Bringing the juice to Brigade Brigance upcoming 5.7 K Festival on May 3rd in Canton

We always have time and the heart to continue to deliver the message of former Baltimore Ravens and Stallions linebacker O.J. Brigance, whose battle against ALS has inspired everyone he’s ever touched. Nestor was touched by the visit from the Executive Director of the Brigance Brigade, Drew Vanlandingham, who brings Nestor a Juice update and educates us on the big Canton walk and run on May 3rd.

Nestor Aparicio and Drew Vanlandingham discussed the Brigance Brigade’s efforts to support individuals and families affected by ALS. Drew highlighted the upcoming 5.7K and 1.57-mile family festival on May 3 at Canton Waterfront Park, emphasizing the need for registrations and donations. The event aims to raise funds directly for families, providing transportation, mobility aids, and home renovations. Drew shared that the foundation has seen an increase in people seeking help, with more pals reaching out in the past year than ever before. The event will feature activities for all ages, including a bouncy house, potato sack race, and food trucks.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the OJ orange juice giveaway segment at Koco’s Pub next week during the show.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Display the Maryland lottery scratch-off art pieces at the scheduled locations: Koco’s next week, Pizza John’s in Essex on May 1, Planet Fitness on May 7, and Fadeleys during the May 7–13 Preakness crab race period.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Call Marty Bass and request favorable weather conditions for the May 3 Brigance Brigade event.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Recheck all previously promised commitments, including confirming the Brigance Brigade registration/5.7K information at BriganceBrigade.org before the May 3 event.

Nestor Aparicio’s Introduction and Segment Setup

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning the Maryland lottery and GBMC, where he will be participating in a walk for sexual assault awareness.
• He humorously advises listeners to differentiate between Timonium and Dundalk when calling for carry-out.
• Nestor discusses the upcoming events at Koco’s Pub and mentions the NFL draft and Oriole Park.
• He expresses excitement about community, charity, and fun, introducing Drew Vanlandingham from the Brigance Brigade.

Nestor’s Interaction with the Server and Orange Juice

• Nestor shares a story about interacting with a server who knew his friend Keith, leading to a conversation about drinks.
• He humorously mentions his preference for Orange Crushes and the challenges of balancing after drinking one.
• Nestor jokes about his current drink being just orange juice, with no vodka, and shares a story about a previous Orange Crush experience.
• He continues to joke about his vacation mode and his wife’s trip to Italy, mentioning his Easter attire.

Drew Vanlandingham’s Introduction and OJ’s Journey

• Drew Vanlandingham thanks Nestor for the opportunity to promote the Brigance Brigade and praises Nestor’s ability to connect with the community.
• Nestor reminisces about OJ Brigance’s early days in his studio, mentioning various players and coaches.
• Drew shares the story of OJ’s journey with ALS, highlighting his resilience and the impact of his and his wife Shanda’s efforts.
• They discuss the significance of OJ’s number 57 and the foundation’s mission to help people living with ALS.

Brigance Brigade’s Mission and Upcoming Event

• Drew explains the Brigance Brigade’s mission to provide direct financial assistance to families affected by ALS, focusing on transportation, mobility, and home renovations.
• He shares a story about a family they helped, emphasizing the importance of supporting both the patient and the caregiver.
• Drew promotes the upcoming event on May 3 at the Kent Waterfront Park, highlighting the family festival aspect and the need for more registrations.
• They discuss the logistics of the event, including the race, festival activities, and the importance of community support.

Nestor’s Personal Stories and Emotional Connection

• Nestor shares a personal story about his friend Frank, who battled ALS, and the impact it had on his family.
• He reflects on the challenges faced by caregivers and the importance of mental health support for them.
• Drew shares her own experience of losing her husband to a brain disease, emphasizing the emotional toll on caregivers.
• They discuss the importance of the Brigance Brigade in providing support and raising awareness about ALS.

Upcoming Events and Fundraising Efforts

• Drew mentions other upcoming events, including the Butler’s Band Bash and a golf tournament, to raise funds for the Brigance Brigade.
• They discuss the challenges of planning events in the summer and the importance of community support.
• Nestor shares his own experiences with events and the importance of having a good weather plan.
• They emphasize the need for continued support and participation in the Brigance Brigade events to help more families affected by ALS.

