What it’s like not being on Radio Row this week at Super Bowl LVII

Nestor Aparicio addresses not being on Radio Row at the Super Bowl in Glendale after attending the last 28 years as a working media member. Just scroll this website and you’ll see the history, quality and depth of our work as a radio station, website and community advocate. Our Chief Digital Officer Mike Rosenfeld of Web Connection asked him why…

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Nestor Aparicio  00:01

W n s t, Towson Baltimore and Baltimore Asante, we are positively into Super Bowl time. We’re usually radio row. I would be in Arizona all this week if it were not for those who issue credentials and after 28 years, I am uncredentialed. I’m unlicensed, unfiltered and back at home on the homestead, but presenting this week 28 years worth of the Greatest Hits the best of radio row and all the years, all the places cold places, warm places, friendly paste places, not so friendly places, Super Bowls, we won Super Bowls. We didn’t participate in Super Bowls. We should have gone to all that stuff happening this week. We’ll be out at Baltimore positive so if you have any recollection of the time I sat down with Joe Namath, Randall Cunningham or Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, or Mike Ditka or Deacon Jones or Joe Nemeth or whoever you will find it out of Baltimore positive.com This week, this guy keeps the website going. As I have put up some words this week in regard to the NFL and why I’m not in Phoenix this week. And while I am on East Coast time freezing my butt off back here. My profile is our Chief Digital Officer and Chief Leader here of all things especially and you know, much like me, you own the website crashed back in September, when the original chats the whole thing came down and I have a Ravens credential taken away. I’m assuming I won’t be making to the owners meetings of the combine in the coming months here, Mike. So this Super Bowl week, I will be here with you making wise decisions and eating bean dip. As I watched the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles you gotta be rooting interest in this one man.

Mike Rosenfeld  01:46

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Not yet. I’m in a fun air quotes football pool.

Nestor Aparicio  01:54

Thanks for 500 bucks, I mean, that that kind of no

Mike Rosenfeld  01:57

fun. It’s coming down to the wire that I need. I need to get a win. So I whoever I pick is who I have the gonna have the rooting interest in. I am I am not sad, bitter. I guess you’d say that the Bengals didn’t make it to the Super Bowl. You know, my wife has a very dear friend that she grew up with that has been living in Cincinnati with her husband for 30 years. And since they’ve beaten us maybe three out of last four games or whatever sends us who day text

Nestor Aparicio  02:32

it’s a big deal. They’re now right like all of a sudden it’s bigger Cincinnati. Yeah,

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Mike Rosenfeld  02:36

I mean, look, they’re they’re not our rival that’s like nice to be able to say they’re not our rival. But so but we’ve never chirped in their ear, and she’s been chirping and I and we’ve not said anything back but it was nice to see that happen. I did have a flashback watching the game and seeing party get injured on the first series to win. Tony Siragusa against the Raiders pancake. Rich Gannon. I don’t know if you remember that because yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  03:08

I was. I was there that night. Yeah, well, well, you’ll get to relive that one Sunday. Right that that is going to be a big featured part of this Baltimore bullies thing that’s coming out on Sunday night, usually Sunday. Luke used to go to the most of the Super Bowls with me now he did not go to LA last year. He did go to Miami back in 2020 and went to all the ones before that. And you know, we used to on Sunday night just watched the lousy Pro Bowl and make fun of it. And like was Snoop Huntley as the starting quarterback and teen Eli versus Team Peyton, you know, Peyton’s a better quarterback at this point than Tyler only so that he should be able to play. But But nonetheless, this Sunday night is a little more special, right? I mean, the 2001 ravens special to all of where were you in? 2001? Did I even know you then?

