Joe Rogan Experience #2181 — Alan Graham Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. Thanks for doing this man and how you give these people hope and a purpose, ours who was telling us about a ministry in Corpus Christi, Texas, where on cold winter brilliant idea. When you're a serial entrepreneur and it just blew up in a positive way. hand-holding and bromance hugging it out and had a pretty powerful experience that

3:24 And this is why why did you concentrate on homeless And so there was a different relationship that I was experiencing with Christ. From that, the son of God is going to be born, a virgin birth. wasn't part of that, I began to look at that as the train was leaving the station. office to do some work on a Sunday, because, you know, we're both kind of serial workaholic

7:17 intellectual for me. And I was buying into it. My faith was buying into it. I was believing in it. When you come across something that seems impossible, how do you manage that in your mind? Obviously, much more than we knew five or six hundred years ago. And I know people do see that. It's like, it's very scalable. Another one is fiber optics. They all sort of seem to come out sometime around

10:45 life forms in other places? the gospel concarnate, which is the gospel with meat, but that woundedness, look at Christ, and you know, Christ's face is, I mean, I don't know how you can Yeah, and, but at that moment, he uttered, you know, that he believes, you know, my Lord, my God is what he said. And so, you know, attempts to strip my mother of her maternal rights

14:49 has an impact on you. you're discussing, is obviously hugely beneficial to people and to communities, and it motivates simple. over the course of our entire history here on earth, we've screwed the pooch. Yeah. We've also made a lot of great advances. It would have been fucking barbaric. have been these pilgrimages, and a half a million people will do that pilgrimage

18:14 Well if you try to do the whole 500, six weeks. the Christians and the Sacerans and all that. your life. Like, you know, look, I believe I'm sitting in this chair right now because of how God unplanned, I don't know where we'll be sleeping on any given night, I don't know who we're going to had this incredible demonstration of what you're doing and what your organization is

22:14 When you were on that stage talking I was saying to my wife. We've got to get his information do that what you've done you live with them, you feed them, they have all these activities, find incredible value in this community that you've created. to all those different human beings. unbelievable hope, if we do this right. if we get our act together as a civil

25:51 I can tell you that my dreams at 12 were three things. One, I wanted to be a rock star. ACDC cranking in the car, guess who is on stage playing that guitar and singing that time. And then somebody came in and poured fuel on top of those So when you come into our art house like you did and you see the artwork that's being We do very little screening. We want to know who you are. But it's a very low barrier entry to get into our deal.

29:51 I think most people are good people. The news just gets you freaked out about global warming, nuclear war, economic collapse. jobs that you got fired from, all these different things. Working together, man. are given us a run for the money. 380 bicycle or debit card to go buy, you know, something. Or sometimes we have the confluence of profound It's just these threat things that people concentrate on.

33:26 by social media algorithms. You know, the news today, it's so polarizing. It's just one side is absolutely sure that they're right and the other side is absolutely sure that they're right and it's just of society with cars and homes and normal people with jobs, you know, so I'll help you. pull over and help them change that flat tire? That's what this is

36:35 battlefield background that you and I can't even begin to understand. Yeah, You should strive to your goals. great example of this because in Los Angeles no one walks, everyone's in their car and We were all communal. Reflection of how sick the culture is and how sick the community is in Los Angeles, which is one of the most morally deprived ruling, the Grant-Pass versus Johnson ruling that the Supreme Court just did.

40:01 appeared back in like the 700s in a limerick from Ireland or something, the Otis's from the, you know, Andy and Mayberry downtown chronic inebriate drunk downtown, things are constitutional individual rights and I believe in our Constitution. Yark during that period of time because I was a little turd ball when Right. you're encouraging people to hit other people and then you encourage it as a form of punishment.

43:42 young boys involved in and it would temper most of that. It's also a more natural activity than sitting in a classroom. Sitting in a classroom is Exploring the world is fantastic heavy emphasis on exploring. Yes Yeah the the reality of the way we educate people is that it's just not Which is why I'm sure you could think back like I had a great science teacher when I was in eighth grade

46:46 when I was 13 years old. Like, you got to figure out what you like and get after it. sitting on this history of human time. lose our perspective. You know, I think there's something about being by that ocean that makes you go, oh, And food? There's a humbling of the person by their environment. Right. Yeah, but not much get like a little dose. You're supposed to get vitamin D every day, you know

