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As of the end of 2021, we will no longer be on Patreon. We are fully migrated over to Phetasy.com and loving the community over there. Please join us if you're still here for whatever reason. Thank you for your support and if you migrate over to Patreon and subscribe for the year, you'll get 2 months free.
Creativity is our Superpower
This was a keynote talk I gave to open the World Creativity and Innovation Week and I wanted to share it with you.First of all, thank you to the entire World Creativity and Innovation Week family for asking me to host this opening night. It’s an honor and a privilege to speak to folks working to bring beauty and love and innovation into the world.After all, this is one of the things that humans get right. Being human is messy and we get a pretty bad rap—deservedly. We can be selfish and pett...
Free Solo: The Holidays
The first year I got sober, I spent the holidays alone here in Los Angeles. My dad worried about me. “Are you sure?” he asked nervously. “You’re just going to be…alone? Won’t you be depressed?” He comes from a huge family. Our Christmases growing up were no less than fifty people. He didn’t understand that it was easier for me to comprehend spending a holiday alone than it was to be around my huge Irish Catholic family while also trying not to drink. My sister called me and asked...
Thank you, humans. All of you. Yes, you. Especially you.
Reflecting on another year past, another decade crashing on the shores of time, another ball dropping on another New Year...only two feelings continuously wash over me: gratitude and humility.Because I shouldn’t be here. The truth is, I should have probably died before this decade even began but by sheer luck--I didn’t--and not only that, I made it to see the end of this decade. A lot of people much better than me didn’t. I know parents who have lost their children, friends who lost their ...
Happy Sober October
On October 18th, (God willing and all that jazz), I’ll have six years of consecutive sobriety. Not a single drink, drug or alas, puff of weed (which was my true, true love—more on that later in the month).I jokingly said the other day that “every month is #SoberOctober when you’re in recovery” and it’s true, but I applaud anyone who takes even just a month off substances and want to support these people in whatever way that I can.When I used to do Dry January or Sober October it was ...
Week Five and going strong!
Another #WeeklyDumpsterFire in the can. Thank you to my Patrons for making this possible. I love you all so much.
COMING SOON: Weekly Dumpster Fire
Today we shot the first “Weekly Dumpster Fire” — a project I’ve been wanting to do forever but have had to wait because of all the other stuff going on and my insecurity about how fat my arms look on camera. Wait no more!“Weekly Dumpster Fire” is going to be me looking back at the week and ranting about whatever caught my attention on Twitter and expanding on those ideas for YouTube. We will be releasing an edited version for YT on Mondays (ideally) but the $10 and up subscribers wil...
Daily C.H.U.B.
A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings by Coleman Barks
#40 Sarah Solomon Wonders Why You Would Have Kids if Not to Live Vicariously Through Them
Sarah Solomon, author of Guac is Extra But So Am I: The Reluctant Adult’s Handbook, stops by to talk why life gets better as you get older, getting to the point where you get over your jealousy of other women, struggling with depression and anxiety in the age of social media, and how parenting seems like the hardest job in the world. She tells the story of being evicted from her apartment, losing her job, and getting her book deal all within a two week period. She and Bridget dissect why they ...
#38 Kira Davis Discusses What it Would Take to Have an Honest Conversation About Race
Kira Davis (Editor-at-Large for redstate.com) drops by for a frank conversation about the hole that fatherlessness leaves in society, "benevolent" government, the destruction of the term "racism", and extending grace to each other in our most challenging moments. She shares stories about growing up on Prince Edward Island, having a conversion experience during childhood, becoming a conservative, and the audacity of youth. She and Bridget talk tips for dealing with depression, God...
The Workout the People Want
Who knew trying to be "explosive" could be so hilarious.
#38 Mitchell Sunderland Believes in Socializing with People You Disagree With
Mitchell Sunderland is a freelance writer (Vice, Adult, Penthouse) known for his nuanced profiles on everyone from Stormy Daniels to Mike Tyson, Anne Coulter, Nick Jonas and more. His stories are insane, from growing up the son of one of the largest dog breeders in Florida and dealing with protestors for most of his childhood, to being banned from a gay safe space in college (he's gay), to being the first American named to the 50 most hated people at Oxford list. He has profiled eclectic gro...
Happy July, y’all.
It’s America’s birthday month and we’re about to get crazy.
#37 Tim Dillon on Why Stand-Up Comics are Mentally Ill
Tim Dillon is a stand-up comedian and host of the popular podcast Tim Dillon is Going to Hell. He and Bridget lament the absence of humor in today's political climate, how rich white people have culturally appropriated oppression, death by selfies, and the terrifying nature of Pokémon Go. Tim talks about how being a juror on a murder trial changed his life, coming out, getting sober, and doing stand-up for the first time all within a three month period, and why he hates the demonization of ...
