It’s getting serious. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery talks big jackpots and Home Run Riches long balls from the Orioles with Nestor before the Ravens season scratch-offs are set to arrive later in August.
Nestor Aparicio and Seth Elkin from the Maryland Lottery discussed the upcoming Maryland Lottery Crab Cake Tour and the excitement around the $450 million Powerball jackpot. They highlighted the fiscal year 25 statistics, noting only one jackpot surpassed $1 billion. Seth mentioned the recent Mega Millions ticket price increase from $2 to $5 and the minimum prize increase to $10. They also talked about the Let’s Make a Deal Second Chance contest, where winners will go to Los Angeles for a unique experience. Additionally, they previewed the upcoming Ravens Scratch Offs, which include experiential prizes like season tickets and game day packages.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Promote the final Home Run Riches drawing and encourage listeners to enter.
- [ ] Provide details on the new Mega Millions game changes, including the ticket price increase and minimum prize amount.
- [ ] Share information on the Let’s Make a Deal Second Chance contest, including the upcoming drawings and trip details.
- [ ] Discuss the launch plans for the new Ravens scratch-off tickets, including the various prizes.
Maryland Lottery and Ocean City Trip
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the show and mentions the Maryland crab cakes as part of their 27 favorite things to eat.
- Nestor talks about his upcoming trip to Ocean City with Seth Elkin and John Martin, the executive director of the Maryland Lottery.
- Nestor thanks Curia Wellness and GBMC for their support during the 27th anniversary.
- Seth Elkin expresses his excitement about the trip to Ocean City, mentioning the hot weather and the opportunity to interact with people from various levels of government.
Powerball Jackpot and Fiscal Year Numbers
- Nestor and Seth discuss the current Powerball jackpot, which is around $450 million.
- Seth mentions that last fiscal year (July 2022 to June 2023), only one jackpot surpassed the billion-dollar mark.
- Nestor talks about the excitement of seeing the jackpot numbers on the billboard and how it affects his wife’s decision to buy tickets.
- Seth explains the challenges of accommodating large jackpot numbers on billboards and the increase in sales and player prizes when jackpots reach significant levels.
Impact of Jackpots on Sales and Community Engagement
- Seth highlights the positive impact of large jackpots on sales, commissions for retailers, and player prizes.
- He mentions how groups of people often pool their money to buy tickets together, making it a community activity.
- Nestor and Seth discuss the fun and excitement that jackpots bring to people, especially when they roll past certain thresholds.
- Seth emphasizes the importance of community involvement and the positive effects of jackpots on sales and player engagement.
Changes in Mega Millions and Powerball Tickets
- Nestor and Seth discuss the recent changes in Mega Millions ticket prices from $2 to $5 and the increase in the minimum prize to $10.
- Seth explains that the price change has led some people to shift their purchases to Powerball, which remains at $2.
- Nestor mentions the introduction of the multi-match game, a $2 game exclusive to Maryland, as a potential alternative for players.
- Seth notes that the impact of the Mega Millions changes is still being monitored, as the change was only implemented in April of the current year.
Progressive Jackpots and Random Chance
- Nestor and Seth talk about the concept of progressive jackpots and how they can attract smart season players.
- Seth shares an example from a few years ago where four different Mega Millions jackpots were won in the same calendar month.
- Nestor expresses his desire to win a significant jackpot and the impact it would have on his life.
- Seth reiterates the random nature of the lottery and the importance of random chance in determining winners.
Home Run Riches and Lottery Promotions
- Nestor and Seth discuss the Home Run Riches promotion, where players can win prizes based on the home runs hit by the Orioles.
- Nestor shares a story about a winner named Dave Kowalowski, who won a prize while Nestor was on the air.
- Seth provides details about the remaining entry deadline for the Home Run Riches contest and how players can enter.
- Nestor and Seth talk about the excitement of winning significant prizes and the impact it has on people’s lives.
Experiential Prizes and Let’s Make a Deal
- Nestor and Seth discuss the Let’s Make a Deal Second Chance contest and the opportunity to win a trip to Los Angeles.
- Seth mentions that three winners have already been selected and that there are still two more drawings left.
