Joe Rogan Experience #1475 - Bridget Phetasy

1. 0:00 – 15:00

   Bridget! …

   1. JRJoe Rogan0:01

      Bridget!

   2. BPBridget Phetasy0:03

      Hey-o.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:03

      You're here.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy0:05

      Yeah.

   5. I came to make a citizen's arrest. (laughs)

   6. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Oh, congrats. Ooh. It's touchy these days.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy0:10

      We're m- less than six feet apart, I believe.

   8. JRJoe Rogan0:13

      I think we're okay.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy0:14

      Mm-hmm.

   10. JRJoe Rogan0:14

       But did you see-

   11. BPBridget Phetasy0:14

       Do we need to wear masks? (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan0:15

       Um, no. We don't.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy0:16

       Okay. (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan0:16

       Well, you don't. You got tested and I've been tested too.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy0:19

       I got one of the Joe Rogan tests.

   16. JRJoe Rogan0:21

       Yes. Yes.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy0:21

       I feel special.

   18. JRJoe Rogan0:23

       Y- you are special.

   19. BPBridget Phetasy0:24

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan0:24

       Um, did you see that the, L.A. is ... They're, they have a number now where you can turn in businesses that, uh, aren't complying?

   21. BPBridget Phetasy0:32

       Oh, yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan0:32

       Like, what, what is going on?

   23. BPBridget Phetasy0:34

       Why?

   24. JRJoe Rogan0:34

       W- what is this?

   25. BPBridget Phetasy0:35

       Who's doing that?

   26. JRJoe Rogan0:36

       But this is bad government. Listen, there's zero effort talking about, uh, giving people information on how to strengthen your immune system. Zero.

   27. BPBridget Phetasy0:45

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan0:45

       Zero effort. Zero effort telli- talking to people about lowering stress levels through meditation and exercise. Zero.

   29. BPBridget Phetasy0:51

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Zero. The importance of keeping your body healthy, zero. Zero talk about this.
2. 15:00 – 30:00

   Mm-hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan15:00

      and collected.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy15:01

      Mm-hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan15:01

      There's a lot about him-

   4. BPBridget Phetasy15:02

      Mm-hmm.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:02

      ... I really like.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy15:03

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:03

      There's a lot about him. But politics is a crazy, messy, impossible to do right business-

   8. BPBridget Phetasy15:11

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:11

      ... that no one has nailed.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy15:12

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:12

       Especially at the highest levels. No one's nailed it. I don't know why he didn't do what he said he was gonna do before he got into office. I don't know what they revealed to him. I don't know. But when you listen... If, if someone does an accurate job of breaking down what went wrong and particularly what's going on with this, uh, Flynn case, where-

   12. BPBridget Phetasy15:29

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:29

       ... they're trying to drop all the charges and then some new judge is coming in and saying, "No, we're not dropping shit."

   14. BPBridget Phetasy15:35

       I just feel so ill-equipped to process this stuff.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:39

       Oh, yeah. For sure, sure.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy15:40

       Because I am not a lawyer, I'm not a politician, I'm an idiot on YouTube. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:45

       Thank you. And I'm an idiot right here.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy15:47

       And I don't know anything and, and I often hear even in my comments on the dumpster fire, they're like, "Oh, I get all my news from you and Joe Rogan."

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:55

       (laughs)

   20. BPBridget Phetasy15:55

       I'm like, "No." (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan15:56

       "No, don't do it."

   22. BPBridget Phetasy15:58

       "Don't do that."

   23. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       Don't do that.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy15:59

       Yeah, don't (laughs) -

   25. JRJoe Rogan15:59

       No, don't get it from me or you.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy16:01

       Don't do that.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       No.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy16:02

       No.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:02

       No.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy16:03

       I am not a trusted news source. But then I'm like, "But I don't know who is."
3. 30:00 – 45:00

   Oh. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan30:00

      of the people that were in the ICU.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy30:01

      Oh.

