Our musician pal and local photographer Jason Siemer returns from Borneo with tales and photos that are spectacular while Nestor shares some travelogue tales from South America and previous international trips of exploration, culture and personal growth on the Maryland Crab Cake Tour at Faidley’s at Lexington Market. Just two kids from Dundalk and Pasadena who loved baseball going places others only dream about…

Nestor Aparicio and Jason Siemer discuss their shared passion for travel and photography. Jason recounts his recent trip to Borneo, where he captured proboscis monkeys and faced a shoulder injury. Nestor shares his experiences in South America, including Machu Picchu and the cultural differences in various cities. They emphasize the importance of planning and adaptability, using tools like AI and local recommendations. Jason highlights the beauty of local destinations like Blackwater Refuge and the importance of capturing unique moments through photography. Both agree on the transformative power of travel and the joy of exploring new places. Nestor Aparicio and Jason Siemer discuss their travel experiences, with Nestor expressing amazement at the beauty of Moray compared to a local’s perspective. They touch on the lack of appreciation for local beauty among locals, using the Faroe Islands as an example. The conversation shifts to the dangers of traveling to Rio, with Nestor warning about the risks of crime and safety issues. They mention the Ravens’ potential trip to Rio and the precautions needed. Nestor also promotes his upcoming visit to a new location in Catonsville for crab cakes.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Appear at Faidley’s (Lexington Market) on Thursday as planned (attend the scheduled appearance at Faidley’s)
• [ ] Upload and publish Borneo photos to personal website (Borneo shots already uploaded to site JasonSiemerPhotography.com)
• [ ] Complete MRI appointment scheduled for next week (follow-up for shoulder injury and diagnosis prior to possible surgery)
• [ ] Announce when the band (Bad With Names) is returning to activity or scheduled performances (make a public announcement when confirmed)
• [ ] Provide a recommendation for a tour company for Southeast Asia travel (offer tour company suggestions for Vietnam/Thailand/Cambodia trips)

Faidley’s Seafood Market and Orioles Game

• Nestor Aparicio introduces the show from Faidley’s Seafood Market in Lexington Market, Baltimore.
• Nestor mentions the Orioles game against the Yankees and how it affected his programming.
• Nestor talks about the crab derby and a segment with Dami and Nancy, the queen of the crab cake.
• Nestor promotes the Maryland lottery and mentions local Maryland artist Jason Siemer.

Jason Siemer’s Musical Journey

• Nestor reminisces about Jason Siemer’s early days as a young man doing Orioles production and singing about Orioles baseball.
• Jason Siemer talks about his one-man band solo performances in the early 90s.
• Nestor and Jason discuss Jason’s transition from music to photography.
• Nestor mentions Jason’s wanderlust and his travels to exotic places like Borneo and the Faroe Islands.

Travel Experiences and Photography

• Jason Siemer explains his travel habits, usually traveling in January when local work slows down.
• Nestor and Jason discuss the appeal of exotic and different places, especially those that feel out of place.
• Jason shares his experiences in the Faroe Islands, including a blizzard and the challenges of winter travel.
• Nestor talks about his recent trips to New York and his love for the variety and diversity of the city.

Adventures in South America

• Nestor shares his experiences traveling alone through South America for 16 days.
• Nestor talks about the challenges of traveling in South America, including language barriers and safety concerns.
• Jason and Nestor discuss the importance of modern technology, like Uber and AI, in making travel easier and safer.
• Nestor emphasizes the importance of stepping out of one’s comfort zone and exploring new places.

Jason Siemer’s Photography in Borneo

• Jason Siemer talks about his recent trip to Borneo, focusing on photography and capturing exotic animals.
• Jason shares a story about getting injured in Borneo but still managing to take photos.
• Nestor and Jason discuss the importance of determination and creativity in overcoming challenges.
• Jason mentions his upcoming MRI and the possibility of needing surgery for his arm injury.

Travel Tips and Inspiration

• Nestor and Jason discuss the importance of breaking down travel plans into manageable steps.
• Jason shares tips on using AI and local recommendations to plan trips.
• Nestor talks about the importance of being open to new experiences and not being intimidated by travel.
• Jason and Nestor discuss the benefits of traveling alone and the unique experiences it offers.

Exploring Local Destinations

• Nestor and Jason talk about the beauty of local destinations like Blackwater Refuge and Deep Creek Lake.
• Nestor emphasizes the importance of exploring one’s own area and finding hidden gems.
• Jason shares his love for street photography and capturing everyday moments.
• Nestor and Jason discuss the importance of slowing down and appreciating local culture and environment.

Future Travel Plans

• Nestor and Jason discuss their future travel plans, including potential trips to Japan and Southeast Asia.
• Jason mentions his interest in joining a band tour in Japan and capturing live music photography.
• Nestor talks about his upcoming trips to see Rush and other concerts in Europe and the U.S.
• Jason and Nestor discuss the importance of setting travel goals and making them happen.

Jason Siemer’s Photography Website

• Jason Siemer promotes his photography website, Jason Siemer Photography.
• Nestor and Jason discuss the availability of Jason’s Borneo photos and other travel photography.
• Jason shares his passion for capturing unique and exotic moments through his camera.
• Nestor encourages listeners to check out Jason’s website and follow his work.

Final Thoughts and Encouragement

• Nestor and Jason discuss the importance of travel and exploration in personal growth.
• Nestor shares his experiences of meeting new people and having meaningful conversations during his travels.
• Jason emphasizes the importance of being open to new experiences and taking risks.
• Nestor and Jason encourage listeners to step out of their comfort zones and explore the world.

Discussion on Travel Experiences and Safety Concerns

• Nestor Aparicio shares his experience of watching the sunrise in Moray, describing it as the most beautiful place he has ever seen, contrasting it with a local girl’s perspective who has never left her island.
• Jason Siemer recounts showing his photos to locals in the Faroe Islands, who were unimpressed, leading him to realize the importance of appreciating one’s own surroundings.
• Nestor and Jason discuss the Ravens’ potential trip to Rio, expressing concerns about safety and the potential risks involved, including the possibility of fans getting mugged or robbed.
• Jason emphasizes the need to blend in and take precautions when traveling in South America, especially in Rio, to avoid standing out and attracting unwanted attention.
• Nestor mentions his upcoming visit to Catonsville to try crab cakes and fish at a new location, highlighting his local experiences and the importance of staying safe and aware while traveling.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Wanderlust, Borneo, Machu Picchu, photography, travel, exotic destinations, adventure, Jason Siemer, Maryland, Orioles, crab cakes, Uber, local culture, travel tips., Borneo, Machu Picchu, wanderlust, Faroe Islands, Tahiti, Rio, Ravens, travel precautions, Eagles fans, mugging, blending in, Catonsville, crab cake, football, safety.

SPEAKERS

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Nestor Aparicio, Jason Siemer

Nestor Aparicio  00:00

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 to Baltimore. We’re Baltimore, positive, positively here in one of my favorite places to broadcast from. It is the cockpit overlooking pocket Street and parks fried chicken. We’re here at faidley’s Seafood Market in Lexington market. The Orioles are actually playing a game right now against the Yankees. They moved their afternoon game, which moved my programming, which moved my crab Derby here at Faith. These were gonna be a fishmonger’s daughter next Thursday that is in Caton. So we had a great segment with Dami and Nancy, the queen of the crab cake was here today. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. Four different versions. And these were, this was art from local Maryland artist. And I can’t think of an artist that’s more my favorite than this guy. Jason semer and I met each other when he was a very young man doing Orioles production things and singing about Orioles baseball and feeling the magic in the air. He is now on hiatus with Bab with names, and I still have some of the stickers, and has seen his band many, many times in many places around the region. I remember when you were like, strumming the guitar and just playing, right you do you do a little bit of that, like the Eddie Lauer thing, for a little

Jason Siemer  01:11

bit,

Nestor Aparicio  01:11

you played a guitar back in the day.

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Jason Siemer  01:13

I would do the one man band solo thing

Nestor Aparicio  01:17

around town. Yeah, it was a long time ago, though.

Jason Siemer  01:19

Yeah, yeah. Probably when I first started, like, writing songs and playing cover song, just saw, yeah, early 90s. I

Nestor Aparicio  01:27

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think when I met you, that was part of, like, your gig, that kind of guy, yeah, now it does incredible photography. And other than me, and I have a handful of other people, some of them who’ve been on the show, who have wanderlust, and I have a couple of the people that I have invited on who do wild and wacky things that I need to drill down and get him a crab cake at fadeleys and bring them down here. But Jason seimer, that’s s i, e m, e r has been my friend for about 30 years. And you know, sometimes I talk band with you, sometimes I talk old Oriole memories with you. I saw you in like, Borneo, right. Where were you? Where have you been since the last time I saw you? You were in the Pharaoh islands, yeah. And you were, like, headed to Southeast Asia. Or was, am I right in saying that?

