Good morning everyone. Welcome to the conversations that matter

podcast. I'm John Harris. We're with a frequent flyer on the podcast, Juan Rieska

right now and he is coming to us from Chicago,

the heart and soul of Chicago.

And you may wonder why are we having Juan on again?

Because one, you know, you might have seen paint the wall black you saw that his business was

shut down he went down to Dallas he came back to Chicago reopened his business uncanceled himself

doing business and now he's in trouble again. So, Juan, why do you keep getting in trouble? What's up with that?

Dude, I'm not sure. Our governor or excuse me me our mayor put a mandatory vaccine mandate as of January 3rd of

2022 she said that she feels like it's best that if you're going to

dine in at any restaurant, that you must show proof of vaccination.

And all the boosters that come along with it in order to dine in which is a bit ridiculous and so obviously as a Christian business I chose to not follow suit.

Yeah, so you're inclusive.

You allow people to come who don't have boosters.

You're not stopping people who do have all of that.

You're just saying anyone can come and get some empanadas, eat. I want to ask, this is something I just thought of. I would have asked you before, but now, yeah, we're recording live. I'll just ask now. You had a few people, wasn't many reach out to when BLM was after you. It was kind of

disappointing because it just wasn't I would have thought a lot of Christian organizations and conservative media

outlets would have wanted to interview you. What about now that you have hit pieces

against you in newspapers? You know you've had a few of those. Do you have now more media,

conservative media coming and talking to you or is it kind of the silent treatment still?

I don't want to say it's a silent treatment by any means. I would say that part of our

story that I believe deters many people from covering our story is the fact that when I tell the testimony of Ninis or

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