Our guy Zach Dermer of The Comfort Guys has been Birdwatching along with every other baseball fan in the area as the Baltimore Orioles continue to disappoint on the field as they play late into the night on the West Coast. When will Gunnar Henderson burn as hot as your HVAC unit on a summer scorcher? Time to pitch in some orange therapy for all of us…

Nestor Aparicio and Zach Dermer discuss the Orioles’ struggles, particularly Gunnar Henderson’s slump, and the need for better defensive play. They also touch on the Ravens’ potential for a good season and the importance of maintaining HVAC systems. Zach emphasizes the importance of regular service and consistent settings to prevent breakdowns. They also talk about the upcoming Maryland Crab Cake Tour and local attractions like Blackwater Refuge. Nestor shares his experiences with air conditioning and energy efficiency, while Zach highlights the benefits of steady temperature settings. They conclude with a promotion for Farnham and Dermer’s HVAC services.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Publish a column today about Gunner Henderson’s recent slump and its impact on the Orioles, building on the piece started on Sunday.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Write a follow-up piece after the Orioles’ West Coast road trip to evaluate how the team performs and what it means for their future direction.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Attend the Orioles game at Sorrento on Wednesday as planned.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring Maryland lottery scratch-offs to the Sorrento Orioles game on Wednesday.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Host the Green Mount Station Orioles game event next Wednesday with Chris and Dave, including the Orioles–Angels game and related activities.
• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring Maryland lottery scratch-offs to the Green Mount Station event next Wednesday.
• [ ] Appear as a guest on the show next week to discuss Farnham & Dermer and related topics.
• [ ] Attend the Green Mount Station event next Wednesday as a guest and Orioles fan.

Orioles and Ravens Summer Update

• Nestor Aparicio discusses the current state of the Orioles, mentioning their West Coast trip and the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
• Nestor talks about the weather in Baltimore, mentioning a recent trip to LA and the need for air conditioning.
• Zach Dermer joins the conversation, wearing a colorful shirt from American Standard Heating and Air Conditioning.
• Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of regular maintenance for air conditioning units, especially during hot weather.

Orioles’ Performance and Player Issues

• Nestor and Zach discuss the Orioles’ recent performance, focusing on the struggles of Gunnar Henderson and the team’s inconsistency.
• Nestor expresses concern about Henderson’s slump and its impact on the team’s future.
• Zach mentions other players like Adley Rutschman and Colton Cowser, noting their potential and current performance.
• Nestor criticizes the Orioles’ management, particularly Mike Elias, and speculates about potential changes in the organization.

Defensive Issues and Future Outlook

• Nestor highlights the Orioles’ defensive issues, particularly at shortstop and third base, and the lack of attention to defense.
• Zach agrees that the team needs to improve defensively and mentions the long season ahead.
• Nestor discusses the potential for trading players like Henderson and the impact on the team’s future.
• Zach and Nestor talk about the importance of having a reliable air conditioning system during hot weather.

Ravens and Football Season

• Nestor and Zach shift the conversation to the Ravens, discussing the team’s potential for a good season and the upcoming games.
• Zach mentions the Ravens’ relevance and the importance of the football season for Baltimore sports fans.
• Nestor talks about the Ravens’ upcoming game in Rio and the challenges of traveling to Brazil.
• Zach shares his experiences with traveling and the importance of staying safe while abroad.

Summer HVAC Tips and Personal Experiences

• Nestor and Zach discuss the importance of keeping air conditioning units running consistently during hot weather.
• Zach provides tips for maintaining HVAC systems and the benefits of steady temperature settings.
• Nestor shares his personal habits of turning off the air conditioning at night and the impact on comfort.
• Zach and Nestor talk about their different preferences for sleeping temperatures and the impact on their comfort.

Maryland Crab Cake Tour and Local Attractions

• Nestor promotes the Maryland Crab Cake Tour and the upcoming event at Green Mount Station.
• Zach and Nestor discuss the different Maryland treasures and the Maryland Crab Cake Tour options.
• Nestor recommends visiting Blackwater Refuge and describes its unique beauty and attractions.
• Zach expresses interest in exploring new places and taking his family on future trips.

Final Thoughts and Contact Information

• Nestor and Zach wrap up the conversation, emphasizing the importance of reliable HVAC services.
• Zach provides contact information for Farnham and Dermer, highlighting their services and availability.
• Nestor thanks Zach for his participation and support for the Maryland Crab Cake Tour.
• The conversation ends with a reminder of the upcoming event at Green Mount Station and the importance of staying comfortable during the summer.

