Saving those precious videotape memories and making even more digitally

Our pal and longtime video producer Gregg Landry of Towson Transfers returns to discuss using your spring cleaning to save all of those essential memories locked on paper and videotape and old media formats and getting your history modernized right here locally.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Schedule and air previously recorded interviews with Earl Weaver, Brooks Robinson, Joe Mauer, Al Bumbury, Tippy Martinez, and Kiko Garcia on the AM 1570 Baltimore Positive show from Monday through Wednesday before Opening Day.
• [ ] Ask his son about the current state and potential impact of the upcoming sports labor situation during their planned meeting tomorrow.

Gregg Landry’s Introduction and Business Overview

• Nestor Aparicio introduces Gregg Landry, highlighting his long-term association with Orioles baseball and his new location at Towson Transfers.
• Gregg Landry describes his role as a video producer, mentioning his 32 years of experience in the industry.
• Nestor Aparicio jokes about Gregg’s demanding nature as a client during the production of his documentary.
• Gregg explains the new location of Towson Transfers, emphasizing its accessibility and convenience for clients.

Towson Transfers’ Services and Clientele

• Gregg discusses the types of media Towson Transfers can handle, including VHS, cassette tapes, and various film formats.
• Nestor Aparicio shares his personal experience with Gregg, mentioning his wedding video and other media stored in his attic.
• Gregg advises clients to remove old media from attics and other uncontrolled environments to prevent damage from humidity and heat.
• Nestor talks about his collection of negatives and the process of digitizing them using modern technology.

Digitizing and Preserving Media

• Gregg explains the importance of digitizing old media to prevent degradation and loss of memories.
• Nestor shares his experience with AI technology, which helps organize and digitize his extensive collection of media.
• Gregg mentions DIY solutions for digitizing negatives, such as using phone applications and specialized machines.
• Nestor discusses the challenges of organizing and preserving digital media, emphasizing the need for a systematic approach.

Gregg’s Personal Connection to Dan Rodricks and the 1966 World Series

• Gregg shares his personal connection to Dan Rodricks, who was a client of Towson Transfers.
• Nestor recounts his experience attending a performance of “1966 Baltimore” at the BMA, which featured Gregg and his family.
• Gregg explains the significance of the 1966 World Series to his family, as his wife Susan was born during the series.
• Nestor praises the performance and the historical context provided by the show, highlighting its relevance to Baltimore’s history.

Baseball and the Orioles’ 2023 Season

• Nestor and Gregg discuss their excitement for the upcoming Orioles season, predicting a competitive team with high potential.
• Gregg expresses optimism about the roster and the positive vibe surrounding the team.
• Nestor mentions the importance of the bullpen and the need for key players like Grayson Rodriguez and DL Hall to stay healthy.
• They discuss the impact of new ownership and the potential for the team to make significant strides in the 2023 season.

Challenges and Opportunities in Professional Sports

• Nestor and Gregg talk about the challenges faced by professional sports teams, including the ongoing labor disputes in baseball.
• Nestor expresses concern about the potential impact of a work stoppage on the sport and its fans.
• They discuss the historical context of labor disputes in baseball and the broader implications for the industry.
• Gregg shares his perspective on the importance of focusing on the present and the potential for positive change in the future.

Gregg’s Experience with Demanding Clients

• Nestor humorously asks Gregg about his worst client, revealing himself as the most demanding.
• Gregg praises Nestor’s vision and the quality of the final product despite the challenges of working with him.
• They joke about the possibility of Nestor funding future projects and the potential for additional edits.
• Gregg emphasizes the importance of having a clear vision and being willing to make adjustments to achieve the desired outcome.

Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Nestor and Gregg discuss their plans for future projects and the importance of staying connected with their clients.
• Gregg highlights the value of Towson Transfers’ services in preserving and digitizing important memories.
• Nestor shares his excitement for upcoming events and the potential for new collaborations.
• They conclude the conversation with a light-hearted exchange about their shared love for Baltimore and sports.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Towson Transfers, video production, digital media, old media, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, film negatives, Baltimore Orioles, baseball season, Dan Rodricks, 1966 World Series, digital preservation, Maryland lottery, GBMC.

SPEAKERS

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Gregg Landry, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S T am 15 70,000 Baltimore or Baltimore, positive. We are positively in a sort of a Dundalk location, even though we’re at the Hall Perry all my buddy Greg missones daughter Nicole, have invited us out to beautiful missonis And my wife. When she Googled it. I see it’s m, A, S, S o, n, I massonis and no Greg. Greg for about 30 years, since he for me, 35 since he was producing Orioles baseball. They have a beautiful establishment. They’re playing beautiful smooth jazz music. And I’ve got friends here. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. I have some Harlem Globetrotter scratch offs. These two young ladies over here had Purple Rain two and the resig Purple Rain two poster in their house, and they won three bucks, three bucks for the lottery. Our friends at GBMC also put us out on the road far Nan and Dermer, the comfort guys, and they’ve kept me comfortable and oh no man, the might need the AC here pretty soon, I’ve gone short sleeves today. My dude, Greg Landry, is here from tassel transfers. And, of course, Blue Rock, who has done commercials, weddings, free, the birds, Skip, Jack’s blast bandits, my leaving it. What else am I leaving out the big one? What’s the big one, the documentary? Oh, of course, executive producer of all things. No one listens. Everyone hears, right? And no one listens to this show. I mean, I try to tell people that, how are you? What’s going on with the Towson transfers business in the in the commercial space of videography, and what would you call your we call yourself a video

Gregg Landry  01:41

I call myself a video producer. Video Producer. Yeah, videographer. It’s a little hard to different define what that is, but I produce videos. I make videos for a living. So I’ve done celebrating. I’ll be it’ll be 32 years in April, so that’s a long time. We’ve done a lot of productions

Nestor Aparicio  01:55

that west side now on the north side, you get a big liquor store right in front of your place, things you need a little little inspiration there.

