Every time the Baltimore Orioles hit a home run this season, the Maryland Lottery will be giving away cash to lucky winners of the Home Run Riches grand prize, which can also score you the suite life if you hit it big! John Martin of Maryland Lottery discusses spring promotions and a 4-million winner with Nestor as we move toward Opening Day in the Charm City.
Maryland Lottery Spring Promotions and Winners
- Nestor Aparicio discusses recent crab cake experiences and thanks various establishments for their hospitality.
- Nestor mentions a lucky winner at Costas who won $20 courtesy of the Maryland Lottery’s Harlem Globetrotter scratch-offs.
- Nestor and John Martin discuss the excitement around the Baltimore Orioles and the NFL, particularly the Browns and Giants.
- John Martin shares breaking news about a $500 million Mega Millions jackpot won in Illinois and a $4 million tier two winner in Silver Spring.
Breaking News and Tier Two Winner
- John Martin reveals that a $4 million winner in Silver Spring had a four-times multiplier on their ticket.
- Nestor and John discuss the legal requirements for claiming the prize, including the 182-day period to come forward.
- John mentions the upcoming baseball season and directs listeners to the Maryland Lottery website for more information on promotions.
- Nestor and John joke about marketing slogans for the Maryland Lottery, including “Can I hit it big?” and “Wanna hit it big?”
Home Run Riches and Baseball Promotions
- John Martin explains the Home Run Riches promotion, where winners can receive $500 for each Orioles home run and $5,000 for a grand slam.
- John introduces a new VIP experience for monthly winners, including $2,000 for being selected and additional prizes for home runs and grand slams.
- Nestor and John discuss the excitement of being at the ballpark during a home run and the potential for winning money.
- John highlights the shared experience of winning the VIP package, including dining and viewing experiences at the ballpark.
Problem Gambling Awareness Month
- John Martin emphasizes the importance of Problem Gambling Awareness Month and the need for education and support.
- John identifies vulnerable populations, including young adults, military personnel, and senior citizens, who may be more susceptible to problem gambling.
- Nestor shares his personal experiences with gambling and the influence of sports commercials on young people.
- John discusses the role of mobile and online betting in making gambling more accessible and the need for responsible gambling practices.
Maryland Treasures Scratch-Off Tickets
- John Martin introduces the Maryland Treasures scratch-off tickets, featuring art scenes by four Maryland artists.
- The tickets will be available starting March 20, with each ticket costing $2.
- John mentions the various art scenes on the tickets, including the Bay Bridge, Ocean City Boardwalk, and a crab.
- Nestor and John discuss the excitement around the new scratch-off tickets and the potential for winning big.
Upcoming Events and Promotions
- John Martin lists upcoming events where the Maryland Lottery will be present, including the Celtic Canter 5K, Annapolis Running Festival, and Opening Day at Camden Yards.
- Nestor and John discuss the importance of responsible gambling and the resources available for those struggling with addiction.
- John shares a light-hearted joke about an art thief’s van running out of gas, referencing famous artists.
- Nestor and John wrap up the conversation, with Nestor expressing excitement for the upcoming baseball season and the Maryland crab cake tour.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Maryland Lottery, spring promotions, $4 million winner, Harlem Globetrotters, Home Run Riches, Problem Gambling Awareness Month, Maryland Treasures, scratch off tickets, Orioles VIP experience, multi match app, vulnerable populations, gambling awareness, Maryland crab cakes, baseball season, marketing strategy.
