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Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Conservative stars now REGRET leaving California to follow Joe Rogan to Texas: 'It's no Los Angeles!'
More and more conservative stars are beginning to turn on Texas after leaving New York and California. Joe Rogan was the first big star to make the move, with the podcasting titan fleeing Los Angeles and moving his family into a $14 million mansion in Austin in 2020. Many of Rogan's comedian pals enthusiastically followed him there - only to deeply regret their decision after arriving. Tim Dillon was the first to jump ship, with the Thanksgiving star fleeing Austin after just a few months in the Lone Star State. Dillon had followed Rogan to Austin in 2020, only to make an emergency exit by the end of that year after discovering that the city didn't have enough good restaurants. 'It's a horrible city without a soul,' he told fellow comedian Whitney Cummings when describing his stint in Austin. 'It's not the live music capital of America. It's three heroin addicts busking with guitars. There's zero talent here in any capacity,' he raged. 'There's three restaurants that are good and I've been to all of them twice.' In another interview, Dillon said that Austin 'can't be compared to New York and Los Angeles.' He also told the H3 podcast that the city was filled with homeless people, had a 'sewage colored lake,' and that most of the residents would 'get drunk and shoot each other' for fun. Rogan's longtime friend, comedian and MMA fighter Brendan Schaub, has also come to regret his move to Austin. The 42-year-old relocated his family to the city earlier this year, but he recently confessed on his Fighter and the Kid podcast that he was 'heartbroken' about leaving Los Angeles and said he misses the city terribly. 'I miss my community and my routine,' he admitted. He also shared a bleak story about meeting another Los Angeles transplant in Texas who warned him that it might take up to three years for him to acclimate to life in Austin. 'He said, "Texas is great, best decision I've ever made. But you should know that it's no LA. There's no replacing LA",' Schaub recalled. Comedian Shane Gillis, who is another one of Rogan's pals, has also shared a similar sentiment. Gillis has repeatedly complained about the homeless situation in Austin, calling the drug-crazed vagrants in town 'screaming runners.' 'Texas f***ing blows,' he told comedian Andrew Schulz while sharing a story about how the power in his Austin home went out for three days due to a bad storm. 'It's hot as f**k. The second we ran out of power the house was 90 degrees and bugs came in immediately. The house was filled with bugs.' Gillis moved to Austin in 2023 because Texas has no income tax. He also wanted to be close to Rogan's standup club the Comedy Mothership. Even celebrities with no connection to Rogan or the comedy scene have voiced regrets about moving to Texas. Male model Lucky Blue Smith and his influencer wife Nara, who is famous for her trad wife content, left Los Angeles in 2022 to move to Dallas. However, within just two years the couple announced that they were leaving the city to live in Connecticut so that they could be closer to New York. In a TikTok video, Nara said that living in Connecticut would allow the couple to own a large house where they could raise their family, while still 'being closer to a bigger city for all the work that we do.' Earlier this week, transgender conservative influencer Blaire White announced that she was leaving Texas after four years to return to her home state of California. The 31-year-old fled her Hollywood home in 2021 amid rising homelessness and the state's tyrannical Covid policies to move to Austin, Texas. Conservative social media star Mike Cernovich, who lives in Orange County, has also come out swinging against Austin However, she announced this week that she's ready to return to California after spending the last four years in Austin. Addressing the major life change in a YouTube video, the transgender social media star shared her surprising reason behind the shock relocation. 'I was born there, so it is home for better or for worse,' Chico-born Blaire said. 'There are a lot of problems with California and a lot of people like to write off New York and California and say, "Just let them go overboard, let them burn," and I find that to be a very un-American perspective to hold,' she continued. 'California in my opinion is the most beautiful place in the world. Yes, I said the world,' she added. 'And it's even more of a shame because of that that it's run by demons.' While Blaire said that Los Angeles has now become 'ghetto and downtrodden,' she explained that she wants to return to the City of Angels to help improve it. 'I want to be someone who's part of the solution. I want to be someone who doesn't run from problems,' she insisted. 'I moved to Texas in the middle of Covid. So I moved to Texas in crisis. The lockdowns weren't ending, so much trauma from that, so much craziness, so it was kind of like an evacuation,' she continued. The YouTube star said that she's also eyeing a run for political office in the future and is excited to add her voice to California politics as a political commentator. Conservative social media star Mike Cernovich has also come out swinging against Austin. The MAGA influencer, who is based in Orange County, recently called the Texas city a 'total dump.' 'Austin was disgusting when I first went there, 2017 or so. I expected culture or whatever, it got so much hype,' he posted on X (formerly Twitter). 