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So a lot of homeless problems and stories that are getting national attention all across the nation.

So a lot of different areas of the country are dealing with this problem right now.

Definitely most acute worst on the west coast where city after city up and down the coast is just inundated with bombs and junkies and more and more are showing up every day.

Bumping around Washington DC for several days. How many homeless people did you see? How common was it there?

Oh, you know, it doesn't really. Oh, you know, a handful, pretty good handful. Typical through the years big city collection of beggars and there's so many tourists in DC that there are fair number of beggars there.

But it wasn't nearly as bad as I was hopeful if you're if you're in San Francisco or Los Angeles, you'd have a you'd have a handful at the one coffee shop you're at.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like I say, it's it's pretty typical the way it's always been. You know, through the years, it's not exploding like it is on the west coast. Speaking of which you may have seen or heard or read about Steve Sylvester last week, he's an antique shop owner in the capital city, California Sacramento and had a mostly naked guy bust into his business the other day and cause a fracas and Steve got interviewed.

You know, honestly, I think it mostly got attention because the dude was mostly naked and that's kind of the hook for the dumb dumb media. Oh, really, you think that's why I got a big part of it.

Really interesting. That's part of it. It also comes in the wake of Liz Novak, who we talked to who is a shop owner in the same area, who said she's closing up a business and moving it because of the incursion of bombs and junkies.

Steve Sylvester joins us now to talk about the situation in his part of the world and the, you know, what he thinks is causing it as a guy observes that every day. Steve, how are you, sir?

Hi, guys. Thank you for having me on the show. Oh, it's our pleasure. We appreciate you taking time. Um, I assume you're taking the time because you care about the neighborhood where you live and work.

I'm in the center of Sacramento. There's a big freeway that cuts Rick will the WX freeway and underneath each of the roads. There is camp city.

Right. And it's I assume a hell of a lot of junkies there.

There is the problem with this for types homeless and there's a people who are genuinely homeless and I think the city should spend every penny on getting them the house.

Then we have a lot of mentally ill around here. We call them the monster shelters that they like the Stephen King novel.

There's a couple that we know who actually want to be on the streets. They don't want to be part of society. They love the, the nomad life.

But the biggest problem for our area and that's happened in the last year is it's all drug related. It's street drugs.

How do you know that?

Because the crowd that are hanging around now are much younger and what happens is that they'll suddenly become absolutely crazy.

And that's because they've just taken something that's nice and cheap and cheerful. And then they go around usually causing chaos in the local area.

And do you think I know you've said in the past that there's been an increase in the number of people, a menacing your business and making it tough to do business in the rest of it.

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