Joe Rogan | San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis

What I've noticed though is I was in Portland, Oregon and there was a whole like city of homeless people. Yeah. In LA, it's just sparkly. It's like Jimmy's on top of an ice cream. You know? You got to go to Skid Row. You never seen anything like it. Skid Row is a homeless city. It's insane. There's thousands of homeless people wandering through the streets. They've taken over entire neighborhoods. Like it is bizarre. It's bizarre. We used to film Fear Factor downtown. We would film these banded warehouses. They would rent them out and we would throw people off the roof and shit. There was this one area where you would go where, and I'm not exaggerating, there might be a thousand people on this block like a concert just let out. Like they were having a homeless concert and they're all just wandering around. There's needles everywhere and tents and garbage in the streets and people just shuffling around walking back and forth. So I guess there's some homeless centers where people can go and get food and things and shelter. You know, I'm starting to wonder like what's wrong with me. With you? Because I seem to focus on that. You know, every city I go to, I say, wow, it seems like there's more and more homeless people. And other people are saying, oh, let's go to the Freedom Trail. Let's look at the beauty of San Francisco. The guy's shitting on the street. To me, that's like unusual. Well, San Francisco has an app where you could find where the people are shitting. They have not jumped through it. We pulled it up before. Yeah. There's so many people shitting in San Francisco on the street. My friend Jake Shields got a photo of this guy taking his shit right in front of him, just shit spraying out of his ass right into the street from the sidewalk into the street. I don't know what. And they just do it in front of everybody. I don't know why people, you know, who's sicker, the person with the app or the guy taking a dump? Well, I think there's a certain open-mindedness that San Francisco has. A lot of very progressive open-minded people, which is good. But the problem is it opens the door for some ridiculous stuff, like people shitting on the street. Right. There's too many homeless people. They're too open-minded and too liberal. Look at that. That's the shit map. That's where all the people are shitting. That's a dark puddle of shit where so many people are shitting on the street in that area. See, that's that. And I don't even know how they clean that up. I mean, what do they do? They scrape it, hose the street down? Is that an extra— Jesus Christ. Are they creating jobs? Let's look at it on the positive side. Oh my God. Maybe those homeless people are creating jobs. That reminds me of the parades when they step the horses. There's nothing you could do either. I mean, what are you going to do? Are you going to give these people a place to live? Are you going to give these people food? Are you going to give these people money? It's not going to fix their mental illness. That's what people don't understand about a lot of these folks. It's not that they run on bad luck. They're not on bad luck. They're mentally ill. Their brain's not working correctly. And if they don't want to be on medication, they don't have anywhere to turn, they don't have anywhere to go, they're going to stay there. And they don't have anywhere to shit. And they just want to use this tree. And I don't know if they could put up porta-potties and say, for homeless folks only, what can they do? We're not going to solve that on the Joe Rogan show. I'm an optimistic person, Steve. You never know. I was thinking to myself, you're just, you know, just shit in your pants.