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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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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E191. Brittany Schmitt Believes Comedy Is Tragedy Plus Time Jul 28, 2022

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Comedian Brittany Schmitt returns for a talk with Bridget about her new comedy special, From Ho To Housewife, what it actually takes to produce a comedy special, why being an artist means having to let go of the results, and how stand-up is essentially a solitary activity - it's just you and a mic, you don't need anyone's permission to do it. They also cover the letdown that can occur after completeing such a huge project and long-term goal, being selective about the opportunities that come your way because time is finite, her experience with Ayahuasca and what it revealed to her, their odd psychic abilites, how no amount of money is ever enough, why she tells everyone she loves them, and the idea of going to small claims court for a fart in a jar.

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E190. Dusty Slay Thinks Doing Comedy Is Abusing Yourself For No Reward Jul 21, 2022

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Comedian Dusty Slay stops in for a fun and freewheeling conversation with Bridget about the joys of new parenthood, being a road comedian during Covid, how people forgot how to act and travel in public during the pandemic, the worst spots they've ever done comedy, their issues with the term "geriatric pregnancy", and what they won't take advice about from rich people. They also cover Dusty's roots in a trailer park in Alabama, how he met his wife, the difficulty of being a woman in comedy, why he quit drinking, why it's okay to have content that doesn't address all the issues, and how many rats he's caught in a single trap at once. Check out Dusty's comedy special on Season 3 of Netflix's The Standups.

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E189. Thomas de Zengotita Encourages Humanity To See Itself As One Being Jul 14, 2022

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Mediated Series - Part 2:

Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter.

In Part 2 Thomas explains Justin's Helmet Principle and how it contributes to the evolution of the nanny state, how we're all finding ways to hold all the media noise at bay, why both indifference and intense ideological commitment are actually defense mechanisms against the incomprehensible flood of mediation that we're all living in, and why saying that the mediation of today is the same as TV when it came along is like saying a hurricane is just more breeze. They also cover why it isn't "either, or" anymore, it's almost always "both, and," how the slang that pops up among kids is like a canary in the coal mine, why confused people need a confused person to express the confusion that we're all feeling, how mediation is facilitated by the simple fact that a lot of it is good for us, and how being politically homeless, by definition, means not relying on preconceived filters that tell you what's happening before you even look at what's happening.

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E188. Noah Rothman Thinks The Lunatics Are The Ones Left In The Political Arena Jul 07, 2022

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Noah Rothman returns to discuss his new book, The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun . He and Bridget discuss the cultural role reversal that he's documenting which is very new and still evolving, how being charitable to the other side doesn't sell anymore and you have to be totally convinced of the righteousness of your views, and why trying to create an intellectual monoculture is the pathway to destruction. They also cover how the rules around sex have become so fraught and complicated that younger generations are just not having sex, how politically we're left with a band of fanatics who doesn't understand how politics works, why SJWs' primary targets are people who agree with them, and how whimsy and irreverance are the only answer to this tone of self-seriousness.

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E187. Inez Stepman Believes You Can't Sit Out The Culture War Jun 30, 2022

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Inez Stepman is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum, has over a decade of experience in education policy, and also handles issues related to the definition of sex in law and culture. She sits down with Bridget to discuss why you can't sit out the culture war in this day and age because it will come through your door, how we get a false sense of security from people who are defecting from the hard, woke Left, when in fact their ideals are being insitutionalized at a rapid pace, why it's going to get worse before it gets better, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade which happened the day they sat down to talk. They cover the legal ground the case was based on, the complexities and nuances of the abortion debate, and where both sides of the debate run into trouble. Check out Inez's podcast High Noon , featuring conversations that make possible a free society.

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E186. Blaire White Says Everyone's Just Crazy Jun 22, 2022

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Blaire White is a popular YouTuber and media personality. She sits down with Bridget for a frank conversation about being a transgender woman and the problems with the trans movement today. They discuss her personal transition journey and how different it is now than it was in 2014, why she's too Right for the Left and too trans for the Right, why she wouldn't wish gender dysphoria on her worst enemy, how the idea that you must let your child transition or face their suicide is emotional blackmail, how having a transgender child is now becoming a dangerous part of some parents' emotional identities, and the insanity of allowing children to take sterilizing drugs for mostly aesthetic reasons. They also cover how two things can be true at once, why everyone's wrong about all the same shit, they're just wrong in different ways, the women's sports issue, and how a movement that's a threat to women and children is not going to survive in a healthy society. To learn more about Blaire, check out her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlaireWhiteX.

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E185. Thomas de Zengotita Explains The Narcissism Loop Jun 16, 2022

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Mediated Series - Part 1:

Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It , became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. In Part 1 they cover the introduction to the book, how Thomas wound up writing it, his unique JFK assassination story and the insight it gave him into the role public emoting plays in media, the concept of "The Blob", and why the closed loop of being both the celebrity and your own audience in daily life is unprecedented in its power. They also examine the difference between attention and recognition, the realities of QAnon, Princess Diana's funeral, and how fanaticism flourishes in a world of unlimited choices.

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E184. Lacey McLaughlin Gives A Damn About People Jun 09, 2022

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Lacey McLaughlin is an executive coach who has guided top leaders through challenging workplace scenarios across the aerospace, automotive, entertainment, and technology sectors. She and Bridget discuss how she wound up in her field, the temperament in the corporate world right now, how Covid caused leaders to show up in a new way that's much more human, how norms and expectations have changed around leadership, and what advice she gives now that she wouldn't have given ten years ago. They also cover the Great Resignation, how changing behavior is hard and changing a workplace culture is even harder, how to practice being a good leader, why accountability can be confused with being a bad boss and it shouldn't be, why we're never as smart as we think we are and we have to be okay with getting it wrong, and why Lacey loves coaching boys sports teams. Don't miss her new podcast Unfolding Leadership, where she talks with leaders about how they got to where they are today and the mistakes they made along the way.

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E183. Konstantin Kisin Wants To Be Better Jun 02, 2022

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Konstantin Kisin (Triggernometry) sits down with Bridget to discuss his new book, An Immigrant's Love Letter To The West . They have a fascinating conversation about their jobs as culture war commentators, how it affects them, how to push back thoughtfully and not wind up in a crazy place, how he processes Ukraine since he has family both there and in Russia, trying to explain to people in the West how people not in the West are thinking, and how to communicate a message that's easier for people to hear. They also cover the best way to be productive, the joys of Substack, where distrust of mainstream media can lead people, why real privilege is 21st century privilege, and countering narratives that are fundamentally destructive to Western civilization.

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E182. Grace Lidinsky-Smith Discusses The Gender Lens May 26, 2022

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Bridget sits down with Grace Lidinsky-Smith, a detransitioned woman, to talk about her experience getting top surgery and then regretting it, the danger of always thinking about everything through the lens of gender, how knitting saved her, and her hard won knowledge that with time and patience things can actually improve. They discuss Grace's wish that therapy had advocated for her to slow down and do some more assessment of her situation, how people with gender dysphoria are being sold a bill of false goods that extreme measures are the solution to complex issues, the huge marketing machine around trans surgeries, and how you can't escape awkwardness when it comes to sex and sexuality no matter how hard you might try. Read Grace's writing on her substack Hormone Hangover.

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