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Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
Very excited to have RFK Jr. on today.
He's running for president and his wife, Cheryl Hines.
30 minutes into the podcast,
we did have a weird blackout in the studio.
It's never happened before.
I've been podcasting about seven years.
This has never happened.
It was strange.
It happened in the middle of the episode.
We lost about 15 good minutes,
and then we got back to it.
But as you know,
you know, it kind of broke the,
you know, we had a groove going.
And it was fun.
We had a dynamic, and it was cool.
And when the lights went off,
I think he thought someone was trying to kill him.
And, you know, because it's, again,
it's the family history.
But, you know, he's a really conscientious guy.
But, you know, when those lights went down,
he was like, Cheryl.
Like, they were, you know, it got strange.
So, he's a great guy.
I would love to see him, you know,
gain traction in this race
because I think he could be
an incredibly amazing president,
you know, when you listen to the guy talk.
And his wife is lovely and amazing
and talented as well.
So, they were great.
But if there is a weirdness
right in the middle of the episode,
we do address it,
but it stopped and it started.
And when that happens to a podcast,
unfortunately, it does kind of break the rhythm
a little bit.
But they were great sports about it.
And there's some really great information
in this episode.
Thank you.
Here we go.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Tim Dillon Show special episode today.
RFK, Cheryl Hines.
Thank you guys for both coming.
I appreciate it.
Fellow Californians coming here,
I appreciate it.
You know, we get a lot of bad press as a state.
Some of it is deserved.
You've been living here how long?
2014, I moved here, so nine years.
And what do you think of it?
Well, you know, I didn't want to move out.
I moved out for love
because I actually had a,
you know, I had a life
and a profession in New York.
Right.
And, but Cheryl couldn't move
and then none of my kids wanted to move.
And then we got out here
and now they all love it here.
So, you know, I mean,
there's, you can't beat California.
First of all,
I don't know if you lived on the East Coast.
I was a New Yorker, born and raised.
Did you ever shovel any snow?
You know, I should have,
but I didn't, you know,
usually my mother or grandmother did it.
It was good for them.
You teared them on.
Yeah, I mean.
Watched them through the window.
Yeah, I mean,
but I have occasionally,
but yeah,
though you can't beat the winters here
when they're nice,
when they're mild.
No, it's so beautiful.
And you have the ocean and the mountains.
It's amazing.
It has everything.
It's so beautiful.
Yeah, it is great.
And we have, I think,
we're the fourth largest economy in the world
behind, you know,
it's like GDP.
We're the fifth.
I mean,
it's a massive engine of the American economy.
Now,
you're somebody who've been open
about your struggles with drugs and alcohol
and coming out of that.
when you see,
you know,
the problem in California,
all over the country,
but specifically because we all live here
in California with people that are homeless,
that are addicted to drugs.
How do you internalize that
as somebody who's been through that
and you're looking at people
and you have compassion,
but, you know,
you also realize
that, like,
it's becoming
a massive problem.
And every time now
someone talks about California,
they think about this
issue
where you have people
that are
unable to live
without,
you know,
being,
you know,
really,
there's mental health crisis,
hopelessly addicted to
substances.
Is there a way?
Can we do more?
I mean,
there has to be a way to do more.
Well,
I mean,
there's two issues.
One is addiction
and the other is homelessness.
And I don't think
that they're necessarily
connected.
My son,
Connor,
last night,
we were talking about this issue
and he said,
he pointed out that
that in West Virginia
that there's more drug addiction
per capita,
there's more poverty
per capita,
and there is probably
an equal amount
of mental illness
and yet there's no
homelessness problem.
And it has to do
with the availability
of housing.
Right.
So it's not,
homelessness and addiction
do not have to go
hand in hand.
Right.
If you solve
the housing issue
and,
you know,
one of the reasons
in San Francisco
that they have
this terrible problem
is because they have
zoning laws
that don't allow
any high-density
housing
and that that
contributes to the problem.
But I,
you know,
we were in San Francisco
recently.
When we tried
the Monsanto case,
I was there
almost for a year
because each of those
three trials
were about three,
you know,
it required about,
you know,
two or three months
up there.
and I would go
to Union Square
every day
to,
you know,
to exercise.
There's a,
there was an Equinox
there and I,
and, you know,
I'd see the shops
and you had all
of the great
iconic American stores,
you know,
plus you had Prada
and Gucci
and Taylor Valley
and then you had
Gap
and Old Navy
and Levi's
and,
you know,
Nordstrom's
and Bloomingdale's
and all of these
and it,
it's like Fifth Avenue.
For people who don't know
San Francisco,
there was,
there's a part of San Francisco
that is like Fifth Avenue
and it,
it is a shopping city.
People,
tourists come all over the world
shopping Union Square
the way they do
on Fifth Avenue
and today
I went up there,
I don't know if you've been
up there recently
but I went up there
a month ago
and every one of those
stores is,
is boarded up.
It's just acre
after acre of plywood.
It's like if you shut down
Fifth Avenue,
I don't think people
understand what,
the cataclysm
that has struck
that city
and it's,
the,
the office space
is 30,
has a
65%
vacancy
so it's a 35%
occupancy rate.
They built
buildings
five years ago
for $330 million
and they're now
selling them
for $100 million
and it's hard
to see how
that city
recovery,
even with really
good leadership,
you know,
those,
those,
those,
those kind
of stores
take a year
to just,
you know,
to hit a runway
on them
and you have to
make commitments
that are 10
or 20 years.
