Facebook-f X-twitter Linkedin Youtube Spotify Podcast

Paid Advertisement

National

Illuminating why Maryland Zoo light nights is perfect family fun this spring

Nestor Aparicio

After Bill Cole joined Nestor at Kooper’s North on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for a spring chat on zoo lights, solar power, bad pitching and the real cost of tariffs in industries like his at Cole Roofing and Gordian Energy, it inspired our intrepid host to take the Aparicio family over to Druid Hill Park for the Spring Illuminations. We highly recommend getting back to The Maryland Zoo with your family at sunset soon!

Brothers: Triple Crown needs to be rethought for future of horse racing

Baltimore Positive

Every year, we’re joined by NBC horse racing analyst Donna Brothers, who returns for Preakness 150 and the last time at the Old Hilltop of Pimlico as we know it and once again without the Kentucky Derby winner. This is a serious conversation about Maryland racing, the state of the industry and the future of Triple Crown series for the sport.

preakness pimlicojpg 800x445 1

Another year without Kentucky Derby winner means more Preakness upheaval amidst change

Baltimore Positive

This will be the last year of the Preakness at Pimlico as we know it or ever knew it. Legendary horse racing insider and Baltimorean Dick Jerardi returns home to update Nestor on the state of the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes and the stakes of the future of industry as another Derby winner has skipped Old Hilltop on the third Saturday of May. Something’s gotta give…

Here comes Howie to Annapolis: The mandate for party comedy from Mandel

Baltimore Positive

From actor to comedian to game show host to “America’s Got Talent” judge, the always irreverent Howie Mandel says bringing his stand-up act on the road is his real home. A wide-ranging chat about shaking hands and holograms, mental health and what makes a joke funny with Nestor in advance of his show at Maryland Hall on Annapolis on Saturday, May 17th.

A “Raw” 1991 chat with Mike Peters of The Alarm before epic Hammerjacks concert

Baltimore Positive

With the passing of Welsh rocker Mike Peters of The Alarm this spring, Nestor Aparicio has unearthed a drove of memories, photos and audio of his Almost Famous turn as a teenage music critic at The Baltimore Sun. This is a “Raw” 1991 chat with the founder of Love Hope Strength before a sold-out concert at Hammerjacks Inner Harbor Concert hall on their “Change” tour.

Viva Las Vegas: Wins, Wynn and the legend of The Maryland Party every May

Baltimore Positive

Nearly three decades into throwing the biggest Maryland party not held in-state, Howard Perlow tells Nestor about the Baltimore lore of Steve Wynn and the lure of Las Vegas sunshine for local leadership to gather for networking and business. Attended by the state’s premier developers, managers, brokers, professionals, lenders, lawyers, politicians, consultants and government officials, we’ll be at the Encore pool in May broadcasting Baltimore Positive and talking about growth and potential for our region.

Bringing the Annapolis budget challenges home to East Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

Senator Cory McCray of the 45th District returns to Koco’s Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour with a full recap on the past four months of Annapolis budget deficit strains and the importance of hearing the citizens on taxes and wages and business.

Delivering safe, pure water all around the beltway

Baltimore Positive

They measure water in parts-per-trillion these days and our pal Doug Workman of Liberty Pure continues to educate Nestor on some Baltimore water basics about well water, reservoir, contaminates and ways to make sure it’s Liberty Pure – fresh and safe. Have you seen this truck?

Graduating even more graduates into the workforce at Coppin State

Baltimore Positive

Dr. Ericka Covington discusses the significance of Coppin State University’s 125th anniversary and its role in Baltimore’s education and community, highlighting the small, intimate graduate program with 15 degree programs, 16 certificates, and a doctoral program, catering to adult learners and career changers. She educates Nestor on ways to elevate a modern career path locally.

The life of a real NFL agent during Draft Week

Baltimore Positive

It’s always time well spent on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour talking rock music, Orioles baseball and his business as a lifelong NFL player agent with Chad Wiestling, who lives here in Baltimore but will be in Green Bay with his client and superstar running back Josh Jacobs all weekend. Lots of football knowledge in this one…

The real financial damage of tariffs on Main Street America

Baltimore Positive

Bringing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour back to The Beaumont in Catonsville in the recent aftermath of the damage to the stock market and your 401K retirement accounts, it was imperative we get former Baltimore County Councilman and notorious financial centrist Tom Quirk back to do the math on tariffs, federal cuts and the damage being done to local government and business by the lunacy of it all.

