We all love us a Stanley Cup raising but even when it’s Las Vegas and Carolina battling and we have no rooting interest, it’s hard to beat the good old hockey game for pure excitement and pucking drama. Leonard Raskin and Nestor discuss the speed of hockey and the light of seeing the game on ice clearly this time of year as a hoisting is imminent.
Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed the excitement of the NHL playoffs, highlighting the thrilling comeback of the Carolina Hurricanes against the Vegas Knights. They reminisced about past hockey games and the unique atmosphere of the Stanley Cup finals. Leonard shared his admiration for the skill and athleticism of hockey players, comparing it to other sports. They also touched on the financial aspects of attending live events, noting the high costs of World Cup tickets and the importance of making informed spending decisions. Leonard emphasized the significance of keeping beneficiary designations up to date for financial planning.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend and host the show at Sorrento of Arbutus this week (appear at Sorrento on Wednesday as announced)
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend and host the show at Green Mount Station in Hampstead on the 24th (appear as scheduled)
- [ ] Review and ensure beneficiary designations on retirement accounts and life insurance are current so assets pass as intended
Discussion on Upcoming Events and Guests
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning upcoming events at Sorrento of Arbutus and Green Mount Station.
- Nestor mentions missing guests and regrets not inviting Leonard Raskin to a Rush concert in Inglewood.
- Leonard Raskin is introduced as a money manager and American dream enthusiast.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss various sports events, including the Stanley Cup and NHL playoffs.
Stanley Cup Playoffs and Hockey Highlights
- Leonard shares a humorous anecdote about a hockey game breaking out at a Renaissance festival.
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the pregame at the Knights game, including a hurricane on the ice.
- They reminisce about the Stanley Cup finals eight years ago, where nights performed in Vegas.
- Leonard recounts a dramatic game where Carolina scored three goals in 38 seconds, turning the game around.
Hockey as a Fast-Paced Sport
- Nestor and Leonard discuss the excitement of hockey compared to other sports like basketball and soccer.
- Leonard emphasizes the skill and speed required in hockey, likening it to basketball on ice.
- Nestor compares the fast-paced nature of hockey to other sports, highlighting its unique appeal.
- They discuss the physicality and athleticism of hockey players, including a story about a Vegas Knight player with a broken nose.
Comparing Hockey to Other Sports
- Nestor and Leonard compare the speed and excitement of hockey to other sports like soccer and basketball.
- Leonard argues that hockey is a more exciting game due to its fast-paced nature and physicality.
- Nestor shares his experience of watching a Bryan Adams concert during a hockey game, emphasizing the contrast in speed.
- They discuss the physical demands of hockey, including the skill required to play on razor-thin ice.
Personal Experiences and Opinions on Sports
- Nestor shares his excitement about hockey and his long-standing love for the sport.
- Leonard and Nestor discuss their experiences attending live sports events and the joy of watching great athletes.
- They talk about the importance of appreciating the skill and effort involved in different sports.
- Leonard shares his thoughts on the physical and mental toughness required in hockey, using examples of players overcoming injuries.
Financial Tips and Personal Stories
- Leonard provides financial advice, emphasizing the importance of keeping beneficiary designations up to date.
- They discuss the importance of making informed financial decisions, especially during summer.
- Leonard shares a personal story about attending a wedding with a 97-year-old guest who was enjoying life to the fullest.
- Nestor and Leonard talk about the value of making memories and enjoying life, even in old age.
Discussion on Sports Teams and Players
- Leonard and Nestor discuss the Orioles and their recent performance, including a missed call that cost them a game.
- They talk about the importance of winning key games during home stands to resuscitate the season.
- Leonard shares his excitement about seeing Shohei Ohtani play, highlighting his exceptional skills as a pitcher and hitter.
- They discuss the importance of seeing great athletes in person and the impact it has on their appreciation for the sport.
Plans for Upcoming Events and Personal Interests
- Nestor and Leonard discuss their plans to attend various concerts and events, including a Rush concert.
- Leonard shares his excitement about seeing Getty Lee perform and the emotional impact of his music.
- They talk about the importance of attending live events and the joy it brings to their lives.
- Leonard shares his plans to attend a Rush concert in DC and his excitement about the experience.
Final Thoughts on Sports and Financial Advice
- Leonard provides final financial advice, emphasizing the importance of making informed decisions about spending.
- They discuss the value of enjoying life and making memories, even when it comes to spending money on experiences.
- Leonard shares his thoughts on the importance of attending live sports events and the joy it brings to fans.
- Nestor and Leonard wrap up the conversation, expressing their excitement for upcoming events and their love for sports and music.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson Baltimore. We call the St. Baltimore Positive. We are positively going to be at Sorrento of Arbutus this week. We’re also going to be at Green Mount Station in Hampstead on the 24th We’ll be at Sorrento on Wednesday this week. I get some guests. I probably should have invited this guy over, because he probably would have liked to have been with me at the Rush concert at the forum in Inglewood. Inglewood always up to no good in California on Sunday night. Leonard Raskin is here. He manages money and manages the American dream, things like my American dream to sit in the eighth row at a Bryan Adams acoustic show in Las Vegas, or go see Rod Stewart shake his tail one last time, at the age of 81 at Caesars. How are you? I missed you last week, and Greg, since the last time we got together, we’ve got football, we’ve got World Cup coming, we’ve got NHL. I was where the Stanley Cup, first off, where I hoisted the Stanley Cup, yes, but also where they’re hosting the hoist, hoping to hoist it again next week, so your baby fights, right?