Well,
a lot of people
would say those,
you know,
California's a Democrat
run state,
very few Republicans.
San Francisco,
certainly,
I don't think you have
any Republicans,
right?
There has to be
like one or two.
There's one or two
Republicans,
but there's San Francisco
Republicans,
right?
So there's no way,
so people are saying,
they're going to say
you're a Democrat,
you're running for president.
What is different
about the way
you would handle
San Francisco
and certain issues
in Los Angeles
than what Democrats
have done
in this state?
Well,
you know,
I mean,
I have ideas
for how to handle
those issues
that people can go
on our website,
but,
you know,
one of the,
I think housing
is a critical issue,
right?
And it's not just critical
for people in San Francisco
and our kids,
kids,
you know,
I have,
Cheryl and I
have seven kids
between 20 and 39.
And,
and when I was that age,
I was already thinking
of,
you know,
buying a house
or how am I going
to do it,
et cetera?
Where do I want to live?
You know,
and I don't know
any of my kids' friends
who are even thinking that.
A lot of them
are living with their parents.
And,
you know,
they,
the chance of them
actually buying a house
is unless they do
incredibly well
with their lives
is very,
very slim.
And my kids are,
you know,
they,
they have good jobs,
they make money,
but,
but it's not enough
to buy a house.
and two years ago,
you had,
you had,
the average price
of a house
was $215,000
and even that
was out of reach
for a lot of kids.
In America,
that was the average?
That was the average
across the country.
Okay.
On the coast,
it's much higher.
It's the average.
Today,
it's $400,000.
It's two years ago.
Jeez.
And you're now paying,
you know,
you were back then,
you're paying maybe
3% interest.
Now you're paying
7% interest.
The house is three
or four,
five times expensive
and there's no way
any,
and then everybody
has this experience
of knowing somebody
who is about to buy a house
and then somebody
comes in just before
they go into escrow.
Somebody comes in
with a cash offer
and snatches it out
from under them
and this is just now
a ubiquitous experience
and what's happening
is not only
are we,
you know,
suffering inflation
from the constant wars,
$8 trillion on war,
$8 trillion that we didn't have
on regime change wars
since 2002,
but we're also,
you have these three giant companies,
BlackRock,
State Street,
and Vanguard,
who own,
who all own each other.
You know,
BlackRock has
$10 trillion
under management.
These are all
private equity companies?
Yeah,
the biggest companies
in the world
and they are,
they own,
I think they own
88% of the S&P 500,
those three companies,
they own 88%
of the S&P 500,
so they already own everything
and now they've decided
they're going to buy
every single family home
in America.
So,
they're on track now
to control,
to own
the corporate control
of the 60%
of the single family homes
in America
within six years.
So,
you're saying,
so when somebody comes in
with a cash offer,
it's usually from...
It's an LLC
with some ambiguous name.
Shellcorp.
Right,
then if you follow
the breadcrumbs,
it'll go back to
BlackRock,
Vanguard,
State Street.
And they want to own
all of the...
And, you know,
I mean,
ironically,
and I don't want to feed
into anybody's paranoia,
but...
Well...
Welcome to the show.
It's a little late
for that,
I think.
Why do you think
they tuned in?
This is our final episode
on YouTube,
by the way.
I feel like...
Yeah, it is.
I feel like it's...
You know,
it's playing with matches
and a dynamite,
you know,
shed
with you in the room,
but Larry Fink,
who is the CEO
of BlackRock,
is also on the board
of the World Economic Forum.
Yes.
Which, you know,
their mantra is,
we're going to have
this great reset.
What does that mean?
It means that,
and these are their quotes,
not mine,
you will own nothing
and you will be happy.
You'll be happy,
the famous article.
I mean,
now they're doing...
I talked about it
last week on the show,
they're running all these articles
in Wall Street Journal
where they go,
it's now the trend
to not have a dining room.
You don't need a living room.
All of these,
you know,
publications are coming out
and they're going like,
Americans are...
They're happy
with shrinking houses
and less space
and then they talk about
like home builders
are trying to figure out ways
to like,
in a challenging
real estate market,
still be profitable.
What they don't mention
is these home builders
are not like mom and pop contractors.
These are,
you know,
D.H. Horton,
these are massive.
Yeah,
which are all owned
by BlackRock,
State Street,
and Vanguard.
Right.
So how is this takeover
of the American real estate market?
How can this,
how is this preventable?
Well,
you know what,
what I would do
immediately,
there's a lot of things
you can do.
One is you can change
the tax code
to make it
unprofitable
because our kids
are now competing
against BlackRock.
so BlackRock
has a bottomless bank book.
It has the lowest
interest rates
on the planet
of anybody
and our kids
now have to compete
against that company.
Now,
why are their rates so,
are they lending
themselves money?
How does it work?
Well,
first of all,
they own all the banks,
they own all the credit card companies
and they-
That helps.
Just because they have
a huge bank book,
you know,
they're a safe loan.
So there's zero risk
in loaning to BlackRock.
And so the banks
will give them
the lowest possible rates
and our kids
then have to compete.
You know,
our kids who have
no credit rating,
who have,
you know,
a 600 credit rate
or whatever it is
are paying
not 7%,
but maybe 10% interest.
Right.
And they're competing
against somebody
that's getting
3% interest.
It's not right.
And, you know,
we have American dream
in this country.
The promise
as World War II,
your parents' generation,
my parents' generation,
if you worked hard,
if you played by the rules,
you 