The Baltimore County Executive race is wide open before the June 23rd primary election and Democratic candidate Nick Stewart joined Nestor at Pizza John’s on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to discuss what he’s hearing on the campaign trail from citizens and why he seeks to lead the county.

Nick Stewart, running for Baltimore County Executive, discussed his campaign’s progress, including outraising Izzy Patoka by $70,000 in 2025 and earning endorsements from the police union and former county executive Jim Smith. He highlighted Baltimore County’s population decline, with 44% of families living in poverty, and proposed solutions like $200,000 starter homes and an office of childhood hunger. Stewart emphasized the need for a comprehensive plan to address housing, revitalization, and affordability. He also criticized the current administration’s cooperation with ICE and stressed the importance of community policing and public infrastructure.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Book Mark Renbaum as a guest on the show (schedule an appearance soon)
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Arrange and confirm Pat Young’s appearance on the show in Catonsville in a couple of weeks
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Organize the Planet Fitness event in Timonium next week and coordinate participation of Mark Viviano and Marty Bass (confirm date, time, and guests)
• [ ] Host a fundraiser at Urban Crab Shack next Wednesday and publish event details on the campaign website so supporters can attend
• [ ] Update the campaign website with upcoming event listings and details for supporters (including the Parkville/Urban Crab Shack fundraiser and other planned events)

Nick Stewart’s Campaign Update and Background

• Nestor Aparicio introduces Nick Stewart, who is running for Baltimore County Executive, and mentions previous appearances on the show.
• Nick Stewart recalls his first appearance on the show three and a half years ago, discussing land development and housing crises.
• Nestor Aparicio reminisces about meeting Wes Moore and other political figures, highlighting the unpredictability of political aspirations.
• Nick Stewart talks about his initial efforts to avoid running for office, focusing on a platform to solve housing and commercial glut crises.

Nick Stewart’s Campaign Platform and Progress

• Nick Stewart emphasizes the importance of addressing the housing crisis and the commercial glut, mentioning his work with startup companies in various sectors.
• Nestor Aparicio and Nick Stewart discuss the challenges of running for office, including balancing family life and campaigning.
• Nick Stewart highlights his campaign’s momentum, including outraising Izzy Patoka by $70,000 in 2025 and earning endorsements from the police union and former county executive Jim Smith.
• Nick Stewart stresses the need for a broad coalition of solution-minded people to address Baltimore County’s challenges.

Challenges and Opportunities in Baltimore County

• Nestor Aparicio and Nick Stewart discuss the challenges of running for office, including the impact of federal politics on local issues.
• Nick Stewart talks about the importance of local government in addressing issues like traffic, crime, and public safety.
• Nestor Aparicio shares personal anecdotes about witnessing poverty and the need for government intervention to address social issues.
• Nick Stewart emphasizes the need for a comprehensive plan to make Baltimore County more affordable, inclusive, and modern.

Addressing Poverty and Social Issues

• Nick Stewart discusses the issue of childhood hunger in Baltimore County, highlighting the need for an office of childhood hunger.
• Nestor Aparicio shares a personal story about witnessing poverty and the importance of addressing social issues at the local level.
• Nick Stewart talks about the need for a unified effort to solve for childhood hunger, involving government, nonprofit organizations, and faith institutions.
• Nick Stewart emphasizes the importance of growing the tax base to address social issues and make Baltimore County more affordable.

Public Safety and Community Policing

• Nick Stewart discusses the challenges of public safety in Baltimore County, including the need for more police officers and better community policing.
• Nestor Aparicio and Nick Stewart talk about the importance of making the police job more attractive and providing better resources.
• Nick Stewart emphasizes the need for public safety, public infrastructure, public education, and public health as fundamental pillars of investment in the county.
• Nick Stewart highlights the importance of addressing crime and insecurity in public spaces like malls and town centers.

Campaign Strategy and Upcoming Events

• Nick Stewart outlines his campaign strategy, including fundraising events and community engagement activities.
• Nestor Aparicio and Nick Stewart discuss the importance of voter registration and participation in the political process.
• Nick Stewart emphasizes the need for a fresh start and new ideas to address Baltimore County’s challenges.
• Nick Stewart highlights the importance of community involvement and support in his campaign.

Personal Stories and Campaign Commitments

• Nestor Aparicio shares a personal story about his recent health scare and the importance of making lifestyle changes.
• Nick Stewart talks about the importance of community and family support in his campaign.
• Nestor Aparicio and Nick Stewart discuss the challenges of balancing personal life with campaign responsibilities.
• Nick Stewart emphasizes his commitment to addressing Baltimore County’s challenges and making the county a better place for everyone.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Baltimore County Executive, Nick Stewart, housing crisis, commercial glut, population decline, childhood hunger, public safety, community policing, property taxes, public infrastructure, voter registration, campaign momentum, election 2026, community engagement, local government.

SPEAKERS

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Nick Stewart, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 to Baltimore. We’re Baltimore, positive, positively here in pizza John’s in Essex. And man, I pull up I see the big pizza guy outside the updated frontage that we have here in beautiful Essex of back river neck road. I smell the pizza, and I’ve been in here. I’ve been here about two hours, and all I’ve had because I got my doctor’s note back this morning after I gave my blood at GBMC is ice water and lemon, and I got Maryland treasure scratch offs as well. My thanks to Sarah David for stopping by. It’s all brought to you by GBMC as well as Farnan and Dermer. Nick Stewart is back. He is, according to his chest, running for county executive, so have to

Nick Stewart  00:44

wear my name on my shirt now.

Nestor Aparicio  00:46

Well, I mean, I think I’ve had you on, like once a year, every year for a couple years. When’s the first time you did the show with me over at State Fair as citizen land development? Nick guy, I think

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Nick Stewart  00:57

three and a half years ago. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  00:58

so it was after the plague then, okay, well, Mueller was with me. I remember that we sat at the table. I think we were underneath of, I don’t know, Cyndi Lauper. I mean somebody Joan Jett. It could have been Freddie Mercury, anybody over at State Fair in Catonsville? And I asked you this, and by the way, that’s where Wes Moore sat with me when he said to me, and I think, with a straight face, and I don’t, I don’t know whether Wes Moore is being honest or not. We can all debate that. Even the Democrats are debating that at this point. But said that he had no intention of running back when I met him. Now I probably met him in 19. Is probably you could look it up, but it was a nighttime, famous Christmas in 19 is right when the world was going to hell in a hand basket. Right before that, it says Christmas time because my wife came out, she had read his book and all that, but he wasn’t in any way overtly running for office. I think the same thing, I met you with another gentleman. We were talking about how land gets divvied up, and how the county’s role in this, and how government and banking and all the pieces that make a strip mall, a strip mall, or a land development, a land development or something that’s off limits, off limits. And I know David Marx has been having a lot of that, a lot of that up here the northeast side of county. Last time I saw you was in Lansdowne, right? We were at honeys, right? That’s right time before that I saw you in White Marsh at Red Bridge station.

