meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Lost Debate

Conversation with Podcaster Bridget Phetasy

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We sit down with Bridget Phetasy, host of “Dumpster Fire” on YouTube and the “Walk-Ins Welcome” podcast. Bridget is a comedian and former Playboy columnist turned politically homeless thought leader. She’s cultivated a vibrant following of those who defy the political binary and value individualism over partisanship. We discuss the problems with the two-party system and the difficulty not falling into nihilism. Subscribe to The Lost Debate’s YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Sticher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iheart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate LOST DEBATE ON SOCIAL: Follow Lost Debate Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelostdebate

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I got a lot of emails equally from people who were conservative who came center as well.

0:09.6

And their stories are similar just with the kind of hypocrisy on their party's side.

0:15.5

A lot of people who were religious who felt that they had abandoned those kind of principles.

0:21.0

So I hear from everyone.

0:23.4

I just think there's, I think there's a huge, huge population of people who feels like

0:30.6

no one is really speaking for them or to them right now.

0:39.1

Welcome to the Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics.

0:41.7

I'm Ravi Gupta, and we are off this week, but I'm excited to share an interview we just

0:46.2

recently did with Bridget Fetasy.

0:48.1

She's the host of dumpster fire and Walkins' Welcome, and she comes from an eclectic background.

0:53.2

She was a writer for Playboy and

0:54.6

she's got a lot to say about the state of the political parties in this country. And what I love

0:58.8

about her is how authentic and honest she is. And she's just really humble about what she knows

1:03.1

and doesn't know. And you'll notice in this interview that there's, you know, probably a little

1:06.8

bit of a disagreement we have about whether like quote unquote both sides are to blame for

1:11.0

the political state of this country in equal measure or not or like whether you know certain ways

1:16.9

of describing our political process or going about it could be deemed nihilist or not but you'll see

1:21.3

this and i think this what makes the interview really interesting is that a lot of people feel the way

1:25.3

that she does and we dig in about just how to really engage right now in this political system so let's get into it welcome bridget how are you i'm great i just spilled my coffee right before i came on because i'm pregnant and i guess that's like a thing being clumsy i'm good though i'm really excited to be here and talk to all of you.

1:46.1

Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for being here. So to kick it off, I want to read back a tweet of

1:51.7

yours that I loved where you said, I'm not conservative, I'm not liberal, I'm not libertarian.

1:56.7

I don't identify as anything. Please respect my political pronoun. And that's great.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Branch, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Branch and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.