Nestor Aparicio 0:01
Welcome home. We are W N S T A M 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive, positively getting the Maryland Crab Cake Tour out on the road. It’s summertime, you know. I’m feeling a little breezy. We got World Cup going on, we got the NBA and NHL done. The Orioles are on the West Coast this week. I’ll be at Sorrento of our views this week, on Wednesday, I will have the Maryland treasure scratch-offs. I keep holding the Ocean City one up, because I, the weather’s getting better, but I haven’t felt beachy. I mean, it was 68 degrees when I was in LA on the beach last week, in Manhattan Beach. I couldn’t get in, but I am waiting to get a little beachy around here. Our friends at GBMC, keeping us safe and well, as well as our friends at Farnham and Dermer, you see me wear the fun. I think this, I feel like John Miller, Oriole broadcaster, John Giants broadcaster, ESPN broadcaster, John Miller. In this, they are the comfort guys. I must say, Zach Dermer, this is a very comfortable shirt, and I don’t know if it’s the American Standard Heating and Air Conditioning logo on the other side or not, but like you got me this weird colorful shirt and you’re making me wear it and I look at all it looks like the Orioles might be in second place when I wear this shirt because it’s so bright and orange right

Zach Dermer 1:09
that’s that’s festive it’s it looks good on you what

Nestor Aparicio 1:12
do you got there is that a red what do you it’s a

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Zach Dermer 1:14
red yeah not not quite as as spiffy as your worst but uh

Nestor Aparicio 1:18
I don’t know that’s pretty dressy that’s pretty

Zach Dermer 1:20
right. This is Jerry.

Nestor Aparicio 1:22
I’m going to the Oriole game, and I’m looking for an Oriole Hawaiian shirt. Look,

Zach Dermer 1:26
there you go. I don’t know, it’s

Nestor Aparicio 1:28
fine with me. How are things, man? How’s your summer? I mean, busy. We had a couple days where it was 100 degrees, but like not so much. And like Bill Cole in the rooms, he’s like, you know, we don’t cheer for the bad weather, but when it comes, it keeps our business going, and I’m thinking with you, the heating air conditioning thing, when someone’s ish breaks on a hot day, the mistake was not calling you in the off season, right? I mean, it really, I’m not, I’m not trying to source this, but I’m just trying to say, if it’s broken and you haven’t been serviced since 2018 It’s kind of on you, right? Yeah, so this is before we get into sports with you and me and your family and all your business and our sponsorship. The biggest thing is it’s working today. When is the last time you had its service? That’s what you want to know when it’s going to be 92 degrees, right?

Zach Dermer 2:15
Oh, absolutely. And the weather we’re having, it’s so up and down, you gotta the minute you have an issue, you want it’s not going to get better. Call us, we’ll take care of it. Don’t wait until it’s 110 degrees. And

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Nestor Aparicio 2:28
yeah,

Zach Dermer 2:29
so,

Nestor Aparicio 2:30
so, so that’s it. We can talk, we can talk sports. Just give them a call, 410 36777 or find them online. Farnham and Dermer, hard to say, easy to get to you. They are the comfort guys. All right, so where are you in the whole sports thing? Here, you want to talk football, you want to talk baseball? Which one you want today? Yeah,

Zach Dermer 2:45
hopefully some baseball on West Coast. Yeah, it’s not the weather here in Maryland. We’re like the birds, just up and down. It’s pretty. Hope you’re

Nestor Aparicio 2:55
doing better on calls than they’ve done here recently. They are, yeah, you know. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 2:59
we’re batting about 500 but yeah, I mean, it’s just.. it’s tough every time they get win three games in a row, they just.. they lose four Henderson

Nestor Aparicio 3:11
thing for me. I started to write about it on Sunday. I’m probably going to put a column up, a column Nestor at some point today, because other people were writing about it, and I’m like, wow, of all the things we were talking about, Luke and I on Monday morning after the weekend with the Padres and Manny Machado, and him getting away, and Chris Davis’s money, and who’s going to get the money, boy, the fact that Gunner Henderson’s lost it for the last 60 days is stunning to me, you know. I could see Alonso being streaky. I mean, what happened to Ruchman the last couple years has been befuddling as well, but this Henderson, this trench he’s in at this point, I feel like whenever he gets out of it, look out, because if yours are going to win 12 or 14 or something like that. It’s going to be when he goes on a tear and hits eight home runs in a week, because he’s capable of doing that. I just, I mean, I saw the Eddie Murray’s, and you know, the Palmera, the really good player, the guys that are consistent the way he’s been at the early part of his career. I’m just shocked that this has happened to him, that he’s found himself in this trench, and I’m not saying I hope he hits himself. I feel like he will, and I feel like whenever that happens, there will be an awakening for the franchise. Because, dude, let’s be honest, what we talk about, all these players, you want, he’s their best player.

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Zach Dermer 4:32
Yeah, he’s supposed to be the superstar, and I don’t know if you call this a slump. Yeah, how long it’s been going on for?

Nestor Aparicio 4:38
I call it a trench.

