Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the Justin Tucker story and civic fallout in Baltimore and for Ravens
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss the Justin Tucker story, which involves allegations of inappropriate behavior. Nestor emphasizes the importance of good journalism and the credibility of the reporting. Leonard, who knows Justin Tucker, expresses shock and lacks insight into the matter. They also touch on the broader implications for the NFL and the Ravens. Additionally, they discuss various community events and charitable initiatives, including Leonard’s support for the Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital and Nestor’s efforts to raise awareness for mental health and other causes. The conversation ends with a light-hearted note on Leonard’s upcoming appearance at Cooper’s North.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Justin Tucker, Ravens fallout, Baltimore community, charity events, Mount Washington, pediatric hospital, Anne’s toy closet, city cops, American Cancer Society, Hope Lodge, Verizon event, NFL trade, Pro Bowl, tabloid journalism, charity donations
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Leonard Raskin
Nestor Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively into a cup of soup or Bowl week. Um, lot of guests this week. Joe Flacco is going to be here. Mike Nolan, some NFL coaches. Jamal Lewis got the big Verizon event going on down at Stadium. My wife, who is a long time horizon employee, thank you for Verizon for keeping us fed all these years. We’re going to be doing that event on Sunday. In the meantime, each and every day, noon until five, we’re going to be out in the community. Our friends in the Maryland lottery have given me the magic eight ball, and I am rubbing the magic eight ball. We’re going to be giving these away all week long. We’re Costas Monday, we are at fates. Tuesday, we are at Coco’s. Wednesday, we are at state fair on Thursday, and we’ll be at Cooper’s north in Timonium, Mace chapel on Friday. I don’t even know where to begin with this. This guy is a big benefactor for the Mount Washington pediatric hospital. He’s been our partner primers for a long time. I’m wearing the Raskin global shirt. I got to get a new red one where it shows better on the internet. But we’re helping the folks of St Helena this week on Soup for the Soul and Dundalk. We’re doing Anne’s toy closet. We’re learning about our my friend Trish Woodward’s coming over with camp opportunity. Kevin moody is coming back again with his partner about kids on the street and doing great things in the community there to city cops, American Cancer Society, Hope Lodge. My girl, Megan McCorkle, Queen of awesomeness, is moving on to live Baltimore. She’s going to be joining us this week. So all week. Long John Hoey from the y is going to be here. TJ Humphreys, who was the big Raven, scratch off winner last year, who helps people in recovery. Reci, is even going to be stopping by. I’ve got STEM teachers from mervo coming by. Cost Cocos on Wednesday. Caitlin Kirby, the lovely Caitlin Kirby, who runs Catonsville assistance, over in Catonsville, is going to be joining us at State Fair. Kate Paris from accelerant, who helps out with a visionary of the year and LLS. Cassie Grady from Crohn’s is going to be here. She does a Crohn’s awareness on Thursday. Monique Spagnola, Rachel and Shira are going to come by and do some comedy on Friday. They’ve sworn they have a comedy act. I’m going to try to get in on that. Kate Bell from reads rescue doing a dog rescue at Cooper’s. And then Terry back, who manages Cooper, who’s a leukemia lyfama survivor as well. And then there’s this guy, Leonard Raskin. That’s just all I know about so far. I’m booking more stuff. Leonard, busy week. You and I get together. Full disclosure, on Monday mornings, Luke and I got together. I’m not doing a lot of Monday morning. I’ve done a lot of work this week. Sort of my regular Joe flack goes on. Did I mention that? Joe flack goes here this week. So I forgot to tell you that. Um, so this situation with Justin Tucker, I mean, we could talk about the Pro Bowl. I know you want to, uh, we could talk about the trade, because I know you’re into that. Yeah, talk about ovech, new 1918, whatever the number is, um, the Tucker thing as it comes to you. Give me the story, you know, and be really honest if you heard rumors, because I never did. I was full disclosure at Pizza John’s with one of my favorite human beings in the world, Jennifer Marsh. People don’t know that she’s like a blood sister. She ran the city paper for a million years. Max white. I mean, all the City Paper connections, you would know. She does real estate. Now she’s a beautiful human. I love