JT The Brick: Ravens fans are going to love work ethic of Maxx Crosby

So what exactly will Maxx Crosby be bringing to Owings Mills in terms of leadership? Let our longtime pal and Las Vegas Raiders voice J.T. The Brick tell you about the man he’s known in the desert and what makes him tick and why the Baltimore Ravens are a perfect fit.

• [ ] Make the necessary connection so that Max Crosby’s foundation can establish its operations in Baltimore.

Maxx Crosby’s Journey and Impact on the Raiders

• Nestor Aparicio introduces JT The Brick, a long-time Raiders fan, and discusses the recent trade involving Maxx Crosby.
• JT The Brick highlights Maxx Crosby’s impressive career with the Raiders, noting his lack of postseason success despite being a great player.
• JT The Brick compares Maxx Crosby to other great players who never won a playoff game, emphasizing his work ethic and leadership.
• Nestor Aparicio mentions Marvin’s dedication to the team, drawing parallels to Maxx Crosby’s commitment and the impact he has on the Raiders.

Maxx Crosby’s Transformation and Legacy

• JT The Brick shares the story of Max Crosby’s transformation after getting sober, which significantly improved his performance on the field.
• Max Crosby’s foundation focuses on sobriety and pet rescue, reflecting his personal growth and commitment to helping others.
• JT The Brick describes Max Crosby’s dedication to greatness, citing his tattoos of sports icons like Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan.
• The conversation touches on Maxx Crosby’s potential to become a leader in Baltimore, similar to Ray Lewis, and his fit with the Ravens’ culture.

Raiders’ Perspective on Max Crosby’s Departure

• Nestor Aparicio questions JT The Brick about the Raiders’ decision to trade Max Crosby and the impact on Raiders fans.
• JT The Brick explains the Raiders’ strategy of acquiring draft picks and a center, highlighting the financial aspects of the trade.
• The discussion includes the Raiders’ history of rebuilding and the role of new coaches like Josh McDaniels and Pete Carroll.
• JT The Brick emphasizes Max Crosby’s desire to play for a contender and his willingness to take a pay cut to stay with the Raiders.

Tom Brady’s Influence on the Raiders

• JT The Brick discusses Tom Brady’s involvement with the Raiders, including his ownership stake and influence on football decisions.
• The conversation covers the impact of Brady’s arrival on the Raiders’ organization and the expectations for the team’s future.
• JT The Brick mentions the Raiders’ recent rebuild and the challenges they faced, including the departure of key players like Max Crosby.
• The discussion includes the Raiders’ plans to strengthen their team through free agency and the draft.

Max Crosby’s Future with the Ravens

• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick discuss Maxx Crosby’s potential impact on the Ravens, emphasizing his leadership and work ethic.
• JT The Brick predicts Maxx Crosby’s success with the Ravens, including his chances of winning the Walter Payton Man of the Year award.
• The conversation touches on Max Crosby’s lifestyle in Baltimore and his dedication to his foundation and pet rescue.
• JT The Brick expresses confidence in Maxxx Crosby’s ability to lead the Ravens to success and his potential to become a beloved figure in Baltimore.

Ravens’ Offseason Moves and Coaching Changes

• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick discuss the Ravens’ offseason moves, including the hiring of new coach Jesse Minter and the departure of key players.
• JT The Brick shares his thoughts on the coaching changes in the NFL, criticizing the trend of frequent coaching changes and its impact on stability.
• The conversation includes the Ravens’ plans to address their pass rush and the potential impact of new players like Tyler Lindbergh.
• JT The Brick emphasizes the importance of Lamar Jackson’s performance in the upcoming season and the need for the Ravens to make the right moves to succeed.

Rush Reunion and Personal Reflections

• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick discuss the upcoming Rush reunion tour and their excitement about seeing the band live.
• JT The Brick shares his personal history with Rush and his plans to attend multiple shows on the tour.
• The conversation includes JT The Brick’s thoughts on the impact of the Rush reunion on the band’s legacy and the joy it brings to fans.
• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick discuss their plans to attend Rush shows together and the significance of the band’s music in their lives.

