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He bought a Ravens scratch-off Maryland Lottery ticket on Harford Road 18 months ago and T.J. Humphries is going to the games with his daughter for the next 20 years. He returns to โ€œA Cup Of Soup Or Bowl Weekโ€ to tell Nestor about his cushy club level seats but also his amazing story of addiction, recovery and now helping others via his Voices of Hope recovery and mentoring journey.

TJ Humphries, a Maryland Lottery winner, shared his journey of winning $10,000 and Ravens season tickets for life. He bought the winning ticket at a 7-Eleven on Harford Road, where his mother works. TJ has won three times in second-chance drawings, including a $15,000 racetrack ticket. He works as a peer recovery specialist at Voices of Hope in Aberdeen, helping others overcome addiction. TJ shared his personal struggle with addiction, starting at age 15, and his recovery in 2016. Voices of Hope offers harm reduction services, treatment coordination, and Narcan distribution. TJ emphasized the importance of community support and resources for those in recovery.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Ravens lottery winner, second chances, club level seats, Voices of Hope, peer recovery specialist, addiction struggle, recovery journey, Narcan distribution, harm reduction, treatment coordination, overdose prevention, community support, Maryland lottery, Super Bowl, Baltimore positive

SPEAKERS

Nestor Aparicio, T.J. Humphries, Speaker 1

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive. We are in day three, which is really day two. Itโ€™s a cup of Super Bowl. Weโ€™re Cocos in beautiful laurelville. It is all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have the magic eight ball, and I got a great guest on this is actually a lottery guest. I was gonna bring my Raven scratch on that one ticket left from this year for the Raven scratch off. And we give these things away all the time. Iโ€™ve given away 1000s of Raven scratch off tickets over the last couple years. Weโ€™ve given away here at Cocos. Iโ€™ve had $10 winners. Iโ€™ve had $50 I had $100 winner here at Cocos about a year and a half, two years ago on a lottery ticket. So people really do win, and we always talk about second chances. And I have the app right here, because a lot of times when I give these tickets that people come up and theyโ€™ll be like, Hey, did I win? And Iโ€™m like, zap it, because QR codes and like, all that stuff. So you download MD lottery.com itโ€™s a little app. Itโ€™s right on my phone, right here next drawing 2.7 million in multi match, and you scan your tickets and you get into this thing called second chances. And so we donโ€™t call them losing tickets. We call them non winning tickets. I learned all this from John Martin and Seth and Doug over at the lottery. And then thereโ€™s like the big winner. And this guy here is the guy that all of those commercials we run all of that. Tickets for life, winning cash Raven scratch offs. TJ Humphries is here. He was a defending champion. He did the show with me last year when he won, I found out the line of work that heโ€™s in, and I said, You know what, man, youโ€™re doing work at a community doing the good work. Weโ€™re going to have you here as a full on guest to talk about not only winning, taking his beautiful daughter, maybe his wife, after some ravens games this year, you got with 19 more years, or 29 many years. You do 20 years, you got 19 more seasons, right? Well, they almost won the Super Bowl in the first season here. So, so youโ€™re a year into this. I learned earlier today that I think itโ€™s the 19th of the month theyโ€™re going to have this yearโ€™s winner. Thereโ€™s some other winners like you. Theyโ€™ve been doing this thing for almost 20 years, right where they give away this big contest prize, and you were the guy celebrating last year. So howโ€™s your first year of your reigning championship been as the lotteries big winner?

T.J. Humphries  02:12

Itโ€™s been fun. I got my daughter to her first game. Sheโ€™s only five, so I took her to the preseason game. We made it about two quarters, you know, thatโ€™s all so sheโ€™s got a couple more years before she can go to the real games. Oh, I took my wife. All right. All right, yeah, buddyโ€™s wife. I took a couple buddies. My wife, mostly. So

Nestor Aparicio  02:30

what Jersey you gotta Lamar, Are you old school? Ray, what do you wear? Iโ€™ve got a read jersey, alright?

