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It's 2020, and it's about to get real.
Election year, gonna be crazy.
More on that later.
But, we have our first
Walk-Ins Welcome repeat visitor
this week to start off
the year, Michael Malice.
He was in town for a little known podcast,
The Joe Rogan Experience,
and hit me up and asked me if
walk-ins were indeed welcome.
And I couldn't very well say no,
since that's the very name of my show.
If you don't know Michael
Malice, he's an author,
he's also a commentator,
and he has his own podcast,
Your Welcome, with the
GaS Digital Network.
So, check him out.
We'll be talking about his books
and enjoy because he
and I have so much fun.
You are super VIP, Michael Malice.
- [Michael] SVIP.
- [Bridget] SVIP.
(Michael laughs)
Super VIP.
- [Michael] Yeah, I use to be SIDS.
(both laugh)
- [Michael] You've come a long way.
- [Michael] Yeah, I'm out of the crib.
- [Bridget] (laughing) Yeah,
come a long way from that.
Because you are the first
repeat on Walk-Ins Welcome,
and when you were like,
"Hey, are walk-ins welcome?"
I'm like, well, that is the
name of our show (chuckles)
so I can't say no.
(Michael laughs)
Which also meant I needed to
start reading your book again,
because it's been eight months.
- [Michael] Yes, ma'am.
(Bridget chuckles)
- [Bridget] Well, here's the
thing, I started reading it--
- [Michael] "The New Right".
- [Bridget] And then I
felt, no, I started--
- [Michael] The book, "The New Right".
- [Bridget] What?
- [Michael] The name of the book
is "The New Right".
- [Bridget] Oh sorry, yeah.
The book, "The New Right".
I thought you said, "Then, you write".
I was like, no.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] Oh my God, that's hilarious!
No, I don't write.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] I don't write.
- "Then you write".
"No, I don't write".
(laughing) Amazing!
- [Bridget] Never
written a day in my life.
So, I started reading it
after we had our first one.
And it makes me feel retarded.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] I don't get why.
I don't think it's
written at a high level.
- [Bridget] Maybe for you!
But, for someone average like me.
Well, no, there are just
certain things like,
there's one paragraph in particular
that I need you to...
(chuckles)
To break down for me.
- [Michael] Okay, let's do it.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] It's in the intro, by the way.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] "What does new mean?"
(both laughing)
- Okay, please explain this to me.
- [Michael] Yes, Ma'am.
- [Bridget] "For some people,
not just in the Alt-Right,
"Jews are simply an abstraction.
"It's John Stewart, and
Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
"and Chuck Schumer on their televisions,
"not merely disagreeing with them,
"but condemning them as
stupid, or evil, or both.
"The left is very big on
optics, but feels, with reason,
"that to acknowledge and
adjust for the wrong kind
"of prejudices is granting them power".
I'm gonna read the whole paragraph.
"The problem is that in a democracy,
"prejudices have power regardless.
"They influence how people vote,
"and how they contribute their money.
"The right wing deals with trade-offs,
"while the left simply
pretends costs don't exist,
"or don't/shouldn't really matter".
- [Michael] Right.
- [Bridget] Can you break this down?
- [Michael] Sure, very easily.
- [Bridget] I got lost--
(both laughing)
- [Michael] "Who is Chuck Schumer?"
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] I got lost--
- [Michael] "Is he a comedian
like Jon Stewart?"
- [Bridget] At "for some people".
(both laughing)
- [Michael] Yeah, that's fair.
- [Bridget] No, I got lost
with, "The left is very,"
we'll take this one sentence at a time.
- [Michael] Sound it out.
- [Bridget] I literally wrote--
- [Michael] Sound it out,
use your words.
- [Bridget] Next to it,
"What the fuck does this mean?"
(Michael laughs)
- No, you wrote WTF, even funnier.
(Michael laughing)
- [Bridget] "WTF does this mean".
And it's not even a
question, it's a statement.
I made a point of putting a period.
- [Michael] Okay, did
you really put a period?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] She did,
I can confirm.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] I'll post it.
I'm gonna post this when we go.
Okay, so, "The left is very big on optics,
"but feels with reason that to acknowledge
"and adjust for the
wrong kinds of prejudices
"is granting them power".
- [Michael] Right.
- [Bridget] Okay, can you explain that?
- [Michael] Sure, so for example,
left wing is very big.
The Cosby Show, right?
It was important for black America
to see positive role models in--
- [Bridget] Representation matters.
- [Michael] Right.
- [Bridget] Okay.
- [Michael] And there's something to that.
If you're black and you've
never seen a black doctor on TV,
you don't think in those terms.
And then Bill Cosby's like,
"I'm gonna be an example".
You're like, "Okay".
Obama, I will never forget this,
the day Obama was sworn in,
I was in Fulton Street in Brooklyn,
and there was homeless black guy,
and he looked at the TV,
and he said, "That's me".
And I'm like, I get it.
This means something to this person.
And a lot of conservatives
kind of poo-poo that, don't.
- [Bridget] No, I agree,
I think it's important.
I remember even driving one day,
I was coming back from somewhere,
and there was a billboard
in Gap, or an ad,
and it was a not super skinny model,
it was maybe just, maybe chubby.
But I was like, "Wow, we've
come a long way in this".
I never saw this growing up, ever.
- [Michael] So with this they're like,
okay, so the Cosby Show
is a positive example.
Right?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] They pretend
the inverse doesn't happen.
If you see left-wing Jews,
and you've never met a
Jewish person in your life,
and all you see as Jewish people
are John Stewart and
Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
and Chuck Schumer calling your lifestyle,
the Midwest let's say, wrong or dumb,
you are sometimes going
to draw wrong conclusions.
Now, you can say this is something
that should be combated, educated for,
but to pretend this doesn't
happen in some sense,
thanks to the human mind
organically, is a mistake.
- [Bridget] Okay, so, "That to acknowledge
"and adjust for the
wrong kind of prejudices
"is granting them power".
- [Michael] 'Cause they say, well,
if we acknowledge these people
on TV causing antisemitism,
that means it's somehow validating it.
Well, whether you validate
it or not, it's happening.
So, you have to deal with it.
- [Bridget] "The problem
is that in a democracy,
"prejudices have power regardless".
So that's what you're saying
is that this is happening--
- [Michael] You have to deal with it,
they vote just as much
for the wrong reasons
as for the right reasons.
Whatever you mean, right or wrong to you.
- [Bridget] They influence
how people vote, okay.
"The right wing deals with trade-offs,
"while the left simply
pretends costs don't exist
"or don't/shouldn't really matter".
That was the other sentence, I'm like,
please break this--
- [Michael] Sure, so this is,
Thomas Sowell's very big on this.
So the idea of trade-offs is,
the left will say, "We
need to have this program".
and the question is,
"At what cost and what
are the consequences?"
One of my tweets is,
"The first question to
ask of any program is
"how do you handle people who
will use this in bad faith?"
So, the left will say, for example,
"South Park" did an episode on this.
Let's suppose you wanna argue
that trans women should compete
against biological women.
And let's suppose you're
saying this in good faith,
and then you say, "What
happens to that one guy,
"who even just wants to be an asshole?"
Zuby, he did this as a joke, he's like,
"I'm a woman".
He broke the world's deadlift record,
and he's like, "Nah, I'm a man".
What do you do with those people?
Now, the left will say,
well, they'll hand wave.
"It'll never happen,
there's not that many".
Blah blah blah.
It's like, that's not how it works.
Because another example is
the stuff on the border,
if you say, "We're not
gonna separate families".
Fine, if I wanna make it to America,
and I know if I have a kid with me,
I'm gonna be able to cross the border,
I'm gonna kidnap that kid.
Because, and the left
doesn't think in these terms,
they're like, "This is the right program".
and they never think about,
or rarely think about,
setting up perverse incentives.
- [Bridget] Well, this was something
that I recently did a deep dive into
when everybody was freaking out recently
about the food stamps.
It was that new,
you know how they're
limiting it now to people,
it came out recently and
everybody was freaking out,
and they were saying,
"Oh, they're taking away food stamps".
But then when you kinda drill
down into it, it's like,
well, they're taking it away
from people who don't have dependents,
who are able-bodied, they're not disabled
and I was talking to my friend about it,
and he works at a grocery
store, and he's like,
"I see people abuse
this shit all the time".
- [Michael] Why can you
buy Oreos on food stamps?
- [Bridget] And I've asked some liberals,
I'm like, "So, the question is
"do you think some
people abuse the system?"
And the answer is usually
like you said, hand waving,
where it's like, "Well,
it doesn't matter".
- [Michael] Or, "What, you're
gonna let people starve?"
That's not what I'm asking you.
- [Bridget] Yeah, those
are the conversations
I feel like we don't have, though.
- [Michael] Right 'cause they
don't think in those terms,
on the left.
That's what that paragraph means.
- [Bridget] Okay, all right.
Thank you, I understand it better.
(Michael laughing)
It's so weird to be reading English,
and being like, "Do I understand
the English language?"
(laughing) and then I think I just like,
because I kept reading
it and I felt so dumb,
and I was looking up all this stuff,
and I'm like, "Wow, I am a moron".
I don't know how I don't know any of this.
There was another question I had.
On page five. (laughs)
- (laughing) Okay, Jesus Christ.
This whole thing to you--
(both laughing)
(Michael imitates dog barking)
- [Bridget] I feel like I'm--
- [Michael] Slow down, slow down, bitch.
(Michael barking)
(Michael laughing)
- [Bridget] I'm like slow
down, I don't understand dog.
I feel like I'm gonna have to
read one chapter of this book,
and then have you out after
every chapter I read.
