1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:03,920 Speaker 1: When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: know we're ready for you. Here are just a few 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:08,399 Speaker 1: of the people at Metro to tell you how we're 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: doing our part to keep riders safe. We're cleaning like 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: noble before half build it greatly. You've found hands out 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:20,840 Speaker 1: of no mask, no Metro me one. We have a 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: few extras at Metro. We're doing our part to keep 8 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: the DC area moving. Find out more at well mata 9 00:00:26,520 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: dot com slash doing our part. I just want to 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: tell you what happens when I get to work. I 11 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: have to clean up the poop and the p off 12 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: of my doorstep. I have to clean up the syringes. 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,680 Speaker 1: I have to politely ask the people who I care for. 14 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: I care for these people that are homeless to move 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,600 Speaker 1: their tents out of the way of the door to 16 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:47,040 Speaker 1: my business. I have to fight off people that push 17 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: their way into my shop that are homeless and on 18 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: drugs because you won't arrest them for drug offenses. I 19 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: have to apologize to my clients and so why they 20 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: can't get into my door because there's somebody asleep there, 21 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: because they're not getting the help you need. Who is 22 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,279 Speaker 1: asking I want to know what you're gonna do for us, 23 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: the ones that are unhappy? You want to make a 24 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,480 Speaker 1: stanctuary state. Do you want to make it comfortable for 25 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: everybody except for the people that work hard and have 26 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: tried their hardest to get along in life, And now 27 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: we have to change that because of your loss. Your 28 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: liberal ideology is not working and I don't know who 29 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: you're trying to please. So while you've seen your million 30 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 1: dollar home and you don't have to look at what 31 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: we have to look at, there's hard working people out 32 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: there that have to deal with this on a daily basis. 33 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:28,320 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do for us? If Liz, who 34 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: is a business owner in Sacramento, California, were alone, that 35 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: would be a really interesting and troubling story. The fact 36 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: is that Liz is one of dozens, hundreds, thousands of 37 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: business owners in blue states and West coast cities that 38 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: are dealing with this and and their voices are just 39 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: not being heard by those who govern us, or haven't 40 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: been until fairly recently. A rare example of how social 41 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: media can be a positive and that you can you 42 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: can get your information out there and if you really 43 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: strike a nerve, it can catch on and you can 44 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: get a tremendous amount of attention. You don't need the 45 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: local CBS affiliate to come do your story anymore. You 46 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: can get it out there. I'll be darned. Liz, who 47 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: is a sacramental business owner, joins us. Now, Liz, how 48 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: are you? I'm good? How are you? Thanks for having me? Oh, 49 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: it's really our pleasure because we're, as you've probably guessed already, 50 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: really with you on the idea that hard working people, 51 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: tax paying people, reasonable law abiding people should not have 52 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: their cities descend into chaos and ugliness, um and in 53 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: favor of you know, bums and junkies. But we know 54 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: you don't want to use your last name. Why is that? Uh? 55 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: You know, I've had quite the influx of negativity on 56 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: my social media. I had to go private, and you know, 57 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: I found out on social media that I'm a stripper 58 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: actress who is part of the KKK. So I just 59 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: would like to be here. You're a stripper and an actress, 60 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: you said, yeah, if someone apparently saw me at a 61 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: I was in l a fake video. I see you're 62 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: acting and and you're a clanswoman as well. Okay, there 63 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,919 Speaker 1: you go, Jack back to social media. So it was 64 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: there a particular moment that you just said, I'm fed 65 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: up and you decided to make this little video and 66 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: put it out there. Yes, okay, so well, I've been 67 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 1: dealing with this truthfully. It's it's it's gone downhill in 68 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: the past six months. That's when I really noticed it. 69 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 1: Describe it to us, What do you deal with? Um? 70 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:28,120 Speaker 1: Feces on my doorstep? I'm saying at least once a week. 71 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: I walked up last week, there was a cup of urine. 72 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: They jump over the garbage cans, They've broken my windows, 73 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: they've robbed me, they've kicked my door in. And you know, 74 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 1: my husband and I got together and collectively we just said, 75 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: we're done if you're done. So I made that decision Friday, 76 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: and clearly in my video I was upset and I'm 77 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: still upset. And you you were very reasonable. And so 78 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: you turned your phone on yourself, I guess, and you 79 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: do your little screen and and and it goes viral. 