SPEAKERS
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John Martin, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 to Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. We have been out eating crab cakes. I even got a crab cake over missoney’s on Tuesday. They don’t make crab cakes for everybody over there. It was delicious. Big appreciation to everybody at missones, at Costa, Sinn and Dundalk. Also last week at Gertrude, with my cousin John shields and that amazing show with Dan Rodricks. We had Lucky, lucky winners. John Martin, I will tell you, people came running up behind me at Costas. Woman was waving a crisp $20 bill at me that she had won, courtesy the Maryland lottery in the Harlem Globetrotter scratch offs. And I know they’ve been dribbling with the red, white and blue basketball. And you want to do home run riches, I’m sure. But the football news this week’s been, it’s, it’s kept me on my toes. The whole Max draws new thing. You know, there’s football news. Well, not if you’re a Browns fan, but if you’re a Giants fan, stealing all the Ravens players or the Ravens. It’s been crazy. And I know you got home run riches out in front of this. But I know you’re a sports fan. This is, which is why we watch the games, right?
John Martin 01:06
You know, this is you can’t, you can’t make this stuff up, right? You just nobody. Nobody saw this coming.
Nestor Aparicio 01:13
Yeah, I was on a yoga mat when it happened on Tuesday night, and my wife said, You’re not, you’re gonna have to work. I’m like, what so? And, you know, Luke and I are trying to make heads or tails. But one thing we don’t thing we have to worry about making heads or tails. We’re really going to play baseball like that’s really going to happen in two weeks. You know, a little update on home run riches. Get everybody ready for all this, because it is important that Doug gets your name in there and you he gives it to Kevin Brown, and Kevin Brown reads it on the broadcast. And then hopefully, with all these big boppers we got with Tyler Ward, the Tyler O’Neill’s, the peanut lonzos, Gunner, WBC, all of that. I’m thinking you’re gonna give a lot of money away
8John Martin 01:50
this year. You know what? I’m gonna preempt all that. We will get to that. I’m gonna preempt all that with breaking news. We got breaking news. Breaking news. I hear Baba
Nestor Aparicio 01:59
O’Reilly, yeah. Mega
John Martin 02:02
Millions jackpot, which was well north of $500 million was was won the other night and by somebody here. Well, no, someone in Illinois. Now they may have been closer here, traveling through Illinois, but the it was a Illinois lottery winning ticket, but we have a number of other prizes if you don’t win that, you know, you may win for having significant numbers, but not all of them. And we have one lucky what we call a tier two winner, which is the next level down from the big jackpot winner, shopping at the giant in silver spring. They won a million dollars. But they were fortunate enough to have a four times multiplier on their ticket. They won $4 million that’s a lot of cabbage. That’s a good tier. That’s it. That’s the second tier. That’s, I
Nestor Aparicio 02:53
8know, top shelf, you know, but I mean, I’m that’s good tier, 4 million.
John Martin 02:57
And I’m sure that, I’m sure they know who they are. We don’t know who they are yet, because it’s just happened. I’m sure they’re doing the right thing, which is getting their affairs in order, signing the back of that ticket, securing it. They have 182 days from the drawing date to come in and see my smiling face with one of those big, oversized checks with their name on it.
Nestor Aparicio 03:15
Why not 183 or 181 I’m just
John Martin 03:17
asking, just the most legal. It’s a legal thing. Illegal thing. Yeah. Yeah, all right, but yeah, that’s a lot of fun, is it? But not as much fun as 162 days of baseball. And if you go to our website at MD lottery.com and you click on our promotions page, you will see our traditional rite of passage in the spring. Yeah, I hit it big.
8Nestor Aparicio 03:42
Can I hit? Hit it big? Trying to give you some slogans here, I’m working on the marketing here.
John Martin 03:47
Oh, I see. I said it was a marketing thing. I missed that entirely. All right, it’s like a curve ball down and away. I do
Nestor Aparicio 03:53
around here last 35 years. That’s, all right, wow, you can hit it big with the Maryland lottery. Is that good? And we’re working on it. Yeah, I’m trying to get into my baseball. Let’s Play two. You know, I’m trying to, it’s, it’s usually used to be April, but March, I’m working
John Martin 04:05
8into this, right? Yeah, what did that happen? I must have been asleep at the switch. March, I remember when
Nestor Aparicio 04:10
it was cold going to games. It snowed in games in April, and now they start playing tomorrow. I don’t know, it’s 70 degrees, we’re cutting this. So, I mean, I am ready for baseball. I mean, I’m like, I’m, I’m excited as anybody can be
John Martin 04:21
for this. I’ve said it before, and my my my lineage is well known. Being a native Clevelander, winter in Cleveland ends one week after the home opener. So I’ll just let you know that I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 04:33
seen guys running around in snowflakes in Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, yeah, we lost Jake Gibbons in right field here 20 years ago, like he’s still okay. But I was worried for a little while. I was at that game watching baseball, and it snows goofy. It really is. It’s weird.