Nick Stewart  02:15

Good. Yeah, look at you

Nestor Aparicio  02:16

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so and so. This is the fourth time Nick’s been on so. But

Nick Stewart  02:19

you know, when we first chatted in Catonsville, that was, this was not the plan. I was trying to avoid this. I was pulling together a platform and a vision of how we solve for housing crisis that we knew was coming and in many respects that we were feeling and a commercial glut crisis, like security Square Mall, and we brought it to the council.

Nestor Aparicio  02:38

Yeah, I didn’t feel like that. I can go back and I don’t, I didn’t think of you as Nick Stewart for Baltimore County, whatever. I didn’t know you, but I felt like a lot of things that Don did with the show were educational based in that he was my high school guidance counselor and he was much more. And I talked to Sarah David about this Schoolhouse Rock let me teach people how things work. Bal is doing outrage. People are pissed. And Fox 45 like, to me, I’m just a dumb ass from Dundalk, who, you know what I mean, who did sports radio for years. I know a lot about a little and a little about a lot, but like, how these things get done. I’m gonna get Mark renbaum on here soon to talk to him. I’ll be a planet fitness next week. Listen, I’m you came on. I think I didn’t feel lobbied. I felt like, all right, you’re letting me ask these questions, and how does this work?

Nick Stewart  03:29

And that’s where you were at that point in your life. Absolutely, we was trying to wake people up to a crisis. We knew that was coming, and now it’s here, by the way, because now the average age to buy your first home is over 40 years old, and we’ve done it to ourselves. We’re the fastest shrinking county in the state of Maryland now, and we are losing population for the first time in 100 years. So all the things have really manifested into an unsustainable picture for Baltimore County. We’re going to be managing decline pretty soon. That will be the question for us, dude, I ran into you in the airport. I don’t know it was like

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Nestor Aparicio  04:00

a year ago, I think I was doing a one day date. I was going somewhere. I ran into you. What are you doing real life? Like you at the airport. You weren’t running for Baltimore county executive. I think you were, like, going to Orlando or something like that. So

Nick Stewart  04:12

I so I work in Sarah David

Nestor Aparicio  04:13

trying to get my vote by bringing the pizza here today. Shellenberger is gonna wind up bringing me crabs or something. No, I’m just kidding. But nonetheless,

Nick Stewart  04:22

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keep going, No, so I do, I do startup work. So I work with startup companies, life sciences, Ed Tech, aeronautics, engineering, on new ideas, new jobs, and on what it takes for those businesses to scale. You

Nestor Aparicio  04:35

want to have thought leaders?

Nick Stewart  04:36

I don’t think so. No,

Nestor Aparicio  04:39

I,

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Nestor Aparicio  04:39

well, I, but that’s like, what you’ll go back to doing if you don’t win this election. The election’s coming soon. You got a bunch of kids. I’ve seen your wife. I see you on Facebook. I mean,

Nick Stewart  04:49

we have a mess of kids.

Nestor Aparicio  04:50

You’re

Nestor Aparicio  04:50

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getting to like, you’re either going to be not sort of elected Baltimore. I mean, even in the summer, we’re going to have a race here. I mean, certainly in this county. Right? I mean, sure, but, but you’ve been running hard and long. I’ve talked to you as not candidate. I’ve talked to you as candidate. I have Pat young coming out in a couple of weeks. Truly know I’ll find I’ll see Julian and in Vegas, I’m sure, a couple weeks. So I all of the candidates and where you are right now. What are you? Where are you in all of this mess?

Nick Stewart  05:19

I think we I’m really thrilled with the momentum that we have built. Nobody when we announced a year ago, in fact, at the end of April 2025 would think that we would arrive at this place where we outraised Izzy Patoka by $70,000 in 2025 where we earned the endorsement of the police union, which is one of the major institutions in Baltimore County, where we got the backing of somebody like former county executive Jim Smith, who helped build out that Renaissance square just right up the street, and showed us what Renaissance is possible in Baltimore County, you know, continues on, we won the endorsement of the progressive Dems in Baltimore County, showing that we’re building a really broad coalition of solution minded people. That is what this county needs. More so than anything else at this moment, it’s coalition

Nestor Aparicio  06:03

well being the working guy that you are, and seeing you in an airport and this running, and I this whole thing begat because I was thinking about running for mayor, but I wouldn’t have thought about stopping my entire life, for a long period of time my wife, who had her own trepidations about that endeavor at that time and after her illness, you know family and where this has been. I mean, I know you to be a pretty astute fellow who probably has talked to Johnny oh and Don Moeller and Al redmer and people that have done this successfully, running for office, not running for winners, losers, all of that you’ve known, these people. Where are you? And having stopped your life to do this, you’re I know you’re ready to be Baltimore County Executive. You’re gonna talk in that way, but like, the more you talk to people, I think you’ve learned things since the last time I talked to you a year ago at honey,

Nick Stewart  06:53

no doubt. I mean to be just perfectly frank with you, the thing that recharges me the most is trying to find a movie night with the kids and my wife. And if we can do that like it just gives me an entire week’s worth of energy and enthusiasm for what I’m doing. I can’t say I’m the best dad or husband or even law partner right now. I’m really not. You know, you put your whole heart and soul into this, but I’ll say this, my wife, Katie, is a saint, but she’s also my closest partner in all of this, one of my most senior advisors. She is all in in a way that if she wasn’t, I don’t think this works, right. I think you have to be in lockstep in a county that you love, or at least in a place that you love, knowing that you want to do everything you can to make it the best it can be. That’s where we are together as a couple, and that’s then we’re showing our kids, right, that we take risks for other people. We’re willing to take risks on our values and in the short time that we have on Earth, the value we have is to try to solve for or help remediate human suffering. So here we are doing that work and trying to do our very best to build a real coalition of people who have built the most comprehensive plan in Baltimore County’s history around housing and revitalization, but also one of the most comprehensive plans for a more affordable Baltimore County. I

