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 Europe, purity spirals, and what happens when your online tribe starts demanding you sell your soul to keep them. Andrew breaks down how YouTube channels, political movements, and entire cultures operate on the same psychological mechanics as Scientology and Heaven&apos;s Gate — just at different points on the spectrum. They get into why the UK can&apos;t talk about its rapidly changing demographics, how comedians and podcasters navigate audience capture without losing their integrity, Nick Fuentes and the strange new politics of antisemitism, the psychology of why people confide their darkest secrets to strangers, and whether independent media can survive without everyone going insane. Check out Heretics here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4fQ-Cy8UpLPMwehPg-8ltQ  🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ #Cults #FreeSpeech #WalkInsWelcome #andrewgold #heretics Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva<a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;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 Europe, purity spirals, and what happens when your online tribe starts demanding you sell your soul to keep them. Andrew breaks down how YouTube channels, political movements, and entire cultures operate on the same psychological mechanics as Scientology and Heaven&amp;apos;s Gate — just at different points on the spectrum. They get into why the UK can&amp;apos;t talk about its rapidly changing demographics, how comedians and podcasters navigate audience capture without losing their integrity, Nick Fuentes and the strange new politics of antisemitism, the psychology of why people confide their darkest secrets to strangers, and whether independent media can survive without everyone going insane.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Check out Heretics here: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4fQ-Cy8UpLPMwehPg-8ltQ &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sponsor Links:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast&lt;br/&gt;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.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. &lt;br/&gt;We just want to make you laugh while the world burns. &lt;br/&gt;https://www.phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;#Cults #FreeSpeech #WalkInsWelcome #andrewgold #heretics&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy &lt;br/&gt;Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/ &lt;br/&gt;Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy &lt;br/&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846 &lt;br/&gt;https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh&lt;br/&gt;https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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 Europe, purity spirals, and what happens when your online tribe starts demanding you sell your soul to keep them. Andrew breaks down how YouTube channels, political movements, and entire cultures operate on the same psychological mechanics as Scientology and Heaven's Gate — just at different points on the spectrum. They get into why the ...

E386. Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold - 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 entire culture loses the ability to feel shame. Elnathan argues that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to a society&apos;s capacity for shame—and right now, that capacity is bottoming out everywhere from Lagos to Washington. In this episode, they discuss:  • The comedian&apos;s complex relationship to power  • Why declaring your vote can trap you ideologically  • The collapse of liberalism across the West  • Nigeria&apos;s overlapping crises of terrorism and corruption  • AI replacing white-collar jobs   • The quiet resource extraction in Africa  • What it means to turn your muse into a mule Check out Elnathan&apos;s Substack - https://elnathanjohn.substack.com/ #satire #BridgetPhetasy #WalkInsWelcome #ElnathanJohn 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva<a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;Bridget Phetasy sits down with Elnathan John, Nigerian satirist and author of Becoming Nigerian, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when an entire culture loses the ability to feel shame.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Elnathan argues that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to a society&amp;apos;s capacity for shame—and right now, that capacity is bottoming out everywhere from Lagos to Washington.&lt;br/&gt;In this episode, they discuss:&lt;br/&gt; • The comedian&amp;apos;s complex relationship to power&lt;br/&gt; • Why declaring your vote can trap you ideologically&lt;br/&gt; • The collapse of liberalism across the West&lt;br/&gt; • Nigeria&amp;apos;s overlapping crises of terrorism and corruption&lt;br/&gt; • AI replacing white-collar jobs &lt;br/&gt; • The quiet resource extraction in Africa&lt;br/&gt; • What it means to turn your muse into a mule&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Check out Elnathan&amp;apos;s Substack - https://elnathanjohn.substack.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;#satire #BridgetPhetasy #WalkInsWelcome #ElnathanJohn&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sponsor Links:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast&lt;br/&gt;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.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. &lt;br/&gt;We just want to make you laugh while the world burns. &lt;br/&gt;https://www.phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy &lt;br/&gt;Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/ &lt;br/&gt;Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy &lt;br/&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846 &lt;br/&gt;https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh&lt;br/&gt;https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Bridget Phetasy sits down with Elnathan John, Nigerian satirist and author of Becoming Nigerian, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when an entire culture loses the ability to feel shame.  Elnathan argues that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to a society's capacity for shame—and right now, that capacity is bottoming out everywhere from Lagos to Washington. In this episode, they discuss:  • The comedian's complex relationship to power  • Why decla...

E385. The Death of Shame and the Collapse of Culture | Elnathan John - 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 suicide pact and shouldn’t be weaponized against us by those who seek our destruction,  how our core values of tolerance and freedom are being exploited by adversaries who don’t share those values, the post-9/11 failure of Western elites to understand Islamic ideology and jihadist motivation, and the binary choice America faces with Iran’s regime — destroy them or they destroy us. They also cover why Europe may be past the point of no return, why white liberal feminists stay silent on Iran’s women while obsessing over Palestine, how the rise of antisemitism is a big red flag about the health of a civilization, how Christian morality provides the operating system Western civilization runs on,  the rising generation of young Christians and patriots building rather than destroying, and why she’s more optimistic now than she’s been in years. Follow Ayaan&apos;s work at the AHA Foundation - https://www.theahafoundation.org/ #SavingTheWest #AyaanHirsiAli #WesternCivilization 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva<a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;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 suicide pact and shouldn’t be weaponized against us by those who seek our destruction,  how our core values of tolerance and freedom are being exploited by adversaries who don’t share those values, the post-9/11 failure of Western elites to understand Islamic ideology and jihadist motivation, and the binary choice America faces with Iran’s regime — destroy them or they destroy us. They also cover why Europe may be past the point of no return, why white liberal feminists stay silent on Iran’s women while obsessing over Palestine, how the rise of antisemitism is a big red flag about the health of a civilization, how Christian morality provides the operating system Western civilization runs on,  the rising generation of young Christians and patriots building rather than destroying, and why she’s more optimistic now than she’s been in years.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Follow Ayaan&amp;apos;s work at the AHA Foundation - https://www.theahafoundation.org/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;#SavingTheWest #AyaanHirsiAli #WesternCivilization&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sponsor Links:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast&lt;br/&gt;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.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. &lt;br/&gt;We just want to make you laugh while the world burns. &lt;br/&gt;https://www.phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy &lt;br/&gt;Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/ &lt;br/&gt;Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy &lt;br/&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846 &lt;br/&gt;https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh&lt;br/&gt;https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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 suicide pact and shouldn’t be weaponized against us by those who seek our destruction,  how our core values of tolerance and freedom are being exploited by adversaries who don’t share those values, the post-9/11 failure of Western elites to understand Islamic ideology and jihadist motivation, and the binary choice America faces with Iran...

