John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talks big local winners and fun summer stories with Nestor.
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SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor J. Aparicio
Nestor J. Aparicio 00:02
Welcome home we are wn St. Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive we are positive we get the Maryland crabcakes. We’re back out on the road on August the 13th. Sounds like a long time from now. I assure you it’s not it’s just I think it’s one fake football game away, but it’s like it’s probably about 20 baseball games away. But when we get there, when we get the State Fair in Catonsville, we will have the Gold Rush sevens doublers to give away as we have all summer long. We’re ramping things up into August we back down to fade Lee’s when the cheats Droz come to town later on in the month Luke is has all things covered from the Ravens this week out in the wings Mills as well as the Padres in town all weekend long. Also our friends at Jiffy Lube, multi care powering that up as well as Liberty pure solutions. And I do want to give a shout out to Doug workman and our friends at Liberty pure not just keeping my water in my orange colored glass, crystal clear and delicious. But also I had a plumbing issue I had like a leaky thing. He sort of corroded pipe thing from a long time ago. And he sent his crack crew over here in one hour. All done. And we’re working perfectly. John Martin is working perfectly as the executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. As we get into the heat of the summer football season coming we’re gonna have a Ravens promotion around the corner homerun riches rock and I know we had million dollar winners this week. John, how are you what’s going on out there and in Maryland lottery land?
John Martin 01:29
You know I’m doing well. Nestor although I just caught myself in the monitor Black is not a good color for me. I’ve just determined that I know. I need to go back to the wardrobe department. It just makes the gray and the white. I look like an old man. Summer
Nestor J. Aparicio 01:42
it’s summer, man. You bet it’s probably play. I’m wearing a black shirt. You’re wearing a black shirt. It’s not like it’s 92 degrees outside or anything right? It’s
John Martin 01:50
a comfortable 7172 here in my office.
Nestor J. Aparicio 01:54
You know I was talking this week I had Todd rate them on and he is a guy who designs logos he’s designed Superbowl logos and so I had him on about those as all star uniforms we talked about last week you don’t I’m saying and I broke out my Tony Gwynn throwback and it is made of that light material that you want. So if you get a black shirt like yours it has to breathe like a game or does on a Friday night when the Orioles are would breeze
John Martin 02:20
the breeze. It’s not the it’s not that the material is the color just accentuates my starch white
Nestor J. Aparicio 02:27
red lottery logo pop off of there just like when I’m at Royal farms and there’s a big jackpot and Mega Millions or Powerball.
John Martin 02:35
You know, hey, nicely done there. You teed that one up, I can’t not take a swing at it. This week as we speak. They’re in those three digit categories that I know they every single family loves to see.
Nestor J. Aparicio 02:48
When I pull up in that one digits not filled out, you know what I mean?
John Martin 02:51
We got we got triple digits on both mega and Powerball. So please, please, please play responsibly have some fun with it. And hopefully well, you know, I the big checks are getting dusty here in my in my warehouse. Claiming
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:07
money what would happen? Well, I mean, the for the for the Mega Millions and
John Martin 03:10
the Powerball. All those those are special checks. And they we’ve had one of those in a long time.
Nestor J. Aparicio 03:16
Yeah, I feel Jinxy I feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve had that big glow, where you call all the other lottery directors and say I gave the billion dollar check out like, like we did it. We mentioned lone accoding all the time, which also the humble lefty Grove, you go up there and see some real baseball history right here in the Maryland soil and Western Maryland. But, you know, given big checks away, I like for my wife, you talk about her plane megamillions or whatever. But when I see James Kennedy’s emails in my email inbox every week before you come on, I’m always looking to see did anybody win a million this week? And there are a lot more million dollar winners than you think. And sometimes they will come in and claim their prize which is crazy.
