Visionary of The Year hopeful Nick Schultz is joined by Mike DiGiacomo of the Better Business Bureau at Kooper’s North in Mays Chapel on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour to give Nestor the business and fun of fundraising for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s biggest soiree of the year and the events leading up to the big night in June.
Nestor Aparicio discusses his Maryland crab cake tour, highlighting events at Kooper’s North, Koco’s Pub, and Red Brick Station, with a top prize of $10,000 sponsored by the Maryland lottery. He features Nick Schultz, who is raising funds for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as a Visionary, aiming for $100,000, possibly $150,000. Nick shares his personal connection to LLS through family health issues and his commitment to supporting cancer patients. Mike DiGiacomo from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) emphasizes the BBB’s role in consumer protection and business accreditation. The conversation also touches on the importance of community support and networking.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
LLS fundraising, Maryland crab cake tour, leukemia lymphoma society, visionary of the year, patient support, Better Business Bureau, scam prevention, insurance, employee benefits, community support, cancer treatment, fundraising events, Maryland lottery, Baltimore positive, accelerate.
SPEAKERS
Nick Schultz, Nestor Aparicio, Mike DiGiacomo
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Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, A, M, 1570 we call this thing Baltimore positive. We’re out here at Coopers North right now doing a Maryland crab cake tour. And if I can unhitch ticket number 83 here, back to the future, we should get the 88 ticket. The 88 the one you want here, top prize, $10,000 our friends at the Maryland lottery have given me to give these away at the Maryland crab cake tour. We’re here Cooper’s north in May’s chapel, Timonium. We got some friends doing a great turn for LLS. We’re going to tell you a great story in a minute. We’re also going to be next Wednesday at Coco’s pub in laraville. I will have, I have a whole bunch of freshly minted Back to the Future. Pretty lucky batch. We had a winner earlier. Coopers, on the seventh of May, we will be at red brick station in in White Marsh with Bill blocker drinking some beer and seeing what’s going on with the movies over there. The other day, this guy is up, been in my life, I guess, since birth, because his father was in my life when he was born. His dad was my athletic director at Dundalk High School and the basketball coach. His older brother was my trainer at Brick Bodies. Loved you, Vicky brick loved the family. My loved all the bricks who’ve gone through just hell here this week. And your brother trained me in kickboxing in the basement. All he listened to was Wu tan clan. And this is probably about 20 years ago, late 90s. We did this. Curtis Schultz’s baby brother, Nick Schultz, is my guest. And if anybody’s a Maryland fan, they know your brother. And 10 years older than you, he didn’t beat you up. He’s too old to even beat you up, right? Probably, right.
Nick Schultz 01:34
He really didn’t. Honestly, when he had hair, he was a good brother. Honestly, took care of me, showed me
Nestor Aparicio 01:40
the rope. You already beat him up on the hair. Yeah, it’s your first thing in here. He’s gonna watch this. Listen, in Dallas, Texas, at SMU. I
Nick Schultz 01:47
8told him we had to throw a couple shots in there. He said he was game for three. So that’s one. I got two more to go. Three
Nestor Aparicio 01:51
cheap shots. I’m gonna keep you on Mike while you’re getting cheap shots here. LL, less and the leukemia, lymphoma society. I’ve looked back into my annals of my history. I’m 34 and a half years on the radio. We’re doing our 27th anniversary this summer. It amazed me how many things I had done for LLS without even knowing, ah, lymphoma, leukemia, blah, blah, blah, let’s raise some money, and I bring pretty girls in, and they would tell stories, and we would do Man of the Year, Woman of the Year, all of that, and then, like my wife gets cancer on May 20 of 2014 and it’s amazing that I look back at all these things, and I find things I did for kidney or I did things for Heart Association, did things for longness. There’s so many causes out there, but man, when that ish comes to your doorstep, and I had Terry back here earlier talking about his two fights with Harry sill, Harry cell leukemia. My wife had a leukemia so undefined because she got it at 911 she was a first responder, so they didn’t a ll, AML, a BL, they you know, it was all of that. But when you get down the trenches and you got a fight going on, you better hope that the people doing the research, federal research, hospital research, people like leukemia, lymphoma society, which is why I support them. I did their junior visionary last year. I am seated poorly, I think, and invite me back. I think I screwed up up here, but you’re doing visionary, and this is a big undertaking. They’ve asked me to do it a couple times. I’ve actually turned it down, because I just know, like it’s a serious 12 week run for you, and you got to have something in the heart here to get you involved. So give us your leukemia, lymphoma journey here. So
Nick Schultz 03:27
honestly, in the years of training, so I followed Curtis footsteps in the training world and spent a lot of years helping people mindset movement in every possible way. And in my last couple years of training before I transition the insurance world, I had a lot of people that were going through chemo, that were battling some kind of cancer that really needed something and anchored into movement, stretching and just exercise that really made them feel better in going through it. So I knew the tie was there. You got to move. When you got cancer, you got to move. And honestly, people come out of it, they’re feeling better because you’re already going to feel down. You already your body’s worn down, but getting that movement helped a lot. And then, honestly, we had some some scares within our own family, just with blood issues. And I knew through Kate Paris and Melissa, Kate Paris and Melissa parish, who ran this past year, that there was a bigger calling. I’ve always wanted to help people in a big
Nestor Aparicio 04:20
way. Kate on last year and had her own recently. She’s with accelerate. Kate’s beautiful, lovely we went to the zoo. Actually, I’m going to the zoo on Friday night to see their big light show over there and all that. I went with Kate last time, but she ran last year. And I mean, I am familiar with the program, how it went from man and woman of the year to visionary of the year, kind of a different thing. And anybody’s my LinkedIn friend, I have a visionary. I took a picture with a big visionary sign there for myself. But you know, all kidding aside, they do amazing work, but it really comes down to street advocates like you or me or people to say, I’m gonna run for this and we’re gonna raise money. And as I said in the previous segment, how much bar you attended here tonight at Coopers, we’re
8Nick Schultz 04:59
tend to. A bar, and we’re going to come back again in May and do it again. And Patrick and Terry are having us back again. But we’ve got a lot. We’ve got a team of 11 on the team with visionaries that we’re pushing right now. Goal is $100,000 but we may have to push that to 150 or we’re really reaching. You could do more push push. Hey, listen, with you said when
Nestor Aparicio 05:17
you were training with your push push, yeah,
Nick Schultz 05:19
absolutely so with with help, with people like you, like like Mike, a lot of people in our in our corner, we could push the two we’re trying to do as much as we can. I anchored around patient support because I saw when, when I when I sat and had family members getting treatment. Saw those seats and there’s people getting treatment sitting there, kids, grandparents, husbands and wives, you knew you have to do more to help people going through it cancer.
Nestor Aparicio 05:44
8Don’t discriminate me. I saw that on the fifth floor down at Hopkins. You know, for a year and a half, my wife did 155 nights in the hospital, two battles, thanks to Niels in Germany, who saved her life twice on the with bone marrow. But man, this was I’ll never forget. You know, it’s March Madness. It’s a Thursday night my wife’s Google that she said, I think I have leukemia. I said, don’t talk like that. Yeah. And I go back, I come in the hospital, and they, Doctor shuts the door and says, You got leukemia. And I the first thing you use go to the internet, you start to say, what do I have? How do I get rid of it? And this is where the support group that you’re talking about comes together to surround people with love’s good, you know, thoughts and prayers, hugs and kisses and all that. Medicine, chemo, recovery, health, education, all the parts that keep you alive, above and beyond what the doctors are going to stick in your body, right?
