There’s plenty of time for baseball and football and hockey talk but this is the week we stop and give thanks for all of it. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss thankfulness, good health and sports prosperity for Thanksgiving.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed Thanksgiving plans, including Nestor’s colonoscopy at GBMC, which revealed a precancerous polyp. Leonard shared his gratitude for helping clients achieve their financial goals and his own American dream journey. They talked about sports, particularly Lamar Jackson’s recent performance and the Ravens’ upcoming game against the Bengals. Leonard emphasized the importance of family financial planning and preventive health measures like colonoscopies and skin scans. They also touched on the Orioles’ offseason moves and the need for significant improvements in the team’s pitching.
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Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Thanksgiving Plans
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning various locations like Halethorpe, Catonsville, and Dundalk.
- Nestor shares his Thanksgiving plans, including participating in the Turkey Trot with John Hoey and attending a rock and roll Christmas event at Costas.
- Nestor and Leonard Raskin talk about their recent activities, with Nestor mentioning his colonoscopy experience and Leonard sharing his American dream trip to the West Coast.
- Leonard talks about his experiences with Eddie Vedder, Cameron Crowe, and Robert Plant, and Nestor shares his own Thanksgiving preparations and health updates.
Health and Family Gratitude
- Nestor expresses gratitude for the care he received at GBMC after discovering a precancerous polyp during a colonoscopy.
- Leonard shares a story about a nurse who was a fan of Nestor’s radio show, highlighting the importance of gratitude and kindness in healthcare.
- Leonard talks about his own experiences with colonoscopies and the importance of routine health checks.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of family and health, with Nestor expressing gratitude for his wife’s health and their upcoming travel plans.
American Dream and Financial Planning
- Leonard shares his gratitude for the opportunity to help people achieve their financial goals and create their American dream.
- Leonard recounts a story of a couple who retired comfortably and were able to help their children, thanks to his financial advice.
- Nestor talks about his travel experiences and the importance of financial planning for future trips.
- Leonard emphasizes the importance of investing in oneself and family, and the role of financial planning in achieving the American dream.
Sports and Thanksgiving Reflections
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the upcoming Thanksgiving football games, including the Ravens’ match against the Bengals.
- Leonard expresses optimism about Lamar Jackson’s performance and the Ravens’ chances of winning the division.
- Nestor and Leonard talk about the challenges faced by the Ravens’ offensive line and the importance of winning key games.
- Leonard shares his thoughts on the NFL and NHL, including the Avalanche’s old jerseys and the Maple Leafs’ recent struggles.
Baseball and Orioles’ Offseason Moves
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the Orioles’ recent trade of Grayson Rodriguez and the implications for the team’s future.
- Leonard expresses confusion over the trade and the need for the Orioles to make significant offseason moves.
- Nestor and Leonard talk about the importance of winning the offseason and the need for the Orioles to improve their pitching.
- Leonard shares his thoughts on the Orioles’ ownership and the need for a different approach to building a winning team.
Family Meetings and Financial Legacy
- Leonard emphasizes the importance of family meetings during the holidays to discuss financial legacy and values.
- Leonard shares statistics about the rapid disappearance of inheritances and the need for families to plan for the future.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of passing on values and financial knowledge to the next generation.
- Leonard highlights the role of financial planning in achieving long-term goals and maintaining financial stability.
Health and Preventive Care
- Leonard stresses the importance of routine health checks, including colonoscopies and skin scans, for early detection of diseases.
- Nestor shares a personal story about a friend who died due to a lack of colonoscopies and the importance of preventive care.
- Leonard talks about the benefits of early detection and the role of financial stability in accessing quality healthcare.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the importance of mental health and the impact of financial security on overall well-being.
Thanksgiving Traditions and Gratitude
- Nestor and Leonard reflect on their Thanksgiving traditions and the importance of gratitude.
- Leonard shares his gratitude for his family, good health, and the opportunity to help others achieve their financial goals.
- Nestor expresses gratitude for his wife’s health and the upcoming holiday season.
- Leonard emphasizes the importance of taking inventory of one’s blessings and making plans for the future.
