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the Joe Rogan experience so here's Venice Beach look at this video this is
I mean this is very mild in comparison to some of the videos that I've seen
yeah
but there's one from downtown LA that literally shut this of Venice Beach all
the boardwalk that whole area is now just encampments well yeah like Wilshire
and San Vicente it's pretty bad right it's terrible yeah I've seen animals
Wilshire and San Vicente is bad downtown LA is absolutely the worst
downtown LA is bananas thousands and thousands of tents and I don't know how
they're gonna put that genie back in the bottle now you've got they're trying
to
clean up because they're trying to like the oh this is a health hazard you've
got
like human shit in the streets like how do we clean this so they're trying to
clean
up right now activists are stopping them from cleaning up they're like your
actions are violence and they're holding hands and blocking cleanup crews like
yeah
think about how many more people you've just added to the homeless roles
because
of all the industries that have been shut down yeah and people that can't feed
their families
yeah that's the hard part it's like you know John we all know the same people
and I actually
um I actually in my heart of hearts think that they are they believe that they're
helping
that that's my that's my my belief that's cute and I disagree and I disagree
wholeheartedly
I know that but but I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt that doesn't
mean I agree
with them or agree with what they're doing in the least but I will give a shout
out to like the
city of West Hollywood the mayor Lindsey Vorherveth um uh Paul Arevalo they
have been so business
friendly they're trying to help as much as they can they the permits the the
ability for me to to to get
my patio up and running they they moved in lightning speed but I'll give you an
example I got the
front patio built it finished on a Friday and on Saturday I got shut down it's
worthless so what
did I just spend 60 grand there's no evidence that shows that outdoor dining is
contributing
significantly to the covet spread there's no evidence they actually had to
admit that finally
in the in court the county has no evidence of a nexus between any sort of
outbreak uh with outdoor dining
and how so how do they make this arbitrary distinct distinction between outdoor
dining and
going to Walmart or like what they're calling essential they don't it doesn't
make it there
isn't so the county health officials shut us down right for three weeks uh
right around what was it
thanksgiving yes and um some friends of ours took them to court and said you
know how can you just
shut down an industry with no evidence and they said oh we have plenty of
evidence we have
six studies and blah blah blah blah blah and then they actually got to court
and they had nothing
nothing not all the evidence was from indoor dining not one piece of paper and
they had to admit it
so when they admit it then what happened no but now they're appealing it why
now they're appealing
by the way they've hired an outside counsel and you think they're spending more
money have our best
intentions come on they these guys i'm too nice this guy newsom wants a name
for himself and no one's
calling him out and it's absolutely insane to me okay here's the number one
thing that boggles my mind
you have a problem we all agree there's an illness okay the rates of hospitalizations
are going up
infections are going up but the rates of death are going down okay so we have
an issue why not get
together as a community and say you know what we're going to grab a couple of
restaurant people we're
going to grab some doctors in the field have a committee and and have people
that have real world
experience not phds not theoretical people people that have real experience in
the industry grab them
grab a round table and say okay we have this problem how do we mitigate it and
how do we move forward
smartly i've never been asked john's never been asked no doctor that i know in
the wide variety of
people that i take care of has ever been asked their opinion by the county
state on any level
he's right it's it's that's the problem and i reached out directly i have uh
garcetti's email
i email this mayor puts me on with some some random person from the office then
puts me on with the
county and i say hey get us together like why don't you actually talk to real
restaurant owners this is
when they were thinking about this is when they were going to do the curfew
right there was a 10 pm
curfew and i said where's the where's the 10 pm curfew come from oh well when
people get inebriated
they get looser and then they're super spreaders at restaurants and i'm like
okay why 10 pm it's like
that's that's the time when people really start start getting inebriated and i
was like but you realize
you could at least say hey close up let people make sure they get out and get
their check paid and be
out the door by midnight 11 30 whatever it might be rather than everyone out
the door by 10 pm and he
said well you could seat someone at 9 and then kick them out at 9 50 and i was
like look i have you any
do you have any understanding of the restaurant industry at all not one had not
contacted any any
restaurateur they went to a 10 pm curfew three days later shut it all down they
just said you know what
we're we're just shutting everything by the way they're no reason they've never
heard no from any
of us you want to do uh six people or less okay you want tables six feet apart
okay you want to do uh
an 11 o'clock curfew okay a 10 o'clock curfew okay we we've said yes to
everything they've wanted
and yet they still find a way yep to shut the industry down well why this is
what i understand why who's
making the decisions i personally think again i don't think craig wants wants