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Gregg Landry  02:03

That’s right, we have a new location. I don’t know if I’ve told you about this. We’re in the same building, but we have a new location. So when you used to come to our building, you remember this, you’d have to walk through a bunch of corridors. Get Smart, like, long hallways. I like that, yes. So it was not, not good for my not good for my clients. So you can come right in off of the parking lot now. So yeah, right behind Total Wine on lock Raven Boulevard in the Pelican building. That’s where we are.

Nestor Aparicio  02:25

Bottle of wine. Get some hooch. Pick up your towel. Tell me what tassel transfers is, because, like, he made the biggest mistake in his life. First off, he married one of my first sponsors daughters. So anybody remembers me from the Emerald tavern back in the day, and Harvey and the YMCA and the potty parties. Greg’s wife, Susan is Harvey’s daughter, and Susan has a great baseball story, and I’m gonna allow you to tell that in regard to Dan Rogers, because this is second time I run into you in like, 48 hours, but you called me, like, a couple five years ago, and you’re like, hey, this is Greg’s voice. Is my Greg voice? Okay, here we go. Do you know anyone that might be wanting to do a documentary? Or do? I’m like, No, not me. No, no, I’m busy. I can’t and then about a year later, I’m like, All right, maybe I need to tell my story. And everybody else, I started to tell Greg Mason’s story here a minute ago. Yeah, I’m trying to tell your story attached to transfers in Blue Rock, 35 years of video

Gregg Landry  03:24

production right now. Video Production, yes, indeed.

Nestor Aparicio  03:27

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Like I’m trying to tell my story, and I turned it over to you, and hopefully out there, 36 minutes and 36 seconds later, you will find your lucky number, my lucky number at no one listens, but I called you, and you came through in the clutch for me, and more than that, you provided a service that I didn’t think I knew I needed before I needed it. You know what I mean, right? And I think Towson transfers a little bit like that, too, little Exactly.

Gregg Landry  03:51

No. Thank you. That’s a good setup. Yeah, people have this old media. You have maybe young Nestor is trapped on VHS, or maybe even film, right? No one has more media than me. No one has more cassette tapes right from the 90s, but I mean, the younger version of you, like when you’re growing up and such like that. A lot of people have these old films, slides, had a little

Nestor Aparicio  04:11

tiny reels that’s fit in the little boxes. Yeah, yep, and they’re there. Eight millimeter. Love me as a baby, yeah? Eight millimeter. That’s probably 1969 7071, my uncle had a machine. It shot in color, but silent, yep, silent, right? Because it didn’t have any ability to capture audio. Correct, correct, yeah. And how far we’ve gone with this stamp now, it’s

Gregg Landry  04:34

beautiful, Yeah, crazy. But anyway, people have these things and like, like you or like me, they they’re they’re in the basement or the garage or something. They’re sitting there getting older, maybe getting moldy. So people are coming to terms with that and saying, You know what, I need to do something with these. There’s a lot of national companies out there that you put them in a box and then you send them away. You want to go to Towson, right? A lot of people come to us because they hear those ads, and they say, I don’t want to risk sending out my precious memories out in through the mail. And then they come to us. Some people actually come. With the box, okay? That they ordered and they put him in the box. They’re like, I can’t do it. They come, they find us, Towson transfers,

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Nestor Aparicio  05:06

all right. Well, you could take your big box of tapes or old things, old wedding videos. I have them too. Before I get down to business with you, we talk about sports and life and all that, right? Um, I know it’s a humidity issue. I’ve even been told like CD ROMs that are now getting on 20 years old. Am I been married 23 years when you did our wedding, you handed it to me off a high eight tape, when the tape would be electric, but you handed it to me on a disc, CD ROM. I’m hearing that even those things are a little bit like, not made, maybe for the rest of your life. And I don’t think this, this machine doesn’t have a CD ROM on it, but my, my one before this did right. Where the hell are you playing a CD ROM now where it’s like playing a floppy draw? So there’s all of this old, old media that you need to get put into a digital format, because you ain’t going to find the Betamax that’s right to run your tape. I’ve been to his joint, in addition to having cool things like my Rolling Stones belt buckle and various rock and roll old and baseball, your baseball nerd, but you have all of this old lunch boxes and stuff. But like you have every source media, Betamax, high eight, low eight, ne eight, eight track, cassette, floppy drive, pub, floppy drive, CD, ROM, VHS. What am I leaving out? You just big things. You use a channel to it. If they were biggest, Jamie, Costello, Keith mills and ham meat, they were big ass.

Gregg Landry  06:42

Tapes, actual tapes, yeah. Beta cam, SP, beta cam, professional side of beta, professional beta, yes,

Nestor Aparicio  06:50

look good. Oh, it’s

Gregg Landry  06:53

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beautiful, right? Yes, like, like, Kodachrome, yeah, that was the professional standard for a long time. Yeah? So before that was three quarter inch, oh, man. So we do all those.