Lemme tell you how proud I am of Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson

Baltimore Positive

If you love the Maryland Terps, you know the recruiting work of longtime Assistant Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson. Nestor has often told the 1989 story of drafting him Number One overall in a frigid Golden Ring Middle School gym when Bino was 11 years old on a Golden Ring Junior house league team. They finally sat down at Costas Inn to talk about it 36 years later…

Breaking The Modell Law (and other crimes) in Cleveland, Ohio

Nestor Aparicio

At the turn of the century, Bernard Bokenyi was the Executive Producer of Nasty Nationwide on Sporting News Radio in Chicago but his sports heart was always in Cleveland. Nestor reaches to his seasoned media pal to discuss American democracy, Ohio stadium money and the criminals in Washington upending the Constitution. Oh, and the Browns in last place again…

A tradition unlike any other that gets local golfers back onto Classic Five courses Hutsell

Roaring to a Rory finish in Augusta brings golf home

Baltimore Positive

After a Sunday afternoon rush of emotions and drama on the back nice at Augusta National, our local pal Tom Pierce of Classic 5 Golf talks Rory, failure and triumph, and how The Masters hangover leads local golfers to his great courses around Baltimore to enjoy the game.

Re-emphasizing the role and importance of Title IX on campuses in America

Baltimore Positive

Continuing our Coppin State 125th Anniversary campus conversations, Title IX Coordinator Katsura Kurita explains the 50-year-old civil rights law, ensuring gender equity in education and sports, and prohibiting sex discrimination in institutions receiving federal funding. She educates Nestor on the prevalence of sexual violence on campuses, with one in four women and one in 12 men experiencing it. And how campuses are handling this important issue.

Springing into new jackpots and games

Baltimore Positive

There’s an enhanced version of Mega Millions, a bunch of new spring games of fun and Home Run Riches is bound to hit it big when the Orioles’ bat fall into form. Executive Director John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talk big hits and hitting Fast Play jackpots as spring action brings new games to life.

As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

Getting you ready for the NFL Draft with a kick

Baltimore Positive

It’s always entertaining and uniquely informative when NFL analytics expert Mike Tanier visits the show and gets Nestor ready for the NFL Draft and the Ravens’ infinite possibilities with the 27th pick in the first round in Green Bay. Let Joe Flacco’s high school geometry teacher school you on the prospects and The Two Deep Zone.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Getting educated about local water and the safest consumption

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a while since we’ve talked water safety with our friend Doug Workman of Liberty Pure Solutions, who continues to educate Nestor about local water impurities, well water and ways to make it safe and tasty for consumption. “Be a filter or buy a filter” simplifies the reality.

Frosh: Trump is putting our democracy in great peril

Baltimore Positive

The United States of America has changed dramatically over the last eight weeks. Former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joins Nestor to discuss democracy, laws, checks and balances and why America doesn’t have a King. A refresher course and re-education on what we were all taught in middle school Social Studies class about The Constitution and the law of the land.

Getting schooled by The Wizard on Maryland March hoops and “portal” madness

Baltimore Positive

With the Maryland Terps back on the hoops radar all week, it was time to bring our old pal Walt Williams back to discuss the wizardry of The Crab Five and the pending portal for Kevin Willard and every other other college basketball coach. Let The Wizard tell you about the state of the game and adapting to changes in College Park and throughout the sport.

A good walk with Vaccaro going One On One through Army life with John Feinstein

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to spend time talking Yankees baseball and college basketball madness with New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro but this time it was the legacy, writing and relationships of the late, great John Feinstein that fires up the reporter in all sports newspaper men of an evaporating generation. Words on Woj Bombs, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies and the legacy of George Steinbrenner with the venerable Gotham sage.

Raising standard on the path to sobriety and wellness for those battling addiction at Hygea

Baltimore Positive

Robby Stempler, local founder of Hygea Healthcare, shared his journey from addiction to recovery and his mission to combat substance abuse in Baltimore. Struggling with Vicodin addiction a decade ago, he saw the need for better comprehensive addiction treatment and has developed a multi-faceted approach to treatment, including mental health support and job placement post-recovery.

Bringing more hope to Hope Lodge in downtown Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

After MCing the American Cancer Society big “An Evening Of Hope” in November 2023, Nestor loved hearing the news fro Vivienne Stearns-Elliott about the groundbreaking of the all-new Hope Lodge in downtown Baltimore, a facility that provides incredible care to those in the battle here at the best hospitals in the world.

