Our pal Leonard Raskin just returned from Ireland and Italy while Nestor hadn’t even told him about his South American cultural journey back in March. The financial advisor pitching the American Dream tells us about his Roman experience with Irish stout while the sports radio kid from Dundalk talks about walking the streets of Montevideo, the hills of Medellin and scaling Machu Picchu in the Andes. Non sports, although sports is always involved…
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss their recent travels and experiences. Leonard recounts his son’s graduation at Trinity College in Dublin and his acceptance into a PhD program at St. Louis University. Leonard also details their vacation in Southern Italy, visiting places like Capri, the Amalfi Coast, and Pompeii. Nestor shares his trip to South America, highlighting his visits to Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Machu Picchu, Bogota, Medellin, and Cartagena. They both reflect on the impact of travel on their lives and the importance of seizing opportunities while physically well. The conversation also touches on sports, including the Orioles’ performance and the recent NFL draft.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Connect Leonard Raskin with St. Louis contacts and recommend local barbecue and frozen custard spots (Viviano is coming from St. Louis).
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attempt to secure Cornacki as a guest for next week’s show (follow up with NBC/broadcast contacts).
Leonard Raskin’s European Odyssey
- Nestor Aparicio welcomes Leonard Raskin back from Europe, mentioning the Maryland crab cake tour and sponsors like the Maryland lottery and GBMC.
- Leonard Raskin shares his experience of attending his son’s graduation at Trinity College in Dublin, describing the unique Latin ceremony and his son’s acceptance into a PhD program at St. Louis University.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the differences between Dublin and St. Louis, with Leonard mentioning his son’s cousin in med school at Washington University in St. Louis.
- Leonard describes their vacation in Southern Italy, visiting places like Capri, the Amalfi Coast, Sicily, and Pompeii, and enjoying the local cuisine and history.
Nestor’s South American Adventure
- Nestor Aparicio talks about his trip to South America, starting with two days in Montevideo, Uruguay, and a boat ride to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Nestor shares his experience of attending a Brian Adams concert in Buenos Aires, where he couldn’t get a ticket and had to rely on a local to help him.
- He describes his visit to Santiago, Chile, and his adventures in Machu Picchu, Bogota, Colombia, and Medellin, highlighting the cultural and natural beauty of each place.
- Nestor mentions his visit to Cartagena, Colombia, and his interactions with locals, including speaking Spanish and trying local cuisine.
Culinary Experiences and Cultural Insights
- Leonard Raskin and Nestor Aparicio discuss their culinary experiences, with Leonard mentioning a place in Taormina, Italy, known for its smooth cannolis.
- Nestor talks about his favorite meal in Buenos Aires at a steakhouse called Cabana Las Lilas and his experiences with local cuisine in South America.
- Leonard shares his experience of finding a Trinity College bar in the center of Rome, highlighting the cultural connections and the unique atmosphere of the place.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of traveling while physically well and the impact of his experiences on his appreciation of life and opportunities.
Sports and Cultural Events
- Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discuss their experiences with sports events, including the draft and the Baltimore Orioles’ performance.
- Leonard mentions watching the Kentucky Derby and the emotional impact of the race, particularly the story of the winning jockey.
- Nestor talks about his plans to attend the Preakness at Laurel, expressing his excitement and anticipation for the event.
- They discuss the importance of sports and cultural events in bringing people together and creating memorable experiences.
Reflections on Life and Travel
- Leonard Raskin reflects on the importance of making memories and traveling while physically well, sharing his experiences of visiting historical and cultural sites in Europe.
- Nestor Aparicio talks about the impact of his travels on his perspective and appreciation of life, mentioning his experiences with Bruce Springsteen and other musicians.
- They discuss the role of travel in personal growth and the importance of seizing opportunities to explore new places and cultures.
- Leonard emphasizes the value of experiences over material possessions, highlighting the lasting impact of travel on one’s life.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
European odyssey, South America, graduation, Trinity College, St. Louis University, Southern Italy, Rome, Machu Picchu, Medellin, Montevideo, Brian Adams, Rush tour, American Dream, travel experiences.
SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive, positive to get the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery and GBMC. I’m walking a mile in their shoes. So last month I did that. I’m going to get a shirt that’s a bigger size for me, maybe one of the red ones as well. Also our friends at Farnham and Dermer. They are our comfort guys, H back and AC, and certainly AC on the 90 degree days that are hopefully coming very, very soon, we won’t need the heat. And plumbing is always around the corner for that. This guy has not been on in like a minute. He disappeared to Europe. I disappeared to South America. I don’t even think our trains crossed at the end of the Ovechkin year or the end of the hockey season. Leonard Raskin is back from Europa after I am back from sudamaedica. And, man, we got to I don’t even the baseball season might be over. I’m not even
Nestor Aparicio 00:58
sure,
Nestor Aparicio 00:59
before we even get to that, but we had a draft we missed out on. There’s a whole bunch of sports stuff we can do more than that. Like you’re very proud of your son. Your son’s going on this odyssey to Ohio State and over to Ireland and studied in Europe, and he’s into all of this fancy European stuff and and then I didn’t know you were doing another European Odyssey, Northern Lights this time or no?
Leonard Raskin 01:21
No, no, we did Southern Italy to Rome. So we started graduation at Trinity College in Dublin. Was magnificent. I’ve never seen anything like it. And when he went to Ohio State, graduation was in the shoe. So the big stadium, and they had 13,000 graduates in his class that year, and all those kids are in the stadium, and you don’t call their names, you don’t see, you know, you just, just come in, they do some speeches. They were terrible. And then you get your degree, and you leave. Well, this one, there was 120 kids. It’s all in Latin, the ceremonies in Latin. But before that, the director, the head of the school, gets up and speaks about what it is. It’s a tradition going back to the mid, early 1800s and they call the kids up six at a time, and they bestow their master’s degree on them. And then the kids turn around and hold their degree, and the whole place goes crazy. It’s in a beautiful, old Irish theater. It’s it’s magnificent. So graduation was on Thursday, and strangely, you know the way the world works. You just never know how the world works. Nestor, Wednesday night, the day before graduation, Matthew got an email from St Louis University that he’d been accepted to the PhD program at St Louis. So he’s going to be a Billiken for the next
Nestor Aparicio 02:53
dude. I got a barbecue joint for you out there and some frozen custards. Got to take Lewis I I can die, by the way, Viviano is coming on from St Louis, so we’ll get you hooked up. You know, they got like, a whole little Italy area where Yogi Berra grew up. You know about that? Right the hill. The hill is
Leonard Raskin 03:10
his cousin. Our niece, Laura, is in med school at Washington University,
Nestor Aparicio 03:16
right down the street.
Leonard Raskin 03:17
So he’ll have a cousin really close right there. She’s two years ahead of him in that but he’s going to be going to St Louis.
Nestor Aparicio 03:24
St Louis is no Dublin. I’m going to tell you Columbus for no
Leonard Raskin 03:28
Dublin. So he’s going to be back in the States, which makes his mother very happy. Kathy’s all have eat up that he’s not going to be across the ocean. So we had graduation. It was Magnus
Nestor Aparicio 03:37
gonna be across the Mississippi.
Leonard Raskin 03:39
That’s right. And then after a couple days in Ireland, we jetted off to Southern Italy and had a vacation. You did it
Nestor Aparicio 03:46
to a vacation thing. Did it, turned
Leonard Raskin 03:48
it into a vacation, graduation
Nestor Aparicio 03:51
vacation.
Leonard Raskin 03:51
We did a mafi and Naples, and then we did Rome.
Nestor Aparicio 03:54
I’ve never so I’ve never been to Italy. I’ve had three times I was flying to Milan in Rome, yes, to see Italy. And three times, my wife has gotten sick and we never went. My wife finally went with her dad and her sister. Yeah, last month they went the day after Easter. So they did Rome, Florence and Venice.
Leonard Raskin 04:14
Yes,
Nestor Aparicio 04:14
I did the North. Right. Okay, so you had told me that, and so many of my friends love Florence. Everybody knows Florence.