'I was looking forward to it. Total dump. There's like two blocks, a dirty river, flat land, and that street where all the drunks go to try kill each other.' From the early 1800s to the 1960s, New York was the undisputed most populous state in America. California overtook New York in 1964 and has been the most crowded ever since. New York dropped back to third place in 1994, when Texas surged past 18.1 million people. Florida later surpassed the Empire State. 'California in my opinion is the most beautiful place in the world. Yes, I said the world,' Blaire said in a YouTube video A February study from moveBuddha projected that Texas and Florida would be the first and second biggest states, respectively, by 2100, followed by California, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York. California has been steadily losing hundreds of thousands of citizens since 2019, before posting a moderate gain in 2023. Many cite high cost of living and poor quality of life as reasons why they left the Golden State. Data has shown nearly half of the people moving out of California in 2021 were millennials. Many of them headed to Texas counties around major cities such as Houston, Dallas and Austin. Florida, like Texas, has also had a population boom, with more than 700,000 people moving there in 2022. The fact that Texas and Florida don't levy income taxes on their citizens is a major pulling factor from California and New York, both of which have top marginal rates over 10 percent. Still, there are some major drawbacks that could slow these states' march to dominance. For one, both Texas and Florida have been hit with dramatically more natural disasters in the last 10 years, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Vance Is Boasting He Knows What's in Epstein Files to Random Dinner Guests
Vice President JD Vance casually informed a comedian over dinner what's in the files connected to Jeffrey Epstein while trying to downplay their significance. Tim Dillon made the revelation on an 'emergency' episode of his podcast titled 'The Epstein Cover-Up.' Featured on the episode was conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones, one of several Donald Trump supporters who have turned on the president over his handling of the Epstein case. '[Attorney General Pam] Bondi said we have 10,000 hours of video. I had dinner last week with the vice president,' Dillon said. 'He told me that that was commercial pornography, they do not have videos of any powerful person in a compromising position. That's the party line that they're going with?' 'If that's the case, why would Pam Bondi call it evidence? She's not an idiot. She's the attorney general,' Dillon added. 'Why would she say she has files on her desk if none of these implicated anybody?' Tom Dillion (left) hosted an 'emergency podcast' to discuss the Jeffrey Epstein saga with Alex Jones. / Screengrab/The Tom Dillon Show The fallout from the Department of Justice and FBI's handling of the files related to Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019, doesn't appear to be blowing over anytime soon, even as Trump desperately tries to launch wave after wave of distractions. Multiple MAGA figures including Trump demanded the release of all evidence and files connected to Epstein amid speculation that there exists a list of high-profile names that implicates them in the pedophile's offenses. However, the DOJ and FBI shot down claims of the existence of any so-called 'client list' belonging to Epstein, despite Bondi stating in February that it was 'on my desk right now' awaiting review. The FBI and DOJ also stated that there will be no further arrests in connection to Epstein's crimes and that he took his own life, and was not murdered, inside his New York jail cell in August 2019. Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump were friends for years but fell out around 2004 over a Palm Beach real estate deal. /Another top MAGA figure who spent years demanding the release of the Epstein files was Vance himself. In a December 2021 X post, Vance wrote: 'What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein's clients secret? Oh…' In a June 2025 interview with comedian Theo Von, Vance added, 'Seriously, we need to release the Epstein list. That is an important thing.' On July 16, Von asked Vance 'what changed?' while resharing the clip on X. On his podcast, Dillon questioned why Trump and Vance were once desperate for the Epstein files to be made public but are now suggesting everyone move on from the saga. 'It just feels like they're they're covering something. For sure, 100 percent,' Dillon said. 'And I feel like they're telling a story, and the story doesn't make any sense.' Dillion's podcast regularly gets hundreds of thousands of views online. The comedian, who claims to be equally critical of Democrats and Republicans, interviewed Vance in the days leading up to the 2024 election. He is also a regular guest of Joe Rogan, who was one of several podcasters the president spoke to during the 2024 campaign to try and engage younger voters. A spokesperson for Vance did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Comedian Tom Dillon said the vice president told him there wasn't '10,000 hours″ of horrific videos related to the late pedophile.
Vice President JD Vance casually informed a comedian over dinner what's in the files connected to Jeffrey Epstein while trying to downplay their significance. Tim Dillon made the revelation on an 'emergency' episode of his podcast titled 'The Epstein Cover-Up.' Featured on the episode was conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones, one of several Donald Trump supporters who have turned on the president over his handling of the Epstein case. '[Attorney General Pam] Bondi said we have 10,000 hours of video. I had dinner last week with the vice president,' Dillon said. 'He told me that that was commercial pornography, they do not have videos of any powerful person in a compromising position. That's the party line that they're going with?'
