We love our partners and sponsors at Baltimore Positive and we love it more when they love local sports as much as we do. Zach Dermer of Farnen and Dermer and The Comfort Guys joins Nestor to discuss an up-and-down first week of Orioles season and why you need to get spring maintenance so your summer doesn’t get as a hot and bothered as a manager trying to argue with the machine of the new ABS umpiring system. You’ll keep a cooler head.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Follow up with Steve L. Miles to confirm his participation as a guest on the WNST 1570 Towson Baltimore Positive broadcast at Faidley’s next Friday.
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Ensure a supply of working Harlem Globetrotter scratch-off tickets is available at the Faidley’s event next Friday for use during the in-show lottery segment.
Spring Cleaning and Upcoming Events
- Nestor Aparicio discusses the return of the Maryland crab cake tour, with an event scheduled at Faidley’s next Friday.
- Nestor mentions the presence of Luke and Steven L. Miles as guests for the event, noting that it might be Steven’s radio debut.
- Nestor talks about the Maryland State Artistic tickets and the Harlem Globetrotter scratch offs.
- Nestor thanks GBMC and Farnan and Dermer for their sponsorship, highlighting their support for sports coverage.
Opening Day and Baseball Rules
- Zach Dermer and Nestor Aparicio discuss the excitement of the first series of the baseball season.
- Zach shares his regret about missing the opening day with his son, Trey, who loves going to games.
- Nestor talks about the challenges of attending opening day with young children and the changes in baseball rules, such as the strike zone and the pitch clock.
- Nestor expresses his skepticism about the new rules, stating that they have not improved the game in his opinion.
Impact of New Rules on Baseball
- Nestor and Zach discuss the impact of the new rules on the game, including the strike zone and the pitch clock.
- Nestor mentions the pressure on batters and the importance of understanding the new rules.
- Zach talks about the exposure of players and catchers who know the strike zone well.
- Nestor compares the new rules to the shift in baseball, noting the significant changes they bring.
Conflict and Umpires in Baseball
- Nestor and Zach discuss the role of umpires and the impact of the new rules on their job.
- Nestor shares a personal story about his father, who was an umpire, and the challenges of being an umpire.
- Zach mentions that younger umpires might be better at adapting to the new rules.
- Nestor talks about the importance of maintaining the human element in the game despite the new rules.
Comfort Guys and HVAC Services
- Zach Dermer introduces his company, The Comfort Guys, and their services in HVAC.
- Zach emphasizes the importance of preventative maintenance for HVAC systems.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the common issues that arise with HVAC systems, such as dirty filters and critter damage.
- Zach provides tips for maintaining HVAC systems and the benefits of regular maintenance.
Personal Stories and Family Life
- Nestor shares a story about his trip to Machu Picchu and the importance of exposing children to new experiences.
- Zach talks about his family and the challenges of balancing work and family life.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of taking care of HVAC systems to avoid issues during peak seasons.
- Zach provides information on how to contact The Comfort Guys for HVAC services.
Orioles and Ravens Updates
- Nestor and Zach discuss the current state of the Orioles and the positive changes in the team.
- Nestor expresses his excitement about the upcoming baseball season and the potential for a playoff team.
- Zach talks about the performance of players like Toby Mayo and Cutter Anderson.
- Nestor and Zach discuss the recent events involving the Ravens and the offseason challenges.
Future Plans and Final Thoughts
- Nestor and Zach talk about their plans for the upcoming baseball season and the importance of supporting local teams.
- Zach shares his excitement about the return of daily sports coverage and the impact on the community.
- Nestor mentions the importance of staying positive and supporting local businesses.
- Zach provides final thoughts on the importance of preventative maintenance and the benefits of investing in new HVAC systems.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Spring cleaning, Maryland crab cake tour, Baltimore Orioles, baseball rules, strike zone, pitch clock, umpires, HVAC maintenance, air filters, preventative maintenance, Baltimore Ravens, Max Crosby, NFL draft, sports radio.
