Our money manager and European summer globetrotter Leonard Raskin comes back from Ireland with a water story and a TT race tale. Touring The Isle of Man and learning U.K. geography before we kick off into Ravens’ football season and the Buffalo Bills.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss their recent travels and the upcoming NFL season. Leonard recounts his trip to the Isle of Man, highlighting the TT motocross race, the scenic views, and the historical significance of the island. They also touch on Leonard’s son’s year abroad in Ireland and his plans to pursue a PhD. Nestor shares his experiences with various local foods and restaurants, emphasizing the importance of supporting small businesses. They also discuss the Ravens’ upcoming season, expressing concerns about the team’s performance and the impact of key player contracts, including Rubenstein’s deal.
Action Items
- [ ] Follow up with Nestor about Dundalk paraphernalia from Ireland.
- [ ] Get together with Nestor the morning after the Ravens vs. Bills game.
- [ ] Compare notes on crabs with Nestor’s son.
Outline
Leonard Raskin’s European Vacation and TT Race Experience
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the show and mentions the Maryland crab cake tour, sponsored by the Maryland lottery.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss Leonard’s recent trip to Europe, including a visit to the Isle of Man for the TT motocross races.
- Leonard describes the TT race course, which is a 30-mile loop on the Isle of Man, and the excitement of watching the race.
- They discuss the scenic beauty of the Isle of Man, including the obelisk on the highest point that offers views of seven countries on a clear day.
Exploring the Isle of Man and Its Scenic Beauty
- Leonard shares details about the Isle of Man, including its rugged coastline, beautiful castles, and rural landscapes.
- They talk about the TT race, the speed of the motorcycles, and the traffic during the race.
- Leonard mentions the scenic drive they took around the island, including the coast road with no speed limit.
- They discuss the island’s history, its status as a British Crown dependency, and the major annual TT race.
Leonard’s Son’s Study Abroad Experience
- Leonard talks about his son’s year-long study abroad in Ireland and their trip to the Isle of Man.
- They discuss the son’s interest in medieval European history and the significance of the Isle of Man’s founding.
- Leonard mentions the son’s plans to apply for PhD programs at various universities, including Oxford, Cambridge, and Hopkins.
- They talk about the son’s experiences in Ireland, including making friends from the US and his enjoyment of the year abroad.
Nestor’s Tastiness Tour and Local Food Experiences
- Nestor shares his recent food experiences, including pit beef and pit pee sandwiches, maple bacon donuts, and peach cake.
- They discuss various local food places, including Pizza John’s and Young’s carry out.
- Nestor mentions his visits to different Chinese restaurants in Baltimore and his favorite Thai place, Fuji Sun.
- They talk about the importance of supporting local businesses and the American dream of immigrants.
Ravens Football Season and Player Performance
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the upcoming Ravens football season and the importance of the first four games.
- They talk about the expectations for key players like Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews, and Ronnie Stanley.
- Leonard expresses concern about the team’s performance in the preseason and the potential for rustiness in the first games.
- They discuss the importance of the team’s veteran players and the need for good timing and speed with Lamar Jackson.
Rubenstein’s Contract and Player Contract Negotiations
- Nestor and Leonard discuss Rubenstein’s recent contract with the Ravens and the implications for future player contracts.
- They talk about the challenges of negotiating contracts for young players and the importance of guaranteed money.
- Leonard shares his perspective on managing wealth and the importance of long-term financial stability for athletes.
- They discuss the impact of Rubenstein’s contract on other players and the potential for future contract negotiations.
Nestor’s Personal Reflections and Future Plans
- Nestor reflects on his personal experiences with food and travel, including his recent trip to the Blackwater refuge.
- They talk about the beauty of the Blackwater refuge and the importance of supporting local businesses.
- Nestor shares his plans for future food experiences and his excitement for the upcoming football season.
- They discuss the importance of community and the role of local businesses in achieving the American dream.
Leonard Raskin and Nestor tour…uffalo and Ravens season hopes
Mon, Aug 25, 2025 9:43AM • 37:14
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Isle of Man, TT race, European vacation, American dream, Ravens season, football preparation, Maryland crab cake tour, Irish Sea, medieval history, castles, castles and cathedrals, Harriet Tubman, Blackwater refuge, Chinese food, guaranteed money.
