<![CDATA[Beyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy: Walk-Ins Welcome]]>https://www.phetasy.com/s/walk-ins-welcomehttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NrQY!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F89da843c-d8fe-400c-9173-1f85a616efd7_339x339.pngBeyond Parody with Bridget Phetasy: Walk-Ins Welcomehttps://www.phetasy.com/s/walk-ins-welcomeSubstackWed, 29 Apr 2026 03:45:52 GMT<![CDATA[Why Tariffs Are Crushing Small Business - Scott Lincicome]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-387https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-387Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:04:02 GMTBridget 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.

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]]><![CDATA[Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold ]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-386https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-386Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:03:24 GMTBridget 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.

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]]><![CDATA[The Death of Shame and the Collapse of Culture - Elnathan John]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-385https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-385Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:03:13 GMTBridget 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

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]]><![CDATA[Our Tolerance Is Killing Us: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Saving Civilization]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-384https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-384Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:03:39 GMTAyaan 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.

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]]><![CDATA[Big Tech Owns Society Now - Jacob Siegel ]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-383https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-383Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:03:24 GMTJacob 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.

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]]><![CDATA[Why This Isn't Iraq 2003: The Case for Taking Down Iran's Regime - Behnam Ben Taleblu]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-382https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-382Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:04:10 GMTBehnam Ben Taleblu joins Bridget to offer his expertise on Iran. They discuss who’s actually in charge in Iran right now, what Americans need to understand about the Islamic Republic’s ideology, why the plight of Iranian women gets ignored by Western feminists, and why this conflict is fundamentally different from Iraq 2003. They cover how the regime destroyed Iran’s environment to fund the Revolutionary Guard, how they worked with Mexican drug cartels and Canadian biker gangs to target dissidents on US soil, how AI-generated propaganda muddies the water in favor of the regime, why Hollywood actors completely miss what’s happening by lumping Iran with Palestine and Iraq, the regime’s scorched earth strategy of burning countries to rubble to survive, Iranian sleeper cells already on US soil, the strategic importance of not giving this regime a premature off-ramp, and why Americans Googling “how far is Iran from the United States” shows how much work remains in explaining the stakes of this conflict.

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]]><![CDATA[Attention Span is the New Class Divide - Spencer Klavan]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-381https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-381Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:03:32 GMTSpencer Klavan joins Bridget for a fascinating conversation about why Plato's 2,000-year-old warning about the invention of writing perfectly explains our AI panic, what it's like to invent an entire language for Daily Wire's Pendragon Cycle (and how it made him finally understand Tolkien), and why AI can only reproduce the "outer word" while humans alone possess the "inner word." They discuss how Instagram reels have replaced sitcoms as the shared cultural touchstone for exhausted parents, why students can't finish movies anymore and what that means for the future, the death of observational comedy after Hannah Gadsby turned standup into trauma porn, and why the real class divide is between people who can sustain attention and people who can't. They also cover how liberal arts education might be the most economically valuable thing you can do in the age of AI, the embodiment problem (why Bridget asked humans about cancer instead of ChatGPT), the fatal mistake of thinking truth is whatever the opposite of politeness is, the soul in a truly great work of art, and what happens when you realize learning comes with pain but knowing comes with joy.

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]]><![CDATA[The Activist Handbook They Don't Want You to Know About - Michael Young]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-380https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-380Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:03:09 GMTMichael Young returns to the podcast for another epic conversation with Bridget to pull back the curtain on Beautiful Trouble—the activist handbook that’s basically Rules for Radicals on steroids. If you’ve ever wondered why protests seem to turn on and off like a faucet, why certain tactics feel weirdly coordinated, or how Minnesota went from zero to chaos overnight, this conversation breaks down the entire playbook. Michael walks us through the actual training manuals activists use: how to put targets in decision dilemmas, why “the real action is your target’s reaction,” deploying sympathetic characters like the Wall of Moms, playing to the audience that isn’t there (the cameras), using your radical fringe to shift the Overton window, the spectrum of allies strategy, power mapping, and how they literally hold training camps teaching people how to organize protests with color-coded violence zones. Michael and Bridget cover the disconnect between sports journalists and normies over hockey players laughing at Trump’s joke, why the Left can’t understand that masculine spirit of “broken teeth, put me in coach,” the disdain for normies embedded in critical theory, how everything gets politicized to give it meaning, the meta-level self-awareness that makes these tactics so effective, why it’s designed to look organic when it’s anything but, and what happens when you realize none of this is accidental—it’s all in the handbook.

