The joys of summer youth spent chasing girls, rock stars and forever memories at Merriweather Post Pavilion

For some of us it was Judas Priest and Ted Nugent and for others it was The Cars and Depeche Mode. But the music of our lives and the stories of the bands, shows and songs add some color to our lives decades later. Leonard Raskin joins Nestor for a 28th Anniversary retrospective at Costas Inn in Dundalk on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for the backstage tales from the Ratt Poison Tour that went awry…

The conversation was a 28th-anniversary retrospective on concerts, memorabilia, sports, travel, and financial planning.

Music Memories

• Nestor and Leonard compared formative concerts, including Styx, Journey, Judas Priest, the Rolling Stones, R.E.O. Speedwagon, and the Who.
• Nestor described preserving hundreds of concert tickets, backstage passes, belt buckles, picks, and photographs as personal history.
• A central theme was how concert experiences and shared memories with longtime friends shaped their lives.

Current Plans

• Nestor plans to attend Rush in Brazil and is considering a European trip involving the Netherlands and Royal Albert Hall.
• Leonard discussed the importance of protecting and enjoying money, avoiding conflicted financial advice, and identifying trusted contacts for clients who may lose decision-making capacity.
• What additional concert records can Nestor and his friends verify as shared experiences?

Action Items

• Ask Rob or Keith which band opened the 1981 Styx concert at the Baltimore Civic Center. (@Nestor Aparicio)
• Send Leonard a copy of the Eagles image featuring the “Dallas still sucks” message, if the image can be located. (@Nestor Aparicio)
• Travel to Brazil to attend the Rush concert and visit Rio attractions including Corcovado and Sugarloaf. (@Leonard Raskin)

Outline

Anniversary Retrospective

• Nestor and Leonard reflected on 28 years of broadcasting and their longstanding friendship.
• The discussion connected music memories with Baltimore places, friends, and family.

Concert History

• They recalled camping out for tickets and attending shows by Styx, Journey, Judas Priest, the Rolling Stones, R.E.O. Speedwagon, the Who, Rat, Poison, and others.
• Nestor displayed preserved tickets, backstage passes, belt buckles, guitar picks, and photographs.
• They contrasted Nestor’s extensive memorabilia collection with Leonard’s practice of discarding tickets and picks.

Sports And Travel

• The conversation briefly covered Ravens expectations, the Super Bowl goal, coaching media interactions, and Leonard’s upcoming Brazil trip for Rush.
• Nestor discussed possible future travel to Europe for concerts and sightseeing.

Financial Planning

• Leonard explained how Raskin Global helps clients protect, grow, use, and transfer money.
• He warned that bank and investment-company incentives may lead to unsuitable advice and emphasized trusted contacts and protection against financial decisions affected by cognitive decline.

Nestor Aparicio 0:00
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson Baltimore. We call it Baltimore positive. We are positively here in beautiful Dundalk, my homeland. We have made it here in time for the football season and in time for our 28th anniversary. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland Lottery at the Raven scratch offs. Fed two $2 winners thus far, and we’re just we’re not even into the segment yet? Also, our friends at GBMC are going to be very. My doctor is going to be upset. I’m getting a fried crab cake today because I haven’t I haven’t had a French fry all summer. I don’t think so. I’m thinking things through. Also, Farnin and Dermer they are our comfort guys, keeping us comfortable. They’re at 410 367777. Very comfortable in here. It’s 80 out, 72 in. Very San Diego kind of weather here, and in time for Leonard Raskin to join us here live via satellite from Hunt Valley. Raskin Global coming to Dundalk, correct? There we

Leonard Raskin 0:50
go, Phoenix.

Nestor Aparicio 0:50
What’s going on, man? How are you?

Leonard Raskin 0:51
I’m doing great, doing great.

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Nestor Aparicio 0:53
Trying to keep you on, Mike.

Leonard Raskin 0:54
Yes, sir. I’m

Nestor Aparicio 0:55
doing the rock and roll thing, right? So we could talk Ravens, and we will do that at an appropriate time. But just on the Ravens, what is your expectation? Ceiling floor, what do you need to see out of this team in case people are hearing this Monday and they won big or lost big? Because it could be either way. Here’s

Leonard Raskin 1:11
hoping. So I’m. I we’ve had this conversation. I think the expectation is we’ve got to get to the Super Bowl. Wow, that’s that’s all. That’s what it is. That’s all. That’s all. That’s all. Look, I’ve heard Lamar say it. I’ve heard Derrick Henry say it. I’ve heard Claire Campbell say it. You know, this is the year. Well, Derrick Henry

Nestor Aparicio 1:29
is like, if we don’t get there with Lamar, what the heck? My career’s not good. How can this happen?

Leonard Raskin 1:33
So I like that they’re

Nestor Aparicio 1:34
thinking that way. I hope they’re thinking that way the second, third, fourth week of January. Exactly right. Right. Yeah.

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Leonard Raskin 1:39
And so the question will be, as we go forward. If they do, let’s say they do, and they have a win, and they bring the the trophy, the Lombardi Trophy, would Derrick Henry go into the Hall of Fame as a Raven?

Nestor Aparicio 1:52
Wow!

Leonard Raskin 1:53
Ah, what do you think of that?

Nestor Aparicio 1:54
Well, I would hope he wouldn’t go in as a Houston Oiler because they stole these uniforms. That’s terrible. Disney uniforms. Be honest with me.

Leonard Raskin 2:01
Terrible. You’re in Tennessee. Let it go. It would be like the Ravens wearing an old Colts uniform. What would be the point of that? Dumb.

Nestor Aparicio 2:07
Not this Sunday. Any Sunday. Just

Leonard Raskin 2:10
stupid. Like stop it. You moved. Get on with it. The people, and you know, you can like

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Nestor Aparicio 2:14
your ex-wife, but you’re not the people in Houston hate this car. But the

Leonard Raskin 2:18
people in Houston, you don’t need to wear

Nestor Aparicio 2:19
her ring.

Leonard Raskin 2:20
Right. Right. Okay. People in Houston got to be furious because they don’t have a team, and their their colors are. Sean McLean and I were going back. If

Nestor Aparicio 2:26
by the way, I got to get your thoughts on the John Harbaugh press conference to say no more questions. I don’t like your questions, and if you make this uncomfortable, we can make it uncomfortable. And I’m thinking, uncomfortable for whom? You make $100 million. Right. It

Leonard Raskin 2:39
isn’t the job to make

Nestor Aparicio 2:41
you uncomfortable, dude. Did

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Leonard Raskin 2:42
you see the the conversation with Tomlin? Did you see the Tomlin conversation? I

Nestor Aparicio 2:46
saw it, and I I sent Mike a I sent Mike a little nasty gram on that, you know, Coach T. So

Leonard Raskin 2:52
he’s now he’s now an NBC guy. Well, they act like they were never

Nestor Aparicio 2:55
on the stage with me for three hours. I mean, we have we have video of them interacting, you know, getting swabbed together and shaking hands, and

Leonard Raskin 3:04
let’s face it, that’s how it goes, right? There, there’s, there’s, you know, one of the things that’s really incredible in this country, and I don’t care, we’ve talked politics, we’ve, we, we don’t, but the point is, I don’t care which side of the aisle you’re on, I don’t care who you are. When, when you run for office, you must know that there’s videotape of the stuff you said years ago, whether it was two years ago, 10 years ago, they don’t know. So it’s the same thing. You got hardware. Well, now you can just deny an AI it if you want. You just say you just say I never said that, or I didn’t mean that, or I changed my mind. Well, the Tomlin tripping of Kobe Jones remains brutal, brutal.

