With the Super Bowl looming and the grand prize winners of the Ravens scratch-off gathering, Executive Director John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talks about wagering on The Big Game and beyond with responsibility and in the spirit of fun.
Nestor Aparicio and John Martin discussed the Maryland Lottery’s initiatives, including the Ravens scratch-off tickets with a grand prize of 20-year season tickets and the Keno Ice Cold Cash promotion with weekly winners based on BWI Airport temperatures. The Monopoly Second Chance promotion offers six drawings with cash prizes, including a rolling jackpot of $55,000. Martin highlighted the importance of the second chance feature in the lottery app and the upcoming outdoor kitchen package giveaway worth nearly $25,000. Aparicio emphasized the community involvement of the Maryland Food Bank events and the importance of responsible gambling, noting the $1.39 billion expected legal wagers on the Super Bowl.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Super Bowl week, Ravens scratchoff, season tickets, second chance, Keno promotion, Monopoly tickets, ice cold cash, outdoor kitchen, lottery rewards, responsible gambling, Maryland Food Bank, community events, big game, lottery app, prize winners
SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore, positive. I swear I’m gonna my voice is gonna make it, at least through Super Bowl Sunday, so I can get to that horizon party when I be like this, we’re doing a cup of soup or bowl all week. I’m wearing my fatly shirt because I’m throwing myself on the mercy of the whole world that we had a snafu on Tuesday that had forced us to move it to two weeks from now, which I will do. But what? Coco’s Wednesday, State Fair, Thursday, Friday. Cooper’s, I promise I’m still healthy. I’m okay. Thanks for asking. I did have a death of a friend on Tuesday, but things are going to be fine this week. We’re going to get it all back out. And you know why? Because we have the magic eight ball, and I get to rub the magic eight ball. I love these tickets. I may never give these tickets up. John Martin is here. He’s executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. He puts us out on the road in this crazy Maryland crab cake tour that this week is turned to a marathon. We’re doing it for the Maryland Food Bank. It’s a cup of soup or bowl. Please don’t snow on Wednesday night, John. It’s Super Bowl week here too. The big game is this week, and they make really good gumbo at Coopers. So I figured this is my perfect homage to the Crescent City and New Orleans in the game that we’re not in
John Martin 01:16
Nice, nice gumbo. Very nice play in there. Yeah. Work that into the mix. Fun Time, big game on the weekend. Lots going on here, day in, day out. Maryland lottery and gaming, plenty to talk about. And if, for some reason, you have to go on the DL a little bit, I may be able to pinch it if you need somebody to cover the show. No, no,
Nestor Aparicio 01:36
no, I’m fine. I don’t even want to. People are asking me, what happened Tuesday? I’ll tell you off the air. I’ll admit it eventually, because we’re so dumb that I need to get through the week before I admit it. So that’s all I’m going to say about it. But it this is a time out in college basketball, but it’s sort of like on me, you know, whatever that means, it’s my fault, um, because I’m in charge. I mean, you know, like you You’re in charge of the Maryland lottery game. So this week, let’s talk a little Super Bowl to start things, and then we’ll get into all the cool stuff that we do, because there’s only one big game. And I know you had some things on it, and I have one ravens ticket left here from our promotion last year. You also have dates too. So this, this football news going on right now in football week? Well, let,
John Martin 02:16
let’s start with the football news closest to home. We talk about it all season long. When we have our Raven scratch off tickets, and many people are look forward to it every year, they look forward to the chance to win cash, but they also look for those wonderful prizes, and the crown jewel in the prize is season tickets. For 20 years, we have six semi finalists, they will all be invited to M and T Bank Stadium on Wednesday, February 19, and we will then reveal who of those six will be the lucky winner for season tickets for the next 20 years.
