Sharing love and generosity for babies at Share Baby

The good folks at Share Baby distribute items to needy mothers and fathers for babies in Baltimore. Nadya Dutchin joins Nestor at Costas Inn in Timonium for “A Cup Of Soup Or Bowl” week and educates us on pampering and parenting needs for toddlers and helping families in our city.

Nestor Aparicio discusses Share Baby, a Baltimore-based nonprofit that provides essential items like diapers, wipes, and clothing to children under 10. Share Baby has been operational for 12 years and serves families through a network of community partners. Nadya Dutchin, representing Share Baby, highlights the organization’s efforts, including a 9,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Hampton. They distribute items to various organizations, including Baltimore Medical System and community schools. Share Baby also hosts events like a poker night to raise funds. The conversation emphasizes the financial strain of parenting and the importance of community support.

• [ ] Remove organizations from Share Baby’s partnership waiting list and invite new partner organizations to join, to expand distribution capacity (ongoing effort referenced as recently starting)
• [ ] Host and operate the ‘Diapers, Diapers and Dealers’ poker night fundraiser at Woodhome Country Club tonight (manage event from 7–10pm and oversee proceeds for Share Baby)
• [ ] Organize and run the April 25 ‘Diapers and Donuts’ fundraiser at Woodhome (confirm logistics, coordinate donors like Donuts Express, and publicize the event)
• [ ] Recruit sponsors for the April 25 ‘Diapers and Donuts’ fundraiser (identify and solicit sponsor commitments)

Introduction and Purpose of the Meeting

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show, mentioning various activities like charities, community work, and giving away Maryland lottery scratch-offs.
• Nestor thanks GBMC for their support and introduces the topic of Share Baby, a Baltimore-based nonprofit.
• Nestor mentions his friend Denise Buckman and encourages listeners to reach out if they want to support Share Baby.
• Nestor explains the mission of Share Baby, which provides essential items like diapers, wipes, and clothing to young children in need.

Overview of Share Baby’s Services

• Nadya Dutchin explains that Share Baby has been around for 12 years and serves children up to age 10.
• Share Baby provides diapers, wipes, strollers, pack and plays, blankets, formula, clothing, and shoes.
• Nadya emphasizes the importance of these items for families with young children, highlighting the financial and emotional strain of parenting.
• The conversation touches on the high cost of diapers and the challenges families face in meeting their children’s needs.

Challenges of Parenting and Financial Strain

• Speaker 1 shares his experience of being a parent at 16 and the financial struggles of raising a child.
• Speaker 2 discusses the increasing cost of diapers and the impact on families, especially in Baltimore.
• The conversation highlights the emotional and financial intensity of raising children, regardless of income level.
• Nadya and Speaker 2 discuss the impracticality of cloth diapers and the need for sustainable, biodegradable diaper solutions.

Share Baby’s Impact and Community Partnerships

• Nadya explains that Share Baby has a 9000 square foot warehouse in Hampton and serves various organizations like Baltimore Medical System, Sinai, community schools, and faith-based organizations.
• Share Baby partners with 73 organizations to distribute essential items to families in need.
• Nadya mentions that due to increased funding, they are now able to remove people from their waiting list to become partners.
• The conversation emphasizes the importance of community partnerships in supporting families with young children.

Ways to Support Share Baby

• Nadya invites listeners to attend a poker night fundraiser at Wood Home Country Club.
• She encourages donations of gently used clothes, shoes, and other items for children up to age 10.
• Share Baby is currently running a Pajama Drive for Valentine’s Day.
• Nadya highlights the importance of community support and donations to help families in need.

Personal Stories and Community Engagement

• Nestor shares his experience of being involved in blood cancer organizations that helped save his wife’s life.
• Nadya and Nestor discuss the importance of community engagement and support in addressing various social issues.
• The conversation touches on the generosity of young people and their willingness to help others.
• Nestor emphasizes the importance of activating the community to support various charities and causes.

