Joe Rogan Experience #1475 - Bridget Phetasy

1. 0:01 – 0:24

   Pandemic-era greetings: testing, masks, and the new social etiquette

   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)

2. 0:24 – 2:27

   LA’s “snitch line,” lockdown enforcement, and the missing health messaging

   1. 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?

   2. BPBridget Phetasy0:32

      Oh, yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:32

      Like, what, what is going on?

   4. BPBridget Phetasy0:34

      Why?

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:34

      W- what is this?

   6. BPBridget Phetasy0:35

      Who's doing that?

   7. 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.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy0:45

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:45

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

   10. BPBridget Phetasy0:51

       Yeah.

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:51

       Zero. The importance of keeping your body healthy, zero. Zero talk about this.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy0:56

       Yeah, the-

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       Zero concentrating on the, the, the, the new data that's coming in about vitamins and all the, the different vitamin deficiencies.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy1:03

       Vitamin D.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:03

       Yes. Dr. Rhonda Patrick knocked it all outta the park on the podcast yesterday.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy1:08

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan1:08

       Fuck, man. It's crazy. These people are just like, "Stay home." Locked up. Locked up, stay inside.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy1:12

       But aside from the government, snitches get stitches.

   19. JRJoe Rogan1:14

       Yes.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy1:14

       This is basic childhood etiquette.

   21. JRJoe Rogan1:17

       Well, they were first giving snitches for people who were violating social distancing.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy1:20

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan1:20

       But now they're moving on to businesses that are non-compliant.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy1:24

       But how are you supposed to make money? (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan1:25

       How are you supposed to make money? I don't understand this. Like, what is the thought bi- ... Here's the crazy thing. Garcetti said, "We're gonna keep L.A. on at least partial lockdown until there's a cure."

   26. BPBridget Phetasy1:37

       Okay.

   27. JRJoe Rogan1:37

       There's not gonna be a cure, you fucking dummy. It's a virus.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy1:40

       And it's ... Isn't it a cold virus?

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:42

       Yes.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy1:42

       Yeah.
3. 2:27 – 4:22

   “Rogan’s cult” and the fantasy of starting over somewhere else

   1. BPBridget Phetasy2:27

      I, I heard you're moving.

   2. JRJoe Rogan2:28

      She looks hard.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy2:29

      That's been on the, on the wires. (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan2:30

      Listen, we're, we're all talking about it. All of us talk about it. Everyone.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy2:34

      Oh, all of ... Who?

   6. JRJoe Rogan2:35

      E- all my friends.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy2:36

      Oh.

   8. JRJoe Rogan2:36

      Callan, Schaub, Joey Diaz. Everyone.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy2:39

      You can just start like a-

   10. JRJoe Rogan2:41

       Everyone's talked about it. A cult.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy2:41

       ... a Davidian ranch? (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan2:42

       We're gonna call it a cult. We're just gonna be up, up and, uh, upfront about it.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy2:46

       (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan2:46

       All these people hide the fact they have a cult.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy2:48

       10 years from-

   16. JRJoe Rogan2:48

       We're just gonna call it a cult.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy2:49

       (laughs) 10 years from now it's just Waco and it's-

   18. JRJoe Rogan2:52

       Yeah. No name.

   19. BPBridget Phetasy2:53

       ... Joe. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan2:53

       We're just gonna call it the cult. We'll just g- we'll have the band play, The Cult. "Sanctuary." (laughs) .

   21. BPBridget Phetasy2:58

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan2:59

       That's a great band.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy3:00

       I would, I would join if you started-

   24. JRJoe Rogan3:02

       Underrated.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy3:02

       Yeah. It is.

   26. JRJoe Rogan3:02

       Super underrated band.

   27. BPBridget Phetasy3:03

       It is.

   28. JRJoe Rogan3:03

       The Cult?

   29. BPBridget Phetasy3:04

       Oh, yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan3:04

       "Love Removal Machine." Holy fuck, that's a good jam to work out to.
4. 4:22 – 8:25

   Joe’s upbringing, shifting political identity, and “cult thinking” on left and right

   1. JRJoe Rogan4:22

      Like, "This is a goddamn secret." Like, you guys have this really cool town. Boise's this really cool town. It's a little red. But hey, I get along with people that are red, by the way, more, a lot of times, than I get along with people that are, like, uh, ideologically left. Like, without thinking about it.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy4:40

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan4:40

      You know, you know what I'm saying? Like, there's, there's people that are left 'cause they're compassionate and, and-

   4. BPBridget Phetasy4:44

      Right.