Nestor Aparicio 02:53
Well, I happen to know a guy who won last year who is literally my guest today as we take this at Cocos TJ Humphreys won last year. He is a specialist in counseling other folks. He took his daughters to the game. This daughter to the game this year. So I’m going to be hearing his story, and we’ll tell that next week here at wnst bulbar positive. So, but the second chance part of the app and downloading the app, I tell people bet that all the time and and that’s really the easiest way to play a lot of the scratch offs when I give them out, whether it’s magic eight ball or the monopolies, it having the app changes everything. It’s a game changer, and it allows you to, I mean, if you were in a casino gambling, you want to take every opportunity to win as much money as you can. There’s just no doubt about it, that the app and the second chance is the way to do that across all of your games. Really,
John Martin 03:43
people really enjoy that extended value of a second chance, whether it’s a chance to win additional cash, a certain promotion of the year, or for some fabulous prizes. So let’s, let’s take a little walk. Join me, won’t you, and we’ll go through this, this, this litany of things. Because first,
Nestor Aparicio 04:00
Mr. Rogers a little bit today with the sweater. So I like that. I feel like you’re going to be educational here and I’m going to be student. Nestor, I like that’s my favorite. Nestor.
John Martin 04:09
Hey, let’s start with our Kino ice cold cash promotion. This is a fun thing we’ve done this year. We actually do it in the summer when the weather warms up, not the ice cold cash part of it, but but the heat wave part of it, but the compliment, the ice cold cash for those lucky people who enter into their their Kino tickets into my lottery rewards through now, February 9 is our caught update coming up very soon. We have weekly winners, and based on the temperature at BWI Airport from the week before, will determine how large a prize they win. So the first three weeks, it has been below 25 degrees, which means they get the maximum value of $10,000 and the fun part about this is that we get winners from all over the state. And most recently, we had David goad from Prince Frederick, Maryland, Robert golden from Middle River and. We had a shock me, malavia from upper all Upper Marlboro, and then two more that. I think we’re going to get our Rand McNally out on. All
Nestor Aparicio 05:08
right. All right. All right. I love playing this game. John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland lottery, plays, you know, they it’s Where’s Waldo. Is a game that we play. This is sort of, where is this interesting name of a town we’ve had sunshine Maryland. I educated him about Hollywood and California, Maryland that are very close to each other. And I even educated my wife since we chatted this week about Texas, Maryland that we’ve all driven through, if we’ve ever been on Warren road between York Road and 83 so listen, in my next life, when they fire me from all this I’m going to be like my dude, Albie D and just do traffic, but I’ll know where these places are when I do traffic reports that guy, we have two, and the first one is going to be kind of a gimme, all right, um. Kevin Simmons from montgomery village
John Martin 05:53
Maryland,
Nestor Aparicio 05:54
montgomery village Maryland has to be in montgomery county, right? No. Montgomery village Maryland has to be in montgomery county. Yeah, it is it. Why? I don’t say Don’t take it the wrong way. I know you’re in charge of all of Maryland, but that’s the other side of Maryland. That’s the side the roots for the burgundy and gold team that played a week longer than we did that shared on it’s near Germantown, by the way, so there. So that means anything, it’s near Germantown, near gaithersburg. So I can say, like, Johnny Cash, I’ve been there, I’ve been there, I’ve been everywhere. Man, you know, well, and
John Martin 06:26
you probably did this next one too. So don’t, don’t get too far afield from where you are now. Stanley Green from Brandywine. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 06:34
that’s, well, they had like, a racetrack there and stuff like that. So Brandywine is sort of south of Upper Marlboro, sort of below Largo sort of east of Andrews Air Force. But I know where it is, Brandywine. Beautiful
John Martin 06:48
area there. Beautiful, yeah, on your way to Waldorf. Also,
Nestor Aparicio 06:50
probably more nationals. And I have to start calling on the commanders. Now that the new owner said it’s commanders, let’s go with it. I’m gonna, I’m gonna move forward. I mean, you can move forward guardians, right? And I can move forward with ravens and not Colts. Think about it, right? Think I move forward with skip jacks, not clippers, right? So I’ve changed names of teams that I cheer for. I’m I’m the commanders are Maryland’s team now that they’re successful, oh boy, oh boy, your last two winners are in that area. They really are. So, yes, yes. So
