So I have a style of comedic timing, that can basically be described as “Angry old man rants, while making culturally relevant references”.

And part of my whole bit, is I’ll list 3 things that are wrong in society that should make you angry/depressed, but because I’m ranting about them I’m making them into a joke. The joke being that I’m saying things that are true, I’m just saying them really really loudly.

5 years ago, I made the 3rd one into “And California can best be described as CURRENTLY ON FIRE!!!”

At the time, there was a wildfire. I figured, I better get in on that before they put the fire out. Not like it’s going to be funny anymore in 3 months, right?

Well…it seems like I’ve not had to replace that line anytime I do one of my rants. It’s been 5 years, and it seems like every few months there’s ALWAYS another news story about California battling some raging inferno.

The original line was “And Australia can best be described as CURRENTLY ON FIRE”, but that cultural reference came and went pretty quickly. Today most people don’t even remember that some ridiculous amount like 70% of Australia inhabited areas were at one time engulfed in 30 foot tall fires in 2019.

But whereas Australia had a disaster, and an emergency situation, they did put it out. They put out the flames, and I assume they’ll be rebuilding for decades. New Orleans still to this day is rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina in 2004.

But, the point is, Australia has moved past their calamity. California it seems like it’s never ending. They put out THIS fire, and then there’s THAT fire a few months later. Then they put out THAT fire, but there’s ANOTHER FIRE sometime later. Repeat and repeat and repeat.

Should we be worried that California seems to basically be an infinite tinderbox just waiting for a spark? I mean, I still get upvotes when I poke fun of all the chaos and destruction, but at this point it’s starting to feel like making fun of the slow kid in class who eats glue.