It’s the one event we all watch but now that football season is over and we turn toward the rest of the sports landscape, what you watch is predicated on what you’re willing to pay for to subscribe. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the remnants of a dud Super Bowl and former cable TV ecosystem that powers modern sports streaming and confuses the hell out of the rest of us…
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the Super Bowl, highlighting the Eagles’ victory over the Chiefs. They noted the Chiefs’ reliance on close games and turnovers, while the Eagles’ strong defense and Jalen Hurts’ performance were key. They also discussed the high cost of Super Bowl commercials, with Verizon hosting free events for employees and customers. Leonard shared his experience with DirecTV and YouTube TV, emphasizing the complexity and cost of modern streaming services. They also touched on the NHL, Ovechkin’s record, and the challenges faced by sports announcers like Craig Laughlin.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Super Bowl, cable TV, Eagles victory, Chiefs mistakes, Jalen Hurts, Ravens offseason, Verizon event, streaming services, cord cutting, NHL All-Star, Ovechkin record, Ted Leonsis, Wes Johnson, Craig Locklear, Baltimore positive
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. I guess we’re Philadelphia positive, because Patrick mahomes didn’t win. And all the gambling fixes and all that stuff are all over with. We’re going to be up in Bel Air weather, pending. On Wednesday at libs grill, we’ll be doing the Maryland crab cake tour, getting it back out on the road. I still owe one cup of Super Bowl to fadelies. We’re doing that next Tuesday, on the 18th. It’s all brought to you by the magic eight ball. We did have some lucky winners all last week. I was giving these tickets away, like Oprah was giving away. You get one. You get one. Everybody gets one. All week long, you hear some of the most inspiring conversations I have all year. Somebody wrote on the internet. It’s all me, me, me. I All you just talk about yourself. All I did last week and the week before that was talk about nothing but great stuff going on in our community. So make sure you check it out. It’s called a cup of soup or bowl. All of our sponsors lifted and helped, whether it was Coco’s, whether it was State Fair, whether it was faith Lee’s, whether it was Costas. Last week, we were at Cooper’s north on Friday, this guy was going to get out late in the afternoon. It turns out, I had Chris foreign out from the Towson torch. I had Greg Landry out, who spent some time with this guy from Towson transfers who did no one listens. Everyone hears our documentary last year, and even Luke Jones crossed the Pennsylvania, Maryland border, the Mason Dixon Line and moved into Timonium and did some baseball with me later. Raskin joins us now. He was not with us on Friday. Turns out it’s better, dude, because, like, we got to watch the game on Sunday. We got the game to talk about. Now on Friday, we would have talked about, I don’t know, charity, politics, some baseball, something else, you know, but
Leonard Raskin 01:48
eagles,
Nestor Aparicio 01:51
right? Like I said to my wife on Monday morning, I’m like, you know, the one thing I don’t miss after 27 years ago, into the Super Bowl, the Monday morning, going to the airport, where it’s a disaster, especially in New Orleans, because the airport’s really small. And I said terrible. But every Monday morning, when I did that for most of the years, of all of my 27 years of going almost every game was a pretty good game. This is the first time. Remember in the 80s, when we were a little younger, every game stunk for a decade. Yeah, absolutely. This was reminded me of that third, it
Leonard Raskin 02:21
was a good it was a great game. Okay, it was a great game. Well, I liked it because, well, look, I like greatness. I like success. I’m all about it. I don’t want to punish success, but I like to see sometimes it get cut down a little bit, and and the chief’s Kingdom looked a little too positive about everything. You know they I didn’t see the numbers. I’m sure they’re they’ll be out somewhere. But see, it was 7030 in the crowd for the Eagles.
Nestor Aparicio 02:50
Oh, is oh well, I said to my wife’s kingdom,
Leonard Raskin 02:52
they’re like, a little like, We’re gonna win. I don’t need to go. It’s no big deal. It’s just
Nestor Aparicio 02:57
another money going. Man, I was down in Miami the first time they went, and it was insane. It was a sea of red. It’s
Leonard Raskin 03:03
it’s a lot of money, and the tickets are getting higher, right, right. And I’ll tell you this, I watched some of the post game. I always watch some of the post game just to see some of the pundits and what they’re talking about. I don’t know who I saw say it. I didn’t hear it anywhere else when I was flipping the dial. But one, somebody said she’s played a lot of football in the last few years. He looked like they got tired.
