While spending a great week in Ocean City with the MACo events and conversations, it’s always a pleasure to welcome Tom Perlozzo of OCMD (yep, he’s Sam’s brother) back onto the show to discuss the benefits of beach life and a lifetime of memories on the Boardwalk and beyond.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
oyster, beach, ocean, people, wife, horseshoe crab, maryland, years, city, state, baltimore, great, bridge, festivals, talk, crab cake, september, work, facility, baseball
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Tom Perlozzo
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are wnst tassel, Baltimore, Baltimore positive. We are no longer in the studio. We are no longer in Baltimore. We’re Ocean City positive right now. John Martin’s giving me these gold rush at seven spells. I got to get rid of these because the Raven scratch offs are coming in. So lucky number 15 is going to Tom perlazo, brother Sam Palazzo, over down here at the beach doing Mako and like, our fifth year doing this, did this with masks on, like, three years ago. This is a, it’s a way better way to come to the beach, 82 and sunny. It’s almost like you ordered this thing up for a podcast row today. You
Tom Perlozzo 00:33
got it, man. You know, look Ocean City. We’re really fortunate. You know, we, we, our tagline is somewhere to smile about it’s, it’s great to see people smiling, enjoying themselves. Here, there,
Nestor Aparicio 00:44
you know, there I smile when I hit the bridge. That’s
00:46
it all I do too soon I cross that bridge, I see the skyline of Ocean City. It’s, you know, second to none, dude.
Nestor Aparicio 00:52
I could sit here for hours and hours and hours and talk about every girl, every party, every bar, Batman, you know, all the stuff that you know, being a kid down here, Al Hondo handy, who I’ve had on the show, talking about softball leagues down on Fifth Street when my uncle ran the bonfire back in the late 70s. I tell stories every time I bring my wife down, because she’s from New Hampshire, right? So she grew up in the New Hampshire beaches, and she grew up in Lakes, Lake Winnipesaukee. Hard to even say that. I could say that. So she sees this vast ocean on a day like today, I find you. She’s She’s here. She’s my executive assistant. Her card says boss on it. She’s out on the beach. She don’t want to be in here. Smart. She’s
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smart. I mean, great weather. I mean, look beautiful. Sunny, 80 degrees, no humidity. Every
Nestor Aparicio 01:37
time I come down here, I give her story, so I’m going to tell my audience a little story. So my my uncle Omar ran the bonfire in 1975 678, that period of time. My father just got remarried. I’m seven years old, and my dad would bring me down here in his Torino, his cream colored Torino, not the grand Torino. His brother had the grand Torino. He just had a regular Torino. He couldn’t afford a wreck. He worked the pantry pride Mars, so he tried me down here, and my uncle ran a bonfire. And I’m a little boy. I’m seven or eight years old, and I remember being on the dance floor there when the nightclub was banging with Rock Island Express playing, more, more, more. And love will keep us together, and you’ll never find another love like mine, all these 70 songs, and when I drive by the bonfire, that’s the thing Ocean City does. Like from the hair on your arm, you are seven again. And I’m telling my wife about that story, and I’m telling my wife about the story about this guy and this girl and senior week and that week and this bar and that place and people and your great memories here, absolutely that you net. When you come here, you see a place, and you’re like, stayed there, been there, eight there.
02:46
Oh, absolutely, you know, same, same story here. For, you know, grew up in Cumberland, Western Maryland. I’m a Western Maryland guy. We hunt, you know, we were like, you know, how do we get to Ocean City? How do we get to the beach? Not, didn’t have a, you know, my father and mother worked really hard. We hardly took vacations, but we always wanted to come to the beach, and we did.
Nestor Aparicio 03:05
Did Sammy like it down here, too? How’s your brother? He’s
03:08
doing great. What’s
Nestor Aparicio 03:09
up with he’s retired
03:10
in Tampa, Florida, doing his thing, doing some special assignment for MLB. You know, he loving life. I think sometimes he misses baseball still, but
Nestor Aparicio 03:20
he hates I miss him.
