E352. Authentic Writing Still Matters in the Age of AI - Kevin Ryan

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Kevin Ryan joins Bridget to discuss the ups and downs of a career in freelance writing. With AI churning out soulless content, they defend the gritty, human struggle of writing, why writing should be hard, and breaking the myth of the tortured alcoholic writer. They cover why everyone should have some revolutionary instincts in their 20s, why the loss of trust in media might be healthy, how the center has become so centerless, why some of Kevin's favorite philosophers and writers are critical...

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0:00.0	I'm with Kevin Ryan, everybody.
0:01.6	Welcome to Walkins, Welcome.
0:03.8	So good to have you.
0:05.2	This is really cool.
0:07.4	Just such a cool part of the storyline that you and I have shared.
0:11.9	I know.
0:12.9	It's really neat.
0:13.7	I've been such a big fan of obviously everything you do, but Walkins Welcome is such a cool space.
0:23.1	I love this. It's kind of our little podcast that could. It shouldn't be. It's just we started it. It was the first project we
0:29.1	started. It was audio only for a long time. And then actually it was Tyler at the Blaze who said
0:35.2	Bridget, you're an idiot. He didn't say it quite like that, but he was like,
0:39.0	anything you're doing, because we had dumpster fire that was video only, and then Walkins
0:44.0	Welcome that was audio only at that time. And he was like, anything you're doing audio should be video
0:48.9	and vice versa, because otherwise you're just leaving money on the table and people consume either or both and it's like
0:57.1	why wouldn't you do both all the time and so yeah so that's when we really pushed ourselves to go to
1:05.9	um i felt like audio is nice because i thought people could get, it was easier and people could, I find myself being more, I guess, emotionally honest and vulnerable when it's audio only.
1:20.9	And I know that I'm, I think the one and only time I've cried online is Megan Kelly, but it was when it was audio only,
1:27.9	because I have my rule that I won't ugly cry on the internet.
1:32.8	You don't want to do it, Jordan Peterson?
1:35.1	No.
1:35.9	He can't stop crying.
1:37.7	He can't stop crying.
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