Final Promotion and Closing Remarks

• Drew reiterates the importance of the May 3 event and encourages listeners to register, donate, or attend the festival.
• Nestor jokes about the weather and blames Marty Bass for any bad weather on May 3.
• They both express gratitude for the support from the community and the Maryland lottery.
• Nestor wraps up the segment, mentioning upcoming guests and events, and reiterates the importance of the Brigance Brigade’s mission.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Brigance Brigade, ALS awareness, OJ Brigance, family festival, 5.7K race, caregiver support, fundraising, Maryland lottery, GBMC, sexual assault awareness, community charity, event registration, transportation grants, mobility assistance, patient support.

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, Drew Vanlandingham

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Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Hi, welcome home. We are W, N, S, T AM, 1570 taci, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively in one of the great new establishments was an old establishment. We’re Costas and Timonium, not cost us and Dundalk. So don’t come out here looking for crabs. And when you call for carry out, make sure when they say, do you want Timonium or you want. Dundalk, figure it out and figure your way out to us. Here I have the Maryland treasure scratch offs in the Maryland lottery. Our friends at GBMC are putting me on my feet. I’m staying off my feet here today, but we will be over GBMC for the walk a mile in their shoes, for sexual assault awareness and for the nurses and doctors and coordinators and everyone that helps people in these awful conditions. We’re going to conditions. We’re going to be there on Friday, walking a mile in their shoes, and then I’ll be next week at Koco’s Pub, giving these away our friends at Farnham and Dermer, also putting us out there. The comfort guys and Luke is somewhere in the ethos between NFL draft and Oriole Park and the Orioles outfield, not throwing the ball around and all that stuff, but I’m here to talk about community, charity, some fun stuff. Drew came into my world here through OJ Brigance and anybody that comes into my world through the juice I’m all for and choose. I know you’re watching out there, and I know everybody’s watching. I got orange juice. And listen this. I didn’t even do this because of you. This is crazy. But I came in and the server said to me, yeah, my husband, big Keith, you know? And I’m like, I’ve known Keith a million years. I said, Oh, Keith’s wife. Oh, that’s cool, you know. So I started talking to her, so what do you want to drink? And I’ve gotten a little particular about my orange crushes, but this is just orange juice. I want you to know that if you’re watching, there’s no vodka in here. I said, Listen, don’t spike it. Maybe a little later on. But, you know, I had an Orange Crush a week and a half ago a Koco’s, and then I went and tried to do yoga and I couldn’t balance. Yeah, I mean, it was just one drink. And I’m like, I ain’t doing that again. I’ll do it afterward. Now, I do that? Oh yeah, I’m no problem, but I literally got a juice, an orange juice. Never happened here before, not with that vodka, and certainly not recently, but, you know, to the juice. So what do you got going on? You hit me, and you’re like, Hey, I got something we’re doing here. I want to promote. I want to come on a show. I’m like, meet me over Costas. I want to meet you anyway, because I had you on. We’re both wearing the same color. Here’s a more salmon. You’re more salmon. I’m straight pink.

Drew Vanlandingham  02:24

Yeah, you’re definitely in a vacation mode that I want to be in. That’s where we

Nestor Aparicio  02:28

are on vacation. Hell, I don’t even lay

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it to pub, everybody calm. I told him that when I’m the guy that went to

Nestor Aparicio  02:36

Cartagena and barely made it to the beach, put my feet in the water. No, no, no, no. I’m, I’ve been working. My wife’s been in Italy, so I’m just, that’s awesome. I felt like this was Eastery as much as it was anything, because I didn’t go out and do anything. Spritz on Easter, yeah, I feel like, if you’re not allowed to wear, like, white and pink now, like, when, you know what I mean, Canary, you know? I mean, so, I mean, I got to wear that sort of thing before Preakness, you know, right, that’s right. So what’s going on, man, Give me. Give me the lowdown with so you said, I got to promote OJ. I’m like anything for OJ,

Drew Vanlandingham  03:06

you know? Well, first of all, thank you so much for letting us be here. We love coming on. We love your ability to connect community or positivity. His energy is amazing, and we feel that that matches with OJ, and that aligns with OJ. And we have a five

Nestor Aparicio  03:20

energy for both of us. I mean, I should see him walking down the hallway, and I’d always stop in. And I’ve told you, man, you know, this is the, this is the point when he started talking to me on a computer. And, I mean, of course he’s gonna insult me and give me hard time, right, right? All of that, you know, because we’ve known each other from the beginning. I mean, you know, like, literally, he walked into my studio. He was the first guy was a stallion, and he called me stallions. They were calling the Colts or whatever. You know, we had all that craziness

