As the Ravens preseason game tickets go unused and the Orioles send out Birdland renewals for 2026 with a last-place mess on the field, Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the current cost and value proposition of modern fandom. And where the rest of the money is coming from to make sports wealthier.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the cost and value proposition of modern fandom, highlighting the financial aspects of attending sports events and concerts. Nestor shared his experiences attending a soiree in Delaware and a trip to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he witnessed a large music festival. They also discussed the impact of ESPN’s merger with NFL properties, including the potential end of investigative journalism on CTE and ownership issues. Nestor emphasized the importance of media in uncovering truths and the financial challenges of being a sports fan. Leonard promoted his financial planning services, emphasizing the goal of helping people achieve their financial dreams.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Follow up on the details of the ESPN-NFL media deal and its potential impact on NFL Network and Red Zone channel access.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Investigate the future of Justin Tucker’s relationship with the Ravens organization and whether there will be any further coverage or rehabilitation of his previous off-field issues.
- [ ] Discuss the financial considerations and tradeoffs involved in being a modern sports fan, including the costs of attending events, travel, and maintaining memberships/subscriptions.
Anniversary Celebrations and Personal Updates
- Nestor Aparicio celebrates WNST’s 27th anniversary with various giveaways, including Maryland lottery scratch-offs and pressure locks.
- Nestor shares his recent experiences, including enjoying crabs with friends and attending a soiree in Delaware.
- Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, and Nestor mentions Leonard’s crab mallet with a beer opener.
- Nestor reflects on a segment last week where he went to see Tommy Comwell in Delaware.
Travel Experiences and Local Sports Media
- Nestor talks about his trip to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and spending time with colleagues, including a ride along the Mississippi River.
- Nestor mentions watching a local sports show discussing ESPN’s merger with NFL properties.
- The conversation shifts to the NFL’s ownership stake in ESPN and the potential impact on NFL Network and Red Zone channel.
- Nestor discusses the implications of the merger, including the potential end of investigative topics like CTE and ownership issues.
Media’s Role in Investigative Journalism
- Nestor emphasizes the importance of media in investigative journalism, citing examples like the Justin Tucker story.
- He criticizes the local media’s handling of the Justin Tucker situation and the Ravens’ response.
- Nestor reflects on the history of the Ravens and the future of players like Justin Tucker in the team’s Ring of Honor.
- The discussion touches on the broader impact of media on investigating and covering up issues, including the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The Importance of Truth and Media Integrity
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of truth and media integrity, especially in the context of investigative journalism.
- Nestor shares his thoughts on the role of media in society and the challenges of finding facts in a world dominated by AI and social media.
- Leonard talks about his work in helping people achieve their financial dreams and the importance of financial planning.
- The conversation highlights the need for media to continue investigating and holding powerful individuals and institutions accountable.
Personal Anecdotes and Travel Stories
- Nestor shares his experiences at the Mall of America, including his wife’s bucket list item and the challenges of shopping with her.
- He recounts his trip to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for a concert and the unique experience of attending a large music festival.
- Nestor reflects on the impact of JFK Jr.’s death during the concert weekend and the memorable performances he witnessed.
- The conversation includes humorous anecdotes about attending concerts and the challenges of managing finances for sports and entertainment.
Reflections on Sports and Media
- Nestor discusses the financial aspects of being a sports fan, including the high costs of attending games and events.
- He shares his thoughts on the marketing strategies of sports franchises and the success of events like the Bananas baseball games.
- The conversation touches on the importance of media in covering sports and the challenges of balancing entertainment and journalism.
- Nestor reflects on the role of media in promoting and covering sports, including the impact of social media and digital platforms.
Future Plans and Anniversary Celebrations
- Nestor outlines his plans for the 27th anniversary, including giveaways and special events at the Beaumont in Catonsville.
- He shares his excitement about the upcoming baseball and football seasons and the new sponsor, GBMC.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of community and the role of media in bringing people together.
- The conversation concludes with Nestor expressing his gratitude for the support and engagement from listeners and the community.
Leonard Raskin and Nestor disc…e proposition of modern fandom
Mon, Aug 04, 2025 11:01AM • 37:43
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
WNST anniversary, Maryland lottery, crab mallet, ESPN NFL deal, NFL Network, Red Zone channel, CTE investigation, Justin Tucker, Baltimore Sun, American dream, financial planning, Mall of America, Eau Claire Wisconsin, Rock Fest, media integrity.
