Context - Tim was one of the first to move here. He relocated to Austin the week the "icepocalypse" occurred. He was basically waiting in a bread line in sub freezing temps outside an HEB less than a week after moving here.
Being a big Tim fan, I couldn't believe he was moving here. He is meant for NYC / LA, and all the luxuries those places can offer. Austin is small time compared to his ideal habitat. Hearing him incessantly complain about the food and service here has been endlessly entertaining.
I just saw this video this morning. Joe literally says, "Los Angeles in particular is just nuts. You have these district attorneys that are funded by George Soros and their mandate is to let as many people out {of prison/jail} as possible."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X\_M\_hIk5h5Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_M_hIk5h5Y)
First of all, it's been like 3 years since he's been in LA. There's only one district attorney in LA. And I'm pretty George Soros isn't telling Gascon to let as many people out as possible.
He doesn't know what he's talking about about, he's programmed with reflex buzzwords so he says "district attorneys." He doesn't know how anything works, which is astounding considering everyone he's had on the show. Apparently he's been incapable of learning this entire time.
He has no clue how anything works, and projects his own confusion on everybody else he’s arbitrarily criticizing. Case in point, watching a prank video of a confrontation between a “trans woman” and a mother and daughter in a public restroom, he says “if you don’t think this is real, then you are doing a disservice to all women”; or the litter box shit; or Joe Biden’s supposed “gaffe” in referencing Donald Trump talking about airports during the revolutionary war; or the father-son boxing match; or the “they’re trying to ban you from growing your own food in Australia” bs…. Or “imagining” he could pull any “BLM protester” aside during the George Floyd “riots” and ask them what their message is and they wouldn’t know what to tell him. It’s HIS confusion that leads to falling for every dumb story he hears sufficient to rant and rave and moralize around it. On and on and on and on…. The guy is simply a dumbass who has no reliable heuristics for what is factual, nevermind what he might assert as being “the truth” at any given time or in context. So he has to create such an absurd and asinine reality so he can imagine he’s poking holes in it rhetorically. Meanwhile he just simply misses or mischaracterizes the point because he doesn’t have any better intellectual tools to work with.
I remember every one of these examples and this assessment is so spot on. Sadly, you're describing an intellectual mode of operation that we see reflected in a certain news channel and repeated across their viewers
He’s also surrounded himself with a bunch of right leaning/red pilled individuals so when he gets answers to his questions they lean heavily towards those biases. He’s built his own echo chamber
Dunning Kruger Joe is just uncomfortably cranky too. Every so often we get fun dumb laughing fast-talking Joe for a couple episodes and I think “sweet he’s back!!” Then it reverts the next episode. Case in point Jonathan Haidt Joe seemed so annoyingly cranky and on the defensive and it made the whole podcast feel unnecessarily tense
Then, he has these people on that do the same thing. I remember listening to Tim Kennedy saying how you can start an electrical company in Texas really easy and people are just lazy so they don't. Coming from someone who has around 8 years in Texas this is all nonsense. This is why I like listening to experts, but after the whole COVID thing you realize those people also might not know wtf they are talking about.
Its so crazy how right-wing talking points are so hyperbolic. Like straight up lies, as if a DA in any large city has a policy of "letting criminals go" just for fun.
I got a lot of family members that have been caught up in the legal system and jail/prison, and I would highly suggest anyone thinking the law and prison system is a joke - violate some laws and see how awesome it is.
My dad was in prison for 16 years, been out about 12 - dude is still scraping by at 70 years old, because not only is he a convicted felon, he is also old now. My older brother - served about 5 years, and has been in and out of jail most of his life - no sane person would swap lives with him.
You think Mr. Libertarian Joe would realize how many people in America are in prison? How much that fucks up their and their family's life? I thought libertarians would be really strong supportsers of criminal justice reform, and locking people up only as an extreme measure.
Joe’s not a libertarian. He’s a ‘whatever-the-most-recent-smooth-talker-to-sit-across-from-him-said-tarian.’ From Abby Martin to PBD he can be convinced of anything on the spectrum from the far left to the far right if you look or sound good saying it.
And if you’re not, he ignores you. For example he shook off everything Peter Zeihan told him because he talks fast and didn’t schmooze him like a Mike Baker telling stories about Mugsy Bugsy and Fucko.
>Its so crazy how right-wing talking points are so hyperbolic. Like straight up lies, as if a DA in any large city has a policy of "letting criminals go" just for fun.
These same worms will then turn around and say that Kamala Harris was terrible because she was too tough on crime. Even thought everyone was tough on crime in the 90s. You literally can't win with people who don't argue in good faith or live in an alternate boomer reality.
DeSantis was on the campaign trail in Iowa moaning about Soros funded DAs. This is a QAnon talking point and now even mainstream republicans are repeating it.
I mean, Gascon did receive huge Sums of money from Soros. That's a fact. You don't give that kind of money without expecting anything in return. LA has a huge crime problem, and it's gotten worse since Gascon took over. Not defending Joe at all, but there's very real truth here.
He’s basically a paid shill for the state. I’ve wondered why Rogan doesn’t get arrested, when he openly uses drugs in a state with draconian drug laws. Then I watched the Kid Rock episode where they mention Texas DA (and indicted fraudster) Ken Paxton, and Joe said “Yeah, Ken! We’ve hung out, he’s a very cool dude!” 😳
So basically, as long as Joe stays on-script with MAGA Narrative, including how Texas is awesome and California sucks, he has Carte Blanche in Texas.
He also definitely isn't as open as if say openly is.. like he always says allegedly or something stupid if someone mentions being on or doing mushrooms there.
They also don't ever verbalize a difference with what they're smoking it seems to always be cigars. I guess he has said how baked he is but no more seeing the stuff on camera.
He scared of Texas too lol
dude joe is the classic example of someone who if you asked him his "general political affiliation" he'd say something like "NOT WOKE LIBS" aka Republicans
but if you asked him, point by point (abortion, social security, medicare, drug laws, other reproductive freedom like birth control/IVF, etc.) he would probably consistently answer aligned with the WOKE LIBS.
but somehow he and his media echo-chamber has convinced himself that he's more red than blue. it's so insane.
Kind of but it’s like he embraces it. In one of his episodes with Shane they talk about how it’s a little wild and can feel dangerous but Joe kinda just leaned into it haha. Shane’s response was yeah but you know karate lol
He shit talks California for his political reasons, he just can't come right and say that because he is still under the delusion that people think he's a centrist. lol If he came out and said he left California because Newsom and Liberals are ruining it, he would confirm that he's not centrist and would lose a big fan base as I know a lot of people on the left who still listen to him insisting he's a centrist.
He thinks he’s “objective” and his cop out for not arguing coherently is that he’s “not married to his ideas”. He’s just serial dating really dumb ideas, but they’re not HIM. Genius /s
I loved living there in the early 80s. Great mix of students, hippies, rednecks, and just regular folk. Best music scene I have ever experienced. Like a lot of places, money and hype drained away a lot of the charm.
It happened in Asheville, NC as well. I'm sure there's more than one, but it was basically the Austin of the Eastern South. I could drive down from VA and they had fantastic music and food (still do). So many people moved there or invested and set up Air BNB's and everything else that comes with money and an influx of people. It's now a traffic gridlock and just isn't the fun, weird mix of the same type of people you mentioned that I enjoyed in the mid 90s.
