Who is going to Copacabana and Rio with the Ravens?

The NFL international expansion has led the Baltimore Ravens to the exotic sands of Rio de Janeiro in September and Leonard Raskin asked Nestor his opinion of a purple fan trip to Ipanema, Copacabana and all of that soccer they sing about in fabulous (but dodgy) Brazil. Where is your next sports adventure or bucket list journey?

Nestor Aparicio and Leonard Raskin discussed their recent travels and upcoming adventures. Nestor shared details of the Maryland crab cake tour, including events at Lexington Market and the Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville. Leonard recounted his trip to Italy, noting the similarity of crabs there to those in the Chesapeake Bay. They also talked about the challenges of importing live crabs. Nestor shared a story about getting roofied at the Kentucky Derby. Leonard expressed interest in attending a Ravens game in Rio, and Nestor advised exploring other parts of Brazil, like Buenos Aires and Patagonia, to avoid potential dangers in Rio.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring Maryland Lottery ‘Maryland Treasures’ scratch-off tickets (including Blackwater, Assateague Horses, Bay Bridge Spans) and set up for the Lexington Market (Fayette/Lee’s) appearance on Wednesday; ensure tickets/materials are available at the event.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Appear at Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville next Thursday and use the special table in the front window on Frederick Road for the show.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend the Preakness race this week with wife (participate in Maryland party events and related activities as planned).

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Upcoming Events

• Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning various locations like Lexington Market, Fayette Lee’s, and the Fishmonger’s Daughter in Catonsville.
• Nestor talks about the Maryland lottery scratch-offs, including Bay Bridge spans and Assatek horses.
• Leonard Raskin joins the conversation, mentioning his recent trip to Italy and the similarity of crabs in Italy to those in the Chesapeake Bay.
• Nestor and Leonard discuss the challenges of importing live crabs and the high cost of jumbo crabs in Rome.

Crab Cake Traditions and Regional Differences

• Nestor shares a story about a friend who wanted crabs for Mother’s Day and how crabs and beer are a unique Baltimore tradition.
• Leonard mentions a crab place in New Jersey opened by a Baltimore transplant.
• Nestor talks about a crab house in Fort Lauderdale called Riggins, which feels very Baltimorean despite being in Florida.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the proliferation of crab boil places in Baltimore and their skepticism about them.

Preakness Memories and Experiences

• Nestor recounts his experiences at the Preakness, including bringing a group of friends and setting up a fenced area with a port-a-potty.
• Leonard shares his own experiences of attending the Derby and Preakness, including being in the infield with friends and the stoner culture.
• Nestor talks about the wild parties in the infield and the chaos that ensued, comparing it to a scene in downtown Medellin.
• Leonard expresses his desire to attend the real Preakness at Pimlico and wear an appropriate hat.

Travel Stories and Bucket List Adventures

• Nestor shares a story about getting roofied at the Kentucky Derby with his girlfriend, Robin, and the surreal experience that followed.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the prevalence of human trafficking at major events like the Super Bowl and the Derby.
• Nestor talks about his bucket list travels, including Machu Picchu and Wimbledon, and Leonard’s interest in attending a Rio football game with the Ravens.
• Nestor advises Leonard to explore other parts of Brazil, like Buenos Aires and Patagonia, if he plans to visit Rio for the Ravens game.

Planning a Trip to Brazil

• Nestor advises Leonard to consider other destinations in South America, like Buenos Aires and Patagonia, if he plans to visit Rio for the Ravens game.
• Leonard expresses interest in the trip, considering the timing and the opportunity to see the Ravens play in a new location.
• Nestor shares his experience of traveling to Rio for a Rolling Stones concert and the importance of being cautious and well-prepared.
• Leonard and Nestor discuss the logistics of traveling to Brazil, including visa requirements and the importance of having a reliable tour operator.

Leonard Raskin’s Financial Advice

• Leonard Raskin explains his role in managing money and ensuring clients have enough liquidity to make good financial decisions.
• He emphasizes the importance of protecting and growing one’s wealth through proper investing and planning.
• Leonard discusses the science of investing and the importance of having a well-structured financial plan.
• He highlights the need to ensure that wealth is passed on efficiently to beneficiaries and how his services help clients achieve financial security.