   5. JRJoe Rogan4:44

      ... and the, the ... You know, they, they want people to have freedom and the choice to do whatever they want to do with their body and, you know?

   6. BPBridget Phetasy4:50

      Were you raised Democrat?

   7. JRJoe Rogan4:51

      No. Yeah. Yes. Democrat. Yes.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy4:53

      Okay. 'Cause you're from-

   9. JRJoe Rogan4:53

      Well, I was raised, raised hippie.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy4:55

       Okay.

   11. JRJoe Rogan4:55

       My parents were hip- ... My, my stepfather had long hair down to his ass. My parents went from New Jersey, like, really Italian neighborhood to San Francisco.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy5:05

       Mm-hmm. Oh, okay.

   13. JRJoe Rogan5:05

       And then became a hippie. But my stepdad was a hippie when my mom, mom met him, and then we moved across the country when I was seven.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy5:11

       Okay.

   15. JRJoe Rogan5:11

       It was ... We lived in San Francisco in, like, in the middle of, like, where Lombard Street is.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy5:17

       So you were like-

   17. JRJoe Rogan5:17

       It was all just flower children and gay people-

   18. BPBridget Phetasy5:20

       Yeah. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan5:20

       ... and fuck this war. Like, I was in San Francisco when the Vietnam War broke.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy5:24

       Oh, okay.

   21. JRJoe Rogan5:24

       When I was a little kid. When it ended. When, when the war ended, rather. And I remember thinking, like, "Wow, they'll ... They're never gonna have war again. They figured it out."

   22. BPBridget Phetasy5:32

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan5:32

       "Thank God."

   24. BPBridget Phetasy5:33

       And (laughs) that's been-

   25. JRJoe Rogan5:34

       I really thought that. I was like, because I was worried.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy5:36

       I'm like, "Oh."

   27. JRJoe Rogan5:36

       'Cause, you know, there's people that were around me that were ... You know, if there was younger folks, they were worried about being drafted.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy5:40

       Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

   29. JRJoe Rogan5:41

       You know?

   30. BPBridget Phetasy5:42

       And so you were pretty indoctrinated with a- all of that?
5. 8:25 – 16:47

   Nihilism, information overload, and where (if anywhere) to get trustworthy news

   1. JRJoe Rogan8:25

      Have you ... But isn't it also because you've been locked up?

   2. BPBridget Phetasy8:28

      No. No. That's normal for me. (laughs)

   3. JRJoe Rogan8:31

      No? (laughs) So what's making you feel more nihilistic?

   4. BPBridget Phetasy8:33

      I've never felt less, um, optimistic about people's ability to govern themselves. So this American experiment is supposed to be one in which it's smaller government and we, we can ... You know, we're adults, we're grownups, and now I feel like everybody's ratting on everybody else. Everyone's looking to somebody to save them or tell them what to do. There's this lack ... And it comes to the culture is just so, um, l- lack of resilience, you know, just psychological resilience. And so, I don't know. I, I've been feeling you don't know who to believe. Where do you get, where do you get your news from? Where, where do you get your trusted news from?

   5. JRJoe Rogan9:17

      It's a good question. I don't.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy9:19

      (laughs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan9:20

      I've been not getting news.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy9:22

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan9:22

      Like I, I just skim through things these days. It's like-

   10. BPBridget Phetasy9:25

       Because-

   11. JRJoe Rogan9:25

       It's so frustrating. There's ... First of all, there's too many series to follow. There's the Obamagate series.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy9:32

       That's f-

   13. JRJoe Rogan9:32

       You gotta follow that.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy9:32

       ... nu- nutcase.

   15. JRJoe Rogan9:34

       Yeah. Nutcase. Nutcase. The, the, l- the se- sitting president, uh, e- exiting president literally hires or gets the FBI to investigate Trump. (laughs)

   16. BPBridget Phetasy9:45

       I don't know anything about Obamagate, but I did see a take down of Obamagate that was pretty harsh where the guy was like, it basically relies on you having to believe a series of conspiracy theories in order for it to even hold up. And I am just gonna sit here right now before everyone's all like, "Da, da, da, da, da," I know nothing about Obamagate.

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:05

       Yeah. I don't-

   18. BPBridget Phetasy10:05

       And I actually don't give a shit. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:07

       That might have been an older video. That might have been an older video.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy10:09

       No, it's from last night.

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:11

       Mm. J- Listen to Jimmy Dore's video on it. Jimmy Dore's video is excellent.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy10:15

       Okay.

