Joe Rogan Experience #1440 - Fortune Feimster
Joe Rogan (host), Fortune Feimster (guest), Jamie Vernon (guest), Jamie Vernon (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Fortune Feimster, Joe Rogan Experience #1440 - Fortune Feimster explores fortune Feimster Talks Standup, UFC, Coronavirus, and Comedy Craft Joe Rogan and Fortune Feimster riff on everything from UFC fights and coronavirus fears to bad makeup jobs, dog puke in cars, and bizarre food like bat and horse meat.
Fortune Feimster Talks Standup, UFC, Coronavirus, and Comedy Craft
Joe Rogan and Fortune Feimster riff on everything from UFC fights and coronavirus fears to bad makeup jobs, dog puke in cars, and bizarre food like bat and horse meat.
They dive into guns, self-defense laws, extreme weed use, televangelist scams, and whether we might be living in a simulation, all filtered through Rogan’s curiosity and Feimster’s Southern, self-deprecating humor.
A big chunk of the conversation centers on the craft and business of standup—how Fortune writes, the evolution of The Comedy Store, the impact of Netflix specials, and what it really takes to build an hour.
Throughout, Fortune tells her origin story from journalist to headliner, discusses weight loss and health, and previews her Netflix special and first theater tour.
Key Takeaways
The standup boom is real—and Netflix is central to it.
Rogan and Feimster note how unprecedented the current wave of comedy specials is, with Netflix creating massive reach that can jump a comic from clubs into theaters if they’re ready with material and touring.
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Fighting is compelling partly because it can end instantly.
Unlike most sports that always go the distance, combat sports can end in seconds, which Rogan explains is why even short, anticlimactic knockouts still feel thrilling to live audiences.
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Pandemics expose how underprepared and interconnected we are.
Their coronavirus discussion highlights concerns about wet markets, population pressure, and airborne spread, alongside the reality that global travel and dense cities accelerate disease transmission.
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Guns are simultaneously a danger and an equalizer.
They wrestle with the paradox that firearms enable terrible accidents and impulsive violence, yet also protect vulnerable people from stronger attackers, with huge differences in state laws around self-defense and liability.
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Weed affects people very differently—and high doses can be risky.
While Rogan enjoys moderate use, he recounts Joey Diaz’s massive edible habits and references research suggesting extreme THC doses may trigger psychotic breaks or schizophrenia in predisposed individuals.
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Serious standup is more writing and editing than people realize.
Feimster writes full scripts in Word, moves paragraphs around, and repeatedly tapes and relistens to sets—showing how strong stories come from tightening language, reordering beats, and cutting bloat, not just “being funny on stage.”
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Career freedom comes from diversifying and betting on yourself.
Rogan urges comics like Bert Kreischer to leave limiting TV gigs and build standup careers they control; he credits podcasting and multiple income streams with freeing him from creative gatekeepers and fear-based decisions.
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Notable Quotes
“You can just do it on stage and you will come up with an act—but you’re doing yourself a disservice.”
— Joe Rogan
“I went from zero to sixty. I wish I had middled.”
— Fortune Feimster
“If no one had guns, the world would be a way better place—but then we’d be at the mercy of giant people.”
— Joe Rogan
“I never knew when I started standup that it would be so much writing.”
— Fortune Feimster
“We should treat healthcare in this country the same way we would treat fighting demons.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How much of a modern comic’s success is talent versus strategy—writing discipline, platform choice, and touring decisions?
Joe Rogan and Fortune Feimster riff on everything from UFC fights and coronavirus fears to bad makeup jobs, dog puke in cars, and bizarre food like bat and horse meat.
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What ethical responsibilities do comics and podcasters have when they discuss pandemics or medical issues in such casual, humorous ways?
They dive into guns, self-defense laws, extreme weed use, televangelist scams, and whether we might be living in a simulation, all filtered through Rogan’s curiosity and Feimster’s Southern, self-deprecating humor.
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At what point does gun ownership shift from reasonable self-defense into statistically unjustifiable risk, given human error and impulsivity?
A big chunk of the conversation centers on the craft and business of standup—how Fortune writes, the evolution of The Comedy Store, the impact of Netflix specials, and what it really takes to build an hour.
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If high-dose cannabis can trigger severe mental health crises in some people, how should legalization and marketing be designed to account for that?
Throughout, Fortune tells her origin story from journalist to headliner, discusses weight loss and health, and previews her Netflix special and first theater tour.
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How will the rise of VR, simulation theories, and on-demand content change the future of live standup, if at all?
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Transcript Preview
Three, two, one. Fortune. What's up?
Jo.
Good to see you. What's happening?
You too. This is exciting.
It's exciting for me too.
Aww.
Aww.
Our first date.
Do you have a special coming out or something going on?
I- it just came out.
(gasps)
Like, a month ago.
Oh, it's out already?
Yeah.
I didn't even know.
Well, there's a lot of specials coming out right now.
Goddamn, is this the craziest time ever for specials?
Yeah. It's like one after another after another.
It really is. Like, I can't remember ever in the history of comedy there's been this many specials released.
No. And like, just killers every week.
Yeah. Speaking of special, pull up the, um, the video of Tom Segura's-
(laughs)
... new special. There's a... Uh, it's on... "Netflix is a joke," on, uh, Instagram. Has a copy of it.
Oh, 'cause he's doing English and Spanish, right?
Yeah. Uh, this one's just English.
Oh, okay.
And he's gonna do one in Spanish. You gotta... Yeah, people don't know that Tom Segura is fluent in Espanol.
Yeah. He had his mom on his podcast.
Yeah.
And that was cool.
In Spanish.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's amazing. Yeah, it's funny because he looks so white. He looks like a white bro.
I know. (laughs)
And then sometimes Mexicans will talk shit around him.
(laughs)
And, and he'll just look at them and then say something in Spanish. And they're like, "Oh, no." (laughs)
Oh, that's the best, to have that secret weapon. (laughs)
(laughs)
Especially in LA.
They need to see it. No, d- play... There's a video of it.
Does he have lipstick on?
That's what I was gonna say.
(laughs)
Thank you. Play the video.
I love you, Tom. I love you, Tom.
Play the video. They fucked him. He let some lady put make... I never let them put makeup on me. Never. And they always bring someone... And this is why. This is why.
Oh.
They, they made him out... And by the way, they color corrected it 'cause it was way worse than that before.
Oh, really?
He told me it was way worse than that. I go, "What the fuck, bro?"
(laughs) He looks-
He's like, "I know." I go, "Dude, you can't let them do that to you."
It looks like he kissed Cristina and then went out to do the show. (laughs)
He looks like a clown. He looks like a clown from the 1930s. Like one of them black and white movies. Like, look at that. That's crazy.
Oh, man.
They put lipstick on him. They put lipstick on him-
That is...
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