Bridget and Cousin Maggie sit down to celebrate the 200th episode of Walk-Ins Welcome. They marvel at the fact that they've been consistent with a project for 4 years, take stock and look back on how far they've come, reminisce about the Days of Soup and Toast and why turning down $10k at her brokest was a good lesson for Bridget, and ponder the invisibility cloak that seems to surround all things Phetasy (though it's probably a blessing in disguise). They also discuss Bridget's upcoming sober anniversary, new projects that were recently launched, all the projects still to come if they ever find time, the original Phetasy website and why they might have missed out on the chance to make billions, the "Why" behind Phetasy that keeps it all going, and what Bridget's superpower would be if she had to pick just one.

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Comedian and political commentator Lee Camp drops in for a conversation about his political awakening, why we should turn off all mainstream corporate media, working for RT America before it was shut down, seeing independent media and voices being purged from the internet, and what we do when the culture has lost faith in all news outlets. They also discuss where Lee gets his news, America's prison state, the real reason behind the war on drugs, whether Congress is owned by corporations, how the Democrats are not really a left-wing party outside the US, and his views on capitalism. For more information on his comedy, show and podcasts, check out him out here: https://leecamp.locals.com/.

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Comedian Nimesh Patel sits down with Bridget to talk about his new comedy special Thank You China , how he got started in comedy, how TikTok was vital to his career, how everyone's selling out everywhere they go, why a degree in finance did him no good, and his writing gig for Chris Rock at the Oscars. They also cover the grind of feeding the algorithm, learning to step away, why you have to be Zen about social media, why healthcare jokes are so universal and popular, the travesty of the health care system in this country, his many cousins who are doctors, growing up with a big family, surviving cousin roast battles, comedians complaining they can't talk about anything anymore, and how for better or for worse, China knows all about you.

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Greg Lukianoff (The Coddling of the American Mind , Unlearning Liberty ) sits down with Bridget for a conversation about free speech on college campuses, how social media sped everything up and created the trend of cancel culture, how much worse things have gotten since Coddling was published, and how people just lost their minds since Covid hit. They discuss how deeply messed up it is to tell people they're more fragile than they are, how the victimhood mentality is undermining cognitive behavioral therapy, the decline in college attendance, Greg's work with FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) and why they're seeing an uptick in their caseload, how people are always talking about a "pendulum swing" but that's not how history works, and why you have to care about what's going on at elite colleges because it's going to mess up the rest of society downstream.

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Mediated Series - Part 3:

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 3 Bridget and Thomas discuss how the intrinsic human desire for recognition and acknowledgement translates into seeking fame, when the notion of adolescence evolved in our society and how teenage girls essentially run the world, the use of the words "like" and "literally," what "dialectic" actually means and how it applies to celebrity culture and their audience, why the only heroes that can exist in a mediated world are the "everyday heroes," whether it's possible to be truly authentic anymore, the overuse of therapeutic language everywhere now, Thomas's Holocaust thought experiment, and why Bridget would be valuable to people in media studies. 

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James Kirchick stops in to talk about his new book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. He and Bridget discuss his fascinating deep dive into the history of homosexuality in Washington D.C., his process for writing the book, how he researched it, what he uncovered, and which US President he considers the most homophobic. They also cover the Lavender Scare, writing a narrative history in an engaging way, the important role World War II played on gay consciousness in America, the dramatic transformation in public attitudes on homosexuality in the last few decades and what James attributes that to, and how he developed a real sense of gratitude as a gay man living today during the course of writing the book.

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Louise Perry, author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, sits down with Bridget to talk about the repercussions of the sexual revolution and why the claim that sex doesn't have a special status does not serve anyone's interests, particularly women's. They discuss how the people who are winning from this kind of culture are men who can get laid consequence free, sexual trauma and using hypersexuality as a weapon, sexual disenchantment, the idea that sex must be taken seriously, and why Mother Nature is the biggest misogynist out there. They also cover the expectation of women to work, what Louise's idea of feminism looks like, how the increasingly aggressive nature of sexual norms are being normalized due to porn, Playboy, Kim Kardashian, having kids, division of labor between the sexes, and how the world that liberal feminists have constructed is a fragile one that's built on technology.

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Francis Foster and Konstantin Kisin of the Triggernometry Podcast stop in for a wide ranging and hilarious conversation with Bridget about their tour of America. They discuss why the doomsday narrative is very appealing to people, the risk they face as content creators of caving to audience capture, the importance of having integrity and not just doing what is easy, and the vanishing ability to have arguments with other people and still remain friends. They also cover the reality of America's gun culture, the arrogance of thinking you're on the right side of history, how comedy has gotten boring because of the threat of being cancelled - particularly in the UK, the inadvertent racism that comes from trying very hard not to be offensive to anyone, and how the moment you're not brave in this life is the moment you let yourself down.

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Colin Wright is an evolutionary biologist and Founding Editor of Reality's Last Stand, a publication and newsletter exploring the biology of sex and gender ideology. In grad school he started noticing a lot of ideas about biological sex going heywire, in 2018 he wrote an article for Quillette called The New Evolution Deniers, and people went mad. He and Bridget discuss the fact that if we can't agree that sex is a biological reality we're all screwed, the reaction Colin's colleagues had to his articles, why people in academia are so scared, and the student activists who were trying to get him cancelled. They also cover Colin's recent bans from Etsy and Paypal for no clear reason, losing friends, losing jobs, being called a bigot, how he deals with it all from a mental health perspective, and what this all means for the rest of us, particularly, how powerless you are when financial institutions decide to just unperson you, the risks and rewards of going independent, and why it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

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Comedian Brittany Schmitt returns for a talk with Bridget about her new comedy special, From Ho To Housewife, what it actually takes to produce a comedy special, why being an artist means having to let go of the results, and how stand-up is essentially a solitary activity - it's just you and a mic, you don't need anyone's permission to do it. They also cover the letdown that can occur after completeing such a huge project and long-term goal, being selective about the opportunities that come your way because time is finite, her experience with Ayahuasca and what it revealed to her, their odd psychic abilites, how no amount of money is ever enough, why she tells everyone she loves them, and the idea of going to small claims court for a fart in a jar.

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