Closing Businesses

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So welcome, Black.

The truth of the morning.

I'm the legendary Homer Blow along with my girl

Bailey Coleman

talking about these businesses that have been closing on Water Street and, you know,

other areas downtown.

And why is that?

Why do you think that is?

And what were the options, Bailey?

On the poll, the options are violence, poor economy, or both.

And what are we looking at?

What are people right now?

Violence is coming in second place.

at 33%.

0% for poor economy.

And both is at 67%.

All right.

So yeah, I'm with the both.

I said both for me.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But poor economy solo ain't nobody really.

So people haven't had money.

They just ain't going.

But they saying it's both.

So that's why they taking the money because they got it.

Right.

They ain't going because of that.

And unfortunately, I get it and understand.

I get it and I understand.

But, you know, when I was speaking about gas stations and we got a lot of action here.

I think it's

violence.

I think it's violence.

Oh, you think it's just violence?

I

think it's just violence.

OK, because we done been through a recession and all kinds of stuff.

Yeah.

Well,

and.

They ain't closed down.

Well,

the pandemic.

Yeah.

Well, I would think, yeah, pandemic definitely hurt a lot of businesses.

Yeah.

But here's, here's where I'm going, where I'm saying, in my opinion, both.

Because if you know about anywhere you go, whatever state you go to, city you go to, if you're going downtown, it's going to cause you extra.

Usually.

And when, so when we're talking about people who are counting the chips and the kibbles and bits, it's like, you know what?

as much as I love this restaurant or as much as I love going to this place.

Yeah.

Right about now I got to make some decisions and my decision is I need to use this money to take care of some other things and I can't go down here or afford to enjoy myself right now.

Right.

Not there.

You

know what I'm saying?

And then when you got those people who like to end up treating everybody.

You know, when they go, be like, come on, yo, I got the tab.

Yeah, that tab looks like a serious mountain.

In this economy, in this economy.

So that's why I put it as both for me.

OK, on the two talk, text on Laurent Taylor.

I'm

sorry, on the truth

on the YouTube.

I'm used to saying that my back, but you can't call it eight, three, three, two or two, ten, seventy on the YouTube chat.

The Laurent Taylor says that the demographic that goes to Water Street and Brady Street are not affected by this economy.

I you know what?

Here's why I don't agree with that because I think the demographic has changed of people that have been coming or that come to downtown.

I think it's been a recent change because I think the people.

that used to come down here three or four years ago and kick it on water street and do all the things.

I believe that that's all changed.

OK.

And I don't I just to be honest with you with the information of the different things violence that has occurred down here.

Now it used to be just in the.

sort of eastern sector, right?

It used to be just down there.

Right.

But with it flowing all the way down the street and people because we used to run, be all intoxicated, Caucasian folk down here hanging out and all that kind of stuff.

I feel like a lot of them don't feel like it's safe anymore to do that.

And and with that, I feel like

You know, it's just change.

I mean used to have a lot of really swank restaurants down here, right on Water Street doing their thing and I just feel like they just you know

Yeah, well, you know and and it again downtown wherever you go.

It's going to cost you more.

You know what I'm saying?

So you can go on the outskirts and all of that be like, okay, I can

go here with that same amount of money.

Right.

And leave with some money.

Right.

You know what I'm

saying?

Very

true.

So but when you're down there, it costs because it's actually costing those businesses that are downtown in whatever major city to be down there.

It's a cost.

Yeah.

And so that's why in my opinion, where you're saying we're talking about the blue building across the street, it's like.

No, I

mean I

was

really just talking about that cuz you know really if it's housing down here Especially in this area.

I just don't think that I just don't I think don't think that Housing is you know, I don't think it's the best thing whether it's

Upscale housing or not.

I just in this area you would think that there would be just more business business, right?

But with regard to the changes of the clientele downtown I think you know when you think about that you have to think about some of the other things like the takeovers and things that were happening

downtown

Last year and then finding out that okay.

We don't have enough police,

right?

you know, to cover the entire city and so downtown, you know, so with that having been less prior, I'm not saying it's less prior, but you understand what I'm saying, you know, that it becomes, you know, more people go, wait, man, there ain't nobody down there.

So I can't go down there and just do what I want to do and be intoxicated and walk up and down the streets of the different bars and

stuff.

And when that happens, then people just gravitate towards areas they could do that in and feel okay.

Yeah.

