Feeding the strengths of Baltimore and serving the weaknesses

Our returning Councilwoman from Baltimore City’s 14th District Odette Ramos joins Nestor at MACo in Ocean City to discuss progress and problems in the city we call home, emphasizing the importance of having a council that reflects the city’s diversity and can effectively address the unique needs of different neighborhoods.

Odette Ramos and Nestor talk Baltimore stretngths and need

Sat, Aug 17, 2024 3:20PM • 25:25

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SPEAKERS

Odette Ramos, Nestor Aparicio

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Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are, W, N, S, T, Towson, Baltimore and Baltimore, positive, the Great Seal of, can you come behind my camera, just so people can see what you are? This is a bird of, I don’t know of the great Talbot County I’ve been to. I’ve had a crab cake in Taliban. Yeah, that’s

Odette Ramos  00:19

right.

Nestor Aparicio  00:20

What kind of bird? Jen, what kind of bird is this? A duck? It’s a duck. It’s a geese. It’s not a Canadian geese, it’s a Talbot County geese. Brought to you by the Maryland lottery, the only stuff you get at Mako. We had a unicorn going by a couple of minutes ago. That’s right, we have real elected officials, and then we have mascots, right? Counties? Awesome. The great Talbot County. We’re having fun down here. And I have old friends, new friends stopping by. If I call you an old friend, it indicates you’re old and you’re obviously young. Oh, that Ramos. She is our council member, Councilwoman of the 14th district in beautiful Baltimore City, and it’s always good to have you on you’re one of the few Hispanic elected Correct? Am I saying it only I am the only Hispanic journalist I’ve ever known in the history of the city, ever in sports, ever in any way. Yes, we’re right.

Odette Ramos  01:11

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I’m the first. I’m the first and only right now in Baltimore City, but

Nestor Aparicio  01:17

you’re an American, Hispanic, right? Puerto Ricans, right? Yeah. I’m Venezuelan. So, yeah, yeah, you know my Spanish is, you know, you know,

Odette Ramos  01:24

in Mako, in the elected officials in at county level, elected officials. There’s only three of us, two in montgomery county, and me. So

Nestor Aparicio  01:31

I’ll say something, because this is a good shout out for my side of town in Colgate, my elementary school, Colgate Elementary, where my son went. My mother went, I went, it’s celebrating its 100th anniversary. It’s been Johnny, oh, I gave him a hard time. It got raised. We lived in trailers over there with kids for years, but it’s this beautiful campus, and I met the principal about two and a half years ago. We opened it with the masks on, and all that crap was going on. And I haven’t been back since, because you can’t just walk into school. We gotta, gotta make a point, right? Yeah, 100th anniversary coming up, week after next. I’m looking forward to it’s gonna be phenomenal. But the young lady that runs the school, I met her, and I went in, and I looked around the classrooms, and all these the kids all look like us. Oh, and I said to her, these kids are Hispanic, and she’s like 56% first, first Spanish, and then 72% of the whole population in the school is Hispanic. In 1973 456789, I was the only Hispanic. Well, the Flores family from Columbia, there were two Hispanic families in my neighborhood, yeah. And that was it. Now the neighborhood is 70% Hispanic. Well,

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Odette Ramos  02:38

you know, in Baltimore City, 20% of the school age. Kids in public school are Hispanic, 20. It’s going to be 30 in the next five years. So

Nestor Aparicio  02:51

doing that right the east side, all over. It’s all over

Odette Ramos  02:55

northwest Barclay School, which is new in my district, very high population, and so we were not ready as a city for everybody coming, and we need to grow as a city, and we welcome everybody coming, but we’re still fighting to get our Spanish 311, app, which was supposed to happen, you know, sometime this summer, we’re still working on hiring more Latinos in, you know, city Government, so that people who look like the city actually are serving the city

Nestor Aparicio  03:24

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when the city is looking more like that is your point. That’s why,

Odette Ramos  03:27

that’s my point. Yeah, absolutely. And that in terms of school, that the parents who are coming, you know, need to have those supports to be able to talk with the teacher and everything else. So I think it’s great. I’m so happy that we’re having

Nestor Aparicio  03:41

get better food. There is definitely Caribbean food more than your husband. And he not even a Caribbean dude, right? Yeah, he’s like a, he’s an adopted child of grenade.