Jason Siemer  02:15

Well, the last place I went was Malaysia, back in January. Yeah. Borneo was the part of Malaysia,

Nestor Aparicio  02:23

okay, yeah, I don’t know where you come up with it, but you inspire me in ways you don’t realize, but like the Faroe Islands trip. So Brian Adams, and people say, are you that into Brian Adams, I am. I love Brian Adams. I’m respectful. Maybe one day I’ll have him on not just his guitar player, but he plays the most exotic places in the world.

Jason Siemer  02:46

Yeah.

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Nestor Aparicio  02:47

He plays north of the Arctic Circle, in for Inuits, in the Latin villages. He played the Faroe Islands, believe it or not, there’s a little arena seats about 4000 people. He played this little arena, and then he went from there to Iceland and played Reykjavik in an opera hall like he he showed this video this week. He was in Tunisia playing this bowl that had been there for 900 years that doesn’t even really have seats. It looks like Red Rocks, but it’s like brick. So when I get a chance to let go places, Brian Adams played in Faroe Islands, and it almost went because of you and your photography of how wild of a place it was, and you gave me the stories about how you needed to be trusted by local people there that you were carrying this big camera around and being you, I don’t know what makes the next trip, but let’s pick this up, and let’s go to Borneo and the monkeys. And what drew you there?

Jason Siemer  03:50

Yeah, well, I usually travel in January. That’s the time when my local work kind of slows down, so I like to get away, get off the grid, kind of just escape a little bit. Take my camera with me. Southern

Nestor Aparicio  04:02

Hemisphere. You get summer if you do it the right way, right?

Jason Siemer  04:05

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Yeah, yeah. I try to, I try to get winter

Nestor Aparicio  04:07

here too, a little bit. But you don’t mind, you would go somewhere cold, yeah? I mean,

Jason Siemer  04:11

that’s the thing. When I went to the Faroe Islands, it was January, and it was cold, actually, in a blizzard and all that. But I’m kind of running out of options for, like, summertime places in January on other parts of the world, because I’ve been to a lot of places now, so I’m not against going, you know, to different places in January that are cold. I like places that are exotic and just different and far away. Describe

Nestor Aparicio  04:37

exotic.

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Jason Siemer  04:38

I think exotic is just places that are way different than what you’re used to, especially like in Baltimore and even the United States, like places where you can go to and you feel like you’re a little out of place, but you know, the people are warm. Everything’s everything’s different and new and an adventure, and you always feel like you’re exploring, even when you’re just. Like walking down the street or in the village

Nestor Aparicio  05:01

something.

Jason Siemer  05:02

Yes, I

Nestor Aparicio  05:03

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mean, I go. I’ve been in New York twice in the last two and a half weeks, and it would have been three times if the Orioles would have swept the first three games of the Yankees series. I challenged Luke like, I’m like, we don’t travel enough anymore. And Luke’s a homebody, and by his own admission, you know, he he didn’t want to go to New York last Monday, the Orioles were playing the last game of the Yankees series, and Springsteen was playing the next night in Long Island, and ticket prices had gone like, really cheap on that show. It’s like 50 bucks to get in. And I’m like, All right, well, I just went last week to see Springsteen in New York because he played Newark. And one of the things about that was I had never been to the devil’s hockey rink in Newark, the Prudential Center. So I’m like, All right, new place to see Bruce to $6 train ride from downtown Manhattan, 14 minutes. No, it’s

Jason Siemer  05:46

gonna be good because he’s local

Nestor Aparicio  05:47

and it’s New York, and like, as long as the weather’s 50 plus, with a jacket and the sun is shining, New York, you can make a left or right turn anywhere in Manhattan or Queens or Brooklyn and eat a slice pizza. Get a sandwich, get a ho, ho, or Ring ding or wing ding or something. Coffee, a drink, a beverage. Pretty girls, different languages. I mean, you just walk down Seventh Avenue, you’ll hear 20 different languages if you just walk a couple of blocks. And you can pull your Google Translate out, and you can even, like you can even hear what they’re saying in Greek and here that they’re talking about their niece or whatever, right? Like, there’s all sorts of, I mean, who

Jason Siemer  06:25

needs Malaysia when you get

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Nestor Aparicio  06:26

well,

Nestor Aparicio  06:27

well, New York’s like that for me. But for some people, it’s overwhelming to think about, oh my god, New York and the streets are numbered and, oh my god, I’m afraid of West Baltimore, and I don’t know, man, like when I’m walking the streets of Santiago. It’s not a lot different than New York, except every single thing you see. And I think this speaks to whatever my ADD is about variety,

Jason Siemer  06:50

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  06:51

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like, Baskin Robbins, you know what I

Jason Siemer  06:52

mean?

Nestor Aparicio  06:53

Like, I love a certain kind of ice cream, but I would not eat it every day. I gotta. I gotta have different like,

Jason Siemer  06:59

that’s interesting.

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Nestor Aparicio  07:00

So I think there’s a variety that I need in my life that makes my life worth living. I

Jason Siemer  07:06

never thought about that, because you are that type of person, and I am kind of add type person too, and I always need that next kind of like hit of like adventure, you know. So maybe that says a lot about how our brains work. Yeah, sure. Well,

Nestor Aparicio  07:20

so for me, when you say, God, I so identify. I wish I could rewind exactly what you said, but you said something about you’re so aware, and you’re so alert when you’re traveling. And I traveled alone through South America for 16 days, as it would be crazy, or whatever my clone was saying to me, you know the altitude of Machu Picchu. I mean, you’re 50, or have you had a heart test? Are you going to be okay with altitude? Because, you know, my clone has made my modern travel the last seven months of my life with AI, the trip I did to South America and the trip that my wife did to Italy would have not been possible in the way that maybe I did South America 20 years ago, 30 years ago, that especially if you’re trying to do an Africa trip now or then, I know you’ve done the animals and all that stuff, it’s so wide open that if I wanted to go to the Borneo or the Faroe Islands, I’m on Google, flights checking out, flights into the Faroe Islands. Like, literally, I had a friend who was thinking about going with me, because she’s like an adventurer, that person that would want to see that part of the world. And there’s different people for different seasons and stuff like that, but my South American trip and cleaning my head and being without my wife, without being famous, without crab cakes, without language, like every single thing I did I needed to work really hard to get an Uber to communicate with someone, to order something, to exchange money, to figure things out and modern technology, I can say this a 57 year old guy, modern Technology. Uber after a concert in Santiago Chile. Boom,

Jason Siemer  09:02

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yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  09:03

Three minutes, $3 I’m back in my hotel room. No problem. Yeah. Like, my clone told me everywhere, really dodgy in Santiago Chile and Bogota and Cartagena, what not to do,

Jason Siemer  09:17

yeah?

Nestor Aparicio  09:17

Like, there it’s you can be aided, and this can be so much better. I don’t know how much work you did on Borneo before you got going on it. Like, other than, where am I going to stay? What are my days going to be like? Where am I going to shoot? How am I getting from the airport? Am I taking a taxi or an Uber? Yeah. Like, all of these things are things that really impede people who are afraid of a lot of things from making whatever their first move is to see the world. It isn’t calling a travel agent, right?

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Jason Siemer  09:47

Yeah, I used, I did use chat, G, P, T, to help me set up the trip for sure, like, just, just the basics, you know. So what I usually do is I’ll, I’ll get, like, just a foundation of where I want to go, like, the main places. And. When I get there, I’ll kind of figure things out by talking to people and things like that. But it’s great to have that, AI for sure. It makes it less intimidating. I think that it makes the world smaller. I get to the point where it’s almost like, Okay, now so many more people can do this. I want to go further off the grid. You know what I mean? Like, I’m not saying go dangerous, but I would definitely push boundaries a little bit to kind of go places where people don’t, you don’t really hear about people going as much, but, but definitely the AI makes it better. I mean, and there are places in the world that I never knew existed until, like, the internet now, and you can see YouTube videos, and, you know, you go, you go down the rabbit hole on YouTube, and I do that for my photography stuff, and I’m like, Whoa. I never heard of that place. All right, I’m putting that on the list.