Mike Rosenfeld  04:01

Now? I think it was before we probably were on each other’s radar. Yeah, I’m pumped for that. I have to be honest with you. Like, I know, you know, we’ve worked together and through working together have become friends. And I don’t know how to handle honestly, the conversation with you. Because like you and me, you like you. Like me, excuse me. You love what you do for a living. And I know having gotten to know you how bittersweet it must be for you not to be able to do your job. And, you know, I don’t I think most people would avoid the topic. But look, we’re friends and I don’t really know how to handle talking to you about the next two weeks because I know that you’re not going to be able to do what you do for a living and what you love doing. So how do we you know, I’m

Nestor Aparicio  04:54

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not we’re chatting on the front end of it. You may have to ask me next door. Hey, how are you know, like literally I don’t, I’ve only missed one Super Bowl in all the time I’ve owned wn St. Even when my wife had cancer, you know, my wife was in and out of comas most of December of 2015. And in late January, early February 16, she got out of the hospital Christmas Eve and I went to the Super Bowl in San Francisco, she was doing okay your sister came to care of or whatever, but, like, put an optional thing for me, this is what I do for a living right. And I take it very, very seriously and anybody even though she hate me, who worked for me know that when we put the band together and went to Super Bowls as as a station as a group, when we had an ensemble here, the entire goal was to kick the ass of 1057 every day every back to what it was 1300 and Nita marks. So like there was a real competitive part of spiking the ball after kicking their ass off football season on breaking news stories. The wn S T tech service back in the day brought to you by coons for security Boulevard, of course, big appreciation to Dennis for that. But it’s a competitive thing, right like so it’s not, it’s not fun and games going to make it look like fun and games. But I sit there 12 hours a day for 28 years, five days a week build the relationships so that PR people who handle Hall of Famers bring them to me instead of somewhere else. So all of this work that you see, it’s not that I stand there and say I’m ESPN bring me Joe Nemeth. I’m ESPN, bring me John Elway bring me bring me Joe Montana. I worked for that shit. You know what I mean? For 30 years, I got on airplanes got up early, paid our way paid for everything paid employees handed per diems and cash to my employees, like put five and six hotel rooms together. Morning Radio Live ISDN lines with $2,000 bills from the phone company, you know, 20 and $30,000 worth of expenses to go to Miami and take our crew down there in New Orleans and broadcast 12 hours a day live, which we did for well over a decade. So like there’s there’s a real investment in what I’ve done. And quite frankly, a lot of what you hear on the radio this week, there was a decade where I took other people. I employed other people to sit and talk to Lynn Swann or sit and talk to Eric Dickerson or sit and talk to Jack Youngblood or Jack ham, all of which I have pictures, video audio that I’ll present this week. So the good news is Mike, I would say this to you. And you and I’ve worked together for a little while been friendly through work for a long while. And I don’t know that you were glued to my radio row broadcast in New Orleans in 2002. When nos Lofton sat down or the late great Kevin green sat next to me, or Julius peppers, who was hoping to get drafted sat down next to me. He’s probably all a fan. So like, I have all of these interviews and this is a chance maybe for you to hear for the first time that day. The Bill Walton sat next to me in San Diego and talked about John Wooden for 25 minutes back in 1998. Or the time that Jerome Bettis sat down with me when he was a Los Angeles RAM in 1996. At the Super Bowl, Randall Cunningham before he came in played here, so I have all these archival things. Some of it I’ve never listened to. I don’t remember sitting with Darrell green Hall of Famer Darrell green to the Washington you can’t say their name anymore. Back in 97. But I did I have a picture of and I found the audio tape. So I’m cutting all of this up. And some of it I’m presenting for the first time since it aired live.

Mike Rosenfeld  08:51

So it sounds like you have a plan to supplement what you should be doing by being there to fill up your airwaves with classic you know, the classics that addresses what you’re doing from a tactical standpoint. I will check in with you next you know Thursday before the Superbowl to check in how you’re doing up here. You know and, and emotionally and mentally knowing that you’re kind of not able to do what you should be or you know would like to be doing.

