As the X’s and O’s and the Jimmies and Joes line up on the football field, the NASCAR folks are racing to the finish line and John Martin of The Maryland Lottery brings the spring promotion around the final turn with local folks getting a chance to win a Homestead trip to watch the cars circle the track for the championship in Florida.
Maryland Lottery promotions, winners, new games, and responsible gaming reminders were discussed for the upcoming sports season.
Promotional Updates
- The Ravens-related second-chance contest includes monthly winner selections, three Charlotte trip winners plus guests, and a September 20 entry deadline.
- The NASCAR promotion selected Jeffalie Pargo of Frederick among 25 state winners; finalists will be narrowed on September 27, October 18, and November 1 before the November 6–8 Homestead-Miami race weekend.
- The Price Is Right promotion offers a $50,000 top prize and a Los Angeles trip for two, including a show taping.
Lottery And Gaming
- Maryland Lottery has awarded more than $190,000 through Home Run Riches, covering 169 home runs and five grand slams.
- A 19-year-old winner claimed the $4.2 million Multi-Match jackpot and plans to buy a home for his family and build his future.
- New Fast Play games include Latteria and Cash Cleanup; responsible gaming resources were emphasized during Responsible Gaming Education Month.
Open Questions
- Will Jeffalie Pargo advance to the NASCAR finals?
- What will the final Home Run Riches payout be?
- Host the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas in Dundalk on Friday, including a tribute to Uncle Mike and 28th-anniversary content. (@Nestor Aparicio)
- Bring the Ravens Kiss Face Bird and share Kiss stories during the 28th-anniversary programming this week. (@Nestor Aparicio)
Second-Chance Promotions
- Ravens-related contest: Charlotte trip, monthly selections, and September 20 deadline.
- NASCAR promotion: Jeffalie Pargo’s progression toward the Homestead-Miami finals.
- Price Is Right promotion: scratch-off prize and Los Angeles experience.
New Lottery Games
- Fast Play format described as a scratch-off-style, schmutz-free option.
- Latteria offers a progressive jackpot.
- Cash Cleanup offers prizes up to $50,000.
Winner Updates
- The Birds won $30,000 on the Ms. Pac-Man game.
- A 19-year-old won the Multi-Match jackpot and intends to support his family.
Responsible Gaming
- September was identified as Responsible Gaming Education Month.
- Players were reminded to manage their budgets and time and use available support resources.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We call this thing Baltimore Positive. We’re gonna be doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour this week because I’m trying to wash the baseball off the brain, except for the home run riches, and get the football on the brain. And one thing that makes me do that is the Kiss Face Bird, and it’s completely accidental. The kiss is number 28 on the rock and roll memory countdown that we’re doing here. And we’re-I’m not gonna have 28 crab cakes on Friday, but I am gonna have one fried crab cake at Costas and Dundalk. We’ll be there doing the Maryland crab cake tour on Friday. Got great guests coming out. Johnny O is coming out. We’re really kind of kicking off this 28th anniversary thing. John Martin’s about to join us, and I’m gonna turn him sideways in a minute here on this. But Johnny was coming out, and my buddies that you always play the Google game with me, John. Like, where is whatever? If I told you that my best pals from growing up, Ron West, Richard Abrahams, were gonna come out and sit in with me, and we were going to talk about when we camped out for concert tickets back in the day at the Heck Company. Would that mean anything to you if I said I camped out for concert tickets? Would because I want to do some storytelling here on the Crab Cake Tour on Friday.
John Martin 1:14
No, nothing. I got nothing.
Nestor Aparicio 1:16
We laid on lounge chairs all night to get Journey tickets, sticks tickets. The Who? You know what? I never did
8
John Martin 1:22
this. I I’ve got a few years. Well, that’s why I
Nestor Aparicio 1:24
got to tell you some stories.
John Martin 1:25
You know what? I yeah. How do you think I
Nestor Aparicio 1:28
sat in the front row with David Bowie back on the series? I don’t know.
