“I used to love Reno when it was a little older before everybody started trying to come here. And unfortunately we have way too many homeless people and we just need a little bit more help out here with each other.
If we don't take care of each other, then no one will. And it seems that everybody has been more, just trying to take everything for themselves, you know? That's kind of my view on it.
I think that we need more housing, and the homeless shelters aren't very good, so we just need, I guess, a little bit more help. We need people to go get jobs and stop doing drugs and all that fentanyl that's ruining a lot of people's lives. So we need to stay off of that stuff and smoke weed and be happy.
I've been on the streets probably traveling since I was about 16 years old. I went to all 50 states.
I moved here when I was three years old and I grew up in Cold Springs of all places, so there was nothing to do.
I kind of grew up alone and that's why I just try to surround myself with good people now and, you know, but really Reno needs more care of everyone. Unity.
Boulder, Colorado [is the favorite place I’ve visited.] It's just such a beautiful town and there's this street called Pearl Street and anyone, because I'm a musician, anyone who is playing music or spinning fire or juggling or anything, everything is allowed along the street.
And usually everybody has respect and they'll take turns with each other so that everybody can make a little bit of money.
I've been playing music since I was eight years old. So I'm really a drummer by trade, but I play guitar and banjo and ukulele and harmonica.
Uunfortunately I lost my house and all my drums are over there, but one of these times I'll find a harmonica and yeah, I'll play you Silent Night on Christmas…”
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