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 celebrating 27 years with my 27 favorite things to eat. We’re doing tastiness. We’re doing the countdown now into the teens, into the single digits. We’re going to get down there. There might be peach cake somewhere involved. I’m just saying, although I ate it all in the last segment, all the brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery, I have lucky sevens as well as a few of the pressure looks left. I’m going to have Raven scratch offs throughout the football season as we conclude the Maryland crab cake tour for the summer. Get ready for football season. I’m going to bring this guy in, because it’s always a good time to discuss the American dream. I think the last time Leonard Raskin and I got together on the GBMC hotline, we were discussing sandwiches, and I think, you know, and then I’d left you, and you, like, got on a big bird, went over to Europe, and have made your way back. And I mean, obviously ravens and bills first and foremost, but big you still got your European vacation. I haven’t even checked in with you to find out there’s good sandwiches in Europe. I’ll give you that. I know this much
Leonard Raskin 01:12
Absolutely. We had some great food. We did a few days in Dublin. We actually jetted from Dublin to, well, we didn’t jet we what’s it called propeller plane to the Isle of Man, you told me you were doing this. Man, it’s where the TT motocross races are. Amazing, amazing. So we jumped in a car. Well, we flew over, we got in the car the next day, and we went to the starting line of the TT, where the, you know, those crazy motorcycle racers go see this. The best part is people listen on the radio. They’re like me. I’m not listening on the radio. I’m shooting a video. I am out on Google right now, right looking up the aisle of man, yeah, so check this out. So the TT, the TT race, we go to the starting line. We’re in a car, and we drive the first quarter, if you will, of the course. So the course is a 30 mile roughly course on the inner parts of the country of the Isle of Man, which is not that big. Can I ask you, can you see Ireland or the UK from the I could use, okay, so check this out. So check this out. On a clear on a clear day, there is a mountain top that literally the highest point of the aisle.
Leonard Raskin 02:36
And there’s a there’s observatory kind of No, no, no. Like an obelisk thing up there. And you go to that point and it’s got a plaque on it, and depending upon where you look, you can see seven countries. So you see obelisk all, I think, is like the President’s album for Led Zeppelin, yeah, or maybe the Washington Monument, yeah, right. But way, smaller, like, like, chest, chest height. Okay, so if you look this way, you can see Scotland. If you look that way, you can see Ireland. If you look this way, you can see the UK. If you look that way, you can see Wales. So you’re supposed to be able to see seven countries, Liverpool, from there, yes, they’re supposed to see seven countries, and the seventh is heaven. So we went shining down on the Irish so we went. It was, sadly, a cloudy day. We saw one country. Dude, it’s the UK. It’s always good. Was the Isle of Man, that’s the only country we saw. But it was, what day is that? Right? One day, you get lucky. One day. So we went. We saw that. Now, if you look down from that road, I mean, from that height, what’s really cool? There’s a road, a highway, that runs along the coast where there is no speed limit. Well, it looks like there’s a lot of lamb and goats and sheep. Oh, absolutely, absolutely. It looks like New Zealand, right? It looks like it’s just a green it is gorgeous. It is gorgeous. And there’s amazing sights to see. You can do it all in three days. See the whole country in three days. It’s at its I think it’s 13 miles at its widest, and 60 miles top to bottom. See, this is why I needed to invest more money in you and less than former employees of mine over the course of my lifetime, because I would have been to the pharaoh islands last year. Yeah, I had a whole thing where Brian Adams played there. My buddy Jason seamer went there right away. He’s in Morocco right now, doing the call to, you know, like doing, he’s in Morocco like out riding a camel yesterday, Morocco like, literally. So, you know, I have these wanderlust adventurer friends, like,
Leonard Raskin 04:40
we took a horse drawn. We took a horse drawn, a horse drawn carriage to an electric train that is around since the 1800s to go to the top of this mountain. It was gorgeous. The weather was perfect. 70 degrees, 72 degrees, sunny, no humidity. Every day, a lovely beach. Each a great Island, fabulous people, good food. Had a blast. How long did you stay in the Isle of Man? Three days, two and a little island, right? And a half days, very little and and so let me go back to this TT race. So we start at the starting line, and we do a quarter of the course, which is about eight, nine miles, right? It took us 30 minutes with traffic, traffic, what a bike? Oh, no, no, in a car, in a car, okay, traffic lights, you know, traffic, everything from start to eight mile mark, 30 minutes. The bikes, the race from a standing start, three minutes speed limit, right? No, no, this is during the race, right? 