Bringing friends and activists together for conversation is what “A Cup of Soup Or Bowl” week is all about and on the final day of our annual week-long chats, Bill Cole and Todd Schuler join Nestor for a spirited discussion about listening to girls in modern America from Costas Inn in Timonium.
Nestor Aparicio, Bill Cole, and Todd Schuler discussed community engagement and charity work on WNST. Nestor highlighted his efforts to support 20-40 charities, including GBMC, Student Support Network, and Jason Los Foundation. Todd shared a personal story about Jason Los, a friend and community leader who passed away suddenly. Bill Cole talked about coaching young girls and the challenges they face, including self-confidence issues. The conversation also touched on political issues, the impact of social media, and the importance of community support and positive change. They emphasized the need for solutions and actionable steps to address societal issues.
Action Items
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Secure sponsorships for the Cup of Super Bowl segments, including outreach to Cole Roofing and Blondell Miller Schuler (work in progress to restore sponsorships)
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Bring Todd Schuler into engagement with the Jason Lowe Foundation (connect Todd to the foundation and relevant contacts)
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Have Student Support Network appear on the Cup of Super Bowl show (schedule and host them on the program)
- [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Identify and secure 20–40 charities to participate as replacements for Super Bowl week community segments (compile list and confirm participation)
- [ ] Coach the girls’ basketball team at the Class A/B/C championship event at Howard Community College on Saturday the 14th (lead the team at the game)
- [ ] Organize annual Preakness party donations and collect supplies/cash to support Student Support Network (coordinate donors and deliver collected items)
Discussion on Community Engagement and Charity Work
- Nestor Aparicio introduces the segment, mentioning various community initiatives and sponsors, including GBMC, Cole Roofing, and Blonde Miller Schuler.
- Nestor reflects on his wife’s cancer diagnosis 12 years ago and how it inspired him to start community conversations.
- Nestor discusses the challenges of balancing work, sponsorships, and charity engagements, mentioning the need to find 20 to 40 new charities.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community support and how referrals from sponsors and LinkedIn helped him connect with various charities.
Introduction of Jason Los Foundation
- Nestor introduces Pete from Student Support Network, mentioning past collaborations and a segment on pantries in Baltimore County.
- Nestor shares a personal story about meeting Jason Lowe’s brother and the impact of Jason Los passing on his family.
- Todd Schuler praises Jason Los as a good friend and a healthy individual who died suddenly from a septic infection.
- Nestor reflects on the emotional impact of Jason Los story and how it connects to his own experiences and community work.
Discussion on Community Support and Personal Stories
- Nestor shares his experience of doing a segment with Jason Lowe’s foundation and the emotional impact of hearing personal stories.
- Todd Schuler talks about the outpouring of support at Jason Lowe’s funeral and the involvement of his children in sports and school activities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of public engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsorships and support for his community initiatives, highlighting the role of sponsors like Cole Roofing and Blonde Miller Schuler.
Challenges and Solutions in Community Work
- Nestor discusses the challenges of balancing community work with personal and professional responsibilities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of community support and how it helps sustain his initiatives.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsors and partners to help with community work and charity engagements.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
Reflections on Community Engagement and Personal Experiences
- Nestor shares his personal experiences and reflections on community engagement and the impact of his work.
- Nestor discusses the importance of community support and how it helps sustain his initiatives.
- Nestor reflects on the challenges of balancing community work with personal and professional responsibilities.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
Discussion on Community Support and Personal Stories
- Nestor shares his experience of doing a segment with Jason Lowe’s foundation and the emotional impact of hearing personal stories.
- Todd Schuler talks about the outpouring of support at Jason Lowe’s funeral and the involvement of his children in sports and school activities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of public engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsors and partners to help with community work and charity engagements.
Challenges and Solutions in Community Work
- Nestor discusses the challenges of balancing community work with personal and professional responsibilities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of community support and how it helps sustain his initiatives.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsors and partners to help with community work and charity engagements.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
Reflections on Community Engagement and Personal Experiences
- Nestor shares his personal experiences and reflections on community engagement and the impact of his work.
- Nestor discusses the importance of community support and how it helps sustain his initiatives.
- Nestor reflects on the challenges of balancing community work with personal and professional responsibilities.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
Discussion on Community Support and Personal Stories
- Nestor shares his experience of doing a segment with Jason Los foundation and the emotional impact of hearing personal stories.
- Todd Schuler talks about the outpouring of support at Jason Los funeral and the involvement of his children in sports and school activities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of public engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsors and partners to help with community work and charity engagements.
Challenges and Solutions in Community Work
- Nestor discusses the challenges of balancing community work with personal and professional responsibilities.
- Nestor reflects on the importance of community support and how it helps sustain his initiatives.
- Nestor mentions the need for more sponsors and partners to help with community work and charity engagements.