Odette Ramos  03:53

Oh, no question about it, yeah, yeah, I’ve

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Nestor Aparicio  03:56

known her husband. John red lox was the DJ at blast games, 30 years ago, spirit games and you guys been married for a long time, making babies and living a good life, living a good life in the middle of the city. What just tell me about the 14th district? A lot of folks don’t know what that is, but, but our governor lives in your district, right? Yeah,

Odette Ramos  04:15

before he went to Annapolis, right? Sure.

Nestor Aparicio  04:19

But Well, he’ll come back at some point. Maybe you’ll go in the White House, who knows? But your district’s incredibly diverse. It very

Odette Ramos  04:25

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much is we have, you know, the mansions of Guilford, and we’ve got the vacant properties in dolly Park. I mean, we’ve got everything. And I love it. I think it’s great because it’s really, it’s never boring, that’s for sure. And we’ve got different issues in different parts of the of the city of the district. So I get to work on the issues that I think are important. I get to really spend a lot of time in Coldstream homestead, Montebello, near Lake Montebello and Charlie Park, where really the needs are so great.

Nestor Aparicio  04:54

A lot of people, 80% of your time trying to lift the hardest hit, 20% so. It would feel that way if I were in your role, people rolling park at home and keep them safe, and they don’t have a lot of needs and they have financial you got people there we, I talked at length with Megan McCorkle earlier from Enoch Pratt about if your kid has to learn on a phone, have Wi Fi access that it’s ubiquitous to all of us, but it’s not in a sector of your of

Odette Ramos  05:21

your right well? And the other thing is, the research, the data, really does show that there is a distrust in government in areas that have been disinvested. They’re like, well, people don’t care about us, so we’re not going to be a part of it. And so I do spend a lot of time in those areas that really need us most. And a lot of my policy priorities around housing are based on what’s happening in neighborhoods that have been disinvested for so long, addressing vacant properties, making sure that our older adults have help with Home Repair, so that they can age with dignity.

Nestor Aparicio  05:54

That was my father, by the way, in the same you know, 98 years old, she didn’t have me and my son. She had not, you know, you would have been all she had, right? Yeah, literally, no, that’s

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Odette Ramos  06:03

right. That’s right. And, you know, illegal dumping, whatever the situation is, there’s, it’s accentuated 110% in the areas that have been disinvested for so long, so,

Nestor Aparicio  06:14

and that’s all the awful stuff to Fox 45 comes down.

Odette Ramos  06:19

And because if you look at a map where it says where all the vacant properties are. That’s where you’re you know your violent crime is happening. I mean, it’s there, so it’s, I do spend a lot of time there. So interesting, because there’s this ballot initiative that Sinclair put in to lower the number of council districts from 14 to eight, which basically doubles the amount of people that we serve, which I’m fine serving more people, but without the right, you know, staff, the capacity and the fact that I spend so much time in areas that need it most, I

Nestor Aparicio  06:51

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wouldn’t be able to do that. Why would less be more? This is terrible

Odette Ramos  06:55

in this case, it doesn’t make sense. Why would people vote against their interest of not being able to have representation. It makes no sense. So that is something that you know, once everybody gets at the ballot box, just vote against that one, because it also would guarantee, would guarantee that that council will not look like the rest of the city, because it’s so much easier for white, particularly men, to be able to fundraise, to be able to win elections, and we will not have a city, a leadership that looks like the city. And I mean, it would be very difficult to add more Latinos if we had fewer districts. So we’re trying to keep the 14 in. It’s a good number. It’s really important. Our city has so many different problems because some people say, Well, you’re, you know, you’re losing population, and the county’s gaining population. They’re trying to add more people. We actually, people do want to live in the city. We are just not. We don’t have enough housing for them right now. And the challenges in Baltimore City are just so much more that we need to have representation that can just concentrate well, that’s

Nestor Aparicio  08:02

right, you come down here and I see I have cornbread on from the eastern shore, and I’m gonna have Emily Keller on. She’s coming on after you from out in Hagerstown, problems out there, and opioids, and they’re all dealing with different all the state but Baltimore. And I said this to somebody passionately last night, after like, a third beer, I’m like, Baltimore’s the freaking engine, the powers all of it. Look at the Key Bridge, look at the port, look at the airport, look at the sports teams, look look at all of it. Don’t abandon or, quite frankly, shit talk Baltimore. It’s not, it’s not cool. And I see these Trump signs as I go down 50, yeah, you know. And I don’t know if the chickens or you know, or the horses for Trump, but whatever it is, understanding that being anti Baltimore is stupid. It’s not anybody’s best interest in the state to bag on Baltimore, or throw the talent on Baltimore, or continue to pilot. Fox 45 is doing that for everybody. You know, somebody, right? I mean, yeah, like, and I get that questions need to be asked. But when to your point, you said something about trying to lift places when you’re being nefarious and not in a way, to lift, trying to, like, screw up the Council, to screw it up more you’re not really helping. You know, at all, it

