- [Interviewer] Latisha and Greg,
you're out here homeless in Detroit, tell me about it.
- You wanna go first?
- Well, we stay to ourself, mind our own business,
then we get, we keep it clean as you can see.
I don't know if you gonna show the road,
but we do keep it clean.
- [Interviewer] No, it's really clean where you're at.
- Pretty clean.
- Yeah well then, everybody mind their business,
- We try to. - we all look out for,
we all look out for each other.
- Yes we do.
- And anybody get disrespected, they gotta leave,
they gotta leave the wall, so yeah
- Quickly.
- [Interviewer] So, even, even when they're called
Tom Cruise's grandfather?
- No, no, no, besides you, no.
(laughing)
- [Interviewer] So, for those of you
that are just catching up here,
- They gotta meet the mustard, yeah.
- [Interviewer] Yeah, my new good friends here just
called me Tom Cruise's grandfather and then Tom Cruise's
great grandfather.
- Now, I'll put it this way, let me speak about you.
Uh, I've been out here for, well give or take a couple
of years, about eight, been out here about eight years,
- [Interviewer] Eight years.
- I came out here, I got out of the joint, after doing
eleven years in the joint, - TMI.
- Yeah, that's what he asked for.
After doing eleven years, I came down here,
when I came down here, I came down here 2006.
By 2009, I had did a year in jail, and some other
things like that, which I won't, you know, but it
was all misdemeanors, I just didn't go to court,
and that's what made me go to jail.
Now I'm over all that now.
But um, but in the past five, six years I met her.
And uh, we've been together about four and a half years,
haven't been in any trouble, and as far as the housing is
concerned, she's on the way getting hers, which
she should have it in maybe the next two or three weeks,
I'll have mine within the next month.
- [Interviewer] So wait, wait, wait, you guys been,
you've been out here homeless for eight years,
how long you been out here, total?
- Five.
- [Interviewer] Five.
And you guys been together four and a half, homeless.
- Uh huh. - yeah.
- But it is,
- [Interviewer] 'cause you're a wonderful couple.
- Ha ha. - Yeah.
- [Interviewer] You know and it just breaks my heart,
- Achey breaky heart. - and you guys are out here,
four and a half years homeless.
But at least you got each other.
- Hmm. - Yeah.
- We have each other in the right way.
- In the right direction.
- Soon, soon yeah.
But it's, you know, she needs a lot of things done for
her, I'm helping her do it, I need lots of things done
for me, she helping me.
- [Interviewer] Well, that's what love is, right?
- Yes it is, please don't talk man, cause I'm not
- It's got to be stressful out here on the streets.
- Yeah.
- I'm not fittin' to boo hoo on camera, bro, ha ha,
I'm not fittin' to boo hoo on camera.
- No, see that's what I'm saying.
- I'm a mush when it comes to that bro,
I love her to death though for real.
- I like that, I like that what you just said,
is love can be stressful, 'cause that's like I could
walk away, go somewhere, and he could walk somewhere,
where I go, he can't, they're not letting no man allowed,
like to the restroom. - Yeah I had a job,
I had a job, they wouldn't let me, they wouldn't let me
work because they didn't want her to come and wait
45 minutes 'til I got off - right he was,
- I worked at the Hudson Café, and I did really good,
I was doing really good, ten bucks an hour, all that.
- This is a documentary, not no,
- Yeah I know it's a documentary, but I'm telling the
truth, this is exactly what happened, they didn't want,
- [Interviewer] It's your story, raw and unedited,
you put everyone in there.
- They told me, they said she can't come,
I said well, if you don't - talk to the camera
- I'm talking to you and the camera.
- You looking at me.
(laughing)
- Alright, ha ha ha, alright, alright, alright.
- I don't know if you-
- [Interviewer] Well you're better looking than me, so
I can't blame him.
- I'm like well, I said if you don't want her,
you don't want me.
- Yeah, he was working at the Hudson Café on Woodward,
and he felt like, I would feel the same way,
if I was working at Hudson Café, if you don't want
my husband, you don't want me,
if I'm fired, he gotta be fired.
- [Interviewer] Well and a lot of services too don't
let couples in.
- Yeah I know, 'cause we try to go to treatment centers
together and then when the Salvation Army wouldn't
let us go either.
- They wouldn't let no woman allowed in there.
- And what I'm talking about, we tried bro,
we been trying, bro.
- [Interviewer] So what do you do during winters?
- We sleep right here. - We layer up.
- Layer up. - Right here?
- Right here, right here.
- [Interviewer] You sleep here during the winter?
- Right here bro. - Yes.
- Either right here or Hart Plaza.
- Sleeping, look, we just get the, we got the sleeping
bag coats that we give out, with the foot, you
- Yeah you put your foot up in there.
- It the pocket where you put your foot in.
- What it could do, a good two inch, yeah.
- And they keep you warm.
- [Interviewer] So what's your future like?
- Just trying - Getting married,
get off the street, I have Tom Cruise's granddaddy bring
us sunflower seeds, ha ha.
- Lord willing, lord willing.
There's a gentleman that works in the city county building,
he says he has a set of wedding rings for us.
If he gets those today and bring 'em here at 6:05,
- He look like Russel Simmons, with that deacon outfit.
- By, next, by her birthday May 22nd or
- That's coming up.
- Or by my birthday, June 7th, we will be married.
And this is what he says he's gonna do for us.
- Just don't bring no sunflower seeds.
- [Interviewer] Marriage first, housing second, huh?
- Yup.
- Yeah 'cause, nah but you got to have ID now,
I haven't had ID in seven years.
- Oh yeah. - I just got my ID bro.
- Look at that.
- [Interviewer] Whoa, don't want to put your ID up here.
- I ain't worried about that. - No you shouldn't.
- I'm thankful about this, - good, good.
- I just got my ID, ain't had it in seven years.
- No 'cause he look like,
- Got it last Tuesday.
- He look like Fat Albert, he look like a skinny Johnson.
- [Interviewer] So, what's your, I already asked what's
your future like, if you had three wishes,
what would they be?
- To get - housing.
- Yeah.
- A job.
- And keep the city safe.
- Something like that.
- [Interviewer] Well thank you very much for talking to me.
- You're welcome.
Tom Cruise grandpa.
- Ha!
(laughing)