Final Thoughts and Future Plans
- Nestor and Leonard discuss their future plans, including Nestor’s upcoming Maryland crab cake tour and Leonard’s continued work in financial planning.
- Leonard shares his excitement for the holiday season and the importance of staying connected with family and friends.
- Nestor expresses optimism for the future and the importance of maintaining a positive outlook.
- Leonard emphasizes the role of financial planning in achieving long-term goals and maintaining a fulfilling life.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Thanksgiving, health, colonoscopy, GBMC, American dream, financial planning, Maryland crab cake tour, Ravens, Lamar Jackson, Orioles, baseball offseason, skin cancer, family legacy, travel, holiday plans.
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, positively, getting the Maryland crab cake tour out on the road after Thanksgiving this week, it’s all Turkey and pumpkin pie and all the good stuff and family, as well as the turkey trot on Thursday with our friends at the Y i will be over at Towson, participating this year with my pal John Hoey. All are brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery on our crab cake tour back at the squalies, my wife and I went in for some of Darren sausage because we made some sausage and lentil soup because it is colonoscopy thing I got going on with GBMC. And we’re also going to be bringing the Maryland crab cake tour the honeys down in halethorpe next month for the holiday new place, as well as back at faidleys for Christmas and for shipping it for crab cakes with Amy as they get the fishmonger’s daughter going over in Catonsville. And we’re going to finish things off at Costas in Dundalk. I haven’t been down there in a while. I’m corralling Gina shock Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, corralling John Allen, some of my rock and roll pals to all meet for a rock and roll Christmas, just like Billy squire sang about, we’re going to do that down at Costas the last week of December, right before Christmas time, a letter Raskin is here. He is. Raskin global. He follows the American dream. I had a little American dream trip last week out to the West Coast to see some friends. And as always, I’m a cheapskate, you know, stay in the cheap hotels, take the light rail, do all that. But I spent an evening with Eddie Vedder and with Cameron Crowe, and then I spent an evening with Robert Plant in Seattle last week and some of my dearest friends in the world in Seattle and San Francisco. I made my way back and Leonard, I know you want to talk. You’re wearing your own veg skin jersey. I know you won’t talk hat trick. I know you want to talk ravens and Lamar and thanksgiving. We’re gonna talk about things we’re thankful for. I am thankful for the folks at GBMC for potentially saving my life. On Friday, I had a colonoscopy on Friday, they found a precancerous, precancerous polyp. Scared the hell out of me, my wife, both of us, all of that, but I will make you laugh with this for our GBMC friends, because I told this story to Luke. So I go in, I’m sick as a dog. Hadn’t eaten all this stuff, traveled the way back, drank my water, did all my good stuff, had my successful thing. Doctor says to me, Hey, man, you had a polyp. Thank God you got in here. You’re yelling to people on the radio, tell them, you know, get in here and get this done, especially guys, Leonard’s age and my age and all that stuff, right, sir. So I’m there. I’m I’m in the dark. My wife’s trying to, like, take care of me. I’m all shot up. I’m coming out of my haze. And I had a guy, and I couldn’t see anything because I I didn’t like the light. The light was making me nauseous. So I had my wife. I said, just keep my eyes covered. I want to be in the dark because it’s too much light in here for me, especially after the surgery or the procedure, you know, procedure, sure, right? And so I wait, I wake up and I hear a man’s voice. He’s like, hey, Nestor. My name is Greg. I’ve been your nurse since you got here. I just want to let you know I really love your radio show. You and Luke, you guys do a great job, ravens in the Orioles. So I’m like, Yeah, we got fans in the operating room. Leonard, you know that?
Leonard Raskin 03:06
You know you got to go back. You got to go back to here’s one. Hinckley, remember when Hinckley shot Reagan? Yes, if you remember the story that day, yeah, you remember the story about Reagan when he went in the operating room? No. So they were getting ready to to take the bullet, you know, find the bullet, go in and take care of them. And he he looked up at the surgeon, and he said, I hope you’re a Republican.
Nestor Aparicio 03:35
That’s not right. Well, he was
Leonard Raskin 03:38
true. It’s absolutely true. He’s joking around in the operating room. That was the big story, that he was operating joking in the operating room. The surgeon said, No, Mr. President, but we’re all American here today.