SPEAKERS
Nestor Aparicio, Zach Dermer
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive it is spring time, and spring cleaning around here. I’m getting the Maryland crab cake tour back out on the road. We’re going to be at faidley’s Next Friday. Giants in town. Luke will be down with us. My, my one of my dear old friends making it might be his radio debut on my show. Steven l Miles is going to be one of my guests next Friday at faidley’s. Steve and I have had many, many meals, many, many conversations. I don’t think we’ve ever had one on the radio. I’m going to see if he’s going to fix that. But that’s next Friday. We’ll have scratch offs in the middle of the lottery. I have a handful of these Harlem Globetrotter scratch offs and still work. We’re also going to get those Maryland State artistic tickets out. We had a great art contest last year. I’m looking forward to that. My thanks to GBMC and our newest sponsor here, sponsoring all of our sports coverage. I’m wearing the gear it is Farnan and Derma. They are the comfort guys about to make me a little bit more comfortable, and chatting some sports radio here, as well as some sprint cleaning. Zach Dermer, second time, not first time won’t be the last time. It’s good to have you back, man. You know, I’ve been calling a couple of weeks. You signed this sponsorship in the worst time ever. It’s the doldrums of winter. Nothing’s going on. Then the Crosby thing happens. Then I go to South America, and now we have balls and strikes we can argue about every night. It’s great. Night. It’s great, huh? Oh, it’s beautiful thing we’re
Zach Dermer 01:25
been waiting for for months now, obviously. And it’s nice to have the first series on under our belts, and nice to get two out of three good opening day. I did not I told my wife I regretted not going. I could have taken Junior. I have a five year old son, Trey, and he loves going to the games.
Nestor Aparicio 01:45
There’s a lot of people there for five year old on that day. Yeah, that was, it’s more of a grown up day for it, for the pickles and 20 Over 21 crowd. But, yeah, I mean, it’s, it’s a tough day to be a kid. I think out there’s not a lot of space, they’re moving around. But I did not go. I was sick on an ass, as you know, I was wanted to go. I don’t regret because I think Ben McDonald, Jim Palmer, I said that I it was wonderful to watch it on TV. But this strike zone thing and this ABS thing, and I know you’re a little younger than me, is I need to shave, get all the silver out of here, but, um, it’s changed the game for whoever is watching baseball. My wife and I are on Sunday. We’re watching the the twins manager get thrown out, arguing about whether the pitcher touches heck quick enough.
Zach Dermer 02:31
And he certainly did, and he did, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 02:34
it’s just a different game. It’s a different strategy on every single pitch, for every hitter, every pitcher and every catcher, than the umpire himself. The umpire’s always calling balls right. He calls it. You’ll think it’s right. Challenge it and get it right. You know, make it right. I um, there have been very few things I can honestly sit here after 35 years of being on the radio and saying they made baseball better. Um, there have not been a lot of things I could say that about this has made baseball a lot better. And very, very quickly. I think, Oh, really
Zach Dermer 03:02
has that? That and the pitch clock, just a couple big implementations, the shift, the shift, the shift, I mean, just, just big differences. But at abs, just one weekend in, and you saw how many big impact decisions it made and changed. In a lot of cases, it’ll be interesting to see. It’s going to expose a lot of the arms. Also expose catchers and, yeah, just guys that know the strike zone better than anybody else. So it’s a but
Nestor Aparicio 03:33
it puts pressure on the batter too, right? I mean, yeah, I think it was a ball. Think of straight was the first pitch in the count. There’s nobody on. It’s a second inning. I’ll suck it up. Stripe one, you know, like, and the ego part of you’re right and I’m wrong. I thought in the beginning, and I’m going to say this in every segment this week. I’ve already said it five times, I think, because I’m so into discussing this, I was texting all my baseball nerd buddies on Sunday. I invited you on the show, and I’m like, I’m gonna have to talk to everybody about this, because if you like baseball at all, there’s no way you can watch this and not say, wow, you know, like it’s, it’s a little bit of a wow, because of how thick it is. For the stakes of it, to not have one in the late innings, as we saw, the twins did not have a challenge ever you get one back in extra innings. But the the notion of, if I’m the guy that does it wrong, and I go back to the dugout, I got to look at my manager and say, we pissed away one of our challenges, and that’s going to be taken away later, not just from us, but from our pitcher too. It’s a lot of pressure.
