With the stench and smoke of the Canadian fires changing the color of the sun to a bright creamy orange last week, we knew we needed to check in with Zach Dermer of The Comfort Guys to discuss indoor air quality as well as outdoor Orioles baseball. Filtering through the orangy sky and the purple haze of summer with great advice for your home.
Nestor Aparicio and Zach Dermer discussed air quality and the Orioles’ recent performance. Nestor shared his experience with poor air quality during a trip to Richmond, emphasizing the importance of changing air filters regularly. Zach advised changing filters every 60 days and noted that inexpensive filters are sufficient. They also talked about the Orioles’ seven-game winning streak and the team’s relevance, especially with potential trades. Nestor reminisced about his love for the Phillies and the impact of the Phillies’ mascot, the Fanatic, on his childhood. They concluded with plans for the Maryland crab cake tour and Nestor’s upcoming visit to Pizza John’s.
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Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Personal Anecdotes
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the Maryland crab cake tour, mentioning a visit to Pizza John’s and his plans to prove the crab cake’s quality.
- Nestor shares a personal anecdote about his son Luke and the Orioles’ performance during his beach trip.
- Nestor talks about the air quality issues he faced during a trip to Richmond and invites Zach Dermer to discuss air quality and HVAC systems.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of changing air filters regularly to maintain good indoor air quality.
Air Quality and HVAC Maintenance
- Zach Dermer explains that indoor air quality is often worse than outdoor air quality and emphasizes the importance of changing air filters regularly.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the frequency of changing air filters, with Zach suggesting every 60 days and Nestor mentioning his wife changes them four times a year.
- Zach offers to help Nestor with HVAC and plumbing issues, including showing him where the main water shut-off valve is located.
- Nestor shares a humorous story about his fear of touching the breaker box in his house.
Orioles’ Performance and Fan Engagement
- Nestor and Zach discuss the Orioles’ recent performance, noting a seven-game winning streak and the importance of winning a few more games to feel relevant again.
- Nestor expresses frustration with the Orioles’ management and ownership, mentioning the team’s disengagement with fans and the need for better fan engagement.
- Nestor shares his experiences at the All-Star Game in Philadelphia, highlighting the fan engagement and the importance of mascots like the Phillies’ Fanatic.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the Orioles’ spending on players like Kyle Bradish and the potential for future spending on players like Trevor Rogers.
Personal Reflections and Baseball Memories
- Nestor shares personal memories of his love for the Phillies, including a trip to Philadelphia in 1981 with his father and a Richie Ashburn hat.
- Nestor recounts his experiences at the All-Star Game, including meeting the Phillies’ Fanatic and the emotional impact of seeing the Fanatic.
- Nestor discusses the importance of baseball in bringing people together and the impact of mascots on fan engagement.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the future of baseball in Baltimore and the potential for the Orioles to become more relevant and engaging for fans.
Final Thoughts and Future Plans
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of maintaining HVAC systems and changing air filters regularly to ensure good indoor air quality.
- Nestor shares his plans for the Maryland crab cake tour and his excitement about meeting listeners and fans at various locations.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the potential for future collaborations and the importance of supporting local businesses and community events.
- Nestor expresses his gratitude to Zach for his support and sponsorship, and they both look forward to future interactions and events.
Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We’re Baltimore positive, positively into the summer months around here, and gonna be doing the Maryland crab cake tour. Getting it back on the road on Friday. I’m gonna get a crab cake at Pizza John’s because some people think they don’t have one, and I’m gonna prove to they do, and I prove to you it’s pretty damn good. But people go for the pizza. They stay for the manicotti. Sometimes they stay for a milkshake. I had my first milkshake there. We’ll be there on Friday. John Allen, my rock star buddy from Stonehorses and SR 71 and of course Child’s Play will be my my kimosabi, my conscietti, my drummer and singer. That’ll be a Pizza John’s on Friday. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. I will have the Ravens scratch offs. I’m holding up the Maryland treasures because I do want to go across this bridge to get to this boardwalk. Luke made me all jelly, jelly going last week to the beach, and he went away for a week, and the Orioles didn’t lose. I don’t know if it was smoggy in Wildwood. I have to ask him down there where the beach was. The beach looked orange, like sort of like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers bucko guy, who’s sort of like a creamsicle orange in the sky as I drove west toward Owings Mills last Wednesday night, and I was going through Owings Mills, and I thought of Farn and Dermer, our the comfort guys were our sponsors here, and I I opened the window like a Wednesday morning last week after the All Star game, I got home. I was in Richmond, and I’m like, my God, this is terrible. And I invited Zach Dermer on, and he had things going on because people were calling him because it was 103 degrees out and their HVAC’s blowing up. And and it’s exactly what you told me when I met you last winter. You’re like, dude, there are weeks where you don’t like. I got the windows open right now. It’s like, oh, I don’t Zach, who Fernand and Dart Darmer, Darmer, comfort. I’m comfortable. I’m good, you know. And then there’s the 98 degrees or the thunderstorm that takes you out on a humid day. I had a snake at my door a couple weeks ago. I don’t want to talk about it, but I’m telling you, man, this the comfort is everything, and the air quality last week got me on the phone with you, saying, “All right, dude, do I have the right filter in my joint here? Because I smell my house smelled like a campfire Thursday afternoon.