200 miles an hour on a crotch rocket. I mean, these guys are insane. I’m gonna Google this because, like, I know very little about the Isle of Man. I knew about the Pharaoh islands. Oh, that’s fantastic. So the fair islands are like way north, halfway there in Iceland. The Isle of Man sits literally in the Irish Sea between Ireland and the UK. Why did you go there? It’s because your kids wander lost in his No, no, the kid, the kid’s been in Ireland for a year. We’d seen a lot of Ireland. We had a week. We were going to take a week to go over, to bring them home and but you’ve been to Liverpool, you’ve been to what you’ve done, let’s go. Let’s go to the Isle of Man. Okay, what are the chances I’m going to go there, you know, come back to Ireland, to UK, and spend a few days. So trip worked out really, really right. Timing was great. Took a piece of the American dream, and went to see the Isle of Man, the Isle of Man. Okay, so we did it. We did it, and three days we’ve seen it. It’s magnificent. It’s beautiful, like stealth, governing British Crown dependency, yes, mercy, yes, known for rugged coastline, beautiful castles and rural landscapes, mountainous center. Saw it all of man. Tt is a major annual cross country. Big deal. Cycle race around the island, big deal. 200 miles an hour. You know what you could see from there? And I’m not even everything up, everything you can see. Dundalk, Ireland from there, yes, Dundalk. Wait, wait, I went there after Whoa, whoa, whoa. So we got home. We home. We got back to Dublin. What’s a Randallstown guy doing in Dundalk? We got back to Dublin, and we went west in Dublin to Galway, and spent some time in the center of city. There, amazing, beautiful. And then we cruised to the to the West Coast. And there it is, Dundalk, Ireland, although my son says that’s not how you pronounce it in Ireland, it’s something else. It’s dundalja, something else, yeah, but that is, let’s face it, all the names here come from over there. We didn’t create any of these names. Everything we have is from over there. So this is how strong the Dundalk thing is. Just so you know, for those of us who subscribe to such a thing and are in the Hall of Hall of Fame, so Fourth of July, you know, we have our heritage fair, yes, by the way, it has been saved, like Baltimore County announced, like, we’re good. The next five years we’re going to have heritage right here. We’re not selling it. So it’s funded, which is community funded, and it’s the fourth of July and it’s the heritage fair. So I’m over there, and I’m we all wear our Dundalk stuff, and my dude, uh, Kathy timpson’s Brother, Mike Timson, I went to high school. I haven’t seen him in 35 years. He lives out in LA he manages rock bands. He’s a little bit of a comedian kind of guy, and he has all of this Dundalk stuff. And we caught up. And the whole conversation we had was his trip to Dundalk, Ireland, and my trip, and comparing all the pictures we took. So like, had any known you were going to Dundalk, I got friends there, Leonard. Well, there you go. Well, we didn’t stay. We went through. We really didn’t stay because we we hit Galway, then we hit the West Coast. I have friends who would have made your proper roast. There you go. And then we cruised back around through some ruins, through some castles, and went to Kells, the famous place where the Book of Kells originates, and then cruised back around to Dublin, spent a day and a half and then packed up the car and moved to Beverly. We had to, we had to pack up the boy’s apartment. He was done with his master’s degree. So your kid has now
Nestor Aparicio 09:29
lived in Europe for a year, studying abroad. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Now he’s back here, and he’s, what’s he doing? He’s back. He’s got a little bit of finish up for the Masters, some paper to finish up by the end of the week. And then he gets a couple days off, couple days off. And then after the couple days, he is applying for a PhD program, or PhD programs, to see where he will take his PhD beginning next. Uh, September, so between now and then. So you see a doctor, officially, no, no, no, no, that’s that’s the PhD. He’s got to do the PhD to be a doctor, and that’s another six years. That’s all. That’s all depending upon where he takes it. If it’s us, it’s usually about six years. If he goes back overseas, it’s four. And he’ll be applying to Oxford, Cambridge st, Andrews, I believe in in Edinburgh, they got a golf course there, they do. I heard they do. I have heard about it. And then a number of schools in the states, if his mother has her way, and it works out perfectly, he’ll be studying with a lovely professor at Hopkins, although we don’t know, because he’s got to apply to multiple places to see where he can get paid. Sounds so unsexy when you’re from here, but it’s a big deal. It is a big deal. So he’s got to see where everybody else is from, right? They’re not from here. They try to get them from everywhere, right? It’s just like the International look. He, he was