Dec. 5, 2020 - Rubin Report - Dave Rubin
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So this is my place, the Pineapple Hill Grill and Saloon. | |
| If you go to my page, you can see all the work I did for outdoor dining, for tables being seven feet apart. | ||
| And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that. | ||
| And I walk into my parking lot and obviously Mayor Garcetti has approved this. | ||
| Has approved. | ||
| This being set up for... | ||
| This being set up for... | ||
| For a movie company. | ||
| [Silence] | ||
| I'm losing everything. | ||
| Everything. | ||
| Everything I own is being taken away from me and they set up a movie company | ||
| right next to my outdoor patio which is right over here. | ||
| And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough. | ||
| They have not given us money and they have shut us down. | ||
| We cannot survive. | ||
| My staff cannot survive. | ||
| Look at this. | ||
| Tell me that this is dangerous, but right next to me, as a slap in my face, | ||
| I'm going to do this. | ||
| [BLANK_AUDIO] | ||
| That's safe. | ||
| This is safe? | ||
| 50 feet away? | ||
| This is dangerous. | ||
| Mayor Garcetti and Gavin Newsom is responsible for every single person that doesn't have unemployment, that does not have a job, and all the businesses that are going under. | ||
| And we need your help. | ||
| We need somebody to do something about this. | ||
| Alright everybody, I'm live. | ||
| This is Angela Marsden of Pineapple Hill Saloon in Sherman Oaks. | ||
| Hi everybody! | ||
| She is the woman who put up that incredible video yesterday, who I don't think you wanted to become famous yesterday. | ||
| No, no. | ||
| Is that the point of all of this? | ||
| Did you want to become famous? | ||
| What do you actually want to do? | ||
| I would actually love to run my restaurant, to run my successful pub that's been there since 1978 and feed my staff and take care of the community. | ||
| My restaurant's a hub for the community. | ||
| The people themselves will come just to Togo, we can't even open now for Togo, but before just to see us and just to commune and I just want to open up. | ||
| I just want to open my restaurant up. | ||
| Yeah, and so even though you did your whole outdoor situation... You can go to PH Saloon or you can go to Pineapple Hill Saloon on Instagram and there are photos. | ||
| I took what little money I had. | ||
| I don't have big investors. | ||
| I'm a one-woman shop and I did a patio. | ||
| I followed all the rules. | ||
| The picnic tables were more than six feet apart. | ||
| They're seven to ten feet apart, some of them. | ||
| We did masks. | ||
| We did temperatures. | ||
| We did face shields. | ||
| We did I did Plexi all through the inside, and as soon as I got the Plexi done, they made us go outside. | ||
| I turned a parking lot into an outdoor patio, on my own, with help with friends, you know? | ||
| So, there's no way, and there's no science that shows that outdoor dining It's hurting anybody. | ||
| I myself have had, I'm not rich, I'm not Sheila Cooley. | ||
| I actually have had tuberculosis and shouldn't be out. | ||
| By the way, Sheila Cooley, the woman who voted, was the deciding vote, the 3-2 vote to shut down all the restaurants in LA who went out to eat that very night, she makes, we're being told now, over $300,000 a year. | ||
| Yeah, she makes $25,000 a month. | ||
| Yeah, she makes $25,000 a month, a month to sit at home and stay safely inside and | ||
| eat $40 meals from Ilfenaya or Fornano or wherever she did it from. | ||
| But the point is this, guys. | ||
| I've been working with the public since day one. | ||
| Because I have not had the option to be inside not working. | ||
| And I have not gotten the virus because we were safe. | ||
| We did everything right. | ||
| We did everything they asked, and they did it in the beginning. | ||
| They give you a little project that costs you everything you have, and they think you won't reopen or can't reopen. | ||
| Then you find a way to open, and then they change that on you. | ||
| Well, listen, you're a freaking hero. | ||
| You are what America is all about, truly. | ||
| What can people do to help you? | ||
| Besides come out here, what else can we do? | ||
| We have a GoFundMe page. | ||
| I'll tweet out the GoFundMe I just did. | ||
| We have a GoFundMe page, but just keep supporting us because there's so many restaurants and there's so many owners. | ||
| I have friends that haven't even been able to open because they didn't have food. | ||
| They're losing everything. | ||
| So just keep supporting, please. | ||
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