   3. JRJoe Rogan30:02

      Huge. And this is not just in ... This was in Indonesia, there was a study in New Orleans, and a study in somewhere else.... um, but all of 'em came to a very similar conclusion. I mean, it doesn't mean that vitamin D is gonna absolutely protect you from this. But Rhonda Patrick, on ... If you go to my Instagram post, she actually breaks down why this is significant when someone else, uh, was a little bit critical about it. She stepped in and, and broke down why it was, uh, so important. 70% also of the US population is vitamin D insufficient and 28.9% are deficient in vitamin D.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy30:41

      Wow.

   5. JRJoe Rogan30:42

      Deficient in vitamin D is very bad.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy30:43

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan30:44

      That's 28.9% of our entire population.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy30:46

      Wow.

   9. JRJoe Rogan30:46

      So, more than a quarter of our population is deficient in a really important hormone.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy30:50

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan30:51

       'Cause it's a hormone, it's not just a vitamin. She was breaking it down in a brilliant way on the podcast and I listened to it.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy30:55

       I like her a lot.

   13. JRJoe Rogan30:56

       She's a wizard.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy30:57

       She is a wizard. Um, I ... And now we can't go outside.

   15. JRJoe Rogan31:01

       You can go outside.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy31:02

       I mean, I can go outside, but we can go ... We ... They opened the trails, right?

   17. JRJoe Rogan31:06

       Well, some places, some places not.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy31:08

       Okay, I got the names.

   19. JRJoe Rogan31:09

       What's crazy is some of the beaches, they, they had closed and they had the, the beaches closed in all the Republican areas. What's the name of the Portland place?

   20. BPBridget Phetasy31:16

       It's, um ... I, I always mess up how to say it. It's Dehen. It's D-E-H-E-N 1920-

   21. JRJoe Rogan31:23

       Wow.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy31:23

       ... which is when they've been in business, and they have cool clothes and-

   23. JRJoe Rogan31:26

       So, they opened right after the Spanish flu pandemic and right before-

   24. BPBridget Phetasy31:30

       (laughs) Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan31:30

       ... the Great Depression.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy31:30

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan31:31

       And they rode it out all the way to 2020.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy31:32

       And they rode it out and they were about to sen- ... And, you know, brick and mortar businesses were already in trouble and now this is just the nail in the coffin.

   29. JRJoe Rogan31:40

       So, what's the website called?

   30. BPBridget Phetasy31:41

       It's D, uh, D-E-H-E-N-
4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

   Right. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan45:00

      great rational response, but they know the virtuous thing to say-

   2. BPBridget Phetasy45:04

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan45:04

      ... especially public, when you're on a pod- a podcast, publicly. They know the thing they have to say to be ingratiated with all these people that are gonna hire them for projects.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy45:13

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan45:13

      It's really fucked up, because it's like, it's like a s- a form of self-censorship by limiting your, your employment options.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy45:21

      Well, this is how I ended up in this space, is I was... I got picked up by a manager for a script, and we were gonna either try and sell a show or get into a writer's room. And then on Twitter, I was like, "Why am I self-censoring?" And I was doing comedy a lot, and I kept feeling like I couldn't say... I was self-censoring around my comedian peers. And I was like, "This is fucking weird." Comedians are supposed to be, like, the people saying all the shit you can't say.

   7. JRJoe Rogan45:46

      Yes. All the time.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy45:48

      And... All the time. And so I started just be-... I became aware of that, and I'm like, "What would happen-" (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan45:53

      (laughs)

   10. BPBridget Phetasy45:54

       "... if I said the things I wasn't saying on Twitter?" And it was like, uh, a, A, it was... People were like, "Thank you," and B, I lost a lot of friends. I lost people who... And people... Because then there's that whole guilt by association.