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]]><![CDATA[Michael Tracey Exposes Epstein Hysteria For What It Is ]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-379https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-379Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:02:46 GMTJournalist Michael Tracey joins Bridget to dissect the Epstein moral panic currently swallowing the internet whole—and he's got the receipts on why most of it is "conspiracy-brain melted slop." As one of the only journalists pushing back on the dominant narrative, Tracey breaks down what we actually know versus what people want to believe: the FBI's fraudulent "1000 victims" number, why the Alex Acosta "sweetheart deal" wasn't actually a sweetheart deal, how Whitney Webb's "research" is a joke, and why the evidence doesn't support the blackmail ring everyone's convinced exists. They cover audience capture turning podcasters into Pizzagate truthers, the billion-dollar Epstein economy, how this has become less about facts and more like a new internet religion, politicians resigning over jocular emails, people screaming about eating babies in airports, why skepticism has devolved into nihilism, and the class war undertones fueling the hysteria.

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]]><![CDATA[Gender Affirming Care On Trial - Benjamin Ryan]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-378https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-378Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:01:31 GMTIndependent journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who sat through all three weeks of the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial. He and Bridget discuss the chilling testimony of a mother who was browbeaten until she consented to her daughter’s mastectomy, a 15-year-old’s 11-month sprint from questioning her gender to surgery, and why the psychologist was an “enabler” instead of a measured professional. They cover the judge who tried to scare Ryan off reporting, why detransitioners get ghosted by the same medical system that celebrated them when they were trans, the suicide prevention data that doesn’t actually support youth transition, how “gender affirmation” became coercive, and American Society of Plastic Surgeons suddenly changing their stance on surgery for minors. They also talk about the Epstein files as a full-time addiction, GLP-1s dominating suburban birthday party conversations, the collapse of traditional newsrooms versus the rise of Substack, and why conservative outlets are doing better science journalism than liberal media.

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]]><![CDATA[Choosing To Be Chosen - Kylie Ora Lobell]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-377https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-377Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:01:59 GMTAuthor Kylie Ora Lobell joins Bridget for a thoughtful conversation about her book, Choosing to Be Chosen, which tells the story of her conversion from atheist to Orthodox Jew. Kylie’s shift from atheism was sparked by a melting warmth she recognized as God at a Shabbat dinner, and it led her on a five-year journey of embracing kosher laws, rituals, the challenges of conversion, and a profound trust in God amid life’s darkest questions (like child suffering and October 7th). They discuss why taking care of yourself is a Godly instinct, how most Americans in general are not that exposed to Judaism, resilience, mourning, introversion and extroversion, child-rearing, seeing the Godliness in everyone, why you really step into gender roles when you’re a parent, the importance of finding a community, and why Kylie thinks finding God and faith regardless of religion is a good thing for everyone.

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]]><![CDATA[Our Current Media Ecosystem is Trash - Darvio Morrow]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-376https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-376Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:03:32 GMTMedia maven Darvio Morrow shares his story—from launching a record label at 16 and sleeping on studio floors to keep his dream alive, to growing up amid Cleveland’s economic decline, gunshots next door, and a family legacy tied to a great-grandfather raised by a former slave. He and Bridget discuss his nuanced take on reparations, why today’s media ecosystem is trash, white paternalism as a cousin to white supremacy, and our desensitization to global atrocities like the ongoing crisis in Iran. They cover why it’s difficult to find straight news that informs you these days, how humans were not meant to take this much information in from all these different sources at all times, how we still haven’t dealt with the after effects from COVID yet, why we need a functioning middle class, and the truth about starting from zero.

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]]><![CDATA[How to Find Truth When Everything Feels Fake - Michael Shermer]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-375https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-375Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:02:40 GMTMichael Shermer returns for a fascinating conversation about the crisis of truth in our polarized, AI-driven world. He and Bridget discuss the fate of print magazines, shrinking attention spans, the challenges of discerning reality amid deepfakes, misinformation, and Shermer’s new book Truth: What It Is, How To Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They cover political violence, ICE controversies, the power of belief to shape actions (and self-fulfilling prophecies), human gullibility, the replication crisis in science, evolving views on religion and morality, divorce, guns, the relationship between truth and trust, and what happens to truth when trust in public institutions has been eroded.

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]]><![CDATA[Mike Solana Predicts a Luddite Revolution Against Tech]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/mike-solana-predicts-a-luddite-revolutionhttps://www.phetasy.com/p/mike-solana-predicts-a-luddite-revolutionThu, 22 Jan 2026 15:03:04 GMTMike Solana joins Bridget for a fascinating conversation about America's shifting political fault lines, why critiquing tech is critiquing power, and the coming Luddite backlash. They discuss Mamdani's Marxist housing advisor calling for the seizure of private homes (especially from the white middle class), and then crying about it when confronted with questions, the social justice ideas that escaped academia, why Solana thinks that "real leftism" is coming, and why social media is probably net negative. They cover his journey from 23-year-old anarchist to Peter Thiel protégé, to Chief Marketing Officer of Founder’s Fund, to founder of Pirate Wires, how the whole geopolitical landscape is shifting so fast that we’re all struggling to keep up, looksmaxxing Incels, why we need to focus on integration and not immigration, and how we forget how dumb the average person really is.