John Martin 03:59
Well, yeah, that is really crazy. And then sometimes they they come in and and it is it is a fun time. We had a recent winner come in. Actually it was two gentlemen, who happened to be co workers. And they were out starting their day. When get their morning coffee. A couple of donuts, you know nothing. Nothing says construction worker like doughnuts and coffee. Well,
Nestor J. Aparicio 04:31
and also we’re splitting a lottery ticket that feels like that feels like a thing from a cop movie. You know what I mean, buddy? Yeah, right, you know,
John Martin 04:38
right. Exactly. Exactly. And so these two guys get their tickets, they they sit in the car, it’s the $20 100 times the cash scratch off. The one guy scratches this ticket and then got nothing nothing.
Nestor J. Aparicio 04:54
Now he got a second chance. Come on now
John Martin 04:57
he’s got a second chance. That’s correct. He looks over to his part. Winner and as the quote goes his partner says he’s looking ghost white. And the first guy says, Did we win a million dollars? And the guy kind of stammered and stutters he Yeah. And so we have a million dollar winner right there in the parking lot of sheets out there in Frederick. So they come in to claim and you know, a lot of times people like to use their, their their real name, they they hide behind a check, they wear the feather boa and the funny hats or whatever. So this will this will appeal to some of our fans out there. He uses the name Mr. Papa Giorgio.
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:33
I’ve heard that in Las Vegas. I you know, I may have used that in Las Vegas sometimes. Yes,
John Martin 05:39
yeah. So if you go to MD locker you’ll see this guy with his top hat how
Nestor J. Aparicio 05:44
many of us have seen the vacation movies right? Like what it comes down to it classics,
John Martin 05:49
classics, all of them one better than the other. But Mr. Papa Giorgio, in fact, holding a million dollar check. That’s, that’s a lot of fun. So we have fun every day when people come in to to claim their prizes, whether it be on scratch offs, Powerball, Mega Millions fast play whatever. We had another great story here that I just have to share with you. It has to do with a second chance contest. You talked about saving a ticket.
Nestor J. Aparicio 06:21
Giorgio had an opportunity for that right? Pop Giorgio to right.
John Martin 06:26
Back. So we had our multiplier family of the scratch off tickets earlier this year. And part of that was a second chance contest. And top prize was $75,000 in the second chance contest. And so we had a lovely woman who won that prize from Caitlin’s film by the name of Barbara djanogly. ak. The great part of this story is are you sitting down Esther, are you ready for this one, she was a former employee ie of Montgomery Ward’s warehouse,
Nestor J. Aparicio 06:59
she had to come home to get the checks which tell him if she
John Martin 07:01
came home.
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:05
And those of you who don’t know the lottery headquarters is in the old Macomb rewards building, Southwest Baltimore right next to one of our great sponsors at Carroll Park and classic five golf and you know, Southwest Baltimore, and my former Producer and longtime intern Ray Bachman, of big town. So sort of South pick town is what I would call the Macomb rewards. Just to have an official name is Carol Park is the name of the area. Carol
John Martin 07:30
Park is the area our building is the Montgomery Park Business Center.
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:35
It’s 100 years old that building right?
07:38
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Nestor J. Aparicio 07:39
I mean, it’s it’s this. It’s this glorious old school built like they used to be built kind of buildings. And I mean, you can look, you could see what’s right here. It’s the white building on the screen right over my finger. How about that? Right.
John Martin 07:53
There you go. There you go. You are there. You know the great part of this story, not only she coming home to win her prize, as happens and you and I’ve joked about this before, she gets a call from Doug and does not believe it?
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:05
What percentage maybe I should ask Doug that quite a lot.
John Martin 08:09
A lot. So, but it gets put in perspective. Second Chance contests
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:14
are less than Ted Williams 406.
John Martin 08:18
We had, we had 18 million entries. So sure. Her odds were one in 18 million, that she would win a $75,000 prize. So sure you forget about it. So duck calls, she doesn’t believe it. She shows up with her entire family. Just to make sure that mom wasn’t getting scammed. In the in the in the process. Here are great family, lots of fun, took a lot of pictures. Go to MD lottery.com.