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Nestor Aparicio  08:04

think the interesting part of your candidacy for me and talking to council people who’ve been involved in getting the current Baltimore County Executive put into that position, all the hub pub, I mean, Crandall on the east side, and the issues Todd’s had. And I grew up with Todd, so that is what it is. But you come from this sort of side door into the politics of all of this. In every time I talk to you, it goes back to your strength, which is like my strength will be talking ravens or Orioles. Your strength will be talking about the Land and Housing and all of that. Yeah, what are you’re not hearing about land and freaking housing. Maybe marches up here, but in a general sense, yeah, you’re out knocking doors trying to get Terry at the service counter here to vote for you. That’s right. You got Republicans over here, plenty of them, right now you’re in Essex who can’t vote for you on June 23 right? Because of the way the American some people don’t even know that. You know, they meet you and say, Oh, Nick, you’re a nice guy. What are you? Oh, you’re Democrat. I’m a Republican. I can’t even vote for you in June. Well, see me in November. Right? Say, right. So there’s a little bit of that, but there’s also this part where, like, what you’re hearing, and every time I talk to you, you talk about flight of the county and population, which leads to tax base and leads to these really esoteric things. But then I talked to like Carson cabinets the other day, and he’s telling me all he hears about traffic, traffic people, crazy people, driving, driving. And I tell you what, dude I live in, Towson, I came over here. I had three maniacs trying to run me off the road where the construction is, over here in Parkville right now, and it says 45 miles an hour. And I’m like, you can run up my backside. So, like, as a

Speaker 1  09:44

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  09:45

if you were the county executive right now, and I were talking to you about my issues in the county, I have a couple of little business things I have, or whatever, yeah, but like, my things, not schools or, you know, because I don’t have a kid in school, right? But here’s you asked me

Nick Stewart  09:59

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what we’re hearing at. Door. I’ll tell you,

Nestor Aparicio  10:00

sure, give it to

Nick Stewart  10:01

me so it’s and, yes, we can talk about faster shrinking. People don’t realize that what they feel in their heart of hearts is that this is not working, and whether Okay, whether it did in the past, because more of the same was good enough. It’s not now. And so they

Nestor Aparicio  10:13

were they mad at,

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Nick Stewart  10:14

I think they’re. They’re generally mad at not just the federal level and the chaos that they feel and see, but they’re mad at the at the resignation that they have in their cells, in their communities, and their leaders, that this can’t actually get better, not not materially, so maybe that we can make some changes around the edges, but it can’t be big improvements. My whole campaign is oriented around this idea that I need people to believe again, that this county can do big things. We if you ask people that question, do you think this county can do big things? Typically, the answer, typically, the answer

Nestor Aparicio  10:43

is, no. What would be big things for you? I mean, listen, I sat across from White Marsh mall with you. We talked about security. I grew up in East Point Mall. Malls are not that’s not where we’re going to be going. No, you know, and the Towson Town Mall. And I went through this with Sarah a minute ago, and she’s running on a legal side of things. But like, you’d be the emperor of the Towson Town Mall and the Towson problem as well. And you go to work every day in Towson. And I live in Towson, I work in Towson. I was in Towson yesterday.

Nick Stewart  11:10

Like that is a big thing, right? Number one, sure. Can we improve them all? Yes, of course we can. Anne Arundel County, at Arundel Mills, has a substation within their Mall. We can do the same thing. Number two, we can also use our special police officer type of model that we have at CCBC for the mall to ramp up mall security. But number three is we can reallocate resources from police to sheriffs, so sheriffs are not doing all that they need to do as they do do in other jurisdictions. That would free up our police to actually be present more at the mall than they are right now. The bigger question is not whether we can solve for it. The bigger question becomes is Towson Town Mall. Is the mall experience really what we should be putting most of our eggs in? Because if you look at East Point mall and White Marsh mall, and you look at security Square Mall, this is not the experience that people want. What they want is vibrancy in a live, work, play, learn environment. How do we reorient our thinking about downtown Towson so that becomes, you know, Baltimore County’s true city, but also very approachable, a place where you want to spend your entire afternoon because you have a coffee shop, because you can take your dog and there’s an open air music venue, and you can enjoy that, and then you can have a sit down dinner. The entire

Nestor Aparicio  12:18

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the off campus university life that would spill over in a good way, in a positive in

Nick Stewart  12:22

a great way. And think about creating an innovation district, which is what Atlanta did with Georgia Tech that’s oriented around tech and commerce, for example, you know, right there, off campus, but it provides graduate housing. It provides incubator and accelerator

Nestor Aparicio  12:35

provided me pizza and beer last year when I saw Pearl Jam this a year ago this week in Atlanta. Oh yes, I went there. Check out what other cities are doing. I checked out Medellin since the last time you and I got together. So Medellin, we can fix Baltimore. They’re

Nick Stewart  12:49

living more interesting life than I am. But in any event, point being you asked, What are the big things we can do? Them? These are just an example, a small subset of what we actually are talking about, a more modern Baltimore County is a more inclusive and affordable

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Nestor Aparicio  13:01

one. Nick Stewart’s here. He’s running for Baltimore County now, we say county but county executive, on the Democratic side,

Nick Stewart  13:11

my little five year old, Willie, he says county executive.

Nestor Aparicio  13:14

How many kids you got?

Nick Stewart  13:17

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I have four.

Nestor Aparicio  13:18

How old are they?

Nick Stewart  13:19

They are 10, eight, six and five right now. I

Nestor Aparicio  13:21

mean, so I better send you home with a pizza cheese, though, right? Because these kids are picky.

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Nick Stewart  13:25

Yes, although my little one will has the most interesting taste in the world he likes, like the spicy salami. Make that make sense?

Nestor Aparicio  13:35

I’ll get you pepperoni over here. Man, it did. Nobody does pepperoni. I mean, when I had bread here talking about the Hormel number is, he got to know, I don’t know the number. I’m making that up, but like, serious pepperoni we have on. He said, I always kid him here that the ham is imported from Dundalk here to Essex, so you could be the county executive, both you’re banging doors. And I was going to talk to Sarah about this, because she and I had a conversation, yeah, and I had a conversation, literally, this morning, with Dr Steve Elliott, who joined me last week at Koco’s About banging on doors. And Mueller saying to me, when I was going to run for mayor, I was going to bang on doors. And it’s essential. It’s how you get vote. Like I hear all of that, you’re out doing it, I guess from Woodlawn to Hereford zone to

Nick Stewart  14:17

absolutely

Nestor Aparicio  14:18

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Middle River to Dun, wherever you’re ever going, you’re probably leaving here banging doors. What are you getting when you bang on a door? Somebody comes out to use this tall, handsome man and says, County Executive, I’m Republican. I can’t vote for you. Do you talk to him that? I don’t know. You tell me What? What? Because 50% of people can’t vote. Let’s start. 50% of people aren’t registered. Let’s see that, right? I mean, you, I’m sure you’re seeing a lot of that. Yeah, that so we’re, I don’t want to take your time from my time. But the one thing that I got from South American people. When I traveled through South American and met educated people, I met a woman in Uruguay whose husband name was Nestor. So, you know, she was smart, and her broken English and a little bit she could speak to me, and she and I. Since looked her up, she’s politically oriented, but she said to me, you are American. Your vote, you have the most powerful vote.

