The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guest： Bridget Phetasy ｜ 8⧸20⧸19

00:00:00.000 Hey, podcasters. It's a great show today. We're talking about a lot of things. Peter King, of course, the assault on the weapons ban.

00:00:07.580 We kind of kind of take that apart. Peter might be wrong on that.

00:00:15.140 Also, the meaning that we have all lost and perhaps why we're shooting ourselves and others.

00:00:23.740 And Bridget Phetasy joins us. She's probably one of the most screwed up people I know, and I love her for it. 0.97

00:00:28.740 But she is she is somebody who has she's politically homeless. 1.00

00:00:34.780 She just started. She was in default mode, factory settings of, oh, yeah, I'm a progressive because that's what my parents were.

00:00:41.500 Then she started to pay attention because she had to talk about that.

00:00:45.280 We talked about Joe Rogan, ransomware, the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment.

00:00:51.760 And we look at the rights and privileges, which I don't think I've ever heard anybody talk about it this way.

00:00:58.080 You don't want to miss it all on today's podcast.

00:01:06.680 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

00:01:14.980 The assault weapons ban.

00:01:16.760 The Democratic leaders have been reluctant to advance despite strong support among their rank and file members in the House.

00:01:23.480 It's just got its first Republican backer.

00:01:27.280 Yay, it's Pete King.

00:01:30.140 Peter King said these are weapons of mass slaughter.

00:01:36.380 Huh.

00:01:37.620 I don't see any need for them in everyday society.

00:01:41.580 Huh.

00:01:42.180 I mean, if Pete doesn't see it, then then it's a constitution says there's a Pete clause.

00:01:47.420 Yeah.

00:01:47.980 In the constitution that anyone named Pete.

00:01:49.620 She'll not be infringed except by a guy named Pete.

00:01:52.180 Right.

00:01:52.360 So that's why Mayor Pete is such a big candidate on the left.

00:01:54.720 Right.

00:01:55.140 Because he can step in and ban anything.

00:01:57.060 At any time.

00:01:57.260 Because it's due to the Pete clause.

00:01:58.100 Right.

00:01:58.800 There is no Pete clause.

00:02:00.880 You know, it's really amazing to me.

00:02:02.740 Let me explain the constitution.

00:02:06.600 Right now, people are saying we have to change the constitution and take that right away.

00:02:14.480 Now, what does it say in our Declaration of Independence?

00:02:20.000 What is our mission statement?

00:02:22.800 We hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:02:25.360 That all men are created equal.

00:02:27.460 There is no Pete clause.

00:02:29.160 That all men are created equal.

00:02:31.040 And are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable, unchangeable rights.

00:02:39.520 Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

00:02:41.840 So let me take it out of the political realm.

00:02:44.480 What was the story yesterday, Stu?

00:02:49.860 Oh, the story yesterday that talked about how 45, was it 45 children or 35 children?

00:02:57.420 35 children have been killed in a hot car this year alone.

00:03:05.040 Last year, it was like 56 people were killed in a hot car.

00:03:09.180 52.

00:03:09.540 And it was children.

00:03:10.160 52 children.

00:03:10.760 Children. 1.00

00:03:10.900 What happens is the parents are so dumb, they leave their kid in a hot car. 1.00

00:03:19.480 Now, your kid can die within 15 minutes. 1.00

00:03:23.020 Left in a hot car, a car can go up in temperature within 10 minutes.

00:03:28.440 And a child can die in 15.

00:03:32.860 Now, we all seem to know not to do that to dogs.

00:03:36.440 But our children, well, they're sleeping.

00:03:40.180 Yeah, and it's 100 degrees outside.

00:03:42.560 Or it's 90 degrees outside.

00:03:44.440 And that car is an oven.

00:03:47.280 So what are you going to do about it?

00:03:51.900 There are more kids that die in hot cars than there were kids that were killed by guns this year.

00:04:00.820 Well, you're talking about mass shootings.

00:04:04.000 Yeah, mass shootings.

00:04:04.880 Am I misunderstanding?

00:04:06.000 Yeah.

00:04:06.180 Because, I mean, we talked about this a little bit yesterday.

00:04:08.200 The Washington Post made up this big profile.

00:04:10.960 And they said 54 years, 165 mass shootings, 1,196 victims.

00:04:15.680 And they listed them all in very tiny print to kind of give you this overwhelming feeling that, like, how the fig of a problem is.

00:04:21.580 Well, that winds up to be 22 people per year.

00:04:24.780 22 people per year.

00:04:25.480 That's a big problem.

00:04:26.040 It is.

00:04:26.360 It is not nothing.

00:04:27.380 It's a big deal.

00:04:28.480 35 children just this year in a hot car.

00:04:31.580 Last year, it was 52 children.

00:04:33.760 That's a lot.

00:04:35.420 That's a lot.

00:04:36.580 That's way too many.

00:04:38.180 No kid should die in a hot car.

00:04:40.700 That's crazy.

00:04:41.440 But we don't ban cars.

00:04:43.700 Now, here's the other thing we don't ban.

00:04:46.600 We also don't tell people you have to have a license and a background check to have a child.

00:04:55.480 Why?

00:04:56.560 Now, to adopt, sure.

00:04:59.900 But to have a child?

00:05:02.440 No.

00:05:02.920 That is your inalienable right.

00:05:07.040 That power to have a child was bestowed on you with God.