80 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: Um was there a particular tipping point or was it 81 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: just the q mulative stuff that you mentioned? Actually, it 82 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 1: was a tent in front of my business. It was 83 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: and I and like I said, I have compassion for 84 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: these people, but at the same time, I'm trying to 85 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: make a living. Nobody wants to come when they can't 86 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 1: get into my business because there's a tent or there's syringes, 87 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: you know, right, And your compassion is appreciated, although you 88 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: know we're we're realists. If nothing else. And my point 89 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: I I'm Joe talking, that's Jack over there. Um. My 90 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: point has always been if you make it so easy 91 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 1: for people to be say drug addicts or junkies or 92 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: live on the street. I mean because if you can 93 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 1: live more or less for free and take in all 94 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: the social services, you never have to go to work. 95 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: You can lay around getting high all the time. I 96 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 1: see the appeal of that, and I think it's a society. 97 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: We've we've made it way too easy. What do you 98 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: think We've made it way too easy? And the governor 99 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: is talking about having shooting galleries where people can shoot 100 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,919 Speaker 1: up bafely great, so you'd have even more people just 101 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,160 Speaker 1: out of their minds high, wandering into your business and 102 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: and threatening your customers. That just sounds lovely. Actually, I 103 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: had someone walk through my door broad daylight, middle of 104 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: the day, push his way in, tell me he was 105 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: going to use my rest room. I said no, he 106 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: pushed me out of the way and I end up 107 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: grabbing my person getting out, And luckily I worked next 108 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: to a barbershop and there's lots of men in there 109 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: that could come help me. But and then assume the 110 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: last straw, I assume you then call the police and 111 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:33,839 Speaker 1: then what happens? Or do you I always call the 112 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: police and the teams is that they make a report 113 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,360 Speaker 1: and there's there's not what else they can do, you know, 114 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: especially with the drugs around the area. They can't arrest them. 115 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: So what do you? What do the cops say to you, Liz? 116 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 1: They say, talk to your local officials, talk to the governor, 117 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:53,240 Speaker 1: because we want to be able to do something and 118 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: we can't do it. Yeah. Boy, We've heard that plenty 119 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: of times from plenty of cops in plenty of places. Look, 120 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: we come completely understand, but we're being absolutely our hands 121 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: are tied by the city council or the governor, the 122 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 1: mayor or whatever. So the negativity you're getting on your 123 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: Twitter account or in social media is it seemed to 124 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: be from people that think you're being mean to uh 125 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: to point this out or what? Yes, I got the 126 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: feedback I got was that I'm sorry they've been inconvenience 127 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: to your happy little life. And I thought, all right, 128 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 1: I understand that's your job. Yeah, so part of your 129 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: screed was the same thing I said at a city 130 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: council meeting last year, was it would seem that you're 131 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: prioritizing them over those of us who are law abiding, 132 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: tax paying citizens. You've chosen them over awesome is what 133 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,280 Speaker 1: it looks like. And that's what you just said. And 134 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: and if you point that out, there is a weird 135 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: communist utopian crowd out there. Oh you've got such a 136 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: perfect life. Oh sorry, we damaged your perfect life. I 137 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: don't have a perfect life. And but I cre eate 138 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,279 Speaker 1: at this. And why do I have to give away 139 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: chunks of it for that dude out there on the sidewalk. 140 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 1: Why what's the logic behind that? Well, you know, here's 141 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: here's where I come from. I would like to say 142 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: I I'm a recovering person myself. I've been sober for 143 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: four years and it's possible, and I got myself up 144 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: by the bootstraps with the help of God. But this 145 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: is not the resolve. Letting people die on the street 146 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: with their drug addictions. Is not loving them, is not 147 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: taking care of them, it's not helping them, and it's 148 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:38,400 Speaker 1: harming everybody else in the process. Boy, I would agree completely. Um, 149 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: getting back to the theme of you know, choosing somebody 150 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: who just wants to live as a junkie rent free 151 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: versus a person like you. UM, tell us about your business. 152 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: How long did you take to get us started? What 153 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: have you put into it? Um? I have had I've 154 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: owned in the business for fifteen years. I've had two 155 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: different locations as one as on another street downtown, and 156 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: I moved this one about ten years ago, so I've 157 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: been there ten years. I loved my location. I've put 158 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: everything into my my you know, my business. This is 159 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 1: this is how I make a living. And granted I 160 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: have my clients, I'm a hair spellus. I can move 161 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: somewhere else, I don't want to. I loved where I was, 162 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 1: So it's it's a huge inconvenience. And not to mention 163 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: you'll lose clients when you move location because downtown is 164 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: very central, it's easy for people to get to. It's 165 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 1: just it's a huge inconvenience for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 166 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 1: that's a shame. And the guy who just wants to 167 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: live rent free winds and you lose. So you are 168 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 1: actually going to move your business. I'm going to move 169 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: my business. I'm I'm going to be there for now 170 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: until I can find something, and then I'm going to 171 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: I still have a lease. I'm going to have to 172 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: pay because I'm going to do the right thing, you know, 173 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: So I'll have that lease and then wherever I go. 174 00:08:50,559 --> 00:08:53,840 Speaker 1: So that's how bad it is. I'm