With the Powerball jackpot now in excess of one billion dollars, Maryland Lottery Executive Director John Martin tells Nestor about the $4 million and $1 million dollar local winners in Catonsville and Baltimore from Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing, which also stands at $720 million and growing. Quite a week for the lottery!
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SPEAKERS
John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
W n s t, Towson Baltimore, Baltimore positive. We are positively into these hot, sweltering summer months which is why you probably need to come cool off with me get inside. We’re doing the Maryland crab cake tour this week. We’re skipping next week is my anniversary week. My mother’s birthday so we’re gonna hang out a little bit. We are going to be with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina shock this week at the Beaumont. I don’t know if we’re gonna have the billion dollar prize by then. But we do have Maryland scratch offs, made a lot of scratch offs. We get $100 winner last week over a Coco’s get great show last week in Coco’s with Senator Cory McCray, Dave shine and received talked about the neighborhood and Lara Ville cocoas is now a sponsor of ours, so we’re gonna get out to eat their cheeseburgers. I had more sell on, but $100 winner last week, we’ve got a billion dollars in one pot. We’ve got three quarters of a billion dollars in the other pod. At some point, my wife’s wondering what she needs to do to win this money. And I’m here with John Martin, Executive Director of the Maryland lottery who is extra caffeinated on the real farms this morning. Because like we got million dollar winners in the state we still have the big pot up the homerun riches are common. The Orioles have been winning not so much against the Dodgers, but they’ve been winning and hitting some home runs How are you this? You’re like up late up early when this gets to be a billion dollars like all the John Martin’s in the 50 states you guys are all this is a big deal for the lottery in America. right
John Martin 01:25
let me jump just in clarify for editorial purposes. There was only one John Martin. And you’ve got him in person. And he and purple and he has been drinking out of the regular pot today not the decaf pot because we haven’t Mario wins is what you’re We have breaking news as you’ve correctly identified. Powerball jackpot a billion dollars tonight as we speak a billion dollars tonight but the real breaking news is the Mega Millions drawing last night. Here in the state of Maryland. We had not one but two millionaires.
Nestor Aparicio 01:58
is holding tickets is this past. I mean seriously,
John Martin 02:00
it’s possible seriously, seriously, I these people may not even know they won. So do you know where the tickets were sold? Of course, that’s my job. Do you have one of those breaking news sounders like
Nestor Aparicio 02:12
when I was in? When I was in, in high school, I took a journalism class and we did this thing. We actually used babba O’Reilly from the who. So if you can think of the beginning of Babbo, Riley like being the news beginning of that, so yeah, I’ll do the Wayne’s World
John Martin 02:31
Yes, we have now reached new heights we’re doing
Nestor Aparicio 02:35
this works. Nobody’s hit the billion but underneath of the billion if you have matching numbers and match the Powerball the right way. You get a million just a million next All right, nothing.
John Martin 02:46
Well yeah, let’s let’s get it redirected here. megamillions last night, the price was 640 there were no winner so Friday’s drawing $720 million. So let’s go through the vitals on that Friday. If there is a winner cash option 369 point 6 million net after taxes about 246 247 million. The math isn’t dry on this. Yes, it will
Nestor Aparicio 03:13
lay on that I swear I could spend a lot of time on that. Oh yeah.
John Martin 03:17
And if that lucky winner is a Marylander and we hope that he or she is $33 million into Governor Moore’s budget so
Nestor Aparicio 03:27
that so if the person bought the ticket from Delaware Virginia, you know on a bender, that person collects the money in a different state, is that correct?
John Martin 03:35
Absolutely. You must go back to the state of purchase.
Nestor Aparicio 03:39
state of purchase not state of residency correct? So if someone lives in Pennsylvania as an example listen Shrewsbury has Pennsylvania license plate all of that? He can he’s gonna He’s in Baltimore leg on the Oriole game he can buy a ticket what happens
John Martin 03:55
if he wins? If he wins in Maryland, we welcome here with open arms
Nestor Aparicio 04:01
was gonna Maryland ticket. Right? Right, right. But he lives in Shrewsbury what happens?