Leonard Raskin 04:21
Rome is Rome is just amazing. I mean, there’s, to me, there’s nothing like it. It’s an incredible city. You can go into any door on any street And eat, eat, eat. I mean, it’s like New Orleans. I say New Orleans. You can walk into any dive or any five star to get a Michelin meal. Same in Rome, there’s just not a bad meal there we ate and ate and walked and walked, and the sites and the history of the of the city, it’s just so magnificent. So but we did this time. We did Capri we did the Amalfi Coast, we did Sicily, we did Palermo. We went all over and just had a blast eating and drinking. Walking our way Pompeii went and saw the ruins and Vesuvius and Mount Etna and just so
Nestor Aparicio 05:07
you had never been to any of those places.
Leonard Raskin 05:09
No, none of those. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 05:10
okay. All right, cool. I have never been either. So it was, I mean, I My trip was, and I haven’t talked much about my trip at all you and I haven’t talked since I went to South America.
Leonard Raskin 05:20
No, we were on last before you left.
Nestor Aparicio 05:22
All right, so I did two days in Montevideo, Uruguay. I then took the boat two and a half hours up the river to Buenos Aires, where I have been. Buenos Aires the only place I went that I had been before,
Leonard Raskin 05:35
okay,
Nestor Aparicio 05:35
and I had the greatest meal of my life in Buenos Aires at this steakhouse called cabana las Lilas. It’s in a plaza down in Puerto Madero. The boat let off six blocks in there. I stayed at the Sheraton. I walked around and ate pizza with Maradona and, you know, I chased the ghost of Messe, and I had coffee in this famous coffee house cafe tortoni With they do the tango, you know, do all that. So I only did one night in Buenos Aires. Then I did three days in Santiago, Chile, and I thought I was going to go to Vina del Mar but I didn’t. I just walked 15 miles through Santiago instead, because I love cities, you know, like all of that, and Santiago is like Vegas or Albuquerque. It’s like a desert city surrounded by these lush mountains. So it was just beautiful. Santiago. Saw AC DC, I saw Brian Adams, and then I went to Machu Picchu through Lima to Cusco at 11,000 feet,
Leonard Raskin 06:32
yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 06:32
And then I had to take a bus and a train down the mountain to Machu Picchu to 8000 feet. I did Machu Picchu, which was unbelievable, yeah. And then I flew to Bogota, Colombia, and I were the mountains there. And I did one night in Bogota, which is plenty for any Venezuelan. And then I did three days in Medellin, Colombia, which they’ve they now have the cable cars and camuna 13, and they’ve cleaned all the drugs out medellin’s unbelievably beautiful and unbelievably perfect, climate wise and unbelievably expat. It Up. Lot of English going on there. Well, the money goes a million.
Leonard Raskin 07:12
The money goes,
Nestor Aparicio 07:13
You know what? I mean, you go get a steak dinner. It’s 18 bucks. So and then I, then I went to Cartagena, which you can avoid, because it’s kind of not, it’s not great. So either way, that was my trip. But like, I spoke a lot of Spanish. Did you learn any Italian or
Leonard Raskin 07:29
No, bit, little bit, and thank God for Google Translate, you know, just you get around. And a lot, a lot of English over there. But we tried, we did a little bit and
Nestor Aparicio 07:37
not a lot of
Nestor Aparicio 07:37
English in South America, some
Leonard Raskin 07:41
of the most amazing food. And Tara, we went to a so we, I love this. Went to a place right in the main square the city that is famous for, you know, the founding place of limoncello and and they have the chocolate, little chocolate balls,
Nestor Aparicio 07:56
yes please, with
Leonard Raskin 07:57
the lemon cello in it. Okay, so they give you a couple to pop in and taste. So I bought a box. It was like a pound that didn’t make it home. That was our second stop. So we had 1213, days
Nestor Aparicio 08:10
they get bombed on it.
Leonard Raskin 08:11
No, no, no. Just okay. They’re just little, like, like, peanut m&m size,
Nestor Aparicio 08:17
uh huh.
Leonard Raskin 08:17
You just pop them in and they’re just a little addiction food, and then a beautiful bottle of them and cello. And then went to another place where the I’ll tell you what, I’ve had some cannolis. Never had a cannoli this smooth in my life.