Zach Dermer 2:12
Oh, it’s unbelievable, and yeah, it’s kind of a known thing that indoor air quality is usually, you know, worse than what it is outside. Kind of that flip last week.
Nestor Aparicio 2:23
Oh, so right, we go outside for fresh air, right? Right, fresh air, right? Exactly.
8Zach Dermer 2:28
And I know, you know, I’m not a big window opener. Yeah, I have allergies, and I just I like my indoor air. But I know a lot of people open windows all the time. And last week, I mean, it was you know from Thursday through kind of like the end of Saturday. It was it was unbelievable. So being inside, air quality is key, and yeah, the big thing that and we’ve talked about it a bunch of times. Changing your air filter, you can’t imagine how many people call and we ask them when’s the last time you changed that filter. I say, I don’t know. Yeah, where’s my filter?
Nestor Aparicio 3:00
I trust you. All right, this is Zach Dermer. He’s our sponsor. He’s comfort guy, and I pimp for you. Don’t do what the oil companies do and tell me I got to change my oil every 500 miles or something. Like what? What do I really need to do? No, I mean with the filter because they’re not that expensive, right? I mean, you you’re you you could change it once a month if you and it wouldn’t cost you fortune, right? Yeah,
Zach Dermer 3:22
no, it’s it’s an inexpensive thing that really is going to keep your system running as designed, keep your air quality. Can I get my
Nestor Aparicio 3:28
wife right now and you talk to her about this? Because yeah,
Zach Dermer 3:30
right. She
Nestor Aparicio 3:30
is the Schneider, and you don’t even know what the hell that reference means. No, but she wears the tool belt in this relationship.
Zach Dermer 3:36
Hey, somebody somebody’s got to do it, but yeah, I mean, I would say I’ve been called a penny. She’s what what I’ve been
8Nestor Aparicio 3:41
referred to. So like she is, she’s the farmer in the relationship for sure. So she changes this filter. Is this easy to do, or is it like I swear to God, Fenny? I don’t even know how to do it.
Zach Dermer 3:53
Yeah, no, it’s hey, get Sean. Yeah, exactly. Get Sean, but oh my gosh, tell my brother I got
Nestor Aparicio 3:59
some good reggae over here. I’m telling you. Yeah. Oh, he would
Zach Dermer 4:01
love it. I know. I’m right. You know. Go at home. Right. Yep. Yeah. But I mean, changing that air filter every 60 days somehow so you can get away with 90 days. Some filters are meant to be changed just like once a year.
Nestor Aparicio 4:11
I got to do it at least four times a year.
Zach Dermer 4:15
You you definitely should. And you have a standard one inch filter, which you know 90% of people. I’m gonna yell
Nestor Aparicio 4:20
at my. I’m gonna offset one second. Hold on here. Do you know we need to change our air filters four times a year? Maybe six, maybe eight.
8Speaker 1 4:31
I’m telling you. Need
Nestor Aparicio 4:32
in the unit. Yeah, she said.
Zach Dermer 4:34
Yep.
Nestor Aparicio 4:34
Are we doing that? She has been. All right. Thank you.
Zach Dermer 4:39
Good girl. All
Nestor Aparicio 4:40
right.
Zach Dermer 4:41
Way to go, Jen. Yeah.
8Nestor Aparicio 4:42
Way to go, Jen. All right. There you go. All right. That’s good.
Zach Dermer 4:47
Yeah. No, that’s good. And yeah, besides that, I mean, see, I just I
Nestor Aparicio 4:50
checked. I just checked my filters. Did you see that?
Zach Dermer 4:54
Yeah. Right. That’s pretty good. I didn’t call you.
Nestor Aparicio 4:56
I didn’t call 410-367-7777 On a busy day, and I get put on hold, and you’re sweating, and like, and you’re like, did you change your filters? Yep. Oh, it’s the most simple thing.
Zach Dermer 5:08
Oh yeah, that’s the first thing. That, and then check your breakers. But I mean, the filter, it’ll actually stop the uniform. And then I say,
Nestor Aparicio 5:14
what is a breaker?
8Zach Dermer 5:15
Yeah, exactly. And then you walk downstairs, and you you point, and but yeah, I mean that that’s super simple. It’s can you Facetime like if I’m a real idiot? Oh yeah, say we we do that yeah fairly often. Yeah, customers say, can we Facetime you? I’m like sure you can Facetime you know so
Nestor Aparicio 5:30
you can call me what Adam Jones called me then
Zach Dermer 5:32
yeah
Nestor Aparicio 5:33
mr. Aparicio like I’m an old fart
Zach Dermer 5:35
yep and you say
Nestor Aparicio 5:36
do you know where the little temperature thermometer thing is and I’m like, yeah, I do know how to turn that on and off. The little digital thing, yes. And then you say, do you know your breaker boxes? And I’m like, I think is that the big gray thing on the wall that I’m scared to death to touch in any way? Because I own a radio station, I’m afraid of zapping myself and all of humanity that a 5000 watts in Towson could do, blowing up the neighborhood, you know. So I’m afraid of all of that stuff. So you would literally, I could FaceTime and you’d say number four says HVAC with that one, Mister App. I was gonna say Mister Jones. That’s a better song, but Mister App, you would treat me. Yeah, we do.
Zach Dermer 6:13
Yeah, we do that all the time. Sometimes with like you’ve had plumbing issues, obviously at the house with leaks. We’ll walk you through a valve, where to find the valve to shut things off, and that’s pretty important if it’s
8Nestor Aparicio 6:24
flooding. Oh, because my wife had that issue at six a.m. on April Fool’s Day, and that’s not that’s not like my lock and forest thing. That was no joke. That was a real thing.
Zach Dermer 6:32
Yeah, you want to know where your main water shut off is? You know, things emergencies happen.
Nestor Aparicio 6:37
God, you’re you’re.
Zach Dermer 6:38
So I feel oh, we’ll tell you know just this is like
Nestor Aparicio 6:41
a couple weeks ago. I I had the gal that runs Accelerant on. She asked me I was a member and she told me to give their mission and I couldn’t and I failed the quiz. I I would fail the quiz right now on where the water is. I maybe not like the the nah
Zach Dermer 6:59
yeah we’ll we’ll put you to the test at some point, but yeah, I mean that’s important, and you know, you know when a fire
Nestor Aparicio 7:04
department knocks on the door and they ask like, “Do you have this? Do you have that? They should at least walk you around the house and make sure you have your ish together.
8Zach Dermer 7:12
Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 7:12
about those things.
Zach Dermer 7:13
It’ll save you a ton of aggravation at some point. See,
Nestor Aparicio 7:16
I knew this relationship was going to benefit me in ways I didn’t even know. You know. Also, our listeners here, Zach Dermer is here. He is with Farnan and Dermer. They are the comfort guys. I’m wearing. By the way, this gear you got for me. I said to Luke, I’m like, and they’re my sponsor and all. But I, I like the orange shirt. The yellow shirt’s fun. You gave me this one. Yeah. And I looked. Now, well, I. I mean, I looked at it and it. I called it to Luke. I said, “I sort of feel like a mechanic, and it feels out of place. Well, not when I shave, and Luke’s like, “Dude, it’s a bowling shirt, and I’m like,
Zach Dermer 7:51
“That’s true. Yeah, yeah, it’s not the most beautiful shirt, but hey, it’s gets the job done. Do I wear like a
Nestor Aparicio 7:59
dude that abides?
Zach Dermer 8:01
Yeah,
8Nestor Aparicio 8:01
you’re gonna get me to get Danny Wiseman on the show now. I’m gonna have to get Danny on because when I see when I back up, I really do look like I’m about to to go three games with Marshall Holman on a Saturday afternoon on ABC. You don’t get that reference either. Zach Armer’s a young guy. He never saw Chris Shenkel. You dude, you missed that, you know. Mark Roth, Google these names: Dick, Dick Webber, Pete Weber, Danny Wiseman. Danny Wiseman and I went to high school together. He’s in the PBA Professional Polling Associate Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri.
Zach Dermer 8:35
Yeah, the only goal polling I know is sure. I’m giving you up to weave those three. Yeah, hey, I need to do some research, so yeah, not much. You gave me an
Nestor Aparicio 8:44
auto mechanic shirt. I look like Schneider a little bit in this year. I got to tell you. So I’m wearing it. It’s really comfortable though. It kind of breathes nice. I mean, but I look funky like a mon. I look out of place.
Zach Dermer 8:56
Hey, like I look at
Nestor Aparicio 8:57
my hands, and we all know that I’m incapable of this, which is why I have my wife and you
Zach Dermer 9:02
exactly
Nestor Aparicio 9:03
and auto mechanics and other they they do HVAC. You can give them a call 410-367-7777 I want to talk sports with you anyway. I know that’s what you want to do too. Seven game winning streak, pitchings together. I’m back from the All Star game. I mean, listen, if you and Raskin and a couple of sponsors cobble together a couple nickels. I’ll send Luke’s ass back to Walwood right now. If we lose, I’ll send him back, and then we can win some more games. But it has been interesting, and even more so, we sit up, and it doesn’t feel like they’re playing great. It doesn’t feel like they’re playing great competition, but it feels like they’re relevant again, and the trade deadline’s relevant, and it feels like to some degree, if they can win a couple of games this week and just shove to 500 or a game above, it’ll feel like all the sins are washed away, right?