her. We’re having pizza, but she’s an old news head. I mean, she’s a serious news head. She literally got up to pee and rinse her hands and left me at the table alone eating a pizza and a cheese steak. And like, what, french fries and gravy, which she thought was awesome, which you know is awesome, it is. And I get the text and I get the here we go with the Justin Tucker. So this is 145 on Thursday afternoon, and from that minute forward, my mind is racing on this, that, that, and then we’re out on the internet, and the second story comes Saturday. I know the journalist involved with this, and I tell you what, and this is where I’ll get sideways with you, or anybody that wants to get sideways with me on this, the sending a statement out and calling good journalism tabloid journalism. I could curse, but I would say that menor will not fly with me, because I know good journalism, and I know good sourcing, and I know good journalist. And this is not the raspberry crew doing blogger journalism from Australia on the internet. These are people and citizens on the street who heard a story, investigated a story, and this is a story. This is a story I know. I don’t know where the end is, but where are you? How are you? And I’m sorry we’re not talking about, you know, free agency or something like,
Leonard Raskin 04:42
right? I’m good. It’s a fine day in the city. It’s supposed to get to 50 something. I like that. And as far as Mister Tucker’s concerned, I gotta tell you, I’ve, I’ve known Justin for years. We talked about it when he was having some kicking woes. Yes, I hate to think that perhaps there were some questions earlier in the season that he was that were put to him, and maybe that was the yips that were happening. I don’t know. I have no insight whatsoever other than what I read. I find it stunning.
Nestor Aparicio 05:20
Did you read the banner pieces?
Leonard Raskin 05:22
I did. I didn’t have the access and the paywall. I tried to read it. The
Nestor Aparicio 05:28
paywa is down. You can go read right, right? I say I couldn’t read
Leonard Raskin 05:33
it, right? Okay, and it’s, it’s true. It’s dreadful, it’s tragic, it’s horrible. I have no idea. Like I said, I’ve known Justin for years.
Nestor Aparicio 05:48
We’re pictured conversing on the internet. It’s not AI. He never turned me down for an interview.
Leonard Raskin 05:57
Man, I wasn’t best friends with him. I was blown away years ago when he proposed to his then girlfriend, uh, at the way he did it, I thought it was magnificent and magical and all of that. And, um, it’s, it’s just crazy. It’s crazy. That’s all I can say. I don’t, I don’t have any deep thoughts on the matter, other than if it’s true, it’s dreadful. And I say if, because I don’t know I wasn’t there, I understand the reporters have sources.
Nestor Aparicio 06:35
I always wonder, and I guess standing part for me is if, and I keep thinking of the situation. He’s in Canton. It wouldn’t matter if it’s him. It doesn’t matter that it’s Justin Tucker. It could be Leonard Raskin or Nestor. And by the way, I had a wonderful massage last night. My massage therapist, s who’s been my massage therapist for 20 years, actually came to me on a through a Ravens Player Two decades ago, long before Justin Tucker came along, and actually, she didn’t come to me that way. I met her, and she’s been my massage therapist, but I’ve had massage, and I’ve said this to Luke, and Luke’s never had a massage. Oh, my God,
Leonard Raskin 07:14
I’ve had, I’ve had my share. Okay? I need more. I need more than I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 07:18
had, right? Right? I mean, like so for those of us who have had black, white, male, female on this continent, on other continents, exactly $50 an hour, 40 in some countries, 25 and others, 150 in the exactly 100 invasion, exactly whatever you get the palms, you know, whatever it is, elbow me, he looked like Chen from the kennenbar, like I’ve I’m non denominational. My dear friend Jeff, who gives massage above Elliot chiropractic, he is a phenomenal human being, a phenomenal therapist. As the legal counsel said the lawyer in the piece, these are trained professionals, so and you know, I even told a joke last week about knocking on the door of the place that that has the bike out in front that’s not a professional massage place. And I think most dudes know the difference, right? So I’m thinking to myself, if I am a 24 year old, 2832 whatever it is, right? Young lady, young lady, yep. And I have a celebrity person coming into the place. Any celebrity, any celebrity, yeah, sure, matter. Sure, anybody you want, of any walk of life, yeah. And perhaps not even like that, but like you make all the make all the jokes you want. I’ll even tell you the