Joe Rogan Experience #1541 - Bridget Phetasy

1. 0:00 – 2:18

   Breathwork, meditation, and stress relief (from float tanks to six-second breathing)

   1. NANarrator0:00

      (drumming) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.

   2. The Joe Rogan Experience.

   3. JRJoe Rogan0:06

      Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Oh, hello, Bridget.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy0:13

      Hello.

   5. JRJoe Rogan0:14

      Welcome.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy0:14

      We're gonna save the world-

   7. JRJoe Rogan0:15

      W- yeah, that's what I heard you were gonna say.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy0:16

      ... right now.

   9. JRJoe Rogan0:17

      Th- I'm sorry for being late for the most California reason ever.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy0:20

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan0:20

       I d- I really, I thought I was meditating for 20 minutes and I was 45 minutes in, I was like, "What happened?"

   12. BPBridget Phetasy0:24

       Last time we talked, you hadn't even started meditating yet, so tell me about this journey.

   13. JRJoe Rogan0:28

       Well, I d- I would do it occasionally.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy0:30

       Yeah, but you weren't really into it.

   15. JRJoe Rogan0:31

       But most of the time, I was getting in the tank.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy0:33

       Uh-huh.

   17. JRJoe Rogan0:33

       Which is kind of like meditating.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy0:34

       Uh-huh.

   19. JRJoe Rogan0:35

       But, you know, the, the tank is its own thing.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy0:37

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan0:37

       Uh, but, yeah, I've been doing... I, I, uh, had this guy James Nestor on, he's the author of Breathe. Breath, Breathe, Breath.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy0:45

       Breath. Breath.

   23. JRJoe Rogan0:46

       Breath. Breath. Breath. The book is Breath. I always forget which ones has the E at the end.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy0:51

       (laughs)

   25. JRJoe Rogan0:52

       (laughs) Um, but, uh, I g- I really got into breathing exercises afterwards.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy0:56

       Uh-huh.

   27. JRJoe Rogan0:56

       And so, I mean, I'm calling it meditating, but I'm really doing both. I'm meditating and doing... And while I'm doing these breathing exercises, I'm just concentrating on breath. It is the-

   28. BPBridget Phetasy1:05

       Trippy.

   29. JRJoe Rogan1:06

       It is the best fucking stress reliever.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy1:08

       Yeah.
2. 2:18 – 3:24

   COVID vulnerability, hidden comorbidities, and vaping as a respiratory risk multiplier

   1. JRJoe Rogan2:18

      But he knew somebody though that got it early in Italy-

   2. BPBridget Phetasy2:22

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan2:22

      ... and got really sick.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy2:23

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan2:23

      But then upon questioning, um, I was asking him a bunch of things, like, the guy was drinking. Like, the guy was partying and then he, he was skiing and then he caught COVID. So, uh, the people that I know that have got it and got it bad were all compromised.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy2:36

      Yeah.

   7. JRJoe Rogan2:36

      They w- they were all beaten down, worn out, and then it got them. That's where it gets scary.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy2:40

      Or you don't know. We had a friend whose, um, boyfriend's brother died of it and he got it, but he was sick for two weeks and his wife was like, "Please go." And he didn't-

   9. JRJoe Rogan2:52

      Hm.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy2:52

       ... because he's a dude. (laughs) And-

   11. JRJoe Rogan2:54

       Yeah. Yep.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy2:54

       ... and then he went and, um, found out that he had, like, diabetes or something. He didn't even know he had it.

   13. JRJoe Rogan3:00

       Hm.

   14. BPBridget Phetasy3:00

       And so he was compromised and it was really tragic and sad, but-

   15. JRJoe Rogan3:05

       Well, our nurse was telling us, she was... How harsh is she?

   16. BPBridget Phetasy3:08

       Yeah. She's hardcore. (laughs)

   17. JRJoe Rogan3:10

       Harsh, harsh. What she's seen-

   18. BPBridget Phetasy3:11

       I al- I like it, though.

   19. JRJoe Rogan3:12

       She's seen it. She's great, I love her. But anyway, when she's, uh, doing the test, she's telling us about all these kids that vape that are dying.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy3:19

       Oh yeah, I've been hearing this.

   21. JRJoe Rogan3:21

       Yeah. Fucking getting pneumonia and dying from vaping.