Nestor Aparicio 03:31
Yeah, I did. They made mistakes. They made a lot of mistakes. And I think the other thing that really caught up with them from talking to so many experts, and yeah, I mean, I’ve had a dozen of the Hall of Fame voters, and it turns out yonder Suggs didn’t get in Smith or whatever. We’ll figure all that out. And, you know, I got deep inside all of that. But you know, for all of the pundits, every one of them I had on said, this is not the greatest chiefs team, right? They’ve made it this far.
Leonard Raskin 04:00
They won a lot of one score games, a lot of Lucky bounces, a lot of good breaks and and the Eagles looked like they were ready to win that game. They came out strong. Offense played great. Chiefs did shut down saquon For the most part, but hertz found a way with his legs and with his receivers, his tight end, Dallas Goddard, had a great game, but I wasn’t running the ball the way I thought it would be. It was saying they shut saquon down and the rest of Jalen Hurts. Arsenal lit him up.
Nestor Aparicio 04:34
He picked sixes early in the game. You early in the game, that’s right, like and you get behind early in the game because it’s hard to come
Leonard Raskin 04:43
back and go. Defense is
Nestor Aparicio 04:45
doing okay. I mean, the was okay in the first right for the chiefs, but this was not. The Ravens were a better
04:52
team than the absolutely, absolutely that
Nestor Aparicio 04:55
gets you nothing, that gets you That’s
Leonard Raskin 04:56
right. You gotta win the games when it matters. You. And and as we saw ravens buffalo, what happened? Three turnovers, some dropped passes, and the ball bounces the wrong way. And what do we see on the Super Bowl chiefs, three turnovers, uh, couple bad bounces. The the punter put the ball in the end zone. They started on the 2025, 30, the chiefs putter put the ball on the six, and mahones threw an interception on the nine or the 15. Whatever they got after him, well, after
Nestor Aparicio 05:33
two shacks, two jacks and a pick. That’s they got after, yeah, pick six. Three and
Leonard Raskin 05:39
out is not that’s not the three and out you’re hoping for. Move along. Move along. That’s not what you’re looking for.
Nestor Aparicio 05:46
That happen to mahomes or Brady or any of those kind of you know, who got besieged? Um, I’ll give you a game that was a bad game now, because I look, man, I don’t, I’m not. I don’t look through the backs of all of the bubble gum cards for all the final scores. Off the top of my head, the worst game, for sure, was the one in New York. And that was like in 14 right before my wife got cancer. I remember it real well, but the ball went over Manning’s head. We were in that end zone. The game was over. The game like they got freight trained in that game because of mistakes. Early mistakes, right? Mistakes
Leonard Raskin 06:22
ruin you, ruin you. And they don’t ruin you by themselves. They ruin you. And the other team takes advantage and puts points on the board. And mistakes led to Philly touchdowns, and that was it. They put them in a position they wanted them in. Their defense stood up really big, you think about it, last year, second half of the season, the Eagles folded, and their defense
Nestor Aparicio 06:46
stunk. They weren’t very good. The first month of the year either, till
Leonard Raskin 06:49
two and two, two and two, and then suddenly they flipped switch, turned it around, 15 and one before the Super Bowl, 16 and one after the Super Bowl, the the 22 year old kid with a pick six saquon ran enough, I guess, to keep him in the box and let Jalen throw the ball around. And how about Jalen Hurts, right? He’s a kid playing at Alabama, playing his heart out national championship. Right? They sat him. He got benched. He got benched in the national championship Philly, well, then he went to Oklahoma, won the Heisman Philly drafts him, and what happened? Do you remember what they you know, I can remember this. You surely remember. You remember all this stuff. They drafted him in Philly. And the fans were outraged,
Nestor Aparicio 07:42
we just won the Super Bowl Philly. They were right, but that’s right, but I’m saying, but they had,
Leonard Raskin 07:48
what do we drafted him for? We we just won the Super Bowl. We’ve got our quarterback. What do we need this kid for? He’s, uh, he’s not any good. He’s out of Alabama. They benched him. Now look, well,
Nestor Aparicio 07:58
they wasted all the money on Sam Bradford. They wasted all the money on Carson Wentz. They wasted draft picks. They had two franchise quarterback Yep, Cap numbers on their team at one point for five years. I mean, all of this turmoil, they’ve won a Super Bowl, lost to Super Bowl, and won another Super Bowl since the last time. Har balls won three playoff games like right
Leonard Raskin 08:18
now they’ve got now they’ve got Jalen Hurts, who has been to two Super Bowls and won one of them of the last three. And nobody wanted them. Nobody wanted him. He’s
Nestor Aparicio 08:29
last time
Leonard Raskin 08:29
Tomlin won a playoff game. Tomlin hasn’t won a playoff game, and how long, right?