Nestor Aparicio 08:31
I actually had a cannoli at the sopranos cannoli shop up in Jersey. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 08:35
the crane
Leonard Raskin 08:36
was so smooth and fresh. Go behind the counter, back to where they’re putting it in and making them for the counter. The guy scoops it right in hands. It to You, it’s just heaven, heaven. And where
Nestor Aparicio 08:48
was this?
Leonard Raskin 08:49
That was in Taormina,
Nestor Aparicio 08:51
all right,
Leonard Raskin 08:52
in the south.
Nestor Aparicio 08:54
I haven’t done Italy, but my wife came back now. You’ve come back raving. Everybody I know, all my friends that have been to Florence tell me it’s the greatest place ever. So like, it’s just, it’s not necessarily on my bucket list, because we taught
Leonard Raskin 09:07
this, yeah, but
Nestor Aparicio 09:08
it’s moving up the chain. Next time I go to Europe, I’m going to consider spending some time in Italy. Right now,
Nestor Aparicio 09:16
I’m
Leonard Raskin 09:16
crazy. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 09:17
you know, I’m a rush guy, right? Yeah, right, yeah. Rush has now put the tour out, and Brian Adams has announced a whole bunch of date by the way, I had Brian Adams guitar player on while you were gone. Okay, here you want a great story. You want to go because you like music in
Speaker 1 09:31
this
Nestor Aparicio 09:31
sure
Nestor Aparicio 09:32
I show up in Montevideo and stay two of my trip. And by the way, I loved Montevideo. Montevideo is my favorite place that I went. Of all the places that I went, I would and Mach a peach is unbelievable, but I went to Montevideo, not and people are like, Ah, you went here. You went there. Medellin. I would recommend Medellin. I would like I but I would recommend Montevideo. So I’m in Montevideo and I can’t get a ticket to the concert. It’s sold out. There’s no secondary market at all. There’s no way to buy a ticket. There was no box office at this arena,
Leonard Raskin 10:02
wow.
Nestor Aparicio 10:02
And I went out to this neighborhood, took a bus out, you know, regular bus, regular people, because that’s what I do, traveling. And I’m out there with my finger in the air, you know, looking to buy a ticket in Spanish, and nobody’s got a ticket, and a guy comes up with his wife. His name was Nestor,
Nestor Aparicio 10:18
so there’s a
Nestor Aparicio 10:19
lot of Nestor is running around South America, which made me feel a little bit more comfortable. I heard somebody go, Nestor, Nestor. I turned around. Somebody was yelling at her kid,
Leonard Raskin 10:28
right?
Nestor Aparicio 10:28
Her kid’s name is Nestor, you know. So I had a lot of a lot of them the intercoms and airports, Nestor, how about this? And I’m like, hey, they said my name. Maybe they, you know, because I never hear that here, right? It’s right. So I’m in Montevideo. I get a ticket to the concert. We get cattled into this arena, and Brian Adams comes on in. The guitar player is not his guitar player. Like, you know, I’ve been seeing Brian Adams like, so I Google, you know, Wi Fi works, perfect. And it turns out Keith Scott had, like, an eye thing that he had to get a surgery. So this guy was the guitar player for Sarah McLaughlin, Canadian guy. He and I had him on the show. He got called 72 hours before the tour was going to start in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, all through South America. Brian Adams had 25 shows and no guitar player three days before Brian Adams calls this guy, and this guy didn’t even believe that, like it was Brian Adams and he had done a single with Brian ebbs like 17, 2009 he and Brian Adams spent time in the studio together doing a song, but he hadn’t heard
Leonard Raskin 11:35
and
Nestor Aparicio 11:36
Brian has called him and said, Look, I need you to learn 26 Songs three days. I need you to meet me in Puerto Rico. We’re not gonna have any time to reverse. You have to go right on stage and literally rock. No sound check, nothing. He went down 26 Brian Adams songs, and I saw him in maybe, like the 12th Night of the tour. So by the time I saw him, unbelievable. When I tell my musician friends are like, that’s an unbelievable guy. Did his name’s Luke? Do set? You can find it at Baltimore positive. So I mean, I trip it. I came home and I wrote to his music people up in Canada. I saw him talking about it at the Juno’s. And the reason for that was Rush. Rush put the band back together. They they showed up at the Juno’s unannounced, and did finding my way. Yeah, right. And they’re, you’re gonna see rush right to
Leonard Raskin 12:27
see him, absolutely. You
Nestor Aparicio 12:28
already bought your tickets, right?
