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 Nolan's The Odyssey is the most Liberal thing they've ever done. They dig into how both sides have been completely consumed by the same culture war brain rot, why nobody can actually win this fight, how postmodernism has infected everyone including its own critics, and what it means that we've lost the ability to sit down and finish a movie. Plus: The literacy crisis nobody's talking about, Gen Z's dead-eyed immunity to outrage, how Playboy blew its last chance at a comeback, and why Christopher Nolan is just Michael Bay in a scarf.

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Topics covered: Christopher Nolan and The Odyssey controversy, right-wing cancel culture, Elon Musk and X echo chambers, postmodernism and the arts, literacy crisis, attention spans and short-form content, Gen Z and culture war exhaustion, Playboy's collapse, DEI and the Oscars, press junkets and film criticism

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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, deodorant locked behind glass at Walgreens, stores you have to get buzzed into, and a Hollywood Bowl 4th of July that felt more like a eulogy than a celebration. She and Maggie get into what it actually feels like to come back to a place you loved and see the decline in real time, why Texas feels so different, what a dead Vegas says about the country, and why the right needs to calm down about Christopher Nolan.

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Topics covered: LA decline, Santa Monica empty storefronts, California exodus, Texas vs California, Hollywood Bowl 4th of July, Vegas automation and robots, Candace Owens and the Kirk trial, Christopher Nolan and the Odyssey debate, community and faith, gratitude on the road

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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 internet is quietly erasing itself. Kat digs into how YA fiction collapsed into "romantasy" and smut, the dead internet theory and vanishing digital archives - including Bridget's own lost Playboy articles and Kat's MTV News work. They also cover the Kennedy Center controversy, why Gen Z treats Trump as their political "factory settings," why woke isn't dead, it's hibernating, and how people are substituting politics for personality now. Kat's new thriller, How to Survive in the Woods — pitched as "Basic Instinct with bears" — just hit The New York Times summer reading list and is in development at MGM Amazon.

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#DeadInternet #YAFiction #walkinswelcome

Topics covered: death doulas, YA fiction collapse, romantasy and smut publishing trends, dead internet theory, John Green pedophile vibes scandal, Kennedy Center controversy, Gen Z and Trump, World Cup optimism, AI and medical breakthroughs

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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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We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.
https://www.phetasy.com/

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