Why We Are The Way We Are. Bridget Phetasy and Jeren Montgomery on Our "Factory Settings"

The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum

Society & Culture

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Bridget Phetasy is a prominent podcaster, YouTuber and writer in the heterodox (or, as she likes to call it, politically homeless) space. Jeren Montgomery is a family therapist and also Bridget's husband. As if Bridget didn't already have enough projects, last year the two started Factory Settings, a podcast that explores how built-in biases affect the way people consume information and form opinions. They visited The Unspeakable to talk about how their own settings affect their relationship and what they've discovered in the process of developing the podcast. They also describe how they met in recovery and explain how seeing the world through the lens of sobriety affects their approach to the subjects they cover. This is Bridget's third appearance on The Unspeakable, but it feels like the first time!

Guest Bios:

Bridget Phetasy is a writer, comedian and Twitter addict. She is host of the podcast Walk-Ins Welcome and Factory Settings which she co-hosts with her husband, Jeren Montgomery. She also stars in her satirical comedy show Dumpster Fire available on YouTube. Her most important role is mom to her daughter, Matilda.

Jeren Montgomery is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at a mental health and substance abuse treatment center in Los Angeles, California. Avid reader, part-time gamer and husband to Bridget Phetasy, Jeren also spends way too much time online.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the unspeakable podcast.
0:05.2	I'm your host, Megan Dahl.
0:07.5	We are back.
0:08.8	Happy New Year.
0:10.1	Took an extra week off there for the holidays to kind of get things in order.
0:15.7	But I hope you had a restful and healthy and enjoyable holiday.
0:21.4	And here we are.
0:22.8	I'm going to tell you about my guests in a second.
0:25.6	They're Bridget Fetasy and Jared Montgomery.
0:28.0	But first, a couple quick announcements about the unspeakeasy.
0:32.3	As you know, this is my new heterodox women's community.
0:36.9	Lots of big things coming up in 2023. We are going to be
0:41.1	unrolling the online community later this month, hopefully. And most excitingly of all,
0:48.4	we're going to have hopefully five retreats, five in-person retreats, various places in the country. Two of them have been
0:56.6	planned, have been decided. I'm going to tell you about them right now. The first one I may have
1:02.2	mentioned before, but I'll remind you, is in Los Angeles. That is February 18th and 19th. That's
1:09.2	a weekend retreat and it's daytime only. So that's a little bit different
1:13.0	than most of them. And it is almost sold out. But if you are interested, go to the unspeakeasy.com
1:19.6	and find out about it, request information. And I will tell you about it. The second retreat,
1:26.6	and I am here by announcing this, you heard it here first,
1:29.4	will be in the Seattle area in April, April 17th through 20th. It is going to be in a resort in the Cascade
1:40.9	Mountains, somewhat outside of Seattle, but I think it counts as Seattle area.
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