Nestor Aparicio 08:35
And that’s what I’m saying. Lamar have won too few. Quite frankly, you’re over the body. No doubt.
Leonard Raskin 08:44
We talked about this a year ago. We talked about it two years ago, and I said, then I’ll say it again, Super Bowl or bust. The season will be a failure one more time, especially if they resign as Henry on a one year. Was a one year deal. Henry
Nestor Aparicio 09:02
was on a deal that they could roll through and figure out whether they liked him or not because of the cap number, right? But they could have been he signed. He’s on the team,
Leonard Raskin 09:10
right? So, so you got Derek, Henry for another year, obviously Lamar, you got everybody you want. You got you
Nestor Aparicio 09:17
don’t have everybody you want. So hang on.
Leonard Raskin 09:21
You got a Pro Bowl receiver, right? You need to shore up the line. You got to figure out what’s going to happen with Ronnie Stanley, right? You signed Humphrey. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 09:31
the figuring out with Ronnie Stanley is what we do around here, which is, he’s now a $21 million tackle again, right?
Leonard Raskin 09:37
So we either figure out to pay him, or we figure out a kid like we do.
Nestor Aparicio 09:43
We do the kid might be rose and garden going right side, the left side, and then they don’t pick the 27th so the whole notion of who’s going to be
Leonard Raskin 09:52
there. So the line, when I say you got you, got your, your, your stud players, you need, you need the line. Absolutely need the line. Line. The line is what won the game for the eagles on Sunday. Yeah, they, they defensive line was mostly, well, even the offensive line hurts was mostly standing there the whole time. I don’t know they hit him. I don’t think they, maybe they won sack. Maybe I don’t even know they, they didn’t touch him. He had plenty time to throw he had plenty time to look around when they when they rushed. They rushed past him. He ran up the up the gut and a few big first downs with his legs. So the ravens, once again, go into the off season now with next year being super bowl or bust for a team that’s good enough to get there and should get there, well,
Nestor Aparicio 10:36
they’re good enough to get there because the players they have. That’s what I’m saying. Hamilton Smith at top of school, they have Marlon UMP come back and play great this year. Yeah, defensive line that the Ravens have, maybe not as good as the Eagles, but pretty good. Pretty good. The questions for the ravens are going to be offensive, offensive line, and then going through the season and seeing where the penalties, the mistakes, and not losing games to the raiders in the That’s
Leonard Raskin 11:01
right, you gotta be at home. You gotta play home. You gotta find a way to play home and win. That’s all there is to it. But again, we said this last year. We said the year before Super Bowl or bust, with the talent they have and the team they’ve got, that’ll be the benchmark, and until Lamar wins one, that’s what it’ll be.
Nestor Aparicio 11:17
Well, the Eagles, to me, through the year and beating the Ravens in December, beating them here the way they did. And it wasn’t fluky or weird or give them the game. The Eagles came in and won the game, yeah. And that was a, sort of a disturbing Monday. I have my column. I actually saw my column last week that I wrote about that, because it was Tucker missing kicks, right? It was like it was all of that going on right before Christmas, and then the wind blew, and they won three games in 10 days, and they were beaten teams. And the offense figured it out. They figured out the deep safety situation. They didn’t need the kicker. Some of the mistakes were nullified by the fact that if they got bad down in distance, they made it work. So you know, all of that happened. Flowers getting injured. Key for that. And then, just in a general sense, them not playing their best football against the best competition. When they get into bad weather conditions,
Leonard Raskin 12:11
leave it away to Buffalo three turnovers and drop balls. I think Travis Kelsey had a pretty bad night. You know, he dropped a number of passes in Garbage Time. He caught some balls, but until then, it mattered
Nestor Aparicio 12:23
at all. Right? I mean, catch a couple early, you
Leonard Raskin 12:27
catch a couple early and you stay on the field. Maybe it’s different, but when you three and out and three and out and three and out, that’s it. That’s what happens. The other team scores and away they go. The
Nestor Aparicio 12:38
story of the game is Sports Illustrated, is writing. It is the defensive line of the Eagles, and key and the chiefs were were not a factor offensively at all because they got him off the field, or they got him into situations of throwing picks and making mistakes and the Eagles front seven whatever Vic Fangio did, yeah, um, is inside level for me,
Leonard Raskin 12:59
should have been the MVP. Should have been the MVP. Fangio should have been the MVP as a game.