02:36

So black, purple. Oh, itโ€™s black, yeah, go black. All right. Well, remind

Nestor Aparicio  02:39

me of mine. Mine was white. I like my white jersey better than the whites law. So first season in you take your five year old daughter. So I want to give you my story, because itโ€™s not too dissimilar to yours. My dad worked at the point 1973 September, 1973 I was five years old, and my dad took me at Memorial Stadium right here, across Montebello. We got off the 33 bus and we walked in, and I got to see Joe Namath play as a five year old Memorial Stadium. What how does your daughter, at five take to the modern National Football League? I

Speaker 1  03:13

mean, she enjoyed the show, the marching band. You know, she was into all that when the game started. She liked the firework. So, night game, right? What was the Falcons preseason? Okay, so when they scored, they had things shoot up. But sheโ€™s not too crowded either, yeah, like, intimidating, right? And she likes Lamar. So anytime thereโ€™s a score, she thinks everybodyโ€™s Lamar. So she puts her hands up and says, Go, Lamar. Alright, you know whether Andrews or, you know, likely, whoever it is going to that touchdown. She says, Andrew or she says, Lamar. Was

Nestor Aparicio  03:44

she? Was she asleep when Andrews dropped the ball, probably five years old. You were awake. I was awake. For that one. Would you want? Did you win the big trip last year, too? Or no, no, you didnโ€™t do a trip? No. So give everybody your lottery experience. Whereโ€™d you buy your ticket? Give me so some smoke like me. Give you one. I donโ€™t know. I mean, Iโ€™d give away, you know. So it

Speaker 1  04:03

was weird, because every year I buy a lot of these tickets, sending me to win, you know, okay, this year, or the year I won, I maybe bought five, and I bought them at a 711 right here on Harford road. Okay? My mom works at that 711 okay? And I got like, five tickets, and I entered them in. Didnโ€™t take anything of it. They were non winning tickets, winning to Well, one of them, I got a couple tickets, Ty, and one of them was a winner, so you canโ€™t enter that one in, but thatโ€™s

Nestor Aparicio  04:28

like a $5 you think it was like a $10 case you won 10 bucks? Yeah, yeah. And I was happy, so you got a couple extra left, yeah?

Speaker 1  04:34

And scan them in, scan them in, and I get an email maybe two months later. You didnโ€™t believe it? I didnโ€™t I thought it was spam. Yeah, I did. I thought it was spam, but I recognized it because I was a past winner on another second chance. So you believed all right, you know? And Iโ€™m like, wait a minute, that looks familiar. That email looks familiar. So I checked it again. So then I hopped on the

Nestor Aparicio  04:56

web. Can I ask you, is this the only game you played? Could it couldnโ€™t have been any. Other contact. It couldnโ€™t have been the million dollar monopoly or anything. You only played the Ravens game. You only entered a couple things, right when this one, so when this came, you knew it had to have been about the Ravens. Yeah. Okay, yeah. And I so I checked the website,

Speaker 1  05:11

and I was like, and I saw it. It was me. One there, my name. And I was like, Okay, I get in touch with Doug. Like, hey, whatโ€™s going on? Heโ€™s like, youโ€™re our first finalist.

Nestor Aparicio  05:21

So did you win five grand? How much was it 10? You won 10? Yeah. All right, Iโ€™m just checking. So, yeah. So, so any day you win 10 grand, thatโ€™s care who you are. Thatโ€™s a good day. Thatโ€™s a good itโ€™s a really good day. So, yeah. So you get the email, you call dog, and heโ€™s like, youโ€™re the winner, yes. So you win 10 grand, yeah. Then what happens? Then?

Speaker 1  05:40

So I go to the lottery office, and I get my $10,000 check, we take some pictures, and they say, where the purple boa? I did. I know. Did you go in that little room? I went in the room. And that was actually my second time in the room. Non winner thatโ€™s ever been in the that was my second time in the room because I had a racetrack ticket. I which one time I played 1011, 12, and it hit for like 15,000 This is back 10 years, 15 years

Nestor Aparicio  06:06

ago. This is, like, the luckiest guy. I mean, hang on, I need to rub up against you a little bit.