Zach Dermer 04:37
It’s a bad look. I mean, you gotta, you gotta know what you’re doing. And I guess the guys over, over the course of the season, you’ll see who’s good at it, who’s not good at it, and the managers, I guess, will tell certain guys, hey, go
Nestor Aparicio 04:50
for it. It’s like, it’s like giving the Ricky Henderson The right to steal whatever he wants. But nobody else has that has that
Zach Dermer 04:56
ticket, right? Yeah, I guess so. It’s, it’s. Pretty fascinating.
Nestor Aparicio 05:00
It’s, I can just see, like somebody doing this and going back into dugout and Albernaz. And by the way, I sometimes I need an interpreter for him. I’m not fully understand. I need a translator for Albie. So far, some of the I literally, I rewound one of the press company. I still know what he said. It’s the AI. I have no idea, man, but I thought about this from a conflict standpoint. And look, I hate the fighting in baseball and the chin music and the my nuts are bigger than yours, and let’s dance, and let’s do all that I’ve always hated that I’ve always liked when Earl Weaver went out and showed his ass and ripped the World Book up and dusted off home plate and Luke Pinella through third base into the, you know, Hudson River or whatever. I like all of that, but I think the conflict part of this can’t be taken away. And I thought this would be the end of umpires like for tennis, where the ball hits the line or it doesn’t. That’s the way it’s judged. Now I thought eventually they’re just going to do away with umpires. No way this is this makes it. If they did away with the umpire, they would have to do away with the challenge. They’d be taking something away from the game. Now that they put it in. They can never take the umpires away. Now I and I thought the umpires thought that that was the first thing they were going to do. I promise you, after 72 hours of this sack, they’re never taking the umpires away, because it’s a source of conflict in a game that doesn’t have enough conflict, doesn’t have enough action.
Zach Dermer 06:24
Yeah, no, it’s just another way to entertain it. Yeah, entertain the fans and the viewers. It’s a hybrid. It’s the best of both worlds. It’s yeah, allows the calls to be overturned. That deserves to be overturned. Just a little bit of human element. You don’t want to take the human element away so it just your
Nestor Aparicio 06:45
five year old is never going to know the game the same way. Now, though, right?
Zach Dermer 06:47
No, it’s no, not at all. I mean explaining abs. I mean it’s, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 06:53
Daddy was at a ball or strike, whatever the umpire said it wasn’t. We could fix it. Well, you can’t argue balls and strikes. I told Leonard Raskin earlier, I’m like so you don’t know a lot of stuff about me, but my old man was, was the manager. We had the equipment bag in our shed. We had all the bats and the balls and the gloves and the catcher stuff and all of that. My dad tried to take Teddy Bosch and make him a left handed catcher. He he ordered away from Wilson and Rawlings to get a left handed catching mitt for Ted. Bosch. Ted still follows me on on social media. So I think he does. I think he still does the Trump things divided a lot of us from Colgate and Dundalk. So my dad was an umpire. He had a clicker. I still have my dad’s clicker. I think it’s one of my last possessions that I have of his, but it was his clicker. People don’t even know what the hell a clicker is, my wife doesn’t even know ball strikes left hand was the out underneath, up top, right. So my dad was an umpire, but my dad would get thrown out of two little league games a year, protest challenge. You know, my dad was a hot head, but my dad was also the umpire too. And I’m, you know, and I’m a kid, so I can’t say pop, you know, like, man, like, chill out, because, like, you’re the one calling the balls and strikes for the 910 game next week. You know what I mean. But there is something about being an umpire that would make your personality kind of like being a sports radio guy or out on social media where everybody yells at you, calls your names. That’s part of the job of being an umpire. There definitely has to be a little bit of a a lessening of the ego. In this case, the younger umpires are going to be better at this than older
Zach Dermer 08:28
umpires, I would say. So you got to put your ego to the side, and you’re just there to do your job.