Nestor J. Aparicio 08:46
Hopefully so far. I’m thinking about like what needs to, you know, to somebody so how she worked in Montgomery Ward’s right in the building? Yeah, when was the last time it was in Macomb rewards catches?
John Martin 08:57
I have no I have no idea. 3540 Like it’s,
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:00
I don’t know why I went there. When I was a little boy. I did I remember we literally we bought a range there when I was a kid. But I was only in that building one time. And every time I pull up and see you and Roz and dog and I come in, give these to get these away. I think of that first time you’re there, you know, so it is a special place. I can’t imagine if you work there, I’d be gonna be off. It’s a great story.
John Martin 09:21
I got another great story because again, we swim we get so focused on on these big prizes and the big second chances but we also have an ongoing effort with our mind lottery rewards loyalty program. Various prices come up throughout the year that people can put their name in the in the virtual Hopper gets selected. Anthony consort, the second did that recently and wins a trip to Marco Island. How cool is that? Well, yeah,
Nestor J. Aparicio 09:50
February, Illinois take in February, March, sir. Well,
John Martin 09:54
he gets four days three nights at the Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort, bro. octopus daily around a golf or a spa treatment either or, and round trip airfare for himself in a guest. So how do I get dinner?
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:07
Did you get dinner or not? We don’t know.
10:10
Now,
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:11
what are the grouper just get just given advice if you’re gonna get the group or when you’re in Florida. Exactly, exactly.
John Martin 10:17
So you know those are those are fun stories to to relate. I mean, you go to md.lottery.com you see real people, people like you and I well maybe in that like me because I can’t win. But people who were Marylanders who enjoy it have some fun play responsibly. And and we wish them well on their, on their, their their winning ways. And how
Nestor J. Aparicio 10:38
many more homerun riches that was my complaint for you today. I’ve talked so much baseball this week. You know, traditionally we did sports around your job now we are bringing a Prince George’s County Executive Angela alsobrooks, who is running for Senate, I’ll be giving away the Gold Rush seven doublers. So we do a little bit of politics, a little bit of business, we got stuff. But I’ve done just like a lot of baseball and a lot of a lot of trading deadline this week in first place in the ravens are back out on the field. But we need more home runs and home run riches. That was my complaint to you today. Now that I have you in the middle of this
John Martin 11:10
to date as we speak, which is prior to when people are listening. There were 152 home runs hit year to date by the O’s, five of those grand slams our prize package so far $150,000 Plus, and our current progressive jackpot coming close to $75,000. Which means when you buy homerun riches, bases loaded fast play game at one of the 4300 retailers around the state of Maryland and you can enter that special code on that ticket into the chance to be the contestant the game coming up in July. You know we’ve got the Padres coming in. And we are going to have on Friday. Hi sent a night and yeah, I’m sorry. Hi. Wow, that’s okay.
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:00
We’ll try it again.
John Martin 12:02
I sent and yeah, okay from takoma park is our Friday, contestant Andrew Fowler of Martinsburg, West Virginia. You know, I’ve never been there. We probably own the town. I didn’t think about that.
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:16
Well, the probably some pirates people there too, that they got schemes. But yeah, you know, Martin’s Burg. Oh, John Moore, John Martin from the Maryland lottery executive directors our guest on the program right now. That’s that’s a good point, Mark. Like, yeah,
John Martin 12:29
I should I should check it out. And then on Sunday, Bradley Kent, from Cambridge, or is it Bradley Cambridge from Kent? I don’t I think is Bradley Kent, from Cambridge, Maryland. So those three lucky folks are getting their swings in and the batting cage getting ready. They’ve all won $500 Just being selected contestant the game. And should and
Nestor J. Aparicio 12:50
they don’t believe it when they get called. Right.