Speaker 1  06:11

Yeah. So youโ€™re a two time winner, yeah? Well, three time I have second chance, one where I want 5000

Nestor Aparicio  06:19

people really win. Youโ€™re like that. You know, I hold these tickets up all the time, and I try to get five and 10 bucks away. And twice Iโ€™ve had $100 winner in like five years, Iโ€™ve won it cost us once in one year, once $100 winner. But I havenโ€™t had anybody come back and tell me that they second chance that did anything crazy with any of my tickets. And youโ€™ve done this three times, three times. Well, one was a racetrack every day. I mean, well,

Speaker 1  06:43

there was a point in time where I was, you know, and, but here the last few years, I really, I really havenโ€™t. And with the Ravens one, you know, it was five, I think maybe five tickets total I entered. So youโ€™ve won

Nestor Aparicio  06:56

10 grand and season tickets for the next 19 years plus the year. Yeah, yes, thatโ€™s what you want. Yes, all right, so that you get your tickets. Where are your seats? Give me the whole like, low down.

Speaker 1  07:07

Itโ€™s club level. I mean, what? Yes, two club level seats with parking passes, John,

Nestor Aparicio  07:12

Iโ€™m proud of you. John Martin, giving away club level, I didnโ€™t know.

Speaker 1  07:16

Yes, yeah. So itโ€™s pimpy. Oh, itโ€™s nice. Itโ€™s out of Oh, my buddyโ€™s got season tickets in the five hundreds, and this

Nestor Aparicio  07:23

is easier to take your daughter move that forward, because if it gets cold, you can move right, yeah,

Speaker 1  07:27

yeah. But so my buddy sits up top, and I make fun of him. Every game, I make fun of him. I donโ€™t sit with the peasants, yeah, even though, every game Iโ€™ve been to Iโ€™ve been in the upper deck, you know,

Nestor Aparicio  07:40

you know, I guess, speaking of peasants, letโ€™s talk about this. Tell me where youโ€™re from. TJ Humphreys is here. He was the big ravens ticket winner for for life, for 20 years last year, and enjoying his first year. I enjoyed my visit with you, but this, all of this ravens winning in your family. Itโ€™s a nice story. You seem like a nice guy. Youโ€™ve won a lot. I thought that was great. But thatโ€™s not why weโ€™re here together today on a couple Super Bowl you really do some good work. You had a heck of a story about surviving, making your life better. I met your beautiful wife over here a minute ago. I met your daughter yet, but your story was what inspired me. This is all fun and great games and all that. But then I met you, and youโ€™re like, No, I do this for a living. And Iโ€™m like, All right, man, I need to know. TJ, so give everybody your off the field story. So

Speaker 1  08:24

right now Iโ€™ll tell you I work in an organization, voices of hope. Iโ€™m a peer voices of hope, yep, in Aberdeen, Maryland, and Iโ€™m a peer recovery specialist. And what we are are people with lived experience in addiction, mental health, things like that. I myself struggled with addiction for probably 20 years. You know, what

Nestor Aparicio  08:47

does that mean? Tell that story in 30 seconds or a minute without crying? Yeah.

Speaker 1  08:51

So growing up, I guess you could say I didnโ€™t have your ideal household, and I grew up around a lot of drugs, a lot of alcohol. So I started what part of town I grew up in, Edgewood. Edgewood, okay, yep, so, you know, Iโ€™m gonna

Nestor Aparicio  09:07

be Harford County next week. Harford County.

Speaker 1  09:09

So, yeah, started using drugs young, you know. And then that whole painkiller, okay, came and I was prescribed oxycontins, all the things that will kill you, yeah, and, I mean, that turned into, you know, an expensive habit, so that, you know, turned to heroin. And, you know, I was an IV drug user for, you know, 15 years on and off, you know. And I had many attempts to try to get clean and find sobriety, and it was tough. It was a tough way to live, you know, I tried to act like I had, you know, that white big offense, things like that. But I was failing everywhere, you know, to the point where I lost everything. You know, it was just every day was about getting and using and finding ways and means to get more. As they say in our program. How