Nestor Aparicio 3:36
You know, I mean, and I like Mike, right? And I don’t like John at all. I would if John were on fire over there. Where’s the fire extinguisher? I’d run the other direction with it. You know what I mean? So here we are, Mike’s interviewing

Leonard Raskin 3:45
John. It was just, it’s just, it’s surreal.

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Nestor Aparicio 3:48
My wife hasn’t seen it yet. I told her about that. We have it on tape. Kathy,

Leonard Raskin 3:51
Kathy said to me, “Have you seen this? They were on the Today Show. She watches the Today Show every every morning. They’re on the Today Show. Mike Tomlin’s talking to John Harbaugh on the Today Show, how crazy is this? We like hated each other forever. We hated each other now, and

Nestor Aparicio 4:04
you wonder why I’m talking about rock and roll.

Leonard Raskin 4:06
Now we’re hugging, hugging.

Nestor Aparicio 4:08
Well, they both have made $100 million. It’s

Leonard Raskin 4:10
fantastic. I mean, you manage money, Larry Rasko. God bless America. You know, I I have arguments with people a lot that say teachers should make more, nurses should make more, these athletes and these coaches they shouldn’t make this much. I say, well, when somebody starts paying to sit in the classroom and watch teachers, they’ll get paid that much. It’s just our society, man. People want celebrity, and they’re ready to pay for it, and so that happens. And football, they want football too. Absolutely, I don’t begrudge any of these guys a nickel that they get. Well,

Nestor Aparicio 4:37
especially with the head trauma, right? Yeah, absolutely. I’m watching this glorification of the game on Wednesday and Thursday. The NFL and now owns all of Goodell’s getting Goodell’s getting a backslap from El Duncan in Australia. Right. I mean, I watch the Australia. Like I,

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Leonard Raskin 4:55
you got to go find this

Nestor Aparicio 4:56
professionally for a living for a long time. You know,

Leonard Raskin 4:59
you don’t. A smart TV. You’re not watching football.

Nestor Aparicio 5:01
Netflix. My wife got it all on Flix. And then when I wanted to pause it, it was a big pain in the ass. Netflix. It’s like my my DVR. No, no, did not.

Leonard Raskin 5:11
No, it’s Netflix. These are

Nestor Aparicio 5:12
old guy problems, but like they’re they’re not though because we’re the ones funding the league. But you’re giving them money and I’m not, right?

Leonard Raskin 5:19
Oh, you got Netflix.

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Nestor Aparicio 5:20
So this Brazil thing,

Leonard Raskin 5:22
yes.

Nestor Aparicio 5:22
How you’re close. I mean, we talked a lot about really close the expectations of all of that and where we are. Yeah. And you are an arm’s reach away from what you think is one of the most amazing collections that you’ve ever seen in your life, right? Insane. So it’s

Leonard Raskin 5:38
insane.

Nestor Aparicio 5:38
You’ve seen this box before.

Leonard Raskin 5:40
It’s unbelievable.

Nestor Aparicio 5:41
So I’m I’m here at Costas, and before the show even started, all right.

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Leonard Raskin 5:46
So what I want to Bob

Nestor Aparicio 5:46
from Essex was camped out in the parking lot, yeah, kind of like the Heck Company, to gift me a Wings belt buckle that he bought in 1976, Wings Over America. He said that he never knew how to wear it because it’s and and my wife would tell you the same thing. So this really speaks to the Pacifica belt buckle thing.

Leonard Raskin 6:05
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 6:06
I had a Led Zeppelin belt buckle just like this.

Leonard Raskin 6:09
Yep,

Nestor Aparicio 6:10
the same exact one, but Led Zeppelin.

Leonard Raskin 6:12
Right.

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Nestor Aparicio 6:13
I never had a belt that fit on in my life. There you go. So that Led Zeppelin belt buckle, Bob and anybody else that has a belt buckle. John Allen also has some belt buckles. It was never worn, and my wife

Leonard Raskin 6:26
still have it.

Nestor Aparicio 6:27
Yes, very much so. This is the genesis of these crazy belt buckles. Yeah, is that I owned it, and I owned a Baltimore Colts round Sears 1971 enamel Baltimore Colts belt buckle.

Leonard Raskin 6:43
Yep,

Nestor Aparicio 6:43
those two belt buckles went everywhere in my life. Kane Street White Marsh apartment White Marsh house. Then I met my wife down to the Inner Harbor, and they were there in like a sock drawer kind of thing because you can’t wear them. Right, I don’t have a belt.

Leonard Raskin 7:01
There’s guys back in the day,

Nestor Aparicio 7:02
she went on the internet and she bought me a Rush belt buckle and a belt that worked with it, a snap on.

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Leonard Raskin 7:11
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 7:12
this was this is the belt. Yeah, there you go. I only own one belt in my life that has ever had a strap on. This was my wife’s Christmas gift to me, Maybe 1215, years ago. There you go, and I don’t even like. It’s got snaps on it, so it can

Leonard Raskin 7:26
work with the belt buckle.

Nestor Aparicio 7:28
My dude Bob brought it. He’s like, I don’t even. He said, I’ve had this 50 years. I don’t know what to do with. I want to give it to you. It’s probably a 30 to $50 item, but it’s very sweet of Bob, right? And I offered him a crab casse. Let me get you. Let me do something for you, you know. And he was carrying out crab cakes back to Essex. So, this belt, my wife bought this, which opened the whole door to the whole Pacific collection. And the the Rush belt buckle she bought me was an officially licensed modern Rush throwback remake, a remake of the original Rush 2112 belt buckle, right? So I have the original, but I also have the rush with the the logo on the back for the modern era. So my wife did all of this. So anybody worrying about belt buckles, I had one belt buckle. I knew never knew how to wear it until my wife bought me a Christmas gift. It’s

Leonard Raskin 8:16
awesome,

Nestor Aparicio 8:16
and then that opened the door for me to have 300 Pacifica belt buckles, right? And 301. If Bob’s game, I don’t have 300, but I probably have 150. So the the chicken stub thing is

Nestor Aparicio 8:26
this thing I’m doing. My next guest is Ron Ron West, and Ron and I. He’s not here yet. Ron was the keyboard player in my band. Okay. Ron is in the Cultivated, which would be a band you would love. Plays a lot of Depeche Mode, Cure, that thing. He’s also in the Duran band. Okay, so they’re a Duran Duran cover band. They played Lunacy recently. They’re a new band, and my buddy George in the band. You know, I got people in the band. So Ace, I’ll call him Ace. You know why we call him Ace Guess?

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Leonard Raskin 8:55
Kiss.

Nestor Aparicio 8:56
Correct. Ace freely. We call him Ace. There you go. All right. And then when we stopped calling him Ace. We started calling him Angus. Okay, so this is in seventh grade he was Ace.

