Elon Musk received quite a bit of pelting from the netizens for his controversial gesture at Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. Unsurprisingly, Joe Rogan found his way to defend the Tesla CEO. However, that led him to talk about some uncanny similarities between what the 53-year-old billionaire predicted and what actually happened in Los Angeles. The UFC commentator made the California wildfires the subject of his discussion when talking about the tech billionaire and his previous place of residence.

In episode #2261 of the JRE, Rogan had a long conversation with Warren Smith. And during that conversation, he recollected what Musk had to say regarding the California wildfires. Well, the X boss had suggestions on how to fix the water issues in the state, which were rejected by the people. Rogan said, “There’s ways to clean up the brush. There’s ways to do this, there’s ways to do that. You stop the fuel. You know, you develop better systems for water distribution, sprinkler systems. Like, there’s ways to do this and he talked about those ways on the podcast and it’s, you know, eerily accurate when you see what happened to the Pacific Palisades.”

The UFC color commentator claimed that LA had the exact same weather patterns since the 1800s. Even back then, people noticed the dry nature of LA’s weather. He then moved on to the 1961 Topanga wildfires which left nothing but destruction in its wake.

Joe Rogan continued, “LA has always been dry. It’s a desert.” And that’s the reason why Hollywood was in the city. It’s because people didn’t have to worry about sudden rains. Even Rogan visited the city a week ago. He claimed, “I was just there last weekend. The weather’s incredible. But the city, because of their ridiculous policies, is just a disaster. A dangerous, creepy, disaster of a city.”

But wait! The Joe Rogan Experience podcast had already predicted such a disaster. There was a time when the beloved podcaster had a conversation with a fireman who once predicted the wildfires in the City of Angels. And the surprising thing is that it’s from a year-old JRE episode.

Joe Rogan’s guest predicted the California disaster

On 19th July 2024, in JRE episode #2178 Rogan spoke to comedian Sam Morril about his interaction with a firefighter. He recalled, “I talked to a fireman once. This is one of the reasons it freaked me out. And he was telling me, ‘Dude, one day, it’s gonna be the right wind and the fire is gonna start at the right place and it’s gonna burn through LA all the way to the ocean. And there’s not a f—in’ thing we can do about it.’” 

The firefighter told Rogan that LA got lucky with the winds. If the winds started blowing the wrong way, they could not just start a fire, but also spread the embers through a large area. Rogan recalled that the winds had the power to spread the fire from forests to houses to bushes, destroying everything in its wake. He repeated, “Once it happens, it happens in a way where it’s so spread out that there’s nothing they can do.”

And isn’t that exactly what happened? The Santa Ana winds helped the California fires spread 14 times faster than the high winds. This engulfed the entire community in flames within moments. And the dry climate acted as a catalyst for the fires to spread. Thankfully, the fires are now under control. But the damage serves as a reminder of the need for critical infrastructure to combat such dangerous natural disasters!

What are your thoughts on Musk’s speech regarding the wildfires? Do you think the LA wildfire was a preventable calamity? Let us know what you think of Rogan’s words in the comments down below.