Final Thoughts and Closing Remarks

• Nestor thanks Nadya for her participation and highlights the importance of Share Baby’s work in supporting families with young children.
• Nestor mentions upcoming events and fundraisers, encouraging listeners to visit the Share Baby website for more information.
• The conversation ends with Nestor promoting other charities and community organizations he has featured on his show.
• Nestor thanks his sponsors, GBMC, and Foreign and Dermer, for their support in making the show possible.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Share Baby, diaper bank, essential needs, community partners, material insecurity, Baltimore nonprofit, children’s clothing, financial support, community schools, Baltimore Medical System, fundraising events, donations, baby items, family support, volunteer opportunities.

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SPEAKERS

Nadya Dutchin, Nestor Aparicio

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T am 1570 task Baltimore. We’re Baltimore positive. We are positively out here doing our thing. We call it a cup of soup or bowl. We do charities, we do community and we give away candy cane cash scratch offs from the Maryland lottery. You’re gonna get number 60 here, and we’re winding down like we’re at the OTB here cost down the stretch they come. We have a few more guests that are going to be coming on. You catch all of this out of Baltimore positive find it out it is under a cup of soup or bowl. And we’re also doing this on behalf of friends at GBMC who’ve been great to us, and we told a lot of stories here this week. We’re about tell a story here of share. Baby, my dear friend Denise Buckman, who runs a whole bunch of networking things up here in the north side of the county, threw me notes. If you still have room for Nadia, share, baby, it’s my it’s like the charity I care about the most. And I’m like anybody in my world. If, if you missed it this week, I’m not gonna make people wait 51 weeks to come next year. Just send me an email, Nestor, Baltimore positive you know, to find me out on social media, on the socials, and I will bring your share baby in as well. Share baby is a Baltimore based nonprofit that provides essential items like diapers, wipes and clothing to young children under the age of five, in need through a network of community partners addressing material insecurity and its impact on family, health, employment and education. Nadia Dutch is here on behalf of share baby to discuss what’s going on. How are

Nadya Dutchin  01:29

you pleasure? Great. Thank you so much for having me.

Nestor Aparicio  01:30

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I’m fist bumping, and people get angry at me, and I’m like, if I shook every hand, I’d be sick as a dog by Friday, sick in 15 years. And I want to keep it that way. I agree with you. I had a wife with cancer twice, and I know you did stuff. You’re like, you’re a do gooder. You were doing stuff that, like, helped save my wife’s life before it even happened. But now you’re doing kids. Tell me about share baby.

Nadya Dutchin  01:51

Yeah, share baby. We’re Baltimore’s diaper bank. We’ve been around for 12 years now. 11 years, 12. Yeah. So we’re diaper bank and an essential needs. Bank. We actually serve children up to age 10 now, but we do provide diapers, wipes and other essential items like strollers and pack and plays and blankets and formula and things like that to families of small children. But then we also have clothing and shoes for bigger kids,

Nestor Aparicio  02:16

beginning of this, Genesis for this, and obviously there’s a need, right? I was a parent at 16, so, you know, buying pampers and diapers and Similac and like all of that that he’s 42 now, it’s okay. You’re still he might be worried about his own diapers at some point, but, but people that kids are expensive, man, that’s I’m Yeah, even people that have means, if you, if you have, if you’re rich and you have a nanny and you have this, it’s still babies are, I don’t know how we all made it here. I mean, be honest with it’s because people got to take care of people

Nadya Dutchin  02:53

flying by the seat of our pants, every last one of us. And you’re absolutely right, regardless of the kinds of means you have, it is labor intensive, it is emotionally intensive, and it’s financially intensive. Kids are not a joke, it’s a lot, and families really, really struggle to meet all of those needs. And families in Baltimore are struggling mightily, and the cost of everything has gone up substantially. How old are your kids?

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Nestor Aparicio  03:16

Singular kid, 42

Nadya Dutchin  03:19

your child is 42 Yeah, you’ll be 42 I thought you meant you were 42 Good lord, you look great.

Nestor Aparicio  03:25

Thank you. How can I contribute?

