Our financial insider Leonard Raskin joins Nestor to discuss memories of The Bullies of Baltimore and going to The Big Game – just once, or maybe twice?
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SPEAKERS
Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
What about W and S? T, Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore positive. We are positively post Super Bowl. We have new champions in the world. We’re gonna be doing the Maryland crabcake tour on the third of march over at drug city and Dundalk, and we’re gonna be on the eighth at fade Lee’s. We are presenting a full month here the rest of February, lots and lots and lots of the Greatest Hits and Hall of Famers and radio row. I mean, having radio row taken away from me. Now, last week, I had to really go into the archives. over 28 years, there’s still stuff I can’t find. But I found over 325 what I would consider ageless pieces over 28 years, some years I had 20 or 30 ageless pieces, some years only six 810. But there was never a year I didn’t have 10 really classic, incredible conversations with ravens people lead people, Hall of Famers, and all of that will be on the air. And it’s all brought to you by all of our sponsors, and obviously 25 years and the wn S T on August the third with 25 years now almost 32 years into my career. It’s people like Leonard Raskin, Raskin global, that make it happen and sponsor what we do. And the next couple of weeks, I’m going to chase Springsteen around a little bit. I’m going to be doing some live conversations we’re doing now as the Kansas City Chiefs in the new champions in the world letter. But more than that, as sort of spiking the ball on all the work we’ve done and taking a little downtime, but what a season, right? And what a game and the Super Bowl really was super this was a Super
Leonard Raskin 01:31
Bowl, it was a Super Bowl, I believe, if memory serves and boy, the short term memory is just, you know, not as good as it always was. I think I said Casey by three last week. I think that’s what I said I might
Nestor Aparicio 01:45
say Kansas City in the over I did that throw up before kickoff. So I would have cashed both of my bets on
Leonard Raskin 01:51
I think I said Casey I said Casey plus three I think I don’t think I said they won by three I think I said they they get him with three but hey, that was an incredible game. Really an incredible football game. I was sitting with the wife we’re watching the game. No big party this year. No, no going away going out anywhere. And I said to her last team with the balls when in this game. There’s no question. They were up and down the field up and down the field. It was it was a good game. It was clean. A lot of good hits a lot of good plays both offense and defense and ultimately came down to I guess if you’re an Eagles fan, one horrible holding call if you’re a chiefs fan, came down to one fabulous holding call. And and I guess if you’re the the postgame I saw the defender said yeah, I held him. I was just hoping they wouldn’t call it
Nestor Aparicio 02:51
an honest man. There it goes. That’s
Leonard Raskin 02:52
right man, because everybody in Philly was ready to find the referees home and burn that down along with the city. But I guess he gave he let him off the hook by saying yeah, I held him. I just hope they wouldn’t call it and then how about Chad henne? How about Chad henne announced his retirement postgame because he’s critical to their success. Although he did come in when mahomes was down a little bit and play a little football he’s got two Super Bowl rings to show for it. They’re gonna have to find a backup members
Nestor Aparicio 03:22
this day that the Ravens drafted Joe Flacco Chad henne was the spoken you know the red herring so to speak, right like he was gonna be the pick. He was the guy they were targeting but they weren’t and Peter King even reported that I put that in Purple Rain too, as well. Let her you know, I had a sort of surreal experience right like I have never say never. I have to think of never Emory. I’ve never watched the Super Bowl in a sports bar. Oh, okay. Okay, so I have to go back to like even the 90s letter before I had this you want American Dream story with me that I this story I haven’t told on the radio maybe in a long time but in my life, but I’m a kid from Dundalk that grew up in a little row house right? I never had a big TV I dreamed of having a VCR my parents had one first so that I could have the Man with the Golden Gun on TV anytime I wanted to watch it or JAWS or you know movies that we watched in the 80s and then HBO came and like our then drug city had the movies you could rent like all that. Right? But the big screen TV when you when I was 1819 years old, and we didn’t have a football team. I dreamed of going to one Super Bowl in my life dreamed of going to one? Yep. And I thought if I went to one I would consider it a successful life. I went to my first one in 1992 in Minnesota. I was at the buffalo Redskins game. So but at that