in Ireland for a year. He made a lot of really great friends over there, and more than half of them are from the US, New York. Happy studying in Ireland because I know you had a lot of effort. You almost went to Montreal some other Yeah, no, he had a blast in Ireland. He had an absolute ball there. He he did not want to come home. Well, this kid lived in Columbus, Ohio, had like that college, but I find it fascinating. I got to ask you about this, because when I see your Isle of Man castles, you said this castle, that gets the deal. I know your kids more into, like the castles and stuff. I remember your Vacation Couple years ago, and I’ve really never talked to him about the castles, but I’m going to do that over crabs at some point while he’s open. Cost is so you got to go to Costas Dundalk, the Dundalk, yes, there we go. Right, right. So I would just say for for me, with castles, I have been to Europe several times. I’ve done this and that, and whatever we have castles, some castles in America, but nothing like that for me, if I were to do anything wacky on a tour, I probably would scoop up my rock star buddy, John Allen and go over to Europe and, like, follow the trail of Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd in the who or you know, or Ozzy osbo. We would do something right in that lane. Or if I were to go to Australia, to Melbourne, I would follow the lane of AC DC, or like I would be on a rock and roll expedition, more so than soccer or science or even, no offense I did castles and cathedrals, listen to Churchill, bunkers and stuff, the war stuff, beautiful, amazing. I’m just not I’m anti war, so therefore I don’t need to study. No offense to Auschwitz or anyone, I guess, your faith that had any of that, I don’t need to build a vacation around, right? I did that for a day in Amsterdam with Anne Frank, and it’s changed the way I think about the world hard, especially lately, with the Washington DC and threatening everybody else. But the issue for me with castles is, what do you get in a cast? Because I’ve been to, like, um in Cologne, the DOM, a lot of them are, they’re cathedrals, really, that are yes or castle, and they’re impressive and whatever, but it’s Chevy Chase and and Sparky looking out over the Grand Canyon. You get there, and you’re like, All right, let’s leave. You know what? I mean, let’s get a beer, right? Let’s go to the Temple Bar, yep. Um, so I went there too. Give me the, yeah, give me the castle thing. Because I don’t, I’m not, but, but the boy, you know, it’s his study. It’s he studies medieval European history. So it’s all about the founding, the Vikings, the Norse, the Irish, how it all came to be the the what, what is the historic significance of the place relative to the founding of the island? He is all about the Isle of man’s like Alcatraz was for me, running around, huh? There you go right place. He’s just, yeah, he’s just, he loves it. So we go when, when I come home from a trip with my son and my wife, I say all the time, when I come home from a trip with them, I need a vacation. It is not a vacation, it is we’re touring. We’re seeing we’re looking at castles cathedrals were climbing. That’s staircase lights in Iceland, right, correct. You’re going to see stuff. You’re we are not going to what I would call vacation. Lay on the be all inclusive, lay on the beach, lay by the pool, drink in hand, and you’re defining what a difference between, for me, the difference Go, go, I’m good with go to Paris, London, right? Exactly do that. But that’s not vacation. That’s an adventure. When we go on trips, we’re either going on an adventure or a vacation. If I have to have my navigate where I am, I’m not really on. A vacation, I’m on an adventure, exactly, yes. And when I’m on an adventure, I just succumb to the fact that this is what we’re doing. And I’m going to, you know you’re talking about having your phone out. I’ll give you a I think I may have told you this after the last big trip. Second day there, my phone starts screaming, you know, who stole me? Because this is way too many steps in a day for me, and way too many stairs climbed and things, because I just don’t do that. Worried about his heart. It’s not worried. It’s just wondering who has the phone. This isn’t tip, by the way, I had this happen, and this is a plug for my tasting store. By the way, Leonard Raskin is here. He is Raskin global. We’re getting ready for football season. I’m definitely a little bit of buffalo with the years we got football ready, yes, but so I’m driving on the Eastern Shore two weeks ago at Mako. And I did that since the last time we got together, did I do black water with you? Have I talked about this? Not sure. Now you’ve, you’ve owned a place in Delaware forever that you will go north and not across the Bay Bridge. Yes, you do go through Cambridge, absolutely, sometimes, for sure, several times a year. Yeah, yeah, you should never been the Blackwater refuge. No, all right, so this is for you, and for anybody listening, if for anybody loves Leonard and hates me, whatever the Blackwater refuge is the sign. You see the brown sign when you go through Cambridge, you