Places/place
California
2018-01-08, 1 mention2018-10-05, 1 mention2019-09-08, 1 mention2019-11-17, 1 mention2020-03-22, 1 mention2020-05-10, 1 mention2020-09-06, 1 mention2020-09-20, 2 mentions2020-10-04, 1 mention2020-11-01, 1 mention2021-01-17, 1 mention2021-02-14, 1 mention2021-04-11, 1 mention2021-08-10, 2 mentions2021-09-05, 1 mention2021-11-30, 1 mention2022-02-14, 1 mention2022-05-29, 1 mention2022-07-10, 3 mentions2022-09-18, 1 mention2023-01-15, 2 mentions2023-03-03, 1 mention2023-04-23, 1 mention2023-07-18, 1 mention2023-09-02, 1 mention2023-09-09, 1 mention2023-09-16, 1 mention2023-09-30, 1 mention2023-12-09, 1 mention2023-12-23, 1 mention2023-12-30, 1 mention2024-01-20, 2 mentions2024-08-24, 1 mention2024-11-09, 1 mention2025-01-14, 1 mention2025-01-18, 1 mention2025-02-15, 1 mention2025-03-13, 3 mentions2025-03-22, 2 mentions2025-09-13, 1 mention2025-11-08, 1 mention2026-02-28, 1 mention2026-04-11, 3 mentions
Tim’s take
His baseline position is that California is a failed state he keeps meaning to leave: he lists fires, homelessness, taxes, earthquakes and civil unrest as reasons he and Ben are looking at Austin 34:27, mocks the state's vaccine rollout as certain to be botched 28:50, and treats smash-and-grab crime and a homeless-housing scheme as proof the state can't manage its own money 25:26 24:25. He draws the same contrast more than once — the California of movies and TV versus the real one, which he says has become "a bad idea" 1:12:28 — and uses local wildfires as a running backdrop joke rather than a real grievance 0:00 1:39.
He never fully commits to leaving, though — he admits he loves California even while complaining about how crowded it is and says he'll always have a home there for stand-up 1:19:40. The other recurring bit flips the complaint: California money and Californians moving elsewhere, like Austin, are what ruin those places, which he plays as capitalism's punchline rather than a serious argument 8:34.
Every Reference (54)
"don't fuck So yeah, and like and Fox, I mean look if you went to California, which I mean it's ludicrous, but like, you know But you know"
"be good Seattle that area I would check that out maybe or do California, but drive up and down the state You know I mean for the PCH"
"earth looks like [ __ ] stop hiking the earth is dead people in California their brains are sunburned they hiked there's no vegetation"
"I mean it is sick man it is sick what are you are you or the California until you die Rogan talks about leaving all the time I mean"
Should Everyone Have Internet Access? And Bashing Online Trolls — #174 - Brendan Schaub | The Tim Dillon Show+134s into the segment"20% containment has failed the reports now out of New York and California if you have symptoms do not get tested unless you are in a very"
Totaling the Economy and Failed Testing — #192 - Coronavirus The Musical | The Tim Dillon Show+100s into the segment"you start to get to a certain level of wealth and you live in California you get very skeptical of Western medicine I'm starting to connect"
There's No Such Thing As Health (Cancer, AIDS, and Bad Diets) — #199 - Monkey Sex Traffickers | The Tim Dillon Show+155s into the segment"without wi-fi in the middle of the desert in the middle of a california heat wave wildfires 118 degrees scorched earth everywhere you"
Cold Open: Broadcasting from the Desert — #216 - A Good Deal | The Tim Dillon Show+6s into the segment"just saying reign it in boys we've had enough the citizens of california have had enough how great would it be if newsom got out and"
LA Firefighters Are Lazy and Maybe Starting Fires on Purpose — #218 - Fake Business | The Tim Dillon Show+262s into the segment"if you're making a million dollars a year in a business where you don't have to be in california and you can go somewhere else and not pay really high taxes it would be one thing"
California's High Taxes and Ben's Texas Baptism Fantasy — #218 - Fake Business | The Tim Dillon Show+37s into the segment"about this earlier today we're thinking about getting out of California and and it it's it it part of it is the economic collapse the"
Nashville vs Texas, Thinking About Moving to Austin — #220 - Hail Mary | The Tim Dillon Show+23s into the segment"[Laughter] i mean california is not a swing state i don't want to vote for trump and i don't"
Defending His Bernie Sanders Comments — #224 - American Chainsaw Massacre | The Tim Dillon Show+6s into the segment"vaccine yeah you have to be a resident of jersey so i can't i mean california is such a goddamn mess god only knows how they're going to dole"
Smokers Getting Vaccine Priority in Jersey and Mississippi — #235 - Covid Kai | The Tim Dillon Show+167s into the segment"like you're not bringing your liberal politics down here from california are you and i'm like well number one look at me like do i look"
Austin Haircut Story and Chamath as a Placeholder — #239 - Anna Khachiyan | The Tim Dillon Show+25s into the segment"but the but it's like yeah but you can't make it here and also california's got no point now where it's like it it it's such the difference"