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Drew Vanlandingham  03:50

going. It was different

Nestor Aparicio  03:51

in the beginning. And, you know, they never sent Tracy ham to me or Mike Pringle. They did send sharp or Danish. So I’m giving you all the names. You know, Matthews was a coach, so but, but OJ was the spokesperson for the first football experience here in 9495 and then, of course, came back, won the Super Bowl. So, you know, I mean, and everything that he’s been through, you didn’t even need to say who you are. What you said when Pete came over, Pete said to you, I lost a friend at ALS. He didn’t. So I mean, if we’ve done nothing else, we’ve certainly educated people. When you said to Brian Billick, I have an opportunity, and Brian thought that he meant like he was gonna take another job. Still brings lump to my throat.

Drew Vanlandingham  04:34

Man, yeah, and that’s the thing about OJ, and about his about his journey and his wife, Shanda. You know, it’s been 19 years he’s lived with it. This year he’s going to be 57 living with ALS. Okay, there you go. There you go. We should have media

Nestor Aparicio  04:49

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books back in the day with Kevin Byrne. I knew

Drew Vanlandingham  04:50

everybody’s birthday, right, right? She’s gonna be 57 and that’ll be his number that he was with the Ravens 57 for 57 Well, hoping what you’re gonna make it to Boulware. You gonna make it. That’s right. So, you know, he spent his life’s journey, and we’re so proud. I’m so proud to be there. It brings a lump in my throat to work. You know, we’re used to seeing, you know, OJ, with the football, right? What is

Nestor Aparicio  05:14

that? Look at

Drew Vanlandingham  05:15

that got his face on. It isn’t that cool. That’s killer. Yeah, that’s against brigade football, yep. All right, it’s where he’s put his he took his purpose into passion. He took his purpose. Isn’t that cool? I love it, and people don’t ever see it or know about it, but you know, he it’s, it’s so speaks of what he’s done with his life, as well as his wife, you know, they took their purpose, you know, day to day, which was their job, right in football, and turned it into passion with a disease that is, you know, not not binding

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Nestor Aparicio  05:43

in time. Well, when this happened, you know, OJ was serving the players. He was one of the first liaisons after Ernest binder. And then Harry Swain took that role. Harry’s one of my favorite people on Earth, literally. And they were there to provide guidance to young players. And as we got the NFL Draft coming this week. That’s true. That’s and and Jamil McClain, who’s also another champion on the second team, and Purple Rain two took over that role in working with young mean OJ was already serving, giving back long after, long before the football part was was over with, and that part of him was taken away, but then he’s moved into this service to recruit you and a million people like you. And I know Heidi klotzman, but I mean, I’ve been I remember when there was no Brigance brigade, there was just juice in my studio, talking football with me, and then after that, hosting the television show where you know, football was his passion in his life. And you know, I don’t know what role it had in his illness, but certainly you know what other players have gone through in this capacity. But where are we in helping people at this point? Because, um, so I think we’ve come a long way technological.

Drew Vanlandingham  06:55

We have we have come a long way. And the brigands brigade has come a long way. We’ve had more pals, which are people living with ALS, reach out to us in the past year than the history of the foundation. And that means that more people are living with ALS than ever in this community, or if they’ve been living with it, they’re reaching out for help, because they need that. And one of the things I love about being at the brigands brigade, and I can say this, and anyone that knows the brigands grade, every dollar that we raise, it doesn’t go to a scholarship fund, a building, cars, a sidewalk. It goes directly to the families. It comes in and it goes out. We just absolutely and I’m gonna transportation is one of the hard transportation is one of the things renovations for bathrooms, hallways, in and out, mobility, Hoyer lifts that go up and down, stair rails. That’s that’s huge. But the biggest thing is it’s so expensive to live regularly with ALS, and this past week, we lost one of our people living with ALS. And so this week, you know, we’re mourning someone that we fell in love with. We fell in their family, fell in love with their family, but in that time, we gave them several grants that helped them with their journey. You know, OJ is such a light to be around, to know that he lives with ALS, but he shows people that we’re still here. We’re still fighting. We’re looking for a cure, but what we’re doing at the brigands brigade is we’re facilitating funds directly through our through our foundation, to those families. It does not go to us. We keep our staff very minimal. We keep our cost very low, for that reason, so that we can help more people. And that was oj’s request and shanda’s request that their their number one goal was to help as many people as they can in living with disease and coming up. We have on May 3, the May 3, Kent Waterfront Park, 2026, most of people know it as first. You know it’s first Thursdays, yeah. Most people say first. Yeah. They always say, oh