3. 3:24 – 4:38

   Hydroxychloroquine politics: when treatment debates become identity warfare

   1. BPBridget Phetasy3:24

      Here's a fun story. I was g- talking to my physical therapist, and he is married to an Italian woman, so they were hearing all the stories from Italy and then all the whole s- thing about like hydrochloric, hydroxychloroquine came out. And, well-

   2. JRJoe Rogan3:39

      Hydroxy? Hydroxy?

   3. BPBridget Phetasy3:39

      The hy- hydroxychloroquine, howev- however the hell you say it.

   4. JRJoe Rogan3:43

      Yeah.

   5. BPBridget Phetasy3:43

      Um, and he, he had been hearing from the people in Italy that this was kind of working with like some... and it was helping. So, after Trump said it was helping, he was trying to get some on the West Side, and he's like, "All these motherfuckers who are talking shit about it, you couldn't get it anywhere on the West Side of LA." Every rich person in LA went out and bought it, and then was like, "Oh, this... we shouldn't be listening to this." He's like, "But you couldn't get it anywhere." (clears throat)

   6. JRJoe Rogan4:10

      Well, my doctor told me that people are not taking it because they hate Trump.

   7. BPBridget Phetasy4:15

      Oh, wow.

   8. JRJoe Rogan4:15

      He l- when Schab got it, they asked Schab what your political leanings are. And he's like, "What?" And he's like, "Well, hydroxychloroquine has been proven to be very effective in the early stages of virus."

   9. BPBridget Phetasy4:24

      Especially early, yeah.

   10. JRJoe Rogan4:25

       He goes, "Fucking give it to me. What are you talking about?" (laughs) But imagine if he's like, "Fuck Trump, I'm gonna die!"

   11. BPBridget Phetasy4:33

       Literally.

   12. JRJoe Rogan4:33

       "I'm gonna die on this hill, fuck Trump."

   13. BPBridget Phetasy4:36

       You're literally... People have lost their minds.

   14. JRJoe Rogan4:37

       Lost their minds.

4. 4:38 – 7:42

   Online exhaustion, “educating fascists,” and the attack on reasonable people in the middle

   1. BPBridget Phetasy4:38

      It's, it's a... I saw a tweet yesterday and it was like, "I'm so tired. I'm so tired." I'm like, "What are you..." This whole idea of everybody being like, "I'm so exhausted." I'm like, "You're sitting on your fucking ass, you're watching Netflix, you're on your couch, you're waiting for Postmates. Like what are you fucking tired from?"

   2. JRJoe Rogan4:55

      (laughs)

   3. BPBridget Phetasy4:56

      You're exhausted from tweeting? You know, like, "It's so hard educating all these people, all these fascists online all day."

   4. JRJoe Rogan5:02

      (laughs)

   5. BPBridget Phetasy5:03

      What are you fucking exhausted from?

   6. JRJoe Rogan5:05

      (coughs)

   7. BPBridget Phetasy5:06

      I don't understand. (laughs)

   8. JRJoe Rogan5:07

      Educating fascists. Everybody who disagrees with you is a fascist.

   9. BPBridget Phetasy5:10

      Every- everyone.

   10. JRJoe Rogan5:11

       That's just how it is.

   11. BPBridget Phetasy5:11

       Everyone. And it's... I- I was talking to Colin Quinn for my podcast, and we were talking about this. I was like, "Do you not get shit for like..." He's like, "I feel like we're kinda in the same place." And I was, I was like, "Don't you get shit for being like both sides?" And he was like, "Isn't that insane though? Like, that the people who are like trying to see things reasonably are the ones who are like getting attacked?"

   12. JRJoe Rogan5:32

       (laughs)

   13. BPBridget Phetasy5:32

       He's like, "No, the middle used to be the people looking at the zealots being like, 'You're fucking crazy.' And now they're looking at us and they're like, 'You guys need to be stopped.'" (laughs)

   14. JRJoe Rogan5:40

       (laughs) The middle needs to be stopped.

   15. BPBridget Phetasy5:41

       "All of this reason needs to be stopped."

   16. JRJoe Rogan5:44

       Well, because you make them confront their own biases.

   17. BPBridget Phetasy5:47

       Yeah. Yeah. (laughs)

   18. JRJoe Rogan5:47

       That's what the problem is. When you're a... if you're a reasonable person, espec- especially if you're someone like you or I, who has a platform and you're reasonable, and there's a lot of people listening, and then people are like, "Wow, she's, she's actually s- got some good points. No, she doesn't! She's a fascist!"

