Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy

If any of you are eager to teach someone how to make pizza, I will gladly be your student. I thought I knew how. Pizza stone, high-temp grill, pizza peel. But I always used premade dough, and now I can’t find it anywhere lately. I assumed I could easily figure out how to make pizza dough. But so far it’s been nothing but failures. All the same, this experience—not actually knowing how to do something you thought you were decent at—is a joyful one. A humbling one.

Tonight Dumpster Fire hands out its first annual Beyond Parody Awards — The Phetasies — honoring the people who did more damage to their own movement than any opponent ever could. Congratulations to all our winners. You didn't mean to help. But you did.

Bridget Phetasy sits down with Max Marion - founder of one of the highest-potency Omega-3 companies in the world, AquaOmega — for a deep dive into why Omega-3s might be the single most important supplement almost nobody is taking correctly.

Shortly after each of my kids was born, I signed them up for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. My oldest kid just aged out of the program, which means she received the last book in the program, Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come. Every book comes with a note from Dolly. Check out what she wrote for Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come: Rest in peace, Dolly. We will always love you. DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #344 dHow is anyone finding a normal person to date?

America is addicted to victimhood and Bridget has a 10 step program for getting off the victimhood drug, reclaiming your agency, and doing something esteemable instead of waiting to be rescued. Also: why the whole world stopping to mourn Dolly Parton gives Bridget hope that we still know what we actually value. Get 10% Off your entire order & take advantage of Ridge’s Annual Sweepstakes by going to https://www.Ridge.com/DUMPSTER. Use code DUMPSTER for an additional 10% off at checkout.

Bridget Phetasy sits down with comedian Lou Perez, author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death And Rebirth of Comedy, to talk about what the internet actually did to comedy. They get into why short-form content rewired the whole art form, how crowd work turned audiences into performers who think heckling is helping, and why the average anonymous shitposter is now funnier than a lot of professionals.

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IT’S HAPPENING!!!! Yes, I’m writing a book. It’s been a long time coming and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this secret project I’ve been working on, THE LEFT CAN’T MEME: How the Funny People Became the Fun Police. Did any of you guys subscribe to Wholphin back in the day? It was a DVD magazine released by McSweeney’s. It launched in 2005 and ran quarterly, for 15 issues. The last issue came out in 2012, right as DVD players were gaining speed in the death spiral to obsolescence.

The Lindsay Clancy case has broken women. They are flooding TikTok holding their babies while saying "Same, Lindsay" about a woman who strangled her three children. They've raised nearly a million dollars for her parents. And they're throwing ice into bathtubs to release their rage.

Yes, I’m writing a book. It’s been a long time coming and I’m so excited to finally be able to share this secret project I’ve been working on, THE LEFT CAN’T MEME: How the Funny People Became the Fun Police. The last decade has been dizzying. When I sat down to think about what I wanted to write a whole book about, I only wanted to process what happened.