Going Bowling for cash and modern college pigskin glory

As the College Playoffs big boys square off once again and other programs sit on the outside, Leonard Raskin and Nestor the discuss the modern diagram for for the system and lament another lost weekend with the Ravens as the season continues to disappoint Baltimore fans.

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the disappointing season of the Baltimore Ravens and the recent Ohio State football game. Leonard shared his experience attending the Ohio State-Indiana game, where Ohio State lost despite Joey Chestnut winning a wing-eating contest. They also talked about the Ravens’ poor performance, including missed opportunities and poor officiating. Leonard emphasized the importance of leadership and decision-making in sports and finance, drawing parallels to his role at Raskin Global. Nestor highlighted the need for accountability within the Ravens organization and the impact of fan sentiment on team morale.

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Networking Events

• Nestor Aparicio discusses his upcoming Maryland crab cake tour, including stops in Fayley, Deep Creek, Halethorpe, Costas, and Dundalk.
• Nestor mentions attending various networking events and parties, including a Super Bowl party with Ravens players and celebrities.
• Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, noting his reduced interest in college football but still being involved in the Ravens game against the Steelers.
• Nestor and Leonard discuss the excitement and work involved in organizing and attending these events.

Leonard’s Weekend in Indianapolis

• Leonard shares his experience attending a fan fest in Indianapolis, including a fantastic brunch and a professional eating contest featuring Joey Chestnut.
• They discuss the excitement of the eating contest and the participation of professional eaters from various countries.
• Leonard describes the pep rally and the best band in the land, followed by attending the Ohio State vs. Indiana game at Lucas Oil Stadium.
• Leonard and his family attend the game, noting the mix of Buckeye and Hoosier fans and the overall atmosphere of the event.

Ohio State vs. Indiana Game and Post-Game Experience

• Leonard recounts the Ohio State game, mentioning the mistakes made by the team and the poor officiating.
• They discuss the final moments of the game, including a missed field goal by the Indiana kicker and the overall disappointment of the Buckeyes’ performance.
• Leonard describes the post-game experience, including the gridlock in Indianapolis and the lack of food options due to the football game.
• Leonard and his family return to Baltimore, missing the Ravens game due to lack of sleep and family decisions.

Ravens Game and Fan Disappointment

• Nestor and Leonard discuss the Ravens game against the Steelers, noting the empty stadium and the lack of fan enthusiasm.
• Leonard expresses disappointment in the Ravens’ performance, particularly the lack of running by Lamar Jackson and the poor defense.
• They discuss the officiating in the game, with Nestor mentioning comments from Jason Garrett and other broadcasters about the poor calls.
• Leonard reflects on the overall disappointment of the weekend, including the lack of excitement for the Ravens and the Buckeyes.

Reflections on Sports and Leadership

• Leonard shares his thoughts on the importance of leadership and decision-making in sports, drawing parallels to his work in finance.
• They discuss the challenges faced by the Ravens and the need for better coaching and strategy.
• Leonard emphasizes the importance of making informed decisions and having a clear plan for financial success.
• Nestor reflects on the impact of poor leadership and decision-making on sports teams and the importance of accountability.

Hockey and Other Sports

• Leonard briefly mentions the NHL season and the challenges faced by the Capitals, including a grueling schedule and the impact on player health.
• They discuss the excitement of watching hockey and the potential for attending a Capitals game.
• Nestor shares his love for hockey and the memories of attending Hershey Bears games with friends.
• Leonard and Nestor reflect on the importance of supporting local sports teams and the joy of attending live events.

Final Thoughts on Sports and Baltimore

• Nestor expresses his frustration with the current state of the Ravens and the need for change within the organization.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the importance of holding the organization accountable and the need for better leadership.
• They reflect on the impact of past successes and the challenges of maintaining a winning culture.
• Nestor concludes the conversation by emphasizing the importance of staying positive and supporting local sports teams despite the current challenges.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens season, college football, Maryland crab cake tour, Super Bowl, betting on sports, Ohio State, Indiana game, officiating, fan sentiment, NFL playoffs, Baltimore sports, financial advice, leadership, accountability, fan disappointment.

