The Maryland Crab Cake Tour is back on the road for the holidays with friends, food, community conviviality and smiles for the season. We started the December fun at Koco’s Pub where owner Marcella Knight told Ko-Host Mike Ricigliano and legendary WNST caller (and one-time donut provider) Nick “The Greek” Syropoulos welcome the real Santa Claus on Saturday for a family day of Lauraville “Holidays On Harford” seasonal magic.
Nestor Aparicio, Mike Ricigliano, and Marcella Knight discuss the holiday season and their connections to Koco’s Pub in Lauraville. They reminisce about the pub’s history, its family-friendly atmosphere, and the popularity of its crab cakes. Nick the Greek shares his long-standing relationship with the pub and its community, including his donut delivery days. They also talk about upcoming events like “Breakfast with Santa” and the “Holidays on Harford” activities. The conversation highlights the importance of local businesses and community gatherings, emphasizing the unique charm of Baltimore and its neighborhoods.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Christmas card, neighborhood connections, crab cakes, family-friendly, Zeke’s coffee, Baltimore positive, donut deliveries, Orioles fan, Thanksgiving traditions, holiday events, food enthusiast, corn pudding, football discussion, Santa breakfast, community engagement
SPEAKERS
Marcella Knight, Mike Ricigliano, Nestor Aparicio, Nick Syropoluos
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, AM, 1570 tasks, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively. At Cocos, I had to get the fourth microphone out because Marsh is like walking around her little Zeke’s coffee thing and stalking me, and she wants to look at all the fun things. Everything is drawn. And for the minute I walk in here today, like I first thing I see is like, Santa and HO Ho’s and candy canes. And I’m thinking like, I think it’s okay to say happy holidays. It’s okay to say Merry Christmas. It’s okay Thanksgiving. You’re saying, Have you done your Christmas card yet? I
Mike Ricigliano 00:36
just sent it in today, so I just actually, you were right on it. I just did my family one and sent it into the printer today. So I’m running a little late.
Nestor Aparicio 00:44
Is there anything cooler than him having twins to draw after all these years? You know, anything
Nick Syropoluos 00:48
he draws is ridiculous, okay, first all of it is,
Nestor Aparicio 00:53
by the way, my Christmas card in 1996
Nick Syropoluos 00:57
he’s done everything for right there. You
Nestor Aparicio 00:59
see him right there. Looks just like him too. Any, any,
Nick Syropoluos 01:02
any kind of, any anniversary, any birthday, he does the champagne bottle labels for us, weddings. I
Nestor Aparicio 01:10
mean, I had to throw the champagne out for the 50, yeah, really, and it was some $2.99 Yeah, of course. So Mars, the neighborhood part of this, and I had the Emerald Tavern on this thing. And you like, you set up, because she and I know each other from the Emerald tavern for 30 years ago when the Oilers, and, by the way, I wore my Oilers
Nick Syropoluos 01:37
favorite running back.
Nestor Aparicio 01:39
Oh, of course, right. He’s the best. So I see emerald Tavernier, and there’s all of this connection. And then somehow, yesterday, I said they were saying, where’s nick the Greek, find him. And the next thing you know, you’re here. And I had no idea that you were such, first, of a movie star. Secondly, what a natural you are doing radio he is. But you used to come in. This is now you know each other from the neighborhood, right? We
Nick Syropoluos 02:04
used to come in here with our families when the kids were four and five years old. Okay? They had two or three pool tables, yeah? And we would come in here spend Friday night, basically. And well, for with the kids, it was till about 930 but to us. It was a Friday night out where we could go out. We had these. That’s all the later we are here. Fantastic and welcome, fantastic crab cakes, right? You know, nobody knew about them. I don’t want to say prices or any of that, but very family friendly, I’ll put it, because we would come almost every Friday, and especially during Lent, because we couldn’t eat people couldn’t eat meat, right? Catholics can’t eat meat on Friday during lunch. So I’m Greek unorthodox. Okay? So I can kind of do what I want. Well, some church, my church, no dues, no pews, no views.
