Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1941 - Bridget Phetasy
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1941 - Bridget Phetasy' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-15. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1941 - Bridget Phetasy

Joe Rogan Podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.
Hello.
What's happening, my friend?
I'm back.
You're back.
With the baby again.
Just momming and working.
You getting any sleep?
I don't look like it.
I'm like, how do I get rid of these circles under my eyes?
Not really, because I try to work and write in particular after she goes down
for, she's sleeping, which is great.
Right.
It's weird how, like, is she sleeping?
That's the, you know, everybody asks you that question when you have a kid.
Yeah, well, once you have kids, you realize, like, for the first X amount of
days or years, like, you're just in a fog.
Yeah.
Where you just don't know what's going on, because you're just, that mommy
brain thing's real.
It is, and it's the sleep deprivation, like, I think you pull your head out of
your butt, like, in different waves.
So I feel like I just came to a bit, and I'm like, what's going on with my
business?
Like, I ended up having to pay this ridiculous, I can't even get into it,
because I'll, like, burn the whole thing down.
But it was a ridiculous tax that you're generally exempt from if you file by a
date, which, why do you even have this rule that punishes small businesses who
are usually drowning?
And it's easy to miss this stupid, arbitrary date.
And so the city of L.A. came after me, and they basically shook me down for,
like, $4,000.
And I was like, I can't, this shit keeps me up at night, Joe.
Yeah.
I just can't tell.
Is it just an L.A. thing?
It's a city of L.A. thing, yeah.
They have their own business tax renewal.
You have to get a license that you renew.
Even if you make under $300,000 as, like, an artist, you're exempt from this,
which I'm exempt from this.
And so I'm like, why do I have to pay?
So then it's penalties and fees.
I cannot, I can't tell you.
I can't tell you how this, like, I will stare at my ceiling in bed just enraged.
And it's most, I, as a business owner, I'm like, I've got it.
The buck has to stop with me.
I want to blame everyone.
And sure, this is a bullshit, bullshit law.
And I, maybe my tax guy should have been more aware of this.
And I love him, though.
I'm not blaming him either.
And it has to stop with me.
And so this is one of those things that probably just fell through the cracks
because I had a baby.
And so the tax guy didn't know about it?
He did.
So I'm not exactly sure why we thought we were filing for that exemption in
time.
Because, and it might be because they were sending me, because I was a, before
I incorporated, I was just self-employed.
And so I had to file as a self-employed worker.
They kept sending me a little card to renew my license, but it was to me
personally.
So he very well could have thought that we were renewing it, but it wasn't for
the corporation.
It was for me personally.
It's like such a, it's, I can't, it's, I'm not, I'm not a rich person, you know,
that's like, and it's money that could go.
I was, I was saying to my husband, I'm like, I'd rather go give that $4,000 to
like a homeless person under the fricking highway than the city of LA, which is
just going to set it on fire.
The way they shake things down, it's so, the, all the different taxes and
regulations.
It's a mafia.
You don't realize how bad it is until you get away from it.
It's legalized mafia though.
My friend has been out of California for five years and they're coming after
him for back taxes.
And they're just, they'll just take it out of your, they'll like garnish your
wages.
Well, did you see the thing that they were trying to do where they were trying
to tax people once they leave California?
Yeah, they were trying to pass out law.
Yeah, which is so wild.
Even if you left, you still owe us money.
Yeah.
That you would have spent if you were here, but you're not here.
But so what, we want the money.
Because it's a mafia.
It's just slimy.
It's just bureaucracy.
This is legalized mafia tactics though.
And there's no recourse.
There's really nothing.
I called, I talked to a very nice woman.
I never blame the people who are just enforcing these ridiculous laws.
And I was like, is there anything I can do?
And she said, well, you might be able to apply for an exemption on your
penalties.
You get a one-time kind of exemption.
And I was like, what about all of the taxes, which I would be exempt from?
And she's like, there's absolutely nothing you can do.
It's like once it's set in stone.
I'm like, how is anyone doing this as a small business?
Because anyone who has a small business knows you're always, particularly when
you're not making millions of dollars and have lots of people doing this stuff
for you,
you're always trying to just keep up with all of the things that you have to
manage.
Well, it's so different than any other business, like running a state.
Because any other business, you would say, well, where are our necessary
expenses?
We need to pare them down.
We need to figure out like what makes things profitable, what's necessary, what's
not.
And with bureaucracy, they don't do that.
Instead, they have so many people.
We need to figure out new ways to suck money out of these poor people that are
stuck, rooted, literally rooted in this state.
So let's just like figure out ways.
Let's raise the tax.
So they raised the taxes.
The state taxes now are 14%, which is so high.
That's crazy.
So high when you could just go to Nevada and it's zero.
I know.
You just drive over there four hours and you don't have to pay anything, which
is like a lot of my friends did.
I have a lot of friends that moved to Nevada.
I actually know a lot of people, too.
That's been one of the big exodus states.
Nevada is actually nice.
Like if you live outside of the strip, you know, like Henderson and there's a
few of those other towns, they're nice towns.
They're really nice places to live.
Yeah.
There's really beautiful kind of up in the hills area.
Oh, yeah.
Gorgeous.
Yeah.
Hiking and mountains.
That's the same as Vegas.
Yeah.