Nestor Aparicio  08:39

yeah. So they usually

Drew Vanlandingham  08:41

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go down there. It’s a concert. But that’s where we’re hosting the brigands brigade this year, called the brigade 5.7k and 1.57 mile family festival. The reason it’s called a family festival is we always focus on the patient, right? We focus on the person living with it, but people forget that it affects the caregiver, and because without the patient, without a caregiver, there can’t be a patient. Then what if they’ve got kids? You know, we lost a pal last year that had four children under the age of nine that we helped. You know, the mom be able to go to school and see her kids off to kindergarten, living with ALS. So it’s called the Family festival because it affects the family. And that might not be a biological family, that might be your friends, that might be, you know, your friends that are not blood, but they’re your family. And that’s what we’re trying to do, is we need more registrations at brigands brigade.org We need more teams. I brought, like, I mean, you might have ran, yeah, you might have ran like, this

Nestor Aparicio  09:33

is like a radio show, because they brought all this. You might

Drew Vanlandingham  09:37

have ran the 2024, race, you know. Or you ran the, you know, this was a 2022, I didn’t run, but I can hold them up, you know, they’re right. I usually wear them. I didn’t run or walk, but, you know, I was there to support. And then maybe you’re at the 15 year, you know. And this was last year’s medal, you know. And we took this and this, we actually turned this into ornaments that people took and hung in. House on their sun catches, on their windows, on their trees. And so if you don’t run or walk, we really need people to run or walk. We really need registrations to increase those may

10:10

3, check this out, and you’re

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Drew Vanlandingham  10:13

in and out. Man, the race starts at eight. It’s over by 130 we’ve had the festival, and Sunday, that’s a Sunday. It’s a Sunday, and we’ve got a bouncy house for the kids. We’ve got potato sack race. We’ve got a

Nestor Aparicio  10:24

couple years right

Drew Vanlandingham  10:25

of town. We picked a great day when they’re not, you know, they’re in town. And also, we’ve got, we’ve got Jimmy’s famous seafood is doing some awesome stuff with chicken and waffles. We’ve got a pizza truck, we’ve got a beer truck. We’ve got a wine eight o’clock. Then, why is the race too high. That’s right, all right. And then it starts. The festival start around 915 930

Nestor Aparicio  10:45

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somewhere in all this today, because it’s That’s right.

Drew Vanlandingham  10:47

You’re ready to go. You are

Nestor Aparicio  10:48

so ready to give me a hard time. Imagine that on social media, I went to the Oreo game yesterday, yep. And curio wellness, and foreign daughter, Wendy, called me on Tuesday. Hey, I got four tickets. You want to go? And I’m like, let me check the weather, right? I’m because I’m fair weather, right? So I checked it was me 86 degrees, and her seats are right down on the dugout. I’m like, it’s gonna be hot. So everybody I hit and I told them all, like, we brought the suntan lotion. That’s why it looks so sexy today. Yeah, like gingerbready looking. Section 48 row five. So the sun beat down on me, and I do a lot of hot yoga, and I was actually wearing the shirt that I wear in hot yoga when I got back to my car. I was like, soaking friggin wet. And I’m thinking, How does anybody do

11:29

this in the middle of the day, in the middle of the day, and

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Nestor Aparicio  11:33

hot you know? But if you’re gonna be doing this in May, eight in the morning,

Drew Vanlandingham  11:37

eight in the morning, eight in the morning, you’re done by 130 so you can come. You can come celebrate, have a festival, have

Nestor Aparicio  11:42

cupcakes, a beer at the end of the line, yeah. All right, I’m just checking. There’s gonna be beer,

Drew Vanlandingham  11:47

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there’s gonna be wine, there’s gonna be sponsored, there’s gonna be sponsored trucks. We’ve got, we have a plate, a big old, huge, white tent for you to sit or you don’t have to deal with the sun. Sunday May 3. All right, and we need people to buy tickets, really registrations. Come, if you can’t run, come walk, you know. And if you can’t run or walk, it’s not your thing. Come, celebrate with this.

