Cassie, the restaurant owner, was unimpressed.

Like they are chicken shit to come out of their echo chamber online, their little building down there.

They are only will go into the places that they know that they feel safe.

She and her husband had opened another restaurant on the town square, a steakhouse called The Boardroom.

My future is keep my head down and keep working every day and don't listen to the outside noise and don't let anybody rain on my parade, you should say.

I'm happy with where we are and the hard work that we're doing in this community.

Cassie, the restaurant owner, was unimpressed.

Like they are chicken shit to come out of their echo chamber online, their little building down there.

They are only will go into the places that they know that they feel safe.

She and her husband had opened another restaurant on the town square, a steakhouse called The Boardroom.

My future is keep my head down and keep working every day and don't listen to the outside noise and don't let anybody rain on my parade, you should say.

I'm happy with where we are and the hard work that we're doing in this community.

She and her husband had opened another restaurant on the town square, a steakhouse called The Boardroom.

My future is keep my head down and keep working every day and don't listen to the outside noise and don't let anybody rain on my parade, you should say.

I, I'm happy with where we are and the hard work that we're doing in this community.

Cassie was focused on the square, making sure her work building it up continued.

Any way that I can be involved with developing the square more, helping with tourism, tax dollars and all that good stuff, I'm a part of, for sure.

But that didn't deter Cassie from chatting Josh Abatoi up.

After I'd found out that they had bought it, Josh, his father, and another gentleman were sitting at the restaurant.

And I can remember, I remember it was table 10, and I was sitting there talking to them about, you know, "What are you guys doing?" And, "Oh, it's an appraisal business." Just very, like, not putting a direct stamp on it.

Like, "We're still trying to figure out.

It's gonna be a couple different things." And I was like, "Oh, I'm gonna have to come down and check it out."

Cassie Kessler, the restaurant owner, slipped into a booth next to the podcaster.

And I said directly to him, I'm like, "You know, why are you here?" And he said, "You know, we're from all different parts of the country.

You know, we have a bunch of woke people that got elected into office and then came in and changed the whole town, and it just didn't align with us anymore, so we left." And I'm like, "Mm, so what's the difference in what you're doing now to us?" And he goes, "Well, you know, we're not trying to change your town." I looked right at him.

Cassie Kessler, the restaurant owner, slipped into a booth next to the podcaster.

And I said directly to him, I'm like, "You know, why are you here?" And he said, you know, "We're from all different parts of the country.

You know, we have a bunch of woke people that got elected into office, and then came in and changed the whole town, and it just didn't align with us anymore, so we left." And I'm like, "Mm, so what's the difference in what you're doing now to us?" And he goes, "Well, you know, we're not trying to change your town." I looked right at him.

I said, "You say all these things about women," I said, "but I own my building.

I pay local tax.

I pay sales tax.

I pay liquor tax.

The letter demanded the chamber preserve all communication regarding its decision to deny Ridge Runner, all emails, texts, faxes, floppy disks, metadata, video, audio, thumb drives, everything.