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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I want to go on a hunt and see if
we can find somebody, and I don't know we'll be
able to.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Frederick.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So yes, retired Frederick Police Department K nine handler Wayne
Milliard Junior M I L W A R D. Now
you would say that Millyard Milliard.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Now headed up to seventy in the past and we
go beyond Frederick and end up in Hagerstown. Usually say
that you know how to pronounce stuff because it's ha, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Is that not the case with Well, it's a name,
it's a name. But this was a name to in
the past multiple times Milliard.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just I've never seen it spelled that way. Milliard, Milliard,
Way Milliard.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I would think you were so convinced it was goo.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Wade Milliard Junior.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Retired from the Frederick Police Department as a K nine
handler in January. Now he spends his time, the story
is awesome, doing laundry for those in need.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So how does that work?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, hold on, let me get something out here.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Milliard is forty five years old, established a new nonprofit
called Fresh Step Laundry, a free mobile laundry service particularly
aimed at helping people experiencing homelessness. After months in the work,
Milliard's laundry service started running a few weeks ago. He
(02:02):
had been thinking about his next steps after retirement, but
wasn't sure exactly what he wanted to do, he said.
While responding to a domestic dispute between people who were
homeless or experiencing homelessness, Milliard said he felt the urge.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
To ask, how do you guys do your laundry?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The woman told him they washed their laundry in a
creak and hung it to dry on a fence on
or near their tent posts. From then on, Milliard would
ask homeless people if they would use a free laundry
service if it were made available. Not one time was
he ever told no. Another time, he was responding to
(02:47):
a particular call. This as an officer, Milliard took a
man without housing to get coffee. The man told him
he had no place to do laundry, which prevented him
from going on job interviews because he knew his clothes
were not clean and smelled.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So Million. I don't know what the truck is like,
but he's got like some truck and.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's got it's got washers in it and dryers in.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It he built this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I don't know if he builds I don't know how
that park gets done.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't know how that part gets done. And they're
full size washer dryers. It's not like the little mini
ones that you see stalls. Oh no, no it is.
It is legit. Yeah, it is legit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He'll take their clothes, he washes all of them, dries
all of it, and then does the worst part. He
folds it Folse two.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh wow, And I see the gallery here. Isn't that crazy?
So he converted like a party bus. That's what it
looks like. Yeah, that's what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And how many units are in there?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's several Yeah, I mean you can just see in
that picture there's several of them.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh I see. So then he just sets the tent
up outside. Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And I guess in some cases he sets it up
near like facilities where and I think he names them
in the article, but he will will like set up
so like he could take people's clothes and while he
washes them and stuff, there's like a shower that the
people can use, not in his bus, but at a
(04:32):
facility where that is set up for people.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And what is the name of his what I say,
fresh step, laundressed step.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Has he come across people that he interacted with when
he was on.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The force, Yes, oh really, oh yeah, And have those
been positive? Very much? Oh yeah, very much? So good, good,
very much? So?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is he only doing it in Frederick County?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Said if people were confident they're clothes smell good, maybe
they'll be able to get a job. Maybe it'll give
them their next step to try to get out of
a difficult situation. Knowing that they walk out of out
of here, meaning his little little shop, not shot but truck,
with a little more self confidence is what makes it good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And you said this is free, This isn't low cost,
this is free, free, free, and also bringing it near
to them. He's bringing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
People absolutely, not making them come to him.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Milliard said he already knows some of the people who
have been using the laundry service from his days when
he was on duty as a guy. There's no animosity there.
They understand that I'm hearing a different capacity and that
the past.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Is the past.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
By the way, the bus that he uses, that party
bus donated by the police Activities League. Oh so they
were all in on it. Frederick Police Department. We thank
Milliard's heart for service and his desire to help others.