- Nestor shares a personal story about dressing up in a Wonder Twins costume and the fun of participating in experiential activities.
- Seth explains the process of selecting winners for the Let’s Make a Deal trip and the various prizes they can win.
Ravens Scratch Offs and Football Season
- Nestor and Seth talk about the upcoming Ravens Scratch Offs, which will be available in August.
- Seth mentions the various prizes that can be won, including season tickets for the 2025 season and a grand prize of season tickets for 20 years.
- Nestor expresses his excitement about the football season and the upcoming Ravens games.
- Seth provides details about the launch date of the Ravens Scratch Offs and the various ways players can win prizes.
Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Final Thoughts
- Nestor talks about the Maryland crab cake tour and the various locations he will visit to promote the lottery.
- He mentions the different types of crab cakes he will be trying and the local businesses he will be supporting.
- Nestor expresses his gratitude to Seth for joining the show and discussing various lottery topics.
- He concludes the segment by promoting the Maryland crab cake tour and the upcoming Ravens Scratch Offs.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland Lottery, Powerball jackpot, Mega Millions, Ocean City, fiscal year, ticket prices, progressive jackpots, experiential prizes, Let’s Make a Deal, Ravens Scratch Offs, crab cakes, baseball talk, lottery sales, player prizes, community engagement.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Seth Elkin
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task of Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, and I’m positively getting the Maryland crab cakes. We’re out on the road. We’ve started to at least unleash, or maybe unwrap our 27 favorite things to eat. We are calling it tastiness. That’s T, A, S, T, Y, Nest, like taste the cakes, but, but not like tastiness, the word all. I’m brought to you by our friends at the barrel of lottery. I have pressure Lux. I have a Lucky Seven doublers only because the Raven scratch offs are yet unavailable. I’m going to be in Ocean City next week with this guy, as well as his boss, the executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming, John Martin, doodle annual report. We’ll be at Mako next week in Ocean City, which gives me a chance to add a few places on the eastern shore to my favorite places to eat as we get all this going. And big thanks to our friends at Curia wellness, as well as GBMC for being a part of our 27th anniversary and trying to have a little bit of fun. We’re going to be doing crab cakes later in the month. But first things first. Seth Elkin is here from the Maryland lottery, and I know like you’re kind of like me with the Mako thing in Ocean City. I mean, I was going to give you a hard time about whether you have SPF 50 on your head or not, but like to be really honest with you, other than walking from the front door of the convention center to our cars, I don’t know that we see a whole lot of sunlight next week in Ocean City Seth,
Seth Elkin 01:27
I’m glad it’s air conditioned there, because it’s very hot in August in Ocean City, so I’m but looking forward to it. It’s always a good time to go down there and get a chance to interact with all kinds of people at all levels of government in the state, county government, state government, and good opportunity for us. We’ll have our fiscal year numbers, as you mentioned, to put out there. So
Nestor Aparicio 01:46
if you like people, it’s a lot of people, you know, and I like people, and they’re all from here. And for you with when jackpots start to go right, like, I hit you, and I’m like, yeah, we can do some home run riches. We’re going to do some let’s make a deal. I got pressure locks and, Lord knows, somebody put the whammy on the Orioles, as they’ve gotten rid of all their players since the last time you and I got together. And you being a baseball fan, but, but jackpots like my wife just delivered me some delicious Zeke’s coffee here in my cup. We’re almost at the at the What’s it? Dr Evil, half billion dollar mark. Rights, 450 million ish, like we have
Seth Elkin 02:26
Powerball starting to get interesting. We’re up around just about that $450 million mark. And it’s, it’s good to see the jackpots roll. You know, last year we were talking about fiscal year that the state’s fiscal year goes July through June. And for that period, fiscal year 25 we only had one occasion where either the Powerball or the Mega Millions jackpot surpassed that magic billion dollar mark, where everybody just loves to see it go,
Nestor Aparicio 02:55
because you contest one year only 1 billion correct, yep, yep, yep, yeah. You know. I know when that happens. When I want to that big billboard you have in Bel Air, when I go to the royal farms or I go, you have the little scoreboard billboard when it’s a billion, it looks broken because everybody’s been following a goal from 600 to 700 800 then you look up and you’re like, how do I even read that? Where’s the other digit go, you know? So that’s when I know it’s fun. But so that only happened once last year,