can make a right hand turn. It says Harriet Tubman Memorial Parkway, which your president wants to do away with. And like all of that, but the the that area of the world below Cambridge, on the road to Hooper’s Island, you can look at Cooper’s Island. I picked the crab cake down there a place called Old salties that’s under new ownership. It’s remodeled. It’s, it’s, it’s a lovelier destination than even the place I went three years ago when I discovered this place. Take an hour or two, leave a little earlier, maybe on a cloudy day, where you’re not rushing to get to Bethany, yeah, I’m never rushing. If you’re on your way back, yeah, taking my time, sure, and you just want a little diversion and grab some lunch. This will take you a half an hour 40 minutes south, a half an hour 40 minutes back north of the highway. You can get back on in Vienna and go through the Harriet Tubman Trail, which I recommend, which is where the story leads because I drove out of Cambridge the straight road down Leonard. It’s the prettiest road in the state. You will not think you’ll think you’re in Thailand. You’ll think you’re in Smith Island. You’ll think you’re in the marshes of Louisiana. You’re going to see birds that only exist there. You’re going to see tidal movements and water and sun and cloud and little tiny roads and people fishing. You’re going to see farms where you go up and you take the tomato and leave them $1 on the honor system. You’re, I mean, you’re, it’s, it’s unbelievable. And it’s right off the road. It’s right off the road. We all drive to get the Ocean City, so as my tourist thing, so I’m driving along on the way out. So on the way out, I took the back, back, back roads, yeah, over to Vienna. So instead of going straight back up to Cambridge, I went to Harriet Tubman trail. And there’s a beautiful Visitor Center, yep, for Black Water refuge, beautiful bathroom. You can pee. You could do number two, you can there’s bugs, because it’s a marsh, right, right, right. That viewing area has taxidermy of all the creatures, so you can see what kind of birds you will be seeing, and fish and creatures and all of that. And the Harriet Tubman trails a half a mile away, and then the trail is the road. So the road takes you literally. I’m driving along Leonard, I swear to God, and there’s a little house, and it’s got one of those little historic signs. It’s like, this is where Harry Tubman was born, amazing. And I’m there, and I’m looking around, and ain’t nothing. This is not in the marsh, right in the refuge, just two miles east of the marsh, and I’m there, and I’m thinking, what was here in 1853
Nestor Aparicio 19:07
I mean, other than the power lines and the road, what the hell’s here now? Right? Like, there’s no schoolhouse, there’s no business, there’s no commerce. And I’m thinking to myself, Harry Taubman Googled her. She was kind of important in civil war and getting people to freedom. Um, that before this, I’m almost calling them and asked. I didn’t, but I almost wants to erase all of this history. So I went by there, and I’m going on these roads, and this has never happened to me. I’m driving along. I’m alone, so my wife would have been bitching at me had she been in the car. Keep your eye on the road, right? There’s nobody on the road. There’s not even a rabbit, right? There’s no humanity, right? And the road doesn’t really have two lanes. It’s just a blacktop on, yeah, sure. And it’s swiveled, sure, in the way that the car rocks, because if it rains, they don’t want the road to flood. That’s right, water. You know, the road is lumpy, yes? Out absolutely right, and there’s nobody around. Because why would anybody be there but me, right, right? My car told me to stop, pull over and have a coffee, because of the way you were driving. Thought you were sleeping. I swear I was driving along the road and and the car basically said you’re either drunk or falling asleep, right, right. So the car stopped me. Like the car like did like a like, if you’re going to hit something, right, right, slowed me down. And it put a little coffee cup up in an orange. I’ve seen that, and I’m thinking I had a friend who passed away, who was a bad alcoholic, and he had one of those awful things in the car. Yeah, the breath of life before you drove, right? I swear to God, when you tell me that your your people meter went off and said you’re gonna kill yourself. Leonard, my car did this to me, yes, in front of Harriet Tubman, because I was rubbernecking right, and the robe was lumpy. That’s how you got to be. Never happened to me. Eight years old in this vehicle. Thank you. There you go. They want to try to keep me alive, keep you alive, keep you safe, right? Your watch told you, told me your heart’s gonna explode, yeah? Who is this taking all these steps? What’s going on here that can’t be you? Can’t be you. So what do you want to know about tastiness? You said something to me because like, You are like my friend Shannon, who I had crabs with a month ago, and she’s like, tell me all the places I want to write them down. I’m like, where’s the list? Oh, wait till, wait till they’re done. I’ll take the list when it’s