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Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 task of Baltimore celebrating 27 years. Don’t believe the 26 on your screen we’re getting after our 27th anniversary. All month long, I’ve got poems, I’ve got stories. I’ve got Maryland lottery scratch offs to give away. I’ve got some pressure locks with the Whammy. Got some lucky sevens doubles. I’ll be giving those away on Thursday at the Beaumont in Catonsville, where I’ll be enjoying a delicious fried lobster tail. It’s one of the great things in town. All 27 days of this will have other great things in town. I have had some great meals with this guy. I actually went with some friends to have some nice crabs. I didn’t get the really big ones. It’s got the kind of big ones at the bar on Sunday afternoon at Costas and Dundalk Leonard Raskin joins us now. I don’t, I don’t think I Oh, I do have your crab mallet. I have it right here. I have your very special crab mallet that has the beer open. Maybe I’ll take this to Bethlehem with the black crows this week. Check it out. But how are you I thought our segment last week was really like a lot of fun, because I went to see Tommy comwell in Delaware. And you own property in Delaware, because it was Sir financial America, by the way, I did a whole lot on Dusty Rhodes this week, the other American dream, other than the one that you follow. And you know, this week it, we’re going to do sports media. Because, like, it’s not that you pick the topics, but you’re, I’m like, Hey, what’s going on? You’re like, I heard about this ESPN NFL deal and media, yes, sir, and I thought of you. Now, you did not attend the Sashi brown Costa soiree over the
Leonard Raskin 01:39
8nonareonar I did not. I had, I had tickets. I was, well, I was invited as a, I guess, a PSL club holder, I don’t know it was a perk thing, yeah, and, and I downloaded the tickets. I fully intended to go, and then had an opportunity to attend a couple day meeting spend some time in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which is a place I’ve never been
Nestor Aparicio 02:03
. I have been to Eau Claire, okay, there you go.
Leonard Raskin 02:05
So I said, All right, took the wife and we did a little getaway for a few days, went up to Eau Claire and hung out with some colleagues up there and did a little ride along the Mississippi River. It was beautiful, beautiful weekend, gorgeous weather. And had some good wine, had some good food. Like I said, I hung out with some good friends, and there I was watching, and that’s a little weird, because it is Cheese Land, but it’s, it is cheese way closer to Minneapolis. Yes, on the road to Minneapolis, that’s how we got the order. There’s, there’s a bar there that’s split in half. That’s half Vikings in half and half, absolutely, uh, packers, for sure. So we it is close. We flew in and out of Minneapolis. We did the Mall of America. Did you? We did I had never done it. I’ve never been there. And my wife’s life is complete. Now it was on her bucket list. So we did the Mall of America and saw that crazy place. Did you get a Juicy Lucy cheeseburger in Minneapolis? I did not. We didn’t have a lot of time in Minneapolis. You would have been really a few hours baseball park there. It’s nice. It’s lovely. Minneapolis is lovely. Yeah, just a few hours, just enough to taste it, check out the mall a little bit, and then head home. But Sunday morning, very interesting TV show. While I was getting myself together to head out. It’s a local sports guy. I didn’t take down his name, but it would be, it would be like, you know, Jerry Sandusky doing a show, or something like that. It was a half hour local sports show for Sunday morning, and I had it tuned in while we were getting ready. This guy was talking about, and I don’t know the particulars, maybe you do. ESPN is merging with NFL properties, so we’re doing, yeah, doing something related to NFL properties. I didn’t get the whole of it. I haven’t looked up the business part, but effectively it said to me that they’re, they’re taking over NFL Network, correct? I think they were, I think they were part of it before. Now they’re all of it. Are going to be all of it. So they’re going to need Trump to approve it, by the way, they will. Yeah, that’s apparently Okay. NBC reports that. Okay, so it’s a NFL what, basically the NFL is going to take an ownership stake in ESPN, okay, really, what that kind of means is, because of the network, and they’ve really paired the NFL Network back right that the staff is going to merge in, right? And like I ran into church in a couple months ago at Jim Henneman funeral, yeah, yeah. And, you know, they’ve scaled back their baseball coverage dramatically, right? They had the bananas on the other night, but they’ve scaled back Major League Baseball. All coverage dramatically, because they’re about to go to bed, they’re about to become the NFL, and the NFL is about to become them. And trust me, right, when I tell you, when it works that way, they are one in the same. It’s not like somebody’s a client of the other way, right? Like you handle people’s money in their American dream, but you’re not going to do things unethically to keep it. You’re not going to like they’re now, all of a sudden, at the point where like they they are one in the same. They will protect each other. They will act as a legal entity together. That is just the thing that the thing that I enjoyed about the thing was he said the Red Zone channel was going to be on ESPN, or or they were taking it over. So I thought maybe I wouldn’t have to subscribe to the other thing to get the Red Zone channel, because I used to have it on direct TV, and then it went to YouTube. And so you got to be on YouTube. Now I don’t know if YouTube’s gonna still be there, in which case, then I still won’t have it, but we’ll figure that out as the day goes on, anyway, unit will take control of NFL media properties, NFL Network, excuse me, and red zone. So right, right. So I said to myself, this, this could be pretty good. And then the guy did a little commentary, which I thought was quite interesting. And he said, this means that CTE is dead as a investigative topic. He said, All ownership, any ownership issues, to ask about, is a dead subject. And he said, basically, there will be very little, if any, other than hard nosed local reporters asking any questions of any one relative to the NFL, and they are thrilled by this. And he concluded with, without, this is not his words, paraphrasing. It is horrible for the fans. Well, they were the only ones doing any work. Seth Wickersham, you know, and his group were the only ones investigating. Daniel Snyder, investigating, right? Justin Tucker type story in other markets. And I saw the way W, B, A, L and W, J, z here really covered up the Justin Tucker thing. Just, it just never happened here. It was not a big story here, just quiet football reasons. They punt and that’s the end, and the Ravens are done answering it. Yeah, they walked away. They ran away from that. Right, right? Well, they this time. They cut them for they cut them for football reasons. They brought in their their new guy, he seems to be quite the kicker, and they don’t care. It’s, it’s over, you know, it’s interesting, because one of the things about the ravens, of course, I don’t have to tell you this, the history of the team, the the players that created that are are heralded. You know, they’re not just a Ring of Honor, but they’re, they’re brought out to celebrate the team and everything. I’ll be very interested to see what Justin’s future is relative to the Ravens he will be in the Ring of Honor at some point, if I live long enough, healthily enough to enjoy the old age and the money that you’re helping me save. You think they let it just die out for a while, and then, well, I know they did it with Ray Rice, is kind of stunning, with Ben Cleveland, or the kid they drafted this year, the Michael Green kid. So they rehabilitated, they tried to rehabilitate race Rice’s image with his NFL position and him talking about not beating your wife and things like that. Yeah. Speaking of that, I watched the documentary over the weekend of killing Maxwell. The the documentary, it’s on Netflix, the only, the only madam in the history of the world. I guess that traffic children to no one. I find a whole another subject. When you get the women on camera talking about this and their lawyers and what went on in New York, and what’s going on for 20 years, and her role in it, and how she was, um,
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Nestor Aparicio 09:12
not forced into the role, but it was like a higher job, for sure. And it, you know, from a billionaire like I watch all of this, and the cover up part of that, and where cover ups lead and all of that, that journalism is important. Dan Rodricks said something two weeks ago when he did the show of me over at Zeke’s. He just said, I it’s, it’s really astonishing how hated the media is in this culture, in some way, and has been and is, if the media is wrong 1% of 1% of the time, I’ll eat my hat on the the organizations I’ve worked at, and what is news and what is in and when a story like the Baltimore banner writes a Justin Tucker story based on seven women. Then five more, and then nine more, you know, right? It becomes all of that, that it’s not that. When there’s smoke, there’s fire, when you see these women speak about what happened to them, and they’re all they’re my age now, things that happened in 1994 96 and 98 there’s records of all of it. And then you think about like the Justin Tucker thing working on the edge around town here for several years, a decade ago, and no one can prove anything, and no one can do anything. And these women feel powerless. We’re really at a point where, like the media is really, really important, man, you know what I mean? Well, see, the thing is, I think it always has been since I think it always is. I hope it always will be. The problem is, whose Facts are facts? That’s all it comes down to. And it doesn’t matter. I mean, it doesn’t matter if we’re talking and the word of AI proving things. I mean, I see these wacky press conferences the