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SPEAKERS

Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. Happy holidays to everybody out there. I hope your eggnog is going well. I got the lampshade on my head. I’m getting invited out to all these networking this and party that. Then I got my Maryland crab cake tour six count of six. Maryland crab cake tour stops coming up, starting on Wednesday, we’re going to be fayley, Thursday, deepest Qualis. Friday, we’re going to be the honeys in halethorpe, first time there. Next week, we’re going to be at Costas and Dundalk. That will be on Thursday, and then Friday, gertrude’s uptown at the BMA. It let me into the art museum there because my cousin runs the runs gertrudes. I also got Dan Rogers coming by, some great lot of politicians. Out of electeds, a lot of some celebrities. We got Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina shot coming by. We’re going to be at Planet Fitness and Timonium on the 22nd they’re open new location there. I’m going to get Justin all the Ohana folks on talking family for the holidays. This guy made his way down to the Ravens game for Steelers. You know, I don’t watch college football the way I once did. Leonard Raskin, Lena Raskin here from Raskin global. It’s a new world. I don’t watch the way. But Saturday, I was in the AI bubble, yeah, after being out with the Ravens party and all night, Friday night with the Super Bowl, beautiful five champions, beautiful Marvin and I were supposed to get crabs at Costas and Stokely and Dilfer and this and that, Flynn and his wife, and nothing happened. They all were like running around in the Ravens junk, things to do, things to do. So we didn’t, I didn’t see them again, which freed me up all day Saturday, which, you know, all I did was aI it and got work done and got work done and did more things. And I’m building a bigger, better company doing all this awesome stuff. And then I looked up for one minute on my timeline, and I saw this Ohio State kid miss a kick. And I’m like, oh, Leonard fire. And then Sunday, I’m all wrapped up in purple and ravens, right, black and gold and, like, all of that. And you got kicked in the weekend, right? Yeah, on this, right?

Leonard Raskin  02:00

Like, oh, that, you know, I’ll tell you. What I tell people all the time, betting on sports is like picking stocks in the market. It’s it’s gambling. It’s speculating and gambling on something you have absolutely no control of, no specific knowledge about. It’s all hope. And what I hope if you do either is that you lose early, because if you win early, you somehow think you have supernatural skills, which you don’t, those supernatural skills to see into the future cause you to wager, and wagering causes you to lose. Losing causes pain, as Yoda says, pain causes suffering. Anyway, so family gets up, oh dark, early Saturday morning to catch a flight to my one of my least favorite towns, Indianapolis, Indianapolis. We go to Indy. We go to a fantastic breakfast place, brunch place, one, one, not even 24

Nestor Aparicio  03:13

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hours, okay, all right, all right, that’s tolerable, yeah.

Leonard Raskin  03:17

So we go to this incredible brunch place. Like I said, had some fantastic breakfast food. We we proceed to the convention center, which had a fan fest, which was absolutely insane, kind of funny, where we’re cruising through the Fan Fest. We’re eating and drinking, having fun, you know, just checking out the stuff they do, all the crazy stuff for kids and for people coming to town. And then they have eating contests. Now, these are not just any eating contest, professionals, professional big 10 eating contest. They had contest. Big eating contest. They had the the Joey Chestnut and the gal who also wins standing beside him at the hot dog. For those of you that don’t know, look it up. It’s kind of gross. Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest every year. And it was a wings.

Nestor Aparicio  04:12

If you don’t know about it, don’t look it up, right? That’s what I would say.

Leonard Raskin  04:15

It was a wings, a wings, eating. Is it hot? Like chicken wings, hot wings, crying, like all that. So here’s the deal. They take the chicken because they can’t see how many wings you ate, like they can hot dogs. They take the tray full of wings in front of them. They have wings, water and beer, and they take that in front of them, and they weigh it. And then at the end of the eating, which was 10 minutes, they weigh the tray again. It doesn’t matter whether you strip the wing bare or whatever. It’s just eating the chicken meat that reduces the weight in the pan. And the girl there’s, there’s eight contestants. So these are people that are

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Nestor Aparicio  05:01

professionally gluttonous American thing. No, no.

Leonard Raskin  05:05

There was a guy there from South Africa doing this, and they weren’t

Nestor Aparicio  05:10

doing this in ancient Greece. Is all cultured for this.

Leonard Raskin  05:14

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Lions eat the people. It would still be an eating contest, just of a

Nestor Aparicio  05:19

different vandals didn’t do this.

Leonard Raskin  05:22

So here we are, and the Visigoths didn’t do they’re bringing out the people. And I look at Kathy and Matthew, and I say, this would be legit if they had Joey Chestnut here. And there’s Joey and they’re they introduced Joey Chestnut. So I thought

Nestor Aparicio  05:37

that at the Super Bowl party Friday, I’m like, this won’t be legit until dolpher and dolphin walked in.

