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the Joe Rogan experience. Are gyms open out here? Yes. Okay. Yeah, you can work
out. You definitely
can't. You can go to jiu-jitsu. People in LA haven't been able to work out
since the original
thing. It's got to be over a year. They're treating everybody like babies. This
is what it is, man.
They're treating everybody like you're not allowed to make your own decisions,
including business
owners that have spent a ton of money opening up these outdoor cafes and
outdoor restaurants,
and then they don't even supply any science. They're essentially autocrats,
right? They're
a dictator. They come and they tell you what they're going to close, what they're
not going
to close. They don't have to show. There's an overwhelming body of evidence
that shows that
all this is spreading from yoga studios. We have to stop yoga. Right. And even
then, it'd
be like, okay, inside yoga is bad. But what about park yoga? Is that okay? Is
it okay to
do parking lot yoga? There's no data. So you have these people that are idiots.
They're
so dumb. They keep getting busted going on vacation when they're telling
everybody to
stay home. Yeah. The mayor of Austin told people it's not time to relax while
he was in Cabo.
You know how crazy that is to go to Cabo and be in a condo in Cabo and go,
listen, we can't
relax. Like, don't travel. Stay away from people. All right. Take care. Shots
off his
home. They're partying. Gavin Newsom, eating fucking dinner at a fancy
restaurant in Napa with
his friend. No social distancing, no masks, right on top of each other. Doors
closed. Indoors.
There's a roof. There's a door shut. There's a glass window. I mean, maybe
there was like
a part of that door where you could open up and you can go outside. That's not
indoors,
bitch. Yeah. Or that's not outdoors. Outdoors, there's no roof over your head.
You don't have
a fucking chandelier outdoors. Outdoors, you see sky. That's outdoors, you fuck.
You can't
have a roof and a chandelier and say I'm eating outdoors. That's a lie. Yeah.
You're lying.
But look out the window. Bro, the fucking mayor of Chicago, same thing. Gets
busted getting
her hair cut. These people are gross. Yeah. They're gross. They keep getting
busted doing
the things they're trying to tell people not to do. And I don't know why they
don't think
they're going to get caught. They keep getting caught. And it's crazy. I don't
understand
it. I don't understand it. There's got to be a better way to do this that
allows people
to keep their businesses, keep their businesses open, stay healthy, go outside.
I eat 100% of my meals out. I have a weird lifestyle. I don't eat at home. And
we made friends with
some of these people these past few months. I found some new restaurants and
things like
that. And once you make friends with them and you talk to them a bit, you end
up, they end
up sharing with you like, oh yeah, this, this, but we're, you know, we're
really struggling.
We're on our last leg. My father, who's owned a restaurant, who owned a
restaurant for 30 years,
closed it in June. It's already some other like corporate janky. Someone tagged
me in a picture.
Your dad in Ohio. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Closed his Italian restaurant. How long did
he own that
restaurant for? Almost 30 years. It was his entire life. He would hang out with
people at
the bar until at his bar until, you know, one, two, 3 AM. And he would start
making the sauce
and stuff at five or six. He would sleep for a couple few hours and then start
another day
of his entire, everything was that. Um, and I, I have to check on him, see how
he's doing, but, uh,
but I can't imagine him doing anything else. I always assumed he was going to
do that absolutely
forever, but this is, this is the story for almost all restaurant owners, man.
They just don't have
that. They're more like comedians or artists or something like they spend the
money that they make.
You know, it's sort of just a different, you take care of so many people you
sort of want to be taken
care of. So they like vacationing and they like doing this and they like doing
that. So, so many
of them, and it costs a lot of money. And for a lot of restaurant owners, it
almost is like an art
form, like, or almost like a source of entertainment too, because you're not
just providing a delicious
meal. You're also giving them a nice environment. You're welcoming them. It's
hospitality is a big part
of it. And so many of these places, you know, we found this one place driving
around one night. Um,
we drove by this, uh, Italian restaurant, you know, we were starving and like
everything was closed,
closed, closed, closed, closed, closed. It was like a Wednesday at nine, right?