Final Thoughts and Encouragement

• Nestor encourages Leonard to explore other parts of Brazil and not limit his trip to just Rio.
• Leonard expresses his interest in the trip and the unique opportunity to see the Ravens play in a new location.
• Nestor shares his excitement about the upcoming trip and the potential for new adventures and experiences.
• The conversation ends with Nestor and Leonard discussing the importance of making the most of travel opportunities and enjoying life’s experiences.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens trip, Rio, Maryland crab cake tour, Memorial Day, Lexington market, Maryland lottery, Bay Bridge spans, Fishmonger’s Daughter, Venice crabs, Italian crabs, Preakness, Kentucky Derby, human trafficking, Machu Picchu, Buenos Aires.

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SPEAKERS

Leonard Raskin, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positive. To get the show back out on the road. It is Maryland crab cake tour. We’ve done it in all sorts places. As we’re sort of winding down getting ready for Memorial Day. It’s perfect. We’re going to be down doing the crab derby. It is preak this week. We’ll be at the Lexington market at Fayette Lee’s on Wednesday. I will have these scratch offs in the Maryland lottery, the Maryland treasures, board walk. I have black water. I have assatek horses. I have Bay Bridge spans, all the good stuff going on. We’ll also be at the fishmonger’s daughter next Thursday in Catonsville. Really looking forward to that. They told me they built me a special table to do the show in the front window at Frederick road. So I’m looking forward to that the faidleys family giving them lots of love as they open their new endeavor in Catonsville. This guy has endeavored to come back on program twice this week. I haven’t had him out for a crab cake. By the way, you were running around Italy. Leonard Raskin, Raskin global, my wife took a picture. I think it was in Venice. I’m not sure, but they have the same crabs that we have here, the same crabs they have in Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, which is the blue, you

Leonard Raskin  01:16

know,

Nestor Aparicio  01:16

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blue crab that you know in the Chesapeake Bay, different than if a place is serving the Asian red flipper crab, or whatever the hell it’s called, from Indonesia, China and these other places. But this is the same species of crab that is now in Italy. Dami has been telling me about like, how could we import them? Very hard to do with a live animal, right? Like getting them in from North Carolina or Louisiana, Texas. You know, people here have been doing that since Jimmy and Joey over at the barn 40 years ago, doing shows. You know, they would meet the Southwest Airline planes with the vats from Louisiana, from New Orleans. That’s where they got a lot of their crabs. So same crabs, little different. Sally, a nation, but in Italy, you didn’t see any of our crabs. Now,

Leonard Raskin  02:05

not where, not where we were. We weren’t in the north, south.

Nestor Aparicio  02:08

All right, maybe

Leonard Raskin  02:09

they’re north, north. I

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Nestor Aparicio  02:10

think they might be,

Leonard Raskin  02:11

yeah. Venice,

Nestor Aparicio  02:14

my wife, saw them in the market, took pictures of them. They’re the same crabs. Damien told me about it on the air, because she went over there on a business trip. Because everybody’s trying to figure out how to get more crabs Right. Like Trump’s talking about banning the international crab from coming in, which would it be $100 a pound? I mean, like, it just would be crazy if you couldn’t get some important

Leonard Raskin  02:38

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some over the weekend, and Jumbos were outstanding. They weren’t cheap, but I was saying to the family at our last days in Rome this weekend, when we get home, I’m doing crabs. It’s all right to it all right. So we did.

Nestor Aparicio  02:56

A friend of mine hit me on Mother’s Day. And she went over to Costas, and she’s had some off the field issues that have physical health things that so being with her kids was a big deal. She wanted crabs. It was Mother’s Day, like doing it. So she hit me and threw me a text, and I’m like, somebody brought him up. You know now, Leonard’s brought it up. You brought it up? My wife. I haven’t had up since maybe, like, November, maybe October. I hadn’t

Leonard Raskin  03:25

had him in a while, but I said, This is it. We’re doing it. And we did. They were delicious. No summertimes. He

Nestor Aparicio  03:31

didn’t

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Leonard Raskin  03:32

have the corner of the cob with it. Had to, you know, make do with some chips, so you had a little UTS on the side instead of corner the pub. But it was okay, because the crabs are what matter.

Nestor Aparicio  03:44

Yeah, I mean, crabs and beer are such a Baltimore thing, and no one else gets it anywhere else. Like, you go to Philly, you can’t get you go to DC, it’s a little bougie Virginia, maybe down like in Newport News, or, like, I don’t know, because they can get the crabs down there. It’s certainly along like those tributaries where Ted March or Broda lived and whatnot in the Virginia area. But like Delaware, I don’t know you got a place in Delaware, right? They say,

Leonard Raskin  04:13

Delaware? Sure, Delaware. We get them from Ocean City. I

Nestor Aparicio  04:16

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mean, I wouldn’t think Delaware and get a dozen crabs someplace.