Nestor Aparicio 02:58
It’s a church in a poison mind. It sounds like
Nick Syropoluos 03:01
unorthodox, somebody said, these up there. I believe it’s
Nestor Aparicio 03:05
been over there forever, and I’m, like, since 1985 and I only know that because, like, it’s on my shirt when I wear my shirt on the
Nick Syropoluos 03:12
it was a neighborhood, neighbor, dive. I mean, it was the original guy, Fauci, you know, dive bar. I mean, this was it? It was,
Nestor Aparicio 03:20
do you remember, like, when it became Coco? Because you guys lived in the neighborhood, right? So you’re like, Oh, little bar up, there’s changing names, and the nice lady bought it, and, like, right at your mom, right? So
Nick Syropoluos 03:30
you know he’s great, yeah, okay,
Nestor Aparicio 03:32
sure. All right. What’s
Nick Syropoluos 03:33
the last name?
Nestor Aparicio 03:36
I didn’t pronounce that wrong.
Mike Ricigliano 03:37
No, you didn’t. I
Nestor Aparicio 03:38
didn’t cereal. Is that
Nick Syropoluos 03:40
I’m
Nestor Aparicio 03:42
up there? Pronounced it like a Fernando.
Mike Ricigliano 03:45
I didn’t Siri opposite being Greek.
Nick Syropoluos 03:47
I’m up here yakking Greek too, right? And we’re done. I said, Why don’t you throw an advertisement at the church down the street, or, for Christ’s sake, you know, all these Catholics this to that’s a good idea. Boom. History done. Yep.
Nestor Aparicio 03:59
So you were one of the first ones to really
Nick Syropoluos 04:03
eat. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. We were all we were all
Nestor Aparicio 04:06
part, See, I knew this is gonna be great. And then now we have
Nick Syropoluos 04:09
to do carry out, because it’s so so popular.
Mike Ricigliano 04:16
He gave us these great hats.
Nestor Aparicio 04:19
Are you part of the Zeke’s mafia, that Friday morning coffee thing you do, you’re part of that, right? I
Nick Syropoluos 04:25
went, but I was too late.
Nestor Aparicio 04:26
I gotta keep you on mic, man, you’re Terry,
Mike Ricigliano 04:28
you’re terrible, Lee, we have been encouraging them to come, so you’re encouraging me
Nestor Aparicio 04:33
to come, and I haven’t come. And finally, I said, there were sick Well, why don’t you invite the Zeke’s? Can I buy remember years ago they used to come make coffee for me when we did our road trips, like they would literally set up coffee for 300 people, because we had five bus loads of people going right and I don’t know that I ever had him on the air, because I wasn’t really doing radio at that time. I wasn’t on the radio frame, like eight or nine years, like oh 506, I retired, so I wasn’t like during that era, like sitting in. Studio, knowing all of our clients and doing all that. And I reached to him yesterday through you. He’s like, Yeah, I’ll be there. I’m like, now, you know Marcella, right? He’s like, they serve our coffee. And I’m like, of course, they’re powered by Zeke’s. So I walk in today and you’re holding the Zeke’s coffee thing, and I’m like, Hey, Marsh, Thomas Zeke’s is coming. And you’re like, Yeah, I know. And I’m like, this is like, a real holiday show. This is gonna be good, good stuff. One
Mike Ricigliano 05:27
big family here.
Nestor Aparicio 05:29
She has been singing Christmas songs, like the minute I walked in, like, your poor employees, gonna listen you sing for the next three weeks, right? I don’t hate it yet, but I’m leaving at five, you know? I’m gonna be adding here a little later on, Marcellus here. Nick the Greek, never this Corona took me 40 years learn how to pronounce your
Mike Ricigliano 05:50
name. You didn’t syriapolis That that’s like, you didn’t Conde for kick, you know, like that became an actual
Nestor Aparicio 05:57
well, your background with me is that I got, I went on the air in 1991 by 9495 I was kind of a thing. Then the Ravens came, then the station came in 98 but I knew you long before that. But you were like Nick the Greek, a caller. You would call in and talk Orioles, talk ravens before there was even Ravens. I think you called me, yeah, before 96 and stallions. And then I got the station, you know, out in Towson, and you would bring my crew donuts every morning in a newspaper, and like, they would throw you on the air, yeah, like you sold, you sold donuts, right? So
Nick Syropoluos 06:32
they would deliver, they would deliver 10 dozen donuts, a dozen bagels and a dozen muffins to my house every day. So we would make deliveries during the night. We’d cook all the donuts. And it’s Montgomery donut companies, okay, outside of DC. Okay, so they needed a guy to handle the Baltimore area. And I got, you know, I went and got the job, and I was handling the Baltimore anyway. I would have these donuts left over, because how many? Don’t, you know? I would see people, but, you know, but I would leave early in the morning. So before I would leave, I’d say, let me call you guys while I’m on the road.
Nestor Aparicio 07:07
He would leave donuts. And listeners would, like, drive up and walk into the house and have donuts, like Swami spirit, like, we got 36 donuts here. There’s three
Nick Syropoluos 07:17
of us now. It got to the point at the end of the day I would have donuts left over. So I drive around it at different houses of my friends and donuts to get donuts. And wives began to call me and said, Hey, Nick, you know we love the donuts, but you gotta stop, okay? Because we’re we’re getting a little
Nestor Aparicio 07:33
too close. Yeah, once every once a month, scone the donor, it happened to me. This is what happened with the station. This is God’s honest truth, because you were still a part of Coco’s. Then if I would have come to you and said, Mars, a sponsor, W, N, S, T and sent food over on whatever Friday, and we’ll eat your food because we didn’t have the internet, we couldn’t show the food, right? I mean, that’s the thing about the old advertising I had about this was all we had, right? Yeah? Nichols, you remember, oh, with all of that, right? So when I would talk to a restaurant, especially like a chain, would come to town like, like Hooters, when Hooters came to Towson, they would call, and they knew I was the big shot sports radio, sports radio entrepreneur, and they would call, and they would be like, we’re gonna send some food over, right? They thought we were, like a real radio station. They thought we were, like, Wk RP. They would send trays of food over, like, and there were, like, six of us, you know, if there were eight people all day, maybe eight all day, maybe 10, if somebody stopped by, or whatever. So you would bring all these donuts. And then next thing you know, Raven, Jan’s camped out in my lobby, you’re serving donuts, okay? And then Zeke springs coffee into this equation. But, like, the food part of this, and I have dairy here, we’re gonna talk about but food brings people together. I mean, I think of you and donuts, and like, how much fun we’ve had. And even now that the documentary is legit and everybody’s watching it, Marshall hadn’t watched it yet, because if she watches, she’d know the story about how your kids named me nasty Nestor. I know that story, people I’ve told you, right? It’s in the documentary now, and people are watching it. I share it. Put it out on front you probably have it’s 30 minutes long, but it’s my whole the story of how all this happened, right? And everyone that sees it, it’s fine. It’s everybody’s home. It’s your homework to everybody after it’s your homework for Christmas. You want to do something nice for me, watch my documentary so you’ll know more about me, so you don’t come up with crazy questions or wonder how it explains it all right? Explains Baltimore positive, explains my white explains everything. But the thing about nasty Nestor and carrying that with me for 30 years is that people will come up to me now and having seen the documentary, and they’re like, Ah, I didn’t know was for six kids. I thought it was like a neighbor a nickname. I thought it was because you ran numbers. I thought, you know, an ex girlfriend called you that, right? You thought that? See that, see that. And it turns out it was, I was barbecuing with your kids,
Mike Ricigliano 09:56
right? That’s it. You were babysitting, babysitting, but I was the bartender. You that went bad, funny enough, in and itself, that he was actually babysitting my kids. So, yeah, that’s
Marcella Knight 10:05
scary. Yes, yes. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 10:06
you know why people voted for a guy for President? They could not trust the babysit their kids, that it makes me qualify. So, you know, I mean, can I say, good job, they turned that all right, I don’t want
Mike Ricigliano 10:17
to say anything. They’re political, but I just want to say I appreciate, as I appreciate that I live in a in this neighborhood, which is an artsy neighborhood and a fairly liberal neighborhood. Again, I don’t want to get into politics in a liberal in a blue city, in a blue state, and I have relatives that are that are like minded, that live in tougher states to live in in these times. So I love Baltimore for all those things, and I love this neighborhood for all those things too. Again, I’m not demeaning any other politics. I’m just saying from my I love that
Nestor Aparicio 10:51
neighbor, because it probably voted 98.4%
Nick Syropoluos 10:52
I think we have, I think we kind of have a unique
Nestor Aparicio 10:57
This is a beautiful place. Talking about Baltimore positive. I mean, there’s nothing more Baltimore positive than me and her meeting 30 years ago. Up at me and you meeting 40 years ago, me and you meeting at the paper, and we’re all still sitting here, and you’re living in a neighborhood, and she’s become this place has become legendary, that
Nick Syropoluos 11:16
the proof, the proof really is in our in our the children, because we’ve got kids, one of them’s working here, we got kids that have bought back into the neighborhood. Yes, right? They’ve come back. You sat
Nestor Aparicio 11:29
at the bar and bass is like, Hey, Mr. Nick, how are you? Like, oh, you’re from Mayfield. That’s right, Mayfield.