story about the place in San Francisco. So I I would say this, if you’re a person that works in a legitimate place, yep, and doubly careful, and there is a celebrity coming in, yep, and the boss set this up and said, Look, this is we have celebrity X, doesn’t matter who it is. And the door shuts, and that person is in there and does anything untoward, doesn’t I mean, like, just whatever. And you say, No, and they say, come on. And it becomes a joke, and it becomes like, hey, you know, and I told Luke this story, I had a massage. For the first time in my life, I had a massage where there was a sign up. This is not the first time I’ve had a massage in Chinatown. Legitimately call the jokes you want, but when I go to New York, sometimes I walk to Chinatown get a massage and eat dumplings and walk back, right? So, foot massage, like all sorts, but I know a legitimate place, and I’ve been in this place half dozen times, once a year. Last five, six years, I found that it’s 4.8 stars, 12,000 reviews on, you know, like great place, right in it more inexpensive than you think in New York, and more inexpensive than getting bodywork done here. And I went, I told Luke this, I’ve had a million massages everywhere. It’s the first time I’d ever seen this. This happened in. The day after Donald Trump got elected. So seven weeks ago, whenever I was in, I was in New York on that Wednesday, and I went in newish kind of place, and I was upstairs. And in these places, they’re more stally, they’re not like rooms, right? So I looked on the wall as I was like, taking off my clothes to get on the thing, and the music’s playing, and it says, No Hanky Panky. Literally, it was a sign that’s funny that said no Hanky Panky, like literally, it said that they thought, well, it’s New York. Maybe somebody’s being a douche bag, you know what I mean, right? But it ain’t gonna be me today or any day ever, because it’s not that kind of place, right? So I’m thinking to myself, how many times a day to somebody wholesome ish with one of these? They’re all Chinese. They, yeah, you, they’re awesome. It’s phenomenal. I highly recommend. I’ll tell you, if email me, and I’ll tell you where to go when you’re in New York giant. I also tell you where you get the best dumplings in the world, supreme around a corner on my street too, for $4.50 in a delicious Shen show to go with it. But, um, I’ll say this if you’re a girl, and this happens Leonard and and you say, whatever. And you then say, thank you, and you don’t participate, and roll the guy over and say, Get out of here. You know, fine. Now you go to your boss and you say, I don’t care if that’s Bill Cosby or, you know, or Mister Rogers. Doesn’t matter who it is. Like that’s inappropriate, and I don’t know that what he did, I can call the police about but it wasn’t professional, and I don’t know the call his boss, his mother, his wife. What should we do now? The owner of the salon just had the celebrity in doesn’t want to rock the boat, but let’s say the celebrities, the kicker for the Ravens has $65 million in the bank, like on and on and on and on. Now, what do you do? What do you do? 1014 or 15? What does the girl do? Go home to her father, her mother or sister or boyfriend, her best friend or BFF or dog or cat, and say that wasn’t cool, and that M effort got away with it, and because he’s what, and you know what, I just got a pound sand and watch him kick, perform, sing, tell, comedy, whatever. You know, my wife was approached by Bill Cosby in a coffee shop at the at at the harbor court when we lived there, and like my wife saw him flirting with everybody. Hey, do you want to come up and have some coffee in my room? Could have happened? You know? Now, what would my you know, what that happened a lot, apparently, with Bill Cosby, apparently, apparently, went on for a lifetime. Yeah, yeah. So I’m just saying, like, I’m not damning Justin Tucker. What I’m saying is for all participants here, for anybody to say, these are women doing this, scamming for that, all of that other nonsense that I’m seeing out there, put yourself in the position, click in the kitchen. What are you doing? It’s a bad day. And it doesn’t have to be Justin Tucker. Could be Citizen X. What? What happens when Leonard pulls that ish
Leonard Raskin 13:02
bad day. I don’t know. I don’t know what she does. Yeah, I guess, I guess, I think so. I think that would happen absolutely and so it becomes a question of, did anyone has anyone? Where does this go? It ain’t pretty. Ain’t nothing about it. Pretty, true, false. Other. Nothing good about it. Nothing good at all. I don’t I don’t have anything else I can add. I mean, I I’m not a cop, not a DA, not an agent. I don’t know what the Ravens do. It puts them in a hell of a spot.