Leonard Raskin  04:20

They’re just there. My sister lives up in New Jersey, near Princeton, and there’s a place there. There was shipping them. There’s a place there with Baltimore transplant. He opened a crab place. People up there love him, and she gets him. But it’s because this Baltimore dude decided he was living there. He wanted crab. So he he gets them.

Nestor Aparicio  04:43

There used to be a place in Fort Lauderdale when the Orioles trained there, back when they took out of the Yankees facility. And the place was called Riggins. R i g, g, I N, S. And I knew a guy named rich Riggins. He was my wedding photographer. We went. But unique spelling John Riggins kind of split. Yeah. Reagan steak nut steakhouse crab house, and it was in lantana. And lantana is one of those towns, like, sort of below Boca, or pub Boca, but on the way to West Palm. So I went to this guy’s joint. And it turns out, I mean, if you walk in there, you would think you’re in Lansdowne. You know what I mean, like, it is so Baltimore, it smells like a crab house. But this is in the middle of Florida. They do this. And then these people, who are these people from the Carolinas that are opening these crab boil places in Baltimore, you’ve seen these places pop up.

Leonard Raskin  05:33

Terrible. I

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Nestor Aparicio  05:35

mean, I wouldn’t walk in there. I mean, no offense, dude. I mean, if they asked me to advertise, the first thing I’d have to do is sit down and say, like Willy Wonka, like, explain this to me. What the hell you do? What are you doing this for? You

Leonard Raskin  05:48

know, doing here that’s ridiculous.

Nestor Aparicio  05:50

Now, have you ever been to a crawfish boil

Leonard Raskin  05:53

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anyway, yeah, oh yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  05:55

in, like, a real one in Louisiana, Mississippi, absolutely okay,

Leonard Raskin  05:58

cracking I’m sucking

Nestor Aparicio  06:00

it. And have that go for you. I’ve never done that thing.

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Leonard Raskin  06:02

That’s fine. I mean, I’ve been to they have, they have steamed shrimp, and they have fish, and they have the crawfish potatoes,

Nestor Aparicio  06:10

right?

Leonard Raskin  06:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Corner the pub, it’s all in a vat. It looks like a VAT. It’s all boiled,

Nestor Aparicio  06:16

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and they’re real orange, like burnt orange, looking Crete little creatures. Yeah, yeah. Well, Todd schouler does this from blonde del Miller. Schouler, my buddy, former delegate shoulder he, um, he does this on Preakness day every year. He has a bit he invited me, but I’m going to the race this week with my wife, and then I’m going to participate in this Maryland party out of Las Vegas for a couple days with a bunch of folks that that I know through business, which is yeah, we do around here, is try to do business. Have you been to the Preakness in your life?

Leonard Raskin  06:46

Not a thing,

Nestor Aparicio  06:47

didn’t we? Yeah, we did. You grew up in Northwest Baltimore, like, yeah. Like, right.

Leonard Raskin  06:52

And, and for years friends. This was when I was in, I would say junior high, high school. Lots of neighborhood friends went, and they were the stoners and the drinkers, and they would go, you know, with the coolers and the whole infield thing. And I was just never into slopping. I never hung with the

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Nestor Aparicio  07:14

stoners in Dundalk. The stoners were a different thing in Dundalk than they were in Northwest Baltimore. Most of the stoners that I grew up with wind up with wind up going to, like jail and stuff.

Leonard Raskin  07:23

Well, had a few of those.

Nestor Aparicio  07:24

Yeah, but, but, like the drinkers that’s everybody in our neighborhood, drinking is like a badge of honor, where maybe I, one day, I’ll write about that. But, like, we piled into vehicle, if I told you the truth about the Preakness, it may cost me my sponsorship. Well, Bob Leffler would allow us to bring the get nasty van into the infield the night before.

Leonard Raskin  07:49

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Okay,

Nestor Aparicio  07:50

so what we would do is bring all the T shirts in the night before. We the coolers. We would meet right over here at the Popeyes at Perry Parkway.