8John Martin 04:46
You know what’s fun though, watching baseball in the new Orioles VIP suite, the VIP experience. Can you make it snow desserts in there for me after Oh yeah, you can have snow cones in there. Sure. I like her. Yeah. Yeah. But if. Go to MD lottery.com, in addition to our home run riches, walk off winnings normal Second Chance contest, where, if you’re selected contestant of the game for each of the 162 games, you win automatically, $500 $500 for Orioles home run hit during the game that you are the contestant of the game, and five grand for a grand slam. But we’ve just moved that up a notch. If you are selected as the winner of the monthly one game a month we designated as our VIP experience, you win $2,000 for being selected for that game. You of course get the $500 for the home runs, the $5,000 for the Grand Slam, but you have a dining viewing experience second to none. No. Hold on. So when you
Nestor Aparicio 05:43
win, you go to the ballpark on the night when the home runs, you will cash in. Or is that? No, am I wrong? What do you mean cash? I’m trying to understand. So like, if you’re your night, your night where you’re the winner, where, if they hit eight home runs, you get to do that at the stadium, if you win the big banana, no, oh
06:01
yeah, you’re there. You’re there at the ballpark.
Nestor Aparicio 06:04
8See this? I didn’t process. This is all new to me. Okay, yeah, so I’m okay, that’s good deal. I know that you were giving an experience away. Like, when you give tickets for 20 years away with the ravens, it’s not experiential to like, if they win the Super Bowl, you win money. This is one of those deals where, like, you show up the ballpark, you get the whole day, and then when the game starts, Alonso can make it rain for you.
John Martin 06:30
Basically, wear your wear your gear, bring your glove.
Nestor Aparicio 06:36
That’s extra hype. I mean, it’s hard enough to know my buddy chief steak, Dave won last year from White Marsh, and he was a contestant. I think they hit one home run that day, maybe two, but it wasn’t like a big I wanted to hit a bunch of them, but like this would have been like he would have been at the ballpark in the sweep when it was all see. Now, okay, the marketing guy needs to understand the whole promotion. Now I get Okay, that’s nerve wracking. So they’re going to be there with other people watching
John Martin 07:04
it thrilling, yep, yep. And we’re gonna, and we’re gonna have a camera right in their face the whole time.
8Nestor Aparicio 07:09
Every pitch can be a home run. I like that, yep, yep.
John Martin 07:12
And, you know, goodness gracious, they get OS all over the bases. Man, that really gets exciting, doesn’t it? But this
Nestor Aparicio 07:19
thing’s been going on for many, many years. And there have been many, many winners, 162 every year, where they stay at home, maybe they have their friends over, invite the neighbors and say, maybe I win five grand the night, if we can get some. You know. Ryan mount gas, this is in okay. I like it. Bring three of I bless this promotion. Good job. John Martin, good job. Whoever came up with this, I
John Martin 07:39
8like it. All right. It was my idea. You win the tickets for the game. You and three friends. So it’s not just you. You get a shared experience. I’d have to find three friends. I know you’ve got dozens of friends, but I’d be hard pressed. But I’m not eligible. I am not eligible to win, but yeah, you go to the ballpark, you get there early, you watch the visiting team, BP on the field, you get a little behind the scenes tour. You have a wonderfully curated menu by the chef. On game day, each and every day will be different. And when
Nestor Aparicio 08:14
is the bar open? Can I have a drink? If they hit a home run for me? Yes. You know this is getting better and better. I like that on your tab.