03:21
Yeah, there you go. Thanks. That’s good.
Nestor Aparicio 03:24
I should get him on the show. I want to have Samuel have a crab cake. Does he come back to Baltimore from time he
03:29
comes back? Yeah, to Baltimore. In fact. You know, we did a celebrity golf tournament here for 15 years to raise money for the kids. Did it for the Ocean City recreation. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 03:37
you ran golf forever. Golf was your let’s, I know you have no, yeah, no, no longer, no known. Your brother, maybe through gold, probably, probably
03:42
so. But, you know, we brought all the old x Orioles in. You know, bortick, Sir Hoff, you know anybody that we could Kirk Schilling into time. John crock, there was a lucky lives down here, like, but like he leaves here we you know, Ross Grimsley, I see on the golf course all the time, crazy, only place
Nestor Aparicio 03:58
to see some of these guys. That’s
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all, yeah, I
Nestor Aparicio 04:00
saw PJ two weeks ago because he’s working with Pathfinders for autism, and he and his wife were very connected to fadelies, one of my sponsors. We’re doing the show there next Friday. Come on down when he cheats. Rose are in town. We’ll beat them up as well. And there is a legacy for a name like prolazo. I would think that 50% of the people that see your name related to the
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baseball I get it all the time, Palazzo. I fact, I just have one. I know that name. And sure enough, yeah, I have to tell him, No, I’m not Sam, but you know, we’re related. He’s my brother, and pretty proud of what he’s done. And my older brother, Nick. I don’t know if you knew this or not, but older brother Nick played for the Padres. Was he the best out of all of you? He might have been. He was a big left hander, played first base, get hit the ding dong. And then when the first baseball strike came along, he kind of went 81 maybe, okay. He got out of baseball.
Nestor Aparicio 04:54
They had good looking jerseys, though I bet his pictures look good. Pictures look
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good. He was, he was something else. But I can remember, like, Steve Garvey with the big Popeye arm, all that kind of stuff. Well, my brother, Nick, you know, he played first base, and he would, he would do a split catching the ball. We were like, What is wrong with you, you know, but he was, he was a big left hander, and he could knock it out of the park, crazy, all
Nestor Aparicio 05:15
right. So, I mean, that’s a family of baseball. It’s what you did out there, right? What we did when the crab cake tour two years ago, I, you know, I got off the beaten path. I had really never spent any time in Cumberland. Now, I’ve been there several times out Deep Creek, Lake, all that area, beautiful out there, Garrett County, but we went off the beaten path to go fishing with Dan Rodricks and a town called Luke and Williamsport down south on the waters of mill town there, and a beautiful place to it almost looks like Montana. I mean, so you fly fish from there, you know. And the notion for me that, like I could go through a town, a little town, little mill town, and look up and there’s a baseball diamond. Lefty Grove Park is in the middle of this town, where my Maryland lottery people the biggest winner in the history of the state was, it was like $800 million was in Lona coning
06:09
lone accounting,
Nestor Aparicio 06:10
right? That’s a so when I see lefty Grove out there, and I see the baseball roots of people like you, crock, right? I mean, crush them out that way, calling the Phillies games. Bobby Robertson, Okay, keep going.
06:24
Yeah. You know, left are you? We said lefty, who might the greatest player ever for your area, right? Earl Bruce, okay, if you remember Ohio State football coach, sure up that way. We we’ve got some homegrown guys from Western Maryland. It’s unbelievable when
Nestor Aparicio 06:41
you first pick a golf club up, because I think of you as golf I know this part of the prolazo family, the Tom part, is the golf side. Actually,
06:48
I was never a golfer. I you know, I went, I went the other route. I had a couple opportunities. I played college football West Virginia, not far from home. For you, not far from home. And that’s one of the reasons why I went there, because it wasn’t far. But
Nestor Aparicio 07:01
that’s what size of Maryland. I would say, Go back, go back, go back into the woods. Yeah, we were West Virginia at
07:06
the time. You know, there were two great athletes, or four great athletes, at in Cumberland, when I was a senior in high school, two of us went to Maryland. Two of us went to to West Virginia. I wanted to go to Maryland.
