How Bridget Phetasy Ended Up in a Cult | Joe Rogan

So speaking of cults, I was just thinking about this because I ended up on a cult, kind of, like accidentally. I didn't have a place to stay. No, I was talking to Sam Harris yesterday and we were talking about all of his time. I didn't know that he spent like 10 years as like a wandering hippie. I had no idea. And India. And so I was like, you know, how a lot of people don't get out. And when I was traveling for two years around the world, I ended up on a lot of ashrams. And one of them was an Osho ashram, which was that. Yeah. Really? So I came into my room. I wrote a whole piece about it from Mel Maggi. M.G. is leaking out of your body. It's so I walked into my here. I walked in and my roommate, Samantha Shahi, who's amazing, was watching the documentary. And there was this like exercise where they dance and you go, who, who, who, who? And it's a meditation that they made up. And I'm like, oh, I've done that. And they're naked. And I'm like, a fucking course you've done this. And I sat down. I'm like, oh, my God. This is it wasn't Osho. He's obviously dead, but it was his lineage. And it was it was wild. It was I was there for like three weeks. Wow. But it was a documentary. Great. They gave me a premserita. Premserita means River of Love. Oh, yeah. But he called me a scumbag. Did he? Why? Because they break you down in front of people. And you know me, I couldn't stop laughing. And so he was like, you are a scumbag. Wait, who is this guy? What does he look like? He looks like a guru. Like like how he got a beard, like a long hair. He was tan. He said that he was 80, but it came out that he was actually 60. So it's like, look how good I look. And he's like, look at the shape I'm in from being here and eating because they want you to stay. And he was trying to like break me down psychologically. But I think my brain is like too dirty to be washed. I just don't think. That's a great way of putting it. I don't think that it is capable. And so he was like, you are a scumbag out there. You don't have work. And I was like, actually, you're pretty right. And he's like, say it. Say you are a scumbag. And I had to yell, I am a scumbag in front of this whole group of strangers. That's so funny. It was wild. So this guy who was breaking down, was he socially inept? Was it an awkward breakdown? No. Because you didn't buy into it. You just sort of went around with it for fun? I mean, I'm very curious. So I think the writer and me, and we talked about this last time just when I was like the third in the open marriage. So I remember vividly sitting just on their couch and being like, should I do this? It's so weird. But then I'm like, but it's such a great story. And same, this whole thing happened because I was with this Sydney Trust Fund baby and he needed somebody to drive up to Byron Bay with them. And he's like, oh, it's no problem. You'll find a place to stay. And there was nowhere to stay. And he was off on Boys Week and Byron Bay during like Christmas. I knew no speaking of knowing nobody. I went to Australia on a one way ticket and knew nobody. And so I was like, I'm fine. One way ticket. God, that's such a crazy move. How old were you? Twenty eight. No, I was thirty thirty three. I call that thirty three. Yeah. And so three. Yeah. And it was a I had been in L.A. kind of grinding and I and I was like, if I don't travel now, I'm getting one way ticket is a wild move. I do it a lot. Really? A lot. Yeah, a lot. I'm kind of. But imagine if Covid broke out right when you land. I know. I was stuck in in India with seven dollars. I had to have somebody like buy me a ticket out that that time. And ex-boyfriend. Thank you. Oh, wow. Shout out to Casey. Shout out to Casey. Well, that's nice. Yeah, India. What did they do before? Like in the old days? India is basically like the old days when you travel there. I mean, it's like you needed a ticket in like the 70s. Oh, I don't know. I mean, what would you do? My dad traveled around the world when he was in his 20s and I was like, how did you do it? You know, he's like, oh, you know, I wouldn't talk to my parents for they have no idea where you are. Right. I mean, you have to just do everything by paper. You look for bus schedules when you get there. You know, you go find a hotel when you arrive in the city. It's crazy. How about hitchhikers? Like hitchhikers are the craziest asshole ever. Let's just randomly hope this person who's just going to randomly pick me up isn't going to kill me. Yeah. Yeah. And then you would read stories. You read stories about this guy kidnapped this girl and cut her hands off like, what God? What the fuck? That's my biggest. I'm I'm so afraid of that. Like that's always been in my most recent podcast I did every once in a while. I do story hours where