Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Conversations with people from all walks of life.

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. www.phetasy.com

  1. E390. Why Left-Wing Violence Is a Suppressed History | Noah Rothman - Walk-Ins Welcome

    1D AGO

    E390. Why Left-Wing Violence Is a Suppressed History | Noah Rothman - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget sits down with Noah Rothman, senior editor at National Review and author of Blood And Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America, to trace the long, suppressed history of radical left-wing political violence in the United States — from the anarchist bombings of the 1920s to the Weather Underground to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Noah argues that this history isn't obscure, it's deliberately buried, and that the same patterns driving today's wave of violence have shown up in 50-year cycles throughout American history. They also get into why 9/11 inadvertently put the brakes on a bombing campaign that might otherwise still be ongoing — and what that tells us about how close to the edge we actually are. Buy Blood And Progress here: https://bit.ly/4eKXuee #LeftWingViolence #PoliticalViolence #walkinswelcome #BridgetPhetasy Topics covered: left-wing political violence, Blood in Progress book, Weather Underground, Charlie Kirk assassination, Luigi Mangione copycat violence, anarchist terrorism, radical left history, revolutionary socialism, media suppression of left-wing violence, 9/11 and domestic terrorism 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 22m
  2. E389. Why the Word "Antisemitism" No Longer Works | Adam Louis-Klein - Walk-Ins Welcome

    MAY 7

    E389. Why the Word "Antisemitism" No Longer Works | Adam Louis-Klein - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget Phetasy sits down with Adam Louis-Klein, anthropologist and founder of the Movement Against Antizionism (MAAZ), to examine why the word "antisemitism" has stopped working — and what language we actually need to name and confront the Israel hatred spreading across campuses, media, and institutions. Klein traces antizionism from its roots in Nazi and Soviet propaganda through its capture of Western academia, explains how it functions as a libel machine resistant to any counterevidence, and lays out why defeating it — not just defending Israel — is the only path to peace. Bridget brings her own experience of being labeled a Zionist, the collapse of trust in institutions, and what ordinary people can actually do. Learn More About The Movement Against Antizionism here - https://www.movementagainstantizionism.org/ #AntiZionism #JewishIdentity #WalkInsWelcome #BridgetPhetasy Topics covered: anti-Zionism, antisemitism, Israel-Palestine conflict, October 7th, campus antisemitism, Soviet propaganda, settler colonialism, MAAZ movement, media and misinformation, Jewish identity 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 26m
  3. E388. What the Internet Did to Girls | Freya India - Walk-Ins Welcome

    APR 30

    E388. What the Internet Did to Girls | Freya India - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget Phetasy sits down with Freya India, British writer and author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to dig into why Gen Z women are struggling in ways previous generations didn't. They discuss why it's not simply a case of kids being soft, and how the mental health crisis among young women isn't just about bad parenting or weak foundations, but predatory industries stepping into the vacuum left by family breakdown, community loss, and the decline of religion — and selling girls a simulation of everything they lost. They cover the over-medicalization of normal teenage behavior, the saturation of therapeutic language into everything, the porn industry's formative role in shaping Gen Z's understanding of relationships, and why the answer probably isn't age verification or government intervention.  Buy the book - https://bit.ly/3P8gV66 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 21m
  4. E387. Why Tariffs Are Crushing Small Business | Scott Lincicome - Walk-Ins Welcome

    APR 23

    E387. Why Tariffs Are Crushing Small Business | Scott Lincicome - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget Phetasy sits down with Scott Lincicome, Vice President of General Economics and Trade at the Cato Institute, to unpack what Trump's tariffs have actually done to the American economy. They dig into why the apocalyptic predictions didn't pan out, who's really paying the price, and how small businesses got blindsided by customs bills they never saw coming. They discuss the history of US protectionism, the difference between stated and revealed preferences, the truth about "buying American," what modern conservatism actually looks like today, and why Americans actually love globalization even though they might not realize it.  #TrumpTariffs #TradePolicy #walkinswelcome #BridgetPhetasy Topics covered: Trump tariffs and small business, free trade vs protectionism, tariff history and Smoot-Hawley, manufacturing nostalgia vs revealed preference, libertarianism and economic policy, trade deficit myths, cronyism and tariff exemptions 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 27m
  5. E386. Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold - Walk-Ins Welcome