Leonard Raskin  08:00

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  08:00

and we would get chicken, and we would have tickets, and we had about four busses and 200 tickets, and we had our own area in the infield. They gave us, they gave us one port a potty. And I would beg to everyone. I would say to everyone at the beginning of the day, seven in the morning, I’m meeting these, these drunks more than definitely drunks, and we’re all going to get sunburned as hell. This is 1994 5678, 30 years ago. Now, as hard as that is to believe, right? This is when the boobies were the thing, and 98 rock and like all that. So seven in the morning, I would say to everyone, look, folks, we have our own bathroom in a fenced in area. Use it as though your mother it just, we just had Mother’s Day. Let’s remember Mother’s Day, everybody. And we’re all young, so all of our mothers are still alive then. And was like, hey, remember, pretend your mother’s gonna use it next. And, of course,

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Leonard Raskin  08:54

no,

Nestor Aparicio  08:55

by 9:15am it looks like Calcutta. You know what I mean? Like, I mean, like, it’s crazy. I mean, it looks like downtown Medellin Look, when I was in Columbia a couple months. So, yeah, I don’t know what to say, but like, you missed out. I mean, not being a drunk or stoner or fried chicken eater or a beer drinker or I got a lot of memories. I don’t remember,

Leonard Raskin  09:21

50 Years of memories. No doubt that

Nestor Aparicio  09:23

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some I don’t remember, some I don’t remember,

Leonard Raskin  09:27

I told you I went to the Derby and was in the in the sky boxes, where the where they sit, you know, them and and was there did that before I’ve done the same thing at the Preakness. So my, my, one of my goals is, when we get back to the real Preakness, the Pimlico Preakness, that I will get some tickets, and I will find myself in a appropriate

Nestor Aparicio  09:54

hat. You can do a hat. She

Leonard Raskin  09:56

had the whole thing for the derby. She had the whole thing. Oh, that’s

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Nestor Aparicio  09:59

right, you. Went to the real derby.

Leonard Raskin  10:00

Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. We went to the derby.

Nestor Aparicio  10:02

What year was that? What year was

Leonard Raskin  10:04

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just four years ago, right after covid, right, right? 21 two.

Nestor Aparicio  10:08

And I can’t believe, did we do a segment on that?

Leonard Raskin  10:11

Oh, I don’t know.

Nestor Aparicio  10:12

I don’t feel like I remember talking about this. So I

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Leonard Raskin  10:16

shot the big, long shot. One,

Nestor Aparicio  10:17

okay,

Leonard Raskin  10:18

okay, big, big upset year,

Nestor Aparicio  10:21

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was it muddy or No? Was that? Was it nice or was it muddy?

Leonard Raskin  10:25

No, it was beautiful.

Nestor Aparicio  10:27

Maybe like eight or nine or 10 derbies, more than five, less than probably 10, but yeah, probably eight or nine or 10 like that, definitely because, I mean, I went several years before I knew my wife. My wife and I went to fair for together before I knew my wife,

Leonard Raskin  10:43

right?

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Nestor Aparicio  10:44

My girlfriend Robin, who I had Greg share on this week, and Greg, Greg’s Richard share son, Greg does mortgages. Now. Greg was on Bal for a number of years. I’m sure you remember Greg absolutely and Greg, Greg has been to like the last 27 Kentucky derbies. He’s a real horse guy, and as much as he he’ll talk Orioles and ravens, he hated John Harbaugh, so we got into it. We did an hour long segment today about his company and what he’s doing with his life and all that. But he’s such a great guy to have on this time of year, because he’s been to every Preakness, every Derby backstage. His dad, media passes, putting the suit on that, you know, like betting on the horses. He’s broadcast from there for years ago. So he’s seen it all. He’s seen Churchill grow up from where it was 30 years ago, and has seen the complete deterioration of everything here on a year by year by year, not even Dick Girardi has been going to all the races the last 15 years. So I had Greg on and I told him this story. It’s the craziest thing, and I don’t know. I miss telling you this because it’s a derby Preakness thing. And I told the story earlier. My girlfriend at the time, was Robin. Anybody that knew me in that period of my life knows Robin, and knew Robin, so we went to the Derby, and it was toward the end of our relationship, right? Like it we it was clearly we were not going to get married. I think by the next year, she was in a relationship. We wrote married other people a couple years later, so, but we had always thought that going to the derby. I’d always told her about going to the Derby, yeah, this was definitely oh two. This was the oh two derby. I can tell you what Derby it was, because I remember the Ravens had already won the Super Bowl and like all that. And we got on to Millionaires Row. We had media credentials. I I was nationally syndicated at the time. I think I may have done my show. There’s a big thing, right? Suits, ties, pictures, pretty hat, she’s beautiful. We’re both 30 years old, whatever, and we went up on the millionaire’s row. And I’m not kidding you, this is the only story I have, and this speaks to sexual assault, and this speaks to my friends at GBMC. And what we did walk a mile in their shoes and Bill Cosby and Epstein Island. Like all of that, we got roofied. We got roofied on Millionaires Row, both