Nestor Aparicio 07:16
You didn’t play each other much during that period of time, probably just once. Yes, yeah. And
07:20
in my four years, we played together, and, you know, we, it was kind of crazy. There was a guy named Steve tremble went on to play for the Denver Broncos, and he and I were both, you know, we, he was a running back for four Hill High School. I was a running back for Bishop Walsh, great rivalry back in the day, you know, not so much now, because BW and the school, you know, it’s, it’s shrunk, sure, whereas the public schools, we’re part of the world, that’s all
Nestor Aparicio 07:45
shrunk, right? Well, this guy, well, I mean, and that’s, that would be something that would lead me, right? Tom prolasse is our guest, Ocean City, Maryland, ocmd, what’s your official title, Director of Business, of tourism and business development director, something. Okay, so this part of the state, when I talk about my dad and I coming on to Gran Torino and going over like, let’s say the Nanticoke, where it’s a little one lane bridge, and now it’s two lanes wide through Vienna and through all these and the bypass in Salisbury, all the stuff went up with my wife. Like, we got on the I told Jake day I saw my slide. We went to the ugly pie in Salisbury to get some pie, right? But in order to do that, you don’t take the bypass road. You go through the old way. And this goes straight back to my stories about the bonfire I pulled through Salisbury. Said to my wife, this was the place we used to pee and get ice for our beer. We pull right into Salisbury, and there was an Arby’s, and we could pee there, and then we keep going. And she’s now just a freeway. And you wouldn’t know, but this side of the state, the southern part of Delaware, all the way up to Rehoboth and Dewey. People want to be down here and the waters down here. And as people our age get older, they’re making a life down here, not three months down here, renting a place out and having a place they’re going to retire to. Now’s the time that they’re they’re here now, like there’s activity down here, December, January, February.
09:01
You know, our product is just increase and again. You know, we tout live, work and play, you know, as a tourism destination. And there’s, you know, used to be at one time or another. You know, in September there used there was a sign says, Turn turn off. Turn off the lights when you leave town. But that’s not the case anymore. We’re just packed. I mean,
Nestor Aparicio 09:19
you’ll be packed lately, September, hearing, right? That’s
09:21
what’s gonna say. You know, we come into Labor Day. You’ve got Bike Week. You got a cruising coming up. We got two huge concerts on the beach, oceans, calling in country, calling, coming
Nestor Aparicio 09:30
to the second one. You know, you cover, you can have your country. But I was gonna come last year, my son and his wife came down. The weather was okay. It was okay. It was okay. I hope you get you I wrote on your page yesterday. I said, I hope you get 82 we had here yesterday, which is 82 Sunny, perfect. And that’s certainly, that’s the dream when you put this ID together. And maybe should tell our audience, because I know the mayor had been here before, and hello to Mayor me, and it’s pretty busy down here this week. We’ll get him on again. But. It. This was O, A, R, was a part of this, right? This is a very organic, authentic, how these you see these festivals happening in the beach all over the world, different places. And I came down here for sticks about five, six years ago. I’m friends with those guys, and I saw that show. I think I saw you down here, and I saw less the king of fries down at Thrashers, but you set that concert up down there, and I said to my wife, I’m like, this is they’re gonna do more than this. And then I got to know you, and then you can tell me how this, how did the sticks thing had, like, was that that was a different kind of thing, right? Yeah. I
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mean, we started out, we had this jellyfish festival.