Zach Dermer 4:40
Yeah, I mean, it’s, it’s puzzling. I mean, he just doesn’t look great. I was looking at it this morning, the OD Tavares has a higher OPS than him. That’s not

Nestor Aparicio 4:50
bet on that April. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 4:51
exactly. I mean, Colton Kaliszer is catching up, and look at the April that Colton Kauser had. So, I mean, it’s a Gunner’s got a, got to start performing. Yeah, if we want any chance to.. well, there’s a

Nestor Aparicio 5:02
ceiling on Gunner Henderson. I don’t know where the ceiling is on Colton Kauser, and I guess we all have changed where our ceiling could be on Adley Ruchman based on the last year and a half, but he looks like he’s back. Alonso looks like it’s coming on. The pitching even looks like it could be coming on, but all that being said, the defense beyond all of all of this as an organizational fire, Michael I, so maybe if this is the last time you and I got together, I wrote my fire Michaelias piece, the lack of attention to defense in this organization, top to bottom in this administration, for what I see on a nightly basis, your pitching can be good, but if routine ground balls are being thrown into the dugout and you’re giving the team four outs, two or three innings a game, you’re gonna pay for that.

Zach Dermer 5:50
Oh, absolutely. And they need to be better across the board. I mean, it’s just.. it’s a long season, you know. We’re close to halfway in.

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Nestor Aparicio 5:57
I don’t think they can be better defensively. That’s the part.. like, I’m convinced Henderson’s going to hit the ball. I’m not really convinced he’s going to be a great shortstop. No,

Zach Dermer 6:05
he’s not a great shortstop. But what’s the solution? I mean, at shortstop, anyways. I mean,

Nestor Aparicio 6:11
Jackson Holiday was a shortstop, Kobe Manga was a short.. I mean, that’s that is the.. that’s the Allies playbook, right? That’s a major league baseball playbook, right? Draft, draft shortstops, and center fielders, and you wind up with athletes, right, that you could, you can move, you have flexibility to move a shortstop to second base or third, which is what Jackson Holiday did, Westberger third base, we thought that was locked down, that’s not locked down now, lot of questions, and I think more than that, over the next six weeks, it’s that, and forget Lock and Fora, who’s been firing Elias for about three years now. I’ve been firing Elias for a year, ever since he fired the manager and hid. Oh, yeah, if I had the manager and you hide, you’re not just man up and just talk, just not.. there’s.. there’s no.. there’s no coming back from that for me. That was, that was poor, and, and Mike Elias is poor. I mean, I’ll say that on, like, front facing for an empty stadium in this organization, working on a second ownership group. He’s going to get fired. He’s, he is. I mean, it might not happen today, tomorrow, might not even have the end of this year, because the owner looks like mr. Magoo at this point, but for me it’s not good enough, and the philosophy’s not good enough, and it’s John Angelos’ guy. I think we’re a weird borrowed time, and I think these next six weeks, and I probably should write about this on the at the end of this road trip, see how they do. I mean, whatever direction they’re going to take, this trading deadline, the value that Ruchman and Henderson currently have, that they’ll never have in the trading market again, and whether that means they can win the World Series next year or the year after, before they.. that’s why the Machado thing was so interesting to me, because they wrote him to the end, they never offered him a contract again. These are the Angeles people. You didn’t expect a contract, but it completely mismanaged his value as

Zach Dermer 8:06
a, a

Nestor Aparicio 8:07
popped superstar, as opposed to what Heston cursed at Colton Cowser. Those guys are worthless. No, no offense, and I don’t know where Henderson is, if they were to deal him with an ops less than the Ody Tavares, not that they’re going to deal him, but they better get their ish together for what their vision is going to be, mr. Money Bags and Hot Dog Runner, because this isn’t, this isn’t going. When’s the last time you went to the ballpark? You going down?

Zach Dermer 8:39
So I was there, you were, you were at the game too. It was the double header, I forgot, was the ancestors like double header. I was there for the first game, I think. You saw the good one, I saw the last, yeah, exactly. I mean, it’s just something needs to change, and if we go on this West Coast swing, you know, if we go three and six,

Nestor Aparicio 8:56
it’s over.

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Zach Dermer 8:57
It then, what happened? I mean, did you consider trading Gunner? I mean, is that craziness? The I don’t know, and if you’re

Nestor Aparicio 9:05
considering trading him, why are you letting Michaelia’s do it?

Zach Dermer 9:09
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 9:10
that was the Dan Duquette thing. Dan Duquette was already fired when he traded Manny Machado, right? Remember, Machado showed up in DC, talked to me, wound up in a Dodgers uniform for a week and a half, right? You know, right around that trading deadline, right around the all-star break. I mean, Dean Kramer, and what was that guy’s name, that the outfielder that never yelled, I remember his name? He had a funny name, he never made it. He was the, he was the linchpin in the deal. I don’t even remember. Yeah, I don’t

Zach Dermer 9:40
call

Nestor Aparicio 9:40
yo, yo, yeah. I don’t remember. I’ll look it up in a minute. Yeah,

Zach Dermer 9:43
it’ll come to you.