Leonard Raskin  12:55

of us, both

Nestor Aparicio  12:56

of us at like late in the day. We didn’t get up there till like, four o’clock because before the race, and she and I woke up. I’m not kidding you. We woke up in a hot tub in our hotel room, and neither one of us has any recollection of the six hours before, other than these little snapshots, and it’s the only time my life, my wife said that she, in her youth, somebody put something in her drink one night. Luckily, she, you know, passed out, went home. Nothing awful happened. But clearly this is a thing like, you know, I mean, like, literally, this happened amongst really, really wealthy people,

Leonard Raskin  13:39

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sure.

Nestor Aparicio  13:40

And I saw some stuff happening at that particular party with a particular man that I’m sure was in on it. And it was very weirdly Epstein, now that I look back on it, 25 years later, where there were girls that did not look like hookers, they look like girls, right? And, you know, so, like, it was

Leonard Raskin  13:58

just at the Super Bowl, like, and again, dude, I never

Nestor Aparicio  14:02

told that story, but it’s maybe I told it on the air when I got back, because, like, at the time, it’s a guy I got rear feet. Oh, it’s cool, you know. But like, no, no, no. Wasn’t meant for me. It wasn’t meant for me. Yeah, right, that’s wild, yeah, yeah. But if all the places to have it happen to have it happen amongst like these really wealthy people in this exclusive place, you

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Leonard Raskin  14:23

know where it happens, right?

Nestor Aparicio  14:25

Maybe I

Leonard Raskin  14:26

say the largest, the largest child trafficking weekend, is Super Bowl weekend. You’d know that as well as anybody being there so many times. I mean, it’s, it’s for whatever reason these old rich men.

Nestor Aparicio  14:39

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Have you ever seen anything Leonard, have I seen a hooker or five at a Super Bowl? Maybe, but like, not, like, on the streets of like, let’s say, Medellin, where I was Honolulu, or Vegas, or places where you walk around and, like, there, it’s clearly there’s a presence in that. I’ve never felt that way to Super Bowl, and I’ve always arrived right about it before. Ever. Went to a Super Bowl that it was this thing, and I’ve had Natasha Goins on talking about human trafficking, and she was a victim, and she speaks out. And the Super Bowl is this thing, and I’ve never these big events are really something like you and I were doing bucket lists last week, and my bucket list are now on to Machu Picchu. And like you’ve been to Wimbledon, and I haven’t, and have kind of taken it off the bucket list where, like, the Australian Open would be more of a bucket list for me, because I would want to go to Melbourne, because I haven’t been to Melbourne right, beautiful place. So it but it is funny how,

Leonard Raskin  15:33

like, you talk about, go ahead, go ahead,

Nestor Aparicio  15:36

do a World Cup game or something while it’s here.

Leonard Raskin  15:38

Like, think so I’m not a fan. Doesn’t matter to me, but I am thinking, seriously, thinking of some Rio football.

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Nestor Aparicio  15:46

Oh, you’re gonna go.

Leonard Raskin  15:47

I’m thinking Rio football.

Nestor Aparicio  15:49

Let’s talk about this, because the schedules come this is great. So I’ve been to Rio. What

Leonard Raskin  15:57

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do you want to know I’ve not and do

Nestor Aparicio  15:59

you have any Jones to do it, or any or just, you’re

Leonard Raskin  16:03

I’m just thinking, hey, you know the ravens are going to be there. I wouldn’t just, it’s not a place that I’m like, hey, I want to go to Rio, but ravens are going to be there playing football. There’s trips going down. Not a Nestor trip, of course, but there’s other trips going down. The pricing seems reasonable.

Nestor Aparicio  16:24

It’s an inexpensive place to go. I just spent 15 days in South America. So yeah.

