Comedy Is Kat Timpf's Religion

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Kat Timpf, co-host of Gutfeld! and author of You Can't Joke About That , sits down with Bridget to discuss writing a book about some of her most intimate, traumatic, and gut wrenching experiences. They talk about the importance of being able to joke about your own trauma, why humor is healing and we have to be allowed to joke about everything, people who try to police your grief, how grief is so misunderstood in this country, and the weird things that can happen when you’re grieving. They also cover why safe spaces aren’t real, expecting the world to revolve around your feelings, the idea that intention doesn’t matter, being able to talk about the people you’ve lost, the reality of watching someone die, outrage culture, why erasing things we find offensive from our past is not the answer, why coming after the arts is sinister, and why art is a necessary tool for reviving humanity.

Bridget Phetasy admires grit and authenticity. On Walk-Ins Welcome, she talks about the beautiful failures and frightening successes of her own life and the lives of her guests. She doesn’t conduct interviews—she has conversations. Conversations with real people about the real struggle and will remind you that we can laugh in pain and cry in joy but there’s no greater mistake than hiding from it all. By embracing it all, and celebrating it with the stories she’ll bring listeners, she believes that our lowest moments can be the building blocks for our eventual fulfillment.

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0:00.0	This week we welcome co-host of Gutfeld, comedian, and author, Cat-Timp.
0:05.1	I think usually the people who are upset about these things are the people who haven't gone through it yet.
0:11.0	So they're like not mad at me for calling my mom my dead mom they're just
0:14.4	mad that they had to think about dead moms for a second right and if that's
0:18.8	what it is then just say that you know just be like yeah ouch I don't like to think about my
0:23.9	mom dying so much better than like don't say that you know you the way you're
0:28.1	handling your own grief that's wrong because that's you're just a jerk like you're
0:32.0	seriously just such a jerk and for me as I you know that's my whole chapter and the last chapter is
0:38.1	Called you know comedy is my religion. Yeah because it provides a lot of the same things, like healing, physically even, you know, the chemicals that
0:46.6	get released in your brain are he can be healing like good for your immunity physically, emotionally
0:51.2	healing, it can provide meaning to otherwise completely traumatic experiences.
0:57.2	I mean all the stuff that I went through I was able to also provide meaning to me
1:01.2	by you know writing this book and creating from it. This is
1:04.1	Watkins welcome with Bridget Fetacy I'm Bridget Fetticy and you are welcome. You know the drill, the drill,
1:13.0	you know the drill please subscribe rate comment share reach out tell your friend send smoke signals whatever we love your feedback and we want to hear from you
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1:36.0	You'll get access to behind the scenes content, outtakes, discounts on merch,
1:41.0	and the ability to submit questions for some of our upcoming guests.
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1:50.7	Oh right, I'm with Kat Tymph everyone. Welcome to Watkins welcome.
1:54.6	Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited.
1:57.4	Thanks for being here. I was reading your book. I'm like, this is like a sister from another mister.
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