- [Michael] Sure, with pleasure.
With pleasure, yeah.
- [Bridget] To break it
down for me.
No, this is a question, I
did understand the language,
I'm just curious if you still believe this
and it said,
"I am very fortunate to live
"in New York City for many reasons.
"One of these is the privilege
"of having to deal with antisemitism far
"than I would in many
other parts of the world".
Do you still feel this way?
- [Michael] Yeah, because
a lot of these antisemitic,
or I think all of these
antisemitic attacks
are against people who are Hasidic Jews.
- [Bridget] So are there
places in the rest of the world
where that isn't the case?
- [Michael] Well, I mean in
many cases people will be
very prejudiced against me,
simply because I'm Jewish.
But in those neighborhoods
the people visually look different,
so they're targeted that way.
I could go in those neighborhoods,
I don't think I would be targeted at all,
and certainly not 'cause of my Judaism.
I got my nose done so
now I can pass as a Goy.
- [Bridget] Okay, smart for traveling.
- [Michael] I also got re-circumcised.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] I don't know if that
matters when you're traveling but...
(both laughing)
Okay, well, those were my questions.
I know we weren't gonna
talk about the book.
How did the book do?
- [Michael] It did very well.
I have to do my proposal for my next book,
and I have not gotten off my--
- [Bridget] Are you allowed
to tell us what it is?
- [Michael] No, but I'll tell you--
- [Bridget] Damn it!
- [Michael] I'll tell you
off the air just to spite the listeners.
- [Bridget] All right, all right.
And then they'll be bugging
me in DMs and Twitter,
like, "Tell us what it is, Bridget!"
- [Michael] And when
they ask you tell them,
"He said it's about spaceships".
- [Bridget] Okay, can I
tell you that you block
a lot of people who are fans of yours?
(Bridget laughing)
- [Michael] Oh, yeah.
Oh, of course.
- [Bridget] Why do you do this?
- [Michael] Because if I--
- [Bridget] They come crying to me!
And I have to comfort them.
- Oh, okay, mommy.
This has become
like a shelter.
- (laughs) Okay, for abused Malice fans.
- [Bridget] For abused
Malice Twitter fans.
- [Michael] Here's my rule,
and you and I have different approaches.
I think you have a--
- [Bridget] Here's my approach.
I don't read the comments. (laughs)
- [Michael] No, but I think
you also talk very openly about
having a more damaged
background than I do.
And I think you are much
more both sympathetic
and empathetic to people
who might be acting in certain ways.
I think you also have
the tools that I don't,
to actually help people.
And I've seen you do it
with friends of mine.
- [Bridget] No, you have
friends, like fans...
You blocked somebody who's
a fan of both of ours
because he explained to somebody
that you were being sarcastic--
- [Michael] Oh yeah, you're dead to me.
- [Bridget] But, he's a--
- You're garbage.
- [Bridget] He's a huge fan of yours!
- [Michael] No, he's not.
He's my enemy and I'll tell you why.
(Bridget groans)
- He likes you.
He was so upset.
- He's a liar!
He doesn't like me.
- [Bridget] He does.
- [Michael] He likes some idea of me.
Because if I'm Penn and Teller,
and you get on the stage,
and you tell the audience where
that rabbit is in the hat,
you're not a fan.
You're a heckler.
So if I am putting out tweets
that are ironic or trolling--
- [Bridget] I don't
think people understand--
- [Michael] They do, I say this daily.
I make examples of people daily.
Do not point at trolls.
- [Bridget] But as you've learned,
from my reading comprehension skills--
- No, no, hold on, hold up.
- [Bridget] Maybe not everyone
understands at the level you're at.
- [Michael] I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm saying that at a certain point
your intentions don't
matter and if you're,
can I curse?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] If you're fucking my shit up
I don't want you around.
Here's the other thing, if you're blocked
you can still see my Twitter very easily.
All you can't do is interfere with it.
You can't comment and
spoil something I'm doing.
And as pretentious as it sounds,
I don't want that heckler.
I saw my favorite comedian,
Neil Hamburger, many years--
- [Bridget] He did it 'cause
he felt bad for the guy
that you were heckling.
- [Michael] Then you're not
a fan of mine.
If you feel bad for someone I'm targeting,
you are definitely not on my side.
(Bridget laughs)
Sit down and shut up.
- [Bridget] All right, well,
I'm glad we got that cleared up.
- Yeah, see, oh god,
(scoffs) awful people.
- [Bridget] He was so sad.
- [Michael] How could you
be a fan of somebody's
and feel the need to insinuate
yourself with the person
that is opposed to the person
that you're the fan of?
That makes no sense to me.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I think the guy
didn't understand that you were joking.
- Correct.
- And so he's--
- [Michael] It's not your play.
But that was the point.
I want people to make asses of themselves
'cause they don't understand I'm joking.
It's not your place to come
in and make quantum leap
and make set right things
that were once wrong.
- [Bridget] Right, I think that's maybe
where people don't understand.
Yeah, I guess not.
He's so sad.
- [Michael] But I also
don't like that impulse.
I just think it's a bad impulse.
If you see someone being made a fool of
on Twitter and a stranger,
egg them on.
Make it a bigger, fun spectacle.
Do not, you don't have to be mean to them.
Don't be like, "Oh, you're an idiot".
But encourage what they're doing
and it's hilarious for everybody,
including often the person
who's being made a fool of, Jesse Kelly.
- [Bridget] Oh, you've made
fools of me many times.
- [Michael] No, no, no,
you did it to yourself.
(Michael laughs)
Jesse Kelly, we became friends
because I trolled him hard.
And he's like, "This is hilarious".
Because you and I both, if
someone gets me good, it's funny.
It doesn't mean I'm dumb.
Smart people fall for tricks all the time,
if not by even more.
So don't step in and ruin a bit.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I understand that.
- They don't.
- [Bridget] Are you excited--
- [Michael] Oh, hold on, one more thing.
The fact that he felt the need
to reach out to you instead of being like,
"Oh, I see why he blocked me.
"I did something stupid"
is why it's a block.
- [Bridget] No, he kind of understood why.
- Okay.
- He did.
He's like, "I think I"...
He's like, "I guess I
broke his cardinal rule
"and I didn't realize it".
- [Michael] So, he did
know it's a cardinal rule.
- [Bridget] No, he didn't know it
until you you blocked him and said,
"This is the car--,"
He said somebody showed him the tweet
where you were explaining
why you blocked him (laughs).
- [Michael] Yeah, made
an example of him, okay.
- [Bridget] Yeah, you
made an example of him.
And it was funny.
He's like, "I just, I love him.
"And now I don't know how I feel".
- Good.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] You're like, "I don't care".
- [Michael] I don't want you around me.
- [Bridget] It's funny
because I feel like so much,
not that much has changed
since we last talked,
but so much has changed.
- [Michael] Oh, yeah.
- [Bridget] Do you feel more aroused
now that the world is burning even harder?
(both laughing)
- [Michael] Bridget, this is my porn.
- [Bridget] I feel like it is.
- [Michael] It is, it
is absolutely my porn.
- [Bridget] Sometimes I
see the news and I'm like,
"Imagine Michael Malice kind
of getting off to this".
- [Michael] My pants are all ruined.
(Bridget laughs)
I've got 30 pairs of denim.
They're all starched stiff with my jism.
What I also--
- [Bridget] Anarch-jism.
- Yeah, anarch-jism.
(both laughing)
What I'm also aroused by
is how many others have gotten on board
the burn it all down train.
And that to me is, I'm not the
lone voice in the wilderness.
A lot more people are like,
"Oh, yeah, this needs to be destroyed".
- [Bridget] And by this, what do you mean?
- [Michael] The situation,
the establishment
that allows things like
Amy Robach to happen.
- [Bridget] Amy Robach?
- [Michael] So, Amy Robach
was that reporter for ABC News.
And that footage was leaked
where she was like, "Oh
yeah, we had Bill Clinton,
we had Prince Philip, Jeff Epstein".
And she's pissed that
she didn't get the scoop.
Yeah and the network
execs killed the story
and this guy just goes out
to sexually traffic teenager
girls for years after this.
And if you had said this was
the case before this leaked,
you would have been called
a conspiracy theorist,
Alex Jones, put your tin hat on.
And then you look at this
and how these people
are behind closed doors
and you're like,
"Oh, this is evil on several levels".
And it's, I always say,
malfeasance and depravity,
'cause those are big
words that sound fancy,
but depravity's the word.
Coming from the Soviet Union,
I was raised in a Russian household,
I was here since I was two.
But American's have a
very naive idea of power.
And what Russians understand
more is that people in power
use that power in really sadistic ways.
They do it for the sake of sadism
and they get off on flouting social mores
and knowing they're untouchable.
And the things that they think of doing,
things you and I would
never even imagine doing
and they revel in it.
So Americans don't think,
or decreasingly, thankfully, think,
that the people who are in
power, whatever that means,
act in this way.
And now they're realizing,
"Oh, these people are,"
it's not like they're corrupt, like oh,
"I'm getting some money in
pocket and I hire your buddy".
That's fine.
That's not depraved.
This is like, oh, this
is orders of magnitude.
This is like they're actively soliciting
teenage girls to have sex with them,
knowing what that means.
Not even just the legality
but what you're gonna do to this poor kid.
- [Bridget] I feel like
on the very far left
there's this sentiment of,
it's a different sentiment,
but it is how everything
is related to power.
This is intersectionality
and burn it all down, basically.
- [Michael] But, I think their idea of...
They think the New York
Times is not powerful.
They think the New York
Times is combating power.
And to me this is just,
I can't wrap my head around
this kind of argument.
Some of them--
- [Bridget] They think it's
like speaking truth to power.