Nick Schultz 06:38
And we even had a lady that’s on our team. She does business development for a nonprofit in the area. I didn’t know until I was running that her mom was receiving treatment right then, and there she was actually in the midst of it, and said, We don’t know where to go. Like as an adult, you’re told, okay, you have this come back in a couple weeks. So what do you do during those weeks? They match the volunteers, match somebody up that’s going through treatment. Just found out was somebody that just went through it, or is going through it now, just to give them, that person to really help support them through it, they don’t know what the journey is going to be like, and it’s a scary journey. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 07:08
we’re Cooper’s north on a Wednesday Terry and every Patrick here at Coopers north, they’re doing 10% of the tab tonight. You’re coming back again a couple weeks. Give me the whole schedule, because, like, it’s gonna be a little late to the party for people to run out on a Wednesday night. Maybe the Euros will get two hits tonight. I just a little cheap shot at them as one for them, and I hope everybody reads my dear Katie Griggs letter about my press credential as well. You’re You’re five, six weeks out on this. This is a June event right then. It’s a big gala. Was down by the airport the last time I did it, I looked real nice and stuff like that. I’ve been to it twice. The first time we went, my wife was really my wife had just missed her transplant that week. So, like, I that that’s an anchor dude that night’s crazy for me. But six weeks, tell me. Give me a little like, how many bartenders you doing here? What are you doing?
Nick Schultz 07:58
We’re gonna do another happy hour later in May here. You know, Patrick and Terry are gonna have us back may 6. Kate Paris is doing her hot version of hot ones. Is Kate on your team? Kate is Kate is one of the co chairs this year. So she’s actually putting on an event that all of the visionaries are gonna hold on
8Nestor Aparicio 08:15
here. I gotta come to that hold on here six. May six. I gotta be surrounded by visionaries. Otherwise I’m not gonna have any
Nick Schultz 08:21
vision right down at the Sagamore. Pendry, we’re doing a hot wings, a hot ones contest to fire, a nice on May 6 down the Sagamore. All right, that’s Tuesday, May 6 at Sagamore, may 6 on that night. You bartending there too? No, I’m eating wings. Eating wings and answering questions. What is your role
Nestor Aparicio 08:37
in this, other than figurehead? You know, you know, I don’t Are you like the Rubenstein bobblehead? You just figure head. And
Nick Schultz 08:43
8what are you doing? Here I am. I’m putting good people around me. That’s, ah, team members, just
Nestor Aparicio 08:47
like in hell or COVID. Tell me what you do in the real world. You do insurance, and you work with two of my pals, and Steve Heller And Brian coats. I invited COVID by COVID in Hawaii. COVID
Nick Schultz 08:58
is in Hawaii. Yeah. Who? I was supposed to send him a text, or I was supposed to go on that trip, but I got to work. I got to hold the agency down with Steve. So yeah, we do all things insurance, home and auto, commercial insurance, life insurance, and we just started a new Employee Benefits Division, which is going really well. So we’re staying What do you sell? Personally, personally, I do all of our life insurance, long term care, disability for all of our business owners and personal. So that’s that’s
Nestor Aparicio 09:24
See, all the things you’re talking about evolved my wife, when she got cancer, right? We had met life, calling her tell poking her, trying to get her back to work when she couldn’t work because she was too weak. And you know all of that, having the right insurance when you get sick, when you have a problem, when your car gets hit, any of that issue I haven’t even thought of, can we get insurance for the Orioles pitching? Can you? Can we do that at Hell or COVID or no we
8Nick Schultz 09:50
can. We can ensure everything from an arm to a wrist to a finger. You we can put in those high end policy. What if you don’t have a finger? What if you’re missing a finger? We can, how about the other fingers? We can insure the other one. Yes, okay, Mike,
Nestor Aparicio 10:01
I want to get you in here. Man. Mike Giacomo, my friend from accelerant, I want to give give you a headset here. Get you involved. Mike is with you know, better business, Better Business Bureau, so, but you’re sort of new to the party. You and I’ve had a meeting on it before. But more than anything, you’re worried about messing your hair up. Here’s what you’re worried about doing. Man, I get vain guests around it. You know, I thought when I moved from radio to video that I would shave more often than I do, but I don’t. Some mornings, I get up and I’m like, Luke’s just gonna have to look at me rough. So, I mean, it messes my hair up. He hits my hair. How are you? Man, thanks. I always want to call you the Better Business Journal, but that’s the Baltimore Business Journal, yeah, the Better Business Bureau, the BBB. A lot of people haven’t heard about that in a long time, and I don’t say I didn’t know about it, but used to be, when I was a young boy in Dundalk, when you walk the street on Eastern Avenue, or even at the mall, in a little window right here, like they have all the Grub Hub and all the food delivery, there be a little sticker in a window. It’s a member to Better Business Bureau. And I think to myself, they’re not going to screw me, right? I mean, that’s basically what you think. Right? All about trust, trust, right? What is the modern Better Business Bureau do?
