Capital Centre retrospective book author Kevin Leonard regales Nestor with stories of Landover childhood glory and Abe Pollin from Costas Inn on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. Everything you ever wanted to know about your favorite red and blue arena on the D.C. beltway where all the stars shined. (You need to get this book!)
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SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Kevin Leonard
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
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Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, Dallas, Baltimore, Baltimore, positive. This is going to be fun when we are here at Costas Inn in my homeland of dundalks, kind of rainy and gloomy today, but the sun will be out next week, and the Ravens will still be alive, and the Orioles will be playing, hopefully, a lot of playoff baseball. We’re down here on behalf of our friends at Marilyn lottery, I have the Raven scratch offs. Scratch offs. We’ve already had somebody yelled. I said, Did you win? Like, yeah, I’m saying how much? Seven Bucks. I’m like, seven bucks. I would have bought a pretty good concert ticket at the Capitol center back in the day. Our friends at Jiffy Lube, multi care putting us out on the road. Luke is gonna be covering the games next week. I don’t know that we’re gonna have any ravens coverage next week from out there, but we’ll make it work. And if there’s any breaking news, you always get that first on the wnst tech service, brought to you by friends at Coal roofing. The new service is, there is a working Leonard, it’s working. Everybody’s getting it. 410-821-9678, you Text Join, and you get that. Also our friends at curio wellness and liberty, pure solutions, bringing me out here today. Today’s a really special day for a lot of reason that we got baseball playoffs. Leonard’s here, I’m gonna hear from one of my childhood friends, Teresa, coming and talking about health insurance, very important thing. But I’ve been for like, about a year, year and a half, hearing about this amazing capital center retrospective book. And anybody knows anything about me knows that I spent a lot of time at the Capitol center, a lot of special people in my life, including Phil Jackman, who I’ll start to tear up if I talk too much, but the oyster tour and a crab cake tour coming together. I’m on day 22 I’m gonna get the Oysters Rockefeller today, and curio put me out on this and liberty pure solutions as well. And today I reached it to Kevin Leonard. And I’ve been back and forth a little bit, and I’m always trying to find the right spot to bring a guest in right location, right side of town. But when you don’t live in Baltimore, I don’t do crab cake tours in silver spring, but I have been to Prince George’s County, if I call it PG, they get all up in arms. Angela also Brooks was supposed to be my guest this week. On Tuesday, I’m waiting. Same thing with Larry Hogan. I’m waiting. But nonetheless, I’d like to talk to them. But Kevin’s come up from somewhere in commandersville, Jaden Ville, as we are at this point now, Columbia. All right, so you’re really middle turf? Yes,
Kevin Leonard 02:15
absolutely. You
Nestor Aparicio 02:16
a post reader or sun reader. I need to know that, as a former Sun person, actually both. That’s why so well educated. That’s why he’s making books as well as reading them. What tell me about you and this because I I’m familiar with Jeff crew looks name, because I threw a note about a year, year and a half ago, I’m familiar with your name. It’s more of a common name than a name like cruick. And I saw that this thing was coming, and people would made me aware of it, and I said, One day soon, I’m gonna get those cats up here, have a crab cake, maybe an oyster too, and just see her, talk about it, and then you agreed to come. And in the middle of a busy week, I’m going through boxes of stuff to try to come up with my memories. Because, like, it’s seeing it and touching it, it’s everything, you know what I mean, like to me, and just seeing the red, white and blue and the logo, and it was always so special for a poor kid from Dundalk to be in that building with whoever was in that building. And this is before I was a media member. This is whether it was Hawk Hogan and Bob Backlund, whether it was Billy Smith and Dennis marook And Dennis well, not pot Finn, Screw him. Trotchi A and, you know, greatness, bossy. And then, I mean, I saw bird, I saw magic Kareem, like down the list, Larry Bird. And then the concerts, I mean, Mick Van Halen, just down, yeah. I told my wife about this George Michael, show I saw there. I got to find that ticket. Stop the G or M or W What do you think? George? Michael, wham, I’ll find the ticket stub. And it’s probably not the red white and because they had gone to the goofy blue. But like, I think about the knights in that arena. And, like, if I’m starting to think about, like, Knights the LaFontaine night, crazy. Those are just the nights I was there. I didn’t get to see eagles in 76 I’ve seen the videos of it at Hotel California, but, man, you’ve managed to, like, try to put this thing together. And, like, I don’t know where you came from, but I’m glad you came by. Thank you for being here and making it all the way up from Columbia. But everything says Laurel, what’s your what’s your deal? Dude?
