It’s hot out there. Very hot! And if your temperature is rising and your HVAC is breaking, our friends at The Comfort Guys of Farnen and Dermer will get there today and cool you off. Zach Dermer joins Nestor at Greenmount Station on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour for another sports check-up on the thermostat of World Cup, LIV Golf, Orioles baseball and the waiting for a highly-anticipated Ravens season.

Nestor Aparicio and Zach Dermer discuss the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, highlighting their favorite crab cake spots. They reminisce about past events at Green Mount Station, including a charity event where Dermer’s crab balls were a hit. Aparicio shares his experiences attending World Cup games in 2006 and his disappointment with the current World Cup due to corruption and high ticket prices. They also touch on the LIV Golf League’s impact on traditional golf, emphasizing the importance of merit-based earnings in sports. The conversation shifts to upcoming baseball discussions with Casper Wells and Howard Share, emphasizing the community spirit at Green Mount Station.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Use AI to generate synonyms for the phrase describing Hampstead (“pastoral bucolic”) for potential use in future content.
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Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Green Mount Station

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, mentioning various locations like Horses, Bay Bridge, Boardwalk, and Blackwater.
• Nestor and Zach Dermer discuss their crab cake preferences, with Zach choosing Blackwater.
• Nestor describes the atmosphere at Green Mount Station, a popular sports bar, especially during Orioles games.
• Nestor mentions giving out lottery tickets and encourages listeners to visit Green Mount Station.

Nestor’s Culinary Adventures and Green Mount Station

• Nestor shares a story about a charity event where he cooked Venezuelan pork nachos and met Chris Richards from Green Mount Station.
• Nestor recounts how Chris’s crab balls were a hit at the event, leading to a long-term friendship and sponsorship.
• Nestor describes the various rooms at Green Mount Station, including the North Carroll Athletic Hall of Fame room.
• Nestor and Zach discuss the beauty of Carroll County and the drive from Baltimore to Hampstead.

Sponsorships and Community Connections

• Nestor talks about his long-term relationship with Green Mount Station and other sponsors like Farnum and Dermer.
• Zach mentions their business operations in Carroll County and the importance of community connections.
• Nestor shares a story about his engineer, JR, who lives in Manchester and helps with plumbing issues.
• Nestor and Zach discuss the upcoming events at Green Mount Station, including a visit from former big leaguer Casper Wells.

World Cup Memories and Soccer Fandom

• Nestor reminisces about his World Cup experiences in 2006, including attending games in Germany and Italy.
• Nestor expresses frustration with the current state of the World Cup, citing corruption and high ticket prices.
• Nestor shares a story about meeting Rupert Murdoch and the impact of Fox Sports on soccer coverage.
• Nestor and Zach discuss their personal experiences with soccer, with Zach admitting he never got into the sport.

Golf and Sports Corruption

• Nestor and Zach discuss the corruption in golf, mentioning the Saudi Arabian-backed LIV Golf League.
• Nestor compares the LIV Golf League to historical sports leagues like the USFL and the ABA, highlighting the involvement of wealthy individuals.
• Nestor expresses disappointment in the impact of Saudi Arabian money on sports integrity.
• Zach shares his perspective on the traditional aspects of golf and the importance of merit-based earnings.

Baseball and Upcoming Events

• Nestor transitions to discussing baseball, mentioning the Orioles’ afternoon game and the upcoming World Cup knockout stages.
• Nestor and Zach talk about the excitement of watching live sports and the impact of social media on fan engagement.
• Nestor mentions the upcoming guests for the show, including Casper Wells and Howard Share from Duck Doctors.
• Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of community involvement and the role of local businesses in supporting sports events.

Nestor Aparicio 0:00
Hello, welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively in Carroll County. We’re here in beautiful pastoral bucolic Hampstead. I’m gonna put that into my AI and see if I can get some synonyms for that. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery in conjunction with our friends GBMC. I got to get a GBMC shirt, but I have plenty of Farnham and Dermer shirts. Zach Dermer is here for Farnum Dermer. They’re the comfort guys. He’s maybe very uncomfortable because I did not wear my Farnet and Derma shirt, you know. I brought the blue shirt in the car for Luke, but Luke, you know, he’s burly, bigger than me, so his won’t fit me. But I can put the shirt you got when you’re wearing a shirt, dude,

Zach Dermer 0:40
looking sporty, you know. You don’t always have to wear the Dermer gear, which it’s

Nestor Aparicio 0:44
Maryland Crab Cake Tour. So I’m trying.. I have all the tickets, and I broke them all up the last tour stop I had last week. And so I’ve got horses, I’ve got Bay Bridge, not Key Bridge, I keep wanting to say Key Bridge. I got Boardwalk, which 1am I missing? I’m missing mollusks, I’m missing Blackwater. Which one are you having?