Leonard Raskin 12:30
I’ve got him. Yeah, I got him right away.
Nestor Aparicio 12:32
Okay, so I figured you were that guy. So Rush is now announced a whole European leg.
Leonard Raskin 12:36
There you go. You go in over there to see
Nestor Aparicio 12:38
him.
Nestor Aparicio 12:39
They’re playing at the end of this run, and I’m convinced they’re going to wind up doing the sphere like, I’m convinced Getty’s gonna, like, they’re so video oriented, they could do things at the sphere that would make me want to pay 500 bucks, right, right? Like, literally, right. So I’m thinking, now that they’ve got this together, they’ve done the American dates, the Canadian dates. I almost went to Mexico City, and I can’t drink the water, but I thought about it, and I thought about going to Edmonton and Vancouver when that was the end of the tour. I’m like, they’re going to end it. I’m going to be in Vancouver. I’m going to go do Banff, because Banff on my bucket list. Banff is the thing that’s on the bucket never been to Calgary, never been to Edmonton, but Banff is the thing. Trots now is retired, yes, and he has a lake house in, like, Dawson, British Columbia. So, like, I’m gonna chase rush. And then they added all of these European days
Nestor Aparicio 13:33
you
Leonard Raskin 13:33
go,
Nestor Aparicio 13:34
and I’m like, All right, I’m gonna, I’ve been to Stockholm and I’ve been to Oslo, but I’ve never been to Helsinki,
Leonard Raskin 13:39
okay? And they’re going there.
Nestor Aparicio 13:41
That’s April of next year. So I’m thinking, I’m thinking, maybe I’m gonna do Santa Ana
Leonard Raskin 13:47
way to do it.
Nestor Aparicio 13:48
This is like these touring bands make me want to do things that I wouldn’t I would have never gone to Montevideo. If I’ve ever meet Brian Adams, I’ll get my hog and say, I I went places because you dragged me there,
Leonard Raskin 14:02
right. There you go, just like all those deadheads that did the world, did the world on acid because of the dead.
Nestor Aparicio 14:10
Translate, when
Nestor Aparicio 14:12
I’m up,
Leonard Raskin 14:13
these people traveled the world. Think about some of the people they’ve traveled the world on at hostels and busses, and obviously there’s some people that did five star hotels, but there are people hotels, but there are people
Nestor Aparicio 14:23
that put travel juices that makes you want to do this in a way that, like your son, has led you places that you never would have gone because of his education, higher education
Leonard Raskin 14:36
to learn you
Nestor Aparicio 14:36
never would have been in Italy last week if he had been a different kind of kid, in a different
Leonard Raskin 14:42
kind of way. You’re right. You’re right. We’ve gone places because of him. We’ve gone places otherwise. But I’ll
Nestor Aparicio 14:46
tell you where’s that because he was in a band that did drag you places because he was in a band. So I can tell you two things and experience that, whether they’re kids in a soccer program and they wind up in a courtyard in Western Massachusetts. Seeing the world’s biggest ball of twine because their kids in a little league program. I do think there’s a part of travel that I would put in the Mark Twain category. That’s one of the things that you talk about with your American dream and raspberry global and making money, which is you get the freedom to buy a boat, if that’s what you want to do, to go hunt dead deer, if you’re Ted Nugent, that’s right. Like whatever you want to do that, you get a chance to go do it. I love rock and roll. I love food, I love travel. I love variety, and that’s and I love Bruce Springsteen, which took me to Newark, New Jersey last week. For the first time, I went to the devil’s hockey rink. I had never been there. Bruce dragged me there last Monday. So there,
Leonard Raskin 15:37
that’s it. I mean, the thing, the thing that’s so amazing to me, ness, is Matthew’s 24 His birthday was while we were away, so he just turned 24 and when I was his age, we’ve talked about this many a time the proverbial, you know, didn’t have a pot to piss in. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 15:55
I grew up in my son in this little row house in dungare. I think that I am
Leonard Raskin 16:00
bedroom apartment,
Nestor Aparicio 16:01