It was a long shot.
We drove by this one place and we ended up, the kid worked there was the
grandson, the grandfather's,
the owner, the grandma's inside answering the phone, unloading wine or whatever.
Like you would
see her. If you use the restroom, my point is like, they were, they, he was
honest, you know,
he was just, they're just open people. Like, yeah, we bought these heat lamps.
Uh, you know,
this is crazy. What do we have to do? It's like an, it was an alleyway. And I
know for a fact,
even though we didn't say it, that they're, they weren't, they just weren't
having a good year to say
the least. Um, and, uh, and it's just frightening to think that all these
places with all these good
people in LA aren't going to have a chance at opening up after they spend money
on the heat
lamps, after they completely reorganize their entire structure.
Has there, has there been any big cities that decided to try to stay open most
of the pandemic?
I don't think so. Right. I don't think there's any big cities that are run by
Republicans. Are there?
Uh, big cities run by Republicans. That are, that just left everything open
basically.
You mean like mayors? Yeah. Like what about Miami?
I was just Googling me. I was like, Miami might be open still. I don't know.
Well, I think Miami, I think Florida as a whole, the governor of Florida has
basically said, listen,
the cure can't be worse than disease.
Right.
And it's killing our businesses. It's killing our people. It's like a lot of
people are committing suicide.
A lot of people are getting addicted to drugs and he, you know, and he took a
pragmatic approach and you could disagree or, or agree.
And a lot of people disagree. And I understand that there, there is an issue
though, that a lot of people who disagree with him being able to,
him being able to do this and opening things up there, they're financially
capable of surviving a year or even longer without work.
And many of them are actually in the middle of work. And, uh, I don't want to
cast any aspersion.
I don't want to cast any blame. I don't want, I don't want to point any fingers.
That's not what I'm trying to do. But, uh, what I want to say is that it's
really difficult to even imagine.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't have to imagine it. So I know how
ridiculous this sounds, but it's difficult to imagine the mindset of someone
who's losing everything.
If you're not losing anything, if your life is basically the same, and this is
the problem with some of the politicians, they, they didn't get punished
financially for their city shutting down.
They didn't get punished financially for 40% of the businesses going under. I
mean, sure, it's going to be tough for them to get reelected, but they can say,
listen, we were in a pandemic.
We did, we could, we saved lives. That'll be the, that'll be the, the
propaganda. That'll be what they put the pitch that they saved lives by doing
this.
But they don't, they don't act the way a person would act if their entire life's
work was on the line, like your dad and his restaurant.
They don't act like that person where they find a way to keep things open and
keep things reasonably safe, where they find a way.
Look, there's a, there's a better solution here. What we got to do is like keep
people healthier and that'll lower the numbers of cases and then it'll also
lower the severity of cases.
And that'll allow us to open places up to a reasonable extent. You know, how
about we do this? How about we do that? How about what, what is there a better
way to protect people than fucking handkerchiefs?
Like what's better, handkerchiefs or N95 masks? Can we just get everybody an N95
mask? It seems like that's a better way to go. Those fucking things, like
nothing gets through those.
But handkerchiefs, you could blow, you ever see these demonstrations people do
with a handkerchief and a mask, as a mask rather, and they, they light a
lighter and go and blow the lighter out.
And then they do the same thing with like a cloth mask, a little more difficult.
Then they go to an N95 mask and nothing happens, nothing. It doesn't get out.
So that thing acts as supposedly some sort of a filter to keep most of the
viral load or whatever. I don't, I don't know. I don't know how it works.
But when you look at the effectiveness of that mask, let's say that if
everybody had to wear an N95 mask, it cut infections down X amount percent. Let's
do that. Let's do that.
And if you're talking about coronavirus, like in LA, they were saying 3%, I
think it was 3.1% was coming from restaurants.
