Our diamond in the desert J.T. The Brick returns from Las Vegas with some afterthoughts on Maxx Crosby deal and Golden Knights success as Nestor reaches back across the division to re-assess the divisive words in the aftermath of a debacle of a free agency, injury debate with Eric DeCosta and the Baltimore Ravens backing out of a deal with the Raiders under dubious circumstances.

Nestor Aparicio and J.T. The Brick discuss the Baltimore Ravens’ controversial handling of Maxx Crosby, who was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers after failing a physical despite having surgery. They also touch on the Golden Knights’ success in the Stanley Cup finals and the growth of professional sports in Las Vegas. J.T. highlights the Raiders’ recent acquisitions, including Tyler Linderbaum and Maxx Crosby, and expresses optimism about the team’s future. Additionally, they talk about the upcoming Rush tour and their excitement for the concerts, with Nestor planning to attend the first show in Los Angeles.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Sorrento on the 10th and bring Maryland Treasures scratch-offs and gift cards to give away at the event
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend Rush opening-night show in Los Angeles (Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reunion) and report back on the performance/experience
• [ ] Attend a World Cup match with his son (tickets secured for either June 28 or July 2) as planned
• [ ] Hold existing Rush tour tickets for Dallas and San Jose and pursue purchasing additional Rush tour tickets (consider other cities)

Outline

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Vegas Trip

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, sponsored by the Maryland Lottery, GBMC, Farnin, and Dermer.
• Nestor shares his experience in Las Vegas, mentioning the Maryland party and meeting Shannon Sharpe and Rob Woodson.
• J.T. The Brick talks about the Rush tour and the Max Crosby deal, expressing excitement about the Knicks’ run.
• Nestor and J.T. discuss the Knicks’ 53-year drought and the Golden Knights’ success in the Stanley Cup finals.

Golden Knights’ Success and Vegas Sports Scene

• Nestor recounts his experiences watching the Stanley Cup in Vegas, mentioning Dallas Stars and Alex Ovechkin.
• J.T. highlights the growth of professional sports in Vegas, including the baseball stadium and recent multi-billion dollar deals.
• Nestor and J.T. discuss the impact of major sports events and concerts on Vegas, mentioning the Bills Mafia and other events.
• J.T. shares insights on the Raiders’ ownership changes and the global multi-billion dollar deals happening in Vegas.

Max Crosby Deal and Raiders’ Strategy

• Nestor and J.T. delve into the Max Crosby deal, discussing the Ravens’ decision to pass on him and the subsequent trade to the Steelers.
• J.T. criticizes the Ravens’ handling of Crosby, including the physical and the commercial flight.
• Nestor expresses frustration with the Ravens’ lack of integrity and the impact on their future.
• J.T. speculates on the Ravens’ strategy, suggesting they overpaid Tyler Linderbaum and had cold feet about the Crosby deal.

Raiders’ Core Four and Future Prospects

• J.T. discusses the Raiders’ core four: Mendoza, Linderbaum, Bowers, and Genty, and their potential to lead the team.
• Nestor and J.T. compare the Ravens’ and Raiders’ strategies, emphasizing the importance of center in football.
• J.T. highlights the Raiders’ recent acquisitions and the potential for success with their new players.
• Nestor and J.T. discuss the future of the Raiders and the Ravens, with J.T. expressing optimism about the Raiders’ prospects.

Rush Tour and Personal Excitement

• Nestor shares his excitement about the Rush tour, mentioning his plans to attend the first show in LA.
• J.T. talks about his own plans to attend Rush shows in Dallas and San Jose, expressing his love for the band.
• Nestor and J.T. discuss the unique experience of seeing a new drummer replace Neil Peart and the excitement of opening night shows.
• J.T. shares his plans to attend a World Cup game with his son and his anticipation for the Raiders’ preseason.

Final Thoughts and Future Plans

• Nestor and J.T. discuss their future plans, including attending more Rush shows and the World Cup.
• J.T. expresses his excitement about the Raiders’ preseason and the upcoming season.
• Nestor and J.T. reminisce about their past experiences and the impact of sports and music on their lives.
• Nestor concludes the conversation, expressing his love for Baltimore and his excitement for the future.

Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson Baltimore. We’re Baltimore positive, positive to get you out on the road. We’re doing the Maryland Crab Cake Tour on the 10th, that is next week. We’ll be at Sorrento, first time in Arbutus. I’ve seen the crab cake, it looks beautiful. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lottery. I’ll have the Maryland Treasures gift, excuse me, scratch-offs to give away. I’m gonna have some gift cards too. GBMC sends us out on the road, as well as Farnin and Dermer. I was in this guy’s town a couple weeks ago. I may be returning sooner than he thinks. Las Vegas, Nevada, pulled me in on the Maryland party. This guy’s actually the. he breaks news like Mick Jagger getting COVID in Amsterdam. Then he tells me, “Hey, Shannon Sharpe and Rob Woodson are going to be at your party. Damn it, they weren’t. And I hung out with those guys at the Maryland party at the Encore win with my pal Howard Perlo and Bill Cole and Cole Roofing. JT the brick has been tossing bricks and sometimes soft lobs. The Rush tour, he says to me, What are we talking about? Well, I haven’t talked to you since Max Crosby. Let’s start with that. I haven’t talked to you since I went to Vegas. I came in, missed you, saw Rod Woodson, who’s a Raider alum, saw the Raider bar at the front of Circus Circus, saw like I saw everything except you when I was in Vegas, and we have Rush starting the Max Crosby thing, and oh, by the way, you’re in the Stanley Cup finals, and I know you’re a Knicks fan, so I had Bembry on a little while ago talking, because he’s the biggest Knicks fan I know in the whole world, this side of Spike Lee, so like you only got things to talk about, right? I think,

J.T. The Brick 1:37
yeah, I think the Knicks, the Knicks are the most important thing in my life right now, other than my family, because it’s 53 years. So, 53 years of a drought, I don’t care what sport you have, could be the Jets, it could be the Buffalo Bills or Sabers, it could be the Mariners who’ve never won a World Series, or the Padres, and we both like San Diego, but this Knicks run because they’re in the number one media market at the Mecca, where we’ve seen great shows to not have a title since 73 and then, as you know, the Golden Knights in their rookie expansion year, you lose to your caps, we do get a chip and a cup, now we’re back for three Stanley Cups in nine years, as the whole country of Canada is fuming at Vegas now, like they, they’re so jealous that in 10 years Bill Foley’s got us in the cup three times out

Nestor Aparicio 2:30
there, dude. I mean, like, I swear on my life, I was with not my wife, my girlfriend before my wife, but I was out in Vegas watching the Dallas Stars play the Buffalo Sabers at New York, New York, right there at the at the sports bar, right with the piano bar and Gallagher’s, and all that is, and I watched a state, I watched the Stanley Cup get raised by Dallas, and his foot was in a crease, Madonna, everybody knows that has shake, everybody knows it, 30 years later, but like, and then the next time I was there, I had just left, leaving Tony Robbins in a vetchkin with the cup on the ice, walking through New York, New York, and thinking, did that just happen, that did the Stanley Cup just get raised by Alex Ovechkin in the Washington Capitals, and did that just happen in Vegas, and that feels like five minutes ago, and this is the third Stanley Cup back there since then, and I just think to myself, Who knew that it was even going to work in Veg? Who knew the professional sports was going to work in Vegas? Brick, you got there before anything did. You were the first man on the street, right?

J.T. The Brick 3:30
Yeah, I was. I started in my career in 96 at Sports Fan Radio Network Memorial Day. I just finished 30 years on Memorial Day, and I look at Vegas, you know, remember Vegas always had boxing, so Ali, Ali, Holmes, Tyson, Frazier, we always had boxing. Dana White recently did a great job at UFC, UNLV, Larry Johnson, and the running Rebels of 8991 of the great teams ever assembled, but we didn’t have pro sports. Now the baseball stadium’s up. It’s about a third of the way done, maybe a little over a quarter of the way done, right across from where you’re staying, as you told me, like directly eyesight across. It looks like a ton of

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Nestor Aparicio 4:12
toy, dude. I was at the airport. It, it’s smaller than anything in the city. It’s, it’s, it’s wild. Yeah,

