When it’s time to interpret law and order and coming to Essex, we turned to former Delegate Todd Schuler of Blondell Miller Schuler to educate us on branches of government and Executive power as we learned in social studies. A Maryland Crab Cake Tour democracy discussion about checks and balances and the consequences of elections.
Nestor Aparicio and Todd Schuler discuss various topics, including local community issues, politics, and personal anecdotes. Schuler, a practicing attorney, talks about his law firm’s focus on injury law and its role in supporting the Essex community. They touch on the impact of federal cuts and the current political climate, expressing concerns about executive orders and the state of democracy. Schuler emphasizes the importance of legal challenges in upholding democratic values. They also discuss personal experiences, such as jury duty and the impact of social media on public opinion. The conversation concludes with a focus on local businesses and community events.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Executive Orders, three branches of government, democracy, Baltimore, Maryland lottery, Calvert Hall, Loyola, Essex, federal cuts, Trump, legal challenges, insurance companies, auto accidents, Orioles, Ravens.
SPEAKERS
Speaker 1, Nestor Aparicio, Todd Schuler
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 Taos in Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. Nothing more positive than being here in the friendly heart of Essex, Maryland, or, as my mom would say, Essex. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. We have the magic eight ball, and I’m scratching my ear. French fries and gravy for 100 maybe some catch up on the table as well. We will be back at doing this, the crab cake tour at faintly and Lexington market on the second of April. That is, day two of the Orioles Lucas and I are going to be in Toronto all week, having fun, freezing, chasing down. Getty Lee, I’ve sent emails, I’ve watched videos. I am ready for you Getty Lee, if you come get me, but I’m ready for the baseball season. This guy’s ready for baseball season, horse racing season, perhaps the fall of democracy. We’re gonna figure it all out. He is a practicing attorney. Don’t let that hold him against you, because he’s never lied to me. He is at Blondel Miller and Schuler. He is Todd Schuler, our defending champion and delegate. I don’t know why I called you a councilman. I know better than this. How are you and how’s life, and what’s with the hall thing you reppin today, freshman account. I got a
Todd Schuler 01:12
freshman at COVID Hall and a sixth grader at Maryvale, so I spent a lot of my time. You were Hall
Nestor Aparicio 01:17
guy, though, right? I was 95 right? Yeah. I mean, you’re the third pair. Excuse me, Calvert Hall, person I’ve talked to this morning. Y’all kind of stick together like the curly goons and the Loyola guys. I mean, I’m a lone Dundalk guy over here,
Todd Schuler 01:32
Loyola. Now that’s that’s not because you’re an elite institution. Yeah, those are just Calvert Hall, absolutely. Well,
Nestor Aparicio 01:39
I don’t know. Maybe they didn’t want to drive to Towson. Maybe that was my issue. You know, when I was a kid, I grew up in Colgate, East Point mall, and I’ve told people this because we’re right by Mount Carmel. My parents were married at Mount Carmel in 1945 in the church. They lived 50 feet behind here in Mars estates, war time, not 4546 47 they got married, and then they moved to Taylor Avenue, and then they moved to Colgate. 1953, and they’ve been there like forever and ever and ever. But like the whole I had a chance to go to my parents were like, we want to send you to curly or Mount Carmel. I’m like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Curly didn’t have girls like that. Start with that. Calvin Hall didn’t have girls. Now, you know, your partner spent a minute or two at Loyola. Think he went to where that days. I remember showing up in ninth grade. I remember, like, what happened to Mark Miller? Oh, he went to Loyola. I’m like, Yeah, you’ll be back next week Exactly. Ain’t no way he’s getting on a going out to Towson every day when you’re from Dundalk.
Todd Schuler 02:47
He hated it rocket at Dundalk and a fine UMBC basketball player, and now he’s practicing law with
Nestor Aparicio 02:55
me. It was a fine, fine Dundalk street legend Mark Miller is my lifelong friend, and you’re his partner, and tell everybody about your practice a little bit, because people drive by and they see the fancy new schmancy offices on Eastern Avenue, very close to the Taco Bell and the Burger King, where I once stole the I didn’t steal it. They gave it to me. They threw it away, but I had a Burger King booth in my house and in Highland that came from the Burger King, five feet from Europe. That’s awesome. Essex, I’ve been meeting the pizza John’s forever, but I’ve been passing Blondel law all of my life, literally,
Todd Schuler 03:26
right? I’ve been there all of our lives in one form or another. Bill Blondell started the practice in the 70s, 60s, and he’s only done, we’ve only done injury law there. That’s workers compensation, car crashes. It’s construction accidents,
Nestor Aparicio 03:42
a working man’s firm. We are. We’ve
Todd Schuler 03:45
always kind of prided ourselves on that, and we’ve always been right on Eastern Avenue my entire career, and we’re happy to be there. We did do the renovation a couple of years back. And I think if you, if you, if you drive down the boulevard, there’s great things coming. I mean, the way the boulevard looks now compared to where it looked 20 years ago, is just absolutely fantastic.
Nestor Aparicio 04:06
I remember Essex day becoming something that had kind of fallen apart for a while, and then it really becomes incumbent upon business. And, you know, important businesses, you’re elected official trying to piece this together. And we’ll talk about federal cuts and democracy and Trump, and we’re in the middle of Trump Landia. This is a 75% 80% No, not that bad. It’s not that bad. I think in middle. I think as we move further in other areas, it, it is. They didn’t get me yet well, but just there is palpable energy these days, everywhere I go as to who you voted for, or where, where you stand along the lines on all of that, and Essex done dog, you know, these were strongholds for democratic elected officials that you would have a harder time getting elected here at that point. And I will tell Johnny, oh, that because I invited him, and we’re literally. Five feet into his district, his district, quisies Right over there, and I’ve talked to both of them this week, but I have reached out. I had Brian frosh on at length this week discussing these things, because this really is for lawyers. I mean, I don’t know that regular people really understand when this orange goof signs all of this stuff that like what an executive order is and what’s legal and what’s not, and regular people don’t understand any of this, but when Venezuelans are getting deported and being called gangsters, and I’ve been a Venezuela my whole life, and I’m a gangster in love. But I mean, I don’t, I don’t like the tenor of any of this, and I do think, as I said, the Brian frosh, it’s going to be about attorneys stopping this, not the military or the American people at
Todd Schuler 05:47
this point. You know, here we are again. It comes down to the lawyer. I need the lawyers to save our asses, and we need you’re not wrong about it, though. You know, for all of the pickup trucks adorned with the first three words of the Constitution, we the people. There’s, there’s, it’s, it’s unfortunate. It’s a little bit like the Bible, like, if you actually crack it, you’re not going to like what you read in there. And what you read in there is that there’s a separation of powers between three branches of government, right? Check and balances, checks and balances. And you’re going to learn that the guy that occupies the White House can’t just sign folders all day and make law. The Congress makes law. The Congress allocates money
Nestor Aparicio 06:26
or doesn’t, in this case, doesn’t in this case.