Nick Stewart  15:09

Oh, interesting

Nestor Aparicio  15:09

in the world.

Nick Stewart  15:10

Yeah,

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Nestor Aparicio  15:12

you know, I’m a woman in South America, your vote is gold for how the world operates, right? And to think that you’ve used it to the majority of your people have used it on this. Man, yeah, like, this is how you see it when you live in well, this is Salto, Uruguay, and

Nick Stewart  15:27

we’re expecting a low turnout this year because,

Nestor Aparicio  15:30

to me, given gas prices, war, division, families, right? I got people in here that won’t talk to me because they vote for Trump, and they think that I need to be on that side, and I’m not American enough if I don’t have a Trump bumper on, like I it’s we’re in really crazy ass times to be knocking on doors and saying, I’m running for office, and then what you say to that human but but answering their door. But you know, part

Nick Stewart  15:54

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of the equation here is twofold. Number one in as against all the chaos at the federal level, we want to find ways to make a difference. And many people, they want to, you know, contact their congressman or help people register to vote for the next congressional election. It’s all good, but there’s a lot of healing and help that we can provide at the local level, whether it is housing, everything

Nestor Aparicio  16:15

is local. You’re not calling Donald Trump for anything, right? You’re not calling Johnny O for much or quite easy, literally, right? I mean, you know, I’m calling Chris Van Hollen of ice comes in here and pulls my ass out of here right now, like, literally asking, you know what my last name is and where I went to school, if I speak E or not? You know what I mean? Like, this crazy stuff going on, right? But, but they’re calling you, they’re calling the county. They’re calling the cops. They’re calling their local people, right? This

Nick Stewart  16:39

is, like, this is where you feel your government most, and this is where we get to step into the breach as a people. This is, I mean, Nestor, it’s not about me. It’s not about any of the people running for county executive. Not really. It’s about what we’re trying to do with this tool called government to try to empower communities. Take power out of the hands of Towson and put it with communities who need to be able to solve their own problems in partnership with us as a government. That’s what this should look like. I am nobody’s savior. None of us are anybody’s Savior here. This is about the people who need these tools to work, and we don’t have them right now, because we have too much chaos at the federal level, because people don’t believe that Baltimore County can do big things again. Because, you know, in Randallstown, they’ve had four revitalization plans in 45 years, and very little has happened on the east side of the county, a place that has maybe the greatest potential investability has been languishing. Has a market, train station for heaven sakes, it has an airport. It’s going to have a port, and we have not provided a comprehensive vision of investment. You know, in decades, this is the challenge we face

Nestor Aparicio  17:40

next year. My pizza’s over here, so, and I’m gonna go get a slice of pizza. No, I’m gonna put my headset down and just let you, you host the show for 45 seconds, because I see the plates and the napkins, yeah, and the pizza, John’s pizza. We’re here. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I’ll let you select your Maryland treasures ticket as well. I She, Sarah took the horses. I got to get the ass Dec courses, also GBMC, where I walked the mile in their shoes. At GBMC two weeks ago on the south Chapman, I also took a needle and had my medicals there. So I mean, the BC, Baltimore County, GB Baltimore County, he’s running for Baltimore County Executive, also foreign to Durham, are located in Owings Mills in Baltimore County as well. I’m here in Baltimore County the east. I just went all the way around the beltway, right? I’m gonna be a fisherman’s daughter, or, excuse me, fishmonger’s daughter in Catonsville the 21st we’re gonna be in at Lexington market in the city, damn near the city, where it’s good to go. And I was down there yesterday for the Orioles game. We’ll be at fayley’s on the 13th for the crab races. Ivan Bates is going to come out and talk about law and order that day as well. Luke’s going to be there, and then I’m at Planet Fitness in Timonium next week. Mark Viviano is going to come out teach me about sports. Marty bass is going to come out, and I’m going to kiss his ass and tell him how wonderful he is and what a great friend he’s been. He’s never been allowed to come on my show because he works to see me and the Westinghouse infinity. So anyway, Marty’s gonna come out and I’m gonna tell him how much I love him. So that’s it, the plan of fitness. And so yeah, I’ll be in the count T A few times here. So I’m gonna get some pizza. Tell everybody about your platform. It’s gonna take me 45 seconds to get back. And then I’m gonna have all the gotcha questions. Can I got to get some pizza here? Pizza here? Give me your website and do all that pizza plate, and I’ll be back here in two seconds.

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Nick Stewart  19:27

Go. All right, our friends. So let’s just distill it down real quick as to why we are doing what we are doing here in Baltimore County, losing population, fastest shrinking County, and instead of fighting and dying on the Hill for you, we have folks who tried to double their pensions in 2024 and it only came out because in 2026 the former chief administrative officer found out, and whistle blew in effect. And so it is my belief that we can do things differently. We can do them better. We need to plan to get there, and we are the only ones who built that plan through 500 individual. Conversations across this county and sit downs. We built out a plan to make this county more affordable and inclusive and modern. And the truth is, you know, we can choose it. We can be one county. We can be a comprehensive whole. Instead of this fractured North County, Towson, east, west, we should be one. And so that’s our opportunity. And I’ll just say, Nestor, what this looks like, ultimately, for Baltimore County is $200,000 starter homes and revitalized town centers all across this county. Number two, we’re talking about an office of childhood hunger. A third of our children live in extreme poverty in Baltimore County Public Schools,

Nestor Aparicio  20:35

1/3 of our children.

Nick Stewart  20:36

1/3 this is 33,000 plus children who live at $40,000 or less for

Nestor Aparicio  20:41

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the angry Republican, would say, What about the on what about the illegals and, you know, unregistered? Where are those numbers? We’re not even counting somewhere. Kids,

Nick Stewart  20:51

right? Yeah, right. So we don’t

Nestor Aparicio  20:52

every time I’ve had somebody talking about poverty in the county, they’ve always said, these are just the numbers we have. The numbers are sick, but the numbers aren’t even right. Well, the

Nick Stewart  21:00

numbers are not right. They probably they do discount some of those who have a hard time being self reported.

