In the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy within the charity and community space in Baltimore, our pal Andy Kobus of United Rentals joins Nestor to discuss HER Resiliency legacy and difficulty of the tragic loss of founder and sexual assault survivor Natasha Guynes and its impact on her mission.

Andy Kobus from United Rentals discussed the company’s services, including heavy equipment rentals, training, and sales. He highlighted United Rentals’ philanthropic efforts and their involvement in community service. Kobus also paid tribute to Natasha Goins, a sexual assault victim and advocate who founded Her Resiliency Center. Natasha’s impact was widespread, and her legacy continues through the center. Kobus mentioned his involvement in various boards, including Baltimore Tourism Association and the Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation, emphasizing the importance of vocational education and community engagement.

United Rentals and Andy Kobus’s Role

• Nestor Aparicio introduces Andy Kobus, who works for United Rentals, focusing on networking.
• Andy Kobus explains the services United Rentals offers, including training, certification, service, rentals, and selling used equipment.
• Nestor Aparicio humorously describes his experience visiting United Rentals and meeting various people there.
• Andy Kobus clarifies that United Rentals serves both businesses and regular people, including homeowners.

United Rentals’ Services and Community Involvement

• Andy Kobus details the services United Rentals provides, including heavy equipment, training, and lawn equipment.
• Nestor Aparicio shares a personal anecdote about visiting United Rentals and feeling overwhelmed by the environment.
• Andy Kobus emphasizes the importance of community service and United Rentals’ philanthropic efforts.
• Nestor Aparicio highlights Andy Kobus’s personal involvement in charitable activities and his role in bringing guests to the show.

Natasha Goins’ Resiliency and Legacy

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the topic of Natasha Goins, a sexual assault victim and advocate, and her organization, Her Resiliency Center.
• Andy Kobus shares his last conversation with Natasha and her impact on the community.
• Nestor Aparicio recounts his experience learning about Natasha’s death while in Las Vegas and the widespread impact it had.
• Andy Kobus describes Natasha’s work with survivors of human trafficking, sex work, abuse, homelessness, and addiction.

Her Resiliency Center’s Continuation

• Andy Kobus discusses the challenges of continuing Natasha’s work without her physical presence.
• Nestor Aparicio shares his concern about the future of Her Resiliency Center and its impact on the community.
• Andy Kobus mentions a remembrance event held for Natasha and the community’s support.
• Nestor Aparicio and Andy Kobus discuss the importance of Natasha’s legacy and the ongoing efforts to keep her message alive.

Andy Kobus’s Involvement in Community Boards

• Nestor Aparicio asks Andy Kobus about his involvement in community boards, including Baltimore Tourism Association and Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation (MCCEI).
• Andy Kobus explains his role in promoting Baltimore tourism and the importance of showcasing the city’s attractions.
• Nestor Aparicio and Andy Kobus discuss the significance of Baltimore’s history and landmarks, and the need to appreciate them more.
• Andy Kobus shares his involvement with MCCEI, which aims to interest middle and high school students in construction careers.

Challenges and Opportunities in Construction Education

• Nestor Aparicio reminisces about his own experience with vocational education and the importance of trade skills.
• Andy Kobus explains the exploratory nature of MCCEI, allowing students to try different trades and find their interests.
• Nestor Aparicio and Andy Kobus discuss the future of construction jobs and the need for skilled workers.
• Andy Kobus emphasizes the importance of providing students with the necessary skills to succeed in the construction industry.

Nestor Aparicio’s Personal Reflections and Community Engagement

• Nestor Aparicio shares his personal experiences with Baltimore’s neighborhoods and the importance of community engagement.
• Andy Kobus and Nestor Aparicio discuss the challenges of city-county relations and the need for better cooperation.
• Nestor Aparicio humorously describes the different neighborhoods and their unique characteristics.
• Andy Kobus and Nestor Aparicio reflect on the importance of supporting local businesses and community initiatives.

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

• Nestor Aparicio thanks Andy Kobus for his participation and discusses the importance of keeping Natasha Goins’ legacy alive.
• Andy Kobus reiterates the significance of Her Resiliency Center and the ongoing efforts to support its mission.
• Nestor Aparicio and Andy Kobus discuss the importance of community service and philanthropy.
• The segment concludes with a reminder of the Maryland Lottery’s support and a promotion for Sorrento of Arbutus.