day after that, fans make of Mike Tomlin saying things Mike Tomlin would never say, but it’s up on a podium, and they have fun with it on a Monday morning and like, it’s not good. No, no, that’s, that’s my point. The truth, you know, you you want to think, I want to think that the truth is out there and that that exists in a host of places, you know? I mean, we can go anywhere with it. You can talk about politics, you can talk about sports, talk about money, the influence of corporations, etc. I mean, in my world, science is science, dude, that’s why, yes, we’ll go to school and prove things yes. But math is math, right? Math is math. Now I will tell you, in my world, math ain’t money. You know, math ain’t money, but math is math and and I end up often having to explain to people why what I’m telling them is correct when media out there says it’s not. So there are things that are truths and there are things that are not. And if, if the world was based on that, and we could actually find fact all the time. I don’t know if we’d be better off or worse off, but my goodness, let’s hope people steep, steep, keep digging for it, because it matters. It absolutely matters. ESPN is broken that won’t be broken anymore. The Baltimore Sun, you know, fired a political cartoonist I’ve had on recently, so investigations into certain people and certain things won’t be tolerated at the Baltimore. They never have been, and really never have been. They never have been. Let’s face it, there’s there’s been fake there’s been cover ups, I don’t know, dude, they brought down mayors that were black and white. They brought down governors and vice presidents. You’re talking about the sun people. Continues. There used to be, maybe call get Gelman, right? You call Dick Gelman if you’re pissed off, right? Look out in my world 2025, years ago when I set up my own own shop, you know, 2000 I was with other firms from 87 to 2000 when we went out on our own in 2000 and we set up what mattered, you know, the integrity of our firm, the truth of what we share, the way that we help people. And one of our this is in our in our box, she knows this. We’ve talked to her about it in our practice, when we bring on somebody new for 20 years, it had in there do nothing that would cause Jane Miller to come to our door. Oh, there you go, except as a potential client. Yeah, of course. And, and like you said, Get Gelfman became Jane Miller, and now it’s, maybe it’s the Baltimore banner. You know, they’re doing good things over there to do it great. But, I mean, they did good things in the minute it happened. Justin Tucker smeared them in, of course. Well, you got your attacker. The first thing is to smear the media. Cops, smear the layer, right? All of that. So you go after the attacker, and then you figure out whether they need to be gone after it’s a Maxwell and Jeffrey just did all over the place. Everybody’s around them. The facts are out there, and they were brought into a court of law, and the witnesses were brought in, including Trump himself, and he talking about his own situation with Jean Carroll. She liked it. She like all of this stuff is all out there if you want to go see and it’s not deep state, deep fake. And I got something that’s real for you, because you mentioned Eau Claire, yes, sir. I want to go back and roll because, um, Leonard, tell me what you do in a basket. Because you you do the American dream. And I’m literally, I have one more interview today, because we’re, we’re playing a Phillies this week. I have a Phillies guest. Wrote a book last year, yes, but I’ve done a lot of radio this week, I had the guy who wrote the nasty theme song, Kwame, just going into the hip hop Museum and the Hall of Fame, and he didn’t know about the song, and it was a weird period in his career. He’s now 50 years old, going to him. Pop Hall of Fame, and I had the greatest conversation about the nasty things. So I’m having a good week. It’s my 27th anniversary. There you go. And I’m treating myself to doing something tonight that’s costing a grand total of $159 I think, total, plus gas and whatever I eat. I’m going to go see a concert that I want to see off the grid, getting in the car, driving off energy, right? So that’s my American dream. It’s just like less than 200 bucks in a tank of gas. It’s like the Blues Brothers. You know what? I mean, got it. So that’s what I’m doing. But you do the American dream. We do we we help people have the life that they want. That’s what we’re all about. We’re about helping people have the life they want. And it doesn’t matter whether you make 10,000 100,000 1,000,010 million. There are people out there that want to achieve something they have, that that drive that goal, that hope that whether it’s educate their kids, retire someday, own that house, buy that car, go on that trip, see that concert, whatever it is that they want. My goal is to help them get there, safer, faster, stronger than they thought possible or knew they could. And we’re all about helping people use their money as a tool to to help them achieve that dream and understand what their true purpose