Nestor Aparicio  10:42

Yeah, yeah. I mean, for me, it used to be, I want to go to Green Bay, yeah? And like, Luke, we got into this off the air last week, and he won’t mind me saying this. He’s at the Yankees game. He’s supposed to be here. Faints today anyway, by the way, Jason Seymour is my guest where Fay leads were just rapping about traveling and wander lost. And Jason’s one of the dudes that I know that’s been more places than me has inspired me to go places I wouldn’t have gone or thought about going, including like Patagonia and some other things when I was in South America that I thought about. But give me your last tour. How many days did you do? And where did you go, and how did you get there?

Jason Siemer  11:16

So I was in Malaysia on Borneo. So you know, Malaysia split into two regions. Basically, there’s water separating the I guess they call it the mainland, and then it’s water, and then the other Peninsula comes down, and that’s split between Borneo, it’s owned by Malaysia, Indonesia, and a country called Brunei. Really small

Nestor Aparicio  11:38

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Sultan. They had a salt in it, yes.

Jason Siemer  11:40

And so I just stayed in Borneo. But you know, with the photography, I really wanted to

Nestor Aparicio  11:46

you’re not there for a ball game, you’re not there for soccer. You’re there to the junk picture. You’re there,

Jason Siemer  11:51

yeah,

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Nestor Aparicio  11:52

to see creatures,

Jason Siemer  11:53

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  11:53

Flora, Fauna, and take photos people and and people, yeah, and eat some food.

Jason Siemer  11:58

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Oh yeah, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  11:59

yeah. That’s the same thing with people like, the hell were you doing chasing Brian Adams through South America? I’m

Jason Siemer  12:04

like,

Nestor Aparicio  12:05

You’re missing

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Jason Siemer  12:05

the kind of just right?

Nestor Aparicio  12:08

Yeah, you’re missing the bus that I got on in Montevideo. Yeah, that took me out to the Brian

Jason Siemer  12:13

it’s good to have those little foundation. The

Nestor Aparicio  12:15

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man that I met named Nestor, you sold me his extra ticket. Yeah, at night, yeah. His name is Nestor.

Jason Siemer  12:20

Oh, cool.

Nestor Aparicio  12:21

So Seth, so like, these stories you have, and I come home and I say to my wife, I’m like, Montevideo had these beautiful parks, man, and you wouldn’t believe it, and it was 12 cents to ride the bus. Yeah, the coffee was delicious. Pareci, the steaks and the like. These are things that, like, I just, I would implore to people, and I say this to Leonard Raskin, who does the American dream and all of that doesn’t need to be Borneo or Montevideo. It could be Disney World or Ocean City, if that’s what you’re in tomorrow. I mean, but, but he but you can find beauty in the world or, I mean, just going to swallow falls, get in the car and drive out the Deep Creek Lake or drive, here’s something that I know you’ve done Blackwater refuge right like, here’s a piece of art from the Maryland treasures, mollusks, crabs, birds. You make a right at a Cambridge, and you would think you are in the bayou Louisiana. It’s one of my

Jason Siemer  13:17

favorite places in Maryland, for sure.

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Nestor Aparicio  13:19

You said that several times, and I’m thinking to myself, people haven’t been to Deep Creek Lake who listen to this, or haven’t been to Antietam, or haven’t been to the Amish country in Lancaster. So these are ways to explore things above and beyond, doing a tourist trip, or getting on the red bus in New York City and riding around, which is all fine. You do really exotic stuff. And I’m always into the head of like, why would you do that? Because people say to me, maybe you don’t because I invited you to South America with me. Had Bono been there, you might have gone. I tried to get you with the AC DC thing. But why did I do it? Because, like, I’m done with Dallas and Albuquerque and I’m going to Las

Jason Siemer  14:00

Vegas banner.

Nestor Aparicio  14:01

I’m going to LA next month. Yeah. I mean, I went to the Hollywood Bowl for the first time last year, and it was revolution. I was like, Why have I not been going there? 30 Hollywood Bowl was one of the really great venues. I’ve been to Red Rocks. Like, everyone should go to Hollywood Bowl. It’s like a Lambo field. So somebody Luke looks like I really want to go to Fenway Park and cover a game. And I’m like, if that’s what your dream is,

Jason Siemer  14:25

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go,

Nestor Aparicio  14:26

then go do yeah, let’s get you there. Let’s get you there. I think

Jason Siemer  14:29

people are so and it’s not, I’m not. How do I say this? We’re just so used to our day to day thing and what we do and what we’re used to, and we also think that time that we’re here forever, and people forget about that. And it’s like, that’s why, when you finally take that trip or get those concert tickets or do something you didn’t do and you or you’ve been wanting to do for 20 years, you finally do it, you’re like, Oh my God, why don’t I do this more? And with the travel thing, it’s like, I’m not saying I do that just because I’ve been everywhere here, and I’ve been to a lot of places in the United States, but it’s like, when I’m in the. Locations, and I wake up and I’m standing in the middle of this in the jungle,

Nestor Aparicio  15:04

live, dude. Well, I’m

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Jason Siemer  15:06

like, I saw this online, and it was 1000s of miles away, and here I am right now. And that feeling is something that you just like, like, you hold on to because you’re like, Alright, I’m doing this now, so I got to do the next thing, because I want this feeling again,

Nestor Aparicio  15:17

dude. I’m standing up on top of Machu Picchu, everybody around me, sobbing,

Jason Siemer  15:21

yeah?

Nestor Aparicio  15:22

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Like, like, I wasn’t at that. I saw more now, like, talking about her, yeah, but I’m up there on the top, and people

Jason Siemer  15:29

leave sometimes, yeah, it’s

Nestor Aparicio  15:31

insane.

Jason Siemer  15:32

Yeah, it

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Nestor Aparicio  15:32

is done. Machu, yet

Jason Siemer  15:33

I have not, dude,

Nestor Aparicio  15:35

come on. Now.

Jason Siemer  15:36

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I know,

Nestor Aparicio  15:36

come on.

Jason Siemer  15:37

So many,

Nestor Aparicio  15:37

come on. Now, the reason I did South America, it was affordable. It’s just like, right now, with $1 my wife just went to Italy, which was not affordable. She pointed out,

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Jason Siemer  15:47

ever has been

Nestor Aparicio  15:48

right? Well, she came home and she’s like, you know, I sort of see why you would pick an inexpensive place to get more value out of it. Her dad’s 80 years old, wanted to go to Italy. I’m like, you’re going to Italy?

Jason Siemer  15:59

Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  15:59

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She put points together for this and earn a sister pulled these points they had at work to get their hotels. Yeah, man. I mean, they wound up not spending, like, a whole lot of money, honestly. And I got a cheap flights, which was great. But like all of that, if nothing else, if you’re listening in the car to me and Jason seimer, I just want, I do want, to inspire people as I get older, that when they see a picture of you and Borneo or the Faroe Islands, or me and Machu Picchu, or in Medellin on top of kamuna 13 with some kid with an Oriole hat, by the way, that like all of that, is now a click away, information away, a credit card away, that may or may not be your next boat or your next fishing trip, or your Next trip to Disney World that you’ve done a dozen times, or Ocean City, you’ve done 100 but to branch out and say, whatever that thing is for you in this lifetime here,

Jason Siemer  16:52

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  16:52

you can do it.

Jason Siemer  16:53

You can. And I also want to say to take it a step further on, how? Because people ask me that, how did you do that? It’s always the same. Or basically, you can’t look at it as a whole, because it is intimidating. If you’re like, oh my god, what if I was in Borneo and Ka Ching, right? Now, what would I do? And you don’t think of it that way. You just get there first, right? You break it down into little increments. Like, what do they say? Like, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? Sure, right? So what’s the first thing you do? Well, you pack, you pack the stuff that you need. Okay, you do your research and you get that together. Next thing is, get to the airport, then you get on that plane, you get to the to your destination. Then you got to get transportation from there to that your hotel. Once you get that far, you’re in good shape, because now you can talk to the locals, the people at the hotel, that are there to help you, or you talk to the Uber driver, and you get you take notes on what they recommend, or whatever, and then

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Nestor Aparicio  17:44

you wouldn’t have been a thing 25 years

Jason Siemer  17:46

too,

Nestor Aparicio  17:46

and

Jason Siemer  17:46

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well, then you would have worried about getting scammed in

Nestor Aparicio  17:49

the cat. I got scammed by three cab

Jason Siemer  17:52

that happens?