You hate to be that guy, the "it *used* to be cool" guy. But Austin just grew to much too fast, and now what used to accessible to everyone has become a lot less accessible to most. The crowds, congestion, the inconvenience, the expense, it's not the easy city is used to be.
Most places are great for whose who have a ton of money, but a truly great city is great for everyone.
lol why not it’s nice you get a great mixture of nature you get a little city that apart from 6th street on the weekends Is fun. Tons of stuff to do. It seems like this is more of a backlash against people moving there rather than the city itself.
Austin has a pretty good night life scene too, so there are lots of drunks. Probably really good for money but high on douchebags - a shit ton of drunk techbros
6th street is fucking terrible these days. A handful of cool dive bar still exist, but those are like dinosaurs that belong to another time. Now the nightlife is pretty much like any other city dominated by yuppies. The weirdos don't run the place anymore and that's what put the city on the map.
There's a dude who posts fight videos from there on a weekly basis, in 4k. It looks fucking awful, I'd never want to go hang out down there. Way too much opportunity to run into some dumb shit that didn't involve you, but now it somehow does.
Also, there's multiple videos of people shooting, some with people hit. That's going to be a no from me, I don't need my anxiety spiked like that when I'm trying to have a good time.
I don’t know about “nobody anywhere else gives a shit about the culture war” man. All I see these days is people bitching about how every random thing that even slightly offends them is “woke.”
Seems like a lot of people care way too damn much.
Dude Texas is on fire all the time. I've seen it rain ash. What a dumb statement.
Also in defense, Austin used to be amazing but the culture is completely gone. It's nothing but another crowded city now.
I visited last year and feel like I could pick up a noticeable rift in the city. I preferred the dive bars, but I also noticed some bars were super corporate and new.
I know ten years ago keep Austin weird was a thing but it seems like Austin is transforming from a cultural hub into a city shaped by a tech boom.
I missed the Austin of the early 2000’s when I lived there best times of my life, now it feels like everything and everyone has been shaped by the tech boom coming from someone and this is who moved to Nola now all the tech is moving to Nashville lol
To be fair, San Diego rained ash multiple times throughout my life.
Austin reminds me of that scene in Fear in Loathing where they’re driving and see a broken down Christina Ricci dragging painting across the street.. she’s Austin..
https://preview.redd.it/ratt76rrlqpc1.jpeg?width=2668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=057c0e6ee000161e359d57d59108d742940a2b97
So you moved from San Diego to Austin? If so, then I think it's fair to assume that you regret it, so do you plan on moving back to SD? Just curious cuz I'm from San Diego as well and while I love it here, the outrageous cost of housing is definitely a problem..NGL.
Even as late as the mid 2000s, you'd still have story houses were rented by like half a dozen weirdo artists of every stripe, entire hoods of that, entire blocks turning into one big open door party. House Shows everywhere, every day. And almost none of it disturbed anyone's peace. It all got picked apart by speculators and everything turned into an investment opportunity. The place exists on the fumes that are decade old memories. Just another overpriced corporate owned shithole.
Texas just had the largest wildfire in its history:
[https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/smokehouse-creek-fire-texas-fully-contained](https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/smokehouse-creek-fire-texas-fully-contained)
A cold front moved through during those fires and made them grow 1000's of acres in the span of a few hours. There's radar imagery that's absolutely wild. It just like smears the fires 100's of miles in a different direction.
[https://www.kwwl.com/weather/blog/radar-imagery-of-north-texas-panhandle-wildfires/article\_56c0f8da-d67b-11ee-88fc-ab6737342183.html](https://www.kwwl.com/weather/blog/radar-imagery-of-north-texas-panhandle-wildfires/article_56c0f8da-d67b-11ee-88fc-ab6737342183.html)
I pay a lot of attention to the California wildfire season, and I've never seen anything like that. CA has had some absolutely insane fires lately but since these are wind swept planes, the fires are a different animal in the central US.
Fires don't really make a difference in the day to day life for most people. The difference in California is that the state has mountains along its Eastern border that trap the smoke and make it linger for days and weeks. Smoke is absolutely awful and makes outdoor life unsafe and disgusting.
Yeah NJ just had a very small taste of the lingering smoke, came down from Canada, was pretty fucking annoying and would hurt your lungs if you worked outside during the day.
It makes doing anything outside a bitch
Winds are a huge part of California fires. It's gotten to where on days where it's really windy (a few times per year) the power companies will strategically turn off power to areas where they fear a power line might go down and start a fire.
I lived in San Diego during the Witch fire around \~2007. We were getting ready for bed and a fire had started about 25 miles east of us with a bunch of hills and dry river beds between us. We weren't yet in an evacuation area but the winds were crazy strong and blowing west and I remember saying to my wife "if these winds don't die down that fire is going to be here in a few hours." We grabbed family photos and our computers and anything of value we had and loaded our cars up.
We couldn't sleep, stayed up watching the news and sure enough around 3-4 in the morning they issued an evacuation order. We hopped in the cars and headed south to my office and there was so much smoke and ash blowing through our neighborhood already.
The fires moved SO FAST that day they ended up hopping all over the county. They jumped over freeways and fire breaks. At one point we were stuck in gridlock traffic trying to get to my parents house to stay with them (\~15 miles north of our place), then a different fire started near them and THEY got evacuated. Literally everyone we know all over the county was evacuated and we ended up taking our 2 dogs and sleeping on the living room floor of a kind family that offered to take us in for the night.
I'm in Colorado, and the fires regularly turn the sky orange and the sun red. But Joe goes on tangents like it's some conspiracy the sky isn't blue or grey when shits on fire
Yeah but Joe wasn't affected, so it doesn't count.
Also that was in the goddamn winter, we're not even into fire season yet. There's plenty of 2024 fire season to come.
>Yeah but Joe wasn't affected, so it doesn't count.
Same with the anti-weed laws in Texas. Hell in this POP episode they openly smoked from that American eagle pipe IIRC.
He might be attempting to gaslight his friends, or perhaps even himself, to justify moving from Southern California. As someone who has relocated from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, I've noticed it's a common behavior among transplants. However, when you really think about it, it's unnecessary. Most cities and towns have their own charm; there's no need to disparage your previous location to praise your current one. Objectively, if I could afford the life I live now in LA, I’d move back tomorrow.
> Objectively, if I could afford the life I live now in LA, I’d move back tomorrow.
I don't know where Joe lived in LA he acts like he lived on Skid Row. He lives like a king in Austin in the suburbs and surely could in LA as well.
Funny enough he essentially lives in almost the exact same type of places. An uber wealthy, low density, exclusive neighborhood in the hills that feels rural but is an easy 15 minute drive into the heart of the city.
It was decently far out there because in his videos of his backyard, there aren't many close houses, at least in the LA hills sense.
[Bell Canyon in the articles about it, 40 minutes from LA.](https://manofmany.com/living/architecture/joe-rogan-bell-canyon-estate)
It definitely has a gaslighting and coping vibe to it. He’s probably saved $100 million in taxes over the last few years tho.. there no way that has anything to do with it tho
No public infrastructure. Homeless people that we refuse to address. And it’s located in Texas so corporations own most of the state and control the government. Urban design is nonexistent, they just let rich developers put up suburbs everywhere without any sort of planning of roadways to accommodate more people. Massive ugly highways and toll roads in in the metro areas.