You know, and, uh, one of the things that I was going to bring up about, like me saying how I feel about gas stations, uh, in certain areas, uh, that are within my community, right?

Right.

Right.

Gotcha.

Here's, here's, uh, here's the thing.

And I want anybody else from troop nation.

to tell me if they can attest to this as well.

Since most of the gas stations predominantly all of the gas stations except a few, when they were black owned and operated, I didn't have that same fear.

Really?

No, because

then, but now, like I say, it's dominated.

So you got, you know, it's dominated by foreigners that own these gas stations,

right?

They the only one want to deal with your people.

Well, no, listen, listen, you know, seeing how many people they don't beat the hell down to some of these gas stations.

I'm talking about overkill for real.

I get it.

You know, they may have tried to steal something, but that's what we have law enforcement for.

Call the police, keep your damn hands off of people.

because then when them people put their hands black on you, then it's a problem.

So I'm just saying, uh, I understand, you know, the, the challenges, let me call it that the challenges that, but if you cannot, uh, stand the heat and you say, get your ass out of the kitchen.

So don't come in our community in my opinion and treat us like.

dogs, sugar, honey, ice, tea.

But if we did it to yo people and the other people that are doing that, then we would be considered wrong and we would be charged with hate crimes and things of that nature.

You got to do unto others as you want others to be able to do unto you.

Like I say, in this climate, do we have some challenges going on?

Yes.

Have we showed the videos of how some of these youth and toys or us adults are terrorizing these people?

Yes.

But if you can no longer handle that, do just like a low country, do like whatever the KC is and move around because there are other people that, in my opinion, get attacked because the stigma that has been put out there.

Now that's

true.

So, you know, they, they weren't coming in there on that.

But now you've gotten used to talking to everybody a certain way and disrespectful and act like it's not disrespectful.

It is.

And some people such as myself would not come in and tolerate that kind of disrespect.

Not at all.

Not at all.

But like I say, I noticed that we don't have the people owning these gas stations that the communities respect in that way.

You

know

what I'm saying?

That's why I say when they were black on, in my opinion, and operated, the community knew.

It was the neighborhood, it was the neighborhood grocery store.

So we knew who owned that.

If you lived on and grew up on 27th Street or anywhere near it, I was on 27th, the locus,

a

part of my upbringing.

Ellis Grocery.

We knew it was Ellis Grocery, black owned and operated.

When I was on 14th of Keith, the malt shop.

wait to prep.

You feel what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Ballots, you know, we, we, we knew the families and we knew that there would be a phone call made if you walked your ass in that store and start acting up.

Yeah.

Before you got black home, the call was going to be made to your mother or your father or your grandparents or whoever your guardian may have been saying they came in here trying to steal something.

They came in here talking loud or doing whatever and you got checked.

You were able to get checked at the, at the store, at the gas station, or, and when you got home, you damn sure no one was going to get checked.

Right.

You feel what I'm saying?

So, but we don't have those things like that anymore.

And we have so many people that don't even appear like they want to go black to having it that way.

Because when you do have black on and operated businesses that open up in some of these situations, they get treated with so much disrespect.

Uh, and, and I'm saying from some of the customers as well as their employees, you don't get to bring your problem to work with you.

You don't, you call in and say, I can't come in today because I'm ticked off at the damn world.

Uh, somebody made me mad.

Uh, the baby said, you know, that should not be the job that hires you's fault.

that you're dealing with these situations.

That's true.

But you owe them the respect as your employer to say, hey, look, and you knew you didn't have a babysitter before you were supposed to come in for your damn shift, but you're going to wait until, you know, well, because my cousin was supposed to, and then they didn't.

Now they got to deal with, no, that ain't how it worked.

So because of those different parameters that have changed, in my opinion, is created a distrust in us supporting us.

Because sometimes you go in there and people that may own the business feel entitled and instead of giving you the respect of a patron, a customer.

Well, you know, when you go back to employees, that's on the business owner to find the right employees.

They try.

And I know, and you never know who you're going to get when you get them.

But you also have to not be afraid to move forward.

Yeah.

If they're not working out, they got to go.

And but then the thing happens and this is where I'm saying the problem is and we got to get ready to take care of some bills.

But here's where the problem continues.

Now you got that business and you hired employees so you wouldn't have to be there all damn day.

You may have other businesses that you need to tend to or whatever it is.