Nestor Aparicio 10:36
That’s what it was, okay? And it was in August, though,
10:39
right? That was an August eight, you know, Labor Day weekend kind of thing. And you know, it didn’t pan out the way we wanted it to, because then we got some pushback from the, you know, the boardwalk businesses and all. So you know what happened was, ironically, this promoter comes to town and he says, I like to meet with you and the mayor. So we’re sitting there. Next thing I know, I see Mark roberish Come in, because I know bit of music. It’s O, A R. They want to do a festival. So basically, that’s and they picked you. They said they picked us. They looked at the site. We were lucky enough, and they next thing, you know, I’m walking out the door saying, How can I get this done? Now we have 55,000 tickets sold in 10 minutes for two shows. You know, two events
Nestor Aparicio 11:20
open for business late September,
11:23
early October. I mean, those numbers, those metrics, which is wild, is very similar to July 4 here. That’s what it’s doing in the off season for us. So well, you try
Nestor Aparicio 11:32
to make an A event while you still have the weather to do. Oh yeah, and the weather has not been as cooperative. But I’m telling you it’s like, Preakness. I mean, it’s like, you know, sometimes it happens. Sometimes
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it doesn’t, you know, those concerts are, they’re weatherproof up to a point, you know, meaning, look, a hurricane could take us out, sure, but yeah, for the most part, rain is not going to bother those concert growers, goers in the best thing about this, what I’ll tell you, is, we had tickets sold in every state in the union, plus five international destinations. I mean, it was people came
Nestor Aparicio 12:06
from all over the people. And you know, they were Matthews will do that, right? And you know, Sheryl Crow will do that. Yeah? 70%
12:13
Yeah. John Mayer last year, we got Dave. Matthews this year, look out. Got the killers. Blink 182 boys to man, you
Nestor Aparicio 12:20
released the schedule yesterday on my Facebook, and I saw it. So saw the times, and some of them are like pigeons playing ping pongs playing at the same time as certain fans. So my son’s got tickets. He’s coming down the whole weekend and doing it all up. And I looked at it, and I saw Mark, Roberge oar and friends, and I’m thinking, well, that’s when the jam happens. That’s where, like, something very unique is gonna happen. On the beach.
12:45
You had Richie Sambora with him, from Bonjour. This isn’t even Asbury Park, yeah, this, I’m telling you’re important. From jersey. He’s got his friends, unbelievable. This
Nestor Aparicio 12:57
is his festival, in his mind, in their world, this is their Super Bowl, absolutely.
13:00
This is our Super Bowl. And he’ll bring in some some artists that you know people are going to die. I can’t tell you all of them, but I can tell you that Richie will probably come, Springsteen coming. Well, we’ve tried that. I hear Elvis is still alive. Elvis is or actually springs things in Asbury Park the week before, maybe. So you never know he’s domestic
Nestor Aparicio 13:24
top. Prolazo is our guest. He’s running things down here. Ocmd is the way to find out. City Maryland. All this brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery to sell. Seth elkham, run by, I have to go rush seven our winning ticket. Well, I can’t they’re more than one winning ticket. That’s the way lottery works. Our friends at Liberty, pure solutions, keeping our water crystal clear and Jiffy Lu MultiCare, getting us out on the road for Ocean City and the big picture for people back home in Baltimore, summer’s almost over. You got the festivals. You got the country thing. What do people know about the growth parks? You and I have talked about the Disneyfication of kids, lacrosse, soccer, bringing more than just festivals down here, because it’s a family destination, but bringing sports and your background in sports and golf and all of that that that is a major draw. And live in downtown in Baltimore, every time girls would come in and play volleyball at the convention center, it would just be mobbed. All the restaurants are happening. This is a place people want to come. If you say to anybody in the mid Atlantic area, we’re having a torn sports tournament of some kind in Ocean City, Maryland. I can get a room. I can have the beach play, putt, putt, get a good meal. All that stuff going on. I know that was something we’ve talked about over the last couple years. What’s the update on that?