2020 Comfort Food
Melissa Monte and I analyze the Democratic candidates' choice of comfort food and what it says about them as people. Also included, why you should never trust a man who calls himself a "nice guy."
A Raft for your Reader
This prompt came from Kicking In the Wall by Barbara Abercrombie.*Note: The writers prompt said to go for 5 minutes, I am going for a minimum of 15 minutes for every one. You do whatever time feels good for you. The only rule is to keep writing no matter what. You are made of the same stuff the entire universe is made of, stardust and atoms and exploding bangs echoing into eternity. You are part magic, part miracle. You are the void and you are matter. You. Matter.It’s easy to forget that we d...
#36 Robby Soave Hopes that Sensible Liberals Will See the Dangers of the Approach Activists are Taking
Robby Soave is an associate editor and writer for Reason magazine and author of Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump which investigates the shift in activist culture on college campuses since Trump's election in 2016. He and Bridget discuss why everyone hates libertarians, the spectrum of libertarianism, how both the Left and the Right see the other side's extreme radicalism as a reason to up their own, and the unfortunate reality that tiny fringes on both side are so loud th...
Daily C.H.U.B. (Church of the Unmade Bed)
Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day by Danielle and Olivier Follmi
When You Discover You're on a Foot Fetish Website
I'm mortified my broken toe is showcased, and my pedicure is a wreck. People are weird.
#35 - Michael Malice Explains How Culture is Created and Opposing Progressivism
According to Michael Malice, The New Right is a loosely connected group of individuals united by their opposition to progressivism, which they perceive to be a thinly veiled fundamentalist religion based on egalitarian principles dedicated to world domination via globalist hegemony. He wrote the book on it, because he watch it develop. He and Bridget discuss the push-back against progressivism and the four different tactics the New Right is considering in response, the audacity of the word "...
Daily C.H.U.B.
If You Think You Can... You Can! by Barbara Milo Ohrbach
The RG Experience: Why'd it have to be Hemingway?
Glenn Beck called me the "female Hemingway of our time" and I might never write again. Plus Cousin Maggie and I discuss my ability to make friends on planes, trains and ferries.
Grandpa's Letter Home WWII
I read a letter from our Grandfather to his parents written December 5, 1942.Warning: Some racially insensitive terms were used in the letter, but I decided to read it as is, and not censor them to preserve the context.Please don't cancel me because of my Grandpa.
Diary of a Twitter Junkie - Day 1
It’s Lent and the good Catholic schoolgirl in me loves this season of fasting and rending the heart and not my garments and all that jazz, so I dug deep and asked myself the hard question—what would be the most challenging thing in my life to give up? Since I’ve already given up heroin, cocaine, alcohol, weed, cigarettes and toxic men, two primary substance addictions remain: coffee and Twitter.If I’m really honest with myself, Twitter is the most hardcore addiction I have and it’s als...
Where To Find Me While I'm Off Twitter
If you follow me on Twitter, you probably recognize by now that I have a problem. I thought about giving up coffee for Lent (I was raised Catholic and although I’m not devout, I still go to church and cling to some of my Irish Catholic traditions) but I like any opportunity to challenge myself and generally in life, I try to lean into that which I resist the most—in this case, giving up Twitter for 40 days and nights. (I have to specify nights because--loopholes.)The tricky thing with Twitte...
The Phetasy Wannabe Writers Tribe
Since everyone is all about tribes these days, I thought I would start one for anyone and everyone interested in doing something more than just spouting a bunch of nonsense on social media. Now we can spout a bunch of nonsense in our computers and journals!In an effort to bust through this wall of writer’s block that is hindering my ability to be effective, staring March 1st, I’m committing to doing 365 days of writing prompts and I invite you all to join my tribe of wannabe writers.Maybe yo...
Walk-Ins Welcome - Episode 18: Melissa Monte
Melissa Monte is a mindfulness coach, certified yoga teacher and reiki healer. We reminisce about how we met on a party bus of 40 women heading to Vegas and reflect on surviving a series of rock bottoms from sexual assaults to eating disorders, to the loss of loved ones. Melissa shares her insights into why trying to fix a terrible relationship was a way of trying to prove her own self-worth, the felony charge that led her to her path, and the fact that you can’t cushion somebody’s rock bott...
Why I Get Naked
My compulsive need to bare my body unintentionally became a psychosocial experiment almost 20 years ago and through it, I've learned a lot—not just about society but also about myself, Internet culture and American men and women. In fact, I wrote 2500 words about it for Playboy back in 2015.In the piece I explain the origins of my delight in posting sexy, playful selfies--which basically came down to the fact that I loved seducing men digitally from the minute I could do so and I didn’t ...
The Patreon Deplatforming Effect
So, I'm writing a bigger piece about this--but here is the visual representation of what happened when Patreon deplatformed one of their users. Ultimately, no one wins but the social justice warriors--and they're too busy boycotting everything to spend any money and contribute to the economy. So fucking lame.
