or not.

Nestor Aparicio  10:31

But let’s talk about cheaters in sports now. So yes, people the Houston Astros banging on trash cans cheating, right? Like, just in general, cheating happened Tom Brady was a cheater. I mean, there’s no question, but monkeys in in trees with cameras before the air out

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Leonard Raskin  10:50

of the football get into this the Hall of Fame on the second ballot. You don’t think it’s going

Nestor Aparicio  10:56

to keep him out. So for me, if any, if I’m a voter, and I say I didn’t vote for him because he was a cheater. Well, then you should that to me, is a very, very valid reason to not vote for someone. The question it would be a valid reason for me not to give you my money, or if you you were a cheater, or anywhere in my life that I do business with people who would cheat me and purposely scheme, cheat, lie, steal, the Orioles not paying me in 2000 and social work I did. So voting against that for Hall of Fame I get it, or voting for so for Jim Harbaugh, who cheated, very, very cheated so much he he is never taken accountability for the cheating. This is the guy that sat in the seat college again. That was a he’s banned from college football. That’s how bad the cheating was for Jim Harbaugh, and this guy was

Leonard Raskin  11:53

his right so was was on his staff.

Nestor Aparicio  11:57

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Replaced him. He coached the games. He coached the games when Jim stepped down for when, when Jim was suspended, or whatever it

Leonard Raskin  12:05

was, did Jesse coach those Jesse was, well, hold on, I’ll look it up. Go ahead. I thought it was the guy who’s now been arrested for having an affair with an associate a student.

Nestor Aparicio  12:17

I think Jesse got elevated for a minute. I read up Michigan football than I do.

Leonard Raskin  12:23

Yeah, I don’t know that that’s the case. Okay, go ahead. It’s the guy who came in as his replacement for the season, and then after he left, became the head coach.

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Nestor Aparicio  12:32

Okay, the guy that just got rung up, correct. Okay, correct.

Leonard Raskin  12:37

I don’t think it was Jesse that stepped in. He was on his staff, but I don’t know, and there was never as far as I could recall,

Nestor Aparicio  12:46

Sharon Moore served as the primary acting head coach. Suspensions are 23 so I defensive coordinator. Here it is. I’m not we’re both ready. Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter also acted as head coach for the season opener against East Carolina. So he did head coach the team, because I saw a press conference. I saw a press conference.

Leonard Raskin  13:08

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Nobody, well, but the point is, I do not know. No. My point is this, I do not know, nor was he, because other people on the staff were by name, called out and reprimanded for what happened? Well, it didn’t stick to his Wikipedia. So what’s my point? I don’t recall him, in any way, shape or form, being one that was

Nestor Aparicio  13:33

reprimanded for anybody tuning in that thinks I’m defecating upon. Jesse Minter, I’m not. You’re an Ohio State fan. Full disclosure here, right

Leonard Raskin  13:43

as a Buckeye, the team up north won the national championship beat Ohio State two years in a row. Jesse Minter has a ring from that right, yes, and it was disclosed and uncovered that they were cheating via the college rules in a severe way, and the only thing that wasn’t taken from them was the national champion.

Nestor Aparicio  14:04

It’s so horrible and paranoid seals to cheat. I mean, like fraudulent in a general sense. I’m writing a Dear John letter right now.

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Leonard Raskin  14:15

By the way, we’re assessed, yeah, fines were assessed and and bans a 10 year banishment, and his successor, who came in to take over for him, has made it even worse, clean as a whistle became the guy who hung out with his assistant and and was a married man having an affair with his assistant, and did some things that got exposed, that then he was arrested for, and he will stand trial for, and he’s innocent until proven guilty, and the courts will decide that. But his football life was in his hands, a change of his life. Forever, and he threw it away. I don’t know. It appears for sex. What do I know anyway? So my only statement, that I the only thing I know is Minter was here. He’s young. He’s got a great family. It looks like he was not implicated in anything I can recall or saw

Nestor Aparicio  15:21

from Sharon Moore was the one who was implicated. He deleted 50 text messages with Connor stallions, who was a center of the advanced scouting operation.

Leonard Raskin  15:30

He’s a cheater. Stallions was the cheater and and Sharon Moore was involved, yet they made him their head coach.

Nestor Aparicio  15:38

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And Jesse Minter, none of that is stuck to him, and he went on with Jim’s

Leonard Raskin  15:42

night, showing as to be involved, right? He did go with Jim to the chargers, the LA chargers, spent a year or so there, and now is our head coach back in Baltimore. And I would assume, unlike you my friend, I would assume that the Ravens did all their due diligence and acknowledge that he is clean as a whistle coming in as our head coach.