   19. BPBridget Phetasy6:02

       (laughs) Look, I'm no Alyssa Milano, I don't have a platform like you guys-

   20. JRJoe Rogan6:06

       (laughs)

   21. BPBridget Phetasy6:07

       (laughs) ... but...

   22. JRJoe Rogan6:08

       Well, it's a real shame that her platform is a third of mine.

   23. BPBridget Phetasy6:11

       (laughs) That's like a really... (laughs) I'm really delusional. I wanna-

   24. JRJoe Rogan6:16

       The... (laughs)

   25. BPBridget Phetasy6:17

       This is the two plus two equals five math. (laughs)

   26. JRJoe Rogan6:20

       (laughs)

   27. BPBridget Phetasy6:20

       (laughs)

   28. JRJoe Rogan6:20

       Yeah, that math is, uh, that's like Hollywood math-

   29. BPBridget Phetasy6:23

       (laughs) Yeah.

   30. JRJoe Rogan6:23

       ... when they tell you a movie didn't make any money.
5. 7:42 – 12:22

   Media credibility collapse: CNN, bias, and the ‘mostly peaceful’ riots framing

   1. JRJoe Rogan7:42

      ... everything else is liberal, whether it's, whether they pretend to be or not. They, they lean liberal, whether it's NBC, CBS-

   2. BPBridget Phetasy7:48

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan7:48

      ... MSNBC, of course CNN. CNN is, CNN's atrocious.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy7:52

      This is what I-

   5. JRJoe Rogan7:53

      They, they're so bad.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy7:54

      ... does. (sighs)

   7. JRJoe Rogan7:54

      They used to be my favorite source of news. And now I, I see, when, when you see Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo talking about white people and, and, and, and how, like, white people have every advantage, like, "Why don't you have an education? Why don't you have a loan?"

   8. BPBridget Phetasy8:08

      Yeah.

   9. JRJoe Rogan8:08

      Like, and, and Chris Cuomo's just standing there, like, letting Don Lemon say this. I'm like, "What are you guys talking about?"

   10. BPBridget Phetasy8:12

       They're parodies.

   11. JRJoe Rogan8:13

       You guys, have you ever been to Appalachia?

   12. BPBridget Phetasy8:14

       No, they haven't.

   13. JRJoe Rogan8:15

       Do, do, do you know about r- really poor white people?

   14. BPBridget Phetasy8:17

       No.

   15. JRJoe Rogan8:17

       They're, they're there. There's p- poor white people all over the world.

   16. BPBridget Phetasy8:20

       I tweeted something about-

   17. JRJoe Rogan8:21

       It's so crazy.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy8:22

       ... they were like, "Don Lemon's calling out celebrities, and I am here for it." And I was like, "Don Lemon is the arsonist standing in the house-"

   19. JRJoe Rogan8:28

       (laughs)

   20. BPBridget Phetasy8:28

       "... asking for everyone else to put out the fire." Like, what? This guy has been so divisive. He's so... What are you even talking about?

   21. JRJoe Rogan8:35

       All, all generalizations, all of them-

   22. BPBridget Phetasy8:37

       (laughs)

   23. JRJoe Rogan8:37

       ... do nobody any good.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy8:38

       No, but they're fun.

   25. JRJoe Rogan8:39

       But I just made one.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy8:40

       I know, but they're so fun.

   27. JRJoe Rogan8:41

       Yeah. They are very fun. I mean, we're s- we're comics.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy8:43

       Yeah, you-

   29. JRJoe Rogan8:43

       We just, we-

   30. BPBridget Phetasy8:43

       ... you have-
6. 12:22 – 14:56

   Climate change as a partisan identity trap—and the missing nuanced conversation

   1. JRJoe Rogan12:22

      Climate change.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy12:23

      Yeah.

   3. JRJoe Rogan12:23

      Climate change is the, the biggest one on the right where they're, they just full on try to deny climate change, and it's a part of the narrative of the ideology of the right. There's a lot of people that just deny the narrative of climate change.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy12:35

      There are young...... Republicans who are changing this, though. And, uh, you should have some of them on because they're young.

   5. JRJoe Rogan12:43

      Give me some names.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy12:43

      I will. There are some young kids who are-

   7. JRJoe Rogan12:46

      (laughs)

   8. BPBridget Phetasy12:46

      ... really pushing back against... They don't like that. They believe that we should conserve our parks, that we should conserve... That it's important. And they hate that it's become this kind of partisan thing and that it's now Republicans are anti-climate, is this messaging. And so there, there are some young people in that space. They just don't have a big enough voice, really, yet. But they're, they're out there and they're pushing back against that, and they have some really cool things that are going, going on.