Zach Dermer 1:04
I’m gonna do Blackwater. All right, all right, gotta check that out. She’s just like

Nestor Aparicio 1:08
I’m going in August. We’re all up here having a good time. And today’s gonna be Wild Show. We’re doing a crab cake tour in advance of Fourth of July. We have Oriole afternoon baseball going on as we are here at Green Mount Station, you come up anytime. The OTB is here. Terry Crowley’s not here today, but he’s here a lot. And I will tell you, this is one of the great sports bars, and you’re going to see this at 4o’clock when the Orioles play. This place explodes. I’m glad I brought a lot of lottery tickets. I’m going to give them out. It’s great place to come and hang out. And I told Zach, I said, ‘Great crab cake up here, dude. You got no excuse. Your sister lives down the road. Your nieces and nephews are down the road. You know Chris now, and you’ve never had a crab cake agreement.

Zach Dermer 1:51
Crap, cake was great. I don’t think of this place as a crab cake place, but it was phenomenal. Absolutely great. And I appreciate you having me, Nestor. It was a.

Nestor Aparicio 1:58
I met Chris 20 years ago, give or take, it’s probably probably met him in 2000 and 567, in that era, and I was invited. This is back when the Ravens thought I was a real media member, as well as a celebrity. I was a celebrity chef at a Goodwill, boys and girls, not Goodwill, it was Big Brothers Big Sisters. Goodwill might have been involved too, either way. And it was on the club level of the stadium, and we had to make our own food, so it was real chefs, of which Chris has won. Real restaurants brought their food, and then they had people like me. I don’t know who else did it. There were some other very low-level celebrities, I was the lowest of them, who cooked food and brought it down and served. So I made my patented Venezuelan pork nachos, and my station, I had a little chef at, I had a picture with Captain Defense. Was there that night when Captain Defense died this year? I found a picture, he and I together, Wes, Wes Henson, good, good man, God rest his soul. So I found these old pictures, but I had an apron and I had my Raven’s leather hat on, it looked like a biker, and my wife and I made food and served it. We plated it on small plates, and it was one of those kind of parties. And Chris Richards from Green Mount Station was at the booth next to me. And here’s what happened. I’m not lying, you, he brought the crab balls out. What I had a fried crab cake today. I’m not bougie, and all like young, sexy, like you don’t tell my folks, I can’t believe that it was a small fried crab cake, Doc. I swear, did

Zach Dermer 3:50
have broccoli as the side, so that was no French

Nestor Aparicio 3:53
fries, no chips. Tell it, see this

Zach Dermer 3:55
good boy, looking

Nestor Aparicio 3:56
out for me. My sponsor’s always looking out for me. Thank you, Zach. So these little crab balls, and he brought like five trays of them down, and the party started at like six to nine, or whatever. At about 628 he was out of crab balls, mainly because I ate like seven or eight up before anybody got to load them, but he just didn’t know how many people were going to be there, how popular was crab balls are going to be. I’m like, like that’s the best crab bowl I like,

Zach Dermer 4:22
it’s fantastic.

Nestor Aparicio 4:22
Who, Green Mount, you like by Green Mountain Avenue? Where you like by Memorial Stevens, and Green Mount Station, Hampstead? I’m like Hampden. He’s like, no, Hampstead, like, where the hell is that? And I’m like, oh, oh, Carroll County by Manchester. My wife’s like, Manchester, I’m from Manchester, not that Manchester, Manchester, Maryland, Manchester Valley, home of Tim Watts, up here. So he had these great crab balls, and the next thing I know, he gave me his card, and this and that. Next thing that we sponsor in the show, and he’s been a friend and a sponsor for almost two decades, and I’ve done my show in every room in this building. I’ve done it from the OTB. This is more like. The lounge, this is more like the North Carroll Athletic Hall of Fame room. There’s a lot of North Carol going on here. North Carol’s now the funk. The Mighty Panthers have given way to the Manchester Valley Monarchs. What are they? I don’t know, I got the name wrong, they’ll kill me. But either way, we became friends, and it really was about his crab cake. So when you came up today, you’re like, “Well, I guess I gotta get the crab cake. It’s crab cake tour. I’m like, “No, this is a place you want it, you want to get the crab cake. There’s a million things on the menu. I had the ahi tuna, delicious. He has a lot of things. It was a good crab cake

Zach Dermer 5:32
that was very, very good. Me, yeah, years

Nestor Aparicio 5:35
ago

Zach Dermer 5:36
it was impressive. Did they put the pork nachos? They put those on the menu for you. Well, I mean,

Nestor Aparicio 5:41
we had an abundance of Venezuelan pork nachos, and we did the little tortilla chips, so you could, you know, so you have a little, little, little Scooby Doo, yeah, and a little squirt of a special barbecue sauce. Okay, and huge hit, huge hit.

Zach Dermer 5:55
Sounds good.

Nestor Aparicio 5:56
It’s my Mojo Moyo pork, Moyo Creollo pork. I just cook into crock pot. Okay, that was about three or four crock pots. We started cooking at like Saturday for the Monday event, you know what I mean. But it went over big. It’s one time in my life, my wife and I have done it. We’re not cooking well. If you’re a charity, Paula, if you call me, I’ll come cook for you over Mount Washington Pediatric, because Paul was there now, but she was the one that invited us. She’s a big brother, so I met him through charity. I met him through charity, networking community,

Zach Dermer 6:25
beautiful.