Todd Schuler 06:29
But you don’t just get to sit there at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and dictate laws on your own. We fought a war about that. The 17
Nestor Aparicio 06:37
there are no kings in the United States. We wrote a blueprint, but that all that being said, the laws get passed. They are the law of the land. They are have been for all of our lives, said this is what we abide by, until we get gangsters and lawless people. All of these acts are anti American. They are anti law. They are anti democracy. They’re anti we the people, and it’s not about you voted for me. I can do whatever I want. It doesn’t work that way for Wes Moore, it doesn’t work that way for Larry Hogan, it didn’t work that way for Todd shoulder, and it doesn’t work that way for Johnny, it doesn’t work that way for anybody. Imagine,
Todd Schuler 07:17
imagine Joe Biden, six months ago, says to the University of Mississippi, I see a rebel flag hanging from a dorm room, and I’m going to cut off all federal dollars to one particular university until I see that flag come down. They would have marched in the streets, right? That you just can’t do. That’s not democracy. That’s money that’s been allocated from Congress, right? That that’s freedom of speech. There’s a whole lot of things that go into it, and we have a guy pretending that he has the authority to do these things, and the question is, are we scared of him, and we’re just going to comply because of a sort of voluntary obedience, or are we going to take the fight to him? And 99% of entities are going to take the fight. The unions are taking the fight on behalf of the federal workers that are getting summarily laid off despite their contracts right? People are taken to the courts with all of these things, and then some aren’t. Some are voluntarily the Amazon guy. He’s just saying. The
Nestor Aparicio 08:17
amazing part is the campaigning on white power and the more than that, the notion that cutting the federal government, making federal employees the bad guys that they are a part of the problem is, let alone the FBI. But these cabinet positions that have been approved Are you wouldn’t come into pizza John’s and want a guy that’s never made a pizza to be making your pizza right, like literally, or somebody that’s never run a p these are, the Secretary
Todd Schuler 08:49
of Defense could not have held the last Secretary of Defense’s clipboard. He didn’t have enough rank to do it right? That’s the kind of position we’re in right now. The WWF people have cabinet positions. It’s just his little place to dull out these positions and
Nestor Aparicio 09:11
but it feels very unserious. I mean, Todd show leadership, by the way. And listen, it’s not for everybody in but I’m going to be in Canada next week, right? And I had Rick Emmett, the guitar player, you know, I don’t think he’s any bleeding heart liberal or anti American, as he said, he made most of his money in America, but as a Canadian, he’s got to punch me when he’s on the podcast and say, Hey, what are you guys doing down there? Well, yeah, like, like, this isn’t cool. This. You all think it’s funny on Fox News, but it’s not funny, and it’s not funny to the rest of the civilized world. It’s it is alarming and frightening to the man in Germany who saved my wife’s life. It’s alarming and frightening to my friends that live in Sweden and people that I know online that say. We’re over here. He Putin’s going. Putin is not our friend. I mean, I said this to Brian frosh, and you’ll appreciate this. I said, let’s say that Donald Trump poisoned detained Kamala Harris poisoned her, imprisoned her and watched her die in a cell in the next 18 to 24 months? Would that be acceptable? That’s what Putin did the Navalny, right, right? Like, literally, how I
Todd Schuler 10:29
thought you were going? Would he really lose any voters? And the answer is probably not, right.
Nestor Aparicio 10:33
Well, that answer is probably she deserved it, right? That’s what. That’s what. It was important. It was important, right? So, yeah, right. Like to be friend Vladimir Putin. This is what we’re talking about. We’re talking about the worst guy on Earth, literally, literally the worst guy on earth, and to take that position in the Oval Office and then try to intimidate a man who’s had 10s of 1000s of civilians murdered. I don’t know what to say to make this come clean for the people that run around with the five letter word on the back of their pickup. I don’t I don’t know how to impress the seriousness that the rest of the world is taking this that looks like owning the LIBS to people on social media for
Todd Schuler 11:21
80 years after World War Two, America was the city on the hill, Ronald Reagan city on the hill, the beacon of light, right? The Great America, the great democratic experiment. We were and we were advancing American values around the world. And we were making places like Ukraine, which were former Soviet Republicans, were Soviet Republics which were moving toward the west, right? We did that for 80 years. That’s that’s the guys on fought two wars. We fought two wars about
Nestor Aparicio 11:55
more than that, if Korea and Vietnam and Afghanistan Go, Go into all of
Todd Schuler 12:00
that. And the shame is we the signing of the folders is silly, and it’s not law, and it’s not going to last. He obviously is going, he’s not going to voluntarily leave when he loses an election, but he’s going to lose an election, and you know that we’re going to win that. But the damage that he did now to America, because how can you ever really trust us again? Right? Twice, we’ve done this. Now you have it twice. We’ve done it. We’ve failed the open book test. The second time failed the open book test, it was right there. None of what he’s doing. He ran on all of it. The amazing
Nestor Aparicio 12:37
part is 90 million people in this country have a privilege and a right that my mother was not born with in 1919, in this country, that lots of people of color and lots of immigrants and people have fought to have citizenship here, to be represented as the we, in the we, the people right, like my father was One of those people. My family came from Venezuela. I I’m blown away that 90 million people just with all this on the line after COVID, with the seriousness of all of it, with the lies, with the insurrection, with the government, with the shutdown, with everything that’s happened here, that 90 million people just elected to sit it out, that’s that’s the or that that other people have literally been in a cult and been brainwashed to think that this is that hanging out with Putin is good for us somehow.
