Name: How Do You Address Homeless Problem & Lockdowns?
Uploaded: 2021-01-22T20:03:05.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Do You Address Homeless Problem & Lockdowns?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-22. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How Do You Address Homeless Problem & Lockdowns?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-22. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience what did you say that Burt made a video of the
homeless
it was on his Instagram I'll see if I can pull it up
Burt Kresher 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 stoplight and like there was tents the whole way up here
and he was extremely like this is also a really nice tent
people want me to talk to Burt Kresher because of his Russian story
oh hi Burt look at Burt
the machine oh it's in his Instagram story
that motherfucker his stories will go on for years
he does them every 15 seconds
it might even be deleted now
it's crazy
productivity wise he's basically the Elon Musk of Instagram stories
maybe you took it off 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 fucking insane
this is literally hundreds of tents everywhere
by the way that's a nice fucking 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 Phetasy 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 tents
yep
how do you put that genie back in the bottle Lex?
well that this is
oh you mean it's a slippery slope no
listen I've been thinking about
you know a bunch of tech folks 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
yeah 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'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
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 work
wherever they want shit 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 they have new words for them
like the unhoused and shit 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
and like why do you like San Francisco
and they said first of all they give us food
they give us money
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 of COVID
so it's like
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 shit everywhere
then you ruin all the other spaces
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 fucked 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
you mean California
California sorry
yeah
well 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
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
the other way
is
now that there is
a Democrat
in office
that
they could see
that as a pass
to pass
further regulations
and push this
close the economy
go into
lockdown further
why would they do that though
listen
I've always thought
it was a terrible idea
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 Malice
so the devil
on my shoulder
okay Michael's
the devil
wearing a white suit
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
Colter Wall
and your story
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 fucking rancher
this guy'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 fucking cowboy
like a legit cowboy
like there's literally
no more badass
thing to do
than turn down
Joe Rogan experience
appearance
massive promotion
he's like
nah
I'd rather just
rope steers
yeah
but the Michael Malice
devil argument
is that
you know
that's one way
for the government
to gain more control
over the populace
is
to fear monger
say that there's
a big problem
yeah
and that
magnify 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 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
QAnon 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
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