Nestor Aparicio 03:51
All right. Reagan Library, which I have not, you know what? I have a friend of mine who loves presidential libraries, who’s a historian like literally, in the last week, it said that it’s so beautiful, you need to go
Leonard Raskin 04:05
understand it’s amazing. I understand it’s amazing. So I have a friend, a good friend of mine, probably, and appropriate that I’m wearing the Raven, the caps jersey. I’ve known him for God, I want to say 40 years. Yeah, you’ve been a CAPS fan longer? You’ve been anything? Right? Yeah, over, over 40 years, and we sat next to each other as seasoned ticket holders in the cap center for for years and years and years. He he flew Air Force One. He was a command pilot on Air Force One, and full colonel in the in the military. And he flew Reagan and Carter and Bush the senior and then when Clinton came in, they changed the plane from a 737 to a 747 and that’s when he took his full retirement he didn’t want to train on. The new 747, the reason to bring it up, just what you said in the Reagan Library, is his Air Force One plane. And, oh, okay, I got a call. I got a call from this guy’s wife. Haven’t seen him in a while, a little while, and she told me he was in the hospital recently, and he’s he’s he’s getting older, and he’s having some some memory loss and some onset dementia, early dementia, things. And she said to me, if he went out to the Reagan Library, he could fly that jet right out of the place with with no problem whatsoever. He just can’t remember, you know, last few days or things. But the memories are incredible. But, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 05:43
colonoscopy, can I ask you? Have you done? Have you been through this? I’ve had many, yeah, yeah, one. I’ve had memory about any of this on Thursday that I went through this whole Drano experience myself.
Leonard Raskin 05:55
The prep is the worst part of everybody says,
Nestor Aparicio 05:58
and everybody thought, like, I thought it would taste bad. It didn’t taste bad. It
Leonard Raskin 06:02
had, like, some kinds. There’s different kinds. I
Nestor Aparicio 06:06
would get this again. I mean, I wouldn’t drink it as, like a, you know, as an entry drink. But it was fine. It was
Leonard Raskin 06:11
the ginger ale type drink. I’ve had the pill that you take that’s as big as your head, that you got to swallow and that it gurgles inside. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 06:20
I just want to as a PSA for our friends at GBMC. I want to say thank you for the care. Thank you for putting all of us together. And we’ll get on with sports now. Let a Raskin here, or just get on with like, first off, it’s Thanksgiving for it’s a must, man, what you’re thankful for? First
Leonard Raskin 06:35
Oh man, I’m thankful for the opportunity to help people handle, like you said, handle their money, create their American dream, watch the success that they have. You know, it’s an amazing thing. Years ago, years ago, God, I’ve been doing this almost 40 years. Nestor and and a woman said to me, just last week, I was on a on a zoom call with a couple. They’ve been retired now over 10 years, maybe 15 years, close to that, and they’re down in Florida. They’re at their home in Florida, and she said to me, maybe it was Thanksgiving, maybe it was just her moment. You know, she said, he said, the husband said, before we retired, we said we wanted to get a place in Florida. We wanted to retire comfortably, we wanted to help our kids, and we wanted to do whatever we wanted to do in retirement. It was 15 he said, it’s been 15 years, and we have more money today than we started with going into retirement. We have a second home in Florida, which we are at right now. We still have our home in Kentucky. We love it. We’re having a great time. Our kids are doing great. We’ve been able to help the kids. He said, It’s everything you said we could do. And she looked at the camera. She’s very quiet. She doesn’t participate in a lot of meetings, but she’s there, and she said, I want to thank you for the retirement you’ve given us, and to be able to work with people all stages. You know, from starting their first savings account, investment account, insurance policy, to these people, now almost 80 sharing how comfortable they are, how happy they are. They didn’t have a ton of money, they don’t have a ton of money now, they’re not rich. They’re just very comfortable in their situation and to be able to be thanked.