Kevin Leonard 04:18
Well, I grew up in Laurel, and we are the Laurel History Boys. That’s our organ. We’re nonprofit, and we do all kinds of stuff about local history. Everything we’ve done prior to this book had something to do with the Lord the greater Laurel area, but this was presented to us. Jeff krulik is the one who brought this to us. He’s friends with Jerry Sachs, who used to be the president the Capitol center. Okay, I know that name, and Jerry was, was very insistent. He wanted some sort of a memorial book for the Capitol center. And so that got the ball rolling. And we started talking, and we
8Nestor Aparicio 04:53
can’t wait to open it, like, I’m touching it, you know, like, well, you know, in the back he was coming up during the break, like kicking my cave. Was over doing all this stuff drives me crazy with water and beer. And I’m like, no, and then he’s trying to talk, but I’m like, No, I like what I’ve already done. Like, 40 minutes. These people are bored. They were on their second 1000 of crabs over here. Now I’m gonna have to get more lottery tickets. You know, it’s I have. I haven’t even opened the box. If you
Kevin Leonard 05:17
look in the back, you don’t have to do it. Now we have a chronological list.
Nestor Aparicio 05:21
I got time for that
Kevin Leonard 05:22
8every event at the capital center
Nestor Aparicio 05:23
is that a bibliography. My eighth grade English teacher, Jan miles, I know she’s watching if there’s a bibliography. I was never good at bibliography,
Kevin Leonard 05:30
not a bibliography. It’s just a list of every event. Oh man.
Nestor Aparicio 05:35
First thing I saw Leonard Depeche Mode, the minute I hoped he loves to pick that look like he loves the Peshmerga, but he’s a metalhead. This guy over here, all right, he’s got, by the way, he’s got a great crab mallet. He gives me this at the crab. This is his. It’s got a beer opener, and I never used it. So I hope my first natty bow in the last segment. And then we sat and talked about your book without you realizing and then you walked in on it. So this book is available. How do people get it? Give me all of that, and then we’re just gonna go through, like, so many people on my I put up a couple of ticket stubs yesterday that I found, took a picture, and everybody’s like, there’s a book, you know, you can get a book, you know, send them like, yeah, calm down. That’s coming on the show next week, don’t, you know, give it away. And and other people were like, there’s a book. And I’m like, Yeah. And I knew all about this, but I wanted to make a stink about it. So I’m glad we picked, you know, playoff week in football, because there’s nobody out there of my age that didn’t have something special happened at the Capitol center, absolutely, like, literally, whatever it was, because everything special happened there for a long time. You can only
8Kevin Leonard 06:33
get it through our website, laurelhister.com and just click on shop, all right. And it is simple. So let’s start with
Nestor Aparicio 06:41
this. My dad hated a Poland, so I got to say that, because he took the he took the team. I mean, my dad was a Baltimore guy, right? Like so my dad, my dad, I don’t I think my dad knew the concept of the capital center was a lovely thing, but my dad used to hang in this bar and cost us. My dad most of my dad’s world was, was all the bus line because my dad didn’t drop. My dad was born in 1919 and we honor my dad every year with our a couple Super Bowl week because my dad stood in supines 1929 Scranton, Pennsylvania, didn’t have any food, came down to Essex, got a job at Martin Marietta during the war. So my dad was a simple man, but he loved sports. He loved basketball, he loved baseball and he loved boxing. He played literally ball with Pete gray. He went to Yankee Stadium to see Babe Ruth with his dad, you know, like all that kind of stuff, right? So that’s how I grew up, and I’m an Aparicio and you can watch the documentary, as your neighbor over here from Columbia could check that out to find that the whole Aparicio thing. But in the in the late 70s, the bullets had left, right? They’ve gone to Capitol center, this weird place called Largo, right? That, I mean, we didn’t have Google. Then I had to get, like, a map and figure out how far is Largo, nobody, my family drove. I told that story in the last segment about going