Nadya Dutchin  03:28

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You’re hilarious. I’m 57 so, so my daughter is 11. So since I’ve had a child, the cost of diapers has skyrocketed. It’s probably almost 60% how much I

Nestor Aparicio  03:37

haven’t bought a diaper you don’t want to buy. 1986, yeah? Like, literally, my kid was born 84 maybe 87 or 88 he went potty. You did

Nadya Dutchin  03:47

good. Well, he listens so

Nestor Aparicio  03:49

he thinks it’s funny that I changed his diapers. But I have pictures of this. I don’t. They were not inexpensive. Then I don’t, whoa. What a 2436 48 I mean, that’s how they sell them, right? So he will made a right turn down that aisle at Walmart or anywhere I don’t

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Nadya Dutchin  04:07

want to go. You will scream. It’s horrifying. So when my daughter was pub, it’s terrible. But also, you know, they’re so necessary, we can’t do cloth diapers, not away. Oh, people,

Nestor Aparicio  04:21

yeah, no, no. Back in 1984 there were mamacitas in our world that you know had babies in the 40s and 50s, and they’re like, you’ll save money, and I’m no you ever see pooping in

Nadya Dutchin  04:37

baby they did, and they think that we’re okay with having to take the time to actually wash them. The issue with cloth diapers, because people say it all the time, why don’t you just do cloth diapers? We cannot. The economy of time is important for people who are struggling. They need a washing machine. You need a washing machine. You cannot take cloth diapers to a laundromat. Many people do not have a unit inside their home. More importantly, even before you do that, you still have to wash off the poo before you put it into the bag that’s going to get washed at the end of the week. You still have to pre wash. Nobody has time for that. And I think that the solution that we may all be looking for is a sustainably made diaper that can biodegrade. Ideally, that would be, you know, the best of all worlds work on that, yeah, well, there are people that are doing that, so I’m very, I feel very good about that. Yes, science, science is saving us. Imagine that, yeah, but it’s we. Families need to be able to get a diaper, get it on their kid, get them today here

Nestor Aparicio  05:33

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in that way, because, like, we’ll do this, we’ll feed kids, we’ll do this, we’ll give supplies, well, but the diapers, like, that’s gonna happen, three six times a day, yeah,

Nadya Dutchin  05:42

and nobody really thinks about it. And honestly, three to six times a

Nestor Aparicio  05:45

day, seven days a week, that’s 50 diapers a week. Give her Am I right or my right?

Nadya Dutchin  05:50

I know you write number absolutely right or you’re right. 30 ish. 30 ish a week, you know, between, depending on the age of

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Nestor Aparicio  05:58

the child, but using them twice. Nadia, no, no. All right, I’m just saying 30.

Nadya Dutchin  06:02

If you’re thinking three to five, yeah, it’s probably somewhere close to that, somewhere between 30 and 50 weeks.

Nestor Aparicio  06:08

So how much are diapers, to be honest with me, retail. So the bad ones, how much are the really cheap, Acme version nurses ones that really work? I don’t know. We had cheap diapers in Dundalk in 84 too. Yeah. We got rid of those real quick, my daughter

Nadya Dutchin  06:20

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could only wear Pampers. Unfortunately, everything else gave her a reaction. So I didn’t buy anything else. I don’t rash shoes. I remember, yeah, I haven’t thought about it, yeah. So I didn’t buy, I wouldn’t, you know I was, I wasn’t gonna make my child suffer because we have skin issues. So I was like, let me get her some good diapers. So it was pampers for us. And the case, the comparable case when she was small, was $30 the case now is $60 $2 a diaper, and that was at BJs. So if it’s $1 No, this is like 100 and something diaper. So we’re talking like 25 to 20 cents, 2728 30 cents a Diaper, diaper, and we as a nonprofit are able to get them at cost and tax free. So our our dollar goes three times as far as your retail dollars. So we

Nestor Aparicio  07:01

don’t as much as we’re getting these things for 10 to 12 cents, maybe

Nadya Dutchin  07:05

around ish, between 12 and 17, depending on the size and the quantity that we’re buying them in. But yes, yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  07:11

So, so you have a warehouse with diapers,

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Nadya Dutchin  07:15

we do. We have a warehouse, a 9000 square foot warehouse in Hampton. We’re right next to the Book Bank. Yeah, right next to the book bank.

Nestor Aparicio  07:21

So who are you serving? How are you serving hospitals, pediatricians? All because, yes, babies get made. But even the poorest of poor, poor people, babies have to go to doctors and be in the system, as we would say, right?

