I Went To The New Drug Capital Of The United States

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  • @NickJohnson
    @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Here's my entire California Road Trip: th-cam.com/play/PLq-_cmf3H6yoGM0mmbTCTmMa9zMFvvDeG.html

    • @davidstaudohar6733
      @davidstaudohar6733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      W😎 W doesn't your butt hurt from driving so much ❓❓❓ Great footage 🎥🎞️🎞️📺 Of Socialist California , I watched footage of Zylzenski in Washington DC , The DP Only has one set of clothes Puke green sweater An Puke green fatigue trousers , And 86 billion dollars of American Tax payers hard earned money , Andy's too cheap to buy a three-piece suit tie and a nice pair of Italian leather loafers , 🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️

    • @tamarackmi9195
      @tamarackmi9195 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank You🥰I really like your vid style💖Hope you have a Merry Christmas🕯

    • @dakistle
      @dakistle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Man, your channel has exploded! How has Mappy been taking the fame?

    • @lawrencefox563
      @lawrencefox563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@davidstaudohar6733 perhaps people could coming over Mexican border can be sent to defend Ukraine in cause global democracy.

    • @lawrencefox563
      @lawrencefox563 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Texts are purposely changed

  • @carmenmonoxide7459
    @carmenmonoxide7459 2 ปีที่แล้ว +973

    I absolutely enjoyed the California back country more than the cities. But basically California is broken and it's a f'n shame 😔

    • @mustangracer5124
      @mustangracer5124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Evil left Kings and Queens at their finest.

    • @Anonymous-tl6zu
      @Anonymous-tl6zu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The world is a shithole

    • @angeladansie4378
      @angeladansie4378 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      California is a microcosm of America. America is broken. Lefties smoke weed, pay taxes & want their taxes to pay for housing, food & healthcare for the less fortunate. Right wingers cook meth, don't pay taxes & don't give a f#@k about the less fortunate. It directly correlates with blue & red states. Blue states pay all the welfare benefits for red states, pay better wages, and are the states where educated & successful people tend to want to live. Red states receive more federal money than they pay, have very low minimum wages & tend to have lower education levels & much higher poverty per capita. The tweaker towns in California are right wing, or redneck as Nick puts it

    • @angeladansie4378
      @angeladansie4378 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@mustangracer5124 It's the right wingers in California cooking meth

    • @tamlele7024
      @tamlele7024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree with your thoughts. Too much corruptions by the Government. Homeless and drugs used everywhere in California.

  • @Ndw1995
    @Ndw1995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +998

    The Cartels are already all over California and beyond. I don't think we'll ever get the genie back into the bottle. Our weak border is to blame for that

    • @ilovemytribe
      @ilovemytribe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you think the weak border is the problem? It is the Americans who have an insatiable appetite for drugs. Why doesn't anyone ever ask why Americans love drugs so much?? The Mexicans are simply just meeting a demand...

    • @SouthernSierra56
      @SouthernSierra56 2 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      Lame, not the weak borders. That's weak thinking It's American demand for these drugs. No it's not us it's the weak border.

    • @MrAmhara
      @MrAmhara 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Criminals are just about universal. What's so special about the Mexican ones?

    • @andrewwood2313
      @andrewwood2313 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Many politicians nonprofits and even churches are in cahoots with the cartels

    • @Ndw1995
      @Ndw1995 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ​@@andrewwood2313 Finally, someone who doesn't victim blame. Could you imagine the logic of some of these people in an assault scenario?

  • @lopinitupou4626
    @lopinitupou4626 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    "you can almost see the meth clouds in the horizons" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
    that was a good one.

    • @argosatori
      @argosatori 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wrong kind of Chem cloud, they are chem trails. lol

  • @doctorbjones2283
    @doctorbjones2283 2 ปีที่แล้ว +594

    Fun Fact: Breaking Bad was originally supposed to take place in Riverside. However, it was cheaper to film in New Mexico.

    • @DeflatingAtheism
      @DeflatingAtheism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      It worked out for the best, IMO.

    • @hoboonwheels9289
      @hoboonwheels9289 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That's the show I thought of too😊

    • @Timinator62
      @Timinator62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yep, my Cousin is a "Hollywood" Producer/Director, he says very few Shows or Movies are shot in California anymore ( Sit Coms still are of course), mostly just short scenes where they need it to look like LA or 'Frisco they'll shoot a bunch of footage and scenes in a week or 2 and then off to a lesser known town somewhere out of California for the 6 months to a Year to shoot the Main parts.

    • @patrickjenkins6383
      @patrickjenkins6383 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Speaking of filming location & cost: I imagine that two of the most Important yet under appreciated words in Hollywood are probably: "Production Budget." 🎥💃🎬

    • @bellybouncing
      @bellybouncing 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ya they film in states that have lower taxes & less work rules, they avoid/evade what they vote for ironically

  • @gregguidry1
    @gregguidry1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +485

    I lived in Moreno Valley when I was first introduced to meth. 1987 . Even back then it was regarded as the meth capitol of the world. Little labs all over. I was even acquainted with gangsters from LA that moved out to Riverside county so that they could get themselves established. Just glad that after realizing I had my own problem, I joined the Army , got myself away and never looked back. Good job Nick!

    • @Valhalla_Heathen
      @Valhalla_Heathen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      MoVal is declining more and more with each passing year. I used to live there about 20 years ago and I would never live there again!

    • @victorcheefo8166
      @victorcheefo8166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Valhalla_Heathen I live here right now it is not bad at all.

    • @gregguidry1
      @gregguidry1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Rick Reese I was both lucky and self aware enough to know that I had a problem. I was only lightly addicted. Interpret that as you will. I still have all my originals. High sugar coffee would have done all the damage so far.

    • @rogermty1971
      @rogermty1971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Congratulations Greg, getting out of drugs it is very difficult and you became a good citizen by defending your country. And also you are not afraid to talk about it.

    • @kaleendavis8427
      @kaleendavis8427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@rickreese5794 that's not nice 😑

  • @digitalbobby42
    @digitalbobby42 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "I've never tried drugs before" - OK Nick!

    • @sole__doubt
      @sole__doubt 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If thats true thats just sad.

    • @goldenretriever6261
      @goldenretriever6261 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sole__doubtdrugs are for losers

  • @lindabriggs5118
    @lindabriggs5118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    It just makes me so sad to see how bad SoCal has gotten. My family used to go Desert Hot Springs back in the 60's to go to the resorts to lounge in the actual hot springs. It was nice back then. Sorry to see its horrible decline.

    • @SOLDOZER
      @SOLDOZER 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      50 years of Democrats and importing 3rd world people will do that....

    • @davidgribble263
      @davidgribble263 ปีที่แล้ว

      Two words ??? Democraps !!!!