Nestor Aparicio 08:35
So was it ball? Right? The computer knows, you know, Zach darmer’s Here, you have a lot of computers with what you do. You came out here, you have tested this, and do all the science of what you do is the comfort, guys, and heating and air conditioning, which is your primary thing. And we would encourage anybody that needs or thinks you need, because you will need comfort at some point. This is a good time of year to give you a call, right and come out gage things. Say this is getting weak, this is getting strong. So to make sure that when you flip that switch on, it’s going to be 110 by the end of April, I’m sure that first bad day is the day you don’t want to have to call you
Zach Dermer 09:10
no exactly, if you can plan it. And we tell people all the time, do your preventative maintenance. It just saves you so much hassle. You don’t know how many phone calls we get Fourth of July weekend, you know, somebody doesn’t maintain their system. The system craps out. Doing regular maintenance is not going to prevent everything, but it’s, it’s no different than an oil change with your car. It’s going to keep things running as smoothly as it can.
Nestor Aparicio 09:33
What’s a normal thing to save somebody? Like, if they’re saying, Well, you know, having anybody out in a couple, three, four years, sure, and but it’s running. And I don’t want to you know, What’s it cost me to call you and I come, they come out, and they give you the so to keep you away for later. And then, if it does happen, you’re obviously on speed dial. But when, when you come out and see functioning systems and something’s wrong, what’s what’s normally the cause? Or, like, what? What? What can you prevent? What is preventative?
Zach Dermer 10:02
Well, I mean, a lot of times on a spring maintenance, believe it or not, over winter, yeah, the air conditioner sets outside dormant. We have a lot of mice and critters that get into these units. They can eat through a wire, pop a wire, loose, just silly stuff like that. You don’t want to find that out when it’s 100 degrees outside. You’d rather find it out now when it’s 75 degrees, you know, 70 degrees, whatever it may be, yeah. So that’s extremely common. Also, dirty filters. You know, people neglect their air filters.
Nestor Aparicio 10:35
You talking to me? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. I mean, I cannot honestly say, No, I’m not my wife. I told you, she’s Schneider. I know you don’t get that reference one day at a time, Valerie Bertinelli, she married Eddie Van Halen. My wife is very on top of things. My wife is really like a wonderful caretaker to our home. And she is filter minded. She just is, in a very general sense, maybe it’s a male female thing. Maybe it’s because she just thinks that way, and I don’t, she’s an engineer and I’m not, but like, she’s on filters, like, so when anything’s a little weird, she’ll be like, change the filter, because she knows I don’t think. Like, I’m I’m a sports idiot. I’m not, I’m not technical. I need you, yeah, well,
Zach Dermer 11:19
yeah, maybe these air filters. They’re, I mean, the cheapest thing that you can do, do it more often than you think you should, and it’ll prevent a lot of hassle.
