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 , 🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️
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
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
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...
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.
Speaking of filming location & cost: I imagine that two of the most Important yet under appreciated words in Hollywood are probably: "Production Budget." 🎥💃🎬
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.
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.
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!
@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.
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.
@@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,‼️🙄
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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?
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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😅
@@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.😅😂
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 //
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.
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.
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
The Carlel is all over OKLAHOMA, They have the money in these used tire shops, food trucks and restaurants, the government is aware but that money is called dark money, and certain people are being paid off.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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?
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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🌵
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!)
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.
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
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
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
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
The man complaining about the litter lives down valley in La Quinta, less wind. Near the center of the valley, where the garbage trucks drive to the dump, the wind can be a constant 35 mph. The trash will be back the next day...
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.
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).
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
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.
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 ✌️
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!
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!!!
@@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).
@@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.
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
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.
Note to Kevin: once fast food restaurants take payment and provide the customer with their meal, disposing legally of the trash is the customer's responsibility. Unfortunately, there are a lot of pigs in southern California and elsewhere.
these restaurants sholdn't be allowed to give out trash to make someone else's issue. That's the problem. Charge extra for cups, straws, etc. and you'll see the decline. Boycott any restaurant that shoves trash on us! Tell local gov't's about it and petition congress if we have to.
Correct. It isn't that hard to bring your own re-usable containers and ask the restaurant to put foods and drink in them. But like you said people prefer to be pigs instead. Or they'll push everyone to boycott businesses and/or push politicians to go after businesses (thereby making those politicians even more powerful). But one thing they won't do is bring their own containers to the restaurant, since it is far easier and more satisfying to hate than to do constructive things.
@@extropiantranshuman yes let's take personal responsibility away. It's always putting it on corporations and government. I clean up empty fields near me, trash that blows to my yard yet neighbors just let the trash pile up on their fences, it's disgusting
@@cindyhancock6034 think - where did that trash originate from? Was it the people? Or did they get it from businesses? Why are businesses allowed to trash? Where's the gov't oversight?
We've been doing this for 60 years and it obviously hasn't helped at all. It is time to try something radically different! Maybe it's time to try legalization to take the profit away from the gangs and dealers...
The drug corridor extends from the Mexican border, past palm springs, mojave desert, San Bernardino county and beyond. They've been here a few years now. We have acceded to them "no go zones" where the US no longer has the capability nor resources to patrol or enter much of tbat land. The people voted in the props to legalize drugs or drop it down to a .misdemeanor.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Born in 1962 in West Covina. Raised in San Bernardino mountains (near this video) 7:34 and San Diego. My brother lived near Palm Springs. Grandparents in San Clemente and Redondo Beach. California used to be The Golden State and San Diego used to be America’s Finest City. I left my home state in 2011. Just couldn’t take it anymore 😢
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.
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.
At least in our back country (rural San Diego), things have gotten pretty bad. The news won't cover all of them, but there are bodies found regularly near the border, likely victims of trafficking or smuggling; roads and infrastructure are just kind of being left to die; nature reserves and parks have piles of unkempt brush and dry leaves; and old ranches have turned into clandestine drug operations, whenever they haven't been outright abandoned. We were recently in Borrego and there were carts and tents by the visitors center.
This makes me so sad I saw the epidemic hit TX and all the lives it ruined.. I was in CA in the early 2000s and it's really changed. Hope it can be turned around before it's too late.
My parents came to the Central Valley in 1950 from Texas. They were farmers. It was a wonderful time...good people with values and morals along with respect for the environment. I currently live in the central foothills. At 67, I've considered moving to another, more conservative state. A part of me still loves the California that I remember...so, I might just stick it out. Seeing this downward spiral is sad.
@@dennishough3709 Agreed. I have no idea what his politics are. If he is a lib, no way will he cover the border. If he is a conservative, I think he would do a great job.
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!
Here's my entire California Road Trip: ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yoGM0mmbTCTmMa9zMFvvDeG
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 , 🤣🤣🤣🤣‼️
Thank You🥰I really like your vid style💖Hope you have a Merry Christmas🕯
Man, your channel has exploded! How has Mappy been taking the fame?
@@davidstaudohar6733 perhaps people could coming over Mexican border can be sent to defend Ukraine in cause global democracy.
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I absolutely enjoyed the California back country more than the cities. But basically California is broken and it's a f'n shame 😔
Evil left Kings and Queens at their finest.
The world is a shithole
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
@@mustangracer5124 It's the right wingers in California cooking meth
I agree with your thoughts. Too much corruptions by the Government. Homeless and drugs used everywhere in California.
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
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...
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.
Criminals are just about universal. What's so special about the Mexican ones?