J.T. The Brick 4:19
it is wild. They got a lot of space, they’re trying to figure out what they’re going to do for casino retail around it. It’s too big of a footprint for baseball only. They gotta, they gotta figure out what they’re gonna do. There’s a lot happening in Vegas since I saw you, and I know you’re coming out with the MGM on sale. The MGM might be sold to Barry Diller, Caesar’s just was sold, not official yet, but Tillman Fatida, owner of the Golden Nugget, is buying Caesars. We’re talking about 17 to $19 billion deals, and my good friend and boss, Mark Davis, is selling off pieces of the Raiders to guys like Michael Dell and Egon Durbin of Endeavor and Michael Melman, who all. Discovery, there are deals going on in this town, man, and I’m talking global multi billion dollar deals, and sports works. Nestor, all you got to remember here was when you come to sports, keep an open mind, because we’re getting our balls bashed in, because people who say you got too many fans from other teams, that’s what happens. Everybody, the Buffalo Bills are coming this year. The Bills Mafia has got 30 different parties set up on the strip already, and they’re not here till October because they haven’t played here yet. They played during COVID with no fans, so we’re dealing with the shrapnel of everyone saying, well, a lot of people are coming. Yeah, a lot of people are coming to see Bryan Adams, a lot of people are coming to see Bruno Mars, a lot of people are coming to see all these bands, because it’s Vegas, and we’re a free country, and we have a lot of fun there.

Nestor Aparicio 5:46
It’s Vegas, I mean, it really is, dude. You warned me about the wind when I was there. I’ve never seen anything. It was like a wind hurricane the night I was there. It was outrageous. I mean, and more than that, when I was out, there were a bunch of dudes in country hats. I’m like, what’s going on? I don’t know, some Morgan Wallen thing was going on over to Allegiant Stadium. There’s 100,000 country people over here. There were all the EDM freaks, half naked with glitter all over up all night in the windstorm outside out on a speedway, like, and and I’m with a bunch of like Maryland executives at a pool that Steve Wind built, and there’s just so, oh, the no doubt crowd, all the girls in the pink and the skirts, and I mean it’s just many little cities happening where you are, but the Raiders are the biggest sport in the country, or by the way, we have World Cup coming here too, which is a whole thing you and I could go into, and people basing in Vegas and moving all over the place, because Vegas is a little cheap right now, after being a little pricey for a period of time, but the Max Crosby thing, I let’s front and center, that’s really the reason I hit you, I didn’t hit you about any other, well, real reason to hit you was Getty Lee and Alex Life Center this week, but the Max Crosby thing, last time it was you and me, you were kind of shocked, he was good, he’s got the surgery, he’s going to be fine. They’re sending him out. You’re getting draft picks. The Costa’s going to love him. Minter is going to love him. Put him in slot and slay. He’s the best player in the league. That’s the last time I left you. I went to South America. I never called you back. We never did anything. Are the Raiders happy to have him back? I would think they.. oh, yeah,

J.T. The Brick 7:21
yeah, they’re thrilled to have them back, and, but, yeah, I’m not an anti-Baltimore guy, even when Shannon Sharpe took it straight up the middle on a missed coverage by Tony Dorsett’s son,

Nestor Aparicio 7:33
and a really good block by Brandon Stokely, by the way,

J.T. The Brick 7:36
still, still, you got to defend that at the goal line with Trent Dilfer, you got to, you got to defend that, you know, give up a 30 yarder, I’m fine. Lose, lose the AFC Championship game, is may he rest him. Just want to think, I don’t

Nestor Aparicio 7:48
love sports anymore. You bring up a moment that’s one of the great moments of my young life,