Nestor Aparicio 13:04
Lena Raskin, so Well, I mean, we talk about what the Ravens did. And, by the way, I want to throw this out free plug for my wife’s company, Verizon. Yeah, a big stadium event on Sunday. I don’t go to a lot of those. I mean, through the charity space. And what you do with resist presented by or, well, I’ll give you the whole idea. Explain to me how much are Super Bowl commercials these days?
Leonard Raskin 13:27
I think he said $8,000,000.30
Nestor Aparicio 13:30
seconds. $8 million to have a commercial. Or you had $8 million to do something else with it. What would you do? Verizon decided, because of their partnership with the league, to get every most of them are in stadiums. Most of them are in club levels. But they did it in every place in the league. And they invited their employees, their local employees, and anyone who was a Verizon customer, if you got the email, knew about it, you could sign up for free tickets. So it was because I had AT T Well, there you go. It was a free party, right? And there were, I don’t know, maybe 1500 people, you know, it was a, it was a manageable, a very full club level, okay, very, very full warm club level, band, DJ, games, kids free, free little crab cakes, free food for some they had concessions for sale. They had, you know, wing dings. It was not, it was very nice, like, sure, we got down there about 330 and the celebrities were all from the Super Bowl 35 team. I don’t think they did this on purpose. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. Right. Was Jamal Lewis, who did the show last week, lives in Atlanta. He’s coaching football with Ed Reed and his kid, um, Femi iba deja, who lives here. I see him all the time, and he did a term with me last year, a couple Super Bowl for turnaround, which is a an organization here that helps women and children who have been abused, and the whole deal, bad stuff that we’ll be talking about all week long turnaround. And that’s Femi deal. And then Jermaine Lewis, right. Okay, so Jermaine Lewis, my wife, has never met Jermaine in all the 22 years of doing all this, Jermaine wasn’t around a lot like as an alum and this and that here and there still lives here Maryland. Guy lives out in Randallstown now. And over the last decade or so, he’s gotten more involved with the team and doing autographs and selling being a part of like, shaking hands and sky boxes and doing all that stuff. And I see him, and we’re Facebook friends, but I don’t have his number, and I haven’t talked to him, but we’ve flirted on Facebook. He I see him like something or comment or, yeah, you know, I’ll put a picture up from that era, and he’ll be like, Hey, man, how are you haven’t been in a room with Jermaine and the Verizon staff? We got there early when they were setting up all the crepe paper and getting all the food ready. And my wife’s got her Verizon badge, you know, right? Sure, you know, can your credentials and all that. By the way, she woke me up yesterday and she said, I’m gonna wear my Verizon stuff before we go to the game. I’m like, Cool. And I’m like, can you hear me now? And she said, you know, Buzz Aldrin is doing the commercials. And I’m like, Buzz Aldrin still alive. He’s 95 he’s living on the moon. Yeah, right. I mean, like, I’m like, you know? And I told her I met John Glenn once, and it meant something to me. So we go down to the Verizon thing, and we’re getting everything ready, and all the Verizon stats excited about meeting the players, because they’re coming earlier. Some of them had kids, yeah, absolutely, and whatnot. And, you know, Jamal did the show, and I love Jamal. And so if I see Jamal, and I did see Jamal, was like, love up, right? See Femi, but Jermaine. It was like, Dude, I haven’t seen you forever. It was like, great. So my wife asked me about the legend of Jermaine a little bit. And I’m like, Jermaine. I said the only seven points that the Giants scored that day, that it cost you your and your wife some furniture. January 28 2000 I said, the only play of the game, other than the Armstead interception that got whistled and set back, was the kickoff, kick return, and Cornell Brown and Brad Jackson blew some coverage. I tried to give Brad a hard time about it. He does have a ring, and they want, and I love, that’s right. I love Gordon, that’s right. So I love Brad Moore, because I love but then the subsequent kick, but the subsequent kick, Jay Lou took it all the way back, that’s right house, and he had just lost the shot, like all of this. So I was telling my wife about Jermaine, but I was telling the girls at Verizon. It was one guy was mainly women that were, like, from the communications from New Jersey, and one of them was from Pikesville, who works in New Jersey. It was all Verizon people. My wife was convinced about their network, EVPs and all that stuff. And I said, you do know, when you meet Jermaine, he’s like, shorter than me, and they’re like, Nah, and I’m like, I used to stand next to Germany, Jermaine was my favorite dude in the locker room, because he was the only guy my size, no like ever. Well, there was the kick returner that they drafted from Kentucky. That was a little guy. He was only here a minute or two. The guy after Jermaine, he was a really little guy. But nonetheless, so I got to see Jermaine Lewis. I got to relive Super Bowl 35 going. I got to see the black wing, which used to be the press box. I got to walk into the locker room and still smells the same. Alright? Beautiful. It made me all from the 25
Leonard Raskin 18:11
years I was there, right? Nicely. None of the, none of the execs were there, huh? It was, it
Nestor Aparicio 18:16
was completely empty. We were there before it opened, right? I wound up. I wore my Derrick Henry Jersey, and people got, you know, issue with me on online about it. I’m like, I’ve been a Houston Oiler fan since 1973 you know. So it’s a beautiful so I had a great Super Bowl Sunday, and it’s really very different, and I got play the game on all the TVs. Yo, yeah. Oh my god, did you go outside? No, no. I came home. I left,
Leonard Raskin 18:39
no I’m saying, Could you go outside and they had it on the Jumbotron, yeah, well, if you want to watch it, Nicole, right, that’s what I’m saying. Okay, who’s doing that? I don’t know. Somebody was out there.