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, and the Adoption Documentary Fallout — #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show+33s into the segment"understand okay you dumb hick people like me and other people from california are gonna move in here are they gonna make your children trans"
California Money Ruins Austin (and You Can't Stop It) — #263 - Family Business | The Tim Dillon Show+15s into the segment"maybe this is in the u.s california is leading but california's leading right now with a total caseload of 4 million sixty two thousand"
"recall in california there was a machete attack in malibu yes and i i i don't like"
Machete Attack in Malibu: A Father Loses an Eye — #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show"grabs their [ __ ] out of it they're gonna be upset and i think california and they california has problems with uh the crime and now you"
Not Everyone Has a Real Estate Portfolio Like Seth — #279 - Flashmob Omicron Morning Star Bear | The Tim Dillon Show+48s into the segment"with all the money that the government of California takes in the only option they have is to go to Citizens and go do you have a room"
California Asks Homeowners to House the Homeless — #287 - Drug Recognition Expert | The Tim Dillon Show+152s into the segment"on the teachers who weren't carrying these [ __ ] moving from california that's what it is you have a bunch of liberal teachers moving"
Arming Teachers with AR-15s: The Full Classroom Defense Plan — #300 - A Unique Experience with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show+10s into the segment"this up here join the fight with gavin newsom or join us in california but we still believe in freedom doesn't look like that by the"
Criminalizing Women While Staying Pro-Choice — Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306+78s into the segment"bunch of films this is kind of what it looks like when you go to california there's uh there's some type of like wait what wait huh there's"
The Hamptons vs. California Hollywood Trick — Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306+95s into the segment"hollywood they're lying to you they are making it seem like california is an idyllic paradise when in fact it is not the only thing"
Newsom Ad Continued: Fake Freedom and Real Political Ads — Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306+92s into the segment"of the oven a hoodie to help homeless people in Los Angeles California be stars to help homeless people be stars because the first"
Shipping Merch to Europe and Sebastian's TikTok Laziness — The Off Season | The Tim Dillon Show #316+39s into the segment"never been quite this bad this is a new level of uh bad for California where people are like you know getting like tragic shits going"
Tragic Deaths and Ellen's 'Be Nicer to Mother Nature' Plea — Flood The Rich | The Tim Dillon Show #331+42s into the segment"homes get up some more um examples of how bad this has gotten in California this has gotten really bad um kayakers are paddling uh in Santa"
California Death Toll: Sinkholes, Kayakers, and Dumb Deaths — Flood The Rich | The Tim Dillon Show #331+5s into the segment"California has its share of problems and really the reality is Florida"
Florida vs. California: Alligator Attack and Crime Comparison — The Tim Dillon Show #336"um I could just see like stuff I've lived in California long enough I'm an Arab actually I'm uh you know yeah I forgot"
California vs. New York Fashion and Playing a Rap Manager — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343"into your house whether you like it or not. And this is for our California and New York friends. We have gotten an abundance of requests"
Fake Emotional Support Animals and the Death of Airbnb — I'm On Strike | The Tim Dillon Show #354+208s into the segment"run I'm literally thinking about running for the governor of California you should try I I may try you should try and here's why yeah"
Running for California Governor and Vacation Talk — A Victimless Crime with Yannis Pappas | The Tim Dillon Show #359+79s into the segment"you guys for both coming uh I appreciate appreciate it fellow Californians uh coming here I appreciate it it's a you know we get a lot"
RFK Jr. and Cheryl Hines on Living in California — Bobby & Cheryl | The Tim Dillon Show #360+14s into the segment"you know, Democrats love that. A resident of the hated state, California. Doesn't she have a white husband? Yeah, right. So, I mean,"
The Weak Democratic Bench: Klobuchar, Warren, Buttigieg, Newsom, Kamala — The Vast Majority | The Tim Dillon Show #361+75s into the segment"I have is Social Security she lives in a very poor county in California right she's like I need money without you I wouldn't pay my"
Grandma's $60,000 Bank Account Hustle — The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363+20s into the segment"a legendary concept originating where all good things do in California where you can get cheeseburgers for almost nothing whenever"
McDonald's Cosmic Concept and the Death-by-Sugar Drink Strategy — The Sugar Algorithm | The Tim Dillon Show #373+40s into the segment"saying he cannot he's not eligible to run other States like California are looking into it now going huh what are we gonna do and what's"
