Joe Rogan Experience #1475 - Bridget Phetasy

1. 0:01 – 1:25

   COVID-era LA: testing, masks, and the rise of “snitch lines”

   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. 1:25 – 5:42

   Lockdown without a “cure”: government overreach and moving out of California

   1. 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."

   2. BPBridget Phetasy1:37

      Okay.

   3. JRJoe Rogan1:37

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

   4. BPBridget Phetasy1:40

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

   5. JRJoe Rogan1:42

      Yes.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy1:42

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan1:43

      You don't cure viruses.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy1:45

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan1:45

      I- and unless you find a way to eradicate it from the, the actual gene pool, you just-

   10. BPBridget Phetasy1:50

       But did he actually say that?

   11. JRJoe Rogan1:51

       Yes. Yes.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy1:52

       That was an actual-

   13. JRJoe Rogan1:52

       He said, "Until there's a cure." You can't say that.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy1:54

       No.

   15. JRJoe Rogan1:54

       I- first of all, I'm sure what he meant is, like, a viable treatment that, you know, uh, a vaccine. But they're saying that even a vaccine ... There's never been a coronavirus vaccine.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy2:06

       W-

   17. JRJoe Rogan2:06

       "Mayor, L.A. will never be com- never completely reopen until we have a cure." That's his, that's his quote.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy2:13

       That, that just seems ... I mean, we don't have a cure for the flu. (laughs)

   19. JRJoe Rogan2:17

       That poor lady who is the health lady, someone needs to give her a steak and let her lie outside in the sun.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy2:22

       (laughs) Oh, my God.

   21. JRJoe Rogan2:23

       Like, Jesus Christ, you're the health lady.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy2:27

       I, I heard you're moving.

   23. JRJoe Rogan2:28

       She looks hard.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy2:29

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

   25. JRJoe Rogan2:30

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

   26. BPBridget Phetasy2:34

       Oh, all of ... Who?

   27. JRJoe Rogan2:35

       E- all my friends.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy2:36

       Oh.

   29. JRJoe Rogan2:36

       Callan, Schaub, Joey Diaz. Everyone.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy2:39

       You can just start like a-
3. 5:42 – 9:25

   Political identity as ‘cult’: left vs. MAGA, tribal thinking, and nihilism

   1. BPBridget Phetasy5:42

      And so you were pretty indoctrinated with a- all of that?

   2. JRJoe Rogan5:45

      Oh, yeah. Yeah.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy5:45

      Okay.

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:46

      But it's ... I don't think that's what's going on here with, with the left today.... there, there's a lot of weird cult shit. It really is like cult shit. It's like religious shit. It's like instead of thinking rationally and looking at the faults of both sides, the faults of one side are completely ignored or exonerated or, you know, you find a way to forgive it or to, to find out for ... Y- you do mental gymnastics until you can-

   5. BPBridget Phetasy6:11

      Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan6:11

      ... f- let, let them get away with all sorts of heinous shit, privacy invasing, sh- invading shit, going after whistleblowers, drone attacks, like fucking across the board.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy6:20

      Yeah.

   8. JRJoe Rogan6:20

      Everything, right?

   9. BPBridget Phetasy6:21

      But I would say this is true about the MAGA-ists too.

   10. JRJoe Rogan6:25

       Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy6:25

       You know, there's-

   12. JRJoe Rogan6:26

       Yeah.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy6:26

       ... there's a certain amount of t- I mean, speaking of cults. (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan6:30

       Yes. Yeah, yeah.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy6:30

       It's a little bit like dear leader-y. You, you k-

   16. JRJoe Rogan6:33

       They fell into something. They fell into something. You know, they fell into a, the, the spell of a powerful figure that's stand-

   17. BPBridget Phetasy6:40

       Right.

   18. JRJoe Rogan6:40

       They d- they feel like they don't have a word in.

   19. BPBridget Phetasy6:42

       Right.

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:42

       They feel like they don't ... they're not represented. First of all, it's really hard for assholes to find a king. Like all kings are noble, like most of the, the people that were running for president, most of the people that were president, they were at least outwardly noble. They weren't the type of people that talk shit on someone's-

   21. BPBridget Phetasy6:59

       (laughs)

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:59

       ... call someone horse face on Twitter, you know, so it's-

   23. BPBridget Phetasy7:02

       There was a certain amount of digni- ... They were dignified to a cert-

   24. JRJoe Rogan7:06

       Yeah. Yeah.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy7:06

       ... certain extent.

