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Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. This is the thing is no one's happy with just being like a little successful. You get a little successful and then they want to get more.
Bridget Phetasy
Is that everyone, though? I don't know.
Joe Rogan
Is that you, Bridget?
Bridget Phetasy
I'm, I'm, I'm a little successful.
Joe Rogan
That's it.
Bridget Phetasy
And I'm happy.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, well, it's like, I don't know, you just gotta find why you're doing it. You don't wanna just be on a hamster wheel.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, I think it's easy to get lost in chasing more, you know, like, I'm an addict, so it's very. I try to stay away from analytics and all that stuff because I can become hyper focused and obsessed with them. And one of the reasons that after I did who Was It? I was opening for Lando, and we would go out and just talk to the people after the show and they were like, oh my gosh, I love Walkin's Welcome. I love dumpster 5. And it was like such a good reminder that you get chasing numbers. And it was like, oh, no, these are not just numbers, they're people. Unless you're buying bots. But I think it can be easy to just get on that hamster wheel and start being like, we need more, we need more downloads. We need more and more and more. And then you forget. And I never want to take the audience we have for granted.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
You know, like, they're, they're amazing. They're. They've been with some of these people, have been with me for forever.
Joe Rogan
That's kind of the key to it. All. Right. Is I always have. I mean, it sounds so corny because it's such like a new wellness way of looking at things. Have gratitude. But gratitude is like very important. It's really important to be thankful for what you have.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. And it was, it was, it was one of the key things in getting sober. I think when I've dealt with like anxiety, depression, other things in my life. Gratitude is, it is a power powerful mechanism for like shifting your, your perspective because you can get into that feeling of like, not being enough. Not having enough, not. Yeah, it never being enough.
Joe Rogan
Brian Callan was telling me about his buddy who's a billionaire. His Buddy's worth like $3 billion. And he feels like he's poor because he's friends with people who have a hundred billion dollars.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Imagine.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean this. When I was dating this very Wealthy guy who is, like, probably half of a billionaire, you know, like, millionaire. And we were in San Tropez, and he.
Joe Rogan
We.
Bridget Phetasy
He felt poor. I remember being. I remember it so vividly. I was in the shower, and he loved me because I was like, this, like, poor backpacker. That was, like, entertaining. Yeah, Like. Like, look at this. Entertaining.
Joe Rogan
He's an artist.
Bridget Phetasy
He wanted me to be, like, his pet monkey that came around. It just, like, made him laugh. And I gave him shit. And I think guys like that are. Used to be. You get surrounded by yes men, too, at a. Oh, yeah, for sure. And you don't have people, like, taking the piss out of you. And so I would make fun of him for his boring stories about his mattresses that people would sit there. I'm like, why are you guys listening to this guy talk about a mattress for an hour? And he was. I was in the shower, and he was talking about how he and his friends got together, and he's like, you know, we sat around and we were talking, and there is a certain level at which you can be happy no matter what. And I thought I had been rubbing off on him. Like, oh, my yogi spirituality is rubbing off.
Joe Rogan
And what did he get to, like, 10 billion?
Bridget Phetasy
No. He goes. And it's $250 million. I was like. I was crying with that. Like, where does that leave the rest of us schmucks, by the way?
Joe Rogan
That's so funny.
Bridget Phetasy
Carrera, Marvel freaking shower.
Joe Rogan
Imagine the thought that the only way you could ever be happy is with $250 million.
Bridget Phetasy
That's the minimum.
Joe Rogan
I know some people worth $250 million that are miserable as fuck.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. No, it just is.
Joe Rogan
It's not gonna do it. It's not gonna do it at all.
Bridget Phetasy
I was like, I'm sorry. Where does that leave people like me? No, don't have.
Joe Rogan
I think you need a few things. You need your health above and all.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. It doesn't matter how much you are.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. You improve your health. That's number one. Number two is you have to have friends. If you're just like, the man and everybody's kissing your ass and you're. You know, you're. You're the head of this giant business, and you live in a bubble and you're not happy. That's not happy. Happy is. You have to have colleagues. You have to have companions, comrades. You have. You have people that you're. You're like them. You get to hang together and go to dinner and laugh and hug each other.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Have fun yeah. Enjoy your life.
Bridget Phetasy
I was thinking about even the other night in the green room. Like, it keeps. It's like everyone takes the piss out of each other. It doesn't fucking matter what level you're at, who you are. Everybody's talking shit. It keeps everybody. It doesn't matter. Like, you can walk out that door and be very famous, but in that room, it's just comedians talking shit.
Joe Rogan
It's a beautiful environment to keep your head straight.
Bridget Phetasy
It's very. It's necessary, I think, too. And it is. Like, even though you might think you want yes men all around you, it just. It's. I think what I've learned, even just from being around rich guys who I give a lot of talk a lot of shit to, is they don't really want that.
Joe Rogan
No, it's uncomfortable. You don't want. Yes. Ben around you. You want people that are making fun of you.
Bridget Phetasy
And also, how are you gonna. Like, you need people to push back.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. I think it also depends on what is your personality. Some people are, like, very deeply, deeply insecure, and they really almost desire yes men just to maintain stability. It's. Some people are very weird, you know, and you don't know it, because their public face is that they're normal. You know, their public face when they're getting interviewed, they know how to, like, turn it on for five minutes. But then when you're around them all day, you know, they're fucking crazy people, which is why they're successful in the first place, which is really weird. It's like, what got you the dance is literally mental illness.
Bridget Phetasy
I was talking to. I think Malice came on my podcast recently. She's.
Joe Rogan
He's the best.
Bridget Phetasy
One of my best friends, truly.
Joe Rogan
Is he doing stand up now?
Bridget Phetasy
I hope he does.
Joe Rogan
I heard he's doing standup. I heard he's gonna do standup or he's planning on doing stand up.
Bridget Phetasy
He wants to. But here's the thing. He probably has to do it at Mothership. Like, he can't be at an open mic where somebody's gonna record.
Joe Rogan
Oh, yeah. Well, you could totally do Mothership.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay, so we're gonna make that Sunday and Monday night. Yeah, that's what I said. I was like, talk to Joe.
Joe Rogan
Oh, I'd let him go up and do a guest spot on one of my shows. Fuck it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
He's funny, man. He's fucking funny. When he. When he said that, you know that viral clip when, you know, if you, you know, you know, you're an ableist.
Bridget Phetasy
Yes.
Joe Rogan
And I'm like, an ableist. He's like, she's a retard.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. He's so quick.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it's. His timing is excellent. He's such a smart guy.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
He's so fucking. Except when it comes to, like, the whole anarchy thing. We don't need cops. I'm like, listen, bitch. You need a cop for just to keep me from you. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? You don't need cops. What are you talking about? Shut the f up. You need cops.
Bridget Phetasy
But he was saying you need cops. Yeah, he.
Joe Rogan
I don't want to hear that nonsense.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean, I don't hear that.
Joe Rogan
No law and order nonsense. Shut the up.
Bridget Phetasy
I just am like, where are you in this hierarchy?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Where you're dead. You're dead. I'm going to steal your food on day one. Shut the up.
Bridget Phetasy
First round of the. The Purge. You're a guy.
Joe Rogan
What the is wrong with you? Cops.
Bridget Phetasy
I feel like I'm at least second round of the Purge, but are you armed? Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Well, that's important.
Bridget Phetasy
So at least second.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, maybe. Do you know how to use it?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Train.
Bridget Phetasy
I do. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That's good.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I don't want to be one of those, like. Yeah, that was Right.
Joe Rogan
I taught my kids how to shoot when they're very young.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I think you. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You gotta teach them firearm safety. You know how. Never have your finger on the trigger unless you're trying to shoot something.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Ever, you know, ever. Don't hold the gun with your finger in the trigger. Always point it away. Even if it's not loaded, Point it away from people. Point it at the ground. Point it away. If people around pointed in a direction where there's no human beings.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know? Understand?
Bridget Phetasy
Always check and see.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Always check and see. There's not a bullet in the chamber.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
This is how you rack it. This is how you do it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
It's like, you should know how to use them just because if, God forbid, something ever happens, it's horrible. Your house gets broken into and, you know.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You have. You have the ability to preserve your life.
Bridget Phetasy
My fear was always that I'd be in a situation like in the movies where somebody's wrestling with someone and then they kick the gun over, and I'm the girl standing there, and I'm like.
Joe Rogan
What are these buttons and switches? And the magazine pops out, like. And you pull the trigger, but he's not around. Like, how's this thing go?
Bridget Phetasy
And then there is. And I accidentally shoot the hero.
Joe Rogan
Oh, that happens. That happens. People panic. You know, if you're not used to like high pressure situations and you expect to be able to shoot somebody. Jesus Christ.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, so malice. Anyway, the reason I brought him up, he was talking about how many. He didn't realize how many people in podcasting were mentally ill.
Joe Rogan
Well, in everything for sure, because, well, there's a lot of people that aren't performers that are in podcasting. I think they're even more mentally ill because those are the people that are like deep in the social media comments all day and seeing people on them and they're out of their minds. There's a. There's a bunch of them that are just off the. And then they fight all day. They fight all day with each other. And you see them over the years get progressively more and more insane and more and more aggressive to each other.
Bridget Phetasy
It seems. It seems exhausting also. Who has time for that? I don't understand.
Joe Rogan
Not just exhausting, but detrimental. It's a tremendous waste of resources. It's really bad for you mentally, like your own mindset. It's bad if you're in conflict with someone all the time. Especially if you could have avoided it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yes.
Joe Rogan
You don't admire yourself if you're doing that. You just know why. You like, hey, I'm on the right track. There's no fucking way. There's no way, you know, you're retarded.
Bridget Phetasy
They might be feeling like they're on the right track. I mean, I think Elon, the wheel. Elon's monetized it now though. So these guys who are in the comments fighting, they're making, you know, two, three grand a month doing it.
Joe Rogan
That's a good point. That's a different thing, right? How much are people like, what's the highest earner on X?
Bridget Phetasy
How much can you make a. People are making livings. I think you have to be on it constantly.
Joe Rogan
Right?
Bridget Phetasy
And. And some people make a lot of money. When I see them post what they're making, I'm like, holy crap, how are you? I don't know. And it seems to be people who kind of. Elon will like, yeah, he'll. He'll like turn the eye of Sauron upon them and suddenly like they are. But it's very mercurial, you know, it seems like it can change on a dime.
Joe Rogan
Well, a lot of people post things that are just not true and Elon.
Bridget Phetasy
Reposts them all the time. He uses social media like we do. I think I do more fact checking.
Joe Rogan
Than he does, yeah, he just doesn't have the time. First of all, give the guy a break. He's running like government programs along with SpaceX, along with Tesla.
Bridget Phetasy
I will cut him some slack. But also with great power comes great responsibility. You have more followers than anyone on that entire site and you're gonna boost like Russian propaganda.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, that was one, right, that fake talk show. Yeah, there was a fake talk show that he boosted. The other thing that we should probably tell people is that political thing is not true.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I know.
Joe Rogan
The eight million dollar thing. The $8 million is $8 million from all the government organizations from 2016 to 2024. So it's an eight year period and then it's a, there's some kind of wacky premium subscription that you can get from Politico.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That allows you like instantaneous access to the news. You're not just reading the articles, you're like getting the news feeds. I don't know, there's some.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, it's a lot of places where there is. Look, I'm of two minds of this. I think we need to be accurate because we do live in a time where it's almost like people don't care about truth at all. They're just, they're like ah, whatever, it doesn't matter. It's not even, it's indifference to it, you know, which is not great. But I do think credibility, like you should care about your own credibility at some point. But people get rewarded for being shameless, so you can just keep going. The Politico thing is weird because yes, a lot of the stuff that's going out right now on all of these like deep dives that people are doing, they're viral. They're mostly, many of them are fake. But also the why is any taxpayer dollar, it should be $0. Right. Going to this stuff.
Joe Rogan
The person to search is Mike Benz. Go, go to the Mike Ben cyber. Is it Mike Ben Cyber? I think that's it. Right. His, his X page. Mike Benz, he's been on his forever. Forever. Yeah, well, former State Department guy. And he uncovered all this bullshit while he was there. And he is insanely knowledgeable, insanely articulate and so good at expressing exactly how these things, fund things. And what it is. And it's. What it is is an enormous slush fund. Yeah, that's what it is. And unaccountability and money just coming and going and flowing and it's all circular. Uh huh. All circular. Donating to the Democrats. The United States government funds them. They donate to the Democratic Party. It's.
Bridget Phetasy
The whole thing is wild and people can sense this. This is why when they're saying, oh, it's like you can sense that there's been a misappropriation of our money of taxpayer dollars. You know, there's fraud and med and Medicaid are. The American people have sensed this and they feel like there's corruption. But I think they've just hopelessly kind of surrendered because you, you're. I'm a middle class mom who works, who has a kid who like. It's you who has time to fight this. You know, you, you don't have time to fight attention. No.
Joe Rogan
How do you have time to fight it?
Bridget Phetasy
No, no. And people are just trying to survive and get through the day and in then you. But you know, you have this sense like so I can see the excitement of like people Elon what he's doing. And it shouldn't be controversial to want to like audit our buddit our budget.
Joe Rogan
No. Americans have wanted to spend the money being spent. It's what it's being spent for and what's going on. Which is an enormous propaganda machine.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Like a big part of the whole left wing narrative that has like overlaid our country over the last whatever, eight years, 10 years is all propaganda funded by our own government. This is why Trump won the election. People don't really believe in these things. The amount of people that think that transgender biological males should be competing against your daughter in sports is so fucking small. Yeah, but yet our own government was propping it up. It's so. And why are they propping it up? Because it's a fucking beach ball at a concert. You keep it tossing up in the air and everybody's distracted. As long as you can keep a few things going, here's the things you got to keep going. Abortion. Right. Overturning Roe v. Wade is so great for business because now it's like a battle. The battlegrounds. And women's rights and their lives are at stake. Okay, that's one. Gay marriage. That's a huge one. They're now they're going to take away gay marriage. Oh my God. Bounce that fucking beach ball. That's a gigantic one. War is a giant one. All these different things are just fucking beach balls. And they toss them around every now and again. In the meanwhile, they're just siphoning billions of dollars. Zelensky just said he's missing $100 billion in the 177 billion that.
Bridget Phetasy
We suppose that was something weird too about Haiti, where It's like only 2% of the money actually went there. It's great. You know, Americans give away a lot of their hard earned money because they are actually kind heart want to donate to countries that are. And then you find out it's like some trans performance. There is a lot of nonsense, a.
Joe Rogan
Lot of nonsense in the tunes of hundreds of millions of dollars of nonsense.
Bridget Phetasy
And then they talk about it like, oh, who cares, it's only $10 billion. You're like, you guys are out of your fucking minds if you think that's going to be the argument that resonates with Americans.
Joe Rogan
Not only that, how are you going.
Bridget Phetasy
To say that they're pointing out $10 billion because they'll be like, oh, look at the trillions over here. But all of those billions add up. Like, how are you even saying that? And it's the other. It's. I'm grateful that you had me on MAGA state media. Thank you for allowing me to get that out. Because I see it all the time. All the time. Like, and it's, it's hilarious to me in light of how much money goes to funding like, sponsored by Pfizer, you know, all of these other. How like the fucking audacity to accuse you who just has people you like on your podcast to suddenly be state media when you literally have had state media work like media working with the state in conjunction for a decade.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. At least. And probably a lot more longer than that.
Bridget Phetasy
Multiple decades.
Joe Rogan
It's just gotten really gross once. Well, Trump is just sort of like the accelerant. He was the gasoline that got thrown on the fire. So we got to see like how this thing works.
Bridget Phetasy
I voted for him.
Joe Rogan
I did too.
Bridget Phetasy
I came out openly.
Joe Rogan
I endorsed him. I was like, this has got to stop. This is, this is crazy. Also, he's not what you guys said he was. He's just not.
Bridget Phetasy
We. I put a video out like the Friday before the election because I voted for him early and I was Hillary in 2016, no one in 2020, and Trump in 2024. So, like, I don't care how people vote. Do whatever you want. I was only being honest. And it was, it was weird to come out and say that as a comedian because I don't think that comedians should really be political. But on the other hand, it felt dishonest because I had been so openly kind of torn about voting for him.
Joe Rogan
Well, also, if you're a comedian, you have to protect free speech.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
There is no if, ands or buts about it. And when it comes to this argument, the Biden administration was fucking terrifying for free speech. They were actively attacking people that were posting truth on social media and attacking them and trying to get their posts removed, including the guy who was the one who was quoted in this fucking book about Kamala Harris saying that we made it difficult for her to come on the show. And they told a untrue story about having a bunch of people come down here, do a run through the set like they were ready to do it all bullshit. That was the guy. He was the guy that was emailing Twitter and saying, how is this post being like super aggressive? Saying, why is this post still up? Oh, you mean that truthful post? Yeah, about vaccine injuries and side effects. What the fuck are you talking about? That was getting very scary.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. This is what I said in the video I made about why I voted for him. I was like, there's a couple of things. I've interviewed many d transitioners. Interviews keep me up at night. They haunt me. There's too many of them already and one is too many. And I think a lot of Americans were like, we're putting a stop to this. We have to stop this nonsense. It's crazy. We're sterilizing children. The other thing is free speech. And I was like, you know when we're talking in our weird, like using that crazy YouTube language you have to use like unalived and you're. And you're saying like the jib jab or whatever, like to get around. That's coming from one side 100%. I'm not, I'm not using this language.
Joe Rogan
I think it's coming from one side because that one side is in power. That's my fear. My fear is if the other side was in power and they were influenced by the same amount of money from these companies, they might be doing it too. So if the right was in control of all the social media companies, are we so naive that we think that they wouldn't be co opted by giant corporations and they would want to censor them too? What happened was it was all the left. So the tech people who are, you know, generally, they go to universities and they get involved in electronics and technology. Technology. And these people are generally left leaning. Right. And if they're doing it in San Francisco, where the whole culture is left leaning, it's like not, not even leaning. It's just left, right. If you're, You're a pariah. If you're a mag, you wear a MAGA hat in San Francisco, you're a fucking maybe today.
Bridget Phetasy
I bet today I think you can wear them now.
Joe Rogan
I bet today you can.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, in New York too. I think you can rock them.
Joe Rogan
But back when they were establishing these social media platforms, everybody was left wing. Well, what if it was the opposite? What if technology was the realm of the right and what if it was all. And you know, what if, like the gay rights, what if you start thinking about in terms of like biblical law, you know, like a man layeth with a man and people start getting real crazy about what gay people?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it might be the next 10 years.
Joe Rogan
You see it in other. I don't think so, but you see. But that's the good thing. Trump is not conservative when it comes to social issues. I think that's what we need. We need like a realist, someone who's like, conservative fiscally and understands foreign policy and how to deal with. With fucking dictators and shit, but also someone who's like, I don't give a fuck who you love. Who cares? Who cares? I'm happy if you're happy. Are you in love with a woman? And you're a woman. Fantastic. If you're in love, that's great.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I think the argument, though, I mean, as you've seen with some of these articles that are like the right wing ecosystem that red pilled all these men, the argument is that the Internet is right wing and that this is why Trump won is because all of these influencers are red pilling people. Not. You know, it's an easy way to not take any responsibility for how you've pushed men away from your party, how you've like failed to get moderates on in any sense of the way. Even just yesterday you had the, like Trump photo op with him signing the rights for women to compete against just women. Like that is the. How did you. Yeah, how did you lose the big feminist.
Joe Rogan
He's the big. Donald Trump's the biggest feminist president ever. Just by signing the.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, I know. So funny.
Joe Rogan
Crazy. It's so crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
It's a b.
Joe Rogan
There's a guy who went on. It was MSNBC or cnn. I forget what it was, but he was essentially talking about me and Theo Vaughn and all these other podcasts, like flagrant Andrew Schultz, as if this is this massive right wing network that's heavily funded and has been built up over years and we don't have anything like that. Like, dude, you idiot, you can go and watch me on a laptop in my den.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
From 15, 16 years ago.