Nestor Aparicio  09:25

Can I tell you what’s on the radio next week because this will be fun. Are you ready? I’m ready. I’m just going to shock on it. And I’m gonna say these out loud. Are you ready? Is it like this is just what I have ready already? I’m trying to find two missing pieces. Are you ready for this? I have the rock from 2004 It’s not missing. I just haven’t like completely identified it. He sat down with me and Houston called me a jabroni I think he offered to kick my ass too. I’m pretty sure so I gotta find it. Um, and he also sat down with Me Ra and Baltimore kind of remembered me a little bit. I’m swearing to Houston Oiler Jersey because we were in Houston. So I’m going to find that one for you. That’s not a part of it. And then and this is it’s weird how you do these things and something means something to you. You don’t know why Tico Torres Do you know who he is? I do not used to trauma from Bon Jovi. Okay? Yes. Okay, so he was the drummer for a band called Frankie and the sweethearts. They had a band Frankie and the knockouts for the band, a song called sweetheart who loves

Mike Rosenfeld  10:25

stars concert I ever went through. Thank you. And painters mill.

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Nestor Aparicio  10:30

Well, Tico Torres played the drums that night. I promise you that.

Mike Rosenfeld  10:33

They opened for crack the sky. I was like 1415 years old

Nestor Aparicio  10:37

loves you from the start.

Mike Rosenfeld  10:38

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Oh my god. Start my mind with that Frank in the knockout. Okay, so

Nestor Aparicio  10:43

now you know why. And I talked to him about Frankie in the knockouts. Okay, I remember. So I have a picture of it. Right. Bachman recorded it. It’s just on a tape. Right? And can I give a free plug to Greg Landry from Towson transfers, who has been my my friend for a long, long, long, long time. He does this kind of work, right? Like if I found a bunch of tapes or videotapes, he can get them down into the format that you can use a digital format. So are you are you like I’m going to just go through I think 140 plus interviews that are ready to go all right there you’re gonna hear these on the radio. I don’t know that you’re gonna see every one of them on Baltimore positive because I might not have time to get them all up. But I’d like to get them up anybody wants to enter next week and put WordPress together for me. Hit me a note NASA Baltimore. positive.com That’s it. Okay, you’re ready. Sure. Let’s go. Now you’re gonna count hall of famers in here football know

Mike Rosenfeld  11:40

that I know if they’re in the Hall of Famers. But I’m going to count how many people how many people’s brands I know which should be most of them. Okay,

