Bridget Phetasy is a writer and stand-up comedian. She hosts the show “Dumpster Fire" and also the podcast “Walk-Ins Welcome.” www.phetasy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the main topic of this episode?
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Showing 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.
Is that everyone though? I don't know.
Is it you, Bridget?
I'm a little successful. That's it. And I'm happy.
Yeah. It's like, I don't know. You just got to find why you're doing it. You don't want to just be on a hamster wheel.
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Chapter 2: How does success impact personal happiness?
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.
Oh, right.
And one of the reasons that... After I did... Who was it? It was opening for Landau. And we would go out and just talk to the people after the show. And it was... They were like, oh, my gosh, I love Walk-Ins Welcome. I love Domster Five. And it was, like, such a good reminder that... You get like chasing numbers and it was like, oh, no, these are not just numbers.
They're people unless you're like buying bots. But I think it can be easy to just be get on that hamster wheel and start being like, we need more. We need more downloads. We need more and more, more and more. And then you forget. And I never want to take the audience we have for granted. Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, like they're they're amazing. They've been with some of these people have been with me for forever.
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Chapter 3: Why is gratitude important for mental health?
That's kind of the key to it all. Right. Always have. I mean, it sounds so corny because it's such 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.
Yeah, and it was one of the key things in getting sober. I think when I've dealt with anxiety, depression, other things in my life, gratitude is a powerful mechanism for shifting your perspective because you can get into that feeling of not being enough, not having enough, not...
Yeah.
It never being enough.
Well, Brian Callen 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 $100 billion. Yeah. Like, imagine.
No, I mean, when I was dating this very wealthy guy who is like probably half of a billionaire, like 500 millionaire, and we were in San Tropez, and he felt poor. Yeah. 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 look at this entertaining she's an artist
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Chapter 4: How does wealth affect personal perception?
He wanted me to be, like, his pet monkey that came around and just, like, made him laugh. And I gave him shit, and I think guys like that are used to being... You get surrounded by yes-men, too, at a certain... 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... 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's 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 on him.
What did he get, like $10 billion?
No, he goes, and it's $250 million. I was like, what? I'm crying. Where did that leave the rest of us, by the way? That's so funny. Carrera, Marvel, freaking shower.
Imagine the thought that the only way you could ever be happy is with $250 million. That's the minimum. By the way, I know some people worth $250 million that are miserable as fuck.
Yeah, no.
It's not going to do it.
It's not.
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Chapter 5: What role does AI play in modern society?
you
with the actual creation of an artificial reality.
It seems so real.
Yeah, it all seems so real, but it also seems fake. Well, more and more. I'm sure you know the whole Barron Trump story, the ancient books that talked about a guy named Elon is going to go to Mars. No. You never saw about that?
No.
It is so crazy that even Elon saw that and was like, is this real? How is this real? Was it from 1853?
Why does this have to do with Barron Trump?
Because it's about a guy named Barron Trump and his guru is named Don. Oh, what?
I feel like I saw something like this and I was like this.
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