Leonard Raskin 9:09
There you go. In

Nestor Aparicio 9:09
ninth grade he was Angus. Okay. Okay. So he went to these concerts with me, and we share a car’s belt buckle. Ace was the keyboard player in my band in Ridgemont High. Ace is one of my oldest friends in the world. Ace is a Dundalk guy who now resides somewhere up in northern Baltimore County or Harvey. So, unless he’s coming down today and he’s bringing all of his ticket stuff. Oh my God! So what? Another one. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna try to figure out which shows we actually went together to. Oh my God! Because my Capital Center Journey ticket. I promise you the Journey ticket from the Frontiers tour when they opened with Chain Reaction. Yeah, they’re the biggest band in the world. Right. Ace and I camped out for concert tickets on your side of town. That’s what you got. We were at the Heck Company in Reisterstown Road inside Richtown Plaza, very challenged area. Then we heard gunshots. Yes. We used to

Leonard Raskin 10:00
go to Security Square Mall.

Nestor Aparicio 10:02
Okay, there was the

Leonard Raskin 10:03
other ones.

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Nestor Aparicio 10:03
I knew you were a camper out there. Square

Leonard Raskin 10:05
Mall.

Nestor Aparicio 10:05
What did you camp out for? Anything?

Leonard Raskin 10:06
Oh my God! I camped out for the Who’s Farewell Tour.

Nestor Aparicio 10:10
I did too. I did too. And then

Leonard Raskin 10:12
I saw him last year. Something about Koch’s

Nestor Aparicio 10:15
playing this weekend in Delaware. Are you going down? I’m

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Leonard Raskin 10:17
not. Something about that just is a little weird. I camped out for Stones tickets way back when tattooing you when they were like ending at the cap center ending when they were too

Nestor Aparicio 10:29
old to be a rock and roll band

Leonard Raskin 10:30
right camped out for oh oh right out of my head Judas Priest we talked about oh I got that ticket stuff here hold on they’re my band you’re a priest guy oh yeah oh hold on, man! Let me get you some

Nestor Aparicio 10:41
pre stuff here.

Leonard Raskin 10:42
Love it.

Nestor Aparicio 10:43
Oh, hold on here. I have a whole bunch of pre stuff. So coming out,

Leonard Raskin 10:46
Rob coming out on the on the on the

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Nestor Aparicio 10:48
yeah yeah yeah yeah their whole story.

Leonard Raskin 10:53
There was there was nothing about them that was motorcycle. Well, they just couldn’t get any airplay, so then they became a a nasty British metal,

Nestor Aparicio 11:03
you know. I’ve Italian

Leonard Raskin 11:04
band

Nestor Aparicio 11:05
Rob Halford. I interviewed in the penthouse of his suite.

Leonard Raskin 11:12
Yep,

Nestor Aparicio 11:13
at the roof of the it’s the hotel across from Mercy. What was at the top of the hill, it had a little tugs bar in the corner. Ed Block used to do things there. Tremont, Tremont, Tremont, Tremont.

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Leonard Raskin 11:28
Yep.

Nestor Aparicio 11:28
Not the Tremont up on Charles. The Tremont back on St. Paul. Okay. Judas Priest played the, and I got to find the backstage passes and everything. I hope I didn’t take. You know what? I think I took my priest tickets out of here at one point, so they’re not in this batch. But I will find them. I had the whole big backstage pass. By year, what are they? They are by letter. So the well, this by letter. You appreciate it’s all Billy Joel. You don’t want to do Billy Joel for 100 years. I know you like Billy Joel.

Leonard Raskin 11:58
Yeah, great. I’ll get the priest stuff. I’ll find it. So here’s what’s so incredible to me. Go ahead. I’ve asked you this before, but I don’t know if I’ve ever asked you why did I keep them. What possessed you then, when you when you I knew they would have

Nestor Aparicio 12:09
value to me. I knew they would have value like baseball cards at one point in life, and I think they do at this point. Yeah, and I and I I treat them very very gingerly, and these are all my pearl jam. There’s a whole thing of pearl jam. It blows. So hold on here

Leonard Raskin 12:26
that you had forethought to keep these when you were. What was the first concert? Nina

Nestor Aparicio 12:32
Leonard Skinner.

Leonard Raskin 12:33
What was the first concert when you were a kid? First concert I went to

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Nestor Aparicio 12:36
when I was a kid was Sticks at the Baltimore Civic Center, february 8,

Leonard Raskin 12:41
same

Nestor Aparicio 12:42
1980. 80? No, it

Leonard Raskin 12:45
wasn’t 80.

Nestor Aparicio 12:45
Well,

Leonard Raskin 12:46
had to be before Cornerstone.

Nestor Aparicio 12:48
You, you. Well, they played 84. Yes,

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Leonard Raskin 12:49
8080s. right? 16. I was 16.

Nestor Aparicio 12:52
All right. Well, I’ll find the ticket stop. It’s in this box. So I was

Leonard Raskin 12:54
very humbled at Civic Center. Used to be. I went with my girlfriend at the time. I went with my mother to to the concert at Sticks, and I don’t remember. You know who opened for him. The

Nestor Aparicio 13:05
babies were supposed to open that show, but they did not. I believe the Ravens opened that show. Okay, and I’m going to have to ask Rob or Keith. So, but I think the Ravens opened that show. That’s good reason to get them on the show. We watched the

Leonard Raskin 13:16
opening band. They were okay. It was fine. And then we, of course, we’re gonna go to the bathroom and get a coke. Because we were 16, so we were gonna go get a coke. And and we went out to get the coke, and then we came back to the seats, and there was some dudes in my seats. And I said, “Excuse me, I was like a little kid. I was 16. I I think you’re in my seats. And this guy stood up. He was like eight feet tall, 300 pounds. Looked that way, and he said, “I don’t think so. And I pulled out my ticket, and you walked it. And he was in the right seat. I was in the wrong seat. I was. We were two over.

Nestor Aparicio 13:52
Modern day, you get your asbeat for that, right? Well, that’s what I make a shot of that. Yeah, wrong. Well, not inside the seat. Right. You hope they they’ve

Leonard Raskin 13:59
scanned him. They hope they have. So so in the meantime, yeah, that was my first concert. Almost got myself beat up because I was in the wrong seat. I’m

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Nestor Aparicio 14:06
trying to find my sticks ticket for you. I got all my smithereens tickets here for you.

Leonard Raskin 14:10
I went to lots. There it is. Hold

Nestor Aparicio 14:11
on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. No

Leonard Raskin 14:13
painters. Hold on. No,

Nestor Aparicio 14:15
this is Sticks 81. This is Paradise Theater. Okay. But this is my sticks. There it is, right there, dude. Right there. Unbelievable. Sticks. This was july 31, 1981. My mother, my my maternal mother, Connie, took me to the White Rice Inn that night for Chinese food, and and

Leonard Raskin 14:32
then you went to see sticks.

Nestor Aparicio 14:33
Pretty sure that afternoon we saw the movie Stir Crazy open at the Park movie theater on Park Avenue.

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Leonard Raskin 14:42
That’s crazy,

Nestor Aparicio 14:43
and we were the only Caucasian folks in the theater, and everybody’s yelling at the at the theater. It was so much fun. Sure, it was Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor. Yeah, it was a great movie. 619 81. Tonight’s the night. We’ll make history. So, Strizam, the only tickets toward the only tickets. Remember

Leonard Raskin 15:00
kept. Oh, I love those Capitol Center tickets.

Nestor Aparicio 15:02
Sticks Paradise Theater right here.