Nestor Aparicio 13:38
Well, that’s what talks about like, when’s what’s their first move on the backside of Ray Rice, were they him out with a cell phone and his wife?
Leonard Raskin 13:48
Varsity coach? Right? Yeah, right. With the video there. I have no idea. I have no idea,
Nestor Aparicio 13:57
Luke. I mean, I always full disclosure, and I haven’t said this outlet, I liked Ray Rice as a person more than I’ve liked Justin Tucker over 12 years. Where, if I were to invite before either one of their incidents, okay, if I were to invite one of them couples, and I know their wives, I know them out to dinner, I would have a lot more in common to have dinner with the Ray Rice. I knew in 2008 910, 1112, I don’t say I admired Ray Rice, but I promise you, I went over. I This is and, you know, I don’t lie about anything. I went over to Kevin Byrne several times, several, three, four times after a Ray Rice Scrum and or even podium, during podium, at one point, I think I went over to Kevin and said, That kid’s really gone, proud of that kid. That’s a good you know, this kid’s got all that stuff that we talked about. Mark Andrews and I talked to Joe Flacco, which is the accountability, like all of that I haven’t spoken to Ray Rice. Since the punch in the elevator, like I’ve seen him one time at a Tory Smith charity thing, but I haven’t spoken to Ray Rice. If Ray wants to come on and sit here and talk to me about whatever life’s things have been, but if Ray wanted me to pimp for him and say, it’s cool that he’s a coach, he should a be doing that with every media member or every, every everything. Because I’m thinking, would I let my kid play football for him at how I’d have to have a long talk with him before I’d let my kid play football for him. And that would not be knowing him and I know him, yeah, and I always liked Ray Rice. Always liked Ray Rice. Justin Tucker, I don’t have any reason to dislike him, but he’s not my cup of tea. As a like my wife and I would go to dinner with them or something like I he didn’t like me enough, but that’s more modern era. Chad steal stuff of what they’re told about me versus the day after the scandal. I’m the one here taking phone calls or on the internet. People, what do you know? I honest to God, Leonard, the minute it happened, I went internet, came home, brought my wife some pizza from peach Johns, and I’m out, Luke and I did a piece later in the day. And it’s astonishing to me how many people in my inner circle texted me and I’m people I have that have credibility in my life, people in my life at quarter of a century or more, a text me and said I heard about stuff like this. This was not this was a the Kevin Costner, lights went out, nonsense. It never got to my desk. Yeah? Like, in maybe it’s because I’m not in the sports radio business, and one of the girls said she called a journalist. Maybe she considers one of the bartenders over one in five seven a journalist. But like, and, and was sort of rebuffed to some degree. It wasn’t me. I just want to make that clear, yeah, that like, if somebody had called me about it, I went to Eric the Costa all the time, which is one of the reasons they threw me out, saying, dude, you know, your football player showed up drunk for my show last week, right? And like, I’m not the journalist going on the air the day after. But this stuff happened, you know what I mean? And I would go to them, and the answer I would get was, always, they’re football players. I mean, they’re football players. Yeah, what can I do? You know, they’re not back wire boards. And I’m like this, that’s that’s becoming not a good enough answer for Sashi Brown, who has me banned from smart, see, not smart CEO related events around town that, like these people aren’t accountable. And that’s a that’s a global problem for their industry, for Dan Snyder and everything bad that ever happens in their industry, it happens because no one hears, no speaking, no see until like this happens too late. How many people out there could have been blind to this? When there are dozens of people in my world on my Facebook page inboxing me, saying this the worst kept secret in town. And I’m like, Well, it’s a secret I didn’t know about I
Leonard Raskin 17:43
didn’t, never heard a thing, never heard a thing like I said, known him. Don’t, don’t know him. Haven’t had him at my home for dinner. But, you know, bad news, bad news in a in a season of bad news. In
Nestor Aparicio 17:57
the meantime, I’ve eaten a lot of royal farms chicken. And I just want to point out that I make a great spokesperson for right? I mean, come on, Leonard, I’ve eaten a lot of words
Leonard Raskin 18:05
of chicken. I hear you. I do my share as well. I know I do my share as well.