Nestor Aparicio  12:04

Come, if it rains, we do it anyway. We do it anyway.

Drew Vanlandingham  12:07

Runners, you know, guess what? Then you’re really not hot, right? Guess what?

Nestor Aparicio  12:10

It’s not hot. I’m gonna order you up a nice 67 degrees at 8am go moving up to a nice 82 around one o’clock. So you get that nice 72 around 930 10 o’clock, you know? I like, Yeah, I’m in May 3 brigades, brigade website, everybody,

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Drew Vanlandingham  12:29

yes, Brigance brigade.org, go in, you’ll see it right on the page. It’s under Events. It’s on the landing page. Buy a ticket if you can’t come at all, donate. Give us all the money that you can because we’re going to turn right around, we pay for the little bit of expenses that we have, and then we turn around and it goes out to families. We just awarded a grant today to another family. So yeah, Brigance brigade.org, and I say this, you know, we run and we walk because they can’t, we show up because they can’t, they can’t walk, they can’t run, they can’t get out of that chair, but we can. So you can, so if I can, and I can walk and I can run, or I can show up and give so can you, because these people that live with ALS, they can’t do that. So we’re there

Nestor Aparicio  13:12

fighting for them. They’re doing construction here at Costas, and I just felt my butt wiggle, and it felt like an earthquake.

13:18

It did. It did? It not it did. I shook a little. I should say

Nestor Aparicio  13:23

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I should just a little. I shook. Did you not feel

Drew Vanlandingham  13:25

that? Did? I did? It

Nestor Aparicio  13:26

was like, like, Urban Cowboy. It was just like, so my buddy Frank Vanek, and I could show you a picture that’s Frank, and we lost a number of years ago, and that’s his mom here, and I saw show that with Brian Billick from years ago. Frank was a valedictorian of our I’ll be messy

13:43

if I talk ahead, but go ahead.

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Nestor Aparicio  13:45

We lost him 12 years ago. So there’s my picture of me and Frank. So Frank used to come out and do and hang with me at the show. And you know Frank, by the time he got to the end of his life, my age, I guess we lost Frankie at 45 right, all right. So I’m 57 young, so his parents would come, it’s before my wife got sick, or any of that, his parents would come and just watching what they went through with him in the chair. And even when I see OJ at events or whatever, seeing what, how did he get from there to here in that right? And setting all of this up. And how does he look? So fixed up, and his hair is great, and he’s smiling, and he’s clearly with it, and clearly sees me and starts bragging on me as soon as he can, which I love, miss the caregiver. Part of this is huge, insane, massive, and all I could think about when Frank was battling through this, and his parents, watching his parents age, and I know his sisters are out there. What that does to a family, it’s Well, I’ll say

Drew Vanlandingham  14:51

it’s unspeakable. I lost my husband not to ALS, but a brain disease six years ago, and what you go through is they can only be. As good as you can be sure. So it’s very important that the caregiver have mental health, you know, things that support them and then their kids. So when my wife

Nestor Aparicio  15:08

was dying, I couldn’t have a bad day.

Drew Vanlandingham  15:10

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You couldn’t. I wasn’t allowed. You didn’t have a day off. There was no Yeah, and Shanda, you know, there’s

Nestor Aparicio  15:14

no day of feeling sorry for myself in front of my wife or even behind no back just

Drew Vanlandingham  15:19

didn’t exist. I always say the cove. It’s a co founder of this foundation

Nestor Aparicio  15:23

today, by the way.

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Drew Vanlandingham  15:24

Well, she’s having a nice effort. She’s having a spritz she’s having a spritzer. But you know, you’ve got Shanda and OJ, because Shanda is the other half of OJ, because without an OJ, there wouldn’t be a Shannon. With a Shannon, there would be an OJ. And that’s so incredibly true, that relationship, but, but you know, you have to say it out loud, because I always say that was a bachelor

Nestor Aparicio  15:43

and this happened, right but right there,

Drew Vanlandingham  15:45

there are panels people living in us that don’t have someone and they have to have a caregiver from a local caregiving unit. We know we use Elizabeth Cooney right up the street in Towson. They’re amazing. They have 24 hour nurse saints, every one of these people. Yes, they are. And people don’t realize that it takes everyone when it comes to ALS. But you know what? People forget that in your friend, that they’re still themselves inside that chair, they’re still aware. They never lose the ability to think, know and love.

