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the jurogan experience how's brooklyn it's grim it's grim right now it's i've lived in new york for the majority of my life i love new york city and this is by far the grimmest i have ever seen it really i mean this winter because it's everything that the entire country is facing but it's the worst for covid it's also extremely cold a lot of city services seem to have been impaired in one way or another the streets are covered in garbage and ice and dog [ __ ] and you can't pretty much the only thing that i can do to maintain my sanity is run but everything including the outdoor running track is covered in ice and [ __ ] and so it's just this dystopian frozen pandemic landscape where every um local business that i loved is closing down it's a dark time yeah um i hear that about los angeles i saw a lot of it but i got out early i saw the writing on the wall and i was looking to move in may i just once once the lockdown got extended once they're like we're just gonna lock down for two weeks to flatten the curve i was like that makes sense and then here we are in april all the way through april here we are in may and then i'm like oh they're never gonna let us out of this and then the crime started happening and the you know it started it started getting dark and i was like oh we gotta get the [ __ ] out of here homeless the homeless thing was like flowers blooming out of rocks like out of cracks in the concrete it's like more tents tenths tenths tenths tenths tenths like los angeles is filled with tents like you can't believe it like when i tell people about it and then they go there they're like i thought you were exaggerating like no i was understating like los angeles is overwhelmed with tense it's [ __ ] crazy like you can't believe that on la brea they just allow people to set up tents
everywhere it's nuts well yeah what are people going to do that's the question what are people going to do yeah where are you going to put them do you have hospitals available for and a lot of those the problem is a lot of those shelters they won't let them do drugs yeah and a lot of people like i would rather rather be in a [ __ ] tent outside by the beach than be under your thumb because los angeles doesn't get cold you know i mean a cold day is 50 you know it's a big deal right just sleeping bag you're outside it's nice yeah it's really emphasized a lot of these economic divides you know because everyone in new york just orders everything on amazon yeah so every apartment building in every nice part of new york receives a daily shipment of every tenant's stuff from amazon and then there's like a secondary economy of people just going into all the buildings and stealing all the packages i've seen a lot of that yeah i've seen a lot of ring videos the doorbell camera videos of people stealing [ __ ] oh yeah it's almost comical i mean i had one where i was loading my car with bags at two in the morning on a tuesday and in the lobby of my building for maybe 15 minutes somebody just as soon as i walk around the corner someone goes and scoops everything up yeah it's it's a it's a wild time and i hope we're coming out of it i mean right when i came to austin this is the first time i've you know been on an airplane since the beginning of the pandemic you're the first person i've spoken to without a mask no really the first phase did you feel weird coming in here but you you knew everyone was tested no no yeah no i felt fine i thought i've just been very careful and because it's all so cold in new york it just promotes this
prison cell like lifestyle where i'm just sitting in my apartment reading and doing push-ups all day oh my god yeah yeah the dog [ __ ] thing is like so people just don't clean up anymore they just gave up you know how it is it's it's there's this kind of tumbling character where things just start to accumulate and then no one shovels the streets and then it gets easier probably it's harder to pick it up because there's just like mounting layers of garbage everywhere and it just starts to look increasingly disgusting maybe we'll we'll just uh get out of this in a couple weeks and everything will be oh yeah the problem that i don't think the people that shut everything down for a [ __ ] year ever take into consideration is that people don't have the resources to bounce back things don't bounce back on their own right peop if you want to start a business it takes money like it takes quite a bit of money to get a lease to put to stock the shelves to hire employees and when you've been out of business for a year you don't have any money so you've probably used up all savings if you had any savings try getting a loan when you don't have anything there's there's really there's no real logical path forward for a lot of these businesses in los angeles 75 of the restaurants are gone oh yeah i'm so worried about the restaurants in new york yeah it's terrible it doesn't seem like it's even talked about sufficiently because in new york in the winter time i mean they're really trying they're doing things that i would have never like truly extraordinary things like making these little heated space gazebos that are covered in mylar on the inside and they're and you know ultimately most people don't even really want to do that so then there's this weird conflict of is it moral to support these businesses because you want them to stay in business or are you feeding into a
system where people are subjecting themselves to unsafe working conditions and is it actually immoral to go to restaurants and of course people endlessly argue about that um well personal choices are not immoral right so if the people decide that they're willing to work there and they're masked up and they feel safe working there isn't that better than not having a choice to work there i guess the idea is that it instead of people going on unemployment they are feel pressured to put themselves at risk when they really should be at home not potentially spreading coronavirus and ideally receiving some sort of government assistance well it's all it's also like when does the government assistance run out because it has run out for a lot of people there is no more unemployment for a lot of folks and then on top of that the way everything's been mismanaged is so terrible in so many ways like why is it okay to be at target on top of people why is it okay to be at walgreens on top of people but it's not okay to have these mom and pop stores open or retail stores oh yeah or you know like i said i haven't been on an airplane until i came to see you but of course i see all these stories in the news that are like this guy went on an airplane and he took off his mask and they had to do an emergency landing and they kicked him off the plane and everyone cheered and if you haven't been on a plane you just kind of read that and you think oh yeah that guy sounds like quite an [ __ ] good that they kicked him off the plane but then on the plane i then i hadn't even considered this like what what is done with snacks what are the snack provisions are there no more peanuts is there no water and if it is served then everyone has to take off their masks so this is all just sort of like security theater because they still serve food and everyone unmasks simultaneously to eat so there's a period of at least 15 minutes where everyone on the plane
is unmasked by the doing of the actual airline yeah it's nonsense it's full nonsense across the board well i think people just don't know what to do it's it's you know they're aware that all these things are contradictory everyone is trying to do their best they're confused they don't understand it even to this day um people are trying not to be an [ __ ] you know when you wear a mask which you're basically saying is i'm not an [ __ ] you know i'm gonna go around and i want you to feel like i care and i want you know i want you to feel all right so i'm going to wear a mask but it's not i mean maybe it's protecting somewhat it's not certainly not 100 safe you know like it's protecting you against droplets someone sneezes but you're breathing oh yeah the masking is definitely good i think that's pretty well established but uh i guess what i don't understand is the hypocrisy like if we have established that masking is good then we also have to not have snacks on the flight or water or water but yeah yeah so then what do you do you're on top of each other it's hitting three people next to each other i mean it's like literally the opposite of social distancing it's incredibly intimate you don't even know these people you're touching elbows with them yeah it's crazy yeah i mean and this is why when it started i was one of these people that you know i was thinking well you know i work in media i know the way the media blows everything out of proportion i remember swine flu i know that they sell newspapers by making everyone terrified this can't possibly be as bad as people think it is and i was sort of in covet denial and i was also in the middle of filming the third season of my tv show so i was just sort of seduced by the momentum of production and didn't want it to end and uh and people were saying you know i don't think we can
film anymore i think we have to stop and i thought what is the world going to shut down yeah i remember that like this is unprecedented yeah the the world isn't going to shut down we're not going to be kept in our apartments it's just not conceivable that such a thing could happen cut to one year later catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience