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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

409 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 898 ratings

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.

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E280. How To Save America - Tulsi Gabbard

April 11, 2024 10:00 - 2 hours

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 stopped talking about God, being open to shifting your opinion as you learn more, witnessing an extreme radicalization of the Democratic party, and wh...

E279. Can We Balance Female Rights and Trans Rights? - Arielle Isaac Norman

April 04, 2024 13:00

Comedian Arielle Isaac Norman returns to the show and she and Bridget have a frank conversation about gender, gender dynamics, gender politics, and balancing female rights with trans rights. They cover refusing to dogmatically fall in line with the orthodoxy of whatever the LGBTQ community is saying, when the narrative really started shifting from gender dysphoria to a denial of biologic reality, how the trans community was essentially written a blank check by all the good liberals and what ...

E278. We're Being Driven Towards A New Kind of Racism - Coleman Hughes

March 28, 2024 10:00

Coleman Hughes sits down with Bridget to discuss his latest book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. They talk about why people don't want to hear that the world isn’t as racist as they think it is, how racism sells very well as a news item, the realities behind disparities between races, what Coleman terms "neo racism," and the radical belief that black people are neither better nor worse than any other race. They cover why we should not racialize basic human conc...

E277. Can Mushrooms Kill The Ego? - Jeff Leach

March 21, 2024 10:00

Comedian Jeff Leach sits down with Bridget for a talk about the entertainment industry, comedy, money and therapeutic mushrooms. They discuss the death of the ego, how the entertainment industry preys on ego, desperation, self-interest, and a desire for money, the definition of an icon, charting your own path, doing something new, not making decisions purely based on financial reasons, and how all the people who are trying to divide us are rich. The amount of control the government exerts on...

E276. Are We Still Teaching Critical Thinking To Kids? - Warren Smith

March 14, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour

Warren Smith is a teacher who went viral for a critical thought exercise he did with a student. The topic? JK Rowling. He sits down with Bridget to discuss what life has been like since Elon Musk retweeted his video. They talk about why the video made such an impact and resonated with so many people, the power of questions in the pursuit of objective truth, the application of critical thinking and whether kids are being taught these skills in school, and why the subject of JK Rowling in part...

E275. Funny Is The Ultimate Currency - Brad Williams

March 07, 2024 12:00

Comedian Brad Williams stops in to talk shop with Bridget. They discuss the immediate feedback of performing in front of a live audience, the fun part about crowd work, the joys of parenthood, having a solid family core, keeping life as normal as possible for your kid, how his dad trained him to defend himself against bullies and he saw the power of humor, how he got into comedy, and the politics of the open mic community. They also cover why funny trumps everything, the hardest part of his ...

E274. Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up - Abigail Shrier

February 29, 2024 12:00

Abigail 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 organizing principle of their lives. They co...

E273. Katherine Brodsky Refuses To Apologize

February 22, 2024 12:00

Katherine Brodsky, author of No Apologies: How To Find And Free Your Voice In The Age of Outrage , sits down with Bridget to discuss navigating mob outrage, the importance of using your voice, what happens in society when people are unable to freely exchange ideas, when the mob came for her, the difference between people who didn’t survive their cancellations and those who did, and the importance of the idea that free speech is not just for the speech you like. They discuss the difference be...

E272. Naomi Petel Survived October 7th

February 15, 2024 12:00

Naomi Petel spent 19 hours locked her shelter with her husband and 3 sons on October 7th. She sits down with Bridget to tell her story, what she, her family, and her neighbors endured, those who were murdered or taken captive, and the series of events that allowed her family to survive. She describes the heartbreak and devastation of that day, and how her heart has continued to break since then because the trauma is ongoing. She does not know if she'll ever be able to go home again, she does...

E271. Overcoming The Victim Mentality - Rob Henderson

February 08, 2024 12:00

Rob Henderson returns to talk about his new book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class . He and Bridget discuss the realities of the foster care system, what it’s like to be a foster kid, the kinds of people who become foster parents, and the difficulties of writing such a memoir. They explore the hardest chapter to write, the process of fact-checking a memoir, their experience as teens vs. teens today, and doing irresponsible things in a responsible way. They cover why...

E270. Our Health Care System Is Insane - Andy Schoonover

February 01, 2024 12:00

Andy Schoonover, founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, sits down with Bridget to discuss our broken health care system and the innovative way CrowdHealth working to revolutionize the health care industry. They cover how Andy got into the health care field, what he started noticing, the softening of the public due to all the conveniences in life, the 50 year trend of relieving ourselves of personal responsibility, how our system is built on the healthy subsidizing the unhealthy, why you tend to be ...