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J.T. The Brick 7:54
was it when Sarah Gusa landed on Gannon, which is still to this day one of the dirtiest hits in modern professional football history, everybody would have got thrown out of the game but him. But go back to that, I’ve never been an anti-Baltimore guy. I’ve always loved a lot of history there, and what the Ravens just did to the Raiders and Max Crosby was so bleep and dirty. It was such a sturdy deal, everybody knew Max had surgery, and it wasn’t a big surgery, it wasn’t a cleanup, but it was a regular surge surgery that he was going to be fine on. So, you know, he can’t pass a physical, so what the hell are you bringing him in for? You know, he’s not going to pass the physical, he just had surgery. You’re doing a deal, which I thought was a great deal. The 14th pick overall is fair. The other pick in the first round’s a throwaway pick. Who cares about the 25th 24th 28th pick of the first round? The eighth pick in the second round could be just as good. You had Max Crosby, who instantly would have been the hardest worker in the building, the first guy in last to leave, and they did him dirty as they made him wait in the lobby. They flew him into DC. They didn’t fly in private. He had to fly, you know, he had to fly, not economy, but he flew commercial. And then you make them wait, and then no one comes out to see him in the lobby. It was disgusting what the Ravens did to Max Brosby. You missed out on him because the Miles Garrett deal went down yesterday, and the Rams got him for a first, and a very good player. You had Max Crosby delivered to you perfectly for the next four or five years, and that could be the difference why the Ravens are in the AFC Championship game or not.

Nestor Aparicio 9:34
Rick, I got into it with Luke this week, and I said to him the injury had nothing to do with them ending this, and looks like I can’t believe you’d say that. I’m like, when he got on the plane, when the coach didn’t meet him at the door, the deal was over before he even took the physical. They had changed their mind, and they were playing a lot, literally. Why would they go through all this trouble to fly him in? Because they wanted people like me to take a microphone and bullshit people that they have integrity when I know they don’t have integrity. This was a, I mean, how many hits on your integrity you’re going to take before you just say, like, with Trump, you just like, he’s just a liar. And, like, for me, with the Costa, in this case, seeing Crosby do that podcast and just seeing the look in his eyes, and thinking, like I flew across the country, I was excited to be a part of your team, your family, and from the minute I was there, I just watched that in that chain, like it, I don’t even know what to say, like I don’t know how anybody could see it any other way after seeing it that way, when I know every executive agent that I’ve talked to in the league, I don’t know if it affects the way the Ravens do business moving forward, or whether, but I do know this: a handshake with Eric DeCosta in the Baltimore Ravens is not a deal, it’s a deal’s not a deal with them, and that that’s a really different place to be in sports, because you and I have been at this a long time, I don’t know a lot of dishonor in that way amongst those people with each other, sometimes with us, sometimes out the side door. Never used to really be that way, but there was a lot of honor in sports back in the day that just doesn’t exist anymore.

J.T. The Brick 11:16
Yeah, there’s another theory behind this, and the other theory has a little bit of merit to it is that the writers paid Tyler Linderbaum more so than the market, they exploded the market, like buying a house for 1.2 million, and you spend four for it, but you love the house and you try to rebuild your, your life, and you want the best house, so they got Linder Bomb, and the Ravens were like, “Whoa, we lost Linderbaum, and we could keep our 14th pick goal line. We could find a way to kind of do it differently, and they got cold feet, and they did the Raiders dirty. Hendrickson was

Nestor Aparicio 11:51
available too. Had somebody overwhelmed Hendrickson across the street, Max Rosie be here? I believe that bad leg at all, you know, bad physical and all, because I don’t believe that is eye wash, the physical thing to me. They never didn’t believe Max Crosby wasn’t going to be a good player or a good player for them. That wasn’t even what it was about. It was about them managing their assets and feeling like they didn’t care about their word, literally. Yeah,

