What’s happening in America every day at the hands, masks and guns of these ICE raids should appall and outrage any citizen in this country who believes in The Constitution and the laws of our land. Former state delegate and current Essex attorney Todd Schuler returns to discuss democracy and some poor government Trumpian trends with Nestor on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Costas Inn in Timonium.
Nestor Aparicio and Todd Schuler discuss various topics, including Schuler’s law practice, which focuses on personal injury cases, and the importance of taking pictures as evidence. They reminisce about their radio days and Schuler’s time in Annapolis, highlighting the bipartisan camaraderie among delegates. Schuler emphasizes the importance of due process and the rule of law, criticizing the assault on journalism and education. They also touch on immigration, noting the contributions of undocumented workers to the economy. Schuler shares a personal anecdote about his daughter’s volleyball camp experience at Penn State, and they promote their upcoming events.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
democracy, government trends, public speaking, media division, listener feedback, personal injury law, litigation, courtroom, immigration, due process, fear-based, heritage fair, undocumented workers, Maryland lottery, Baltimore positive
SPEAKERS
Speaker 1, Todd Schuler, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task of Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive, positively out here in Timonium, Maryland and beautiful Costas. Oh, look at that. Fresh water. It’s really vodka. No, it’s not making that up. Deep Eddie’s not sponsoring the show yet, but when they do, it’ll be vodka. We’re out here on behalf of our friends at the Maryland lottery and our friends, a curio wellness and liberty, pure solutions, I tell you. Todd Schuler sitting in right now, and he’s kind of, like rumbling a little bit because, like, he’s like, how do I go in and follow you? And Steve, rouse easy. You just be you. He’s done radio before. He’s you’ve like, done, like, whole like, dissertations in Annapolis, right? Like you stood up in front of people, you know, you know, stranger to public speaking. Todd Schuler, I’ve
Todd Schuler 00:43
spoken before, but I mean, Steve, Rouse and nasty Nestor, Aparicio at the same time. It was awesome. It was like 1999 in here. You fan Boyd. This us. I know I was, I had to tell everybody I was Mickey Coachella. I didn’t know what else to do. Like, I felt like I had to blend in. You know? What
Nestor Aparicio 00:58
the really weird part is from a guy, how you’re a little younger than me, right? Yeah, I’m 5648 Yeah, you’re a lot younger than me. All right, you just met the last two radio stars are ever going to be here, right? There’s not going to be any more radio stars in Baltimore, like, literally, I don’t know what else to say, and not that I’m the star. I mean, he had the 12 share. I didn’t, but, but we’re at a point where Jack hasn’t made any stars, you know, it’s just not it. There’s not that world
Todd Schuler 01:28
anymore. There’s a division of media to the point where, like, when you guys were doing your thing, I mean, like, I told Steve Rouse, I used to listen to him every morning coming in, and I used to listen to wnst all the time, you know, like, and everybody did like, you know, water cooler stuff. No one was talking about it. No, no. Nobody ever
Nestor Aparicio 01:47
listened. Hey, you told me something really nice. And Mark Miller, if you’re listening, damn it, we’ve got listeners. All five of them got to him. Let last time you were on your pizza challenge, you said you got more feedback. I got
Todd Schuler 01:58
incredible Can I can I shout out my man. David Palmisano is in Baldwin. He’s like, your biggest super fan in the world. Great dressing. He has the best I like your dressing, dude. You have to ask special for it. They don’t always have it in the store, and they’re, you know, but Dave’s Italian. They went away on weekends too, right? They did, but they’re still there, you know, for breakfast and lunch, and it’s right in the neighborhood. I
Nestor Aparicio 02:19
need more sponsors. Anybody wants to sponsor the show out there, please? It’s beautiful out there. I drive out there. It’s right, by the way, by the vineyard, right,
Todd Schuler 02:26
oh, yeah, it’s right by right by design and boarding. And that’s kind of my god country. God’s country. It’s beautiful
02:32
place to be. It’s a lot of
Nestor Aparicio 02:33
Republicans out there. Yeah, it is, it is. They’re there. But, you know, we’re, you’re not one of them. That’s
Todd Schuler 02:40
not one of them, but they’re out there too. They can, they they can hang out a little bit. They’re not too bad. So what
Nestor Aparicio 02:46
do you want to talk about? Man, I mean, I invited you over. I’m figuring like we’re here Costas, first things first, the new digs you you frequented this place. You are no stranger to this, and your daughter’s listening. He’s had a few beers here, cc at the bar at Nick’s, so, oh,
Speaker 1 03:02
you mean career beers. I thought you were talking about today. I was like, geez, no. But
Nestor Aparicio 03:07
over the life of the life of this space, I when they, when they were moving in here, you knew what this was.