Nestor Aparicio 11:27
Don’t make the air a lot better in here, too, with the cat and all that. Right? Oh, 100%
Zach Dermer 11:31
Yeah, that too. And yeah, everybody has allergies. It helps with that. But systems break down. You have a dirty filter. If you get to a certain point, it’ll restrict the airflow completely, where it shuts the system down. You don’t want that, you know, for something that you can avoid. Well, you know, when
Nestor Aparicio 11:47
I was in the in the drugstore the other night listening to us, by the way, right over here, Towson, I was driving over, and I’m sick as a dog, and I wound up getting the man, dude, I got I got Zai cam, I got the Advil cold inside, literally, I picked all this stuff up over and when I was in there, the lady behind me was getting, you know that you have to tell them at the CVS, they bring a key and they come and they let you in behind the Similac and all the cough syrup that I’m getting all lit up on my wife’s drinking the cough syrup right now. So I can’t show you that, but she was getting allergy stuff. She was asking about allergy stuff. And I’m thinking, if somebody says allergies to you, Zach, at the comfort guys, you’re probably saying, change your filter. Man, like, right? Like, I’m thinking about things that could change the air. People are going to take a drug, keep their filter dirty. The air still dirty. They’re taking more drugs instead of doing that. Change the filter, and your air will
Zach Dermer 12:39
be better. It’s pretty simple, but, yeah, it’s out of sight, out of mind. I mean, people don’t, don’t think about even me. Personally, I set reminders in most houses. You should change the filters more than twice a year. I set reminders on my phone for April 1 and October 1. I do it periodically in between as well. But I
Nestor Aparicio 12:58
feel like that’s a pretty you think it’s a three or four month thing. You think it’s more seasonal?
Zach Dermer 13:03
It is. I mean, every house is different, too, with some cats and dogs and
Nestor Aparicio 13:07
three months of running the heat around here in the dead of winter with the cat and the door shut. I mean, I bet our honey, our filters dirty as hell. I bet it is. I mean, I just, I You were here seven, eight weeks ago. I but I would think that we’ve been running it because it’s been coal
Zach Dermer 13:24
exactly, and changing the filter again, more often than not, as often, err on the side of every 30 to 60 days, it’s gonna save some aggravation for you so. And I
Nestor Aparicio 13:35
would think from the allergy perspective, that’s probably, I mean, that’s more common than anything. Zach Dermer is here, there with comfort guys, Farnan and Dermer. I wear the gear Luke wears the gear they sponsor our sports coverage around here. Anything you want to say about on the field? I mean, given Shane Boz the money, I I’ve written some spicy letters to leadership at Baltimore positive but, I mean, I can say this, these guys are spending money, and they’re playing that role in a way that I we ain’t never seen this like this around here before, and for that, I tip my cap and say, You guys are trying in a city where we haven’t seen that in 30 years, and I’m into it and I and the game’s better, and the pitching is good every night, and they have a chance to win, and even they’re gonna kick the ball around. I mean, it is our I mean, I make excuses for that, but I’ll say I’d like this team, but I like this team to be a playoff team and and I like elements of the team right now, aside from the bullpen, that we’re gonna have a real freaking baseball season here this year. And for a guy your age, that doesn’t mean much, but for a guy my age, I’ve had a lot of bad baseball here, dude, yeah, no.
Zach Dermer 14:40
I mean, we all have but no, I think the first weekend again, first three games in the books, Toby Mayo playing defense. I mean, that’s, I think it surprised everybody, that double play that he turned in the first game. Pretty impressive. He’s an athlete. Yeah, he was a basketball player. I believe, right is that? And then convert. Baseball, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 15:00
but they if have thought of him as being a real infielder and told he wasn’t good enough, and now it’s, can you get better at this? Not Can you play left handed? I mean, I he’s gonna make some statement. Cutter Anderson piss me off. I got mad when he threw to the wrong base. I’m like, Come on, man, it’s one thing to make an error of effort. It’s different to make decisions that are bad,
Zach Dermer 15:24
mental error. Yeah, it’s early in the year. I mean, definitely have some rust. But I think pub mayo, that was a nice thing to see.
Nestor Aparicio 15:32
Taylor Ward made a nice play in left field too. Save
Zach Dermer 15:35
the double. He did well. I mean, the the center field, you know, Dylan beavers yesterday.