Nestor Aparicio 08:37
And a couple of trips you talk about your American dream and what it costs to do things right. Like I travel like last week, I traveled on points to stay in a cheap room. I visited with some dear friends. I took public transportation everywhere I went on the West Coast last week, like, literally, light rail in Seattle, Barton, Oakland, Cal train down to San Jose, $2.50 $8 $2.50 on the light rail back and forth in San Jose, I saw Brian Adams for 60 bucks. I could only eat soft food on Wednesday, so I didn’t spend 15 bucks at the at the Whole Foods getting like the rice and mashed potatoes off the hot bar, you know. So like having these kinds of experiences, my next excursion I will give to you, since you handle my money and, you know, I’m a cheapskate. I, you know, my wife wants to do Italy with her family, and she’s gonna do that, and she’s gonna do it right with her dad, who’s 80, and her sister. And, like, they want to do Italy. I’m gonna watch the cat, right? So they’re gonna do that in 26 because we’re making, like, 26 plans right now. Like, it’s all right, end of the year. I look at, here’s a Mike Pence term load star. I’ve got my lodestar out in front, right? So I’m looking at what I’m doing, and I think I want to go to South America, not to explore my roots. I’m not going to Venezuela, but I have a South American trip. Here’s the amazing thing, and I, you know, I become an AI guy in the last in a big way. I did all the research. And when I. Say, I did all the research. You just ask one question, and you can get all the research you want. And say University. Like when I would say, in the old days, if I wanted to take a trip to South America, I’d say, I wonder what the exchange rate is in Brazil. It’s Argentina. You know, I know Argentina is up with Trump. They must be broke. I’m like Colombia. I’ve never been to Colombia. I wonder what it was it like Venezuela, or is it I never been to Ecuador. I never been to, you know, the Machu Picchu. I never been to Chile. And I give my wife a hard time because I wanted to go to Chile, and she talked me out of it. So I’m, like, checking the money. I’m checking the exchange rates. I’m checking the difference between Cartagena, which is a beach community, and Bogota, which is a city. And like in Bogota, foods like, apparently, dirt, dirt cheap, like Thailand cheap, but in Monte video, or Uruguay, it’s more like American pricing. But you expect, expect, expect, more like 80% of 90% of American pricing. And I’m like, I didn’t know this. I found it all out with a click. And I’m thinking to myself, if I just want to be a cheapskate, I’ll go to Columbia. I can go there on the cheap, by the way, you can fly from Dulles down to South America and back, do all the travel that I wanted to do $550 right? It’s thinking to myself, why haven’t I done it? Let’s get my passport. Let’s go go. Right? I can’t go. I can’t go to San Francisco for that. I know that.
Leonard Raskin 11:16
Just gonna say you can’t go across the country. Yeah. So I’m thankful for for the opportunity to help great people achieve great things. I’m also thankful, you know, got a great family, good health, been able to travel, been able to do great things, send the boy to Ireland for a year. You know, the to have the wherewithal to have achieved for all intents and purposes. You know, the American dream come from Randallstown, poor, Section Eight, housing, food stamps, free lunch at school, to owning a business, six employees. Great, great opportunity to live in this great country and do great things and be able to do it. Not have to to worry. You know, can I, if the car breaks down, can I get it repaired? Right? It’s, it’s a fabulous, fabulous thing. And I, I am of the belief it’s not a political thing by any stretch. But I am of the belief that if you put your head down, you pick a passion, you work hard in this country, you can achieve almost anything you want. I could never put this jersey on and skate the ice. Never could, not my thing, not capable, not able. But you know what, if you own the team, you can do all kinds of great things. And you know what it takes to own a hockey team in America today, Nestor, season ticket, one share of MSG stock, and you own the Rangers. Oh, okay,
Nestor Aparicio 12:53
can you skip the facial recognition when you walk in it? No, the garden. He is thankful. I am thankful, I am thankful, you know, I’m thankful that, like that, I have my health and walking hills in San Francisco and Seattle last week, walking up and down where a couple years ago, my back hurt and all that. So Dr Steve, I’m thankful Planet Fitness and doctors and just sort of having this bill of health last week and having a cancer scare in the last five days in my life has certainly, hmm, you know, what can I do next? So I am thankful for my health and certainly for my wife’s health. Every day, people ask me about my wife and how she doing. She’s doing great. So Happy Thanksgiving to everybody out there. Now you’re a veteran thing. Let’s go with that for $100 then we’ll get
Leonard Raskin 13:41
to Lamar. The old people said. People said last year was a fluke. The old man ain’t going to get 30 goals again. He He’s washed up. He got his 900 he got his record so good now he can retire. Beginning of the season didn’t start off so great. He had a couple goals in 1015, games, and then out of nowhere, oh, and then they say the only place he can score is in the.on the power play. So last week, he decided to put his head down and kill everybody’s narrative, and he went off and scored a half a dozen goals and a half a dozen games and a half a dozen assists. He scored in front of the net. He scored on the right side. He scored on the left side. He scored on a slap shot from the from the.he he was doing everything. He was named Offensive Player of the Week. And watch the talking heads all of a sudden. Could he get 1000 goals if he stuck around so it goes from he’s washed up to he’s he’s knocking him in left and right. He had a hat trick the other night, and who knows what’s next for the grade eight? Could he get a 50 goal season? Could he get another 40 goal season when they didn’t think he was going to have a 10 goal season? So I like. It. I like that.
Nestor Aparicio 15:01
22 games in 20 points is what I see right now.
Leonard Raskin 15:04
Yeah, it’s not so bad, not so bad. And just last week again, you know the hat trick, bunch of goals, bunch of assists, and he’s playing, look, he’s playing with a couple kids that can’t remember weren’t alive when he was drafted.
Nestor Aparicio 15:21
My poor trots, his man, I you know, I’ve got my my predators jerseys, yeah, my gold one, my blue, my white one, the gray, all that. Yep, yep. It’s not going well for the trotses, is it? Not
Leonard Raskin 15:32
at the moment, not at the moment, but it’s worse to be the Rangers or the Maple Leafs. You know, they’re at the bottom of the barrel.
Nestor Aparicio 15:40
So what happened to the maple leaf?
Leonard Raskin 15:43
I mean, they gave away a couple people, and now they stink. I don’t know. It’s crazy. Yeah, it’s crazy. They’ll come back to losing the playoffs. You know, they’re good at that. That’s what they do.
Nestor Aparicio 15:55
What did you make of the avalanche wearing the old jerseys?
Leonard Raskin 16:02
You know, they’re just trying to make money. Let’s face it, they’re wearing the old jerseys to get people to buy the old jerseys. They come up with new jerseys so you can wear the New Jerseys the NFL. Same thing, they got these quote, unquote throwbacks. They got the
Nestor Aparicio 16:17
Yeah, but the Carolina hurricane should not be wearing a Hart whalers jerseys. I get it. You know what? I mean, that’s
Leonard Raskin 16:21
not, it’s a stick in the eye. It’s a stick in the eye. It’s not
Nestor Aparicio 16:24
say that as a guy who’s an oiler guy, that the Titan shouldn’t be wearing that
Leonard Raskin 16:28
stuff. We shouldn’t wear Browns jerseys or colts Jersey, and we don’t, and we don’t, thank God. Hopefully they never do. Oh, it’s horrible. It’s
Nestor Aparicio 16:36
horrible. And that’ll be got that out, Lamar, let’s talk some football here. Leonard Raskin is my guess. Raskin global, of course, managing money in the American dream.
Leonard Raskin 16:45
Um, he’s not. Says he’s he says he’s 100% he’s jogging out there. He He’s not evading. He’s not running. There’s look, you can man there, we’re winning. They’re winning. You can stop the run when there’s no threat of him running. It is a much different team when there’s a threat of Lamar running. And I hope, hope, hope he’s been nursing it and nursing it and nursing it for the next six
Nestor Aparicio 17:16
I mean, they’re gonna have a little mini buy here after this, right? And I don’t know what Joe burrow is going to bring on Thursday night? Certainly, Kyle Hamilton’s a question mark. I mean, Higgins is a good thing. I saw him hit his head. Joe
Leonard Raskin 17:28
can’t play. He can’t be ready for Thursday. But Chase is back from spitting. Chase is back, right? He’s a guy, yeah, in the Pittsburgh game. Why?