J.T. The Brick 12:21
they didn’t, and the way they did, Max Dirty and his wife, Rachel, I am see their foundation, they’re wonderful. I mean, this guy’s going to win the NFL Man of the Year, you know, people that have won that award, and how important that award is. Max is going to get that, he’s been nominated four years in a row for the NFL Man of the Year, he could have got that award with the Raven, a Raven jersey on with the patch that you wear to the end of your career, and they blew it, and I really think it’s going to come back to haunt them, because the writers, I tell you this every year, I always think the writers are improved after they have a bad year, they get a new coach, they get a new GM, they get new players, and it hasn’t worked out, this one’s a little bit different, Max comes back through the door, they get seven new starters in free agency, including Quay Walker, Nicoby Dean. They get a bunch of good guys. On top of that, they get Fernando Mendoza, the pillar and the foundation of the organization going forward. They got Brock Bowers and Ashton Gente, but they got Linderbaum. And I want to spend a moment on this, because you know him better than me, and I need this for my shows. This guy is unbelievable. I’ve gone to OTAs the last couple of days. This guy walks to the podium, it’s like he’s been a Raider for life. We were very fortunate to be able to get him in free agency and now have him the pillar who’s going to be snapping the ball to Mendoza as Gentes behind him and Brock Bowers is in the slot. If the Raiders nest can’t figure this out after that, I mean, they got maxed, they got pretty good players, but now they got, I call the core four. The Yankees had the core four when they were winning dynasties. The Raiders have Mendoza, Linder, bomb, Bowers, and Genty. That’s pretty good, and they’re all under 25 or 26 and that’s gonna, that’s gonna be the core of them going forward, they can’t screw it up now, but back to your Ravens, you made a great point, the Costa’s handshake and word isn’t worth nothing, what he did to the Raiders, and Mark Davis, and John Spike, and Max Crosby will not be forgotten, and we’ll never forget it.

Nestor Aparicio 14:22
JT, the brick is here. He does sports radio in Las Vegas, Nevada, also nationally. Often you catch him on series and other places. You can also follow him online, and of course, always, what are you to the Raiders? I know you’re not the voice of the rate. What are you to the road? What’s what’s the.. what’s your title?

J.T. The Brick 14:41
A lot of people say I’m the voice of Writer Nation. I’m not the voice of the team, even though,

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Nestor Aparicio 14:47
yeah, but you do. So, tons of work around the room.

J.T. The Brick 14:50
I do a lot. I’ve done everything for them. I do the pre and post still for 30 years. I do the coach’s show, which is big. The coach, we’re one of the few teams. There’s only a handful of teams. The NFL with a head coach speaks every week on a TV show. I host that. I host their flagship radio show. I do a podcast for them. So I’ve been fortunate. This is my 29th season coming up, and I’ve done everything for them, and they’ve been really good to me. I would not be talking to you to this day. You know, I won the Smack Off on the Jim Rome show. I started off kind of unique, got syndicated out of the gate. We met 30 years ago at Super Bowls, but what’s been really the big break of my life is working for the Raiders. The first four years I worked for the Raiders, we went to two AFC championship games at a Super Bowl. I thought it was going to be every year, because Al Davis already won three Super Bowls, they were back again with Rod Woodson, Jerry Rice, and Tim Brown. I thought that was going to be the norm, and for the last 20 to 22 years, other than a couple of 500 seasons, one playoff berth with Derek Carr lost in Cincinnati to Joe Burrow on the way to Borough going to the Super Bowl, the Raiders have really struggled, so I’m hoping as I’m on the back nine of my career, but early on the back nine, I got plenty of time left that I catch this Mendoza Allegiant Stadium Brock Bowers wave, because everybody else seems to be able to get to the Super Bowl. Jaden Daniels takes a four win team to the NFC Championship in year two, Drake May goes to the Super Bowl. Bo Nix breaks his ankle. What the hell is Bo Nix even doing in the playoffs? He’s three minutes away from the Super Bowl, so I got to think Mendoza is going to have his day.

Nestor Aparicio 16:33
We’re waiting on Lamar Jackson. Meanwhile, here JT, the brick, joining us here from Las Vegas, Nevada. You know, I guess last thing for you, in the, you know, belief of the Raiders and the Linder Bomb thing. I’m not shocked that somebody went all in on Lindner Bomb. The Ravens, meanwhile, I’m sitting here with a mini camp next week, Luke’s covering. They don’t know who their center is, and it’s not like that’s not important. I saw Joe Flacco fall apart here after Matt Burke left. You know what I mean, like I know the value and the significance of that, and had they signed, let’s say, Alex Mack at the time, how much different things would have been around here in the middle, and I know how much things changed around here the minute Marshall Yonda left having Hall of Fame interior linemen on your offense, it’s different, man, and I’ve seen a couple, John Ogden, you know, being a part of that Matt Park, and all are very good, but like the Raiders went all in on a position that I’ve always felt like, well, if you want your quarterback to do well, you can’t have a, you can’t have a six round center from Delaware, which is what the Ravens tried to do to protect Joe Flacco, and it didn’t work out well.