00:05:11.840 So, if your body is working the way God intended it, well, you can have a child.

00:05:22.100 And no one, no one in this country would say, oh, well, let's infringe on those rights.

00:05:28.840 You know, I want to see, before you have a child, I want to make sure that you're a good parent.

00:05:34.720 I want to make sure that you're the right kind of people.

00:05:37.980 You know the only people who ever infringed on that?

00:05:41.440 Progressives.

00:05:43.120 Progressives.

00:05:43.720 It's the reason we have a blood test.

00:05:47.160 Now, why do we have a blood test today?

00:05:49.820 Why do we have it?

00:05:52.000 I mean, do they do anything with it?

00:05:54.380 What the hell is the blood test for?

00:05:55.960 The blood test was to make sure that you weren't marrying any cousins. 0.99

00:06:02.080 You weren't marrying any undesirables. 1.00

00:06:05.020 You're not going to marry one of them useless people. 0.98

00:06:09.280 It was the beginning steps of eugenics to make sure that we only allow the right people to breed. 1.00

00:06:19.500 We don't want a country of imbeciles and idiots and, quote, coloreds. 1.00

00:06:25.140 That's why we have the blood test and the marriage license. 1.00

00:06:31.140 It was an evil reason to start it.

00:06:35.780 So now, what the hell are we doing?

00:06:39.020 Do they have a right to do that?

00:06:40.940 Do you think they have a right to tell you, hey, by the way, you can only have one child?

00:06:45.340 No.

00:06:46.160 Because it's a God-given right.

00:06:48.980 That's what the Bill of Rights means.

00:06:57.060 That's what our Declaration of Independence means.

00:06:59.500 That's what's different about us than any other country.

00:07:02.940 We say that man is born with certain rights.

00:07:07.400 And one of those rights is to defend yourself.

00:07:12.640 Well, how are you going to defend yourself?

00:07:14.780 What, you're going to defend yourself against the United States military?

00:07:18.580 Well, yeah, it seems to me that ISIS and Al Qaeda and everybody else was doing a pretty good job.

00:07:24.720 Seems like the rebels in the Middle East are doing a pretty good job.

00:07:28.120 What is it that why are they holding up flags, American flags and signs that say we need a Second Amendment in Hong Kong today?

00:07:37.580 Because, yes, if that's your only, if that's the last resort, if your government has become so tyrannical, yes, I will defend myself against fighter jets and tanks.

00:07:52.080 I will.

00:07:54.300 We all will.

00:07:55.680 They come and they round people up in countries because they can't defend themselves.

00:08:09.040 You have a right to self-defense.

00:08:13.220 You have an inalienable right.

00:08:17.200 Now, of course, these guns are mass destruction weapons.

00:08:22.580 Okay, let's, let's, let's, let's not equate any gun to what Russia just blew up accidentally in one of their, one of their towns. 0.81

00:08:35.200 Oops, there goes a nuclear weapon.

00:08:38.660 That's a weapon of mass destruction.

00:08:42.120 A weapon of war?

00:08:43.920 Any gun, any knife, any pair of hands is a weapon of war.

00:08:52.580 What's happening right now is Peter King and others on the Democrat or Republican side, they don't understand the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, any of the amendments.

00:09:05.740 They don't understand them, shall not be infringed, infringed, shall not be.

00:09:15.260 You can't change this right.

00:09:18.560 It's the only one that has that clause in it.

00:09:24.300 You know, it doesn't say, hey, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

00:09:27.100 It says, just says, shall not.

00:09:28.960 Congress shall not do these things.

00:09:30.980 This one is, no, no, no, not only say you shall not take these guns, you shall not even infringe on them.

00:09:39.480 You can't even come close to this one.

00:09:41.940 Well, you know, you're what?

00:09:43.360 You're not going to ban somebody crying fire from a crowded movie theater?

00:09:49.320 Well, that one doesn't say shall not be infringed, does it?

00:09:53.560 This one does.

00:09:55.000 And it's not that I love guns.

00:10:02.220 It's that I love freedom.

00:10:04.640 I love freedom.

00:10:10.680 What is the real cause of what's happening to us?

00:10:15.260 I'll get to it here in 60 seconds.

00:10:18.720 Stand by.

00:10:19.040 Stand by.

00:10:19.080 Stand by.

00:10:19.120 Stand by.

00:10:19.180 Stand by.

00:10:25.000 I want to talk to you about the real problem in our society that no one seems to want to address.

00:10:34.200 But it is everywhere.

00:10:37.560 We are in a society right now that is fundamentally changing.

00:10:42.880 We are changing on many, many levels.

00:10:46.720 We're changing.

00:10:48.600 We're changing jobs.

00:10:50.520 We know that things are not going to be the same.

00:10:53.960 Massive companies are trying to find their way through this change.

00:11:01.460 Our towns are changing.

00:11:03.580 There's no jobs in many of our small towns in America.

00:11:07.920 Farming is seemingly dying in this nation.

00:11:12.640 We are a nation of farmers.

00:11:15.960 When you lose that, you begin to lose real meaning.

00:11:22.220 Our city skylines are so bright, we can't even see the stars and ask ourselves,

00:11:28.880 Wow, who are we?

00:11:32.060 Let alone, who am I? 0.99

00:11:37.620 We are being filled with meaningless junk. 0.96

00:11:40.780 We're a nation of shoppers. 0.92

00:11:47.160 We're all trying to fill some empty hole.