Nick Syropoluos 11:38
I mean, it’s, it’s still, I haven’t, I’m proud to say it’s still a place where you can let your kids run, you know, kind of, you know, the way times are now, you kind of let them run. You know, you don’t have to worry too much, because there are other parents that are around. You
Nestor Aparicio 11:54
know, people took their kids. Are nonsense about our city, and every time I park the car, every time I drive down, period. But I’m thinking like, we’ve always had problems always, but put this spotlight on the bad parts, instead of like, just how freaking awesome this city is today and tomorrow. I’m over Gertrude at the BMA with my cousin John shields. Dan Rodricks is doing his show that I I invited you last year, but you couldn’t do it because it was on a Friday night in the middle of December, right? But I had you and all of my friends over to the BMA last year to see Dan Rodger show that is a an absolute celebrate month of our city. If you love our city and you’re not seeing Dan show over the BMA, you’re just really missing out. It’s really your loss. I’ll say that, yeah, Baltimore
Nick Syropoluos 12:41
is a neighborhood town. You know, it’s all the neighborhoods make the town of Baltimore. Now, some of the neighborhoods have dispersed and fallen away in the Catholic churches, you know, and
Nestor Aparicio 12:52
some others have come on, like, Laura, there’s
Nick Syropoluos 12:54
a right back. Things are coming back up here on Harford road and all. It’s a lot better now.
Nestor Aparicio 13:01
This Italian place on the
Nick Syropoluos 13:02
street, you know, the
Nestor Aparicio 13:04
city, we got to go together. Then that’s what
Nick Syropoluos 13:07
we got to do. What’s that can’t believe? Yeah, that’s a great I’ve heard really, yeah, well, I
Nestor Aparicio 13:14
mean, everybody sticks together around here, which is why you guys get together on Friday mornings do your Zeke’s coffee thing. Thomas is coming over. Derek gave me a corn pudding recipe. We have corn pudding people here, straight up your corn pudding person now that really impressed question your greekness in your high level town, this sauerkraut and kielbasa on Thanksgiving, absolutely okay, all right, making sure you got something. Make sure you’re from the right side Island down. These are the conversation we have around food. And I guess because I was I put up, I was at wise markets, and I held up proudly my Ostrovsky skill Bossa and every Polish person from Western Pennsylvania has some Google Bosque up there that they make their own thing. And they’re like, not on mine, and they hold the golden basket up or whatever. And I’m like, Look, I’m going with what I’m going with. The Ostrosky family’s never paid me anything, and other than love and the little delicious things that are in their food. But I started talking about it, and then this recipe pops up, and I saw the recipe for corn pudding. And I’m like, I sort of kind of like that, and my wife would never even thought about it, but she goes to the farmers market every Sunday in the summer. Still, we live in a county, but she goes to the city, and we get the Barton Felder farm plug for them, white corn second week of August, when it’s just perfect. And she’ll come home with, like, $30 a corn, you know, like, and just sit there and just shuck it all, freezes it all, shrink wraps it, and then we bust it out perfect. And usually we just butter it in salt and pepper, little garlic, you know, doesn’t eat much. I’m Hispanic, so like, I like you Lotte, so, like, I’m not a little mayonnaise with some seasoning in there. Some chipotle stuff, whatever. So I could do it like that. But this corn pudding recipe happened, and I said to Jen, I copied and sent it over to her. Said we should do this. And she did it. And of all the things on the plate, my wife took five days making a turkey, two days making cranberry, all this stuff. We’re like corn pudding. Is it? Thumbs up? So Thanksgiving, 25 are we was it coming back, or is it going away? Like, thumbs up, thumbs up. So
Nick Syropoluos 15:26
I hit there. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 15:27
like, You got to come out. We got to talk corn pudding. And then I said to her dumb ass that I am. She’s the food enthusiast you ever been to Coco’s. She’s like, my favorite crab cake. And I’m like, well, then it’s gonna get over here.