to that Islanders and the wrestling matches, then the rush concert. And then I got smart. I got older friends so I could get beer, right? And I got older friends so I could get rides to see Def Leppard and, you know, and Judas Priest and ACDC and whatever, right? So, but my brother was the one that first started taking the capital center. And I’m, I gotta be honest with you, man, for a kid from East Baltimore, that was bus line of Memorial Stadium, bus line to the civic center to see then the skip jacks or concerts and the Capitol center stole everything from Baltimore, right? Like once kiss got big in 77 they were doing two nights at the Capitol center. They know where Baltimore was, yeah, right until the 80s, when things sort of fell apart, and then Paul Stanley’s having dinner with me. It was nice. We made nice. My dad always said to me, put some food in your belly. And I said, But Dad, I love kiss. Kiss is never gonna do anything for you. And I’m like, kiss was really nice to me, about way better than the sports guys have been so but I love the capital center memories. And it was so far, and it was so exotic. And I remember as a boy, this is serious business, as a kid from Dundalk, right? It was on television, on Channel 20, with the bullets in the capital. The capital stunk. Nobody, you know what I mean, they stunk, right? But the bullets were my dad’s like, and then my dad lost the Colts, right, like so, you know, my dad had a lot of heartache, honestly, not just a tough life working down at the point, but from a sports perspective, my dad loved the World Series of 66 love the Colts of 5850, so my dad, the one the bullets left. It hurt him. You know, West sunset, seeing West sunset parade around with capital bullets. And like all that, my dad didn’t. And I love Bobby Dandridge. I love greevy. I loved all you know, like they were my team in 1976 7778 even though I had a crush on Rick Berry and I thought this Golden State warrior uniforms are beautiful. But the games came in on Rabbit Box. It was cloudy, it was whatever. But anytime I saw a picture of the Capitol center in like a basketball digest with this, with the roof, with the slanted roof, which, you know, let’s find a slanted roof for the kids who don’t know there’s a about I love eight. Was always really nice to me. I’m just but this slanted roof, it was so sexy and beautiful. And in the summer of 77 and 78 my family went to Myrtle Beach. Ish for vacation with a prowler. Green, puke. Green, baby poop, green. Prowler, split pea, green. And we drove on the 495 across the bridge that way, where the casino is now, right, and there was a water tower to look like our poop plant back in the day, look like a three. She wrote the old poop plant, looked like a tomato can upside down with the maroon and white checkerboard, right? Like a Purina can, right? And you had one of those towers down there in PG County, near, I guess, where Andrew’s Ayers were. I don’t know anything. I’m a kid in the car and my brother’s Malibu in the summer, 7778 with the trailer behind us, and we went by exit 15 and 17 for the first time my life, probably like on the west side of the beltway, when you see Disney World there, and you realize, oh, that’s a Mormon temple. It looks like Disney World, right? But the capital center to a 10 year old kid, where Kareem played as a buck and then as a Laker. I’d never been in it. It was a mystical place for me as a kid. So the first time I walk in there, you don’t forget it. You don’t forget the last time, you don’t forget the WHO Van Halen. You don’t forget the girls you kissed. You don’t forget the journey concerts. You don’t forget seeing Jon Bon Jovi underneath the capital center Theresa. Do you have a crush on Jon Bon Jovi? Back in the day, he took me backstage on the New Jersey tour when I was a music critic, and he gave me a whole backstage tour. We’re supposed to play tennis, and he was sick, which is why we didn’t play tennis. And I literally saw Jon Bon Jovi take a B 12 vitamin shot in his buttock in the middle of the dressing room underneath the capital center. I had Dr J, be kind to me in the visiting locker room. And I had Wayne Gretzky be kind to be in the visiting locker room. So, like, I was there for like, stuff. I had Robert Plant greet me at the backstage door and sign two of the presence objects from my friend Richard Abrahams. So, you know. And I stood at that backstage door, at that ramp when I didn’t have a backstage pass, and they said they would be one in the cold. I remember walking backstage at the Iron Maiden show and seeing Eddie, the giant, giant, mystical Eddie, and the operator operating it from backstage, where you could see through the stage and see the red and the blue of the seats. You have a lot of memories. I’m looking for this book. Man, you wonder why I’m not gonna open his book. What is your what is your connection to capital center, other than wanting to document it and being a laurel
