Ready to pick a door and make a deal?

Anything that allows us to talk about the legit old game shows makes life better. Seth Elkin of The Maryland Lottery gets Nestor ready to pick a door in the new “Let’s Make a Deal” and “Press Your Luck” scratch-off games.

Nestor Aparicio and Seth Elkin discuss the Maryland Lottery’s new “Back to the Future” and “Press Your Luck” scratch-off tickets, with top prizes of $50,000 and $30,000, respectively. Seth highlights a second chance drawing for five winners to travel to Los Angeles for a taping of “Let’s Make a Deal,” including a chance to win money. They also mention the “Home Run Riches” contest, where participants can win up to $6,500 for home runs hit by the Orioles. Seth emphasizes the ease of entering tickets via the My Lottery Rewards app. The conversation touches on the Orioles’ current performance and upcoming events, including a visit to Camden Yards.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Maryland Lottery, Back to the Future, Let’s Make a Deal, Second Chance Drawings, Scratch Off Tickets, Game Show Tickets, Press Your Luck, Whammies, Monty Hall, Home Run Riches, Orioles, Ravens, Second Chance Contests, My Lottery Rewards, Experiential Prizes.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Seth Elkin

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively taking the show back out on the road, crab cake, Tori Cooper’s this week, and Coco’s pub, um, you know, established 1985 says, Oh, my shirt feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve been at Cocos. My wife and I went in for dinner about three weeks ago, but we’re going to be there on Wednesday the 30th. I will have the freshly minted Back to the Future scratch offs to give away. So back to the future and getting a little cocoa shrimp over there next week. Looking forward to that. On Wednesday, we’ll be joined by long time compatriot and local journalism, Jamie Costello, as well as Senator Cory McRae and Howard perlo, who throws a big party out of Las Vegas for a bunch of real estate folks who have gotten to know as well, will be joining us at Cocos. I know this guy, crab cake and Roz John Martin, everybody at the Maryland lottery. Seth is now pinch hit twice in a row. Now you’re almost up to sort of loriano status from an Orioles perspective. Here he is the chief communicator of all things communication at the Maryland lottery. And, you know, dude, I just got these back to the futures, and then, like, I start seeing, let’s make a deal. And I’m like, people would call me Monty Hall for a long time, man,

Seth Elkin  01:14

well, you know, they’ll, they’ll enjoy the opportunity to take part in some more nostalgia. Let’s make a deal’s been around for a long time and back the future course celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. But yeah, that the two actually Game Show Related tickets that just launched this week. Let’s make a deal. Is one of them. And then the other one is, is press your luck. I used to love that show. Remember Whammies? The whammy. No Whammies. Stop, dude.

Nestor Aparicio  01:44

On a week, listen to everybody here. Let’s take a moment here for all of us, whoever you know, watch any of these shows or tic tac dough. We lost wink Martindale this week. Man, yeah, you know what I mean. Like, that’s a big one for me. You know me. Wink and then wink, Martindale, the other week, Martin who I knew Don Martin Dale, was the coach of the ravens and all that stuff. But let’s make a deal. Monty Hall, I gotta ask you, man, do you go to let’s make it first thing. You wear all that outfit, and you do all that stuff, and you’re there, and then he calls on you, would you have a preference on door number one, two or three? And I always like when he’s like, door number one, two or three, and everybody’s looking around at the crowd like somebody’s Oh, but man, what a great show. That was, yeah, smile your leg.

Seth Elkin  02:26

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It’s actually going to be a really cool experience for five of our second chance winners. Because first of all, let’s talk about the ticket, the let’s make a deal. Ticket just went on sale this week with a top prize of $50,000 it’s a $5 scratch off ticket, and you can enter any of your non winning Let’s Make a Deal tickets into my lottery rewards for a series of Second Chance drawings that will happen over the next few months. The first one comes up in May, we will select five winners who will get a chance to travel to Los Angeles for a four day trip to see the sites in Los Angeles, and have great accommodations and great tour of of the city. And then also get to take part in a taping of the Let’s Make a Deal game show. They’ll get a chance to go to a costume shop, pick out a costume and be there in the in the audience for a taping of the show, and have a chance to win money, potentially as part of the show. So five winners that’ll get a chance to do that. And then in each of the drawings that we’re having, there will also be five winners of cash, the prizes of $5,000 so there’ll be cash winners, there’ll be trip winners, and then, of course, instant winners on the game itself, and really kind of a cool experience, and a new ticket that that just hit the stores this week. So we hope everybody has fun with that, and that everybody has fun with with pressure walk as well. Pressure walks a $3 ticket with a $30,000 top prize. So I like both of those. I remember both of those shows, but especially press your luck. I I remember being home sick from school and pressure luck and and the price is right. You know, that’s that was the run of the of the of the on CBS in the mornings. So the