E269. Make Yourself AI Proof - Ravi Gupta

January 25, 2024 12:00

Ravi Gupta, co-host of Lost Debate podcast, sit s down with Bridget for a wide-ranging discussion about hosting too many podcasts, whether anyone is still persuadable today and whether people's minds can still be changed, why Ravi thinks there’s a higher risk of violence in this election than there was in 2020, the ways they've found to live healthier, being masters of productive procrastination, Ravi's working hypothesis that polarization is good, and how many people are picking up on the f...

E268. AB5 Going National Will Be A Disaster - Kevin Kiley

January 18, 2024 12:00

California Representative Kevin Kiley, sits down with Bridget to discuss the consequences of the disastrous California AB5 bill going national, and what we can do about it. They cover the realities of AB5 and how it decimated independent contractors in California, how it effects small business owners, Biden's failure to get a national version passed through Congress and the work around he's found to do it anyway, how it infringes on your rights to work for you who want to and how you want to...

E267. Sarah Hepola Longs for the 90s

January 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 47 MB

Sarah Hepola, author of Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget, sits down with Bridget to discuss their longing for the 90s, how they're considered "the good old days" by kids growing up today, the privilege of not giving a crap about politics, and their similar experiences with partying and drinking. They discuss why the peak drinking year was probably 2005, why the iphone was the great disruptor for partying, the drunk driving laws of the 70s, how they both stumbled into journa...

E266. The Business of Content Creation - Katherine Dee

January 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MB

Katherine Dee returns to break down the overwhelming apathy many seemed to feel during 2023 and look ahead to what we might be facing in 2024. She and Bridget discuss her culture war burnout prediction, why the Zoomers feel like the internet belongs to them, the pressures of being a content creator, treating it like a business yet being unable to admit to other content creators that it is a business, kids who are growing up with their parents putting their lives online, the trick to being un...

E265. Mike Jones Will Teach You To Survive

December 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB

Garand Thumb Youtuber, Mike Jones, sits down with Bridget for a frank conversation about gun culture and all the factors that go into the gun debate, his time in the military as a SERE specialist, the complex topic of school shootings, their mutual love of America, and why social media plus AI might be the end of us. They also cover the importance of vulnerability among men - not just with their families - but with each other, how being a good leader is knowing when to be a hard ass and when...

E265. Mike Jones Will Teach You To Survive

December 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB

Garand Thumb Youtuber, Mike Jones, sits down with Bridget for a frank conversation about gun culture and all the factors that go into the gun debate, his time in the military as a SERE specialist, the complex topic of school shootings, their mutual love of America, and why social media plus AI might be the end of us. They also cover the importance of vulnerability among men - not just with their families - but with each other, how being a good leader is knowing when to be a hard ass and when...

E264. How The Woke Became The New Puritans - Andrew Doyle

December 21, 2023 11:00 - 45.3 MB

Andrew Doyle returns to discuss his latest book The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World. Andrew wrote the book for people who are confused by what's going on in the culture right now. He and Bridget have a riveting conversation about what actually happened during the Salem witch trials and how it can be applied to today's culture--how you might not get hanged but you could have your life ruined. They also cover why the gender ideology movement is one o...

E263. Comedy Is A Mental Illness Factory - Tom Sawyer

December 14, 2023 12:00 - 53 MB

Tom Sawyer, former owner and manager of the famous Cobbs Comedy Club in San Francisco, sits down with Bridget to discuss what it takes to make a career in stand up. They talk about how Tom got into the business, how he started booking and producing comedy shows, his tips for success to all bookers out there, what his biggest mistake as a comic was, how he built Cobbs into the success it became, how to recognize that you won’t make it as a comic, the dysfunctional lifestyle, the truth about b...

E262. The Paradox of Authenticity - Thomas de Zengotita

December 07, 2023 12:00 - 42.9 MB

Mediated Series - Part 7: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landsc ape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. Thomas de Zengotita returns to continue the discussion about his book Mediated. This week he and Bridget cover the paradox of authenticity, how y...

E261. Are You Out Of Your Mind? - Ami Kozak

November 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB

Bridget sits down with comedian & musician Ami Kozak for a conversation about how he uses platforms to address what’s going on as a modern Orthodox Jew, seeing the frightening consequences of bad ideas and viewing everything through oppressor/oppressee lenses, how all the early Nazi propaganda was rooted in compassion, how there’s an anti-human sentiment that has infected the left, the distinction between ignorance, lack of awareness, and hate, why the state of Israel's existence is a great ...