Nestor Aparicio  07:06

When people bring you something, this is where my question was. I get all my issue at home. I got most of my cassette tapes like and for those of you listening on AM 1570 you’ll hear a little bit of this week after next for opening day, because I’m not Katie Griggs and Mark fine. Don’t allow people that smell like me to have media access. I’d love to sit and talk to Pete Alonso. I’d love to talk to Shane Boz I’d love to talk to Gunnar Henderson. We were going to get down to Sarah. I don’t have access to put that on the radio anymore, but what I do have are my conversations with Earl Weaver, Brooks Robinson. You know old school Mike Messina, Elrod. I found me and Elrod doing 30 minutes in the dugout 1998 that’s great dad in Fort Lauderdale. So I’m gonna play the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday leading up to opening day, which you have a big party on that with. On that Wednesday, you’re gonna hear Earl Weaver, and I, you’re Brooks Robinson. And i right. So I mean, I have some I have some Joe out to belly, some al bumbury, some tippy Martinez, Kiko Garcia. I have Kiko Garcia. That’s my dude. So I interviewed him. All these were, like the 20th anniversary of the 83 World Series. Now, all of those were somewhere between cassette tape. And then we went with that goofy format, mini disc. Mini discs. You stuffed them in the little thing and they were this big, yep, I have a, we had a generation of that, sure. And I have one little handheld thing that has batteries and it’s blue. I have a deck. I have a deck where I can still stick it in right? Where the hell would I find this up? But the other thing is, like humidity, I know what it would do to a tape. Obviously, we’re talking about CD. But all of this old technology, humidity is the enemy, right, in a general sense, for all of it, right?

Gregg Landry  09:02

Literally, yeah, yeah. A lot of people like you might store it up in your in your attic, and, boy, that’s terrible. You know, the heat in the summer, you can just imagine how hard it gets, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  09:10

and cards, it got wrecked exactly in the attic, yeah. All right, well, is there anything you can do to help people, other than get the ish to me now, before it gets wrecked? Because, I mean, I think that’s the that’s the thing for your industry, as everybody has issued an attic that they need, that they want to have digitized at this point, right?

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Gregg Landry  09:29

First of all, get it out of the attic. It’s probably not a huge assortment. I mean, it might be a box or something. Get get it out of the attic. Get it under your bed or something where it’s a little more climate controlled. That’s the first start. And I keep telling people it’s not going to happen tomorrow. But if you think about it, you have momentum there. And if you don’t do it at that point, you probably put it off six months a year, six years box.

Nestor Aparicio  09:48

Put it in the box, it says, take your call. That’s right. That’s right. Um, last thing on this subject matter for you, because this is this, when I get you one, by the way, Greg Landry’s here. He’s been my friend for a long time. Tacit transfers, a Blue Rock video production and rock and roll fan and baseball fan. So I’ll talk about baseball within a minute. But in addition to all of the media I have that is digital media, I found my parents wedding the gallery of pictures, and they’re, like, glued in, right? Yes. So I had to, like, take this giant white 1965 thing of my wedding, my parents wedding, pull the plastic Johnson off, right, stick it down onto the the scanner, right. And, you know, I cranked it up to, like, a higher resolution. So the picture, I mean, I have these beautiful pictures of my parents, that’s awesome. And but in addition to that, I had a Pentax 110 camera my parents bought me for my birthday in 1980 or 81 I had a little focus on JCPenney, and had a lot of film. I have, I mean it, I have a box of negatives, of picture negatives, the orange ones. Yes, right, like that. That are the I have been told I can buy a little Johnson or rent a little Johnson and stick that thing in there. And boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, I’ll get all of my Van Halen pictures back from the diver down tour, all of my journey pictures back from the escape tour that I took a Steve Perry back in the day, my pictures are Rick Emmett from triumph on stage at the Towson center, and I told him, Because there he was on the show this week. So like, I have all of these pictures. Some of the pictures are, like, nasty little whatever, you know, old Fotomat things. But like, if you have the negative, I’m thinking to myself, I have some old, cloudy pictures of my birthday parties when I was a little boy, eating cake and like all this. But I know I have the negatives, good. So, like, what do I do with, I mean, just being I mean, I have 1000s of negatives.

Gregg Landry  11:52

Yes, all right, so certainly we can do that. But you there’s a lot of DIY solutions where you just, like you were saying, there’s machines where you can run in. They’re not very expensive. You can find them at B and H or, you know, Amazon, obviously. And there’s also applications on your phone that you can use. I don’t, I don’t know the name of it offhand, but make sure the negative, the negative, and turn it into a positive. It’s fantastic. Yeah. So there’s a lot of our solutions, yeah, obviously. And people can, if they’re just trying to troubleshoot something, if they want to do they can still give this call, be happy to try to help people in that way.