John Martin 08:22
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. But we asked one of those lucky winners each and every month of the season. That means April, May, June, July, August, September, six lucky winners of the VIP experience this year. First time we’re doing it, we think it’s going to stick. We like it. We like it a lot. So stay tuned for more.
Nestor Aparicio 08:39
All right. Well, we’ll be down at Camden Yards. Luke will be there on opening day. We’re opening day, versus any breaking news. You get that first in the wnst tech service. My man, John Martin, is here. He’s executive director of all things Maryland lottery and gaming. And of course, they sponsor our Maryland crab cakes, where we’ve been out on the road giving away a lot of money, right? And I had winners, and you love winner stories, so you’re looking for this $4 million person that wasn’t in Illinois, but was here and hit it big the other night. What else we got going ahead Is anybody come in and, oh, we’ve given you a good picture.
8John Martin 09:10
Go to MD lottery.com, and let’s check out our winter stories, and you will see a smiling Michael Byrne holding a check for $500,000
Nestor Aparicio 09:21
so Worcester County cashier, I see this right from the website, yes, yes. This is a bingo scratch, a bingo bonus, bonus bingo.
John Martin 09:30
Excuse me, yeah, yeah, he’s a guy, and a lot of our players enjoy those, those those games take a little time, whether they’re crossword games or bingo games. You know, they they invest in an entertainment experience. So they take their time scratching it. They they blow off the schmutz. They scratch it some more. Blow off some more schmutz. You know, they keep going through the process there. But yes, Michael won a first. He thought he won $1,000 prize, and then he started to see more numbers. So he said, Wait a minute. It. Wait a minute, let’s says it’ll be bigger than that, $500,000 but he’s not leaving his job. He’s going to go back to work the next day. He enjoys that. He may do a little more golfing than he did before, which is, which is very understandable.
Nestor Aparicio 10:14
8Weather’s getting better for that sort of thing, especially when you
John Martin 10:17
have that. So we wish him well on that. We also have some winter stories. This one I like, and I hope you will too. Otherwise, I’m going to waste the next minute and
Nestor Aparicio 10:26
a half here. Where’s this person from? I need to know that first,
John Martin 10:30
this person is
8Nestor Aparicio 10:33
Lanham. I know we’re Lanham. Okay, yeah,
John Martin 10:36
a retired federal employee loves doing the daily drug games, and he has a plan. I love when people have a plan, and His plan is when the number speaks to him. From wherever it comes from, it speaks to him. He buys it three times. You think, why would he do that? I will read on and let you know why he does that. He found a pick five number circling somewhere in the cosmos, 8523, 5230, that was his feel of good combo for that day. Pick five, top prize, $50,000 but of course, I told you, he bought three tickets. He has $150,000 payday on that. He used his app to check that, saw that it was that he had won from day before. Felt good about that, thought about it, and went back to sleep. I like a guy like that. He’s got a plan one. I’m gonna catch some more shut eye here. Good.
Nestor Aparicio 11:31
Well, there’s a whole thing you’re all doing this month about, like, having a plan and Gambling Awareness and knowing. I said, Who, what, where, why? You know what you’re betting on. Know how you’re betting, and you always are talking about having a plan, because that’s, um, listen, I can be trite and see that’s the winning plan, but I’ve been a guy that went to the casino, lost $1 more than I wanted to on an occasion, which keeps me at bay. But I don’t have a disease. I’m not involved in that. But for people who are struggling, and people, you know, who are struggling, and people who can’t wait for the basketball game to start next week, or can’t wait for the game to start the bet on it. This is a month where we just at least want to have our eyes open, right?