standing in Santiago, Chile with 100,000 people rocking out the Highway to Hell, where a little red year, that’s right, like, Dude, I mean, I have I
Leonard Raskin 16:11
look around. I mean, I’m in I’m in the back,
Nestor Aparicio 16:13
I am so blessed
Leonard Raskin 16:15
in the Vatican Square, and I’m at the Pantheon, and I’m at the at the ruins in Rome where Caesar was killed and buried and and
Nestor Aparicio 16:26
if that doesn’t make you appreciate your shit,
Leonard Raskin 16:29
that’s right, I look around and you see all these people there, and just, it’s just so amazing. And I said this other thing, it was really crazy, right in the center of Rome. So the center of the city. We’re driving back to our hotel, and we see the sign says Trinity College. Thinking that’s weird. Matthew went to Trinity College in Dublin, so the next day, we were walking around the city, and we put that on our radar for our map, and we went to this place, and it was Trinity College, Dublin bar in the center of Rome. And they had all the pictures of things at the college, and they serve in Guinness and Jameson and all the Irish lunch. It was
Nestor Aparicio 17:12
like find a raven bar in the
Leonard Raskin 17:15
middle of nowhere. So we had lunch at Trinity College in Rome and talking to the waitress, who was from Belfast, and all the staff is Irish and and just unbelievable. And thinking, you know, when I was his age, when I was 24 I couldn’t spell Trinity College, more or less, a thought I would ever be in Dublin, more or less, C think my son was going to go to school there, and we would hang out in a bar in Rome called Trinity College. And it was just a magnificent, magnificent, and I think the big thing you talk about, you know, the book, and what we talk about with people we work with and advise you can buy stuff. We all can buy stuff, and stuff gives you a moment of gratification, and some stuff you actually treasure, and it’s it gives you a little longer than that, but most stuff goes away quickly, you know, but, but the memories of this, and I tell people all the time, one of the things I also say is, do it When you’re physically well. People think I’m gonna retire, and I’ll get there someday, and I’ll tell you what you know this in Europe, it was built on hills and steps.
Nestor Aparicio 18:30
I’m keeping some of the sedentary stuff for later in my life, the Alaska cruise thing, right? But like going up kamuna 13 and crawling the, you know, up into the hills of the used to be the favelas and Medellin,
Leonard Raskin 18:47
yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 18:47
it took
Leonard Raskin 18:48
not for the old,
Nestor Aparicio 18:49
yeah. I mean, just being some place where, where altitude, when I put into my clone that helps me travel that I was going to Machu Picchu, it said, Oh, you’re 58 you’re 57 it’s 11,000 feet. How’s your heart? How’s your health? That’s right, because how your heart and how your health is my wife and her dad’s 80 years old and is in better shape than you and me, yeah. And like they did, he, at least they climbed to the top of the tower in wherever, Florence or Venice, whatever, you know, in these churches, yeah, there’s no elevator to get up to the top. You gotta go
Leonard Raskin 19:24
viral stairs inside of cupolas, and you’re holding a rope, pulling yourself up the final 20 steps. And
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
if you got the picture from the top of there, you’re out of breath.
Leonard Raskin 19:34
Oh, man, these things are steep, and when you get up there,
Nestor Aparicio 19:36
you need to be physically able to do that. You don’t want to wait 75 to do that. That’s
Leonard Raskin 19:41
right, we saw people in wheelchairs and with walkers, and they’re getting around. But man, if you can do it younger, there’s one thing to say,
Nestor Aparicio 19:48
it’s great advice. Letter. That may be one of the really wise things you’ve ever said, and probably the reason I should have gone to Yankee Stadium Monday night and saw Springsteen Tuesday night out at Long Island, because I was this close. But it’s like, I feel good. It’s 80 degrees, right? It’s, it’s only 30 bucks to get on the bus trouble
Leonard Raskin 20:07
and watch the Orioles with a 13 era, right? What’s, what’s the team era right? Now? Eight.