Nestor Aparicio 0:00
Welcome home, we are W N S T A M 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. We are positively here in beautiful Arbutus. It is my maiden voyage here at the corner of East and Stevens. It is Sorrento of Arbutus. It is delicious pizza sub and Crap Cake Emporium. We’re on the southwest side of town in Arbutus. I call it Jim Schwartz’s homeland. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. This is the four pack. This is the strip here. We got ponies, we have crustaceans and birds. We have the Bay Bridge. I feel like I’m doing a pressure locker like joke. These are our categories. Boardwalk for 100 It’s the Maryland Treasures Lottery scratch-offs. They’ve been a big hit around here today. I don’t know which one Andy Cobus is going to take from me. Think the last time I had you on, we were doing a candy cane. I don’t know what the heck we were doing, but Andy works for United Rentals. He is the big man in charge of all things networking. I see him in mornings, I see him in afternoons, I see him in evenings, I’ve seen him with coffee, I’ve seen him with soft drinks and water, and I’ve seen him with adult beverages at various points on behalf of United Rentals. If you drive on the southwest side of town, Southwestern Boulevard, you see that big United rental sign that’s under his joint, they do heavy equipment. Did I do that right? Is that a good ad? What else do you do? Heavy equipment, what else do you do?

Andy Kobus 1:24
I’d say, oh man, training certification, we do all the service on it, we do the rentals, we sell used equipment, we help you increase your efficiencies and decrease your downtime.

Nestor Aparicio 1:34
Businesses or regular humans? Yes, and yes, regular people come over and get a ice pick from you. Absolutely,

Andy Kobus 1:39
absolutely, homeowners to perfect the hell do

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Nestor Aparicio 1:43
I need a jackhammer for, except if I need it one time.

Andy Kobus 1:46
One time, come on by,

Nestor Aparicio 1:47
and you got jackhammers,

Andy Kobus 1:48
that’s right.

Nestor Aparicio 1:50
Tell me what you have. I don’t listen what we don’t have. Listen, I’ve been over there one time, you had like this big bull roast over there, and I went over, and there’s all these pretty girls, and all these construction guys and all these sales people and all these hard hat likes and all these clients and these t-shirt people that were nice from Parkville, I met all these people and I’m like looking around, I was scribbling looking at the menu at Sorrento of RB, I was a little overwhelmed, I like, like, what do you do again, United Rental, but like it felt heavy to me. It felt like my hands are too soft, and I don’t have a hat hard enough to go to United Reynolds. That’s what it felt like to me. Wrong.

Andy Kobus 2:30
No, no, not at all. So, my wife’s doing

Nestor Aparicio 2:32
some heavy gardening. Can she come see you?

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Andy Kobus 2:34
Absolutely. You need a tiller, you need something to turn the ground over with, you need an aerator for the, for the law. Yeah, absolutely. Lawn equipment, we do back from

Nestor Aparicio 2:43
Maine. I’ll send her over to you. Yeah, do the lawn. She got a garden now. I said she’s growing it all just for the deer to eat it. Raccoons are going to be in there. These tomatoes are great. Andy Cobus is here. We’re keeping it light here, but we’re about to get heavy. Last time Andy was on a program, he’s brought me various guests, because is it you that’s charitable or United Rentals, or did you go into a role where, like, the person before you did all of this sort of charity average, because I think you’re much more roll your sleeves up about, like, you’re one of those guys, if I call you, you’re always doing something charitably, so you’re like a great guest to have on, because you’ll come on here and know 100 things about something, because you pay attention to that sort of thing.