Leonard Raskin 1:02
Somebody’s going to hoist it. Yeah, I saw, saw an interesting post the other day. Somebody said I went to the Renaissance festival, and a hockey game broke out. I don’t know if you saw the pregame at the Knights game. It was, it was rather wild. They were, they had nights on the ice battling a hurricane. Well, yeah. What they did when the
Nestor Aparicio 1:23
Capitals were there, Xbox in the Vegas arena is on the roof,
Leonard Raskin 1:28
okay?
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Nestor Aparicio 1:29
All the way on the roof at the end of the ice, and it’s where all the nights were, and where the fiddling girls were. So, like all of the Vegas show stuff that went on during the Stanley Cup finals, yeah. Your zip is seven years, eight years. It was 18, wasn’t it?
Leonard Raskin 1:46
Yep, yep,
Nestor Aparicio 1:46
it was eight years ago.
Leonard Raskin 1:48
I think so.
Nestor Aparicio 1:49
My gosh, it was eight years ago that this happened, that they had all the nights of the.. but they’ve been doing that, nights of the.. oh, they do a show, they do a whole show,
Leonard Raskin 1:57
they do a whole show, they make it happen. And my goodness, we’ve had some great, great hockey games, some incredible comebacks. I was watching the last, the last show, Mitch Marner, three goals in the second period.
Nestor Aparicio 2:16
That’s the game I was outside for. I was in game three,
8Leonard Raskin 2:20
game three, they’re up for nothing, and, and,
Nestor Aparicio 2:24
and next thing you know, look up, they’re playing. I said, they’re,
Leonard Raskin 2:26
they’re, they got to change the goalie, they got to take Freddie Anderson out. If you’re Carolina, just put them on the sidelines, let them relax. You got two days off, so they had two days off after that game. So now you get him a period, plus two days, you put this other guy in, bussy, he hasn’t played a game in a year. No, it’s been like two over two months since the guy was in net. You say, “Okay, if it’s eight nothing, who cares? We lost, and then he comes in, shuts down a penalty shot, just starts making incredible saves, and some way, somehow, in a matter of 40 seconds of hockey time, Carolina scores three goals.
Nestor Aparicio 3:07
How do you score three goals in 38 seconds? It was
Leonard Raskin 3:10
unbelievable. It was happened.
Nestor Aparicio 3:13
I was in the Bryan Adams concert when it happened, and when I came out, I saw the highlight, like in the casino, I saw the highlights. I’m like,
Leonard Raskin 3:22
crazy
8Nestor Aparicio 3:23
was crazy when I walked in there. Nothing, the
Leonard Raskin 3:26
game, the game was all but over.
Nestor Aparicio 3:28
Everybody in Vegas was celebrating, like, you know what I mean. Of course, three nothing. It was four and off. I saw the fourth goal, and I saw them celebrating. I thought it was an empty netter. No, it’s over. The second period, the second period,
Leonard Raskin 3:43
it’s over. And then 10 minutes, one minute, three goals, 39 seconds. It was befuddling. I love listening to the announcers. I love it, because the announcers to me, in any sport, any sport that I’m watching, are like weathermen, you know, they, they shift with the breeze. They’re talking about how great Vegas is playing, and how they’re putting this away. And we’re on to game four, and it’s, you know, they’re blowing them out. There’s no quit. These
Nestor Aparicio 4:14
hurricanes, they blew in here,
Leonard Raskin 4:16
right? And then suddenly, there’s no quit. The hurricanes have it in them. This is who they are. This is how they play. This is their game. And then empty net late fourth goal ties it up. Crowd is silent. Overtime number one, nobody scores. Overtime number two. And then Vegas gets a flukey, the most fluky goal. The guy was not even trying. He’s throwing the puck off the boards, it bounces off the boards, hits the back of the goalie, the skate, literally the blade of his skate, and goes in the net. It was just silly, but. Nobody was scoring any other way, so what the hell, the
Nestor Aparicio 5:02
good old hockey game is the best game. Finals
8Leonard Raskin 5:07
of the playoffs overtime, I want to see seven games. It’s a great series.
