For people lacking ample shelter and employment, Project PLASE is there to help

Sure, the spelling is a little different but you’ll remember this place called Project PLASE once you meet Karen Thomas and Tiana Samuels, who join Nestor at El Guapo in Catonsville to share the work being done to help folks get off the streets of Baltimore and onto a better life. We love the local stories of inspiration and “the helpers” during “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” Week.

Nestor Aparicio interviews Karen Thomas and Tiana Samuels from Project PLASE, an organization that has been helping the homeless since 1974. Project PLASE provides temporary and permanent housing, SSVF for veterans, and support services for individuals with addiction, mental health issues, and HIV. They house around 30-32 people per shelter and rely on donations for items like clothing, bedding, and food. Karen shares a success story of a transgender woman who overcame drug addiction and secured permanent housing with their help. They emphasize the need for volunteers and donations, especially during the winter months.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring donated clothing, food, or household items from Nestor’s home to Project PLASE and deliver them to the Wilkins Avenue location (coordinate drop-off with Project PLASE staff).
• [ ] Receive and coordinate acceptance of donated cooked meals and other donations for Project PLASE; provide intake instructions and schedule drop-offs using the provided cell number.
• [ ] Manage volunteer inquiries and scheduling for Project PLASE, including coordinating volunteers for the clothing closet, food pantry (Tuesdays 11–2 and Thursdays/Fridays), and client engagement activities.

Outline

Introduction and Segment Overview

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the segment, mentioning the Maryland crab cake tour and the Maryland lottery’s candy cane cash promotion.
• Nestor discusses the upcoming locations for the Maryland crab cake tour: Koco’s Pub, Pizza John’s in Essex, and Costas in Timonium.
• Nestor invites Karen and Tiana from Project PLASE to discuss their work in helping people off the streets.
• Nestor clarifies the name of the organization, Project PLASE, which stands for People Lacking Ample Shelter and Employment.

Overview of Project PLASE

• Tiana Samuels explains her role at Project PLASE, mentioning her responsibilities in volunteer coordination, community outreach, and social media marketing.
• Karen Thomas provides an overview of Project PLASE’s services, including temporary housing, permanent housing, SSVF (Supportive Services for Veteran Families), and subsidized permanent housing.
• Karen mentions the locations of Project PLASE: 2636 Wilkins Avenue and 1814 Maryland Avenue, both close to downtown Baltimore.
• Nestor and Karen discuss the challenges of homelessness and the importance of word-of-mouth and social media in reaching out to those in need.

Services and Support at Project PLASE

• Karen explains the types of individuals Project PLASE serves, including those with addiction problems, mental health issues, and HIV.
• Project PLASE provides three meals a day, shelter, clothing, hygiene products, and personal bedding to its residents.
• Karen emphasizes the need for donations, including monetary donations, women’s and children’s clothing, and bedding for men.
• Tiana mentions the clothing closet and food pantry at Project PLASE, which are open twice a week for clients and the community.

Personal Stories and Impact

• Karen shares a story about a transgender woman who came to Project PLASE and overcame her addiction and homelessness with the help of the organization.
• The woman stayed at the shelter for about a year and a half, received permanent housing, and continues to receive support from Project PLASE.
• Karen highlights the importance of donations in helping individuals move into their own places and providing them with necessary items.
• Nestor and Karen discuss the emotional impact of helping people and the importance of providing a safe and supportive environment.

Volunteer Opportunities and Community Support

• Tiana encourages volunteers to engage with clients, play games, and help with the clothing closet and food pantry.
• Karen provides her contact information for donations and mentions the acceptance of cooked food as well.
• Nestor shares his personal experience with food insecurity and the importance of feeding people in need.
• Karen emphasizes the need for unrestricted donations and the impact of community support on Project PLASE’s ability to help individuals.

Conclusion and Contact Information

• Nestor thanks Karen and Tiana for their work and provides contact information for Project PLASE: 410-837-1400 and projectplace.org.
• Nestor mentions the various services provided by Project PLASE, including temporary shelter, permanent housing, and supportive services.
• Nestor concludes the segment by encouraging listeners to support Project PLASE and other organizations helping the homeless.
• Nestor transitions to the next segment, which will feature an animal story with his friend Aaron.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Project PLASE, homelessness, temporary housing, permanent housing, SSVF, veterans, mental health, addiction, donations, food pantry, clothing closet, volunteer opportunities, wraparound services, Baltimore, Maryland.