Andy Kobus 3:25
Yeah, that’s that’s the spiritual currency that I talk about. Fair

Nestor Aparicio 3:30
enough, you know, that’s

Andy Kobus 3:30
that’s what we take with us when we go. Everything else is borrowed or rented, if you will, while we’re here. But yeah, I mean, United Rentals as a whole, I mean, we’re philanthropic organization, we do you know incredible community service events all the time nationwide, and always be involved. I mean, we’re a heavily transactional industry, but those transactions are based around the value of relationships and what better way to deepen relationships and to share passions to get out to the community to find out, you know, how can we make a true impact, and the business comes along with it. And

Nestor Aparicio 4:03
then something you meet someone like Natasha Goins, right, and you learn about her resiliency. And then you beat me up for a year and a half and say, we gotta have her on, we gotta have her on. And I hear on 100.7 and I saw her on TV, and I knew the story before, said, knew what she looked like before I sat next to her, and it never met her. She came over to Coco’s last year with you, and we were working on an event, and I think anybody in the audience out there that has ever heard of her resiliency, it may have been through you, it might have been through Ron Cassie, who knew her well at Baltimore magazine, and people that were advocates, but I was blown away, because I was in Las Vegas. It was Preakness weekend, and I got a text from you about her death, and it happened. I was still in Baltimore when it happened, so it happened on Friday into a Saturday. It was Preakness Day. My wife and I. Went to Laurel, which is weird enough to go to Laurel for Preakness, and then my wife threw me out at the airport, and I flew to Vegas, and when I landed in Vegas, Bill Cole be here a little later on, Bill and I talked about it for the Maryland party. I’m out there with maybe about 1200 Marylanders, and they’re not just Marylanders, and I don’t want to say that one Marylander’s more influential or important, but these are significant, not just financial worth people, but people who work for them and do business for them and are involved in real estate, legal, politics, money, land development, just a lot of people that touch black, white, east, west, suburban, urban, I mean people from all over Maryland, all sorts of different ways, and I can’t begin to tell you, it was all over my timeline, her death, but more than that, like I’m walking the streets and there’s Zeke Cohen, and I mentioned it to him because he posted about her, and then I mentioned it to somebody else who knew her, because I’m out there and the algorithm has people sharing her life story and their loss and their struggle, and then five minutes later I’m at the pool and I’m looking at them, even though I’m in Las Vegas, I had to say something to them about her and being like, oh man, Natasha, I didn’t even know you knew her, and I’m thinking, oh my god, there were just a lot of people I knew who knew her, and I didn’t know her beyond having her on the air for an hour, and through you, but I know this was just an unspeakable tragedy in your space, and I want to invite you at to talk about her and her organization, because her organization lives on and her message lives on, but this has just been an unthinkable tragedy in anyone’s life who knew Natasha over the last six weeks.

Andy Kobus 6:56
Yeah, so thank you a lot, but no, thank you for that. And last conversation I had with Natasha, you know, very brief background, but you know, you can see it all over the internet, there’s interviews, there’s, you know, some of her Substack writing that she was starting to do a little more of, and she was very active after she came on the show with me, she grabbed me

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Nestor Aparicio 7:17
and Facebook and Twitter, and her, she was showing up on my timeline regularly. Yes, yes.

Andy Kobus 7:22
So, and shared more and more, and she’s an incredible human being. The impact that she had and will continue to have in our society. Give her story real quick, for

Nestor Aparicio 7:31
everybody doesn’t know any, but Natasha, sexual assault victim and advocate, but

Andy Kobus 7:35
I mean, against human trafficking, she’s she founded a survivor-led organization called Her Resiliency Center, her not standing for anything, correct. So felt, yeah, Jefferson Fells founded in DC.

Nestor Aparicio 7:51
Her funeral was at the Zenino Funeral Home, correct. The Zenino family was the family of record in my neighborhood, they owned the Sorrentos of my neighborhood, Zeninos. We called them Zaninios. They always laughed at that, but Zanino’s restaurant and catering, and it was the Super Ed. It was the, it was the Royal Farm Store of my neighborhood when I was a boy, you know. So that family name, even in the Highland town. When I saw you have no idea how many neighbors, not relatives, but neighbors of mine have been laid out at Zanina, because everybody I grew up with was from literally that neighborhood that has some challenges, right? That, that, that north side of Highland town is she was there for a reason, right, and helping.