8Zach Dermer 9:51
Oh, absolutely. I think we’ll find quite a bit out when we head to Boston this evening. They’re obviously the hottest team in baseball, but we’re yeah we’re right behind. Yeah, I mean we’re we’re we’re right there. So I mean, I I don’t know if our pitching can keep up. Obviously, we have a the Basayo and Adley injuries pending. We don’t know the extent of those, but man, if you keep pitching the way Brandon Young did yesterday, the way Kyle Bradish has, Trevor. I mean, these guys are pitching. They
Nestor Aparicio 10:20
gave Bradish the money too, right? So, look, I’m not a fan of these guys because go watch the Adley Ruchman interview last week and tell me that that isn’t just weird, just in a human sense. One minute he’s talking about serving Jesus Christ, the next minute he’s looking at me like I ask a dumb question and I need to make it better. Like I’m like, stop, you know, like just trying to be a nice guy here to all of you. Yeah, and I’m and that that’s on the air, off the air. I’ve been nothing but nice to these people, and because what’s the point? Yeah, why not? Yeah, what’s the point? Yeah, like whatever. You know, I I’ll stand on that higher ground, but them becoming relevant again at this trade deadline. All we’ve talked about is fan disengagement, the All Star Game, one player trade deadline the other way, fire the general manager. Owners are weird, absentee. They’re sending season ticket books out to people and offending everyone who has ever supported them, and not just me doing the 20th anniversary of Free the Birds, but like I did Free the Birds because the last group was so screwed up, not because I’m a jerk. So like in a general sense, I feel like they always get another op. And Angelo’s had 30 years of opportunities to get people back, change ways, mend fences, get a good manager, get good players, get better on the field, do all of these things. And I spent three days in Philly where it’s really relevant. Baseball, like people were really engaged with it in a way that warms my heart in how much they love Bryce Harper. That’s beautiful, yeah. And and I was with Jimmy Rollins on an elevator to see the love that he gets, and I was with Doug Glanville. You know these these Philadelphia iconic guys that are just buzzing around. Not I didn’t run into Schmidt or Carlton. I didn’t. If I’d known they were there, I probably would have stalked a little more. I would have spent more time on the field just to get up on Mike Schmidt. I got up on Barry Bonds and didn’t even get up on him. But like, there’s a little fanboy in me when I get a press pass on a day that if I ran into something that meant a lot to me, and what meant a lot to me was Ken Rosenthal and Tim Kirchen and Buster Olney and Tom Verducci, guys that I have had long relationships with that I got to see. But seeing the players and seeing the sport and seeing fans’ relationship to the sport, and seeing every jersey represented on Tuesday night when I’m out getting a cheesesteak on the concourse as well, and running into the doctor that saved my wife’s life. I mean, baseball brings people together. I mean, the Burkdall family. I ran into them. I’ve known Micah 42 years. We now added it up, and his nephew was an intern with me. He’s becoming a rabbi in New York. He friended me on Facebook this morning. I mean, like baseball brings people together in a way that you and me and your parents and our family-like I don’t know your family well because they don’t come on the show the way you do. We’d be closer if we ran into each other at the ballpark six times a year or felt compelled that I come over to your house, or you come over to mine, or we watch baseball in the way that we saw soccer brings countries and families and people together. Baseball was that young man in my era. We, you know, like I want baseball to be that, but like it ain’t my job to do that. No, my job to go to Adley Ruchman and ask him three questions, and he acts like a fool and makes me a fool. And I put it out and say, I don’t know what this is, but I don’t want to do it again. I’m flying to Chicago to do it again next year. On your be, you you know, you’re my sponsor. You want to throw me a grand or two more and put me on a plane, send me out there to wear your gear and sweat my balls off and get nothing. I’m just too old for that.
Nestor Aparicio 14:00
I mean, come on, man. It’s not worth it. Like I’m trying to help you sell your baseball team and get people in the stadium. I’ve told Griggs that. I’ve told Rovac that. I’ve told Fine. I’ve told all of them. Like I don’t, I don’t get it. But this is the time where they should be inviting you, me, and everybody else back to the ballpark, not pissing everybody off that’s already going. And I, I can’t get through that. But the stadium’s empty, and they’re relevant again. They’re relevant again.
Zach Dermer 14:26
Somewhat. I mean, a week ago they weren’t so. I mean, would you want to go to the game
Nestor Aparicio 14:30
this weekend? The Braves are in town. Are we going? Are we not?
Zach Dermer 14:33
Uh, probably not. But I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 14:35
okay, right.
8Zach Dermer 14:36
If they win three in Boston, I mean, that’s uh, that would be unbelievable. It’s my 23rd
Nestor Aparicio 14:41
wedding anniversary this weekend, and you know we did for our when we got married, we took everybody to the ballpark 23 years ago. We bought 100 tickets for everyone who traveled to our wedding from elsewhere, mainly New Hampshire. The Red Sox were in town that weekend. We kind of did that on purpose. So people could see Candid Yads.
Zach Dermer 15:02
Our
Nestor Aparicio 15:02
whole family saw Candid Yads. We we took them as our guests because that’s how important baseball was to us, man.