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SPEAKERS

Tiana Samuels, Nestor Aparicio, Karen Thomas,

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are, Baltimore. Positive, positively out here at El Guapo, it is a cup of soup or bowl. We call it the Maryland crab cake tour. It’s all brought to you. My friends at the Maryland lottery have candy cane cash. Only one lucky person thus far at El Guapo, I’ve had no other winners come forward, but I am hoping to have that happen. We’re going to be at Koco’s pub on Wednesday, Thursday, we’re at Pizza John’s in Essex, and then on Friday, we will close things down at Costas and Timonium. And I have last week, at the end of the week, I didn’t do the greatest job of overbooking my show this week, and I just sort of blanket throughout. Does anybody have a charity that I haven’t featured things I don’t know about, because I like learning new things. And these folks here didn’t get back to me to a couple hours ago. They hit me. They’re on the west side, and I haven’t done as much research, which makes the segment better, ladies, because I don’t know enough about you. Karen is here and Tiana’s here from Project place, yes, but with an S, yes. Place with an S. I didn’t know if it was know if was plus a or like the E might be silent PLAs, like Shane Boz project place, people lacking ample shelter and employment, yes, that pretty much speaks herself, doesn’t Yes, yep, and you’re here to help them. Absolutely. Are you guys Baltimore? You don’t look Baltimore to me

Karen Thomas  01:22

today, buddy in Baltimore, is that sacred?

Nestor Aparicio  01:24

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No, that’s, that’s, that’s, hurts, all right. Well, it’s all equaled up. Yeah, yeah, I’m ready. I’ll take you across street. Get your

Nestor Aparicio  01:33

cheeses. Stay fair, absolutely.

Nestor Aparicio  01:36

Tiana, you got me back earlier today, and the two of you work, obviously, here at Project place. How old of a project I hadn’t heard of Project place. Tell me what I need to know about this. Yes.

Tiana Samuels  01:47

So I just started a project place, maybe about a few months ago since

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Nestor Aparicio  01:51

1974 it says here, 74 Yes, almost as old as me, yes,

Tiana Samuels  01:56

almost Yes. So I started a few months ago as a volunteer coordinator, and my hand is also in a little bit of community outreach and a little bit of social media marketing as well. But with us, we have multiple programming, temporary housing, permanent housing, SSVF, which is tailored towards our veterans. And then we have, am I missing one

Nestor Aparicio  02:22

I can read from the list, sure, sure. Sorry, I’m not out on the website. That’s fine,

Tiana Samuels  02:30

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yeah, but if I’m Oh, also subsidized permanent housing,

Karen Thomas  02:35

temporary show. But

Nestor Aparicio  02:37

what you please mean, what do people need to know about your place, and how can people help you out over Wilco’s Avenue?

Karen Thomas  02:42

Well, again, I’m Karen, if you can’t tell Yeah, I’m an Eagles fan. Well, we at Project place, we house individuals in our shelter. We have, like Tiana said, permanent housing, SSVF Housing Program, which is just for veterans and their family, temporary housing, which is my shelter. We have two locations, 2636 Wilkins Avenue and then 1814 Maryland Avenue, where we house at each location closer downtown, often North Avenue. Okay, right. Okay, right. We house about 3032, per shelter for each location.

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Nestor Aparicio  03:27

It’s a city side. Yeah. I mean, I looked up the map, it’s closer to county line. Yeah, we’re talking two miles from

Tiana Samuels  03:33

right here, right yep, 15 minutes.

Nestor Aparicio  03:35

So when it comes to homelessness and shelter and people in need, and I’ve done hundreds of segments on this. There’s so many organizations like like yours out there. How do people get placed with you? And how do people find you? And give me some stories about lifting people up, because that’s really what

Karen Thomas  03:52

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this is about. Word of mouth. We post we’re on Facebook. Word of mouth,

Nestor Aparicio  03:59

Facebook, you did. People said you need to talk to my friend, Tiana over at Project place, usually, who’s this? Nestor guy over to El Guapo. Right. Right. In telling stories like this, these organizations have been around forever, urban Karen’s and Tiana’s, and come before you to set this up, you really feel an impact in helping people’s lives. I mean, you’re seeing these people every day, every day, and you’re talking about people that do graduate and move away from your program in other places. This is, you say, permanent, but it’s temporary, permanent, right? Yes, well,