Vegas Concert Experiences and Recommendations

• JT The Brick shares his experiences attending concerts at the Sphere in Las Vegas, highlighting the unique and impressive venue.
• The conversation includes JT The Brick’s recommendations for must-see concerts in Vegas and his enthusiasm for the city’s live music scene.
• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick discuss their plans to attend upcoming concerts, including shows by Metallica and other artists.
• The discussion touches on the impact of the Sphere on the live music industry and the high demand for tickets to shows there.

Final Thoughts on Maxx Crosby and the Ravens

• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick wrap up their discussion, expressing confidence in Maxx Crosby’s ability to lead the Ravens to success.
• JT The Brick reiterates his belief in the Ravens’ potential to win a Super Bowl with Maxx Crosby on the team.
• The conversation includes JT The Brick’s thoughts on the importance of Lamar Jackson’s performance and the need for the Ravens to make the right moves in the upcoming season.
• Nestor Aparicio and JT The Brick look forward to the upcoming season and the potential for the Ravens to achieve greatness with Max Crosby on the team.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Maxx Crosby, Raiders, Ravens, pass rush, Las Vegas, NFL trade, Tom Brady, Walter Payton Man of the Year, sobriety, pet rescue, championship defense, coaching changes, offseason moves, Rush reunion, concert recommendations.

SPEAKERS

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Nestor Aparicio, JT The Brick

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome all. We are W n s t, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. I’m a shaving strike until the Ravens get a pass rush. Well, maybe I’ll shave tomorrow. I’m not sure. Luke Jones been breaking news all weekend long. If you’re on the W n s t tech service, you get it first. It’s all brought to you by friends at cold roofing and Gordian energy and what news we had on Friday night. JT, the brick has been my friend for 30 some odd friggin years, and I went to bed, and I’m being honest with you, about 815 830 it’s a Friday night. I hit the yoga mat at the planet fitness, and I’m a little worn out, and I woke up about 150 in the morning because, you know, my cat’s yelling at me, and I got a pee because I’m that age. Thank you. GBMC, and I looked down on my phone, and I got my glasses, and I saw, I saw Raiders, and at first I thought, Oakland, no, they’re in Las Vegas. Okay, cool. And I thought Lamar might have been dealt for the pick, right? Like, so I’m thinking, like, but, and then I put my glasses, like, oh, I want to get brick on the show and find out about this. JT, the brick has been the long term. How many years you’ve been Raiders guy, 3026 at least. Because you were there at the championship game, I know that

JT The Brick  01:12

this will be 29 I’m coming. So just finished 28 and good to see you. My friend and Max Crosby is the greatest Raider that I’ve covered in that career to not win a playoff game because the other guys did. Tim Brown went to the Super Bowl. Jerry Rice went to the Super Bowl. We would have went to another one if Sarah goose didn’t fall on Gannon fact, not fiction, fact. And you take all those good players on those teams, then you take the tuck rule, and you take another postseason away. But Max what you’re getting in Baltimore, let me talk directly to your vast audience. You’re getting one of the greatest all time leaders and practice players I’ve ever seen without a legacy of postseason. This is like Reggie White Deacon Jones, great players, but the asterisks, he’s never played other than one playoff game where they’re off to the Bengals and Joe burrow when they went to the Super Bowl in the divisional round. So you’re getting the guy as hungry as anyone who’s ever walked into Owens mills to train to live and beat everyone into the building. You’re getting that guy.