Nestor Aparicio  04:02

Whammy was such a jerk, right? I mean, the Whammy was not nice, but entertaining,

Seth Elkin  04:07

very

Nestor Aparicio  04:08

entertaining, their money, right? It’s kind of looks like that, right? Uh, Seth. Elkin is here. You know, a lot of times you guys get prizes, man. I’m like, That’s nice for somebody else. If it’s some country music festival or something I don’t want to do, I think about like, flying LA for a couple days, maybe hanging out like a Randy Newman song, and like taking my wife and putting some get up and like, going all dressed up like it’s Halloween. And let’s make that sounds like fun. That’s a that sounds like a really fun prize. You think it’s going

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Seth Elkin  04:34

to be a cool experience. We love giving away these experiential prizes, and that’s one of the really big benefits of the my lottery rewards program, we give away really unique prizes that you’re probably not going to find in a lot of other places, so it’s a great chance to have that experience. And we hope people have fun playing the ticket. We’re certainly going to get instant winners on the ticket itself, of course, but we’re looking forward to being able to send those five people and their guests. To Los Angeles for the for the taping of the show. I think that’s going to be a lot of fun and a great experience, as all of the travel prizes that we have, you know, as we’ve talked about before with the ravens, traveling with the team and and getting that experience is something again, I was

Nestor Aparicio  05:14

going to say like roquan Smith bringing me cheesecakes Cole, but I rather have like, and this is going to be my little entree for John next week, the show. I did my homework. I don’t I know Monty Hall doesn’t host. Let’s make a deal anymore. I need to find out who the next host is, because if I win this, this thing, I want to go out and, you know, pick the donkey behind door number two, or whatever the whatever they’re going to do to me there. Seth Elkin is here. We do lottery chatter. I want to get to baseball, even though I don’t want to get to base, they’re not getting enough hits, letting off enough home runs. So before we get to any of that, back to the future, I’m giving these out as well. You have a whole like line of other things going on. We talked about the Scrabble game a couple of weeks ago. Every time I’m in Costas, I’ll be at Cocos next week. I see people playing your games. They’re just a myriad of different games to play. And I think you guys try to make it fun for everybody, above and beyond what’s going on with the multi match and Mega Millions and but the scratch off part of the portfolio of the lottery is always fun and branding. Yeah,

Seth Elkin  06:13

it’s it’s something that we have a lot of fun with, because you can really have a lot of flexibility with the the artwork and the designs. And as you say, the the licensed properties, you know, as we talked about with the game show tickets, and as we talk about with with, Back to the Future, you know, it’s something that that hits that nostalgia point for people, and it draws them in to try to play the game. And then it draws them into the second chance contest too, which is kind of cool. So, back to the future. We actually just had the first drawing in the second chance promotion for that this week. And we’ve we’ve drawn our second chance winners for the Back to the Future contest. And we’ve got four cash winners in this first drawing, and I can go through them for you. We’ve got Roger Evans from Nottingham and Thomas Kelvin from Hagerstown, who each won $1,955 because that is the year 1955 that Marty McFly traveled back to in in Back to the Future. We’ve got Patricia Kendrick from Laurel, who won $2,015 that’s the year Marty traveled to in the future. In Back To The Future Part Two. And then Cora Patricia Thompson from Baltimore won $2,025 2025 2025 marking the the 40th anniversary of the Back to the Future franchise. So some cool prizes that are tied into the the significant years and numbers from the movie franchise. And more drawings to come in that as well. We got, I believe, four more drawings in Back to the Future coming up over the spring and summer months here. So plenty of chance to get in on that and in the last Back to the Future drawing. The grand prize is $8,888 why? Because Doc Brown’s DeLorean needed to travel 88 miles an hour in order to travel through time. So kind of a cool, nostalgic promotion for us. And I think a lot of people were really enjoying that. You and I certainly