Nestor Aparicio 17:37
Know you feel about Joe burrow? You’re You’re the original. You don’t
Leonard Raskin 17:41
like I’m a hater. I’m a hater, but, but we’ll see if he plays. You know, just got to get after him. You got to get after him because he hasn’t played in a long time. And let’s face it, their offense is not the issue. Joe Flacco could put up 400 yards too. He’s done it, so I don’t think their offense is the issue. I think it’s we got to exploit their defense. And from what I saw on Sunday in the first half of that game against the Jets, and I didn’t think the Jets had that good a defense, but apparently they must, because we only scored a field goal, and
Nestor Aparicio 18:19
the offensive line is not so good for the ravens, and that’s really good at the end of the day. Good. Yeah, the O lines. The problem here, and I don’t know how we’re going to remedy that in bigger games and better situations. I’d love to see that they’re going to survive Thursday night and wind up seven to five. I mean, listen, for all they’ve been through first place right now. I don’t think the fans have anything to complain about at
Leonard Raskin 18:43
this point. Look when, when we were one in five. We spoke, one in five, six in with 12 to go. No, what was it? 11 to go, right? We said they had to go, nine and two. Roll the tape. We said nine and two would win the division so far, so far, five and Oh, which means out of the last six, you got to go four and two. You got to go no worse than four and two. Four and two wins the division.
Nestor Aparicio 19:14
Yeah. But if the if the two is against the Steelers, it’s a problem, correct?
Leonard Raskin 19:19
Yeah. So I’m saying Thursday night, you got to pull this one out at home. You got to pull this one out at home. Steelers, don’t worry me as much as the Bengals do, just because the Bengals offensive, no matter who’s playing, they’re throwing that ball over the field, and we got to stop chase. The good news is, when you have Chase or Higgins, you can stop one, maybe when you got them both. Man, it’s tough. Well, the
Nestor Aparicio 19:45
Raymond certainly got a break in the in that case, Have you followed any of the baseball stuff at all? Have you like about dealing Grayson Rodriguez? You got? Yeah, I don’t
Leonard Raskin 19:56
get that at all. I don’t understand the move. Okay, he’s. Been hurt, but the guys,
Nestor Aparicio 20:02
they know more than we know. I always say that you
Leonard Raskin 20:05
always have to believe, but don’t you think the other team knows something? Yeah, that’s what I thought. I mean, why did we get their scrub who hits a few out of the park? I get it, but we get their guy, and they get a young four years. Yeah, strong, hopefully. I mean, good for him. Arm. Glad he’s wanted somewhere, if he ain’t wanted here, but I don’t see our rotation being
Nestor Aparicio 20:33
full of aces. Got Angels in the Outfield man too, because Brady Anderson’s their hitting coach. Now, do you see that? I did not. Brady Anderson’s the the Anaheim Angels hitting coach.
Leonard Raskin 20:41
Oh, the Anaheim hitting Baltimore Angels in the Outfield city. Yeah. So it’s Grayson Rodriguez, right? Well, you know, what are you going to do? Who knows? This is going to be an interesting season. They got to come back. They can look they can be the Toronto Blue Jays, right? Worst to first. Worst to first. I tell you this, I was disappointed, wholly disappointed. Is it the writers that picked the MVP? Yes, that that. It wasn’t Cal rally. I don’t get judged being the MVP at all. He hits home runs. He’s that’s it. So what? Who cares? I don’t see him as the MVP this year. Cal Riley carried Seattle to a playoffs, to an amazing season judges with the Yankees. So what I mean? I like him. I think he’s amazing, and he is a massive human. He could just knock me on the head. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 21:39
I like tackling him at the game last year when curio gave me their tickets down on the on the on deck circle, yeah, I heckled Aaron judge. It was great.
Leonard Raskin 21:47
But he was two seasons phenomenal player, phenomenal player. But Cal Raleigh, well, dude is squatting, catching every night that position in its own right versus right field is is massive. And he carried him to the playoffs, and he led the league in home runs. I don’t see how in the world they gave that to Aaron judge. Doesn’t make any damn sense to me whatsoever. But guess what? I don’t have a vote, so it doesn’t really matter.