Nestor Aparicio  02:19

Why Marvin on earlier, and Marvin was only there a minute, you know, with y’all. And he said that at 6am his breakfast was out. Marvin was in the building at 430 and said that he’s an amazing creature of habit. And, I mean, you know, Marvin coach, Ray Lewis, right? You know, I mean, like, there’s some special guys. Um, what are we getting here? Dude, take it. Give me the guy, the player, because I know you don’t just like like him. You actually, you know him. You know him. Well, you thought you know. And when I’ve flown into Vegas and I’ve seen you the last couple years, I come in in May with this party we do over at the win, he’s on buildings. I mean, he’s the star of the operation there, since the operation, other than you, you know, you know, literally, he’s been the star of the operation.

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JT The Brick  03:04

There, right? Billboards plastered all over. They actually have to take down the billboards of him all over town. And I’ll tell you this. Tell you about Max, really similar to what happened with Darren Waller, who came from the Ravens when the Raiders discovered him in a warm up of a game. Well, Max was drafted in the fourth round by Gruden and the Mayock group, and then the next thing you know, Max Crosby turns out to be a fourth round pick who’s super elite. What he does differently is he got sober, big, deep part of the story. If he didn’t get sober after his rookie year in Oakland. He might have died. I’m I’m the MC at his foundation event, which you’ll get a chance to go to, and I’ll make that connection as he has to get his foundation done in Baltimore now, and it’s all about sobriety and helping others. And he’s really big with pet rescue and dogs, and he’s just a unique guy. But it all changed, and that’s when he got sober. And then when he got sober, he changed into a different ferpazoid of an athlete. He’s got tattooed on his body, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. He’s all about greatness and achieving greatness. So what he’s going to do, similar to Ray, but Ray Lewis played in bigger games, is he’s going to be the leader that everybody looks at and says, that’s the way you practice every day. That’s how you show up, that’s how you stay late. And the Ravens have always had a pretty good reputation of doing that, from Rob Richard to the great players, Suggs, who played there, no one goes and plays in Baltimore and kind of mails it in. If you don’t play for the ravens, you’re going to be an aggressive defender, you’re getting a guy that fits in perfectly to the DNA of Baltimore and that championship defense.

Nestor Aparicio  04:48

JT, the brick is here. Long time, a voice of the Raiders with the Raiders was in Vegas before the Raiders got there. From a getting rid of him perspective. Of and getting the draft picks, and they’re certainly, you know, we talk about the compensation and the money. Were you shocked by this, as for the Raiders fans and the Raider Nation that you represent? And, hey, we’re trying to win, and how are we going to get there? You get a couple picks, right? I mean, that’s cool, but you’re losing the guy that’s on the Billboard, and this is the second guy that di Costa has managed to take away. Roquan Smith was that guy in Chicago, right? And then you draft matabi K you draft Hamilton, you still got, you know, Humphrey hanging around. They’ve drafted Wiggins and Starks on the defensive side, both first round guys. The pass rush was so lacking last year, brick, I sat here week after week. Guys are just statues waiting back there. Nobody could get home, nobody could get near. There was no pressure. Forget sacks. There was no pressure. So I know this is going to be different. They have a guy named Mike Green. They drafted in the second round last year. They felt was a first round talent. They’re going to try to pair that thing up, and they’re going to have this thing going on. But I keep thinking to myself, what are the Raiders thinking? And how is Brick selling this to the Raiders fans, the one

JT The Brick  06:11

and the money on that was even more unique and ridiculous. I mean, waking the bank at 81 million for a center now, I know he’s really good, but as you strengthen the Ravens with Max you weaken the Ravens with the center. It’s in conversation for years down the road on a young center that the Raiders had to get, because we are getting Fernando Mendoza. We have rock towers. We have Ashton gente Oh, my God, if Ashton gentIe was running behind Tyler Lindenbaum last year, throw up another five touchdowns and maybe 250 yards, and he got tattooed behind the line of scrimmage. But with the Raiders, this one hurts, because I thought in the opening day of free agency you were able to get as this free agent window opens. You could have kept Max and you could have got Tyler, Linda pub, and you could have got Mendoza, and you said more you’re not ever after you lost Max Crosby, but Max wanted to go. Max wanted to go to a contender. He wasn’t going to be a part of a rebuild. He would have. He’s been a part of three other rebuilds that didn’t work. You mentioned Marvin Lewis and Tom Telesco and Dave Ziegler and Josh McDaniels at Pete Carroll Chip Kelly. Max was there for all of it, and he’s the guy who drank all the Kool Aid and said, I’m going to run through a wall for all these coaches. Colin Kubiak comes in with the vision of Mendoza. And Max took the high road. He didn’t go over social media, didn’t demand the trade. He just signed an extension a year ago. I congratulated him a year ago for signing an extension with the writers, and you get them now in Baltimore. So for the writers, big loss, but now for the first time, I don’t use the word rebuild. Writers are rebuilding, and they got some really good pieces going forward.