Seth Elkin 03:25
huh? Yeah, well, only once last year, as opposed to, I believe, five times during FY 24
Nestor Aparicio 03:31
Well, that’s why I’m saying. It was a bunch of times where I looked up and it was weird, and I’m like, and my wife’s like, I gotta buy tickets. It’s a billion dollars. You know? The
Seth Elkin 03:39
funny thing is that when these jackpots first started rolling past a billion dollars, I think no one had quite planned for billboards that could accommodate the right amount of numbers, the right amount of digits. So we certainly dealt with that by this point. But that was
Nestor Aparicio 03:53
See, how much money do you need. But then again, we have NFL holdouts. We, you know, the bananas came to town last week. There’s just, there’s a lot of money in the world, but this is a big, you know, once it gets up to about 500 million, we, you and I, it’s a lead story for us, more so than how many home runs the Orioles aren’t hitting right now? Um, yeah, John’s on vacation because he don’t have to work right now. He’d have to worry because, I mean, they’re not, they’re not hitting nearly enough home runs to make that our lead story.
Seth Elkin 04:21
But jackpots are hijack butts are a lot of fun for everybody. I think everybody sits up and takes notice. And, you know, we always see an increase in in in purchasing at that point. You know, everybody kind of gets interested and wants to get in on it. And those little bits and pieces of increased sales during the course of a year when you have a few of those, it really does make an impact for sales and for profit return to the state. It makes it an impact for commissions paid to the retailers. And of course, player prizes are being won on those tickets as well. So all around everybody, everybody wins when a jackpot rolls to a level like that. But and also it’s. Lot of fun for people. I think we see groups of people will pull their their money together and buy groups of tickets together, which is something that kind of makes it a community thing, makes it something fun, shared between friends or relatives or co workers. So we like when that happens. And you know, we’re hoping we keep rolling well past four 50 million, and we keep on going past there.
Nestor Aparicio 05:21
Always love having Seth Elkin on the program. We’ll get to some baseball talk, because I do like talking baseball with a suffering pirates fan. We’re all at the bottom here looking up at this point, waiting, hey, when can football season? So hey, you’re rooting for Aaron Rodgers. So I don’t even know what to say, but you’re, you’re a fun, you know, static nerd about not just baseball, but about the lottery, no one knows more about it than you do. We had a change in Mega a couple of months ago, right in the price point, and some things changed in regard to the structure to try to stimulate jackpots, right? So for folks that played before, understand now the ticket price has changed, and that’s part of, I guess, the way baseball changes, and, you know, the rules change, and we can shift, or we can’t shift. You got a guy on second base in the 10th inning now, or whatever. I think the jackpots, there’s so much algorithm work, math that goes into this, I don’t want to say the gaming part of it, the overall gaming, of not gaming the game, but trying to make the game fun, and also trying to make the jackpots, like, get my wife’s attention and make jackpots bigger and not have them start at, you know, something we could need off of, like, 20 million or something like that wouldn’t be enough money for me. 20
Seth Elkin 06:34
million, yeah, well, it’s, it’s, it’s any kind of change is, is something always going to be something interesting in in in the lottery business, or any other business that’s that’s based on entertainment. You know when, anytime you change the way people experience the things that they rely on for entertainment, you’re always going to have a wide variety of opinions. So certainly, there have been a lot of that. As it comes to the Mega Millions change, as you mentioned, the price of the tickets went from $2 to $5 and the minimum prize also increased. The least amount you can win on a winning Mega Millions ticket is now $10 so it’s always going to be, if you win, it’s going to be at least double the cost that you that you paid to buy the ticket. But I think we’ve seen some other shifting around of purchasing maybe some people have moved to Powerball more so, and that’s maybe the reason that you’re seeing the Powerball jackpot advance. Because Powerball tickets remain $2 I think we’ve also probably seen an uptick in our in state jackpot game, which is multi match, which is also a $2 game with drawings two nights a week. And multi match is only played here in Maryland. So it’s not like Mega Millions in Powerball, where people all over the country can play. So it’s interesting to see that. I think we’re still pretty early on. That change to Mega Millions happened in April of this year, so we’re only a few months in, and we’re certainly watching that very closely well.