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Leonard Raskin  16:29

So

Nestor Aparicio  16:30

the reason I chose that, my wife chose Italy. I looked at Italy and said, Take your father. Don’t take

Leonard Raskin  16:35

money. It’s

Nestor Aparicio  16:36

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gonna cost that much money. Spend that with your dad and your sister and go do that thing, that’s, that’s that thing, and let them have their memory. You’re speaking to bucket list things and things that we do. You know, it’s like there are things at this point we get to choose what we do, right? Like, yeah, right.

Leonard Raskin  16:51

You know, we always talk about what, what money can do the American dream, and what it can do is it can give you choices. You don’t have to do something, but if you’d like to, you have some options. And I said, Okay, let’s look at what it’ll be to go down. And we the first, my first ever trip to London, now four times, was to watch the Ravens get destroyed by the Jags. So why not make my first trip to South America, opportunity to see the ravens, hopefully kick some cowboy butt. You know what the heck

Nestor Aparicio  17:28

I had a great experience in Brazil.

Leonard Raskin  17:30

Seems like a good time of year also.

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Nestor Aparicio  17:32

Well, it’s September, yeah, it’s, it’s going to be spring there, right,

Leonard Raskin  17:37

right, yeah. So it won’t be too crazy hot and it won’t be crazy cold, of course, and it’ll just be a lovely maybe make it a week.

Nestor Aparicio  17:46

So I would say to you, if you’re going to do something like that, and this is just my travel, because I’ve been I would not spend a week in Rio. I would see a few other places. I would not go that far in the world, and not go to Buenos Aires, and I would not go that far in the world. I loved Montevideo. That doesn’t mean you would love Montevideo, but the other place to go in that part of the world would be Patagonia, for the for the islands and for the fjords, but also, if you’re into wine, the Argentina the Mendoza region, which my clone was pushing me toward, Mendoza versus Machu Picchu, because Machu Picchu is physical. Machu Picchu is 11,000 feet. Machu Picchu like as a 57 year old healthy guy, my clone was even saying, like, Hey, slow it down. But if you’re going to that part of the world, having been to every place I’ve named other than Patagonia and and and Mendoza, I would tell you, if you’re going to Rio, if you can physically make it to Machu Picchu, go because you’re there, you’re in that part of the world. And I would go to Buenos Aires, I would tell you. And I’ve been to Sao Paulo, I’ve heard Recife is unbelievably beautiful. I’m thinking of chasing rush around. Rush is playing about five cities in Brazil in January, which is summer, so I’m thinking about hitting the beaches. Now they’re not playing Recife, which is up more toward the north to the equator, but I would tell you, like, a week Rios. Can I say this out loud as a guy that just got back from Cartagena and from Santiago Rios dodgy dog, you know? Like, yeah, like running a trip to Rio for me, I would be really worried about who’s on my trip and where they’re going and their passport. So here’s my Brazil story. Jen and I were so afraid or intimidated to go to Rio that we weren’t going to go. It was 2006 on New Year’s Eve, we were at the bar at Tommy’s Mexican restaurant with my dear friend Julio Bermejo in San Francisco. And I said to Julio, we really want to go to this Rolling Stones concert on the beach. Much in Rio, but we’re kind of intimidated by Rio and crime and gringo and not speaking Portuguese and like, right? And Julio is like, I’ll go with you. I know people there, so we’re like, so we went with Julio. And there’s a magic story about Julio that’s a longer one that we lost each other. We kiss goodbye in Rio. He said he was thinking of meeting us in Sao Paulo for the YouTube concert. He we said goodbye. There were we had no text at its 2006

Leonard Raskin  20:30

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right? Sure.

Nestor Aparicio  20:31

We had international phones that didn’t work in like hotel room. Here’s my number, here’s my name.

Leonard Raskin  20:37

He

Nestor Aparicio  20:37

checked into our hotel in San Sao Paulo wound up at the concert. We told the concierge at the hotel we would meet him at the nurses station, at a stadium that seats 160,000 people, yeah, the stadium in national and Sao Paulo and we met. We ran into him in Sao Paulo in 160,000 people. But we went down to Rio and pub cabana beach. We saw the stones because he went with us. We stayed in a very nice hotel on the beach. We did it up, right? But, dude, it, it’s

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Leonard Raskin  21:09

sketchy, huh?

Nestor Aparicio  21:10

I would just Google it, you know, it’s a great place for three days. I would, I would find four to seven other days to do other parts of Brazil, I would, you know, I wouldn’t do the Amazon with shots and like, I don’t be you don’t want to be a tourist anywhere where Piranhas are. You don’t want to be a

Leonard Raskin  21:30

tourist.