- Nestor highlights the importance of community engagement and how it helps raise awareness and support for various causes.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
community engagement, charity work, domestic violence, student support, girls sports, political chaos, economic growth, social media impact, youth activism, community assets, legal background, personal injury law, solar energy, community conversations, Baltimore positive
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SPEAKERS
Todd Schuler, Speaker 2, Speaker 1, Bill Cole, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Go. Welcome out. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 task Baltimore. We are Baltimore positive. A little bow tie underneath them. You should say since 26 years. It’s really been 27 years, and we’re here for a cup of Super Bowl candy cane cash from the Maryland lottery. Also, friends at GBMC did a really special segment with my GM GBMC partners on Thursday pizza John’s about domestic violence and abuse and survivors. We’ve been doing some tough, tough conversations this week. We’ve done some Hall of Fame conversation this week. We’ve done some charity well. We’ve done homeless we’ve done student shelters. We’ve done all sorts of things. These guys are two of the guys that helped me power things up. Bill Cole, of course. Cole roofing, Gordian energy, longtime sponsor of the wnst tech service, which Luke is manning over here. And Todd Schuler of blonde l Miller Schuler, and you are damn good lawyers, from what I understand, good lawyer.com All right, I met your brother yesterday, and you’re part of this thing that, and Cole was my consulate about all this. We’re 12 years out on my wife being diagnosed with cancer. Be 12 years November or March 20. And I remember talking to you about, like doing community stuff. And I said, Why don’t go to church? Luke goes on Sunday, but I want to do like a Thursday morning, like my own little cathedral of conversations about the community and making the world a better place and all that it begat, all of the other stuff that we’ve done. Begat Baltimore, positive, really. And then I last week, I realized I’m aied up. I’m working hard, I’m selling. I got all these new sponsors that are coming on, and I didn’t have time to, like, get a lot of charities on, you know. And it got late early. And couple years ago, I did this live eight hours a day. I killed myself. I just, like, I’ve said, I’m not not doing that again. I’m gonna keep this thing calm. But I was looking for 20 to 40 charities, you know, kind of, like, in that range to replace Super Bowl week for conversations, and I threw it out. And it turns out guys like you and people in the community are the reason I found every charity, every charity that came said, Oh, Trish sent me, or Schuler sent me, or Cole sent me, or somebody referred you, or I hit it on LinkedIn, or I saw what you were doing. This fellow here, Pete, is with Student Support Network. I did a thing with them, like six, seven years ago, about pantries in Baltimore County and kids being fed, and I sent them a flyer. They didn’t make a time, and we ended up and I’m like, get over here. We’re going to do this. Of course, we’re going to do this. So Jason Lowe’s foundation is where I want to bring you in Schuler, because I met your brother for the first time last night, and I’m out in Essex with a bunch of Towson people. They came over, they hung out. It was an unbelievable story that I wouldn’t have known about, because there’s a connection point with all of it, that you connected and then that’s really what the spirit of the whole thing was about. Was me shouting, what’s going on in our community, and the best people that I know started saying, well, these people were doing this for kids, and these people are doing this for people. And Jason Loes was one of those. I was cried last night. I mean, this woman lost her husband, and I think about where I was 12 years ago. They begat all of this crap.
Todd Schuler 03:07
And, yeah, yeah. Well, Nestor, I really, really appreciate you engaging with them, because they like you say they really are a fantastic organization. And los himself, he was just such a good dude. This was your friend. He was a friend of mine. He had gone to college. Both him and his wife had gone to college with my brother. And I knew them from Brooke circles, although Cynthia and I went to different high schools together, but before they went to college, but, but, but, yeah, good buddy and genuinely a nice, nice guy. I know you got the story last night, but he, I think when he passed away, his youngest was in eighth grade,
Nestor Aparicio 03:46
8ninth grade, it was only two years, less than two years, yeah, I
Todd Schuler 03:49
think yeah, it’ll be first part pregnancy time, right? It’ll be right around May or June that we lost los, but, uh, but yeah, really, suddenly healthy as an ox. He was the first guy I ever knew that did dry January, right? Like he or the whole 30, where you do, like, the 30 days off of carbs and beer and everything and, like, he worked out, he was just in great shape, and he caught a septic infection and died within a couple of days. And it was really, really hard.
Nestor Aparicio 04:19
I lost a friend at 51 my wife’s cousin lost her mate, and he got pneumonia like, and it happened so fast. And I told them on the segment I was like, pneumococcal pneumonia. I see the commercial for and I’m right, it scares the hell out of me a little bit. And then I get this story, and it scares me even more, you know.