to say this but i
personally think it is politicians trying to make a name for themselves how
does it make a name for
yourself but i think it's true they are honestly think it's fear what what i
think it's fear that
they're gonna that they're gonna be seen as not having done something and
people are being you know
newsome is on the news almost every day so much so that people get get off get
off the news man like
this guy is speaking every left and right he really thinks that he's the savior
situation and i think
that is where it's it's some sort of political gain situation in his mind and
it's control like
look they're they're clean by the way i just found out recently and i we've
been i've been in this
business for 15 years i had no idea that our independent we're considered
independent restaurants
not franchise we had no representation we had no lobbyists the rep the
representation for the
restaurant community is driven by big fast food chains well they have no
incentive to help independent
restaurants you know mcdonald's and all these people which god bless them but
they're thriving in
covid so we just get bullied around essentially because there's no lobbyists
and so we're kind of like
sitting ducks in this situation and i kind of feel like we're somewhat trying
to be a voice here for
the independent restaurant world and it's not just la i mean think think about
it's much bigger new york
and la were we trendsetters right the country watched what happened in la and
new york and they followed
and now la and new york have just completely dropped the ball and everybody
else is kind of rising up well
well they're examples of government overreach they're examples of government
overreach without
any thought whatsoever to these independent businesses it's a slippery slope
yeah how much more is that
going to happen that is a big fear well it's also a slippery slope because what
happens if it doesn't
come back what happens if you drive down melrose and those things stay boarded
up what happens if
downtown la stays filled with tents yep what do you do well how many how many
restaurants are going to be
able to come back i mean like i said right before we're we'll we'll manage we'll
figure out a way and
and and john's point like governor newsom actually did help with something i
was trying to get you know
a back patio done and there were a couple of health department rules and and
his office did step in
and said that's ridiculous you should allow that make that happen and they
changed a rule um that that
benefited not just my restaurant but all right big newsome fan over here no no
i'm just trying to like
i'm trying to i'm trying to split the difference like i want i want it to be an
honest conversation of
i think your policies are wrong i don't dislike you as a person right that
there's a big distinction
sure okay so that's that's all i'm trying to say but i will say that uh you
know on the reservation
list um somebody's name that ryan's would spaghetti will not get a reservation
okay well i'll do that
i mean i will say i've spoken out about him and we got targeted pretty hardcore
openly they targeted you
they came health came every night when i finally could where are the permits
for al fresco where's
this every single night i'm like you were here last night well you know we we
were instructed to
come every night i said okay that makes instructed every time every night
because that's what this
out against garcetti and newsome correct jesus christ and and my my thing is i
agree it's nothing
personal i i it's it's their policies their arbitrary policies how does it make
sense that you know
there's a million people passing through tsa a day i looked up all the stats
how does it make sense that
we can fly here for example anywhere austin new york whatever it might be and
go right back in the
same day with zero zero issues zero checks zero anything yet outdoor dining is
completely shut down
by the way this is the first time in nine months i've left la yeah and and the
only reason the way i got
down here through jet edge by the way thank you for a great ride and private
suite and you guys are the
best you should you're a big baller you should use jet edge um but i'm flying
back united tonight
and and you know it's the first time in nine months that i've left la um and i'm
not a science denier
and i take precautions and i'm around a lot of people when the when the patio
was open i was around 150
180 people a night but you can go from la to new york you can take your mask
down and eat you can
land in la you can go in a hotel you can then go to a mall and go shopping okay
you can grab some
food to go we could sit together and eat outdoors in the mall but i can't go
outdoor
and eat at a restaurant at that employs 90 to 100 people and keep a business afloat
we're not thriving
you know outdoor dining doesn't doesn't it isn't blowing the doors off of the
revenue it allows us
to keep all of the people employed it allows employees to make some money we're
paying payroll
taxes we're paying sales taxes and we're just one little place there's 30 000
restaurants in los
angeles now one of the reasons they cited for shutting it down was they found
that 10 of the
restaurants weren't abiding by the rules so well i would say then then why don't
you go to those 10
restaurants and shut them down or give them warnings to the point where they do
come into
line so if they're not social distancing and they are not wearing masks and
shields and they're
not wearing gloves and they're not doing all the things that you've asked
restaurants to do
well then you can target them but to shoot to shut down an entire industry
because you feel like you
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Why Restaurants Keep Getting Shutdown