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Leonard Raskin  05:42

There you go. There you go. So, so they start, and they finish, and they’re way in the wings. There’s two people left, two guys, one guy, that’s a contestant, nobody knows, and Joey, the one guy, the announcer guy, who’s the Coney Island guy, comes up and says, one of these men ate 180 wings in 10 minutes. And the crazy place is crazy. It’s 5060, more than anybody else, he says. But the winner ate 242 wings in 10 minutes. And Joey Chestnut, a 242 wings in 10 minutes

Nestor Aparicio  06:30

circus, the guy that could take the dagger, right?

Leonard Raskin  06:33

Yeah, there’s something weird about this guy. He’s a professional. So that was over. Then we went and watched the best magic trick, right? It’s right, right. Then we watched the best damn band in the like the fact

Nestor Aparicio  06:46

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that way dogs drank six cases of beer on a flight or something.

Leonard Raskin  06:49

It’s crazy. It’s crazy. So then we go to the pep rally with the best damn band in the land, Matthew. See some friends, some old band directors. You know that he knows from from school. We hang out. Great show, good stuff. Then we go over to the band that once played, rush, right? Yeah, absolutely. Then we go over to the stadium Lucas Oil, one of the worst stadiums to get into that I’ve ever been to, just terrible. Anyway, we get in good news. Go to our seats. Fine. All good, surrounded by combination, good combination of Buckeye and Hoosier fans. The place was probably 6535 maybe 7030 Indiana, because after all the buckeyes get to go to another home game and play the home team, which is not, obviously in Indianapolis, but close enough. And their fans are Indiana fans. So there they

Nestor Aparicio  07:41

were, and their football team has never been anything in our never time,

Leonard Raskin  07:45

right? But in the last two years, they’ve been good.

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Nestor Aparicio  07:48

I mean, they really are the golden child of the n i L, taking all their basketball over all the years and making it a football, putting

Leonard Raskin  07:55

it in football school. So it’s number one against number two. Decent game. Ohio State left a lot of points on the field, made some mistakes, got some shitty calls, but you know, I think the officiating in the game was just terrible. It was really bad both ways. There were penalties that didn’t get seen. There were penalties called that I didn’t think were you almost sound like you’re talking about the Ravens game, but, you know, yeah, exactly, but, but the thing is, I I don’t officiate, so I can’t call every call, but what I know is there were people in the crowd really upset with both sides of the officiating. So, you know, it stunk, or it was excellent, and everybody’s just homers, I don’t know. But ultimately, under two minutes to go, or two and a half minutes to go, Buckeyes have the ball fourth and whatever, two on the 20, and they go to kick a field goal, and the kid misses the field goal. Feel sorry for this kid. He’s a good kicker. It’s not great. He missed a kick last year against that team up north, they lost. He lost. Missed this kick to Indiana. They lost. But that’s not why they lost. It was a bunch of things. They just didn’t play their game. So we’re down 1310 games over. Trudge back 15 minutes to the hotel. It’s midnight. Nothing’s open. You can’t get food anywhere. Why? Because the city’s in gridlock from the football game. So we go down to the downstairs snackery Pick up the snacks for the post game. Snack on some snacks. By the time I get to bed after watching some post game. ESPN, it’s two in the morning. Have a 530 flight. Didn’t sleep very long 530 flight back to Baltimore. Uh, get up, get the Uber get on the plane, fly home, go to breakfast in the airport, because, you know, right there we’re we’re right at the at the a gate, Miss Shirley’s. Is there lovely breakfast. Have some Baltimore breakfast. And the intention is now we cruise down to the stadium. I take a nap in the Sequoia. We go to the. Game, and the rest is history. Instead, with family, voted three to zero to come home, pick up the dog from the kennel and make a decision in an hour or two whether or not to go to the game, there’s only one problem. An hour or two later, everyone was sleeping. Oh, you didn’t go to the game. No, we had an hour sleep on the on the plane, so everyone slept until about quarter to one. I woke up at about 20 to one, quarter to one, and it was a little too late to decide the other two were asleep. So no game for us. Put it on the TV and be just as disappointed three of the empty seats. That’s how empty? Yes, well, that’s for us how seats went empty. Okay, so, so we were three of the empty seats in the club level. They looked very purple. And watched the game and was totally discouraged. The only encouraging thing I saw in the game was, for the first time in many a week, maybe since week one or two, Lamar looked like he actually did want to run the ball. And there were some plays made that for the last many weeks had not been made with he and Derrick Henry, because he can run, so they can’t key in on Derek Henry, so look good. Look Good. That was encouraging. And then just bad defense, which is surprising. Now, bad offense, which was not surprising now, and likely dropping a ball, which is two touchdowns in a week, well, in 10 days. Listen, I think that’s a touchdown. I think that’s a touchdown. I don’t know what the touchdown is anymore. I don’t know what a catch is. It’s pretty easy to see when a guy doesn’t control the ball at the ground, but you get two feet in bounds, you hold the ball, you’re running forward, you got a touchdown. Two officials that are watching the game that know what they’re doing, because this is their job. Call it a touchdown, and somebody decides, for whatever reason, it’s not a touchdown. I don’t know how that happened.