Nadya Dutchin  07:38

Yeah, yeah, we do. We serve Baltimore medical system. Sinai, I’ve

Nestor Aparicio  07:42

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seen these children. Don’t listen to these creeps. Yes, don’t listen to Kennedy. He’s an idiot.

Nadya Dutchin  07:49

It’s true. It’s true. Take care of your child in the way that you need to use good judgment, but also help us all say healthy. Imagine. But yeah, we serve community schools, the Judy centers that are in community schools in community schools in Baltimore City. We do serve clinics, Baltimore medical systems, other folks and like that, Catherine’s family, fishes and loaves Transformation Center. A lot of faith based organizations, and then some community organizations. So we work through the partnership of organizations. You cannot walk into our warehouse and ask for a diaper, but you can go to one of our partner organizations, and there are 73 of them, thankfully in the last year, because so much funding has been leaving nonprofits, our funders have been leaning in, and our individual donors have been leaning in a lot. So we are actually in a place where we are starting to remove people from our very lengthy waiting list to become partners. So we’re really excited that we’re doing well enough that we can invite people in to become new partners and help more people in the community.

Nestor Aparicio  08:43

Nadia Dutch, and is my guest. She runs share baby based in Hampton, here in Baltimore, take care of babies and taking care of really parents, as much as babies, dads, moms, people, all the caregivers. What are the qualifications? What are the what are we look I mean, I’m sure you’re giving diapers to people that that shelter is a problem.

Nadya Dutchin  09:03

We don’t we don’t care who gets the diapers. Truthfully, we don’t care if you baby’s gonna get we don’t care. We don’t care. Yeah, this is not an this is not an issue that we want to shame people over. We don’t want people to feel like they need to qualify for a thing. Many of our partners do distribute directly to the public, and they ask no questions. They may gather some basic demographic issue information, but nothing you know, we don’t want your name. We don’t know. Want to know your immigrations that we don’t care about any of that stuff. We want you to how many people in your family are you working and someone in school? How many people

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Nestor Aparicio  09:31

crazy that is, you’re the like the fifth person that says we give things away and people are afraid to take them because of their immigration.

Nadya Dutchin  09:39

It’s ridiculous. It’s, I mean, it’s, but it’s also, but it’s a real fear. And there’s so many, there are so many families right now that are not going to Israel and so, oh, people, I too, am South American, although I’m on the other side. I’m Guyanese. Oh, we’re next, we’re next to each other. All right, yeah, we’re right next day. Well, conflict, I’ve

Nestor Aparicio  09:57

never been to Colombia. Um. And my cousin’s still in Venezuela. And I was headed down there in March because AC DC and Brian Adams are touring. I was gonna go to Montevideo. I was gonna take the train, the fast boat into Buenos Aires steak. And I was gonna go to Santiago and had chill in Chile and nice, you know, go to Vina del Mar and maybe have some Vina, you know? So I was going to end then we bombed Venezuela and, like, I’m not going anymore. So, yeah,

Nadya Dutchin  10:26

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yeah, it’s a little dodgy down there, right? Yeah. Honestly, between that and then

Nestor Aparicio  10:30

I have a famous Venezuelan last name as well, and I’m a gringo. I have an American passport, but a Canadian hat, probably still wouldn’t

Nadya Dutchin  10:38

get away with it. They wouldn’t do I look, they wouldn’t let you come back in. You know that,

Nestor Aparicio  10:42

like Getty Lee maybe stood around the stature. How can people help you?

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Nadya Dutchin  10:46

So a couple of ways. Well, two things. We’re actually doing a poker night tonight. Come on out. Bring your wife. Come out. We’re doing a poker night at Wood home, Country Club, diapers, diapers and dealers. It’s happening tonight. 50 bucks to get in comes with fun money, but there’s wine and whiskey taste unfortunate.

Nestor Aparicio  11:03

Shiva last week at Wood home. So your friend of mine, I lost but wood home, I was out there. I know where wood home is.