Karen Thomas  04:32

yes, we try to get them back on their feet. Most of the content come in have a addiction problem or mental health or, well, we service substance abuse, mental health and HIV. Okay, it’s normally our population of people. You could just be homeless and just need a place to go. So we’ll provide you three meals a day. We’ll provide you with shelter. Of course, we give you clothes, hygiene, personal bed letting. So those are the type of things we always need. We’re looking for donations all the time, monetary donations so we can go buy the items or hand on, you know, donations, women’s children. Women, we accept all kind of donations toys. Men, we definitely need sheets, linens, bedding, things like that. For the show you have moms and single family. We have moms and single families. Yes, we have that. That’s in our permanent housing and or our veteran housing? Well, we have individuals that couldn’t start off in a shelter and then graduate to their own place based off the income, and got the children back. And then we provide the case management so all the wraparound services to them

Nestor Aparicio  05:36

wrap around, but getting people back on their feet again when people feel like they don’t have hope. Yeah, that that, and especially when it comes to jobs, and job skills and the ability to miss one thing that gives somebody a meal, it’s another thing to teach them how to

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Karen Thomas  05:51

get their own how to make them meal right? And we do have an employment specialist too as well to help them get jobs.

Nestor Aparicio  05:57

For how long have you been involved here? I haven’t

Speaker 1  05:59

been with Project place, 15 years see this. I knew you were the quiet. You’re nervous

Tiana Samuels  06:05

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a little bit, a little bit, yeah, honestly,

Nestor Aparicio  06:08

well, it’s just, we’re just talking about things, yeah, but what we do, what we love. I mean, I’m not a preacher, a rabbi, but I do try to calm my guests a

Tiana Samuels  06:16

little bit. Well, that’s why the camera you’re all right,

Nestor Aparicio  06:20

well, here I’ll just do that. I want to read from this. The mission started in 1974 project place that’s PLA, S, E, because, and people will say, Why? Because it’s people lacking ample shelter and employment. That’s what it stands for, people lacking ample shelter and employment. PLA, se, I’m catching on here, addressing homelessness in Baltimore, providing temporary housing, permanent housing, and support services for homeless adults and families, serving the most vulnerable and underserved, including persons with mental illness, HIV, AIDS, addiction, developmental disabilities, ex offenders, treating, restoring and rehabilitating the whole person, empowering each individual to function at the highest level possible, 15 years Yes, give me a story. It’s gonna make me cry. Give me the best story. Tell me a story of somebody that came in. You watch them go out and somewhere along life’s highway, you know they’re doing well, right this minute.

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Karen Thomas  07:12

Oh, right this minute. Let’s go. I had an individual came in through the shelter, female, transgender, actually, which we serve as well. Sure, transgender came in homeless.

Nestor Aparicio  07:24

Now I love that. Yes, let’s go, people, let’s go.

Karen Thomas  07:26

And she was suffering from drugs, offered a shelter at that time. I wasn’t even manager of the shelter. I was manager of another housing program with United Way families, women and children, but I got in contact for a long time. Yeah, there we go. Yeah, different positions, you know. So she came in, she was doing drugs. We exchanged numbers, engaged with her or whatever, you know, just talking with her. She was doing drugs. Wasn’t doing very well trying to get a children, family back, or whatever. I just engaged with her for some period of time. She was not willing to come into a shelter, she’ll want to, I pride whatever. It’s always pride. Eventually, yes, couple months later, she ended

Nestor Aparicio  08:06

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up cold now, right this time of year, all right, all right.

Karen Thomas  08:10

But she finally took the offer and came in, came in, stay with the program, with the shelter, maybe about a year.

Nestor Aparicio  08:16

Well, how long ago was

Nestor Aparicio  08:19

this? Not this year, last Okay, so last year,

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Nestor Aparicio  08:21

last year, this happens. This young lady comes in your first feelings, what’s the first thing she needed? Drugs, right? Guy, you got to get her off drug.

Karen Thomas  08:32

Yes, you want to know. Well, if she came looking for

Nestor Aparicio  08:36

money, right? We could feed you, right? Yes,

Karen Thomas  08:38

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we could feed you. And that’s what I did. I better told her about the program, what options she had and so forth. She said, think about it. She wasn’t sure. Gave him a number.