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:15

       And he, he breaks down exactly what the administration did.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy10:20

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan10:20

       And that it's illegal. And that you're, you're, you're essentially using the FBI to spy on Trump. And then when it turned out that all that Russia stuff that they were claiming was going to happen didn't take place and that they knew it wasn't really happening to begin with, that what, what they're saying was all exaggerating and hyperbole and they were trying to turn it into something that it wasn't.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy10:42

       I do- I don't know. I, I-

   27. JRJoe Rogan10:42

       Oh, okay. You don't know.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy10:43

       ... I haven't been following it. I see it and I just-

   29. JRJoe Rogan10:45

       It's not good. It's all not good. It's not good 'cause it's-

   30. BPBridget Phetasy10:47

       What's the other story that we need to follow? Other series?
6. 16:47 – 35:26

   COVID policy whiplash in LA: homelessness, business collapse, masks, and vitamin D

   1. BPBridget Phetasy16:47

      The disease. Are we back to COVID?

   2. JRJoe Rogan16:48

      COVID.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy16:48

      Okay. Fine.

   4. JRJoe Rogan16:49

      Yeah. I mean, that's what's wrong with everything right now.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy16:51

      Right, I mean, it's all, anyone-

   6. JRJoe Rogan16:51

      I mean, until that gets solved, the politics is just amplified. What that is, is like gasoline to the fire of partisanship-

   7. BPBridget Phetasy16:59

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan16:59

      ... because everybody's in a panic and everyone's fearful and so many people are gonna be unemployed. And when people are unemployed, that's when Hitler kicked in, by the way.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy17:06

      (laughs)

   10. JRJoe Rogan17:06

       Right? 'Cause people were acting... True, in Germany-

   11. BPBridget Phetasy17:09

       No, I know, I know, but you're-

   12. JRJoe Rogan17:10

       ... because people would get scared.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy17:11

       You're not making any arguments against that Trump is literally Hitler cr- crap (laughs) .

   14. JRJoe Rogan17:15

       I don't think he's Hitler.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy17:16

       No, I know, I know.

   16. JRJoe Rogan17:17

       I don't think he's Hitler. I think he's Trump. I think he's always been the same guy. It's just that now they've expected so much more of him.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy17:22

       No, I think people-

   18. JRJoe Rogan17:23

       They now expect him to be a statesman.

   19. BPBridget Phetasy17:25

       Yeah. And I think people are desperate. And that's what scares me is that, you know, even in the city, there's just more crime in my neighborhood. There's more... Now everyone's wearing a fucking mask. (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan17:36

       It's easy to do crime.

   21. BPBridget Phetasy17:36

       Yeah.

   22. JRJoe Rogan17:37

       Yeah.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy17:38

       That's what you do.

   24. JRJoe Rogan17:39

       I know.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy17:39

       You're either a superhero or you commit crimes.

   26. JRJoe Rogan17:41

       I know.

   27. BPBridget Phetasy17:41

       And I definitely see, um... It's weird, like, m- where I live in LA is a bit of a crossroads area, and it's a little bit... Like, crossroads of the big freeways and some of the big arteries of the road, the roads. And it's at night because everybody's in lockdown. It's all the, like, drifters and homeless people.

   28. JRJoe Rogan18:00

       Mm.

   29. BPBridget Phetasy18:00

       And it feels fucking weird when you go out in LA at night. It's all ju-

   30. JRJoe Rogan18:05

       Mad Maxing?
7. 35:26 – 41:37

   The hidden costs: mental health, isolation, nursing homes, and leadership failures

   1. BPBridget Phetasy35:26

      Yeah. Um, I, I am worried about ... I, I always, uh, check on the, the people. I'm like, "How's everyone doing?" 'Cause the other thing that bothers me and worries me is, um, mental health. Like, I have a lot of single female friends and-

   2. JRJoe Rogan35:40

      Mm-hmm.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy35:40

      ... they haven't hugged anyone in, like, two months. You know?

   4. JRJoe Rogan35:44

      No.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy35:44

      They're ... The ... Just the lack ... That ... This is what we do to people when we put them in prison and we put, we put people in isolation because it's really one of the worst things you can do to a human.

   6. JRJoe Rogan35:54

      Yes.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy35:55

      And so all of these people in isolation who might already be wrestling with depression, anxiety, or whatever, you know, mental, uh, like, illness or problems they have now are alone and isolated. And I don't ... I'm worried. I'm worried about people.