Many politicians nonprofits and even churches are in cahoots with the cartels
@@andrewwood2313 Finally, someone who doesn't victim blame. Could you imagine the logic of some of these people in an assault scenario?
"I've never tried drugs before" - OK Nick!
If thats true thats just sad.
@@sole__doubtdrugs are for losers
Fun Fact: Breaking Bad was originally supposed to take place in Riverside. However, it was cheaper to film in New Mexico.
It worked out for the best, IMO.
That's the show I thought of too😊
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.
Speaking of filming location & cost: I imagine that two of the most Important yet under appreciated words in Hollywood are probably: "Production Budget." 🎥💃🎬
ya they film in states that have lower taxes & less work rules, they avoid/evade what they vote for ironically
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.
50 years of Democrats and importing 3rd world people will do that....
Two words ??? Democraps !!!!
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.
We always went to winterhaven to go fishing but let's face it people's just didn't litter and cleaned up after themself.
We been told how damaging it is to the environment look at our ocean
"you can almost see the meth clouds in the horizons" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
that was a good one.
Wrong kind of Chem cloud, they are chem trails. lol
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!
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!
@@Valhalla_Heathen I live here right now it is not bad at all.
@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.
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.
@@rickreese5794 that's not nice 😑
Riverside county used to be conservative. I’m sick of the people in government trying to bring America down!!!
😂😂😂😂
It still is lol
Then stop voting for the wrong politicians to supposedly run things
What have you done to stop it
That's them ATHEIST jews doing that.
The drug dealers are in those nice houses. The users are in the trailers.
That is factual
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!
Snitch
@@bornpsychopath2996 don't hate
@@bornpsychopath2996 what you smoke Meth or something?
The desert used to be such a beautiful natural resource when I was a child. So sad to see what it has become. 🌼
Drugs are such a curse. Ruins everything.
@@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,‼️🙄
Esrth
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!!!
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.
The gentleman interviewed is very eloquent and passionate and informative. A genuine man. Thanks for the content 👌♥️
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.
Good for you Mark! And I read all the comments!
@@NickJohnson thanks Nick. Love your videos. Kind regards!
Wow! You are truly an angel!!
@@ilovemytribe ain't no thing like pickin up a chicken wing 😊
I am so impressed by your comments. Thank you so much for your the e encouragement.
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.
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.
Glad you got out
Gotta watch out for those Pot Addicts.
@@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.
@@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?
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.
You failed to mention all the porn is made in Riverside bedroom community
@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.
I lived in Upland 1990...that whole Inland Empire was speed central.
@@snoopydoe1970 Really?? Wow
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
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.
Post office in DHS stinks with a capital SUCK.
Thank you Nick for documenting the decline of a once great nation.
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.
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.
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.
Deliberate decline.
Lol just get a job bro
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.
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.
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.
are u 2 maried
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.
I grew up outside of Barstow, CA.
It was always that way.
Same here! In summer, you could smell the meth in the breeze during the evenings.
Just came here to see how accurately my great, Golden State of California is being represented. 💯💯💯
So, what did you decide? Is it accurately represented?
@@travelinggirl6681 probably even worse then this guy is showing
@@travelinggirl6681 he in denial like most of the nitwits in california
@@travelinggirl6681 Very accurate. It's still has good things about it, but it really has gone downhill in the last 20 years.
@@AA-cg3gd Agreed! Even San Diego, now. It was the last, decent, large city. My hometown.🥲
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.
you go up to san antonio - among the nicest of homes is littered with trash and crime. Shame.
Illegals are always throwing their trash everywhere. They don't understand our culture.
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.
Pigs don’t litter.
Burn it down. They'll leave.
Drugs can show up anywhere. Miami, San Diego, Tucson, Miami, even Boston.
Especially in miami, a drug capital
You can tell that the people who are throwing the trash are obviously from third world countries. They are used to this.
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!
That's about it.
Don't think so
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.
For like 20 years.....
Before all the whites moved in
We have been headed down this path for 40 years. How do we change this?
Trump has devided this Country, & devided so many Families.
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.
California had a 1 billion dollar surplus this year yet nothing done. Great Job Newsom!
surplus of what?
I got my $250 CA gas relief card last week.
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😅
Last year, CA had a $94 BILLION surplus, which Newsome promptly turned into a $30 BILLION deficit.
@@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.😅😂
I love your honest & blunt commentary about my home state!
Thank you for covering the Central Valley where I live.
There's more Central Valley coming up!
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.
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.
♥️Chad Bianco!
lol not true
@@dukefurst5741facts
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.
La sheriff was proactive
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!
it's music festivals there that're openly drug-fuelled. I saw a person promote so many on facebook. I left facebook after that.
How can you tell that a certain animal is of the 10%?
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Go back hills of santa monica...house are easy to find propane tanks...empty kerosene cans ...and its white area
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.