50:03 since then, but one time I caught it perfect. when this really rocked me I just remember thinking watching it like you I think there's a spiritual aspect of looking out into the universe that's undeniable, So they thought that was it? It's just amazing who had the courage to take that first boat trip and hope they don't Well, he had his issues. Yeah, but in Spain, he's a hero because he connected the European continent to the American continent

54:21 they knew the history of indigenous people, a lot of There's never been one group of humans that lived in this perfect society, this utopian second Monday of October off. Oh, but that's just when they so the other places they don't have that off. So But my point was when we started this whole journey that the health of a community is often measured

56:05 I mean, it was bad. And I took a wrong turn once. you fuckers stay here. We're keeping you out of Beverly Hills. sick the culture is. It's an example. And I think what you're doing is an example of what can be accomplished with a healthy ever. Look at that mugshot, man. of trauma since the advent of man. America one million, that's one with six zeros after it,

1:00:26 period of time, since the 1970s up till now, there's been this creeping affluence dictated elevation of these housing quality standards, that makes a place like entire debacle, and it really begins with JFK. So they had a problem with people that were just using the mental health institutions That's the Insane Asylum? But what is it now? a lobotomy, and that there's got to be a better way that we can bring people back

1:05:38 By the time Ronald Reagan came around, we were completing what was really an honorable experiment that has of what we're doing. wouldn't call it argue internally, you know, what is a replicator of the did they hear about you? How did they hear that you were doing this? And like, in a positive way by people interested in what we're doing. But we've also, the Today Show,

1:09:03 like Alan out here doing this. another thing, but have had the experience of running operations the way Because people will say, I'm no Alan Graham. And then these people wind up selling these things. if these people didn't have an opportunity incredible to learn that he started painting when he was 27 years old, committed planet while he was in an insane asylum. And then it was post his death and because of his sister-in-law, his brother who died

1:13:27 There'll never be another one like it. teachers. There's some level of that. It's a lot smaller than people think. that is beyond our comprehension. It just takes more time. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a to draw and paint something. I've tried, it looks like shit. If you truly engaged in it, enthusiastic about it, Yes, one of my daughters is an incredible artist. She's incredible. She's really,

1:16:37 and it somehow or another gets into you and you're like, oh, I know how to do that. I They just didn't have a path for it and it just was banging around inside of their head. in any city. You might have had the chronic inebriate downtown LA or Houston, States for poor people is the First Amendment free speech right to stand on a street corner and ponchos selling them.

1:20:06 that because he could do it on a street corner. to go buy a box of those from Sam's Club and go stand on the street corner and sell those little blog post many years ago called The Pan fear but I'd rather walk down 6th Street and see a guy with a guitar on the Because you go one block over you're on 6th Street, it's madness. It's chaos, drunks wandering down the streets. Yeah. It's fun.

1:24:08 Right. Do they even have the money to move it? Where would they move it and why would me for that but that took it over about a year year and a half ago or so and they've Yeah, well you should... That was a couple of years ago. Yeah, but if I walk down So I'm definitely a fan. Yeah. Oh, that's what attracts. You see less of it, less real problems. Some of them laying on the ground some of them like barely able to stand up just

1:27:33 And now here they are, like half naked, like Community First Village, our statistical data that we've done over where, you know, we're all going to buy our pharmaceuticals. the legalization of marijuana as an example. You know, look, I live in the how do they get accepted? condition having lived on the streets at least a continuous year. For us, they have to be

1:31:48 today is under 10 years, a little over 9 years. fundamentally was a spiritual decision of mine as the They go out every night, serve about 1,200 meals every night. So many of the early people that came into the village were coming through that network. Today we're engaged. We have an organization in town called Echo. the taxpayer, the most money, although

1:35:15 So you have these 3d printed houses too. Yeah, and how did that come about? They're great little places. And as they were starting to come up on the radar screen, we ended up coming together We're under construction right now on 50 more across the street on that new phase population that we call missionals, just like a missionary would leave the United States

1:38:37 the people that were neighboring it, they were worried that you were going to affect Austin. We share a property line with the City of Austin. But for several years, And the news media was there, and it was an unbelievably horrible experience. neighborhood and and finally in 2010 complete frustration, I went to the then mayor of Austin, Lee Lovingwell,

1:41:51 We went and bought that site where I live today and then bought the site next door to Today it's plus or minus $450. Okay. The other argument is crime. There hasn't to be on their side of the deal, not our side. as I said in the beginning, like you're a guy who really lives that life and I think it's a It's a series of stories about encounters that I've had with about 11 or 12 different

1:45:14 I'm grateful for you to be here. Thank you. I really appreciate you. Thank you very