   26. JRJoe Rogan7:07

       And Trump is Trump. Love him or hate him, he's Trump. And assholes have a king now. They never had a king before. And there's a lot of assholes. It's a, it's a large market.

   27. BPBridget Phetasy7:17

       Well, what's interesting I think on the left and what you're saying is it's more of a religion and it's, it's, uh, a f- free floating ideology that everybody's a b- a bit enamored by, but they don't have that one personality that they-

   28. JRJoe Rogan7:30

       Right.

   29. BPBridget Phetasy7:30

       ... rally around and that they focus on.

   30. JRJoe Rogan7:32

       Right. It's showing, yeah.
4. 9:25 – 17:41

   Information overload: Obamagate, Biden’s acuity, and where to get news

   1. JRJoe Rogan9:25

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

   2. BPBridget Phetasy9:32

      That's f-

   3. JRJoe Rogan9:32

      You gotta follow that.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy9:32

      ... nu- nutcase.

   5. 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)

   6. 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.

   7. JRJoe Rogan10:05

      Yeah. I don't-

   8. BPBridget Phetasy10:05

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

   9. JRJoe Rogan10:07

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

   10. BPBridget Phetasy10:09

       No, it's from last night.

   11. JRJoe Rogan10:11

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

   12. BPBridget Phetasy10:15

       Okay.

   13. JRJoe Rogan10:15

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

   14. BPBridget Phetasy10:20

       Yeah.

   15. 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.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy10:42

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

   17. JRJoe Rogan10:42

       Oh, okay. You don't know.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy10:43

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

   19. JRJoe Rogan10:45

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

   20. BPBridget Phetasy10:47

       What's the other story that we need to follow? Other series?

   21. JRJoe Rogan10:50

       'Cause there's so many stories. There's so many going on right now, right? Is, is Joe Biden losing his fucking mind?

   22. BPBridget Phetasy10:54

       Oh.

   23. JRJoe Rogan10:54

       Like do they have him locked in a basement somewhere and they're pumping him up with steroids and Coke right before he does an interview?

   24. BPBridget Phetasy10:57

       Weren't they gonna do like a whole Fortnite thing where he was gonna be a, you know, what are they called, a hologram in Fortnite or something and then like, this is gonna be our first hologram president of the house? (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan11:08

       Oh, hologram debate, right?

   26. BPBridget Phetasy11:10

       Do you put anything beyond the realm of possibility at the point that we're at, though?

   27. JRJoe Rogan11:15

       No.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy11:15

       In, in the world?

   29. JRJoe Rogan11:17

       There's-

   30. BPBridget Phetasy11:17

       Doesn't it feel like we live in a fucking simulation?
5. 17:41 – 31:54

   Lockdown consequences in LA: homelessness, gig economy collapse, and small business triage

   1. 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.

   2. JRJoe Rogan18:00

      Mm.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy18:00

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

   4. JRJoe Rogan18:05

      Mad Maxing?

   5. BPBridget Phetasy18:05

      It's like zombies. Yeah.

   6. JRJoe Rogan18:07

      Right? Because nothing's open.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy18:08

      Yeah. So it's, nothing's open and no one's on the road-

   8. JRJoe Rogan18:10

      Mm-hmm.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy18:10

      ... but there, there's just like this kind of drifter population in LA. And they're, and y- they're the only ones that you see, so it's so highlighted right now.

   10. JRJoe Rogan18:19

       Is anybody doing a tally on how many more homeless people there are?

   11. BPBridget Phetasy18:23

       What I wonder is-

   12. 40% increase I just saw last night. They're expected-

   13. Whoa.

   14. ... over the next 12 months, I think, or I don't know the time period.

   15. JRJoe Rogan18:30

       40% increase. So go from 70,000 to like, what is that?

   16. BPBridget Phetasy18:35

       Another-

   17. JRJoe Rogan18:36

       85,000, 87,000, something like that?

   18. BPBridget Phetasy18:38

       It's, uh, yeah.

   19. JRJoe Rogan18:38

       What in the fuck?

   20. BPBridget Phetasy18:39

       (laughs)

   21. JRJoe Rogan18:41

       What the fuck?

   22. BPBridget Phetasy18:43

       I mean, it's hitting LA hard because most of the people were like freelancers, you know? Everybody's, everybody's in the gig economy here. Everyone I fucking knew drew- drove Uber who was trying to make it as a comic or trying to make it as... Any creative is doing a, has a side hustle.