00:11:53.060 There doesn't seem to be any answers.

00:11:55.540 Not from the ages.

00:11:56.780 No.

00:11:57.460 Look backward.

00:11:58.860 Look backward and see if you can find any answers.

00:12:01.720 No.

00:12:01.940 Nobody at any time had any good answers.

00:12:04.500 No.

00:12:04.780 It's all new answers.

00:12:05.880 That doesn't make sense.

00:12:10.780 Our children aren't talking to each other.

00:12:13.180 We're just texting one another.

00:12:14.780 We're becoming animals online.

00:12:21.980 There's a real problem with depression.

00:12:26.880 Suicides are through the roof.

00:12:28.840 What is the cause of mass shooters?

00:12:31.560 Most times, it's loneliness.

00:12:38.280 They've been ostracized.

00:12:40.680 They feel alone.

00:12:43.000 They don't have any meaning in their life.

00:12:46.180 They're looking just for something to make them feel, or worse, looking for something to make them famous.

00:12:54.380 Because that's how empty we are.

00:12:57.240 Do you know that scientists now say they're on the verge of creating a pill to make loneliness go away?

00:13:11.700 What the hell does that pill do to you?

00:13:17.420 It makes you not feel lonely?

00:13:19.960 Should we not be working on a pill, and maybe perhaps working on ourselves, to be able to see people for who they are, and where they're going, and what's happening in their life?

00:13:39.360 Depression is something that hits, and you think it's logical.

00:13:46.180 It starts someplace logical, and then it's like a snowball, and if you're prone to clinical depression at all, and we all go through periods of time in our life where this happens to us.

00:14:04.420 There's a chemical reaction.

00:14:06.180 You're not getting the endorphins in your brain that you need, and so what happens is it starts out logical, and then it becomes clinical.

00:14:16.440 Then it becomes chemical, and you go further and further and further down until you start thinking, you know, the answer is the world's better without me, but I'm not going alone.

00:14:26.460 Who's having a serious conversation about the mental health of our society?

00:14:46.520 Who's having that conversation?

00:14:48.540 Why do you think drugs, opioids are so out of whack right now?

00:14:54.640 We're having an epidemic.

00:14:57.260 It's worse than anything I think we've ever had before, and I've lived a few years.

00:15:04.520 I remember how bad crack was.

00:15:07.040 I remember the heroin plague.

00:15:09.420 I remember all of this.

00:15:10.720 This is worse because it's coming in pills, and it's going everywhere.

00:15:16.800 It's in the inner city.

00:15:18.200 It's in the heartland.

00:15:19.660 It's happening with old people, business people, homeless people.

00:15:26.420 It's happening with everybody, and it's rotting us from the inside.

00:15:34.340 It's an opioid crisis.

00:15:36.160 It's not an opioid crisis.

00:15:38.780 It's a gun crisis.

00:15:40.060 It's not a gun crisis.

00:15:42.240 It's a human crisis.

00:15:46.220 It's a soul crisis.

00:15:47.720 It's a loneliness crisis.

00:15:49.900 It's a lack of meaning crisis.

00:15:52.720 It's a depression crisis.

00:15:59.060 People only shoot other people when they feel there's no meaning attached to anything.

00:16:06.020 I finished a book today.

00:16:18.660 I finished it this morning.

00:16:21.640 It's called The Volunteer, and it's a guy who was a Polish resistance fighter.

00:16:34.240 He started fighting against the Germans from the minute they got in.

00:16:39.240 He's just a normal, ordinary guy, and what happened to him was he just changed.

00:16:48.740 He saw a need, and he just changed, and he went and he volunteered to go to Auschwitz to see if he could help, 0.70

00:17:01.700 and then he fought his whole life.

00:17:04.580 His whole life was just hell.

00:17:06.000 He was in Auschwitz for two years, then escaped.

00:17:09.240 I mean, the things that happened to him, just horrible.

00:17:13.400 I want to share one thing that he wrote just before he was killed by the Russians.

00:17:23.200 It, it is our answer.

00:17:30.740 It's not more gun control, drug control, or anything else.

00:17:34.040 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:17:50.000 Hey, it's Glenn, and if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.

00:17:55.640 His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.

00:17:59.160 Bridget Phetasy.

00:18:02.100 She is a comedian.

00:18:04.560 She is a writer. 0.98

00:18:06.700 She's really screwed up, and that's why I think I like her so much, because I can relate to her so much. 0.97

00:18:15.340 She joins us now. 0.97

00:18:16.580 She's just written an article for The Spectator called The Battle Cry of the Politically Homeless.

00:18:23.480 Hello, fellow traveler.

00:18:25.240 How are you?

00:18:25.740 That's quite an intro. 0.97

00:18:28.180 She's really screwed up. 0.99

00:18:29.760 Well, I mean, you are. 0.99

00:18:31.380 Let's be, let's be honest.

00:18:32.740 Yes.

00:18:34.020 So, Bridget, just for anybody who doesn't know you, you were a writer for Playboy.

00:18:41.120 You, you've always considered yourself a progressive, but you're not somebody who really even thought about it.

00:18:47.820 You just did your life, right?

00:18:50.100 Yeah, I kind of always refer to it as my factory settings.

00:18:53.340 It was more, you know, it was like I was in a Google self-driving car, and I just was born and raised a liberal Democrat and worked really hard and was chasing, you know, paycheck after paycheck and never really paid attention.