John Martin 04:05
I don’t care. He bought actually, I hope he goes to the Amish market while he’s in Shrewsbury in Ocean City. Nice, nice to stop there. But but we’ve got horribly off the rails here. But the breaking news item, not one but two mega million winners last night, which means Nesta going back to your question that they got five of five of the white balls that were drawn, but did not get the Mega Ball, the Mega Ball. Okay, just to put that in perspective, you had numbers from one to 70, of which you select five numbers. And then the Mega Ball is a number from one to 25. So two people, one five of five, they want a million dollar prize. One of those two had the foresight to play an additional dollar a GET THE Megaplier which is a random multiplier for each drawing, which multiplies all the prices below the jackpot so it doesn’t multiply the 640 million but all All the other prizes and the multiplier last night was four. So four times a million. Don’t take your shoes and socks off on this one Nestor four times a million $4 million. So one lucky winner. purchase a ticket in Catonsville go through your
Nestor Aparicio 05:16
Rolodex I’m gonna meet Kingsville tomorrow. I might know this person.
John Martin 05:20
It’s possible here.
Nestor Aparicio 05:21
This weekend. kingsmills Lucky is what you’re telling me.
John Martin 05:25
Catonsville winner $1 million purchased at the National pike fuel at in Gainesville, but the big winner last night. Was I Baltimore City location.
Nestor Aparicio 05:38
Oh, hold on. That’s somebody I might know this person. Go ahead. So again,
John Martin 05:41
a million dollar winner bought the multiple Megaplier for this. Both of these are fours are right the first one then Catonsville was a million dollars, they didn’t really get to feel bad. Well, they are especially when they realized that if they put another buck into the end of the game there then we’ve had $4 million. And that lucky person purchased their ticket at the lobby shop in beautiful downtown Baltimore, so very local Catonsville and Baltimore City to winners, but of course, they could have come from any place. Excuse me, I get a little motional
Nestor Aparicio 06:15
it’s funny. Yeah, well, I mean, oh, man away. Oh, you can’t keep it anyway. So I mean, it’s no no, no, it’s not yours to keep. It’s not like Wheel of Fortune.
John Martin 06:26
Hey, he’s looking for a gig. Oh, well, you know, he’s right around the corner.
Nestor Aparicio 06:31
He he could pay out the lottery from a lottery. I think he doesn’t need the multiplier. So let’s let’s clarify here. Yeah, Mega Millions and 36 wasn’t one of them or 237 was so so 36 is my lucky number. So the Mega Ball was 18 this the big prize is now 720 But here in Maryland for Mega Millions if you played on Tuesday, if you played it give me the places again now the this a Catonsville was the
John Martin 06:57
Gainesville national pike fuel
Nestor Aparicio 07:01
Okay, and then the Baltimore was lobby lobby shop lobby shop. I gotta I gotta Google these places find out where they are. Find out what what lucky bought hope to Baltimore people. I mean, we all work Gainesville, right? We hope but again,
John Martin 07:14
I mean, we these are, for the most part, and honestly, purchases. We don’t know where these people have come from, but when they show up here.
Nestor Aparicio 07:21
Okay, so hold on a second. There’s a 4 million and 1 million and they’re walking the streets. They may or may not know I can. I can tell you now, John, this is like, it’s not my wife. You know, she did not. She bought it. She bought at the Royal farms on providence. So I know. So yeah, I know, my wife’s are in the big, it’s fine. I mean, I’m hoping it’s a friend. So this person like now has a ticket that it’s not unlike these instant lottery scratch also, though, it’s not an instant, and they had the ticket and they’re like, I think I won. They want to end the lottery.com where I’m looking at 1922 3137 54 I got all the numbers. And they’re like, Okay, I bought them. I want $4 million. That what do they do? First thing
John Martin 07:59
they should look for? What do they do? No, no, first of all, there’s no switchboard anymore showing your age. But the first thing they should do is sign that ticket, put their name on the back of the ticket, there’s plenty of room there for them to sign the ticket, then they should secure that ticket. Whether it’s on their person, believe me, there’s some weird stories on how people secure tickets but and then they have 182 days from last night stronger. Dude,
Nestor Aparicio 08:24
I would run that thing to you just to say I want I want I want I want I’ll figure it out. I’ll get a money guy. Don’t write me a check today. I don’t want my picture taken. I don’t want to be but I would run that ticket to you. I just write that’s where
John Martin 08:37
I would be on it. Which is why your wife buys the tickets and you don’t? Because she
Nestor Aparicio 08:43
should be afraid. Where am I securing a $4 million ticket that I don’t tell
John Martin 08:47
me that’s the whole idea. That’s that’s the secure part of it. On on your
Nestor Aparicio 08:55
column calling Ross I’m calling I’m calling somebody and say take this thanks. I want to drop it like it’s hot like Snoop. I’d be like, bring it to you. It’s 4 million bucks. I’d be scared to death to touch it.