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Nestor Aparicio 9:44
Doesn’t matter. He, no, it doesn’t. It’s like Juan Bell. It doesn’t matter. Juan Bell was the Eddie Murray guy that has never made it before your time, but that’s all right. I’m wondering the philosophy of the whole thing, the whole thing. What’s this going to be, other than an all-star game for Katie? Yeah, you know, which is coming, right? But I saw the national TV game last week, and when a stadium looks empty, the soul looks empty, and the national people don’t shoot it the way the Mass and people shoot it. No, Massive people, Peter turned this on 15 years ago. Told Rock about going all them, we don’t want him in anywhere in the picture ever. And Fox comes in, or Major League Baseball comes in, and they shoot it like a regular game, and all you see is just that there are 8000 people in the stadium, and it breaks my heart, Zach. It really does. You know, like I want them to be more effective than they’ve been, but this is really about these next six weeks, compete, not compete, doesn’t matter, they’re not winning the World Series this year. What are they doing to raise the bar for the organization over the next five years with these assets that they have, and they have a depressed asset right now in Henderson.

Zach Dermer 11:00
Yeah, oh, there’s no, no two ways about that. So, it’ll be interesting to see. It could go the opposite way. I mean, things could start clicking, and if they go six and three on this road trip, then we’re talking a little bit differently. But it’s so up and down, it’s just so hard for them to find a rhythm right now.

Nestor Aparicio 11:16
What’s it like to be young and be able to stay up late?

Zach Dermer 11:19
Um, about that, I do not stay up late. I am not gonna be watching these West Coast games.

Nestor Aparicio 11:24
Oh, so you just, you back out. I’ll

Zach Dermer 11:28
fire up the Twitter machine in the morning and see what the score is, but, uh, no, I’m to sleep usually by close to nine. Sometimes I do

Nestor Aparicio 11:36
wonder how many people are awake, and I often wondered that, you know, I took phone calls here back when you were a young guy, and I would often wonder when they would take these, you know, 2003 they go off to the West Coast, and I’m wondering who’s calling the show tomorrow, and did they really stay up and watch the game, you know, because, like, it’s hard to stay up late every night with this, this week they have an afternoon game on Wednesday this week, same thing next week when they get to, to get to LA, and you’re coming by, by the way, by the way, we’re doing the show next week, by the way, Zach Dermer is our guest, he is foreign and Dermer, the Comfort guys, he’s an Oriole and Raven guy, tell everybody about your business and about the 150 years and family and crazy uncles and dads and all the stuff you got going on,

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Zach Dermer 12:21
not quite 150 not, not yet, but at that time, my, my boys will be running, run the show, but yeah, we’re heating and air conditioning guys, how many

Nestor Aparicio 12:30
100 and what, how many,

Zach Dermer 12:31
124

Nestor Aparicio 12:34
I said 150 I’m not wrong, been

Zach Dermer 12:37
around a long, long time,

Nestor Aparicio 12:39
250 and I noticed that I knew that when I saw the guys fighting in the cage the other night, I’m like,

Zach Dermer 12:44
yeah, there you go,

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Nestor Aparicio 12:45
let’s celebrate a reminder, let’s celebrate, let’s do 50, yeah, exactly,

Zach Dermer 12:48
but we’ve been around a long time, we’re a family owned, family operator, you call and you talk to one of either myself, my dad, or my uncle, and we take care of whatever you need, you know, heating, air conditioning, if you need a new system, if you need to repair maintenance plans, we also do plumbing. We help, yeah, Net Nestor out with some plumbing in his house. It’s

Nestor Aparicio 13:06
not sexy work, believe no,

Zach Dermer 13:07
it’s not. And there’s nothing sexy

Nestor Aparicio 13:09
when your wife calls you and says there’s water, come in, call Zach, call the comfort guys, and I’m like, and you’re there in an hour, and she figured I had to turn the master breaker off, and next thing you know, we’re not.

Zach Dermer 13:21
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 13:22
I do have a stain on the carpet from the flood.

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Zach Dermer 13:24
Yeah, but actually funny, but not funny. I mean, we were at the beach this past weekend. You mentioned Ocean City earlier. Ocean City,

Nestor Aparicio 13:31
or one of those Delaware guys? No,

Zach Dermer 13:33
no, no, Ocean City. All right, yeah. So we’re down at the ocean this past weekend. I come home, it was late Sunday night. It was 1030 11 o’clock. We’re all tired. The kids are mostly asleep. We’re trying to transfer them to their cribs and beds and whatever. I go down in the basement, we have two cats scooping the cat litter box, and I hear trip, drip, drip, drip. Yeah, I have a pretty, pretty nasty leak that popped up. Yeah, fortunately me, I knew Sean would be there in the morning and took care of it, but do

Nestor Aparicio 14:06
this right? Like, when Sean came over, he said we have like a soft pipe or something, and I’m like, well, sediment things, right? I mean, there, even if it’s made of stainless, like, whatever it is, there is age beats everything up, you know. Everything in my place was built in 1984 That feels like a minute and a half ago. Then I realized, like, my kid’s about to turn 42 He was born in 1980 in 1984 And I’m thinking to myself, man, 42 years of water going through pipes, 42 And I think the same thing of like an air conditioning unit, like I think, well, if I just bought it in 2012 it feels like I just bought it a minute ago. No, it’s been 14 years. When’s the last time you had it serviced? Oh, before Covid. Well, on a hot day it’s gonna break.

