Joe Rogan - LA Is Overpopulated

You know, it's like... Bullet is weird. Why is San Francisco so empty in Bullet? Well, because there was nobody alive back then. People... there was no tech companies. There was very few people. Chad, traffic was nothing back then. Talk to somebody about what traffic was like in 1960 in L.A. I think I just brought that up earlier in the show. Well, I moved here in 94. And I remember when I moved here, it was nothing like this. Nothing. It's gotten 100% worse. It's like just twice as many people here. It's what it feels like. Fuck all of us. It's so crazy. Like, you get on the highway on a Saturday night, just heading into L.A. on a Saturday night, and you're stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for no reason. No one's dead. There's no accident. It's just too many clears. Yep. Just volume. I'm reading a book right now called Traffic. It's about the science of traffic. And they did a study in L.A. and Saturday 2 p.m. traffic is worse than any weekday rush hour in Los Angeles. Because everybody's out. Yeah. Everyone's out doing their shit. Dude, you know, when you go to another city, like if you go to a big city, like Seattle, and you're there with them and they complain about their traffic, you go first of all, shut the fuck up. Second of all, what I'm doing must be wrong then, because I'm dealing with way too many people. You guys have got it right. This is the right amount. You got a lot of people, but you don't have too many people. Like in a medium-sized city that's not L.A. Yeah. And then traffic makes sense. It goes in. It goes out. Yeah. And here it's just like, hence the scooter. You want to get out before it gets all Blade Runner-y. What is that going to happen? Well, you know, it's like those dudes like Magnus Walker, who live in downtown L.A., with his dreadlocks and his garage and his warehouse district. Those guys like that shit, right? He likes that shit. He likes being an urbanite. I'm super fucked. I'm in Venice. When that tsunami comes, I'm super fucked. Oh, yeah. You're right on the edge. Yeah. It's not good for me. Not looking good. The bars are done. There's an app. What's the app that wants to give us access? The early warning app. It says you have 60 seconds for your fucking day. Is that what they had in Hawaii? Well, yeah. There's an app now that's working in California. It's the year about to die? It's an earthquake that's about to hit. They apparently have it depending upon the magnitude of the earthquake, which is really scary, because the higher magnitude possibility, the more time you have. Really? Yeah, they can give you up to a minute to know your fucksville. Dude, I'm just thinking. What can I... I'm thinking about what I... How far can you get in a minute? Nowhere. Nowhere worth getting. I can get to my closet. Do you have stored food or anything? I'm embarrassed that I don't. I have a list of shit I need for probably... should probably get for an earthquake. You must have a whole room of shit in this fucking palace of yours. Not in here, but here I have meat in here. I do have commercial freezers. Of course you do. For elk, right? Yeah. But I have emergency rations. And I have freeze-dried food that can last me a few months. How would you physically get out of the city if you had to? You would really be fucked. Would you just start walking? Would you bicycle? The real fuck would be cars. There'd be too many cars. There's way too many cars. You ever see what happened when the hurricanes were hitting Texas, and people tried to escape, or Florida? Like Florida, the last one. You can't go anywhere. And they just get stuck on the highway. You get stuck and you run out of gas on the highways, and everybody's scared and desperate. It's not good. And hurricanes you see coming. This earthquake, you get 30 seconds. Yeah. I think my scooter is what's going to save me. Where are you going to go? Are you going to go somewhere and they're going to eat you? Are you going to get away? I'm probably going to be very tasty. Yeah, they're going to hunt you down. They put me on a spit. Yeah. They're going to keep you alive so they can eat you longer, because there's no refrigeration. Fuck. Just going to tie you up and cut off parts of you. Damn it. Eat it in front of you. I'm going to come here and bust into this fucking place. Yeah, man. That's the move. Come here. We'll help you. I'm so about this space, dude. Who has a float tank? That is so awesome. Everybody should have one. I agree. My real concern is just the mass of humans. Just the sheer number is so insane. And I don't think it's sustainable. There's never been a time, ever, in human history where we've had masses of people crammed into areas like we have today in modern America. In our urban areas, you mean? Modern America, modern Mexico City is like that, jammed up. There's quite a few places that are like the population number is higher now than it's ever been recorded in human history. And so the population of these cities is higher than it's ever been. We've never had like, we've never had 20 million people in a city before in America like we do in LA. What's that, Jamie? States with a smaller population than Los Angeles County. Is that all of them? Almost all of them. It's like 30-something states. Almost all of them. Is LA County 20 million people yet? It's like 16-something, right? I think this is like on the 10 to 11 million. Fucking that. So if you're looking at this map, and it's one tiny little area of California, and it has more people in it if it was a state than almost every fucking state, except Florida. And Texas, and New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois? Illinois. God damn. I mean, that is just fucking bananas. LA is so crazy. I don't... Is it worth it? Where would you live if you didn't live? No. If I didn't live in Illinois? No.