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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Dr. Drew Thinks Addicts Are Great Survivors

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Conversations with people from all walks of life.

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Bridget sits down with physician and radio host Dr. Drew Pinsky. They reminisce about Love Lines, which Bridget was a huge fan of in her teens, how Dr. Drew wound up on the radio in the first place, what struck him the most about the calls he was receiving, the massive amount of ignorance regarding sex and the human body at the time, the consequences of the sexual revolution, and how people today are less ignorant because they have access to more information but they’re still as confused as ever. The also cover the importance of therapy, the miracles he's seen happen working with addicts, how someone who’s nearly dead can go to thriving, what he's learned about addiction and its treatment, the human propensity to self-destruct, why addicts are great in extreme situations, finding humor in the darkest places, dealing with depression and OCD, the importance of human relationships to how our brains learn and understand things, and the truth about dopamine hits. Listen to Bridget's appearance on The Dr. Drew 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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0:00.0

This week we welcome radio host and physician Dr Drew Pinsky.

0:04.4

What were the questions that struck you the most in the early days?

0:08.6

The magnitude, and I'm going to use a word that has a kind of pejorative quality and I don't mean it

0:15.7

pejoratively, but the ignorance around human biology and

0:20.7

reproductive health and ST dies and how how big were babies come from I mean it was

0:26.2

it was a birth control and how that worked it was astonishing one of the, one of the very problematic aspects of the sexual revolution is the adults who carried this thing out never thought about what it would do to adolescents.

0:43.0

In fact, they assumed adolescents would of course not have sex.

0:47.0

They would know better.

0:48.0

Well, I had just been an adolescent.

0:50.0

I knew what was going on.

0:51.0

I was like,'re kidding me?

0:53.0

The adolescents picked up your sexual revolution

0:55.0

and of course went further than anybody.

0:58.0

We were in it.

1:00.0

And so no information, no planning for that, no, what are you going to do about this?

1:04.1

I mean, what goes on here?

1:06.1

This is Walkins Welcome with Bridget Fetticy.

1:08.8

I'm Bridget Fetticy, and you are welcome. You know the drill.

1:14.0

You know the drill.

1:24.2

Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals,

1:29.4

whatever. We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.

1:32.1

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