Nestor Aparicio  11:47

Hall of Famer Ready John Randall Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer. I’ll Turley Doug Flutie. Darrell moose Johnston, Dick for meal Master P. Joe Pissarro chick. Yanni got that Yanni Greek Yanni singer Yanni, Cordell Stuart Hall of Famer Andre Tippett, Hall of Famer Orlando pace, Ryan leaf, Paul Rodgers, of Bad Company, Hall of Famer Tony Boselli, Hall of Famer rod Woodson Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw, Kenny Main Hall of Famer Dan Marino. Doug Flutie different piece, different year he comes on every year he’s got relatives here, flute, he loves me we’re the same height. Chris Redman and Matt Stover Bryant McKinney and Wally Williams. Ice Cube. Yeah. Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ice Cube Rod Carew, Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew, who join me with the mother of the boy who lost his life that rod crew has the heart of in Minnesota. Unbelievable. Josh shakeups the running backs for the Raiders. Rick Neuheisel my friend Hall of Famer Warren Moon, Ron Jaworski Hall of Famer Michael Haynes, Bart Scott, Nickelodeon star Joe Joe Sirois. Ogema Haley Ryan leaf, different conversation he comes with us every year and talks about his addiction and his battle. former Atlanta Falcons head coach and Super Bowl champion Mike Smith, Meryl Hodge, Santonio Holmes, who caught a game winning Super Bowl pass and Andrew Zimmern did a eating segment with me together a few years ago for tasted the NFL. Ron Jaworski comes on every year in this when he’s talking about Lamar Jackson, Anquan Boldin, Wiley Williams and Donnie Brady, Donnie Brady to original 9096 ravens, Pete Kotch from the former Maryland Turpin actor in Hollywood. A Olympic snowboarder gold medalist, Hannah Teater, Hall of Famer John Hannah, Mike West off former Baltimore Colts special team head coach, Nickelodeon legend Mark summers, Torrey Smith, Evander Holyfield and Deontay Wilder, Andrew Zimmern and Gary Vaynerchuk you know who he is right? Randy Krause Hall of Famer Morton Anderson Hall of Famer Jack Youngblood, Hall of Famer soon to be Ben Roethlisberger and Leigh Steinberg together when Lee was pimping him as a first round draft pick out of this small college, Adam Schefter and red McCombs red McCombs was the owner of the Minnesota Vikings at the time. Former rams quarterback Jim Everett, Hall of Famer Derrick Brooks, Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz Hall of Famer Marcus Allen, soon to be Hall of Famer Matt Burke. Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. Baltimore’s own Entertainment Tonight. Dadadada Kevin Frazier. Hall of Famer DeMonte Dawson Hall of Famer Dick buckets Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson, Hall of Famer Hank Strange, we matriculated the ball we matriculated in my Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis joined by Hall of Famer Brian Urlacher. Before they were Hall of Famers, they did a Campbell Soup thing with their mothers with me back in San Diego and oh three Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer. Before it was all the famer Hall of Famer Jim Kelly was Steve Tasker sitting on my nasty nationwide said it’s Super Bowl 35 and Tampa, talking about the Ravens defense and Ray Lewis young Ray Lewis Hall of Famer Michael Irvin Hall of Famer Chris Carter. Hall of Famer Michael Strahan Hall of Famer Michael aids. Comedy Hall of Famer Frank Caliendo. Hall of Famer Orlando pace Hall of Famer Ron mix, Hall of Famer John Ogden. Hall of Famer John odd that he comes every year and hangs out with us tells old stories. Mike Ditka Hall of Famer Hall of Famer rod Woodson, Hall of Famer Steve sable and his last visit ever with me at the Super Bowl in in Dallas, but there’s several Steve staples in here. Mike Francis, who I’m sure as a Radio Hall of Famer, actor Danny Trejo, Hall of Famer George Young of City College in the Baltimore, a Baltimore City College then the New York Giants general manager. He sat with me at length at Superbowl in New Orleans in 1997. That has never been aired before. Mary Lou Retton who’s a Hall of Famer in my life, Mitch album, Scott Zolciak, Chad Oh Cho cinco Johnson, it was in the news with Shannon Sharpe. Derek Mason, Boomer Esiason at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston. Houston owner Bob McNair at the Super Bowl in Houston. 2004. The late great John Steadman at the 1998 Super Bowl, telling me all of his Super Bowl stories in San Diego Brian Billick on the eve of Super Bowl 35 sitting in his hotel room at the Tampa West Shore about the win Super Bowl 35 Marvin Lewis at Super Bowl 35 Gary Stevens Hall of Fame jockey Hall of Famer Hines Ward, Pittsburgh Steeler rocky Bleier future Hall of Famer Justin Tucker Hall of Famer Jerome Bettis Archie Manning, Torrey Smith, Billy Cundiff sat with me in Arizona in 2015 for 30 minutes and talked about what it was like missing the field goal. Dante Stallworth, Bill Walton and Dan Shaughnessy at Dixon Super Bowl champion at Dixon, Josh Gad and Michael Chiklis, actors and comedian sat with me. Brooklyn Decker from Sports Illustrated model set with us to talk Special Olympics, Baltimore’s own Mike Freeman, Scott Pharrell on the bench shot with us last year, Hollywood actors Joe Montana and Ronnie mormo. John Salley, Justin for set, Jake Plummer Ickey Woods Diamond Dallas Page. Ron Jaworski, Tim Brown, Mike Golic Hall of Famer Dave Robinson, Jamal Lewis and Charlie batch Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson, Vinnie Testa Verde, Cynthia Freeland of NFL Network Hall of Famer Charles Haley, Glen Powell and Monica Barbara, the actors from the movie Top Gun to such a huge hit. I did 20 minutes with him three years ago in Miami. Baltimore’s very own Montel Williams, yes, that Montel Williams. And the rock. So there you have it, Mike Roosevelt. That’s the lineup for next week here at WNS.