    • @izifaddag8221
      @izifaddag8221 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It is incredibly sad to see a virtual paradise go to shit the way CA has done. The only other place I know with such a perfect climate is Guatemala around Antigua.

    • @MaxineRhynes-x4q
      @MaxineRhynes-x4q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We always went to winterhaven to go fishing but let's face it people's just didn't litter and cleaned up after themself.

    • @MaxineRhynes-x4q
      @MaxineRhynes-x4q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We been told how damaging it is to the environment look at our ocean

  • @muckylady
    @muckylady ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The gentleman interviewed is very eloquent and passionate and informative. A genuine man. Thanks for the content 👌♥️

  • @californiaflowergirl1823
    @californiaflowergirl1823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    The desert used to be such a beautiful natural resource when I was a child. So sad to see what it has become. 🌼

    • @brandonbarlow6689
      @brandonbarlow6689 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Drugs are such a curse. Ruins everything.

    • @cherieallen6726
      @cherieallen6726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@brandonbarlow6689 Laguna Beach here. Just say NO. I did. I just liked Beach..music and art. Where in the world are their parents???? Oh .that's right.. partying.and doing drugs,‼️🙄

    • @georgewetzel4380
      @georgewetzel4380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Esrth

    • @Rat-Builder
      @Rat-Builder 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The desert is still just as beautiful as it always was, you just need to get away from ANY type of desert town. Get off the paved roads. If you do not have a 4x4, go for a hike. Over the far hill it is beautiful again. The desert towns are just full of crime and drugs. If you have one, then you automatically have the other.
      You are correct about the urban centers. Even the small towns are under the drug spell. The drugies will not venture too far off of the paved/improved roads.
      I use to go to the Anzia-Borreago (sp) every weekend when I lived in San Diego. I would put the truck in 4x4 low range and go out the desert roads as far as I could to camp. Many weekends, I never saw a single person. PERFECT!!!

    • @DeVeAnGAMERZX
      @DeVeAnGAMERZX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I went there recently. Grew up there most my life. It’s just like everywhere else you got a little pockets of bad shit, but Indio, La Quinta, Palm, Desert, and Palm Springs are actually pretty nice even now.
      Desert Hot Springs is by far the worst followed by Cathedral city.

  • @justincase8239
    @justincase8239 2 ปีที่แล้ว +210

    The drug dealers are in those nice houses. The users are in the trailers.

    • @hopeellison-fletcher2929
      @hopeellison-fletcher2929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That is factual

    • @jy7869
      @jy7869 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup, the houses look nice outside but demons lurk inside! I bet the murders are high in those big houses, of course they are on satans land!

    • @bornpsychopath2996
      @bornpsychopath2996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Snitch

    • @BologneseJones
      @BologneseJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@bornpsychopath2996 don't hate

    • @sonicbobomb15
      @sonicbobomb15 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bornpsychopath2996 what you smoke Meth or something?

  • @maryronan8446
    @maryronan8446 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Riverside county used to be conservative. I’m sick of the people in government trying to bring America down!!!

    • @chentreyes9316
      @chentreyes9316 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂😂😂

    • @kenny6920
      @kenny6920 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It still is lol

    • @Sassyone-522
      @Sassyone-522 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Then stop voting for the wrong politicians to supposedly run things

    • @cliffordbowman6777
      @cliffordbowman6777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What have you done to stop it

    • @abduljalil7623
      @abduljalil7623 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's them ATHEIST jews doing that.

  • @marknemetz5020
    @marknemetz5020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    Nick, thanks for this one. Please read my comment. Trash. Ok yes it's a gigantic problem in Riv and SB counties. Like your guest I'm an avid daily morning walker who uses nature trails around my nieghborhood. I decided to start taking a large trash bag with me every day to pick up trash. At first it was a daunting task to carry pounds of trash home but I decided it was a good workout and to not look at how much was still needed but how much each day things were a little better. I cover about an 8 square mile area with different routes taken each day. The first year I was dragging large things like appliances, car parts, furniture and construction waste down to the nearest road, going back home, getting my truck and picking up the piles of junk, breaking it down then filling my own trash cans. Once a month I would take giant stuff to the dump. It took 1yr to get things under control. Then I started with the smaller trash using a camping wagon to haul it home. Did this for another year. Then started putting up Please Do Not Litter signs everywhere and picking up all the small litter throughout my intire neighborhood and surrounding open nature trails. Started throwing wild flower seed everywhere that were popular trash throwing spots. My low income mostly mobilhome neighborhood and the surrounding 8miles of open space have been transformed. Now I only fill a small trash bag daily. I have a regular full time day job and a wife and kids, so I don't wanna hear people say they don't have time. MAKE TIME! I leave my house every morning at 5:45am to do this for the past 3yrs. Then go to work. My dad used to tell me "if something truly bothers you then you do something about it" and "if you want someone else to fix your grievance and you're not gonna handle it yourself, then you're full of shit" I'm living proof that one man can change what people thought would take a crew to do. Start small. Make it your mission. Never get discouraged. Be relentless. It's relentless. Don't expect anything from others or any thankyous. Just do it because it's the right thing to do. Our creator sees and that's all that matters. This will be the legacy your children and grandchildren will speak of when speaking of you. Greatness is greatness because it's HARD. Be harder. God bless the doers! Riverside.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Good for you Mark! And I read all the comments!

    • @marknemetz5020
      @marknemetz5020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@NickJohnson thanks Nick. Love your videos. Kind regards!

    • @ilovemytribe
      @ilovemytribe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Wow! You are truly an angel!!

    • @marknemetz5020
      @marknemetz5020 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@ilovemytribe ain't no thing like pickin up a chicken wing 😊

    • @victoriaquillin2170
      @victoriaquillin2170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I am so impressed by your comments. Thank you so much for your the e encouragement.

  • @hooponoponogirlz
    @hooponoponogirlz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I am in love with that Uber driver. A self educated man who cares about what is happening and actually has solutions and ideas and not just complaints. We need more people like him. Thank you for giving him a voice.

    • @Rhaspun
      @Rhaspun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Many communities have a clean up day. It's day when people might focus on a beach, park or any location where people gather to pickup the trash. Maybe if there are activists in this desert town they could plan an annual clean in certain locations.

    • @johnjohnson5116
      @johnjohnson5116 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good luck I know plenty of people with effective ideas it’s a waste of time if we don’t have a The leader ship that will implement them. If you don’t have the authority to change things for the better you’re actually contributing to it by sticking around with your tax dollars. Pure insanity and self destruction.