It's pretty remarkable. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And is it just him? No? Is father in law? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And his father in law worked for months to renovate
and install new washing machines and drivers. They worked ten
to twelve hours a day on the bus, which is
named Lucy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. And he said that I guess there's a couple.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
There's a couple of other services like his, Like there's
one in LA, but there's a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And he said that they all talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh, they probably have good tips for managing an operation
like this.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Somebody asked how I couldn't do it?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
How do you find him?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I hate laundry Elliott's Well I do. I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Did he at any point say he was a big
fan of doing a load? No, but he's doing the
community by the way, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, you know who he should hire? Diane. Diane likes
doing laundry. Oh, can you put housewives on unfolding? I
hate doing laundry? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Somebody asked how you follow or get in touch with
this guy?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
How you get in touch with Wade? I don't know
how to saving socials set up. I'll ask him Wade. Ye, hey, dude,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sir? Dude? Your service is awesome?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Thank you, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The I mean, listen, you're a far better person that
I'm thinking about bringing you my laundry. The the story's
pretty amazing though, you know, just reading through it and
reading about you, and I don't know that I would
have ever like like like obviously, like it says you
were out working as a cop and you were running
(08:22):
your beaten stuff and it was the domestic hall between
two people who were experiencing homelessness and you you just
asked them out of the blue, what do you guys
do about laundry? And then lo and behold after you
retire there you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Go, yes, sir, it's the answer that everybody asked me.
So like when you go to retire, about two years
before you retire, they asked you, like what are you
going to do? And I knew God had a plan.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And then that was who I think spoke to me
that day, is like ask them about his laundry or
them about their laundry, and then to kind of spread
from there and so ever since.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I started talking talking to the folks and they were like, yeah,
I would absolutely do it. I was like, Okay, this
is it, this is what we're doing, and it's it's
been crazy. I'm actually doing laundry right now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Actually, can I ask.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You this though, And I mean, I mean, obviously the
service that you're doing is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Do you hate doing laundry?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Though, No, it's I don't. It's actually one of my
chores at the house. So my wife keeps me, keeps
me busy at the house.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So I was like, I'm pretty good at it at home,
you know, I might as well take to a road
show with it, you know, kidding of course, but right, No,
I get that.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It's it's cool.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's it's actually I've actually met a really like we've
been active on the road for today will be a
month because it just took that long to get everything going.
But I've met so many really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
People so all along the way and I get to
talk to you, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean, that really is the h that's the
icing on the wait till you get to do my
underwear the no no, But you know what, like I
would I feel like it would be easy and I
and I hope this doesn't come.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Out in a in a bad way way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And if it does, I apologize. But after after serving
after serving as a as a as a police officer
for so long, I feel like it would be I
don't want to say easy, but it would be. I
could see where if I, if I were a cop
for that long, where it would be easy to go like,
oh god, I just I don't want to deal with people.
That's all I've done is deal with people and then
(10:37):
to be done and go. Not only do I want
to deal with people, I'm going to serve people and
make everything, try to take steps to make everything better.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Like that's a really that is a really nice outlook.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And I appreciate that. I think the way that it's.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Different it's the capacity in which I'm dealing with them.
Like before, you know, like they say that nobody ever
calls the police when they're having a great day, you
know what I mean? Now I can maybe instill a
little bit of hope, and I'll be honest with you
real quick. I mean, I've had a couple of people,
you know, one person dropped their stuff off and they
(11:14):
came back to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Like, man, I'm really motivated. I actually went back clean
my apartment today or clean my you know, wherever they
were staying. And it's just it's really been I've had
a lot of good experiences in the short time that
we've been out and actually beaten feet on the ground here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So hey where some listeners were asking how do people
like how how do people know where to find you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like, how do they find your setup?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So I have Facebook and Instagram, but and I have
like if you go to the website, you're gonna laugh
at it cause I'm like I said, I was a
can I cop I barely spell canine, and so I
put together a website and so there's like a donation
(12:04):
page there that's kind of like, so that's the best
way to support us. I'm really kind of like ten
to twenty dollars a month, Like if dude like like
a monthly type.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Thing, that would be great.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Any type of help, Like, it's it's all good, man.