Fox News
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Meghan Markle pulled off becoming a 'victim' while living in a castle: comedian
Comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon is known for not holding back when it comes to taking aim at Meghan Markle and what he views as her "victim" mentality. The 43-year-old Duchess of Sussex has frequently been the subject of Dillon's rants on his podcast, "The Tim Dillon Show," which the 40-year-old launched in 2019. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Dillon explained why the former "Suits" actress has become one of his favorite comedic targets. "I think it's just that she came to prominence at a time when there was a real cultural cachet to being a victim," Dillon said. "And I thought it was a very funny way to be a victim, and she found a way to be a victim while living in a castle. "And I always found that very funny," he continued. "I think she's a great comedic actress. I think that there was real currency in being a victim when she rose to prominence, and she became a victim living in a castle married to a prince with the royal wedding, and I thought that was very funny. "It's hard to pull it off," Dillon added. "She did it, to her credit. You know, most people that you know were putting out that they were victims during that era were, to their credit, not members of the royal family." Dillon also shared his thoughts on Markle's influence over her husband, Prince Harry. "Harry seems like he's kind of been led around and he kind of doesn't know what's going on," he said. "It's probably all an adventure for him, right? Representatives for Markle and Harry declined to comment on Dillon's remarks. WATCH: Meghan Markle pulled off becoming a 'victim' while living in a castle: comedian Tim Dillon Markle and Harry, who married in 2018, announced they were stepping down as working members of the British royal family in January 2020. At the time, the pair also revealed plans to leave the United Kingdom and move to Canada, though they eventually settled in Montecito, California, where they are raising their two young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The couple initially claimed their decision to step away from royal life stemmed from their desire to become financially independent. The couple were said to be frustrated Buckingham Palace prevented them from developing their "Sussex Royal" brand, the BBC reported. However, during a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the two said intense media scrutiny on Markle and the lack of support from the royal family were major factors in their exit. Markle revealed that the hounding by the press and online abuse led her to have suicidal thoughts. While speaking with Winfrey, the couple also leveled explosive allegations of racism against an unnamed member of the royal family. According to the BBC, when they stepped down as senior royals, Harry's father, King Charles III, gave them "a substantial sum" to help establish a new life. They set up the Archewell foundation and took on several commercial deals, including one with Netflix. In 2022, Markle and Harry further aired their grievances about the treatment they said they had received from the royal family and the media in their Netflix docuseries "Harry & Meghan." They alleged that members of the royal family, including King Charles, his brother Prince William and his sister-in-law Kate Middleton were jealous of Markle's popularity. The pair claimed they suffered "abuse" when they broke from royal tradition and opted not to take a photo in front of the hospital after the birth of Archie in 2019. Harry also alleged that William and other royals worked to undermine him and Markle in the press and that his older brother flew into a rage when he announced the couple's intentions of stepping down from their roles. In March 2024, Markle launched her lifestyle brand, which was originally named American Riviera Orchard. Due to trademark woes, it was renamed "As Ever" in February. The gourmet products, including teas, baking mixes and jams, sold out in under an hour. The $28 wildflower honey sold out in less than five minutes, Vanity Fair reported. Markle's latest Netflix show, "With Love, Meghan," which showcased her love of cooking and entertaining, premiered March 4. The eight-episode series was mercilessly torn apart by royal watchers and less-than-impressed viewers on social media for appearing inauthentic. The show also received poor reviews in the U.S. and U.K. However, the show made it into Netflix's Top 10 within a week of its release, and it will return for a second season this fall. In May, Markle's popularity in the U.K. hit an all-time low, according to a YouGov poll. The poll found that only 20% of U.K. adults had a favorable view of Markle, while 65% of respondents had a negative view of the duchess. YouGov reported that only 27% of U.K. adults had a positive opinion of Harry, while 63% viewed the prince unfavorably. During a recent appearance on the "We Might Be Drunk" podcast, Dillon argued the public's approval ratings most likely mattered little to Markle. "Right now, I think part of it is just being famous whether you're liked or hated," he said. "I don't know if it matters if people like or hate you. It's like, obviously, you don't want to be hated. I guess some people don't want to, but I don't think she really cares. She doesn't seem to care." The comedian went on to say that Markle would probably be unbothered if she were to view one of his podcast videos in which he criticized her. "If somebody showed her a clip of me probably, and she goes, 'Who cares? F------ fat idiots," he said. Dillon shared his opinion that Markle was enthusiastic about being a member of the royal family at the beginning of her marriage to Harry. "She was