John Martin 07:21
and we have one more week of our Kino icicle cash promotion, but we have plenty of weeks left on our monopoly Second Chance promotion. Oh, he’s got, these are
Nestor Aparicio 07:31
beautiful, yeah. By the way, I root against your keynote thing. Is it okay for me to say that? Is it? I don’t want it to be colder. I mean, I want people to win money, but I don’t want it to be cold from the win money. So anyway, these are, these are beautiful tickets. By the way, I saw people scratching these Acosta on
John Martin 07:44
Monday. Yes, yes. And they can enter their non winning monopoly scratch off tickets into their my lottery rewards account for a chance to win cash prizes. We’ll have six drawings, five winners, each drawing from $5,000.03 of those six drawings, we will have one winner who win a special rolling cash jackpot. And that jackpot has already begun to roll. It’s right now about $55,000 and it will continue to roll until we have that drawing for the first of three rolling cash winners in in March, on March 10. So go to MD lottery.com get all the details about the monopoly Second Chance promotion and enter to win, and hopefully have some fun along the way, and look forward to that rolling cash jackpot increasing every day. John
Nestor Aparicio 08:31
Martin is here. He is the executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming, the gaming part, obviously mobile gaming and the big game. This week, I had a weird question for you on the game, and I just was going to ask this, sort of, frankly, on the air. But for many, many years, when gambling was something that we make the bookmaker salad, and we talked about the pool cards, and, like ancient history, you would always see, this is the biggest gambling event or the year, you know, like all that, I’m starting to think to myself, with the ability to gamble on all sorts of things, all sorts of days. I’m sure it’s the biggest, so maybe one day of the year, but I’m not even sure that that some of the other weekends where there’s more big games, like championship game weekend, or some soccer thing, or whatever it and I’m not putting you on the spot, but it has to be not as big of the big day, and then everything else as it used to be in my mind. I think about it that way, because gambling is now sports. Gambling is ubiquitous, and it’s there every day, not just something we talk about once a year in some way, or March Madness or something like that. You
John Martin 09:34
you would you could think that you would be wrong, but okay, that’s why I bring you like that. I’m going to throw a number at you, 1.39 $1.39 billion that is the number that my friends at the American gaming Association, the Aga, right down the road in Washington, DC, estimate that Americans will wager $1.39 billion a. On this game legally that’s above board walking into a casino or sports book using a legitimate, authorized, regulated sports book app on your phone all over the country, 1.3 9 billion that everything else pales in comparison. And I’m not even trying to guesstimate what the illegal offshore markets would be, because we’re not giving them. So
Nestor Aparicio 10:25
I guess the thing is, if you sports gamble, you gamble on this game. I’ve often wondered if this game makes someone that doesn’t have an app finally get one. And I don’t know how where that percentage is, you know, from my mom being in on a game, you know, 20 years ago, it’s in the neighborhood, you know, Kitty thing to make it fun for everybody, versus what is legitimate, you know, wagering, trying to win money and, um, thinking that this would be the all in and the way that the derby or the Preakness and horse racing, I’m, I’m just trying to think of those big events where you see the handle and you feel it in the old days, Whether that’s changing a little bit or not. That’s all,
John Martin 11:03
yeah. And I think there may be a little bit of normalization now with with the other things playing catch up. But you’re right. You have people who participate this day, who will not participate in sports wagering any of the other 364, days the year. That’s just, that’s just the reality of it, and the cumulative impact is significant and and you know, with that, we always say, play responsibly. I love the AGAS marketing plan, which is, quite simply, have a game plan, bet responsibly. You’ll see that prominently featured leading up to and through the the the broadcast on on game day. But yeah, we hope people have some fun they understand with their wage. Understand what they’re wagering. You know, it’s good to enjoy the game and have a little something extra to enjoy it with. But please, please play responsibly. Enjoy it. Have some fun. Go easy on the on the queso and the nachos and the wings and the pizza.
