Joe Rogan | What is Going on with the Homeless in LA?

the Joe Rogan experience okay so timeout real quick okay a real quicker story with time with rich so I landed right and get off you know Boston the deal Boston yeah so I landed and you know I a buddy of mine pick me up from the airport and I got to where I was staying was play in the Mission District like look at all the Sun first of all it was pretty great the Sun was awesome right I was oh my gosh so gray skies and then I look down literally homeless people everywhere and what is going on with that like it just it blew my mind because it literally like this so I went to the gym in the morning and I was like it's like at 7:00 a.m. and I saw probably just as many homeless people living in tents next to buildings as there were people commuting to work yeah like it's it's amazing have you been a Skid Row yet no God you scared you got to go you should go while you're here because it's like the Grand Canyon the Grand Canyon of homeless people why would I want to go there because just you can't believe that it's like did you watch the Battle of Winterfell Game of Thrones no don't tell no boiler no I won't give any spoilers I'll have the better okay yeah here's a better analogy did you ever see I am Legend yes okay remember when all the [ __ ] crazy zombie yep go running at once yeah that's what it's like you serious I'm telling you you can't believe the volume doesn't someone even like because in Boston listen they freeze to death and die yeah exactly so in Boston we we hide our homeless people we have like shelters and stuff we hide them yeah for the most part you know Downtown Crossing area Park Street whatever they're like the junkies that like have that leave the whole gangster lean they just lean close their eyes and right right right and then we you know it gets cold they scatter I don't know where they go but you don't really see them that much you know I'm not being rude like I don't mind saying it straight but like in say but they're in your face yeah like you I've if San Francisco's the craziest it's it was insane so like honestly and then of my friends he said listen you know come to my house you know whatever we're gonna hang out for a bit school no problem I went to his house small place not badly thousand square feet like pretty nice he goes yeah you know I'm kind of you know things were a little tough can I get okay borrow some some money was like borrow money from me what he talking to dude this is you living yeah you're doing okay he's like yeah living paycheck-to-paycheck I was like what are you talking about I'm like this is it this is like a you know get a decent place the house we were in was a 1.6 million dollar house and it was this big and I'm like service is expensive and then another friend of mine said listen hey come to my house you know and I pull up to the house it's a warehouse I do live in a warehouse that's actually cool you can live like blade it's remember it's really Snipes it was a Kris Kristofferson it's he had the [ __ ] charger the Dodge Charger but it sounds cool when you have kids living in a warehouse and I know so so that's the thing it's not like it's a common thing I've noticed for people to live in either abandoned buildings warehouses and cars yeah you're not people that live in cars and the amount of smashed windows that I've seen here it's I couldn't believe it well most of those people living in cars are actually stand-up comedians everybody has a [ __ ] story like so many comics come here and you know when they first settle in they live in the car that's super normal yeah that's that's it just crazy like more like 10 of my friends relived in their car go to live in cars they're used to at least and then got an apartment bigger time that's an issue we're having around here we're having around here with these people that live in caravans they live in these mobile homes nice I see them yes there's like if you drive around this community go down certain streets and you just see these moments empower vans yeah yeah and they have like like towels over the windows and I saw a meth inside yeah yeah these are dirty people some of these [ __ ] so how come so again in Boston we just kind of say hey there's no likely no loitering well they're kicking people out now because businesses are complaining because there was one business where this guy had parked his Caravan right in front of it that's where a buddy of mine works and this dude had laid out his like a blanket on their front lawn and was sunning himself in Cara's Caravan so the front of his building became this guy's lawn so this guy and his Caravan was literally using the were sharing grass right so he's got this multimillion-dollar building and he's sharing it with a homeless guy right who's cooking meth or I don't know if it's meth but some quite noxious right yeah smoke the crack yeah it's I couldn't so it's it was different for me the weather's awesome but like that was a big thing and I feel like as I'm walking around more if I see a large standing body of water I'm like there's a homeless guy living there too the people just everywhere they're everywhere I'm telling you what you saw is nothing well you've got to go to skid row it's what is this is a Skid Row get Maps it's good right okay snooping around they must have cleaned it up yeah yeah that ain't [ __ ] let me tell you something man it's look at that look at all that to the right to the left it's [ __ ] crazy so how people have businesses there they don't or they just deal with it they just deal with it most of them most those people who just put all like gates and locks and [ __ ] so whether what's on Skid Row plays that's why you where you just were Jamie we just work well it's a lot of warehouses and [ __ ] and but the interesting