Nestor Aparicio 5:14
Most people don’t remember this, this version of me, because I’m 57 and tired and angry, and the Orioles haven’t won in 43 years, and you know, and journalism is dead in America, and I happen to be a journalist, so I was so excited about hockey when I went on the air here in the 90s. Okay, so this is back when the Caps were wearing those hideous St. Louis blues jerseys when they were in the cup finals in 90, right? They played, they played Detroit, right? So I mean, we’re going back 28 years now. I’ve been on the air 35 years now. So, but during that first 10 or 15 years, the hockey thing here, like we had just lost the Bandits, Trots was gone, you know, Walt Kyle was gone, like all we weren’t getting a team, and I remember going on the air back in the when the Orioles were the Orioles, when Brady Anderson was playing at Cal, and talking about hockey this time of year, and saying to people, you don’t know what you got to watch this Colorado Avalanche, you got to watch this Patrick Roy guy, you know what I mean, and I was thinking I would say out loud to people, if you don’t love hockey, I feel sorry for you, like I feel like you’re really missing the best. Listen,
Leonard Raskin 6:21
absolutely, it’s the best hockey. And I’ve always said, what people don’t understand about hockey, when you, if you can’t appreciate it, is the first thing you got to realize is these guys are phenomenal skaters. People don’t pay attention to the fact that these guys are playing on razor plates, so you’ve got to, oh, nice, you got to be a world-class skater, then you got this whole stick and puck thing where you have to manipulate and make plays,
Nestor Aparicio 7:00
anticipate teammates like a teammate, you have to work together
Leonard Raskin 7:04
in football, basketball. It’s like it’s like basketball on ice.
Nestor Aparicio 7:09
Keeping the back in the zone is,
Leonard Raskin 7:11
you got a metaphor
8Nestor Aparicio 7:13
for life.
Leonard Raskin 7:13
You got to play a sport that first you have to learn how to do another sport to be able to play. I mean, you can play floor hockey and just go out there and play around best
Nestor Aparicio 7:25
athletes because
Leonard Raskin 7:26
skate first.
Nestor Aparicio 7:28
How, how in baseball, when I talk to pitchers, and I had like Jamie Moyer on last month, when I talked to Dave Johnson about it personally, guys that really tear up their arm and throwing a baseball, yeah, they would talk about max effort being a thing that’s a modern thing that’s killing pitchers, like everybody throws as hard as they can every time they throw, that was not pitching, that’s not what Jim Palmer did, it’s not like Flanagan did, throwing that right, right, pitching was the art of changing speeds, moving location, not throwing the ball as hard as you can, right? Hockey, which shifts happen max effort. It’s a max effort. I mean, if 10 seconds, it’s a long, long shot, right? That’s right. So it really is a max effort.
Leonard Raskin 8:18
It’s ballet sport
Nestor Aparicio 8:19
in that way, where basketball, you take your time, you dribble around baseball, you stand the batter’s box, you play with your testicles, you, you’re at right field, you wait for the ball to get hit, the, you know what I mean, you stop, you start, you run fast to first base, or whatever, hockey, dude, the minute you jump over the boards, it, it’s a sprint, and it’s absolutely, it’s a sprint on every shift, which is what makes it, and look, soccer is the beautiful game, and this is another great, yes, I would talk World Cup soccer this time every four years, and people with funny hair in their short, like I have funny hair now, funny hair in the shorts, and first off, it’s it’s the world’s game, it’s the corruption of FIFA has come here this week in a way that only we can appreciate here, but the speed of soccer and the speed of hockey and the speed of lacrosse, like when I hear people say I love this sport or I love lacrosse or whatever, because of the physical and the violence, I don’t know how you can,
8Leonard Raskin 9:17
I don’t know how you can love lacrosse and not hockey,
Nestor Aparicio 9:19
that’s what Tony Seaman would always say to me, say it’s the same sport,
Leonard Raskin 9:23
right on ice with professional skaters playing. I watch
Nestor Aparicio 9:27
lacrosse, lacrosse move slow to me when I would watch
Leonard Raskin 9:30
hockey, like
Nestor Aparicio 9:30
watch a Final Four this time of year. Oh
Leonard Raskin 9:33
my god, and no one
8Nestor Aparicio 9:35
really would do it that let me know hockey was the greatest game. And this is what I would say on the radio 30 years ago, if you would listen, I’d say, you know what, fellas. Last night I watched Michael Jordan play last night, and I watched the playoffs. Michael Jordan is great. He shoots football. I’m talking 9993 9495 When I went on the air polls, I’d say, but if you watch a hockey game for a period, and then at the end of the period they go to break, and then you put the basketball. Game on, you will feel like you got out of a sports car and you got into
Leonard Raskin 10:07
a, you go,
Nestor Aparicio 10:07
a pedal bike, a pedal bike, slow motion, slow motion. So, because hockey moves so fast, your eyes on my fizz as a human being sitting there watching it for 40 minutes during a period, and then it stops, and then you put on baseball, or you put on any other sport, where it’s not NASCAR, where the car’s not going 100 miles an hour, it, you would feel the slowdown, like on nights when the NBA Finals plays instead of the NHL, and you’re watching it both, the speed of the game, it always left me cold with basketball to say hockey, so much more an exciting game, just as a game. Forget who’s playing, forget Michael Jordan. And I would say that 30 years ago, and I’m glad we talked a little hockey, because I would agree with you. And look, Vegas and Carolina, people are going to say, “Who cares? I don’t care about those teams, right? To your point, if you’re watching the actual game and just care to be in a team for a couple hours. Hockey’s the best. It’s the best. Agree with this. I’m glad we had this segment. I really am, because I don’t talk about hockey with you.