Mike DiGiacomo 11:14
It’s all about relationships, right? My friends here at Heller, it’s all about putting people in the room and just helping each other, helping the community. We do work on the consumer side, where we help the underserved, mostly the a lot of folks in the senior world, so they don’t get scammed. But on the business to business side, you know, trusted businesses want to do business with other trusted businesses, so our job is to put people in the community and work to help each other. I got a
Nestor Aparicio 11:40
8good question for you. Give me this, this scam that that is the latest thing, because there’s always something going on, and I just do these scammers go to jail, or are they all coming from Russia and from China at this point? I mean, the online scam part of man, I go back so far that chain letters, when I first got online on email, and then there was the prince. And what country in Africa was that well, but he had a billion rubles of his and if all I had to do was give him money, some something, I am so scam concerned. But go ahead, tell me. Tell me, I got a good scam for you. Tell me if it’s a scam or not. I’m gonna ask. Those are
Mike DiGiacomo 12:20
the difficult ones. Think of the easy ones. Think of the old the senior citizen that a roofer comes to their house and says, Give me $10,000 to do your roof. They give them $10,000 and they never show back up, right? That’s, I mean, from a scam perspective. You know, those are the things that we’re dealing with on a day to day basis, the
Nestor Aparicio 12:39
shower, ring sales, curtain guy, Dell from the right, right. Everybody coming
Mike DiGiacomo 12:43
and trying to take advantage, especially of the seniors, because they’re clicking on everything. They think it’s a good deal. They don’t know any better. So we have to, you know, we handle all those complaints
8Nestor Aparicio 12:52
here. I get stakes for $2 a piece. I mail out, right, right, right, whatever it is, right?
Mike DiGiacomo 12:56
We got 3000 we getting 3000 complaints a month that we have to handle people coming in.
Nestor Aparicio 13:01
So what do you do when you say you get a complaint? What does the Better Business Bureau do?
Mike DiGiacomo 13:05
8So we do a lot of the mediation, right? So we call the consumer and who writes the complaint, and we work with the business to bring them together to come up with a solution. And usually, what if it’s just a scammer? You’re screwed. We’re screwed. I mean, there’s really nothing you can do other than we report it to the iabb, which is our, you know, kind of the broad based parent company, and they’re made, they make sure that nobody else has it or somebody else is doing it, but that’s the world that we live in.
Nick Schultz 13:31
But you guys are also educating because you’re letting them know look for that seal, because they’re tied to us and we’ve accredited them to make sure that they’re doing the right kind of business, which is important. What
Nestor Aparicio 13:41
do you have to do to be the right kind of do I qualify? If I, you know, maybe my hair too long, I don’t qualify for an oral media pass, and I own an FCC license. I’m a sports media member. I’m on the air every day, but I don’t qualify. So I don’t know what to do or who write to about that. But, you know, yeah, so
Mike DiGiacomo 13:56
think about, so think about most of our businesses right now are in general contractor world. Do you have the first thing that we do is, do you have a license, right? The first thing we vet our businesses, depending if you need a license to do business, that you actually have that license. So we work with Mhic to make sure that you are actually a lot of
8Nestor Aparicio 14:13
home people, people to come into your home and do plumbing, do any sort of homework. They always say, I’m bonded, right? I’m bonded. You
Mike DiGiacomo 14:20
got to be licensed. Bonded is the money part, right? Licensed is the part that says that you that the state of Maryland has actually licensed you, and you have a license to actually do business state of Maryland with whatever you’re doing. So if you’re a roofer, you can’t, you know, you can’t do HVAC work unless you have an HVAC license. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 14:38
if the Better Business Bureau says, I’m legit, that you have vetted them,
Mike DiGiacomo 14:42
8we have vetted them. We make sure that they’re truthful in advertising. So we look at all their advertising to make sure that what they’re saying to the consumer is actually what they’re delivering. Is another big piece of that, and financially, we have to make sure that a you’ve been in business for over six months, that you’re financially buying. Ball and that you’re not going to be out of business by the time that your warranty goes. Grab
Nestor Aparicio 15:04
it an old fashioned hoot. Nanny. Here we’re at Cooper’s north. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the mayor of the lottery. Have the Back to the Future scratch. Mike, I’ve been giving you one there. Number 83 for you. 83 is a good year. You’re born.