Nestor Aparicio  17:53

Cabbies,

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Jason Siemer  17:54

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  17:54

were the absolute worst, and the Uber drivers,

Jason Siemer  17:57

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  17:58

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were phenomenal. And I can’t imagine doing that trip that I did with cab drivers 20 years

Jason Siemer  18:05

and here’s the thing, people are, people are afraid of that too, right? Which is understandable, but you know you gotta, like, I always factor getting scammed into every trip. You know what I mean, like, and not that that happens all the time, but if something happens, okay, that is part of travel. And if you come into Baltimore and you get in a cab, you’re gonna get scammed. Like, if you’re not, you know what I mean, like, mean, like you might, but you have to kind of just be like, alright, this is part of what I’m doing, and it’s, it’s part of, like, reaching out there and

Nestor Aparicio  18:31

like, yeah, the jerk cab driver I had after AC DC did not, but guess

Jason Siemer  18:34

what? It probably phased you less, because you’re used to that, right?

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Nestor Aparicio  18:37

He charged me 10 bucks too much. And sure, you know. So, I mean, like, to your party, doing business at that point as part of getting out of an ACDC concert with 80,000 people. Yeah, and just getting first available,

Jason Siemer  18:47

exactly. And that’s, and, you know the story, right? You’re just like, all right, I got scammed.

Nestor Aparicio  18:52

I wasn’t happy about it. Only 10 bucks. But, you know, I feel like worst things could have happened in South America,

Jason Siemer  18:57

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right?

Nestor Aparicio  18:57

That’s my wife bought insurance on me.

Jason Siemer  18:59

Oh, wow, that’s a whole other thing.

Nestor Aparicio  19:01

Well, I mean, there is, like, you hit your head in the jungle, and you got to get you got to get home, you know, like, there is that sort of quarter million dollar insurance that I found out that for $57 I covered that,

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Jason Siemer  19:11

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  19:12

like, literally, like, literally, it’s 50, it’s like, $62 for my 14 days. And I did it all online. It did with my AI, yeah, and I did a friend of mine as a travel agent, and she recommended a few things. But I don’t know what to say when I land in Montevideo, when I’m on my own. People who know me, all 1 million of you who know me, are like, that’s just Nestor being Nestor. You know what? I mean, he’s just up to it again.

Jason Siemer  19:36

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  19:37

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I don’t know. I feel like it’s something I’m just a dumb ass from Dundalk that, like, has a credit card. And my whole trip, that whole South American trip, I did 15 days, I don’t think I spent three grand, you know, maybe, like Ocean City for a week would have been a lot more

Jason Siemer  19:55

totally,

Nestor Aparicio  19:55

you know, any Disney, or any anything like that. When I saw that, the flight to get. The Montevideo was 282 bucks, and the flight to get back from Cartagena was 252 I’m like, All right, so I got in and out of the cotton for 600 bucks. I can figure the rest of this out, you know. And then after that, I mean, I had a $35 steak dinner in Chile, and I had a really nice, $75 steak dinner and Buenos Aires

Jason Siemer  20:23

best.

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Nestor Aparicio  20:24

And I stayed in hotel rooms that were 60 to 90 bucks. I booged out in Cusco at $120 room in Cusco because it had oxygenated rooms in the place. I was

Jason Siemer  20:36

very oxygenated.

Nestor Aparicio  20:37

We need to be oxygenated because, like not everybody, can handle Machu Picchu at 9000 feet, you know, was these were things I didn’t even consider. And the first thing I considered was the last, and I told this to Leonard, went to Brazil in 2006 and Jen and I got a wild hair with my buddy, Julio. We went to see the stones in Rio and the stones in Buenos Aires, and then you two showed up in Sao Paulo. So we diverted and moved some things around. And about a week before we left for Brazil, Julio called and says, Hey, dude, did you get your visa? I’m like, yeah, man, I got visa. Visa, Master charge, man, I got American Express. Man, what you need? He said, No, no, dude, you got to get a visa. It’s Brazil, man, and I’m like our asses. Drove down to the Brazilian consulate in February 2006 I had to give my American passport up, drive home without my passport, come back three days later, and they had it all wrapped up, and they had stamps in it and stickers and stuff inside my passport, and handed it back to me, and I went. So the first thing I did in November, when I was thinking of planning this before shittler bombed Venezuela, and I just thought maybe going to Colombia wasn’t the greatest idea when he was threatening Colombia, the first thing I asked my clone was, Do I need a visa? And it said no. And then I added Peru. Later, I wasn’t doing Machu Picchu originally, I added it, and I’m like, Do you need a pub visa in Peru? Like getting these answers in instant, instant answers. I want to go to Machu Picchu. Here are 10 reputable tour operators that can can take care of you and door to door you for $600 which is what I paid door to door, I got handled for the minute I landed in case I passed out, literally, right? 11,200 feet. Koco, so, like, without the internet and without getting answers, but like, that’s what an idiot I was 20 years ago. I have my stuff packed, and I’m going to see Mick and Keith, and we’re gonna jam, and we’re gonna I got, yeah, I got a passport. Man, I got money. I’m good. They didn’t have a friggin visa, man, and I didn’t know it, yeah, and I didn’t know who to call and ask, right? I mean, who goes to Brazil? Not many people, right? So in the modern era, you don’t have any of those restrictions. And I guess that’s what I really want to impress upon people, saying you can go to Italy if you want to, you can go to Faroe Islands if you want to you. And I don’t think that way, but how many friends you say you got besides me to does the crazy stuff you do? Not

Jason Siemer  23:15

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many.

Nestor Aparicio  23:16

Not many, right? When you want to do something crazy, you don’t have anybody to call to go with you,

Jason Siemer  23:21

true, but I also like to go by myself, honestly, with my with my photography. I mean, like, if play me, if we, if I said, Nestor, let’s go to the park and I’ll bring my camera to shoot some wild, you know, birds and flower or whatever

Nestor Aparicio  23:34

you leave,

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Jason Siemer  23:35

you would not want to be there, because I take like, a half hour just to shoot a flower. You know, like, I’m not, you know, I’m, course, I’m exaggerating. But like, there’s something about being, like, having your own time and space to yourself, where you can, like, really get in that moment and not feel like you’re dragging somebody along, holding somebody up, or also, you don’t want them holding you up. If they’re like, Hey, let’s get let’s go

Nestor Aparicio  23:56

here. There was two weeks with, without my wife, where I did not have to entertain her.

Jason Siemer  24:01

Yeah, in

Nestor Aparicio  24:01

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any way. I have to think about whether she’s happy or sad, hot, cold, hungry, anything, yeah, and I think her going through Italy with her sister and her dad, the way she traveled and did her thing,

Jason Siemer  24:12

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  24:12

it was spiritual for her, because she’s never really traveled with her sister dad ever since they were since they were little girls, right? So, like, she had her own thing, and the way she wanted to do it, and I did my thing, people were asking, like, what’s up with that? And I’m like, Do you really think my wife wanted me to drag her through seven countries in 15 days, through six cities, mountains? Like she just, she’s getting older now. She can’t run at that pace, not the pace I keep.

Jason Siemer  24:43

No, that’s great that she lets she’s okay with you doing that.

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Nestor Aparicio  24:46

She broke her foot last summer, and I went to New York. I’m doing 14 miles a day, dude, if you saw my my app when I got back from South America, I was routinely doing 12 to 15 miles a day, every single day.

Jason Siemer  25:00

Yeah, it does get you in shape.

Nestor Aparicio  25:01

Yeah, I just, I lost 10 pounds South America.

Jason Siemer  25:04

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You better, you

Nestor Aparicio  25:05

you have to eat better because you’re alone and you can’t get sick.

Jason Siemer  25:09

Well, there’s, I

Nestor Aparicio  25:10

don’t have time to get sick. I was moving around too much, you know. So I think you do live differently. But look, I was single for until I was 34 years old, so being alone in places I’m really comfortable being alone. I think that’s another part, especially for women traveling alone, which I understand that’s a whole different thing going to Borneo alone, or South America alone as a one single woman, sure, but I think there is a point where, like you do, travel alone, and I’m glad you said that, that like there is a solitude that nobody can communicate with you. When you go someplace where you speak a different

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Jason Siemer  25:44

language, you go online, on YouTube and look at these photographers, they’re out in the middle of nowhere, and they’re by themselves. Like, that’s just what we do. It’s, I think it’s something that only like photographers, and like nature photographers and artists relate to, is that, like when you’re out there, you just need that, because it kind of puts you in that zone. And it’s hard to explain, but it’s like, I know that when I’m out there, it’s like, I there’s like, something that I feel and I connect to what I’m shooting. And I if I had a crowd of people around me, or even my girlfriend, is just like, No, I need this. Because if I need five more minutes to wait till the sun dips a little more and I get that certain thing, like, it’s not just, you know, wildly spraying the camera around. It’s like, waiting for moments and feeling the vibe and and and, and if I want to, like, Okay, I know I’m gonna stay five more minutes and go over here and do that. Like, you have to have that, that free energy, or it kind of limits your

Nestor Aparicio  26:37

it’s what you’re there for. Yeah, there to be limited Exactly.