Nadya Dutchin  11:10

Man, we’ll be out there tonight. Snow or shine will be there. So not shine because it’s night time, but we’ll be there. It’s from seven to 10. How often you do these events? Well, we don’t this is the first time we’re doing Casino Night. This is the very first time the husbands are doing this. The share, baby husbands, all right, it’s pretty cool that the men were like, we’ll do it. So it’s gone very well, pleasantly, surprisingly. I don’t want to pick on men. No, I’m so happy they’re doing a great job. I’m so impressed. They’re doing such a great job. You’re better at that. I will say they have, trust me. They have good support. We have an amazing event plan. I trust me a lot, but not that much. Yeah, Avenue events is amazing. So they’re, they’re our event planner. They’re hanging out, hanging out and doing all the dice. Let’s go. But then people can go directly to our website. They can go to share baby.org they can make a financial contribution there. They can come to an event if they have old clothes, gently used clothes that their kids have grown out of, our grandkids have grown out of, bring them in. So we’re okay.

Nestor Aparicio  12:05

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What else you got me thinking of? There’s offers and diapers with you. What else are we looking for here? Help me. We are well, toiletries to any of that kind of

Nadya Dutchin  12:14

Yeah, any baby toiletries, anything like that, but babies, babies and younger. Babies, yep, 10, age 10 and younger. So any coats, clothing, shoes, gently. We always right. We always, I mean, we’re new. We’re doing a right now. We’re doing a Pajama Drive for a Valentine’s Day. PJ is for V Day. So I can’t be everybody

Nestor Aparicio  12:30

loves their kids, right? And they get all and especially old people, not like Denise, but like me, that when we have friends who have babies, because we’re not making babies, right? True. So you know, when these babies come along, we love them, and then we go and spend a whole bunch of money on them, right by this and by dad, oh, look at that. So cute. He wear it for like, three weeks,

Nadya Dutchin  12:51

half the time they grow out six. My kid was big, my kid, and this an entire crew stuff quick during covid, my child missed the entire seven, eight. And I had, I purchased it a year before.

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Nestor Aparicio  13:02

Like, I love this little suit. I’m gonna get it for spring, and then spring comes in there this big in the suit says, so. So I know one thing, kids clothing, the kids gonna outgrow it. You’re gonna do it is gonna

Nadya Dutchin  13:16

be handed me day, exactly, shoes, clothes.

Nestor Aparicio  13:19

When I think a little people, I haven’t really thought about that, yeah, and if there’s, like, little people with cancer today, and like, lots of other things, yeah, I’m thinking like, all right, these kids are okay. They just need Pampers. They have some unfortunate issues. But look, I’m from Dundalk. I was unfortunate. I wore hand me down.

Nadya Dutchin  13:37

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Yeah, I don’t know anybody that didn’t. So, you know, they’re good, they’re good quality. We wouldn’t put anyone’s children in something. We wouldn’t put our own in. So we quality check everything. We sort it by girl, boy, by size, and warm, cold, you know, weather clothing, and then we get it right back out into the hands of families. And that’s something that will go directly into landfill if there’s something that we can’t use, we actually does give it out to a company that pays us for it. So that’s we don’t let anything charity

Nestor Aparicio  14:04

stuff too, because it’s not doing any good at all in your club. No, absolutely not. It’s not doing any good in our friends club. So if you’re out there and you’re listening and you want to help out, and you haven’t found your cause here this week, and you have grandkids or kids or outgrown or whatever, even if you’re somewhere secondhand, you want to purchase some things and drop them off.

Nadya Dutchin  14:22

Kids never use bring the new things, and we will absolutely there is someone in Baltimore that needs it. Whatever it is, if we don’t take furniture, though, that’s the one thing we do not take furniture.

Nestor Aparicio  14:32

And this is not an ongoing thing for you. Where many of the organizations I have have sign ups and registry, this is stop and get what you need.

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Nadya Dutchin  14:40

Literally, there are bins outside. 24 hours, you can just clear out your closet and drop stuff into the bin. 24 hours, I like, yeah, yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  14:47

Naughty touching is here. She’s here on behalf my friend Denise Buckman, who’s I would say all sorts of great things about her, but I’ll invite her on the show later, we’ll have crap. Yeah, we’re doing a cup of Super Bowl. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery candy cane. Cash. I’m giving these away. I’m getting to the end of the week, Roz I’m gonna need some more tickets when all this is done. Website, last thing, phone call. Did we leave anything out? Have I gotten it all? I think you’ve

Nadya Dutchin  15:10

gotten it all in. We’re having another fundraiser. It Back at Wood home on April 25 called giant Pike’s, film diapers and donuts. And we would love for folks to come. We’re looking for sponsors, but yeah, go to our website, share baby.org, and you can see all the way. Yeah, it’s great. Donuts Express donates all of the donuts. They’re amazing. They’re great.