John Martin 09:06
Well, yeah, but whatever you don’t put it in the freezer don’t put it next to the
Nestor Aparicio 09:10
afraid to touch into Cal Ripken rookie card because it was worth 100 bucks. You know what I mean? Like, by the way, we had $100 winner and I want to I want to show you this picture because we do this every week. This is our $100 winner from Coco’s this young lady came up and said, she’s like, I want 100 bucks and I’m like, I’m going to put you on the internet. So we took pictures so well. Coco’s that was a really lucky batch. I don’t know where Roz got this batch couple months but I’m getting low on these my 25th anniversary is it cost this on the Third John we gotta get this billion dollars away between now
John Martin 09:44
that is that is burdensome, it’s weighing heavily on my my small brain but I’ll tell you what the fun part is, you know the all time record Powerball jackpot which was not that long ago. I have it here somewhere on my on my desk to be million dollars. We’re not even halfway there. Okay. 2.04 was the all time winner it was in California. And I want to say it was November. So I’m going to say that one moment, please. Yeah, November of 22, not even a year ago. So we’re not even halfway there. Now the funny part is we count these things in terms of how many rolls does it take. And that was the $2 billion plus jackpot was on the 41st. Roll.
Nestor Aparicio 10:26
Where are we right now with
John Martin 10:27
Powerball, we’re about 38 or 39. So we’re just about there. So look at how we’re right almost there, but we’re half the total. And the reason for that, quite frankly, is the Mega Millions. This is the third time in history that both games have been over $500 million at the same time. They both ever been over a billion.
Nestor Aparicio 10:47
No. Wow. So how many more roles will it take Mega Millions at in the sevens to get to Biden if there’s two more matches and nobody gets Powerball next week, we would be looking at one being a billion and the other one getting up on two correct
John Martin 11:04
and that they probably won’t grow that quickly because again, they tend to compete when you’ve got that bet bet amount of play in the marketplace and and that’s because people do the right thing they’re playing responsibly they know that they only need one ticket to win no one should be running out there putting you know an inordinate amount of money on games that have roughly 292 to one and million and 302 million to one odds on the top prize enjoy math
Nestor Aparicio 11:28
on this. Yeah, they’re different the odds are different okay.
John Martin 11:32
The odds are different because the matrix is a little different. And that that’s that’s the science that goes into it but the but but it’s fun to dream it’s fun to to play with friends or co workers and pool your resources together. That’s always a good thing to do when these jackpots get this Hi, but the some of the numbers are staggering. If someone were to win the billion dollars tonight that’s a cash option of 516 point 8 million net after tax 346 point 5 million and again if that lucky person he or she happens to be a Marylander that’s over $46 million
Nestor Aparicio 12:08
to the year what I do with it right now because I’m in the mood to it you do the put in the freezer or you’re on a minor league hockey team bring hockey back to Baltimore. You know, I think that’s what I was dreaming today. You’re letting me dream so let me dream a little bit.
John Martin 12:20
You’re you’re a person of the people industry you hit you have everyone’s best interests at heart.