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Well, the update is we’re heating up so, you know, the town’s plans are to build a, you know, indoor and an outdoor sports complex. We’re hoping to make some announcements here in September. Will
Nestor Aparicio 14:44
that be on the peninsula or in West Ocean City? It’s
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going to be in West Ocean City, probably on the outskirts of Berlin somewhere. Got space over there, got space. You know, 200,000 square foot indoor facility, maybe 10 to 12 astroturf fields a. Again. And then, you know, the other thing I wanted to mention, even though we’re going to do that, that’s definitely going to happen. It’s on the books. Our city council is, you know, voted unanimously to pursue this. The state is supporting it. You know, basically by supplying 80% of the construction costs. We’re going to support it through some other form of revenue here, our share 20% so I would say it’s going to be really exciting, and it’s going to bring that year round community opportunity to live, work and play that we haven’t had here. But you know, the beauty about this place is, you know, this facility with a Roland e Powell Convention Center transformed into a great fish pal turns into a sports facility, we’re looking at actually changing the floor from bare concrete to a rubberized gymnasium type complex that’ll feel better if at the stand on it next year, exactly. Plus, you know, pre lined, you know, one of the drawbacks for us is, you know, you have to have a floor to do volleyball, wrestling. You know, we’ll be able to do that, and we’ll have one of the largest facilities on the East Coast. The
Nestor Aparicio 16:01
amazing part of this facility, in a general sense, is it how centrally located is on the beach. It’s like, I’m down here the next three days I’m working here. My wife’s on the beach. We’re on 48th Street. We can make it the secrets, get the fakers, get down to the inland, walk the boardwalk, do all the things we want to do. The Convention Center was very wide. I know you can’t take credit. Maybe fish can, but this thing was built in the right space, I think, on the island, absolutely,
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you know, right here, it’s central Midtown, is what we call it. But look ocean cities just built for high volume. You know, look, 11,000 hotel rooms, probably 28,000 rental units. Here, we’re second to Miami Beach. We
Nestor Aparicio 16:35
got a bus that runs up and down. Was it $1 is a $2 Well, actually it’s more than that’s $4 now. And that’s all day, right? All day. Go as long as you want. It’s a great deal. Go all the way to Delaware. You can go to Delaware. Absolutely want to do that, though. We not saying, I always look, I get into that Raskin as a place up there, Raskin Global Mind. And this is tax free week. So we all got into that like that, that thing going on for Ocean City, and for people coming down, number one thing they need to know about that you’re selling when you go to businesses, your job, you’re trying to bring businesses down here, but the workers and who’s going to be down here working, I would think that that’s always a huge challenge, something I always think about as an employer, to come across and see all these young people and all these places, many of them European, and they’re not going back after a period of time. That’s just, that’s an ongoing thing to recruit good young people that want to come down here and work and have a good time and have that beach memory that you had back when you got a car.
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And you’re exactly right. That’s a challenge for all of our businesses here, we’re very cognizant of how to, you know, work on getting those folks here. But
Nestor Aparicio 17:44
you know, my son lived down here five years you go. He lived above shenanigans with his wife. Now, he worked with secrets. He was a scopy guide. Secrets, nice. So, you know, I got, I got good roots here in my thing.
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So, you know, and again, we have great history, just tradition. Those businesses that you mentioned, shenanigans, secrets, you know, they’re building their own database. They’re creating experience when you walk in, just like the resort we’ve never had, really a brand, and that’s why we are somewhere to smile about. We’re fun, we’re care free. We’d like people to be able to live and work and play in that environment. We’re like Disney World. We’re just here, right off the coast of Maryland. We’re so excited about,
Nestor Aparicio 18:24
I got here less than three hours, yeah, less than three hours. Came on a Wednesday. But
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you can get everything here in Ocean City. There’s a, you know, a scale of economy that what you want to do, stay and play. The activities are 17 championship golf courses in the off season. Sport Fishing is unbelievable.