Leonard Raskin 11:09
Another thing I would say is, go to a game.
Nestor Aparicio 11:13
Oh, okay, sure.
Leonard Raskin 11:14
If you haven’t been to a hockey game and you don’t think it’s great versus a basketball game, for instance, when you go and you see the size of these men, the athleticism of these men, when they crash into the boards and and get up and go, like right now, tune in, tune into the Vegas Knights, or go on Google and look up this, this guy for the Vegas Knights, McNabb, right? He took an 87 mile puck to the bridge of his nose, walked off the ice, holding his face, gushing blood, stitched up, was sent to the hospital. Was in the hospital. I don’t know if they broke his nose or what to fix it. I mean, it was a mess, and stitched up, and the next game he’s wearing a face cage, like the kids do in college, and he’s playing the next game. Now, you know, if you’ve ever had a broken nose or anything, face, whatever, can’t
Nestor Aparicio 12:16
breathe, he can’t think, he
8Leonard Raskin 12:17
can’t breathe. Not only that, but these guys are out there hitting each other, he’s running into guys at full speed. It’s the cup,
Nestor Aparicio 12:24
man.
Leonard Raskin 12:25
That’s it’s my point. Soccer, you’re talking about the World Cup. A guy gets clipped on the back of his heel, and he’s like, he got shot dead. He gets carried off on a stretcher, especially if you’re from Augustine or
Nestor Aparicio 12:36
South America.
Leonard Raskin 12:36
Yeah, basketball, these guys are.. what are they.. you know, they, they flop and hope for a foul, like, oh, I got hit. Oklahoma
Nestor Aparicio 12:44
City last series, and
Leonard Raskin 12:45
they can’t play, and then they’re out for three days. You know what happens in basketball in the regular season, these guys need a break. They take a couple games off for a break. Can you imagine a hockey player saying to the coach, I think I want to take off for a break tonight, maybe traded tomorrow. I mean, what a like the quarterback
8Nestor Aparicio 13:04
from the Colts who tapped out. Yeah, yeah,
Leonard Raskin 13:06
I’m out. I mean, come on, catch my
Nestor Aparicio 13:08
breath. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 13:09
catch your breath on another team’s roster, that’s what I say. Leonard
Nestor Aparicio 13:12
Raskin is here, he manages money, he’ll catch your financial breath for you this summer. You can always find him at Raskin Global. So, I, the most important thing we could talk about, it’s not even Canada’s game. Yeah, Canada’s band, the great Getty Lee, the great Alex Lifesin. I know you’re right, I’m
Leonard Raskin 13:31
gonna see him.
Nestor Aparicio 13:31
You got New York tickets, is that where you’re going?
8Leonard Raskin 13:33
I got DC tickets, DC
Nestor Aparicio 13:35
tickets. Okay, you’re going twice.
Leonard Raskin 13:37
I’m going twice. Looks like I’m going twice.
Nestor Aparicio 13:39
Did you see the set list, or well, they are going to have four different set lists. They have said that they’re going to mix it up. I am not staying. I’m in LA right now. I will be home. I will be at Sorrento of Arbutus on Wednesday with some guests, and all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery and GVMC, and our friends at Farnham and Dermer. But the rush thing for me, or do you not want a spoiler, or did you not know I’m all in whatever it is? What do you want me to do? Sure,
Leonard Raskin 14:06
no. Just, how great was it? That’s all I want to know.
Nestor Aparicio 14:10
It was so great, because yes, about Getty’s vocals, and I’m like, Getty sounded like Getty has sounded for 30 years. I mean, it’s never.. it’s not 1978 anymore, and he’s 74 or whatever, he is right, but I.. it was cathartic for me, yeah, but it was cathartic for Getty, because he can’t not do it right, like after the first song he said, don’t make me cry, you know, because he got very, very emotional. Was it opening Xanadu opening night? First song at the LA Forum. You talk about, you know, great scenes in LA. It’s where they played their last show. It’s where they played the Tyler Hawkins show. Awesome. So it was an appropriate place. To open the Fitz and Neil lived in LA, lived in Santa Monica, had our girl do on
Leonard Raskin 15:05
the kit. She’s
8Nestor Aparicio 15:07
just a monster, dude. Like I, I sat on Getty’s side about halfway up, you know, where I couldn’t see the screen so well. And they had that cage. Did you see the YouTube tour when they dropped the cage and played in the center, they have like this cage that goes around, and that’s a screen. It’s a video screen, but it’s a lighted rigging. It’s a truss. Got it? If you watch any of the videos, you’ll see that it’s been coming down above them. Sure. And they were featuring Neil and doing it’s a movie screen, basically. Yeah, it’s an iMac screen that lowers got it onto the stage, so I couldn’t see it because I was behind it, because I was sort of, sort of in the end zone, you know, if it matters. So I was as close to her as, you know, we were eight people in front of me, I was in the eighth row, I was as close as I could be, and I was just watching her, and the other part was I’m on the side, so I could see Getty’s keyboard, so I can see his fingers on the keyboard to the side. Sure, so I’m watching the musicianship, and I’m watching Alex Lifesin, and I’m watching her concentrate, like I’m watching her. She was not right, she’s not smiling a lot, she’s concentrating because of her time,
Nestor Aparicio 16:22
she’s, she’s a monster, like I saw her get up at the end of the first half and walk out, she’s just, she’s an athlete, I mean, she’s a 40 year old woman who beats on the drums, and it was great, I’ll gosh, I mean, if you start to ask me, I’ll gush, but I want to see what other songs they put in, but for me to go to the first show, yeah, to see the set list that I got on the first night, I have zero complaints. Awesome, zero. Well, that has got
Leonard Raskin 16:51
to be a great show. He
Nestor Aparicio 16:52
played Vital Signs, Getty said that Neil loved Vital Signs, the song Vital Sign, and never knew that they played Vital Signs, they played Red Barchetta, they played Free Will. I’m trying to think of sort of off tracks, they played Red Sector A, which song about the Holocaust and his family, so it was always in my lane, bro. I’m ready, I
Leonard Raskin 17:14
can’t wait, can’t wait. Should be a great show.
