Do Better Nashville | Episode 1
Two Years, Three Applications, and a Parking Denial
Recorded October 12, 2026

Automatically transcribed; names and formatting reviewed. The recording is the source of record.

[00:00] Welcome, welcome, welcome. Here we go. Episode one. Welcome to Do Better Nashville. Episode one, two. I'm calling this two years, three applications and a parking denial. That's what's happening. My name is Bo. Last name is a lot of people. If you know me from my radio days, it's Bo Matthews. But my real last name is Gutierrez. And I'm going to just get it. I've always been called Bo. Bo has been my nickname. So my real name is Alex. But my, my,

[00:30] my last name is Gutierrez. So I'm a Nashville resident, live here on Music Row. And I made dobetternashville.com because of a parking issue that we're dealing with in our neighborhood. I am the HOA president of our building here, which is weird because I was never the HOA president type. But you know what? This is fun. This is eye opening. And, you know, I just, I've really been enjoying learning local government.

[00:59] Process and just, you know, trying to help people. You know, that's all. And, uh, I like to get stuff done. I like to, when I, when I see things that are just puzzling and questioning, I'm like, well, that doesn't make sense. How can I help fix that? That's, I just very, very common sense approach to pretty much everything I do. Um, this is interesting because I had a cool, interesting experience today at the October 12th traffic and parking commission meeting.

[01:27] Uh, I found out on Friday that our, uh, our application for residential parking in Nashville was coming up today at the meeting and we were invited to just, Hey, go and attend and see what happens. So, uh, uh, myself along with Anthony, another resident went, went over there to check this out. And we've been trying to come up with some resolutions for more than two years to try and resolve our buildings parking problem.

[01:54] And today's outcome. Uh, the, the commission has denied, uh, the, the commission has denied, uh, the RPP request. Um, and it's interesting. NDOT today actually recommended approval to the commission and the, uh, the board or the commission actually denied that, that, uh, that recommendation from NDOT.

[02:15] So that was interesting. Uh, I wanted to provide context because I feel like context was missing today. Uh, I want to explain the decisions impact and also pursue a solution. Uh, I think it's smart to also start with the history of that, my history of here in this building, this building has always had a limited number of parking spaces.

[02:41] I think we have about 52 different units. And for those 52 units, I think we have 40 some, I think there's like 41 or 42, uh, different parking spaces for those things. And people own those parking spaces. All right. This is a condo. This is an apartment. Uh, this is a, this is townhouses. People here own their units. We have many different walks of life. We have school teachers. We have attorneys, lawyers, students. We have musicians. We have lawyers.

[03:08] We have so many different kinds of people that work in our building. And I love it. It's great, great, great, like cool little array of people that live here. I love it. Uh, now those spaces that we have because of the building have never accommodated every household's parking needs because, you know, these are not, and this is interesting today at the commission, uh, someone, someone on the commission was like, I don't know why we have all these one bedroom.

[03:38] Apartments that need more than one, uh, than one, uh, parking space. I don't live in a one bedroom apartment. I live in a two story townhouse. Like I said, there are, these are not small efficiency apartments. These are not starter apartments for college kids downtown. Okay. So these spaces at our building have never accommodated everybody's household parking needs for our residents. Uh, I would say that most households have multiple vehicles.

[04:10] Residents historically relied on available street parking around the block, this whole block, and they would come home and they would park on the street. If they had a spot available inside their unit, of course they would park there, but then they would just park around the block.

[04:23] So in 2024, uh, they came around and Nashville decided to put parking meters on everything. Everything there is, there is nothing close by. I think maybe three or four blocks away. You might be able to find a side street that doesn't have a meter. All right. And by the way, this is not us complaining about the meters and the prices of the meters. The meters are metered from 6 AM to midnight. And it's only like a dollar an hour.

[04:51] But we live here. And if you want to park outside and you come home at 6 PM in the evening. Okay. And you want to park on the street, you can then pay $6 a night to park from 6, 6 PM to midnight. And then there will be an NDOT meter made person with their car. I do it every day. I watch it every day. It's at 5 58. They're sitting there ready. They can't wait.

[05:21] And then everybody on our block that ever parks there overnight is going to get a $75 ticket in the morning because they're not allowed to have their cars out overnight. And the meters start again at six o'clock in the morning. So again, historically we have relied on available street parking around the block. Now that available street parking is no more. Okay. This is how it worked in everyday life.