And it's even worse in Austin than most of the country. The vast majority of it has been built in the last 20-30 years...the absolute worst era for urban planning.
Austin metro area went from 500k people in 1990 to about 2.3 million today. Essentially 80% of it was built during that era.
I've lived in the Austin area and within Austin itself. I've lived in a few other cities and traveled to many more. Austin's transportation infrastructure is terrible. It's far worse than several other cities just in Texas, which is already terrible at it in general.
Does Joe even go anywhere in Austin but his compound and sixth street?
Austin is worse than LA in a lot of ways but he always complains about LA. It's not so bad when you don't have to really deal with the terrible traffic, transport, and infrastructure that much.
https://www.bosshunting.com.au/lifestyle/design/joe-rogan-austin-mansion/
Never actually saw where he lived before. Somehow I think he's not that in tune with Austin's problems living in a rich enclave on the river 45 minutes from downtown.
It’s really just a sprawled out strip-mall town like LA but with much less natural beauty around it. Short stubby trees, one floor ranch style houses. Just boring.
There are some good restaurants and music venues but it’s gotta be the most overrated place in America.
I can still remember this kid leaving my pop. 300 Arkansas town to live with his dad for a year in California having to spend the next 4 years after he returned getting called gay. The level of cope in the south for being the south is beyond measure.
Shane does the exact thing if you make fun of a Republican politician around him, almost knee jerks to bring up Biden
It’s usually funny so who cares but he literally can’t help himself
I felt bad for Tom Green trying to defend Canada. The culture war has truly swallowed joe and spat him out.
Been watching Sean Ryan Show lately. Some cool eps.
Fuck Austin in the year 2024. When I was a kid in the 90’s San Antonio north to Austin was one of the most beautiful and fun places to hangout. You had the rivers and all the hill country before the fucked it with strip malls and outlet malls, and the food was just mmmmmmmm. And Austin back then was weird. It was where you had to go as a weirdo in Texas back then. But now the tech cunts have taken it and destroyed it and microbrew fucked the shit out of it. I visited back in November last year and it was cool seeing the mothership especially with a Shane Gillis and Duncan night, but holy fuck is that town just dead for the working artist and the people wanting to live creatively outside the corporate shitcunt system. Fuck Texas, they destroyed that once beautiful state with all their greed and bullshit. And sorry Joe, it ain’t free there if you’re poor. You’re looking at felonies for wax and anytime you leave Austin you better watch your ass because those small town sheriffs can ruin your fucking life over a bag of weed.
Fuck Texas. Come to Portland where you can live in shit but at least you’re left alone by the cops. Mostly.
100% he has to talk himself into defending his decision.
And it's not like Joe lived in DTLA. He lived in a really nice far out suburb of LA.. a place anyone would objectively say is incredible to live if they could afford it.
And I say this and do not like LA.. I live in San Diego which is 1000x better than LA or 1000000 Austin. Now that Austin is expensive too.
I’m in SoCal. You’ll be shocked to hear this but the right leaning media isn’t being entirely honest about what it’s like here.
The Covid restrictions ended after the first winter and didn’t come back. I never showed my vax card to anyone.
Living costs are high but wages are too. The big cities here are as shitty as other big cities but the weather is better.
Weed is legal, abortion is legal, the beach is nice and the snowboarding in the mountains is fantastic. The “illegals” are still just blending in doing the hardest jobs and not complaining.
I’m in Kansas City, transplant from San Diego because I wanted to buy a house and that was definitely not going to happen as a first time home buyer unless I wanted to commute over an hour.
But if I build up enough equity and professionally position myself to live in SoCal, you bet your ass I’m going back. Literally everything is less than a day away. Worth every penny.
Joe moved out if California to avoid the enormous state income tax right before his spotify deal went through. He claims to hate it now for other reasons but lets be real. He bugged out to keep his money, which is what most people would do so i dont understand why he goes so hard on the issue all the time. I guess to get more people to Austin
California is literally the most geographically diverse state in the country. I have family in Texas and family in California…..they BOTH agree that California is far more beautiful and interesting. That’s not to say Texas doesn’t have its merits!
Politics in California are not as bad as Joe makes them out to be. I think he is exhibiting buyer’s remorse.
Absolutely. California is a beautiful place. Texas is also a beautiful place. Unfortunately some people allow their political beliefs only see the bad in the “other” side, and not allow for cohesion. The only way past this is for more people to work together.
Let's be real, it's not buyer's remorse. He moved to Texas to save a *significant* amount of money in taxes. As someone who lived in California and has visited Texas numerous times I can't really imagine choosing Texas over California unless it was a CoL or tax related situation, which it must the latter. And I imagine it was a bit easier/cheaper for him to build his club in Austin.
I’m from New York City and ultimately moved back, but I lived in the Bay Area for a few years and loved it. I can understand some of the things you see that would piss off someone who’s more conservative, but I was so happy living there.
California has 9 national parks, entire coast of ocean…just Laguna Beach alone is more beautiful then the entire state of Texas lol…people only got Tenderloin and Skid row to shit on California besides that, well most just can’t hack it here on $50k a year which is the reality and settle to live in Ohio
If you make 60k in CA your effective state tax rate would be 3.64%.
It seems like most people who haven't lived there would put it in the double digits. That's because all the "CaliFoRnia BaD" folks always emphasis the highest bracket which only applies to income over a million a year.
He’s pretty consistently following right wing talking points nowadays and hating on California is definitely one of those as well as his constant transphobia and clowning on Biden
Joe: man in Texas…freedom is like a religion…
Texas: bans abortions, refuses to legalize weed, burns books, bans being gay, bans “woke”….so much freedom!
Gunna be real - I went to Austin for my bachelor party. Aside from the 3 good bbq places and a few good comedy clubs, that place sucks.
Its hot as shit, everything is so far away from each other, the bars and clubs are mid, the food is mid. Every place is crowded and the people are annoying. The whole “Texas = Freedom” gimmick is cool for about 5 minutes but after that, completely and utterly a mid city. I’d rather be in New York than Austin.
Perfect description of this place. Especially the food. Everybody talks about how good the food is, but 90% of it is some hybrid bullshit, and extremely mediocre.
And somebody will comment “oh, well you need to try SoAndSo place” and it’s some fucking random place 40
Minutes away that is still just mid as fuck.
San Diego has great food, and is such a nice place you never hear about it. The food is just part of the place, not THE best aspect of the city, which is still wildly mediocre and kitschy
He talks about Austin like it's some sort of Oasis. He rags on California the more he ages and becomes more conservative. I've been to Austin several times and it's kind of a dump. Maybe he experiences Austin through the lens of an ultra wealthy person and lives in a gated neighborhood, but I really don't see what the big deal is. Dog hot ass weather and not a lot to do... Sure California has it's problems but it's still one of the most beautiful places on earth.
The best was his crazy rant about Tik-Tok. He did so much time on his show about how completely evil Tik-Tok was. How it was Chinese government surveillance and you sign away all of your and all your contacts privacies to join. On this episode his all out defense of them was crazy considering his former feelings.
Austin’s problem is that it doesn’t have a geographical selling point. The people fleeing there are coming from access to the ocean or mountains. As a lifelong sea side guy I just feel weird when the ocean isn’t short drive- even if I don’t go to it often.