Kevin Leonard 12:35
kid, that’s all it was. Jerry sacks was it was a great supporter of the whole thing, and he opened some doors for us. I ended up interviewing about three dozen former employees, everything from Jerry down to the guy that sold the popcorn. So it gave me a real complete view, complete understanding of how the place worked. The Pullman family was was very supportive. Both Jim and Robert wrote forwards for the book. And you know, man
Nestor Aparicio 13:08
8Abe was always in the press room when I got a press pass, beginning in about 8586 8788 those era Jim Lyman line them. You Bob ferry. Just great people, great people. And Abe was Abe would sit in the media room, yeah, every night. He wasn’t in every caps game. He wasn’t in hockey. He was a basketball man, but he came to CAPS games and he showed a Poland showed his face. I have nothing negative. I mean, I’m the same for my dad in my household. I don’t want to be disrespectful to Abe but I mean, be honest. I mean, it was a hard thing for my dad to accept that the bullets had left. My dad never went to another bullets game. He went to CAPS games with me. Went to wrestling matches. I’m trying to think of I ever dragged my dad to a concert? I don’t think I ever did. I dragged a Jackman down at the Neil Diamond, but you
Kevin Leonard 13:58
know the wrestling matches. It turns out, I was told that the wrestling matches, there were more heart attacks in the stands than any other event they ever had. It was all from the wrestling match. I
Nestor Aparicio 14:09
need you to tell me some stories like that, because I could sit here all
Kevin Leonard 14:12
night. Oh, I got tons. And for boxing, they did the absolute worst promotion ever, where they had 10 cent beer night for a whole slate of boxing. Oh
8Nestor Aparicio 14:21
no, I don’t remember well, they had Ali and Jimmy young
Kevin Leonard 14:25
Sugar Ray. They certainly didn’t do 10 cent beer night that night. But I can’t even like they had a whole slate of matches, and it was 10 cent beer night, and at one point during the fights, the two boxers stopped and were watching the fights in the stands. It was that crazy. They never did it again.
Nestor Aparicio 14:47
How is that not as famous as Disco Demolition night? That’s what I wanted them. So I’m thinking of the weird things I saw there, because I know I mean inaugurations, like crazy stuff. I went to a concert that was. Welcome home. The Vietnam veterans concert, Leonard. It was spectacular. I mean, I met James Brown that night. I met so many incredible celebrities that night. I didn’t meet Henry Winkler. He was there, and I really regret that he is speaking. I have two tickets to see Henry Winkler speak down in Montgomery, county sort of thing at the library down there in like March. I can’t I’ve never. Henry Winkler did my radio station. Called him, but I wasn’t the host. He’s been on my airways, but I so he was there the night. But the people I met, Chris Christopherson, James Ingram, Linda Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram did somewhere out there. John Fogarty talked to me about baseball for 15 minutes that night. I met actor Gossett Lewis Gossage. It just passed away. It was a Vietnam Welcome back thing in 1986 or 87 I was a media member to cover it. And Neil Diamond did America that night. And I mean, it was a star studded craze James Brown did living in America. I mean, I’m in the pit, and he’s like, doing the, you know, trying to do to Michael Jackson, I guess, at that point. So that was kind of an, like, other than the other Van halens, and I’m seeing Pat Benatar Elvis. Yeah, Elvis played the Capitol center in 76 to Sure. Of course, he did. You
Kevin Leonard 16:22
8would be hard pressed to name an act a singer that didn’t play.