Todd Schuler 04:37
And of all the things you know, I’m a hypochondriac. I think you probably are too. Like, I’m always worried that I got something wrong with me and poor lows, the health he was the healthiest guy now, and also the nicest guy. Like when I remember being at his funeral at St Joseph Fullerton. And like, between the kids being involved in sports, being involved in school, between both, both he and Cynthia, very much involved in everything you. It, you know, there was just a crazy outpouring, I mean, and they, they were able to bottle that energy lasted
8Nestor Aparicio 05:05
like a pack to Pizza John’s. And they were off camera when I was doing another segment, and they were wine pizza cheesesteaks, doing all that up. And I’m like, You’re for me. And they were all dressed the same, yeah. And then they wanted 10 microphones, and I got three. You have to put a committee together here. But what I realized, and I didn’t even say this in the segment, but what I realized, was that she had never done anything publicly like doing my show, and now that I’m on the last day, and I know you’re nervous, Bill, but everybody gets nervous coming on this show when they don’t do this. And she had really never been on a and that’s why she brought everybody, I think, was to give her some encouragement. That’s like, the whole purpose of all of it is this woman lost her her husband, and everybody surrounding her with love. And not only that, they’re doing they’ve $75,000 or doing stuff like that. And you were the one that sent this over to me. So I guess that’s my seed. Of the 10s of 1000s of you to follow me that they say, Don’t follow me. When you put those things up, I bring people out and make it happen. I think people reach me this week. Is it too late? What a radio next week? In a week after that, week after that, I hope Cole’s gonna sponsor me. I’m trying to get blonde del Miller Schuler back. I’m working on it right now. Mark, where are you? But literally, the sponsorship, and the reason you, I think you support me, it’s not because I hated Trump then or now, or I like the Orioles then or now, or I write books. I think you see this as a community asset, and so do I. And that’s, and it’s, it’s a credit to Chad steel to have thrown me out, to put me back here, to do this work.
Bill Cole 06:43
Really. Well, good. I mean, that community asset, I can, mean, I can get down with that. About your your good looks, but community assets, I’m down community ass, something like that, right?
Nestor Aparicio 06:56
So what’s on your mind, guys, sports, charity, theater, what are we doing? What’s your coaching hoops, right?
Bill Cole 07:02
8Yeah, we got parenting last regular season game today, and then if we handle our business, will be the one seed,
Nestor Aparicio 07:10
coaching the ladies, coaching the ladies.
Bill Cole 07:13
We’re next Saturday, the 14th Howard Community College. They have class A, class B and Class C, all the groups championship games down there. It’s a good time. It’s fun.
Nestor Aparicio 07:24
Can I get heavy with you?
8Speaker 1 07:26
Sure. Can I get heavy with you? Get heavy baby.
Nestor Aparicio 07:29
Legal background, you know, 100.
Bill Cole 07:32
I got my lawyer here, so let’s go. I like that.
Nestor Aparicio 07:35
8I like I might need that. Um, how are the girls you coach? I won’t call them women.
Bill Cole 07:42
They’re girls, 1415, 1617, 18, I guess.
Nestor Aparicio 07:46
I’ve done a segment every day this week, not just on social media, about the Epstein files, and I’ve done that too, but as it relates, as it relates, I’ve done three segments on women getting beaten this week, and what happens when that happens, and where do they go? Where do they find shelter? Where do they find a home if they’re not the breadwinner in the family? What happens after the cops come and they go to the hospital and they go back to the like I’ve done, all of that about women, and then I think of this creep running the country right now. And I think about every minute on my Facebook, there’s another legitimate email from this group of billionaires and protected people, King, sultans, presidents, former presidents all the way Democrat, Republican, black, white, Jewish, not Muslim, Arab, name, anything you want. Everybody was involved in this thing, and it all had to do with 1314, 1516, year old girls, same girls as you coach, same that I same girls that would grow up to be maybe battered, maybe in a badge, maybe run the world. In some cases, I just we’re not listening to women, man, like we’re not like we’re listening to women. This creep wouldn’t be running the country to start with, and it would be way over with right now. And two women have now lost, you know, in succession to him, and we ran a basically cadaver white man to win. I don’t I don’t recognize us, and when you are coaching these young ladies. And by the way, I cut my teeth, pub being the guy asking you questions. Bobby Nick, you remember Bobby Nick? Sure, sure. Yeah. Reason I knew Bobby Nick was he was a wild Lake basketball coach that came up on the show this week too, because somebody was a student at Wild lake as a guest on the show, because it’s Baltimore. And I met Bobby Nick coaching high school girls. I was a high school guy. I was 19 at the time. You know what I mean, like so I didn’t have a daughter. I have a wife. I love women. Everybody knows me, knows I love women. I cannot believe this is going on. Is what are your 14 year old girls think of this? Or they even pay attention to it. Ah. They’ve heard of the Epstein files. They know Donald
Bill Cole 10:01
Trump is, yeah, yeah, sure, yeah. So, like, rural, like, and I’ve been coaching my daughters since they were, like, seven, right? So when they’re seven, it’s a lot easier, right? And I coached boys before that, so had to learn that. And they, I mean, I definitely made them cry, not intentionally, but it happens, girls are so hard on themselves, they have unbelievably, really mean things to tell themselves, like their self talk, like, that’s like, the first thing that we start working on is like, boys dribble down the court, chuck a bad shot up. It’s an air ball, like, it that isn’t even hanging in their brains for half a second. They’re just like, Give me the ball. You’re right? Yeah, they’ll fire it up again, right? They know, they do not hesitate. Girls, if they shoot and it’s an air ball, they’re the weaker minded ones might not play, will not shoot the rest of the game, right, right? Like we had to get over that hump in November. Like, stop telling yourself you’re terrible. Stop to I mean, they just they, it is sometimes, because you hear them, right? They’re coming off the court and they’re going to the bench, and I so I’ll sit, I sit all the way at the far end of the bench, like our
8Nestor Aparicio 11:30
head coach yelling, you suck to the other girls. They’re yelling, I suck to themselves, to themselves, right? Yeah, okay.