    • @patrickprendergast9589
      @patrickprendergast9589 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      are u 2 maried

    • @davestewart2067
      @davestewart2067 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was spot on about the plastic bags, the fast food waste, the single use “convenience” plastic. I thought “Moonbeam” passed legislation basically banning plastic bags in the entire state, quite some time ago. Maybe the fast food chains were exempt? One of the few areas, agree with Moonbeam on, to be honest.

  • @sirg-had8821
    @sirg-had8821 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I grew up outside of Barstow, CA.
    It was always that way.

    • @Jaelien01
      @Jaelien01 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same here! In summer, you could smell the meth in the breeze during the evenings.

  • @patriot388
    @patriot388 2 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    Thank you Nick for documenting the decline of a once great nation.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      it's not all decline - it's just the worst parts he shows. I mean san bernardino has a growing cal state - but that won't be on this channel. San Bernardino is cleaning up in some ways other ways not - sometimes they try.

    • @Rat-Builder
      @Rat-Builder 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Behind every terrible thing that has happened to this nation, is a Democrat. They started destroying this country with the Civil War, and it has been going on ever since. The Democrats founded the KKK!! The Democrats founded the "Crow" voting laws that made it hard for Blacks to vote!! Out of the 10 most bankrupt states, 9 are Democratically governed. Out of the 10 most fiscally stable states, 9 are Republican Governed. DO YOU DEMOCRATS SEE A PATTERN HERE????
      I live in a RED state, we DO NOT have these issues here! We punish criminals!!! The Democrats do not like to punish anyone except Trump.
      It is NO coincidence that ALL of the Democrat governed cities are nothing but cess-pools. The left leaning MSM will never ever say it like it is. All that they do is promote the narrative. This comment will probably get deleted just because it goes against the narrative! We will see if the censors are brave enough to leave it here.

    • @bridgetc.taylor257
      @bridgetc.taylor257 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree with you 100%. My husband (RIP), used to say that California was a great nation with great weather. However, he was sad to see how much the state declined.

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Deliberate decline.

    • @based_prophet
      @based_prophet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lol just get a job bro

  • @busterhoodstar6598
    @busterhoodstar6598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    I grew up in Riverside. All of my family is from Riverside, San Bernardino, Rialto, Ontario and Lancaster.
    I ran away from Riverside as a teenager. I vowed to never live in the trashy County again.
    Riverside County and the surrounding areas have always been drug infested.
    You're about 40 years late with this update.

    • @snoopydoe1970
      @snoopydoe1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      You failed to mention all the porn is made in Riverside bedroom community

    • @busterhoodstar6598
      @busterhoodstar6598 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @snoopydoe1970 There's not a single nasty looking person from Riverside County that I'd be interested in watching have sex. So, I wouldn't know about that.

    • @michaelmarifern9541
      @michaelmarifern9541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I lived in Upland 1990...that whole Inland Empire was speed central.

    • @Rochelle937
      @Rochelle937 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@snoopydoe1970 Really?? Wow

    • @junaidunar9148
      @junaidunar9148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great to hear your thoughts and story on this. It's heart braking to see the trush all over the place, uber driver did a great job making these videos

  • @RONDAWILLIAMSON
    @RONDAWILLIAMSON 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    I left California in 1986 after living in the Coachella Valley for 12 years. Every where I went I met meth addicts. I had an 11 yo daughter and did not want her to have to deal with this. I left my ex in Sky Valley. He was a meth, coke, pot addict. I did a quit claim and left the house to him. Kinda hard to sell a house when you have pot plants in the backyard. It was well worth it.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      word to everyone: never marry a californian! Ever! Never have kids here either. That's what happens. I'll never marry here never have kids.

    • @mikeburrill779
      @mikeburrill779 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Glad you got out

    • @davidhartding800
      @davidhartding800 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Gotta watch out for those Pot Addicts.

    • @RONDAWILLIAMSON
      @RONDAWILLIAMSON 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@davidhartding800 , especially when they are growing, selling, smoking most all day. Now at 70 years of age, started as a teen in late 60s, he is paranoid and argues about injustices that occurred in high school.

    • @boofert.washington2499
      @boofert.washington2499 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RONDAWILLIAMSON so his injustices shouldn't matter bc they're from high school? Even if , let's say, someone lied and told cops the weed on the ground wasn't theirs, it was his, and that changed the trajectory of his life downward from that point on and he never recovered from it?

  • @marshalldrummond5487
    @marshalldrummond5487 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    DHS and Cathedral City have always offered cheap housing for those workers serving the wealthy of Palm Springs. For the past two decades DHS has slipped into a rather scary place - it even has “no go” areas for County Sheriff’s (no go without taking along a small army). But us locals (I live out by JT National Park ) we know where to go and what to do and not do. A refreshing note - a friends daughter has been a USPS postal worker in DHS for nearly 30 years. She delivers mail in every niche and corner of DHS. She knows the loose dogs and scary people, all of whom treat her well.

    • @argosatori
      @argosatori 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Post office in DHS stinks with a capital SUCK.

  • @andy52709
    @andy52709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Just came here to see how accurately my great, Golden State of California is being represented. 💯💯💯

    • @travelinggirl6681
      @travelinggirl6681 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      So, what did you decide? Is it accurately represented?

    • @shawnkelly695
      @shawnkelly695 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@travelinggirl6681 probably even worse then this guy is showing

    • @williambright363
      @williambright363 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@travelinggirl6681 he in denial like most of the nitwits in california

    • @AA-cg3gd
      @AA-cg3gd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@travelinggirl6681 Very accurate. It's still has good things about it, but it really has gone downhill in the last 20 years.

    • @Ineden774
      @Ineden774 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@AA-cg3gd Agreed! Even San Diego, now. It was the last, decent, large city. My hometown.🥲

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    One of the things I've noticed about places, both in California and also Arizona, is you get these sort of working-class areas, like in this area, notice how many of those trailer homes are obviously from the 1950s or 1960s, 1970s at the very latest. Well, they were bought new by people who probably didn't have college degrees but they worked, and they were very straight-arrow, you might say. So, just one you drove by, I noticed that it's a trailer home but they built a nice little "sun room" onto the side, had nice steps on the front, etc. They were people who believed in honest work, did all their own home repairs, they were "handy" people who could fix and improve things and they kept their stuff in nice shape. Now, they get old, a good number of them, frankly, die off, and now their kids have got the trailer home or little tract home or whatever. Their kids can barely change a tire. Their kids don't care about the difference between a miter saw and a coping saw, they just wanna have fun, and typically that means alcohol and drugs. They let the place go to hell, sell off any coin collections, savings bonds, etc the "old man" and "old lady" left them, and it's Party On, Wayne!