Nestor Aparicio 18:50
Listen, there were, there were lots of families, lots of kids. It was very, it’s great, you know, very Dei. It was very, it was so that’s what you do with $8 million you know what? It was people that, I dare say, are never on the club level, right? Rarely. It was just a beautiful event. So that’s what they did. Instead of buying a $24 million of commercials, I guess. And they did it all over the country. They did it in the country to get spirit for football teams and football markets where there’s that population and they have people love in their company, yeah, and it was a great time, and I but more than that, it’s the first time they’ve ever done it. Let me let you in on a little secret, because I know David Modell was a guy that you loved, yes, the Super Bowl. We’re talking about January 28 01, okay, our first Super Bowl, our moment of glory. I’ll never forget this. David Modell was incensed, incensed. Now the stadium was brand new, right? It was 9899 No, our stadium. Oh, our stadium. Okay, go ahead. Baltimore got it. David wanted to open the stadium up right in Oh, one people to watch it. The league was. Would not allow him. You know why? It messed up ratings. Yeah, TV people, 31,000 people went down to the stadium that 15,000 TVs that wouldn’t have the game on right local ratings. So literally, the party I attended that, you know, was for the there were Eagles fans. I didn’t see any chiefs fans, but they were Eagles not far, you know, little children household off the TV. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And in the old days, they could never throw parties like that, because and David was so mad. David’s like, my god, these sit and this is the way David was. David was not in the least a dick about this. He was the exact opposite. He was like taxpayers paid money for this. PSL, I want to invite my PSL, we got people. Raskin spent $10,000 on a PSL, I won’t invite him to the stadium. I want people to congregate. I want people to celebrate. We want to do this together, together, together, together. We’re a new franchise. We have Cleveland we’re Barneys. We have this beautiful, stadium to throw a party. You’re not gonna we can make money. And they wouldn’t let him do it. They wouldn’t let him do it, you know, so that they said,
Leonard Raskin 21:07
they said, build a museum. Well, you know what it is?
Nestor Aparicio 21:11
I guess I am teaching a little History Day because it, it all makes sense, right? But I’m gathered with 2000 people on Sunday, and there weren’t TVs. Aren’t the issue, you know the story now, right? People are talking, you know, we’re getting real close to this going to be a 5999 Pay Per View event, right? Oh, yeah. We’re getting, we’re getting where it’s
Leonard Raskin 21:29
going to be on some streaming where you have to pay for it for at least, at least
Nestor Aparicio 21:33
you’re a money guy. You, you advise a lot of people money. Lena Raskin gloves, what we do, my, my son is a way cord cutter and a really modern person about streaming. Luke Jones still lives in Pennsylvania, and if you ever saw our videos flicker, it’s because he lived on a road where we couldn’t even get him speed past DSL, because he lives off a farm, not in York, but like in the middle of nowhere, right? Yeah, a mile past the middle of nowhere, and you can’t get internet, good internet, you can’t get good yeah, which is a real problem in this state, if you travel. And I did everywhere, right? But So Luke said to me, we had a we had some gumbo when you didn’t show up on Friday and doing this segment instead, which I’m appreciative of, because I’m more appreciative doing it now, but Luke and I had a bowl of soup, and he’s like, I got this stream in that stream, and I’m going to FUBU this and get rid of this, and Madison’s going to be on FUBU so I can get the Orioles games and the oral start in six weeks, and I’m on a free trial with Paramount and a free trial with Hulu. And I’m like, you’re paying Morton cable. That’s exactly what he said. If I want all of this, it’s going to be a mess. And you know, I want you to speak to that a little bit, because I think you
Leonard Raskin 22:47
you got us figured out money. Oh, they got it figured out. I find people with subscriptions. You can’t even believe they have subscriptions for the Hulu and the Netflix and the paramount and the apple and the Google and the the music streaming and and before you know it, they’re absolutely paying twice what they paid for cable.