Nestor Aparicio 6:26
He came down to the city, and I love his place. And if you go in there when the games are on, we have World Cup knockout. He’s said the crowds have been unbelievable for us up here, so I’m sure to be nuts here for Santa Clara next week too. So you got family up here in Carroll County, right? You do a lot of business up here, right? Oh,

Zach Dermer 6:42
yeah, we do quite a bit in Carroll County. We’re 25 minutes up the road, but a lot of our guys live out this way – Manchester, Finksburg, Hampstead.

Nestor Aparicio 6:49
This is where they come when I scream at you in the middle of the night, my plumbing’s bad. Yeah, you’re like Sean will get there, but he lives in Manchester. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 6:55
it’s gonna be a minute to get my

Nestor Aparicio 6:56
engineer, my tower engineer, JR, lives in Manchester. Yep, so when I do the show at Green Mountain Station, which I love to do, everybody knows that it’s sort of home turf for Tim Watts, my former producer, for my friend Carol Fokker, who couldn’t be with us today because he’s out doing what she does, but we got some great guests, Casper Wells is on his way up, former big leaguer, former Towson Tiger, I don’t know why he likes me, but he’s got, he’s connected, he, because I know how to pronounce it, and we’re gonna talk some baseball. Howard Share, who dude, I just had a crab cake with you. We know all the same people, man. Yeah, Keith Golden’s gonna give us a yoga class together, but like when you called me to sponsor WNSD, which we recommend to all business owners in the Baltimore area, you said to me, I know Howard Chair, and I’m like, in a good way or a bad way.

Zach Dermer 7:45
No, we linked up with Howard a couple years ago, because a buddy of mine from high school works for Howard. Duck Doctor, yeah, Duck Doctor Royd is works for Howard.

Nestor Aparicio 7:53
Okay,

Zach Dermer 7:53
so it’s like, hey, we need a duck cleaning company. We don’t do duck cleaning, yeah, we’ll fix your HVAC, you will replace your HVAC, but you need to have your ducks cleaned, even you

Nestor Aparicio 8:02
admit that. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 8:02
oh yeah. So we linked up with Howard, and then listen, don’t kiss

Nestor Aparicio 8:05
Howard’s desk, because I’m here yet, but like in a general sense, the work that he does to clean out those vents keeps people like you away, basically, right?

Zach Dermer 8:15
Um, not necessarily, but people don’t think about, I mean, your ducks just accumulate. Did you see how

Nestor Aparicio 8:20
the crap he pulled out? Yeah, oh,

Zach Dermer 8:22
I didn’t see it, but I, I believe he’s gonna be

Nestor Aparicio 8:24
your little while,

Zach Dermer 8:25
especially with the cat, and just, well, he’s the

Nestor Aparicio 8:27
last time you had it done, I’m like 19, he’s like wrong answer, yeah,

Zach Dermer 8:33
yeah, people do not, they just don’t think about it, so you want to get it done, so that way you’re breathing clean air, and

Nestor Aparicio 8:40
I feel dirty for not bringing his big mug up tonight, because he gave me a mug that’s like, like a big gulp. Okay, yeah, it’s like one of these giant ones. I don’t put coffee in, because I can’t drink that much coffee, but I do put my, my special lemonade in there, which isn’t what you think, especially. No, I have a hydrate product that I,

Zach Dermer 8:58
a little luck for later.

Nestor Aparicio 8:58
How I do the streets of Las Vegas at 110 degrees, and I can be this physically fit when I’m only a year or two older than your third couple. Yes, Florida Dermer is here. This is Zach. He’s one of our newer sponsors. They sponsor all of our sports coverage, and so with Raskin, we just riff Luke comes completely replete with notes. He’s teaching a bunch of kids how to be broadcasters today. They didn’t want me, they wanted him. So, I mean, he’s doing better at it than me. Well, he’s good at press pitch. You don’t, all right, go for it. I gave my press pass to Rob Long, and the guys over one of five, seven. They can have my pass, but, but Luke’s on his way up, and so we’re like Luke’s structure, you know, even at, you know, a night when Shane Boz gives up five early runs, we don’t get a hit to the sixth inning, and I’m up half the night watching him, and I’m or an afternoon game here today, which we will break, because at 4o’clock Luke goes into Oriole Mojo, and I’ll be listening to Brent Hollander call the game. The way down home, so I love Brett. I do love Brett. So I’ll be listening to the game today on the way out of here, but this bar will be packed with Oriole fans. Luke’s gonna be all buttoned up, and like you run a company and you’re like organized, and so I put notes together today during our lunch of things that we’re going to talk about before Casper Wells gets here, before Howard Share gets here from Duck Doctors, before Luke gets here today, that I had a list of notes, I was going to find the notes. Hold on, I’m so bad about this because I put it on my phone. All right, so the Green Mount crab cake was the first thing, and North Carol and Tim Watts, you had a lot of employees, and I only have Luke at this point, but Tim Watts was my original ballpark guy on the field with a live phone in 1997 9899 We first got the radio station, and he lives up here, he’s put kids through school up here, and all that. So, I, when I drive up here, I used to come at dark because we did the night show up here, and I didn’t really, I just take 795 make the right Gump Glendin, boom 22 come up here right, and I didn’t realize until Christmas time, maybe bet 10 years ago, they put the Christmas lights, I’m like, it’s a cute little town they have up here in Hampstead, you know, she’s like nice little man, nice up here, you know, it’s when the Wonder people come up here and live up here, you know, pass that Joseph A bank up there, a little bypass, and since I moved downtown, it’s like five years, I only excuse me, from downtown to Towson, I come 83 and it’s a gift to me, because I do the show during the day, which you can see now, and it doesn’t even matter what season it is. I’ve come up during Christmas, I’ve come up, but today was effing glorious, dude. Like, it’s a summer day, it’s 80 degrees,

Zach Dermer 11:52
beautiful.

Nestor Aparicio 11:53
I rolled the windows down when I got to Shawan Road, and if you don’t think we, I’m gonna hold the horses up, even though they’re the wrong horses. Here they’re the acetylene courses. I passed horse farms, saddling. I passed the butler cabin. I came up to the Black Rock. I passed all the churches. I passed construction. I passed tobacco, corn, side sales, eggs, chickens, it is such a beautiful part of our state. That’s all I want to say. Oh, it’s a beautiful drive up here today, and I’m looking forward to a beautiful drive home tonight.

Zach Dermer 12:32
Oh, no, it’s a peaceful drive. We drive that all the time with the kids, and yeah, they love seeing the horses, and just, yeah, Falls Road, Tufton. I just can’t get over

Nestor Aparicio 12:40
how beautiful the Maryland treasures of the state are. My lottery sponsor, this is the crab cake tour. When I’ve done it, I’ve done in August, and driving around this state in August, where everything’s grown, all the trees are out, all the colors are out, all the manicured lawns. I mean, that’s the one thing about, well, dare I say that they have to Republican Maryland, red Maryland, the, the, the way people keep their homes on the Eastern Shore on side roads when you drive by, and the way Luke has to go out and mow his lawn up in Pennsyltucky, you know what I mean,

Zach Dermer 13:14
lines,

Nestor Aparicio 13:15
I just, it was just a beautiful drive, so I love, I love the city, everybody knows that, I like doing a show, we’ll be back in Catonsville. We’ll be back in Dundalk and Essex, but when I get up here to Green Mount Station, I think it’s good. And you guys do service all of it. Tell me what you do, and then we’re gonna talk some sports, because I got a whole list of things, because we got World Cup stories that I want to tell, and you’re not a soccer goober at all, right?

Zach Dermer 13:35
Not a soccer man, but I mean, hey, there’s nothing wrong with that. I just never got supposed to be the people that know, I know

Nestor Aparicio 13:42
the torch for this,

Zach Dermer 13:44
so I think I played soccer when I was maybe like five years old, very young, introduced the soccer rec soccer, think I broke my pink ear, so I’m gonna sit out, screw it, I’m done. And then I went to baseball, if you’re pink,

Nestor Aparicio 13:53
you played soccer, would you do?

Zach Dermer 13:54
I guess you’re not supposed to touch it with your hands, I didn’t know that, I have no, no clue, but, but anyways, I never, I’m lost. I don’t know, but I never really got into soccer. I mean, but yeah, back to what we do. Yeah, obviously, foreign and Durham, we’re heating and air, guys. We’ll fix your HVAC, you know, plumbing as well. I mean, you took care of Nestor’s Plumbing. I mean, if it’s a mess, it’s gonna get hot. I mean, this morning it was 55 degrees out this morning. Look at the temperatures here. I literally turned on my heated seats this morning on my way to the gym. I paid my view, but I was

Nestor Aparicio 14:25
real happy with it. Yeah, because I just turned stuff off. Yeah, like it’s been

Zach Dermer 14:28
extremely mild, but the heat, the humidity, it’s coming. Give us a call, we’ll be able to help you out, whether it’s a repair new system.

Nestor Aparicio 14:35
81 677 on six,

Zach Dermer 14:39
does not feel like 89

Nestor Aparicio 14:40
on Tuesday, you gotta get that magic nine.

Zach Dermer 14:43
Yep. Hey, we’re.. Is

Nestor Aparicio 14:45
there a temperature where it goes? Hey, 8585

Zach Dermer 14:48
It’s them, the humidity. I mean, it can be 80 degrees, but feel like it’s 95

Nestor Aparicio 14:52
I’ve asked you to, so what kills H factually? A million things.

Zach Dermer 14:56
It’s just the heat that you just get you

Nestor Aparicio 14:57
out once a year, blow to smoke, throw it, get Howard out. Suck the dogs, boom, you turn it on, it works, turn it off, it doesn’t work.