for money is, what what they’re doing, what they want it for, and controlling cash flow, asset management, protecting all of that so you can have all of that. And it’s all about enjoying what it is you want your life to be. And sadly, too often, what I hear from people is, I’m saving for that day. You know, people counting down the days till they’re going to retire, and think they’re saving for when they’re going to retire. And you know, you’ve traveled all over the world, it’s it’s a hard thing to do when you’re not well. It’s a hard thing to do when your body’s not, well, it’s a hard thing to do when your knees aren’t in the shape they were when you were 3040, 50. So you did the Alaska thing recently, right? We did Alaska a couple few years ago. Yeah, I remember that, yeah. Like, that’s one that, like, you know, I’m putting that to the end feeling like I won’t have to move around if I get on a boat like that. You know what I mean, do that on a cruise. But if you want to see the country, you want to be able to walk around and do you know we did Iceland, and it was magnificent. Sadly, over the weekend, I heard that a guy was on a glacier tour, not I don’t think it was anything strenuous, but it was a tour group, and it just happened to be this. This guy had a heart attack. I had two friends woke up, literally, this morning. I’ve been up a couple hours. Leonard, you know, having coffee here. You know they’re at Machu Picchu today. There you go. I have two friends at Machu Picchu, independently or together. I go. I haven’t figured out. I haven’t figured it out yet. Hope it’s not a Cold Play concert. I hope it’s not a Coldplay concert. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 17:59
Jesse and Jen Marsh. I love you both. They both have been in my home. I both. I know them well. I was with Jen Marsh when the Justin Tucker news happened, having pizza, pizza John’s. So, I mean, I’ve been all over the place here this week. Leonard Raskin is here. You can follow him at Raskin global. I want to go backwards on two things here, because I got a couple of notes. Yes, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, yes. Great little town. So cool place I’ve been to Eau Claire once in my life. What was I there for? What do you think a concert? Of course, of course. So I was there on an iconic weekend, okay? And I’m, you know, I think I’m going to look this up, and I want to get the year right, because I think it was 1999 it was the weekend that JFK Jr died. So whenever that was so that was he died, July 16, weekend of July 16 of 1999 so I had a girlfriend at the time. I was nationally syndicated. At the time, I was flying out of Chicago and doing stuff, my girlfriend was here, and she may be a little more rustic than me. She grew up. She’s Randallstown girl, right? Okay, so, but we were gonna get one of those pop up campers around rental USA, yeah, sure. Okay, and we went to this thing. And I’m not making this up. You can Google it. It’s called Rock fest. There you go. And they did a country fest for years after that, and they had it in this town called cadat, C, A, D, o, t, t, it’s one of those cadat Wisconsin, yeah, it’s right outside of Eau Claire, yeah, but it’s a campground. Think Woodstock. Yep, we’re in 1999 so I’m 30 years old. Think freakness, but over four days in a field with mosquitoes as big as your head. God, and it was a legitimate Campground. It had worse. It had a general story. Four but it had several 1000 people camping, 24 hours making beer tents. It was like, so the bands that played that that I want to give you every band, because it’s going to blow you away. You’re going to be like, Why is he telling me this stupid story? I’m sure it was awesome time. Okay, so over the three day weekend, I bought the VIP wristband. We bought a camper. Speaking of having extra money, or why I don’t have any money now, he said we spent a couple 100 bucks getting a camper. We flew out to Minneapolis. We rented the camper. We drove out. I bought the VIP package, which, at that time was 250 bucks for the weekend, right? It included corn on the cob, chicken, burgers, hot dogs, right? I think it included beer, totally cheese, grapes, Wisconsin, there’s no hamburger only cheeseburgers, right, right? So the bands and I wish I could give this to you more dramatically over the three days, maybe I can, if it gives me the whole line, lineup, like for the whole weekend. Um, I think this is correct. Day one was like on Thursday night, Blue Oyster, call Leonard, Skynyrd and motley crew. There you go. Day two was Sammy Hagar, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Def Leppard, there you go. Three was poison. Joan Jett, Peter Frampton, Varner and the scorpions. And Day Four was journey America like Bachman Turner, it was like a war, headline, headline, they all played full sets. Not this. They’re just gonna play an hour, right? They all played two hour full on, all day long. It was like a Live Aid thing, right? And I found out about the concert, and I’m like, let’s get I’m not a camp guy. I’m not an outdoor guy. My girlfriend laughed at me the