Todd Schuler 13:27
I don’t discount the fact that Democrats need to tighten the message or whatever else. But don’t unwell having
Nestor Aparicio 13:35
a cadaver run around for four years fine like not Joe Biden was not equipped to run this country, and I can’t even defend it,
Todd Schuler 13:46
but no, I’m with that. But don’t underestimate the the media. And we think of the media, we tend you know, they used to coin the term liberal, liberal media years ago, right? That meant that the network news is were somehow slanted toward the left, and maybe they were and maybe they run. That’s not the media environment we live in. People get their news from Tiktok. People get their news from Facebook. People get their news from social medias and wingnut podcasts. No offense to you know the
Nestor Aparicio 14:17
that’s not what this is. We don’t have any wings here. We’ve got to get pizzas we’re going to have here. The the
Todd Schuler 14:22
media environment is so very strongly, right? And, and I think that’s under reported. I You we talk about what, what could he do to turn people off? People don’t hear it, but people are still hearing about what an evil person Nancy Pelosi is on tick tock. And I worry about my kids. I see these algorithms. They push it up, and it’s driven, and it’s on purpose, and it’s, it’s a serious attempt to undermine democracy from very wealthy people and wealthy $270 million
Nestor Aparicio 14:55
invested in a president and standing in the Oval Office in some black military. Fatigue with his kid telling the President he’s not the president. I mean, like that happened on day five. Man, you know, like the richest
Todd Schuler 15:06
person in the world, is giving Wisconsin voters $100 each to sign a petition in support of a judicial candidate. The richest person in the world just gave the maximum allowable under law to the eight wing nut, uh, representatives that filed articles of impeachment against a judge that ruled against President Trump, the richest person in the world, is basically dangling money out and threatening to primary anybody who stands in the way of that agenda. It’s money. Well, when I talk
Nestor Aparicio 15:37
to, by the way, a Todd show is here where Pete Johnson Essex. All brought to you by the Marilyn. When I talked to Brian frosh about this, I Citizens United is probably the Garden of Eden, of all of this, right? Most definitely not ideology of Newt Gingrich, not Ronald Reagan, not any war, not any economic issue. This is really about buying our country in the way that the Saudis came in and decided to buy golf, correct? Literally, where you like golf, we’re gonna wreck it the same way Twitter. Twitter was one of the mechanisms that, you know, democracy, Syria, Egypt, Musk decided to buy Twitter and throw journalists off in the first week, I was one of those guys to wreck
Todd Schuler 16:24
it, to win this election, to win this election, this election so that your buddy, President Putin, can take over America without firing a shot. That’s what would happen. They took over our country. The Cold War ended. They never stopped fighting, and they never had to fire a shot, and now they’re in the you know, the enemy is behind the walls. Now,
Nestor Aparicio 16:44
Todd shoulders here, we’re gonna get to sports in more important things than democracy, Essex, Essex, in the state of Essex, you are with Blondel Miller Schuler, what do people need to know about auto accidents and specifically Essex, and Essex coming along and as a community, because, you know, I had some folks here to never been to Pizza John’s, and I told him, come by, and Dave shines. Coming from downtown today. You know, Essex is one of those places if you don’t have business here, work here, you wouldn’t necessarily drive through it. Pizza John’s kind of down here, maybe Rocky Point, or wherever you’re going. But this is a, you know, sturdy community down
Todd Schuler 17:21
here. It is a very sturdy community. It has been for quite some time, and that, again, I’m super excited about what’s gone on here and our our renovation was part of it all. But we’ve had talk about the importance of the important role that government can play. We had a chamber of commerce that spurned out an entity called the Essex Development Corporation. Essex Development Corporation connects grant money and county money to things like our sign program. So if you go down Eastern Boulevard now, businesses like The Jerk Chicken Shack have signs, and they were subsidized in part by the county government. So where it looked the neighborhoods to me have always looked great. You know, you get a block off the boulevard either way, you look great. But you come down Eastern Boulevard 20 years ago, and it looks like a ghost town. And when you invest in cameras, there’s a camera program going on now to I think the
Nestor Aparicio 18:12
old businesses used to be their sub Haven, you know, the places that you would just go through when the amp was there back man, I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, and even into the 80s, there was a lot of storefront but I think what happened, and you can speak to this, this is an American thing. Everybody went to the malls, right? Gold, golden, golden ring, White Marsh and East Point mall sort of usurped downtown Dundalk, downtown from
Todd Schuler 18:33
a retail stand, absolutely. But a law firm like mine, you know Jennings, you know transmissions across the street. Places like that are still there. And the places, the smaller places, like the jerk chicken place, that are that are taking up some of the old space, maybe they don’t have the resources that an amp would, or that a Taco Bell did
Nestor Aparicio 18:54
terrace. I mean, you got, you got, sure.
Todd Schuler 18:57
But if you, if you put a pretty looking sign out there. You know, you draw some people in. You draw some people down the boulevard. That person gets in a car crash. He was getting his jerk chicken that he loves because he wrote by the sign one time a year ago. Now, why not go to the law firm
Nestor Aparicio 19:12
chicken place? It’s good spot. It is good spot. It’s Essex man. Everything here is good. What is your go to for pizza? Pizza? John’s. I’ve had pizza with you like today are you take some home to your wife, who’s a Browns fan. We’ll get to that later. Kids, whatever, but, but what is your thing here? Because I know you come here a lot, so you,
Todd Schuler 19:29
you hit the nail on the head. I listened to you with the GBMC guest before and the whatever you do,
Nestor Aparicio 19:37
get pepperoni on it. I’m a deluxe
Todd Schuler 19:39
guy, like, I like, get a little weird, but get the pepperoni. I mean, the pepperoni, that’s the set of pizza John’s. It’s like little you can almost
Nestor Aparicio 19:48
no, no, no, no, no, man, I see. What I do is, I do you take the damn grease, nice, the Roni. Don’t you know, I don’t do that at all. Come on. Do I look that Gucci? I’m from Dundalk. I get the Hawaiian. So I get. The ham and the pineapple. And it was always lacking a little something, that crunch and that salt, you know, I love the ham. And last time I had bread, honestly, he said it was imported ham. I said, Do you import that from Dundalk? He said, Yeah, actually, it does come from Dundalk. So we have imported ham pineapple, but once you put the pepperonis on, and sometimes here, because they make a lot of pizza, I have to say, I want the pepperonis on top. And sometimes they might bury them because they don’t want them to get so when I take the pizza home, I will pull the pepperoni out on top. I put it into my into my, you know, oasterizer, my little toaster, toaster, oaster at 450 and I put that on there, and the crust gets right, and the pepperonis get right, and then I’m, I got mad. That’s, that’s not bad at all. That’s not bad at all. I’m usually at the supreme though. I mean, I like everything on it. I like green pepper, I like mushroom, I like sausage, I like pepperoni, I like the meat. So I like it all.
Todd Schuler 20:54
I’ll get the anchovies. I know that’s a, it’s not a, my mom was an
Nestor Aparicio 20:58
anchovy person. I mean, it’s a. I like anchovies in my dressing and my Caesar whatever. But I don’t, I don’t need a little salty fish on my pizza. You know? I mean, I don’t need that.
Todd Schuler 21:07
I feel you. If the mood hits right, I’m gonna, I’m gonna get the show these Todd
Nestor Aparicio 21:11
shulers Here, if the if you get into an auto accident, it is the worst day of your year, maybe the worst day of your life. In some cases, you need protection. I’ve waited to the end. This is your Stairway to Heaven, because you help people who my next a little screwed up right now, but if I got in a car accident, what is a typical thing that happens if somebody has a car accident? Because, I mean, I guess going back 30 years since television commercials, call us, call us, call us. Here’s our 800 number. We’re from out of town. Do we cheat them? How all that stuff, but you’re different than that, and I’ve pimped for you guys for years, but when you get in an accident, you reach to you and mark, and I know you’re going to talk about Mark. You guys go in for people who can’t defend themselves, who are really getting screwed by insurance companies, screwed by the man.
Todd Schuler 21:58
Well, the insurance companies do not care about you, right? That that’s first and foremost. They want their the business model of insurance is to collect premiums more than they pay out. You know when somebody is hurt, right? And it’s so successful, it’s a casino level, successful business model. They’ve got the algorithms. They know what they need to take in. They know what they’re going to pay out. That’s why you see Aaron Rodgers Hawking for State Farm, because the only way to expand on the business model is to take away from Geico, or have GEICO take away from progressive. Well, everybody needs
Nestor Aparicio 22:32
insurance, right? Everybody needs insurance. And most of us don’t have the insurance. We really
Todd Schuler 22:36
they like the casinos know that you might walk out of there with a hit. We’re going to win. We’re going to win every time. They know that, and if you know that, you’re going to win every time. The only way to make your business better is to take more business from your competitors. And that is your good neighbor, and that’s your good hands, and that’s all of it, piece of the rock. So when you get hurt, you know people, unfortunately, a lot of very tough talking law firms on television, you know, they want to show you what they got and what they drive, and they’re goofy looking dudes, like, it’s all the same thing, right? But those people don’t go to court. Mark and I go to court, you know, we we take in a case with the idea some clients call with the expectation that we’re going to settle the case in a couple of weeks, and they get mad at us for, oh, you know this, I want my money
Nestor Aparicio 23:25
by the end of the month, is what I want. But that’s part of settling, right? If you settle, you get the money now, right? That’s, that’s the deal. My neck hurts, and they’re going to give me 50 grand. That sounds like a lot of money, but then a lot of
Todd Schuler 23:36
money. Let me go to court. Let me go to court and let me take to a judge or a jury, what the value of your injuries are, what the value of your medical bills and your lost wages and your time and everything that has happened to you? Or if you got a dumpy case, call somebody on TV, and how do
Nestor Aparicio 23:55
you know a good case of a bad case, when somebody
Todd Schuler 23:57
comes and he’s really injured, you know, that usually helps, right? You know? Well,
Nestor Aparicio 24:02
you know, I sat on one jury. I’ve told you this story, right? I sat on one jury. Of course, it was during a Pittsburgh ravens playoff week in January. Of course it was snowing, and of course it was the most, one of the most unethical, even before Trump got elected. This was unbelievable how unethical this was. I went in before the all the magic, all the stuff, and they’re supposed to not know you, right? Like, if you’re a lawyer, if I am a juror and you are the lawyer, you would look at me and say, I know Nestor. We have to, we have to, you go
Todd Schuler 24:34
home. At least. I have to disclose it. If the other side says it’s fine, okay? If you know so
Nestor Aparicio 24:41
the lawyer, they picked me quickly. I was on that jury within, I mean, I showed up thinking, like, I’m trying to sit in the back and I’m trying to, like, sure, you know, like you’re like, this a little bit, and I was banged into this jury pool, right? Was it take 1513, whatever the number is, does? And, yeah, we’ll take a couple extra, right? Yeah, so, but it was a car accident in Annapolis. Think GEICO was the I didn’t care. I wasn’t thinking like, checkers and chess. I was thinking like, Alright, I’ve been pulled into this. If I’m this poor woman, what am I doing? And, you know, who am I? And as it turned out, she was just faking it like, and the whole thing was, well, it unraveled when the jurors all went back, and we all looked at each other, and we’re like, now we gave her $1 I mean, we gave her $1 and it was two days of sitting there and fighting for this woman who had taken all these vacations and, you know, and she got tapped in the back. And the poor woman who did it was like this musician woman from Hopkins. She was this educated, erudite woman who just literally tapped the woman in the back of the car. And we saw the pictures and all that. And this woman, three years later, was trying to get, like, $800,000 we gave her $1 I think we gave her like
Todd Schuler 26:03
you did. We gave her a solid that day. You fought for the man and won. You know, like
Nestor Aparicio 26:08
I felt horrible about that, but what do you want me to do? I’ve given you a hard time. But you know what biased I’m on the plane. Scumbag lawyers that were that represented that that they came up to me at the end, and they knew me. They put me on the jury knowing who you were, yeah,
Todd Schuler 26:24
or knowing you personally, or just knowing that you know
Nestor Aparicio 26:26
what they did. This makes them even I would use more foul language if I weren’t Essex in a family establishment here. But these s Oh, they came up to me. They’re like, Yeah, listen to you. 1057, fan, I knew who you are, nasty Nestor, I listen to you on a fan. You still own a fan, and I’m thinking two days i You guys won the case. This is how this is how honorable I am, right? This is how honorable I am. I saw your case and saw it fairly, the way you would want justice to be, but like you guys staged that you didn’t know me to even put me on the jury both
Todd Schuler 27:06
sides. No, no,
Nestor Aparicio 27:08
it was nice.