Zach Dermer 15:03
Exactly, get yourself just like you go to the doctor, get a physical, check your HVAC, it’ll save you a lot of money. Hitting the law, no, I did

Nestor Aparicio 15:10
a whole hot yoga piece last week with Kate Parish, you go check that out at Baltimore Post, just about how much like I like the heat, and I like yoga, and I’m, I’m sitting on my little pad thing right now, even though my back’s.. I took a class with Kate, and my back got a little wonky, so I’m trying to sit up, and okay, I feel taller, I feel like I’m sitting on a yellow pages, the whole old young guy thing always works for you, so there we go, okay, all better, is it better, fully better, I think it’s better. So, anyway, we were talking about something, HVAC,

Zach Dermer 15:45
I guess. HVAC being old and broken down, getting checked up on, and

Nestor Aparicio 15:48
yeah, well, you just got to do it.

Zach Dermer 15:50
Yeah, you got to do sexy. No, it certainly isn’t. But hey, we’re there when you need us, and it beats being without AC, that’s for sure.

Nestor Aparicio 15:57
My wife’s out of town, and she gets home on the 90 degree day, so I will probably 8684 60s at night. I might not touch that MF for till like Tuesday around 3o’clock next week.

Zach Dermer 16:10
Okay,

Nestor Aparicio 16:11
and then it goes to 77 again, 82

Zach Dermer 16:13
Yeah, I’m thinking Fourth of July once that comes into whatever that is, two weeks from now.

Nestor Aparicio 16:17
Has Trump canceled summer? I don’t know what. I don’t know. Does this have something to do with the reflecting pool? I don’t know, maybe you meant the temperature could.. I don’t know something. Zach is here, so I wrote all this stuff down because we were like having a.. I had a fried crab cake, sorry doc, he had a broil crab cake. Your wife will be happy about that, so your cardiologist as well. But I took these notes and I said, World Cup, this has been like a crazy year for me, because this weekend I started seeing all the World Cup stuff, and the US started playing well, and I’m not used to that, you know. I went to the World Cup in oh six, we did not play well in 10, did not play well in 14, Brazil did not play well, so then we stopped qualifying until we had to like go get a bag of money, like the Qataris and the Russians did play on their level to get this fraudulent mafia laden organized crime group that has usurped organized world soccer, put a price tag on it. I don’t know who all these guns that are paying $2,000 to go to games are. God bless them, they’ve done well in America. They’ve got their children with them that they’re paying $2,000 It’s good for these eight-year-old kids flying flat. I see it all, and it’s clear that the Fox cameras go out like the massing cameras, and they try to find the three kids that are from Croatia, that have Croatian flag on them, or whatever it is, or an Ivory Coast, or they know where the green country is that plays well. I, I adore the World Cup. I have dedicated months of my June. One thing that you could guarantee, you’re a young guy, but you know this, in June of oh two, I could tell you in April of oh two, the Orioles were going to suck. In June of oh six, I knew,

Zach Dermer 18:08
yeah, they were in March of

Nestor Aparicio 18:10
oh six, they were going to suck deep into June of 12, I knew they were going to suck. 14, they were actually good, yeah, but every year that there was a World Cup, I planned massive WNST events. We had viewing parties, we had soccer parties. I had Dennison Cabral, who’s Brazilian and a blast player, come out anytime we played Brazil. So I would set up all these drinking events with Guinness and beer, and this is before the cannabis thing, and back when there weren’t 100,000 local beers, and all that. I haven’t fully immersed in this one, and it’s down the street, and I’ve encouraged my wife to go party with the Germans in Foxborough on Monday. I did, I’ll admit this, because the Orioles game was late night on Tuesday night, I put the World Cup match on on Tuesday. It was the first match I’ve watched. Okay, so I didn’t watch either the US games. I’m fully.. I, I’m not anti-US, I am anti-Trump in a big way, but I’m not.. I’m not.. I’m not anti soccer. I love soccer. I am anti FIFA because they’re criminals. I mean, that’s clear. I don’t like what they’ve done to the fans, and the way they’ve charged the fans. I don’t like what our country has done to people who look like me, or worse, your wine team getting shaken down at the border, having Somalian judges or referees. Like, the political side of this is gross. The gouging side of it is gross, the usurping of it, the way the Saudis usurped golf, the blood money, the sports washing, and the gouging, and where the money goes, I, it’s one more thing in sports, the. At for me, they’ve wrecked it. They’ve wrecked the World Cup. Now I will watch Switcher that we have knockout games. I have every day gone on my app to see who’s won and lost, but I just

Zach Dermer 20:14
can’t tune in constantly. I just haven’t wanted to

Nestor Aparicio 20:16
give

Zach Dermer 20:17
it.