00:19:10.620 I was told that people like yourself are evil and just kept moving until I came out of my coma in 2013.

00:19:20.800 And you came out of your coma because you started saying things that all of a sudden were not politically correct.

00:19:28.720 And you're like, wait a minute.

00:19:29.480 Yeah, the culture, I mean, I think the culture has shifted to the extremes in both directions.

00:19:37.640 So, perhaps a lot of people haven't moved.

00:19:41.220 The culture moved around us.

00:19:44.300 And so I was not aware of this.

00:19:46.540 It wasn't like I was online participating in the culture wars all of these years, and I just stumbled into them.

00:19:53.680 And I think this is true for a lot of Americans.

00:19:57.880 And so now you write this for The Spectator because nobody is, I mean, you've been erased from Playboy.

00:20:05.660 I mean, that's saying something.

00:20:07.020 They don't erase anything.

00:20:09.300 But all of your articles that you wrote for them for a long time, they're all gone, very popular, gone.

00:20:16.480 Very popular.

00:20:17.240 And you've kind of been, as the Chinese would say, disappeared.

00:20:24.240 I have a bit, yeah.

00:20:26.180 Right.

00:20:26.780 It's an interesting time.

00:20:28.140 Right.

00:20:28.460 And so the people that are talking to you are people like me, which you don't necessarily are, you're not necessarily thrilled about.

00:20:36.320 You're not like, oh.

00:20:37.440 I'm thrilled.

00:20:38.020 What?

00:20:39.460 I'm thrilled to be talking to you, Glenn.

00:20:41.740 How dare you?

00:20:42.380 No, but I mean, you know, you never saw yourself two years ago going, you know what?

00:20:48.220 I might be friends with Glenn Beck.

00:20:51.360 No, I would have.

00:20:52.540 I always say this because I got sober in 2013, and I say if you had told me in 2013 that I would have been friends with Glenn Beck, I would have been like, what drugs are you on?

00:21:02.120 Give me more of them.

00:21:03.320 So you, in this article, you talk about how you're just, you're somebody with a brain, you have your own ideas, you might disagree with people, but you're not in a tribe, and this has got to stop.

00:21:21.820 I think, you know, I get a lot of fair criticism on this, obviously, from the tribes, and I'm not so naive to think we live in a two-party system, essentially, when people might feel this way.

00:21:37.780 But then when the going gets tougher, it comes to voting day, they have to pick something.

00:21:43.020 Somebody, they have to make a choice.

00:21:44.580 But what, you know, I set up an email for people to tell me how they felt about this, and some people say nobody's shifted politically, they just are, they just think they might be more conservative, but the culture has shifted, which in a lot of cases is probably true.

00:22:04.400 And obviously, what I'm hearing is self-selected because I represent these people who don't feel represented, so these are the people who are writing me.

00:22:13.740 Now, what is interesting are the people who have shifted politically and are in swing states.

00:22:22.040 Those are the ones who are fascinating to me.

00:22:24.940 Like, a woman wrote to me from Florida, and she came center from the right because of Trump's often demonizing rhetoric, and she just doesn't like the way that he speaks.

00:22:37.320 And as she mentioned that she just doesn't know if she can stomach voting for him, but she certainly can't get on board with the left either.

00:22:49.040 And I said, you know, I asked her what she would do, and she doesn't know.

00:22:52.580 She, my biggest fear is that people like that woman will sit the election out completely. 1.00

00:22:58.400 That won't be good.

00:23:01.520 No.

00:23:02.060 That won't be good.

00:23:02.620 But there's a lot of people who are just saying, it's disgusting to me on both sides.

00:23:09.800 And not to be, you know, I think ultimately, too, the other refrain that I hear over and over and over again are people who have been alienated by the left.

00:23:21.160 And essentially, they say, Trump is a limited problem that we have to deal with.

00:23:30.540 What they're seeing on the left, socialism and free speech erosion in a social way, that kind of approved message that everybody needs to get on board with or be canceled,

00:23:46.040 that that is more insidious and dangerous in the long term than whatever is going on in the right.

00:23:53.440 So it's interesting.

00:23:54.900 It's interesting.

00:23:55.740 My inbox, and if people want to email me, they can.

00:23:59.220 I am politically homeless at Gmail.

00:24:01.320 Feel free.

00:24:01.860 I'd love to hear from anyone.

00:24:03.940 So the criticism I get from the right the most is that I'm of moral relativism.

00:24:09.360 And on the left, it's that I'm like a Martin Luther King kind of white moderate.

00:24:17.760 What is the left saying to you?

00:24:21.400 White? 0.92

00:24:21.740 I don't even understand that.

00:24:23.060 What?

00:24:23.460 That I'm like the equivalent of a good German.

00:24:26.380 And, you know, like or as they I heard like a thousand times that Martin Luther King had a lot to say about white moderates, 0.84

00:24:36.960 which is is ridiculous because not everybody right writing is white. 0.89

00:24:42.720 So this is bad argument. 0.96

00:24:44.900 We just we live in a bizarre time.

00:24:47.160 Listen to this.

00:24:48.180 I'd love to get your thoughts on this.

00:24:50.800 We all both sides have worried that our rights would be trampled by stormtroopers in the government.

00:24:58.340 Right.

00:24:59.080 We all thought, you know, the government's going to go fascist or communist or whatever.

