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The Joe Rogan Experience

#587 - Ron Finley

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

Ron Finely is a "guerrilla gardener" from South Central, LA. After giving his first TED Talk in 2012, Ron has been spreading his "vision for community gardening and rejuvenation" all over the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Joe Rogan,

0:02.0

Poggan,

0:04.0

The Joe Rogan Experience

0:08.0

Train by day,

0:09.0

Joe Rogan Podcast

0:11.0

All day! Oh, I can't tell you how many times on this podcast we've talked about growing your own

0:22.3

food about how great it would We've talked about growing your own food,

0:23.3

about how great it would be if people figured out

0:27.6

a way to utilize like empty spaces in neighborhoods

0:31.8

or a lot on a block and put in a garden and then boom

0:36.3

somebody sent me a link to your TED Talk and I said Ron Finley is on it you're it. And you've been doing this for a while. Tell me how you got

0:46.6

started in this. It was real simple. Ain't no damn food where I live, you know? So my thing was, if it ain't there you put it there it's I mean I and

0:57.1

I think these neighborhoods are by design I think this whole food system is to me a form of

1:02.0

slavery for everybody you know and I think a lot of

1:04.8

people don't get it you know they want to control your life and if you control the

1:09.6

food you control the world do you think it's by design where someone's set out and said,

1:15.0

okay, we want to take these people

1:17.0

and we want to keep them impoverished,

1:19.0

we're going to keep them ignorant,

1:20.0

and want to keep them in this cycle of crime and poverty with no escape?

1:26.5

Or do you think it's convenient for them to ignore it because they don't get any benefit

1:32.4

on trying to make it better? don't get any benefit on trying to make it better.

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