Nestor Aparicio 20:17
Yeah, and you know what I noticed watching on Tuesday night, and this is other than how crazy Fox, everything, everything about Fox’s, but because I just try not to, it’s just, it’s they’ve wrecked, they’ve wrecked our world, they literally wrecked our world. I can’t believe I met Rupert Murdoch once and shook his hand, like I, I want that back. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 20:36
hand sanitizer, yeah, I

Nestor Aparicio 20:39
want the Darren Sharper picture back. I want the Jared from Subway segment back. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 20:44
I want the Dr. Oz segment. There’s some things I want back. Yeah, but the picture with George Bush, I’m happy with. I mean, there’s some things I’m sure you know I’m okay with. I’m good with my hair, Larry Hogan stuff, but not.. but not political. It’s the after election. But the thing about the FIFA thing is, you know, I spent 1000s of dollars in oh six, going over to Europe with a bum knee. I had to get caught on great memories in Kaiser, slaughter with my wife going to Italy. I found all of my videos yesterday. Yesterday I watched for the first time the videos of me at in Dortmund as a hell of my fifth, a 37 year old wearing a Sweden jersey, my wife holding a camera on me, drinking a beer, thanking John Dow and Joan from Winter, thanking my sponsors for getting me tickets and giving me this incredible experience. And little did I know, the guy who had saved my wife’s life was parking cars a mile away.

Zach Dermer 21:39
That’s great. Your

Nestor Aparicio 21:40
age, a kid during the World Cup in oh six, so the oh six year is a year where I, I chased the stones around Brazil and you two around Argentina, and then I went to the World Cup, and then I had the worst knee surgery of my life 20 years ago this week, and I couldn’t walk the rest of the summer, and we did free the birds in September of oh six, so six was like this huge year, but I think I watched these videos of me giving FIFA money, being in Germany, being in Amsterdam with my wife 20 years ago, she’s blond, we’re young, we’re beautiful, we’re at the games with our friends, we’re wearing our USA jerseys, we had little flags, we sang the national anthem. I have video, I have video of all of it in Gelsen, Kirchin against Czech Republic, Trinidad, Sweden, I saw in Dortmund, and then the US and Italy, and Kaiser Slaughter, which I haven’t found the videos of that yet. I’m so

Zach Dermer 22:40
I’m looking

Nestor Aparicio 22:41
on the hard drives, right? So I mean, I love the World Cup, maybe 02 I told you a story a little while ago. The girl I was dating in oh two was an Olympic athlete, and she was in town from Minnesota, and we, she went to the hub captain with me to watch the Poland win. She wasn’t with me the day the Germany we lost got outed, but when we won a won a 16 game,

Zach Dermer 23:06
yeah.

Nestor Aparicio 23:06
I mean, like it was, how old do you know you didn’t have any friends making you watch soccer as a 12 year old? No,

Zach Dermer 23:15
we’re baseball all the way through, and football, no, I guess pretty naive. I don’t know. I mean, I gotta tune in more, dude.

Nestor Aparicio 23:23
As a kid from Dundalk, other than in like 86 and if I, John Eisenberg, my dear friend, he covered the 86 World Cup with Maradona in Mexico. He was at all those games. I was at the paper. Those games weren’t even like on TV, like they weren’t even on, like, Vi satellite, you know? I mean, like, you had to go to a special plan to know somebody to go, like, the World Cup has come so far, and it’s right here. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 23:50
maybe I’ll get into it. My buddy Dave

Nestor Aparicio 23:52
Rather, that owns Mother’s, was in Philadelphia for the France Iraq game the other night. My dear friend Ron Cassie, editor from Baltimore magazine was at the Ivory Coast Ecuador game last week. He said he ate some great food with the Ecuadorians. I don’t doubt that. So he was going to come by today, but he couldn’t come by because I just wanted, like, I only know two people that I know, and like, in my world have been to World Cup games this week, but not many. No, not many. I mean, really not many. Pete Corinji was supposed to. He’s coaching kids. He hasn’t been to a game either, and we all wanted the games here. This would have been a hell of a different,

Zach Dermer 24:28
yeah, instead of Boston. Yeah, it would have been Scotland.

Nestor Aparicio 24:32
People would have been here. I mean, come on, I would have

Zach Dermer 24:34
tuned in. I think if it was not the Philly so far away, but I would have tuned in a little bit more.

Nestor Aparicio 24:40
Can I tell you a Bashadi story that is really speaks to his arrogance and his flippants, because he was smoking a cigar when he did it, the whole thing, because a lot of my stories with Steve either involve alcohol or cigars, and always involved no socks for him, usually, and I don’t wear socks now, either to honor him, Steve, I don’t wear socks to honor you, I’ll get plugs later, that’s why it

Zach Dermer 24:57
stinks in here, yeah, my shoes are

Nestor Aparicio 24:59
on, that’s fine. They had an entire downtown, like a harbor place. They don’t have a harbor, but they had a square, and it was all World Cup televisions, beer, food, all Swiss, all red and white. And when we landed, they were playing, so we saw 28,000 people in a square partying for their team and Jen and I were like just coming from Amsterdam, where every night the square was full of Brazilians, Argentine, whoever was playing

Zach Dermer 30:31
it was there,

Nestor Aparicio 30:32
they were partying in Amsterdam and everybody was part in Amsterdam, buying Hooker’s weeds and then going into Germany for their team’s game, so there were 1000s of Brazilians based in Amsterdam who couldn’t get into the games that were just hanging out in Europe waiting for the knockout games because they’re Brazil and they didn’t need to worry about playing Haiti

Zach Dermer 30:53
preseason, right?