   8. JRJoe Rogan36:13

      Yeah.Yeah, you're right. You should be.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy36:15

      I mean-

   10. JRJoe Rogan36:15

       Yeah, it's not good... It's not good for single men, single women, single anybody.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy36:19

       No, it's, um-

   12. JRJoe Rogan36:19

       Especially folks... I mean, have you ever been moved to a place where you didn't have any friends?

   13. BPBridget Phetasy36:24

       Yeah, I moved every year and a half growing up. (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan36:26

       Me too. I moved a lot growing up. Same thing.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy36:27

       I'm very, very familiar with sitting a- I cannot watch people sit alone and eat, like, especially in a lunchroom, because it's trigger alert.

   16. JRJoe Rogan36:37

       Oh, wow.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy36:37

       It's too much like, "Oh, I was the girl sitting alone for so long."

   18. JRJoe Rogan36:41

       I remember when I first moved to LA, um, in '94. I came out here to do a TV show and I didn't know anybody. So I basically went to the set, and then I went to the Comedy Store, and I went to the gym, and that's basically it. And I didn't have any friends for a long time. And I remember I was on the set and this girl gave me a hug. And I remember thinking, "God, that feels so good." Like, not- not just a hug-

   19. BPBridget Phetasy37:06

       You weren't dating or anything?

   20. JRJoe Rogan37:07

       No, no, no. She just, like, "What's up?" Gave me a hug.

   21. BPBridget Phetasy37:09

       No, no, no. I mean you were... In this time when you were, like, gym, on your little hamster wheel-

   22. JRJoe Rogan37:13

       No.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy37:13

       ... you weren't-

   24. JRJoe Rogan37:13

       No, no. I wasn't dating anybody. No. I was, uh, just doing this stupid TV show.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy37:18

       Just grinding.

   26. JRJoe Rogan37:18

       And, um, I had a girlfriend back in New York, but we were kind of on the outs. And then I was just sort of-

   27. BPBridget Phetasy37:25

       Mm.

   28. JRJoe Rogan37:25

       ... settling in-

   29. BPBridget Phetasy37:26

       That's good.

   30. JRJoe Rogan37:26

       ... to whether or not I was gonna stay out there.
8. 41:37 – 50:05

   Fear responses and culture wars: guns, California politics, Hollywood incentives, and self-censorship

   1. BPBridget Phetasy41:37

      So how have you been handling it?

   2. JRJoe Rogan41:39

      Um, initially, I was scared. No bullshit. Like, we stocked up on food and I was worried about a bunch of things. First of all, I was worried about the guns. There's so many people that were buying guns. I was like, "Whoa, this ain't good." Like, people that don't know how to use a gun-

   3. BPBridget Phetasy41:52

      (laughs)

   4. JRJoe Rogan41:52

      ... never shot a gun, they're all lining up to buy guns. And then there was... A lot of my friends were super liberal who never wanted guns, who were asking me how to get guns, how do you shoot a gun, where do you go to practice?

   5. BPBridget Phetasy42:03

      That was hilarious watching liberals learn about their gun laws.

   6. JRJoe Rogan42:07

      (laughs)

   7. BPBridget Phetasy42:07

      I'm like, "You guys..."... that my friends would be like, "Do you know you have to wait 10 days?" (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan42:12

      Yeah.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy42:12

      Like, yeah, no shit, idiot.

   10. JRJoe Rogan42:14

       Yeah.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy42:14

       Like, what do you think you've been voting for here? (laughs)

   12. JRJoe Rogan42:16

       But that's a good thing, though. We should... You know, that's a good thing. The bad thing is you waited until a pandemic to get a gun.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy42:21

       Yeah.

   14. JRJoe Rogan42:22

       That's the bad thing. So-

   15. BPBridget Phetasy42:22

       But I'm also just shocked at people who are so anti-gun don't a-... If you're gonna be anti-gun, know your laws.

   16. JRJoe Rogan42:28

       I have a great story. My friend, I will, uh, will not name him.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy42:32

       (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan42:32

       But, uh, he's always had guns when he was younger. And he's married and they have a kid. And his wife was like, "No fucking guns. You're never gonna have a gun in this house. We're never gonna have a gun." He's like, "Okay, fine." Pandemic goes down, lockdown. "We need to get a gun. Get a gun. Go out and get a gun." She, he's like, "But what you said..." She's like, "Fuck what I said. Get a fucking gun."

   19. BPBridget Phetasy42:49

       (laughs)

   20. JRJoe Rogan42:49

       Like, immediately, like, yelling at him. "We need a gun. We need a gun."

