I hope so. I mean, I had a great interview with Colin Quinn and he just had a book come out and he was talking about how we live in such crazy times that the extremes are telling the independence that they're crazy.

And he was saying, you know, this is the majority of people. How crazy is it that people? He's like, they're the crazies. They're the ideolog.

It's Locals Week here on the Ruben Report and I'm doing a series of many interviews with creators on why they decided to become less reliant on big tech and instead own their content, community and livelihood with Locals.com.

Joining me today is comedian and host of the dumpster fire Bridget Fatt is he welcome back to the Ruben Report.

Thank you for having me. I always pleasure.

It's nice to see you again before we get into your local community and you were literally the first person that I got on Locals besides me.

I thought we talked a little bit about why I thought you'd be the right person and it's because you are trying sort of like I'm trying, I think, to bring a little civility back to discourse. How's that going for you?

It's going well in the community. I mean, I know it is the last date. We did a live chat, which was really fun because that's like the best feature ever that brings everybody back to kind of a chat room by which is amazing.

And everybody loved it and we did and you know, I had some Biden supporters, some completely independent, some people who just aren't voting, people who are pro Trump.

All of us were in the chat, everybody was laughing, nobody was fighting, it was very several people were having disagreements but still being cordial to one another was amazing.

So I believe that it's still out there.

Is it weird that you have to sort of cultivate a space for that? Like I think what intrinsically comes to people like me and you pretty obviously pretty simply, naturally, that these days it's just like gone.

Yeah, I think it's, I feel like it's less gone in real life than it is online.

So I think if you got a group of people together, they probably would even if they fell all across the political spectrum, I would hope they would manage to be civil and I imagine they would be more civil and perhaps they would be online, although everybody being quarantined and being online, I feel like some of that decorum has eroded in that time.

And people are forgetting how to behave online and off completely and they're becoming more and more kind of polarized or entrenched in their own beliefs.

So it seems like things because of the pandemic, it kind of accelerated this already.

It's like a rude and nasty tone that we were already seeing amongst people, but I do think, you know, online, it's worse, obviously.

People are much, we are anonymous. I really encourage people in the community to use their name, to use their picture, so that we can get to know each other and help each other and have it feel more like a neighborhood and less like social media where everybody's just, you know, outwitting each other.

And trying to be the snarkiest.

Yeah, one of the things that you push a lot that I always appreciate is that it's not all about politics.

Like even if you love politics, even if you live politics and I love politics and what I've been doing for a long time, but that life is just not about only that.

Yeah, I hate politics.

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