E260. Jacob Bresler Has Never Stopped Believing In Humanity

November 23, 2023 12:00 - 2 hours - 55.4 MB

From the ages of 11 to 16 Jacob Bresler survived five years of ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. He credits his inventiveness, his stubbornness, his resilience, and his will to survive as the reasons he made it through the war and created a new life for himself in America. He is a humanist. He does not hate. He has no enemies. He remains optimistic about the future, and believes that communication is the only way to combat ignorance and pierce the ideological bubbles we’ve...

E259. The Rise Of Antisemitism On The Left - Gad Saad

November 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MB

Bridget sits down with Gad Saad, author of The Saad Truth About Happiness and The Parasitic Mind , to discuss the Israel/Palestine conflict, the rise in antisemitism they were seeing even before the October 7th attacks, why the level of Jew hatred allowed in society is a canary in the coal mine, and how people in the West take their own mindset for granted and don’t appreciate how different the Middle Eastern mindset is. They cover the concept of idea pathogens and how ideas like postmodern...

E258. Don't Hire From Harvard - Greg Lukianoff

November 09, 2023 12:00 - 39.2 MB

Greg Lukianoff returns to talk about his new book, The Canceling of The American Mind. He and Bridget discuss people who still don’t believe cancel culture is real, people who've just realized it's real because it came for them, why America’s reliance on elite higher education is distortive to our whole society, cancel culture at its worst, how even though it claims compassion for minorities in the abstract in reality it’s quite cruel, how cancel culture destroys our faith in experts, and wh...

E257. Your Face Belongs To Us - Kashmir Hill

November 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MB

Kashmir Hill, New York Times Tech reporter, sits down with Bridget to discuss her new book, Your Face Belongs To Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy as We Know It. Kashmir explains how an app called Clearview AI can identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face with astonishing accuracy and how thousands of law enforcement agencies around the world are already using this technology. She and Bridget cover the ramifications of this technology - both positive and negative,...

E256. Antisemitism Seen As Second Degree Bigotry - Noam Blum

October 26, 2023 10:00 - 47.6 MB

Bridget sits down with Noam Blum, Chief Technology Officer at Tablet magazine, for a conversation about the Israel/Palestine conflict. They discuss the atmosphere of rhetoric inflation that allows more people to speak with blatant antisemitism, ever more extreme language getting a continuous pass in progressivism, how the language of academia seems divorced from the language of the people, and seeing a lot of disillusionment and feelings of isolation among people as they react to the conflic...

E255. They're Sterilizing Gay Kids - Helen Joyce

October 19, 2023 10:00 - 51.2 MB

Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality , sits down with Bridget for an in-depth conversation about the trans activist movement, what inspired her to write the book, what's changed since the book came out in 2021, the bullshit idea that everything can be blamed on feminism, the detransitioners she's met, and how the trans movement is sending women’s rights back to the dark ages. They discuss the sense that women have been abandoned in the culture wars, queer theory, the ris...

E254. Peasant Wisdom From Walter Kirn

October 12, 2023 10:00 - 51.6 MB

Bridget sits down with the great Walter Kirn, novelist, essayist, and editor-at-large of the new print-only newspaper County Highway. Walter shares why he and David Samuels decided to start a 19th century style paper centering attention on the middle of the country rather than the edges, the feeling that the country has lost touch with itself - especially during Covid, and the importance of reading something in a media that doesn’t track you or count your clicks or pander to your opinions. T...

E253. Beverly Hills 90210 and The Holocaust - Yael Bar Tur & ChayaLeah Sufrin

October 05, 2023 10:00 - 50.4 MB

Yael Bar Tur & ChayaLeah Sufrin, hosts of the Ask A Jew podcast, s it down with Bridget for a fun, freewheeling conversation about the differences between secular Jews and orthodox Jews, how thei Jewish identity is so central and core to who they are but they could not be more different in terms of how they express it, being Jewish and not believing in God, the cultural differences between Israel and the US, the gun debate, abortion, free range kids, and why a lot of secular Jews are embarra...

E252. Democrats Need To Look In A Mirror - Yascha Mounk

September 28, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 44 MB

Yascha Mounk, author of The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power In Our Time , sits down with Bridget to discuss the rise of a set of ideas about race, gender, and sexual orientation in the last 10 years that have changed the world. They talk about his worries over getting cancelled for writing the book, how the topic is slightly less controversial than it was 12 months ago, why the stakes are very high, how separating kids at school based on race will probably result in more racism not...

E251. The High Cost of Speaking Up For Women - Paula Scanlan

September 21, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MB

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 for the adults in the room...