Nestor Aparicio  12:25

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All right. Greg Landry is here, did I talk enough about digital? I mean, I’m interested in this because I need a solution. You know, I am the king of having too much media and people saying, Where do you find all these old pictures? I’m like, Yeah, AI and I learned this Dennis O’Donovan was on last week. You could check that out for profit Comm, but my clone has worked with me to digitize every piece of audio, video. I mean, forget the Word documents and like all of that, I watched the new open claw and Claude. Open code, Claude code, yeah. And you can put all this on a desktop, hit it. It will then take every one of the pictures of me and put my name on every one of the pictures of my first cat, and put kitty on it, every one of the pictures of my second cat, and put Nalo on it, every picture of my wife, and put Jen on it. It’ll recognize Jen when she was a blonde, when she was a brunette, when she was bald, when she had curly hair, when she was sick, like it. It’s going to instantly digitize and file and source and know the dates pictures were taken. Like we’re at a different level of technology. So for me to get this chew over the hump, off a sheet of paper, off a piece of cellophane, off of a tape, and then over the hump to the AI side. It’s really going to allow people to, I don’t say everybody wants to document their lives. You got stuck documenting my career, but, but I think everybody has special pictures, and they’re all lost in your phone. They’re not organized. We’ve all taken a million pictures in the modern era. I just took a picture with these ladies over here. Won three bucks in marijuana and and I have just tombs and tombs of that stuff. And I’m like, why did we take all of these freaking pictures when I was in Tahiti, if I’m never gonna look at them again? Right? So there is a point where, like, I feel like, if I live long enough through like, let’s say, This Christmas, I will be able to have digitized almost all of my archival stuff, let alone the nasty Nestor radio crap that I gave you for the video. I love my real life stuff with me, my wife, my family, stuff that I don’t share, but even people out there that have just their their wedding in 1991 that was on a videotape and they haven’t thought to digitize it. I mean, you’re providing a hell of a service, right?

Gregg Landry  14:50

Yeah, yes, so we do, and to the point of you’re talking about people always think that their future self will have more time, or your future self. Have a boring Saturday, rainy day where they’re going to go through and cull all these photos and everything, and it doesn’t happen. So what I try to encourage people to do is, while you’re taking them, you know, be present in the moment, but be more selective with what you take. That way, you won’t have so much backlog to go through in the future. Do your future self a favor. Just take less pictures. Take better pictures, and then you can move on. Well, my

Nestor Aparicio  15:22

AI teacher, Igor, I watched a Yeah, once a month he does a thing, and he was explaining the open code to me, or the claw code to me, or Claude code to me. Sorry, open claw, claw code. Want to confuse anybody. And he, he explained it like every month I have a folder, and I take all of my ish and I dump it, and says, February 26 March 26 February 18, you know. And then you go back and think, all right, so February of 2014 13, excuse me, would have been the New Orleans Super Bowl pictures this month my child was born. Or this month I went somewhere. I went to Hawaii in that month, and that’ll be October 19. I know I was in why that month is where I could find those pictures. When he put the AI in and had it organized the desktop. I can’t he’s like, I always had these folders, and I thought, someday, someday, someday, I’ll go through it. And now some days, like 30 years later, and I own a radio station. It’s crazy. We’re out here at missoney’s. Greg does this professionally to ask and transfers. He’s been my friend a long time. But more than that, your baseball fan. And more than that, I took you and Susan right after we lost Harvey, your father in law, my dear friend, and I did kiss Harvey at the Emerald tavern. Pack and I got the pin, and I did the YMCA and all that. I saw you guys two years ago, and you were my guests as my friend, and you had done my documentary at the BMA for Dan Roderick show Yes, and I snookered you. And you know a couple other people I knew, 50 people. I took a whole table, a whole bunch of people out there with faith leads, of course, and I took you to the show. And then the other day, I went to the Sunday show, because Dan was sold out on Saturday and sold out on Thursday. My dad’s birthday. We were going to go to the dress rehearsal Wednesday, but I wound up going and seeing the REM cover band up in Philly. So we went Sunday afternoon, two o’clock, and I walked in, and I’m gonna give roderick’s a hard time about this. I walked in, I’m the youngest person there by 30 years at a Sunday matinee at the BMA, you know. And I got there, we were the last ones to get there, because my wife and I were Terry, and we were eating a beautiful brunch over to Beaumont and having some eggs benedict. We got there late. We had the last seats up in the corner. My phone goes off and it’s you. Somebody waved at me from across the thing, and I’m like, Hey. How you doing? Hey? And it’s you and you’re there. It was right before curtain went down and the curtain went down and the show started, 1966 Baltimore, Orioles, Brooks, Frank McKeldin, all that, Hersh Goldberg, who I know, and Larry noto, who played the part, who I know. Oh my gosh. So I’ve had dinner with Hersh Goldberg and dinner with Larry noto, so I and Roderick, so nonetheless. And about 10 minutes into it, I’m watching a show, and I’m like, Hold on, I brought Greg to the last one here. So I like, I’m, like, did you come because I took you to the last one? Or, like, what, what sold you in, because you have a special story about your wife in the 66 World Series.

Gregg Landry  18:32

I do, I do a little backstory on Dan Rodricks myself. So Dan Rodricks was a guest on the Kirk McEwen show Baltimore cable access a long time ago, the in the studio at Coppin State University Baltimore, cable access. You know, Wayne’s World, of course, cable access, right? So Tom Petty access, right? Kirk and I had this cable access show, an award winning cable access show, and Dan was a guest on our show. Is fantastic. City TV channel, yeah, and the city TV channel, it was great. So I know I’ve known dance every now and then, if I came across my he remember that? Oh yeah, remember that my city hall, they broadcast in that little room behind city hall this, this was at COP and state at the time. It did move. It did move to City Hall.