What if those people were wearing N95 masks? Would that drop that 3.1 down to
nothing? Would it be one? Like is one acceptable where people can keep their
fucking living?
Like you got to look at these people. You got, first of all, you got to look,
government's never been able to tell you, you can't work.
This is unprecedented. This is completely new shit. Government has never been
able to tell like everyone in an industry.
I'm in the indoor dining industry. Everyone in your industry can't work.
Government has never had that kind of power.
Government has never, ever in the history of the United States of America had
the power to shut all the gyms down.
So you can't, hey, all you healthy studs and studettes and stud Xs, you, you,
you can't go work out.
It's not up to you. It's not the people who own that business. Sorry. I know
you've worked your whole life.
Maybe you did construction for 15 years and saved up half your pay and put it
all away with this dream of one day, opening up this amazing gym and making
your living off your own business.
You created yourself in the community that you live in. But no, no, the
government knows better than you.
And they get to decide whether or not you can work. They get to decide whether
or not you take chances, whether or not you feel like you've adequately
protected yourself from the virus, whether you test enough, they get to decide.
And a curfew. The psychological effect of knowing. And by the way, they're not
enforcing it. The cops aren't pulling you over and going, what are you doing?
But they don't need to. The fact that you know that you're supposed to have a
10, 10 p.m.
Dude, you know what they should do? They should have a loud siren that plays
throughout the city at 10 p.m.
Just to freak you out like War of Worlds style.
But I'm telling you, when we went from...
Can you imagine?
Tornado sirens in Ohio and places where they have that, they could just crank
that up.
Just like that. Like a tornado siren.
When we went from Texas back to California, it was like being on vacation and
then going to boarding school.
Technologically, it was like that. It didn't, you know, there was no one enforcing
the rules.
Boarding school. It's more like juvenile detention.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to a shitty boarding school.
Except juvenile detention, at least they feed you more.
And you're with a bunch of other fuck-ups. You get to have a good time.
Yeah.
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Joe Rants About LA Coronavirus Shutdowns

the Joe Rogan experience. Are gyms open out here? Yes. Okay. Yeah, you can work
out. You definitely
can't. You can go to jiu-jitsu. People in LA haven't been able to work out
since the original
thing. It's got to be over a year. They're treating everybody like babies. This
is what it is, man.
They're treating everybody like you're not allowed to make your own decisions,
including business
owners that have spent a ton of money opening up these outdoor cafes and
outdoor restaurants,
and then they don't even supply any science. They're essentially autocrats,
right? They're
a dictator. They come and they tell you what they're going to close, what they're
not going
to close. They don't have to show. There's an overwhelming body of evidence
that shows that
all this is spreading from yoga studios. We have to stop yoga. Right. And even
then, it'd
be like, okay, inside yoga is bad. But what about park yoga? Is that okay? Is
it okay to
do parking lot yoga? There's no data. So you have these people that are idiots.
They're
so dumb. They keep getting busted going on vacation when they're telling
everybody to
stay home. Yeah. The mayor of Austin told people it's not time to relax while
he was in Cabo.
You know how crazy that is to go to Cabo and be in a condo in Cabo and go,
listen, we can't
relax. Like, don't travel. Stay away from people. All right. Take care. Shots
off his
home. They're partying. Gavin Newsom, eating fucking dinner at a fancy
restaurant in Napa with
his friend. No social distancing, no masks, right on top of each other. Doors
closed. Indoors.
There's a roof. There's a door shut. There's a glass window. I mean, maybe
there was like
a part of that door where you could open up and you can go outside. That's not
indoors,
bitch. Yeah. Or that's not outdoors. Outdoors, there's no roof over your head.
You don't have
a fucking chandelier outdoors. Outdoors, you see sky. That's outdoors, you fuck.
You can't
have a roof and a chandelier and say I'm eating outdoors. That's a lie. Yeah.
You're lying.