Nestor Aparicio  16:14

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Frankie wrote to me to the end, to the end, yes. OJ, you owe me a letter. Oj, oj, we’re here for on behalf of the Brigance brigade. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery, by the way, because you seem artsy to me. Art Projects. Hold on, I got two of the same one. I got to get the third. See some. This is the most popular one so far. That’s because it’s the boardwalk and it’s orange. The other ones are more blue. So these are the four. So I have, I have boardwalk orange. I have, I thought these were because I’m at the race track here. We’re talking previous and all that. These are not race horses. These are the acid tea courses. These are on the beach. Okay, so. And then we have Heron oyster crab. This is more the crustacean bird edition. This is more of the Blackwater refuge edition. And then we have, I thought this was the Key Bridge, but it’s not. It’s the Bay Bridge, two spans on the Bay Bridge. So these are, you know, these are my little contribution to art, and I’ll have these at Koco’s Next week. We will have these on May 1, at Pizza John’s at Essex. May 7, I’m across the street from here at Planet Fitness and simonia with Angel, who’s all geeked up. I got my new year’s Planet Fitness hat, my big purple hat that I’ll have on and then on this, that is the seventh and the 13th. We’re back at fadeleys for the crab races of the Preakness. All brought to you by GBMC foreign and Dermer and our friends. But on May 3, I want everybody to get out to Brigance brigade and the foundation. 5.7 what? Give me the give me the give me the math on this again, 5.7k

Drew Vanlandingham  17:43

or 1.57 1.5

Nestor Aparicio  17:45

50th anniversary? No, this

Drew Vanlandingham  17:47

is, that was just one of our medals. So see, that’s we’ve been doing this a long time, and every year we like to raise as much as we can. So this is from years past. So if you’ve run before, walk before, and if you’ve

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Nestor Aparicio  17:56

never run or walk, to earn one of these, I can’t get in the side door.

Drew Vanlandingham  17:59

No, all right. Well, I mean, look good. Here you go. Look at that. That’s the 15th anniversary. Look at that. Mess with my ponytail. You know what? You know what people that are caregivers, like you were for your wife, they deserve a medal. And that’s not just a win for the patient.

Nestor Aparicio  18:14

Yeah, I gotta give you the metal back.

Drew Vanlandingham  18:15

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No, earn it. You should keep it. You should keep that for.

Nestor Aparicio  18:18

OJ, give it to me when I have that that. OJ, with do you do orange crushes at this thing, at

Drew Vanlandingham  18:24

this Oh, we don’t, but we should.

Nestor Aparicio  18:26

Well, it’s the state drink. Yeah, I get deep. Eddie, Dave over here, he’ll be swearing through, so I’m having like, a regular orange juice here. There’s no nippy NiP, at least, hold on, that’s just straight. OJ, yeah, that’s just good. Okay, so go out to brigades, brigade, help them out. Is it? What else is going on?

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Drew Vanlandingham  18:44

Do you have all you do tons of stuff coming up at the end of May, we have a butler’s band bash. It’s gonna be at the rec room, and that’s gonna be awesome. It’s three

Nestor Aparicio  18:53

got no excuse here. It’s

Drew Vanlandingham  18:55

right down the street. I know, right? And that’s the way it happens, right? Chris buettler was one of our pals. People living with ALS his wife, Laura, is amazing. She’s now on the board at the brigands brigade, and she’s created this event, which was a fundraiser for him. And all of that money is going to go to a caregiving family for caregiving renovations, whatever I say that in, you know, huge mass, whatever they can use it for. And that’s going to turn around and go, that’s going to be May 30 at the rec room. Then we turn around. Jimmy Steven has a golf tournament on June 2. We turn away. We have some things in July which are still up in the air because, you know, right on the football schedule, it’s hot in July, so we’re all gonna be just standing in a pool. No, I’m joking. And then

Nestor Aparicio  19:33

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you’re an old events company guy, right? And doing his 35 years, yes, don’t throw events in July, people. Nobody wants to

Drew Vanlandingham  19:41

go to go to your wedding and just sweat to death and be like, Oh, you don’t

Nestor Aparicio  19:45

need a thunderstorm, you know? Yeah, the only thing you do in July is have a crab feast out here, cost us or something.