Nestor Aparicio  09:56

long ago is this? Well, I got clean in 2016 I. So, okay, so that feels really recent to me. Weโ€™re almost 10 years now. Yeah, eight

Speaker 1  10:04

years. Congratulations. Celebrated in November. Eight years. Well, I remember

Nestor Aparicio  10:07

where I was in 16 and doesnโ€™t feel like that long ago. It flies

Speaker 1  10:11

by and, I mean, they seem like a different cat. Yeah, it doesnโ€™t. So like I had tried many times, like I had been to different programs and different treatment centers, and I tried different maintenance programs, you know, because I was really using against my will. I didnโ€™t want to, but itโ€™s had to. Itโ€™s powerful. Itโ€™s hard to explain. Itโ€™s powerful. Itโ€™s a very powerful disease, and I suffered for a long time. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  10:35

when you sit across from people, you understand that power and that stigma that goes into, yeah, look, both my parents were alcoholic. My mother was really bad. My real mother was, you know, thatโ€™s why I grew up in a broken home as well, and Dundalk, and, you know, I saw, yeah, my mother was in drugs. It was all alcohol. And I saw what that did, you know, the unreliability of of that, you know, and through that, and my motherโ€™s been gone a long time, but there was love in her that I feel now. But then it was just, youโ€™re a kid, and you got a parent thatโ€™s broken, you know what I mean? And you you deal with these people every day, because youโ€™ve been one of these people. Tell me that path from what got you clean, what made that difference for you in 16 and then I got obviously, youโ€™re giving your life back to helping other people like you, exactly.

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Speaker 1  11:22

I mean, in 2016 I was so broken both. It wasnโ€™t just a physical bottom I hit, because when I was using I always had all these bottoms I was never I told myself I was never going to do and, you know, the bottoms got lower, you know, I started getting arrested. I started getting in trouble with the law, you know, which I said I wouldnโ€™t do. I started stealing just things to to find ways, means get more. And in 2016 it wasnโ€™t just that physical bottom. It was like a spiritual and mental bottom, where, like the living that life was worse than dying. And I was, I mean, death would have been a prize for me at that point. And and I call, and I have family who, you know, suffer from the same disease and who have found recovery. And I made a phone call to my sister, and she were in

Nestor Aparicio  12:10

recovery too. She is all right. Sheโ€™s got 19 years in recovery. She been trying to help you out before big

Speaker 1  12:15

time, and she was, at a point she was loving me from a distance, you know, right? You know, sheโ€™d answer my call. She was the last person, I think, in the world that would answer, God,

Nestor Aparicio  12:24

Iโ€™ve never heard that term in my life. She loved me from a distance. Yes, yeah. I go home now weeks over Marcella, we dropped the mic. Itโ€™s over with, yeah,

Speaker 1  12:33

yeah. It was tough love me from a distance. Okay, yeah. Itโ€™s funny. After I got clean, weโ€™re at, weโ€™re at my sisterโ€™s house for like, a little gathering I maybe had two years clean, and my nephew comes up to me and heโ€™s got this little book, and itโ€™s a pic, a book with all these pictures from all this stuff. And I look, and Iโ€™m looking at these pictures of me, and Iโ€™m like, my god, Rachel, why would you put these pictures in this book? You know? Because Iโ€™m You look awful. Sheโ€™s like, those are the best pictures I had. Oh,

Nestor Aparicio  13:00

wow. So give me the moment that it ended for you and you took that turn wherever that bottom was for you, you said, All right, this is so one day Iโ€™m gonna win Ravenโ€™s tickets be on Baltimore positive and tell my story. Yeah.