Nestor Aparicio 18:10
Talk about this. So what do you want to talk about? No,
Leonard Raskin 18:12
I don’t, I don’t know anything about it. To add or detract from the story. That’s all I’m going to say. It’s nothing I want to talk about. I got nothing, nothing to give, nothing to take
Nestor Aparicio 18:22
something for this rooms and to people, your Baltimore, your football attitude, sure, sure, sure. Do me a really big favor, and I don’t want to throw anybody under the bus, nope. But I had a dear, dear friend who I wound up buying some drinks for that I love, that I bumped into at the Beaumont the other night. And he is, of all the humans in my personal life, like you, with my money, he’s an internal guy in my top 20 of all time, maybe Top 10 all time, favorite, favorite people. And he’s literally one of the five smartest people I know, yeah, if any walk in life. And he was in for dinner in a with a group of people, yeah. And only one of the four people had read the story, the first story, not the second one, because I think, no, this was Friday nights. I don’t know what. Either way was six and then nine, right? By the time people listen, I hope it’s still nine, but I don’t get on this reporting on Right, right and and I know all the reporters and that, which really pisses me off, where I with the lead to me was, this is tabloid journalism and shaming reporters. That’s some Bucha like, I ain’t having that. So I am now speaking up in this party for people that respect me and I. It was a, it was a great I mean, I love these people, right? I know two of them didn’t know the other two, but only one of the four had read the story. And they was conversant. They were talking to me. I was talking to them, talking about it. I’m like, You really need to read the. Story, and I pulled my friends up kindly, and I said, Look, I love you, and you’re one of the smartest, most awesome people I know. You shouldn’t speak typically. You shouldn’t speak of this until you write the paywall, read it. Yeah, I’ll say this for journalism. And you’re vested in my business. Your response, you’re asking global this is part of my journalism and part of a business model and part of the greater media landscape, as your guy runs the country and throws NBC out in the street, out of the, you know, out of the media room, right? Give, gives him the old Chad steal. So for me, with the media side of this and the reporting side of this, and what creates a story and what is credibility and what is good reporting? I, I know Chris Corman. I can’t pretend I don’t. He was on the show at amici three weeks, four weeks ago. Sure, you know, and I don’t want to say I’m friends, you know, I’ve never dine with him and his wife. I don’t know, you know, know them like that. I KNOW HIM professionally from starting up a newspaper that Justin Tucker called to the newspaper, and they’ve never printed anything. I thought that was funny. Um, they’re a news organization that has been birthed from the death of Ted venetoulis and money and Stuart banners money to try to continue journalism that has brought down dirty cops in our city, dirty mayors, two of them in our city, that Justin Fenton has been a part of that. And if Justin Fenton is at a barber shop in Timonium getting his hair cut, and somebody says to him, dude, I know, and and, and he would say, will she talk? And they’ll like, you know, mate, you know. But this really happened Justin, what I did on Thursday was said to the banner people, Look, if you want to put the reporters on to tell the story of the reporting, that’s where I am. That’s where I that’s where the credibility lies is. Where did you come up with this? Give me a little reporting. You know, this isn’t 60 minutes. I don’t I’m not looking to break legal. I’m looking to have you tell the story of the reporting. And you know what he he said, I think we might do it ourselves. And they did. And Friday afternoon, there was a podcast with all of them, led by that young man that used to work for Peter Angelo, which, no offense Paul, but come on, no, I mean, I’m just saying, I mean, you’re not a journalist. Yesterday to PR man, you know it is what it is, right? So for me, they did a great job, and I went on Julie sharper Facebook page. We befriended each other for the first time last week. Though, we’re first connected. So, I mean, I’m in, in on it, because all the media gets together and just puts all this together, like all these girls you didn’t know, these spot owners all got together with all their lawyers and had paperwork from 10 years ago, internal HR, paperwork about this and how they were all going to shut it down because it wasn’t good for anybody. Like, that’s really, was the truth. That’s really what happened. You know, like denying that, or you’re saying these journalists all concocted this and found these women who concocted this, and their lawyers and these places where you’ve got massage, and I’ve got massage around this city that are well thought of places that are getting swept up in this, let alone John Harbaugh and the massage therapist that have been working on every player out in the Ravens for the last 10 years. And if and when they brought it in house, because maybe they knew something about this, and they would definitely lie having the best kicker on Earth, because they lie for Ray Rice and they threw me out. And they do continue to do things like have CEO events around town where they ban me and look and smile the other way and cough because it’s okay, because of the Ravens runs for me on a deck when I go up to say,
