Unregistered 123: Bridget Phetasy

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Thaddeus Russell

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4.2 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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The personal and the political are always intertwined. No one understands that better than my guest Bridget Phetasy, who joined me to discuss her rise from drunk bartender to Twitter and podcast star, the problems with left-right politics, the life-saving power of art, and our mutual troubles with pleasure. 25% off all CBD products at: … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is the Unregistered Podcast, and I'm Thaddeus Russell.
0:07.0	This is a show about ideas, people, and behaviors that are considered inappropriate, out of bounds, or beyond the pale.
0:15.0	The things you're not supposed to talk about if you're a schoolteacher, a college professor, a businessman, a politician,
0:23.2	a parent, a neighbor, or even a podcast host. These are the things you're not supposed to say
0:29.4	or even think if you're a good liberal, a good conservative, or a good citizen. Each week,
0:36.9	I'll interview a person who has something bad to say. They might be a journalist or a good citizen. Each week, I'll interview a person who has something bad to say.
0:40.3	They might be a journalist or a professor.
0:42.6	They might be a porn star or a drug dealer.
0:45.4	They might just be an ordinary person with an ordinary job
0:48.9	who doesn't care about the rules of polite society.
0:52.5	I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker. I'm interested in people who break the rules of polite society. I'm not interested in breaking the rules just to be a troublemaker.
0:56.2	I'm interested in people who break the rules of conventional thought
0:59.6	and to expand the scope of what is possible to say in our society.
1:04.2	I'm interested in people who make me think.
1:10.6	My favorite episodes of Unregistered are ones in which the guest is unafraid not only to express heterodox, unregistered political views, but also the ways in which their personal lives intersect with and inform their politics. That is, it's an episode maybe like this one.
1:32.3	But you be the judge. This is my interview with Bridget Fetasy. I am here with Bridget Fetasy. Someone
1:42.4	I've been following on Twitter avidly for God.
1:44.7	I don't know, how long have you been on Twitter since 2013? Is that right?
1:47.4	Yep, that's when I really started engaging.
1:51.7	Yeah, and I don't know, I've probably picked up on you shortly after that. I've been reading
1:56.3	you for a long, long time. Oh, I wanted to tell you something before we get into this. I wanted to thank you for a tweet, which you sent out, I don't know, probably four or five, maybe more than that,
2:05.9	maybe two months ago during the quarantine. Low point for me at that moment. And I just, I turned
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