Nestor Aparicio  15:28

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I’m going off the Pennsylvania Dutch market tomorrow, 8am

Nadya Dutchin  15:32

maple bacon. I don’t eat bacon, but that sounds delicious.

Nestor Aparicio  15:35

Just put the maple on it. Then just don’t put the making on. Oh, can they do that? They just had maple doughnuts right in the door

Nadya Dutchin  15:42

on the left side Pennsylvania. I’ve never been so

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Nestor Aparicio  15:45

before I go, I’m going to promote one thing that’s mine. I did for our 27th anniversary this year. I did tastiness, which was my 27 favorite things to eat in Baltimore and Costas, by the way, believe was number eight for oyster Rockefeller and the crab Imperial, which I’m going to be getting to go in a few minutes. Well, you get the crab here on the on the mushroom caps here, which so I would get the mushroom caps and the oysters, Rockefeller, and you handle what I need here. Constant. You get the crabs. Get the crab cake there. It’s all fine Greek salad, but that’s what you do here. But Mary’s donuts inside of the Pennsylvania Dutch markets, donut shop right on the left by the seafood joint, best donuts in the city.

Nadya Dutchin  16:25

And it’s in Pennsylvania, where Pennsylvania Dutch market right up over Dutch market over here Juan road, right? Yes.

Nestor Aparicio  16:32

Okay, Valley View Farm got you get a tree and then go and get some donuts. Sounds like or get some meatloaf. Get whatever you need. All of those. Get a pretzel. You get anything I want? Anything there. But you mentioned donuts, and I just want to give some love to Mary’s donuts and my guys, they’re Amish. They sound delicious. You know, the cool part about the Amish thing is, you go in there talk. They’re Amish. The kids are the ones that like give you the donuts. Get donuts from like kids. These kids love me. Oh, they’re so cute, too, trying to upsell me too, into a third

Nadya Dutchin  17:00

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or fourth because they’re cute. That’s why they know. They know that you’re gonna buy them

Nestor Aparicio  17:04

because they’re cute. Ever since they took the eggnog donuts away, delicious. All right, share. Babies. The way to do this. They’re in Hampton. Help them out. Give the website again. Nadia, it’s share baby.org.

Nadya Dutchin  17:16

Nice and easy. Nice and easy. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much.

Nestor Aparicio  17:20

Thanks for making this happen. I did a silly thing last week. I got up on a cup of Super Bowl. And, you know, you mean to do stuff, and I’m not like a procrastinator, but I spent busy. I discovered AI, it’s blowing my mind, and I’m doing things. And we got a new coach, and we got super you know, things happen, and I didn’t have enough charities booked, and I thought, ask. So I threw it out on all the socials. And I thought, How long will it take me to get a full dance card? And I always say this to my wife, I’m like, Huh? I’m better than you think I am. I said, so like, last Tuesday or Wednesday, I put it out. I’m like, All right, last call, because I had had a couple dozen booked and then I got, like, inundated over the weekend with people like Denise or LinkedIn or LinkedIn or Facebook or Instagram, all these places. And it’s just like the best part of this week has not only been that I didn’t have to work so hard to find all the charities, it’s just that I activated other people’s chairs like that was the best because the first year, I grinded out all the cards that I get at Denise’s events up in on Valley and accelerant and connects, and all these events that I have, you know, and I meet people along life’s highway. But I thought the best thing I could do to find real community groups that I’ve never heard of, ask everybody Absolutely. And when I found this week, I think you’re the 31st charity. Oh, man, that’s the next will be 32 last one we’re doing this week, and I want to give a shout out to that make sure Jennifer Stein’s gonna be from Casa, so that’s gonna be my final one for the week. Yeah, I had some repeat offenders here. Itineraries came back today. My dear friend Trish Woodward from camp. Opportunity came by, so I’ve been doing stuff, and I found you, and I find new people. And then you sat down. I’m gonna give you a little bonus time here. You were involved in blood cancer, and in the early parts of the organizations that helped save my wife’s life, it’d be the man