Nestor Aparicio 12:25
I’d have an am radio station for sale. I promise you that. John Martin is here. He is the executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. We’re gonna see John next month. We’re going to be down at Mako broadcasting with a lot of folks in Ocean City. Next month’s really busy. It’s our 25th anniversary. We’re going to be a Costas on the third. We’re going to be drug city on the fourth. We’ve already started lining up incredible guests. Johnny is going to be joining us over a drug city to honor 25 years of a Baltimore County company here. Do what things you guys are doing more than just jackpots, though, right. So like, every night, the Orioles, the homerun riches is there. There’s just money to be made on that. But you’re rolling out scratch offs doing all this, but boy, there’s no oxygen. Well, my wife can win a billion dollars tonight, right? Like, people think of the lottery and it’s fun to win $100 If you’re Coco’s last week, but I would think the energy in your building gets different when it’s $1,000,000,000.03 quarters of a billion on the other side.
John Martin 13:19
Oh, absolutely doesn’t. And again, we have winners come into the office every day and they don’t come in looking, you know, to cash a billion dollar winner. Now there are people who win on scratch off tickets went on our fast play tickets, and they’re great stories and you can all go to MD lottery.com. And look at some of the winner stories. And for the most part, they’re their field good stories. And let me just share one of them with you if I may. A young man a college student. And let’s see if he’s got his picture holding his ceremonial check. He won $30,000 on a scratch off ticket. And he is going to take
Nestor Aparicio 13:56
that and have that right here by the way, so All right,
John Martin 14:00
there you go. And, you know, he’s looking to to put that money towards his his college education. So that’s the kind of story you’d like to hear people who have played responsibly one have a fair amount of money and again, going to be able then to help themselves and further their education. And that’s that’s clearly what works well.
Nestor Aparicio 14:21
John Martin is here we are we’re watching baseball every night. I know you’ve been watching baseball despite the Guardians at this point.
John Martin 14:28
Well, hang on, hang on. Don’t get one of these despite the Guardians matter of fact, I wish my furry little friend Seth elkon We’re here because there’s somebody who don’t track this. The Cleveland guardians visited the Pittsburgh Pirates this week. And Monday night game 11 zip up last night’s game 10 to one for the
Nestor Aparicio 14:48
Orioles have been struggling the last couple days so that’s why I’m not talking about the Orioles Yeah, that’s that’s
John Martin 14:52
21 to one I mean it all the all the parts and do just get three touchdowns today at the end they’re back in
Nestor Aparicio 14:58
Cleveland or people’s money. Just the Baltimore Cleveland thing happened with the brown that the Cleveland Pittsburgh thing they never played baseball right. So like it’s like Baltimore Philadelphia in baseball forever. We never played right. Baltimore, Washington we’ve been playing lately because like it’s new. But interleague play gives you a chance to get after some Pittsburgh people I get after some Cincinnati people quite frankly, too, right.
John Martin 15:22
Yeah. Although that kid in Cincinnati has me he has something else.
Nestor Aparicio 15:25
Well, that you know, that’s the thing about baseball and this city, right. We’ve seen a lot of people the ballpark this week, right? They’re doing
John Martin 15:32
great. there last night. We were there last night with our spindle, we’ll have a lot of fun at the game. Great game.
Nestor Aparicio 15:38
Well, a lot of Dodgers fans in this week and whatnot. But the Dodgers never come here. So I had a friend who’s like, I didn’t know the Dodgers traveled as well, like they played here three times ever. And they play down in DC all the time. But a lot of the Camden Yards is still like an incredible draw for that sort of thing. The Reds fans traveled well, when they came in here a couple of weeks ago. And I always think of like 1970 and Sparky Anderson and Lee Mae and Brooks Robinson and all that. But we’re getting used to this interleague play thing, but the Cincinnati story, the Baltimore story this year for what the franchise is up and look, the lottery he’s been with the Orioles forever and ever some years is a lot of people some years, there’s not some years we lose 100. But the years when it’s good, and it’s been too rare around here for 30 years. This is a lot of fun. I mean, on my timeline for everybody. Luke even said this week, he’s like, I haven’t talked about the Ravens in like two weeks, which has never happened in 25 years. And they’ll be back next week. But baseball has filled a spot in the city soul in a big, big way really, as well. And I
John Martin 16:38
would remind all the folks who are still with us here on the broadcast that our home run riches, we had a we had a great time earlier in the year when when our lucky fan Barbara or lucky fan 150 $1,000 We will have a second $50,000 winner so those folks who figure well gee, that’s, that’s over. No, it ain’t no, in those immortal words, it ain’t over till it’s over. Especially in baseball. We have opportunities for you. The last drawing is the deadline is August 28. You still have over a month to get your your tickets into the pool, if you will. And when we draw on August 28, we are drawing for the remainder of the regular season. So we’ll have all 162 games covered. And then we will pick a 160/3 contestant who will be that second $50,000 winner. So a lot of fun. It’s not going to be contingent on someone hitting a homerun. It’s just people who have been in all along. These are cumulative entries. If you’ve been in from day one, you’re still in it. And but you still have time to get another month or six weeks to get into that into that pool and someone else is going to win. You’re guaranteed $50,000
Nestor Aparicio 17:48
Well, I want to be the one that’s on game 161 When Colton Couser hits the three run home run that they clinches the American League East for the Orioles What do you think when they find on a plane molest you know what’s really weird is the scheduling. All my life we played all the American League that’s over with the West Coast in August and in September. It’s crazy. I mean, it’s not that sort of run up the way it used to be. I mean, in the old days we’d be playing the last place Yankees or the fourth place Red Sox, which is what we have eight It is weird seeing the Yankees in last place, John, it’s a lot of fun.