Nestor Aparicio 23:13
I’ll say this. I put my work credit card. I mean, I run a lot. I run a business here, right? Yeah, right. Everything you see that makes our blogs work and powers our web and powers our radio station. I’m, I mean, they think I’m Jerry Coleman, but I run a I’ve run an operation here for 33 years, and I have subscriptions. And everybody who owns a business has all or even if you just sure pay your insurance with your credit card every Right, right? It’s a recurring fee. You give them your credit card, and then the expiration runs out in 26 or 27 gotta pop into one, and then you get thee, we’re going to cancel you. Last week, I got all of the cancel. I’m talking serious stuff, Apple, Google, my website, GoDaddy. And then you gotta figure
Leonard Raskin 23:56
you gotta put all the
Nestor Aparicio 23:57
garbage. And the reason is, in November, I had the old host, and they, I’m not going to call them criminals, Blue Host services, but they were a company out of Austin, Texas that got sold off to the gypsies, and who knows, in China, Russia, Afghanistan, you know that that owns it or whatever, right? But they were, they bang me for $1,400 last November, and I had to chase them around, and they never credited my they just, they’re they’re thieves, right? Yeah. So this year, they banged it, and I had a dispute on it, right? And it shut down my credit card back in November. And you know what I said? I did the two same thing, two flying middle fingers, yeah, yeah, to the credit card company. I said I want new numbers, cancel everything, right? Did you I want everything out? And now I’m paying the piper where, yeah, I’m getting emails, well, I’m getting the emails in, right? Reset it all, yeah. And in my mind, I’m okay with that, because I need Apple for
Leonard Raskin 24:57
X dollars. You gotta figure out which one. You’re absolutely going to keep it
Nestor Aparicio 25:01
needs to be reevaluated because I got robbed last year. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 25:05
there are, there are services. I mean, I had, okay, so I’ll give you a quick one. You know, I have DirecTV. I think I was the first subscriber. Well, you did that for football for so I’ve had DirecTV for years. Okay, so we’ve been in our house 30 years now. When we moved into our house, we had the cloverleaf, the big, giant satellite in the backyard. Okay, when we moved in, that’s what we had. That was
Nestor Aparicio 25:31
what it was, Direct TV was that was gray thing, the great, no, no, no. I’m talking about
Leonard Raskin 25:35
six foot satellite dishing on a pole in the backyard. The guy that we bought the house from had that, and that’s how the house was wired for for TV. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 25:44
he might have been the last one to get cable up where you were, jerryville or whatever, right? That’s
Leonard Raskin 25:48
right. So, so direct TV was just coming on board, and we were one of the first ones we cut, we dug the the pole for the satellite dish out of the
Nestor Aparicio 25:58
backyard. Even have, like the NFL yet, right? No, okay, so I’ve had
Leonard Raskin 26:04
direct TV to have TV forever, and and I’ve had, when
Nestor Aparicio 26:08
they bought ads for me back in the 90s, pull people in, yeah. And then I
Leonard Raskin 26:14
had it for the NFL package, because I was watching all the games whenever I wanted, whatever I wanted. And then last year, two years ago, it stopped. The only reason I kept DirecTV was because of the NFL package, you and everybody else. Well, now it went to YouTube. Okay, so I’m not getting YouTube. I don’t need another subscription for YouTube. I got direct TV. Well this past year, if you remember earlier in the year, last year, Direct TV went dark. They they didn’t carry whatever channels for a while. They like stopped. They had their big, this big dispute. Couldn’t get ESPN with Paramount or fighting with ESPN and Disney. So I had no ESPN, and it was lingering, so I did what everybody else does. I did follow Scott Van Pelt on Twitter. I did a free subscription to YouTube TV for a month. Okay, that was easy, free for a month. Give them your credit cards, free for a month. Three weeks later, DirecTV comes back with ESPN is back, but I don’t know how to freaking cancel YouTube TV. So I’m now paying 90 bucks a month for YouTube TV on top of everything else I pay for so I had to FaceTime with the boy in Dublin, I feel like I’m 110 years old.