Todd Schuler 27:09
That’s great. Yeah.
Nestor Aparicio 27:12
So anyway, that was my Well, knowing that’s my experience with democracy sitting on a trail I have one time it had to go with your line of work, literally, your line of work, and it was like a case that should never have gone to court. Should have never wasted two days. In mind, the jurors didn’t give her money because we were pissed off
Todd Schuler 27:28
straight, literally, Nestor, if you see him in your plaintiffs lawyer, give him a strike. He’s ready to get out of there. He’s no I
Nestor Aparicio 27:34
was ready to to be a citizen and be fair about at that point, but like I am you 12 years later, information, a little upset, made
Todd Schuler 27:45
a judgment, which is what democracy asks of you, right?
Nestor Aparicio 27:49
It’s what my audience asks me every day. That’s it. What do you think of me not getting a press credential for the Orioles? What do you think you can get a press credential for the Orioles? I might not have. They may have called me and already tried to intimidate maybe. Let’s just pretend it happened that way. Let’s pretend. Let’s pretend I don’t have a press space. What would what would you say to you and mark as sponsors of w, N, S t, if you’re like, hey dude, they’re giving you a Press page. They’re new owners. Appears dead, right?
Todd Schuler 28:16
Yeah, I don’t know. Are you
Nestor Aparicio 28:17
shocked? You’re not shocked. I’m not
Todd Schuler 28:19
well, I’m not shocked. I mean, the Ravens did to you, right? Yeah, so, you know, but the
Nestor Aparicio 28:25
Ravens did it to be vengeful and awful. The Orioles did it to be vengeful and awful, but he’s dead, right, right? I mean, it would do. I love the Orioles and the Ravens. You love the Orioles and the Ravens. Did I not build all this for the Orioles and the Ravens built all of it. Am I a real media member in your mind as you wear a microphone on my podcast, on my show, on my FCC accredited station, on the only podcast
Speaker 1 28:47
I go on, of course, yes is the only Fuck yes. It invites him on.
Nestor Aparicio 28:53
Todd Schuler is here. He will be throwing crawfish boils on Preakness weekend. I’m gonna be at Las Vegas prequeness weekend with the you’re missing it, with Bill Cole and the goons for the big perlo event out in it. But so I’m skipping Preakness this year. But you skip Preakness a lot of years, but you have turned it into an adult by you celebration. I don’t understand why you don’t get crabs at cost. That’s like a good Baltimorean. But
Todd Schuler 29:21
first of all, I reject the adult. There’s about 10,000 kids in my pool on that day running around. It’s a very family oriented party.
Nestor Aparicio 29:28
Do they even know what a crawfish is? These kids? Or they only see them. They do
Todd Schuler 29:32
now like so when we first I went to law school in New Orleans, and that’s where the crawfish thing came from, we started boiling crawfish on Preakness, because it’s a big it’s cool. It’s like crabs. And dump it on the table, and you stand around the table, and it’s a little less. You got to sit for crabs, right? You got to commit to it a little bit more. Just pop the head off, you fish, you come over, you bang three down, you go back to your conversation, you come back to the table. You know, I’ve seen it’s more like Webster pickup trucks. Yeah, yeah. But, um. It. Now, there are kids that have been coming to my party for their whole lives. It’s only time they get them and they know that, yeah, they know it’s crawfish. It’s like, Yo, boss and sauerkraut on Christmas at my house, yeah, yeah. It’s like that. I mean, it’s like, when you’re offloading them from the truck and ready to dump them, you got, like, a crowd. It’s almost like, when you break out the dog food, you got the dogs coming. There’s people that want those crawfish, you know, like, it’s a good scene. It’s a good part.
Nestor Aparicio 30:20
I’m gonna come one year. It’s not gonna be this year, because I’m not gonna I’m not gonna be local here this year. But sounds like you’re taking my buddy, Bill Cole with you. So your New Orleans thing came back to me eight weeks ago, and I don’t want to bring up, yeah, I got people here wearing old school Raven stuff. I don’t want to break any hearts. I don’t want any blasphemy yelled at Mark Andrews or Justin Tucker about this, but your name came up in January, because I don’t know if you know, the Ravens were pretty good, and we thought they had a chance, right? Definitely. So Buffalo was the, you know, the first destination we, you know, we know how that turned out. And then Kansas City was going to be the next one, right? So Luke and I were gonna do Kansas City, and then it’s like, well, if they win, are we gonna go to the Super Bowl or not? And they were gonna give Luke a credential at the Super Bowl. And I said, Well, if they’re gonna credential you, I’m just gonna get Adam party. You know what? I mean, right, right? So I was like, All right, we’ll go down to New Orleans, like we had a flight on Wednesday to New Orleans, if the Ravens had won. And my wife’s like, are you gonna do anything? And my wife would still say her ass hurts from riding the bus. The last time when anybody asked me, people come up all the time, like, Hey, Jen, we took the bus with you, Dan. And it was my wife’s like, my ass still hurts, you know, it’s 12 years. Well, it was, it was a long ride down, it was a shorter ride back, I think because we won, right, right. You know, fourth and goal, it would have been, Oh, my God, I would have been bad, especially for John Harbaugh, because he’d be coaching. So New Orleans happens, and, you know, I threw a party down there, kind of famous. The Natchez is the big boat, right, right? My buddy
Todd Schuler 31:58
reached out to me.