finished. I’m waiting. I’m watching. I see them all. Let me tell you what I’ve done here in the last week, so you can get a vibe on the different kind of food. I’ve had a pit beef sandwich. I’ve had a pit pee sandwich, yeah, where I telling you, you got to get check it out. Um, I’ve had a maple bacon donut very close to your house. Yeah, your house bakery. That’s fantastic. Um, I’ve had some. Well, see, I’m from I went to Our Lady Fatima. She’d say, Bless me, Father, for I have had peach cake. Um, I have had peach cake. Beautiful. I had and I have sinned with cheese steaks at Pizza Johns, which you’ve had? Yes, yes. Um, by the way, I’ve had some Republicans on lately. JB Jennings, and David Marks came over. So. JB, Jennings, one thing we can agree on, Republican, Democrat, Baltimore County, Harford County, whatever. You know, he’s he’s nicer than I am. He really is. He’s a farmer too. Yeah, when he came over to Pizza John’s, I said, I can I get you to come here for the cheese steaks? And I’m like, That’s my man. See, some people know where the great cheese I have had a an egg custard, Snowball, okay, no marshmallow. I’ve read that, right? I’ve had my favorite tacos in Baltimore, yeah, I’ve had my favorite tacos. I’ve had my favorite French toast. Ooh, I’ve had some french toast. I had Do you have a Chinese joint that you do you like Chinese food. Yeah, I used to my favorite go to but I haven’t been there in 100 years, and it’s not the same anymore. Was the golden dragon in Liberty Road and Randall house. That was the best, the best Chinese food ever. And then, you know, he got old, and family didn’t take over, and they sold it out. It’s now a Chinese restaurant and sports bar. And I don’t think the food is anywhere near as good as, okay, well, I mean, and listen, we could talk about Captain Harvey’s changing and Dundalk, right? We just got to hope that that keeps up, but it doesn’t anything but Cracker Barrel. I won’t talk about that this week, but I would say this, that having a good Chinese place, and yeah, and I love Asian food, right? And I’m, I’m from Dundalk, my mother, my mother, Connie, my maternal mother, yeah, who had a lot of issues in her life, but she loved me. And I know she loved me because she took me for Chinese food, and she was the person, because my mom worked late night. She worked, you know, right, in the industry, so to speak. My mom had a lot of issues, but she ate late night Chinese food at the white rice in in the former Chinatown in downtown Baltimore and Park Avenue just north of like Center City. Yep, and I, I went there as a boy in the 70s, and I have loved Chinese food. I had a place called Young’s carry out that still exists, and it’s still excellent. It’s right next to the DAC, right where the Baltimore Sun was. I started going there when I worked at the Baltimore Sun, 1987, 88 right? I did Chinese carry out there for all of the 19 years that I lived downtown, all of my marriage, it was there. And it was our go to there you go. Had nothing to eat, nothing we wanted to eat. We never there was before Uber Eats. They didn’t, right? Of course. We get in the car, go there, drive up my wife, pick up the stuff. I run in, I get it. We go back down. And, you know, sometimes we even stop at amici or other places to get carry out, right? But cold night, we could always tell in Young’s carry out. So I moved up. Towson. And this happened in about 17 or 18, the family, the Chinese family. And I knew the family a little connection to the sun. They moved back to China, and the kids moved away, and it was boarded up, gone. So Young’s carry out went away. I knew you during this period of life, because I you could go out to my Facebook and I’m like, my Chinese place, right? I’m about to die up in here. Yeah. And I tried Leonard. I went to a dozen places, fells, point, upper, fells, point, lower fells, point, ammonium Cockeysville, Parkville, Hawthorne, Ray Bachman found a place for me in Pasadena. It’s in that two rivers plaza where Tony, it’s fantastic. I ate there one time, and then Young’s reopened. I drove by. It was like a mirage. My Chinese place open. And here’s the funniest story. I went in after all of the years I’ve been eating there 30 years, and they reopened. And I went in. And this is a true story. I went in and the little older lady who was a younger lady when I knew her 30 years ago. Yeah, I went in and she’s there the first night. It’s about 2019 1819, right, right? And I went in and it was like I because I didn’t find a Chinese place, a dozen awful Chinese meals at a dozen different awful Chinese places for a year and a half, I couldn’t find anywhere. I almost went to China, and they reopened. And I went in, and I had ordered my trip and broccoli, my wife stand by, right, right. I got my my chicken fried rice. I got it all, and I went in and I said to the woman, I’m like, like, I can’t believe you’re she. She looked at me. When she looked at me, she said, Where you been? The first thing she said to me, where you been? And I’m like, Where have you been? That was her sense of humor. She said to me, and I’m like, You saved my life So Young’s carry out. It