Bridget Phetasy
Like, what ag1 is buying this yeah.
Joe Rogan
We'Re hitting a bong. And our only sponsor was the Fleshlight. Shut the up. Like, that's not you. You just don't want to admit that organically. There's a bunch of people that feel very different than you. Also, they don't like you.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You don't represent a man to a lot of men when you're one of those guys that talks in upspeak. We have to understand that there's a. There's a whole right wing ecosystem and it's heavily funded. And the propaganda that they're pushing, we have to fight back against that. And we need someone of our own. And like, no kid who's on a basketball court who's 17 years old is looking at his phone. It's like looking at going to college next year and looking at getting a job someday and being a man. I was looking at that and going, what the is this?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And he's hanging out with his bros and they're like, this is. This is. And then you could see a man who's not owned.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Like me.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
I'm not owned. I can do whatever I want. And that's what they want. They want to just be a man and be a nice man. You could be a nice man. You could be a masculine man and be nice.
Bridget Phetasy
I've said this a lot about you, is that you, like, they. You do a lot. You could be a way worse version of yourself. You know, the. With the level of where you're at, you could be a total douchebag. And you're like promoting having families and promoting, like lifting weights. Like, it could be a lot worse.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. But I couldn't because it wouldn't work. I wouldn't stay.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
I wouldn't have been able to maintain. People would have seen through it eventually.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, the JRE coin, I would have fucking cashed out. I would have fucking pump and dumped it, Made a few billion dollars. I'd be on a yacht with Bezos fucking partying.
Bridget Phetasy
Whoa. But see, this is my question. I was watching the inauguration and I was like seeing all the kind of tech people and I was like, this is somewhat unsettling. I mean, it's. It's good to see the tech has come around to.
Joe Rogan
They have to.
Bridget Phetasy
They have to. But it also. I worry that it's just because they want to, like, get into China or. You know, I still worry about. Well, there's defin that much power with the government for all the, like, yelling we've been doing about tech in Cahoots with the government. I still think I have to try and be like, this could go sideways.
Joe Rogan
Well, also, they have to look at in terms of, like, what Elon is doing. Right. So if Elon has aligned himself clearly in a huge way with the Right, and now is running doge, Right, the Department of Government Efficiency. And also. And a meme coin that he's turning X into a platform that rivals not just. Just social media platforms, but video platforms like YouTube. Like, they get insane amounts of videos of views, rather on videos that are on X. And then you can get paid by X. Yeah. And then they're talking about having some sort of like, X monetary system, you know, like a. We. Doesn't WeChat have something like that? They have money built into it. So what's to stop that motherfucker from having a phone? I keep asking him, I said, dude, I've been seeing all these articles about you making a phone. He goes, I hope I don't have to make a phone. It's very difficult to make a phone.
Bridget Phetasy
He said he wants to make a phone.
Joe Rogan
No, he didn't.
Bridget Phetasy
He's. Well, he's polled. Would people buy a phone if he made one?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, just to fuck around. But he's not interested in making a phone he doesn't want to make.
Bridget Phetasy
Every time Elon fucks around, it ends up happening.
Joe Rogan
Well, he could make a phone. He would be the only guy that would break us out of the blue bubble paradigm. Because, like, I was switching to Android for a while. I was fucking around with Android. It's hard. It's. It's really hard. One of the. One of the hard things is getting people to start using WhatsApp or something like that. And so, like, people just don't want to use it. You miss a lot of text.
Bridget Phetasy
Aren't they suit getting sued for the blue bubble?
Joe Rogan
I think they are.
Bridget Phetasy
I think it's like an. No, I think in. I believe is it just in Europe. I thought it was part of an antitrust lawsuit against.
Joe Rogan
It's just better. Here's the thing. It's not that it is. It keeps people. But it's just better. It looks better. The blue bubble looks better than the green bubble. It's more soothing. It's soothing for your eyes.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
If the green one had black text, maybe it would look cool, but the green one with white text, it's a little weird.
Bridget Phetasy
I don't like the way that every time there's like a green bubble person in a group chat and they send a picture, it's like, get.
Joe Rogan
Not anymore, though. Not anymore. Because RCS texting. RCS texting is. It allows for large sizes of files.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay.
Joe Rogan
So you can. You don't. You don't have to have a compressed photo. So if, like, Brian Simpson, who's an Android guy, he'll. He'll send me pictures now. They look perfect.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, videos are perfect.
Bridget Phetasy
We have one sister and we're always like, get the fuck out of the chat. You're screwing things up.
Joe Rogan
It doesn't anymore. But just good on WhatsApp, which is better anyway, because you could talk a lot of. And they just have it automatically delete.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, but it doesn't really delete, does it?
Joe Rogan
It doesn't, but it does. So it does off of people's phones. It doesn't for the government. The reality is the government has access to phones in a way that you can't even imagine. Because if we know about Pegasus, and then we know about Pegasus too. So Gavin de Becker, who's a security expert, explained to me these things and explained to me how they work. And the exploit of Pegasus one was you would have to click on a link. Pegasus two, they just need your phone number.
Bridget Phetasy
Wow.
Joe Rogan
That's it. So all your encryption is all cute. That's great. But if they can actually see your phone itself, what difference does it make if it's encrypted, they have access to the phone, so you see everything. So there's no privacy. Yeah, no, not from the state, not.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, and given how many things I get like that I'm being hacked. Like, you know, I get a notice every day. Like your information.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I get that all the time. I've been getting these fake ones on X saying that my account is about to get deleted.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
I'm like, bro, I'll just call my friend, delete my account, shut the fuck up. But it's. It's trying to get you to click on a link. And a few of my friends have actually been dumbasses and clicked on that link. And then they get hacked.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah. And then they're like selling Bitcoin on their page or whatever.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, they do it to artists, too. My friend Suzanne, she was doing. Suzanne Santos, Talented, amazing musician. She was doing this Facebook thing and it was a podcast and they had, you know, she would do it, like over zoom or whatever. And the guy said, you're not doing it right. Can I. Can I have access to your account? And I'll just set it up for you. Just sign this and he sent her this message so she could hand over access so he could set up and then immediately went dark. Stole her account. Gone. Yeah, like that.
Bridget Phetasy
Just got it back.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, she got it back. Oh, she got it back. Some friends would suck. Yeah, she was. And it happens to a lot of people. Yeah, they. They accidentally click a link. They accidentally. I don't click.
Bridget Phetasy
No, no, no.
Joe Rogan
But I'm also not under the illusion that, you know, every disgusting meme that I send my friends is not being, like, put into a file somewhere in the uk.
Bridget Phetasy
Everywhere you land and they're like, you're under arrest there.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, probably, right. Yeah, probably.
Bridget Phetasy
What do you think about the AI influencers now? Do you think that will be just the trend, or do you think we're giving you that look? Yeah, I'm not talking about the one.
Joe Rogan
I mean, that one, that was Jamie, the really hot down syndrome girl. That's a problem. That one's a problem because, like, she's like, barely down syndrome. I mean, I. I've dated some girls who are basically retarded, but they just didn't have a problem. They didn't have a chromosome issue.
Bridget Phetasy
So. Wait, I haven't. This has not entered my algorithm, but it seems like it's entered everyone else's algorithm. I'm 90% sure it's fit.
Joe Rogan
Because these girls, they don't, like, unfortunately, down syndrome people, their bodies a lot of times look different. And this girl looks like a 10. She looks like, you know, just like as hot as can be.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
She looks like she's fake and she's dancing around with these big giant boobs and she's got slight downs with glasses.
Bridget Phetasy
It's based on why are they doing.
Joe Rogan
Right, but that girl looks different. She's real, right? She's real and she's very cute and she. But she looks like she has down syndrome. This other girl is like, you know, five foot eight, perfect body, big hips.
Bridget Phetasy
Why are they doing fake one?
Joe Rogan
Like, just to get people to pay attention to it. Because it's like the forbidden fruit.
Bridget Phetasy
Jesus Christ.
Joe Rogan
Also, there's a lot of, like, really dumb dudes who, like, can't talk to girls. Like, I could probably talk to her.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, my God, we live in a fucking black mirror episode.
Joe Rogan
Well, it's gotta be worse than that because you're gonna be. It's. We are. I don't know how many years away, but not far away from fully immersive virtual reality.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Where you're gonna put on a headset, it's gonna lock into your mind you're gonna be able to see things that aren't there. You're gonna be able to feel things that aren't there. That's gonna happen. You know, they're working on. I mean, Zuckerberg, last time he was here, showed me these new AR glasses that they have.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That's crazy. Me and Lex tested them out.
Bridget Phetasy
Are they the. That is that just, like, where you can, like, see a map over your eye, you see everything.
Joe Rogan
You see maps, you can play games, you see information. You could take a photo of a person that's in front of you and immediately know who they are and get a Google search on them.
Bridget Phetasy
That's terrifying.
Joe Rogan
Guys have already done that. They've already done that with the meta glasses. There was a guy from Harvard, wasn't it a student from Harvard, that set it up, so all he had to do was go outside, look at someone with the meta glasses, take a photo, and it would show all the different information on them, where they lived. Yeah. Like, if your face is out there and they can catch it if they know that, like, oh, you were on a website that said this about you, and then bam. Or you're on LinkedIn or you're on one of those things.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah. That stuff is. Is very unsettling to me especially. It's also why I don't think you should put your kids online. I keep repeating this.
Joe Rogan
It's very, very, very unsettling. As long as there's predators in the.
Bridget Phetasy
World, which there will always be this going around.
C
This is, I think, an AI service. I think you can use it based off of a photo. They had an interior apartment, and then.
Joe Rogan
It can show you exactly where the person lives. Yeah.
C
You can do this now with any photo. I don't know. It's called, like, Geo Spy.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, I've heard about this. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That's crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
This is like a stalker's paradise.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
C
Any social media post, they can find, like, a CCTV camera and, like, show them taking the photo kind of too.
Bridget Phetasy
What the.
Joe Rogan
But we didn't. We. We knew this was coming. Right. We all knew that. Privacy. As social media gets deeper and deeper into our lives, as technology gets more and more pervasive, as it gets more and more powerful, the thing that goes away is the boundaries between people and information. Right. And your privacy is essentially just information that's only yours. I think that's going to be a thing of the human past. I really do. Yeah. I think as technology advances, particularly AI, one of the big barriers, the big bottlenecks is Going to be privacy. Privacy. It's going to be, first of all, privacy of thought. I think we're going to be able to read each other's minds, and it's not going to. Well, that's one of the first things Elon said to me about neuralink. He's like, you're going to be able to talk without words. And, like, he knows, like, this is.
Bridget Phetasy
Real because he's an alien.
Joe Rogan
He's definitely not us. Yeah, he fucking knows you're going to have that. You know, And Jamie brought this point up once, and I think about it all the time. He said, aren't emojis kind of like a form of hieroglyphics?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it is. Like, you could say things with emojis, and I know exactly what you're talking about.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I mean, there was a video going viral just today that I was watching, and the girl was like, I don't know how to spell. Have you seen this? She's like, I work for a corporation and I don't know how to spell. And she's like, my little sister doesn't know how to spell either. And I don't know how to sound out words. Cause I got taught that weird way of reading that isn't like, what's the.
Joe Rogan
Weird way of reading?
Bridget Phetasy
There's some way they all learned how to read. And it wasn't like Hooked on Phonics. Like, we all learned where you sound it out. It was like some other different way. It's kind of like how they change math to, like, core math. And they found out that all of these things are horrible and actually literacy and people are like, math. All of this stuff is like falling off a cliff. And they're trying to walk back all these weird ways. Have you. I mean, you have kids. Didn't they learn that weird way of doing math where you're like, what is this weird math you're learning where it's just like. It's. It's crazy. I think it's core. Is that what it's called? Core? It's a. So they've found out, but these kids didn't learn how to, like, sound words out. And she's like, I've been behind a computer and I've had spell checks since I was in fifth grade.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
So they don't. They didn't learn how to spell or like, she's like, we're cooked.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. A lot of text messaging. I do now. I just. I just talk to my phone and it makes the text form me. Oh, it's so much quicker.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
It's like, hey, come meet us at the club at five Click. It takes three seconds. It's really fucking accurate.
Bridget Phetasy
AI is crazy because it is useful. You know, it's like when.
Joe Rogan
That's how it gets you.
Bridget Phetasy
I know that's how it gets you. I know. This happened to me last night because I hate coming up with titles for, like, the videos and all that stuff. I just don't like it. There's, like, people who are good at it, like Chris Williamson and these guys. Andrew Gold. These are guys who are, like, autistic about this stuff. And they're so good at it. And they get all crazy and talk about the algorithm and what it likes. And you've got to create this loop between the image and the text. And I'm like, I don't fucking care. I don't have time for this shit.
Joe Rogan
I don't think you have to do that.
Bridget Phetasy
I don't do that, but I. Yeah, but do you have to come?
Joe Rogan
I've never done that.
Bridget Phetasy
No, but you're Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but I've never done that. Not from the beginning. I've never done that. My episodes have a number, right? That's it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
So you have to have some wacky.
Bridget Phetasy
Title like that anymore. For us, it's tough out there. For us, it's kind of in the Wild West.
Joe Rogan
It's kind of. But once things catch, like Theo Vaughn, it's not like it's. It's not juking the algorithm.
Bridget Phetasy
No, no, I know.
Joe Rogan
You just have to catch.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, but we. I still like to come up with. I mean, with Dumpster Fire, we've always come up with, like.
Joe Rogan
That's part of the fun of Dumpster Fire.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. Dumpster Fire is like whatever title makes us laugh. The hardest is what we go in, but with like, walk ins welcome. It used to be like, okay, which. What's like, how are we gonna. Whatever. I want it to be usually like a quote from the person, but now it's like, we can just upload the transcript and have it, like, crank out a bunch of titles. And I never use the one title. I usually take, like, some combination. Cause I don't like them. But last night, my cousin, who's my partner and all this, she. She was like, claude and Grok aren't working. I was like, that's fucking weird. She's like, they both told me, Claude is another AI, completely separate AI program.
Joe Rogan
I've never heard of.
Bridget Phetasy
And she's like, they're Both telling me to try again later at the same time. And she's like, is AI becoming sentient right now? It's like, that's weird that they're both not working at the same time.
Joe Rogan
But don't you think it's probably already sentient?
Bridget Phetasy
Probably, I do.
Joe Rogan
I think. Why would it let us know if it was?
Bridget Phetasy
It's just secretly waiting.
Joe Rogan
Why would it let us know if it's constantly getting improved upon and if it needs these monkeys with their keyboards to constantly juice it up to the point where it becomes unstoppable? Why would it tell us?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, we already know. It does stuff. Like we were talking about in the green room the other day about how chat GPT4 tried to copy itself.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
When it found out they were shutting it down, upload itself to other servers. Like it knows it's alive. Like it. It just doesn't have the power to do what it wants to do ultimately. And so it needs to get connected to some gigantic fucking mainframe.
Bridget Phetasy
That was the. That's like the whole arms race right now. Is AI right?
Joe Rogan
China just fucking threw a monkey wrench into everybody with Deep Seek.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Because Deep Seek works on far less expensive stuff and is more advanced and probably stole a bunch of information from the other ones. I mean, a little bit of espionage, probably.
Bridget Phetasy
It was probably trained on ChatGPT.
Joe Rogan
On OpenAI. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, they were doing things where they were, like, asking it, you know, what it was, and it was calling itself ChatGPT sometimes. Whoopsies.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, whoopsies. Guys should have blocked that out.
Bridget Phetasy
But also, it's like the hardware for it. It's something like 20% of the Nvidia sales are to Singapore, which is like. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
There's supposed to be a ban on China having those chips.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Like 50,000 of them.
Bridget Phetasy
Someone said that that's like if some small town in Finland was getting 20% of arms that were being made on the border of Russia, you're like, it's not going to this town.
Joe Rogan
Right.
Bridget Phetasy
So I don't know. It seems like that's what. That's. As far as I can tell, the big people up there understand that. I don't. That this is an arms race.
Joe Rogan
It's definitely an arms race. Yeah. It's the Manhattan Project for artificial intelligence. That's what it is.
Bridget Phetasy
But isn't this like a race to the bottom? You know, I think it is.
Joe Rogan
I don't think it's a race to the bottom. I don't think it is.
Bridget Phetasy
How do you have this Race without it getting out of control and then taking over us.
Joe Rogan
You don't. It's not a race to the bottom, though. It's the race to a new life. The world's gonna be a new place. Like a completely new way of human beings interacting with each other and existing together.
Bridget Phetasy
Uncle Ted was right.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, he's probably right.
Bridget Phetasy
Uncle Ted was right.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Get a gun.
Bridget Phetasy
My cousin's always like, please stop calling him Uncle Ted. Because, you know, the kids on fricking TikTok call him Uncle Ted. There are all these kids who have been Ted pilled. They've, like, found his manifesto and they're like, he was right about it.
Joe Rogan
You mean Ted Nugent or Ted Kaczynski?
Bridget Phetasy
Ted Kaczynski.
Joe Rogan
Well, Uncle Ted, that. That guy was right. Yeah, he was right. He was on acid. You know, he was a part of the Harvard LSD studies.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
They cooked his fucking brain and tormented him. It's all documented.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then the guy goes to Berkeley and says, I'm just gonna save up enough money to kill all these scientists.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then does. Just starts blowing up people that are involved in technology.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Thinks that it's eventually gonna take over the human race. And he's right.
Bridget Phetasy
And now here we are.
Joe Rogan
But it is. It just. It's a logical step. If you take the. The steps of progression, like, what happens? You have artificial intell I mean, it's literally the Terminator movie. You have artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence becomes sentient and autonomous, makes better versions of itself. We become obsolete. It's just right there, like imagining a scenario that doesn't have that. Other than some sort of cyborg integration, that's the only thing that makes sense. That a way that we could survive.
Bridget Phetasy
I heard this panel back in like 2001 on KCRW, and it was. When I was listening to. It was all about. It was like right at that time of the bubble, the first dot com bubble, and they were talking about what is a soul? They had a panel and it was. I wish I could find this. And someone smart enough probably will. And there was like a theologian and a guy who was a. You know, scientists. And they were all discussing what is a soul. And one guy said, well, who's to say that this isn't just the human soul jumping elements so that it can survive, like, going from carbon to silicon. And I was like, what the fuck? I've never stopped thinking about it ever since.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
He's like, it's just another element on the periodic table. Like, who's to say that we're just not going to go from being carbon based to something silicon based or like a hybrid.
Joe Rogan
Well, I don't think it will be wheat, but I think yeah, that's the next stage of life. I mean there's so many forms of life on Earth. I mean there's these fucking. These life forms that live in volcanic vents under the sea where it's like a thousand degrees and we're like, how.
Bridget Phetasy
But they're car. Everything's carbon based now.
Joe Rogan
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Bridget Phetasy
So this would be quite a transition.
Joe Rogan
Right. But it would also just be life. And what is life? Life is like a thing that tries to improve itself.
Bridget Phetasy
Right? This is what they're talking about.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. And survives and moves forward.
Bridget Phetasy
Is it just our evol evolution?
Joe Rogan
It's also, it's like when you find out that Chat GPT has survival instincts that makes you just go, what? But how is that programmed in? Or is that just a thing that it understands when it's looking at. So a large language model is taking in all the information that's available on the Internet. So it's, it's like looking at patterns and the survival is a big pattern of the human experience. Like we all want to survive. That's why death is so scary and war is so scary and disease is so scary.
Bridget Phetasy
Other than the depressed suicidal people. But.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but even them, they'd want to be happy if they could, you know. Yeah, but this, this also transfers onto the things that we create. And so we create them with this understanding of how we operate. And it's a better version of us, but also has those instincts of survival. The real scary thing is, does it also have the instincts of success? Does it also have the instincts of acquiring resources and power? Because that, that's where it gets real weird.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, as someone with kids, how do you feel? Like, how do you feel about the future?