   9. JRJoe Rogan13:11

      Well, that's good because there does need to be some pushback. The problem with the narrative on the right is that they're so pro-business that they're willing to sacrifice some environmental standards.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy13:21

       Mm-hmm.

   11. JRJoe Rogan13:21

       And people see the repercussions of that.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy13:23

       Right.

   13. JRJoe Rogan13:23

       They're, they're like, "Hey. Listen, I understand that you want people to be able to work and you want people to make a living and you wanna raise the standard," and trickle-down economics and all that shit, "but you, you can't, you can't sacrifice the fucking environment."

   14. BPBridget Phetasy13:35

       Right.

   15. JRJoe Rogan13:36

       Like, that should be a no-brainer. First, do no harm, right?

   16. BPBridget Phetasy13:38

       Right.

   17. JRJoe Rogan13:38

       Like a doctor. First do no harm. And that you're doing harm. Like you can't make money while you're polluting.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy13:45

       Right.

   19. JRJoe Rogan13:45

       Like that's, that's not good for anybody's future.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy13:48

       Yeah. They're seeing this in, in areas where the... You know, I think it was reading, like, the Louisiana belt, there's, like, tons of instances of more COVID mortality in the, like, Chemical Alley where all those fucking chemical plants are.

   21. JRJoe Rogan14:01

       Mm-hmm.

   22. BPBridget Phetasy14:01

       And that's the kind of untold cost and... Cause and effect that we need to pay more attention to. And then this is why I hate when these things... Like the climate shouldn't be... It... We should be able to have a conversation about this. And I think with the right wing, it's m-... It's more that it's, uh, used as a cudgel to just silence everybody and you're supposed to just get on board, and there are so many things that are... A lot of them will agree that they're... We might be having some effect on it, but what is the best way to, to try and make those changes? So that nuanced conversation is what needs to happen and everything is just partisan.

   23. JRJoe Rogan14:39

       Yeah.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy14:39

       Everything. Even the mask thing.

   25. JRJoe Rogan14:41

       (clears throat)

   26. BPBridget Phetasy14:41

       Like all-

   27. JRJoe Rogan14:42

       That's f-

   28. BPBridget Phetasy14:42

       ... all of it.

   29. JRJoe Rogan14:43

       Yeah.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy14:43

       And you wanna be able to come from a place of facts. It's the same with, you know, police brutality. All of these things... If we can start with what the actual facts are, that would be awesome and productive, but we don't (laughs) ... We don't start there. We start with, like... (laughs)

7. 14:56 – 18:22

   Police brutality narratives, viral videos, and why generalizations break real-world analysis

   1. JRJoe Rogan14:56

      Well, the police brutality thing, all you get is videos of horrific actions.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy14:59

      Right.

   3. JRJoe Rogan14:59

      You know, I saw a video. There's a really terrible video that's going around right now that people are using as evidence that cops are racist because they didn't shoot this white guy who wound up shooting and killing a cop in Oklahoma. Did you see it?

   4. BPBridget Phetasy15:12

      Oh, I haven't seen it.

   5. JRJoe Rogan15:13

      It's a-

   6. BPBridget Phetasy15:13

      I've been blissfully offline.

   7. JRJoe Rogan15:15

      Every time I drink coffee with cream I say, "I'm not gonna do that again," 'cause I do it on the podcast and then I get phlegm and I have to... (coughs)

   8. BPBridget Phetasy15:20

      Oh. That's all right. It makes you human, Joe.

   9. JRJoe Rogan15:22

      (clears throat) Sorry for people listening.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy15:24

       (laughs)

   11. JRJoe Rogan15:24

       It's annoying, bro. But it's, it's a bad video. Um, they pull this guy over. They mace him. Um, they, they, they, they, they hit him with the pepper spray. They tase him. They do everything. And he's just as f- drugged up or a psycho.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy15:38

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan15:38

       Who knows? And they get into some sort of a wrestling exchange and he gets the cop's gun and unloads-

   14. BPBridget Phetasy15:44

       Whoa.

   15. JRJoe Rogan15:44

       ... into this guy's bo-... And you hear the cop-

   16. BPBridget Phetasy15:46

       Wow.

