Richard, we're out here in Florida.
What's the nearest town?
Samford.
Samford.
It's a little unknown thing, kind of.
We're out here, you're out here homeless.
Tell me about it.
You've been here a couple of years.
Yeah, I've been here actually a few years.
You know, it's when, you know, my job,
you know, you had to take a physical every now and then.
And they told me, you know, after I took my last physical,
and I had, you know, my second heart attack,
I had a hernia.
They found out I had a hernia,
and I was a health risk to them.
So, you know, and Warpins Cop didn't want to cover me,
which is, you know, understandable.
Right.
So, you know, they hadn't, you know,
let me go, or whatever.
And, you know, I had a little bit of money saved up,
but that ain't the last long, you know.
I took paying rent, and my family helped out a little bit,
but, you know, they, you know,
they couldn't help out much either, you know.
They got their own problems to worry about,
their own families, and their own bills, and everything like that.
So I ended up out here, you know, on the street.
And,
what was it first like?
Huh?
What was it first like living out here?
Scary.
Actually, scary, you know.
Because I wasn't sure how to adapt to it.
But actually, you know, when something has,
you know, when something comes up,
you know, you'd be surprised how quickly you can adapt to it,
how you can overcome it, you know.
You know, and I did that, you know.
How do you survive now?
Up from day to day, you know,
I work one day a week for an auto auction
right here in Samford.
And,
I get in about 11, 12 hours a week,
which gives me, they work for $75, $80 a week.
And I live off that, you know.
Between, besides what Dom, Nick, and,
you know, everybody else does for me, you know,
and they get me food or whatever, you know, to live on.
And, you know, I get by all right, you know.
It's not the end of the world, you know.
You know, it always said, you know,
God provide no matter what, you know.
What's your future like?
Kind of bleak right now, but there's always hope.
You know what I mean?
Even though something seemed really dim,
there's always hope, you know what I mean?
It's never the end until the end.
You know what I mean?
No, it doesn't make any difference, you know what I mean?
If you had three wishes, what would they be?
Ah, three wishes.
Actually, I'm a songwriter, not a very good one,
but people like it, you know what I mean?
God messes with me some of the songs I play, you know,
but, you know, maybe one day, maybe, you know,
me and the band I play with can go somewhere,
they actually do some recording and everything,
you know, professionally, you know.
Me, I'm self-taught, but I'm sure I'm not the only one
in the field that's self-taught.
That just has that natural instinct, you know what I mean?
Or natural, you know, God-given gift, you know.
Two more wishes.
I really don't have none, you know what I mean?
I'm not somebody that wishes for too much, you know what I mean?
I've always dealt with whatever came to me, you know.
Shoot, I've always dealt with life the way it came to me,
you know what I mean?
And wishing was always, you know, useless, you know.
Everybody has their dreams, you know, and I got my dreams.
And my dream may be one day, you know,
be coming somebody in the music business, you know,
even though it probably will never come,
but everybody's got their dreams, you know what I mean?
And, you know, that's, you know, my instinct, you know, of it.
You know, I deal with life the way it comes and the way it is.
Well, thank you very much for talking to me.
God.