E250. PR Is Like Poker - Mitchell Jackson

September 14, 2023 10:00 - 47.2 MB

Mitchell Jackson, founder and lead communications strategist at BCC Communications, returns to the show for a conversation with Bridget about public relations, weathering scandals, and what PR firms do wrong; including not paying attention to the internet or new media, not providing media training to their clients, not developing contacts within media organizations, and ultimately not delivering results. They also discuss people who make a business out of being cancelled, why LGBT marketing ...

E249. Republicans Need To Appeal To The Center - Tamika Hamilton

September 07, 2023 10:00 - 56.8 MB

Former Republican nominee for Congress and 14 year Air Force veteran Tamika Hamilton, sits down with Bridget to discuss the realities of running for office. Tamika shares what drove her to run for Congress, the process a normal person has to figure out along the way, the money necessary for an effective campaign, the need for volunteers, and why we should all get more involved. She and Bridget cover what it's like for a black woman to run for office in the Republican party, the areas where s...

E248. Girls Are Being Taught To Stay Silent - Bethany Mandel

August 31, 2023 10:00 - 36.7 MB

Bethany Mandel, co-author of Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence and Destroying A Generation , sits down with Bridget for a frank conversation about motherhood, abortion, and why the gender identity debate always seems result in women paying a price. They discuss the odd disparity between the the idea that men will do anything - except lie about their gender - coming on the heels of the #metoo movement, how much of this is starting to get on the radar of the normies, how people ...

E247. The Fastest Path To Success Is Failure - Zack Arnold

August 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MB

Zack Arnold, film & TV editor as well as a career strategist, coach, and the founder of Optimize Yourself , sits down with Bridget for a conversation about being in the trenches in Hollywood for over 20 years, the writers' and actors' strikes, and the piece nobody is talking about - the fact that our entire culture is going through a major identity crisis because our collective sense of self is intertwined with what we do for a living. They discuss how we’re conditioned to believe that our i...

E246. Jonathan Tropper Thinks "Warrior" Is A Show For Everyone

August 17, 2023 10:00 - 31.8 MB

Jonathan Tropper, writer, producer, and creator of hit HBO Max show Warrior, sits down with Bridget to discuss how the show that Bruce Lee developed finally made it to the small screen, how it nearly died on the vine after two seasons at Cinemax, and how the pandemic and finding popularity on the HBO Max app led to a revival and a season 3. They discuss what's happening in the industry as a whole, how the economic model of pilots has changed, how you don’t really know what’s succeeding anymo...

E245. How Peachy Keenan Was Radicalized By Her Husband

August 10, 2023 10:00 - 35.6 MB

Author Peachy Keenan sits down with Bridget to discuss her first book, Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide To Winning The Culture War . They talk about operating under a pseudonym, staying anonymous on Twitter regarding her right wing beliefs to protect her job working in Hollywood, the left wing presumption that everyone is in agreement with their views in corporate culture, how she became a social conservative after meeting her husband, having 5 children in this day and age and being loo...

E244. Chris Rufo On How The Radical Left Conquered Everything

August 03, 2023 10:00 - 44.4 MB

Chris Rufo, author of America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything , sits down with Bridget to discuss his research into how counter culture ideas from the radical Left worked their way into our institutions and tracing the ideas that led us to this point in our culture. They discuss choosing between lesser of two evils and why a lot of times people just opt out completely, how the Right hasn’t made it easy for people who might be willing to come over to their sid...

E243. Karol Markowicz - Woke Conformity Should Terrify People

July 27, 2023 10:00 - 40 MB

Writer Karol Markowicz sits down with Bridget to discuss her first book, Stolen Youth: How Radicals Are Erasing Innocence And Indoctrinating A Generation . They discuss the definition of "woke," not allowing kids to just be kids, how the trans movement got ridiculous, how a live and let live ideology has gone out the window, why a lot of people don’t really understand what’s going on out there, and the creation of a situation where you’re only allowed to think one way. They also cover how th...

E242. Carol Roth - You Will Own Nothing

July 20, 2023 10:00 - 51.3 MB

Carol Roth, "recovering" investment banker and entrepreneur, sits down with Bridget for a terrifying conversation about hitting an inflection point where the global financial world order is changing. They talk about the WEF's 8 Predictions for the World in 2030, one of them being "you'll own nothing, and be happy," why Carol rages against this idea because wealth comes from ownership, defining the "they" in the conversation about who wants you to own nothing, when the US will no longer be th...