But now you got to be the one near.

if you want your store to open up on time, if you want your business to open up on time, if you want the cooks to be there on time, you got to go do it.

So now that puts a strain on you.

And then you have to start making some real life decisions.

How much longer can I afford to try to do this?

And then it's going to take away from this.

And my sole reason for doing it was because I wanted to employ some people that I thought would understand the policies and the level.

of what we feel our patrons and supporters deserve.

We gotta get ready, take care of some bills, we'll come back and talk more about it.

Yeah,

we'll talk more about it, I got some comments

on that.

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And we have been talking about some of the businesses closing and also before we went to break.

I was talking about the fact that, unfortunately, some of the black-owned businesses that

try to open up and hope to get the support of the community.

Yes.

May not get it.

And it's not all because that everybody is doing bad business.

Right.

So we know that some it

is.

It's

bad business.

It's like, okay, you expect me to come and shop with you and support you and all of that, but you don't have any professional etiquette about yourself.

And I'm not going to spend my dollar with you just because you black.

And that's what some people, in my opinion, have an ego that they believe that regardless of how they end up treating you, that you're going to just go and, you're supposed to just go and steal support.

I'm not doing that.

That's even with elected officials.

I'm not just doing it just because they're black.

I'm looking at everything that comes along with that.

What is your stance?

What is your platform?

What are the things that you're talking about doing?

If they align with what I'm thinking about and how I feel, then that's where I'm going to end up putting my support.

So,

you know, some people get caught up and I know that there are some people that they don't care as long as they black.

I'm voting for them or whatever.

No, no, no,

no,

no, no.

Just because because everybody think about some of the black Republicans that are cool with all of the stuff that the orange man is doing and they stand in 10 toes down.

You know so but Bailey as I was Giving my truth Before we went to break you were you had some things that you wanted to Say as it relates to your truth in your opinion on some of those things

Yeah, you know what I just feel like when you're you're going into business These are all things that you have to take into account and unfortunately with regard to employees and unfortunately

Because I'm one of those people for the last however many years I've been in the workforce.

I've been in the position of hiring people.

And I go through quite a bit before I'm gonna hire somebody.

And some people make it through and some people don't.

I want the ones that are down for me and really want to be on my team and really want to work hard because that's how I get

down.

You

know, and if they're not, then they're going to weed themselves out.

You ain't even got to do anything.

But the thing is, as a business owner or manager, you have to be prepared for that too.

Right?

So those are all things that you have to prepare for when you go into business or when you become a member of management and someone that hires people because you want people.

That want to be on your team.

And if you don't want to be on my team and do roll how I roll because every manager is different.

That's right.

Then, you know, that's it.

That's it.

This ain't the

spot.

The Joe spot is down there.

The spot may be down the street.

Yep.

You know, no harm, no foul.

But, you know, it's called business for a reason.

Yeah, absolutely.

And some people just try to keep the friendship in there and act like they're supposed to circumvent the business.

You get what I'm saying?

Like, no, this is business.

So yes, I'm going to have to make some choices and some decisions that you may not be comfortable

with.

Now, it doesn't mean that when we're not on the clock that we can't end up going out and enjoying a meal somewhere or just go to hang out to watch a game or something like that.

But that's the friendship side.

Too many people, in my opinion, don't like

to separate the two.

Right.

And you have to, in my opinion, you got to respect both.

You got to respect just because your cousin is the manager here, this and the other.

And so many people, I know that abuse that the cousin may say, well, you know, if you, you know, I got you and come with three other goddamn people.

And it's like, yeah, see this one could be like, okay, you know, I got you, right?

Yeah, but but they with me Well, they gonna patronize the business or whatever it is, right?

You thought I was gonna sit here and feed now.

Yeah, that's not what I'm doing I said I got you right you is singular.

Yeah,

I say you and your people,

right?

I say you right

So, uh, but yeah, it's those type of things that then make people try to go and man, yeah, you, you, you cousin, man, they end up getting a little, uh, position and now all of a sudden they act like they don't know a person.

Yeah.

Stop lying.

Yeah.

You know why it went the way that went.

Stop it.

Stop it.

Yeah,

but they want to make you the villain and the bad guy.

But when you're a real business person and you really business minded, you give a damn if they want to call it so making you the bad guy because you know, you standing on business and you know that you've been blessed to be in business for a long time because you know how to separate the two.

Yeah, you got it.

Yeah.

Mm hmm.

They're like, yep.

You still my person.

You don't understand.

But now if you don't want to be.

Because of business.

Okay.

I get that.

Yeah.

And we can make it what it is.

Yeah.

So either you're gonna just you'll just have a business relationship with me.

That's

it.

That's

all.

That's it.

You know, and I tell people all the time, the most important thing in a relationship, business, friends or whatever, it's communication.

Yeah.

Because if you don't know how to communicate, you're gonna have some misunderstandings.

I didn't know this.

I know.

Yeah.

Well, did you

Communicate right with the person right?

No, but they have said stop even though where you talk they have said stop Stop and you want me to elevate you up into a higher position right and you gonna say they have said stop That is not my representation That is not the representation I want for my business or my company that part but they had said Can I help you the hell is help you?

What the hell has helped you?

Why are you patting your head like this?

Uh-uh.

May I help you?

What the hell?

Like, stop.

Stop.

We ain't doing that.

We not doing that.

Yeah, yeah.

You're in the wrong job field.

You're gonna be doing this.

You should be downtown.

downtown doing what?

I ain't gonna say it.

You ain't not, you not gonna get me in

trouble.

Okay,

okay,

but you want to do this is remember what I'm doing Some of y'all get it.

I'm just saying

But I'm keeping it real to the next level.

Let's get it.

Let's get it update.

Update on the poll.

Why?

Why do you think businesses are closing on Water Street?

Right now, 41% of violence, poor economy, 0% and 59% with both.

There

you

go.

Mm hmm.

So Bailey, in in where we are now, would you open up a business on Water Street?

Well, it's probably a good time to do that.

Order in the studio.

I'm just saying.

No, OK, this is a good time.

Hey, listen, opportunities is really like, you know what?

Let us go slide some oil to me because you might get a good deal too.

You might.

Because we need more people.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Damn.

Bailey said it might be.

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Take care of some bills.

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yep you know after

You know, I had all kind of corn stuff and then I had the foodie MK foodie fest right now because of so will be just perfect now.

You know what I'm

saying?

Because

I didn't have, you know, all of the foods that I could have from the vending trucks and I'm a corn, you know, I'm a cornologist.

So I haven't had any

corn this summer.

Yeah, you've been missing out.

You got to come to these community events.

Well, you

know what?

It's free.

I usually will go.

get some corn either it's one or the other usually either summer fest or um bestial days

they have

people

That's

why you gotta come to the school festival.

That's why you gotta come to the MPD National Night Outs.

That's why you gotta come to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office National Night Out.

I mean they done for the year though.

No, I'm good.

I'm

going.

No, I'm I'm going and hopefully Miss Farina.

who

I love.

Yes, we'll have some corn.

That you can make yourself.

At Rock the Block.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because I had none.

And you know, I'm going to Rock the Block.

Yeah.

I try to show up and represent, you know.

What hold on

I'm trying to figure out where you're going.

Okay, but The reality is pretty much all of the events that I've been to to support or may have been involved in had free Free corn.

Yeah, roasted corn.

Yep So, yeah yesterday it was over 600 years of corn it was out there that Alderman Mark Chambers, Jr.

Had

Uh-huh.

Second district.

Oh, the person.

Yeah.

And it was all free.

Free?

Wow.

The MPD ice cream truck was out there free ice cream.

Free ice cream.

Yeah, all the stuff they do is free.

You know, they make sure that the community is the winner in it all, you know, so from national nightouts with MPD districts, you know, 75 that I was a part of.

And then of course,

the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office with Sheriff Dr. Danita R. Ball.

Yeah, like, yeah, the corn is free, like at all of these different events, some of the block events, some of the black to school giveaways.

Yeah, corn was usually

free.

And I indulged in it very well.

And I got to get my clubs up.

I got to get my clubs up now.

Light onions.

Yeah, zero.

There are onions.

Broccoli and cheese.

Ain't nobody doing

it.

Soup.

Oh, I love soup.

Ain't nobody doing it on yourself.

Strawberry.

Shake.

Mmm.

Yeah.

Mmm.

All right.

So we're going black to talking about these businesses, right?

And they're shutting down.

And.

When you when we talk about the violence, Bailey, who do you think is attributing?

to the violence.

Is that a trick question?

Okay, what's the final numbers on that?

You gave the final numbers on that poll, right?

Okay, wait

a minute.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Look, we got an entry.

Okay.

