Rubin Report - Dave Rubin - SHARE: Heartbreaking Story of Business Owner & Her Anti-Lockdown Protest | POLITICS | Rubin Report
Aired: 2020-12-05
Duration: 05:26


=== Silence On The Patio (03:44) ===

[00:00:04]  So this is my place, the Pineapple Hill Grill and Saloon.
[00:00:07]  If you go to my page, you can see all the work I did for outdoor dining, for tables being seven feet apart.
[00:00:12]  And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that.
[00:00:20]  And I walk into my parking lot and obviously Mayor Garcetti has approved this.
[00:00:32]  Has approved.
[00:00:35]  This being set up for...
[00:00:37]  This being set up for...
[00:00:39]  For a movie company.
[00:00:41]  [Silence]
[00:00:49]  I'm losing everything.
[00:00:51]  Everything.
[00:00:52]  Everything I own is being taken away from me and they set up a movie company
[00:00:57]  right next to my outdoor patio which is right over here.
[00:01:01]  And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough.
[00:01:13]  They have not given us money and they have shut us down.
[00:01:16]  We cannot survive.
[00:01:17]  My staff cannot survive.
[00:01:19]  Look at this.
[00:01:20]  Tell me that this is dangerous, but right next to me, as a slap in my face,
[00:01:34]  I'm going to do this.
[00:01:38]  [BLANK_AUDIO]
[00:01:39]  That's safe.
[00:01:40]  This is safe?
[00:01:41]  50 feet away?
[00:01:48]  This is dangerous.
[00:01:50]  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.
[00:02:01]  And we need your help.
[00:02:03]  We need somebody to do something about this.
[00:02:07]  Alright everybody, I'm live.
[00:02:09]  This is Angela Marsden of Pineapple Hill Saloon in Sherman Oaks.
[00:02:13]  Hi everybody!
[00:02:14]  She is the woman who put up that incredible video yesterday, who I don't think you wanted to become famous yesterday.
[00:02:20]  No, no.
[00:02:21]  Is that the point of all of this?
[00:02:22]  Did you want to become famous?
[00:02:23]  What do you actually want to do?
[00:02:25]  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.
[00:02:35]  My restaurant's a hub for the community.
[00:02:37]  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.
[00:02:48]  I just want to open my restaurant up.
[00:02:49]  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.
[00:02:59]  I took what little money I had.
[00:03:02]  I don't have big investors.
[00:03:03]  I'm a one-woman shop and I did a patio.
[00:03:05]  I followed all the rules.
[00:03:07]  The picnic tables were more than six feet apart.
[00:03:09]  They're seven to ten feet apart, some of them.
[00:03:12]  We did masks.
[00:03:12]  We did temperatures.
[00:03:13]  We did face shields.
[00:03:14]  We did I did Plexi all through the inside, and as soon as I got the Plexi done, they made us go outside.
[00:03:24]  I turned a parking lot into an outdoor patio, on my own, with help with friends, you know?
[00:03:29]  So, there's no way, and there's no science that shows that outdoor dining It's hurting anybody.

=== Keep Supporting (01:52) ===

[00:03:40]  I myself have had, I'm not rich, I'm not Sheila Cooley.
[00:03:45]  I actually have had tuberculosis and shouldn't be out.
[00:03:49]  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.
[00:03:58]  Yeah, she makes $25,000 a month.
[00:03:59]  Yeah, she makes $25,000 a month, a month to sit at home and stay safely inside and
[00:04:09]  eat $40 meals from Ilfenaya or Fornano or wherever she did it from.
[00:04:14]  But the point is this, guys.
[00:04:16]  I've been working with the public since day one.
[00:04:18]  Because I have not had the option to be inside not working.
[00:04:24]  And I have not gotten the virus because we were safe.
[00:04:28]  We did everything right.
[00:04:29]  We did everything they asked, and they did it in the beginning.
[00:04:33]  They give you a little project that costs you everything you have, and they think you won't reopen or can't reopen.
[00:04:39]  Then you find a way to open, and then they change that on you.
[00:04:43]  Well, listen, you're a freaking hero.
[00:04:46]  You are what America is all about, truly.
[00:04:49]  What can people do to help you?
[00:04:50]  Besides come out here, what else can we do?
[00:04:54]  We have a GoFundMe page.
[00:04:55]  I'll tweet out the GoFundMe I just did.
[00:04:57]  We have a GoFundMe page, but just keep supporting us because there's so many restaurants and there's so many owners.
[00:05:04]  I have friends that haven't even been able to open because they didn't have food.
[00:05:07]  They're losing everything.
[00:05:09]  So just keep supporting, please.
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