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.
I enjoy traveling the U.S. with you. It's very eye opening!
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 //
So you liked golf?
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.
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.
Dumb lefty voters...
Democracy is an ilusion
Cheated
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
Voter fraud is real & pervasive w DEMs.
The Carlel is all over OKLAHOMA, They have the money in these used tire shops, food trucks and restaurants, the government is aware but that money is called dark money, and certain people are being paid off.
Drugs are everywhere in this country 🙄🙄. Hey Nick 🙂
Look up Kensington phillie tell you ever seen that democrat zombie land literally democrat citie s)have no laws
@@loralarose9615 That place looks like The Walking Dead episode. So sad.
Nick , you are my favorite square on the internet 😂
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.
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.
The wind turbines look cool. They’re not wind mills btw lol
@@lindaartz3297 😮
Would a smoke belching,air polluting coal burning power plant in that location look better?
@@ronzedalis3202 shut the hell up. The government subsidizes of that crap. It’s not even viable.
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.
Vermont is liberal hell now.
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
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.
Vermont is still green n clean...i go up there when i can.
@@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.
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?
I hang out in quartzsite once a year. I usually go for a week, like in February.
Calling out the National Guard for litter while the Southern Border is wide open is dumb AF
Bring in the illegals by the millions. They'll vote blue and we can be rid of the redness once and for all.
no kidding.
Why should the NG clean up ....get the people in a chain gang style do the cleaning....
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!
I know!!
It's true I'm so curious how people live near Yosemite and similar areas
proud of you for leaving! Looking back will make you realize the shame that used to be your life.
Been in Cali my whole life and finally made it up 395 about 2 years ago. Very pretty country.
Nick only does negative videos. He wouldn't find enough footage in those areas.
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
Living in riverside county doesn’t even feel like California at times … just my opinion.
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.
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
sarcasm?
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.
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.
oh yeah - "knew some" (i.e. newsom) released prisoners due to covid. This is what happens when you do that.
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.
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.
So put the problems back on others? Hmmmmmm
Love the video's...your dry wit and sarcasm makes serious issues funny and brings awareness at the same time.
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🌵
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!)
Frank! Have a good holiday week!
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.
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
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
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
I know I watched national geographic back in the day.
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
Very interesting interview. This man makes very good points. The desert is sacred and should be honored.
I love the DESERT. A lot of drug addicts in Orange County too 😒😅😂
As a child, my family and our best friends would go to the hot springs every Christmas break. We had the best times.
I miss the Hungarian restaurant 😢 and the owners.
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
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.
@@bb5242yup!
The man complaining about the litter lives down valley in La Quinta, less wind. Near the center of the valley, where the garbage trucks drive to the dump, the wind can be a constant 35 mph. The trash will be back the next day...
Thank you for adding Sonic sounds gotta get Speed 😂
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.
This was a trip to watch. But I couldn’t stop. Real entertaining 😊
Ur pretty
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.
Cowboy Nick, thanks for another great video, your efforts are greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 🎅
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.
I’m going to start dumping tractor trailer loads of used tires and motor oil out there! Thanks for the info !
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).
Ron! Sorry about the dentist trip. No cavities I hope.
@@NickJohnson I'm not in Riverside Country , so I'm good :)
@@ronhyde you were watching while driving?
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
Hate to say it will get only worse all my life never seen get better.
The only way to fix this dying nation is to get these democrap criminals out of our government !!!!
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.
A lot of Phoenix is a mess, too.
1 hrs by air plane
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 ✌️
I was there once staying at a nice little hot springs motel., did not know it was drug central.
Of course, there is a Dollar General there. Also, I believe "Breaking Bad" was going to originally be set in Riverside.
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!
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!!!
@@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).
@@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.
Excellent information thank you Nick!
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
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.
Kyuss! Awesome band from the wonder valley!
Note to Kevin: once fast food restaurants take payment and provide the customer with their meal, disposing legally of the trash is the customer's responsibility. Unfortunately, there are a lot of pigs in southern California and elsewhere.
these restaurants sholdn't be allowed to give out trash to make someone else's issue. That's the problem. Charge extra for cups, straws, etc. and you'll see the decline. Boycott any restaurant that shoves trash on us! Tell local gov't's about it and petition congress if we have to.
Correct. It isn't that hard to bring your own re-usable containers and ask the restaurant to put foods and drink in them. But like you said people prefer to be pigs instead.
Or they'll push everyone to boycott businesses and/or push politicians to go after businesses (thereby making those politicians even more powerful). But one thing they won't do is bring their own containers to the restaurant, since it is far easier and more satisfying to hate than to do constructive things.