whole time, and we drank beer. And, you know, we did what young, single people do, had a good time. You can walk up to the concert, right the camp right, right. And we had the what’s the one in Delaware that they do at the fire, right at Dover, right at the racetrack, they same thing. People camp out, trailers, tents, days. So doesn’t matter where it’s in and out. You get a room quick day. But I did that in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and that was the weekend that JFK Jr died. We were all there, kind of like, wow, what happened, right? And meanwhile, we were rocking, I mean, you bet, quite the lineup, quite a lineup. That’s why I told you, like, that’s fantastic Live Aid, and things that I’ve done in my life that are crazy, that was like a wild once in a lifetime, right? Gotta do it. You know, to do it. And I’ll tell you what this was a couple I have pictures like, really good pictures, because I was in the pit for all of the shows, right, right? And this is when Motley Crue came out, and they put the stripper poles on the stage. Oh my gosh. It it like thought that the Wisconsin State authorities might show up, shut it down. These girls might have been topless. You know what? I mean, it might have been, yeah, I mean, like Leonard, they might have been, might have been collecting dollars at a G string. I it was and it was under the stars. Yeah, you know what I mean, like mosquitoes were ginormous. Oh yeah, up there. So I had a pretty good time. I have a great memory of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. I was there with some with some colleagues, a little business action, and stayed at the famous Metropolis resort. It is a hotel with waterpark, mini golf, trampoline park, go karts, zip lines. It’s Hershey Park. It’s all all in one at the hotel in Eau Claire, it is famous in Wisconsin, so it was a nice weekend, kind of look, yeah, yeah, whole thing. And then, and then a trip to the Mall of America. Oh, tell me about that. I need to hear them all. I have such great memories at the Mall of America. Well, you know, the wife has always wanted to go she, she is my wife, professional shopper, professional shopper. I’ve told her for 25 years that she could put out a shingle speak to men who have spouse children that they care about, and. Hate shopping. This was pre Amazon back in the day, and that she could get a little dossier about the family, go shop professionally, buy what they wanted, gifts, etc, have clientele and make a fortune. She never did it. Then Amazon came along and it all went away well. But anyway, yeah, her one of her I invented MTV in 1979 but it just never happened for me, right? 11. You know, that’s it. One of her bucket list items was the Mall of America. So since we were up there and going in and out of Minneapolis Airport, and the Mall of America is right there, five minutes, you shuttle over. And so we went to the mall and and the one thing my wife hates almost as much as anything else in the world is shopping with her husband. I don’t let her have the freedom to go and do what she wants to do and spend the time and look at the racks and try things on. You know, a guy I’m like, in out by sports bars, right there. They haven’t, yeah, the mall, yeah, they have an amusement park. I told her where you’re like, I’ll go do something else. I said, let’s meet, meet back at the car at whatever time. She’s like, No, no, no. So what we did, because we’d never be should have gotten in an Uber and gotten a Juicy Lucy somewhere off. No, we really are. We really just hung there. We weren’t there that long. It was a few hours. So, so now that we’ve done it, her next trip there will be with some lady friends, and there is a Marriott attached, literally to the mall. You get there from the mall, you walk right in one to the other. Luke and I drank there all night with the Philadelphia Eagle Staff one night. There you go. She will, she will go there with some girlfriends, do a girls trip, spend a couple days and really do them all the way. Let her know that the weather’s not always like it is the last week of July, right? Well, it was beautiful. You don’t want to send her there anytime after October 1 or anytime, let’s say before April 15, right? Maybe no winter trip, no winter trip, although it is inside and if you’re in the airport, no, no, no, you can take, wait, wait, wait, it’s not good. You can take a 12 minute shuttle that’s like a like a train from the airport direct to the Marriott. Stay at the Marriott. Never leave them all, and you don’t have to see the outside. You know, I brought your name up in a different segment, but I had Robbie ince Mikowski on, who did four years as the Minnesota Twins. Kind of what Rob long does for the Orioles, or Melanie Newman does for the Orioles. Yeah, he did it with burp lie Levin in Minnesota. He’s been my friend forever. He’s a great guy. He’s from free game, post game, yep, yep. And he’s in pitch. Tom, how about my friend? Dave, absolutely. Tom’s going Friday, Adam Jones and who else? There’s one other who’s the third. Oh, don’t put me on the spot like this. Sorry.
