Places/place
Santa Monica
Tim’s take
He describes Santa Monica consistently as overrun by visible homelessness and mental illness, calling it one of the scariest places to visit and telling people to google 'santa monica homeless' to see past the postcard version 34:03. He repeats the warning as practical advice too, telling out-of-town visitors flatly not to stay there 44:56, and even a stray anecdote about a lone centrist writer working from a Santa Monica diner gets framed around isolation rather than the place itself 0:44. The one consistent thread is homelessness and decline — he brings up a story about the city bussing homeless people out in the 90s 48:16 and elsewhere just describes people screaming in the middle of the street 20:16, with a rich divorcee retreating there to "lick his wounds" as basically the softest thing he says about it 24:31.
Every Reference (6)
"him once, it's just like 2 a.m., He's sitting in a diner in Santa Monica just on his computer. I'm like, oh, that's where the center"
"anyone the city is gross it's embarrassing we went down to santa monica and there's just people in the middle of the street screaming"
Rick Caruso's Mayoral Runoff and the Homelessness Debate — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+64s into the segment"the homeless what what can you really do i was reading uh in santa monica how they solved it in the 90s how'd they do it they ship them"
The Homeless 'Pot' Solution and Dissolving People — #302 - Put Them In A Big Pot | The Tim Dillon Show+17s into the segment"you to google in another tab santa monica homeless because santa monica is one of the scariest places you'll ever go i was there the"
Newsom Ad Continued: Fake Freedom and Real Political Ads — Breaking Point | The Tim Dillon Show #306+44s into the segment"beverly hills hotel the waldorf is fine as well do not go near santa monica it's a mad house there's nothing really in malibu to stay there's"
Housing the Homeless in Beverly Hills Hotel vs. Motel 6 — The Choker | The Tim Dillon Show #313+97s into the segment"she checks on you you live somewhere else now maybe a 10,000 Santa Monica licking your wounds and other things but they don't deserve"
The Palisades' Zoned-Out Rich Don't Deserve This — LA Fires Emergency Podcast | The Tim Dillon Show #426+151s into the segment