But look out the window. Bro, the fucking mayor of Chicago, same thing. Gets
busted getting
her hair cut. These people are gross. Yeah. They're gross. They keep getting
busted doing
the things they're trying to tell people not to do. And I don't know why they
don't think
they're going to get caught. They keep getting caught. And it's crazy. I don't
understand
it. I don't understand it. There's got to be a better way to do this that
allows people
to keep their businesses, keep their businesses open, stay healthy, go outside.
I eat 100% of my meals out. I have a weird lifestyle. I don't eat at home. And
we made friends with
some of these people these past few months. I found some new restaurants and
things like
that. And once you make friends with them and you talk to them a bit, you end
up, they end
up sharing with you like, oh yeah, this, this, but we're, you know, we're
really struggling.
We're on our last leg. My father, who's owned a restaurant, who owned a
restaurant for 30 years,
closed it in June. It's already some other like corporate janky. Someone tagged
me in a picture.
Your dad in Ohio. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Closed his Italian restaurant. How long did
he own that
restaurant for? Almost 30 years. It was his entire life. He would hang out with
people at
the bar until at his bar until, you know, one, two, 3 AM. And he would start
making the sauce
and stuff at five or six. He would sleep for a couple few hours and then start
another day
of his entire, everything was that. Um, and I, I have to check on him, see how
he's doing, but, uh,
but I can't imagine him doing anything else. I always assumed he was going to
do that absolutely
forever, but this is, this is the story for almost all restaurant owners, man.
They just don't have
that. They're more like comedians or artists or something like they spend the
money that they make.
You know, it's sort of just a different, you take care of so many people you
sort of want to be taken
care of. So they like vacationing and they like doing this and they like doing
that. So, so many
of them, and it costs a lot of money. And for a lot of restaurant owners, it
almost is like an art
form, like, or almost like a source of entertainment too, because you're not
just providing a delicious
meal. You're also giving them a nice environment. You're welcoming them. It's
hospitality is a big part
of it. And so many of these places, you know, we found this one place driving
around one night. Um,
we drove by this, uh, Italian restaurant, you know, we were starving and like
everything was closed,
closed, closed, closed, closed, closed. It was like a Wednesday at nine, right?
It was a long shot.
We drove by this one place and we ended up, the kid worked there was the
grandson, the grandfather's,
the owner, the grandma's inside answering the phone, unloading wine or whatever.
Like you would
see her. If you use the restroom, my point is like, they were, they, he was
honest, you know,
he was just, they're just open people. Like, yeah, we bought these heat lamps.
Uh, you know,
this is crazy. What do we have to do? It's like an, it was an alleyway. And I
know for a fact,
even though we didn't say it, that they're, they weren't, they just weren't
having a good year to say
the least. Um, and, uh, and it's just frightening to think that all these
places with all these good
people in LA aren't going to have a chance at opening up after they spend money
on the heat
lamps, after they completely reorganize their entire structure.
Has there, has there been any big cities that decided to try to stay open most
of the pandemic?
I don't think so. Right. I don't think there's any big cities that are run by
Republicans. Are there?
Uh, big cities run by Republicans. That are, that just left everything open
basically.
You mean like mayors? Yeah. Like what about Miami?
I was just Googling me. I was like, Miami might be open still. I don't know.
Well, I think Miami, I think Florida as a whole, the governor of Florida has
basically said, listen,
the cure can't be worse than disease.
Right.
And it's killing our businesses. It's killing our people. It's like a lot of
people are committing suicide.
A lot of people are getting addicted to drugs and he, you know, and he took a
pragmatic approach and you could disagree or, or agree.
And a lot of people disagree. And I understand that there, there is an issue
though, that a lot of people who disagree with him being able to,
him being able to do this and opening things up there, they're financially
capable of surviving a year or even longer without work.
And many of them are actually in the middle of work. And, uh, I don't want to
cast any aspersion.
I don't want to cast any blame. I don't want, I don't want to point any fingers.