so into it," he said. "She was like doing the appearances and everything like that." Dillon said he believed Markle was aware that there was a trade-off involved when it came to enjoying the fame and fortune of being a royal. "The deal with the British royal family is that the people pay for their lifestyles," he said. "Their taxes allow these people to live like Disney characters. "But the payment for that is that they get to know everything about your life," Dillon added. "Meaning, like, it's the ultimate reality show to them. They don't have the Kardashians. They have the royal family. "They're into it because that's their entertainment, and then Meghan Markle came in and goes, 'What do you mean you want a picture of my kid?' "And you go, 'It's our kid. We pay for all of this s---, and you people belong to us.' She had to know that. You can't not know that going in." Dillon joked that he had come to appreciate Markle's apparent disregard for whether she was liked or disliked by the public. "I like her now. I think she's won me over," he said. "To me, the best thing in the world is somebody who goes, 'Oh, you hate me? Good. You'll really hate this.' "It gives you nowhere to go," he said. "Yeah, you just have nowhere to go now." WATCH: Comedian Tim Dillon weighs in on the biggest challenge of starting his podcast In addition to poking fun at Markle, Dillon's podcast features the comedian sharing personal stories and his thoughts on news topics, including cultural issues in America, the entertainment industry and politics. While speaking with Fox News Digital, Dillon recalled that his friend Louis Gomez, who hosts the popular podcast "Legion of Skanks," inspired him to start his own podcast. "He told me he thought I would do a good job doing a podcast," Dillon said. "So I tried it." Dillon told Fox News Digital he found podcasting challenging at first, though "The Tim Dillon Show" now draws 1 million viewers per week, according to Deadline. "It's difficult, so it took a long time to get good at it," he said. "I think when I first started, I was trying to figure out how to make the things I was interested in interesting to other people and entertaining to other people. And that takes a minute." In April, Dillon's second comedy special, "I'm Your Mother," was released on Netflix. The special was Dillon's second for the streaming platform after 2022's "This Is Your Country." The comedian has performed stand-up at both national and international venues and has dabbled in acting with appearances in the 2023 horror film "Thanksgiving" and the 2024 "Joker" sequel "Joker: Folie à Deux." During his interview with Fox News Digital, Dillon weighed in on what's next for him. "A defamation suit from Meghan Markle, perhaps," he joked. "No, I don't know. More podcasting, more stand-up, more talking, more hot air. What's next for any of us?"
Fox News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Tim Dillon pushes back on CNN reporter asking if he's part of 'new establishment' that impacted 2024 race
Comedian and podcaster Tim Dillon rejected claims that he and other prominent comedians formed a "new establishment" that contributed to former Vice President Kamala Harris' loss in the 2024 presidential election during an interview with CNN on Monday. Dillon told CNN reporter Elle Reeve that he doesn't "buy the narrative" that several comedians with podcasts were responsible for sinking the Harris campaign or determining the outcome of the race. Reeve asked Dillon whether he believed he was part of a newly emerging establishment, and he pushed back, saying, "I don't think I'm part of the new establishment." Dillon continued, noting that Harris entered the race under challenging conditions: "But this is a very specific circumstance in which Kamala Harris ran for president. She was somewhat unpopular, and she was not a star in Democratic politics before this at all. And her communication strategy was pretty weak. I think most people admitted that. So to hang this defeat all on a few podcasts and to say that they were the problem, I just don't buy the narrative." The comedian dismissed the notion that "a few comedians with podcasts" were able to go toe-to-toe with the "multibillionaires, huge media institutions, a whole political party apparatus" that supported Harris' campaign. "I think it seems like a great way to excuse running an unpopular candidate on a platform that American people weren't sold on," Dillon said. After being pressed further by Reeve on comedians' influence on politics, Dillon mocked the idea that he and other comedians have power that "is equal to the CIA." "The idea that, like, the power that Theo Von has would be equal to, like, the intelligence agencies or these massive legacy media institutions seems crazy," he stated, referencing fellow comedian Theo Von. Reeve maintained that comedians had significant sway, arguing they had formed an 'establishment' with substantial influence over large audiences. Dillon eventually interrupted, challenging this notion. "Well, just, you used the word establishment," Dillon interjected. "I didn't say that we didn't have any power or that audiences weren't powerful. But when you use the term 'establishment,' I think that that's more than just having an audience. That's having an institutional component that I don't think we have." The comedian continued, offering a counter narrative to the reporter's argument that podcasters had the power to have a major influence on an election. "But I think legacy media does. I think the government and the intelligence communities do. I think Hollywood certainly does. And I think all of those people, all of those power factions have worked together for a very, very, very long time. So to say that a few comedians with podcasts equal that seems crazy to me," he said.