Preparing Youth For Tomorrow on the streets of Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

With “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” back at Faidley’s Seafood at the beautiful new Lexington Market, it was a great time to bring Officer Kevin Moody back with Tori Kerr to tell more tales of Preparing Youth For Tomorrow and ways the local organization is inspiring young people to volunteer and be involved in “Handshakes Over Handcuffs” mentoring on the streets of Baltimore.

Live Baltimore: For the love of city life

Baltimore Positive

Meghan McCorkell always formally educated Nestor about the charm of the Enoch Pratt Free Library but recently became the Executive Director of “Live Baltimore” and came to Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to tell him all he never knew about the “I Love City Life” folks’ 30th year aiming to attract and retain residents by highlighting the city’s 278 neighborhoods and offering home ownership incentives like down payment assistance programs. The city’s affordability, cultural richness and community spirit get no argument from the host.

The local realities of climate change

Baltimore Positive

Professor Billy Friebele of Loyola University Maryland heats Nestor up for a campus climate change symposium on March 13 with acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh and a keynote on “The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change.”

Illuminating why Maryland Zoo light nights is perfect family fun this spring

Nestor Aparicio

After Bill Cole joined Nestor at Kooper’s North on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for a spring chat on zoo lights, solar power, bad pitching and the real cost of tariffs in industries like his at Cole Roofing and Gordian Energy, it inspired our intrepid host to take the Aparicio family over to Druid Hill Park for the Spring Illuminations. We highly recommend getting back to The Maryland Zoo with your family at sunset soon!

Brothers: Triple Crown needs to be rethought for future of horse racing

Baltimore Positive

Every year, we’re joined by NBC horse racing analyst Donna Brothers, who returns for Preakness 150 and the last time at the Old Hilltop of Pimlico as we know it and once again without the Kentucky Derby winner. This is a serious conversation about Maryland racing, the state of the industry and the future of Triple Crown series for the sport.

preakness pimlicojpg 800x445 1

Another year without Kentucky Derby winner means more Preakness upheaval amidst change

Baltimore Positive

This will be the last year of the Preakness at Pimlico as we know it or ever knew it. Legendary horse racing insider and Baltimorean Dick Jerardi returns home to update Nestor on the state of the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes and the stakes of the future of industry as another Derby winner has skipped Old Hilltop on the third Saturday of May. Something’s gotta give…

Here comes Howie to Annapolis: The mandate for party comedy from Mandel

Baltimore Positive

From actor to comedian to game show host to “America’s Got Talent” judge, the always irreverent Howie Mandel says bringing his stand-up act on the road is his real home. A wide-ranging chat about shaking hands and holograms, mental health and what makes a joke funny with Nestor in advance of his show at Maryland Hall on Annapolis on Saturday, May 17th.

A “Raw” 1991 chat with Mike Peters of The Alarm before epic Hammerjacks concert

Baltimore Positive

With the passing of Welsh rocker Mike Peters of The Alarm this spring, Nestor Aparicio has unearthed a drove of memories, photos and audio of his Almost Famous turn as a teenage music critic at The Baltimore Sun. This is a “Raw” 1991 chat with the founder of Love Hope Strength before a sold-out concert at Hammerjacks Inner Harbor Concert hall on their “Change” tour.

Viva Las Vegas: Wins, Wynn and the legend of The Maryland Party every May

Baltimore Positive

Nearly three decades into throwing the biggest Maryland party not held in-state, Howard Perlow tells Nestor about the Baltimore lore of Steve Wynn and the lure of Las Vegas sunshine for local leadership to gather for networking and business. Attended by the state’s premier developers, managers, brokers, professionals, lenders, lawyers, politicians, consultants and government officials, we’ll be at the Encore pool in May broadcasting Baltimore Positive and talking about growth and potential for our region.

Bringing the Annapolis budget challenges home to East Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

Senator Cory McCray of the 45th District returns to Koco’s Pub on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour with a full recap on the past four months of Annapolis budget deficit strains and the importance of hearing the citizens on taxes and wages and business.

Delivering safe, pure water all around the beltway

Baltimore Positive

They measure water in parts-per-trillion these days and our pal Doug Workman of Liberty Pure continues to educate Nestor on some Baltimore water basics about well water, reservoir, contaminates and ways to make sure it’s Liberty Pure – fresh and safe. Have you seen this truck?