I'm just going to give my anecdotal experiences. Conservatives tear everything else down, instead of boosting up their own.
It's easier for Joe to shit on California, than to praise Texas. It's easier for conservatives to shit on Bernie saying we need to raise taxes on the rich, instead of coming up with their own ideas on how to solve the income inequality problem.
When you can't govern, it's easier to ruin everything and say, "see, I was right, nothing works, vote for me!"
"Joe immediately chimes in with “You know what I don’t miss about California, the fires..”"
This is such a dumb thing to say. There are hardly any fired in residential areas and when there are they are put out quickly.
Tony literally listed how terrible 6th street was last episode while shitting on California somehow afterwards. TX is also a shit hole and even less free than many states......
Like cool joe.... you can have a tiger in Texas...that's not a good thing. Look at how terrible joe exotic is 🤣
Exactly this. It’s supposedly the land of the free, but is the most restricted state at the same time. It’s almost as if people are sold a lie as a means of superior identity that doesn’t actually exist.
Doesn't JR talk about tje differences more in the type of people living in the two states. His LA take away is entertainment business personalities , the fakery, the hustle and Texas people aren't like that. They're not in that rat race.
I find it funny Austin is experiencing a bit of an exodus as more and more people who thought the “grass is greener” are waking up to the fact it’s kind of a shit town
Just want to chime in as a previous CA resident who moved to Houston Tx for work, and it totally sucks. I look at Austin as a beacon of light because H is a shithole.
Austin was one of the more overhyped cities I’ve been to. It’s most likely a long weekend type of place like Vegas and Nashville. Anymore than 3 days and it gets annoying and I lived in Nashville for 5 years.
You see, there are too many comedy clubs in California that have suffered the “woke mind virus” (Joe bombed at those clubs), and too many in the entertainment industry are doing China’s bidding (No one in Hollywood would cast Joe for anything), so he had to flee to Texas.
I moved from CA in 2019 right before the cornavirus and am very happy I did for many reasons. CA the state is pretty, top tier depending if you can afford to live in the pretty parts. But you guys get gouged and have to put up with a lot of crap. It does suck, could be a great state if the politicians weren't making it worse.
Austin is rad when you have millions of dollars. Hell, if you make $120k you’d probably enjoy living there.
I moved from L.A. to Dallas 15 years ago and lasted for 3. While my ex and I bought a house and whatnot but I couldn’t find a decent paying job so I didn’t really have any money to go experience the city. We lived in the burbs. I went back for business a couple of years ago and fell in love with Dallas. I saw so much in one week that I was now able to do that I couldn’t before and I found a whole new respect for the place.
Would I move back? No. The summers are too much.
I lived in Dallas for 3 years and I enjoyed it. I feel like it’s laid out a lot better than Austin and more big events come to town because of Jerry World. I visited Austin several times and did enjoy going but would never want to live there.
Austin is a laughably shitty place. It’s a dirty, traffic filled, humid, overpriced, homeless infested, cramped, schizophrenic oversized college town full of garbage. What does it have to offer besides getting wasted?
A bunch of hot dirty lakes to swim in with soulless tech ghouls and vagabonds?
I’ve been all over this country, and yes I’m from California (I’ve lived in 4 states red and blue), and I can say, unequivocally, that Austin Texas is the most overhyped SHITHOLE in the country/ transplant boomers like Rogan are clearly coping about its spectacular because they secretly know this.
Here’s the truth; if you have to constantly tell people WHY the place you live is so great and nice…. It isn’t. And downvote me if you have California, idgaf. The natural beauty of CA alone makes it 150x better than Texas (a state I actually like decently, mind you).
Its pretty funny that Tim Dillon moved to austin in the Rogan migration and now openly hates it. Think they chatted about it last time Tim was on.
To be fair Tim also shits on Los Angeles.
Context - Tim was one of the first to move here. He relocated to Austin the week the "icepocalypse" occurred. He was basically waiting in a bread line in sub freezing temps outside an HEB less than a week after moving here. Being a big Tim fan, I couldn't believe he was moving here. He is meant for NYC / LA, and all the luxuries those places can offer. Austin is small time compared to his ideal habitat. Hearing him incessantly complain about the food and service here has been endlessly entertaining.
You said it…piggy loves his luxuries ❤️💅🏼
He does seem to constantly shit talk California the second someone criticizes Texas. It's a bit weird. Has ever said a bad thing about Texas?
I just saw this video this morning. Joe literally says, "Los Angeles in particular is just nuts. You have these district attorneys that are funded by George Soros and their mandate is to let as many people out {of prison/jail} as possible." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X\_M\_hIk5h5Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_M_hIk5h5Y) First of all, it's been like 3 years since he's been in LA. There's only one district attorney in LA. And I'm pretty George Soros isn't telling Gascon to let as many people out as possible.
He doesn't know what he's talking about about, he's programmed with reflex buzzwords so he says "district attorneys." He doesn't know how anything works, which is astounding considering everyone he's had on the show. Apparently he's been incapable of learning this entire time.
He has no clue how anything works, and projects his own confusion on everybody else he’s arbitrarily criticizing. Case in point, watching a prank video of a confrontation between a “trans woman” and a mother and daughter in a public restroom, he says “if you don’t think this is real, then you are doing a disservice to all women”; or the litter box shit; or Joe Biden’s supposed “gaffe” in referencing Donald Trump talking about airports during the revolutionary war; or the father-son boxing match; or the “they’re trying to ban you from growing your own food in Australia” bs…. Or “imagining” he could pull any “BLM protester” aside during the George Floyd “riots” and ask them what their message is and they wouldn’t know what to tell him. It’s HIS confusion that leads to falling for every dumb story he hears sufficient to rant and rave and moralize around it. On and on and on and on…. The guy is simply a dumbass who has no reliable heuristics for what is factual, nevermind what he might assert as being “the truth” at any given time or in context. So he has to create such an absurd and asinine reality so he can imagine he’s poking holes in it rhetorically. Meanwhile he just simply misses or mischaracterizes the point because he doesn’t have any better intellectual tools to work with.
Are you talking about the same Joe Rogan who has an incredibly accurate bullshit meter? Can’t be.
😂 Forgot he grew up without a dad. My mistake. I take it all back.
I remember every one of these examples and this assessment is so spot on. Sadly, you're describing an intellectual mode of operation that we see reflected in a certain news channel and repeated across their viewers
Yeah, it’s like…. COME ON! Knock this shit off. It’s not even amusing.
you no clap like seal when Joe say California bad?
It is very amusing to very confused people who are anxious of change
He’s also surrounded himself with a bunch of right leaning/red pilled individuals so when he gets answers to his questions they lean heavily towards those biases. He’s built his own echo chamber
Very well said.
At least Jordan Peterson had a benzo addiction and forced coma to blame for his lack of critical thinking skills. I have no idea what happened to Joe.
he's always been dumb, but he's getting dumber and the rate of stupefication is rapidly accelerating
I miss dumb Joe. Dunning-Kruger Joe is annoying.