Leonard Raskin 23:37
so like, this isn’t this is bad. There’s no doubt it’s bad. No, it’s not good. It’s bad. It’s bad. And we’ll see what comes and we’ll see what they say, and we’ll see what they do, and we’ll see if they take the easy road or the hard road, and what the NFL has to say about it. And Super Bowl week is on, and I’m sure it will come up there. All I
Nestor Aparicio 23:58
would ask is my, my closing statement is my was my closing statement to my dearest friend at the moment, read the story. Read the story. Yeah, read the story because, like, read the stories, right? Yeah. Now, follow it and put yourself in every chair that your girl who’s going to have Ravens fans throwing rocks at your house, if this thing ever goes to you know, you have to go sit. You’re going to get the the treatment that the Kavanaugh Blasi Ford got forever, and that’s where you sit to get nothing in 2015 or 16 or 14 by saying he’s so why now? Why here? Because some reporter called. Somebody asked and asked and and like all of that. So please go read it. That’s all I’m asking for any citizen. And by the way, this is the journalism I was getting all this. You get me going because I am as a journalist, I really burrow up when people piss on journalists and try to take my credibility. Chad Steele is trying to take. Like my credibility away after 33 years. It pisses me off that anybody would try to do that to Justin Fenton at this point in the game, right? So their podcast was interesting, but when I hit the banner people, I knew several of them, I’m like, Yeah, take that pay wall down, dude. You got it. Like,
Leonard Raskin 25:17
try to read it and not be able to read
Nestor Aparicio 25:18
it once Tucker put that statement out. I said, in an hour, 10 million people are going to have read his statement, and not secret story. 1000 people are going to have access to your story. That’s right, and that is the truth of journalism, that if Donald Trump says it this minute, the whole world hears it, and if you say it, pick your channel, Fox News. MSM, pick any side you want. It’s a smaller channel. No doubt. No doubt. Channel, no doubt. Yeah, so Leonard Raskin is here. I’m trying to get people to understand the media that we’re not bad guys. We’re absolutely who bring down dirty cops and bring down dirty running backs in this you know? Like, we know that happened. Yep, I don’t know where this is, but find out. Find out teams going to do, right? I mean, he’s gonna move on and get a kicker and play football. That’s
Leonard Raskin 26:12
all, of course. What else are they gonna do?
Nestor Aparicio 26:17
How’s the hockey player doing? Is he gonna
Leonard Raskin 26:18
hockey play? Hockey players going to break the record two more over the weekend, he’s going to break the record. I don’t know it’s going to be before the end of the season. Should be the pace he’s going it certainly should be. We will find out. And I watched, I didn’t watch. Who am I kidding? I didn’t watch the death of the NFL. And over the weekend, what in the heck is this? Bs, well, what nonsense
Nestor Aparicio 26:46
playing flag footballs? Well, they should,
Leonard Raskin 26:49
they should stop this charade that that is anything because sign autographs, yeah, just just do something that was pathetic. I flipped it on a couple times just to see what was happening, and it was just pathetic and stupid. This is worse. It’s the worst year it’s been. I couldn’t even watch five minutes of it. I didn’t watch five minutes of it. I turned it off. I was watching hockey, and although your statement to the contrary, I was stunned at the Luca doncic eyebrow trade in the NBA, although I am not an NBA follower or fan, I do know the difference between said Luca doncic and Anthony Davis, and was blown away by the fact that Dallas would send this player to the Lakers in exchange for, oh, my goodness, what? What is going on there? And again, I don’t follow it well enough to know I heard enough people that do say this is the biggest trade in history. And the only thing I can relate to similarly was when Edmonton sent Wayne Gretzky to the kings 100 years ago. My goodness, it didn’t shake up a team. It shook up a country. And here we have Dallas sending a 25 year old superstar, okay? Maybe smokes, maybe drinks, maybe he’s a little fat, I don’t know. He can shoot the ball. He’s like,
Nestor Aparicio 28:27
the stands to Mankiewicz or the NBA outside of the world would get that reference, but you know what I’m talking about, yeah, yeah.