Nestor Aparicio 15:38
That was, oh, I mean, though, and you’re at playing out of position, playing out of position. I mean, it would be like me working for you guys and trying to figure out air conditioning. I’m not for
Zach Dermer 15:49
that, exactly, but no, but you have a lot of depth. I mean, it’s a nice Blaze Alexander. You throw him in center field some games, potentially. So seems like he can play anywhere. Well, and
Nestor Aparicio 15:59
Jeremiah Jackson, too, yeah. And he’s hitting the ball.
Zach Dermer 16:03
He’s, yeah, he is definitely hitting the ball. So I think a lot of bright spots, you know, Pete had a great, great series, yeah, great. But a couple timely hits, opposite direction, not all home runs. So it’s, you know, Tyler Neil, general soreness. Those so nice shot for a guy who took $155
Nestor Aparicio 16:23
million Pete Alonso has done everything the right way, and he fits the suit. It like the uniform looks right on him. It feels comfortable right away. The fans are comfortable with it. He doesn’t feel like an imported New York guy or whatever. You know, I I applaud everything the Orioles have done except not giving them my press pass and and moving the press box. I wasn’t happy about that, but you know, someday, when I get enough sponsors, we’ll all go to the truest suites together, or probably we will not. Football side for you, it’s been a month since we got together, by the time I got to Luke to talk about the Crosby thing after he had done his podcast, implicating everything I’ve ever written about Eric Decosta and John Harbaugh before that, just the fact that he showed up in the building, and nobody said a low to him, and then they threw him out and
Zach Dermer 17:15
like, it’s a bad look.
Nestor Aparicio 17:17
It is really a bad look.
Zach Dermer 17:18
Yeah, that was a you would think Eric would be there degree him at the airport, wherever they flew him into, which I thought was a little bit odd. What they flew him into, Dulles, or, yeah, somewhere.
Nestor Aparicio 17:29
Well, Eric was busy that weekend, signing players. So, like, I understand that, but Minter had nothing to do, like mentors, just a head coach. He’s head coaching standing i the treatment that he got here should disturb Ravens fans and disturb even more that they’re lying about all of this, all that being said, if they just signed Hendrickson and kept their draft picks and kept their mouth shut and on Friday night, the story never broke, they I would check all the boxes that they kept their draft picks. You know, they got an edge rusher that is going to be good enough for the and they didn’t get in shape, and you see, he’s a good guy. I I don’t feel like they’re a better football team than they were when they lost to the Steelers, but I feel like they’ve, they’ve tripped navigating the offseason in a way that they didn’t have to. And that’s unfortunate.
Zach Dermer 18:21
And that’s it’s definitely ugly, but yeah. Trey Henderson, definitely, if there was a little bit of a gap there, it’s just hard when you we’re going to be thinking what it could have been with Max Crosby, Kyle, Hamilton, roquan, Matt apique, it just well
Nestor Aparicio 18:37
in week eight when Max Crosby’s back beating up quarterbacks again and saying, You shouldn’t have done this to me. Linderbaum is out there now, and they’re going to have the rookie quarterback and Mendoza and all that in Vegas. But for the ravens, keeping the draft picks that if they do well on the 14th pick, and they find a center, an edge, right? I, you know, I’m a corner. I don’t I don’t know what they’re going to do with the pick, but they still have Lamar, they still have Henry, they still have assets. They’re still the best team in Division by far. They did pick up the pass rusher, so the off season is going okay. I mean, it’s going okay from that perspective, and we’ll see how the draft does. But they’ve been in the news for the wrong reasons and and in the wrong ways. And I think that that’s an unfortunate thing. And they’re really blessed that the Orioles are going to matter. The Orioles are going to keep them out of the news. Remember, they used to want the headline when Kevin Byrne got here when you were a baby, they the Ravens wanted to be above Cal Ripken in the newspaper for a little while. Being quiet for them is probably a really good thing. And for a little while, you and I are saying, hey, what day is efflin pitching, and what night we take a train at a ballpark, and when can he run the bases? And it has been a nice thing, because sports went away in bad ways for the last 90 days, just the fact that the heartbeat of it is back. I know you’re a sports guy, it’s. Part of your sponsorship with us is being involved in sports. That sports becomes daily again now, and that’s
Zach Dermer 20:05
really good. Yeah, no, I’m definitely looking forward to the week. Yeah, weekends are great at the yard, but week nights, the 630 games, it’s it’s on the background every single evening. So, I mean, it’s a long season. Don’t tell. I’m going to cost this
Nestor Aparicio 20:16
tonight with one of my best friends, Dan Jablonski, who’s in from Chicago. They got no crabs in Chicago, not north side, South Side. They got good pizza, but they didn’t got no crabs. So I’m going to cost us, and I’m getting off the yoga mat. I got my plan of fitness obligations and all that. And I’m like 630 I don’t think in terms of 635 he’s got a couple years, but I’m like 630 I mean, I’ll be there. 620 I’ll be at the bar. I’ll meet you there. So, and then the games get over at nine o’clock and I can go to bed like an
Zach Dermer 20:44
old man. Yeah. I mean, no doubt about it, if I can stay up till nine, get up at four o’clock.