Nestor Aparicio 20:15
The reason I almost went to New York on Monday night. See, you know you’re, you’ve been in Italy. Here’s the shtick. On Friday morning, Luke and I’ve been talking about these Yankee games for a couple
Leonard Raskin 20:24
weeks. Yeah, it’s
Nestor Aparicio 20:24
been I said to Luke on Friday morning after they, you know, played against the Ashers, if they sweep the first three games, you and I are getting on the 420 bus. Yeah, and we’re gonna run wild in New York all day. And I’m gonna, because it’s gonna be 70 in New York on Monday, perfect 80 in New York on Tuesday. And I’m like, we’re gonna go up and we’re gonna go to the game, but if the oils have to sweep the first three games, and of course, they’re losing six to nothing in the second Friday night, I text him. I’m like, they at least could have made it interesting. You know,
Leonard Raskin 20:51
it’s a shot
Nestor Aparicio 20:53
at night. And I’m like, I’m gonna go anyway, because I was gonna, like, why am I treating this like the Orioles need to win for me to go to New York,
Leonard Raskin 21:02
no reason. But for me, I’m jumping on the phone just to check in here and there, and I’m going, Oh, that’s right, the game starts at 130 in the morning. I’m not watching.
Nestor Aparicio 21:14
Oh, right,
Leonard Raskin 21:15
but, but every now and then I wake up in the morning and check the score. I was like, 12 to 110, to two. What is going on here? So then the next one was a day game. There was a day game that you came on at like, eight o’clock. So I watched some of it. And I have direct TV, I can log is
Nestor Aparicio 21:31
that the Grand Slam game?
Leonard Raskin 21:33
Oh, my God, it
Nestor Aparicio 21:34
was
Nestor Aparicio 21:34
two grand slam games. Terrible. Yeah.
Leonard Raskin 21:36
So I just said, Oh well, that’s that. Then we got home Tuesday night, landed in Dulles and drove home, you know, rode home from Dulles and listened to the Marlins game, the first Marlins game on the radio, and thought we had a nice, nice thing going. And then by the time we got home, it was seven, seven. And the good news is they pulled that one out. But I guess when you don’t have pitching and fundamentals aren’t fundamentals, it doesn’t look good. So let’s hope
Nestor Aparicio 22:06
they don’t take defense. I hope you take people’s money more seriously than
Leonard Raskin 22:09
they take, oh my goodness, defense. Defense is critical in money and in baseball and in football and and speaking of let’s two seconds right the draft. I missed the draft, although I saw some of the draft, and I think we did okay. I think we did okay.
Nestor Aparicio 22:26
They got to figure the center thing out. But
Leonard Raskin 22:27
yes, you
Nestor Aparicio 22:28
got a guard. They got a player there, right,
Leonard Raskin 22:30
right,
Nestor Aparicio 22:30
great.
Leonard Raskin 22:31
And they got another another backup quarterback out of unsigned third in the Heisman.
Nestor Aparicio 22:39
It’s not gonna win a Super Bowl for me. You know? I mean, focus out has to be like, How far away are they from winning a Super Bowl with a rookie coach and a three time MVP?
Leonard Raskin 22:51
Got
Nestor Aparicio 22:51
to have, you got to give them the mike McDonald, right? Two years. That’s the standard. It’s a new standard. Listen, I’m trying to fix the baseball team. I’m trying to save this, this horse race that we have coming up next week here.
Leonard Raskin 23:04
Wow, how about that? Last to first, first woman trainer to win the derby. I watched the derby. I did watch the derby. I stayed up.
Nestor Aparicio 23:12
Oh, you stayed up and watched it. Okay?