For poor economy.

Oh, yeah.

3%.

All right.

All right.

Violence.

Oh, by the way, the question.

Why do you think the businesses are closing on Water Street?

41% violence, 3% poor economy and 56% both.

All right.

So there it

is.

So Bailey, if you could come up with, uh, the way that this next poll would be worded, uh, what would you say?

Um, my thing is in your opinion, true patient, who do you think is creating the violence?

Can you?

I don't even need to look at Bailey.

I'm looking at my camera because I look at Bailey.

I will not be able to contain myself because the truth.

The truth will show on my face like it's showing on your face.

What is the truth?

I'm going to ask you to ask the true

nation.

Who do you can?

Should we ask a poll like that?

Who do you think is contributing?

Well, let's

do it by age.

You don't want to do it by age.

Well, I mean if you choose to I just say who do you think in your opinion?

Well, who you gonna put down there?

And that's what I'm asking you.

I told you please create the poll.

Let's do it by age.

Let's do it by age.

Cause you got.

Get the side eye, but you asked me

and I'm gonna let you do it, but really

What do you wanna put

down

Homer I just want you

to call

me

and give their truth 833 to 1 to 17

Xavier you're gonna do the poll

You're gonna put you're gonna cancel from our producer.

I'm asking him this your poll

No, I said you can end

up really

give me all the looks Listen, are you afraid to say the pole?

I'm not I'm just saying

listen what a two-nation A folk starting to ask which which is their favorite restaurant

It's such a touch closing around and such that are you kidding me?

Wait a minute.

Let's see.

We'll denies that the people who don't have money and shouldn't be shouldn't be are the ones are causing these businesses to close down shop.

The people who don't have money.

Let's be realistic.

I mean, you know, here's a here's an analogy.

One of the reasons that I try to avoid driving on the north side is that usually the people that are riding down the street with their cars all jacked up are the ones that don't have any insurance.

They don't have any insurance and their cars are jacked up because they don't care.

They be bumping into people in all kinds of stuff.

Did you?

Am I lying?

Am I lying?

No.

It's

not everybody.

That's

why I try to avoid.

I mean, I ain't go a lot.

Listen, I do, I do that on the south side too, though.

If you don't look like you've got no car insurance, I try to get on the far side of the south side.

I'm just real.

I'm just real.

Hey, no, Mr. I can't stop at no gas stations on the north side.

I didn't say none on the north side.

I'm selective

selective,

which I started some and there are more to go on

that.

Yes.

There are more on the list.

Yeah.

Uh, 27th and right.

Uh, Lisbon for damn show.

Uh, 27.

I

don't think I know none on Lisbon that I was shot

back.

Yeah, I wouldn't.

No, I wouldn't shop at the one on twenty-seven.

I'll

stop it.

I'll stop on capital.

Twenty-seven capital and

twenty-four.

I wouldn't stop on twenty-seven.

I wouldn't stop on any of the ones all the way up to

what

it would be.

40th anything there and then.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I forgot, you know, you turn down and see it on.

Yeah, you leave it all straight.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I'm thinking going up because the one that even I won't even go to the one and this always amazed me and it it baffled me.

I'm shocked.

OK.

that I won't go to the one right across the street from the third district on Lisbon.

I stopped in no place over there.

If I roll through that.

I have to.

I'm just sitting around.

It's, you know, I ain't stopping over there.

Man, come on out.

Really?

Okay.

But yeah

Listen Aaron Aaron is him said man.

I've been trying to disagree with Bailey, but I can't find the line There it is No lies detected I ain't stopping my doors is locked on cur Don't come up to me with your cup trying to get you know Don't ask me if I want to buy no water.

I love all the children

But I ain't finna roll down the window and then it just you know, it's a whole situation Being a single female is hard out here.

It's hard out here for a pimp, you know

That

you can't be out here just doing whatever you got to you know You got to watch

I know Bailey

and if you go in them areas before you get there lock your doors You can't do it.

You ever I remember one time

My car stopped over there.

My car stopped over there.

It's off of Lisbon.

You sound terrified.

I

was.

I locked my doors.

I called my, I called like five people on my team.

I like, somebody got to come get me.

They all pulled up on me.

Okay.

Okay.

Wait, hold on.

Did you call?

You know, so yeah.

20th and center.

Yeah.

No, you will be over.

Yo, I'll be over

to Tonya.