Nick Syropoluos 15:41
I had, yes, I mean, I will not eat anybody else’s
Mike Ricigliano 15:48
that’s a royalist man, if
Nick Syropoluos 15:53
I’m forced. I may pas, maybe you know, or somebody you know, like a really fancy right there.
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
Like, okay,
Nick Syropoluos 16:00
okay. But
Nestor Aparicio 16:02
how does it make you feel when I say it makes me feel bad, because I mean a lot of other crap, and I don’t want you to not try. Can this, but definitely
Nick Syropoluos 16:10
not outside of almost Baltimore, but Maryland, for sure, I will not.
Nestor Aparicio 16:15
Oh, you don’t do that outside of Maryland. I’m not getting Tyson’s Corner now touch it. No. I also
Mike Ricigliano 16:20
would like to add that, but two grandchildren had their first cocoa crab cake the day before Thanksgiving and wolfed it down. So three and a half years old, loved it,
Nick Syropoluos 16:31
yeah, bringing them up the right way. My wife is. She works for RCM and D, okay, okay, she’ll get Yeah, she’s doing a lot. Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 16:42
how many do you have here? That trays? Two dozen? Or how many is on a tray? Each?
Marcella Knight 16:49
Trays, a dozen, a
Nestor Aparicio 16:50
dozen? Yes, it just looks like two dozen because it so there’s a dozen. And you have about six coolers here, so you can keep maybe 300 crab cakes, maybe, yeah,
Marcella Knight 17:01
three to 400 inside. And then we also have a rack outside for like, the holiday season, where we’re getting ready to do a lot of shipping and a lot of pickup orders people, because she’s
Nick Syropoluos 17:10
going to ship to Montana.
Nestor Aparicio 17:13
Click away. We’re waiting. Well, that’s why I came in. That’s
Nick Syropoluos 17:16
why I kick it off with you. Went to Mercy. She’s got a mercy classmate that lives in Montana, you know, for all Christmas presents,
Nestor Aparicio 17:25
this is, I mean, thanks Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year’s, or just, hey, I love you. And it’s, you know, for anybody get them in January. We’re really hungry for,
Nick Syropoluos 17:35
you know what I mean, Nestor, I call Baltimore ons, the ones that leave Baltimore, okay, they’re in the Baltimore moron. So all the Baltimore ons are out there. If you want a perfect Christmas present, it’s a There you go.
Mike Ricigliano 17:48
I’m sorry. That’s why he’s Santa Claus too. Not only is he like, you know, don’t too. He pitches
Nestor Aparicio 17:58
cut off. People are thinking about crab cakes because so much of this is and I know all of you who ship them, it’s a science. It involves shipping. It’s the holidays. Santa’s got to come down to chimney with them and do all that stuff. When do people need to order a buy? We get it
Marcella Knight 18:14
right. Already taking orders we are. When’s the last day? The last day that we’re shipping is the 17th of December. Oh, wow. The thing
Nestor Aparicio 18:26
about shipping crab cakes, and I just want to say this to everybody who does it, because it’s so important. I’ll give you a sad story. I did the Super Bowl five, six longer than that, and I did a segment with one of these groups that sense food that, you know, they do the overnight, whatever they call that the food service that comes in the box, or whatever. And I promoted them, and they were super bowl, and they were nice to me, and I gave him my card. They went and shipped me a meal. Nice, you know, when I found it six weeks later, because they shipped it to the station when there was nobody there. This is during, you know, 1819, 20, when my wife was battling, probably, and I went out there and I swear to they ship salmon. I’m not kidding.