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]]><![CDATA[Socialism Always Fails - Francis Foster]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-373https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-373Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:03:02 GMTTriggernometry co-host and comedian, Francis Foster, returns to the podcast to unpack Nicolás Maduro’s dramatic downfall. Foster’s familiarity with the country stems from his Venezuelan mother, and he references on-the-ground stories from friends and family in the wake of Maduro’s arrest. He and Bridget discuss chilling stories of a friend robbed at gunpoint by police officers, teen protesters gunned down, and a regime so corrupt it turned the world’s richest oil nation into a country so economically crippled it barely ranks higher than Gaza. They cover the truth about Maduro’s wife, why no one knows where we go from here, the dangers of a power vacuum, why it’s lazy to compare what will happen in Venezuela to Iraq or Afghanistan, Iran’s Hezbollah training camps, Trump’s unapologetic power play, why self-loathing is not helpful on a personal or a national level, why socialism always fails, and why extreme ideas lead to extreme places.

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]]><![CDATA[Andrew Yang Tried To Warn Us ]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-372https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-372Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:02:44 GMTAndrew Yang returns to the podcast for a conversation about the chaos of modern life, his no-phone parties aimed at reviving real human hookups in a world that’s stopped partying, and his new phone service that literally pays you to doomscroll less. They discuss future of the Forward Party, how getting a few seats in Congress could change everything, how the terrifying speed of AI quietly erasing jobs will inevitably lead to some sort of universal basic income, why an extreme winner-take-all economy will only make things more dystopian, how he tries to stay positive in the face of so much uncertainty, and why this era might be a great time to become a cult leader.

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]]><![CDATA[The Dark Queen of Comedy - Adrienne Iapalucci]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-371https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-371Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:02:40 GMTOriginal Air Date - November 16, 2024

The Dark Queen, Adrienne Iapalucci joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation about having a love-hate relationship with comedy, constantly contemplating quitting, being fearless when tackling controversial topics, the inability to be a conventional employee, and why Adrienne loves pissing people off. They cover drug escapades, allowing politics to divide families, being “white lady nuts,” career aspirations, and how her new comedy special The Dark Queen, directed by Louis CK and produced by Ari Shaffir, came together.

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]]><![CDATA[Dave Landau Is A Comedy Genius]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/dave-landau-is-a-comedy-geniushttps://www.phetasy.com/p/dave-landau-is-a-comedy-geniusThu, 25 Dec 2025 15:02:15 GMTOriginal Air Date - 8/22/24 Comedian and host of Normal World, Dave Landau, sits down with Bridget for a fun conversation about how they should start their own morning show, Dave’s childhood in Detroit, their respective struggles with addiction, Agent Orange, AIDS, parents with mental illness, dealing with Satanists in rehab, their experiences in mental hospitals, how Dave’s teacher suggested he get into stand up, the ups and downs of his career, and stumbling into the culture wars. They cover texting each other when Trump was shot, living in a country where the middle class has been eviscerated, how we’re becoming a country that we’re not supposed to be, the rise of billionaires, how people want to be inspired, what he loves about America, finding happiness, and Dave shares his advice for people struggling with depression.

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]]><![CDATA[How Cultural Elites Lost Touch With Heartland America - Salena Zito]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-369https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-369Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:01:10 GMTBoots-on-the-ground journalist Salena Zito, sits down with Bridget to discuss the gaping chasm between online discourse and the reality of heartland America, Salena’s eyewitness account of the Butler rally shooting from her position just feet away from President Trump, and his inspiring response to her question days later about why he said, “Fight, fight, fight.” They cover the cultural betrayals that tanked Bud Light and the NFL, the quiet resurgence of faith among young people, why Trump’s visit to East Palestine, OH was the moment Salena knew he was going to be reelected, old-school journalistic integrity, what’s changed in media, and how place, community, and sheer resilience still quietly decide elections. It’s a can’t miss episode with the woman who drives around the country on back roads to truly get a sense of what’s going on with Americans.

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]]><![CDATA[Freedom is Messy and Hard - John Papola]]>https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-368https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-368Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:00:41 GMTDad Saves America podcast host, John Papola, joins Bridget for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from the Crusades to life advice for teenage boys. They discuss John’s career trajectory, how he went from MTV, to Spike TV, to documentary filmmaker and ultimately to starting his podcast after COVID hit, why he wanted to take on harder subjects as topics, why 1998 was the peak of Western Civilization, the truth about the production industry, the coolest project he’s ever gotten to work on, why having children was radicalizing for both of them, and how the centers in our society have a kind of cultural group think that has become completely toxic. They also cover why victimhood is so seductive, the best advice his dad gave him, what you should look for in your partner, why the Crusades were awesome and saved the West, what we should be teaching our kids, and why America is worth saving.

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