Speaker 1  13:15

So you know, Iโ€™ve reached out to my sister, and she said, Iโ€™m not calling anywhere for you. Iโ€™m not sending you anywhere because sheโ€™s Iโ€™ve disappointed her so many times with her trying that she sheโ€™s heard me today. Iโ€™m done a million times. Sheโ€™s like, hereโ€™s some phone numbers to call if you want it. Call them. And I picked up that phone, that phone felt like 1000 pounds, and, uh, you know. And I call this number and, and it was the health department because I didnโ€™t have insurance. I didnโ€™t have

Nestor Aparicio  13:44

988, now, right as a number one? Yeah, itโ€™s a mental health

Speaker 1  13:48

and, yeah. And sante is the crisis unit out in Baltimore County, okay? They have a mobile crisis, and then they have climb mobile crisis out in Harford County. Weโ€™re really good resources that 988, you know, either county will direct you to the right one. But I made the call, and they told me I had to come in. And I remember, I got there and they were closing, and they were like, Oh, I canโ€™t help you today, weโ€™re full. I pleaded with this lady. I was like, You donโ€™t understand, if I leave this building today, Iโ€™m going to die. I told her I was going to die. Okay? And where is this? This was at the Baltimore County Health Department, okay? And she let me in, and they set it up, and they said, Can you wait two weeks? I said, No. I said, Thereโ€™s no way. So they they made some phone calls, you know, speech to

Nestor Aparicio  14:38

how many people are are troubled? Yeah, youโ€™re troubled, and they didnโ€™t have room for you, right? Like,

Speaker 1  14:43

exactly, yeah. I mean, there was no organization around that I know of, like, voices of hope, you know? So I went ahead, itโ€™s

Nestor Aparicio  14:51

a good little plug you got there. So youโ€™re for what youโ€™re doing, because youโ€™re serving a place that you couldnโ€™t reach to. I mean, you, youโ€™re trying to be what you didnโ€™t have.

Speaker 1  15:02

Basically, I want to be the voice I didnโ€™t have when I was out there. What is voices are? Letโ€™s go, man. So weโ€™re community run peer organization. Weโ€™re a 503 C non profit. Weโ€™re all peers in recovery. So this is not your organization apart. Yeah, yeah. Founder, no, thatโ€™s Jennifer turkey. Sheโ€™s a wonderful lady. Well, sheโ€™s coming next year. So, yeah, she sheโ€™s a great interview.

Nestor Aparicio  15:25

And this guy couldnโ€™t make up his mind whether he wanted to go to Costas faith, Leeโ€™s COVID. Finally, heโ€™s like, I love Cocos. Iโ€™m going to Cocos. Iโ€™m like, great. Next year, weโ€™ll bring you cost us whatever you want. Theyโ€™re all great. You come back here if you want John Hoey came here. So I come here all the time. Itโ€™s awesome,

Speaker 1  15:40

yeah, but yeah, we do a lot of the stuff, from harm reduction services to treatment coordination, transportation for individuals, if thatโ€™s a barrier for them, like, you know, they canโ€™t get any you know, they need to get to treatment. Itโ€™s like, weโ€™ll drive you, you know, I canโ€™t get to your office. Iโ€™ll come pick you up. I donโ€™t care when youโ€™re in Harford County, in Aberdeen, right, correct? And then we also offer a ton of recovery resources. So once we, once people, go through that process of treatment, weโ€™re still there. Itโ€™s a whole wraparound service. We have recovery meetings in house, and a smart recovery all kinds of different paths. Keep it a job, right? Yeah. And then we do, we do outreach. We do a lot of outreach. We do, you know, we had a wound care nurse where we did a lot of wound care, taking care of people whose wounds are too bad to go to treatment. You know, because some of the stuff in these drugs today are eating peopleโ€™s skin down to the bone. Itโ€™s really gnarly stuff.

Nestor Aparicio  16:36

So, and the fentanyl, yeah, itโ€™s a different game. Itโ€™s

Speaker 1  16:39

a game. Thatโ€™s a game changer. I mean, there is no heroin anymore because we also do

Nestor Aparicio  16:43

it would have killed you, right? Yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely, yeah.