Nestor Aparicio  08:04

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hear the ticket reveal in 88 and you the prize is shown. It says right here, 8888 miles an hour. You know, I have fun with all of this, but the as the lottery spokesperson, we do all this. I always say that really, the magic thing for anybody is to use the app, scan it and get involved in second chance, because that’s where, like, the big though, is, I mean, I give these things out. They’re $2 tickets. I’ve had people win five bucks, 10 bucks. I’ve had people win 50 and 100 I’ve had a couple of $100 winners at my shows and my crab cake tour. But, like, I wouldn’t know if the Nottingham guy, by the way, there ain’t no Nottingham, even though I lived there for 10 years. It’s White Marsh. But nonetheless, you know, that fella entered second chance. This is what everybody does, and this is how you win the big banana when you’re you know. And I think that that’s the real part of Scratch Austin, like, we didn’t have that 30 or 40 years ago, but that’s really where the big jackpots are.

Seth Elkin  09:04

Well, it’s, it’s where a lot of really cool prizes are, all these things we’re talking about, like trips to Los Angeles for let’s make a deal, and trips to go travel with the Ravens. These are Second Chance prizes that we we award through my lottery rewards. So if you don’t have a rewards account, you can sign up for free the there’s a Rewards app available for both Android and iPhone, and you can download it, and it makes it really easy to enter your tickets, because all you gotta do is scan the QR code with a Rewards App and it’ll enter the ticket into your account. And for any of these

Nestor Aparicio  09:36

tickets, so easy I can do it just so you know, like, I just want to make like, even I have it, that’s how easy it is. You

Seth Elkin  09:43

know, before we had that capability, there was a long string of characters that you had to type in manually, and you don’t have to do that anymore the

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Nestor Aparicio  09:49

or mail them in. Remember that? Or maybe you don’t, but I remember that before

Seth Elkin  09:53

my time, before I’ve been here 10 years and I we always had the scanning ability in the time that I’ve been here, so that may. Is very, very easy. And send

Nestor Aparicio  10:01

in your non winning. They caught him losing then, because they didn’t have a market. Send your losing ticket to second chance. You know, that was 1980 you know what? I mean, like, a long time. I wouldn’t want to work in the mail room over there that week. But the

Seth Elkin  10:13

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cool thing is, the easy part of it is that any of these tickets that are eligible for Second Chance contest, like, let’s make a deal. Like, Back to the Future. Like the Ravens tickets during the football season. When you scan them and enter them into your account, you are automatically entered into those Second Chance contests. There is nothing else for you to do. There are no extra steps. You don’t have to remember to do anything else. Just by entering an eligible ticket that’s eligible for a second chance contest, you’re automatically placed in the pool for those drawings, and at the same time, every ticket that you enter is helping you make progress to earn points that you can use to redeem for prizes in the store that’s on the website, and some points that you get can be used to enter additional drawings. So there are multiple ways of taking advantage of your rewards account and certainly getting in on the second chance contest and entering the tickets that are connected with those contests is one of the big reasons Seth Elkin

Nestor Aparicio  11:07

is here. He communicates for the Maryland lottery. John Martin joins us from time to time, but, you know, I thought John be flexing his muscles after the Cleveland thing last week. We haven’t seen him. I know a lot of things going on, and we’ll get him back in here. But I always love having you want to talk a little baseball, a little topicality. I mean, I usually love talking baseball with you, but not right this, whoo, this has been, you know, I don’t know what to say. Is there anything you want to say about the Orioles right now, just to be nice before we do home run riches. It could be

Seth Elkin  11:36

work. It could be worse. You could be a pirates fan like me. Well, tell me I want to feel better this Cleveland, Cleveland Queen dark clock, too. So, you know, we were not, not as badly as Cincinnati queen, the Orioles clock, of course. But