my cousin Maggie interviews me and I was telling all about my traveling and she was asking me and it turns out I like for near abduction stories. I completely forgot about but I have this. I have that fear, but it's also been reinforced. So when you join this cult and they break you down, they say, yes, come back. What's this accent like? It was a weird accent because he was from Italy originally. And then how much of that cult was about banging a lot. But I didn't. I only had one cult boyfriend, but he encouraged polyamory. And I think my cult boyfriend saved me. I called boyfriend. I mean, why did he save you? Well, because he was he had just come there to kind of recharge. He was in getting his degree in philosophy and he had occasionally come and he was a musician. And then he left and went to Melbourne. And then I went back into the city to drop him off and we weren't allowed to drink or anything. And this is when I was still partying like a legend. And I got three bottles of wine and I drank an entire bottle of wine in the park. And then my friend came and took me back to the ashram and I was hammered and I was crying and making a scene. And he was like, what are you drinking? And he said, do you have enough for the rest of everyone? So then everyone then he let everyone drink. It was weird. Yeah. Then it became like a it was a weird thing. Started partying. But then I like I was texting my I call him Sydney trust fund. Boy, I was like, get me the fuck out of here. I want a steak. We it was during the playoffs and I think the Patriots were in. And so I was breaking into bars up and down like Byron Bay to try and see the playoffs. It was wild. That was what did they eat? Oh, so we had to wake up at five and we didn't have we had a it was a wood grill. We had a grill, but we put wood in it. And that was how we got everything. So everything over. We had to get a fucking fire started. It was all vegan with some like if we got cheese was like a treat and we would have to get the fire going to even like make coffee or porridge or anything. And then we'd make lunch right after breakfast was done. And then there was no dinner. It was just like whatever was left over from lunch. Really? So I didn't eat very well. And we had to do four hours of work to stay on the ashram, like hard manual labor. Four hours a day. Yeah. Just for you. In the bush in the Australian bush. Like what kind of stuff? Well, there was this Malaysian way of raking that was really interesting where we would mow, but then you'd rake it all into a line and you'd have to put it in a tarp and take it all the way out of these fields. And it was like a really interesting way of taking away all the scraps. We had cold showers. There were all kinds of bugs and shit trying to kill me all the time. It was wild. There was a wild. It was a wild experience. And there was so much drama because everybody was swapping partners. Like so much drama. It was supposed to be this place where you go and meditate and get in touch. And it was like as the teepee turned. It was just like non-stop drama with all that. And he encouraged it and loved it. And that's what's weird about these places is they use that to manipulate you into staying. Oh my God. Have you ever talked to Adam Eget about his cult experiences? No. Yeah. You know Adam from the Comedy Store. He's the creative director of the Comedy Store. He's coming on the podcast soon. Oh I love Adam. I love Adam too. Yeah. He's the best. He's got a crazy cult background. No way. Yeah. My friend Todd who's a great guy. Like not a cult member at all. Just super normal guy. He watched the first episode of Wild Wild Country and he was like this looks great. It's like they're having so much fun. I go I know I know but stay with it. Stay with it. Because in the beginning you're like oh yeah like regular life is bullshit. Oh yeah. Like our society is bullshit. Wouldn't it be great if we all loved each other and we all embraced our fears and understood our position in the universe and we're kind to each other and let go. Let go of all this fear and all this bullshit. And what better way to do it than to get a bunch of like minded people and move to a spot in Oregon. Well that was that in the piece I wrote about it I said I had a lot of conflicting feelings because it's amazing how quickly my bio rhythms adjusted to waking up at five or six. You know living just the lack of waste we had the compostable toilets so that poor the poo became manure you know like manure. This was the same on the weed farms too. And it's nice to just not feel like you're creating all that waste because I know that every time I get like a package from Amazon I'm like this is not sustainable. Right. It's all waste. It's just. It's just. It's just. 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