Odette Ramos  09:21

doesn’t help. Solution oriented, not at all. And then there was also this notion of, well, if there’s fewer council members, then they’ll be, you know, everything will be streamlined. Things will happen sooner. It’s like, But democracy is messy, and you have to have all of those views, and everybody needs to feel like their council person is representing them in all of the debates and all of the subjects that we tackle, we can’t do that. People

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Nestor Aparicio  09:45

that voted in April, there are few people that voted in the city. And I left that people are like are challenged by the concept of whether it even matters, or whether there is such a thing as democracy. People. And Baltimore just threw in the. Out and not even voting, and that’s right,

Odette Ramos  10:02

and that’s upsetting, and so we have to have a council that’s going to be attentive to their needs. It’s going to get worse if we have fewer council members. So I think

Nestor Aparicio  10:11

confidence they would vote more. I think they would make more of an effort too.

Odette Ramos  10:14

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Well we have, if you look, you know, my district is pretty, you know, decent voter turnout, and and we just have to also make it easier for people. I mean, that year that covid just sent everybody a ballot because it was covid, maybe you want to vote the baby, yeah. But the turnout was 60% in Baltimore City, which is the record turnout. We never have gotten that before because we made it easy for them. Oh, there’s my ballot. Here it is. Here we go. And

Nestor Aparicio  10:40

like, everything in the world is made easy on this thing, right? Like, you order food, order whatever

Odette Ramos  10:45

you want, and there were vote centers, so people who wanted to show up put their mask on and go vote. You could, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  10:52

I go check in. Well, I was just when I went to vote, yeah, it was, I literally walked into my voting Yeah. And it was like, hello. I don’t think that’s gonna happen November. Only one in voting at the moment. I

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Odette Ramos  11:04

don’t think that’s gonna happen in November. Everybody’s so in Baltimore, so excited to vote for Kamala Harris for president that I think we’re gonna get the turnout that we got in 2008 when people

Nestor Aparicio  11:13

were voted parents three weeks from now in Baltimore, it would be Nazi like it’s been in other places, right? Especially where we are. Baltimore voted was at 97.2% against Trump. There was a number four years. It was nice seven question,

Odette Ramos  11:30

but I think everybody, I mean, there were lots of people who weren’t going to vote if Biden would stay in. And I think he’s done an amazing job and but it was very clear that the party needed something new and exciting to be able to be really motivated to go out and vote and defeat Trump. And that’s what this move did Tim

Nestor Aparicio  11:48

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Wals things become, just from a political standpoint. I

Odette Ramos  11:51

mean, he’s just like, America’s uncle, like, oh, I mean, and people feel that way about him. I think it’s great. I think it’s great. We need that so well, it’s interesting. We need

Nestor Aparicio  12:00

that a whole lot more than we need Trump, and that’s for sure. Trump, you know? I mean, that’s that’s just stating the obvious. But I would hope when all this is said and done in November, we don’t have insurrections and and I think that there’s obvious deals that we don’t find out that these, these voting precincts, are being rigged with people on their side to not verify elections. I mean, the most you should go to be under a prison if you’re not verifying, if you’re trying to steal elections in this country.

Odette Ramos  12:29

No, I know. And I mean, he should have been in jail by now for that, you know, it’s crazy, yeah, but I do think that there would be, he’ll try something, you know, and we just have to be ready for it. But I think that voter turnout is going to be high. People are excited. I was just in Puerto Rico for a few days visiting my family, and their voter turnout is like 90% in Puerto Rico. Now they can’t vote for president, because the way that it works is they don’t pay, you know, federal income tax, so they don’t vote for president. They can vote in the primary, and they have their own party system and everything. The

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Nestor Aparicio  13:00

Puerto Rican thing’s crazy, just from Trump throwing at toilet paper. And just like when storms it there sort of the the abandonment, I mean, but look, we abandon Texas. Nobody has power in Texas either. So, like, I don’t know that it’s anything anti Latin, or I just think that there’s certainly a Puerto Rico status is sort of like taxation, with that representation on the license plates of DC? No,