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Mike Rosenfeld  18:32

Wow, I’m sitting here thinking, how can anyone argue you’re not a sports journalist? With a list of list of names, it’s incredible.

Nestor Aparicio  18:43

Well, you can judge for yourself, how many of them are professional in any good, but they’ll all be on WNS do the big Baltimore positive will be in the audio vault as well? So that’s what I’m doing instead of going to the Super Bowl. But yeah, I guess the hardest thing is just missing out on relationships and the people you meet, and a lot of the guests and and handlers, PR people from a professional sense. It is a professional work convention. It’s the epicenter of sports radio. It’s a sports radio convention. It’s a sports media convention every year.

Mike Rosenfeld  19:13

Yeah, like any that. And like any industries convention, in order to maintain your relevancy you need to be at the convention.

Nestor Aparicio  19:23

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Well, you try anyway, you apply and they and you can read for yourself. What I wrote to them and what they’ve written me back they blamed it on the Ravens so I am not officially I am not in Arizona this week. And you think I’m sunning myself, right? Like how do you think this work gets done? Usually we get out of bed around 530 or 6am to get coffee, if you want to get a workout in whatever. I’m usually on radio row by seven or 715 because that’s when the guests start coming. It’s already 1015 on the East Coast if you’re on the West Coast, right? So you’d have to get there earlier in the morning. They bring by big guest at that point cups of coffee if you’re there Would you stand the chance to get a guest who may not be slotted if something falls through? A lot of times I see a handler with hey, I can give you a you know, a haul. If you want. Thurman Thomas, he’ll sit down with you right now we have 10 minutes. Can you do it right now? And I’m always yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I’m like Fred Flintstone. And yes, yes, yes, yes. That’s how this works. And you sit there all day, usually deprived of food, energy, sunlight, I never come home with a tan, because I work 60 hours a week in a convention room to make this happen. This is that that is the work really is,

Mike Rosenfeld  20:33

I guess, you know, most of us just think of it as a, you know, it’s a opportunity to go to a major sporting event and not work. But I you know, you have to realize that it’s work. And you just explain how it gets done. So that was enlightening.

Nestor Aparicio  20:47

Enlightening, how are you man, what’s going on in the web world, that this is on a web basis. And I talked to John Martin about this. This is the first Super Bowl and you know, you’ve been known to like, look at a gambling app or to like some of your friends and whatnot. This is the first time you can get like exotic from your couch, right? Like you can order out, get crabcakes do whatever you want to do sit at home, but you can literally have a good time have a Vegas experience on your couch, right? For the locals.

Mike Rosenfeld  21:16

That is true. I am not other than participating in a couple of pools, which just keeps me and I do it with my son interested. I have one of those apps just because my kids begged me to so they could get the $200 credit when I signed up.

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Nestor Aparicio  21:33

Did they burn it? Or did they did they make any?

Mike Rosenfeld  21:35

I mean they they well no they took it they took their credit and I don’t know what they did with it but they’re much more on top of it. I mean this in game betting and you can bet every play I mean, it’s it’s it’s insane

Nestor Aparicio  21:47

as he scratches his head, you know, for those listening out there. It’s

Mike Rosenfeld  21:51

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it’s over the top, it’s over the top and it’s you know if you can afford it, if you can afford it, it’s great entertainment

Nestor Aparicio  21:59

for just like this, right? Like we all wonder what it why everybody’s running around the 20s with the beads and making babies and war was over and all that and they put booze out like prohibition right? And now it’s like beats I’m wearing my truck city. Sure, can I plug that I’m going to be drug City on March 3 During the Maryland crabcakes represented by the Maryland lottery conjunction with our friends at window nation by to get two free 24 months. So 24 months free financing 866 90 nation, but so like a drug city used to have to go behind the curtain to get the special movies there. There was like, like, and then the internet happened for porn, right? And then like we’d happen right cannabis, excuse me, it’s a plant marijuana, whatever you whatever you’re calling it this week, right? CBD whenever you want to write THC, right? Yep. And now gambling, right, like, and now we have like aI you showed me that three weeks ago still blew my mind. Like, can even write my column for me. Can we work on this together?