E384. Our Tolerance Is Killing Us: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Saving Civilization - Walk-Ins Welcome

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 continuation of the War on Terror using repurposed counterinsurgency tools, and the replacement of bottom-up civic institutions with top-down algorithmic control. They cover how Obama&apos;s administration built the censorship infrastructure that defined the Trump era, the role of the CIA in fabricating Russiagate through the Intelligence Community Assessment, how COVID censorship was far more radicalizing than Russiagate because it touched people&apos;s everyday lives, how tech platforms concentrate power by eliminating private property rights, why younger generations don&apos;t care about privacy because they’ve grown up under constant surveillance, and why freedom in the digital age must be found within the system rather than outside it. They also discuss how the rise of AI will follow a familiar historical pattern seen in moments of extraordinary technological change—like the printing press or early mass communications—which typically brings massive social upheaval, often bloody and marked by war, but through which humanity ultimately survives; the only way out is through. Buy Jacob&apos;s book here: https://amzn.to/4rW3QtZ #InformationState #Censorship #digitalcontrol  Topics covered: information state vs democracy, digital control replacing civic institutions, Obama to Trump censorship infrastructure, Russiagate fabrication, COVID radicalization, Pentagon internet origins, AI as supernatural force, finding freedom within technology, the only way out is through 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva<a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/">Support the show</a>

<description>&lt;p&gt;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 continuation of the War on Terror using repurposed counterinsurgency tools, and the replacement of bottom-up civic institutions with top-down algorithmic control. They cover how Obama&amp;apos;s administration built the censorship infrastructure that defined the Trump era, the role of the CIA in fabricating Russiagate through the Intelligence Community Assessment, how COVID censorship was far more radicalizing than Russiagate because it touched people&amp;apos;s everyday lives, how tech platforms concentrate power by eliminating private property rights, why younger generations don&amp;apos;t care about privacy because they’ve grown up under constant surveillance, and why freedom in the digital age must be found within the system rather than outside it. They also discuss how the rise of AI will follow a familiar historical pattern seen in moments of extraordinary technological change—like the printing press or early mass communications—which typically brings massive social upheaval, often bloody and marked by war, but through which humanity ultimately survives; the only way out is through.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buy Jacob&amp;apos;s book here: https://amzn.to/4rW3QtZ&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;#InformationState #Censorship #digitalcontrol &lt;br/&gt;Topics covered: information state vs democracy, digital control replacing civic institutions, Obama to Trump censorship infrastructure, Russiagate fabrication, COVID radicalization, Pentagon internet origins, AI as supernatural force, finding freedom within technology, the only way out is through&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Sponsor Links:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;- If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast&lt;br/&gt;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.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br/&gt;PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. &lt;br/&gt;We just want to make you laugh while the world burns. &lt;br/&gt;https://www.phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy &lt;br/&gt;Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/ &lt;br/&gt;Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy &lt;br/&gt;https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846 &lt;br/&gt;https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh&lt;br/&gt;https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/"&gt;Support the show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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 continuation of the War on Terror using repurposed counterinsurgency tools, and the replacement of bottom-up civic institutions with top-down algorithmic control. They cover how Obama's administration built the censorship infrastructure that defined the Trump era, the role of the CIA in fabricating Russiagate through the Intelligence C...

E383. Big Tech Owns Society Now - Jacob Siegel

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 about the Islamic Republic’s ideology, why the plight of Iranian women gets ignored by Western feminists, and why this conflict is fundamentally different from Iraq 2003. They cover how the regime destroyed Iran’s environment to fund the Revolutionary Guard, how they worked with Mexican drug cartels and Canadian biker gangs to target dissidents on US soil, how AI-generated propaganda muddies the water in favor of the regime, why Hollywood actors completely miss what’s happening by lumping Iran with Palestine and Iraq, the regime’s scorched earth strategy of burning countries to rubble to survive, Iranian sleeper cells already on US soil, the strategic importance of not giving this regime a premature off-ramp, and why Americans Googling “how far is Iran from the United States” shows how much work remains in explaining the stakes of this conflict. 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: - Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com - If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.  We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.  https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bridgetphetasy/  Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walk-ins-welcome/id1437447846  https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0qOjbxZJf9d49AHEh https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/I3gqggwe23u6mnsdgqynu447wva<a rel="payment" href="https://www.phetasy.com/">Support the show</a>

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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 about the Islamic Republic’s ideology, why the plight of Iranian women gets ignored by Western feminists, and why this conflict is fundamentally different from Iraq 2003. They cover how the regime destroyed Iran’s environment to fund the Revolutionary Guard, how they worked with Mexican drug cartels and Canadian biker gangs to target dissi...

E382. Why This Isn't Iraq 2003: The Case for Taking Down Iran's Regime - Behnam Ben Taleblu

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