Nestor Aparicio 11:57
Too easy. Come on. It’s, it’s an American holiday. You know, it’s an eating holiday kind of sort of, isn’t it? Yeah,
John Martin 12:04
yeah, right, exactly. So what’s the best snack? What’s going to be featured at the Aparicio Super Bowl bonanza?
Nestor Aparicio 12:13
So here’s the thing. I know there’s whispers around town about a lot of things, including me not really being a journalist, but I swear I am. And these fingers and that phone and this keyboard and that television allow me to communicate socially in media, so I am. I’ve become a chopsticks guy. Even though I’m missing a finger, I’m very proud of my ability with chopsticks. So like, I love me some wings. I love finger foods and nachos and things like that, but anything that makes my hands I like I have to wipe off. I’m not a hand wiper off once the game starts. Once the game starts, I become much more of a drinker of liquids and much more of a if I can put a fork into it, or just in a general sense, I wait till half time, and I don’t know. I don’t know who Kendrick Lamar is. I’ve heard of Hedley Lamar. You know, I know Lamar Jackson. I you know, I know. You know there’s, I’m sure that Eddie Kendrick was at temptations I believe, right? So I don’t know anything. So this particular halftime, maybe my hands get a little dirty. I wash them off for the second half. I’m expecting it to be 1713, and a half, to be a great game. So for me, it’s about clean hands. Pizza works. And don’t judge me. I am a Dundalk guy, Bless me father for I have eaten pizza and Essex at Pizza Johns. I eat pizza Johns with a fork and a knife and that. So that helps me, what? But
13:45
I say, Geez, they’re starting
Nestor Aparicio 13:47
to game, though it’s a game at halftime a lot of times, honestly, during Raven season, we always say pizza, John’s pizza on game day. We just kind of do, or I have, like, some ROFO chicken chickens. Another thing I love chicken. ROFO chicken. I they’ve been a lot. 27 years, I’ve been one of their spokespersons and but fried chicken can’t, no, can’t. Can’t do it during the game. It’s a half so, or it’s a pregame thing. It’s for me. So
John Martin 14:10
fork and knife, you have your pinky up in the air when you when you eat that fork and knife thing. No, I eat
Nestor Aparicio 14:14
with chopsticks because I learned how to do it. I didn’t know how to do it. The first time I went to China and they made fun of me in Beijing, they brought me they were making fun of you for other reasons. Oh, no, no. They brought me toothpicks because I’m missing a finger and I couldn’t work chopsticks. And I made it a life quest, just like I made Baltimore positive a life quest. And this Marilyn latter sponsorship that I’m jeopardizing, uh, we’re gonna have the magic eight balls. We’re gonna be rubbing all week long. We’re gonna be Cocos. On Wednesday, we’re going to be at State Fair. I’m really looking forward to getting over to Catonsville. Uh, we’re doing that for the Catonsville emergency assistance. Caitlin Kirby’s going to be coming by and taking our canned goods, and I’m pleased about that. On Friday will be Cooper’s north where we have proper gumbo for the big game. John Martin is here. He is the executive director of all things lottery. By the way, I’m wearing my faith league shirt because. Yes, it’s a long story about Tuesday, but I’m going to make it right for American Cancer Society. Everybody was coming out. They’re going to be coming out. Jessica Normington, you know, I love you. We’re going to do it two weeks from now. So I’ll have these to give away. John, did I leave anything on the table here today, other than big game? Do it responsibly. And, you know, I look at these monopoly tickets, and I think somebody’s going to win 2 million bucks. You know, I’m going to have a good time with this. And I have TJ Humphreys coming on this week, telling stories about being a big winner. And I think winning is what it’s all about for you guys, and trying to have fun with this. And I think I hope people have fun on Sunday, even if they eat wings during the game and they can’t, they get all over the phone.