Odette Ramos  13:23

that’s exactly the same. It’s exactly the same situation that that DC has exactly. And the way that, you know, FEMA works is that in a disaster, they’re going to replace things back to where it was not in an innovative way like that should have happened in Puerto Rico, where, again, if they have a big storm again, that whole, you know, power grid is going to go bad again. So why not try to invest in things that are going to make sure that if there is a hurricane again, because there will be, that the infrastructure doesn’t completely fall apart every single time that that happens. And that is not what FEMA policy is. So hopefully, with a, you know, new government in place, with a new leader in place, and people really thinking about disasters now, because we’re having them more because of climate change, that some of that can be, you know, taken care of. And I plan on talking to Senator Van Hollen about that, not just in the reference of Puerto Rico, but just in general, with disasters and how we recover from disasters. We should recover better, you know. And not

Nestor Aparicio  14:20

like New Orleans learned a lot, you know, sure, yeah,

Odette Ramos  14:23

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Orleans learned a lot there. There’s innovations now with all kinds of different power sources and not just the same power source. I mean, there’s all kinds of things we could be doing. So, you know, it’s, it’s very interesting to think about all of that. I mean, I have to, in my district, I have two major flood areas, major flood area. They’re not on the coast, because I don’t, I don’t represent an area by the coast. And that’s a different type of

Nestor Aparicio  14:45

well, I drove through Ellicott City last week, and I’m like, holy how. I made a wrong turn by Mueller’s house in Catonsville to sort of go to a restaurant toward Merriweather. And I went through an area in the park that I’d never been through. And I’m like, Oh my God. I mean, this is a, this is. Faster every time it rains, it has to be, yeah, right, yeah.

Odette Ramos  15:03

So in my I have the stony run, and then I have 35th and Hill and over by mervo, and we’ve been doing that. Those are just infrastructure issues.

Nestor Aparicio  15:10

Well, those areas in Mount Washington flood all the time, all the time, yeah. So we’re really luckily not as Anna last week, right? And, well, the

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Odette Ramos  15:18

coastal flooding is slightly different than the inland flooding. But yes, I mean, you saw people swimming in that water over in pills point, don’t

Nestor Aparicio  15:24

do that. Yeah, yeah, don’t

Odette Ramos  15:25

do that. You weren’t one of the people that jumped into harbor. No, I was not. No.

Nestor Aparicio  15:31

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Why is that a thing? Why was that a thing? What

Odette Ramos  15:33

was that? I mean, there are a lot of people working hard to make sure that we have a swimmable harbor. Okay, we’ve got the four. Mr. Trash wheels. Miss trash wheel. Doctor, Professor,

Nestor Aparicio  15:46

see the crabs coming up on the on the bricks. We’ve seen snakes in there. I mean, just all I think

Odette Ramos  15:51

we do. I think we see turtles in there. Well, I think we do want to clean harbor. We’re seeing animals come back. I wasn’t going to jump in.

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Nestor Aparicio  16:00

Ramos is here from the 14th. I love having her on love her husband. Love the parties they throw over there with good music at the Peabody and always doing good stuff. And my wife loves the Trinidad Tobago steel orchestra. Oh yeah. She loves the bells. Yes,

Odette Ramos  16:13

absolutely, yeah. We’re actually having Trinidad and Tobago steel orchestra play at the Roland water tower next weekend, the 25th so that’ll be a nice community event.

Nestor Aparicio  16:21

25th that’s what night next? Saturday night. It’s a Sunday night. Sunday night, you must tell my wife, yeah, her sister’s in town.

Odette Ramos  16:29

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Oh, good. Okay,

Nestor Aparicio  16:30

they don’t have anything to do. Oh, they

Odette Ramos  16:32

should come by. It’ll be

Nestor Aparicio  16:33

fun there. There’s nothing in the world that she loves. Maybe BareNaked lady. She loves that band more. But then there’s the Steve the bells. Yeah, she loves the bells. Oh, yeah,

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Odette Ramos  16:41

no, it’ll be fine. And nobody does it better than them. No, absolutely, they’re the best. They’re the Rolling Stones. No, and it’s a family, and they’ll, they’re great, you know. So I think it’s awesome. And so that there’s a lot of things happening. So hi,

Nestor Aparicio  16:56

what for you with the city, and not just Brandon and Zeke was supposed to come by today, but we’re going to do it next week. I think, what do people what’s good about the city? If I’m stopped me saying it can be some good not numbers and metrics in that craft, just things that you’re seeing better than maybe you found it with Mary Pat or whatever, things that she was trying to get done. Where is the progress of the city?