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Nestor Aparicio  21:05

Tell a

Nestor Aparicio  21:05

lot of people.

Nick Stewart  21:06

It’s a lot of people

Nestor Aparicio  21:07

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I talk about this. When I talk about pantries and I talk about corporate Super Bowl that I don’t know you drive that like I have, I always tell a quick story. I came in here for cheesesteak two weeks ago. My wife was out of town. She was in Italy. She was in Italy. I was in Little Italy. She was in Italy. I was in an Italian restaurant

Nick Stewart  21:26

that works.

Nestor Aparicio  21:28

And I didn’t even get an Italian style cheese stick, but I got a cheesesteak here and add half of it in a bag, and I had pizza. And my wife was out of town. I got a salad. And you could see the pizza here, by the way, this is the delicious pizza, John’s cheese pizza. Sun drenched here, as we sit in the sun room, I hear pizza John’s, but had half Cheesesteak. And don’t tell John Kemp, but I still get my gas at Royal farms. And I went right over to where the skate land in Essex, where I met Heidi back in 1981 right up old Eastern, old Eastern Avenue, where we ran from that rival gang from Hawthorne that night that we tried to pick up their girls down here to the the a one crab house, and next to the Thunderbird Joe’s in hands corners for those you know, in essence. And I went up to the royal farms, and I was pumping my gas, and dude in a wheelchair came rolling toward me while pumping gas. It was a little cold out that night, and I had a sandwich, and he had a caregiver in the parking lot of the Royal farm on Eastern Avenue. I him, and I had a sandwich in the car, and I pumped my gas and I got in. I don’t have any

Nestor Aparicio  22:47

money. I

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Nestor Aparicio  22:47

don’t carry like, you know, I don’t have a lot of money. And I thought, got half this sandwich right now, it’s still hot. It’s still hot. I was still in the wrapper, still warm, and I went over and I gave it to him. Hey, I haven’t told that. I that kind of shit drives me crazy, right? But there’s a guy starving. He was so I said, this is still warm. I got this. I love pizza, John’s. You said, you said, I love he did. He said, before to God, so I give him his food. And I’m thinking to myself, Man, every night, this is, this is what you’re talking about. I haven’t talked about it, but like, that’s, we’ve all seen it somewhere. Some go ahead, we don’t, I don’t know where that guy’s going tonight. Guy didn’t have legs. Yeah, Guy didn’t have legs. He was in a wheelchair. I don’t know how he got fed the next day. And I’m not, I haven’t told this, but I mean, wow, have I seen poverty in Baltimore? Cat just did. Didn’t I just told you about it, right? Literally,

Nick Stewart  23:40

but we don’t see it that or we don’t have to see it that much. This is how fractured we really are. We can drive past it or drive around it without actually internalizing what is happening. We have some major pockets of poverty in Dundalk and Essex and Cockeysville and then over on the northwest side of the county. That would surprise people, I think, fully and deeply and upset them, that these are kids who are going to bed hungry, right? They’re coming to school hungry. They get maybe two meals at school. That’s

Nestor Aparicio  24:05

great. What can you what can you do as county executive for that so

Nick Stewart  24:08

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much? Acknowledge talk. Acknowledge that. It’s

Nestor Aparicio  24:10

indignant. I can tell. Let’s go look. I mean it. Stuart,

Nick Stewart  24:15

I love student support network and the organization. They have done God’s work in trying to feed.

Nestor Aparicio  24:20

I’ve had them on many times, yes,

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Nick Stewart  24:21

but they have a waiting list now of over 34 schools. This is not

Nestor Aparicio  24:26

already in bunch of school. They’re

Nick Stewart  24:28

in bunch of schools, but over 34 schools still on the wait list. This is unconscionable. That we have outsourced this work. Doesn’t mean they don’t have a role to play. We should be as government, providing the base, the collaborating base, the platform around which this type of effort, a unified, joint effort, can be made to solve for childhood hunger in Baltimore County, and that includes working with Wes Moore administration and the enough Act that was passed, and the idea that we can solve for generational poverty if we do it in the right way, using the different levels of government, we have lots. Lots of great nonprofit resources, church and faith institutions, who are working on food insecurity. But my God, we have arrived at the tipping point, and it will now define our moral character if we choose to continue down the same path, or if we choose to define who we are, which is a more inclusive county that has a belief that there’s dignity in every single person, that every child deserves to have some measure of safety and security in this world. That’s who we’re going to be. Then we need to finally do the work.

Nestor Aparicio  25:28

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Well, I mean, you have to look up and want to be involved in this. You have to vote, be registered to vote, by the way, Nick Stewart is here. I’m being disrespectful. We’re talking about hunger, and I’m sitting here eating pizza, pizza John’s but I have I was hungry. I haven’t eaten a couple hours. I don’t usually eat on the air, but I figured you do some talking. You promised me you talk.

Nick Stewart  25:45

No, I have one more story for you. I wanted to

Nestor Aparicio  25:47

bring I’ll eat some more pizza, if you don’t mind. You know,

Nick Stewart  25:51

we do a lot of door knocking, as you say. And there was a time where we’re knocking little south of route 40, still technically Catonsville, and we are knocking these doors.

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Nestor Aparicio  26:00

You say route 40 to me. I think you mean Rosedale. Let’s

Nick Stewart  26:05

clarify where you from. I’m

Nestor Aparicio  26:09

from

Nick Stewart  26:09

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Timonium.

Nestor Aparicio  26:10

Yeah, I don’t know. Okay, you define like bologna, which side of seminary?

Nick Stewart  26:18

So we are, we’re knocking doors. We come out of the one door, you know, it was a fine conversation, and look over we see some neighbors on a porch. It’s a single family home, but this is not a well to do neighborhood, and they kind of inquire like, Hey, what’s going on? What are you guys doing? And so we walk over there, we chat with them. They invite us in the house. It’s really quite nice. They have two kids. They’re not super well dressed, but you start

Nestor Aparicio  26:42

energy. People invite you into their house.