time in my life, I was at the paper. I was a single father. I lived on Kane street right across from where there’s McDonald’s Eastern cane right where the diner is Robert Patterson High School for 28 Cane Street. My bedroom was in the backside. My bedroom was as big as this computer like this big right? It Right. But I had enough money i cobbled the first $1,200 or whatever together and I could do a vacation or this or that and have more money than I need it because I had a foreigner dollar a month mortgage payment. Right. And I lived in Highland town at that time. Right? So Dundalk, Kyle, a town called wherever you want the ABCs. Yeah. And I cobbled together to get a big screen TV that could have taken that 1200 bucks and given it to you and it’d be 1,000,003. Now, right? When I bought I don’t I didn’t go to law skins. But I went somewhere and I bought a big screen TV. And it had the tubes in it. The red the front,
Leonard Raskin 05:40
projected up on the big screen. 1000 pounds. I watched
Nestor Aparicio 05:47
the Super Bowl in 93 and 94 and 95 on that television. So I was old enough to go to a bar at that time. Right? Right. And before that in the 80s we didn’t have the Colts, the Redskins Denver they were always house parties, right so I went to Dave Muir’s house. So I went to a sports bar. I was at the Hollywood casino up at the Barstool Sports book, one of our newest sponsors to join us along with Rascon global and many others and constants in so we went up to watch the game and it was a lot of Eagles fans, right? Like really? You’re sure and it’s not a regular game. It’s the Super Bowl. Right? So like I’m in now I find myself in a sports where there were no chiefs fans, like the nobody wearing any cheat. And there were at Eagles fans, there were 200 people there just to watch the game. But it was unbelievable. Watching these Eagles fans live and die in a sports bar, you know, with the game because I hadn’t been in that environment before. And it was um, I feel bad for them. I mean, on the call. I mean, you know that’ll forever Right, right. Like well or No,
Leonard Raskin 06:56
no, I thought it was a good call. Okay, and I had no dog in the hunt. I have friends for both teams. I was texting with friends on both teams. Both were at the game. And they don’t know each other. They were literally sitting Oh section apart. They were shooting me back texts have pictures of where they were sitting. My Eagles friend texted me the video so he was recording some of the game. I know it’s illegal. I erased it. As soon as I got it. He texted me. He texted me Jalen hertz, touchdown run. He was sitting right there on the goal line. And the other guy texted me Jalen hertz, touchdown run from right behind the corner of the endzone. He’s a chiefs fan. So they were back and forth. They don’t know each other. I was back and forth with both of them couldn’t believe what I was watching. And I liked that call in the first quarter. And I liked that call in the fourth quarter. I think you got to make the call if you’re the referee or the linesman or whoever you are, your job is to watch the game and make the call. Your job is not to say, oh no two minutes in the Superbowl. I gotta give Philly a chance. Your job is to make the call. They made the call. I thought earlier in the game. The second fumble touchdown return for the same guy who would have been the MVP of the game for sure. I don’t know in this league, what’s the catch anymore? I can’t tell the catch on the guy’s head he goes out of bounds and he’s dropping the ball they call it
Nestor Aparicio 08:27
the whole thing where you run up to the line of scrimmage and try to do screw them out of it right away you’re looking at it so you knew it wasn’t a you’re not a fan of that and playoff games especially you know knew
Leonard Raskin 08:37
it was a catch I think it was if I’m not mistaken you’ll know better than me. I think it was hardball a couple of years ago proposed a rule that they have an eye in the sky watching every play and able to push the button and make a replay call like they do in college that should be the case they absolutely need somebody else and whoever however many they have on the field the game is too big too fast. These guys are being bet on these guys and gals can’t keep up and I don’t think they review that holding call but these catches and things like that. I don’t even like it’s I don’t even know when it catches the guy caught the ball. He takes a step he makes a movie didn’t take two steps hit the ball was dislodged that’s a catch and a fumble and a touchdown for the chiefs. But it wasn’t so my opinion is the football Gods always even up the score. And you get screwed on one play you get the benefit on another that it was a whole there’s no doubt Juju it was Juju right our Steeler friend who you gotta hate. But they came through they played a great game. The Kelsey boys both had a good game. Nothing spectacular either one but they both had a good game.
Nestor Aparicio 09:49
theory right.