thing is this area is getting air quotes gentrified hmm so this is where a lot of businesses are going now they're opening up apartment buildings right and a buddy of mine has lived there my friend Magnus Magnus worker he's a famous car guy too I don't know if you know who he is he's got all these videos of Porsches all he rebuilds old Porsches he's got this crazy dreadlocks and a beard and crazy Englishman but he's been living down there forever he and he has this warehouse where he has it set up where you know his living space is one one part of the warehouse then down below yes these cars right and he has it all set up but if you drive down some of these roads you'll see like these super expensive apartment buildings that are going up now and then a block over you see these homeless encampments right and people think it's like cute to be around like all this what dirt what is this there we go nice so that's someone's apartment what's going on here yeah they just set up tents and then the cops kick them out and they just come back and they move and then they come back but they they make these encampments and you just you just have to deal with it so it's like if you live in that area you know you just have to jump over needles and try to figure you I feel so I feel terrible because no it's it's most of this most of this is either drug addiction or mental illness those are the real real problems all right do you guys have no drug addiction or mental illness like places that you could go to for help here I don't know what it is man I don't know enough about it I'm entirely ignorant about how what's going I know that if you talk to people that work in the field that work with these folks right they say that it all really started to happen leave this guy it's like run over my lab oh my god that's gonna need disability oh my goodness man that's crazy crazy people laying in the street this is like everywhere honestly if you were to take a screenshot what you just showed me and I'd be like okay that's some third-world country right this is La people can't even afford to live in LA I know it might as well be a third-world country though I mean it might as well be the apocalypse it's the apocalypse for those folks I mean at least they're there around all these cars and [ __ ] but I mean there are thousands of homeless people in that whole Skid Row area yes that's one of the things that keeps them there I guess beds well three beds in the whole thing but they have they allow most of this to go on I don't know like how often they break it up and make people move but this did not the numbers are so high there's not much they can do man that's great a sad sad it's super sad like but what do you do how do you fix that like I don't have any solution yeah you can't tell people this yeah yeah yeah went and spent three days down there like undercover filming him experiencing and then he'd come back and do like an interview like what he just went through and it's it came out ten years ago so it's it's different I don't know if I'm I'm assuming it's worse now but it's definitely not good in this and this so man it's crazy so I I was on my one wheel right just wreck riding by I was commuting back here by the way the thing is badass it's pretty crazy right yeah I've wrote it I wrote yours today you did write mine it was good and after watching you scoot around effortlessly I was like how hard could it be you need one you should get one I also don't need broken elbows like like honestly it's good for it's good it's a good core workout I'm sure this is it's a great word you sit ups I think it's a better core workout yeah I'll show you this yeah hip and glute machine from rogue we put your ankles in this thing and you lean all the way back go all the way up yeah you have some next-level [ __ ] here by the way ain't got some cool stuff man it's awesome it's mom man warehouse it's really it's this place is [ __ ] I live here sure cools plenty of room yes but but yeah so it's right my one wheel past this past like this kind of overpass and there was a tent there and like a lady sticks her hand out and she offers me a chocolate was it I think it was a chocolate ladybug right it was a ladybug wrapped in like that that that tin like I'm like no thank you no thank you right back at the next day offers to me again I was like no thank you no thank yous like you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna like you know do something nice right so I get five bucks and I was like I'll give it to her you know it's a nice gesture I write up you know I give her you know a hand of the five bucks as I start slowing down on the one wheel other people started popping their heads out of the tents and they actually saw me give her the money and immediately a guy runs out and like snatches it directly out of her hand snatched it right at hand someone else comes around the corner takes it from him and they start getting into the scuffle and I'm just like it I've never seen anything like that before I know I'm really passionate about that I just it's just it just I just can't stop thinking about it's crazy it's really crazy out here man that's crazy then everyone comes everyone comes to to LA California to get there at their big break like all and I'm gonna be like a famous whatever famous you know actor singer exotic dancer a porn star whatever and it's the struggle is real out here it's real it's real everywhere but whenever you get giant groups of people you're gonna get you know a higher percentage of people that are out here that are homeless or struggling right um again I don't know what what's the solution yeah no idea [Applause]

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Length: 10min 54sec (654 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2019