{"podcast":{"title":"Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy","slug":"walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","podcast_index_feed_id":917989,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2433291.rss","website_url":"https://www.phetasy.com/s/walk-ins-welcome","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/44q4h75i2prw21y3mxu8tkcn14no?.jpg","author":"Conversations with people from all walks of life.","episode_count":402,"summary":"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. www.phetasy.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:20:10.610350+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989"},"episode":{"title":"E375. How to Find Truth When Everything Feels Fake - Michael Shermer","slug":"e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer","published_at":"2026-01-29T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18582183-e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18582183-e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer.mp3","summary":"Michael Shermer returns for a fascinating conversation about the crisis of truth in our polarized, AI-driven world. He and Bridget discuss the fate of print magazines, shrinking attention spans, the challenges of discerning reality amid deepfakes, misinformation, and Shermer’s new book Truth: What It Is, How To Find It, and Why It Still Matters. They cover political violence, ICE controversies, the power of belief to shape actions (and self-fulfilling prophecies), human gullibility, the repli...","meta_description":"Michael Shermer returns for a fascinating conversation about the crisis of truth in our polarized, AI-driven world. He and Bridget discuss the fate of pri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6774,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/episodes/e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e375-how-to-find-truth-when-everything-feels-fake-michael-shermer.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}