Joe Rogan | "Everybody Owes Me Something" Mentality w/Tim Dillon

You know what concerns me is this, the rise of people that think that everyone owes them something. Sure. Sure. That's the weird one. We were talking about AOC, who, you know, she seems like a nice girl, good looking woman, she's young, she's got energy, she wants to do good things. She wants to do some good ones. But I saw the one thing that said, give money to people who are unable or unwilling to work. Yeah, that's not... That's not gonna work. Well, it's not. And they pulled that out. They pulled that part out, the unwilling part. Right. And unable to work makes total sense. You know, as a community, we should take care of the people. Most of the people I know in comedy are unable to work. Most of us. Most of us. Yes. This is the only thing we can do. But her thing was a weird one, because that thing, unwilling to work, it's like, hey, hey, hey, hey. You just crossed over into crazy town. Like, this is... Yeah. But that means that crazy town was always in the back. You always had that. When you put that on paper, that means this is something that's been discussed. Part of the appeal, and she just... I don't know how influential she was in getting Amazon to drop out of New York. But I live in Queens, so everyone who's paranoid Amazon was coming. I was in a bagel, I know carbs are no good, but I was in a bagel shop. I gave up dairy two weeks ago. I'm turning it around. I was in a bagel shop. It was paranoid about Amazon. Amazon's gonna come. We're all gonna get priced out of our little shoeboxes that we live in, or some of the people that own those shoeboxes were like, I'm a millionaire now because Amazon's coming. But here's the thing. It's hard to have a rational discussion about inequality right now, because in a place like New York City, it's so expensive to live. And the reason for that is that it's a destination for foreign capital. So essentially, a lot of the buildings in New York City, foreign people buy apartments. They don't live in them. They use it to launder money. And they buy them, not even under their real name, buy them under the name of a shell corp, like an LLC. And then they have these investments. And it really makes everything insanely expensive. That's what's making everything expensive? That's what's making a lot of real estate in New York City expensive. Well, if you gotta guess, what percentage of expensive apartments are owned like that? I'll tell you, between 2008 and 2014, I think 50% of apartments going into contract were... Because I do a show, but I used to be a double-decker tour guide in New York City. And so I do a show, like a funny comedy show where I sell tickets, I put people on a tour bus, and then we'd go around to these buildings, just scream at these buildings. It's fun. It should be illegal, but it's fun. And no one cares because they're not home because they're somewhere... I mean, if you look at who owns these buildings, it's a guy who is maybe a guy who owns a mining company and he poisoned a river in Zambia. A lot of these guys are doing things they shouldn't be doing, and they want to stash their money in real estate. London is more expensive than New York. Because London is all essentially shell corporations, these phantom buyers buying up real estate in London, in New York. So you have people in New York that know the system is fucked. They know the market's being artificially manipulated. Bloomberg thought it was great. Bloomberg goes, we want all the billionaires. He said it. That was his quote. We want all the... It's like, some of those billionaires have done things that would keep you up at night. Bloomberg's like, bring them in. They eat shrimp and steak. They'll go to Peter Luger's. Bring them in. We love them. We want all the billionaires. He's just thinking of it as a businessman, right? Well, that's the thing. So people get fed up with this. And dude, when I was at my tour bus, people would get on from regular places like Pennsylvania and I would just point and go, 10 million, 20 million, 30 million. And these people just shift uncomfortably in their seats. Like, what the hell is going on? Right. Here. This is the... I saw Trump getting elected during those tours because I'm like $100 million and they're like sitting there like, what? I can't afford a knee operation. Well, the idea that Trump's not a part of that is even more crazy. He is. Well, listen, in his building was a huge destination. Russians love his building. Yeah. They love it. They love a brand name. They love the plaza. They love his building. And a lot of interesting characters lived in Trump Tower. Didn't they take the Trump Tower name off of it? In New York? No, I don't think so. There was one of the buildings where the people that owned the co-op decided to take the name off of it. Oh, maybe. Well, there's a lot of shitty Trump nursing homes too. Really? As you drive into New York. Oh, yeah. Your own nursing homes? You know those elderly people are getting beaten. It's hard to say. Joe, you know they're getting fleeced and beaten. You go by, you see like Trump Pavilion. It's like a Soviet era architecture, horrible old age home that's been there since the 70s. And I'm like, man, I feel for the people in there. The screams. Another New York condo votes to remove Trump from name. Yeah. New York City condominium on Thursday will remove President Trump's name from the building's facade the second time in four months. His name has been removed from a condo in the city. 55% of Trump place condo owners at 120 Riverside Boulevard in Manhattan voted in favor of removing the large sign above the front door. The building's, isn't that crazy? Who cares? These are self-important people. No one cares. They're worried about their investment. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. I think if you try to sell it in its Trump place and you're going to eliminate 50% of your buyers. The dictators that are buying those apartments think it's great. They probably don't. Maybe they don't. Maybe they're like, you know what? This is probably, we'll probably go down the street to this no name building when we better off. But a lot of his condos were sold to Mafia and Russian business guys. I mean, he's always had that, you know, he did deals. It was this firm located in Trump tower called Bayrock Financial, which was a, it was headed by this guy Felix Sater. Felix Sater was a guy who the FBI had convicted in like a Russian pump and dump stock scam. And he worked in Trump tower with Trump. Like he worked very closely with Trump and Felix had like informed, I think on the Russian mob for the feds and the feds kind of let him earn and let, so Trump has had this labyrinth of shady connections forever. And I don't know if that means that he's necessarily, I don't think he's an asset or a Putin or anything like that. I don't believe that. I think that's kind of just, you know, I think it's a lot of people would like to believe that, but he's a shady guy. So if you have all these people pouring over his business deals for the last, you know, 50 years, it can't be good.