- [Michael] Yeah and it's like
these are the people who...
I have one book idea,
which I'm not going to
do in the near future.
These people have been
banging the war drums
for over a century.
Since William Randolph Hearst.
I mean, Tulsi gets it
right, where it's just like
they just constant,
constant war, war, war, war.
If it bleeds, it leads.
So some on the left do get this
and that's why I always
say corporate press
instead of mainstream media.
Because it does speak to the
left 'cause historically,
leftists are distrustful of corporations.
And then when you put
the two and two together,
like these are corporations.
They're like, "Oh, they
don't care about us.
"We're just a cows to be milked".
- [Bridget] Yeah, it's
really such crazy...
You know, I wrote this
piece when I was like 19
'cause my dad asked what was wrong
with my stupid goddamn generation
when we were having a fight--
- [Michael] Is your dad boomer?
- [Bridget] Yeah, he's such a boomer.
(Michael laughs)
He's 71.
- [Michael] Oh my God.
- [Bridget] He's like a Joe Biden fan.
He's like, "I'm not voting for
any of those other crazies".
- [Michael] Perfect, perfect.
I donated money to Biden.
- [Bridget] Huh?
- [Michael] I donated money
to Biden, yeah.
- [Bridget] Oh. (laughs)
I call him Puddin' Brain Biden.
- [Michael] I got called Crackhead Joe
so that could people
could correct me that,
"No, no, it's the son
who's the crackhead".
(laughs) Oh, how foolish of me.
- [Bridget] Oh, my bad.
- [Michael] Yeah, oops!
What a fiasco.
- [Bridget] I found this piece recently
when I was going through
all my garage stuff
or the beginnings of it.
And I was really on the money.
It was basically all the
institutions are failing.
That's why with the climate change stuff,
because I feel like from...
I've been told that this
is happening forever.
That the end of the world was coming
in five years for every five years.
However, I do remember a lot of scientists
predicting exactly what's
happening 20 years ago (laughs),
so some of them might have been right.
And it's just been interesting to see the,
I love all the Obama stuff,
how Obama's getting canceled.
- [Michael] Oh, yeah.
- [Bridget] And now he...
What was that New York Times piece
that compared him to
a conservative Boomer?
(Michael laughs)
I was like, this is amazing. (laughs)
- [Michael] I love it when
they turn on each other.
Or any group, even the
right wing, the right
turns on each other,
- [Bridget] Oh, I know.
- I love it all.
- All the time.
It's just chaos.
- [Bridget] I do feel like
weirdly comfortable in this.
And maybe it's because I came from
a very chaotic upbringing.
I feel strangely calm.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Bridget] I feel very
zen about all of this.
And everyone's freaking out.
And people always say, "Oh,
we're addicted to outrage".
But I was saying to my
friend the other day,
and I think I've said this on Twitter,
what does it say about me
that I'm addicted to watching
everybody get outraged?
- [Michael] All the
popcorn in the world, baby.
- [Bridget] All of it!
- It's amazing.
- [Bridget] What is wrong with us?
Are we sociopaths?
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] No, I think we're the ones,
'cause I'm very influenced
by Albert Camus,
the French philosopher,
and one of his idea, he has
this idea of absurdism, right?
And his premise is once,
the only moral question is
whether to commit suicide, right?
(Bridget laughs)
And once you've decided not
to, it's very liberating.
And life, for him, does not
inherently have meaning,
which is a huge opportunity.
You can impute meaning to it.
In his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus",
Sisyphus was sentenced by the gods
to roll a rock up a hill for eternity.
And he goes Sisyphus is happy
because he's recognizing the
absurdity of his situation.
And I think the same with us.
Donald Trump's president.
And there's two ways to look at this,
you can either have an
existential meltdown
or you could be like,
"I don't know where this plot is going,
"but I love this show".
(both laughing)
And the fact that now
we're in season four,
and the villain is going to be literally
shitting his pants on stage,
eyes filled with blood,
and we're going to be
told, "Oh, he's fine.
"It's Trump who's senile".
It's gonna be amazing.
- [Bridget] It's such good television.
- (laughs) I know.
- [Bridget] And then everybody yells at me
and they say it's only
because of my privilege
that I can enjoy it.
- [Michael] Okay, that's cool.
(both laughing)
Sucks, good thing I have it.
Would you want me not to have privilege?
- [Bridget] Well, I was laughing.
There's so much.
My brain is exploding, as
always, when I talk to you.
So, my dad and I were having
this conversation today
because he takes his dog
to play in a graveyard.
And it's where they let the dogs run free
as long as you clean up.
And so all the dogs go there now.
It's become like the dog
park where they live.
And he's like, "It's a
weird existential thing
"to be like hanging out
in a graveyard every day".
And I was telling him about
when I was in Ireland.
I was at Glasnevin.
Is it Glaslevin or nevin?
It's the big,
I always forget how to say it.
But, it's the big Catholic,
it's the massive Catholic graveyard.
It's the oldest, there's a
million people buried there.
And my friend and I were in Ireland--
- [Michael] Like literally a million or?
- [Bridget] Yeah, literally a million.
And it's super old.
And my friend and I were walking around
and every other name was Bridget.
(Michael laughs)
It was like every other grave.
Bridget, Bridget, Bridget.
Different spellings, but just
thousands of dead Bridgets.
And my friend was like,
"This is making me really uncomfortable.
"Is this making you uncomfortable?"
And I said, "No!"
- (giggles) Yeah, it's awesome.
Shout outs.
- [Bridget] This is amazing.
No, but it's also just a reminder
that I'm just another
soon to be dead Bridget.
I always say this, "I
came, I tried, I died".
Put it on my tombstone.
I'm just another life, life has become...
It's always been pretty cheap
and because the sanctity of life
is this thing that's relatively new.
- [Michael] Yes, yes, very recent, yeah.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] It's strange to think of how,
I was reading in Dan Carlin's new book
because I try to read at least the intro
before I talk to people.
(Michael laughing)
But, he makes this point of
just how if a child dies now,
it's like the end of the world.
It's the worst thing that
can happen to a parent.
And it use to be completely commonplace.
And he was talking about a historian
who had seven siblings
and all of them died.
I mean that's a high
statistic for even then
but he was saying it's tot--
You know, my grandmother
had 10 kids and one died.
It was completely common to lose a child
or multiple children.
And now we're like, it
hasn't been that long though.
- [Michael] No, and it has not.
Less than a century.
- [Bridget] So, we got to live through
like the cushiest time in all of humanity
just before it all burned down.
- [Michael] Well, no burning it
down's gonna make it even cushier.
- [Bridget] Do you think?
Do you think?
- Yeah.
- [Bridget] What does it look like?
What does the future, are
you a futurist at all?
- [Michael] I don't know
what that term really means.
- [Bridget] I don't either
but I know that it's
people who predict things
in the future.
- [Michael] Astrologist.
- [Bridget] No, they make--
- [Michael] They are.
They're astrologists.
- [Bridget] Well, they
like to make predictions.
- [Michael] I had a futurist,
I was interned in American
University in the summer of '97.
Yeah, and we had a
futurist come to the class
and he basically said,
"Thanks to the internet
becoming a thing now,
"you're gonna have mass unemployment"
And I'm like, "Okay,
this guy's an asshole".
I called him on it and
completely humiliated him
because it's just like they say this
whenever there's any new technology.
And obviously the internet
has created an enormous amount of jobs.
And I think a lot of these,
there's a book called "The Experts Speak"
which talks about all these predictions
and they're never accurate.
And in fact, they always run
a simulation where it's like,
"We'll go with this guy's predictions
"and we'll go with like a parrot
"taking a shit on
newspaper to buy stocks",
and the parrot'll win.
(Bridget laughs)
So, I don't buy into any of that stuff.
Who predicted Trump as president?
- [Bridget] I did.
- [Michael] No, I mean in 2010?
- [Bridget] Oh, The Simpsons I bet.
- [Michael] Yeah, okay.
(both laughing)
Yeah, right, other than The Simpsons, no.
- [Bridget] They're the futurists.
- [Michael] Yeah, The
Simpsons are the futurists.
So Lisa's gonna be the Supreme Court.
Or president.
- [Bridget] So what do you see
as the vision of the future
when everything burns down?
- [Michael] I think we're
going to have hopefully
increased political
fragmentation and brinksmanship.
I think we're going to
see much more people.
I think if Trump gets reelected,
which I think is highly likely,
it is going to have an enormous
psychological trauma for the left.
(Bridget laughs)
Because I re--
- [Bridget] Even more?
- [Michael] Yeah, because in 2004,
I remember very vividly
because the Republican National Convention
for George W. Bush was
in 2004 in New York.
And after Bush was reelected,
people were walking around
and they didn't understand
what had happened.
They weren't like screaming at the sky.
They were just shocked, like taken aback.
And to have him win again,
after he's been impeached
and we've shown you how he's Hitler
and blah, blah, blah,
it's really going to
mess up a lot of people.
But more importantly,
it is going to instill an enormous amount
of disrepute for long term
institutions in this country.
And that is something that is
very healthy and necessary.
It's been going on for 100 years,
this kind of infiltration by this evil,
kind of evangelical left, I call it.
So, after government is regarded as a joke
and after the corporate press
is increasingly viewed with distrust,
the last leg of the stool
is the universities.
So that's gonna to be where
the battle's going to be held
and they are going to be
savage, something fierce.
And it's going to be glorious
'cause they're not in a
position to fight back.
If you look at Laurence
Tribe's Twitter Tribe Law,
and I tweet about this,
he's a Harvard University law professor.
- [Bridget] Oh yeah, I follow him.