Leonard Raskin 23:14
I love, I love the I love the derby. So
Nestor Aparicio 23:17
do we? You know, I told this to John Martin from the lottery a little while ago, I said, my wife and I, like, we worked out Saturday afternoon. Thank you Planet Fitness. We came home. We’re sweaty. We’re a mess. It was like, 530 when we got home, we were gonna go to Costa sintimonium And and it was like, that’s the OTB. A lot of people there. Do we want that or and you know what I said to my wife? I’m like, first off, we’re exhausted. Yeah, we had dinner. We had food here. I’m like, we love the NBC coverage. I do. I said I love to sit. Like, let’s sit. Let’s tape it. Let’s sit and watch the hour and a half leading up to it, right? Let’s hear all the stories that make us cry. That’s right, you know the so happy trainer whose wife
Leonard Raskin 23:58
died. How horrible was that?
Nestor Aparicio 23:59
Right? I mean, so you know that you watched it too, yeah, when it was over. And, you know, Don and I are friends, she’ll be on the show next week, and and Randy Moss will be on the show next week. Part of the broadcast team from NBC still trying to get cornacki. I can’t get cornacki on, but he’s a Bills fan anyway. But after the race, when Donna’s there doing her jockey, I just started sobbing
Leonard Raskin 24:21
his brother, like brother by a head,
Nestor Aparicio 24:23
like every year at the Derby, was that she does something to me on the backside of that track that gets me really emotional.
Leonard Raskin 24:31
I guess she’s retiring.
Nestor Aparicio 24:32
She’s retiring, right? But, like, I get really that in the Stanley Cup run, the Stanley Cup hoisted, I get emotional about
Nestor Aparicio 24:43
it.
Leonard Raskin 24:43
Go to Colorado. That’s my prediction. There.
Nestor Aparicio 24:45
More so than when the Super Bowl happens in the Confederate flies. More so than when the World Series and all diving on each other. But that doesn’t, I don’t get emotional about that when they talk, when Donna talks to the derby jockey. It’s great any speed. Spoken English, and he’s never won, and it’s kind of hit him, and he just beat his brother like
Leonard Raskin 25:04
was amazing. He
Nestor Aparicio 25:05
was
Nestor Aparicio 25:05
catching
Leonard Raskin 25:06
rolling. He was rolling. If
Nestor Aparicio 25:07
that
Nestor Aparicio 25:07
doesn’t get you want to Preakness,
Nestor Aparicio 25:10
you
Leonard Raskin 25:10
got no heart, so you’re going to Laurel.
Nestor Aparicio 25:13
Yes, I am.
Leonard Raskin 25:13
You are.
Nestor Aparicio 25:14
Yes, I am.
Leonard Raskin 25:15
Okay. You got a box up there. What?
Nestor Aparicio 25:17
Yeah. No, no, I gotta. I gotta. I know you find this hard to believe, Leonard, but they think I’m a media member really. I know it’s like, you think I have an audience. They think
Leonard Raskin 25:28
that’s awesome. Good
Nestor Aparicio 25:29
for it’s amazing.
Leonard Raskin 25:30
Don’t let the word out. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 25:32
Raskin global is here. It’ll only be like my 38th Preakness press pass, or something like that. Only one member got me thrown out of the press box. And I still don’t know what I did wrong, but
Leonard Raskin 25:41
I’ve been to the derby.
Nestor Aparicio 25:43
Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 25:43
I’ve not gone to the Preakness as a real fan. So that’s one of the things when it comes back to Pimlico. Hopefully, when it’s when it’s back here, I’ll
Nestor Aparicio 25:51
I feel terrible that you never went over to the old girl and like, you
Leonard Raskin 25:55
know, no, wasn’t a thing.
Nestor Aparicio 25:57
I’ve been to 35 preaknesses. So
Leonard Raskin 26:00
there you go. This
Nestor Aparicio 26:00
will be the first one I’ve been doing Laurel. This is the first time I’ve been to it. Less than 5000 people.
Leonard Raskin 26:05
New, new, whole new thing. I’ve been to Laurel. It’s really nice here. I like it.
Nestor Aparicio 26:09
You got me concerned now, Leonard, that I have to figure out my attire. So Leonard,
Leonard Raskin 26:14
look horse. He
Nestor Aparicio 26:15
He manages money and expectations and Italian
Leonard Raskin 26:22
enjoy your life. That’s what matters. That’s
Nestor Aparicio 26:24
most important. There you go. Leave it. Drop the mic on Nestor. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
Nestor Aparicio 26:29
You.