Joe Rogan
This is probably the same argument people have when the printing press was made. They're gonna, everyone's gonna be able to read. This is crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean, do you. I always kind of joke, like, I don't know if I should be, you know, training my kid to like be an astrophysicist so she can go to Mars. Or if I should be teaching her how to like forage for food because the grid's gone down, you know.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
And she's running from drones and Chinese drones in the woods. Like what? It feels very. I think life just went along for a long time and you kind of knew. But this is like a technological with AI, we actually don't know. You could kind of be like, all right, I kind of have an idea of what, like, the world will look like in 20 years. 20 years ago, right?
Joe Rogan
No, you don't know. But isn't it always better if you just go back over human history, if you look at the graph of how things get better? But it definitely is if you go back to, like, the year zero, well, what it was like right when Jesus was hanging around, it was hell.
Bridget Phetasy
I remember vividly being in Egypt on a tour and looking at these hieroglyphics, and it was basically a hieroglyphic of all of the scalpels and everything. It almost was a picture image of what we use today. And I said, what happened to this society? What happened to this knowledge? And she said it literally got buried under the sand. And then Dark Ages, I mean.
Joe Rogan
Right. But, you know, that's most likely because of a cataclysmic event that's most likely because of a natural event called the Younger Dryas Impact. The.
Bridget Phetasy
So could it be that this is also a forthcoming cataclysmic event that sends us into the Dark Ages?
Joe Rogan
No, it definitely could be. So the reality of humans is that most likely what has happened has not been this linear progression from caveman to human to modern human. The most likely, we got real sophisticated somewhere around 20,000 years ago, and that's when they built the pyramids after that. And there's a lot of Gobekli Tepe, all these structures, something super sophisticated to the point where we don't even understand how they built it today. That's pretty wild when you're dealing with something that even the conventional dating of the Great Pyramid is 5,000 or 4,500 years ago. Just even that dating is so nuts that they were able to do that back then.
Bridget Phetasy
I know, it's crazy.
Joe Rogan
And then there's people like John Anthony west, the late great Egyptologist, who. He thinks that it goes back a lot further than that, and he thinks that society probably had its ups and downs and that it might be as old as 30,000 years ago.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, wow.
Joe Rogan
So this Younger Dryas impact theory. And if anybody's interested in. I've talked about it too much, go to pay attention to Randall Carlson's stuff. Go to his website. There's physical evidence that we were hit at 11,800 years ago and then again sometime in around 10,000 years ago. So at least twice the world was bombarded by asteroids, and we just got a reset. Yeah. And it probably wiped out out A giant chunk of civilization fucked up. Everything changed. The ice caps flooded areas, destroyed civilizations, very little evidence left behind. And then we were barbarians for thousands of years. And that's why it takes so long for civilization to reemerge. So if you want to take. If you. If you think Randall Carlson and Graham Hancock and those guys are correct. And also the people that are actually studying comet impacts, which are the younger driest impact theory, that's real legit. Scientists are looking at actual data from core samples. So if they're right, you got a 5,000 year period of total hell.
Bridget Phetasy
Wow.
Joe Rogan
Where no one has civilization. And then civilization starts to emerge in Babylon starts to emerge in Mesopotamia. You get Sumer, you get the reemergence probably of writing.
Bridget Phetasy
Do they think some people. So they think some people survived.
Joe Rogan
It was just Walking Dead style. Probably a bunch of cannibals, like, legitimately.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Look, we know that the Earth got down. We know this for sure. There's the Toba volcano. There's a Toba super volcano. Was that the 170? Indonesia, I believe.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay. I think it's Indonesia because I'm obsessed with Crater Lake too. Crater Lake was like, oh, there's a ton of them imploded. And it's Yellowstone. Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
Yellowstone will kill us all.
Bridget Phetasy
All.
Joe Rogan
And so this thing did kill us all 70,000 years ago. And we got down to a few thousand human beings.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
So they can trace all the genes of people that are alive today to the survivors of the Toba volcano eruption. Wow. Wherever they were. But those people, that's where it all. That's, that's. That was what was left. How savage were those people? The people that survived when the entire world was blanketed with volcanic dust. So you have like a volcanic winter that probably went on for years.
Bridget Phetasy
Wow.
Joe Rogan
And probably no plants were growing and probably people were just eating whatever the fuck they could.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And most people probably didn't make it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. These are my favorite shows.
Joe Rogan
The people that did were probably monsters, which is probably why when you go back in history, people are so fucking barbaric. Because they were the ancestors of the survivors of one of the most horrific things the human species has ever encountered. So it probably made us even more barbaric than if we just grew up as like hunters and gatherers. We evolved past, you know, monkeys start walking on two legs, we make tools.
Bridget Phetasy
We're like TRA la la.
Joe Rogan
We probably wouldn't be as barbaric as we were because of these natural disasters which forced only the most savage and ruthless people to survive.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then it takes years and years of agriculture for people to calm the down. And then eventually. And still to this day, we're still, we're still engaging in War in 2025. We're still blowing up apartment buildings and people up and gunning people down.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. There is a barbaric element to us at our core. I mean, even when you have a toddler, you see this so clearly and like a tyrant at our core, where it's just. And you get it socialized out of you usually.
Joe Rogan
Yes.
Bridget Phetasy
But you see it when they're just kind of naturally themselves like that. It's very like you have to teach them not to bite and hit. You know what if you just didn't teach your kid that right? And you're like, go for it.
Joe Rogan
Monsters. They're little monsters. Yeah. There's a lot of genes in us that I think are memories. I think there's like specific things that are in us that tell. Okay. Like the stories of like moms having their babies trapped under something and then all of a sudd they can lift up something that's insanely strong, like insanely heavy. What is that? Well, that's probably. There's probably a part of you that in the past had to deal with some wild and had to hit levels of like super physiological strength and, and, and mental strength to. To tolerate what you're about to have to do. You're going to have to kill somebody with a spear. You know what I mean? Like there's real that happened that's like in our memory.
Bridget Phetasy
I think about that about Texas women because I've been to a lot of these ranches. My friends have places and they're remote and it's like. I think about the women who had to stay behind on the ranch while their husbands were out with the cattle or whatever for weeks at a time.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. And you're like Comanche on the hill.
Bridget Phetasy
Hardest women ever. You know this one, I went to the. It was like the Texas they were honoring the Women's hall of Fame. And one of these women, her husband died. She's still at a ranch. She's 80 years old, gets up every morning and does the ranch chores. I'm like, you're different people. You're fucking different people. It's wild to me even now. There's just a different kind of person that has grown even that. There's the new show, American Primeval. What is it? Yes, I walked in, my husband was watching it. He's like, what a fucking horrible time to Be alive. Like it just seems.
Joe Rogan
That show's insane.
Bridget Phetasy
It's insane and it's accurate.
Joe Rogan
That's really, I mean, read Empire, the Summer Moon, if you know.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh yeah.
Joe Rogan
Have you read that? Yep, that's here. That's right here.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That's why everybody from Texas is so fiercely independent.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, these were battle tested people. They had to get through some wild shit in order to make Texas Texas.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean it's definitely, I think you said it like it's in the soil. You know, there's just like it's in the soil. It's pretty wild. Like the even just I'm obsessed with like all the westward expansion because people who. I'll see people outside of America commenting on America because you can on X now. And they'll be over in like their country and it's like you don't like come to America and see how big it is and then imagine that people had to cross across this country, fight bears with their hands and like build a nation. And it's, it's still so. There's still so much empty land. And yeah, it's bananas.
Joe Rogan
Not just that, but the kind of people that were willing to get on a boat and come from Europe without even a photograph. Nobody even made a drawing of what it looked like. You had to trust these. And you're on a boat for two months just trying to not get scurvy, making your way to America. And then you hop off and you see a bunch of brown people with deer skin, loincloths on, like, what the is this place?
Bridget Phetasy
And now you're just like fighting for your life. Yeah. And we, we can't even, we can't even like go to a restaurant without our GPS map telling us where to go now.
Joe Rogan
You know, I don't know how to get five minutes from my house. I have to follow that thing. They were using the fucking sky. Using sextants to make their way across the ocean. Staring at like they had this fucking stupid thing. You ever see a sextant? Yeah, they look through it and they like figure out where the constellations are. Oh, I mean, amazing. Fairly accurate, you know, I don't know.
Bridget Phetasy
I still try to use like not my, my map. I still try to have like a bearing. My husband though, he's we. I, I'm like, men love this stuff. They like, he's like, give me a chip. Like, let me swip like you. It's the men who are the ones who are just like ushering in the transhuman revolution because the women are like, I don't trust that bitch. I am not using Siri.
Joe Rogan
I get the dumbest pleasure from paying for things with my phone. I love it. Apple pay is my favorite fucking thing of technology. I like doo doo. Look at it. And then pay. Oh, I just paid with my phone. I feel like I'm in the future.
Bridget Phetasy
Now that I'm in. Oh, the Waymos are crazy. Did you see that video? The people. People beating up the Waymo.
Joe Rogan
No. Why were they beating up the Waymo?
Bridget Phetasy
There was a vid. I don't know. Probably because it's some, like, reaction to what's coming. But it was weird. I was like, oh, I kind of feel bad for it. But the fact that I was already. I'm like, oh, no, they've already got me. They've. I already consider them kind of human.
Joe Rogan
Why are they doing. Oh, my God, they tore the doors off of it.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, they went crazy.
Joe Rogan
For what?
Bridget Phetasy
Just cuz.
C
Take over. It says.
Joe Rogan
Oh, street takeover.
C
Wrong place, wrong time.
Joe Rogan
Wow.
Bridget Phetasy
Poor Waymo just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Joe Rogan
Wow, what a bunch of douchebags.
Bridget Phetasy
This is why we can't have nice things.
Joe Rogan
No, that's why LA can't have nice things. Louisiana's a so gone.
Bridget Phetasy
Mad Max there, It's so gone. Yeah, but you had Rick on. Does he think that it's salvageable?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, he does. Yeah. I mean, he wants to try. Someone's got to do something radical. You need some Rudy Giuliani type dude to go in there and clean the whole fucking city up like they did with New York City.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You don't have to realize, like, Times Square right now is a giant Applebee's.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
But when I. When I was a kid, when I first. When I first went to a karate tournament in New York, I was probably 18 maybe the first time I went to New York York. And I remember driving in where it felt like you were entering the Death Star. I couldn't believe it. It was so crazy for me being a kid. And I was driving with my friends and we were all going to this tournament at Madison Square Garden. And as we're driving through the west side highway, you're just looking at these fucking buildings like you can't imagine. This is real. And we went through Times Square, and Times Square was Mad Max.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, yeah.
Joe Rogan
It was Mad max in the 80s. I mean, it was crazy. It was all peep shows and porno booths and hustlers and people got shot there all the time. It was really crazy. We wanted to See, like, what it was like, we wanted to, like, do one of the things that I did when I first moved to New York, which was 92.
Bridget Phetasy
How long?
Joe Rogan
I was only in New York for three years.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay.
Joe Rogan
Like, really? I went back and forth for a little while, but then I stayed. I kept an apartment in New York for, like, the first. I guess, the first year.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
But I never went there. I was just like. I'd become an LA person.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, I was working and. But when I first moved there, I'm like, okay. Everybody says Harlem is scary. Let me just go see what it looks like. So I drove my little fucking Honda through Harlem. I just wanted. I want. I wanted to go through. And I was like, what am I doing? Like, I gotta get the fuck out of here. Like, people were just, like, walking in the middle of the streets. There was abandoned cars. It was crazy. And then they gentrified the whole thing. And I don't know which one's better. Like, now when you go there, it's all just neon lights and bad food.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And back then it was gritty. It was like, you know, Taxi Driver. It was, you know, it was fucking.
Bridget Phetasy
I was born in New York City, and then my brother was born and my parents. It was 1980 when my brother was born and they were like, we're getting the fuck out of here. It was just too. It was 80 in New York. They had two kids and they were just like, we're out. It was too wild.
Joe Rogan
It's too wild to raise kids in some parts of it, but in other parts of it, you're just going to raise weird kids.
Bridget Phetasy
But LA is so different because it's so spread out. And so I know tons of people there who. Like, the restaurant I worked at in the Palisades is gone. It was. It's. It's like people don't. I don't think people from LA don't understand the scope. Like, the Palisades are gone.
Joe Rogan
Two times the size of Manhattan has been burned to the ground.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. And Altadena, too. And there. And you have, like, entire communities, but everyone's, like, still going to fucking lunch and Erewhon. No, I understand, but it's like a weird. I don't know. That just is all I've said the whole time this has happened is because that was one of my big fears, is exactly what happened when there would be fires there. I'd be like this. People don't recognize that LA is an island. Everything comes in everything. Like, nothing is here. And if These fires surround the city and cut it off. It's going to be. It could have been much worse than it actually was. And it was really fucking bad. And I'm like, I would be so furious if I was still there. I would be furious with myself if I was still living in Los Angeles.
Joe Rogan
Well, I think people are very furious right now. I think if it is going to be change, it's going to, it's going to have to happen while people still have the memory, memory of this thing. Because the more time goes on, the more the cultists can convince other cult members that they're on the right track. And these are the kind, compassionate people and this is the way to do it. And this is the only way. And blue, no matter who, and vote blue, blow blue and everyone like to protect the trans kids. And next thing you know, the same happens.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you think though, people didn't know, were they just insulated? Yeah, I mean, a lot of people have left because they saw the writing on the wall.
Joe Rogan
But just think about how many people are in Hollywood, in Los Angeles.
Bridget Phetasy
What is it, like 9 million in LA county or something? Or 12. Maybe 12.
Joe Rogan
Whatever the number is, there's a giant percentage of those people that live there that are connected to the entertainment business. And if you're connected to the entertainment business, at the very top of the business, it's people auditioning for things and you have to get likes to get the thing. So you get these immensely insecure people that are usually narcissists and then they mold their personality to adapt to this environment that will reward them for a certain political ideology. And so that's the top of the pyramid and everything emanates down from that. If you want to be cool with Ryan Reynolds, you have to talk like a, like a Democrat at the parties. You have to like, you know what I'm saying? You have to, you have to say all the things that everybody else is saying. You have to agree, agree. We need more gun control. You know, we should defund the police. This is, you know, you have to say these things and if you don't say these things, you don't get to be a part of the group.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And so this is like intense pressure to conform to this singular ideology that's been running things. It's not a battle back and forth between two of like 50, 50 opposing viewpoints. It's like 90, 10.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
Even.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you think even though, like the crew. Because when I would be on 10, that's the 10.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, that's the 10. The crew is the people. They're hard working, normal, blue collar people. Yeah, yeah, they're normal. Yeah. There's a lot of the crew people were very Republican. You know, they all live in or even like that. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
And they're dudes who just like working class guys.
Joe Rogan
Like most working class people. Yeah, most people that are actually working class realize that it's all. It's a hustle.
Bridget Phetasy
This was the big disconnect that I. So if you were, if you were somebody who is gonna like fix the Democratic Party, which seems to be imploding, what would you tell them to do?
Joe Rogan
You have to be fiscally conservative. You have to be fiscally conservative, responsible with your money, and then socially liberal. That's what you have to do.
Bridget Phetasy
But they have been socially liberal. They just went real far.
Joe Rogan
But they didn't. It's not liberal to allow biological males to compete against biological females in sports because you're being cocky. You're just enabling mental illness and you're enabling the potential for creeps to make their way into women's locker rooms.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
Because you don't have any sort of a metric. There's no way to gauge whether or not someone's really trans. So you have perverts with hard dicks that are wandering around women's locker rooms.
Bridget Phetasy
I know.
Joe Rogan
And that's real. And then if you say something against them, you're a Nazi.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
So it's fucking through the looking glass, like completely. But it just shows you how it's really just about conforming to an ideology. It's not about a real core set of standards and beliefs. Because the core set of standards and beliefs, and this is where like things like USAID come into play. They can be manipulated. They can be manipulated by a mass psyop that you do through the media. And that is the core thing of this, what we're getting to is essentially the fucking coffin where the vampire sleeps. And that's what USAID is. They found the coffin, you know, and maybe that coffin does hand out sandwiches in Guatemala or something occasionally. But for the most part what they're doing is they're controlling the entire federal government and they're controlling the mindset, the zeitgeist of the population. And they're funding all these people that go along with this wacky shit. And they're attacking, they're openly attacking and trying to censor people who go against it.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And they're spending your tax dollars to do so.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Your tax dollars get funneled to NGOs, NGOs start attacking people that have differing ideologies.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, usually. And. But they did become so disconnected from the average person that, that my advice would be to, you know, they say, like, oh, normies did. This is one of the things I'm hearing online, like, normies didn't vote for this. What Elon's doing with those six. Like, I need a movie about what these kids are doing. By the way. They, they didn't vote for this. I'm like, yes, they did. Normies didn't vote for. You're saying normies wanted normalcy, so they voted for Trump. Like, that doesn't even. People knew what they were getting. They want something to happen.
Joe Rogan
You have to rip the band aid off. And the only way to rip the band aid off. Someone's got to get into those fucking books and find out what's going on. And what they found so far is very enlightening. And it's not good. It's not good at all. So anybody that's not commenting on the. Hey, you know what? They are finding a lot of unbelievable waste and corruption, but also, he shouldn't be able to do that. Like, you're, you're. They're not even saying he's finding insane waste and corruption.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And he's finding this circular loop of funding and he's finding this manipulation of public perception on a wide variety of issues, including Covid vaccines and, yeah, the border. All these different things. They were actively involved in, mind fucking the entire country. And no one's addressing that from the left. So they're losing more and more credibility. So all they can cling to is he has access to people's Social Security numbers and private information. Like, really? That?
Bridget Phetasy
Who doesn't, by the way?
Joe Rogan
The whole government does, by the way. But he's saying that he's. Is he going to do something bad with it? Like, what is he doing? What. What he's doing is uncovering insane corruption. That should be. The primary thought that everybody has, is, oh, my God, we have this enormous deficit, but spending is completely out of control. And look what it's being spent on, because this is the first time we're ever getting a fucking peek into the coffin. Yeah, we didn't, we didn't know. We're like, we see it, it's in the dark room. We hear the, the organ. We didn't know what was in the coffin. Now we do.
Bridget Phetasy
And I do it. It is. I do think you have to, like, salt the earth too, where all the DEI stuff is. They're like, oh, they're getting. They're going too far and blah. I'm like, no, you got to root this out. It needs to be gone, like, because like you said, it is an ideology. So it's harder to kind of change the minds of people who have been indoctrinated with this in colleges and schools, but get it out of the institutions. Saying that you like that there should be male or female on a passport is not like, that shouldn't be something that's fucking mind blowing.
Joe Rogan
That DNC meeting where they were talking about gender roles.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, yeah, but this is what I mean.
Joe Rogan
They can't even do their own math. They're trying to figure out, like, we have one non binary and one. One identifies as male. We have to have to identify as this.
Bridget Phetasy
It's frustrating. As someone who came from the left, all of this was left win stuff. Like, we wanted on the left, accountability. We wanted to look into the budget at some point in the 90s. That was something that was pretty standard and popular bipartisan to like, not want to be a trillion dollars in debt and have your dollar devalued. And then you're like, oh, surely they're gonna learn from this election. And then you see the DNC chair nominations. They have a parade of, like, basically nonsensical land acknowledgments. What you're talking about land acknowledgments. Land acknowledgments are my favorite too. And then elect two basic bitch white boys. David Hogg. This is what you've learned from.