00:25:02.240 And, you know, a bill of rights and they're all going to be taken by the government.

00:25:06.960 But really, it is insidious the way this is happening.

00:25:11.660 The government's really the government is really becoming Google, Amazon, you know, these giant corporations.

00:25:20.040 And the stormtroopers are just the mob.

00:25:23.180 Neither one of those are covered by the Constitution.

00:25:27.020 So, yeah, the the Google can isolate anyone they want.

00:25:32.980 The government couldn't because of the First Amendment.

00:25:35.320 But Google can.

00:25:37.420 And the enforcers are not coming from the government.

00:25:40.460 They're coming from the people.

00:25:41.920 Yeah, this is this is what's deeply concerning to me is when I, you know, on my good days, I feel like that kind of cancel culture, in particular, where I'm seeing it on the left and progress and progressives.

00:26:01.020 Nobody's pure.

00:26:01.960 Nobody can pass these purity tests constantly.

00:26:04.780 Eventually, this snake will eat. 0.67

00:26:06.600 It's like a snake eating its own tail.

00:26:08.800 Eventually, it has to eat itself and maybe fizzle out.

00:26:12.600 But then I see something like what happened with Sarah Silverman, for instance, last week, where she went on a podcast and she was talking about how she got she lost in a movie role because of her because of the sketch she did in 2007 in which she was in blackface.

00:26:30.620 And and and apologize for in like 2010 on her own show and apologizing.

00:26:37.700 Yeah. And and it was I believe it was a it was a criticism.

00:26:43.080 You know, she was making fun of racism.

00:26:45.000 And so this is the stuff that is deeply worrisome to me because we have to offer people paths to redemption.

00:26:58.880 And when you're canceling people for things that they've apologized for, that they maybe have learned from it, I don't know from from the perspective of somebody who was a Democrat and looking at perhaps what the Democrats are doing going into 2020.

00:27:17.120 I don't actually see how that's helpful to them.

00:27:20.740 Now, you know, people on your show are like, good, they're walking right into a brick wall again, which I I understand.

00:27:28.940 But from the perspective of somebody who is I often hear that, you know, if you're in the center, all of these YouTube is creating this path to the right.

00:27:40.240 And there's only a path to the right. Well, that's because the far left has eroded the center left.

00:27:47.220 And there is no path to the left, essentially, if you're if you're a moderate even at all, you're essentially, you know, I don't I don't even know if you're right.

00:27:58.580 If you're right of Bernie, you're essentially a conservative now.

00:28:02.900 You're as bad as me. Yeah. You're as bad as me. And I'm bad as Hitler. 0.64

00:28:06.400 Sure. Yeah. Hang on. We're going to continue our conversation with Bridget Phetasy.

00:28:12.480 You can find her and follow her at Twitter at Bridget Phetasy and Bridget Phetasy dot com.

00:28:18.800 Back in just a second, more on the battle cry of the political homeless.

00:28:28.200 Bridget, you're new to the gun world.

00:28:31.940 Are you not?

00:28:33.920 I'm new. Sorry, I didn't.

00:28:35.380 You're new to the gun. You're new to the gun world, right?

00:28:39.500 Yes.

00:28:40.980 Right. And were you just your factory default settings against guns?

00:28:48.080 You know, I think that when you when people ask me what when I started really opening my eyes to.

00:28:57.260 To to the culture wars, it was around probably 2014, 2015.

00:29:05.140 And there was I was writing for Playboy.

00:29:07.900 There was yet another mass shooting.

00:29:10.460 And I was emotionally reacting as is completely understandable in those situations online.

00:29:18.340 And I was like, I don't know anything about I don't know how to I don't know anything about them.

00:29:25.800 I don't know any. I don't know anything about the laws.

00:29:28.600 I don't even know how to hold one or load one.

00:29:32.220 And and so I realized, you know, I understandably why I would react emotionally, but perhaps I should maybe get some information before I was spouting my mouth off.

00:29:44.920 And I go on.

00:29:46.380 Can I tell you something, Bridget? That is something that no one in the media does.

00:29:49.960 The majority of them have zero idea.

00:29:53.920 I could I'm not a gun expert.

00:29:55.660 I could trap them in two questions.

00:29:58.460 They have no idea what they're talking about.

00:30:00.760 And yet they're coming off and pontificating.

00:30:03.380 And look, I'll have a reasonable gun conversation with anybody.

00:30:06.400 If you know what you're talking about, right, if you're just if you're just making stuff up, well, an assault weapon, what's an assault weapon?

00:30:15.720 What is it? Can you define it?

00:30:17.860 Well, it looks spooky.

00:30:19.040 I mean, you know, that's you can't have a conversation.

00:30:22.300 That's like trying to talk about if we should go back to the moon or not with a kindergartner.

00:30:27.800 It's interesting because I put out a call to my listener or to my at that time following on Twitter.

00:30:37.080 And I said, you know, I don't know anything about this.

00:30:39.380 I'd really like to hear what you have to think about it.

00:30:42.420 And I got such thoughtful, intelligent, long written answers about people's feelings, primarily independents and conservatives, about the, you know, responsible gun owners in most cases.

00:30:56.740 And then I started just doing my own research and and being that and and now I'm, you know, starting to shoot and I, I.

00:31:10.140 Oh, you will be ours.

00:31:15.020 I mean, according to the left, I already am.

00:31:17.520 Yeah, I know. I know. I know.

00:31:19.720 It's just crazy.

