#1541 - Bridget Phetasy

Joe Rogan (0:04)

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Joe Rogan (0:17)

I'm sorry for being late for the most California reason ever. I really, I thought I was meditating for 20 minutes, and I was 45 minutes in. I was like, what happened?

Bridget Phetasy (0:24)

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

Joe Rogan (0:29)

Well, I would do it occasionally.

Bridget Phetasy (0:30)

Yeah, but you weren't really into it.

Joe Rogan (0:31)

Most of the time, I was getting in the tank, which is kind of like meditating, but the tank is its own thing.

But yeah, I've been doing, I had this guy James Nestor on. He's the author of Breathe. Breath, breathe, breath, breath, breath, breath. The book is Breath. I always forget which one has the E at the end.

But I really got into breathing exercises afterwards, and so I mean, I'm calling it meditating, but I'm really doing both. I'm meditating and doing, while I'm doing these breathing exercises, I'm just concentrating on breath. It is the best fucking stress reliever. It just, ooh, it all goes away.

Bridget Phetasy (1:10)

I've taught yoga, and I always said, if you had to choose all the different parts of that practice, if I had to tell somebody just to do one, it would be the breathing exercises are the best.

Joe Rogan (1:22)

Yeah, there's something about it too, that you don't realize how shallow your breath is most of the day until you sit down, you do these big, I do six in, six out. So six seconds in, big.

And then, and I did it for 45 minutes today, just in and out. And by the end, my skin is tingling. I'm like, I feel high. It's wild.

Bridget Phetasy (1:45)

I know, that's why I love that. I was mentioning the last time I was on Sam Harris's meditations, because they have you reflecting on your own consciousness.

It's like, notice, pay attention to where you're paying attention, or what, it's so trippy. And I'll get it in my head, and next thing I know, I'm like, this is like taking acid.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

I love Sam Harris.

Bridget Phetasy (2:05)

I love him so much.

Joe Rogan (2:06)

He's terrified of the COVID though.

Bridget Phetasy (2:08)

Is he?

Joe Rogan (2:08)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not doing anything live.

Bridget Phetasy (2:10)

Really?

Jamie (2:11)

Oh, he's not.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

He's the one who had me so scared.

Bridget Phetasy (2:16)

I feel like I'm like, come out and play, Sam.

Joe Rogan (2:18)

But he knew somebody though, that got it early in Italy and got really sick.

Bridget Phetasy (2:23)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:23)

But then upon questioning, I was asking him a bunch of things, like the guy was drinking, like the guy was partying and then he was skiing and then he caught COVID.

So the people that I know that have got it and got it bad were all compromised. Yeah. They were all beaten down, worn out, and then it got him. That's where it gets scary.

Bridget Phetasy (2:40)

Or you don't know, we had a friend whose boyfriend's brother died of it and he got it, but he was sick for two weeks and his wife was like, please go, and he didn't because he's a dude. And then he went and found out that he had like diabetes or something. He didn't even know he had it. And so he was compromised and it was really tragic and sad.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Well, a nurse was telling us she was, how harsh is she?

Bridget Phetasy (3:08)

Yeah, she's hardcore. Harsh, harsh, I like it though.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

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

Bridget Phetasy (3:19)

Oh yeah, I've been hearing this.

Joe Rogan (3:21)

Fucking getting pneumonia and dying from vaping.

Bridget Phetasy (3:23)

Here's a fun story. I was talking to my physical therapist and he is married to an Italian woman. So they were hearing all the stories from Italy and then all the whole thing about like hydrochloroquine came out.

The hydroxychloroquine, however the hell you say it.

And he had been hearing from the people in Italy that this was kind of working and it was helping. So after Trump said it was helping, he was trying to get some on the west side and he's like, all these motherfuckers who are talking shit about it, you couldn't get it anywhere on the west side of LA. Every rich person in LA went out and bought it and then was like, oh, we shouldn't be listening to this. He's like, but you couldn't get it anywhere.