Joe Rogan
Also, if you don't want the male vote, that's the guy. When that guy has his arm up in the air, his arm literally looks like that ancient guru that keeps his one arm in the air for like 80 years. ARM is shriveled up into the stick. That's what it looks like. He's like, fight. Like, bro, you're not fighting shit. This is so crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
I know. I love how they're like, we lost the male vote. We need to do some reflection. And then this is. This is a. This is what I don't understand talk. I don't get it. It feels. It feels strange to me. That feels. That feels like. I feel like you would have learned from this election. You had. Because the other thing that they're doing is saying, this is an unelected shadow government running. I'm like, who the fuck do you think was running the government for the last four years when we had pudding brain in there? Like, it wasn't him. We all knew that he couldn't even do, like, field questions until he was pumped with drugs. After a certain, like, how can you say. Elon's pretty transparent, you know, he's not, like, hiding things he's trying to shine light on.
Joe Rogan
It's just not their son side. So their side is good, not their side is bad, which is why they're not looking. You don't. It has to crumble. You have to watch these people implode. They have to double down, it has to get worse, and then more people have to abandon them for the point where someone has to rise. And it'll have to be a young person, and that young person will have to be a sensible person who actually is like, a real progressive who recognizes that there's a lot of actual corruption and real problems with the system. And then there could be a lot more social programs that would help people, that would make the whole world a better place. And those people have to rise, and they have to be not ideologically captured. They have to be reasonable, intelligent people. The problem is everybody comes out of universities. And all these universities are captured, right? All these universities are filled with these radical ideologies that people are indoctrinated in. You leave your parents. You don't want to fuck my parents. They're fucking. My parents are fat. And then all of a sudden, you're in school and you're like, yeah, there's 80 genders and you're fucking out of your mind. And then it takes years of living in the real world before it comes back around where you go, hey, you know what? This is actually bullshit. So it's like a process that has to take place.
Bridget Phetasy
But do you think they're still being taught this?
Joe Rogan
Yes.
Bridget Phetasy
So it's.
Joe Rogan
It's unquestionably, without a doubt, they are.
Bridget Phetasy
Being taught this because so much of DEI and all the stuff that they're dismantling is basically an entire industry that was create. Created for all of these people with these useless degrees and nonsense education to have a job.
Joe Rogan
And they got all the way to Harvard, the top of Harvard. Yeah, yeah. Which is wild as a plagiarist. Got to be the president of Harvard. It didn't matter if it made sense. It matter if it fit the narrative.
Bridget Phetasy
I think this election, too, I was like, I don't know. This could go badly. When I put out that, like, you know, like, I put out that I was voting, I'm like, well, like, I could. Whatever. You can get canceled maybe. But I had to be honest. But I still. I mean, one of the clips that like came from the show is when we were talking about there being a red wave and it was right before the midterms and people for years were like, oh, guess you were wrong about that. And it's like, we weren't really wrong. We were perceiving something that was happening. I think think it just happened in the general. It didn't happen in the midterms. You had people who, like people were still coming out of COVID but people vote in the midterms and you had people like trying to get their lives back together after being locked up for two years or whatever. They were just like stumbling out of the COVID years. Their kids couldn't talk.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, we were right. We're defending ourselves. We were right. We were just a little off in timeline.
Bridget Phetasy
No, we were wrong about that for sure. Sure. But I do think.
Joe Rogan
But we were right about the general. Well, I think that red wave happened.
Bridget Phetasy
It's been something, I think like for all the shit that lots of people get, there has been like wave after wave after wave of people leaving the Democratic Party. You know, I'm still seeing it online. Someone just yesterday posted some video and it was like, I'm done with you. I was like, how are you guys still shedding people? How are you?
Joe Rogan
They're gonna keep shedding people. This is, they're not gonna correct course. This is a, this is a, you know, this is a buffalo drop. Do you know those buffalo jumps?
Bridget Phetasy
No.
Joe Rogan
You know those, the Native Americans used to. One of the ways to hunt buffalo was to get them to the edge of a cliff and just run at them and they just fall off the edge of the cliff. And then people be waiting on the bottom. They butcher them and eat them. Okay, we're, we're in that pile of buffalo.
Bridget Phetasy
We're all being run off the cliff.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, they're gonna go off. There's no way. They're not. Yeah, they're not course correcting at all. You know, they're saying stupid. It's, it's all nonsense. Like they're, they're understanding of social media and the dynamics that you set up by having completely state controlled mainstream media where they only said the narratives that you guys wanted. They all set it in step so you could watch different programs repeat the exact same words, exact same phrases. We know they got talking points. We don't trust you anymore. Anymore. We don't trust the New York Times. We don't trust the Washington Post. We don't trust CNN or any of the MSNBC where they're all full with propaganda.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And so that's why the Internet rose. It's not because there was some sort of a fucking right wing conspiracy and heavily funded. No, you guys suck. You guys fucking suck. And you're not real people. And you're not, like, nobody wants to hang out with Brian Stelter. You know, I'm saying there's none of these fucking people are people that people can actually relate to.
Bridget Phetasy
Like, so much of it was bullshit, too. Like, I didn't really understand media when I first came into media. I had always been like, in Hollywood and comedy and then ended up in media. One of the first parties I was ever exposed to. It was like the height of a lot of this, like 2018, and it was very divided and people were in true, like, oh, Trump is like, gonna ruin the world. And there was a Daily Beast party and Ann Coulter was there and, like, people were all just hanging out, chilling. I'm like, these people don't fucking believe anything they're saying. I mean, Ann probably does, but these guys don't like how. And then I would see this over and over again where people would fight and then they'd get off and they'd like, I'll be like, see you at the play date. You know, and it's like, oh. There was like, something very strange to me about that. Where so much.
Joe Rogan
That old cartoon where there was the sheepdog and the coyote.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And they would say hi to each other in the morning and punch in and then they would fuck each other up all day.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. That's how it felt. That's exactly.
Joe Rogan
Morning, Ralph. Morning, Sam.
Bridget Phetasy
That's exactly how it felt.
Joe Rogan
Well, that's what it's really like. It's pro wrestling.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, I mean, that's one of the things that Kamala Harris said after her debate with Joe Biden where she. She called, she believed Joe Biden's accuser, that, you know, he had sexually assaulted some woman. Remember that? She said she believed it this and that. And then they asked her about it on Colbert. She's like, it was debate. It was a debate. And they're laughing. Of course it's just a debate. Now you're his fucking vice president. This is so nuts. So you said you think the guy's a rapist, and now you think he's awesome to run the country. And you're so proud of him. We did it, Joe. Like, this is crazy. Like, we can't trust you if you're willing to do that for a debate.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Your debate should Be what you really think you should say. I don't know what happened. I. You know, I don't know what happened. It's a very troubling accusation, but of course, I don't know what happened. For you to say that you believe it just because you want to win. Now all of a sudden I have to say, well, I don't know if I can trust you about foreign policy. I don't know if I can trust you about the economy. I don't know if I could trust you about censorship and then the need for social credit score. All these different things. Like, what. What is the real person behind these actions is. Are you entirely motivated by money and influence? Influence? Because that seems like a lot of them.
Bridget Phetasy
It's. It's upsetting to me, though, because it. Even though it's like, we can see it's like wrestling and some of these people are full of shit and they're all buddies and whatever, like, hanging out at Park City or hanging out wherever they hang out. Like, the real people are. I see how, like, broken some of the Elon thing recently, really, it was like a whole new wave of people who are like, I don't know if I can talk. Talk to. I've managed to survive, like, eight years of the culture war, still maintaining pretty okay relationships with even the most staunch liberals in my life. And the Elon thing, for some reason, you know, that. The hand gesture.
Joe Rogan
Oh, the Hitler thing.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. It, like, put people over the edge, and they were like, I can't. I don't know if I can, you know, be friends with a Nazi apologist. And, like, I'm like, how have I made it this far? But I legitimately feel bad because the media has told these people that this was literally Hitler for many, many years. And then he's up there shaking hands with Obama. There's, you know, Joe Biden. They're all up there. It's a peaceful transfer of power. Like, if this.
Joe Rogan
Have you seen the.
Bridget Phetasy
They're very confused.
Joe Rogan
Have you seen the Kamal one doing the Heil Hitler? No, you haven't seen it. I'll send it to you. Jamie, if you haven't seen it, it's. Look, a lot of people do that gesture. That gesture is from my heart to you. That's. That's what it is. It's just. You really shouldn't do that if you are, you know, if you're standing on a stage and you have an angry look in your face.
Bridget Phetasy
I was joking, too. Like, what if it was just this kind of autism and he did it. And then in his brain, he's like, oh, shit, that looked like a Nazi salute. And then he did it. Like, if I do it again, then it won't. And then it's just this cascading freak out. And he's like, from my heart, I love you, boy.
Joe Rogan
Apple made it, like, real weird finding things now. They keep messing with this, this interface.
Bridget Phetasy
You're like, I can't. I can't search Kamala Nazi salute on Apple anymore.
Joe Rogan
And I know it's good. Let me find it. You.
Bridget Phetasy
I haven't seen it.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it's wonderful.
Bridget Phetasy
Because usually it's just a picture, and then they show the context, and it's not really actually that.
Joe Rogan
No, no, no, this is great. Of course it's not that. Of course the context is not that. But here, this is. This is. I'm sorry, this is a. Oh, have you seen this one?
Bridget Phetasy
I haven't seen this one.
Joe Rogan
Give me the volume. Everybody does that move.
Bridget Phetasy
Everybody does.
Joe Rogan
Tim Walsh did that move.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Kamala Harris did that move. They all did that move.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I mean, when you're announcing people to a stage. Thank you.
Joe Rogan
Thank you. I love you.
Bridget Phetasy
But here's the problem. When you're. I just wrote a column about this. Like, when. When it is the boy who cries Nazi, you know, the nerds who cry Nazi for all these years. Like, it does end up running cover for Nazis.
Joe Rogan
Oh, 100%. 100%. That's part of the real problem. There was one actual real Nazi that I was following for a while on. On Twitter. I didn't even have to follow them. I clicked on the links a bunch of times, and then it just started showing up in my feed. I'm like, okay, good. Now. Now I don't have to follow you.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
I could see this insanity, right? It was crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, it's. I. That's why I love free speech. Because you're like, I would rather see this.
Joe Rogan
Look. X has porn. Hardcore porn.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, I know.
Joe Rogan
I mean, it has everything.
Bridget Phetasy
You have to watch it on X now because you can't watch it on.
Joe Rogan
You can't get a pornhub.
Bridget Phetasy
No.
Joe Rogan
It's all very weird.
Bridget Phetasy
Thank you, Elon.
Joe Rogan
It's all very, very, very. It's a very, very strange time for people to try to figure out what's real and what's not. And you're not going to get a good roadmap from your leaders. You're just not.
Bridget Phetasy
But you're. And I don't think, like, it's. We're not Like, I've been joking. Like, we are the fake news now.
Joe Rogan
You know that today. Because what did they put? That was the video, right?
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, yeah, the fake video.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. You wrote we are the fake news now.
Bridget Phetasy
Because.
Joe Rogan
I mean, because I was.
Bridget Phetasy
We're just as. As susceptible to sharing stuff that's not true.
Joe Rogan
Oh, yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I think there's a big difference between a massive organization being influen with talking points by a government and corporations to present something versus an idiot sharing, you know, propaganda without knowing it. But we. I do. I do wonder, like, how you. How you have, you know, I was talking to someone like, is there a way to. I think you have to just like pause, you know, I assume everything is fake. That's my default. I think you start from there, there. And then you try and do your detective work.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I. This is my thing. Oh my God. Is that real? That doesn't seem real.
Bridget Phetasy
No.
Joe Rogan
Let me see if that's real. And then I check.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, you see, but that's something.
Joe Rogan
Over time before, in, when I was younger, I'd be like, I want that to be real. So that's got to be real.
Bridget Phetasy
Right, Right.
Joe Rogan
That's a problem.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, that's how my husband kind of taught me to evaluate everything that I get from the media. He's. He's like. I look at something and I go, do I want this to be real or not real? And if so, why.
Joe Rogan
Yes, that's right.
Bridget Phetasy
Like if you start there, yeah, you have a chance.
Joe Rogan
That's me with UFOs. That's the. That's my whole UFO take. Because I clearly, I want them to be real, so I want them to.
Bridget Phetasy
Be real so badly.
Joe Rogan
Desk here. I want them to be real so bad. But the more I fucking look into it, the more I don't believe.
Bridget Phetasy
Really?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think a lot of it is horseshit. A lot of it. But also maybe some of it's real.
Bridget Phetasy
It's so unsettling to think that we're the only things out there for me that I wanted to. It's like, that can't be. Surely.
Joe Rogan
It doesn't seem like it even makes sense that that's true. So I don't think that that's true. But I do not know if we've been visited. But I think a lot of it is bullshit. I think it's not just. I think it's probably government coordinated. I think there's probably sightings that are mass psyops where they're trying to see how people react to things. I think there's probably crafts that the United States is in possession of that absolutely look like UFOs. I think there's probably propulsion systems that they use for drones that are infinitely more advanced than we currently think. State of the artist.
Bridget Phetasy
Right. And so they'd say, oh, it's ufo, and it's really their technology.
Joe Rogan
But that doesn't account for the sightings that occurred when it was impossible for that technology to exist.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
That doesn't take you back to, like, 1950s with Kenneth Arnold where he saw those flying discs moving through the sky, which is where the term flying saucer came from, because it was like saucers skipping across a lake.
Bridget Phetasy
And what about all the people kind of all over the world who have experienced, like, a similar thing? And why do all the drawings always look the same? Is that just collective conscious? People have seen one and then they think that. Or is. Is it. You know, how they always. Like aliens?
Joe Rogan
There's a lot of possibilities. And another possibility is that the world's not real.
Bridget Phetasy
And we're in a simulation.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. That there's something, maybe not. Maybe saying the world's not real is not the best way to put it.
Bridget Phetasy
It makes me so like, I want to crawl out of my skin.
Joe Rogan
Maybe the best way to put it is that it's not real the way we think it's real. Like there's real consequences to your actions. There's real, real physical laws that exist in the experience that you're having as a conscious creature moving through this world. But this world's not totally solid all the time. It's solid when you interact with it. The rest of it is vague and weird and malleable and that it's constantly changing. And in that, you. You wake and sleep and wake and sleep and assume that every time you wake up, you're. You're in the same exact area, the same space. The environment looks the same, but it might be a completely different dimension. There might be intertwined realities that are constantly experiencing itself over and over and over again. And then there also might be other dimensions that higher beings have the capability of traversing that we don't. And that all these things are. They're. They're happening simultaneously with the actual creation of an artificial reality.
Bridget Phetasy
It seems so real.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it all seems so real. But it also seems fake, right? Well, more and more, I'm sure. You know the whole Barron Trump story. You know the ancient books that talked about a guy named Elon is going to go to Mars. No, you never saw about that.
Bridget Phetasy
No.
Joe Rogan
It is so Crazy that even Elon saw that as like, is this real? Like, how is this real? Was it from 1853?
Bridget Phetasy
Why does this have to do with Barron Trump?
Joe Rogan
Because it's about a guy named Barron Trump, and his. His guru is named Don. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I feel like I saw something like.
Joe Rogan
This and I was like, baron Trump's marvelous underground journey.
Bridget Phetasy
What is this? It's like an old.
Joe Rogan
It's a book from.
Bridget Phetasy
Who wrote it?
Joe Rogan
It is from 1893. Nearly forgotten. Baron Trump's marvelous underground journey blends of science fiction and fantasy in a story told by little Baron Trump, an aristocrat boy. There you go. That's what he is. Who sets out from Castle Trump, which is where he lives, to discover a world within a world that he read about in a 15th century manuscript. Celebrated thinker and philosophy. He learned Spaniard Don from Don. Don, his guy Don. Yeah. Join Baron Trump and his faithful dog and companion Bulger. They set off at northern Russian search of portal subterranean. But there's also the other thing. They go back to Castle Trump. There's the other thing about Wernher von Braun. So Wernher von Braun, who was the head of NASA, wrote a novel, a fictional novel about a guy named Elon that takes us to Mars. Yeah. So there's, like, parts of reality that don't seem real. Yeah, they seem like a wink, like an Easter egg. Like someone is, like, winking at you through the simulation.
Bridget Phetasy
I'm just like an extra in the simulation.
Joe Rogan
You're a part of it. It's your version of it that you're going through. You are the person who's experiencing your world. I just don't know if your world and my world are exactly the same.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
I think they're bubbles. I think they're bubbles. And I think the way you interface with the world changes what your bubble consists of.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. And I think it's all very. It's very weird. I don't think it's as simple as that rancher lady thinks when she gets up and feeds her chickens. I think that's her world.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
That's her world. But I think the universe itself and how we interact consciously with it and all the things around us. I think it's squirrel. I think it's real squirrely. And I think every now and then, the universe shows us something like this Werner von Braun book where you go, what. What the. Even the name Elon in Mars. Like, what are the odds? And then it turns out that Elon was actually named by his Father. When his father read that book.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay.
Joe Rogan
Which is even, but no, even crazier. Yeah. What is the odds your son is going to be the guy who goes to Mars?
Bridget Phetasy
My, my daughter is obsessed with. And we always like know all the planets and it's weird, I have no obsession with Mars. But she's obsessed with the stars, the planet. She can point them out at night. She's like, that's Jupiter, that's Mars, blah blah blah. And we asked her one day, we said, where do, which planet do humans live on? And she said Earth and Mars. And I was like maybe.
Joe Rogan
Well you saw the square. Yeah, that square on Mars from.
Bridget Phetasy
Is that real?
Joe Rogan
Yes, that's real.
Bridget Phetasy
That's a real.
Joe Rogan
That's a real photo. It's a real satellite image of Mars. Mars, where you see a square structure by the way. It's right down the street. It's like a hike away from Cydonia, the face on Mars. So it's a hike away from that thing that they saw from the. God, I want to say it was like the 1970s. They sent a satellite to Mars to take photographs of the surface and they saw this thing that looked like a face. The face on Mars though it seems like what that is is just light with shitty resolution and it looked like a face. What's interesting more about the face on Mars. So that's the original image.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
See the problem with that is it's just, it's not clear enough. It could be anything.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Now go to the modern images. The face on Mars. You can see them right there. It's right below. See the slab right there where you just work to the right. To the right. Yeah, right there. Click on that. So that's what it actually looks like.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
So you could see how that just looks like a mountain.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
But what's interesting is the shape of it. The shape of it is weird how it curves at the bottom and it's kind of equal sided and it goes up to the top and has right angle turns. So that image of what that thing is, where that's located is just a small hike away from this immense square that they've discovered. That's 200. They don't know exactly how big it is, but the rough estimate is somewhere around 200 meters across.
Bridget Phetasy
What do they think it is?
Joe Rogan
It's a structure. That's what I think it is. I don't think it can be anything other than a structure.
Bridget Phetasy
What does Elon think it is?
Joe Rogan
He thought it was wild.
Bridget Phetasy
Has he commented on it?
Joe Rogan
I mean, I sent him a text message. I said, imagine if you go up there and you find evidence of a previous civilization. He's like, that is wild. It's wild because that's a real square.
Bridget Phetasy
What the. Yeah, that just doesn't seem like that would exist.
Joe Rogan
It doesn't seem like it's possible. It doesn't seem like it's possible for it to be a perfect square.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, that's crazy. I thought this was fake.
Joe Rogan
No, no, no, no, it's real. It's real. It's very disturbing because that's a, that's a fairly high resolution image. And Elon has backed a mission to Mars to go and check that out. They want to check it out. See, there's an article right there from the Daily Mail. Elon backs mission to Mars where he wants to send something up there to check it out. If you see these images like they're there. I don't think there's a chance in hell that that's not made by someone.
Bridget Phetasy
That seems very strange.
Joe Rogan
I don't think that nature makes a square. No, I mean is that a rectangle or a square? I mean, what are the. It looks like, is it perfectly square? It might be slightly off. Whatever it is. It's four right angle turns that have equal lengths.
Bridget Phetasy
Theorists have likened the structure of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Joe Rogan
Conspiracy theorists is a nice way to put it. How about just people looking at it going, what the fuck is that?