Todd Schuler 11:35
I watched a poor girl that you coached against foul somebody at mid court and walk off crying. I was at that game, and it’s, it’s terrible, because we are taught confidence in ways that women aren’t right. Like, I’m all for burning down the patriarchy. Let’s do it, whatever, but
Nestor Aparicio 11:53
you have a wife. Come on, man,
Todd Schuler 11:59
8but I’m fundamentally, with fighting for your daughter, if, sure, if, if, if we let them, even if
Nestor Aparicio 12:04
you live in Hartford County, you vote the wrong way. I mean, literally, I don’t know what to say. No, I understand. I don’t know how that can’t be universal. I mean, how to pedophilia cannot be investigated. But like I’m I just can’t believe it forever.
Todd Schuler 12:20
For every example you can give about what a bad place we are in. And of course, Epstein, and of course the we’re a
Nestor Aparicio 12:27
place that I couldn’t have fathomed, but we’re that I just couldn’t when I met you guys 20 years that I could not when you’re running for office and trying to get votes from people. The notion that, you know, Al Franken could have a picture like this that’s clearly a joke, and have his career taken away. And this is where we are. I just I can’t.
8Todd Schuler 12:49
I just want you to be able to also look for the ways that we are doing better, and the proliferation of girls sports is one of them. Like we also live in a place where trying to
Nestor Aparicio 13:00
take away their right to vote, for crying out loud, last Friday
Bill Cole 13:05
night, we played at the CQ Arena in front of 2000
Nestor Aparicio 13:11
81000, yeah, there was an air ball. Tell me, they don’t yell air ball at her. No, they do it. The boys, though, oh my
Speaker 2 13:17
but. Oh but they do the girls.
Todd Schuler 13:19
The girls too, sure, the girls from Mercy are in
Nestor Aparicio 13:23
mercy got together.
8Todd Schuler 13:26
It’s real, and it’s all real because they’ve
Nestor Aparicio 13:29
been watching these NBA girls slug each other. And you know,
Todd Schuler 13:32
it’s a development, right? The boys in the in the audience, the boys watching the game, are engaged in ways that we probably weren’t about girls sports. 30 years the
Bill Cole 13:41
8number of people that I get out to that game, and at the end, they’re like, I That was so fun. And I had no idea, like, I would have never went to a girls high school basketball game. Like, where’s
Nestor Aparicio 13:54
the IND games? Big deal. It’s fun.
Bill Cole 13:57
It’s awesome. It’s fun. So people are figuring that out. Look, I I want to come back to what you know, what you said, like, how much do they pay attention to so I don’t really know, I and that, but it that is one of the things that’s sort of bothering me right now, is that there’s a portion of the universe, right? If you go into like, Wall Street or the banks, and you start reading, like, what’s 26 going to be, and what kind of market? And like, what economic, you know? And it’s all green light. It’s all positive. It’s, it’s like, this is going to be a great 2026 then you go into, like, the social stratosphere, I guess. And it’s more like the things you’re saying like, this is chaos. This is terrible, you know. Look at what are the most untrusting
Nestor Aparicio 14:53
the man who saved my wife’s life has his government telling him to not come here. And 71% German people think we are now the enemy, right? So what I can happen quick, what
8Bill Cole 15:05
I can’t figure out is, so if you
Nestor Aparicio 15:08
let’s because we’re allowing our leader to be an open pedophile, we’re allowing that
Bill Cole 15:11
if I if I operate, if I operate, checking that if I operate, from the standpoint that both of those concepts are true, right? That we have political chaos, fire on fire, and I have the underpinnings of a healthy economy, growing economy, right? AI’s breathing all this efficiency into stuff and blah, blah, blah. We’re not, we’re not getting rid of the people. We’re making the people better and all that stuff. So those two exist at the same time. That doesn’t, that’s not. I’m looking for historical references where you can, you can look to because I don’t know that those two, if you have political chaos, it should inherently make it hard to do economic, you know, business, it should.