Nestor Aparicio 17:17
Leather Raskin is here, he is Rascal. You got anything that you want to give me on the Orioles of the Ravens, because I like.. well, I’ll tell you this week we got..
Leonard Raskin 17:24
I was watching Sunday as everybody that might have watched.. I don’t understand how we don’t have a double play in the sixth inning. I totally missed that day of school. It was
8Nestor Aparicio 17:34
a missed call.
Leonard Raskin 17:35
Yeah, it was a terrible call. And I don’t understand how umpire can’t overrule another umpire. I don’t understand how that’s not a reviewable play. I thought everything in baseball was reviewable. They have their, like, what, six things you can review and 20 things you can’t. Doesn’t make any damn sense. I get it. In football, we can’t review everything either. There’s to me, if we’ve got replay, we should get it right. That’s my opinion. Felt that way for 40
Nestor Aparicio 17:59
years, as long as I’ve been on the radio, it felt like if we’re gonna use replay, get screwed or be screwed, and the next day we’re talking about, we’re sorry, and agree, yeah, and egregious, especially now that we’re betting on it, right? Not
Leonard Raskin 18:12
only that, not only that, but I didn’t know until midway through the game. Remember back in the day, you should be able to play the game under protest,
Nestor Aparicio 18:21
my dad did that little,
Leonard Raskin 18:22
that’s gone away, can’t do that anymore. So that’s gone. So with replay, you can’t protest. I don’t know what I never saw a protest come to anything, but at least you’d note it. But it was, it was a stupid horrible call. I mean, the dude’s running into right field, it
Nestor Aparicio 18:41
cost them the game, they came unglued, and you can’t have four
8Leonard Raskin 18:45
to one, four to one, the innings over, double play, then it’s four two, you still got to lock it down, but emotionally it just wrecked them, totally screwed him up, and then they lost, but they’re playing decent ball, it was a, you know, it’s a terrible yak of a thing, but they’re starting to play good ball. Look, we talked, I think the last time we met that we were on the air, we talked about they had to be seven and three on the home stand, and they were well
Nestor Aparicio 19:15
resuscitated the season. I mean, if they come back and they get into a wild card race and six years from now, they’re a buyer and not a seller in the race,
Leonard Raskin 19:24
that’ll be it, that’ll be the stand that kicked it off. Home
Nestor Aparicio 19:26
stand against the American League East, that they’re at the point now, though, they’re playing the better teams now. These West Coast teams are the best, right? So, you
Leonard Raskin 19:32
got to show up this home stand and win on this home stand. You got to start beating, you got to beat the teams you have to beat you to the
Nestor Aparicio 19:41
game, what makes you my dad and I? When I was a kid, it was always the starting pitcher and the visiting team. My dad would say, ‘Hey, you want to go see Frank Tanana pitch? You want to see Paul split off pitch? Right? I always like pitching. I always like, and my dad to see show. Hey, I’ll tell you, right? I would go see Shohei pitch. I do. We play
Leonard Raskin 19:58
the Brewers. Have you seen this? For the Brewers, I know we talked about him last time. He threw this weekend, past weekend, 30 pitches over 101 You talk about throwing hard, not pitching. He also has a wicked, a wicked 95 mile an hour slider that nobody can hit. The guy strikes out 1012, a game, throwing 103 right, 103 104 I’d go to see him.
8Nestor Aparicio 20:24
It was Mark Fit Rich when we were kids. Yes, Nolan Pedro Martinez. I would go up to Philly when I was a teenager to see Doc Gooden pitch. Fernando Valenswell League here, right. So, like, I, I’m wondering when that night happens where you text Ness and say, ‘Hey, you know Bradish is pitching, I want to go see him pitch tonight, or the visiting team’s in, or the Padres are in, I want to go see Manny Machado, not time Star Wars bobblehead, the worst batting average
Leonard Raskin 21:00
in baseball right now. I think the Padres, the multi-gazillion dollar lineup that can’t hit right now.