Leonard Raskin 09:52
Fantastic ad reads fantastic look the guy. The guy is revolutionary. He his play calling is stunning. His read zone. If we had half the red zone play calls that he made, we’d have been in the Super Bowl. We can call the red zone for nothing. Demand scores every time he’s down there. The second half, they scored every possession. They just marched the ball down the field score score, score. Three of them touchdowns. I mean, she’s, it’s it’s it’s fun to watch offensive football. It’s good to watch defensive football, but 3835 That’s a score right there. And that’s a big that’s what was the over under I don’t even know what was it was a it was in the 40s one. Oh my goodness. I mean, they put up what? 7070 plus points. That’s a big offensive turnout. It was a great game. I thought the commercial sucked. You know, you don’t get to watch the game every year. So you don’t see all the commercials that everybody raves about. I thought there were maybe three, three at the most four that were really good. The rest I thought were pretty terrible. The Pepsi Pepsi. So we’ll talk about one of them. I’ll talk about one I guess shouldn’t berate them on the air. You know, the Pepsi commercial with Ben Stiller. Did you see that? Once you catch that one? I did not. So so he’s an actor.
Nestor Aparicio 11:07
I don’t really watch the camera. It’s funny. I go pee. Okay. I really do.
Leonard Raskin 11:12
He’s an actor. He’s putting on an act. He’s acting. He’s putting on an act and then he drinks the Pepsi. And he goes, that was really good. Or am I acting? Yeah, that was the gist of the commercials. So they, I have I’m on social media. I click the there was a Pepsi tweet. said did you think Ben Stiller was likes the soda or was acting so I said he was acting. Couple minutes later, I get a tweet from Pepsi. We’re sorry to hear that. We started to hear that we’re willing to offer you a free soda to find out. So then they give me a number to text so I texted the number. So then the screw comes. You gotta buy a six pack. You gotta send them the receipt online. Then they send you a credit for your six pack. You know, send me a free soda. I gotta buy soda. And then I gotta give him the receipt so they can give me back my money I just deleted that. I ain’t got time for all that nonsense.
Nestor Aparicio 12:09
I hate a scam letter. Raskin is here. He’s here to keep you away from all scams. And so, Ovaltine thing and in the Christmas story, he isn’t Rascon global II takes your money and helps you do more with it. And I guess the reason I told the TV story to some degree because I was on the radio back then. I mean, yeah, I watched on that big screen TV in my bedroom famously with Microsoft Leon. Oh, great artists whose work you’ll be seeing in the Peter Principle soon, as well as I rereleased that receipt came over to watch that Euler bills come back game back in the night. Yeah, I had a giant 52 inch TV in a bedroom that may have been 74 inches wide. I’m serious, right? It took off in my bed. It was like a theater. Right? Right. So for me, I Why would I go to a sports bar in the 90s Right. So then I started going to games I went to the Super Bowl in in Sun Devil Stadium. The Barry Switzer Super Bowl, the Nilo Donald’s Super Bowl, and I’ve been to every one cents, right like literally other than Tampa two years ago, which I did watch on TV, on a big screen TV. I live downtown right but big screen TV doesn’t like kind of take the same thing that it used to kind of rotate. But when you think about the American dream for me, at 21 in 1989 Being a kid from Dundalk, no radio show I’m working at the paper put my nickels together making good while we’re middle class money for a kid right? What I was my dream was to have a big screen TV right now. Now you can buy them for $299 put them anywhere on the world. hit a button, watch any movie you want, anytime, anything anywhere. It’s amazing how and 28 years into going to Super Bowls. My dream is to get my press pass back and be legitimized again, but that’s it for another day. But but it is amazing. Like when I think about what I used to save money for. And what we did to me watching the Super Bowl on a big screen TV, was it in my home was it 9093 was a dream. It was a dream. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 14:16
I get it. I mean, I didn’t think I’d go to a Super Bowl. And I’ve been to the both of them that the Ravens were at, you know, when the Ravens played I was there. I’ve been to the playoff games. The only playoff game I missed was Oakland. I figured I might get hurt in Oakland if I went to the game and ravenscar
Nestor Aparicio 14:32
sake went to that game but he said with the moolah Tala brothers.