Todd Schuler 03:13
I love, love, love, Timonium racetrack. I love being out here. I’m super I’ve loved Costas. It’s like two of my
Nestor Aparicio 03:20
favorite. I got a shirt today. I got today
Todd Schuler 03:22
I could sit out here with with my daughter, Cece, during the State Fair. I’ve got a Ferris wheel. I got funnel cake over there. She all she wants to do is sit out here. She wants to sit out here and watch the horses run. She doesn’t want to do. What other kids do? You know? She wants to
Nestor Aparicio 03:37
we got ponies everywhere here.
Todd Schuler 03:40
The space is so cool. And, you know, like, have you been here since the remodel? No, this is it. Oh, telling my, my good
Nestor Aparicio 03:47
buddy. Okay, so what it would give the impression of this, you know, you get a Costas wall back
Todd Schuler 03:51
here. It’s gorgeous. Yeah, this, they’ve, they’ve done such a great job with the space. The crab dip was unbelievable. I had CeCe had a crab cake. I was able to share her crab cake. And, well,
Nestor Aparicio 04:01
I gotta let you go golf at some point. So we got to make some sense. Here we do politics is
Todd Schuler 04:06
that, is that today, I mean, I’ll go politics. Politics are fun.
Nestor Aparicio 04:10
Let me say something good, all right, because you’re tell me what you do for a living, because I want you to promote what you do, because it’s going to lead into my story. Because my story is
Todd Schuler 04:17
a Dundalk story. We are blonde l Miller and Schuler injury lawyers were right on Eastern Avenue, as you know, right in the heart of Essex. Been there long before you were there. We, yes, been there long before i Our business has been an entity right there for 50 years. And some people have worked there for 50 years. It’s pretty amazing. But we do marks work there almost 40. Mark is 40 if, if, yeah, close. If not 40 years for sure. And
Nestor Aparicio 04:42
now owns the firm, you guys, right? Blonde, he’s the Miller, my friend, my childhood friend.
Todd Schuler 04:46
But we do car crashes. We do any, any type of case where somebody has been injured, you know. And what really separates us, we think, is that, you know, we put stuff in suit, we we legitimately get referrals from other. Law firms when it’s time to put something in suit, when it’s time to put something in suit, the other law firms that may be advertised bigger and better than us, they call us and they send us the cases, and we handle the litigation Mark and I are no strangers to the courtroom, and that gets our clients significantly better results than these guys that take your case. And why do
Nestor Aparicio 05:19
this? If I got in the car accident, God forbid, you would be my first phone call. I probably
Speaker 1 05:25
have to be. I would hope so. You know, like, what happens when, I mean, I don’t
Nestor Aparicio 05:29
want talking to the river net, but, like, I get side swipe and, I mean, I see awful things out here, people doing on the highway. I don’t need to tell you that, right? Like, every day it’s perilous just getting from Timonium back to my house, but something happens, you’re on the side of the road. What you you want me to take pictures? I want you to take pictures. I’ll tell you. I’ve learned enough to say, take pictures. I get this right. Get the steps right. So
Todd Schuler 05:51
I gotta I got a case in Salisbury that I just settled. I just settled it for $200,000 and my client and the other driver told vastly different stories. My client told a story three lanes going through and and car cuts out in front of my client, and he rear ends her. Now the other individual says that she’s in the middle lane and then stopped at a red light, and then my client hit her. Well, he took pictures, and so I can see the skid marks in the right lane. Number one, right? That punches a hole in her story. Also, I can see a staples in the background, so I know they’re across the street from Staples. So when I pull up Google Maps, she says she’s sitting at a red light. There’s not a red light for a mile down the road from where you’re sitting at Staples. And so taking pictures is an incredible It tells the story. A picture, a picture, is worth 1000
Nestor Aparicio 06:40
All right, come on, yeah, except
Speaker 1 06:42
it’s Epstein, except for itself, try to tell a radio guy a
Todd Schuler 06:45
picture’s worth 1000 words, right? But, uh, yeah, I mean, the picture tells the story. So
06:51