Nestor Aparicio 16:27
I was at this Michael Jackson show. Michael Jackson played there. Go
Kevin Leonard 16:31
back for a minute to what you’re talking about. The shape of the roof. Yeah, that had a lot to do with why the building became obsolete. Because you can hang anything from Exactly, yeah, exactly. As the years went by, the gear that the performers kept bringing in got more and more and more, and they had to use these, I’m sorry, temporary riggings, because they couldn’t hang it off that roof. So
Nestor Aparicio 16:54
when the stones wanted to shoot confetti, they had to hang something to shoot it off, right? Yes. So that’s why. What else Don’t I know about? I mean, you’re giving me, like, I just have memories, and you have like, these really weird little stories that, like, are going to make this awesome. So I want to shut up. You tell me something I don’t know. Well,
8Kevin Leonard 17:10
most people don’t realize that the capital center had many innovations at the time that are now standard people for the video board. Let’s exactly tell us. You know where that came from, the Pentagon. They enlisted help from the Pentagon. They were the only people in the world that had a projection system that large. And they had, at first, they had four separate projection systems. They somehow synced them up. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 17:32
the cameras had to been a quarter million dollars at the time because they had these giant Can you got the wrong seat in section 108 or 109 Yeah, the camera guy’s ass in your face the hole because they shot it. Yeah, and it’s all been, I mean, I mentioned that ACDC concert, that really bad Aerosmith concert that I told you I own that on a DVD, on a rip DVD. I own that concert, and it’s awful. I own that. I own the Van Halen show I went to the dive. It’s awful. He couldn’t sing, so like, the old tapes of it are unforgiving, you know, I mean, like, and there, there’s a Bob Seger show from like, 78 that is just, I mean, the Springsteen stuff that was booted that. Well, the Eagles, the Eagles must have bought the tape, right? Because that thing, the way the Eagles video was shot, it looked like you were in the capitol center watching it, because the the production value of what they could do supersede it makes all the sense in the world that it was like state of the art, literally
Kevin Leonard 18:31
being the first presented some problems at first, because none of the acts had ever been videotaped. Said, licensing, right? There was all licensing. And they were. Zeppelin said, You’re not putting cameras on. They had to be convinced that they weren’t. There weren’t bootlegs. Weren’t gonna be going out on and they did some. They always do,
Nestor Aparicio 18:49
8but thank God for that. There is
Kevin Leonard 18:51
a there’s a video of rules. We broke a few rules. There’s a video of Springsteen on YouTube, his very first appearance at Capitol center. And he had never experienced that, and he’s watching himself up on the screen the whole time. He couldn’t believe I need
Nestor Aparicio 19:04
these little nuggets so I can go like there’s every one of these ticket stubs. If I could go back and watch the show again right now, I would. Well, that’s what makes the AC DC thing really cool, and even the really bad off key stuff that I found, you find me the George Michael video tape from 88 we’re a winner. That’s all I’m asking. I got bad shows I’ve ever seen.
Kevin Leonard 19:23
I got bad news for you when it comes to that. I talked to a guy named Ernie fingers, great guy who was in charge of not his real name, fingers, it is, but he was in charge of the whole video system. Nobody he had. He had gone over down to MCI center with a whole bunch of other people. When it opened. Nobody alerted him to the implosion. All the videotapes underneath there when they
8Nestor Aparicio 19:45
that’s the end, go go home. No crabs for you. He couldn’t believe it. It’s bad enough that the Orioles can get eliminated this week and that the Ravens could, you know, go down the toilet. So
Kevin Leonard 19:55
any video that you do see is either bootleg or, like you said, they probably. Sold some of it, but all the original tapes were at the bottom of the implosion. Pretty sad Sabbath, everything, everything, everything, everything, anyway you were asking me about, I was telling about the innovations. So the telescreen was the big one, Sky Suites. They were the first arena they had sky sweeps, but
Nestor Aparicio 20:21
they were so far away. Well,
Kevin Leonard 20:22
8it was they were terrible. It was terrible. It was an afterthought. Houston Astrodome had something similar, but those were sold. They were the first ones to have something like that that were actually leased. And they had already started the design when they said, We need to have something like that. So they put it around the top. And they were the worst seats in the house.