John Martin 18:25
Yeah, it’s you know, don’t don’t get too used to it because that stuff’s gonna happen. Although first
Nestor Aparicio 18:29
time in 32 years, first time since 1990. The Yankees are last place. That’s an amazing thing right
John Martin 18:34
now. So at least we can agree on that. Hey, you know what else is coming up? And I think you teased a little bit before we are going to be at ravens training camp. I mean, we try to get out and about especially this time of year so that got out there by
Nestor Aparicio 18:44
the way. Tell them to wear SPF.
John Martin 18:46
Yeah, July 29. We will be at the actually it’s m&t Bank Stadium. Ravens scratch
Nestor Aparicio 18:54
offs this year traditional. Yo, yeah,
John Martin 18:56
yeah. Well, we should be announcing those pretty soon. So you can
Nestor Aparicio 19:00
take me on it’s where all the fun stuff right? All the fun
John Martin 19:03
stuff. So stay tuned that will be coming your way. But then we also have plenty of baseball. We will actually be back. We talked about being at the Dodgers game. Yesterday. We will be actually back on August 4, when Buck if he’s still there. When Buck brings the Mets into town.
Nestor Aparicio 19:21
By the way, and I can get into sports wagering with you and we will be doing that a lot in a couple of weeks. I have a feeling but I get numbers from like this guy Jimmy who sends me like what’s going on and
John Martin 19:32
sure his name is Jimmy Sure.
Nestor Aparicio 19:35
It’s Jimmy from Philadelphia to if you’d better go ahead but but but Jimmy sends me these these numbers and it was two or three weeks ago, I saw it was right at the top manager most likely to get fired up show Walter with three affordable it was crazy. And I’m thinking man how times change poor buck, you know, I mean, so and now you’re cheap shot and you know coming in after me. I hope he’s still here. It is like buck. I mean, I’ve never met the man and all of this money, and then you don’t win. Yeah, the Orioles and the reds right this year have this amazing thing happen for them and their fans it’s well, it’s what makes sports Great.
John Martin 20:14
Thank goodness that the New York fan base is so forgiving and open and embracing bracing.
Nestor Aparicio 20:21
Fans that already didn’t like bucks and Seinfeld, I would say you know what, we’ll see you guys back down at the bottom. I don’t mind missing anything here other than Maryland crabcake tour and our fifth your 50th My 25th By the way, your 50th is really inspired my 25th We’re gonna be releasing the top 25 moments in the history of wn St. Between now and let’s say Superbowl we’re going to do one a week because they didn’t make the cut. The list is not official yet. Okay, you’re in the running, you’re in. You’re in the wrong.
John Martin 20:52
Tell me I’m 26 If you have to let me down easy.
