#2179 - Bridget Phetasy

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Do you have a new phone?

Bridget Phetasy (0:37)

📢📢📢📢 What year is that one? This one is like one of the rehabbed ones.

SPEAKER_5 (0:38)

Those are still good, though.

Bridget Phetasy (0:38)

Like, which number is it? 13, I think.

SPEAKER_5 (0:38)

Oh, those are still good.

SPEAKER_2 (0:39)

I have an 11 that's still good.

Bridget Phetasy (0:39)

I keep an 11 for one of my numbers, one of my bullshit numbers.

Joe Rogan (0:40)

For what?

SPEAKER_5 (0:40)

There are certain people you can't give the real number to. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_2 (0:40)

Why would you even give them a number, though?

Joe Rogan (0:41)

You're like a straightforward guy. Because you have to sometimes. Sometimes you have to communicate with people.

But you want a phone that you just stick in a fucking drawer somewhere.

Bridget Phetasy (0:46)

Yeah, and check once a month.

Joe Rogan (0:48)

If that. Yeah.

It just gets crazy where so many relationships become like completely transactional and, you know, like every time someone texts you, they want something. And it's just so frustrating.

Bridget Phetasy (1:02)

I can see it.

Even being your friend, I can see it from a fucking mile away now. People will be like, hey, Bridget, I'm like, I'm not introducing you, Joe, leave me alone.

Joe Rogan (1:16)

All my friends have a story. Somebody who has a business idea, no, I mean, I'm going to help them sell skateboards.

SPEAKER_5 (1:21)

If someone's like, hey, let's get coffee. It's been too long.

Bridget Phetasy (1:24)

I'm like, nope, not doing it.

Joe Rogan (1:29)

That's hilarious.

Bridget Phetasy (1:30)

I had a friend from high school reach out randomly.

SPEAKER_5 (1:32)

Hey, Bridge.

Bridget Phetasy (1:35)

I see it. I see it from a mile away now.

SPEAKER_5 (1:37)

I'm like, what is it like to be you?

Joe Rogan (1:40)

It's odd.

Bridget Phetasy (1:44)

Because I'm just like an outer asteroid in the universe, but imagine being like the planet itself.

Joe Rogan (1:51)

I've managed to stay myself, which is shocking.

Bridget Phetasy (1:55)

Yeah, you have.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

But I have really good friends. My friends are really good friends.

Bridget Phetasy (1:59)

And I think you have friends who take the piss out of you.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

And they've been my friends for 20, 30 years.

Bridget Phetasy (2:06)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

Like Joey and I have been friends for almost 30 years, 27 years or 28 years. It might be 30 now. Fuck.

I might have met him in 94

Bridget Phetasy (2:17)

It helps to have like, I was asking my husband right before I left about a tweet I was going to send out and he's like, meh. And I was like, is this too much? And then I was like, fine. He's like, oh, what do you just want me to like clap for you?

I was like, I'm so glad you're my husband.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah, you definitely need someone who's not impressed.

Bridget Phetasy (2:35)

No, not impressed at all.

Joe Rogan (2:37)

At the very least, maybe not impressed, but also not bullshitting you.

Bridget Phetasy (2:42)

He won't bullshit anyone. He suffers no fools at all.

Joe Rogan (2:45)

That's great. That ensures that you won't live in a world of compromise.

Bridget Phetasy (2:49)

No.

Joe Rogan (2:50)

Some people are OK. They just fuck up every now. And then you have to tell them, hey, man, don't lie to me.

You don't have to lie.

SPEAKER_6 (2:56)

Don't do that.

Joe Rogan (2:58)

But it's just this weird thing that people fall back on, bullshitting and lying. They just fall back on it. And they don't even know they're doing it to themselves.

You will have less respect for yourself. So it's not worth it.

It's not worth it because you just create these things that aren't real in your life, these relationships, these friendships that aren't based on reality.

If a person can't handle the truth, you can't tell them, hey, that sucks. You've got to work on this. You've got to change this. You've got to do that. If you don't do that, it's not going to get any better. You're like, what? I thought it was the best book ever written.

Bridget Phetasy (3:35)

No, no. I've had all my favorite editors have been so hard on me. I want honest criticism.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

Yeah, you write jokes for your haters. Write jokes to turn them over. Like, that was a pretty good one.

Stan Hope told me once that he writes jokes like a defense attorney.