Like everything that I've gotten has been grassroots. That hate
that term, but grassroots like people just in the community
believing in what we're doing, and it's just been amazing,
and you know, just kind of jump off of that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The reason that.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I'm looking for that is not only to sustain what
we're doing, but like today I'm at a school doing laundry, and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
My next next step.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Is to I want to have a bus specifically for
Frederick County public schools, so that would be a separate.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Boss that runs just for the kids here. Right, That's
that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The ultimate goal. And is it just is it just
you and your father in law doing it?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yeah, So my father in law and myself we built
everything out inside the bus. Like he's really good at
pretty much everything. Don't tell him I said that, but
like he's really good at everything. And the cabinetry, the plumbing,
everything we did ourselves. The bus was donated by the
Police Department, Frederick Police, and we just gutted it and
(13:34):
turned it into this.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Into this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So I did mention when we were talking about I
think it's awesome that the police department donated the bus
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was very awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Actually, my corporal at the time, corporal guys are he's
probably like captain now or something, but he was like man,
that would be cool, and I was like, actually.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I don't even see them using that anymore. So we
looked around. I mean, the bus is thirty years old,
but it only.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Has twenty nine thousand miles and you know, luckily because
cops are kind of stupid, don't say anything. But somebody
put gas in a Deesel engine. So like the engine
only has like three thousand miles on it, and so
she but it's it's been a it's been a great transformation.
(14:28):
Like she looks totally different inside, and it's I'm very
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And I would assume not just the uh obviously the
community you live in, but the community of people you're helping.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They got to love you.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yeah, I don't know. I think they. I think they
like me. I'm pretty nice to.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Everybody, and I get hugs in every once in a
while and some handshakes, and.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
You know it it really you can see it change
in some of their faces when they get to close back,
you know, because some of them are I mean they're
in the thick of it, like some of them are
just you know, like you mentioned before, they're living in
the woods. And you know, I did laundry for some
people yesterday hadn't They hadn't done laundry in three months.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Wow. So yeah, that's amazing. Good for you. Hey, So Wade,
let me do this. So it's it's Fresh Step Laundry.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So if people want to help out or or learn
more about it, Fresh Step Laundry is the is the
name of it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Hey, wait, I'm gonna pop you on hold.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Let me get some info from you just in case
I need to contact you. I have a way to
get back in touch with you.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Great.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Absolutely, Hey Wade, the story is awesome. I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hey, you got a brother hold type one second for me. Please.
Isn't that great? Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Very very cool.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope you get the second bus for schools. That
would be huge.
I want to go on a hunt and see if
we can find somebody, and I don't know we'll be
able to.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Frederick.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
So yes, retired Frederick Police Department K nine handler Wayne
Milliard Junior M I L W A R D. Now
you would say that Millyard Milliard.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Now headed up to seventy in the past and we
go beyond Frederick and end up in Hagerstown. Usually say
that you know how to pronounce stuff because it's ha, right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Is that not the case with Well, it's a name,
it's a name. But this was a name to in
the past multiple times Milliard.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I just I've never seen it spelled that way. Milliard, Milliard,
Way Milliard.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I would think you were so convinced it was goo.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Wade Milliard Junior.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Retired from the Frederick Police Department as a K nine
handler in January. Now he spends his time, the story
is awesome, doing laundry for those in need.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So how does that work?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah, hold on, let me get something out here.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Here.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Milliard is forty five years old, established a new nonprofit
called Fresh Step Laundry, a free mobile laundry service particularly
aimed at helping people experiencing homelessness. After months in the work,
Milliard's laundry service started running a few weeks ago. He
(02:02):
had been thinking about his next steps after retirement, but
wasn't sure exactly what he wanted to do, he said.
While responding to a domestic dispute between people who were
homeless or experiencing homelessness, Milliard said he felt the urge.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
To ask, how do you guys do your laundry?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The woman told him they washed their laundry in a
creak and hung it to dry on a fence on
or near their tent posts. From then on, Milliard would
ask homeless people if they would use a free laundry
service if it were made available. Not one time was
he ever told no. Another time, he was responding to
(02:47):
a particular call. This as an officer, Milliard took a
man without housing to get coffee. The man told him
he had no place to do laundry, which prevented him
from going on job interviews because he knew his clothes
were not clean and smelled.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So Million. I don't know what the truck is like,
but he's got like some truck and.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
It's got it's got washers in it and dryers in.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
It he built this whole thing.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I don't know if.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I don't know if he builds I don't know how
that park gets done.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I don't know how that part gets done. And they're
full size washer dryers. It's not like the little mini
ones that you see stalls. Oh no, no it is.
It is legit. Yeah, it is legit.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
He'll take their clothes, he washes all of them, dries
all of it, and then does the worst part. He
folds it Folse two.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Oh wow, And I see the gallery here. Isn't that crazy?