Leonard Raskin 15:04
How great are the Captain? Cap Kilroy was here, and there’s a whole. I got to hold

Nestor Aparicio 15:08
that one out for him. How great

Leonard Raskin 15:08
are the Capitol Center tickets? The Capitol Center tickets with the best white and blue. Look

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Nestor Aparicio 15:13
at that man.

Leonard Raskin 15:13
That’s that’s beautiful. So this

Nestor Aparicio 15:14
is Sticks Tuesday, april 14, 1981. They played two shows. This was the second night. So

Leonard Raskin 15:20
beautiful.

Nestor Aparicio 15:21
This was a sold-out show that I got in the car and drove down and bought a ticket. Look,

Leonard Raskin 15:25
look at the back of the ticket.

Nestor Aparicio 15:26
Wendy’s dollar 59 single quarter-pound hamburger, French fries, and 16-ounce drink right there for a buck

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Leonard Raskin 15:32
59.

Nestor Aparicio 15:34
I’m gonna hold that out. I’m gonna find these. So the only tickets, the only tickets I

Leonard Raskin 15:40
have for some reason, I did keep like the first the Ravens Raiders first game. Got the program. I have it framed with a jersey. You know, I’ve got all the that stuff. I’ve got the Ravens playoffs. I’ve got the Ravens Super Bowl tickets framed with with the programs, the newspaper article. The you keep big events, but you’ve thrown

Nestor Aparicio 16:02
away every other Ravens ticket.

Leonard Raskin 16:03
Every Ravens ticket. What

Nestor Aparicio 16:05
do you? Where do you throw it away? You walk out of the stadium 10,000 times in your life. You spend you spend $300 on club level tickets. Somewhere

Leonard Raskin 16:13
between the the club level, the floor of the car that then goes to the car wash.

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Nestor Aparicio 16:20
You’ve never kept a concert ticket in your life. You have anything?

Leonard Raskin 16:23
Nothing. I have no nothing.

Nestor Aparicio 16:25
Well, I mean, it just speaks to the value. What you think it’s worth? That’s what I’m saying. You think it had no value?

Leonard Raskin 16:29
Yeah. I thought it had

Nestor Aparicio 16:30
all the value in the world. I thought they had so much value that I laminated them and screwed them up. It’s awesome. I screwed. So I screwed them all up though. This is this is my is Ace here yet? Sticks. Ace and I camped out.

Leonard Raskin 16:42
Yep.

Nestor Aparicio 16:43
Oh, Ace, I’m holding the Kilroy was here ticket. Um, just as you walked in, this is my Kilroy ticket, and I laminated them. So

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Leonard Raskin 16:52
so now they’re all faded out. So they’re

Nestor Aparicio 16:54
they’re. I need to see yours because his are going to be way prettier than mine. But look, I faded.

Leonard Raskin 16:58
Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio 16:59
Do you know how long Ace, Ace and I slept back to back like this. Sure,

Nestor Aparicio 17:04
because we were in Reisterstown Road. It was 2o’clock in the morning. Had money in our pods. That’s a

Leonard Raskin 17:07
good place to be. And

Nestor Aparicio 17:08
that’s kind of where our parent. We didn’t have any weaponry or anything. I had nothing. You know, I had Ace.

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Leonard Raskin 17:12
Right.

Nestor Aparicio 17:13
What the hell were our parents thinking? They were as they were not thinking at all. Did

Leonard Raskin 17:17
they even know?

Nestor Aparicio 17:18
Were you a more responsible parent than that?

Leonard Raskin 17:20
Was I? Was my parent more responsible, or are you saying was I more responsible? Well, let’s go.

Nestor Aparicio 17:25
What’s the most irresponsible thing your parents ever let you do?

Leonard Raskin 17:27
Ever let me do? Oh my God, I can’t go there. My mother might listen.

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Nestor Aparicio 17:32
His mother listens to every show. I can’t go there.

Leonard Raskin 17:35
I can’t be saying these things. She’ll beat me up.

Nestor Aparicio 17:38
Mom, go away. Okay, go ahead.

Leonard Raskin 17:40
She’ll beat me up if I share. What did you do?

Nestor Aparicio 17:42
Share one thing right now, Leonard Raskin, on this show right on Baltimore. I’ve shared a lot with you that I’ve never shared with anybody. Go ahead, including my. I’m about to share my Billy Joel ticket songs, which I’ve never shared with anybody. I’ll do that with you in a minute. All right, but you, oh, this is a great. Can I just tell a story because I’m touching this right now? Go ahead.

Leonard Raskin 17:59
Go ahead. What do we got?

Nestor Aparicio 18:00
This is the Starship pick from Craig Cachiso, who was the guitar player for Starship. I just touched the ticket stub, so I want to find the stub. Here it is, right here. This is it. This was the night. Hold on, get the right one. This is Merriweather Post, august 26, 1986. Yep, this is old Merriweather stub. I am a music critic, two and a half, three years, and I’m 17 years old. This seat and Amanda, I love you. I know you’re watching. Amanda lives now in Austin, Texas. Okay, she was the PR woman that I had the world’s biggest crush on. Like a crush that Amanda, my crush on you

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Leonard Raskin 18:40
crushed you.

Nestor Aparicio 18:41
God, she was just older and prettier and nice to me, and still nice to me. I love you, Amanda. Amanda would always hook me up in the front row or the second row whenever she could. Right. And when she knew I loved a band, when Neil Diamond was in, I’m front row center. When Air Supply was in, I was front row center than

Leonard Raskin 18:58
that. Like I have

Nestor Aparicio 19:00
AAA pit seats for all of those seats. So my 35th anniversary, I’m going to do my 35 shows where I sat in the front row. Okay,

Leonard Raskin 19:07
okay.

Nestor Aparicio 19:09
Ace, did you go to that Adam and the Ant scandal show with me and and Kevin? That’s why he has. He was. We were in the front row. We were at the feet of Patty’s. We we were touching Patty Smythe’s boots.

Leonard Raskin 19:21
There you go.

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Nestor Aparicio 19:22
Adamant was spitting on us. Mark Marco was sweating on us. So anyway, I’m in the second row at this Starship concert in 1986, and I don’t think I had like a date or anybody. I think I ate a ticket or gave a ticket away.

Leonard Raskin 19:36
Sure.

Nestor Aparicio 19:36
Second row. Craig Cachiso is down doing like Sarah. You’re not Sarah, like Jane. And he threw a pick in the air.

Leonard Raskin 19:49
And

Nestor Aparicio 19:50
I went up in the air, and I caught this pick in my bare hands. There

Leonard Raskin 19:55
you go.

Nestor Aparicio 19:55
I’ve caught two or three cents. I caught this pick in midair. And

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Leonard Raskin 19:59
there. It is since 40

Nestor Aparicio 20:02
years later,

Leonard Raskin 20:03
right? Somebody says rock and roll never forgets under Rasta. Somebody says 20 years ago. I’m thinking of 1970. 20 years ago, and that’s that’s six. I got to find my stick ticket from

Nestor Aparicio 20:16
that cornerstone show at the arena. I don’t know. I got Rick Springfield Toys for Tots. My son was conceived that night. True story. That’s all. He’s going to come by later and give me his memories. Let me put Craig. So Billy Joel, what do you want to do with Billy Joel? Because I camped out the Billy Joel ticket to Richard Abrams. I had two

Leonard Raskin 20:31
picks. One from Darius Rucker.

Nestor Aparicio 20:35
Okay.