Jason Siemer  26:40

And sometimes I’ll do a group tour, and I’ll bring my camera along, and that’s good too, because you have the logistics, and they’re getting you from here to there and and you know, you kind of, you’re on the go, but there’s many times when I’m with a group that I’m like, I could stay 10 more minutes and really wait for that thing to happen or whatever, and you have to kind of, go keep going. But that’s why I book. Like, if I go do a group tour, I book time before and after the tour to go do my own thing. That way, I have the lay of the land based on, like, the people I traveled with and the things I’ve learned, but so I have that knowledge, and now I’m more comfortable, kind of like going about my business by myself after that,

Nestor Aparicio  27:16

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you mentioned asking people stuff, right? So like I did my tour was Montevideo, two days boat to Buenos Aires. I flew to Santiago without ever really looking Santiago up in pictures at all. When I landed, I got my breath taken away when I landed in Santiago’s so beautiful.

Jason Siemer  27:39

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  27:39

and I had no I, I was shooting video as the plane was descending, I’m like, oh my god, it’s like Albuquerque, but like Vegas, but not with mountains. It was just this beautiful place. So I did three days there, then I flew up to Machu Picchu, through Lima to Cusco. You land in Cusco, you have to take a two hour bus ride, a two hour train ride, and then you’re at the town at the base of Machu Picchu. So it really is like not an easily accessible thing. And that was the part of the tour where I used the tour operator because I was a little intimidated by the altitude, the distance, the hills, the mountains. I’m not a man. I’m not I’m not a wildlife guy. I’m not a go out in the bush guy the way you are. I am a stay at the Holiday Inn, hanging cities, bars, coffee shops. I’m much more that guy. My wife was so taken aback that I actually did Machu Picchu. She’s like, hiking, you’re not hiking. And I’m like, No, I’m just gonna go up there and be a Bougie bitch and take some pictures. You

Jason Siemer  28:41

saw the main goal,

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Nestor Aparicio  28:42

yeah. So, you know, different places create. I mean, Bogota’s dodgy, and I knew that going in and like Medellin, dodgy, but very nice too. Medellin had I would send you to Medellin. I would not send you to Bogota. I definitely wouldn’t send you to Cartagena. Cartagena was dodgy’s Boss was awful. So, but in doing this, the Machu Picchu part of getting a tour operator and being on a tour, I could not get a ticket to get into Machu Picchu. It’s run by the Peruvian government, and it got so overwhelmed with tourists, they just stopped it, and now they only allow groups in it timed like a museum tour would never get overrun, right? So everybody has a good experience, but they do 1000 a day walk up,

Jason Siemer  29:29

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  29:30

but you have to be in Machu Picchu town. You have to be four hours from Cusco. I mean, like you’re four hours from the airport, you’re in the middle of nowhere, you’re in Machu Picchu, up in the hills of the Incas, you know. So the day, the day before, they have 1000 walk ups and like, well, what are the odds that are 1000 people they’re trying to get in the next day. So I bought the tour because it guaranteed me that I could get in. You only get into the top, way up at the top of the base, and that’s the a tour, right? So that’s the they’re. More of that around the outside to go down in the base, and that sold out way, way, way in advance. But you get there the night before, and there’s it looks like something out of like the 1950s they like a little ticket window at the post office in this little Blazing Saddles town at the foot of Machu Picchu. And for 55 bucks. I bought a ticket to go into Machu Picchu at noon the next day.

Jason Siemer  30:24

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Okay,

Nestor Aparicio  30:25

so I my tour operator showed me the top at seven, I went down, had a coffee, 10 o’clock, 1130 got back in, walked in, and I got to see the city. But I took my chances on that, yeah, and, like my clone, did not want me to take chances on that. You don’t want to go all the way to Machu Picchu and not get into Machu Picchu, right? Like so there was a little part of that, sure, but the clone thing and planning it, I don’t know how it helps you out in the jungle or in getting lodging and stuff, but talking to local people, and this is why I brought this up Santiago, when I landed there, I had done a little bit of research, primarily on what’s safe, what’s bad, neighborhoods, where’s a couple places I’m going to eat before and after concert, and to your point, the rest I’ll figure out when I get there, you know, based on what it looks like and what it smells like. And checked into the hotel, and the dudes like and I’m like, hey, you know he spoke swings. I’m like, Hey, any recommendation, anything I should do, Costa Neira, Costanera, go to Costa Neira. I’m like, the hell is Costa Nana? I didn’t look it up, you know, I should spell that, you know, CEO, so, so I put it in, and it turns out it’s the fifth largest sphere on earth. It is a CN Tower kind of thing overlooking Santiago. So after landing in this beautiful place, I’m like, you go up to the sky and look at all of this from 360 I looked it up and it just said, Sky Tower atop a mall in downtown Santiago. And I’m like, All right, you wanna go to the mall downtown San Diego? I paid my 23 bucks and I took the elevator up without looking any of this up as to what it was, other than I’m going to be high up, I got off of that thing, and I immediately opened my phone. I started videoing it, because I wanted to share it with you and everybody I know to say, like, All right, I’ve done some stuff, and I’m even going to do Machu Picchu the day after tomorrow, but this was incredible, like, the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen, maybe in Santiago, and to see it from that height. And I didn’t know the tower existed until I checked into the hotel and talked to the locals, right? And that’s just me being dumb or being a smart tourist about what’s something you trip into that you never would have found if somebody didn’t tell you, somebody local, just something that you did that was like

Jason Siemer  32:42

one of these countries, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  32:47

you got a hot tip.

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Jason Siemer  32:49

I’m trying to think

Nestor Aparicio  32:53

you plan these things out though. I mean,

Jason Siemer  32:56

I plan things, but hot tip. I mean, things happen, you know, kind of along the same lines where I was in the Faroe Islands in January and I had a blizzard, so this town that I wanted to go to, all the locals were like, don’t drive there, because

Nestor Aparicio  33:12

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you could stop

Jason Siemer  33:12

dangerous, yeah, and it’s these cliffs, and I’m right in a car, and I don’t want any accident. And the Faroe Islands, I’m by myself in the winter, you know, like, so I’m like, What should I do? And I was at a bar, and I strike up a conversation with these people, and this girl’s like, hey, how long are you gonna be here? And I’m like, just for, you know, another week, or whatever. She’s like, let me make a phone call or message my aunt. I’m like, Okay, what’s going on? She ended up setting me up in a house that her aunt owned on another island, yeah? Like you had to take a ferry across

Nestor Aparicio  33:47

the

Jason Siemer  33:47

water. I never knew I was gonna do that, right? So she rented me her house for three nights on this island called no soy, and it was still snowstorm or whatever, but I went over there by myself. I get off the she was, she was gonna meet me to get the key for me to help let me in. And that morning, she had gone out with her friend the night before, and was like, sorry, we’re not gonna make the ferry boat. Can you just get over there? And I’m like, All right, I’m by myself on this ferry boat. So I get over there and get off, and the snow’s coming down, and I find this little store. Yeah, these are all stories, Nestor, I gotta somehow, like, put into something funny.

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Nestor Aparicio  34:21

You didn’t write a song, you know?

Jason Siemer  34:23

So I find my way to the supermarket because somebody pointed me in the right direction. It’s the only store on the sky lunch, yes,

Nestor Aparicio  34:32

okay.

Jason Siemer  34:32

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And I go in, ladies work in there and, and I’m like, I have this I’m supposed to stay at this lady’s house. She’s like, what’s her name? I’m like, Joan kelderberg, because she gave me her name. She’s like, Oh, I know Joan. Hold on a sec. So she messages like, Joan, the lady she knew her and and she like, she’s like, okay, the key is in the backyard. And literally, I She’s like, so suddenly. He was in the store, checking out. Behind me was like, I’ll take you up there. She knew Joan also, and she walks me up this hill, and they we get the key, and we go up, and she lets me in. She’s like, Here you go. And I’m like, Okay, well, that happened, basically, I didn’t know the girl that set me up with the thing. She didn’t help me get across the on the ferry. I met the lady at the supermarket who knew the guy, the lady that owned the house, and then the lady behind me knew her to took me up and let me in. So like, what was she charging? Just it was cheap rates, because 50 bucks. Nobody goes there in the winter. It was cheap. So I literally stayed there three nights. It was cozy. I went down to the supermarket, I got some Farrow Island salmon, and I cooked it up with some eggs in the morning, and took my camera out every day in the blizzard and took some of the most amazing Faroe Islands photos in the snow that nobody else takes, because nobody can go there in the summertime, you know. So that stuff, yeah, that’s some of the best, most interesting photo

Nestor Aparicio  35:59

story.