that’s the funny part about politics, right? Epstein,
Nestor Aparicio 06:55
right? The picture is not worth anything. The
06:57
whole thing about like
Todd Schuler 06:59
you, how much did people, like put aside about this guy? Because he was the righteous guy who was going to bring this whole Epstein ring down and count me amongst the group that probably thinks there wasn’t as much there, there, you know, like, as I don’t. I don’t necessarily know that there was some big master list or whatever, but the fact that he pulled
Nestor Aparicio 07:21
the master list would be the phone records of who was getting on the plane and who wasn’t getting that. That’s, that is a list, but that does exist, yeah,
Todd Schuler 07:30
but I it’s probably more boring than we would think it is, but
Nestor Aparicio 07:37
doesn’t like a lot of rich people, a lot of rich people we’ve never heard of
07:40
right? That’s, that’s probably what it is, right, if
Todd Schuler 07:44
we’re being honest. But the conspiracy theory that
Speaker 1 07:47
drove him to office was that it’s going to take down the Clintons, and it’s going to take that, you know, like, and all of a sudden he comes out at the press conference, he goes, Why are we still talking about this guy, Epstein, you know, like, You got to be kidding me, dude, you were the one talking about it. You were the one talking about it, and so now it kind of looks like your name’s on the list, just saying, right? And your buddy, the Tesla dude, is kind of making those echoes.
Nestor Aparicio 08:11
I’m a regular guy. I didn’t go to 10 years of law school like you were Tulane, and you come back and practice and run with these frauds in government who lie back and forth. But there is an honor part of being a lawyer that that’s the whole point of court is, that’s where the bullshit ends. That’s where the bullshit ends. That’s That’s where, when you’re on the phone call in Georgia and trying to find votes like the the level of corruption and what? Okay, I had letter Raskin here a minute ago. He handles my money and but like when we get into this, the level of fiction that people that are willing to believe fiction or watch Fox News, it’s we’re two completely different Americas here, where this guy, the reason we think he’s being treated like a king is he’s being treated like a king, like the amount of Go ahead, the assault is gonna explode like scary.
Todd Schuler 09:10
Assault is on the law, the assault is on journalism, judges and the assault is on education. Those are the three things that are powerful enough to stop bullshit, right? We learn at universities. We learn through the spread of information and journalism, right? We the bullshit stops in the courtroom, that the law is the
Nestor Aparicio 09:31
facts, the pictures, the evidence, the evidence. Right? Want to roll like a
Todd Schuler 09:35
king. You got to get rid of those three things. Those three things are way too, way too devastating for King rule, you know, so absolutely. And you see the assault. I mean, they don’t, they don’t like the truth,
Nestor Aparicio 09:48
people taking pictures in front of Alligator Alley signs. I mean, we’re just at a whole different level of mean. And this is where I wanted to bring it from Essex to Dundalk. Todd Schuler is here. We’re here. We’re not in Dundalk. We’re. In Timonium, at a Dundalk institution the new Costas. They do not have crabs here, but they have crab everything else. I just had a delicious man a crab cake. Was great. Get a crab cake. It cost us, for crying out loud. Last week, I was at the Heritage fair in Dundalk, and I was there Friday night, seven o’clock when they Todd cran Well, top wasn’t there, but Johnny Ray was there, and Johnny vontron was there from the county, and Kathy Kloss Myers people, and they were doing the dedications, and they shouted me out. Thank you, fellas. I appreciate it. Eric and Mark and those guys who kept the fair together, and they welcomed onto stage the Mahoney brothers. And you’ve seen the Mahoney. We’ve all seen Mahoney. I thought the Mahoney brothers did nothing but Beatles, but it turns out that they’re like, they’re modern, they’re doing Chicago. They do a whole bunch of different things beyond just the Beatles only technically ever seen they’re a Beatles act to me, but they’re more than that. Beach Boys do a lot of stuff, right? So they open a show and one of their guys gets in the Neil Diamond red sequin top, you know, from jazz singer, right?