Drew Vanlandingham  19:51

You know, that’s right. Like, right? That’s a great idea. Works a little bit. Crab feast is good. We’ve got stuff August, I don’t know. I mean,

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Nestor Aparicio  19:57

I’m not a picnic guy, screw those picnics.

19:59

Yeah. Buzzers.

Nestor Aparicio  20:03

Run. I need AC. Screw that fan.

Drew Vanlandingham  20:06

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I got far from the south, and if you have a fan, you’re excited, honey. I’m just

Nestor Aparicio  20:11

telling you, whoa, what do you have a cooler? What do they call that water that

Drew Vanlandingham  20:14

drips, you know, comes in your face?

Nestor Aparicio  20:16

Yeah. You know my South Carolina at my Aunt Edna and my aunt Earlene. They were sisters, and they lived on a porch down in Ellis Street in Abbeville, South Carolina.

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20:25

Oh, God love that.

Nestor Aparicio  20:26

Yeah, yeah. God bless them. And they so they had a little porch out there. And my my aunt Earlene would have literally a bowl of ice cubes, like, like, the size of this basket ice cubes, and she’d sit on the porch and she just suck on them ice cubes. That’s right, you know, I do that, and I tell you what, like, my mother did all sorts of crazy stuff with, like salt and radishes and put salt. Oh, my mother lived in 98 it’s unbelievable with her diet. But nonetheless, part of it was, like it got as hot as Georgia asphalt. So, yeah, so the ice cube. So, yeah, you know, maybe ice cubes in July

Drew Vanlandingham  21:07

will work. That’s right, you know, there was an ice bucket challenge years ago. Oh, that was crazy, crazy. That was ALS. That was ALS. Yeah, it was so maybe we’ll

Nestor Aparicio  21:14

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bring about, I wonder. Let anybody do that to me. You can do a lot of this with Victor brick. He does the women, Oh, I love them, ice bath and like all that. Well, Vicki, I mean, that’s my, you know,

Drew Vanlandingham  21:25

like, and they actually just lost their daughter

Nestor Aparicio  21:27

about a year, I know this, and they’ve been doing all sorts of events. Literally, Victor and Lynn are at the top of my call list, and I’ve been a coward about calling them, because I don’t know that I’m ready to talk about Vicki with them on the air. So I’m, like, so difficult. I talked about Frank in this segment. So there you There you go. I do a couple Super Bowl and I got, I I had 14 times I got like crazy choked up two years ago. This year, I made the whole week without crying. Good for you. Haven’t made

Drew Vanlandingham  21:55

it 10 minutes with you. I’m gonna tell you right now. There are some days in this job that

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Nestor Aparicio  22:01

you get me talking about.

Drew Vanlandingham  22:02

OJ, there’s just not enough. There’s just not enough. Anything, water, tissues, drinks, anything to get you through the conversation, because it’s real. And I tell Shandon, OJ, all the time, you make it look easy. But when I see them, when they’re not in front of everyone, and they struggle just like everyone else, they’re real people with real hearts and real struggles. But think about all the other people in Maryland that are like that, and that’s what they’ve sacrificed their lives to do, is to give those people that light and joy and how amazing that is. So this is not

Nestor Aparicio  22:34

an earthquake. I can literally see us moving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They’re doing construction out.

Drew Vanlandingham  22:39

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They are, they are. They are so well, I

Nestor Aparicio  22:43

feel my butt wiggle like that. I mean, it’s a subway maybe, or like, like turbulence, maybe a little

Drew Vanlandingham  22:49

bit to get well, you just never know. And I’ll have you ever talked to an earthquake. I have a small

Nestor Aparicio  22:52

one here, the one here, 15 years

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Drew Vanlandingham  22:55

ago, I was sitting in my living room, right? I Robinson street

Nestor Aparicio  23:01

my TV, okay, do you know the cruise lady? Like, okay. So I was in her office, literally sitting there with my sales guy, Pete, and we’re just, like, having a titty tat, like we’re just talking, you know, like, Hey, what’s up? What’s up? And I heard a sound I’ve never heard my life. It sounded like metal on metal, like crunching metal in the row house. Anybody knows who the cruise lady is right on the square? And can’t, right? Yeah, I was in there and I heard the sound. It sounded like when you grind your teeth, like, like the building was grinding its teeth. And then I literally looked down at the floorboards, and I swear to you, they moved like piano keys. Yep. I saw the floorboards move. I felt the rumble, and I’m like, earthquake. Get the hell out. And Pete looked to be like, better been an airplane. So like, I mean, like, I’m like, out now. Get the door. Get out on the street. We went out on the street. There were girls sobbing out in the middle of the street on their phones. And you remember loonies lost the whole wall behind. I do remember, right? So I wound up in Nacho mamas. Was scunnie, another