Nestor Aparicio 27:44
I hook my credit card, unhook,
Leonard Raskin 27:46
unhook, cancel. YouTube TV, yeah, I got daddy. Daddy, you gotta click here as we share the screen. Daddy, you gotta click here. Okay. Then you gotta go to your Google account, alright. Then you gotta go to charges, alright. Then you gotta find YouTube. There it is. Then you gotta unsubscribe. Alright, we unsubscribed. And by then I had already paid two months, by the way, by the
Nestor Aparicio 28:09
way, Bill Maher, who I know, you know, you’re not politically aligned with, he’s fine, whatever, whatever. He did a shtick the other night, and I always saw it on YouTube, by the way, right, his, his, and it was Super Bowl week. He did it. And it’s was funny as hell, no matter where you sit. It was his. It was his last parting shots, or whatever the hell he calls them. And it was about YouTube TV. He said, Remember when you could, like, watch a game and click to another game and watch a game if you have, if you I still have, I have Verizon, because we’re Verizon fans, right? So, like, my thing acts, like, cable TV, but, like, really, really full disclosure, Leonard, and you know this about me, I don’t watch TV anymore. I don’t watch Trump I don’t watch MSNBC, CNN, BBA, band. I don’t watch any of it. I watch football. I watch some sports. I watch some baseball. I don’t watch movies. I don’t watch the news. Like I just don’t the TV is I could touch the TV from here I have, this is the remote, right here. It’s never on. If it is, it’s smooth jazz when I’m writing a letter to Steve Bucha, which I’ll be doing next week. So like, I’m not a television soul as much as I saw every episode of Gilligan’s Island and rose in a break. I just did all that when I was young, right and now, and I there’s nothing that Stephen A Smith is going to say that I have any interest in any of that, you know. And I look, Steve did. My was a part of my act 30 years ago at the turn of this, I know Stephen, right? So, like, I don’t need any of that, right? But the part of it is, is that everybody’s figuring out cord cutting, cable this that you better manage, and I’ll be better manager season. They better figure out how we’re all going to be doing this, because I just stopped doing it all together.
Leonard Raskin 29:50
Is it monumental? Right? They’re on monument. No, they’re all massive. They’re a mess. And, yeah, monumental is the caps. That’s where I see the caps. No. And. No, no, I keep, I keep Direct TV confusion even, look, I’ve, yeah, I’ve got direct TV. And whenever I travel, I just pull out my iPad, I turn on monumental and I watch the caps. And when I’m traveling, I turn on mass and I watch the Orioles, but I get it through direct TV. I mean, my son, my son is in Ireland, and he can watch Direct TV stream through his computer and
Nestor Aparicio 30:26
watch that. What do you pay a month for that 100 bucks? Okay, well, it’s 100 bucks. It’s 100 bucks, right? But
Leonard Raskin 30:33
that’s not the point. The point is, when you have Hulu and FUBU and YouTube and Paramount and Disney and Apple, it adds up to 100 right? Then it’s 50, then it’s 200 that’s my point. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 30:48
if you when you’re playing games, I miss telling you like, these are the things that come heavy
Leonard Raskin 30:53
and you’re going to be paying 200 you’re going to be paying 200 a month, not the 100 I pay for Direct TV. So the question is, what I would say is, a lot of people are paying 300 because they got it all. I
Nestor Aparicio 31:04
My wife left tomorrow and cut the cable. I don’t know what I would do, because we only have the cable because of her. To some degree,
Leonard Raskin 31:12
you don’t even have cable. You got the
Nestor Aparicio 31:15
fire battle, the football games in the baseball games at this point in my life, and if I want to watch a movie, there’s a computer here,
Leonard Raskin 31:20
and I can hockey games. What about the hockey games? Come on now. Ovechkin scored a couple over the weekend. He had three assists the other day. He’s 1616, away. With 30 games to go. You have tickets for any of these games in March? I haven’t yet, but I will be looking at April, I think mid eight, the beginning of April, right before the end of the season,
Nestor Aparicio 31:41
score three tomorrow night. No, you’ll be within 10 by next week, absolutely. Well,
Leonard Raskin 31:45
not tomorrow night, because now we’re shut down for the right, right? The four country, some BS nonsense.