Nestor Aparicio  07:54

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Well, when you’re picking first in the draft, you’re rebuilding, right? I mean, like, literally, I don’t know what else there is to say. And he saw that. They saw that. Now there’s extra picks that Where’s Tom Brady and all of this brick start. Let’s go. Let’s work front, front to back or back to front. I’m not sure

JT The Brick  08:14

that’s enormous power. I explained this to everybody. Not a lot of people know really know Brady. I don’t know him. I met him once. He’s an owner, he’s not a consultant, he’s not a consultant, he’s an owner. On a large chunk, if you look at the net worth of the Raiders now, just Google. It’ll blow you away. What the Raiders are worth from 31st in Oakland into the top five now approaching $9 billion Brady got his investment in there, when he bought the Las Vegas aces for Mark Davis, a piece of that that gave him the entryway into Mark Davis’s world. And then Mark Davis, who struggled with a winning product that I think is a really good guy, great guy, Mark finally said, Look, I’ve taken a lot of swings, and now I’m bringing in Tom Brady, and Brady’s going to run this thing, along with John spy tech, who played at Michigan, our GM, and here played with Brady at Michigan, and it’s spy tech and Brady. They’re the de facto guys making the football decisions, along with a couple of minority owners who are big Egon Bon and Michael Melman, two super elite owners that came in with Brady. So Brady’s got a lot of power to answer your question, and he should have a lot of power. He’s a seven time Super Bowl champ, and now Mendoza comes in. Think of Mendoza, who grew up as a young boy, as I know was Brady, and now he’ll be able to pick Brady’s ears and eyes in meeting rooms when Tom’s not calling games for Fox, and he’s there throughout the offseason. So Reagan’s got a lot of power, man, and Brady has to get it right this time, because Raider fans don’t want to do another rebuild nest. We didn’t. If you were told me, and we talked six, seven years ago, that I’d be sitting in 2026 talking about a rebuild. The roof was. Supposed to happen when we opened the Legion stadium seven years ago. That was the rebuild with Henry ruggs, the first ever pick. How’d that work out? Some of the other picks overall. Now we’re established in Vegas with the Golden Knights as your caps won Stanley Cup here, and now we’re rebuilding again. Oh boy. So we’re going to rebuild them. We have to do it right behind Tom Brady.

Nestor Aparicio  10:24

JT the brick has been slinging national sports talk radio for three decades. He is perched in Vegas as one of the voices of the Raiders. And you mentioned a year ago the extension that Crosby signed. That is a shocking development, right? I mean, like the Orioles had all this going on, they had an owner, they finished in last place last year, and lost a half a million people in the state. Like shocking development when things go awry, um, you know, the case of Crosby, the way he wanted to live his life, the way he thought he was going to have his career go. That’s all taken a big turn as well, and you see this as a really ideal fit for Max. Crosby, right