John Martin 12:11
8You know, it’s called Problem Gambling Awareness Month, and that awareness is a big part of it, because we shine a light on it here in the month of March. Not so much for the people themselves who may have addictive behaviors, but for the rest of the people the community around them to be supportive. And it oftentimes gets overlooked. But there are a number of what we call on our side here, vulnerable populations. And what does that mean? Well, that means there are certain people that, based on just the way they are their lot in life, they may be more vulnerable or susceptible to problem gambling. Let me give you an example. You can go to our web example. You can go to our website, at MD lottery.com, especially looking at our Problem Gambling Awareness Month information. And first and foremost in that vulnerable population are young adults. And as much as we would not like to admit it, there are some people who at an early age, are exposed to gambling, whether it’s a family thing or for whatever reason, but statistics overwhelmingly show that the earlier and the younger people start, the more likely they are apt to have problem gambling behaviors. And so we want to make sure that education is a big deal, and while it sometimes gets a tough road to hoe. We need to educate children in middle school, high school. That’s not too soon to start.
Nestor Aparicio 13:29
Well, look, sports is such an entryway now, and commercials are there, and big puppies got the hose. And I always talk about that in baseball season. And I don’t want to say I’m offended by it’s Come on fast and strong and heavy in in every way you can watch sports that it’s there for you. And I don’t know how my dad would have portrayed that to me. And my dad was a guy that brought a pool card home on a, you know, a Tuesday, and had we had fun for $1 or two. My dad was not a gambler. My dad never went to the racetrack. He just was. My dad stood in soup lines, you know, Herbert Hoover, 1929, all that stuff, depression. So I grew up differently in that way. So I approached it differently. But in the neighborhood, plenty of people were gambling. And I mean, I’m from the East Side. I mean, they invented the bookmaker salad from a guy in Dundalk in Highland town. But I would say that I wouldn’t know how to speak to young people about that, because it’s not like maybe at one point the liquor store was over here and they walked past it or didn’t see it. If you’re watching the ball game, you’re seeing it. No matter who you are you really are,
John Martin 14:32
yeah, yeah. And while it’s sports certainly is a key part of that. But you know some some things that really you don’t maybe even think about, and that is people in rural communities or our military personnel all over the globe. You know, with the immediacy that mobile online betting provides, and you’ve got people unfortunately now in harm’s way all over the planet, sometimes all they really know is. That comfort of what they can get to on their phone, and unfortunately, again, for a small part of the population that are vulnerable, the addiction starts with them. While they’re there, they’re offshore, they’re they’re in a foreign land, they’ve got some downtime. They connect, whether it’s through sports or some other online gaming, and they come back stateside, and they find out that, that it maybe has more of a hold on them than than they realize. And that can be a very vulnerable population, senior citizens. I mean, you look at and we come from, sometimes joke about it, you know, do a casino, and you see, you know, people on their walkers being pushed around with their oxygen tanks. But, but unfortunately, again, those are vulnerable populations and and we really need to do a better job educating ourselves first that these, these these pockets are out of people are out there, and education awareness support one 800 gambler, if someone you know is in a has a problem or maybe in over their head, that resource is there for you as well to get the information you need to help them sort through that addiction.
Nestor Aparicio 16:06
John Martin is here. He is our executive director of all things, Marilyn, lottery and gaming, with words of wisdom here as we march on through March, and we’re throwing multi match app, because it popped up on MBA lottery when I was there. I know, you know, we talked about big numbers and what makes people gamble little, million and a half, having a million and a half a million a half, you get me on vacation next week. But this is a game we don’t talk about a whole lot. It’s a State game.
8John Martin 16:32
It is, it is, it is unique to the state of Maryland, I think maybe one or two other places that have kind of taken a variation on it, but, but it is, it is a lot of fun, and the jackpot does kind of creep up on you. And in this case, it is, I believe, $1.5 million as we speak. So it is a, it’s kind of a unique game. It’s kind of a, what we call a lotto style game, meaning there are a number of numbers that pop around for $2 you play 18 numbers three lines of six. You get to pick your first line of six, or you can have the computer pick that, but it will automatically generate a second and third line. And then you get a chance to play all 18 numbers against the numbers drawn for cash prizes. So if you win six in a row on one line, that’s the top prize. That’s, in this case, $1.5 million but there are a number of other cash prizes, ranging in terms of $2 all the way up to the 1.5 million at various step levels, if you match some of those 18 numbers in combination. So it’s a lot of fun. It’s a different game. Try it for a couple bucks, see if you like it, and if you do, play responsibly and continue to play multi match.