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Nestor Aparicio  19:14

But yeah, I shot with Robin March, there. Robin Murphy, okay, she she shot right, not redwood, but whatever, maybe, maybe Fayette, wherever. Yeah, there

Gregg Landry  19:27

and so. And as it turns out, Dan Rodricks was also a client of Towson transfers. He came in to my shop because he had some transfers to do. And we kind of reminisced a little bit. So I’m kind of in tune with

Nestor Aparicio  19:40

him from here, like I always thought you were from here, but you’re right.

Gregg Landry  19:43

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I’m a New England guy, Connecticut guy, aren’t you? Yes, I am, yeah. And you came here to play baseball in the late 80s. Yes, we all wanted

Nestor Aparicio  19:53

to be Brooks back in the day, you know. So you went to the show because you love Dan, period. And you knew Dan when I dragged you two years ago. I didn’t know that. Yes, I did, yep. Give a plug, because, like you and I walked out of the BMA together the other day. It was sort of for I saw John shields, Danny Gertrude, and we did the show there last week. My cousin John shields, we small tomorrow. It’s crazy. Yes, my kid married in his family, so we’re walking out and like we’re you were in a kind of a hurry and picking up family, and I was kind of rolling out Sunday afternoon. I didn’t know that I was having you here today, but we didn’t like talk about it. Like show was incredible. The more I went home and marinated on it, I’m like, dude, Rogers is a genius for being able to put that kind of a show together and do that sort of research to make it really on point. It was. It’s Broadway.

Gregg Landry  20:43

Good point in the acting, everything, everything came together. So yeah, really want to stress Great show. And the backstory on that is that when I first heard the show, hey, 1966 Susan was born on the off day of the 1966 World Series. October 3, fourth, fifth, somewhere in there. October 7, Seventh. I’m 14th. Okay, so windows open at Union Memorial, you could hear the roar of the crowd, you know, and all that kind of stuff. Memorial, yeah, right there.

Nestor Aparicio  21:09

That’s church home. That’s ice comes in church home.

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Gregg Landry  21:13

That’s where, that’s where she was born. And so that’s, you know, put it right in there. And so I thought, you know, bringing her mom and Susan to the to the event, and being able to reminisce. And it was really nice on the ride home, getting her mother, Martha’s perspectives on the time, you know, to see what was how it felt to her at that time, being in Baltimore, right there at that time. So it was just a great conversation. And it was

Nestor Aparicio  21:37

a really city. And grew up in the city. Was she city person around the city more so he did. Grew up in the city then overly Parkville kind of area, right across the, okay, right across the and that was the country then, yes, yes. Emerald tavern was a country house in 19 5860, it really was more than anything. And I haven’t talked to Dan about it. I did send Nick Roderick said text and no offense to anybody else in the cast. I thought it was all great. I thought Nick kind of stole the show. Dan’s son as Brooks Robinson. He’s not even portraying Brooks. My buddy Chris real is this week, and they sort of split that role. But I even text Nick. I’m like to do the aw shucks Brooks Act when everybody in the room either knew Brooks or knew of I mean, I knew Brooks and Brooks love me, and I love Brooks. So I said for you to sell that on a stage, to give the all shucks in the end, it really was, really was good, amazing and, and there’s a Frank Robinson character and as a McKeldin character. But if I were to compliment Dan on anything, and Dan and I got into it at gertrude’s Back at Christmas time, because he sat down, we’re doing the show, and he started talking about Mahoney and Wallace and McKeldin and Republicans and Democrats. And I had so conflated where we are with this clown running the country that I thought Wallison was a Republican, and I like, he’s like, Wallace is Democrat. I’m like, oh my god, I’m so conflated and twisted that that’s the genesis of this. Is the politics and the race and the R and the D and the city and the county and the black and the white and Jewish and and money and power and business. But the way he especially, for the audience who was old enough, and again, I was one of the younger people. I was not. I was born in 68 right? So. But for someone like Martha, if my parents were alive, older people, all the LBJ lines, all the foreshadowing lines, of things that would later happen in our life, like when the mayor says, One day, we’ll clean those docks up and there’ll be a harbor, you know this, those kinds of things really made it Special. I thought, as a Baltimorean, I kind of want to buy 50 more tickets and try. I’m not gonna take you again, but I’m gonna drag 50 friends of mine down there if he does it on Christmas, or does it next spring or whatever. But I think it’s a baseball show that he’s probably gonna do in March a lot, because this is a show that sold out. 10 shows. Was 3000 tickets sold out, and I think most people coming out are like, I gotta grab my kids. I gotta grab a friend. And that’s the way I felt about Dan three years ago. I went to the show the first time around. Maybe you didn’t see it that first year, and then the second year, I grabbed all my friends and said, If you like me, if you like Baltimore, if you think like you want to hear the story of the city told in a unique way, corruption, crime, murder, race, poverty, opportunity, red line, like all of that was baked into the first one, completely baked into this one with the baseball backdrops not long and there was three references to AB. Aparicio, and there were least 15 pictures of Louie. Yes, at least 50. He’s in every picture sliding. And I turned to my wife, and I’m like, you know why that is your photographer? It was where the action was. You could get an action picture for your newspaper of him sliding in the second base in a cloud of dust. And that’s why Martha probably love Louie. You know what? I mean, like, literally, right? So anyway, there’s my 66 thing.

Gregg Landry  25:25

Oh, and the reference that always got a lot of laughs was the new guy, Palmer. He’s probably gonna be pretty good.