JT The Brick  11:12

against Baltimore. I don’t know the suburbs of Maryland the way you do, so it’s not Vegas, where Max can get in his rolls. Royce, remember, he’s not drinking. He’s not partying. He’s not at night clubs. He loves cigar lounges. He loves music. He loves UFC. So goes to UFC and sits with Dana right in the front. Well, certainly you’re not going to be doing that in Maryland and Baltimore as much as you win in Vegas. But he’s not a drinker. He’s not a partier. Him and his wife, Rachel and their daughter will settle down, I’m assuming, close to headquarters, like five minutes, you tell me, and he’ll be up when it’s pitch black and driving in and greeting everyone at the door. It’ll be a different lifestyle for him, but he’ll hit the ground running. Let me. Let me tell you this as a guarantee, he will win the Walter Payton Man of the Year. He’s been close, been nominated a bunch of times in Vegas. He will win the Walter Payton Man of the Year, which I think is the greatest honor. And he’ll win that with the Ravens jersey on, because he’s this close already winning it, as I know from the inside. And now he’s going to do that in Baltimore, and it will have that patch as a raven, I bet you in the next two or three years. Hold me to that?

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Nestor Aparicio  12:23

Well, I mean, Luke and I gave this a thumbs up at 7am on Saturday morning. You know, in the aftermath of all of this, are you giving it a thumbs up for trade value, that if he wasn’t going to play, wasn’t going to stay a guy? You know really well to say, well, what are we going to get for him? You know, what’s it going to mean to the cap all, you know, all of those kinds of things.

JT The Brick  12:46

Great question. That’s why I’m on with you. Great question. I don’t have it at all. I’d rather have Max. Crosby, it came on with you starting. We could have kept Max and did all this today. And the Raiders, Raiders are in free agency, doing some good stuff. Could have did that with Max and still have 100 million to spend and Mendoza and 11 draft picks, but to get two first round picks, this one is critical. It’s the Ravens 14th pick overall. That player, unfortunately, the rest of his life is going to be known as the max Crosby pick, period. Too bad, young man. I don’t know if you played with LSU. You played at Indiana. You’re going to be known as the guy the following year. The Raiders are going to get the Ravens first round pick could be 26 I’m not blown away by the 26 pick in the first round. It wasn’t like Max was going to go to the Jets. So we got the second pick overall or the Titans, and we had a high, top five pick. The fact that the Ravens gave up two first round picks and one was 14, was really good compensation for the Raiders. They got a face round pick, they cleared out Crosby’s money. They got Lindbergh. With that money, probably overpaid a little bit for him, and they able to do more Christmas shopping, but they got to get an edge rusher now. They got quitty pay from Indianapolis. Quit he pay is not max Crosby, so I don’t love it. I don’t love it, but I wish Max, well, I know that organization in Baltimore pretty well through you, Rod Woodson Marvin over the years, and a lot of other friends, and he’s going to to a team that doesn’t mess around when the Ravens show up at home or on the road. You know you’re in a ballroom brawl, and Max is going to lead you out the way Ray used to, the way Ray used to. Max is going to be that guy with all due respect coming in, and he’s going to say, I got this team now, and he’s going to embrace Baltimore and the harbor and the district, and he’s going to do a lot of things. And I think you’re going to be embraced by Max Crosby. He said he wants to retire a raider. He’s not taken off the Raider tattoo. He will retire a raider someday and come back to Vegas, but now he’s yours. Treat him well, embrace him. And I think you’re going to love the guy.

Nestor Aparicio  14:56

JT, the brick is here, all things Max Crosby. And. Up. Let’s put the national JT the brick hat on, and let’s say that the day after John Harbaugh was unceremoniously fired here after 18 years on the car phone, I could have checked in with you that week, and then bashati came in and said, We may hire a veteran coach, somebody that’s done this before, and then they go and hire Jesse Minter has been in the building. He’s the, he’s the HAR ball junior, junior, as I think Ryan Clark called him on ESPN, you know, it’s, it’s always a shock to the system when these things happen. I know, and I could give you a kick while you’re down. And by the way, if I’m kicking you because you’re a Raiders fan, y’all gonna be hating on the Ravens all year long, right? Trying to get a better pick, like the worst the ravens are next year, the better the Raiders are gonna like it. But all that being said, you know, this, the notion that this thing goes down at this point and there’s a new coach, that’s kind of why I thought, well, if Lamar wants out now and to go to Miami or to Vegas or whatever, this would be his out. New coach, I’m out. Yeah, I’ve done my thing. The Mars in, you know, Linda bombs out. You know, they’re gonna need a center around yours. You swiped our center and hardball, took our punter and some other tight ends, other things. This is the week of raiding and and tampering and all that other good stuff. But there is a point for all of this where the settling down here is Lamar is in and there’s a new coach, and he hasn’t won a game yet. And I said Luke and I were talking mostly, I’m like, how do we rate the new coach? How do we know if he’s doing a good job between now and, like, September? Because we’re not going to