John Martin 12:53
I think they believe $500 I think that believability factor is a correlation to the dollar amount. Okay, fair enough. I want how much right? Yeah, yeah. 500 bucks. Sure. Okay, fine. Send it 75,000 Wait a minute, a million. Whoa, stop. Yeah, who is this really? So yeah, Doug deals with all of that that may be in the show in and of itself. Doug Lloyd’s Greatest Hits. We’ll we’ll we’ll work on that. Hey, you know us a good time this week. Who had a good time this week? Our person who are people who get involved with the team USA Second Chance promotion?
Nestor J. Aparicio 13:28
Well, this was last week I went crazy. On second chance you just said progressive, which is second chance, right? Are you a chance to another way to win is where I would say there is no game you play no scratch off, I give away. That’s a one and done ever in that sort of a mentality that my wife has with the app, and where we are and my lottery rewards and all the things we talked about in that way. But this is how you get to go to Milano for the Olympics. Right? And everybody’s all Olympic up here. I got friends over Paris this week. Now I want to go to Milan like your like your winners are? Well,
John Martin 14:03
the contest go to MD lottery.com is if you buy a Mega Millions ticket and the window is still open. You enter that into the drawing, as Cheryl harrow did from Baltimore, Maryland. She was our first prize winner earlier in the month of July. But we added to that our second member of the winning delegation, Lisa Keaney. And here’s a riddle for you. Bob’s Maryland. I’ve never heard of that. Do you?
Nestor J. Aparicio 14:30
BSEOUBS. I’m gonna look that up, down. Okay. I want to see because I had been to Martinsville West Virginia, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Berg, I have been there. Yes, I have. How do you even
John Martin 14:42
you don’t even know where where it was gassed up there. It’s
Nestor J. Aparicio 14:45
across the border. I I had to go.
John Martin 14:48
There was a say. I’m here to the gas station.
Nestor J. Aparicio 14:51
I will be honest with you. Because you’re asking and some of this is because of you because you sent me out on the Maryland crabcake tour a couple years ago Maryland lottery response We went all these places and oil farms across the border in West Virginia that I went into get gas because I was in the middle of nowhere. I was out there fishing with Dan Rodricks in the middle of like nauplii. So da you give me this to get d a
John Martin 15:14
d o u s. daubs daubs
Nestor J. Aparicio 15:18
how to say it. It looks like it’s missing an E it should have a silent E. It is. You know where it is? It’s in a great place. It’s near buches town, which is just south of Frederick there. daubs is, like very, very close to a place. That’s a beautiful vineyard. It’s called Big cork vineyard. My friend owns it out there. Go out there get some wine he has on the lawn that did you have? You have essentially been walking distance from daubs is where the front door? No, it’s true, man. It’s right in your buck. He’s down there. poolesville. Right? Oh, 28. Yep. Right. Right there. It’s it’s really, really close to the West Virginia border that we just spoke up. So yes, yes. Wow.
John Martin 16:03
So Lisa Keaney, congratulations,
Nestor J. Aparicio 16:05
Charlestown, which is not too far from Martins Ville wherever it was. Yes.
John Martin 16:13
Yes. So I’m not aware of police has made a determination because she has the option to attend the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, or the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles. So she has that decision to make and we wish her well in that decision. By the way, it
Nestor J. Aparicio 16:29
did go to Martinsburg, I got it right here on the map. It’s right. It’s not too far from where we’re talking about. But it’s bright by Antietam. So it was my Antietam day, where we were antiquing and learning about just I don’t know if you know the history of Antietam, but
John Martin 16:43
we did the same trip. And I tell you, if you’re listening to us now, first of all, bless you. But secondly, if you’re listening to us now, and you’ve not been to Antietam, what do you Wow, wow.