Nestor Aparicio 32:02
So about January 15, I get a random text from a lovely lady named Deidre, and you can tell your pal, Deidra is one of my I have a crush on Deidre. Deidre was the the person who did my boat 15 years or 12 years ago now, right? And she texts me, and I’m like, Deidre Nolan Natchez, is how her name shows up, right? And she texts me. She’s like, hey, ravens are looking good. You coming back down in New Orleans, we’re gonna do and I’m like, well, they threw me out. Everybody hates me, trust me, you read my mail. Every Raven fan hates me, and because I told the truth, how dare I? And I said, nah, nah. I, you know, I’m not, I’m not gonna throw a party or anything. And then I woke up the next day and I thought, man, they got really good bread pudding on that boat. You know, they have, that’s New Orleans jazz sound, all matches. So the next day, I woke up said to my wife, I’m like, Look the boat. People want me to do a boat down there. And she’s like, Dude, you gotta do the boat. Like, make a little bit of money or whatever, but, like, it would be fun. And she’s like, more Ravens fans love you than you think, and it’s just the idiots that don’t like you. It’s the people that going down to the Super Bowl. You through the event down there. A lot of the same people are gonna go, and they’re gonna want to walk in a you should go down, run the boat and and do it, do a parade again, and then cost anything. We’re all you’re gonna be there. Why don’t you do it? So I wrote the Deidre four in the morning at the I said, You know what? This is like? This is like when Bucha fired Brian Billick, my partner, right? I changed my mind. I changed my mind just like that, you know? I changed my mind. So I wrote her back, and I’m like, I’m in, I’m in. Count me in. I got a flight. I’m going down with Luke. Woo hoo. You know, we’re good. Oh, we’re going to Super Bowl, right? And then we lost. And like your buddy wrote to me and friended me on LinkedIn, your New Orleans pleased that I was coming, so I was all ready to do it again. I won’t let you know that, like I won the next time. I haven’t thought about it eight weeks. I haven’t thought about it since Morgan. No no, my he
Todd Schuler 34:15
my buddy that is involved with Deirdre in some way. I don’t know. He reached out. He’s like, do you know nasty Nestor? And I was like, yeah, they’re nasty Nestor. Is he still alive? Yeah, he’s still doing credential at the Orioles. What the hell?
Nestor Aparicio 34:29
What are you gonna do? I’m not a real media member. So are you bullish on the Orioles? I mean, you’re you’re old, you and your old man, big time Oriole fan. Longer you’ve been a raven fan. All of us have been
Todd Schuler 34:41
right. All of us have been right, of course. And I am bullish, and I like, I like the crappy off season, you know? Like, I know you’re bearish. You know,
Nestor Aparicio 34:51
no, I’m not a no, no, no, you’re this is where you this is the time of year. Mark, fine, if you’re listening. And Katie, if you’re listening, that. Not true. I said this to my wife, I’m like, I have been the voice of reason of this off season to say that guy didn’t want their money out in Arizona. They didn’t, they didn’t waste it on anybody. They bought remnant pitching, because that’s what they can do. And to me, if I own the team, I’d say, You know what? We’ve got all these young guys let them play if we need fortification in July, for the first time in the history of the organization, we have an artillery we can deal from right and for the first time in in the history of the organization, we have all money bags. Who was spoke to the CEO club, who can just fund the $12 million picture, or an $80 million picture that we’re gonna get over three years, or they get another Zach Eflin, that they get another picture with 20 million left for next year, that they have flexibility. They have a lot of flexibility to make a move at the deadline. I believe that, and I believe that they don’t have a track record, but they have the ability. I think it’s a I’m buying into that philosophy. I’m not buying into the fact that I’m not a media member, because you’re all, you’re nuts on that. But I am buying into the philosophy that they shouldn’t have just gone running, throwing money at pictures. I I’m okay with Snell, any of those guys, that we’re gonna be two, $300 million i That worries me, given that kind of money. Way would worry me if I were the owner the
Todd Schuler 36:21
team, they’re gonna rake. I mean, one way or the other, they’re gonna rake, and it’s gonna keep them in a lot of games. If they have the pitching to make it, they’re gonna make it and
Nestor Aparicio 36:28
and if they don’t, they can go buy it or acquire it. And I like
Todd Schuler 36:31
the dump, yes. And if they don’t, they can go buy it or acquire it at the deadline. And I like that the mood is sour now, like let the mood be positive in October and September, right? Like, so
Nestor Aparicio 36:43
you’ll get excited when they start winning some
Todd Schuler 36:45
games. Is what you’re telling they’re gonna get out there. They’re gonna, you know, they’re gonna do what they did, they’re gonna be in contention for the division. They’re gonna be in contention for a wild card. And, like, it’s like the, it’s like the Ravens. I mean, the last two Raven seasons just ended in this, probably the best team in football at least two years ago, maybe that, maybe this past year, and they weren’t the best team in football. The two times they won the Super Bowl, they did, the ball falls, you know, but you got to be, you got to be in position to win the ball falls. Maybe it falls your way. And that’s where the Orioles have been for a couple years, and Snake Bit like the Ravens have been, and that’s where they’re going to be this year, and maybe just we get a little Oriole magic.
Nestor Aparicio 37:24
So when I make the announcement on April 1 that I’m running for the king of royal farms fried chicken,
Todd Schuler 37:32
I don’t think you’re going to have much of a primary.