  • @happyhappycatus
    @happyhappycatus ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There are some GORGEOUS houses in Desert Hot Springs. The reason why is we have more hills than any other city in the coachella valley. We have views overlooking the entire valley. A lot more than Palm Springs, where everything is in the flats

  • @bobwallace9814
    @bobwallace9814 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Around here, folks who are on probation are required on their days off work to show up, put on a orange vest and pick up trash along roads, parks and even in creeks/ponds.

  • @christinepolacek1116
    @christinepolacek1116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Thank you Nick for posting , I talk to people that live in CA that are in complete denial !! They must drive around with their eyes closed … surprised that Palm Springs is going down the tubes also …. Used to enjoy going there as child with family //

    • @glenn6583
      @glenn6583 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you liked golf?

    • @th3azscorpio
      @th3azscorpio 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Even still? They were like that years ago when I left, and came back briefly in 2015. They're just like the folks in NYC, burrying their heads in the sand.

  • @alanstrong55
    @alanstrong55 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Drugs can show up anywhere. Miami, San Diego, Tucson, Miami, even Boston.

    • @alonsolaw8380
      @alonsolaw8380 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Especially in miami, a drug capital

    • @alonsolaw8380
      @alonsolaw8380 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You can tell that the people who are throwing the trash are obviously from third world countries. They are used to this.

  • @buzzygermony2745
    @buzzygermony2745 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    California had a 1 billion dollar surplus this year yet nothing done. Great Job Newsom!

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      surplus of what?

    • @mmaranta785
      @mmaranta785 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I got my $250 CA gas relief card last week.

    • @catherineromero1862
      @catherineromero1862 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In fact, California is an economic powerhouse that bolsters up the national economy. Let’s have you cruise around those red states and see what their representatives are doing for them there😅

    • @mkay1957
      @mkay1957 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Last year, CA had a $94 BILLION surplus, which Newsome promptly turned into a $30 BILLION deficit.

    • @mkay1957
      @mkay1957 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@catherineromero1862So tell us why so many corporations and people leaving California, including many of the leftist tech lords? So many people have left California that they lost a congressional seat, even with thousands of legal immigrants moving to California every month.
      We bought a house near Gardnerville NV in 2011 and live there just over half the year in order to avoid CA state income taxes, and other taxes and fees. The rest of the year we live in the Sierra foothills. Having NV residence saves us around $60,000/year. That is money that the leftist grifters in Sacramento can't touch.😅😂

  • @craigttc
    @craigttc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    You should not need an illegal dumping sign if people were not willing to live like pigs. I have to pick up trash next to my home almost daily. I live in an area of California near homes in excess of a million dollars and two of my nearest neighbors are large parcels full of broken RV's, vans, dilapidated mobile homes, a large grow, constant OD's, fires, stolen vehicles, arrests. This has been going on over 15 years near me and it only gets worse.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      you go up to san antonio - among the nicest of homes is littered with trash and crime. Shame.

    • @vijayanchomatil8413
      @vijayanchomatil8413 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Illegals are always throwing their trash everywhere. They don't understand our culture.

    • @EddieBlueHalen
      @EddieBlueHalen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Expect more of this with more and more people becoming homeless, driven into poverty by. Bad government policy, and millions of poor Central Americans flooding in. A no dumping sign? Talk about blind.

    • @robertkeller5930
      @robertkeller5930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pigs don’t litter.

    • @boofert.washington2499
      @boofert.washington2499 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Burn it down. They'll leave.

  • @solarpowerondemand3255
    @solarpowerondemand3255 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I built several off grid PV systems in DHS from February to May of this year, on a property that you drive near in the intro. I spent a few weeks there. I didn't see anything that you don't see in a majority of Socal. Yes there are drug addicts and homeless but a majority of the people are honest hard working people. This is the problem with focusing on one negative element of a location.

  • @djm5k
    @djm5k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Don’t go to the Coachella Valley during the summer months for it is unbearably hot, and can reach upwards of 120F at times, and it can stay over 90F into the night! The drug problem is so bad, 90% of the wildlife are considered drug addicts!

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      it's music festivals there that're openly drug-fuelled. I saw a person promote so many on facebook. I left facebook after that.

    • @SouthernSierra56
      @SouthernSierra56 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can you tell that a certain animal is of the 10%?
      ]

  • @tube_trance
    @tube_trance 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love your honest & blunt commentary about my home state!
    Thank you for covering the Central Valley where I live.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There's more Central Valley coming up!

  • @bluespruce786
    @bluespruce786 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Vermont banned plastic bags from grocery stores a few years ago. It was pretty irritating at first, but honestly there is very little plastic in the woods and you get used to keeping a reusable bag handy.

    • @okgood8529
      @okgood8529 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Vermont is liberal hell now.

    • @cjc012
      @cjc012 ปีที่แล้ว

      i get the plastic cups and water bottle arguments but the bags can be reused if they aren't ripped as little garbage bags for little garbage cans. And they will eventually break down if they get enough of the outdoor elements (rain,snow,sun, etc..) on them. At least from what I've seen in my personal life

    • @MaxineRhynes-x4q
      @MaxineRhynes-x4q 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Made illegal in California to but California doesn't obey laws anywhere it lawless they don't investigate crime it has national interest before they investigate murder it a almost a daily occurrence and just so normalize that very few people want live here because of the violence.

    • @wintergreentheme
      @wintergreentheme 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Vermont is still green n clean...i go up there when i can.

    • @iGame3D
      @iGame3D 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cjc012 They break down into microplastic in about 5 years of wind and sun. Then they enter your blood, where they clot your arteries, and will remain in your decaying corpose for 150 years.

  • @normagallimore2131
    @normagallimore2131 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Drugs are everywhere in this country 🙄🙄. Hey Nick 🙂

    • @loralarose9615
      @loralarose9615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Look up Kensington phillie tell you ever seen that democrat zombie land literally democrat citie s)have no laws

    • @KevinPlaysGuitar
      @KevinPlaysGuitar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@loralarose9615 That place looks like The Walking Dead episode. So sad.

    • @KarenHeath-i1f
      @KarenHeath-i1f 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nick , you are my favorite square on the internet 😂

  • @sully4159
    @sully4159 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    That area is so beautiful it's such a shame to see the trash. I love driving out there but the trash is ridiculous. Seeing trash tangled on the cacti and Yucca is sad🌵

  • @ommosrs8588
    @ommosrs8588 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I live in the CV too and I don’t think this man realizes the power he has to bring awareness to the issues he’s voicing because they’re all issues i’ve noticed as well.

  • @DeflatingAtheism
    @DeflatingAtheism 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Fun Fact: Breaking Bad was originally meant to be set and shot in Riverside County (more towards the Inland Empire, I would imagine,) but they moved production to Albuquerque for tax reasons. It ended up working out for the best, IMO, since New Mexico allowed them to make it into a Western.