is not my place. I found a place in Parkville, okay? And I’m gonna, and it’s so good today I still will go to Young’s when I’m downtown. I I go to Young’s three four times a year. I do got it when I’m downtown, and it’s great. But happy China, it’s about five doors up from the Emerald Tavern on Harford. Wow, wow. I’m going to give you that one because it’s coming out. And listen, I’ve done the fried oysters down at fade leaves. And I converted RJ Shepherd from Forest Park golf. I got shrimp salad from down at fade leaves. I have already announced my favorite Thai place, which is right around the corner from you Fuji sun. Yep, yep. You know Fuji song I do absolutely, my God, the Drunken Noodles, they’re outstanding. Absolutely, the pad thai, the curries, all of it, just fantastic. So I’m trying to feature local places, which is why you keep me in business, right? Can go? Because these are the kinds of businesses you do business with, businesses that want to live the American dream, whether it’s people from China, people from Thailand, people from all over the world, people from Dundalk. Dundalk, Ireland, or is it? Want to make it happen? They come to America to make a dream. That’s right. That’s right. Amen. That’s what it’s all about. Well, you know, we go, I’m going to give you my Amish donut place, Mary’s donuts. It’s right around the corner from you. You can’t get it till like Friday, Thursday. Friday only open on the weekends in the morning. But the kids, you know what I’m talking about, that donut joint, yeah, right inside the left door at Pennsylvania Dutch. Got it. How much you want to go for market’s fabulous. The market is amazing. Pennsylvania Dutch. It’s, it’s great breakfast. See, you’ve been there pretzels. Pretzels. All right, so you’re worried about, I know you want to talk Ravens. We did enough food. Let’s do a quick Ravens. I’m not worried. I think it’s interesting that I guess Harbaugh just has a philosophy, doesn’t want to play any of the starters in the preseason, but I hope they don’t come out rusty against the first four, because that first four is murderers row. I
Nestor Aparicio 29:05
don’t know that we’ve ever had a season like this where the expectation is built up. Yep, disappointment is built up like it did during Harbaugh’s, you know, the first Flacco administration, yeah, like, it kind of built up after Billick didn’t win, right? You know, after Steve McNair and Kyle bowler. And you know, whatever was going to happen at that point, we’re not at that place with Lamar or Derek Henry. Maybe some people are that place with Harbaugh, I told Luke, and I will continue to beat on this all week. To your point, yep. Humphrey, Ronnie, Stanley roquan, the senior, the senior guy, yeah, yeah. Mark Andrews, yeah. Henry, the Hall of Fame wide receiver, you know, I, I’m looking at these players and saying, Where Are They early on, where’s the offensive line, where’s the pass. Rush with the young kid that they drafted on the wrong side of the tracks, with young ladies and the kicker. Everybody’s watching the kicker, right? But to me, the veteran players and where they are on their timeline of being 30 year old, how to look for where the speed is timing with Lamar and wide receivers, and to your point, playing really, really good teams out of the gate, out two and two would suck. One and three would be unacceptable. One would be lovely. Would be miraculous, yes, but oh and one on Monday morning, not good. Joe Flacco coming in, yeah, and staring down Detroit and Kansas City. Yes, being Owen one and dude, I cannot think of a worse game, even going to Kansas City with Taylor Swift, if they were, that’s what they were doing this week. I don’t know that there’s a bigger trap. Horrible, tough way to open a season. And I go back to my wife and I going out to Denver when angelos, being the nice guy that he was, the guy who never punched down, um, wrecked the opening day for the Ravens sent out to Denver, got there, got crushed, yep. I mean, I was at that game, Manning, still throwing touchdown passes, right? And I just opening in Buffalo in this way is very spotlighty. And to me, it’s very spotlighting on all the guys that have made the money and all the guys that are the veteran leadership, to say, where are you? Where’s your speed, where’s your gotta come out. Want to know, have to right, have to. And then you, then you beat the browns, because you should. That’s a tough thing to ask. To say, we’re gonna get it win. I get it. Gotta come out one and oh, gotta beat the browns, because we should beat the browns. And then it’s Detroit on Monday night. Do two and Oh, would so lessen the oxygen in here we can, yes, just give more breath to what they can be this year, yes, which is not a team that has to go to go to Buffalo and play in January, or, that’s right, needing, needing, needing to win these Cincinnati and Pittsburgh games once they get here. Because they’re getting, by the way, Thanksgiving night, I Yes, occurred to me, they really are playing at home on Thanksgiving. Are see people selling their tickets already, you know, just sort of like, I’m not going to Thanksgiving night.