Nestor Aparicio 37:35
What do you make of the Tucker thing? I
Todd Schuler 37:37
think it’s I. I think it’s a shame, because I, I feel like I knew, and if I knew, they knew, and did you know? Yeah, I mean, you heard things I didn’t hear. I heard something. Somebody posted something on Facebook, like, five years ago, and it was that Justin Tucker had been kicked, asked to leave several massage partners. I never repeated it, because I didn’t have a second source, and I didn’t, you know, what do I know you saw? You know this person that put up. I not only that, when the story broke, I wrote to him and said, or I put on his Facebook, dude, you were right. Greatest prediction five years earlier, and then he put his old post back up. I’m
Nestor Aparicio 38:13
gonna stand up here just to stretch because we’re the end of segment. But I was sitting at that table right there. I was at the second table right over the side by the bathroom on that day. Was a Thursday, about six weeks ago. And much see your Essex man. This is Todd shoulder from Blondell Miller. Sure you’ve been to Pizza John’s before, but I have as the, I don’t know I’m like the emissary here. I’m sort of the ambassador to Peter. Johns. Peter, I have people that have never been here before, right? Jen Marsh is my friend. She lives where shining lives up in butcher Hill, Patterson Park area. And I can’t believe but they got Matthews. They got pizza. Bears Verde, they got place. They go up in Highland town. Rivers. Pizza is long gone, but they don’t find occasion to make it down past blonde l Miller Shuler across, you know, back River Bridge, come down to back river neck road and make her way here. So I invited Jen Marsh. I wanted to get together with her. I love her. She’s a long time editor of city paper. And I said, Jen, I love you. Let’s go get some lunch and hang out, talk some business and talk about life and and I said, you want to go to pizza? I never been to Pizza John’s. I’m like, let’s go. So we come in here, we order a pizza, cheesesteak proper, french fries and gravy. We’re having a good old time. We’re catching up on this and that. And she gets up to go to the bathroom. See, I gotta clean my hands. She gotta get the bathroom. My text goes off. It’s from, you know, Luke. It’s like, right? Just, and I’m like, she came out of the bathroom, and I’m like, Jen, look at this. And she’s, she’s a news person. She’s like, what she runs to that she had the banner app she subscribes to. I got to read the whole thing on her phone. So I learned about Justin Tucker in that booth at 145 in the afternoon, a couple of thirds. Days ago, and I’m looking around in here and nobody know, and I’m thinking to myself, before I got up to leave, I went and peed and I came back and sat down. Tucker had already had his Instagram post up, denying all right, right, before I walk my car was right there before I walked out of here, and we’d already eaten. So within 15 minutes, Tucker had already put his legal counsel to work on all of this. And you asked me when I heard that about this. When I was at that table, I didn’t hear it. Nobody called me. Nobody told me for
Todd Schuler 40:33
Deshaun Watson, before any Deshaun Watson. I had heard the Tucker thing. I filed it away. I heard about Deshaun Watson. I told my browns fan wife. I was like, You know who else? Justin Tucker and but don’t tell anybody, because I only saw it on Brett’s Facebook and blah, blah, blah. And then it sits around for forever and it breaks. And then it was like, holy, Schmack rolls. He was right. He’s
Nestor Aparicio 40:56
not gonna kick here anymore, right? They’re not gonna know that, right? No ring of I mean, there’s zero tolerance, except for signing Ben Cleveland after blowing a double DUI right, like literally, right?
Todd Schuler 41:05
It smacks of poor judgment. They had to know. They had to know. There’s no way my buddy Brett just heard something and put it out. They have
Nestor Aparicio 41:17
a lot of poor judgment out there. So let me tell you, Mr. Legal guy, I’ll give you this one because I’ve told this one out loud a couple times, but I want to tell it again, and I want to be really careful with this, because I could really drop the ball in the end of this, and I’m not going to do that. But I had a player come out to do a show with me at Buffalo Wild Wings in Bel Air, 12 years ago, rev 1213, was in the air. It was in the Flacco era. A player came out, another player came out, and one of the players was so inebriated that I couldn’t air the piece, right? I videoed it. I audio to kids were there getting autographs. The player was beyond hammered. He was so hammered that they were putting water into his drink when he was asking for for vodka, right, right? Okay, that’s how hammered he sure it was. It was an utter embarrassment. I drove home that night and I told Eric the Costa two days later, who I’ve known famously for 30 years, and they told me they’re not all choir boys. Yeah, they’re not all quiet. Bobby Bowden, that. That’s what that level of of accountability that I experienced in Owings Mills, and I’d like to tell you where that player is right now, but he’s not in a good circumstance. I that’s all I would say about that player I would like and that player had a problem, and I identified that player’s drinking problem to their management, their HR team, and instead of intervening within an alcohol aid player, they just let him go play. And I know that that’s the way they handle things, because I I’m a media member. You know what? I mean? Like, I know things that have gone on that building that are horrif. They run an animal house out there. But Roger Goodell is now going to investigate this, which is a punch line. I mean, if they found that Tucker did really horrible, horrible stuff, they would hide it. Not they would they would hide they would bury it. That’s why they’re into bury it. They’re not into investigating. The
Todd Schuler 43:20
narrative on the team is that they’re into high character guys, right? And like you know, you’re building a roster of of quality people who you know. And maybe high, high character means a dedicated work ethic, or whatever else it means. You, you got to expect more, you, you got to expect more than do you hiding this story? You do. I mean, with they’re not all choir boys, if we don’t, if he’s a good kid, yes, and he’s
Nestor Aparicio 43:48
great. When I said to my wife, I said to my wife, she read it all and and I was the one who said he’s done. After this, the first allegation, thought he was done. The second and the third, like all of that, I said he’s done. And I said to my wife, we’re brushing our teeth before bed one night. And I said, you don’t think they’re bringing him back, right? And, you know, my wife said to me, way is a really good kicker. I mean, this is my wife saying,
Todd Schuler 44:12
I feel you. I feel you. You got to demand more. You can’t, you can’t bring him back. It’s disgraceful. It’s and they probably, allegedly, they probably should have cut their losses, at least back to when I heard about it, you know, which might have included the Detroit kick and a couple of good playoff runs. Big problem,
Nestor Aparicio 44:32
and they’ll never find out, and they can’t prove it anyway, right? It pretty much is lawyers. You’re saying they can’t prove
Todd Schuler 44:37
it. It smacks of poor judgment to to not bring your own dirt into light. To me,
Nestor Aparicio 44:47
yeah, they lack integrity. They threw me out. Am I a media member or am I not? You’re a medium. Did I do anything to be thrown out? No,
Todd Schuler 44:55
you’re the man. Okay. Start breaking. You know what?