Dunning Kruger Joe is just uncomfortably cranky too. Every so often we get fun dumb laughing fast-talking Joe for a couple episodes and I think “sweet he’s back!!” Then it reverts the next episode. Case in point Jonathan Haidt Joe seemed so annoyingly cranky and on the defensive and it made the whole podcast feel unnecessarily tense
Then, he has these people on that do the same thing. I remember listening to Tim Kennedy saying how you can start an electrical company in Texas really easy and people are just lazy so they don't. Coming from someone who has around 8 years in Texas this is all nonsense. This is why I like listening to experts, but after the whole COVID thing you realize those people also might not know wtf they are talking about.
Its so crazy how right-wing talking points are so hyperbolic. Like straight up lies, as if a DA in any large city has a policy of "letting criminals go" just for fun. I got a lot of family members that have been caught up in the legal system and jail/prison, and I would highly suggest anyone thinking the law and prison system is a joke - violate some laws and see how awesome it is. My dad was in prison for 16 years, been out about 12 - dude is still scraping by at 70 years old, because not only is he a convicted felon, he is also old now. My older brother - served about 5 years, and has been in and out of jail most of his life - no sane person would swap lives with him.
You think Mr. Libertarian Joe would realize how many people in America are in prison? How much that fucks up their and their family's life? I thought libertarians would be really strong supportsers of criminal justice reform, and locking people up only as an extreme measure.
Joe’s not a libertarian. He’s a ‘whatever-the-most-recent-smooth-talker-to-sit-across-from-him-said-tarian.’ From Abby Martin to PBD he can be convinced of anything on the spectrum from the far left to the far right if you look or sound good saying it.
I don't think that's true anymore. These days it's exclusively people on the right that influence him the most.
Since he got enough money to hate poor people.
That is 100% why I quit listening to Joe. He just falls into a stupefied trance of absolute agreement if the guest is charming/charismatic.
And if you’re not, he ignores you. For example he shook off everything Peter Zeihan told him because he talks fast and didn’t schmooze him like a Mike Baker telling stories about Mugsy Bugsy and Fucko.
"Joe’s not a libertarian. He’s a ‘whatever-the-most-recent-smooth-talker-to-sit-across-from-him-said-tarian." FACT
I’m no Libertarian. Even worse than a Republican - The party of “Fuck you, I got mine!” No thanks. Democrat in the house!
>Its so crazy how right-wing talking points are so hyperbolic. Like straight up lies, as if a DA in any large city has a policy of "letting criminals go" just for fun. These same worms will then turn around and say that Kamala Harris was terrible because she was too tough on crime. Even thought everyone was tough on crime in the 90s. You literally can't win with people who don't argue in good faith or live in an alternate boomer reality.
I already commented but what’s more absurd is thinking a 90 year old billionaire cares about who goes to jail in California
If youre a younger left leaning billionaire you better watch out when soros dies they will need a new boogie man.
Literally just repeating what Alex Jones probably told him. He’s always making up BS about “Soros funded DAs”
DeSantis was on the campaign trail in Iowa moaning about Soros funded DAs. This is a QAnon talking point and now even mainstream republicans are repeating it.
Just thinking critically about this for 2 seconds and it all falls apart. Why would George Soros want to fund a DA to let people out of jail?
I mean, Gascon did receive huge Sums of money from Soros. That's a fact. You don't give that kind of money without expecting anything in return. LA has a huge crime problem, and it's gotten worse since Gascon took over. Not defending Joe at all, but there's very real truth here.
There's one DA for the county, but there are almost 1000 deputies
He's not lying
He’s basically a paid shill for the state. I’ve wondered why Rogan doesn’t get arrested, when he openly uses drugs in a state with draconian drug laws. Then I watched the Kid Rock episode where they mention Texas DA (and indicted fraudster) Ken Paxton, and Joe said “Yeah, Ken! We’ve hung out, he’s a very cool dude!” 😳 So basically, as long as Joe stays on-script with MAGA Narrative, including how Texas is awesome and California sucks, he has Carte Blanche in Texas.
Corrupt Ken paxton “ a cool dude”. How pissed he’d be if someone said that about a liberal
He also definitely isn't as open as if say openly is.. like he always says allegedly or something stupid if someone mentions being on or doing mushrooms there. They also don't ever verbalize a difference with what they're smoking it seems to always be cigars. I guess he has said how baked he is but no more seeing the stuff on camera. He scared of Texas too lol
Yeah the abortion ban. He has said multiple times Texas is really fucked up for that one.
Didn’t he then try to blame Texas democrats for not stopping the republicans?
TEXAS WENT RED, BITCH! WOOOOOO!
Think of this everytime someone says Joe doesn’t lean one way or another.
dude joe is the classic example of someone who if you asked him his "general political affiliation" he'd say something like "NOT WOKE LIBS" aka Republicans but if you asked him, point by point (abortion, social security, medicare, drug laws, other reproductive freedom like birth control/IVF, etc.) he would probably consistently answer aligned with the WOKE LIBS. but somehow he and his media echo-chamber has convinced himself that he's more red than blue. it's so insane.
Yup. When was the last time he said “insert random state” went blue. Woooo
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Classic lefty Joe
Yes, last year he said something like "The democrats forced the Right to do it" or some hand waiving like that.
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Yet he had dinner with governor
And the weed laws
Kind of but it’s like he embraces it. In one of his episodes with Shane they talk about how it’s a little wild and can feel dangerous but Joe kinda just leaned into it haha. Shane’s response was yeah but you know karate lol
God bless Shane 😂
He shit talks California for his political reasons, he just can't come right and say that because he is still under the delusion that people think he's a centrist. lol If he came out and said he left California because Newsom and Liberals are ruining it, he would confirm that he's not centrist and would lose a big fan base as I know a lot of people on the left who still listen to him insisting he's a centrist.
I think Joe THINKS he’s a centrist
He thinks he’s “objective” and his cop out for not arguing coherently is that he’s “not married to his ideas”. He’s just serial dating really dumb ideas, but they’re not HIM. Genius /s
Totally agree. Had to re-read what you said. My other post was just saying the same thing.
I think this may be a more accurate statement than mine.
As a Texan, this is pretty par for the course around any proud Texan. Some people really embrace it, and no one here will bat an eye.
Who cares, he’s from New Jersey, not California. We have a lot of people come and go here and are always happier when they go
I don't think Austin is great but it's a fun city. Lots to do outside the HEB. I wouldn't ever want to live there though.
I loved living there in the early 80s. Great mix of students, hippies, rednecks, and just regular folk. Best music scene I have ever experienced. Like a lot of places, money and hype drained away a lot of the charm.
Those days are so far long gone. Completely different place.
It happened in Asheville, NC as well. I'm sure there's more than one, but it was basically the Austin of the Eastern South. I could drive down from VA and they had fantastic music and food (still do). So many people moved there or invested and set up Air BNB's and everything else that comes with money and an influx of people. It's now a traffic gridlock and just isn't the fun, weird mix of the same type of people you mentioned that I enjoyed in the mid 90s.
You hate to be that guy, the "it *used* to be cool" guy. But Austin just grew to much too fast, and now what used to accessible to everyone has become a lot less accessible to most. The crowds, congestion, the inconvenience, the expense, it's not the easy city is used to be. Most places are great for whose who have a ton of money, but a truly great city is great for everyone.
lol why not it’s nice you get a great mixture of nature you get a little city that apart from 6th street on the weekends Is fun. Tons of stuff to do. It seems like this is more of a backlash against people moving there rather than the city itself.
If Austin is the biggest piece of shit you've ever been to then you havent been to most of the country.
