Joe Rogan Experience #1143 - Candice Thompson
Joe Rogan (host), Candice Thompson (guest), Jamie Vernon (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest), Guest (guest)
In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Joe Rogan and Candice Thompson, Joe Rogan Experience #1143 - Candice Thompson explores candice Thompson, Comedy, Dating, and Dark Realities with Joe Rogan Joe Rogan and comedian Candice Thompson have a long, loose, and often darkly funny conversation that bounces between horror movies, peeping Toms, dating struggles, drugs, cults, religion, body image, and stand-up comedy.
Candice Thompson, Comedy, Dating, and Dark Realities with Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan and comedian Candice Thompson have a long, loose, and often darkly funny conversation that bounces between horror movies, peeping Toms, dating struggles, drugs, cults, religion, body image, and stand-up comedy.
Candice shares personal stories—from a peeping Tom incident to bad dating app experiences and edible-induced paranoia—using humor to process fear, trauma, and frustration.
They discuss broader social issues like fame, cult dynamics, abusive parents, Michael Jackson’s alleged chemical castration, Trump-era politics, immigration and separated children, and body positivity versus health.
Throughout, they keep returning to stand-up, happiness, and identity—how childhood, parents, and pain shape ambition, pathologies, and the choice to do comedy for love of the craft versus love of fame.
Key Takeaways
Humor can be a powerful way to process real fear and trauma.
Candice turns a genuinely terrifying peeping Tom incident into material for a joke, explaining that writing about it was the only way she could cope without becoming paranoid.
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Strong, independent women often struggle to find compatible partners in modern dating.
Candice and Joe explore how educated, self-sufficient women who don’t “need” a man frequently intimidate potential partners, and how app culture amplifies superficiality and misalignment of values.
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Childhood love or neglect heavily shapes adult ambition and pathology.
They repeatedly tie extreme drive, narcissism, and sociopathy in entertainment and business to abusive or neglectful upbringings, contrasting that with Candice’s more stable, loved background and her “non-sociopathic” level of ambition.
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Tribal politics pressure people to adopt full ideological packages, even absurd ones.
Using Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, abortion, and climate denial as examples, they discuss how media figures and partisans often toe party lines—sometimes against facts or self-interest—to occupy lucrative or attention-rich niches.
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High-fat, low-carb diets differ drastically from the old “low-fat” dogma.
Joe explains that past low-fat trends simply replaced fat with sugar, contributing to weight gain, whereas modern paleo or even carnivore approaches change how the body uses fat and carbs—though they remain controversial and require discipline.
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Body positivity and health promotion can conflict if not clearly separated.
They argue you can respect and not shame people while still acknowledging that celebrating unhealthy lifestyles (e. ...
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Martial arts and physical outlets can help men safely channel latent aggression.
Joe uses a “violence room in the house” metaphor to describe male aggression, suggesting that structured disciplines like fighting and sports can purge dangerous impulses—especially for those raised around violence.
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Notable Quotes
“I wrote a joke about my Peeping Tom because it was the only way I could deal with it without getting too paranoid.”
— Candice Thompson
“If my parents had been just a little bit more abusive, I could’ve had five sitcoms by now.”
— Candice Thompson
“It’s hard finding quality human beings to spend time with—friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, whoever it is.”
— Joe Rogan
“I know for sure it is me, because I refuse to settle.”
— Candice Thompson
“There’s a level of fame that you get to where you’re just fucked up—you got too fucking famous.”
— Joe Rogan
Questions Answered in This Episode
How does Candice’s experience of being loved and supported as a child change her approach to comedy compared to the stereotypically “damaged” comic?
Joe Rogan and comedian Candice Thompson have a long, loose, and often darkly funny conversation that bounces between horror movies, peeping Toms, dating struggles, drugs, cults, religion, body image, and stand-up comedy.
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Where is the line between accepting all body types and inadvertently promoting unhealthy or dangerous lifestyles?
Candice shares personal stories—from a peeping Tom incident to bad dating app experiences and edible-induced paranoia—using humor to process fear, trauma, and frustration.
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In what ways do dating apps fundamentally reshape standards, expectations, and honesty in modern relationships?
They discuss broader social issues like fame, cult dynamics, abusive parents, Michael Jackson’s alleged chemical castration, Trump-era politics, immigration and separated children, and body positivity versus health.
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How should we think about media figures like Candace Owens—are they true believers, opportunists filling a niche, or some mix of both?
Throughout, they keep returning to stand-up, happiness, and identity—how childhood, parents, and pain shape ambition, pathologies, and the choice to do comedy for love of the craft versus love of fame.
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Can extreme fame ever be psychologically healthy, or is there always a point at which notoriety begins to deform a person’s character and relationships?
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Transcript Preview
Doo, doo, doo. Four, three, two, one. And we're live, Candace.
Hi, guys. (laughs)
Hi. (laughs)
Oh my god, we're live. (laughs)
Oh my god. What, what were you saying about Hereditary? That's supposed to be a terrifying movie, right?
That's what they said.
That's what they said.
They meaning the media and, uh, like Huffington Post, I think.
Yeah.
I, I... So that's why I went, 'cause I, I'm not scared by anything, like in the movies. So I'm constantly in pursuit of a sk- actual scary movie. So I went thinking, "Oh, this might be the one." It was not.
Damn, you're that hard that no movies get you?
I can't remember the last time I was scared by... I think Poltergeist when I was a kid.
Hm.
And that's why I'm scared of clowns to this day.
Nothing as an adult, though?
No.
I'm trying to think of the last time I was really scared in a m- well...
See?
Yeah.
See? (laughs) They don't make-
Well, they're fun. I like 'em.
That's how I feel. I like... And I also like, uh, thinking that something might get me. I like the suspense in that, but it never does. I always get... It's very anticlimactic for me.
You like thinking that something might get you scared.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And it don't.
And it doesn't.
It does not.
Jamie, when was the last time you were scared in a movie?
So jump scares are... That's like cheap, you know?
Cheap scares. Yeah.
That's not, that doesn't count just 'cause it makes it sound loud.
No, it doesn't count. That, that doesn't count.
I, I don't go see scary movies at the theater, so...
So you're always at home. So, you know-
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
The Strangers, that one-
What are you doing on your phone?
... bothered me a little bit. I was just-
Checking the weather?
No, I was just-
You're holding onto it-
I was just-
... like you're waiting for something to come in.
(laughs)
(laughs)
I was just sending out my Instagram stories.
Oh, your Instagram story.
Um, but yeah, no, The Strangers. Did you see that one?
No.
That one was with Liv Tyler, Steven Ty-
Did they have like masks on and stuff?
Yes. Uh-huh.
They were outside the house trying to kill people.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
That one rocked me a l- a little, a little.
Hmm.
But not-
Really?
Yeah.
There's something about the dark, right? Do you ever mind fuck yourself and you, you, you think that there's like someone outside? Like you think you hear something, you open your door and you listen and-
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