Nestor Aparicio 22:16
Well, I pointed this out with Luke about baseball, about the Orioles, they kind of need to win the offseason in some way. They need to win a day or two or three or a week. They need to do something. And it
Leonard Raskin 22:29
doesn’t even said he’s, he’s ready to spend the money. He’s got the cash, the payrolls there. Oh, but no, he has said it multiple times, is recently. But that doesn’t mean it’s true. Well, it may be, it may not be, but, but the point is, he doesn’t pick the players. That’s Mr. Elias’s job, I believe. So they’ve got to find the right people to come here. They’ve got to find pitching. Let’s not get ourselves. We got to find pitching. I don’t know who it is. I just don’t want it
Nestor Aparicio 22:59
to feel like an Angelos off season, it needs to feel like something different is happening here. And we’re three years into this now we’re, you know, we’re going into, like, two, two years of baseball, and now third off season, where it’s like, all right, man, like, you know, like you’re now the owner,
Leonard Raskin 23:15
and step up. Want to step up. Where?
Nestor Aparicio 23:18
At what point do I go on the radio with any sense of belief or any sense of conviction that you guys know what you’re doing, because I don’t smell that yet,
Leonard Raskin 23:29
that they’re doing it better, because it’s just so awful
Nestor Aparicio 23:33
for so long. And I want to feel that, that difference, and I haven’t felt that yet. No,
Leonard Raskin 23:39
I mean the Grayson Rodriguez thing again, you got to hope they know more than we do, and they didn’t give away another other teams soon to be ace.
Nestor Aparicio 23:48
Well, you saw he was kind of chippy about it when it was done. It was sort of like he was happy to be rid of them, to the point where maybe he thinks they got him hurt or they weren’t doing the right thing, by his lat and by his elbow, the bone spur in his elbow. So who knows? Yeah, time will tell. Let a Raskin is here, so he will do the right thing by you. He’s at a Raskin global he follows the American dream. Tell me what you do in a nutshell, here at Thanksgiving, and this is a time where people like families, come together.
Leonard Raskin 24:18
Yes, one of those don’t talk one of those. Don’t talk rules. You don’t talk about money.
Nestor Aparicio 24:23
You can’t talk about this week politically at the table, right? But you should talk
Leonard Raskin 24:27
about money. It’s a thing that families must participate together in the next generation. I hate to say it is going to come into a massive inheritance from this generation, and sadly, they’re going to be ignorant about money, and it’s going to disappear rapidly. Inheritors beneficiaries spend inheritances quickly, quickly. On average, an inheritance received is gone within two years. So you should. Sit down Thanksgiving. You should talk to the families this time in the year, to have family meetings over the next 60 days of holidays. Talk about the future. Talk about what you’d like your legacy to be, if you’re old enough to be leaving wealth, not just the wealth, but the values of your family, the things that are important to you. In your case, for instance, I know we just talked about it earlier. You love to travel. You love to do great things. Your wife loves to travel. I assume your son loves to travel. I don’t know he’s done some. I’ve heard you talk about it. But what are the values that that NES and Jen have that they’re going to pass on, you know, to the sun and Cathy and I, what do we pass on to Matthew and people need to take a good it’s a great time to just take a good inventory. And you know, here’s something you can say from a thankful standpoint, if you have money enough to have more than enough, meaning you’re not living paycheck to paycheck. You got some investments, you got some bank what does it do for you? It’s not just building up a balance sheet. It’s not what it’s about. It’s about the freedom and the flexibility that it gives you to a, do the things you want to do. B have choices in your life. It buys you options. I hate to say it nest, but let’s face it, some people out there don’t have a colonoscopy. Why? They don’t have good medical care. They don’t have good doctors. They’re not told to get it done. They don’t get it done, and they die young of something that could have been prevented had they done something about it.
