{"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":"E382. Why This Isn't Iraq 2003: The Case for Taking Down Iran's Regime - Behnam Ben Taleblu","slug":"e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu","published_at":"2026-03-19T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18873112-e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18873112-e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu.mp3","summary":"Behnam Ben Taleblu joins Bridget to offer his expertise on Iran. They discuss who’s actually in charge in Iran right now, what Americans need to understand about the Islamic Republic’s ideology, why the plight of Iranian women gets ignored by Western feminists, and why this conflict is fundamentally different from Iraq 2003. They cover how the regime destroyed Iran’s environment to fund the Revolutionary Guard, how they worked with Mexican drug cartels and Canadian biker gangs to target dissi...","meta_description":"Behnam Ben Taleblu joins Bridget to offer his expertise on Iran. They discuss who’s actually in charge in Iran right now, what Americans need to understan…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4748,"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/e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu/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/e382-why-this-isn-t-iraq-2003-the-case-for-taking-down-iran-s-regime-behnam-ben-taleblu.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}