That's not what I'm trying to do. But, uh, what I want to say is that it's
really difficult to even imagine.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't have to imagine it. So I know how
ridiculous this sounds, but it's difficult to imagine the mindset of someone
who's losing everything.
If you're not losing anything, if your life is basically the same, and this is
the problem with some of the politicians, they, they didn't get punished
financially for their city shutting down.
They didn't get punished financially for 40% of the businesses going under. I
mean, sure, it's going to be tough for them to get reelected, but they can say,
listen, we were in a pandemic.
We did, we could, we saved lives. That'll be the, that'll be the, the
propaganda. That'll be what they put the pitch that they saved lives by doing
this.
But they don't, they don't act the way a person would act if their entire life's
work was on the line, like your dad and his restaurant.
They don't act like that person where they find a way to keep things open and
keep things reasonably safe, where they find a way.
Look, there's a, there's a better solution here. What we got to do is like keep
people healthier and that'll lower the numbers of cases and then it'll also
lower the severity of cases.
And that'll allow us to open places up to a reasonable extent. You know, how
about we do this? How about we do that? How about what, what is there a better
way to protect people than fucking handkerchiefs?
Like what's better, handkerchiefs or N95 masks? Can we just get everybody an N95
mask? It seems like that's a better way to go. Those fucking things, like
nothing gets through those.
But handkerchiefs, you could blow, you ever see these demonstrations people do
with a handkerchief and a mask, as a mask rather, and they, they light a
lighter and go and blow the lighter out.
And then they do the same thing with like a cloth mask, a little more difficult.
Then they go to an N95 mask and nothing happens, nothing. It doesn't get out.
So that thing acts as supposedly some sort of a filter to keep most of the
viral load or whatever. I don't, I don't know. I don't know how it works.
But when you look at the effectiveness of that mask, let's say that if
everybody had to wear an N95 mask, it cut infections down X amount percent. Let's
do that. Let's do that.
And if you're talking about coronavirus, like in LA, they were saying 3%, I
think it was 3.1% was coming from restaurants.
What if those people were wearing N95 masks? Would that drop that 3.1 down to
nothing? Would it be one? Like is one acceptable where people can keep their
fucking living?
Like you got to look at these people. You got, first of all, you got to look,
government's never been able to tell you, you can't work.
This is unprecedented. This is completely new shit. Government has never been
able to tell like everyone in an industry.
I'm in the indoor dining industry. Everyone in your industry can't work.
Government has never had that kind of power.
Government has never, ever in the history of the United States of America had
the power to shut all the gyms down.
So you can't, hey, all you healthy studs and studettes and stud Xs, you, you,
you can't go work out.
It's not up to you. It's not the people who own that business. Sorry. I know
you've worked your whole life.
Maybe you did construction for 15 years and saved up half your pay and put it
all away with this dream of one day, opening up this amazing gym and making
your living off your own business.
You created yourself in the community that you live in. But no, no, the
government knows better than you.
And they get to decide whether or not you can work. They get to decide whether
or not you take chances, whether or not you feel like you've adequately
protected yourself from the virus, whether you test enough, they get to decide.
And a curfew. The psychological effect of knowing. And by the way, they're not
enforcing it. The cops aren't pulling you over and going, what are you doing?
But they don't need to. The fact that you know that you're supposed to have a
10, 10 p.m.
Dude, you know what they should do? They should have a loud siren that plays
throughout the city at 10 p.m.
Just to freak you out like War of Worlds style.
But I'm telling you, when we went from...
Can you imagine?
Tornado sirens in Ohio and places where they have that, they could just crank
that up.
Just like that. Like a tornado siren.
When we went from Texas back to California, it was like being on vacation and
then going to boarding school.
Technologically, it was like that. It didn't, you know, there was no one enforcing
the rules.
Boarding school. It's more like juvenile detention.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're going to a shitty boarding school.
Except juvenile detention, at least they feed you more.
And you're with a bunch of other fuck-ups. You get to have a good time.
Yeah.
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Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips.
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and can download episodes to save on dat