199. Jordan Jensen: You Can’t Say That (But Actually You Can)

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week Mike sits down with comedian Jordan Jensen. A master of turning taboo topics into comedy- as seen in her Netflix special Take Me With You- Jordan explains how her fearless, no filter stage persona coexists with her emotional, more vulnerable side. Plus, the story of how caring for her paralyzed friend led her to stand-up, why Jordan almost bit Laura Dern on the set of Bradley Cooper’s film Is This Thing On?, and the time someone from the audience tried to fight her.

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0:00.0	This is great. It feels very self-aggrandizing. Is this all interview? I want to ask you questions. How did you not flinch when all those toys dropped? How did you not flinch? Did you edit out the flinch? No, it's an optical illusion that like they're around me. They're not around me. They're behind me. But if you had jumped a little bit, it would have taken you out of it. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's so good. I'm glad you got your question in.
0:22.5	I really.
0:23.5	I do.
0:24.6	We always. But if you had jumped a little bit, it would have taken you out of it. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's so good.
0:22.1	I'm glad you got your question in.
0:23.0	I really.
0:24.5	I do.
0:27.2	We owe every interview, you get one question.
0:28.2	That was yours.
0:29.2	That's great.
0:37.3	That is the voice of the great Jordan Jensen, turning the tables on me.
0:39.7	It's the first time someone has requested to ask a question of the interviewer on the show,
0:45.2	which is a testament to how many questions I asked.
0:48.7	It's a good episode today.
0:50.4	Jordan, of course, if you don't know with a reference,
0:53.8	she's asking why I didn't flinch when the toys dropped in my special,
0:59.1	the new one.
0:59.9	We talk about that today a little bit.
1:01.7	We talk about Jordan's new special on Netflix,
1:04.6	which is called Take Me With You, which is so funny and raw and crosses crosses the line goes close to the line in so many different ways
1:16.3	we talk about that just as a concept today jordan talks about a lot of dark stuff especially even
1:22.2	on the show today talks about a lot of dark stuff um which i love but if that's not for you this
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