Joe Rogan Experience #2179 - Bridget Phetasy

Bridget Phetasy is a writer and stand-up comedian. She hosts the podcast “Walk-Ins Welcome” and co-hosts the podcast “Factory Settings” with her husband Jeren Montgomery. She also leads the YouTube program “Dumpster Fire.” www.phetasy.com

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0:00 – 2:16
Fame, burner numbers, and transactional relationships
1. NANarrator
  (drum beat plays) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (rock music plays) Do you have a new phone? What y- what year was-
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  No.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that one?
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  This one is, like, one of the rehabbed ones. (laughs)
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh. Th- those are still good though. Like, whi- which number-
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  They can-
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Which number is it?
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  13, I think.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, those are still good.
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  I have an 11 that's still good.
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  I keep an 11 for one of my numbers.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  Okay.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  One of my bullshit numbers.
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  Like, (laughs) for what?
18. JRJoe Rogan
  There's certain people you can't give the real number to.
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, yeah. Why would you even give them a number though? You're, like, a straightforward guy.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  I guess you have to sometimes.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Sometimes you have to communicate with people, but you want a phone that you just stick in a fucking drawer somewhere.
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, and check, like, once a month.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  If that.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. (laughs) It just gets crazy where so many relationships become, like, completely transactional and-
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  Hmm.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  ... you know, like, every time someone texts you, they want something, and it's just so frustrating.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  I can see it even being your friend. I can see it from a fucking mile away now. People will be like, "Hey, Bridge." I'm like, "I'm not introducing you to Joe. Leave me alone."
30. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
2:16 – 4:17
Honesty, criticism, and writing jokes for the “haters”
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs) It helps to have, like... I was asking my husband right before I left about a tweet I was gonna send out, and he's like, "Meh." And I was like- (laughs) because he-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  (gasps)
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  I was like, "Is this too much?" And then I was like, "Fine." He's like, "Oh, what do you just want me to, like, clap for you?"
4. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  I was like, "I'm so glad you're my husband." (laughs)
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, you definitely need someone who's not impressed.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  No, not impressed at all.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  He t- or, uh, b- at the very least, maybe not impressed, but also not bullshitting you.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  No.
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Right?
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  He will not bullshit.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  He won't bullshit anyone. He, like-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  That's great.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... suffers no fools at all.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  That's great that, that ensures that you won't live in a world of compromise.
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  No. No.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  You know, and some people are okay. They just fuck up every now and then. You have to tell them, "Hey, man, don't lie to me."
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  "You don't have to lie."
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  "You don't do that."
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  You know. But it's just this weird thing that people fall back on bullshitting and lying. They just fall back on it. It's... And they don't even know they're doing it to themselves. You, you, you will have less respect for yourself. You'll-
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  So it's not worth it.
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  No. (laughs) It's not.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  It's not worth it 'cause y- y- you, you just create these things that aren't real in your life, these relationships, these friendships-
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  ... that aren't based on reality.
4:17 – 5:37
Politics as tribal fan fiction (and why teams distort reality)
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, that's the difference between comedy and other things, right?
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  It's hard if you're just a journalist.
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  You, you know? (laughs) You're just writing, you, you, you kind of believe your opinion makes sense. And all of them are doing the same thing, like almost all of them, except for the independent ones. They're almost all doing the same things. They're saying th- they're, they're expressing their thoughts to a very particular group of people.