@@extropiantranshuman it’s not just restaurants’ trash - it’s everything they are throwing out there
@@extropiantranshuman yes let's take personal responsibility away. It's always putting it on corporations and government. I clean up empty fields near me, trash that blows to my yard yet neighbors just let the trash pile up on their fences, it's disgusting
@@cindyhancock6034 think - where did that trash originate from? Was it the people? Or did they get it from businesses? Why are businesses allowed to trash? Where's the gov't oversight?
They've regulated themselves into a 2-class system and keep repeating the same failures over and over.
Don't worry citizens, Zelensky was recently in Washington asking for more donations from Congress. He's protecting global democracy
Yes Captain Z is doing a marvelous job of Laundering all that big boy drug money over to the Ukraine no problem.
WT🤷🏻♀️ are you on about ???
F Zelensky!
@@pauldichtel6410 I call him Captain Z
Wrong video channel troll.
Glad you are highlighting this problem. Simple...Judges need to jail the dealers AND users.
Johns AND prostitutes
@@7791D look how they banned free speech in media and it seems to work
We've been doing this for 60 years and it obviously hasn't helped at all. It is time to try something radically different! Maybe it's time to try legalization to take the profit away from the gangs and dealers...
Yea cause that war on drugs has been so effective... addddaaaarrrr
Dealers yes users no
The drug corridor extends from the Mexican border, past palm springs, mojave desert, San Bernardino county and beyond.
They've been here a few years now. We have acceded to them "no go zones" where the US no longer has the capability nor resources to patrol or enter much of tbat land.
The people voted in the props to legalize drugs or drop it down to a .misdemeanor.
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.
Mappy says HI!! 👋
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
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.
Yup moved there in 2016 from NYC. I was shocked. Now NYC is doing the same
Haha which part of Sacramento do you live in..😅
You must be talking about like granite Bay or Folsom Lincoln Loomis..
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!!
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.
You have a very gokd commentary voice , and have great narration!
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.
Great Videos !.....Nick is Shining The Lights!
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.
The mountains baby. Too many rats in close quarters. You must live in a small town in Wa.
There are a lot of drugs and homeless in Washington state also.
@@mossyoakmom8880 Yes, there are. In every state now, for that matter.
Thanks for videos. Can’t stop watching it, so exciting. Great RUclips channel
Picking up garbage starts with YOU and ME
It was -33 last night here in Montana so I could overlook apocalyptic meth monkeys for a bit of that desert sun atm.
We need some of that Montana weather to thin the herd of meth monkeys
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.
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.
good thinking but the 5 isn't that great either - it's so much traffic!
@@extropiantranshuman Yep.
Born in 1962 in West Covina. Raised in San Bernardino mountains (near this video) 7:34 and San Diego. My brother lived near Palm Springs. Grandparents in San Clemente and Redondo Beach.
California used to be
The Golden State
and
San Diego used to be
America’s Finest City.
I left my home state in 2011.
Just couldn’t take it anymore 😢
I feel I need rehab just from watching this. I need a shower, but they don't make water hot enough
It's happening everywhere,but the desert has more open space for a drug lab/operation.
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
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.
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.
At least in our back country (rural San Diego), things have gotten pretty bad. The news won't cover all of them, but there are bodies found regularly near the border, likely victims of trafficking or smuggling; roads and infrastructure are just kind of being left to die; nature reserves and parks have piles of unkempt brush and dry leaves; and old ranches have turned into clandestine drug operations, whenever they haven't been outright abandoned. We were recently in Borrego and there were carts and tents by the visitors center.
The whole country not just California 🧐
Yea California is fucked
I hate that word--trafficking, trafficked. What an indisputable mangling of the English language that is!
This makes me so sad I saw the epidemic hit TX and all the lives it ruined.. I was in CA in the early 2000s and it's really changed. Hope it can be turned around before it's too late.
Its already "too late". That ship has sailed.
@@MichaelGiordano777 I guess it's like me to hope against all hope but it's so hard to just be resigned to letting it all go
My parents came to the Central Valley in 1950 from Texas. They were farmers. It was a wonderful time...good people with values and morals along with respect for the environment. I currently live in the central foothills. At 67, I've considered moving to another, more conservative state. A part of me still loves the California that I remember...so, I might just stick it out. Seeing this downward spiral is sad.
California is a lost cause.
what's that supposed to look like?
Doesn't look like its changed much since I left the area in the late 70s.
I respectfully request that you do a vid on the southern border now. Thanks.
It would be cool if he went along the border from Tijuana to Nogales.
@@dennishough3709 Agreed. I have no idea what his politics are. If he is a lib, no way will he cover the border. If he is a conservative, I think he would do a great job.
@@leonards.9112 I think he leans toward republican so that would be interesting to see lol
@@nfrankiksa4596 He has a lot of talent.If he put together an honest video depicting the nightmare at the border the corrupt media would suppress it.
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!