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I think you’re right. Yes, okay. Friday luncheon at the warehouse. Yes, I saw Adam Jones. I had breakfast with Adam Jones two weeks ago at the Connect banana Rama, Bananarama, dude that is on my list to do bananas with you. Bananas Savannah bananas sell out Camden Yards and they their Orioles can’t sell out playoff games for 15 bucks like that, right? Explain that to me, Mr. Moneybags, I don’t, I don’t get Well, dude, there’s people that it’s a hype it’s a hype thing. It’s like we talked about it before. I think it’s like the Harlem Globetrotters a bit of baseball. If the Harlem Globetrotters paid, played baseball, this is what it would be. The guy that created it decided he wanted some silly, nutty, crazy entertainment around this thing called baseball. It’s not baseball. It’s, it’s, you know, Harlem Globetrotters do baseball. That’s what I call it now. WWE element for me, yeah, give him credit. He’s made a ton of money. He’s he’s now expanding the league and getting bigger, and he owns the whole thing. It’s private, but he’s a marketing genius. He’s created something that people want to see, sold out Fenway, sold out Camden Yards brings back old players from the team to hype the local Adam Jones was there. Matt Wieters was there. Nick marques was there. Buck Showalter was there, yeah. So back to your guy. What were you saying? Sorry. So Rob, I was telling him when Minnesota, because I said, you know, did baseball there, whatever, yeah, Luke Jones and I were at the Mall of America broadcasting every night for a week, yeah? And I had great guests there, like, go. I kicked ass that week everybody Dan Marino did the show, Terry Bradshaw, Louie Anderson, was talking to me about becoming a comedian. Just did. It was really, it was a great environment. A lot of former ravens on that week telling stories and whatnot. And, um, every night we would leave and it would be five below, 10 below. I mean, really, really cold. That is cool. And they had this area right out from where you’re talking about that Marriott, where the shuttles would pick us up. And they literally had these French fry heaters, like the orange overhead body heaters underneath of these warming bus tanks that like is the only time in my life, other than when you go to Hershey Park and you go through the roaster on the on the free ride, I’m talking about Hershey Park happy, and you go through and they roast you for a minute. Yes, you feel that feeling. Or maybe for people that did fake baked hands, they get in that bed. But like, I like, that was totally the experience of mine in Minnesota, and that’s like, pretty girls, yes, nice people, Minnesota, nice, you know, like I could live. I like Minnesota, but after a like, October 1, I’m telling right. There you go. And I, you know, I brought your name up somehow in another segment this week, and it was Micah bootcall, who was my Philadelphia friend, talking went to high school with him. You know what? High School? Micah? Very possible. Yeah. So Micah is a Philadelphia lawyer. He was the PR Director of the capitals in 1984 and my got my first press credential, and he came on and did the show just talking about how expensive it is to be a fan in the modern because he’s a fan. He’s a boy. He’s got a girl who’s in her 20s, a boy who’s in his teens. Yeah, boy’s gonna go to Syracuse, but I have seen him at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis. I came down, took a picture with him and his kids at the game that day, as well as Jim Schwartz and his wife and his and her kids. Yeah, Kathy, I was walking through the bowl on Super Bowl Sunday, and they’ve now been to three Super Bowls, daughter, son, son, daughter, he’s got the wife problem that you had, and I brought your name up. He said, his wife has now said, that’s it. There’s no more Super Bowls for the Eagles I’m out, and I told him the story about your furniture thing for 1000s. I said, How many Super Bowls? How many World Series can you afford? And it really is like the American dream, if it means that much to you. But yes, yeah, as the Orioles go up there, there is a financial amount of support that goes into those franchises, signing Bryce Harper, keeping the flyers in the 70 Sixers afloat. They have ladies soccer. They have men’s soccer up there. They have a lot they have Villanova. They have big temple, big universities. A lot of money floating around up there. And I talked to Micah, who says he never buys concessions at the stadiums, just sort of cutting around the edges. He bought the monthly pass he and his kid can go stand in the outfield