Zach Dermer 14:46
Oh, absolutely. And I’m the world’s

Nestor Aparicio 14:48
worst guy about those filters and stuff, you know that, right?

Zach Dermer 14:51
Oh, yeah. Well, hey, that’s the most important thing that you can do. You change your filters and you’re going to be in better shape than most. But yeah, I mean, it’s one of those things you kind of set it and forget. It, it’s again not a fun purchase to make, but it’s nice when you have somebody you can count on, and you can definitely count on us, and you have been able to for a long, long time. It is not a

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Nestor Aparicio 15:11
sexy business, but when you’re air conditioning, you’re eating breaks, or your plumbing’s a mess, you need to come for guys far in the Dermer Zach. Dermer is here, they’re not knowing smells, but they go everywhere, and they give me fun shirts to wear, and they’ve even tortured Luke with some interesting new gear that he’ll be wearing here very soon. You got anything football in your mind? I mean, or is it just gone for a little while? Because, like, and next week we’re going to get together, you and me, at Green Mount Station. I’m going to be back up with Chris and Dave up at the Green Mount Bowl and Green Mountain Station. I’ll have some Maryland lottery scratch-offs as well. The Orioles play the Angels that afternoon, so when you and I get together, I think Howard Chair’s coming out, Casper Wells, former Major League outfielder, who was the Visionary of the Year for Blood Cancer United. He sells insurance for Heller Co. It’s as well. So we’re gonna give me a little baseball hoot nanny next Wednesday, last game of the nine on the West coast, and we’re going to get up there. I keep thinking to myself, this thing’s falling down the mountain. You’ve already said you’re not going to watch him play this week, because they’re playing in the middle of the night. So, you get out of the routine. Raskin says he’s going to the beach, which means Delaware for him, because he’s a tax monger. On that, people start getting away, right? You know, I’m planning my Rush Brazilian tour in January, and I love baseball. I hate bad baseball. I hate feeling like they can’t win, and it’s very easy to not watch them in July and August that they’re 10 games under 500 and I just hope that by the time you and I get together on Wednesday up at Green Mount, that this thing hasn’t fallen down the mountain this weekend at Dodger Stadium, because it’s they’re in peril. I mean, as, as, as a franchise, as an organization with the strike coming with these owners that clearly don’t know what they’re doing, they just, they don’t have a grip on this. Katie Griggs, there’s no grip on this. The manager looks in over his head. I’ve already fired the general manager. They’re superstars languishing. This is football season’s around the corner quickly, and we’re all going to be in the football season, whether the Orioles are winning or not. Because I think we all do believe deep down, and we won’t know until we know september 13, they don’t play for 90 days. We think they’re going to be a good football team, so at least we have that. And I guess when the Orioles fall apart, there is the fact that we’re gonna have a real football season here this year, for sure.

Zach Dermer 17:32
Yeah, you can always count on the Ravens to at least be relevant. They might not be perfect, but they should have a good year. I mean, if everything clicks, there’s no reason they don’t contend, so it’s a lot better than Crosby

Nestor Aparicio 17:47
at all, or no?

Zach Dermer 17:48
Ah, it’ll be entered. We don’t play the Raiders this year, right? So, yeah, that would be quite the battle.

Nestor Aparicio 17:56
I had JT the Brick on last week before I went to Vegas. I called him, had him on. He wasn’t in Vegas, we didn’t hang out, but he laid into the Costa, and if you saw the Max Crosby podcast, when he talked about flying,

Zach Dermer 18:09
yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 18:10
into Dulles,

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Zach Dermer 18:12
yes,

Nestor Aparicio 18:13
being driven to Owings Mills, and then not greeted,

Zach Dermer 18:16
yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 18:18
man, it just smells, you would not want to treat your customers at Farnham and Dermer, or the way that I would not want to treat you as my sponsor at Farnham and Dermer, of course. Like, I just.. the level of arrogance is it’s on display for everyone. The fact that I’m thrown out, the fact that Pashadi disappeared, the fact that Pashadi watched the press conference for his coach, and didn’t even get up and put his arm around the coach and say, “This is my guy. Like, it’s just very.. they’re going to, by the way, they’re going to Rio. Raskin announced that he’s going to Rio with them. You know, anybody gets going?

Zach Dermer 18:55
Not that I know of, but I’m sure many people are going,

Nestor Aparicio 18:59
right? People are going.

Zach Dermer 19:00
Yeah, that back in my day, I would maybe consider going, but I know you’ve been to that area and don’t have great things to say about it. I mean, is it not the safest, is that right? Or we

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Nestor Aparicio 19:12
live in Baltimore, so, like, I, you know, it’s all..

Zach Dermer 19:16
it’s all relative.