Mike Rosenfeld  22:55

Well, if you of course it could. But you don’t want the robots to take your job away from you. But

Nestor Aparicio  23:02

But yeah, I mean, how would they do it? And can I be on a beach while they do it?

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Mike Rosenfeld  23:05

They can do is talk about this, they can do it? They can do it.

Nestor Aparicio  23:09

I’ve always wanted to clone me. I’ve always thought if there were a couple of me we’d make it.

Mike Rosenfeld  23:14

Yeah, of course, you have to prove it to make sure it’s right. But they’re pretty spot on. Look, it’s a world of it’s become a world of instant gratification. You talk about all these things, you know, gambling used to us to either have to go to Vegas, or Atlantic City, or have a bookie and

Nestor Aparicio  23:37

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wasn’t taken action play to play and exotic this and you know, overall under points. You know, we’re not gonna get exotic around here,

Mike Rosenfeld  23:48

you’d have to wait the two to three hours for the game to be complete to know if you won or lost. Now it’s in your hand and it can be played play by play. And it can be multiple things that you never were able to gamble on before, I think,

Nestor Aparicio  24:00

think about that when I’m in playing blackjack that I’ve made 800 bets tonight to win $38 or whatever, right? I was just looking to hang out. win lose high five, get some action. Get ahead get behind. I mean, it’s part of the gig is sitting at the tables, watching the chips go up and go down. Right.

Mike Rosenfeld  24:17

You know, one thing I don’t understand about instant gratification is the almost instant This is the percentage. This is the sports that percentage of that receiver making that catch. And they do all the mathematics and the the artificial intelligence and and the point in which the ball was and that catch with had a 21% chance of of being a reception and I don’t understand how they can factor in the the human element. You know, was there a flash bulb going off? Was there this was there that is that all factored in? You know that stuff to me. He someone’s gonna have to convince me how that’s accurate or or you’re watching a live sports game and it’s like the you know the Maryland Terrapins basketball team with three minutes left has a not 81% Win chance but they lose

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Nestor Aparicio  25:14

oh it’s the same thing like when you know the ravens are driving the beat the Bengals if they complete a pass and they get within field goal right, all of a sudden they go to 88% the win or whatever. Yeah, man I mean I do not cleat strat thematic with Tom cap. And John Keller and Charlie Kilgore. We just blew on dice. And we had cards, and it was good enough for me. I didn’t need anything more than that, at that point, you know, the kellyco. Baseball or you’d have a little football thing. Like that’s what we had, we had that and we had CDs came out and they got a CD player, right? I listened to music in cable happened. This is blowing my mind right now. Right? Even that,

Mike Rosenfeld  25:55

even that. So if you were legitimately getting music, you know, you have to wait for the album to be released, then you had to go to the store if it was a popular one. So we sold out

Nestor Aparicio  26:06

to Taylor Swift opens the floodgates at 1201. She’s got videos for all this right?

Mike Rosenfeld  26:11

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Exactly. And it’s on it’s in your hand on your device, and you’re instantaneously listening to it. I mean, look, we’ve talked about this on multiples of multiple times during our segments, how in 1995, when I got into the internet business, how I didn’t have the vision of the bad that comes with the good. And everything I described would seem like, Well, that’s good. Like, it’s good that you can get music right at your fingertips, it’s good that you can gamble on it on every play. It’s good that you can do all these things, but

Nestor Aparicio  26:46

fast food on the app right now and have a cold french fries delivered here. 30 minutes, right?