Zach Dermer 15:08
You know
Nestor Aparicio 15:08
what I mean? Like baseball’s part of my life, and I keep knocking on the door, and they keep defecating and urinating my face.
Zach Dermer 15:14
Yeah, the the timing of everything that they do at the top it just is a little odd. But here’s the
8Nestor Aparicio 15:19
point. The point is, they gave Bradish $90 million over the weekend, and I’m about to say something good good about them. They’re spending money.
Zach Dermer 15:26
No, that’s that’s a good thing, and I feel like 90 million bucks for a guy of his caliber. I know he’s coming off Tommy John, and they’re feel like they got a
Nestor Aparicio 15:32
fair deal, and he got a fair deal. Oh
Zach Dermer 15:33
yeah, I feel like it’s a great deal, and hopefully it pans out well, and maybe they spend some money on Trevor Rogers, and
Speaker 2 15:41
you know,
Zach Dermer 15:42
just I can cheer for Kyle
Nestor Aparicio 15:43
Bradish.
8Zach Dermer 15:44
Yeah, I would cheer for.
Nestor Aparicio 15:46
I, I love the thought of him getting the ball opening day next year, and thinking they can win 94 games next year, even if they don’t win 87 this year. You know what I mean? Like I’m not. I’m here for the duration. I’ll be here when Katie Griggs is gone.
Zach Dermer 15:58
Oh, Angelos is gone, and
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
I’m still here.
Zach Dermer 16:00
Yeah, some things. Yeah, we’re here for the long haul. Yeah, exactly. I don’t think you’re going anywhere. So yeah, I mean, it’s you know, hopefully at least they’re spending. Andy Redsham didn’t scare me away with his tough guy
Nestor Aparicio 16:13
tactics. Like I, like I’m, dude, I’m, you know, I’m here and I’ll be here on Monday if they win all weekend. I just, I’d like to see the city be here for them. You know what I mean. And your family who wants to be there and wants to buy tickets and and and honestly would be just fine if they poop the bed and they lose seven in a row. And next Wednesday the Ravens come on and they sell off. You know, whenever you know Ruchman gets traded two weeks from now, like that’s still possible too.
Zach Dermer 16:40
Oh yeah,
8Nestor Aparicio 16:41
you know. But I know this. Your family has no problem getting into. It’ll be Lamar, Lamar, Lamar, Lamar, Lamar, and Minter, Minter, Minter, Minter. We know you Minter came in to get an HVAC. You wouldn’t might even know if he shaves the right way. You wouldn’t even know what he looks like. So like
Zach Dermer 16:53
the normal, normal. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 16:54
we’re going to start to learn more about Jesse Minter, right? And we’re okay with that. And I was in Philly where they have four sports and Penn and and basketball and Villanova. You know they have a million things going on. They have soccer, like they have sports there. Here we can transition out of we can take our orange skins off and put the purple on, but that’s not the way.
Zach Dermer 17:15
No, I mean ideally my
Nestor Aparicio 17:16
logo looks right. My logo’s orange and purple year round, right?
Zach Dermer 17:19
Exactly. Baseball season can go into September, October. It makes for a nice, you know, highly energetic Baltimore when you have two clubs that are, you know, doing well. If
Nestor Aparicio 17:30
you look at my logo right now, it’s it, it’s more orange. See more, more orange.
8Zach Dermer 17:34
Yeah, there you go.
Nestor Aparicio 17:36
Yeah, yeah.
Zach Dermer 17:37
So hopefully some more of that. I mean, hey, we’ve been playing well, so got to be optimistic about that, and we’ll see what happens. We face two lefties up in Boston. That’s a little bit concerning because we can’t hit lefties. Kobe
Nestor Aparicio 17:50
Mayo’s gonna play third base. The hot core. If
Zach Dermer 17:53
he if he hits some bombs, then that that’s okay. I mean, he’ll be all right. And
Nestor Aparicio 17:58
you got Orioles fever. I like it. I like I like that you’re talking in the present tense. Zach Dermer is here. He will talk in the present tense to you if you have HVAC needs. He would much rather you call like today when things are nice outside and your windows are open to come and show you where your filters are so you can change them. Maybe sell you some or click on a little spot on the internet where you can buy some. Show you a a dry space. Sean will come over. Works better if you play some reggae. I gotta, I gotta take him to my my jerk place for some. Like that’s what we’re gonna do next time he comes over. I’m gonna work some Jamaican food into the not a red stripe, not on hours, but you know.
Zach Dermer 18:36
I got you. Yeah,
8Nestor Aparicio 18:37
yeah, yeah. Maybe we get some of that cold champagne that I like so much out. So, but then you keep your filters dry, and then once a month you change them, right?
Zach Dermer 18:45
Yeah. I mean, let’s say yeah, more is better than less. And one of the other things we didn’t talk about, a lot of you go to Home Depot, it can be overwhelming picking out air filters. Yeah, you got MERV this, Merv that. Buy the cheapest air filter you can find, replace it often, maybe more often than you need to, and you’re going to be just just fine. You don’t need fancy expensive filters.