Nestor J. Aparicio 16:54
Wow, place it really is. There’s so much of that. And that’s part of my pimp in the Maryland lights, part of the reason I’m doing the oyster tour, because I’m going to be going back to some of these places. Now. I don’t know that I’m getting the best oysters in Antigua, right. So I mean, there’s some places in southern America
John Martin 17:09
that goes through, you know, I daresay that’s the first time that set those words have ever been put together in a sentence.
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:14
You don’t sort of go west of like buoy to get an I don’t think but I’m going to learn and this is part of the Maryland oyster tour, which I’m doing. It’s September conjunction. I don’t know what I’m going to do with this. It’s a good time to ask you, John Martin, because last year, you had this big anniversary and we talked so much about anniversary and branding and all that cool stuff. I turned 26 Next week on August 3, so I do I get rid of the cupcake. That is it time for it to go what do I do?
John Martin 17:40
I think you have a ceremonial goodbye, you know, give it its due. But it is time to retire. The Cupcake. Well, this plays right
Nestor J. Aparicio 17:49
into the oyster tour. And because we’re doing it for 26 days, we’re doing 26 oysters. We’re involved in the governor revolving a lot of different people. We’re doing two different oyster events that month. But But more than that, I’m getting back to how greatest state this is, you know, and we talked a lot about the lottery and represent Maryland also. But I I’ve told you what I’ve been to these towns, all of these little places. We have such a beautiful state and if there’s anything, I would say staycation for people in Maryland in the month of August specifically because it’s just beautiful to drive the state because everything’s so lush, but I think September will be nice as well. So I’m gonna get to some cool places and learn some more things like Antietam which is awesome.
John Martin 18:29
Very much very much so you know what else is awesome. We have new games and players low back
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:36
games Hold on You teach me something? Well, I
John Martin 18:38
have a new scratch offs not that they’re new games, but just
Nestor J. Aparicio 18:41
what am I going to give it away in the fall? Well, it’s
John Martin 18:43
possible what one option could be our new dollar ticket called Lucky 13. So $1 ticket up to six chances to win top prize of $1,313 313 are teens aren’t lucky. We know this right? Where they are at the Maryland lottery. Have
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:01
you ever been in a hotel that has a 13th floor?
John Martin 19:06
I only stay in hotels that have four floors?
Nestor J. Aparicio 19:08
I’m just saying I’m just so lucky. 13 All right, so that’s a new one for me. All right,
John Martin 19:14
it is it is what we expect the unexpected expected from Maryland lottery so lucky 13 top prize 1313 at the $5 level Joker’s wild top prize $50,000 also at $5 gold bar bingo. Also top prize of $50,000 and get all the details at MD lottery.com $10 price point money rush 22 chances to win top prize of $100,000 and the big dog in this this episode of new scratch off Millionaire’s club $20 price point top prize $1 million so you can better find all Those at the 4300 Plus retailers around the state. All new scratch offs rolled them out this week, so plenty of top prizes yet to be won, as well as prices on our fast play games we’d launched fast play new series of games earlier this month. $1 Burger box, top prize $500 $5 The Game of Life, top prize $75,000 $10 Fat wallet with a progressive jackpot right now over $100,000 and a $30 Gold Rush progressive part of our Gold Rush family. Another progressive jackpot. And as we speak well over $700,000 top prize all the details nd lottery.com.
Nestor J. Aparicio 20:48
And every one of those is in the machine over Costas right by the little cage that combo never gets the crabs this week. So I’ll check them all out. They’re all colorful and stuff. But you got me thinking with this. I just said 13 And you gave me 13 I’m thinking 13 is a number you can play in cash pop now. Right? So I’m trying to learn this. Is there a stigma against third? I’m wondering because you know, that’s why it’s weird. Like, what I play 13 If I could, why wouldn’t I? Is it a weird number is 13 really anybody’s lucky number? I bet there’s some stigma against a number like that in a game where cash pop. You
John Martin 21:26
know, I don’t think about I mean Thirteen’s in baseball lore.