E241. Dr. Drew Thinks Addicts Are Great Survivors

July 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 67.6 MB

Bridget sits down with physician and radio host Dr. Drew Pinsky. They reminisce about Love Lines, which Bridget was a huge fan of in her teens, how Dr. Drew wound up on the radio in the first place, what struck him the most about the calls he was receiving, the massive amount of ignorance regarding sex and the human body at the time, the consequences of the sexual revolution, and how people today are less ignorant because they have access to more information but they’re still as confused as ...

E240. Stephen L. Miller - You Need An Unbreakable Bullsh*t Detector

July 06, 2023 10:00 - 104 MB

Writer and commentator Stephen L. Miller sits down with Bridget to discuss what drew him into journalism and media, the hypocrisy he saw, when the reality of the story and how it's being covered are vastly different, building an audience and a platform, how he and Bridget met, and when online battles seep into the real world. They cover the gender debates, Dave Chappelle, the evolution of the ongoing moral panics, what's interesting about RFK Jr's candidacy, why liberal women need to be the ...

E239. Farrah Storr: The Death Of The Magazine

June 29, 2023 10:00 - 42.2 MB

Farrah Storr, former editor-in-chief of Elle, Cosmopolitan & Women's Health, sits down with Bridget to discuss the never-ending hustle of being a writer. They talk about how she got her start in the magazine industry, what her family thought of the career, the importance of getting in the door and getting experience over continuous higher education, working a lot for little to no money, how she became an editor, the difference between being a writer and an editor, and the mistakes she made a...

E238. Jacob Siegel: We're Being Lied To Every Day

June 22, 2023 10:00 - 51.6 MB

Journalist and senior director of news at Tablet magazine, Jacob Siegel, sits down with Bridget to discuss his recent article A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century . In a chilling conversation Jacob explains the sudden pervasiveness of disinformation and how it became an organizing principle in most of the federal beauracracy, the wholesale fraud being perpetrated on Americans, the precipitating factors, the organizations involved, and the replacing of human centric politics with ...

E237. Tim Urban Thinks Political Junk Food Is Killing Us

June 15, 2023 10:00 - 45.5 MB

Tim Urban, writer/illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why , a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website, sits down with Bridget to discuss his new book What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies . In a fun and free-wheeling conversation they talk about Tim's decision to write the book because the defining characteristic of our time is mass confusion and smart people falling for incorrect and fake narratives and he wanted to parse what was going on in our culture. They cover how...

E236. Jena Friedman Knows You Will Hate This

June 08, 2023 10:00 - 42.7 MB

Jena Friedman, comic and author of new book Not Funny: Essays On Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera , has a frank conversation with Bridget about motherhood, parenting, and losing her mom while she was pregnant with her son. They cover the perils of turning to the internet for advice on sleep training, what gets you through grief and a staggering loss, the writer's strike, the middle class struggle, feeling disconnected, and what happened when comedians started to turn on each other. They also...

E235. Comedy Is Kat Timpf's Religion

June 01, 2023 10:00 - 42.7 MB

Kat Timpf, co-host of Gutfeld! and author of You Can't Joke About That , sits down with Bridget to discuss writing a book about some of her most intimate, traumatic, and gut wrenching experiences. They talk about the importance of being able to joke about your own trauma, why humor is healing and we have to be allowed to joke about everything, people who try to police your grief, how grief is so misunderstood in this country, and the weird things that can happen when you’re grieving. They al...

E234. Dave Yates Channels Buddha

May 25, 2023 10:00 - 39.1 MB

Comedian and Dumpster Fire writer Dave Yates, sits down with Bridget for a long overdue conversation about comedy, addiction, sobriety, and making peace with a brain that is mean to you. They cover Dave's entrance into comedy when he quit drinking because he needed something to keep him busy, why the worst thing that can happen to you is doing well the first time you do stand up, how he stopped letting the job define him, the reality of pursuing stand up comedy and factoring in the possibili...

E233. Thomas de Zengotita Thinks We're Mainlining Flattery

May 18, 2023 10:00 - 35.4 MB

Mediated Series - Part 6: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It , became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter.  In Part 6, Bridget and Thomas discuss the implications of technological advances and that the important thing to realize is that at the end of...

E232. Leighton Woodhouse Explains The Censorship Industrial Complex

May 11, 2023 08:00 - 50.8 MB

Independent journalist, Leighton Woodhouse, sits down with Bridget for an in-depth conversation about the Censorship Industrial Complex, which is an effort to create new gatekeepers so that the elite can regain control of the media narrative by controlling visibility into the distribution of information and throttling the ability to see politically inconvenient information. They discuss the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, why there’s no reason to believ...

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