[05:44] They would find available spaces without having a guaranteed spot. And then everything changed. The meters were installed. Residents had to, you know, where they were previously parking on the street.

[05:54] Um, the buildings parking supply didn't increase to offset that change. How can we, we have a small parking deck underneath our building. Okay. Residents still had the same parking needs. They work here in Nashville. My wife is a school teacher in Franklin. She drives every day to Franklin. Uh, you know, it'd be, what if I had a car, I don't even have a second car, but what if I had to drive somewhere to work too?

[06:19] Would I then need to just sell my car? I don't understand. So again, this is a practical impact. There are costs. There are restrictions. There are moving vehicles. Uh, people now, if they want to find free parking, they have to wait until very late at night and then walk somewhere else to try and find something. It's not good. This is now, you know, this is a challenge for our community.

[06:47] And we immediately in 2024, immediately went to apply for an RPP because we need a practical way to park near our homes. That's it. And guess what? Residents, we are willing to purchase parking permits. We're willing to do that. Um, and it was interesting today because I just don't believe in first off, let me just go ahead and say our council person, Terry Vo, she did not show up today.

[07:16] She did not show up. We had other council people in the room today from other districts that were there. Actually, you know, there was, there was another gentleman that I met. His name was Jacob and hold on. I have his name. He was very nice. And I, and I went up to him because I'd like to have coffee with him. Uh, his name was Jacob. Hold on a second. Jacob Kupin. And he was from another district. Nice guy. And I was just like, dude, thank you for, and I actually texted him. And I was like, dude, thank you for showing up for your people today.

[07:44] I appreciated him showing up for his people. His people weren't even there, but he was over there making sure that the commission was aware of issues and things that he cared about for his people. So that was kind of cool to see. So our person, Terry Vo did not show. She was not there. Uh, she was not there. And it was interesting because they, the commission had a lot of questions about our situation.

[08:08] And if someone would have been there to help us and be a liaison for us and someone that fought for us and someone that was advocating for us, I do believe that it would have been a different room. Maybe, maybe not. Actually, I don't believe it. And I'll tell you about why that in a minute. Uh, I don't believe the outcome would have been different, but it would have been interesting because it was clear that the folks that were talking about our issue clearly didn't know.

[08:37] The issue or they were just throwing things out. Like the one guy was like all these one bedroom apartments. That's false. And the other lady, uh, I have her name. I have her name because she was, she was an interesting one, man, this woman. And by the way, really challenging and hard to find the people that are actually on the commission on the website. I had to have, you know, a website, go and find it and find out who these people are.

[09:01] But this was interesting. Her name was Lisa Haller. All right. And she was interesting because she was like, well, I just don't understand it. You have so much street parking available. And because demand is down, there's no one using those spaces. Why don't you use those? Because they're all paid parking, Lisa.

[09:22] Lisa, Lisa, you are here talking about the problem that we have, Lisa. Everything is paid parking, Lisa. We don't have those free parking opportunities anymore.

[09:34] So your argument of there's a ton of available parking doesn't really make sense here. We're talking about apples and oranges because you, are you under the impression or are you under the thought that we have an abundance of, of free parking available to us outside our door? Because we do not, Lisa. We don't. That's why we're here looking for help.

[09:55] We've been looking for help for more than two years. And I want to talk a little bit about that because that is something that needs to be addressed. Your building, it's just so funny. I just kept hearing your building has enough parking. It does not. And it does not have enough parking. And now we can't even go outside of our building without paying for parking. We are just asking. We're asking to pay.

[10:25] For parking. That's it. Okay. This has been more than two years. We have submitted three RPP applications. This is a residential permit parking pass. And the meetings and discussions are with NDOT. NDOT directed us towards the RPP process. They said, you should apply for an RPP.

[10:52] The original request. The original request actually involved, it was made in 2024. I was not much involved in that request because I wasn't the board president at that time. But I do know that the original request involved parking on both sides of the street because we don't have parking and we need parking and we need spaces for our people that live here.

[11:15] Now, NDOT, after a meeting earlier this year, was like, no, you can only request the spaces right in front of your units. That's it. So it came down to like seven spaces, which is like, honestly funny, but we'll take it. Like, we're trying to give any relief to the folks that live here.

[11:32] Okay. So we did the first RPP in 2024. We have video where the same folks that were suggesting that we get approval and recommending approval recommended approval then. Okay. It was then not denied. It was deferred to never be brought up again. Two years, never to be brought up again.

[11:54] Also interesting that we were provided with a, like two weeks ago from our council person, we were provided with the first denial letter of that process that we've ever gotten in over two years. That feels weird and suspect. Why would we get a denial after two and a half years of, it's just very, very weird.

[12:15] The amount of mistakes and the amount of inconsistencies has been alarming, comical and entertaining and also just scary because these are the people that run our city and that's scary. It was really, really, really interesting. So, you know, I wanted to explain what we expected going into the meeting.

[12:42] Um, I knew that we met all of the different requirements. Um, you know, I believe that our application met NDOT's requirements. Um, I thought maybe this would be, you know, hey, look, we've done everything for the third time. Uh, maybe this would be, you know, just an easy check mark off the list for them because honestly, they've made so many mistakes along the past two years that, you know, honestly, there was a part of me,

[13:12] there was a little part of me that was like, you know what, maybe they just want to be done with me being a total pain in the butt to them. Uh, because we email them all the time because they cannot provide us with answers. And I know that that makes them crazy. So I, that's also part of the reason why I know like that even going into this, there was no shot. There was no shot because we speak up. We're calling bullshit on them and they don't want bullshit to be called on them. Nobody likes that.

[13:41] Nobody likes that. Okay. I get it. I totally do. Uh, but we are just continuing to do exactly what we've been asked to do. And NDOT directed us towards the RPP process. We went through it three times. Um, it was, you know, we put a lot of preparation into that, you know, to ask your community members of 50 more units or so to do this process several times. It's a lot to ask on the people.

[14:07] And I just appreciate our folks, you know, continuing to step up and, uh, you know, it's been, it's just been a challenge. It's been a challenge. So we go, we go, we go into the room and, uh, I want to just tell you a couple of the things about how this unfolded. Um, you know, the different questions and the objections. And, uh, it was interesting. Um, first off, like somebody who truly needs to like review that whole process.

[14:34] Like you had people in this meeting, like showing up 30 minutes late. I mean, just rolling in like, okay. All right. That's interesting. You know, that was interesting. Um, this was very interesting. This one right here got me and I don't know. There's got to be, and this has got to be, uh, there has to be something for this. So we're watching them and they go through all the other things and, you know, all of their other approvals and denials.

[15:01] And then they get to our case, which was like number 6.1 or something like that on the docket. And, uh, and you could, you could just tell, like some of these people just are very, they're just unhappy people. Like they're really unhappy. And they did not like us because we've been very loud and vocal and calling them out because dude, they kind of suck at their jobs. Right. I mean, they're not very good at what they do. Um, I'm sure that doesn't help me. You know, the fact that I'm just being like, dude, you suck at your, at your gig.

[15:31] Um, that's not good. I mean, that's not going to help our case. I get that. I understand. Um, but it was very, very, there was just some very interesting things that happened. Um, the Lisa, so the commissioners, like they said, uh, your building has enough parking. That was interesting. We've already kind of talked about that. Lisa Haller saying there's plenty of street parking. Uh, yeah, we have that. Uh, let's see. There was a concern about setting a precedent.

[16:00] I worry about what we're going to do with all these apartments that have one bedroom apartments and then what's going to happen when they all start coming. And it was very, quite interesting. You know, the NDOT guys, I thought I was against those guys. Those guys were actually kind of cool. And they were actually the ones that were, they were the only ones that were there. And they were actually saying, yo, don't they meet the criteria. And it was really funny because everybody on the commission were like, well, yeah, but they have parking. And then the NDOT guys would say, no, it's paid parking. They don't have any parking. Okay.

[16:30] And then we brought up the fact that there is a residential RPP like spaces on our street, like a couple blocks up. And we brought that up. And then Lisa Haller was like, oh, that's like two miles away. We are currently measuring it. It's not two miles away, Lisa. I know that you think that that plays into your narrative. And I know that you say, I drove by there and it was busy. Lisa, I live here. Lisa, there's nobody. Come, come by anytime.

[16:59] Do you want to come by, have coffee in the morning or at night when I'm sitting on my patio? There's no, these streets are bare. Nobody's parking on these streets, Lisa. Maybe if there's a big event down here. Okay. But like, dude, this isn't Lisa. Come on, Lisa. So it's like, you're just throwing up flags. You're just throwing flags up just to be difficult and unhappy. Um, he had, uh, there was a couple other people.