Nestor Aparicio 15:56
8I like to think the minute this guy’s gone, things will get infinitely better for everyone who has my skin color and not yours. It’s psychologically but, like, I also know the pushback of what happened down on the steps of January 6 that didn’t really happen there wasn’t really violent, like, like, all of the talking points in in that case, and not to mention the fact of cooking the election, which I know you’ve counted a lot of ballots in your day, touching
Bill Cole 16:27
election, try and land this one thing that so next week. So we’ve got these two competing things right? My sense of apple juice, of this local community is depending on how you spend your time. What you read is the only thing that is currently affecting your mental health, right? Like, if you’re watching political information all the time, and your Facebook feed is
Nestor Aparicio 17:03
my mental health. Does have a passport, and I was gonna go to South America until this creep started bombing my family’s country. And I don’t feel safe walking around South America with an American passport. How about
Bill Cole 17:13
that, all of South America? Because I have people that go to Costa Rica all the time, and they have
8Nestor Aparicio 17:18
South America. That’s Central America, but that’s okay.
Todd Schuler 17:20
It’s pretty close. I’m just saying with the political on here.
Nestor Aparicio 17:24
So was the hurricane in Alabama too. I mean, but yeah,
Todd Schuler 17:27
8you can’t we were, we were inevitable to this collision. And what, what is? What is happening now is a reckoning. And you talk about the 16 year olds and the 17 year olds walking around. They’re walking out of their schools in Baltimore County to protest the ice brutality, right? What we have gotten to that, what we have is an engaged group of young people that we didn’t have 10 years ago. 20 years ago, we had a lot of apathy in this country.
Bill Cole 17:54
Engaged is a dangerous word to use. How so well engaged is this concept of maybe meeting in the middle, like I’m as interested as you are in giving me the info, I’m concerned that we don’t, most of our young people don’t actually have the choice to engage, because they are fed and The algorithms and the stream and the scroll so they are no longer like openly wanting to engage. They’re just like eating and eating and eating, and people just keep feeding, but they’re chasing to
Todd Schuler 18:33
the streets in ways that they didn’t do earlier, right? In other words, the government’s oppression has galvanized people. It’s radicalized people. It’s radicalized.
Nestor Aparicio 18:45
The whole Minneapolis is, you know, was targeted, clearly, of course, yeah. And the whole
8Todd Schuler 18:50
operation was about proving intimidation right for future use, and they did that, but they didn’t count on the counter reaction. And the counter reaction is, people are pissed off. Young people are pissed off. And I say engage, I mean, I mean they’re, they’re
Nestor Aparicio 19:05
like my dad was when he stood in a soup line and her maneuver was lying to him. My dad was 10 years old and starved. I’m doing a cup of Super Bowl this week to honor him in that way for the Maryland Food Bank and for anyone else pantries. I’m gonna have student support network here in a little bit. So I
Todd Schuler 19:20
watched the people of the kids of Eastern High School walk out. I’ve watched them walk up and down Eastern Avenue with their flags and their signs. We didn’t have that 10 years ago, right? And it is a reaction to this.
Nestor Aparicio 19:32
8Well, Dundalk was doing the walk out today, and they let the kids out of school early.
Todd Schuler 19:35
And shows Delaney, there’s, there’s a dozen walkouts all over the I’m
Nestor Aparicio 19:40
all in. Bill Ko’s here. Todd Schuler’s here. Blonde Miller Schuler Cole roofing, our friends, our sponsors and partners. We’re doing a cup of Super Bowl. It’s all brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Have candy cane cash, by the way, you guys get get lucky. Get Lucky. Get there’s like a lover boy song, get lucky. I got to give you a hard time talk because your brother was there last night. He was very disappointed, though. That I didn’t know yet, and you guys look kind of like when you have the beards going on, you have similar talking points, but different count. That’s and he said to me, in total company with all these people, he said, I’m the black sheep at a family I’m like, No, not that. And I thought that’s encouraging to see people from Calvert hall that weren’t Republicans. I thought that was great. So I would like, I love that he was offended, that he was offended, that was a very they all agreed that you’re okay and they can live with your brother. But Bud was the good one.
