Joe Rogan on The Devastation of the Australia Fires

So they got... Koala Bears have chlamydia? All of them. Yeah. True story. Google! Imagine if that's where chlamydia came from, somebody had to fuck a koala bear. Well, apparently we got AIDS from a monkey, so maybe koala gave us chlamydia. Do you know where that actually comes from? It's not from someone fucking a monkey. There's a... Bite? No, it was someone who hunted a monkey. Hand job? No, cut the monkey and cut his hand and got monkey blood in his hand while he was like butchering a monkey. Oh, that makes more sense. Yeah. Because who's fucking a monkey? David Chappelle had a bit about it. I remember that. 100% infection rate. 100%! Wild fucking... That is insane. Wild koalas have 100% infection rate of chlamydia. For two decades, scientists have brought wild koalas into wildlife hospitals to treat their chlamydia with antibiotics. Can we give them... I've had chlamydia six times in my life. Can we give them a penicillin shot? Well, they'd have to go grab all of them. Well, you know, they're really in deep, deep trouble because of the wildfires in Australia. They said that something like 80% of their habitat's been destroyed. Ooh. The fucking... The fire's over there insane. I did a benefit Sunday night with Monty Hoffman, or Monty Franklin, rather, Whitney Cummings, and Jim Jeffries. Oh, wow. We did a benefit for the wildlife fires. Jeffries must be getting his door knocked down with that shit. Oh, I'm sure, yeah. Well, Monty Franklin's Australian as well. Uh-huh. Double Australian, double American card. Oh, boy. Wild. Yeah. It was a fun show, but when you see the devastation, it's crazy. 70% of Australia is covered in smoke. Whoa. 70%, and it's as big as the United States. Ah, that's a bummer. Yeah, it's crazy, and they basically have no way of stopping it. I mean, unless the rains put it out or it burns all the way to the coast. Yeah, it's a stupid question, but what is the money gonna do? You know, I know it helps people who are burned. It's all for wildlife. Ah. The money's all for wildlife. A lot of them have been burned. They had a little bit of a presentation. Some of them, they've rescued, and they have to put them back into suitable habitat. That's the money that's going to wild. I mean, you're not gonna fix the fucking devastation by the fire in terms of the plants and the houses and stuff like that. You can only hope those people, their homes burnt down, had some sort of insurance, but how much fucking insurance money is there? Yeah. So many houses got wrecked. Yeah, man. What is the number now, like how many houses have been burnt to the ground in Australia currently? Yeah, because all you hear about is the animals. Yeah, well, it's a billion animals. That's why. A billion animals are dead. Wow. So this will be in history books. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, boy. Dude, just think about a fucking billion animals are dead from a fire. I mean, that's insane. Yeah. That's gonna change the ecosystem. Oh, for sure. Though the ecosystem over there is weird anyway. Oh, they got spiders that kill birds. Yeah. That's insane. They have a bunch of shit that's not supposed to be there too. Oh, really? Yeah. There's like so many of their animals are invasive species. What about the aborigines? Because they live in huts and shit, right? Yeah. I mean, what about that? I didn't even think about that. They're fucked. I don't think they live in huts for the most part. I think a lot of them live in normal communities. You probably did. Crocodile Dundee. That's all I know of that and Arch Barker. They have so many different languages, the aborigines do, that they could go like 20 miles away and not have any idea what those guys over there are saying. Yeah. Wow. Most of those languages aren't even written down apparently. Really? Yeah. My buddy Adam Greentree is from Australia and he runs a mining company and they hire a lot of the folks that are aborigines. He's gotten to be very close with a lot of them and gotten to know their culture and to understand their culture. That's really, really strange. They're scattered all over the country and so many of them have, they call them mobs, like a tribe is a mob and they have a different language than another mob that's like 30 miles away. Are they dangerous? What do you mean? Do they fight each other and stuff? I don't know. That's a good question. Yeah, I don't know. I went to Australia for the Melbourne Comedy Fest and I was bummed at how not different it was. It's not that different. From America? No. Melbourne's real close. Fantastic food. Great food, great plays, great people. That laugh lounge is awesome too. Yeah, yeah, good club. Great club. Great comics over there too. Very good. Very good. Very good. Although they didn't like the dark stuff I noticed. Really? Yeah, well I think there's so much, excuse me, there's so much, that coffee man, that turmeric is going right up my asshole. Laird Hamilton, super food. Oh yeah, love to watch him masturbate. Yeah, those audiences there were very tense when I got dark. Really? I think because they have some real racial problems and reals, like they're kind of behind the times a little bit on stuff, so I think they're like, hey look, that shit's happening. Like we're not laughing at you yet. Oh, right, right. Okay, well you know in the 1950s, just not that long ago, they were actually taking Aboriginal babies from the parents and trying to raise them. Yeah, well at least that's good intent. They should have probably asked first. Oh, they just took them. I don't know. I don't really, I'm not that informed, but some Australian people were trying to explain to me like how the relations are very fucked up. Right. Yeah. Wow, so the Aborigines get their babies stolen by honkies. And I don't know, in a weird way the mom's got to kind of be like, well it's a better life. I don't think so. Yeah, they got a TV. I think she misses her mom. Yeah, I guess you're right. She misses her daughter. I don't know, man. It's not good. Either way, donate to the chlamydia. Yeah, so how many houses have been burnt down? Do they even know? I probably don't know exactly. I saw one thing that said in New South Wales alone there was 3,000 houses, but another thing said that that was the number. So I don't know if it's 3,000 total or just in that. That's not too bad. It could be worse. Yeah. Yeah, 3,000. I mean there was 600 last year just in Malibu. Oh shit, I forgot about that. Damn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.