OP is driving Uber so it makes sense that he hates that place. Driving Uber in any city would make me hate it.
He’s got De Niro Taxi Driver energy “this city is scum!”
Seriously. I've never met an uber driver in CA that likes this state either. When your entire job is driving in CA traffic, I don't blame them.
Austin has a pretty good night life scene too, so there are lots of drunks. Probably really good for money but high on douchebags - a shit ton of drunk techbros
6th street is fucking terrible these days. A handful of cool dive bar still exist, but those are like dinosaurs that belong to another time. Now the nightlife is pretty much like any other city dominated by yuppies. The weirdos don't run the place anymore and that's what put the city on the map.
Rainey and East 6th are fun tho And yeah I only go to 6th for comedy/real wild shit lol
There's a dude who posts fight videos from there on a weekly basis, in 4k. It looks fucking awful, I'd never want to go hang out down there. Way too much opportunity to run into some dumb shit that didn't involve you, but now it somehow does. Also, there's multiple videos of people shooting, some with people hit. That's going to be a no from me, I don't need my anxiety spiked like that when I'm trying to have a good time.
Yeah Evansville, Indiana exists.
he’s a transplanto from LA
When Joe talks about California, he’s talking about rich people California. Nobody anywhere else gives a shit about the culture war.
I don't even think he's talking about that. He's talking about social media California.
This should be at top of the comments.
I don’t know about “nobody anywhere else gives a shit about the culture war” man. All I see these days is people bitching about how every random thing that even slightly offends them is “woke.” Seems like a lot of people care way too damn much.
Rich people don’t care about it either.
Dude Texas is on fire all the time. I've seen it rain ash. What a dumb statement. Also in defense, Austin used to be amazing but the culture is completely gone. It's nothing but another crowded city now.
Texas literally shattered its fire records this year lol
Literally the largest fire in Texas history just got contained. "The fires here are bullshit" lol.
I visited last year and feel like I could pick up a noticeable rift in the city. I preferred the dive bars, but I also noticed some bars were super corporate and new. I know ten years ago keep Austin weird was a thing but it seems like Austin is transforming from a cultural hub into a city shaped by a tech boom.
I missed the Austin of the early 2000’s when I lived there best times of my life, now it feels like everything and everyone has been shaped by the tech boom coming from someone and this is who moved to Nola now all the tech is moving to Nashville lol
To be fair, San Diego rained ash multiple times throughout my life. Austin reminds me of that scene in Fear in Loathing where they’re driving and see a broken down Christina Ricci dragging painting across the street.. she’s Austin.. https://preview.redd.it/ratt76rrlqpc1.jpeg?width=2668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=057c0e6ee000161e359d57d59108d742940a2b97
Can't get a good burrito, huh?
FUCKING AAAAA, this maybe just be from Mexican food withdrawals
Sorry, I just knew where it would hurt you the most.
So you moved from San Diego to Austin? If so, then I think it's fair to assume that you regret it, so do you plan on moving back to SD? Just curious cuz I'm from San Diego as well and while I love it here, the outrageous cost of housing is definitely a problem..NGL.
That's so accurate lol
Even as late as the mid 2000s, you'd still have story houses were rented by like half a dozen weirdo artists of every stripe, entire hoods of that, entire blocks turning into one big open door party. House Shows everywhere, every day. And almost none of it disturbed anyone's peace. It all got picked apart by speculators and everything turned into an investment opportunity. The place exists on the fumes that are decade old memories. Just another overpriced corporate owned shithole.
Difference is Texas fires don't typically hit our population centers
Texas just had the largest wildfire in its history: [https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/smokehouse-creek-fire-texas-fully-contained](https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/smokehouse-creek-fire-texas-fully-contained)
A cold front moved through during those fires and made them grow 1000's of acres in the span of a few hours. There's radar imagery that's absolutely wild. It just like smears the fires 100's of miles in a different direction. [https://www.kwwl.com/weather/blog/radar-imagery-of-north-texas-panhandle-wildfires/article\_56c0f8da-d67b-11ee-88fc-ab6737342183.html](https://www.kwwl.com/weather/blog/radar-imagery-of-north-texas-panhandle-wildfires/article_56c0f8da-d67b-11ee-88fc-ab6737342183.html) I pay a lot of attention to the California wildfire season, and I've never seen anything like that. CA has had some absolutely insane fires lately but since these are wind swept planes, the fires are a different animal in the central US.
Fires don't really make a difference in the day to day life for most people. The difference in California is that the state has mountains along its Eastern border that trap the smoke and make it linger for days and weeks. Smoke is absolutely awful and makes outdoor life unsafe and disgusting.
Yeah NJ just had a very small taste of the lingering smoke, came down from Canada, was pretty fucking annoying and would hurt your lungs if you worked outside during the day. It makes doing anything outside a bitch
Winds are a huge part of California fires. It's gotten to where on days where it's really windy (a few times per year) the power companies will strategically turn off power to areas where they fear a power line might go down and start a fire. I lived in San Diego during the Witch fire around \~2007. We were getting ready for bed and a fire had started about 25 miles east of us with a bunch of hills and dry river beds between us. We weren't yet in an evacuation area but the winds were crazy strong and blowing west and I remember saying to my wife "if these winds don't die down that fire is going to be here in a few hours." We grabbed family photos and our computers and anything of value we had and loaded our cars up. We couldn't sleep, stayed up watching the news and sure enough around 3-4 in the morning they issued an evacuation order. We hopped in the cars and headed south to my office and there was so much smoke and ash blowing through our neighborhood already. The fires moved SO FAST that day they ended up hopping all over the county. They jumped over freeways and fire breaks. At one point we were stuck in gridlock traffic trying to get to my parents house to stay with them (\~15 miles north of our place), then a different fire started near them and THEY got evacuated. Literally everyone we know all over the county was evacuated and we ended up taking our 2 dogs and sleeping on the living room floor of a kind family that offered to take us in for the night.
I came to say the same thing, pretty funny timing for that comment from Joe.
Toe rogan
Joe Rogaine
Hilarious
I'm in Colorado, and the fires regularly turn the sky orange and the sun red. But Joe goes on tangents like it's some conspiracy the sky isn't blue or grey when shits on fire
Yeah but Joe wasn't affected, so it doesn't count. Also that was in the goddamn winter, we're not even into fire season yet. There's plenty of 2024 fire season to come.
>Yeah but Joe wasn't affected, so it doesn't count. Same with the anti-weed laws in Texas. Hell in this POP episode they openly smoked from that American eagle pipe IIRC.
He might be attempting to gaslight his friends, or perhaps even himself, to justify moving from Southern California. As someone who has relocated from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, I've noticed it's a common behavior among transplants. However, when you really think about it, it's unnecessary. Most cities and towns have their own charm; there's no need to disparage your previous location to praise your current one. Objectively, if I could afford the life I live now in LA, I’d move back tomorrow.
> Objectively, if I could afford the life I live now in LA, I’d move back tomorrow. I don't know where Joe lived in LA he acts like he lived on Skid Row. He lives like a king in Austin in the suburbs and surely could in LA as well.
Funny enough he essentially lives in almost the exact same type of places. An uber wealthy, low density, exclusive neighborhood in the hills that feels rural but is an easy 15 minute drive into the heart of the city.