   21. BPBridget Phetasy42:54

       Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan42:54

       So he went out and bought two guns.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy42:55

       Yeah. It's not-

   24. JRJoe Rogan42:56

       I'm like, damn.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy42:56

       ... gonna take much before shit goes sideways in this town.

   26. JRJoe Rogan42:58

       We have to be careful, all you fucking liberals here in California, because you will turn this state Republican. You will do it with all this craziness. You keep things locked down. If Texas starts thriving and all these other states start thriving and they're doing well, uh, Utah is starting to open up, all the states are opening up, if they start thriving and the cases go down, we understand better treatment methods and, and people take better care of their bodies and-

   27. BPBridget Phetasy43:24

       Mm-hmm.

   28. JRJoe Rogan43:24

       ... use smart nutrition, California is gonna be fucked. And someone's gonna come along and exploit that-

   29. BPBridget Phetasy43:30

       Well-

   30. JRJoe Rogan43:30

       ... and say, "This is what I would've done and this is what I'll do now." And they're like, "Fuck yeah." Newport Beach will come out in droves.
9. 50:05 – 59:59

   Bridget’s real cult story: Osho lineage, polyamory drama, and getting out with sanity intact

   1. BPBridget Phetasy50:05

      It's so gross. So speaking of cults, I was just thinking about this because I ended up on a cult, kind of, like, accidentally. I didn't have a place to stay.

   2. JRJoe Rogan50:15

      Recently?

   3. BPBridget Phetasy50:15

      No. I was talking to Sam Harris yesterday, and we were talking about all of his time. I didn't know that he spent, like, 10 years as, like, a wandering hippie. I had no idea.

   4. JRJoe Rogan50:24

      Yeah.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy50:24

      In, um, India. And so, I was like, you know, how ... A lot of people don't get out. And when I was traveling for two years around the world, I ended up on a lot of ashrams. And one of them was an Osho ashram, which was that-

   6. JRJoe Rogan50:37

      Whoa.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy50:37

      (laughs) Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan50:38

      Really?

   9. BPBridget Phetasy50:39

      So I came into my room. I wrote a whole piece about it for Mel Magazine.

   10. JRJoe Rogan50:42

       "Energy is leaking out of your body."

   11. BPBridget Phetasy50:45

       It's so ... I walked into my ... Here, I walked in, and my roommate, Samantha Shahu, who's amazing, was watching the documentary. And there's this, like, exercise where they dance, and you go, "Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo." And it's a meditation that they made up. And I'm like, "Oh, I've done that." And they're naked.

   12. JRJoe Rogan51:01

       (laughs)

   13. BPBridget Phetasy51:01

       And she's like, "Of fucking course you've done this, Bridget."

   14. JRJoe Rogan51:04

       (laughs)

   15. BPBridget Phetasy51:04

       And I sat down. I'm like, "Oh, my God. This is ..." It wasn't Osho 'cause he's obviously dead, but it was his lineage.

   16. JRJoe Rogan51:11

       Mm-hmm.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy51:11

       And it was, it was wild. It was ... I was there for, like, three weeks. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan51:15

       Wow. That documentary-

   19. BPBridget Phetasy51:19

       But it was ... "They give you a new name."

   20. JRJoe Rogan51:20

       ... starts out great. What was your new name? What's your name?

   21. BPBridget Phetasy51:20

       Uh, Prem Sarita.

   22. JRJoe Rogan51:22

       Prem Sarita's beautiful.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy51:22

       It means river of love.

   24. JRJoe Rogan51:24

       Oh.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy51:25

       Yeah.

   26. JRJoe Rogan51:25

       Okay, don't drown.

   27. BPBridget Phetasy51:25

       But he called me a scumbag. (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan51:27

       Did he? Why?

   29. BPBridget Phetasy51:28

       He ... Because they break you down in front of people. And you, you know me. I couldn't stop laughing. And so he was like, "You are a scumbag. How-"

   30. JRJoe Rogan51:34

       Wait a minute. Who is th- is this guy?
10. 59:59 – 1:09:07

    From hemp paper to cartel grow ops: the strange economy and ecology of weed

    1. JRJoe Rogan59:59

       It could 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.
11. 1:09:07 – 1:12:42

    Lockdown coping behaviors: bread baking, toilet paper logic, and alcohol moving from bars to homes

    1. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:07

       (laughs) So, have you been baking bread?

    2. JRJoe Rogan1:09:10

       No. Tom Papa has though. He makes good bread.

    3. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:11

       I know. I was gonna... I s-... I got, I got hooked.

Episode duration: 3:17:20