Nestor Aparicio  21:30

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Watch it on HD. Get it on National Geographic. But Machu Picchu five, five thumbs up, and I only have two thumbs and I’m missing a pointer finger, I would say Buenos Aires is one of those places that like, I just think it’s one of the great cities of the world, but, but I would say, in that part of the world, don’t do a week in Rio. And I would if I ran a trip, if I said to Jen, hey, we can make a lot of money. Let’s run Ravens fans Down to Rio, because we’re pretty good at running trips. Leonard, you know, I would say, Man, people running wild down there with Raven on, like, not being aware that they’re completely standing out and being targeted as, like, gringo America, like, not a good thing. I mean, I so my Brazil experience was we booked it all, and we booked into Sao Paulo, and we booked into Buenos Aires with like on American Airlines. 20 years, 20 years ago, we did this. And we were seeing the stones in Rio and the stones in Buenos Aires, and we saw you two in Sao Paulo. It all happened the same week. There’s a picture of the leader of Brazil on his balcony in Sao Paulo with Mick and Bono at the same time, because they were, you know, they were at the Four Seasons big promotion. Dude, there was SWAT team 24/7, around their four seasons and so and Buenos Aires, like it’s a serious operation. They played on the beach for free for 2 million people. So when you go down with the ravens and have no doubt that you’re going, by the way, I got a really good Brazilian barbecue joint to send you to Copacabana, so it’s legendary. We went there. And you should go there because it’s great, and you should go to Rio because it’s great. You should do go. But like, do a couple of other things, dude. You know what? I mean, I’m glad we’re talking about this out loud so I can give other people advice. I mean, Medellin is lovely. I would tell you that. You know, if you’re looking for another place to in and out, that’s more north and south, stop in medellins to go to Aruba. Do you know do something you know on the long that line on the way down or back. But I don’t think you need seven days in Rio. That’s my opinion.

Leonard Raskin  23:45

There we go.

Nestor Aparicio  23:46

That’s my opinion. I hear. So when we went no six, we booked it all.

Leonard Raskin  23:49

Yep.

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Nestor Aparicio  23:50

And about a week before Jane got a wild hair about the internet and visas, because we were thinking, you might need shots, because Brazil, because

Leonard Raskin  23:59

of

Nestor Aparicio  24:00

Amazon, whatever.

Leonard Raskin  24:01

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Yeah, and

Nestor Aparicio  24:01

back in the day, dude, we were not going to be allowed on the plane. We did not have Brazilian visas,

Leonard Raskin  24:07

jeez. So the passport,

Nestor Aparicio  24:10

we literally, I don’t know what we would have done if we lived in Topeka, right, literally drove to the to the consulate

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Leonard Raskin  24:18

right

Nestor Aparicio  24:19

in, like, not in downtown DC, like in a neighborhood,

Leonard Raskin  24:23

right?

Nestor Aparicio  24:23

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And we had to go to this big house, in this Brazilian house, we had to literally give them our passports and walk away and come back two days later to have it all, like fudged up,

Leonard Raskin  24:35

right?

Nestor Aparicio  24:36

So when I booked this South American trip, like three months ago, the first thing I asked my clone is, dude, do I need a visa?

Leonard Raskin  24:43

Right? What

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Nestor Aparicio  24:44

do I need to do to make this happen? So I don’t know what the law is in Brazil, but that so if, if you’re asking tour operator, who’s taken over 10,000 ravens, fans are all over the place, yeah, you know, like, including you to London. Like, I would say.

Leonard Raskin  25:00

Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  25:01

just check into Brazil. It’s a little funky. That’s all. That’s all I’m saying.

Leonard Raskin  25:04

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I’m with you. I’m with

Nestor Aparicio  25:05

you.

Leonard Raskin  25:06

But

Nestor Aparicio  25:06

go,

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Leonard Raskin  25:08

yeah. Well, like I said, it’s not a place. I would just say I’m going there. But the fact that the boys are playing, the boys, the birds and the boys, I said, You know what might do is the end of September, we got nothing happening. The boys are gonna be in St Louis, off to university again.

Nestor Aparicio  25:24

Ain’t no football in St Louis. I don’t know if you know or

Leonard Raskin  25:27

not, Unbelievable, huh?

Nestor Aparicio  25:28

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I had Viviano on on Friday,

Leonard Raskin  25:30

there’s hockey and baseball. Hockey and baseball.

