Hope y’all had a great 4th of July and are enjoying the lazy days of summer. Below are my three favorite things this week followed by a round-up of all the content we created in one easy place.
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Pray for those poor families in Texas. I can’t stop thinking about them.
My three favorite things this week:
Amanda Knox’s new book, FREE: My Search for Meaning. Maybe it’s the 4th of July, but I’ve been thinking a lot about what freedom really means. Oh and she also just launched a Substack of her own, check it out!
After months of being closed, the Getty Villa reopened with a new exhibit and it is exquisite. If you’re in Los Angeles or visiting, don’t miss this stunning collection of Late Bronze Age Greece antiquities.
I've been obsessed with Bachan’s Japanese BBQ Sauce lately. We put it on everything — fish, veggies, and it makes a great steak glaze. The have sweet and heat. I love both. Our favorite is to use it on the turkey meatballs from Trader Joe's as a protein filled snack.
REAL AMERICA WITH BRIDGET PHETASY
Addiction & Recovery
This week on Real America, Bridget and her husband Jeren, who met in recovery, took questions about addiction and sobriety.
WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #346
The Art of Focused Work - Paul Shirley
Paul Shirley, former NBA basketball player turned productivity guru, returns to the podcast for a conversation with Bridget that takes us from his Kansas farm origins (where apparently growing your own food creates a family of giants) to battling what he calls the "Distraction Industrial Complex."
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #229
Democrats Have An Epstein Problem
The Epstein list never existed and Elon’s forming his own political party just to taunt Bridget.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #230
AI Is Trolling Us
Grok started calling itself MechaHitler and threatening to grape people. What does that say about humans?
Let's Catch Up!
Bridget & Maggie catch up on everything they’ve been doing, take stock of where they are now and make plans for the rest of the year. Plus Bridget’s classic “Band-Aid story”.
WALK-INS WELCOME - EPISODE #345
Comedy Store Chaos - Eleanor Kerrigan’s Insider Stories
Comedian Eleanor Kerrigan joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation covering how her dreams of being an actor led to an unexpected wrestling stint, a West Wing mixup, and the one-woman show that led her to realize her true calling is comedy. She dishes on behind-the-scenes stories from over a decade running the iconic Comedy Store, being a caretaker for legendary owner Mitzi Shore, epic Pauly Shore parties, and blackout rages.
DUMPSTER FIRE - EPISODE #228
Democrats Have A Dead Internet Problem
The Dead Internet theory, AI slop, self-driving cars, OpenAI won't turn itself off, man proposes to his ChatGPT girlfriend, and other signs that the robot apocalypse is coming.
THE SPECTATOR
“Inside the struggle for technological control in South Africa”
Check out Bridget’s most recent article for The Spectator, “Inside the struggle for technological control in South Africa,” which examines the growing threat of digital colonialism, a global fight between Elon Musk’s bright future and China’s dystopian ambitions. Bridget writes, “When technology threatens entrenched systems of control, even rhinos become political.”
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Brother Augustine we will protected because he fully repented and turned against his former tribal mafia. Shills who protected Israeli mafia will be treated as enemy combatants.
"As a Jewish convert to Orthodox Christianity with a fairly wide set of historical books under my belt, it troubles me to see some hierarchs and channels following the world's narrative about "anti-Semitism" and all the things that have been done to "combat anti-Semitism." I'll tell you directly, as a 100% pure blooded Ashkenazi man, how to fix "anti-Semitism:" Anti-Semitism will end when faithless Jews leave other groups of people alone and stop trying to transform their nations and cultures in ways that invariably harm the populations in question. It is really not that complicated.”
– Brother Augustine
Love this concept, thank you!
Praying for Texas and everyone who is suffering period!