Nestor Aparicio 20:41
Well, the fact that was built underground, kind of like, you know what, I mean, like, it was, it was a pit. It was it right? I mean, it was, it was, well, well, sub, sure, land. I mean, you went in and you went down into the bowl. Just that alone, limited what they could do underneath of it, right and above it. And
Kevin Leonard 21:00
even to that, it was swampland. When they Oh no, she had water coming up. They had
Nestor Aparicio 21:06
pumps. 24 the damn thing was so chilly. All
8Kevin Leonard 21:09
four by seven, they had pumps, pumping water out from underneath the capital center. It never turned off, never turned off. What else do you So, all right, the universe,
Nestor Aparicio 21:18
I go nuts looking through this, but I want to pee. We’re gonna get some Oysters Rockefeller, because I like you, Theresa’s here and and I tell you where I’m gonna go through a couple of these before I get my hands grease.
Kevin Leonard 21:28
Let me finish the list of innovations. All right, so you got, you got telescreen, you got Sky Suites. They were the first arena to come up with a quiet room. I don’t even know they had this. Okay, I got a story about that parents could drop their kids off. I got. I got the byline I wrote for the night they opened. It okay? They were the first ones, and this is a story, dude. They were the first arena to have in house computerized ticketing. They had their own ticketing system that wasn’t at first, but
Nestor Aparicio 21:53
8that’s why you had to go to the heck they weren’t on ticket Tron, right, correct. And one
Kevin Leonard 21:57
of the reasons why they came up with that was because the president of the heck company complained because of the lines of the heck company to buy tickets at the Capitol center was getting in the way of people shopping, and he was getting really pissed about the whole thing. I’m sure he was, you know, they, they
Nestor Aparicio 22:11
all of us kids out in the middle of the parking lot at gold ring Mall. It was just, it was an issue, dude. It was a mess. I was the mess. Yeah, Leonard, you could say I was the noise, maybe for the Orioles, I could be the noise. I really do want to take a break, sure. And I want to, like, look through some stuff. Teresa, you guys, okay, on time you cool. I mean, you were talking about, like, let’s get some beers. Just hang out. We’re done, though. Maybe we I’ll buy you crab cake or whatever. I chill it. I want to do some capital center stuff, because I you have come all the way from Columbia, and we ain’t got no bridge, no more over, right? That’s right. So you got to come through the tunnel the old scogie. We’re gonna get that bridge back better than ever. And when that happens, Wes Moore is going to come back and sit right here, just like he did two years. Let
Kevin Leonard 22:54
me end for the break, because you mentioned a pole, which is never going to end you and me and I, I’m going to make Teresa come up here and sit through it. As I said, I interviewed three dozen or so people. And I mean, I’ve been a journalist for a long time, and I have never interviewed so many people about a person, and no one had anything bad to say about a poll. And these are people that work for him. They said he was the greatest guy in the world, and he and Wes unsold. They said, well,
8Nestor Aparicio 23:20
Wes, I knew Wes. I didn’t, I didn’t know Mr. Poland. I mean, I mean, Mr. Poland took my dad’s basketball team and took him to DC, for all the reasons you’re pointing out, yes, he had this building we could do. And look, if you’re in Baltimore, you get your car. It’s 45 minutes. But my dad didn’t have a car, right? You know what I mean. And then there was the price in this, in that, you know what? All of that went into it, I promise you, if there was a bus from East Point mall to the Capitol center that ran every night, there would have been a boatload of people on it. I’m just being honest with you, whether it was a concert, a ball game, whatever, come to East Point mall