Andy Kobus 8:42
That’s why the last

Nestor Aparicio 8:43
time I drove through that neighborhood, it had some real problems that I also saw in Medellin, and I see in the wrong side of town, you know, women being trafficked. Period. And that’s,

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Andy Kobus 8:53
and as Natasha worked with people through surviving that lifestyle of trafficking, of sex work, of abuse, of homelessness and addiction, we look at that and say that the work that Natasha began was never meant to be completed. It was never a building with a roof to be put on top. It was something that was always to continue. She has left us. We lost her to mental health. The best way that I can say it, there’s words that I refuse to use, but we lost her to a lifelong battle that she could not overcome in the end, and she’s no longer with us in body, but she is with us in spirit. We are all her in a way, through every good deed, through every time we hold a door, every time we smile at someone that may be suffering and hidden in plain sight, as she always said there’s a little bit of her in there, there’s a little bit of that spirit that Natasha endowed to us to say just be a better person, get someone’s name right, that’s very important. The important one of the things she taught me and taught a lot of others is that people love to hear the sound of their own name, it’s not a narcissistic thing, but I try so hard to remember.

Nestor Aparicio 10:00
That just gets you,

Andy Kobus 10:01
you know, when you say it, when you, when you repeat it back to someone, when you, when you give them, and you not just meet them where they are, but get them where they want to be.

Nestor Aparicio 10:11
This beautiful bag you brought me here, her Resiliency Center still functioning. Yes, still open to this day. It is. You can reach the website, you can find humans there because I was very concerned about her, it would be like if I die tomorrow, does WNST carry on, probably not right, you know, I would, I don’t know who’s gonna do it, it could be my wife or my kid, it is up to our board, we have similar board

Andy Kobus 10:37
meetings forthcoming, you brought me

Nestor Aparicio 10:39
some T-shirts out here, so what is her resiliency without Natasha? At this point,

Andy Kobus 10:45
it’s.. it’s difficult. It’s difficult to have the.. you know, she.. she never.. something we realized yesterday. We had a remembrance for her at the Workforce Development Center in on West Franklin Street. Zeke was there, Ivan Bates was there. Thank you, gentlemen, for showing up, and for the 40 plus people that came to say goodbyes, to remember to share stories, to connect in real life that we maybe had not before, but she brought an incredible amount of people together. But for all those that came together, I felt that, yeah, absolutely. She’s not here for me to tell what you are. I’m telling you,

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Nestor Aparicio 11:21
dude, that weekend I walked Zeke, and I had a long chat. We went up on the strip together in the morning, like walking up toward the hotel, and he also had another city solicitor, I think. But either way, like the whole conversation was about Natasha, and I didn’t. Yeah, I’m like, of course, she knows him, she’s involved in government because she was trying to get involved with civic efforts that government has to be a part of, and those kind of organization, and any of those kind of organizations, you have to have governmental help, and it has to be serving people, and that’s what she was trying to do in East Baltimore, is get women off the street that were being trafficked. Period. Right,

Andy Kobus 11:59
right, providing resources, I mean, she believed that one person could truly make a difference, and she’s proved it, and we’ll continue that on.

Nestor Aparicio 12:06
Well, hell, that’s a great shirt for me. Get this in a medium for me, man. You’re big guy, I’m not that.. this is a large thing, gonna shrink, but look at this, man. This is what resilience looks like. Resiliency looks like, right? Perfect shirt. All right, so I don’t say enough about Natasha, but we got to move on, because I want to get a little happier. Andy Cobus is here, he is with United Rentals, as well as her Resiliency. How many boards are you on, dude?

Andy Kobus 12:27
Three currently, next

Nestor Aparicio 12:28
three more than I’m ever getting, getting on. I’m telling all you right now, don’t, did you try to get me onto some board? You all the LLS people, who are now the Blood Cancer United people, they’re really aggressive with me, because they know my wife so much died twice, and they know I’ll, you’re a bigger guy to me, but I got a pretty big heart, you know. They know, like, I don’t do boards, dude. I can’t. I just can’t. I mean, I’ll promote the thing, I’ll put you on a show, I’ll talk about you on social media. I don’t do boards well. I look like I sit on a board, the support matters. You know, what are the other boards you’re on?

Andy Kobus 13:04
So, Baltimore Tourism Association,

Nestor Aparicio 13:06
okay?

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Andy Kobus 13:07
All about bringing revenue and, you know, making a better name for Baltimore, which giving us the respect we deserve. Chris, real way out of town. Yes, mr. Baltimore, that’s our guy, mr.

