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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…
Episodes
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE414. Why I’m Fleeing Europe for Texas | Éros Brousson - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with French commentator and content creator Éros Brousson — a 26-year-old watching his country burn from across the border in Italy —…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE413. Nobody Talks About Good and Evil Anymore | Daniel Knauf - Walk-Ins Welcome 413
Bridget sits down with screenwriter and showrunner Daniel Knauf — the creator of HBO’s cult classic Carnivàle — for a wide-ranging conversation about morality…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE412. What Nobody Tells Single Women About Missing the Window | Sarah Hepola - Walk-Ins Welcome
Writer Sarah Hepola returns to the podcast to talk about her long-awaited new book, The Only Thing There Is To Want, and the hard truths at the heart of it…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE411. Writing A Book Radicalized Me | Bridget Phetasy - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget checks in with Maggie right after finishing the first draft of her book, The Left Can’t Meme: How Comedy Wins Culture Wars. She walks through the…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE410. What October 7th Really Revealed About the West | Brendan O'Neill - Walk-Ins Welcome
Original Air Date - October 10, 2024 Author Brendan O’Neill joins Bridget to talk about his book, After The Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and The Crisis of…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE409. It's Not Left vs. Right Anymore — It's Sane vs. Crazy | Peachy Keenan - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Peachy Keenan — author of Domestic Extremist and her new book Supervillains: Architects of America's Decline — for a…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE408. How To Build A Comedy Special | Dave Landau - Walk-Ins Welcome
Dave Landau returns to the podcast to talk about his new comedy special, breaking down the nuts and bolts of what actually goes into making a stand-up special…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE407. Nobody Can Tell What's Actually Real Anymore | Mike Solana - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with Mike Solana — founder of Pirate Wires — who returns to the podcast to talk about why it's nearly impossible to figure out what's…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE406. Most Omega 3s Are Garbage — Here's How to Tell - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Max Marion - founder of one of the highest-potency Omega-3 companies in the world, AquaOmega — for a deep dive into why Omega-3s…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE405. Why Satire Doesn't Work in a Shameless World | Lou Perez - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with comedian Lou Perez, author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death And Rebirth of Comedy, to talk about what the internet…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE404. Victimhood Destroyed An Entire Generation | Katharine Birbalsingh - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Katharine Birbalsingh — the founder of Michaela Community School and the woman known as Britain's strictest headmistress — to…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE403. We’ve Been Waiting For Sophie Cunningham | Jennifer Sey - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with Jennifer Sey, founder of XX-XY Athletics — to talk about why the fight to keep men out of women's sports is gaining ground. They get…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE402. I Had to Be a Loser First — That's Why I Can Help You | Stasia Patwell - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with fitness coach Stasia Patwell, to talk about fitness, recovery and how COVID accidentally launched her career. They get into why…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE401. I Was A Secret Weapon Of The Far Left — Then I Voted for Trump | Evan Barker - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Evan Barker, former Democratic operative and author of Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, to talk about what…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE400. Why The Right’s Meltdown Over The Odyssey Is Liberal | Art Tavana - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with culture critic and journalist Art Tavana — a former Playboy colleague — to talk about why the Right's meltdown over Christopher…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE399. Coming Back to LA Is Like Going to an AA Meeting - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget checks in from Los Angeles — where she's spending five weeks with family — and the city is not what she remembered. Empty storefronts on 3rd Street…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE398. Why The Internet Is Already Dead | Kat Rosenfield - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down again with novelist and Free Press columnist Kat Rosenfield to talk about the rise of death doulas, the death of YA fiction, and how the…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE397. Real Men Read The Constitution | Dan Hollaway - Walk-Ins Welcome
Original Air Date - December 4, 2025 Drinkin’ Bros podcast host Dan Hollaway joins Bridget for an uncensored conversation about all the third rail topics you…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE397. Make Karens Great Again | Kira Davis - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with conservative commentator and political pundit Kira Davis to talk about why she thinks it's time to bring back shame, decorum, and…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE395. Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion | Luke Burgis - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Luke Burgis to discuss his new book, The One and the 99: Forging Identity in the Age of Social Contagion. They explore one of…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE394. Woke Is Just Communism Repackaged | Xi Van Fleet - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with Xi Van Fleet, author of Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat. Xi…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE393. The Left Turned on the Jews. Now What? | Batya Ungar-Sargon - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with Batya Ungar-Sargon — journalist, author, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek — for a wide-ranging conversation about her new book, The…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE392. The DoorDash Generation Can't Feed Itself | Courtney O'Dell - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Courtney O’Dell, food blogger and creator behind Sweet C’s Designs, to dig into the viral DoorDash discourse that exploded…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE391. The Dark Side of America's Therapy Obsession | Jonathan Alpert - Walk-Ins Welcome