and get on the bus. We’ll take you through the tunnel. You don’t have no beer, no kids can come whatever, whatever it would be there would have been in our childhood for concerts when Duran, Duran played, I mean, I’m just being honest with you, it would I should have saw I should have been an entrepreneur. I should have known the gunthers then and just said, Send the busses over here. Because people wanted this. They wanted to see the Eagles, they wanted to see hockey. They want, you know, they wanted to be a part of it. You know Elvis, you know kiss. I know I wanted to go to see kiss, and I didn’t. Kevin ek did, and he’s still talking about it. Billy squires band, Piper opened that show. You wanted the best. You got the best, the hottest band in the world. Kiss, all right, I’m a towel off. It’s the oyster tour. It’s crab cake torch. All brought to my friends at the Maryland lottery. I have Raven scratch offs here. It’s like Oprah one for you there. I’m gonna give him everybody. Kevin Leonard is here the capital center retrospective. You didn’t think you were gonna have this much fun today, did you? Oh, I figured it. I. Better have this much fun, because the Orioles are gonna I don’t have much fun. It’s gonna be
Kevin Leonard 25:03
we’re just scratching the surface. So see if they would baseball. Even if it’s fun,
Nestor Aparicio 25:07
they kill you every night because they’ll win one lose, one win, one. Then you got game seven, you know, because it’s not, it’s just not gonna be a slog if they win. You an oral fan,
Kevin Leonard 25:16
8I don’t want to say he is, he is,
Nestor Aparicio 25:23
I almost threw you out of here when he talked about burning the tapes. All
Kevin Leonard 25:29
right, we’ll come back. Yeah, we’ll just, we’ll skip over that. Our friends
Nestor Aparicio 25:31
at Liberty, pure solutions make my water clean. They treat well water the way the oysters treat the bay and making the bay nice and clean so we could have these big fat crabs. It’s been really quiet in here during the afternoon. It’s kind of blew me out whatever this place will be a madhouse in a little while, because crabs are bigger than they’ve been oyster tours in season as well our friends at Jiffy Lube, as well as curio wellness at foreign daughter putting this out on our 26th anniversary. I have my 25th anniversary cupcake right here on the screen. It’s going to be a 26th anniversary crab and oyster motif to celebrate today’s day, 22 okay, 22 days in a row I’ve had oysters, including, in the next segment, when the oysters rock. I don’t know that I can do it. I should do you like oysters? Rockefeller, Teresa, yes, you like oysters, all right. Well, I’m gonna save it for her, because I’m I’m gonna get ticket stubs out. Yeah, and I already told Leonard I’d smack him if he touched my Michael Jackson ticket. Yeah? So you don’t want to
8Kevin Leonard 26:21
mess up the book either. So, yeah, I hear you all right.
Nestor Aparicio 26:26
I have my Blue Oyster Cult belt buckle on. I saw Blue Oyster Cult play back in in 81 so it looks like I’m a member of the cult, but that’s the Blue Oyster Cult, man, the capital center.
Kevin Leonard 26:38
Oh, like I said, We just scratched the surface
Nestor Aparicio 26:41
here. Pat Benatar, right? Chrissy Hein, the pretenders police on the synchronicity tour. Rem opened, David Bowie in the first row after I camped out the Modern love tour, I got pictures. I should have brought the pictures. I’ll put them up online. Back for more. Kevin’s gonna be with us. It is the Capitol center. A book. You can get this book, Laurel history.com, Laurel history.com. The Laurel history. Boys have done this book. I haven’t even, I haven’t opened it yet. No, some I’m gonna do that in the next I’m gonna get through my ticket stubs. Okay, this is my press pass from Dr J’s last game. This is my press pass from the Pat LaFontaine seven period game. I can’t wait to find my Def Leppard ticket from the pyromania tour. Stay with us. We’re Costas. It’s a crap cake tour. You.