willing to pay 175 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: to places to get out of there. Well, and then 176 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,360 Speaker 1: whoever owns that building, they're going to have to find 177 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: a tenant who's willing to put up with that. So 178 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 1: you're that they're being harmed. Also, yeah, yeah, it's it's 179 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 1: a dominant effect. Well, if you haven't seen Liz's video, 180 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: which is measured, intelligent, articulate, and not the least bit 181 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: deserving of vitriol online, we have it at Armstrong and 182 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 1: getty dot com. Hey list uh, thanks for chatting with 183 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: us and and well done. Way to speak your mind. 184 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,319 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good for you. And sorry about 185 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: the some of the crap you have to deal with, 186 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: but that'll blow over literally crap, Yeah, no problem, thank you. 187 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 1: It's our pleasure. Thanks. That's the fabulous Liz in That 188 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,200 Speaker 1: interview was a hundred times better than the one she 189 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: did on Fox and Friends. I just gonna ask her 190 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,320 Speaker 1: to say that. I'm just I'm telling you, what was 191 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 1: the need for that? I mean, where did that deal 192 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:49,559 Speaker 1: in facts? That was truth? You can't handle the truth 193 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: festering cruelty within you that just had to leap out 194 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 1: of the one. That's an unfair diagnosis. Why are you 195 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: crapping on the doorstep of my soul? Wow? Um, it's 196 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: a difficult charge to respond to this. This You know, 197 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,200 Speaker 1: this story happens over and over and over, and it 198 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: will it will happen over time, and there'll be no 199 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: coming back. And then and then, and then there'll be 200 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: the questions of why why do people not live in 201 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 1: he are here anymore? Why do business is not open 202 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: up here anymore? Right? Exactly? The downtown has died. We 203 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: need to revitalize it. Yeah, well, nobody wants to be there. 204 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny, just like you said, the 205 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:34,160 Speaker 1: utopian communist fantasy land that a lot of these people 206 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: live in. Civilization, law in order is not easy. It's 207 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: practically a miracle. It's unknown in huge sualleds of the 208 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: earth where death and pain and disease holds way, And 209 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: you have these places where it's been well established and 210 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: it's very pleasant and reasonably safe and productive and prosperous 211 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: to live in a place, and then people think that 212 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: the things you have to do to preserve that are 213 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: just too mean, and we've got to get rid of them. 214 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: I've said this a hundred times. I ought to get 215 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 1: a tattoo that, and I'll probably say it a thousand 216 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: more and before they yank me off the air someday inevitably. Um, 217 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: discipline without compassion is fascism, it's cruelty. But compassion without 218 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: discipline is chaos, and civilizations crumble. You've got to have 219 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: the right balance. And more and more people, uh liberal 220 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 1: progressive people in progressive areas are realizing, Oh, this doesn't work, 221 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: This is unlivable, this is miserable. Something needs to change, 222 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 1: and I hope the word spreads. You also have to 223 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:43,719 Speaker 1: be a grown up enough to deal with there's there. 224 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:45,880 Speaker 1: There might not, at least for now, be a perfect 225 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: solution where somebody isn't hurt. I'm just saying you're gonna 226 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 1: have to choose law abiding tax paying citizens over the 227 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: drug addicts out on the street, right, Well, where are 228 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: they going to go somewhere where they don't impact the 229 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: quality of life of honest people. That's as simple answer 230 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,680 Speaker 1: as I can give you. There are plenty of places 231 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: like that way out there or over there, just not 232 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: somewhere the impact people's lives and standard of living. Or eventually, slowly, 233 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: it's not gonna be a mass wave that gets everybody's attention, 234 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 1: but slowly, over time, people are just gonna kind of 235 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: go away, and your businesses will go away, and the 236 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: people will move out, and and you're gonna think what happened? Well, 237 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: And I would like to hear a vote of recovering addicts. Yeah, 238 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 1: we got a text on that letting people live in 239 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: their addiction is not compassion, right, I'd like to see 240 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,199 Speaker 1: a vote if somebody they were to make it effortless, 241 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: effortless for you to continue your addiction. With that help 242 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 1: you stop or hurt your effort to stop. I mean, 243 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: the answer self evident, for the love of God. And 244 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: again that's just a tangent to the whole thing. You 245 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: gotta let business owners be able to open a business 246 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: in your city and have people walk in the door 247 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: without being scared or stepping in human poop, assaulted in 248 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: your own business of repeat, it's crazy. Our text line 249 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 1: is four one five two nine five k f TC 250 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: are strong and Eddie. When you're ready to ride Metro, 251 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: we want you to know we're ready for you. Here 252 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: are just a few of the people at Metro to 253 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 1: tell you how we're doing our part to keep riders safe. 254 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: We're cleaning like Neville before we half build a great clean. 255 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: You've found half sanitizatro, no mask, no Metro need one. 256 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,920 Speaker 1: We have a few extras at Metro. We're doing our 257 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: part to keep the DC area moving. Find out more 258 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: at wilmata dot com slash doing our part