Nestor Aparicio  08:48

The first time her wife has she had anybody tried to help her, I

Karen Thomas  08:51

think is the first time she listened. Got it okay to receive the information, sure. So she was still skeptical, but she took my number. Maybe about a month or so later, she called me, she was like, do you still have any openings? Can I come what’s going on, life change or whatever? So I was like, Yes, I brought it in. Make sure we had a bed available. Brought it in. She stayed with me to close the story up. She stayed with me for about a year and a half. Worked with her, get permanent housing. She ended up getting her voucher and moved into her place. She’s still there to this day. She still come see me. I still support her with wraparound services. I provide food for she come to our clothing closet, get clothes, get food, see us, check in on us, get it from there. We moved it in. She got her a place. She got a voucher. I help her get a bedding, a bed and bedding, food, dishes, pots, pans. So those donations that we always ask, that we need people to donate to us. We need them because we have people moving into their own place and have nothing right, nothing. So we try to equip them with a care package to move in. Bedding, if we can purchase it, beds, rather if we could purchase it, stuff with children. If they have kids, getting them bedding and beds and everything they need for the house as well.

Nestor Aparicio  10:04

Well, I’ll tell you what you’re doing. Good. Good work. Over left. Anything else, jump on here once I get you looser. Tequila. Come on.

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Tiana Samuels  10:17

She mentioned our clothing closet, sure, which is also the same space as our food pantry. We open that up twice a week. So the food pantry is open on Tuesdays from 11 to two, and then we have our food pantry, I’m sorry, our clothing closet that’s open also at the same time on Thursdays and Fridays for all

Nestor Aparicio  10:37

shelters, when I talk to folks, it’s about clothing and it’s about food, and the food runs out, and the clothing, you know, you can always use both of them, especially this time of year, with coats and gnats and all those kind of things that you got in your closet, the back of the closet, in a box, up in storage. Yes, we put it to use we need. That’s my my that’s what I’m begging everybody to do here. But we call it a cup of Super Bowl, because we really began with this for the Maryland Food Bank and feeding people, especially this time of year, because I’m thinking November, December, people give you stuff. They think about Jesus, and you’re thinking about the holidays. They’re seeing Mariah Carey singing, and everybody’s got an open heart, and they donate, right? And then it gets cold as hell, and then it snows a foot, and then I can’t even get out of the house, right? And people still coming to getting food. And food pantry goes from man, we were stock December 10 to hey, we made it through Christmas, and to say, Jane, we’re getting and then a snowstorm, it’s right. And now I bet your pantry has less food today. That’s why I’m do this this week. That’s why we’re my dad student. My dad didn’t have food, and when he was 10 years old. My dad was born in 1919, so 1929 he said he stood in supine told me about it. His whole life. They didn’t have food, so he had $1 when I was a boy over done dog, he rubbed my belly so he got $1 put food in your belly. It’s what he would always say. So that’s what this week kind of is about an inspiration for that. But feeding people when they have no food, nothing, when you’re doing that every single day, right? I have on Thanksgiving, serve me done all of that to see the look in somebody’s eyes when they haven’t had a meal, when you’re feeding them. Yep. I mean, that’s uplifting every minute of every day.

Karen Thomas  12:14

Yep. We look for volunteers to come out and help do such thing. Feed the shelter. How many folks are there, like, right now I have, like, 2323 so 23 I’m

Karen Thomas  12:24

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at lunch today. Yes, 23 I’m gonna have dinner tonight. Yes, 23 I’m gonna have breakfast tomorrow. Yes, yes. And what’s your maximum capacity? 32 so you still

Karen Thomas  12:33

have just my location, but we

Nestor Aparicio  12:35

have right so 64 total, yes, so you have a little bit of space right now, so someone’s gonna come through your door. Nicole, yes, in the next day, week, 10 days,

Karen Thomas  12:45

get a call. Anything? Do you have a bed? Can you help me? Yes, we can. Answer is always yes, always yes. We do the screening, the intake process, you know, to come through, but it’s always Yes. We’ll have a slide

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Nestor Aparicio  12:57

of someone, I don’t want to say doesn’t qualify for you, or you’re too concerned about them. You know, I don’t know where the society, where the net is for society, say somebody came in here right now, who’s troubled, I call maybe a police officer. That’s my thought of, you know, how can I get them help? Who would help them? Who would provide that kind of service and really drug somebody you can’t bring in right now. You say, don’t qualify. You need to get them even more help, but you don’t want to send them out on

Karen Thomas  13:28

the street. Well, there’s no one that don’t qualify for us. We take you as you are, if you doing drugs, alcohol, whatever the case may be. If you need help and you actually use today, you’re using drugs, we can help you today.