Nestor Aparicio 19:08
Yeah, and just replace it a lot. Yeah,
Zach Dermer 19:09
you don’t need fancy filters. I mean, it just inexpensive filters change frequently. That’ll that’ll give you a long run with the system. And
Nestor Aparicio 19:19
my wife’s going to love to hear that. Buy the cheap ones, honey. Yeah.
Zach Dermer 19:22
Oh, you don’t need. Yeah. There’s no reason to spend 20 bucks on a cheap disposable. What did I
Nestor Aparicio 19:26
call myself in the middle of this show? I called myself a bougie biach because I’m the guy that prefers the better ice cream, the better coffee. You know. There’s a time. I am a guy that like I’m not premium in the you know Don Rovac sort of you know Sashi Brown kind of way, but I am bougie, you know. I mean about certain things, so I would be the guy to always think good, better, best with air filter. I would probably get the best. So if if they were $7 a piece, $9 a piece, $11 a piece, and it’s once a month. I would buy the $11 ones if they were 1020, and 50. I would buy the 20. Sure. Is that you know? I’m from North Dakota. I just you know, I don’t shop top shelf, but I do like to drink there. Um. So you know, it is what it is. But you’re just saying buy the yeah buy the Acme brand. Okay.
8Zach Dermer 20:17
Yeah. Just basic, just simple. Simple is good. And all right. But that’s all you need, really. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 20:24
working on a blog. It’s it’s entitled “I Love Use Philly, because you know I had a hard time in Philly. You been to Philly lately, or no?
Zach Dermer 20:33
I have not. I can’t remember the last time I’ve been to Philly. It’s probably been at least 10 years. How were your
Nestor Aparicio 20:39
kids?
Zach Dermer 20:40
Ah, five, two, and like eight months old. Okay, so
Nestor Aparicio 20:43
there’s going to be like six, eight years from now. You’re going to take these kids up to Philly for an Oriole Phillies thing, and that you’re going to see the your kids need to see the fanatic. Is what I. Yeah, this is the point I’m getting to. Is that when the fanatic came out on the field? This is since it’s you and me, and you don’t have a lot of calls today, okay? 410-367-7777 The comfort guy, Zach Dermer is my guest here. You know my Philly thing when I before you were born and I was a kid that I loved the Phillies as a kid, the 83 World Series. You can Google all this. Okay. My real father, my Aparicio father, in 1981 came back to America, surprised me, showed up at my door. True story. I’ve never told this story in the air. He brought his one of his best friends from Venezuela, who was very baseball connected. His name was Gonzalo Contreras, and he knew Manny Trio and Bo Diaz, well, who were playing on the Phillies at the time, and he took my dad to Philadelphia when I was a little boy. And in 1981, I went to Philadelphia. I was 12 years old in the summer of 1981 before the strike, and Kevin Eck went with me, and we went to Philadelphia. And this is Rocky’s the biggest movie on Earth at the time, and the spectrum’s there. It’s summer. It’s 120 degrees, like it was last week. And my dad, my real father, my Aparicio father, who left my life, and I only saw him one other time in my life after that, twice in my life after that, 1981, went to Philadelphia and went into the locker room and came out with autographs for me, and I sat in the upper deck with Kevin Eck for a Chicago Cubs game before Ryan Sandberg, and we saw Nolan Ryan pitch for the Houston Astros at the Vet in 1981, and the Philly fanatic came out on that fake green grass, kind of like the orange, the orange of the sun looked fake last week. The green grass of the vet looked fake to me as a 12-year-old boy, and all I knew was Memorial Stadium. And my dad, my my pop who raised me, took me to Memorial Stadium 30, 40 times this summer. Like I went to a lot of Oriole Games as a kid. That’s what I did, but going to the vet, seeing National League baseball, seeing Steve Carlton and Pete Rose and Mike Schmidt, and like I fell in love with the Phillies in the summer of ’81. Then there was a strike, ’82, ’83. I fell in love with Mike Schmidt. All of it, right? I listened to the games on WCAU and Philly, Harry Callis and Richie Ashburn, Ashburn Alley. So, 1981, I fell in love with the Phillies. I fell in love with the Fnatic. So, the World Series happened there in ’83. You can go see all my pictures; they’re up online. But I love the Fnatic and I love the Phillies. I went to the Orioles games in ’83 with a Philly shirt and an Orioles hat every game, all five games. So I loved the Phillies at that time in my life, and I had a Richie Ashburn Phillies hat that I still have. That’s worth a couple 100 bucks on the internet. That I was a giveaway in ’81. It was a giveaway at the game I went to in ’81. So this is I had a Phillies, and then Kurt Schilling married my best friend. So in ’93, I was wearing Phillies gear in the upper deck when Carter hit the home run in in Toronto, I was wearing a Phillies that I bought in the ’93 All Star Game. I was wearing a Phillies warm up, red warm up in the upper deck in in Toronto, and Carter hit the home run. You were born ’93,
Zach Dermer 24:14
’91.