[17:26] Uh, there was a guy named Neil Kornutick, Kornutick. Maybe he had some objections to this as well about precedent. And also just, you know, why are we doing this when, you know, it should be parked, paid so much more. He was worried about the fact that, you know, the $10 wasn't enough for us. Tell us what it is. Tell us what it is. Well, I mean, if it's reasonable, I mean, for residents that live here, that have lived

[17:55] here for so long and enjoyed living here because they didn't have to park blocks and blocks away before you put in the parking meters, we're willing to work with you somehow, some way, but there's no relief, none whatsoever. This was interesting. Uh, there was a guy named Sean Parker and I went up and I looked to see, cause I really wanted to find out exactly who is on the traffic commission and who these people are.

[18:21] I believe Sean Parker's the only one in the room that was not appointed by the mayor. And I think that's important to think about, but let me tell you about what I liked about Sean Parker. And by the way, I don't know these people. I don't know them. They only know me from the clown that's been emailing them and calling them out because this has been a joke for over two years. All right. And they think that what they don't understand as well is that like, I don't like, this is the, I can do this.

[18:50] I can do this for a long time. I, this is easy to, I have a, this is easy, but all right, nevermind. I'll get back to that. But Sean was very much, he was actually very, very smart. And I was like, yes, this guy, he knows what he's talking about. Sean was talking and he had a fantastic idea. He was like, why are we giving them seven spaces? He was like, they clearly need more than seven spaces. And I'm like, where did this guy come from? What's going on?

[19:18] This guy, I am team Sean Parker. This dude was like, why don't they have a pass where they can just park anywhere around their block? Like they did before. Then we don't have to move any meters. Then we don't have to do anything. We could just give them a block parking pass because they live there. Hello. That's what we've been trying to want for over two years. We tried to go for that originally. And they said, no, we don't have that. We'll do, you need to do the RPP.

[19:47] So we're only doing the RPP because that's what we were told by the city. And by the way, I think it's a fantastic idea, Sean Parker. I love the idea. The problem with your idea is that our council person sucks. Like she's not going to bring that idea because a it's very clear. She wants nothing to do with us. It's very clear. And we've had other council people that have reached out to me personally and said, I am really sorry that your council person sucks, but she does not like conflict.

[20:15] I've heard this like direct, direct from people that work with you, right? They've said this and they've said, she's not good at conflict. So I get it. I get it. This isn't her bag. Believe me, I get it. And I can't fault her for that. She's not the kind of person she is. She really did not take up political office in order to help people. She did it to, I mean, I think if you look at it, she really is a good influencer.

[20:45] I mean, she'd be a really good local influencer that wants to like go to the smoothie shop that opens up. I love it. It's great. And I appreciate her for that. I think it's great. I think it's awesome to highlight local businesses. I love what she does there. But when there's a problem, there's a problem. And we have a problem that we've been detailing and documenting for over two years and we can't get anybody to help. But Sean, I got to tell you, Sean, I was impressed today, Sean. Sean, that was very impressive.

[21:14] And I liked your idea. And I would personally, I'm going to reach out to you and I'm going to say, hey, I don't know how this works because we will get nowhere with our council person. Can I do anything without her? Because she's not going to help me with this process. The other thing that I think, I think that everybody else here on the whole traffic and parking commission, everybody else is mayor appointed.

[21:44] And that's interesting to me because I think I probably, because, and I hear that like Terry Vo, our council person is like this and like, you know, the mayor has his people around him. His people say, yes, they support him. They do whatever. So if I go after the people that the mayor likes, let's add this up. I mean, let's add this up. I'm calling them out.

[22:09] I'm calling them totally inept at their, at their positions because I believe that they are. I'm calling them out on the mistakes. And we even tried to even call them out on the mistakes today in the meeting. And it was really funny because like people like this Neil guy, he was like, well, let's not talk about it. We know mistakes have been made. Well, no, no, I do too. Can we talk about those mistakes? Because no one wants to talk about the mistakes. And I believe that the mistakes lead to what we're, where we're at right now.