Nestor Aparicio  11:50

there’s nothing worse than a bad start, though, right? Like, especially when you have hope, it’s sort of like into the pitching goes down, and then you’re not hit the ball. It’s just not a good start, is what. You know, it’s just more fun that way. It really is. You got

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Seth Elkin  12:03

to remember how long a season it is. You know, the season goes on for six months. And like you say, some of the, some of these pictures will be back, and that certainly is going to help. But you know, it’s, it’s a tough situation the Orioles are in. You see them lose a guy who hit 105 home runs over the last three years, in Anthony Santander, you see them lose Corbin Burns, who we you know, I think everybody maybe assumed that that was only going to be one and done here in Baltimore. But, you know, it’s unfortunate, it’s frustrating. I know what it’s like as a pirates fan to see your best players walk away. I’m hoping that that does not happen in another couple of years with Paul Skeens, although the pirates seem not to be able to win with him either at the moment, because their offense is, is, is terrible, but, well,

Nestor Aparicio  12:47

there’s a lot of great young players. I mean, we saw de la Cruz make that incredible play this week. Yeah, the kid to pitch for the nationals on too, and we’re going to see other kid on Thursday. We’re going to see scuba this weekend. I mean, really good players, really good pitchers as well right now. You know, I had a long chat this week going into the weekend, man named Lynn Henning, legend in Detroit, covered the Detroit Tiger since 1979 he was actually at the beginning oral magic with the sense ace at the home run against the Tigers in 1979 and, you know, I had him on and we were talking about the tigers in the Orioles, and we talked about scuba just sort of like where the Tigers were this time last year, got off to a bad start, they were no good, and then they blossomed in the second half, and the Orioles kind of stuck in the second half last year Tigers came on scuba. Was a guy that there was huge talk about holiday for scuba. And I’m not saying that Elias wouldn’t have made that deal. You don’t deal sort of generational players usually, but you need pitching. But I thought that that was a fascinating conversation to have with a sage old baseball guy has been covering the Tigers for 50 some odd years to talk about that kind of a deal, because those are the kinds of deals, those blockbusters that you wait for, but everybody’s nervous when you make them, yeah, and

Seth Elkin  14:02

I wish, I wish my team were in on conversations like that. The only, the only conversations we have about player movement in Pittsburgher, you know, how long are we going to be able to hold on to the homegrown talent? And it is very, very frustrating. What’s, what’s going on there? But, and it’s interesting to me, there’s kind of a tie in here to our Back to the Future ticket. When we talk back to the future is 40 years ago. It came out in 1985 1985 was, was also one of the, the worst seasons in Pirates history. And I was 13 years old that summer, and they lost 104 games, and they were just absolutely I remember

Nestor Aparicio  14:37

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they called balecki up that year’s a Dundalk guy, you know, but balekki said when they would call him up to Pittsburgh, he’d have to leave Hawaii because their, their, their team was in Hawaii, right? He would come to Pittsburgh, and he’s like, all the fans wanted to do was heckle you because the team was so bad. Well, there

Seth Elkin  14:53

weren’t that many fans. There weren’t that many fans, but you can hear them all. You can hear that’s right. See, that’s what happens. People don’t really. Realize that when you follow a really bad baseball team and the microphones that they use on the broadcast to pick up the crowd noise, you’re hearing individual voices. So it’s really kind of bizarre. But yeah, that year, I went back and looked this up because I was just kind of interested again, nostalgia, the same way we have nostalgia with the with the lottery tickets, I have nostalgia for that, that 85 pirates team. Their attendance that year was 735,000 for the entire season. And they lie about attendance, and they had 47,000 for the season opener. That’s like 6% of the seasons attendance, dude.

