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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

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86:21

E325. Game Theory, Poker & The AI Arms Race - Liv Boeree

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2025/02/13

Professional poker player, physicist, and general badass, Liv Boeree, sits down with Bridget for a fascinating conversation about the mind games of poker, where intuition meets math, how game theory shapes everything from philanthropy to AI ethics, and the paradoxes of AI consciousness. They discuss being pathologically competitive, beating the boys at their own games, how everyone’s an egalitarian until they get the power, pig farmers, China, audience capture, the magic of Burning Man, playi...

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82:12

E324. Should America be a Monarchy? - Curtis Yarvin

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2025/02/06

Bridget sits down with Curtis Yarvin, political theorist and writer formerly known as Mencius Moldbug. They discuss the road that brought Curtis to this point, his debate with Ilya Shapiro, whether capitalism requires democracy, whether oligarchs are more concerned with the outcomes of power rather then power itself, the Arab Spring, debating “isms”, why he believes the most peaceful and stable form of government is the monarchy, the truth about revolutions, why he’s selective about his consp...

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85:50

E323. The Big Homeless Non-Profit Scam - Jared...

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2025/01/30

Bridget sits down with Jared Klickstein, author of Crooked Smile, to discuss the gritty realities of addiction, homelessness, and the policy failures that have turned them into epidemics. They cover Jared's personal story, being raised by heroin addicts, his own struggle with addiction, surviving a decade on Skid Row, and how he got clean. They dissect the progressive policies that caused addiction and homelessness to explode, the multitude of non-profits intended to address the problems that...

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61:15

E322. Michael Malice on the Art of Being Nasty

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2025/01/23

Dive into a whirlwind conversation where Michael Malice and Bridget dissect everything from the dark art of comedy to the cultural chaos of California, all while roasting each other with the finesse of seasoned stand-ups. From diabolical childhood antics to the current political landscape, they cover it all, including anarchy, Gavin Newsom with a sword, and a whole lot of potatoes. They discuss Malice’s desire to do stand-up, Bridget’s honest advice, comedy as terrorism, the truth about media...

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65:29

E321. X's Censorship Controversy - Matt McDonald

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2025/01/16

Bridget and Matt McDonald, managing editor at The Spectator magazine, dive into the bizarre story of Elon's alleged alt account, the story that revealed the truth, the subsequent censoring of the story on X and the suspension of the journalist's account. They also cover the chaotic world of modern journalism and social media, why the destruction of local journalism is bad for everyone, the H1B visa debate, the innovation of Community Notes, the state of media in 2025, the truth about dating a...

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87:03

E320. Finding God In Science - Spencer Klavan

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2025/01/09

Spencer Klavan sits down with Bridget to discuss his new book, Light of the Mind, Light of the World: Illuminating Science Through Faith. They talk about faith, science, nihilism, depression, personal growth, the false dichotomy between scientific rationality and religious belief, the fact that many great scientists were theists, and that the modern conflict between science and religion is outdated. They also cover Spencer’s personal journey to faith, his experience as a gay Christian, how he...

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73:40

E319. The High Cost of Speaking Up For Women - Paula...

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2025/01/02

Original Air Date - 9/21/23 Paula Scanlan, former University of Pennsylvania swimmer and team member with transgender athlete Lia Thomas, sits down with Bridget to discuss her experience on the team, her decision to speak up about the controversial issue, and ultimately testifying before Congress. She and Bridget talk about how the university tried to silence the athletes, being unable to express discomfort or feelings of unfairness, being told that they are the ones with the problem, waiting...

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93:06

E318. Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up -...

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2024/12/26

This episode was originally published 2/29/24Abigail Shrier returns to talk about her latest book Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up. She and Bridget discuss what led her to write the book, her initial premise, how it changed along the way, why kids today seem to be in a lot of psychological pain, the potential harms of too much therapy, the overuse of the word trauma, how talking about and focusing on your pain can make it worse, and how kids are being taught to make their pain an o...

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78:39

E317. Thank God for Gen X - Drea de Matteo

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2024/12/19

Bridget sits down with Drea de Matteo, star of The Sopranos, to discuss her personal and political evolution, their mutual gratitude for being part of Gen X, how Drea never intended to become a political activist, how COVID and the lockdowns influenced her thinking and led her to start questioning her preconceptions about the Left and the Right, why it took her until the very last moment to come out in support for Trump, and why she did it even while recognizing that it could damage her abili...

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72:26

E316. Woke vs. Working Class: The Battle for...

