Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride · Aired Aug 6, 2026
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Burmese pythons were imported to the United States in the 1970s largely from eggs incubated in Southeast Asia.
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What remains unresolved
The general story holds up. Burmese pythons came into the US through the pet trade, mostly from Southeast Asia, and Thailand and Myanmar were the top sources. I found no source saying the 1970s imports were mostly hatchlings from eggs taken from skinned snakes. The one related source I opened, a Reptiles Magazine piece, says Southeast Asian skinning businesses started hatching eggs from pregnant females for export for blood pythons only recently, and that earlier blood pythons were wild-caught adults. A check of the USGS Reed and Rodda 2009 report, or of 1970s CITES import records that split wild-caught snakes from captive-hatched ones, would settle it. If those show most 1970s Burmese pythons were hatched from eggs of skinned or captured females, the claim is true. If they show mostly wild-caught snakes, it is false.
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Quick answer
Is it true that Burmese pythons were imported to the United States in the 1970s largely from eggs incubated in Southeast Asia?
We can't say yet. The general story holds up. Burmese pythons came into the US through the pet trade, mostly from Southeast Asia, and Thailand and Myanmar were the top sources. A guest said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2536 - Eric Goode & Jeremy McBride, aired Aug 6, 2026, at 14:10. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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