Graduating even more graduates into the workforce at Coppin State

Baltimore Positive

Dr. Ericka Covington discusses the significance of Coppin State University’s 125th anniversary and its role in Baltimore’s education and community, highlighting the small, intimate graduate program with 15 degree programs, 16 certificates, and a doctoral program, catering to adult learners and career changers. She educates Nestor on ways to elevate a modern career path locally.

The life of a real NFL agent during Draft Week

Baltimore Positive

It’s always time well spent on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour talking rock music, Orioles baseball and his business as a lifelong NFL player agent with Chad Wiestling, who lives here in Baltimore but will be in Green Bay with his client and superstar running back Josh Jacobs all weekend. Lots of football knowledge in this one…

The real financial damage of tariffs on Main Street America

Baltimore Positive

Bringing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour back to The Beaumont in Catonsville in the recent aftermath of the damage to the stock market and your 401K retirement accounts, it was imperative we get former Baltimore County Councilman and notorious financial centrist Tom Quirk back to do the math on tariffs, federal cuts and the damage being done to local government and business by the lunacy of it all.

Lemme tell you how proud I am of Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson

Baltimore Positive

If you love the Maryland Terps, you know the recruiting work of longtime Assistant Coach Orlando “Bino” Ranson. Nestor has often told the 1989 story of drafting him Number One overall in a frigid Golden Ring Middle School gym when Bino was 11 years old on a Golden Ring Junior house league team. They finally sat down at Costas Inn to talk about it 36 years later…

Breaking The Modell Law (and other crimes) in Cleveland, Ohio

Nestor Aparicio

At the turn of the century, Bernard Bokenyi was the Executive Producer of Nasty Nationwide on Sporting News Radio in Chicago but his sports heart was always in Cleveland. Nestor reaches to his seasoned media pal to discuss American democracy, Ohio stadium money and the criminals in Washington upending the Constitution. Oh, and the Browns in last place again…

A tradition unlike any other that gets local golfers back onto Classic Five courses Hutsell

Roaring to a Rory finish in Augusta brings golf home

Baltimore Positive

After a Sunday afternoon rush of emotions and drama on the back nice at Augusta National, our local pal Tom Pierce of Classic 5 Golf talks Rory, failure and triumph, and how The Masters hangover leads local golfers to his great courses around Baltimore to enjoy the game.

Re-emphasizing the role and importance of Title IX on campuses in America

Baltimore Positive

Continuing our Coppin State 125th Anniversary campus conversations, Title IX Coordinator Katsura Kurita explains the 50-year-old civil rights law, ensuring gender equity in education and sports, and prohibiting sex discrimination in institutions receiving federal funding. She educates Nestor on the prevalence of sexual violence on campuses, with one in four women and one in 12 men experiencing it. And how campuses are handling this important issue.

Springing into new jackpots and games

Baltimore Positive

There’s an enhanced version of Mega Millions, a bunch of new spring games of fun and Home Run Riches is bound to hit it big when the Orioles’ bat fall into form. Executive Director John Martin of The Maryland Lottery talk big hits and hitting Fast Play jackpots as spring action brings new games to life.

As Rubenstein hands out more money, where is MLB getting it from in Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

Barry Bloom of Sportico has spent five decades chronicling the history of labor and ownership in Major League Baseball and shares the financial concerns and strategic challenges facing the sport. He joins Nestor to discus new media, an aging fan base and neophyte ownership groups like the Rubenstein partnership trying to guess at future revenue in order to sign star players to enormous contracts while being gifted $600 million to make Camden Yards a place that lifts downtown Baltimore.

Getting you ready for the NFL Draft with a kick

Baltimore Positive

It’s always entertaining and uniquely informative when NFL analytics expert Mike Tanier visits the show and gets Nestor ready for the NFL Draft and the Ravens’ infinite possibilities with the 27th pick in the first round in Green Bay. Let Joe Flacco’s high school geometry teacher school you on the prospects and The Two Deep Zone.

Is this a real Renaissance for Baltimore?

Baltimore Positive

This winter, Baltimore Magazine dedicated its cover to the comeback of our hometown and the whys and stories of its improvement that might be less visible to those of us in on it. Senior Editor (and baseball historian) Ron Cassie discusses the Renaissance dreams for downtown that so many shared with him and ways these Orioles summer nights impact the Inner Harbor and its future investment from Faidley’s in Lexington Market on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.