Nestor Aparicio 44:59
Speaking of media. Up. You call for a real media member, you get a real media member in Essex, he hadn’t shaved in a month. He’s looking look a real wintry I like it. It’s getting that Toronto thing going on. That’s good. I like that. The great Luke Jones is here. You have to go, Yeah, well, you want to talk baseball, football with Luke? You can No, no. Are you gonna tell you would argue with a lawyer today, because I’m done. Todd Schuler, Blondeau Miller shoulder, he’ll never speak to me again, but maybe you invite me for crawfish. How’s Mark doing? To give everybody a case study of something, a case you’ve won, where bad things were going on. What you do for people over there? Because you’re not the Dewey Cheatham and Howard Lee, you represent good local people who have bad stuff happen to them, and you fight these insurance companies to make them pay. That’s all, yeah, there’s not a lot
Todd Schuler 45:47
of like Matlock that goes on. There’s not a lot of aha. This was that. This was that
Nestor Aparicio 45:53
these are murder cases. These are attractive accidents. This is, it’s a
Todd Schuler 45:57
traffic accident, work accidents. People are out of work, and then they rely on a weekly check to come for as long as they’re treating getting back to health. And everything is really fought in the matter of degree, right? What is ultimately the value of your traffic, access? Well,
8Nestor Aparicio 46:11
everybody you fight for has had a lot of trauma, everybody, physical, financial, all of that, right? By the time they get to you and you’re taking people to court, these are people are really getting screwed. Bottom line, right? It
Todd Schuler 46:22
is always a pain in the ass to be hurt in any way. Imagine stubbing your toe, and that sucks for like three weeks, if you ever get the little purple pinky toe right, and it’s a hassle to have to go to medical appointments, right? If you have to go to a checkup, you put it off, and you’re like, Yeah, I’ll do it in six months. I’ll do it in six months. And then you go, and it’s like half your day, and you’re sitting in a waiting room and you got to fill the damn forms out, right? Like, everything sucks. So it’s not just this, I, you know, I broke my arm. It’s everything that goes along with having to have broken your arm, right? And you’re missing work, and work wants to know where the hell you are and when you’re coming back. And
Nestor Aparicio 46:59
my wife, the insurance company Met Life. You scumbags tried to force my wife back to work twice when she was like, literally not in the well, right? Not well enough. And they tried to force her to go back to work,
Todd Schuler 47:15
most definitely. And then that’s a lot of where our fight is. You know what Mark and I are there fighting in the margins, saying No, her treating physician says she needs another eight weeks, you know. And, and then they’re sending you to a doctor. You’re having a doctor review records that says, oh, no, she should have been back eight weeks ago, you know. And, and we’re fighting these fights, and we’re doing them every day, and we’re doing them in court, and we’re not taking any and, you know, we’re not taking the first deal. We’re we’re fighting for people
Nestor Aparicio 47:41
good. I like that. Mike’s. Mark’s been a fighter all his life. Mark Miller has been my lifelong friend. Todd Schuler is his partner at Blondel Miller Schuler, I’m the guy that comes to Pizza John’s, and I don’t get any water. I gotta get some pizza. I’ve been here a couple hours. I’m gonna swallow a lot of aggression. Pizza and cheesesteaks today. We’re pizza John’s. I wanna give you a magic eight ball. Tell me how to find your law firm. Damn good lawyers.
Todd Schuler 48:02
Damn good lawyers.com. 410-687-7878, get good Essex phone number. We’re right here on Eastern Boulevard. Drive on by. Come on in.
Nestor Aparicio 48:10
Anybody gets in an accident, text me and I’ll get you in touch with these people, because you need them. They get they’ll represent you the right way, even though he’s a Calvert Hall guy. You want to
Todd Schuler 48:20
sing the song or anything? Are you good? I If I sing the alma mater, I might break the internet. I sing good. I like that. I know everywhere
Nestor Aparicio 48:27
I need to hits. I’m all about hits and likes. You know that? Right? Click, click, click, click, yeah. Be in the radio business. This might catch me the wrong way. Well, thanks for coming by a pizza to go for Todd Schuler, it’s all brought to my friends at the Maryland lottery. I got more magic eight ball scratch offs. Don’t you worry. I’ll get these out. We’re gonna be at the fade please on the second of April, Luke. It likes me so much lately. See Luke, now that I’ve been thrown out of the media again, he doesn’t have to see me anymore, but he has to come and hang out today, and then we’re gonna be together at fade these on April 2. So if you want to come say hello to Luke, fade these on the second will be there all afternoon. I have a bunch of great guests coming that day. I’m looking forward to that. So second game of the year, Red Sox are in town, and then later on in the month, we’re gonna be Cocos, we’re gonna be Cooper’s. We’re gonna be a Beaumont we’re Cocos on the 30th and over, Costas on the 18th of I see you. You want some Costas crabs? I see what you just did there. I want to go to New Costas. Is that going down that is at Timonium that’s your haunt. That’s going to be your place. That’s my spot, like a norm seat at that place. Costas is taking over Nick’s grandstand grill in the Timonium racetrack grandstand, you’ll be able to easily access that from York Road and I 83 right at Timonium road, right around the corner from our partners at curio. Well, curio wellness of foreign daughter. So everybody central I ever since I moved to Townsend, everybody wants to come to town true. I’m gonna have to give the Costas people a hard time. We’re at Pizza Johnson Essex. Everybody wants to come down here and get their pizza because it’s delicious. Get the pepperoni on it, Luke and I don’t agree on pizza, so I’m gonna let him get his own and I’m gonna get my own. And he can eat anything he wants because he drove down from pencil. Tucky, we’re gonna do some baseball. The great Dave shining of The Washington Post is gonna have his first ever slice of pizza. John’s pizza today. Luke is a veteran. We’re gonna come back continue to do it. We’re pizza. John’s my thanks to my pal Todd, former delegate, not councilman, not senator. Delegate, Shuler, are you always a delegate after a delegate? Does anybody call
Todd Schuler 50:23
you that? Nobody remembers any person that remembers Brian frosh
Nestor Aparicio 50:27
on and I’m like, do I have to call you attorney general or AJ? And he’s like, just calling me Brian. I’m like, Thank God for people like
Todd Schuler 50:33
that. My rule, though, if whatever highest rank you occurred like you were my coach, you’re always coach, right?
Nestor Aparicio 50:40
Boss. Boss. That’s how Springsteen got his name. Hey, boss. Hey dude, yeah, I don’t know what I’m gonna get some pizza. We’re back for more pizza. Johns carrying on. We are W NST AM, 1570 Towson, Baltimore, we never stopped talking democracy, pizza and baseball. You.