John Martin 1:30
I don’t. I camped
Nestor Aparicio 1:32
out for three days at the heck company Records Down Road.
John Martin 1:34
Oof! They didn’t have a lottery
8Nestor Aparicio 1:36
distributor there. They don’t do that anymore. Kids today,
John Martin 1:38
kids today don’t do that.
Nestor Aparicio 1:40
What they do, like it’s easier now. You just go online, like when we play Maryland lottery games and second chance prizes. It’s easier now. You don’t have to wait all night. You don’t have to camp out at Golden Ring Mall. You just like play, and you get a second chance. And next thing you know, you’re going to Charlotte, right?
John Martin 1:57
And you go to mdlottery.com for all the details on that, our very favorite second chance contest of the year. I think why not kick
Nestor Aparicio 2:07
off the season with the kickoff of the kickoff game, and we can do the X’s and O’s. Have to.
Nestor Aparicio 2:13
We hit a couple of home runs the other night, but I don’t want to get into that.
John Martin 2:15
We’ll get. We got time. We got time. Anything.
8Nestor Aparicio 2:17
I’m making that up. But um. But this is this is the big one, right? This is the thing. This is the big one. I play every year, right?
John Martin 2:24
And a big part of that, there, there really two things people play for. They play for the cash money on the scratch-off ticket, both the $10 and the $2 ticket. But they also like these experiential prizes, these one in a blue moon type of prizes that you have the opportunity to travel with the team to Charlotte, North Carolina for their away game in the month of November, but hurry up! The deadline to enter in for that contest, if you will, is coming up on september 20. So please get your hurry. Yeah, it’s coming up soon.
Nestor Aparicio 2:54
Well, the trip happens early in the year, right? Yeah, we like to people get in on this late july, 1 week of August. They, I mean, the people that really want to win, that play every year, that are really in wanting to get tickets for 20 years and all that fun stuff. There’s a, you move a lot of these in August. We, we didn’t kick the ball yet, as you and I sit here and talk. Not even in Australia or whatever. But like the first month, that’s kind of, um, you have the most chances to win because you’re in on the early parts of this, right?
John Martin 3:21
We select winners every month starting in July. So check out mdlottery.com to find out what’s coming up here for the month of September. You could be our second finalist of our 20 years of tickets that comes up. That we’ll select that second finalist. We’ll select the three winners for the away trip to Charlotte, as well as the usual pass for cash, game day experiences. Oh no, there’s three winners that go
Nestor Aparicio 3:44
on this trip, not just one.
John Martin 3:46
Three, and they’re guests. So that’s way it.
Nestor Aparicio 3:49
I didn’t know that. Six. I thought it was just six
8John Martin 3:51
people.
Nestor Aparicio 3:51
When you do Truist Club, you only do one at a time, but you do do six of them, right? So like, I’m just makes all the sense in the world. Is this where I tell the fun story? A couple years ago, you always make me guess where the trip’s going to be, and I always guess wrong. But a couple years ago, it was it was a it was a train trip to New York. It was a big New York thing that that’s right you guys did. And Roquan Smith brought the winner. I think it was only one winner that year because I had him on the show. Brought the winner cheesecake on the on the train. They must have won. Been playing the Giants, I think, or the Jets. Either way, but like people really win. It’s Willy Wonka stuff. It’s fun. It’s a it is. That’s a ticket. It’s a golden ticket.
John Martin 4:30
They win that. They we we always have. You know, we tend to we tend to pick sports themes a lot of times. And you and I have talked over the the years on our NASCAR promotion. We are now kicking that off for the upcoming season. Well, you like the
Nestor Aparicio 4:46
playoff things right now, right? With the NASCAR, it is. It is,
John Martin 4:49
and we have we are one of 25 states participating. Each state had the opportunity to select a winner from their state, selected by the the the folks there who. Do the the NASCAR promotion? This is Miami,
Nestor Aparicio 5:03
right? It
John Martin 5:04
is Miami Homestead. Just like six months
8Nestor Aparicio 5:06
ago, right? A Homestead, Homestead, Homestead, right? Homestead.