JT The Brick  16:39

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know that. Very interesting question. You know, I like Isaiah, likely, a lot when I saw him on that play where his foot wasn’t in bounds, I forget if that was against Kansas City or whatever, that game. And I I watched him closely after that, and I said, Man, this guy something. I mean, we got blocked ours. I’m like, Who is that guy? That’s a that’s a loss. That’s a good player. Linda bombs gone. You get max. We’ll see what happens. But Matt says, you know how this goes, the Ravens aren’t done yet. They’re going to get another player in here. They always find ways, but you’re losing two first round picks first time the ravens and franchise history do that. And it’s max Crosby that’s going to put a lot of pressure on max. He’s ended the last couple of years a little meniscus cleanups. No, he didn’t blow out his needs on ACLs. End of the year, the Raiders the big story. You want to dive deeper. We don’t have a lot of time. But why did Max get upset and why this window open for him to become a raven? Because later, shut him down with two games to play, because the Raiders didn’t need to win those two games, wink, wink, air quotes to get the number one Mendoza pick. And Max freaked out and was very upset, and it turned out to be the right decision by the Raiders. They protected max for the ravens, protected max if he was going to come back to the Raiders, because he was injured, he’s playing on Monday, and they had a surgery. Was unconscious when I saw him two weeks ago. So you’re getting the cleaned up. Max is going to be 100% healthy ravens losing it in here, but I think the ravens are going to be fine and with Lamar. If you would have told me a year or two ago that we could have got Lamar in Vegas, oh, my God, that would have solved something. Lamar Jackson, from his mid to late 20s to his 39 playing in Vegas with the Raiders. I would have took that all day long instead of Jimmy Garoppolo Gardner, mentioned Aidan O’Connell, Gino Smith, how that worked out last year, we could have Lamar. We lost that window. We don’t have the mill, and now it’s Mendoza. No, Nia, we got this young man who’s got a Heisman. He’s a gentleman. If he wanted to not play football today and go to ESPN, he’d kick Ryan Clark off the set. He’s already better than him. So we got Mendoza man, and Mendoza we trust Nestor. He’s got to be the guy that opens the gateway to Al Davis’s Raiders of the 70s,

Nestor Aparicio  19:05

and my flight into Vegas the second weekend of May, right around Preakness time. So you’ll be finding me out there. Brick, you know, last thing on the Minter har ball, McCarthy to Pittsburgh, just, you know, a monk into Cleveland, right? Like, lot of seats, lot of things moving around in a lot of places. What you make of the offseason? You got anything you like? Didn’t like?

JT The Brick  19:28

Yeah, answer that. Let me do that again. The mentor not impressed, you know, okay, McDonald won a Super Bowl. Had roots to the Ravens. Our defensive coordinator Robbie Leonard, defensive ordinary, young he got elevated to DC. Here, another Raven guy at one point, 10 coaches fired. Man Sean McDermott got fired. You never pulled in the stadium for two years in Buffalo as he drove to work every day and watched the concrete go up, watch the steel go up and they fired. Interviewed him, because why four turnovers by Josh Allen against Denver’s McDermott’s fault? So you had hardball leave hardball should have waited. Should have waited a week. He would have been the head coach of Buffalo. Yes, he took the giant job. He’ll do well there, but giants aren’t as good as Buffalo. I can promise you that 10 coaches got let go, 10, well, 10 jobs were open. A couple of coaches, Tomlin, obviously retiring, and these other ones, I think it’s a bad precedent. It’s awful that a third of the league’s getting fired in every coaching carousel, just firing people. And we’ve been the worst battle in Vegas. We fired every coach, no matter who they are, Legacy guys, new guys, interim guys. So I think it’s a bad trend. I think it affects your coordinators, your quarterback coaches, your defensive line coaches, when you continue to fire the entire league and everybody’s looking for a job, I don’t like that.