19:09
Oh
Nestor Aparicio 19:10
yeah, man, yeah, yeah, yeah. This was like, and they’re like, Oh, you didn’t get the email. No. Like, if you’re gonna ship me fish. Thank you. I love salmon. I love crab cakes. But if you’re shipping these crab cakes to people, I surprised you don’t surprise people. That’s why I’m bringing this up, because I don’t want to have
Nick Syropoluos 19:33
a tragedy with the porch pirate get that way, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 19:38
So tell people they’re coming. Yes. You
Marcella Knight 19:39
definitely make sure people are going to be home, and you give
Nestor Aparicio 19:42
them a tracking number, like, it’s like when I buy stuff
Nick Syropoluos 19:44
on eBay, absolutely, alright, good, alright.
Marcella Knight 19:47
It’s top notch. Come a long way since we started about 15 years ago, Marcy,
Nick Syropoluos 19:53
you know, it was a dive bar before, okay? And Marcy came on and they, they, you. See what happened. I want
Nestor Aparicio 20:01
my flowered shirt today.
Nick Syropoluos 20:04
Now an institution. I mean, now that it was an institution, but it’s an institution. I mean, it is, of course, it
Nestor Aparicio 20:12
is people from,
Nick Syropoluos 20:13
I would say, all over the world. I mean, people from all over know this crap. I mean, beautiful and
Nestor Aparicio 20:19
we he’s doing the new commercial. He’s gonna do commercial
Marcella Knight 20:23
I need, like, a separate room. Yeah, but,
Nick Syropoluos 20:25
see, I, but I would rather do the carry out sue somebody that has never come here can experience because there’s nothing like a crab cake on a paper plate. I mean, so
Nestor Aparicio 20:36
I did this. I last time I saw you, last time I was 80 years about five weeks, it was my birthday weekend. I did my show down at Pizza John’s with and my buddy surprised me from Arkansas, or my best friends, John Keller house, you’ve met house for house surprised me and his wife. They’re like, first off, we’re supporting all your sponsors, so we’re going to State Fair for practice, but we’re going to Cocos for crab cake. And I’m like, sitting there eating pizza, pizza. John says crab cake. And they’re like, right? And I’m like, I ate all this food. And I’m like, Mars got a table for six. I’m coming over. You know, we sat right here at the table. There is that. And we had the most beautiful meal. It’s because when they came from Arkansas for two and a half days, and they had a girlfriend that they wanted to introduce to crab cakes, this is where they wanted to come right there you have it, you
Nick Syropoluos 21:21
know, you know, Chip, right? Yeah, Connecticut, my friend from Connecticut, who’s an Orioles fan from the 60s. Okay, he’s got, he’s, he’s such an Orioles fan. He’s got Rochester Red Wing baseball cards. Nice, nice. Okay, so that’s how far back, anyway, I went to college with all his buddies get Loyola. They they get home this and that, he go, he comes home. He would come down every summer to catch an oil game. He and his brother out. They would come down every summer. They said, Why don’t you get in touch with Nick the Greek down there. Got in touch with me for 40 years now. Chip comes every summer we, you know, we host them, this and that, blah, blah, blah, whatever took. He had press credentials, because he was a reporter from one of the Connecticut a real reporter. Yeah, not like me. Well, I went to the 80 went to the 83 World Series with him. Okay, so whatever. And this is his joint. So when he, when he comes to Baltimore, he eats nothing but their crab cake and orders too, no, no nothing else, no fries.
Nestor Aparicio 22:27
He’s gonna send me home with one today, none. And she thinks like, you know, I’ll send him home one who have a little dinner. I cut into three. I’ll have something you’ll have, like
Mike Ricigliano 22:36
a fair Good night. Yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 22:37
and I get it right. You know,
Nick Syropoluos 22:42
if you have that kind of,
Nestor Aparicio 22:43
I try not to drop them on the floor. You can only get them once in a while. You want to get as much. Yeah, I don’t have that. Last year she sent me out of here with, she doesn’t like talk about the little crab cakes, but the little crab cakes,
Nick Syropoluos 22:56
right? So she said, You’re gonna grow. Don’t worry about right, right?