the Joe Rogan experience so here's Venice Beach look at this video this is
I mean this is very mild in comparison to some of the videos that I've seen
yeah
but there's one from downtown LA that literally shut this of Venice Beach all
the boardwalk that whole area is now just encampments well yeah like Wilshire
and San Vicente it's pretty bad right it's terrible yeah I've seen animals
Wilshire and San Vicente is bad downtown LA is absolutely the worst
downtown LA is bananas thousands and thousands of tents and I don't know how
they're gonna put that genie back in the bottle now you've got they're trying
to
clean up because they're trying to like the oh this is a health hazard you've
got
like human shit in the streets like how do we clean this so they're trying to
clean
up right now activists are stopping them from cleaning up they're like your
actions are violence and they're holding hands and blocking cleanup crews like
yeah
think about how many more people you've just added to the homeless roles
because
of all the industries that have been shut down yeah and people that can't feed
their families
yeah that's the hard part it's like you know John we all know the same people
and I actually
um I actually in my heart of hearts think that they are they believe that they're
helping
that that's my that's my my belief that's cute and I disagree and I disagree
wholeheartedly
I know that but but I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt that doesn't
mean I agree
with them or agree with what they're doing in the least but I will give a shout
out to like the
city of West Hollywood the mayor Lindsey Vorherveth um uh Paul Arevalo they
have been so business
friendly they're trying to help as much as they can they the permits the the
ability for me to to to get
my patio up and running they they moved in lightning speed but I'll give you an
example I got the
front patio built it finished on a Friday and on Saturday I got shut down it's
worthless so what
did I just spend 60 grand there's no evidence that shows that outdoor dining is
contributing
significantly to the covet spread there's no evidence they actually had to
admit that finally
in the in court the county has no evidence of a nexus between any sort of
outbreak uh with outdoor dining
and how so how do they make this arbitrary distinct distinction between outdoor
dining and
going to Walmart or like what they're calling essential they don't it doesn't
make it there
isn't so the county health officials shut us down right for three weeks uh
right around what was it
thanksgiving yes and um some friends of ours took them to court and said you
know how can you just
shut down an industry with no evidence and they said oh we have plenty of
evidence we have
six studies and blah blah blah blah blah and then they actually got to court
and they had nothing
nothing not all the evidence was from indoor dining not one piece of paper and
they had to admit it
so when they admit it then what happened no but now they're appealing it why
now they're appealing
by the way they've hired an outside counsel and you think they're spending more
money have our best
intentions come on they these guys i'm too nice this guy newsom wants a name
for himself and no one's
calling him out and it's absolutely insane to me okay here's the number one
thing that boggles my mind
you have a problem we all agree there's an illness okay the rates of hospitalizations
are going up
infections are going up but the rates of death are going down okay so we have
an issue why not get
together as a community and say you know what we're going to grab a couple of
restaurant people we're
going to grab some doctors in the field have a committee and and have people
that have real world
experience not phds not theoretical people people that have real experience in
the industry grab them
grab a round table and say okay we have this problem how do we mitigate it and
how do we move forward
smartly i've never been asked john's never been asked no doctor that i know in
the wide variety of
people that i take care of has ever been asked their opinion by the county
state on any level
he's right it's it's that's the problem and i reached out directly i have uh
garcetti's email
i email this mayor puts me on with some some random person from the office then
puts me on with the
county and i say hey get us together like why don't you actually talk to real
restaurant owners this is
when they were thinking about this is when they were going to do the curfew
right there was a 10 pm
curfew and i said where's the where's the 10 pm curfew come from oh well when
people get inebriated
they get looser and then they're super spreaders at restaurants and i'm like
okay why 10 pm it's like
that's that's the time when people really start start getting inebriated and i
was like but you realize
you could at least say hey close up let people make sure they get out and get
their check paid and be
out the door by midnight 11 30 whatever it might be rather than everyone out
the door by 10 pm and he
said well you could seat someone at 9 and then kick them out at 9 50 and i was
like look i have you any
do you have any understanding of the restaurant industry at all not one had not
contacted any any
restaurateur they went to a 10 pm curfew three days later shut it all down they
just said you know what
we're we're just shutting everything by the way they're no reason they've never
heard no from any
of us you want to do uh six people or less okay you want tables six feet apart
okay you want to do uh
an 11 o'clock curfew okay a 10 o'clock curfew okay we we've said yes to
everything they've wanted
and yet they still find a way yep to shut the industry down well why this is
what i understand why who's
making the decisions i personally think again i don't think craig wants wants
to say this but i