Nestor Aparicio 30:54
Right, so if Europe was on fire in the summer of 06 and I’m walking around that knee flat. Oh my god, I got stabbed every 20 feet I walked on that trip, and I found all the videos. I’m gonna put those up this week as the US gets through, because it was so.. it’s so.. I went to Germany to get the US through, like they did know too. It’s like an Oriole World Series. Still waiting. Here we are. Yeah, still waiting. It’s here this time, and it’s so corrupt that I’m freaked out by it. You know what I mean? I’m literally freaked out by it. And in normal space, I would say, well, the World Cup comes to America, I’m gonna go to this game and that game, I’m gonna budget five grand, and I’m gonna do this five grand wouldn’t even get me into Philadelphia, like. So it’s insane what they’re just in a general sense, but how much I loved it. I came back from Europe in oh six, and my wife will attest to this, and anybody that knew any of my employees knew this, anyone around me knew this. I’m sure I said it on the radio. I dreamed of turning the inner harbor into a soccer place that Seattle eventually became. I said said, Baltimore has a soccer history and a heritage, so I went to Bashadi, because he’s got money. I went to Ed Hale because he was perceived as having money. I went to Ed Hale because he had a soccer team. I went to every soccer person I knew. I went to Dave Johnson, talked about the United. I had meetings, I set up literal meetings with Ed Hale and people that had influence. Martin O’Malley was the governor then, so I set up things to Sheila was the mayor. I didn’t bother with her, but my thought was Baltimore could be what I saw in Europe in oh six, and that

Zach Dermer 32:43
eventually we would

Nestor Aparicio 32:43
get a World Cup here, and maybe Baltimore could be a BFD, a BFD. We could get two games, Washington gets two, we get two, we’d have tourists, and it goes back to my Mike Messina story, which I told the other day to Raskin about the crazy Norwegian fans, and he doesn’t know any about soccer. You don’t know any about soccer, and I know a very little bit about, but you do know the Norwegian fans took over Times Square. You do know they were doing the whole row like that’s shit that was going on down at Hooters in 1994 with Messina and I, who were nerds like you and me, and saying, what are these weirdos doing, all dressed up, taking over the city at midnight? Well, they were World Cup fans from Norway, or as they say, Nerve. So we’re seeing that in America now. And I’m like, I’m like a lost puppy dog, worrying about AI, and I just don’t have 14 hours. I’ll say this Tuesday, and I put the game on, and here’s what I realized: I can have the volume down a little bit. I don’t do that to Mass, and because I like Ben and Jim. I like listening to them, and I even stop and start when I feed my cat. I’ll take a break, I’ll pause the game, I’ll get a cone, pause the game, get a beer, pause the game. So I’m a pauser in that I’m not a live tweeter anymore, because who cares? So I have a radio show to handle all that, and social media. I realized with the World Cup, I was watching England, and at the end, Harry Kane had a shot that was high. There was a header, and like, England’s trying to put the press on, and they’d take the piss out of Trump if they win. So, I’m all about England, Scotland. I’m with you, nights. So, I’m watching it, and I’m realizing, oh, anytime anything exciting happens at a soccer match, stop it, rewind it, just watch, literally. So it can be filler, it can be like white noise, but I haven’t, I haven’t watched. I mean, I, I’m gonna watch, because I’m getting reeled in a little bit. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 34:40
at this point, I guess it’s getting interesting, and maybe ties

Nestor Aparicio 34:45
when I, when I put it on, and I see a corner, and England’s got a corner in a 76 minute, and it’s a nil, I stuff stops getting done, my work suddenly my laundry doesn’t get done from foreign in Dermer, and I don’t get to wear the shirt,

Zach Dermer 34:59
there you go. But

Nestor Aparicio 35:00
soccer can be good like that, it’d be backgrounds, but it’s over in a month.

Zach Dermer 35:03
I’m

Nestor Aparicio 35:05
just disappointed at sport. I’m disappointed at politics and sport money, and I

Zach Dermer 35:09
feel the same way with golf, and we haven’t even really talked about it too. Where are

Nestor Aparicio 35:12
you with the golf thing?

Zach Dermer 35:14
I mean, I love golf, it’s definitely my favorite sport, and I used to be such a loyal watcher and PGA Tour, whatever. I don’t know if it’s coming again, built every weekend. No, I mean, not built, not like

Nestor Aparicio 35:24
sunset on a Saturday or Sunday. I’m tuned in, okay?

Zach Dermer 35:27
With live, I mean, that really kind of.. it just pulled apart

Nestor Aparicio 35:32
the fabric, the fabric

Zach Dermer 35:33
of the game, and obviously the whole concept with PGA Tour’s having the best players play every single week, or having the best players at the best venues, and when you separate the best players and the money from, I think

Nestor Aparicio 35:45
it’s hard because of the Saudi Arabians taking journalists like me with bone saws and killing them. Yeah, that’s not an aside, that is the effing lead, that’s the, that, that should be it, that should be Joe Liz, that that should be it, right? But all that being said, if I’m being, if I’m being fair the day after an election, and I am in a Republican county, for sure, Red County, I would say that if you were to say that a football league would start up in the 60s and a bunch of really rich cats would get together and just keep Joe Namath out of the NFL and pay him a bunch of money, that would have been that. If you would say that a bunch of rich guys in 1983 would create a USFL, Donald Trump being one of them, that would then buy Doug Flutie and buy Herschel Walker, that you would have the same concept, right? The ABA buying Julius Irving, and you know that’s competition, but when it’s coming from Saudi Arabian blood money, the