Nestor Aparicio 13:17
Baltimore, that’s

Andy Kobus 13:18
right. He

Nestor Aparicio 13:18
did the show couple months ago, he was in Roderick’s play, so I mean, Chris is great towards a board. Chris is great, because, like, let’s just say Andy’s got two uncles and three aunts in Montana, and they’re coming to Baltimore, and they want to be shown around, and you could show them around, and I could show them around, and I’m a hell of Chris. When you get sick, you call me, I’ll take over. I mean, you get short notice. Call me on a Saturday morning. I can’t talk anymore. I’ll come down. I’ll do your tour for you, as long as the weather’s good. But giving tours of Baltimore, and how cool Baltimore is, I would just say this, and I say it all the time. I was in Vegas last week, I was in Pittsburgh last month. I go to New York all the time. I was all over South America. I took a bus at 5am from Vegas into LA, so I was in LA last week. I travel, I go places all the time. I was in Philly last week, I mean, Philly and Baltimore, I mean, come on, compare there. But when I think about our town, I mean, I just said Philly, and I picked on Philly, right? But let’s pick on Philly, cheese steaks, sports, ugly sports fans, you know, things they got going on, right? I mean, things are Phillies famous for, right, Baltimore, whether it’s about Cal Ripken or Brooks Robinson or Johnny Year, Ray Lewis or Lamar, you know, whatever your sports thing is. People come here and Fort McHenry, the history, the Civil War history, the proximity to DC and Philly, and the fact that we have the Atlantic Ocean, we have mountains, we’re like American microcosm, you know, we have more, more waterfront space than any other spot in the country, just all of these great assets, but I think we’re well. Here and that we don’t appreciate, you know, we look to Washington and these other places, and we think, like, but when people come here from out of town, like my father-in-law’s in Maine with my wife right now, they’re goofing around up there doing what he does, but whenever he comes here and visits his daughter, my God, he is blown away by the amount of history, he wants to go to Antietam, he wants to go to B and O, he wants to see all the.. I think you could spend a month in Baltimore with Chris Real and the Baltimore tourism people, and I could put you 30 days together of day trips in and around just Baltimore, an hour or two after Frederick, wherever in and around this area, Baltimore, and we have as much to offer as anywhere, anybody in more than most places in America, because of the kind of history we have in our geography. Yet, there

Andy Kobus 15:53
are landmarks and attractions that we are all guilty of not visiting, but we take them for granted because they’re right around the corner. You’ve

Nestor Aparicio 15:59
been to Blackwater,

Andy Kobus 16:00
yeah, a

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Nestor Aparicio 16:01
lot of people haven’t been to Blackwater. I was a guy when a crab cake tour started six years ago, I had never been to Deep Creek Lake,

Andy Kobus 16:09
right?

Nestor Aparicio 16:10
You’ve been to Deep Creek, I’ve been,

Andy Kobus 16:11
yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 16:12
I’m blown away by how many people have never been to Deep Creek Lake. Everybody’s been across the Bay Bridge, everybody’s been Ocean City wants right, but have you gotten off of 50

Andy Kobus 16:22
right to

Nestor Aparicio 16:22
do all the cool Harry Tubman Trail, Blackwater, you know, ride a bike on a road with tobacco and corn on the Eastern Shore, just flat looking at the clouds going Craig or Alan

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Andy Kobus 16:37
Poe,

Nestor Aparicio 16:37
Edgar Allen right here

Andy Kobus 16:38
hadn’t been until about six months ago, John Borders.

Nestor Aparicio 16:44
Next time I get him on, I’m going to ask him if people in Baltimore call him John Wooters, Waters, Wooders, yeah, or Waters. Andy Cobus is here, you can call him over at United Rentals. Tell me what you do at United Rentals, and you’re on one other board. What’s the other board you’re on? The

Andy Kobus 16:58
other one is called the Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation, MCCEI for short. We work with middle and high school kids to get them interested in careers in the trades and construction. There’s the next generation coming up. You got to get them busy. What

Nestor Aparicio 17:13
does that mean? Hold on here. I gotta, because I was a kid that almost went to trade school, almost became a printer at the Southeast Vocational Tech. I wanted to be a journalist, but I toured that school when I was in eighth grade. It was an option. My dad thought I could be a bricklayer, he’s wrong, but, but literally, literally, it’s the kind of things they taught, drafting, you know, all of those work with your hands, right? Like, literally, and Dundalk, that was a very popular EVT, southeast vocational tech, big part of that. Tell me, how that works in the modern era.