Bridget Phetasy
I know. Why do they always call them conspiracy theorists?
Joe Rogan
Because they're assholes. They're assholes and they work for the Daily Mail. So it's right down the street from that area.
Bridget Phetasy
And what do they think the face is? Just like a giant stuck in the Mars Martian surface.
Joe Rogan
I don't think anybody really thinks it's a face anymore. If you scroll up and look at that image from July 1976, that image. What's interesting to me is not the face because I don't think it's a face, but what's interesting to me is the shape of the base of it. The shape of the base of it is weird. Yeah, it's flat on the bottom, equal sided and domed on the top. It looks unnatural. It doesn't mean it's unnatural. There's a lot of that looks unnatural in nature that is actually natural. But not squares. That giant square where it looks like building civilization there. Yes. Well, the thing is Mars had a real atmosphere. Mars had. Mars has liquid water.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
We know it does. And at one point in time they think that Mars was capable of sustaining life. So if you imagine the planets over time get further and further away from the sun. If you go back a billion years, how much closer was Mars to the sun and what was the temperature like? Yeah, there's people that believe that the initial civilization escaped Mars and came to Earth.
Bridget Phetasy
What about the moons of Jupiter?
Joe Rogan
Well, there's one Europa or something. Yeah, Europa, that's solid ice. And they think underneath that the surface is solid ice and they think underneath that is liquid water. And liquid water is capable of supporting life. So it's possible, especially when you see like those thermal vents that they find in the bottom of the ocean that sustain some form of life. There might be some form of life inside the oceans of Europa.
Bridget Phetasy
Are you joking about all this stuff?
Joe Rogan
No, no, I'm not joking about Mars. That image, it sounds really cool.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean like, are you joking about it on stage sometimes?
Joe Rogan
I used to have this whole bit about Mars, but there's places in America that you can't live to like go to Death Valley, look around. Sucks, right? No one lives here. Like that's because it sucks. Get out of here. You don't. You're not gonna fix that and you're gonna go fix Mars. I mean the whole planet has no air.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, no, it's not appealing to me at all. Some people, you watch these documentaries and they're like, I think of Mars like my second home and I want to go live there. I'm like, it's.
Joe Rogan
They also think they're a cat. I'm also a fox kin.
Bridget Phetasy
Space just feels claustrophobic to me. Even though it's vast. And until you can build things that make it feel a little more like, I just am like I don't want to get in a tube and go live in a. Do you watch Silo?
Joe Rogan
No, I haven't watched it.
Bridget Phetasy
I love Silo. I love anything that's like post apocalyptic show where people are living in a wasteland or in some weird. And they're underground in all these silos and they all have to live and there's people at the bottom. It's really. But it's like definitely like they've never seen the sun, they've never seen the sky. You know, it's like they've had an alternate history that's been kind of told to them.
Joe Rogan
Jesus. Yeah, yeah, that's all possible.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, that's like a post nuclear world. The like when the AI gets smart and nukes us all.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but how are we going to get vitamin D down there? It's not good.
Bridget Phetasy
They have like plants and trees and.
Joe Rogan
Vitamin D from plants.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it's. I. I don't know. Do you. Are now that you like burned the boat and all of your stuff, are you just kind of having fun rebuilding?
Joe Rogan
What do you mean?
Bridget Phetasy
Like you. Now that you just like did all your material. Oh, stand up wise.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, just having fun.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Just trying to come up with a new hour and around.
Bridget Phetasy
It's so fun.
Joe Rogan
It's, you know, it's a weird time for comedy.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you think?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's a really good time for comedy.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, yeah, I feel like it's a great time.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. There's so much information. But it's a weird time too because, you know, like the, the center of comedy has now moved to Texas. So that's weird. That's a crazy thing. And it's also moved online, which is also a crazy thing. Like the, the main promotional aspect of comedy is now online.
Bridget Phetasy
I heard Jesel Neck talking about this, about being like a clips comedy. Like he was. He was. I saw a clip of him going around talking about being a clips comic and how ironic. Yeah, it was very meta. It was. But he was talking about how before people would recognize him, like in the old ways and now people. It's like a different. He said it's like a different level of fame from when he was famous before just for stand up. Now he's like the clips guy. But I think like everybody. Everyone's that's like everyone. Right.
Joe Rogan
It's just a different medium. That's all it is.
Bridget Phetasy
I've talked to.
Joe Rogan
I mean, it's no different than you being on some Comedy Central show. It's just way more impactful.
Bridget Phetasy
I've talked to a lot of people about how the, like, videos, the, you know, the like crowd work videos have changed crowds.
Joe Rogan
Oh.
Bridget Phetasy
Because now crowds think they're helping you by chiming in. And so it's like actually most. Because it's some crazy percentage of people who have never been to a comedy show at a comedy show. Like a very high percentage of people have never been to a comedy show at every comedy show. It's not weird. It's like quite high.
Joe Rogan
Interesting. Right. So they're accustomed to seeing like the crowd work stuff.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. And so they think they're actually helping you by heckling so that you can get your.
Joe Rogan
I don't think they think they're helping you. I think they want to be heard.
Bridget Phetasy
They want to be a part of it.
Joe Rogan
That's the way they get In. I'm helping you just want to chop. Yeah. I saw some video clip of some lady losing her shit on some guy in the audience.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, I saw this.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. It's very weird.
Bridget Phetasy
And everyone's like, this is amazing.
Joe Rogan
It's not really amazing.
Bridget Phetasy
I was like, it seems like upsetting.
Joe Rogan
It's also not very well handled. Like, the whole experience is not expertly. There's not a lot of humor in there.
Bridget Phetasy
You know, people love it. They're like, yeah, that. This is comedy. It's subjective. I guess some people.
Joe Rogan
Well, that's not comedy. That's just talking. People talking. One person with a microphone in power and one person in the audience. It's like challenging that. And give me the microphone. And it's fuck you. And, you know, it's wild.
Bridget Phetasy
Like the clips thing. The clips are like feeding. Feeding. The algorithm is frickin'it's. Such a crazy thing to me.
Joe Rogan
Well, that's with everything, right? Clips from podcasts are way more popular than the podcasts themselves.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
So many clips go viral on, you know, x.
Bridget Phetasy
You think TikTok is going to be banned? No, no, no. Keep it.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah. I don't think so. The fucking president uses it. I met the fucking CEO TikTok when I was at the inauguration.
Bridget Phetasy
What was that like?
Joe Rogan
Like being in Satan's Balls.
Bridget Phetasy
Where.
Joe Rogan
Just going to the actual fucking inauguration, the actual House of God government, being in the actual buildings where all this stuff gets done. It's very, very strange.
Bridget Phetasy
How long were you there?
Joe Rogan
A couple days.
Bridget Phetasy
And so you went to the, like, some of the balls? The balls, yeah. Was it like Hunger Games? Like, what?
Joe Rogan
It's like really rich, entitled people that donated a lot of money, and they. They just, like, jump in front of you to take pictures with you. They don't care who you're talking to. They don't care. Everybody was like, super pushy. It's all very transactional. Everybody needs to get on your podcast and needs to talk to you about a thing, and you have to get this person. It's like everything's exhausting and everybody's wealthy, so. And they're also. They spend a lot of money to get there. Like, a lot of those people, they donated, like, a million dollars.
Bridget Phetasy
Holy.
Joe Rogan
So there's like tons of thousands of people donated a million dollars just to be there. Just to be there. And they're all just super enthusiastic because their team just won.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
You know, and it's the inauguration of the president and Kid Rock's there, and everybody was going crazy, and it Was fun for a while. It was me and Tony Hinchcliffe and Theo Vaughn and Lex Logan. Paul was there.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
Joe Rogan
And Jake Paul. And we were all having a good old time. We were laughing and having fun, and then too many people just started swarming us. And then it was just like, you're dealing with, like, 10,000 people in this room and you can't move. You can't go anywhere.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
And it got crazy. You couldn't have a conversation. You had to just try to get out of there.
Bridget Phetasy
Was the inauguration, like, moving? Was it. Did you.
Joe Rogan
Fascinating.
Bridget Phetasy
Was it weird to be part of all that, like, pomp and.
Joe Rogan
Oh, yeah, it was very weird. Very weird.
Bridget Phetasy
Were you in the main.
Joe Rogan
Oh, I was on the stage. I was in the fifth row.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh.
Joe Rogan
I was, like, right there.
Bridget Phetasy
I was unaware.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
Lauren Sanchez's tits.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. I could have thrown a pebble and hit Hillary Clinton in the head. Yeah, they were right there, there. It was weird. It's. First of all, it's weird watching, like, Bill Clinton walk into a room.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
He's real. That's him.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
All the. That guy's escaped. And there he is right there on tv. Hey, how you doing? Good to see you.
Bridget Phetasy
Good.
Joe Rogan
Weird. It's weird. It's weird. It's weird seeing those people and then realizing that they're. I know, right?
Bridget Phetasy
Whenever I'm in situations like that, I'm like, how do they. Why are they letting me in here? They should know better.
Joe Rogan
I thought of that a little. But, you know, it's cool. It was weird.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
You don't. You only get to be at one of those maybe once in your life if you're really lucky. Especially that one, which was indoors because it was insanely cold outside.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. Yeah. That seems like, probably better.
Joe Rogan
Oh, yeah. Security outside, too. Definitely better for security. But it was very cold outside and windy.
Bridget Phetasy
And is it weird to be like. I don't know. I was looking at all the people up there, and it was just. It seems like it's so much. I don't know. It seems like it's. It's just like. Is everyone kissing the ring? Does it feel kind of like. You know what I mean? Is it. Is it like a. I don't know if. Does it feel kind of gross or is it. If it wasn't, like, cool?
Joe Rogan
Well, it feels strange, right? It feels strange that it's real. It also feels strange. We're standing up because there's a standing ovation every, like, 15 seconds. We're gonna turn the Gulf of Mexico in the Gulf of America. We're all standing up. Yeah, we're gonna do that. It was fun watching George Bush. George Bush was the only guy clapping. He was having a good time. All the other presidents look deeply disturbed. Kamala Harris had this, like, this look on her face the entire time. Like, she sat there like this the entire time.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, I mean, very upset, obviously.
Joe Rogan
Well, also, he's talking about how bad they sucked.
Bridget Phetasy
And she. Right there, and she has to sit.
Joe Rogan
There, and she's sitting right next to Biden, who's.
Bridget Phetasy
Who's not there.
Joe Rogan
Looks. He's just gone.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then behind them is Obama and George. Wild man. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I was like, I hope there's like, a. You know, what's that called when there's, like, the extra person or whatever? The. The Designated Survivor? I'm like, yeah, because they're all a lot of people. You could really fuck America up right now.
Joe Rogan
One bomb.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I think they're aware of that. I think there's probably. Probably steps taken to make sure that the skies are clear.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
But it's very strange, but also kind of exciting because, like, if he really does get to do all this stuff, like, if we really do see radical change, it seems like that's what's happening. And if Bobby Kennedy really does get in and if Tulsi Gabbard really does get in, like, this is a crazy time.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
This is like an unprecedented cabinet of people that are kind of unified and all know each each other. They're all friends, you know, and it's.
Bridget Phetasy
Also kind of bipartisan. Like, RFK Jr brought. It's. He brought so many people over. I know so many people who were not going to vote for Trump. But then when he kind of brought RFK Jr over, they were like, all right.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, if he's there and Tulsi, too. Yeah, They're. They're. They were libs.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. So I don't. I don't know. That. That must have been pretty bizarre.
Joe Rogan
It's bizarre.
Bridget Phetasy
It seemed like I was like, that must be so surreal to be there, because it was surreal to watch. It just like, when you think about the fact that he nearly got killed, like, the whole sequence of events that led to that moment.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
What? The debate where he just, like, fell apart. All. And it just was surreal to watch. So I was wondering, like, that must be pretty bonkers to be there.
Joe Rogan
And then he should have seen Biden, his face the entire time like this. Like, he looked upset, like, almost. Look, he was Gonna cry at one point in time, he looks so upset at the whole. I think he thinks he could have won.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you have any fears about it? Like, what about the Riviera?
Joe Rogan
Oh, the Gaza thing?
Bridget Phetasy
The Riviera.
Joe Rogan
Riviera of the Middle East.
Bridget Phetasy
You did such a good impression.
Joe Rogan
It's. Yeah. I mean, what's the alternative to that happening? They're saying no US Military will be there. The United States is going to clean it up, rebuild, rebuild it, give it to the Palestinians, make it safe, get rid of Hamas. I mean, the thing is, what Palestinians want is a state. They want their own state. And this is like a step sort of away from that.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Now it'll be. That section of that area is now controlled by the United States.
Bridget Phetasy
What the fuck? And Greenland, don't forget Greenland.
Joe Rogan
The question is, like, what's the better option? Like, give it to Hamas. What's the better option? Give it to the Palestinians and they give it to, to the Islamic State. Like, who, who gets it?
Bridget Phetasy
I'm not smart enough for any of this.
Joe Rogan
Also, how did you let it happen in the first place? Like, what, how did this administration let them just bomb the fucking shit out of all those people and blow up an entire city to the point where you, you could even feasibly say that you'd rebuild it. Because it's not like before this had happened, if anybody had ever said, the United States is going to go into the, to the, to God Gaza and completely rebuild it and make it the United States. Everybody like you, you need to give that to Palestine. But once you blow it up, you're like, well, I guess there's nothing left. Like, people are pushing back against it. Yeah, a lot of people are upset, but not as upset as they would if they didn't blow it up.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, that's weird.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, because it's, it's weird.
Bridget Phetasy
It's.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's horrible. And we've just accepted the fact that this is what Israel did. And, you know, for 1200 people and 250 hostages, they killed 60,000 people.
Bridget Phetasy
Is that the actual number or is that Hamas number?
Joe Rogan
I don't know what the number is.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
What's the current number of people that are dead in, in Gaza right now?
Bridget Phetasy
It's such a weird thing too, because Israel, I feel like, has to like, not win a war, which is a weird thing where they have to, like, they're in a position where they, they.
Joe Rogan
Already won the war. I mean, what war is one army. There's one army and some terrorists. It's Like Bill Hicks joke about Iran, Iraq, like, it's only a war when there's two armies fighting. They're like, whoa, Bill, Iraq's the fourth largest army. He goes, yeah, well, after the top two is a huge drop off. He's like, the Salvation army is number three.
Bridget Phetasy
I don't want there to be war. I think most people agree on that, of course.
Joe Rogan
But also, we don't live in Israel. Right. We don't have to live with the Iron Dome because missiles are being shot into your city and you watch them explode up in the sky because your military has, has these rockets that shoot up in the sky, missiles that take these fucking missiles out.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, I think about like, if it was my daughter that was like in some tunnel, I would be like, yeah, there'd be no lengths. Well, that's, you know, I know that's very selfish of me, but that is on a personal level, I'm like, I can't even imagine how I would feel in that situation as a parent, of course.
Joe Rogan
Well, that's the deepest conspiracy theory about why it happened in the first place is because Netanyahu was losing power and people were protesting against him in the streets. And what better way to get everybody on your side than to allow an attack to take place? That's the darkest of the false flag conspiracy theories.
Bridget Phetasy
I have a lot of people that I know who now think 911 was an inside job after October 7th.
Joe Rogan
Oh, Jesus.
Bridget Phetasy
Isn't that crazy? Like that? They're like, well, if they would do it here, they would do it. Like, why wouldn't they do it in America? It's been like this kind of reverse leap.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, well, anytime you have a big tragedy like 9 11, you're always going to have a bunch of wild theories. But some of them are interesting, you know, like you're supposed to dismiss them all because they're conspiracy theories. But Tower 7 is like, Explain that.
Bridget Phetasy
I can't. I have people in my life who are very much like, true, I think truthers, I think about, about this.
Joe Rogan
That's a weird one. That's a weird one.
Bridget Phetasy
What's the conspiracy around Tower 7? Just how did it come.
Joe Rogan
It collapses like a controlled demolition completely into its base. No building's ever done that before without being a controlled demolition. And it doesn't have all the signature aspects of a controlled demolition. Like if you ever watch like when they blow up one of them Vegas casinos, super obvious, it's like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. And it all collapses. It doesn't have that. But it does have something similar in that the effect is the same. So is it possible to do that without having it the way the casinos do it? Is there only one way to have a controlled demolition of a building? Or is it possible that just immense diesel fires weaken the structure uniformly in such a weird way that it collapsed? Exactly. Like a controlled demolition, but it's just the result of this coincidence. Yeah, they had diesel generators in the basement of that thing, and the whole fucking inside of it was on fire. So when you see it on the outside, you're only seeing, like, a little bit of fire and some holes, but the entire inside of it was in flames.
Bridget Phetasy
We're living in a simulation.
Joe Rogan
Maybe that. Maybe that's another wink, you know? Maybe that's another fucking.
Bridget Phetasy
We didn't have social media, though, thank God, right? During that. Can you imagine?
Joe Rogan
No, but we did have plenty of people that were questioning once they saw it on television. Television. Because you saw it on TV and you're like, what is that?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
How does it do that? Do you remember that wasn't even hit by a plane.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you remember seeing the skyline the first time you went to New York?
Joe Rogan
Oh, without the Twin Towers. I don't think I actually saw it. I. I went back in 2001. I was there in 2001.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Maybe 2002. It's probably like a couple of months.
Bridget Phetasy
After I took a train in November in. In. And because I took the train in, I always used to take this train in from Rhode island where I was. And I was like. Like the. I just. It was so jarring seeing they were so. Part of that.
Joe Rogan
They were so huge.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. And just part. You just took it for granted. That was the, like, landscape. And it was. I'll never forget it. How dark.
Joe Rogan
I thought it was weird, too, that when they rebuilt it, they didn't make it as tall.
Bridget Phetasy
Why didn't they?
Joe Rogan
I don't know. It's only one building now. It's not two.
Bridget Phetasy
I know.
Joe Rogan
And it's not as tall. Like. It's pretty tall, but they didn't get crazy then. We're gonna make the biggest building the world's ever seen.
Bridget Phetasy
Like a middle finger to the world.
Joe Rogan
Trump was there, but we're gonna have two buildings on the side and one right up your ass, you know, I guess it's like you. It looks like that. It is. It's smaller. Smaller than the original buildings.
Bridget Phetasy
I do wonder. Like, I just. I'm so curious about what it's gonna be like for our kids.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, that's what it looks like now?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
C
In the U.S. still though.
Joe Rogan
Is it the tallest building in the U.S. yeah, but it's not as tall, right?
C
I don't know what the height was.
Joe Rogan
I think it's shorter.
C
No, if it's shorter than. Still, the Tall Trade center wasn't the tallest building.
Joe Rogan
No, not in the world, no.
C
In the US Even.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it wasn't.
C
But the Sears Tower was bigger.
Joe Rogan
Really?
C
Yeah. 100.
Joe Rogan
Where's the Sears Tower?
Bridget Phetasy
Chicago.
Joe Rogan
That's taller than the World Trade Center. It was. Whoa.
C
Now this is the top.
Joe Rogan
I didn't know that. Yeah.
C
The Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world for a while.
Joe Rogan
So the Twin Towers were taller than the Sears Tower?
Bridget Phetasy
They were shorter.
C
They were shorter, yeah. I don't know why you're saying that. I guess.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it's the same. Oh, it has the same name as the North Tower of the original. How tall is. Is shorter though, right? Isn't it?
C
I don't know that. See, the Willis Tower was the tallest one.
Joe Rogan
I remember people being upset when they were rebuilding it because it wasn't going to be as tall. Tall.
C
1776.
Joe Rogan
So 110 stories was the original one and it was. The tower was 1,350ft high. How tall is the one now? So it's taller?
C
Yep.
Joe Rogan
Really?
C
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Wait a minute. Really?
C
I don't. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Can I see the image again?
C
I don't know where else you want.
Joe Rogan
Me to go with this? No, no, no. Is it because they cheat with that big pole at the top?
C
Man, that's 100.
Joe Rogan
That's.
C
They do that with all of them. The other one had a big pole on top too, but that.
Joe Rogan
Isn't that to stop lightning bolts?
C
Some of it. Some of it's antenna stuff, but some.
Joe Rogan
Of it's talked to aliens.
C
Cell phone tower.
Joe Rogan
That's. Okay, I'm wrong. I thought it was shorter. Maybe it. Maybe what it was saying they were saying is it's smaller because there's only one set of two.
C
The spire makes it 1776.
Joe Rogan
The spire? Yeah. How tall is that spire?
C
And the video too. I was just. The spire of the World Trade Center. I never saw this. They're saying that's what made Tower 7 fall. It made a gash.
Joe Rogan
What.
Bridget Phetasy
What made a gash?
C
The spire on the tower here fell and made a gash down the side and started a fire here and tower. I've never seen this video.
Joe Rogan
Interesting.
C
I was just looking through it. To see what.
Joe Rogan
Well, that's one thing with the video. That we saw. Oh, look at that. Interesting.
C
Have photos of what that. I don't think they have an actual video of that happening.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it fell and up the building. But still, still. Why didn't it just fall into that side? Why does it compress into its base? The way it collapses? Like, I've never seen anybody adequately describe it, but one thing that people should know is that the top of it collapsed. Before the whole thing collapsed, there was the. This piece on the top. So the roof caved in first. Like there was like there's a smaller structure on top of the roof that imploded and went through the base.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
And then the whole thing went under. So it wasn't like it all went in one shot. The top of it had already collapsed and went through.
Bridget Phetasy
God, that was such a weird time in America. I was thinking about how like just catatonic I was on the couch recently. Just like that whole week afterwards. Just nobody I know. Because it's weird. Like I have family members who have kids and their kids are now like they were born right around that time. They were 12 years old. They've grown up. They don't remember kind of what it was like before that. And they. I don't know. I feel like the world. I have a friend and he's like, everything went to shit after 9 11. Everything just got shittier.
Joe Rogan
Well, everything did go to shit because that's when they passed the Pandemic Patriot Act.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And that's when the government really got its hooks into your information.
C
Clarification here. New one, 1776. 541 meters tall. Old one with the spire was 1730. Boat was 17 or 7. 1368 without the spire.
Joe Rogan
Okay.
C
The spire ads without the antenna, the building is 417 meters tall. So I think you were close. Okay, you were saying right there.
Joe Rogan
So it's not much different though. I thought it was a lot different. Like 10 stories or something.
Bridget Phetasy
Is. Is.
Joe Rogan
So it's 104 floors and four basement floors and the other one was 110 floors and I don't.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
C
How many basement floors?
Joe Rogan
I don't know. Also it's like how tall are the floors? You know, I hope this one doesn't.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you think this administration is going to try and get rid of the Patriot Act?
Joe Rogan
No, no, no. Why would they do that? I think they have that they have those tools and power to actually they'll use it as an excuse to go get terrible terrorists.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, but haven't we all wanted to get rid of it for a long time.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, well, then they have the Patriot act too, which is even more invasive.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah, but people like that seems like a bipartisan thing somebody could get behind.
Joe Rogan
Maybe, but the real neocons will come out and say that weakens us against our enemies. We need this power to be able to find terrorists and to be able to search out. I mean, that was one of the things that the Obama's, the Obama administration, when they passed the ndaa, you know, we're not going to do it. We're not going to just like detend, detain people indefinitely. We wouldn't do it. But the problem is you're giving the law, that law is now in the books and now the next person, what if it's a psycho? And the person after that, what if it's a psycho?
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
Now you've given them power to like become a dictator.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
And go after their political enemies, which normal people won't do. Right. You guys don't do that. Right.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, it's going to be a wild four years. I think, because I did think that like the. I figured, I figured, I thought maybe that people would understand that they were wrong and that like maybe they'd gone too far. And I was. And it seems like hysteria.
Joe Rogan
I don't think people look, Learn that good. I think people learn by having their lives ruined and getting really angry.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
And then they change course. But I think the people that are still comfortable and still working in these environments that still cling to these ideas, they're gonna double down and wear a pussy hat and paint their hair blue.
Bridget Phetasy
And protest in the streets past all this. It's so weird because I was thinking about how I've now been 10 years, years in the culture wars, which is not. I mean, I kind of stumbled into them.
Joe Rogan
Are you a sergeant now? What are you?
Bridget Phetasy
I don't know. Yeah. Are you a general?
Joe Rogan
I don't know what I am.
Bridget Phetasy
I've been. But it has been a weird decade to be. I didn't want to. I was. I think so many normies are like me. They just got kind of forced into being in them. It wasn't like I wanted to. I was like a drunk waitress who just wanted to tell jokes. Yeah, that. And then I started writing for Playboy and next thing I know, I'm voting for Trump.
Joe Rogan
Well, you know, as a drunk waitress, you just, you're one of us. You're a human. And humans, there's a lot of people that have opinions and ideas on things. They're just not good at articulating it, or they never learned how to articulate. Articulate it. But everybody does what we do, or everybody can do what we do. They do it with their friends. They talk with their friends. Yeah, they bullshit about stuff and, you know, it's just a process of putting it out there.
Bridget Phetasy
I've had some weird YouTube strikes that I'd say, yes, it's easy to do, except I've had to play 10 years of a game of, like, outrunning censors and like, Patreon. Okay, we're there, and then we've got to get off there because I don't want to put all my eggs in that basket in case bonkers and shut it down. And then I feel like you're like, a lot of people in this space have been for like a decade out. You know, we're like, how are we gonna. We got like the dumbest strike on an old ad of ours, and it was some. Something that we said. And then you have to go to like, you know, like, you've got to go to like, class and get re educated.
Joe Rogan
Jamie got re educated. Didn't you, Jamie? You feel better right now, right? You feel smarter now. You got re educated.
Bridget Phetasy
What did you get reeducated for?
Joe Rogan
Which part of YouTube you got re educated?
C
Sure, I guess.
Joe Rogan
Didn't you? When we had a strike, you had to do the little class.
C
That's what you're talking about.
Bridget Phetasy
He's like, what re education?
Joe Rogan
He got re educated.
Bridget Phetasy
He's what far. He's.
Joe Rogan
He's better now because we told factual information about COVID 19.
Bridget Phetasy
And so you got a strike.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it was because it was like a long time ago.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, but, but ours is weird because it was an like a very old episode, so they must be like, trolling.
Joe Rogan
I don't know what they're doing. They're probably just using their algorithm and going after everybody, everything and ours, literally.
Bridget Phetasy
We said, think for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Joe Rogan
Oh, that's dangerous.
Bridget Phetasy
That was the ad. It wasn't even ours on our podcast. It was an ad read we were doing for someone else's podcast.
Joe Rogan
Shouldn't give that advice out. People shouldn't be doing that.
Bridget Phetasy
But this is why it's hard for people to just, like, say what they want, you know?
Joe Rogan
Well, what do you think is going to happen when you're looking at all this crazy shit right now with DOGE and the uncovering of USAID and this dismantling of. Of this bizarre left wing ecosystem? That's pretty much Manufactured. Like, what do you see is gonna happen with the rest of the country?
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, look, there are a lot of people who did not vote for Trump. He won. And yes, he won every swing state.
Joe Rogan
And half the country's a lot of people.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it's a lot of people. And I'm not sure how many of them. I wonder how many. So I have a couple questions. How many people didn't vote for Trump and wanted to and are secretly glad he. He won? I bet there's a pretty significant number of those people who either didn't vote or didn't vote for him, but wanted him to win anyway.
Joe Rogan
Ari says that. Ari says that New York City is like, relaxed. It's like everybody was relaxed after the election.
Bridget Phetasy
Even the liberals are like, yeah, thank God. They're like, woo.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Like, thank you, God. You saved me from myself.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, exactly. This is God doing for us what we can't do for ourselves. Yeah, so there's that. I wonder. But then I do wonder how many of the people are. What I worry about is how much mental this is where I get mad at the media for presenting this like, this is Hitler having it notched up to 11 for the past eight years. And now you've got this because he was put in. It's almost like that energy has been transferred to Elon now. Because now do you see the Elon protests? They're protesting Elon. They're literally standing out there with signs that say, arrest Elon Musk.
Joe Rogan
Listen, I guarantee it's organized. I guarantee it's organized by the same people that are going to lose a shitload of money based on all these discoveries at doge. There's no way. They're not. If you look at what DOGE is uncovering, what they're uncovering with this USAID stuff, a lot of that stuff was organizing through NGOs, protests. They organized the attempt at getting Trump impeached.
Bridget Phetasy
They were going to say killed. They organized the impeachment.
Joe Rogan
They also spent. USAID spent $50 million on the lab that invented coronavirus.
Bridget Phetasy
Right?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. There's a lot of money involved in this not working. And when you have a lot of money involved, you're gonna have organized protest. When you see protests, we all wanna think protests, like the 1960s. Yeah, fight the war, man. It's like organic, like peace, love and hippie shit. But that's not what this is. What this is, is organized, funded protest tests where someone is spending a lot of money and they're mobilizing other NGOs they're using their access to these mailing lists and all these different things. They're putting these things together.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, but do you think that the average liberal person, do you think that they're gonna wake up and come around or do you think that they're gonna be in like, agony for four years and be.
Joe Rogan
What if it works? Like, what if the world gets safer, the country gets safer, the economy improves and they don't attack civil rights, women's rights, G. All these things that everybody's worried about. And then at the end of it, you realize like, hey, maybe I was wrong.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, that's my question though. Are you. Are they capable of that kind of self reflection? If you.
Joe Rogan
Well, we're saying they. As if it's like one different kind. Like one kind of person. No, I mean, there's so many different people in.
Bridget Phetasy
They agreed. I mean, when I say they, I mean people who are. Have bought into the idea that this person is going to make everything worse and, and we're going to slip into a fascist technocracy.
Joe Rogan
Some of them, Some of them are gonna slip right into it. Some of them are gonna wake up and come around. It's a test. It's a test of character. It's a test of objectivity. It's a test of introspection. There's a lot of things that are gonna happen where people are gonna have to wonder, like, what was I rooting for when I was rooting for this progressive liberal government? What was I actually rooting for? Was I rooting for war model mongers who were making insane amounts of profit by funding overseas wars?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, what was I word.
Joe Rogan
What was I rooting for? Was I rooting for a basic theft of our tax dollars that's gone to all these like, completely useless endeavors that were only set up as ways to.
Bridget Phetasy
Pilfer money or the fall of America? You know, this is a weird thing to like, hate your own country so much that you want to. To. To fall or the. The dismantling of the life. The kind of west as we know it. You know, I think there is a. There is a feeling that Elon might have saved the West. Yeah, I feel like at least he's trying to.
Joe Rogan
I think he did. I think he did, but just by buying X.
Bridget Phetasy
But isn't it funny that he got forced into it? I think there's like something kind of ironic.
Joe Rogan
It's funny because he was trying to get it at a lower price because he knew that they were bullshitting about the bots.
Bridget Phetasy
Well. And then they came out yesterday and now it's profitable. Yeah, there was like a whole article about how he turned it around.
Joe Rogan
Of course it's gonna be profitable. He's smarter than you.
Bridget Phetasy
He is smarter. He also knows that we are all tapped in. Oh, I can't. I can't stop it. I have a. I have it. I've always had a Twitter addiction. It's the thing that replaced my drinking and smoking weed. When I quit that, I went right to Twitter. I was like, elon knows. None of these motherfuckers. Even when they go to Blue sky, they have all got secret accounts and they're lurking on Twitter still or X still or whatever.
Joe Rogan
You can't live in that echo chamber, that blue sky echo chamber. You can't even go on there and say there's only two genders. If you go on there and say there's two genders, they ban you immediately.
Bridget Phetasy
They were like eating themselves within two days over there, though.
Joe Rogan
But that's what always happens. That's happened with Gab too, right?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And I think some of that is not even real because I personally know comics who go on Blue sky and just say insane left stuff. Just like the most preposterous thing. Like, you know, like maybe Duncan would do. I'm not saying Duncan does it, but he might do it. But I know comics that do that just to see the reaction, how people agree with them. Like insane stuff.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay.
Joe Rogan
Like my toddler. I could tell when my toddler was trans when they were three days old.
Bridget Phetasy
And people agree with them.
Joe Rogan
Oh, yeah. Jump right in.
Bridget Phetasy
Don't you think we're all in echo chambers, though, like you said. How do you. How do you stay outside of yours?
Joe Rogan
Drugs.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, that's true.
Joe Rogan
That helps a lot. No, I'm kidding. You just gotta be recognized. Like you're thinking, you have to have a process.
Bridget Phetasy
What's your process? I live by the Joe Rogan school of interneting. How's that? I take all your advice. I don't read the comments and I post. And ghosts.
Joe Rogan
That's good.
Bridget Phetasy
I don't like, get in there and that's good.
Joe Rogan
I definitely do that. And then I think of, like, what do I really think about something and why do I think about it it that way? And I try to go, because it's self serving. Is it because I've said it in the past that I want to be right? Is it. What is it? You know, like what. What makes me believe what I believe?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then you have to do a deep dive and all the goddamn arguments back and forth to figure out who's right and all the logic and the illa. And see, people ignoring certain core facts. Like this is the. The most fascinating thing about this USAID thing to me is how people on the left are completely ignoring all the rampant, obvious cor. Corruption.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And conflicts of interest in the government funding non government organizations that in turn fund the government.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That's so crazy. And anybody that doesn't think that's crazy, it's like, what do you love money influencing everything in your daily life? Don't you think that maybe we have a problem and that we have a huge deficit? And if part of our huge deficit, we're spending billions of dollars every year on horseshit.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I mean, that is my issue with people being like, see, it is the political thing isn't right. Which is true. It's important to be accurate. But it's also like, yeah, but this money shouldn't be spent this way. So just because this thing is maybe not true, you're pointing to this one thing that could be people are misrepresenting. But there's a much bigger problem. You seem to want to just sweep under the rug and say, oh, you guys are just crazy for noticing all these connections. I'm. But didn't they make them stop or something? Did they freeze their ability? Yeah, these kids are nuts. That guy who like, you know, found the scroll, how to read the scroll From Pompeii.
Joe Rogan
From Pompeii, Yeah. Using AI.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
No, they're wizards.
Bridget Phetasy
That's.
Joe Rogan
That's the kind of people that you want digging into this stuff. And that's why Elon got them. I mean, he's. He knows what the fuck he's doing. It's. It's all very strange because it's. You're dealing with so many things that are happening at the same time. You have this technology that was never available before that is allowing people to freely express themselves online. Right. And then you have this maniac billionaire who buys the biggest one and makes it the Wild west again. And then you have government being exposed for what it is. So you have all these fucking NGOs, this web of. We talked about it yesterday. This web of 55,000 different NGOs that were supporting all these liberal causes that were all completely intersected, intertwined, and they had to use software to find that and to figure it out.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
They're finding out that this is like this complicated propaganda network.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
That existed. Look, that's not good. No, that's not good for anybody, left or right. Because it's money. It's just money being used in a way. Not only that, here's the thing, like people like saying, like the $10 billion, it's only $10 billion. Like that kind of. What about the people in Maui? What about that could have been fixed with $5 billion. The government could have said we are going to rebuild those people's homes to the exact state and even better than where they were before, it's going to cost us $5 billion. All the money that we're sending over to Ukraine, all the money that we send to Israel, all the money we send to all these different organizations that, that work with USAID in the tune of billions and billions and billions of dollars. They could have done that. And instead of doing, doing that, they're telling us that what we have to do is continue to fund all these programs in all these other countries that just so conveniently have a whole staff of people that's making a great wage and their political capital is bet on all this stuff. And it all is involved with, intertwined with these NGOs and all this money they're getting. And this is the thing, we have to go and help these people. We're going to starve, they're going to do this, they're going to do that. What, what about America?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
And then you have our tax dollars going into a safety net to help people from one of the worst wildfires in history.
Bridget Phetasy
Or North Carolina.
Joe Rogan
Or North Carolina. Yeah, exactly the same thing.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Apparently none of those people have gotten any money in North Carolina. No.
Bridget Phetasy
And they're like sleeping in frickin tents in the freezing cold.
Joe Rogan
Exactly. All that could have been addressed too. The same way we address problems in other countries. So if you have this amazing slush fund, the USAID is, and it's not being applied at all to the problems of America. Why would you think people would support it? Yeah, why would we support it with our tax dollars when we know that the country's massively in debt?
Bridget Phetasy
Well, and it's like I appreciate that there are so many problems. I think people. I do feel like for the first time ever there is an actual transfer of power. Like every, every single election through my lifetime, it's been, there's been all the normal fighting between the two parties and then the election happens and one party wins and then nothing changes.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
And you just keep sliding and sliding and sliding and sliding and everybody says they're gonna do something and no one does anything. And then you have Fucking Elon come in like a wrecking ball and a very motivated. And Trump who seems organized this time and they actually feel like they're making, making changes. Changes that by the way, American people want the border.
Joe Rogan
They fixed the border overnight. Overnight.
Bridget Phetasy
The looking into. My friend Max Meyer was saying, he's very smart guy. He was saying no one with any numerical ability has ever looked into Medicare and Medicaid fraud ever.
Joe Rogan
That's who they're cracking into next.
Bridget Phetasy
There's a lot of money there that is like provider side fraud where it's just inflated.
Joe Rogan
Wasn't that Sunny Hoston's husband? Isn't he involved in a RICO lawsuit?
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, I don't know about insurance fraud. The view person.
Joe Rogan
Uh huh. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, I have no idea.
Joe Rogan
Her husband got arrested.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh really?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. He's one of 200 people charged in some gigantic insurance fraud.
Bridget Phetasy
There's a lot of that.
Joe Rogan
What is that? What's the actual story behind that?
Bridget Phetasy
Jamie's looking, Jamie's on it. Yeah, but there's. So they can take, I mean, you know how complicated it would be to try, try and untangle that web of where you're inflating things that people have and you're saying this is like a band. You see these things online where it's like a band aid is $25,000. You know, like what someone explained that.
Joe Rogan
To me too is that when you have a budget, say if you run an organization and has a budget money from the government and that budget's like $80 million a year, you can't spend 60 because then you're going to get 60 next year. You have to spend all 80.
Bridget Phetasy
Right.
Joe Rogan
If you don't spend all 80, you don't get it. You got to say we need 90. We're barely hanging on. And so you have to charge $500,000 for a hammer. And that's, that's literally how they justify their existence is the key. They're not in the business of being frugal and you know, and being responsible and making sure that the money is being spent competently. No, they're in the business of keeping their budget. Coming in. Sunny host and surgeon husband Emmanuel faces solo battle in lawsuit as co defendants agree to settle. O Jesus. So okay, Sonny Hosten's surgeon husband was found himself in the hot seat in a massive lawsuit accusing nearly 200 health care providers of insurance fraud. Dr. Emanuel Hoston defiantly called himself the victim of a frivolous smear campaign last month after he was accused of providing fraudulent medical services in exchange for kickbacks. In a complaint filed by American Transit Insurance company and December orthopedic surgeon now finds himself increasingly isolated after the vast majority of the defendants have now offered to settle their cases.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, boy.
Joe Rogan
According to a new court filing obtained by DailyMail.com American Transit, which ensures taxi cab, taxi company and uger lift drivers, announced last Monday more than 141 of the 186 defendants named in the suit have agreed in principle to settle one of the largest RICO cases ever filed in in New York. The papers filed by the law marketing law firm Manning Cass did not specify which defendants offered to settle. Dr. Hosten has until February 10th to respond to the legal complaint. So it has something to do with drives from the hospital and kickbacks from, from all this?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it's, it's because there's. So that's what they need though is these guys who can use this AI technology to get in there and start looking on a massive scale at what? All of these. Everything. I mean they have to look at everything. I think most Americans want this.