Nestor Aparicio  16:07

Oh, by the way, he was I’m reading here from my AI Yes, former Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter was implicated in NCA violations related to the Michigan football investigation. Minter was accused of Level Two violations for sending text messages to a high school recruit. He later agreed to a negotiated resolution regarding violations and penalties with the NCAA, separate from the Connor stallion scandal,

Leonard Raskin  16:35

that’s a different thing. That’s a recruiting thing. I think they all do that,

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Nestor Aparicio  16:41

along with Steve clink scale, agreed the violations to the penalties. This is stepper separate from the sign stealing.

Leonard Raskin  16:49

That’s a different thing. And so recruiting thing, I think, you know, you flip a coin, you can get a recruiting violation.

Nestor Aparicio  16:56

Overwhelming evidence shows impermissible scouting in Michigan football program. There you go,

Leonard Raskin  17:04

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right, right? Well, they absolutely, I mean, look,

Nestor Aparicio  17:06

this is right on the NCAA website.

Leonard Raskin  17:09

Rushed them out, but they didn’t have them relinquish their national championship. That’s the only thing they didn’t take away. And the

Nestor Aparicio  17:17

names involved in this were Connor stallions, Jim Harbaugh, Dennard Robinson and Sharon Moore. Those are the names that are like involved in this correct.

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Leonard Raskin  17:27

So I’m going to assume Jesse was not. I’m going to assume they they did their due diligence. They picked a guy that they believe is the right guy to be the head coach. It’s going to be interesting to see him on the sidelines, to see who his staff is that he puts together. He grabbed a 29 year old offensive coordinator from the bears, so we’ve got young and younger, and we’ve got an interesting duo going into the season, and we’ll see. He said he’s going to call his own defensive plays. What do you think about that? I think it’s interesting to be the head coach and the defensive coordinator, or is he just going to be the defensive play caller? And if so, do you get a defensive coordinator and what is their job? If you’re the head coach and calling the defense, what’s the

Nestor Aparicio  18:22

you would be the person that would be the key point person during the week, installing and being a part in that room, because the head coach is going to have, the head coach is a 60 hour week job defense. Quarter, 60 hour.

Leonard Raskin  18:33

How do you do both? Well, lots of guys do you

Nestor Aparicio  18:37

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know what I mean, like McDonald’s doing it this week trying to win

Leonard Raskin  18:41

a Super they also have another guy, so it’d be interesting.

Nestor Aparicio  18:43

And they also have another senior guy. They bring in some old fart to come in and stand at their side and help.

Leonard Raskin  18:52

He could, I don’t know that the tree that the family, but apparently, he could bring in his father, right? He could. Now, he will, he will bring in father to do something, right? And he’s been a coach for ever, and a

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Nestor Aparicio  19:07

day mentor is the one who hired Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh and Rex, Ryan and right? Mike Tomlin, a bunch of

Leonard Raskin  19:14

people, yeah, so I’m saying he’d be, he’d be on the staff somewhere, by the way, Mike

Nestor Aparicio  19:18

Tomlin knows Jesse Minter as like a kid, right? Right? When he was little, yeah, when he was 12 years old, running around.

Leonard Raskin  19:26

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So it is amazing when you think about the family business, right? We got Kubiak is gonna, is there and is gonna go, he’s gonna go to the Raiders, and he’s gonna take Fernando, whatever the the Heisman Trophy winner, national champion, to be the quarterback of the raiders in Vegas. And we’ll see what happens there, how long they stay and and who knows. You know, we got what? 1010, new head coaches. Uh, out there in the league, and the big experiment coming up is the Super Bowl with Mike McDonald, right? Well, it’s two years. I think it’s a good game. Years, it should be a good game. I think it’s fresh blood from a from a from players, not a lot of guys that have won two different faces up on the screen that aren’t Tom Brady and aren’t Russell Wilson. This time around, it’s good.

Nestor Aparicio  20:24

These are the best teams I’m happy with

Leonard Raskin  20:25

that, right? You got, you got new coaches, you got new quarterbacks, you got a lot of, a lot of guys that I think, if I’m not mistaken, could make a lot of money this. Hey, I’m not

Nestor Aparicio  20:38

going to put you on the spot, but like, over my shoulder, if you’re looking here, we all know Drake May and but we don’t know who the zeros are.