Jason Siemer  35:59

I don’t know how that’s a

Nestor Aparicio  36:00

hell

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Jason Siemer  36:00

of a I made it all up. Nestor,

Nestor Aparicio  36:02

no, that’s a hell of a story.

Jason Siemer  36:03

Thanks. Yeah, you know, like that happens

Nestor Aparicio  36:06

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for me. I think the South America thing, the only thing that I would take back would just how many great conversations I had with Uber drivers. I would get an Uber and they figured out I’m American, and that was either really good or really bad, depending, and it opened up these conversations about politics and life and yeah, you’re

Jason Siemer  36:24

part of their story,

Nestor Aparicio  36:25

but not in Medellin. In Medellin, yes, not in Santiago. They don’t have America. There are no Americans in Montevideo. You know when with I was a complete but I was interesting to everybody in Montevideo, because I was American. Like, what are you doing here? Who comes to Uruguay. And I met this beautiful girl. She’s 24 years old. She was the daughter of the people who sold me the ticket. She was my partner at this Brian Adams concert. She spoke perfect English, studying to be a doctor. They’re from Salto, Uruguay. I had to look it up. It’s on the border with Argentina, up to the north middle of nowhere. And I mean by our standards, middle nowhere. Topeka Kansas, of Argentina and Uruguay. And she said, we are Uruguay. We’re down at the bottom of the world. No one pays attention to us, and we’d like it that way. We like it absolutely, most liberal place on earth.

Jason Siemer  37:14

A lot of

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Nestor Aparicio  37:15

just

Jason Siemer  37:16

pluses.

Nestor Aparicio  37:17

I loved Uruguay. You know, there’s a place to send you for a couple days just to jerk around in Montevideo if you want a little urban experience. And my

Jason Siemer  37:26

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very inexpensive,

Nestor Aparicio  37:26

very in it, well, not very, not as inexpensive as Colombia was very inexpensive. Peru was pretty inexpensive. Chile was inexpensive. Buenos Aires and monitor, there were more along the lines of 10% break from America, where the other places were more 50, 70% like things in Colombia, really inexpensive. And there were expats everywhere there. Colombia was the one place Medellin specifically where English. I heard English everywhere I went, because there were a lot of like, New Yorkers and Americans who go down there for a month or two, you get around a nice flat down there for grand for a month,

Jason Siemer  38:06

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  38:06

and just disappear onto the equator, into, like, an urban setting that’s relatively like medellin’s really nice, like, as nice as the weather is today, it’s like that 350 days years like San Diego. Not realize they

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Jason Siemer  38:20

can do that kind of stuff. That’s the thing. And you get

Nestor Aparicio  38:22

to Medellin for the Medellin for 400 bucks, round trip. Easy, easy.

Jason Siemer  38:25

Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  38:26

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So if you’re looking for a place now, it’s not America, and you have to speak some Spanish. But the thing I saw about Medellin is I came out of my hotel and the streets were all shut down. Everybody was jogging or riding a bike or walking,

Jason Siemer  38:40

just ingrained in the culture

Nestor Aparicio  38:43

for the physical activity people there are beautiful because they’re in shape and the diet, like, if you’re in Santiago, lot of people were heavier, and all the food was fast food. When I walked through the city, it was like walking through an American city in regard to fried foods and like, just what it was, whereas Medellin was more like bowl of fruit, cup of soup.

Jason Siemer  39:07

Yeah?

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Nestor Aparicio  39:08

You know, much more, just a different diet,

Jason Siemer  39:10

yeah, for sure, and over time, that’s that adds up to getting you a

Nestor Aparicio  39:14

healthier culture,

Jason Siemer  39:14

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healthier Yeah?

Nestor Aparicio  39:16

Well, I mean, Buenos Aires are all eating steak, drinking red wine. Jason seimers Here, we’re talking about life on the right. All right, so, dude, you’re the Wanderlust guy. I don’t know my next thing I’m gonna go see rush do the first night at tour in LA. They have put together a Brazilian run. I want to go to receive a they’re not playing receive as a beach place. I want to go there. But they’re playing like, you know, five different cities in in Brazil. I’ve been to Brazil. They’re playing Buenos Aires and I’m playing Montevideo. I think they’re playing Santiago. So I’ve already been to South America. I don’t think I’m doing South America again, but I might do Brazil. Bucket List. I got Royal Albert Hall, Banff is on my bucket list. Have you done that

Jason Siemer  39:57

yet? Yeah, I was out there. Got. 15 years

Nestor Aparicio  40:00

and,

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Jason Siemer  40:01

Oh, it’s beautiful. Canada’s outstanding, yeah, I mean, all across so

Nestor Aparicio  40:06

Russia and Brian Adams are playing that part. It’s been on my bucket list a long time to go do I’ve never been to Calgary, Edmonton for hockey. Anyway,

Jason Siemer  40:13

beautiful. Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  40:14

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okay, so,

Jason Siemer  40:15

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  40:15

that might get done in this calendar year. And then rush is playing Europe, and then at the end of their stated tour, they’re doing Stockholm, Oslo and Helsinki. I’ve never been to Helsinki, so I’m I would have made this a Northern Lights thing, but I saw the Northern Lights in Towson last year, the one night he came here, done with us. So I don’t need to spend 10 grand chasing it in the middle of the woods in Upper Finland, where it’s cold. I don’t want to be cold, you know this, so I don’t know. Man, I want to go to Kyoto. I want to go back to Tokyo, because I love Tokyo so much. I would go back to Australia in a heartbeat. If I go, I’m going to go to Melbourne, because I haven’t been there yet, and I don’t know. Man, I’m running low. I’m running low. You know what I mean? Like on places I that I feel like, like the Taj Mahal was something I felt like I needed to see. Now that I’ve seen Machu Picchu, I feel like the Coliseum in Rome, or like the pyramids I’ve been on the Great Wall of China. I thought at one point I would make it to Moscow or to make it the st Peter. There’s just some places like Tel Aviv and like, you know, unfortunate,

Jason Siemer  41:29

yeah, I’m just

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Nestor Aparicio  41:29

probably not going to get there, you know, some places I’m just like, Nah, not today, not tomorrow. The cost, the distance, yeah, how much I like laying on a beach and just being just going out of Jamaican get left alone for a couple days is fun for me too. You can only do so much. I’m gonna do Banff like that’s gonna get done. Royal Albert Hall is gonna get done at some point.

Jason Siemer  41:49

That’s

Nestor Aparicio  41:51

the only thing I can tell you. I know is gonna get I don’t know

Jason Siemer  41:54

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Southeast Asia. Have you been to southeast I

Nestor Aparicio  41:56

have not been to Vietnam. I’ve not been to Thailand. I’ve not been a Fuca.

Jason Siemer  41:59

I do all that. You should do a whole tour. You should, I did Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, and you should go up to Laos if you’re going to do all that too. I didn’t do Laos, but, oh, you would, you would love that.

Nestor Aparicio  42:10

Everybody tells me how much I’d love

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Jason Siemer  42:12

it when I say exotic, that it is like, it’s like, it’s, it’s inexpensive. People are really sweet. The food is amazing. You know, with logistics, you’ll be fine. Or you can book a tour. I can recommend a tour company, or whatever. It’s just, there’s so much visual simulation, yeah, and I don’t know it’s like just, just walking down the street on any given day, like there’s just so much going on in the color

Nestor Aparicio  42:43

to Morocco since the last time I saw you, didn’t

Jason Siemer  42:45

you? I went to Morocco last summer, about a year ago. Yeah? Well, it was in August called

Nestor Aparicio  42:50

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a prayer. You did it all, huh?

Jason Siemer  42:52

That was amazing.

Nestor Aparicio  42:53

You ride a bike, ride a camel. Do anything like that.