Todd Schuler 20:39
Bud was the good one. He was a wholesome dude, not too out of line. Brooks is crazy. I don’t know. I don’t he leaves a week in his path. So when I get to somewhere where he was hanging out last night, stories the chaos, like, That guy’s your brother, what the heck, you know? Like I thought I was
8Nestor Aparicio 20:58
kind of stayed later at Pizza John’s. I would have made that yoga class if I’d known
Todd Schuler 21:01
that Jason Lowe’s foundation throws down. That’s the other thing about them, is they’re not just going out there and doing good. They are, but they’re having a really good time doing it right. The vibes are outstanding with that group. Let me play
Nestor Aparicio 21:13
bottom feeder here for a moment with two of my favorite small business owners here, Essex, all over the area, DUI, injury, corporate, roof, space, solar, all of that. Y’all got rich the last two weeks, didn’t you? Huh? People falling on ice, breaking bones, busting their ass, getting in car accidents, the plows, screwing them up. And then you tell it did this guy here, the ice comes and it lays, and then the moisture happens, and then the thing grows, and then the hole happens, and then you need a new roof. Basically, bad weather helps you cats, you’re like Home Depot
Todd Schuler 21:53
8in a weird way. I think. I mean the the amount of people that are falling on this ice, the phone calls that I’m getting, and they’re they’re not easy falls,
Nestor Aparicio 22:02
dude, I live in the woods, and this is the saddest thing ever. I’m seeing animals that are lame because they hurt themselves. Wow. I’ve seen a fox with one hand up, deer in the backyard, one hand up because they can’t navigate the other. You do go out there.
Todd Schuler 22:19
My wife does little field dressing
Nestor Aparicio 22:21
the whole deal, and
8Bill Cole 22:25
he’s going out like just ending. No, we try
Nestor Aparicio 22:27
to try to get the fox to get peanuts, but the Blue Jays get to it first, and the squirrel. So we don’t know about the fox but, but I’m literally, this has been a treacherous couple of weeks. You can’t get on roofs, right?
Bill Cole 22:41
Yeah, I was, yeah, for us, it’s, it’s, you know, sure, maybe it’s damaging things. And find that in April, right? And that leads to stuff down next week, when our problem is, and it’s been a long time since I can remember when we got, I mean, we would get 1518, inches, and it would go, but it would be 45 degrees two days
Todd Schuler 23:00
8later it’s gonna be here.
Bill Cole 23:03
Yeah, this has been very hard. We have not done we have not done very much work, and I’ve
Nestor Aparicio 23:08
been looking out my own window for a week and not doing much and digging out. I had a funeral with last week. We lost curio founder, and I went to Michael’s funeral in an Uber. And I just been home, you know, I mean, just been trying to, like, mellow out. We had enough milk and food and all that. And I drove downtown Monday to do the first day of cup of Super Bowl. It’s, like, the first time I, like, drove around, and I came down 83 and it’s just white, and I’m looking around, it’s great, gray and white. Get to the bottom. And I pulled up to UB, and I took the corner there Maryland Avenue, and I’m at the red light in front of the Lyric, and the snow was pub, 15 feet high, and it and then I made the left down Maryland Avenue, and it looked like a polar bear war zone. It was like these giant ice blocks of the you know, it literally looked like a, like a, like the Polar Bears
Todd Schuler 23:58
blind spots. And
8Bill Cole 24:00
it’s, yeah, it really is, like, the public service announcement is like, come on, please just melt, damn it. Oh, sure, Mel, but just slow everybody. Slow down like
Speaker 1 24:12
I’m walking
Bill Cole 24:15
95 like, put the phones down and slow down like I I’m 695, I literally, in a three minute span. The guy in the slow lane rides up the snow and then just keeps going. I had to destroy his car.
Nestor Aparicio 24:31
8Real drive all the other guy makes your testicles 20 times bigger than they ought to be. Well, just because I, you know, don’t what’s doing that
Todd Schuler 24:40
I thought I had, like, an infection or something.
Nestor Aparicio 24:42
It’s a pickup truck. Is what it is. Old age.
Bill Cole 24:46
Slow down. It’s a bit of a it’s the roads for a long time now have been a bit of like just in SAT since the bridge went down, right, yeah, like covid and all that.
8Nestor Aparicio 25:00
Like, I pulled up on a pickup truck on Joppa road the other day had a Penn State logo on the back and a giant confederate flag. So I saw the Confederate flag on the back of the truck, and I’m like, I wonder what it says. And I pull up and it says, My heroes wore Gray, beautiful. And I’m thinking to myself, you don’t like America, but, but he was driving like a maniac, and he cut me off, you know, it’s like, one of those things. And I’m like, is that? And I sped up a little bit to the red light, and I’m like, Come on, dude, right? Don’t run me over wide ass truck.
Bill Cole 25:39
Like, maybe, maybe as part of the consequence penalty system for like,
Nestor Aparicio 25:48
vehicle, I think he thought he was driving the South.
Bill Cole 25:51
8You have to ride. You have to ride with my 15 year old, as she’s learning how to drive. Yeah, like, if you like, if that was the penalty for people, like these
Nestor Aparicio 26:03
people themselves, and it you guys lost your minds, yeah, you lost your minds about the Waymo thing, yeah, still never getting in one,
Bill Cole 26:12
maybe, I don’t know, in Baltimore, like, not too long ago, like earlier this week, right? Yeah, they’re coming. Yeah. I think this was like a beta test like I’ve only seen one, but, yeah,
Nestor Aparicio 26:23
it’s coming. Yep, I’ll take it tonight.