   17. JRJoe Rogan15:46

       You... From the cop's body camera, you see him get shot and you see him scream.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy15:50

       This is the fucking thing about our dystopia that I hate. I've seen someone die, like, every day for the t- past two weeks online. You know, where it's just-

   19. JRJoe Rogan15:58

       But, but here's my point. This... People are looking at this saying, "Oh, the cops are racist 'cause if that was a Black guy, they would have shot him."

   20. BPBridget Phetasy16:04

       Right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan16:04

       My position is, okay, this is... These are two totally different cops and maybe they didn't shoot him because they would have never shot anybody. May- maybe these t-

   22. BPBridget Phetasy16:12

       Right, right, right.

   23. JRJoe Rogan16:13

       ... these cops never would have shot a Black guy or a white guy or an Asian guy or anybody. But the point is, this is how dangerous it is to be a cop.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy16:20

       Right.

   25. JRJoe Rogan16:20

       And this is why non-lea... There's two cops on one guy and they can't control this motherfucker.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy16:25

       Yeah.

   27. JRJoe Rogan16:25

       And this is why non-lethal methods are... Th- the cops are reluctant to use them sometimes.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy16:30

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan16:31

       And this is also... It just shows you how fucking hard it is to be a cop. You get this crazy dude and you can't tase him, you can't pepper spray him.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy16:39

       No.
8. 18:22 – 21:29

   Quitting social media (or at least uninstalling it): attention, productivity, and self-control

   1. JRJoe Rogan18:22

      Sam Harris is a brave man because he's already been attacked so many times for having these unconventional but very reasonable positions, and yet he still puts them out there. And he knows before he puts them out there that he's gonna get some flak and get some... But he's... He deleted his Twitter from his phone. He doesn't have Twitter on his phone anymore.

   2. BPBridget Phetasy18:40

      Yeah, I don't have it on my phone.

   3. JRJoe Rogan18:41

      Yeah. That... Doing things like that can have a big impact.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy18:44

      Yeah.

   5. JRJoe Rogan18:44

      I was talking to Schaub today. He's deleted all social media from his phone. He doesn't have any social media in his life anymore.

   6. BPBridget Phetasy18:49

      Yeah. I, I really only use Twitter and I only have it on my desktop so that if I'm... I can only check it when I'm, like, in front of a computer. I don't have it-

   7. JRJoe Rogan18:56

      That's even worse though, 'cause then you should be writing.

   8. BPBridget Phetasy18:58

      Yeah. I mean, that might-

   9. JRJoe Rogan19:00

      (laughs)

   10. BPBridget Phetasy19:00

       That might be a problem, too.

   11. JRJoe Rogan19:01

       Yeah.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy19:01

       I might just need to delete it completely. (laughs)

   13. JRJoe Rogan19:03

       I, I think I'm gonna get a computer that doesn't connect to the internet.... I think, uh, a, you know-

   14. BPBridget Phetasy19:07

       (laughs) Like from 1982? (laughs)

   15. JRJoe Rogan19:09

       No, they have those. Like Snowden has one that has, like, a switch-

   16. BPBridget Phetasy19:14

       Yeah.

   17. JRJoe Rogan19:14

       ... where you literally shut the Wi-Fi off.

   18. BPBridget Phetasy19:16

       Oh, okay. I might need that.

   19. JRJoe Rogan19:17

       So you can't get tempted.

   20. BPBridget Phetasy19:18

       Yeah.

   21. JRJoe Rogan19:18

       So, like, while you're working, the Wi-Fi's off. I mean, you could always go to the Wi-Fi and do the fucking-

   22. BPBridget Phetasy19:22

       Yeah, yeah, yeah.

   23. JRJoe Rogan19:23

       But it seems like a, like a, like a switch.

   24. BPBridget Phetasy19:25

       They have apps for that too. I think there's-

   25. JRJoe Rogan19:27

       Fucking app.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy19:28

       No.

   27. JRJoe Rogan19:28

       I want a button. Like a click.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy19:30

       You could just unplug the Wi-Fi.

   29. JRJoe Rogan19:31

       No.

   30. BPBridget Phetasy19:32

       (laughs)
9. 21:29 – 27:05

   Instagram fakery, filters, plastic surgery pressure, and the economics of ‘being hot’

   1. JRJoe Rogan21:29

      Yeah, this, um, this filter thing that everyone's using-

   2. BPBridget Phetasy21:32

      Oh, that one-

   3. JRJoe Rogan21:33

      ... is so bananas.

   4. BPBridget Phetasy21:33

      ... that you posted about your daughter? That your daughter's filter-

   5. JRJoe Rogan21:36

      (laughs)

   6. BPBridget Phetasy21:36

      ... made you the pretty lady?

   7. JRJoe Rogan21:37

      How weird is that?

   8. BPBridget Phetasy21:39

      (laughs)

   9. JRJoe Rogan21:39

      You know, that was used in a class at, uh, at Texas Tech.

   10. BPBridget Phetasy21:42

       (laughs) That's terrifying.

   11. JRJoe Rogan21:43

       Yeah, it is terrifying.

   12. BPBridget Phetasy21:45

       Yeah.

   13. JRJoe Rogan21:45

       But that's what girls are dealing with. They look at themselves in the mirror, and then they look at, like, like, the, the Kourtney or Khloe? Which one?

   14. BPBridget Phetasy21:52

       None of those people are real.

   15. JRJoe Rogan21:53

       But the, which, which, which was the one where she had a totally different head?

   16. BPBridget Phetasy21:56

       Oh, maybe the o- I don't know any of them. The old one?

   17. JRJoe Rogan21:59

       Jamie?

   18. NANarrator21:59

       Yeah, the other-

   19. JRJoe Rogan22:00

       Which one?

   20. NANarrator22:01

       You're right.

   21. JRJoe Rogan22:01

       Which one?

   22. NANarrator22:02

       Khloe.

   23. JRJoe Rogan22:03

       Khloe.

   24. NANarrator22:03

       Yeah.

   25. JRJoe Rogan22:03

       Khloe.

   26. BPBridget Phetasy22:03

       Okay.

   27. JRJoe Rogan22:04

       I mean, you know what she looks like.

   28. BPBridget Phetasy22:05

       Yeah.

   29. JRJoe Rogan22:06

       She looks one way, and then the picture was like, "Okay, who's this?"

   30. BPBridget Phetasy22:08

       Yeah.
10. 27:05 – 31:18

    Texas interlude: barbecue, German roots, small towns—and Confederate statue debates

    1. JRJoe Rogan27:05

       I love it out here, but-

    2. BPBridget Phetasy27:05

       Yeah, I could eat barbecue for breakfast.

    3. JRJoe Rogan27:08

       Ha- which places have you gone to?

    4. BPBridget Phetasy27:09

       What's the one where Matthew McConaughey, um, the s- the s-... Oh, it's the one where Matthew McConaughey, um, w- said his favorite, famous line in Dazed and Confused?

    5. JRJoe Rogan27:19

       Oh, I don't know.

    6. BPBridget Phetasy27:19

       It's the... Oh, it's good. They use pepper.

    7. JRJoe Rogan27:21

       Terry Black's?

    8. BPBridget Phetasy27:22

       No, it's Spitfire... Spit...

    9. JRJoe Rogan27:24

       There's so many out here. You can't be bad and stay open.

    10. NANarrator27:27

        Style Switch.

    11. BPBridget Phetasy27:28

        Yes. Oh-ho-ho-ho.

    12. JRJoe Rogan27:30

        Oh. Oh.

    13. BPBridget Phetasy27:31

        So good.

    14. JRJoe Rogan27:32

        It's the place.

    15. BPBridget Phetasy27:33

        So good.

    16. JRJoe Rogan27:33

        For a l- a place that has, like, two million people living in it-

    17. BPBridget Phetasy27:36

        (laughs)

    18. JRJoe Rogan27:36

        ... they have, like, 150,000 barbecue spots. There he is, right there.

    19. BPBridget Phetasy27:40

        Yeah.

    20. JRJoe Rogan27:40

        Hey, all right, all right.

    21. BPBridget Phetasy27:41

        It's not painted like that anymore.

    22. JRJoe Rogan27:43

        All right, all right.

    23. BPBridget Phetasy27:44

        Yeah. Uh, yeah, that place was amazing. I went to the other one that's really big, um, the really famous one that's kinda out.

    24. JRJoe Rogan27:52

        Franklin's?

    25. BPBridget Phetasy27:53

        No, I haven't been there yet. I heard it's amazing.

    26. JRJoe Rogan27:55

        La Barbecue?

    27. BPBridget Phetasy27:56

        No, it's, uh-

    28. JRJoe Rogan27:57

        Just you and I, we could d- do this all day long.

    29. BPBridget Phetasy27:58

        It begins with an R.

