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the jurogan experience what did you say that bert made a video of the homeless it was on his instagram i'll see if i can pull it up because uh crusher he was driving up highland avenue in hollywood and was just saying like he wasn't showing the whole video during it but he was like at a stop lightning like there was tents the whole way up here and he's like strange like this is also a really nice tent people want me to talk to bird crashers hi bert look at bert the machine oh this it's in his instagram story that [ __ ] his stories will go on for years for a long time he goes does him every 15 seconds might even be deleted now it's crazy i think productivity wise is basically the elon musk of instagram stories because it's not showing up or it could be one of these is it well there's so there it is there's tents all the way up on highland people living on the side of the street this is [ __ ] insane this is literally hundreds of tents everywhere uh by the way that's a nice [ __ ] tent also those are two very nice tents i wonder if the city's giving them out because we don't have a tent that nice i mean i'm not even joking our tent isn't even that nice wow that's uh that's a tiny uh image he showed you know you didn't get to see the real homeless situation but bridget fettucy sent me a video when she was driving by venice and it's a minute and a half long of just straight tents as she's driving down the road just nothing but tense yeah how do you put that genie back in the bottle lex well that this is oh you mean it's a slippery slope now listen i've been thinking about you know a bunch of tech folks who are moving to austin right in terms of uh in terms of starting businesses so that's one of the questions they're asking like where is this headed and you're talking about the homeless problem
well the governor just today came out and said that if uh the city does not reimpose a ban on camping that the state is going to step in well yeah because people are there there's safety concerns people are openly defecating on the streets there's uh you know it's not nearly as bad here as it is in california but it's way worse here than i've ever seen it before but you know homelessness is it feels like that's a symptom not the problem right i mean is that uh it's hard to say because homelessness was horrific in san francisco before the pandemic right and the concern is that when you are too lenient on the homeless folks and just allow them to camp whenever they wherever they want [ __ ] wherever they want they just do it and if you don't put up rules if you try to be progressive and open-minded it's like these are they'd like to have new words for them like the unhoused and [ __ ] like that and when you do that you open up the door for more of them to migrate there because there's like there was a video that somebody put up of them interviewing these homeless guys like why do you like san francisco and they said first of all they give us food they give us money they they let us you know they're really loose they let us camp wherever we want and these guys had moved to san francisco to be homeless which is a problem but see just like you said that problem is tied up with the fact that a lot of people are struggling financially because so yeah it feels like trying to solve the homelessness problem is in direct tension with trying to take care of people who are struggling well i think it shows that there's a problem with people losing a place to live and that the solution is not necessarily let them camp out anywhere they want i think there should be some sort of a step that the government takes whether it's to develop housing or to build something for them but when you
let them just camp and [ __ ] everywhere then you ruin all the other spaces right like the best way to keep the city intact and to try to help these people is to implement some sort of a program where you provide housing for them letting them just camp on the street that's chaos like now you've you've [ __ ] up everything so this particular state government just seems incompetent at solving this particular problem but it also seems to be not very good at solving some other problems right in terms of encouraging businesses to stay there california california yeah yeah well it's it's it's bad it's over regulated it's a crazy regulated state you know and it's also very high taxes and there's a lot of people that are recognizing that there's other places that don't have any state taxes like why would i stay in a place that's described it's they're they're telling you you can't work they're closing down businesses gavin newsom today is there's a lawsuit got filed by more than 50 san francisco bay area restaurants and bars trying to say like why why are we closed like this doesn't make any sense you should you can't just keep doing this forever and some places are starting to wake up my hope is that a lot of this is political as gross as that sounds and that now that biden and harris are in that they'll open things back up and the mayor of chicago said this the mayor of new york has said we have to open things back up and i'm hoping interesting i'm hoping that they take this chance it could go the other way as well though right it's uh the other way is now that there is a democrat in office that they could see that as a path to to pass further regulations and push this close the economy go into uh lock down further why would they do that though i'd listen i was thought it was a terrible idea the the
long-term consequences on the economy are going to be potentially orders of magnitude worse on our like the fabric of our society so i don't know why they would do that the so the michael mouse so the devil on my shoulder okay michael's devil wearing a white suit uh or the devil wears a suit and tie right yeah that's a badass i've been listening to that how good is that guy that guy's amazing and your story uh sorry in a small tangent your story that he doesn't he hasn't been on your podcast because he's working on a ranch like as a [ __ ] rancher that's legit like we reached out to them he's like well he's working on the ranch right now like what is he doing on that ranch he's a [ __ ] cowboy like a legit cowboy like there's literally no more badass thing to do than turn down uh joe rogan experience uh appearance massive promotion he's like yeah i'd rather just rope steers yeah but the michael malus devil uh argument is that you know that's one way for the government to gain more control or the populace is uh to fear monger say that there's a big problem yeah and that magnify the the sort of the narrative around how big that problem is and unfortunately from my perspective as a scientist to use scientists to say look scientists are saying there's a huge problem sort of use science as a tool of fear mongering and then gain further and further control of the populace that's the devil on the on the shoulder you have to have an incentive to do that like why would they want that kind of control while also devastating the economy they need the economy because they need tax revenue if they're not getting tax revenue how are they going to feed the military-industrial complex how are they going to feed all their businesses how are they going to feed the pharmaceutical industry like what all these people that finance their campaigns
and all these banks that pay for them to speak after they get out of office where's the money coming from now if there's no economy i don't think that i think that's like one of them doom and gloom q anon type deals where people are thinking like this is they want to kill half the population and you know yeah no i agree with you everything you said incentive wise it makes sense 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