Nestor Aparicio 19:17
Couple things I’ll say about traveling, just because you ask, and people ask me this, and like we’re friends, if we’re out at a bar having a beer, I tell you this. The perception of America and safety in America is that we’re the most unsafe place on earth, because we kill each other, and we all have guns. We have a lot of guns, we have more guns than we love our guns, and the thing about rolling around South America for me, as this dude just walking around, getting mugged, having your cell phone taken, getting kidnapped, that’s a whole different game in South America, but well, I mean, I’m just speaking out loud, kidnappings happen here, ask Savannah Guthrie’s mother, right, like. Mean, like that happens here too, but down there everybody doesn’t have a gun, so the notion that I’m in Las Vegas last week outside of Mandalay Bay, where anybody could be up in the window with a machine gun, like that doesn’t exist in South America, so there is a thought that you’re more unsafe, or whatever, petty crime, pocket crime, kid dropping an ice cream cone on your shoe, you bend over your wallet’s gone, yeah, stuff you

Zach Dermer 20:25
can deal with, move on. And I

Nestor Aparicio 20:26
don’t know, but deal with, I don’t want to be, you know, it was not in my interest to feel violated in South America. As I walked through, I did everything I could do to not have that happen, but I would just say, of all the places on earth I’ve been that had been dodgy, Brazil’s dodgy, that’s all I’m gonna say. The places I’ve been, where you better be, I stayed sober in South America the whole time I was there, because I was alone, and like, even like a second or third drink didn’t feel like a really good idea for me. Just rounding, you know what I mean. And I think people feel that way, like, go to New York, bang, bang, I go to Chicago, bang, bang. I’m like, I live in Baltimore. I drive through West Baltimore, like, there’s guns everywhere. Trust me, Bear will tell me, um, anybody will tell you. So, I think the level of fear of Brazil is founded, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go. And I would just say it’s dodgy. I mean, it’s just not like being here, you know. People are afraid of Jamaica, people are afraid of South Florida, afraid of things I don’t live my life, and I mean people are afraid of Inglewood. I was there five days ago. You

Zach Dermer 21:28
can’t let anything hold you back.

Nestor Aparicio 21:30
Tell people, go, man, go, but just know that it’s not going to be like being here, that’s all.

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Zach Dermer 21:36
Yeah, well, whatever it is, hopefully it’s a good, a good game. And I think last time we’re abroad was that, uh, that did

Nestor Aparicio 21:42
not go well. It didn’t go well. No, we went over two years ago. We played over there, Tottenham.

Zach Dermer 21:47
Okay, I’m thinking of the time we played the Jaguars. Yeah, that was

Nestor Aparicio 21:51
everybody’s taking off. We played over there two years ago. Did we play? I didn’t go, but we played, so we played in Tottenham two years ago.

Zach Dermer 21:57
Okay, yeah.

Nestor Aparicio 22:00
Well, hey dude, this is going to be annual, right? This league is gonna, we’re gonna be the next ones playing in Sydney, or

Zach Dermer 22:07
absolutely,

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Nestor Aparicio 22:08
you know, Brazil this year. I think they get a year or two off, like part of the rotation, so once they go to the 18 game schedule, then everybody, two games, yep, you know, they’re gonna wind up playing all over the place. You know, what I’m really kind of shocked that they haven’t played in Canada. You know, I’m shocked they haven’t taken a game across lately. I mean, they took Buffalo over there, now they got the new stadium, they’ll never play in Toronto again, because they’re playing in Buffalo. So, you know, this expression of moving them places, Tokyo, other places that they could play, that’s awesome. As a fan, I think, as a Ravens fan, if I were doing trips still, would I do a Brazil trip? Maybe, but I would be very concerned about my patrons taking my patrons to Brazil. Was I took, I took 230 people to London in 2017 I would feel very concerned taking people to Brazil, just to, you know, you have to get your visa, you got there’s a lot of things you got to do that are above and beyond in regard to tour groups taken to a place like Brazil, for me, and I’m not a tour operator, yeah,

Zach Dermer 23:14
no, exactly,

Nestor Aparicio 23:15
I was a fan that ran busses, like, you know, like you’re a fan that runs air conditioning and heating, Zach Dormer’s here. He is the what’s your title there? You have the official title, Chief Cook Bottle.

