Interview · moment 5 of 33
New York vs. Los Angeles, and Ancestral Homelands
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
4 min
Guest
They discuss whether they'd ever live outside the US, touching on Ireland and Italy, then pivot into a long riff on why New York City is the best American city compared to isolating, fame-obsessed Los Angeles, and a story about a woman posing as a billionaire to see luxury real estate.
- Tim contrasts his ancestral people laying around eating with a comparison to Italy stopping cathedral building, while Irish people are tortured.
- Tim recommends The Banshees of Inisherin, the Colin Farrell film shot in Galway, as really good.
- Tim jokes that if LA gets hit with a nuke, he'd only feel sad enough to text Andy Letterman goodbye, but if Manhattan gets hit it's a catastrophe since New York is the nerve center.
- New York predates America itself, originally a Dutch fur trading outpost called New Amsterdam in the 1600s before becoming the nation's capital of commerce.
- Tim argues New York is the best city America can do, with the best food, education, companies, and architecture, creating excellence across all domains.
- Los Angeles is isolating and lonely because everyone's in their cars chasing fame, unlike New York where diverse people from all walks of life mix together on streets and subways.
- New York concentrates the best architects, chefs, baseball players, and builders in one place, surrounded by inspiring buildings that have stood for hundreds of years.
- Tim watched an online story about a woman who pretended to be a billionaire to visit expensive properties being sold and photograph their views.
- Tim admits he's also been going to places he can't afford to look at them, but he doesn't pretend to be rich while doing it.
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