So he converted like a party bus. That's what it
looks like. Yeah, that's what it looks like.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
And how many units are in there?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
There's several Yeah, I mean you can just see in
that picture there's several of them.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Oh I see. So then he just sets the tent
up outside. Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
He said that.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
And I guess in some cases he sets it up
near like facilities where and I think he names them
in the article, but he will will like set up
so like he could take people's clothes and while he
washes them and stuff, there's like a shower that the
people can use, not in his bus, but at a
(04:32):
facility where that is set up for people.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And what is the name of his what I say,
fresh step, laundressed step.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Has he come across people that he interacted with when
he was on.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The force, Yes, oh really, oh yeah, And have those
been positive? Very much? Oh yeah, very much? So good, good,
very much? So?
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Is he only doing it in Frederick County?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Said if people were confident they're clothes smell good, maybe
they'll be able to get a job. Maybe it'll give
them their next step to try to get out of
a difficult situation. Knowing that they walk out of out
of here, meaning his little little shop, not shot but truck,
with a little more self confidence is what makes it good.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
And you said this is free, This isn't low cost,
this is free, free, free, and also bringing it near
to them. He's bringing.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
People absolutely, not making them come to him.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Milliard said he already knows some of the people who
have been using the laundry service from his days when
he was on duty as a guy. There's no animosity there.
They understand that I'm hearing a different capacity and that
the past.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Is the past.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
By the way, the bus that he uses, that party
bus donated by the police Activities League. Oh so they
were all in on it. Frederick Police Department. We thank
Milliard's heart for service and his desire to help others.
It's pretty remarkable. Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
And is it just him? No? Is father in law? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
And his father in law worked for months to renovate
and install new washing machines and drivers. They worked ten
to twelve hours a day on the bus, which is
named Lucy.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah. And he said that I guess there's a couple.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
There's a couple of other services like his, Like there's
one in LA, but there's a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And he said that they all talk to each other.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Oh, they probably have good tips for managing an operation
like this.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Somebody asked how I couldn't do it?
Speaker 3 (07:12):
How do you find him?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I hate laundry Elliott's Well I do. I'm just being honest.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Did he at any point say he was a big
fan of doing a load? No, but he's doing the
community by the way, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, you know who he should hire? Diane. Diane likes
doing laundry. Oh, can you put housewives on unfolding? I
hate doing laundry? Do you have?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Somebody asked how you follow or get in touch with
this guy?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
How you get in touch with Wade? I don't know
how to saving socials set up. I'll ask him Wade. Ye, hey, dude,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Sir? Dude? Your service is awesome?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Thank you, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
The I mean, listen, you're a far better person that
I'm thinking about bringing you my laundry. The the story's
pretty amazing though, you know, just reading through it and
reading about you, and I don't know that I would
have ever like like like obviously, like it says you
were out working as a cop and you were running
(08:22):
your beaten stuff and it was the domestic hall between
two people who were experiencing homelessness and you you just
asked them out of the blue, what do you guys
do about laundry? And then lo and behold after you
retire there you.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Go, yes, sir, it's the answer that everybody asked me.
So like when you go to retire, about two years
before you retire, they asked you, like what are you
going to do? And I knew God had a plan.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
And then that was who I think spoke to me
that day, is like ask them about his laundry or
them about their laundry, and then to kind of spread
from there and so ever since.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
I started talking talking to the folks and they were like, yeah,
I would absolutely do it. I was like, Okay, this
is it, this is what we're doing, and it's it's
been crazy. I'm actually doing laundry right now.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Actually, can I ask.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You this though, And I mean, I mean, obviously the
service that you're doing is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Do you hate doing laundry?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Though, No, it's I don't. It's actually one of my
chores at the house. So my wife keeps me, keeps
me busy at the house.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
So I was like, I'm pretty good at it at home,
you know, I might as well take to a road
show with it, you know, kidding of course, but right, No,
I get that.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
It's it's cool.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
It's it's actually I've actually met a really like we've
been active on the road for today will be a
month because it just took that long to get everything going.