Nestor Aparicio  25:31

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Oh, there was a lot of that, right? But that that speaks to Dan’s. It was just, it was funny.

Gregg Landry  25:39

It’s his sensibilities and his humor, and he’s a playwright,

Nestor Aparicio  25:43

yeah, yes, I saw him. Dan roderick’s playwright. I’m gonna have to, I’m gonna get on him about that. Do it because, man, we went fishing. And I told Nick this last week, we went fishing with Dan The first year we did the crab cake tour. So like, four summers ago, we and we caught one little thing. We held it up to the camera, so it looked really big, but I was a little rainbow trousers smaller than my hand. But we went out and we did this fishing, and damn, and we spent the whole day together. And I asked Dan, when he says, I’m working on a play. I’m gonna do a little, you know. And now there’s three deep into this. And I just, you know, I love success. For my friends. It warms my heart. Good. 40 years in Greg Lancers been my friend, not 40 years at least 40 minutes. We’re out here at missoney’s. It’s all brought to you by friends at the Maryland lottery, GBMC, farnandermer and great people like Towson transfers right down the street from LA chiropractic and Dr Steve couldn’t make it out today, but he’s keeping me in line. Alright, so baseball, football, you’re into both. You’re more baseball oriented right now. You wear your orange trousers. Where are you on the Albernaz the offseason, the Alonso, the new ownership. But I’m just trying to sniff out what’s the same, what’s different, what’s new, what’s old. I think the team is going to be competitive. But I thought that. I thought that a year ago, yes, even though I was concerned about the pitching, I feel like you know, they should, they should be competitive. I don’t know what that means. They have a chance to win 100 games more than they have a chance to win 70. To me, I, you know, I think, think they’re 91 team, Greg,

Gregg Landry  27:11

I think you’re, I think you’re right. So the high 80s to low 90s? Yeah, I’m optimistic. Feeling really good about the roster, feeling really good about the vibe I’m getting love, listening to you and Luke go at it. And really, you know, with his insights and understanding

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Nestor Aparicio  27:26

negative Amy, he’s negative, that guy, Luke,

Gregg Landry  27:29

I don’t think so. I think he tells it like it is. Find him to be great. And so, yeah, I’m excited. I am actually excited about tells it like it is. What do I tell it like? Well, you tell it like it is to you.

Nestor Aparicio  27:45

Gary Stein will love that nonetheless. Keep

Gregg Landry  27:48

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going, yeah. So really excited. I mean, when you have Zac Eflin, you know, as somebody in your lineup, and you’re on your rotation who’s not even like a featured guy, I’m excited about that. When you have that kind of talent, I’m excited for him in particular. That’s my guy. Who’s I’m gonna be watching in particular. All right, yeah, I like he throws strikes. I love guys that throw strikes.

Nestor Aparicio  28:08

Well, boss has potential. I thought the Rodriguez trade is curious, and I’m not. Look a year ago. We’re all beating up on Elias at the All Star break. By the end of the year, we got a number one starting left handed pitcher, right? So, I mean time for trades. I mean the Chris Davis, they put them in the oral Hall of Fame now. So time, time changes everything, right? You know, I don’t, you know, I don’t know what to say. I mean, time has made it so, like Brady Anderson didn’t even take steroids at all. So I mean, there really is, let it marinate a little bit. And I think that’s for Alonzo. That’s for Max Crosby, yes, for me, yep, that’s for Jesse Minter and Albernaz. And this is one thing I said to Luke, and I’ve said it on the air many times the last couple months. I don’t know how to judge these new managers, head coaches until, you know, give me, give me. Call me at the All Star break, and I’ll let you know something about Albernaz, right? Yeah? Like, I’m not even gonna judge that April or May, but I need to get holiday back. I need to get Westberg back. I need the bullpen. I need to see the bullpen. Luke and I talked about that at length, because on paper, I’m not impressed.

Gregg Landry  29:16

No, that’s probably the biggest weakness. That’s a

Nestor Aparicio  29:19

hell of a weakness to having a fifth inning every night. Yeah, every night, every night, especially in April and May, because they don’t have anybody taking the ball eight innings. They don’t. I mean, even when they had corporate burns around here. I mean total outlier and how many innings we’re going to get out of Bradish this year, Rogers, both those guys coming off of some shutdown last year. I think for Elias to say about Rodriguez, I’m done. I need production on the team this year. Not unlike Eric to Costa saying I don’t need the 14th pick I need. I need a pass rusher. I need, I don’t need to try to draft a pass rusher with the 14 it is yes. So you know, both of these teams playing in the here and now and. He is. We really only have one team doing that for 30 years here, playing for championships every year. That’s the ravens, the Orioles feel to me, especially with an 18, yeah, you mentioned Bassett. I mean, an 18 and a half million dollar signing in February, the Angelos family didn’t do business like that. So at least for that. I feel like if there’s money that needs to be spent later in the summer, the work stoppage thing is a problem for guys our age, right? Because we’ve been through this. Yes, we have, and there’s, do you know a lot about it? Are you that’s sophisticated on that? Or, you know, you don’t care?