Nestor Aparicio 07:56
And you know, you talk about progressives anytime you get progressive jackpots. And I talked to John about this kind of frequently, because it’s come up a bunch, right? I mean, even in home run, riches that carried over from last year, just moving through the progressive jackpots add up. And I think I don’t want to say shrewd is the right word, but smart season players take advantage and say there’s a huge jackpot that’s laying out there. It’s almost like, dare I say, Willy Wonka, when there’s a golden ticket still sort of out there somewhere, and there’s a winning ticket that that hasn’t been found or hasn’t been claimed, the odds, just the math of it add up to say it’s more likely. And I think with the progressives, this is a lot of money. I mean, I’m always shocked by how many times I go to MD lottery, or I have you guys on every week we promote the lottery here, people holding up checks that are, you know, enough money to buy a beach house, enough money to sort of change, you know, maybe some things in your life, or pay off some things, or, I don’t know, make yourself a little happier here this summer, all trying to get happier. That’s why I’m eating all this food.
Seth Elkin 09:07
No. But the thing is, you just never know. I mean, regardless of how many numbers you crunch, it’s always going to be a matter of random chance. That’s always what the lottery is. And you know, great example of that, I think back to a couple years ago in Mega Millions. We had four different drawings in January. I believe it was 2023, I’d have to go look it up to be sure, but there were, it was definitely January, and it was four different drawings that produced a jackpot winner in Mega Millions, four times in the same calendar month. So I don’t think anybody’s seen that before. I don’t know if we’ll ever see that again, but that just tells you, you never know when that jackpot is going to get hit. So it’s truly a matter of random chance. And no matter how many ways you do your math, there’s no accounting for random chance.
Nestor Aparicio 09:52
Well, if I ever get the random chance to hit Powerball from my wife’s behalf, I want it to be 449 million, not 49 Million, even though I don’t know what I do with the other 400 million. To be really honest with you, it wouldn’t take much for me, you know, a few bobble heads and some pennants and some old belt buckles, and I’m a happy guy. Seth Elkin is here from the Maryland lottery. We talk about jackpots. Talk about things going on, Homer, riches. Let’s get a little baseball going in here, because that’s what we do, while we still have baseball at this point, and I’ve talked a lot of baseball this week with the URLs up in Philadelphia, I’ve had a bunch of guests on with the Phillies. Obviously, the a situation not great here this week, but the dust is settled a little bit on where the players are going to be. I’d say this, they still got plenty of guys in this lineup that should be hitting home runs, and right now they’re not hitting the home runs, but home run Rich is alive and well. And I don’t know about this month, but last month, and you weren’t a part of this, but John’s reading off the names. We had this little stick where he figures out where people are from and whether I know where that town is or not. And sometimes there’s some awkward little towns, and I’m like, I gotta Google Map, them and stuff like that, but it does give me a geography lesson. He said, my name, my friend’s name, Dave kowalowski. I’m like, That’s cheese steak. Dave, sure enough, I knew one of the winners last month when he read the name. So I’m thinking, he’s like, What are the odds of that? I’m like, well, it’s one in 162 you know. Like, I know a lot of people here, so I’m hoping this month we at least get some more people. And I think you talk about the lottery being, you know, random chance. I think it’s better than random that I might know an Oriole fan who might be a lottery player who might want to win home run riches. So I do feel like at least in the sports space, being a baseball guy and all that, it would up the odds. Dare I say that, maybe, but I think no one two in one season would be a lot, but I at least have known