    APR 16

    E386. Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget sits down with Andrew Gold, host of the Heretics podcast and author of The Psychology of Secrets, for a conversation about cult dynamics, Islamism in Europe, purity spirals, and what happens when your online tribe starts demanding you sell your soul to keep them. Andrew breaks down how YouTube channels, political movements, and entire cultures operate on the same psychological mechanics as Scientology and Heaven's Gate — just at different points on the spectrum. They get into why the UK can't talk about its rapidly changing demographics, how comedians and podcasters navigate audience capture without losing their integrity, Nick Fuentes and the strange new politics of antisemitism, the psychology of why people confide their darkest secrets to strangers, and whether independent media can survive without everyone going insane. Check out Heretics here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4fQ-Cy8UpLPMwehPg-8ltQ  🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ #Cults #FreeSpeech #WalkInsWelcome #andrewgold #heretics Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    2h 2m
  6. E385. The Death of Shame and the Collapse of Culture | Elnathan John - Walk-Ins Welcome

    APR 9

    E385. The Death of Shame and the Collapse of Culture | Elnathan John - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Bridget Phetasy sits down with Elnathan John, Nigerian satirist and author of Becoming Nigerian, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when an entire culture loses the ability to feel shame. Elnathan argues that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to a society's capacity for shame—and right now, that capacity is bottoming out everywhere from Lagos to Washington. In this episode, they discuss:  • The comedian's complex relationship to power  • Why declaring your vote can trap you ideologically  • The collapse of liberalism across the West  • Nigeria's overlapping crises of terrorism and corruption  • AI replacing white-collar jobs   • The quiet resource extraction in Africa  • What it means to turn your muse into a mule Check out Elnathan's Substack - https://elnathanjohn.substack.com/ #satire #BridgetPhetasy #WalkInsWelcome #ElnathanJohn 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 50m
  7. E384. Our Tolerance Is Killing Us: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Saving Civilization - Walk-Ins Welcome

    APR 2

    E384. Our Tolerance Is Killing Us: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Saving Civilization - Walk-Ins Welcome

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali sits down with Bridget for an in-depth conversation about if and how the West can save itself. They discuss why the Constitution isn’t a suicide pact and shouldn’t be weaponized against us by those who seek our destruction,  how our core values of tolerance and freedom are being exploited by adversaries who don’t share those values, the post-9/11 failure of Western elites to understand Islamic ideology and jihadist motivation, and the binary choice America faces with Iran’s regime — destroy them or they destroy us. They also cover why Europe may be past the point of no return, why white liberal feminists stay silent on Iran’s women while obsessing over Palestine, how the rise of antisemitism is a big red flag about the health of a civilization, how Christian morality provides the operating system Western civilization runs on,  the rising generation of young Christians and patriots building rather than destroying, and why she’s more optimistic now than she’s been in years. Follow Ayaan's work at the AHA Foundation - https://www.theahafoundation.org/ #SavingTheWest #AyaanHirsiAli #WesternCivilization 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 54m
  8. E383. Big Tech Owns Society Now - Jacob Siegel

    MAR 26

    E383. Big Tech Owns Society Now - Jacob Siegel

    Jacob Siegel returns to talk about his new book The Information State: Politics and the Age of Total Control, which explains why the war on disinformation is a continuation of the War on Terror using repurposed counterinsurgency tools, and the replacement of bottom-up civic institutions with top-down algorithmic control. They cover how Obama's administration built the censorship infrastructure that defined the Trump era, the role of the CIA in fabricating Russiagate through the Intelligence Community Assessment, how COVID censorship was far more radicalizing than Russiagate because it touched people's everyday lives, how tech platforms concentrate power by eliminating private property rights, why younger generations don't care about privacy because they’ve grown up under constant surveillance, and why freedom in the digital age must be found within the system rather than outside it. They also discuss how the rise of AI will follow a familiar historical pattern seen in moments of extraordinary technological change—like the printing press or early mass communications—which typically brings massive social upheaval, often bloody and marked by war, but through which humanity ultimately survives; the only way out is through. Buy Jacob's book here: https://amzn.to/4rW3QtZ #InformationState #Censorship #digitalcontrol  Topics covered: information state vs democracy, digital control replacing civic institutions, Obama to Trump censorship infrastructure, Russiagate fabrication, COVID radicalization, Pentagon internet origins, AI as supernatural force, finding freedom within technology, the only way out is through 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva Support the show

    1h 38m
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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. www.phetasy.com

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