00:31:20.960 It's crazy because I was told that the people that I wrote that in the battle cry of the politically homeless, I was told we don't exist, you know, they're by both sides.

00:31:32.820 Everyone's like and people like you don't exist.

00:31:35.900 Oh, I think you're the I think you're the majority.

00:31:38.880 Yeah.

00:31:39.200 But again, the question is, OK, so we're confused, which and maybe feeling morally conflicted about what to do in the upcoming election or politically conflicted.

00:31:53.400 Or there's one, you know, there's one thing that we believe in that will have us vote one way or another or are strongly against.

00:32:03.120 And and so I understand when people say they don't exist, I know what they're saying, that at the end of the day, people have to pull the lever and vote.

00:32:12.800 Yeah. Bridget, it's a lot easier to just throw people in categories, though.

00:32:15.800 We only have about one minute left, but I wanted to get your take on this Joe Rogan article that came out from the Atlantic.

00:32:21.320 You have an hour.

00:32:23.700 Yes, we do.

00:32:24.440 Actually, what's the problem with it?

00:32:26.880 I just think it's an insidious attempt to undermine the very real need for men like Joe Rogan and masculinity, what that is, fans represent.

00:32:38.340 And I know what they're doing and also comedy.

00:32:41.900 I know what pieces like this are doing because they've been kind of implying that Joe is this person who is, you know, a gateway drug to the outright.

00:32:51.420 And pieces like this lay the groundwork very insidiously for that.

00:32:56.320 And this is where I rage.

00:32:59.080 The alt-right is very specific and very small.

00:33:04.280 It's very small.

00:33:05.500 There's nothing about Joe Rogan that the alt-right would go.

00:33:08.700 I like that guy.

00:33:10.020 I think I mean, they might like him to watch him, but that's not.

00:33:13.000 He is not alt-right.

00:33:16.200 Oh, these people.

00:33:17.380 I know it makes it I get frustrated because I feel like it's hard to put your finger on.

00:33:23.800 But I am like, I know what you're doing.

00:33:26.180 I know what you're doing with this piece. 0.99

00:33:28.480 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:33:29.620 And it's undermining. 0.97

00:33:31.740 It's like, oh, why is this guy who's representative of millions of men popular?

00:33:36.860 What are you talking about?

00:33:38.900 Why is that even a question?

00:33:41.560 Yeah, it's a weird piece.

00:33:43.380 I mean, it kind of it makes it appear as if what they're saying is like, look, we're you

00:33:48.600 know, he he's really problematic.

00:33:50.280 He's giving voices to these people on the fringes that don't deserve voices.

00:33:55.040 And like, that's a who are they?

00:33:57.480 Who are they?

00:33:59.260 Who are they?

00:34:00.440 Who decided that they could have a voice in whatever magazine or whatever they who who

00:34:07.840 gave them the right to speak for everyone?

00:34:13.380 It's so passive aggressive to just the way that it says things.

00:34:17.900 I think at the end, his conclusion is, you know, I tried on Joe Rogan's masculinity.

00:34:23.160 It's not for me.

00:34:24.440 But that kind of insidious throwing under the bus of masculinity is this is not good.

00:34:34.080 OK, we'll come back.

00:34:35.860 I want to talk to you a little bit more about that.

00:34:37.500 And the underlying problem is, I think, that no one is willing to talk about and you are

00:34:44.000 in a unique position to talk about it.

00:34:46.600 Bridget Phetasy.

00:34:47.480 You know, there's a lot of people that are really starting to wake up.

00:34:50.420 Some of them have been neutral and just kind of asleep at the switch politically.

00:34:55.420 And that's one of the people we're talking to who I think is incredibly brave is Bridget Phetasy.

00:35:01.200 Uh, she's a writer, a host of the podcast Walk In, Walk In's Welcome.

00:35:07.620 Um, but we've had, uh, Jamie Kilstein.

00:35:09.860 I just had a podcast with Jamie Kilstein, what, last week?

00:35:14.540 Now, this is a guy who, I mean, he was nasty to me, had me on his resume as not liking him.

00:35:21.500 Uh, and war is it as a badge of honor.

00:35:24.640 And we had a great conversation, Bridget.

00:35:27.440 Just great.

00:35:28.320 Mm-hmm.

00:35:29.080 Yep.

00:35:29.560 I love Jamie.

00:35:30.240 And he's, and it's, it's people who are saying, wait a minute, uh, let me examine what I've

00:35:37.060 done.

00:35:37.440 Let me examine what I really believe, you know?

00:35:40.520 Mm-hmm.

00:35:41.000 Uh, and those people are going to change the world.

00:35:43.840 They're just, because I think that's the majority.

00:35:46.540 They just need, the majority just needs to see people willing to take the hits.

00:35:52.640 And it's scary.

00:35:54.280 It is scary.

00:35:55.340 And it's easier for me because I don't have kids in a school system.

00:35:59.540 I don't have a job that's corporate where I'm dealing with HR.

00:36:03.660 I, when people ask me what they should do, depending on their situation, I, especially, um, coming from the left in particular, I, I'm usually understanding of why they have to keep their head down and be quiet.

00:36:17.880 But I'm less so, I used to be more so, I'm less so now because it's not my country, it's not your country, it's all of our country.

00:36:25.800 And you're risking just as much.

00:36:28.260 I mean, you are, uh, I'm risking.