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Nick Stewart  26:44

It’s few. I mean,

Nestor Aparicio  26:45

okay, okay, 5% 10% anyway,

Nick Stewart  26:48

you know. So walk inside and you start to, like, fully take in their life circumstances, what they have to deal with on a day to day basis. They have a hole in the floor of their kitchen that their kids have to walk around and make sure that they don’t fall in. Their appliances are not working. They have not had working utilities. And you start to realize this is a true reflection of some of the measure of suffering that exists in Baltimore County. And this is not a one off. This is not isolated. We have got to acknowledge. So 44% of our families live in some form of poverty in Baltimore County. It’s not just about kids. It’s about families, and this means that they cannot afford all that’s just the basics. This is human survival income. They can’t afford all the basics in life. This

Nestor Aparicio  27:31

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is

Nestor Aparicio  27:31

toothpaste, simple stuff, right, right? Sure,

Nick Stewart  27:33

like, you know, afford it, affording to even go to their jobs, for example, affording energy, affording groceries. Two thirds of us are choosing between groceries and other essentials right this minute, the level of need is now so outsized that we have to do something about it, and we have to acknowledge that we can only do something about it if we grow the pie. This is not about the East Side benefiting because the West Side didn’t and they suffered. This isn’t the politics of scarcity that if only we build the walls high enough, we’ll have enough school seats or enough homes or enough jobs to go around if we just keep people out. That’s not what this is anymore. This is about embracing our strength, embracing our belief in inclusion, and acknowledging that we are better and far stronger if we are growing more dynamic, more competitive, all at once.

Nestor Aparicio  28:15

So Trump leans down on you and says he’s sending ice in to get Nestor, and everybody looks like Nestor. What power do you have on that level? Because some of that stuff, the Federal stuff, I ran into Martin O’Malley that two weeks ago, I invited him on, as I’ve always done, he acknowledged that he’s been invited on, but social security, being in Baltimore County, and he said something funny to me, like, I’m sure people want to hear me talking about Social Security. I’m like, actually, I do. Actually I do. Actually, I do, you know, because it is in Baltimore County and it is critical

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Nick Stewart  28:46

to

Nestor Aparicio  28:46

them.

Nestor Aparicio  28:46

It’s critical to every American, in every way that you know, Mr. Nazi boy with the doge cuts and the chainsaw isn’t coming for Republican or Democrat, black or white, east or west, male or female. Social Security important. There’s just a lot of things in our county that our government related, above and beyond my school, my police, my benefits, red lights, potholes, all of those kinds of things going on. What got you over the edge to one run like, what? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Nick Stewart  29:22

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So what I’d like to just point out there is there’s far more capacity that we have to fight than we think. So. I am the only candidate who has stood up stated publicly that we will terminate the MOU that we entered into with ice, and that is part of the issue here in Baltimore County, we have a memorandum of understanding with ice to cooperate with them. There are implications now with state laws that were passed and whether that changes it we need to look into but

Nestor Aparicio  29:48

piss me off. But I don’t know that it should have as much as it did. It pisses me off. On I was in Minnesota a couple weeks ago when Springsteen played right and I walked through those streets there and realized what happened. I’m like.

Nestor Aparicio  30:00

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  30:00

people here are living their lives, and people just coming in here and throwing people around, yeah, not even based on what they said, which is, are you a criminal or not? And everybody in Harford County, I mean, I feel awful for the young lady in the woods and but I’m Hispanic. I had nothing to do with that and to be profiled at this point in American history. In that way, it’s disgusting.

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Nestor Aparicio  30:19

It’s

Nick Stewart  30:19

disgusting. And, you know, we passed two laws that we said we’re going to address it. They didn’t. The administration has made very clear, Kathy Klaus my administration, that this doesn’t change our cooperation arrangement with ice. We have an office of Immigrant Affairs that has not been well funded. There’s only three people who do that work, even though 13% of our population is foreign born, we have a commission on Immigrant Affairs that hasn’t been meeting nearly at all. We haven’t had a school’s protocol to deal with ice. It’s now on first reader, someone has introduced it, which is wonderful, shout out to Christina and the work that they are doing. But true that we haven’t gone far enough there. We don’t report out or collate and report out ice activity to all of our neighbors in Baltimore County. Government should be doing this, and then we haven’t really stepped into the breach to say we’re going to litigate. If you cross this red line, we will be litigating with you as a lawyer. I think that’s relevant. Sometimes you have to fight sue and be sued in order to protect people’s rights.

Nestor Aparicio  31:10

Well, when you’re knocking doors, are you hearing about traffic, crime, schools, taxes? I mean, I’m sure, as a politician, they’re pitching to you about gas price, I mean, just stuff that you can’t affect at all. There’s some what, when people do understand what you’re doing, and they love Kathy, or hate the fact that she was appointed, or we’re mad at Johnny, oh, or how, you know, whatever it is, right? The general temperature, is it? Well, I’m paying too much in taxes. And you saying, Well, we’re losing population, which is why taxes either have to go up, or services or how we distribute that money, and we’ll get to the bridge in a minute, because that’s that does talk about money and fed, that’s where federal comes in. And I’m like, All right, who’s screwing with the bridge? Because that’s going to screw all of us.

Nick Stewart  32:02

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But no, so it’s, it’s, it is taxes and fees. It’s this idea that we just don’t have enough to go around. And I feel very pinched, and the government is pinching me. But look, our property tax assessments in Baltimore County increased two years ago, on average by 24% last year, they increased on average by 11% this is the housing crisis come home, we are experiencing that in this very moment. So I get to talk to them about how we would help solve for this and make it less expensive to live in Baltimore County. We

Nestor Aparicio  32:30

make

Nestor Aparicio  32:30

it more attractive to come to the county. We have a bigger tax base. We can do more things. We can

Nick Stewart  32:34

do more things. And by the way,

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Nestor Aparicio  32:35

that is your big things principle, but it’s going to take more money to do big things, no doubt, okay,

Nick Stewart  32:40

but it also will lower people’s property taxes in that we will not feel this pinch of the scarcity, right? Supply and demand. There’s not enough homes. As a result, everyone’s home that does exist in Baltimore County goes up in price or assessment, and that’s what we are feeling on the tax side of the house. So that is a big issue. You also talk good that

Nestor Aparicio  33:01

your house goes up in value, right, you know,

Nick Stewart  33:03

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but only to a degree, right? Because at some point that actually forces you out of the house. You can’t afford it anymore, and that’s the problem. Well, that

Nestor Aparicio  33:10

was California’s problem years ago, right? Move to California. That house is $3 million one,

Nick Stewart  33:14

and so now we have a bunch of seniors who are feeling on fixed income, so like, I have to make a move. I have to make hard choices to move out of, this place that I helped build, and that works against that moral fabric that we’ve talked about here. So we do face real, significant challenges and questions. We hear about crime as well. So some of it is perceived or some of it is very real, and it’s the sense that if you look around like security Square Mall, you go there, you go to Towson, you go to East Point Mall. They’re not well patronized. There’s not a lot of people who are there. There is a feeling of insecurity when you go there. And by the way, we don’t have enough police officers. We want to do community policing. A police officer used to walk by every business in Towson once every eight minutes. There was enough of them.

