rant · moment 14 of 17
Why Nobody Visits LA and Vegas Anymore
from They Got Greta, A.I. Hollywood, & The Battle For Tik Tok | The Tim Dillon Show #464 · #464
7 min
Tim explains the collapse of tourism in LA and Vegas through economic decline, ICE raids, wildfires, and high costs, riffing darkly on families going on vacation amid deportations and tragedy, ending on the absurd price of bottled water in Vegas.
- US lost 32,000 private sector jobs in September, with especially sharp declines in cities like LA and Vegas.
- LA visitor numbers have plummeted 50 percent, following Vegas's collapse.
- Tim explains there's nothing to do in LA anymore—no real celebrities to see because everyone is a star now.
- What tourists actually see in LA: urban decay, palm trees, and ICE agents throwing bus boys into trunks.
- Vegas has become too expensive to visit, and tourism depends on people having reasons to celebrate.
- People only take trips when they think their lives are good, and nobody celebrates in Vegas while unemployed or in crisis.
- Tim catalogs increasingly catastrophic personal scenarios—fentanyl deaths, pedophile husbands, burned-down houses—none of which inspire Vegas trips.
- Vegas used to be affordable; now it's the opposite, and everything in the country is overpriced garbage.
- Vegas hotel beds come with blood stains; quality has disappeared everywhere while costs skyrocket.
- A nine-dollar bottle of water to revive a friend overdosing on Molly on hot cement, while the ambulance bill remains unknown.
- Tim insists his friend get in the ambulance despite their pleas to die—because it's Vegas and they're having fun.
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