Nestor Aparicio  12:02

Well, the disappointment of people who gamble on it, oh yeah, sure, conjunction with Sure. I mean, Jason Garrett was on the post game saying the Ravens got screwed, literally.

Leonard Raskin  12:12

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Well, well, Robo Romo and Nance both, you know, watching the game and watching that replay 10 times, said it’s a touchdown. I can’t believe that’s not a touchdown. Nance says, I don’t know what a touchdown is anymore. I mean, when you got your two top broadcasters on the game and they’re talking about how bad the officiating was relative to that, I don’t know. I don’t know what happens. So I think we won, but we didn’t win, and then we didn’t win. So there you go. Okay, so for the weekend, my teams were owing to and I got some work done and had a good dinner with the family. And go, is that what you’re saying? Well, ultimately, ultimately, it was, you know, cold, miserable, losing game. And they did honor the Super 35 team. I missed that. I missed that absolutely.

Nestor Aparicio  13:03

I should. You got sideways with your wife 25 years ago because you went to that game.

Leonard Raskin  13:07

That’s right, that’s right. We’re not sideways. Just just living room, just living room, purchase. That’s all it was. It was not a thing. It was over when it was over. Anyway, it was going on

Nestor Aparicio  13:18

when it was going on. Yes, yes. Sneak off to the Super Bowl.

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Leonard Raskin  13:23

I did. I did. And then I and then on TV, I said afterwards with Jane Miller that holding a Super Bowl trophy at the game was best day of my life. And then I found out, disputed that you found out that my wedding was supposed to be the best day.