Andy Kobus 17:46
So, because

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Nestor Aparicio 17:46
you don’t work with computers if you’re working with anything, right? Like, literally, you’re not going to construct anything without having math skills,

Andy Kobus 17:55
right.

Nestor Aparicio 17:56
Period. Right.

Andy Kobus 17:57
However, however, it’s the every trade needs people, needs brains, needs hands, is always going to need people. There are a lot of jobs there that will not be for the foreseeable future replaced by AI. There are things that are going to need human beings for the foreseeable future, so they’ve got to acquire the skills within the next 10 years. How old are these kids? Seventh,

Nestor Aparicio 18:20
eighth, ninth grade.

Andy Kobus 18:21
Yeah, so this is

Nestor Aparicio 18:22
like sort of ROTC for construction. Period.

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Andy Kobus 18:26
Yeah, it’s exploratory. If you remember exploratory music, where they’d hand you a trumpet, hand you a flute, hand you drums, and tell you, ‘Well, try it all. Oh my

Nestor Aparicio 18:37
god, I drove my mother.. damn thing out of the house, little flute thing, right? Oh man,

Andy Kobus 18:43
see what you like, see what you’re interested in, and keep going if you pick one.

Nestor Aparicio 18:46
Reminded me of Jimmy and HR Puffin stuff, remember that Jimmy the flute, HR Puffing stuff.

Andy Kobus 18:53
Yeah, there

Nestor Aparicio 18:54
was a lot of drugs involved in the question about that. Andy Cobus’s series with United Rentals, as well as her resiliency, we are keeping Natasha goings light alive in her absence. Also, what are the two boards again? MCCI, and then

Andy Kobus 19:12
Baltimore Tourism,

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Nestor Aparicio 19:13
MCCI, MCCI. Okay, it’s like MCI, but MCCI, like the Kansas City airport with Nestor C. Did I promote everything. Okay, yeah, they get everything in.

Andy Kobus 19:24
Good shot. Appreciate it.

Nestor Aparicio 19:25
You ever eaten the Sorrentos?

Andy Kobus 19:26
I have. It’s been a couple years, but yes,

Nestor Aparicio 19:29
we’re Sorrentos of Arbutus. They’re Greek, which means I’m not going to eat again for a month. I came, they brought me pizza. I didn’t want it. I ate it. It was delicious. I ordered a small Greek salad. They brought me large Greek salad. I ordered a crab cake. They brought me two crab cakes. I ordered a small crab. They large ones. I know they’re gonna give me some of these desserts out here because they were already bragging on them. So, Harold’s here, Henry’s here, my man Andy Cobus. Here from United Rentals, you find them on the southwest side of town. They have the big United sign as you pass. Let’s see, are you in Hail for Arbutus or Catonsville or Paradise, or do you not want to argue about it? We’re

Andy Kobus 20:10
gonna call it Hail Thorpe.

Nestor Aparicio 20:12
Why?

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Andy Kobus 20:13
Right off the beltway there, that little, you know, Old Sulfur Springy, right there, right off Old Sulfur Spring again. If you’re not from there, it doesn’t quite matter,

Nestor Aparicio 20:21
you know. I did the show at G and M, everybody famous crab cake, that’s in Anne Arundel County. Did you know that it’s the only thing? It’s the parking lot is the end of Anne Arundel County.

Andy Kobus 20:34
Yep, only because I live at Store Pittman over there. He is the, he is

Nestor Aparicio 20:37
the county executive of there, but across the street, no, across any street, no weird man,

Andy Kobus 20:45
right?