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Nadya Dutchin  19:06

that’s blood cancer. That’s correct. I worked for them from, oh gosh, 2008 to 2015 swab, yeah. I was their national, first national account executive. So I initially worked here in the Baltimore area. So I covered Baltimore, Virginia and parts of Pennsylvania. Written to me in two things I probably did, and then I we were

Nestor Aparicio  19:25

in a really tough spot, you know, yeah, you know, my wife’s fighting for life, and everybody was hitting me every about everything. And she got a donor relatively quickly, but got sick and, you know, almost died and, like, a couple times. And yeah, there were complications along the way. Yeah, but thank you. No, thank you everybody that.

Nadya Dutchin  19:48

Thank you for engaging the community. This is, this is how we get things done. The government will not save us. We save each other. We take care of each other. People stepped up to pub all and do all. Of I’ve had enough people, people, we will save each other, so we have to come to each other’s rescue. And so in the in the case of your wife, some young person swabbed their cheek and went on their merry way and came in and donated cells. It, it’s it all of the little things, all of the

Nestor Aparicio  20:16

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little swab on a college campus because his friend’s brother died

Nadya Dutchin  20:20

of leukemia. Yeah, that’s really profound. And he got the call, and he did it. Yeah, I used to manage the college athletic football program that coach Talley at Villanova. He’s the best. He’s oh gosh, he’s such a good dude. But I ran that entire program for the country, and it built the campus program for Be The Match. And so we know that that is really getting young people to just offer their help, and they’re so generous and so thoughtful and kind. I mean, the kids are going to be all right. It’s some of our we older folk, that are a little questionable, but these, these young folks, are all

Nestor Aparicio  20:54

about it. They know what they’re all about. They’ll get rid of his ass. They’re all about their business. They’re all about

Nadya Dutchin  20:59

their business. And they’re already uncomfortable. They’re willing to get more uncomfortable. They’re willing to get more uncomfortable for justice. They’re good. They’re good kids, the kids are

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Nestor Aparicio  21:05

going to be fine. Stand up. Get up. Stand up. Like Bob saying, all right, we’re out of here doing a cup of Super Bowl. I got one more left in me, and then I’m going to take, I’m not going to take a cup of soup home, or a bowl of soup home. When I come to cost us, I get the big Johnson. I get that VAT about this big, I take it home, I get extra saltines on that, and I’m gonna have some soup during the Super Bowl. That’s what I’m gonna do, straight red. I’m going in.

Nadya Dutchin  21:33

I’ve never had that one. I’ve never I’ve only had the cream of crap, which I enjoy. But, yeah, I’ve never had

Nestor Aparicio  21:39

the I’m gonna buy you. You hungry? Sure, I can always eat all right, Maryland crab soup for Nadia. She’s Nadia. She is with Cher baby. You can find them. We’ve been doing lots and lots of work. You’ll find it all out at Baltimore positive under a cup of soup or ball. Be featuring it all week, right here at AM, 1570 back for more from cost. It’s all brought to you by our friends at GBMC, as well as we have a new sponsor too. By the way, I got to yell this out because these folks called me, which I highly encourage folks to call me, because it allows me to do sales the easy way, foreign and Dermer, they’re with us. They are the comfort guys. And you know, I’ve been wearing a sweatshirt around. It’s really warm. It’s cotton, and it’s actually too warm, right? Have it on right now. But I’ve been wearing around, I didn’t realize, like, I’m total construction man. Like, it’s got the whole thing on the back. I didn’t even realize, even realize that. So 410, 9020, 200 Zach’s been a great guy. I met the the whole family the other day, and they outfitted me and Luke, and they do HVAC. They’ve already been out. They’ve already hooked my wife up. Make sure that all that funk vacations going on in our HVAC is going away here for the summer, make sure we’re cool. So thank you to them. Thank you to GBMC and our friends at Mary Lola, we’re gonna come back. We’re gonna do one final segment, saving the best for last casa. I am Nestor. We’re here, Costa. Stay with us. W NST am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking Baltimore. Positive. You.