Hey You don't want

to

be

over

Felix said there is one gas station is black owned on the north side BP gas station.

I go there.

Yeah, I go there.

I'll go

there.

If

I'm in if I'm in that area,

yeah,

I will go there.

Yeah, I

have I have patronized that business.

Mm hmm.

Yeah, but that yeah.

So I can't can't even do it.

Can't even do it.

We got to listen.

True days.

We got to take you to be

quick when you pull up.

Take care of some bills.

You're listening to the truth in the morning show.

I am the legendary Homer blow along with my girl

Bailey.

I get gas in the hood.

Kobe

Bailey.

I won't get gas in the hood.

Come on.

No, I will just

on.

Okay.

Let me look at that for you from inside the gas station.

It's all good.

You just pull up, get your wave, get your gas and keep it pushing.

Okay.

We'll come back to finish up the show.

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They

tired of you.

They tired of you and yours.

They tired of you and yours.

No, no, the majority said both.

Listen,

the majority said both.

But nobody just said it was just for economy.

They said it's both.

Let me tell you

something.

And then we both

know you and I both know what the deal is.

Yeah,

it might be a little bit of the poor economy.

But like I think it was Aaron.

It said that, uh, you know, a lot of these people, it ain't the economy situation, but some people, yes, but for the most part it's, it's really about them having control or what they feel is enough control in downtown Milwaukee.

And I think one of the things you're going to start seeing is, you know how they did it during the Republican convention.

We talked about this.

They don't have to do something down here.

And this I know I just read abstract newer for one for its comment.

What do you say?

You guys like the poll that we would have, okay?

He dares.

I dare you all.

Black people.

Order on the YouTube.

It would

have

probably been close to a hundred

percent

We're doing truth in the morning.

We're doing truth in the morning.

They tired of y'all.

Hell, some of us are tired of

me.

No, we tired

of us.

Y'all be like, grand open.

We celebrating and then grand closing because y'all don't shut it down.

Literally.

Headlines be, they just shot already down there.

You know what I'm saying?

It's like, and

you know.

And you know, all of this is really sad.

You know what?

I got a feeling it's gonna get a little bit worse downtown.

You know why?

Why?

Because the bucks I got, who on the bucks?

Y'all listen to him go.

So who on the bucks?

Who?

There ain't one person.

No,

no, don't even know him.

Bailey.

Y'all listen.

Yanis and all of them gone.

Ain't even one left.

The people we knew, the people we knew was gone.

Middleton even gone.

We don't even know nobody over.

It's because you're not a sports enthusiast.

So you said, even though you not, you knew Yanis, you knew.

I knew I

knew they family I

had to stand where you come around

I knew

some of the

other players But they systematically got rid of everybody they

was dame time.

Yeah, you know,

yeah And he wasn't there that long But listen They got rid of everybody so who's on the team now?

Ain't

there ain't even nobody on the mural no more all the people down do they paint over the mural yet?

I

Can't with you this

We just have fun y'all hey, we just have a little fun Cuz the business is closing down here.

We can cry we can laugh.

Yeah.

Yeah

And that's that's a sad truth.

Yes.

That is a sad truth.

The reality of it all.

You know what's crazy?

I remember this Third Street Market Hall used to be the Grand Avenue Mall.

You remember

that?

Correct.

And it was going down hill and people didn't know and it's bad and what we're going to do and all that.

And these folks here, I don't know who did it.

But they were smart enough to come down here with a plan that worked to revitalize this area.

And you know what?

It helped revitalize a lot of different, you know, spaces down here, downtown.

So with these restaurants and stuff leaving, the only one I'm not out really about is silk.

I mean, that's just my opinion.

But I know some other people.

Yeah, Sherwin, he was probably going to disagree with you on that.

Are you saddened that they're temporarily closed and what would you how would you feel?

You'd be like I got to go all the way around the corner now.

Yes.

Oh another silks literally two minute walk, right?

But so what are you saddened that you have to take that extra two minutes

walk?

Well, I never been to a strip club before but if I was

a patron, okay?

What was that?

Oh,

I just I support the strippers.

Yes.

Okay.

So but you never went to on the board.

Oh, no, no, I support the strippers.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Because I thought for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty much you fought.

Yeah, you really

did.

Yeah, you fought.

You fought hard.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No pun intended.

That's you mentioned something on the radio.

I don't know how much hard I fought.

Well, now you kept saying like no, they should be open.