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Leonard Raskin  20:45

That’s what I’m saying. So my point, and I think Sam, Donald

Nestor Aparicio  20:48

or Drake May, could sit next to you on a plane and you wouldn’t know who they are, right? Donald, by the way,

Leonard Raskin  20:54

some guys this weekend the Super Bowl, I think, are going to make themselves a lot of money, sure, because there’s a lot of names on these teams that nobody knows.

Nestor Aparicio  21:04

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There’s a new Discount Double Check, there’s a new Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers and waiting around the corner.

Leonard Raskin  21:09

I’ll tell you who’s the stud. Is JSN Jackson, Smith and jig pub, okay, he’s the wide receiver who had the best year in the NFL

Nestor Aparicio  21:22

this year, 12 catches, 185 yards on Sunday. From where? From where? Yeah, you’re Ohio State

Leonard Raskin  21:29

and and who’s the running Yeah,

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Nestor Aparicio  21:30

get the great week for you to beat up Michigan by the way.

Leonard Raskin  21:33

Back, who’s the running back on New England? Travion Henderson, from where the Ohio State University. CJ Stroud, didn’t make it. I know. I’m sorry. No, he didn’t. But look, you got two studs from the championship teams, you know, from great teams that are that are going to play against each other. It’s great.

Nestor Aparicio  21:52

I always wonder if the Trevor Lawrence’s are going to get here, if Lamar is ever going to get here, if, if Justin Herbert’s ever, because they can only get there one at a time, right? And now this guy’s in the way. New England’s in the way, right? Drake May, that’s right, let alone Josh Allen, who has a new coach, Leonard Raskin, is here global. This was his year that. Well, it was everybody’s year. I think the last thing on mentor that I’m going to leave you, you love the hardball thing, and I’ve only said this once. I said it back two weeks ago is when they hired him. I saw, you know, everybody, all the talking heads are out, was that Thursday afternoon when the purple smoke came a week and a half ago, and Ryan Clark on ESPN said people worried about them hiring a hardball clone, or will it be like they didn’t hire Harbaugh Jr? They hired Harbaugh junior, junior. He’s worked for both of them. And I thought to myself, and I said this to Luke, they like what they’re comfortable with out there. And if you don’t think this guy has all of the paranoia, all of the Michigan cheating scandal thing in him, all of the Jim John Harbaugh, you know, nonsense from five, six years ago, like this guy is a company guy who grew up in the hardball system. It makes Eric very comfortable. It makes bashati Very comfortable. So they made a very comfortable hire. And I’m interested to see how it works at

Leonard Raskin  23:11

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higher right? Let’s hope it’s a good fresh hire, and that he does a great job and

Nestor Aparicio  23:17

but they haven’t done upheaval in the building out there. They really have just changed the furniture a little bit. They really haven’t. They didn’t bring in this strong central Sean Payton kind you know, they didn’t hire Mike McCarthy. Pittsburgh did.

Leonard Raskin  23:31

No, oh, I wouldn’t want him. I don’t want him. So what?

Nestor Aparicio  23:35

Tell me that when he when he beats Minter twice next year, then you could tell me, because I know this already has better players. Well, there you go. Hold on, what was the Ravens record against Steelers this year? Right? And the Ravens had better players, right, right, right? So players that you know, good coaching goes a long way.

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Leonard Raskin  23:56

Quarterback, who’s their quarterback? What do you think?

Nestor Aparicio  23:59

I don’t know. I think they’re gonna have they

Leonard Raskin  24:03

do that could be they do have a backup up there. His name’s Howard. I believe it’s Howard, right. All he did was win a national championship at Ohio State. Yeah, yeah. They don’t want him. They don’t want him to play. I think that’s who it is, but they don’t want him to play. So they drafted him. I don’t know why.

Nestor Aparicio  24:23

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Well, we’ll see Cleveland drafted shadur Sanders, and he’s playing in the Pro Bowl this he’s playing the Pro Bowl he you’re not going to convince me he’s winning six games in this league ever, if not, certainly not next year. But Todd monkeys take it on and bring it in monkey. And should do her. And by the way, the monkey thing up created upheaval as I’m wearing New York Giants colors in the Raskin global this year, I thought he was gonna be the OC you created up people for hardball. So John, so what’s gonna do? We got a lot of horrible in the brain here.

Leonard Raskin  24:53

This right to Cleveland. And, wow, that was an unforeseen by the

Nestor Aparicio  24:59

way, not. Helps John Harbaugh get to the Hall of Fame quicker than if the Seattle Seahawks beat these guys, right? Like, literally, Mike McDonald is the piece of the John Harbaugh tree, so we’re talking about hardball trees. Yes, you know, Mike McDonald only really knew one way to do football, and that was the John Harbaugh way. That’s it’s working pretty well in Seattle this week, right?