Nestor Aparicio  13:41

What do you do? Tell me how you help. We

Karen Thomas  13:43

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get you in the bed. We get you grounded. We feed you i fat you up, get you something good to eat, get you warm, get your right, counseling, right? Yes. And then I refer you to treatment if that’s what you want to do. Everybody come in is not ready for treatment, but they still need a place to go. We don’t turn our back on you, just because you’re not ready to do what you need to do or want to do, should do sure we still provide you the services had their

Nestor Aparicio  14:09

back turned on them. That’s the thing. There’s nobody helping somebody nice like you that says, Come on in. Right? Yep, yep.

Karen Thomas  14:17

And if they ready, and when they ready for treatment, I take them. What if

Nestor Aparicio  14:20

they’re a raven fan and you’re wearing all that eagles? I was like, you can’t be here. It’s here. Project place. They’re over. Wilkins Avenue, 2636 Wilkins Avenue. You can reach them at 410, 837, 1400 you can find them online, the way I did this morning with Tiana. Sent me a text. It you still have room for me? I’m like, it’s cut. If you’re not turning people away over there, how am I gonna turn you away? Right period, right project place, but it’s with an S, P, L, A, S, e.org, services, housing, temporary shelter, rental assistance, veteran liaison, case management, financial assistance. They’re nothing you don’t do employment coaching, linkages to medical and. Addiction care community that might be first, right? I mean, people to come to you. They’re not just homeless. They’re there.

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Karen Thomas  15:06

They need medication, they need help. They need help. And because we’ll wrap around services. We provide whatever services you need. If we can’t help you, then we link you to it.

Nestor Aparicio  15:14

There’s so many people out maybe listening right now that would have judgment in regard to that, from the minute you know, like there really is a point of humanity where people come to you in their darkest moment, yeah, man, they’ve been getting judged from the beginning, and that’s probably the thing they’re most afraid of being, is judge. Yep, yep. They don’t have a bed, they don’t have a home, and they’re afraid to take yours because trust is the trust is gone, right?

Karen Thomas  15:35

They don’t trust anyone, right? They don’t trust you enough. They don’t know you enough or trust you enough to tell you what’s going on with them because of the judgmental, you know, people judge you so much out there. You’re using drug, you’re doing fit and all you’re doing heroin, you know, whatever the case may be, but they don’t want to tell you that, because they’re going to say, You judge it, and the first they want to do is get into treatment. No, we have to, well, we know you’re doing drugs, but we have to figure out why, who, what, one way and why. And normally, it’s mental health that comes first, the drugs normally just band aid the problem, sure. So we address those issues. Whatever it is, therapists, sign you up, psychiatrist, whatever support you may need, and then we can start dealing with the core problems.

Nestor Aparicio  16:12

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So you don’t have fundraisers as much as donations. And there’s no Super Bowl for you. There’s no big golf tournament of that, right? It’s literally, if people want to help you, they help me, they call you, they email you, they bring you stuff. Yes, that helps these people. Yeah.

Speaker 2  16:28

Period today, right?

Karen Thomas  16:30

Picked up a donation some clothes for men and women. We always need donations on clothes, especially for men. Now, food.

Nestor Aparicio  16:35

I’ve been talking about the Maryland Food Bank. I’ve done tons of pantries and stories. Yesterday, I did a thing called leftover love. Yeah, he’s a great guy. He goes around to bakeries in different places the end of the day and gets that food that they didn’t sell, right, gets it right into people’s bellies like night tomorrow. Yes, yes, that’s you’re probably doing cans and dried Yes. You know, we

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Karen Thomas  16:59

work with the world, one of the food bank partners. Sure, we also work with giants through the food banks. And we pick up food every day from giants to feed our clients and the community. Good giants right here on wilkers Avenue, right up here, good food. So we get the donations coming in. We just need more. We need a lot of unrestricted donations, monetary going.

Nestor Aparicio  17:23

Everybody wants to help out for 10, 837, 1400 you can meet them over at Wilkins Avenue, project, place, P, L, A, S, e.org, and I’m gonna say this with as much respect as I can. I don’t like most Eagles fans, just so you know, okay, I’m alright with you today. Thank you, channel in my inner Tory Smith or something like that. Thank you. Well, you didn’t win and we didn’t win, but y’all won last year. Yes, we did. You’ve won twice since the time. We won twice. Okay, okay, yes, we did. How long you been an Eagles fan? That was just a bird. Oh, you’re not really just wearing his colors, just waiting. I was gonna have some fun

Karen Thomas  17:59

with you, because they won. That’s all. Went to the parade. Had fun, cold, cold streaming.