[22:39] So that's what I want. I want to talk about the mistakes. They won't talk about those though. We tried, we tried to bring, oh, you know what? There has been some mistakes. Yeah, we're not going to do that. And the guy, uh, Brandon Mason, I believe, uh, he was the guy that's like the chair or something. And, you know, he was trying to keep it all on the rails and I appreciate him. And, you know, he would, oh, we don't, we're not here to talk about that. We're not here to talk about the problems that we caused. We're not here to talk about the fact that we emailed your community two years ago saying

[23:07] that we were coming to install the signs and you just never showed up. We're not going to, we know there were mistakes. We get it. Earlier this summer, we were able to go online, put our address in and buy a parking permit, a buy a residential parking permit. One of these permits. We thought we were like there, we were like, this is over. We, we got there. We put it in. We were like, wow, this works. The city took our money.

[23:34] The city actually then sent us the next day. Here's your parking permit. Go ahead and print it out. We were so pumped that we were like, this is it. We figured it out. We put it on our cars. We parked overnight. The next morning, $75 ticket smack on top of that, on top of that RPP permit that we paid for from the city. That the, that the city gave us. We don't want to talk about the mistakes.

[24:04] Well, we're not here to talk about those. But they also don't like that. I called them out because they are continually making mistakes and they're continually wasting our own taxpayer money continually. Like this is a joke. We're asking for seven spaces in front of our apartment complex. That clearly will not even, that will not even be enough for the needs that we have, but you can't even give us that. And I know why it's because you don't like what we're doing.

[24:34] I'm going to get louder. This is fun for me. This is, I'm enjoying this. You've opened my eyes and, and you know what? I'm not an overly political person. I do follow. I follow a lot of national politics. And that's also very interesting because, you know, what I have also found out is that I bet I align politically with several of you people that are with the mayor because

[25:01] I am, I, I, let's just say I'm very anti-Trump. All right. I'm way in the middle, but I'm definitely not voting anytime, any red anytime soon. So it's interesting that I believe we probably ideologically fit on the same side of many things. I think that there are several people working for the city of Nashville that even know we wear the same colors, they are horrible at their job, including our council person, Terry

[25:29] Vo, which is starting to make me truly believe that I need to like step up and run for city council. Uh, and you know, I, I, I, again, I don't even know this guy. I read, I just stopped him today. This Jacob, because he was a council person there and he looked like he was kind of similar to my age, probably a little younger than me. And he just went and he spoke for public comment and he like spoke up for his community and was talking about issues. And I was like, dude, that, that right there is what we need.

[25:59] We need more of that dude. I don't even know where he stands politically, but I appreciate the fact that he was being smart, rational and trying to help a human being and Sean Parker, interesting, very, very interesting that the only other person in that room that I'm over here going, wow, that guy had some really smart things to say. He's the only other guy that wasn't appointed by the mayor.

[26:30] So did the mayor run this meeting today while, while not even being there? Cause it kind of feels like the mayor run, ran that meeting today. I get it. So this is interesting. Halfway through the meeting. This is so funny. I like, I think this is legitimately against the law is what I also think. Like I'm going to have to look into it, but this doesn't seem right. Like this is an official proceeding. We've got meeting minutes and we've got all these things halfway through the meeting.

[26:56] This guy on the left, it was also very, he was like the dude. He was like an older guy and he didn't know what he was talking about because, well, all these apartments with one bedroom apartments. It's like, sir, you do not know what you're talking about, but they're making our decisions over a two and a half year process. They're making decisions off of things that they have no idea and no context about. And we have no council person in the room to advocate for us. So here's what happens.

[27:26] The council, I say council meeting, it's not a council meeting, but this is, this meeting is happening. And this guy goes, did everybody else get this text message from Ginny Welsch? Ginny Welsch is another council woman on city council. And she, I don't know her. All I know is that she's replied to some of our emails and she doesn't appreciate me calling them out. Right. And she probably lacks the context like everybody else does.

[27:58] So people don't like being called out. I get that. I 100%, it's uncomfortable. And if you're doing a bad job, you don't, you never want somebody to put a spotlight on it. I get it. But it was funny because, uh, then they went through this whole rigmarole about how they're like, can we introduce this? Can we talk about this? Can we talk about this? They're looking at the legal person at the end and the legal person's like, well, we

[28:22] just need to make sure that everybody is aware of what's being sent and blah, blah, blah. And then other people are looking at their phones and they're like, oh, I got one too. And I got one too. And I got one too. Well, Ginny Welsch texted and the one guy read it off and it was something, you know, and you'll see this. I wish they posted. They probably, they'll probably take forever to post the minutes and the meeting. I, who knows? But it was funny because the guy was like, well, here's what Ginny said. And Ginny said something like, you know, I heard that this was up on the docket today.