personally think it is politicians trying to make a name for themselves how
does it make a name for
yourself but i think it's true they are honestly think it's fear what what i
think it's fear that
they're gonna that they're gonna be seen as not having done something and
people are being you know
newsome is on the news almost every day so much so that people get get off get
off the news man like
this guy is speaking every left and right he really thinks that he's the savior
situation and i think
that is where it's it's some sort of political gain situation in his mind and
it's control like
look they're they're clean by the way i just found out recently and i we've
been i've been in this
business for 15 years i had no idea that our independent we're considered
independent restaurants
not franchise we had no representation we had no lobbyists the rep the
representation for the
restaurant community is driven by big fast food chains well they have no
incentive to help independent
restaurants you know mcdonald's and all these people which god bless them but
they're thriving in
covid so we just get bullied around essentially because there's no lobbyists
and so we're kind of like
sitting ducks in this situation and i kind of feel like we're somewhat trying
to be a voice here for
the independent restaurant world and it's not just la i mean think think about
it's much bigger new york
and la were we trendsetters right the country watched what happened in la and
new york and they followed
and now la and new york have just completely dropped the ball and everybody
else is kind of rising up well
well they're examples of government overreach they're examples of government
overreach without
any thought whatsoever to these independent businesses it's a slippery slope
yeah how much more is that
going to happen that is a big fear well it's also a slippery slope because what
happens if it doesn't
come back what happens if you drive down melrose and those things stay boarded
up what happens if
downtown la stays filled with tents yep what do you do well how many how many
restaurants are going to be
able to come back i mean like i said right before we're we'll we'll manage we'll
figure out a way and
and and john's point like governor newsom actually did help with something i
was trying to get you know
a back patio done and there were a couple of health department rules and and
his office did step in
and said that's ridiculous you should allow that make that happen and they
changed a rule um that that
benefited not just my restaurant but all right big newsome fan over here no no
i'm just trying to like
i'm trying to i'm trying to split the difference like i want i want it to be an
honest conversation of
i think your policies are wrong i don't dislike you as a person right that
there's a big distinction
sure okay so that's that's all i'm trying to say but i will say that uh you
know on the reservation
list um somebody's name that ryan's would spaghetti will not get a reservation
okay well i'll do that
i mean i will say i've spoken out about him and we got targeted pretty hardcore
openly they targeted you
they came health came every night when i finally could where are the permits
for al fresco where's
this every single night i'm like you were here last night well you know we we
were instructed to
come every night i said okay that makes instructed every time every night
because that's what this
out against garcetti and newsome correct jesus christ and and my my thing is i
agree it's nothing
personal i i it's it's their policies their arbitrary policies how does it make
sense that you know
there's a million people passing through tsa a day i looked up all the stats
how does it make sense that
we can fly here for example anywhere austin new york whatever it might be and
go right back in the
same day with zero zero issues zero checks zero anything yet outdoor dining is
completely shut down
by the way this is the first time in nine months i've left la yeah and and the
only reason the way i got
down here through jet edge by the way thank you for a great ride and private
suite and you guys are the
best you should you're a big baller you should use jet edge um but i'm flying
back united tonight
and and you know it's the first time in nine months that i've left la um and i'm
not a science denier
and i take precautions and i'm around a lot of people when the when the patio
was open i was around 150
180 people a night but you can go from la to new york you can take your mask
down and eat you can
land in la you can go in a hotel you can then go to a mall and go shopping okay
you can grab some
food to go we could sit together and eat outdoors in the mall but i can't go
outdoor
and eat at a restaurant at that employs 90 to 100 people and keep a business afloat
we're not thriving
you know outdoor dining doesn't doesn't it isn't blowing the doors off of the
revenue it allows us
to keep all of the people employed it allows employees to make some money we're
paying payroll
taxes we're paying sales taxes and we're just one little place there's 30 000
restaurants in los
angeles now one of the reasons they cited for shutting it down was they found
that 10 of the
restaurants weren't abiding by the rules so well i would say then then why don't
you go to those 10
restaurants and shut them down or give them warnings to the point where they do
come into
line so if they're not social distancing and they are not wearing masks and
shields and they're
not wearing gloves and they're not doing all the things that you've asked
restaurants to do
well then you can target them but to shoot to shut down an entire industry
because you feel like you
have a couple of bad actors makes no 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 costs all for free spotify
is absolutely free you
don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre