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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E343. How Cancel Culture Lost Its Grip on Comedy - Eli Lake

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

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and podcaster, Eli Lake, sits down with Bridget for a wide ranging conversation that wanders from tracing the evolution of comedy, from Lenny Bruce’s groundbreaking defiance to Shane Gillis’s resilience against cancel culture, to making compelling parallels between the fall of the Roman Republic and contemporary political challenges - including Pakistan’s deep state and its global implications. They cover addiction, creativity, wondering if there any third rails left, whether Kanye...

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0:00.0

All right. I'm with Eli Lake, everybody. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome.

0:04.2

Thank you for coming. Eli, how are you doing?

0:07.2

I'm good. I have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, and anytime she gets sick, I get a little sick.

0:12.9

So that's fighting that. But other than that, can't complain.

0:16.0

Oh, I didn't realize you had a toddler around the same age as my toddler. She is three. Oh, great age, right?

0:25.6

It's such a fun age, but you're right. They are just little, like, host monkeys. I've never been so

0:32.4

sick this year. I got every single thing that she dragged through the house.

0:38.8

Is she a chatterbox?

0:40.3

She's very chatty.

0:47.2

I mean, she was in my womb, and I probably did 10,000 hours of podcasting while she was in utero.

0:51.7

So she came out and just was basically talking immediately.

0:53.2

That's amazing.

0:53.5

Yeah.

0:59.1

I mean, our little one, Nora, is talking all the time.

1:06.0

And I'm very proud of her. She used perimeter correctly in a sentence on her own, like three weeks ago.

1:12.7

Incredible. I asked our kid where last night she was talking about how she was packing for traveling.

1:13.9

And I said, where do you want to go?

1:18.4

And she said, California, Rhode Island, which makes sense because we have family there. And then she said, Japan.

1:19.9

I was like, Japan.

1:22.6

That's great.

1:24.5

Yeah, tell me about your podcast because I love it.

1:31.0

Thank you.

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