Nestor Aparicio  25:34

Well, I had Viviano, and he’s a St Louis guy, so, you know, we talked, oh yeah, he’s families. The whole

Leonard Raskin  25:41

had no idea, Mr.

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Nestor Aparicio  25:42

St Louis, like, no idea. I busted out. You know how I play my goofy little games with my my belt buckles. I wore this belt buckle for him to Planet Fitness in Timonium the other day. And he’s like, I had that belt buckle when I was a kid. And I’m like, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I mean, so what’s your so you’re gonna do this trip? Good for you. I am I stand in applause that Leonard Raskin is going to go to Brazil with an

Leonard Raskin  26:09

S. I think, yeah, I think there’s, there’s just no doubt that it’s a good time of year again, not on the big list, but with the Ravens play in. There be a reason to go and see that this other part of America, this other America, this other part of the world, and why not? You know, take a couple few days and head down and do a thing. So

Nestor Aparicio  26:30

I highly encourage that behavior. How about that? But I hope I’ve just talked you into going to Machu Picchu, go into Buenos Aires, or going to Medellin and checking out some other places, because, like, it would be unfortunate to travel to that destination and not stack on two or three other especially for a guy like you that just did Italy. You know,

Leonard Raskin  26:53

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I don’t even know how far it is. How long is the flight? What’s it all

Nestor Aparicio  26:56

about? It’s probably a 10, probably, yeah, I

Leonard Raskin  27:00

didn’t realize it was all that. Wow, that’s, that’s a that’s a hall too.

Nestor Aparicio  27:04

It’s in the other hemisphere. Leonard,

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Leonard Raskin  27:07

dude, that’s down

Nestor Aparicio  27:08

there. Leonard Raskin is here. Tell me what you do manage money so people can do things like have me tell silly stories about Mick Jagger shaking his ass on the beach. And, by the way, I’m just thinking before you got all here is like Lena Horne singing the girl from eat, you know. So like we ate, we ate lunch on EPA NEMA beach. And then you can go to then, then you can do like the total Barry Manilow at the Coppa COPPA cabana. So you want to stay on the Copacabana when you’re there. The best spot north of Havana here, that’s

Leonard Raskin  27:41

what they say, but

Nestor Aparicio  27:42

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it’s actually south

Leonard Raskin  27:43

and south, right? I think it’s tell

Nestor Aparicio  27:44

everybody about the money you manage so I can let you get back to managing.

Leonard Raskin  27:47

That’s it we handle. We handle money. We handle making sure that you save properly, that you have enough liquidity to make good decisions and not go into debt when you’re prepared to do things or need things once you save it. The question is, make sure you protect it. We make sure beneficiaries are lined up, that everything about your money is in order. So if something happens, nothing tragic happens to your money, we make sure, once you’re protected, that you can grow it, that is correctly investing it understanding the science of investing. There is science to investing. It’s not just throw a dart, pick a stock and hope so. We make sure your money is invested properly, then we help you enjoy it. We talk about ways to put your money in a position to enjoy your wealth and then ultimately, nest. None of us are getting out of here alive, so we got to make sure that when you pass it on, it goes to who you want, how you want, efficiently at that point in time. And that’s our world is making sure those things happen so that you can do the things you want while you’re alive. Not worry about your money, but let your money, work for you and enjoy the things that it can provide.

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Nestor Aparicio  29:03

There you go. There’s my wife on Copacabana beach there in 2006 at at, I was just looking at my Facebook here. There’s my wife at the Rio show with Charlie Watts and all the Brazilian stuff jamming on the beach in Rio. There we are, overlooking. What the heck is that? It’s called Sugar Loaf, Sugar Loaf Mountain, I think it’s

Leonard Raskin  29:27

called.

Nestor Aparicio  29:27

And there we are, up top, as you can see, that was about 40 pounds ago, so, yeah, 20 years and 40 pounds a

Leonard Raskin  29:34

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day or so.

Nestor Aparicio  29:34

Leonard Raskin is here. He manages money. He is Raskin globe. Hey, man, the whole schedule be out by the time we get together next week. We

Leonard Raskin  29:42

will, we

Nestor Aparicio  29:42

will follow the American dream all the way to Copacabana.

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Leonard Raskin  29:46

Amen. I’m

Nestor Aparicio  29:47

gonna sing Barry Manilow over to now that I know you’re going with me, we’re gonna have a

Leonard Raskin  29:50

hard time

Nestor Aparicio  29:51

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