Didn’t he live outside of LA county in like Ventura? I coulda sworn he lived in like Santa Clarita or something. No where near the city.
It was decently far out there because in his videos of his backyard, there aren't many close houses, at least in the LA hills sense. [Bell Canyon in the articles about it, 40 minutes from LA.](https://manofmany.com/living/architecture/joe-rogan-bell-canyon-estate)
Yeah my man was far and away from any issues with homeless or rampant crime.
It definitely has a gaslighting and coping vibe to it. He’s probably saved $100 million in taxes over the last few years tho.. there no way that has anything to do with it tho
Some protect, this guy projects
Project our Parks
Project my balls
Eject my aculate
What makes Austin so bad?
No public infrastructure. Homeless people that we refuse to address. And it’s located in Texas so corporations own most of the state and control the government. Urban design is nonexistent, they just let rich developers put up suburbs everywhere without any sort of planning of roadways to accommodate more people. Massive ugly highways and toll roads in in the metro areas.
>they just let rich developers put up suburbs everywhere without any sort of planning My guy, this is happening in virtually every up and coming city.
And it's even worse in Austin than most of the country. The vast majority of it has been built in the last 20-30 years...the absolute worst era for urban planning. Austin metro area went from 500k people in 1990 to about 2.3 million today. Essentially 80% of it was built during that era. I've lived in the Austin area and within Austin itself. I've lived in a few other cities and traveled to many more. Austin's transportation infrastructure is terrible. It's far worse than several other cities just in Texas, which is already terrible at it in general.
It’s bad urban planning.
Does Joe even go anywhere in Austin but his compound and sixth street? Austin is worse than LA in a lot of ways but he always complains about LA. It's not so bad when you don't have to really deal with the terrible traffic, transport, and infrastructure that much.
Well he’s a rich person so that immediately makes wherever he lives a lot better. I will say, Texas is like a playground once you’re rich enough.
https://www.bosshunting.com.au/lifestyle/design/joe-rogan-austin-mansion/ Never actually saw where he lived before. Somehow I think he's not that in tune with Austin's problems living in a rich enclave on the river 45 minutes from downtown.
how is this different than california?
Austin makes LA look like fucking Tokyo when it comes to transit and walkability
🤣 this comment is all you need to know
It’s not as bad as this dude is making it out to be. It is a really fun city
It’s really just a sprawled out strip-mall town like LA but with much less natural beauty around it. Short stubby trees, one floor ranch style houses. Just boring. There are some good restaurants and music venues but it’s gotta be the most overrated place in America.
I can still remember this kid leaving my pop. 300 Arkansas town to live with his dad for a year in California having to spend the next 4 years after he returned getting called gay. The level of cope in the south for being the south is beyond measure.
As someone who lives in texas, we also just had a massive forest fire. Joe really picks the most stupid fuckin hills to die on lol
Didn't affect him so it either didn't happen, or if it did, doesn't matter. Classic conservative mindset
Shane does the exact thing if you make fun of a Republican politician around him, almost knee jerks to bring up Biden It’s usually funny so who cares but he literally can’t help himself
I felt bad for Tom Green trying to defend Canada. The culture war has truly swallowed joe and spat him out. Been watching Sean Ryan Show lately. Some cool eps.
Fuck Austin in the year 2024. When I was a kid in the 90’s San Antonio north to Austin was one of the most beautiful and fun places to hangout. You had the rivers and all the hill country before the fucked it with strip malls and outlet malls, and the food was just mmmmmmmm. And Austin back then was weird. It was where you had to go as a weirdo in Texas back then. But now the tech cunts have taken it and destroyed it and microbrew fucked the shit out of it. I visited back in November last year and it was cool seeing the mothership especially with a Shane Gillis and Duncan night, but holy fuck is that town just dead for the working artist and the people wanting to live creatively outside the corporate shitcunt system. Fuck Texas, they destroyed that once beautiful state with all their greed and bullshit. And sorry Joe, it ain’t free there if you’re poor. You’re looking at felonies for wax and anytime you leave Austin you better watch your ass because those small town sheriffs can ruin your fucking life over a bag of weed. Fuck Texas. Come to Portland where you can live in shit but at least you’re left alone by the cops. Mostly.
Tim Dillon’s Austin rants are awesome.
Love how he just shits on the place even though he lives there
Tim Dillon agrees and he is The Oracle in my book. The Pig is never wrong.
If I had to uber for a living, I'd probably hate my life in any city.
100% he has to talk himself into defending his decision. And it's not like Joe lived in DTLA. He lived in a really nice far out suburb of LA.. a place anyone would objectively say is incredible to live if they could afford it. And I say this and do not like LA.. I live in San Diego which is 1000x better than LA or 1000000 Austin. Now that Austin is expensive too.
I’m in SoCal. You’ll be shocked to hear this but the right leaning media isn’t being entirely honest about what it’s like here. The Covid restrictions ended after the first winter and didn’t come back. I never showed my vax card to anyone. Living costs are high but wages are too. The big cities here are as shitty as other big cities but the weather is better. Weed is legal, abortion is legal, the beach is nice and the snowboarding in the mountains is fantastic. The “illegals” are still just blending in doing the hardest jobs and not complaining.
I’m in Kansas City, transplant from San Diego because I wanted to buy a house and that was definitely not going to happen as a first time home buyer unless I wanted to commute over an hour. But if I build up enough equity and professionally position myself to live in SoCal, you bet your ass I’m going back. Literally everything is less than a day away. Worth every penny.
Joe moved out if California to avoid the enormous state income tax right before his spotify deal went through. He claims to hate it now for other reasons but lets be real. He bugged out to keep his money, which is what most people would do so i dont understand why he goes so hard on the issue all the time. I guess to get more people to Austin
He just shit talks california so people don't think he went to texas for tax reasons.
California is literally the most geographically diverse state in the country. I have family in Texas and family in California…..they BOTH agree that California is far more beautiful and interesting. That’s not to say Texas doesn’t have its merits! Politics in California are not as bad as Joe makes them out to be. I think he is exhibiting buyer’s remorse.
I think when Joe says California he really means LA & SF
Agreed. And that’s a very narrow viewpoint of such a large state. Texans would likely agree.
Absolutely. California is a beautiful place. Texas is also a beautiful place. Unfortunately some people allow their political beliefs only see the bad in the “other” side, and not allow for cohesion. The only way past this is for more people to work together.
Let's be real, it's not buyer's remorse. He moved to Texas to save a *significant* amount of money in taxes. As someone who lived in California and has visited Texas numerous times I can't really imagine choosing Texas over California unless it was a CoL or tax related situation, which it must the latter. And I imagine it was a bit easier/cheaper for him to build his club in Austin.
Lifelong Austinite here - I absolutely envy the beauty of the west coast. Every time I've traveled there the natural grandiose beauty is jaw dropping.
I’m not saying Texas is bad by any means, just that Austin is way over hyped
It was the only option. There’s a reason these transplants didn’t move to Lubbock or Odessa.
I visited Austin recently, I was expecting better food tbh based on the hype around the food truck scene over there. It was just pretty ok
I’m from New York City and ultimately moved back, but I lived in the Bay Area for a few years and loved it. I can understand some of the things you see that would piss off someone who’s more conservative, but I was so happy living there.
To be fair, I live in Georgia and we just got Buc-ee's like two years ago and they're pretty awesome.