    30. JRJoe Rogan27:58

        It'd be a real problem.
11. 31:18 – 58:55

    Election-season cult behavior: Biden’s decline, ‘save the country’ rhetoric, and Flight 93 politics

    1. JRJoe Rogan31:18

       Social media, the COVID lockdown, the polarization of our country with Trump, and then, you know, this, this weird thing where everybody has to pretend that Biden isn't dying.

    2. BPBridget Phetasy31:29

       (laughs)

    3. JRJoe Rogan31:30

       ... like, this is all happening together at the same time. Like, everyone has to pretend he's gonna do a great job.

    4. BPBridget Phetasy31:34

       Yeah.

    5. JRJoe Rogan31:34

       "I'm gonna vote for him. We just need to get Trump out of office." Like, oh my God. Like-

    6. BPBridget Phetasy31:38

       Yeah.

    7. JRJoe Rogan31:38

       ... can we freeze this?

    8. BPBridget Phetasy31:39

       Yeah.

    9. JRJoe Rogan31:39

       Can we freeze this and rethink this?

    10. BPBridget Phetasy31:41

        Y-

    11. JRJoe Rogan31:41

        Do you guys have anybody else on deck?

    12. BPBridget Phetasy31:42

        N- no one. I mean, I guess Harris is on deck.

    13. JRJoe Rogan31:44

        She's wearing Timberlands.

    14. BPBridget Phetasy31:46

        (laughs)

    15. JRJoe Rogan31:46

        I guess she's one of us. (laughs)

    16. BPBridget Phetasy31:49

        I seriously love the tweet. Whoever it was who was like, "Oh, found the undercover cop." (laughs)

    17. JRJoe Rogan31:54

        (laughs)

    18. BPBridget Phetasy31:54

        They're like, "Anyone who sees anyone wearing these in a club, this brand new is the undercover cop."

    19. JRJoe Rogan32:00

        But Charlamagne-

    20. BPBridget Phetasy32:00

        "At the party."

    21. JRJoe Rogan32:01

        Charlamagne, on Instagram, was like, y- y- you know, 'cause they were saying that she's bringing back Timberlands. And he was like, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

    22. BPBridget Phetasy32:09

        (laughs)

    23. JRJoe Rogan32:09

        (laughs) Like, he's a, he's in New York. Like, dudes in New York have been wearing Timberlands forever.

    24. BPBridget Phetasy32:14

        Yeah.

    25. JRJoe Rogan32:14

        They've been wearing 'em since the '80s-

    26. BPBridget Phetasy32:16

        Yeah.

    27. JRJoe Rogan32:16

        ... or whenever they started wearing 'em. They never stop wearing 'em.

    28. BPBridget Phetasy32:18

        (laughs)

    29. JRJoe Rogan32:19

        Like, does, th- she's bringing back Timberlands?

    30. BPBridget Phetasy32:21

        Yeah.
12. 58:55 – 1:08:53

    Mental health in the social-media era—and Bridget’s three-part method for beating hypochondria

    1. JRJoe Rogan58:55

       Well, the unhinged have never had a better time.

    2. BPBridget Phetasy58:57

       (laughs)

    3. JRJoe Rogan58:58

       This is, uh, this is their time 'cause they, they have so much company.

    4. BPBridget Phetasy59:01

       (laughs)

    5. JRJoe Rogan59:01

       You know, if you're an unhinged person, like, you're on team unhinged. You're like, you're like, "Oh, look at all the people on my side."

    6. BPBridget Phetasy59:06

       Weren't you the one who had that tweet that was like, "We have a mental health problem that's a, a... We have a gun pro-" Something about guns and mental health?

    7. JRJoe Rogan59:13

       Yeah. Yeah.

    8. BPBridget Phetasy59:13

       I feel like-

    9. JRJoe Rogan59:13

       We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

    10. BPBridget Phetasy59:18

        Yeah, that's a great tweet. I think about that all the time because, man, is that played out.

    11. JRJoe Rogan59:23

        Yeah.

    12. BPBridget Phetasy59:23

        Because now we're just seeing the mental health and the tyranny. (laughs)

    13. JRJoe Rogan59:26

        Yeah. Well, we legitimately have a gigantic mental health problem in this country. Look, I am a person who, uh, I've, I've done a lot of things. I've, I have a family. I'm happy. I have good friends. I'm successful. And I have mental health problems.

    14. BPBridget Phetasy59:42

        Yeah.