Nestor Aparicio  33:55

Oh, really. Okay,

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Nick Stewart  33:56

and we don’t do anything close to that level of community policing at this point. That’s because we’re down 300 police officers. We’ll be down another 200 in the

Nestor Aparicio  34:03

next How can you make that job more attractive? Just fundamentally, right? Not even financially, just spiritually. I mean, this is an American issue right now with policing. I don’t think there’s any doubt

Nick Stewart  34:13

about it. I think you tell them that we’ve got your back like you want a take home program, because every other jurisdiction surrounding you has a take home program. We got your back. You want, you want rifle rated plates because we promised them. And there was an incident two years ago where, you know, a suspect shot through the plate. You know, we got your back. We’ll deliver those we haven’t they want more license seats to use gun crime technology. They have to share passwords right now. We got your back. We’ll give you more of them. They only get two uniforms right now, instead of five for the entire week, we got your back. There’s a way of saying these things and making it so that people understand on a very difficult job. We believe it’s one of the three fundamental pillars of investment in the county. Together with public safety and public infrastructure, we have to have public on, public education, public safety and public infrastructure. Those are the people.

Nestor Aparicio  35:00

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It. Nick Stewart here, he’s running for Baltimore County Executive. We’re here pizza John’s I’m slicing that’s about a half, right? Maybe a

Nick Stewart  35:07

third good.

Nestor Aparicio  35:10

I got bad news from GBMC this morning about me making some lifestyle changes. You know, people see my pictures up on social media, like, how do you eat all of this and stay skinny. And I’m like, well, that’s plan of fitness. We’ll be there next week. It’s only and that’s my hot yoga mat. You

Nick Stewart  35:28

indulge, right?

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Nestor Aparicio  35:30

Let me tell a true story, all right, while you’re here, citizen, Nick, and then I’ll give you your platform. And by the way, John Hoey and Elizabeth here, everybody’s here, we’re doing why? Stuff and buy John Allen does not have covid, so he’s gonna come by. We’re gonna have rock star conversation here from Essex and a tribute to Brian jack of Essex a little later on as well. But we went to the supermarket the other day, wise markets after Easter, and the hams were on sale 99 cents. So this is what I’m blaming it on. I

Nestor Aparicio  36:00

don’t

Nestor Aparicio  36:00

know if it’s true or not, but I’m blaming

Nestor Aparicio  36:04

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it all

Nestor Aparicio  36:05

well and that, and I haven’t, over the last two weeks, I didn’t know they were taking my blood. I haven’t had a physical in 25

Nick Stewart  36:12

years.

Nestor Aparicio  36:13

She said, we’re gonna get some labs. And I’m like, I did that with Mr. Shul and over at holliberg Middle labs, no, we’re gonna take your blood. That’s what a lab is. And I’m like, oh, no, not these veins. You know, such a sissy dude. You have no idea what a sissy you were.

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Nick Stewart  36:26

Just afraid. It

Nestor Aparicio  36:27

was a white show even there to hold my hand, and the lady got a hold of me and took my blood. And I woke up this morning and I’m I didn’t even shave today. I felt like it’s Friday. I’m in Essex. I’m doing radio all day. I got up this morning. This morning, I made a deal with Luke that if the Orioles win the first three games, I got to take him to New York Monday night. Oh, it’s gonna be 71 in New York Monday night. John likes it. I’m going in anything New York. He likes the Yankees are playing Monday night, so if they sweep the Yankees the first three I got to take Luke to New York. Wow. So, so this morning, I get up and I’m about to get in the shower. And I got the my chart, all this stuff that my wife had to go through when she almost died twice, which I’ve been trying to avoid, all this medical all this colonoscopy that I had to deal with last year with GBMC and trying to avoid the man. And I get the little blood I’m about literally getting in the shower to come over here to eat the pizza. And I mean, I wanted a cheesesteak. I was Jones, and I thought John was gonna help me eat some fries and gravy, because I got to have friends To eat that how I looked

Nick Stewart  37:30

people into your

Nestor Aparicio  37:31

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orbit, if I

Nick Stewart  37:32

have

Nestor Aparicio  37:32

friends To eat it, I didn’t eat that much of it. Therefore, how bad could it be

Nick Stewart  37:38

for me? Right, together,

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Nestor Aparicio  37:39

I looked down, and I got like, my wife was working, she was on a conference call, and I got the like, that doctor says, unfortunately was the first word. And I’m like, Come on, man, she’s the unhealthy one. I’m cool. I’m fine, told the doctor I said I’m healthy, and that’s nothing serious, but this was her little poke at me to like,

Nick Stewart  38:03

no more ham.

Nestor Aparicio  38:04

I You see, I got a cheese pizza here, man. And this is

Nick Stewart  38:08

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protein.

Nestor Aparicio  38:09

Is this the low fat cheese? Brett, no, it’s not the low fat cheese. Probably wouldn’t taste nearly that good. All right, give your speech. But anyway, I ate all this ham. Yeah, my wife made split pea soup. She made bean soup. I had this. I had that, had the other. I probably had something else that was fried in the last couple days, and I gave blood. I said, this would be like knowing you’re getting drug tested and having too much at the Van Halen concert weekend before. This would be like having to get up and give a speech in the morning and drinking too many this would be like not prepping for the exam. And I thought to myself, nobody told me I was gonna have to give blood and that I should have eaten better the couple days before I went. So I’m blaming it on that. And my wife, of course, she’s a little more pragmatic. She’s like, cookies this week. She’s like, it’s all that fried stuff. You like I said, but I didn’t eat a whole lot of that this week, so

Nick Stewart  39:05

they’re gonna track it.

Nestor Aparicio  39:08

I got spanked by my doctor. It’s

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Nick Stewart  39:11

what they’re there for.

Nestor Aparicio  39:11

On the day, I wanted a cheese steak at Pizza, John, well, when

Nick Stewart  39:14

you go up to Yankee Stadium, you’re gonna keep it

Nestor Aparicio  39:16

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tight. No, you know, you have more confidence in my wife, when she looked at me, I went and I said, I promised everyone, if the Orioles win three in a row, I’m going to New York on Monday. She said, you’ll be working in the two grand slams. What

Nick Stewart  39:30

are you talking about? You won’t have to cancel

Nestor Aparicio  39:32

that appointment. So you’re running for county executive. Give everybody the spiel that you have. I mean, more thing. And I want to give everybody this politician register to vote. Please register. I mean, I’m sure you’re banging on doors, and that’s like number one thing is they can’t vote for you or against you, or if they don’t register. So that’s

Nestor Aparicio  39:48

just

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Nick Stewart  39:48

remembering that Johnny won by 17 votes, right? So we have to think about that. In a county that had 90,000 people voting, Johnny won by 17 so every person matters existentially. That’s, of course, true. But in RE. Reality, every vote matters in Baltimore County can come down to just the nearest of margins.