15:14
I’m born 83 born 83
Nestor Aparicio 15:17
we won the World Series. You’re as old as the Old World Series trophy with the Orioles. I guess here, Nick Schultz is here. He is a part of Heller COVID, but really doing the LL less turn here tonight at Cooper’s north. We’re up here making it happen and pouring drinks. Mike the Giacomo stop by. He’s with the Better Business Bureau. But we actually this, this trio here, we get together. You mentioned Kate Paris, I want to give some love to accelerate, because you ran accelerant for a period of time, accelerant, and Bill Cole is going to be here a little later on as part of the show later today, from Gordian energy and and he got me involved, and I got him involved. I feel like it’s been two decades since Mike first recruited me back in the aughts to accelerate. And we’re, I don’t know, four or five different people have led it now. Michael Gordon, Kate Paris, has involved different people through the years. John also, I’ve got to get all the names, but all of you were in my space. We’ve all created these relationships. And the cool part is, it’s just a bunch of people from Baltimore, from Maryland, from the five or six counties around here. And I go to lunch, and I wind up at the table with you, and I wind up with Brian coats, who I’ve known for I’ve known for its it’s a networking thing that has now spawned this vision you have for LLS and for what you’re doing, for visionary, because it’s an accelerant thing with Kate and you, and you and me that now you’re helping LLS. I mean, that’s, that’s what Excel it’s all about, right? Helping people right has
8Mike DiGiacomo 16:40
nothing to do with the money. It’s getting to know people and helping each other out, one way or the other. And you find
Nestor Aparicio 16:45
that years and years later, I hadn’t seen you in a number of years, and now we’re trying to do something together, and obviously, but this LLS thing that accelerant inspire this for you? Or did Kate?
Nick Schultz 16:57
So I actually had two so Kate was actually a visionary of the year, so we had to donate and do stuff with her and Heller COVID, because we’re in accelerant for PNC and also employee benefits. But a client of mine, Melissa parish, who’s in real estate, she was running as well. So she she and Kate ended up one and two. So if one didn’t nominate me, the other one was and they just said, you’ve got the heart for it, you’ve got the network for it, and the right mindset. So how could I say no, especially when it’s for a greater cause? I those 10 weeks. I mean, they’re flying by, but I got a great team behind me and a great family as well. So I gotta
Nestor Aparicio 17:30
8what else are you doing? You? Because this is, like, once you you’re competitive, like your old man, like your brother, like, once this thing gets nitty gritty, you get up on about Preakness week. Yeah, you’re gonna be like, doing bucket challenges. You’re gonna be doing stupid stuff trying to raise money on this thing. What’s already on the calendar for you, besides your Coopers. So
Nick Schultz 17:50
Coopers, we’re doing the May 6 event down in Sagamore for Kate. So we’ve raising money there the week after. We’re gonna be up at yellow bolt in Hunt Valley. We’re gonna do a beat the Pro. So I have some of the old baseball guys there and some of the golf ones beat the pro event there. We’re going to do a happy hour back here again. And then our guys, our guys at Guilford Hall have offered to do an event down there as well, and they’re actually hosting the gala.
Nestor Aparicio 18:12
I love the Guilford Hall gas. They’re great. I did a beer and bots event there about six weeks.
