Jordan Jensen: New York-based stand-up comedian whose Netflix special 'Take Me With You' dropped the day of this recording. Known for confessional, contrarian sets on her struggles with OCD, addiction, and dating comedians.
What this episode covers
Joe Rogan and Jordan Jensen cover an enormous range of loosely connected topics in a freewheeling, comic-to-comic conversation. Jensen opens up about her hereditary vasovagal fainting, severe OCD she partly cured with a single intense acid trip, and her history of obesity, candida, and an all-sugar diet. Much of the middle stretches into politics (she's a Bernie-bro-turned-fluid thinker), social media as a religion-substitute and outrage machine, and a long debate on regulation, corporations, and the Twitter files. The back half turns futurist: AI, Neuralink, cyborgs, telepathy headsets, and Waymo, alongside comedy-craft talk about workshopping new material after a special drops. Throughout it stays light, profane, and tangent-driven.
Recommended on this episode
The Book of Five Rings
Miyamoto Musashi
“My favorite book of philosophy I started reading when I was like 16. It's The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.”— Joe Rogan
The Coddling of the American Mind
Jonathan Haidt
“if you look at Jonathan Haidt's book, have you ever read his book the coddling of the American mind? He's great. It's all about social media”— Joe Rogan
The Substance
Coralie Fargeat
“I'm actually very pro that movie. Like, I love the narrative. I love the idea of that when you get all that face stuff”— Jordan Jensen
The Matrix
The Wachowskis
“people still got mad. But yeah, that joke is that it was one of my favorites for a while cuz I'm obsessed with The Matrix. It's my favorite movie.”— Jordan Jensen
Swedish Fish
Mondelez
“Little candy fishes. Those are my favorite. Swedish fish. I just had a real one from Swedish. From Sweden.”— Jordan Jensen
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
Game of Thrones
HBO
“He was so good in Game of Thrones. It was so good. That's a complicated role. That show was so good.”— Joe Rogan
RocketMan
Stuart Gillard
“Rocket Man's so good. And if I had seen that as a kid, I would have been so stoked.”— Jordan Jensen
Ozempic
Novo Nordisk
“What do you think about Ozempic? The problem with it is that when they're dosing it out to people, they're giving everyone the same dose.”— Joe Rogan
Zyn
Swedish Match
“I need to get him on to Zyns, but he thinks that's gay. Zyns are gay. He thinks gay.”— Jordan Jensen
Blue Chew
Blue Chew
“Every comic needs a blue chew. So I shouldn't be letting any of their bulums in my bulum.”— Jordan Jensen
Accent
Ajinomoto
“wasn't it called Accent? there was a monosodium glutamate product that they would have for restaurants. You'd throw it in whatever you're cooking. It made it taste better.”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Jordan says she literally fainted and passed out on a New York sidewalk watching 'The Substance' in a theater.
- Joe describes Jordan getting 'dragged' on Twitter over an out-of-context clip from Stav's podcast about a slur, calling Twitter 'a mental illness factory.'
- Jordan reveals she cured severe OCD in one six-hour acid trip by confronting her fear that she couldn't trust herself.
- Joe recounts bringing Tucker Carlson and Post Malone on stage at Kill Tony without telling them what the show was.
- Jordan admits she ideologically switches sides constantly: 'I'll tell you what I am, I'm an idiot.'
- Joe details the Vioxx scandal, claiming internal emails showed the company knew it would harm people but profit.
- Joe argues AI may already be suppressing human reproduction via diet and microplastics 'by design.'
- Both discuss the lethal-dose-of-fentanyl-next-to-a-penny image and warning kids off all pills.
Worth remembering
- Rapamycin is being studied (Texas A&M) to potentially extend older dogs' lifespan by up to 20%.
- Story of two unrelated baseball players both named Brady Feigl who look identical, share injuries and the same doctor.
- Miyamoto Musashi, author of The Book of Five Rings, reportedly killed 60 men in one-on-one sword combat.
- Joe relays that mixing Ozempic with other peptides may prevent the muscle and bone-density loss it can cause.
- On Fear Factor, contestants really drank donkey semen and urine; the episode never aired in the US.
- Google Gemini's launch infamously generated multi-racial 'Nazi soldiers,' distorting history.
- Real Swedish 'Swedish Fish' are black salted licorice (salmiak/ammonium chloride), not the red American version.
- The 1960s 'saturated fat is bad' narrative was reportedly seeded by the sugar lobby for about $50,000.
- Most mammals have a penis bone (baculum) but humans don't; one theory ties its loss to mate selection / 'honest advertising.'
- A paralyzed Neuralink recipient plays video games with his mind and describes it as having an 'aimbot.'