Nestor Aparicio  20:58

Getty Lee’s out on the road this year. I got a puncher’s chance of getting Getty on to talk baseball with me. So I’m, I’m crawling, yeah, I mean, I’m just trying to, you know, say it out loud to make it happen. So if it happens, but I’m pretty sure that I’m going to be, you know, flying by night somewhere to see them play. This is since you and I got together, I don’t think we’ve talked about this. This, this rush reunion. Very unlikely, seeing Alex go off to Austria and get healthy. He can play the chops again. They’re going to add people to the band. I had Rick Emmett from triumph on this week. They’re taking the band out this. Oh yeah, wait, I did a half an hour with Rick. He’s big baseball fan, by the way. Big Blue Jay guy, too. Little more down, you know, down low than Getty Lee, but a huge baseball guy. This is going to be a great summer for music. But the rush thing is, I just It came from kind of nowhere, didn’t it? For all of us,

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JT The Brick  22:01

my wife and just turned 60, and my wife said, What do you want for your birthday? I had a big birthday out here in Vegas. And I said, You know what I want to do? Sometime in the summer, I want to go see rush. And she’s like, of course, you do. So I’ve seen 54 rush shows. So by the time I was 17, and you know, not a lot of shows, if you had I’ve seen them twice a year, sometimes when they’re in New York. I saw them at the Coliseum Brendan burn and the garden that knocked off three or two. So I saw a lot of Rush shows. I’m just thrilled that Getty and Alex can go out on the road again. This is what they do. We do radio. Radio is not what it used to be. Another podcast. It’s not It’s podcast. It’s live streaming. It’s not what it used to be in the 2000s where am radio and sports talk radio was a behemoth. It’s not rush isn’t going to be what Rush was in the late 70s and the mid 80s, but Getty needs to go out and play, because he’s a musician and it brings him joy and happiness. With Alex, they had a female drummer, great. Did a little homework on her. They had the keyboard player from the who. So my wife says, Where do you want to go? So I’m going to see him in Lauderdale at the hard drive. I already got tickets in a suite in Dallas at this new Dickey Center, little intimate 12,000 instead of American Airlines Arena. And I got my tickets for San Jose, which I’d never go to San Jose to see rush. So maybe, you know, no Vegas, no Vegas. Stopped for rush, and then the international rush tour came out. I got one more my brother, like when we moved into the stones in Amsterdam, before it got canceled. I want to see Getty in Europe, something I’ve never done,

Nestor Aparicio  23:43

go to Brazil and see them. Go to Brazil. Did you go? Would I go to Brazil with you?

JT The Brick  23:54

Did you see Russia and Rio? Did you go down there for those?

Nestor Aparicio  23:57

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No, I saw the stones in Rio. I saw you two in Sao Paulo. I saw the stones in Buenos Aires. You want to go to South America and see rush? That’s my opinion. That’s my opinion. And that being said, it’s my goal to go to Edmonton and Vancouver and see Banff. I thought that was the end of the tour. Now they’ve added all these European dates. I’m much, much more thinking Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, I want to do some stuff I haven’t done, but for you, go to Brazil and see rush, that’s what I think you should do. That’s my, that’s my that’s my homework for you look that up.