8Nestor Aparicio 24:15
All right, you don’t remember that, but so I go to Philly here, and you know I’ve been to five Phillies games in that stadium, maybe the last, maybe three or four. Saw the Orioles play there once on a bus trip. Saw the Mets play. Took my kid up for a playoff game against the Rockies because I thought the Orioles were never going to make the playoffs. I wanted to take my kid in 2004. I took my kid to. He was like 19. All shaggy haired. I wore my 60 Lescano Bubble P 1983 jersey that I still own. Six to Lescano was my favorite player. So nonetheless, he played on the 83 Phillies, but he was a brewer really. So I went to Philly, went to workout day, and did the Rutschman thing. It was hot as hell. Watch part of the home run derby. You can’t watch more than 38 home runs. I get a little sick of it. My neck gets jerked on. And I went back on Tuesday night, and the thing that struck me both days was when the Fnatic comes out on on his little bike,
Zach Dermer 25:16
because
Nestor Aparicio 25:16
I’m a kid again and I’m 13 again, and I love the Fnatic. The Fnatic came to my section when I did an Oriole Phillies thing. Was a big deal. It’s a big deal for me. I have a picture of me and the Fnatic and the Orioles. What baseball’s all about before the Oriole Bird assaulted me. Before I didn’t get paid by Greg Bader and the Orioles and John Angelos when they screwed me in a $30,000 deal, which is all true. So this was the season before when I was selling 2000 tickets, and they were happy with me. And I have a picture of the Oriole Bird. That’s why I’m dancing. I have a picture of me and the Oriole Bird and the Philly Fanatic in the upper deck with Wild Bill. Some of the greatest. This is 20-three years ago now. Yeah. So I love the Philly Fanatic, man. And when the Fnatic came out, and I said this to Luke because Luke had his. He’s so in love with his nieces, he’s so worn out because he was chasing a five-year-old and a two-year-old all the time. Oh, it’s
Zach Dermer 26:04
exhausting at the beach.
Nestor Aparicio 26:05
Exhausting. Trying to like help his sister out and be like Uncle Luke for seven straight days.
Zach Dermer 26:11
It
Nestor Aparicio 26:12
cost him the Boston trip. He didn’t want to go to Boston. Like literally, he canceled the he canceled the Boston trip to Fenway Park. They canceled my credential. I was going to go see Toto and Christopher Cross at the Shell in Boston on Tuesday. I swear to God. And so he canceled the ball stroke because his kids wore him out. I’m telling you, take your kids to see the Philly fanatic. That’s that’s my moral of the story. Is that’s how much I love baseball. But there’s things that I love about baseball and things I hate about baseball in the modern era. And one thing that I just love is seeing the Philly Fnatic come out and all of the bobbleheads to the Fnatic and the hats and the shirts, the Fnatic is eternal to me. The Fnatic’s the greatest mascot, and I’ve had the San Diego Chicken on the air with many times. I know Ted, like the Philly Fnatic’s the greatest mascot ever, and that’s
8Zach Dermer 26:54
yeah. Hopefully, they don’t change it. So
Nestor Aparicio 26:56
yeah, and your kids should at least experience that.
Zach Dermer 26:59
Yeah, it’ll be cool to see, and it’s it’s again, it’s baseball’s a kid’s game, so I hope growing that and playing it. But
Nestor Aparicio 27:05
and you live long enough to sponsor me long enough and to be a partner in what we do here, and I hope all of our listeners call you when they need HVAC or advice or anything in that space, plumbing as well. But I hope like I know you 10 years from now, and I’m alive. I’m damn, I’ll be 60-eight young people.
Zach Dermer 27:22
Yeah, young young 60. Their kids would
Nestor Aparicio 27:24
then be like what 1512, and 10, right?
Zach Dermer 27:29
Something like that.
8Nestor Aparicio 27:30
I run into. Well, how about this, dude? Let’s go. Let’s go here. The All Star Game’s coming here in 30. So I hope I run into you at the All Star workout where you have at least one of your children who’s old enough to go or two, whatever it would be. Oh, Trey
Zach Dermer 27:43
would love that. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 27:44
yeah, yeah. Like right, right. Of course, right. Like the the way I ran into kids. So I ran into the man who saved my wife’s life on Tuesday accidentally. Super
Zach Dermer 27:53
cool. Yeah, it’s unbelievable.
Nestor Aparicio 27:54
Like it was just took my breath away. Now I’m sobbing at the stadium at the All Star game. I had two Phillies fans come over to me, older people with French fries. They’re like, “Are you okay? And they said it in the Philly act. You need some water. I’m like, “No, I need some water ice. You know. And I’m like, “I’m fine. Just something happened. You know, like then they were like, “You sure? And I’m like, “I’m. And I’m, I was an effing mess.
Zach Dermer 28:19
That’s an emotional, unexpected.
Nestor Aparicio 28:21
But he’s got his boy with him, and I met his boy. Like your dad saved my wife’s life.
