{"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":"E379. Michael Tracey Exposes Epstein Hysteria For What It Is","slug":"e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is","published_at":"2026-02-26T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18750317-e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18750317-e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is.mp3","summary":"Journalist Michael Tracey joins Bridget to dissect the Epstein moral panic currently swallowing the internet whole—and he's got the receipts on why most of it is \"conspiracy-brain melted slop.\" As one of the only journalists pushing back on the dominant narrative, Tracey breaks down what we actually know versus what people want to believe: the FBI's fraudulent \"1000 victims\" number, why the Alex Acosta \"sweetheart deal\" wasn't actually a sweetheart deal, how Whitney Webb's \"research\" is a jok...","meta_description":"Journalist Michael Tracey joins Bridget to dissect the Epstein moral panic currently swallowing the internet whole—and he's got the receipts on why most o…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6785,"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/e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is/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/e379-michael-tracey-exposes-epstein-hysteria-for-what-it-is.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}