  • @douglasthompson9482
    @douglasthompson9482 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    The area is a dump....horrible. The American society as I know it has dropped dramatically. Education, respect, dignity needs to be re-established in America. This is a huge problem in many states. A tragedy for the once greatest country in the world.

    • @beng4647
      @beng4647 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      For like 20 years.....

    • @chrisfalx3251
      @chrisfalx3251 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Before all the whites moved in

    • @jamiecrawford8133
      @jamiecrawford8133 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have been headed down this path for 40 years. How do we change this?

    • @bartbullock7817
      @bartbullock7817 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Trump has devided this Country, & devided so many Families.

  • @oldcrone
    @oldcrone ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoy traveling the U.S. with you. It's very eye opening!

  • @Lineage2Iowa
    @Lineage2Iowa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    PLEASE dont leave out the fact that Riverside County Sherrifs department is very determined to not let what Los Angeles has become, happen there. They are extremely proactive on crime. Im just saying.

    • @dukefurst5741
      @dukefurst5741 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ♥️Chad Bianco!

    • @ivany.vienenculeros3726
      @ivany.vienenculeros3726 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol not true

    • @steveo2226
      @steveo2226 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@dukefurst5741facts

    • @aurinkobay7118
      @aurinkobay7118 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      as they should be. LAPD's hands are tied bc of county's policies. i bought a house in OC and i am just waiting for the slump recession to come and be gone (4-5 years) sell and move out of California.

    • @douglasrodenbach8000
      @douglasrodenbach8000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      La sheriff was proactive

  • @mtnmike76
    @mtnmike76 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    California! I left California this June of 2022. Looks like things are the same. Nick, you should do a video of all the small towns up Hwy 395 from Lone Pine towards Bridgeport. Great backdrop of the eastern sierras!

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know!!

    • @BasicBeachCommunity1
      @BasicBeachCommunity1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's true I'm so curious how people live near Yosemite and similar areas

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      proud of you for leaving! Looking back will make you realize the shame that used to be your life.

    • @RedBud315
      @RedBud315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Been in Cali my whole life and finally made it up 395 about 2 years ago. Very pretty country.

    • @groverearp2600
      @groverearp2600 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nick only does negative videos. He wouldn't find enough footage in those areas.

  • @jenniferdelaros1921
    @jenniferdelaros1921 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This was a trip to watch. But I couldn’t stop. Real entertaining 😊

  • @trolleysparks3941
    @trolleysparks3941 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Such a shame. Looks like a wonderful place. * Spent some quality time in Quartsite, Az, one January long ago. That’s just down the road. Little/no government, nice people, snow birds. Desert is great in winter & early spring. Miss the good times. * Another super video NICK! * The addictions & addicts sort of ruin everything for the rest of us?

    • @indigostaraz
      @indigostaraz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hang out in quartzsite once a year. I usually go for a week, like in February.

  • @catzee4720
    @catzee4720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Sometimes when homeless are interviewed in LA on skid row, sometimes hear them say they were from Riverside and/or was kidnapped from Riverside and brought to hook in LA, etc... Riverside is a rough upbringing it sounds. Like you said tho, it doesn't seem to look all that bad, but guess that's deceiving as well. Another great vid! thx

    • @Jondough-nj8oi
      @Jondough-nj8oi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Living in riverside county doesn’t even feel like California at times … just my opinion.

  • @michaelsmith2733
    @michaelsmith2733 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I was in Military School in CA. in the mid-sixties, every saturday before we cleaned our firearms we had to form a line clear across 200 acre campus with 300 plus cadetes with bags and gigs and pick up the garbage. None of us kids wanted to do it, (Hey we were kids), but at 70 looking back it was a great idea and that campus was clean!!!! You gave thought when you littered also. Yep back at a time when people were conscience and the world made sense.

  • @mindyourownbusiness579
    @mindyourownbusiness579 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Calling out the National Guard for litter while the Southern Border is wide open is dumb AF

    • @relicofgold
      @relicofgold ปีที่แล้ว

      Bring in the illegals by the millions. They'll vote blue and we can be rid of the redness once and for all.

    • @godbackwards
      @godbackwards ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no kidding.

    • @kaypee4704
      @kaypee4704 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why should the NG clean up ....get the people in a chain gang style do the cleaning....

  • @AbbyEllie69
    @AbbyEllie69 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Gavin Newsom is doing a great job with California😱.. how did he get 80% of the vote? I can’t wrap my head around it because the people that vote for him live here, I did not vote for him because I clearly see what’s going on. I’m planning my exit as well, California has turned into a big s**t hole unfortunately.. thank you for your videos Nick ..They are spot on and very accurate.

    • @joeyalfano4781
      @joeyalfano4781 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dumb lefty voters...

    • @andreabasei4562
      @andreabasei4562 ปีที่แล้ว

      Democracy is an ilusion

    • @Amor1990
      @Amor1990 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Cheated

    • @hermantracey5976
      @hermantracey5976 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      These people get exactly what they deserve to keep Gavin nuisance in office again If you're under 30 and you vote Republican you have no heart if you vote Democrat when you're over 30 you have no brains

    • @ladylibertywdc8324
      @ladylibertywdc8324 ปีที่แล้ว

      Voter fraud is real & pervasive w DEMs.

  • @kellybenhart3244
    @kellybenhart3244 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So sad about the trash situation and the drug problem too.

  • @lindalumae
    @lindalumae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

    I grew up in Yucca Valley and it was beautiful. I used to travel the roads to Palm Springs and down I10 all the time and it was beautiful. This was before the windmills. I thought the windmills were the worst thing to ever happen to the land but seeing this now is just disgusting. Some people just destroy everything they touch. But the biggest lesson to learn is that elections have consequences and being nice to criminals only helps the criminals.

    • @lindaartz3297
      @lindaartz3297 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I felt the same about I-15 to Vegas. My fiancé (at the time) and his dad owned the big dozers and my Uncle owned the water trucks used in building it. I spent a lot of time out there because they lived in temporary housing in Barstow. It was a trailer park that looks like it is still there. We spent a lot of time riding the dune buggy out in the desert and to Calico when it was still a ghost town.

    • @aoutone7462
      @aoutone7462 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The wind turbines look cool. They’re not wind mills btw lol

    • @elainefoley2699
      @elainefoley2699 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lindaartz3297 😮

    • @ronzedalis3202
      @ronzedalis3202 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Would a smoke belching,air polluting coal burning power plant in that location look better?

    • @jeffrutledge1789
      @jeffrutledge1789 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ronzedalis3202 shut the hell up. The government subsidizes of that crap. It’s not even viable.

  • @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH
    @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very interesting interview. This man makes very good points. The desert is sacred and should be honored.

  • @KarenKennedy-lq8nt
    @KarenKennedy-lq8nt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was there once staying at a nice little hot springs motel., did not know it was drug central.