John Martin 5:09
But our winner is Jeffalie Pargo from Frederick. He is one of 25, and they will get all those 25 winners win $2,000 just for being selected, and then it kind of increments as you would any type of of progressive challenge like this. So in let’s see, three weeks on September 27, we’ll cut that down to 20 winners, and then on December I’m sorry October 18 cut it down to 10 on november 1, four and those lucky four will go to Homestead via Miami Beach.
Nestor Aparicio 5:46
Now I’m looking here. This is the weekend of the sixth through the eighth of November. I googled this a little bit, right? Because I was wondering when when is the Super Bowl or whatever for NASCAR, and that’s pretty much it. Weather will be good, Miami, right? First week in November, perfect. You would hope.
John Martin 6:00
You would hope in in Homestead, and of course the the trip includes not only the the VIP accommodations, but lots of things around that race weekend, passes to the the VIP experiences at the Speedway, VIP access, NASCAR tours, radio tours, you know the whole thing. It’s it’s a it’s a it’s great. We have not had anyone make it to the finals for the last several years, but we’re hoping that Jeff Lee Pargo of Frederick may be our first finalist, and we wish him well. And we’ll be tracking that progress from time to time as we work through the rest of these qualifying heats, if you will, to get to the finals.
Nestor Aparicio 6:41
John Martin is here. He is the senior advisor for all things Maryland lottery and gaming. Of course, we encouraging everybody. It’s football weekend here, man. Cool it out. Slow your roll. Know what you’re doing. If you need some help, one 800 gambler. I’ll give all of that out to everybody out there. But before we go any further, John Martin always plays this game with me. He’s like, “Do you know where this place is? True or false, John Martin? I have attended a NASCAR event. Oh, of course
John Martin 7:15
you have.
Nestor Aparicio 7:16
Oh, you think I have?
8Speaker 1 7:17
Yes.
Nestor Aparicio 7:19
Oh, how many? One. It’s pretty good. You know me. Have you Googled me? You got. You got AI. What’s no? I went to Dover. There’s
John Martin 7:27
no intelligence here at all. I went to Dover.
Nestor Aparicio 7:30
I was doing my show at Hooters. I was Budweiser sponsored. Dover had races twice a year. So did Richmond. I mean, it was just a a big area. We were very close here in that era of 30 years ago, to getting a motor speedway built in Middle River, there was a group trying to do that. Here, yeah, very, very. I mean, this is when NASCAR was really up and coming, and so yeah, I I went to Dover. It was really loud, man. It was really loud. That’s what I remember about it. The Monster Mile, and it was. But I got I have great pictures down on the you know down in the pit with my driver and Ricky Bobby and
John Martin 8:09
you know for for people who have not done any type of of attendance at a race car event because I’ve been as you may know I’m I’ve been in the gaming business here for a while so have you been to a NASCAR
Nestor Aparicio 8:19
event I should ask you. You’ve been to one, yes?
John Martin 8:21
Technically, no. Oh, really? But what I have done is I’ve been to the casino right there in in Delaware, and to look at the enormity of this track is the perspective is you know you think oh it’s a track it’s like a football stadium. No, no, no! It is immense.
8Nestor Aparicio 8:43
And the big, like, if you go past Talladega or one of the really big ones, it’s crazy. All right, so we’re gonna have some fun here. This is my Facebook and social media. There it is, man. 1997. Me, that’s not AI. This is real. There I am, right there. You know, with getting like there, I have my Ravens Roost thing going on, my pit passes, and there I am. That’s Dale Jarrett, by the way. That’s Dale Jarrett. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you have to roll in sports, man. It’s like, but this NASCAR thing, I I am excited for your winner in Frederick, and I hope that they win the win the big banana because they’re on the road to that, right?
John Martin 9:19
We have a lot of fun. We enjoy that that relationship with Powerball and NASCAR, and this is the third year, I believe, we’ve done this third or fourth year, and we we do hope Jeff Ali Pargo from Frederick makes it to the finals because that’ll give us something to talk about between now and November. Because I don’t know what we’re going to talk about. Baseball season will be over.
