The homeless person's property is protected.
>> Yes, absolutely.
If you were to go and try to move that or take that, you'd get arrested.
Yeah.
>> Hilarious, but they wouldn't arrest you.
If you shot somebody, maybe you should just go and shoot the homeless people.
>> I like your ideas.
>> Yeah, and if nobody claims it, I mean,
nobody does anything about violent crime in LA anymore.
It's a joke.
>> Yeah. >> They're just letting people out.
>> Seemed like a great group of guys there.
That's Joe Rogan and comedian Tom Segura joking about shooting homeless people.
Here's that exchange in full.
>> And then we're on the underpass and there's porta potties,
not one either like four, like a deck of Porta potties and
then someone has a car parked there on the sidewalk, like partly on the sidewalk.
So they're like half blocking a lane and
then they have like a canopy draped over their car and they have just stacks of,
and then next to it was a dresser, they had a dresser.
So they had their shoes and a shoe rack.
There was a shoe rack.
Like this is where they live.
I didn't know also that, you know, when, when you,
you see stuff like that on the streets at least in Los Angeles or
maybe in California, those are protected property like by law,
you know that like if you were not supposed to do that.
>> But like that's that person's property by law.
Yes, absolutely.
If you were to go and try to move that or take that, you get arrested.
>> Yeah, hilarious.
But they wouldn't arrest you If you shot somebody, Maybe you should just go and
shoot the homeless people.
>> I like your ideas.
>> Yeah.
>> And if nobody claims it.
>> I mean, nobody does anything about violent crime in LA anymore.
It's a joke.
>> Yeah. >> They're just letting people out.
>> It's really unfortunate that Joe Rogan's comments are a reflection
of a larger problem,
a trend of violence against the homeless communities in Los Angeles California.
The comments about beginning to kill homeless people.
It's too close to reality for any comfort Because the murders of homeless
people in Los Angeles went up 47% last year over the previous year.
There's a bit of an unfortunate vigilantism already in Los Angeles towards
people devastated by homelessness and they don't need any encouragement.
That's Andy Bales, Union Rescue Mission President and CEO,
that's a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
They provide emergency services, free health clinics and
resources to help break the cycle of homelessness.
They're also a religious organization.
We have more from Andy bales who said usually when I get a case like this with
somebody with a lot of influence and responsibility,
he's talking about Joe Rogan there.
I invite them to come see what's happening on the street and
get to know the people they're talking about.
I would invite Joe to come to Union Rescue Mission to see not only our work, but
see what's been happening on the streets and who these people are,
who he's talking about.
And a lot of folks are saying that Joe Rogan's comments are just a reflection of
larger culture in the United States.
We have this tweet, Joe Rogan being a millionaire and saying we should shoot
homeless people is basically the most American thing anyone has said ever.
So according to celebrity net Worth, Joe Rogan is worth a ton of money,
100 and $20 billion.
And all of that money has clearly gotten to joe Rogan's head.
Here's a clip that we covered on the young Turks last month when
Rogan complained about unemployment.
Let's watch, I have a friend who has a restaurant,
he could not get people to come back to work.
>> And 11 buddy of mine, a bartender told him I can come back to work,
but I can only work for 20 hours a week because that way I get unemployment So
he wouldn't work more than 20 hours a week, so he could get free money so he
could have made more money, but he didn't want to because he didn't want to work.
You see a lot of people that are that own businesses that have a hard time
finding people work for them.
So there's pros to that, right, the pros are people,
it's a marketplace that favors the worker so workers can ask for more money.
So you're seeing a lot of places like bars and restaurants and stuff that have to pay
more money per hour which I guess is good as long as the restaurant can stay open.
>> Absolutely insane.
So not only is it a criminal act to be a homeless person in the United States of
America, the people that don't want to work for less than a living wage,
they're part of the problem as well.
And let's talk a little bit about what's going on with housing in California.
So there are a lot of commercial luxury apartment buildings where most of
the units are vacant.
And the people, the developers who build those buildings can claim a loss and
get a huge tax break from those buildings.
There are also companies like Zillow that are investing in properties.