Nestor Aparicio 18:40
There’s a stuff, you see. I’ll give you story. Last night, my wife and I walking from the event I saw you at, at the holiday, and it was a tourism event. So walking 66th Street, we walked down, you know, crossword of bridges. We’re going to fagers Island. We did the little footbridge over fagers Island through like the little marsh area, and we looked down and we saw this gigantic horseshoe crab in the Marshall on the Bayside, in the in the tall grass, and he had oysters lodged on the time he was big. He was a look like a turtle movie. It was a gigantic and my wife and I looked at each other, and I said, I have never seen a horseshoe crab in the wild in my life, really, until my wife got a tourist man, you know, so my wife got her video camera, and she’s video taping the thing. And I’m thinking, you see stuff you just don’t see at home. That’s all.
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It’s an ecological Wonderland out here. It happens every day, dolphins. It was one of my crazy things when I first game here, you know, we had a whale come to the beach. Okay? We see the dolphins, the horseshoe crabs, and you learn about the you know how we protect our environment? You know? We know what horseshoe crabs do? You know, we they help fight cancer. So there’s research facilities down here. It’s unbelievable.
Nestor Aparicio 19:57
I’m doing the oyster tour next month. You know, I did the crab cake tour for a. Yeah, tell Rick I owe him a crab cake as well. Again. I’ll meet him down at Harrison’s again. But the oyster tour came to me because I did all the crab cakes. I went all over the state, every county in the state. I had all the county tours and people I said, Yeah, I’ve been to Charles County. I’ve been at St Mary. I’ve been everywhere in the state, like Johnny Cash, I’ve been everywhere. Yeah, but the oyster thing hit me when Damien started making me fried oysters at fadelies. And I like raw oysters all the time, but raw oysters at a bull roast with some cocktail that’s an oyster to me, it’s like drinking a butt or a Bud Light. I need to get too Gucci into you know how to eat oysters. And then I learned about the oxygenation of the bag, and the oysters are the reason the crabs can live because and they did this thing where they would put an oyster in a in a big dirty water of tub, and within a couple of hours that it cleans up, it cleans the water. The oysters are the filter of the Chesapeake Bay that allow the crabs to live. And I thought, I’m 50. I’m 55 it’s almost 50. I didn’t know that I’m eating crabs 50 years and I didn’t know where. So the education part has struck me. But more than that, just how special this state is for marshland, water, land, from black water, and all of that, all the things that you can experience on the way to Ocean City. That’s correct. You know that are a part of all this that feed into the oysters and the fish and all the cool stuff that you eat down here. But the oyster thing, there’s so many different ways to make oysters. They’re esoteric in their own way, and how they grow, and oysters and pearls and all that stuff. But I’m gonna try to educate myself next month, because I had never seen an horseshoe crab my life, till last night in a while. So I want to see what else I can find in an oyster. They can go
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right out back here and get on our pier to convention center, look down and you’re gonna find horseshoe crabs. They’re everywhere. It’s really good. And, you know, we’re blessed down here again, the environment. We have Maryland Coastal Bays right here, there on it. You know, they talk about the oyster farms, the protection of crabs. They’re talking about, you know, sanctuaries. You know, we’re talking fisheries. We you know, DNR, it’s, a phenomenal working relationship. You know, we’re, again, we’re blessed with, you know, a beautiful natural environment that we want to protect. It’s good place, you know, we, you know, that’s why we’re against the wind farms we’ve we don’t want that to happen here off our coast, and we believe it’s going to, you know, create a tourism nightmare, but it’s also going to harm the very assets that we’ve known for hundreds of years here off the coast. Well, I’ve continued
Nestor Aparicio 22:23
that conversation. I’m on the other side of the fence with you on that, but on making energy, but,
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well, the idea would be, look up into
Nestor Aparicio 22:33
Maui and I look up on a hill and see, you know, like on a hill, on a hill on the most beautiful island in the country, like literally, and does it detract but if it, if it gets the cost down for everybody, and it makes it more feasible, I’m, I’m for open being open minded about energy where we’re not drilling,
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that’s I get that 100% and I think the point is, look, get them off their coast for farther than 17 miles,
Nestor Aparicio 22:58
so you can’t see them. Okay, okay. Fair enough. Fair enough.
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That’s fair enough. We found out recently that, you know, we’ve been told that, you know, they can go 33 miles off, cut the coast, and we’ll wonder why they’re why they want to be 10. Let’s do 26 miles. I think that would be, you know, I think Ocean City be happy about that. But that’s, you know, that’s the battle that work. There
Nestor Aparicio 23:20
no ugly and there’s damn planes coming by. Invite me, Frank, two for one happy hour. Top Rolos here, Ocean City, Maryland. Invite everybody to come down. Have a good time. I mean, nobody’s ever had a bad memory. I mean, I’ve even been hung over and sick here, and I still consider it a good memory 30 years later. So come down here and behave responsibly when you’re down, you’re not like so my wife comes down last night. We’re fagers, and we’re actually at 75 saltwater 75 Okay, so we’re up saltwater 75 at a little reception for Mako. And my wife looks out on the bay, and she loves to do the the Pat paddleboarding, because she can do that. She’s like a whole Uber, got the hips and all that. So she saw the paddleboard, there’s one paddleboard out there and the sun setting, and it was just like, she’s like, that’s me. And I’m like, well, there goes my assistant tomorrow. I cannot bring my I take my wife to 20 Super Bowls, and she’s hung out in freezing convention halls. Bring her to Ocean City in August. She’s like, I’ll drop you off at the door. What time you need to pick you up? Because she’s out on the beach right now. So she’s smarter than me. I
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look, I’ve got, you know, same situation in my house.
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Where are you going today?
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I’m going to the beach. I’m like, Well, I can’t work.
Nestor Aparicio 24:29
Yeah, I’ll go to the beach in December. Oh, no, you won’t know. Things get slower. How can people help you in Baltimore?
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Well, look, you know, like everything else, we need people to come down to the beach. Enjoy it, you know. So there’s lots we can do together. And you know, we’re here. We’ve got great accommodations, great restaurants. You are Baltimore’s beach, you always are Baltimore’s beach, and we love Baltimore. It’s a great DMA for us. You know, they support us. We want to support them. So I think there’s always ways to. Work together and do some things. But I think having the people down here supporting Ocean City, supporting state of Maryland, will continue to make Baltimore and ocean city grow hand in hand.
Nestor Aparicio 25:09
I was telling my wife when we came toward the bridge on 97 because we live in Towson now, right? So we live in that area where, when you Google Map it, I’ve never thought about this that you can almost go around like, I mean, everybody that every girl I ever knew, when I was a kid that was from Bel Air, they would always say they’d never been across the Bay Bridge. Wow. Because why would they? Yeah, right. Because they go around to go to Ocean City. And when I google map that, I swear it’s like an eight minute difference between going south the way we always go. And now the Key Bridge is gone. I’m a Dundalk kid, so the Key Bridge was the first bridge we would always take going to Ocean City, because we would take Key Bridge solid road before 97 was built, and we go straight down Route one and try to get across. And I think for Baltimore, you know, there’s two different easy ways to get here that I’ve never thought about, not going across the bridge and going up through Elton. But that’s also, you know, if you don’t like the bridge, go that way, yeah, it’s easy, yeah.
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I mean, look, you know, we were extremely, I guess, worried about the Key Bridge, you know. And I guess, obviously, you know, what a tragic situation. But I think
Nestor Aparicio 26:15
a bridge can make me cry all day. Yeah, I got very, I was a mess. Yeah, I was
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a mess too, you know, again, I got a ton of friends up there. You know, Sam was there for 15 years.
Nestor Aparicio 26:24
See it from my, my bedroom window as a child, like, really, literally, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Part of the part of the skyline, yeah. We
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wish everyone, you know, it’s a heart, you know, we’re very sorry that happened. Obviously, we’re, you know, want to help out in any way we can. Again, that’s a situation where somehow, if Ocean City can help, we’re wanted. I know.