Nestor Aparicio  15:33

I lived through 88 here. We had more people at one night for the for the fantastic fans. Night when the Rangers came in, my dad took me to that game in 88 some you know, I’m all about it. Seth Elkin is here. I love talking baseball home run riches, and what you’re doing. We’re not hitting enough home runs right now, but each and every night, there’s an opportunity we do have. Look, I’m worried about the pitching. I’ll say that. I mean, and John’s not going to change the rules that we start giving money out for home runs allowed. So, but at this point we home runs. I’m still confident they’re gonna hit a lot of home runs. I’m still confident they’re gonna win games because they hit the ball. Well, maybe not the last couple of days. I want to be the one scoring the 24 runs, not giving it up. But the home run riches contest is this is right to make some dough, because they’re gonna they’re gonna hit home runs once the weather gets a little

Seth Elkin  16:21

warmer here, yeah, you wait for the weather to warm up because the ball carries a little bit further. We did have a $3,000 winner on that was April the 19th. Peter jardu from Catonsville. They get five home runs in that game against the Cincinnati Reds. Hey,

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Nestor Aparicio  16:36

holiday in a Grand Slam. Last week, somebody got paid, right? Yeah, Jackson, holiday

Seth Elkin  16:40

in a Grand Slam. And that was Raymond Mitchell from Germantown, $6,500 we had him in here. He was here the

Nestor Aparicio  16:47

I put his picture up a Baltimore positive this week. I did, yeah, he was, he was

Seth Elkin  16:51

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very happy about that and and we were happy about that to see the first

Nestor Aparicio  16:55

I had to figure it out. I’m like, 6500 I’m like, no, they don’t get five grand for we get 500 for winning, right? It’s five

Seth Elkin  17:02

500 for being drawn, and then 500 for each home run.

Nestor Aparicio  17:06

6500 would have been if you were like, if you had the batters from over the weekend, on Sunday, but like so when you see 6500 it means they want a great there was a Grand Slam plus two, right? Well, yeah,

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Seth Elkin  17:19

that’s, that’s what that was in that was in that case, unless they hit a whole bunch of home runs

Nestor Aparicio  17:22

that day. So six on opening day, right? Whoever had that one got like, $3,500

Seth Elkin  17:27

right? Yep, and I can go back and I’m good at times

Nestor Aparicio  17:31

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table. See, you’re testing me. You’re testing me. Seth, that was

Seth Elkin  17:34

Tiffany jester of Cambridge. Uh, won $3,500 that day for the six over. So those

Nestor Aparicio  17:39

are the two biggest we’ve had, right? We’ve only had one grand slam, right, 6500 and

Seth Elkin  17:43

then the 3500 on opening day. And then we had that $3,000 last week the game before the game against

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Nestor Aparicio  17:50

the remember, yeah, it was good. That was the Rubenstein bobblehead. Like they hit a lot of home runs that day. Seth Elkin is here. He pretends to be an Oriole fan. You don’t hate the Orioles. You’re like. You root for the Orioles. You don’t dislike. You just been like a pirates fan forever, and it’s tough, you know, I

Seth Elkin  18:08

born and raised in western Pennsylvania, so And those of us who are old enough to remember the days before interleague play, I think I don’t know whether this is true for you, but you grew up in an American League city. I grew up in a national league city. I’ve always had a fascination with the American League teams, because I never got to see them when I was growing. It

Nestor Aparicio  18:24

was the same way with me. I always wanted to see Steve Carlton, Mike Schmidt, Darryl, strawberry, all those guys play, for sure. So

Seth Elkin  18:31

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there was an air of mystery about them. You didn’t get to see them unless you were watching This Week in baseball or the Saturday game of the week. That was the only time you got to see the American League, or when I came down here to visit my grandmother, so I wanted Eddie,

Nestor Aparicio  18:44

and you wanted Cal, you know that. And you know, you start talking, I talk baseball with you, and I get that. How about that? I get a little bell Allen going on here. What else you got going a lot. You got other big winners. And by the way, this time of year I run into you, and I run into Gail, who I saw the wall at the lottery headquarters your day and Ross, you guys spin the wheel. You do events. I mean, I’m looking at the window. I’m gonna my wife and I go into the zoo Friday night to see the lights and do all that stuff. You guys are doing events like all over town, and we’ve had other big winners. We got stuff happen a lottery. It’s exciting time of the year for the lottery. Yeah,

Seth Elkin  19:18

we had just to wrap up on on home run riches. We just did the drawing for the May contestants of the game, sure, and those are all posted. So that drawing just happened. So everybody from May has been selected, but still got plenty of time to get in. The drawings are monthly throughout the season, so lots of time to get in on

Nestor Aparicio  19:32

this is such a Baltimore thing for me. But like, I want to go in and look, because I’ll know somebody

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Seth Elkin  19:37

actually there is someone from your homeland in Dundalk. Hold on.

