Why Tim Dillon Moved to the Desert

Hey, Piel, that place Felix you like? Felix doesn't outside. Oh, they do? Oh, it's wonderful. They're whole outside. It's fantastic. That's awesome. Maybe I'll go there in an action. They have a next door restaurant that had this whole outside area that you took that over. They have a lot of sea desert. When you go to a restaurant in the desert, you eat the food, you're like chewing it. You're like, what the fuck is this? I don't know what goes on. I go to like seafood restaurants after I start chewing something. I'm like, I don't even know what this is. There's one good one called Pacifica, which is really good, but there's a lot of restaurants out there in the desert where you go, something's wrong. You just decided to go out there. Did you previously have experience with Tom's friends? No, but I was in a car and then the people, the riots started. I was in a car and the riots started and I literally, instead of going back to my house because I live right off sunset and apartment right off sunset, instead of going back, I just got on a 10 East. I never even been out there. I just said, I put the clothes on my back. I said, I swear to God, I said, I'm getting on the 10 East. What am I going to go? I look like a cop. I look like a guy that should be burned alive for every sin that this country is committed. Right. No one would care. My own parents would be like, he probably did something to deserve that. So I'm like, I'm getting the fuck out of here because I get lit up immediately. So I just started driving on the 10 East. I got an Airbnb. I told some dude, I'm like, hey, can I, you know, it was a nice Airbnb. And I just got out there and I'm like, I fucking love it out here. It's just nice. It's just quiet. I know people have like vacations, but of course. And then I just said to myself, I'm like, if LA is not going to be, if I'm not at the store and I'm not doing anything, I can drive in and do podcasts. I can easily drive in. How long did it take you to get here? Under two, about two. And it's like a San Diego. All the traffic is Ventura Freeway. Have you ever thought about living down there like La Jolla? No, no. Two. I'm not a surfer. You know what I mean? You don't have to be a surfer. I'm not here. I came here to do stand up comedy. I came here to create things. I didn't come here to be a surfer. I didn't come here to do yoga. I didn't come here to join a cult. I didn't come here to do any of that. I'm an East Coast guy. East Coast is where I was born and raised. Which makes sense that you're in the Palm Desert. Yeah. Because it's, well, what are you going to do? I can't go move back to New York and get shot in the face. So I'm staying there until December, till the holidays, and then I'll figure out, you know, who knows. We'll see what's happening in the world. The violence rate in New York right now is awesome. It's a little too much. It's a little too much. It's so crazy. It's a lot. And listen, how are they going to turn that back? It'll turn around, dude, in five years, everything, it's a cycle. It'll bottom out a little bit. Or? Or it'll be done forever. But it'll be a cycle, dude. In five years, a bunch of rich kids will move in there just like they moved in there in 2009. They'll start doing alternative comedy, dressing like fucking, you know, fucking flappers. They'll start tripping, you know, and they'll just, and that'll be the resurgence of the city. They'll open a bunch of new coffee houses in what used to be homeless shelters, and it'll just, and it's just a cycle. But what needs to happen now, there's going to be a lot of pain. There's going to be a lot of displacement of people. And then I think this could be the route to the city getting cool again, to maybe younger artistic people coming in, architects doing cool shit, reimagining public spaces. You know, New York needs to get shaken out of its tree a little bit, and so does LA. That's what's happening. I just don't want to be here for it. Like maybe it'll get dirty and dangerous again. It's going to get to the point where maybe everything won't suck. Times Square will be like Times Square in the 70s. And people that move to New York will, there'll be, you know, listen, if you know you could get slashed on the way to the comedy show, you better kill. You better make it work. You have a lot of tension. You better make it work. If it's safe and you and your friends are like skipping down the street, you don't, you don't ever feel that, you know, pressure. Where's that other sock? Right. It's just good. Yeah. And I think that now you're going to get it, you know. We'll see.