JT The Brick  24:37

JT just saw the stones on their last term Vancouver, and that was mind blowing, because that was the entire waterfront of Vancouver, 85 degree weather, mind blowing stuff in a very cool, progressive city, progressive rush. That would be a place I’d go to Vancouver just to enjoy. Not only the show, but to enjoy that wonderful city. But yeah, I have a feeling we’re going to catch one of these shows together, because they’re giving us a lot of opportunities. Man, there’s a lot of shows. Russia is going to be on the road for a couple of years with this tour.

Nestor Aparicio  25:13

Rick, I’m telling you right now that I have not missed the first night of a rush tour this century, this century. So I would think, if you’re looking for me somewhere around, I don’t know, four or five o’clock Pacific on Sunday, June 7, I if there’s a guy walking through Inglewood buying Coors lights at a liquor store for $1.50 and drinking them under the palm trees, out in front of what used to be the fabulous forum their Showtime. That’s probably me, and I’ll have my hair out, I have my rush swag on, and I’ll be ready to to toast them. I’m alive. They’re alive. You’re alive, you know, like it’s that’s an amazing thing, right?

JT The Brick  26:04

Well, we got sphere out here. I’m not saying that they’re going to play sphere, but Metallica is, I put out a tweet. I think you got 100,000 views in it. Like two hours that Metallica tickets. And I like Metallica. They’re like the unofficial band of the Raiders. Pat Phil’s a huge Raider fan. They put out their tickets of sphere. That was supposed to be sphere tickets are supposed to be anywhere from 450 to 500 for everybody, metallic is going for 1800 even their fan club ticket members are freaking out because they can’t get in the queue. And the internet’s breaking as everyone’s trying to get out to see Metallica at sphere. I’ll tell your audience again, if you haven’t been to sphere in Vegas, drop everything you’re doing when your favorite artist is out in Vegas, because once you see a show at sphere, you’ll never want to go see a show anywhere else. It’s that impressive.

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Nestor Aparicio  26:54

Saw you two there about two, three weeks into the run, and then my wife and I made it out for the Eagles back at my birthday in October, and because I really wanted her to see it too, you know. And when it’s that much money, or to go see the Wizard of Oz and a couple 100 bucks or whatever, I just want to love the band. That’s all I want to do, not fish, not the dead, like I really want to love the band. So if rush shows up there and Getty needs. I don’t know. I ain’t doing a 450 I tell you that right now. You know, I mean, three and a quarter, maybe something like that, but, um, but look, I’m going to see a dozen shows on the tour, so we’re going to figure this out, you and me. JT, the brick has been my friend for, um, well, not quite as long as Getty’s been in my life, but really close. And I’m growing my rush playoff beard. Here. We got opening day. We have a new manager. We have a new head coach here. Brick, it’s like, it’s like spring is sprung in but we have, we have your, your best rusher, and Max Crosby, Baltimore, check you check off on this right? Like we’re gonna win a Super Bowl because of Max Crosby. Right?

JT The Brick  28:00

Super Bowl with Max Crosby and play in an AFC Championship game. It’s all on Lamar, because Max will not be the reason you’re not in the Super Bowl. He will help you get there. It’s time for Lamar to play his best postseason football the next two years. If it doesn’t happen this first year, because the writers get a better pick, I’m good with that. Jen strong, remember, Jen strong, give the best your wife as you give to mine, and I’ll see you on the road with Rush, my friend, if we don’t catch you at a football game before that.

Nestor Aparicio  28:32

Yeah, my wife’s going to Italy to eat pasta with her family. So, you know, and you know she knows my jams, the rush thing. So, I mean, I’m trying to figure out, like, exactly what shows I’m going to get in and out of they’re playing around here, a bunch, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, all spread out by a month. So I’m good brick. You know, I’ll be a rebel little runner. I’ll be a new world. Man, don’t worry about it. JT, the brick can be found anywhere. The Internet travel sometimes so serious. It’s certainly always out in Vegas. Don’t go to Vegas without taking his recommendation. Recommendations out there, on or off the strip. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, welcoming Max Crosby here to the Charm City in style. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us.