Nestor Aparicio 26:41
Listen, I used the harbor tunnel for the first time in six years. Yesterday, I did. We used a harbor my wife and I’ve been married 21 years, and she pulled in where the port is, in the harbor tunnel, where they have all the cars, and she’s like, you know, I don’t think I’ve been through this five times in 20 years. We always use McHenry tunnel, and we live downtown, so the harbor tunnel still working to harbor
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tunnel. I like that. But, you know, I know it’s a very key point for the state. I’ve heard of state legislature folks talk about it. So, you know, I’m hoping that gets done. I’m gonna have
Nestor Aparicio 27:11
Senator Cardin tomorrow. I have Senator Van Hollen Westmore.
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Get him well, I
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mean, this tragedy, out of these kinds of things, we talked about this all the time. It’s like, if a storm were to ever hit here afterward, you’re going to be stronger. People are going to come together. There is that. It’s sad that it takes some sort of tragedy to bring people together. But I have sensed, and I’ve talked a lot of Republicans, a lot of Democrats last a real bipartisan like the bridge is us, and we got to fix that
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exactly. I mean, that’s the thing we we want to rally around the opportunity. I think it is, it is Maryland, and we are Maryland. You know, Ocean City is a part of that. We’re blessed to be a part of it. And we’re thankful, you know, Governor, all the folks, the delegates, you know, our two delegates here, Wayne Hartman and Mary Beth Corona you know, we’re just really lucky, you know, to have those folks. Well, you’re
Nestor Aparicio 27:59
lucky. But good weather down here to top. Roz owes here. He’s running. Thanks for ocmd. We’ll get Mayor Meehan on in the future. He gets the good crab cakes, the fresh oysters down here, all that good stuff. We’re gonna be doing the Maryland crab cake tour next Friday at fates, and then we begin again on the fourth at Cocos. And then we’re moving the oyster tour into September and into the pennant race as the Ravens get going with the Chiefs all they’re brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery. I have the scratch offs here the gold rush, seven doubles. I’m trying to get rid of these so I can make room for the Raven scratch off. So come find me at failies. Appreciate you making my love to Sammy, right? I definitely will. I. If there were anything I could wish for in the month of September, other than maybe a couple of Raven victories and some Oriole pitching, would be that when my kid has invested all this money to come down here, C, O, A, R, C, Dave Matthews, C, with 311 is that off top my head? I don’t have it all in front of me. Offspring playing too. Is there a whole bunch? I’m trying to think all the bands, because I get these festivals confused.
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Big high tide to monsters, Larkin Poe Boys to Men, Beach Boys, boys, the men are playing, yeah, oh, yeah, I didn’t know that. Oh, it’s gonna be good, yeah.
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All right, 82 maybe a few clouds, just to keep that not too many clouds top a lot. So is our first guest down here at Ocean City, Maryland. We’re from Mako. I have my fun little pass. Mako is. Tell me what Mako is real quick. Maryland’s
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association of counties, and every county representative across the state of Maryland’s here. It’s a great thing for Ocean City. It’s a great thing for Ocean City, you know, we host it. We’re lucky to host it, you know. We get our facilities beautiful. We always work a great deal. We enjoy everyone coming
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down here. Well, everybody enjoys being down here as well. I gotta get out of here soon. My wife will have a tan by the end of the day, because it’s Ocean City. I’m Nestor. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Stand by for more from the beach that the sunshine with with fake lighting in here, we move this thing to the beach. Let’s go, oh, show it off. I didn’t talk any baseball with you. You
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were lucky get bring me back, baby. You got 12 pitches in you. You got anything in you got no pitches. But we need to pitch it.
Nestor Aparicio 30:01
Somebody guys gets a pitch back for more right after this.
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Thanks.