Nestor Aparicio 20:45
That whole cut off somewhere. Well, listen, when I’m from Dundalk, in the east side of town, Eastwood is like John Allen from Stone Horses, and I were hanging, as we talked about it. He said the Eastwood city line, the neighborhood, the row houses, the kids from the county side didn’t hang with the kids from the city side, because the kids from the city side all went to Patterson, went to the city schools, and the kids on the count that we didn’t go to school together, so they didn’t hang, not even at, like, the rec center, and they’re the same neighborhood, because it’s a city and county, you know. I tell Izzy Patoka, who’s running for county executives, I hope you, and you know, the guys, the city and the county guys, get along a little better when we’re on lines, you’re like the police and like things like that, important things, right? I don’t even.. we’re in the county here, but the city’s like just a half, six blocks, eight blocks this way,

Andy Kobus 21:31
right? We’re not

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Nestor Aparicio 21:32
far right here,

Andy Kobus 21:32
right? No, you’re right.

Nestor Aparicio 21:35
I don’t know the politics on the southwest side, I just know the east side of town. I know where the demarcation was on Eastern Avenue, and you know how I knew phone numbers. You had a 2824 you were in Dundalk. You had a 633 you went to Patterson. That’s all

Andy Kobus 21:50
when the numbers meant something

Nestor Aparicio 21:53
at Water Baltimore.

Andy Kobus 21:55
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 21:56
what was your shot? What was your first two digits of your phone number?

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Andy Kobus 22:00
880

Nestor Aparicio 22:01
so you’re like a Parkville guy. What did 88 stand for? Did your parents call it something in Dundalk? It was Atwater,

Andy Kobus 22:08
all right.

Nestor Aparicio 22:09
Two eight was two eight, it was 8080 Atwater,

Andy Kobus 22:13
all right.

Nestor Aparicio 22:14
And because we were in Dunn, I’m talking, this is 1950 stuff, right, but it was called Atwater. I’m doing a little Baltimore history here.

Andy Kobus 22:22
That’s right,

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Nestor Aparicio 22:22
trying Parkville guy. Chris,

Andy Kobus 22:24
paying attention out there.

Nestor Aparicio 22:25
Parkville guys coming over to southwest side of town, trying to teach him geography over here. You don’t know your hail for your arbutus,

Andy Kobus 22:31
that’s right. You know your Cocky’s Ville from your

Nestor Aparicio 22:34
listen. I moved from Dundalk my whole life. I moved out to what I thought was Perry Hall, and they’re like, no, this is White Marsh, no, this is Nottingham, they know Nottingham, nobody’s from Nottingham, at least people from Arbutus, like Schwartz, they claim Arbutus, yeah, people claim Halethorpe, people claim Baltimore Highlands, you know,

Andy Kobus 22:59
Dundalk and Essex, you

Nestor Aparicio 23:00
claim Parkville, don’t you? Don’t call it

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Andy Kobus 23:03
Kearney. Oh, there’s that little tiny, yeah. All right, where the Mars used to be, or if you’re on the city

Nestor Aparicio 23:08
side of Parkville, then you’re like in Hamilton, right? So, you gotta wait,

Andy Kobus 23:13
yeah, unless you’re from there.

Nestor Aparicio 23:15
I’m Baltimore positive, I’m just trying to keep it real, that’s all. I am very much in Arbutus, I know that, because the sign says so. See, like Costa’s, they say they’re in Dundalk. Some people in Sparrow’s Point want to claim them, they want to claim them, and we’re not gonna let that happen. Sign says Dundalk, so if you want Sorrento of Arbutus and Halethorpe or Lansdowne or Baltimore, you can’t have it because it’s an Arbutus. We’re Sorrento of Arbutus, all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery. At the Maryland Treasures, scratch-offs to give away, my dear friend Kate Parish is going to come. We’re going to do Dog We’re Down. We’re going to do Shavasa’s my favorite, so I might take a nap in the next segment. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland Lottery, GBMC, and our friends at Farnham and Dermer. They do HVAC, they do plumbing, and they bailed me out back on April Fool’s Day when I had a flood, so we’re appreciative to them. 410 36777 My thanks to Andy Kob is for doing a difficult segment, and my love to everybody out there that knew Natasha Coins and her resiliency. And I would say to everybody, if you cared about her and about the cause, keep the cause alive and keep the flame burning for her resiliency. You can look it up. I am Nestor. We are at Sorrento of Arbutus. It is the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, and I know this because I’ve already had half a crab cake today. I’m at Sorrento of Arbutus. It was delicious. Back for more from southwest Baltimore on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour. We are Baltimore positive at.