Nestor Aparicio  13:38

Well, 25 years later, I’m now married, so I got to watch what I say, right? But there you go, you know, I gather with those guys on Friday night, there’s a lot of things that I’ve said to Luke, and you can go listen to that, yeah. And how cool was it? I was everybody there, you know, I just about, let me give you full disclosure, because I haven’t done this with Luke, because Luke and football game, sure, sure. Sure. Last week, you know, every week I do this, I get guests on the show, right? Yeah. People say, how do you get guests? Do you have a producer? Yeah? Me, right. You know, like, Who do you have on the show? People I want to have on people I’m exactly talking to exactly most in the same way we’re, like, if I call an old friend to have dinner, I’m almost just as well do it on the air, because the conversations I have on the radio are great. So I wind up having I hope the radio station sounds that way. I hope people understand Baltimore positive, like I am literally going to have meals at fayley’s on Wednesday. Deep, yeah, I’m going to deepest quality stories. You think you’re not feeding me. They think I don’t talk. They just put sandwiches, right? So, you know, but getting together and breaking bread holidays this time of the year, absolutely, having people on it’s, um, sort of the joy of what I do. So it’s the holidays. It was a Pittsburgh, Baltimore week, right? And I was just sort of going through guests, and I’m like, I’m gonna call Marv, because Mars from Pittsburgh, it’s Baltimore. He’s bored, right? He’s. Board on some golf course, and I can bother him more now, right, right? I couldn’t bother season Arizona. Nothing to do but deal with me. And I told him, that’s right, so. And then I like full disclosure, I made a 6pm appointment with him last week and forgot about him because I don’t do radio at night. I just kind of don’t, you know, and I forgot about him. He was texting me. I was 38 minutes late for a meeting with a coach. You know, he loves me. So we did, like, 45 minutes of radio, and we’re 30 minutes into this conversation, and it was about Pittsburgh and Lamar and the lot you would love, sure, it was a lot, a lot, a lot of NFL and Arizona State, right? And because we were talking about Mississippi, the lane, Kiffin. Lane Kiffin that was talking about, right? Yep, yep. And then he says to me, Well, we’re gonna get some crabs this weekend, right? I’m like, you coming to Sure? He’s like, Yeah, we’re all coming in. It’s reunion. And I’m like, oh, Chad steel took me off the I don’t even know that they were coming in, right? So I it was, it was serendipity, truly, yeah, sure. I invited him on. He told me in the segment, yep, that they were all coming in, and then all of a sudden, all right, I’m gonna text Flynn. I’m gonna text file. I’m gonna start that. Right, right. Next thing I know, 20 of the players got back to me within the first on Tuesday and Wednesday, yeah, yeah. And then Michelle modell, whom I love, and everybody that knows me knows I love Michelle and her husband and widow and her children and all that, she reached to me and said, I’m I’m having some people over no media. We’re not right, you know. But like, come and be a part of the family of the super sure five. Chance sure I went to the modell home. I was invited by the modell family, and I was stunned by how many people were there. And there were a handful of people that couldn’t get in on Friday, right? A lot of guys were texting me in the middle of it, yeah. Kim herring couldn’t get to town. Apparently, Cornell Brown had a thing going with Brandon Stokely and Brad Jack. I just, I like these people so much my face hurt from smiling. There you go. And Stokely and I are at the party trying to identify everybody. We couldn’t identify. He’s like, Who’s that guy? I know that guy. And I’m saying thinking about 14 years in the league, but how many here, 1200 different players, right, right? He played all over battle and the Giants. He came back and played with the Ravens at 60 other guys. He had to learn in 2015 or whatever he played. Yeah, right. So he always, so, you know. And at one point, Trent dolpher walked in, and he and I were both, that’s Trent dolpher, and I just wasn’t expecting to see him. Now, why I wasn’t, I don’t know, but, like, I love that team, and that team means so much to me that in the aftermath of how awful the current group is, and how the Justin Tucker Ray Rice, how I’ve been treated, how other people I know, specifically women, have been treated by the organization, I’m disgusted by all of it, but I still love football, and I don’t want them To lose it’s no fun, of course, not fun, no fun. They need to succeed, but they need to be held accountable.

Leonard Raskin  18:07

Yeah, you know what’s fun? You know what’s fun? What’s fun is watching the Chiefs have a six and seven record. Oh, you like that. I like that. I mean, I look I am a winner. I am a capitalist. I am all about success, and I love success. And I just, I just, you just got to wipe smug. You got to get humble a little. And I think after all that, it’s kind of like, like Brady, you got to honor the brilliance. You got to honor the play.

Nestor Aparicio  18:37

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But as athletes, there’s so much failure built into I know.

Leonard Raskin  18:41

So it’s just, it’s amazing with all the success they’ve had. It’s just nice to see. And this is not n i L, this is the league and what they want, and this is draft picks and cultivation and coaching. It’s a stunning season. You got Denver, New England, the Colts aren’t going to make it now.

Nestor Aparicio  19:03

Well, the stunning thing is, the ravens are six and seven and still in it. And everybody in the post game still thinks they’re still going

Leonard Raskin  19:11

to win the division, still thinks they’re going to win the

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Nestor Aparicio  19:13

division after losing to stacked against them, that it becomes right bet. Right? You know, you get value

Leonard Raskin  19:19

you’re going to bet now that’s, that’s a small cap tech stock for the hope

Nestor Aparicio  19:24

of the future, but it’s, it’s also based on anything in reality. No, it’s hope line of the defense.

Leonard Raskin  19:30

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And hope is not a strategy, but, but if you’re going to take the bet in line, a buck couldn’t hurt you. A lot of bucks would hurt

Nestor Aparicio  19:36

your bad team comes in and sees a half empty stadium. You’re not there. You had reasons, yeah. But like, just the vibe and the Mojo and the defense and Pittsburgh fans and all was, no matter what player you are, if you’re here, no matter who you are, certainly if you’re Ray straight on down, you look, you say, what the. Heck, it’s not the same. What the heck happens? Not the same as it used to be? And that is something that I just want to get to the middle of all of this and say you had a lot of money in tickets you didn’t even use the other day. No, the stadium is emptied out three different times. The owner has witnessed this. The owner is still to as of Sunday, still doing really untoward things that people that I know and care about and like and and I including myself and and the pettiness and the people that run the organization and har ball, and the failure and their inability to deal well with failure, because, to your point, they don’t like failing, and they think it’s losing face or something like that, yeah. But there is some failure here that they’re this close to having a real failure, which would be a meltdown. I mean, you mentioned the rest of the year, borough on the road, New England, maybe the best team in the in the conference coming in here of yourself go to Green Bay, and I witnessed what that was about. You know, where the bears did it the other night. Rares lost, right, right? And then they got to go to Pittsburgh, which is their, you know, their Waterloo, and they just got their ass kicked.