J.T. The Brick 17:42
Yeah, listen, that’s really a great point you make, because you’ve seen some really great teams in your career there, and I don’t mind the price. The price is unique, because the Raiders had more cap space than any team by a lot, so they had to spend the money. If you’re going to overpay, it’s very rare where you overpay someone two or $3 million a year, you can overpay them three or 4 million, or four in a contract, but to overpay them three or 4 million, and we don’t know if they overpaid it, it could be a great value, but the Raiders basically said, get him off the market, we have to get him, because they knew they were getting Mendoza, as you’re aware of that, they know they had Aston Gente, let me tell you how good they’re getting Mendoza

Nestor Aparicio 18:21
on the cheap in the early going. Yeah, right. Yeah,

J.T. The Brick 18:22
yeah. Let me tell you, how good Ashton Genty was last year, over 50% of the time. Let this thing in, he had really good all-purpose yards, combined yards. He was getting tattooed behind the line of scrimmage, two yards deep, every play, not every other play, he couldn’t get to the line of scrimmage, and Geno Smith was his quarterback, and Geno was not a bad player when he came in, not a bad player, and he’s going to probably play better with the Jets. The Raiders couldn’t block me or you, so they bring in Linderbaum, they got Colt Miller, they got this Jackson Powers Johnson, they drafted another offensive lineman high this year, they’ll, they’ll figure it out now, but Linderbaum is going to be the key. Max coming back is really important, but I think the bigger topic, as you mentioned, Lamar, is this Buffalo’s opening their new stadium this year. Lamar hasn’t won a Super Bowl, but Josh Allen hasn’t won a Super Bowl. You have two of the all-time greats, not of this era, of any era, they’ll go down in history as two of the all-time greats, and they haven’t won a Super Bowl, either one of them. I still think it’s an arms race. Forget about the Patriots, they’re going to come back to Earth. Joe Flacco, they got a lot of flaws. It’s going to come down to Baltimore and Buffalo again, Buffalo and Baltimore again, because Lamar is too good and Josh Allen is too good not to be winning multiple Super Bowls, let alone playing in them. So, Baltimore losing Lindenbaum and not getting Max Crosby. What are you thinking? You’re knocking on the door of the Super Bowl the last three or four years, and you let Lindb will. Walking, you don’t take the deal with Max Crosby. How good do you think you are in Baltimore not to have those two players?

Nestor Aparicio 20:06
Well, how good they think they’re going to be with Trey Hendrickson and with Van Gogh as a guard from Penn State. All right, most importantly, the real reason I called you was Getty Lee and Alex Leifer are reuniting on Sunday night. I got to be honest, man, I had just come back from South America, a couple weeks, I was chasing ACDC and Bryan Adams. I came home, I got sick. It was opening day weekend, Sunday. I was just feeling better, and I looked down on my phone at like 7o’clock on a Sunday night, and Rush is on stage at the Junos, top top of my timeline, playing Finding My Way with the new drummer Annika Neils, and I was like, I had no idea. I don’t think anybody in Canada knew that was happening. It was a real cool sort of social media moment to play one song to give like a little taste of like what this is going to look like and feel like and be like. And that night I went all in on Los Angeles, and I’m like, I’m going to the first show. I haven’t missed the first show of a rush tour in probably 25 years, you know, since they reunited. I missed the first show of the first tour, but I was in Scranton the second night to Hartford, I think. So I’ve been at Tulsa, Manchester, New Hampshire, my wife’s hometown. They opened the tour there, so I’ve been to the beginning of all of these. I am like a child, Brick. I am like it’s like signals arrived at the record store, and I’m 11 years old, and I’m going to the mall, and I want to read the cover. I am so excited about this rush tour, but I’m only going one night in LA, and I’m gonna let it mellow, and then when it gets to Philly, New York, you know, I’m gonna pile on in the fall. I was gonna go to Mexico City. I don’t need to drink the water. I listen one night, one taste, and then you ask me, how many shows you’re gonna go to? I don’t know, probably a lot. Yeah, you will, you will,

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J.T. The Brick 21:52
and I’m gonna.. I already, I’m already holding some tickets for Dallas, San Jose, and I’m looking to go to more, and again, 54 shows for me. What’ll be my 55th and I might go and jump out. I wish I was with you in LA. I’ve never been a first night of the tour guy, because I’ve seen him so many times, and I’ve seen him in so many epic venues. I’m good with that, but I love feeling that

Nestor Aparicio 22:15
energy, man. I know a feeling energy of not knowing what the next song’s going to be. I love that, dude.