00:36:31.160 I'm not risking my livelihood because this is my livelihood.

00:36:34.880 So I, I am understanding when, you know, people have mouths to feed.

00:36:40.940 That's not true.

00:36:41.600 I've talked to you in times when you were like, I don't know what I'm going to, I don't know what I'm going to do.

00:36:46.340 I don't know who I'm going to work for.

00:36:47.680 I don't.

00:36:48.060 Yeah, that is true.

00:36:49.020 Right.

00:36:49.400 And I've, I've, I've risked my livelihood.

00:36:51.500 You know, I've put my livelihood and my life in some regards, my family's, uh, on, on the line.

00:36:59.480 So, um, so let me change subjects because I brought up guns with you a minute ago because, uh, we're now talking about banning assault weapons, which we've already done that.

00:37:11.300 It didn't work.

00:37:12.380 And so it was lifted.

00:37:14.400 Um, there was no statistics that show that's effective at all.

00:37:19.520 Period.

00:37:20.040 Zero.

00:37:20.440 But I don't think that we should be having the gun debate.

00:37:24.060 Quite honestly, I think this is because we're a society that is run by politicians that want to divide us and nobody wants to actually talk about the truth.

00:37:32.780 The truth is we're having more shootings and mass shootings and shootings in Chicago because there's a hole in us.

00:37:41.660 We are a sick nation and a sick culture and, and all of us, the, the drug epidemic is because there's a hole in us.

00:37:51.940 It's so complex, you know, when you really look at all of these situations and there are many different ones that you just mentioned, it is incredibly, I'm fascinated about the psychology and the social psychology that happened, that's happening.

00:38:12.960 And I do feel like there's a certain amount of, I always joke on Twitter.

00:38:20.640 I say, are you okay, America?

00:38:23.520 You know, there, it feels like collectively the entire country is careening towards some kind of rock bottom.

00:38:29.660 Like we're, we are.

00:38:32.500 So I'm, I'm more concerned, Bridget, maybe you're saying this.

00:38:36.880 I'm more concerned that so many people feel lonely, empty inside.

00:38:44.060 They have deep depression.

00:38:46.540 Nobody's talking about the mental health of our kids or of our society.

00:38:51.440 Nobody's talking about this.

00:38:53.440 And it's insidious.

00:38:55.300 Or they do, and it's, it's in a way that, um, isn't helpful.

00:39:01.520 So if you're talking about mental health, it's in a way that's kind of still making it seem, I feel like, I don't know anybody who doesn't have mental health issues.

00:39:13.020 I have mental health issues.

00:39:15.500 There's, it's so rare to meet somebody who's just balanced and doesn't struggle with some form of anxiety or depression.

00:39:23.380 And, and, well, you live in Los Angeles or California.

00:39:27.440 So in Texas, we're pretty stable.

00:39:32.200 We're pretty stable.

00:39:33.380 I, I do think so.

00:39:35.040 Yeah.

00:39:35.680 Yes.

00:39:36.180 Yes.

00:39:36.540 No.

00:39:36.980 I think that a lot of it's hidden because people feel like they have to hide it.

00:39:41.120 Yes.

00:39:41.500 What I, what I learned, um, in writing for Playboy all those years was that men in particular, there's a lot of resources for women to kind of talk about their feelings.

00:39:52.240 And it's when I would reach out and say, Hey guys, how are you doing?

00:39:56.260 Or ask them a question.

00:39:57.320 I would get these long essays because they didn't really feel like they could open up to somebody or they didn't feel like it was socially acceptable to admit that they were struggling.

00:40:08.060 So there's a lot of secretive ness around struggle, feeling like you're struggling.

00:40:17.020 I think people feel isolated by their own struggles because they feel like they don't want to admit that publicly because it will make them seem weak.

00:40:26.220 Yeah.

00:40:26.560 They don't, they don't believe or know yet that everybody is going through something that they're hiding.

00:40:32.440 Everybody is going through something that they're shamed of, or they think they're alone on and they're not, they're just, they're just not alone.

00:40:40.480 You, I'm a huge fan of therapy.

00:40:42.140 Yeah, you, you are somebody who went through, uh, an awful lot.

00:40:46.840 Um, your story, your life story is amazing.

00:40:50.120 And if you missed it, you can listen to, uh, my podcast, uh, just go to wherever you find podcasts and look for the one with Bridget.

00:40:55.740 You can find it on YouTube, I think as well.

00:40:58.620 Um, but you have a fascinating life history, but you got to a place to where you thought you, you had no value.

00:41:08.720 You, you, right.

00:41:10.700 Worthless.

00:41:11.720 And I feel like I hear this a lot from people all across the board.

00:41:18.160 And I think what you're talking about, this, this hole that we're feeling a lot of that, a lot of people are relating to that.

00:41:26.260 There's this sense of meaninglessness, hopelessness and worthlessness.

00:41:31.380 And I am a huge advocate.

00:41:33.960 I had to build my core and my self-esteem basically from the ground up.

00:41:40.740 And this is where I am an advocate for reaching out, asking for help and personal responsibility, because no one can give that to us.

00:41:50.040 We have to go outward for help and inward to look, hold that mirror up to ourselves and truthfully look at where our weaknesses are, where we are.

00:42:04.040 You know, a lot of people will be struggling and I'll be talking to them.

00:42:07.780 And I, my email is always filled with people telling me their stories.