Leonard Raskin  25:18

It’s a good thing. I think it’s going to work straight through the weekend. This is

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Nestor Aparicio  25:21

easy for you to hate on the Patriots, right? Not anymore. Pub crafts on your team politically. So I say that

Leonard Raskin  25:29

I don’t care about that. I don’t care about that. I mean, look, the the Seahawks owners announced they’re selling the day after the game. Well, they didn’t quite announce it, but that’s what everybody knows.

Nestor Aparicio  25:40

There is a word that that the Patriots you have using that as compromise, that they that the Patriots have put that out there so that it will mess with Seattle and so I, you know, Super Bowl week, you know, Sam, want to bet on everything.

Leonard Raskin  25:54

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Sam darnold, I guess he’s going to be messed with because the team is going to be sold. He’s going to just been all over the place. He’s going to Disney World, Monday, Disneyland. It’s closer. He’ll go to Disneyland.

Nestor Aparicio  26:07

First I saw the weather at Disney World last week. It didn’t look like much. Leonard Raskin, that’s what you do with money and managing money so we can get that

Leonard Raskin  26:15

everything, everything we handle money. We handle people’s money that want to know how to save it, how to control your spending of it, although we don’t budget, but we handle cash flow. We handle how you protect your wealth, how you save it, how you grow it, most importantly, how you enjoy it, if you want to go to the Super Bowl, how you pay for it and not go broke. And then ultimately, how you transfer it. Thereby, the comment about the Seattle Seahawks, the reason they’re selling is the the owner, when he died, had in his estate structure that the team would eventually be sold, proceeds would go to charity. And so that’s his I think that’s what bashadi structured, by the way, if he doesn’t sold it beforehand, yeah, he intends to sell it while he’s alive. And you can sell a business and pay no taxes if you choose charity. So some, some great options that people choose to do. It doesn’t really matter. You know, as you like to say, which side of the aisle you’re on, people will use charity as a significant ally to avoid paying tax. And I’ve seen people that I work with that are liberals, conservatives, Democrats, Republicans, independents, nobody likes paying federal and state income taxes, and they won’t do everything it takes to avoid it, but they like to find strategies to avoid taxation. And we help people do that as well. And we help people structure their estates that way.

Nestor Aparicio  27:57

And whatever they say, they can give to me this week for the Maryland Food Bank, for charity, right? Well, there you go. Or any of the charities we’re going to talk about soup or bowls, about what community charity, man, that’s all we do. We’re talking about groups here all week long. I mean, I can read off the names of these organizations left over. Love, be more dog, hum, empower for life, the Jason lost foundation. So you know, itinerous. So, you know, I’m going through the names of these groups. These are all groups that are doing good stuff here in

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Leonard Raskin  28:27

Baltimore, right? I was just gonna say there are big national charities that, if you work for XYZ company, I don’t think that’s a real company. So we can use Acme, Acme XYZ, Acme, Acme missiles, right, whatever. A lot of companies that are the reason I’m bringing this up. A lot of big companies, for instance, have these United Way campaigns where you check a box and you give two to 10, you know, whatever, 50 bucks. Or you give a per paycheck to unite away, and then they distribute the money. I would say that’s a great idea if you have nothing more creative to do. But if you can think a little about a charity that’s local, that does things local, that has a cause that’s near and dear to you, I would say give the money to them instead, because you know what a local charity really stretches and uses those dollars to benefit local. And you hear all this stuff about shopping local, you know, go into local restaurants, go into local mom and pops,

Nestor Aparicio  29:30

listening to local radio stations. That’s right. The only one on the dial, this one right here,

Leonard Raskin  29:35

that’s right. But what you don’t hear a lot about is helping. Well, you do, but not a lot about helping local charity, and we encourage the people we work with to consider significantly local charity. And how do you give to causes you care about that are local, and we have people we work with, Nestor have set up foundations, donor advised funds. Charitable giving, and they’ve created scholarships at their mother’s High School, scholarships at their own college, and

Nestor Aparicio  30:10

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it could be 500 bucks or 1000 bucks. You give that to a kid on graduation day, of course, yes,

Leonard Raskin  30:16

it’s a ton and and there are lots of ways to help local and you see the results. My point is, when you give to the Heart Association, the Lung Association, the Cancer Association, I’m not against any of that. They all need money, but the local charity that’s doing its work right here in town about something, you can see the work that’s done once you give Well, I know you’re a Mount Washington pediatric hospital for sure. Absolutely we do. And I’m also University of Baltimore guy, and, and I’m also St Joe’s hospital. Guy, I didn’t

Nestor Aparicio  30:56

know you University of Baltimore guy, I ran into Kurt’s the other day.