Nestor Aparicio 9:37
Come on now, let’s do home run riches before we do anything else because I know we have winner stories. We have a million dollar, we got a lot of things happening, but like, you know, at least the Orioles beat Cleveland in the first one. I’m going to say that didn’t go so well against Boston and all that, but it’s real tough when you get shut out to like have a home run richest guy. Maybe next year we come back and do some pitching thing, or I don’t know, I’m. You know,
John Martin 10:00
we did. We did the first year. I think I forget what we called it. We did something around strikeouts, and we
Nestor Aparicio 10:05
said we said
John Martin 10:07
that wasn’t that that that wasn’t enough. So that’s we switched to home runs.
Nestor Aparicio 10:10
Like oh yeah, you feel like listen. If I’m in the boardroom meeting, which I’m not, but I want to be, and you know that I want to be, and I’m developing these games, I would say, well, John, Jeremy, whoever’s running the play, they have more strikeouts. There’ll be more winners, and you would say, but it’s not any fun. Strikeouts aren’t fun. Like homeouts are fun. They’re not fun. The Grand Slams just be more fun, and we don’t have enough of either one. And we’re not breaking the bank the way I wanted to break the bank. That’s all I’m saying. I wanted you to have to pay a lot of money, and I still want a couple more grand slams for the week. That’s
8John Martin 10:46
probably a fair assessment. You know, final tally being what it is still pending. I don’t think we’ve given away as much money this year as we have. We have so far given away over 100. Imagine that.
Nestor Aparicio 10:56
I mean, anybody that’s watched the Orioles hit the ball this year. Imagine that, right? Yeah,
John Martin 11:01
we’ve given away over $190,000, which is 169 home runs. Five of them Grand Slams. I did not, although Alonso hit one yesterday, didn’t he?
Nestor Aparicio 11:10
Yes.
John Martin 11:11
Okay, so this would be. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 11:13
I mean, they do hit one here and again, but not enough. That’s all. Well,
John Martin 11:17
you know what? I still have the home
8Nestor Aparicio 11:19
run records and find out how many they’ve hit every single year, just because I don’t really know. I don’t tally it up like the way I used to on the back of bubble gum cards. You know, I used to do the scoreboard page at the newspaper, so I knew all the stats. Sure. Now I I have I have the interweb. You know, I’ll look it up. But it does feel like they’re hitting a lot less this year. That’s all I’m going to say. Well, we we we
John Martin 11:37
hope we hope they don’t hit any today as as as the game unfolds, but that’s that’s to be determined as it will be. We have the series with the Guardians wrapping up, and then we have ooh the Blue Jays. Do us a solid? Would you you mind sweeping the Blue Jays next week? Could you do that?
Nestor Aparicio 11:56
Listen, I’m I’m in to help anybody not call the Yankees at this point, right? Wow! Then it’s the
John Martin 12:02
Mets, it’s the Brewers. Oh, Toronto again! You got six games. Six games. Another
Nestor Aparicio 12:06
a while, right? Like, I would be happy about the Guardians winning the World Series. I really would. Well,
John Martin 12:11
you and me both.
Nestor Aparicio 12:12
I have a lot of you in my. I had Munch on this week. You know,
8John Martin 12:16
how’s he doing?
Nestor Aparicio 12:16
50 years, he’s still waiting, and he’s given up on the football team. He’s called them immoral. He doesn’t talk about them anymore. So he only does baseball. So it’s really important for me that Munch gets some happiness. You, Bernard McKinney. By the way, John Harbaugh’s dad, Jack, huge guardian. I mean, there’s a lot of long suffering. I’m an I’m an Oriole fan. It’s not my year. Let it be yours. Okay, is that good enough for me? Is that an endorsement?