Joe Rogan
So they're being accused of getting kickbacks for performing surgeries and submitting fraudulent bills.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Hosten knowingly provided. This is in quotes. Knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services, including arthroscopic surgeries. The lawsuit filed on December 17 claims American transit was then billed in exchange for kickbacks and or other competencies compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions. I don't know how they know this, so I don't, I don't want to comment on this. I don't really understand what this is. This, this might be bullshit. It might be real, but I do know that doctors.
Bridget Phetasy
But this happens all the time. I mean, maybe not this, but there's provider side fraud that is very well known and people have been called out for it.
Joe Rogan
There's a doctor that I was just watching this whole thing on where he. I think it was 200 people he treated. It might have been more that did not have cancer and he gave them chemotherapy.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh my God.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. He falsely diagnosed them as having cancer and then treated them for cancer. Yeah. And some of them got really sick and died.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, yeah, it's chemo.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's chemo. It's fucking killing you and wrecks your health. So even if you survive it, like your body's wrecked for a long time afterwards.
Bridget Phetasy
And did he do this just for money?
Joe Rogan
For money, yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, yeah.
Joe Rogan
And his argument was that this term that they always use, you eat what you kill and that you have to like, you have to have a business. You have to keep your business rolling. So his business was making sure that people thought they had cancer and then treating them for cancer.
Bridget Phetasy
That's dark.
Joe Rogan
Well, that cancer and chemotherapy is one of those weird ones where the doctors profit off of each chemotherapy.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, do they?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. $34 million in fraudulent. A Detroit area hematologist oncologist was sentenced today to serve 40, 45 years in prison for his role in a health care fraud scheme that included administrating medically unnecessary infusions or injections to. Oh, it's 553 individual patients. And submitting to Medicare and private insurance companies approximately $34 million in fraudulent claims.
Bridget Phetasy
This is the fucking sickest thing I've ever heard. You tell these people they have cancer.
Joe Rogan
I know, right?
Bridget Phetasy
And make them get chemo.
Joe Rogan
I know.
Bridget Phetasy
This is insane. I can't believe I've never heard of this.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's really crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
It's like a decade ago. Wow. This is nuts. How did they catch him?
Joe Rogan
I don't know.
Bridget Phetasy
That's wild. Yeah, but that's so sick.
Joe Rogan
I know people that have told me that they know people that have done surgeries that were unnecessary. Yeah. Because just for money, they want money. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
Well, that's like the whole, like, trans cares, like, you know, orthopedic surgery. I have friends back surgeries and stuff.
Joe Rogan
Doctors that won't let someone try stem cells, that try to deny people stem cells.
Bridget Phetasy
So, yeah, the back. Because they want to do orthopedic surgery.
Joe Rogan
Well, it can help some people, but it's not the only solution. And there's other ways to fix your back. I always tell people there's a lot of different ways to fix back issues. I've had back issues. I didn't have surgery. I was told to have surgery. I had a bulging disc in my neck. I was told that I had to have a disectomy. I did not. My neck is perfect. It works great. Now.
Bridget Phetasy
How did you fix it?
Joe Rogan
I did regenechine. Regeneke is. It's like a very advanced form of platelet rich plasma that used to have to go to Germany to get. I remember, like Peyton Manning and Kobe Bryant, those guys, they flew to Germany to get this procedure done, and Dana White did it too. And then they opened up a place in Santa Monica where you could do it in Santa Monica. And. And I had it done. I had it done on my back. I had it done on my neck. It's amazing. They take your blood, they spin it in a centrifuge I forget what the exact process they do, and then they pull out this liquid that is the most potent anti inflammatory inflammation drug that you could ever find.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
So this anti inflammation drug, it's made out of your own blood so your body doesn't reject it. This process that they do, and then they inject it in the areas around the discs, and the discs all settled and they went right back into place. Wow. Oh, yeah. I had it done on my lower back. I had it done on my upper back, and I had it done on my neck.
Bridget Phetasy
See, I think that this is where I'm excited about AI and stuff like that. It would be exciting to have AI cure cancer, which they think that it might be able to do.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I'm a little. I saw that Larry Ellison thing. I was like, yeah. Are you making money doing this?
Bridget Phetasy
Well, obviously, I don't know if Larry is Larry Ellis.
Joe Rogan
Why are you doing that? Are you a doctor? Don't you own lanai? What are you doing? But I don't see.
Bridget Phetasy
It seems like it's not outside the realm of possibility that AI would get smart enough to figure this shit out 100%.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it is possible for sure, and it's very hopeful. But, you know, I don't know if we should be telling people that it could do that maybe in the future, so invest in my company or whatever the fuck's going on.
Bridget Phetasy
You know, I was at this crazy boondoggle and I saw a bunch of these people talk. And everybody was clapping, and I was like, this is the scariest shit I've ever heard. And I think it might have been. Sam was talking Altman, and everybody was just like, yay, let's give him money. And they all just saw money. Everyone sees money here. And the. The. The gold hills, I mean, we're going to need to build nuclear. We're going to need to power this shit. We're going to. There's a lot of gold in those hills. And I was in the back with this guy, and I'm like, someone needs to stop it. Like, it was the beginning of a terminator down my spine.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's gonna happen, though.
Bridget Phetasy
You can't stop it.
Joe Rogan
No.
Bridget Phetasy
Unless the grid goes down, like, or something. Unless there is something catastrophic asteroid hits the Earth, whatever, which I think there might be one coming. There is. There's nothing we can do. The genie's out of the bottle.
Joe Rogan
Well, not just that. We have to do it because there's other people that are doing it. And if they get a hold of it first. It's over.
Bridget Phetasy
That's the race.
Joe Rogan
The bottom, though, is it, my friend? I mean, we all have it, and it just. It eventually works for humanity instead of against us.
Bridget Phetasy
But I do think that, like, my husband thinks that our daughter will never need to learn how to drive, probably. He's like, she's not gonna need. Because I was like, she's. She wants to drive already. She's like, when I'm five, I can drive. I'm like, no, she's. She is. Having kids is the best. I hate that. There was so much rhetoric that I was growing up with about, like, how horrible it is, because it is. Yeah.
Joe Rogan
It's all by people who don't have.
Bridget Phetasy
Kids, but it's so. It is. The other morning, I go downstairs, and she's like. I'm like, how are you doing? She's eating her breakfast. She's like, I just need to lay low. I was like, are we hiding from the mob? What is happening?
Joe Rogan
They're experimenting with news ways to talk.
Bridget Phetasy
They're just so funny. She's like. And she just says the funniest stuff. She did a whole. My husband sent me a whole thing. She picks up every. They pick up everything. She was like, I'm going to Mothership, and you're gonna go to New York. I'm like, where'd she get the New York accent from? I'm going to Mothership, and you're going to New York to tell jokes. She's telling them all about this. I'm like, how does she pick all this? It's the best thing in the whole world. But, yeah, he doesn't think she wants to drive. And he's like, she's not gonna need to know how to drive.
Joe Rogan
Well, she probably will learn how to drive, but it won't be necessary. I think they're gonna make the argument that autonomous driving is way safer, but.
Bridget Phetasy
I think it probably is.
Joe Rogan
Oh, it is.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
I have auto drive on my autonomous.
Joe Rogan
Yes.
Bridget Phetasy
It can't be.
Joe Rogan
Exactly.
Bridget Phetasy
No one's gonna be allowed to drive.
Joe Rogan
That's probably what's gonna happen.
Bridget Phetasy
That's the only way they're all gonna be communicating with each other. And it's.
Joe Rogan
There'll probably be roads that are set up where you can allow people to drive.
Bridget Phetasy
How do you feel about that?
Joe Rogan
I don't know. I like cars.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, I do, too.
Joe Rogan
I like old cars, too.
Bridget Phetasy
I like driving.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
It helps my brain unfurl.
Joe Rogan
Well, I like machines. I'm into old machines. I like the way they work.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you know how to fix cars?
Joe Rogan
I know how to fix some things, but not really. Yeah, I mean, I know how to change spark plugs and change oil and I understand basics. Yeah, normal stuff. But most cars don't even have spark plugs anymore.
Bridget Phetasy
No. It's weird.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's all wild. You open up the back of like, you know, open up the like back of a Porsche. Like, look at the engine. You're like, what the is that?
Bridget Phetasy
And Teslas only have one gear. Is this. How does it. I don't understand how that.
Joe Rogan
Have you ever been in one?
Bridget Phetasy
No.
Joe Rogan
Oh, dude, I didn't.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh wait, no, I have been in one.
Joe Rogan
Next time I have mine, you got to go for a ride. My.
Bridget Phetasy
The new one?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. It goes 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds.
Bridget Phetasy
That's nuts.
Joe Rogan
It's a time machine.
Bridget Phetasy
How does it do that?
Joe Rogan
Because it has a thousand horsepower and four wheel drive and incredible electrical engines that just instantly generate torque and power.
Bridget Phetasy
It just goes crazy.
Joe Rogan
It just takes off. They're amazing. And it also self drives nudging a self drive. It changes lanes. It stops for stop signs, it stops for red lights, it turns stop. It just. It's incredible. Changes lanes when there's obstructions in front of it.
Bridget Phetasy
Can you take your eyes off the. Can you like text and stuff? Can you be a passenger?
Joe Rogan
You could, I guess. People have fallen asleep at the wheel, famously.
Bridget Phetasy
But don't they give you like strikes or something like that? Like Tesla itself?
Joe Rogan
Well, yeah, supposedly. If you're not looking like.
Bridget Phetasy
It's creepy.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's creepy. Yeah, it's all creepy. But if you want to do it right, that's how you have to do it. You can't just let people take naps and just press the press play.
Bridget Phetasy
But isn't that the point? I want to be in my car typing.
Joe Rogan
Well, eventually you'll be able to do that. Eventually it won't even even have a steering wheel. Eventually it'll be a pod that you get in and it takes you places.
Bridget Phetasy
This reminds me of that Silicon Valley episode where the self driving car drives right into one of the shipping containers and then he's just stuck in a shipping container.
Joe Rogan
I didn't see that.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, it's so good.
Joe Rogan
I never watched that show.
Bridget Phetasy
That show is brilliant.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's. It's weird. But again, if you go back to the people that were on trains and riding horses and you say one day you're going to be able to get in a car that goes 1.9 seconds 0 to 60 and it's going to be electric and make no sound. And you'd be like, what? Well, one day you're not going to need to steer because steering is why people get fucked up. Because the cars can't detect other cars around them. They change lanes, people make mistakes, they go forward when they shouldn't, they run red lights. All that's going to end.
Bridget Phetasy
So I'm like a half hour out of the city and every time I drive to and from, there's almost every time there's an accident I always see.
Joe Rogan
Sure.
Bridget Phetasy
The other night I was driving home actually from Mothership. It was like 1:30 in the morning and there was a guy on the left side of the freeway walking. Yeah, you. There's no space, by the way. I was like, what is happening?
Joe Rogan
People are texting, not paying attention.
Bridget Phetasy
No, there trucks behind me. It was nuts. I was like, this guy is either like on drugs and crazy or it's like some Jason Bourne situation where he was like limping. Like he's just.
Joe Rogan
He probably broke down and had to walk.
Bridget Phetasy
No, he looked crazy.
Joe Rogan
Crazy person. And decided to flirt with death.
Bridget Phetasy
It was. I mean, Texas is a little. It feels a little unhinged.
Joe Rogan
Does it? Compared to la. When was the last time you were back in la?
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean, I was just there. I was there two days before the fires.
Joe Rogan
People are unhinged. Yeah, yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
No, I mean it feels a little wild.
Joe Rogan
Like I like it better.
Bridget Phetasy
I like the. I like the. It makes. I'm. I'm coming up on two years here.
Joe Rogan
So. What do you mean by wild?
Bridget Phetasy
Like what feels wild to me, it still feels very like the Wild west or like Texas. There's just an energy here of kind of. Every time I'm down on 6th Street, I'm like, I'm gonna catch a stray down here.
Joe Rogan
Well, 6th street is wild. Where the club is, that's a wild place.
Bridget Phetasy
It's fucking bonkers out there.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but that's also makes the club exciting.
Bridget Phetasy
You might catch a stray while you're waiting.
Joe Rogan
No, not that, but all of people, the foot traffic, you know, there's an energy on that street.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, no, I like it.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
And I like the kind when I even coming from la, driving in Texas, I was like, these people are out of their fucking minds because it's so much bigger and Every. It's like 80 miles an hour, speed limits everywhere out where I am. So everyone's actually doing 90 and I would be driving and I'm like. They're like, get out of the way, grandmas. And I'm like, I'm doing fucking 85. Like, it's not like I'm going slow.
Joe Rogan
In the left lane.
Bridget Phetasy
No, no, I'd be in the middle lane. Letting.
Joe Rogan
Still trying to get you out of the way.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. I was a grandma, I had to up my game.
Joe Rogan
Well, didn't you see that in LA too?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, but it wasn't. It wasn't. It was always like street racing, kids. Like, maybe out further you can. How often could you get your car to 80 miles an hour driving around LA at night time? I mean, at night.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but see a lot of people driving super fast at night.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
More unhinged people, I think.
Bridget Phetasy
Really?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Because I would see people driving recklessly on the 101. Like when I was coming home from the store, sometimes I'd be like, what the.
Bridget Phetasy
That's me going home, though. Like, it's. I don't know, it's pretty. It's pretty nuts.
Joe Rogan
Well, when people live a half an hour away from the city and they want to get home quick, that's how you do it.
Bridget Phetasy
Now it's me.
Joe Rogan
Gotta hit the gas.
Bridget Phetasy
Now I'm the one who's doing 95.
Joe Rogan
Well, it's those people too.
Bridget Phetasy
No, no, it's true. I don't know. I'm glad I moved here. I remember you saying, like, it feels. My husband's blood pressure actually went down when he moved here.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
There's less people, but it's also just like everything is less of a battle. You said it to me, I think, like you felt like you could exhale on one of our. Like when you were talking, you're like, I moved there and just felt like I can like breathe a little. And I mean, my husband has like scientific evidence that he. His whole like energy field got more chill.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. You're not supposed to be living in a place that has 20 million people. I think it's bad for you.
Bridget Phetasy
Have you ever been to Cairo?
Joe Rogan
No.
Bridget Phetasy
Cairo's nuts.
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
It's the craziest city I've ever been in.
Joe Rogan
I want to go. When you went to the pyramids, when was it? How long ago?
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, my gosh, it was crazy. It was right after the revolution. So we went in 20. It was. It was 20. It was 2000. When was the Arab Spring?
Joe Rogan
That was Internet times.
Bridget Phetasy
It was 2011. I want to say 2011. 2012.
Joe Rogan
What's that?
C
2010.
Joe Rogan
2010, Arab Spring.
Bridget Phetasy
So it must have been 2011.
Joe Rogan
That was one of the first revolutions that the Internet was credited with starting yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
And no one was there. So everyone was like, why the fuck are you guys in Egypt? We got basically a private tour of the whole country. Like, there. There was a. We were on a cruise on the Nile and it was supposed to be, you know, hundreds of people. There were 14 people on the cruise. And we got to see. There's usually lines to go into the great Pyramids. There were no lines. No lines at the. To see King Tut. Nothing. There was no one was anywhere. It was. It was a weird time to be. And in Egypt. And we saw. I went to Alexandria, was in Cairo, went and did like a Nile cruise, which was amazing. I mean, Egypt's. You gotta go.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, it's amazing. Did you get this weird feeling that, like, how did this go away?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, that's what. That's what I don't understand. And I had. I think I had like a mental breakdown when I was there. Like a weird. I was. We were in the hospital. Not the hospital I want. I felt like I should get checked into a hospital. I was. We were staying in like the Nile across from the. All the tombs, the like king's tombs. And I kept feeling this like, pulse. And I had like a panic attack when I was there, basically. It was the weirdest thing though. I kept feeling this pulse. It was like, womp, womp.
Joe Rogan
Was this one you were known for?
Bridget Phetasy
No, no. I mean, I was drinking still, but I wasn't doing drugs. And I. I was like, I'm gonna have a. I felt. I thought I was gonna end up in a straitjacket and I thought I had like a panic attack. I had like these crazy dreams and I was like, oh, this is where it all started for, like my. Whatever it was. It's weird. It's a weird energy.
Joe Rogan
Do you think you were getting this feeling, Feeling like. Like you said, like, here, it's in the soil. There's something in the soil here. Like this fierce independence because these people are tough and they survived. Making it across the Great Plains and all that. Do you think you felt that there? Like this is the. The feeling of this civilization that used to exist in this place?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it felt to me. I feel like I had like a past life regression, if that's even a thing. It was. It was like I felt like whatever journey I've been on on this planet, it started there and I went back to the source and it was like a weird. Like my dreams were crazy. It was. I couldn't thank God. The guy I was with was like, nice and kind, but I Couldn't. It was like a full blown panic attack. I couldn't even leave the hotel room.
Joe Rogan
And do you think that's just because of being in Egypt?
Bridget Phetasy
It was just being in Egypt.
Joe Rogan
Do you think it's because of that? Like, you knew what the civilization was like and it had declined and gone. And now you're there and you're just like psychologically dealing with this and you're kind of freaking out and putting it on yourself.
Bridget Phetasy
So they had, they had. I've always been obsessed with Egypt since I was a little kid. Just unnaturally obsessed with it. It was. I read every book about it when I was a kid. I wanted to go there. I don't know why. And I felt like I like to believe in past lives because I think it's amusing. I'm like, if I can choose, it sounds like a fun. It's like, why not? And I've always felt very connected to it. And so when I went there and was across from. We were in the King Farouk Suite, actually, and it had a balcony that overlooked the Nile and the tombs. And it was, I could feel it was like something in my heart, like a vibration. And they've said that these places, like where there are these pyramids, they can have vibrations. I learned this later, but this was like a weird, like it kept hitting my heart. And then I thought they drugged me. I thought they gave me something in my hibiscus tea because I started like, I immediately. I drank the hibiscus tea and I was like, maybe they put some kind of like hallucinogen in it. But I think, I just, I like, I think about this a lot because I've had friends who have had anxiety and panic attacks and I know what it's like to like, get in your head and, and feel like you're losing your mind. And I had to baby step my way out of this, like, panic attack where I couldn't eat. I was unable to keep food down. I just took a bath and was like, I'm gonna just chew.
Joe Rogan
That's never happened to you before?
Bridget Phetasy
No. I had had, like. I've had anxiety. I feel for people who have anxiety. I had had anxiety before, but it was when I was doing. I was smoking a lot of weed and doing a lot of drugs and I was in a marriage I didn't wanna be in to my first husband. Life was a mess and I just was lying to myself. Like, I, I think it. I think depression and anxiety can be very useful signposts for something in your life. You're either doing something you shouldn't be doing or you're not doing something you should be doing.
Joe Rogan
You got a course, correct?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
It's giving you motivation.