Zach Dermer 23:26
Yeah, exactly. Anything. We wear multiple hats. We don’t, we don’t do titles around here. But

Nestor Aparicio 23:32
all right. Well, I’ll call you 410 367777 Heating, air conditioning, and plumbing, and it’s that time of the year. Don’t, it’s going to be 102 one day soon, and when it does, why do air conditions break? Can you,

Zach Dermer 23:48
I mean, just, just like anything else with the car, I mean, just the more miles you get on it, it’s just things happen, things get loose. You want a unit, when it’s 100 degrees outside, obviously that unit is running pretty much non stop to cool your house, and things over. It doesn’t run in while either, right? They lay dormant, literally are beating on the thing. Yeah, after a beautiful day like today, I slept. I slept with my air conditioning off last night. That pisses you off, I know. BGE too, by the way. Yeah, definitely save me money, so I’m happy. But my whole thing is I’m not using it, I’m not using it, and that’s good, but then when you turn it on, it’s it’s pedal to the metal on a really hot day, right? Yeah, absolutely, and it’s coming. I think Thursday’s supposed to be 9092 93 One thing, just kind of a helpful tip for our listeners here, when it is hot, yeah, many people do this just to save a couple bucks, when in reality it doesn’t. If it’s very hot and it’s going to be hot for several days, you want to keep that unit running at kind of a steady temperature. A lot of people set it back at night, or you know, during the day, if they’re not home, but then the unit has to work so much harder to get back to the temperature. And that’s where we see a lot of units break down, just

Nestor Aparicio 25:02
sleep at night, like science would say, you want to be cold when you sleep, right? I had friends of mine that we did this science experiment, like 20 years, they invited me and my wife to sleep at their house, and they lived out in the Midwest, and they kept their place, it was so cold in their house, like I couldn’t believe it, like it was unbelievable. How, like, in the ’60s, and that’s not my blood, does not roll like that, like. And I know, and my wife thinks like that, because she reads books, and I’m like, and yeah, she’s post menopause. We were completely different temperatures, you know? I got the heater on in the bed, and she’s half naked, and it’s 48 degrees in the house, right. So, like, we were totally different in that way, but I, that is a fascinating study, for because she does have it set different day at night, like she has, like, a 10 o’clock setting on it for it to go down a degree or two, because she needs it, she can’t sleep, she got to work, you know. My ass off, and I sleep in a sweatshirt with a heater on in the bed, we have a heater on sides of the bed. You sound making that up, like we have two different little units, right? So, but that felt that feels like a very normal thing to do, that people that read want to sleep at a cooler temperature, and it’s already cooler at night to begin with, because the sun’s not correct. So, you’re saying you want a 24 hour,

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Zach Dermer 26:22
keep it steady, and also, for a lot of times, people are uncomfortable because the humidity creeps up, and obviously you don’t see that number on the thermostat, it’s just temperature, but the longer that unit can run, yes, you’re going to pay PG a couple bucks more, but you’re going to be comfortable and potentially prevent the unit from breaking down. Am

Nestor Aparicio 26:39
I an idiot for not having it on right now. I mean, like, I literally turned it off because when I open windows at night, I turn it off, and then I don’t turn it on till I get hot as hell, and that happens a lot later when my wife’s not here. You know what I mean? Like, on an 88 degree day, I can in the shade hang with the windows open without putting it on, and no offense to you or or to PGA, but every minute of every day I’m not running that thing.

Zach Dermer 27:04
No,

Nestor Aparicio 27:05
I feel like Spanky and Alf Alpha, like I feel like, yeah, I’m saving money, I’m saving money. But then there is the point where if you have an older system and you crank it up on Thursday and say, I haven’t run it in a week, and you go from zero to 100 that I’m going to be calling 410 36777 and nuts off and waiting for Sean to show up, and hoping that your same day service is real.

Zach Dermer 27:25
It certainly is.

Nestor Aparicio 27:27
Service is real, unless I call you like 6:15pm

Zach Dermer 27:30
Hey, we’ll be there 630 We are, we’re always there for you, but not just keep the units running. Yeah, it obviously, it’s unfortunate to pay BJ, but you got to pay them anyways. You want to be comfortable, you don’t know, you can’t talk

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Nestor Aparicio 27:43
me into it.

Zach Dermer 27:44
I mean, I keep, I sleep at 61 degrees, so you may, and I’m not even kidding. So,

Nestor Aparicio 27:50
where do you live?

Zach Dermer 27:51
We’re in Reisterstown. I ain’t coming in

Nestor Aparicio 27:52
there anywhere near where I’m not even gonna, I’m not even gonna go to Glendon if you’re keeping your place at 61 degrees.

Zach Dermer 27:58
Yeah, well, we have a mini split, so a ductless unit in our bedroom, just like supplemental. I don’t freeze the kids out quite that bad, but

Nestor Aparicio 28:07
some bougie-ish in your house, being an HVAC guy, you’d have to, you know, most renowned HVAC. And look, all I want to do is be comfortable, and I don’t want to have to call you when a thing breaks and it’s 110 degrees. So that’s all I’m trying to do. Oh, and I don’t want to get BG and E, an arm and a leg either.

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Zach Dermer 28:23
Understood.

Nestor Aparicio 28:24
So, when you tell me to keep it on the same setting, all I’m thinking is you work for the man, you work for BG, you know? I’m thinking, and you’re like, no, no, no, this is like economically, if you’re going to run it on a hot on a hot day, I’m I’m not going to open the windows.