Leonard Raskin  21:09

And they could, they could have to win that game to get in.

Nestor Aparicio  21:12

So to look at it and say that you think that they’re going to be the team playing the business stunning thought January 10, as we sit here, I’m not crazy, bury them right now, but I am saying there’s so many things trending in the wrong direction, including fan sentiment, tickets, not even honoring the Super Bowl, 35 champs that like people, that that glue, that cohesion, that holds their brand together. I am and I’m not even on to the Orioles, which is a whole different thing, whole other thing, just where this city is with sports and with using their tickets, or how many phone calls you would have had to make at 10am to even get rid of your three tickets yesterday?

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Leonard Raskin  21:53

Yeah, it would have been impossible. But here’s the here’s the good news and the, for what it’s worth, department the buckeyes on the 19th of December go to the Cotton Bowl. And here’s the thing, Nestor is crazy. I don’t know how these draws work. I don’t know how they work. They flip from number one to number two in the rankings because of the loss to Indiana on Saturday night. Now I thought, I thought, as an expert in the playoff system of the NCAA.

Nestor Aparicio  22:24

What do you even think of that play? You’re vested in that system. What do you make of that system?

Leonard Raskin  22:29

I thought it was fine. I thought the outcomes this week were perfectly fine. I would have thought this just because the buckeyes might have fallen to number four, three or four, they lost to Indiana. You had Texas Tech and you had Georgia. I thought they may have fallen to four, but they fell to two, which means they open against the winner of Texas A and M in Miami at Jerry world. Now if Miami pulls off the game, that’d be fine. Go into Jerry world to watch the buckeyes and and the canes would be fine. But going to Jerry world to watch the buckeyes have to play Texas A and M in another home for the for the team with a lower record bowl game is unbelievable, because Texas, A and M would clearly be the home team, even though they would be the losing ranking team. We went to Georgia, they lost. We went to Indianapolis, they lost. I think I should go. Shouldn’t go to bowl games, because they lose. And of course, I wasn’t at the Ravens game and they lost. So therefore my presence has nothing to do with whether teams win or lose. And there you have it. Well for me, for

Nestor Aparicio  23:47

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me with college sports and where it is, it’s crazy. I just, I’m a Baltimore guy that had the Colts, the Orioles, the Terps, the clippers, the blast, you know, by the way, I invited Kenny Cooper, and I hope he comes on this week. But I’m, chasing a lot of people. It’s holidays and people I liked on Friday. Who else do I like in sports, not around? That’s right, I want to call around and have friends on for the holidays. Sure reasons. I’m doing the crab cake torch runners. I invited Marvin, and then I went to this party. So you’re going to be hearing lots of Super Bowl. 35 people. Come on and Bs with me a little bit. Yeah, it sucks that we’re talking about the team not being good. But you have another diversion with another team for a moment, perhaps, or whatever, like apps, if you’re just a Ravens and Orioles person right now, this is just really been a tough time happy. You know what? Two years where there was a window of opportunity that we thought we were going to be in the playoff system, in the ball and

Leonard Raskin  24:43

so, but let me give you, let me give you a hockey, quick hockey, just so you just so we get it five games in eight days. I don’t know if you’re I’m sure you’re not following this. The NHL has crunched the season because they’re taking a break for the Olympics. Games, same games, but you got to have a couple weeks so off for

Nestor Aparicio  25:04

the Olympics. I remember when the NBA did this after thing. It’s just not so players.

Leonard Raskin  25:08

So the players are struck. I mean, they’re smashed in capitals in the last eight days, did a five day, six day road trip started on the island against the islanders, went out west, played the three California teams, okay, came home with no rest and played another game Sunday night at home. So they had five games in eight days after a road trip West for three of those in the middle, and took seven to eight points. They lost to the sharks in overtime, and Ovechkin is still piling up the goals and the assists. He’s got a point per game this season, and it’s not the leading goal scorer on the team.