Nestor Aparicio 17:47
Alright? So I was at a cost this the other night, and with my wife, and there are people playing horses and playing Kino, playing games, watching things, and I got to thinking like we have the new scratch off coming, because I had these Harlem Globetrotters, and they’re coming to town this month, over at UMBC, and red, white and blue. And I like all that curly ne we’ve talked about that. Still gonna find that metal arc lemon picture. But the next batch I’m going to have once we get into baseball season, because we don’t have scratch offs for home run riches, no schmutz. You just get that. But you had four winners. I have not seen the art yet. I missed it. It’s not up. You haven’t done you’re like, gonna break this out next week, because these tickets are gonna happen. But that, that was a fun promotion, and I know we had an unveiling as well. I call it cost us, but the racetrack, but it’s got Costas over top the racetrack now. And I, you know, I missed out on that, but I’ve been into that promotion because my wife is an artist, and she saw it and was measuring it all up. So that sounds like something fun, because my wife’s in a family full of artists.
John Martin 18:48
You know what? Remember last time we talked, you had put your predictions into a mayonnaise yard. You still have them there?
Nestor Aparicio 18:53
8Yes, I did. Yeah, they are Key Bridge horses, Maryland flag and farm motif, that’s what. And I didn’t put crap. I didn’t break crab out, but I’m figuring crab. I screwed that up. Horse and farm. I should have put in one thing and gone, yeah, but again,
John Martin 19:09
we and we last weekend at the Home and Garden Show with the Timonium fairgrounds, we had the four artists who provided their their award winning art for the Maryland treasures ticket, which will launch on Friday, March 20. So the week leading up to that, starting on Monday March 16, you go to MD lottery.com and check out The Art Online. Also, interviews we have with each of the four artists will be available starting on Monday the 16th. They were thrilled. And why wouldn’t they be? They were very proud of their their Maryland roots, and they expressed it in beautiful, beautiful visuals on on a scratch off ticket. And I think people are going to enjoy it’ll be a $2 ticket. It’s called Maryland treasures for art scenes. So if you wanted to get one of each, it’ll cost you eight bucks. 62468, they will come off on consecutive runs, if you will, off of a scratch, off book. When you go to your retailer, also, I
Nestor Aparicio 20:08
get one book, it’s gonna have all four in there. Yeah, yeah. These came the same way. There’s a gold and a red, yeah.
John Martin 20:18
So we think people enjoy it. It’s a way to kind of nostalgic. But yes, the four are, there are horses, there is the Bay Bridge, there is the Ocean City Boardwalk. I think there’s a crab somewhere in the background. Okay, there’s a fourth one. I can’t remember now.
8Nestor Aparicio 20:36
Well, you know what? That’s good. Leave me hanging. That’s good. I like that because I’m thinking, like, let’s, by the way, I don’t know if you know who you’re talking to here, but I did the show last week. I took art appreciation in 10th grade once first semester with Joyce Bucci. So I know a little bit about, I mean, I mean, a little bit about art, very little.
John Martin 20:55
Was this the kind of you were in there with the with the football team.