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
7. JRJoe Rogan
  And they're also lying about another group of people almost always.
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah. It's a-
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Like the right does it and the left does it.
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, it's all fan fiction. (laughs)
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, it is fan fiction. Like the right does it with liberals because liberals aren't Antifa. Liberals aren't-
12. BPBridget Phetasy
  No.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  ... the people that are lighting Starbucks on fire-
14. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ... and shooting cops. That's not liberals. That is just a thing that has existed in a team where you allow anyone to join the team. So if you have something where anybody can join the team, right, which is basically what being a liberal or a conservative is, anyone can join the team.
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  No, they don't like the sluts, Joe.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
18. NANarrator
  (laughs)
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Everybody loves sluts. They just don't-
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Not the conservatives.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Not publicly.
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs) Yeah, exactly.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Don't listen.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  I, I know. Oh, I know. I know.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  I know a lot of those ladies fucking party hard-
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  No, no, no.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  ... but they do it for Jesus.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  We'll get to that. I know.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  They do it for Jesus.
5:37 – 9:23
Religion, conversion, and the mechanics of belief and belonging
1. JRJoe Rogan
  It's the same thing though, man. I'm telling you, it's the same thing. If you are an Antifa or if you are Patriot Front, you're, you c-... I could have got either one of you fucks.
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You just gotta get them early, get them when they're vulnerable-
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  Mm-hmm.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  ... talk them into a very specific ideology. "You know who's your problem? The Jews."
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
7. JRJoe Rogan
  And next thing you know, they think that Jews really are their problems. They're, that's all their problems.
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  And they kind of meet on that.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  They're kind of shaking hands.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  They get together with the Jews, with now, with, which is odd, right?
12. BPBridget Phetasy
  The abortion theory.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Because of Palestine and Gaza. The, it's... That's where-
14. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
15. JRJoe Rogan
  ... it's kind of come around. Like that moment in time, it's like everybody's mad at the Jews now. It's like, "Fuck."
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  I mean, that's the ancient conspiracy theory of all conspiracy theories-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
18. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... that th- it's the Jews fault. This is, like, one of the oldest conspiracy theories of mankind.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, the Jews make it real tough to join.... they're one of the more interesting-
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
21. JRJoe Rogan
  ... religions. Like, if you wanna join, it, my uncle gr- uh, joined. My uncle converted to Judaism. He married a nice Jewish lady.
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  I kinda wanna convert.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Go for it.
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  I kinda do. It's a lot of work.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  See, let's see what's up. (laughs)
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Let's see what new information you get. You'll tell me, right?
28. BPBridget Phetasy
  Uh-huh. (laughs)
29. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) You'll get the new memos. You, you'll be part of that Proton Mail list.
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
9:23 – 12:10
The trickster mindset: surviving chaos with humor and gray zones
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  It's interesting, because I've been reading that, rereading my favorite book, Trickster Makes This World, and how the trickster-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  What is that b- ... Who wrote that?
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  Uh, Lewis Hyde. It's all about trick-
4. JRJoe Rogan
  What a great title.
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, it's so good. But it's, um, I ... It saved me at a point, because I didn't really ... I, I had a hard time, and I think this is, this is where, like, Jordan Peterson is so good talking about archetypes, knowing kind of the archetypes. And I didn't really know my role, and I read this book, and I was like, "Oh."
6. JRJoe Rogan
  Can you tell me the name of it again? I wanna get it.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  Trickster Makes This World.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Trickster Makes This World.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  It's so brilliant. But there-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Sounds cool. (laughs) What a great title.