    15. JRJoe Rogan59:42

        We all have mental health problems.

    16. BPBridget Phetasy59:43

        Yeah.

    17. JRJoe Rogan59:43

        And my mental health problems are very minor.

    18. BPBridget Phetasy59:46

        (laughs)

    19. JRJoe Rogan59:46

        I just wanna be real clear. They're very minor. But I get weirded out sometimes. We all do. We all, we all get in funks sometimes. We all have issues. We all have issues.

    20. BPBridget Phetasy59:55

        (laughs) Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan59:55

        But when something challenges us and we don't have character and we don't have a history of overcoming issues and we don't have tools in terms of like whether it's exercise or meditation or yoga or whatever you do to alleviate tension, and then you have the fucking gasoline which is social media-

    22. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:13

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:00:13

        ... and you're throwing gasoline on your fire instead of figuring out a way to put out the coals, you're just gonna have madness. And there's so many people that are unhinged-

    24. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:22

        Yeah. Yeah.

    25. JRJoe Rogan1:00:23

        ... right now. Unhinged.

    26. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:24

        And it's... And they've been alone and isolated, and it, it just shows how much you need that social interaction-

    27. JRJoe Rogan1:00:30

        Yes.

    28. BPBridget Phetasy1:00:30

        ... because people, I feel like, are losing their manners, you know? I've heard from many people... And it... My, my sister texted me. She said, "I just saw a real-life Facebook fight at dinner." And it was like... And someone else texted me and he said, "I just saw a real-life Twitter interaction in the grocery store." So this behavior that generally is relegated to the way we are when we're anonymous or not anonymous online with each other that you would never necessarily be if you were face to face, because everybody's been online, it's like they're starting to behave that way in real life.

    29. JRJoe Rogan1:01:02

        Yeah.

    30. BPBridget Phetasy1:01:03

        That's not good.
13. 1:08:53 – 1:48:42

    Discipline, ‘warrior ethos,’ and why comedy needs freedom to be hyperbolic

    1. JRJoe Rogan1:08:53

       That's why I have these, th- this, I have, like, mugs and T-shirts that say, "Conquer your inner bitch."

    2. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:00

       I love that.

    3. JRJoe Rogan1:09:01

       That's what it is. There's-

    4. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:02

       I- It is.

    5. JRJoe Rogan1:09:02

       There's a thing, I, it's- it's in me. I was talking to-

    6. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:05

       It's in me.

    7. JRJoe Rogan1:09:05

       ... David Goggins, who's one of the most savage people that's on the planet today.

    8. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:09

       Mm-hmm.

    9. JRJoe Rogan1:09:09

       And he and I had a long, hilarious conversation on the phone yesterday about it. And I said, "One of the things that I really appreciate about you is you talk about your struggles." Like, there's a video that I put up on my Instagram the other day. I just wrote, "Stay hard," and it's his video, and it's him talking about this struggle that he has, David Goggins, one of the hardest men alive. He has this struggle sometimes when he gets up, he just starts feeling sorry for himself.

    10. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:31

        Yeah. (laughs)

    11. JRJoe Rogan1:09:31

        He starts feeling like, it just like, "Fuck, I'm tired, I don't wanna do this."

    12. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:35

        Yeah.

    13. JRJoe Rogan1:09:35

        And then he, he actually says, he said those thoughts into a tape recorder or-

    14. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:39

        Hmm.

    15. JRJoe Rogan1:09:40

        ... you know, a phone or whatever the fuck it is, and, and then listened to it playback. And he's like, "I sounded like a straight bitch." (laughs)

    16. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:46

        Yeah. (laughs) That's hilarious. (laughs)

    17. JRJoe Rogan1:09:48

        But he realized it-

    18. BPBridget Phetasy1:09:49

        Yeah.

    19. JRJoe Rogan1:09:49

        ... and then he, he got fired up and, and went out and did it. But what I said to him is, what's so important about him and wh- wh- why he's so important to people is because he shows you the weakness.

    20. BPBridget Phetasy1:10:01

        Yeah.

    21. JRJoe Rogan1:10:01

        He shows you that he has these thoughts himself, but he just always wins.

    22. BPBridget Phetasy1:10:04

        Yeah.

    23. JRJoe Rogan1:10:05

        He overcomes those, but he knows that- that those demons are there. They're there for everybody, but he's just got a long history of overcoming those demons. And so he knows that he just has to go to work.

Episode duration: 3:17:16