Nestor Aparicio 20:56
I’ll let you know if you’re an honorable mention. You know, John, This isn’t me. I just want to tell you this as a sponsor and somebody who’s known me through you know, work in Baltimore and like all that. There are so many things that we’ve done in 25 years as a little am radio station, a web that people have forgotten about, but people will remember because they were part of it. We had 12,000 people march a Poydras. The day of the Ravens games we started in March, we had free the birds we had whiskey Joe was 22 years ago with 5000 people on a pier in Tampa before we won the first Super Bowl. Then we came back in March the Lombardi Trophy down Harford road with David Modell and Brian Bellamy. We’ve done crazy things around here that I want to let everybody know that they’ve been a part of that wanted to share their pictures at cost this on the third I’m bringing all my old get nasty shirts, all my newsletters, all my old pictures, we got purple rain, one purple, we’re giving, we’re giving away the store kind of like Maryland lottery does Sunday, we’re giving away things on the third floor. So I would, I would invite you and everybody from Maryland lottery come on over to Costas or drug city to places that you know, well, where you have you sell a lot of lottery tickets, but it’s going to be a great celebration. And I really was inspired by what you guys did for 50. Because it wasn’t like a one day thing. You know, I mean, you guys, you guys use six months to talk.
John Martin 22:12
There’s a lot. Yes, there’s
Nestor Aparicio 22:13
a lot of stuff. Yeah, you’ve done 25 or 50 years, you should spike the ball a little bit like you guys have been doing.
John Martin 22:20
Yes, absolutely. Yeah, you gotta you gotta tell the story, because no one else knows it as well as you do. But
Nestor Aparicio 22:26
I would say I’m not giving away 50,000 But I am giving away scratch offs in the Maryland lottery constant, so I get a
John Martin 22:32
good winner. So you can price on that ticket is $10,000 You could be giving away $10,000 That’s possible.
Nestor Aparicio 22:39
I tell people that too. I’m like, you might want 10 grand, but you might want 100 And then some people come up they like well, I want to I want five and so sometimes they win 10 or 20 People love the win. And I think that that’s that’s probably the the most fun of your job is seeing these people come in your phone’s gonna ring. I’m saying that even though you don’t have a switchboard, even though you do look a little bit like, like, I look like a switchboard operator, that that literally you have a 4 million and a $1 million thing that’s that’s floating around this city as of this morning, and you know that they’re going to come find you at some point soon. They’re going to come find you. Right. Well, we hope they do.
John Martin 23:11
That. That’d be an expensive. Oops. If they if they don’t know we look forward, we we are starting to use the analogy Operators are standing by
Nestor Aparicio 23:22
ready to give you that money. John, I appreciate you. I’m looking forward to get you back in here next week. As we come up on our 25th anniversary. It’s still the 50th anniversary. I still have a handful of these to give away. We’re gonna be doing that at the Beaumont and Catonsville where we had a $1 million winner that didn’t get the multiplier, but don’t tell him that there’ll be happy with a million bucks. We’ll be out this week at the Beaumont with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Gina shock of Dundalk in Catonsville. Right next to Bill’s music. We’re gonna be talking about her band the house a shock that I somehow unwittingly Simon Cowell, I helped put a rock and roll band together. John, it’s gonna be on the show next week. I promise you, but take care of this week. towel off, get some decaf? Listen, I know you’re you might give away a billion dollars tonight. Right? Like literally that’s why you’re all geeked up tonight. The phone might ring John, we got a winner in loan accounting. We got a winner and Saulsbury we got a winner in Ocean City OSHA punch, whatever it is, like that is really, you’re really looking forward to that. Right. Like if they were free. They’re like, that’d be a big deal for you.
John Martin 24:19
from Oakland, Ocean City. Wherever in any places in between. We will be there ready?
Nestor Aparicio 24:24
All right. I’ll buy crab cakes for the winter. If it’s a Maryland or All right, good. Good deal. John Martin, Executive Director of all thanks, Maryland lottery gaming, reminding all of you as I see every night in these baseball games where it’s bet bet bet bet bet. Please bet responsibly. Please know your limits. Please do all the things that these ads tell you to do. Because it’s all new here. And it can be a lot of fun. And we just made it fun for 25 minutes. Just do it responsibly. I’m Nestor. We’ll see you out on the Marilyn crabcakes for this week at the Beaumont and celebrating 25 years can’t get the 50 yet although we can dream a little bit. I am Nestor. We are WNS da and 1570, Towson Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore. Positive