- [Michael] Yeah, the Democrats,
I think used his wisdom to
for how to word impeachment.
One of the things that
social media has done
is it's shown that not
only do these people
have ideological views, which is fine,
but that they're really
nasty, miserable pricks,
not this genteel, I'm
an earnest philosopher
who has this ivory tower view.
No, they're nasty, miserable assholes.
And that's wonderful for
the average person to see.
- [Bridget] Yeah, is it though, wonderful?
Or do you think that the average
person is unnerved by it?
- [Michael] I think
you're gonna be unnerved
because if you're trained
since kindergarten
in public schools that this is the epitome
of intelligence and achievement
and that's the red pill,
and you realize, "Oh, this guy's a dick!"
And he is nowhere near as
bright as thinks he is.
He's very educated but in
terms of a human being,
Tribe is one of many,
just really an asshole.
That really is jarring
but then after that,
you go to the valley of light
and you're like, "Oh,
I don't have to believe
"all this bullshit they've
taught me all my life.
"I'm free".
- [Bridget] And where do
you think they're turning?
- [Michael] What do you mean?
- [Bridget] I guess more
and more increasingly
they're not alone, like you said.
More and more you're
not the only anarchist.
If it weren't for the internet,
I would've felt extremely
isolated ideologically
being in LA in 2016.
And so people are finding other voices,
but I guess it's just interesting.
What's really been fascinating,
it's so clear, the left so
clearly demonstrates this,
is that idea that people would rather,
it makes people happy to--
They've done studies on
this, it's psychological,
having your bias
confirmed makes you happy.
Which is why, for instance,
you'll see the left cheering.
Or they'll be getting
behind a terrorist regime.
I always say this is Trump's superpower,
is making the left defend
these horrible people
and institutions because
they would actually
rather have that be the truth and be right
and have their cognitive
dissonance assuaged
than to perhaps consider
that they're wrong.
- [Michael] Yeah, my friend Michael
moved from New York to Singapore.
And he was back in New
York, he went to the gym.
Just some guy was talking
to him and the guy was like,
"Why'd you move to Singapore?
"Oh, to get away from Trump?"
And Michael's like, "Okay, I
know what this is gonna be".
And he said, "Let me ask you this".
This was right after Trump was elected.
"Let's suppose Trump's policies
"make things generally better
for everyone in this country.
"How would that make you feel?"
The guy thought about it and goes,
"Well, that would suck 'cause
that would mean he's right".
So, when you realize that
someone would rather be right
than to have genuine good will
and happiness for many people.
I think increasingly
there's the understanding,
like, oh, we're not having a
conversation with each other.
We shouldn't be trying
to have a conversation
with this person and blow me.
- [Bridget] eah, I always
ask people the question
would your opinion about Trump change
if you found out he had a huge dick?
(Michael laughs)
- [Michael] I think it's known.
I mean, I guess I they
said he has a micro dick.
- [Bridget] He has the kind of
classic small dick personality,
I would say.
Like he radiates a little bit
of that kind of insecurity
and being somewhat...
There are certain things about his...
And then the porn stars
who have been with him
all said that it was,
I mean, what's her name said it was tiny.
- [Michael] Okay, Stormy Daniels, yeah.
- [Bridget] Stormy, and--
- [Michael] No, 'cause she said,
"I'm not gonna body shame him",
then he hit her hard and she goes,
"His dick's tiny!"
It's like, okay, bitch,
that lasted five seconds.
- [Bridget] Yes. (laughs)
Very strong principles you have there.
As all of these people are
known for their principles.
And I've asked a couple people
that and it made them pause.
- (laughs) Really?
'Cause they can't
cognitively be in a space
where they say anything
positive about Trump.
- [Bridget] Well, I think
for me it would definitely,
here's how it would change
by perception of him.
I would have more confidence in him.
(both laughing)
Like it wouldn't be,
because I use to do standup
about how a big dick
doesn't need anything.
It's like I've dated
guys who drove scooters
and didn't have any manners
and they just had that big dick energy.
It's a thing.
And so I would feel more like this
bravado is coming from a
place of big dick energy
rather than a place of insecurity.
And therefore I would be more confident
in him as a decision maker.
I know it's crazy!
- [Michael] Full confession.
(Bridget laughs)
I just got here from having
lunch with Kurt Schlichter,
who is a great Twitter follower
and we were both talking
about how Trump has big dick energy.
- [Bridget] Oh, really?
- [Michael] In those words.
- [Bridget] Wow!
- [Michael] So, yeah, I guess
you're a girl, you have
a different perspective.
- [Bridget] Yeah, that's interesting.
I would love to do a whole,
that would be an interesting--
- [Michael] I'm thinking
specifically about that photo
where he's sitting and Angela
Merkel is looming over him,
like with her arms locked on the table
and the rest of EU people around him,
and he's got his arms crossed.
And I'm like that is him
putting his dick on the table,
saying, "Suck it, Angela".
That's how that came off to me.
You're saying that's more like,
"Okay, this guy's got a tiny penis
"and he's secretly threatened by this,"
as Silvio Berlusconi called
her, "unfuckable fat-ass".
- [Bridget] This is really interesting.
I wonder, I would love to do a poll.
Like, I wish I could just poll...
When I go on the Walk-Ins Welcome tour,
- Wait a minute.
- [Bridget] This is gonna
be one of the polls that I do.
- [Michael] I'll tweet it
and then you retweet it.
Do you think Trump has
a big dick, yes or no?
- [Bridget] But it has to
be male yes, female yes--
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Bridget] You have to give
the gender options cause
that's what I'm into.
- [Michael] That's very interesting, yeah.
- [Bridget] I'm more
interested in the split of men
who view him with big dick.
I bet men view him with big dick energy
and women, I would guess--
- [Michael] That's interesting.
- [Bridget] View him with--
- [Michael] Compensating.
- [Bridget] Yeah. Yup.
- [Michael] Yeah.
Maybe he's got huge nuts.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] That's a thing, too.
- [Michael] That's a thing, yeah.
- [Bridget] Yeah, maybe
that is what it is.
That actually wouldn't surprise me.
- (laughs) Little dick, big nuts.
- [Bridget] Yeah, he's got big balls,.
I will give him that.
He does have big balls, interesting.
I didn't know this
conversation was gonna go here
but I'm--
- [Michael] Yes, you did.
- [Bridget] I'm glad it did.
(Michael laughs)
(laughs) I mean, the amount of time,
they always call me a dumpster.
I'm pointing to nowhere.
It's the secret location.
Maggie and Sam (laughs) always call me out
on making them think about Trump naked
like every dumpster fire
someone comes up like,
"How often do you spend
thinking about Trump naked?"
I'm like, "Apparently a lot".
- [Michael] Not enough.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] Apparently a lot of the time.
God, it's already 3:31.
I'm so mad.
- [Michael] Why?
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I wanna talk to you, well you do--
- [Michael] Wait, I
gotta a question first.
Do you think (giggles)--
- [Bridget] There's like no segue.
- [Michael] Do you think hearing us talk,
people think we're
endearing or insufferable?
- [Bridget] Probably there's--
- [Michael] It's a mix?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] It's a mix.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I think it's a mix.
- [Michael] Yeah.
- [Bridget] I find myself
insufferable. (laughs)
- (laughs) I find you endearing.
- [Bridget] I find you endearing.
- [Michael] Thank you.
- [Bridget] But I'm stuck in
here all day, in the brain.
(Michael laughs)
That's the place that
I've been in lately.
Just today,
it's funny you came over
and I'm so grateful because,
and one of the things
I actually wanna segue
into talking about is what you're,
you seem to talk a lot about the gym.
And we both do talk a lot about
what we do to stay sane.
- [Michael] Mental health.
- [Bridget] Mental health is huge to me.
- [Michael] It's gonna be
a big thing for me in 2020.
Talking about that, yeah.
- [Bridget] Me too!
And I think this is where actually people
really connect to both of us,
when they're not annoyed by us,
enjoying--
- [Michael] Or getting blocked
by me justifiably.
- [Bridget] Or me laughing
while fiddling while Rome burns.
- [Michael] Yes, baby, burn, baby!
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] I can't help it.
- [Michael] Disco inferno.
- [Bridget] It is.
- [Michael] Yeah.
- [Bridget] But, one of the things
that I was gonna ask you about
is what are your resolutions?
Like what's your New Years,
'cause me going into this year,
somebody was like, "Oh are you excited?"
And I'm like, "I don't know.
"I feel like I have nothing to say".
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] I have a
great answer for this.
This is gonna sound pompous and it is,
and some people take it at face value,
others are gonna think it's humble brag.
I don't care if you
think it's a humble brag.
I'm speaking an emotional truth.
When I tweet, I'm just in my underwear
being a jackass.
Right?
- [Bridget] Me too.
- [Michael] Brain farts--
- [Bridget] Usually not
even underwear.
(Michael laughs)
- [Michael] Just kissing the picture.
- [Bridget] Buck naked in my bed.
(Michael laughing)
- [Michael] Okay, yeah.
- [Bridget] Just being a jackass.
- [Michael] And I've had people be like,
"I'm going through a divorce
"and I read your Twitter
and it cheers my day up".
I can't emotionally accept the gratitude
because I would be doing the same thing
if this person didn't exist.
- [Bridget] Right, right, right.
- [Michael] So I can't think,
"Oh, I did something awesome"
'cause I didn't do anything
to cause this consequence.
One of the things,
but at the same time,
it's true that I did.
This woman is telling me this.
She's not lying.
So, on some level, I am
moving the needle in her life.
I can't put these two
things together emotionally.
This is where I'm going with this.
I went on a big tear against
Officer Kamala Harris,
last year.
(Bridget laughing)
And I was hitting that
pig regularly and hard.
- [Bridget] I saw this.
- [Michael] Yeah.
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] And I asked people, I go,
"Okay, listen.
"I have a very big opinion of myself,
"but speak truth to me,
speak truth to power".
(Michael laughs)
I said, "Do you think it's fair to say
I had a marginal impact on
her campaign imploding?"
And they said, "Yeah, that's
not saying that much".
How many people out there on Twitter
who are in politics, a thousand?
So I'm like, all right.
So my resolution for 2020 is to foment
as much chaos in our
political process as possible.
Here's some of the things I've been doing.
(Bridget laughs)
Jeremy Corbyn lost in the UK.
Hard left Labour candidate.
And I just tweeted at him,
it's got a thousand likes.
I go, "Hey, @jeremycorbyn.
"You not only lost,
"but Labour's at the
lowest level since 1935.
"How do you feel knowing that the ideas
"that you fought for your entire life
"have now been discredited
"for at least an entire generation?"
And just, you play
Psy-Ops with these people.
And I'm gonna be doing a lot more of that
'cause I do have that
Ivan Drago side of me.
And the thing is, a lot of these people,
the campaign managers,
they have fewer Twitter followers than me.
So I if I ask them,
"Hey, did you see this article
in the New York Times?"
'Cause the New York Times write
an article on your campaign,
you're in a bunker.
You don't know how it's
gonna be perceived.
You're freaking out, right.
You're like, "Okay,
what's this mean for us?"
You don't really know.
Did you see this article
in New York Times?
How badly is the campaign freaking out?
And how much do you think this
is gonna be perceived as a reflection
on your inability to
do your job correctly?
(Bridget laughs)
'Cause that's their worst fear
and now they're seeing
it in black and white.
And now it's blowing up their mentions.
So I'm going to be doing a lot of that.
Just twisting the knife.
- [Bridget] Okay, just bringing
it to its natural implosion.
- [Michael] And bringing the pain, yeah.
And that's like a good kind of sadism
'cause that's very focused.
(Bridget laughs)
'Cause a lot of people are like,
"Oh, fuck you, blah,
blah, Kamala Harris lost".
Then you actually double
down in your candidate
'cause you think okay I'm fighting.
It's this asshole.
If you're polite, but insidious
it really is much more,
messes with someone's head.
- See, I feel like the opposite
and then I'll say to myself,
"Oh, I don't wanna bully
these mentally ill people
"like Kathy Griffin and
Rose McGowan anymore".
Because I legitimately feel
like their brains are broken.
- [Michael] I don't think Kathy
Griffin's mentally ill at all.
You think she is?
- [Bridget] I don't know.
Like the other day she had that tweet
about how if you're gonna
come to Rose McGowan,
if you're gonna come after Rose McGowan,
you need to come through me
because she's, okay, fine.
I can concede you're a good friend.
All right, point one.
Point two is that she said,
"Because she has done more
for sexual assault survivors
"than anybody and she is
still being coordinated
"and attacked" and blah, blah, blah.
I'm just curious to know how
an idiotic foreign policy take
has any relation to Me Too.
Because I was--
- [Michael] Where's the
foreign policy there?
What do you mean?
- [Bridget] 'Cause she
was talking about how Rose
was getting dragged for her Iran tweet.
Which was idiotic.
- [Michael] Oh, okay.
I didn't see her Iran tweet.
Got it, okay, I see what you're saying.
- [Bridget] And so I said,
"Just because I was sexually assaulted
"doesn't make me exempt from critique
"about my take on frickin' drone strikes".
And it's infantilizing to
even say that to somebody.
It's just, I get it but that kind of...
I'm like how do you even make--
- [Michael] I'll tell you how.
This happened to me.
I went after some guy from the Atlantic
'cause he was referring to George Soros
as a literal Holocaust survivor, right?
Which is technically true, however,
and they're gonna have
plausible deniability,
when you use that term you
are implying to some people
that he was rescued from the camps.
He was not.
And in any other circumstance,
someone will recognize
freely that the experience
of the Jews who escaped Germany
and made it to the US, or somewhere else,
verus a Jewish person in occupied country
versus someone in the camps.
These are three different experiences.
They're all Holocaust survivors,
different experiences.
The claim that George Soros
is a Holocaust survivor
and therefore can't be critiqued
for his influence in politics is a lie.
And I was called a lite-Holocaust denier,
blah, blah, blah.
(Bridget laughs)
And someone's like, "My
grandfather died in the Holocaust".
And I go, "I was wondering who died
"and made you an insufferable prick,
"but I guess now we know".
I wasn't gonna bend the
knee to these people.
So what they do and what
Kathy's trying to do is,
Greta Thunberg's another example.
You take someone and you put
them as beyond criticism at all
and it's a domination technique.
And the only response is,
"I've got another approach,
go fuck yourself".
Because as you said,
I agree Rose McGowan has done
a lot of good for this issue.
She's suffered enormous consequences.
The fact that corporate media
has made Alyssa Milano
the face of this movement,
'cause she's controllable.
She knows how to stick to her role.
Rose McGowan is a loose canon,
so you can't work with her.
And they're still having
cons, what was her name?
Kathy Griffin's lawyer,
Gloria Allred's daughter,
was the one who coordinated with Weinstein
to try to destroy Rose
McGowan in the press.
The letters leaked Lisa,
whatever her name was.
But yeah, shut up.
You don't know anything
about Iran, I promise.
And you're not being attacked personally.
If you sound like a dumbass about Iran,
you still did good things
for sexual assault survivors.
Helen Keller was a communist.
Do you know this?
- [Bridget] No.
- [Michael] Helen Keller
became a hardcore communist,
this is one of the despicable
aspects of history.
And then everyone's like,
"Well, of course, she's a
communist, she's a retard".
(Bridget laughs)
And she's like,
"I'm deaf, dumb, and blind, and mute.
"I'm not retarded".
They're like, "Okay, retard".
(Bridget laughs)
Look this up, it was horrible.
- [Bridget] I'm sure it was.
- [Michael] Yeah.
And she was livid and correctly so.
I mean the noises that mouth was making
were not of Earth.
(both laugh)
In her rage of blindness
and muteness and deafness.
And also a woman, so she's
really not doing well.
- [Bridget] I don't know,
I've tried not to be,
I feel like with Rose
McGowan and Kathy Griffin,
they're much bigger platforms than me.
They're household names--
- [Michael] Wait, can
I say one more thing?
I'm sorry to interrupt you.
I think Kathy Griffin probably feels guilt
that her lawyer, who she fired,
was the one it was later revealed
who was trying to ruin
Rose McGowan as a person.
So she's trying to white knight for her
and I think it's coming from a good place.
- [Bridget] I don't think
it's coming from a bad place.
I just, I don't--
- [Michael] I just connected
those dots.
- [Bridget] I don't like those--
I don't like those kinds of--
- It's a--
- [Bridget] I hate when
people weaponize Me Too
for stupid things like this
because then it undermines Me Too.
- [Michael] I agree.
- [Bridget] Which I think
is an important movement.
And so you're actually doing
harm to the movement itself
by saying it just makes people,
like it's a force field over anybody
from any kind of critique in
a completely unrelated topic.
- [Michael] I agree completely.
I'm just saying I don't think
this is her being remotely crazy.
Her psychology here is pretty obvious
and I think positive.
- [Bridget] Yeah and it's not even that,
it's more just the connection.
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah,
this makes sense, right.
It's a non-sequitur.
- [Bridget] That's what I said on Twitter.
I was like, "This is a non-sequitur".
Other than the far left liberal feminists
completely ignoring the
women under the oppression
of most of these regimes.
Where does Me Too come into this? (laughs)
Like how is this connected?
I don't understand.
I feel like I envy your embrace
of your feistiness on Twitter.
And I feel that I embrace it
because I love it (laughs)
and can't help it.
But, then I feel guilty.
I feel so much guilt
about when I make a point
that goes big. (laughs)
- [Michael] Why? What?
- [Bridget] Because I
feel like I'm not adding,
I'm sowing chaos.
I wanna be a bridge between people
and I recognize that
I'm sowing divisiveness
when I'm being feisty.
- [Michael] What you're doing
is burning down the walls
that are separating people,
so you are being the bridge.
These people have been
pitted against each other artificially
and by tearing down these
barriers they can reconnect.
- [Bridget] Yeah, that's
a good justification.
I'll go with that. (laughs)
- [Michael] It's the truth.
But it's the truth.
And as an example, what
you were talking about,
let me just use something
that's not political.
When you and I were kids,
if there was a kid in your school
who was really into breeding
guinea pigs, he'd be a freak
and probably bullied
(Bridget laughs)
and like, "What's wrong
with the guinea pig kid?"
And now thanks to the internet,
there's gonna be a guinea pig community
and you and I'd be like, "Oh, cool!"
This is a scene and
everyone will respect them.
I think that's wonderful.
- [Bridget] I do too, I see this even--
- [Michael] It's very healthy.
- [Bridget] It is, I see this even with
young LGBTQ kids.
- [Michael] Yes!
- [Bridget] They have
so much support online
and they can connect with each other.
Even if they feel
isolated in their school,
or in their world, they're not alone.
- [Michael] Someone came at me on Twitter
and they thought that I was
someone that I'm not, whatever.
And they were doing a fundraiser
for the Trevor Project.
I'm like, I'll show you.
So, I donated money
and I tweeted about it.
And what the Trevor Project is,
it's a suicide hotline for LGBTQ kids.
And you and I both know,
from people we've talked to, whatever,
many suicidal people don't wanna do it.
They just want that one phone
call from an external voice
to be like, "I promise you
it's not gonna get great,
"but you'll be able to handle it tomorrow.
"Just hold on, literally, for 12 hours.
"You've done that for 12 hours earlier,
"you've got another 12 in you, I promise".
And the more targeted
that suicide hotline,
the more likely that
person is to make a call.
If there's that suicide hotline
for someone dealing with
eating issues or alcoholism
or single black moms,
whatever it is,
"Oh, this person on the other
line will understand me".
If you're like a young
trans kid, a young bi,
and you're suicidal, "Oh, this is for me".
- [Bridget] I mean that's
literally the premise of AA.
It's one alcoholic
talking to another.
- [Michael] Exactly, as peers.
So, I tweeted that out and I
raised some money for them.
And I'm like yeah, this
is great that this exists.
And I also said, "If this
LGBT stuff isn't for you,
"there's the national suicide
hotline, donate to them.
"Or not, if you don't wanna donate money,
"you don't feel like it,
"find someone in your
phone and text them".
And I stole this from Joe Pags, his outro,
text them I appreciate
you and make their day
and you never know who's
having a shitty day
and I promise you,
you get a text from someone
you like or respect,
you haven't talked in a
while, and you get that,
it's gonna make you feel nice.
And it costs you nothing.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I've never gotten an
I appreciate you text from you, Michael.
(Michael laughs)
- [Michael] Well, I'm not gonna lie.
(Both laughing)
In writing,
(laughs) that's perjury.
- [Bridget] How dare you?
How dare you, sir?
- [Michael] You're just
one of a million Bridgets.
- [Bridget] I know, it's true.
Like more than a million apparently.
It's just like levels of them dead.
- [Michael] I just love the
idea that you're my cop,
like the guy was snitching to you
that you're the one who's gonna save him
when I blocked him.
- [Bridget] Oh, like I'm your cop.
- [Michael] Like, you're
gonna sit down with me like,
"All right, son, you've had your fun,
"but this is how it's gonna be".
- [Bridget] Like I'm gonna talk to you?
- [Michael] Yeah, that's what
it sounds like he wanted.
- [Bridget] Oh, I know. (laughs)
I don't think it's the cop,
I think it's more just I have your ear.
You know, that we're friends.
- [Michael] Oh, that's fair.
That is fair, that's fair, that's fair.
I think they sense our rapport
more than me being like,
- [Michael] That's true, that's true.
- [Bridget] "Listen up kid".
(both laughing)
- With your baton.
"All right, it's all been
fun and games until now".
- [Bridget] "All right, this is over".
- [Michael] "This stops!
"It stops yesterday!"
- [Bridget] You talk a
lot about going to the gym
and mental health and what
are some of the things
that you're doing in the
coming new year for yourself?
- [Michael] So, I am
getting my cum gutters back
and once I get them, I'm
never gonna lose them again.
- [Bridget] Your what?
- [Michael] My cum gutters.
- [Bridget] What are those?
- [Michael] Those are those lines,
the hip, the V.
- [Bridget] Oh!
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah,
I don't even know why
they're called cum gutters, but
I just love that expression.
'Cause I don't--
- [Bridget] Wow, I didn't know
they had a name.
It's so funny, my friend and I
were just talking about this last night
and he was like, "I need
to get those lines back".
I'm like, "Gross, guys who
have those are disgusting".
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] Well, I think
at a certain point when you're fit,
you wanna look at a point
that women find you gross.
Like if you're too veiny,
guys are like, "Oh, fuck
yeah, I'm vascular".
Every woman is like, "That is disgusting!"
- [Bridget] Yeah, it's a little,
the cum gutters on men, to me,
which is a really great term.
- (laughs) Isn't it though?
Can we first try to talk
about whose cum it is?
I don't understand how that term,
are you lying on your back
and cumming on your own stomach?
- [Bridget] Did this come
from the gay community?
- [Michael] I don't think it did though.
But if a gay dude's fucking you,
he's not cumming on your stomach.
- [Bridget] It's gonna be
like, Walk-Ins Welcome,
in which Bridget and Michael
talk about Trump's penis size,
the etymology of cum gutters (laughs)
and how they're gonna
contribute to the chaos of 20--
2020 is gonna be insane!
- [Michael] Yes, it is.
Yes.
- [Bridget] It's just--
- It's amazing.
- [Bridget] I can't stop.
Like the trickster in
me can't stop grinning
even though I'm worried for people.
Not me. (laughs)
- [Michael] Yeah, 'cause I'm privileged.
I'm fine.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] I also grew up in chaos.
I'm the girl drinking coffee.
I'm the meme.
Like this is fine.
(Michael laughs)
With the fire burning.
That's how I feel.
And then I feel weird,
like why do I feel okay
and everyone around me is freaking out?
- [Michael] 'Cause I
think you've been through
some really dark stuff.
(Bridget laughs)
Right, I'm not joking.
- Yes, it's been hard.
- [Michael] So when you're
looking around people
like this is the worst thing ever,
you're like, "I've been raped".
This is better.
- [Bridget] And it's not real.
So much of it is virtual.
So, you'll be like, "Oh,
my God!" freaking out
and then go outside and it's like--
- It's sunny, yeah, yeah.
♪ Do, do, do, do, do, do, do ♪
- There's rainbows.
- (laughs) Everywhere.
- [Bridget] Maybe in Australia
they have a different
perspective because--
- [Michael] 'Cause they're
upside down? (laughs)
- [Bridget] Well, 'cause
the whole country's on fire.
- Is it?
- Oh, yeah.
- [Michael] Oh, I didn't know this.
- [Bridget] The whole country's on fire.
- [Michael] Oh, that's a big country.
- [Bridget] It's a huge country.
I think it's like,
compared to the fires here for instance,
I think it's like half of
a billion acres have burnt.
A billion acres, it's crazy numbers.
And there are numbers that
are being thrown around
that aren't true like half
a billion species are dead.
It's not that, they're just misplaced
or displaced.
- [Michael] Half a billion individuals?
'Cause they don't have
half a billion species.
- [Bridget] Or animals,
sorry, yeah, animals.
- [Michael] Well, this is also big,
my friend's big in the zoo community,
and I don't mean that in a sexual way.
And Australia are assholes.
- [Bridget] He's a furry?
Are you friends with Beto?
(both laugh)
- [Michael] I wish.
A lot of the animals are
indigenous to Australia
and Australia won't ever
let them be exported.
So, you don't have a breeding colony
of like platypus or koala anywhere.
And like this happens,
and the koalas right now
are having this cancer
which is somehow contagious.
I don't understand how
that happens to a pathogen.
And it ends up where
they lose bowel control,
they're pissing themselves to death.
It's really awful.
- [Bridget] Well, a lot
of species could possibly
be going extinct right now
because the fires are so bad.
- [Michael] Oh, my God, I can't
believe Trump made this happen.
(Bridget laughs)
Trump said burn it all
down and it's happening.
- [Bridget] I could go on a
Rogan-level podcast with you,
like just talking about--
- [Michael] Jamie pull up.
- [Bridget] Jamie, I love Jamie.
(laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Bridget] He's so calming.
He's the Midwestern grounding force
(Michael laughs)
for all the crazy personalities
that go through there.
He's the lightning rod
to ground the crazy.
I just find his soothing--
- [Michael] I hate that shit.
I don't want a lightning rod,
I want the lightning.
- [Bridget] I think it's still a curse.
- (laughing) That's true, that's factual.
- [Bridget] It still goes on.
We all saw the Alex Jones, Joe Rogan.
- (laughing) Yes, we did.
- [Bridget] I love Alex
Jones in a tank, screaming,
"Epstein didn't kill himself".
- (laughing) He's the best.
- (laughing) We are
living in a South Park.
- [Michael] It's amazing.
- [Bridget] How can anyone be upset?
- [Michael] Well, they
can, but they shouldn't.
- [Bridget] I always talk about
this with the post-Trump first win.
(laughing) I'm like, "Did planes fly?"
'Cause it was like 9/11.
If you were in a city, it was dead silent.
- [Michael] I tell people on Twitter
the one group I want to most
reach are the black paled.
Black paled people are those
who think there's no hope.
And I'm like, "You are so wrong".
Firstly, even if we're going down hill,
I don't think we are,
but let's assume we're going
down hill as a civilization.
We've got a lot ways
to go before it's over.
There's an expression, "There's
a lot of ruin in a nation".
We have so much further
to go before it's the end.
So, at the very least,
on a personal level,
you can find your joy.
And you should.
- [Bridget] Those are
the people I wanna reach.
- [Michael] Yeah, you
don't have to be this way.
Like I had this, I forget what it was,
I had some tweet, some earnest tweet,
about maybe someone who
was not doing good way
and they had some kind of sarcasm.
And I just wrote, "You don't
have to live this way".
- [Bridget] But I think this
is where we confuse people.
Because you and I will jump from being--
- [Michael] I know, it's the best.
- [Bridget] Tricksters and
completely disingenuous
just for our own amusement,
- (laughing) Yes!
- [Bridget] to completely
earnest trying to help someone
or have a message of hope.
And it's very disorienting.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] I know, I love it!
Dance, dance, dance!
- [Bridget] Very disorienting for the--
You do have to kind of keep up constantly.
Because if you just entered yours
or my Twitter on like one day,
you'd be like, "I fucking
hate this person".
Or you'd be like,
"Wow, this is the most
inspiring, enlightened person"
and two days later, you'd be like,
"Who is this person?"
- [Michael] What's these dick jokes?
This is beneath you.
I'm like, (chuckles) "I
assure you it is not".
- [Bridget] (laughs) I assure you.
Nothing is beneath me.
