Joe Rogan on the California Wildfires

e to boom. What's up, man? How are you? Hello. Thanks for being here. Well, I'm pleased to get here. It's a kind of a strange day in this part of LA. This is as strange as it ever gets. The big concern in Los Angeles has always been according to a firefighter that I talked to once that the right wind catches a fire and it takes it all the way through Los Angeles down to the coast. Yeah. It's not quite that it didn't go through Hollywood. It didn't go. They think one day it's going to happen and with the right wind, they're not going to be able to stop it. But this is pretty bad. This is about as bad as I've ever seen it happen all in one day. Yeah. It was extraordinary driving down the road to get here. Just these huge, just huge pillowy. I thought it was just, you know, mountains and I thought it was a strange cloud formation, but it was just smoke. Yeah. It looks like a giant gray mountain in the distance. Yeah. It's insane how bad it's gotten. I've had it happen. This is the third time I've been evacuated since I've moved here 20 plus years ago. Yeah, it gets rough, but this is the roughest I've ever seen. Jamie and I were doing the podcast yesterday and when it was over, I had like five text messages from friends that live in my neighborhood saying how bad it was. And then when we got home, the wind was just crazy. It's just, it's just, it's humbling. I mean, it's super unfortunate for all the people that are losing their homes and losing their, losing their property. But the reality is this is, it's nature. This is just something that you just can't avoid. There's nothing you can do about it. It gets dry like this and I don't know what started it. I hope it wasn't a cigarette. That's the big, I see so many morons of throwing cigarettes up the window. It's not just a weather thing that just happens. It's, it is literally things like cigarettes. And yeah, unfortunately a lot of the times, I mean the weather certainly accentuates it because it's dry and windy and this is fire season. Well, please be all sat there on these incredibly comfortable chairs. They're not bad, right? They're amazing because they support your back as well, which as a 47 year old man is, this is a helpful song. I keep bouncing away from the microphone, which I'm sure isn't good, but yeah, they're incredible. They keep you sitting straight. That's what they do. They accentuate your posture. They do. There you go. So what's up, man? What are you doing in town for? Shoulders back, chest out. Yeah, there you go. Jordan would be proud. There you go. I'm here. Yeah, I'm here doing a, I'm here for a week. I've been, I've got a show on Netflix that's come out. So I'm just kind of generally here to, uh, talk about it, I guess. And, uh, seeing a couple of friends and it's been a really nice, really nice week. Yeah. This is a good way to end it too with a giant fire. That's just saying giant fire and get the fuck out of here. These people are crazy living here with no water. It never rains. Yeah, it'll be, it's very different back home. It'll be, yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's amazing just at this time of year, leaving England and coming to somewhere like, I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure you don't take it for granted, but you know, it's, it is amazing just for a, the weather just for a bit. Do you like, would you like LA as a, like as a place and a home and a, and a, does it, I mean, you've got an amazing sort of setup here. Is it just, is it just a dream place to you? It's a, it's a love, hate relationship. Certainly. The, the, the real problem is the population is just so insane. There's more than 20 million people. Plus who knows people, you know, how many, they really don't have no idea how many people have snuck in, you know, it's, it's just a chaotic place. And no public transport. It just hit me the other day. The fact that there's no, there was no trains, there's no infrastructure of, uh, so everyone's driving these huge, huge vehicles. Everyone has an escalator, a Tesla or something. Yeah. It's, uh, it's just a strange place. There's the highways are massive, you know, you have five, six lanes on each side and they're jammed solid where nothing's moving either way. And if you can see it from, they're really, well you realize how preposterous it is when you're flying into LAX and you see the 405 highway and the distance and it's all stopped for as long as you could see miles one way and miles the other way, just complete parking lot. And just realized, wow, what are we doing here? The found spot with great weather and you know, and then the entertainment industry drives people in. I don't know. Maybe it's better to be in England.