Mike Rosenfeld  26:50

So but the bed is it’s cold french fries, and then you don’t move, you’re sitting there and you’re not moving, you’re not getting out. So there’s, there’s for every positive, there’s a negative consequence. And, and if if look, use the word plug, if I could plug our last conversation, which I thought of a lot of the ones was really deep as far as technology goes where we talked about, I showed

Nestor Aparicio  27:14

our piece to my wife, my son and my daughter in law on this computer that I work on. I brought them in here and said, You need to see this poem in real time. Yeah, get written while I read it as it’s writing it. And it makes sense in the end.

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Mike Rosenfeld  27:33

Yeah, it’s crazy. And, and I was telling someone recently look in the in the digital strategy, business. You know, every year things evolve every three years, there’s a pretty big shift. But every decade, there’s a monstrous technology. And this is it. I told my son, he’s 25 years old, I said, start thinking that he’s entrepreneur, I said, start thinking about how to leverage AI as a as a business person for a business, you know, to tie things on to it, I gave him a scenario I saw on a YouTube video of people who print t shirts with kind of canned phrases. They have this website, they don’t do anything but collect money, they basically have these screenshots, screen these these t shirt designs, you add it to your cart, you hit submit, it immediately goes to Etsy who prints it packages and and ships them you pay them a portion of what you sold it for the money’s in your account. All you do is sit on a beach and collect money. I mean, the you know, entrepreneurs out there, hey, if you need help if you need a digital strategist and you have a good idea, come find me I hire

Nestor Aparicio  28:41

you I need that defeat strategy if we come

Mike Rosenfeld  28:46

partner, your partner but but you know, surrounding around this AI stuff is is that is big. Now, there’s going to be the negative stuff that we can’t even predict yet. That’s going to come with it. And bad actors are going to take advantage of it. But you know, we’ll see what happens.

Nestor Aparicio  29:04

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All right, I should do a coffee segment with you brought to you by rural farms and stuff like that. And you and I should assume that. So this I’m gonna This has nothing to do with anything. It’s just something I want to get on the radio as part of this segment. Because my wife and I were driving around and you said you talked about being sedentary right? So this leads me to this topic. It’s a good crabcake tour topic. Okay. Sunday morning, my wife and I went out for a Sunday drive literally to Harford County. Okay, so I’m going to plug a couple of businesses here get free plugs away. Okay. This is what I did on Sunday. I had had a hot tip on a meal at a place called Bahco in it right in the parking lot where Conrad’s is with this orange shed a spinach. Rob, it was Rob and the eagles were playing the Philadelphia Eagles were playing in the championship game and I thought Rob Philadelphia they do this Philly pretzels up there. Let’s go not to root on the Eagles. Just go I like Philly pretzels and I haven’t had one I haven’t been to Philadelphia since Tommy Conwell. When you skipped out on me back in October didn’t go remember you remember? So I had ran out of Philly pretzel in six months like a really legitimate one. So I’m like we’ll do a little thing with Sunday morning. We’ll go get a bowl of pasta. We’ll get home in time for the game. We went the back way across behind Weber’s cider mill up Cromwell Bridge Road. Here’s a plug. I just plug Weber’s delicious apple cider delicious apple cider donuts. Past MC falls Iron Horse tavern where I once did a show with Joe Flacco and Hall of Famer Justin Tucker and Dennis Pitta back in the glory days 10 years ago. And we’re driving up Cromwell Bridge Road. I’ll pass the reservoir and there was one eagle. Bald Eagle. Have you ever seen a bald eagle? I have? How many have you seen in your life?

