Gide, humans. Welcome to the Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas. I'm Josh Zepz. Thank you so much for joining me as a part of my tribe, part of my community, my friends, my people, my countrymen. If you're a member of the Substack community, thank you again. You don't have to be paying any money. You don't even have to give me your credit card information. You don't got to do nothing. I just want to gauge the support for the show by getting you to sign

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We'll just be in a little tete-a-tete, a little dance, a little pad to do. And if you're not doing

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If you are on the, if this is the premium feed that you're listening to, then you'll have a

wonderful experience listening to Bridget Fettysi and I get tangled into knots over our first

date questions, like whether or not she would rather live in a murder house or a sailboat.

That's an in-joke about a previous episode, which she has a lot of fun with.

And, yeah, she noodles on some of the more profound things in life towards the end of the show.

You won't get that if you're not subscribed to the substack, but you'll still hear, you know, Bridget, who's wonderful, talk about most things, including Israelis in Sri Lanka.

Bridget is a digital media phenomenon, really.

She's one of those strange people who has exploded in this space

in between the ideologues on both sides.

She was previously a heroin addict and alcoholic and turned her life around, but not in a highly puritanical,

finger-wagging, judgy sort of way.

And she came to my attention, I don't remember where, but she was, you know, doing quite a

lot of press on like Glenn Beck's show and Dave Ruben's show and Joe Rogan's show during, I guess, the height of the

culture war and the pandemic.

And she's got her own fabulous podcast called Walkins Welcome, which is a bit of a staple.

She has a YouTube show called Dumpster Fire, which is kind of a satirical commentary on the news

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