8Todd Schuler 26:26
Yeah, I’m good for just any, any old Uber will do for me, you know, so
Nestor Aparicio 26:30
you’re gonna trust somebody you don’t know, whatever, versus all the science and technology
Todd Schuler 26:36
I’ve Spotify alone, the Spotify algorithms are crappy enough for me to know that the robots aren’t winning yet. I haven’t joined Spotify yet. Gotta do Spotify. Send you a playlist. Nah.
Nestor Aparicio 26:50
8I got my iPad. I got my iPad. Apple, Apple Music. Todd Schuler’s here. Blondell Miller Schuler, Bill Koco’s Alright. So plug your businesses. Tell everybody what
Todd Schuler 26:57
you do. Personal Injury. Lawyer, Eastern Avenue, you know, Blondell Miller and Schluter, we’ve been there for 50 years as a business. Obviously, I haven’t been there the whole time, but full
Nestor Aparicio 27:06
disclosure, disclosure, no, your partner, Mark Miller, has been my friend since childhood. Yeah, I’ve known Mark since 1979 Mark and I flew to California together and spent 10 days him dribbling a basketball everywhere from San Diego to San Francisco. Do you know this story? I do. I’ve heard him tell all right, yes, that’s how far back was, 41 years ago. That’s That’s wild. And he helps people every day. And you help people every day when bad ish happens to them and they don’t know who to turn to, they call you, that’s right, and you can be trusted where they go check. There you go. I got into that today about whether Terrell Suggs is worthy of an honor, spray your wife with bleach, pull a gun on somebody at a Starbucks, you’re not worthy of my honor. So if you if I had a vote, I just wouldn’t vote for that. He says that’s not the criteria. I’m like, well, that’s my criteria to honor anybody. So I wouldn’t be very good voter.
Todd Schuler 27:57
I agree with the character issues I might with Bill check Belichick getting snubbed because a weirdo talk about young girls
8Nestor Aparicio 28:04
cheating, though, that’s what I’m saying. Like these, these, these, these insurance companies. They’re not there to be your friend, as you always tell me
Todd Schuler 28:11
that I said, they’re a casino. It’s the same concept. They have the algorithms, and they’ve had them for decades. They’re going to take in more in premiums than they are going to pay out every single time, and all they do is, when you watch your Super Bowl and you see your Super Bowl commercials, or half of them are for insurance companies, because only way to make more money is to have more market share, that’s it. There’s no squeezing the system in any other way. They just need
Nestor Aparicio 28:38
every day. Blonde l Miller Schuler, damn good lawyer, and you will sell solar now. Or you want to talk about room, what do you want to do?
Bill Cole 28:47
8I don’t know. I mean, I, I think more important right now. Look, roofs go bad, and you need to get new
Nestor Aparicio 28:54
ones. I need one. I need solar.
Bill Cole 28:58
I mean, it’s we’re going to keep doing it, no matter what government programs they kill or legislation they pass, like it doesn’t really matter. We need more electricity. Like everybody sees their bills. It’s all going up. Like it’s out of control. You know, data centers, all that good stuff. So I think more is just landing this idea that, you know, I give you a lot of credit for taking a week and just trying to pull all these nonprofits together and shine some light on some good stuff that’s going on, I kind of feel like if we would talk about that more like, I think the more you talk and are angry. I know why you say the things you say about the government and Trump and all that, I just feel like, if Would it work to just completely ignore it all?
Nestor Aparicio 29:49
No, no, no, that’s dumb, but I don’t have enough time to tell you how dumb that is. I would have to have three beers about that.
8Bill Cole 29:56
There is literally no amount somebody this week tell
Todd Schuler 29:58
me to speak of them. Just about ready, literally wrapping this a week,
Bill Cole 30:02
you know amount of energy that you can expend, where you are going to impact, it’s change, anything that it’s a do,
Todd Schuler 30:10
8yes, there is no way now is a perfect example of expending energy in a way that’s going to bring about fundamental change.
Bill Cole 30:19
I not. I don’t have a problem with you. I was it okay. I don’t have a problem with you, doing work at the congressional and even Senate level, like reaching out to those and trying to help. You know what I’m using
Nestor Aparicio 30:35
my free speech, and you know what? It’s not free. It’s cost me a lot of money to speak my mind. A lot of money to speak my mind.
Bill Cole 30:44
I’m trying to understand that when all we do is tell everyone how bad everything is. I don’t know
8Nestor Aparicio 30:54
positive dude, I’m here all week telling good story. Do you know what student support network is? I?
Todd Schuler 30:59
Do you know how? Go ahead, tell me I have a neighbor who’s a student who was a student support network board member, okay? And we have our Peters, we have our Preakness party every year. This is the one with the crawfish. Yes, okay. Student Support Network may or may not attended one of these identifies Baltimore County students crabs across who were on the, you know, free lunch program, or whatever, and then they basically have a free store where they can go get pantry. Yeah, they can get did the stuff that not school supplies, but or school supplies this and the things that can help. So every year for the past maybe four or five years, my Preakness party, we everybody brings a couple bucks and some supplies, give it to them, and just does a big factor right here. Sure, one of my absolute favorite charities that there is didn’t even
Nestor Aparicio 31:47
go to public schools like me, sweating it out. Dundalk, the hard way, you know, all right, I love you both.
Todd Schuler 31:54
8Thanks for having pissed at you. He’s you
Bill Cole 31:57
don’t even have the debate. You just shut me down. You didn’t want to. He didn’t want
Nestor Aparicio 32:02
to debate it. You told me that being quiet is more effective. The hell is that you
Bill Cole 32:06
can talk about,
8Todd Schuler 32:09
never gonna be quiet. You can talk
Bill Cole 32:11
about all the good stuff. I want you to talk about
Nestor Aparicio 32:13
the good stuff, but I’m not gonna ignore the bad stuff, like pedophiles running the country. It’s unacceptable to me.
Bill Cole 32:20
8It isn’t I understand. Okay, yeah, you
Nestor Aparicio 32:25
understand. You understand. But there
Bill Cole 32:27
is no effing but I’m looking for solutions. The noise talking
Nestor Aparicio 32:32
about solutions is, get your ass and pull his ass out. By, by, whatever you have to pull it out.
8Bill Cole 32:40
Fundamentally understand that, like you can’t ignore it, ignore it, right? Like you can’t allow you there. That’s it. I think we are causing irreparable harm to our young people.
Nestor Aparicio 32:53
They’re over in Dundalk. Tell them, like, if I went over to the Home Depot and Dundalk right now, I’d be a target to be pulled out, thrown by my hair. Quick. Come on, man, it’s okay.
Bill Cole 33:05
This is going on here. It’s unacceptable. I know Nestor, trust me. I know trust me.
Nestor Aparicio 33:09
8Well, I’m not gonna look the other way. I know and people looking the other way is a problem, and I’m not gonna encourage that.
Bill Cole 33:15
I have never seen I’m going good trouble. I’ve never seen the trouble. I’ve never seen looking change anything looking. Yeah, you said I’m not gonna look the other way. You can look straight at it. You can look the other way. You can talk all you want. I’ve never seen a problem, any get
Nestor Aparicio 33:30
fixed by not focusing on it, right?
Bill Cole 33:33
But though we’re not giving anyone solutions, we’re not giving anyone alternatives.
8Nestor Aparicio 33:39
Don vote for these creeps. You know, the solution is to go in and impeach the MFR. That’s the solution.
Todd Schuler 33:46
That’s women give him
Nestor Aparicio 33:49
conjunction to school for
Bill Cole 33:50
8this, you can say Detroit, like
Nestor Aparicio 33:53
give a civics lesson. Would you go to school? Calvert Hall. We got to do better Calvert hall with social studies. I’m telling you right now. We got to do better constitution. Can we go? We take that manifest destiny? Tell me, Bill the right
Bill Cole 34:05
something you want you not talk about. Tell me something you want to do that will cause change or act what
Nestor Aparicio 34:14
I want to do, direction you want I want to do, what I’m gonna
8Todd Schuler 34:17
Joe’s times a hook I got tomorrow’s for form.
Nestor Aparicio 34:23
Tell me why you love the pony. So we love
Todd Schuler 34:24
the pony. I love the ponies because I love Preakness, and it was a cool tradition when I was a kid to go out there. And ever since, I pay attention to horses when they run. Because, you know, especially this time of year, this time of year, we have the stakes races going on. Things are warming up, and these are the ones that are going to feed your Kentucky Derby. So I like to get my racing formula.
Nestor Aparicio 34:44
8I like the people in Maryland to stop lying to me about the racing and what we’re doing with Preakness. I like to get a plan and have a plan go and let’s have a plan. As I said, Baby focus. Every year I come together. Every year there’s some new BS. Every year we’re going to do this. Every year I’ve been doing I’ve been. Money. How many years have been in here? 34 years every year. We’re gonna make the pre and now we’re at point where the Derby winner don’t come anymore.
Todd Schuler 35:07
Well, we need to push, push Preakness back a week or two. All right. Call Belmont about that.
Nestor Aparicio 35:11
All right. Todd Schuler is here. He’s running the ponies. Bill Cole and I have ended our relationship for at least Monday morning again. Back at him. Well, next time Luke sends a text, you’ve disappointed me, Son,
Bill Cole 35:27
you didn’t give me a chance to not disappoint, right? It’s all good. Joe said, we’re ready. Pick it up. It’s fine,
Nestor Aparicio 35:38
all right. I wish I were just being performative. But, you know, give me a hug. That’s a big deal. I did not make it up. Still, wrong. It cost.