00:42:11.200 And then you find out perhaps that they're drinking too much or et cetera.

00:42:16.140 So there are certain things that people can do to change their life and they, they're hard choices and changes to make.

00:42:23.560 But the easy thing to do is sit around and whine and blame everybody.

00:42:27.500 The hard thing to do is to look at ourself and say, you know, it truly is changing yourself.

00:42:34.160 And then, um, then change the world kind of changes around you just by, by the very act of you taking control over what you can't control, which is essentially your, your self.

00:42:49.540 Bridget, do you feel you still battle with days where you're like, I'm worthless for?

00:42:57.120 Yeah.

00:42:58.400 Um, more so less worthlessness because I have deeply gone into, I found God essentially.

00:43:10.360 And not to turn off all the non believers, but, um,

00:43:15.660 Hang on just a second.

00:43:16.600 Our apologies then to Fred.

00:43:18.440 Okay, go ahead.

00:43:21.420 So I did find, I do, I, I, I think I struggled the most with nihilism.

00:43:26.500 And in, in our culture today, I feel everything's so connected.

00:43:31.540 We're living in this 24 hour news cycle that just wears you down as you and Stu know, probably better than anyone.

00:43:38.660 And it starts to, you start to feel my biggest struggle is the nihilism.

00:43:45.740 And I've written about this before when I'm in that place of what's it all for, that is a dangerous place for me.

00:43:51.920 So, you know, it's amazing.

00:43:53.160 Like if you look at the millennials, you see that all of the, they just want to be a part of something that of meaning.

00:44:01.680 And then the other side of the millennials is life has no meaning.

00:44:08.020 It's either, I mean, it is, there is this, this, that generation is yearning for something of meaning.

00:44:15.160 And yet everyone, you know, in their life, generally speaking in culture is taking away everything that has meaning, you know?

00:44:25.220 Uh, and so if you're not, go ahead.

00:44:28.380 Right.

00:44:28.760 I see what you're saying.

00:44:29.640 No, I just, I think that meaning and what I really had to learn, particularly getting sober is that meaning doesn't happen to you.

00:44:37.740 You, you make meaning.

00:44:39.800 You have me.

00:44:40.720 I volunteer with elderly people.

00:44:43.320 I go, I volunteer, I work with people who are addicts.

00:44:47.400 I feel like being of service is a way to find meaning instead of hashtag resisting online all day and expecting the meaning to come find you.

00:44:58.480 And this is, I mean, I think the biggest problem in America, honestly, other is a two pronged sense of entitlement and victim culture.

00:45:07.720 And this is all across the board, left, right, and center.

00:45:10.940 I see it everywhere.

00:45:13.320 And when I read my grandfather's letters from World War II, the tone in which he writes is so inspiring and not whiny.

00:45:21.540 And I see it even in myself.

00:45:23.340 We live in just a whiny culture in general.

00:45:27.700 It is the, it's the air that we, we breathe and live in.

00:45:31.940 And I have to, you know, he's writing about being underway and getting bombed every day for two months and then calls himself out for self-pity.

00:45:42.760 I'm like, Grandpa, you can feel sorry for yourself.

00:45:46.840 You're getting bombed.

00:45:48.240 Wow.

00:45:48.600 And he, he's like, I know that nobody would want to feel, you know, nobody wants me to feel sorry for myself.

00:45:54.120 And I'm just having a moment.

00:45:55.840 And it, and we're out here like, well, you know, that's why when, when you called me brave, which thank you, I appreciate it.

00:46:02.880 I think it is some of the speaking out is an act of bravery.

00:46:07.060 But I mean, I read my grandpa's letters every day to keep me in check because that was a brave man who was fighting for something that he believed in and with no self-pity or victimhood at all.

00:46:21.200 Will you do me a favor?

00:46:22.620 Would you come back?

00:46:23.640 Would you come back?

00:46:25.420 Go through your grandpa's letters and give us, give us examples of his writing and then come back.

00:46:32.220 Yeah.

00:46:32.940 Okay.

00:46:33.340 I will.

00:46:33.820 Definitely.

00:46:34.500 Good.

00:46:34.840 Because I'm tired of listening to your, maybe we'll listen to your grandfather.

00:46:37.300 Maybe he had something.

00:46:38.680 Yeah.

00:46:39.200 I'm tired of listening to you.

00:46:40.940 Okay.

00:46:41.800 Bridget, it's always great to talk to you and have you on.

00:46:45.440 Always great to be here.

00:46:46.860 Let me know when you, when you can, you know, compile some of your grandfather's words.

00:46:51.200 Cause I think, I think that'd be great to listen to.

00:46:54.760 Okay.

00:46:55.340 Yeah.

00:46:55.640 I would love to.

00:46:56.560 All my best.

00:46:57.100 Thank you for having me.

00:46:57.940 Thank you.

00:46:58.420 Bye-bye.

00:46:59.140 God bless.

00:47:02.220 I love, love people who are open to discovering new things and people who are taking charge

00:47:13.840 of themselves.

00:47:16.500 Uh, she, her story is, I mean, she was a heroin addict.

00:47:20.480 Uh, she was, you know, uh, raped when she was, you know, in her teens and just, I mean,

00:47:27.880 she has had one bad thing after another. 0.97

00:47:31.420 Uh, so yeah, she screwed up, but boy, she's more sane than most people.

00:47:34.760 I know.

00:47:35.140 I think the blaze radio network on demand.

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