Leonard Raskin 14:36
There you go. I mean, it’s the only place I figured they might hurt because I’m that kind of fan. And I’m that kind of visiting fan that doesn’t hold back. And I’ve been threatened at places and I’ve been you know, harassed at a lot of places but I found it actually get hurt in Oakland.
Nestor Aparicio 14:51
dog bones thrown in me and the upper deck in Cleveland at the new stadium. Yeah, I’ve had all that going
Leonard Raskin 14:58
on. You know, it’s it’s nuts but But I’ve never had anybody swing on me and I thought in Oakland I might have somebody swing on me or knife me or something. So I chose not to go. But I’ve been to the two Super Bowls and like you man growing up poor and Randallstown a three bedroom apartment with mom and two sisters. It was we didn’t have big screen TV. We had a little, I think a 19 inch on a swivel table that used to turn to swivel, the swivel table had wheels. We used to turn it around between the living room and the dining room so we could watch the news during dinner.
Nestor Aparicio 15:29
I felt like a big shock because I had a TV in my room. My bedroom was black and white monkey wards. And I literally every memory I have a Howard Cosell and every memory I have of him reading the Oilers highlights Yeah, and 7778 79 was on a little black and white. TV right 10 1015 At night, you know, I should be in bed. You know, like all of that, right? Like
Leonard Raskin 15:51
I worked at Murphy Mart. I worked at Murphy Mart on Liberty Road Back in the day and I was in the electronics section. And I used to sell 13 inch Samsung’s and people were like, who Samsung. I don’t know some Korean TV makers or something. But it looks like it’s got a pretty good picture. We had it hooked up with the rabbit ears and my job every day when I went in was to turn every TV on and make sure there was something on the channel every day that people could watch so they could come in and see the Samsung next to the RCA next to the whatever and when I say the 13 inch Samsung was somebody’s American Dream Hey man, I just said I bought one for my bedroom after I worked a little while I had me a 13 inch Samsung and two bedroom and I was king of the world. Not only that, but I had a really cool, clear, clear telephone in my room and we had a little Jack in my in my room. I got hooked up so I could be on the phone with my girlfriend.
Nestor Aparicio 16:49
I was
Leonard Raskin 16:51
driving listen
Nestor Aparicio 16:52
1986 I was at the Dr. Game in Cleveland and I was the only one with a television it was black and white. It was a little Sony that had television. Yep. And I literally had the replays in a section Wow. Because I was watching the game because having it on radio didn’t tell me right right but I literally had one television
Leonard Raskin 17:18
they were those things for like 299 99 and they were locked up in the glass case this was 189 99 Anybody got it on sale you probably cheapest the cheapest guy in town. Yeah, you know that. The stuff that’s uh yeah the goods. I live right there right there on Liberty Road Jack we were at Jackson all the time was at
Nestor Aparicio 17:38
the end of my street man I ever every Polaroid camera that you know my parents with a VCR that we bought all
Leonard Raskin 17:44
flash bar. Remember the flat remember the flash bar? Oh, used to sit on top of the camera cubes, not the cubes. The bar had like look at
Nestor Aparicio 17:52
that. And the Ravens logo before the Ravens rear it was all purple.
Leonard Raskin 17:57
If you shot five, you had to take it out and flip it over to shoot the other five on your instamatic 126 film. I sold the film I sold the cubes.
Nestor Aparicio 18:07
Hey, don’t touch that. Don’t touch that picture to develop it. Don’t touch it.
Leonard Raskin 18:10
And don’t touch that flash cue because it was burned. Right after it flash burned to shatter your hand.
Nestor Aparicio 18:18
Anyway, I guess the American Dream is like whatever we put $100 together, that’s the American dream to get that Cheap Trick belt buckle and I finally got no, right.
