#1482 - Jordan Jonas

Joe Rogan (0:00)

All right, we're rolling. Hey man, thanks for doing this, appreciate it.

Jordan Jonas (0:02)

Yeah, it's an honor to be here.

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Hey, my pleasure, honor to talk to you. I really, first of all, I really enjoyed you on Cofaro Cast, so shout out to my friend, Aaron Snyder. He says hey. Say hey right back to him.

I listened to you on the show, and I was like, God damn, what an interesting guy. What a fucking crazy life you've had.

We should, so you were on that show alone, right? And explain that show for people who don't know what the fuck it is.

Jordan Jonas (0:28)

Yeah, so it's a show where they get 10 people. Each of those people get to pick out 10 basic items, like an ax and a bow and a saw and 10 items.

Joe Rogan (0:39)

Just 10 items.

Jordan Jonas (0:40)

Right.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

Does that include arrows? Like you can only have one?

Jordan Jonas (0:42)

Yeah, no, your bow comes with nine arrows. So you have a bow and arrows, I guess as an item. So that's a loosely 10 items. And then you basically take 10 people, fly them out into the middle of nowhere and drop them each off by themselves. You got all the video camera equipment and it's just self-filming.

And it's basically the last one to give up wins.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

Wow. And how do you know if anyone's given up before you?

Jordan Jonas (1:08)

You don't. You just are out there. You could be out. Previously, the show's been up. It's up to a year.

Yeah, hypothetically it could go a year. Holy shit.

So you just go out there and do your best.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

What if you are still out there but everybody else has quit and you don't know?

Jordan Jonas (1:24)

That's when they come and tell you that you won.

Joe Rogan (1:27)

So when you won, they did that to you. They told you.

And how long did it take you? 77 days?

Jordan Jonas (1:31)

77 days. I was completely surprised though. I thought it would go maybe twice that long.

Joe Rogan (1:36)

You were ready.

Jordan Jonas (1:37)

Yeah, yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:38)

But let's give people your background. It's kind of unfair in a way, and Aaron brought this up on the podcast, that you were on this show with a bunch of people like me, like regular folks that have never really lived like that before, but you've done some crazy adventure shit in Siberia.

Jordan Jonas (1:56)

Yeah, so man, I guess, how far do we want to go back?

Joe Rogan (2:00)

Let's go back.

Jordan Jonas (2:01)

All right, go back.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

We have plenty of time. When did you get started with, have you always been an outdoors guy?

Jordan Jonas (2:07)

Yeah, we grew up on a farm in Idaho, and that kind of just puts you in the outdoors. I'd say I kind of had, you know, but then I was doing the normal thing, working concrete job, working at a salad dressing factory, blah, blah. And then my brother took me out riding freight trains, and we rode across the country. I just like hopped.

Joe Rogan (2:24)

Like a hobo?

Jordan Jonas (2:25)

Like a hobo, yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:26)

Did you have a stick with like a bundle at the end of it?

Jordan Jonas (2:28)

Well, we were advanced progressive hobos with backpacks.

Joe Rogan (2:31)

Progressive hobos. So you just hopped the freight trains.

Jordan Jonas (2:35)

Jumped on a freight train, went across the country, up, back. And then I was also the first time I had been, you know, alone for a while. At one point, I split up with them and rode for a week by myself. So I was like kind of a-

Joe Rogan (2:47)

What year was this?

Jordan Jonas (2:48)

This was when I was 19, I'm 37 now, so something like that.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

I'm bad at math. So cell phone or no cell phone?

Jordan Jonas (2:55)

No cell phone, yeah. No cell phone.

Joe Rogan (2:57)

Oh my God, what a crazy person.

Jordan Jonas (2:59)

No, it was awesome.

It was a real taste of freedom. And I think that was kind of like a coming of age experience for me, because I just realized, oh man, I don't really want to, you know, I wasn't going to be in this typical life after having experienced that. Like every night, you know, it's like total freedom. You're up.

You never know where you're going to sleep. You never know who you're going to meet. You're always out there in the elements. That's pretty fascinating.