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: what it actually feels like to want the traditional life, the marriage and the kids, and to wonder if you waited too long. Sarah spent eight years writing a memoir about three loves — the man she thought she’d marry, the married man she couldn’t let go of, and the man 14 years younger she fell for at 44. She and Bridget discuss and what they taught her about dating in your 40s, the window to have children, and the grief nobody prepares single women for. They cover the shadow side of the feminist and sexual revolutions, regret and abortion, getting sober, and how our hyper-personalized, siloed culture has everyone taking everything personally. Plus: lunch in the Ozempic era, being the “other woman,” and why they'll both go down fighting for the culture.

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Topics covered: dating in your 40s, missing the window to have kids, regret and motherhood, the shadow side of the feminist and sexual revolutions, sobriety and recovery, abortion regret, diet culture and Ozempic, being the other woman, women and alcohol, writing a memoir

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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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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 brutal, years-long process of selling and writing it — the endless proposal feedback loops, the mental block of trying to write about the culture while the culture is still unfolding, and surrendering to the lack of control you have about what’s going on in the world during the process. They discuss the question she set out to answer: how did the left lose the culture when they owned Hollywood, publishing, media, and big tech? She also gets into why revisiting the last decade left her angrier and more radicalized than when she started, battling resistance and self-doubt, reliving just how dark the Biden years and COVID really were, how Elon buying Twitter liberated the discourse, and why the book is dedicated to the shitposting anons.

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Topics covered: writing a book about the culture war, how the left lost the culture, using AI as a research tool, The War of Art and creative resistance, COVID lockdowns and the Biden years, Elon buying Twitter and free speech, memes and 4chan, the book writing process

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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.

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PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company.
We just want to make you laugh while the world burns.
https://www.phetasy.com/

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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/

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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 Civilization. They discuss the aftermath of Hamas's attack on October 7th, 2023, what it told us about the West, the lure of barbarism, the rise of antisemitism, why we shouldn’t be allowed to forget what happened on October 7th, and why his book should make you angry because it highlights the appalling truth that people in the West are cheering one of the most regressive and racist movements on Earth - Hamas. They cover the ideological indoctrination of our youth, the resurgence of ancient antisemitic tropes, the failures of modern feminism, the West's inability to confront global threats, moral cowardice, the madness of the elites, racism masquerading as anti-racism, and the importance of mockery in challenging dominant ideologies.

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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.

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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/

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