Leonard Raskin  30:59

Yes, absolutely I saw him. Saw him just a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve met with their their donor. What the hell is it called? I lost it the the office there, the committee, okay, whatever. Yeah, committee for giving, Planned Giving people. And so we do a lot of work with with local and you get to see that benefit to students, to patients, to whatever it is. And that’s a fabulous thing to do with money that you care about and want to do something with. And, oh, by the way, the government says if you give some charity, you don’t have to pay some tax.

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Nestor Aparicio  31:40

I love that the party that knowing nothing about money, I’d say, Do I get a write off? Right? Well, yes, it is. Yes, yeah, you do.

Leonard Raskin  31:46

Yeah, you do. And nothing bad about that either. Because if you think about it, here’s the way I look at it. As an advisor, you talk about what we do when you give $1 in tax, the government uses it for whatever they want. I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on. The difference between Democrat and Republican is whether or not you like what they use it for. In this case, ice to arrest people look like me. I don’t want to fund that. So, yes, stop. No, but that would be where the government would go. Okay, that money is government money, so the past, and I’m not going to stop from that, because it’s the point is, I get it. But the point is every administration except one in the last six, did the same thing. They just weren’t vilified for it. So that’s nonsense. ICE has been around for a long time.

Nestor Aparicio  32:30

Obama through infiltrating communities and killing people, but that’s the only way, because killed two

Leonard Raskin  32:35

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people because the governor people didn’t tell people to stand up and fight him. In every other state except Minnesota, they’re doing the same thing, and there’s people are standing

Nestor Aparicio  32:43

up and fighting because they’re killing people they shouldn’t be killing. But back to this. If you don’t want to fund that, you can fund be more dogs this week, or you can fund that’s right, nonsense. It’s not not sense. And what I’m talking about, including Trump’s pedophilia all week is not nonsense. It is not nonsense. So it is what it is. You have to accept the truth, just like you know that that’s a fact. But nonetheless, the dollars, the dollars going to local, you and I agree 101% on that, yes, that I would rather give the money to that than the government. I would have

Leonard Raskin  33:19

been to the government, whether it be federal or state or local, you can see the cause, you can care about the cause. You can give to the cause. See the benefit of your giving right there. And that is a beautiful thing.

Nestor Aparicio  33:30

He is Leonard Raskin. He is Raskin global. I am chippy, as all Americans should be chippy here at this point, and we’re not at the Super Bowl. I’m even chippy about that we would be at the Moscow. He said, you know, Leonard, I’d have to be out of bed at five in the morning this week, and weather wasn’t great in San Francisco, so I am delighted to be doing a cup of Super Bowl on behalf of all of our sponsors, including Leonard Raskin and Raskin global and GBMC and our friends at the Maryland lottery and our newest sponsors at farmer, Farmer and Dermer, as well as Toyota locally. All the people Planet Fitness that support us. We’re out all week long talking to local people doing great, great things. And quite frankly, most of these people aren’t the people that get on WB L or get on the radio or you see in Baltimore magazine or you read about it patch or anywhere else. These are people who want to come out, want their stories told. And I hope that you find $1 for all of them and do something nice for them this week. Because after 27 years and being blackballed, literally being blackballed from doing what I’ve done all of my life, this is the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me, to be liberated, to be able to help these local charities this week. So I’m into that. Come see me this week. Tuesday, we’re at El Guapo and Catonsville. Wednesday, we’re going to be at Koco’s in laurelville. Thursday, we’re going to be pizza John’s in Essex, and Friday, we’re going to be at Costas in Timonium. Come on by no crabs, plenty of crab cakes and crab Imperial I can make you feel like a king. And whatever you do, don’t root for the Patriots this week. Leonard, you know? I mean, please.

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Leonard Raskin  34:58

Oh, I’m not. You know? Need to win. They don’t need to win that. I can assure you not. I’m all on

Nestor Aparicio  35:04

the Seahawk train, and Mike McDonald’s a nice guy, so let’s let him win.

Leonard Raskin  35:07

Let’s, let’s get that new Super Bowl win to Mike McDonald. That’s exactly right.

Nestor Aparicio  35:11

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I don’t want to see Bob Kraft happy. He already had it happy.

Nestor Aparicio  35:18

I’m Nestor. We are wnsta in 1570 Towson, Baltimore, Jupiter, Florida. Google it back for more after this.