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2024/12/12

Bridget sits down with Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. The book explores the transformative political landscape of recent American elections, challenging previous narratives about the Republican Party's demographics and highlighting a significant multi-racial shift in voter preferences, particularly noting how Donald Trump expanded Republican support among African American and Latino voters. ...

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63:45

The Billionaires Behind the Gender Identity Movement...

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2024/12/05

Kara Dansky, a feminist, activist, and author of The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls, sits down with Bridget to discuss her critique of gender identity politics and its impact on women's rights. Kara argues that the Democratic Party and left-wing activists have betrayed women by embracing gender identity ideology, which she sees as fundamentally misogynistic. They cover how this ideology undermines women's spaces, sports, and fundamental rights, why they wear the

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124:32

E314. How To Save America - Tulsi Gabbard

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2024/11/28

Original Air Date - April 11, 2024 In honor of Tulsi Gabbard's nomination for Director of National Intelligence, we're re-airing her April interview. 4-Term Congresswoman, U.S. Army veteran, and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard sits down with Bridget to talk about her new book, For Love of Country: Leave The Democrat Party Behind. She and Bridget discuss making people on both sides angry, why people feel threatened when someone tells the truth, being grounded in God, when Democrats s...

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79:25

E313. Why Gen X Had It Better - Dana Loesch

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2024/11/21

Bridget sits down with radio talk-show host and author, Dana Loesch, for a conversation about growing up Gen X, the freedoms they had that kids don’t have anymore, the role of technology in the development of the nanny state, what the constant ability to check on your kids does to parents, whether we’re training our kids to have no expectation of privacy from a young age, and how Gen Z are already so conditioned to censoring themselves and avoiding risks because they know their mistakes will live

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94:02

The Dark Queen of Comedy - Adrienne Iapalucci

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2024/11/14

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

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90:15

E311. My Conversation with A Harris Voter

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2024/11/09

Bridget sits down with Ravi Gupta to unpack Trump’s big win and the divides that continue to shape today’s political landscape. They dive into the intense emotions stirred up by the election, the tough truths facing both political parties, and the personal challenges of navigating political differences within families. Together, they explore what this election means for people across the political spectrum and what the path forward could look like.Check out The Lost Debate Podcast with Ravi Gupta

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80:50

E310. The Day I Met John & Yoko: Final Hours with a...

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2024/11/07

Bridget sits down with Laurie Kaye to discuss her book, Confessions of A Rock N’ Roll Name-Dropper which covers her life leading up to conducting John Lennon's final interview on December 8th, 1980, hours before his tragic death. They cover her journey from a young music enthusiast in LA to becoming a respected rock journalist, including her pivotal moment of winning Rolling Stones concert tickets that led to her radio career, the best and worst day of her life, the emotional weight of writing the

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92:57

E309. Hey! Teacher! Leave Them Kids Alone! - Erika Sanzi

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2024/10/31

Bridget sits down with Erika Sanzi, the Director of Outreach at Parents Defending Education (PDE), an organization dedicated to addressing ideological biases in schools. She and Bridget discuss PDE’s mission to bring political neutrality back into classrooms, the indoctrination of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and gender identity policies in schools, the suppression and compelled speech of students, and how we got to this point. They cover the reemergence of treating people differently based on their

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98:49

E308. Bureaucracy is Crushing American Dreams

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2024/10/24

Max Meyer joins Bridget to talk about the new tech magazine he just launched Arena. They discuss Arena's mission to be on the side of the future and the people building it, his desire to offer a tech magazine that's an alternative to the other big name tech magazines out there that seem focused on demoralizing people about the future and making them fear things, instead offering a pro-American, pro-technology perspective while acknowledging valid concerns about technology and its risks. They cover

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88:53

E307. To Vote Or Not To Vote For Trump - Mary...

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2024/10/17

Mary Katharine Ham, a Fox News contributor and former CNN commentator, sits down with Bridget for a frank yet fun conversation about whether or not either one of them will vote for Trump. The decision rests not on a choice between Trump and Kamala, but a choice about whether or not they can bring themselves to vote for Trump, even though they low key want him to win because the policies and principles of the Harris/Walz campaign are so distasteful to them. They cover the realignment of the political

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103:31

E306. How October 7th Exposed the West's Madness

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2024/10/10

Author Brendan O’Neill joins Bridget to talk about his book, After The Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and The Crisis of Civilization. They discuss the aftermath of Hamas's attack on October 7th, 2023, what it told us about the West, the lure of barbarism, the rise of antisemitism, why we shouldn’t be allowed to forget what happened on October 7th, and why his book should make you angry because it highlights the appalling truth that people in the West are cheering one of the most regressive and racist

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