Speaker 1  16:47

We do at the office, we do whatโ€™s called rad testing, which is rapid analysis drug testing, where we send swabs of like residue, send them out, and they tell us whatโ€™s in the in the drugs, whatโ€™s in the supply. And there is no such thing as heroin anymore. It is just non existent. Everything is fentanyl, xylazine with some other stuff mixed in. Itโ€™s itโ€™s awful. Itโ€™s so bad. I have

Nestor Aparicio  17:10

had Emily Keller on many times. Sheโ€™s a dear friend of mine from anchors that former the former Madam Mayor of Hagerstown and the queen of donuts in hagers Sheโ€™s wonderful. She lost her best friend and decided to run for me. You know these stories of people like you that hit bottom, it makes me wish my mother had lived and survived it, to go to the other side to do this the kind of work youโ€™re doing. Yeah, you know what I mean? Maybe, you know, part of me is allowing people like you to speak out into here and up and you know, winning lottery. TJ Humphries is here. He is a crazy enough a lottery winner. He won the tickets for life, 20 years with the lottery. Last year we got the chatting because he was a winner, and they put him on the show, and Doug said, youโ€™re gonna like this guy, and Iโ€™m like, he ainโ€™t even going to a Ravens game yet. So I said, we got to come back next year. So heโ€™s been taking his daughter, his wife, to the games this year, up in a club level on behalf of our friends at the Maryland lottery. Heโ€™s a three time champion of winning lots of money with the lottery, but not really championed people up in Aberdeen. Everybody the way they can find help if they have someone that is in this situation or circumstance, do they have to be in Harford County for you to be able to help them? No.

Speaker 1  18:16

Now, a lot of our grants, you know, have to have stuff to do with Harvard County, but we serve people in Baltimore County, Baltimore City. I mean, weโ€™re linked up with treatment providers all throughout the state. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  18:26

you know where Cocos was

Speaker 1  18:28

being up come down to Coco Oh, it was like a ride down memory lane, because I ran up and down all this way when I was a bad way. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And Iโ€™m driving by and Iโ€™m like, I know that place, that place I

Nestor Aparicio  18:39

did that there, took me in Ocean City, but

18:42

yeah, so Yeah, little ride down memory lane.

Nestor Aparicio  18:45

Well, I mean, in this work, youโ€™re doing nine to five five days a week, so

Speaker 1  18:50

8am to 1am right now, and weโ€™re looking to extend our hours to 24/7 we do have a location in Cecil County, which is 24/7 so we have two locations. We have almost 50 peers between both locations, so anybody can find help, 24/7, by calling our phone number. And I can give that,

Nestor Aparicio  19:07

of course, I want you to give that. All right, itโ€™s 443-993-7055,

Speaker 1  19:14

is our direct phone number, and you can reach anybody anytime. But we also we dispense Narcan naloxone. Okay, I actually have almost a case in my car, if you, if you, if you need any for anybody, we are, this is a drug overdose. So people donโ€™t know what that they cannot reveal reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. It is a life saving medication. Iโ€™ve actually been revived from Narcan. Narcan has saved my life because I have overdosed, and somebody Narcan me and brought me back to life. So

Nestor Aparicio  19:46

well, thereโ€™s your public address, you know, like public services statement for the power

Speaker 1  19:50

of Narcan. Yes. I mean, if it wasnโ€™t for Narcan, I wouldnโ€™t be sitting here today. Well, Iโ€™m glad youโ€™re sitting here. Yeah. And then we do trainings. Narcan trainings, we doing virtual, in person. Mean, we go out to different companies, corporations, and offer the training, and itโ€™s great. We give it out. I mean, we are a state certified ORP, which is an open

Nestor Aparicio  20:09

but youโ€™re always trying to clean people up. I think thereโ€™s some stigma about that, that like weโ€™re just feeding into the drug. Make them stop, get them all. It decides it work that way. Man, like addiction. Addiction is not a choice, man, itโ€™s just not. And Iโ€™ve had too many of you all walks of life related to too many of you know what I mean, like, literally, all

Speaker 1  20:29

walks of life you wouldnโ€™t like. Iโ€™ve seen doctors in recovery. You know who? Iโ€™ve seen lawyers. Iโ€™ve seen politicians. You know, itโ€™s not just people in broken homes. It affects everybody. And I mean, you can go to the meetings and go to our events, and theyโ€™re like, weโ€™ll have parents speak out who have lost their children. And itโ€™s like, you hear the household they came from, and itโ€™s not your you know what you would picture somebody who grew up to use drugs would grow up in, you know, people with rich