Leonard Raskin 28:33
And he can shoot the rock and and they get back the eyebrow to a team that was in the finals last year, and everybody that is in the know, and I’m not, but everybody that is in the know says, What in the heck was, were you thinking? Is going on here?
Nestor Aparicio 28:50
People business? Leonard, it’s a people business. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 28:53
clearly somebody in management was not interested in writing this man a check that he could have gotten, and then they would have had an answer to why they didn’t give him the check, and then he might have moved on for less than what they got. But wow, that that blockbuster blew up, and was, was just astonishing, like, like, sending Gretzky to to La back in the day and and sure enough, Edmonton did that. And so, so have the Dallas match.
Nestor Aparicio 29:27
So I was on Sunday at Ray Bachman’s fundraiser down in Cancun, cantina, a great band called surreal. They were fan right up, you know, plastic rock. They were phenomenal. So I was there for, you know, an hour and a half, two hours, seeing Ray’s friends. It was unbelievable outpouring. I said to Ray, I’m like, You got to hold a funeral without dying, and everybody gets a smile, and you’re doing great, and everybody loves you. And once, you know, it was a bit of a GoFundMe. We talk about things, you know, people were taking good care of, right? I mean, you I parked in Pasadena, and the thing was in Glen Burnie. It was crazy. Me, but I’m in the back because that’s who I am, and I don’t like getting up on people with COVID and all that nonsense going on. And Ray’s best friend, Derek, who’s a wrestling, professional wrestling fan, baseball, football, that rock and roll fan, we have a lot in common, especially now we get older into our 50s. He actually said to me he he showed me the picture of when the Stanley Cup was in my studio in 1998 when Ray first started working for me, and we brought it over to the Sheridan that day. We had the cup and studio, he had these pictures, and 27 years ago, right? And we started my Stanley Cup. He’s like, Hey, man, veterans gonna break the record. We you gotta get tickets. Like, it’s gonna be in April. We got to get and I’m like, dude, just go get two tickets for every game and sit on a dozen. And I’m thinking to myself, from a speculative standpoint for you, and I said to him, he might break the record in Columbus. He’s like, they’ll sit him. I’m like, not if they’re trying to make the playoffs.
30:53
Yeah, right. No. What
Nestor Aparicio 30:56
do you think it’s gonna happen? He’s healthy, right? It’s gonna happen
Leonard Raskin 30:59
as long as he’s healthy, it’s going to happen this season. Can only hope it happens at home, although, as you said, it’s going to happen and Gretzky and a gaggle of press, the likes of which we haven’t seen in quite some time. Of course, we’ll all be there wherever he plays, and when he gets to under five, when he gets to under five, they’re going to be at every game, because he could pull off a hat trick on any given night. And they’re going to do their tracking and traipsing. And the only thing that could stop him from hitting it this year, which I doubt, is the stress of hitting it, uh, short of that, he’s going to knock that thing in, and it’s going to be unbelievable. The greatest goal scorer in the history of hockey.