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  Um, actually, one of the quotes that I put in your card is from that book, and it's a f-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Really?
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... my favorite, one of my favorite quotes ever. It's all about, "He who dupes others and who ... Is also duped himself. He's creator nor destroyer." It's like, this is ... The people I've noticed who have stayed the most, I mean, sane, is a term I'm using loosely, the people I've noticed, it's, like, comedians, people who are kinda like tricksters.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm-hmm.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  They have managed to kind of ride the waves of the past eight years, because I think they're not too attached. And in this book, he talks about how it was ... There was all this trickster, trickster mythology, like Coyote and Hermes, and then it got kind of turned into the devil, and it became evil versus good. And when that happened, when, when the loss of that mythology in the culture happened, it became much more black-and-white and, like, this kind of, you know, dualistic, like you said, tribal thinking without all of-
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Mm.
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... this gray area that I do feel like I look around, like malice, and all the pe- ... They're n- ... Most of the people who I've been hanging out with and know have been kinda having a blast for, like, eight years.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  You know? Like, everyone ... First, I watched everyone on the left lose their mind, then people on the right lost their ...
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  It was like I was having the same conversations for four years with the left, then it was like, all the people on the right and I was, "It's gonna be fine. It's not the end of the world." And then here we are again. Here we are again.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. "Here we are again." And the only people that make any sense are the ones who aren't on either team. The, the, the people that say things like, "You know, as a conservative, I blah."
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Blah. (laughs) You're a fucking human being. Don't, don't say it that way.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  And-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Don't think it that way. There's a b- ... There's a bunch of things that you believe, but don't put yourself in a fucking group, 'cause there's probably a bunch of stuff that the left agrees with that you would probably agree with too.
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  And you can't be ... You can't b- be resistant to those ideas simply because they're attached to people you've decided are the enemy, 'cause you might ... They might be right.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
12:10 – 15:38
Basic needs politics: food, welfare, and healthcare—then the pharma incentives problem
1. JRJoe Rogan
  They might be right about welfare, right? They might be right about ha- ... "Hey, maybe kids shouldn't ever be fucking starving." You know? As a group, as a group of humans that live together on this one little patch of dirt called North America, maybe we should agree that since we have this gigantic amount of money that no kids should be hungry.
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  How about that? And then, since we got that done, hey, how about regular people?
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
5. JRJoe Rogan
  How about no people should fucking starve?
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Rega- regardless of whether or not you think people are lazy or this and that, how much would we solve if no one could possibly starve?
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  We set up free restaurants or free kitchens-
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  We have them.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  ... in every city.
12. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
13. JRJoe Rogan
  We have. We should have really good ones and massive ones.
14. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, for real, like, food should be free.... for a lot of people.
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, I think they're-
17. JRJoe Rogan
  If we're this rich as a country...
18. BPBridget Phetasy
  We're pretty rich.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  So, let's have nobody s- no babies starve, no babies be malnourished, nobody starves to death, but then-
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  And health too, healthcare-
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... would be-
23. JRJoe Rogan
  100%.
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... like you shouldn't be going bankrupt.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  But you have to revamp the whole thing.
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  You'd have to, you would have to get to the real nitty-gritty, like, "Why are you prescribing this?"
28. BPBridget Phetasy
  Mm-hmm.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, "Who's making money off of this? How did this happen? How many ads did you guys run? What did the ad say?"
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
15:38 – 18:51
‘Black mold’ as a metaphor for institutional corruption and profit-maximization
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Ha- have you ever lived in a house that has black mold?
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  No, thank God, because that shit will, um-
3. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... destroy you.