Nick Schultz 18:16
Yeah, great spot. Stephen and Richard are great guys. So they’re they’re in full support, so they help a lot. So
8Nestor Aparicio 18:20
he’s doing all the things that they wanted me to do if I ran for visionary, and I told Kate, and I told all everybody else you know, I love all you. I just, I know how intense it is. And I’m like, I got my own gig, and I threw events. If you remember, my wife had cancer, I brought Mike Tomlin and John Harbaugh. We did a night of heroes. Before that had Chuck pagano come in, who’s back in Baltimore now coaching, because he was our first phone call. I mean, talk about sports and leukemia in life. You know, my wife got leukemia on March 20, 2014 and when that doctor I talked about before Mike came here, left the room in the door shut, my wife said we got to call Chuck. Chuck pagano was the first phone call we made before we called her mother, before we called my son, before we called her father, before we called her sister. We called Chuck Pagano, and Chuck pulled over on the side of the road and called with his wife, spent an hour on a speaker phone with him and his wife. They were going to dinner that night, and he got my call and just literally kind of man he is. But sports, leukemia, all this stuff comes together. And, like I did a couple these events, I know what it is. The big night, though, in June is anybody can do that, right? So get give the story on that, tell everybody where it is and all that. And are you wearing a tux? You’re gonna dress up nice? I
Nick Schultz 19:38
think, I think I should, I gotta wear red cummerbund red bow tie. I’ve already I’ve already got the LLS cuffs. They gave it to me when we kicked off at night. But we have a June 7 down at Guilford, so purchasing direct tickets actually comes through sponsorship and through our team. So I have some to give away. We’re going to be auctioning some off actually live, but it’s going to be a great event. So we’ll be down at Guilford that nine. Eight. It’s a night event at Guilford Hall, June, June 7, on that Saturday, it’s going to be a great time. So we’re looking for a big turnout. Got a lot of partnerships, a lot of businesses in support. If any business has is looking to support in some capacity, everything from $500 to 50,000 we have marketing packages. So anybody interested? Happy to happy to talk to you, because we’re looking for support, specifically to anchor for patient support and people going through this, well, you
Nestor Aparicio 20:26
might make me cry. June 14, 2014 Wow. There it is, wow. There it is. A week away from there. It is right there. Wow. So she wasn’t sure she was gonna live that night she had her transplant. Was supposed to be June 12, I think, and she spiked a problem with her bloodline, and they had to make him stop his treatment to give her blood. He thought she had died. He didn’t know. They just stopped him. They said, We can’t take your donation right now. He’s like, What? No, hang on. Hang on, hang on. She had to get better. She had to get she had a little infection that she had to get out of her line, and they had to put him on hold. And she had gone to the hospital to have her transplant, and they ejected her and sent her home and said, can’t do it right now. You’re not ready for the transplant. And during that week, she got very morose, and we dressed her up and she lived. So it’s good, good. There you go. But that was a tough effing night, right there. June 14, 2014 was a tough night. She had a transplant on the 26th Well,
Nick Schultz 21:36
8that’s exactly the type of people, why we want it. We really want to anchor and help people going through it. Because realistically, families screw me up. No, no. Realistically, you know what it’s it’s a good screw up, because anything I cried enough 10 years ago, well, listen, don’t make it worse that we might have some tears here today. But everything you do families around, supports around but the people have gone through it, talking and communicating with them to understand what you’re going through, because they have the perspective. There’s over 600 volunteers that are that are trained, that donate their time through LLS all over the country, that specifically help people going through this. It just gives you the strength of that entire organization. And
Mike DiGiacomo 22:15
it’s also the blink of an eye, right? You never know when it’s coming to you or coming to your family, or when you’re going to get affected. Or
Nestor Aparicio 22:21
11 years later, I get to sit here and watch you do something you probably even know about 11 years ago, right? By the way, Lee Tessier was, was the winner that year. He real estate agent up in Bel Air. Lee was the person that got us involved. I brought Lee on the show to talk about leukemia, and then and my wife’s given all sorts of speeches, and she’s sort of spoken out, speeched out, but maybe I’ll bring her down there. June 7, Seventh. She’s back from Florida. Then. All right. Mike the Giacomo is here, my dude. Nick Schultz is here, son of Ron Schultz, we did all that. Ron Schultz, Milford Mill Dundalk overly we kissed your brother’s patoot enough. What’s your measure? Brother doing? I haven’t gotten a plug for him. Come on, Curtis. Curtis is doing well.