Nestor Aparicio  40:05

All right, give your speech. All right. Your seconds. Go ahead.

Nick Stewart  40:07

I’ll say this, Nestor,

Nestor Aparicio  40:08

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chance give you the first 30 when I got to pizza and Julian it is, and you’ll get your minute.

Nestor Aparicio  40:12

We’ll

Nick Stewart  40:12

close it out with this. I firmly believe that Baltimore County has the sameness problem. The folks I’m running against have 32 years of full time elected experience between them. And if you love the direction of Baltimore County, I’m not your guy. Make no mistake about that. I get it. But if you do believe in a fresh start and in fresh ideas, and the only person with a plan to actually get to a county that’s affordable and inclusive and modern, that sees communities like this one as the gems and the anchors that they are for the future of Baltimore County, then that is what we have to offer. We don’t have to keep doing what we are doing. And if we continue doing what we’re doing, that is not a one county vision that we all want to be a part of. We have to choose differently. This is the time

Nestor Aparicio  40:52

lot of folks are recommending and endorsing Nick he’s raised more money, and you already started with that. Raising money. It’s raising myself and bull roasting bar.

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Nick Stewart  41:00

What

Nestor Aparicio  41:00

are

Nestor Aparicio  41:00

we doing here next eight weeks? What are we doing? I’m doing to raise

Nick Stewart  41:03

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money? We are we’re doing a bunch of fundraisers. We have one coming up, actually, next week, on Wednesday, in Parkville, at the Urban Crab Shack. So come on out if you want to be a part of that. Details on the website for sure, and then we have a few more events that will be listed there as well for folks to see in. Fine.

Nestor Aparicio  41:17

All right, I want everybody to participate in the political process. We had Pat Dyer on the Republican side on two weeks ago. I cost us, and I’ll continue ahead. I know I have other candidates. Pat Young’s gonna join me in Catonsville. I know Mandy Reynolds coming out. I’m meeting new people. I had never met Sarah David until I was here and I felt guilty because I didn’t feed her pizza, but I did give her a slice for the road where pizza John’s. She took the acid tea courses. If you feel so inclined, I will pull the acid tea courses out. But I have Bay Bridge, I have boardwalk, and I have mollusks, herons and crustaceans and birds, all right. Which one do you

Nick Stewart  41:56

want? I love them, but I’m going to do the boardwalk because that’s where I hope to

Nestor Aparicio  41:59

take the kids.

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Nestor Aparicio  41:59

Yeah, I’ll be down in Mako in August. We’ll be down there in Ocean City, Maryland. All are brought to my friends at the Maryland lottery, in conjunction with our partners at GBMC, I already proved I didn’t listen to my doctor three hours and I’m making up stuff about low fat cheese, at least I called off the pepperoni.

Nick Stewart  42:20

Making great choices.

Nestor Aparicio  42:21

I have had freeze that split beef soup and bean soup I’ve been eating here all week, and I went to the Oriole game curio wellness Wendy hit me. She had she got stuck with tickets on a double header. I’m watching third inning of the game. I said to my wife, we’re not, we’re not getting any food at the ballpark. Eat before. Eat before you go. My dad used to say to me, GNA Highland town, we get a hot dog eat before you go in. I ain’t paying no ballpark prices, so we get out there. And my buddy Brian Poole’s brother in law, runs heritage smokehouse, and they were the ballpark vendor, and they had, they had brisket. I’m sure it was low fat, you know. So my wife, she’s getting beer and brisket. We’re sitting at the ball game, the sun shining. We’re losing 10 or nothing. They’re kicking the ball around like the bad news bears. It’s good news for you, John this weekend. But so I had brisket, so I’m

Nick Stewart  43:19

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you’ve got your fill.

Nestor Aparicio  43:20

I gotta go back. They redid that. I gotta go back to blanch broccoli and oil and vinegar, balsamic,

Nick Stewart  43:29

no

Nestor Aparicio  43:29

butter. I gotta go back to a whole wheat.

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Nick Stewart  43:32

So brown

Nestor Aparicio  43:33

rice. This next

Nick Stewart  43:33

one we’re gonna make, like a Whole Foods. What’s going on? I

Nestor Aparicio  43:36

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don’t know. I’m at Planet Fitness on the seventh next week, so come join me out there. Mark Vivian will be there trying to keep me skinny, Mr. Marathon guy, Marty bass, who still looks like a million bucks even though he’s retiring, he’s gonna join me. We’ll be a planet fitness. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. GBMC and our partners at Farnan and Durham are 410, 367777, I’m eating pizza. You’re dismissed as citizen steward. Thank you. You want some pizza for the kids all agree on cheese, right? Low fat, especially

Nick Stewart  44:03

Absolutely,

Nestor Aparicio  44:03

if

Nestor Aparicio  44:04

you’re offering

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Nick Stewart  44:04

we’re doing it. I gotta

Nestor Aparicio  44:05

get bread out here and find if they really have low fat cheese pizza here, we’re pizza John’s in Essex. We’re gonna talk about the why. Why? Because we care in their community, and I’m community, and they’ve been in the news a lot lately, so I have a lot of questions. And also, John Allen is going to be here rocking and rolling later on. He hit me yesterday. Said I got covid. Dude, I’m like, I said, get tested. He got tested. He doesn’t. I’m gonna change the spit guard. You consider

Nick Stewart  44:30

it. Everybody

Nestor Aparicio  44:31

knows. John’s one of my best friends in life, and his band’s coming back together later on in the month, down at Columbia Child’s Play, putting the rock and roll back together again. And I got a great AI story for John that I can’t wait to tell him we’re back for more peach jobs. Talk about community with our friends at the Y Luke’s got covered on the Orioles and Raven side. Was any breaking news saw brought to you by cold roofing and Gordian energy. Get on that. It is our best service even, even when Trevor Rogers is going on the IL You know what I mean? You still want to know first. Keep coming. So colise Campbell’s back. That’s good. It’s good for the character building that we’re trying to do around here in Baltimore. Back for more pizza, John’s. I’ll continue to build character and lose calories back for more right after this we’re Baltimore.