5. JRJoe Rogan
  It'll destroy you.
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Um, I, I've had a couple friends who have had problems with black mold, and it's really interesting. And usually what happens is they get sick, and they're sick all the time.
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  Mm-hmm.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  And they can't figure out why they're sick.
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  And they're tired.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  They're really tired.
12. BPBridget Phetasy
  Mm-hmm.
13. JRJoe Rogan
  They're just worn out all the time. And then finally they get their house examined, and, uh, and somebody probably suggested to them, and then, "Oh, Jesus Christ, your walls are filled with black mold." And a lot of times it's, like, a leaky pipe or something, a leaky pipe, and there's water in the walls and all the moisture.
14. BPBridget Phetasy
  Right.
15. JRJoe Rogan
  And in Texas, it gets crazy. They get it, they get it bad out here. But w- when you have that, you have to burn the fucking house down essentially.
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah. (laughs)
17. JRJoe Rogan
  You have to, like, cut out all the walls. Like, it's a very invasive process. Remember that guy, Tom Leykis? Do you remember Tom Leykis, who was a radio DJ in, uh, LA?
18. BPBridget Phetasy
  He sounds familiar.
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, yeah.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yep, yep, yep.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. He had, like, Flash Fridays, where girls-
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  ... would pull their tits out.
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah. (laughs)
27. JRJoe Rogan
  He would tell people they're useless on the phone.
28. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
29. JRJoe Rogan
  Uh, you remember that guy?
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
18:51 – 21:54
Congress stock trading, Pelosi clips, and the ‘rules for thee’ dynamic
1. JRJoe Rogan
  D- have you seen the Nancy Pelosi one, where they question her? Have you ever see-
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  Never s- no.
3. JRJoe Rogan
  You never saw it?
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  No. I feel like-
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh my God, you have to see it.
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... maybe I have seen it.
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Find it. But you see, it's fucking amazing, 'cause she's all stammering. She looks like she's a little drunk already. And then they, they hit her with it, and she's like, "Huh? Wha- what? Oh."
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
9. JRJoe Rogan
  "I think we should be able to participate." But it's just-
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, I think she... I have seen this.
11. JRJoe Rogan
  It's, it's amazing.
12. BPBridget Phetasy
  She-
13. JRJoe Rogan
  It's amazing how badly she handles it.
14. BPBridget Phetasy
  They, they're, they're so rich. It's crazy that-
15. JRJoe Rogan
  Crazy rich.
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... how are you hundred millionaires? You get paid like- (laughs)
17. JRJoe Rogan
  $170,000 a year. And you're worth hundreds of billions of dollars. That is so wild.
18. BPBridget Phetasy
  It is very Rome-esque, you know? (laughs)
19. JRJoe Rogan
  It's amazing. It's amazing they do it right in front of you.
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, I don't even care. (laughs)
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, "I'm not jerking off, I'm not jerking off, it's raining out." They just-
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  They come right in your face and they're like, "Suck it."
23. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) The whole thing is so crazy.
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  It's so crazy.
25. JRJoe Rogan
  It's so crazy because there's so many of them and then nobody talks about it. The other ones don't talk about it 'cause then you look at the list and it's, like, blocks-
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  It's bipartisan.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  It's b- yeah, it's bl- here we go, it's blue, it's red.
28. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, the, it's-
29. JRJoe Rogan
  It's, some of the Republicans are making the most.
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, yeah.
21:54 – 31:52
Encrypted apps, ad-data tracking, and why privacy is effectively gone
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Do you believe any of these apps are really, truly encrypted?
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  No. No, none of them are encrypted. They're all CIA honey pots. (laughs)
3. JRJoe Rogan
  I think they are... They're all honey pots. I think they are encrypted, but I don't think that matters to the fucking CIA or the NSA or whoever wants to read your shit.
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  That's like this fucking shooter. I was like, "Give me whatever phone that kid has."
5. JRJoe Rogan
  "Oh, we can't get into it. Yeah, we can't get into his phone." Like, what the fuck are you talking about, bitch? You can't get into Elon Musk's phone.
6. NANarrator
  They got into it, uh, not, they couldn't get into it on the field, but they went back to Quantico and got the software update.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  They got it.
8. NANarrator
  And then they got into it like an app.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, it's a software update.
10. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
11. NANarrator
  (laughs)
12. JRJoe Rogan
  The old software update. That's what they're calling it these days. (laughs)