  • @FLAC2023
    @FLAC2023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You are such a nice guy... always looking at ways to help people and seeing both sides of the equation on things... love your channel

  • @Toolshedthewatchdog
    @Toolshedthewatchdog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for adding Sonic sounds gotta get Speed 😂

  • @KrisMakesThings
    @KrisMakesThings ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the video's...your dry wit and sarcasm makes serious issues funny and brings awareness at the same time.

  • @terriwilson1771
    @terriwilson1771 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Riverside county is going straight to hell. So glad I left California 6 years ago. Kinda miss Corona. But not all the BS that state dishes out.

  • @irenez7439
    @irenez7439 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    As a child, my family and our best friends would go to the hot springs every Christmas break. We had the best times.

    • @irenez7439
      @irenez7439 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I miss the Hungarian restaurant 😢 and the owners.

  • @mr.logicpants2835
    @mr.logicpants2835 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My grandparents lived in desert hosprings. During that time, it was a community of just basically old people with a few scattered younger people who worked in the grocery stores and banks.
    It was a safe community back then, but this was in the nineteen seventies.

  • @fmcevoy1
    @fmcevoy1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Another awesome video! I think I told you before there's a new formula for meth on the street. The old meth made you clean your house for a week. The new meth makes one schizophrenic.
    Tell Mappy I did not know that about women being more susceptible to becoming meth addicts.
    Your guest was spot on. The desert looks empty, but it's still a complex ecosystem that doesn't deserve to get trashed. (Pun alert!)

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Frank! Have a good holiday week!

    • @chadwells7562
      @chadwells7562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Second order consequences of the war on drugs. The government successfully stopped the pseudoephedrine method of meth synthesis. Then cooks started using another method that produces stereoisomers. One molecule gets you high, the other causes brain damage. The cooks aren’t too picky about purity, so they sell it without filtering out the brain damaging isomer.

  • @SoCali_Surfer
    @SoCali_Surfer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    It's been like that for at least 30 years. For 20 years when drug offenders are released from Southern California prisons, the DOC will PAY the released paroles to live at least 100 miles from LA & they set them up with Riverside County Parole Officers. They get paid at their check-ins. In a way, it's a good idea and program.

    • @geneaker915
      @geneaker915 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I concur with your observation ... it's been going on for at least 40 years, back to a time when often one of the conditions of parole for Los Angeles gang-bangers was that they could not reside within a 100-mile radius of LA. Draw a 100-mile radius circle from LA and guess what lies just outside the circle. Others have suggested that the cheap rents and availability of Section 8 housing contributed to the problem.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh yeah - "knew some" (i.e. newsom) released prisoners due to covid. This is what happens when you do that.

    • @lauralarrabee7870
      @lauralarrabee7870 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There was a Marine who had a his own billboard looking for the people who shot him. He escaped Iraq only to be shot in DHS.

    • @cassw1485
      @cassw1485 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would like to know how is that a good program for the people of that Valley they did the crime in La release them back in LA not in somebody else's backyard. That's why my city is so bad it's outside influences and the Mexican cartel.

    • @EagleTwo758
      @EagleTwo758 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So put the problems back on others? Hmmmmmm

  • @jasonsutherland3496
    @jasonsutherland3496 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I feel I need rehab just from watching this. I need a shower, but they don't make water hot enough

  • @JaySmith-pv2mw
    @JaySmith-pv2mw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Of course, there is a Dollar General there. Also, I believe "Breaking Bad" was going to originally be set in Riverside.

  • @ronhyde
    @ronhyde 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Thanks, Nick. I had a dentist appointment at 10am and started watching this at 940a and got there late. Another great video showcasing that which is not oftentimes known. "You could almost see the meth clouds on the horizon." Line of the month! Great job on this one (like all of them).

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ron! Sorry about the dentist trip. No cavities I hope.

    • @ronhyde
      @ronhyde 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@NickJohnson I'm not in Riverside Country , so I'm good :)

    • @certifiedfinest5065
      @certifiedfinest5065 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ronhyde you were watching while driving?

  • @micon9460
    @micon9460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My ex-wifes mother was a meth head that lived in desert hot springs. And yes there was meth literally every even 10-15yrs ago

    • @brettjohnson8009
      @brettjohnson8009 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hitler fed his armies meth ,Hitler did meth , where do you think the word blitzkrieg came from ? German army tweakers, 10 15 yrs ? Meth has been with us for a long time

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I know I watched national geographic back in the day.

    • @mandiemoore3272
      @mandiemoore3272 ปีที่แล้ว

      My mother was a meth head in desert hot springs and yeah 30 years plus has had the same freaking dealer and has not stopped and desert hot springs has not changed one bit since that time

  • @bradb3248
    @bradb3248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cowboy Nick, thanks for another great video, your efforts are greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 🎅

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love cowboy nick! Can't wait to see him again - the mustache of off the charts with the hat for fitting with the scene.

  • @AbRob007
    @AbRob007 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have a very gokd commentary voice , and have great narration!

  • @patriot1902
    @patriot1902 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I used to work with a guy from Germany and he told me that in Germany the container for the actual garbage was the smallest one by the curb on trash day. Said they focus highly on recycling as much as possible

    • @bb5242
      @bb5242 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Recycling is a lie, though--we separate all that stuff and pay more and it just gets landfilled about 95% of the time. Even in Germany.

    • @treeroofgrass
      @treeroofgrass 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bb5242yup!

  • @vulpesinculta7074
    @vulpesinculta7074 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Im from Poland and i like our cold weather but i fall in love with this place. Make some trip to the Trevor Philips motherlands with Kyuss album in car speakers

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      what're you falling in love with? I'd rather live in poland (ok maybe not). Can't tell me you have trash and druggies there too! Ok maybe lots of drinking, but still.

    • @chaddreier8888
      @chaddreier8888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kyuss! Awesome band from the wonder valley!

  • @miguelcastaneda7257
    @miguelcastaneda7257 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Go back hills of santa monica...house are easy to find propane tanks...empty kerosene cans ...and its white area

  • @barryoconnor721
    @barryoconnor721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It was -33 last night here in Montana so I could overlook apocalyptic meth monkeys for a bit of that desert sun atm.