11:02
Does it coming to America? They open with it.
Nestor Aparicio 11:05
They open
Speaker 1 11:09
that was the 80s. Now it’s like, controversial. He controversial. If you listen to the lyrics, it sure is, you know, coming to America.
Nestor Aparicio 11:22
Only want to be free. They come into America today, you know. So this is, this is the Statue of Liberty, welcoming everyone. And I’m out there in the old coon dresser and Dundalk dancing and and I’m singing every word, you know I could sing every word right now. That reminds me. And I’m looking at the people, and there’s a bunch of old folks in Red Hats and all this Maga and they they had Trump Raven jersey, Trump 47 Ray, I only tell you, work in Essex, but so I’m in Dundalk, seeing all this. And meanwhile, like when I walked around the fair. Everywhere I went, there were more people look like me than look like you, right? And no offense to you or me, but they were obliged. A lot of that Espanol, absolutely in and around the fair. And before that song was over, I was almost like the Indian with the trash and though in the water, and I had a tear in my eye, and I’m thinking I thought I was white all those years in Dundalk, when I grew up with your partner, Mark Miller, you couldn’t have convinced me that I wasn’t. You never like I never knew you’d be. My father being born in Venezuela would make me subjected to the thought that alligators could be taking me or my brother, who was born in Venezuela and has lived here now for 25 years and is an American citizen and has a business and has two children in Florida and a wife. They both were born in Venezuela in a community of Kiss me. That is all Venezuelan, right? My son lives in your neighborhood over in Essex Dundalk, and the house I grew up in. And my son said to me, about a month and a half he was a Costas Dundalk. Night I ran into Johnny, oh, my son said to me, you know, our neighborhood is like Anne Frank. I don’t doubt it. No, so. And I said, he said, all the shades are pulled down. We, we quick
Todd Schuler 13:17
blonde l Miller, Schuler, plug, we do have full time Spanish speaking paralegals. And we, you know, advertise to the Spanish speaking community, because it is such a large part of the east side of the Baltimore community. Yeah, people are scared, people, people, people are unearthed, you know, like they’re not going
Nestor Aparicio 13:33
out. I’m documented. I was born here. I’m sure that matters. Well, that’s the point. That’s the key. Can you educate my Republican friends about due process and the fact that because you’re not a citizen here doesn’t mean that we blindfold you, take you away and put you in a camp.
Todd Schuler 13:49
It’s fascinating to me, like and it is. It is strictly a fear based thing. There’s no law to do. Due process is guaranteed by the Constitution. You have to charge me with a crime. You have to, you have to put me in a jury in front of my peers all this pack is that you got the pickup trucks that say, We the People. I think they think that that’s the only three words, right, you know, but, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there, and it guarantees people a right to a trial, and it guarantees people a right to freedom, and it definitely guarantees people the right to not be plucked off the street by somebody in mass. Show me a badge, show me a warrant. What are we talking about here? This is America. This is insanity.
Nestor Aparicio 14:28
Yeah. I mean, you want to hear you say it in a 62nd sound bite. It’s outrageous that gang members with guns are jumping out of vans and abducting 20 year old women who are college students in California. That’s insane.