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  The software-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  The software update.
15. NANarrator
  (laughs)
16. BPBridget Phetasy
  That's why, that's how they crashed all the planes the other day or whatever.
17. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, my God.
18. BPBridget Phetasy
  Like, they were like, "Oh, it was a software update." I'm like, "That, it took one software update to, like, stop all global flights?"
19. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. I read, like, the ultimate of ultimate conspiracies.
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, I wanna hear it.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  That the company-
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  Give it to me.
23. JRJoe Rogan
  Please, please let l- America know I've done zero research into this.
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
25. JRJoe Rogan
  And I just saw a tweet, and the tweet was essentially saying that it, it was, uh, that this company was owned by a Ukrainian billionaire.
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  Oh, here we go. It's Zelensky.
27. JRJoe Rogan
  That this company that, what's it called? CrowdStrike?
28. NANarrator
  CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike.
29. JRJoe Rogan
  That crashed the entire internet for all the fucking airlines. (laughs) Was owned by some rich Ukrainian guy. This was like this grand, grand conspirator. There's so many good conspiracies going on.
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  There's so many good ones.
31:52 – 42:42
Menstrual tracking, Dobbs-era enforcement fears, and bodily autonomy dilemmas
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  I wrote a whole piece about those menstrual tracking apps because I had one back when I was dating my husband. And then I was like, "Hey, can I sign you up just to see how weird this is?" And he's like, "This is fucking creepy. I don't wanna know that you're, like, in your luteal phase or whatever and I have to be nice to you." And it, it, like, gives him tips, like, "She would like-" (laughs)
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, no, not tips. You know what would be great though? If you had, like, a real female heavy government and, uh, you know, they would all have coinciding menstrual cycles if they all worked together all the time.
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  And then you could, like, get all their data and figure out exactly when the shit is about to hit the fan.
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
6. JRJoe Rogan
  And you could, like, run the stock market that way. You could, like, make bets. Because when the shit's gonna hit the fan, they're gonna be fucking angry.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Things are gonna go sideways. You're gonna have a dip in productivity. You're gonna have people resigning. Something's gonna go wrong.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  This is all the stuff the left is very worried about with, like, JD Vance, 'cause allegedly he's, like, big and... I don't know if this is true. America, I don't know if this is true. He's allegedly into, like, the menstrual tracking and, you know, these billionaires are getting behind these apps so that they can, like... And there's a lot of fear-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Wait, what do, what do they want from them?
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  There's a lot of fear with, like, the states that don't allow abortion because now they wanna, like, pull up your, you know, records and see if you might... I don't fucking know. I read these things and I'm like-
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Oh, Jesus.
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... I never... I don't know what's true or not or what's just being, like, you, you know, just the, just hyperbolic so that people freak out about this stuff. But there's, there's, um, yeah, there's a whole industry in this now, like, a whole, a whole menstrual tracking...
14. JRJoe Rogan
  Jesus Christ.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs) I was listening to a podcast the other day and I never knew why women's cycles synced up.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  But here's my question. What do they want from it? What do they want from that data?
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  What?
18. JRJoe Rogan
  What are these guys that are tracking menstrual cycles-
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  Well, it's generally presented as something that's good for the women because then you can, like, eat and work out with your cycle. Because if you are in perimenopause or premenopause or you're, like, uh, like, in the prime of your life, you wanna do different things at different times in your cycle and different foods are better and...
20. JRJoe Rogan
  Right.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Like, hormones for women are nuts. Dudes just have, like, what? You've got one? (laughs) You're gonna-
22. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  Women have, like, three that are constantly interacting and, and all... It's so, depending on what... They just haven't done as many studies, so now they're trying to say like, "Oh, it's good to know where you are so that you can support yourself." Allegedly all these guys want this for, like, Handmaid's Tale. I don't know.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Like, what do the guys want it for?
27. NANarrator
  There's-
28. BPBridget Phetasy
  This is a conspiracy.
29. NANarrator
  The, the article I'm reading says that there was a new fin- uh, regulation. HHS finaliz-... A new regulation under HIPAA to limit law enforcement access to medical records tied to reproductive health. So they're, they go all the way down to saying, "Local police agencies might simply take it upon themselves to pull the records to see who had unexplained disruptions in their menstrual cycles, to find out if someone crossed state borders to get an abortion."