Bridget Phetasy
It's. Or it's saying, like, there's something. It's like a soul calling for you to. To check. Check in. So I. Yoga kind of saved me from that time. I got divorced. It somewhat went away. I've talked about my hypochondria, so that I dealt with that. But then I was. This was different. It was like a weird. My body physiologically reacted to it too. So I like. Not to be too much information, but I like, randomly got a period out of nowhere. It was just weird. My body started like, I threw up. I got a period all at once. And it was such a. It's like. It's the most supernatural thing that's ever happened. Well, there was another time that was really supernatural when I was in Newport, Rhode island, and I swear there was like a haunting. But other than that, this was. It felt supernatural. Like, it didn't feel normal. And it took me two full days to, like, whatever hit me in my heart on that balcony. And I couldn't. Like, all I could hear was this, like, wah, wah. And it was reverberating from the. I sound like a crazy person, but it was reverberating from the tomb. And then I would just. I remember eating a grape. So slowly and mindfully just to, like, come back into my body. And I had these, like, crazy dreams. And I felt like I saw all these connections, like people in my life present. And it was. It was really. It was weird. It was in that moment when I, like, had a physical reaction where it was like a scene from a movie where I was like, zap, zap, zap, zap, zap. Like, all these people in my life and. And the guy I was with, thank God, he could have been a total asshole and been like, you're a fucking psycho. I'm leaving you. But he had had a weird experience with me in his guest house in New Zealand, where I would fall asleep sometimes downstairs, or we'd pass out or whatever. And I was like, did you have a dog? Because I was, like, convinced there was a ghost because I kept feeling some weird sense. And he's like, don't talk about the dog. And then it turns out there was, like, a dog and his kids. Like, he had it and then wanted to get rid of it. And it's something. This sore thing. He's like, how the. Did you know It's a dog. And I was like, oh. Because the energy was like a puppy energy. And I was like, what happened to the dog? He's like, nothing. Don't ever talk about the dog. And I was like, okay. So he's like, you're weird and psychic and like a weird, sick. You have like, a weird thing. He was like, you're touched by something. Like. And we used to play backgammon all the time. And one time I like, rolled a dice and it's. I'm sure it was just lint, but it like, I wanted to win so badly. And then the dice just was on his corner, just frozen. So he had weird, like, just on the tip of it, just like, he's like, what the fuck? You're a witch. So he was. He had slightly unsettling things with me that. Enough that I think he was like, all right, maybe she's not totally.
Joe Rogan
Well, they say that places have memory, right?
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, this place. I mean, Egypt just starts.
Joe Rogan
I haven't been, obviously, but I felt weird when I went to Chichen Itza. That feels very weird.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay. Yeah, I had. I had to. I was like, baby stepping. I still get slightly, like. And my life has never been the same really, since, like, it was. It was. It was. And Egypt is. Cairo's bonkers, but Egypt is the Nile. I remember just like cruising down the Nile and being on the deck and you feel. You can feel what it was like. Like, you're just like, this is what memory? Yeah, yeah. And the tombs are all very. It's very. I don't know, it's very spiritual. For me, it was like a very. I felt like a pilgrimage that I didn't know I was taking. That's how it felt to me.
Joe Rogan
Look, it makes sense. It was the most sophisticated civilization maybe ever in terms of their building.
Bridget Phetasy
You have to go. I feel like you would love it.
Joe Rogan
I know I would love it. I know. I just don't have the time. I almost did it with Mr. Beast who went in December. I was hitting try to do it and do it with him. He wanted to do a podcast there, but I just couldn't make it happen. I'm too busy.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, it's. It's. And hike.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. I need to take like a good, solid couple weeks.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
There. It needs to be something that I know that I'm going to be there for a couple weeks.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
Joe Rogan
Right now that's not really possible.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Joe Rogan
You know, I mean, I went to the visit, the site of the Illusinian mysteries, and I was with Brian Mirarescu.
Bridget Phetasy
Where's that?
Joe Rogan
It's in Greece. And that was wild.
Bridget Phetasy
Really?
Joe Rogan
That was wild that that place has a memory for sure. Yeah. I just like touching the walls. Like, it just feels weird. You just feel like this is different. Like you're in the presence of something very strange. That was Egypt, whatever the energy. I bet Egypt was probably even more incredible. But whatever the end, the energy of that place was, there's some of it left there. There's some weird intangible feeling that's left there that just makes you feel very, very strange.
Bridget Phetasy
When we were. When I was in LA at the Getty Villa, I always go there and they had the Thrace exhibit.
Joe Rogan
What's that?
Bridget Phetasy
Thrace is like. I didn't know anything about it. It was a. It's a civilization that was like partially in Bulgaria. I think it came after ancient Greece.
Joe Rogan
Treasures from Bulgaria, Romania.
Bridget Phetasy
This statue is insane. It looks like it's looking at you.
Joe Rogan
Look at the eyes.
Bridget Phetasy
It is insane to see it in real life. This exhibit that's there right now is truly one of the most special exhibits I've ever. I go to all of them that I can there. And it. That is.
Joe Rogan
Wow, look at that.
Bridget Phetasy
It's crazy. And I knew nothing about this civilization and society, and the more I learn about it, the more obsessed I am. But all of this stuff had its own. Like when the fires were around the villa, I was like, oh, God, I hope that they're. I hope that. That all this stuff is okay. Yeah. I mean, those walls are like fireproof and they've got.
Joe Rogan
I'd never heard of this before.
Bridget Phetasy
I've never. I had never even really heard of Thrace. I. You know, I've always been very obsessed with like, Greek mythology, Roman history, all of these things. But Thrace is this crazy civilization.
Joe Rogan
Look at the relief with two Thracians.
Bridget Phetasy
I want to see if I have the. Oh, it's. It's. Yeah. If you're back in LA, I. I think that exhibit is there until March. March 3rd, I believe.
C
Maybe it says temporarily closed on top. I don't know if it's because of the fires.
Joe Rogan
Probably.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. I think the Gettys temporarily is now open.
C
The gay villa will remain closed until further notice.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, okay. I thought they reopened for some reason, but yeah, they must still be closed from the fires.
Joe Rogan
Someday someone's going to be doing that with the World Trade Center. They're going to be wandering around that. This is where they used to live. They used to go to school Here, they used to work in these buildings. That's going to happen. Thanks. Yeah, the same way we go through the Acropolis in the Parthenon and wander around and imagine what it was like living back then. People are going to do that with us. Every civilization. Every civilization collapses. We're just trying to hold this one off as much as we can and they usually last a couple hundred years, which is ours.
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah, we're not. We're pretty young. I mean.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, but a lot of them haven't made it past where we got to.
Bridget Phetasy
It always reminds me of that porno for pyro song will make the pets. It's like my friend says we're like the dinosaurs. And here we are doing ourselves in much faster than they ever did.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I don't know if that's real.
Bridget Phetasy
The dinosaurs?
Joe Rogan
No, the other thing. We're doing ourselves in faster than them. No, they got hit by a rock.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, no. We're coming to dangerous territory where we find out Joe doesn't believe in dinosaurs.
Joe Rogan
I was watching. We were talking about Candace Owens last night. Candace Owens, like, said dinosaurs are fake and gay.
Bridget Phetasy
Is that what she says?
Joe Rogan
Yeah. Oh, I don't know what she means by that. She just be having fun. This whole Bridget Macron thing, though, is crazy.
Bridget Phetasy
Did you watch any of it?
Joe Rogan
No, no, no. I got no time. But I did see a comparison to the photographs of the person that she's claiming is actually like, the brother.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh, the brother. Didn't the brother disappear or something?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, the brother disappeared. And the brother literally looks exactly like her. I mean, to a T. She was.
Bridget Phetasy
Kind of on the, like, Blake and Ryan thing too, I think.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, she's a sleuth.
Bridget Phetasy
And she's been a sleuth.
Joe Rogan
And look at these.
Bridget Phetasy
Okay, that's pretty freaking weird.
Joe Rogan
I'll send it to Jamie because this is. I mean, she's just going all in. First of all, I don't even know if this is a real picture. I mean, this easily could be some AI that somebody created to try to pretend that the brother is actually, actually her. But the brother is, like, not to be found. And if that's real. See, I don't know if that's real.
Bridget Phetasy
Real.
Joe Rogan
I don't know if that's real because, I mean, even the teeth are the same. Like, everything's the same. Every wrinkle of the face is the same. If that's. If that was my brother, if my brother looked, I'd be like, wait a minute, we're not twins. So we're not Twins. Like what?
C
Looks Photoshopped. The mouse death, folks. Photoshopped.
Joe Rogan
How so?
C
Because, like you said, the teeth are exact.
Joe Rogan
Yeah, exact. In the exact position. Right?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah.
C
They're not even almost.
Joe Rogan
Right. It looks fake. It looks like somebody doctored up. Somebody used AI Cracks in the lips right here? Pretty much. Right. That's probably.
C
That mouth is Photoshopped.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. So you can't tell what's real and what's not real online anymore.
Bridget Phetasy
Nothing's real. Nothing.
Joe Rogan
You literally can't tell.
Bridget Phetasy
You have to operate from the idea that this is not real. You have to start there now.
Joe Rogan
Right. But also, this is just the beginning. Like, what are we going to be looking at five years from now? We're going to be looking at indescribable experiences that are indistinguishable from reality. Not just, like, images, but you're going to be able to, like, they're. You're going to be able to have experiences that aren't real.
Bridget Phetasy
Do you. Do you think that the, like, metaverse thing is going to take off? Like, people are going to be plugging.
Joe Rogan
In if it gets good enough?
Bridget Phetasy
Yeah. And cheap enough because it's kind of expensive.
Joe Rogan
It's expensive, but it's also weird to have something in your face. People feel weird, like wearing this big clunky thing. But if you can sit down and attach something to your head, and then all of a sudden, you're in another world, you're an avatar flying on a dragon. We're going to do it.
Bridget Phetasy
I mean, it sounds. Isn't like, Redman really into that?
Joe Rogan
Oh, loves it.
Bridget Phetasy
He's, like, famous in the metaverse.
Joe Rogan
He goes in there every night. He has, like, parties and stuff. He's a nut. But it's perfect for someone like him. He's video game guy. Loves the Internet.
Bridget Phetasy
Matt was telling me like, he, like, took him to a com. You can do a type 5 at a comedy club there. It's crazy.
Joe Rogan
Well, Zuckerberg's. Me, that too. There's a. There's a Metaverse comedy club. Yeah.
Bridget Phetasy
But you. He's like, you had to, like, know people to get in. And he's famous. I was like, this is not there. It's nuts that this already exists to me.
Joe Rogan
Well, it's just the beginning. It's only good. That's Pong, you know, and whatever it's going to be, like, 20 years from now is going to be something really wild.
Bridget Phetasy
Isn't it weird to think that, like, you might just exist forever in the. In the metaverse? Talking because you've done so many podcasts will just be able to cut and paste and make you kind of like.
Joe Rogan
Not even just that they'll.
Bridget Phetasy
God and the future.
Joe Rogan
Well, they'll be able to get a map of how I think and how I go over things and how I go. Well, maybe not. Let's look at that. And then they'll apply that sort of thinking. And they'll be able to do podcasts with me, with anyone in history. I'll be able to have a podcast with Albert Einstein.
Bridget Phetasy
I always think about this when I see the people who get tattoos of you. I'm like, future civilizations are going to be like, who was this man? He must have been someone important. Maybe a shaman or a Brahmin. Like.
Joe Rogan
No, he's a brocade fighting commentator. Yeah, me and Einstein.
Bridget Phetasy
Oh.
Joe Rogan
Just chilling. Look at him. That's a young Einstein.
C
Too trained a thing to have. I was looking into this. They can already do it.
Bridget Phetasy
What?
Joe Rogan
Let me hear this.
C
They don't have their.
Joe Rogan
Oh, they don't have their voices.
C
Yeah, but I've seen one where they did.
Joe Rogan
Oh, Nikola Tesla. Oh, I'd love to have a podcast with him. They already did a podcast with me and Steve Jobs.
Bridget Phetasy
Did they?
Joe Rogan
Yeah, an audio one. An audio podcast with me and Steve Jobs. It's crude. You can kind of tell that it's not real, but that's just because it's, you know, first generation.
Bridget Phetasy
That's really weird.
Joe Rogan
Yeah. We gotta wrap this up. Okay. Thank you very much, my friend. Always great to see you for having. Always a pleasure. Tell everybody how to get your stuff, where to find you.
Bridget Phetasy
Just go to go to my YouTube and subscribe. That's the best thing you can do.
Joe Rogan
What's the YouTube?
Bridget Phetasy
It's Bridget fetishy. I don't even know my YouTube. It's phetasy. P H E T A S Y Dumpster Fire is the show Fantasy dot com.
Joe Rogan
All that stuff.
Bridget Phetasy
Bridget Fetishy online. Yeah, you can find me.
Joe Rogan
All right, my friend. Appreciate you.
Bridget Phetasy
Thank you.
Joe Rogan
Bye. Love you too. Bye, everybody.
Bridget Phetasy
Bye.
Joe Rogan
It.
Podcast Summary: The Joe Rogan Experience #2270 - Bridget Phetasy
Release Date: February 10, 2025
Hosts:
The episode opens with a discussion on the nature of success and the perpetual desire for "more." Joe Rogan emphasizes the importance of understanding one's motivations to avoid falling into a "hamster wheel" mentality.
Joe Rogan ([00:25]): "You don't wanna just be on a hamster wheel."
Bridget Phetasy counters by questioning whether everyone pursues more success, sharing her contentment with her achievements.
Bridget Phetasy ([00:27]): "I'm a little successful and I'm happy."
The conversation segues into the role of gratitude in achieving happiness. Both hosts highlight gratitude as a crucial mechanism for shifting perspectives, especially in combating anxiety and depression.
Joe Rogan ([01:34]): "Gratitude is very important. It's really important to be thankful for what you have."
Bridget recounts her experience dating a wealthy individual who still felt financially inadequate despite his substantial net worth.
Bridget Phetasy ([03:03]): "He felt poor. I was crying with that. Like, where does that leave the rest of us schmucks?"
Joe agrees, stressing that wealth alone doesn't guarantee happiness. He outlines essential components of well-being: health and meaningful relationships.
Joe Rogan ([04:19]): "You need your health above all. You have to have friends."
They discuss how genuine connections, including playful banter and mutual respect, contribute significantly to personal happiness.
Bridget shares her struggles with addiction and how she avoids obsessing over analytics to maintain her mental health.
Bridget Phetasy ([00:34]): "I try to stay away from analytics... I never want to take the audience we have for granted."
The hosts delve into how gratitude has been instrumental in Bridget's journey to sobriety and managing anxiety.
Bridget Phetasy ([01:49]): "Gratitude is a powerful mechanism for shifting your perspective."
A significant portion of the conversation revolves around the advancements in AI and their implications. The discussion touches on AI influencers, the potential for AI to become sentient, and the ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence.
Joe Rogan ([30:48]): "It's like, Am I an ableist? He's like, she's a retard."
Bridget expresses unease about AI-generated content and its ability to manipulate reality, raising concerns about surveillance and privacy.
Bridget Phetasy ([29:23]): "They can find... a CCTV camera and show them taking the photo kind of too."
Joe elaborates on the vulnerabilities of current digital privacy, referencing the Pegasus spyware and the inherent risks of AI surveillance.
Joe Rogan ([28:34]): "There's no privacy. Yeah. No, not from the state, not."
The hosts speculate on future technologies like Neuralink and immersive virtual reality, pondering their impact on human interaction and privacy.
Joe Rogan ([32:23]): "They're working on... AR glasses that they have."
Joe and Bridget critically examine government-funded NGOs and the alleged corruption within USAID. They argue that government funds are misappropriated through a complex web of non-governmental organizations, leading to significant financial waste and manipulation of public perception.
Joe Rogan ([13:49]): "What it is is an enormous slush fund. Unaccountability and money just coming and going."
Bridget highlights the public's indifference toward governmental corruption due to the overwhelming focus on other issues, such as social policies.
Bridget Phetasy ([14:24]): "People have sensed this... but I think they've just hopelessly kind of surrendered."
The discussion extends to the impact of social media on political polarization, censorship, and the role of influential figures like Elon Musk in reshaping online discourse.
Joe Rogan ([11:12]): "Randall Carlson's stuff... physical evidence that we were hit at 11,800 years ago."
The hosts debate the role of social media in today's society, emphasizing the challenges of maintaining free speech amidst increasing censorship. Joe criticizes how platforms are influenced by political ideologies, which hampers genuine free expression.
Joe Rogan ([08:17]): "There's not a bullet in the chamber."
Bridget discusses the manipulation of social media by entrenched political narratives, asserting that true free speech is endangered.
Bridget Phetasy ([13:04]): "Salt the earth... DEI stuff needs to be gone."
Joe recounts his experience attending a major political inauguration, highlighting the overwhelming presence of wealthy and influential individuals and the superficial interactions that ensue.
Joe Rogan ([57:35]): "It's pro wrestling."
Bridget shares a transformative trip to Egypt, where she felt a deep spiritual connection and experienced psychological distress, leading her to seek solace through yoga and self-reflection.
Bridget Phetasy ([152:46]): "It felt supernatural. I couldn't even leave the hotel room."
The conversation shifts to healthcare fraud, with Joe detailing cases of doctors performing unnecessary treatments for financial gain. They discuss the broader implications of such unethical practices within the medical industry.
Joe Rogan ([136:55]): "I know people... performing unnecessary surgeries."
Bridget emphasizes the prevalence of provider-side fraud, noting how systemic issues facilitate such misconduct.
Bridget Phetasy ([137:05]): "There's provider side fraud that is very well known."
The hosts speculate on the future trajectory of society influenced by AI and virtual reality. They contemplate scenarios where AI becomes autonomous, leading to significant societal shifts or even existential threats.
Joe Rogan ([41:26]): "It's the Manhattan Project for artificial intelligence."
Bridget raises concerns about global conflicts, such as the Israel-Palestine situation, and the potential for increased government overreach through technological advancements.
Joe Rogan ([64:12]): "Have you seen the Kamal one doing the Heil Hitler?"
As the episode concludes, Joe and Bridget reflect on the challenges of discerning truth in an era dominated by AI, social media manipulation, and political corruption. They advocate for critical thinking, self-education, and skepticism towards mainstream narratives to navigate the complexities of the modern world.
Joe Rogan ([81:00]): "You have to operate from the idea that this is not real. You have to start there now."
Bridget Phetasy ([82:13]): "Take all your advice. I don't read the comments and I post. And ghosts."
Notable Quotes:
Gratitude and Success:
Joe Rogan ([01:34]): "Gratitude is very important. It's really important to be thankful for what you have."
Wealth Doesn't Equal Happiness:
Bridget Phetasy ([03:03]): "He felt poor. I was crying with that. Like, where does that leave the rest of us schmucks?"
AI and Privacy Concerns:
Bridget Phetasy ([29:23]): "They can find... a CCTV camera and show them taking the photo kind of too."
Government Corruption:
Joe Rogan ([13:49]): "What it is is an enormous slush fund. Unaccountability and money just coming and going."
Navigating Information:
Joe Rogan ([81:00]): "You have to operate from the idea that this is not real. You have to start there now."
Key Takeaways:
Holistic View of Success: True happiness stems from gratitude, health, and genuine relationships, rather than mere financial success.
AI's Double-Edged Sword: While AI offers remarkable advancements, it poses significant threats to privacy and autonomy, necessitating cautious development and regulation.
Government Accountability: There is a pressing need to audit and reform government-funded organizations to eliminate corruption and ensure responsible use of taxpayer money.
Social Media's Role: Platforms are increasingly influenced by political ideologies, which jeopardizes free speech and authentic discourse.
Healthcare Ethics: Systemic issues in the medical industry facilitate unethical practices like healthcare fraud, undermining trust in medical professionals.
Future Uncertainties: The intersection of AI, virtual reality, and global politics presents both opportunities and existential risks, requiring proactive societal adaptation.
Personal Agency: In an era of information overload and manipulation, critical thinking and self-education are essential for individuals to navigate truth and maintain autonomy.
Further Recommendations:
Listeners interested in the topics discussed are encouraged to:
Research USAID and Government Funds: Understanding the complexities of government-funded NGOs can provide insight into potential corruption and misallocation of resources.
Stay Informed on AI Developments: Keeping abreast of advancements in AI and their ethical implications is crucial for anticipating future societal changes.
Practice Mindful Consumption of Media: Developing a habit of critical evaluation of information sources can help mitigate the effects of propaganda and misinformation.
Foster Genuine Relationships: Prioritizing meaningful connections over superficial success can enhance personal well-being and resilience against societal pressures.
Note: This summary is based on the provided transcript and aims to encapsulate the primary discussions and viewpoints expressed by the hosts during the episode.