Nestor Aparicio  20:58

kids drugs too? Yeah, sure. So they had the better drugs, as I remember. Thatโ€™s right, thatโ€™s right. TJ, Humphries is here. Yeah, he is doing the good work. Give me the phone number one more time, and the website where they can get some help. Itโ€™s 443-993-7055,

Speaker 1  21:15

and then our website is voices of hope, maryland.org,

Nestor Aparicio  21:18

and itโ€™s a national organization. Yeah, no, no, we just Cecil County, Harford. Thatโ€™s it. Thatโ€™s it. All right, says of Maryland. So I thought maybe itโ€™s another, thereโ€™s only one. All right, voices of hope. TJ, so winning and yeah, I gotta do two minutes of football with you. Yeah, Iโ€™m not gonna do the Justin Tucker thing unless you want to. But just in a general sense of the season and disappointment and watching these other teams play this week. You know, anybody loves a team knows that they were good enough to win? Oh, yeah, I think thatโ€™s the hardest part. When you youโ€™re good enough to win and donโ€™t win, it haunts you. It

Speaker 1  21:50

does. It does. I mean, itโ€™s a couple years weโ€™ve had some, weโ€™ve had some heart breaks. I mean, all the way back to the kind of missed field goal you know, that you know came up last week, yeah? But I mean, weโ€™ve, weโ€™ve got the team. I mean, weโ€™ve got the quarterback, weโ€™ve, weโ€™ve finally got the receiver, the tight ends. And then, I mean, we had some struggles in our secondary, you know. And I think, I think that this offseason they could probably prove upon that, I think theyโ€™re going to have a new kicker, from what I can tell. Yeah, probably, probably, I mean, if not only, I mean, even his performance last year alone, you know, and the fact that heโ€™s on a non guaranteed contract for next year, you know, itโ€™s not guaranteed,

Nestor Aparicio  22:27

is what it is. And then weโ€™re in the early stages of whatever this is. Itโ€™s probably not good. Itโ€™s probably not, probably not, probably not a good thing. We got a draft coming up and we got free agency coming up, 11 to pick quarterback, 11 picks in the draft. If I recall, I came so close today to wearing my Derrick Henry Houston Oiler jersey, because I, you know, I bought a throwback oiler Derek 22 it fits me. My wife says I look good in it. So I almost wore it, but I did. Iโ€™m, Iโ€™ll break it out again in September. Itโ€™s baseball season now, yes, right? Season. We got other things going on. Yeah, weโ€™re doing a cup of Super Bowl. I see two cups of soup and Bowl coming out here right now, where Cocos were there. Iโ€™m gonna say this cream of crab suit. Top shelf here, you have the cream of Craps. I didnโ€™t I ate the crab. I would take you home with some of that. Marcel is yelling. Sheโ€™s making around here. Itโ€™s all for the Maryland Food Bank. Our friends at Maryland lottery put us out on the road with these magic eight balls, the lucky magic eight ball. I want this guy to rub it because he you donโ€™t deserve another lot, too much. But Iโ€™m gonna give you one anyway, because everybody rub that. Thatโ€™s the winner right there. TJ Humphries, voices of hope, doing great stuff. Great. Great stuff up in Harford County as well as Cecil County. Weโ€™re doing great stuff here in lauraville. Weโ€™re gonna have other guests. A beer man. Clancy Haskett is coming by today. Weโ€™re sick is coming by today. Weโ€™ve had John Hoey here today. I got other guests. I have Dave brails for coming over. He is a stem educator at mervo High School, Mergenthaler, home of the mayorโ€™s team that beat my team in a state championship. And I Brandonโ€™s not coming today, but I am bringing over stem educator from mervo. So weโ€™re gonna talk some stem robotics, kids the city, crab cakes, cup of Super Bowl, telling great stories like TJ here, doing good stuff out in the community. I am Nestor. Iโ€™m going to do some good stuff in the community and have myself a cup or a bowl of cream of crab soup. Weโ€™re at Cocos. Stay with us. Itโ€™s Baltimore, positive. You.

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