- [Michael] Sir, sir.
- [Bridget] That's why I have
"find another hero" in my bio.
And I always, whenever I
get a shitload of followers
from some tweet that went crazy,
I'm like, "I'm only gonna disappoint you".
(Michael laughs)
I promise you.
- [Michael] You're tourists,
you're not staying.
- [Bridget] I promise you.
You're like on a cruise
(Michael laughs)
and that cruise is gonna get quarantined
because somebody took a shit
and now you all have dysentery.
(Bridget laughs)
That is my Twitter experience.
- [Michael] It's fun.
We have too much fun on Twitter, I think.
- [Bridget] I do have so much fun.
But, it's usually at the
expense of celebrities.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] Good, good.
Why is that bad?
It's not at the expense
of the little people,
that's where it should be.
- [Bridget] No, no,
I like the little people.
- [Michael] I don't, but it's okay.
- [Bridget] This is also
where you and I differ.
- [Michael] I don't like the idea
that is very common in social media.
And something's common,
people think it's acceptable,
it's not.
That you can go up to a stranger
and just call them the most
offensive terms possible
and just not have a counterpunch.
"Oh, you fucking idiot, blah, blah, blah".
You don't do that.
You don't walk up to somebody
and just say these vile things
and especially don't do it to me
'cause I will ruin your family.
- [Bridget] I've had blue
checks do that to me.
- [Michael] Oh, I've had it
too and I fucking nuke them.
'Cause they cannot conceive a possibility
where they're not John
Cusack giving a speech
at the end of the movie
and then everyone applauds
and the bad guy just punches
his fist through a hat.
No, no, no, no, no, I win, you lose.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Bridget] All right, what are
your other resolutions for you?
You're really good at skirting
the personal questions.
- [Michael] What do you mean?
- [Bridget] Well, what are you doing?
So, I break everything down
into body, mind, spirit
when I do my...
I do intentions, not so much goals.
And okay, I'll share some of mine.
I have things I just need to,
I want the cum gutters back.
- [Michael] You didn't have cum gutters.
(Bridget laughs)
For a woman it's almost impossible.
- [Bridget] No, it's hard.
- Okay.
- [Bridget] But, I was too skinny.
No, I want to...
I really want to write.
I wanna write a book and
I'd like to sell a book.
Although, I wrote a
book proposal last year
and then I was like, "I
don't wanna write this book".
- [Michael] Did you shop it around?
- [Bridget] I shopped it around a little
and everybody said that
the middle doesn't exist.
- [Michael] Book buying market, yeah.
- Well, the middle being like
the politically homeless,
which is bullshit, they do exist.
- [Michael] Yeah, but
they don't buy books.
They don't self-identify, necessarily.
- [Bridget] Right, or they don't,
I think sometimes you just,
it's the way you frame it.
- [Michael] Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.
- [Bridget] And then it was
like, "Oh, go out and interview".
I'm like, no, I'm not, no.
- [Michael] They're coming
to my house. (laughs)
- [Bridget] I would like
to do something like that
but really I think,
the question people always
ask me is, "Who are you?"
Why do people like Ben Shapiro retweet,
"Like who the fuck are you?"
And it's really, I think
the story I should write
is the accidental pundit.
- [Michael] Yeah, that's
a great idea, Bridget.
- [Bridget] Like how to--
- [Michael] And then you
have little anecdotes
about all these people.
That's a great idea.
- [Bridget] Yeah, like how--
- [Michael] That's the perfect title, too.
- [Bridget] 'Cause it is an accident.
I didn't want any of this.
And then it's just how, for instance,
here's a great anecdote.
The time that I want
on Gavin McInnes' show.
We had a great time.
He's hilarious.
- [Michael] Yes, he's funnier than me.
- [Bridget] He was heading to New York
to give a speech that night.
- [Michael] Is this the Proud Boys thing?
- [Bridget] Yes and I said,
"Gavin, don't do anything
"that's gonna make me regret
coming on here today".
Cut to six hours later, me
in DC crying in a bathtub
because there's videos of Proud Boys
kicking someone, calling
them a homo or whatever.
And it comes to find out
that they were Antifa.
I thought there were just
random gays in the street,
at the moment.
But I was like, "Oh no, what have I done?"
(Michael mimics crying)
Crying in a bathtub.
- [Michael] Were you really?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] That's
amazing, was there water?
- [Bridget] Yeah, there was water!
I was taking a bath, looking at Twitter
and then Proud Boys started trending
and I was like, "No!"
- [Michael] You're on
Twitter in the bathtub?
- [Bridget] Yeah, yeah.
- [Michael] Oh my God, okay.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I was posting pictures
of my feet for Bethany Shondark.
Well, that's her Twitter
handle, Bethany Mandel.
And then next thing I know,
I'm crying because suddenly
Proud Boys is trending
and I'm like, "What have I done?"
- [Michael] That's so funny.
Oh, okay, so you want my resolutions?
- [Bridget] Yeah.
- [Michael] Or you didn't
finish yours though.
- [Bridget] No, it's fine, I want yours.
- [Michael] Cum gutters, for the physical.
I'm actually at a place
where I'm really enjoying riding the wave,
so introducing chaos
into political process.
And if I had one career thing,
I guess do a book proposal or whatever.
I'm not that super into it
'cause it's just so much work.
And this is not gonna be a very hard get.
This is gonna destroy the internet.
I've talked to other people about this,
getting in a room in front
of a camera with Ben Shapiro
because that would be hilarious.
- [Bridget] Why?
- [Michael] Because just the
two of us like so much jewelry,
it's gonna be... (laughs)
and I already know what I'm gonna wear.
- [Bridget] Oh, really?
- [Michael] Oh, yeah,
I've got a look.
- [Bridget] That wouldn't
be very hard for you.
- [Michael] Oh, I know.
- [Bridget] I'm surprised
he hasn't had you on actually.
- [Michael] None of this is hard.
- [Bridget] Oh, okay.
- [Michael] And I think it's very useful.
I tweeted this out also
and I'm sure you'd agree.
I said,
"Set yourself a resolution
that's easy to accomplish,
"so for the rest of the year
you can have that sense of
"that I can make things happen".
Like, I'm gonna have dinner
at this fancy restaurant.
It's a hundred bucks.
I'm gonna buy a new sweater
or I'm gonna read this
book I've always meant to.
I'm gonna watch this movie
(Bridget laughs)
I always meant to.
- [Bridget] "The New Right".
- "The New Right".
(both laugh)
No, I didn't write.
Then I write, no I didn't.
I can't believe that happened.
(both laughing)
So, those are my three big resolutions.
- [Bridget] Okay, all right, I like those.
When you help people online,
it does seem like a lot of
people come to you for advice.
I love what you say about,
I think I read something that you said,
about how going to the gym
is something you can control.
It's something very easily
that you can control
about your life or you can--
- [Michael] So, I've
mentioned this on other shows.
You've been there, I've been there,
you're unemployed, you don't
have a girlfriend, whatever.
Your brain, which is
evolutionarily designed
to fight resource-scarcity
is yelling at you,
"You're never gonna find a job again".
"Send out more resumes".
Or, "Go back on Tinder, blah, blah, blah,
"you're never gonna find a girlfriend".
And you start freaking out, right?
So, when you're young, you don't realize
that you're brain's often your enemy
and it knows exactly what
to say to mess with you.
- [Bridget] And it says it
in your voice.
- [Michael] Your voice!
Yes, "Oh, this is my friend".
No, no, no, this is the devil.
- [Bridget] Oh, this is my brain.
- [Michael] So, if you go the gym,
and you don't have to be
a workout freak at all.
If you write down what you did for lifts
and you go week-to-week,
those numbers will change and increase.
Even if it's just one
more rep the next week.
You don't have to give 100%, give 50%.
Then when your brain is freaking out,
you're in a rut, nothing's changing.
I have data that shows I'm
improving in at least one aspect.
Shut the hell up.
Or I did something today.
I didn't just play video games.
Today wasn't wasted.
It's, to me, the most affective mechanism
to fight that antsy anxiety.
- [Bridget] Yeah, do
you have a lot of that?
- [Michael] No, not anymore.
- [Bridget] Oh, okay.
- [Michael] I'm also an opiate addict.
So, that's a different story.
- (laughing) Are you?
- [Michael] No.
- [Bridget] Oh.
(Bridget laughs)
- [Michael] I'm just an aficionado.
(both laughing)
Let me get your belt.
- [Bridget] That is like, oh,
that makes a lot of sense.
'Cause that's when I felt the most
like watching the world burn
was when I was a junkie.
- [Michael] Yeah, it's nice.
- [Bridget] I think that junkie
spirit in me still exists.
- [Michael] It's hard to watch
anything when you're nodding out.
- [Bridget] Yeah, exactly.
I nodded out on my eggs at Mel's on Sunset
when I was like 20 years old.
- [Michael] Did you really?
- [Bridget] On the patio, yeah.
- [Michael] Oh, my God.
(Bridget laughs)
Aw, it's sad.
- [Bridget] Sad little bread boy.
- (laughs) One of thousands.
I've always wanted to
give Bridget's tour of LA.
- [Michael] You should do that.
- But, it's totally
narcissistic where it's like
"And that's the sunset and
this is the Best Western
"where I OD'd in the stairwell
"on the way to a movie premiere"
- [Michael] Why don't you make this video?
It's hilarious.
- [Bridget] It would be so funny.
- Do it, though.
I think your fans
would love that.
- [Bridget] And that's where
I nodded out on my eggs.
- [Michael] Your fans would love it.
- [Bridget] Yeah, I think it'd be fun.
That's a good idea.
- [Michael] It's a great idea.