Leonard Raskin 20:36
Saw Darius Rucker got a pick, and don’t remember who the second one was. Don’t have them anymore either. They, you know, they went in the trash.

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Nestor Aparicio 20:44
You threw a pick away?

Leonard Raskin 20:46
Yeah, like okay, that’s cool. I got it.

Nestor Aparicio 20:49
What the hell do you value, dude?

Leonard Raskin 20:52
Not, not a lot of things. I’m not a things thing guy. I’ve told my son when I’m gone, anything’s there, throw it away. There’s nothing there. There’s there’s very little things that he he knows what has any of any value. I’ll tell you right

Nestor Aparicio 21:09
now, and that there’s been one of my best friends for 50 years. Right. Yep. If you came and you tried to take my journey seventh row dead center ticket away from may 3, 1983. That Ace and I camped out three days to be first in line, so we could have seventh row dead center. And he and I, there was no set list. We didn’t know what they were going to open up with. We were pretty convinced they were going to open a chain reaction, and they did. And there’s Steve Perry, right? 10 feet. I had picture. I slipped my camera in that night,

Leonard Raskin 21:40
and now he’s gone. I

Nestor Aparicio 21:40
have the pictures of Barry’s not gone. Not

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Leonard Raskin 21:42
gone, but gone from Journey. Gone where? Gone from Journey. He’s

Nestor Aparicio 21:45
going to count his money.

Leonard Raskin 21:46
Right. They have some new guy.

Nestor Aparicio 21:48
Shooting gun. Some

Leonard Raskin 21:49
new singer.

Nestor Aparicio 21:50
So so here’s this. This was a weird night, dude. I hold on one second. I have a really weird Journey ticket stub that I’m going to let you touch. All right.

Leonard Raskin 22:00
Here we go. All right, you

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Nestor Aparicio 22:01
ready for this one? Hold this one up. This is this is a very special one tonight. You got to hold her middle here. There you go. There we go. All right. So read the date on that.

Leonard Raskin 22:08
Let’s see. Read the

Nestor Aparicio 22:09
date on that.

Leonard Raskin 22:10
We got Journey and Night Ranger.

Nestor Aparicio 22:12
Uh huh.

Leonard Raskin 22:12
912 of 2001, and

Speaker 1 22:15
not

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Leonard Raskin 22:15
at the track.

Nestor Aparicio 22:17
This is York York Fair. I’m gonna let the fans read it. Yeah, that York Fair.

Leonard Raskin 22:22
Was it? Did that happen? Journey. Did the show happen? This

Nestor Aparicio 22:24
was September the 12th. Did it

Leonard Raskin 22:26
happen?

Nestor Aparicio 22:26
Of 2001 at the York Fair.

Leonard Raskin 22:29
Did the show happen? Obviously, it was

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Nestor Aparicio 22:30
the strangest show I’ve ever been in my life. I’ll

Leonard Raskin 22:32
bet. The

Nestor Aparicio 22:34
band was stranded. They didn’t know whether to play or not.

Leonard Raskin 22:37
Right. It

Nestor Aparicio 22:38
was an outside track show.

Leonard Raskin 22:41
Right.

Nestor Aparicio 22:42
And there were no planes in sky.

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Leonard Raskin 22:43
Of course not. And it

Nestor Aparicio 22:44
was 25 years ago tomorrow.

Leonard Raskin 22:46
Right, and

Nestor Aparicio 22:46
here we are. Yeah, and I just found this. How about

Leonard Raskin 22:48
how about I mean on that on that fact? That’s a memory, huh?

Leonard Raskin 22:51
I think it was. I mean, they were

Nestor Aparicio 22:53
selling popcorn. Sure, it’s the state fair.

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Leonard Raskin 22:56
It was wild. I bet it was wild. I flew. It was crazy. I flew as soon as not as soon as you could, but shortly after, when you could fly, you could hear a pin drop on a table. Read that ticket. Read that ticket.

Nestor Aparicio 23:07
Read that ticket.

Leonard Raskin 23:08
Read that ticket. I need some eyes for that. Baltimore Civic Center. What the heck?

Nestor Aparicio 23:12
This here was October the 19th of 1982. I know you attended this show. I was in the circle front right side row S C 13 for the priests. There

Leonard Raskin 23:24
you go for

Nestor Aparicio 23:25
the priests.

Leonard Raskin 23:25
That was the best. The

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Nestor Aparicio 23:26
maiden openet show was that the maiden that was the maiden show. All right, maiden show right there.

Leonard Raskin 23:30
Standing.

Nestor Aparicio 23:32
Did we go together? Do we have tickets together? I don’t think we went together to that one. No,

Leonard Raskin 23:36
fantastic.

Nestor Aparicio 23:37
All right. Well,

Leonard Raskin 23:37
they were. They’re so amazing.

Nestor Aparicio 23:39
Is there anything better than rock and roll? I just went through the J box here and the S box because I’m looking for sticks, and I found Starship and I found smithereens and I mean I got sticks backstage. You want sticks back stage pass? Which one you want?

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Leonard Raskin 23:52
What is this? I

Nestor Aparicio 23:53
don’t know what that’s from. Put the date. This is

Leonard Raskin 23:54
after show august 20, 2005. This is

Nestor Aparicio 23:57
2013. This is oh, this was a good one here. This is June of 2005 sticks in REO Speedwagon can’t stop rocking.

Leonard Raskin 24:07
There you go. So anyway, I think they give don’t they throw those out in the crowd to hot women they want backstage, something like that.

Nestor Aparicio 24:14
Only story I have about that is went to Merriweather for the Rat Poison tour.

Leonard Raskin 24:19
Okay, remember

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Nestor Aparicio 24:19
Rat Poison?

Leonard Raskin 24:20
Yeah, sure. So

Nestor Aparicio 24:20
rat and poison toured together, and I’m at Merriweather, and I’m single. This is 1988, 89. I’m backstage, whatever, and I had two backstage passes and two tickets, and I met two girls.

Leonard Raskin 24:32
Right.

Nestor Aparicio 24:34
These were very attractive girls.

Leonard Raskin 24:35
Yes, I get it.

Nestor Aparicio 24:36
And they were from they were from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Leonard Raskin 24:40
Okay,

Nestor Aparicio 24:40
and I snuck. I brought them down to my seats because I had because Amanda, I love you. Tell all my rock and roll stories. Not all. I’m not talking all time for all. Just the ones we can tell. Right, the ones you can share on the air. The ones with unhappy endings. How about that? Right. So these two girls come down and we’re in my seat. Like my seats were always the second, third, or fourth row, usually on the right side toward the backstage, stage left. But that’s where Amanda would put me and Gene too. Gene, you know I love you. I can’t believe I’m 24 minutes into this and haven’t given Gene love. So I’m on the aisle, and it’s me, dopey ass, rock and roll me, 1989, with two older women. Maybe they were like 23. Way old. You know, I was probably like 19. Yeah, but these were like these girls could drink at the time, and I couldn’t. And I’ll find the ticket if I go through the Rs here and find the ticket because it’s it’s it’s gonna be in the Rs. There are a lot of Rs. There are a lot of rolling stuff. Ario Speedwagon. I went to that one with Ace. We camped out for that one. I’m looking at it right here. I pulled some of this stuff out. So this Rat Poison tour.

Leonard Raskin 25:46
Yep.

Nestor Aparicio 25:48
Poison was the opening band.

Leonard Raskin 25:50
Okay.