But I've met so many really cool.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
People so all along the way and I get to
talk to you, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, I mean, that really is the h that's the
icing on the wait till you get to do my
underwear the no no, But you know what, like I
would I feel like it would be easy and I
and I hope this doesn't come.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Out in a in a bad way way.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And if it does, I apologize. But after after serving
after serving as a as a as a police officer
for so long, I feel like it would be I
don't want to say easy, but it would be. I
could see where if I, if I were a cop
for that long, where it would be easy to go like,
oh god, I just I don't want to deal with people.
That's all I've done is deal with people and then
(10:37):
to be done and go. Not only do I want
to deal with people, I'm going to serve people and
make everything, try to take steps to make everything better.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Like that's a really that is a really nice outlook.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
And I appreciate that. I think the way that it's.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Different it's the capacity in which I'm dealing with them.
Like before, you know, like they say that nobody ever
calls the police when they're having a great day, you
know what I mean? Now I can maybe instill a
little bit of hope, and I'll be honest with you
real quick. I mean, I've had a couple of people,
you know, one person dropped their stuff off and they
(11:14):
came back to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Like, man, I'm really motivated. I actually went back clean
my apartment today or clean my you know, wherever they
were staying. And it's just it's really been I've had
a lot of good experiences in the short time that
we've been out and actually beaten feet on the ground here.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
So hey where some listeners were asking how do people
like how how do people know where to find you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Like, how do they find your setup?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
So I have Facebook and Instagram, but and I have
like if you go to the website, you're gonna laugh
at it cause I'm like I said, I was a
can I cop I barely spell canine, and so I
put together a website and so there's like a donation
(12:04):
page there that's kind of like, so that's the best
way to support us. I'm really kind of like ten
to twenty dollars a month, Like if dude like like
a monthly type.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Thing, that would be great.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Any type of help, Like, it's it's all good, man.
Like everything that I've gotten has been grassroots. That hate
that term, but grassroots like people just in the community
believing in what we're doing, and it's just been amazing,
and you know, just kind of jump off of that.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
The reason that.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
I'm looking for that is not only to sustain what
we're doing, but like today I'm at a school doing laundry, and.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
My next next step.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Is to I want to have a bus specifically for
Frederick County public schools, so that would be a separate.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Boss that runs just for the kids here. Right, That's
that's my.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
The ultimate goal. And is it just is it just
you and your father in law doing it?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Yeah, So my father in law and myself we built
everything out inside the bus. Like he's really good at
pretty much everything. Don't tell him I said that, but
like he's really good at everything. And the cabinetry, the plumbing,
everything we did ourselves. The bus was donated by the
Police Department, Frederick Police, and we just gutted it and
(13:34):
turned it into this.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Into this thing.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
So I did mention when we were talking about I
think it's awesome that the police department donated the bus
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It was very awesome.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Actually, my corporal at the time, corporal guys are he's
probably like captain now or something, but he was like man,
that would be cool, and I was like, actually.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
I don't even see them using that anymore. So we
looked around. I mean, the bus is thirty years old,
but it only.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Has twenty nine thousand miles and you know, luckily because
cops are kind of stupid, don't say anything. But somebody
put gas in a Deesel engine. So like the engine
only has like three thousand miles on it, and so
she but it's it's been a it's been a great transformation.
(14:28):
Like she looks totally different inside, and it's I'm very
excited about it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
And I would assume not just the uh obviously the
community you live in, but the community of people you're helping.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
They got to love you.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yeah, I don't know. I think they. I think they
like me. I'm pretty nice to.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Everybody, and I get hugs in every once in a
while and some handshakes, and.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
You know it it really you can see it change
in some of their faces when they get to close back,
you know, because some of them are I mean they're
in the thick of it, like some of them are
just you know, like you mentioned before, they're living in
the woods. And you know, I did laundry for some
people yesterday hadn't They hadn't done laundry in three months.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Wow. So yeah, that's amazing. Good for you. Hey, So Wade,
let me do this. So it's it's Fresh Step Laundry.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
So if people want to help out or or learn
more about it, Fresh Step Laundry is the is the
name of it.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Hey, wait, I'm gonna pop you on hold.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Let me get some info from you just in case
I need to contact you. I have a way to
get back in touch with you.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Great.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Absolutely, Hey Wade, the story is awesome. I love it.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Hey, you got a brother hold type one second for me. Please.
Isn't that great? Isn't that awesome?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Very very cool.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
I hope you get the second bus for schools. That
would be huge.
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