Nestor Aparicio  19:41

Hold on. We got a Dundalk contest in May on the May 14

Seth Elkin  19:45

game against the Minnesota Twins. Brittany Bosley from Dundalk is the contestant of the game, so mostly. But yeah, to go back to what you’re talking about with events, you know in the spring and summer months in particular. We’re out and about all over the place. We will be in in two places at once, on on Saturday, on April 26 we will be at the Maryland Day at the University of Maryland, which is a big event in College Park. We’ll be down there like I say. We can spin the prize wheel, and we’ll be out there meeting and greeting folks. And then we’ll also be at the Westminster wine stroll this weekend at Westminster. So we got that. And then Westminster,

Nestor Aparicio  20:23

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I like wine and I like strolling, so that sounds like fun. And

Seth Elkin  20:28

April 27 Sunday the 27th is the the 14th annual Red Shoe shuffle, 5k run and walk that benefits the Ronald McDonald House. And so that’s certainly a worthy charity that we want to make sure we support. And it’s something an event that we’ve event that we’ve gone to year in and year out. So we’re happy to be out there and support that as well. So you’ll find us at those three places and lots of others. Actually, next week, we will be out at Camden Yards for the April 30 game against the New York Yankees. So always fun. We hope it’s fun when the Yankees are in town. We hope for a win on that one. So

Nestor Aparicio  21:04

Yankees in for free beginning Monday through Wednesday, and then the Royals come to town next weekend as well. But, man, we gotta take care of his kids. Tigers. Gotta figure this offensive thing at got to figure the pitching out and all that good stuff. And I hope that when you and I reconvene, times are better for the my friends in Birdland here this Well,

Seth Elkin  21:24

I’m sure they will be for the Orioles, because there’s too much talent on that team for things to kind of plot along the way they are. But not so much for my pirates. I’m not expecting very much, and I wish I could say I was counting down the days until steward training camp starts, but I’m not so sure I want to see that either at the moment,

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Nestor Aparicio  21:41

look, you and I have one Pittsburgh team in common that we both loved for sure, the Pittsburgh Pisces. They have my heart forever. You know, they really do. Did I ever tell you my Dr J, story you have? Yep, I remember, yeah. Man, I saw Dr J, like, a couple years ago, and I he was so nice to me when he was a player. I covered him, and he was incredibly but, man, the Pittsburgh Pisces always soccer. Channing will always have my heart. There’s no question about that. So, so we’ll always say, I’m gonna get a Pittsburgh Pisces shirt just to show you my support. I’ve worn a Clemente shirt here on this program to support Roberta Clemente. So let’s not act like it’s just it was a 79 pirates that did me dirty. That’s all other than that. I got nothing but love for you. It’s not that Elkin is here. He communicates and directs all things communication while John Martin is off trying to, I hope we hit some home runs and drive John crazy. Hope he has to give out big checks. I want some Salamis this weekend, against Google and against this Tigers thing. Let’s get the Orioles back to where they need to be. I’m going to be back where I need to be, at Coco’s pub. I’ll be giving away the Back to the Future scratch offs. Maybe you can win $10,000 coming out to Cocos on Wednesday. We are going to be welcoming Jamie Costello, Senator Cory McRae, as well as my pal Howard perlo and others. Marcella is going to come in. There is a I got to reorganize this with Marcella, but one of my favorite things in life to eat. And this summer, on behalf of the marijuana, I’m going to be doing my 27 favorite foods in August on the crab cake tour. But the Burke’s crab melt was one of my all time favorite things. It’s now a ROFO, but birch isn’t there anymore, but I’ve learned how to recreate it, and I need the Coco’s crab cake, because it tasted like a Coco’s crab cake to do this? So Marcella has told me, next Wednesday, they’re going to make burger night, crab melt night. We’re going to watch the Orioles beat up on the Yankees while Seth and ROS and Gail’s out at the ballpark trying to beat the Yankees as well. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. We’ll see you at Cocos next Wednesday. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Taos in Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive in the Pittsburgh Pisces, Google a kids, it’s great to fish st, Pittsburgh.