Odette Ramos  17:21

Yeah, actually, we’re making a ton of progress. Good. It’s not as fast as I would like. We’re absolutely making progress. There are so many amazing places for people to come on Green Mountain Avenue. We’ve got the Baltimore book festival coming to way, really forever and always. The end of September, it’s going to be great. And because we’ve got so many bookstores, I represent the most bookstores in the entire city in my district, so it makes sense to have the book festival there, which everybody loves the book

Nestor Aparicio  17:46

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festival. I went to the book festival when it was down in Mount Vernon, yeah, this is my it’s a great memory book festival. I met Marcia Brady at the Book Festival. Okay, you know. So you don’t forget when you meet Maureen, you know. So, um, you bring in celebs, authors, signing books? The whole deal? Yeah,

Odette Ramos  18:02

absolutely. Local. A lot of local authors, local booksellers. It’s going to be in music, food. It’s really going to be great. And it’s in back in the neighborhood. People really like to have the book festival in a neighborhood, not necessarily in the harbor. That didn’t work when it was I saw you yelling about it. Oh, yeah, big deal. And so, so we’re doing there’s a lot of great things happening in my district and around the city. Obviously, you know, thank God the homicide rate is going down. I think we’re doing a lot of good, really creative things to make sure that that happens. With the group violence reduction strategy and the mayor’s office, neighborhood safety and engagement. I think that that’s really a great thing. And then on the housing front, mean we still need to have more housing for our residents, both on the affordable side, but also for people who want to move in, or for renters who want to become homeowners. And so we’ve been working hard to get the right tools in place and the money in place to be able to rehab our vacant properties. But the fact is, and the research shows, people want to move here, and we want to have that inventory to make that happen, and not just in the white l areas, as Dr Brown would call it, but all over the city, because that is, you know, every we are a city of neighborhoods. Every neighborhood has its own unique feel, both in architecture, but also just in terms of, you know, how the neighborhoods are organized. And it’s amazing. Got amazing parks. It’s great. So people should absolutely come to Baltimore. And actually, being at Mako, you get a chance to talk to people across the state. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  19:30

they all share this. They all talk to me about, I want to come see an Orioles game, right? So, you know, there’s, there is the thing about live in Baltimore, from we deal with it every day, and we deal with all crap and heroes. But when you do live an hour outside of town or two, you know Baltimore is a destination place, and it’s serving its best face. You come once or twice a year for some of these people, and they the baseball team and the promise of the new inner harbor and new things to see people get excited. Not coming well.

Odette Ramos  20:00

Also people, everybody here goes to Baltimore, comes to Baltimore for the world class health care. World class. We have the best health care and save my wife’s life twice. World here and and so more people, I think, are being a lot more optimistic about the promise of our city, and I think it’s great. So I’m very excited about where we’re going, not as much as I would you know, a lot of progress, as quickly as I would like, but it is happening.

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Nestor Aparicio  20:24

Annette Ramos from the 14th she is our defending champion. Before I let her go, some little baseball, UK, Puerto Rican, me being Venezuelan, you know, this team, lot of promise. Then the pitching. Andrews, if nothing else. And I say this Fluke all the time, if I writing a book on the season, if it ends with a championship or not, it has been really interesting, wonderful. I’m 55 we’ve had a lot of really crappy baseball but crappy intentions for a long time. This is on a night by night basis, whether it’s Kevin Brown and Ben McDonald, the presentation the game and just how the team’s chances to win, the personalities involved chasing down the Yankees, and have no idea how it’s going to end. Because if they had all the pitching that was healthy, I would feel like, Oh, my God, they’re going to win. Now I’m feeling like, well, they might win. Let’s, let’s see how it turns out. Because

Odette Ramos  21:12

this is, well, the bats have been hot, which is nice, you know, they’ve been scoring those runs, those home runs are pretty cool. I think that, you know, it goes with what the optimism that we’re feeling about the city too, and the new ownership, a lot of people are really excited about, you know, the new ownership and what’s happening. So I’ll be excited when I got my press pass. No, I understand, yeah, but I do think that the the more you know, hopefully we’ll get where we want to go this year. But the fact is that there’s a lot of potential. So that’s good.