Bridget sits down with Jonathan Alpert, therapist and author of Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE390. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE389. 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"…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE388. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE387. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE386. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE385. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE384. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE383. 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE382. Why This Isn't Iraq 2003: The Case for Taking Down Iran's Regime - Behnam Ben Taleblu
Behnam 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE381. Attention Span is the New Class Divide - Spencer Klavan
Spencer 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE380. The Activist Handbook They Don't Want You to Know About - Michael Young
Michael Young returns to the podcast for another epic conversation with Bridget to pull back the curtain on Beautiful Trouble—the activist handbook that’s…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE379. Michael Tracey Exposes Epstein Hysteria For What It Is
Journalist 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE378. Gender Affirming Care On Trial - Benjamin Ryan
Independent journalist Benjamin Ryan was the only reporter who sat through all three weeks of the first-ever gender surgery malpractice trial. He and Bridget…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE377. Choosing To Be Chosen - Kylie Ora Lobell
Author 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE376. Our Current Media Ecosystem is Trash - Darvio Morrow
Media 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE375. How to Find Truth When Everything Feels Fake - Michael Shermer
Michael 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE374. A Revolution Against Tech Is Coming - Mike Solana
Mike Solana joins Bridget for a fascinating conversation about America's shifting political fault lines, why critiquing tech is critiquing power, and the…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE373. Socialism Always Fails - Francis Foster
Triggernometry co-host and comedian, Francis Foster, returns to the podcast to unpack Nicolás Maduro’s dramatic downfall. Foster’s familiarity with the country…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE372. Andrew Yang Tried To Warn Us
Andrew 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE371. The Dark Queen of Comedy - Adrienne Iapalucci
Original Air Date - November 16, 2024 The Dark Queen, Adrienne Iapalucci joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation about having a love-hate relationship with…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE370. Dave Landau Is A Comedy Genius
Original 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…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE369. How Cultural Elites Lost Touch With Heartland America - Salena Zito
Boots-on-the-ground journalist Salena Zito, sits down with Bridget to discuss the gaping chasm between online discourse and the reality of heartland America…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE368. Freedom is Messy and Hard - John Papola
Dad Saves America podcast host, John Papola, joins Bridget for a wide-ranging conversation about everything from the Crusades to life advice for teenage boys…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE367. Real Men Read The Constitution - Dan Hollaway
Drinkin’ Bros podcast host Dan Hollaway joins Bridget for an uncensored conversation about all the third rail topics you could ever ask for, from why we should…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE366. We're Being Lied To Every Day - Jacob Siegel
Original Air Date - 6/21/23 Revisit a Walk-Ins Welcome classic Journalist and senior director of news at Tablet magazine, Jacob Siegel, sits down with Bridget…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE365. Gen Z Is Furious and Ready To Revolt - Natalya Murakhver
Ever wonder how “15 days to slow the spread” turned into more than two years of Zoom torture, kids in masks all day, and elite children getting private tutors…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE364. When The Mental Health Industry Fails You - Laura Delano
Laura Delano joins Bridget for a riveting conversation about her book, Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance, which chronicles her haphazard…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE363. Why Graham Linehan Refuses To Use Pronouns (And Got Arrested For It)
Graham Linehan joins the podcast to discuss his arrest in the UK, his refusal to use preferred pronouns, and the realities of pushing back against a dogmatic…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE362. Why The Trans Fad Is Fading - Meghan Murphy
Meghan Murphy returns to the podcast to discuss the success of the UK's TERFs, and explains why the trans fad is fading in the Britain and America, but Canada…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE361. Why Gen Z Is Revolting Globally - Ehsan Ahmad
Comedian Ehsan Ahmad joins Bridget for a hilarious discussion about all things cultural including Muslims naming their kids "Jihad", the need to call out the…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE360. What the FBI Doesn’t Want You to See - Margaret Roberts
Journalist Margaret Roberts joins Bridget to discuss the book she spent 20 years researching and writing, Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE359. The Center Is Not Holding - Elizabeth Matthew
Elizabeth Grace Matthew joins Bridget for a comprehensive conversation about the cultural chaos of modern America. Specifically, they discuss the infantilizing…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE358. While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East - Yaakov Katz
This week, Bridget welcomes journalist Yaakov Katz for an in-depth conversation about his book While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE357. The Battle for Civilization - Andrew Doyle
Andrew Doyle returns to the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about his book The End of Woke, the culture shock of moving from London to Arizona, the far…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE356. Foreign Influence In Higher Education - Sarah McLaughlin
Senior Scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Sarah McLaughlin sits down with Bridget to discuss her book, Authoritarians In…
Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget PhetasyE355. They're Sterilizing Gay Kids - Helen Joyce
Original Air Date - 10/19/23 Revisit a Walk-Ins Welcome classic Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, sits down with Bridget for an…