Nestor Aparicio  18:06

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I went to the when the Eagles won the first Super Bowl. I was in Minnesota that night at the game, and my wife and I, the defensive coordinator, is actually from Arbutus. I should have Jimmy up to give you a donation, because you’re writing his he’s Arbutus in but, but, but not what is? What did he always say? Not Hale Thorpe, not Catonsville. Arbutus, ABUTI. Arbutus is worried so, but he was defense coordinator that team has been my lifelong friend, so I got invited to the party in Minnesota that night. It was colder than it is outside, but, man, that was a party. Now, I mean, that was a party. Jason Kelsey wearing his little King hat and all that. I held the trophy up that night. You did wash my hands afterwards, because it was eagles, you know. All right, Karen’s here and Tiana’s here there with project. But didn’t leave anything out, Tiana, you’ve been the quiet one. I want to make sure you get last word.

Tiana Samuels  18:57

Um, no, if anyone is ever interested in volunteering, which could be a wide range of things, whether it’s just engaging with the clients. That could be just playing games or

Nestor Aparicio  19:07

games in your place too.

Speaker 2  19:09

Yeah, we play games now. We have games in the day. What’s the popular games? Oh, no, yeah, it

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Tiana Samuels  19:14

gets it gets serious, card games. Yep, that’s what we do. We also could use lots of help in our clothing closet, where we do distribute clothes to not only the clients, but the community as well. All sizes doesn’t matter, right? Yeah, all sizes. And then we also accept help with our food pantry, so and that would just consider of just inputting information of the community members that come in and receive food, all right? And then also,

Nestor Aparicio  19:41

next year. Yeah, I want to do so. I’m gonna bring something over, because I got stuff at home that I need to give. I’m gonna bring

Karen Thomas  19:47

it to you. Can I leave my number? You just did? Go ahead. Let’s go No. I mean my cell number. Go ahead, that way. It’s 443-682-5626, and after, Karen, you. Because we take cooked food as well. Someone wants to cook a meal for the shelter, we take that too. We have families that don’t why start them? Donate? Yes, we will take it. Have a make up some soup.

Nestor Aparicio  20:10

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This chicken tortilla soup here at El Guapo. It’s because it’s cup of super I had that I started. I was gonna say how great it is, but my wife makes the best, like the soup here is great. My wife makes great soup. She does. We got to figure that out. Yes, maybe she come over and cook you a big

Karen Thomas  20:26

yes, I will love it. I will love it. So we do get food as well as cooked, and they bring it

Nestor Aparicio  20:30

into sausage and lentil soup,

Nestor Aparicio  20:32

fresh bread, yes, yes, it sounds good. All right.

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Nestor Aparicio  20:35

How about tomorrow night? You can also reach Gianna T Samuels at Project place. That’s P, L, A, S, e.org, it says so right here. Info at Project plate place.org, as well, also out on on the socials at Project place, with an s people lacking ample shelter and employment, kind of speaks for itself. They’re here to help. Karen Tiana, good people here. Thank you. Thank you for all you’re doing out here in the southwest. Baltimore started in 1974 they’re addressing homelessness in Baltimore, providing temporary housing, permanent housing, and supportive services for people who need it. That’s what a cup of Super Bowl’s all about. And by the way, I didn’t even give you guys, maybe you win some lottery tickets here. You’re gonna get number 14 and number 15. There you go, one for Karen, one for Tiana. So everybody here is it’s all brought to you by our friends at the Mary Lou have had some winners. We’re at El Guapo. We’re going to be at Koco’s pub on Wednesday. We’re going to be Thursday in Essex at Pizza John’s Friday back up and Simon even my homeland of Costas. We will have candy cane cash as long as they’re here. Come get some tickets. Come have some good luck. Our friends at GBMC also putting us out on the road, keeping me healthy and alive here in 2026 I am Nestor. Back for more from El Guapo. We have an animal story to tell. And you know, when I left my kitty cat at home, she’s all cut it off because she’s chasing the birdies outside. So we got love of animals, love of dogs. That’s up next. Be more dog with my friend Aaron. She’s gonna be sitting in it is a cup of Super Bowl. I am Nestor. We are wnst. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore in Catonsville. We never stopped talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us.