Zach Dermer 28:38
Yeah, I’m not opening

Nestor Aparicio 28:39
the windows when it’s 77 at night, they

Zach Dermer 28:41
don’t want to bake out. Yeah. Oh, no, no,

Nestor Aparicio 28:43
no. I don’t want to feel like I’m in a, you know, at war and nom in a hole in middle of no, no, no. I don’t, I don’t want that glaze of sweat over my, my upper lip like I get when I walk in a yoga class. You know, like I don’t like being uncomfortable, but there is a point for me. It’s really expensive to run the unit. I feel that,

Zach Dermer 29:03
yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, you’re that way,

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Nestor Aparicio 29:05
having my light on right here, like you know, just having a, having a computer running, you know?

Zach Dermer 29:09
No, but I mean, HVAC is the biggest user of energy, and that’s it’s not even close. It’s probably two thirds of your bill, so I mean, I get that, but it’s a balance, and you don’t necessarily have to keep it.

Nestor Aparicio 29:20
Well, mine’s off right now. Just tell me it’s gonna be 92 on Thursday. I’m about to turn it on eventually. Just get

Zach Dermer 29:26
ready, just set an early alarm. Get ready.

Nestor Aparicio 29:28
All right, Zach Dermer, we’re gonna fight about temperature, you and I. I see we have a new war. 61 degree

Zach Dermer 29:34
feels good. It’s not for health, but not health reasons, or what kind of sweatshirt do

Nestor Aparicio 29:38
you wear?

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Zach Dermer 29:39
No sweatshirt, I’m

Nestor Aparicio 29:42
degrees. My nipples will be cutting glass. What’s wrong? I be shivering, Dennis, with broken teeth. 61 degrees,

Zach Dermer 29:52
that’s nice. Trust me,

Nestor Aparicio 29:54
man. My people are from the from the equator. I’m Venezuelan, man. You know, gets below 72 I’m, I’m shivering, man. Zach Dermer is here, that’s why he’s here. He’s the comfort guy. So, whether you’re Comfort 72 or 61 they can make you comfortable. They are the Comfort guys at Fernando Dermer. 410 36777 You can find them at the Comfort Guys as well. You hear them, you see them. They put us out on the road on their Maryland Crab Cake Tour. And hey, which one are you taking next week? When you come out to Green Mount St. You can take the horses, you’re gonna take the boardwalk, you’re gonna take the bridge, or you’re gonna take the crustaceans. What are you gonna take?

Zach Dermer 30:26
Um, let’s do the crustaceans. All right, there you most likely. Yeah. Have

Nestor Aparicio 30:30
you ever been to Blackwater Refuge?

Zach Dermer 30:31
I have not.

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Nestor Aparicio 30:33
And you went to Ocean City last weekend.

Zach Dermer 30:35
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 30:35
you drove right by it. All right, let me give you some good advice. I’m not sure if this is the Blackwater Refuge in the Maryland treasures, picture like that, but it is so. When you get to Cambridge, you know, you go across the Bill Burton Bridge at Cambridge, and you pull on the, you pull into Cambridge, and the road makes that left, right, and there’s a Chick-fil-A and a CVS, because there’s one on every corner, and a Wise, and a Royal Farm. You make the right right there in Cambridge, and there’s a brown sign that says Blackwater Refuge.

Zach Dermer 31:04
Okay,

Nestor Aparicio 31:05
how old are your kids?

Zach Dermer 31:07
Five, two, and like six months.

Nestor Aparicio 31:09
Six months isn’t going to appreciate this, but five might.

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Zach Dermer 31:12
Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio 31:13
take a little 30 minute detour and go back 12 miles south, right out of Cambridge, and it’s the most beautiful place in the state, like I didn’t really know about it. It looks like a swamp on a Rand McNally map. On a Google map, you can sort of zoom in. It’s going down toward Hooper’s Island, Hooper’s Island’s exit, same exit. But when you go through Blackwater, you will feel like you’re in Louisiana. It’s low water piers, birds, eagles, fish, and fishing farmers that put their their fruits and vegetables out on a basket and just ask you to tip them, you take what you want, leave, you know, it’s like literally it’s that you’re in a different world.

Zach Dermer 31:59
Okay, that’s cool.

Nestor Aparicio 32:00
Drive through there, take an hour and drive through there, and maybe not yet with your kids, but five years from now, when your kids are like 10, eight, and five, they’re stopping all the time anyways, and they’re going to want to look at the fish, and like, it’s cool. We got

Zach Dermer 32:15
to do snack time, we’ll stop there. Blackwater refuge, okay?

Nestor Aparicio 32:18
Take it, take a time out, halfway break right there, go up the suicide bridge, you get a crab cake too, but that’s another thing altogether. Zach Armor is here, he will come to you and take care of your HVAC, your plumbing needs. He certainly bailed us out back on April Fool’s Day. By the way, I haven’t heard from Lock and Fora, if anybody sees him, tell him I said hello, and I still love him. You know, like I’m not, I don’t hold a grudge. We’re all in the same place together on the outside looking in, I am Nestor. We are WNSTA, and 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We never stop talking. Good advice for your summer HVAC and Baltimore positive. Stay with us.