Nestor Aparicio 31:49
I don’t tell the story about the cup night much, you know, the night we went to Vegas and trots and trots changed his phone number on me. I got to find an email on him. You know, we lost while I’m on this, because I didn’t talk about this. We lost Sean Simpson last Wednesday, and tragic simmer, you know, was my heart, man. He was like my first dude, him and Steve seftel, they both had mental health challenges, you know, yeah, and that seems to be sort of common to going back to the farm when you came. Sean Simpson played on Team Canada. He was in the really famous game with the brawl with the Russians, like there was a nasty knock him down, beat him up in a place called PI Stanny, p, i, e, s, but Stavis, they think Check, check, Republic in the in the 80s, bad, bad, nasty, Cold War, mid 80s brawl, you know, McGill need a whole bunch of players that played in the league later were involved in that brawl. Simmer was a candidate cup. You know, he wore the Canadian jersey. He was a serious second round draft pick, and he never played in the in the NHL. He never played in the game, you know, he never made it. He made it to triple, and he was a he Jack button. Loved him, and he made him a scout. And he went back to Ottawa and did my job, did sports radio, but had mental health challenges. So I, if I get to say anything to anybody out there as we begin couple of Super Bowl week, probably should get somebody on from 988, to talk about this before the week’s over. Yeah, because it’s happening too much in a lot of places. So it happened to me last Wednesday, and I don’t need to bring up Mike Flanagan or other people in my way, right, right? That I’ve had to talk about in that way we talk about cancer and fighting for your life, and Ray and my wife and other Chuck pagano coming back all these Terry, right? You’re going to meet Terry Beck on Friday. He runs Cooper’s north. He’s, every time we’re in there, he has a sandwich in a month that’s for his charity every month, one last month was should be on the menu. But you know, people are doing good things all the time in the community and and trying to lift people who, who you know, have struggles, you know. And I think that’s what this absolutely you know, absolutely you do for Mount Washington pediatric Give me your thing, because I donated on behalf of friends, Acosta and Cocos. I had a couple of gift cards that I forgot to know your wife’s bag. Yeah? Talk about that a little bit, because you’re going to come on Friday. I’m going to make you talk about that again
Leonard Raskin 34:19
Friday weeks a year. I mean, that’s, yeah, well, that’s one of the charities that Kathy and I donate to, absolutely. And we are, we are fortunate, you know, we’ve had a good life. We’ve We’ve financially done okay. And it’s important to me that we give to causes that we care about that happens to be one of them, uh, St Joe’s hospital is another and and number of other entities, but my position is there are people that are a hell of a lot less fortunate than us that need medical care and can’t afford it, and our country helps our. Our state government helps, our local government helps, and that’s just not enough. Altogether, I believe that charity would do a hell of a lot better job of it than the government ever could. Too much bureaucracy, too many layers of nonsense and direct giving, I think is a fantastic thing. We encourage the people that we advise about money to be charitable, to be philanthropic, to give to causes that they care about. And we are the lead sponsor of the Mount Washington pediatric hospital annual golf tournament. We have been for five years now. We help them raise a lot of money to help the kids whose parents can’t pay to have the kind of care that they need and end up in rehabilitation at Mount Washington, and it’s something that’s near and dear to us, not because we had any need for it, thank goodness, but simply because it’s a cause we care about and we care about kids,
Nestor Aparicio 35:55
kids over there right this minute that’s right battling right this minute you can drive down there instead of fighting with somebody on the internet or gossiping about gossiping about Justin Tucker or any of that, write a check in all of these things. You can write a check some money. You can give a time. You can be involved. You could buy for a fancy schmancy event to support and come out and play bingo and eat some good. Put your
Leonard Raskin 36:15
money where your heart is, your money where your heart is, and give to charity. And we do
Nestor Aparicio 36:19
people do Giving Tuesday. And I ask a few people, like everybody does that, I’m doing giving February. So we’re doing pop up Super Bowl. I’ll see you on Friday, pal. All right. Amen, absolutely. By Friday, there will be no Pro Bowls. Last parting shot beyond, you know, Hanky Panky and things that I try to do to keep things later. Yeah, no Hanky Panky. You know, you gotta remember that, man. I lost my parting shot. See that? Oh, it was something comedic too, and I was gonna drop the mic now I’m gonna have to do it on Friday. For you on Fridays. Do it on Friday. It’s terrible when you forget the punch line. That’s what happens when we get old my friend. Oh, something was happening. It had nothing to do with Justin Tucker, it was like something else that was, like, funny about this week, or like, what was happening in my life, and I now, oh, you know what it is, Rachel and Shearer coming by for comedy on Friday, and I was trying to write some comedy before any of this other stuff happened. So I’m working on maybe a comedy night. So that’s, that’s what a stick,
Leonard Raskin 37:24
a comedy stick, you know, look it up. It’s Yiddish. It’s okay. Stick like
Nestor Aparicio 37:31
a broomstick, not quite close enough. Different kind of stick. You’ll be here at Cooper’s on Friday. He’ll regret coming by, and by the time he comes, by the time I get off the conversation, I’ll remember the punch line. There we go. Tomorrow. Positive, stay with us. You.