Nestor Aparicio 26:46
By the way, when I put up that I have my colonoscopy over the weekend, and this kind of hit home, and it hits me home as I’m looking at your caps jersey. Yep. Ed Franko Vic one of my dear friends who’s covered hockey for me, and in various places I met, I met Ed Franko Vick in 1984 on the day that Pelly Lindbergh died. Oh, geez, yeah. I mean, we’re going back 42 years. Yeah. So that’s how long I’ve known Ed Franko Vick, who was always in the caps press box. And Ed said to me, Hey, that’s how Brian Murray died. Brian Murray died because he didn’t have a colonoscopy. And he’s like so and I love Brian, and I love his brother, Terry, as well.
Leonard Raskin 27:24
Yeah, they’re not great tests, but they’re massively easy ultimately, and they are massively disease preventing lifesavers, is what they are, really there are so many routine tests that you can get here’s another one for you. We’re talking health in the American dream. Have you been to a dermatologist and had a skin scan?
Nestor Aparicio 27:50
I have not. I know the skin cancer thing when you have a mole.
Leonard Raskin 27:53
Yeah, okay, but, but I went to a dermatologist. They they take you nude, and they start looking with fine magnifying glass at your skin and look for things on your skin that could be pre cancerous or cancerous. We were at the football game Sunday, and an old colleague of mine, he’s now, I want to say almost, probably 80, maybe 80, late 70s, had a big bandage on his face. And I said, what happened? And of course, the first thing he said was his wife hit him, you know, punched him, got him. Yeah, we laughed, hahaha. And then he said he had a skin cancer, tumor removed from his face, and he wanted to come to the Ravens game, so he didn’t care that he looked like he just lost a boxing match. His face is all bruised up, but he had, sir, he’s gonna live. He’s gonna live. You get that by going to a dermatologist and finding out that that thing, it just looks like an age spot. Because as you get older, you get these age spots. Isn’t just an age spot. Again, money be gets the opportunity to go to that doctor and get it checked out. So we help people protect their wealth and protect themselves, save money and ultimately to mental health, right? Yeah, that’s right. And all of that helps you live longer and have a better, better life with your family and those you care about. And Thanksgiving is a time to take an inventory of what you have and say, You know what I’m thankful for, what I’ve got. And if that’s financially, then fantastic. If that’s family and that’s all you can afford, then take that in and make the next step. I say the best investment you can ever make is an investment in your own self and family and skills and opportunity. That’s how the American Dream happens. It’s amazing. What can. Make Money. The littlest things that people do, start a business, create an opportunity in the world, beats a path to your door. Somebody invented the damn pet rock for God’s sake.
Nestor Aparicio 30:10
Yeah. You know some of the things that don’t work. I know about all that. Leonard Raskin is here. He follows the America dream. He is at Raskin global. You can find him. He’s also out of the front of Baltimore positive. Luke is in Owings Mills for the short period of time this week. There’s any breaking news before, after, during the game, you’ll get on the wnst tech service. You could get on that by going to Baltimore positive sign up. It’s free. It’s all brought to you by coal roofing and Gordian energy. I’m doing a Maryland crab cake tour beginning on December 5. We’re getting back out on the road. We’re doing four for the holidays, including at fadeleys. Cost us in Dundalk, as well as down at deepest squalies. We’re going back down to Canton. I had some delicious sausage over the weekend. You know, my wife knows about the they told me high fiber diet. My wife said, well, make you some sausage and lentil soup. I got plenty of lentils around here. I’m working high fiber. I’m working my health, and I’m working my Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road, presented by the Maryland lottery. I’ll be giving these out. My thanks curio wellness for keeping us square on our 27th anniversary. All the tastiness treats are out. I can now eat everything. I’m off a soft food. I’m off a liquid diet. I’m through the weekend. I’ve had all of my precancerous polyp things taken away. I’m feeling healthier, feel lighter as well, you know. And I’m feeling like I’m ready to get back into the big eating season here this weekend. And that means turkey gravy, cranberry mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, minced meat pie, apple pie, and
Leonard Raskin 31:31
potatoes, sweet potatoes,
Nestor Aparicio 31:33
sweet potatoes. Don’t forget stuff potatoes.
Leonard Raskin 31:37
I leave anything out. I think we’re good the turkey. Do we say Turkey? We got to have turkey football
Nestor Aparicio 31:42
as well. Turducken football Thursday night. He is Leonard. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.