Mike Rosenfeld  30:54

I went to Alaska salt binds but I saw one in Maryland at Ocean City on a golf course

Nestor Aparicio  30:59

in your life. You’ve seen one in Maryland in your life. One in your 50 years in your life? Yes. Okay. One in your life in Maryland. Yes. One in your life. Okay. So I saw bald eagle. In my life. I’m 54 years old. It’s about getting out a little bit, right. I saw bald eagles in Montana in 1994. When I went with Mike Marlowe, my former sports editor. He lived in Great Falls Montana and we went to see Pearl Jam out in, in in Missoula. And I went to Great Falls Helena out all out in that part of the world. I saw one or two bald eagles. I got up on a is it an American Eagle the brown ones is they called the young one golden eagle Golden Eagle, Golden Eagle, Golden Eagle different Eagle Golden Eagle saw one of those really close 30 years ago. My wife and I went to Yellowstone to see Pearl Jam again in Missoula this time outside five years ago. And we saw one bald eagle outside of Jackson Hole. We turn the car around my wife got her camera but boom, boom. One eagle on a pole, right outside of town. Paul King King discount liquors. He’s a helicopter pilot invited me and my mom was still alive on Mother’s Day. 10 years ago, out of the airport up in Forest Park Forest, Forest Hills, forest, Forest Hill, Forest Hills, North Bel Air. We got up in the air over the Susquehanna and there was a bald eagle flying and it flew along our helicopter for miles. He followed it literally right. And then last summer on the crabcake tour. Shan and I took a detour down to Blackwater. And we saw a juvenile and one in the field. Couldn’t get near it saw it but not close enough like to get a good picture or anything like that. Sunday morning, I’m on a drive and there’s an eagle, Mike. There’s two. There’s three. There’s juveniles. There’s two flying, there’s two more in the tree. Along the road along the water north of MC falls up to where the split is, which can’t be a mile and a quarter of land of road. There were a dozen that we counted more we couldn’t count. We went up got our lunch free plug here for Philly and the original pretzel people. The Bako people was delicious. The service was great. Thank you very much, Kate. We came back that way to see if they were still there and they were there. Get out pictures. Flying there. Right in front of me falls. We parked in the little lot. There were six of them. Still there. Two hours later. Monday. My wife gets off of work. It’s five o’clock. It’s still light out. Let’s go back. We went back. Big camera big thing out in the woods. My wife gets stickers all over. She shot two of them in the tree flying away. So bald eagles in Loch Raven, go see them. So is that good that I do for you? No, that’s if I could tell you today right now if you got in the car came out that I can’t go I guarantee you that you’re gonna see several eagles. Today’s the day

Mike Rosenfeld  34:38

than that. Yeah, the next time it’s a blue sky. Hopefully tomorrow, but no. Well, I’m 55 it was last year I saw one and the only one I saw in Maryland. I was literally on a

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Nestor Aparicio  34:47

golf course. I don’t know what to say was the most. I mean takes your breath away.

Mike Rosenfeld  34:51

Oh yeah, they’re beautiful animals.

Nestor Aparicio  34:53

So they’re so get outside a little bit. Don’t stay stuck in AI. Although when I’m in Epcot soaring on Thursday. It’s One point, though May, I promise you, I will have seen an eagle again, I’m sure I’m gonna fly with eagles. So my browser felt a flies and soars with the Eagles and stays away from the turkeys. Although they have those at the Life Center on the other side as well, gobble gobble, you can find him at web connection. He’s my chief digital officer. He makes things work around here on weeks when I’m not allowed to do the work that I’ve been doing for 28 years by the National Football League, and the Baltimore Ravens, but we’re going to present some great great radio and Super Bowl stuff, like tell me what you do, because you are so helpful to me and getting together things I do like this week, my domains were up right so I had to redo my domains and GoDaddy this and go Papa, that and all that. But you keep me in order to make sure that when people come to the website, they’re gonna have a great experience.

Mike Rosenfeld  35:47

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Nestor Aparicio  36:39

Well, I appreciate everything you do for us here you can find Mike adult front of Baltimore positive.com Of course, you can always find at a web connection for all of these wise conversations that we try to have around here. And you know, we’re gonna be okay at the end of all this Mike, I have a little bit of faith just like George Michael said, I am Nestor we are wn st am 1570 Towson Baltimore locked out of radio row but not locked out of your dial at am 1570 Stay with us at Baltimore positive.com