John Martin 15:38
So the last little thing I would tease you with, and people can go to MD lottery.com, for all the details, is that one of the many Second Chance prizes we have is a nice it’s a nice harbinger of spring. Looking ahead, we have an outdoor kitchen package available. What I
Nestor Aparicio 15:55
have outdoors? You can tell me about this. What is this all about? This is the man cave, but it’s more like the out or family cave is what this is,
John Martin 16:03
exactly, exactly. So if you are my lottery rewards member, and if you’re not, you may want to be just for this, this event, you enter 50 of your draw points. And if you know, you know, but you enter 50 of your draw points for a chance to win a 44 inch. Island gas grill, which features all the state of the art high efficiency burners, stainless steel warming rack, steel cooking grids, grill, hood, the whole, the whole, and
Nestor Aparicio 16:39
44 see 44 is this? 44 inches? Right here, right? I got my tape out. So this is a grill. How many listen? How many hot dogs? You know, Amber, a lot. You can put a lot on there. Calm, alright, good. I like it. So, so you
John Martin 16:51
got that, and that’s just the starter. We have an 11 piece outdoor dining set, table and 10 chairs. So you’re going to find nine people sit around the table with an Nestor.
Nestor Aparicio 17:03
You’re waiting for me to have a spatula, and I don’t have any of that on the set for this week, so that’s okay, picturing me out doing all of this, because I love the outdoors. For studios, you will get
John Martin 17:14
a Cuisinart 20 piece Deluxe grill set with spatula. You will get a ceramic charcoal Grill and smoker. You will get, but wait, there’s more. You’ll get a steel outdoor fridge for keeping your adult beverages cool while you’re you’re using your spatula all this nearly $25,000 outdoor kitchen package, and just go to MD lottery.com enter to win. We will have that drawing around the first week of April, April 6, well,
Nestor Aparicio 17:48
just in time to get it out on the deck and get some perfect get some proper steaks on there, some corn on the cob, whatever it is, John Martin is here. You guys do all these creative things beyond just giving away dough, right? Like, people love money, but people love, like, second chances and TJ Humphreys, my dude this week, and going to ravens games for the next 30 years, and like all of that,
John Martin 18:10
people have fun. That’s what we do here. We sell fun. Alright? John
Nestor Aparicio 18:13
Martin is here. He is selling fun this week. We have more winners. Next week, I hope to have some winners. I took pictures on Monday with cool people. I went around. It’s amazing when I give these out on the Maryland crab cake tour, especially this week, I’m doing cup of Super Bowl. People bringing canned goods and doing stuff. I’m in the main bar at Costas. They had a week in the dining room, and I wanted to stand so we’re there doing the show. And I gave these out. And people came up and they were so appreciative to say, we didn’t win, but, but we’re really thankful. And then somebody else came and said, 110, bucks. I’m like, no, no idea. Pick. No, no idea. Picture, boom. So we had some winners at Costas. We’ll have more winners this week. We are next week in Harford County. We’re going to be at libs grill, Harford County Executive, Bob Castle, coming by with my, one of my oldest friends and first sponsors, Joe slifka, all the barn shows back in the 9090, so we’re going to have some great, great guests at heart in Harford County. Libs grill be there from noon till five in Bay. Banta, where on Wednesday, and then we’re going to get back to Faith these two weeks from now. So big appreciation all our friends at the Maryland lottery as well as Jiffy Lube and wise markets for putting us out this week a cup of soup or bowl if you’re still around later in the week, come see us to stay fair on Thursday, Friday, we’re going to be Cooper’s north in Timonium, drop by, drop off some good stuff for the Maryland Food Bank and local pantries. And we talk about the Kino, you know, ice cold this week. It is cold out and and the pantries are drying out from the holidays. Let’s lift the community here a little bit. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. You.
