Joe Rogan Experience #2200 - Kat Timpf

Kat Timpf joins Joe Rogan while pregnant and, for the first time since she was five, off the amphetamines (Vyvanse) and nicotine she has used her whole life. She shares her near-death experience in 2020 with a bowel perforation and ostomy bag, including bleeding out on January 6th, and how comedy turned her trauma into material. The conversation ranges across her ADHD medication history, vaping and nicotine addiction, her difficult feral cat, and her political independence working at Fox News. Joe and Kat dig into censorship, the Hunter Biden laptop story, COVID lies, immigration incentives, and looting/retail closures. They close on a shared belief in personal freedom, the benefits of psychedelics, yoga, and jiu-jitsu, and the awe of pregnancy and existence.

• Kat is off amphetamines for the first time since age five because she is pregnant, and is also off nicotine and caffeine.
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• Kat reveals her 2020 near-death experience: a bowel perforation requiring an ostomy bag, which she hid for five weeks.
  00:37:48
• Her ostomy reversal had complications and she was bleeding out, needing a transfusion, on January 6th.
  00:38:50
• Joe acts as her 'primary care physician,' arguing she is sharp, articulate, and does not need the stimulants she has always taken.
  00:54:01
• Kat was briefly diagnosed with narcolepsy in college, which she now suspects was just heavy weed use before the sleep study.
  00:55:02
• Kat describes Accutane as the worst drug she ever took, causing suicidal ideation; her husband found her on the bathroom floor.
  02:47:51
• Joe and Kat dissect a Kamala Harris clip calling for government 'oversight and regulation' of social media as anti-First Amendment.
  01:56:03

• Kat and her husband froze nine embryos, which she jokingly calls her 'nine Frozen kids.'
  00:10:55
• They cite a statistic that the number of sexless men aged 18-30 rose 23% in the last decade.
  00:18:37
• Joe says Onnit ran two double-blind placebo-controlled studies at the Boston Center for Memory showing Alpha Brain improved verbal memory and reaction time.
  00:51:57
• Kat drives her sick 14-year-old feral cat roughly 12-18 hours to Detroit because no one else can administer his daily medications.
  01:00:14
• A viral video showed a Dunkin frozen coffee drink containing about 183 grams of sugar, roughly 51 sugar cubes.
  01:25:34
• During the George Floyd riots, pallets of bricks were reportedly found staged in places with no construction.
  01:50:53
• They note alcohol prohibition lasted about 13 years and fueled organized crime, with NASCAR tracing back to bootleggers.
  02:26:31
• Joe credits jiu-jitsu and yoga with making people calmer; he stayed calm after a Porsche 911 GT3 was rear-ended by an unlicensed driver.
  02:41:34