Todd Schuler 14:46
It would what it is, frankly, is corrupting the FBI is probably a more difficult task than they thought. It might be right, like they can put your cash Patel in there, and you can, you know, get your. Charges against James Comey and all this crazy stuff. But by and large, FBI agents are extraordinarily professional law enforcement officers, and so instead of trying to corrupt the FBI, we just create a brute force and fund them with this bill that right? Well, what about the
Nestor Aparicio 15:19
bill? I mean, you did a lot of bills down in Annapolis, right? You’re, you’re no stranger to the bills, right? No stranger or the taxes, or any of that. I mean, you give everybody your background, because I don’t. You’re my buddy Todd. You’re the lawyer guy, the ambulance chaser, all that stuff. But, like, you sat in government in a big, big way, and, like, and went to school for this stuff. Like, sort of like, Johnny o went to school for this
Todd Schuler 15:38
stuff. I was with Johnny. Oh, and he called me after he did your show, actually did that turn out to him, and he said it was great. He said he had a good time over here. But he just called, you know, because he knows you and I are buddies and everything. And I told him, because, you know, we went in together. He actually went in about a year earlier than me, but we, by and large, went in together. We were roommates in Annapolis, right? And four years later, I’m, I’m a private citizen. I’m no longer, you know, he goes on. He’s county executive. And so there was a time when I was like, Johnny, your star was rising, and I dropped out. I was basically nobody, you know. And then COVID hit, and I was like, Yeah, I’m not jealous of Johnny anymore. And I’m definitely not jealous now we would want to be a US congressman. That’s got to be terrible aggravation. I had fun. We we hung out with Republicans, we Democrats, conservatives. You know, the black guys, the white guys of Prince George, make the state
Nestor Aparicio 16:30
better. We were debate over what to do with our money to make life better in the land the pleasant living. And that’s the job, right? So
Todd Schuler 16:40
were the people that I disagreed with. There’s not a person that I can think of from my time in Annapolis that wasn’t exactly that way, even even the fire breathing Republicans, you know, like we all hung out together and we all looked for solutions together, and frankly, I did tell Johnny this when he first went in. You’re kind of uniquely situated, because I’m not even sure the state of Maryland has ever had that cool vibe that we had when we were delegates together, like we really, we really all were one, divided in a whole bunch of different ways, but we really were working for a common goal. And I’m like, you’re going into a toxic environment DC, potentially your experience.
Nestor Aparicio 17:26
And last guy there had that had the walls caving in and all of these morons trying to hurt people, and coming in on January 6, they’re now like out of prison, right at the hands of this clown. Absolutely they might be the ones wearing the mask, jumping out of the cars.
Todd Schuler 17:43
They may very well be, but the Johnny factor, like, I don’t think, I don’t think you can go out to have a couple of beers with somebody from the different ask
Nestor Aparicio 17:52
him that. I said that. Didn’t I said, How do you go to Marjorie green Taylor and have any sort of conversation?
Todd Schuler 17:58
I bet people are trying to catch each other on hot mics, like, you know, ooh, yeah, he confided in me, hey, I don’t really like this, but I’m voting for it because, or I’m trying. Like, you know, making the sausage is no easy business. You know, the strange
Nestor Aparicio 18:13
belt, the honor is gone. I think the honor is absolutely gone when you’re willing to storm the Capitol and they’re not willing to imprison the guy who did it the next day, right? Donald Trump should have been under, under a prison on January 7, literally, literally, a complete dereliction of duty in every capacity, and it was staged by him and his people 100% and now they’re running the country. We’re expecting things to get better. I’m not things are gonna get a lot worse. But
Todd Schuler 18:45
going back to the the honor of it all, like you don’t have to, like, worship people and put them on a pedestal, big deal. But you were talking to Steve Ross about it like you’re at your radio station. You put opinions out there, and entertainment people call and and, you know, threaten you, and people call and talk all this me, you know, like the people put your name on a ballot, you know, put your name, put yourself on the radio, put yourself out there, you know, instead of just, yeah, you’re bad because you’re bad because you’re bad because, you know, like and, and frankly, that right,
Nestor Aparicio 19:18