Seth Elkin 11:44
one still, still another chance. You may get some more people, you know, because there’s one more drawing remaining for contestant of the game this year. The entry deadline is the 25th of August, so we’ll do the drawing the next day for all the games in September for the rest of the season. So you still have the chance to get in on that. You can buy your your $5 walk off winnings fast play game at any Lottery retailer, and then enter that ticket into my lottery rewards for a chance to be one of those contestants for the last month of the season. So they’re going to hit some more home runs here. So
Nestor Aparicio 12:17
one grand slam for somebody out there some random reducing in
Seth Elkin 12:22
TV land. We’re due for one. We need to get another one of those. Absolutely
Nestor Aparicio 12:25
start some A’s pitching or nobody wants to pitch for them. Nobody wants to play for them at this point. All right, this is the part of the segment where I just give you the you got anything you’ll say about baseball? Or no? Yeah. Well, you know, considering the Lottery News,
Seth Elkin 12:37
considering that it’s August and I’m a pirates fan. There’s not much to say. There hasn’t been much to say, really, since June, really. So well,
Nestor Aparicio 12:45
you know, maybe Martin always likes to do the segways. Maybe this is the segways to say. Yeah, I’m a pirates fan. You’re an Orioles team. We haven’t won much, but we have winners at MD lottery.com. You can always go up and find people and there, you know, I know you were big into the Back to the Future, and I don’t have the Back to the Future ticket in front of me anymore. I think I get nah, I got one over here. I got one over here. I saw somebody 888 $8,888 prize. And I’m thinking to myself, alright, that’s gotta be DeLorean oriented. Yep,
Seth Elkin 13:17
that’s what it is. And that that contest is now over. But yeah, the winner there claimed that $8,888 prize. It was Paul Cohen from North Potomac claimed that prize. We got a photo of him up on the the news section of MD water. He looks
Nestor Aparicio 13:33
very happy. No, he’s got a Corvette hat on. He looks very, very happy Corvette hat. But DeLorean prize ain’t no problem with that man. You can’t get DeLoreans anymore, so he’s doing what he needs to do to move fast, you know.
Seth Elkin 13:46
But I’ll tell you the most interesting winter story we’ve had around here the last week or so was somebody we did not get a chance to meet because claimed his prizes elsewhere. But we had somebody out in Salisbury, who, last week, bought 4050 cent pick five tickets straight pick five bets, 40 of them with the same number. And he hit in the July 29 evening drawing. And each one of those 40 tickets was worth $25,000 so he won a million dollars in pick five prizes, and claimed his prizes out out there, in at Ocean downs casino, actually is where he went to claim. So we didn’t get a chance to meet
Nestor Aparicio 14:32
him. My Jaws dropping, because I, like, what a million bucks last week, right? Like, that’s a lot of
Seth Elkin 14:37
money, yeah, on on pick five, on on on 4050, Cent tickets that he bought. So, very, very interesting. I jumped out at us anytime somebody buys multiple tickets like that. You know, there’s always some kind of story behind it. So a really interesting one and a cool prize to win, he’s going to be telling that story, I’m sure, for the rest of his life. So
Nestor Aparicio 14:57
well. I mean, anytime you win. I mean, I always. John. The time that I won, I played 936, I boxed it. I won enough money to go see Bruce Springsteen play at the spectrum on the Tunnel of Love tour. And that was 37 years ago, and I remember it like how it felt to win, how it felt to get the ticket, how it felt to be there. So you know, when you win something like that, you do something nice for yourself, you make a memory. It’s almost like if you had won the Let’s Make a Deal thing. And listen, I gotta get up with you and Doug on this. Raj, whoever’s in charge over there, we’ve had some local people go out to Hollywood, right and be a part of this thing, right?
Seth Elkin 15:33
We not yet. They are going to go, though we’re still in the process of of, let’s make a deal. There’s still two more drawings left, but we have picked three of the winners in the Let’s Make a Deal Second Chance contest who are going to go to Los Angeles in May of 2026 for a really great experience. So three of them, John Barnes from Upper Marlboro, Carolyn Perkins from forest heights and Wallace thrash from Clinton, have already been selected, but there’s still two more drawings, and you can enter with any non winning. Let’s make a deal. Scratch off ticket. You can enter that into my lottery rewards, and we still have two more of those drawings. Are going to be two more people joining the three of them that’ll make that trip to Los Angeles to be part of the let’s make a deal. Taping of the game show. They’ll get to go to a costume shop and pick a costume. And each of those five while they’re there, they get three nights in in LA, but while they’re there, they’re going to participate in an event where they’ll get to win additional cash. They’ll get to win either 1000 2000 or $3,000 while, while they’re on the trip. So a really great experience. I think it’s going to be something memorable for them and and a cool experience to be dressed up in costume in there, in the studio, watching, let’s make a deal get taped. So looking forward to that. And still again, you got two more chances to to be on that trip, so plenty of opportunities still
Nestor Aparicio 16:50
left. You’re making me smile in a lot of ways, because I haven’t done Halloween in a couple of years, right? So for many, many years, I hosted the Ravens team party, their Halloween party with Goodwill Industries. Shannon sharp Todd, he go through the list. Dennis Pitta was always tight ends. Justin Tucker was a part of it. So I would always so every year I kind of had to, like, come up with a costume, be a part of something that was more than just throwing something together at the last minute. And one year, my wife, right after she had cancer, found out on some bandit website the ability to order like a custom made inexpensively, I think it cost 40 bucks. It wasn’t a lot of money, but she gave our dimensions, and it was, it was probably somewhere in Asia that she ordered online, and it came in a little plastic bag. And it was all very legit. We did the Wonder Twins. And a lot of people don’t know who the Wonder Twins are. You’re of the right age to watch the Super Friends. It’s why you turned out as good as you did, other than the Pittsburgh thing and but wonder friend Wonder Twins activate their purple suits with little ears and form of shape up. So we had those outfits, and they were fantastic. So I think to myself, if I won the Let’s Make a Deal thing, I would just dust those because they’re really good little outfits. I’m on, I’m on the yoga mat thanks to Planet Fitness, and I’m a decent I still fit in it. So I would wear it, even though I was it looked very funny in it. It’s, it’s a very funny outfit, um, but nonetheless, I would wear that, and then I’m thinking, you’re gonna send them to a costume shop. They get to upgrade. Have you ever, like done anything like that, like going to a costume shop or anything?
Seth Elkin 18:30
I have not done that, but I’m, I’m trying to imagine what your your Wonder Twins costumes look like. I’ve always, I’ve always imagined that that would make a great like comedy film, if somebody wanted to do a a comedy satiric parody of of the Wonder Twins, because I, you’re right, I do remember
Nestor Aparicio 18:48
I have a even better story. I have a real Wonder Twin story for you. So my wife and I went to Tokyo in 2019 we had been together in 2007 we went back totally for pleasure to see you two and to hang out. But my wife had an exchange student. Her family had exchange students of all Dutch, Australian all sorts of exchange students Brazil. When she was a young girl up in New Hampshire, and she, because of the internet, has managed to stay in touch with some of these humans that are all 4550 years old. Now her age. One of them is Yuka. Yuka was her Japanese exchange student live in for the summer of 1980 123, somewhere in there, because she has pictures of her and Yuka doing all of these things up in New Hampshire. So they during Jen’s illness, they reconnected. Janet said, in 2007 I wish I knew how to find yuca. There was no Facebook. Then right? Facebook comes. She finds Yuka. So we go over Yuka, being Japanese and being very kind, decided to give us an experience. Yes, we did not know about this. This was a gift from her. She told us kind of sort of loosely what we were doing. We were going to have Japanese tea. She literally took us to the the Japanese tea costume up on the second floor with tailors, and we picked out complete head to toe robe, garb, shoes, the whole deal. And we had to walk from the costume store to the tea parlor about eight blocks away through downtown Tokyo. We have pictures of us doing this, and we have pictures of all the Japanese people on the streets faces looking at us, dude. It’s like something out of Kiss dressed to kill in 75 when all the people on the streets behind them are looking at these four characters in Kabuki gear walking through Manhattan. It was fantastic. So what I’m telling you is getting dressed up is fun. And when you see those people in Times Square that look like the Statue of Liberty or Mickey Mouse, and they want 20 bucks take a picture, they’re having fun being dressed up. So if I had won this, let’s make it the I’d rather win a million dollars. Don’t get me wrong. I’d rather win 440, 9 million this weekend in Powerball or Mega Millions, either one wouldn’t matter. But dressing up is fun, that’s all I’m going to tell you. And I would never would have done it on my own. It was a gift. We almost had to do it. You know what I mean? Like it was, we had to go through with it. And then once you went through with it, we’re walking through the streets of Tokyo in I mean, I have picture. Have you never seen the pictures? I don’t think I want to send those over. I mean, they I’ve shared those out with everybody. So this, let’s make a deal thing. These people are going to have the time of their lives doing this. That’s, I guess that’s my point. Experiential is, you know, I don’t know what it cost you could to do that, but whatever it was, it was worth it, because it’s a story of a lifetime to go do it
Seth Elkin 21:59
that we love. We love the experiential prizes. And this one, this one, I think is going to be special, and we have a few others like that as well, but this one, I think is going to be really cool for
Nestor Aparicio 22:09
people. All right, so last week, Seth Elkin, I coaxed out of John Martin the fact that I won’t be given the Whammies. And this Lucky Seven is a holdover game for me. Now, I’m a big pressure luck fan. We’ve had a couple of winners here. It’s a $3 ticket, so come on out and get it on the Maryland crab cake tour later in the month. But a small football season, and I think there’s going to be a raven scratch off. He confirmed something we mentioned, experiential prizes, not as good as Tokyo, not as good as the Kabuki theater, but Cincinnati, there’s going to be a trip. There’s going to be, like a grand prize thing. I think that’s going to mean be a meaningful game. I mean, I’m a believer in Joe burrow, even though, from one Ravens fan to a Steelers fan, there are no Browns fans, although I do like Joe Flacco. You get a whole season ahead when the next time, maybe not next week in Ocean City, but like two, three weeks from now, you guys are going to roll out a game. It’s going to be purple. It’s going to be fun and experiential, like the name of the game with Raven scratch offs. Yeah, the Raven
Seth Elkin 23:19
scratch offs are coming every year in August, it’s a big deal for us. So $2 ravens and $10 ravens and the whole second chance contest that you’re referring to, that trip to travel with the team, is just one of quite a number of prizes you can win, including season tickets for the 2025 season. Real quick after the the ticket launches. There’s about a week in between the launch of the tickets on August 22 and then that first drawing that’ll take place very, very quickly after that, because we do that in a hurry, because we’re going to award season tickets for this season. So somebody’s going to win those and somebody’s going to win season tickets for next year. Somebody’s going to win all kinds of experiential prizes, the the Ravens Game Day packages and and, of course, the grand prize is season tickets for 20 years. So all of that is coming. We’ll have all the details of it up on our website later on this month. But yep, football, football season is here. We already have had the lottery out and set up at the stadium for the the open practice that they did will be at the preseason game and will be on ravens walk. You can find us as always, at every ravens game throughout the season. So
Nestor Aparicio 24:31
well, you’re going to find us at every ravens game throughout the season, before, during after preseason. Grudgingly, this week, grudgingly. No injuries. Get everybody healthy, keep everybody ready to go. But there’s nothing like football season right next week, I will get together in Ocean City. We’re going to talk about gaming, gambling, responsibility, football season. And I think I wrote August 22 and just being the launch of the Raven, scratch off season. In the meantime, come see me. I’m going to. Doing the Maryland crab cake tour. I will have the lucky sevens doublers. I will also have the pressure Lux soon to have the Raven scratch off by the end of the month. Uh, we’re gonna be doing the Maryland crab cake tour at the Beaumont this week, I have launched my 27 tastiness things to eat each and every day this month, I’m going to give you something that is going to be easy, local, mostly affordable and delectable. How about that? And it’s going to be all delicious and all local. And there might even be peach cake involved before it’s all over with, and a cheesecake, peach cake, cheese steak, peach cake, crab cake. There’s going to be all sorts of things. Seth, I appreciate you. Did I get it all in here this week? I think we covered it all. All right, hit some more grand slams. That’s the name of the game. Here. I am Nestor. We are, w n s t AM, 1570 Taos of Baltimore, the 26 oysters about to become a 27 trying to keep the light on around here through kind of a dark period of Oriole baseball in August, waiting for football. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S, T AM, 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking. Baltimore. Positive. You.