   23. JRJoe Rogan19:02

       Yeah.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy19:03

       So you take away... Like the ma- think about it, the makeup artists, all the people who are working on m- in music. All the people that are no longer in work because there are no live music shows. All the people lighting, uh, it's, it's so bottomless in this town, I'm, I, I'm worried about LA.

   25. JRJoe Rogan19:20

       It should... You should be worried because we have a guy who's running it that thinks that the solution is keep everybody home.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy19:26

       (laughs)

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:26

       That's not the solution.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy19:27

       No, no.

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:28

       And, and now they're saying crazy things like... I'll read you a quote because this quote is fucking nuts. Someone sent it to me and I read it and I was like, "Is that real? Did he really say that?" And he was talking about the mandatory wearing of masks, and so this is the quote he said, "Bring your mask with you whenever you leave your home," Garcetti said. "That will help us get more freedoms."

   30. BPBridget Phetasy19:51

       What?
6. 31:54 – 1:22:11

   Schools closed, kids sidelined, and the mental-health fallout of isolation

   1. BPBridget Phetasy31:54

      So, we've been talking to just ... I, you know, I reached out to my audience and a lot of people are okay, and so they're willing to make the sacrifice. A lot of people have their own health worries that they're worried about. O- ... People who are overweight or diabetic are obviously more concerned.

   2. JRJoe Rogan32:09

      Yeah.

   3. BPBridget Phetasy32:09

      And that's a problem in our country. One of the things that I've been thinking a lot about is just the school. And my uncle and I were talking about this, that year, you know, especially the vulnerable kids, kids who are at home, in homes that are abusive or-

   4. JRJoe Rogan32:25

      Mm-hmm.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy32:26

      ... kids who already are at a disadvantage. Maybe they, they live in, um ... They're just, like, in the vulnerable communities and they're ... Really, education is one of the only ways kind of out of their circumstances.

   6. JRJoe Rogan32:40

      Mm-hmm.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy32:40

      And now there's already something, I believe it's called the summer gap, and they, they fall very far behind because they don't have, like, summer camps and they don't have all the access that, uh, some other kids do. And now they're missing almost a year or half of a year, six months. And this is time and ... That these kids are never gonna get back. So, I'm worried about tho- those kids.

   8. JRJoe Rogan33:03

      Mm-hmm.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy33:04

      You know, there, there are so many ... All of this stuff, it hurts the poorest. You know, really, it's a, it's a disease that hurts. It's not even-

   10. JRJoe Rogan33:13

       It's a divider.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy33:14

       Yeah, but it's a, it, it's a monetary thing, really.

   12. JRJoe Rogan33:17

       Yeah.

   13. BPBridget Phetasy33:17

       It really comes down to i- if you're poor, you're gonna ... This is gonna hurt you a lot.

   14. JRJoe Rogan33:21

       But this is also a disease where wealthy people can lose everything. People that have had, like, a really good run and had a great business and built it up for years and years and years and worked hard, all of a sudden, boom, it could be gone and you could have nothing.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy33:34

       Right. So, have you heard-

   16. JRJoe Rogan33:35

       That's- that's real possible.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy33:36

       Have you heard anecdotally just-

   18. JRJoe Rogan33:38

       Yes.

   19. BPBridget Phetasy33:38

       ... stories of that from people?

   20. JRJoe Rogan33:40

       My friends who own gyms-

   21. BPBridget Phetasy33:41

       Mm-hmm.

   22. JRJoe Rogan33:41

       ... they're going under.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy33:42

       Yeah, that's, that's the, one of the things that kills me too. All these, like, um, jujitsu places and the places where kids go, cam- little camps.

   24. JRJoe Rogan33:50

       Mm-hmm.

   25. BPBridget Phetasy33:50

       There's a place by me that's one of the gymnastics places that I used to take the autistic kids to go to, and I don't know how they're gonna make it. And then these places won't-

   26. JRJoe Rogan33:59

       I don't understand how they're justifying keeping kids out of school. It's not a disease that is killing kids. The amount of kids that die from this disease are very small, much smaller than the flu, much smaller. So, if you look at how many kids die from the flu and you look at how many kids die from COVID-

   27. BPBridget Phetasy34:16

       Yeah.

   28. JRJoe Rogan34:16

       ... we should be terrified of the flu.

   29. BPBridget Phetasy34:17

       Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan34:17

       But yet we'll let our kids go to school with teachers, and we're not checking these ta- teachers to make sure these teachers don't have the flu.

Episode duration: 3:17:20