Joe Rogan Experience #2268 — Rick Caruso Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. I wanted you to win. Yeah. And so it was really amazing and people and the diversity people argue that the mayor of LA doesn't have a lot of authority like it. So you may not have a lot of power, but actually I think the most powerful just circulate. You know, they go from the city council to the state assembly to towards because I believe that either lead, follow, or get out of the way.

3:59 And you realized that this was not being run My grandfather, paternal grandfather was a gardener in Los Angeles. and had they had this small little home they rented in Boyle Heights. And I think about If you're equipped right, to them. And, you know, we would laugh about it as a family it's like you might as easy realistic habit that you can make to easy habit to stick with is AG1. It's an easy, realistic

7:42 and five free AG1 travel packs with your first What do you see as like the primary issues of LA right now? We've covered it on this podcast that there's people that are bureaucrats that work for this housing for a minute. LA and LA County they put in a tax called HHH to build 10,000 units. Yeah, I know. waste on top of waste on top of waste. It's ridiculous. So yeah, you're right

10:34 On average, they're about 60, 70,000 a unit. getting them taken care of, giving them the service they need. It can be fixed. So what could be done? helping these people with their mental health results with helping these people with their mental health issues I mean, literally in downtown, there's tents that are run by and mental health care, and they're giving them housing.

13:15 And there's probably a dozen organizations downtown that are doing a good job. You know, it's like I'm not the expert in it, but when I went down there and spent time this. It's a crime we allow this. But an example of Downtown Women's Center, they accept them it will take them an average of six years Right. It makes good backdrops. And even back then, it was bananas.

15:52 And what Skid Row was, they would take people, And so they just stayed there. in that area got devastated. It's hugely successful. to get off the drugs They give them structure, they give them training, they give them hope. Yeah. Right? Where, you know, we were talking in the lobby before I was evacuated three times when I And, you know, this was 2018.

19:25 They lose everything. And that water was being funneled into the Pacific Ocean and now apparently you could tell me more, you probably know more than I do. what needs to be done I think is great. We should be holding water. We should be recycling water. We should be doing a lot of things. We said, we're going to have to get out of here. that I that runs out of water in a fire? And you knew the fire, you knew this was coming,

23:36 There was a whole bunch of us raising hell about that after the fire in Brentwood six And the mayor's out of town. prepared, but years ago, the brush should have been cleared. Yes, right It seems like highly unlikely. Several times arrested who had a fake fire truck and drove down Right. What personal responsibility do I have for the way I live right now?

26:40 because the cover on it needed to be repaired. Start pumping water in it because nobody gives a shit about what's in the water when from LA and it gets rough out there. If you never, some of them were 100 miles an hour this year. been cleared, had the reservoirs been full, had the fire trucks been stationed, had there been a whole series of protocols in place, again.

28:29 Everyone is saying it's a failure. everything, they gaslight the shit out of you that's filled with the most liberal people. partner of the UFC the men's middleweight and women's straw weight app now and use the code ROGON. That's code ROGON for new customers to get $200 in bonus I think the reality has set in, honestly, close to 10, is the head of that department got politicized. Years ago under Bradley and

32:07 Politics creeped into who was the general manager. and be held accountable for whoever made bad decisions, to preserve the entity that they're invested in, that And you're seeing someone look at this thing that is incredibly efficient almost by design and because of that you're seeing this, not just waste, where they recognize, like, hey, been kind of thinking that too.

35:41 Like I said, it's terrible that it took this kind of tragedy Are you gonna make decisions for the right reason? I don't know if you remember Bernie Parks. And he's two or three times called back. procedures, disciplined procedures, So what did the cops start doing? if you had an area the city Had people burning me an effigy not seen since 1950, doing all the right things, engaging the community, senior lead officers,

40:29 He never gets enough credit for this. So let's get more people like that who just understand, let's do what's right for people. of it and want to be the mayor. And no, no real radical change can ever be met. and it's dangerous. that that ever gets resolved is you have to bring in that gets thrown at you. with their new mayor. It's just too crazy. are fed up.

43:47 progressive people on the West Coast. That's right. when they pull out like, what are you doing? It's booming. who was the former mayor of Austin great guy and you know he was explaining to me the homeless But they were only dealing with a few thousand homeless people. without the outsider coming in and making radical change, You're gonna have mentally ill people.

46:03 We clearly need better mental health institutions and just let these people loose on the street. But it's never been like Los Angeles And I understand there's a big difference with solving for 3,000 versus 80,000 whatever the number is but And a lot of people are there, you know, Well, it's worked out well for you. They feel like there's more violent crime,

48:31 I mean, that's another really good example So you could, like, in a Syrian fashion, Holding bad people accountable is really important. That well I probably won't explain it right because I don't I don't agree with it is that attacked a man with his family with a machete on the beach. I don't understand it. end goal of that? It has to be profit. I mean someone has to be profiting off of it.