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Nestor Aparicio  25:56

Tom marvel at hockey. Tom Wilson three games in four day like they

Leonard Raskin  26:01

played five games in eight days with, what is it? How many 1000 mile, 5000 miles of flying in between?

Nestor Aparicio  26:09

Yeah, that sport in the way they think of football in regard to the

Leonard Raskin  26:14

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body, the body? Yeah, oh, my God. They I mean, these guys, you know, slicing, slicing ice with razor blades.

Nestor Aparicio  26:21

Every time you talk about hockey, I kind of miss it. There you go. I loved hockey. Well, we

Leonard Raskin  26:25

got to find a game. We’ve talked about it. We got to go to a game. We got to find a game to go to and watch the caps. They’re playing great. They’re number one. They’re the second best team.

Nestor Aparicio  26:34

Just as much fun going to Hershey Bears game and doing Candy Land up there for Christmas.

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Leonard Raskin  26:39

Chocolate massage. A chocolate massage.

Nestor Aparicio  26:42

Used to yell spa. And this is a, this is an homage to the late, great Jeff amder, who passed away last year. He was the guy that wore the fireman’s hat, yeah, yeah, Jack’s games. He was also a French teacher down in Howard County. Beautiful guy, Jeff amder, beautiful guy. Huge, Oriole fan, huge. Just a just a beautiful, worldly dude, yeah, and, but he used he had the singing we would do when we played Hershey, he would say, Nestle’s makes the very best chocolate.

Leonard Raskin  27:15

That’s how we haze the bears back in the back when they weren’t our team.

Nestor Aparicio  27:19

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It’s a little different than booing renegade at a Steelers game and firing. And I really want to be honest with Yeah, yeah, yeah, my feelings about John Harbor, very on the record in regard to Ray Rice, Justin Tucker, my press pass lies that have been told intimidation games played with his PR bouncer, all of the just how much he’s lied to me and held the Bible up in Scripture in front of me. I’m not a John Harbaugh guy, but that being said, I cannot fathom, Fathom them losing next week at home to the Patriots, yep, 42 to 17 at the end of the third quarter, and having the stadium empty, yell, Fire, horrible. I don’t think,

Leonard Raskin  28:06

I don’t think that happens. I don’t think I just they boo, they boo, but I don’t

Nestor Aparicio  28:11

think, like I’ve never, I mean, cheering Kyle bowler getting hurts probably one of the more heinous things. And that was two decades ago, and I went on the radio the next day, and that was, disgusts me.

Leonard Raskin  28:23

I don’t think you’d hear. I mean, you might hear it in a fringe, but I don’t think you’re gonna hear

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Nestor Aparicio  28:27

I told those people, go listen to the fan. Don’t listen to my radio station because, like, and I’m glad I don’t take the phone calls. And I will admit to you, Len, I went over to pizza, John’s in post game, Mike Tomlin, and I exchanged a few texts or my feet front of the TV on the game. And I actually got a text from Mike tomlinow standing at peach John But I went over pizza Johns to get some food and come back and it’s I really wanted to listen to the Post game show. Guy, sure, sure. Like, win or lose. I plan this like I run around and listen to the post game just to hear what’s going on, what Keith Mills, or whatever, the officiating dominated, of course, was the gorilla. And I thought, how many of those phone calls could I take about the we got screwed by the officials or whatever, before the fact that, like, the offense isn’t good, the defense isn’t good, the special teams wasn’t good.

Leonard Raskin  29:18

Lamar is running for his life, and the defense didn’t get to a 40 year old Aaron Rodgers 13

Nestor Aparicio  29:24

weeks into it, not being very good, so, right? I think Luke and not very good, focus on that, but also trying to focus on where the solutions are, because they can win their way into the playoffs, which is

Leonard Raskin  29:35

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great, right? Well, that’s the question, if they do, does that smooth over the wound, the wound, yeah, well,

Nestor Aparicio  29:45

they could be playing a playoff game there. Everybody will want tickets, because the bills will be coming

Leonard Raskin  29:49

to town, right? But you hope, you hope that, if they’re not in, that stuff happens, because you got to do something. You know, this is, this is not good. It’s just not. Good, you know, I, like I said, I don’t coach. I’ve never coached. I played the game as a kid. So what? There’s a guy on that sidelines, on the offense. His name is Hopkins. Does he get 10 snaps a game? Why is he so underused? Unless it’s his choice and he’s got health stuff or he’s just old. The guy catches everything in a mile radius of his hands. Why is he not on the field? Am I confused by

Nestor Aparicio  30:35

this game and taking phone calls? Was Derek the Derek Henry question? Why is Derek Henry off the field so much.