Jason Siemer  42:55

I wrote a camel in this dude,

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Nestor Aparicio  42:58

I bring you out

Jason Siemer  43:00

here,

Nestor Aparicio  43:00

and I don’t even get to riding a camel. So we’re half an hour into this, yeah,

Jason Siemer  43:04

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rode a camel. So

Nestor Aparicio  43:05

what’s next for you? I don’t know. What are you gonna do?

Jason Siemer  43:08

I have some ideas for sure.

Nestor Aparicio  43:10

Always a new place,

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Jason Siemer  43:11

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  43:12

yeah. Okay, all right,

Jason Siemer  43:13

yeah. I mean, God, there’s so many places I dream of going.

Nestor Aparicio  43:16

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I could talk you into going back to Vietnam, though, maybe,

Jason Siemer  43:18

maybe.

Nestor Aparicio  43:19

And

Jason Siemer  43:19

I’ve never been to Japan.

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Nestor Aparicio  43:21

Oh, really.

Jason Siemer  43:22

And I know it’s pricey, so I need to be pushed a little bit nudged, or, or there’s some have

Nestor Aparicio  43:28

me to give you a hook up, maybe.

Jason Siemer  43:30

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But also, I want to go too far into this, but I know a band that tours Japan that I might want to hop aboard with and maybe do some show shoot, some shows like that,

Nestor Aparicio  43:39

Tokyo’s but, but I like different things in you. I love cities. You love being

Jason Siemer  43:43

like, really, both, yeah, because I like street photography too. You know what I mean? I like get out, getting out and just kind of like seeing what happens.

Nestor Aparicio  43:50

You would love the South American cities. Then South American cities have really appealed you. There’s so much candy, there’s so much going on.

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Jason Siemer  43:55

I did that in culture Ching and kocolou. I feel like I got a good run of that whole city on foot. And, you know, got got some really good little street scenes and the people and the food and the fish markets, and there’s a lot of, like, grit in that, and and real, like, it’s like, real life in that.

Nestor Aparicio  44:18

Yeah, I’d love your photography for that.

Jason Siemer  44:20

Thank you.

Nestor Aparicio  44:21

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I mean, that’s really like moment you you when you put your pictures up. It’s one of the reasons I invite you on a friendship for 30 years. But like your pictures, anybody wants to your work, did nobody where they can find your pictures, because I think your pictures will bring this segment to life if you’ve gotten hooked in on if you’re driving around,

Jason Siemer  44:36

sure, I just uploaded my Borneo shots from January

Nestor Aparicio  44:39

monkeys.

Jason Siemer  44:40

They’re all Jason seimer photography.com, s, I, E M, E R. Jason semer photography,

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Nestor Aparicio  44:46

so I’ve seen pictures of little primates. This isn’t a zoo. This is you out in the woods, right? Like, give me the little primate story.

Jason Siemer  44:54

I mean, one of the reasons why I went there is because of the the animals and. I wanted to really capture that the proboscis monkeys, which are the ones with the big, long noses.

Nestor Aparicio  45:04

Yeah,

Jason Siemer  45:05

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that was one of the main you wanted

Nestor Aparicio  45:08

to find one of those in the wild.

Jason Siemer  45:09

And, yeah, there was a couple places that were really where they are.

Nestor Aparicio  45:15

The first place

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Jason Siemer  45:15

I went to, and we talked about my injury or whatever, but like, that’s where I got hurt. I was in my third day of the trip. I was coming off a trail in this park called Baco National Park, which is near the city of kaching in like Southwest Borneo, and I’m coming off the trail, and I’m holding on to a railing, and my feet slipped out from under me, and I kept holding on to the railing, so my arm dislocated, oh, shoulders located, yeah. And I was by myself. I’d gotten there on a little boat with some other people, but on this trail is by myself, and my arm, like, popped, and I’m like, What do I do now? And then it kind of pop back.

Nestor Aparicio  45:56

Explains bad with names a little bit you can’t play. That’s a mess, right? Yeah? I mean, it’s

Jason Siemer  46:01

a whole thing, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  46:02

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when you physically can’t play well,

Jason Siemer  46:04

here’s the problem. It was happened on the third day of my trip, and I was there for a month. So I’m like, Okay, what do I do? Like, I’m here for a month. I’m here to shoot photos. Like, this isn’t gonna stop me, right? So people like, you should maybe go to the clinic, the doc, you know, the hospital, whatever. I’m like, What are they gonna do? Put it in a sling. I’m gonna shoot photos. So I every hotel I stayed at, they gave me ice, and I went to the local pharmacy. They gave me Tylenol, which is called Panadol there, and ibuprofen. And the pharmacist was like, just rotate this every six hours, each one, and for the whole month, that’s what I did. And I iced my arm, and I was still able to take these photos, which are on my website or whatever. But so I can say that, like, every shot was basically taken in great pain, but, but I think I did some of my best work and, but it kind of goes to show to like, you know, if you’re determined and you’re, you know, you want to create, you can’t just let something like that. Stop you. I’m getting, I have an MRI next week for Okay, so let’s

Nestor Aparicio  47:04

catch

Jason Siemer  47:04

you. I’m gonna have to have surgery. Probably the doctor thinks that I might have chipped a bone or something. It’s a mess. But good thing

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Nestor Aparicio  47:11

you’re not starting for the Orioles next

Jason Siemer  47:12

week. Maybe I could still,

Nestor Aparicio  47:13

let’s get you back to 100%

Jason Siemer  47:15

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man, yeah, yeah. So

Nestor Aparicio  47:16

next trip. You don’t know? Now,

Jason Siemer  47:18

I don’t want to reveal that yet.

Nestor Aparicio  47:20

All right,

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Jason Siemer  47:21

yeah, I got some ideas.

Nestor Aparicio  47:22

All right, well, when he gets back from wherever he’s going, I’ll see the pictures, and I’ll alert you to Jason seimer, s, I, E M, E R. You can look him up on the internet. He’s in Fells Point and serving the world through art and music in his band, bad with names as well, not playing currently, because what’s his song from John Mayer, in repair, you’re in repair.

Jason Siemer  47:42

Having some vocal muscle tension that I’m seeing a speech pathologist for right now too. So get

Nestor Aparicio  47:49

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yourself better. Yeah,

Jason Siemer  47:51

the band will probably be back at some point. I’ll announce that when that happens and

Nestor Aparicio  47:56

well, I will miss you. It may go in Ocean City at fagers Island, there. You know, miss your little stickers,

Jason Siemer  48:01

yeah,

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Nestor Aparicio  48:01

but we’ll get you back out. Jason Seaver is here talking about traveling the world after I just got back from South America. I just had Leonard Raskin on, if you’re a fan of ours. He just did several weeks in Italy and Ireland with his son, and we talked about the American dream. And he talks about saving your money and doing what you enjoy with your money, and whatever that is doing it, I don’t know. Dude, I do a lot of things in life, and I own things, and I buy things, and I have nice shirts and I have crappy equipment. And, you know, the things that I feel like I need a better of this or less of that, the traveling part and my health that goes along with being able to walk 12 to 15 miles a day, every day, from Machu Picchu through six countries in South America. I don’t take that for granted. And I, and my punch line would be, I’m gonna do Alaska when I am old and broken down and on a boat, and could just see, you know, do that kind of travel, this kind of travel, where I do hard pavement. And I’m not a mountain guy, and I’m not, you know, I don’t if I did the Patagonia thing or something really crazy, like Antarctica, I would do it with some bougie tour group. But I don’t like bougie tour groups. I didn’t have a Bougie tour group in Machu Picchu. I had a dude.

Jason Siemer  49:12

You know

Nestor Aparicio  49:12

what? I mean. I don’t like being on a bus with people or being on a boat with people. I feel a little I don’t feel as independent as I need to feel.

Jason Siemer  49:21

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And

Nestor Aparicio  49:22

if that makes me a power, you know that I need to be in control. I’m a control freak. A little bit I am, but I need to get off the boat. When I want to get off the boat and I can’t get off the boat, then it becomes a harder thing for me to commit.

Jason Siemer  49:34

That’s part of it, you tell her to so to you, you know what I mean, and that’s people need to keep that in mind too. Like, you don’t need to, like, do certain things a certain way. Like, if you want to travel this way, make it happen. I mean, like,

Nestor Aparicio  49:45

all I knew is my boat was getting in the Buenos Aires about 130 and I was going to get a steak at cabana las Lilas at some point before midnight. And I had about 11 hours, and I knew I wanted a slice of pizza. And Buenos Aires is famous. It’s a place,

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Jason Siemer  50:00

okay?

Nestor Aparicio  50:00

So, like

Jason Siemer  50:01

dominoes.