Nestor Aparicio 20:48
This man, you’re 35 years old. Yeah, in this relationship.
Zach Dermer 20:55
But yeah, you know, between 630 and about eight o’clock, you know, putting down three kids in for bed.
Nestor Aparicio 21:00
Five. Are these kids again? Five,
Zach Dermer 21:02
five and a half, two and a half and four months, and I’m the
Nestor Aparicio 21:06
one with the bags under my eyes and had shaving.
Zach Dermer 21:09
So, I mean, I’ll probably most games, I’ll be about foot inning. So I’m gonna give you a
Nestor Aparicio 21:14
little public service announcement, once these kids get to be big enough. I had, um, I took my train ride up to Machu Picchu. Yeah. I mean, Machu Picchu is really hard to get to. You got to fly into Cusco. It’s 11,000 feet. You then do a two hour either a bus ride or I had a, I had a transportation to take you this little town called Olia Tombo. Then you get on a train, then you’re on the train an hour and a half. And it was the most beautiful train ride ever, ever, ever into the into the hills, raging river, the whole way back woods of Peru, all of that. There were people on my train, and I had this VISTA train, which was a glass ceiling so you could see everything. And there were little kids. People took their little kids to my like, not two and one, but six and eight. There was a couple from Sarasota, Florida, Bradenton, Florida, that I befriended. I ran into them later. They had a six year old boy and an eight year old girl, and they took to me. They were just they liked my hair, and they were into me, and they talked to me and talked to me. And I’m thinking, man, what an experience for these kids. And I talked to him, I said, where else you been? Our parents took us to Costa Rica last year, and the little six year old saying, I’d like to beat you Costa Rica. And I’m thinking, man, to culture young people, if you get the opportunity, go to South America. Zach, you know? Yeah.
Zach Dermer 22:40
Well, my wife, way before I met my wife, she wants Machu Picchu. I don’t know what she thinks about taking the kids, but she went though she did Machu Picchu, I think when she graduated college, all right, 15 years ago, whatever that was,
Nestor Aparicio 22:55
I was told there could be a bunch of young hippies up there, and there really weren’t. It was just a bunch of it was me and a bunch of Asian tourists. It was fun. I’m sure it’s
Zach Dermer 23:03
beautiful trip. So you got to get after, I mean, kids, they’re adaptable, so you take them and do what you got to do.
Nestor Aparicio 23:10
Start notion city. I mean, I’m not, you know, do the thing if you got it, you know, do whatever you got to do. But I’m just saying, don’t be afraid to take the kids to Machu Picchu. They’d be okay. Don’t be wowed by it. Trust me, it’s, it’s Wow. I’ve been in some places that have been Wow. Zach darmer is here. They’re gonna wow you with their comfort. They’re the comfort guys at Farnan and Dermer, if you, I shouldn’t say, if you need HVAC, you that’s one thing, dude. It’s like eyes and ears, and we were all gonna need you or somebody like you, tell everybody what you do and how they can get in touch with you really easily, and you can get out there and give them the service
Zach Dermer 23:46
that they deserve. Yeah, no. So, yeah. Zack Dermer, of course, foreign and Dermer website, AC, baltimore.com, so, AC, baltimore.com, pretty easy. 410, 367777, is our number. Call us, text us anytime. You know, one thing that we really pride ourselves on is the same day service. Aspect of it, being without air conditioner. Being without heat is terrible, and we understand that.