Nestor Aparicio 21:06
Well, Machado’s struggling too, having the worst year of his career.
Leonard Raskin 21:11
What’s he got? One home run.
Nestor Aparicio 21:12
Listen, all all of the money you spend on the Tyler O’Neill’s. Let me
Leonard Raskin 21:19
give you something. Let me give you something. Have you watched the Dodgers?
Nestor Aparicio 21:24
Not lately.
8Leonard Raskin 21:25
Shohei Ohtani the other night threw six scoreless and went three for four.
Nestor Aparicio 21:32
I was in the casino when that happened
Leonard Raskin 21:35
over the weekend. He threw six scoreless and in no, it wasn’t scoreless, he wasn’t pitching first inning, I think it was the first inning, he got a hit and scored, and then comes up a second time and hits a two run homer, they go up nine to nothing in the first inning, they put up nine and he scored twice,
Nestor Aparicio 21:57
you’re seeing the greatest baseball players ever lived, ever, ever, right? I mean, that’s to see
Leonard Raskin 22:03
him. I would go to see him anytime they’re here, not only, not only if he’s pitching, but when they’re here. I’ll go see the Dodgers for sure.
Nestor Aparicio 22:10
I’ve had two chances to see him pitch, like where I’ve been. I was in New York when he was pitching for the Angels, and I had a chance to go for 10 bucks, and I didn’t go, so
Leonard Raskin 22:18
I couldn’t believe what I was watching when he was here. It was. I’ve seen him play.
8Nestor Aparicio 22:22
I saw him play at Dodger Stadium right here,
Leonard Raskin 22:25
pitch. He’s.. it’s look, it’s like watching Gretzky play hockey. The grace.. look, we talked hockey. We started with hockey. I can’t believe people don’t like hockey. Have never gone to see a veteran play a game. We have the luxury of having this guy in our backyard, and people haven’t seen him play. I’ve seen him play for 20, what, almost 20 years, 15 years, whatever it’s been.
Nestor Aparicio 22:50
Even when I was a kid, or Magic would come to Saint, or Larry Bird, or George Girvan, you got to see this
Leonard Raskin 22:58
guy, you got to go see him. That’s what makes me go out to the game. I want to see a superstar at the prime doing great things.
Nestor Aparicio 23:05
Okay,
Leonard Raskin 23:06
and we’ve got a couple coming. They’re not here yet, but they’re coming. I think they’ll be okay. Look, it’s got to be a playoff team. They’re, you think Elias has got to go. I think it’ll depend on whether or not they make the playoff, they got to
Nestor Aparicio 23:21
get above 500 that’s seriously so close they
8Leonard Raskin 23:27
could taste it, and then no, but now they’re home, and we’ll see what happens. Better pitching ahead, the Mariners, they got the Mariners,
Nestor Aparicio 23:35
yeah, Mariners, Padres, and then, and then they’re going to go west, they get the angels as part of that as well, so yeah, this is a crucial couple of weeks. It’s June, Lennar Raskin is barking
Leonard Raskin 23:46
the park, we got bark in the park.
Nestor Aparicio 23:47
What do you got you doing? Oh,
Leonard Raskin 23:50
there’s a bark in the park, you take your dog to the game.
Nestor Aparicio 23:52
Well, how big’s your dog these days? Now you have it’s
Leonard Raskin 23:56
a great Pyrenees,
8Nestor Aparicio 23:57
great Pyrenees, big
Leonard Raskin 23:58
white fur ball that breaks vacuum cleaners. He’s 115 pounds,
Nestor Aparicio 24:01
115 pounds. I don’t
Leonard Raskin 24:03
think he’d like to hang out at the ballpark, he gets too hot.
Nestor Aparicio 24:05
Your money guy, you manage my money, you manage money. So, what would you say to me if I took your dog to Oriole Park at Camden Yards and paid $20 a $20 cover charge to take your dog? I take it to
Leonard Raskin 24:18
Ravens, I take him to a Ravens game, he’d love that. He likes the cold. He sits outside for hours in the cold. He hates the heat. He’s inside in 10 minutes.
Nestor Aparicio 24:27
Oh, okay. So he wouldn’t want to
8Leonard Raskin 24:29
be. He wouldn’t. Well, just no, because it’s just his breed. He’s just.. what is he
Nestor Aparicio 24:32
now?
Leonard Raskin 24:32
He’ll be four,
Nestor Aparicio 24:34
okay? And they don’t live like they’re not.. he’s not going to be 20. Well, they don’t live 12,
Leonard Raskin 24:38
maybe.
Nestor Aparicio 24:40
Okay. All right. I remember when you got him, he was, you know, on your lap in the middle.
Leonard Raskin 24:44
Yeah, you hope he goes 12, and you just love him for all the time you get. That’s what you do. It, you would have the biggest
8Nestor Aparicio 24:51
dog at the park if you took him.
Leonard Raskin 24:52
That’s well, there’s.. I saw one out there last time, was pretty big. Does he
Nestor Aparicio 24:55
go to dog parks? Your dog,
Leonard Raskin 24:56
he’s afraid of Chihuahuas, I.