30. BPBridget Phetasy
  To go get an abortion.
42:42 – 46:46
Jujitsu as a social solution: self-defense, discipline, and training under pressure
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  What do you think about this argument though that the other thing that's destroying civilization right now is not having enough men dying in wars? (laughs) Boo.
2. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs) Well-
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  Like you have all these men who generally would be kind of sacrificing these wars historically, who are... A- and now they're all just like keyboard warriors who hate... You know, they're incels, basically.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Boo.
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  Like, there's an argument that people make about like, we need to put them back in the coal mines. They need to, like, get back to-
6. JRJoe Rogan
  I've got a much easier solution.... jujitsu.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah. Or that.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  It should be mandatory. You know how you learn how to read? You should learn how to strangle people.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  Both-
10. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... bo- both sexes?
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Yes, definitely. Well, jujitsu is the absolute best self-defense-
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  For women.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  ... for women.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  Definitely.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  100%.
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  There are women that are 130 pounds that can put you to fucking sleep-
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  ... if you're a big grown man. They will fucking strangle you. They will take your back, you won't be able to stop it, and they will get their hooks in and they'll put you to sleep.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  That's a 100% fact.
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  You just need a fighting chance to get away.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  But you, you also need to be able to defend yourself. And, like, one of the best things about jujitsu is the guard and learning how to fight off of your back. Now, if you're a woman and some guy takes you down and tackles you, learning how to effectively defend yourself off your back is fucking huge.
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah. Yeah.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  It's absolutely huge, because technique can overcome physical strength.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  It really can, especially in that position-
46:46 – 1:00:01
Returning to stand-up: humility, stage fright, and the ‘puzzle’ of comedy
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yep. It's so- it's, like, been so fun to get back, because I was... I kinda convinced myself maybe I just had a 10-year phase. (laughs)
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Of comedy? No.
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  And then my friend, Arielle Isaac Norman, who runs, like, a G- it's the Gay Enough Show. She's f- she's amazing, and she was like, "Just come do one set and see how you feel." And I was like, "I don't know. I'm a mom now." Like, maybe that was just, like, my lesbian summer that I had or whatever, and she was like, "Just try it and see." She's like, "You can't..." Like, "You can lie to yourself about this, but you're- once you're a comedian, like, good luck getting that out." And once I got up, I was like, "Goddammit, I gotta do this now," and it's not something you can just, like, do, you know? It's not a... You've gotta do it.
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, y- also, like, you feel the puzzle again. Like, "Ooh."
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  I love the puzzle!
6. JRJoe Rogan
  You feel the puzzle. You go on stage, you're working the puzzle out and you're like, "Okay, I'm in."
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  It's so humbling too.
8. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  I just love eating shit and being like... I don't know. It was, it was funny, 'cause someone was like, "Why are you doing that?" I'm like, "Well, I can either be a successful pundit or a failed comedian."
10. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  And I'd rather be a failed comedian. (laughs)
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Well, as- even the successful pundit is not mutually exclusive.
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  No, I know.
14. JRJoe Rogan
  You can look at Jimmy Dore. He does both.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  Jimmy's great though.
16. JRJoe Rogan
  Jimmy, Jimmy is-
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  He's smart though.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  ... such a funny stand-up too.
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  He, he did stand-up at the club when he was in town doing my podcast.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  Uh-huh.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  I haven't seen him live in forever. He was really funny.
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  He was really sharp.
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yup, yeah. It's been- I just-
26. JRJoe Rogan
  Such a nice guy too.
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, I've- I've always wanted to- I don't know him. I've always wanted to meet him.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  He's a sweetheart.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  He's a really nice guy.