   11. JRJoe Rogan46:09

       Yes.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy46:10

       And then my life took on a whole other path, but I never heard from those managers again. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan46:15

       (laughs) That guilt by association thing is real, where people think that you shouldn't talk to people that have different ideas or talk to people that have somehow or another embraced these different ideas. It's very interesting to watch.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy46:28

       It's, it's weird, because I grew up... So my dad is one of 10. And we grew up... One, one brother went off and became, like, a commie in, in Germany, and-

   15. JRJoe Rogan46:38

       Whoa, a commie?

   16. BPBridget Phetasy46:39

       ... one... Yeah. I mean, he, he was... It was the '80s. He was following (laughs) ... He... I don't know. He went off on a journey. Um, and I had ano-... Everybody... There was a Republican uncle, and there w-... You know, one of my uncles was gay, and it was a whole mishmash of... And my grandparents were like, "You do not fight about politics. Everyone's allowed to have their opinion, but you don't, you don't, like, lose family members." That's why this whole thing of, like, "You need to go to Thanksgiving (laughs) and confront your Fox-watching," you know, "parents."

   17. JRJoe Rogan47:11

       Who said that? Who said that?

   18. BPBridget Phetasy47:11

       They... There are always articles, like around Thanksgiving-

   19. JRJoe Rogan47:13

       Oh, God.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy47:13

       ... where you need to, like, go home and confront your-

   21. JRJoe Rogan47:16

       Everyone who writes those articles is mentally ill.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy47:19

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan47:19

       They're all mentally ill, anxiety-ridden, with a, a rotting foundation.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy47:25

       I, I-

   25. JRJoe Rogan47:25

       If you, if you really think that it's a good idea to confront your Fox News-watching relatives and yell at them-

   26. BPBridget Phetasy47:31

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan47:31

       ... over Thanksgiving, you fucking idiot.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy47:34

       'Cause-

   29. JRJoe Rogan47:34

       No, that's not what it's for. You're not gonna fix them and change them.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy47:36

       No, no, no.
5. 1:00:00 – 1:09:14

   Hmm. …

   1. JRJoe Rogan1:00:00

      be sustainable with hemp paper. That's what's really crazy. I mean, all this stuff could be fixed, all this chopping down of trees. If you take 100 acres of hemp, how much more paper you could get out of 100 acres of hemp-

   2. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:16

      Hmm.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:00:16

      ... than 100 acres of trees because you could regar- regrow it every year. Whereas, if you're regrowing trees, you're not making paper outta those trees for years.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:24

      Yeah, yeah. No. (laughs)

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      For years.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:25

      No.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:00:25

      They gotta grow and then you gotta kill them in their prime.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:28

      Hemp is like the buffalo of plants.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

      It's nuts.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:31

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:00:31

       It's nuts.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:31

       Like, you can use every part of it.

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:00:33

       My friend, Todd McCormick, said it's alien.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:35

       Yeah.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:00:35

       He- and he's, he's like a, a real marijuana wizard. Like, he really understands the history of it. He goes-

   16. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:41

       Yes.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:00:41

       "But if you look at the compounds of it..." He goes, "There's nothing like it on this planet. And then, if you pick up the stalk..." Like, he had a, uh... You remember Jack Herer?

   18. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:49

       Mm-mm.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:00:50

       Jack Herer was, uh, a guy who wrote The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:53

       Mm.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:00:53

       It was a book about his transition from being a Goldwater Republican to being, like, a, a pot evangelist.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:00

       Oh, okay.

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:01:00

       And I was very fortunate to meet him and know him. Uh, but he had this, this fucking ... It was either Todd or him, had this stalk of hemp. And it's, it's like, it feels like balsa wood.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:12

       Mm.

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:01:13

       It's so weird.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:13

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:01:14

       But it's hard, (knocks) like this oak.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:16

       Mm-hmm.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:16

       But it's, it's the strangest plant.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:18

       Yeah, it is weird.

Episode duration: 3:17:20