    • @lazysundayz
      @lazysundayz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We need some of that Montana weather to thin the herd of meth monkeys

  • @patticampana9458
    @patticampana9458 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another good one! Most people know the dealers hide in plain sight. If you want to stop it (which will never happen) you would have to clean house from top to bottom, I believe people would be stunned to know who gets a kickback from this crap. Things don't happen unless they're allowed to happen! Has 2 friends die of heroin overdose, never caught the dealers, I was and they were 15 at the time. I thank God I had strict parents so never got into that crap! Never understood why people want to lose all they're faculties and think that is feeling good? Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and stay healthy ✌️

  • @erniebuchinski3614
    @erniebuchinski3614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks as always for the interesting video, Nick. I'm an old geezer from the once beautiful city of Portland, Oregon who's lived the last 28 years in Helsinki, Finland. (I was minding my own business, studying in Tübingen, Germany, when I met a nice Finnish lady . . .) I wanted to point out that contrary to what the gentleman said, we still use plastic bags here in Finland, and around Europe, at least everywhere I've been in recent years. But that in no way takes away from the validity of what he said about the crisis going on there locally, and elsewhere, of course. However, even though we still use plastic bags on this side of the puddle, I've never seen anyplace remotely approaching the one you showed, with plastic pretty much hanging from every plant. On a personal note, I've been to Portland nine times since 2015 for family matters, and it's very disheartening to see what's happened to it. I'm hoping against hope that politicians can stop blaming "the other side" and actually do something (besides the usual virtue signalling and self congratulating after doing nothing) about the problems of homelessness, drug addiction, crime, etc. However, I'm not holding my breath on that, and if it happens in my lifetime I'll be very pleasantly surprised.

  • @raiderfan71269
    @raiderfan71269 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Always has been. Grew up in 29 Palms in the high desert which was the meth capital of the world in the 80s. Started doing it in 87 at 18yrs old and didn't quit about 13yrs ago. Now living in Phoenix. We we're about an hour away from DHS. Lost friends to that lifestyle. Thank God I survived.

    • @bb5242
      @bb5242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of Phoenix is a mess, too.

    • @fredvanhorne621
      @fredvanhorne621 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      1 hrs by air plane

  • @kayeb7809
    @kayeb7809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It was really nice back in the early 70’s. My grandparents retired out there. Used to visit and take the tram up the Mt San Jacinto.

  • @youtubewatcher2014
    @youtubewatcher2014 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m going to start dumping tractor trailer loads of used tires and motor oil out there! Thanks for the info !

  • @logieman777
    @logieman777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks Nick for showing this and especially a shout out for your motivation: yes you show the bad things and yes you have your view however you keep your mind open, give people their way to speak out and most importantly you want to make people aware that there is an issue, we should do something and actually can do something. Good there are still people like you who remain critical and dare to show and waken us up.

  • @Silver86777
    @Silver86777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Dang man, I really appreciate these videos. Admittedly they make me nostalgic for times past. But I hope that this can encourage us all to try our best to be better and fix our dying country. At the very least, your videos inspires me to do so. Best wishes

    • @bert5209
      @bert5209 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hate to say it will get only worse all my life never seen get better.

    • @davidgribble263
      @davidgribble263 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only way to fix this dying nation is to get these democrap criminals out of our government !!!!

  • @rjmurray5128
    @rjmurray5128 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Live in Hawaii and we have this very same problem

  • @tiroler
    @tiroler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I am from the north of Chile. There are places that look just like some parts of California's desert. Over here we have reduced plastics. Stores or restaurants can no longer give plastic things and it works!

    • @Danny-zm5rh
      @Danny-zm5rh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yay! It works! Now I can spill my groceries all over the floor with a useless paper bag!!! Or better yet, I can bring my reusable that stores didn't allow me during Coward19 because people were vewy vewy vewy afwaid! You people are brainwashed!!! I'm carrying my gallon of milk in a plastic bag as we speak. I love these bags!!!

    • @bb5242
      @bb5242 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Danny-zm5rh I mostly agree, Danny, but we still have a huge problem with too much plastic. I'm not a climate freak, I just prefer clean neighborhoods, free of plastic, so I do what I can--I go out and pick it up and I definitely would advocate for less packaging, fewer plastic bags, stop the covid brainwashing (none of hand sanitizers, 3-day quarantines of packages, incessant cleaning, masks--none of that crap did anything useful but people bought into it HARD).

    • @Danny-zm5rh
      @Danny-zm5rh ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bb5242 Thanks for your level headed response. I'm of the belief these Climate nuts are the perpetrators of the litter. The reason I say that is because I'm 83 years old and I'm also a beach bum. I've been to almost every beach in the world and not once did a piece of plastic ever hit me in the water nor have I ever seen one besides the rare occasion some drunk throws his bottle. I got a guy who told me they throw the plastic in the water and then photograph it for dramatic media purposes and agenda.

  • @myaccount227
    @myaccount227 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Picking up garbage starts with YOU and ME

  • @jimjackson4256
    @jimjackson4256 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like that they have windmills in the drug capital .There is something perfect about that.

  • @out2fun
    @out2fun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Can you imagine all the germs with handing over a reusable cup for soft drinks? Not much can be done with the wind blowing out there. The illegal dumping is disgusting!!

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I mean that's proibably how we got covid so rapidly - because they did allow it back then. The thing is you can just walk up to a soda fountain and fill up. The issue is the company doesn't make money unless they 'charge you for a cup'. They need to change their business model - but these businesses want to be trashy. It's more expensive for them to - but they believe in giving people as much trash as possible. Makes no sense.

  • @niccoarcadia4179
    @niccoarcadia4179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    All that plastic and tin cans blowing around looks exactly like the desert version of the Philippians where trash is a way of life. All the river beds and brush has plastic/paper & other decomposing human waste products and the road sides are littered with it. Sometimes a politician gets a bug in the but and starts a clean-up effort but it never last.

  • @econhelp583
    @econhelp583 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The garbage situation discussed here is the best part of the video!

  • @dannydonnelly8345
    @dannydonnelly8345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hello Nick I just wanted to point out that the truck they busted last year with 26 00 lb of cocaine 66 lb of heroin in 19 tons of marijuana did not come in through the borders as you suggested. It has nothing to do with open borders which of course we don't have. The 19 tons of marijuana is California and Oregon grown it is produced in the United States the heroine and the cocaine comes from Columbia and Afghanistan. Neither of which is accessed through the border. They are most often come in through the ports and through airports.

  • @newdefsys
    @newdefsys ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "California" & "garbage dump" go together like peanut butter and jelly

  • @BuddhatheRockstar
    @BuddhatheRockstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I grew up in SoCal and lived in the Desert and Mountains near the 5 mostly. I would never waste my time or fuel in San Bernadino, Riverside, Pomona-Ontario areas. Ever.

    • @extropiantranshuman
      @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      good thinking but the 5 isn't that great either - it's so much traffic!

    • @BuddhatheRockstar
      @BuddhatheRockstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@extropiantranshuman Yep.

  • @MK-zy3yd
    @MK-zy3yd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Been subscribed to your channel for about a year Nick, always enjoy when a new video drops. You have a way of presenting information in a matter of fact manner subtly laced with dry humor and it cracks me up…I think #wordsmith is a fitting description, sir. Please tell Mappy I said, ‘sup.