What they'll do is they'll go in and buy up five houses in the neighborhood first
they'll they'll purchase three will pay about $200,000 for
each of those homes and then they'll buy an additional you know two homes at
a price of $300,000 effectively lifting the price of housing.
So now they can sell the original three at $100,000 gain and
now they've priced out all of those people from that neighborhood.
Now they've become renters.
Well what's going on with the renting market in California, there are so
many Airbnb fees and short term rentals, it's not just Airbnb, there's Vrbo and
a bunch of other services now but they've gone in.
They've taken units.
They either rent them out or they purchase the apartments and then they rent them out
at a much higher rent than they could charge for long term leases.
And this is effectively raising the price of rent for people in the city.
This is forcing people into homelessness.
And Joe Rogan is here saying we should shoot people for
being homeless and trying to live on the street.
That's a better solution than just respecting their space as they try and
find shelter in the streets of Los Angeles.
It's cruel john what do you think?
>> Yeah, so real quick clarification, I think you made a reference to billions but
meant millions.
I saw people in the chat talking about that.
He's many, many, many millions of dollars understand that having 100 and
$20 million 120 billion dollars means basically nothing in practice,
you have more money than any person could ever spend.
So let's just be clear about that.
He has reached the strata of the unimaginably rich,
there's nothing he cannot buy effectively.
So let's be clear about that.
And he's been in that bubble of great wealth for a very long time.
That's one clarification clarification is I am sure that once this video goes up,
many people are probably watching this when it's been uploaded to the channel.
Probably about 10,000 people have already gone down to the chat to
educate us that he was joking and I want to clarify.
Yes, I know that he was joking.
I know that Joe Rogan was not literally saying to his audience,
you should go out and you should shoot the homeless.
I get it.
Yes, he was joking.
He also felt like that was something to joke about either because of his ignorance
about the absolute epidemic of violence and
murder against the unused community or, and that's me being generous to assume
that he doesn't know that because the only alternative is that he does know that,
but still believes that that is what he should be joking about.
And again, at the end of the day,
it is about what he thinks his audience is what matters all of the,
I'm gonna say white guys who are putting into the chat that he was joking.
How do you like jokes about how people should be able to get away with
shooting white guys without experiencing any consequences?
Do you think that that's really funny or
do you freak out politically about anything like that?
And by the way, you freak out about like, you know, rich elites who don't understand
regular Americans, you get that you're listening to one,
I understand that he's into MMA or something.
But he has way more in common with Donald Trump than with, you know that don't want
to believe that because of the branding around his podcast and
everything, but that's who he is.
He hasn't lived as a regular person for a very, very long time.
He doesn't know what it's like to live on a salary of 75 K,
let alone to live out of the back of the van, that is your home.
I love that the activists offered to bring him in there so
he can actually learn about their experience.
I challenged him to do that on the damage this morning.
He always wants to have his perspective broadened.
He wants to learn about more stuff.
Well, I would argue that there are better ways to do that than just
bringing on some author go out there and learn about it.
I think that that would be a pretty eye opening experience for him.
>> Yeah, let's hope that I didn't just speak into existence, that joe Rogan is
gonna become a billionaire and let's hope that never happens in this timeline.
That would be terrifying.
But yeah, it doesn't really matter if he's joking about shooting homeless people,
he's inconvenienced by the fact that they have their like houses on the street.
He's surprised that that property is protected by law,
he clearly has this belief that these people don't have a right to housing.
And I'm sure all of the people who listen to his podcast who think he's a relatable
everyday guy are much closer to homelessness than he has ever been.
Most people in the United States of America are just one inconvenient event.
Just one unlucky event from being homeless from going bankrupt.
That's the reality that we live in.
And so to talk about homeless people as if, you know,
they're less than human, not deserving of having a place to sleep at night.
And even joking that, that we should just shoot them to get rid of them because we
don't want to see them in the streets.
It's disgusting.
It's disgusting the fact that people listen to him and they're like, well,
you know, he's just relatable.
He probably wants us to to find solutions to homelessness.
Okay, let him say that if that's what he believes, but that's not what he's saying,
you can't keep defending people like this.