Nestor Aparicio 25:00
He is,
Leonard Raskin 25:01
yeah, little dog will yap at him, he’ll run away. He doesn’t realize how big he is. He doesn’t realize how big he is. It’s kind of funny.
Nestor Aparicio 25:08
Well, can you smile talking about
8Leonard Raskin 25:10
it’s hysterical? I’m saying, if the Ravens did a bark, a bark in the park, or whatever they would call it, I’d bring him to the football game. He’d love it. He’d lay out there right in front of me at the seat, and he wouldn’t move, he’d lay on that freezing cold concrete, he’d be in heaven for three hours.
Nestor Aparicio 25:28
Yeah, you need to move to Wisconsin with that dog, I think. There you
Leonard Raskin 25:31
go, there you go. Let
Nestor Aparicio 25:32
her ask, get us here, he manages money. Any financial tips? Anything people should be thinking about here? Summertime, it’s, you know, summertime is
Leonard Raskin 25:39
always, as always, summer,
Nestor Aparicio 25:42
right? That’s when they’re
Leonard Raskin 25:43
getting there. We talk about beneficiary designations and making sure they’re right. As always, we see problems with people that don’t have their beneficiaries up to date. So that’s the thing you should always check on. Make sure that your beneficiaries of any accounts, retirement accounts, life insurance, all those things are current, so that if something happens, you make sure that your money goes where you want, how you want, you know. Not everybody gets to make it to 6070, 90. Kyle Busch was 4142 and tragic, you know. You lose somebody like that at that age, and there’s others at that age. There was a who was the rate there was a Ravens quarterback, ex-quarterback, who is that died young? I can’t remember his name.
8Nestor Aparicio 26:27
I don’t remember this at all. I don’t
Leonard Raskin 26:29
remember his name. I think there was a Ravens quarterback.
Nestor Aparicio 26:32
I don’t remember this, but go ahead.
Leonard Raskin 26:34
But I’m just saying, you don’t have permission to make it to 100 So, this this weekend, Kathy and I had a friend’s wedding this weekend, and so we’re sitting at the wedding with the bride’s grandparents, the bride’s relatives, and her grandfather’s 97 years old. He’s rocking it out. He was having a great time, you know, lucid and having a ball,
Nestor Aparicio 26:58
like my mom. There you go.
Leonard Raskin 26:59
How old was she?
Nestor Aparicio 27:00
98
8Leonard Raskin 27:01
right. We don’t all get there. If you, if you get there, that’s great. But sometimes 40 hits or 50 hits, and something happens. Pictures of my
Nestor Aparicio 27:11
mom with her sister, they went to Nags Head together on a family vacation in her late 80s, and they drank beer on the porch. There you go, have those pictures. And then in their early 80s she went to Cancun with her sister and all of her kids and family, and they did a week in Cancun when my mom was 80 years old, she went to Cancun, so right, like, hey man, you know, and she, she even drank the water, I think I told her I’ve been
Leonard Raskin 27:36
sick there when I’ve done that, so you know, enjoying
Nestor Aparicio 27:38
life and spending many times that you enjoy, and any
Leonard Raskin 27:42
time makes the best sense, and even not doing
Nestor Aparicio 27:45
like I was in Vegas the other night, Friday night, I went to see Bryan Adams. I spent 80 bucks on Wednesday, I spent 80 bucks on Thursday seeing Rod Stewart. Friday night, no doubt, was playing the sphere, and I’m not like a no doubt fan, but I’m a spear, sphere fan. I like good musing, they put
Leonard Raskin 28:00
on a good show, put on a
8Nestor Aparicio 28:01
good show, and all that. Tickets were 90 bucks, and I looked at the app, and I thought, well, Raskin’s managing my money, I don’t really like, I don’t even love, no doubt. Why am I going? So I slept in, I didn’t go, but so you know, but you make these financial decisions every minute of your life when you’re on an app. I want to buy that, do I not want to buy that, do I need that, do I not need that, is that wasteful, you know? Just, I’m, I’m a frugal person, as you know. I don’t, I don’t, I’m a cheapskate. You would call me a cheapskate, I’m sure. John Ogden would call me a cheapskate, and that’d be something. Well, that’d be something, because
Leonard Raskin 28:32
he’s cheap stopping a list,
Nestor Aparicio 28:34
that’s what I give him, that he’s got more money than me. But I think it paid
Leonard Raskin 28:38
him a little bit more to cover that. There’s a
Nestor Aparicio 28:41
time where, like, I’ve been out in California, seeing gas, seven $8 a gallon. I’ve paid $5 a gallon for gas, just the value of money, and whether you really want it or need it. That would be my advice. That’s my parental advice that I would give my son or anybody. Yeah, you really need that? Do you want that? Are you sure that you want that? Why don’t you walk right, come back in five minutes and make sure, see what the
Leonard Raskin 29:00
difference is, that’s right. The
Nestor Aparicio 29:02
ticket went to 90 bucks. I’m like, well, it’s only 90 bucks, and it’s a sphere. It’s a good deal, is it? But is it what I want to do? And five minutes later, the ticket went away, and I didn’t buy it. I felt okay about it, but there is that moment where it’s on the screen, like literally the thing you want to buy is on the screen, you
8Leonard Raskin 29:16
get to make the choice.