Nestor Aparicio 25:51
Okay. This is very important.

Leonard Raskin 25:53
Right.

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Nestor Aparicio 25:54
Rat was the bigger band. Okay.

Nestor Aparicio 25:56
It wasn’t a soul. It was you know there are probably 5000 people with the shed, 6000. It’s rock and roll. Was it you know it was a good show yep and I’ll find my ticket stub for it because I I know what the error was I mean and I I just found it

Leonard Raskin 26:09
there you go

Nestor Aparicio 26:10
I this proves that I was alone I have an unused ticket

Leonard Raskin 26:15
there you go

Nestor Aparicio 26:15
I was in the fourth row okay thank you Amanda I was in the fourth row this is the full ticket, okay? Rat poison. This was june 19, 1987. So if John Allen were here, see, they just broke then, man. Child’s Play was like Child’s Play was trying to be these bands, right? Child’s Play would have loved to been the third band on two years

Leonard Raskin 26:36
ago.

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Nestor Aparicio 26:37
june 19, 1987. These two really pretty girls that I had picked up with my extra seat, and I had my backstage passes. Yeah,

Leonard Raskin 26:46
yeah.

Nestor Aparicio 26:46
Brett Michaels comes out and he’s ah, skinny, pop, pop. I don’t think he even done that one. Yeah, it was just talk dirty to me at that point. They were doing five songs for crying out loud. They had a lot of time on their hands, and Brett Michaels took a shine to the girls I brought in the fourth row to your girls. Okay, next thing I know, Roadie comes out two backstage passes, all access. Of course, not the trash. I’ll find the trash they gave me. It’s in here somewhere. It’s in here right next to the REM. Hold on, I’ll find my-I don’t know where it is. I probably got to like go

Leonard Raskin 27:24
back and hang out and have a drink.

Nestor Aparicio 27:25
Never ever saw these girls again. They were gone. Right, that was the end.

Leonard Raskin 27:28
That’s

Nestor Aparicio 27:29
it. I enjoyed the Rat Show, Stephen Pearcy. You know, God bless Robin Crosby. You know, Tales of a Young Rock Star Journalist. That’s right. That’s right.

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Leonard Raskin 27:40
And you, as I’ve said a million times, you kept all of these. And not only did you keep them, but but your your your trap mind of the show. Ace and I camped out three days

Nestor Aparicio 27:53
for REO Speedwagon on the camp

Leonard Raskin 27:55
out for that.

Nestor Aparicio 27:55
Was wheels are turning? Wheels are turning. I think it was. Yeah, I think it was. No, it was before that. It was wasn’t high infidelity. It was the next one after that. Good trouble. Good trouble. Good trouble. We camped out at the Reiserstown Road Plaza. This is my R.E.O. We got tickets. This is row F, I believe it was. His ticket will be better than mine. And we camped out all night. And R.E.O. Speedwagon, man.

Leonard Raskin 28:23
They they opened those doors at at like 10 o’clock, and you ran to this to the customer service area in the heck company, and that’s where you had to buy the tickets, and everybody lined up. I found the ones you

Nestor Aparicio 28:38
camped out for. Tattoo you, Rolling Stones. There you go. december 7, eighth, and ninth, 1981. There you go. There are my Rolling Stones tickets. There, I I I treasure these. So you’re not gonna mess with my Stones tickets. I

Leonard Raskin 28:49
camped out for Ted Nugent tickets. Ted Nugent, Blackfoot, Motley Crue.

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Nestor Aparicio 28:55
What?

Leonard Raskin 28:56
That was the show.

Nestor Aparicio 28:58
When’s the last time you thought about that one?

Leonard Raskin 29:00
You just here it is comes into the brain. Well, you

Nestor Aparicio 29:02
don’t have a ticket to help to remember it. Ted, you threw your tickets at that time.

Leonard Raskin 29:06
Yeah, right. Let me tell you this. You you know this, but so Ted Nugent concert at Cap Center was general admission. It was before. It was a free

Nestor Aparicio 29:15
for all.

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Leonard Raskin 29:16
It was a free for all. Yes, this was before. Remember the Weezing.

Nestor Aparicio 29:20
Sweet Bang. Do you remember Who Tang? Do

Leonard Raskin 29:25
you remember the Who Cons with Daddy when they had the the the mob side?

Nestor Aparicio 29:31
Sure, seven because

Leonard Raskin 29:32
of general admission. Yeah, but this was before that.

Nestor Aparicio 29:35
They did a whole WKRP episode. This was

Leonard Raskin 29:37
before that even. So Ted was general admission. We were on the floor running. We camped out for tickets. I interviewed Nugent General Admissions. Nugent tried to hit

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Nestor Aparicio 29:46
on my girl that I took backstage at Hammer Jacks.

Leonard Raskin 29:48
Well, there you go at Hammerjacks. That’s a place to see a concert. There you go,

Nestor Aparicio 29:52
Alicia. You didn’t hear that. I’ll see her at the Heritage Fair next year. She’ll be upset with me. We’re storytelling. Let her ask him to see her. He manages money. Tell me what you do for living, and tell me you’re going to Brazil. I’m going to Brazil to see Rush, so I’m excited. I’m

Leonard Raskin 30:05
going to see the Ravens, so I’m I’m going to go. You might lose. You might lose. You can’t lose. I

Nestor Aparicio 30:10
can’t lose.

Leonard Raskin 30:11
I might lose. I don’t know. As long as they know all the words to

Nestor Aparicio 30:14
YYZ, I’m going to be okay. Cowboys, I’m not.

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Leonard Raskin 30:16
I’m not. Well, whatever. Anyway, the Cowboys fans all think they’re going to the Super Bowl till Game Two, and then it’s over. Like the Jets, it’s over. That’s it. Forget about it. So anyway, you

Nestor Aparicio 30:26
know I hate Dallas, right?

Leonard Raskin 30:28
Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio 30:28
I mean I hate everything about Dallas.

Leonard Raskin 30:30
Yes.

Nestor Aparicio 30:31
I found a piece of if I could pull it up on my computer. If I were doing it, I’ll send you over a copy of it. It’s a picture of Kennedy in the in the in the motorcade, like waving before he was murdered. And it’s these are Eagles fans, and it’s in green eagle. It says Dallas still sucks.

Leonard Raskin 30:52
Oh my god! I thought that was that’s that’s that’s pretty good. That’s pretty good. I thought

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Nestor Aparicio 30:58
I wouldn’t necessarily wear it,

Leonard Raskin 31:00
right?

Nestor Aparicio 31:01
But I would endorse it.

Leonard Raskin 31:02
There you go.

Nestor Aparicio 31:03
That’s all. Lenny Raskin is here. You can endorse him at Raskin. We handle money, and that’s what we do. We

Leonard Raskin 31:07
handle money. We we help people protect their money. We help people grow their money. We help people pass on their money, pay less taxes on their money, know how to operate their money, make sure they’re doing things that are right and in their best interest to do. Too often, you get advice from a financial institution. I won’t name a name. I’ll give you an example. I was in a bank recently. You know, you can still go inside banks. Did you know this?

Nestor Aparicio 31:32
Rosedale Bank tells me that, and I go inside a Rosedale Bank often. So,

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Leonard Raskin 31:36
so they they. I haven’t been inside of a bank for a long time, but I had to go inside of a bank for something I had to deal with, and and I was you have to

Nestor Aparicio 31:43
go to the little booth or did you go up to the tower? I had to

Leonard Raskin 31:45
go to the little booth. You had to had to deal with one of the side guys. Okay, right, okay. And so so I’m sitting there. Yes, specialist, right? Bank manager or whatever. Specialist. And I’m sitting there working with them. Right. I’m working with them, and there’s another desk in earshot, and one of the guys at the bank specialist is working with a woman who had to be 70. It’s probably 80. She was old. I’m 60. She was old. You know, 60’s not old anymore. Used to be when I was 20. Talking about these. As a guy turning

Nestor Aparicio 32:11
58, I agree with you. I fully concur with. Now

Leonard Raskin 32:13
80 is now old. So she was easily 80 plus. My mother’s 88. She’s old. Okay, this woman is 80 plus, and so she’s sitting talking to the bank guy. She’s got a CD coming due. Okay, so we handle money. We we make sure people do the right thing with their money. She’s got a CD coming due, and she wants to know what to do with it when it matures. So she goes into the bank because these are the people that go to the bank. She’s sitting with the bank guy and she’s talking about what to do with her money. And he tell I hear him telling her because I’m I don’t have to do anything for what I have to do. The the bank guy’s got to do it, so I’m just sitting waiting for him to get some paperwork that I need to sign and so on. So I’m just listening, and he’s telling her that if she rolls over the CD, she’ll get the new rate that the bank is doing on the rollover, and it’ll be outstanding. It’s the best rate they have at 3.1% and and I almost got up and walked over and punched him in the face and said, “You’re going to tell this woman in her 80s to lock up her money in the bank. I don’t care if it’s $1,000 or $100,000 to get 3.1% Like really, we could go online right now in a moment and get a four and a half 5% CD online in a second, and he’s telling her 3.1. And then he told her she didn’t do that. She could get the enhanced money market, and the enhanced money market would pay. I think it is

Nestor Aparicio 33:32
hard for a bank to give people advice to right. Like this is their job.

Leonard Raskin 33:36
This is this guy’s job. 2.4% I think, on the enhanced money market. And I’m sitting there going, “Oh my God, we have a money market account that pays 3.9 more than the CD, and and I just I wanted to cry,

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Nestor Aparicio 33:51
right?

Leonard Raskin 33:51
But this is what happens. People get

Nestor Aparicio 33:52
bad advice. Bad

Leonard Raskin 33:53
advice. They get bad advice all over. Insurance companies, brokerage houses, banks. Their agenda is so jaded, you know the financial institution wants you to give them their money. They want you to give it to them every day, every week, every month, every year, and they want to keep it forever. And then they scare the hell out of you when you go to use it. They don’t want you to take any back. You know, you might you need to hold that for a rainy day. You might get sick. Do you really want to take all that money out? You you take money out of an account with a broker or an advisor, even an advisor. I hate to say it, advisors that get paid based on the value of the account. So it’s a share, a percentage of the account. When you want to take that money out, they do everything they can to. You don’t need a new

Nestor Aparicio 34:36
refrigerator, right? Exactly. Right. You don’t need to go to Brazil

Leonard Raskin 34:38
to see Rush. I need my comp on your investment account. You shouldn’t do that. So, so we help people have more, so they have more, and protect that money. And then the big thing is enjoy it. We are all about Brazil. We are all about helping people. And I’m

Nestor Aparicio 34:57
leaning into this European rush thing in April where I. See the tulips. I want to see the tulips.

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Leonard Raskin 35:01
That’s the Netherlands.

Nestor Aparicio 35:02
Netherlands, yeah. You want

Leonard Raskin 35:03
to see the tune?

Nestor Aparicio 35:04
And I really want to do Royal Albert Hall in London. Okay. So I’m trying to like do it all in one flight, right? That’s just what you got to do. Right. So I figure if I got to spend $500 more on a flight to get there that time of the year and knock out 3456, things I want to do, that’s kind of what I want to do.

Leonard Raskin 35:19
There you go. And in

Nestor Aparicio 35:20
Brazil, there’s nothing I really want to do. I’m just gonna. I’m gonna do everything but what you’re doing. I don’t want to go to Rio.

Leonard Raskin 35:26
Yeah, I’m gonna do everything

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Nestor Aparicio 35:27
but Rio.

Leonard Raskin 35:28
I’m doing Rio. We’re gonna do the beach. We’re gonna go see the what is it? Touchdown Jesus. I’m gonna teach you. I’m gonna do this one more time.

Nestor Aparicio 35:35
It’s called Corcovado. Okay, there you go. We’re going there. Sugarloaf is the big rock in the water. Yes,

Leonard Raskin 35:40
we’re going there.

Nestor Aparicio 35:40
All right, so

Leonard Raskin 35:41
we’re doing that.

Nestor Aparicio 35:42
Work with me here. Yes, the last thing I’m going to give you because you might not be doing a show next week. I have no idea.

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Leonard Raskin 35:46
Right.

Nestor Aparicio 35:48
Obrigado, obrigado. That’s thank you. Thank you. I was going to say. I thought that was where’s

Leonard Raskin 35:54
the bathroom. Obrigado, obrigado. Because I know it’s obrigado. It’s baño. You got to know bagio.

Nestor Aparicio 36:01
Obrigado.

Leonard Raskin 36:02
Obrigado. Okay, that’s what is that? Thank you. Just

Nestor Aparicio 36:04
thank you. Just thank you. Thank you.

Leonard Raskin 36:06
So, so you know what? Don’t think

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Nestor Aparicio 36:07
that your impeccable Spanish is going to get you behind a Portuguese. It’s

Leonard Raskin 36:10
nothing.

Nestor Aparicio 36:10
Place. I will

Leonard Raskin 36:11
have Google Translate working hard. I’ll have it on, and when they’re talking, I’ll have an earbud in, and it’ll translate right into my ear, and then I’ll talk, and then it’ll speak to them, and that’s how you do it. That’s what Google Translate’s all about.

Nestor Aparicio 36:24
See, so when you’re in the, are you going to Uber down there, or you’re not getting involved? See, I Ubered everywhere in South America. Right. So when I, whenever I would get in a car, and Ace would appreciate this too. They love heavy metal anywhere in South America. So when you get in, and you’re like, just put some AC/DC on, or put some Iron Maiden on. Oh, I have videos of me going to see AC/DC in Santiago, and the dude had Iron Maiden cranked up in the back seat, and he couldn’t make it louder. I just kept saying about louder. Yeah, so it was it was good, man. It was good. I saw

Leonard Raskin 36:56
Iron Maiden. Who did I see Iron Maiden with? Judas Priest. Yeah, yeah. Twisted sister. Right, right. No, not twisted sister. No, it was Iron Maiden. Was this Nugent? Did Nugent have Nugent had Blackfoot? Blackfoot. That

Nestor Aparicio 37:11
was Motley Crue.

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Leonard Raskin 37:12
Motley Crue had. Okay, I’m just see. You got them all. I’m just. I just remember. I suppose the

Nestor Aparicio 37:17
UFO Blackfoot and off Broadway, right? Or cheap trick played with somebody that you went to a trick. He went to a cheap trick show when I was a kid that I skipped at the arena. There you go. By the way, Rick Nielsen had a physical issue on stage last night. Wow, he had to sit down and yeah, yeah, he has asthma. What happens

Leonard Raskin 37:33
with these old dudes? Cheap trick. I saw them. That’s why I’m

Nestor Aparicio 37:36
going to shows these. That’s why I want to see rush. Because

Leonard Raskin 37:38
if you don’t, you’re never. This is it.

Nestor Aparicio 37:40
Use it. I think Russian Brazil is a use it or lose it proposition. I think you got okay. I’m going to go. Leonard Raskin is here. He’s going to be going to Brazil. We are all going to be going to Ravens games here. Yes, it is Ravens season. We’re at Costas. It’s all brought to you by friends. The Maryland Crab Cake Tour is presented by the Maryland Lottery. I’ve already had winners here today at Costas in. We’re in Dundalk. We’ll be back at Timonium soon. We’re at State Fair on the 24th. Our friends at Farnham and Durham are keeping us very comfortable, and I’m starving. I want a fried crab cake, and I look at Ace and I see my old Dundalk buddies down here telling old rock and roll stories. I’m gonna get some lunch down here. We’re at Costas Inn. It is a 28th anniversary especial. Johnny O’s gonna be here later. We’re gonna talk to him about getting the key bridge built again. And who else do I got? Oh, Ed Stokes coming by. My son, my son’s been a lot of contracts with me, and we don’t talk about it much. And we got on the phone yesterday, and he started like, “Come on over. I’m like, “Bring bring that story over here about what you remember and don’t remember. So, but he has seen. I went through the list yesterday. He’s seen like a dozen of my top 28 bands, so you know I’ve taken in the seat Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Brian Adams. He’s seen all of those bands for sure. So we’re gonna have a good time. Leonard Raskin’s here. He’ll be back talking football soon. I’ll put my clothes back on. I got now today. My my wife happened to be in the office when I was dressing to come over here today, and I said I want to wear purple for the Ravens, and you’re wearing purple or whatever. And I looked up at all my belt buckles, and I said, “I’m gonna wear a belt buckle for Ace because Ace is coming by. And

Leonard Raskin 39:08
so,

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Nestor Aparicio 39:09
and I’m like, “I’m gonna wear the Cars one. She’s like, “I knew you were gonna wear the Cars

Leonard Raskin 39:15
one. There was there ever

Nestor Aparicio 39:16
any doubt that you were gonna wear the Cars one if you’re gonna hang out with Ace? So

Leonard Raskin 39:20
now that’s a weird-looking dude, Rick Ace. No, no, no, no, no. The cars, the cars. Rick Kasich. You know he died, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was. You know,

Nestor Aparicio 39:29
he left his wife destitute, right? Paulina, did you know this?

Leonard Raskin 39:32
Terrible.

Nestor Aparicio 39:32
So you know all of this. You you know things.

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Leonard Raskin 39:35
Terrible. Do you see

Nestor Aparicio 39:36
people do that? Screw screw their spat like at the end of their life.

Leonard Raskin 39:38
People do stupid stuff. I see people do really, really crazy things. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 39:42
you know what? And and this is a good entree. And I’m going to give you one more minute talk because this week I had Bob Kravitz on from Indianapolis, and Bob was hard on the Colts. Bob wasn’t from Indy. This is my I’ll get my car’s belt buckle up. I also had Mike Chappell on. From the Indian Act, they were colleagues. They were, if I were to say, the Mike Preston and Ken Rosenthal or the Jamison Hensley, or me, throw anybody in the media that would be in the know and having done it a long time. They both said that they loved Jim Irsay. They loved him as a friend. That they knew him and they loved him.

Leonard Raskin 40:17
Right.

Nestor Aparicio 40:17
And Bob Kravitz said the last five years and the hiring of Jeff Saturday, all that he said it was just a drug-addled mind at the end of his life. You know that he did things, and you would like to think we we would like to think. I mean, Ben Orr’s birthday was the other day. We love the cars. I’ve had. I mean, I’ve had. I’d love to get Elliot Easton on, but but I had Greg Hawks on a few years ago, and he’s from Columbia. He was an usher at Merriweather Post for the Who concerts in the early ’70s, right? That’s too funny. We love the cars, right? I hate thinking of Rico Kasich doing that to his wife, who was a supermodel, and like her coming clean about abuse and just awful things later in life. And like I think to myself, like I’d like to think that he wasn’t right to do that. And you manage money for people. Absolutely, you were telling me you were over here managing. You’re like we have a problem where people get older,

Leonard Raskin 41:06
yes,

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Nestor Aparicio 41:07
and they lose their minds. And somebody like you has to sort of play referee. Yeah, we

Leonard Raskin 41:12
have a duty of care. And if you’re a senior or not a senior, but if if things are happening in your mind that aren’t right, one of the things we have to do. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 41:21
lock down the money right away, right? And when we meet, when we

Leonard Raskin 41:23
meet you, we say, “Okay, who is your who is your trusted contact? That if we can’t get a hold of you, who do we call when things start to go wonky? Who who do we have sit in here because it happens? We’ve I’ve seen it happen a lot. It’s terrible, and and we have to have somebody in the room. It’s weird

Nestor Aparicio 41:39
because my mother died staring at me, complete like closed her eyes the last time and knew every. Yeah, like my mother was completely. I mean, she was never the like immenseest student on her. But she had all of the faculty she ever had to the day she died. That’s what you hope. Was it called power of attorney, right? Or like I had all of that going on. Yeah, but I never had to make like decisions because she was

Leonard Raskin 42:04
because she couldn’t

Nestor Aparicio 42:04
because she could absolutely couldn’t you know what I mean like and I made mistakes at the end of her life about taxes and all sorts of crazy things that I didn’t get the best of advice at the end of her life yeah like literally these things are I made those mistakes literally and they happened my and my son paid for them literally had to pay the taxes for them so you go Leonard Raskin’s here don’t make those mistakes. We’re Costers. I’ll tell you one thing: if you come to Costas and you don’t get a fried crab cake, you made a mistake. If you come to Costas and you don’t get the oysters Rockefeller, you made a mistake. If you come to Costas, don’t get the Maryland crab soup.

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Leonard Raskin 42:33
Beautiful.

Nestor Aparicio 42:34
Made a mistake. Oh, oh, my favorite-the mushroom caps. My wife doesn’t really love crabs or crab cakes or whatever, but she the mushroom caps are the only thing when she comes in the cost. This that’s what she gets. There you go. I like the I’m the

Leonard Raskin 42:49
I’m the Maryland crab soup with you. I’m right there, crab cake. I’m not an oysters guy, but I’m feeling fried

Nestor Aparicio 42:54
today. Can I get some fried shrimp today? Am I allowed? I

Leonard Raskin 42:56
think fried shrimp and some Maryland crab soup. I open that

Nestor Aparicio 43:00
damn app from GBMC. I open and they tell me how to live better and eat better and live stronger.

Leonard Raskin 43:06
Take a day off.

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Nestor Aparicio 43:07
Take a day off. If you’re gonna do it today’s one day off, take one day off. My chart. My chart. I’m on my chart here.

Leonard Raskin 43:13
You take a day off. You don’t look at your weight. You just keep going.

Nestor Aparicio 43:16
Somebody told me I look good, so it’s time to eat something good. That’s

Leonard Raskin 43:19
it.

Nestor Aparicio 43:20
Let her ask you to your talk. Brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. I appreciate Raskin Global, all of our sponsors who keep us in business and make us go. It is football season, and it is rock and roll storytelling. Stay with us.

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