Zach Dermer 36:51
competition’s okay, but they

Nestor Aparicio 36:52
really knew where they were going with rich people around the world, the kinds of people that would want to overthrow governments, the kind of people that Elon Musk and his group would want to associate with, and people, quite frankly, that may have been racist from the beginning, that would be willing to look the other way on all of it, but much like Musk buying Twitter, he didn’t buy it to make it great, he bought it to destroy it, live bulk off to destroy it, there was never any thought that people were going to download their app and watch eight golfers that basically took up way too much money to go and play in their own little USFL, right? Like ruin, literally. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 37:33
that whole league is just.. it’s impossible to watch. Yeah, I’m kind of a traditionalist. No one’s watching, no one’s watching it. Yeah, golf. One of the beautiful things about it is, if you don’t play well, you don’t get paid. Obviously, these guys are multi millionaires, and they’re, they’re doing wise

Nestor Aparicio 37:48
men. My Hall of Fame bowler buddy would say the same thing. Yeah, we go every week, we bowl, we bowl for money. No, we don’t bowl well, we don’t make money.

Zach Dermer 37:54
Exactly. I mean, these, we don’t cash

Nestor Aparicio 37:55
a check, as you say, right?

Zach Dermer 37:57
Exactly. And not like any of these. I mean,

Nestor Aparicio 37:59
everybody that loves golf like that, that’s what they say they loved about watching golf, is that unlike this Samuel Bisayo, who’s already paid, or we know, whatever. Yeah, Casper, well, see, I got big league ballplayers here, come on, man, we’ll make room for you, but like unlike that, unlike these ball players get guaranteed contracts, golfers gotta sing for the supper, bowlers sung for their supper. Who else sing for their supper? Tennis players,

Zach Dermer 38:24
yeah, all individual sports.

Nestor Aparicio 38:26
No one sponsorships came out, and yeah, it’s like I got farted in Durham, or the show doesn’t need to be any good. It’s got a sponsor, you know what I mean. I need to worry about that. I’m a good cast for a minute. Well, you wanna take a break?

Zach Dermer 38:36
Sure, I’m good. What you tell me, we’re

Nestor Aparicio 38:40
gonna turn to baseball, because we haven’t done that yet.

Zach Dermer 38:42
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 38:42
but you finish your thought, and then I’ll take a break.

Zach Dermer 38:44
Yeah, no, I mean, just, yeah, the whole thing with golf and FIFA. I mean, just, you know, that’s why baseball and football,

Nestor Aparicio 38:51
they’re corrupt, they’re mafia. But I might watch next week, I might, I mean, because I was,

Zach Dermer 38:56
I still see an info, I was so

Nestor Aparicio 38:58
immersed in soccer, right? And I mean, I took months planning 2010 to go to South Africa, and we were gonna go for sure, and I, Budweiser, was gonna get me tickets, face value for those tickets that I got from Bud, they were like a good football game, you know, like if I looked at my ticket prices, I paid for my tickets the first two games I went to, and you know it was a buck and a half or 200 but you know it was like a price, but it wasn’t 30 bucks, but it wasn’t 800 you know, I mean it wasn’t even like 450 it wasn’t even like an expensive McCartney ticket, it was an afterthought to go to Europe, I mean the tickets were I bought two strips, you know, six, you know, there might have been $2,000 worth of tickets, but that didn’t feel outrageous against the Ravens tickets. It was World Cup games, so I didn’t feel bad about

Zach Dermer 39:49
it. Find a value, but this

Nestor Aparicio 39:50
20-$500 messy play. I mean, come on, stop

Zach Dermer 39:53
a little much.

Nestor Aparicio 39:54
All right, we’ll take a break. We’re done with soccer. You can come back now. We’ll do baseball. Casper Wells is here, you. Are the visionary of the year correct? Is that correct? You were no, you run her up, runner up, still a visionary to me. Casper Wells is here from Towson and from Heller Co. It’s he’s here to talk some baseball. We’re pretty mount station. He’s had a crab cake, I’ve had a crab cake. Castro’s gonna get a crab cake. Howard shares coming by from Duck Doctors, he’s getting a crab cake. And Luke, whenever these kids get them wearing him out at the sports broadcasting camp, you know, Luke hasn’t taught kids in a long try to find out, but he is the deacon at his church. I don’t think he teaches kids anymore. He gave that up when I, I had a babysit kids out knowing his mills instead. But Luke will be here doing some baseball, so we’re gonna have a great day. It’s Green Mountain Station. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery, our partners at GBMC. And so comfortable he’s on the set here in Hampstead, the comfort guy, Zach Dermer’s here. You can find them at 410 36777 And we’re back for more at Green Mount Station. We talked to Big League Ball with Casper and Zach right after this. Stay with