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Gregg Landry  30:34

I’m trying to just keep it in the back of my mind. I’m not trying to, I’m just trying to

Nestor Aparicio  30:38

focus on the strikes have happened and all that. Are you someone that follows the business of the sport, or you check that I find based on clicks alone, when Marty Conway’s on, I think people can fall asleep to it quickly, especially the mass and debate and the money and all that. But it really it’s like falling asleep on politics and saying, Well, where did the money go? Well, you get what you vote for. You get what you accept you you understand a limited amount, and then when they say our payrolls blocked at this or especially on the baseball side, to knowing where the revenue is coming from, this is a 50 Year fight that I’ve had to talk about on the radio. I probably care and know and pay attention to a lot more history than people that just even play rotisserie and love baseball. This is a time, though, where that’s going to come full circle again. Yes, Hey, Daddy, why did they go on strike, you know? And you have to explain. I was 13 when the first strike happened, and at that point, you know, I was anti player at that point, right? It was millionaires. And look, you know that you march the owner side of this. And I’m thinking, anyone that’s a fan of baseball this summer is going to say, well, they need a salary cap. They need a salary cap. They need a salary cap. And the players are going to say, you’re taking the owner’s side because you are. I just want to make sure that people who don’t know enough sort of understand that. But the salary cap, to me, has been the poison for baseball, because it’s the reason it’s dropped. Because Pittsburgh here, how many years have we had a chance? How many years could I have you out here St Patrick’s Day and say we got a chance? Not many to not too many. Not enough, not enough. And that’s I’ve always been they should get a salary cap. But I’m also not a guy that doesn’t want the players to make money. And these people are unscrupulous and nefarious, and in very general sense, these billionaires. It’s been that way forever. So whatever money you know, the Angeles family, they were the big winners. They made 1,000,000,008 and a walk off Grand Slam, and we all got screwed out of 30 years of baseball. And that’s really that. That is the receipt. That’s the way it worked. Everybody that paid money, bought it, spent money, gave Adam Jones, money, gave Raphael Palmer, whatever it was. In the end, they walked off with a ton of money, and we walked off with shitty baseball for a long time because they didn’t invest it in they that’s what massive was supposed to be. It was supposed to be we were going to have that payroll until it was inconvenient. The money went in their pockets. The players know that, and that’s why this is going to be no offense to real war, because we have that going on. But this is going to be an epic struggle. I don’t want to call it, use the W, A, R word fair enough, because, you know, war was a great band in the 70s, played some good music. Greg Landry, Sir, did you have anything that you don’t even think about the labor, just not in your you just care about starting down. I’m asking as if it’s a

Gregg Landry  33:33

fair question. So I’m going to be honest with you, no, it’s not something I’m thinking about, especially right now as the season is about to start. I’m just trying to be excited about what’s happening right here and now, getting excited about what’s going on, but I’m curious. I will be with my son tomorrow, who’s in his late 80s, in his late 20s, and so anyway, I’ll be seeing him tomorrow, and I’ll ask him about it, see if that’s on his radar or not. But I’ll be curious about I think people are

Nestor Aparicio  33:57

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bored by it. I own a business, so I’m interested in business, and I do business with a lot of businesses, and how many meatballs they have to sell here at missones, and how the heat and the insurance and the lights and and the rent and the taxes, taxes, taxes, like employees, like all of that. I did all of that. You’ve done all of that. We’ve all you know anybody that’s been a grown up here, the math on the baseball thing. I’m 35 years into trying to explain this to people. Even before the 94 strike, I was on the air, and I feel like I understood it better, well enough to take phone calls from people. Had one guy called himself Sam Gompers back in 9394 but the history of labor in baseball is just a fascinating fight to the point where they make this much money, they have this much money. How much money the beers cost? How it went from being 1966 and tickets are 50 cents, and Frank’s living in, you know, in Waverly or whatever it was to and Louis to now, where. It. Isaiah likely got $40 million this week. You know what I mean? You know I mean, like, I don’t know where to we’re all paying for it over all of these years. I’ve always tried to explain where it comes from and how the pie works, because fans do wonder, well, the Ravens have the same payrolls the Steelers in the bread and baseball. Why have they never figured that out? And a kid that’s your kid’s age, way past his lifetime, you know, 81 for me, 94 on the radio for me, oh 102, and now 25 more years of Marvin Miller, Don fear, commissioners, stadia, club seats, media. But it only goes in one direction, Pete Alonso, you know, we’re gonna pay for Pete Alonso, we are, yeah, and fans ask about that, and I just hope they don’t shut the sport down, you know, because it’s, it’s important to the city, and I think that that’s where my jam is, is to say the other guy took all the money and siphoned it out. I hope the new people can at least make this fun for us. Did we go down to a game like we did two years ago? And Raz Juan Soto from the on deck?

Gregg Landry  36:04

So let’s do it. Let’s go to Lexington market and families and the families and two beers game.

Nestor Aparicio  36:09

Yeah. All right. What’s got you most excited about the or else this year?