The new Mega Millions and faster jackpots

Baltimore Positive

As the baseball season begins and Home Run Riches makes it more fun at the Maryland Lottery, this week Executive Director John Martin gives Nestor all of the details on the changes to make Mega Millions a bigger, better game for all who love jackpots.

Let The First Lady of Coppin State tell you the amazing story of Fanny Jackson Coppin

Baltimore Positive

Sure, we broadcast Coppin State sports events and MEAC action on WNST-AM 1570 as the flagship of the mighty Eagles of West Baltimore, but this 125th anniversary celebration has allowed us to tell the real story of a gem of a HBCU school with an incredible heritage and tradition. The First Lady of Coppin State, Toinette Jenkins, gives Nestor the full background on the history of the school and how and why it continues to improve and send young people into the world ready to contribute.

Getting educated about local water and the safest consumption

Baltimore Positive

It’s been a while since we’ve talked water safety with our friend Doug Workman of Liberty Pure Solutions, who continues to educate Nestor about local water impurities, well water and ways to make it safe and tasty for consumption. “Be a filter or buy a filter” simplifies the reality.

Frosh: Trump is putting our democracy in great peril

Baltimore Positive

The United States of America has changed dramatically over the last eight weeks. Former Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joins Nestor to discuss democracy, laws, checks and balances and why America doesn’t have a King. A refresher course and re-education on what we were all taught in middle school Social Studies class about The Constitution and the law of the land.

Getting schooled by The Wizard on Maryland March hoops and “portal” madness

Baltimore Positive

With the Maryland Terps back on the hoops radar all week, it was time to bring our old pal Walt Williams back to discuss the wizardry of The Crab Five and the pending portal for Kevin Willard and every other other college basketball coach. Let The Wizard tell you about the state of the game and adapting to changes in College Park and throughout the sport.

A good walk with Vaccaro going One On One through Army life with John Feinstein

Baltimore Positive

It’s always a pleasure to spend time talking Yankees baseball and college basketball madness with New York Post columnist Mike Vaccaro but this time it was the legacy, writing and relationships of the late, great John Feinstein that fires up the reporter in all sports newspaper men of an evaporating generation. Words on Woj Bombs, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies and the legacy of George Steinbrenner with the venerable Gotham sage.

Raising standard on the path to sobriety and wellness for those battling addiction at Hygea

Baltimore Positive

Robby Stempler, local founder of Hygea Healthcare, shared his journey from addiction to recovery and his mission to combat substance abuse in Baltimore. Struggling with Vicodin addiction a decade ago, he saw the need for better comprehensive addiction treatment and has developed a multi-faceted approach to treatment, including mental health support and job placement post-recovery.

Bringing more hope to Hope Lodge in downtown Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

After MCing the American Cancer Society big “An Evening Of Hope” in November 2023, Nestor loved hearing the news fro Vivienne Stearns-Elliott about the groundbreaking of the all-new Hope Lodge in downtown Baltimore, a facility that provides incredible care to those in the battle here at the best hospitals in the world.

Preparing Youth For Tomorrow on the streets of Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

With “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” back at Faidley’s Seafood at the beautiful new Lexington Market, it was a great time to bring Officer Kevin Moody back with Tori Kerr to tell more tales of Preparing Youth For Tomorrow and ways the local organization is inspiring young people to volunteer and be involved in “Handshakes Over Handcuffs” mentoring on the streets of Baltimore.

Live Baltimore: For the love of city life

Baltimore Positive

Meghan McCorkell always formally educated Nestor about the charm of the Enoch Pratt Free Library but recently became the Executive Director of “Live Baltimore” and came to Faidley’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to tell him all he never knew about the “I Love City Life” folks’ 30th year aiming to attract and retain residents by highlighting the city’s 278 neighborhoods and offering home ownership incentives like down payment assistance programs. The city’s affordability, cultural richness and community spirit get no argument from the host.

The local realities of climate change

Baltimore Positive

Professor Billy Friebele of Loyola University Maryland heats Nestor up for a campus climate change symposium on March 13 with acclaimed novelist Amitav Ghosh and a keynote on “The Great Uprooting: Migration and Movement in the Age of Climate Change.”

8

Paid Advertisement

Podcast Audio Vault

Spotify Apple Youtube
8
8
8

Paid Advertisement

Scroll to Top
Verified by MonsterInsights