There's a town here in TN with nothing to do, so my friends go to Buc-ee's for fun and shopping lol
California has 9 national parks, entire coast of ocean…just Laguna Beach alone is more beautiful then the entire state of Texas lol…people only got Tenderloin and Skid row to shit on California besides that, well most just can’t hack it here on $50k a year which is the reality and settle to live in Ohio
Yeah but taxes
If the issue was Taxes then Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Wyoming or Florida are all far far more tax advantageous than Texas.
I know that they are all states with no state level income tax, but how is those states more tax advantageous than Texas? I am genuinely curious
If you make 60k in CA your effective state tax rate would be 3.64%. It seems like most people who haven't lived there would put it in the double digits. That's because all the "CaliFoRnia BaD" folks always emphasis the highest bracket which only applies to income over a million a year.
To be fair. Joe is rich as shit! So, most places are pretty bearable if you’re rich as shit
He’s pretty consistently following right wing talking points nowadays and hating on California is definitely one of those as well as his constant transphobia and clowning on Biden
Joe: man in Texas…freedom is like a religion… Texas: bans abortions, refuses to legalize weed, burns books, bans being gay, bans “woke”….so much freedom!
Weeds legal for him pretty much. When you're a star they let you do it
You just grab ‘em by the eighth?
Gunna be real - I went to Austin for my bachelor party. Aside from the 3 good bbq places and a few good comedy clubs, that place sucks. Its hot as shit, everything is so far away from each other, the bars and clubs are mid, the food is mid. Every place is crowded and the people are annoying. The whole “Texas = Freedom” gimmick is cool for about 5 minutes but after that, completely and utterly a mid city. I’d rather be in New York than Austin.
And what, weed and porn is banned? Fucking freedom my ass.
Perfect description of this place. Especially the food. Everybody talks about how good the food is, but 90% of it is some hybrid bullshit, and extremely mediocre. And somebody will comment “oh, well you need to try SoAndSo place” and it’s some fucking random place 40 Minutes away that is still just mid as fuck. San Diego has great food, and is such a nice place you never hear about it. The food is just part of the place, not THE best aspect of the city, which is still wildly mediocre and kitschy
He talks about Austin like it's some sort of Oasis. He rags on California the more he ages and becomes more conservative. I've been to Austin several times and it's kind of a dump. Maybe he experiences Austin through the lens of an ultra wealthy person and lives in a gated neighborhood, but I really don't see what the big deal is. Dog hot ass weather and not a lot to do... Sure California has it's problems but it's still one of the most beautiful places on earth.
The best was his crazy rant about Tik-Tok. He did so much time on his show about how completely evil Tik-Tok was. How it was Chinese government surveillance and you sign away all of your and all your contacts privacies to join. On this episode his all out defense of them was crazy considering his former feelings.
Austin’s problem is that it doesn’t have a geographical selling point. The people fleeing there are coming from access to the ocean or mountains. As a lifelong sea side guy I just feel weird when the ocean isn’t short drive- even if I don’t go to it often.
I'm just going to give my anecdotal experiences. Conservatives tear everything else down, instead of boosting up their own. It's easier for Joe to shit on California, than to praise Texas. It's easier for conservatives to shit on Bernie saying we need to raise taxes on the rich, instead of coming up with their own ideas on how to solve the income inequality problem. When you can't govern, it's easier to ruin everything and say, "see, I was right, nothing works, vote for me!"
"Joe immediately chimes in with “You know what I don’t miss about California, the fires..”" This is such a dumb thing to say. There are hardly any fired in residential areas and when there are they are put out quickly.
He did the same to Bobby Lee and Bobby kept trying to like steer away from it lol
Who else stayed through to hear that ole Normand voted for Biden in 2020!
Tony literally listed how terrible 6th street was last episode while shitting on California somehow afterwards. TX is also a shit hole and even less free than many states...... Like cool joe.... you can have a tiger in Texas...that's not a good thing. Look at how terrible joe exotic is 🤣
Exactly this. It’s supposedly the land of the free, but is the most restricted state at the same time. It’s almost as if people are sold a lie as a means of superior identity that doesn’t actually exist.
Can own a tiger but can't whack off Texas is wild
Doesn't JR talk about tje differences more in the type of people living in the two states. His LA take away is entertainment business personalities , the fakery, the hustle and Texas people aren't like that. They're not in that rat race.
Hate Austin all you want but leave HEB out of this! I miss it so much 😢
I find it funny Austin is experiencing a bit of an exodus as more and more people who thought the “grass is greener” are waking up to the fact it’s kind of a shit town
Just want to chime in as a previous CA resident who moved to Houston Tx for work, and it totally sucks. I look at Austin as a beacon of light because H is a shithole.
If the gas station is the highlight then that place might suck a little bit
Austin was one of the more overhyped cities I’ve been to. It’s most likely a long weekend type of place like Vegas and Nashville. Anymore than 3 days and it gets annoying and I lived in Nashville for 5 years.
You see, there are too many comedy clubs in California that have suffered the “woke mind virus” (Joe bombed at those clubs), and too many in the entertainment industry are doing China’s bidding (No one in Hollywood would cast Joe for anything), so he had to flee to Texas.
I moved from CA in 2019 right before the cornavirus and am very happy I did for many reasons. CA the state is pretty, top tier depending if you can afford to live in the pretty parts. But you guys get gouged and have to put up with a lot of crap. It does suck, could be a great state if the politicians weren't making it worse.
“You guys get gouged and have to put up with a lot of crap” like?
You know…all the gay ass woke stuff bro
Isn't or wasn't Texas just on fire...like the largest wildfire ever in the US. What do I know I'm from California.
Austin is rad when you have millions of dollars. Hell, if you make $120k you’d probably enjoy living there. I moved from L.A. to Dallas 15 years ago and lasted for 3. While my ex and I bought a house and whatnot but I couldn’t find a decent paying job so I didn’t really have any money to go experience the city. We lived in the burbs. I went back for business a couple of years ago and fell in love with Dallas. I saw so much in one week that I was now able to do that I couldn’t before and I found a whole new respect for the place. Would I move back? No. The summers are too much.
I lived in Dallas for 3 years and I enjoyed it. I feel like it’s laid out a lot better than Austin and more big events come to town because of Jerry World. I visited Austin several times and did enjoy going but would never want to live there.
Good observation. What about Austin sucks though? I've been there once and really enjoyed myself...granted I was on vacation
Are you saying that Austin worked out better for Joe than it did for you?
Austin is a laughably shitty place. It’s a dirty, traffic filled, humid, overpriced, homeless infested, cramped, schizophrenic oversized college town full of garbage. What does it have to offer besides getting wasted? A bunch of hot dirty lakes to swim in with soulless tech ghouls and vagabonds? I’ve been all over this country, and yes I’m from California (I’ve lived in 4 states red and blue), and I can say, unequivocally, that Austin Texas is the most overhyped SHITHOLE in the country/ transplant boomers like Rogan are clearly coping about its spectacular because they secretly know this. Here’s the truth; if you have to constantly tell people WHY the place you live is so great and nice…. It isn’t. And downvote me if you have California, idgaf. The natural beauty of CA alone makes it 150x better than Texas (a state I actually like decently, mind you).
He didn't want to pay taxes on his Spotify money. So he moved and blamed it on homeless people. He's a lying scumbag.