John Martin 12:44
You know, if if if if you can’t pick a sports team, you might as well pick a favorite television game show. And we are honored. We doing Prices Right? We are honored once again to participate and team up with the folks at the Price is Right, we have a amazing second chance contest. First of all, $5 scratch off. You can win up to $50,000. But if that doesn’t float your boat, you want to really go to Los Angeles. You want to potentially have a five day four night trip for you and a guest. You want to have a little cash spending money. You want to attend a taping of the Price Is Right TV game show as an audience member, who is
Nestor Aparicio 13:25
the host of the Price Is Right? That is Drew Carey from. Yeah, I knew there was a segue there from. Yeah.
John Martin 13:35
All right, all right, all right. But yeah, please check out mdlottery.com and be happy
Nestor Aparicio 13:41
if the Guardians win. Yes, he
John Martin 13:43
would. He would be thrilled if the Guardians.
8Nestor Aparicio 13:44
And you know, if he wins and you go and you win this contest and you meet him, he’s going to be happier.
John Martin 13:49
Oh my goodness! He probably. I think he would have been happier
Nestor Aparicio 13:51
if the Team USA would have won the World Cup because I know he’s a World Cup guy. That’s
John Martin 13:54
possible. That’s possible.
Nestor Aparicio 13:55
But check out MD Lodger. Price is right. That’s a great. That’s a. We talked about this Miami thing. Going to LA is just same thing. I mean, you win that kind of prize, you you’re gonna be packing your suitcase a month ahead of time. It’s fun.
John Martin 14:07
You know, we also talk about a lot of different game styles. We have we have our scratch off games. We have our Powerball games. People really enjoy our fast play games. That’s where you have a game that plays like a scratch off ticket, but yep, schmutz free. We’re in a schmutz free zone, so people enjoy that. And just this last week, we announced three new fast play games. You can check them all out@mdlottery.com. We have a $3 latteria. Are you familiar with a latteria game?
Nestor Aparicio 14:38
No, I’m not. Please. Okay,
8John Martin 14:40
it is it is a Hispanic game. I am
Nestor Aparicio 14:44
Hispanic. Move on, keep going. That’s
John Martin 14:46
why I thought maybe you you’ve you’ve crossed paths with it. We’ve done it as a scratch off card a couple times, but very very popular with the Hispanic communities. And this is a game where they have a number. Symbols and you match almost bingo style. It’s a card with a lot of of very visual, very graphic. I’m still
Nestor Aparicio 15:07
trying to figure out Sudoku and like all these get out of me.
John Martin 15:10
And it’s also a progressive game. It’s a progressive jackpot, and we like those. Our players like those. And this is fast play, like Schmutz
Nestor Aparicio 15:17
free, right?
John Martin 15:18
Yes, fast play. Yes. So listen,
8Nestor Aparicio 15:20
you’ve been the executive director of Maryland Lottery number of years. You’re now senior advisor, and I’m going to have someone new like you in a few. But we got to get to the bottom line of the schmutz thing because we’ve been talking about what it really. So I, I, I googled it. Do you trust what Google’s going to tell me about it? Oh boy. Oh boy. The silver stuff is what I called it. Silver stuff online is called scratch off ink or a latex coating. They are metallic pigments that give it its coney coating its shiny silver or gold look. Flexible rubbery base allows the layer to flake off easily when you use a coin, while staying tough enough to not rub off by accident. Your you don’t have to worry about any of that with the fenceplay game. That’s
John Martin 15:59
what
Nestor Aparicio 16:01
I said. There’s got to be a word for it. I’m trying to find the word. I can’t even have the word. It’s called latex coating. Scratch off ink. It’s I don’t know. I don’t know. Just trying to make a word for it.
John Martin 16:11
In addition to lottery, we also have an interesting game at a $5 price point called Cash Cleanup. Now stick with me on this one, Nestor. You know, most of the games you select something to win. You match a number. You connect something. This game, cash cleanup for $5 in the fast play. You eliminate things until there’s only one thing left, and you win that thing, whatever it is. So it’s called cash cleanup for a reason. You have a number of household objects, and you match household your household objects to the game board, and if you match, you eliminate that. And so eventually there’ll be one household object left, and beneath that there’ll be $1 amount. Spoiler alert: sometimes that dollar amount could be zero, but sometimes it could be a number up to $50,000. So check out $5 cash cleanup at any of our 4200 plus Maryland Lottery retailers.
Nestor Aparicio 17:10
Who comes up with these games, and why can’t I have fun and participate? It sounds like two questions there. You’re having a lot of fun making your games up.
John Martin 17:17
Yes, two questions there. One, Maryland Lottery employees, okay, and two, I think you know why you can’t participate.
Nestor Aparicio 17:23
I’m ineligible. Yeah, I’m ineligible. John Martin is here. He is senior advisor for all things Maryland lottery and gaming. We always have some fun with him each and every week. We’re gonna have some fun on Friday at Costas and Dundalk. We’re kicking off the Maryland Crab Cake Tour Fall Edition with our 28th anniversary with the Scratch Awesome Maryland Lottery. We have the Kiss Face Bird. You can get in on these second chance prizes that we talk about. You bring your zapper. That’s what I call the scanner with the QR code. I call it the zapper, but you know schmut zapper. I make words up. Believe me, my wife will tell you that. Also, our friends at GBMC as well as Farnham and Derm are keeping us comfortable. Do we have some winners? Because every time I’m over at Costa, somebody’s winning something over there because they have race tracks. It’s a big lottery place. My thoughts for Uncle Mike. We lost Uncle Mike at Costas this week. Yes, we’re paying tribute to him. We’re going to do that on Friday as well. I know you know the family over there because they’re one of the first lottery families in the state. 1970 was it two? Four or three? Whatever year the 50th anniversary was. We went back and talked about it, but you know, like winners is what it’s about. And when I see people win, that’s that’s exciting. But they don’t win a million dollars at Costice most days.
8John Martin 18:31
Not every day, no. But we do have a couple interesting winners. The the the first one I will share with you is a husband and wife team go by the handle the Birds, and he is wearing his Oracle’s jersey, and she is wearing her Ravens jersey. See, I was
Nestor Aparicio 18:47
worried they were like wearing Eagles. Okay, good.
John Martin 18:50
No, no, no, no, no. Good. Okay,
Nestor Aparicio 18:52
I thought they might have been from Elkton or you know Chesapeake City, you know, because you never know, right? And
John Martin 18:57
the fun part is they won on one of your favorite games in recent memory, Nestor. They won $30,000 top prize on the Miz Pac Man game. Maybe
Nestor Aparicio 19:06
I gave them the tickets. Where are they from?
John Martin 19:08
Ooh, where are they from?
8Nestor Aparicio 19:13
I gave some Baltimore. They would have given me credit though.
John Martin 19:15
They would have. Even though I’m
Nestor Aparicio 19:17
ineligible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know,
John Martin 19:19
yeah, they definitely. So that’s that’s kind of fun that that they were one of our recent winners. Million
Nestor Aparicio 19:26
bucks,
John Martin 19:27
million. No, no, no, no. They they won 30,000.
Nestor Aparicio 19:30
30,000. Okay,
8John Martin 19:32
but there was a young man who won. Remember, we had our multi multi match jackpot ran up to $4.2 million. Yeah, last week you and I talked about the fact that it was sold in Riverdale, and surprise, surprise, you seemed stumped again. But that’s all right. Not that I’m keeping score as to where Riverdale was, but you found it in the nick of time. The winner came forward, and he is a young man. A 19-year-old young man. Of course, you need to be 18 to play lottery, but he is a young man who was a recent high school graduate pursuing his his trade in electrical work, and is now going to be a proud multimillionaire, and he is doing the good things, consulting with his family and working that through. Says his plans are to buy a house for his family, and establish a strong foundation for his future. 19 years
Nestor Aparicio 20:31
old. How much did he win?
John Martin 20:33
Well, you know, there’s a little subtract this, subtract that, subtract. The jackpot was advertised at $4.2 million, but cash option, and then the taxes take a hit. He probably went home with a couple million bucks by the time it was all over.
Nestor Aparicio 20:48
Did I ever tell you about the one time I won the lottery? I won a Point Mall. They closed East Point last week. I won. I won 80 bucks. I boxed 936. I won 80 bucks, and I went to Philadelphia. I found the ticket stub, and I’m doing the 28th anniversary. Yes, at the Philadelphia, I literally touched it last week. It’s kind of orange. The Spectrum had weird tickets back in the 80s, but I have my ticket. It was total roofer. Like sure, I mean, but you were. I won 80 bucks one time in my life from the lottery, and I’ve been lucky enough to be drafted as a spokesperson here and give tickets away for people win 100 bucks and I have I have fun with it, but I only won once and I won 80 bucks and I remember exactly what I did with it. It’s going to come up again in my 28th anniversary because it’s very memorable. It’s the first time I saw Bruce Springsteen on the Tunnel of Love tour and I remember it and I’m thinking I was 19 years old, and it means that much to me. 40 years later, 1987, 88 when that happened. 87, I think it was. Might have been. Yeah, I was 19. So anyway, this guy’s got like how many memories is he gonna make? You know, I’m thinking, you know, when you win that much money, you you get to make memories. You get to do good things with it. So that’s awesome.
John Martin 22:00
And irony of ironies, he may have a few bucks left over to go see Bruce Springsteen yet again.
Nestor Aparicio 22:04
Might cost that much these days. John Martin is here. He is the senior advisor for all things Maryland. Did I get it all in? I mean, I think we got every state fair’s over with now. I know we’re going to spin the wheel. Gail’s going to be out. We’re going to have some fall promotions and different stuff. But just in a general sense, like it is the most wonderful time of the year for sports, and I know I want to give you a little lane here to talk about. Like people, people get ramped up here when you start playing football on Wednesday and Thursday. I mean, got to college, which started last week. It it’s an unsafe time for people that need some help, and this is a time where like, like seasonally, check yourself out if you’re getting back on your app and figuring out where you are to gamble.
John Martin 22:45
Always, people should be playing responsibly, and if you need some assistance with that, there are resources on our website as well as other agencies around the state that give you some guidelines on how to manage your your budget, manage your time, and be responsible. September is Responsible Gaming Education Month, so we try to take advantage of making people always aware, but especially in the month of September. And we hope that they do the right thing, and and we wish them well, and and hopefully they have a lot of fun, like our young man here who just won the the multi-match jackpot. But in any event, whatever game you choose to play, whether it’s one of these exciting fast play games, whether it’s a sports related theme, whether it’s just good old fashioned pick three, pick four, pick five games, all all of them. Please play responsibly.
8Nestor Aparicio 23:33
Thinking about the 19 year old version of me working at the Evening Sun and getting a Springsteen ticket, winning the lottery. If I would have won 2 million that day or 4.2 million that day. Where would you be now? I want the young man to take good care of. Yes, yes. Because I’m thinking about like, yeah, you know. Anyway, I’m going through all these rock star stories. I keep thinking the same thing. It’s like if you hit it big when you’re 15, what do you do? We’ll be telling stories like that. I’ve hit it big here for 35 years doing radio. We’re celebrating 28 years. We’re going to be doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour with our partners at the Maryland Lottery. I’ll have the Ravens Kiss Face Birds as well as some Kiss stories here this week to kick things off with our 28th anniversary. My thanks to our friends at GBMC. We’re going to be very upset that I’m going to have a fried crab cake at Costas on Friday because I am. And Farnander, our friends, who we get some 90 degree days coming up. Make sure you’re staying cool out there. We’re gonna try. You know what’ll make me cool, John? A victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. I’ll be feeling cooler on Monday of next week. I hope you have a great weekend. Enjoy the football. Thanks for coming on.
John Martin 24:36
Thank you. We’ll see you next week.
Nestor Aparicio 24:37
John Martin, senior advisor for all things at Maryland Lottery and gaming. You’re reminding everybody, please, please. I know you’re going to be watching football this weekend. Do it responsibly. We’ll be here on Monday, Luke and I, hopefully talking about a one and zero purple bird. Back for more. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