24:05

Nacho mama, yeah, you’re gonna get me

Nestor Aparicio  24:06

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crying now, scunnie and I touched nubs that day because we both are missing fingers, and I sat down in Nacho mamas and, like it was a real civic thing. People were coming in, and everybody had an experience of, like an earthquake this my butt moving with you here about 18 minutes ago. I if I wouldn’t have gone to the bathroom and seen the construction, I would have said that felt like an earthquake. What the hell’s

Drew Vanlandingham  24:28

going on here? Yeah. I mean, my TV went straight in the floor, honey. Just Woo. It was on a little table, you know. Yeah, you know. And like, just went side room, like an ocean city hotel room. Somebody just wiggled to the front. That’s so funny, because that is a true thing.

Nestor Aparicio  24:43

I took my wife to Ocean City for the first time 20 years ago. We stayed up on the boardwalk at an unnamed place steal away, and we went in, and it was dodge, you know, we got the $60 night room, not the $200 night room, and I told her it was gonna be first class, it’s gonna be Honky Tonk. And we had. Year in the cooler, and I pulled out the first Coors Light and stuck it and it, it slid, you just kind of, and

Drew Vanlandingham  25:09

you start staring at the wall.

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Nestor Aparicio  25:10

My son wound up living down there at a place like that, and working at Secrets, taking pictures. He did the scope pictures. You’d imagine my son’s personality with scopey pictures.

Drew Vanlandingham  25:18

I can probably imagine, I give guarantee it was probably not boring. All right.

Nestor Aparicio  25:22

Drew’s here. It’s all brought to by the Maryland lottery. Friends of GBMC, foreign and Dermer. I’ve been choked up twice in this damn segment. Now I need some vodka in his drink. Where are you? Pete is out here as well. We’re gonna have Carson cabinet stop by. He’s running for office like his dad. You talk about tragedies his dad another I’m gonna cry in every friggin segment, in this in this thing here, Vicki Franz is here. She’s gonna make me laugh, not cry. She’s from i 95 magazine, Patrick. Patrick’s gonna be here too. He’s running for Baltimore County Executive. And Chris Corbin is gonna be here for the Baltimore banner. And I’m gonna recheck everything that I said I was gonna check. Brigance brigade.org Yes, Brigance

Drew Vanlandingham  26:01

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brigade.org Please go. Run with us. Walk with us. Come with us out on May the third, and know that all of your money is going to help people living with ALS in a chair, a caregiver with their children, with things that they need in their home. It truly goes straight to them, and that’s the proud reason I am here to say that I work for the brigands brigade Foundation, because everything they raise, they give to people that need it.

Nestor Aparicio  26:22

I’m gonna call Marty bass and demand that we get good weather on May 3 before, yeah, he’s

Drew Vanlandingham  26:26

got a little bit of time

Nestor Aparicio  26:28

Marty’s ducking me and and he’s, if anybody knows Marty, or reaches the Marty, tell him he’s ducking me, because he knows he’s ducking me. But he was gonna come to Koco’s next week because he sort of worked for a company that he couldn’t come on a show for a

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Drew Vanlandingham  26:43

long Oh, sure, sure.

Nestor Aparicio  26:44

He and I are like real friends in the real world. He’s, you know, like in that guy. So whenever, and everybody knows this about me, whenever the weather sucks, I blame Marty, right? I mean, that’s what you got to do, right? So I blame Marty when the weather’s no good tomorrow. On Marty, last month, come through here, may 3. May 3, order some good weather. We’re back for more from Costas. We’re gonna have some fun around here. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. GBMC, where I’m walking a mile in their shoes on Friday, four o’clock. Meet me out on the south Chapman, bring your walking shoes. And by the way, speaking of good weather, I check that out. It is going to be 74 degrees and perfectly Sunny. That’s right for walk a mile in their shoes at GBMC on Friday, just like I told Laura it was going to be last week, back for more from Costas for Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.