Gregg Landry  36:13

I just think, you know, Peter Lonzo in the lineup, and that the legitimate bat, and how he’s gonna make everyone else better by, you know, by him just being there. And I just think a rebound season for a lot of these guys, I think I’m there. They’re due to come back to form and and make it happen. Richmond’s a One, one rotchman. I’m still, I’m still open

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Nestor Aparicio  36:34

minded thing about this, that there’s so much potential if the cows are rushmans Holidays westburg, because I’m good. I’m in on gunner Henderson. I’m in on Tyler ward for what he is, right? I don’t know that I’m in on Tyler O’Neill. You know, some people around here in on Dylan, beavers, or, you know, whatever, I think a lie is, for all the heat that he’s gotten about decisions. Santander burns a lot of these smell good. The Tyler O’Neill thing, not so much. But the Rogers trade looks good. And I don’t know what you do with the one ones. I mean, with with the rutsman’s and the cows these lottery picks cursed, just play them mayo. Play you got to play him now. So for all of that potential of hitting the ball, hitting the ball, they’re going to strike out a lot, that’s and they’re going to kick the ball around. They’re not a great defensive team, but hitting the ball and having the potential to be down seven to five in the seventh inning and win a game, this team has big fly potential and blue chip potential, as I see it. You know, there’s a lot of blue chip players here that are in various points of their maturation. If it all comes together this summer, you want 105 games for me, I mean, you know, like the stable of pitching, they have all the arms, stay on Boz blooms. That’s not baseball. They’re not all going to bloom. But crying out loud, get holiday in westburg on the field, right? Get them on the field healthy. That’s all I want

Gregg Landry  38:03

to do. Yeah, we’ve got some names that people recognize just outside of our area, you know, people legitimate players that have reputations. And so I think it’s going to come together. I think there’s going to be a lot of excitement, not only locally here, but when we go to Away, away stadiums as well. Greg Landry is here.

Nestor Aparicio  38:18

We’re doing the Maryland crab cake tours presented by the Maryland lottery. I have Harlem Globe. It’s been a really lucky batch. I had a lady waving a $20 bill at me at Costa. She wanted we had $3 winner over here. Told her not spend it all one place. I mean, maybe a smart cup of coffee and Perry Hall or something like that. We’re missoney’s Greg missone He’s been my friend his daughter, Nicole. They do the heritage fair every year, and I go over and I scammed their meatballs at the Heritage fair. So today I told my wife, I’m bringing them home. I’m gonna bring home like a vat of them for after the workout tonight at Planet Fitness. Greg Lang, she’s been my friend for a long time. Tassel transfer is Blue Rock. He is a video production house, not a videographer. And Greg, you wanna tell everybody about the worst client you’ve ever had in your life when you did a documentary from that would be Nestor Aparicio, absolutely. Why hold up this crab cake here at Missoni? So tell everybody about why I was such a terrible client while I’m holding up this delicious crab cake.

Gregg Landry  39:14

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Well, you you were I terrible? Is your word? You were horrible. You were focused pain in the ass. You were everything you were demanding, but end up being a great product because of that you had a lot of you had vision for what you wanted. No surprise there, you’re very vision oriented. You’re very intentional about your life. And that’s how it came out. That’s why it was, it was as good as it was, honestly, lotto, and

Nestor Aparicio  39:38

I like, do 500 million. I can’t win because I’m ineligible but my wife were to win, or somebody I know were to win, and they gave me, like, a million dollars to give to you. And I said, Greg, I’m gonna give you a million dollars. I need to do 10 edits. I need to come back, sit next to you in your suite with coffee. Six. 42 in the morning before the sun comes up. These days, I gave you a million dollars. Would you let me come in and make 10 edits because you didn’t want me to make any more edits? When I’ve watched it and I haven’t watched it probably six months, there’s, like, not much I would change about it, not much, but there’s just a couple little swipes that, like, when I hit it big, we’re going back and get all that old media and go through it. When I go back and do the Director’s Cut of no one listens every one years, the 50th anniversary, right? When we do that, okay, not the 25th anniversary, just a couple little things, a couple of little things. They’re very subtle. And if you just want to give me 20 more minutes, we would have fixed those 10 edits.

Gregg Landry  40:41

I’ll pray about it, and we’ll come to terms. We’ll have it’ll happen. It’ll happen.

Nestor Aparicio  40:46

I am such a nuisance to the people I work with because I am demanding. You know, I’m reading Getty Lee’s book right now, and every fifth page he literally talks about what a perfectionist he is, and he called himself Mr. Bossy Pants. You know, he has nicknames for himself about how demanding he is, like some of the times he’s so demanding, he even puts down in the footnote like I was just a prick, because I heard it this way, and that foot pedal had to win that indeed and it, and this is a musician, right? You would never, ever want to make another documentary with me. I know you wouldn’t, and that’s why I like, even if I had an idea to make a documentary, I would be like, Craig doesn’t want to hear from now. And I think I could farm it out to AI or something, but I couldn’t. I’m particular. Yeah, no, so I’m particular, so I’m going to disagree with you. I’m going to be agreeable and to disagree. So hey, I would work with you again. Absolutely. Can I come over make those 10 edits right now? Well, again, I’m praying on I’ll give you crap cake. So Greg Landry is here. He will, I promise you will be a better client for him at TAS transfers than I was. He does great work. If you have anything out there, old celluloid film, VHS, cassette, the pub, he can take care of that, especially if it’s really important, get it over before it gets wrecked. Indeed. Task transfers, just calm. Phone, Towson trend, yeah.

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Gregg Landry  42:13

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Nestor Aparicio  42:20

the good Councilman has just entered the building here. We’re out here in beautiful Perry Hall. Councilman David Marx is going to be here next. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. GBM, don’t touch my crab cake. Councilman, hold on here. You haven’t lunch yet. You can have a little asparagus if you want. We’re back for more. We’re Baltimore positive. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking crab cakes politics. Towson transfers and Maryland lottery tickets. Stay with us. You.