    • @NickJohnson
      @NickJohnson  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mappy says HI!! 👋

  • @МаргаритаКоваль-ш8ь
    @МаргаритаКоваль-ш8ь 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for videos. Can’t stop watching it, so exciting. Great TH-cam channel

  • @Lozie82
    @Lozie82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I used to deliver mail out there. Central DHS is drug-infested, it seems, but the outter areas of DHS are quiet, it seems. Sky Valley seemed OK too. Just stay out of the center of Desert Hot Springs and you should be good.

  • @extropiantranshuman
    @extropiantranshuman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I actually stopped cleaning up trash because I was chased by police and followed home by them - twice! The issue is that police want a certain level of trash and so do people driving by. The issue is that if you don't have trash you don't have a lot of other things that make up a city - and that's what people like. In California people get angry when you pick up trash - beacuse they like a certain level of trash around them. Trash smells and the people who dump smell like the trash. Once you clean up they don't like the smell of cleanliness. Idk why but Californians as a whole like their surroundings to look and smell trashy - because it makes them comfortable, at home, welcomed, and happy and anyone who stands in their way will get laughed at, ridiculed, and shunned unfortunately. No one wants to see people picking up trash - because it's 'unbecoming' in california culture - it's beneath people here and people think it's low life work to clean up. The whole culture needs a revamp. This alone makes me want to move out of california - the amount of trash generated! And people liking it and encouraging it and hating cleanliness. So gross!

  • @ravensrolltop
    @ravensrolltop 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Very sad to see all the garbage in the desert. Thank you for bringing this up.

  • @RC51_Rider
    @RC51_Rider 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I went to the hot springs a few times over 10 years ago. I remember it was at a hotel and the water was chlorinated. It was an all right time. I never knew how trashy the place got in the past 10 years.

  • @jgsg2620
    @jgsg2620 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my first time watching one of ur videos and definitely subscribed right away, but the littles comments like “rly pretty views of the mountains, have to say! & the off road vehicles that sounds like fun!” Had me dying. Keep up the great work.

  • @AlexSmith-ln1tv
    @AlexSmith-ln1tv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Don't worry citizens, Zelensky was recently in Washington asking for more donations from Congress. He's protecting global democracy

    • @TrustinGodaydays
      @TrustinGodaydays 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes Captain Z is doing a marvelous job of Laundering all that big boy drug money over to the Ukraine no problem.

    • @catherinedonnelly1025
      @catherinedonnelly1025 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      WT🤷🏻‍♀️ are you on about ???

    • @pauldichtel6410
      @pauldichtel6410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      F Zelensky!

    • @TrustinGodaydays
      @TrustinGodaydays 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pauldichtel6410 I call him Captain Z

    • @wauzers
      @wauzers ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wrong video channel troll.

  • @harryyarrow4110
    @harryyarrow4110 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's happening everywhere,but the desert has more open space for a drug lab/operation.

    • @mandiemoore3272
      @mandiemoore3272 ปีที่แล้ว

      Plus it's always windy like there's never a day when it's not windy in Desert Hot Springs so the smells all Blow Away

  • @cliffordincalifornia
    @cliffordincalifornia ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A lot of the Walgreens and the Walmarts are closing a lot of their stores .....so the people that survive off of medication need something

  • @brianknecht7119
    @brianknecht7119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Here in Sacramento, we stopped all stores from giving out free plastic bags when you purchase something, we now pay 10 cents to 25 cent for them, an what a difference it has made in our streets looking a lot better.

    • @prettybaby80
      @prettybaby80 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yup moved there in 2016 from NYC. I was shocked. Now NYC is doing the same

    • @billgoforth7426
      @billgoforth7426 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha which part of Sacramento do you live in..😅

    • @billgoforth7426
      @billgoforth7426 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You must be talking about like granite Bay or Folsom Lincoln Loomis..

  • @TheInevitableTruth-i2k
    @TheInevitableTruth-i2k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I've been to Desert Hot Spring a a bunch of times for the hot springs they have.
    For years did not even realize the drug issue, although I did hear warnings.
    That sort of ruined it for me, and the best resort we liked ended up closing.
    It's a total bummer with all the trash.

    • @ebaylistentomusic
      @ebaylistentomusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I used to go to DHS in the 80's for the Hot Springs. Great drive from San Francisco. Always low key and relaxing. I can only imagine what a drug hell hole its become.

    • @AxtionMag
      @AxtionMag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I used to trek out to mineral hot springs resort once in awhile. Staying there last spring I was charged $350 a night for a standard king bed room. Outrageous prices for the quality room, but the hotel was full. I won't be back.

    • @AA-cg3gd
      @AA-cg3gd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      California in general has a lot of trash. I think a lot of that has to do with the homeless problem, but also just so many live
      here.

    • @bb5242
      @bb5242 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AxtionMag Prices went up last year--Disney resorts are like $600/night now.

  • @CC-gj9ns
    @CC-gj9ns ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the DESERT. A lot of drug addicts in Orange County too 😒😅😂

  • @echospaw899
    @echospaw899 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When my husband was still alive, we were seriously contemplating moving from Washington state to Palm Springs/Hot Springs/Riverside Cty... but this problem kept coming up in conversations. I recently was still thinking about making that move, but, I don't think I'd want to deal with those ugly eye sores everywhere you turn. But, I'm sure there are very nice areas, but the drug problem surrounds them.

    • @SouthernSierra56
      @SouthernSierra56 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The mountains baby. Too many rats in close quarters. You must live in a small town in Wa.

    • @mossyoakmom8880
      @mossyoakmom8880 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are a lot of drugs and homeless in Washington state also.

    • @echospaw899
      @echospaw899 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mossyoakmom8880 Yes, there are. In every state now, for that matter.

  • @misacruzader
    @misacruzader 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I just booked a day pass at a mini resort in Desert Hot Springs to soak in their mineral pools and I feel like it could be turned around by these small resorts looking for an affordable alternative to Palm Springs and Joshua Tree, which is becoming so expensive. I think if people invest in the community, it could be a nice place to live.

    • @mandiemoore3272
      @mandiemoore3272 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually the hot springs are not in town they're just outside and they're in a pretty decent area iprep in Desert Hot Springs so...

  • @RobertBohnen
    @RobertBohnen 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I lived in Palm Springs and DHS for 13 years. I recognized many of the neighborhoods in your video. You didn't mention power line road. There was always a good supply of cars, appliances, furniture, and even dead animals. It was really bad 30 years ago, and according to Newsweek, DHS was the methamphetamine capital of the world back then. That's why I moved from there when I did.