Nestor Aparicio 29:17
Yeah, I mean, and no different to being in the store, you get that buyer’s remorse, you know, just being what is it?
Leonard Raskin 29:25
Yeah, what does it do for you 10 minutes after you bought it? Yeah, everybody gets happy, everybody gets happy about something, and then they put it in the drawer and never look at it again.
Nestor Aparicio 29:33
Food’s that way, for sure. You know, my legs are bigger than my stomach sometimes. All right, let her Raskin is here. I’m gonna let him go and manage other people’s money. You can find him at Raskin Global. You can find him in front of the screen, watching hopefully the game seven of hockey, because game seven is always the best one. NBA finals, NHL finals, out. And any World Cup, are you gonna know?
Leonard Raskin 29:53
I’ll catch the final.
Nestor Aparicio 29:54
Oh, okay. Well, you know, the games start like Thursday, and once they start, they middle of the day, end of the day, yeah. Come down,
Leonard Raskin 30:01
I’ll probably, if it’s on at a time that I don’t have anything else going on,
8Nestor Aparicio 30:05
that’s every day. No,
Leonard Raskin 30:06
no, the final, the final,
Nestor Aparicio 30:09
that’s in July. Yeah,
Leonard Raskin 30:10
watch if I don’t have anything happening, I’ll watch it, I won’t make time for it, is my point. All right, I watched the Indy 500 I make time for that, I got to go to that, but, but I’m not going to make time for the World Cup. If I catch a game, I catch a game.
Nestor Aparicio 30:25
I was talking to an Uber driver, Hispanic Uber driver from El Salvador, who loves soccer, and we’re talking. He didn’t like it. He’s like, they let too many teams in. There’s too many games now. There were already plenty of games. I felt the same way, like being a World Cup fan. You already played plenty. It’s like NCAA tournament, you play plenty of games, yeah. At least they play them all at the same time. World Cup plays them all separately.
Leonard Raskin 30:46
Country and Canada and Mexico.
Nestor Aparicio 30:49
Well, at least the prices are coming down a little bit. You and I want to go up to see Ivory Coast play Philly here this weekend. Yeah, last I checked, the tickets were, it was $869 was to get in for all right,
8Leonard Raskin 31:03
let’s wrap up with this.
Nestor Aparicio 31:04
Go ahead.
Leonard Raskin 31:04
How about how about the ticket price to watch the Knicks in New York?
Nestor Aparicio 31:09
$10,000
Leonard Raskin 31:10
No, no, 10,000 You’re sitting last seat in last row. Maybe,
Nestor Aparicio 31:14
maybe you can get in.
Leonard Raskin 31:16
Maybe have you seen these numbers down there to court?
8Nestor Aparicio 31:20
It’s insane. $700,000
Leonard Raskin 31:22
is the highest price tick.
Nestor Aparicio 31:24
Well,
Leonard Raskin 31:25
who’s paying that?
Nestor Aparicio 31:26
Somebody that has $700,000 not you. I’m not gonna be frugal. Ecuador and Ivory Coast play on Sunday at 6pm in Philly. You and I know the way there. We get a cheese day.
Leonard Raskin 31:36
I’m not going
Nestor Aparicio 31:36
$819 for.. I wouldn’t pay 819 Ivory Coast,
8Leonard Raskin 31:40
I wouldn’t pay $8.19
Nestor Aparicio 31:43
We can go to Atlanta and see Spain play Kate Verday. Is that a country?
Leonard Raskin 31:47
I don’t know.
Nestor Aparicio 31:48
Um, Green Coast, yes, it is. Uh, Atlanta, only $472 for that one. If you want their games
Leonard Raskin 31:54
here,
Nestor Aparicio 31:55
there are no games in DC. There are no games to Philly in New York. That’s what you got. MetLife Stadium. Yeah, if you want to go to MetLife, not even worth
Leonard Raskin 32:02
my travel.
8Nestor Aparicio 32:03
East, rather well, this is a big one. Brazil, Brazil and Morocco play on Saturday night.
Leonard Raskin 32:09
What’s that?
Nestor Aparicio 32:09
$1,718 right now? Seven, I’m telling you, I wouldn’t pay
Leonard Raskin 32:13
$17 There’s soccer,
Nestor Aparicio 32:19
Norway play Iraq,
Leonard Raskin 32:20
my soccer acumen. I would not pay. I would not pay.
Nestor Aparicio 32:24
Are going to be in Foxborough for Norway in Iraq on Tuesday night at 6o’clock
8Leonard Raskin 32:31
I have no idea. I’m just thinking there’s going
Nestor Aparicio 32:34
to be a lot of empty stadiums here. Just
Leonard Raskin 32:35
gotta be,
Nestor Aparicio 32:37
gotta be all right. You never know. You gotta, we’ll talk about it. Manages money, he’s what the hell’s
Leonard Raskin 32:45
going on.
Nestor Aparicio 32:45
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