1:00:01 – 1:06:39
AI disruption: Hollywood job collapse, curated search, and platform control
1. BPBridget Phetasy
  But do you think Hollywood is, uh... Like, with AI and all this, do you think that it, it stands-
2. JRJoe Rogan
  Doesn't matter.
3. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... stands a chance?
4. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah, it'll make awesome movies. They're still gonna make movies, but they're gonna make movies entirely on a computer. The, the people that are gonna be fucked are the actors and the writers.
5. BPBridget Phetasy
  Mm-hmm.
6. JRJoe Rogan
  They're fucked.
7. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
8. JRJoe Rogan
  And then the animators, they're fucked. They're fucked. Everybody's fucked.
9. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
10. JRJoe Rogan
  All these, uh, special effects houses, you're fucked.
11. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
12. JRJoe Rogan
  Everybody's fucked. There's n-... You don't have a... There's not a chance in hell that you survive.
13. BPBridget Phetasy
  They won't just, like, use the technology to-
14. JRJoe Rogan
  They don't need you.
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... improve?
16. JRJoe Rogan
  If a, if a studio-
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  Right.
18. JRJoe Rogan
  ... is making films, like, all, all they're gonna need is algorithms.
19. BPBridget Phetasy
  They all kinda look like they're made by algorithms already.
20. JRJoe Rogan
  What's gonna happen is they're gonna do that and then the number one movie in the world is gonna be a movie that a kid made on his cellphone.
21. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs) Yeah, I know.
22. JRJoe Rogan
  He's gonna make it with editing it-
23. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
24. JRJoe Rogan
  ... on fucking iMovie, on his phone-
25. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah.
26. JRJoe Rogan
  ... or whatever it is. And he's gonna make it off of his cellphone and it's gonna be like The Blair Witch Project. Everybody's like, "Oh, my God."
27. BPBridget Phetasy
  Or like Napoleon Dynamite.
28. JRJoe Rogan
  "It's so real."
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  Yeah, yeah.
30. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah. They're... But special effects and all that shit, that's out the window.
1:06:39 – 1:26:51
Election surrealism and AI reality collapse: Biden doubles, fake audio, and incompetence vs. conspiracy
1. JRJoe Rogan
  Um, find the video of... Uh, I know. Thanks, Mom. Uh, I wanna show the video of, uh, Biden, uh, walking up the stairs of Air Force One. Walked a little too spryly for my, for my money.
2. BPBridget Phetasy
  But can we talk about just how objectively insane this is right now?
3. JRJoe Rogan
  That we're arguing whether or not the president is really alive?
4. BPBridget Phetasy
  But also, like, everything that's happened in the past, what is it, 10, 11 days?
5. JRJoe Rogan
  Yeah.
6. BPBridget Phetasy
  And this is... There's a large pop- We were all talking about this before we started recording. There's a large population of people who are acting like this is all just normal. Like, "Oh, what's the big deal?"
7. JRJoe Rogan
  Who?
8. BPBridget Phetasy
  All the, like, people who are probably still wearing masks. They're all like, "Oh, what's the big deal? This is ju-" I'm like, if this was Trump and he was install... Like, if just reverse parties and this was happening with Republicans, it would be literally Hitler going on, the end of democracy. It's fucking banana town.
9. JRJoe Rogan
  Zoom in this, um, this fake Biden real quick. Just kidding.
10. NANarrator
  Mr. President, how are you feeling? How are you feeling?
11. JRJoe Rogan
  Go full screen.
12. NANarrator
  Mr. President, how are you feeling?
13. JRJoe Rogan
  Not rem-... Not him.
14. NANarrator
  How are you feeling?
15. BPBridget Phetasy
  He has no idea where he is.
16. NANarrator
  How are you feeling since you dropped out of the race, sir?
17. BPBridget Phetasy
  This is sad.
18. NANarrator
  Can Harris beat Trump?
19. JRJoe Rogan
  He's walking pretty good.
20. BPBridget Phetasy
  I don't know. This is sad.
21. JRJoe Rogan
  Or, that's a 40-year-old guy in a suit.
22. BPBridget Phetasy
  (laughs)
23. JRJoe Rogan
  (laughs)
24. BPBridget Phetasy
  But, Trump-
25. JRJoe Rogan
  What do you think?
26. BPBridget Phetasy
  ... nearly got assassinated. Has there been a-
27. JRJoe Rogan
  Look at those hands. Those are young hands.
28. NANarrator
  He needs stabilizers for his hands.
29. BPBridget Phetasy
  He dropped out of the race with a, no it's apology. Like w-
30. JRJoe Rogan
  I want to analyze this like the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot footage.

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Fame, burner numbers, and transactional relationships

Honesty, criticism, and writing jokes for the “haters”

Politics as tribal fan fiction (and why teams distort reality)

Religion, conversion, and the mechanics of belief and belonging

The trickster mindset: surviving chaos with humor and gray zones

Basic needs politics: food, welfare, and healthcare—then the pharma incentives problem

‘Black mold’ as a metaphor for institutional corruption and profit-maximization

Congress stock trading, Pelosi clips, and the ‘rules for thee’ dynamic

Encrypted apps, ad-data tracking, and why privacy is effectively gone

Menstrual tracking, Dobbs-era enforcement fears, and bodily autonomy dilemmas

Jujitsu as a social solution: self-defense, discipline, and training under pressure

Returning to stand-up: humility, stage fright, and the ‘puzzle’ of comedy

AI disruption: Hollywood job collapse, curated search, and platform control

Election surrealism and AI reality collapse: Biden doubles, fake audio, and incompetence vs. conspiracy

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