Marcella Knight 23:00
Put them under the light, because it’s twice as or three times as much work for us to make more
Nestor Aparicio 23:10
caterers. She said, I have a couple little ones I’m gonna give you right on the way out of here. And I’m like, Okay, I’ll take them home. So I went home and I took it out, put it in the Oster, and instead of a spatula, Dara is going to be real upset when she hears this, I use the tongs on it. Oh,
Marcella Knight 23:27
fell apart tongs. And
Nestor Aparicio 23:32
I look down and I’m like, I’m glad it was a that’s why they’re glad it wasn’t an 11th, why there’s a top of the heap, there’s no fella. I mean, this is a tragedy. I’m in my house.
Nick Syropoluos 23:41
I don’t know the recipe. I would think other than maybe a little bit, maybe a little egg, maybe just to hold it together. All right,
Nestor Aparicio 23:49
Mars, I gotta, I gotta have you talk about Santa, and then I want to do two minutes of football, and then I’m gonna get the corn pudding with there, and then we’re gonna get the coffee. I’m gonna bring you back on for coffee. Where SIGs gonna be here? Um, Santa, I thought you’ve been doing this for 100 years. It turns out this is like a new thing, all right.
Marcella Knight 24:03
Third year breakfast with Santa this coming Saturday, December 7, we have a 9am seating and 11am seating. Santa will be here. We have gifts for the kids. We have an incredible menu, really nice cocktails. It’s not just for kids. Everybody’s Big Boy eggnog. Yes, big boy eggnog. And it looks like a winter wonderland in here. It is truly beautiful.
Nestor Aparicio 24:27
You’ll make it snow up in here. You
Marcella Knight 24:29
know, we never know yet, but we could try. I don’t
Nestor Aparicio 24:33
know. Man, you get all that moisture going in here? We don’t need all that. We had the heating problems in the summer fun. We had the air conditioning problem in the summer. We looked at the heating problems on Mars is here. We’re at Coco’s pub. It’s an institution. It’s on Harford road. It’s in Laravel. Google it, K, O, C O. Reciki is here. He is my co host with a K because he lives up the street. Nick ceropoulos is here. Now I know how to pronounce your last name. I’ll never call you cereals again. Uh, Nick the Greek, uh, Nick of donuts. There it is, Nick of Mayfield, whatever Nick of Loyola knew that about the donuts. Oh yeah,
Mike Ricigliano 25:08
oh yeah. And he was pretzel boy, you know he was, he was a pretzel vendor that was in homicide, yeah, that was so we used to call him pretzel boy for a while. I
Nick Syropoluos 25:16
did four, four hummus. I
Nestor Aparicio 25:18
knew you were in something. I
Nick Syropoluos 25:20
did four homicides, three wired. I did three wires. I
Nestor Aparicio 25:26
told him earlier, you weren’t here, but you missed my punch line. When you come to Beverly Hills, you expect to meet stars. You know, you expect to meet movie stars. So
Nick Syropoluos 25:34
there you go. No, I mean, it was, it was Pat Moran. I mean, she’s, you know, John Waters is casting director, Pat Moran. She lives in town, and they did a cattle call thing, and I showed up. It’s got that
Mike Ricigliano 25:49
face. Look at that face if
Nestor Aparicio 25:50
you’re looking to do anything Baltimore oriented. He says the most important word properly. He says, Hey, water, Nick the Greeks gonna hang around. Mars is here. Dara is gonna come by. We’re gonna talk about food enthusiasm. Let’s do the events, Candy Cane crawl. Let’s go.
Marcella Knight 26:11
So holidays on Harford is this holiday season, and they’re doing a lot of activities, one that’s happening on Saturday, in addition to what we’re doing here with breakfast with Santa from four to 7pm we are doing a event up at the lot across from Safeway, and they’re going to have all kinds of food vendors and nice things for kids. We’re going to be there giving away hot chocolate and doing some s’mores for the kids. It’s going to be a really good event. They did a great job advertising this this year the marketing
Nestor Aparicio 26:47
tools. There’s a real little snowman there. Look at that penguin, whole thing.
Marcella Knight 26:51
So yeah, we’re trying to, trying to make the neighborhood come together.