[28:51] And, uh, I just wanted to say that we need to deny. I am in strong denial of this and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, thanks Ginny. But now wait a second. Couldn't Ginny have made it down here too? Because I got to tell you, Jacob, he was a, he's a council person. You know what Jacob did? He rolled in, he signed up on the, on the form to talk. Apparently we could just text right in. Just get your text message right over there into everybody.

[29:22] So now we're using text messages in the meetings. I am going to look this up because that was amazing. Thank you, Ginny. Thank you, Ginny, for popping into that meeting. I appreciate it. Thank you, Ginny. Horrible. I mean, this is just comedy. That cannot be appropriate procedure for something like this. Unbelievable. Unreal.

[29:52] So that was interesting. I would, I would like to actually, I hope to, they have to now publish the, I would imagine they need to now publish and make her text message part of the minutes. I would like to know who, as a, as somebody who is now part of this process, I want to make sure that we get that text message and everybody that it was sent to.

[30:18] Since it was introduced as public record at this point, I imagine that it would have to be. Very, very, very interesting. Very interesting. I really wish our council person would have been a council person today. And actually advocated for us. I know she's not going to. I'd like, I would like to explore and I'm going to, and I'm going to reach out to Sean

[30:47] Parker and see, you know, his proposal was very, very interesting. Um, and ultimately that would solve every problem we have. But again, he was, he was very, do I want to say smart about it? Like he was like, he was just smart about it. Like that just what he spoke was just smart. Like, I'm, I don't care where you are politically.

[31:14] I just, are you, are you offering solutions to your residents? He offered, he tried to offer a solution and then everybody was like, well, yeah, but we can't do that because he was even trying to say, look, can we approve this and like put it on a time limit? And then it'll, it'll, it'll then graduate to something else. And everybody was like, well, no, but we can't do that because you know what? We're here to just, you know, say yes or no to the RPP. And the RPP is what we were told to do. But heads up, dude, Sean, you're a real one for that, dude. I appreciate it.

[31:44] I mean, seriously, that was like, I I'm going to figure that out what you're doing. I want to talk to you more about that because you are somebody that is offering solutions and that's what I want. That's what we want as a community. Okay. So I don't believe we have a clear explanation as why the commission rejected NDOT's recommendation.

[32:09] Um, I don't believe that there was ever an assessment that was really grounded in actual residents concerns and circumstances and the things that we're dealing with. Um, and we're really looking for a clear next step, you know, to evaluate what's next for us, because this is really ridiculous. And, you know, I don't, I don't feel like giving up because I feel still like, I feel

[32:38] like there is a real problem here. And I think that I honestly don't believe that our parking issue is the biggest problem that we have. Um, but the parking issues opened the door for me to realize this. So, um, this has just been interesting. Uh, we're going to review and, you know, record the records. Um, we're going to make sure that we write everything down that we experienced today, which was very, very interesting.

[33:07] It just, it was very, very interesting. Um, you know, we followed the process because we were told that this was the way to address the problem. That's what we did at every turn. And I cannot thank our residents enough for, for helping us and do this. Um, we're still willing and looking toward a solution. Um, but now we need a clear answer about what happens next, because that's, that's what we're doing.

[33:36] That, that is what do better Nashville is. Uh, I am keeping this going and I have a lot more questions to ask and I have a lot more people to talk to. And it was interesting. They could have totally done away with us today. They could have done that. They could have done away and approved our seven spots. They could have done that, could have approved the seven spots and we could have been rocking, but they didn't. But I do actually, I mean, some of the people here, it was very clear.

[34:06] Like even the, uh, the guy that, um, trying to remember his name. He was a, he was a bigger gentleman. And I think he was the one that came out. I saw him the other day doing measurements in front of our, in front of our unit. Um, he was nice. There were some really nice folks that were really trying to be like, and I think maybe they are even looking at things being like, what is going, what, why are we making a huge big deal about this? I know why. Because you guys kind of suck. And I'm over here saying it.

[34:35] I get it. I totally get it. I am an enemy. It's fine. But I'm going to continue. And I'm going to continue saying why you suck. And you didn't, no one needed this. Um, but you are not good at your jobs and you're not giving answers. And, uh, you had a lot of incorrect information today at that meeting, which was jarring. It's not jarring. I mean, here's the thing.