8Zach Dermer 28:25
That’s super cool.
Nestor Aparicio 28:26
Woo! You know, he does that all the time. You know, and Keith’s all modest and like you know whatever. But but baseball, dude, baseball brings people together. No, it’s awesome. Yeah, fantastic. So hey, hopefully they send this segment to Katie Griggs and tell her I should get my media pass back, but tell her I don’t want to meet her ball players if they’re going to be dicks.
Zach Dermer 28:46
Oh yeah, it’s it’s a disgrace. It’s it’s yeah it’s a joke that yeah, but
Nestor Aparicio 28:51
yeah
Zach Dermer 28:51
yeah
Nestor Aparicio 28:51
yeah.
Zach Dermer 28:52
You know that
8Nestor Aparicio 28:52
Zach Dermer’s there 410 367777 is the way to reach him. American stand Amer American standard gear. I’m Chris. You look like a
Zach Dermer 29:03
PGA Tour golfer with all the you know logos on your shirt.
Nestor Aparicio 29:08
Do I have another? Yeah, something else over here. So I don’t know. Who knows? I went to the I went to the All Star game. It’s half Japanese. It was awesome. He and Zach Dermer. They do it in American in Owings Mills, but they do it all around the belt. We just give them a call. HVAC and get those filters changed. Hey, Luke’s at the ballpark this weekend. I’m at Pizza John’s in Essex, or as my mom would say, Essex on Friday. We are saying goodbye to an icon, and Zach wasn’t even born when the original poop plant. We use the S word because we’re from Dundalk. The original tomato can, the Purina can that sat in the Mercatil parking lot. We are going to go over and have a beer and some cheer at Crafty Crab at 5 p.m. on Friday at East Point Mall, and then we’re going to go to our real sponsor location, Acosta’s, to continue to party down at Sparrow’s Point. We’re starting to party. We’re going from Essex. We’re celebrating East Point Mall. We’re going from Essex. To East Point Mall, through Dundalk to Sparrow’s Point, past my kid’s house, trying to pick him up on the way to celebrate what used to be and some of the smells that still are in Dundalk, and we’re gonna have some fun on Friday and celebrate our lives and our friendship and what meet me in the Mid-Atlanter Mall. Text me. We didn’t have no texts, man. We had to go to the mall and find each other. You
Zach Dermer 30:25
find each other, yeah, exactly. The malls, malls are dying thing. You know what
Nestor Aparicio 30:28
would inevitably happen, and I’m going to tell you about how my kid got here. Inevitably, we would look for our friends, and we meet new girls.
Zach Dermer 30:38
Yep,
Nestor Aparicio 30:39
and we didn’t have to swipe. We didn’t have to do any of that. All you had to do was go to Aladdin’s Castle and top out on Galaga, and it was just like Kelly Leak in the Bad News Bears. You know, next thing you know, you’re at McDonald’s and things are going well. Maybe to Skate Land after that. Zach Dermer is here. Don’t let me be Uncle Nestor to any of your kids. Trust me, I will corrupt your children. Luke says
8Zach Dermer 31:04
you’re pretty good with kids, but hey, he doesn’t let me near his
Nestor Aparicio 31:06
nieces because he knows. You know what? If I was with his nieces, man, they would be fattened up on saltwater taffy. Absolutely, I would turn them on to all the candies they’ve never tasted. That’s what I would do. I would take them in, say, “I know you like this. Let’s try something new, because that’s the way I would be. I I would be in the discovery zone of like, cause like I didn’t learn a lot of things I like in life till later because I didn’t get exposed to them. So I like I if I had grandkids, I would expose them to silly things that I do now, like Getty Lee, like bird watching. You know, I would turn them on to other things than hero worship of athletes.
Zach Dermer 31:42
Yeah, that’s
Nestor Aparicio 31:42
what I would do.
Zach Dermer 31:43
Yeah, expose them to everything and see what sticks.
Nestor Aparicio 31:45
I’d start with the Philly fanatic, though. That’s all I’m saying. Hey Zach, I’m Nestor. There’s your lesson this week. That’s why I went to Philadelphia. It wasn’t about the roast pork or the friendship or running people. It was about my my love of the Philly fanatic. I almost wanted to buy a Philly fanatic thing just to show my love of the fanatic, because it all came back to me when his nose popped out.
Zach Dermer 32:06
Beautiful
8Nestor Aparicio 32:06
little hint about the fanatic, and I hear this about the president of the free world, the rapist criminal guy. I hear this when the fanatic got up on me in the upper deck. He didn’t smell good. I’m just saying, and I spent last week in Philadelphia downtown. The fanatic smelled like he’s he slept in the streets a little bit. He looks that way too. I’m just saying. There’s my cheap shot for the Phillies because we played last week. There you go.
Zach Dermer 32:33
There you go.
Nestor Aparicio 32:33
Looks good. Doesn’t smell good. Philly fanatic. Baltimore positive. Stay with us.
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