J.T. The Brick 22:20
Yeah, I love the fact that you’re going opening night. I got another buddy in San Diego who’s going, and there’s something different seeing a global new drummer replacing Neil. There’s something different about being there the opening night, not knowing what the set’s going to look like. Is there going to be a washer or dryer there? Is there going to be a rotation of chicken? What’s it going to look like to see that? And then the euphoria of the fans who are going to be there, as you’re going to see dads and sons and daughters and families there. My rule is I kind of got to be close. I’m not a guy that’s going to sit in the second deck. Sorry, I’ve got a buddy of mine in Dallas, is like we could get you in a suite. Sorry, I don’t have to be. I’ve been front row for Getty, second row for Alex. I just want to be down low. I want to see the look on Getty’s eyes when he comes out in YYZ, and him and Alex connect in the middle. I want to be there for that. You’re going to be there for it on Sunday night. I’m jealous. I am going to World Cup. My son and I, we’re going to a World Cup game, either the 28th of June of july 2, we secured some tickets. I’m excited about that. And then I dive into Raiders preseason sometime in August, and then I go on lockdown until February. So, I, for a rush show, for me it’s got to be a Thursday or a Friday night where I can land back in Vegas on Saturday and not jeopardize a game on Sunday. Oh, because we didn’t get any national games. You want to know another thing? Oh, wow, you know, come on, man. When you wait, when you

Nestor Aparicio 23:45
lose, you don’t get the big games. Come on, hold on,

J.T. The Brick 23:47
hold on, hold on, hold on. Not a Thursday game, not a Monday game against the Chargers. Week two, as we always get

Nestor Aparicio 23:54
Thursday, nobody wants to play a Thursday game.

J.T. The Brick 23:56
Well, opening night in the history of Buffalo’s new stadium is a Thursday night game. Jeff Bezos Nestor is finally saying, ‘Do not give me your crap, I want your good games. And look at that Thursday schedule, it’s looking pretty good.

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Nestor Aparicio 24:08
Well, I hope you enjoy the World Cup. I hope you get to a rush show or 10. I will report in with you. You’re on Monday morning. I know the minute you get up, you’re gonna be texting me, ‘How was your show? Don’t wake me. Well, you know, I’m gonna be on the West Coast, so you can wake me up early if you want. I’ll be up early. We’re working with Luke. JT, the brick is here. He knows what it’s like to get up early, stay up late. The Raiders, National Radio, hockey, Knicks, New York, all of this stuff. My love to your family, your dad. Hope everything goes okay on the East Coast for you. I’m West Coast, you’re East Coast, but hey, we’ll always have Amsterdam the night that Mick got COVID, right? We’ll always have that right.

J.T. The Brick 24:42
We will never forget that. What could have been. Thank you, my friend. I’m jealous. Have a great Getty Fest, man, on Sunday in LA. I want to hear back.

Nestor Aparicio 24:50
Oh man, I cannot wait. When I.. I just hope they play Red Barchetta on Sunday. I know they’re going to mix it in, because he’s going to have.. they’re going to do revolving sets and all this. So I’m, I’m just letting this mellow, because, like, I’ve lived to see Rush again, and you can see how that, how happy that makes me. Brick JT, the Brick’s my dude, he’s out in Las Vegas, he would be happier if the Knicks win. Some of us around here bitching about 1973 and Clyde, the Orioles have middle World Series since 83 so we’re bitching about that all summer long, as well. Luke will be at mini camp all next week in Owings Mills. I’m going to be everywhere that you need me to be. I am Nestor. We are WNST AM 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking. Baltimore positive, it’s fun around here this month.