Nestor Aparicio 26:55
Holidays on harford.com days on harford.com so my big ask and inclusion in this, and somebody’s gonna know what I’m talking because we’re sick, looked at me like three heads. I think lauraville is ripe for a roper romp, is what I think. I think we need a roper romp. Roper,
Nick Syropoluos 27:17
yeah, whatever. No,
Mike Ricigliano 27:18
it’s hit Google. Do you remember
Nestor Aparicio 27:21
Mrs. Roper?
Marcella Knight 27:26
What she was? Mr. Roper, what
Nick Syropoluos 27:32
she wore, the house coat.
Nestor Aparicio 27:33
She wore the house coat so our mothers
Nick Syropoluos 27:40
down, they all lived it. Thank you. It was the funniest thing. You have these women wearing these Moo Moo and their hairs up in the
Nestor Aparicio 27:45
air like, Well, imagine if it’s a guy like this with hair up in his hair, wearing
Marcella Knight 27:51
a mover rump.
27:53
It’s something
Nestor Aparicio 27:55
Mrs. Roper, yeah, who thinks we should have a roper rump here at
Marcella Knight 28:00
Cocos? Not
Nestor Aparicio 28:02
one hand is but it involves romping and and and drinks roping. Okay, you have a bar here. Absolutely, I heard you like the gin. It’s just a tonic. You don’t like tonic? Absolutely, yes.
Mike Ricigliano 28:17
What about our two minutes? Did you finish all your stuff? Oh,
Nestor Aparicio 28:21
did you get everything?
Marcella Knight 28:23
I get it all in. It’s not so bad. You got to have the tonic and the little bottle. Can
Nestor Aparicio 28:26
you imagine if I did this show on drugs or alcohol? Oh, my God, I’ve lost control. Derek came over talking about corn pudding and shrimp, and she’s been subjected to Roper romps. Uh, is here. He’s going to stay Marsh. Is going to hang around because she’s making crab cakes and chipping them. Nick’s got like grand
Nick Syropoluos 28:44
girls Island,
Nestor Aparicio 28:46
you should come back in host radio with me more often. Oh, Nick, you
Nick Syropoluos 28:48
got to do it. You’re natural, whatever.
Nestor Aparicio 28:54
There’s nothing more positive than I’m gonna have you
Marcella Knight 28:56
do it here.
28:58
I want you
Nestor Aparicio 29:00
to say you’re him for Baltimore, positive, him from Baltimore,
Mike Ricigliano 29:08
one minute worth of football. You got to get
Nick Syropoluos 29:10
football. We could do some football
Mike Ricigliano 29:13
two minutes of time. Justin
Nestor Aparicio 29:14
Tucker, yes or no.
Mike Ricigliano 29:15
Oh, of course. Yeah, that’s it today with Justin. Oh, can’t do it. I mean, you got, you gonna get, we’re gonna get no, no legendary kicker has ever been off like that. That’s not gonna happen. He’s, he’ll get, I’m gonna
Nestor Aparicio 29:27
volunteer myself to Royal farms, my 27 year sponsor, to be their new spokesperson, to be the guy help him. What might help? You know the commercial where he’s, like, doing the psychologist? Yes, make me a psychologist, but put him in a helmet, and we’ll talk about things, and I’ll help him out. Someone
Mike Ricigliano 29:47
said the kickoffs, you know, like, if to take away the kickoffs from him, you know, maybe he can kind of do better with the field goals. I don’t know. This is why I
Nestor Aparicio 29:57
stopped taking for you. Keep screaming, Oh, gee. What? Do? I turned your mic off. I didn’t turn your I don’t know whether you’re on four or one. I’ve lost control
Nick Syropoluos 30:09
of the show. The punter. Can I be done? He does. That’s what he does.
Nestor Aparicio 30:14
Can I do? Talk about corn pudding.
Mike Ricigliano 30:17
You need your guests. Corn Pudding.
Nestor Aparicio 30:20
She’s never cooking a trip here. So we’re gonna do it. Did I get everything in? You guys, right?
Nick Syropoluos 30:24
Oh yeah, Super Bowl, right?
Nestor Aparicio 30:27
Oh, okay, that’s where we stopped the show. I’m Nestor
Mike Ricigliano 30:30
back for more. Guys, all right,
Nestor Aparicio 30:33
put that bill’s hat away for sick, if
Nick Syropoluos 30:35
Lamar listens to mom, maybe. Right? You.