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:31
Any Machado is coming to town this weekend. Watch out. Okay.
John Martin 21:35
I mean, you go back over over Vern fuller. For the Cleveland Indians back in the late 60s, we’re number 13. There’s something you can share with your family and friends.
Nestor J. Aparicio 21:45
Well, I went through this with the Yankees people last month, all the single digits are taken. So they have to take weird numbers as it is. John Martin is here sometimes in weird numbers. And sometimes it’s like your zip code and five digit you know, and it just hits your number hits is missing. And he would say down the street. And if you want it is you went back you go to MD lottery. Make sure you’re downloading the app first things first, especially if I’m giving you a gold rush sevens. doubler. A couple of weeks from now over at State Fair, where I’m wearing my safe and Catonsville. Catonsville, if you’re pronouncing it wrong, on the 13th of August, we’ll be over there doing that and make sure that you’re up you’re getting into the second chance, but I always tell people that and oh, and the other thing I do this responsibly. I mean, come on. We get sports wagering out there. We get baseball games every night. Everybody calm down. If you need some help, we’ll get you some help as well. We talk about that a lot around here. We always make sure we throw that caveat and Jonathan, we hit everything here. I mean, I know it’s summertime, you got folks out there spinning wheels and doing all sorts of things but but it’s the calm before the football storm. Once the kids go back to school. We know things heat up
John Martin 22:45
around here, right? It is we will be you can find the empty lottery team at the O’s pods game on July 27. We will be at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. But then the clock turns to August and we we strap on the helmet and the shoulder pads and we’ll be at a couple of the what you call them before not preseason games. You call them something else.
Nestor J. Aparicio 23:07
Fake fake footballs. For a long time. Yeah, we will beat John Steadman. So it’s legitimate.
John Martin 23:13
Okay, well, we, we have the ravens and the eagles on August 9, and then the Raven Falcons on the 17th. In between there, we’re going to be at the maiden Maryland Festival, which is a Kurt’s beach in Pasadena. So that’ll be coming up on our calendar. Again, you can find all the events at MD lottery.com. And then September, they’ll play for real and we’ll have a whole different conversation. Well,
Nestor J. Aparicio 23:41
I would say even a fake football just to give the Ravens a nod be nice, is it’s fun to go down. You know what I mean? Like I mean, I preseason. It’s a little bit of a festival atmosphere. It’s just not the greatest version of the sport that we’ve seen. But but we are looking forward to the Kansas City game. We’re ramping up for that Luke is out in Owings Mills keeping us abreast of everything. We had a long conversation about Marlon Humphrey this week. Obviously Derrick Henry, the new influence trying to get Lamar back on the field after being sick. So we’re covering all that as well as all the homeruns being hit all the baseball being played all the homerun riches being reached. I hope that and you do know John, as much as he’s your guardians guy, you know, I’ve got like a Padre Sol. Right? There’s a whole chapter in my life book about my aunt out in San Diego. My aunt Jane and Tony Gwynn and all we actually played the Tony Gwynn interview that I did at Sporting News Radio the hour long sit down at the end of his career last week during all star week, so you could find that out of Baltimore positive too. So but this is an important week and the Orioles need this more so depth to the Padres and my good friend Fred Yeoman, no soup for you all weekend. Three wins for the Orioles this weekend, as well as some lottery tickets being given away as well. John Martin is here he is always there. He’s the Executive Director of all things Maryland lottery gaming out on the front of Baltimore positive I’m making you laugh and I make you laugh. Yeah, a little chuckle Yeah, I
John Martin 24:57
did have a little chuckle there.
Nestor J. Aparicio 24:59
I saw Julia. Louis Dreyfus as a little girl in an Orioles hat earlier today so it just gave me a whole like just at a Seinfeld moment I am Nestor we are wn S T A it’s better than an animal and Animal House moment I’ve had those two Baltimore positive talk a lot of movies be dropped here this week it’s crazy