There's a lot of nice like hiking.
Yeah.
That's what we're talking about.
We're talking about Vegas.
Oh, yeah.
I thought you were talking about Reno.
I was thinking.
No, Reno, too.
Yeah.
Well, Reno, you have Tahoe.
Yeah.
You have a lot of beautiful areas in like that's near Lake Tahoe.
I don't know why I was thinking Reno.
No.
But Vegas itself is, you know, it's gross in the strip.
Yeah.
Because the traffic and all the gambling and all the, you know, people just
trying to do coke and party and lose all their money.
I get spiritually sick when I go to Vegas.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I always joke like I know where all the great
chicken noodle soup is on the strip.
I end up like the sad girl always in Vegas.
Even when I was using drugs and drinking, I would end up in a hotel room
looking at all the, you know, fountains and all of the lights just sick.
And it was like as we would be driving there, I would be getting just a fever
more and more sick.
Like I swear to God, I get like a soul sickness when I go to Vegas.
If I wasn't in the business that I'm in, I probably wouldn't like to go there
at all.
But, you know, I go there for fights because there's fights there all the time.
It's one of the best places in the world for fights.
And then I do shows there.
Yeah.
So for me, it's just, I just go to dinner.
There's all amazing places to eat there.
Yeah.
Good shows.
Yeah.
Great shows.
Yeah.
I have fun when I go and do, I think the last time I was there actually was to
do a show.
It's like that midnight show that they do kind of off late back.
It was fun.
It was good crew.
I like the, I like, I like that you get a mixed crowd from kind of all over
America.
Yeah.
I think the crowds are there to have fun and laugh.
Yeah.
And they're on vacation most of them.
Yeah.
And even the locals are cool.
I've had some dark times there though too.
Well, it's definitely a dark city in a lot of ways.
I mean, when you have a city that's advertised, it's like what happens in Vegas
stays in Vegas.
Yeah.
Like that was the whole thing with them for the longest time.
Are they still, is that they're still.
I don't think they abandoned that once the internet came along and they went,
actually,
it doesn't really stay here.
So one time I lost a shoe when I was in Vegas and I was, I went down to the, I
forget where
we were staying.
It was one of the big hotels on the strip.
And I went down to lost and found to see if they had it.
And this place was like, it was insane.
There were just lockers and it was a little old woman with this huge, giant ledger
that
looked like something out of a movie.
And I went in there, I was like, oh my God, what's the craziest thing anyone
has ever
left here?
And she didn't even hesitate.
She said, someone left their prosthetic leg for three days.
For three days, they're hopping around on crutches going, what did I do with it?
Amazing.
Didn't even hesitate.
She had an answer to it immediately.
That's hilarious.
I know I was like, the stuff you must get that gets lost here.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
Imagine he's just, I just, I immediately in my mind went through a montage of
like him
at the strip club without his leg and him being like, bro, where did I leave my
leg?
I like how you assume it's a guy.
It had to be a guy, right?
I feel like.
Yeah.
I feel like women would be keeping track of their leg.
I don't know.
Women lose their purses all the time.
Isn't that easier to lose though?
A guy losing his leg makes, I just feel like guys would be more blackout drunk.
I feel like she told me it was a man.
I don't think I assumed his gender.
I think she said a guy left his leg here for three days.
Yeah.
It's not a place that I would move to, but I'm there so often.
I've thought about buying a house there.
I thought about, because I'm always staying in hotels.
I'm like, maybe I would enjoy the Vegas experience more if I had a house
outside the strip.
If I had money, I would have houses everywhere just so you didn't have to pack.
I fucking hate packing.
Just show up and have your clothes there.
That's worth the money.
It is nice getting on a plane with nothing but your wallet and your phone.
Yeah.
When I dated the rich guy, he just was like, he refused to pack basically.
So he just was all about like, I'm just going to buy a place in Maui.
I'm going to buy a place and I'm going to buy a place in London so that I don't
have to pack.
I'm like, wow.
Yeah.
I mean, he's very wealthy.
That's baller.
But that I would, if I had that kind of money, absolutely.
I would.
Yeah.
But the problem is then you have to think about this fucking house that's over
there.
And shit that's going wrong with it.
You do.
Trust me.
You can outsource people to think for you.
Yeah.
And then you have to make sure they're doing a good job.
Trust me.
One of the most baller things I ever saw was one of my friends, very wealthy,
got a new
house and they just had the people make sure that everything was stocked.
So he, he basically went, made sure they were doing all the things that he
wanted them to
do to the house and then showed up.
And it was like Christmas for me when I was opening all the cabinets in the
kitchen.
I'm like, how did they know?
And his whole kitchen was stocked with everything, his refrigerator, every, all
the linens.
I'm like, this is, this is baller.
Just being able to like show up in a house and have it set up for you.
Like the whole thing is like a Christmas present.
Yeah.
There's pros and cons, I guess, to that.
Yeah.
The, the cons is you're dealing with a bunch of people.
As long as you have a bunch of people that are good at their job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That'd be good.
But then you have to think about them.
You have just this ecosystem that you're responsible for.
I like how I'm not like, I would save lots of poor people.
I'm like, I would have a house everywhere with my own clothes.
So I don't have, I just hate packing.
Yeah.
Even, even for this trip, because now I'm packing for a little one and we're in
a hot