51:39 That's great. let's figure out a way to actually rehabilitate them instead of just putting them in cages. It's gone upside down. This guy was a hardcore gang member. You need to do the opposite. That's right. You need to train them better, refund them. You're protected by armed security people. you can get to. to get those positive results. It needs someone outside the system

55:14 a tremendous amount of pressure, but here's what really hit me on the campaign and I was telling It ended up being the greatest experience would tell the kids that cry is hope. And what we're seeing there is for the first time, want a career of being able to give back and help and overly taxed, all of these kind of things, and we give them hope and a path forward,

58:40 and loving and this school that we support, Those are the dearest, sweetest children in the world. But the system is frankly against them. You absorb that from your environment, the sadness and the devastation all around you. That's what I think we got to start fixing. Yes, right. And if you start fixing that now, what you want is less people that are going to lose at life. You want less losers.

1:02:05 seeing people peeing on themselves and throwing up and walking through the streets just covered It's the same thing with any place else city of Los Angeles has something like over 300 or 400 parcels of land that are vacant. But we can never say, well, create enterprise zones. wealthiest country in the world especially LA LA is so wealthy state of And I think once you get that in motion it starts taking off. I really do because people do not want to continue the way

1:05:15 and they want the poor to starve. and it's just a bunch of nonsense. understands business like that you have to do things if you want to change But you know, LA will snap right back to the old way. I mean, if you just give them a couple hey, guess what, gay people aren't losing rights. up to the fact that you're not in this binary system And it can be done.

1:07:45 better examples of a place that's just trapped. You're either a Democrat or you're a fucking Oh yeah. at that press conference, out on the Palisades, and he was pushing back on it. It's much more effective and measured. Yeah. Yeah. the way it was built 70 years ago. Right. It'd be insane. It's insane. So underground be the advocate for those homeowners, to be the advocate for those business

1:11:30 So where's the money going? enough of that. The answer has to be we're gonna go do this and now we're You need innovation and entrepreneurship that private enterprise brings. Can you imagine that? That's insane. of the Palisades, it doesn't make sense. Oh yeah. Tree-lined streets. It's gone. because they are down and out. been really vocal about that. And this is, you know, this is

1:15:17 And there's also, you're going to have people that won't be able to move back to their neighborhood because they may with low income housing. Yeah. Everybody gets what they want. we're gonna let you build 20 units. the harder you work, the more that you do, So now you can have firefighters, police and teachers living in the neighborhoods So the people that made the most money

1:19:01 and that's what the Palisades was. especially if you tie your workforce housing affordable housing, low-income housing. government just cannot do it alone. There's just no way. There's just no way. It's insane to run a business. in order to allow businesses to survive and restaurants to operate, they started taking become successful. What's the cause of regulation? How does it start? I don't know, Joe, that's a good question. I think that there's a group of people

1:22:17 from investing and creating jobs and creating opportunity. don't have the resources. So we've had to supplement it. Millions and millions of so Leave because it was awesome. That's what people have done. I didn't leave because it was awesome, right? is just a mighty powerhouse. brightest minds to come here and start your business. So in order to incentivize people, if they wanted to come back to California, you've

1:26:12 Why does a gallon of gas in California cost more than a gallon of gas in the world? Where's that money going? really want to help the system. then implement them. That's the greatest form of government. Whether What could be done about that? to raise revenue for the government If you start giving people a rate Yeah. sure. It was a hell of a lot of hard work and you were very focused and you had your

1:29:57 Okay, I saw a picture of you removing a sheet of ice. Is it yeah long is the suck part? Sucks for about a minute. from the initial injection to heal the area. Oh, every day. Yeah, just sit there. I do love it Just suck it up for a while. what are these people talking about? Yeah, I do that too, I do that today. You know, they did a 20-year study where they showed a 40% decrease in all-cause

1:32:59 Because you can only tolerate that extreme heat for a certain amount of time. responsible for this. There's an EPO-like effect on your blood where you have more red Yeah, what's down? I'm so used to it and it makes the rest of your day way easier. think like one day like governor, one day like president? I'm sort of at the back nine of my life, right?

1:35:49 And so as time goes on, I'll figure that out. before the fire she's going to run for reelection. But we'll see how that plays out. As a private I'm going to fund it myself. figure that out. Well that that sounds wonderful but it seems to me that like So in order to get re-elected you have to give these people some faith that you've Right. what I'm going to do.

1:39:26 Great idea. It's crazy. Yeah. You can do it where it's environmentally safe. And again, back in the day- How much of an impact can that actually have? brilliant on how he did it there isn isn't one pump. It's all gravity flow that comes down from Inyo County, Owens Valley comes down. There was a the investment and take the treatment and put it back in the aquifer and have

1:43:09 to be clean. now, 30 years ago. They're now testing and converting it to hydrogen, which will be absolutely You know, so whatever kind of fuel you want, we built, we were partners in Palo Verde, It pollutes the ground forever. those cars were polluting like crazy. They have them now where they can actually shut them down. somebody from the outside who's thinking big, who's thinking outside the box, who wants

1:46:05 Well, I'm optimistic too. I think you get too big. and there's an amazing group of human beings They're staying. Still that attitude. government. And not as much as we could. Yeah, not as much as we could. Well listen, Rick, This is really an honor.