[35:03] You see politicians lie every single day on TV. It's really what we're used to now, especially with the administration that we're dealing with. So to see it at a local level was pretty interesting. It was very eyeopening. I've enjoyed this process immensely. Like, I need to tell you, like we walked out of there. I was pumped up. I, people, I imagine that a lot of people when they go through this and they, you know, they fight because we've been fighting for two years.

[35:30] I imagine that a lot of people get that blow and they're like, man, this is it. I'm, I'm pumped. I'm, I'm like, they, they, they, they want more. That's all I can think about. Um, so this isn't done. This is funny. I think we need to find more smart people and people that'll listen and people that have empathy, people that are truly in their positions to truly help their constituents, because I

[36:00] do not believe there are many. Um, and I also believe that it's very telling that the, I think the mayor run that ran that meeting today and everybody that had a problem with us, they were all appointed by the mayor and the people that are kind of looking at it like this and being like, what? We can't help these people out. Really? All those people not appointed by the mayor. So this is going to be interesting, but this is it.

[36:27] I wanted to just go on here and express my feelings about my experience today. It was eyeopening. It was fun. Uh, I think that, uh, I'm going to follow up with several people that I, that I encountered today for the first time. I'm excited to meet with them and, and, you know, just really talk to them because again, this is a whole new part of everything. And I've heard several people for a long time, say things like local government and local politics. That is where you can make an impact.

[36:55] And I'm starting to believe that because I see national politicians, they can't do anything. And I'm just trying to make it nice for the people who live next to me. That's it. And I'm going to go on the record again. I don't even have two cars. I got one car, one car, one space, never have to worry about personal parking on the street. But I see everybody in my building that does. And it sucks for them. It really sucks for them.

[37:20] Like it sucks that they need to walk blocks and it sucks that there's a female at night downtown in a lot of, guess what? There's a lot of homeless people down here now. That's another issue. Okay. What happens when that female gets home and she's done from work at eight o'clock at night? She can't get a space outside her place. She has to park three blocks away. In the dark. I would not want my wife doing that.

[37:48] I'd want her parking right out front the way that she was able to when she bought this unit. She can't now. And that sucks. And if she does, she has to make sure she goes out at 545 in the morning because there will be, and you can do it every day. Lisa, if you want to come by. Lisa, come by if you're so willing to drive by our place. Come by and talk to the meter people at 549 every morning. Come by then.

[38:20] It's a human thing. This is a real weird one for me. It's like, really? It's a weird one. All right. That's it. I hope you enjoyed it. This isn't meant to be crazy entertainment. I just had to get this off my chest and tell everybody in our community. And also, I wanted to put it out to everybody and post it here on this website that I've built. I've been getting wonderful responses from dobetternashville.com. I've gotten people from all over this city who have gotten it for some reason or another,

[38:48] or they saw a post that we made on Instagram, and they were like, dude, I'm so happy that you're doing this. I had a similar situation. I had this situation. We have people from all over the place that are coming out and saying, man, thank you so much for doing this. So again, I don't know what's going to happen from this. But I just know that for a very long time, my career, I have a career in radio, and I have a career in just getting people to realize and communicate and talk to people and do the right thing. And I pride myself on that.

[39:18] One of the favorite things that I've ever done as a program director in radio is doing things for the community. I was very instrumental with our campaigns at radio stations for things like St. Jude telethons, where we would raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for children for St. Jude, or like the Stuff a Bus campaign, where we would help underprivileged kids get school supplies. It's been a part of me for my whole life, helping people, because radio helps people.

[39:49] I still work in radio, although I don't work at a radio station. I work to help radio stations all over the world, honestly. So I have this kind of in me where I kind of want to help people. But the people that I want to help right now are my neighbors. And the people in my community. And I feel like I'm built. I feel like I'm built for this. And I feel like I know what to do. And I feel like I can communicate. And I'm going to continue to do that. I'm going to make sure that people are aware.

[40:12] And I'm going to make sure that people are aware of all of the interesting things from Lisa and all these other folks that I'm going to research who you are. And I'm going to find your names and your pictures so I know exactly who said what. And I'm going to make sure that you're doing the right thing for your communities, because right now you are not doing the right thing for our community. So this is going to be fun. Thank you so much for watching. I truly appreciate it. Please leave a comment. Do whatever. Talk to you soon.