Interview · moment 2 of 21
RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines on Living in California
from Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360 · #360
5 min
Guest
RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines join Tim to discuss moving to California, and RFK Jr. describes the collapse of San Francisco's Union Square shopping district with boarded-up stores and massive office vacancy rates.
- RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines join the show as fellow Californians
- RFK Jr. moved to California in 2014 for love, initially reluctant to leave New York
- California's weather and geography—ocean, mountains, mild winters—make it unbeatable compared to the East Coast
- California is the world's fourth or fifth largest economy, a massive engine of American GDP
- Tim asks how RFK Jr. internalizes California's homelessness and addiction crisis given his own recovery
- RFK Jr. argues addiction and homelessness are separate issues, not necessarily connected
- The real issue is housing availability; zoning laws in San Francisco prevent high-density housing
- During the Monsanto trials, RFK Jr. exercised daily at Union Square and watched the iconic American stores
- Today those same Union Square stores are boarded up with plywood, turning Fifth Avenue into a wasteland
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