the level of understanding of the humanity part of the immigration issue in this country, when I get these morons that don’t understand, like when I look at that plate over there and I see the lettuce on there and the lemon on there and the cheese on there and the bread on there and the butter on there and the crab cake on there, I know one thing, the crab cake was picked by someone from Mexico on the eastern shore of Maryland, because that’s Maryland meat here, because we don’t eat, we don’t eat that the cheat meat they have over the other end of Dundalk that I heard about the year. But hear about that one? Yeah, I’ll tell you about that, right? Involves a non sponsor related Dundalk institution. Serves, you know, fake cake, as it were, so everything on that plate there. What percentage of that between the time that became a piece of bread from when it was in the field was touched by an immigrant or an undocumented? Let’s just go in undocumented, for the sake of argument, of who needs to be thrown out of the country, versus the beautiful women I met over in the Eastern Shore who picked the crab meat out on an hgB visa that I’ve talked with Dutch and Chris Van Hollen and would talk to Andy Harris about, but he’s apparently a deaf mute. Can’t find can’t find him. He’s a coward. So even though it’s his district where all this is going on, right, I know the crab meat that I ate was picked by before it went to the kitchen here, and I don’t know who’s in the kitchen here and what their ethnicity is here. I just don’t know. I don’t care. I don’t care, right? But these people that want undocumented immigrants thrown out of the country don’t want to eat breakfast, lunch or dinner, because there’s nothing, nothing that’s touched their lips in the last 25 years they haven’t had a meal that wasn’t put together at the hands of undocumented workers. And you know where I really learned this when I drove the Fields up in Maine, the wild Maine blueberry fields, and I saw these little dog houses out in the middle of miles and miles and miles of wild Maine blueberry fields. And the little dog houses are where the people that pick my blueberries live and sleep. And you want to throw those people out of the country while you’re acai blue wild Maine blueberry when you’re down Ocean
Todd Schuler 21:37
City. And add the layer stuff comes from. Add the layer of celebrating your Italian heritage and your Irish heritage, and your Polish heritage, and all the all the stories of struggle of the folks that you know, your grandpa,
Nestor Aparicio 21:51
but the heritage fair is not for you. If you’re not a real American, right?
Speaker 1 21:55
That’s insane. We’re in a bad scene, and we could do better. We could do so much better. Nestor, we have done better. We’re gonna do better. That’s how I got here. Yes, right? I mean, I’m son of an immigrant, yeah, coming to America, baby,
Nestor Aparicio 22:07
yeah, on the boats and on the planes. He is. Todd Schuler, I gotta let you. I wanted you to do like, an hour with me, but you,
22:14
you, this is what we did.
Nestor Aparicio 22:18
I know I gotta take my how’s your daughter so tall at 12? What’d be seven feet tall? She’s gonna play ball, right?
Todd Schuler 22:23
She’s a volleyball player. She just got back from Penn State. I wish she was here. She went to ready to craft penn state volleyball camp and got to meet the national championship volleyball team. Was super cool. She did it this week. All
Nestor Aparicio 22:36
right, well, I want you to do well. I wish we spent more time. Is there anything else you want to say about America, or how far we have to go, or how people could rewire themselves? We need a rewiring of this country. I mean, I like literally, I don’t know what else to say when I’m nine years into watching this fraud, con man, this liar, this felon, hoodwink people who think that you can’t get over on them. That’s the amazing part. As I’m watching this and I’m like, what a part of this, what can be appealing, beyond racism, what part of
Todd Schuler 23:16
it we’re going to do better? That’s the whole point. Is we’re going to do just fine. We’ve weathered the storm before. We’ve gotten through.
Nestor Aparicio 23:24
Told me that last time, and since then, I’ve had to make jokes with Mickey Coachella. He’s put me on his show to set me up for a nice call.
23:33
That sounds like him.
Nestor Aparicio 23:35
He’s broadcasting from Dundalk these days. Yeah. All right, give me your phone number. Damn good lawyer. Damn good lawyer. Damn good lawyer.com. 410-687-7878, give us a call. I hope Paul messanos hears this one. We’re out here at cost. US in. We’re in Timonium. I’m cutting it a little short with this guy, because we’re getting all chippy here on the weekend. He’s got a golf game. I don’t have any golf I don’t have any class. I don’t have anything I have to worry about. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Back to the Future scratch offs. We’re going to be at 1623, bro. 1623, brewing in beautiful Eldersburg on Wednesday, next Friday. We’re gonna have some coffee. We have coffee talk. We’re gonna be at Zeke’s. We’re gonna be with deposed cartoonist Cal Kevin Gallagher from the Baltimore Sun, deposed columnist Dan Rodricks from the sun and my power SIG. Artist to the stars. Cartoonist to the stars. We’re going to be up the street from Coco’s. We’re going to be at Zeke’s. A Coco’s crab cake will be had probably the day after though. And by the way, it’s peach cake season, so just a peach. Eat a peach. Act accordingly. That’s all I can say. Golf is out. I am in. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 to Baltimore, back for more right after this. We’re Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.