Nestor Aparicio 24:15
I’m better without heat than AC. I get cranky when it gets hot cold. I’ll put a jacket on if you come tomorrow, you know, unless it’s three degrees, you know, I can live at 58 or 62 degrees for a minute or five. I don’t want to live one minute at 98 I know, especially when you’re trying
Zach Dermer 24:33
to sleep at night. Yeah? I mean, sleeping, sleeping in the heat is rough.
Nestor Aparicio 24:36
So I got my first day of Skeeter bite too. Yeah, I got that in Cartagena, I got a radio. It’s like a souvenir. I’m like, Man, once the heat comes the bugs, oh, my God, you this is why you want maintenance now, that’s why I’m beating everybody up here in April Exactly. Say, get on out and make the call. Find him online. Zach’s easy to find you find me. You find him, you find Baltimore positive, and they’ll come out. You got rid of my stink. Cation. I don’t have any stinking going on right now. I’ve stink bugs, but no stinky
Zach Dermer 25:04
we try our best so that no, that’s that’s a good thing. And also for Yeah, for the listeners here, yeah, April, right around the corner, in a couple of days, it’s actually a great time. If you have an old clunker of a system, you get a couple tax dollars back, whatever that may be. Might be a good time to invest in a new, new system. There’s some pretty significant rebates out there, up to $3,000 from beat Genie for certain high efficiency system.
Nestor Aparicio 25:28
So three grand to say that winds up saving you money all the way around. I mean, I I know when I put the new system in, it, it, it, you can hear that it’s not working as hard. And I think you’ve even said, even in the last five or 10 years, come a long way with efficiency and how AI and how all of it works, that I know the energy companies are trying to soak us and crush us and all that, but the people making this stuff are really trying to be efficient with it exactly.
Zach Dermer 25:56
I mean, you’re not going to escape high energy bills. That’s just the way things are now. But if you can lessen that, if you can cut your bills, 30% 40% it all helps. So it’s a yeah, now it’s good time. It’s better than middle of the summer. If you can do it proactively, it makes sense. We also offer interest free financing. Most people don’t put aside a certain amount of money every month. How much? Exactly, exactly. So you know, if you can finance it, still got to pay for it, but it does make it a whole lot easier. So our friends
Nestor Aparicio 26:30
are far in return, will make it easy for you. They’ve made it easy for us to cover sports, follow sports. It’s always good to have Zach on to say hello. And next time we get together a couple weeks from now, first place, it’s all. I just wanted to be, you know, give me some 650, 700 ball here the first month against these dreg teams. And then we’ll, you know, hold your own 500 against the Yankees and the Red Sox and the Blue Jays. And I think we could do something here. So it’s gonna be a great baseball season. I haven’t been able to open this microphone here for much of your lifetime, young man, and say it’s gonna be a great baseball season here. So I am excited about that. Zach Dermer can be found at far in the derma there are the comfort guys. AC Baltimore is the way to find them, and you can always find them out at Baltimore positive. Keep the faith. The NFL draft is around the corner. Zach All right,
Zach Dermer 27:17
yep, yes, sir. Luke gonna go
Nestor Aparicio 27:19
into Pittsburgh. He wants no part of it. One time, we’ve already been to Pittsburgh this year. I’m like, You’re right about that. And by the way, the orals are going to Pittsburgh this weekend too. I am Nestor. We are W NSTA and 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore positive. Stay with us. You.