Nestor Aparicio  21:41

I talk about him every day, all day, on the internet, all night, Lucas at Camden Yards all

Odette Ramos  21:46

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weekend. Well. And you know, John is a huge fan. He’s always been John, my husband, has always been an Orioles fan. It doesn’t matter if they were bad or good. They are. He’s always been a fan. And it’s way better when they’re good.

Nestor Aparicio  21:57

It is way especially when they play 162 of them, you know. So we say, now you’re saying, we have a chance. We definitely have a chance. We’re gonna be down at fade celebrating Oriole baseball on Friday when the cheatstros Come. Can we agree that the Astros were cheating? We agree with that.

Odette Ramos  22:13

I have no idea about that. So they were chant on it. She’s an elected official.

Nestor Aparicio  22:17

She can’t do that. John would agree with me. I promise you that the Gold Rush seven stars will have these. I think it’s our last go around with these. Come down and get them. On Friday, we’ll have the Raven scratch offs after that, Mark Viviano is going to join me at Cocos on the fourth to kick off, doing 26 crab cake, or 26 oysters, 26 days, 26 ways, all around the bay. So I’m going everywhere between September 5 and september 30, ending in Annapolis, perhaps with Wes Moore. I’m not sure the invites out, but we’re doing the whole state, and I’m going to try to eat a lot of oysters next month and celebrate the R in the month of September.

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Odette Ramos  22:52

Okay, well, you’re going to stick around the water because there’s a new restaurant in my district, urban oyster, black owned restaurant. She does an amazing job.

Nestor Aparicio  23:00

Let’s go. I’m in that what she’s gonna have to do. And this is the deal about the oysters, because I only ate them one way all my life. I ate in shocked raw at a bull roast with cocktail sauce and a squeeze of lemon. That was an oyster to me. I never,

Odette Ramos  23:13

I don’t know how she does. I don’t eat them myself, but they,

Nestor Aparicio  23:16

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well, you’re missing out. That’s all right. You’re missing out. I’ll eat enough for you. There you go. But there’s all these different things, accoutrement that you can put on these things. And I want to try to do it differently every single day, 26 different ways. Okay, so whatever way she comes up with, it’s interesting. That’s not just here. I’ll shuck it. You eat it.

Odette Ramos  23:35

Oh no. She’s very creative. She’s great. So I’ll be there where she in your district. She’s in Hamden on 36th street.

Nestor Aparicio  23:41

I knew this. I’ve already looked this one off. Yes, Hamden is your district. It

Odette Ramos  23:45

is. Yep, I represent the business quarter. Well, the most of the neighborhood. There’s a lot of worcesters in Hamden. Well, there’s over by clipper mill on the other side. There’s also some oysters, local oysters there.

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Nestor Aparicio  23:58

Yeah. Well, I’m going to go down the Eastern Shore, or come down here to the Eastern Shore, also Southern Maryland, and I’m gonna go out and, like, figure it all out. Last night, we were walking into fagers Island, and I saw the first horseshoe crab I’ve ever seen in my life in the wild, in the in the marsh underneath of the little footbridge, and it had oysters all over its back. Oh, and I’m like,

Odette Ramos  24:18

look at that. What’s going on Chesapeake

Nestor Aparicio  24:21

Bay. Everything’s alive in this bay. So we’ve been alive in the harbor. Ramos is the elected in the 14th I encourage you to get involved in good things in the city. Come on out. Absolutely. Four things, our friends at Liberty, pure solutions, keeping our water clear, like the oysters. Keep the water clear in the in the Chesapeake Bay and and making those crabs taste so good as well. Our friends at shifty Luke MultiCare, send to Luke out to practice as well as royal farms. Powering up our coffee. My wife this morning, where we woke up here, 48th Street, no city, and she’s like, where’s the nearest royal farms? I’m like, I think it’s like, way up Mike, Delaware’s No it’s in the 80s. So she just went up. Got me some fresh coffee, real fresh, real fast. Even got some fried chicken this morning to honor Justin Tucker, hoping he. Hitting that big kick against Kansas City in a couple weeks, we have Mako. Emily Keller’s gonna stop by Senator Ben card and Senator Chris Van Hollen. Whole bunch of elected, whole bunch fun people. We’re talking cyber. We’ve talked Ocean City and windmills and just politics, but also business, good stuff. We’re at Mako in Ocean City. I’m Nestor. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stopped talking Baltimore positive in Maryland strong. We.