Nick Schultz 23:03
He moved the kids to down to SMU. He went with ANDY ENFIELD. Well, he was in LA right? He was at USC, USC. Change into the guard there, and he went with Andy to SMU. So bought a house outside of Dallas. Kids, I have to pull in the backyard. They’re loving life.
8Nestor Aparicio 23:18
I can’t imagine a place, any place worse in the world to beat in Dallas, but God bless you. Curtis, I would have stayed in LA, I mean it going to K town and had some good Korean food. Mike, I appreciate you. Tell me how to find you with the BBB, yes.
Mike DiGiacomo 23:30
Mike the Giacomo at Greater Baltimore, bbb.org,
Nestor Aparicio 23:34
all right. Greater Baltimore. Business Bureau, correct? Better Business Bureau, better well i BBB. I had with him. He’s down in my old neighborhood. His office is down by Camden yard, so when I need some free parking before an afternoon game, our friends at accelerant, I do want to give some love to Kate and everybody at accelerant for putting together these amazing sort of little gatherings. Bill Cole is going to be joining me here a little later at Cooper’s pub as well. I have been told here that, you know, burger night supports LLS here, right? Terry does burger night and all that stuff. They have a pineapple Hawaiian burger going on this month. But he’s been insistent that I get the seafood club. He wants me to try to shrimp salad and the crab cake. And I’m like, I’m a crab cake guy. Do the crab cake tour every week. I just want the damn gumbo. Am I like? Can I just get Is it too hot for gumbo? It’s 80 degrees.
24:23
8Absolutely. Order the gumbo.
Nestor Aparicio 24:26
Go for seeing your kid eating french fries over here. And I want that
Nick Schultz 24:30
he’s a burger guy top to bottom. The fish
Nestor Aparicio 24:33
tacos here, outrageous. I love the blackened. Anything blackened here, they’re black, and seasoning is delicious, but the black and ahi tuna wrap phenomenal. Burgers are unbelievable. But the Gumbo is this thing? No, but you know, if you’ve never had the gumbo here, gotta have it. Come have the gumbo here. That’s
8Nick Schultz 24:51
what you told me. I have not tried the gumbo. We’re gonna try the gumbo.
Nestor Aparicio 24:55
I’m gonna get a bowl, and the ball’s too big. I need a big guy like you to help me eat a bunch of spoons. Yeah? Yeah, when you order a bowl here, it’s like a VAT. It’s like a bucket of gumbo. Is what it is. Because what I do when they bring it to me, I get double rice, I get extra bread, and I cut it right in half, and I dump half of it right and in a little thing. So I take like, a cup of it home, and then I get that. And that’s when I get involved with, like the fish talkers and all. Well, what am I gonna order here, it’s going to help you. Anything I order tonight’s 10%
Nick Schultz 25:23
anything 10% is going towards LLS. We have it. We have additional ways if you want to donate additionally, QR code over there for our team campaign. But everything 10% tonight, Terry and Patrick said, is going directly towards our campaign. So all the supports appreciated. We’re going to, we’re going to be back here again in May. We’re going to have a happy hour, invite everybody out, and we’ll, we’ll give a heads up on that a few weeks.
Nestor Aparicio 25:41
All right, I’ll give a shout out on that as well. My friend Mike Giacomo here from the BBB, the Better Business Bureau, hopefully you don’t have to call them, because you got scammed. If you have a business, call them and they put the little label on there, and I look like I’m on the up. I got to get BBB qualified. So my show gets would that get me immediate pass back? Yeah, probably not. Probably not. And Nick is here for LLS and for Heller COVID. And Brian will get you back from Hawaii in one piece. We can get you back in the batting cages and get you back on the show. I am Nestor. We’re Coopers north. We’re doing a nice turn for LLS. We’re doing the Maryland crab cake tour. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Have the Back to the Future scratch offs here at a lucky batch at a $10 winner here at Cooper’s earlier in the afternoon. We will be at Cocos on the seventh or the 30th, and we’ll be at red brick station in White Marsh on the seventh. I’m Nestor. We are W, N, S, T, A, M, 1570 task, Baltimore. We never stop talking Baltimore positive and good stuff. You.