Nestor Aparicio 20:58
I gotta be, I gotta be. No, it’s thrown out of typing class because I couldn’t type it. I was missing a finger. It, I was missing a finger. We’ve talked about this, so the pictures I’m thinking art is like, there’s all sorts of styles and like, I’m looking to see what kind of colors, what kind of lines. I learned all this last week, because I talked to Anne manux Brown, I learned about the stroking the lines and Matisse and Amy sherald and punctualism. And, to God, I even had a, um, I had a really, really bad art joke that I busted out last week. And if I can find it, I have it right here. You ready? I’m just just joke. It’s a Dad It’s a dad joke. Okay, it’s, it’s so bad that I’m doing it twice on the radio, because I did it for Anne Mannix. And let me see I can get a laugh out of you, because you have a different kind of sense of humor. Okay, so you, are you an art person? I mean, do you let me see? So Mark Steiner gave me this joke. Why did the mark Steiner is a legendary voice in radio for 50 years. Here, he’s alleged, why did the art thief’s van run out of gas as he drove away from the museum. Now, keep in mind, I told this joke to a museum lady at the museum, at Gertrude, at the BMA, which is free and lovely, and you should go, why did the art thief’s van run out of gas as he drove away from the museum?
John Martin 22:18
8John, I don’t know. Nestor, why did the art thieves van run out of gas as he drove away from the museum?
Nestor Aparicio 22:24
Well, let me tell you, John, because he had no Monet to buy Degas to make the van. Gogh, okay, I get that Van Gogh, all right, yeah, it’s, yeah, back to the Bay Bridge and back to the board wall. John Martin’s here. He’s executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming. And I will have no more dad jokes, but I will have the give me the name of the promotion again. Should I say it right? The artistic Maryland expression, art. What Maryland treasures. Maryland treasures. Okay, I knew you would break it down into one word, you’re good, like that. You know, did I give everything in here? I mean, we’ve got 4 million bucks. We’re on the lookout for somebody in silver spring. We got home run riches underway. We want everybody to be aware of what’s going on around here. And by all means, I can’t wait to get my hands on these, these Maryland treasures tickets. I will
John Martin 23:21
leave you with this because we did have Monet to get the gas to make our van go see what I did there. Alright, I like that event. Time, it is time to dust off our van and go traveling around the state of Maryland. You’re going to find us at the Celtic canter 5k in Westminster this weekend, the Annapolis running festival on March 21 I will not be running. I will tell you that right now, but I will be
Nestor Aparicio 23:47
at the beer well, they’re there when the Van Gogh ran out of gas, they’re there to run. I’m sorry,
8John Martin 23:52
yes, opening day. We talked before March 26 opening day. We’re always there at opening day, at Arroyo park, at camping yards, and then the beer, bourbon and barbecue Festival at the promoting fairgrounds. At the end of the month, I will definitely be there. Stop by see me, say hello and hopefully win big.
Nestor Aparicio 24:10
Alright, during my respite, your homework is to figure out how much money you’re going to have to give away for home run riches. And I’m going to get these Maryland treasures tickets, and I’m going to have a good time. We’re going to have some crab cakes together. John Martin is he’s executive director of all things Maryland, lottery gaming. I wanna get one more shout out for Gambling Awareness and everybody know Problem Gambling Awareness Month. You can learn more at MD lottery.com and John, I will say this, I had some young ladies dining at missoney’s before I was there, and I came in, and they were real friendly to me, and they had my book, and so they took a picture, and whatever, and I gave them lottery tickets. I’m setting my stuff up to do my show, and they start screaming in the corner, hey, you got to come back. They won three bucks. So I made their afternoon, you know? So it was, we had great day at Mercedes. It is fun giving tickets away. It’s fun to win. Please do it responsibly, everybody out there, and John, I will see you opening day. You got an over under on the Orioles? Yeah, we play off bound this year in Baltimore. What do you think?
John Martin 25:08
Wow. I think it’s going to be an interesting season.
Nestor Aparicio 25:12
That’s what I’m hoping. I you know what? Thank you. An interesting season is all. I really we can’t win them all, but I just want to have some fun this year, and that’s why we play. He is John Martin. He’s Executive Director all things Maryland, lottery gaming. I’m gonna be getting the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. We are W N, S T am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.