Leonard Raskin 32:18
We’ve done it before. We’ve tailgated a turkey dinner. So you doing it? I believe we are, yeah, all right, yeah, we tailgated turkey dinner. I’m not against it. Sucks, but that’s what we do. Oh, you were against it, yeah? I think it’s stupid. I mean, an 820 game just, you know, people are, they need the product, baby. Hey, man, they’re showing they’re showing it. They’re showing it so it’ll be we’ll get there. Die Rubenstein. But money bags, yes. And I tell people this because you literally, Sam, well, you were the first human in my life to tell me Rubenstein was going to own the team like before, and he’s or whatever, eight years, 86 million to a guy, 67 million to a guy that played four games. Well, I mean, Luke talked me, tried to talk me down the tree on this, that it’s really a $30 million deal at the end, kind of, sort of, you know what? I mean, whatever. He’s getting a million a year the next couple years. I said to Luke, this was a PR maneuver, and it’s a guy they can sign. They cannot sign. This is no offense, dude. You’re a man of money and a man of that manages people’s wealth and their prosperity. If you’re talking to a kid from the Dominican about setting himself up for life, it’s this beautiful thing. Me saying I’m trying to win the $750 million Yeah, all this week, that the 70 million that you would just give me that straight away wouldn’t be as good as seven, 50 million. You may say to little nasty Nestor from Venezuela, who’s 21 who can hit a baseball, you may say to him, dude, take the 70 million and just get it. Get on the boat and go play your game. There’ll be plenty of money for you, and you’re gonna try your life than the way you’re gonna live your 20 seconds, unbelievable. 24 2050, unfound, unbelievable. And then the way you know you’re going to live your 50th and 60th year, it’s a beautiful thing. Guaranteed money. Guaranteed money now for us is telling Adley ruchman, don’t take that money, right? Natalie Richmond’s teetering right? Now, I’ll bet. I’ll bet. And Jackson holiday had a rich daddy, so it doesn’t matter gunner Henderson is at the point where, like Joe Flacco is, which is fu I’m gonna get the whole bag the way Manny Machado bag. We’re gonna find out soon enough. Well, what do you make? You manage a lot of money for people. This is when this happens. It’s not like me to throw the red flag and be the village prick and say, well, they kind of get over on the Dominican kid, because he needed the money. Yeah, he did. Adam Jones took the money. He was a bright kid from San Diego, right? Taken 70 and said, maybe you’ll get 200 million. Sounds better to Adley rutchman, because Adley rutschman. They easily rutchman Even when John Angelos was still in the boat. Here they would have given Richmond 150,000,002 years ago, easily, they would have given him that. Yeah, he wouldn’t have taken it. He would not have taken that money. Well, he should have. He should have. I mean, now you look at you go, Oh, can he hit? I guess you know, he came back from being hurt, and he hit and then he got hurt. Well, this is the two sides of the money. Leonard, I’m going to let you roll money. I like guaranteed money. I like good contracts. And what you know, in my world, what we say is, pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. This is what I said to Luke. It’s a good deal for the team. They get PR out of it. Ruben Stein said, gets to say, I signed a guy, right? Other guys right sign because they won’t sign. That’s right. This guy took, I called it a shitty deal, you know, in his behalf. And I even said to Luke, it was a lot about rock and roll. All of my rock and roll buddies signed contracts with chrysalis, CBS, Epic Records, when they were 18 years old, they signed awful deals, right? And then they worked Prince they worked their whole life. Taylor Swift, they worked their whole life to get out from under it. John fog, I get it I get it again. A bad deal. I don’t think this is a bad deal. He got 70 million. He got right. He’s doing all right. He’s doing all right for for a kid who you know is bouncing around position and going to play, and guaranteed money is guaranteed money. You get hurt. You never know. Take it. I like the I like the burden of hand theory, I would take the guaranteed winning field goal from Tyler loop at the buzzer to beat the Buffalo Bills on Sunday night. Hey, man, I will take that. Hey, I’ll get together with you morning after the bills game. You will miss, right? Yes, yes. So cross your fingers. You know, that’s all I can say. And let’s get some crabs with your boy now that we got it back here. Hey, man, I want to see what Dundalk paraphernalia he picked up in Ireland. There you go. We’ll compare notes. Leonard Raskin manages the American dream. You can find him at it Raskin global. You can find his shining face on the front of Baltimore positive.com it’s a big week around here. We got football happening. 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