Joe Rogan's prediction about the wildfire that has spread through California and is now affecting Los Angeles has ended up being accurate.
Granted, this is a prediction he's made several times throughout the years on his podcast and has some first-hand experience with since he lived in California for years and was evacuated from his home multiple times.
The fires that have spread across the US state this week have resulted in thousands of people being evacuated from their homes, and many of those homes have been burned to the ground by the rampaging inferno.
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Strong winds have carried the fire across great distances and caused it to spread quickly, and a state of emergency has been declared in California.
The notorious podcaster used to live in California, but in 2020 moved out to Texas citing a number of concerns including the stricter Covid-19 restrictions that California had during the pandemic, and he has since claimed that it has gone 'full communist'.
Apart from that, Rogan also regularly brought up the wildfires that regularly plague California, having said that he was evacuated from his home three times and was 'always waiting for the next fire'.
In one of his episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, he said that the last time he'd been evacuated 'two houses in front of my house burnt to the ground'.
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Rogan also recounted a conversation he had with a firefighter who told him that LA had been 'lucky' with the wind and said that if it was blowing in the wrong direction it'd be devastating for the city.
"He goes, 'One day, it’s just going to be the right wind, and fire’s gonna start in the right place, and it’s going to burn through LA all the way to the ocean, and there’s not a f**king thing we can do about it'," Rogan said of the firefighter's warning.
In a 2018 episode back when Rogan was still living in California, Derren Brown went on the podcast and said he'd had to avoid the fires to make it in.
In that episode Rogan echoed the firefighter's warning that the wind could spread the fire across LA, and in a 2019 episode with David Wallace-Wells, the podcaster was told that because of climate change, the California wildfires could get up to '64 times worse' by the end of this century.
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It's something Rogan brings up a lot on his show, and with the frequency of wildfires in Californi, it was bound to happen.
Some months before the latest devastating fires one of California's biggest insurers, State Farm, cancelled a plethora of insurance policies on houses in Pacific Palisades according to Newsweek.
Pacific Palisades is one of the areas that has been devastated by the fires, and the company cancelled insurance policies to avoid 'financial failure'.
People living in areas prone to being scorched by wildfire are finding it increasingly difficult to get their houses insured, meaning that if they lose their home to the flames they won't be covered for their loss.
Joe Harker