Leonard Raskin 18:28
It’s whatever it is that that money does for you. That’s more important than money itself. You know, I tell people all the time, I meet lots of people that have a little bit of money. And I meet a lot of people that have a lot of money. And what I know is the people that are the happiest. Doesn’t matter how much they have. It’s what they do. It’s what they do. We’re heading out. You talked about heading out of town a little bit. We’re heading out the weekend for the faceoff on the lake. Should be an interesting time. There’s an outdoor hockey game Ohio State Michigan Saturday afternoon at the Cleveland What’s that? What is that? 18th 18th this week, all right this week. Yeah. So so we’re going out to the brown Stadium, which I’ve never been in, but not to watch the Browns to watch the Buckeyes. And that team up north play ice hockey, because the boy is going to be doing script Ohio on ice in the band, which is going to be very cool to watch. It is going to be probably pretty cold but it’s going to be very cool. So I
Nestor Aparicio 19:31
got a place for you Okay, yeah, I’m gonna send you in. It’s it’s the one of the best breakfast places I’ve ever been. And you’ll have no problem remembering this because I’m sponsored by the Maryland lottery. It’s our 50th anniversary. It’s called Lucky’s cafe in Fremont. You need to get there early. Early early. There’ll be a line around the building like there was up at the Philly pretzel factory on Sunday. Like how early? Yeah, you know it opens at nine you get to get there at 830 You know, you need to be you need to get their breakfast. As long as you make it. It’s
Leonard Raskin 20:05
no no, I mean they serve to a what tend to be good. I could get there like, I could get there at 930 10 o’clock, but then
Nestor Aparicio 20:12
you’re gonna wait till 1130 or 12 o’clock. Oh, okay. I’m trying to your time is valuable, Leonard Raskin Yes. Because after
Leonard Raskin 20:21
that, we’re going to see the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We had to choose Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, NFL Hall of Fame. Canton. I have the day Sunday, we’re going to the Rock and Roll Hall.
Nestor Aparicio 20:32
I would completely agree with that move because of proximity. Yeah, we tell you, you should go to the football hall of fame at a point where you have more time for it. Yeah. And even more so like you’ll go back out for a game. You’ll you’ll find another reason. I waited absolutely right. I would also tell you, you should do the Christmas story of area. It’s right by Fremont. Drove as you drive over there, Uber over there, wherever you’re doing. Check that out. I love Cleveland. You’re gonna have a great weekend. What’s the forecast? Is it going to be in the 40s? Or is it
Leonard Raskin 21:03
going 4040 It’s like low 40s and sunny no chance of rain. That’s not so bad.
Nestor Aparicio 21:09
You know, the problem is gonna be the glare off the ice now, right? Yeah, right.
Leonard Raskin 21:13
I don’t think it’s gonna be that bad. I can write they have that problem when they’re playing. They do have a problem when they’re playing. The ice has to be cold enough. And the players have to be able to see it’s all kinds of something going on. Who knows what all I know is the boy is going to be out there doing script Ohio on ice. He’s going to be in the big O. And we’ll get to record to the Winter
Nestor Aparicio 21:33
Classic in Vegas and in Miami before it’s all over what they did. Absolutely. Raskin manages money he takes care of your American dream. I got I love this segment because I got to tell the story of me collecting all of my widgets to watch the Super Bowl on a big screen TV. That’s it that was I had it made watching the Lyon was
Leonard Raskin 21:58
my bedroom for sure. And you had more money than any other kid. Like the richest man in the world and you were and you were
Nestor Aparicio 22:07
from Batemans you know what I mean? Over a good as good as I think I even got a cheesesteak from cat and Harvey’s that day and God I sell my soul for one of those right now. Raskin manages money in the American Dream that collect that and bring me one of those if you can. Also you could bring me some from housers if you want you get all these places that are long girl berry cake, strawberry pie. You sell your soul for that when you let her ask. Alright man, the the American Dream is alive. Go to Raskin. global.com Leonard is at the front of Baltimore positive and at the forefront of managing our money and making sure that we’re doing sensible things around here. And he can be sensible with you as well. If you want to be unsensible come on over with me and get one of those spiked milkshakes over a drug City at the fountain on the third of March. We’ll be in Dundalk with our friends George is gonna be with us. Chuck everybody’s gonna be with us. Mr. Stadium is coming over that day. I know he’s got some Pikesville connections as well sometimes all connections and teaching 6062 years I think he taught in Baltimore Catholic crazy. On March 3, we’re gonna bring him together and then we’re going to be fade these on the eighth. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery and their 50th anniversary of our friends at window nation 866 90 nation. I am Nestor we are wn st am 5070 We never stopped talking radio row history. It’s radio row month. Enjoy these classic conversations here at wn st