Nestor Aparicio 31:52
I don’t have no idea what they do the all star game in the NHL, they never had it baked. It was good when it was like 18 to 16, and it was free form, right? One,
Leonard Raskin 32:00
all star. No, it’s 3131 skills, and it’s nonsense. But covered
Nestor Aparicio 32:04
the 1991 NHL, Officer cap center. No, is it the igloo in Pittsburgh? Okay? And flew up with the great Jimmy Jackson. He covered it for the morning sun and I covered it for the evening. I think, I think flights were 29 bucks on P right, or something back then, um, Jack Gibbons was kind enough. He sent me. Jack did it. People there. Jack sent me on the Baltimore Sun’s budget because he loved me and I loved hockey there, you know, something I wanted to do. And he he’s just like, kid, you do a good job here. If it’s $300 against the just go. Go for a weekend. Have a good time. Chase the girls. Do what you do. You eat some shrimp cocktail. So I went up to Pittsburgh for a day, up and back, right? And it was Lemieux and Gretzky. It’s beautiful, beautiful. So, I mean, it was, you know, and it
Leonard Raskin 32:48
was, like you said, 20 to 19.
Nestor Aparicio 32:50
Who watches it, you know, right? Who goes to it? It’s all about the skills competition. It’s a fan now, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Leonard Raskin 32:57
yeah. So now they’re doing the the Four Nations tournament, and they don’t have Russia in it. Why it’s not, it’s not the five nations. Well, it’s the US and Canada, Sweden and Finland.
Nestor Aparicio 33:10
So what are the WHO THE RUSSIAN kids play for? They don’t play.
Leonard Raskin 33:13
No, they don’t. They’re off ovechkins, off the capitals, who are the number two team in the league right now, behind Winnipeg. Have the best goalie in the NHL, Logan Thompson, who just signed a new contract. Have zero players selected in the Four Nations Cup zero. So they all have a nice 10 days vacation, which is lovely.
Nestor Aparicio 33:35
Well, I hope they come back with a nice tan and ready to go win the cup and go win the cups. That’s exactly what they’re going to do hockey with you, because I exchanged some messages with Ted leonsis last week. Oh, there you go. Yeah. We did. We did I, and I want to give a shout out. It was about Wes Johnson, who was battling, battling in the long time. Voice and I met Wes downtown. There was a little comedy shop on Water Street that was getting a start maybe about 20 years ago. And Wes was doing comedy. Wes Johnson, good, good man. John,
Leonard Raskin 34:07
great, great voice, the voice of the Washington Capitals. Fantastic. He is great. So they find him in a hotel room or something. Is he, I don’t know what happened there? Yeah, something, something
Nestor Aparicio 34:21
bad happened to West over the weekend that I don’t know. No, no, no, when he got sick, he’s been in Atlanta sick. Yeah, like, the whole thing, like, so i As long as West is okay, go fund me for I talk about gofundmes and insurance and, yeah, nonetheless, right, I will. I just want to give a shout at and Ted Lee owns us, and I exchanged some messages back and forth. That’s all,
Leonard Raskin 34:43
yeah, Leonard is getting Craig lockle Another one.
Nestor Aparicio 34:47
Give that shout out. Please do Craig
Leonard Raskin 34:49
lockle had open heart surgery, bypass surgery. You don’t, you don’t see many of those these days. You know, they put a stint in, they put a little bubble balloon, and you’re all better. But Craig’s. Out with they just showed a picture of him laying in a hospital bed with open heart surgery, bypass surgery, for something that he had. So he’s going to be out for a while. Some craziness going on in the announcing booth. Something must be in the air in DC. Who knows? Well,
Nestor Aparicio 35:14
I mean, they’re scoring goals and they’re winning for scoring goals, they’re winning.
Leonard Raskin 35:17
They’re the best team in the east, and I want to see Ovechkin pass Gretzky’s record. And you’re going to see Gretzky hanging around. You’re going to see Bettman
Nestor Aparicio 35:29
getting his last cup of coffee. Yeah, I saw, yeah, right. This is the end for him, I think for Gary Bettman. Leonard Raskin is our guest. He is Raskin global. You can find him out on the front of Baltimore positive, the other side, as well as at Raskin globe and Raskin global.com. My goodness, I’m mixing up my words. We are going to be getting the crab cake tour back out on the road. We’re supposed to be at libs grill on Wednesday, weather pending this week, up in Bel Air next week. On Tuesday, we are at fade Lee’s at Lexington market. Come on down for the seafood. Come on down for a cup of Super Bowl. I’m going to have some fresh guests out next Tuesday as well as we muddle through February getting ready for pitchers, catchers, baseball. Luke and I have talked about that it is a cup of soup or Bowl week, all week long here, make sure you’re tuning in, listening in, hearing the messaging of a lot of folks doing a lot of great things here in Baltimore, we call it Baltimore positive. I.