- [Bridget] Just to do the video.
- [Michael] You should do it, yeah.
Go in that stairwell.
(Bridget sighs)
This would also be emotional
for you to see these things.
- [Bridget] Oh, and here's where
I crotched a bunch of drugs
'cause I thought the DEA
was following me. (laughing)
- [Michael] Here's the
bathtub I was crying in in DC.
(both laughing)
You can still see my tears.
- [Bridget] And we destroyed
a frickin' hotel room.
I mean, the stories,
the stories.
- [Michael] You should do it.
(Bridget sighs)
- [Bridget] I've never
shared the crotched a bunch
of drugs story
until this moment.
(Michael laughs)
- [Michael] It wasn't DEA agents?
- [Bridget] No, I was in
a frickin' cocaine induced
psychosis!
- [Michael] Oh, my bad.
Oops, whoops, how embarrassing for me.
I'm so stupid.
- [Bridget] How could you not
put these things together, Michael?
(both laughing)
- [Michael] "I was in a
cocaine induced psychosis".
- [Bridget] Obviously!
- [Michael] That should
be the episode title.
"I was in a cocaine induced psychosis".
How much coke do you have to do to be--
- A lot, a lot, yeah.
- [Michael] That's a lot of coke.
Damn.
- [Bridget] That was right before
I went into rehab at 19, like days before.
- [Michael] Okay.
(Bridget laughs)
Did you put down like a whole gram?
- [Bridget] It was a lot.
More than that.
- [Michael] Oh, wow, okay.
- [Bridget] Way more than that.
- [Michael] Okay.
- [Bridget] It was days, too.
It's like days of it.
- [Michael] Oh, so you're not sleeping?
- [Bridget] Not sleeping.
- [Michael] I interviewed
Belinda Carlisle once
from the Go-Go's.
One my favorite musicians and
she was a cokehead, right.
And I said, "Let me just ask you this.
"If a guy's a cokehead
and musician, right.
"He's having the groupies.
"They're having a coke
party, everyone's having fun.
"As a female, you can't really do that.
"Like literally, what did you do?"
And she said, "I would
go to my hotel room,
"pull the blinds, disconnect the phone,
"and pace like an animal."
And I go, "That sounds great".
She goes, "Oh, yeah, it was a blast".
So like, that's when you
know, it's addiction.
When you're not having fun.
- [Bridget] No.
- [Michael] That's like, oh, my God.
- [Bridget] Some of my
most horrific writings ever
are when I first started doing hard drugs.
I was doing speed and I don't need that.
- (laughing) Right?
- [Bridget] Clearly.
Even coke is little...
Like, I basically just used coke
so that I could drink
more, when I used it.
And I was like, "I don't do coke.
"I only do coke when it's around".
And everyone was like,
"Spoken like a true cokehead".
I'm like, "I've never bought it".
They're like, "You're a girl".
I'm a girl, I'm not a drug addict.
Only idiots buy drugs.
- [Michael] Only addicts buy drugs.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] And so I
had one really bad night
where I did a bunch of speed
and went to a rave in Minneapolis
'cause it was 90s, I think, still.
And I was just writing
basically so I didn't go insane.
I was like, "If I keep writing,
"I won't go crazy coming down".
- [Michael] This was a thing
in the '70s and the '60s,
the Andy Warhol circle.
They would take speed and
fill up these trip books,
and the handwriting would change
and get smaller and smaller.
Or they would spend, these
are like the drag queens,
they would spend like hours
doing their makeup in the
mirror, like literally hours,
like just applying the
mascara and the liner.
- [Bridget] Oh, yeah.
My big thing was New York
Times crossword puzzles.
- [Michael] Oh, my God, dork.
- [Bridget] I would be the loser
at the rave doing a
fucking crossword puzzle.
- [Michael] "Did she bring that with her?"
- [Bridget] I did!
(both laughing)
And then I would take it home to my family
and I'd still be doing the crossword.
I don't know why they didn't think
I had something wrong with me.
But, I would just be still
trying to figure that word out,
like this brain is
gonna be able to come up
with a new solution to that word.
- [Michael] Wow, wow, jeez.
- [Bridget] Yeah.
I haven't told any of these stories.
That was the beginning of the dark years.
That was the first couple of the years.
The early dark years.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] I do think
"The Accidental Pundit"
is a great book idea.
- [Bridget] Thanks, 'cause I think I just
need to tell the story
just so I can be like, "Here's the book!"
- [Michael] Yeah, just read the book.
Read a book.
- [Bridget] I got sober
and I've started doing
stand-up about it,
which is helpful, where people ask me,
it's like when you get
sober they in the 12 steps,
or a sponsor, or whatever, they're like,
"You're not even gonna know who you are".
It's why they tell you
not to make big decisions
in the first year.
- [Michael] Interesting, okay.
- They're like, "You're not
even gonna recognize yourself."
And I'm like, "I'm a conservative?"
(both laughing)
How much weed was I smoking?
And then the conservatives
start talking about porn
and I'm like "Oh, thank God.
"I'm not one of you, thank God.
"Whew! Okay".
I'm not sure where I belong.
- [Michael] But, it's not there.
- [Bridget] But, it's not there either.
Oh, thank God.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] Amazing.
- [Bridget] But, that's
really what happened.
I was just really high
for like two decades.
- [Michael] Wow.
- [Bridget] Didn't know what I believed.
- [Michael] That's amazing.
And now you still don't.
- [Bridget] And I still don't.
- [Michael] You don't.
Other than I love chaos.
- [Bridget] That's gonna be the end.
- [Michael] And I still don't, the end.
- [Bridget] By the way...
(both laughing)
- [Michael] The end, dot,
dot, dot, question mark.
Like in those movies.
(both laughing)
The end?
- [Michael] Is it?
- [Bridget] All right, I
know your ride's coming.
- Yeah.
(Bridget groans)
- [Bridget] This is always so much fun.
- [Michael] Yes, it is, ma'am.
- [Bridget] Thank you for walking in.
You're always welcome.
- [Michael] Thank you for
having me as a repeat.
(Bridget sighs)
- [Bridget] You're welcome any time
you come to LA, 'cause
we always find a way
to talk about new and
interesting and hilarious things.
- [Michael] Let that be my welcome.
- Yes.
(Michael laughs)
- [Bridget] Oh, where can we find you?
- [Michael] It's
twitter.com/bridgetphetasy.
- [Bridget] Find Michael
Malice so he can block you.
- [Michael] Yeah.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] Follow Michael,
so he can block you.
- [Michael] It's Michael Malice
on twitter.
- [Bridget] Buy his book, "The New Right".
Read cliff notes.
(both laughing)
- [Michael] And then you write!
You read it, then you write!
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] I was like,
"No, I'm not using your
book as warm-up material".
(both laughing)
I read it and then I'm like,
"Oh, this is inspiring a
lot of thoughts for me".
(both laughing)
Every single column I've written
has been after I read
a section of your book.
- [Michael] Amazing.
(both laughing)
- [Bridget] All right, thank you.
Bye.
- [Michael] You're welcome.
- [Bridget] It's time
for the weekly check-in
with Bridget and Cousin Maggie.
Well, it seems a little strange
to be doing a check-in alone,
but I'm the only person left alive
here in my bunker with hope.
Maggie succumbed to her sickness back east
and she's not available
to do our first check-in
of the year, unfortunately.
And, so, it's just yours
truly, checking in.
Starting the new year, we have
a lot of fun guests coming,
a lot of cool things planned this year.
I'm starting off the year
trying to create good habits
and really focus on sustainable
ways of living instead of
just goal oriented things
that are not always sustainable
for somebody like me.
How are you guys doing?
This feels so awkward.
I'm just staring at a
wall, talking to myself.
I don't know how guys like
Bill Burr just do that,
where they just put on their headphones
and just start ranting into a microphone.
I don't know, maybe I should
start practicing this.
The world is nuts.
We're eight days in
when I'm recording this.
And it has already felt like a year
And just today, there was enough
news dropping like ballistic missiles
to do a dumpster fire almost on the hour.
Just, shit's really
going off and I can tell
that 2020 heading into the
election is gonna be bananas.
So, we're gonna try and have
some interesting conversations.
We are going to keep you
stimulated intellectually,
keep the conversation
and the dialogue open.
I have a big announcement
coming on Monday,
this coming Monday, January 13th,
and hopefully, we'll be
creating a nice community
for the Walk-Ins Welcome tribe.
We're just gonna create
our own tribe, guys.
I am against tribalism,
unless I'm the leader of my own tribe.
(laughs)
And then in that case, it's fine.
I'm fine with a tribe that's mine.
And I'm really excited
to hear from all of you.
I'm hoping that the
community that we're creating
is a little bit more interactive
and there's gonna me lots of outtakes,
Maggie and I will have more
check-ins on the regular
about the day's events.
There's just a lot.
There's so much potential.
It's 2020 and anything is possible.
Just embrace that.
Embrace that feeling of living
in the Wild West of times
and hopefully Maggie will
be recovered next week.
Send her your love and your
get-well-soon's and we miss her.
And I think that's enough from me
'cause you're gonna be hearing
even more from me this year
than ever before and I'm excited, guys.
I know that some of us had a rough 2019.
Time to brush that dirt off our shoulder
and move forward with excitement,
enthusiasm, curiosity,
intellectual honesty,
and trickster spirit.
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that will change your life,
help you get out of your own way,
and solve all the world's problems.
I wanna thank Ricochet,
our composer, Jared Elias,
my co-producer and cousin, Maggie,
and all of you out there listening.
This has been Walk-Ins
Welcome with Bridget Phetasy.
I'm Bridget Phetasy and you're welcome.
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