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Leonard Raskin  30:40

Yeah, we got, we got Ali in there. Yeah, I’m sorry. I’ve got the greatest running back in the last, what, 1015, years in the league on the bench, and I got Ali running the ball. Wow.

Nestor Aparicio  30:55

Tell me what you do for a living, because I have a parting shot for you. Yeah, yeah. Because it is about leadership and it is about guidance and wisdom and vision. There you go. And that’s something that you think you have about money, and you have 30 years, two years of experience telling people about that, that is coaching, that is wisdom, right?

Leonard Raskin  31:13

It’s what we do. It’s what we do. We what I tell people is my job is to act proactively on your money, on your money, and make decisions that help you grow your financial future, protect, grow, enjoy your wealth and pass it on as if it was my own, but without my baggage. So my fiduciary I learned that’s exactly what it’s called. My job is to tell you what to do good times and bad, struggle and strife and success and make smart wise intelligent. And as you said when we were talking a little bit about AI factual decisions about money without my baggage there are this is a science. I do not live in a world of art. I live in a world of science. And the structure of money follows historic law, it follows tax, it follows structure. And people can say that you can do this, that or the other? No, this is the right answer. You can do that or the other, but it’s not the right answer. It’s just another answer, but three or four options,

Nestor Aparicio  32:29

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and tell them exactly why number one’s the best, and then listing every reason why it is that’s exactly right. The probability of

Leonard Raskin  32:37

success, that’s exactly right. And so my job is to lay out your best strategy for how to handle your money and do what you want with it. And Nestor, I’ll tell you, I had a I’ve had people come in and say to me in the past, my goal is to spend it all before I die, leave nothing. I’ve had people say my goal is to leave it all to charity. And I’ve had people say, I want to leave it all to my children and grandchildren. And each one of those is a fine solution and desire. My job is to show you how to carry that out, given that those are your wishes, and there are specific ways to carry out each one of those with the same amount of money, if three people were sitting in front of me, and that’s because there are laws of money. There are rules of money. They go back a very long time, and in our society, with a tax structure and a market structure and the like, it can be done with fact, with great information, with great wisdom. And January, I’ll celebrate 40 years of doing it.

Nestor Aparicio  33:36

I had a guy come up to me at the Super Bowl party, guy that if I said I said I respect them a little, I’d be lying. I respect him immensely. Yeah, yeah. Came up to me, and we’re talking football. He, you know, obviously he’s football related player, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. He said to me, the coaching is no good. That’s what he said about the Ravens on Friday night. And I’m like, that’s an interesting way to look and then he went through a dozen reasons in his mind, why? Yeah, they all made sense. Because, yeah, really smart guy. So sure. So I will leave it at that and say they have a couple of weeks, and I don’t know if there’s hell to pay. I don’t know if I don’t know Eric John, I don’t think Steve’s got that in him. I think they all have jobs for life, including Chad steel and Sashi brown. It’s been my but like, there, there is something about accountability that’s been lacking all the way through all of this, in a lot of ways for me, going back to Justin Tucker, and think

Leonard Raskin  34:28

maybe, maybe we should trade with Pittsburgh.

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Nestor Aparicio  34:31

Ah, I won’t break COACH T in here. Are you all right?

Leonard Raskin  34:35

Coach H, they can have coach H, just do a one up trade. Everybody wants their coach fired. Just swap them. Let’s see how it goes.

Nestor Aparicio  34:42

That would be something. Wouldn’t

Leonard Raskin  34:46

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Rudy and Steve get together in a room and swap them.

Nestor Aparicio  34:50

First crab cake in town, if you can, I probably put my press pass back. He is no I would actually the last time Mike Tom left in Pittsburgh, 22 Him. So Leonard Raskin is here. He is Raskin global. He follows the American dream. The American Dream for me was winning the Super Bowl 25 years ago, amen. But I’m trying to not let it go all downhill from here, because we still have friends, fun relationships, and still a chance to win the division. I’m Nestor. We’re WNS, the am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stopped talking Baltimore positive.