Nestor Aparicio  50:02

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Oh no, this place had Maradona on the wall, for crying out loud, like Nancy the vines on the wall. You’re at failings and Buenos Aires is one of my favorite cities in the world. So walking around there was, I did, like, 13 miles in like 11 hours. Yeah, I just, and you don’t

Jason Siemer  50:21

even realize it.

Nestor Aparicio  50:22

Just kept walking like, I want a coffee, I want a pastry, I want a steak, I want wine. I want to eat his grave. More wine, more vino. And, yeah, and I just, like, walked around in my map, and I’m like, I don’t know, I get lost. Yeah, I just get lost when I’m on the

Jason Siemer  50:37

way right. Get you in shape too, like you said.

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Nestor Aparicio  50:39

And I take funny pictures that I never share with anyone. I might take selfies. I’m an amateur photographer. I could show you my new york pictures from three days ago. No one will ever see them because I won’t put them up. Sometimes I remember to put them up. Sometimes I don’t. I post plenty. I post enough on my real life. Can I just go off the grid to New York for a

Jason Siemer  50:57

day? You can,

Nestor Aparicio  50:58

and I did

Jason Siemer  50:59

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good for you.

Nestor Aparicio  51:00

You’ll never see those pictures of that delicious ramen that I picked up from my wife. Jason seimers here follow his art and his work. He’s a good man. And you write any music, any like new songs and stuff like that, or

Jason Siemer  51:11

I write, I’ve been taking notes for new songs, it’s not out of the question to record another record at some point, getting my voice back together, like I said, and that’s going very well. So my

Nestor Aparicio  51:23

dude, John Allen, we’re talking about like, he wrote this new song, make a living and and like, the inspiration from I got a piece of song, I got a thought of a song, I got a chorus, I got a riff. At our age, it’s not like I’m gonna sit in a room and write this and come out and give it to the record company. Yeah, it’s not like that. And I That’s why I was kidding you about like you’re snowed in on the Faroe Islands in the middle of nowhere, all alone. Yeah, you didn’t have your guitar.

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Jason Siemer  51:49

No,

Nestor Aparicio  51:49

right? So I’m just thinking like that sounds like a Barry Manilow, you know, getting snowed into New England

Jason Siemer  51:55

writing stuff, though. You know what I mean. Let that can turn into something eventually. I have a whole phone full of notes that I I write thoughts every day pretty much, you know. And

Nestor Aparicio  52:04

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once your clone gets to know you, you’re going to be dangerous. Yeah, absolutely. Jason seimers Here, the man, the myth, the legend, the artist and the production Maven. We’re here doing the Maryland treasures and the Maryland lottery. Fadeleys at Lexington market, talking about wanderlust and travel to places like Ocean City, Maryland and Assateague and the horses, or over the Bay Bridge, where beautiful things exist, like the Blackwater refuge. And he actually had a suicide bridge reference earlier today, which is not a great thought, but it is a great place in a good restaurant over near herlock, Maryland, right by Blackwater. So Spring is here. You can always go do that, get in the car and just go down and shoot some birds on the Eastern Shore.

Jason Siemer  52:42

I try to get to Blackwater at least once or twice a year. Yeah, there’s a lot of places over there. You don’t

Nestor Aparicio  52:49

have to go to Borneo to find cool stuff, right?

Jason Siemer  52:51

Absolutely. And, you know, I think about that a lot. I’m like, You know what? Because I do walk around the Inner Harbor and get harbor shots of Baltimore and stuff like that. But there’s other places that I want to go, you know, explore locally, and I do when I can in between these bigger trips, you know, and and it does make you, like, slow down and stop and like, kind of appreciate like, stuff you kind of take for granted just because you’re immersed in this area all the time, you know, you need to

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Nestor Aparicio  53:13

my

Nestor Aparicio  53:13

wife just still, when she comes through Baltimore, there’s rarely a time when she’s not checking out the architecture. Or she would look over here and say, Hey, that used to be a bank. And you could see that that clearly was a bank right across the street. And unless you look up,

Jason Siemer  53:26

you

Nestor Aparicio  53:26

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just don’t see it.

Jason Siemer  53:27

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  53:28

you know,

Jason Siemer  53:29

yeah. I mean, look at places like Rome, when, like, you know, I’ve been there a couple times, and like, you see all those the famous statues and everything. And like, you stop, you’re like, Whoa. They’re like, hundreds or 1000s years old. And those people just live amongst that environment every day, zooming around, going about their lives. And I bet a lot of them kind of forget how ancient that stuff actually is, right? I mean, because we look at a local church here in Baltimore, it’s like, 150 years old, you’re like, Wow, that’s incredible, and it is. But then you multiply that in a place like, you know, Italy or whatever, and like, it’s different parts of the world, and it’s mind blowing.

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Nestor Aparicio  54:00

So my wife and I had a van ride with in in Tahiti. We were in papi at a I was trying to think of name the town, papi at a Pete is what papi ate. Is made famous in the song The Southern Cross and Jimmy Buffett. I’ve been around the world, you know, so papi at these in the middle of the South Pacific, and Moray is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been, which you can see from papi ATTE. It’s the island next to Tahiti. It’s another little island Moray, M, O, O, R, E, A, that’s where one particular harbor the Jimmy Buffett song was written, and Koco’s Cove was where one particular harbors from. So I’m on the main island of Tahiti, and my wife and I are in this van with this woman and her daughter. And the daughter was maybe like 1516, years old, not old enough, but like old but, but not a toddler either. And. And but wide eyed. She might have been 17 or 18. She’s wide eyed girl. And we’re just talking, you know, she speaks English, no problem. And French first language on that island. It’s a French Island, quite frankly, in Tahiti. And she was talking to us about being American and where she’s from. And I’m like, It’s our first day there. We’re watching the sun come up. We’re going to our boat that we’re getting on this boat to tender, over to Moray. I’m like, this is, like, the most beautiful place I’ve ever been in my life. And this 1617, year old girl, she’s never been anywhere but her Island, and she has no she has no perspective of how beautiful. I’m like, this is the most beautiful place in the world. And she’s like, You think so?

Jason Siemer  55:43

Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  55:44

this is just Tahiti. Why would you Why do you think that?

Jason Siemer  55:47

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Yep,

Nestor Aparicio  55:48

she hasn’t seen anything outside of that island. Never left the

Jason Siemer  55:51

island, Faroe Islands. I was, you know, I was at the bar showing locals, like my photos, and they weren’t impressed at all. Yeah? I mean, because they’re like, and they were like, Yeah, you know, sometimes maybe I need to kind of appreciate this place more. And I’m like, Yeah, you probably should. I came from the 10 hours.

Nestor Aparicio  56:07

I know you feel

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Jason Siemer  56:08

that. Yeah, oh, just

Nestor Aparicio  56:11

Dundalk in Pasadena, traveling world. I will sign off here for families. And we had a beautiful afternoon. Luke will join me to talk some football on the backside of the scheduled release. You’ve been to Rio. I

Jason Siemer  56:22

have Yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  56:23

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yeah, the ravens are going to Rio. I told Leonard this week. I’m like, dodgy, you would have been dodgy, dodgy, dodgy,

Jason Siemer  56:29

yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  56:30

yeah, dodgy. Like, yeah. Leonard’s like, I’m gonna go on a tour. I’m like, I if I said to my wife, hey, we’re gonna make X amount of dollars and we’re gonna take 100 Ravens fans to Rio. She’s like, how many are gonna die or wind up in prison or not have a past?

Jason Siemer  56:45

Yeah, it’s not a place you just kind

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Nestor Aparicio  56:47

of, it’s not a place you just want to, like, walk through Well, of your Raven stuff,

Jason Siemer  56:50

yeah, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  56:52

correct. And that’s the thing. Well, I saw his Eagles fans then there, two years ago, the Eagles played down there. I’m like, how many of them got mugged or robbed? Yeah? Because, like, it’s just not,

Jason Siemer  57:01

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yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  57:02

you want to blend in. In South America, you don’t want to stand out,

Jason Siemer  57:05

right? I know they went there for the football but probably took for granted the precautions you have to take, yeah, yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  57:14

yeah,

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Jason Siemer  57:14

for sure. Take some

Nestor Aparicio  57:15

precaution if you’re going to Rio. I’m back for more weird failings, perfectly safe and sound to come down here and get a crab cake, as well as fishmonger’s daughter in Catonsville, the new location I’ll be there on Thursday, back from over Baltimore positive. Stay with

Jason Siemer  57:28

us.