JennaWorld: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video, & The Valley
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Show overview
JennaWorld: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video, & The Valley has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 33 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 30 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 48 min and 1h 11m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 33% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language True Crime show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 11 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 11 episodes published. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
From the publisher
Jennaworld: Jenna Jameson, Vivid Video, & The Valley is a narrative nonfiction podcast about the history of the pornographic film industry in the San Fernando Valley told through the lens of 2000s adult film superstar Jenna Jameson.
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Introducing: Mollyworld
S2 Ep 14Chapter 13: Valley of the Dolls
Chapter 13 "Valley of the Dolls": As the old adult film industry evaporates, a new world emerges. Jenna finds new notoriety on Twitter and TikTok as her porn stardom fades. New attacks from the right wing threaten to undermine porn’s hard-won legality.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 13Chapter 12: Heel Turn
Chapter 12 "Heel Turn": Jenna announces she’s leaving porn with a dramatic awards show speech. A new crop of unlikely porn tycoons and internet stars emerge online as the ecosystem of Porn Valley and its studio system continues to collapse into streaming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 12Chapter 11: Pirates!
Chapter 11 “Pirates!”: As the porn industry makes record profits in the early 2000s, upstart studio Digital Playground makes the highest budget adult film ever called Pirates just as online piracy begins to destroy the entire adult film industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 11Chapter 10: Beyond JennaWorld
Chapter 10 “Beyond Jennaworld”: Heather Hunter becomes the first Black female porn superstar and tries to cross over into rap. Performer Sean Michaels moves into directing to try to tackle the porn industry’s racism issues firsthand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 10Chapter 9.5: Moms I'd Like to Film
Chapter 9.5 "Moms I’d Like To Film": A 20 minute minisode about the history of another low budget sometimes very profitable film genre: sex comedies! with Tess Lynch in dual roles as Jennifer Coolidge (as Stifler’s Mom) and as Kim Cattrall.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 9Chapter 9: The Game
Chapter 9 “The Game”: Jenna signs a book deal. The story of girlboss publishing tycoon Judith Regan’s own tumultuous rise and fall, and how Jenna’s co-writer Neil Strauss went on to cover the rise of male pickup artists.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 8Chapter 8: Club Jenna
Chapter 8 “Club Jenna”: Jenna starts her own internet studio called Club Jenna and falls in love with porn producer Jay Grdina.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 7Chapter 7: Cybersex
Chapter 7 “Cybersex”: Porn hits the internet and a gold rush ensues. The history of phone sex hotlines and early internet adult pioneers like Danny Ashe and Cindy Margolis. A hustler named Seth Warshavsky turns Seattle into a cam girl (and boy) mecca with his company Internet Entertainment Group.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 6Chapter 6: Climaxing
Chapter 6 “Climaxing”: Jenna breaks through into mainstream media as a guest on Howard Stern’s show and becomes a superstar. She sweeps awards shows from Cannes to Las Vegas and becomes increasingly obsessed with her own fame.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 5Chapter 5: Savannah
Chapter 5 “Savannah”: The story of Jenna’s porn star inspiration Savannah, and how the mainstream media focused on only tragic stories of adult film stars to create a narrative that the adult film industry is a death trap. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 4Chapter 4: The Valley Goes Gonzo
Chapter 4 “The Valley Goes Gonzo”: Jenna fends off her drug issues and a bad boyfriend in Las Vegas. She goes to LA, makes new friends and shoots her first porn at the height of the “gonzo” trend in adult film.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 3Chapter 3: B.J. (Before Jenna)
Chapter 3 “B.J. (Before Jenna)”: Steven Hirsch founds Vivid Video and turns adult actress Ginger Lynn Allen into porn’s first video age superstar. The San Fernando Valley becomes the epicenter of the adult industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
S2 Ep 2Chapter 2: Learning from Las Vegas Showgirls
Chapter 2 “Learning From Las Vegas Showgirls”: Jenna drops acid, goes to a biker rally, gets a tattoo, and gets a sketchy older boyfriend. Carol Doda invents topless go-go dancing in San Francisco at The Condor Club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.