Rogan Killed Hollywood, and Entering 2024's Chaos — A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374+60s into the segment"some Modern and many of them have left the high tax state of California and have escaped to well not the greener pastures but the brown"
Introducing Arizona, Scottsdale, and Gilbert — Dead-Eyed Monsters | The Tim Dillon Show #375+84s into the segment"follow all the logic here I'm I'm the potholes in this are large enough you can't even drive a car down the street but fine California"
The Ruling: No Renovations Until Affordable Housing — Den Of Snakes | The Tim Dillon Show #378+264s into the segment"down by ex reality stars it is being shredded and by the way California and Victor Davis Hans have talked about this recently the only"
The Big Brother Judge Behind the Ruling — Den Of Snakes | The Tim Dillon Show #378+66s into the segment"this is California the average price of a home in California is what 900 or something crazy it was like a million when we looked is a million bucks"
San Francisco and California: The Real "Joy" — The DNC Chick & Sunken Superyachts | The Tim Dillon Show #406+83s into the segment"things like bringing back harsher penalties for looting a store or a flash mob running in and grabbing stuff most of those ballot measures passed"
Crime Ballot Measures and Oakland's Rightward Shift — Election Analysis & Turning Yourself In | The Tim Dillon Show #416+39s into the segment"fire in a social media post on Saturday evening Trump blamed California's leaders for the current situation the fires were all raging"
Trump vs. Newsom on the Water Restriction Bill — LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426+8s into the segment"expedite uh you know the permitting process and we're going to need California to increase the fair plan which the fair plan is the California"
The Oppenheim Group's Fire Victim Hustle — Ceasefire Cheat Day & Realtors In LA | The Tim Dillon Show #427+137s into the segment"48h hour strongest storm in a year bearing down on Southern California could cause uh flooding the terms now for these are always um"
Atmospheric Rivers and Selling His Cliffside House — Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431+19s into the segment"the governor of California that's a hard job right he keeps saying it is the state's very big it's the seventh largest economy in the world"
Gavin Newsom Launches a Copycat Podcast with Steve Bannon — Little Moments With Meghan Markle | The Tim Dillon Show #435+74s into the segment"is this is what Gavin Newsome is now doing instead of running California he's decided to do this podcast and he might be better at this"
Playing Newsom's Bannon Interview Clip — Little Moments With Meghan Markle | The Tim Dillon Show #435+106s into the segment"this is what people say when you're in California they go well right before the Olympics they're going to they're going to get rid of all those homeless people because of the Olympics are coming"
Nobody Wants the LA Olympics — Little Moments With Meghan Markle | The Tim Dillon Show #435+12s into the segment"The one in California? Yeah, the California photo shoot because I saw it proliferating the internet and I was incredibly impressed."
American Foreign Policy as Asking for Money to Fix Your Country — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436+62s into the segment"my car and and and he looked like a junkie because he's from California, so they look like the drug addicts. They have long hair and"
Touring the Palisades Wildfire Wreckage — Andrew Schulz | The Tim Dillon Show #436+38s into the segment"I don't agree with a lot of the people that run the state that I'm sitting in right now, California. I feel they've been incredibly destructive"
On Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the Glee of Online Celebrants — The Silencing Of Charlie Kirk | The Tim Dillon Show #461+403s into the segment"moving in two seconds. The people here think they have money like California, but they don't. They're actually just white trash."
Cold Open: Alien Tech and Foam Parties in Miami — Zohran’s Victory, Air Traffic Chaos, & Government Shutdown | The Tim Dillon Show #469+59s into the segment"years of of good ideas that have worked well for the state of California. This is many many years of good ideas about letting people"
Defending 'Tez' the Leg-Eater as a Sympathetic Local — Kash Patel, Into Iran, & A Missing Leg | The Tim Dillon Show #485+386s into the segment"California is right now, I believe, the we have a $4 trillion gross domestic product and it accounts for more than 14% of US output."
California's Fourth-Largest Economy Stat — Bombing Beirut, Back To Butler & Melania’s Mission | The Tim Dillon Show #491+37s into the segment"things. This is a big part of why California is kicking ass. California's future growth will be intimately tied to the fortunes of his"
Tech Wealth vs. Homelessness and the LA Zombie Apocalypse Bit — Bombing Beirut, Back To Butler & Melania’s Mission | The Tim Dillon Show #491+15s into the segment"jobs of everybody else. So, by the way, it's still going to be California will still be the fourth largest economy in the world when everyone's"
Jensen Huang Says Move to California Anyway — Bombing Beirut, Back To Butler & Melania’s Mission | The Tim Dillon Show #491+10s into the segment