because they love sports, right? There’s like, like, I love the black crows, but tonight’s $150 night, not a $400 night. That’s all. It’s a good night. It’s a good night. It’s what it’s for? Talk about it. It’s for concerts, travel, friends, family, belt buckles. Well, I think every fun you’ve had you should let your wife get a little wilder at the Mall of America, that’s Oh, I had no restrict. I had no restriction. I of course not. When you were turning her ass at the mall, did you go the other way? Oh, no, no. She I said that. She said, great meal there on the fourth floor, this Italian joint, I would have sent you, and you could have sat at the bar. And no, I said to her, had him. I said to her, why don’t we just meet back at the car in a few hours? Here’s the deal. No, no, let’s walk around. Let’s see them all. So we we were there to see the place and to take in what it is, and to see the shops that you don’t see other places, you know that I’m just still stunned. I mean, I guess it’s an attraction, but there’s not a lot of malls left. Malls are gone. The way the dodo bird, it was vibrant. It was packed. Okay. Packed every store. There were people everywhere. In every store, there were people. There was no way that this place was not happening. Four floors of happening, people all over the place, lines at at the food court everywhere, packed lines outside of there. Every every place that sells food and there’s a lot of food in that place had people in it. There was nothing empty in that, in that entire mall, except one area where they were putting in two new stores to come, soon, coming soon. Otherwise, the place was just overflowing with people. Well, you mentioned the bananas, yes, being a marketing phenomenon. Yes. America marketing, right, same I would bet. I would bet, half the people in the place are tourists. You know, it’s a destination place. They’re not locals hanging out the mall. It’s people coming to see them, all of America, from all over. And it’s good, it’s good business, retail, good stuff, making money, you know? I mean. Million people, but it’s all good. Bands together. You get people to Ocean City too. It looks like you get a dot Wisconsin or whatever. That’s right. Leonard Raskin brings people together, and he brings your money together and the confidence to understand the market a little bit better, you can learn more. Raskin global. I have the shirt on here through summertime, and always good to visit with you? Always a conversation, and we’re I tell you what we’re going to be getting up on, on baseball season around or football season around here, soon as baseball season sort of winds down a little bit. We have a new sponsor in GBMC. I may be talking about men’s health issues and various things, not just injury reports with Luke as we get into the month. And I’m also going to be giving away scratch off. So the Maryland lottery. Have some pressure locks and Lucky Seven doublers. We begin at the Beaumont and Catonsville this week, our 27th anniversary includes 27 of my favorite things to eat in town. I really had to put a lot of thought into how to structure this list only 27 i i know what? My 28th one was an Indian. I love Indian food. My Indian place, Lumbini, closed down, down Charles Street, so downtown, so I didn’t have the confidence level to go with him a lay in house, or some other places that I like, cafe, spice, some other place. So I am laying off of Indian. And it just allowed me to bring a very, very worthy, very, very worthy trace late Chase cake into this, this conversation. There you go, Leonard. I have trace late Chase cake. I have tacos in this. I have snowballs in this. I have various crab related dishes in this list. I have good city things in this list. I have things on the road to Ocean City on this list. Um, yeah, there’s not much. These are my favorite things for real. There’s no peer pressure. This is like a Consumer Reports. It’s like the Christmas song. These are a few of my favorites. Amen, I’ll be doing that. All right, um, saying that a little bit more like the Mary Sue easter egg, which is not among my I think that’s, isn’t that sound of music Christmas, that sounds of music, right? Mary, pop that one up. Thank you. Yeah, it’s not Christmas. That’s, that’s, that’s Sound of Music. I believe. All right, now on our next program, we’ll, we’ll figure that out. There you can, I’ll have a review on the black crows Amen. Bethlehem Music Fest thing going on Pennsylvania. I am Nestor. He is letter we are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking your money in Baltimore. Positive. Stay with us. You.
